Volume of the Monasticon Anglic. pag. 607. and of others not Printed concerning the same and now proceed in this modern part to George Chaworth brother of Sir Iohn and second son of the said George and Katherin Babington who married Mary the daughter of Sir Henry Sacheverell of Morley in Darbishire Knight and had by her many Children as Iohn Chaworth of Crophill Butler George Henry c. Iohn's wife was Iane the daughter of David Vincent of Stoke Dabernon in Surry who also left him a plentiful Off-spring His eldest son Sir George Chaworth who married Mary the daughter of Thomas Knyveton of Myrcaston in Darbishire was created Viscount Chaworth of Armagh in Ireland 1627. 4 Mar. 3 Car. 1. and was father of Iohn Lord Chaworth who married .... the daughter of Edward Viscount Cambden by whom he had Patricius Lord Chaworth the present owner Ioceus de Spalding 13 E. 3. ought 33s. 4d. of the custody of two parts of eight Mess. sixty five Acres of Land twelve of Medow and 14s. 7d. Rent with the Appurtenances in Wyverton and Barneston which were Hugh de Garthorpes then in the Kings hand by reason of the minority of William his son and heir from the 12 E. 2. This was some of Sir Richard de Wiverton's I suppose About the year of our Lord 1257. many mentions are made in the Leiger Book of Thurgarton of the Church of Wiverton though it may possibly be interpreted of Langar Church or Tithebyes for â— never could see any thing else which could satisfie that there ever was a Church at Wiverton there was a very good Chappel in the House now ruinous with it and besides it there is no more Houses so that the Church and Town have a like fate the place of either not very discoverable the necessary consequence of inclosure of good Land in these parts Langar and Barneston AND St. Aubreys or St. Aethelburga's THese Towns went together before the Normans came as they have done ever since and do still In King William's time they were the Fee and a great part of the Demesne of William Peverell But before that time Godric had a Mannor in each Town and for that in Langare was rated to the publick payment of the Geld at two Car. four Cov. ½ The Land being sufficient for six Plows or so many Carucats There William Peverell had in Demesne three Bar. fiâ—teen Sochm. upon six Bov. of this Land nineteen Vill. six Bord. having eleven Car. two Mills 5s. and five Acres of Medow There 1. Francus homo one French man or Free-man had one Car. In King Edward the Confessours time the value of his was 100s but in King Williams was improved to 10l having Soc in Wivreton In Barnestune Godric and Azor had each man his Hall and each paid the Geld then in use for four Bov. s. The Land was four Car. There William Pevrell bad in Demesne three Car. seven Sochm on four Bov. of this Land seven Vill. six Bordars having four Car. ½ There was thirty six Acres of Medow In King Edward the Confessours time this was but 10s. in the time when the Conquerours Survey was taken it was 4l. valuâ— In each Town there was a considerable share Soc to Granby of the Fee of Walter de Ayncurt viz. in Langare as much as was rated to the Geld at four Bov. and an half The Land was two Car. There eight Sochm. one Bordar had two Car. and six plowing Oxen. There was half a Church and thirteen Acres of Medow In Bernestune that which was Soc to Granby paid the Dane-geld for half a Car. The Land was two Car. There five Sochm. one Bord. had two Car. two draught Oxen and eleven Acres of Medow William Pevrell at his first endowment of Lenton Priory which he founded in the time of King Henry the first gave two parts of all his Tythes which that house enjoyed here accordingly and the Church of Langar with all its Lands and Tythes and one Villan holding a Virgat of or Yard Land William Peverel his son who succeeded in this inheritance was it seems rather for King Stephen than King Henry the second who when he wrote himself but Duke of Normandy and Angeou gave to Ranulph Earl of Chester amongst many other vast possessions the whole Fee of William Peverel unless he could acquit and clear himself in the said Duke his Court of his wickedness and Treason But I do not find that the Earl of Chester enjoyed any thing here of that gift for the Sheriffs accounted in the Pipe Rolls for the Farm of Peverells Land being in the Kings hands several years in the beginning of the Reign of King Henry the second until about the nineteenth that Robert Fitz-Randalf Lord of Auferton made his account wherein he mentions Langar and Clifton to be before that time 't is said 9 H. 2. given to one Gerbod de Escalt as Hornecastle in Lincolneshire also was Gerard de Rodes was the next owner of these Lands that I have seen who had them of the gift of King Iohnâ— but I think he only confirmed them for in the Pipe Roll of the first year of his Reign they are mentioned as if King Richard the first had so disposed them before Raph de Rodes succeeded this Gerard to whom the Prior and Covent of Lenton having remitted the custom of Tything his Corn here at Langar after it was brought into the Barn and out of their liberality agreed to take it in the field This said Raph did in the third year of the Reign of King Henry the third make his acknowledgement thereof and ingage himself That if they should have any loss by so doing they should enjoy their old Custom again of Tything at the Barn and this he did in a full Chapter before W. de Roderham Arch-deacon of Nott. to whose Jurisdiction and constraint if he should fail he submitted himself without Appeal by a sealed instrument as the custom then ordinarily was in such like cases The Prior and Covent likewise granted him and his Lady Berta to have a Chappel within their Court at Langar provided the Chaplain should be presented to the Pâ—â—son of Langar and swear not to hinder the Mother Church and to be liable to be suspended by the Parson if he did and that the Lord and Lady should come and hear Divine Service at the Church on all the Festivals except there was manifest cause of hinderance but to have no Bell in the said Chappel There was an ancient Church or Chappel in the â—ields of Langar called St. Athelburga's or St. Aubrey's which was upon Deyncurts Fee and was given to Thurgarton Priory as Graneby Church was to which Parish it properly belonged for this Raph de Rodes gave the Priory of Thurgarton 2s. a year to be taken of Richard son of Thurkel of Barneston or of whomsoever should hold these two Bovats or Oxgangs he then had to be
who by the consent of Oliver and Iohn his sons and heirs in the year 1140. was a Benefactor to the Monastery of Kirkstead in Lincolneshire and Iohn his son by the consent of Aelice his wife likewise in the year of our Lord 1169. This Iohn Lord Dayencourt gave to God and the Church of St. Mary at Belvoyr one Carucar of Land here at Granby for the Souls of Oliver his brother who was slain in the Battel at Lincolne in the time of King Stephen and of Walter his Father who had granted it before This Iohn lived long and had a son called Nicolas besides his son Oliver who was his heir who died 3 Ioh. and who had one wife named Amabilis and another Matildis Peccâ—e mother of Roger de Ridewar but whether of them was mother of his son Oliver Deincourt who was in minority 13 Ioh. and afterwards Father of Iohn Lord Deyncourt who paid his relief 30 H. 3. and was father of Edmund Lord Dayencourt I find not but in the mean time suppose Amabilis Edmund considering that his Sirname and Arms after his death in the person of Isabell his daughter and heir were likely to be laid aside and forgotten and zealously affecting the contrary obtained Letters Patents 10 E. 2. for the good and laudable services he had done to King Edward the first and to that King himself to settle all his Mannors Lands and Tenements which he held of the King in Capite on whomsoever he pleased which he did accordingly on William the son of Iohn de Ayencourt who entred on this Lordship the 20 E. 2. after the death of the said Edmund by reason of a Fine between him the said Edmund and Mr. Oliver Dayncourt and Iohn Dayencourt of Parkhall Derb. as his Cousin and heir being then above twenty six years of age and was summoned to the Parliament as Baron of Blankeney 6 E. 3. and was amongst others 33 E. 3. assigned to stay with King Iohn of France in the Castle of Hartford William Dayncourt son of his son William was found his Cousin and heir 38 E. 3. This William by Alice his wife had Raph his eldest son and heir and it seems was dead in or before 5 R. 2. for the Lands of William Deyncourt Chr. deceased in the Counties of Bucks Nott. Derb. Linc. Northampton were to be seized 3 Nov. 5 R. 2. into the Kings hands in whose custody Raph his heir was 18 Iun. which Raph died without issue under age and Iohn his brother second son of the said Will. succeeded Which Iohn married Ioane daughter and heir of Robert Grey of Rotherfeild and by her had William the last Lord Deyncourt who married Elizabeth sister of Iohn Viscount Beaumont who was afterwards married to Sir Thomas Nevill but dyed under age without issue 5 Dec. 1 H. 6. leaving his two sisters his heirs Alice who married William Lord Lovell eighteen years old and Margaret seventeen who was wedded to Raph Lord Crumwell but left the whole inheritance to her sister 33 H. 6. who after the death of her husband Lovell married Sir Raph Boteler but Sir Iohn Lovell Walterus de Ayncurt-Matildis Radulphus de Ayncuria sundator de Thurgarton temp H. 1 -Basilia Walterus de Ayencourt mort 14 H. 2. Johannes de Ayancourt 1169 -Alicia fil â—ad Murdak Oliverus de Ayencuria 3 Joh. mort -Amabisis-Matild Peeche Oliverus 16 H. 3. ob 30 H. 3 -Nicola Johannes de Aynecourt mort 47 H. 3. Edmundus de Eyncourt ob 20 E. 2. Isabella Roger. de Ridewar Nicholaus .... ux Willielmi de Bella aqua Oliverus occisus in Bello Lincoln Rogerus Robertus Rogerus Rogerus-Joana fil Willielmi Thorp Johannes de Ayencourt de Knapthorp Parkhall in Com. Derb. Willielmus de Ayencourt cui Dom. Edm. dedit Terras Arma Summon ad Parl. 6 E. 3. Willielmus Deincourt miles ob in vita partis-Margareta Willielmus Deincourt haeres Avi 38 E. 3 -Alesia Johannes Dayncourt-Joana fil haer Rob. Grey de Rotherfeld Willielmus Dayncourt miles ob infra aâ—t s. p. -Elizab for Joh. vic Beaumont Willielmus Lovell-Alesia Johannes Dom. Lovell Holland Franciscus Dom. Lovell attinct 1 H. 7. Rad. Crumwell s. p. -Margareta aet 17. 1 H. 6. Radulphus haer ob infr aet Rogerus Hugo succeeded here whose son and heir Frâ—ncis being attaint this Mannor with diverse others of the Lord Deincurts ancient Lands were by King Henry the seventh granted to Sir Iohn Savage Knight and the heirs males of his body in the first year of his Reign Morton and Parkhall or Parkhouse near Northwingfeild in Darbishire the ancient residence of the Deyncourts owners of Knapthorp before they came to be Lords became the possession and inheritance of the Family of Leek of Sutton in Scarsdale whereof they are now Earls which gave the greater occasion of Sir Francis Leeks being created Lord Deincort in memory of this Illustrious Stock of worthy persons otherwise almost forgotten The last Sir Iohn Savage and Sir Thomas Savage the late Viscount Savage his son sold the Demesnes of this Mannor and the Royalties to Sir Iohn Mauners Knight Grandfather to the Right Honourable Iohn Earl of Rutland the present owner and parcelled the Farms and Tenements amongst divers and sundry Freeholders whereof some have part of the Hall Land so that it seems the Earl hath not all the Demesnes I have not found any thing concerning Sutton distinct from Granby of which it is a member The first Iohn Lord Deyncourt gave to William de Bella aqua in Frank-marriage with his daughter 4l. Land viz. two in Cressewelle and two in Sotton which is of the Sok of Granebi and the service of half a Knights Fee in Hokertun with all the Common of Elmeton Roger de Alneto gave to God and the Church of St. Peter at Thurgarton the Tythe of his Mill here at Granby for his own Soul and his wife Alice's c. The Abby of St. Maries at Yorke in the year 1352. agreed to take of the Priory of Thurgarton ten Marks yearly for their Portions of Tythes in Granby Hickling and Cotum being two parts of the Tythe Corn of the Demesne which was heretofore Walter Deincourts in this place and in Hikling and in Cotum two parts of the Tythes of the Demesne Lands of the Lord of the Town Iohn de Ayencourt 36 H. 3. had Free Warren Market and Fair here which last remains still on All Souls day 2 Nov. Edmund Lord Deincourt son of this Iohn granted to the Priory of Thurgarton that at the Election of a new Prior they should only send their Letter by two of their Canons to him for his approbation before he be confirmed by the Arch-bishop if he be resident in any of his Mannors of Blankeney and Braunceton in Linc. of Graneby in Nott. or Elmeton and Holmesfeild in Derb. but if he or his heirs be absenâ— from all these
Clopton in Suff. in exchâ—nge for the Mannors of Keâ—ington and Faukeshall in Surrey Agnes the wife of Thomas Bardolf had this Mannor in Dower and left it to her son Iohn 31 E. 3. who about 45 E. 3. left it with Wyrmegey and other great Mannors which made up twenty nine Knights Fees belonging to his Court of Shelford to his son William Bardolf of Wirmegey Chr. who 9 R. 2. did the like to his son Thomas Lord Bardolf then but seventeen years old or little more which Thomas was the last Lord Bardolf of the Male-line and Attaint in the time of Henry the fourth in whose Reign about 9 H. 4. he died leaving two daughters Anne first married to Sir William Clifford and after to Sir Reginald Cobham but his other daughter Ioane who married Sir William Phelips was Lady Bardolf and then after her death William Beaumont son of Elizabeth her daughter wife of Iohn Viscount Beaumont was found her heir William Viscount Beaumont died without issue and his sister Iane married to Iohn Lord Lovell was his heir who had Francis Viscount Lovell slain in the Battel of Stoke in this County against the King 16 Iune 2 H. 7. by whose Attainder or it seems before this Mannor came to the Crown he had two sisters Iane the elder married to Sir Brian Stapleton and Frideswid to Sir Edward Norreys by whom she had Henry Norreys to whom and to his heirs Males 10 H. 8. the King granted this Mannor of Stoke Bardolf with Gedling Crophill Bishop Newton and Carleton late William Viscount Beaumonts Goysfridus de Alselin Radulphus de Hanselin Radulphus Hanselin Rosa fil haer-Thom Bardul Dodo Bardulf-Beatrix fil Willielmi de Warenna relict 11 Joh. Willielmus Bardulf 2 H. 3. ob 4. E. 1. Willielmus Bardulf ob 18 E. 1. Hugo Bardulf ob 32 E. 1 -Isabella ob 16 E. 2. 28 Maii. Thom. Bardulf aet 22. ad mortem patris ob 3 E. 3. Johannes Bardolf aet 17. 3 E. 3. ob 45 E. 3 -Elizab fil haer Rogeri Damory Gulielmus Bardolf ob 9 R. 2. Thom. Bardolf aet 17. 9 R. 2 -Avicia Joana Bardolf ob 26 H. 6 -Willielmus Phelips Dom. Bardolf 9 H. 5. Elizabetha-Johannes Vicecomes Beaumont-Katherina Ducissa Norfolc ux 2. Willielmus Vicecom Beaumont Dom. Bardolf aet 9. 26 H. 6. Attinct per Parl. 4 Nov. 1 E. 4. Johannes Dom. Lovell -Jana for haer fratris Franciscus Vicecom Lovell occisus in bello de Stoke 16 Jun. 2 H. 7. 1 Brian Stapleton mil. -Joana Brianus Stapleton Richardus Staplâ—ton miles 2 Eduardus Norreys -Frideswid Johannes Norreys s. p. Henr. Norreys attinct 12 May 28 H. 8. Henricus Norreys restitut 31 H. 8. Reginaldus Cobham 2 -Anna-Willielmus Clifford marit 1. Willielmus Bardolf miles 4 H. 6. Willielmus Robert de Cauz King Edward the fourth 15 E. 4. granted to Galiard de Durford Lord of Duras and his heiâ—s Males the Mannor of Shelford Stoke Bardolf and Gedling in this County and others in Derbishire Henry Norreys being Attaint about 12 May 28 H. 8. it came again to the Crown and was after granted to the Lady Anne Stanhope great Grandmother to the first Earl of Chesterfeild whose Posterity enjoyes it wiâ—h Shelford to this day Here were many held shares of these Lands as may be gathered from what is already formerly set down Hugh de la Basage or Bastre held in Carleton Gedeling and Stoke half a Knights Fee of the old Feoffment of William Bardolf And Reginald Vrsell and Hugh de Tytheby held in Gedeling Carleton and Stoke another half Knights Fee of the old Feoffment of Robert de Everingham Robert son of Hugh de Titheby gave an Acre in Carleton to Thurgarton Priory for the health of his Soul and Isolda his wife to which Church Hugh son of Alred of Carleton gave also a Toft and Croft which were Auki's and a Bovat of Land in Carleton which William and Robert his sons severally confirmed The Jury 15 E. 1. found that Reginald de Haslacton held in Carleton and Colwick of Robert de Everingham the sixth part of a Knights Fee valued then at five Marks the heirs of Richard Vrsell in Carleton as much valued at 52s. Henry de Whatton in Stokes and Carleton an eighth part of a Knights Fee valued at 44s. William son of Richard de Birton in Birton a sixth part valued at 66s. 8d. Mr. Thomas Beck in Gedling a sixth part Galfr. le Botiler in Stokes as much Alexander de Le in Gedling a tenth part and William Mascy as much there also The Jury 5 E. 1. found that two Tofts and two Bovats of Land in Stoke and four Tofts and one Bovat in Gedling were Frank Almaigne of the Rectors of Gedling and not Lay Fee of Galfr. de Botiler who called Adam de Everingham to warrant which Adam was then Amerced Alexander de Whatton of Karleton 12 E. 1. recovered against Henry son of Richard de Watton and six others four Mess. four Bovats of Land and two parts of a Bovat except one Acre and twenty Acres of Land and 5s. Rent in Karleton and Colwyk They had great Suits afterwards about this Land and 19 E. 1. pleaded Bastardy and Errour At the Assizes at Nott. 23 E. 1. Cecily the daughter of Roger Millott recovered her seisin of one Mess. and one Bov. of Land in Carleton near Nott. and William son of Roger Milott was Amerced A Fine at Westm. the day after St. Iohn Baptist 8 E. 2. between Richard son of William de Basage and Maud de Kirkeby Querents and William le Moigne the younger Deforcient of one Mess. and twelve Acres of Land in Carleton by Nott. settled them on the said Richard and Maud for life and after on Richard son of Maud and the heirs of his body remainder to William his brother and the heirs of his remainder to the right heirs of Richard son of William Another on the same day of the Term 12 E. 2. between Robert Iorce the elder and Idonia his wife Quer. and Roger le Botiller and Amicia his wife and Iohn their son Deforc. of sixteen Acres of Land in Gedling and Stoke Bardolf settled them on the said Robert and Idonia and the heirs of their bodies remainder to William son of Robert and the heirs Males of his body remainder to the right heirs of Robert The Jury 29 E. 3. found that Philip de Somervill held the day that he died 10l. Rent per annum in Shelford Stoke Bardolf Gedling Birton Iorz and Neuton of Adam de Everingham of Laxton by the Service of a pair of white Gloves and that Iohane the daughter of the said Philip whom Rese ap Griffith Chr. had to wife and Maud the daughter of Iohn de Stafford and Cousin of the said Philip whom Edmund son of Iohn de Vernon had to wife were heirs of the said Philip. Rese left a son 30 E. 3. his
de Bella aqua and Dionysia his wife gave two Tofts and Ranulf son of Ranulf Heleweis who held them with his Chattels and whole Sequell saving to them and their heirs their other Servants William de Bella aqua son of William de Bella aqua released 2s. yearly which he was wont to receive of the said Monks for two Tofts in Eycring and so did Thomas son of William de Bella aqua Sibylla the daughter of Richard le Angevin confirmed all the Land which her Cousin William le Angevin whose heir she was gave to the Monastery of Rufford with his body viz. the Homage and Service of Alan de Wilgebi 3s. of Silver yearly and one Bovat which Roger de Lunde held and the said Roger with his Sequel and one Toft which Matildis de Camera held with the said Matildis and hers reserving to her self and her heirs a pound of Cummin seed at Candlemas and 12d. which ought to be paid to Sir Richard Folìot and his heirs for that Bovat which Roger de Lunde held to her Deed were Witnesses Thomas de Bella aqua Robert le Vavasor William le Botither c. Robert Scarlett and Beatrix his wife in the presence of their Lord Roger de Hayra and of their Lady Matildis de Hereford his wife and in their hands before the Alinâ—ot of Aicring by Wood and Wand lignum baculum rendred and quit-claimed to the Monks of Rufford those two Bovats of Land in Aicring which sometime had been Ougrims the Forester of Walter de Gant for which the Monks gave him a She-Goat and his wife a Cow and granted them the Toft for 4d. per annum during both their lives to their Deed they also put to the Seal of their said Lord Roger de Hayra Cog de Karlaton was a Witness Raph de Hereford son of William de Hereford confirmed to the Monks of Rufford all the Land which they had of his Fee viz. nine Bovats which were Angots and afterward Osbert de Capella's and his son Iohns and all the Land called Brakynsâ—ort and the Land called Iohns Wood and a Bovat and an half which was Herbert Scakells and two Bovats which they had of the gift of William Andegavensis with the Toft adjoyning which were sometimes Reginalds the son of Wyot of Cratle and a Toft which was sometimes Hermers and Wyots Wood which they had of the gift of Bete le Turner daughter of Robert son of Wyot and the Land which they had of the gift of Roger de la Haye and of William Scakell or of any other of his Men of Eycring Sir Robert de Lexington and Sir Henry his brother were Witnesses Raph de Hereford in the presence of the Court of Earl Simon recognized and rendred to the said Monks the Alms of Earl Gilbert in the hand of Abbat Elias whereof Controversie had been between them Robert son of Raph de Hereford was to hold some of those Lands during his life by another agreement between him and the Abbat William son of Richard Foliot demised to Walter de Winkeburne 10l. Land in Ekeringe for term of his life which Walter afterwards thereof infeoffed Hugh de Birne and his heirs and afterwards the said William enfeoffed thereof Walter de Stirkeley and Alice his wife and their heirs who 10 E. 1. recovered their seisin accordingly the Jury finding as before is said that Walter de Winkeburne had but Estate for life Henry de Eykring held a whole Knights Fee here And the Abbat of Rufford the fourth part of one William de Sutton held the twentieth part of a Fee of Gilbert de Gaunt in Eykring There was an agreement made in the year 1242. the day before the Ides of May between Gaufr the Abbat of Rufford and the Covent on the one part and William de Sutton and Matilda his wife on the other upon a Controversie concerning the common Wood of Eykring viz. the Abbat and Covent granted to the said William de Sutton and Matilda and their heirs all that Essart which the said William had made on the West part of the Wood called the Common Wood and abutted on the Essart towards the South which Raph de Hereforth gave to Rodland de Sutton Father of the said William saving to the said Monks Common of Pasture after the Corn and Hay should be carryed away to whom the said William and his wife granted another portion of Land with the Wood therein growing upon the like terms But the whole Wood between the said Lands with the Land in which it stood even to the bounds of Winkeburne was to be equally Common to the Monastery and the said William and Maud and their heirs and each party was to have their proper Forester and nothing to be taken without the consent and view of the other party who was to have Tree for Tree c. Robert de Sutton son of William 2 E. 1. left his son Richard eight years old his heir of this Mannor Warsop and in Tuxford c. as in Sutton is said Richard de Sutton 34 E. 1. had Free Warren granted at Ekering The Jury 16 E. 2. found that Iohn de Somery held the Mannors of Warsop and Ekering except the Advowson of the Churches of the said Towns for term of life of Iohn de Sutton son of Richard and that Margaret then aged thirty years wife of the said Iohn de Sutton and Ioane aged twenty nine the wife of Thomas Bottetourt were sisters and heirs of the said Iohn de Somery Lord Dudley who had Lands in the several Counties of Warwick Stafford Berks Surry Southampton Worcester Buckingham Rutland and Huntington Iohn son of William de Ros of Hamlak 3 E. 3. claimed Free Warren in all his Demesne Lands at Eykring which 12 E. 3. he left with Warsop to William de Roos his brother and heir This Mannor descended with Orston Warsop and Sutton upon Trent to Roger Earl of Rutland who sold it and so it was the possession of Robert Earl of Kingston and continues the inheritance of the Right Honourable the Marquess of Dorchester his son That which the Monastery had came with Rufford from the Earl of Shrowsbury by descent to the present Lord Hallifax In the year 1612. here seemed to be many Free-holders viz. Iohn Bristowe of Malebeck Francis Bristowe of Morton Iohn Greaves of Béestrop George Bilby Richard Tomson George Reasby Richard Foster William Iohnson Iohn Wright Thomas Tomson Randolph Camme William Bunbie Richard Brimscall Roland Birkett William Wager Raph Frith Thomas Cooper The Rectory of Eykering was twenty Marks when the Lord Ros was Patron 'T is now 9l. 16s. 0d. ob value in the Kings Books and the Lord Viscount Hallifax Patron Welley Grymston Doomsd. Creilege Cratela WElhay is not found in Doomsday Book which shows that in Creilege before the Conquest Rolf had a Mannor which defended it self for two Car. ½ to the Dane-geld
Radeclive upon Sore in Notinchamsire with all the appurtenances and the fourth part of the Mills of the same Town and the Tythes of the other three parts the Church of Kneshal and Tythes of the Mills there and the Tythe of Allerton Mill in this County Howbeit the Family of Picot held this Town and Kinston of the King in capite by the Serjeancy of keeping Hawks for him of the old Feoffment viz. in the time of King Henry the first Peter Picot gave account of 100l. for having the Land which was Peter Picots his Father in the time of King Iohn Thomas Picot had free warrant granted in Radclive and Kineston 37 H. 3. he is sometimes called Thomas de Hedon by reason of his residence at that Mannor of his in Essex The Serjeancies here were let out for rent in King Henry the thirds time by Robert de Passelewe several persons had shares and some paid rent to Thomas Pigot besides the Kings Elias Pikot held four Virgats for 20s. per annum to the King at Mich. and Easter Letice Pikot one Virgat for 5s. Ernold the son of Elias one Virgat or Yard-land for 6s. per annum Iulian the daughter of Roger de Hamstede one Virgat for half a Mark. Iohn le Hostricer or the Hauker held two Virgats for 10s. rent and service to Thomas Pikot for making the Mutes The heirs of Thomas le Taylour William Pimme and Thomas le Paumer each a Virgat for 4s. and service to Thomas Pikot as before Iohn de Leke three Virgats in like manner for a Mark. Richard Seaman one Virg. ½ ¼ for 4s. Felice the daughter of William Pinguant Anketill the son of Thomas and the Prior of Bredon each two Virg. Stephen the Cook one Virgat for half a Mark whose son William brought his suit against Peter Picot the son of this Thomas 53 H. 3. for distraining him for 2s. rent which he pleaded to be part of the half Mark and said that neither he nor his Father Stephen ever paid it but that after the Battel of Evesham Peter Picot came to Radclive and exacted it of him and threatned him of his life so that he was forced to pay it for fear The Prior of Norton recovered the Advowson of this Church 2 E. 1. by Assize and Jury yet Peter Pigot Grandclild of Peter and son of Thomas 9 E. 1. claimed it against the said Prior who called to warranty Henry de Lacy Earl of Lincoln who came and defended the right by the body of a certain Free-man of his called Iohn the son of Richard de Baynbrigg but there was no Judgement upon the Duel This Peter was a Knight and dead 14 E. 1. He held besides this Lordship Lands in the Counties of Kent Essex and Herâ—ford of all which his son Iohn was then found to be his heir and twenty four years old but Iohn Picot 22 E. 1. was also dead and his Brother Peter then of the age of thirty years and upwards was found his heir Roger de Bathesworth Robert de Monteney Peter Picot and William de Montecaniso were 29 E. 1. parceners of the inheritance of Stephen de Somery A Fine was levyed 6 E. 2. between Raph Basset of Drayton Compl. and Peter Picot Deforc of the Mannor of Radclive upon Sore with the appâ—rtenances except one Mess. one Virgat and sixteen Acres of Land The third part of this Mannor was then Thomas Barkebyes in right of his Wife Helewisia who held it in Dower the Reversion of which the said Peter did pass to the said Raph Basset and his heirs likewise this was in Easter Term. Another Fine was passed in Trinity Term and another in Michaelmas Term the same year wherein Raph Basset settled the premises both Possession and Reversion upon Peter Picot and Ioan his Wife for both their lives which after the Death of Peter Picot 8 E. 2. was again confirmed in Court to Ioan his Widow by the said Raph Thomas Barkby and Helewisia consenting and there doing her fealty Peter Picot dyed seized of the Mess. Virgat and sixteen Acres of Land parcel of the Mannor of Radclive 7 E. 2. Simon Seuville the son of Margery one of the Sisters and Isabella Touke the other Sister of the said Peter being then found his heirs Simon forty and Isabel sixty years old of whom the said Raph had that Land also the next year after viz. 8 E. 2. In the 35 E. 1. Peter Picot and his heirs were to have view of Frankpledge Assize of Bread and Ale Pillory Tumbrell Infangetheof and Gallows in their Mannor of Radclive for a certain rent yearly paid to the King by the hands of the Sheriff This Family of Pigot had interest at Barowe in Leicestershire where I find Alexander Pigot and Robert and others resident in the time of H. 3. E. 1. and E. 2. c. Peter Picot gave account of Barow 27 H. 2. and 30 H. 2. Petrus Picot 27 H. 2. defunct 13 Joh. Petrus Picot 13 Joh. Thom Pigot dictus etiam de Heydon Petrus Pigot miles Margeria Simon Seuvill aet 40. 7 E. 2. haeres Petri. 1 Johannes sine prole 2 Petrus Pigot s. p. -Joana relict 7 E. 2. Isabella ux ... Touk aet 60. 7 E. 2. haeres Petri. The Jury 33 E. 1. found it not to the Kings loss if he granted Iohn de Byern leave to infeoff Mr. Richard de Hertford and Peter the son of Robert de Herteford and the heirs of Peter in two Mess. and thirty two Acres of Land in Radclive Nor 9 E. 2. to the Kings loss to grant to Roger de Raumpaine and Cicely his Wife to give one Mess. and one Virgat and to Peter de Herteford to give two Mess. and thirty Acres of Land to Thomas de Barkeby Thomas de Radclive upon Sore 8 E. 3. settled one Mess. two Virg. of Land here upon himself and Alice his Wife and the heirs Maâ—es of their bodies and for want of such to Adam de Cradeley and Ioan his Wife and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of Thomas besides which this Thomas had a Mess. and Carucat of Land here and in Kinston Thomas de Ratcliff on Sore late under-Sheriff of Nott. 13 E. 3. gave account of 17l. 6s. 8d. of the fines for divers transgressions charged upon him his pledges were Iohn de Mounteney and Thomas de Neumarch Knights Raph Lord Basset of Drayton by his Testament Ian. 16. 13 R. 2. gave certain Mannors Lands and Tenements and amongst others this Radclive to Sir Hugh Sherly his Nephew and the heirs Males of his body on condition that he and they should bear his Name and Arms and for want of such to William de Stafford Brother of Edmund Earl Stafford on the like Conditions and for want of such heirs or conditions to Iohn de Grey Brother of the Lord Grey on the like and after him to Sir William Lisle as
Nicholas de Widmerpole and Thomas his son set to their claim Iohn de Segrave Senior 19 E. 2. was found to have held one Mess. and one Bovat of Land in Thorp Bossard of the Lords of Barowe as parcell of the Mannor of Thorp Bossard which Robert de Derley then held of those Lords and that Iohn de Segrave son and heir of Stephen de Segrave son of that Iohn was his Cousin and heir and then above nine years old he held the Advowsons of the Churches of Thorpe and Bonington and divers Mannors in Darbishire Bretby and Roscelaston and Lands in Repindon and Tikenhal which the said Iohn and Christian his wife then living had of the gift of Edmund Earl of Arundell c. Elizabeth daughter and heir of the last Iohn de Segrave carried it to the Family of Mowbray Dukes of Norfolk from whom it descended to the Lord Barkeley who in Queen Elizabeths time sold it to Mr. Armstrong Henry Temple of Thorp in the Clotts by his Deed dated on the Feast of St. George 38 E. 3. granted to Raph Basset Knight and Hugh Annesly 20l. per annum during his own life out of his Lands and Tenements in Thorpe with a clause of difference Maud Temple Widow 51 E. 3. granted to Robert Armstrong and Margaret his wife the moyety of the Mannor of Thorpe to find her Meat Drink and Cloaths during her life Thomas Columbell and Margaret his wife gave one Mess. and six Virgats of Land here to Iohn Columbell and Thomas Warin Parson of this place 14 H. 4. and Iohn Armstrong son and heir of the said Margaret confirmed it for Thomas Columbells life Nicolas de Thorp 9 R. 2. was found by the Jury to have held the Moyety of the Mannor of Thorpe together with Robert Armstrong and Margaret his wife who held the other half in right of the said Margaret of the King in Capite by the Service of making suit to the Wapentak of Rishcliff from three weeks to three weeks and finding two Franke-pledges at the great Turn of Rishcliff and Thomas son and heir of the said Nicolas was then twelve years old The Family of Armstrong flourished here and by degrees became possessed of the whole Township and some neighbouring Mannors as is already noted The Kings Commissioners 9 H. 8. sitting at Nott. on Munday the Eve of the Nativity of the blessed Mary found that Gabriel Armstrong Gent. had been and then was Seised of eighty and of ten Acres of Arable Land apt for the Robertus Armstrong de Thorp in le Clots 11 R. 2 -Margareta fil Henrici del Temple vidua 15 R. 2 -Thom Columbell de Derley marit 2. Johannes Armstrong obiit 1421 -Felicia fil Hug. Willughby Clerici -Rad Bingham marit 2. Hugo Armstrong ob 17 E. 4 -Joana Johannes Armstrong ob 1485 -Joana fil Hug. fil Roberti Teverey de Stapleford ob 1483. Thom. Armstrong ob 5 H. 8 -Philippa fil Ricardi Villers -Joan fil .... Hampton Gabriel Armstrong ob 2 E. 6 -Doroth fil ... Thurland -Margeria fil Alex. Buxam Hugo Armstrong ob 15 Eliz. -Maria fil Hen. Sacheverell de Radcliff Gab. Armstrong-Margar fil Th. Knyveton de Mircaston Gilbertus Armstrong- .fil ... Rice Fortune Pacy 2. Gabriel Armstrong .... fil .... Min. Gabriel Armstrong aet 20. 1672. .... fil .... T. Wells Eliz. Marg. Rebecca Hugo Gervas de Scarrington Eliz. fil haer R. Shipman Hugo Cler. Dan. Helen ux Turvile Jana ux Fitz-Herbert Luc. ux Nic. Raynes Edm. ... ux More ... ux Elton Francisca Alex. Ricardus Johannes sowing of Grain in Thorpe in le Clotts and so seized did the fourteenth of March 6 H. 7. the said Acres inclose with Hedges and Ditches and so inclosed convert to pasture Inclosing the Lordship as it doth in all places where the soil is any thing good in this County for certain hath so ruined and depopulated the Town that in my time there was not a House left inhabited of this notable Lordship except some part of the Hall Mr. Armstrong's house but a Shepherd only kept Ale to sell in the Church which is still presentative and to it all the Tythes belong paying 20s. per annum the Pension to Lenton The Rectory of Thorpe was 10l. value and Mr. Barkeley Patron now in the Kings Books it is 12l. 9s. 4d. ob and Gabriel Armstrong is Patron Widmerpole Doomesd Wimarspol Wimears Poll or Spear or Wide mere poole IN Wymarspol of the Fee of Raph Fitz-Hubert lay to Boney as much as was assessed to the Dane-geld as one Bovat this continued with Boney But here was of the Tain-Land a Mannor which one William had before the Conquest and paid for it in the publick Tax as eleven Bovats The Land was two Car. Aldene had there fourteen Sochm. two Vill. two Servants with six Plows or Car. and twenty Acres of Medow In the time of King Edward the Confessour this was valued at 40s. of the Conquerour at 30s. There four Tains had Lands which paid the Geld as six Bovats The Land was one Car. Alden had there one Sochm. with three Oxen in Plow and six Acres of Medow In the Confessours time this was 20s. then when the Survey was taken 6s. It seems there was almost continually suits between the Family of Crumbewell and that of Heriz and their posterity for this place for Raph de Crumwelle 1 R. 1. is certified by the Sheriff Raph Murdach to owe five Marks for hastening his right here against Robert de Heriz but the Record saith he yet had not right Raph de Crumbewell 5 H. 3. claimed against Ivo de Heriz three parts of a Knights Fee in Wydmerpol in the County of Nott. whereof Haldoen his Ancestor was seized in the time of King Henry the elder viz. the first from whom the right descended thus viz. from Haldoen to Hugh his son from him to Raph his son whose son and heir Raph was Father of the said Raph de Crumbewell then claiming The great suit in the time of Henry the sixth was between Raph Lord Crumbwell and Sir Henry Pierpont as in Gunnaston will be noted where the descent of this Family of Heriz shall also be inserted being Lords of that as well as of this place William de Heriz by the consent of his wife Aelina daughter and heir of Robert de Whatton and of Robert de Heriz his brother gave Arnald his man of Widmerpole with his whole Land viz. four Bovats and all customes and services thereto belonging and his Mill at Widmerpole and Wood out of his Woods at Huccanal to make and mend it for ever and half his Mill at Gonolveston and the like power in his Woods there and divers other things to God and the Church of Lenton upon the great Altar whereon this gift was offered by himself and his wife in the presence of very many Witnesses Robert de Heriz and William his Uncle Simon son of Richard and Herbert his
Chaplains daily celebrating Divine Service in the Church of St. Mary of Clifton by Nott. for the good estate of him the said Gervase and Isabel his wife This Sir Gervase the same year got a Jury to enquire what damages he sustained by reason of certain Trenches made in Robert Tibtots time to bring the water of Trent out of the ancient course to Nottingham Castle for the benefit of the Kings Mills there through Wilford Medows and the Jury found 100l. whereof he prayed 52l. 7s. 0d. ob q. might be to satisfie his arrearages when he was last Sheriff and the rest paid him His Father the last named Robert Cousin and heir of the former Sir Gervase had petitioned King E. 2. and had an Inq. taken before Roger de Verdon Lieutenant of Iohn de Segrave Warden of Nottingham Castle but he had order only for 30. and 5l. out of the Exchequer This Sir Gervase lived long I find him 10 R. 2. His son Robert to his first wife had Isabel .... 19 E. 3. but to his second 35 E. 3. Agnes Gray by whom he had Sir Iohn de Clifton who brought a great increase of Estate to the Family by his wife Katherin the daughter of Sir Iohn de Cressi and Sister and heir of Hugh Cressi by whom he had Hodsak in this County Downe Hall and Cre Hall in Claypole in Lincolnshire and Melton in Yorkshire she was after Sir Iohn her husbands death who is said to have been slain at the Battle of Shrowsbury 4 H. 4. married to Raph Makarell her Sister Elizabeth the other co-heir was married to Sir Iohn Markham the elder Judge Here was a notable Sir Gervase Clifton of this Family who sometimes hath been thought to be son of this Sir Iohn Clifton but whether he was Brother or Cousin I cannot yet discover he married Isabel daughter of ... Harbard alias Finch of Brabourn in Kent the widow of William Scot and was several times in the Raign of H. 6. Sheriff of Kent He was 23 H. 6. Lieutenant of Dover Castle under Humfry Duke of Gloucester The King 29 H. 6. upon the resignation of Sir Richard Vernon made him for his good Service Treasurer of Cales and the Marches of the same and the next year following viz. 30 H. 6. committed the Temporalties of the Archbishoprick of Canterbury into his hands upon the death of Iohn the Archbishop He was a Commander at several places in France Pontois he was Captain of After Robert Lord Willughby of Eresby and Thomas Nevil he was third husband to Maud Niece and co-heir of Raph Lord Crumvel by Maud his Sister second wife of Sir Richard Stanhope In a pardon he had the 9 E. 4. he was stiled Gervas Clifton Knight late of Braâ—ourn in the County of Kent alias late of Clifton in the County of Nott. alias of London alias of Gresby in the County of Lincoln but continuing his zeal to his old Masters interest he was 10 E. 4. dispatched at Tewkesbury and 11 E. 4. amongst the rest proclaimed Rebell and Traytor He left issue by his first wife two daughters Ioan married to Iohn Digges and Isabell to Iohn Gerningham He bore the same Arms with this Family as appears by his Seal The son and Successor of Sir Iohn Clifton was Sir Gervase Clifton of Hoddesak who married Isabell the daughter of Sir Robert Franceis Knight and left her a widow 8 Dec. 32 H. 6. Sir Robert his son being then above thirty years of age who married Alice the Sister of William Bothe Archbishop of York and begun to found the Colledge dedicated to the holy Trinity at Clifton but died Apr. 9.18 E. 4. before he had accomplished his design yet his son Sir Gervase religiously performed it who had to his first wife Alice the daughter of Thomas Nevill of Rollaston Esquire the Relict of Richard Thurland There is a fair Alabaster Tomb for her in the North-East end of the North I le in Clifton Church This Sir Gervase was Esquire of the body to Edward the fourth and Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of R. 3. who for his singular and faithful service gave him in the first year of his Reign by his Letters Patents bearing date Apr. 24. the Mannors of Ratcliff on Sore in this County and all the Lands which were Henry Duke of Buckinghams in Ratcliff and Kinston and in Kegworth in Leicestershire the Mannor of Overton Longvile in the County of Hunt together with the Advowson of the Church which Sir Roger Tocotes of Bromeham Knight lately forfeited and the Mannor of Dalbury and Dalbury Lyes with the Advowson of the Church and all the Lands there and in Etwell and Wirkesworth in the County of Darby which were late Henry Duke of Exeters About 22 E. 4. this Sir Gervas married to his second wife Agnes the daughter of .... Constable of Flamborough the widow of Sir Walter Griffith and his second son Sir Gervase to Agnes the daughter of the said Sir Walter Griffith and the said Agnes His first Son and heir Robert was a Clergy-man as was Robert his Uncle who was Arch-Deacon of the East Riding of Yorkshire Upon the aforesaid Marriage he settled Ian 10.22 E. 4. on Mr. Robert Bothe Cler. Dean of York William Constable Cler. William Rokeshaw Cler. Stephen Capendale Cler. Robert Yo le Cler. and Thomas Orston the Mannors of Clifton Wilford and Broughton Sulney with the Advowsons of all the Churches the Soke of Hoddesak viz. Hodsac Holme Dulecotes Harmeston Flâ—rthorp Stirap Letwell and Gildenweles in this County so that he was not seized of any when he died which was 12 May 6 H. 7. his son the said Sir Gervase being then above thirty years of age by the Inquisition taken at Blith 30 of Octob. before Thomas Hunt Eschaet 7 H. 7. Another Inq. taken at Newark 21 H. 7. saith he died 5 H. 7. on Ascension day Sir Gervase the son took to his second wife Ioan daughter of Iohn Bussy widow of Sir Nicholas Byron about 21 H. 7. but he left her a widow again â—un 5.23 H. 7. and his son Robert Clifton Esquire to succeed him who married to his first wife Aâ—ice the daughter of Simon Digby Lieutenant of the Tower of London and to his second Agnes daughter of Henry Lord Clifford by whom he left an heir about a year and an half old at the time of his the said Roberts death which was 3 Sept. 9 H. 8. called Gervase who proved an excellent Person and of great Authority both in peace and war and was so courteous that he was generally stiled Gentle Sir Gervase His first wife was Mary daughter of Sir Iohn Nevile of Chete in Yorkshire by whom he had Elizabeth married to Sir Peter Frechevile of Sâ—aveley in Darbishire his second was Winifrede daughter and heir of William Thwaits of Dulton in the County of Suffolk the relict of Sir George Perpont of Holme by whom he had George Clifton Esquire who
Fitz-William Lord of Elmeley died at Hathilsey and was buried at Sprotbrugh 10 E. 4. Sir William Fitz-William Knight of Sprotbrugh Lord of Emley his son died 9 H. 7. buried there also as was his son Iohn who died before him 5 H. 7. William Fitz-William son of this Iohn died without issue and so this Mannor of Plumptre with the Appurtenances in Normanton Clipston Ruddington and Chaworth fell to his Aunt Dorothy daughter of Sir William Fitz-William and wife of Sir William Copley whose son Philip Copley Esquire was found his heir by an Inquisition taken at Newark 29 Oct. 3 and 4 Ph. and Mar. of this Mannor and half the Mannor of Bafforth being then above thirty four years old Philip Copley Esquire by Mary daughter of Sir Brian Hastings Knight his wife had William Margaret Francis Alverey Iohn Thomas William Copley married Elizabeth daughter of Godfrey Bosvile sister and one of the heirs of Fr. Bosvile of Gumblethwait Esq and had issue Godfrey and Raph Copley both without issue Alverey Copley second son of Philip had by his wife .... the daughter of ... Gunby Esquire William Copley whose wife was Dorothy daughter of William Routh of Roumley Esquire by whom he had Sir Godfrey Copley created Baronet 17 Iun. 13 Car. 2. the present Lord of this Mannor and Sprotburgh in Yorkshire whose first wife was Eleâ—or the daughter of Sir Thomas Walmesly Knight and Mother of Godfrey his son and heir his second wife is Elizabeth daughter of William Stanhope Esquire There was a good Freehold in Normanton the inheritance of the Eldershawes This Hamlet is inclosed to the great loss of the Church of Plumtre to which it is Parish as is also Clipston The Rectory was 30l. value and William Fitz-William Patron Now 't is 19l. 19s. 7d. in the Kings Books and Sir Godfrey Copley Patron The present incumbent is Vere Harcourt D. D. Arch-deacon of Nott. In the East Window of the Chancell there is Lozengy Ar. and Gules Fitz-William impaling with Crumwell quartering Tateshale and with Chaworth viz. Ar. 2. Chevrons Or quartering Caltoft and with Gules a Bend between 6. Martletts Arg. and with another broken away Fitz-Williams is in the Church Windows likewise and Arg. a plain Crosse Gules In the middle of the Chancell on an Alabaster Hic jacet Dominus Thomas Wigfall quondam c. obiit 16 Iunii 1534. Cujus animae c. Iu. 15 E. 1. Paulinus the son of William de Plumptre then lately deceased claimed divers Lands and Tenements in Plumptre and Normanton which William Fitz-William gave to the said William de Plumptre his Cousin and to the heirs of his body who is therefore thought to be a branch of the Family but the several persons against whom he claimed pleaded that when he obtained the Writ they had nothing in the premises but at the Will of Thomas son of or Fitz-William de Plumptre whereupon Paulinus came not and so his pledges Richard Cursâ—n and Roger le Spicer were amerced William de Plumptre 3 E. 3. claimed Lands in Plumptre as son of Henry son of Paulinus de Plumptre who held them in the time of E. 1. and was sometimes called le Clere Bingham Hundred Binghamshou Wapentac SO called from the usual place of meeting viz. a certain Pit on the top of the Hill on the contrary side of the Fosse way near the most westerly corner of Bingham Lordship called Moot-house Pit where the Hundred Court now known by the name of Moot-house Court is or ought to be still kept or called though I think they usually remove to Crophill Butler as the nearest Town for shelter Clipston WHen Plumtre Wapentak was in use this Town of Clipston was esteemed as part of it but now it is and hath been long even from the Conquest of Binghamshou though it yet remains of the Parish of Plumtre It was also of Roger de Buslies Fee where before the Norman Invasion Vlviet had a Mannor rated to the publick Taxation or Dane-geld at three Carucats The Land three Carucats There Roger had in Demesne two Car. three Sochm. twelve Vill. one Bordar having six Car. or Flows There was twenty Acres of Medow In K. Edward the Confessours daies the value of this was 60s. In King Williams but 40s. There is in Doomsday Book mention of two Mannors in Waâ—eberge now utterly lost except it was some part of Kinolton whereof Godric named in Plumtre before the Conquest had one and paid for it to the Geld as twelve Bov. The Land was twelve Bov. It was waste and the Fee of Roger de Busli There was ten Acres of Medow In the Confessours time it was 20s. In the Conquerours but 5s. Another Fredgis had rated to the Dane-geld at thirteen Bov. â— 2. The Land whereof was sufficient for two Plows or two Car. There Rogerius Pictavensâ—s whose Fee it became had one Car. and two Sochm. and one Bord. having one Car. and ten Acres of Medow This was 10s. in the Confessours time and 12s. value in the Conquerours It seems not to be far off from Cotegrave Crophill Outhorpe Kinolton and this Clipston in which Rogâ—r de Busli gave the Tythe of one Plow-Land or Carucat to the Monastery of Blyth amongst many other things in his very foundation Charter thereof bearing date 1088. Iohn de Gatton is said to have held a Knights Fee here of the Earl of Lincolne of the old Feoffment Richard de Bingham 22 E. 1. had a Charter of Free Warren in Bingham Clipston and Kinalton There was a Fine 1 E. 2. between Richard de Byngham and Alice his wife Quer. and Mr. Alan de Neuson Deforc. of thâ— Mannors of Byngham and Clipston and of nine Mess. twenty eight Acres and eight Bov. of Land and an half and twelve Acres of Medow with the Appurtenances in Outhorp Kinalton Cotegrave Notingham and Rotington and the Advowson of the Church of Rotington thereby settled on the said Richard and Alice and the heirs Males which the said Richard should beget on the Body of the said Alice remainder to William son of Alice Bertram of Bingham and the heirs Males of his body remainder to Richard younger Brother of William and his remainder to Thomas brother of the said Richard the younger and the heirs Males of his remainder to the right heirs of the said Richard de Byngham It appears by another Fine 2 E. 2. between the said Richard de Byngham and Alice his wife Quer. and William Bertram of Bingham Deforc concerning twenty Bovats of Land with the Appurtenances in Outhorpe Cotegrave and Kynalton settled as before on the said Richard and Alice and so on William Richard and Thomas that he first had these sons by her and afterwards took her to wife for William is there said to be son of the said Alice In the Record called Nomina Villarum 9 E. 2. Basingfeild Gamelston Torlaston and Clipston answered for a whole Villa and the
Land half a Carucat There three Vill. one Bord. had one Car. and six Acres of Medow This was both before and after the Conquest valued at 10s. Another parcel of William Peverells Fee here was Soc to Langar and paid the Tax as three Bovats and an half The Land one Carucat There seven Sochm. one Bordar had one Car. and two Bovats and eight Acres of Medow Another part of Wivreton was of Walter de Ayncâ—rts Fee and Soc to Granby and paid to the Dane-geld for six Bovats ½ The Land one Carucat There five Sochm. had two Car. or Plows two Bov. or draught Oxen and twenty Acres of Medow Another part was also Soc to Granby but of the Fee of Osburn Fitz-Richard and was rated to the tax at three Bov. The Land one Car. There seven Sochm. had two Car. or Plows this part had Sâ—c in Coleston Cut in Stone over a dore on the North side at Wyverton rulgâ— Waerton p. 98. A prospect of The Inside of the Gatehouse next the Court at Waerton being the North side At the East end of the Chancell at Titheby At the East end of the Chancell at Tithby Before the midst of this high Aulter lyeth Thomas Chaworth of Cropwell Botlers Squire and Ankaret his wife son and heir of George Chaworth of Ansley Squire and Alice his wife daughter and heir of Iohn Ansley Squire Which 〈◊〉 Thomas deceased on Trinity Sunday in the yeâ—â— of Grace M. CCCC.XXXV On whose Souls Jesu have mercy Amen One of the most considerable and ancient owners that I light on was Gervase de Wiverton son of Richard son of Gervas son of Richard de Berneston mentioned in Coleston Basset which said Gervase had a son named Richard de Wiverton who was a Knight and Benefactor to Wellebek and Thurgarton Monasteries to which last he gave with his body six Acres of Land in this Field which Walter son of Richard de Botelesford and Alice his wife his youngest sister and heir Idonia another sister and co-heir and Thomas son of Raph de Mellys which Thomas is supposed to be son and heir of his other sister Alina did after his death confirm This Sir Richard de Wiverton left his wife Matilda a widow before 37 H. 3. Then he was certified to Richardus de Barneston Gervasius-Margareta Richardus de Wiverton 25 H. 2. Gervasius de Wiverton Richardus de Wiverton mil. -Matilda Gervasius s. p. Radulphus de Mellys-Alma Tho. de Mellys .... de Mendham .... Johannes de Mendham nepos haer Tho. Mellys Johannes de Mendham aetat 28. anno 6 E. 2. Idonia Beatrix Henricus de Coâ—grave-Alicia Roger le Brett-Sara Alicia ux Walter fil Ric. de Botesford have held here of the King twenty four Bovats of Land in Wiverton and Barneston by the service of the fifth part of a Knights Fee of the Honour of Peverell and sixteen Bovats of Land in Wiverton and Colston of Raph Lord Basset and seven Bovats in Wiverton of Henry de Bek for the sixth part of a Knights Fee His Ancestors had disposed some Lands to pious uses what he left was subdivided into small parcels among the several heirs of his three sisters His youngest sister Alice had two daughters and heirs one called Sarra married to Roger le Brett and aged twenty eight years 8 E. 1. and another named Beatrix who left her daughter and heir Alice then aged fifteen years who 28 E. 1. was wife of Henry de Cotgrave The heir of Thomas de Mellys was his Nephew Iohn de Mendham who left a son called Iohn his heir twenty eight years old 6 E. 2. The portion of Idonia the other sister and heir of Sir Richard de Wiverton was Aliened to Hugh de Stapleford of Nott. and his heirs whose sister and heir Alice was wife of Iohn le Paumer who had a daughter named Agnes the wife of Richard de Whatton Here were many other owners and Benefactors to the Priory of Thurgarton as 1251. William son of William de Wiverton and of Albreda his wife daughter of William Gernet as I guess Gundreda wife and Roger son of that William confirmed his gift that Roger had a son named William de Wiverton father of 〈◊〉 Henry de Bek Knight gave all the Land he bought in the Fields of Titheby and Wiverton Henry son of Dionysius de Bingham in the year 1270. confirmed all his own gifts and sales to the said Priory and 〈◊〉 all the services of his Fee reserved in any gift or sale by himself or Robert de Handsacre His wife Christian and William de Bingham his son confirmed what he did Others here were too many to insist on but the principal owner in the time of King H. 3. was Sir William de Heriz Knight before named Sir Raph Basset son of Raph Basset granted to William de Heryez of Wyverton in Frank-marriage with Maltilda his sister six Marks of Land in Wyndesclive as Sir Raph Basset their father granted to the said Matilda to this Richard Basset Parson of Drayton was a Witness This Matildis was sister of Raph Lord Basset of Drayton Grandfather to the last Lord Basset of that house who died the 12 May 13 R. 2. at which time Thomas Earl Stafford aged twenty four years claimed and was found to be one of his heirs as son of Hugh Stafford son of Raph son of Margaret sister of the said Raph Lord Basset his Grandfather The said Matildis the other sister before named wife of Sir William Heriz left issue Ioan often called in Thurgarton Book Lady of Wiverton who married Sir Iordan Bret who had issue by her Sir Roger Bret who married Ramberga or Roberta the daughter of Iohn Lord Deincurt by whom he had a son Sir Iohn Bret who married Alice the widow of Sir Iohn de Loudham for which he paid twenty Marks of his Fine to the King 13 E. 2. and had a son Sir Iohn Bret who married Ioan ... on whom the Mannor of Wiverton 50 E. 3. was settled for life but died without issue so that his sister Catherin married to Sir Iohn Caltâ—ft Lord of East Bridgeford carried the inheritance to Aâ—ice their daughter and heir first married to Thomas Heth Chr. to whom Sir Iohn Bret Chr. granted 100l. Rent 40 E. 3. out of all his Lands in Wiverton Langar Barneston Tytheby Crophill Bishop Colston Basset Shelford and Aslocton and fifty Marks out of Williamâ—thorp Hynkershull Wolveley and Calale c. and afterwards to Sir William Chaworth which Sir William in right of her the said Alice his wife aged above thirty years 14 R. 2. was the other co-heir of the last Lord Basset of Drayton before mentioned This Sâ—r William Chaworth and Alice his wife had issue Sir Thomas Chaworth who had to his first wife Nicola the daughter of Sir Reginald Braybrook Knight by whom he had a daughter Elizabeth married to Iohn Lord Scrâ—op of Massam to his
Yorkshire Hameldon in ..... c. Roger le Scrope Chr. when he died held this Mannor joyntly with Margaret his wife and 8 H. 4. left Richard le Scrope his son and heir or sooner On the Seals of Roger and Stephen le Scrope and Philip le Dispenser circumscribed with their names 9 R. 2. are yet visible on Rogers a Bend and likewise on the said Stephens with a large Mullett added to the top of the Bend on Philips is Barry of six a Canton Ermine with a file of three Labels two in the said Canton or rather quarter for 't is a large one and the other towards the Sinister part of the Escutcheon This Mannor descended as the Genealogy shows transcribed out of the Sicling of the great Gallery at Langar from Richard Lord Scrope to Emanuel the last Lord Scrope created Earl of Sunderland who married Elizabeth daughter of Iohn Earl of Rutland but having no issue by her he settled it and the rest of his Estate upon his natural issue which he had by Martha Ianes yet living of which his only son Iohn died unmarried the last of Iuly 1646. aged about twenty years but his three daughters which by that means divide the whole inheritance amongst them are yet living Oct. 2. 1672. Mary the eldest was first married to Henry Cary Lord Lepington eldest son and heir of the Earl of Monmouth but he leaving her a widow without children she is since become the wife of Charles Lord St. Iohn of Basing eldest son and heir of Iohn Marquess of Winchester and by him hath issue Elizabeth the second daughter is wife of Thomas Earl Rivers and Annabella the third of Iohn Howe second son of Sir Iohn Howe of Compton in Gloucestershire Baronet by whom she hath many children Her eldest son Sir Scrope Howe Knight hath lately married the Lady Anne daughter of Iohn Earl of Rutland and is heir apparent of this Mannor which in the division fell to the share of his Mother to whom our present Soveraign King Charles the second by his Letters registred in the Office of Arms bearing date the first day of Iune 1663. in the fifteenth year of his Reign in consideration of the good and acceptable service done and performed by Iohn Howe of Langar Esquire her husband and for a mark of his especial Grace and Royal favour granted and ordained that she the said Annabella should be had taken and esteemed as the daughter of an Earl of this Kingdom of England and that for and during her natural life she have hold use take and enjoy the Stile place degree precedency and priviledges thereof in as full and ample manner as if she had been the Legitimate daughter of Emannuel late Earl of Sunderland with a precept of obedience to all and every of His Majesties Subjects since when she is usually stiled the Right Honourable the Lady Annabella Howe Oliver de Eyncourt released to Raph de Rodes thirty one Bovats of Land and fifteen Tofts in Langar and Barneston which he had brought a Writ of right for in King Henry the thirds time for which the said Raph gave him 50s. of Land in Barneston which together with his other Lands there and some other in Braunceton in Lincolneshire the said Oliver gave to the Priory of Thurgarton to find two Chaplains to celebrate for him his Ancestors and Successors for ever Richard de Wiverton Knight gave also three Bovats in Barneston and Wiverton and two Acres of Medow in Berneston with his body to the said Priory of Thurgarton to find a Secular daily to celebrate Divine Service at the Altar of our Lady there for his Soul and his Wifes Thomas Artebrig 10 E. 3. had licence to give 63s. 6d. Rent out of Langar and Wiverton to make a Chantry in the Church of St. Andrew in Langar Queen Elizabeth 7 of Iune in the thirteenth year of her Reign granted to Henry Lord Scrope of Bolton the Lands late belonging to Thurgarton in the Fields of Langar and Barneston And to Iohn Dudley and Iohn Aiscough 29 Ianuary 17 Eliz. the Tythes in the Parish of Langar in the tenure of Sir Iohn Chaworth Knight at 12l. per annum late belonging to the Priory of Lenton These Tythes I suppose Mr. Howe purchased of the Lord Dunbar as he hath since done a Mess. and some Lands of Moses Foxcroft son of Iohn Rector of Goteham which were Henry Flowers of Langar and by Henry Walker a Captain for the King in the unhappy wars and Anne his wife sister and heir of Thomas Flower heir of the said Henry sold to the said Mr. Iohn Foxcroft so that now the whole Lordships of Langar and Barneston except the said Mrs. Walkers house and some little Medow which was her Ancestors the Flowers is become the possession of Mr. Howe who hath made a convenient Park of the Closes which he found nigh the house which is well stored with Deer much better than the Towns are with people where so considerable parts of the Fields are inclosed the too common fate of good Land in this County A Quare impedit 6 H. 6. was recovered by Guy Fayrfax and William Akworth Plaintiffs against Iohn Elingham Prior of Lenton and Thomas Smith Clark of the Advowson of the Church of Langar The Rectory of Langar which hath but the third part of the Tythes was 10l. and the Lord Scrope Patron 'T is now 10l. 7s. 11d. value in the Kings Books and Mr. Howe Patron In the South Cross-Ile is a fair Tomb for Thomas Lord Scrope and his Lady whereon lie their Effigies at full length at the feet whereof is the figure of their son Emanuel kneeling in much less proportion the Top or Canopy of the Tomb whereon are their Arms with quarterings is supported by tall Pillars of black Marble well polished In the windows on that side is Arg. a Saltier engrailed Gules Tiptoft And in some places Azure a Bend Or Scrope quartering the former In the North Ovire at Langar the feet against the East wall On the Lord Scroop's Tomb. On the North side in two Tables The Right Honourable and Noble Lord Thomas Lord Scroope Baroâ— of Bolton Masham and Upshall of the most Noble Order of the Garter Knight Lord Warden of the West Marshes Steward of Richmond and Richmondshire and Bow-bearer of all His Majesties Parks Forests and Chases within the same Lyeth here buried and died the 2 day of September Anno Dom. 1609. On the South side in two Tables The Right Honourable Thomas Lord Scroope c. married the Right Honorable Lady Philadelphia daughter to the Right Honourable Lord Henry Cariâ— Baron of Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain to our late Queen Elizabeth her Majesties Houshold who died the 3 of February 1627. and had issue only one Son Emanuel Scroope At the feet of the Tomb this Emanuel Scroope son and heir of the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Scroope and of the Right Honourable Philadelphia
Rob. de Toâ—neyo Agnes-Hubert de Rya Henricus de Rya Galfr. Oliver Ewan Gaufr de Cabivin Walterus de Espec 3 Petrus de Ros. -Adelina Robertus de Ros. -Sibylla de Valoniis Everardus de Ros. -Rosa fil Will. de Trusbut tand haer Robertus de Ros dictus Fursan -Isabella fil Regis Scotiae Willielmus de Ros-Lucia Isabella de Albini sola haeres-Robertus de Ros. Rob. de Ros de Wark Everardus de Ros. 2 Albreda ux Nic. Trayly 1 Hawisia ux Will. Bussy de Espec slain in the flower of his youth by a fall from a swift running Horse which kind of creature the young man loved too well He by the consent of King Henry the first in the twenty second year of his Reign and of Adelina his own wife and by the consent of his Nephews the sons of his sisters of which William de Bussey Iordan and Roger de Bussy sons of his eldest sister Hawisia Galfr. de Trayly William Nicholas and Gilbert de Trayly sons of Albreda his second sister and Everard de Roos and Robert de Roos sons of Adelina his youngest sister were Witnesses to his Charter of Foundation Founded the Priory of Kirkham in Yorkshire to which he gave the right and Patronage of seven Churches in that County and Northumberland to be appropriated and eleven hundred Marks of Land and Rents in the same Counties and in the year of our Lord 1131. by the like consent and to which Charter of Foundation his said Nephews were likewise witnesses he Founded the Abby of Rivall in Yorkshire also to which amongst other things of its very ample indowments he gave all their Easements in his Mannor and Forest of Helmestat to wit materials and wood for their proper uses c. which I mention to interpret the word Easements mentioned before in this Chapter and to note that in the time of Henry the first a Subject might have a Forest or something then called so In the year 1136. he Founded the Monastery of Warden and took a Monks habit at Riâ—vauâ—r two years before his death which was 1153. It is not unlike but that he might be most kind and settle the greatest share upon his Sister Adelina because such vast possessions descended from him to the Lords Roos and he gave her the Advowsons of his Monasteries Her son Robert de Ros married Sibylla de Valâ—niis and by her had Everard de Ros who married Roesia the daughter of William de Trusbut son of Gaufr Fitz-Pagan and after the death of her brothers Richard Gaufr and Robert de Trusbut coheir together with her sisters Hillaria and Agatha â—efore mentioned not only to her Fathers estate but also to her Mothers who was widow and called Albreda de Harcurt daughter of Roysia one of the daughters and coheirs of Pagan Peverell who was Standard-Bearer to Robert Câ—rthose the Conquerours eldest Son in the holy Land Her Sisters the said Hillaria and Agatha failing of issue her posterity the Lords Roos became also Barons of Trusbut her son and heir was Robert de Ros called Fursan who married Isabell daughter of the King of Scotland and by her had two sons William and Robert This Rob. Fursan built the Castles of Helmesly and Wark and gave to the Templars the Preceptory of Ribstan in Yorkshire To his son William he gave the Castle of Hemmisly with the Appurtenances and the Advowsons of the Monasteries of Kirkham Rivalle and Wardon and to his son Robert the Castle of Warke with the Appurtenances and a Barony in Scotland to be held of William his brother and his heirs by Knights Service Which William de Ros son of Robert Fursan had by his wife Lucia Robert de Ros the fore-mentioned husband of our Isabella de Albini who besides their son Nicholas spoken of before and Robert and other children had William de Ros their heir who married Maud the daughter and co-heir of Iohn de Vaulx and his son William de Ros married Margery one of the co-heirs of Gyles Baddlesmeye mentioned in Langar and begot on her William Thomas Margaret and Maud. William de Ros married Margaret the daughter of Raph Lord Nevill Earl of Westmerland but died in the holy Land withouâ— heirs and Thomas his brother succeeded him who married Beatrice daughter of Raph Earl Stafford and by her had Iohn William Thomas Robert Elizabeth and Margaret Iohn de Roos had to wife Mary de Orrebe sister of the Earl of Northumberland but dyed at Cyprus going towards the holy Land without issue male and William de Roos his brother succeeded who by his wife Margaret the daughter of Sir Iohn de Arundel had Iohn William Thomas Robert Richard Beatrice Alice Margaret and Elizabeth Iohn de Roos his son and heir married Margery the daughter and heir of Philip Despenser but died in France on Easter Eve 1421. with his brother William without issue and Thomas de Roos their brother inherited and married Elianor daughter of Richard de Beaucamp Earl of Warwick by whom he had Thomas Lord Ros born Sept. 7. 1427. 6 H. 6. who married Philippa the eldest daughter of the Lord Tiptoft and sister and co-heir of the Earl of Worcester of whom he begat Edmund Alianor Isabell Margaret and Ione In this Thomas Lord Ros his time he being attaint this Mannor of Orston amongst others was granted by King Edward the fourth to Iohn Earl of Sâ—rowsbury but Edmund his son being restored 1 H. 7. it came again to the Family And Elianor eldest sister of this Edmund who died without issue 23 Oct. 1508. brought it together with her great inheritance to the Family of Maunors of Northumberland her husband being Sir Robert Maunors by whom she had George Edward Elizabeth and Cicely George married Anne the daughter of Anne Ducâ—ess of Exeter sister of K. Edw. the fourth by her husband Sir Thomas St. Leiger by whom he had Thomas created by King Henry the eighth Earl of Rutland and a numerous issue besides Earl Thomas had likewise many children His eldest son Henry Earl of Rutland by his wife Margaret daughter of Raph Earl of Westmerland had Earl Edward whose daughter and heir Elizabeth was married to Sir William Cecill and had issue William who claimed to be Lord Rosse and King Iames determined that he should be Lord Roos of Holdernes and have the ancient Seat of the Lord Ros in Parliament but that the Title of Lord Ros of Hamlaâ— Trusbut and Belvoyr should still remain to Francis then Earl of Rutland who was brother and heir of Earl Roger son of Earl Iohn brother of Earl Edward This Earl Francis was a very great man and Father of Katherin Duchess of Buckingham to whom he gave Hemesly Castle and the ancient Yorkshire Lands and likewise this Mannor of Orston which shortly after was sold and thereby became the possession of Robert Earl of Kingston and now remains the inheritance of the Right Honourable Henry Marquess of Dorchester
his son and heir Francis was followed in the Earldom of Rutland by his brother George who dying without issue left it to the Right Honourable Iohn the present Earl who was son of Sir George Maunors son of Sir Iohn Maunors second son of Thomas the first Earl of this Family which Sir Iohn married Dorothy the daughter and co-heir of Sir George Vernun of Haddon in the County of Darby from whom that Mannor and divers others are descended to this Earl who together with his Countess Frances the daughter of Edward Lord Mountague of Boughton hath rebuilt this Castle pulled down by Ordinance of Parliament in the Rebellion and made it a Monument of their Magnificence The posterity of Roger Bozon before named continued their possessions here till after that Family was broken into coheirs as in Screâ—eton may be noted and then it was sold and likewise became the inheritance of the said Earl of Kingston and with his Family continueth William Rufus gave this Church with what belonged to it in the time of Edward the Confessour to the Church of St. Mary of Lincoln and Robert the Bishop and all his successours in perpetual possession And the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Lincolne still have and of ancient time had the whole Rectory of Orston which was confirmed to them also by William de Albini the first owner of this Lordship of that name 〈◊〉 the Dean and the Chapter of the Church of Lincolne granted five Bovats of Land in the Territory of Horskinton temp Ioh. vel H. 3â— to Robert son of William de Derebi and his heirs paying 10s. a year as in those times was usual The Dean and Chapter 3 E. 3. claimed emendation of the Assize of Bread and Ale broken of their Tenents in Orston and Richard or rather Nicholas de Ros at the same time a Court-Leer in his Mannor of Orston Mr. Iohn Kerchevall holds the Tythes and five Bovats of Land in Lease of the Church of Lincolne as his Ancestors have done he hath two Bovats and ten Oxgangs and some inclosure Freehold Six Oxgangs and two Cottages were sold by his Father Iohn or his Grandfather Hugh to Mr. Welby of Hather There are very many small Freeholders William Malthy hath six Oxgangs Iohn Marshall five Iohn Cliff four ½ Iohn Challon four William Clark three formerly Mr. Kerchevalls Mr. Halford of Weston in Rutland owner of part of Aslacton two ½ Henry Norman two ½ William Wright two Robert Braunston three formerly Beanes c. The Vicarage was 12l. And is now 12l. 4s. 7d. in the Kings Books and the Dean and Chapter of Lincolne Patrons who have Augmented it since the Kings return it serves the Cures of Thorâ—ton and Scarington In Orston Church were Collected by Mr. St. La Kniâ—eton Gules two Cherâ—â—s Or. Azure six Flowers de Lis Or. Gules three Water bougets Arg. Lord Ros. Upon a plain Stone Here lyeth the Body of Iohn Kerchevall foâ— unto Heugh Kerchevall ob 9 Apr. 1597. STaunton lieth in Newark Hundred but a good share of it is a Berew or Hamlet of Orston and payeth all sorts of Duties with it in Bingham Hundred It belonged to the Priory of Haverholme in Lincolneshire but since the dissolution is become the inheritance of Staunton of Staunton and therefore I shall refer it to that place Thoroton Thurverton and Torverton THis Town was ever an Hamlet or Berew of the Soc of Orston the Book of Dooms-day shows that it was assessed or rated to the publick payments of those times as twelve Bovats The Land being before the Conquest esteemed four Carucats When the Survey in the time of King William was taken there was one Sochm sixâ—een Villains one Bord having seven Plows Carucats or Plowlands there was also then a Friest It is most reasonable to conjecture that the posterity of that Sokman or Freeholder as we now call him took their Sirname from this place howbeit the first that I have any good authority to fix any time to certainly was Roger de Thurverton a considerable owner and resident here in the time of King Henry the third who had a son called William de Thurverton living till towards the latter end of the Raign of King Edward the first and another called Roger. William together with his wife Matilda 32 E. 1. did make a demise of certain Lands in Newton to one Raph del Clay of Bingham for twelve years which the said Matilda and Margaret her sister held by right of inheritance which I conclude with very good probability was from Walter de Boyvill their Father who was resident at and owner of some Lands in Torlaston and of the Family of Wariâ—us de Boyvill of Cotgrave for I have only one other Deed which is without date but the Witnesses show it to be about the latter end of Henry the third concerning those demised Lands by which Alesia the daughter of William Bellard of Herdeby gave to Walter de Boyvill her Nephew and his heirs those and some other Lands in Newton and some in Carcolston and a Croft there called Tuâ— Croft reserving to herself 40s. a year for her life The Croft in Carcolston was afterwards called Boyvile-croft and I have a Close there which yet bears the name of Bellard or Bullard Leyes This William de Thurverton out-lived Galfr. his son as I suppose whose son Robert and Marjory his wife passed away some few Acres in Orston by a Deed without date though in the time of Edw. 2. This Robert had a brother called Hugh who in his latter time became a Clergy-man and was Parson of Kilvington whose son Iohn hath on his Seal to his Deed bearing date at Thurverton 1360. which yet remains amongst my own Eviâ—ences A Fesse between three Hunters Horns in imitation I guess of the Family of Otringham in Yorkshire with which there was some intercourse about those times but whether any marriage or no I cannot certainly say This Roberts son was Roger de Thurverton who in the beginning of King Edward the thirds time had to wife one Lecia and was Father of several sons Roger a Clergy-man and Iohn but William de Thurverton was his son and heir who married Agnes one of the daughters and co-heirs of Iohn Morin of Carcolston who was son and heir of Robert Morin of Kilvington and of Ioan his wife eldest daughter and at length co-heir of Oliver de Lovetot Lord of Carcolston by whom inheriring some Lands in Carcolston and Screveton they the said William and Agnes made the latter a dwelling for Richard de Thurverton their son and the 15 R. 2. passed to him their Lands at Kercolston reserving to themselves out of them five Marks per annum during their respective lives Agnes I find was living 1 H. 6. very old which gave further occasion for her posterity to continue their residence at Screveton and so to neglect and diminish their
six Bovats The Land whereof was then two Car. There afterwards Roger the Man or Tenent of Roger de Busli had two Sochm. three Vill. four Bord. having two Car. This had also Soc in Cheneviton and kept the old value 20s. as did another Mannor here of Walter de Ayncurts Fee which Tori had before and paid to the Geld for it as six Bov. The Land whereof was also two Car. There one Sochm. seven Vill. and one Bord. had two Car. and twenty four Acres of Medow Raynold the Man of Walter had 〈◊〉 Car. or Plow small Wood one qu. long one qu. broad The value of this was also 20s. The Abbat of Wellebec 14 Ioh. ought the King four Palfreys for his confirmation of the reasonable gift which Agatha the daughter and heir of Hugh Bretel maâ—e of Lands and Tenements with the Church of Flintham Agatha the daughter and heir of Hugh Bretel who was first married to Galfr. Mâ—nachus and afterwards to Mr. Humfrey King Iohn's Cook gave the Church of Flintham and Pasture for three hundred Sheep in this Territory to the Abby of Wellebek She had a son named Richard Bretel whom I suppose to be the husband of Rhagenildis by whom he had a son of his own name one of the three daughters and heirs of Nicolas Bastard son of Paganus de Sanctâ Mariâ whose legitimate son Adam de Sanctâ Mariâ did confirme to that Abby seven Bovats of Land which Hugh Bretel held here viz. six in Demesne and the seventh in Service in the tenure of William Colstan This Monastery had Lands of the gift of diverse persons in this Town and Free Warren granted 19 E. 1. as in Whatton and Aslaâ—â—on may be noted Roger de Mareseye offered himself 13 H. 3. against Robert de Abrincis concerning four Bovats of Land in Flintham which he claimed as his right to hâ—ld of the King in Capite The posterity of Auerenches or Auerenge were Benefactors to Wellebeck and some of them continued here till Henry the fourths time then sometimes written Arage This Mannor was held in the latter end of the Reign of Henry the third and the beginning of Edward the first by Sir Iohn de Hose Knight of Thomas de Marsey or Maâ—hersey of the Honour of Lancaster Nicholas de Wynchford is also said to have held it of that Honour but the Hose's continued here Lords of this Mannor till Queen Elizabeths time that Iohn Hosee had a son called Robert who dying without issue Anne his sister the wife of Iohn Draper whose Ancestors had been here resident since the beginning of Edward the third became one of his heirs and had to her share the Tenements The Demesnes are the inheritance of Mr. Iohn Hacker Esquire by Descent from his Father Richard who purchased them of .... Iohn Draper by his said wife the daughter of Iohn Hussee Esquire had a son called Thomas who married Elianor daughter of Thomas Whalley of Kirketon by Screveton Esquire and by her left Iohn Draper of Grayes Inne who Johannes le Hose miles 23 E. â— Hugo le Husee de Flintham 31 E. 1 -Lucia relict 3 E. â— Johannes de Hose 3 E. 3 -Isabella Johannes fil Johannis le Huse 13 E. 3 Hugo Hose miles 44 E. 3. 6 H. 5. Rad. Hose-Elizab 17 R. 2. 2 Henriâ—â—â— Hussey ... fil Joh. Methley Willielmus Huse ... fil Willielmi Staunton Will. vel Johannes Hussy ... fil Roberti Revel Johannes Hussy-Elizab fil Ric. Baker de Aldesworth Rob. Hussy â—ine prole Anna â—or har -Johannes Draper de Flintham Thom. Draper-Elianor fil Thom. Whalley Ar. Rich. Draper 〈◊〉 73 1672.-Maria fil Thom. Peniston -Thom Whalley marit 1. Whalley Draper sola haer -Robertus fil Roberti Eutler de Southwell Ar 1 Robertus Eutler aet 15. 16â—2 2 Richardus aet 13 1 Hugo Huse Ar. 10 H. 6. Margar. -Hen Sutton dyed without issue as did also Francis and Thomas his other sons so that Richard Draper was at length his only son and heir who married Mary the daughter of Sir Thomas Peniston the relict of Thomas Whalley his Cousin German and by her hath Whalley now his only daughter and heir wife to Robert Butler of Southwell Barrester of Grayes Inne who hath two sons by her Robert and Richard The Seal of Sir Hugh Hose Knight to an Instrument bearing date 6 H. 5. is a Lion passant upon a Fesse Philip de Aubeny 13 H. 3. had a Knights Fee in Flintham but whether this or no I cannot discover That Mannor of Roger de Buslies Fee was held by the Lâ—verots of Coleston and after them by the Gloucesters Galfr. le Fremund is mentioned to have held here half a Knights Fee of this Honour viz. Tikhill Christian sometimes wife of Richard son of William de Flintham released to Galfr. her son one Bovat of her Dower which she retained when he married Avicia the sister of Henry de le Fremund on whose Seal is two Barrulets or Gemmells in Chief that name corrupted into Ferryman and Freman Fulco de Hotot is certified also to have held half a Knights Fee here Alice the relict of Fulco de Hotot gave to Fulco de Hotot her son two Bovats in Flintham of the Fee of Lovetâ—t which she had of the gift of Nic. de Kniveton her brother This Family held under Albani of Belvoyr whereof was Odâ—ardus de Hotot and Willielmus de Hotot 5 Steph. Leicest Fulco de Hotot de Bocclesford-Alicia soâ—â—r Nicol. de 〈◊〉 relict 1271. Fulco de Hotot de 〈◊〉 Joana fil haer Willielmi fil Hawisiae 〈◊〉 Willielmus de Hoâ—ofâ— de 〈◊〉 10 E. 3. Walterus de Hotoâ— 10 E. 3. 〈◊〉 Henricus Hotoâ—-Agnes 45 E. 3. Johannes Hotot 16 E. 2. Henricus Hotot 17 H. 6. Hâ—go Hâ—tot-Margareta relict 6 E. 4. Johannes Hotot E. 4. 〈◊〉 2â— -Agnes Wiâ—â—ielmus Hoâ—ot 19 H. 8. 〈◊〉 Hoâ—oft 16 Eliz. Alexander Hoâ—â—â—t ob 16â—3 -Eliz fâ—r .... Whitmore de Câ—â—nton Walterus Hoâ—oft ob 164â— -Anna fil cohaer Joh. North de Loâ—dham Robertus Hoâ—â—ft 〈◊〉 â—3 1672 -Judith fil Mich. Grâ—â—dy de Eâ—easby Henricus Hoâ—ot 〈◊〉 3â— 16â—2 Johannes 33. Alexand. 26. Sam. 21. Judith-Willielmus King Maria ux Fr. Heapes Eliz. ux Geo. Gunthorp Rich. cleric Nic. Mich. Martin Rob. Ric Hotoft fil haer 16 Eliz. Thom. Hoâ—â—ft 6 E. 4. Thom. Hoâ—oâ—-Joâ—na relict 44 E. 3. Mr. Thom. Hotot â— E. 2. 3 E. 3. The Jury found 〈◊〉 the son and heir of Hugh Hâ—tâ—t 7 E. 4. who had held one Mess. and three Bov. 1 â— in Flintham of the Wapentak of Bingham for the Rent of 6â— yearly and sixteen Acres of the Honour of Tikhill for 9â— to be then twenty eight years of age This Family hath 〈◊〉 little Freehold left part of their Land was sold to Thomas Shipâ—â—n of Scarrington whose Grandson Thomas Shipmâ—n lately sold into Iohn Molyneux Esquire eldest son of Sir Francis Mâ—lyneux of Kneeton Baronet That of Deyâ—curts
William and Adam had each a moyety of the Barony of Shelford and their Courts there but because by degrees the Priory became possessed of all it will not be amiss to make further mention of the Family of Bardolf in Sâ—oke and of Everingham in Lâ—â—ton which continued longer to their posterities The Court now kept at Coâ—graâ—e formerly belonging to the Prior of St. Iohns of Ierusalem in the year 129â— by Peter de Hacchâ—m then Master and Lieutenant of the Prior was called their Court of Shelford William the Prior and the Covent of Shelford granted to the Prior and Covent of Thurgarton that they and all Passengers should have a way through the middle of their Medow of Oghâ—ng and the Dâ—â—ch of the said Medow without difficulty for which purpose they would find a Bridge from Mâ—rtinmas till the beginning of May if need were and would not challenge any Tâ—â—le in the moyety of Gunthorpe Ferry by reason of that way for which way their Brethren of Thurgarton were to pay 3s. per annum There was an Agreement made between the said two Hâ—uses concerning differences about Tythes and other things in Crophâ—ll and Tytheby by Walter Arch-deacon of Carliel by Authority from Pope Innocent 4. in the third year of his Papacy Raph Ilingworth 19 E. 4. suffered a Recovery of the Mannors of Boney and Shelford But King Henry the eighth 24 Novemb. in the twenty ninâ—◠〈…〉 Reign 〈…〉 of the Priory and 〈…〉 c. 〈◊〉 it and one hundred sixty 〈…〉 of Land 〈…〉 of Medow are 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 with the Appâ—â—â—enances 〈…〉 Esquire and Anne his wife and the heirs Males of Michael as he did also 5 Febr. 31 H. S. amongst other things the Mannor of Shelford and the Rectoryes of the Parish Churches oâ— Shelford Saxendaâ—e Gedling Button Ioys and North-Buckham Edwardus Stanhope de Rampton mil. -Adeâ—â—â—a fil Ger◠〈◊〉 mil. 〈…〉 Docâ— Fitz. Waren 1 Richardus Stanhope de Rampton -Anna fil 〈◊〉 Joh. Strelley 2 Michael Stanhope mil. -Anna fâ—â— Nichol. 〈◊〉 Tho. Stanhope mil. -Margar fil cohar Johan Poâ—â—e de Eâ—wall in C. Derâ— mil. Eâ—ianor-Thomas Cooper Edw. mil. 〈◊〉 Johannes 〈◊〉 〈…〉 Baron Stanhope 3 â—an Jam-Rogerus Townesend Johan Stanhope mil. ob 1609 -Cordelia fil cohaer Ric. Aâ—ington -Dorothea fil Tho. Trencham Philippus Stanhope mil. creat Com. Chesterfeild 4 Car. 1. Aug. 4. 1628 -Kath fil Franc. Dom. Hastings for Hen. Com. Huntington .... relict Ferrers -Will 〈…〉 1672. Hen. Dom. Stanhope ob ante patrem ... fil cohaer Ed. Dom. Woâ—ton -Heerâ—â—n marit 2. 〈◊〉 Dâ—â— O. Neâ—le marit 3. Ferdiâ—â—â— -Arâ—h Philippus Com. Chesterfeild ... fil Algernon Com. Northumb. uxor 1 -Eliz fil Jacobi 〈◊〉 Oâ—mond 〈◊〉 2 -Eliz fâ—l ... Com. 〈◊〉 ux 3. Filia Elizab. Philippus Dom. Stanhope Carolus Carolus Stanhope -Francesca fil Katherin Fran. Toppe ob 1673. 〈◊〉 Saâ—a Eliz. Alexander Tho. Johan â—il Anna Cocâ—â—â—â— Katherin Hutchinson Doroch Jaâ—â— Frâ—nc Annâ—-Joh 〈…〉 Comes Câ—are 22 Jâ—n 1624. Nov. 2. Thom. Edw. Edw. â— D. Mich. 〈…〉 Docâ— Fitz. Waren Anna-Ed Seymour Box Somerset Protector E. â— and all Mannors Mess. Lands and Tenements c. in Shelford Saxendale Newton Brigford Gunthorp Lowdham Cathorpe Horingham Bulcote Gedling Carleton Stoke Lamcote Flintham Long Collingham Cawnton the Town of Nott. Newarke Burton Ioys and North-Muskam in this County late belonging to this Monastery of Shelford paying 119l. per annum This Michael was second son of Sir Edward Stanhope of Rampton by his first wife Adelina the daughter of Sir Gervas Clifton his second was Elizabeth daughter of Fulc Bourchier Lord Fitz-Warin by whom he had a daughter named Anne married to Edward Duke of Somerset Lord Protector of Edward the sixth in whose cause this Sir Michael Stanhope lost his Head but left the beginning of a fair Estate which his son Sir Thomas and the rest of his posterity have well increased In Shelford Church Here lyeth the body of the Lady Anne Stanhope wydowe daughter to Nicholas Rawson of Aveley in the County of Essex Esquire late wife to Sir Michaell Stanhope Knight which Lady Anne deceased the 20. of Febr. anno 1587. Vivit post funera virtus Over above the Tomb on the Wall is The Epitaphe of Sir Michaell Stanhope Knight whilest he lived Governour of Hull under the late King of famous memory H. 8. and Chief Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to the late Noble and good King E. 6. By Sir Michaell she had these children Sir Thomas Stanhope of Shelford in the County of Nott. Knight Elenor married to Thomas Cooper of Thurgarton in Com. Nott. Esquire Edward Stanhope Esquire one of her Majesties Councell in the North parts of England Iulian married to Iohn Hotham of Scoreborough in Com. Eborum Esquire Iohn Stanhope Esquire one of the Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber to our most deare Soveraigne Lady Q. Elizabeth Iâ—ne married to Sir Roger Towneshend of Eyam in Com. Norf. Edward Stanhope Doctor of the Civile Law one of her Majesties High Court of Chancery Michaell Stanhope Esquire one of the Privy Chamber to Queen Elizabeth besides Margaret William and Edward who died in their infancy The said Lady Anne Stanhope lived wydowe thirty five years in which time she brought up all her younger Children in vertue and learning whereby they were preferred to the marriages and callings before recited in her life-time She kept continually a worshipful House relieved the poor daily gave good countenance and comfort to the Preachers of Gods Word spent the most of the time of her latter daies in Prayer and using the Church where Gods Word was Preached she being .... old she died 20th day of February â—o. 1587. the thirtieth year of the Reign aforesaid in the Faith of Christ with hope of a joyfull Resurrection Upon a smaller Tomb close by Here lieth Beatrix Rauston widowe daughter of Sir Philip Cooke Knight of Essex who departed 14 Ianuary 1554. She was Mother of the Lady Stanhope Sir Thomas Stanhope married Margaret daughter and co-heir of Sir Iohn Port by Elizabeth only daughter of Sir Thomas Gifford of Chillington and Dorothy one of the three daughters and co-heirs of Sir Iohn Montegomery of Cubley in Darbishire by whom he had Sir Iohn Stanhope father of Philip created Earl of Chesterfeild by King Iames and other Children as Anne wife of Iohn Hollis Lord Houghton and Earl of Clare Edward and Thomas Stanhope Sir Iohn had very many children Philip his eldest son the first Earl out-lived Henry Lord Stanhope his son who married .... the eldest daughter and co-heir of Edward Lord Wotton of Bocton Malherbe in Kent by whom he had Philip the present Earl whose first wife was .... the daughter of Algernon Earl of Northumberland his second Elizabeth daughter of Iames Duke of Ormond by whom he hath a daughter Elizabeth and his third wife is Elizabeth daughter of .... the Earl of Caernarvan by whom he hath sons Philip Lord Stanhope Charles
c. The House was a Garrison for the King and Commanded by Colonel Philip Stanhope son of the first Earl and Uncle of this which being taken by Storm he and many of his Souldiers were therein slain and the House afterwards burned Ferdinando Stanhope his brother was slain at Bridgeford doing a charitable office in commanding assistance for the quenching an House there on fire by accident by a Parliament Souldier some while before Mr. William Stanhope servant of the present Earl and son of William Stanhope of Linby his great Uncle is now making some Buildings to the Walls which stood after the fire In Shelford Church upon the Tomb is for Sir Michael Stanhope Quarterly Ermine and Gules quartering Mallovel Longvillers c. impaling Sable a Castlâ— Argent This Family of Stanhope before used the Coat of Lungvillers viz. Sable a bend between six Crosse crosletts Arg. for their paternal Coat as in Tuxford Newstede and other places may be observed On a new Tomb in the Chancell is thus Inscribed Expecting a Glorious Resurrection Neare to this place resteth the body of Katherine one of the daughters of Francis Lord Hastings eldest son to George Earl of Huntingdon first wife to Philip Lord Stanhope of Shelford and Earl of Chesterfeild which Katherine departed this life the 28 day of August An. 1636. leaving issue eleven sons viz. Iohn who died without issue and lieth here interred Henry Thomas Edward Charles Francis and Ferdinando both also interred in this place Michael and Philip here likewise buried George and Arthur and two daughters viz. Sarah and Elizabeth which Henry taking to wife Katherine daughter and co-heir of Thomas Edw. Lord Wotton of Bocton in Kent had issue by her two sons viz. Wotton who died young and Philip now Earl of Chesterfeild and two daughters Mary and Elizabeth Katherine This smale Monument is dedicated to the memory of his deare Mother by Arthur Stanhope her youngest son who hath done the like in the Church of St. Giles in the Suburbs of London for his deare father which Arthur having wedded Anne one of the daughters of Sir Henry Salisbury of Lawenny in the County of Denbigh Knight and Baronet by Elizabeth his wife daughter to Sir Iohn Vaughan of Golden Grove in the County of Caermarthen Knight hath had issue three sons and one daughter viz. Philip and Henry who both died young Charles and Katherine now living East-Bridgeford on the Hill IN Brugeford before the Normans came here Odincar had the principal Mannor which was then rated to the publick Taxation at four Carucats The Land was then accounted six Car. There afterwards Roger de Busli who had the whole Township had in Demesne three Car. twenty Sochm. on ten Bovats of this Land fifteen Villâ—ins three Bordars having eleven Plows or Car. There was a Priest and a Church and twelve Acres of Medow In the Confessours time the value was 3l. in the Conquerours 5l. Here were three Mannors which Turstan Roschett and Luston had before the Conquest rated to the Dane-geld at six Car. The Land one Car. There was three Acres of Medow but after the Conquest the Land was not Tilled The value then was 3s. before in the Confessours time it was 8s. Roger de Busli in the year of our Lord 1088. gave to the Priory which he Founded at Blith two parts of the Tythe of the Hall in Brugeford both of the Lands and small Tythes Willielmus Biset-Hawisia Willielmus Carpentar-Susanna Henricus Biset-Albrea de Lisures soror Johannis Constab. Cestr. Reg. Lent 46. b. Johannes Biset Margeria fil haer aet plen 27 H. 3. Ela 27 H. 3. Isabeâ—la cohaer 27 H. 3. Albrea-Warinus de Basingburne Constancia Johannes de Caltoft-Agnes aet 40. 11 E. 2. Philippus de Caltoft Johannes de Caltoft-Katherina fil Johannis Breâ— Alicia fil haer -Thom atte Hethe Chr. marit 1.35 E. 3 -Willielmus de Chaworth Thom. Chaworth miles-Nicola fil Reginaldi de Braybrook mil. -Isabella fil Tho. de Aylesbury mil. Elizabetha-Johannes Dom. Scroope de Massam Thomas le Scroop de Massam 6 E. 4 Thom. le Scroop Alicia Scrope fil haer -Henricus Scroop Ar. 12 H. 7. Johan de Multon-Isabella Thom. de Multon aet 15.11 E. 2. Albrea Esc. 21 E. 1. Nort. Linc. -Willielmus Ie Grant Rogerus le Brabazon mort 11 E. 2 -Beatrix Manasser Biset Henricus Ausoldus In a great Book in the Duchy Office mention is made of Ranulph Earl of Chesters giving Ludeham and Brigeford to Henry de Lacy in Fee but the next owners I find were the Family of Biset William Carpentar by the consent of Henry Biset his son and of Manasser Biset his own brother and of Ernulphus Biset his Nephew gave his Mill on Doverock called Clive milne to the Priory of Thurgarton for the Souls of William Biset his father and Hawisia his Mother and Susanna his wife and Henry Biset and Ausoldus his brothers and Henry his Nephew and all his Ancestors so that the said Mill should be towards the building of the new Church and when that should be finished to be expended amongst the Fryers reserving to himself and his heirs the Molture of the Corn of his Demesne when he would grinde there With this he gave himself living if he pleased or if he died in England there to be buried Henry Biset son of William Carpentar confirmed his Fathers gift of that Mill with a Bovat of Land in Ludham and a Toft lying by the said Clive Milne and likewise gave to the said Priory the passage of Briggeford with a Toft belonging to it which is now known by the name of Botemans Leyes and still belongs to the Ferry with William the Miller for the Souls of his said father and of his mother and of Aâ—brea his wife reserving to himself and his heirs and servants the free Fishing The Abbat of Roucestre 27 H. 3. claimed against Albreda de Basingburne eight Carucats and two Bovats of Land with the Appurtenances in Briggeford whereof every Carucat contained eight Bovats of Land measured whereof Thurstan his Predecessor Abbat of Roucestre in the time of King Henry the second was seised in right of his said Church Abreda came and answered that neither she nor her Ancestors ever defended this Mannor but by four Carucats as in Tallages Aids Customs and Services and called to warrant Margery Ela and Isabella the daughters and heirs of Iohn Biset Margery was then of fullage Ela and Isabella under age and in the â—â—â—tody of Iohn de Plesseto they were theâ—â—â—â—moned in the County of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Basingburne paid two Marks for one 〈◊〉 Fee here in the time of Henry the third â—â—oreda de Bassingburne held a Knights Fee here by reason of the custody of the Land and heir of Iohn Biset granted by the King Albreda had issue Constancia and she Isabel and Agnes Isabell was mother of Thomas de Multon of Kirketon and Agnes of Philip de Caltoft between
is noted already To this House at Bridgeford did Dr. Gilbert Sheldon then Warden of All Souls Colledge in Oxford now Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury retire with old Mrs. Okeover shortly after the Parliaments Commissioners had put him out of his place in that University and continued here three or four years well pleased with the River and Fields and honoured by the neighbourhood to all which he was ever very extraordinarily kind and from my self amongst the rest deserves a better acknowledgement The Church of Briggeford was one of those accounted as part of the Chappelry of Blith in the Charter of King Iohn made in the second year of his Reign to Walter Arch-bishop of Roan and his successours and the Canons of that Church where King Henry the second his Father and his brother King Henry the younger were buried This he did at the request of Queen Elianor his Mother which King Richard the first his brother had done before and himself also when he was Earl Morton The Inquisition taken at Blith 16 E. 3. before Nicholas de Langeford the Kings Eschaetor finds that the Arch-bishop and Canons of Roan had the Church of Briggeford in their hands as annexed to the Chappelry of Blith till King Edward the first granted it by the name of the free Chappel of Tikhill to one Mr. Iohn Clarell who was thereupon inducted into the Church of Briggeford as appropriate and annexed to the said Chappelry and so held it all his life After whose death the same King Edward the first gave the said Chappelry to Mr. Boniface de Saluciis his Kinsman who was accordingly inducted into this Church as belonging to the said Chappelry and possessed it quietly twenty four years but after the death of King Edward the first in the time of King Edward the second William de Grenefeild then Arch-bishop of York began to seek all occasions he could to trouble the said Boniface and procured one Thomas de N. to be presented to the Church of Briggeford by Roger Brabazon then the Kings Justice telling him it was of his Patronage in right of Beatrix his wife which Thomas was admitted and continued Parson and Sir Iohn de Caltoft and Sir Thomas de Multon Knights afterwards claimed the Advowson which hath ever since been used by their successours alternately Multons passing through the Deyncourts to William Bishop of Winchester and so to Magdalen Colledge in Oxford and Caltofts descending to the Family of Chaworth as before is shown remains with the heir Male of that House though the Land be the inheritance of the said Simon Scroop from an heir general Patricius Viscount Chaworth of Armagh who had this Turne from Sir Richard Chaworth Vicar general of the Arch-bishop of Cant his great Uncle now lately viz. Nov. 12. 1672. deceased presented Mr. Henry Smith the present incumbent Next beyond the Parsonage from the Church is a small place heretofore called Sir Iohn Markhams Mannor given by one Mr. Iacson Parson of this Church to his Kinsman Michael Iacson who married Frances the daughter of ... Poole of Syresâ—on and by her left four sons William his eldest Roger Parson of Langeford in Darbishire George a Citizen of London and Iohn of Burton Iorz William had one only Child called also William a modest man but of great worth who died Parson of Screveton Feb. 27. 1661. leaving but few equals for Prudence Piety and Learning in this Country He married Dorothy my Fathers sister by whom he left a son of his own name William now one of the Coroners of this County to succeed him in this small Freehold together with a Lease from the said Colledge and some Lands in Carcolston and three other sons Michael Roger and Iohn and a daughter named Elizabeth now married to her Cousin Richard White in London The Rectory of East-Bridgeford was 24l. 'T is now 19l. 8s. 6d. ob in the Kings Books and the Lord Viscount Chaworth and the Colledge of St. Mary Magdalen in Oxford Patrons by turns In the South I le at East Bridgford the Feet to the East end of the Ile On the North side of the Church at East Bridgford the feet to the East Wall In the East Window of the Chancell are some painted in their Coat Armours one Azure a Fesse Or between three Bezants Mr. Kniveton calls them Libards heads quartering with Arg. on a Bend Gules three pair of wings of the first which he also calls three Chevrons to this the Crest is A mans head Gules with a wreath about the Temples Arg. Another is Azure two Chevrons Or Chaworth Another is Deyncourt with a file of three Labells Arg. charged with six Billets Gules In the South window encompassed with Iohannes Allestre Prior de Thurgarton twice Sable three Keyes Arg. the Arms of Thurg. Priory In the Church North I le a Stone Tomb with one in Maile cross-leg'd upon which was Arg. an Orle of Cinquesoyles about a small Escutcheon Sable Caltoft In the Window the same wherewith impales Ar. two Chevrons Or Chaworth and Caltoft and the same for Chaworth as it is ever here quarters with Gules a Fesse Dancè between ten Billets Or Brett and both impale Caltoft in an upper Window Chaworth quartering Caltoft In the South I le an Alabaster Tomb North and South one in Maile his Belt between two Cotises Dancè on the sides Barry of six Or and Gules a Canton or quarter Ermine Gousell Azure a Fesse Dancè and Billettè Or Deyncourt Three Roses amongst Crosse Crosletts Darcy At the feet Gules a Bend Or between two Cotises Dancè Arg. impales with Arg. an Escutcheon Sable and both of them encompassed with an Orle of Cinque or six foiles like a bordure In the window over it is one with a shaven or bald Crown his upper Garment is Arg. powdered with six Foiles Sable and by him Gules A Bend Or between two Cotises Dancè Arg. this I suppose to be for Sir Thomas Hethe There is an old Alabaster Tomb flat in the North Wall of the Church and on it Hic jacet Johannes Babington ...... ob ...... 1409. And over it on a Stone engraven Ten Roundels and a File of three Labels In the Window was Arg. ten Torteauxes and a File of five Labels Az. impaling with Arg. a Lyon Ramp Gules bordered about with Roundells Or. Kneveton Cheneviton HEre was Soc to the Kings Mannor of Flintham as much as answered the Tax for three Bov. The Land was four Bovats There one Sochm. had half a Car. and an Acre of Medow Before the Conquest Elsi had a Mannor here which paid the publick Geld as one Car. The Land was twelve Bovats There Earl Alan of Richmond whose Fee it became afterwards had one Car. three Sochm. five Vill. having two Car. There was a Priest and half a Church and one Mill 10s. and five Acres of Medow This in the Confessours time was 20s. value in the Conquerours when he made his Survey 40s. Earl Alan
warlike wightes with helmes on heades In Stauntons Church do lie Their Soules no doubt for noble actes Ascende the Skies on hie Before his death this last Knight got Two sons William and Iohn And also with Man-hood and strengthe The Marre Pasture he won The Belveor Lorde said it belong'd To Northmanton trulie But this Knight seasde did die thereof As his demaine in Fee Sir William Staunton Knight was next Dame Athlin was his wife Sir Geoffrey Staunton Knight their heire Both voide of vice and strife And Sir Henrie his brother was Who gave himselfe to learne That when he came unto mans state He could the Lawes discerne And in the same went forward still And profited muche I know At Ynnes of Courte a Counsailer And Serjeant in the Lawe And in processe of tyme indeede A Judge he came to bee In the Common Benche at Westminster Such was his highe degree A Baron wise and of great wealthe Who built for Scholers gaine Sainct Michaels house in Cambridge Towne Good learninge to attaine Which deed was done in the eighteenth yeare Of second Edwarde King One thousande three hundred twenty foure For whom they pray and singe In which said house the Stauntons may Send Students to be placed The Founder hath confirmed the same It cannot be defaced This Lord Baron no yssue had We cannot remember his wife Nor where his body Tombed was When death had cutt off life Sir William the father is Tombed sure In Stauntons Church of olde And hath engraved upon his Stone Verbatim to behoulde Hic jacet Wilelmus de Staunton miles filius Maugeri de eâdem militis qui obiit ultimo Maii Cujus animae propitietur Deus Amen Sir Geffrey tooke Dame Alce to wife Four Sons he did beget Willyam Richarde Robert and Iohn and also Margaret Robert and Iohn were Persones both Of Staunton aforesaide Margret was married to Trickingham Which cannot be denaide This Robert in the Chauncell li'the Of Staunton to be seene The superscription Extant there In theis wordes as I weene Hic jacet Robertus quondam rector ecclesiae de Staunto et frater Wilelmi Staunton de eadem militis qui obiit nonis Kalend. Maii Anno domini 1329. Cujus animae propitietur Deus Iohn his brother in like sorte too Lies tumbled under a Stone The superscription may be seene It is not all out gone Hic jacet Johannes quondam rector ecclesiae de Staunton filius Galfridi Staunton de eadem militis Anno domini this Sir Gefrey One thousand and also Two hundred fifty as we reade And addinge seven thereto Rated the Prior of Haverholme And Neighbours dead and gone How many Cattell they should put Into the Marre each one For which unto the Lord alwais A certaine cheefe in lue Of olde time call'd their Marre pennyes Which at this day are due The Stauntons also likewise have Common therein yet still Willowes to cutt and Fish to take With other things at will Sir Willyam was Sir Gefreys heire And Isbell was his Spouse Sister to Sir Raph of Werton A Knight of auncient house Which Rafe unto Dame Isbell gave Landes greate with Rents they saye In Kilvington and Wilberdston In Franke-marriage for aye Which Sir Wilyam and Dame Isbell A son between them had His name Sir Wilyam Staunton was A Knight both grave and sadd Which Sir Wilyam the father hathe On his owne Tombe well writte As it is here set worde for worde With his Arms graved on it Hic jacet Wilelmus de Staunton miles filius Galfridi de eâdem militis qui obiit nonis Maii anno domini 1326. Cujus animae propitietur Deus To last Sir Wilyam Ioane was wife They sonnes had foure indeede Gefrey Iohn with Simon also And Thomas as we reede And Iohn his seconde sonne we finde Had yssue Iohn a-right A Devonshire man of courage stoute Which was a worthy Knight But Symon was a learned Clerke Of Staunton Parson he His life and callinge co-equal With Menne he did agree On Pers'nage grounde he builded much And those were very large Houses of office and Gate-house Were semely for the charge Which Simon when he had ended And done his workes of coste He left them all and past away As if labour were loste And for his pasport to be plaine There 's writte upon his Tombe A great rewarde for such a man For all that he hath done Hic jacet Magister Simon Rector ecclesiae de Staunton et frater Galfridi de eâdem militis Qui aedificavit Rectoriam de Staunton Obiit Idus Septembris anno domini 1346. Cujus animae propitietur Deus Amen The last Sir Wilyam wedded was To Ioane of beauty faire In unity they lived longe Sir Gefrey was their heire Which Wilyam died in the year of Christ One thousand as I gesse Three hundred fortie addinge one Not one yeare more or lesse Good Sir Gefrey Sir Wilyams son Was wedde to Lady Ioane Daughter to Sir Iohn of Loudham A Knight now Tomb'd in Stone Gefrey with Ioane five Children had Wilyam Thomas and Rafe Well learned Iohn and Alce also Christe kepe their Soules in safe The same Iohn was a good Devyne God pour'd on him his grace For he was Parson of Staunton But deathe dothe all deface Alce his own sister husband tooke The Lord of Rampton Towne Stephen Maulovell a Squire riche Of worship and renowne Alce then was buried in Stauntons Church The Pulpit very neare The superscription of her Toumbe In theis wordes follow'th heare Hic jacet Alicia uxor Stephani Maulovell domini de Ramton filia Galfridi de Staunton militis Que obiit in Kalendis Augusti Anno Domini 1349. Cujus animae propitietur Deus Amen Sir Gefrey Knight on Mondaie died The sixteenth day I heare Of October the tenth Moneth Which happeneth in the yeare Of Christe one thousande as I finde Three hundred sixty neene As writeings old can well declare Which have beene read and seene This Gefrey was a learned Manne And well seene in the Lawe Bothe grave modest and wise also And once Shreve was I knowe And in Election once againe That Office to have used Justice of Peace he long time was Till life had him refused Before whose death Stauntons Lordship And Basingham with Lands moe As Quarington and Scregenton With Elston truth was foe He did intaile to Stauntons heirs That males lawfully were And of the same seased did die By Deedes it may appeare And of good Lands in Newarke Towne In Lughborowe without faile In Leicester Town in Derbishire His right it could not quaile The saide Dame Ioane Sir Gefreis wife Li'the in Sainct Laurence queare In Stauntons Church the Deed declares The writeinge follows here Icy git Jone que fute la femme Mounsier Gefrey de Staunton la fillie Mounsier John de Loudham Que morust le derayne joure de July la anne le nostre seignor Christ 1366. Xcic mercie de sa alme Dame Cicely
Sir Iohn Lowdhams wife And mother to Lady Ioane Li'the buried in Saincte Laurence quere emongst her freendes nowe gone Hic jacet Domina Cicilia de Loudham uxor Johannis de Loudham militis filia Roberti de Kirketon militis Quae obiit septimo Idus Octobris Anno Domini 1344. Cujus animae propitietur Deus Amen Sir Wilyam was Sir Gefreis heire Wives worshipful two had The Lady Katherin was the first Dame Elizabeth full sad Elizabeth was daughter deare To Sir Brian of Thornehill A worthie Knight in his Countrie His witte did rule his wille Sir Wilyam had with Elâ—zabeth A wise and vertuous childe Elizabeth she had to name Both modest chast and milde Which El'zabeth his only childe For Wilyam had no mo For aye to her his Mannor gave Of Elston it was so And given to wife no doubt she was To Hamsterly a Squire The writinge writte on Wilyams Tombe Now reade at your desire Hic jacet Wilelmus Staunton filius Galfridi de eâdem militis Qui obiit Idus Augusti Anno domini 1371. The second sonne of Sir Gefrey Sir Thomas was the same And brother to Sir Wilyam he And heir of Stauntons name Wed Alce but yssue had they none Which was small comfort then And in the Church-yard lieth colde Emonge the simple menne So muche he did debâ—se himselfe To shew his humble minde That wheresoever his body lay God could his Soule out finde This Sir Thomas by his last Wille Gave twenty poundes in deede To build an Yle in Stauntons Church Which could not be decreede For that same monie was bestow'd In building the Roofe againe Of Stauntons Church which was decaid But not as Thomas did meane For he will'd the Yle should be made In honoure of our Lorde And to Saincte Thomas dedicate But they could not accorde Therefore Sainct Thomas of Canterbury Loste some parte of his righte To remember the Stauntons deade And buri'de out of sighte Dame Alce Sir Thomas wife doth lie In the Parish Church of Stoke Neere New'rk the Superscription is Which no manne can revoke Here lieth Dame Alce Staunton over this Toumbe I pray you as I have loved you entirely to our Lorde God you praie for me the which died the neeneteenth daie of Novemb. In the year of our Lord God 1418. Iesu for thy Passion take me to thy mercie Lady for thy pitie have mercy upon me Raph the third sonne of Sir Gefrey Sir Thomas was his brother Was next heir by succession The Lawe could judge no other Which Rafe was an Esquier riche He liv'd and had two wives Hellen and Constance were their names Which both led Godly lives Rafe begot Thomas and Wilyam But Thomas he was heire Who had three wives which discreet were Margaret that was so faire Elizabeth and Ioane also Three women rare to see In theim all vertues did abound Faith Hope and Charitie Rafe was Tomb'd in Quarrington Superscription none there is Do ye not doubt of his good death His Soul enjoyeth blisse And Thomas lieth in Stauntons quere And writte over him indeede As next ensueing this same Verse You plainlie may well reede Hic jacet Thomas Staunton Armiger filius Radulphi Staunton Armigeri qui obiit ult Kalend Aprilis Anno Domini 1446. Cujus animae propitietur Deus Amen Vermibus hic donor Et sic ostendere conor Nam sicut hic ponor Ponitur omnis honor Next Thomas with El'zabeth had Five sons I can them name Wilyam George Wilyam Thomas Iohn Then Alce their sister came The elder Wilyam Katherin wedde Whose daughter can you tell The Lordes of Norton Disney sure By proofe I know it well Who though with welth they did abound Off-springe they both had not And George his brother wedded was His wifes name is forgot Yet this George a faire daughter had Whose name we cannot reede But Maister Bruxbie married her In Melton dwelt indeede And buride George was the fourth 〈◊〉 March One thousand and some moe Foure hundred yeares ninety and eight By proofe we find it so Alce Georges sister a husband tooke Iohn Thorold a Squire good In Marston there his livinge lay Who came of gentle blood Wilyam Staunton the younger call'd Succeded as heire Male Who in his former brethrens lives Marke what I you tell shall Well learn'd he was in all the artes He had a passinge braine Parson of Staunton he was made He cared not for gaine For beinge both Lord and Parson then He was at extreyme charge The poor he fed good house he kept His livinge was so large And after huge and great summs spent He dide a single man And buried is in Staunton Church His owne Toumbe shewe I canne Thomas the fourth son of Thomas And brother to the Preest Was Lord of Staunton by discent For he was heire male neest His wife was Anne they children had Both Anthonie and Iohn The yongst was Preest a seculare manne But marke what else was don This Thomas was learn'd in the Lawes And mervailed of many For he enâ—ailde the Stauntons Landes Not better donne of any That the heires Males might it possesse Both Staunton Mannor and all With Kilvington and Alverton And Purâ—nance generall Flaubrugh also and Dalâ—ington Accordinge to intente As by a Deede which doth declare What Thomas Staunton mente Which Deed beares date the fiveteenth yere Of Edward then the Kinge The fourthe Prince of that name we reade Truelie an auncient thinge Don in the yeare of Christ our Lorde One thousand hundreds foure And seventie thereto added right With twise two and no more He builded also the great Barne Which by the Mannor doth stande A thousand four hundred sixtie three Then was it taken in hand When Thomas and Anne had runne their race In Sainct Laurence Quere were laide The Superscription on their Toumbe Doth followe you maie reade Hic jacet Thomas Staunton Armiger filius Thomae Staunton Armigeri Anna uxor ejus Quà obiit nono die Jaâ—â—â—rii Anno Domini 1517. Cujus animae propitietur Deus Amen Whiche Thomas and Anne before their deathes Had two sons theim betweene Anthonie Iohn well learned were Iohn was a Preest I weene But Anthonie a noble Squire A Lover of the poore A stout man and Couragiouse Well willinge evermore He marri'de one of good worshippe Whom he lov'de as his life A godlie woman in all respects Her name was Mistris Sithe The elder Robert of Ragnell A Nevell not forgott Her father was who lov'd her much There was no cause whie not A good Squier this Nevell was His liveing great is it An ancient name of worthie house Whose stocke doth florishe yet This Anthonie and Sithe also Had children two and neene All vertuouse six wedded well As many children bene Richard Robert Iohn and Wilyam Elizabeth Anne with moe Ellen Brigit and Katherin both With Sithe it must be so Richard and Iohn no yssue had But El'zabeth truste me Wed Roger North of Walkringham And after Whalpole
small Shield in Stone A Spread Eagle In the North Windows of the Church are the Arms of England and Spensers Syreston HEre was some of the Soc of Newark the Fee of Remigius Bishop of Lincolne which discharged it self to the Tax for one Bov. ½ but besides that in Sireston were three Mannors one of the Fee of Earl Alan of Richmond which Aylric had before and paid for it to the publick Tax for three Bovats The Land of it was a Carucat and an half which three Sochmen had There were twelve Acres of Medow Robert de Musters held it of Earl Alan It had been 40s. value but was then fallen to 20s. Another was of the Fee of Berengarius de Todeni which Sbernecroc had before the Conquest and paid for it to the Dane-geld as two Bov. ½ The Land was one Car. Goduvin held it of Berenger and there had one Car. one Sochm. two Vill. with half a Car. There was ten Acres of Medow This in the Confessours time was 30s. value then but 20s. Another was the Kings Tayn Land which Turvert had and discharged for two Bovats to the Geld. The Land was five Bov. There two Vill. one Bord. had one Car. and five Acres of Medow This in the time of King Edward the Confessour was 10s. value then but 5s. The Family of Mustiers had the Richmond Fee whereof I find Galfr. de Mustiers who 6 Ioh. gave account of fifty Marks for having to wife Amicia de Sablello with her Land Walter de Wyldeker paid 5s. 4d. for the fifth part of a Knights Fee which he held in Sireston in the former part of the Reign of Henry the third Galfr. de Stokes was found 51 H. 3. to have held four Bovats in Sireston of Galfr. de Musters William Hagh recovered seisin 14 E. 1. of one Mess. two Bovats of Land and 14s. Rent in Sireston against Iohn son of Paulinus de Stokes who was Cousin and heir of the said Galf. de Stokes by default Sir Robert de Musters held two Knights Fees in Knyveton Sireston Sybthorp Tyreswell Ketelthorpe and Wynelingham for 20s. a year and Ward of the Castle of Richmond 10 E. 1. In the Nom. Vill. 9 E. 2. Sireston and Eyleston answered for one Vill. and Henry de Musteres and William de Heygh are certified to be Lords There was a Fine levied at York 10 E. 3. between Henry de Musters Quer. and William Bernak Parson of Gonaldeston Deforc. of the Mannor of Sireston whereby it was settled on the said Henry for life afterwards on Iohn son of Richard Sutton of Averham and Ioane his wife and the heirs of their two bodies and for want of such issue to the right heirs of the said Henry de Musters I do not find that the said Iohn de Sutton had any issue by her though some Pedigrees seem to affirm it but have seen a note of Mr. George Lâ—ssells his hand to the contrary There was a Fine also at Nott. 3 E. 3. between Robert de Syreston and Emme his wife Quer. and Robert son of Iohn de Eyleston Deforc of four Mess. six Bovats and the third part of a Bovat of Land eighteen Acres of Medow 7s. 2d. and two Geese Rent with the Appurtenances in Syreston and Gypesmere which were thereby settled on the said Robert and Emme for their lives and after on Thomas son of Robert de Syreston and Avicia his wife and the heirs of their bodies remainder to Simon brother of the said Thomas and the heirs of his body remainder to Nicholas another brother and the heirs of his remainder to Richard in like manner remainder to the right heirs of the said Robert de Syreston William son of Iohn son of William de Hagh 23 E. 3. confirmed to Iohn Cosyn Warden of the Chappel of Sibethorpe one Mess. two Bov. of Land 13s. and 5d. Rent with the Appurtenances in Sireston which Iohn the younger son of Simon de Sibthorp had of him when he was under age and passed to Thomas de Sibethorp the Founder In this Record the Prior of Hagh is said to be chief Lord of the Fee Sir Iohn Markham the younger the Chief Justice had a sister called Margaret married to Walter Pedwardyn who had a daughter named Katherin married to Nicholas Deuyn or Deane of Sireston who by her had Iames Deuon whose daughter and heir Dorothy was first married to Sir Richard Bozome mentioned in Screveton whose Ancestor was of Sireston in the time of Henry the fourth and afterward wife of William Vernon son of Raph younger brother of Sir Henry Vernon of Haddon by whom she had Anne some call her Iane the wife of Henry Seyvile as there is also noted where the many daughters and co-heirs of Sir Richard Bozon are likewise set down George Pole son of Raph Pole of Wakebridge in Darbishire by his second wife Anne the daughter of Philip Leche succeeded here and by Alice his wife the daughter and co-heir of the said Sir Richard Bozom had a Son called William Pole of Sireston In the year 1612. Robert Poole Gent. was owner here Ioane the daughter of Iohn Bussy wife of Sir Nicholas Byron and after of Sir Gervase Clifton had some inheritance here It is all now become the possession and inheritance of Robert Sutton of Averham Lord Lexington whose son and heir Robert Lord Lexington is in minority at this time There was a Recovery 13 Eliz. wherein Adam Arnold and Iohn Nutkin claimed against Matthew Gybon one Toft thirty Acres of Land six Acres and three Rods of Medow seven Acres of Pasture with the Appurtenances in Syerston who called to warrant Richard Whalley Esquire and Thomas his son and heir William Hamond had a good Freehold here which is now William his sons I suppose this Town is in Stoke Parish for the Vicar comes and serves the Cure here Elston Elveston THE Book of Doomesday shows this Town to have been in those daies much divided One Bov. was of the Soc of Newark that is to say Land so rated in the Publick Taxation which was of the Fee of the Bishop of Lincolne who besides that had two Mannors here which before the Norman Invasion Leuvin and Pileuvin had which they discharged in publick Levies or Gelds for two Bovats The Land was then accounted four Bovats There one Vill. and three Bord. had one Car. There was twelve Acres of Medow This part when the Book was made in the time of King William 1. kept the former value 10s. Ranesford and Armgri then held it of the Bishop Another part of this Town was of the Fee of Roger de Busli wherein was a Mannor which Oudencare had before the Conquest and paid for it to the Dane-geld as two Bov. The Land was half a Car. There Norman the Priest had of Roger five Villains having five Bovats in Car. or in a Plowland or in Tillage this also kept the old
value 10s. The greatest share in Elvestune was of the Fee of Ilbert de Lacy one part whereof was that wherein Goduvin in the Saxon times had his Mannor which was rated to the Geld at six Bovats The Land being then certified to be sufficient for three Plows or three Carucats This afterwards Armegri held of Ilbert and there had one Car. or Plow three Sochm. on two Bovats of Land and one Vill. five Bord. having two Car. or Plows There was thirty Acres of Medow In the Confessours time this was 40s. value in the Conquerours 35s. Another part was three dwelling houses mansur which Ilbert had in which were two Sochm. one Bord. belonging to Stoches They had not the Land Ilbert claimed upon Bishop Remigius the Land of the Priest and in Stoches he claimed or challenged the fourth part of the Town The Family of Bussy of Hogham in Lincolneshire named more particularly in Balderton had the Bishop of Lincolnes Fee as will appear by several instances Roger de Buslies the Lord Lovetoâ— named in Wisou had and thereof infeoffed the Ancestor of Galfr. de Estanton in the time of King Henry the first for half a Knights Fee Geoffrey de Staunton son of William de Staunton recovered against Sir Iohn de Staunton of Eyleston Knight and Amicia his wife 15 E. 3. fifteen Bovats of Land in Eyleston which Walter de Evermue gave to Galfr. de Staunton and Alice his wife and the heirs of their bodies who had issue William de Staunton and he William the Father of the said Geoffrey then claiming It was a very great Suit tried in several places and at length brought into the Parliament and excellently argued on both sides and the Errors discussed very elegantly This Sir Iohn de Staunton was son of Iohn son I suppose of Sir Geoffrey and dwelt in Devonshire and had a son called Iohn also 37 E. 3. but Sir Geoffrey de Staunton the Plaintiff who it seems carried it had a son and heir called Sir William de Staunton Knight as in Staunton is said who was twice married his first wife was Katherin his second Elizabeth daughter of Brian Thornehill relict of Henry Mâ—â—ers by whom he had a daughter and heir called Elizabeth who was the wife of William Hamsterley and died seised of a certain Mannor in Eyleston about 15 R. 2. called Stouhall Fee with sixteen Oxgangs of Land held of the honour of Tikhill and Gollhall Fee and sixteen Oxgangs of Land held of Sir Iohn Bussy Lord of Hogham William Hamsterley son of the said William being then found her heir and sixteen years of age William Hamstrelley the husband of Cecilia the daughter of Sir Iohn Bussy slew Thomas Duke of Gloucester and had a son called also William Hamstrelley who had two daughters Aâ—ne wife of Richard Banister and Ioane of William Orme or Orome who had Hamond Orome who inherited this Mannor and was May 6. 16 E. 4. at Balderton Court and there acknowledged to hold Gollhall Fee of Sir Thomus Bussy William Hamsterley went into France and there died and he had two daughters which the Lady Roos after the death of his wife at Staunton took Ward and William Eyton sold them to Raph Banister whose two sons Richard and Roger married them but it seems Roger died and left his wife for William Orme before named whose posterity continued to our time viz. the latter end of King Iames his Reign that Captain .... Orme sold his Lands here some to George Lascells Esquire who paid to the honour of Tikhill of which he was Feodary for eighty Acres of this Land for respite of Homage c. as Mr. Wightman did who paid for thirty and Mr. Robert Poole Gent. for his House and seventy Acres William Bristowe for forty Alexander Watson for eighty the heirs of Robert Greaves for his House and ninety Iohn Hollingworth for his House and forty Acres .... Gamble for nine Richard Elston for seven c. and others who bought the said Mr. Ormes Lands Lacies Fee which Arnegrim held who also held of him in Sibthorpe came to Sir Stephen Waleys who 17 E. 1. did implead Robert de Eyleston that he should do him certain Customs and Services for two Car. of Land in Eyleston which he held of him by Homage and the Service of 29s. and Suit of Court of the said Stephen in Eyleston from three weeks to three weeks whereof his Ancestor was seised in the time of King Iohn c. Sir Iohn de Depeden Knight and Elizabeth his wife daughter and heir of Sir Stephen Waleys 19 R. 2. passed 50s. Rent in Sibthorpe and Eyleston and some places thereabout to Sir Iohn Leek Knight Richard de Sceckton Rector of the Church of Burgh Waleys and William de Leeke of Kirketon and the heirs of William whose heir is Peniston Whalley Esquire to whom some of the Rent yet remains viz. 30s. out of Elston paid by Mr. Lassells yearly The Seals show Depedens Arms to be Ermine on a Chief three Lioncells Rampant and Waleys his to be quarterly and a Bend. Robert de Eyleston 5 E. 3. passed by Fine to Richard de Gauy and Maud his wife one Bovat and two Acres and an half in Elston There was a Fine 13 E. 3. between Robert son of Iohn de Eyleston and Elizabeth his wife by Iohn de Misterton put in her place to get or lose and Hugh son of Richard de Thorpe of the Mannor of Eâ—leston and the Advowson of the Church whereby they were settled on the said Robert and Elizabeth and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of Robert There was a Fine levyed at Nott. 3 E. 3. between Henry son of Laurence de Stoke and Maud his wife on the one part and Robert de Hickling Vicar of Granby on the other part concerning two Mess. three Bovats of Land twenty six Acres of Medow and 2s. Rent in Eyleston and Stoke by Newark which were thereby settled on the said Henry and Maud for life remainder to Henry Gauy of Stoke and Iâ—ane his wife and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of Henry Gauy To this Robert de Nuncormesby and Iohn son of Robert de Eyleston put to their claim There was a Fine 33 H. 6. and afterwards 35 H. 6. between Thomas Rempston Knight and Henry Wheteley Quer. and Nicholas Wymbysh Clark and Hugh Wymbyshe and Margaret his wife who was daughter and heir of Iohn Lord of Eyleston mentioned in Carcolston Deforc. of the Mannor of Elston with the Appurtenances and four Mess. two hundred Acres of Land thirty of Medow ten of Pasture and 6s. Renâ— and the Rent of three pair of Gloves and of 1l. of Cummin with the Appurtenances in Elston whereby they were settled on the said Hugh Wymbish and Margaret his wife for life then to Alice the wife of Iohn Leeke of Landford Esquire for her life then to Thomas
the Kings loss if he granted Henry son of Laurence de Stoke licence to give a Mess. in Stoke to the said Hospital nor 21 E. 3. for Iohn le Veynour of Stoke nor Robert Moge to give a few Acres in Stoke nor for William son of William son of Stephen de Stoke and Simon de Sibthorp to give 10s. Rent in Stoke nor for Gilbert son of Lene of Holme by Newark to give a Mess. three Acres of Land and five Acres of Medow in Holme aforesaid to the said Hospital I have met with very many such small Contributers Thomas Ogle Clark 16 R. 2. and Alice Porter a Mess. and half an Acre in Stoke held of Iohn del Car in right of Alice his wife who held of the Lord Deyncourt Iohn Cony another Mess. held of the same persons and the like By a Fine at York 27 E. 1. between William de Westwode and Maud his wife and Henry son of the said Maud on the one part and Elias de Bekingham on the other six Mess. one hundred Acres and five Bovats of Land thirty Acres of Medow five of Pasture 45s. 9d. Rent and Rent of a pound of Pepper and a pair of Gilt Spurs in Stokes Sireston Eyleston Newark and Balderâ—on were settled on the said William Maud and Henry 'T is like Maud was the sister of Iohn de Stoke before named There was another Fine levied at York 16 E. 2. between Roger de Stokes and Petronilla his wife Quer. and Robert de Helpeston Parson of Houton Deforc. whereby the Mannor of Stoke was settled on the said Roger and Petronilla for life afterwards on Peter son of Nicholas de Wydemerpole and Alice his wife and the heirs of Peter on the body of the said Alice remainder on Reginald brother of Peter and the heirs of his body remainder on Maud sister of Reginald and hers remainder to Nicolas de Wydemerpole and Alice his wife and the heirs of the said Nicholas these last are mentioned in Shelton Peter de Wydmerpole and Alice his wife by Fine 17 E. 3. passed to Henry Gauy and Ioane his wife two Bovats in this Stoke I find Galfr. de Butiler about 8 E. 1. granted for himself and his heirs that Richard Ingeram and his heirs should have Commons for two Cows in the one hundred Acre Moore of Stoke By a Fine at York 7 E. 3. Sir Iohn de Mounteney Knight settled thirteen Mess. one Mill nineteen Bovats and an half and twenty three Acres and a Rood and half of Land fifty two Acres and an half of Medow thirteen Acres of Pasture and 40s. and 3s. Rent in Stoke Thorpe and Eyleston and the Advowson of the Church of Eyleston on himself for life then to Iohn his son and the heirs Males of his body remainder to Robert brother of Iohn and his remainder to Arnald brother of Robert and his remainder to the right heirs of Sir Iohn himself Johannes de Mounteney miles-Constantia Johannes de Mounteney Constantia fil haer -Johannes Bosvile de Chete Ebor. miles 3 Johannes Bosvile .... fil Percivalli Amyas C. Ebor. Johannes Bosvill .... fil .... Radcliff de Ordsall Com. Lanc. Willielmus Boswell de Chete 1 Elizabetha fil cohaer -Joh Nevill mil. ex familia de Leversege Henricus Nevill Georgius Nevill de Chete 1581. 2 Rob. Nevill de Ragnell-Alicia fil cohaer Georgius Nevill-Barbara sor cohaer Joh. Hercy mil. Johannes Nevill-Gertruda fil Richardus Whalley Hercy Nevill de Grove-Brigitta fil Hen. Savill 2 Thom. s. p. 1 Achilles s. p. Robertus s. p. A Fine was levied of the Mannor of Stoke called the Overhall 13 R. 2. between Elias de Mydylton Raph de Staunton Iohn Bozon Vicar of the Church of Stoke Hugh Bozon Parson of the Church of Haukesworth William de Leeke and Walter de Topclif Quer. and Thomas de Staunton Chr. and Alâ—â—e his wife Deforc. whereby it was conveyed to the said Hugh and his heirs Thomas Bozome brother of Sir Richard had his residence here William Leek of Léek died seised of six Acres of Land and two of Medow in Stoke about 37 H. 6. held of Richard Willughby and Anne his wife as in the right of Anne She was one of the co-heirs of Simon Leek of Cotham Iohn Leek was then found to be son and heir of the said Will. I. Bosvyle of Stoke descended by an heir female from Sir Iohn de Mountenay held a Mannor in Stoke called Nether-hall of Bussy and some Lands of Richard Willughby William Bosvyle's daughter of Chete in Yorkshire called Elizabeth one of the co-heirs married Sir Iohn Nevill and the other called Alice brought this Mannor to Robert Nevill of Ragnell her husband and by Iohn Nevill son of George it was sold to ...... Wightman whose posterity still enjoyes it The Mannor of Stoke called Overhall is the inheritance of the Honourable Arthur Stanhope younger son of Philip first Earl of Chesterfeild Queen Elizabeth 30 March in the eighteenth year of her Reign granted to Iohn Mershe Esquire and Francis Greneham Gent. amongst other things the whole House and Site of the Hospital of St. Leonard of Stoke by Newark and all Houses Buildings c. except two Houses or Cottages in Stoke called Bedehouses where two poor people dwelt Mr. Robert Butler hath some interest in this as I take it and Mr. Philip Lacock of Woodborough had considerable Lands here and in Elston which remain to his son Charles Francis Viscount Lovell the heir of the Lord Deyncourt was Attaint because it appeared he was with Iohn Earl of Lincolne at this Stoke 20 day of Iune 2 H. 7. where a great Battel was then fought The Tythes of Stoke with some in Elston and Sireston and Codington belong to the Chancellor of the Church of Lincolne who is Patron of the Vicarage of Stoke which was 7l. and is now 8l. in the Kings Books The Vicar serves at all the forenamed places which find him work In the Church Windows of Stoke were Arg. a Chevron Gules betwixt three Whales Heads or such like set foreright not erected Sable Quarterly per Fesse indented Arg. and Gules Gules a Lion Rampant Or. Paly of six Arg. and Azure upon a Bend Or three Iewes Harpes or such like Sable this is oft Arg. three Fusells in fesse Gules Quarterly Arg. Gules fretty Or a Bend of the second Markham quartering Leek Arg. two Barrulets and a Palet Gules impale with Gules a Crosse of four Hearts Arg. Arg. a Crosse Croslett Botony Sable Arg. three Bird Bolts Sable Arg. three Pincers Sable Arg. upon a Bend Azure three Crosse Croslets Arg. Arg. upon a Fesse Sable a Lion passant Arg. Hose Quarterly Gules and Ermine upon the first and fourth a Goats Head Erased Arg. the Horns Or Moreton Arg. five Fusells in Fesse Gules three Martlets in Chief Sable The same again with A File of three Labells Azure Gules three Waterbougets Arg. Lord Ros. Ermine
liberty he should use himself if he would have made one and would that all his heirs should know that he gave it for a sin which he did agâ—inst them and that they should remit it and grant him and his heirs to be paâ—takers of all the good which they should do William Clement Prior of Hellesham was a Witness to his Deed. Alice the daughter of Elias de Amundevill in the Sheriff of Lincolnshire's account 2 Ioh. ought twenty Marks for having recognizance whether Elias her Father gave her the Town of Wintertorp to marry her so that she was seized of it in her Fathers life time and after his death till Ioslenus her brother disseised her while she was in his custody This Iolanus son of Elias de Amundevill confirmed the Hospital of Ellesham he married Ermetrida Niece to the Earl of Aumerle and his son Peter de Amundevil left a daughter and heir called Ermetrida married to William de Dive whose son Iohn Dive mentioned in Balderton left his Estate to his two sisters and heirs there named which were married to the two excellent Families Bussy and Deisney some of which are yet in being though much lessened in Estate This last mentioned Wintertorp may perhaps be in Lincolneshire for this Wynethorp is said to be an Eschaet and that it was of 12l. yearly value and that the Bishop of Lincoln Lord of Newark held it of the gift of King Iohn with which place it hath usually gone Howbeit certain it is that the Prior of Ellesham was Patron here of this Rectory in whose time it was valued at 10l. 'T is now 7l. 11s. 0d. ob in the Kings Books and his Majesty Patron 'T is now reported to be annexed to Newark in the new Charter Feb. 8. 1672. Landford AT this place before the coming of the Normans Leuric had a Mannor which usually answered to the Publick Tax at two Car. three Bov. 1 â— The Land of it being for eight Plows or eight Car. Afterwards it became the Fee of Goisfride de Wirce whose Man or Tenant Ranulf is certified to have had two Car. ½ and sixteen Sochm. seventeen Villains four Bord. having seven Car. There was a Priest and a Church two Mills 12s. one Piscary one hundred Acres of Medow In King Edward the Confessours time this was 4l. value in the Conquerours 4l. 10s. Mr. Dugdale in his Book of Warwickshire shows that Wirce his Lands were by King Henry the first granted to Nigel de Albany Progenitor of the Family of Mowbray who 't is likely did enfeoff Robert de Ayvill mentioned in Egmanton of this Mannor For Iohn de Auvill gave 40s. in the seventh year of King Iohn for having a certain Precipe that William de Mumbray should restore unto him Landford with the Appurtenances to wit a Knights Fee which Robert de Auvill Father of the said Iohn gave in marriage to Roger de Caily with Iane his sister then dead who had a son who died without any heir at all so that for want of heir the Fee ought to return to the said Iohn son and heir of the said Robert The next I find here was Richard de Grey of Codnor paying his Mark for half a Knights Fee in the former part of the Reign of Henry the third William de Grey of Sandiacre in Darbishire 53 H. 3. had Free Warren here who I suppose was enfeoffed of this Mannor by the said Richard whom I guess to be his brother William died about this year and his son Richard was his heir who married Lucia the daughter and heir of Robert de Harestaâ— Lord of Sutton in the Dale in Darbishire and Harestan in Leicestershire and Hickling in this County as in that place may be seen where it also appears that this Lordship with the rest became the inheritance of Iohn Leek said to be younger brother of Simon Leek of Cotham in right of his wife Alice Grandchild of Edward Hillary and Alice Grey by Iohn Grey their son and heir This Iohn Leek and Alice his wife who after the death of her sister Isabel without issue about 14 H. 6. became sole heir had a son called William Leek who by Catharin his wife the daughter of Sir Thomas Chaworth Knight had a younger son called Thomas Leek of Hasland whose daughter Elizabeth the wife of Iohn Hardwyk Esquire was mother of Elizabeth the wife of Sir William Cavendish afterwards Countess of Shrowsbury the great instrument of placing the two Illustrious Houses of Newcastle and Devonshire in these parts but his eldest son was Iohn Leeke of Sutton who by his wife Elizabeth the daughter of Sir Iohn Savage had two sons Iohn and Thomas and three daughters Catharin wife to Sir Godfr Foljambe Miriel to Sir Thomas Waterton and Elizabeth to Iohn Frechevile He was buried in Sutton Chancel 24 March 1504. and by his Will committed the said Thomas his son who was called Leek of Williamthorpe to Thomas Savage Lord Arch-bishop of York to be ordered concerning his marriage and gave to Thomas Leek of Hasland his brother before named and noted more particularly in Leke Lands in Carleton juxta Gedling this same Iohn Leek had Lands in the Counties of Nott. Derb. Linc. Leicest and Worcester he gave four hundred Marks towards the building of Sutton Church making of his Tomb and paying his debts and was succeeded by Sir Iohn Leeke his son and heir who 10 Decemb. 14 H. 8. 1522. being about to go in the Army into Scotland under the most Noble Captain the Kings Lieutenant General and Steward of England the Earl of Showsbury made his Will and either died or was slain for it was proved 10 Oct. 1523. whereby it appears that he had three natural daughters Susan Elizabeth and Dorothy begotten on the body of Anne Mainwaring who was with Child when he made his Will His wife was Iane the daughter of Henry Foljambe Esquire by whom he had Anne and Katherin the wife of Francis Mering and two sons Francis who married Elizabeth and Iohn who married Margaret the daughters of Sir William Paston of Norfolk the Lands mentioned in his Will are at Sutton in le Dale Sandiacre Hickling Normanton Chesterfeild Huknall Torcard Little Léek Great Léek Notingham Stoke by Newark Lanforth Colewick Carcolston and Wiverton His son Sir Francis Leeke in the beginning of the Reign of Queen Eliz. obtained the other part of this Lordship whereof Robert de Perpount was Lord in 9 E. 2. to whose Family it continued with Holme Perpont where it is also mentioned till that time but he shortly after sold the whole to George then Earl of Shrowsbury It hath since been purchased by Iohn More Dr. of Physick and by him left to Sir Edw. More his Nephew Baronet of Nova Scotia who leaving four daughters and no son Iohn More of Kirtlington another of the Doctors Nephews succeeded and left Iohn More his son and heir the present owner
who married my Lord of Dunbar's sister Sir Francis Leek died 1 Aug. 22 Eliz. and left a son and heir of his own name who was Knighted at Gréenwich 1 Iun. 1601. 43 Eliz. and made Baronet at the first Creation of that honour 9 Iac. His first wife was Frances the daughâ—er of Robert Swift by whom he had Sir Francis Leeke creaâ—ed Lord Deyncourt and afterwards Earl of Scarsdale Father of Nicolas the present Earl His second wife was Mary the daughter of Iohn Egioke of Worcestershire after his death married to Sir Gervas Clifton on whom he begot William Leek commonly called â—quire Leak the Father of Sir Francis Leek of Newark Knight and Baronet the present Lord of Sandiacre There was a Moore and Common in Landford belonging to St. Iohns of Hierusalem which 18 Decemb. 6 E. 6. were granted to Edward Fynes Knight Lord Clynton and Saye and Henry Hereson and their heirs there were Lands and Commons in Barnebie and Landford late belâ—nging to the said Priory of St. Iohns of Ierusalem 4 Oct. 28 Eliz. granted to Sir Christopher Hatton Knight and his heirs And 21 Oct. 30 Eliz. to Edward Wymark Gent. and his Possibly that Priory had the Church also Mr. More hath the Tythes Mering KIng Williams Land here was rated to the Geld at six Bovats and an half It should seem it or part of it became afterwards of the Earl of Richmonds Fee because Richard de Sutton is said to hold of that Honour a Knights Fee in Sutton Carleton and Meringes And before that I find that Alan de Mering son of Harvei by the grant of Hervei de Sutton his Lord gave one place of Land in the territory of Mering to the Canons of Radeford by Wirksop The first of this Family which had their name from their residence here that I can reconcile to any certainty of time was Gillebertide Meringes who granted to Raph Murdac High Sheriff of these Counties 30 H. 2. six Acres of Medow in Meringes in that called Esteng which Roger de Caisneto held of him for 2s. per annum as the said Raph Murdac was to do who gave it away to the Priory of Lenton for the health of his own soul and of Alexander de Cheinai's and together with it for the more abundant firmness and security of his said gift the writing which he had from the said Gilbert de Meringges for which after his death the Monks were to make him a perpetual Anniversary as for one of their Advocates or principal Benefactors The next whom I have found of this place was Gerard de Mering in the beginning of the Reign of Henry the third In the 40 H. 3. Roger de Luvetot the Sheriff gave account of 2 Marks of Gilb. de Mering and Ivetta his wife for having a Writ of Attaint Robert de Mering 32 E. 1. claimed the hearing of a Writ which Guychard de Charun Lord of Sutton by Mary his wife one of the co-heirs procured against him for services at Mering due to the said Guichard but it appeared by the date of the Writ that it was obtained eight daies before the fault was said to be made therefore he had nothing by it But this Guichard I take upon further consideration to be son of him who married the co-heir but not by her as in Sutton may be observed for I find Sir Robert de Mering Knight held of Iohn de Muscam son of Gilbert and Agnes de Sutton another co-heir all his Tenements in Mering by Foreign service and that the said Robert redeemed the said Service and Ward of his hâ—irs of the said Iohn After the said Robert succeeded Iohn de Mering his son whose son and heir Thomas married the daughter of Peter Foun of Marcham who had the custody of the said Thomas under age Peter Foun had a son and heir called Iohn who died without issue and Thomas Mering became his heir in right of his wife Alice who had been the wife of Nicolas de Widmerpole and Robert son of Nicolas de Widmerpole had a Suit against Sir Thomas son and heir of Iohn son of Robert de Mering 3 E. 3. A Fine was levied at York 11 E. 3. of the Mannor of Mering between Thomas the elder son of Iohn de Mering and Elizabeth his wife Quer. and Richard de Kelum of Sutton Chaplain Deforc. whereby it was settled on the said Thomas and Elizabeth and the heirs Males of their bodies remainder to Bertram Thomas and Iohn sons of the said Thomas and the heirs Males of theirs successively remainder to the right heirs of the said Thomas son of Iohn Thomas de Mering who was Tenant by the Courtesie of England after the death of Elizabeth his wife of the third part of the third part of the Mannor of Turford c. which her Father Peter Foun had by Margery her mother one of the three daughters of Agnes one Herveius Alanus de Meringa Gillebert de Meringges Godardus sive Gerardus de Mering 3 H. 3. Gilbertus de Mering 40 H. 3 -Ivetta Robertus de Mering mil. 32 E. 1. Johannes de Mering Thom. de Mering mil. 3 E. 3. ...... Elizabetha Bertram de Mering 11 E. 3. Tho. Joh. 2 Alexander de Mering Willielmus Mering-Elizabetha fil Tho. Nevill de Rolleston Willielmus Mering miles Willielmus Mering Ar. Will. Mering mil. -Agnes fil haer Hen. Gloucester de Carcolston Sutton ... ... Johannes Mering-Katharina sor haer Johannis Hercy militis Willielmus Mering miles-Margareta fil Thom. Cave de Stanford 1 Thom. Mering aetat 26. 1576. 2 Willielmus 3 Ambros. Franc. Thom. Johan Tho. Mering ... fil Thwaits· Franc. Alicia ux Ric. Sutton Elizab. -Robertus Markham Alex. Mering de Collingham Eliz. ux Joh. Strelley Jac. Savage Marg. ux Tho. Bassete 1 Franciscus de Mering 36 E. 3. Richardus de Lexington Robertus de Lexington -Matildis Rich. de Marcham potius Willielmus -Cecilia Robertus de Marcham Willielmus de Sancta Cruce -Agnes 2 Petrus Foun-Margeria Johannes Foun sine prole 1 Joana ux Joh. Bayeux Rob. Hakthorn 3 Elizab. ux Joh. Barkworth Willielmus de Lungvillers -Bertha Johannes de Bray marit 2 -Cecilia Richardus de Marcham s. p. Johan Dom. Lexington custos sigil H. 3. Rob. Dom. Lexingt -Hen Episc. Linc. Alicia ux â— de Sutton of the three daughters of Robert de Marcham son of Cecilia one of the sisters and heirs of the Lord Lexington left a son about 42 E. 3. called Francis de Mering who was his heir but it seems he died without issue because Alexander Mering another of his sons had a son called William Lord of this Mannor who married Elizabeth one of the eight daughters of Thomas Nâ—vill of Rolleston and by her had Elizabeth wife of Iohn Strelley and after of â—ames Savage and Margery wife of Thomas Basset of Fledbourgh mother of Katherin wife of Thomas Sutton of Averham Ancestor
two Villains likewise two Bov. three Car. if it be not mistaken for three Acres I cannot certainly understand this repetition of three Car. and eight Acres of Medow In King Edward the Confessours time the value was 10s. in the time of Doomsday Book 6s. Another Mannor there was in Clifton but of Roger de Buslies Fee which before was Ougrim's and paid the Tax for six Bovats The Land whereof was three Car. There Roger the Man of Roger de Busli had one Car. one Sochm. on one Bov. of this Land and seven Villains with three Plows or Car. and the fourth part of a Church and thirty Acres of Medow Pasture Wood two qu. long and half so much broad In the Confessours time this was 40s. value in the Conquerours when the Survey was taken 30s. This of the Fee of Roger de Buslie in the time of King Henry the first was William de Lovetots as was all that which this Roger the Man or Tenant of Roger is said to hold in this County by which William was the Ancestor of William Picot then enfeoffed of two parts of a Knights Fee and Richard de Cliftons Ancestor of one part as the Red Book in the Exchequer in the Certificat of Nigellus de Luvetot to King Henry the second of his Knights Fees in Huntendoâ—ser and of the honour of Roger de Buisli in this County doth manifest which is noted in Wisowe as is also in the Fine in the 11 E. 3. whereby Iohn de Lovetot conveyed to Richard de Willughby and Ioane his wife four Knights Fees and 10l. Rent with the Appurtenances in Wisowe Kercolston Eyleston Flyntham and this North Clifton together with the Services of divers persons who held them and amongst the rest of Iohn son of Iohn de Pigot of Dodington in Lincolneshire but not far distant I suppose the Suttons of Averham had their first interest here by the marriage of a daughter or heir geeral of Pigot Iohn de Willughby son of Robert de Willughby late Lord of Eresby and Katherin his wife 4 H. 5. granted and to Farm let to Henry de Sutton Esquire Hugh Huse Chr. William Compton Esquire and others Lands and Tenements in Averham together with the Mannors of Kertlington Cliftun Hardeby and Kelum There were two Fines levied in the Octaves of Sr. Iohn Baptist 22 H. 6. in the same words except the names of the persons One was between Sir Thomas Chaworth Knight Quer. and Richard Sutton Esquire and Katherin his wife Deforc. of the Rent of a pound of Pepper with the Appurtenances in Hardeby and of the Mannor of Kertlington called Pigots Mannor or Pigot Hall with the Appurtenances except seven Mess. one Toft two hundred Acres of Land forty of Medow ten of Pasture and twenty of Wood with the Appurtenances in the same Town of Hardeby and North Clifton in the same Mannor The said Richard and Katherin acknowledged the premises to be the right of the said Thomas Chaworth to whom they further granted together with the said Rent the Homages and Services of Iohn Pigot Knight and his heirs for the Tenements which he held of them in the said Town of Hardeby c. The other Fine was between the same Sir Thomas Chaworth and Thomas Curson Esquire and Margaret his wife There was also a Fine levied 21 H. 6. between Iohn Arch-bishop of Yorke Raph Crumwell Knight William Babington Knight William Babington Esquire Iohn Cokfeild Esquire c. and Thomas Howson Quer. and William Skypwith of Haburgh Esquire and Ioane his wife Deforc. of the Mannor of South Clifton with the Appurtenances thereby recognized to be the right of Thomas c. There was a Recovery suffered by George Chaworth Esquire 15 Eliz. wherein Edward Earl of Rutland Lord Ross William Paston Thomas Stanhope Bartholomew Armin and Henry Chaworth Esquire claimed against him the Mannors of South Marneham North Marneham Cropwell Butler South Clifton and Annesley c. In another 17 Eliz. the same Earl and others claimed against Nicholas Buller and Iohn Gelsthorpe the same Mannors with Burton Iorce and Bridgeford on the Hill who called to warranty George Chaworth Esquire Hugh Willughby of Risley 22 H. 7. suffered also a Recovery of three Mess. six Bovats of Land and 40s. Rent in South Clifton and 6s. Rent in Trowell Augustine Earle 15 Eliz. claimed against George Willughby Gent. and Iohn Willughby his son and heir the Mannor of South Clifton with the Appurtenances and eight Mess. four Cottages eight Tofts one Dovecoat eight Gardens three hundred Acres of Land sixty of Medow seventy of Pasture twenty of Wood one hundred of Moore and 4l. Rent with the Appurtenances in South Clifton North Clifton and Spaldforth William Brun of Clifton held one Bov. in Clifton of Constancia de Lysures about 50 H. 3. he committed Theft for which he was hanged William Cause held Lands in South Clifton of Richard de Howell by the Service of the eighth part of a Knights Fee Thomas Cause 20 E. 2. was found his son and heir and to be then twenty five years of age and upwards and that he had Lands at Laceby in Lincolneshire By an Inquisition taken at Nott. 18 Sept. 32 H. 8. it appears that William Dymock of Eyton in Leicestershire Gent. died seized of Lands in South Clifton and Spaldforth 10 Iun. 1 H. 8. whose sister Margaret married to ... Alyn had Iohn Alyn whose sister Elena was his heir and wife of William Gregory who had a son called Thomas Gregory the Cousin and heir of William Dymock and was forty years old at the time of the taking the Inquisition Laurence Sturtivant 21 H. 8. claimed against William Abys two Mess. thirty Acres of Land six of Medow ten of Pasture in Hareby and North Clifton Here were some Lands belonging to Torkesey Priory in the County of Lincolne as in Saundby will be noted 35 H. 8. granted to Philip Habbye but 14 May 3 and 4 Ph. and Mar. Raph Parker Gent. and Henry Parker his son and heir had licence to Alienate the Demesnes and Scite of that Priory and all and singular the Mess. houses c. in the Counties of Lincolne Nott. and York belonging to it and all Mess. Lands and Tenements in the Parishes of Saunby Clyfton Rampton Cotham Retford and Sturton in this County to Iohn Fenys Esquire and his heirs The Vicarage of Clyfton was 10l. and the Prebendary there I suppose of Lincolne Patron The Vicarage of North Clifton is now 7l. 6s. 0â— ob in the Kings Books and the Prebendary Patron Spaldford THe greatest part of this Town was of the Soc of Newark which before and in the time of King William was rated to the publick Tax at three Car. and an half which together with the parcels in Scorveley Greton Torneshay Wiggesley Herdrebye and Cotum together paid the Geld for six Car. and an half and half a Bovat though the parcels summ'd
then Parson or the Lay Fee of Brian de Herdeby They found half against Brian and half against the Parson viz. four in breadth only belonged to the Church But the Jury 10 E. 1. found one Mess. six Acres and an half of Land in Herdeby to belong to the Church of Clifton and not to be the Lay Fee of this Brian de Herdeby Richard de Weston 19 E. 1. had Free Warren in Hertheby both in Nott. and Lincolne-shires Clifton and Herdeby 9 E. 2. answered for one Villa and the Lords were then the Bishop of Lincolne and Iohn de Weston At the Assizes at Nott. 4 H. 4. Robert Sutton recovered his seism of the Mannor of Herdeby and Elizabeth who had been the wife of Iohn Pigot was amerced This Mannor remains still to the Family of Sutton the present heir whereof is now the young Lord Lexington William Holstock claâ—â—â—d against Ambrose Sutton 3 Eliz. the Mannor of Harby and twenty Mess. six Barns twenty Cottages c. with the Appurtenances in Clyfton and view of Frank-pledge in Clifton this I suppose was Sutton of Linc. Brodholme OF the Fee of Roger de Busli was a Mannor in Brodholme which before the Norman change was Alwins who answered the Tax for it as four Bov. The Land was certified to be twelve Bovats There were four Sochm. on two Bov. of this Land and three Villains having four Car. or Plows and twelve Acres of Medow Roger de Busli held it In the time of King Edward the Confessour the value was 40s. then 30s. Here was another Mannor which before the Conquest Turget and Halden had and discharged it to the Dane-geld for five Bovats The Land was two Car. After the Conquest in the time of King William 1. it was waste and then Berengarius de Todeni and William Percy had it The Land lay to Newark but the work of the Villains belonged to Saxeby in Lincolnescire There was thirty Acres of Medow and Pasture Wood one qu. long and another broad This Berengarius was son of Robert de Totneia the first Norman owner of Belvoyr mentioned in Orston who was succeeded by the Albenies Lords of that Castle of which Family William de Albenni Brito the second of whom his brother Raph de Albenni held fifteen Knights Fees of the old Feoffment did enfeoff Elias de Albenni in one Knights Fee of his own Demesne which was of the new feoffment being done after the death of King Henry the first Helias de Albeniaco and Hawis his wife and Oliver and Raph their sons gave to Newhouse the first of the Premonstratenses in England all their right in the Church of St. Botulph of Saxelby which belonged to their Fee viz. the third part and twenty Acres of Medow in Driholm which is on the South side of Fosse dic for the Soul of William de Albeniaco who gave them that Fee and for the Souls of their Fathers Mothers and Ancestors c. Here was a Priory of the same Order very near as ancient as Neuhus to which King Edward the second in the twelfth year of his Reign confirmed the gift and grant which Raph de Albeniaco by his Deed made to God and St. Maâ—y and the Brethren and Sisters of Brodholme of all that which was of his Fee in the Orchard by the Church-yard of the Church of St. Botulphs of Saxelby and of a certain Plain of Ground lying between the Court of the said Sisters and his Wood the said King likewise confirmed the gifts of Sarra daughter of Peter de Gousla possibly the Founder of Newhouse to the said Sisters of several Lands and Tenements and of those likewise which the said Sisters had of the gift of Peter de Gousla her Father Agnes de Camvilla her mother and Henry brother of the said Sarra Peter de Chaumpaigne Knight confirmed the gifts of the said Peter and Agnes his wife and Sarra their daughter and Henry her brother to the said Nuns Peter son of Peter de Campania gave a Toft in Saxelby to this said Prioress and Covent of Brodholme A. Abbat of Newhus confirmed all the Sisters had or should have of their Donors Ioan daughter of William de Ver gave one Bovat and some Medow in Saxelby Walter de Clifford and Agnes his wife daughter and heir of Roger son of Osbert de Cundi and Walter de Clifford their son besides the Church of St. Helen of Turnehag mentioned in Thorney gave the Site of a Mill in the Moore which lies between Thorna and Drengesha to these Brethren and Sisters and thirty Acres of Land which the said King Edward the second also confirmed as he did the gifts of Hugh son of Lambert de Bâ—sseto of fifteen shillings Rent in Newark which his Grandfather Sir Hugh gave them to be had of Iohn son of Henry Cutiler and of two quarters of Corn one of Wheat and another of Ry to be received of him and his heirs at his Mannor of Wygesley and the gift which Galfr. son of Murield de Thornehaugh made of a Toft and Croft with the Appurtenances in Herdeby near Eykel and the gift of Raph de Muscamp of half a Mark Rent in Colingham which Raph de Hag and Nicholas his brother gave to the said Brethren and Nuns proportionably and the gift of Isabel daughter of Alured de Colingham to the said Nuns of 4s. 2d. Rent to be received of Henry son of Adam de Muscamp and his heirs and many others of like sort The Advowson of this Priory usually went with the Mannor of Saxelby part of which was by Hugh de Normanton son of Iohn son of Hugh passed to Sir Iohn de Lyseux Lord of Fledburgh by the name of the Mannor as another part called also the Mannor of Saxelby was afterwards viz. 27 E. 3. by Christian late the wife of William son of Sir Gilbert de Brâ—dsale Knight who enfeoffed the said Christian together with her husband to the said Sir Iohn de Lyseus and Isabell his wife and Iames their son reserving to her self ten Marks per annum for the next ten years of her life and fourteen Marks per annum during the rest of it for which in case of non-payment she might distrein in either Mannor William Cressy of Markham on whose Seal within the Circumscription of his name are three Crescents upon a Bend and Thomas Cagy of Fledbourgh 38 E. 3. settled the Mannor of Saxelby and Advowson of Brodholme on Iames son of Sir Iohn de Lyseus and on Maud his wife and the heirs of their bodies for want of which on Isabell mother of the said Iames for her life after which on William son of Richard Basset of Normanton and the heirs males of his body and for want of such on Richard Basset Nephew of the said William and the heirs males of his for want whereof on the right heirs of Sir Iohn de Lyseux for ever Thomas Trussebut whose
and Rents formerly belonging to that Monastery in Chilwell Bramcote and Adenborough 28 Novemb. 42 Eliz. were granted to Hercules Witham and Francis Thekeston Gent. and their heirs Nicholas Charleton Father of Thomas Charleton Esquire late High Sheriff of this County left him an House and considerable Lands here which were purchased of ... Pymme William Sacheverell of Barton Esquire hath purchased of Mrs. Poutrell the widow of Iohn Poutrell Lands lying on the South side the River of Trent called Chillwell Borresse adjoyning to the Lordship of Barton In the old House in a Chamber-window at Chilwell Babington impales with Arg. three Hammers or Pickaxes Gules Martell This Mannor Tythe and Demesne were given by the said Mrs. Poutrell to her Nephew Sir Henry Hunlake of Wingerworth in Derbyshire Baronet whose Ancestor Nicholas Humlake was an owner hereabouts in the time of H. 8. Toueton MIstaken by Dr. Thomas Fuller in his Ecclesiastical History for that in Yorkshire where the great Battel was fought 1461. between the Houses of York and Lancaster and so many slain viz. 35091. and K. Henry the sixth defeated This was of the Fee of William Peverell and one Aldric had it before the Conquest who was rated for this Mannor to the publick Tax at three Carucats The Land whereof was then three Car. and an half Here Warner the Man or Tenant of William had three Car. or Plows and four Sochm. on three Bov. of this Land and 16 Vill. three Bord. having six Car. or Plows Here was half a Church and a Priest and two Mills 8s. one hundred Acres of Medow and a small Ozier Bed or Holt It continued the old value 60s. having Soc in Chilewelle Robert son of Warner at the Foundation of Lenton Priory by his Lord William Peverel in the time of Henry the first gave as others did two parts of the Tythes of his Demesne here in Toueton By an Inquisition taken 13 Ioh. it appears that Henry de Grey had then six Knights Fees of the Honour of Peverell which came to the King by Escheat in the Counties of Nott. and Derb. viz. in Henour one in Normantone one in Sirland one in Codenour and Toueton one in Radeclive one and in Beâ—ley one The Sheriff William Briwerre 8 R. 1. gave account of the Scutage of the Honour of Pevrel of Nottingham assessed the year before being the second for the Army in Normandy and likewise of Henry de Grey Cs. of his Scutage for five Knights Fees because he was in the Kings Service beyond the Sea His Seal within the Circumscription of his name hath upon it Barry of six which were Arg. and Azure as in Radcliff upon Trent may be observed His wife was Isolda whom Mr. Burton in his description of Leicestershire affirms to have been the daughter and heir of Hugh Bardolf He was undoubtedly a great man and I think had divers sons Iohn Father of Reginald de Grey who had Shirland and William Lord of Sandiacre mentioned in Hickling but the eldest son and heir both of him and Isolda his wife who after his decease was married to Reginald de Mendre was Richard de Gra Lord of Codenhour in Darbyshire who married Lucia the daughter and heir of Iohn de Homaz The Jury 56 H. 3. found that Iohn de Grey held the Mannor of Radeclive as belonging to this of Toueton which he held by Barony viz. in Capite together with Codenowre said to be an old Escheat and many other Lands in several Counties and that his son Henry de Grey was his heir and fourteen or fifteen years of age Henry de Grey 29 E. 1. entred into a recognizance of ten thousand pounds to Robert Fitz-Payn before Roger de Brabauzon and his fellow Justices which yet was to be void if the said Henricus de Grae-Isolda-Reginald de Mendre marit poster Richardus Dom. Gra de Codnour-Lucia fil haer Joh. de Humez Claus. 7 H. 3. Norf. m. 8. Johannes Dom. Grey ob 56 H. 3 -Lucia Henricus Dom. Grey ob 2 E. 2. Richardâ—s Dom. Grey mort 9 E. 3 -Joana Johannes Dom. Grey miles Gart. in primâ fundatione-Alianora 18 E. 2 -Alicia de Insula Henricus Dom. Grey Richardus Dom. Grey miles Gart. mort 6 H. 5 -Elizab fil cohaer Rad. Basset de Sapcote ob 29 H. 6. Esc. Derb. 1 Johannes Dom. Grey mort 9 H. 6 -Joana Henricus s. p. 2 Henricus Dom. Grey ob 22 H. 6 -Margareta fil cohaer Hen. de Percy d' Atholl mil. Ric. Vere marit alter Henricus Dom. Grey aet 28.4 E. 4. ob 18 H. 7 -Katherina Henricus Grey Elizab. Grey-Ric fil 3. Hen. Sacheverell mil. Henricus Sacheverell s. p. Henr. Grey Elizab. -Joh Zouch mil. Joh. Zouch-Eliz fil Joh. St. John de Bletsoe Joh. Zouch mil. de Codnour-Margareta fil Hen. Willughby mil. Anna fil .... Geinsford-Georgius Zouch-Elianor fil ... Lane ux 2. Johan Zouch de Codnor mil. -Eliz fil Ric. Whalley Ar. Johannes Zouch factus mil. 1 Jac. aetat 10. 1559 -Maria fil Henr. Barkley mil. Elenor. -Tho Hutchinson de Owthorp Willielmus Johan Henry did not sell nor Alienate the Mannors of Toueton and Estwayt in this County but leave them to Richard de Grey his son and heir and to the heirs of his body In 2 E. 2. Henry de Grey was dead and his son Richard de Grey his heir was then found to be twenty six years of age Richard de Grey of Codnour 3 E. 3. claimed the Emendation of the Assise of Bread and Ale broken in Toueton as a member of Codnour He left Ioane his widow 9 E. 3. and his son Iohn his heir then aged twenty eight years The Jury 18 E. 2. found it not to the Kings loss if he granted Iohn the son of Richard de Grey and Alianor his wife to retain the Mannor of Hoo in Kent to themselves The Castle of Codnour with the members in Darbishire and the Mannor of Towton in Nottss remaining over c. This Iohn Lord Grey was Knight of the Garter at the first Foundation his Grandchild Richard Lord Grey was also Knight of that Order who was son and heir of Henry eldest son of the said Iohn by Alice de Insula his wife This Richard married Elizabeth daughter and co-heir of Raph Basset of Sapcote Knight she was born at Castle Bytham in the County of Lincolne and Baptized in the Church of St. Iames there the Sunday before the Feast of St. Iames the Apostle 46 E. 3. and was fourteen years old 22 Iuly 10 R. 2. He was 26 Apr. 2 H. 4. constituted Admiral from the mouth of Thames towards the Northern parts of England as Sir Thomas Rempston was 21 Apr. towards the West She bore him two sons Iohn and Henry both Lords Grey whom she out-lived The King 9 H. 6. Decemb. 18. committed to Iohn Duke of Bedford the Custody of the Castles Mannors c. which were
Stretley miles-Hawisia Robertus de Strelley aet 30. 12 E. 1. mil. -Elizab fil haer Willielmi le Vavasor de Shipley Robertus de Strelly miles Sampson de Strelley milles-Elizab fil Joh. Hercy mil. Nicolas de Strelley mil. ob 9 H. 6 -Elizab fil Ed. Pierpount mil. Robertus de Strelley mil. ob 16 H. 6 -Joana fil Ric. Stanhope mil. Robertus de Strelley mil. ob 3 H. 7. Mar. 12 -Isabella fil .... Kempe soror Cardinalis 1 Johannes de Strelley fil haer -Saunchia fil Rob. Willughby Joh. s. p. Isabella ux Clem. Low Richard Paynell Marg. ux Joh. Poutrell Elizab. ux Will. Ayscough mil. Anna ux Ric. Stanhope Johannis Markham mil. 2 Nich. de Strelley mil. ob 6 H. 7 -Margareta fil Tho. West Dom. de la Ware Nich. de Strelley mil. ob 3 Eliz. -Eliz fil Johan Spenser milit ux 3. Anthonius Strelley mil. -Joana fil Georgii Baynam mil. Philippus Strelley mil. ob 4 Jac. -Eliz fil haer Tho. Garneys Nicolas sine prole Georgius-Eliz fil ..... Aldred de Colwick Nicolas Strelley -Elizab fil G. Rosell -Richardus Dom. Byron mar 2. Georgius Strelley obiit in Gallia coelebs Elianora-Joh Michel mil. Magist. Cancellariae Regis Jac. Johannes-Anna fil Geo. Baynam mil. Willielm Strelley-Marg fil .... Jenkinson 1 Nich. Strelley de Nott. -An fil Fr. Tilman 1 Nicolas 2 Gervasius Anna. 2 Johan 3 Franc. 4 Vincent 5 Williel Joh-Joana fil haer Joh. Hunt de Lyndeby Johannes Strelley de Lindeby-Elizab fil Will. Mering Nich. Strelley mil. s. p. Will. 14 E. 2. Pha. -Sampson-Lucia fil haer Richardus Strelley de Woodborough-Elena 1 Willielmus Rob. de Strelley s. p. Ivo Jake de Prestwold -Elena 2 Thom. de Strelley Richardus de Strelley de Woodborough Rogerus Robertus Henr. Rich. s. p. Robertus de Somervil Dom. de Oxton Robertus de Somervill 1 Walter de Stredlegh mil. -Cecilia cohaer .... ux Hug. de Capella Sewallus le Foune-Amicia un cohaer Pha. -Sampson-Lucia fil haer Sir Samson de Strelley Knight was son and heir of this Robert and married Elizabeth daughter of Sir Iohn Hercy Samson de Strelley 30 E. 3. 1356. had licence that he and the rest of the Parishioners of that Village might hear Sermons for the space of a year in the Chappel scituate within his Mannor of the said Village because the Parish Church was not then fully built About 13 R. 2. he left Sir Nicolas de Strelley his heir who by his wife Elizabeth the daughter of Sir Edmund Pierpont had one son called Iohn de Strelley who married Ioane daughter and heir of Iohn Hunte of Lindeby but his eldest son was Sir Robert de Strelley whom he left his heir and by his Will ordered his own body to be buried in the Church of All Saints at Strelley 1430. 9 H. 6. which Sir Robert married Agnes the daughter of ..... Harcourt and Ioan the daughter of Sir Richard Stanhope and died about 16 H. 6. and was succeeded by Sir Robert de Strelley his son and heir who married Isabell the daughter of .... Kempe and died 12 of March 3 H. 7. leaving Iohn Strelley Esquire his son and heir forty years old 4 H. 7. when the Inquisition was taken This Iohn married Saunchia the daughter of Robert Willughby Esquire and by her had a son of his own name who dying without issue his four daughters became his heirs Isabell the eldest was first married to Clement Low by whom she had a daughter and heir wife of William Sacheverell second son of Sir Henry Sacheverell of Morley in the County of Darby Knight and afterwards to Richard Payney Esquire the second was Margaret wife of Iohn Poutrell Esquire the third was Elizabeth wife of Sir William Ascough and the fourth was Anne first married to Richard Stanhope Esquire and afterwards was third wife of Sir Iohn Markham Knight By the Instrument of division bearing date 10 Octob. 27 H. 8. it appears that Thomas Ascugh divided the Lands of Iohn Stirley into four parts whereof Sir Iohn Markham and Thomas Poutrell chose the two first viz. First all the Lands in Wheteley Saundby Northleuerton Southleuerton Sturton Litilburgh Burton Radcliff Codgrave Shipley Gedding Langley Stapilfurth Cortlingstock Notingham and Harby for one part and for the other which Poutrell had all in Chillewell Trowell Adingbrugh Bramcote Calverton Estwayt a House in Trowell a House in Cossal Marsh and Colston Basset The next was chosen by Isabell Paynell widow William Sacheverell and Mary his wife which was all in Bilburgh Hemsell Cossall Kymberley Tomlynholme Carleton and Marshall Hall and Thomas Ascugh had for the fourth part all in Oxton and Plunger But Sir Robert Strelley Father of this Iohn had another son called Sir Nicolas Strelley whose posterity inherited this Mannor This Sir Nicolas married the daughter of Thomas Lord de la Ware and died at London the last of Aprill 1491. 6 H. 7. and was buried in the Church of St. Andrew at Baynards Castle leaving Margaret his wife behind him and Nicolas his son and Agnes and Cecily his daughters He appointed half his Goods to be imployed for his Children in Merchandise and made his Nephew Sir Walter Hungerford Supervisor of his Will which was proved 12 Iune that same year viz. 1491. Sir Nicolas his son married to his third wife as I take it the daughter of Sir Iohn Spenser and died at Strelley Aug. 25. 3 Eliz. seised of this Mannor and Bilburgh and the Advowsons of both the Churches and Lands in Bullwell Cossall Wattenhow Farnesfeild and Basford as by an Inquisition taken at Nott. the year following appeareth Sir Anthony Strelley his son and heir being then thirty two years of age who married Ioane daughter of Sir George Baynham by whom he had Sir Philip Strelley who married Elizabeth the daughter and heir of Thomas Garneys Esquire and died 29 Sept. 4 Iac. He had a son called Nicolas who married a daughter of Sir Percivall Willoughbies but had no issue This Mannor hath been the inheritance of Lawyers most of my time and for some space before It is now possessed by the posterity of Elianor sister of Sir Philip Strelley who was married to Sir Iohn Michell one of the Masters of Chancery in King Iames his time who notwithstanding all his Law and power could never get it in his own time from Nicolas Strelley natural and perhaps legitimate son of George brother of the said Sir Philip which Nicolas married Elizabeth daughter of George Rosell of Radcliff Esquire by whom he had a son called George whom he left young yet he kept it till he died in France not of full age his mother being married to Richard now Lord Byron After the death of this last George Strelley Nicholas son of William son of Iohn brother of Sir Anthony Strelley which Iohn married also a daughter of Sir George Baynham named Anne sister of Sir Anthonies Lady was some
while in possession of this Lordship which said Nicholas Strelley lives now in Nottingham upon some ingenious Manufactures in Glass which he spins and orders very commendably The Coals the chief profits of Strelley are not so plentiful now as formerly William de Strelley son of Galfr. de Strelley by a Fine 14 E. 2. settled one Mess. ten Bov. and an half and one Rood of Land with the Appurtenances in Strelley Cossale and Bilburgh on Sir Robert Strelley Knight for life and afterwards on William son of Sir Robert for life remainder to Sir Robert and his heirs The Rectory of Stirley was 8l. 'T is now 6l. 4s. 9d. ob in the Kings Books and the last Patron that I have seen was Nicholas Strelley Esquire as his Ancestors the Strelleys had ever been in all my observations Bilborough Bilburch THere was one Bovat of this Township Soc to Ernehale the Kings own Land but here were two Mannors which Aylric and Vlsi Swen had before the Conquest which were accounted to the Dane-geld for seven Bovats The Land being for so many Oxen. There Ambrose the Man or Tenant of William Peverell whose Fee it was had one Car. two Sochm. three Vill. four Servants with one Plow or Carucat There were eight Acres of Medow and small Wood. In the Confessours time this was 30s. value in the Conquerours 20s. Herbert de Bilburc gave to the Priory of Lenton one Mark yearly out of a Mill which is between Blaccliff and Radford This Herbert gave in Gunnovelston and Molinton also Symon son of Simon son of William gave a Mark of Silver yearly of his Mill in Bilboro called Bobursmilne to Lenton for the Soul of Walter de Kime his brother Petronilla who was wife of Stephen de Faukonberg came and quit-claimed to Walter de Ryebof and Isabell his wife all the Land which was Simons son of Simon in Nott. and Derbishires for her self and heirs for ever these persons are named in Cuckeney There was a Fine at Notingham 4 Ioh. whereby William de Gatton passed his right and Title in three Bovats of Land in Bileburgh to Walter de Riboef and Isabell his wife Robert Fitz-Aman in King Iohns time claimed as his right against Simon de Kime whom Walter de Ribof and Isabell his wife called to warrant half a Knights Fee in Bilenburch whereof Ivicia his Grandmother was seised in the time of King Henry the first and from her the right descended to Robert her son and from him to Raph his brother Father of the said Robert Fitz-Aman Simon pleaded that the said Ivicia had an elder sister called Emme who had a certain son called Robert who had a son called Ivo de Heriz then alive who had as much right and without him he would not answer Robert acknowledged that Emme was the elder sister but when the Inheritance was divided to Emme were assigned Gunnolveston and Keilmerse as her purpart whereof her heirs were yet seised and that to Ivicia were assigned Molinton and Bloubroc to which the said half Knights Fee belonged for her purpart Simon de Kime produced the Charter of King Henry the second wherein was contained that he granted and confirmed to Simon son of William which Simon was Grandfather of the said Simon de Kime all the Tenements which he held of him in Capite to wit Bileburch Robert had the better at that time Philip de Kyme was found 11 E. 1. to have had a Knights Fee in Bilburgh Robert de Strelley held in Bilborough in the right of Elizabeth his wife half a Knights Fee of Walter Rybof of the Eschaet of Peverell Richard Rybof is also mentioned to pay for half a Knights Fee here But Robert le Vavasor was the constant owner in the time of Henry the third in whose Reign he was many years High Sheriff of these Counties of Nott. and Derb. viz. the 20 and 22 and 23 and the 30 till the 39. This Mannor hath gone along with Strelley as it still doth some part of it being in Strelley Park The Rectory of Bilburgh was 10l. 'T is now 6l. 2s. 6d. in the Kings Books and the last Patron that I have found is George Strelley as his Ancestors used to be formerly Broxtow Broculstowe 'T Is like this place in ancient time was made use of for the people of the Hundred to meet in because it gives name to the Wapentak Here was of the Soc of Ernehale Ancient Demesne as much as was rated to the Dane-geld at one Bovat but in the time of the Conquerours Survey it was waste and of William Peverells Fee here were five Acres which lay to Nuthale but here was also a Mannor in Broculstowe of the Fee of Robert Fitz-William which before the Conquest was Godrics and answered the Tax for three Bovats the Land of it being so much here the said Robert had one Car. and one Vill. Small Wood one q. long and one broad In the Confessours time it was 16s. in the Conquerours but 8s. value Gilbert son of Eustachius de Broculstowe gave to the holy Trinity of Lenton and the Monks there serving God one Toft in Broculstowe on the East part of the Church Galfr. de Broculvestowe held the Bovat of the Soc of Arnale for 12d. yearly He held there also two Bovats of H. de Nevill and other Lands In the 9 E. 2. Broxstowe answered for half a Villa and Iohn de Broxstowe was Lord of it By an Inquisition taken at Nott. the Saturday after the Feast of St. Michael 7 H. 6. before Thomas Mapurley and his fellow Commissioners it appears that the Jury of which Iohn Broxstowe was one found that in the Parish of Broxtowe there were not then ten Inhabitants who were House-keepers or Housholders Henry Lord Grey of Codnour about 22 H. 6. died seised of this Mannor then said to be held of the Soke of Arnale The Mannor of Brokestow with the Appurtenances two Mess. one Vill. sixty two Acres of Land and thirty two of Medow in Baseford and Allesworth were settled by a Fine 14 E. 4. on Thomas Parker and Ioane his wife and the heirs of their Bodies remainder to the heirs of Ioane In 7 H. 8. Henry Willughby Knight Iohn Markham Knight Richard Egerton Clark and Thomas Thurland Esquire claimed against Anthony Fitz-Herbert Serjeant at Law and William Whithalgh the Mannor of Broxstowe with the Appurtenances as also four Mess. ten Tofts one Mill two hundred Acres of Land forty of Medow two hundred of Pasture and forty of Wood with the Appurtenances in Brokstow Bilborough Basford and Alsworth who called to warrant George Parker Gentleman Another Recovery was suffered 7 E. 6. wherein Walter Whaley Esquire claimed against Hugh Willoughbie Knight and Ioane his wife the Mannors of Brocstow and Basford with the Appurtenances and fourteen Mess. two Mills c. with a great number of Acres and 30s. Rent in Billeborough and Basford and
principal Farm was by him repurchased in his life time which now with Copleyes Mannor remains the Inheritance of the Earl of Clare Cokfeilds came to Taylboys and the next descent to Iohn Ayscough son and heir of Sir Will. Ayscongh the Judge in whose Family it continued till Sir Rog. Ayscough sold it amongst Freeholders Another Mannor in Baseford was called Algarthorpe and afterwards Eland-Hall from the possessors of it of that name Eustachâ—us de Moreton Lord of Wollaston confirmed the Alms which Robert de Moreton his Grandfather and Adam his Father gave to God and the Church of the holy Trinity at Lenton and the Cluniac Monks there serving God viz. 16s. per annum out of that which Gerard de Algarthorp held of him and his Ancestors viz. 10s. at Pentecost or within the Octaves and 6s. within the Octaves of St. Martin This was also confirmed by Adam son of Adam de Moretuin brother of the said Eustachius Robert Daft paid 10s. in the time of Henry the third for the fourth part of a Knights Fee which he held in Algarthorp In 28 E. 1. by a Fine levied at York Adam le Paumer and Isabell his wife passed the Mannor of Algarthorp to Iohn le Paumer the younger and his heirs William de Eland the Kings Servant valettus who lately had the custody of the Castle of Nott. and the Bayliwick of the Honour of Peverell in the Counties of Nott. and Derb. for life had the said Bayliwick 26 Septemb. 10 E. 3. granted to him and his heirs paying fourteen Marks yearly William son and heir of William de Eland 41 E. 3. acknowledged himself to hold the Bayliwick of the honour of Peverell in the Counties of Nott. and Derby of the King by the Service of paying 14s. yearly William Eland married Cecily the co-heir of Robert son of Sampson de Strelley as in Radcliff may be noted Stephen de Strelley 28 E. 3. passed Lands and Rents in Radclive and Lamcote to William Eland and Cecily his wife and William their son This Family had their chief residence at this Algerthorp which gave it the name of Eland-Hall William Eland Esquire possibly the Grandchiâ—d of the first about 8 H. 6. left his son William his heir above nine years old William Eland died the 27 Decemb. 17 H. 6. and left his son and heir William aged twenty weeks and four daies 3 Iun. when the Inquisition was taken in the tuition of Margaret his widow mother of the Infant By an Inquisition taken at Nott. 31 Octob. 9 H. 7. it appears that Henry Eland who it seems was brother and heir of Thomas Eland and forty years old 5 E. 4. when his said brother left the Bayliwick of Peverell in both these Counties to descend to him died 8 Sept. 9 H. 7. seized of this Mannor there said to be held of Sir Henry Willoughby as of his Mannor of Wollaton some small parcels in Radcliff and Lamcote and diverse other places as Adbolton Calverton Bagthorp Brigford at Brig end and an Essart called Eland Close and that Mary Eland daughter of Thomas Eland son of the said Henry was his Cousin and heir then aged one year and one month She married Roland Revell and after his death the 8 Novemb. 23 H. 8. conveyed this Mannor and all her Lands Rents and Services in Algarthorp Basford Adbolton Oxton Radcliff Calverton Lamcote Eland and elsewhere in the County of Nott. together with the Bayliwick of the honour of Peverell in the Counties of Nott. and Derb. to Randall Revell because he had holpen her in the great Suits she had with Nicholas Styrley Esquire concerning her said inheritance and for that Hugh Revell his son was her Cousin and next heir viz. son of Ioan sister of Thomas Eland her Father It was afterwards sold to Thomas Hutchinson of Outhorp who gave it to Iohn-Hutchinson his second son whose Grandchild Iohn Hutchinson was Lord of it It is now sold to ...... In Basford Town 1612. were owners William Lord Cavendish Sir Iohn Hollys Sir Iohn Byron Sir Percivall Willoughby Knights Godfrey Copley Esquire George Strelley Esquire Mary Hutchinson widow George Hutchinson Gent. Geoffrey Brock Gent. Iohn Speed Clerc Francis Byfeild Gent. Iohn Kyme of Nott. Gent. c. The Rectory of Basford 8 Ian. 4 Eliz. in the occupation of Roger Woâ—d late parcel of the possessions of the Priory of Catesby in the County of Northhamton was granted to Iames Hardwicke and his heirs This Church of St. Leodegarius of Baseford with the Lands Tenements and Appurtenances there was given by the before named Robert son of Philip to the Prioress and Nuns of Catesby of which place he seems to have been a principal Founder his son William was likewise a Benefactor The Rectory it should be Vicarage of Baseford was ten Marks when the Prioress of Cateswyke or Catesby had the Patronage The Vicarage is now in the Kings Books 8l. 17s. 6d. and in his Majesties Patronage In the South Window of the Chancel Arg. a Chevron between three Pâ—ts with Ears and three feet a piece Gules within a Bordure sable Besanty Mounboucher impaling Sable a Bend between six Escallops Or Folejambe Azure a plain Crosse countercompony Arg. and Gules Cokfeild impaling Folejambe and Folejambe impaling Arg. a Bend Azure Crusuly Arg. it should be Or Lowdham On the Church North I le East Window Paly of six Arg. and Azure a Bend Gules Annesley Paly of six Arg. and Azure Strelley Arg. a Chief Gules and Bendlet Azure Crumwell Arg. a Lion Rampant Queve Furchè sable Cressy Arg. a Bend Azure Crusuly Or Lowdham Arg. on a Saltier engrailed sable nine Annulets Or Leek Annesley with a Mullet on the top of the Bend. Strelley with a Cinquefoyle Gules in the middle Strelley of Woodborough Maperley THE Wood of Basford which was Iohn de Cokefeuds and Robert de Orrebyes 15 E. 1. was found wholly wasted and had been so of old Iohn son of Robert de Orreby and Iohn Cokfeld had taken 2s. 6d. a year for five and twenty years last past and appropriated the Wood to themselves without warrant and therefore were amerced Hugh de Nottingham Clark 25 E. 1. had Lands in Nottingham called Cornerwong confirmed to him and his heirs by Bounds c. In 31 E. 3. it was found that Iohn Montgomery then dead made one Essart of old besides the Kings Wood of Nottingham that was called Cornerwong and it contained thirty Acres of ground and was sown since the last regard The heirs of Alice Palmer held one Essart of old called Basfordwong containing twenty Acres William Eland was then Tenant viz. some while after 31 E. 3. about which time that Essart was thought to be made Adam Palmer made one Essart of old of five Acres and one Rood of the Kings Demesne at Algerthorp of this William Eland was also Tenant In the time of Richard the second Thomas Mapurley was a
Newthorp which the Jury found to be so and that the said Parson ought not to Common there A Fine was levied at York 10 E. 3. between Ranulf Pascail of Estweyt Quer. and Iohn Arnald Deforc. of the third part of the Mannor of Estweyt which was thereby settled on the said Ranulph for life remainder on Ranulf his son and Ioane the daughter of Roger de Vston and the heirs of their bodies remainder on William brother of the said Ranulph the son of Ranulph and the heirs of his body remainder to Ioane the sister of William and the heirs of hers then to Isabell and then to Agnes her sisters in like manner remainder to the right heirs of the said Ranulph Pascail Pascails part became the Tevereys of Stapleford Hugh Teverey son and heir of Robert Teverey Esquire and husband of Elizabeth daughter of Hugh Willoughby of Riseley 7 Mar. 8 H. 8. died seised of 10s. yearly Rent here which 24 H. 7. was passed to Thomas Bapthorp Chr. son and heir apparent of Raph Bapthorp and others for the use of the said Hugh and his said wife Elizabeth by the name of the Mannor of Estwayt but the Jury at that Inquisition taken at Stapulford 25 Oct. 9 H. 8. after the death of the said Hugh who left his son Robert Teverey his heir and then above twenty one years old found that the said 10s. Rent was held of Sir Henry Willoughby as of the Mannor of Estwayt However some Lands here came by inheritance from the Tevereys to William Palmes Esquire with Stapleford and Eyton in Darbyshire and other Lands which he got an Act of Parliament to enable him to sell and hath sold this accordingly to Hen. Harrison 1668. The Lord Greyes part descended it seems to the Family of Zouch as in Toueton may be seen Sir Iohn Zouch 19 Iun. 28 Eliz. died seised of it leaving Iohn Zouch Esquire his son and heir five Months above twenty one years of age and more as the Inquisition taken at Darby that year 19 Sept. after his death shows Howbeit I find that this Mannor after the death of the last Lord Grey was bought of the King by Sir Henry Willoughby who sold it to Sir Iohn Port and so it afterwards came to the Family of Stanhope by the marriage of Margaret one of his daughters and co-heirs to Sir Thomas Stanhope and as I think was sold by Arthur Stanhope Esquire one of the sons of Philip first Earl of Chesterfeild not long since viz. 1657. to Huntington Plumptre Esquire Doctor of Physick whose son and heir Henry is now Lord of it Thomas Aleyn and Emme his wife 21 E. 4. levied a Fine of twenty Acres of Pasture in Estwayt called Gressebréeches to Gervas Clifton Esquire and 22 E. 4. of thirty Acres of Land there The Rectory of Estwait was 6l. when H. Lord Grey of Codnor was Patron 'T is now in the Kings Books 4l. 13s. 1d. ob and Arthur Stanhope Esquire Patron But now viz. 1674. Henry Plumptre Esquire is Patron Newthorpe PArt of this Village was of R. Earl Moritons Fee in the time of the Conquerour which before was Aelayns or Aluins who had one Bov. for the Geld. The Land was two Bov. There was Pasture Wood eight qu. long half .... broad This was 2s. value in the Confessours time in the Conquerours but 12d. But the better part of this Township was William Peverells Fee wherein before he had it was a Mannor or two which Grunchel had one whereof was rated to the Geld at 5â— Bovats The Land being half a Car. In the Conquerours time this was waste and but 2s. In the Confessours it had been 5s. Another was taxed at five Bov. to the Geld. And the Land of it was also half a Car. and had a Bâ—rew in Chinemerley where were two Bov. waste William Peverell gave what he had here to his Priory of Lenton as in that place may be seen and Robert son of Iohn de Newthorp gave to it something in Folewoode Earl Moritons Fee it seems came very anciently to the honour of Leicesâ—er and was held of the Lords of Goteham Sir Iohn de St. Andrew 28 E. 3. gave 8s. Rent issuing out of a Mess. and Virgat of Land in Neuthorp to find a Light in the Conventual Church of Lenton as he should order it Iohn of Gaunt confirmed to Robert de Teversalt Vicar of Greseley who had it for and conveyed it to the Priory of Beauvale one Mess. seven Tofts two Bovats and sixty Acres of Land and 12s. 7d. yearly Rent with the Appurtenances which he held of Iulian the relict of Sir Iohn de St. Andrew Chr. and Iohn Samon in Newthorpe by the Service of 2s. per annum and they of the Honour of Leicester Robert de St. Andrew of Goteham granted licence to the said Vicar of Greseley to give it to the Priory of Beauvale and so did Iohn Samon of Nottingham for a third part according to the division mentioned in Goteham This Land was most of it held by William Ferrour of Neuthorp who passed it to the Vicar also and his son Iohn Ferrour confirmed it being all the Land Rents and Services which the said William had in Neuthorp except the Mess. he dwelt in which was not passed at that time William de Hickeling Rector of Thornore referred a Controversie between him and the Prior of Beauvale concerning a certain Rent of 6s. 6d. issuing out of a Mess. and two Bovats of Land and one Cottage of his inheritance in Neuthorp which was held by William Ward of Kymerley husband of his sister Maud to Sir Nicholas Strelley William Babington Thomas Hunte and William Wollaton to Arbitrate who determined the Rent to be due to the Priory seeing the Land was held of Robert de Kemerley as of his Mannor of Kemerley whose right the Priory then had Beatâ—ix sometime wife of Robert de Watton gave to the Priory of Lenton two Bovats in Neuthorp reserving 2s. a year Rent by the consent of William de Heriz her Son-in-law and her daughter his wife Robert son of Robert de Kynmerley and Roger Prior of Lenton agreed that there should be a division made between the Woods of the said Priory and the Wood of the said Robert in Neuthorp Robert le Vavaâ—ur of Chyppeley was to fence the Priors Wood which lay next a certain Holme in Newthorp which Roger the Prior of Lenton gave him and his heirs from any loss or damage it should sustain or have from his Millers or people coming to his Mill or else suffer the Prior to shut it up close The Prior of Lenton enfeoffed Hugh son of Peter de Halum in one Bovat in Newthorp for the summ of four Marks and an half which William and Raph his sons returned to the Monastery again Iohn son of Thomas Leech medicus of Neuthorp 22 E. 1. released all Actions and demands to William Prior of Lenton who
Ioane by the name of Ioane de Kym whereby she released the said Tenements and the Castle of Greseley in the County of Nott. but she denied it to be her Deed and recovered the Mannor of Ilkeston as she did at the Assizes at Nottingham the same year 30 E. 3. the Castle of Greseley thirteen Mess. three Carucats of Land twenty Acres of Medow two hundred of Pasture one thousand of Wood and 10l. Rent and William de Cantelupe and the rest were amerced In Trinity Term 13 R. 2. William la Zouch of Bramfeild son and heir of William la Zouch of Haringworth Knight then dead held the Mannor of Elkeston of the Lord of Bello-monte then within age and in the Kings custody as of the honour of Folkingham and the same Term William la Zouch of Harringworth Knight held the Castle of Greyselegh and a certain parcel of Land in Kymerle c. By an Inquisition taken in Yorkshire 26 Feb. 14 R. 2. it appears that William de Cantelup Chivaler then dead held the Mannor of Ravensthorpe with the members viz. Thrilly and Boltby and divers Lands in Azerlawe and Braythwat and that Iohn son and heir of Iohn de Hastings late Earl of Pembroke son of Iohn son of Laurence son of Iohn son of Iohn son of Ioane daughter and one of the heirs of Will. de Cantelupe brother of Nic. de Cantelupe Father of Will Father of Nic. Father of Will Father of Will. de Cantelupe who died within age without heir of his body and Will. la Zouche Chr. son of Eudo son of William son of Millecente daughter and another of the heirs of William de Cantelupe brother of Nicolas Father of William Father of Nicolas Father of William Father of the said William de Cantelupe who died without heirs of his body were at that time found the next heirs of the said William de Cantelupe c. William la Zouche about 19 R. 2. died seised of this Castle and Mannor and the Advowson of the Priory of Beauvale and William le Zouch his son was found his heir William le Zouch Chr. who long before his death settled the Castle of Gresseley on William Lord Roos of Hamlak Chr. and others about 3 H. 5. left William his son and heir From the Lord Zouch this Lordship came to the Crown and was by King Henry the seventh granted to Sir Iohn Savage Knight mentioned in Granby Sir Iohn Manners Grandfather of the present Earl of Rutland who is now Lord of it Iune 16. 1673. purchased it of Sir Iohn Savage and Sir Thomas Savage Lord Savage Father of Iohn Earl of Rivers and Grandfather of the present Earl Thomas The Vicarage of Gresâ—ey was 8l. when the Prior of Beauvale was Patron 'T is now 8l. 5s. 0. in the Kings Books and Arthur Capell Esquire Patron Bevall Beauvale NIcolas de Cantelupe Lord of Ilkeston in Darbishire mentioned in Greseley having obtained licence of King Edward the third dated 22 Septemb. in the sixteenth year of his Reign Founded a Monastery in his Park of Greyseley for a Prior and twelve Monks of the Order of the Carthusians to which he gave ten pounds per annum of Land and Rent in the Towns of Gryseley and Selleston together with the Park of Gryseley and the Advowsons of the Churches of both the said Towns which he got appropriated And this he devoutly did for the glory of Almighty God and the increase of Religion and the Divine Worship and for the good or healthful state of the said King Edward the third and of William la Zouch the Lord Arch-bishop of York his most dear Lord and Cousin and of the Lord Henry de Lancastre Earl of Darby and of himself and Ioane his wife and William his son and heir while they should live and for the Souls of the said King and of all the rest when they should die and for the Soul of Tiphania his former wife and of his Father and Mother and all his Progenitors and heirs wherefore he by his special Deed gave to God and the blessed Trinity Father and Son and Holy Ghost and the Prior and Monks of the Carthusian Order in the Monastery called the fair Vale Bellavallis which he had builded for them in his said Park of Gryseley and their Successors there serving God according to the Custom Order and Rule of the Mother Church of the Carthusians the said Monastery and Park of Gryseley adjoyning and three hundred Acres of Land ten Mess. twelve Bovats with the Appurtenances in Gryseley which Richard le Carter Iohn Pygot Robert Neubell Iohn le Carter Thomas Dey Roger Pygot Hugh son of Agnes Iohn le Maisterman Henry le Cartre Richard Sareson Roger Dey Thomas de Fulwode and Hugh de Pynkeston his Natives or Villains held of him in the said Town in Villanage together with the said Villains their Chattels Sequels and Sects and also 3s. Rent of Iohn Whitteberwe in the Town of Selleston and 4s. 4d. of like yearly Rent of Iohn Arnold in the same Town As also thirteen Messuages and seventeen Bovats and an half with their Appurtenances in the said Town of Selleston which Robert le Coke Iohn above the Kirke Nicholas le Schipherd William le Tayllour William son of Richard le Wright Thomas le Mough Nicola who had been wife of Richard le Wright Iohn son of Richard le Wright Robert son of William Coke and Thomas Cabald his Natives held in that Town in Villanage together with those Natives and all that were born of them and their Suits and Services here also called Sects and Sequells and likewise the said Advowsons of the Churches of the said Towns of Gryseley and Selleston with all their rights and Appurtenances He also granted that the said Prior and Monks and their successours should have Common of Pasture for all manner of Catâ—le whatsoever wheresoever they couched or from whencesoever they came through his whole Dominion or Lordship and Demesnes of Gresly and Selleston in all places and times where his other Freeholders had and that they should have Stone for all the work of the Church and their Houses and Marle to Marle their Lands in all the said places except his Park of Kirkestall To this Deed were Witnesses his said Cousin the Arch-bishop of York Richard Bishop of Durham Thomas of Linc. Roger of Coventre and Lichfeild Henry de Lancastre Earl of Darby William Earl of Northampton and William Earl of Hundyngton Iohn de Grey William Dencourt William de Grey of Sandiacre Knights William his own son and heir and Nicholas son of that William Robert Barnak William Facumbrige and others this was dated at Gryseley 9 Decemb. 1343. 17 E. 3. as was also another of his partly to this purpose but something shorter which had other Witnesses viz. Sir Richard de Wyleby Robert de Streuley William de Grey Iohn de Annesley Knights Hugh Martell Iohn Aâ—tecarre William Dauvers and
de Cantelupe and after his death to his brother William after whose death 49 E. 3. for want of heirs it reverted to William their Father as son and heir of the said Nicholas the Grandfather it shortly after came to the Lord Zouch of Haringworth as in Greyseley is said and being forfeited to the Crown by William Lord Zouch was 7 Mar. 1 H. 7. granted to Sir Iohn Savage the younger and is now the Earl of Rutland's The Priory Lands went with the rest to Sir William Hussy and after to .... Morison and so descended to the Lord Capell and are now the Earl of Essex's In the 7 H. 6. there were not ten Housholders in the Parish of Kynmerley Hempshill Hemdeshull Doomsd. Hamsell IN Hamsell Soc to Hochenale were six Bov. for the Geld. The Land one Car. There were two Sochm. two Vill. two Bord. having two Car. and four Acres of small Wood. This Soc lay in Bulwell and Watenot and was William Peverells Some little of this belonged to Greyseley and some to other places but the most considerable part was Strelleys as in that place may be seen in the division it was Sacheverells afterwards the Family of Ascough had it by purchase and it at length descended to Iane the daughter of Sir Roger Ascough his son and Grandson failing who was the second wife of Gervas Rosell of Radcliff Esquire who left it to her daughters and heirs Elizabeth Katherin and Mary There is another House and some Grounds belonging to it which was the Willughbyes of Wollaton and is now the inheritance of ..... Shepheard Aldesworth Doomsd. Eldeurd And Eldesword AELdeswurth at the Foundation of Burton Priory by Wulfric Spot was reckoned with Clowne to be in this County and numbred amongst those Towns which then belonged to that Monastery In Eldeurd Alwin had a Mannor before the Norman Invasion which answered the Publick Tax for four Bovats it was afterwards waste and William kept it I suppose Peverell whose Fee it was Hugh de Lambecote and William his son and heir put into the hands of Raph de Weldebof a certain Rent of 12d. yearly in the Mill of Aldesworth to be paid to the Prior and Covent of Lenton by the said Hugh and his heirs at Pentecost which appeased the strife betwixt the said Prior and him concerning that Mill. Peter the Prior of Lenton and the Covent of that place restored and confirmed to Adam son of Robert de Aldesworthe the whole Land of Aldesworch which Robert his Father and his Ancestors held paying to the Priory a Mark yearly at the Feast of St. Martin this was in the time of H. 2. or his son's In 21 E. 1. Robert de Aldisworth did Suit the Peverell Court with only one Man for the moyety of the Town of Aldisworth William de Bella aqua held the tenth part of a Knights Fee here of the Bishop of Lincolne Cossall and Aldesworth 9 E. 2. answered for a whole Villa and Sir Richard de Willughby Junior Thomas le Belewe Iohn de Aldesworthe and William de Cossall were certified to be Lords Iohn de Aldesworth 22 E. 3. is found to hold half a Knights Fee here of Raph de Crumwell which Robert de Kynmerley sometime held and Agnes de Belew a fifth part of a Knights Fee of the Fee of Crumwell who in Test. de Nev. is said also to hold of the Bishop of Lincolne The Jury in 7 H. 6. found that Iohn Broxstow Richard Baker and Henry Mackworth held each a third part of the half Fee in Aldesworth which Iohn Aldesworth sometime held William Sallowe about 12 H. 4. had interest here and about 6 H. 5. George Sallowe This seems to be Belews share because they were concerned at Kertlington also as 3 E. 4. Agnes Marmion appears to have been after them Edmund Lemyng Clark Walter Outhorp Chaplain and Iohn Polffen 18 E. 4. claimed against Galfr. Pilkington and Agnes his wife the Mannor of Allesworth with the Appurtenances and there was another Recovery the same time wherein Galfr. Pylkyngtoâ— and Agnes his wife claimed the same against Iohn Vavesour William Catesby Iohn Nevill Thomas Kebeell and Nicolas Blakwall Chaplain Bakers posterity remained here several Descents Rich. Baker de Aldesworth H. 6. Johannes Baker de Aldesworth fil ... Hide de Coventrey Richardus Baker -Brigitta fil Tho. Powtrell de Westhalum Richard Baker -Marg fil ... Huddleston de Wollaton Tho. Baker-Maria fil Joh. Eyton de Eyton Salop. Elizab. Katherina Anna ux Fâ— Gelsthorp de Whatton Eliz. ux Joh. Hussy de Flintham Marg. ux Woodhouse de Glapwell Kath. ux G. Welles Ebor. They had for their Arms Ermine on a Chief Vert two Boars heads Or. But the Township of late was Sir Henry Willoughbies of Kisley and Sir Roger Ayscoughs of Nuthall Nuthall Doomsd. Nutehale HEre were in Nutehale two Mannors whereof one was Tayn-land and before the Conquest held by one Alchill who answered for three Bov. ½ to the Tax The Land being then returned so much afterwards Aluric held it of the King William and there had six Vill. with two Plows or two Car. In the Confessours time this was valued at 10s. but when the Conquerour made his Survey at 6s. 8d. The other Mannor was of William Peverells Fee which before Aldene had and was rated at four Bovats and an half to the publick Geld or Tax The Land was for so many Oxen. There William Peverell had one Car. ½ and four Vill. four Bord. having one Car. small Wood five qu. long and one qu. broad This kept the old value 10s. and had Soc in Broculstow and Watenot The Church was dedicated to St. Patrick Galfr. de St. Patricio Knight gave his Church of Nuthale to the Priory of Lenton which Roger Arch-bishop of Yorke confirmed and after him Pope Lucius The Sheriff accounted 7 R. 1. that Robert de St. Patric did then owe iii. Marks for having his Land of Nuthale whereof Earl Iohn had disseised him Iohn Earl Morton was at Nuthale when he granted to the Priory of Lenton the Heath about the Wood of Beskwood and about his other Woods in Nott. and Darbishires Witness Roger de Silan and Raph Murdâ—c Norman de St. Patric was in the Sheriffs account 9 R. 1. that he ought six Marks thaâ— he should not go over Sea in the third Army into Normandy and for three Knights Fees of the Honour of Peverell for which 10 R. 1. his Fine was 15l. William de St. Patric 2 Ioh. gave the King one Mark for having a Jury of twelve Free and lawful men of the Voisinage of Nutehall who bâ—tter knew the truth of the matter and that they might be before the King where-ever he was in England in the day after the close of Easter ready to recognize or try on their Oathes whether his Grandfather Gauf de St. Patric gave the Church of Nutâ—hale to
what the said Canon is to do and have bears date at Wandesley 1279. the Tuesday after the Feast of St. Edmund the King and Martyr the Witnesses being Sir Richard Launcecumbe Rector of the Church of Derle Sir Roger le Power Rector of the Church of Penkeston and Sir Robert de Stretley and Sir Robert Saucheverell Knights and Roger de Burnisle and Hugh de Chauomer and others In 33 E. 1. there was a partition made of the Mannor of Wannesley between William de Gratton and Isabel his wife and William de Cressy and Iohan his wife A Fine was levied in the Kings Court at Yorke 33 E. 2. and afterwards Recorded the same year at Westm. between Roger de Cressy Querent and Thomas de Cressy and Margery his wife Deforcients of fourteen Mess. fourscore and thirteen Bovats of Land and an half seven Acres of Medow 27d. Rent and the third part of two Mills and of three hundred Acres of Wood with the Appurtenances in Wandesley Selston and Brunnesley In a Plea for a Mess. in Nottingham â— E. 3. before William Herle and his fellows the Munday after St. Martin at that place Iohan who had been wife of William de Cressy daughter and one of the heirs of Ranulph de Wandesleye and William son of William Folejambe of Gratton Cousin and the other of the heirs of the said Ranulph were called to warrant At the Inquisition taken at Nott. the Saturday after St. Laurence day 22 E. 3. before Iohn Vaux Iohn de Musters and Iohn del Ker Collectors of the Aid of 40s. for every Knights Fee to make the Kings son a Knight the Jury found that Thomas de Gretton and in some other Inquisitions the heirs of William de Gratton Iohana de Cressy and Hugh de Cressy held a Knights Fee in Wandesley which Ranulph de Wandesley held in times past Raph de Cressy of Selston granted to Thomas Columbell of Sandiacre his brother his Mannor of Wandesley Thomas Columbell of Thorp in the Clorts passed it to Sir Henry Perpownt Knight Iohn Bowes of Cortingstok Iohn Manchester Iohn Melton of Normanton Thomas Derley of Thorpe and Thomas Waryn Clerk of Boney who after the rest had released to him 13 Febr. 8 H. 6. passed it to Iohn Cokfeild of Nuthall Esquire Thomas Wartre Iohn Oteway Thomas Woodhall Clark and Iohn Chamberlain of Watnow who passed it to Sir Robert Strelley Knight William Vout Clark Iohn Milner Clark and Robert Brige of Selston Raph Shelton of Shelton in Norfolk Esquire Cousin and heir of Iohn Cokfeild released it to Iohn Fitz-Herbert Galfr. Staunton Iohn Bland Clark Robert Trewluffe Clark and Iohn Hygate Clerk who 8 Novemb. 11 E. 4. passed it to Gervase Clifton Esquire upon Condition that he should pay 120l. he being Sheriff of this County Iohn Rosell Esquire and Iohn Kelom the Coroners made warrants for his seisin of Lands in Selston which he recovered before Judge Litilton at Nott. on Saturday the Feast of St. Iames 12 E. 4. against Thomas Brige of Selston viz. fourteen Mess. one hundred and sixty Acres of Land seven of Medow ten of Wood and one hundred of Pasture He passed it to Richard Middelton Esquire and the Lady Maud Greene his wife Robert Throgmorton Esquire and Nicholas Russell Clark to whom also Thomas Brigge of Nott. son and heir of William Brigg theretofore of Selston released all his right in the Mannor of Wandesley with the Appurtenances in the Town and Parish of Selleston Richard Middelton and Maud his wife 18 E. 4. levied a Fine of the Mannor of Wannesley called Cressy Fee to Iohn Stanhope Iohn Fitz-Herbert Thomas Molyneux Thomas Orston Robert Yo le Iohn Blande Clark and Robert Treulofe Clark Iohn Bland passed or released it to Iohn Prior of Beauvale and the Covent of the same with which it remained and amongst the rest of the Lands of that Monastery came to the Lord Capeli with whose posterity viz. the Earl of Essex it still continueth There were two Recoveries in 18 H. 7. wherein Thomas Medylton claimed against Robert Throkmorton Knight and William Rolleston the moyety of the Mannor of Wannesley with the Appurtenances and ten Mess. four hundred Acres of Land one hundred of Medow three hundred of Pasture four hundred of Wood one hundred of Furz and Heath and 40s. Rent in Wannesley and Selston The same Thomas Medylton at the same time claimed the Mannor of Gratton in Darbishire against the same persons There was a Recovery 4 Eliz. of these two Mannors wherein Iohn Byron Knight and Francis Molyneux claimed against Robert Flecher and Edmund Stephenson who called to warrant Robert Agarston alias Middelton This Robert seems to be son of Gilbert as was also Francis his younger brother buried at Selston Aug. 10. 1558. Robert himself was buried there also May 3. 1567. and was Father of Wlli Midleton buried at Selston Sept. 18. 1624. which William died at Cotgrave where he had a daughter Mary the wife of Iohn Whalley her Mother was Troth daughter of Roger Columbell of Darley in the County of Darby she was also Mother of Iohn Middleton who died about 1642. and had to wife Anne daughter of Raph Bache of Stanton in the Peak by whom he left issue William Middleton of Wannesley and Iohn who died a Batchelor William was aged about forty four years 1673. and by his first wife Martha daughter of Brian Norton of Bullingbrook in the County of Lincolne had a son Iohn Midleton heir apparent of this Mannor and Gretton in Darbishire and of a parcel in Brunnesley but he and his son who as I have heard married ... the widow of ... Shepheard of Hempshill are now viz. 1675. both dead Selston Doomsd. Salestone SAlistune before the Conquest had three Mannors in it of three Bovats which Vlmer Gladuin and Vluric had The Land whereof was one Car. This afterwards became the Fee of William Peverel and there four Vill. two Bord. had two Car. There was a Church and three Acres of Medow In elder time the value was 8s. when the Conquerours Survey was taken 10s. Ranulph de Wandesley is certified to hold Seliston of Robert de Stoteville who succeeded Hubert Fitz-Raph so that it seems the greatest part of this place was with Wannesley of the Fee of Raph Fitz-Hubert except the fourth part which William de Roos mentioned in Greseley is said to hold in the right of Eustachia his wife which was Peverells Fee wherein was the Church which Nicholas de Cantelupe gave to the Priory of Beauvale at the first Foundation as in that place is shown William de Roos and Eustachia his wife having in 17 E. 1. and 18 E. 1. recovered it against Ranulph de Wandesly Hugh Fitz-Raph Ancestor of Eustachia mentioned in Greyseley for the Love of God and for the health of his Soul and for the Souls of Agnes and Idonea his Wives of Raph and Hugh his sons and for the
seven Car. and three Acres of Medow pasture Wood one leu long and one leu broad This kept the value it had in the Confessours time viz. 40s. When the Conquerours Survey was taken one Richard held it who probably was Father or Ancestor of Raph called Brito who together with his son Reginald de Anesleia gave the Church of Felley to the Priory of St. Cuthbert of Radeford near Wirkesop in the year 1156. 2 H. 2. which was shortly after confirmed by Pope Alexander the third in the second year of his Pontificate in the year of our Lord 1161. I find in the Pipe Rolls 22 H. 2. that Reginald de Anneslega gave account of one hundred Marks of the Amercements of the Forest. The next that I have noted was Raph or Ranulph de Anesley to whom the Sheriff of Nottss was by the Kings Precept 1 H. 3. to deliver seisin of all his Lands which he had in this County when he departed from the Faith and Service of King Iohn Father of that King to whose Faith and Service he was then returned The next year viz. 2 H. 3. Raph de Anesley was quit from the Office of Coroner in this County because he had a great infirmity Reginald Marc made an House in the Forest of Shirewood at Aneslegh so strong and built after such a manner that 4 H. 3. it was thought it might chance to bring damage to the neighbouring parts Reginald de Anesley son of this Raph confirmed to the Priory of Felley the gift which his Father made to Walter the Prior and the Canons of Robert son of Richard del Broc his Villain with his whole sequel and likewise one Bovat which Galfr. son of Richard del Broc held in the Fields of Annesley which his said Father Raph gave to God and the Church of All Saints at Annesley to find a Lamp burning all the hours which were Sung in that Church Baldwin de Paunton the Sheriff gave account amongst other things 25 H. 3. of one Mark of Reginald de Annesleg and Sibyll de Sancta Maria for having four justices 't is likely to see the acknowledgement of some Fine in those times ordinarily performed in several Courts by four lawful Knights upon the Kings Writ for the having or executing whereof I suppose the Mark was paid an example of which is also noted in Carcolston Reginald de Annesley paid 4l. for two Knights Fees in the time of Henry the third in Annesleg with the Appurtenances then held of Raph de Fressenville who had part of the Barony of Hubert Fitz-Raph the other part was then Iohn de Stutevilles of Kirkeby viz. fifteen Knights Fees Iohn de Annesle was High Sheriff of these Counties of Nott. and Derb. 14 E. 1. and so continued five or six years together as appears by the Pipe Rolls of those times By a Fine 18 E. 2. the Mannor of Annesleye with the Appurtenances and twenty five Mess. one Mill thirty three Bovats of Land fifty seven Acres of Medow three of pasture twelve of Wood 34s. 8d. Rent and the third part of a Mill and Rent of one pound of Cummin in Gypesmere Gouerton Bleseby Morton Birton Bulcoâ—e Lowdham Kneveton and Crophill Botiller were settled on Iohn de Annesleye and Anora his wife and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of Iohn Iohn de Annesley in the great Eyre before William de Herle and his fellow Justices at Nott. 3 E. 3. pleaded that King Edward the first by his Charter bearing date at Newstede in Shirewood 4 Octob. in the eighth year of his Reign granted and confirmed to Iohn de Annesley his Father whose heir he was that he and his heirs should have Free Warren in all their Demesne Lands in Annesley whereupon it was allowed by the Court The King 2 E. 3. granted to Iohn de Annesley the custody of the Honour of Peverell in these Counties of Nott. and Derb. Iohn de Annesley Chivaler married Isabell the daughter and heir of Margaret one of the three sisters and heirs of Sir Iohn Chaundos and had Livery 23 May 50 E. 3. of certain Lands in Oxfordshire which Sir Richard Damory held for life in Fee Farm for fourscore and one pound per annum viz. the Mannor of Hedyngton and Hundred of Bolynden and Nethyate but it seems by Mr. Robert Glover's Scheme of the Descent of this Family which for want of other light I am forced to make use of in this place almost against my judgement by reason the time will scarce bear it that he had no issue by her but a son called also Sir Iohn Annesley by another wife who was Father of Thomas Father of Thomas Father of the last Iohn de Annesley William de Wakebrugge and Robert de Annesley Parson of Rodyngton Founded a Chantry in the Church of Annesley for a Secular Priest whereof Iohn de Breton was the first to make special mention of them two and Iohn de Annesley in his Mass whilest they should live and for their Souls when dead as also for the Souls of Iohn de Annesley Knight and Annora his wife and of their Father and Mother The presentation of a fit Chaplain was to remain to the said William and Robert during their lives then to devolve to the said Iohn de Annesley and the heirs Males of his body and â—or want of such to Thomas his brother and the heirs Males of his for want whereof to their brother Gregory and the heirs Males of his and in case of failure of all to the Prior and Covent of Felley and their successors The Writ of Ad quod damnum was 35 E. 3. upon which the Jury found it not to the Kings loss if he granted them licence to give eight Mess. and ten Bovats of Land whereof five Mess. and six Bovats were in Annesley Annesley Woodhouse and Kirkby Woodhouse and three Mess. and four Bovats were in Bleseby Gourton and Gippesmere and that there then remained to the Feoffees of Sir Iohn de Annesley besides twenty Marks per annum and Lands in Cruch held of Roger Beler and in Rudington held of Iohn Pavely at which place a Branch of this Family of Annesley was shortly after resident which continued there almost till my time The Kings licence for this Chantry was dated 10 Febr. 36 E. 3. and Iohn Arch-bishop of York his Confirmation 27 Ian. 1373. Thomas de Annesley Lord of the Town 1 H. 5. required of his Free-holders and Tenants within his dominion of Annesley that he might inclose a certain place called Nicoll leys to his own profit for one year because of dolationis the laying out a certain Hedge between the Fields of Wodhouse Field for which he gave them before-hand 3s. 4d. for the Fabrick of Annesley Church The Ground plat of the South East Corner of Ausâ—ey Parâ— with the Redeings â— Iohn de Annesley 14 H. 6.
granted to Iohn Makworth Dean of Lincolne Iohn Curson Thomas Makworth Esquire and others his Mannors of Annesley Bulcote and Gippesmere and all his Lands and Tenements in Crophill and Cossale in this County and in Rawemersh and Bolton upon Derne in the County of Yorke which descended to him after the death of Thomas de Annesley his Grandfather The Jury 18 H. 6. found Alice de Annesley to be daughter and heir of the said Iohn She was first married to George Chaworth the third son of Sir Thomas Chaworth as in Wiverton where the Descent is placed may be seen from whom the R. Honourable Patricius Viscount Chaworth of Armagh as heir Male lineally descended inherits this Mannor and now makes it his principal residence where he hath also a most pleasant Park which by removing away some Houses he hath lately made to come up so near the House as to be contiguous to the Gardens By Fines levied 23 H. 6. and 32 H. 6. it appears one Isabell then the wife of Robert Shrigley Esquire held the third part of this Mannor in Dower and released it to Iohn Viscount Beaumont Reginald Leigh who was second husband of the before-named Alice the heir of Annesley and Iames Leigh Esquire and others By a Fine 6 E. 4. eight Mess. three hundred Acres of Land one hundred of Medow and two hundred of Pasture with the Appurtenances in Annesley Annesley Woodhouse and Kirkeby Woodhouse were settled on William Forde and Margaret his wife for life remainder to Richard Willughby Esquire and his heirs By another 9 E. 4. they were passed to Galfr. Staunton and his heirs Galfr. Staunton Chaplain and William Bucley Clark in a Recovery 15 E. 4. claimed against Thomas Parker and Ioan his wife who in another Recovery the same Term claimed against Richard Illingworth Knight the Mannor of Kirkeby Woodhouse with the Appurtenances two Mess. eleven Tofts ten Bovats and three hundred Acres of Land forty eight of Medow four hundred of Pasture one hundred and eight of Wood and 3s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Kirkeby Woodhouse Annesley Woodhouse and Annesley In another 5 H. 7. Iohn Bassingbourne and others claimed the same with some small additions against Richard Illingworth Annesley Woodhouse is a kind of a Grange now belonging to his Grace the Duke of Newcastle The Rectory of Annesley with the Advowson and right of Patronage of the Church late belonging to the Priory of Felley 15 Iuly 35 H. 8. together with a Mess. in Tevershall and other things were granted to Richard Andrewes and Nicholas Temple and the heirs of Richard The next day viz. 16 Iuly 35 H. 8. they had licence to alienate the premises to William Bolles and his heirs This Rectory and Church parcel of the possessions of William Bolles Esquire exchanged together with the Rectory of Grandby late belonging to the Priory of Thurgarton and the Rectory of Boney to the Priory of Olvescroft in the County of Leicester and a Tenement in Cossall sometime in the Tenure of Percivall Elton and then in the Tenure of Thomas Holcroft late belonging to Newstead and a Mess. in Bradmere to Lenton and Lands in Sloswick to Wirksop 27 Apr. 18 Eliz. were granted to Roger Mauners and his heirs In Annesley Church South I le East Window Gules seven Mascles Arg. 3.3.1 Paly of six Arg. and Azure a Bend Gules Annesley this is oft And upon one in Mail and by his head Arg. a Lion Rampant Sab. Gules a Fesse Varry between three Libards heads jessant three Flowers de Lis Or the tops of the heads downwards Varry Or and Sab. Arg. six Lioncels Gules 3.2.1 In a North Window Gules a Crosse engrailed Arg. impaling Annesley In old Carving upon Wood of the Pew Azure two Chevrons Or Chaworth Arg. a pale deeply indented or Lozengy Sable with an Vnicorns head erased for a Crest Savage Annesley as before In the East Window of the Chancel Chaworth with quarterings put there not very long before the unhappy Wars which destroyed such matters Felley RAdulph Britto of Annesley by the consent of his heirs gave and confirmed to God and the blessed Mary and St. Helen and Frier Robert the Hermit and his Successours the place of Felley with the Appurtenances in pure Alms. It was afterwards by the said Raph and Reginald his son given to the Priory of Wirkesop as already is noted in Annesley In the year from the Incarnation according to the course and computation of the English Church 1311. in the sixth year of Pope Clement the fifth May 6. the Prior and Canons of the Monastery of Felley of the Order of St. Austin having the Parish Church of Annesley for their proper uses appeared in Southwell Church before the official of the Arch-deacon of Nottingham and humbly besought him that their ancient Evidences whilest they were yet perfect might be published and Recorded whereupon he cited Sir Thomas Rector of the Parish Church of Kirkbi Sir Iohn Lord of Annesley Knight and Sir William de Manthorp Priest of Lincoln Diocess whom the matter chiefly concerned to appear the Fryday next after the Feast of the Ascension the same year in the Church of St. Mary at Nottingham before him to show cause canonical of impediment if they had any but they not appearing there was produced a Writing which had an oblong Seal of very old white Wax hanging at it the impression whereof contained the figure of a certain woman standing in the middle of the Seal and holding her right hand upon her right side and carrying above her left hand stretched out the sign of a Bird. The circumference was Sigillum Leonie de Raines The Tenor That Leonia de Raines and Henry de Stutivill her son and heir gave the Church of Anneslei with all its Liberties and Appurt to God and the blessed Mary of Felley and the Canons there serving God for the health of King Henry son of the Empress and Robert de Stutivill and her and their Ancestors for which they were to find one Canon and Light to celebrate for the Souls of the forementioned King Henry and Richard de Stutivill and their Ancestors and for her and hers The Witnesses were William the Chaplain Hugh Parson of Kyrkeby Iohn his brother William de Mara Alan de Bosco Raph de Yvetoft c. There was another Writing produced whereat was hanging a round Seal of old white Wax the impression whereof contained the Figure of a Lion passant and the circumference was Sigillum Reynaldi de Annesley it mported that Reynald de Annesley at the request of his Father Radulph le Brett gave to St. Mary and the House of Felley and the Brethren of that place the dominion and whole right of his Patronage which he had in the Church of Annesley in pure Alms for the health or safety of himself and of his wife and his heirs and for the refreshment of all his Parents departed The
while before William Leek left to descend with his Mannor of Little Léek and other Lands in Gedling Carleton Stokebardolf Colwyke Saxendale and Stoke by Newark to Iohn Leek his son and heir Iohn Leeke Knight held the Mannor of Hucknall Torcard of the Crown by Knights Service and also by the Service of carrying one Gerfalcon from Michaelmas till Lent at the Kings cost with Horses and 2s. a day and half a Cistern of Wine and two Robes when he was warned to do the Service Iohn Biron Knight and Iohn Palmer of Hucknall purchased Lands and Tenements in Hucknall of Francis Leek Esquire to the value of 3l. 2s. 8d. per annum held of the Queen Eliz. in Capite Sir Iohn Leekes Mannor was in my time the inheritance of Lancelot Curtis The dispersed parcels passed through many hands Roger Porter son and heir of Maud Porter 33 E. 3. had a Mess. and eighteen Acres c. of this Fee and Thomas Breton brother and heir of Iohn Breton 41 E. 3. acknowledged to hold the two Bovats before noted to be William le Bretuns by Petit Serjeancy The Fee of Rad. de Burun William Briewer had in the beginning of King Iohn's time or sooner from whom it descended to Baldwin de Wake Lord of Brun or Burne in Lincolnshire of which Mannor 10 E. 1. Iohn Torcard and William Pitie were found to have held two Knights Fees in Lambecote and Hukenhale The first of the Torcards which succeeded Osmund and by their continuance here left their name to distinguish the place whom I have light upon was Gaufr Torcard who with the consent of Maud his wife and Henry his son for the health of his Soul and of his Ancestors and Successours and for the Soul of Alexander de Chiney gave to God and the Church of the Holy Trinity at Lenton and the Monks there serving God one Cart to be continually wandring about to gather up his dead Wood of Huckenale The Witnesses were Raph Murdac Raph de Chelnei Hugh his brother Philip de Beaumes Hugh de Lichelade Gilbert the Chaplain of the Castle Alan Robert Gregory Clarks Mr. Silvester Gaufr Torcard of Chillewelle William de Davidvill Henry Torcard his own son and others There was a Fine levyed 10 R. 1. between Galfr. Torcaz and Maud his wife Petents and William Pitie Tenent of two Knights Fees in Huckenhale and Lambecote whereof they all gave the Church of Huckenhale and five Bovats of Land there to the Church of Newstede and the rest equally divided between Galfr. and William Henry the eldest son of Galfr. had then married Alin the daughter of William who was then also his heir with whom he gave the third part of his share in marriage but if William should happen to have an heir Male Henry and Alina his wife were but to have half of Williams part after his death Roesia Torkard paid four Marks for two Fees in Huckenhale and Lambcote and Iohn Torkard the like summ afterwards for two Fees in Huckenhale then held of Iohan the relict of Hugh Wake who paid also 20s. for half a Fee in Kyleburne in Darbyshire which was also part of Buruns Fee Henry de Winkeburne was Lord of Hucknall 9 E. 2. Henry de Winkeburne and Albreda his wife did by Fine 5 E. 3. pass the Mannor of Hukenale Torkard to Alexander de Gonaldeston and his heirs The said Alexander and Alice his wife by another Fine conveyed it to Raph de Crumbewell and Avicia his wife during their lives and after their decease to Vlker son of the said Raph and Avicia during his life remainder to the right heirs of Raph. Raph de Crumbwell and Avicia his wife made a certain Causey otherwise than had formerly been to increase the Water to serve their Mills which was it seems in the Ditch and upon the Soil which belonged to the Prior of Newstede and extended from the Church-yard to the head of the Damm toward the East for which they gave the said Prior three Roods of Arable Land lying in the East field in diverse places at the Towns end towards Nottingham but the said Raph oppressed the Priory more in causing it to pay more than it ought in the several Scutages for in 5 E. 1. in that for the Welch expedition it paid but for the third part of a Knights Fee and there were Tenants who held ten Bovats of Torkards Fee and eight of Lutterells of Gamelston besides but this Raph Crumbwell got an Inquisition which found the Priory to have two parts of a Knights Fee in Demesne and Service of Tenants so that the Prior was forced to intreat that he might pay but for half a Fee which he thought too much before Vlgar Crumwell it seems gave his interest to the Priory of Beauvale which paid also for half a Knights Fee Raph de Crumbewelle Lord of Tatershale in the County of Lincolne passed his Mannor of Hukenall Torkard which his brother Vlker had for life to Richard de Chesterfeild Clark Richard de Tyssington Clark William de Wakebrugg and Iohn de la Pole of Asseburne to whom he levied a Fine of it Trin. 43 E. 3. They passed it to Hugh de Annesley of Rodyngton as did also Maud de Crumbewell Lady of Tatershall the better to convey it to the Priory of Beauvale with some other small things to which it was confirmed by the feoffees of Raph Lord Crumbewell after his death viz. William Bishop of Winchester William Gray Bishop of Ely Iohn Earl of Shrowsbury Iohn Lord Stourton Knight Iohn Fortescue Knight Chief Justice Walter Moyle one of the Justices of the Common Bench Iohn Radcliffe Esquire Thomas Teryll Knight Mr. William Say Clark Thomas Bylling Iohn Say Esquire William Venour Thomas Young Iohn Taylboys Senior Esquire Robert Scheffeild Richard Illingworth Richard Waterton Esquire Iohn Langholme Edward Blake Thomas Palmer William Stanlowe Iohn Vincent and Richard Flynt the rest were dead viz. Reginald Bishop of Coventry and Lichfeild Thomas Clifford Lord Clifford Robert Beaumont Clark Iohn Saucheverell Esquire and Iohn Stathum Beauvale 7 H. 6. paid for one half of a Knights Fee and Newstede for another After the dissolution they partly followed the fortune of those places with which they still continue The Rectory with the Patronage of the Vicarage 25 Ian. 24 Eliz. was granted to Edward Downinge and Peter Ashton The same Queen 27 Iun. 42 Eliz. granted to Michael Stanhope Esquire one of the Grooms of the Privy Chamber and to Edward Stanhope Doctor in the Laws the Mannor of Hucknall Torkard which did belong to Newstede to which at the Foundation King Henry the second gave the Church of Hokenhale which King Iohn confirmed 6 Ioh. at the yearly value of 13l. 9s. 10d. But now the principal part of this Township is the inheritance of the Lord Byron as it was in the time of King William the Conquerour There are now reckoned four or five Mannors
of which the Honourable William Byron hath two the Earl of Essex Lord of Beavale hath one Lancelot Rolleston Esquire one and .... Curtis one c. The Vicarage of Hucnall was 8l. when the Prior of Newstede was Patron 'T is now in the Kings Books 4l. 18s. 1d. ob and William Byron Esquire Patron In Hucknall Torcard Chancel upper South Window Barry of six Arg. and Azure a file of five Labels Or Gray of Sandiacre Arg. a file of five poynts Or I suppose the same the Azure only worn off Paly of six Arg. and Azure a Bend Varry Or and Gules Painted on the Wall Byron with quarterings impaling Molyneux In a South Window of the Church these five 1. Barry of six Arg. and Azure Gray of Codnour 2. Or three Piles meeting in the base Gules a Canton Ermine Basset of Drayton 3. Arg. on a Pile Gules a Falcon of the first Crowned Or impaling Paly of six Arg. and Azure a Bend Gules Annesley 4. Or on two Bars Gules three Waterbudgets Arg. Willoughby of Wollaton 5. Sable a Lion Rampant amongst Cinquefoiles Arg. Clifton And in another South Window 1. Arg. a chief Gules and Bendlet Azure Crumwell 2. Arg. a Chevron Gules a file of three points Ermine 3. Sab. a Bend between six Scallops Arg. a Canton Or. 4. Paly of six Arg. and Azure a Bend Gules charged on the upper part with a Mullet of the first In the North I le East Window Or a Lion Rampant purpure In a North Window Arg. two Barrs Sab. a Martlet Gules in the dexter point Paly of six Arg. and Azure a Bend Gules Annesley and above also Gules a Fâ—sse Varry between three Libards heads â—esant three Flowers de Lis uppermost Or. Beskwood Parke KIng Henry the first granted to the Priorâ— of Lenton to have two Carts to fetch 〈◊〉 Wood and Heath out of Bescwood King Henry the second granted that Covent to have every day two Carrs or three Carretts to bring them dead Wood or Heath as much as they should need for their own use In the Inquisition taken at St. Iohn's House in Nottingham the fourth of the Nones of Iuly in 35 H. 3. before Geoffrey Langley Justice of the Forest it is called an Hay or Park of our Lord the King wherein no man Commons In the Regard 31 E. 3. the Kings Hay of Beskwood is said to be closed in with a Pale and to be then in the keeping of Richard de lawche de la Vache Knight King Edward the third by his Letters Patents dated at his Park of Beskwood 1 Sept. 37 E. 3. pardoned and released certain Rents issuing out of Lindeby Hay and Bullwell Rise to the Priory of Newstede The Wood of Beskwood was 2 E. 3. granted to Richard de Strelley for his life paying ...... the extent thereof yearly having had an Ad quod Damnum the same King 22 Febr. 8 E. 3. granted him all the dry Zuches which in English were then called Stovenes or Stubbes within his Hay of Beskwood This Richard Strelley is there stiled Dilecto valecto nostro Philip de Willughby mentioned in Bullwell about 33 E. 1. held one Toft there and two Bovats of Land with the Appurtenances by the Service of being Forester in Beskewood and likewise the fourscore Acres there noted in Bullwell Ground His brother William de Willughby was then found his heir It hath a very fair Lodge in it and in respect of the pleasant Scituation of the place and conveniency of Hunting and pleasure this Park and Lodge hath for these many years been the desire and atchievement of great men three Earls of Rutland had it Roger Francis and George before that Thomas Markham a great Courtier and Servant to Queen Elizabeth had it and before him little Sir Iohn Byron a great favourite to King Henry the eighth It is now in Lease to William Lord Willughby of Parham Before the troubles it was well stored with Red Deer But now it is parcelled into little Closes on one side and much of it hath been plowed so that there is scarce either Wood or Venison which is also too likely to be the fate of the whole Forest of Shirewood Lindeby IN Lindeby three brothers had before the Normans came three Mannors which paid to the Dane-geld as one Carucat and an half The Land was for two Plows or two Car. There afterwards William Peverell had three Car. and twelve Vill. and two Bord. having five Car. There was a Priest and a Mill 10s. pasture Wood one leu long and one leu broad In King Edward the Confessours time this was valued at 26s. 8d. but when Doomsday Book was made at 40s. In Paplewic five Bovats of Land lay to this Mannor William Peverell the younger granted to God and the Church of the Holy Trinity at Lenton and his Brethren there serving God the Town which is called Lyndeby and whatsoever he had in it viz. Lands Tilled and untilled in Wood and in Plain in Medows and Pastures with the Church of the same Town and the Mill of Blaccliff for the Treasures which his Mother bestowed on that Church and he compelled by very great necessity took and for all other excesses in which he by the instinct of the enemy against that Church imprudently had exceeded contrary to the Command of his Father and the Bargain which he made with him and with his Mother William Abbat of Leycester and Robert Prior of Kenelingwrd by the Authority of Pope Alexander 3. made an agreement that Robert the Priest of Edingla who gave the Monks of Lenton five Marks should hold the Church of Lyndeby while he lived Secular paying that Priory half a Mark of Silver yearly at Martinmas in the name of a Pension which one Henry the Clark was also to have if he over-lived Robert paying the like Pension William Cursun Clark obliged himself to make it a whole Mark Pension to the Covent of Lenton when there should be a solid establishment made of the Parsonage and Vicarage which Adam the Chaplain was to acquit him of so long as the said Adam continued in secular habit The Town of Lyndeby was an Eschaet of the Kings of the Honour of Peverel of Nott. and Will. de St. Michael of London had one moyety of it of the gift of King Iohn paying yearly in the Kings Chamber a Furr of Gris and that half was worth 7l. 6s. per annum and Peter de Lettris and his brother had the other half by the Kings Counsel as long as the King pleased which was of the same value The King 36 H. 3. held half of it and it was valued at 7l. 14s. 100s. of old and 46s. of old increase and 8s. of new Robert de Marys held the other half by occasion of the Wardship of Laurence heir of Laurence de St. Michael and paid a Furr of seven Tyres Fessis yearly The Jury in 5 E. 2. found that
de Hamlak Henricus Petrus Petrus Johannes Hugo Meschines fil haer Monachus sine prole wife daughter of Sir William Bernak Knight had Sir Iohn Byron Knight who died without issue and Sir Richard Byron Lord of Clayton who to his second wife had Ioane daughter of William de Colwick and heir of her brother Thomas which brought this Family to have a considerable interest in this County again by her he left a son and heir called Iohn le Byron of Clayton Knight who by Margery his wife had Sir Nicolas Byron of Clayton Knight who married Alice the daughter of Sir Iohn Boteler of Beausey in that County of Lancaster Knight by whom he had Sir Iohn Byron who married Margery the daughter of Sir Robert Fowleshurst Knight but died without issue 1488. having been made by King Henry the seventh so soon as he began his Reign almost viz. Sept. 22. 1 H. 7. Knight and Constable of Nott. Castle and Porter of the same Steward and Warden of the Forest of Shirewood and of the Parks and Woods of Billay Birkeland Rumwood Ouseland and Fulwode with 40l. c. for the said Offices and Sir Nicolas Byron of Colwyck and Clayton his second son who married Iane the daughter of Iohn Bussy of Hougham in Lincolnshire afterwards married to Sir Gervas Clifton by whom he had Sir Iohn Byron Steward of Manchester and Rachdale and Lieutenant of the Forest of Shirwood this was called little Sir Iohn with the great Beard who had this Priory granted as before is said his first wife was Isabell the daughter of .... Lemington by whom he had no issue his second was Elizabeth the daughter of William Constantine and the relict of Roger Halgh on whom he begot soon enough Sir Iohn Byron of Newstede who married Alice the daughter of Sir Nicolas Strelley of Strelley and by her had Sir Iohn Byron of Newstede the husband of Margaret the daughter of William Fitz-Williams by whom he had Sir Iohn Byron of Newstede who had to wife Anne the daughter of Sir Richard Molyneux of Sefton in the County of Lancaster Knight and Baronet who brought him many Children his eldest was Sir Iohn Byron Knight of the Bath created by King Charles the first Baron of Ratchdale he married Cecily daughter of Thomas West Lord de la Ware and after her as I remember Elinor Needham the Lord Kilmurreys daughter but died without issue in France in the year 1652. after he had eminently served the King as his Uncle Sir Nicolas Byron Baronet a Twin with his Father and his brothers Sir Richard William Sir Thomas Sir Robert Gilbert and I think Philip did he was esteemed one of the best accomplished Gentlemen of his time His brother Sir Richard now Lord Byron succeeds in this place who married to his first wife Elizabeth the daughter of George Rosell of Radcliff Esquire the relict of Nicolas Strelley Esquire and to his second Elizabeth the daughter of Sir George Booth of Dunham in Cheshire Baronet by whom he hath no issue by his first he hath William Byron and Katherin William married Elizabeth the daughter of Iohn Viscount Chaworth by whom he hath three or four daughters and a son named William In the Bow Window of the Hall at Newstede there is yet W. S. P. William Savage Prior and the Arms of Newstede Priory viz. England with a Chief Azure in the middle whereof is the Virgin Mary with the Babe Or and Quarterly France and England And Azure a Pall Arg. impaling Arg. a pale deeply indented or Lozengy Sable Savage Bishop of ...... In the Pantry Grey of Codnors and Crumwell quartering Tateshall In Henry the sevenths Lodgings the Pictures of King Henry the seventh and Elizabeth his Queen and Prince Arthur In the next Pane of the same Window Arg. ten Torteauxes and a file of three Labels Azure ... Babinton Militis Barry of six Arg. and Az. Henrici Grey Sable a Bend between six Crosse Croslets Arg. Arme Iohannis Stanhope Armig. These Canons at several Altars were to pray for the Souls of King Henry the second and all the Kings their Founders of Robert Lexington who gave the Towns of Routhorn and Scarcliff in Derbishire and Starthorp to supply four Canons of William Cossall who gave his Mannor of Cossall and Bullwell Wood and divers Lands and Tenements in Nott. and Egmanton of Iohn Longvylers who gave Tuxford Church of Robert and Henry Edenstow Brothers who gave North Muskam Mannor excepting the stipend of the Chaplains at Edenstow of Elias Breton who gave diverse Tenements in Huknall of Dionysia Eynell who gave Tenements in Tershill of Robert Ripers Alice Palmar Hugh Ropley and of Thomas Sutton Kirkeby And Woodhouse THis place in the great Survey called Dooms-day Book is certified to be of the Fee of Raph Fitz-Hubert but before the Conquest in Chircheby Levenot had for his Mannor Land which paid the Dane-geld for ten Bovats being then accounted two Carucats There Raph had in Demesne three Car. and one Sochm. on one Bov. of this Land and twenty Vill. and six Bord. having twelve Car. There was a Church and a Priest and two Mills 3s. and three Acres of Medow Pasture Wood by places two leu long and two broad In the Confessours time this was valued at 4l. then in the Conquerours but at 3l. Here was another Mannor of the Tayn-land which Alvric had before the coming of King William which was rated to the Geld at two Bovats and the Land of it returned then to be so viz. two Bov. He afterwards held it of King William and there had one Car. This was valued then as before 11s. There was also another Bovat which was then waste Henry de Stuteville about 33 H. 2. gave account of 15l. of the Scutage of the Fee which was parted between him and Hubert Fitz-Raph The wife of Robert de Stutevill not long after was in the Kings custody and of the Parentela linage of Edward de Salesbery on the part of her Father and of the part of her Mother of the Progeny of Roger de Rennes she had one Town called Diham which was her Inheritance which was yearly worth 24l. She had one son and two daughters their age was not then known to the Jurors She was usually named Leonia de Reines by whom her husband the said Robert de Stuteville had one son called Henry de Stoteville who inherited the Barony and another named William mentioned to be living 2 R. 1. Afterwards there is mention of the Honour of Iohn de Stuteville concerning the moyety of the Barony of Hubert Fitz-Raph and that there was paid by the said Iohn for fifteen Knights Fees in Kirkeby with the Appurtenances About 45 H. 3. Robert son of Iohn de Stotevill had Market and Fair and Free Warren granted in Kirkeby in 〈◊〉 It appears 12 E. 1. that Robert de Stoteville showed great disobedience and contempt in not coming upon the Kings summons to Aid him
in Kirkeby in Ashfeild and Iohn Thorkard was amerced Sir Henry Pierpoint Knight 27 H. 6. released to Richard Illingworth and his heirs all his right in a Medow called Akbrigge near Hardwick in the Parish of Kirkeby in Ashefeild and in all the Lands and Tenements in the Fields and Gardens of Hardewick aforesaid Elena his Lady 31 H. 6. after his death did the same Henry Pierpoint Esquire 39 H. 6. son and heir of Henry Pierpoint Esquire son and heir of Henry Pierpoint Knight did likewise In 20 E. 4. the Custody of two hundred Acres of waste in the Forest of Shirewood the Lands and Tenements of Richard Illingworth Knight mentioned in Bony called Hardwick Closes and Akebrigge and a Water-Mill called Sutton Mill in the said Forest between Maunsfeild and Hardwick aforesaid were committed to Raph Illingworth and others for ten years Iohn Strelley of Lindby died seised of three Mess. twelve Bovats of Land twenty Acres of Medow and as many of Pasture in Kirkeby in Ashefeild 2 H. 7. Iohn Langton of Kirkeby about 9 H. 6. held when he died one Mess. called Langton Place and six Closes with the Appurtenances of Elizabeth and Margery daughters and heirs of Philip Darcy by the Service of the hundredth part of a Knights Fee Richard Langton was then his son and heir There is an ancient House and Demesnes within Kirkeby called Langton Hall alias Westwood it was granted out by Iohn Lord Stotevile in Henry the seconds time I suppose it should be Henry the thirds and so it first was written to Richard son of Hugh de Ruddington and his heirs by particular Metes and Bounds and shortly after this Ruddington granted the said Lands to Geoffrey de Langton reciting the former grant from the Lord Stotevile to him and that he was in seisin thereof 34 H. 2. 34 H. 3. rather In Langtons Family it continued till Henry the eighths time that Cuthbert Langton dying without issue Male it fell to Fitz-Randolph by the marriage of Langtons daughtâ—â— and heir in whose name it continued till of late Cuthbert Langton 6 H. 8. of Midleton in the County of Warwick Gent. enfeoffed Iohn Markham Iohn Zouch Knights Iohn Willowby Iohn Fitz-Randolph Edward Willowby Nicolas Strelley Esquire Iohn Savidge c. in his Mannor of Langton Hall in Westwood Lands in Huknall Torkard Durty Huknall Maunsfeild Woodhouse Kirkeby in Ashfeild and Watnow Chaworth in the County of Nott. and Birchwood in the County of Darby And there were Covenants of marriage between Christopher Fitz-Randolph on the one part and the said Cuthbert Langton on the other for Christopher Cousin of the said Christopher and Ioane one of the daughters and heirs apparent of the said Cuthbert Christopher Fitz-Randolph de Langton Hall-Joana fil haer Cuthberti Langton Thom. Fitz-Randolph-Kath fil Godfr Folejambe mil. Johannes Jacobus Fitz-Randolph-Kath fil Walteri Mantlemil de Com. Northampton 1 Philalethes at 22. 1614. s. p. 2 Thom. s. p. 3 Ferdinand s. p. Isabell. Edward Christoph. Some Lands in this Kirkeby belonging to Felley 25 Mar. 36 H. 8. were granted to William Berners and his heirs In the year 1612. Sir Charles Cavendish Sir Henry Pierpoint Knights Iames Fitz-Randolph Gent. and Iohn Newton Senior Thomas Newton Christopher Newton c. were owners William Newton son of Christopher or Laurence died this year 1673. without issue and left his brother Iohn his heir The Rectory of Kirkeby was 20l. when the Lord Conyers was Patron 'T is now 18l. 1s. 8d. value in the Kings Books and the Duke of Newcastle Patron and Clement Ellis the worthy Incumbent In the Chancel is England and France quartered And Azure three Cinquefoiles and Crusuly Arg. Darcy impaling Azure three Bars gemelles and a Chief Or Meinill And the Monument of William Coke of Trusley in Darbyshire and his two Wives the first the daughter of ... Aâ—sop in le dale the second the relict of Mr. Gilbert of Lockhagh In an high North Window in the Church Sable a Fesse between three Mullets Arg. quartering Paly of six Arg. and Or. And Arg. a Fesse Or between three Escallops Sable And Arg. two Bendletts engrailed Sable over them a Fesse Gules There is in the same Window the last Quartering the Fesse and Escallops and another in the third place broken away and in the fourth place the first of the former mentioned Coats viz. Sable a Fesse between three Mullets Arg. In a low Window in a Square Barry of four Arg. and Azure Sutton in Ashfeild AND Hucknall Huthwayt THis Sutune with Hochenale Houthweit and Skegeby were Berues of the Sok of Maunsfeild which was King Edward the Confessours Land and afterwards King William the Conquerours Gerard son of Walter de Sutton gave to God and the Church of St. Peter at Thurgarton two Bovats of Land with his Mother when she took the habit of Religion and the Church of the same Town his brother Robert being converted to Religion or dead Ranulph the Sheriff of Nottinghamshire confirmed it for the Soul of his Lord King Henry 2. Iordan de Snitterton Darbish had some yearly Rents by the Assignation of William de Ferrariis sometime Earl of Darby whereof there was an arrear which Robert de Marcham and Sarra his wife 42 H. 3. by Fine released to Robert son of Harvey viz. 40s. and so did Gerard de Sutton as in right of Alice sometimes his wife which Sarrah and Alice were daughters and heirs of the said Iordan Iordan son of Gerard de Sutton added some small parcels also to the Monastery of Thurgarton Sulton in Ashfield and Hucknall were a whole Villa and not Gildable being of the ancient Demesne of the Crown except the fourth part which Iordan of the same held of the King with the Advowson of the Church The Jury 16 E. 1. found that Iordan de Sutton held in Darbishire something in Snitterton of his own in Matloc Iboll Peuerwich of the Inheritance of Amicia his wife in this Sutton he held one Mess. and twelve Bovats of Land and two Bovats in Hothweit for which he paid 14s. per annum to the King and did Homage and Service and Suit to Maunsfeild Court from three weeks to three weeks and Suit in the Kings Army in Wales for forty daies with one Man Horse Haubergeon Cap of Iron Lance and Sword he held likewise ten Acres where the Mill used to be set in Sutton Sâ—hawe he had 24s. Rent in Sutton on Sore and Bonington and 60s. 6d. of the heirs of Sir Hugh de Capella 〈◊〉 Kirketon and Sereveton as in those places is said Iohn his son and heir was then above seventeen years of age About 33 E. 1. Iohn de Sutton died seised of this Mannor and the third part of Suitterton leaving Iohn his son and heir sixteen years old and more Iohn de Sutton 16 E. 2. had licence to alienate two parts of the Mannor of Sutton upon Ashefeild to Iohn his
William Barry claimed a Free Park in Teversale from ancient time and by the confirmation of King Henry the third William Barre of Tiveresholt gave to God and St. Mary and St. Thomas the Martyr c. of Beauchief one Bov. of Land in Demesne to be alwaies had and possessed with two Tofâ—s and Crofts c. in Stanley and pasture for three hundred Sheep whereof two hundred Ewes with their issue every year till the Feast of St. Botolph and pasture for twenty Cows and a Bull and eight Mares with the whole off-spring of both untill they were three years old and Pasture for sixteen Oxen c. as his men of the Sok of Tiversholt had The Witnesses were Richard Abbat of Wellebek Robert son of William de Alferton Ranulph his brother Iohn de Eincuria Robert Briton of Waleton Roger de Sidenhale William de Meinil Roger de Eincurth Raph son of Richard de Bramton Simon son of Hugh Richard son of William de Glapwell Robert de Briminton Hugh de Linacre and others William Barry of Tyversholt confirmed to the house of Beauchief pasture for four hundred Sheep and other gifts of his Ancestors c. the Witnesses were Iohn de Heriz Roger le Bret William his brothers Iohn Deynkurt Roger le Breton c. Sir William Barry son of Sir Raph Barry of Tiversand gave to Iohn Touke and Nicola his wife all that Land which Raph de Hereford sometime held of Sir Galfr. Barry in the Territory of Doovedale in the Fee of Tyversand The Witnesses Sir William de Chawyrthe Robert de Sutton Iames de Sutton Walter Touke William de Steynesby Knights Roger le Sauvage Roger de Somervile c. Robert de Newbold 21 E. 1. recovered Common of Pasture in forty Acres of Wood and waste in Tyvresholte against William Barry of the same Town By a Fine at York 31 E. 1. William Barry conveyed the Mannor of Teveresholt to Mr. William de Pykeringe Adam de Pikerings Rector of the Church of Wynesburgs 14 E. 2. settled the Mannor of Tyversalt on Thomas Barry and Isabell his wife and the heirs of their bodies excepting the third part which Elizabeth Mother of the said Thomas held in Dower c. The Witnesses were Robert de Pirepount Iohn de Annesley Knights Robert de Dogmarfeld Robert de Rodemortweyt c. Robert de Pykering Dean of St. Peters of Yorke brother and heir of Mr. William de Pykering 1328. released and confirmed to Thomas Barry Lord of Tyversolt and Isabell his wife and the heirs of their bodies certain Lands there Thomas Barry 16 E. 2. was found to hold the Mannor of Tevresalt of Iohn de Stoteville by the Service of a Knights Fee In the year 1337. Thomas Barre Lord of Tyversholtee passed this Mannor to Thomas son of the said Thomas and to Alice his wife Thomas Barry 22 E. 3. paid 40s. towards the Aid for making the Kings eldest son a Knight or Knights Fee which William de Pickering held sometime before in Teveresale The said Thomas Barry and Alice his wife 30 E. 3. had this Mannor Iohn de Gayteford Senior and Hugh de Cressy of Oulecotes 2 H. 4. settled the Mannor of Tiversalt which they had of the gift of Thomas Barre on him the said Thomas for life then to Agnes who had been wife of Thomas Barre son of the said Thomas for her life then to Iohn son of Thomas Barre the younger and the heirs of his body remainder to Isabell daughter of Thomas Barre the younger and the heirs of hers remainder to the right heirs of Thomas Barre the elder The Witnesses were Iohn Wastnays Lord of Hedon Robert de Barley Lord of Barley Iohn de Bevercotes Lord of Bevercotes Iohn de Greuley then Coroner William Selyok c. Peter de la Pole Esquire 12 H. 6. passed all the Lands and Tenements which he had in Tyversalt to Iohn Barre Esquire and Elizabeth his wife Christina Grenehalgh 9 E. 4. in her pure Widowhood demised to Iohn Flecher four Acres of Land lying in the Field of the Hill upon Cokeclyffe c. Iohn Williamson son and heir of William Willâ—amson late of Norton Cokeney 13 E. 4. released to Iohn Barry Lord of Teresholt Gentleman one Mess. in Dunsell nigh Teresholt called Pykering Feld sometime Thomas Hardwyks of Hoddeshok Hall Raph Grenalgh of Teverhalt Gentleman 23 H. 7. passed to Thomas Fitz-Herbert Doctor of the Decrees or Decretalls Iohn Fitz-Herbert of Norbury Esquire Raph Babington Clark Roland Babington Roger Eyre of Holme Esq Thomas Leek Senior Raph Frechwell and Anker Frechwell Gent. his Mannors of Tevershalt and Sutton in Ashfeild and other things in Claworth and Beykingham and Wormyll in Darbyshire c. for the marriage of Roger Grenealgh his son and heir apparent according to an Indenture between Thomas Babington of Dethik Esquire and Anne Leche widow on one part and him the said Raph Grenalgh on the other dated May 6. 23 H. 7. The Witnesses to this were William Babington Raph Grenalgh the younger Thomas Grenalgh Thomas Leek of Greyeves Lane Roger Grenhalghe of Tevershall Esquire 2 Decemb. 1562. 5 Eliz. made his Will wherein he appointed his body to be buried in the South I le of that Church near unto the Altar there and gave 60l. to be bestowed in alms-deeds and other expences the day of his Burial about his Funeral and 40l. in deeds of Charity the Months day after he gave to that Church of Tevershall 20l. and for mending the Hâ—gh-waies of Teversall 40l. and after Legacies to diverse Poor c. to all his friends that were at his burial each a black Gown and every Yeoman within his House a black Coat to his Cousin Francis Molineux and his Cousin Anne Nevill all his Plate c. Francis Molineux and Thomas Loods Clark he made his Executors and gave 50l. to purchase Lands for the Free School of Maunsfeld if there be one else for his heirs He gave Teversalt with Woodhouse Whetbarrow Dunshill Newâ—ould Stanley and Stanley Grange to Francis Molineux and Elizabeth his wife and the heirs of the body of Elizabeth remainder to Gervas Nevell son of Henry and to Anne his wife and the heirs of the body of Anne remainder to Richard Barry of Farnesfeld and the heirs of his body remainder to Iohn Barry and the heirs of his remainder to the right heirs of Roger Grenhalghe the other Lands he gave to Gerv. Nevell and the said Anne his wife with like remainders Sir Gervas Clifton he made over-seer of his Will with a Legacy of twenty Angels This Roger Grenehaugh mentioned in Sutton in Ashfeild died seized of that Mannor and this and Rowthorne in Darbyshire three Mess. in Tibeshelf and one in Hethe and some oâ—her Lands in both Counties Thomas his son and heir being dead before him Elizabeth the elder daughter of the said Thomas then aged twenty three years and wife of Francis Molineux
and Anne the younger then aged twenty one and wife of Gervase Nevill were the heirs of their Grandfather the said Roger Grenehalgh Esquire From this Elizabeth it is descended to Sir Francis Molyneux Baronet as in Hawton is shown who made it his principal Residence till of late that he left it to his son Iohn who married Lucie the daughter of Alexander Rigby and widow of Robert Hesketh of Lancashire by whom he hath three sons Francis Iohn and Thomas and diverse daughters now dwelling at this place Sir Francis having made Knéeton a fit habitation for himself where he continued my Neighbour It appears in 21 E. 1. that to the Prior of Felleys interest here Roger Brid added one Mess. and one Bovat and Richard Bryde one Bovat and Thomas de Clay c. of Tiversold as before may be better observed Roger Grenehalghe 7 Iun. 28 H. 8. had licence to alienate one Mess. in Whitbarrow in this Parish and several Closes therein and Bothweth Grange in Selston â—ate belonging to the Priory of Felley to George Grenehall Gent. hiâ— son and his heirs Males William Bolles Esquire 2 E. 6. had licence to alienate Stanley Grange in the Parish of Tevershall sometimes belonging to the Monastery of Beauchieff in Darbyshire to Roger Greenehalghe and his heirs who 2 Ian. 4 Eliz. had licence to alienate both Stanley Grange then in the holding of Richard Sherbrooke and the other Mess. and Lands and Closâ—s which belonged to Felley and had been lately held by Thomas Spencer or Thomas Greenhalgh to Francis Molyneux Esquire and Elizabeth his wife and the heirs of the body of the said Eâ—izabeth lawfully begotten Robert de Willughby and Iohn de Harecourt Lords of Plesley in Darbyshire 10 E. 2. who held also one Carucat of Land in the Sok of Maunsfeild held the Advowson of the Church of Tevyrsall of which with the Mannor of Plesley there was a Recovery suffered 9 H. 7. by Humfrey Peshale Esquire and Margaret his wife who called to warrant William Asteley Esquire whose Ancestor I suppose married the heir of ... Harcourt The Rectory of Tevershold was 7l. when Mr. Hastley and Mr. Leeke were Patrons 'T is now 9l. 19s. 9d. ob in the Kings Books and Sir Francis Molyneux Patron In Teversalt Church South I le East Window is Paly of six· Arg. and Azure on a Bend Gules three Scallops Or. Underneath are two raised Alabaster plain Tombs both close together and on the more Southerly Tomb is Orate pro animabus Rogeri Greenehalghe Armigeri Annae uxoris suae unius filiarum Thomae Babington de Dethick quae quidem Anna obiit xix die Junii Anno Domini 1538. Quâ—rum animabus propitietur Deus Amen And on the other Orate pro anima Rogeri Grenehalghe Armigeri Domini quondam istius villae qui quidem Rogerus obiit vicesimo tertio die mensis Januarii Anno Domini 1562. Cujus animae propitietur Deus Amen Memor esto quoniam mors non tardat quid superbis terra cinis On the top is also his Pourtraiture scored and filled with Lead and on the side three Hunters Horns stringed upon a Bend engrailed quartering Barry all which impales Babington Over the entrance into the Mansion House in the Stone-work is Barry which it seems at the building he used for his Paternal Coat impaling Babington Maunsfeild And Woodhouse And Nettleworth IN Maunesfeld King Edward the Confessour had a Mannor which paid to the Dane-geld for three Carucats and six Bovats The Land was then nine Carucats or Plow-lands King William the Conquerour had there two Car. or Plows in Demesne and five Sochmans on three Bovats of this Land and thirty five Villains twenty Bordars with nineteen Car. and an half one Mill one Piscary 21s. twenty four Acres of Medow Pasture Wood two leu long and two broad there were then two Churches and two Priests Schegeby and Sutun were Berues or Hamlets of this great Mannor the Sok whereof extended into Warsop Clune Carberton Clumber Buteby Turesby Thorp Scoteby Rounton Edenestowe Grymeston Echering Mapelbek Besthorp Carentune Schitinton Carenton Raneby Bodmescill It had likewise Soc in Wardebec Wapentak afterwards called Oswardebec Sok and Mannor being a great share of the further or Northerly part of Bersetlowe Wapentach these other already named being some in Broxtow and some in Thurgarton and Lée Hundreds as in their proper places may be seen William Rufus gave to the Church of S. Mary of Linc. and Rob. the Bishop of that Church for the Soul of his Father and of his Mother and his own the Church of Oschinton now Orston and the Church of Chestrefelt and the Church of Eseburn now Ashbourne in Darbyshire and the Church of Maunesfeld and the Chappels which are in the Berewies which lie to the said four Mannors with Lands and Tythes and all things which belonged to the said Churches in the time of King Edward this gift was made the day after that on which his Arch-bishop Anselme was made his Leige man Henry de Hastings held the whole Town of Maunsfeild with the Sok viz. Wudehus Sutton and Nettlewurd and received yearly of the Farm 32l. 3s. 10d. The King 6 E. 2. granted the Mannor of Maunsfeld with the Soke and Farm of Lindeby and Carleton Mill in this County the Mannor of Geytington in Northantss and Harewell in Barkshire to Iohn Comyn after the death of Iohn Comyn Earl of Boghan Iohn de Hastings 12 E. 2. prayed the King concerning the Mannors of Maunsfeld Oswoldbek and Leirton in this County which King Henry the third that Kings Grandfather gave to Henry de Hastings his great Grandfather and Ada his wife in the twenty second year of his Reign Oswardebek continued to that Noble Family of Hastings as in that place may be seen But Queen Isabell 3 E. 3. claimed the Mannor of Maunesfeld with the Soke belonging to it and therein view of Frank-pledge and emendation of the Assize of Bread and Ale broken Pillory Tumbrell Gallows Wrek Weyf and a Market every Thursday throughout the year At the same time Mr. Anthony de Bek Dean of Lincolne pleaded that he was Parson Persona personata in the Church of Maunesfeld as in right of his Deanery and that he had diverse Tenants belonging to his said Parsonage and that he and all his Predecessours Deans of Lincolne used to have Assise of Bread and Ale Richard de la Vache Knight 35 E. 3. is called Lord of Maunsfeld but it seems he held it but for life he had Rent of Assise here of the Freeholders 17l. 13s. 4d. and two Water-Mills worth 8l. per annum in the Town and one in Maunsfeld Woodhouse and another in Sutton members of this Mannor and 18d. Rent out of Carberton Water-Mill and the Perquisits of Maunsfeld Court then valued at x. Marks and he had likewise eight Marks six shillings and 8d. yearly Rent in Lindeby of the Tenants at Will
the Canons there serving God six shillings of Silver for a Toft and Bovat of Land which he held of them which were sometimes Raph the Priest's of Dukmanton His Deed bore date at Kirtelington the Thursday next after the Ascension 1297. where were present as witnesses Sir Thomas de Furnival W. de Cressy W. de Goushull R. de Furraus Knights S. de Bella aqua his brother or Cousin German H. de Fauconberg After Sir Iohn was Thomas de Bella aqua possibly his brother the last of the Lords of this Mannor of this name was Iohn de Bella aqua whom for want of better light I must suppose son of Thomas Sir Iohn Annesley Knight and Robert Annesley Parson of the Church of Holme were seized of the Mannor of Bolton upon Derne in Yorkshire and the 18 E. 3. gave it to Iohn de Bella aqua and Isabell his wife and the heirs of their bodies on whom this Mannor was also settled by Fine 20 E. 3. and 11 H. 4. was an execution of it and several times after They had a daughter Lucia their heir married to Iohn Burgh who left Thomas and he Iohn upon whose seal is a fesse Dancè and on Katherin his wives impaled with that a fesse dancy between six escallops 5 R. 2. whose daughter and heir Margaret was wife of Sir Iohn Zouch Knight son of William Lord Zouch of Totnes and after of Sir Iohn Lowdham Knight by whom she had no issue but by her first husband left a daughter and heir Elizabeth married to Nicolas Bowett o◠Ripinghall who left two daughters Elizabeth wife of Sir William Chaworth and Margaret of his brother Iohn Chaworth whom the said Margaret wife of Sir Iohn Lowdham and formerly of Sir Iohn Zouch about 29 H. 6. left her heirs but each of them having a son Thomas Chaworth who both of them dyed without issue the said Elizabeth wife of Sir Wil Chaworth had a son by her second husband Iohn the son of Robert Dunham called Sir Iohn Dunham Knight who became inheritor of this Lordship after her death which was 20 Mar. 17 H. 7. he the said Sir Iohn Dunham being at the time of the taking the Inquisition viz. 18 H. 7. about 28. years of age He died 9 Sept. 30 H. 8. and by his first wife Iane daughter of Thomas Thurland of Gameleston had a son who died young and four daughters who became his heirs his second wife was Benett the daughter of Sir Godfr Folejambe The principal Mannor here was allotted to Fr. the wife of Iohn Hasilwood Esquire whose Grand-child sold it to Iohn More Doctor of Physick I find that Iohn Dunham Esquire 3 H. 8. suffered a recovery of the Mannors of Kirtlington and Rughagh and great quantities of Land in Kirtlington Rughagh Hockerton Halam Edingley Osmundthorpe Normanton Middlethorp Cawnton Harlesey Kyrsall Darleton Drayton Dunham Ragenhull and Wymton and called to warrant Iohn Dunham Knight Another small Mannor here which Sir Iohn Dunham bought in was alloted to Katherine another of the four daughters of Sir Iohn Dunham first married to Raph Okeover of Okeover Esquire and after to Henry Leigh of Rushall Esquire and was by Edward her son and heir afterwards Sir Edward Leigh sold to Sir Edward Stanhope Knight the Surveyer who also purchased the Park of Kirtlington called Belleu Parke so that this small Mannor together with the Park was sold by Sir Edward Stanhope of Grimston his son to the right Honourable the Earl of Kingston who sold the Mannor to the said Doctor More but left the Park to his son and heir the Right Honourable the Marquess of Dorchester and now all Kirtlington except the said Park is the inheritance of Iohn More son and heir of Iohn More brother of Sir Edw. More a Scotch Baronet Nephew and heir to the Doctor which Sir Edw. having only daughters 4. I think the said Iohn his brother succeeded by the settlement of his Uncle the said Doctor and hath made a very fair Park into which he hath taken part of Hockerton Lordship whereof he was also Proprietor which he left well stored with Deer to his said son Iohn who had married ....... Constable sister to the Earl of Dunbarr Raph son of Simon by the assent of Agnes his wife quit-claimed from him and his heirs Paulin son of Roger son of Cuthing of Kirtlington with all his Sect to St. Peter of Thurgarton and the Canons there serving God for which the said Canons gave him fifteen shillings of Silver There was a Mannor in this Town held by the family of Pigot Sir Hugh Pigot had a daughter and heir it seems called Isabell married to the first Sir Robert Sutton of Averham with whose posterity it continued long but he had a wife named Alice as in that place may be noted There were two Fines levied 22 H. 6. one between Thomas Chaworth Knight Quer. and Thomas Curson Esquire and Margaret his wife Deforcients and the other between the said Sir Thomas Chaworth Knight Querent and Richard Sutton Esquire and Katherin his wife Deforcients of the Rent of a pound of Pepper in Hardeby and of the Mannor of Kirtelington called Pigot Hall with the Appurtenances except seven Mess. one Toft two hundred Acres of Land forty of Medow ten of Pasture and twenty of Wood with the Appurtenances in the same Town of Hardeby and North-clifton in the same Mannor They granted besides the said Rent and Mannor to the said Sir Thomas Chaworth and his heirs the Homages and Services which Sir Iohn Pigot Knight and his heirs ought them for all the Tenements which he held of them in Herdeby William Sallowe died seized of Lands here about 12 H. 4. which seem to have been the inheritance of some younger branch of the Family of Bella aqua Thomas Flaxley 11 H. 4. had some concern in the conveying these Lands as appears by an Inquisition Ad quod Damnum George Sallowe succeeded in them who is called of Staunton by Sandiacre and had one Thomasia to wife he died 5 H. 5. leaving his daughter and heir Agnes the Mannor of Allesworth and this in Kirtelington Halom Osmundthorpe Normanton Eddingly and Hockerton Agnes Marmion about 3 E. 4. left this Mannor and Allesworth and the Mannor of Lamcote by Radcliff to Agnes the wife of Thomas Pilkington then above twenty six years of age In Kirtlington about the year 1612. the owners were Maryon Hasselwood Esquire Sir Edward Stanhope Knight Richard Eyre Widow Longman Laurence Leak of Osmundthorpe William Leek of Normanton Gentleman George Cartwright of the same Gentleman c. The Vicarage of Kirtlington is 6l. 13s. 4d. in the Kings books Rolleston THe Book of Doomsday shows that in the beginning of the Norman Government Rolleston contained three Mannors each belonging to a several Lord. One was then of Thomas the Arch-bishop of Yorkes Fee where Aluric had for his Mannor four
Kirtlington is noted by whom he left issue Sir Iames Sutton Knight and died 1286. Which Sir Iames married Agnes daughter and heir of Sir Iohn Barâ—y of Torlaston and died 1304. leaving Richard Sutton his son who married Alice daughter and heir of Sir Richard Bingham of Bingham the elder Knight and died 1339. who left Iohn Sutton his son and heir who married Ioane daughter and heir of Henry Musters of Sierston by whom he had Rowland Sutton his son and heir and died 1â—69 I suppose he had no Children that continued to succeed by her as in Syerston is noted And I something doubt concerning some of the rest of the heirs yet forasmuch as this Genealogical Scheme comes as near the truth as the most I have seen I shall follow it with such notes as have occured pertinent to insert By a Fine levied at York 30 E. 1. between Iames de Sutton and Agnes his wife Quer. and Hugh Barry Parson of the Church of Rotyngton Deforc. the Mannor of Egrum was settled on the said Iames and Agnes for life remainder to Richard their son and the heirs of his body remainder to Robert brother of Richard and the heirs of his remainder to the right heirs of Iames on the back of which Fine many persons put to their several claims Adam de Kelesholt his Iohn de Bray and Cecily his wife Thomas de Longevylers and Ioane Margery and Elizabeth daughters of Agnes de S. Cruce theirs Hugh Huse his William son of Richard son of Robert de Kelum his William son of Adam de Kelum his Thomas de Roldeston Thomas de Charwalton Robert son of Iohn le Clerk of Kelum theirs Richard de Sutton son of Agnes who had been the wife of Iames de Sutton Knight was 19 E. 2. found her heir and above thirty years old King Edward the third at Clipston 20 Apr. 9 E. 3. granted to Richard de Sutton of Averham that he during his whole life should not Robertus de Laxton Richardus de Laxton-Matildis Rolandus de Sutton -Alicia 2 Robertus de Sutton mil. ob 1286. Jac. de Sutton ob 1304 -Agnes fil haer Joh. Barry Richardus de Sutton ob 1339 -Alicia fil haer Ric. de Bingham senioris Johannes de Sutton ob 1369 -Joana 10 E. 3. fil Hen. Musters .... Rolandus de Sutton ob 1397 -Kath fil Hen. Hasty mil. Henric. Sutton de Averham ob 1416 -Margareta fil Hug. Hussy de Flintham mil. Richardus Sutton ob 1468 -Kath fil ..... Fitz-Williams de Aldewark Robert Sutton ob 1500 -Eliz fil Tho. Stanley-Isabel fil Tho. Burgh mil. Gart. Henr. Sutton ob ante patrem-Aliela fil Nicolai Byron de Colwyck mil. Thom. Sutton mil. ob 1526 -Kath fil Tho. Bassett de Fledburgh Henr. Sutton mil. -Alicia fil Franc. Hall de Grantham .... Domina Pierpont s. p. Will-Sutton-Anna fil Joh. Rodney Willielmus Sutton miles-Susanna fil Tho. Cony de Basingthorpe Com. Linc. Rob. Sutton Ar. creat Baron Lexington-Eliz fil Geo. Manners-Anna fil Guid. Palmes mil. de Averham 21 Car. 1. ob 1668. Oct. 13. de Haddon mil. s. p. relict Tho. Brown Bar. -Maria fil Ant. St. Leger mil. ob 1669. Rob. Dom. Lexington aet 12. 1674. Brigitta aet 11. 1674. .... Daâ—ey Anna ob infans Henr. Sutton-Mabil Faunt fil Henrie -Edw Manesty mar 2. Willielmus Gerv. Rob. Sutton-Kath Shitburne Rob. Ric. Ric. Sutton ... Stanhope Rob. Sutton .... Rawson Nic. Edm. Joh. Edw. fil haer Oliva fil Will. Cooper s. p. Alicia fil Hen. Harington Joh. Edm. Harington Marc. Henr. Robertus 30 E. 1. Isabella fil cohaer Hug. Picor ux 2. Alicia ux 1. Rich de Sutton Can. de Southwell 1260. Johanes Rector de Lexington 1259. 1. Will. de Sutton miles-Matildis Robertus de Sutton-Joana relict 2. E. 1. Ric. de Sutton Johan de Sutton 16 E. 2 -Margareta fil cohaer Joh. de Somery Dom. de Dudley Johannes de Sutton Dom. Dudley Joh. de Sutton Dom. Dudley Johannes Dom. Dudley Johannes Dom. Dudley 8 E. 4. Rob. de Lexington Baro. Joh. de Lexington-Cust Sig. H. 3. Hen. Decanus Episc. Line Steph. Petrus Cecilia-Ric de Marcham potius Willielm Robertus de Marcham Richardus s. p. be compelled to take up Arms against his will Iohn de Averham 21 E. 3. was found to hold Lands in Averham only whom the Collectors charged with the payment of 6l. for three Knights Fees of Iohn de Moubray viz. in Averham Kellum and Crumbwell one in Sterthorpe Winkeburne and Deynthorp one and in Alkeley and Finningley one and therefore was only to pay his proportion for the Land he held The Jury 50 E. 3. found that Iohn de Sutton of Averham died 44 E. 3. and left his son and heir Rouland de Sutton twenty one years of age by some other wife I guess than the heir of Musters as in the fore-named Scheme which makes this Rouland marry Katherine daughter of Sir Henry Hasty Knight and by her 1397. leave a son and heir called Henry Sutton who married Margaret daughter of Sir Hugh Hussey of Flintham and died 1416. having Richard Sutton his son and heir who lived long and married Katherine daughter of .... Fitz-Williams of Aldewark by whom 1468. he left Robert Sutton his son to succeed him who married Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Stanley of Pype by whom he had a son Henry Sutton who died before him the said Robert who lived till 1500. Sir Thomas Burgh Knight of the Garter gave a Legacy 18 Febr. 1495. to Isabell Burgh wife of Robert Sutton of Averham This Henry Sutton by Alice his wife daughter of Sir Nicolas Byron of Colwick left a son who was Sir Thomas Sutton who died 1526. and by Katherine his Lady daughter of Sir Thomas Basset of Fledborough was Father of Sir Henry Sutton I find Thomas Sutton of Averham Esquire 12 R. 2. and that Henry Sutton of Averham Esquire 14 H. 4. was the son of Iohn Iohn son of Robert de Willughby late Lord of Cresby and Katherine his wife 4 H. 5. granted to Henry de Sutton and others all his Lands c. in Averham together with the Mannors of Kyrtelington Clifton Herdeby and Kelum Sir Henry Sutton had three Wives first Alice daughter of Francis Hall of Grantham second the Lady Pierpont by whom he had no issue and the third Alice daughter of Sir Henry Harington Knight the relict of ... Flower by her he had Iohn Sutton and four sons more Marc Edmund Henry and Harington and a daughter named Anne first wife of Walter Haddon Master of Requests and then of Henry Cobham brother of William Lord Cobham by his first wife Alice he had Edward Sutton his eldest son who married Oliva the daughter of William Cooper of Thurgarton without issue his second son and afterwards his heir was William Sutton who had to wife Anne daughter of Iohn Rodney of Buckwell in Somersetshire by whom he had Sir William Sutton of Averham Knight and
three sons more Nicolas Edmund Iohn and three daughters Iane Elizabeth Olive Sir William married Susan daughter of Thomas Cony of Basingthorpe in Lincolneshire on whom he begot Robert Sutton Esquire and three sons and four daughters more Richard Henry Gervas Alice Susan Elizabeth Mary Robert to his first wife had Elizabeth daughter of Sir George Manners of Haddon in Darbyshire sister to Iohn now Earl of Rutland his second was Anne daughter of Sir Guy Palmes and widow of Sir Thomas Browne of Walcott in Northamptonshire Baronet by whom she had two daughters Elizabeth and Anne widow of .... Lord Pawlett since married to ... Stroud his third was Mary daughter of Sir Anthony S. Leger Warden of the Kings Mint by whom only he left issue Robert Bridgett and Anne born after his death which was Oct. 13. 1668. his Lady died at Paris Sept. 1669. from whence she was brought and laid by him at Averham Sept. 25. 1669. He very much increased his Patrimony ever kept a plentiful sober House and was much out of purse for King Charles the first who created him Lord Lexington of Averham 21 C. 1. Richard Sutton his brother married .... Stanhope half sister of Philip first Earl of Chesterfeild and had a son Robert Sutton who was Captain of a Troop of Horse which he carried into Portugall he died without issue Male. Henry Sulton next brother of the Lord Lexington married Mabel daughter of Henry Faunt and hath several sons Robert William Gervas Robert married Katherine Shirbourne and hath issue Robert and Richard The Rectory of Averham was 16l. But is now 20l. in the Kings Books and the Lord Lexington is Patron as his Ancestors the Suttons have been In the Church upon a small Monumental Stone ......... obiit vi Kal. Octobr. Ao. Dom. mo. ccco. viio. Upon a fair Tomb M. S. Illustrissimo D o Gulielmo Sutton de Averham Equiti Aurato Generis nobilitate virtutum dotibus ornatissimo Qui post annos xxvii cum conjuge amantissim◠peractos octo filiorum totidemque filiarum pater factus Deo dilectus patriae charissimus suis desideratissimus citâ nec improvisà morte obiit in Christo Anno Dom. MDCXI aetatis suae LII D. Susanna conjux Moestissima Officii peitatis ergo P. Siste morae nec te pigeat nisi nosse recuses Quo juvet exemplo vivere quove mori Vive Deo patrie vicinis conjugi amicis Charus quoque ortus sanguine vive memor Et quocunque vocet fati Deus impiger ito Alea ceu vitae jacta suprema foret His titulis surgit lapis hic sic vixit obitque Suttonus quali carmine dignus Eques Sir William Suttons Corps here Toombed sleepes Whose happy Soul in better mansion keepes Thrice nine yeares liv'd he with his Lady faire A lovely noble and like virtuous payre Their generous of-spring Parents joy of heart Eight of each sex of each an equall part Usher'd to Heaven their Father and the other Remain'd behind him to attend their Mother On the out-side of the Steeple there is cut in Stone Sir Thomas Suttons Arms which was Arg. a Canton Sable and his Ladies viz. 3. Piles a Canton Varry which was Bassets of Fledborough nigh which was T. S. and two Tuns Kelham Kelum Doomsd. Calune And Parke Lathes THis place the Book of Doomsday shows to have been of several Seigniories the most considerable was of the Fee of Roger de Busli where in Lyde Wapentac before the Conquest Turchill and Godric are said to have had in Calun ten Bov. ⅓ ad Geld. for two Mannors The Land whereof was three Car. There afterwards Turold the man or Tenant of Roger had one Car. and seven Sochm. on five Bov. of this Land and three Vill. and three Bordars having two Car. ½ There were twenty two Acres of Medow small wood sixteen qu. long and seventy four Virg. broad In King Edward the Confessours time this was valued at 60s. in King Williams at 28s. Another great parcel of this Township was of the Fee of Walter de Ayncurt and Soc to Rolleston which answered the Geld or Tax for nine Bovats and one third of a Bov. The Land being two Car. and an half There eighteen Sochm. and three Bord. had seven Car. and an half and sixteen Acres of Medow small wood nine qu. long fifty Virg. or rods broad Another part was of the Fee of Raph de Buron where Osmund before the Norman invasion paid to the Geld as two Bov. ⅓ for his Mannor There William the Man or Tenant of Raph had one Car. and two Bordars with two Oxen plowing and nine Acres of Medow small wood eight qu. long twelve Virg. broad In the Confessours time this was 4s. in the Conquerours 15s. value Another parcel in Calum was of the Fee of Gislebert Tysun which before the Conquest was Alurics who had two Bov. ad Geld. for his Mannor The Land whereof was six Bovats There were two Sochm. one Bord. with half a Car. and six Acres of Medow small wood eight qu. long fourteen Virg. broad In the Confessours time 16s. value at the time of the Conquerours survey 3s. Another parcel was of the Land of the Taynes which Vlchell before the Conquest had his Mannor being then rated to the Geld at one Bov. and two thirds of a Bovat The Land six Bovats There Aldene progenitor of the family of Crumwelle afterwards had two Vill. two Bord. with one Car. and six Acres of Medow small wood eight quarters long and eight Virgats broad In the Confessours time 20s. value in the Conquerours 10s. That of Roger de Buslies Fee Lord of the Honour of Tikhill was held by Gilbert de Chelum whose gift to the Priory of Rufford King Stephen confirmed and William de Tulc or Tuk who for five Marks sold his in the presence and by the consent of Raph Silvain his Lord who also confirmed to the brethren of Rufford all that Land of the Fee of Tikhill which Gilbert de Kelum and William de Tulc held of him in the territory of Kelum from the west side of Buggewonge and that also tilled and untilled unto the bounds of Wyncheburne c. VVilliam del Tulc son of VVilliam del Tulc confirmed the fore-mentioned Land which his father gave in which the Sheep-house or Lathe Bercaria of the Monks was scituate which I take to be the original of Parkelathes a Grange or Hamlet in this Lordship belonging to that Monastery which was made up by the Gifts of many several persons VVilliam Tuke son of VVilliam Tuke of Kelum gave twenty four Acres of his Demesne measured by the Perch of sixteen foot lying between the Wong which Malger de Rolleston gave the said Monks and five Bovats which Malger de Staunton bestowed on them which twenty four Acres stretch from the west into the east viz. from Souhtwell way which is the bound between the fields of Wynkeburne and Kelum unto the wood
and Cecily his wife the Mannor of Kyrneshall alias Cressall with the Appurtenances also four Mess. two hundred Acres of Land one hundred of Medow one hundred of Pasture forty of Wood one hundred of More and 8s. 8d. Rent in Kyrneshale Richard Bevercotes Gent. died 8 Ian. 38 H. 8. seized of the Mannor of Kyrsall held of the Mannor of Allerton Alice wife of Thomas Massingberd was his daughter and heir In another recovery 12 Eliz. William Mason and William Oglethorp claimed against Bryan Burkytt one Mess. six Tofts two Barns one Garden two Orchards one hundred Acres of Land thirty of Medow ten of Pasture four of Wood forty of More and 4s. 4d. Rent with the Appurtenances in Knéesall Kyrkesall alias Kyrsall and Malabecke alias Maplebeck who called to warrant Richard Whyting Gent. and Stephen Broun Gent. and Elizabeth his wife Part of the Hamlet was a Grange parcel of the possession of the Abby of Rufford and granted therewith to the Earl of Shrowsbury the residue hath the reputation of a small Mannor and hath been a long time the inheritance of .... Robertson and his ancestors until lately that by the death of Iohn Robertson the last heir Male of that family it fell to the share of ... Garnon his Nephew and one of his heirs who hath sithence sold it Calneston Caunton cum Bestorp Erleshagh And Deane Hall PArt of Calneston was Soc to Nortwell of the Fee of the Arch-bishop of York which is certified to be two Bov. ad Geldam The Land four Bov. There one Sochm. and five Bord. had one Car. and an half and two Acres of Medow Pasture Wood three qu. long and two broad Another part was Soc to Laxington of the Fee of Goistrid Alselin and answered the publick Tax or Geld for six Bov. The Land being three Car. There eight Sochm. ten Bord. had five Car. There was a Mill 2s. and eight Acres of Medow Pasture wood one Leuc. long four qu. broad Besthorp likewise another Hamlet was part of the Kings ancient Demesne viz. two Bov. Soc to Maunsfeld and also Soc to Grimscon a kind of a Berne of Maunsfeld Of this there were four Bov. ad Geld. The Land one Car. There four Sochm. two Bord. had two Car. and twenty Acres of Pasture wood Another part of this Besthorp was Soc to Laxington which answered the Geld for two Bov. The Land being half a Car. There one Sochm. and one Bord. had half a Car. and half an Acre of Medow Hugh Bardolf 7 R. 1. accounted for 28s. 4d. of the issues of Caunton which was Nicolas de Aiviles for the half year Thomas de Muschamp held in North-Muschamp and Calneton one Knights Fee of the Honour of Robert de Everingham the successour of Goisfrid de Alselin as in Lexington will be noted This Fee came afterwards to Robert de Calneton and the Prior of Newstede and others they were to pay their shares of the aid 22 E. 3. to make the Kings eldest son a Knight Iohn de Eyvill in the 16 E. 2. granted to Thomas de Longvylers Knight the homage and forreign service of Richard de Herthill of Calneton and his heirs and of Robert de Calneton and his and of William Barry and his which Nicolas de Eyvill Knight sometimes held of the said Iohn for the third part of a Knights Fee for which Richard de Hertill and Robert de Caunton and Elizabeth sometime wife of William Barry paid yearly a mark viz. each of them 4s. 5d. and ⅓ of a Penny The Jury 22 E. 8. found that Robert de Calneton Richard Herthill and Thomas Barry held in Calneton the third part of the whole Knights Fee of Muscham By a Fine 10 H. 4. between Iohn son of Thomas Barry of Teresalt and Elizabeth his wife Quer. and Robert de Whittington and Agnes his wife Deforcients the third part of the Mannor of Caunton with the Appurtenances was settled on the said Iohn and Elizabeth and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of Iohn Robert Blyton 7 H. 6. was found to be son and heir of Robert Blyton of Ledenham in the County of Lincolne who held a Mess. and some parcel of Land in Newark and was resident at Caunton and above thirty years old at the taking that Inquisition after his said Fathers death In a recovery 9 Eliz. Brian Birkett and George Anderson claimed against William Whitmore Gent. the Mannor of Caunton with the Appurtenances and two Mess. two Cotag. three Tofts one Wind-mill five Gardens one hundred and forty Acres of Land twenty of Medow twenty of Pasture sixteen of Wood and 8s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Caunton Middlethorp Harlesey and Norwell who called to warrant Robert Markeham Esquire named in Maplebecke The principal Mannor or Capital Messuage was .... Whitmores and by the marriage of the heir of .... Whitmore not long since came to the family of the Bromes whose Grand-child Thomas Brome of Carcolston sold it to Mr. Richard Hacker of Flintham and his son Iohn Hacker hath lately sold it to Sir Francis Willoughby Lord of Wollaton or his son Francis since deceased Another ancient Capital Mess. and a good Demesne thereunto belonging was lately Warins inheritance That of the Arch-bishops Fee may be supposed chiefly to belong to the Prebend of North-Muskham in the Church of Southwell Here were very many several parcels in Besthorp Caunton and Erleshagis given to the Monastery of Rufford by sundry persons in the former part of the Reign of H. 3. as Hugh son of Richard son of Kyre de Calnathon three Acres of his fathers gift and two of his own Thomas de Muschamp son of Thomas de Muschamp released 6s. of yearly Rent which the Monks were wont to pay for the Land which they had of the gift of William son of William de Besthorp in Besthorpe of his Fee The same Thomas confirmed a Wong in the territory of Herleshawe lying between the Land of Nic. Lupus and Wil. Redhyve Eda daughter of Wil. son of Wil. de Besthorp gave the Land which her Father gave her of the Fee of Roger de Ayncurt of Knapthorp which the said Roger also confirmed Thomas de Bella aqua for the Soul of Alice his wife confirmed an Acre in the fields of Erleshawe which they had of the gift of Hugh son of William de Calneton lying by the Land of Iohn de Erleshawe that which was Roberts son of Richard de Mydilthorp In the year 1260. Nicolas Lupus son of William Lupus gave all his Land in Besthorpe and all he held of the said Monks which was confirmed by Hugh Fitz-Raph Nicolas Dayvill gave certain parcels four Selions and an half and one Gore of Arable Land in Calneton to the said Monastery Anno 1250. William son of William de Besthorpe and Mary his wife released the third part of his Land in Besthorpe which was assigned to his said wife for dower on
in Notess of which about 16 E. 2. he left Roger Deyncourt his heir then above thirty years old but it seems he had another son named William who was after Lord Deyncourt as in Granby may be noted By a Fine 18 E. 2. between Roger Deyncourt and Matilda his wife Quer. and Elena daughter of Iohn Deyncourt Deforc. the Mannor of Knapthorp with the Appurtenances and fifty Acres of Land and the third part of a Meff in Erleshagh were settled on Roger and Maud and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of Roger who claimed free-warren and Infangthef here 3 E. 3. This Roger had two daughters and heirs Alice the wife of Nicolas son of Sir Nicolas de Langford in Darbyshire who by her had Nicolas and William and Ioane his other daughter and heir who was the wife of Sir Robert Nevile Lord of Scotton in Lincolneshire who by her had Sir Philip Nevile who on Sara his wife begot a daughter and heir named Maud married to Sir Iohn Bussy Knight By a Fine 6 R. 2. the moyety of the Mannor of Knapthorp was settled on Iohn Bussy and Maud his wife and the heirs of their bodies with remainder over to the right heirs of Iohn This Iohn was beheaded at Bristow 1 H. 4. Iohn Bussey Esquire son of Iohn Bussey Knight 28. H. 6. ratified c. to Agnes Sutton daughter of Hamon de Sutton late wife of the said Iohn Bussy Esquire Iohn Viscount Beaumont and others his whole estate in the Mannor of Parkehall and in Lands there and in North Wynfeld Pillesly Stretton Asshover Bramton Chesterfeld Hasland Braylesford Tapton and Skeggeby and in the Lands in Knapthorpe excepting the Advowsons of the Churches of North Wynfeld and Marton There have been recoverâ—es of this moyety of the Mannor of Knapthorp Thomas Archer 11 H. 7. claimed against Iohn Bussy Knight and Edward Bussy the moyety of the Mannor of Knapthorpe and one hundred Acres of Land sixty of Medow one hundred of Pasture sixty of Wood and 20s. Rent in Knapthorp and Barneby and the same term the same Thomas Archer claimed the same parcels against Iohn Bussy the younger Knight and Edward Bussy and 16 H. 7. Reginald Gayton and Thomas Archer offer'd themselves against Edmund Bussy and Alice his wife concerning the same parcels Richard William and Iohn Gresham and Thomas Gresham Clark in 22 H. 8. claimed against Iohn Bussy Esquire the Mannors of Knapthorp Balderton Codington and Barneve with â—he Appurtenances c. Iohn Brende and William Layton 4 E. 6. claimeâ— against William Paget Knight of the Garter Lord Paget of Beaudesert and Richard Cowper Gent. the Mannors of Balderton and Knapthorp c. Thomas Forster and William Parke 3 and 4 Ph. and Mar. claimed against Anthony Forster the Mannors of Balderton and Knapthorp c. with the Appurtenances in those two places and in Codington Barneby Farndon Stoke Elton Syresson Rolleston and Holme who called Christopher Alyn Knight William Mason and Andrew Hatchett 7 Eliz. claimed against Robert Constable and Christian his wife the Mannor of Knapthorpe c. who called Gyles Forster named in Balderton The fore-named Nicolas de Longford by Alice his said wife the co-heir of Roger Deyncourt had for his heir his son Nicolas de Langford who married Margaret one of the daughters and Co-heirs of Edmund Apelby Knight and Agnes his wife one of the Sisters and Coheirs of Sir Iohn Sulney by whom he had Sir Nicholas Henry and Raph Longford and Alured Parson of Langford This latter Sir Nicolas married Ioane daughter of ... Warren and had Raph Langford Knight the husband of Margaret daughter of .... Melton and father of Sir Raph Langford who had to wife Isabell daughter of Sir Thomas Ferrers of Tamworth and who had Sir Nicolas without issue and Sir Raph Langford whose son Nicolas Langford the husband of Margaret daughter of Sir Edmund Trafford died before him leaving behind him a son who was Sir Raph Langford and married to Dorothy daughter of Sir Anthony Fitz-Herbert the Chief Justice Margaret this last Raphs mother was afterwards married to Thomas Gerard and Sir Iohn Porte Nicolas Langford his son had three wives Elizabeth daughter of Raph-Okeover Martha of Sir Robert Southwell and Margaret of Thomas Markham of Allerton This descent of the family of Langford was esteemed very correct which made me insert it howbeit I do not find that Anthony Fitz-Herbert was ever Chief Justice and therefore I doubt there may happen some other mistakes By an Inquisition taken 15 Iune 5 H. 8. after the death of Sir Raph Langeford Knight it appears that he by his Deed dated 14 Ian. 2 H. 8. did enfeoffe Anthony Fitz-Herbert Sergeant at Law by Covin and deceit between him the said Sir Raph and Galfr. Bishop of Coventry and Lichfeild to defraud the King of the Custody of divers Mannors in Derby Nott. and Lincolne-shires of which he otherwise had died seized viz. in Derbss the moyety of the Mannors of Kinwaldmersh and Hathersege divided between this family and that of Gousil as in Hoveringham is noted the Mannors of Langford Malmerton and Bubinton which with several others came to this family by the elder daughter and co-heir of Raph son of Ertald and were parcel of the purpart of Oliver son of Nigellus ancestor of it who 9 R. 1. enrolled the division made between him and Iohn Salicheverel in the Exchequer the moyety of the Mannors of Newton Sulney Norton North Wynfeild Pillesley Barleburgh Whitwell Cressewell Normanton Pinkeston Blakwell Wingerworth Dukmanton Boythorp Brampton Calton and Edynsore and Lands in Hasland and Assheover likewise Lands in Basford in this County and Knapthorp which Nicolas de Langeford senior Knight gave to Raph Langford Gent. and the heirs of his body remainder to himself the said Nic. and his heirs after whose death the reversion of the said Lands in Knapthorp descended to this Sir Raph Langford as son and heir of the said Sir Nicolas the elder which Sir Raph died 1 Febr. then last past and Raph Langford his Grandchild son of his son Nicolas was found his heir and four years old This Mannor at least Bussyes part came to Sutton the great Merchant of the Staple aâ— Lincolne in the time of H. 7. Ambrose Sutton the great waster of that house sold the reversion of it with the rest of the joynture of his mother to William Thorold Esquire of Marston in Lincolneshire father of Sir Anthony Thorold and great Grandfather of Sir William Thorold that now is of Marston Knapthorp was in our times sold by Sir Iohn Thorold Sir Anthonies younger son to Sir Ioh. Thorney Sir Francis Thorney's father and is now the inheritance of Iohn Thorney Esquire son of Francis son of Sir Francis as I take it South Muskam And South Carleton IN Muscham and Carletun a Mannor belonging to St. Mary of Sudwell before the Conquest answered the publick
Broome George deceased Thomas Christian William and Elizabeth deceased William Iohn Elizabeth and Hugh and deceased the last of December in the year of our Lord 1602. He was Sonn and heire of George Cartwright and of Dorothy sole heire of William Molineux The aforesaid Grace departed this life the 20 day of March in the year of our Lord 1633. At the vpper end of the Chancell on the North side at Ossington A PROSPECT OF OSSINGTON HOUSE FROM THE FEILD ON THE WEST SIDE AS IT now is some part haveing beene ruined in the late rebellious warr Sutton upon Trent IN Sudton of Roger de Buslies Fee there was Soc to Gresthorpe one Bov. ad Geld. but the Sok was waste There was six Acres of Medow and some was Soc to Scacheby one Bov. ad Geld. the Land half a Car. There one Sochm. had one Car. Before the Conquest William son of Scelward had a Mannor in Sudton which was chargeable to the publick Taxation of that time for two Car. and six Bovats The Land was five Car. This afterwards was given to Earl Alan of Richmond whose Man or Tenant there called Herveius had two Car. or Plows thirteen Sochm. on the moyety of this Land and seventeen Villains three Bordars having eight plows or Carucats There was a Priest and a Church and three Fishings and one hundred Acres of Medow Pasture Wood one leu long half a leu broad This kept the ancient value 4l. The Posterity of this Hervey took their Sirname from this place as it is very probable because the next owner I have had any notice of was of that name Hervey de Sutton and Robert his Man 22 H. 2. gave account of five Marks of the Amercements of the Forest. Hervey de Sutton and his heir Robert gave to the Canons of Radeford near Wirksop the Church of Sutton and the right of Patronage thereof and whatsoever other right they had therein And there was a Fine levied at Nottingham 20 H. 3. between Walter Prior of Wirksop and Richard de Sutton of the said Advowson whereby it was declared to be the right of the said Prior as that which he had of the gift of Hervey de Sutton Father of the said Richard whose heir he then was his elder brother Robert Herveius homo Comitis Alani tenuit Sutton 14 W. 1. ........ .......... Herveius de Sutton 22 H. 2. Richardus de Sutton haer 20 H. 3. Agnes-Gilb de Muscamp Adam de Muscamp Johannes de Sutton Steph. de Coverham-Marger Steph. de Coverham Alicia Guichard de Charrons-Maria Guichardus de Charron-Alicia 3 E. 2. Bertram Mounboucher 3 E. 3 -Joana 3 E. 2. Bertram Mounboucher ob 12 R. 2. Chr. -Isabel fil Ric. Willoughby mil. -Christ sor Joh. de Woderington Chr. ux 2. Bertram Mounboucher ob 1 H. 4. Bertr Mounboucher ob 2 H. 5. Bertram Mounbocher ob 4 H. 6. s. p. Henr. Heton Chr. -Isabella-Robertus Herbotell mar 2. Robertus Herbotell ob 22 H. 6. Bertram Harbotill ob 2 E. 4. Robertus Herbotell aet 9. 2 E. 4 -Richard Harbotel mil. -Jana fil Hen. Willoughby mil. de Wollaton Georgius Harbotell 20 H. 8. Alianora-Thom Percy Maria-Edward Fitton Edward Fitton miles Georgius Anthonius Steph. de Charron 34 E. 1. ... Faber-Eliz Willelmus de Caunton Johan Joh. Robertus fil haer ob ultra mare ante patrem s. p. Rolandus de Sutton-Alicia sor cohaer Rob. Dom. Lexington being dead beyond the Sea before his Father without issue This Church King Edward the first in the thirty second year of his Reign being at Strivelin 25 Ap. licensed to be appropriate to the Monastery of Wirkesop The Writ of Ad quod Damnum was returned the year before 31 E. 1. Richard de Sutton who held a Knights Fee in Sutton Carleton and Meringe had five daughters and heirs first Agnes married to Gilbert de Muscam by whom she had Adam de Muscamp and Iohn I suppose called also of Sutton secondly Margery married to Stephen de Coverham by whom she had Stephen thirdly Alice without issue a Benefactress to Newstede to which place she gave one Bovat in Sutton upon Trent which the Earl of Richmond confirmed she made Margery de Coverham her sister her heir of whom Thomas de Sutton their Uncle the Parson who was a great Benefactor also to Newstede acquired their parts as also of Agnes whose purparts were conveyed to Henry de Gloucestre Parson of Sutton from whom they descended to Iohn de Gloucestre his brothers son his heir which Iohn enfeoffed Hugh de Normanton who re-infeoffed him and Ioane his wife who had the moyety of the Mannor of Sutton upon Trent and 3 E. 3. claimed the priviledges accordingly The Jury 18 E. 1. in the Assize found that Iohn de Sutton not compelled by force or fear but of his own Will made the writings to Henry de Gloucester Parson of Sutton concerning one Mess. and thirty Acres of Land and two of Pasture in Sutton in which Deeds or Chartels he sold his Mannor there Fourthly Mary another of the daughters and heirs of Sir Richard de Sutton was married to Guichard de Charron who 4 E. 1. with Adam de Sutton whom I suppose the son of Agnes and Gilbert de Muscamp before named claimed several royalties in Sutton He had Free Warren granted here 18 E. 1. By his wife the said Mary he had a son named Stephen who enfeoffed his said Father in this Land which he settled on Guichard de Charun his son by a second wife to whom and to Alice his wife his brother the said Stephen de Charrun by Fine 34 E. 1. passed his Mannor of Sutton upon Trent which the said Gwischard the younger and Alice his wife by another Fine 3 E. 2. settled on Bertram de Mounboucher and Ioane his wife their daughter and the heirs which the said Bertram should beget on the body of the said Ioane reserving 20l. per annum during the life of the said Gwischard and after his death a Rose at Midsummer to his heirs Bertram and Ioane 3 E. 3. claimed a Market here every Munday and a yearly Fair for two daies viz. the Eve and Feast day of St. Iames the Apostle and Free Warren which King Edward the second granted 7 Aug. 2 E. 2. at Northampton to Guichard de Charrun father of the said Ioane whose heir she was There was another daughter of the said Sir Richard de Sutton fifthly Elizabeth who was married to a certain Smith by whom she had William de Caunton and Iohn de Caunton and Iohn de Caunton was heir of her Purpart and enfeoffed divers Tenants William Bevercottes had the state of the said Iohn de Calneton 3 E. 3. and at the said time he with Iohn de Gloucester Iohn de Bolyngbrok Peter Foune and Robert de Lanum pray'd that they might be admitted to Fine and use the priviledges in Common which could not be
old Weres Gurgites at Marneham to the damage of the Town of Nottingham one Mark because the Boats could not pass as they were wont Thomas de Chaworth settled the Mannor of Marneham by a Fine 12 E. 2. on Thomas de Chaworth his son and the heirs of his body which he should beget on Ioane his wife reserving his own life in it and excepting a passage over Trent in the same Mannor with a remainder to the right heirs of himself and by another Fine likewise 3 E. 3. at Nottingham this Mannor and Osberton wherein he gave his said son the remainder in Fee This younger Thomas died before his father and had a second wife named Margaret after his death 47 E. 3. married to William de Spaigne of Boston by whom he this said younger Thomas had William de Chaworth who was eighteen years old at the death of his Grand father the said elder Sir Thomas which was about 42 E. 3. being a very old man This William de Chaworth married Alice the daughter and heir of Sir Iohn de Caltoft Lord of East Bridgeford as in Wiverton is said where there is also an account of this excellent family with which this Mannor viz. both the Hamlets of Kirke Marneham and Ferry Marneham or North and South Great and Little Marneham continued till Elizabeth the daughter and heir of Sir George Chaworth was married to Sir Anthony Copes son of William with which family it still continues Sir Thomas Chaworth had a Mercat every Thursday and a yearly fair of two days viz. the Eve and day of the decollation of Saint Iohn Baptist granted 22 Mar. 24 H. 6. at Marneham Chaworth with licence to impark two hundred Acres of Land and Wood of his Demesne at Wiverton and free-warren there Iohn de Lessington about 41 H. 3. and after him his brother and heir Henry de Lessington Bishop of Lincolne 42 H. 3 died seized of the fourth part of a Knights Fee in Marneham held of Richard de Weston for a pound of Pepper yearly Richard de Marcham and William de Sutton were found the heirs of the said Bishop Robert de Markham son of Richard 17 E. 1. left a Capital Mess. seven Bovats of Land in bondage c. in this Marneham held by the service of the eighth part of a Knights Fee and one pound of Pepper of Richard de Weston to his three daughters and heirs Cecilia wife of Iohn de Bray then aged thirty years Bertha wife of William Lungevillers and Agnes of William de Sanctacruce with Tuxford and the rest of his share of the Lord Lexingtons Lands This parcel I suppose came to the family of Willughby of Wollaton afterwards Richard Byngham and Margaret his wife the Widow of Hugh Willoughby 31 H. 6. suffered a recovery of eight Mess. eight Bovats of Land eight Acres of Medow and four of Pasture with the Appurtenances in North Marneham South Marneham Skegby and Sutton upon Trent as they did at that time of divers other Lands belonging to that family Iohn the Constable of Chester is said to have given this Church to the Templers The Rectory and disposition of the Vicarage of Marneham late belonging to the Preceptory of Egle in Lincolneshire parcel of the possessions of the Priory of Saint Iohns of Hierusalem was granted 20 Iune 36 H. 8. to Thomas Babington and Iohn Hide and all Lands Medows c. to the Rectory belonging then in the tenure of Andrew Norwell Esquire Queen Elizabeth granted it 5 Aug. 33 Eliz. Anthony Babington of Kinston being Attaint to Peter Wilcox and William Wyn Gent. together with the reversions of that Mannor and a Mess. in Aldesworth and some other Lands of the said Anthony The owners of Marneham in 1612. are said to be Sir William Cope Knight Adam Nicholson Iohn Harrison and Iohn Hanson The Vicarage of Marneham was 10l. when the Bayliff of Egle was Patron 't is now 8l. 9s. 2d. value in the Kings Books and Sir Anthony Cope Patron Fledborough Fladburge THis Mannor was Godeva's the famous Countess of Earl Leuric of Mercia and by them given with Newark as in that place is shown in the time of Edward the Confessour to the Church of Stow in Lincolneshire The Book of Doomsday shows that Godeva the Countess for her Mannor in Flodburg answered the Dane-geld or publick Tax for one Car. and three Bovats The Land then being certified to be sufficient for four Plows or four Car. There after the Conquest Nigellus the Man or Tenent of the Bishop of Lincolne whose Fee it then was had two Car. and an half and sixteen Vill. five Sochm. on one Bov. of Land having five Car. There were five Plows or Car. There was then a Priest and a Church and one Mill 12d. Pasture wood one leu long and half one broad In the Confessours time it was 8l. when the survey was made in the Conquerours but 5l. value It had Soc in Normentune and in Estoches and in Doomsday Book is accounted in Berndeslaw Wapentak Nigellus de Fleburg held of the Bishop of Lincoln three Knights Fees Nigellus de Flaburg 22 H. 2. gave account of x. Marks of the Amercements of the forest Nigellus de Lysurs held of the Bishop of Lincolne in Normanton Fletburgh Stokum and Darnethorp three Knights Fees of the old Feoffment Iohn de Leysures 19 E. 1. impleaded Peter de Warkerley Bayliff of the Bishop of Lincolne and many others for taking many of his goods at Fledburgh who pleaded that as Bayliff of the said Bishop he seized the said Mannor into the Bishops hands as chief Lord after the death of Nigellus de Lysures who was his Tenent for that Alice the wife of the said Nigellus was thought to be with child Iohn de Liseus 14 E. 3. had view of Frank-pledge granted in Fledburgh and 15 E. 3. Free Warren there and in Woodcotes and 16 E. 3. 18 Iun. all manner of liberties of a Leer Infaengethef and Outfangenthef c. He Founded a Chantry 17 E. 3. in the Church of Fledburg to which he gave one Mess. three Bov. of Land and afterwards King Edward the third being then in the parts of Normandy in the twentieth year of his Reign he obtained licence dated 6 Nov. to appropriate the Church of Fledburgh to certain Chaplains for that purpose Iohn de Lyseux Lord of Fledburgh 34 E. 3. had to wife Isabella by whom he had a son called Iames de Lyseus who 38 E. 3. had to wife Maud as in Brodholme is shown who it seems had no issue Male because this Mannor and other Lands then settled came to the Bassets there mentioned to be of Normanton William Basset the elder 6 R. 2. is stiled Lord of Fledburgh on whose Seals are Three Pales and a Canton Varry His wife Margaret 11 H. 4. was a widow Richard Stanhope Knight 10 H. 6.
granted to William Basset Esquire son and heir of Thomas Richardus Basset de Normanton Willielmus Basset senior 6 R. 2 -Marg relict 11 H. 4. Thom. Basâ—et Willielmus Basset defunct-20 H. 6 -Katherina sor Ric. Stanhope .... Tunstall mar 2. Thom. Basset aet 34.17 E. 4 -Margeria fil Will. Mering Richardus Basset miles-Elizab fil Joh. Dunham Ar. Johannes Basâ—et ob 20 Maii 36 H. 8 -Agnes fil Tho. Dom. Burgh 21 H. 8. Edwardus Basset ob 22 Eliz. .... Eliz. fil Georgii Lassels ux 2. Johannes Basset-Anna fil Fran. Rodes Clinton Henr. Edw. Willielmus Basset de Muskham Katii .... Basset Richardus Basset 38 E. 3. Basset a certain yearly Rent of 12l. to be perceived out of the Mannor of Fledburgh and his Lands in Starnethorpe Normanton Woodcotes Est Drayton Dunham and Stokhum which lately were the said Tho. Bassets Will. Basset son of Thomas Basset of Fledburgh 10 H 6. released to Sir Richard Stanhope Knight and his heirs all his right in his Mannor of Fledburgh and Advowson of that Church and all his Lands Tenements Rents c. in Fledburgh Starnethorpe Normanton Woodcotes Est Drayton Dunham and Stokhum in this County Bernangle Sutton and Wilmincote in Warwickshire Katherin the relict of William Basset of Fledburgh demised Newhall a member of Sutton in Warwickshire 10 H. 6. for twenty one years Katherin Tunstall the sister of Richard Stanhope who had interest here and was dead 17 E. 4. I suppose was that relict of William Basset the younger and Thomas Basset who by the Inquisition is found to be then thirty four years old viz. 17 E. 4. I take to be son of William the younger This Thomas married Margery the daughter of William Mering and Elizabeth his wife daughter of Thomas Nevile of Rolleston by whom he had Sir Richard Basset his eldest son and William Basset of Muskham who had two daughters Katherin the wife of Guy Fairfax and after of Ed. Bussy which Guy had by her Thomas Fairfax who married the daughter of Ed. Thurland Esquire the other daughter of the said William Basset was married to Thomas Poutrell and brought him Frances the wife of Iohn Dethick Besides these two sons the said Thomas Basset had Edward a Clergy-man and several daughters one married to William Beaumont of Cole Orton and Katherin to Thomas Sutton of Averham Richard Basset Knight had to wife Elizabeth daughter of Iohn Dunham and by her had Iohn Basset who married Agnes daughter of Thomas Lord Burgh and died 20 of May 36 H. 8. leaving Edward his son and heir above twelve years old He held the Mannors of Adlingflet in Yorkshire Saxelby in Lincolnshire Fledburgh and Normanton and Lands in Fledburgh Normanton Woodcotes Stokam Sterthorp Est Drayton South Clifton and North Clifton and Lands viz. fourteen Acres in Ragnell and Darleton and the Mannor of Skegby and Normanton Mess. Lands and Tenements in Welley and Grimston Edward died 22 Eliz. and left Iohn Clinton Henry Edward and daughters Iohn married Anne the daughter of Francis Rodes and after he had sold all the rest sold Fledborough to the Feoffees of the then Earl of Shrowsbury in the beginning of King Iames his Reign since when this goodly Mannor came to the possession of Robert Earl of Kingston and now remains to the Right Honourable Henry Marquess of Dorchester his son and heir The owners of Fledbrough Kinshah Woodcotes and Normanton 1612. are said to be Iohn Basset Esquire William Reason of Askham Gent. Augustin Earle Esquire Rutland Mollineux of West Markham George Stowe Edward Mercer Hersy Lassells Gent. The Rectory of Fledburgh was 10l. and Mr. Basset Patron 'T is now 9l. 7s. 6d. value in the Kings Books â—â—d the Marquess of Dorchester Patron Skegby Scacheby And Woodcotes And Strathaw HEre in Scacheby before the Normans were Masters Alwold and Vlchel for their Mannors had Land sufficient for two Plows and an half or two Car. ½ And paid in the Assessment for the Dane-geld for one Car. There afterwards two Men or Tenants of Roger de Buslies whose Fee it was had in Demesne three Car. seven Vill. two Bord having three Car. There was sixteen Acres of Medow Pasture Wood half a leu long three qu. broad In Edward the Confessours time it was 48s. in William the Conquerours 40s. value There was Soc in Sudtone and Normentune Iohn or Robert de Avill and Iohn de Nuvelors held of the Countess of Ewe one Knights Fee of the old Feoffment they held also one Fee of Thomas Fitz-William and of the Countess of the new in Skegby because they took it with the marriage of the sisters of the said Thomas Iohn de Lessington about 41 H. 3. held sixty Acres of Land in Strathaw of Matilda de Lovetot and sixty in Skeghawe of Iohn de Eyvill This part descended with Tuxford as in that place may be seen through Marcham Lungevillers and Mallovell to Sir Richard Stanhope In 9 E. 2. the two Marnhams Fledburgh and Skegeby answered for a whole Villa the Lords then being Thomas de Chedworthe Iohn de Deivile Iohn de Lisours The Wapentach of Thurgerton and Lythe at that time returned a great many considerable Townships together to answer for a Villa of which this is the least the other Hundreds did not so There are within this Parish and Township two small Hamlets Skegby and Woodcotes both heretofore Bassets Inheritance and part of Fledborough Woodcotes became the Inheritance of Rutland Molyneux a younger Grandchild of Sir Edmund Molyneux the Judge And Skegby is now the Inheritance of Ed. Mâ—llish Esquire by the gift of William Reason his Uncle Bassetlaw Hundred Bassetlawe Wapentak Bernedeslawe Bersetlaw c. Doomsd. Iul. 1. 1674. THis Wapentac is as great as three of the former and contains therefore three Divisions South Clay North Clay and Hatfeild though not long since made so Oswardebec Soc was in Dooms-day Book called a Wapentak as hereafter will be noted containing all or most of the North Clay Division of this In that Record besides the names above it is called Bernedsetlawe and in Nomina Villarum 9 E. 2. Bersetelowe the King being then Lord of it Robert de Perepont Richard de Willughby and Richard de Whatton 12 E. 2. were assigned Justices to enquire of the transgressions made by Iohn de Lanum one of the Kings Bayliffs of the Wapentach of Berteselowe SOUTH-CLAY Division Bildesthorp THis place in the great Survey returned in the time of King William the first is mentioned only as Soc to Rugford which before that Kings time was the Free-hold of Vlf as many other good Lordships were which by the said King William were made the Fee of Gislebert de Gand as this also was which paid the Geld or Tax for two Car. The Land being found sufficient to imploy six Plows or six Car. There were thirteen Sochm. six Bordars having six Car. and four Acres of Medow Pasture Wood one
leu long and one qu. broad There was Soc in Wirchenfeild as much as paid for one Car. to the Geld. A Berue then waste and now unknown Galfr. Tregoz held the whole Town of Bildesthorpe in Demesne of the Soc of Maunsfeld of the gift of Robert de Greule with his daughter in Frank-marriage and did no Service there for it nor any where else Sir Iohn de Lowdham about 12 E. 2. died seized of six Mess. twelve Bovats of Land four Acres of Wood in Bildisthorp which he held joyntly as he did many other Lands with Alice his wife of Sir Henry de Beaumont by the Service of the sixteenth part of a Knights Fee leaving his son Iohn de Lowdham his heir with which Family this Land which afterwards viz. 29 H. 6. had the reputation of a Mannor descended as in Lowdham may be seen In a Recovery 17 H. 7. George Fitz-Hugh Dean of Lincolne and others claimed against Thomas Cheyne Knight the Mannors of Lowdham Laxton Bylsthorp Carcolston and Hikeling with the Appurtenances in those Towns and twenty Mess. five hundred Acres c. There was a Quare Impedit 16 H. 8. between Godfr Folejambe Knight Quer. and Anne Cheyne widow and Thomas Huddleston concerning the Advowson of the Church of Billesthorp The Folejambes might possibly keep some interest here from Thomas Folejambe who married Margaret the sister and co-heir of Sir Iohn Loudham by whom they had Walton in Darbyshire Elizabeth Vaux widow 20 Novemb. 3 and 4 Ph. and Mar. died seized of the fore-recovered Lands William Vaux Lord Harrowdon her son and heir being then of full age The Lord Vaux sold all these Lands which were Cheyneys and this is now the Inheritance of Sir Brian Broughton Knight and Baronet elder brother of Peter Broughton of Lowdham Gilbert Roos of Laxton had it in 1612. or then abouts The Rectory of Byllesthorp was 13l. when the Lady Chenie was Patroness 'T is now 5l. 1s. 8d. value in the Kings Books and Sir Brian Broughton Patron William Chappell Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross in Ireland spent some time here with Gilbert Benet Rector of this Church during the Rebellion and in it lies buried Eykering Doomsd. Echering THere was of the Soc of Maunsfeild the Kings ancient Demesne in Echering two Car. which paid the Geld for two Bov. ½ Pasture Wood six qu. long four broad And some little Soc to Laxton of Goisfrid de Alselins Fee which paid the Danegeld but for half a bovat and was waste Besides these parcels here were two Mannors of the Fee of Gislebert de Gand whereof before the Conquest Ingulf had one which paid the publick Tax for six Bov. The Land of it being two Car. There afterwards William the Man or Tenant of Gislebert had one Car. three Sochm. on three Bov. of this Land and two Vill. three Bord. having two Car. There was a Church and three Acres of Medow Pasture Wood six qu. long four broad In the Confessours time this was 20s. value when the Conquerour made his Survey 16◠The other Mannor Echebrand had which also defended it self for six Bovats to the Geld. The Land likewise two Car. This Mannor Echebrand held of Gislebert still and had there one Car. and six Sochm. on four Bov. of Land and two Vill. two Bord. having two Car. ½ There was three Acres of Medow and Pasture Wood six qu. long and four broad and value both before and after the Conquest like the former viz. 20s. before and 16s. after King William the Conquerour was Uncle to this Gislebrict de Gaunt who was succeeded by his son Walter de Gaunt Father of Gilbert the Earl of Lincolne and of Robert Earl Gilberts daughter and heir Alice the Countess was married to Simon de St. Liz who had no issue Gilbert de Gaunt gave to God and St. Mary of Rufford and the Monks there serving God in increase of his first Donation his whole Demesne in Eikering Earl Simon gave to that Monastery the right of Patronage of the Mediety of the Church of Eikryng Alice the Countess daughter of Earl Gilbert de Gant for the safety of her Soul and Earl Simons her Lord confirmed to God St. Mary and the Monks of Rufford the whole right of Advowson and Patronage of half the Church of Eykryng which belonged to her Fee as free and quiet as ever Walter de Gant her Grandfather and Gilbert de Gant her Father had it Robert de Gant certified that Earl Gilbert his brother in his own Court disrationavit cleared his Demesne of Eikring of Purpresture and in the same Court gave it all to the Abby of Rufford William de Aubani granted to Gilebert and William sons of Wulsi ten Acres of Land in the Fields of Heicring to be held of him and his heirs by them and theirs by the yearly Service of 12d. Mahuld de Sanliz and William her son were Witnesses his own wife and son as I suppose Gilbert de Scheigebi gave to the Monks of Rufford ten Acres which his Father held of William de Albani for which he only took of them a Mare and her progeny and they were to receive him into their Fraternity to sepulture when he made his end if it could be done regularly Wiliam de Aubeni confirmed this and what they held of his Fee for which he was to be concerned in all the Benefits of the House and when he died to have service performed for him as for one of their own Monks Aeliz de Cundey and Roger her son gave to God and the Church of St. Mary at Rufford two Mansuras dwellings containing two Acres viz. that which was Arnewies and that which was Turchil Prats in Eicring the same also gave Hugh Bardulf and Hugh his heir Wulsi son of Wlf de Eycring gave three Acres to the Monks of Rufford which he held of them which were of the Demesne of Walter de Gaunt and Earl Gilbert de Gaunt his son belonging to that part of the Demesne of Rufford which the Monks held who for the love of God and brotherly Charity were to keep Godwin son of the said Wulsi till he should be of age in their House and there if he would be made a Convert he should be received in the Order of Converts but if he would not they should keep the Land Gaufr de Eycring for the health of his Soul and his wifes and for the health or safety and honour of Walter his brother whom the Monks of Rufford took into their Congregation gave them a certain parcel of Land between the bounds of Eycring and of Cratele called Elfe Lands of Eicring to his Deed whereto he affixed the Seal of his Lord Gilbert de Gaunt Earl of Lincolne his own son Henry de Eycring was a Witness Roger de Meinill by the Consent of Agnes his wife who was the daughter of Hosbert de Capella gave one Acre and one Rode of Land Robert
Besthorpe with the Soc of Grimston and Members and that Iordan was above fifty years old and died within five weeks of his Father leaving his wife Margery behind him and his son and heir Richard Foliot then about fifteen years old and that he had Lands in several Counties Yorkshire Norf. c. Margaret Foliot 4 E. 3. had Mercat and Fair in Wellehagh The Jury 4 E. 3. found that Margery Foliot held when she died the Mannor of Grymeston of the inheritance of Margery and Margaret daughters of Richard Folioth of Thomas de Thornhaw as of his Mannor of Thornhaws by the service of one Knights Fee and that Margery aged then seventeen years the wife of Hugh de Hastings and Margaret sixteen the wife of Iohn de Camoys daughters of Richard Foliot were then her heirs and that there was at Welhawe stallage of the Market and Fair on Saint Swithuns day there valued at 40s. yearly Hugh de Hastings 21 E. 3. was found heir of his Father Hugh de Hastings who held the Mannor of Grimston An. who had been wife of Sir Hugh de Hastings Knight and of Thomas Lord Morley left her son Edward Hastings Knight 5 H. 6. her heir and above forty four years of age Iohn son of Edward Lord Hastings and Stotevile Knight 14 H. 6. released to Robert Clifton Knight and others and their heirs his right in the Mannor of Grimston and Township of Welhawe and in other Mannors in Yorkshire Norf. and Suff. By vertue of that Feoffment which it seems Edward had made before Iohn Hastings Esquire 16 H. 6. was found heir of his Father the said Sir Edward Hugh Hastings Knight made his Will 14 Decemb. 32 H. 8. which was proved 9 Febr. following viz. 1540. whereby it appears that he had Lands in Elsing and Wesenham in Norfolke in Fenwyk Norton Mosseley Smeton South Caves Snayth Pollington Askerne Elmeshall Thorpe in Balne Barneby upon Don Cusseworth and Bramwick in Yorkshire Elias Foliot Jordanus Foliot 13 H. 3. Richardus Foliot miles Jordanus Foliot-Margeria superst 27 E. 1. Richardus Foliot aet 15. an 27 E. 1. Margeria aet 17. 4 E. 3 -Hugo de Hastings Johannes de Hastings 21 E. 3. Hugo de Hastings miles-Anna-Thom Dom. Morley mar 2. Edward de Hastings miles Dom. Hastings Stoteville aet 44. ampl 5 H. 6. Johannes Hastings 16 H. 6. Hugo Hastings miles-Katherina Johannes Hastings 1540. Anna. Elizab. Martinus Joh. Camoys-Margareta aet 16. 4 E. 3. the Mannors of Wellowe and Grimston in this Country and in Whitley c. his Wifes name was Catherin he had a son called Iohn and two daughters Agnes and Elizabeth and a brother named Martin Hastings a Nephew called Laurence and Hugh and William Hastings his Cousins The Jury in Assize 10 E. 3. found that Iohn Enneston dyed seized of thirteen Mess. seven Tofts thirteen Stalls fourscore and ten Acres of Land seven of Medow and 3s. 10d. Rent in Grimston and Knesale and that he had two Wives viz. Maud on whom he begot Agnes the wife of Iohn in the Lane of Eckering and Alice the second wife on whom he begot Alice Ioan and Margaret which two latter dying without issue Alice recovered their purparts as heir of the whole blood There was a recovery 8 H. 8. wherein William Basset Esquire Richard Basset Knight Thomas Sutton Knight Edward Basset Clark and Iohn Hall Clerk claimed against Richard Clark Edward Beresford and William Robertson the Mannor of Grimston with the Appurtenances and three Mess. fourteen Tofts two hundred Acres of Land twenty of Medow and 19s. 8d. Rent with the Appurtenances in Grimston and Welhagh who called to warrant Richard Stanhope Esquire son and heir of Edward Stanhope Knight Roger Norton and Francis Gardiner 16 Eliz. claimed against Rowland Tayler one Mess. one Garden 46 Acres of Land five of Medow 7. of Pasture with the Appurt in Welley and Grimston who called Edward Basset Esquire The free-holders in Welley and Ampton 1612. are these Michael Clarkson of Kirton Gent. Iames Bacon of Welley Gent. Hugh Taylor Seth Batcheler Iohn Lownd Thomas Lownd Simon Grange Stephen Camme Richard Cooke Iohn Taylor Thomas Kitchen Robert Gibson Richard Birket Henry Vauntinge Richard Radford William Walkeden William Smith Miles Cosson Iohn Fresure Widow Stanfeild Robert Gillowe of Ampton Almton Ampton Dooms Almentune THis Township in the Book of Doomsday is represented to be Soc to several other Mannors of differing places and Lordships Here was Sok to the Kings great Mannor of Maunsfeld one Bov. ½ for the Geld to Lexington of the Fee of Goisfrid de Alselin two Bov. ad Geldam that was then waste to Oschinton of Raph de Burons Fee as much as answered the Geld for three Bov. The Land was one Car. There two Bord. had one Car. and to Chenesale and Cheversale of the Fee of Gislobert de Gand one Bov. ad Geldam The Land two Bov. There two Sochm. one Bord. had two Car. This last parcel with Knesale belonged to the Constables of Chester and Anneyssa the daughter of William Constable of Chester gave to the Church of Saint Mary of Ruchford and the brethren there living all the Land she had in Helmetun viz. two Bov. and an half in perpetual Alms for the health or safety of her Soul her Fathers and Mothers and Children and also for the Soul of Eustace son of or Fitz-Iohn her Lord who in his life time promised it in recognition or acknowledgment of this gift she received of the brethren ten and eight Marks Iohn the Constable of Chester for the health of his Soul and of his Wife and Children and of his Father and of his Grand-father Eustace and all his Ancestors gave and confirmed to God Saint Mary and the Monks of Ruford all the Land which he had in Elmetun reserving to himself and his heirs xs. per annum and forreign service except the enemy of the King and in time of War which he and his heirs would acquit and the Land defended it self against forreign service for two Bovats and an half and if it should happen that he could not warrant it to them they should have all the Cattel and whatever was builded upon it safe and over and above forty Marks of Silver for the exchange of that Land within half a year before they should be disseized of the Land for which concession they gave him twenty Marks of Silver in the beginning of that agreement Adelecia his wife confirmed it as in Knéesale is said so did Roger the Constable son of Iohn Constable of Chester and Iohn de Laci Earl of Lincolne and Constable of Chester son of Roger who also released to the Monks suit of Court for ten Bovats which they held of him in Almeton and for the Lands which Robert de Lexington gave them in Buketon Henry de Lasci Earl of Lincolne and Constable of Chester confirmed the gift of Iohn the
other of Arundell and the third brother of them was Nigellus de Albanei then a young man of good disposition and great hope carrying the Kings Bow who when he was made Knight for his honesty was enfeoffed by King Henry the first first of all of Egmanton in the Forest of Sherwode with the Parks and Appurtenances which Town after a little time Nigellus gave to his special friend Robert de Aivile which the King hearing inquired of the said Nigellus if it was so who answered it was and that now the King had two honest Knights where before he had but one This Nigellus by his Mother was a Mowbray and had the Estate of Robert de Molbray whom William Rufus took at Bamburgh and beheaded at Winsore and seised his Counties or Earldoms of Northumberland and Nottingham and Marshall and other Lands and Possessions and disinherited his Progeny so that the Posterity of this Nigellus de Albany who married Gundreda the daughter of Hugh de Gurnay in Normandy and had in that Country sixscore enfeoffed Knights and as many in England had the Sirname of Mowbray Roger Molbray his son being the first who by Alice de Gant had Nigellus de Molbray who married Mabilia daughter of Edmund Earl of Clare and got on her four sons William de Molbray Robert Philip and Roger c. Of this Family did that of D'aivile hold this Mannor It is noted that of the Posterity of this Robert de Aivile from the time of St. William Archbishop of York viz. 18 Steph. there had been two Roberts and two Iohns de Eyvill who had the Advowson of the Church of Egmanton by inheritance until the time of King Henry the third that Iohn de Eyvill gave it to the Priory of Newstede in Shirewood to which it was appropriated by Pope Iohn the 22d. and by the licence of King E. 2. It seems that Iohn de Eyvill Robert de Vypont Iohn de Vescy William Marmion Adam de Newmarch Baldwin Wac Robert de Wilgheby Robert de Wolrington Richard de Sees were Rebells with Simon de Montefort Earl of Leicester and hindred Robert de Nevil the Sheriff of Yorkshire from executing his Office from Michaelmas 48 H. 3. until the Battel of Lewes when William de Bozale was made Sheriff of that County by the said Simon de Montefort Iohn de Eyvill 7 E. 1. by the judgement of the Court was to hold to him and his heirs the Mannor of Egmanton against Clementia de Lungevillers to whom he had given the Mannor of Barneburgh in Yorkeshire for her life in exchange Iohn de Eyvill had Free Warren granted here 9 Iun. 9 E. 1. who had a son of the same name his heir who married Margaret who was latter wife after his decease of Adam de Everingham Lord of Laxton who claimed divers liberties here in her right 3 E. 3. and married his son Adam de Everingham to Ioane de Eyvill her daughter and heir of this Mannor which by a Fine 17 E. 2. between Iohn de Eyvill and Margaret his wife and Ioane their daughter Querents and Hugh de Scalton Deforc was settled on the said Iohn and Margaret and Ioane and the heirs of Margaret excepting one Mill two hundred and two Acres of Land twenty three of Medow sixty of Wood 100s. and 20d. Rent in the same Mannor to which Fine several persons put to their claims as Thomas de Burton of Egmanton and Heldreda his wife and Iohn their son theirs William son of Lawrence de Weston Thomas Deyvill of Egmanton Robert Fourmery Iohn Fourmery Thomas del Celer William del Celer and Thomas Trompour theirs There having sometimes before been Suits about Common of Pasture in the East Park Adam de Everingham Lord of Egmanton sold to Henry Deyvill a certain place of Wood beneath his Park of Egmanton called the East Park to cut down the Wood thereof according as it was assigned by certain bounds in which Park Sir Thomas de Lungvillers the Prior of Newstede Thomas Deyvill Henry Deyvill his son Robert Formery and all the Commonalty of the said Town had Common for all manner of Cattel who all 15 E. 3. agreed that Sir Adam should inclose it with an Hedge for three years in which time they would only Common with their Horses after Michaelmas but after the term of three years the Fence to be thrown down and they to Common in it as before This Mannor 24 E. 3. by a Fine between William de la Pole the elder and Iohn de Chesterfeild Plaintiffs and Adam de Everingham of Laxton Chr. and Iohan his wife Deforc. was settled on the said Adam and his heirs with warranty from Ioane and her heirs It descended to the heirs of them both as in Laxton may be observed and afterwards was .... Northwoods Sir Richard Stanhop of Rampton descended of Lungvillers had the moyety of the Mannor of Egmanton which about 14 H. 6. descended to his heir Iohn son of his son Richard Stanhop as in Rampton may be noted Sir Iohn Basing Knight about 24 H. 6. was seised of certain Lands here Alice wife of Thomas Macworth Esquire was his sister and heir The great Mannor was the Inheritance and perhaps is of .... Popham by the marriage of the daughter and heir of Sir Sebastian Harvey late Alderman of London The Park now called Egmanton Hall was purchased and built by Nicolas Poutrell Serjeant at Law and by him given to Thomas Markham of Allerton his Cousin by their mothers whose heirs sold it to Francis Williamson Esquire once Sheriff of this County whose Nephew Francis Williamson Clark of the Assizes had it by his Uncles gift but since it was the Honourable Francis Pierponts and if Alisamond his widow be dead who had it in Joynture is Robert Pierreponts of Nott. his son's The owners of Egmanton Town in 1612. are said to be Gilbert Earl of Shrowsbury .... Makworth Gent. Hardolph Wastneyes Esquire Henry Wright Francis Thornchill Iohn Sudbury William Ireland Iohn Gascoigne Robert Pople Richard Lawe Iohn Bale Iohn Gilbert Thomas Sudbury Mrs Cardinall widow Edward Mason Gent. There was 13 E. 1. a pleading for a Mess. in Egmanton which the Parson claimed as free Almain and Henry Burdon as lay Fee but it was not then determined for defect of Jurors Iohn Bellowe and Iohn Bellowe Iuly 6. 37 H. 8. had licence to Alienate the Rectory and Church of Egmanton with the Appurtenances sometimes belonging to the Priory of Newstede in Shirwood to Robert Thornehill Esquire and his heirs The Vicarage of Egmanton was 5l. when the Prior of Newstede was Patron 'T is now 4l. 6s. 0d. ob value in the Kings Books and Sir Brian Broughton is Patron Tuxford Tuxfarne IN Tuxfarne before the Normans dispossessed the Saxons were two Mannors which Fluin and Vlmar had which were rated to the publick payments of those times at twelve Bovats The Land being then found sufficient
Rufford And Ioan de Sutthon late wife of Robert de Sutthon released to the Abbat all claim by reason of Dower in the Park of Tukesford concerning which she had impleaded him by the Kings Writ which is called Vnde nichil habet before Mr. Roger de Seyton and his Fellows at Westminster 2 E. 1. which was not long after her husbands death Her son was Richard Father of Iohn who marrying an heir of Sumery had a son by her called also Iohn de Sutton whose Posterity were of the same name Lords Dudley four Descents more and about 8 E. 4. Iohn Sutton Lord Dudley had a Petition concerning Warsop and 10l. Rent in Tuxford which shows it This Mannor of Tuxford was divided into three parts by the forenamed three daughters and heirs of Robert de Marcham whereof the first Cecilia besides her husband Iohn de Bray had another I suppose named Thomas de Bekering Knight who begot Thomas de Bekering Knight who left his son and heir Thomas de Bekering twenty years old 19 E. 2. which last Thomas with the rest of the co-heirs 3 E. 3. claimed Free Warren c. in their Demesne Lands in Laxton Hertshorne Morehouse Estheued Tuxford c. and Ian. 2. 26 E. 3. left this third part or Mannor of Tuxford to Iohn his son and heir then but fourteen years of age which Iohn afterwards was a Knight and had to wife Ioane living in the time of King Richard the second but whether he was Father or Brother of Sir Thomas de Bekering who died in the parts beyond the Seas the Thursday after the Feast of St. Barnabas 1 R. 2. leaving Thomas de Bekering his son and heir of this Land I cannot yet certainly determine but suppose him his brother which agrees best with the time Thomas the son had to wife Isabell the sister and co-heir of Sir Iohn de Lowdham as in that place is said and died about 4 H. 6. leaving Alice the wife of Sir Thomas de Rempston their heir then above thirty years old who had three daughters and heirs Elizabeth wife of Iohn Cheiney Isabell of Brian Stapleton and Margaret of Richard Bingham the younger as is often already noted The second part or share of this Mannor which was Bertha's descended to her son and heir Iohn de Lungvillers who about 25 E. 1. left it to Thomas de Lungvilers his brother or as some Copies his son and heir then nineteen year old Sir Thomas de Lungvillers 8 E. 3. had a return of a Writ Ad quod damnum concerning his giving a place in Tuxford of one hundred feet in length and fifty five in breadth and five Marks yearly Rent issuing out of that Mannor to a certain Chaplain to celebrate in that Church Iohn de Lungvillers 26 E. 3. was found son and heir of Thomas and then above twenty six years of age Iohn de Lungvillers 32 E. 3. was like to have pardon for acquiring of Iohn Faun one Mess. and a void Lane adjoyning in Tuxford which he was to give to three Chaplains celebrating Divine Service in that Church The year before he had licence from the King dated 8 Febr. 31 E. 3. that seeing a former grant which he had from that King to Found a Colledge in the Parsonage house of five Chaplains whereof one should be Warden and to give them and their successours the Advowson of the Church to pray for the healthy estate of him the said Iohn whilst he should live and for his soul when he should die and for the Souls of Thomas de Lungvillers his Father and of all the faithful departed daily for ever took not effect he might then give the said Advowson to the Prior and Canons of Newstede in Shirewode to find five Chaplains viz. three in the Church of Tuxford and two in that of Newstede to pray accordingly who had also leave to receive the said Advowson and Appropriate the Church to the Uses of themselves and their successours for ever Iohn de Lungvillers 35 E. 3. was found to have held this part of Tuxford and many other parcels in Laxton Morehouse Skegby Strathagh Houghton Allerton Little Drayton Carleton Elkesley Grimston Welhagh Kirketon Walesby Stretton Fenton and Littleburgh small parcells and in Egmanton joyntly with Elizabeth his wife one Mess. one Dovecoat one Wind-Mill two Car. of Land twenty two Acres of Medow 12l. ob Rents of Assize c. he left Thomas his son and heir who it seems had no issue so that his sister Agnes the wife of Reginald de Everingham was his heir and she having no issue though her husband had by his second wife Ioane a son Edmund who died without issue Male. This Land descended to Sir Richard Stanhop of Rampton as heir of her the said Agnes 22 R. 2. viz. son of Elizabeth daughter of Stephen Maulovell son of Elizabeth sister of Iohn Lungvillers Father of the said Agnes as in Rampton will be further declared The third share which Agnes de Sancta Cruce had was likewise divided into three more parcels she having three daughters married and two twins Cecily and Margaret born sixteen or seventeen years after the last of the former three which twins I suppose died unmarried Ioan the eldest was first married to Iohn de Bayeux and after to Robert de Hakthorne Margery the second to Peter Foun who had issue Iohn his son and heir but he had no Child so that Elizabeth his sister wife of Thomas de Mering 32 E. 3. was found heir of her brother the said Iohn Foun And Elizabeth the third daughter of the said Agnes was married to Iohn Barkworth Knight who 28 E. 3. left that share to Iohn Barkeworth his son and heir Edward de Lovetot 37 E. 3. held the Lands which were Iohns the son and heir of Iohn de Barkeworth and of Elizabeth his wife the third part of the third part of the Mannor of Tuxford and Ioane the sister and heir of Iohn son of Robert de Barkworth held the same by the same Service of the third part of the third part of half a Knights Fee of the King in Capite Simon de Burgh and Ioan his wife 48 E. 3. levied a Fine of the third part of the Mannor of Little Markham and the third part of the third part of the Mannor of Tuxford to Thomas de Wolton and Walter Dautre Clarks and their heirs Sir Robert de Swyllington Chr. entailed the like or same third part of the Mannor of Little Markham and third of the third of Tuxford on Raph Crumwell Knight for life remainder to William Crumwell his son and the heirs Males of his body remainder to Thomas and Iohn brothers of the said William successively and their respective heirs males William it seems had Sir Robert Crumwell Knight his son and heir who dying without issue male as did the said Thomas and Iohn
his Uncles Raph Lord Crumwell found himself concerned in the Inheritance as son of Raph son of the first Raph whose heirs had the last remainder in the said Intayl and did his homage 21 H. 6. William Deyncourt Chr. 18 E. 3. had ten Marks yearly Rent in Tokesford passed to him by Fine from Iohn son of William de Roos of Ingmanthorp and from Ioane his wife Robert son of Robert Deyncourt Knight 2 H. 4. held ten Marks Rent issuing out of two parts of the Mannor of Tukesford This Rent came to be afterwards the Lord Crumwells also as in Lamley may be perceived Iohane who had been wife of William Lassells about 6 H. 5. dyed seized of the 3d. part of the 3d. part of the Mannor of Tuxford Will. Lassells was her son and heir It appears 15 E. 4. that Ioane Lassells when she died held of the endowment of Iohn Lassells her late husband of the Inheritance of Robert Lassells of Soureby Esquire deceased twelve Mess. in Tuxford c. There was a Recovery 19 H. 8. in which Nicolas Metcalf Clark the Master and the Fellows and Scholars of St. Iohn's Colledge in Cambridge claimed against Roger Lassellys Esquire the third part of the third part of the Mannor of Tuxford with the Appurtenances in Tuxford Little Markham Drayton and Cleyborowe and fourteen Mess. six Tofts one Mill four hundred Acres of Land forty of Medow one hundred of Pasture six of Wood and 10s. Rent in the said places St. Iohn's Colledge in Cambridge had a Mannor there by the grant of Richard Bishop of Winchester about 20 H. 8. Iohn de Sutton of Houton about 13 H. 4. had interest in the Mannor of Little Markham Tuxford Milton and Bevercotes so had Iohn de Tuxford 14 H. 4. in Little Markham Mannor c. The Jury 31 H. 6. found that Katherin wife of Iohn de Tuxford was seized of the sixth part of the Mannor of Little Markham with the Appurtenances which Mannor extends it self in Tuxford West Markham Bevercote and Milneton Iohn Caxton and Alice wife of Beleyard de Barde were Cousins and heirs of the said Katherin viz. the said Iohn was son of Elizabeth daughter of the said Katherine and the said Alice daughter of Margaret daughter of the said Katherin By an Inquisition taken 9 Novemb. 24 H. 8. it appears that Iohn Caxton of Tukysford lived 19 E. 4. and had a son named Richard Caxton who married Isabella the daughter of Thomas Vavasour of Deneby and left Agnes the wife of Iohn Sutton his daughter and heir forty years old 23 H. 8. he had Lands in Tukysford Little Markham Milneton and Bevercotes Barbara after the death of Alice her sister was sole daughter and heir of .... Sutton and married to Francis Harrington Esquire who by her had four daughters heirs to their mother Anne wife of William Arnall Gent. .... of Sir William Bodenden .... of Henry Balgge Esquire and .... the eldest of Thomas Pell That part of Tuxford which descended with Rampton to the Family of Stanhope was by Saunchia daughter and heir of Richard Stanhope and Iohn Babington her husband sold about the latter end of the Reign of Henry the Eighth to Iohn or Thomas White Esquire whose Grandchild Sir Iohn White purchased in most of the rest and his Grandchild Iohn White Esquire of Cotgrave is now Lord there The Rectory was appropriated to the Priory of Newstede and 37 H. 8. granted to Trinity Colledge in Cambridge The old Rent was 21l. 14s. 4d. it is now in Lease to the Honourable Richard Lord Byron At this Town Mr. George Cam dwelt who acquired a good Estate in Lands and Leases hereabouts whose only daughter and heir Anne is now wife of Harvey Staunton of Staunton Esq The Freeholders in 1612. are said to be Gilbert Roosse Esquire Iohn White Esquire Henry Foster Gent. Iames Thornehill William Thomas Iohn Watmongs Dyons Vston Francis Smith Thomas Mason of Egmanton Gent. Mrs. Freman c. The Vicarage of Tuxford was x. Marks when the Prior of Newstede was Patron it is now 4l. 14s. 7d. value in the Kings Books and the Patronage belongs to Trinity Colledge in Cambridge In the East Window of the Chancel is Orate pro anima Thomae Gunthorpe Prioris de Novo loco in Schirewood qui cancellam istam aedificavit Anno Dom. 1495. In the South Windows were the Arms of Newstede Priory and quarterly France and England and his own and on the Seats viz. Gules on a Bend Azure between two Lions heads crased Arg. three Besants A Bordure Gobony Arg. and Az. and under written Arme Thomae Gunthorp Prioris de Novo loco in Schirewood these are something different from those at Stapleford for there the Lions heads are thought to be Wolfs heads and the Bezants Libards heads And here was also Arme Johannis Lungvillers Patroni istius Ecclesiae viz. Sab. a Bend between six Crossecroslets Arg. which are upon the Shield of an old Effigies on an ancient Tomb towards the North side of the Chancel And on the out-side on the top of the Church where there is also A Crosse Moline pierced square and three Lioncels Rampant 2.1 In the South I le within is Quarterly Or and Gules on a Bend Sab. three Escallops Arg. And Sab. a Crosse Sarcele or Flory Or impaling ... broken and the former also impaling on a Chief Arg. three Mullets pierced Sab. the rest broken In an upper Window of the body of the Church are four or five impaled in one Shield The first is Quarterly Or and Sab. with something in Bend Arg. The next A Fesse between six Crosse-croslets which take up half The next Arg. a Chevron Sab. The next Cheque Arg. and Gules and the next some Bend broken away In an upper North Window Gules a Crosse Formy or Pate Arg. quartering Or a Crosse ingrayled Sab. impales Arg. a Chief Gules with a Bendlet Azure Crumwell Upon a Surcoat of Iohn Stanhop Azure a Crosse Moline Or in the next Window Upon a flat Stone in the North I le at the East end Obitus Ricardi Stanhope fil haer Ricardi Stanhope de Rampton Militis qui obiit secundo die mensis Martii Anno Regni Regis Henrici sexst decimo Cujus animae c. Upon it is drawn his Picture with the Arms of Lungvillers only By the East Wall a fair Tomb with two Statues lying on it but basely broken and on the top of it Gules a Chevron Varry between three Lioncells Ramp Or the Crest an Eagles or Falcons head and wings Azure out of a Coronet Or. The Inscription this Hic jacet Johannes White miles filius haeres Thomae White Armig. servi quondam Philippi Mariae Regis Reginae Anglie Agnetis Cecill sororis Willielmi Cecill Baronis de Burghleigh summi Anglie Thesaurarii qui quidem Johannes obiit infestum nativitatis Domini Anno 1625. Dorothea uxor charissima praedicti
Adelocum or Segelocum of Antonine which yet Mr. Cambden thought once was to be sought for in vain any where but on the Banks of the River Idle or Ydle now Eaton signifies Water Town and is upon that River and may as well by that reason be called Idleton and Id or Yd in the British Language signifies Seges Corn and Ydlan Area ubi reponuntur collectae segetes which in these parts we call a Stack-yard so that it seems the River Idle had its name from Corn with which the neighbouring Fields ever abounded and Adelocum was intended by the Romans for the place upon Ydel after the broad pronunciation of Ai for I which is still frequent in this Country as Segelocum after the signification Ydle signifying a Granary amongst the Britains Littleburgh was of the Soc of Maunsfeild the Kings great Mannor as much of Oswardbec Soc was whereof this was also part and answered the Danegeld or Tax before the Conquest for four Bov. The Land being one Car. There fourteen Sochm. two Vill. four Bord. had afterwards five Car. Medow three qu. and ten Virg. long two qu. broad this Soc was in the Conquerours time valued at 10s. King Iohn being at Nott. when he was Earl Moreton gave to the Church of Wellebec and the Monks there whatever belonged to him of the Church of Littilburgh with the Appurtenances viz. the Advowson and Presentation and the very Church to be converted to their proper uses as much as belonged to him or his heirs and G. Arch-bishop of York appropriated it accordingly to that Abby Hugh son of Hugh de Stretton gave twelve Acres of Medow which he held of Roger de Trehampton in the Marsh of Lée and two Fishings in the Water of Trent viz. one called Gosegarth .... the Church of Littilburgh and the other called Wlvetgarth which is between Littilburgh and Cotes to that Abby of Wellebec to be held in Fee Farm of him and his heirs for 5s. per annum Raph son of Roger de Treanton confirmed to that Abby ten Acres of Medow in the Marsh of Lée which Hugh son of Hugh de Stretton gave In the year of our Lord 1253. the Tuesday after .... the Court of Oswardebec was held at Stretton and an Inquisition made by the Oathes of twelve lawful men Iohn de Applesthorp Elias Hakun c. whether the Abbat of Wellebec ought to make the Stone-Bridge between Littilburgh and Leverton and the Jury found that one Adam Abbat of that place of his own will made that Bridge for the easement of a certain Grange which that House had beyond the Trent but never did it as due neither ought he to make it and therefore was quit for ever The like Inquisition was made at Retford the Saturday after the Feast of St. Matthew the Apostle 18 E. 1. before Iohn de Annesley then High Sheriff by the Kings Precept or Writ upon the Oathes of good and lawful Men of the Wapentak of Bersetlawe viz. Elias de Wheteley and others who found as before and that Stretton and Fenton ought to make the said Stone-bridge There were certain Tenants of small parcels of Land which were to repair the Stone-bridge between Littilburgh and Happlesthorp To the first Inquisition William de Eaton Bailiff of the Court of Oswardbec under his Master Iohn de Raygate then the Kings Escaetor put his Seal with the Juries to the latter the said Sheriff The Freeholders in Littlebroughe Town 1612. are said to be Robert Sherbury William More William Turuell of East Markham Richard Rawlin Iohn Deane Thomas Wright Iohn Bercock Edward Horley Thomas Truswell Henry Bromeheade Thomas Bingham Iohn Quippe Clerk Edward Clark Thomas Cartwright Iohn Calton George Holmes Thomas Nettleship and Thomas Seaworth Fenton OF Oswardbec Soc in Fenton half a Carucat was the Kings Land and Soc to Maunsfeild But in Oswardebec Wapentac Roger de Busli had in Fentune three Mannors which before the Conquest Vlfac Leuric and Grim had and paid to the Geld or Tax for one Bov. of Land and the third part of a Bovat The Land was waste except one Bordar In the Confessours time the value of this was 5s. There also had Speranoc two Bovats and ⅔ for the Geld. The Land one Car. Sac and Soc without an Hall This was waste too There was six Acres of Pasture Wood and kept the same value it had in the time of the Confessour viz. 10s. 8d. There was a Fine 24 H. 3. between Robert de Aldwerk and Isabell his wife Quer. and Ranulf de Fenton Tenant of seven Bovats of Land and 7s. 1d. Rent in Fenton and Sturston c. The Jury 23 E. 1. found that Thomas de Normanvile held in Egmanton seven Bovats of Land in Bondage and two Tofts of Iohn de Eyvile then in the custody of Roger de Moubray by the service of a Rose and that he held likewise the Mannor of Fenton of several mean Lords and that Edmund his son and heir was then about four years old An ancient Gentleman called Fenton had his House and Lands here of which name I have seen one Pedigree beginning with Sir Richard Fenton Lord of this place and ending with Katherine wife of Sir Rich. Boyle Earl of Corke in Ireland Another in the Visitation of Norroy 1614. Tho. Fenton de Fenton Willielmus de Fenton .... fil .... Abdy de Abdy in Com. Ebor. Thom. Fenton de Fenton-Jana fil naturalis ... Nevill de South Leverton Laurentius Fenton de Fenton-Katherina fil Joh. Legat de Sturton Nicolas Fenton de Fenton 1614 -Gracia fil Steph. Casely de Com. Devon Willielmus Fenton de Fenton 1614 -Sarah fil Will. Tacy de insula Vectis ... fil .... Monteford de Littleburgh ux 2. Willielmus Fenton fil haer aet 19. 1614. 2 Georgius 3 Francisc. 4 Carolus Maria ux Will. Estrop de Com. Linc. Elizab. Gracia 2 Thom. 2 Carolus The greatest part of this Hamlet was the Inheritance of Sir Francis Thornagh Knight descended unto him from Francis Thornagh his Grandfather and Sir Iohn Thornagh his father his House and Seat was here and is now possessed by Iohn Thornbagh Esquire his Grandchild eldest son of his son Francis who married Elizabeth one of the daughters and co-heirs of Iohn S. Andrew of Gotham Esquire by whom he left issue the said Iohn and others he was a valiant man and a Colonel of Horse for the Parliament in whose service he lost his life by a Scotch Lance as it is said at the Battel begun near Preston in Lancashire between Duke Hamilton and that Party his widow was afterwards married to William Skeffington Esquire and is yet living with him Johannes Thornhaugh Averey Thornhagh de Fenton-Ellena fil haer .... Ripers de Leversall Ebor. John Thornhaugh de Fenton-Eliz fil haer Briani Bailes de Potters Newton Ebor. Johannes Thornhagh miles de Fenton .... fil Fran. Rodes Justic. Franc. Thornhagh miles aetat 21.
part of Stavele in Darbyshire c. The Jury 16 E. 3. found that Edward le Despenser held this Mannor joyntly with Anne his wife and that Edward was his son and heir In 4 H. 5. they said that Constance who was late wife of Thomas sometime Lord le Despenser held when she died in dower of the inheritance of Isabell the wife of Richard Beauchamp of Burgavennie Knight the third part of two parts of the Mannors of Kimberworth and Bautre c. and the third part of the Mannor of Peverellesthorp It came to le Despenser and so to .... Beauchamp Earl of Warwick and so to Richard Nevill and so to George Duke of Clarence and to Richard Duke of Gloucester and after to the Crown Sir Iohn Byron had it and Mr. Lodge sometime an Alderman of London It was the Earl of Kingstons and is his sons It is within the Parish of Edenstowe as Thouresby is The Mannor of Perlethorp sometime parcel of the possessions of Edward son of George Duke of Clarence and late in the Tenure of Iohn Byron Knight with Knesal and Clipston c. 16 Novemb 5 E. 6. were amongst other things granted to Ed. Fynes Lord Clinton and Saye and his heirs Walesby WAlesby was with Kirketon or Schidrintune and Wilgebi of several Fees as in that place may be seen viz. some of it the Kings Land with Wilgebi Soc to Grymeston some Roger de Buslies Soc to Tuxferne some Goisfrid de Halselins Soc to Laxinton In Walesby two Bov. ad Geldam The Land four Bov. There two Sochm. had one Car. Some of the Fee of Roger Pictavensis Soc to Hoctune half a Bov. ad Geld. The Land four Bov. In the Conquerours time waste Soc. In Kirkton and several other places may be discovered how this place in part was disposed of amongst others Reginald Vrsell gave to the Monks of Rufford in pure Alms the service which Robert de Lexinton was wont to do him for one Bovat of Land which he held of him in Walesby viz. a pair of Spurs of Iron or 2d. yearly with all Reliefs Wards Eschaets c. William Lancelene gave to William son of Eudo de Hibaldestan with Cecilia his daughter in Frank-marriage and their heirs one Bov. of Land in Walesbi with the houses and men who held the Land with all their Children and Cattel c. Raph de Wadeland in Walesby gave to the Monks of Rufford the whole service which Iohn de la Cnause of Walesby William his brother William son of Henry Nicholas his brother Robert D'aubeney and Richard son of Philip ought him for their Lands and Tenements they held of him in Walesby with Homage Wards Reliefs Rents Suits of Court c. Several others gave to that Monastery which made it the most considerable owner and with it at the dissolution did all these Lands pass to the Earl of Shrowsbury as in Rufford may be observed The Jury 26 E. 1. said that Richard son of Marion de Walesby held in Walesby six Bovats freely for 3s. 9d. per annum of Thomas de Maresey Lord of Gamelston some also went with Houghton to Lungvilers as in Tuxford may be seen The Church or rather Chapelry was as part of the Chapelry of Blyth given by King Iohn to Walter Arch-bishop of Roan and his successours and the Canons in that Church It continued a member of the free Chapel of Tikhill as in Lowdham and East Markham c. may be guessed William Davenport of Brome Hall Esquire in 1 H. 8. claimed against William Bradborne one Mess. eighty Acres of Land twenty of Medow sixty of Pasture twenty of Wood and 3s. 10d. Rent with the Appurtenances in Walesby Wellawe and Kyrton William Mason and Owen Shipley 9 Eliz. claimed against William Ingham two Mess. two Tofts two Gardens fifty Acres of Land c. in Walesby and Willughby who called Robert Markham Esquire The Vicarage of Walesby was 8l. when the Abbat of Westminster was Patron 'T is now 6l. 1s. 3d. value in the Kings Books and the Lord Viscount Hallifax Patron Bevercotes I Find not this place in Doomsday Book howbeit 't is certain it was of the Fee of Tikhill for William de Bevercotes held a Knights Fee here of Alice Countess of Ewe as of that Honour and paid two Marks for it in the former part of the Reign of H. 3. In the year 1224. William de Bevercotes confirmed to the Monks of Blyth all the Tenements and gifts which Roger de Bevercotes and Robert his son often written Bevereus his Ancestors gave except the Forein service of one Bovat of Land which Robert del Eschaler held in Bevercotes Rogerus de Bevercotes Robertus de Beverell 11 H. 2 -Joana Willielmus de Bevercotes defunctus 11 Joh. -Helewisa Willielmus de Bevercotes 1224. miles-Isabella Willielmus de Bevercotes Willielmus de Bevercotes miles 35 E. 1. Johannes de Bevercotes miles 4 E. 2 -Margeria Willielmus de Bevercotes 3 E. -Joana fil Ric. Byron Johannes de Bevercotes sine prole-Elianora Richard de Bevercotes-Avicia Johannes de Bevercotes-Joanna Richardus de Bevercotes-Anna fil Joh. Holingworth Alexander de Bevercotes-Anna fil haer Willielmi de Staynford Willielmus de Bevercotes-Margareta fil ..... Serleby Cuthbertus de Bevercotes-Barbara fil Will. Clerkson Will. de Bevercotes-Cecilia fil cohaer Joh. Constable de Kinalton mil. Cuthbertus de Bevercotes-Agnes fil haer Rob. Holt de Stubley Willielmus de Bevercotes ob juvenis s. p. Maria ux Rutlandi Molyneux s. p. Brigirta ux Joh. Colly s. p. Richard Thom. de Bevercotes Rich. Byrkets de Newark Alicia fil haer ux Tho. Massingberd Anthon. de Ordsall Samuel Kath. ux Robert Cumberworth Richard Thom. and of one Bovat which Raph Rap held in Elkeslay and except the Suit of his Mill of the same men Robert de Bevrecote 11 H. 2. ought relief for one Knights Fee of the Honour of Tichehella Robert de Beverell 9 R. 1. is certified to owe 20s. for having his Land viz. 12s. Land which was taken into the Kings hands for Earl Iohn Robert de Beverell 5 Ioh. ought 10l. for his Fine and Relief of one Knights Fee which he held of the Honour of Tikehull Ioane who had been wife of Robert de Bevercote 11 Ioh. gave account of xx m. and one Palfrey for having such seisin of the Land with the Appurtenances which the said Robert sold to her before he took her to wife Simon son of Fulc 11 Ioh. gave account of 30 m. for having the Land which was Robert Beverells in Bevercote and Milneton and Marcham which ought to descend to him from the said Robert as he said Helewisa who had been wife of William son of Robert 11 Ioh. gave account of C. and xx m. and iiii Palfreys that so she might have peace of Peter Burgess to whom the King had commanded her to marry William de Bevercote
35 E. 1. was Chancellour of Scotland King Edward the second in the beginning of his Reign sent to Robert Clifford his Warden William de Bevercote his Chancellour and Mr. Iohn de Weston his Chamberlain of Scotland certain Petitions exhibited by divers men of that Country to him in Parliament at Westminster to the intent that the men might be before them the said Robert William and Iohn at Berwick upon Twéed within a Month of Easter and be recompenced out of the Kings Money and Victuals in those parts according to their several deserts and the Kings honour In the view of the Account of Walter de Goushull and Reginald de Aslacton Collectors of Scurages 28 E. 1. and afterwards it is said that Sir William de Bevercotes held the Mannors of Bevercotes Markcham Milneton and Elkesley for one Knights Fee and that in 4 E. 2. Sir Iohn de Bevercotes held the said Mannor and so did when the view was taken and that the said Walter de Goushull who was Collector for the Scurages of Scotland Nort. and Derb. 28 31 and 34 E. 1. received 31 E. 1. of Iohn Bevercotes 40s. for one Knights Fee in Bevercotes of the Honour of Tykhull William de Bevercotes 3 E. 3. claimed to have Free Warren in all his Demesne Lands of his Mannor of Beverescote There was a Fine 26 H. 6. between William Staynford Quer. and Richard Bevercotes Esq Def. of the Mannor of Bevercotes with the Appurtenances and of five Mess. one Mill one hundred sixty and eighteen Acres of Land eighteen Acres of Medow and 14s. 5d. Rent with the Appurtenances in Milton Houghton Elkesley Little Markham Great Markham and Walisby whereby they were settled on the said Richard for life remainder to Alexander Bevercotes and Anne his wife and the heirs which he should beget on the body of the said Anne remainder to the right heirs of the said Richard William Wilbram and Ioane his wife held the Premises except the Mannor and one Mess. and 14s. 2d. Rent in Milton and Houghton during the life of Ioane There was an Inquisition taken 9 Ian. 3 E. 6. after the death of Cuthbert Bevercotes who died the sixteenth of Octob. then last past and held the Mannor of Bevercotes of the Honour of Tykhill Cuthbert Bevercotes junior was his Cousin and next heir nine years old the fourteenth of May then also last past There was a Fine 8 Ioh. betwixt Raph Fitz-Simon the Dean and Chapter of Rothomag and William de Bevercotes touching the Advowson of the Chapel of Bevercotes The last heir Male Cuthbert Bevercotes died without issue Male and having a daughter called Mary he married her to Rutland Molyneux younger son to Iohn Molyneux Esquire son and heir to Sir Edmund Molyneux one of the Judges of the Common Pleas and in marriage conveighed to them this Bevercotes and his other Lands Rutland Molyneux sold Bevercotes to the Earl of Clare lately deceased and it is the Inheritance of the Earl of Clare that now is his Grandson Houghton Hoctone THere was a Mannor in Hoctune which became the Fee of Roger Pictavensis and before the Conquest was Baldric's who for it paid the Geld as twelve Bovats The Land then being four Car. but was waste when the Survey was taken in the time of King William the first There were sixteen Acres of Medow Pasture Wood one qu. long eight Perches broad In the time of King Edward the Confessour the value of this was 60. in the Conquerours 20◠it had Soc in Walesby This came to be of the Fee of Lancaster as the rest of Roger Pictavensis his Lands in this County did The Family of Maresey or Mattersey held it as in Gameleston is already shown Yet the Chapel was accounted to belong to Tikhill as in many places may be noted Henry Earl of Lancaster and Leicester 3 E. 3. claimed to have in the Towns of Bothumsell Gameleston Hoghton Crophull and Holme with all their Members which are of the Fee of Lancaster return of all Writs Pleas of Withernam view of Frankepledge with all things which to view belong Waif and Stray c. and all Freedoms and Priviledges c. The Jury 35 E. 3. found that Iohn de Lungvillers had in Houghton two Mess. and half a Car. of Land ten Acres of Medow and two Water-Mills which he held of Nicolas Monboucher by the Service of a Rose and Thomas de Lungvilers was heir of the said Iohn as in Tuxford is also shown Upon the River Idle lies Houghton in Common Appellation called Houghton Lungvillers It came to Mallovell Lord of Rampton by the marriage of the heir of Lungvillers and afterwards to Stanhope in which Family it continued till Iohn Babington and Saunchia his wife daughter and heir of Richard Stanhope sold it to Sir William Hollis or his father great Grandfather to the Earl of Clare the Seat of which Family it still continueth Anthony Stapleton and Iohn Stanley Gent. 29 H. 8. claimed against Iohn Babington Esq and Saunchia his wife the Mannors of Hoghton Laxton and Egmanton with the Appurtenances and forty five Mess. c. in Hoghton Laxton Egmanton Little Markham Milneton South Marneham Walesby Ellesley South Leverton Cottum and East Retford Sir William Hollys and the Lady Elizabeth his wife sister of Thomas Scopeham mentioned by Mr. Dugdale in his Book of Warwickshire at Coventry Cross I take to be the Parents of this William Hollys the younger who became the Willielmus Hollis miles Major Civit. London-Elizab fil Georgii Scopham Willielmus Hollis de Houghton mil. 1 E. 6 -Anna fil haer Joh. Densell Serv. ad legem Densel Hollis-Elianora fil Edm. Dora Sheffeild Joh. Hollis mil. Com. Clare-Anna fil Tho Stanhope mil. Johannes Com. Clare-Eliz fil cohaer Horat. Dom. Vere de Tisbury Gilbertus Com. Clare ..... fil Willielmi Pierrepont .... Dom. Houghton Densel creat Dom. Hollis 13 C. 2. Gerv. Hollis-Franc fil haer Petri Frechevile Frechevile Hollis-Eliz fil haer Joh. Kingston de Grimsby Gerv. Hollis magist Supplic libell C. 2. Frechevile Hollis miles Joh. mil. Thom. mil. Good Sir William and married Anne the daughter and heir of Iohn Densill of Cornewall Serjeant at Law by which Lady for he after her death had also to wife Iane daughter of .... Grosvenor he had Denzill Hollis and Gervas who married Frances daughter and heir of Peter Frechevile of Stavely in Darbyshire and Elizabeth his wife only daughter of gentle Sir Gervas Clifton and Mary his wife daughter of Sir Iohn Nevill by whom the said Gervas had Frechevile Hollis who married Elizabeth daughter and heir of Iohn Kingston of Grimsby in Lincolneshire which Frechevile Hollis was father of Gervas Hollis one of his Majesties Masters of Requests a great Lover of Antiquities whose son Sir Frechevile Hollis lost an Arm in the Dutch War at Sea and since that his life Densill Hollys son of Good Sir William married Elianor daughter of Edmund Lord
fathers gift and so did Robert son of William the gift of the said Robert his Grandfather Walter Arch-bishop of York appropriated it Thomas de Chawrth confirmed the gifts and confirmations which his Ancestors had made viz. the gift of Robert Fitz-Ranulph of the Church with all the Appurtenances and the confirmation of William his son and of Robert son of the said William together with the Land which the said Robert son of the said William de Alfreton Grandfather of him the said Thomas de Chawrth quit-claimed lying between Appelhayheved and the Wood of Osberton which Land was formerly in contention between the said Robert son of the said William de Alfertun and Robert de Pyckburn sometimes Prior of Wyrkesop and there was also a Fine levied of this Advowson 47 H. 3. between Thomas de Chawrth and Iohn Prior of Wyrksop Thomas de Chewrth Lord of Osberton gave and granted to the said Prior and Covent that way in Osberton which lay between the Church-yard of the same Town on the West and the Mannor of the Prior and Covent of Wyrksop on the East and stretched it self in length from the South corner of the said Church-yard to the North corner Roger de Osberton in the time of Henry the third held a Knights Fee of the Honour of Tikhill Thomas de Chaworth 3 E. 3. claimed Free-Warren in his Demesne Lands at Marncham Edwalton and Osberton Thomas Dynham Gent. 31 H. 8. claimed against Iohan Fitz-William widow the third part of the Mannors of Marneham and Osberton with the Appurtenances c. and the third part of the Mannors of Alfreton and Norton in Darbyshire all which continued long to the Family of Chaworth of which that Ioan was part of an heir as in the Descent may be observed King Henry the eighth 3 Iuly 32 H. 8. granted the Grange called Osberton Grange lying in Osberton in the Parish of Worksop which was not so anciently as what is here noted shows to Robert Dighton Esquire and his heirs amongst other things together with Graveslane in Oxton Hardwick Grange and Hardwick Wood late belonging to the Priory of Wirksop paying for the Lands in Oxton 2s. for Osberton Grange 7s. and for the Land in Hardewick 9s. 5d. Matildis de Luvetot confirmed to the Monastery the whole Village of Herthwik given by her Ancestors before Robert Dighton 12 August 32 H. 8. had licence to alienate Hardwick Grange and Wood with all Houses Buildings and Hereditaments in Osberton Hardwick and Worksop belonging to it to Richard Whalley and his heirs And all Mess. Lands and Tenements in Oxton and Osberton Grange and the Houses c. in Osberton Hardwick and Worksop to William Bolles and his heirs It was lately William Leekes son and heir of Herbert Leek late of Halam which William had it by his wife who was of the Family of Bolles of Osberton by whom he hath left a son or two to preserve the Inheritance Ratcliff IT seems was another Hamlet of Wirksop but I have not met with any further memorable concerning it Kilton THere was a Controversie moved between Sir Thomas de Furnivall and his Tenants of Kylton on the one part and Richard Rolston otherwise called Chamberlayn on the other about the way of leading the draught Beasts of the Tenants of Kelton to the Pasture of Romwod appeased on this manner 4 Apr. 1301. That the Tenants of Kylton ought to drive their Cattel backward and forward fugare refugare by the way of Bresbrig and so by the way of Radford and from Radford by the way unto Southcotes belonging to the Priory of Wirkesop and from thence unto Bryndhastedys and so by the said bounds and limits to Kylton This was entred in the Court Roll of the said Sir Thomas Lord Furnivall the day and year above-said Matthew Feild William Meredith and Richard Springham 8 Eliz. claimed against Edward Casteling twenty Mess. twenty Cottages two Dovecotes twenty Barns twenty Gardens twenty Orchards five hundred Acres of Land one hundred and fifty of Medow three hundred of Pasture twenty of Wood and two hundred of Furz and Heath in Worksop Wylloughby Kylton Skafgreves Clarburgh and Retford of the Clay also the Rectory of Willoughby upon the Woldes and Advowson of the Vicarage of Willoughby and the Tythes of Corn and Hay in Willoughby Scofton IN Thorp Scoteby and Rounton were two Car. Soc to the Kings great Mannor of Maunsfeld There was a Writ of false Judgement 21 H. 8. between Elizabeth Fenton widow Plaintiff and Iohn Hill Thomas Capstoke and Robert Iohnson alias Robert Smith concerning three Mess. two hundred Acres of Land forty of Medow twenty of Pasture four of Wood and 10s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Scofton in the Kings Court of Maunsfeild in Sherwood The prime Capital Mess. in Scofton hath for some time belonged to the Iesoppes Ryton IT appears 30 E. 1. that Stephen Malovel gave a Mess. two hundred and sixty Acres of Land and seven of Medow in Renetone nigh Wirksop to Alice the wife of Ranulph de Huntingfeld who bound himself to Iohn de Melsa in C. Marks by a Statute Merchant and failing in payment the Sheriff caused the Land to be extended at a reasonable price viz. 4l. 9s. 1d. and put the said Iohn in seisin in which he stood for a year and more until the said Ranulph and Alice disseised him c. Upon this came William de Dogmerfeld who said he was the Kings Bayliff of his Mannor of Maunesfeld and that Renetone was a member of the Kings said Mannor and the Tenements put in view Antient Demesne c. In this are Recorded very many of the Customs of Mansfeld which shows that they are as like Freeholders as Copyholders can be Reyton hath been and still is the place of Residence of a Family-named Eyre viz. William Eyre of Reyton descended from Eyre of Hope in Com. Derb. -Anna fil haer Dom. de Reyton Edm. Eyre de Reyton -Margeria fil Rob. Coyney de Weston Coyney Staff Robertus Eyre de Reyton -Dorothea fil Georgii Columbel de Darley Derb. Georgius Eyre de Ryton superstes 1614 -Anna fil Rob. Spark de Nantwich Ches Rob. Eyre fil haer aet 11. 1614 -Elizab fil Will. Saunderson de Blith 1 Will. Evre natus 1626. 2 Georg. 3 Gervas 4 Robert Franc. 2 Will. 3 Joseph 4 Thom. Clumber HAd three Bov. of the Soc of Maunsfeld and in Clumber were two Mannors of Roger de Buslies Fee which before the Conquest Adeluvol and Vlchil had and paid as for five Bov. to the Geld. The Land being two Car. Part of it viz. two Bov. was waste which Fulc held In the other Vlchel had under Roger one Car. and one Mill of 12d. Pasture Wood two qu. long one qu broad In the Confessours time this was 20s. when Doomsday Book was made 4s. The Woods of Clumbre were of the Sokage of Maunesfeld and
haer ..... Marmiâ—â— Willielmus Dom. Fitz-Hugh ob 22 Octob. 31 H. 6. Henricus Fitz-Hugh ob 8 Jan. 14 E. 4. Richardus Fitz-Hugh ob 3 H. 7. Georgius Fitz-Hugh ob 4 H. 8. sine prole Albreda ux Rob. de St. Quintin Ad. de St. Mar. Mabel Leticia-Ranulf de Novo foro Robertus de Novo mercato Juliana Richard Simon de Chevrolcurt Beatrix Bodinus de Ravensworth s. p. Bardolf Akarius Harveus Henricus Ranulfus de Ravenswath-Alicia fil haer Adae de Staveley Henricus Ranulfus s. p. Hugo-Albreda Henricos fil Hugonis Joana ob 23 E. 3. post fratrem-Henricus de Ravensworth when he died held 10l. Land and Rent in le Kingston of the King in Capite by the service of a pair of Gilt Spurrs or six pence yearly And that the said Richard together with Sibyll his wife joyntly feoff'd by Fine held the Mannor of Carleton of the Castle of Tikhill and the moyety of the Mannor of Bothumsell of the Earl of Lancaster and that William was his son and next heir and that the said Richard dyed the Wednesday next before the Feast of St. Luke the Evangelist that year and then his son William was above twenty one years of age In 9 E. 2. Carleton answered for a whole Villa and the Lords were certified to be William de Fourneaux and Sibylla de Fourneaux Sibylla 3 E. 3. claimed for her life Infangthef Gallowes and Park in the Mannor of Carleton in Lyndryk Thom. de Carleton then also claimed the Amends of the Assize of Bread and Ale broken of his Tenents in Carleton in Lyndryk William de Fountayns of Kingholm brother and heir of Richard son of William son of Richard son of Ivo son of Richard who lived in King Iohns time claimed against William de Furneus 3 E. 3.10l. Rent with the Appurtenances in Carleton in Lyndryk c. The Jury 23 E. 3. found that William Furneaux held when he died 10l. Rent with the Appurtenances in Carleton in Lyndryk c. and that Thomas le Latymer then aged twenty six years son of Sibyll le Latymer one of the sisters was one heir of the said William and Ioane his other sister then living whom Henry son of Henry de Ravenswath had to wife was his other heir The Jury 27 E. 3. said that this Ioane sister of the said William de Furneax over-lived her brother but a month and had a son named Henery heir of her and her said husband Henry son of Henery de Ravenswath who was called Henry Fitz-Hugh his Grand-father who out-lived his father being son of Hugh brother and heir of Ranulf son of Henery son of Ranulf son of Henery son of Harvey son of Akaris son of Bardolf brother and heir of Bodin de Ravensworth Akarius son of Bardolf founded Iorevault and Harvey his son was a great benefactor to it The Jury 30 E. 3. found that Thomas Latymer held when he died the moyety of the Hamlet of Kingeston in Carleton and the Mannor of Carleton which extended it self into Beyghton and the moyety of the Mannor of Bothumsell and that Henry son of Henery de Ravenswath was his next heir The Jury 10 R. 2. found that Henry Fitz-Hugh died seised of a certain Mannor in Carleton called Kingeston held of the King and of the Mannor of Carleton in Lindrik held of Iohn Duke of Lancaster as of the Honour of Tikhill and of the moyety of the Mannor of Bothumsell held also of him of the Honour of Lancaster and that Henry Fitz-Hugh Knight was his son and heir The Lands which were Henry Fitz-Hughes Chr. in the Counties of Yorke Northumberland Nott. and Cambridge were to be seised 22 Sept. 10 R. 2. Henry Fitz-Hugh Chr. 3 H. 6. left his son and heir William Fitz-Hugh Chr. of full age William Fitz-Hugh Knight son of Henry 31 H. 6. left Henry Fitz-Hugh his heir of full age 15 Febr. Patron of the Abbey of St. Mary of Iorevaux c. and Staveley and Brunsall Advowsons in Yorkshire and many Lands and Mannors there Henry Fitz-Hugh Lord of this Mannor 12 E. 4. left his son Richard his heir fourteen years old Richard Fitz-Hugh Lord Fitz-Hugh dyed 3 H. 7. leaving his son and heir George half a year old who dyed without issue about 4 H. 8. Thomas Fenys Knight Lord Dacre 5 H. 8. suffered a recovery of the moyety of these Mannors and called to warrant Alice Fenys Widow and Gregory Fynes alias Fenys Lord Dacre and Anne his wife 13 Eliz. suffered another of the Mannors of Bothumsall Carleton Kingeston and Carleton Baron c. Queen Elizabeth 8 Mar. 22 Eliz. granted to Iohn Molyneux Esquire the Lordships or Mannors of Carleton Kingston and Carleton Baron and all singular Mess. Lands c. in Carleton in Lindrick Worsop Ellesiey Normanton Little Morton Wallingwells Auste Reyton and Reyton Grange in the Counties of Nott. and York or other-where in this County then extended at 27l. 17s. 7d. per annum which were late the possessions of Thomas Lord Dacre Great Grand-father of Gregory the then Lord Dacre or of Thomas Lord Dacre father of the said Gregory Sir Iohn Molyneax the Grand-child of that Iohn leased it for eighty years to one .... Halsey and since that Vivian Molyneax Esquire son and heir of that Sir Iohn sold the inheritance of it to Sir Gervas Clifton Kt. and Baronet who hath in effect all the rest of the Lands in Carleton save what belongeth to the Monastery of Wallingwelles the scite whereof and much of the Lands 19 Feb. 5 E. 6. was demised to Iohn Frankwell Esquire for twenty one years at the yearly value of 12l. 13s. 3d. and by Queen Eliz. 5 Aug. 6 Eliz. granted to Richard Pype of London Lether-seller and Francis Bowyer Grocer and to the heirs of Richard Pype who afterwards as I suppose was Sir Richard Pype and father of Humfrey father of Richard Pype Esquire whose inheritance and place of residence it was in my time but his Nephew and heir .... Pype hath sold it not very long since to Major Sam. Taylor who for some time had the oversight of the Moll at Tangier for our present Soveraign King Charles the second The Jury 10 E. 2. found it not to the Kings loss if he granted Iohn de Loudham licence to give to Thomas de la Grene of Carleton 30s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Carleton in Lindrick c. It seems Sir Iohn Loudham with this Rent of Assize granted to this Thomas de Carleton one Mess. called White Hall and one Carucat of Land there held of the Mannor of Kingston in Carleton and by the Custome of the Mannor partible amongst all the sons Thomas de Carleton had a son Henry de Carleton which Henry and Mary his wife the Jury 13 R. 2. found were seised of 23s. Rent and the White Hall c. and that Henry had
gave and confirmed to the Canons of Wellebec the Mill of Bileby which William Fitz-Ranulf her father gave with his body there to be buried and the moyety of the Mill of Blackwell which Idonea her mother gave to the said Canons with her body there to be buried also Gilbert son and heir of Iohn de Orreby gave to the said Canons all his right and claim in divers Tenants of Bileby with their sequels c. Thomas de Chaworth Knight called chief Lord of the Town of Bilby being heir of the elder House as in Weverton may be seen granted to the said Canons full and free Power to make and repair their Damm or Pool of Bileby as oft as need should be and to take and dig Turf and Earth on both sides of it with free passage to carry it through the Alderholt Alnetum of Bileby without the impediment of him his heirs or assigns as long as the Custody of the Town of Bileby should be in his hands or of his heirs or assigns Sir Thomas de Chaworth held half a Knights Fee in Billeby and in 4 E. 2. Sir Thomas de Chaworth son of Sir William held it And in the time of Henry the sixth or Edward the fourth Thomas Chaworth held three Fees in Alfreton Norton Bilby and Ranby Iohn de Orreby and Thurstan Despencer held in Bilby the third part of one Knights Fee and a twelfth part of the Countess of Ewe or Augi Lady of Tikhill Bilby 9 E. 2. answered for half a Villa whereof Iohn de Orreby was then Lord. In Queen Elizabeths time Edward Osborne Knight Alderman of London paid for his Lands in Bilby late Sir William Hewetts and before time Iohn de Orrebyes and Thurstan Dispensers sometime Thomas Chaworths held by the Service of a third part and a twelfth part of a Knights Fee 2s 9d. q. Richard Appleby 11 Eliz. claimed against Edward Osborne and Anne his wife the Mannors of Bilby and Ranby which William Gresley Esquire and others gave to Richard Appleby and Elizabeth his wife c. Sir Edward Osborne Knight and Baronet the Aldermans heir sold it to Sir Gervas Clifton Knight and Baroner and it continueth with his posterity Ranby is an old decayed Town where certain Oaks lately grew called Ranby Oaks It was most of it waste in the Conquerours time some of it was of the Soc of the Kings Mannor of Bodmescell Ranesby and Sudershale answered the Geld or Tax for five Bov. The Land was one Car. ½ waste There was also of that Soc in Raneby two Car. ad geldam The Land four Car. waste There was also of Roger de Busli's Fee Soc to Grove one Bov. ½ ad geldam The Land one Car. in Grove waste Soc also in Eton one Bov. of Land to the Geld. It went it seems with Bilby with which part of it is Parish to Blyth and part of Ranby to Babworth Babworth Moreton And Normanton SOC to the Kings Mannor of Bodmeschell which Earl Tosti had before the Conquest in Babworth Oglesthorp and Ordsall were six Bov. of Land and an half for the Geld. The Land three Car. was waste except that there were one Vill. and two Bord. with half a Plow or Car. There were ten Acres of Medow There was a Mannor in Babword of Roger de Busli's Fee which Vlmer had before who paid for it as two Bov. and an half The Land being two Car. There Goisfrid the Man of Roger had one Car. and one Bord. with half a Car. Pasture Wood two qu. long one broad In the Confessours time this was 40s. value in the Conquerours but 10s. It seems the Family of Saundeby had very anciently some interest here as in that place may be observed Babbeworth in 9 E. 2. answered for half a Villa and the Earl of Lancaster and Robert de Saundeby were then certified to be Lords of it William de Grendon held half a Knights Fee in Babworth of the old Feoffment of the Honour of Lancaster The Jury in 30 H. 3. found that William de Grendon held of Robert de St. George Lord of Bodmeshell in Babworth two Bov. and an half and paid 3s. 4d. per annum Robert de Swillington 22 E. 1. had free warren granted in Babworth There was an Assize taken before William Skippewyth and his fellows at Nottingham 28 E. 3. between Sir Thomas de Grendon Chr. and Henry de Grendon of Warmesworth his brother concerning the Mannor of Babword with the Advowson of the Church which the said Henry acknowledged to be the right of the said Thomas who afterwards sold it to Sir William Trussebutt and his heirs who within three years of his possession gave the Advowson of the Church of Babbeword to the Priory of Newstede and that he did by the Kings licence and the licence of Sir Thomas de Saundeby Chief and Mesne Lord whose Charters the Cannons had Sir Robert Trussebutt son and heir of Sir William entred after the death of his father into the said Mannor and Appurtenances and Rents but claimed nothing concerning the said Advowson nor meddled any thing with it And the Prior and Covent of Newstede in the life of Sir William Trussebutt presented to the said Church of Babbeword one William Dobyn of Burgh Clark in the Kings Chancery And the said Sir Robert Tâ—ussebutt within two years after the death of the said Sir William his father by the counsel of his friends sold the said Mannor of Babbeword with the Appurtenances to Sir Richard de Willughby Lord of Wollaton and his heirs making mention in his Deed of Sale saying thus with the Advowson of the Church of the said Town Yet the said Sir Richard de Willughby made no claim but the said William de Burgh continued Rector upon their presentation having held the Church above two years before the Sale and four years after In Queen Elizabeths time Richard Wortely paid for his Lands in Babworth sometimes William de Grindons held by the service of half a Knights Fee 3s. 4d. It was within memory sold to Sir Gervas Elwis Moretons THere was Soc to the Kings Mannors of Bodmeschell in one Moreton and the other Moretune ten Bov. ad Geldam The Land four Car. There seven Sochm. one Bord. had four Car. Pasture Wood two qu. long one broad Of Roger de Busli's Fee in Norther Moreton were two Mannors which before the Conquest Alfrid and Lufchell had paying to the Geld for two Bov. The Land two Car. was waste Pasture Wood one qu. long half one broad In the Confessours time the value was 16s. The Jury 30 H. 3. said that Thomas de Stratton held of Robert de St. George in Moreton two Bov. and an half of Land for 16s. per annum and Richard Abbat the third part of a Bovat in the same Town for 5s. Robert le Vavasor of Morton near to Retford married Matildis the
the same River to Otter Brigge from thence by the great High-way of Nottingham to the Mill Ford from thence to Mayneshead from thence betwixt the Fields of Hardwick and Kirkeby to the corner that is called Nun Carre from thence by the Assert of Ewan Brittayne to the Earl Stigh and from thence to Stolegate from thence by the great High-way under the Castle of Annesley from thence by the great High-way to the Town of Linbye through the midst of the Town to the water of Liene so to Lenton and from thence by the same water as it was wont of old time to run into the water of Trent and so along the River of Trent to the fall of Doverbecke saving Wellay Hay and other the Kings Demesne Woods in the County of Nottingham This I have the rather done that most men may know when they are within and when without the Forest. And although there were some deafforestations after yet were they resumed so as the old Perambulation stands at this day without any remarkable alteration There have not been many Justice Seats in this Forest of Shirewood those that I have met withal I shall here observe The first was in Henry the second 's time before Hugh Bishop of Durrham Robert Bishop of Lincolne and Robert Earl of Leicester The next I find was in Henry the third's time before Robert Nevill and his fellows Justices The next after that was 15 E. 1. before William Vescy and his fellows and of this Justice Seat the Rolls are extant with the Chamberlains of the Exchequer in the Tallye Office as also the Rolls of the next Justice Seat of 8 E. 3. before Raph Nevill and his fellows The next Justice Seat I can meet with is 21 H. 7. before Simon Stalworth and Iohn Collier Clarks Robert Nevill and Iohn Port or Porter and before them as Deputies and Lieutenants of Sir Thomas Lovell Guardian and Chief Forester and Justice of the Forest of our Lord the King of Shirewood But this Seat I cannot find Recorded in any place although I made diligent enquiry for it upon a claim there for the Town of Nottingham and upon conference with William Noy the late Atturney General to his Majesty that now is he told me it was no where to be found where he had seen I have seen some claims as the beginning of another Justice Seat for this particular Forest 26 H. 8. before Thomas the first Earl of Rutland but no further proceeding therein that I could learn The last upon Record in the Exchequer in the same Tally Office is a Book wherein is entred the Claims and Commencement of a Justice Seat here before the then Lord Crumwell the Kings then Chief Justice in Eyre of his Forests on the North side of Trent The state of this Forest at this present consists of a Warden his Lieutenant and his Steward a Bow-bearer and a Ranger four Verderors twelve Regarders so reduced to the number of twelve by an Ordinance made in Edward the first 's time by William Vescy and his fellows four Agisters and twelve Keepers or Foresters in the main Forest besides there are now four Keepers in Thorney Woods where anciently there were but two one of the North Bayle another of the South they are all reduced under the Chief Forestor the Earl of Chesterfeild and his heirs whose Father Sir Iohn Stanhoppe had the same granted in Fee with liberty to destroy and kill at their pleasures reserving an hundred Deer in the whole Walk There are also besides the Forest-Keepers three in Beskwood Park that before Edward the third's time was an Hay or Wood uninclosed but sithence it was imparked the general Keeper of the Park hath had the Command of the other Keepers as I presume the general Forester of the Hay had before for I find Richardus de Strelley was Forester there 2 E 3. There is also one other Keeper of Nottingham Parke one other of Clipston Parke The twelve Forest Keepers are these One of Maunsfeilde one of Maunsfeild Woodhouse one of Annefley Hills and Newstede one of Papplewicke one of Rumwood and Oswald one of Rughford one of Billahay one of Birkeloud one of Calverton one of Farnesfeilde one of Langton Arbour and Blidworth and one of Sutton in Ashefeild The Castle and the Park of Nottingham was granted to the late Earl Francis of Rutland and is now the Inheritance of the Dutchess of Buckingham his daughter and heir Clipston Park is now the Inheritance of the Earl of Newcastle who is the present Warden of this Forest and his are also the perpetual placing of the Keeper of Romwood and Oswald The Keepership of Rughford is the inheritance of Sir William Savile Lord of Rughford Annefley Hills Papplewick and Newstéede are granted to Sir Iohn Byron Lord of Newstéede and the rest of the Walks are in the disposition of the Warden of the Forest. There are besides as members of the Forest several Wood-wards for every Township within the Forest and for every principal Wood one It would not be impertinent to set down how that in the beginning of the Reign of King Henry the second Ranulph the Sheriff Hugh de Buyrun Raph de Hanselin Robert de Perreriis Raph de Annesley Galfr. de le Fremunt Raph de Heronvill Hugh Fitz-Wlviet Robert de Hoveringham Alexander Fitz-Toche Simon Fitz-Richard Robert de Ripera Richard de Croxton William de Herys Walter de Amundevill Sampson de Stereley Gervas Fitz-Richard de Muey Ingelram the brother of the Sheriff Hugh Fitz-Roger William Fitz-Reyner Hugh Fitz-Albred Hardewin and Gaufr de Staunton swore at Nottingham in the presence of Robert Earl of Leicester who on the part of the King Commanded them that they should tell the truth concerning the Customs and Liberties which the Land of the Arch-bishop of York which is in Nottinghamshire and the Archbishop himself had in the same Shire in the time of King Henry the elder viz. the first and the year and day wherein that King Henry the first was alive and dead And after they had sworne they said That the whole Land of the Arch-bishop was without the Forest which was contained between the bounds underwritten As Doverbeck falleth into Trent and on the upper part from the water of Doverbeck unto Ciningeswad as the way of Blyth goes and all that Land which is beyond Ciningeswad and beyond the aforesaid way was out of the Forest unto Bykersdike so that no Forester of the Kings could intermeddle on the Kings part concerning that Land but the Arch-bishop and his men did freely both Essart and do what they would with it as their own And out of the afore-named bounds in the old Forest the Arch-bishop did Hunt nine daies in the year viz. three against Christmass three against Easter and three against Whit sunday through the whole Wood of Blythworth and in that Wood of Blythworth the Arch-bishop and his Canons and his men had all their Attachments without waste guasto
16 E. 2. said that Agnes who had been Wife of Reginald Iort held likewise the third part of two Mess. and of two Virgats of Land c. as before Reginald le Iort being her son and heir The Jury the same year found it not to the Kings loss if Reginald le Iort had licence to keep to himself and his heirs the third part of two Mess. and of two Virgats of Land which he had of Alice the daughter of Nicholas le Taylour held of the King as the Mannor of Ratcliff then was by keeping the Kings Ostery or place for Hawks and paying yearly 3s. 8d. Henry le Hauker 10 E. 3. was found to have held one Mess. sixty Acres of Land in Kinston of the King in capite by the service of carrying a Falcon before him in winter Iohn le Ward of Kinston was then his Cousin and Heir This Hauker when he died held one Mess. â—our Bov. in Kinston of Sir Peter Pygot then Lord of Radclyve on Sore but the Jury found that his Cousin and Heir the said Ward held them then viz. 12 E. 3. of Raph Basset of Drayton The Jury 20 E. 3. found it not to the Kings loss if he granted Robert the son of Reginald le Iort to hold one Mess. and one Virgat or Yard-land and two parts of another Mess. and Virgat of Land in Kinston and Radclive on Sore for finding one to appear at the Kings great Turne of Riscliff twice in the year Katherine who had been Wife of William Sutton was found 10 H. 6. to have been seized of three Mess. fourscore Acres of Land four of Medow in Kinston Cortlingstok Bonington Sutton and Léek half a Mess. ten Acres of Land and one of Medow were held of the King in capite by petty serjeancy Thomas Fawkener being her next heir This Lordship was the seat of the Babingtons and a very fair House they had here but the first note of their interest here that I have seen except that on the Tomb-stone in Radcliff Church is a Recovery 1 H. 8. where Henry Sacheverell Knight Thomas Babington Iohn Port and Raph Sacheverell claim against Anthony Babington two Mess. one hundred and sixty Acres of Land twenty of Medow ten of Pasture and 16s. 8d. rent with the appurtenances in Kinston and Ratcliff upon Sore who called to warrant Iohn Bonington I have seen a Copy of a Deed bearing date the 20th of Febr. 8 Eliz. between Iohn Lord Darcy of Aston in the County of York and Henry Babington of Dethick in the County of Darby Esq in which the said Henry covenants to levy a fine before the Feast of the Nativity of St. Iohn Baptist then next ensuing to the said Lord Darcy and Sir Thomas Metham of the Mannors of Dethick and Leichurch and his Lands in Coleaston Tannesly Draynefeild Wassington Workesworth Radburne Heige Asheover Plaistowe Wheatcroft Pingston Bredon and Tongue and the moyety of the Mannor of Norton in the County of Darby and of the Mannor of Kinston in the County of Nottingham and his Lands in Kinston Goteham Alsworth Marneham Normanton Osberton Bilby Ranby and Mattersey and the Rectory of Marneham and the presentment for the third turn to the Rectory of Gotham in this County all which or most of them were thereby intayled on the heirs Males of him the said Henry Babington begotten and to be begotten on the body of Mary his then Wife Sister of the said Lord Darcy This Mannor in the Raign of Queen Elizabeth by the Attainder of Anthony Babington for Treason and the unthriftiness of Francis Babington his Brother afterwards came to the hands of Gilbert late Earl of Shrowsbury and by his daughter the Countess of Kent was sold to the Lady Hide The whole Lordship hath been long inclosed and much depopulated and was lately Sir Thomas Hides There is a Tomb in the Chappel of some curiosity of Stone-work on which are very many Cotes of Arms but no Inscription chiefly Babington impaling most other Families named in the following Pedegree which therefore is not amiss to be inserted Dominus Johannes de Babington miles factus in servitio Regis Ed. 3. capitan de Morlais in Brittaniâ Armorsc Domin Johannes de Babington-Benedicta fil haer Simon Ward de Comit Cantabr Tho. Babington de Dethick in Com. Darb. jure â—xoris -Isabel fil haer Roberti de Dethick Johannes Babington occis apud Bosworth -Isabella fil Henrici Bradburne de Hough Tho. Babington de Dethick ob Mar. 13. 1518. 10 H. 8 -Edith fil Rad. Fitz-Herbert de Norbury 1 Dom. Anthonius Babington de Dethick -Eliz fil Joh. Ormond de Alfreton Janae ux fil Will. Chaworth -Kather fil Joh. Ferrers mil. Tho. Babington ob 3 Eliz. -Katherina fil Hen. Sacheverell mil. Hen. Babington de Dethick -Fran fil Joh. Markham mil. -Maria fil Georg. Dom. Darcie de Aston 8 Eliz. Anthonius Attinct -Margeria fil Johan Draycot de Paynsley Franciscus-fil ... Roe de London Georgius ... fil Vine Ferdinando .... Anna fil Roberti Alvey de Carcolston Johannes Babington 〈◊〉 32. 1672. 〈◊〉 Beaumont Dâ—â—ie de Seâ—sâ—on Ferdinando Cornelius Johannes Babington -Saunch fil haer Ric. Stanhope de Rampton Original Babington de Rampton 2 Joh. 4 Rol. 6 Tho. 8 Rob. 3 Rad. 5 Hum. 7 Wil. 9 Geor. Eliz. An. Kat. Dor. Jan. Eliz. Do. Will. Babington Capital Baro 7 H. 5. Cap. Justic. de Banc. 1 H. 6. Equ Balnei Margeria fil haer ... Martel de Chillwell ob Feb. 2 1442. Will. Babington de Chillwell Johannes Bab. miles s. p. Etheldena ux .... Eltonhead postea ux ... Delves Eliz. ux Th. Nevile de Rolleston Rob. Ratcliffe on Sore Doomesd Radeclive THis Town whose name importeth as much as Red Hill or Bank scituate upon the River of Sore and nearer the River Trent than Kinston was also Taynland and before the Norman Invasion Osgod was owner of a Mannor here which usually then paid to the publick Tax as ten Bovats ¼ The Land was six Carucats Afterwards Sauvinus named in Kinston held it of the King William and had two Carucats or Plows or Plowlands nine Villans three Bordars having two Carucats Here was then a Priest and a Church and one Mill 10s. and six Acres of Medow the value then was 60s. but in King Edward the Confessors time 100s. It had Soc in Chineston which hath been ever accounted as a membeâ— of it and was of the Parish as was also Thrumpton which yet was not of the same fee at all though the Tythes belonged to this Church of Radclive which was shortly after this time given by one of the ancient Constables of Chester as appears by the confirmation of Roger the Constable to the Priory of Norton which Roger died in the year 1211. He mentions Iohn his Father and William the younger who was son of William son of Nigellus all Constables of Chester and their gifts and amongst the rest the Church of
before Sir Hugh Shirley performed not the Conditions nor did he quietly enjoy the Lands of the Lord Basset so devised by the said Will Edmund Earl Stafford being through an old intail made of them by Raph Lord Basset his Grandfather in 13 E. 3. found heir to the rest opposing him therein Howbeit there was an agreement at length and though the said Earl and Sir Hugh were both slain in the Battel of Shrowsbury 4 H. 4. before it was sealed yet the Feoffees of the Lord Basset 2 H. 6. released all their interest here and in Colston Basset in this County and in the Mannors of Rakdale Willowes Radclive super Wreke Barrow super Sore Dunton and Watton in the County of Leicestershire of West-Halle and East-Halle in Sheldon in the County of Warwick unto Sr Raph Shirley son and heir of Sir Hugh and the heirs Males of his body which Sir Raph had his residence at this Manner of Radclive 10 H. 6. This Mannor was granted with some others 1 R. 3. to Sir Gervas Clifton as part of the forfeited Lands of Henry Duke of Buckingham Yet Edward Duke of Buckingham 5 H. 8. suffered a recovery of the Mannor of Ratcliff on Sore and Knesale After the Attainder of Humfry Duke of Buckingham this Mannor came to Sir Richard Sacheverell Knight who left it to Raph Sacheverell his Brother or near Kinsman in which Name and Family it continued till Henry Sacheverell Esquire the last owner thereof who purchased also from the Crown the Rectory impropriate there that lies in Ratcliff estated the same on Sir Thomas Hutchinson his Sisters son but he out of tenderness to his Cousin Elianor the Wife of Roger Columbell Esquire the sole daughter and heir of the said Henry Sacheverell his Uncle agreed to divide it between them and so one moyety of this fertile inclosed Lordship remains to the heirs of Iohn Columbell son of the said Elianor who married .... Hickman sister of the present Lord Windsore who now takes care of her Children and the other moyety was by Colonel Iohn Hutchinson eldest son of the said Sir Thomas sold to Alderman Ireton Radulphus Sacheverell de Hopwell in Com. Derb. Dom. Ric. Sacheverell miles ob 25 H. 8. Sepult in le Newark in Leicester s. p. -Maria domina Hungerford Relict Ed. dom Hastings matris Com. Huntington Joh. Sachev de Morley Hopwell 2 Radulphus Sacheverell de Radclive 25 H. 8. ob 31 H. 8 -Cecilia-Anna Henricus Sacheverell de Radcliff ob Jul. 29.5 6 P. M. -Lucia fil haer Joh. Pole de Hertington in Com. Derb. Ar. 1 Henricus Sacheverell de Radclive aerat 16. an ad mortem patr -Jana filia Germani Ireton 5 6 Ph. Mar. Hen. Sacheverell de Radclive .... Boughton-Tho Grantham miles Marit 2. Elianor post ux Will. Hasard -Roger Columbell de Derley Johannes Columbell ... fil Hickman Ed. Marow de Berkswell Com. Warwick -Anna Dom. Sam. Marow miles ... fil Arth. Carey mil. Jana ux Thom. Hutchinson 2 Johannes 1 Hen. Sacheverell de Morley miles Brother of Henry Ireton the great instrument in the unhappy Wars This Elianor after her Husband Columbells decease Married her servant William Hasard who proved a good Husband to her and a kind and careful Father to her Children they dwelt in an house built at the Red hill by the side of the River Soure between Radclive and the Trent The Abbat and Covent of the House of the blessed Mary of Norton in the County of Chester 11 H. 4. released to the Prior and Covent of Burscogh and their Successours all their right in the Advowson of the Church of Radclive upon Sore sometime Iohn de Winwicks The Vicarage is in the Kings Books 6l. 13s. 4d. and so it was valued when the Prior of Burscogh was Patron Upon a Tomb in a little Chappel on the North side of the Church Hic jacent Radulphus Sacheverell Ar. nuper Dominus de Ratcliff super Sore Cecilia Anna uxores ejus qui quidem Radulphus ob 14 Aug. 1539. praedicta Cecilia ob 27 Jun. 1538. praedicta Anna migravit ab hoc saeculo Vpon a fair Tomb in the Chancell Here lyeth the Bodyes of Henry Sacheverell Esquire and Lucy his Wife daughter and heir of Iohn Pole Esquire which Henry dyed 29 Jun. 1558. and Lucy dyed 10 Febr. 1554. upon whose c. Upon a plain Stone Hic jacet Elizabetha uxor Anthonii Babington Ar. filia una haeredum Johannae Ormond filiae haeredis Willielmi Chaworth Militis ac unius Consanguinearum haeredum Roberti Laâ—home ... Caltoft Johannis Bret Thomae Aylesbury Thomae Keynes Militum ac Rad. Basset Johannis Engaines Baronum quae Elizabetha ob 28 Nov. anno 1505. Upon another plain Stone close by that Hic jacet Isabella quondam uxor Johannis Babington de Dethik Ar. ac Domini de Kinston quae obiit 18 Mar. Anno Dom. 1486. In the Chancell upon a plain Stone Hic jacet Jacobus Damport filius Domini Tho. Damport Militis qui obiit 15 die Aprilis Anno Dom. 1458. Upon a Stone near that for a Child Hic jacet Jacobus Eadmunson filius Edwardi Eadmunson qui Jacobus ob 27 Dec. 1519. Upon another plain Stone somewhat higher Cy gyst Johan file heire Tho. Basset Fitz S. John Basset de Br .... la feme Sir Raph Shirley Fitz heire Hugh de Shirley Upon a plain Stone in the body of the Church Hic jacet Thom. Fyndern Ar. Eliz. uxor ejus filia Rad. Sacheverell Ar. qui Tho. ob 24 Sept. anno dom ... Eliz. ob ... 1574. Thrumpton Doomsd. Turmodeston SO called from Turmod some old owner 't is like In it before the Conquest Leuvin and Elvod were rated at seven Bov. to the Tax for their Mannor The Land whereof was two Carucats There Roger de Busli whose Fee it was had one Carucat three Sochm two Villans two Bordars having one Carucat and an half this in the Confessours time was valued at 40s. in the Conquerours at 20s. Here was another Mannor of William Peverells fee which before the Conquest Stapleuvin owner also in Stapleford had rated to the Geld at three Bov. â…“ The Land one Car. There afterwards four Sochm. had one Car. and five Acres of Medow This kept the old value 5s. 4d. Here was another parcel Soc to Edwalton of the fee of Hugh de Greatmaisnill rated to the publick Tax at one Bov. and an half The Land was one Car. There were two Sochm. two Bordars with two Carucats or Plows and three Acres of Medow It lay in Sandiriuca or Sandiacre on the other side the Trent in Darbishire That of Buslies fee was held by the Family of Putrell who had their seat here and continued owners till the 5 Iac. that Tho. Poutrell and Iohn his Brother sons of Walter Poutrell conveyed it to Gervase Pigot Gent. Grandfather of Gerv. Pigot Esquire the present owner 1672. It was with
some of the Lands before the Statute de Donis Conditionalibus and some after he only recovered the latter and the Tenents whom he impleaded kept the former Here was a Family which had their name from this place and became of very great note in the beginning of the Reign of King Henry the fourth Galfr de Rempeston Hugo de Rempeston Robertus de Rempeston .... Alicia fil Walteri de Snaynton ux prima Tho. de Rempeston 18 E. 1 -Cecilia Johannes de Rempeston 2 E. 2. 22 E. 3. Tho. de Remston miles Garterii temp H. 4 -Margareta-Godefr Foliambe marit 2. Thom. de Rempston miles ob 15 Oct. 37 H. 6 -Alicia fil haer Thom. Bekering Elizabetha-Joh Cheyney miles Isabel-Brian Stapleton miles Brian Stapleton miles-Jana fil Joh. dom Lovell Marga◠-Ricardus Bingham junior Robertus Amicia ux Walteri de Finchfeild 2 Rad. de Sutton-Alicia 19 E. 1 -1 Ph. le Clerk Thomas 1 Brian Stapleton mil. ob 2 Apr. 4 E. 6 -Eliz fil Hen. dom Scroop -Jana fil Tho. Basset Ric. Stapleton miles ... ... Brian Stapleton Ar. Willielmus Brian vir Aliciae fil Franc. Roo◠2 Georgius Stapleton de Rempston ob 6 Eliz. -Marg fil Will. Gasgill Hen. de Rempston ob 29 Eliz. Dec. 28. Fides ux Math. Babington s. p. Anthon. vir Aliciae Roos post Brian Georgius Gertrud ux Baldw. Aclond Willielmus Johannes Stapl. vendidit Joana ux Will. Perpont Robert de Rempeston who lived in the time of King Henry the third Married for his first Wife Alice the daughter of Walter de Snaynton who gave him two Mess. and five Bov. in Rempston in Frank-marriage but he had only a daughter by her called Alice His son Thomas de Rempston who succeeded him here was by another Wife The Prior and Covent of Lenton by their instrument dated 1267. granted that Robert de Rempston might have a Chantry in his Chappell of his Mannor of Rempston so as he did not admit the Parishioners to hear Divine Service in prejudice of the Mother Chuch and that his Chaplain should swear fealty to the Rector Iohn de Lymar of Stanton and Cecily his Wife 2 E. 2. levyed a Fine of five Mess. twenty three Bovats of Land 40s. Rent and the third part of a Mess. with the Appurtenances in Rempeston to Iohn son of Thomas de Rempeston Iohn son of Thomas held the fourth part of a Knights Fee in Rempston 22 E. 3. and then paid 10s. for it to the Aid to make the Kings son a Knight The next whom I could observe to succeed here was Sir Thomas de Remston possibly son of Iohn He was 1 H. 4. Constable of the Tower of London and Admiral towards the West parts 2 H. 4. His Constableship he had in the fourth year of that King Nov. 14. and in the seventh year also Iune 20. He was also Knight of the Garter His son Sir Thomas Rempston the younger had respite of Homage Nov. 19. 4 H. 6. and had to Wife Alice the daughter and heir of Thomas Bekering and of Isabel his Wife daughter and co-heir of Sir Iohn de Loudham and of Isabel his Wife daughter and heir of Sir Robert Breton of Walton in the County of Darby This younger Sir Thomus died 15 Oct. 37 H. 6. and left Elizabeth then wife of Iohn Cheney Esquire after Knight Isabel of Sir Brian Stapleton Knight and Margaret wife of Richard Bingham the younger his daughters and heirs He lies buried in the midst of the Chancell at Bingham whereof he was also Lord as in that place will be noted which Mannor as this of Rempston did it seems fell to the Family of Stapleton which made this the inheritance of a younger son viz. of George Stapilton of Remston second son of Sir Brian son of Isabel Rempston before named which George died Mar. 25. 6 Eliz. seized of this Mannor and divers Lands and 5l. Rent in Rempston Wodeborough Stanford Bradmere Costock Great and Little Léek and Newton in 〈◊〉 to him and the heirs Males of his body he had divers sons Henry Anthony George William whereof William only had issue Male viz. Iohn Stapleton who sold these Lands to ... Feld and he to Gabriel Armstrong and so this place became the seat of that Family with which some interest here still continueth Henry Stapleton of Rempston made his Will 8 Mar. 25 Eliz. and died there 28 Dec. 29 Eliz. leaving Faith his only daughter and heir to whom he gave all these Lands by his said Will She was wife of Matthew Babington and died 1 Iun. 31 Eliz. without issue at Cussington in the County of Leicester Anthony Stapleton married Alice the daughter of Francis Roos of Laxton named in Burton Iorce the Relict of his Cousin Brian Stapleton but I think he had no Child Gertrud the wife of Baldwin Acland the daughter of George the Brother of Henry Stapleton would have been his heir the said Henry had this Mannor of Rempston one Mess. four Virg. and an half in Little-Léek one Virg. in Great-Léek one Mess. two Virg. in Costock one Virg. in Bradmere two in Stanford one Mess. four Virg. and one Cotag. in Burton on the Wolds in Leicestershire one Mess. two Virg. in Waltham on the Wolds and one Mess. and Close in Wimeswold in that County all then esteemed parcel of the Mannor of Rempston and the Mannor of Woodborough and fourteen Virg. 36s. Rent and five Mess. c. belonging to it Richard Hebbe claimed against William Pegge and William Bowes 38 H. 6. one Mess. three Tofts four Virg. of Land and eight Acres of Medow in Rempston There yet remain some of that name who have Free-hold there The Rectory was valued at twenty Marks when the Prior of Lenton was Patron 't is now 13l. 2s. 6d. in the Kings Books and Gabriel Armstrong Patron In the Church Here lyeth Henry Stapleton Esquire Patron of this Parish Church of Rempston who gave ten pounds for ever to the use and help of the Husbandmen of the same Town he was the first son of George Stapletune Esquire He left behind him Elizabeth his Wife Patroness when they had lived vertuously together 26 years and Faith their only daughter He departed this world in the true Faith of Christ 28 Dec. 1586. Upon the Tomb Arg. A Lyon Ramp Sable impales with Arg. 3 Broad Arrow-heads Or Phaeons Sable upon a Chief Sable a Hound Argent Upon the Lyon is a Crescent for a difference and in the other Coat A Mullett Wishou or Wisoe PRobably an Hill of Plants or Custome Hill In this place before the Normans came Estan Elsi and Gladwin had three Mannors which were Assessed to the publick Geld for three Carucats The Land was three Car. There afterwards the Great Roger de Busli had a Man or Tenent called Roger who had three Car. in Demesne and fifteen Villanes five Sochm. on si◠Bovats of this Land and one
of the Mannor of Wisoe so making three again as there were before the Conquest That Richard de Lovetot son of Roysia and Hubert de Bromford had to wife Christian ... and was dead 19 H. 3. left his son Roger de Lovetot then within age who was High Sheriff of these Counties 39 41 and 42 H. 3. and passed the Mannor of Wishou to Robert de Derley reserving 10l. per annum to him and his heirs Thomas de Lovetot 2 E. 1. was his son and heir and succeeded his Father the said Roger in this place Sir Iohn de Lovetot Knight brother of Roger last named was sometimes called Clark because of his learning in the Law I suppose for he was one of the Judges of the Kings Bench and conveyed to William de Henovere the Custody of the heir and Lands of Robert de Derley then dead viz. 9 E. 1. in Wisoe and elsewhere which the said Iohn had of the Grant of the forementioned Thomas de Lovetot who recovered the same against the King in the Kings Court before himself and his Council Iohn de Lovetot son of Sir Iohn by Fine 11 E. 3. and 13 E. 3. passed to Richard de Willughby and Ioan his wife four Knights Fees and 10l. Rent with the Appurtenances in Wisowe Kercolston Eâ—leston Flintham and North-Clifton together with the homages and services of Matilda de St. Andrea Thomas de Widmerpole and Elizabeth his wife William Deyncourt Roger de Whatton Iohn de Gloucester Galfr. de Staunton Thomas de Golhall Iohn son of Iohn Pigoâ—t of Dodington Henry Torald William de Asteley and Isabel his wife and Iohn the son of Iohn de Hose and their heirs for the Tenements they held of the said Iohn de Lovetot To hold to the said Richard and Ioan and the heirs of Richard Robert the son of Iohn de Lovetoft by his Deed dated on Thursday in Whitsun-week 31 E. 3. released to Richard de Willughby the Elder Knight all his right and claim in ten pounds Rent issuing out of the Mannor of Wisow and five Knights Fees which the said Richard had of the Feoffment of Iohn de Lovetoft his Father It appears that Edward de Lovetot 30 E. 3. was son and heir of this Iohn Robert having no issue and had a daughter and heir called Margaret married to Sir Iohn Cheyney Knight This continued long to the Family of Willughby which they had from these Lovetofts Patricks part I suppose came to William de Sheffeild Nephew to Nigellus de Lovetot possibly by a second Husband of his Sister Margery if he was not his own natural son and so called as the Pope doth however he gave him by that addition of Nephew five Virgats of Land in the Town of Wishou viz. that which Raph de Buney held c. The Witnesses to his Deed were William Picot William de Villariis Richard de Lecâ— william de Bowis Hugh de Rempeston Thomas de Rempston Reginald Picot Hugh his brother Robert de Luvetot William de Valle Rad. Gard. William de Wandreshelf Richard de Wishou the Clerk and others The said Nigellus de L. gave by another Deed to the said William de Schefeld fourscore and one Acres of his Demesne in Wishoe To this were Yvo de Heriz Helias de Marten Rad. de Iorge Gervas de Somervill Galfr. de Somervill Hugh de Rempston William de la Valle William de Bradewar Walter de Wisho Richard de Greinvill William de Waldeschef and Henry his brother c. Richard de Lovetot of Wishowe gave to William de Shefelt the whole Medow of his Demesne upon the Wald of Wishowe viz. that which lay between the Medow of Warin de Vernun and the men of Wishowâ— William gave him four Marks of Silver for it The Witnesses were Iohn de Heriz Helias de Martini Hugh de Rempston Philip de Cortingstok William de Waldeself William Brodey Walter de Wishou Warinus de Vernun and Margery his Wife also passed Lands to this William de Sheffeld Witnesses Nigellus de Mundevill Richard de Lovetoft William Waldeseiff c. Margery who had late been Wife of Warin de Vernun confirmed to William Sheffeud that which William Father of the said William had of the gift of the said Warin de Vernun in Wishou witness Iohn de Lyâ—lebyri c. William de Schefend 22 E. 1. stiles himself Lord of Wishou and upon his Seal of Arms within the circumscription of his name had a Lyon Rampant and above the Shield a Crescent in imitation of Lovetots Lyon perhaps There was a Fine levyed 35 E. 1. between William de Shefeld Quer. by Durand de Wydemerpol put in his place to get or lose and Mr. Raph Barry Deforc. of ten Mess. two hundred and forty Acres of Land six of Medow 20s. and 6d. Renâ— with the Appurtenances in Wysowe and Willughby whereof nine Mess. two hundred and sixteen Acres of Land six of Medow with the Appurtenances were settled after the decease of William on Thomas son of Nicolas de Wydemerpol and on Elizabeth his Wife daughter of the said William and the heirs which the said Thomas should begâ—t on the body of the said Elizabeth remainder to the right heirs of Elizabeth Thomas son of Adam Walkelin of Thorlaston and Margery his wife daughter and one of the heirs of William de Schefeld of Wishou released to Thomas de Wydemerpole and Elizabeth his wife and the heirs of their two bodies their whole purpart of the service c. in Wishou Thomas the son of Nicolas de Wydemerpole and Elizabeth his wife 16 E. 3. setled on Robert their son and Alice his wife c. This continueth still with the Family of Widmerpole Mundevils part I guess was 28 E. 1. by Richard Ayleston for the summ of 370 Marks paid beforehand conveyed to William de Berge Arch-Deacon of Berks for his life and after to Iohn the son of Sir Robert Poutrell Knight and his heirs Robertus Poutrell mil. de Prestwold Joh. Poutrell-Matilda Fin. 8 E. 2. Ricardus Poutrell Matilda-Waltrus de Goteham Robertus fil Joh. Perte -Joana Robert de Pulteney -Cecilia Robertus 31 E. 3. Rog. de St. Andr. Will. Poutrell de marit secund Prestwo Fin. 8 E. 2. This Iohn Poutrell had to wife Matilda afterwards third wife of Sir Roger de St. Andrew of Goteham and two sons Richard Poutrell who paid together with the Abbat of Geroâ—don 22 E. 3. for a Knights Fee here 40s. whereof he paid 35s. and the Abbat discharged the other five with his Writ and Robert Poutrell Richard had three daughters and heirs Maud married to Walter de Goteham Ioan the wife of Robert Pert and Cecily of Robert Pulteney of whom about 32 E. 3. Sir Richard Willughby purchased it and his son Hugh the Clerk progenitor of the Family of Risley about 11 R. 2. passed it to Robert Armstrong of Thorpe in the Clotts whose son
in the Church of All-Saints in Willughby before the Altar of St. Nicolas Howbeit he died not then for if he did his son was called Sir Richard de Willughby Senior all the time of Edward the second till 18 E. 2. that he died leaving Richard de Willughby his son above thirty years of age But he must be noted particularly in Wollaton which he acquired of Sir Roger de Morteyn where I shall place the Descent that being the principal residence of this great Family In the Record of Nom. Villarum 9 E. 2. this Willughby answers for a whole Villa and Richard de Willughby and the Master of the Hospital of Sr. Iohn of Ierusalem are certified to be Lords of it Richard de Willoughby 1 E. 3. had a Charter of Free Warren for Willoughby Wollaton Cossale Radington in this County Riseley Aylewaston Engleby and Maperley in Darbishire Upon the return of an Ad quod Damnum 12 E. 3. it appears the Jury found it not to the Kings loss if he granted Richard de Willughby licence to give a Mess. and 10l. Rent in Wisoe and Willughby on the Wold to three Chaplains every day celebrating Divine Service in the Parish Church of this Willughby he gave ten Marks for his Licence 20 Feb. 13 E. 3. This Lordship became almost intire to this Family and continued with it till Sir Percivall Willoughby sold it Sir Thomas Hutchinson had the Demesnes which his son Charles inherits the Tenements are amongst Freeholders The Church 7 R. 2. was appropriated to the Priory of Wirksop King Edward the sixth Iuly 13. in the first of his Reign granted to the Master and Colledge of the Virgin Mary and All-Saints in Fotheringay in the County of Nothampton all the Rectory and Church of Willowbie late parcell of the Priory of Wirksop in this County And the Rectory and Church of Rushenden in that County late parcell of the Monastery of Lenton This Rectory with the Advowson of the Vicarage 6 E. 6. Ian. 11. after the dissolution of Fotheringay was amongst other things granted to Iohn and William Dodington It was Robert Earl of Kingstons The Vicarage was 8l. when the Prior of Wirksop was Patron Now in the Kings Books it is 6l. 18s. 6d. ob and the Lady Katherine Hutchinson Patroness In the Church are old Monuments of the Willughbyes which are represented in the two following Pages In the midst of the Burying place in the South I le at Willoughby Vnder a South Wall at Willoughby Vnder An Arch Wall in the Quire at Willoughby on the woulds In the North Alley in the Church at WILLOUGHBY Thorp a Village Buzzard Bochart IT was a Berne of Broughton which Earl Algar had before the Conquest and answered the Tax as ten Bovars The Land was sufficient for ten Oxen in the Confessours time it was valued at 40s. the Conquerour had it in his own hand and then it was a waste Berne there was twelve Acres of Medow valued at 2s. Here was another share of Roger de Busli's Fee belonging to Wisoe which Odincar Lord of Willeby had before rated to the Geld as seven Bovats There was six Acres of Medow then valued at 2s. Of the Tain-Land in Willebi viz. two Bovats ½ ad geldam was Soc to Earl Algars part of this Thorp in which were two Sochm. with three Carucats or Plowes and three Acres of Medow belonging to Gatham This part it seems Seâ—lo Blundus held and gave two parts of the Tythe of his Demesne here to the Priory of Lenton at the foundation thereof in the time of Henry the first as many other of William Peverels dependents did of theirs in othâ—r places Here was likewise a Mill shortly after given by Robert Bluet and confirmed by Warnerius de Insula to the said Priory for his own Souls health and his Brothers to wit Hugh the Prior and Radulph Thomas Dispenser 13 Ioh. with the daughter and heir of Hugh de Insula had three Knights Fees in Northauntescir of the honour of Pipirell of Nott. in Hibernby in Northaunt two in Lubestorp in Leicestershire three parts and in Torp in Nott. a fourth part This part afterwards came to the Normanvills Raph de Normanvill paid 12s. for a fourth and seventeenth part of a Knights Fee of the honour of Peverell in Thorpe in the time of H. 3. That of Roger de Buslies Fee was held by the Lovetots of Wirksop and Wisow Alice the daughter of Matilda de Lovetot held the fourth part of a Knights Fee of her Mother and she of Alice Countess of Ew The Kings part Albani Earl of Arundell had under whom Iohn Bochart held the third part of a Knights Fee about the beginning of Henry the third from whom it was called Thorpe Bossarte Hugh de Albini brother and heir of William de Albini late Earl of Arundell made Fine with the King 18 H. 3. for two thousand five hundred Marks to have Seizin and the Kings Term till he should come of Age of all the Lands and Castles c. which were the said Earls his brothers and of the Lands which came to him by inheritance from R. Earl of Chester and Lincoln his Uncle c. Whereupon the several Sheriffs then had the Kings Precept to give him Seizin accordingly and amongst the rest the Sheriff of Nott. and Derb. besides many other Fees in the County of Darby of this third part of a Knights Fee in Thorpe Bochard Robert de Derley 4. E. 1. is found to have held a Messuage and Garden in Derley in the County of Darby of Henry de Derley and others and the Mannor of Netherhaddon in the same County of the King in Capite and the Mannor of Wisowe in this County of Thomas de Lovetoft paying homage and 10l. per annum and the Mannor of Thorpe of Rand. Moryn paying Homage and 1d. a year for all his Services and that his son and heir Robert was then fifteen years old In the same year Oct. 26. the King assigned Cecily the wife of the said Robert de Derly one Mess. and 7l. 5s. of Land and Rent in Thorpe for her Dowry and the next year after viz. 5 E. 1. commanded Thomas de Normanvill his Steward concerning it again Rob. de Derley and Margaret his wife 33 E. 1. released all their right in the Advowson of the Church of Thorpe Bozard to Iohn de Segrave and his heirs and the year after viz. 34 E. 1. levyed a Fine of one Mess. one Bovat of Land and the said Advowson of Thorpe to the said Iohn de Segrave The said Robert de Derley and Margaret his wife 6 E. 2. levyed a Fine by which they settled six Mess. and eleven Bovats of Land with the Appurtenances in Thorp Bussard upon Iohn their son and Ioan daughter of Simon Pouger of Wylestrop and the heirs of the body of the said Iohn to which Fine
brother William Pietas Pitty and Roger his brother Robert the Sheriff and William his brother Robert Raph and William his son Henry the Clerk of the Sheriff and Henry of Huccanal and Henry Medicus Leech Roger de Burthon and Peter Palmer Reginald de Aslacton Walter de Whatton and Richard his son Ambrose and Iohn Plungun and Fulc servants of Sir Vlf de Wydmarpole and Gilbert the Parson and many others there named Robert de Heriz his brother confirmed the gifts and gave his whole Portion of Corn growing on his Land at Widmerpole with his Body to be there viz. at Lenton Christianly buried Ivo de Heriz 13 Joh. is certified to hold four Knights Fees of the honour of Peverell in Nott. and Derb. viz. in Oxcroft half a Fee in Gunnelveston half a Fee in Widmarepol one Fee in Tibbesell Oggedestone c. one Fee The last Iohn de Heriz by Fine 18 E. 2. settled this Mannor of Gunaldeston and the Darbishire Lands Winfeild and Tibghelf on himself for life then on Roger Beler for his life then to Roger the son of the said Roger Beler and Margaret the elder daughter of Richard de la Rivere Knight and the heirs of their Bodies then to Thomas Beler son of Roger and to Margaret the younger daughter of the said Richard de la Revere and the heirs of their Bodies remainder to the right heirs of the said Iohn de Heriz This Mannor and that of Gunaldeston after they had passed through the Families of Beler and Swillington by the help of another Fine levyed 9 H. 5. or 1 H. 6. by Sir Iohn Gray of Ingleby in the County of Lincoln and Margaret his wife daughter and after the death of her brother Iohn heir of Sir Roger Swillington wherein the last remainder was to the right heirs of Sir Iohn Heriz and by a great suit in the time of Henry the sixth were amongst others upon attonement obtained by the Family of Perpoint descended of Sarah sister of Sir Iohn Heriz and the Right Honourable Henry Marquess of Dorchester is now Lord of this Mannor by inheritance from his Ancestors of Heriz There is an Ancient Family which had their Sirname from their residence here which are still owners of considerable Lands in this Lordship The first that I have noted of them out of their own Evidences is in the time of Henry the third where Iohn the son of Iohn de Leke conveyed three Bovats and one Messuage in Widmerpole to Nicolas the son of Henry de Tydesworth and in another Deed Walter son of Walter Salmon of Widmerpole and Alice his wife released all their claim in three Bovats and one Mess. viz. those two which Iohn de Valeye Father of Alice held of Iohn Plunchun and one Bovat of Iohn de Heriz to Nicolas son of Henry de Diddisworth William de la Valeye 12 E. 1. of Widmerpole passed four Henricus de Diddisworth Nicolas de Widmerpole Nicolas de Widmerpol -Matilda 12 E. 1 -Alicia 10 E. 2. Thom. de Widmerpol 15 E. 2 -Elizabetha fil haer Will. 10 E. 2. 31 E. 1. Robertus de Widmarpole-Alicia 16 E. 3. Nicolas de Widmerpole Johannes de Widmerpole Ar. -Fina 16 R. 2. Nicolas de Widmerpole-Elizabetha 22 H. 6. Johannes de Widmerpole senior 5 H. 7. Johannes de Wydmerpole Ar. 6 H. 8. Edwardus Widmerpole de Everton 6 Eliz. Dorothea fil ... Danby Com. Ebor. Will. Widmerpole 6 Eliz. Anna fil ..... Grimston de Need in Com. Ebor. Georgius Widmerpole de Wid. 1614. Jana fil Termine Russell de Torchaster Josephus Widmerpole sine prol -Anna fil Mat. Palmer mil. relict ... Daniel Nicol. Josephus Widmerpole Nicolas Georgius Thom. Hug. Robertus 10 E. 2. Willielmus de Sheffeildnepos Nigelli de Lovetot Rob. Will. de Shefeud Dom. de Wisou 15 E. 1 -Avicia 27 E. 1. Thom. de Widmerpol 15 E. 2 -Elizabetha fil haer Will. 10 E. 2. 31 E. 1. Tho. fil Adae Walkelin -Margeria Acres of Land there to Nicolas son of Nicolas de Widmerpole and Maud his wife Iohn son of Sir Iohn de Heriz Knight 31 E. 1. granted and released to Nicolas son of Nicolas de Widmerpole marriage relief c. for Lands which the said Nicolas held of William son of Robert de la Valeye then within age Thomas son of Nicolas de Widmerpole married Elizabeth daughter and heir of William de Sheffeld of Wisou as there is shown by whom he had issue Robert which made a great increase in the Patrimony of this Family there and elsewhere which yet continueth at this place The Rectory was 15l. and Mr. Perpoint Patron Now in the Kings Books it is 14l. 16s. 0. ob and the Marquess of Dorchester Patron Staunton on the VVolds Stony Town THere was a Mannor in Stauntune of the Fee of R. Earl Moriton which before the Conquest Stori a great man in these parts had and discharged it to the publick Tax for 3. ½ Bovaâ— The Land was one Car. There Alured the man or Tenant of the Earl had one Car. six Vill. three Bord. with two Car. or Pâ—owes there was twenty Acres of Medow This in the Confessours time was 40s. value in the Conquerours 20s. Another Mannor here of the 〈◊〉 Earls Fee Frane had before the Conquest and paid to the Geld for it as one Bov. â…“ the Land was half a Car. when the survey was made three Vill. had there one Car. or Plow In Stantune belonged to Plumptrée as much as paid the Dane-Geld for half a Bovat There one Vill. had five Oxen in Flow this was of the Fee of Roger de Busli Here was also some of William Peverells Fee of the Soc of Clifton which paid the Geld for two Bov. ¼ which with what was of that sort in Willebe Cauord and Normantune was two Car. of Land and there were upon it four Sochm. one Vill. one â—ord having three Car. There William Peverell had in Stantune one Car. or Plow and two Acres of Medow Peter Fitz or son of Osbert held the fifth part of a Knights Fee here in the time of Henry the third of the Honour of Peverell and about 21 E. 1. Cecilia daughter of Seman de Stokes held the eighth part of a Fee of the same Honour Nicolas son of Seman de Stoke could not say in a suit he brought but that three others not named held Lands in Staunton upon Seggeswold besides Thomas de Rempston and Cecilia his wife who were therefore dismissed Robert de la Sauce held here the eighth part of a Knights Fee of the Honour of Peverell all the time of Henry the third and is mentioned still 11 E. 1. There was a Fine levyed at York 30 E. 1. between Raph de Vylers Quer. and Iohn de Lymare and Cecilia his wife Deforc. of the Mannor of Staunton by Keworth whereby it was settled on the said Iohn and Cecily and the heirs which he should beget on her Body
fil ... Harington fil Hen de Vic. Bar. Marin s. p. -Carol Dom. St. John Eliz. -Philip fil Ph. Warwick mil. Francesca ....... Culpeper ... Hug. Annasley -Joana-Johannes Cranmer Radul Rad. de Fr. de Palterton ob 23 E. 3. Joh. de Frecheville de Paltert ob 48 E. 3. Johannes de Frecheville Hubert de Norw Adam de Cantia Eudo Dapifer W. 1. this Raph de Frecheville who made an agreement with Raph the Abbat the Saturday next before the Feast of St. Gregory the Pope at Wynefeld in the year 1243. that the Canons should have their Estovers out of the Wood and Hay of Criche and confirmed the gift of his Mother Iulian of a Bovat of Land in Scardiâ—lyff By an Inquisition taken at Boney 45 H. 3. concerning the Lands which were heretofore Raph de Freschervills son and heir of Anker and Iulian before mentioned in this County it appears that he held this Mannor in Capite of the King by the service of a Knights Fee and that then there were at Boney in Demesne and Villenage sixty and two Bovats of Land each Bovat worth 6s. 8d. which makes the summ of 20l. 13s. 4d. Item in Rent of Assize of the Freeholders 55s. 9d. Item in Cottages there 24s. 9d. Item the Capital Mess. of Boney worth 6s. 8d. per annum Item a Wind-mill one Mark Item the said Raph held of Iohn de Musters half a Knights Fee of the Fee of Richmond in Rotingdon for which he paid the said Iohn 5s. per annum And that Anker his son and heir was then of full Age. Anker being dead 53 H. 3. his wife Amicia was found to be in the Kings disposal There was an Inquisition taken 15 E. 1. at Nott. before Thomas de Normanvile to discover what Lands Ancher de Frechevile held of King Henry the third in his the said Thomas his Bâ—ilywick upon the others of Sir Iohn de Leek Knight Thomas de Rempston Nicolas de Widmerpole Henry Puttrel Mich. de Leek c. who said that at his death the said Anker held of King Henry the third the Mannor of Chruch in the County of Darby worth 20l. per annum by the Service of half a Knights Fee and the Mannor of Palterton in the same County worth 10l. for half a Knights Fee and the Mannor of Boney in this County of Nott. by the service of two Knights Fees which was of the value of 20l. per annum and they said that he likewise held of Sir Raph Musart in Woodthorp in Darbishire 100s. of Land for a penny per annum and of Sir William Bardolf in Alwaston in that County 100s. Land by the service of two Knights Fees and that Raph de Frecheville being then above the Age of twenty two years was his son and heir Roger Belers 19 E. 2. held the Mannor of Cruch of the King in Capite for a Knights Fee Raph de Frechevill aliened it as he did all or most of his part of the Barony Raph son of Raph de Frechevill put his claim to the Fine which the said Raph de Frechenvill levyed of the Mannor of Boney 18 E. 1. to the said Roger Beler and his heirs for ever who held two parts of this Mannor of Boney Margaret the wife of Raph de Frecheville holding the third in Dower Roger Beler his son and heir was then above seven years old Alice the wife of the said Roger Beler besought the said Margaret who was the wife of Raph de Frecheville for her reasonable Dower out of the Mannor of Crich From this time this Noble Family of Frecheville have been resident at their Mannor of Stavely in Darbishire the present seat of Iohn Lord Frecheville two parts whereof with the Advowson of the Church this Margaret about 7 E. 3. was about to settle on Anker the son of Raph de Frecheville deceased and the heirs of his Body There were two Raphs sons of Raph de Frecheville the elder whereof settled on the younger about 10 E. 3. the Mannor of Palterton Raph Frecheville Chivaler son and heir of Anker Frecheville deceased 14 R. 2. Ian. 30. had respite of Homage Raph Frecheville Knight died seized of two parts of the Mannor of Staveley the Munday before the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary 4. H. 5. Gervase his brother and heir was an Ideot and above thirty years old at that time Peter Frecheville son and heir of Gervase deceased 27 H. 6. had respite of Homage May 17. that year Iohn son of Peter Frechewell one Inq. saith died seized of two parts of the Mannor of Staveley 27 Ian. 24 H. 7. another Feb. 5. but his Tomb Ian. 20. 1509. His son Iohn was then about fifteen years old and had been long married to Elizabeth daughter of Iohn Leek of Sutton Esquire before his Fathers death Peter Frecheville 20 H. 8. was found to be Cousin and heir of the former Peter viz. son of Iohn son of Iohn son of the said Peter This last Peter was Knighted at Leith by the Earl of Hertford 1544. and had to wife Elizabeth daughter of Sir Richard Tempest c. Robert de Swillington Knight was by the Jury 15 R. 2. found to have held this Mannor of Boney in right of his wife Margaret as also Gonaldeston and Widmerpole and other Lands and that Robert rather Roger de Swillington was his heir This Magaret was one of the daughters and heirs of Roger Belers Richard de Crumewell Chr. son of Amicia sister of Roger de Belers Knight held a place of Medow called Eremitesmedow and two Acres in Milnewong in Boney Margaret Ailesford late wife of Roger Swillington Chr. 6 H. 5. had the Mannor of Boney to her and her heirs and Robert Swillington died seized of it Robert Swillington was then found Cousin and heir of the said Margaret Margaret the wife of Iohn Gray 8 H. 5. was found sister and heir of Robert Swillington Chr. of this Mannor Raph Lord Crumwell 9 H. 6. had this Mannor and Cruch though the Jury 8 H. 6. found that Margaret who was the wife of Sir Iohn Gray Knight the daughter of Sir Roger Swillington Knight died seized amongst others of the Mannors of Wydmerpole and Gonaldeston and the Advowsons of the Churches and of this Mannor of Boney of one Mess. three Tofts four Virgats and one Bovat of Land and twelve Acres of Medow in Stanton on the Wold and the Advowson of the Church two Virg. in Hickling one Cottage three Tofts four Virg. in Sutton and Bonington held of Mary late wife of Sir Thomas Greene of Kegworth of two Virg. in Great Léek c. and that Elizabeth the wife of Robert Sampson of the County of Suffolk was her Cousin and next heir viz. the daughter of Thomas son of Robert son of Adam Father of Robert Father of Roger Father of the said Margaret and that the said Elizabeth was then above
Arg. Frecheville Gul. A Lyon Ramp within a Bord. engrailed Arg. Or a Bear passant sable muzled Or Beresford At the vpper end of the South I le in the Church at Bunney Over this Tomb in one Escutcheon 1 Barley Wavey Arg. and Sab. A Chief the first half Ermine the other Gules 2. Erm. upon a Chief Azur 5 besants 3. Berisford Arg. a Bear rampant Sable muzzled Or. 4. Or 3 Flowers de Lis azure 5. Party per pâ—le Or and Gules 3 roundels Counter-changed 6. Ar. 2 Broad Arrows Chevron-wise between 3 Horns and strings sable 7. Party per Chevron Arg. and Or 3 Pâ—aeâ—ns sable 8. Rolleston Arg. a Cinquefoyle Azure upon a Chief Gules a Lyon passant Or. Vpon another Monument in the Chancel North-wall In the Chancell North Wall at Bunney BVNNEY HOVSE y North Side Bradmere Broad Mere or Lake THE principal Mannor of Bradmere in Doomsday Book is that which Azor held before the Conquest for which he was rated to the Dane-geld as twelve Bovats The Land was three Car. But at the time of that Survey Robert Malet had in Demesne three Car. and sixteen Vill. and eight Bord. having five Car. The value then and before was 3l. it had Soc in Ruddington and so had the Mannor of Ruddington here It is manifest also that part of this Township was of Raph Fitz-Huberts Fee involved in Boney else he or some of his acquired Robert Malets very shortly after the Conquest or both which is most probable Hubert Fitz-Raph gave to Richard de Bradmere his man or Tenent and Uncle all his Land which he held in Bradmere that year and day in which King Henry was alive and dead Besides the Land his Brother and heir held for the tenth part of a Knights Fee The Witnesses were Mr. Richard Robert Sautcheverel and Robert his son and others Raph son of the said Richard the Knight of Bradmere gave and granted to Robert de Glamorgan who was the â—opes Sub-deacon and Rector of Boney the Homages Rents and Services of Iohn the son of Thomas the Chaplain of Plumtre and his heirs and of William his own son and heir and of very many others who held of him in Bradmere all which with divers other Lands Rents and Services were given by the said Robert to God and the blessed Virgin and Sir Roger the Prior of Lenton and the Monks there serving God for the Souls of his Ancestors and Successors chiefly of Philip de Glamorgan his Father and Amabile his Mother and that the said Prior and Covent should pay him and his Successors at Boney yearly on Easter day a Penny for all Services yet so that they should of their charity celebrate his Obit and the Obits of the said Sir Philip his Father and the Lady Amabil his Mother of Brian de Insula Raph de Fressenville and Willimina his wife every year Mr. Gervase de Somerville gave to the Hospital of St. Anthony within the Court or Church-yard of Lenton seven Bovats of Land here for the free and charitable sustentation of such as should be troubled with St. Anthonyes fire Raph de Freschevile confirmed the said seven Bovats and added the Service of the eighth which they had of the gift of the said Mr. Gâ—rvas de Sumerville with Common of Pasture as well as Turbary of Boney belonging to Bradmere Sir Geoffrey de Boney and Sarah his wife confirmed the same seven Bovats In the year 1262. an exchange was made between Roger Prior and the Covent of Lenton and Iohn Barre of Torlaton the Prior gave all his Land in Keworth of the Fee of Sir Thomas Fitz-Williams of Plumtre for all the said Iohn Barre's Land in Bradmere Sir Philip de Colwick and Sir Iohn de Vilers were Witnesses The Fee of Rad. Fitz-Hubert in the time of H. 2. was parted between Henry de Stuteville and Hubert Fitz-Raph And Henry de Stuteville his Grandson 't is like had 100s. Land here in the time of H. 3. and Iohn de Stotevile paid for fifteen Knights Fees of Raph Fitz-Huberts Barony after Henry in the same Kings Reign Estout de Estotevile son of Iohn bound himself 5 E. 2. to enfeoffe Sir Richard Grey Lord of Codenor in his Mannors of Barton upon Trent and Bradmere and thereof to acknowledge to him a Fine and to give him all legal security in the Courts of France and England Richard paying therefore at London 800l. sterling on a certain day and for default thereof Estout to reenter Stout de Stoteville son and heir of Sir Nicolas de Stoteville Knight 6 E. 3. passed the Mannors of Barton and Bradmere to Richard Lord Grey of Codnor and his heirs with the Knights Fees of which there was a Fine levyed in Michaelmas Term the same year There was a Charter 12 E. 3. granted to Richard de Willughby and his heirs of Free Warren in his Demesne Lands here and at Barneby in this County and at Wimundeswold in Leicestershire where he also had a Market every Wednesday and a Fair for two daies viz. on the Eve and day of St. Peter and St. Paul yearly The Jury found 7 H. 4. that Hugh Willoughby when he died held the Mannor of Wollaton and the Manner of Bradmere and that William Mallory of Leicestershire and Bertram Mounboucher were Cousins and heirs of the said Hugh Howbeit this continued with the Willughbyes of Wollaton till Queen Elizabeths time that it was sold to the before named Richard Parkins of Boney and with his posterity of that place it still remains Queen Eliz. Apr. 27. in the eighteenth year of her Reign granted to Roger Mannors Esq with the Rectories of Grandby Boney and Annesley and other things a Mess. in Bradmere late belonging to Lenton Iohn Earl of Rutland had lately a Farm there Barton A Grange or Village THE chief part was of the Fee of Raph Fitz-Hubert wherein before the Conquest Leuric had a Mannor which discharged it self to the publick Geld or payment for thirteen Bov. of Land The Land was three Carucats There Raph Fitz-Hubert had two Car. and eighteen Vill. and five Bord. having five Car. and an half There was forty eight Acres of Medow small Wood two qu. long and half a qu. broad In the time of the Conf. it was valued at 6l. in the Conquerours at 100s. with the two Ciluvells in which were seven Sochm. and half a Church Another Mannor Vluric had rated to the Geld as two Bov. The Land whereof was one Car. There Raph had one Car. and two Vill. and one Bord. with one Car. or Plow This kept the old value 20s. There was a small Berew in Clifton belonging to Barton which paid for two Bov. to the Tax But here was Soc to Clifton of William Peverells Fee as much as paid to the Geld for two Bov. and one third The Land one Car. There three Sochm. had two Car. and three Acres of Medow Of the Tayn
Land here was also a Mannor which before the Norman change Algar had and paid for one Bov. ½ ¼ The Land was one Car. There Sauvinus afterwards had one Vill. and two Bord. with three Oxen plowing and three Acres Edmundus Dominus de Morle Walterus-Elizab Robertus fil Walteri -Dina Isouda Simon de S. Maâ—ro marit secundus -Philippus de Derbi defunct 4 Joh. Hugo de Morle fil Phil. de Derbi Hugo fil Hugonis de Morle Ricardus de Morley -Joana fil Willielmi una cohaer Johannis de la Laund milit Lucia-Hugo de Russelep-Willielmus de Moston marit secundus Lucia-Rogerus de Masci de Sale Com. Cestr. Goditha ob 5 H. 5 -Radulfus de Stathum ob 3 R. 2. Thomas de Stathum-Eliz fil Rob. Lumley Johannes Stathum ob 1454. Nov. 6 -Cecilia fil .... Cornwall ob 1444. Thom. Stathum mil. ob 1470. his marit Henr. Stathum ob 1481. ter marit -Eliz St. Low Joana fil unica haeres postea ux Willielmi Zouch senioris de Bulwick in Com. Northampt. -Johan Sacheverell ob 1485. Ric. miles in bello Ric. 3. juxta Bosworth Henricus Sacheverell de Morley miles-Isabella fil Nic. Montgomery 1 Johan Sachev de Morley -Eliz fil Will. Perpont mil. Johannes Sachev -Katheriâ—a fil Ant. Fitz-Herbert mil. Henricus Sacheverell -Jana fil Humfrid Bradburn mil. Jacinthus Sacheverell dedit Morley Henrico .... fil Ric. Harpar mil. 2 Will. de Staunton juxta Swarston ob 1558 -Maria fil haer Clem. Low Isabellae ux haer Joh. Strelly Radulphus -Emma fil Wil. Dethick Will. Sacheverell de Barton -Tabitha fil haer Jacobi Spenser de Alvaston C. Derb. Henricus de Barton Morley -Jocosa fil haer Francisc. Maunsfield Willielmus Sacheverell de Barton Morley 1672 -Maria fil Willielmi Staunton de Staunton Robertus Sacheverell aet 3. 1672. Katherin ux Franc. Sitwell Jacosa ux â— Milward Henricus Tho. Harrington marit 2. Robertus Harington 3 Ricardus-Eliz fil haer Hen. Grey Henricus Sacheverell dedit Barton Radulpho Radulphus de Radcliff super Sore Ricardus 14 R. 2. Alicia-Williel de Verdun Amphelisia ux Ph. de Wastenes Edwardus filius Primogenitus-Johannes de Sautcheverel .... fil cohaer Rad. fil Ertaldi Robertus de Saucheverel-Hawisia soror Eustachii de Moretan fil Adae Robertus de Saltucapreoli Oliverus de Saltucapris Patricius de Saucheverell-Joana fil Roberti le Vavasor Robertus de Sautcheverel miles 15 E. 1. Willielmus de Saltcheverel Willielmus de Saucheverel-Isabella fil .... Okeover Johannes de Saucheverell Robertus Sacheverell Johannes Saucheverell Rad Sacheverell ..... fil Jon. Curson of Medow In King Edward the Confessours time this was 10s. when the survey was made in King Williams 3s. value Odo de Boney at the first endowment of Lenton in King H. 1. time gave this Church and half the Church of Chillwell or Attenborow which a Successor of his called Edward and Aeliz his wife confirmed as in Boney may be seen Leonia de Rennes wife of Robert Stotevill and Mother of Henry de Stoteville had this Mannor 6 Ioh. They had Kirkeby in Ashfeild also where I shall place their Descent Barthon is said to be an Eschaet of the Kings of the Land of the Normans which Henry de Stoteville forfeited and that the value of it was 20l per annum and that Earl Warren then held it Yet Iohn de Stotevill paid nine Marks shortly after in the time of H. 3. for four Knights Fees and an half in Barton and other places And Estut de Stuteville son of Iohn 4 E. 1. is certified to hold three parts of the Town of Barton of Robert de Stotevile by the service of one Knights Fee His Grandchild Stute or Stout son of Sir Nicolas de Stutevill passed it away with Bradmere 6 E. 3. to Richard Lord Grey of Codnor as in that place is noted which Richard by Fine the year following viz. 7 E. 3. settled it on himself and Ioan his wife and to the heirs of himself Iohn Lord Grey of Codnore had Free Warren granted Aug. 13. 21 E. 3. in all his Demesne Lands in Barton upon Trent This Mannor continued with that Noble Family whereof I shall place the Descent in Boueton till after the death of Henry last Lord Grey of Codnor who by his Will made 18 H. 7. appointed his Feoffees Thomas Leeke of Kirketon by Screveton Esq and Roger Iohnson to convey it to Henry Grey his natural Son who about 13 H. 8. married Elizabeth his daughter and heir to Richard the third son of Sir Henry Sacheverell of Morley in the County of Darby by whom she had a son and heir called Henry Sacheverell who gave it to his Cousin Raph Sacheverell son of William second son of the said Sir Henry Sacheverell with whose posterity it still continues That Elizabeth married to her second Husband George Bougham and gave away some Lands which are now the inheritance of Francis Marshall Else the whole Lordship saving that of Peverells Fee which descended with Holme Perpoint to the Right Honourable the Marquess of Dorchester two or three Farms being bought in by his Father and Great Uncle remains the inheritance of William Sacheverell Esquire Lord also of Morley in the County of Darby whereof he is now one of the Knights of the Shire who hath exceedingly enlarged and new builded this Seat That of William Peverells Fee in this place is called Gerbodthorp from Gerbod de Eschand to whom H. 2. gave Clifton and Langar and other of William Peverells Lands It was accounted twenty Bovats 8 E. 3. after the death of Robert de Perpoint who held it of Sir Gervase de Clifton by the service of a Clove and it was then to descend to Henry son of Henry son of Robert de Perpoint The Court Leet at Normanton upon Sore heretofore the Prior of Durhams hath some suiters here Nicolas son of Hugh de Wermundesworth and Raph and Robert the son of Robert Constentin had interest here about the time of E. 1. Geoffrey de Constentin 12 H. 2. is certified by Hubert Fitz-Raph to hold two Knights Fees and an half of him and Robert de Barton half of one The Priory of Newsted had Lands here demised to Iohn Rotheram at 24s. per annum and were in the tenure of Simon Callis when Queen Elizabeth Iuly 2. 41 Eliz. granted the whole Tenement to Thomas Estechurch and Henry Best and their heirs Queen Elizabeth 8 Apr. in the second year of her Reign granted â—o Iohn Doddington and Iohn Iackson Lands in â—â—â—ford and Barton late belonging to the Coâ—ledge of Clifâ—on Sir Iohn Stanhope Gervas Handley of Wilford and Francis Wallis were Free-holders here 1612. and I suppose owners of some or all of that Land purchased in by Mr. Sacheverell before-named About the year 1266. a great Suit was ended between Roger Prior of Lenton and Mr. Bartholomew called Tortus son of the Noble Knight Adam Wlf Canon of
Hundred but the Mannor or Sok of Plumptre seems to have been continued to the Posterity of this Godric with Sprotburgh in Yorkshire still united in the possession of Sir Godfrey Copley of that place who inherited them from Chetilbert who I suppose was son of this Godric because his sons name was Godric which Godric son of Chetilbert was Lord of Sprotburgh 5 Steph. and Father of William who married Albreda de Lisoures whose son and heir William was called Fitz-William which became the Sirname of this Noble Godric tenuit plurima Maneria temp Ed. Conf. Willielmi Conq. Chetilbertus Godric filius Chetilberti 5 Steph. Willielmus-Albreda fil haer Roberti de Lusoriis-Ric Constab. Cestriae Willielmus fil Willielmi-Matildis Thom. fil Willielmi temp H. 3. Willielmus fil Willielmi Willielmus Fitz-William-Isabella Johannes Fitz-William Johannes Fitz-William miles-Elizab fil .... Clinton Comitis Huntingt Willielmus Fitz-William miles-Matildis fil Rad. Crumwel Jâ—â—annes Fitz-William miles ob 6 H. 5 -Elionora fil Hen. Greene milit Johannes Fitz sepult 9 H. 5 -William Ar. probat aet 6 H. 5 -Margareta fil Thom. Clarell de Aldwerk -Willielmus Gascoigne miles mar 2. Willielmus Fitz-William Ar. ob 10 E. 4 -Elizab fil Tho. Chaworth milit Willielmus Fitz-William miles ob 3 Jul. 9 H. 7 -Elizab fil Joh. Conyers mil. Johannes Fitz-William Ar. ob 5 H. 7. Willielmus Fitz-William Ar. mort 7 Eliz. aet 13. 19 H. 7. ampl Willielmus Copley miles ob 2 3 Ph. Mar. -Dorothea co-haer Will. Nepotis Philip. Copley aet 34. 2 3 Ph. M. -Mar fil Br. Ric. Gascoign Hastings mil. mar â— s. p. Willielmus Copley-Elizab fil Godfr Bosvile Ar. Godfridus Copley s. p. Radulphus s. p. Alvered Copley .... fil Gunby Ar. Willielmus Copley-Dorothea fil Willielmi Routh Ar. Godfridus Copley de Sprotburgh Baronettus superst 1673 -Elenora fil Thom. Walmesley milit -Elizab fil Willielmi Stanhope ux 2. Godfridus Copley fil har Marg. Franc. Joh. Tho. Tho. Sothill -Margareta Elizab-Henric Savile mil. Hugo Fitz-William Ar. superst 7 Eliz. Edmund Fitz-William-Matildis fil Joh. Hothum mâ—â— Thomas 18 E. 3. Joana 18 E. 2. Agnes Isabel. Johannes Constab. Rogerus Constab. Cestr. ut in Kneesal Family and his son Thomas Fitz-William held this Mannor of Plumptre of the honour of Tikhill in the time of H. 3. Raph de Nevill 24 H. 2. gave account of C s for hastening the Duel against William son of Godric Now whether this William was called de Clarofagio or it was another William so named who was also Husband to Albreda de Lisures but before that had another wife called Avicia the daughter and heir of Will. de Tanai by whom he had a daughter named Sibyll married to Raph Tilli who had two sons by her Raph and Roger both Benefactors to the Monastery of Hampole in Yorkshire I have not yet found evidence certainly to determine but certain it is that in the year of our Lord 1331. William Fitz-William Lord of Sprotburgh in Yorkshire confirmed the gift of his Father William son of Thomas Lord of Sprotburgh of 30s. Rent out of Athewyk in that County to the Nuns of Hanepole and the gift or donation of the said Thomas his Grandfather which confirmed the Grant of William son of William or Fitz-William Father of the said Thomas and son and heir of Albreda de Lizours which confirmed the gift of the said Albreda his Mother and Grandmother of the said Thomas of the Church of Athewick and twenty shillings Rent out of her revenue at Plumtre near Sâ—roby which Rent the said William her son granted to find a Lamp continually burning at the Tomb of Matildis his wife He also gave a Mark of Rent to Blyth out of the same Plumtre as in that place is noted and there he is called William son of William son of Godric Albreda de Lisures as in Knéesale Hodsak Styrap c. may be seen had another husband called Richard by whom she had Iohn Constable of Chester who also confirmed his Mothers gifts to this Monastery of Hampole to which they gave Athewyk Melton and the very siâ—e of Hampole There was a Fine levied 18 E. â…” between William son of or Fitz William Quer. and Edmund Deyncourt and Edmund Parson of the Church of Plumtre Deforc. of the Mannor of Plumtre with the Appurtenances and the Advowson of the Church of the same Mannor whereby it was settled on the said William Fitz-William and the heirs of his body remainder to Iohn son of the said Will. and the heirs males of his remainder to Thomas brother of Iohn in like sort remainder to Ioan sister of Thomas and the heirs Males of her body remainder to Agnes and so Isabel her sisters respectively in the same manner remainder to the right heirs of the said William I doubt this should be 18 E. 2. There was a Writ dated 12 Feb. 7 Eliz. directed to the Sheriff of Yorkshire that he should command Richard Gascoigne Esquire and Elizabeth his wife that justly and without delay they restored to Hugh Fitz-William Esquire the Mannors of Emely and Darthington with the Appurtenances which Edmund Deyncourt gave to Iohn son of William and the heirs Males of his body and which after the death of the said Iohn and of Iohn Fitz-William Knight son of the said Iohn and William Fitz-William Knight son of the said Iohn Fitz-William Knight and of Iohn Fitz-William Knight son of the said William Fitz-William Knight and of Iohn Fitz-William Esquire son of the said Iohn Fitz-William son of the said William Fitz-William Knighâ— and of William Fitz-William Esquire son of the said john Fitz-William Esquire and of William Fâ—â—z-William Knight son of the said William â—itz-William Esquire and of Iohn Fitz-William Esquire son of the said William Fitz-William Knight son of the said William Fitz-William Esquire and of William Fitz-William Esquire son of the said Iohn Fitz-William Esquire son of the said William Fitz-William Knight ought by the form of the donation or Formedone aforesaid to descend to the said Hugh son and heir of Iohn Fitz-William Esq son of Iohn Fitz-William Knight son of William Fitz-William Knight son of Iohn Fitz-William Knight son of the said Iohn son of William as Cousin and heir of the said Iohn son of William But this Writ it seems went to the Ground because the seisin was laid in the Donee where it should have been in the last Seisor Sir William Ingleby was then Sheriff of Yorkshire Sir Iohn Fitz-William Knight son of Sir William and Maud his wife daughter of Raph Crumwell dyed seized of this Mannor of Plumtre and Rents in Chaddesden Wodhall and Braydeston in Darbishire esteemed parcel of it and likewise of the Mannors of Emlay and Sprotbrough in Yorkshire 6 H. 5. leaving his son Iohn Fitz-William his heir who died at Roan and was buried at Sprotburgh 9 H. 5. He married Margaret daughter of Thomas Clarell of Aldewerk and his son William
Leek 2 Tho. Leek de Will. thorpe 2 Tho. Leek de Hasland vide Leke Thom. 36 H. 6. Joh. Walsh mar primus 4 H. 4 -Isabella cohaer ob 14 H. 6. s. p. -Humfridus Halloughton Johannes 10 E. 2. Rogerus de St. Andr. -Agnes Ric. Grey de Landford Ric. Grey mil. de Landford Philippas Grey ob 1 R. 2. Ric. Gray de Landford ob infra aet 6 R. 2. Alianora sor haer obiit infra aet s. p. 8 R. 2. Lucia haer Richardus s. p. Ric. de Grey Dom. de Codenhour -Lucia fil haer Johannis de Homaz 13 H. 3. Pip. Staff Esquire his daughters and heirs Emelina the wife of Iohn Grey abut 13 H. 6. died seized of the Mannor of Landford and three Mess. with the Appurtenances and three Virgats and other Lands and Rents and the Advowson of the Church in Hykeling Then her daughter Isabell had married one Humfrey Halloughton but shortly after about 14 H. 6. she left her sister Leek her heir There was a Fine 10 E. 2. between Margaret the daughter of Hugh de Eyton Quer. and Hugh de Eyton of Hickeling and Felice his wife Deforc. of twenty two Acres of Land two of Medow and an half and half a Mess. with the Appurtenances in Hickeling thereby settled on the said Margaret and the heirs of her body remainder to Iohn son of William le Gray of Sandiacre and the heirs of his remainder to the said Hugh and Felice and the heirs of Felice At the Assizes of Nottingham 29 E. 3. William de Rempston recovered seisin of one Mess. twenty Acres of Land and three of Medow in Hykeling and Iohn de Rempston was amerced Anthony Fitz-Hubert Sergeant at Law and diverse others claimed against Iohn Leek Esq in recoveries which he suffered 5 H. 8. the Mannors of Sutton in le dale Sandiacre and Kirkehalome with the Appurtenances and also one huâ—dred Mess. c. in Sutton Sandiacre Kyrkehalome Normanton by Hastond and Chesterfeild and the Advowson of the Church of Sutton in le dale in Derbishire the Mannors of Landford Collyngham Elston Hykling Gedling Huknall Torcard and Leek with the Appurtenances and also two hundred Mess. c. in Landford Collingham Elston Hykling Gedling Huknall Torcard Little Leyk Great-Leyk Saxendale Stoke by Newark Stoke Bardolfe Colwyke Wyverton Byngham Carleton Karcolston and Holme by Newark with the Advowsons of the Churches of Elston and Hykling in this County the Mannor of Harston in Leicestershire the Mannor of Crowenest with the Appurt in Worcestershire This Mannor after the Leeks was Stapletons This is certainly a mistake for though Rempstons Land here as elsewhere might descend to Stapleton and Cheynè of which latter the Lord Vaux became heir yet I find that Francis Leek of Sutton in le Dale Esquire 16 Feb. 34 H. 8. for the summ of 276l. sold the Mannor of Hickling with the Appurtenances and Advowson of the Church whereof he levyed a Fine in Easter Term that same year to Iohn Cunstable of Kinalton Esquire afterwards Knight and his heirs Which Sir Iohn Cunstable 1 Octob. 6 E. 6. sold the premises to Iohn Ingleby a younger son of William Ingleby late of Ripley in Yorkshire Esquire then deceased And Iohn Ingleby of Rudby Ebor. 7 Septem 42 Eliz. conveyed them to Iohn Ingleby his son Which Iohn or another of his name then dwelling at Hickling in the Vale by Indenture dated 2 Iuly 1 Iac. for 534l. sold to William Farborne of that Town Gent. the Mannor of Hickling with all the Appurtenances whatsoever in Hickling Kinalton Over Broughton Staunton Colson Bâ—sset and Withmerpool in this County except the Advowson of the Church and also excepting that Mess. and seven Oxgangs of Land c. which he had then sold to Thomas Beane the elder of Aâ—â—octon and William Beane his second son Which said Iohn Ingleby and William Farborne 2 Oct. 2 Iac. conveyed the said Mannor to Gervase Farborne son of the said William Iames Wilson Gent. and George Ward claimed in Michaelmas Term 9 and 10 Eliz. against Iohn Smyth alias Walton and Raph Smith the Mannor of Hyckling with the Appurtenances and diverse Lands there who called c. William Vaux Lord Harowdon Hickling is now in the hands of very many Freeholders King Edward the sixth by his Letters Patent dated 30 Iune in the sixth year of his Reign granted to Lyonell Duckett and Edward Whitchurch the Lands and Rents in Hickelinge belonging to the Monastery of Thurgarton excepting the Tythes belonging to that Monastery which August 16. 5 Eliz. were granted by the Queen to Sir Thomas Gresham Knight and his heirs The Mannor which was Leeks is now the inheritâ—nce of Richard Maunsfeild of Leek Esquire who had it after the death of Francis Maunsfeild his Uncle The Rectory of Hiclinge was 22l. when Mr. Leek was Paâ—ron In the Kings Books it is now 18l. 8s. 4d. and Sara Bardsey widow Patroness Kinalton Doomsd. Chinelton Kineldestowe and Newbold PArt of this Town in the Book of Doomsday is said to be of Walter de Ayncurts Fee and of the Soc of Graneby where his Seat was in this County it was rated to the Tax or Geld as seven Bovats The Land was two Carucats There was nine Sochm. four Bord. having three Car. or Plows and seven Oxen plowing or draught Oxen and twenty Acres of Medow Another part of Chinelton is there certified to be of the Land of the Taynes where one Azor before the Conquest was rated to the Dane-geld at one Bov. for his Mannor The Land whereof was three Bovats The son of Azor held it afterwards of the King and there had three Vill. with three Oxen plowing and three Acres of Medow In King Edward the Confessours time the value of this was 10s. in the Conquerours 2s. 8d. By what appears in Hickling it may well be concluded that the Family of Fancurt held Deyncourts Fee in this place but it is certain enough that Gerard de Fancourt held a Knights Feâ— of Oliver de Aynecurt in Hickling and Kinalton Adam de Sutton Prior of Thurgarton for 18s. of Silver yearly by the consent of the whole Covent granted and confirmed to Raph de Fanecurt all the Land which the said Raph held in the Town and Territory of Kinalton of Sir Gerard son of Sir Elias de Fanecurt Elias de Franencurth gave twelve Bovats in the Territory of Newbold to the Abby of Swinshead in Lincolnshire which King Henry the second confirmed as he did also in this same place of the gift of William de Vilers and Paganus his son two Carucats of Land and two Bovats and an half and Keteleswang and Holeboldeswang and seventeen Acres of Land at Cranemere and four Tofts with Crofts and the whole Brusâ—am Brouse which belonged to Neubold In Doomsday Book there is mention of Newbold in those daies a very considerable place but now 't is well-nigh lost
Chelmerdon Lands in Spondon viz. two Mess. in Eneston Martinside Combes Batfeild in Hurdlow Broughton Tiddeswall c. In Yorkshire the Mannors of Plumpton Steton Garsington Idoll amongst which only Kinolton and Maunsfeild-woodhouse are numbred in this County Elizabeth Sothill widow died 21 Sept. 22 H. 7. leaving three sons Henry Iohn and Gerard. Henry Sothill had two daughters and heirs by his wife Iane or Ioane the daughter of Richard Empson King H. 8. Aug. 22. in the first year of his Reign granted to Sir William Perpoint Kt. the Custody of Ioane and Elizabeth Southill and their Marriage He also had Iuly 24. 2 H. 8. the Lands and Tenements which were Henry Sothills and Elizabeth Sothills widow as long as they remained in the Kings hand Elizabeth the daughter and co-heir of Henry Sothill was wife of Sir William Drury of the County of Suffolk Knight and Ioan or Iane his other daughter of Sir Iohn Constable of Kinalton Knight who bought Harteswell Grange in this Lordship formerly belonging to Swinsheved Abby which Harold Râ—sell of Cotgrave May 4. 31 H. 8. had licence to alienate to the said Sir Iohn and Ioane his wife who had issue Cicely first the wife of William Bevercotes and afterwards of .... Oglethorpe and Anne the wife of Sir Anthony Tâ—orold by whom she had Winifrid her daughter and heir the Mother of Sir Gervas Clifton who purchasing of the Lord Savile what he had got from ... Oglethorp which was three parts of the Mannor and half the Grange for ... Oglethorpe prevailed with his Mother to disinherit her son by Bevercotes and bought Druryes part became Lord of the whole and his posterity now have the whole Township except a Farm which was Sir Thomas Hutchinsons which his Ancestors bought together with the Mannor of Outhorpe and another which is William Dayes formerly belonging to Thurgarton Priory which Queen Elizabeth Iune 16.29 Eliz. granted to Edward Heron Esquire and Iohn Nicholas Gent. being four Bovats There is also a little Freehold which Francis Hacker gave to his son Rowland Hacker of East-Bridgeford The Rectory is appropriate to the Arch-bishoprick of York and in Lease to the Family of Clifton The Vicarage is 7l 18s. 11d. ob in the Kings Books and hath Episcopal Jurisdiction in the Parish Newbolt Chappel which I suppose is that now used in the middle of the Town was annexed to the Parish by Walter Grey Archbishop of York in the beginning of the Reign of H. 3. The Church is quite out of the Town on the top of the Hill not far from the Fosse way whither the Parishioners do seldom resort Owthorpe IN Ouethorpe Helge before the Conquest had a Mannor which paid the Tax for half a Car. The Land was three Car. There William the man or tenent of Roger de Busli whose Fee it afterwards was had one Car. four Sochm. eight Vill. having three Car. There was twelve Acres of Medow This in the Conquerours time and before was 30s. value Another Mannor Rolf had in the Confessours time rated also to the Geld at half a Car. The Land three Car. Likewise there Durand Malet whose Fee it was in the Conquerours time had one Car. four Sochm. three Vill. having two Car. or Plows There were twelve Acres of Medow too but the value was shrunk from 30s. to 20s. Tochi a great man and Lord of Shelford and many other Towns in this County before the Norman Conquest had a Mannor here also which paid the publick Geld for a whole Plowland But when Goiffrid de Alselin succeeded him as he did in all or most places in the time of the Conquerours Survey here was nothing to be had That of Roger de Buslies Fee I suppose the Posterity of that William before mentioned who had their name from this place continued long possessors of Iohn son of William de Outhorpe gave to the Priory of Thurgarton the right of Patronage which he had in the moyety of this Church Iohn de Vvitorp was disseised and paid Cs. Fine 7 R. 1. for being with Earl Iohn And 2 Ioh. Iohn de Vvitorp ought Cs. for having his Land in Yorkshire in the Honour of Tikhill Gervas son of Iohn de Outhorpe confirmed to the Canons of Thurgarton five Bovats of Land in the territory of Outhorpe viz. two Bov. with one Toft and two Crofts which Robert Bude held and two which Robert son of William held and one which Robert de Camera held with their homages and services as the Chartels of Ywein le Bretun and William Brito his Father testified reserving 16s. per annum Rent and likewise two Bovats which the said Iohn de Outhorp his Father gave to Raph son of Simon son of Richard reserving 4s. per annum and by the consent of Felice his wife added more to his other gifts Henry son of Gervase de Outhorpe released xx â— yearly Rent which the said Priory paid him for vii Bovats held of him and xiis. per annum Rent issuing out of a Toft and one Bovat held likewise of him in Outhorpe Iohn son of Henry de Outhorp granted and confirmed seven Bovats to the said Priory Raph de Outhorp confirmed all the Lands and Tenements to Willielmus de Outhorpe Johannes de Outhorpe Gervasius de Outhorpe-Felicia Henricus de Outhorpe Johannes de Outhorp Radulphus de Outhorpe Johannes de Outhorpe 10 E. 3 -Margeria the said Monastery which they held of his Fee in Outhorpe so free that neither the Canons nor any of their men nor Tenents should do any suit to his Court nor to any of his heirs or successors neither should they be distreined by him or his Bayliffs to answer any in his said Court. There was a Fine levied 10 E. 3. and afterwards 11 E. 3. of the Mannor of Outhorpe between Iohn son of Raph de Outhorpe and Margery his wife Quer. and Reginald son of Simon de Siâ—thorpe Deforc. whereby it was settled on the said Iohn and Margery and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of Iohn at that time Iohn de Oxford and Maud his wife held the third part of it in Dower Simon de Hedon and Gervase de Vvetorpe paid for two Knights Fees in this place in the former part of the Reign of H. 3. At another time Simon is certified to hold but three parts of one Knights Fee here Robert Wasteneys held in Hedon and Outhorpe two Knights Fees about the time of E. 4. That of Durand Malets Fee became it seems part of Lancaster Fee and was held of Butler of Werington in the County of Lancaster by the Family of Vilers The Sheriff of Nott. was commanded 6 Ioh. without delay to make Iohn Botiler have such seisin of the Land of Wulmer de Wudehus in Hilla Hole and Wudhous and Huverthorpe as the same Wulmer had when he forfeited it to King Henry the second and such as the
Robert Glover Somerset Herâ—ld a most industrious person and one of the best learned in this kind in his time sets down Raph Basset of Drayton husband of Margaret de Someri slain at the Battel of Evesham 50 H. 3. Raph his son the husband of Helewisa died 27 E. 1. Raph his son husband of Ioan the daughter of ... Beaucamp Earl of Warwick and brother of Matildis wife of William de Heriz and of Margaret her eldest sister wife of Ed. Stafford died 17 E. 3. Raph his son husband of Alice daughter of Nicholas Lord Audeley died before his Father and his son Raph the last Lord Basset of Drayton husband of Ioan sister and heir of Iohn Duke of Brittaine died 13 R. 2. being sixteen years old at the death of Ioan his Grandmother 27 E. 3. which will not agree with a Confirmation made by Raph son of Raph son of Raph Lord Basset of Draiton to the Priory of Canwell Printed in the Monasticon Vol. 1. p. 441. dated at Draiton May 7. 26 E. 3. because at that time there was no Raph living of age sufficient to make it according to Mr. Glover's draught And there may some scruples arise notwithstanding the inquisitions after the last Lord Bassets death concerning fix Generations not exceeding three above twenty three years as in Alice the wife of Sir William Chaworth one of his heirs whose Ancestor Matildis with her husband William de Heriz certainly lived in the former part of the Reign of H. 3. as in Wiverton will be manifest and yet seem to be contemporary with Ioan daughter of Thomas Earl of Warwick their Sister-in-law which could not well be if we consult Mr. Dugdales Warwickshire but we must not aver against a Record but indeavour to reconcile apparent improbabilities by the utmost possibilities Queen Elizabeth Mar. 27. in the forty third year of her Reign granted to Anthony Nevill and his heirs the Rectory of Colston Basset and diverse Lands in the Lordship belonging to the Priory of Land The Vicarage was eight Marks value when the Prior of Laund was Paâ—ron It is now 8l. 7s. 6d. in the Kings Books and the King Patron The Church stands in the fields now all inclosed and the Town thereby depopulated In it were Varry Arg. and Sab. Basset with a quarter Ermine of Drayton Azure a Crosse Argent impales with Paly of six Or and â—uses a Bordure Azure Besantè Aylesbury and Basset of Weldon Arg a Crosse Sable between four little Crosses of the second Cotgrave Godegrave OF the Fee of Rad. de Burun in Godegrave before the Conquest Oghe had a Mannor rated to the Geld at two Car. The Land whereof was three Car. There in Demesne were three Car. seven Sochm. four Vill. four Bord. having four Car. and an half There was half a Church Small Wood one qu. long one qu. broad In the Confessours time this was 40s. value in the Conquerours 60s. Another Mannor Turchill had rated to the Geld as one Car. The Land one Car. There Gozel the Man of Raph de Burun had half a Car. five Vill. one Bord. having two Car. There was thirty Acres of Medow Small Wood half a qu. long and ½ qu. broad This kept the former value 10s. In Godegrave Warnerus had six Bovats of the Land of that Mannor Of the Fee of Rogerius Pictavensis in Godegrave Vinric before the Conquest paid the Tax for three Car. for his Mannor The Land whereof was four Car. There afterwards Roger had one Car. in Demesne and six Sochm. ten Vill. one Bord. having five Car. There was thirty Acres of Medow Small Wood two qu. long one qu. broad In the Confessours time the value of this was 4l. in the Conquerours but 40s. In the year of our Lord 1144. 9 Steph. Hugo de Burun and Hugo Meschins his son and heir gave to God and the Monastery of Lenton the Church of Ossington and that of Orsely and half the Church of Cotesgrave which one Nicholas then held This was done solemnly in their Chapter-house before very many Witnesses his younger son Roger praising the act Three years after viz. 1147. 12 Steph. he gave whatsoever he had in the Town of Cotesgrave except the Knights which he kept in his own hand for the service of the King and for the service of his son and heir To this were Witnesses of his own men Robert son of Andrew of Cortingstok Robert de Rosello whose Family continued here Robert son of Serlo Albert the Knight he was his Steward and called of Kilburne Hugo de Busli he was his Chamberlain and several others This Hugo de Burun whose Seat was at Horstan Castle some ruins whereof yet remain in Horseley Park in Darbyshire by the consent of Hugh and Roger his sons gave to the Church of the holy Trinity at Lenton Turchetill his Man of Cotegrave with his Children and Lands and all things he held of him and all the Land Walter son of Iocelin held of him in the said Town and the Land of Swincliff and Greindale which were of his Demesne to which the forementioned persons were also Witnesses He also gave three Bovats of his Demesne here for three which the Canons had in Ossington and gave them Medow as much as belonged to three Bovats and six Acres of Medow in the Wald for which they gave him a War-horse prized to ten Marks of Silver Roger de Burun flourished in the time of H. 2. his wife Nicola the daughter of Roeland de Verdun was after his death married by the Earl of Chester to Anketin de Brikesard without the Kings consent and therefore was disseized of divers if not all her Lands for some of which she Fined about 2 Ioh. Roger de Burun recited all those parcells given to Lenton by his Father and many others two Bovats of the Land of Hugh Rosel thirteen Acres given for the Sâ—ul of Albrea his own Mother and twenty Acres above Cotegrave Wood c. to his Deed Gerv. de Clifton was a Witness There was a Fine levied 2 Ioh. wherein the Prior of Lenton released to Robert de Burun two Carucats of Land in Cotegrave for which he gave to that Priory three Bovats and half Geldehomor Henry son of Robert de Burun 4 H. 3. demitted and quit-claimed to Walter Malet and his heirs his whole right and claim in half the Land which was of the Fee of Burun in Cotegrave Alan Malet succeeded Walter 14 H. 3. Thomas Malet son and heir of Alan 5 E. 1. released all actions against the Prior and Covent of Lenton and their Bayliffs for the waste made in his Estate while it was in their custody the Witnesses were Henry de Tibetot Constable of Nott. Castle Walter de Stircley then Sheriff of Nott. and Derb. Richard de Iorz of Burton Gervas de Willeford c. After him was Henry Malet whose son Iames had two sisters and heirs Elena the wife of
a Bovat The Land was two Carucats There eight Sochm. had three Car. and five Acres of Medow Another part of it was Soc to Clifton of William Peverels Fee as much as was Taxed for five Bovats and one third of a Bovat The Land was one Car. There two Sochm. and two Bord. had one Car. and seven Acres of Medow This was chiefly enjoyed by the Family of Lutterell with Bridgeford at the Bridge-end and Gamelston already mentioned in Rushcliff Wapentak The other the Lords of Holme had of whom the Barryes Lords of Torlaston held a considerable part Michael de Maunvers levied a Fine 3 Ioh to Walter de Hulme his brother of thirteen Bovats in Basingfeild for the which the said Walter gave him three Marks of Silvâ—â— and quit-claimed to him all his right in two Bovats in the said Town which William de Leek held of the said Michael and the service of one Bovat which the said William held of the said Walter in this place There were very great Suits in Edward the firsts time between Richard Barry and Henry Perpunt and Annora his wife 15 E. 1. 18 E. 1. in which Record the Clark who ingrossed it hath inserted a Leonius and a Michael in the pleading more than the time can possibly admit which I have therefore omitted in the Descent The quarrel was for 10l. Rent out of certain Lands in Basingfeild which Iames de Hulme sometimes also called of Keyworth reserved when he passed the Estate to Iohn Barry the said Richards Father from which Iames dying without issue the right devolved to one Michael brother of Walter the said Iames his Grandfather from which Michael it descended to Leonius his son and heir from Leonius to Michael his son and heir from that Michael to Leonius that Michael's son and heir from this Leonius to Michael his son and heir which last Michael had two Wives by the first he had Leonius and Iohane by the second Iohn and this Annora who was cast because none of her Ancestors were seized of the Rent Iames the Feoffor dying before it became due but being notably versed in Law Suits as in Sueynton may be noted she obtained a Writ of Errour and got the better of him at length and likewise 20 E. 1. when her Husband was dead This Town of Basingfeild is part of the Parish of Bridgeford and part of the Parish of Holme whereof the greatest part except the Demesnes was either Barryes or Bonitons Barryes Lands there in King Henry the seconds time were granted to William the Clark of Hulme by Leonius de Maunvers by the name of two Carucats of Land in Basingfeild which grant was confirmed by King Henry the second They were sold by .... Pendock to Sir Henry Pierrepont Knâ—ght deceased Bonitons were lately sold by one of that name to Robert Earl of Kingston whose inheritance the whole Township was together with Boughton Grange a single Farm unto which did belong anciently twelve Oxgangs of Land dispersed in the Fields and Territory of Basingfeild Leonius de Maunvers superstes 24 H. 2. Michael Leonius de Malnoers Michael Leonius Michael .... ux 1. .... ux 2. Leon. de Maunvers-Marger Johanna Johannes Henricus Pierpont defunct 20 E. 1. mil. -Annora consang haer Jacobi 12 E. 1. Robertus Pierpont miles-Sara soror Johannis de Heriz militis Henricus de Pierpont-Margareta fil Willielmi Fitz-William mil. 2 Edm. Pierpont mil. 29 E. 3 -Joana fil haer Geo. Monboucher mil. Edmundus Pierpont miles 1 H. 6 -Frances fil haer Willielmi Franke de Grimsby Henricus Pierpont miles 19 H. 6 -Elena fil Nich. de Langford mil. Henricus Pierpont-Thomasâ—na fil Johannis Melton militis 2 Franciscus Pierpont-Marg fil Joh. Burdon Willielmus Pierpont miles-Joana fil Briani Stapleton mil. ux 1 -Jana fil Ric. Emson mil. Cancellar ducaâ—us Lanc. Elizab. -Joh Sacheverell Georg. Pierrepont mil. -Eliz fil Anth. Babington mil. ux 1 -Winifreda fil Will. Thwaits-Gerv Clifton mar secundus· Annora-Joh Rosel Henricus Pierpont miles -Francesca fil Will. Cavendish mil. Robertus Pierpont Comes Kingston occisus Gertruda fil cohaer Henric. Talbot ... uxor ejus fil haer Will. Raynor milit Hen. Marchio Dorcestriae aet 65. 1672. ... fil cohaer ... vic Baâ—ning .... fil Com. Derby Will. aet 64. .... fil haer ... Harris Serv. ad Legem Franciscus ob Jan. 30. 1657 -Eliz fil Bray Anna-Joh Dom. Roos Gracia Rob. Pierpont ob fil ... Evelyn Comitissa Ogle Comitissa Clare Gertruda 2. ux Geo. Vicecom Hallifax Robertus de Nott. -Anna fil Henrici Murrey Franciscus Pierponte aet 12. Mar. 10. 1674. Georgius aet 9. Willielmus aet 4. Anna nat 1674. Georg ob fil .... Jones Gerv. Franc. ux .... Rolston Georgius Mauners mil. -Gratia Ric. Stapleton-Eliz Th. Comes Kelly in Scot. -Fran Fulco Cartwright -Mariâ— Tho. Thorold marit 1 -Anna-Franciscus Beaumont Joh. Harpur-Isabella Gerv. Willielmus 1 Henricus Pierpont mil. 13 E. 4. ob s. p. ... fil ... Roos de Ingmanthorp 1 Henricus fin 3 E. 3. Robertus fin 3 E. 3 -Cecilia 1 Rob. 2 5 Rog. 6 Georg. 3 Joh. Fin. Rad. 4 3 E. 3. Edm. Eliz. jun. Agath Marg. Agnes Cecilia Annor Alicia Eliz. sen. Walterus de Hulme 1 Johannes Jacobus de Keyworth nepos Rad. fil Nich. pat 11 H. 3. m. 2. Willielmus Agnes Petrus Johannes superst 20 E. 1. Agnes fil Suani de Hoiland Willielmus Reg. Lent p. 6. Holme Pierrepont IN Holme Toret before the Invasion of King William was rated to the Dane-geld at twelve Bov. for his Mannor The Land whereof was sufficient for three Plows or three Carucats There afterwards Roger de Busli had two Car. fourteen Vill. two Bord. having five Car. and one Mill 5s. and eighty Acres of Medow This was valued both before and after the Conquest at 6l. having Soc in Basinfelt The heir of Leonius de Malnuers is certified to hold a Knights Fee here of the old Feoffment that is whose Ancestor was infeoff'd in the time of King Henry the first Raph Plucket levied a Fine 3 Ioh. of the Town of Aneston in Yorkshire and this Holme to Michael de Maunuers and his heirs to be held of the said Raph and his heirs by the service of two Knights Fees excepting only to himself and his heirs one presentation of a Clark to the Church of Holme after the death of Walcran the Parson Pip. 6 Ioh. Michael de Maluniers ought C. m. for having that presentation which the King had by reason that Raph Plucket who reserved it was departed from his Faith with that King Iohn de Rye 52 H. 3. had a Charter of free Warren granted in Holme Basingfeld Lambcote Adbolton and Anstan This man called himself Lord of Holme and was so stiled 1 E. 1. On his Seal were Barres Gemelles and on a Chief three Escallops Raph Fitz-Nicholas 11 H. 3. the Kings Steward had the custody of the Lands and heirs of Robert
son of or Fitz William and of the heirs of Leonius de Malnoers Iuly 16. This Raph the year before viz. 10 H. 3. was Warden or Keeper of Nottingham Castle and Iames de Keworth was his Nephew from whom Annora at length the sole heir of this Family of Maunvers and Married to Henry Pierpont claimed Rents in Basingfeild as his Cousin and heir 12 E. 1. as likewise in Keyworth as in those places may be observed This Henry de Pierpont is said to be son of Henry Iohn le Pierpont of Kirkby in Ashfeild whose Lands there still remain with this honourable Family had a brother named Henry and another Roger c. I suppose them sons or Grandsons of Robert de Pierpont who held a Knights Fee of the Bishop of Lincolne 12 H. 2. Shortly after this it appears that Simon de Pierpont had summons to that Parliament which was called in Iune 22 E. 1. in order to that King's Expedition into Gascoine and that in September following he had command to attend him in person thither well fitted with Horse and Arms for that Service Certain it is that the posterity of Sir Henry Pierpont and Annora being for the most part principally resident at this place gave occasion for the calling it Holme Pierpont where at this time is the principal mansion of the Right Honourable Henry Marquess of Dorchester son and heir of Robert Earl of Kingston the great advancer of this Family who added the high Buildings to the House which else for the most part is as Sir Henry Pierpont the said Earls Father left it but the Stables Garden Bowling-Green and divers other Ornaments and Offices were done by the Marquess The Jury found 4 E. 1. that Margery who had been wife of Leoninus de Maunoers permitted her self to be married to Iohn son of Henry de Nottingham without the Kings licence as was believed being in the gift or disposal of the King The Jury 8 E. 1. found that the Towns of Basingfeild and Holme were bound to repair Polleford Bridge and the Township of Boughton a Bridge and Causey there and Holme the Bridge and Causey of Holme Roger de Wilford and Ioane his wife who held the Mannor of Bughton for her life passed it by Fine 29 E. 3. to Sir Edmund Perpount Chr. and his heirs paying 100s. of Silver yearly while she lived It is now utterly decayed but went commonly with Holme Galfr. de Neyvill and Henry de Perepunt were Justices of Assize 8 E. 1. and sate at Blithworth in this County concerning Forest matters King Edward the second by his Charter dated at Nott. Octob. 27. in the ninth year of his Reign granted to Robert Perepount Free Warren in his Demesne Lands of Holme juxta Nott. Holebek woodhouses Landford and Weston in this County and North Anestan and Treton in Yorkshire which Sir William Pierpount had confirmed amongst many other 6 H. 8. The same King Edward the second by his Letter dated at Woodstock 27 Iun. in the tenth year of his Reign wrote to Robert de Perpount Iohn Deincourt and Hugh de Hercy for two thousand Footmeen whereof two hundred Funditores Pioneers Spademen Miners or the like to be chosen in the Counties of Nott. and Derby and the said Robert and Hugh to lead or conduct them The same year Aug. 20. the King wrote to Robert de Perpont from York to come to him with Horse and Arms for the War of Scotland The South prospect of the House and Church 〈◊〉 HOLME PIEREPONT In the South I le at Holme Pierepont The same Term Robert de Perepount and Cecily his wife and George his son by another Fine settled twenty Mess. one Mill c. in Landford on Robert and Cicely for life then to George and his heirs males remainder to Raph his brother and his remainder to Edmund so to Roger then to Iohn and his heirs males the last remainder to Robert brother of Iohn and his heirs for ever Robert Perepont married Sara the sister of Sir Iohn Heriz by which match this Family a long time after increased their Patrimony by the addition of the Lordships of Gonaldeston and Widmerpole in this County which Sir Henry Pierpont 19 H. 6. claimed as son of Edmund son of Edmund son of Henry son of the said Sara sister of the said Sir Iohn Heriz King Edward the third in the thirty third year of his Reign took Sir Edmund de Pirpond into his protection and all his Men Lands Goods Rents and Possessions because he was then about to go beyond the Seas with Henry Duke of Lancaster at the Kings request Sir Edmund Perpoynt 43 E. 3. had a Seal of Arms circumscribed with his name whereon was three Roundels on each of which was a Lioncell Rampant within a Border engrayl'd King Edward the fourth for the good and laudable service which Henry Pierpoynt Esquire at his great costs and charges and with manifold bodily dangers against the Kings Rebells levying War against him before that time done and still continued viz. 5 E. 4. gave the said Henry and his heirs males the third part of the Mannor of Staley with the same proportion of the Advowson of the Church and the like of the Chantry there in the County of Derby which came to the Kings hands by the Attainder of Iohn Lord Clifford The Rectory of Holme was 12l. value It is now 15l. 17s. 6d. in the Kings Books and the Marquess of Dorchester Patron as his Ancestors the Pierponts have long been In the Church on a Brass fixed in Stone Amoris Gratitudinis ergo Erga Optimum virum Gervasium Pierrepont Armigerum Filium secundogenitum Georgii Pierrepont militis Fratrem Henrici Pierrepont militis Patruum Roberti Comitis de Kingston Vicecom Newarke Baronis Pierrepont de Holme Pierrepont There are very many Arms on the Tombs and in the Windows viz. Pierrepont with quarterings of Maunvers Heriz Monboucher Thwaits c. Stanley Earl of Darby with quarterings Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury with quarterings of Montegomery Earl of Shr. Talbot Strange Nevill Furnival Verdun Lovetot and many impalements as with Cavendish Banning Bray and others In the East window of the Chancell Arg. 6. Annulets Sable 2.2.2 Maunvers and Barry nebule Arg. Sab. Blount On the South side of the Church at Holme Pierepont On the North side of the Quire over the Vault this Monument Vpon which is Inscribed Here lyeth the Illustrious Princess Gartrud◠Countess of Kingston daughter to Henry Talbot Esq son to George late Earl of Shrowsbury She was Married to the most Noble and Excellent Lord Robert Earl of Kingston one of the Generals to King Charles the first in the late unhappy differences and in that service lost his life She had by him many Children most dead there are living Henry Marquess of Dorchester William and Gervas Pierrepont Esquires and one daughter the Lady Elizabeth Pierrepont She
free from paying small Tythes to the Church of Granby for a certain Grange which stood near Giselkirk the old English name of St. Aubreys part whereof stood in the Parish of Grandby There was matter of question between Sir William de Rodes Rector of Langar and the Prior and Covent of Thurgarton concerning certain obventions of the Church of St. Athelburga without the Town of Langar but the parties appearing in the Church of Wiverton the Tuesday after Palm Sunday in the year 1257. they agreed partly to divide the subject of the question between them There was an agreement made also in the Court of Sir Raph de Rodes at Langar before the whole Soc the Knights and Free-men of the said Raph being present and Witnesses between the Prior of Thurgarton and the Parishioners of that Fee in Langar and Barneston that they should all bring home the said Priors Tythes and keep them safe till they could be carried to their proper place for which the said Prior gave them 3s. of Silver yearly at Lammas Sir Gerard de Rodes was son and Successor of Raph and had one son called by his own name Gerard de Rodes Lord of Melles and another named Iohn who 13 E. 1. passed away to Sir Robert de Thibetot and Eve his wife and Paganus their son the Mannor of Langar and Berneston and also the homages of Gervas de Wileford for the Mannors of Clifton and Wilford and of Henry de Perpunt and his heirs of the Mannor of Barton and of Robert Luterell of the Mannors of Brigford and Gameleston and of Edmund de Deyncurt and his heirs which Gerard son of Gerard de Rodes his brother granted to him the said Iohn de Rodes on whose Seal circumscribed with his name is a Lion Rampant debruised with a Bendlet There are divers Seals of the largest size of some of this Family in the Chartulary at Clifton with their Images on Horse-back on one side and on the other SECRETUM with a Lion Rampant upon a Shield and one within a Bordure Eva the wife of Robert de Tibetot was daughter of 〈◊〉 de Cadurcis Robert de Tibbetot had Free Warren granted 18 E. 1. in Langar and Barneston and Bentley in Yorkshire This Robert de Tibetot had a son named Robert who 23 E. 1. was to marry the daughter of Raph de Tony but his son and heir was Paganus before mentioned who about 26 E. 1. married Agnes the daughter of William de Ros. He confirmed to the Priory of Thurgarton all their Lands and Tenements Rents and Possessions within his Demesne in Langar Barneston and Wiverton and particularly all their concerns in the Chappel or Church of St. Ethelburga the Virgin scituate and founded within his Demesne of Langar called in English Giselkiâ—ke In the year of our Lord 1314 he was slain at Strivelin amongst many other English Nobles in the Battle against Robert de Brus where the Scots were Conquerours The next year after or sooner the King 8 E. 2. pardoned Thomas de Veer for marrying Agnes the wife of this Pagan Tibetot without licence on condition that he found twenty men at Arms at Karliol from Lammas then next following to the Feast of All Saints to defend those parts against the Scots King Edward the second Nov. 21. that same year viz. 8 E. 2. for a thousand Marks granted to Barth de Badlesmere the custody of certain of the Lands of this Paganus de Tibtot by reason his son and heir Iohn was under age This Barthol married this Iohn to his daughter Margaret or Elizabeth as some Copyes which afterwards proved to be one of the four sisters and co-heirs of his son Sir Giles Badlesmere whereof another was married to William Lord Ros another to Iohn Vere Earl of Oxford and another to William Boun Earl of Northampton By her this Iohn de Tiptot had a son called Iohn who died without issue under age 33 E. 3. but he had another called Robert on whom this Mannor Robertus de Tibetot-Eva fil P de Cadurcis Paganus Tipetoth occis 1314. apud Strivelin-Agnes fil Will. de Roos-Th de Vere mar 2. Johannes Tibetot-Eliz vel Margareta soror una 4. cohaer Egidii de Badlesmere 2 Robertus Tibtot ob 1372. Apr. 13 -Margareta fil Willielmi Deyncurt ob 1 R. 2 -Johannes Cheyne mar 2. 47 E. 3. Margareta-Rogerus le Scrop fil Ric. Rich. Dom. Scrope de Bolton -Margar fil Rad. Comit. de Westmorl Henricus Dom. Scrope -Alicia cohaer Tho. Dom. Scrope de Upsal Johannes Dom. le Scrope mil. Garterii 1462 -Joana fil Will. Dom. Fitz-Hugh Margeriae fil ... Dom. Willughby .... fil Dom. St. John ux 2. Henricus Dom. Scrop-Elizabetha fil Henrici Percy Comitis Northumb. Henricus Dom. Scrope de Bolton Upsall-Mabel fil Tho. Dom. Dacres de Gillesland Johannes Dom. Scrope-Catherina fil Henrici Comitis de Cumberland Henricus Dom. Scrope mil. Garter 1584 -Maria fil Edw. primi Dom. North-Margar Howard sor Ducis Norfole Thomas Dom. Scrope mil. Garter 1598 -Philadelpha fil Henr. Cary Dom. Hunsdon Emanuel Dom. Scrope fil unicus Tho. creat Com. de Sunderland 3 Car. 1. Jun. 19. 1627 -Eliz fil Johan Com. Rutland sine prole -Martha Janes amasia Domina Annabella aet 43. 1672 -Johannes Grubham Howe Scroope Howe miles aet 24. in Nov. 1672 -Anna fil Johannis Comitis Rutland Johannes Scroop Howe nat Oct. 5. 1675. Johannes Grubham aet 15. 1672. Carolus aet 11. Emanuel Scroop Maria. Diana aet 13. Elizab. aet 18. 1672. Brigitta aet 22. Elizabetha-Thom Com. Rivers Maria-Carol Dom. St. John de Basing Johannes s. p. Henricus 33 Eliz. Stephen le Scrop fil Ric. -Millecent Steph. le Scrope Johannes le Scrope Phil. le Dispenser-Eliz Margeria-Roger Wentworth Philippus Wentworth 1 Johannes ob infra aetat 33 E. 3. 3 Paganus Tibtot Joh. Tibtot Chr. Tho. Dom. Ros. -Philippa aetat 62. 1 H. 7. Johannes Comes Wigorn. Edward Tiptot Comes Wigorn. ob 3 R. 3. Aug. 12. fine prole Rob. fil Rad. de Tony. was settled 22 E. 3. who married Margaret the daughter of William de Ayncourt and did his homage 41 E. 3. His wife was after his death married to Iohn Cheyne King Edward the third Aug. 7. in the forty sixth year of his Reign committed to Richard le Scrop the custody of all the Lands which were this Robert Tibetots then dead until the full age of Margaret Millecent and Elizabeth his daughters and heirs together with their Marriages Margaret was married to Roger le Scrop of Bolton son of Richard whose posterity thereby enjoyed this fair Lordship Millecent to Stephen Scrop son of Richard also and afterwards to Hugh or Iohn Fastolf Elizabeth to Philip le Dispenser who by her had a daughter named Margery married to Roger Wentworth The Lands were many and great Lordships Barowe in Sussex Oxendale in Gloucestershire Secryngdon in Bedfordshire Siberton in Kent Overton in Rutland Bentley in
William de Weston Rector of Kercolston a Messuage lying between the Parsonage and the common Moor or Green which the said Parson who was son of Sir Richard de Weston Knight settled upon Mr. Iohn the son of William Lord before named and 30 E. 1. ten Acres more on the said Mr. Iohn and Alice his wife Iohn son of Mr. Iohn had a son called Robert who married Agnes the daughter of Iohn de Scarrington and after her one named Margaret after whose decease and his own these Lands were estated on Iohn Lord of Eyleston and Alice his wife who had a daughter and heir called Margaret married to Hugh Wymbish who 25 H. 6. gave this Mess. and all his Lands in this Town of the Sok of Orston to Iohn Arnall and Elizabeth his wife and the heirs of Iohn whose heir male William Arnall still enjoyes it Willielmus Arnall 2 H. 5. Johannes Arnall 14 H. 6 -Elizabetha Willielmus Arnall Johannes Arnall Willielmus Arnall Richardus Arnall Willielmus Arnall Willielmus Arnall Willielmus Arnall-Alicia fil Tho. Kirk Will. Arnall â—t 1672 -Maria fil ... Thompson Anna â—â— 16â—2 Maria Ric. Joh. Thom. Greg. Who succeeded Walkelin before spoken of in that Mannor which was of the Fee of Walter de Ayencurâ— immediately I cannot say Iordan de Coleston held it by the Service of half a Knights Fee and his son Gilbert after him who had a daughter named Aâ—ice and certain sons one named Roger but no mention is further made of his posterity that I can find but of the heirs of Gilbert de Carcolston in general Oliver de Lovetots wife was Alice and most of the Lands of that Fee were amongst his as by thâ—t share which Roger de Whatton had and at length came to the Lord Vaux may in some other place be noted however it is evident that several persons of note had interest here very anciently Robert de Somerville Lord of Oxton whose two daughters and heirs were married to Walter de Strelley and Hugo de Capella as in that Town will be shown confirmed to Robert son of Randolf de Colston the Land which his said Father Randolf had viz. Ketellescroft the greatest piece of old inclosure in the whole Lordship heretofore banked on the sides with broad Walks and lying near the Capital Messâ—age or Mannor house to which it doth still belong and an Oxgang of Land which was Tokes for which the said Robert de Somerville was to have the yearly Rent of six shillings and four Capons of the said Robert son of Randolf whose Step-mother Hawisia was to hold Ketelcroft for her life and to pay her Son-in-law 2s. and two Capons yearly Philip de Paunton Knight gave to Thurgarton to sustain the Pitance of the Canons there 15s. and six Capons yearly Rent of William son of Reginald de Kercolston and 3s. and two Capons of William son of Lâ—cia of the same with their Homages Services Wards and Reliefs c. Some of the Demeâ—ne and some of the Tenements likewise which belonged to this Mannor were of the Soc of Orston and lay in Screveton as partly appears by a Fine levied in the Court of Roger de Boun or Bozon at Screveton being that which belongs to Orston wherein divers Fines have been levied by the Kings Writ as this was 41 H. 3. And the High Sheriff before spoken of Roger de Lovetot and four other Knights viz. Adam de Novomercato Henry de Bec Roger de Alneto and Raph de Charnels came accordingly to see right fully held by the said Writ between Roger de Fanecourt of Coleston and Robert son of Thomas and Thomas son of the said Robert of Screveton concerning a Toft and two Bovats of Land excepting one Acre in Screvetoâ— which after their disavowing they acknowledged to yold of the said Roger and then agreed to increase the old Rent of 3s. 4d. per annum to 4s. which is the only Chief Rent now left to this Mannor and is paid by Richard Howytt who is also to appear at Orston Court on St. Thomas day only by the said Fine Sir Gerard de Fanecourt Knight who held in many other places Lands of Deyncourts Fee and was a great Benefactor to Thurgarton Priory to which he gave the Rents Homages Services Wards and Reliefs of divers of the Tenents of this Mannor both in Screveton and this Town exchanged it with Oliver de Lovetot for his Lands in Hickling which he also gave to the same place as in that Town is manifested Cecilia married to Walter Cuily Laderina the wife of William Tesserand Elizabeth and Amicia the four daughters and heirs of Hugo de Capella in 6 E. 1. recovered their seism of five Tofts six Bovats 6s. 4d. Rent and two Capons in Screveton Kercolston Herdeby Hertewell and Everton and William de Stokes and Brian de Herdeby were amerced and against Oliver de Lovetot 3s. and two Capons Rent in the same Towns Oliver de Lovetot settled the Capital Messuage with Garden and Dove-coat and all the Lands he had of the said Sir Gerard de Fanecourt in this Town and out of it also viz. one Mess. one Cottage and four Bovats of Land c. in Screveton with all their Appurtenances on Ioan his daughter and the heirs of her body lawfully begotten in which Deed he mentions a Custom of making a Feast every third Christmas which it seems the three Mannors did by turns and had several Lands which contributed thereto by their tenure This Ioan the eldest daughter of Oliver de Lovetot was married to Robert Morin of Kilvington as before is said and by him had a son called Iohn Moryn and other children Robert and Emme and the 22 E. 1. was a widow she continued not long so for to her second husband she had Roger de Whatton before spoken of who 19 E. 2. passed all the Lands he held in Kercolston and Screveton by the Law or Courtesie of England after the decease of Ioan Morin his quondam wife to her son Iohn son of Robert Morin of Kilvington which she the said Ioan had of the gift and Feoffment of Oliver de Lovetot Those Lands she had by inheritance from her brother he made a shift to secure to his own posterity The Jury in 10 E. 2. found it not to the Kings loss if he granted licence to Raph son of Henry de Kilvington and to Alice his wife to give or enfeoff Richard son of Roger de Whatton in two Mess. fifty eight Acres of Land sixteen of Medow and 28s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Kercolston held of the honour of Tikhill Iohn Morin lived here most of his time which gave this place the name of Moryn-hall â—he 14 E. 3. infeoff'd Raph de Bredon a Clergy-man and Richard son of Thomas of Carcolston in all his Lands here and at Screveton and Alverton to which Deed as to divers others of his the Seal is Quarterly the
when viz. 1669. he sold most of it to my Brother Thomas Thoroton and my Brother-in-law Iohn Story of Kneveton The other Mannor called Kirkton Hall is and hath been the Seat of the Whalleys and their Progenitors the Leeks and the Kirktons who had their name from the place scituate close by the Church and the house it self is in the very division of the Lordships of Coleston and Screveton in each of which part of the Demesnes lay In some Evidences it is called Kirketon juxta Kercolston but in more juxta Screveton Roger de Kirketon to whom Raph son of Yngeram de Screveton passed some parcells here is the first that I have met with Roger had a son called Hugh but the next successour that I can discover was Iohn son of Robert de Kirketon who lived in the latter end of the Reign of Henry the third and in the time of Edward the first In Edward the seconds time Robert son of Iohn Rogerus de Kirketon Robertus de Kirketon Johannes de Kirketon 56 H. 3. 14 E. 1. Robertus de Kirketon 4 E. 2. 19 E. 2 -Beatrix Thom. de Kirketon Ar. 17 E. 3 -Margareta ...... fil haer -Johannes de Stockton 45 E. 3. Avicia-Willielmuâ— de Leek de Kirketon 8 R. 2. Willielmus de Leek de Kirketon-Joana Rad. de Leek 6 H. 5. 8 H. 6. 17 H. 6 -Agnes fil ... Babington ut suppon Thom. Leek Ar. -Jana Elizabetha fil haer -Rich Whalley de Darlaston Com. Staff Laurentius Hatfeild-Isab fil Will. Marshall Alicia Tho. Whalley Ar. de Kirketon -Eliz fil Joh. Strelly de Woodborough Ric. Whalley de Kirketon Ar. ob 1582 -Lora fil Tho. Brookman -Ursula-Barbara Tho. Whalley de Kirketon Ar. ob 1582 -Elizab fil cohaer Henr. Hatfeild Ar. Richardus Whalley de Kirketon Ar. -Anna fil Georg. Horsey de Digswell -Frances fil Hen. Crumwell mil. -Jana fil .... Stirap Tho. Whalley ob ante pattem-Maria fil Tho. Peniston mil. -Ric Draper marit 2. Peniston Whalley Ar. aet 48. 1672 -Margar fil haer Geo. Ireland Ar. de Com. Lanc. ob Sep. 10. 1675. Elizab. aet 18. 1672. Tho. Hall Rector de Screton 1674 -Margareta aet 16. 1672. Eliz. -Will Ayloff Whalley Draper-Rob Butler Rob. Butler Edw. Joh ..... fil Herbert Springate mil. Herb. Whalley Henr. Thom. Johan Walter Willielmus Whalley -Barbara fil cohaer Stephanus Hatfeild -Eliz fil Tho. Molyneux mil. relict .... Becard Henricus Hatfeild ob 26 H. 8 -Alicia cohaer Joh. Hercy milit Tho. Whalley de Kirketon Ar. ob 1582 -Elizab fil cohaer Henr. Hatfeild Ar. Willielmus Whalley -Barbara fil cohaer Nicholaus Thom. 6 H. 5. Radulphus Johannes 6 H. 5. Hugo de Kirketon was owner of this place and in Edward the thirds was succeeded by Thomas de Kirketon Esquire to whom together with Margaret his wife 17 E. 3. Thomas de Newmarch the younger did convey Lands which sometime were Henry Bozoms This Thomas de Kirketon is said to have had a daughter and heir married to Iohn de Stockton whom I find resident here 45 E. 3. and that he had interest in Lands in Claâ—ton now Clauffon and Kirkeby Belers in the County of Leicester in which latter place I find Roger Beler did make some exchange with Adam de Stocton about the time of Edward the first or sooner Stoctons daughter and heir is supposed to be Avicia wife of William de Leek who 8 R. 2. enfeoffed Sir Iohn de Leek Knight Richard de Outhorpe Richard de Stâ—cton and Hugh Bozom Chaplain in their Lands in Screveton Kercolston Kirkeby Belers c. William de Leek of Kirketon 6 H. 5. or Skreveton passed Lands in Kercolston Bingham Aslaâ—ton and Flawbergh to Simon de Leek Raph his own son and Iohan his own wife to Raph his brother and Iohn his said brothers son and to Nicolas his brother and Thomas son of that Nicolas his Seal to it hath nine Annuletts upon a Saltier engrailed within a Bordure Sir William Babington Knight Simon Leek Norman Babington Thomas Nevill Esquire William and Robert sons of Sir William Babington 9 H. 6. made Henry Peyto and Iohn Chaworth their Atturneys to receive seisin of Raph Leek Esquire of his Lands in Kirketon Screveton Kercolston Asâ—acâ—on Kneveton Bingham Newark Sibthorp Eyleston and Flawbergh in this County in the City of Lincolne in Claxton and Kirkeby in Leiceâ—tershire and in the City of Coventre in Warwickshire The Mannor of Kirketon and Lands in Kirketon Screton Carcolston and Aslacton 17 H. 6. were settled on Raph Leek and Agnes his wife therefore supposed to be a Babington and the heirs of their bodies remainder to William son of Sir William Babington Thomas Leek of Kirketon Esquire and Iane his wife 18 E. 4. covenanted to marry Elizabeth their daughter and heir to Richard Whalley oâ— Darlâ—ston in the County of Stafford Esquire This Richard Whalley made his Will 1 R. 3. and by it gave order to his Feoffees Sir Gervas Clifton Sir Iohn Babington Knights Thomas Leek Squire Richard Whalley Priest and George Whalley Gentleman to dispose the Mannor of Darlaston to Elizabeth his wife for her natural life and after to Ioane his daughter and his Lands in Lancashire to the sons of his Uncle Gilbert Whalley if he should die without issue Male himself which he did not for 9 H. 7. Sir Henry Willoughby passed the Wardship of Thomas Whalley his son to Thomas Leek before named This Thomas Whalley married Elizabeth the daughter of Iohn Strelley of Woodborough and had a son called Richard Whalley who had to his first wife Lora daughter of Thomas Brookman to his second Vrsula and to his third Barbara who survived him and married ..... Burnell for whom she made a fair Tomb at Sibthorp as she did here at Screton for her husband Whalley which shows he had twenty five Children by his three Wives which great number many of them being very well Matched as one to Sir Iohn Zouch of Codnor another to .... Bellingeham another to Iohn Nevill of Grove and the like together with his imprisonment in the Tower upon the account of the Duke of Somersett Lord Protector of Edward the sixth whose servant he was and some other mishaps might very well be thought to lessen that great advancement he had otherwise necessarily made of his Family being by his relation to and interest with that Duke easily let in to purchase Abby Lands of which notwithstanding he had a convenient share in this and other Counties To his eldest son Thomas Whalley and his son William the eldest by his second wife did Sir Iohn Hercy of Grove Uncle of Iohn Nevill before named marry also his two Nieces Elizabeth and Barbara the daughters and heirs of Henry Hatfeild of Willughby Esquire by Alice one of the eight sisters and heirs of the said Sir Iohn but she was afterwards married to .... Markham by whom having a son none of Hercyes inheritance came to this
of William de Heriz her Husband gave to the Priory of Lenton her two Men or Tenants Hugh and Henry with the three Bovats of Land they held in Aslacton which gift she and her said Husband offered on the high Altar of the holy Trinity at Lenton Simon son of Reginald de Aslacton gave to the Priory of Thurgarton a Toft and Croft here which was Ordric's and one Acre of Medow of the Fee of Oliver Dayencourt and a great Land or Selion whereon was a Windmill all which H. Prior of that place gave to Maud the wife of Simon de Aslacton and the heirs on her begotten Raph Bozun or Bugun gave to Reginald son of Simon de Aslacton 22s. yearly Rent out of Thurverton and Skerington with Maud his sister in Franke marriage Simon de Aslacton who was Sheriff of this County 44 and 45 H. 3. I take to be son of this last Reginald and father of another who was also father of Reginald de Aslacton Knight who by Fine between himself and Roger de Aslacton Parson of Hawkesworth 2 E. 3. settled this Mannor of Aslacton on himself for life then to his son Iohn the elder and the heirs of his body for want of which to Iohn the younger then to Simon then to Roger his other sons and the respective heirs of their bodies successively for want of which to the right heirs of himself Iohn the elder had two Wives by his first called Alice he had William de Aslacton mentioned in Torlaston his second was Iohan the relict of Peter Hodle and sister and co-heir of Iohn son of Simon de Kirketon in Holland Lord of Sibthorp but by her he had no issue Iohn de Aslacton Clark 30 E. 3. was impleaded by Nicholas de Langford Junior and Alice his wife and Iohn Ryvell Chr. and Ioan his wife daughters and heirs of Roger Deyncourt Reginaldus de Aslacton temp H. 2. Simon de Aslacton-Matilda Reginaldus de Aslacton-Matilda soror Rad. Bozun Simon de Aslacton vicecom Nott. Derb. 44 H. 3. Reginaldus de Aslacton Reginaldus de Aslacton miles-Alicia Joh. de Aslacton Sen. -Alicia-Joana for cohaer Joh. fil Sim. de Kirketon s. p. Willielmus de Aslacton Isabella fil haer -Edmundus Cranmer Johannes Cranmer de Aslacton-Alicia fil ..... Marshall Thomas Cranmer-Agnes fil Laurentii Hatfeild Johannes-Joana fil Joh. Frecheville Thomas Cranmer-Cecilia fil ..... Quadring Thom. Cranmer de Aslacton-Alicia fil Joh. Lucy ux 1 -Elizab fil Thom. Hutchinson relict Will. Erookesby Maria haeres-Johannes Rosell de Radcliff Gâ—orgâ—â—â— Rosell Thom. Molyneux marit 1 -Alicia haer-Joh Thorold mil. Johannes Molyneux Baronettus Richardus Carolus Margareta Thom. Archiepisc. Cantuariens Dorothea ux Haroldi Rofell Anna ux Edm. Cartwright Johannes Jun. cler Sim. Roger. Hugo de Cranmer-Matilda fil Willielmi de Sutterton Gilbertus Cranmer-Ida fil Adae de Loughton Hugo Thom. Cranmer Isabella fil haer -Edmundus Cranmer Johannes for violent ejecting them from the custody of the Land and heir of Iohn de Aslacton being then under age which Iohn dyed seized of one hundred Acres of Land forty of Medow and the third part of the Mannor of Aslacton which he held of the said Roger Deyncourt by Knights Service viz. by Homage and Scutage for a Knights Fee whereupon the Jury gave them 20l. damage and they desired Execution and had it This heir then in minority was William it seems whose daughter and heir Isabell was married to Edmund Cranmer and to that Family carried this Mannor of Aslacton Edmund Cranmer of Aslacton and Isabell his wife 4 H. 6. claimed against William de Sibthorp Esquire two Mess. one Toft twenty six Acres of Land and two of Medow in Aslacton She left 〈…〉 Iohn Cranmer who by Alice the daughter of .... Marshall of Muscam had a son named Thomas Cranmer who married Agnes the daughter of Lawrence or Stephen Hatfeild of Willoughby in Thurgarton-a Lée Hundred and by her had his eldest son Iohn Cranmer whose first wife was Ioan daughter of Iohn Frecheville Esquire and his second Margaret daughter of Iohn Fitz-Williams of Sprotburgh another of his sons was Thomas Cranmer Arch-bishop of Canterbury and Martyr fit to weigh down the Scale against Thomas Becker his Predecessour another son was Edmund Cranmer Arch-deacon of Canterbury he had also divers daughters Iane wife of Iohn Monings Lieutenant of Dover Castle Isabell of Sir ... Shepey Knight Anne of Edmund Cartwright and Dorothy of Harold Rosell of Radcliffe on Trent Tat hanc pià in tanti Praesulis simul et Martyris memoriam Munificentiâ proprâ—s impensis câ—elari fecit Guilielmus Cartwright 〈◊〉 de Ossington in Com. Nottingh His Nephew Thomas Cranmer son of his brother Iohn by his said first wife dyed seized of the Rectory of Whatton and Aslacton 8 Decemb. 5 E. 6. to whiâ—h belonged one hundred Acres of Land twenty of Medow thirty of Pasture in Whatton and Aslacton and also of the Mannor of Aslacton six Mess. c. and two Mess. in Whatton c. and left his son Thomas Cranmer his heir then above twenty two years of age Which latter Thomas had two Wives by his first he had Mary wife of Iohn Rosell of Radcliff on Trent Esquire Grandson of Harold before named and by his second Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Hutchinson and widow of William Brookesby of Grimsby he had Alice wife of Thomas Molyneux and after of Sir Iohn Thorold his daughters and heirs and died 8 Decemb. 1 Eliz. Sir Iohn Molyneux Baronet son of the said Alice and Thomas and Father of Sir Francis sold the Cranmers interest which descended to him And the Mannor is now the Marquess of Dorchesters the Tythes and some Glebe with the Parsonage House c. were Mr. Gervas Armstrongs of Scarrington as in that place is noted Thomas Bean had a good Freehold here part whereof is my Brother-in-law Thomas Iallands And there are some other small Freeholders Thomas Castledine Thomas Draper both of Scarrington with some others divers of the Tenants in Aslacton do suit to the Court-Leet at Cotgrave formerly belonging to St. Iohns of Ierusalem There was a Chappell in the Town which is now a dwelling House Whatton VVatone THis Town so called from the watry scituation the River Smite being close by it which sometimes continues longer full of water than other swifter Rivers do unless the Channel be very well cleansed was before the Norman Invasion the Land of one Vlf who was charged to the Tax for his Mannor here as two Car. and an half The Land being then accounted sufficient for nine Plows or nine Car. There Robert the Man or Tenant of Gislebert de Gand whose Fee it afterwards became had three Car. twenty eight Vill. twelve Bord. having nine Car. and one Mill 4s. and eighty Acres of Medow There was one Molaria ubi molefodiunt of three Marks of Silver which I know not how to render except it be Marle In these parts Mold
whom 9 E. 3. the Land was divided The said Thomas and Philip 3 E. 3. claimed Court-Leet Tumbrell and Pillory here and Philip a Market on Tuesday and two Fairs granted 1 E. 3. to the said Philip de Caltoft Roger le Brabazon held the Mannor of Est-Briggeford one moyety of the inheritance of Beatrix his wife to them and the heirs of their bodies the other moyety for term of his life of the grant of Iohn de Caltoft and Agnes his wife and Iohn de Multon and Isabell his wife as the inheritance of them the said Agnes and Isabell Roger and Beatrix died without heirs of their bodies and so the Reversion of their moyety 11 E. 2. came to the said Agnes wife of Iohn de Calisft then aged forty years as Cousin and heir of Beatrix and to Thomas de Multon son of the said Isabell the other heir which Thomas was then above fifteen years old It appears that Iohn Caltoft son of Philip 25 E. 3. infeoffed Sir Iohn de Loudham Knight Richard Pensax and others in his moyety of this Mannor which descended to Alice his daughter and heir who it seems was first married to Sir Thomas Hetke and after to Sir William Chaworth Multons moyety was become Deyncourts in the time of Edward the third The Jury 27 E. 3. found it not to the Kings loss if he granted leave for William Deyncurt to give a Mess and three hundred Acres of Land with the Appurtenances in this place to three Chaplains to celebrate in this Church of East-Bruggeford The King 35 E. 3. granted to Thomas atte Herbe and Alice his wife who held one moyety of this Mannor and to Robert Deyncourt who held the other that they should have a Market here on Tuesdayes and two Pairs yearly to them and their heirs In 49 E. 3. Alice who had been formerly the wife of Sir Thomas de Heth Knight made William Carboneâ—â— Rector of the Church of Alyngton her Atturney to deliver seisin to Sir Iohn de Loudham Chivaler the younger Iohn de Weâ—by and to Iohn de Stamford Rector of the Church of East-Bridgeford of her Mannors of Est-Brigeforth Thoresby Alyngton and Toynton The circumscription of her Seal is Sigillum D. Aliciae de Hethe and on the Shield is a Bend between two Cotises Dance impâ—ling an Escutcheon within an Orâ— of Câ—nquefoyâ—s viz. Hethe impâ—ling Caltoft Thomas Deyncourt of Upminstre in Essex 36 H. 6. demised to Thomas Southwick and Henry Normanvile Esquire his Mannors of Alington alias West Alington which was also Bisets Land in the County of Lint Est-Briggeford and the Advoâ—son of that Church in Nott. Walley Hall in Darbishire Ketlethorp in Keton in Rutl. and one Mess. called the Hall in Kyrton and all his Lands and Tenements in Alger Kirk Soterton Bykirke Wygtoft and Boston and a certain Rent annually of ten Marks out of the Demesne of Turford Howbeit it appears 20 H. 6. that Robert Deyncourt died seized of the moyety of this Mannor and ten Marks yearly Rent in Turford Ales the wife of William Lord Lovell and Margaret of Raph Lord Crâ—â—well being then by the Jury found his Cousins and heirs Raph Boteler Lord of Sudeley Knight and Ales his wife daughter and heir of William Deyncourt Knight 8 E. 4. remitted all their right and claim to William Bishop of Winchester in the moyety of the Mannor of East-Briggeford and Advowson of the Church and in ten Marks Rent in Turford c. And there was a Fine levied 20 E. 4. between the said William Bishop of Winchester and Sir Thomas Billing Knight Quer. and Iohn Deyncourt and Ioane his wife and Robert Deyncourt their son and heir Deforc. whereby this moyety of the Mannor and Advowson were settled on the said Bishop and his heirs who gave it to Magdalen Colledge in Oxford which he Founded whereto it still belongs The other half which was Sir Iohn Caltofts before mentioned and with his said daughter and heir Alice went to the Family of Chaworth as in Wiverton is also shown was it seems settled on Thomas Chaworth her son and heir and Nicola daughter of Sir Reginald Braybrooke his first wife and the heirs of their bodies By an Inquisition taken at Nott. 24 Ian. 12 H. 7. after the death of William Claxton Esquire who died the Wednesday next before Whitsunday 11 H. 7. leaving Raph his son and heir twenty six years of age and upwards It appears the Jury found that Elizabeth Scroop widow late wife of Iohn Scroop of Massam â— Knight and daughter and heir of Nicola sometimes wife of Thomas Chaworth Knight seized of the Mannor and Advowson of the Church of East-Briggeford 29 Apr. 38 H. 6. gave them to the said William Claxton Esquire then her servant and to Elianor his wife daughter of the said Elizabeth for term of their lives after whose decease at the time of the Inquisition they were the inheritance of Henry Scroope Esquire and Elizabeth his wife daughter of Thomas son of Thomas son of the said Elizabeth Scroop who 6 E. 4. left her son the said Thomas Scroop of Massam thirty years old This remains the inheritance of Simon Scroop Esquire who hath been and is still a good Landlord to his Tenants here I find Iohn Babington resident at Briggeford in the time of Richard the second and Henry the fourth Sir Iohn Babington Knight died seized of a Mannor here 20 of March 16 H. 7. and Etheldena his sister then widow of Iohn Delves entred as heir and died 20 Apr. 19 H. 7. leaving her daughter Elena the wife of Sir Robert Sheffeild her heir who had a son called also Sir Robert Sheffeild who died Nov. 15. 24 H. 8. leaving his son Edmund then nine years of age eleven Months and twenty five daies he was Lord Sheffeild and died 1 Aug. 4. E. 6. his son and heir Iohn Lord Sheffeild being then above twelve years old The Lord Sheffeild sold this to Iohn Hacker who left four sons Francis his eldest succeeded him here Iohn was of Trowell Richard of Flintham and Rowland had a Lease from Magdalen Colledge of their principal Farm in this Town which he left to his only Child ..... the wife of Roger Waldron whose son Roger died lately in it and hath left Roger his son scarcely of age yet who hath also Lands in Scalford and Goteby in Leicestershire Francis Hacker eldest son of Francis and his heir of this Land was a Colonel for the Parliament and Attaint so that his younger brother Rowland by the favour of his Royal Highness the Duke of York who sold him his brother the said Francis his Estate is the present owner He was a Colonel for the King in whose Service he had a younger brother called Thomas Hacker slain in his Company about Colston Basset where their Father old Francis had an Estate also which he purchased of Mr. Golding and had built an House as in that place
had another Mannor here which before was Vluricks rated also to the Geld at one Car. The Land twelve Bov. likewise there was one Vill. and one Bord. Another Mannor in this place Vlviet had before the Norman Invasion which was then discharged in publick payments for five Bov. â…“ The Land was then one Car. There afterwards Roger de Busli had one Car. and two Vill. with one Car. or Plow and four Acres of Medow This kept the ancient value 10s. It seems the Family of Musters of Tireswell was first infeoffed of Earl Alans part here which was called Richmund Fee because William de Musters acquitted the Abbats of Welbek and Neubo and divers others for the Scurage which he received of them viz. 6s. 8d. for their Tenements in Kniveton of Richmond Fee granted to King Edward the second in the fourth year of his Reign and other times and particularly for seven Bovats and an half geldable and two Bovats of the Glebe of the Church of Kniveton The Land which the Abby of Welbek held here in Villainage was given by Eustachius de Mortayn and held of Richmond But Adam de St. Maria who was Lord of Rowmarrais in Yorkshire and Bulcote and Knyveton in this County whose second daughter and heir Lucia was married to .... de Annesley gave to this Abby the Land which Iohn Gouyell held in Kniveton together with eight Bovats of Land in Flintham whereof the Grange had two and Robert de Sibbethorp six concerning which Land the said Abbat paid Ward and Scurage to Sir Iohn de Hannesley and he to the Lord of Bentley by Doncaster Paganus de Tiptoft and he to the chief Lords of Tikhill Adam de Sancta Maria gave to the Church of Wellebek with his body and for the Souls of Alice and Albreda his Wives and Barthol his son's the whole Service of Robert de Kniveton Eustachius de Moretein gave to Mr. Robert de Byngham and Alice the daughter of Iohn de Vvethorp all his Demesne in the Town and territory of Kniveton of the Fee of Hugo Selvein with the right of Patronage of the Church as much as belonged to that Demesne with the Seat of a Mill upon the Trent and suit to it when it should be repaired of all them of his Men whose Ancestors used to grinde there reserving only 4s. per annum Sterling And beside he granted them for the same Rent and their heirs and assigns all that part of the Mess. of Robert son of Hugh which the said Robert held of him of the same Fee and the custom of all his Tenants in this Town to grinde at the Wind-Mill of the said Robert till the Water-Mill upon the Trent should be repaired All this did Mr. Robert de Kniveton called before de Bingham and Alice the daughter of Iohn de Vvethorp give to the Abby of Wellebek as they had it of Eustachius de Mâ—retein Philip Marc then Sheriff of Nott. was Witness which shows it to be in King Iohns time or the beginning of Henry the third Hugh Silvein gave to Gaufr de St. Mâ—dardo his brother all his part which he had of the Land at Kniveton and to his heirs for ever but if he had none by his wife then his brother Iordan should have it William de Malebisse and the Abbat of Welbeck held in Kniveton three parts of a Knights Fee of Alice Countess of Augi or Ewe Lady of Tikhill The Canons of Neubo in Lincolneshire 19 H. 3. had a confirmation of the third part of the Church of Knyveton by that King said to be of the gift of Richard Malebisse and that King 36 H. 3. confirmed the gift of William son of Iohn Malebisse being his Capital Mess. and his whole Demesne in Kniveton and a Toft and Croft of the gift of Hugh son of Râ—bert son of Hugh de Knyveton to the said Abbat of Neubo who was impleaded 1 E. 2. by Ioane the widow of Iohn son of Iohn son of Nicolas de Knyveton for the Advowson of the Church but the Abbat recovered it because her husband the said Iohn did not present when he ought Iohn son of Raph de Kniveton and others 9 E. 1. claimed against Iohn son of Iohn de Knyveton that he should acquit them of the Service which the Abbat of Wellebek exacted of them for their Free-hold which they held of the said Iohn in this Town Iohn son of Raph had a daughter named Emme married to Richard de Kniveton son of Iohn de Birton by whom 3 E. 3. she had a son called Henry son of Richard de Kniveton The Abbat of Neubo is said to have Court-Leet and Court Baron Wards Marriages Reliefs Villains Felons goods and Free Warren here but I have not seen authority sufficient to conclude it was so There is mention likewise of Iohn son of Nicolas de Knyveton Iohn del Holme and Alane de Otringham as owners here And Hugo de Thurverton about 43 E. 3. or before had been concerned here A Mess. Toft and six Bovats of Land about 26 E. 3. were taken into the Kings hand by reason of Felony which Agnes wife of Robert le Ward had committed which were held of William de Wakebrugge who held them of Thomas Atte Halle of Knyveton The Jury 15 R. 2. found it not to the Kings loss to grant Henry le Scroop Chr. Roger Vicar of the Church of Benington and William de Canewyke Chaplain licence to give three Mess. fifty seven Acres of Land three of Medow and 10s. Rent in Knyveton to the Abby of Neubo which were held immediately of that Monastery for 13s. 4d. per annum and Suit of their Court from three weeks to three weeks which the said Abby held of the Honour of Richmond then in Queen Anns hand which she held in Capite as of the Crown It seems Thomas Babington also about 6 E. 4. had some interest here All Lands and Tenements in the Parish of Knéeton in the Tenure of Robert Mower late belonging to the Monastery of Welbek May 1. 35 H. 8. were granted to Edward Fynes Lord Clinton and Say and Robert Tirwhitt Esquire to be held by them and their heirs in Capite Sir Edward Molyneux Knight 6 E. 6. held the Mannor of Kneton of the King in Capite by the Service of the fortieth part of a Knights Fee There was a Recovery suffered 16 Eliz. wherein Robert Fletcher and Iohn Lascells Gent. claimed against Iohn Molyneux Esquire two Mess. two Tofts one Dovecote two Gardens one hundred Acres of Land ten of Medow twenty of Pasture and 26s. 8d. Rent in Kneton Screton and Carcolston who called to Warrant Richard Whalley Esquire and Thomas Whalley his son This Lordship was inclosed in my time by George Lassells Esquire and shortly after sold to the Lady Dormer from whom it passed to Sir Henry More and so to the Marquess of Dorchester who about the year 1665. sold
it to Sir Francis Molyneux Baronet who hath repaired and new built the Seat and makes it his Habitation There was a good share bought of Edward Mower and some of Thomas Beane which Mr. Pochin of Leicestershire sold to old Mr. Francis Hacker and his son the Colonel hath sold it to Elizabeth the relict of Francis Thornehagh the Colonel now wife of William Skeffington Esquire whose it is at this present My Brother-in-law Mr. Iohn Story hath a considerable share and resides in this Town where his Grandfather William purchased some of Mr. Molyneux which his Father Iohn encreased and added to it some which he bought of Richard Alvey of Colston and Henry his son There is Robert Holmes hath a small Freehold also and I think no more The Vicarage was 6l. when the Abbat of Newboe was Patron 'T is now 4l. 9s. 4d. ob in the Kings Books and Sir Francis Molyneux Patron Staunton Part with Orston OF the Land of Edward the Confessour the ancient Demesne of the Crown it was discharged to the publick payments for seven Bovats and three Acres The Land was then three Car. There after the Conquest King William had ten Sochm. three Bord. to three Car. and sixty Acres of Medow Alexander Bishop of Lincolne in the year of our Lord 1139. Founded a Priory in the I le of Hafreholm and gave satisfaction to Raph Halselin and Robert de Calz Lords of Shelford for their part of that place to which Priory of Haverholme in the County of Lincolne did this part of Staunton which lies in Newark Hundred but is ever charged with Orston in Bingham Hundred belong There was an Agreement 23 H. 3. made in the Church of St. Mary Magdalen of Newarke on St. Laurence day before Sir Hugh Picot Sir Ranulf Morin Sir Galfr. de Stoke Sir Robert Vavasor Sir Henry Thuke Knights Warner de Eugaine Alan de Cranewelle Fulc de Houtoft and others between the Prior and Covent of Haverholm on the one part and Galfr. son of William de Staunton on the other part concerning each parties having their Bull free every where in the Fields and Medows of Staunton so as he was not put in the Plow or any other work during his going there and that each part might dispose of the Heads of their Lands called then Chevez now Hades as they pleased The Priory got the Fishing in Smite and Devene and view of Frank-pledge and a Court Baron too and had many Suiters in Thoroton and other adjacent Towns Sir Thomas Tresham Knight and George Tresham Gent. 5 E. 6. passed this Mannor to Thomas Gravesend and Bartholomew Garewey of London Gent. who Feb. 20. 6 E. 6. conveyed it to Ierome Brand who married Brigit the daughter of Anthony Staunton Esquire and by her had Robert Brand who sold it about the 28 Eliz. to his Cousin William Staunton Esquire and Elizabeth his wife for 1200l. whom it made intire Lord of the whole Town which inabled his posterity the better to inclose and sell as they have done some part to William Carâ—wright but some of it yet remains to Harvey Staunton Esq the present owner great Grandchild and heir of the said William Staunton The Tythes of this part belong with the rest of the Rectory of Orston to the Church of Lincolne and the Dean and Chapter find a Curat to officiate in a Chappel which stands in the Church-yard of Staunton whither the inhabitants which hold this Land resort as being of Orston Parish Harvey Staunton Esquire is Lessee to the Dean and Chapter also Newark Hundred Newarke Wapentak LAy to Newark before the Conquest and was then the famous Countess Godeva's and since the Bishop's of Lincolne till it was taken into the Crown where it remains as in the Town of Newarke may be observed Staunton THat part of Stantune which is in Newarke Wapentac before the Norman Invasion was the Freehold of Tori who paid the publick Tax of the Dane-geld for it as ten Bov. The Land being then three Car. There at the time when the Conquerour made his Survey it being then become the Fee of Walter de Ayncurt as all or most of Tories Lands in this County were in Demesne were three Car. and four Sochm. on one Bovat and an half of this Land and eleven Villains two Bord. having two Car. There was a Priest and a Church one Mill 5s. 4d. sixty Acres of Medow in the time of Edward the Confessour the value was 4l. then 100s. It had Soc in Alureton Flodberge and Dallintune and was then held by Malger whose posterity having their chief residence here had their name from this place and do continue in the Male Line possessed of it to this day Nov. 30. 1672. Oliver Dayncourt gave to William de Albeni the younger the Fee of two Knights which Galfr. de Staunton held and which Raph Dayencurt his Grandfather gave to the said Williams father himself adding half a Knights Fee in Gunwortheby for which the said William de Albeni was but to do the Service of one Knight as the rest of the said Olivers own men did The Stauntons were ever esteemed to hold of the Lords of Belvoyr by Castle Guard where Staunton Tower is yet to be found sufficiently guarded by the strength of its own liquor with which the bottom of it is usually replenished Galfr. de Stanton gave Lands in Kelum to the Monastery of Rufford which King Stephen confirmed viz. five Bovats by the consent of Beatrix his wife and Malger his son and confirmed likewise forty Acres there which those Monks had of the gift of Malger de Rolleston Beatrissa de Muscamp after the death of her Husband the said Galfr. de Stantun for three Marks and a Cow which she received of the said Monks in the presence and by the consent of her then Lord and Husband Eudo de Aubeni confirmed to them the said five Bovats though they were part of her Dower And William son of Malger de Stanton also confirmed his Grandfather the said Galfr. de Stanton's gift This William made free Hugh Travers son of Simon de Auvrington and all his Progeny because he took a Cross for him and went for him to Hierusalem so he did also Iohn the son of Simon de Auvrington and gave them to God and the Church of St. Mary of Staunton to be in the protection of the Rector of Staunton The Witnesses were Raph de Orlingberga Robert de Stokes William de Houkesworth Ranulf Morin Walter de Hou Richard de Staunton the Parson William Parson of Kilvington Roger Parson of Elveston Raph de St. Paul and divers others Athelina this Sir William de Stauntons wife is said to be the second of the three daughters and co-heirs of Iohn de Musters Lord of Basingham in Lincolneshire by which means part of that Lordship came to this Family of Staunton There was an Agreement in the year 1257. between Sir Galfr. de
his second wife left many Thomas de Staunton Esquire his eldest about 4 H. 4. had to wife Margaret the daughter of Thomas Mapurley and afterwards two others 2 H. 6. Elizabeth and 10 H. 6. Ioane Thomas de Staunton his son by Elizabeth his wife daughter of .... Sleford as 't is said left many sons on whom the Estate was entailed he had a sister called Margaret who 36 H. 6. was second wife of Iohn Barret of Horbling in Lincolnshire His first son William Staunton Esq married Katherin Deisney but had no issue for he left this Mannor 4 Mar. 14 H. 7. to George his brother who had a daughter married to .... Brookesby but after him this Mannor went to William his brother who was both Lord and Parson of this place and left it to his brother Thomas Staunton Iohn being dead before These had a sister named Alice married to Iohn Thorold of Marston in Lincolneshire This last Thomas by his wife Anne daughter of Thâ—mas Pourment or Paramour who had cut on the Brass of her Tomb a Chevron between three Roses had a son called Anthony who married Sith daughter of Robert Nevill of Ragnell Esquire and by her had very many children Elizabeth first wife of Roger North then of Hugh Thornhil and after of Arthur Walpole Ellen wife of William Wild of Nettleworth Brigitt of Ierome Brand before named Katherin of Richard Marshall Anne of William Snow Sith unmarried his sons were Anthony Richard Iohn William but his eldest was Robert Staunton Esquire a very pious good man he married Brigitt one of the two daughters and coheirs of Gabriel Barwick Esquire Lord of Bulcote in this County by whom he left William Staunton Esquire a very good man too but he sold his share in Bulcote to his Cousin Gabriel Odingsells for 1500l. to purchase his Cousin Brands here for 1200l. which were those belonging to the Priory of Haverholm already mentioned after which he sold other Lands as in their places may be observed His wife was Elizabeth the daughter of Dan. Deisney of Norton Deisney in Lincolneshire Esquire with whom he had 300l. portion She after his death married .... Aston and ... Bussy He left his son Anthony Staunton under age who was Ward to the Earl of Rutland and the Tradition is that Sir Matthew Palmer of Southwell won him at Bowls of Robert Dallington servant to Earl Roger who gave him to that Gentleman 1604. and when he the said Sir Matthew had him he married him to his sister Frances who had to her second Husband Robert Waring of Wilford to whom she bare a son called also Robert Waring and two daughters the elder Frances was the first wife of Matthew Morgan of Aberhavesp in the County of Montegomery the second Elizabeth died unmarried but first to her husband the said Anthony Staunton she brought a son called William who married Anne Niece to her said second husband being daughter of Edmund Waring of Leycroft in the County of Stafford Esquire his elder brother This William Staunton went with the King to Edge-hill Fight and afterwards was a Colonel for him in the Garrison of Newark which impaired his Estate as the Parliament Souldiers did his house here in which they sometimes quartered He sold some of this Lordship to William Cartwright the Lawyer before named as after his death his Trustees did another part to Dr. Iames Margetson now Lord Primate of Ireland He left many children his eldest son Malger died a Batchelor and left his brother Harvy Staunton Esquire the present inheriter of this Mannor who married Anne the daughter and heir of George Cam of Tuxford by whom he hath daughters and may have sons to continue this most ancient Family in the Male Line his sister Mary is wife of William Sacheverell of Barton Esquire his sister Anne of Peter Broughton of Lowdham younger brother of Sir Brian Broughton his sister Katherine of Mr. Holbrooke Parson of Edgemond in Shropshire brother of William the present Parson of Staunton his sister Elizabeth is yet unmarried and his brother Raph Staunton a Scholar in Trinity Colledge in Cambridge the rest of the Colonels Children are dead The Rectory of Staynton was 18l. 'T is now 16l. 13s. 11d. ob in the Kings Books and Harvy Staunton Esquire Patron as his Ancestors have been There is a certain kind of Rhyming Bard-like Pedegree of this Family made by one Robert Cade who did the like for the Family of Skeffington and 't is like for some others in this he hath Transcribed the Epitaphs out of this Church and therefore it cannot be much a-miss to insert it for an Example of such like work which hath been much esteemed by some Families To the Reader GOod Reader thou which hereon lookes Abandon mynde so haultye It may be proved that ys averde Though thou think it be faultye Forget the Basenesse of thy byrthe Do not the best condem The Stauntons may compare with thee And thou canst not with them Therefore better I do conclude To rest and not to ryse Leest that thou rise and fall againe By meanes of Enterprise Then Petigrewe go shew thy self Truth lurkes not in the darke And you that Supervysores are Attentyve be and marke Under this is Stauntons two Chevrons with a Fox for the Crest And Dysneys three Flowers de Lis upon a Fesse and a Lyon passant gardant for the Crest The Stauntons Petygrewe O Champion cheefe and warlike wight Of Stauntons stocke the pryme The and thy sequele I must blase And Petigrewe define Though Haroldes they in noble sorte Thy Arms not pende in vaine Yet somethinge warâ—s that here is writte As Books and Toumbes shew plaine The first Sir Manger Staunton Knight Before Wylliam came in Who this Realme into one Monarche Did conquer it and winne At which same time this Mauger Knight Thrughe feats of Arms and Sheeld In Marcyall prowes so valeant was That then he wanne the Feelde In Belveor Castle was his houlde That Stauntones Tour is highte The strongest Forte in all that front And hiest to all mens fighte Unto which Forte with force and Flagge The Stauntons stocke must sticke For to defende against the Foe Which at the same could kicke His lodgeinge large in that Turritte At all times for his ease He may command both night and day And no man to displease And therefore Stauntons Mannor nowe Whiche in Staunton doth stande Of Belveor Castle is now helde By tenure of the Lande This Staunton Knight gott sure to wife One Emme of worthy fame Also a son that Knighted was Which Mauger had to name Whiche last Syr Mauger tooke to wife Beautrix both sage and wise As valeant as his father was In every Enterprise Whiche Lady Beautrix daughter was To him that then was Lord Of Belveor Castle in the Vale As Tombes and Armes accorde Whiche two Sir Knights cross-legged lieth In Male and Armoure fine Theire superscriptions worne away Theire deathes are without time Yet
she Anne match'd her selfe with Wilyam Snowe Whose life was shorte we reede Yet yssue had he to be seene Iohn and Richarde indeede Ellen the next wedde Wilyam Wilde Of Nettelworth Lord he was After him a yonge man she tooke Cotes brought it soe to passe Ellen to Wilde did bear a sonne Edwarde we doe him call The onlie heire of all his Landes If right may to him fall And Brigit like a woman wise Was match'd with Ierome Brande Lorde of West-hall or Stauntons Grange For so I understande Though his life shorte yet children foure Robert Wilyam also Isbell and Anne he did beget God send them well to do Katherin Staunton Brigits sister A lovinge housebande tooke Richard Marshall a proper man Most comelie on to looke And Sithe her sister was not wedde God lov'de her not amisse The earth her body hath entoumb'd Her Soule remaines in blisse This Anthonie the brother of Theis godlie children all Buil'te Stauntons Chimney as it stands And Windowe in the Hall And soon after was laide downe flatte And chested under stone Over whose Toumbe you may discerne That there lies suche a one Hic jacet Anthonius Staunton Armiger filius Thomae Staunton Armigeri Sitha uxor ejus filia Roberti Nevell Senioris de Ragnell Armigeri Qui obiit Septimo die Februarii Anno Christi 1569. Quorum animabus propitietur Deus Amen Anima Domino Deo meo vivet Et semen meum serviet ipsi En Dieu maffie Robert Staunton was eldest next And Anthonies heire by bludde For he was worthiest of theim all A famouse Squire and good His doinges in his Fathers life To small gaine did amounte Eight hundred poundes then did he owe And more by just accounte Yet in few yeares discharg'd it all Without raiseing of Rente Fewe Leases likewise did he make To furnishe his intente And or he dide such order tooke That thirtie poundes by yeare Soone purchased of Landes in Fee And left theim to his heire Well learn'd he was and studiouse His Bookes and writeings shewe His deedes and notes are wonderfull To prove the same most true He built the Porch at Stauntons house And other buildings faire Towardes the Southe next the Orcharde Which remaines to his heire Hic jacet Robertus Staunton Armiger filius haeres Anthonii Staunton Armigeri Qui quidem Robertus obiit 19 Junii 1582. Wilyam Staunton being under age Is Lord of all his Lande His mother likewise gave him hers Confirmed with her hande To Edwarde Ros Earle of Rutland This Wilyam warde was founde In Newarke by a Jury juste Thrughe tenor of his grounde Which Wilyam in minoritie He so his God dothe feare Hundreds of poundes his fathers debte He doth alreadie cleare At Schoole he learn'd to serve the Lorde His learninge standes in steade Good fathers steppes let him out-trace And his Bookes often reade This Wilyam married Eâ—â—zabeth God graunt theym still accorde Daughter to Daniell Disney ' Squire Of Norton Disney Lorde An house of greate antiquitie As many that I can name And when that she a mayden was All did commende her fame Most vert'uslie she was brought up According to her age On Instruments she can well plaie Modest she is and sage Both Booke and Needle she can use And Romaine write full well With qualities moe she is indu'de Which were too longe to tell In Romaine letters Capitall Thy Stauntons Posy trust En Dieu maffoye writte first above Which Christians followe must The Disneys Posy not forget Which is Suffrance doth ease Then without doubt for to be toulde Fewe folkes you maie displease Nowe farewell Wilyam with thy Spouse God graunt worshippe increace And Nestors years to live on earthe And youre love not to seace God graunt you off-springe to your â—oye God grant you have his grace God grant that I may see in heaven You all look face to face And all that knowe you saie Amen No other cause ye have Yf any thing be done amisse Free pardon I doe crave Finis then Qd. a freende of yours And servaunt in his trade Which writeing wrought and Verse alsoe His name is Robert C. â—ade The mistakes committed by this Bard may easily be corrected and pardoned On the South side the Church at Staunton Betweene the Church North I le at Staunton this On the North side at Staunton On the North side at Staunton In the Church is Arg. two Chevrons sable with a Bordure Engrailed sable also And without a Bordure for Staunton And Gules a Fesse Ermine between three Waterbougets Arg. or Ermine And Gules a Bâ—nd Or. And Azure a Fesse Dancè and Billettè Or Deyncurt And there was also Hic jacet Tho. de Staunton Armiger filius Thom. de Staunton Armigeri Qui obiit nono die Augusti Anno Domini 1482. Kilvington Chelvington IN this Town there was Sok to Newark of the Bishop of Lincolnes Fee as much as paid the Geld for one Bov. Here was some also Soc to Sibetorpe of Ilbert de Lacies Fee but the Mannor in Chelvington and Alvreton which one Colegrim had before the Conquest was the chief part which he then discharged to the publick Tax or Geld for three Bov. The Land being two Carucats After the Conquest Hugh the Sheriff son of or Fitz-Baldric had it of whom one Ausger held it and had here two Car. and one Sochm. of half the Land and three Vill. two Bord. having two Car. and twenty Acres of Medow The value of this in King Edward the Confessors time was 30s. in King Williams but 20s. The next to Ausger that I have seen was in the time of Henry the second William Morin who married Beatrix daughter of Randulf and sister of Robert to whom he confirmed two Bovats of Land one in Kilvington and the other in Alurington which the said Robert's father had given him to be held of the said William Morin for 2s. per annum These two Bovats were confirmed to this Robert son of Randulf also by Ranulf Morin son of the said William Morin to whose Deed were also Witnesses Ranulf the Clark and Eustacinus Bailiffs of Newerch Malger de Staunton Galfr. de Musters William de Stâ—kes Raph son of Robert de Sibetorp c. This Ranulf Morin was living and Lord of this Mannor in the former part of the Reign of Henry the third William Morin succeeded him and in the time of Edward the first three of these Morins married the three daughters of Oliver de Lovetot of Carcolston as in that place is shown Robert Morin had Ioan the eldest Ranulf his brother had Isabell the second and William Morin had Alice the youngest of the three which were sisters and at length heirs of Iohn de Lovetot son of the said Oliver William Morin had a son called Robert who held this Mannor of Hugh de Rabaz of Ardingworth by the service of 3s. 4d. which said service he the said Hugh 21 E. 3. conveyed to
Sir Geoffrey de Staunton Knight but before that this Robert Morin and Ioane his wife had passed away most of their interest here as by Fine they did 15 E. 3. seven Mess. one Mill sixteen Bovats of Land forty Acres of Medow and 6s. 8â— Rent in Kilvington and Alverton to Sir William de Bingham Knight and his heirs reserving both their own lives in them only And the said Robert had in the time of Edward the second passed several of his Villains to Robert le Vou of Steinwath who 18 E. 2. manumitted Isabell the daughter of Raph son of Richard of Kilvington and her two daughters Maud and Margery and several others as the said Robert Morin had granted him power to do Sir William de Bingham 18 E. 3. by Fine settled these Lands together with some in Clipston on Richard de Bingham his son and Annora his wife then in the custody of Robert de Meaux their Guardian and the heirs of their bodies with remainder to the right heirs of the said Richard Ioane the widow of Robert Morin then held these for her life Iohn Loudham the elder Knight and Edmund de Bingham Parson of Plumtre 48 E. 3. confirmed to Simon de Leek Knight and Iohn Payn Citizen of London all the Lands in Kilvington Alverton and Flawburgh which they had the year before viz. 47 E. 3. of the gift of Richard de Bingham Knight who had power to redeem them in six years for 226l. 13s. 8d. to be paid to the said Citizen Iohn de Leek Chr. and Isabell his wife 6 H. 4. by Fine settled the Mannor of Kilvington four Mess. sixty four Acres of Land sixteen of Medow and 20s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Kilvington Staunton Flawburgh Dalington and Newarke on Simon de Leeke and Ioane who had been the wife of Sir Thomas Malâ—ry Knight and the heirs of their bodies but if the said Simon and Ioane should fail of issue to remain to them the said Iohn and Isabell and the heirs of Iohn This Ioane was the daughter and heir of Sir Iohn Talbot of Swannington in Leicestershire and bore to the said Simon Leeke Lord of Cotham as in that place may be seen four daughters and heirs whereof Mary was second wife of Sir Giles D'anbeney and bore him a daughter called Iane who carried her inheritance to Sir Robert Markham of Cotham her husband with whose posterity these Lands continued till the year of our Lord 1574. that a threefold exchange was made between Robert Markham of Cotham Esquire who passed his Lands in Kilvington Alverton Flawburgh Dalington and Staunton to Robert Staunton of Staunton Esquire who passed his in Basingham Quarington and Sleford to Anthony Thorold of Marston Esquire who passed his in Cleypoole to the said Robert Markham But Robert Staunton had the hardest bargain for he gave not only 6l. per annum more Rent of Land to his Cousin Thorold but also 40l. in money to his Cousin Markham to whom he was also to give 100l. more if his son William Staunton when he came to the age of nineteen should refuse to take to his wife Frances the daughter of the said Robert Markham though he was not obliged to give her any portion This was after two or three years talking of at length agreed and effected by the mediation of Thomas Markham of Ollarton Esquire Robert Wood of Lamley Esquire chosen for the said Robert Markham the said Anthony Thorold and William Sutton of Averham chosen for Robert Staunton at Cotham 18 Sept. 1574. as before is said This made intire the Lordships of Staunton Kilvington Alverton and Flawburgh saving part of this Town which Francis Brookesby inherited from George Staunton mentioned in Staunton and the Priory Lands in Staunton then Ierome Brands but afterwards purchased by William Staunton of Robert Brand as before is also shown This Mannor and Advowson of the Church since the death of the last William Staunton the Colonel is sold to William Cartwright before named in Staunton and remains the inheritance of William Cartwright his son and heir Raph de St. Paul Lord of Sibthorpe noted also in that place whose daughter and heir Dionisia was married to Alexander Bozon of Kirketon in Holland whose son was called Raph de Kirketon and gave this Advowson with his sister as in Staunton is shown if this latter Raph be not also sometimes called Raph de St. Paul or some other of that name passed by Fine 10 Ioh. one Bovat here to Hugh son of Roger. The Rectory of Kilvington was 10l. and Mr. Staynton Patron Now it is 6l. 12s. 1d. in the Kings Books and the Church of Southwell Patron Mr. Colston is a Freeholder in Kilvington I think that which was Brookesbies heretofore and not long since Mr. Iosuah Wrights Alverton Alvrington IN Alvreton Flodberg and Dallington there was of the Sok of Stauntune of the Fee of Walter de Ayncurt as much as paid the Geld for six Bovats The Land two Car. There twelve Sochm. had three Car. and one hundred Acres of Medow this Malger held as in Staunton may be observed Another part here was Soc to Sibthorp of Ilbert de Lacies Fee and another to Kilvington of Hugh Fitz-Baldric's Fee which Auger held and afterwards the Family of Morin as in Kilvington is noted Iohn the son of Robert Morin of Cartolston 17 E. 3. passed a Mess. here to Iohn son of William Morin of Kilvington and to Alice his wife Simon de Leek named before in Kilvington 1 H. 6. made a Letter of Atturney to take seisin of Agnes who had been the wife of William son of Roger de Thurverton in one moyety of a Toft and three Bovats of Land seven Acres of Medow c. in Alverton which descended to the said Agnes by right of inheritance after the death of Iohn Morin of Kercolston her Father and in the Reversion of the other moyety after the death of Raph de Bingham of Kercolston who then held it by the Law of England after the death of Elizabeth late his wife all which the said Simon had of the gift and grant of the said Agnes according to the force and effect of a certain Instrument or Chartel thereof by her made to him This went with Kilvington to the Family of Staunton as there is shown and William Staunton son of Robert who made the exchange falling into the hands of Henry Hewyt Citizen and Cloathworker of London for whom he proved too weak gave him possession of Alverton and an enclosed part of Kilvington 10 Dec. 1590. 33 Eliz. with whose Family viz. Sir Thomas Hewyt son of William it still continues William Wright elder brother of Iosuah the Grazier had a Freehold and built an house there now the inheritance of Iohn Dickinson of Claypole in Lincolnshire Flawborough And Dalington Flodberge BEsides that which in Doomsday Book is mentioned to be of Walter de Ayencurts Fee and of the
Soc of Stantune here was also of his Fee another parcell Soc to Cotes now Cotham which paid the Dane-geld as one Bov. ½ The Land being one Car. There was twenty four Acres of Medow There five Sochm. had one Car. ½ and twenty four Acres of Medow Here was also a Mannor in Flodburge which Vlvric had before the Conquest and discharged it to the publick Tax for two Bovats The Land then was certified to be one Car. There Walter de Ayncurt had afterwards one Car. four Vill. with one Car. This kept the old value it had before in the time of Edward the Confessour viz. 20s. Here was another small part went with Shelton of Roger de Buslies Fee the Tythes whereof are paid thither still Here was a Family called de le Hou from their residence on the Hill the lower part is usually called Dalington Of them Gerard and after him Walter de le Hou and in the latter end of Henry the third and beginning of Edward the first Robert del How who passed some parcels in Flawbergh and Dalington to Robert Morin were of most note though afterwards 13 E. 3. I find William but I think most of their Lands were gone first yet in some writings it is still called Flawborough del How Galfr. Bugge of Wester Leke in 26 E. 1. sold to Sir William de Staunton six Bov. and an half of Land with the Villains in Flawburgh for fifty Marks to be paid in the Mannor House of Sir Richard de Bingham brother of the said Galfr. Bugge The greatest part of this Township became the possession and inheritance of the Family of Staunton shortly after as I guess for in the Record of Nomina Villarum 9 E. 2. it is certified to be half a Villa and Sir William de Staunton Lord of it where Kilvington Staunton and Alverton answered for a whole one and Sir William de Staunton and Robert Morin were Lords However when the exchange in Kilvington was made that Markhams part wherein 't is like was also some or all of that share belonging to Cotham came to the Stauntons it made it entirely enough theirs but it was not very long so for in the time of the late troubles it was sold by the then Earl now Duke of Newcastle or his Trustees to Sir Iohn Cropley whose son hath been at great charge and loss to spoil a good Lordship for Corn by inclosing and depopulating it as we think Some of this Town was of Orston Soc as in that place is mentioned viz. some of the lower Town called Dalington and 26 H. 3. held by Roger Bozon this is still in Orston Parish but the main of the Township is Parish to Staunton Mr. Cropley I see is now rebuilding some good Farm-Houses viz. 1675. but the Lordship I doubt will not hastily recover its former state Shelton IN Sceltune and Colingham was a Mannor of the Fee of Raph de Limesi who had Thorpe and Holton and one in Dordenthorpe in this Wapentak This was rated to the Geld at five Bov. and an half The Land four Car. There were eight Sochm. five Vill. having three Car. and sixty Acres of Medow two Acres and one Virg. of Wood or Pasture In King Edward the Confessours time this was valued at 4l. but in the Conquerours at 40s. In Scelton and Flodberge of the Fee of Roger de Busli was a Mannor which before the Conquest Alsi had and paid for it to the publick Tax as seven Bov. ½ The Land two Car. ½ There Robert the Man or Tenant of Roger had one Car. six Vill. two Bord. having two Car. There was a Church and a Mill and thirty Acres of Medow This in the Confessours time was 40s. in the Conquerours but 30s. value Here was also of the Fee of Ilbert de Lacy Soc to Sibetorp in Scelton Alvreton Chelvinton and Torverton as much as paid the Tax or Geld for three Bov. The Land one Car. There six Vill. and one Bord. had two Car. and thirty Acres of Medow 'T is like the posterity of that Robert had their name from this place however it is certain that a Family of that name here was very anciently Lucia the daughter of Edward Foliot and Ioane her sister 33 E. 1. passed a Mess. and a Car. of Land in Shelton by Fine to Walter Bedewynde The Mannor and Advowson of the Church of Shelton 7 E. 2. by Fine were settled on Iohn de Shelton and Alice his wife and the heirs of Iohn In the 9 E. 2. Sibthorp and Shelton answered for one Vill. and Sir Iohn de Charnels Iohn de Bedewynde Iohn de Schelton Iohn de Thorpe and Simon de Sibthorpe were certified to be Lords A Fine was levied of this Mannor and Advowson 10 E. 2. between Iohn de Shelton and Alice his wife Quer. and Robert de Helpeston Parson of Houton Deforc. whereby they were settled on the said Iohn and Alice for their lives and to remain after their decease to Nicolas de Widmerpole and Alice his wife and the heirs he should beget on her body and for default of such issue to the right heirs of the said Nicolas Thomas de Staunton and Alice his wife 2 R. 2. and afterwards 8 R. 2. levied a Fine of one Mess. in Newarke and the Mannor of Shelton and Advowson of the Church to Thomas de Hatfeild Bishop of Durrham and Iohn de Popham Sir Thomas de Staunton Knight and his parceners 13 R. 2. were found to have held half a Knights Fee here of Roger de Clifford and 15 R. 2. of Thomas de Clifford whose son Thomas de Clifford was then found heir of the said Thomas de Clifford Knight Walter Parker of Segbrok Cousin of the Lady Alice sometime wife of Sir Thomas de Staunton Knight 7 H. 5. released to Symon de Leke Knight and his heirs all his right in the Mannor of Stoke nigh Newarke called Overhall and in the Mannor of Shelton and Advowson of the Church with the Appurtenances in Shelton and Flawburgh and in one Mess. in Newarke The Mannors of Kilvington Shelton and Overhall in Stoke by Newark with the Appurtenances and eighteen Mess. twelve Tofts fifty Bovats of Land two hundred Acres of Medow with the Appurtenances in Thorpe Elston Staunton Kilvington Alverton Flawburgh Shelton and Stoke by Newark were 18 H. 6. by Fine settled on Richard Willughby and Anne his wife one of the four daughters and heirs of Simon Leke of Cotham Esquire and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of Anne Richard Bingham of Watnow Esquire and Anne his wife suffered a Recovery 3 H. 8. wherein Sir Henry Willughby Knight Anthony Fitz-Herbert Serjeant at Law Nicholas Fitz-Herbert Nicholas Purefey Esquire Iohn Savage Esquire Nicholas Strelley Esquire and Iohn Newton claimed against them the Mannor and Advowson of Flaburgh two Mess. two Tofts one hundred and sixty Acres of Land forty of
which Stephen de la Hay 11 E. 1. said he was wont to receive out of Cotum in the name of Service The Mannor of Cotum by a Fine between Iohn de Ludham and Iohn de Vallibus at York 31 E. 1. was settled on the said Iohn de Vallibus and Constancia his wife and the heirs which he should beget on her body remainder to the right heirs of the said Iohn de Vaux By another Fine at York 2 E. 3. between Iohn de Vaus and Sibyll his wife and Thomas de Sibethorpe Cler. it was settled on the said Iohn and Sibyll and the heirs of their bodies for want of which on Arnold son of Iohn de Mounteney and the heirs of his remainder to Robert brother of Arnald and the heirs of his body remainder to Iohn brother of Robert and his remainder to the right heirs of Iohn de Vaus In the Record of Nomina Villarum 9 E. 2. Iohn de Monteney was certified to be Lord of this place 't is possible it might be by the marriage of Iohn de Vaus his mother Thomas de Leyk Knight 38 E. 3. was certified to hold a Knights Fee in Cotham of William Deyncourt This afterwards became the inheritance of that Family whereof there was said to be two or three Sir Iohn Leeks the last whereof had two sons the younger of which was Iohn Leek who married Alice the daughter and heir of Iohn Grey and was Progenitor of the Earl of Scarsdale and of Sir Francis Leek of Newark Knight and Baronet the elder was Simon Leek who married Ioane the daughter and heir of Sir Iohn Talbot of Swannington in the County of Leicester the widow of Sir Thomas Malory Knight and by her had four daughters and heirs the second whereof Margaret was married to Sir Iohn Markham the Chief Justice Progenitor of Sir Robert Markham of Sedgebrook in the County of Lincolne Baronet Elizabeth the third was wife to Sir Hugh Hercy of Grove Anne wife of Richard Willoughby was the fourth but Mary second wife of Sir Gyles D'aubeney was the first in whose right the said Sir Giles held by the Courtesie of England the Mannors of Cotum and Houghton by Newarke and left a daughter and heir by her called Ioane who carried this Lordship to Sir Robert Markham her husband son of Sir Robert brother by their Father Sir Iohn Markham the elder one of the Justices of the Kings Bench to the said Sir Iohn Markham the Chief Justice who made the match In Peverton in the County of Somerset was this Epitaph Hic jacet Domina Maria D'aubeney â—xor Egidii D'aubeney militis quondam filia Simonis Leeke Armigeri Com. Notinghamiae quae obiit 17. mensis Februarii Anno Domini 1442. Sis testis Christe Many make this Simon Leek a Knight but the mistake I suppose came by reason there was a Knight of that name living in the latter end of the Reign of Edward the third as in Kilvington may be observed The Family of Markham made this their principal Seat and were of great note Sir Iohn Markham was a Captain at Stoke Field Anno 1488. but as the Tradition goes was an unruly spirited man and striving with the people of Benington in Lincolneshire about the Boundaries of their Lordships which are contiguous he kill'd some or other of them some have it that he hang'd the Priest for which retiring he lay hid at a place in Lincolneshire which the elder Sir Iohn Markham his great Grandfather had by his wife Elizabeth the sister and co-heir of Hugh and daughter of Sir Iohn Cressy of Hodsak from them called Cressy Hall where as saith my Author Francis Markham it was his good Fortune to entertain the Lady Margaret mother to King Henry the seventh who not only beg'd his Pardon but married her Kinswoman Anne the daughter of Sir George Nevill to his son who was likewise called Sir Iohn Markham and had a son by her called Iohn who died before him but left a son born at Sireston 1536. called Robert but after her death he married Margery the daughter of Raph Langford by whom he had a son named Robert and a daughter married to Robert Moreton of Bawtrée and eleven more Children after her he married a third wife Anne the daughter and likewise sister and coheir Johannes de Markham legis peritus .... fil Nic. Bothomsell Robertus de Markham legis peritus ..... fil ... de Caunton Johannes de Markham mil. Justic. de Banco -Elizabetha sor cohaer Hug. Cressy -Millecent fil .... Bekering relicta Nic. Burdon mil. Robertus de Markham mil. -Elizab fil haer Nic. Burdon mil. Robertus Markham mil. de Cotham -Joana fil Egidii Daubeney haer matris Mariae fil ejusdem Simonis Leek de Cotham Ar. Johannes Markham miles-Alicia fil Willielmi Skypwith mil. Johannes Markham mil. ob 1558. 1 Eliz. -Anna fil Georg. Nevile milit -Margeria fil Rad. Langford -Anna fil cohaer Johannis Strelley relict Richardi Stanhope Johannes Markham Ar. ob ante patrem-Katherina fil Antonii Babington Robertus Markham-Maria fil Franc. Leeke mil. -Jana fil Willielmi Burnell de Winkeburne Robertus Markham miles de Cotham -Anna fil Johannis Warburton Com. Cestr. mil. -Anna fil Rob. Thorold de Haugh vel Winifrid 1 Johan Markham 2 Robert 3 Daniel 4 Alexand. 5 Philip. Philip. Markham ob ap Haugh in Com. Linc. 1669 Franciscus Thomas à quo familia de Allerton Johannes Markham mil. Capital Justic. -Margareta fil cohaer Simonis Leeke Ar. of Iohn Strelley Esquire the relict of Sir Richard Stanhope Knight and by her had Thomas Markham who married Mary the daughter of Rese Griffin and was Progenitor of the Markhams of Allerton and two or three daughters and died 1 Eliz. 1558. He was in very great prosperity but at length utterly ruined yet the Earl of Shrowsbury whom he unadvisedly made his enemy help'd to raise his Children His Grandchild Robert succeeded here whose first wife was Mary daughter of Sir Francis Leeke his second Iane daughter of William Burnell of Winkeburne by whom he had Roger Markham By his first wife he had many Children His eldest son Robert had also two Wives his first Agnes daughter of Sir Iohn Warburton of Cheshire his second Winifred daughter of Robert Thorold by whom he had Philip Markham Esquire who died 1669. the rest were dead before This last Sir Robert was a fatal unthrift and destroyer of this Eminent Family he had a brother called Francis Markham who was a Souldier and a Scholar he was admitted into the University of Heidelberg 12 Febr. 1595. He collected the History of his own Family and wrote certain Decades of Epistles to Eminent Persons concerning the Art of War which he Printed This Township is now decayed the Houses pulled down and most of it inclosed being the inheritance of his Grace the Duke of Newcastle The Rectory of Cotteham and Advowson of the Vicarage late belonging to the
Priory of Thurgarton 24 Nov. 38 H. 8. were granted to Iohn Bellowe and Iohn Broxholme Esquire together with the Tythe Barn of Cotteham with the Appurtenances then in the tenure of Iohn Markham The Vicarage of Cottome was 8l. when the Prior of Thurgarton was Patron 'T is now 7l. 18s. 1d. ob in the Kings Books and I suppose the Duke of Newcastle Patron who alloweth towards 20l. a year to one to officiate sometimes but none have been presented of late In the Chancel by the North Wall is a good Tomb of .... Markham In the Windows is Cheque Arg. and Gules a Bend sable Bekering And Arg. a Lion Ramp queve furchè sable Cressy Stoke by Newark Stoches and Efloches THis Stoches was very much parcelled in old time and so continues some of it which was rated to the Dane-geld at one Bovat and an half was of the Soc of Newark and of the Bishop of Lincolnes Fee which some Sochmen held Another part of this Town of Stoches was the Fee of Walter de Ayncurt where before the Conquest Tori had a Mannor which was discharged to the publick Tax for six Bovats The Land then was certified to be two Car. There was afterwards in Demesne one Car. three Vill. five Bord. having half a Car. and sixty Acres of Medow In the Confessours time this was 6l. sclo or 60s. in the Conquerours 40. Osbert held it And it had Soc in Holton Another part was of Ilbert de Lacies Fee which Turchill had before and discharged his Mannor to the Geld for five Bovats though the Land was then known to be two Car. Manfrid held it of Ilbert and there had half a Car. and three Sochm. five Bordars having one Car. and two Oxen plowing and sixty four Acres of Medow In the Confessours time this was 20s. in the Conquerours 15s. value Another Mannor in Stoches before the Normans came had Sbernecroc which he paid for as two Bovats and an half to the Geld. The Land was one Car. This afterwards became the Fee of Berengarius de Todeni which Raph his Man held and there had one Car. two Vill. three Bord. plowing with two Oxen. There was forty Acres of Medow This in the time of King Edward before the Conquest was 12s. when King William made his Survey 10s. value Here was a Family which took their name from this place of which I find several but cannot give an exact account of them The County of Nott. 11 May in the sixth year of King Iohn was committed to Peter de Stokes as long as the King should please Robert son of Stephen the Knight of Stokes by the consent of Margaret his wife and Stephen his son and heir gave to God and the Church of St. Peter at Thurgarton two Selions or Leyes by Templecroft without the Town of Stoke towards Newark to make a Toft and one Bovat of Land and all his Medow in Withenes and a Path for Foot-men and Horse-men to Fiskerton Ferry over the Cheveciis Heads of his great Furlong by the Trent and the like which Stephen son of this Sir Robert de Stokes Knight confirmed Here were many Benefactors to the Priory of whom that Covent got small parcells of Land Hugh Blanchard the Chaplain of Stoke gave part of a Toft four Selions of Arable Land a Rood of Medow and the like which he had of Iohn de Roldeston of Stoke chief Lord of the Fee whose wife Maud the daughter of Robert de Harston in her widowhood confirmed it so did William the son of the said Iohn de Roldeston Robert Payn of Neuwerks gave a Toft and Croft in Stoke and some small Rents and half an Oxgange of Arable c. which Hugh Cundi held of him in Villanage together with the said Hugh his whole off-spring and all his Chattels Thomas de Bekering Knight son of Thomaâ— released all his right and title in half a Bovat of Land which should descend to him by inheritance after the death of Thomas de Bekering his great Grandfather to the said Prior and Covent And Roger de Stokes confirmed to them all the Lands and Tenements they had of his Fee in Stoke by Newark which confirmation seems to bear daâ—e 15 E. 2. Iohn the Prior and the Covent of Thurgarton passed to Sir Iohn de Munteney and the Lady Constantia his wife a Toft and Croft containing three Roods lying next the Messuage of the said Sir Iohn on the East in Stoke to them and the heirs of their bodies paying 2s. a year for the security of which the said Sir Iohn made a Bovat which Robert Moxly held of him in Stoke in Villanage to be liable to their distress Robert de Stokes paid two Marks for one Knights Fee here which I take to be of Deyncourts part The Bishop of Lincolne infeoffed the Ancestor of Dive Lord of Kingerby in Lincolneshire who had his Court kept at Balderton and was succeeded by Bussy of Hogham as in Balderton more particularly Galfr. de Stokes was found 51 H. 3. to have held something in Darbishire of Richard de Sandiacre and likewise of the Fee of Kinnerby in Stoke twenty Bovats in Newark four Bovats and in Balderton eight Bovats of the same Fee of the Fee of Bekering in Stoke ten Bovats four in Sireston and sixteen in Screveton there noted Iohn son of Paulinus de Stoke was found Cousin and heir of this Geoffrey And Matilda sister of Iohn de Stokes 21 E. 1. was found his heir An Assize 16 E. 1. came to be recognized before the Justices at Nott. if Robert de Stokes the Uncle of Robert de Omesby and of Robert de Ayleston was feised of one Mess. one Wind-mill one hundred and fifty one Acres of Land thirty five of Medow nine of Pasture 6l. 9d. Rent in Stokes by Farndon which Henry de Gauy and Isabell his wife then held and called to warrant Stephen de Stokes who was summoned in Northamptonshire and came and voided the warranty because the Jury found that Isabell had not done him Homage which she pleaded she did at Siberton In the Record of Nom. Vill. 9 E. 2. Stoke answered for a whole Villa and Henry de S. Licio and Isabell de Gauy are certified to be Lords of it The year before 8 E. 2. Henry de S. Licio had an Ad quod Damnum that he might give ten Acres and an half to the Master of the Hospital of S. Leonard at Stoke and his Successours which shews he held of Iohn de Bussy and he of the Bishop of Lincolne This Hospital is very ancient for Raph de Aincurt in the time of Henry the first when he Founded the Priory of Thurgarton excepted 10s. per annum of his gift to the infirm of Stokes but who Founded it I have not yet discovered It had Lands in Newark and very many other Towns within that Soc given by several Benefactors The Jury 12 E. 3. found it not to
a Crosse engrailed Gules The Lady Alice Stauntons Tomb is mentioned in Staunton Thorpe by Newark IN Torpe the Fee of Rad. de Limesi before the Conquest Vlvric had a Mannor then rated to the Dane-geld at six Bov. and an half The Land four Car. There afterwards Manfrid the Man or Tenant of Raph de Limesi had one Car. and nine Villains and five Bordars having three Car. and seventy two Acres of Medow the value is omitted In King Iohns time Malger de Torpe was summoned to warrant to the Prior of Haverholme the Advowson of the Church of Thorp who came and confirmed the grant of it made by Walter de Torp his Father to the said Prior and his successors who then produced the Chartel or Deed of the said Walter And it appears 22 E. 3. that Priory enjoyed this Church accordingly In the Record of Nomina Villarum 9 E. 2. Thorpe and Cotum answered for a whole Villa and Richard de Thorpe and Iohn de Mounteney were certified to be Lords There was a Fine levied at Nott. 3 E. 3. between William de Thorpe Knight and Margaret his wife Quer. and Hugh de Goushull Parson of Radcliffe Deforc. of the Mannor of Thorpe with the Appurtenances five Bovats of Land five Acres of Medow seven Marks 2s. 1 ob 1 q. Rent and Rent of 4 Hens and 6 Geese in Stoke Eyleston Newark and Northgate by Newark whereby the premises were settled on the said Sir William and Margaret and the heirs of the body of Sir William remainder to Herbert his brother and the heirs Males of his body remainder to the right heirs of Sir William de Thorpe Sir Edmund Molineux who was Serjeant at Law and made Justice of the Bench during the Kings pleasure 22 Octob. 4 E. 6. was son of Sir Thomas Molineux of Hawton by his second wife the daughte of ... Cotton of Cheshire and had this Mannor and bought the Lands which were the Knights Hospitallers of St. Iohns of Hierusalem in this place belonging to the Preceptory of Eagle in the County of Lincolne formerly the Knights Templars of one ...... Thorpe who together with .... Lister had them from the Crown 35 H. 8. and was succeeded here by his son Iohn Molineux of Thorpe and he by his son Edmund who left a son called Sir Iohn Molineux who sold this place to Iohn Halsey and others The Township is inclosed and the Capitall Messuage and Grounds near the Town are now the inheritance of Robert Butler Esquire whose Father Robert Butler re-edified the ruined Church There was a Recovery suffered 6 Eliz. wherein Robert Flecher and Iohn Fawconer claimed against Iohn Molineux Esquire three Acres and one Rood of Medow and one hundred Acres of Moore in Thorpe and Stoke by Newark and Common of Pasture for all Mannor of Cattel in four hundred Acres of Land in Thorpe and Stoke and Robert Markham Esquire George Nevill Esquire and Iohn Arnald Gentleman were called to warranty Divers of the Closes are the inheritance of Sir Francis Leek Knight and Baronet whose Father William Leek was son of Sir Francis Leek by his second wife the daughter of ...... Edgioke after married to Sir Gervas Clifton which said Williams second wife .... the daughter of .... Orme of Elston still keeps them in Joynture She was since married to .... Druell who is also dead The Rectory of Thorpe was 10l. value when the Prior of Brodholme perhaps mistaken for Haverholme was Patron 'T is now 8l. in the Kings Books and the King himself Patron In the Church was an ancient Tomb whereon lay one in Armour and Mail cross-leg'd and on his Shield Azure a Fesse Arg. betwixt three Lions Rampant Or which is oft also in the Window Thorpe and the Inscription is Hic jacet Dom. Willielmus de Thorpe miles Domina Margareta uxor sua ... Here was Staffords and Bouns Earl of Northampton And Or a Lion Ramp Az. a Bend Gobony Arg. and Gules Barry of six Arg. and Az. Grey of Codnar Gules a Fesse Barry betwixt three Libards Heads Or. Quarterly Arg. and Sab. a Bend Gules Arg. three Martlets sab Quarterly per Fesse indented Ermine and Arg. Barry of six Or and Az. a Canton Ermine Or thrâ—e Chevrons Gules Gules a Saltier Arg. Nevile Azure on a Bend Arg. Cotised betwixt six Lioncels Ramp Or three Mullets Sab. Boun. Hawton Doomsd. Holton HEre was Soc to Newark as much as was rated to the Tax for two Bov. ½ of the Bishop of Lincolnes Fee and here was of Walter de Ayncurts Fee Soc to Stoches in Holton which paid the publick Geld for two Bovats The Land was one Car. There six Sochm. had two Car. and twenty Acres of Medow But the most considerable part of this Township was the Fee of Raph de Limesi wherein Tored had a Mannor which in the Confessours time paid the Dane-geld for four Bov. and an half The Land being then certified to be sufficient for two Plows or two Carucats There Raph de Limesi had two Car. and four Sochm. on two Bovats and an half of this Land and five Vill. five Bord. having three Car. There was a Priest and two Churches one Mill 5s. 4d. Here were likewise four Mannors in the Confessours time which Bugo Raynald Torvet and Bugo had and then discharged them to the publick payment or Geld for six Bov. ½ The Land was then returned to be two Car. ½ Soc also there which paid the Geld as five Bovats The Land two Car. Soc. In these Lands were eighteen Sochm. two Vill. ten Bord. having six Car. These five Mannors Alured held of Raph. In the Confessours time the value was 100s. when Doomsday Book was made 4l. 10s. Richard de Houton was the first Successour of Alured that I have found and he I suppose lived in the time of King Henry the second William son of Roger de Honton gave to Walter des Mores son of Rob. des Mores that Toft and two Bovats c. in Houton the Witnesses were Robert de Basingham Richard his brother William son of Richard de Houton William son of Roger de Stokes Walter del Howe Henry son of Thomas de Roldeston Walter son of Alured de Collingham Raph son of Robert de Collingham Robert de Stokes William son of Harvey Adam son of Albert Henry de Carleton Malger de Thorp Walter son of Henry and others Sir Roger de Howton son of William de Houton Knight gave with his body seven Bovats in Houton to the Priory of Thurgarton for the sustentation of a Caâ—on to celebrate Mass daily in that Church where he intended to be buried for the health of his Soul and of Agnes his wife and all his Ancestors and Successours Walter Arch-bishop of Yorke confirmed the Church of Houton to that Priory which it had of the gift of the said Roger son of William and afterwards granted the Prior and Covent two Besants yearly
Cony de Kirton Anthonius Meeres-Catharina fil Jac. Crewes Edmundus de Hather -Alicia Culpeper Edw. Bussie de Hather -Jana sor coh Joh. Hercie de Grove mil. Johannes Bussie de Hather ... fil ... Pole de Radburne mil. Rhod. Ed. Bussie miles -Christoph Carolus Francisc. feodar Com. Nott. Edward Willielm Johannes Rogerus de Amundevilla .... fil Gerardi Sylvan Jolanus de Amundevil-Beatrix fil ... Paganel Walter s. p. r. Willielm s. p. â— Elias de Amundevil 3 -Emma Bâ—lemer Joâ—lan de Amundevil-Ermetruda neptis C Aâ—merle Petrus de Amundevil-Joana de Acclum Ermetruda de Amundevilla fil haer -Willielmus de Dive mil. Lambertus Bussie-Elizabetha cohaer ob 22 E. 1 -Johannes de Albiniaco marit 2. Johannes de Dive s. p. Willielmus de Isney -Joana-Rad de Trehampton Radulph Alan Jordan Johannes Robertus Barneby in the Willows HEre was belonging to Newark of the Bishop of Lincolnes Fee as much as answered the Tax or Dane-geld for two Bovats ½ But the chief part of this Town was the Fee of Odo Bishop of Bayeux which Mannor was Vlurics before the Conquest and was charged to the Dane-geld the Tax then usually paid at or according to seven Bovats The Land of it being then for three Plows or three Carucats There afterwards Losuardus the Man or Tenant of the said Bishop of Baion had one Car. and 4 Sochm. upon two Bov. of this Land and nine Vill. and six Bord. having four Car. and an half There was a Priest and a Church in which lay half a Bovat of this Land and one Mill 5s. 4d. and thirty Acres of Medow and a small Wood. All this kept the value it had in the time of Edward the Confessour viz. 40s. Much of this Bishops Land in this County became afterwards parcel of Richmond Fee In 10 E. 1. Sir Hugh de Babington and Sir Henry de Perepont held a Knights Fee of that Honour in Rolleston Cotington Barneby and Colingham and paid 10s. per annum to the Ward of the Castle of Richmond Iohn de Dyve 15 E. 1. or before granted to Andrew de Nevill for that one time the presentation to the Church of this Barneby on Wythem saving his right otherwise Andrew de Nevill granted this presentation for one turn to Roger de Brinkill who granted that Andrew and his heirs should present ever after In a great Assise 18 E. 1. the Jury found that Andrew de Nevill named in Rolleston had more right to hold the Advowson of the Church of Barneby near Newarke than William de Wyvill In the Record of Nom. Vill. 9 E. 2. Winthorpe and Barneby answered for one Villa and the Bishop of Lincolne Iohn de Nevill and Alexander de Percy were then certified to be Lords The fourth part of the Mannor of Barneby on Wythem was by Fine 10 E. 2. settled on Alexand. de Percy and Iulian his wife and the heirs of their bodies remainder to Iohn son of the said Alexander and the heirs of his remainder to the heirs of the said Alexander It is called Barneby in the Willowes for distinction from Barneby in the More Here was a Mannor anciently Houghes from whom it came to Aâ—deley whose daughters and heirs were married to Edmund and Robert Thorold sons of William Thorold of Marston in Lincolneshire and brothers of Sir Anthony Thorold Knight This was Roberts part and his son Anthony sold it to .... Brownlow It is parcelled out and part thereof is the inheritance of ... Kellet and a great part of Mr. Robert Butler The Mannor of Barnâ—by about 12 H. 7. was exchanged betwixt .... Strangewayes and .... Suthiâ—l The Earl of Westmerland who had Richmond Fees this way had Lands here 6 E. 4. The Rectory is appropriate to Southwell Here are some Grounds on the North part of this Lordship called the Mannor of Flaufore which heretofore was the Knights Templars and after the Hospitallers of St. Iohns of Hierusalem which Thomas le Archer the Prior and the Brethren of that house granted to Thomas de Sibthorp Parson of Bekingham who gave it to a Chantry which he Founded there and had it confirmed to him with Free Warren in it and all the Appurtenances both in Lincolneshire and Nottinghamshire by King Edward the second 20 Nov. in the nineteenth year of his Reign It is now the Inheritance of William Cartwright Esquire The Vicarage of Barneby was ten Marks It is now 5l. 9s. 9l. ob in the Kings Books and the Chapter or Church of Southwell Patrons Coddington Cotinton THat part of this Township which was reckoned with Newark and more especially Soc to it paid the Geld as two Car. but the Bishop of Lincolne had two Mannors here besides one whereof Vluric had before the Normans came and paid the Tax or Geld as one Bov. The Land was two Bovats There afterwards the Bishop had half a Car. and one Acre of Medow This in the time of King Edward the Confessour was 40s. value when King Williams Survey was made 20s. Another Bugo had and was charged for it to the publick Tax at two Bovats and an half The Land whereof in the Confessours time was certified to be half a Car. but was waste Botild held it and it was 2s. value there was two Acres of Medow Here were two other Mannors likewise of the Fee of Odo Bishop of Bayon one of which Vluric had before the Conquest and was Taxed at three Bov. and an half for it The Land being then found to be twelve Bovats There Losuardus the Man or Tenant of the Bishop had two Vill. and four Bord. with one Car. and three Acres of Medow In the Confessours time this was 20s. in the Conquerours 10s. value Another Mannor Leuric had before the Norman Invasion rated at five Bov. to the Dane-geld The Land two Car. There Oulchell under the Bishop had half a Car. and four Sochm. on four Bovats of this Land and three Bord. with half a Car. and five Acres of Medow Robert Peysun by the consent of William his brother gave one Bovat in the Fields of Codington of his Demesne between his own Lands next the Sun to God and St. Peter of Thurgarton and the Canons there serving God and four Selions to make a Toft nigh the Cross without the Town of Codington on the West This was confirmed by William son of Walter son of Paganus de Newarke and Sara wife of the said William to whom it was re-conveyed by Elias the Prior to be held of that House by him and his heirs for 4s. per annum In the year 1328. Sir Robert Perpoint held it accordingly of that Monastery By a Fine at Nott. 8 E. 1. Robert Aâ—tebek and Odierna his wife and Mariot and Alice her sisters daughters of William Henning passed one Toft seven Acres and an half of Land and three Acres of Medow with the Appurtenances in Codyngton to Henry de Percpunt and his heirs By an
Inquisition taken at Nott. 20 May 8 E. 3. it was certified that Robert Perpount by a Fine levied 10 E. 2. had made himself only Tenant for life of 60s. Rent in Newarke held of the Bishop of Lincolne and of one Mess. one Carucat of Land and 11s. Rent in Codington held of Iollanus de Nevill for 24s. per annum and of the Prior of St. Katherins without Lincolne by the Service of 8s. per annum and in Balderton of one Mess. one Carucat of Land five Acres and one Rood of Medow and 13s. Rent held of Iohn de Bussy by the Service of a pair of Gilt Spurs and of 22s. Rent in Stoke by Newarke held of William de Thorpe by the Service of 6d. per annum and of 26l. and 3s. Rent in Sneynton held of Iohn de Tibtot by the Service of a pair of Gloves or 1d. and of twenty Bovats of Land in Barton held of Gervas de Clifton by the Service of a Clove at Christmas and of two Acres of Wood in Carleton by Colwyk held of Adam de Everingham for a Rose at Midsummer and of one Mess. one Carucat of Land ten Acres of Medow 20s. and 9d. Rent in Kirkeby held of Ioane who had been wife of Iohn de Stotevile by the Service of the sixteenth part of a Knights Fee and 15s. per annum and of one Mess. forty Acres of Land four of Medow one Park containing twenty Acres of Wood and 60s. Rent at Holbek Woodhouses held of Thomas de Furnivall for 20s. per annum and of the Mannor of Weston held of William le Fitz-William by the Service of the fourth part of a Knights Fee and Lands in Darbyshire which were to descend and remain to Henry son of Henry de Perpont son of the said Robert being then about twelve years of age when the Writ directed to William Erneys Escaetor in the Counties of Warewick Leicester Nott. Darby and Lancaster was executed Codington in the Record of Nomina Villarum 9 E. 2. answered for an intire Villa and the Prior of St. Katherins by Lincoln Iohn de Nevill of Rolleston and the Bishop of Lincolne were certified to be Lords of it Walter de Maresco it seems had some share in Cotinton for which he ought the King a pair of Scarlet Breeches but it was Aliened when Robert de Passelewe in the time of King Henry the third let this Serjeancy to the Prior of St. Katherins for 40s. per annum being twenty two Bovats then valued at 4l. 8s. per annum Robert le Porter held two Bovats which were of the Serjeancy of twenty Bovats which the Prior of St. Katherins held of the King in Cotinton about 8 E. 1. Iohn son of Iohn de Weseby 23 E. 1. recovered seisin of four Mess. seven Bov. of Land and three parts of a Mess. in Cotinton and Andrew de Nevill and Thomas de Kirkeby were amerced Henry de Codyngton Parson of Botesford having had licence from King Richard the second so to do Founded a Chantry at the Altar of St. Peter in the Parish Church of Codington for one Priest to pray for him while he lived and for his Soul after his decease and for the Soul of Iohn de Codyngton late Parson of Adesham and of their Fathers Mothers Brothers Sisters and Benefactors to which he gave five Mess. three Tofts one hundred forty four Acres of Land twenty seven and an half of Medow with the Appurtenances in Codyngton and Holme by Muskam Iohn Ashwell was the first whose Successours after the death of the said Henry de Codyngton were to be named by the Prior of Thurgarton to whom he left the chief charge and care of the Chantry but if he should fail the Prior of Shelford was to put in one after a monâ—h The Instrument bears date 1 Ian. 4 H. 4. The Prior of St. Katherins had Free Warren at Coddington and Wiggesâ—e 5 E. 3. in this County By Indenture bearing date 15 Iune 6 E. 6. the King in Consideration of the Mannors of Northhall in Hertfordshire and Northrawceby in Lincolneshire and the Site of the Priory and the Rectory of Cardigan in South-wales and other Lands in Cornewall and other places granted to William Cavendish and his heirs the Mannors of Medowplek and Rectory of Yolgrave belonging to the Priory of Leicester of Pentrich and Ulkerthorpe belonging to the Abby of Darley of Blackwall to Lenton and the Tythes in Kingstorodale Cowdale and Sledon and the Demesne Lands of that Monastery of Lenton in Ashfeild all these and many others in Darbyshire with several others in the Counties of Stafford Dorset Cornewall Kent Essex c. amongst the rest the Prior of St. Katherins part in this Cotington The Chantry Lands 1 Sept. 6 E. 6. were granted to Edward Bray Knight Iohn Thorneton Iohn Danby and to the heirs of the two latter and 6 Iun. 44 Eliz. to Thomas Leonard alias Pocklington and his heirs then being of the yearly value of 67s. 4d. This Town gives name to a Moore whereon used to be a famous Horse-race for which the Major and Aldermen of Newark were wont to provide the Plate The Cure is served by the Vicar of Stoke so that 't is like the Tythes belong to the Corps of the Prebend of the Chancellor of the Church of Lincolne Winthorp Doomsd. VVymunthorp OF the Soc of Newark here was as much as was charged to the Dane-geld at six Bovats and an half which together with what is mentioned in Chelingtone Scireston Elvestone Stoches Holton Cotintone and Barnebye of that Soc is reckoned to make for that Tax three Car. and an half but the particulars amount to somewhat more than the gross summ The Land was 10 Car. an half in all these places And there were seventy seven Sochm. with four Bord. having fifteen Car. and an half and in them one hundred sixty three Acres of Medow Walter de Amundevill eldest son of Iolanus and Beatrix his wife daughter of .... Paganell of West Rasin in Lincolneshire gave the Church of Winthorp with that of Kinerby and some others to the Hospital of Ellesham in that County which his said Mother Beatrix began to Found and also three Mills Scituate upon Trent without the Town of Winethorp and one in it which Thurstan the Carpenter and his heirs ought to hold of the said Hospital for 12d. per annum and one Toft with a Bovat and half of Land which Ranulf Small parvus held in the same Town which gift William de Amundevill his next brother confirmed and after him Elias de Amundevil the third brother to whose Deed were Witnesses Raph de Amundevill his brother and Adam his brother also Iorslenus and William de Evermo his Nephews Raph de Amundevill son of his brother Raph c. William de Amundevill gave the Monks of Rufford licence to make a Fishing in his Land and in Trent between Winbeltorpe and Muscam with all the
of the present Lord Lexington and a son called Alexander Mering of Collingham besides his son and heir Will. Mering father of William Mering Father of Thomas Mering of Newark as I guess to whom King Richard the third by his Letters Patents dated the fourth of March in the second year of his Reign granted the Mannors of Raunardwyke Ikylford and Piryton in the County of Hartford and Lands in Arkesey in the County of Bedford which were Sir Roger Towcotes Knight then a Rebell to have to him and the heirs Males of his body and likewise Father of Sir William Mering who was thrice married one of his Wives I suppose to be Agnes heir of Henry Gloucester of Carcolston by whom he had Iohn Mering who married Katherin one of the eight sisters and co-heirs of Sir Iohn Hercy of Grove and by her had Francis Thomas and Iohn besides Sir William Mering who had to wife Margaret the daughter of Thomas Cave of Stanford and by her three sons Thomas William and Ambrose and many daughters but of them I can say no more saving that this Lordship was sold to George Earl of Shrowsbury and is now the possession of his Grace the Duke of Newcastle Now some begin to esteem it out of this Wapentac but in Nomina Villarum there was no doubt of it for there 't is joyn'd with Gretton as in that place is noted Colingham North and South BEfore the Normans invaded this Country St Peter of Burgh had a Mannor in Colingeham rated to the publick payment of that time at four Car. and half a Bovat The Land whereof was then certified to be fourteen Car. There when King William made his great Survey in Demesne were two Car. and thirty seven Sochm. on two Car. and three Bovats of this Land and eight Villains and twenty Bordars having fourteen Car. There was a Priest and two Churches and two Mills 20s. and two hundred Acres of Medow small Wood two qu. long and 1 qu. broad This continued the former value 9l. Here was some part also which went with Shelton of Raph de Limesies Fee and some part was accounted of Richmond Fee but the main of both the Towns continued to the Abbat of Peterborow who had Free Warren granted here 35 H. 3. Yet the Bishop of Lincolne 14 E. 1. complained of him that he had set up Gallows at Collingham and there hanged a Thief to the derogation of the liberty of his Wapentach of Newark which the Bishop held of the grant of the Kings Predecessours to which the Abbat answered That the Kings Father in the thirty seventh year of his Reign granted to him and his Successours Infangthef and Utfangthef in all his Hundreds and Demesnes and so he avowed his Gallows and complained against the Bishop That he took two Horses and six Cows at Newark and drove them to his Parc or Pound and there detained them The Bishop pleaded that he held the Wapentac of the gift of the King within which are the two Towns of Collingham which the said Abbat held and for which he ought to make suit at the said Wapentac by three men of each Town from three weeks to three weeks and because the suit was with-drawn he took the Horses and Kine at last they agreed the Abbat being constrained to pull down his Gallows and submit The Bishop of Lincoln 10 E. 3. impleaded divers men of North and South Colingham for that when his Bayly had taken divers Cattel of several condemned and out-law'd persons of the said Towns same whereof were hanged as the Goods of Felon◠and Fugitives belonging to him in right of his Wapentac of Newark and impounded them the said men broke the Pound and took the Cattel and had them away for which they answer They are not culpable but the Agreement before mentioned 14 E. 1. between Oliver Bishop of Lincolne and the Abbat will end the strife The Grand Assise 53 H. 3. at Darby between Rob. de Collingham and Iohn de Hyrst Compl. and Walter son of Galfr. and Walter de Markham concerning Common of Pasture which the two Walters exacted in the Lands of the said Robert and Iohn in Collingham was respited till the Octaves of St. Michael at Leicester because Nicholas de Eyvill Robert de Markham Robert de Burstall Richard de Weston Benedict de Rolleston Richard de Grey Raph Barry Philip de Colewick Bryan de Herdeby Simon de Gringeley Walter de Touk Thomas de Bella aquâ Galfr. de Staunton Robert de Stokes Iohn de Vilers Roger de Alneto Knights chosen came not and were therefore amerced Here was a Mannor in North Colingham which the Leeks of Landforth held of the Abbat of Peterburgh These Towns still belong to that Church and the Honourable Anchetill Grey son of Henry Earl of Stanford is the Grand Lessee he married Anne the eldest of the three daughters and co-heirs of Sir Henry Willoughby of Risley in Darbishire the relict of Sir Thomas Aston and mother of Sir Willoughby Aston The Rectory of South Collingham was 20l. when the Abbat of Peterburgh was Patron 'T is now 14l. 1s. 10d. in the Kings Books and the Bishop of Peterburgh Patron The Vicarage of North Collingham was 8l. when the said Abbat was Patron 'T is now in the Kings Books 8l. 19s. 2d. and the Dean and Chapter of Peterborow Patrons The holy Abbess St. Ebba and her Nuns who defaced themselves lest they should be deflowred by the Heathen Danes are reported to have had their residence at Collingham but I having seen nothing certain of it must leave her to Coldingham in Scotland a Cell of Durrham where there is more certain notice of her Dernethorpe Dordenthorpe MOst of this Hamlet seems to be involved in Collingham yet the Book of Dooms-day shows part of it to be of the Soc of Houton of the Fee of Raph de Limesi which was rated to the Geld or Tax at one Bov. The Land was two Bov. There five Sochm. and six Bord. had two Car. or Plows There was a Church and a Priest with one Car. and fourscore Acres of Medow William son of Roger de Houton released to Adam son of Richard de Harthill and his heirs all manner of demand concerning Customs and Services for the Land which the said Adam held of him in the Town of Dornethorp Adam de Hertehill gave to Roger son of Roger Deyncurt with Alice his daughter in Frank-marriage all his Land in Derlesthorpe or Dornethorpe with all Homages Reliefs and Services Sir Richard de Hortehill confirmed to his sister his Fathers gift of all his Land in Dornethorpe and Collingham reserving to himself and his heirs the Service of the twelfth part of a Knights Fee Alice after the death of her husband Roger Deyncurt gave all her interest to the Priory of Thurgarton to which Roger de Brettevile and Amabilia his wife named in Houton also released their claim in
eleven Tofts and four Bovats in Dornethorpe and Colingham in the year of our Lord 1263. and levied a Fine at Lincolne 47 H. 3. five weeks after Easter the same year for which the said Roger and Amabil were to be taken into the benefits and Prayers which should from that time be done or made in that Church for ever Adam de Harthill had two Bovats here by Fine 16 H. 3. from Nicolaus de Breydeston and Alice his wife before Stephen de Segrave Adam de Novomercato William de Eboraco William Basset Mr. Robert de Shardeslogh Mr. Roger de Cantelupe and William de Insula the Kings Justices Itinerant at Notingham the day after Trinity Sunday The Prior of Thurgarton and the Abbat of Peterborow agreed that all the Tenants of that Prior and Covent in Dornethorp ought and were accustomed each to Plow three daies in the year viz. in Winter Seed time in Lent Seed time and in the time of Fallowing Warecti Each Plow was to have every day four Loaves and four Herrings They were likewise to Reap two daies and an half in Autumn and to have their wonted meat of the Abbat once in the day and the second day likewise if he would have them all the day otherwise after nine of the Clock they were to go away without meat the third day they were not to Reap but till nine of the Clock without meat Besides they were to put into the Abbats Fold all the Sheep which they had in their possession or custody in the Winter except their own or their childrens which lived with them in the house manu pasti and if any were sold or removed from them they were to procure as many others in their places for the Abbats Fold Besides they were to attend the Courts at Colingham and the like Grey of Landford had a Mess. and twelve Acres of Land here and as much in Landford said to be held by petty Serjeancy of the King in Capite by paying 11s. 8d. per annum The Mannor of Darnethorpe late belonging to the Monastery of Thurgarton together with the Lands and Tenements and appurtenances thereto belonging there and in South Colingham 4 Iuly 36 H. 8. were granted to Iohn Bellowe and Iohn Broxholme and their heirs The Church I believe hath been long gone Scarle Doomsd. Scorveley And Besthorpe THis was of the Sok of Newark and was rated to the publick Geld in the time of King William at two Carucats and an half In the Record of Nom. Vill. 9 E. 2. Scarle and Besthorp answered for one Villa and the Bishop of Lincolne was certified to be Lord. There was a Recovery 1 H. 8. wherein William Pocklington and Elizabeth his wife claimed against Robert de Lawethorpe of Yorkshire Gent. one Croâ—â— fourteen Acres of Medow eighty Acres of Land and twenty of Pasture in South-Scarle The Vicarage of Scarle was 10l. and a Prebendary there I suppose of Lincolne Patron 'T is now 5l. 2s. 6d. in the Kings Books and the King Patron Gretton Girton Doomsd. Greton THis was also the Bishop of Lincolnes of the Soc of Newark and paid the Tax for one Car. and an half The Knights Templars got some interest here and the Jury 8 E. 1. found that the Master had straitened the passage of the water of Trent with his Weres at Gretton Howe so that Boats and other Vessels could not pass as they were wont which was a great Nusance for which he was amerced and the Sheriff had a Precept to inlarge is as it formerly had been at the costs of the said Master of the Templars by view of the Jury In Nomina Villar 9 E. 2. Gretton and Mering answered for one Villa and the Bishop of Lincoln and the heirs of Iohn de Mering were then the Lords Wiggesley THis place also is reckoned with several others of the Soc of Newark and was rated to the Dane-geld or publick Tax of those times at seven Bovats King Henry the second confirmed the gift which Robert the second of that name Bishop of Lincolne made to the Priory of St. Katherins of five Bovats in Wiggesle Hugh son of Lambert de Bussy 41 H. 3. had Free Warren granted in Wigisille And Iohn Dyve had likewise 5 Iun. 5 E. 1. Free Warren in Balderton and Wiggesley which Iohn de Bussy claimed at Nott. in the Quo Warranto 3 E. 3. The Prior of St. Katherins without Lincolne at the same time claimed to have the liberty to hold all his Tenements in Newarke Codington and Wygesle well and peaceably and in the 5 E. 3. he had Free Warren granted in the two latter Thornehawe and Wygesleye 9 E. 2. answered for one Villa the Lords then were said to be Richard Peres Iames Peres and Iohn de Ely But it appears that 11 H. 7. Edmund Bussy Esquire suffered a Recovery of the Mannor of Wygesley one Mess. three hundred Acres of Land fifty of Medow one hundred of Pasture and sixty of Wood with the Appurtenances in Wygesley Spaldford North Clifton and South Clifton and called c. Iohn Smalley and the same Edmund and Alice his wife 16 H. 7. suffered another of the same parcellâ— Bussies Mannor held of Newarke Castis and is now become the inheritance of Sir Rich. Earl St. Katherins share was granted 36 H. 8. to Iohn Bellowe and Edward Bales and their heirs Cliftons North and South IN these Towns were four Mannors of the Bishop of Lincolne's Fee and one of Roger de Buslies One Mannor Vlviet had before the Conquest and was rated to the Dane-tax for it at six Bov. and an half The Land being then certified to be three Carucats There afterwards had Bishop Remigius three Sochm. on three Bovats of this Land and one Bordar with one Car. there was thirty one Acres of Medow Pasture Wood half a leuc long and three qu. broad In the Confessours time this was 20s. value in the Conquerours 10s. Raph held it Another Mannor before the Normans came Frane had which was rated to the Geld at three Bov. and an half The Land of it was twelve Bov. There Bishop Remigius had one Car. six Vill. and two Bord. having one Car. and an half there was fourteen Acres of Medow This was 40s. in the Confessours time when the Conquerour made the Survey but 20s. value Siuvale held it Another Mannor in Clifton Vlviet had before the change which he paid the Dane-geld for as one Bov. and an half It was waste Raph held it There was the fourth part of a Church and eight Acres of Medow In the Saxon times the value was 10s. then in the Norman beginnings but 5s. Another Mannor Agemund had and in the Confessours time paid the Geld for it as two Bov. and an half The Land was then found to be one Car. The same Agemund held it under the Bishop and had two Bov. of Land three Car. and
together amount to more The Land of all was twenty one Car. three Bov. There were seventy one Sochm. seven Bord. having twenty one Car. and an half There was two hundred and eighty Acres of Medow Pasture Wood five qu. long four broad This was the Bishops of Lincoln's But here was some Soc to Clifton of Roger de Buslies Fee which paid the Geld for four Bov. The Land one Car. There two Sochm. had half a Car. and twelve Acres of Medow in Clifton which Town and Spaldford 9 E. 2. answered for one Villa and the Bishop of Lincolne and Iohn de Bussy were then Lords of them It appears that about 36 E. 3. Sir Richard Willughby had interest here And the Certificat of the Lands of the Templars taken in the time of King Edward the second shows they had something here as also in Codington Thorpe by Newark Stoke Sireston Elston Gretton Newark Colingham Sibthorpe Flaufore Barneby Landeford and many Towns in Lincolneshire thereabouts At the Assises at Nott. 10 H. 4. Thomas Chaworth and two others recovered their seisin of one Mess. one Toft twenty seven Acres of Land and nine Acres of Medow in Spaldeford and Wyggesley and Raph Whytle and two others were amerced A Farm Mess. and one Bov. of Land with the Appurtenances in the Tenure of Nicholas Borell in Spalford late belonging to the Preceptory of Willoughton in the County of Lint and parcel of the possessions of the Hospital of St. Iohns of Hierusalem 25 August 37 H. 8. were granted to Charles Sutton Esquire Richard Welby Esquire and Thomas Yorke Gent. and their heirs Spaldford is within the Parish of Clifton Thorney Thorneshagh IN Torneshay of the Soc of Newark there was a parcel charged to the Dane-tax at one Car. and was reckoned together with those Towns before named in Spaldford of the Bishop of Lincolne's Fee Yet Walter de Clifford and Agnes his wife by Fine in the third year of King Iohn conveyed the Advowson of the Church of Turnehage to Thora Prioress of Brodholme and her Nuns there for which they received the said Walter and Agnes into all the benefits of that House Henry de Lacy Earl of Lincolne 10 E. 1. had Free Warren here in Thornehagh Fulc le Strange and Alianora his wife held the third part of this Mannor and he after her death by the Courtesie of England Iohn le Straunge 17 E. 2. was found by the Jury their son and heir and to be then above eighteen years of age he had Lands in Huntingtonshire and Shropshire In 27 E 3. I find Sir Thomas Bret Knight called of Thornehagh and after and sometimes written Byrt and sometimes Bert. It is said 10 R. 2. that Giles D'aubeney Chr. then dead long before his death enfeoffed Henry Molyns William D'aubeney and Iohn Haywood Chaplain of Lands here as parcel of the Mannor of South Ingleby in the County of Lincolne and it appears 12 R. 2. that Gyles Daubeney Chr. died seised of one hundred Acres of Wood one hundred Acres of Pasture with the Appurtenances in Thornehagh by Brodholme as parcel of the Mannor of South Ingleby in Lincolneshire of the grant of Mary the wife of Raph D'aubeney his Father paying her for the whole Mannor fifty Marks per annum during her life which Mannor was held of the Lord Ros as of his Castle of Bever by the Service of 32s. yearly Rent George Nevill Esquire 9 Eliz. suffered a Recovery of the Mannor of Thorney with the Appurtenances and sixteen Mess. twelve Cottages eight Tofts one Dovecoat twenty Gardens four hundred Acres of Land one hundred of Medow three hundred of Pasture three hundred of Wood forty of Marsh one thousand of Moore sixty of Turbary one thousand of Furz and Heath and 7s. Rent and 1l. of Pepper with the Appurtenances in Thorney Wiggesley South Clifton North Clifton and Spaldford and called c. Sir William Mering Knight This Mannor was purchased by George Nevill of Grove Esquire being the inheritance of the Merings and by him settled upon two of his younger sons Gervas Nevile and Dionyse Nevile whose heirs the Neviles hold it at this day Georgius Nevill-Barbara soâ—oâ— una cohaereduâ— Johannis Hercy mil. Georg. Nevill-Gervas s. p. Georg. Nevill de Thorney ... fil .... Terwhyt 2 Georg. Nevill de Thorney -Alicia fil Georgii Stow relict Will. Rothwell Georg. Nevill de Thorney aet 39. 1676 -Maria fil Tho. Boswell de Edlington in Com. Ebor. ux 1 -Elizab fil Jeremi Halâ—head ux 2. Georgius Nevill aet 13. 1676. Elizabetha gemella cum Georgio aet 13. Maria aet 12. Anna 10. Jana 8. Brigit 6. Edwardus Nevill aet 1. 1676. 1 Gervas N. de Hadington in Com. Linc. mil. -Kath fil R. Hutton Justic. Anthon. s. p. Dionysius ... fil .... Gernon Gervasius Nevill de Thorney-Elizab fil Nic. Rayner Joh. Nevill aet 55. 1676. vendidit terâ— in Thorney Georgio Nevill de Thorney -Rebecca fil Rad. Clark Dionys. Nevill de Eastwood in Rotheram Ebor. aet 25. 1676. Joh. Nevill de Grove-Gertrud fil Ric. Whalley The Rectory of Thorney and right of Patronage of the Vicarage late belonging to the Priory of Brodholme 1 May 35 H. 8. was granted to Edward Fynes Lord Clynton and Saye and Rob. Tirwhit Esquire and their heirs who 3 May had licence to alienate it to William Mounson Esquire and his heirs who 20 Novemb 37 H. 8. had likewise licence to alienate the said Rectory and Advowson and forty Acres of Land twenty of Medow and forty of Pasture with the Appurtenances in Thorney Wiggesley and Brodholme to Roger Frape and his heirs Here was a Mess. and some Lands lying in Thorney in the occupation of Edward Lee also belonging to the Monastery of Brodholme 20 Aug. 36 H. 8. granted to Robert Brookesby and Iohn Lyon and their heirs The Vicarage of Thorney was eight Marks when the Prioress of Brodholme had the Patronage 'T is now 4l. 7s. 6d. in the Kings Books and Iohn Disney Esquire Patron Hareby Herdeby Herdrebye IN Herdrebye there was some Soc to Newark which paid the Dane-geld for one Bov but besides that the Bishop of Lincolne had a Mannor which before the Conquest was Godwins and paid the Tax for six Bov. The Land whereof was two Car. There was when Doomsday Book was made five Vill. had two Car. and twelve Acres of Medow Pasture Wood half a leuc long and half a leuc broad This before in the Confessours time had been 40s. but then was fallen to 20s. value The Baylisss of the Bishop of Lincolne for Newark about 53 H. 3. distreined Bryan de Herdeby by nine Oxen worth 4l. to pay 5l. to the Abbess of Grace dieu The Jury 9 E. 1. were to determine whether forty Perches in length and eight in breadth with the Appurtenances in Herdeby were Frank Almaigne belonging to the Church of Clifton of which William de Langwath was
Seal of Arms circumscribed with his name is A Waterbouget and on a Chief two Mullets 10 R. 2. released all his right and claim in Saxelby and the Advowson of Brodholme which were his Uncles the said Sir Gilbert Bridesalls to Sir Iohn Marmion Lord of Tanfeild and others This Mannor and Advowson remained to the Bâ—ssets of Fledborough Iohn Basset Esquire Henry Basset Clinton Basset and Edward Basset his brothers and Elizabeth Basset widow 37 Eliz. levied a Fine of the Mannor of Saxelby to Henry Ballard of Southwell Gent. to whom it was then sold. Thomas Ballard of Saxelby 6 Car. 1. Mortgaged it to Thomas Atkinson of Newark Gent. son of Gilbert and is now the possession of Robert Atkinson of Newark Gent. his son King Richard the second 19 Febr. 12 R. 2. committed to Alionor who had been wife of Giles D'aubney Chr. deceased the custody of the Mannor of South Ingleby in Saxelby and Brodholme in the Counties of Linâ— and Nott. till his heir should be of full age The Jury 1 H. 4. found that Elianor wife of Sir Giles D'aubeney held of the inheritance of Sir Gyles her husbands son while she lived the third part of the moyety of a certain Pasture called the South-dike by Brodholme and the third part of the Wood. It appears likewise 19 H. 6. that Elizabeth who had been wife of Warin Walgrave and formerly of Iohn Daubeney whose brother Sir Giles was his heir held a third part of two parts of 13s. 4d. Rent of Assize of the Prioress and Covent of Brodholme and the third part of two parts of fourscore Acres of Medow called Burton Ings and the third part of two parts of fourscore Acres of Pasture lying at South-dike c. and that Thomas Goldington was her next heir Gyles Daubeney mentioned in Câ—tum about 24 H. 6. left William Daubeney his son and heir of this great Medow Pasture and Wood as parcel of his Mannor of South Ingleby held of the Lord Roos of Bever Alice the widow of Sir Giles about 33 H. 6. left her interest here and three daughters her heirs Amice Isabell and Alianor There was a Recovery 30 H. 8. wherein Thomas Dymock Esquire and Iames Smyth Gent. claimed against William Mounson Esquire forty Acres of Medow sixty of Pasture thirty of Wood and several Fishing in the Water called Newpyttys in Brodeham Saxelby and Thorney who called Henry Earl of Briggewater The Site and House of the Priory of Brodholme and all the Demesne Lands c. 30 Iune 6 Eliz. were granted to Iohn Conyers and William Haber Gent. and their heirs lately in the Tenure of William Mounson Esquire and of the yearly value of 10l. 10s. 4d. Newarke THis Noble Mannor of Newerh was by the famous Leofric Earl of Mercia and his most pious Lady Godiva given with Flatburch in this County now Fledborough to the Monastery of Stow near Lincolne in the time of King Edward the Confessour who with his Queen and Nobles was present at and consenting to the Agreement made between the said Earl and Countess and the Bishop Wulwi that they should have Priests there â—nd altogether the same Service which was St. Paul's at London and that the Lands they should give should be for the Food and Rayment of the Brethren or Friers there And that the Bishop might have for his Table all those things which Aetheric the Bishop and Aednoth the Bishop had before him of those things by right belonging to his Bishopric to wit two parts of all things coming to that Monastery and the Priests the third King William the first confirmed their gifts and at the request of Remigius the Bishop gave to Stow the Church of Eynesham in Oxfordshire and all the Land belonging to it though Stow was accounted but a Cell of Eynesham to which Bishop Robert the Successour of Remigius gave in exchange for Newerch and Stow before or about the tenth year of King Henry the first who by the consent and counsel of his Bishops and Barons had restored and repaired Eynesham Cherlebery Stoches Wdcote and in Cantebriggesâ—yr in Histon fifteen Hides and three Virgats and the Tythe of Thame to wiâ— in Corn Cattel Wooll and Cheese and one Bordar with two Acres Likewise the Tythe of Bannebery and of Croppery with the Bordars Likewise Middelton Tythe and the Tythe of Wax of the Altar of Stow. The Conquerours famous Survey shows that Godeva the Countess paid the Dane-geld the publick Tax of that time for her Mannor of Newarke with the two Berues Baldertune and Farendune as seven Carucats and two Bovats of Land Yeâ— the Land of it in her own time in King Edward the Confessors Survey was returned twenty six Carucats There after the Conquest Bishop Remigius of Lincolne had in Demesne seven Car. and fifty six Burgesses forty two Villains four Bordars having twenty Car. or Plow-lands and an half There were ten Churches and eight Priests having five Car. There were seven French or Freemen Franci homines having five Carucats and an half There was one Mill 5s. 4d. and one Piscary or Fishing To Newerche lay all the Customs of the King and Earl of that Wapentac In King Edward the Confessours time the Rent of it was 50l. in the latter end of the Conquerours but 34l. It had Soc. in Balderton Chelintone Scireston Elvestone Stoâ—hes Holton Cotintone Barnebye Wymunthorpe Storveley Greton Spaldford Torneshay Wiggesley Herdrebye and Cotum St. Remigius in the twenty fourth year of his Pontificate 4 W. 2. viz. 1091. confirmed this Lordship to Stow. Rob. Bloet succeeded him and made the exchange with the Abby of Eynesham Alexander the next Bishop of Lincoln is said to have built the Castle in King Stephen's time though it seems by what follows to be of older date and therefore might possibly be but a re-edifying or repairing it as may by some of the gifts of Robert the second Bishop of Lincolne who immediately succeeded Alexander which King Henry the second confirmed to the Priory of St. Katherins which by the consent of the Chapter of Lincoln he Founded near that City of the Order of Sempingham be partly manifested Amongst which were the Churches of Newerc Norton Martune and Newetune and two Mess. or dwelling Houses in the Borough of Newerc and the Houses with the Land on the North East part of the Mother Church and four Bovats of Land in the Fields of Newerc with the dwelling Houses and twenty Acres in the Heath and a dwelling house which the Church of Newerc had before with two Bovats of Land in the Fields And the Chappel of the Apostles Philip and Iames Founded in the Castle of the same Town and Anciently given to the Mother Church with the tenth penny of the whole Toll of the Borough of Newerc except the Fairs And 4s. Land which Malger held in Newerc Simon son of Robert son of Malger de Newark passed to Warin son of Hugh upon Fosse
of Newark his Tenement in Milnegate he paying 6d. to the Bishop of Lincolne and 10d. to the Prior of Thurgarton to whom the said Symon afterwards wholly released it There were some other small parcells belonging to that Monastery as there were to divers others viz. St. Katherins Kirkestede and Neubo in Lincolnshire Croxton and Burton Lazars in Leicestershire Mountgrace in Yorkshire Shelford Brodholme and St. Leonards Hospital in this County and some others Besides here were a great company of Chantryes in the Church of Newark which is now one of the fairest Parish Churches I ever saw but I cannot think the present Fabrick older than Henry the sixth if so old Yet I suppose it better than all the ten mentioned in Doomsday Book which I guess were not all in the Town though in the Soc. Who built it or Founded all the Chantryes I cannot yet discover Here was one at the Altar of All Saints two at the Altar of the Holy Trinity one of St. Nicholas one of Corpus Christi one of Mary Magdalen another called William Saucemers another William Newarks Besides here were divers parcels of Land and several Houses given to the maintenance of Priests that were in the nature of Chantries Here was also a certain great House of Friers of the Order of St. Augustine which was granted from the Crown 35 H. 8. to Richard Andrewes and Nicholas Temple and their heirs Sir Iohn Markham had it and since it was Sir Francis Leekes dwelling House and also the Lord Deyncourts his sons but his son the present Earl of Sâ—arsdale sold it lately to Mr. Matthew Ienison the present owner Next it Southwards stands another great House called the Chantry in which dwelt William Leck half brother of the said Lord Deyncourt and Father of the present Sir Francis Leek Knight and Baronet who made it also his principal residence Next that is the Free-School which together with a Song-Schoole scituate on the North-west point of the Church-yard for an Organist and six Queristers was Founded by Thomas Magnus Arch-deacon of the East Rideing of Yorkshire and Warden of the Colledge of Sibthorpe in this County which after the dissolution he had for life it being granted to him and Richard Whalley Esquire and the heirs of Richard 37 H. 8. as in that place is shown By an old Tradition in the Town Printed by Dr. Thomas Fuller in his Englands Worthyes he is said to have been found in the Church Porch of Newarke and having neither Father nor Mother was by the people called Thomas Amang us but it appear to be otherwise in his Deed of Settlement wherein he mentions Iohn Magnus his Father and Alice his wife his Mother and Ioane Elizabeth and Katherine his sisters His Arms possibly but of his own time are still in several places of the School and other-where Bendy of six pieces Vert and Gules on a Fesse Or a Lion Passant between two Cinquefoiles of the second with his Motto under AS GOD WILL. The Lordship of Everton in this County was the pricipal part of the indowment for the said Schools with which he chiefly trusted the Vâ—car of Newarke and Brethren of Trinity Guild then the most considerable Governours of the Town of Newarke but shortly after viz. 1 Ianuar. 3 E. 6. it was made a Corporation of one Alderman and twelve Assistants and 2 C. 1. upon renewing the Charter the Alderman Commenced Major and the twelve Assistants Aldermen and so it continues with what additions our present Soveraign King Charles the second hath made in the new Charter as chusing two Burgesses to serve in Parliament inlarging the compass of their Jurisdiction by annexing several Towns and the like The whole Mannor Sok and Wapentak continued to the Bishops of Lincolne till the time of Edward the sixth that Rands alias Holbech then Bishop of Lincolne surrendred it to the Crown in which it still remains It was usually divided into the Borough of Newark and Northgate at the further end whereof from the Town stood a fair House belonging to the Hospital of St. Leonard of Stoke commonly called the Spittie which Sir Robert Constable had by Lease the interest whereof his son Henry Constable had and from him it came to William Cecill Esquire late Earl of Exeter who built a goodly House there which after his decease was by Act of Parliament 17 C. 1. exchanged from the Hospital for Lands of better value and estated upon his widow Elizabeth the Countess Dowager of Exeter and her heirs Shortly after the Wars happened and Newarke became one of the most considerable Garrisons the King had in which the Loyalty and courage of the Townsmen were ever remarkable and sufficiently manifested in all the three Sieges at the first whereof Sir Iohn Henderson the prudent Governour caused all Northgate and that fore-mentioned House the Spittle to be burned yet the Case of it made a receptacle for the Enemy at the second Siege where Prince Rupert took a goodly train of Artillery which I saw together with their Foot Arms when he so fortunately relieved the Town then under the Government of Sir Richard now Lord Byron but before the third there was not one Stone left unthrown down and in or near the place a strong Fortification raised in Sir Richard Willis his time as I remember and called the Kings Sconce which by his Majesties Special Command then in the Scots Quarters on the North side the River Trent was about the sixth of May 1646. with the Town and Castle and the rest of the Fortresses concluded by the Commissioners of the Right Honourable Iohn Lord Bellasis the last Governour to be Surrendred the Saturday following though 't is said that Mr. Smith the valiant Major upon his Lordships communicating to him the Kings Order urged the said Governour with Tears to Trust God and Sally rather than think of yielding the Town which indeed at that time suffered more by the Plague within than the Enemy without The Vicarage of Newark was 18l. when the Prior of St. Katherins was Patron 'T is now 21l. 5s. 2d. in the Kings Books and his Majesty Patron Upon the upper part of the North Porch on a Shield there is a Crosse Croslet Botoné The great Window of the Cross South I le sâ—ems to have been given by William Philpot wherein the Arms of Deyncourt are often placed In the contrary I le is Arg. a Chief Gules and Bendlet Azure Crumwell quartering with Cheque Or and Gules a Chief Ermine Tateshal Gules three Sheaves within a Bordure engrailed Or Arch-bishop of Cant. Arg. a Chevron with a Cinquefoil sable in the first quarter Rempston Azure two Chevrons Or Chaworth quartering Arg. an Orle of Cinquefoiles about a Scutcheon sable Caltoft Azure five Fusills in Fesse Or each charged with an Escallop Gules Plumpton quartering Sable A Bend between six Scallops Or Folejambe Arg. three Birdbolts Gules Bozome Arg. on a Saltier engrailed Sable
prisco Imagines Patrum sepultas secundis eruit Laboribus recenti cingit Adoreâ Amoribus nexus castis foedere Certo tuctur pignora genealis tori Pariter avorum ipse ac nepotum decus Rerum estimator prudens recti tenax Vtramque passus fortunam stabilis juris sui Norunt Catervae obstantes perduellium Piissimorum hominum impiissimum genus Quid Marte posset volantes si explicuerit Ignes Iras victricis dexterae Laeti repetimus revocatum ordinem Vindicias sceleris culpas exules Nomen Novarce invidendas civium Vires illo Custode rerum arbitro Demptum dolemus orbi hunc urbis patrem Subscribimus Statuae hunc urbis Genium Obiit 10 Calend. Sextilis Anno à partu virgineo M.DCLXI Materno LX. The Arms on the Monument are Ermine on a â—esse Sable three Pheons Arg. Edovardus Greavesus O memorande mihi post nullos Smythe ministros Quam cito te verbi gladio peccata prementem Quam cito te Domini recte sacra verba secantem Sava falce suâ mors importuna secavit Angelicam nisi certus eram te vivere vitam Perpetuos tristi resonarem carmine luctus Gulielmus Smythus obiit Pastor de Newark O mihi Greavese satis duris spectate periclis Mitte precor gemitus lacrymas effundere mitte Nam mihi Mors lucrum mihi Christus vita perennis Corpus in hoc tumulo est animam super aethera vexit Rex Deus omnipotens Arx Cornu Petra Piorum Det Deus Astriferum mecum te scandere coelum Obiit 2. Novemb. An. Dom. 1585. aetatis suae 36. Edovardus Greausus quondam verbi Domini praeco in Ecclesia Novarcensi Me quoque terra tegit tandem suavissime Smithe Ossa sub hoc tumulo recubant super aethera fertur Spiritus ut tecum coelesti pace fruatur Vtque tibi fuerim sincero junctus amore Tam tibi vicinum placuit mihi Smithe sepulcrum At mi Seele vale ne sim tibi causa doloris Johannes Seelus Quis mihi fraena dabit luctus compescere tantos Quantos quam Chari Mors dira ministrat amici Si quicquam posset pietas aut gratia vulgi Mors nondum Greausum prostrasseâ— funere tristi At quia stelliferi voluit te Rector Olympi In coelos tolli non restat causa doloris Obiit Decemb. 21. An. Dom. 1586. aetatis suae 28. On the backside of the East part of the Quire under an Effigies This Monument represents the person of Iohn Ioye of Belvoyer Esq deceased in Lent 1608. who served a long time the House of Rutland first Secretary to the right Honourable and worthy Lords Edward and Iohn Earls of Rutland in their several times and lastly Steward of the Household to the Right Honourable and noble Lord Roger now Earl of Rutland c. He was about the age of 60. and in his declining time made choyce to end his dayes in this Town and to leave his body here Enterred whose love and charitable affection he hath by his last Will expressed to this Church and Poor of the Town Et sic in vita morte gaudet in Domino On the North side of the Quire an Effigies and under it To the memory of Mr. Iohn Iohnson Alderman and twice Major of the Loyall and unanimous Corporation of Newarke who deceased the 24th day of Ianuary Anno Dom. 1659. and lies interred near this place with hopes of a joyful Resurrection After many English Verses Hoc grati animi ergô triste Monumentum posuit Johannes Johnsonus Cognatus ejus On the South Wall of the Church against the Quire steps Quod reliquum est Gulielmi Hobman praefecti hujus oppidi Novarchiensis spe Resurrectionis Hic requiescit qui postquam fere Semiannum temporibus procellosis Lancem Iusticiae aequo libramine Et intemerata fidelitate sustinuisset Tandem relictis matre uxore Tribus filiis unâ filiâ Regimen Successori Corpus Terrae Animam Deo piè resignavit 8 die mensis Martii Anno saelutis Humanae 1659. There was a Shield of Arms also upon this Monument but by Mr. Dugdale Norroy in his visitation ordered to be defaced There are very many Epitaphs and Verses besides these which to avoid prolixity I must abbreviate or omit and therefore shall onely name the persons and time of their deaths Willielmus Grene Baker obiit Mar. 20. 1529. Cujus c. Lambart Watson Draper dyed Sept. 1. 1530. On whose c. Beatrix Lawe obiit Nov. 14. 1450. Gervase Bowman ob April 22. 1619. Nicholas Penythorne ....... William Symson Upholster .... 1546. Henricus Fawconer Margareta ux Hen. ob Apr. 11. 1480. William Robinson Glover thrice Alderman dyed Dec. 7. 1575. William Hodgekynson Barber and Wax-chandler Aug. 27. 1529. Edward Saynton Gentleman twice Alderman and Justice of Peace Mar. 2. 1573. A Prospect of NEWARK from Lincolne Road Prospect of NEWARKE from Hawton way Thomas Hobman Ironmonger son of Thomas Alderman Feb. 13. 1640. Iohn Beke Waxchandler dyed Ian. 12. 1512. Agnes his wife died Ian. 24. 1533. Alice the wife of Nicholas Tomson Feb. 23. 1540. Hugh Kelsterne Draper Alderman died Iul. 9. 1563. Alles his wyffe died before him Anno Dom. 1539. Hugh lived 80. and his son Edward Kelsterne Draper the Alderman 68 years who had two Wives and ten Children by the first he died Febr. 1. 1588. Elizabetha filia Edw. Kelsterni uxor Christoph Ienison obiit 15 Octob. 1589. Her son Edward Ienison made Verses for her in Latine and also for his Father Qui quidem Christopherus Jenisonus verè generosissimus tertio Alderin hujus oppidi obiit 13 Januar. 1606. aetat sue 67. Robertus Webb infaeliciter obiit 20 Iul. 1610. as his sons Verses show Anne wife of Iohn Shawe Gent. died 16 Oct. 1619. aet 28. By the North East corner of the Church upon a Marble within an Alabaster on the Wall M. S. Henrico Trewmanno viro faeliciter docto hujus Ecclesiae praesuli vigilantissimo Quis hunc quaesivit angulum quaeris Veritatis Angelus Quis hîc Conditus est viator rogas Sale Melle conditus ipse Sal Melos Verus homo veri Dei ΑΨΕΥΔΗΣ ΑΓΓΕΛΙΩΤΗΣ Absit venalis gloria Colossis mendax Marmor Non adblandiente verborum lapidumve strue Illum vel vivum vel mortuum ementiemur Cum sibi sculpta laus Et doctum existit Monumentum Hen. Trewman Hic Sydus eluxit inter sydera jam coronatus Dum desideriis syderatos relinquens nos Coelicolis triumphat sacer mysta Insanis populi turbis Saeculorum saevis turbinibus inturbatus Insolitis mundi procellosis fluctibus Non minus solito serenus Sic cautus ipsius Gubernator In tranquillo fatalis naufragii speculator tutus Et clarior in obscuritate temporum factus Stelliferi claritate Olympi gaudes O lampas fulgens Quid quaeris amplius Regi à Sacris coelestis orator Capellanus Populo à Mysteriis veritatis Assertor
Ioanes late wife of Iohn Lord Grey of Codnor deceased which after the death of the said Ioane came into the Kings hands by reason of the minority of Henry de Grey son and heir of the said Ioane with the marriage of the said heir but he died about that time and the forementioned Henry brother of the said Iohn was Lord Grey and had to wife Margaret the daughter and co-heir of Henry Percy d' Atholl Knight whose son and heir Henry de Grey after her death 4 E. 4. was found to be about twenty eight years old being above nine years of age at the death of his Father the said Henry Lord Grey which was 17 Iuly 22 H. 6. Henry Lord Grey and Katherin his wife said to be the daughter of the Earl of Devonshire suffered a Recovery 5 H. 7. of the Mannors of Estwayt Toueton Barton Radcliff and Dunham in this County to Thomas Leek and Roger Iohnson who were appointed by the last Will of the said Henry Lord Grey bearing date 18 H. 7. to convey them to his two sons natural One of them I suppose the elder called Henry Grey of Towton 13 H. 8. gave three Mess. c. here in marriage with Elizabeth his daughter and heir to Richard third son of Sir Henry Sacheverell of Morley mentioned in Barton and himself died about 23 H. 8. This Mannor in the year 1568. 10 Eliz. was by Richard Whalley of Welbeck Esquire settled one half on his son Thomas who had married Elizabeth and the other half on his son William who had married Barbara the two daughters and co-heirs of Henry Hatfeild In the 13 Eliz. Thomas Stanhope and Edward Stanhope Esquire suffered a Recovery of this Mannor and called to warrant the said Richard Whalley and William his son and Thomas his son and heir In 27 Eliz. and 42 Eliz. Iohn Zouch of Codnor Esquire claimed as son and heir of Sir Iohn Zouch Knight son and heir of George Zouch Esquire son and heir of Iohn Zouch Knight son and heir of Iohn Zouch Esquire son and heir of Elizabeth Grey Cousin and heir of Henry Lord Grey viz. daughter of Richard Lord Grey Father of Henry Lord Grey Father of Henry last Lord Grey Richard Whalley of Screveton then claimed as son of Thomas son of Richard son of Thomas Whalley son and heir of Ioane mistaken for Elizabeth Leek daughter and heir of Thomas Leek as in Screveton may be seen How they ended their Suits I have not found but shortly after the forementioned Settlement and Recovery it was Sir Thomas Stanhopes and Sir Iohn Stanhope of Elvaston in the County of Darby left it to Iohn Stanhope Esquire his son and heir who first Mortgaged and after sold it to Arthur Waren son of Sir Arnald Waren of Thorp Arnald descended of those mentioned in Costock who hath inclosed the Fields and sold some of the ancienter Inclosure lying towards the Trent side to William Sacheverell of Barton Esquire with the Ferry Bramcote Broncote PArt of Broncote the Book of Doomsday shows to belong to Ernehale the Kings Mannor and was rated to the Tax at six Bovats the Land of it being six Bovats And part to Olaveston now Wollaton of William Peverels Fee charged to the Dane-geld as six Bovats also yet at that time Waste But the principal part seems to be four Mannors which Vlchel Godric Alvric and Levric had before the Conquest and paid to the Dane Tax as twelve Bovats for them The Land whereof was then certified to be no more Afterwards William Ostiarius the Usher or Porter whose Fee it was had two Car. four Vill. four Bord. having three Car. ½ This part in the Confessours time was 60s. value but when the great Survey was made by the Conquerour 20s. was the rate of it Herbert de Brampcote confirmed to the holy Trinity and the Monks of Lenton the gift which Azor son of Vlfac made of two Carucats of the Fee of Arnale which the said Herbert held in Brampcote leaving his heirs the Curse of Almighty God and his own if they should ever attempt to go against his Grant H. de Nevill confirmed eight Bovats of Land in Brampcote and four in Sutton of his Soc of Arnale concerning which there had formerly been some controversie in the Kings Court to the said Priory reserving 12s. yearly Rent to himself and his heirs to this Deed were Witnesses H. de Burgo the Kings Justice William Briwer Stephen de Sedgrave Raph de Nevile Philip Marc William Rufus Robert de Harleston Walter de Estwayt Iohn de Leke Helyas Briton Gervas de Arnale Herbert de Riseley and William de Riseley and the Nuns of Sempringham held half a Knights Fee here which is said to be of the Fee of Mortimer and Henry de Birchinwood the sixth part of a Knights Fee Nicholas Birchwood did Suit for eight Bovats of Land in Bramcote to the Honour of Pevrel 21 E. 1. In the Nom. Villar 9 E. 2. Robert de Byley and the Prior of Sempringham are certified to be Lords And in 3 E. 3. Robert de Billy of Bramcote claimed Assize of Bread and Ale of his Tenants in Bramcote As the said Prior did Free Warren in his Demesne Lands here at Trowell and Chillwell Afterwards Iohn de Beley held that which was Riseleys and 22 E. 3. that which was Birchwoods was become Richard de Willughbyes of Wallaton with which Family it continued and with his posterity Lords of that place still remaineth Richard son of Richard de Willughby 13 E. 2. released to Iohn del Ker of Rotington 9s. 8d. Rent out of 10s. 4d. which the said Iohn was to pay to Richard as part of 1l. 9s. 4d. which Richard had by the grant of Iohn de Thorneton out of a Mess. and four Oxgangs in Bramcote which the said Iohn was to hold of the said Richard by service c. Here was a place called Karr Mannor and some Lands which were Sir William Babingtons Lord of Chillewell whereof his son William Babington Esquire was found heir 33 H. 6. Some part of this Town belonged to Attenborow Parish as in that place may be discerned The Mannor of Bramcote formerly belonging to the Priory of Sempringham was by Queen Elizabeth by her Letters Patents dated 14 Iuly in the sixth year of her Reign amongst other things granted to Charles Iackson and William Mason and the heirs of Charles Richard Handley Yeoman purchased the Sempringham Lands and left his son Henry Father of Henry at Bramcote and Gervas his second son who married An. the daughter of Ierome Brand of Staunton at Wilford where his posterity in the Male-line still continueth Richardus Handley de Wilford .... fil .... Fitz-Williams de Com. Ebor. Henricus Handley de Bramcote-Alicia fil .... Bray Henr. Handley de Bramcote .... Percivall Handley s. p. Gerv. Handley de Wilford-Anna fil Jer. Brand. Richardus H.
issue Avicia Mabilia who died without issue and Alice of whom Galfrid Robert Hugh Richard and Hugh Heriz Richard de Cazmera married Avicia Lady of Stapleford who gave that Church to Newstede Priory Phillip de Stradley 2 Ioh. gave the King ten marks and a Palfrey for having the daughter of Avicia de Stapilford to wife with her inheritance Galfr. de Ecclestone 26 May 8 H. 3. made fine of 10l. for seising of the Land which Avicia who had been wife of Richard de Camera held of the King in Capite which concerned him as his inheritance in Stapleford This man I take to be the son of her sister Alice and sometimes called Heriz and sometimes Stapleford Galfr. de Heriz and Hugh de Stapleford were brothers but Galfr. held the Capitall Mess. with the demesne of Stapleford and Hugh held that part which Iohn de Stapleford called le Ward and his heirs held but they both joyned and gave two Bovats in almes to the Priory of Newstede And Richard the son and heir of the said Galfrid gave four Nicolas son and heir of Hugh gave two Which Nicolas was father of Iohn le Ward whose son and Her Iohn married Elena sister of Sir William Grey of Sandiacre and both of them died in the pestilence in the year 1349. and left Robertus temp Will. 1. Gaufridus de Heriz Robertus de Heriz s. p. Agnes s. p. ... de Eccleston-Alicia Galfr. de Eccleston dictus Heriz de Stapleford Richardus de Heriz Hugo de Heriz-Joana Richardus de Heriz aet 15.25 E. 1 -Margeria 11 E. 3 -Thom de Ayvill de Egmanton Rich. de Heriz-Eliz fil Joh. de Bughton Johannes Fermery-Idonea Robertus del Furmery Hugo de Stapleford Nicolas Johannes le Ward Johan ob 1349 -Elena sor dom Wil. Grey Nicholas de Stapleford Rich. Rob. Hugo Heriz Mabilia s. p. Rich. de Camera-Avicia de Stapleford ... ux Ph. Strelley 2 Joh. s. p. Nicholas their son under age whom the same Sir William had in custody The other Hugh brother of Galfr. de Heriz called also de Stapleford I take to have been the Clergyman or at least Lawyer for so Clericus did then also import who was under or deputy Sheriff for Reginald Grey 51 H. 3. and afterwards himself Sheriff in 54 H. 3. and in 55 H. 3. for Walter Grey Arch-bishop of York as may be seen in the Pipe Rolls of that time Richard de Stapleford son of that Galfr. de Heriz had a son and heir called Hugh de Heriz omitted in the Book of Newstede who yet 2 E. 1. claimed the Advowson of the Church of Stapleford whereof his Ancestor was seised in the time of King Iohn against the Prior of that place And afterwards passed it by Fine levyed at Nott. the day after St. Martin 8 E. 1. to Iohn the Prior and the Church of St. Mary at Newstead as that which Eustachius the Prior his Predecessour had of the gift of Avicia de Heriz Cousin of the said Hugh and by the confirmation of Galfr. de Eccleston Grandfather of the said Hugh whose heir he also was This Hugh de Heriz of whom Galfr. de Stapleford Knight held thirty six Bovats in Stapleford and Thurmeton and Iohn son of Iohn de Stapleford twenty six Bov. c. in this Town left Richard de Heriz his son and heir fifteen years old 25 E. 1. Richard de Heriz left a son also of his own name his heir under age whom the said Book of Newstede mentions to be granted to Sir Iohn de Mounteney Knight by the King and that Sir Iohn sold his Wardship and marriage to one Iohn de Bughton of Wellum who married him under age to his daughter Elizabeth in the time of the Eyre 3 E. 3. Richard de Heriz and Elizabeth his wife by a Fine levied at York the day after St. Iohn Baptist 11 E. 3. passed two parts of this Mannor and the third part which Margery the wife of Thomas Dayvill of Egmanton had then in Dower after her decease to Richard de Bughton and his heirs paying them 40l. per annum during their lives The Book of Newstede saith this Richard de Bughton was an Ecclesiastical person and that the said Richard de Heriz gave this Mannor to Richard the brother of his wife who first died and then his said wife in the aforesaid Pestilence and that after their deaths he the said Richard de Heriz enfeoffed William de Wakebrigge and others to give to the Priory of Newstede to make and found Chantries but having a sister called Idonea the wife of Iohn del Furmery who had both sons and daughters he was by her and other friends within three daies after perswaded to revoke that and settle it on Robert del Furmery her son who was to have married Cecily the sister of Elizabeth before named but he did not so dying without issue it remained to the said Idonea and her heirs who gave only two Bovats to Newstede By an Inquisition taken at Nott. the Saturday next after the Feast of St. Michael before Thomas Mapurley and his fellow Commissioners 7 H. 6. it appears that the Knights Fee which Richard de Heriz formerly held in Stapleford was then in five parts whereof the Prior of Newstede had one Thomas Columbell one Nicholas Stapleford one Robert Matley another and William Iohnson another Robert Matley had a daughter and heir called Margaret the wife of Iohn Davenport Esquire whom the Jury 32 H. 6. found to be but seventeen years of age and that Elena Vernon mother of Richard Vernon and sometimes wife of Robert Matley and after of William Heresse had in Dower here the third part of half the Water Mill and two Mess. six Bovats and the third part of 5s. Rent c. This part I guess now to be my Cousin Hollingworths who hath the Water Mill and considerable Lands in this Town Columbells part is sold to Edward Manley The Lands which belonged to the Priory of Newstede I suppose most of them were Iohn Brodbents to whom William Cambden Clarenceaux 45 Eliz. 1601. granted for his Arms Party per pale Ermine and Azure a Fesse Wavy Gules the Crest a Pheon his daughter and heir Mary Broadbent was married to Gervas Iackson by whom she had George Iackson the Chief Constable the present owner In the year 1612. I find the owners to be Iohn Brodbent who had ten Oxgangs William Greyseley four Oxgangs George Clarke four Thomas Mere two Peter Columbell Gent. four Oxgangs Francis Hollingworth fourteen Oxgangs and Gervas Teverey Gent. forty Oxgangs He purchased the Lord Sheffeilds Lands in this Town whereof mention is made in Chillwell and inherited a good share in this Lordship besides some at Thrumpton and Sandiacre which was most anciently the Staplefords and descended to the Teveryes formerly resident at Long Eaton in the County of Derby in which they had Lands in several other places but
since the match with Staplefords heir which the Genealogy inserted drawn out of Mr. Pigots Evidences for the most part manifesteth they have made this place their chief habitation which the said Gervas Teverey Esquire together with his Lands at Estwayt Eyton Sandiacre Little Thrumpton the other Thrumpton he sold to Mr. Pigot and divers others in these parts settled on Teverey Palmes his Grandson second son of his eldest daughter Mary the wife of Sir Brian son of Sir Guy Palmes Knight but he died a Batchelor and his elder brother Francis succeeded who married the Lady Mary Fane daughter of Mildmay Earl of Westmorland since married to Iohn Earl of Exeter whom he left without issue so that this Estate descended to William Palmes the next brother who having married Mary a co-heir of the Lord Evers his Estate and liking Yorkshire better hath disposed of this old House to Arthur Waren son of Arthur named in Touton with the Demesne as he did before the Farms to Mr. ... Burrowes the Soap-boyler of Darby who purchased them about a year since or more as I have heard In the year of our Lord 1259. the Prior and Covent of Lenton passed both their great and small Tythes which they had in the Parish of Stapleford by reason of the Demesne Lands which were William Pevrells in that place to the Prior and Covent of Newstede in Shirewood Willielmus de Stapleford Robertus de Stapleford Richardus de Stapleford-Elizab Galfridus de Stapleford miles Richardus de Stapulford Rich. de Stapulford haer frat 17 E. 2 -Agnes Sampson de Stapleford s. p. 42 E. 3. Nichol. s. p. Margareta-Johannes Teverey Hugo Teverey de Stapilford-Agnes Robertus Teverey aetat 26. 6 E. 4. Hugo Teverey ob 8 H. 8 -Elizab fil Hugonis Willughby de Risley Ar. Robertus Teverey aetat 21. 8 H. 8. ob 1553 -Katherina fil Georgii Chaworth Ar. ob 1571. Johannes Teverey ob 1603-Anna fil haer Johannis Crevequeur de Twiford Gervasius Teverey ob 1639 -Anna fil ..... Ashby de Quenby Com. Leicest 1 Maria-Bryan Palmes miles 2 Teverey Palmes s. p. 1 Franc. Palmes s. p. -Maria Fane fili Mildmaii Com. Westm. -Joh Com. Exeter marit 2. 3 Willielmus-Maria fil cohaer ... Evers 3 Raph Huband de Ipsley Com. Warw. Ar. -Anna 2 Elizab. s. p. Johannes s. p. Will. Paveley-Alicia Galfr. haer 10 E. 2. Thomas Adam Elias Richardus Tevery Robertus Teverey Willielmus Teverey Hugo Teverey 25 E. 1. Willielmus Teverey 20 E. 2. Margareta-Johannes Teverey for five Marks per annum Rent but if they of Newstede should lose or be excluded from the possession of the Church of Stapleford the bargain was to be void To which were Witnesses Sir Richard de Sutton Canon of Southwell Iohn his brother Rector of Lexington Mr. William Bishop Rector of St. Nicolas Church in Nottingham and others Upon a Grave-stone in the Chancell Hic jacet Dominus Johannes Abbot capellanus istius Ecclesiae xlviii annos qui obiit vii die Novembr Anno Dom. M. CCCCXXXVIII In a high Window in the Church and twice on Surcotes Arg. on two Bars Azure three Cinquefoyls Or. And the same impaling Arg. a Bendlet Gules In a Window of the Chancel Gules on a Bend Azure between two Wolves heads erased Arg. three Libards heads Or. A Bordure Gobony of the second and third underneath Thomas Gunthorp Prior of Newstede Three Lions passant gardant Arg. upon large Bars sable divided with Barrulets Gules The Chief is broken away and intended for the Priory of Newstede Arg. on a Bend sable three Birds or Choughs Or. In the North I le Window of the Church quartered 1. Or on two Bars Gules three Waterbouget's Arg. Willoughby 2. Sable a Lion Rampant amongst Cinquefoiles Arg. Clifton 3. On the upper half Arg. on two Bars Azure three Cinquefoils Or and on the lower half Arg. on a Bend Gules three Hedge-hogs Or. 4. Willughby again impaling Gules on a bend Arg. three Scallops sable In the South Wall of the Church at Stapleford Hic jacet Johannes Tevery filius et hares Roberti Tevery et Katherinae Chaworth Amicorum amator pauperum amicus Comis affabilis benevolus munificus librorum studiosus rem familiarem adaugens Vxorem habuit Annam Crevequer filiam haeredem Johannis Crevequer de Twyford ex quatres liberi die quo mortem obibat aliis anteacto tempore defunctis spiritum ducebant Gervasius Anna et Katherina hac prole edita milessimo quingentessimo octogessimoque anno advento decimo septimo die Martii è terris demigravit uxor sospite salvoque viro tum ille cum sexaginta sex annos aetatis explevisset milessimum sexcentessimum tertiumque annum salutis attigisset marbo et morte non senio conficitur decimo quarto die Martii vitae vinculis dissolvitur In the South I le aâ— Stableford Upon Iohn Tevereys Monument are his Arms with Mantle and Helme and Crest viz. Arg. on two Bars Azure three Cinquefoiles Or quarterly Arg. on a Bend Gules three Hedge-hogs Or all which impale Or Fretty sable and on a chief Gules a Lion passant gardant of the first The Crest is a Wolfes head erased Arg. Muzled Azure Upon a very fair Tomb for Gerv. Tevery Siste Lege Morae pretium erit scire quis hic situs est Qui sibi virtutis incrementum Posteris ad familiae ornamentum Patriae ad boni publici emolumentum faeliciter natus est qui tribunalis in provincia sua moderator adeo prudens ut apud summos juris oraculum tantus aequi justiciae patronus fuit ut apud infimos pauperum tutelare numen audierit Qui in amicitiis fidem In sodalitiis humanitatem In moribus integritatem sanctissimè coluit Liberalis semper hospes idemque prudens pater familias Gâ—rvasius Tevery Armig. nobilissima Staplefordorum Paschallorum Creveceurorum proles haeres majoribus ut in vitâ quâ postridie idus Augusti Anno Domini 1639. aetatis verò 65. piè defunctus est ita in morte succedens inter avorum umbras hic placidè conquiescit Cujus sacris manibus debitae memoriae hoc tantis virtutibus impar monumentum multas inter Lachrymas posuit dicavit Anna vidua ejus moestissima Quae ex veteri prosapiâ Ashbyorum de Quenby in agro Leicestrensi oriunda ei peperit unicum filiolum tres filias Johannem in primo aetatis germine Elizabetham in ipso flore satis immaturè praereptam Mariam Briano Palmes Armig. enuptam Annam utramque haeredem ejus superstitem This Inscription as I remember was made by his ingenious Friend Huntington Plumptre of Nott. Doctor of Physick The Crest on this Tomb is as the former but the Arms are Azure a Lion Rampant Arg. within a Bordure engrailed Or for Teverey Quartering Arg. on two Bars Az. three Cinquefoiles Or for Stapleford Arg. on a Bend Gules three Hedge-hogs Or for Paschall And Arg. fretty
Pype of London Leather-seller and Francis Bowyer of London Grocer together with the Site of Wallingwells Priory and many other things August the fifth Aspley-Wood Hall was the dwelling place of Thomas Blyth named in Mapurley in the time of Queen Elizabeth The Vicarage of Radford was 5l. when the Prior of Lenton was Patron 'T is now 3l. 9s. 4d. in the Kings Books and his Majesty Patron Sutton Passeys OF the Taynland were two Mannors in Suton which before the Conquest Aluric and Brun held rated for them to the Dane-geld at twelve Bovats and Vlsi then Lord of Olaveston now Wollaton in which the Soc lay had one Car. and an half for the Geld. The Land was three Car. There was also in Sudtune Soc to Olaveston of the Fee of William Peverel which paid the Tax for twelve Bov. The Land three Car. but was waste in the time of King William the Conquerour as some other Lands of that Soc at that time were Robert son of Raph and all his heirs gave to God and the Church of the holy Trinity at Lenton two Bovats of Land here One of them was that which Erchin held with a Toft divided into three parts the other was half a Bovat which Matthew held but he filled it up and made a whole one of it out of his Demesne This Alms he offered before God and his Saints upon the Altar of the holy Trinity at Lenton for the health of the Soul of his most dear wife Adelina that her memory might be made every year The Witnesses were Richard Abbat of Lecester Robert Avenell Roger son of Adelina Peter de Sandiacre Iofrid Bochart Gubert de Nottingham Herbert son of Gladwin Raph son of Lewin Hugh de Sutton Helric de Sutton Grunquetel Anselinus de Radclive Everard de Lenton and Gervase his son and many others Robert de Passeys gave to God and the work of the Church of the holy Trinity at Lenton for the health of his Soul and of Alice his wife and William his Father and Edelina his former wife fifteen Acres of his Demesne in Sutton William de Passeys son of Robert de Passeys confirmed the fifteen Acres of the gift of his Father and gave four Acres himself In the year 1278. Robert son of William Gyon of Bramcote gave to the Prior and Covent of Lenton 4s. yearly Rent which Hugh de Stapleford Clerk was bound to pay him for four Bovats in Sutton with Homage Ward Relief and all the Appurtenances to this were Witnesses Sir Robert de Stratley Sir Galfr. de Dethec Sir Raph de Arnale Knights Iohn de Cortlingstok Henry de Watenâ—ou Iohn Passeys William Torcard and others William Mailard paid two Marks for a Knights Fee in Sutton in the former part of the Reign of Henry the third But it appears in several other places that the Family of Passeys held it by Serjeancy of finding a Horse and Sack in the Army in Wales In one place it is Recorded that Robert Passeys held two Carucats and an half and that there were two Bovats here of the Soc of Arnale which used to pay 5s. and that Hugh de Nevill held them in his own hand Alice daughter of Robert Passeys had four Bovats of this Serjeancy in Sutton and paid the King a Mark per annum Alan Passeys son of Robert had one Bovat for 4s. the Prior of Lenton sixteen Acres for 3s. William Passeys afterwards came and warranted that Land to the Prior and held the rest of the Serjeancy then valued at 100s. Iohn Passeys of Sutton 7 E. 2. left his son Iohn his heir twenty two years old he held a Mess. and six Bovats of William Mortein at Wollaton besides some Land in Sutton In the Record of Nom. Vill. 9 E. 2. Sutton Passeys answered for a whole Villa and Iohn Passeys was then returned Lord of it The Jury 19 E. 2. found it not to the Kings loss if he granted licence to Iohn Watnowe to enfeoffe Iohn le Colyer of Nottingham in fourteen Acres in Sutton Passeys having 40s. Land and Rent in Notingham besides In 16 E. 3. the Jury likewise returned no loss to the King if Iohn de Colier of Not. gave a Mess. a Toft and five Bovats of Land in Sutton Passeys to a certain Chaplain to celebrate in the Church of St. Mary at Sutton Passeys which Mannor was then become the possession of Richard de Willoughby Lord also of Wollaton with which Family it continued and is now and long hath been totally decayed and only known by the name of Wollaton Parke and other the Demesnes of that Mannor howbeit the Parishioners of Radford say it is in that Parish and within their Perambulation Wollaton Olaveston IN Olaveston through corruption of speech now called Wollaton there was of William Peverells Fee a Mannor which before the Conquest Vlsi had who paid for it to the Dane-geld after the rate of a Carucat and an half The Land was then for twelve Oxen or twelve Bovats There afterwards Warner the Man of William Peverell had one Car. seven Sochm. four Vill. having four Car. small Wood one leuc long one qu. broad In King Edward the Confessours time this was valued at 100s. but when the great Survey was made towards the latter end of the Conquerours Reign but at 60s. The Soc extended into Cotteshale Bruncote and Sudtune The Family of Mortein were the next successours to Warner in this place of which Robert de Mortein lived in King Henry the firsts time at the Foundation of Lenton Priory and Adam de Moretonio 22 H. 2. gave account of xxx Marks of the Amercements of the Forest. Eustachius de Moretoin gave Henry son of William Hamelyn of Wollaton his Villain with all his sequel and Cattel to the Priory of Lenton Eustace Robertus de Moretein Adam de Moretein Eustachius de Moretein pip 9 R. 1.7 Joh. Eustachius de Moretein Willielmus de Mortayn Rogerus Rogerus de Mortein-Isabella una haered neptis M. Will. de Luda Episcop Eliens Willielmus de Mortein Isabella ux 1 -Richardus de Willughby mil. Justic. de Banco-Joâ—na 11 E. 3 -Elizab Ricard de Willubi mil. s. p. soror Joh. dom Grey Hugo Cleric ob 1 Sept. 7 H. 4 -Joana de Riseley Hugo de Willubi ob 10 Sept. 3 H. 5 -Joana fil Joh. Dabridge-court mil. Hugâ— Willoughby de Riseley ob 12 Sept. 1491 -Isabella fil Gerv. Clifton ob 3 May 1462. Johan ob infra aet 1 H. 6. Felicia-Joh Armstrong Thom. s. p. Alicia monialis Rog. s. p. Sibylla ux Bertram Momboucher Bertram Momboucher Bertram consangu haer Hug. Willughby Cler. 7 H. 4. Marger ux Joh. Malory Robertus Malory Williel Malory cons. haer Hug. 7 H. 4. Adam Radulphus Bugge de Notingham Richardus Bugge de Wiluby Ric. de Willughby mil. ob 18 E. 2. Isabella ux 1 -Richardus de Willughby mil. Justic. de Banco-Joâ—na 11
it when the Conquerours Survey was taken Gocelinus is mentioned in Lenton amongst William Peverels Men who gave two parts of the Tythes of their Demesnes to that Priory at the Foundation In 13 Ioh. Robert son of William de Alfreton was certified to hold three Knights Fees in these two Counties of Nott. and Derb. of the Escheat of Peverell viz. in Moniasse and Roudesle one Fee in Calvour half one in Watenho half one in Woodburgh half one and in Hadsop and Bramcote half a Knights Fee this descended by inheritance to the Family of Chaworth as it seems another part of this Township did from the Lords of Greyseley to that of Cantelupe which made the common distinction which is yet in use of Watnow Chaworth and Watnow Cauntcliff the latter of which all or most of it became the possession of Bevall Priory by the gift of the Founder as in that place may be discerned and some likewise that Monastery got afterwards in the former Raph son of Hugh de Redinges sometimes as I take it called Hugh de Watenhou gave to the Priory of Lenton a Bovat of Land in Watenhow which Toly held and afterwards Galfr. Stoyle which during his life he held himself paying the Monastery 16d. a year but after his death the Priory might dispose of it as their other Lands and he granted Common to their Tenant as the rest of the Men of Watenhow had in all places he gave it to the Monks to make an Anniversary for his Father and left a bitter Curse for his heirs if any of them should attempt to go against or hinder his gift The Monks demised it to Robert son of Roger de Watenhow for his life and after that when Sir Simon de Hedon was Sheriff in the time of Henry the third to Sir Robert de Lathom during his life for a Noble yearly and afterwards in 5 E. 1. to Robert son of Robert de Watenhowe for the same Rent during his life This half Fee which Thomas Chaworth had lay half of it in Ridinges in Derbishire Hugh de Watenhow paid for half a Knights Fee here one Mark in the beginning of Henry the third and Robert de Watenhow afterwards held it Hugo de Redings vel de Watenhow Matheus Radulphus Rogerus Robertus de Watenhou Robertus de Watnow But in Nom. Vill. 9 E. 2. Robert de Kinmarley is certified to be Lord. William Fox and Margaret his wife 8 E. 1. acknowleded one Mess. and sixteen Acres of Land in Watenowe and Brokebresting to be the right of Robert de Strelley A Fine was levied at Nott. the Munday next after the Feast of St. Martin 3 E. 3. between William de Mekisburgh of Nottingham Quer. and Iohn de Hacunthorpe of Watnowe Chauworthe and Agnes his wife Deforc. who acknowledged the Mannor of Watnowe Chauworthe the inheritance of the said Agnes whereof Ioan who had been the wife of Stephen de Kinmarle then held two parts in Dower to be the right of the said William When the Aid 22 E. 3. of forty shillings for every Knights Fee to make the Kings eldest son a Knight was gathered William de Amyas was found to hold the fourth part of a Knights Fee in Watenhowe which Robert de Kynmerley held in former time Iohn Wollaton of Nottingham Cousin and heir of William Amyas late of Nott. remised 20 H. 6. to Iohn Vicount Beaumont and others all his right in the Mannor of Watenowe Chaworth late William Wollatons his brothers William Wollaton pardoned the Prior and Covent of Bevall for acquiring of Robert Vicar of Greseley without his licence one Mess. and one Bovat in Watnow Chaworth sometime Hugh Cressyes and eight Acres of Land which was Richard Selstons in the same Town held of him and five Tofts and fifteen Acres of Land in Brokebresting sometimes Iohn de Pynkestons and others which were held of him and Iohn Skiffelyn of Broxtow which he and Iohn his son also confirmed to the Priory Richard Bingham of Watnow Chaworth married Anne one of the four sisters and heirs of Sir Nicholas Strelley of Lindeby and by her had Anne the wife of Rafe Purefey of Drayton and Margaret the wife of Raph Rolleston lineal Ancestor of Lancelote Rolleston the present owner as I suppose This Richard de Bingham and Anne his wife 7 H. 8. suffered a Recovery of the moyety of the Mannor of Ryddinges and of this Mannor and Shelton as in that place is noted And 3 H. 8. also of Ryddinges which it seems went along with this Mannor Kymberley Doomsd. Chinemerley IN Chinemarlye before the Conquest Azor paid the Geld as four Bov. for his Mannor and Grimchetell likewise four Bov. for his The Land was one Car. There William Peverell whose Fee it became had two Sochm. one Vill. five Bord. having three Car. and an half small Wood four qu. long two broad This kept the old value 10s. Raph son of William de Toueton gave to the Church of the holy Trinity at Lenton and the Monks there serving God all his Rent he had in Kymberley viz. half a Mark of Silver yearly To his Deed were Witnesses the Abbat of Derley Sampson de Stretley Warner de Beheleg Richard de Roissalt Robert son of or Fitz William Mr. Henry Richard de Hartill Hugh son of Sampson William his brother Raph son of Hugh de Watenhow Matthew his brother Gilbert de Bâ—oculstow and others This Mannor seems to have been held by a Family who had their name from their residence here In 9 E. 2. it went for the fourth part of a Villa and Robert de Kynmarley was certified to be Lord of it Iohn de Kynmerley Clark son of Robert late Lord of Kynmerley 9 E. 3. passed this Mannor and the Advowson of the Church and all the Land he had in Neuthorp of the gift and feoffment of his said Father to Sir Ioh. de Monte Rector of Greyseley together with all his Goods Iohn de Monte 12 E. 3. conveyed it to Nicholas de Cantelupe Lord of Ilkeston who Founded Bevall and Richard del Hull of Little Halum brother of Iohn de Monte confirmed it Sir Nicholas de Cauntlowe 29 E. 3. passed it to Robert Bernak and William de Braydiston Clark who the same year settled it on Hugh de Cressy of Selleston for his life and afterwrds on the Prior and Coyent of Beauvale and their Successours Hugh de Cressy and Cecilia his wife 33 E. 3. released the premises in Kinmerley and Newthorp to the said Religious people for 7l. 10s. per annum during his life and 4l. 10s. during hers if she over-lived him to begin after his death for which in case of non-payment they might distrein in the Priory Lands in Selleston Watnow Greysely and Mourhouses Another parcell went with Greyseley which after the death of Sir Nicholas de Cantelupe and Ioane his wife came to Nicholas son of William
the Priory of Lenton and thereof made his Chartel in his lawful power or in his sickness whereof he died They had Suits most of King Iohn's time about it but it seems the Priory did not prevail because it continued and I think yet doth to the Lords of Nutthall St. Patric's part was conveyed to Robert de Cokfeld to hold for the fourth part of a Knighâ—â— Fee who had the rest of the Town St. Patric's Inheritance and Blood is conceived to go to the Family of Aufreton for Robert de Cokfeld is certified to have held the fourth part of a Knights Fee in Nuthall of the Honour of Alfreton His Predecessour Adam de Kocfeld gave to the Priory of Lenton 8â— yearly Rent to be paid by the Miller out of his Mill of Nuthale and if it should fall or be removed or any thing else happen that it could not be had he promised to make it good out of some other Land in the County Adam de Cokefeld-Lucia Adam de Cokefeld 7 Joh. -Agatha Robertus de Cokefeld miles 17 H. 3. Johannes de Cokfeld 10 E. 1. Johannes de Cokfeild ... Margeria ux 2.13 E. 2. Johannes de Cokefeld miles 24 E. 3. Robertus de Cokfeld miles 33 E. 3. Johannes de Cokfeld sine prole-Marg sor Tho. Foljambe-Rad Munboucher mar 2. Joh. Taylboys-Agnes Johannes Taylboys-Kath fil Will. Gipthorp mil. Margareta Taylboys fil haer -Johannes Ayscough-Elianor fil haer Ric. Tunstall ux 2. Willielmus Ayscough miles-Maria fil Roberti Hilliard ux 1. Willielmus Ayscough miles-Elizab fil Tho. Writtesley Com. Staff Franciscus Ayscough miles-Eliz fil haer Will. Hansert ux 1 -Elizab fil Roberti Dighton relict ... Dalison Justic. Edwardus Ayscough mil. Rogerus Ayscough de Nuthall mil. -Doroth fil Will. Fitz-Williams de Malberthorp C. Linc. Edwardus Ayscough de Hempsell ... fil ... Roberts Jacobus Ayscough s. p. Willielmus s. p. Johannes s. p. Jana ux 2 -Gervas Rosell 1 Elizabetha Rosell 2 Katherina Rosell 3 Maria Rosell Johannes Thomas Thurslan Adam fil haer Robertus de Cokfeld 10 E. 1. Willielmus Ayscough Justic. de Com. Banc. Margareta Taylboys fil haer -Johannes Ayscough-Elianor fil haer Ric. Tunstall ux 2. Agatha de Cokefeld Lady of Nuthale gave her Mill of Nuthale scituate on the Rivulet between the Town and Houdeshill to the Priory of Lâ—nton out of which those Monks were wont to receive 8s. yearly Rent and together with the said Mill the Suit of all Nuthale except her own House so that the Men of Nuthale should alway grinde according to their due and ancient custom She likewise granted that if any of the men of Nuthale except those who were Free when she conferred that Charter should be intercepted grinding at another Mill when he might grinde at that it should be lawful for the Miâ—â—er or any person else deputed by the said Monks to Arrest him and the Sack with the â—orn was to be the Monks but the Man so intercepted for his forfeit was to be in the mercy of her and her heirs Adam de Cokefeld 7 Ioh. had half a Knights Fee here he was I suppose son of another Adam and Lucia his wife who were Benefactors to St. Maries by Northampton and their Grandson Robert de Cokefeld likewise Robert de Cokefeld gave the Mannors of Nuthall and Basford to Iohn de Cokefeld a younger son which 10 E. 1. Robert son of Adam de Cokefeld claimed as heir of his Grandfather Robert but Iohn produced a Fine levied 46 H. 3. between himself and the said Robert the Grandfather whereby the said Robert was made but Tenant for life which cast the Plaintiff in that Suit On the Seal of Iohn son of Sir Iohn Cokefeld Knight appendant to his Deed bearing date 13 E. 2. within the Circumscription of his name is A plain Crosse Counter-Compony This Mannor by Fine 12 E. 2. was settled on Iohn de Cokefeld and Margery his wife and the heirs of their bodies remainder to Iohn his elder son and the heirs of his body remainder to Thomas another son and the heirs of his remainder to the right heirs of the said Iohn de Cokefeld the Father Upon the back Reginald son of Iohn de Cokefeld put to his claim Sir Iohn de Cokefeld Knight 24 E. 3. had two sons Robert and Iohn Robert 33 E. 3. was a Knight who had issue Iohn Cokefeld Esquire and Agnes Iohn married Margaret and died without issue Agnes was married to Iohn Taylboys Esquire whose eldest son Iohn Taylboys had a daughter and heir called Margaret married to Iohn Ayscogh Esquire son of William Ayscogh the Judge A Fine was levied 22 H. 6. between Iohn Cokfeld Esquire and Margaret his wife Quer. and Richard Bingham and William Foljamb Deforc of the Mannors of Nuthall and Baceford with the Appurtenances and of ten Mess. one Toft twenty Bovats and forty Acres of Land and twenty Acres of Medow with the Appurtenances in Nuthall Baceford Radford and Lenton and the Advowson of the Church of Nuthall whereby they were settled on Iohn and Margaret and the heirs Males of their bodies remainder to the heirs of the body of Iohn remainder to Iohn Ayscogh and Margaret his wife daughter and heir of Iohn Taylboys the younger Esquire and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the heirs of the body of Margaret the wife of Iohn Ayscogh remainder to the right heirs of Sir Robert Cokfeild Knight By an Inquisition taken 14 Iun. 4 E. 4. after the death of Margaret the wife of Iohn Cokefeild it appears that after his death she married Raph Moâ—â—boucher and that Thomas Folejamb Esquire was Cousin and heir of the said Margaret viz. son of Thomas her brother and then aged above forty years Sir Roger Ayscough younger son of Sir Francis viz. by the second venter sold this Mannor to Iames Ayscough or Asgill a Merchant of London who by his last Will appointed it to be sold and by reason of the Tenure the third part became the Inheritance of Edward Ayscough Esquire a younger brother or son to Sir Edward Ayscough the chief of the Family by purchase from the heirs of Iames Ayscough The other two parts of the Mannor are now the Inheritance of Richard Slater Esquire the present owner The Rectory of Nuthyll was ten Marks when Mr. Ascoghe was Patron 'T is now 3l. 14s. 9d. ob in the Kings Books and Richard Slayter Esquire Patron On a Tomb whereon are the Figures at length of the Man and his Wife and five Children at the foot in half proportion is inscribed Here lyes Edward Boun Gent. and Isabel his wife daughter and heir of Edmund Hunt Gent. which Edward died the 12 of Decemb. Anno 1558. and the said Isabel the 13 of Iuly Anno 1562. On whose Soules God have mercy Amen In the South Window near the Pulpit Paly of six Arg. and Az. Strelley In the West end of the North
I le Gules a Bend between six Crosses Fitchy Arg. In the East end of the North I le Chequey Or and Azure a Fesse Ermine On the top of the same I le in a Window over the Pew ..... A Lion Rampant Sable Crowned Or. In the same Window Azure three Cinquefoiles between five Crosse-Croslets Arg. Darcy In the middle Window .... Upon a Bend Vert three Martlets Or. Bulwell IN Bulwell Godric had-before the Conquest two Car. of Land for a Mannor The Land was two Car. There was one Car. one Vill. one Bord. and two Acres of Medow In the Confessours time it was valued at 12s. when William Peverell had it but at 5s. This came to the Crown with the rest of William Peverells Lands Stephen Cut held Bolewell in the time of King Henry the second and delivered it with a certain daughter to one Reymund de Burgarvill in custody so that he should find the said Stephen all necessaries when Reymund died the King seised it into his own hand Philip Mark the Sheriff said he held Bulewell and the Advowson of the Church by demise from King Iohn And it is also said Henry Medicus Leech held the Church which was of the Kings gift but the Jury found not by whom the said Henry had it but then Philip Mark had the Township by demise from King Iohn valued at 100s. the said Philip Mark had the Mannor of Melburne committed to him and the Farm of Bullwell to sustain him as long as c. he had this Mannor 14 H. 3. for life The Men of Bulewell had the Mannor of Bulewell to Farm during the Kings pleasure about 7 H. 3. They had likwise the Advowson of the Church They had Common of Pasture in the Wood of Beskwood 12 H. 3. to the great Street In Bulewell is one Carucat and an half which was wont to defend it self in the time of William Peverell by a Horse with an Halter King Iohn gave it to Roger Rascall but the Jury knew not by what Service he held it The King had the whole Town of Bulewell with ten Bovats in Hemdeshill and received yearly for both 7l. About 10 E. 1. Iohn le Charer and Richard Morell held Bolewell whereof part was within the Bounds of the Forest and part without as it was wont The Forest Book mentions Snapefeild wherein the Cattel of Bullwell and Hempshill were wont to Pasture in which some old Essarts were made to belong to the Town of Bullwell It is got to be a kind of a Corporation having the Perquisites of their own Courts and the appointment of their own Stewards and still pay their 7l. per annum and keep themselves Copy-holders to preserve their Customs and Commons in the Forest as is thought Bullwell Wood Or Bullwell Park THE Wood of Bulwell Ground or Bulwell Ryse in the Forest of Shirewood was an ancient Demesne Wood and waste of King Henry the third and Edward the first and parcell of the Forest. And Richard Oysell the Commissioner of King Edward the first in the twenty sixth year of his Reign demised eighty Acres of the said Wood on the West side to Philip Willoughby Clark his Heirs and Assigns to inclose with Ditch and Hedge according to the Assise of the Forest and so inclosed to hold for ever paying yearly to the Exchequer 26s. 8d. Forty Acres more of this Wood the said Sir Richard de Oysell demised to Thomas de Rydewalle and his heirs paying 13s. 4d. per annum and the rest of it only in Herbage to the Township of Bulwell paying 5s. per annum This as the rest of the seven Demesne Woods and five Hayes is said to be without the Bounds of any Town or Parish and to pay no Tythes Philip de Willughby aliened the eighty Acres to William de Cossale who gave them to the Priory of Newstede as in Cossale is said who likwise had the forty Acres also till Iohn son of Iohn son of that Thomas de Ridewale brought his Suit before the Barons of the Exchequer in Hillary Term 27 E. 3. upon which the Prior disclaimed them and the Town of Bulwell was found to have Pastured in them Sir William Trussebutts Lieutenant of Sir Raph de Nevill Keeper or Warden of the Forest and Richard Pensax and Iohn del Morhaghe Verderers and all the regarders of the Forest and the whole Town of Bullwell and many strangers on either part 29 E. 3. came to Bullwell-Ryse and measured out the eighty Acres for the Priory and at another day the forty Acres for the said Iohn de Ridewale after twenty one foot to the Perch the Forest foot being eighteen inches long which foot used in the time of Richard Oysell for Renting the wastes of the Forest was marked and graven in the Chancel Wall at Edenestowe and in the Church of St. Mary at Nottingham and at Newstede Bullwell-Wood with Newsted Priory 28 May 32 H. 8. was granted to Sir Iohn Byron Knight it is now imparked and in it is the Mâ—nsion House of the Honourable William Byron Esquire only son of Richard Lord Byron The Rectory of Bulwell was 5l. and the King Patron 'T is now in the Kings Books 5l. 6s. 3d. and Elizabeth Rosell Widow Patroness it should have been Iane I suppose Brinsley or Brunnesley BEfore the Conquest Brun had in Brunnesley a Mannor which paid to the Geld or Tax for four Bov. The Land was half a Car. There Ailric after the Normans came held under William Peverell whose Fee it was one Car. and one Vill. having one Car. and two Acres of Medow Pasture Wood six qu. long three and an half broad In the Confessours time it was valued at 6s. 8d. in the Conquerours at 4s. This was held by a Family who had their name from the place very anciently the first which I can certainly fix any time to was Roger de Brunnesley who was dead 12 H. 3. and left his son Gilbert de Brunnesley then in the custody of Ran. Brito which Gilbert held this Mannor and part of Trowell 26 H. 3. as in that place is noted Some Lands he held of the Serjeancy of Peverell by finding an Horse of 5s. price with Sack and Broch and Halter of an half penny for forty daies at his own cost in the Army for Wales he died about 7 E. 1. and left Roger de Brunnesley his son and heir thirty years old who about 5 E. 3. left his son and heir Galfâ— de Brunesley above fifty years of age who held by the same Tenure as did also Robert son and heir of Galfr. de Brunesley who made Fine to the King of 50s. 21 E. 3. whose son and heir Iohn de Brynesley did the like 16 R. 2. Robert Broune and Ioane his wife daughter and heir of Iohn son of Robert de Bronesley and Elizabeth late his wife 4 H. 6. made Fine as before
Iohn the son of Thomas Metham held by reason of Sibyll his wife as of the inheritance of the said Sibyll and joyntly with her of the King in Capite the moyety of the Town of Lindeby by the Rent of a Skin of Gray Furr and one Mess. and two Carucats of Land in Willey mentioned in Beauvale by the Service of 10l. to the Exchequer Thomas son and heir of the said Iohn Metham being then twelve years old The King granted the moyety of the Town of Lindeby to one Laurence de Seyntmychell and by him entred Sir William de Hameldon and enfeoffed his son and Sibyll de Metham who in her widow-hood enfeoffed William de la Pole who gave it to the King in exchange for another Mannor viz. Mitton in Yorkshire King Edward the third gave it to Sir Tho. de Bourne Anno 1342. and he sold it again to William de la Pole and enfeoffed Edmund his son in the year 1345. About 6 H. 6. Thomas Hunt died seized of this moyety and left it to descend to his daughter and heir Ioan the wife of Iohn Hikelinge Esquire she being then above thirty years of age By an Inquisition taken at Nott. the Thursday after Palm-Sunday 23 H. 7. before Sir William Perpoint Knight Edward Stanhope Knight and Raph Agard I find that Iohn Strelley of Lindeby died seized of it 4 March 2 H. 7. leaving his son and heir Nicolas Strelley above twelve years old Elizabeth his Mother relict of the said Iohn the next year after was married to Iames Savage Esquire From Strelley it went to Staveley by the marriage of a daughter There was a Recovery 20 Eliz. of the Mannor of Lindeby wherein William Savyle Esquire and Martin Earle Gent. claimed against Iohn Savyle Gent. who called to warranty Thomas Staveley Esquire 'T is said Mr. Savile and Sir Iohn Byron made an exchange between this and Oxton Iohn second son of Sir Nicolas de Strelley married Ioane the daughter and heir of Iohn Hunt which I suppose should be Hikling of Lyndeby and by her had Iohn Strelley of Lindeby who by Elizab. the daughter of Will. Mering Esquire had Sir Nicolas Strelley Knight who married Elizabeth daughter and one of the heirs of Sir Brian Fitz-Randolph Knight but died without issue he had four sisters Anne the wife of Richard Bingham of Watnow Isabell the wife of .... Stavelly Elizabeth of ... Cade and Iane Strelley died unmarried The Kings moyety was commonly in the hands of great men and usually went with Maunsfeild as in that place will appear Thomas le Hayer or de le Haye and Iohn le Colyer took sixty eight Acres of the Kings Soil in Lindeby Haye of Richard de Oysell whose sons and heirs Hugh le Colyer and Robert de le Hay sold them to Sir Iohn de Crombewell who gave them to Newstede Priory before or about the beginning of Edward the third upon which 25s. 4d. was reserved yearly to the Crown and by the Exchequer men was exacted twice over till the Prior got a Supersedeas dated at Aukeland 12 Oct. 10 E. 3. That Priory had also one hundred and eighty Acres of waste in Lindeby Hay granted by King Edward the first May 20. in 22 E. 1. for 4l. per annum and in the 26 E. 1. were also arrented of Richard de Oysell the Kings Approver and measured by the Perch of twenty four foot according to the Assise of the Forest. The same Priory 4 E. 3. had one hundred and twenty Acres and diverse other parcels the Rents whereof they got by degrees discharged and Released That which belonged to Newstede King Henry the eighth passed with that Monastery to Sir Iohn Byron whose posterity still enjoyeth it being all or most of it now the Inheritance of the Honourable William Byron Esquire son and heir of Richard Lord Byron The Church viz. the Advowson of the Rectory was granted 6 Aug. 2 E. 6. to Robert Strelley and Frideswide his wife The Rectory of Lindeby was 8l. when the Prior of Lenton was Patron 'T is now in the Kings Books 4l. 9s. 9d. ob value and William Byron Esquire Patron In the South Quire of Lynby Church is a Tomb of ... Strelley On the South side is 1. Strelley impaling Mering 2. A Bend and File of three Labels impaling quarterly a chief Cheque and a Saltier And three Lozenges in Fesse and a Spread Eagle and a Saltier engrailed 3. A Bend quartering a Saltier engrailed on an Inescutcheon a File of three Labels 4. Strelley with a Roundell as was the first also impaling a Chief indented quartering a Bend and a File of three Labels On the North side of it Strelley with a Roundell impaling a Dragon erected and Strelley viz. Paly of six In a little North Window Az. a Fesse Dancy and Billettè Or Deincourt In a West Window in the Steeple Strelley viz. Paly of six Ar. and Az. with the Roundell And over the Porch in Stone Strelley without the Roundell In the North Quire Wall In this little Chappell under the two Grave-stones with Crosses lyeth George Chaworth Esquire and Mary his wife the daughter of Sir Henry Sacheverell Knight late Farmers of this Mannor place and Demesnes of Lynby between whom was issue three sons and three daughter which George died 22 Aug. 1557. and Mary his said wife died 15 Jun. 1562. On whose Souls God hath mercy Papplewick And Newstede BEsides what lay to Lindeby the Conqueror◠great Survey mentions in Pappleuvic some of the Land of the Taynes which Alvric and Alfa and Elric had and paid to the Dane-geld for two Car. three Bov. but they were then waste There was Pasture Wood one leu long and half one broad In the Confessours time it was valued at 20s. William Peverell gave what he had here to the Monastery of Lenton at the first Foundation King Henry the second gave to Lenton Priory fourscore Acres of Effarts of Curtenhale in Northantescr and the Mill of Blaccliff in exchange for the Land of Papilwich which he gave to the Canons of Newstede in Schirwode which he there Founded King Henry the second gave the Town of Papulwick with the Church of the same and the Mill which the Canons of Newstede made with the Medow of Beskewod along the water with all the Appurtenances to God and St. Mary together with the New Stede or Place which he Founded in Shirewod for Canons Regular of the Order of St. Austine to whom he gave also long and large wastes lying about the said Monastery within the Forest which wastes in ancient Charters are called Kygell and Ravenshede and are described by their bounds and the particulars within them He granted the Monks also view of Frank-pledge and many other priviledges and freedoms and a Park of ten Acres according to the measure of the foot of the Forest by the Site of the said Monastery to be inclosed as they should
please out of the view of the Verderers Regarders Foresters and other Officers of the Forest and a Field of Arable Land called Abby Field lying between the Town of Papilwyke and the said Monastery to hold inclosed with Hedge and Ditch according to the Assise of the Forest upon the head of which the Canons made a Grange nigh the Town of Papilwyke and ever kept that Field several and in their own Tillage and out of the Covert of the Forest as their proper Demesne The said King Henry son of the Empress gave them also at the first Foundation Cs. Land in Shepewyke and Walkringham to which belonged something in Misterton and Walcreth and confirmed what Robert de Cauz and Iohn Cooke gave in Notingham King Iohn and the following Kings confirmed and inlarged their Territories and Priviledges and they had several other good Benefactors as in diverse places of this County will be noted amongst whom Robert Lord Lexington was one of the most considerable The value of this Monastery in the first fruits Office is 167l. 16s. 11d. ob King Henry the eighth by his Letters Patents dated May 28. 32 H. 8. granted this House with the Mannor of Papilwick and Rectory of the same and all the Closes by their several names about the Priory and Commons in Raucushede and Kygell in the Forest and all in Newstede Paplewyk and Lindby c. to Sir Iohn Byron Knight and his heirs This Priory was surrendred 1 Iuly 1539. 31 H. 8. viz. the year before It hath been almost ever since and still is the principal Seat of that Noble Family of which therefore it cannot be improper to give some brief account in this place The first was Raph de Burun whom the Book of Doomsday Sect. xi made in the latter part of the Reign of King William the Conquerour shows to have had in Derbyscr the Mannors of Westune Horselei Denebi Halum and Herdebi in the Park of Horseley there was a Castle some of the ruines whereof are yet visible called Horestan Castle which was the chief mansion of his next Successours in this County the same Record Snodenghamscire Sect. xv mentions him to be Lord of the Mannor of Oscington to which part of Almenton belonged of one in Calun now Kelum one in Hochenale one in Cortingestoche one in Rampeston one in Lambecote and two in Codegrave in which place it appears his next Successour and as I suppose his son was Hugh de Burun Father of Hugh called Meschines and Roger Hugh became a Monk at Lenton and Roger enjoyed the Barony of which he gave an account to King Henry the second concerning his Knights Fees as in the Red Book in the Exchequer is manifest This Roger married Nicola the daughter of Roelend de Verdun who was by the Earl of Chester about 1 Ioh. after his death married to Anketin de Brikesard as in Cotgrave is likewise said but I find not what Children he left Robert de Burun somewhere 2 Ioh. stiled Lord of Horestan Castle who was Father of Henry and Peter there also named I suppose was his son and so doth Samuel Roper Esquire in the great Pedegree of this Family now in the Possession of the Right Honourable Richard Lord Byron done with great diligence and cost upon a very large Roll of Velum with Transcripts of Evidences wherein he sets down this Robert de Biron to marry Cecilia the daughter and heir of .... de Clayton in the County of Lancaster by whom he had Sir Richard the Father of Sir Iames Byron of Cadeney in Lincolneshire who married Alice the Relict of Iohn Comyn of Ulseby daughter of William Lord Ros of Hamlak and Sir Robert Byron Lord of Clayton in right of his Mother who by Maud his wife had William and Sir Iohn de Biron who about 24 E. 1. was Governour Custos of Yorke and had been some five or six years before of Dover he married Ioane the daughter of Baldwin Thies Knight Teutonici the widow of Sir Robert Holland Knight by whom he had Sir Iohn de Biron Knight Lord of Clayton who married Alice the Cousin and heir of Rob. Banastre of Hyndeley in the said County of Lancaster who was after his death about 12 E. 3. married again to Sir Iohn de Strykland Knight by her he had Sir Richard de Byron of Cadenay Knight Lord of Clayton whose first wife was Agnes .... his second Elizabeth who after his death 21 E. 3. was married to Iohn son of Thomas Colepeper his son and heir was Sir Iames Biron Knight who by Elizabeth his Radulphus de Burun temp W. Conq. Hugo de Burun-Albrea Rogerius de Burun 12 H. 2. Bar. de Horestan Castro -Nicola fil Roelant de Verdun postea nupta Anketino de Brikesard Robertus de Burun 2 Joh. Dom. de Horestan Cast. -Cecilia fil haer .... de Clayton C. Lanc. Robertus de Biron-Matildis Johan de Biron mil. custos Civ Ebor. 24 E. 1 -Joana fil Baldwini Teutonici vel Thies mil. relict Rob. Holand Johannes de Biron mil. -Alicia consang haer Rob. C. Lanc. relict 12 E. 3. Banastre de Hindley-Johannes de Strykland mil. mar 2. Richardus de Byron de Cadeney mil. Dom. de Clayton ob 21 E. 3 -Agnes ux 1 -Elizab ux 2 -Joh fil Tho. Colepeper mar 2. Jacobus de Byron mil. 16 E. 3 -Eliz fil Will-Bernak mil. Richardus Byron mil. ob 21 R. 2. .... Joana fil Will. de Colwick haer Tho. frat Johannes le Byron de Clayton miles-Margeria 20 H. 6. Nicolaus Byron de Clayton miles-Alicia fil Johannis Boteler de Beausey C. Lanc. Nicolaus Byron de Colwick mil. -Joana fil Joh. Bussy-Gerv de Clifton mar 2. Johan Byron mil. ob 1488. s. p. Johannes Byron mil. -Isabella fil .... Lemington-Eliz fil Will. Constantin relict Rogeri Halgh Johannes Byron de Newsted mil. -Alicia fil -Nic Strelley de Strelley Johannes Byron miles-Margareta fil Willielmi Fitz-Williams Johannes Byron gemellus mil. -Anna fil Ric. Molineux de Sefton O. Lanc. Bar. 1 Joh. Byron mil. Balnei creat in Bar. de Ratch dale per Car. 1.19 C. 1. s. p. ob in Gallia 1652 -Cecil fil T. West Bar. de la Ware 5 Tho. mil. -Kather fil H. Brome Thom. ob s. p. Johannes 6 Rob. mil. -Lucia soror Cecil 2 Nicol. 4 Will. 7 Gilb. 8 Phil. Ric. Dom. Byron fil tertius -Eliz fil Geo. Rosel relict Nich. Strelley ux prim Will. Byron-Elizab fil Johannis Vicecom Chaworth Willielmus Byron aet 4. 1673. 2 Kath. 1 Eliz. 3 Maria. 4 Ann. Kath. An. ux Thom. Lucas mil. Nic. Bar. gemellus cum Joh. -Sophia fil unica Dom. Lamberti Charles de Numigen in Holland Gubern de Breda Ernest. Byron Bar. aet 38. 1673 -Isabel fil Will. Stanley Edward aet 12. 1673. Johannes mil. s. p. Johannes Clericus Williem 3 E. 2. Richardus mil. Jacobus de Cadeney in Com. Linc. mil. -Alicia relict Joh. Comyn de Ulseby fil Willielmi de Ros
and Silkeston and Lands in Wollay which were of the Inheritance of Emelina his wife who was daughter and heir of Walter son of William Heyrun Lord of the Mannor of Hadiston in Northumberland which with Knayth and Torkesey and many other Lands in Lincolnshire and other Counties descended to Sir Iohn Darcy Knight son and heir of the said Iohn and Emelina then viz. 21 E. 3. aged thirty years Iohn Darcy of Knayth 22 E. 3. took the state of Banneret of the King The next year 5 Aug. 23 E. 3. he was made Keeper of the Tower of London which he had for his life but for the great affection he bore to the person of Iohn de Beauchamp of Warwick he passed it to him seeing that for other businesses himself could not attend the custody thereof and the King 26 E. 3. confirmed the same to the said Iohn de Beaucamp during his life if he should over-live Iohn the said Darcy he married Elizabeth daughter and heir of Nicolas Lord of Meinill and died 30 E. 3. the Saturday after the Feast of St. Chad leaving Iohn Darcy his son and heir not six years old who lived not above six years more but left his brother Philip Darcy to succeed him who proved his age of twenty one 47 E. 3. and died 22 R. 2. leaving by Elizabeth his wife Iohn and Philip. Iohn Lord Darcy left his wife Margaret a widow and his son Philip his heir under age 13 H. 4. who before he came to age viz. 2 Aug. 6 H. 5. died also leaving his two daughters Elizabeth two years old and Margaret one his heirs his wife was Elianor daughter of Henry Lord Fitz-Hugh who married to her second husband .... Tunstall by whom she had a son and died 36 H. 6. Her first husbands brother and heir Male was Iohn Darcy Chr. who died 25 Mar. 32 H. 6. and left his Grandson William Darcy son of his son Richard his heir then about four years old Elizabeth the elder daughter and co-heir of Philip Lord Darcy was married to Iames Strangways the younger by whom she had issue her sister Margery the other daughter was the wife of Sir Iohn Conyers who in her right had this Mannor and Advowson of the Church he over-lived her and Iohn Conyers their son so that after his death which was 14 Mar. 5 H. 7. William Conyers was found his Cousin and heir viz. son of his said son Iohn Conyers and came to the age of twenty one years the St. Thomas day before There was a Recovery 18 H. 7. wherein William Conyers Knight and others claimed against Richard Illingworth the Mannor of Hardwyk with the Appurtenances and one Mess. six hundred Acres of Land sixty of Medow five hundred of Pasture and twenty of Wood with the Appurtenances in Kirkeby Ashfeild and Hardwyk and called to warrant Iohn Illingworth This Mannor is now the Inheritance of his Grace the Duke of Newcastle Sir Charles Cavendish his Father had begun to buâ—ld a great House in this Lordship on a Hill by the Forest side near Annesley Woodhouse where he was assaulted and wounded by Sir Iohn Stanhope and his Men as he was viewing the Work which was therefore thought fit to be left off some blood being spilt in the quarrel then very hot betwixt those two Families In Kirkeby Woodhouse Galfr. de Insula confirmed all the Alms which he and his Father gave to the Canons of Felley and all the Land they had or with his consent could get in his Fee Hawisia de Dyve in her widow-hood released to Walter the Prior and the Canons of Felley Hugh son of Herbert of Kirkeby-wodhouse with all his Chattels for the health of her Soul and for the Soul of Galf de Insula her husband c. Reginald de Insula son of Galfr. de Insula of Kirkeby-wodhouse in the year of our Lord 1252. at Easter confirmed to the said Canons of Felley all they had acquired in the times of his Ancestors and his own saving the Foreign Service as much as belonged to one Bovat of Land which Arnald Pugil bestowed on that House Reginald de Insula by the counsel and consent of Hawise his wife gave the said Canons the whole Land which was Ernulphs de Wodhouse The Witnesses to his Deed were Henry Parson of Ossington Mr. Silvester of Nottingham Robert the Parson of Gresseley Stephen his brother Henry Parson of Hukenall Henry de Stutevill Reginald de Annesley Raph his son William Breton Iuon his son Ranulph de Wandesley Galfr. his son Roger Poer Ranulph his son Raph de Gresley and many others Robert de Stutevill also confirmed the gifts of Arnald Pugil and the rest Nicolas de Insula 23 E. 1. confirmed a place of a Toft amongst other things in Kirkeby-wodhouse which he had by Eschaet after the death of Hugh son of Roger son of Herbert The Witnesses were Thomas de Perors Rector of the Church of Kirkeby Iohn Torcart Robert Russell Iohn Colet Iohn de Langton Henry de Pillesley Robert son of Reginald and others Robert le Gaunt of Kirkeby Wodhouse gave to William and Philip his brothers and Agnes his Niece as long as they lived and after their decease to Henry son of Gilbert of Kirkeby Wodhous and his heirs the Toft which he bought and had of his brother Philip with all the Land which he had or could have of Robert de Insula in the Field of Kirkeby Wodhouse with the Medow butting upon the Park of Kirkeby in the Storthes to hold the same of Nicolas son of Reginald de Insula and his heirs paying yearly to the House of Felley 12d. and to Newstede 6d. and to the Light of the blessed Mary the Virgin in the Church of Kirkeby 6d. and to the Hospital of Hierusalem 4d. and to the Fabrick of the Chappel of Wodhous 8d. c. The Witnesses were Iohn de Annesley Nicolas de Insula Raph Briton William son of the Chaplain of Wodhouse Hugh de Plumptree Robert Mantell of Wodhouse Galfr. his brother and others In gathering an Aid in the time of Edward the third after Iohn Darcy had the Mannor of Kirkeby the Collectors had of Serlo de Brokelstowe for the fourth part of a Knights Fee in Kirkeby Woodhouse which Nicolas de Insula held in former time They likewise then had of Richard de Stapleford Edmund Perpoint and Robert de Barton for another fourth part of a Fee in the same place which Richard de Stapulford Thomas Pereres and Sibyl Torkard formerly held Iohn Pirpunts of Kirkeby gave to the Priory of Thurgarton four Acres of Arable Land and two Selions in the Territory of Kirkeby which Agnes his wife after his death confirmed as did also Robert de Stuteville reserving 12d. a year for all Services Nicolas de Overton 24 E. 1. recovered his seisin of two Mess. six Bovats of Land five Acres of Medow five of Wood and 10s. Rent
The King 2 R. 2. March 12. committed the Custody of the Mannor of Maunsfeld to Iohn the son of Iohn de Burle Knight The Jury 11 H. 6. found that Alianor who had been wife of Nicolas Dagworth Chr. when she died held the Mannor of Maunsfeld and Lindeby and that Iohn Inglefeild Esquire was then her son and heir King Henry the sixth in the thirty first year of his Reign granted the Mannors of Maunsfeld and Lindeby to Edmund Earl of Richmond his brother and Iasper Earl of Pembroke and likewise the Mannor Demesne and Town of Clipston in Shirewood Henry Earl of Richmond was son and heir of the said Edmund By Act of Parliament 6 H. 8. the Mannors of Clipston Lindeby Maunsfeld Maunsfeld Woodhouse and Sutton in Ashfeild amongst very many others in other Counties were settled on Thomas Duke of Norfolk for his great Victory over the King of Scotland at Floddenfeild but were then exchanged by the King for some others and this is now the Inheritance and makes part of the Titles of his Grace the Duke of Newcastle The Men of Maunesfeild 1 Ioh. gave the King fifteen Marks for having Common of Pasture in the Park of Clipeston as they were wont to have it before the Park was inclosed King Henry the third 11 H. 3. granted the Men of Mansfeld that they and their heirs should have a Market at his Mannor of Maunsfeld and commanded the Sheriff accordingly It seems they gave the King five Marks for his Charter to have a Market there on Mundayes It appears 14 H. 3. that the Men of Maunsfeld are to have Housebote and Haybote in the Forest of Shirewood And in 1 and 2 E 3. that the Tenants were to have Common of Pasture in a place called Woodhouse Wood. King Richard the second in the first of his Reign granted a Fair every year on the Feast of St. Peter In a Forest Book of Parchment written 1520. or 1533. wherein are the Customaries of the Mannors of Arnall Mauncefeld Edwynstowe and Southwell in this County and of Horeston and Bollesour in Darbishire and to which is annexed that of Warsop in Paper the Customary of Mauncefeld begins thus Be it bad in mynd that the Towne of Maunsfeld Wodâ—ouse was burned the Saturdaye nexte afore the Fest of Exaltation of the holy Crosse the yere of our Lord M.CCC.IIII And the Kirk Stepull with the Belles of the same for the Stepull wes afore of Tymber werke And part of the Kyrk wes burned Afterwards there followeth several Heads of the Customs of the Mannor as That the Tenaunts be fre of blode and lefully may marye them after ther willes aswell men as women That the Eyres as sone as they bene borne byn of full age That Lands are departabil betwex sonnes or doughters if ther be no sonne and the like William de Steynesby held some small parcells of Lands in Mansfeld and Mansfeld Woodhouse for 3s. 1d. per annum and had two sons found his heirs and of full age according to the Custom of the Mannor Iocelin nineteen years old and Nicolas fourteen The Jury 12 R. 2. found that Godfrey Foljambe Chr. son of Godfrey son of Godfrey Foljambe Knight held when he died one Mess. and half a Carucâ—â— of Land in Mansfeld Woodhouse ancient Demesne of the Mannor of Maunsfeld by diverse Services viz. 13s. 4d. per annum Rent and Suit to the Court from three weeks to three weeks of being the Kings Forester there Frank-pledge Constable of the Peace as oft as his course shall happen or he be chosen by the neighbours c. Alice his daughter being his heir Sir Robert Plumpton Knight was her husband and about 11 H. 6. died seized of one Bovat in Mansfeld Woodhouse called Wolfhunt Land and one Essart in the same Town at Wadgate near Woodhouse Mill held by the Service of winding an Horn and driving or frighting the Wolves in the Forest of Shirewood William Plumpton was his son and heir by the said Alice This amongst other Lands is now the Inheritance of Sir Iohn Digby Knight who hath his residence here Rowland Dand Esquire hath also an House and good interest here Sir William Willoughby Baronet had a House which Sir Thomas Blackwell built which is now Mr. William Pinkeneys who hath made a Park towards Shirbrook and Warsop this year 1673. Mr. William Clarkson of Kirkton hath also an House here and Richard Neale and diverse oâ—hers William Chappell D. D. the Reverend Bishop of Cork and Ross in Ireland was born here his brother Iohn Chappell was also a Learned mâ—n Richard Sterne now my Lord Arch-bishop of York was born at Maunsfeild There were in the Church of Maunsfeild before the time of Edward the sixth ten Chantries whose Lands Queen Mary gave in Fee to Christopher Granger Clark the Vicar and William Wilde and Iohn Chambers the Church-Wardens of the Parish Church of Maunsfeild by the name of the Governours of the Lands and possessions of the Parish Church of Maunsfeild 24 Febr. 4 and 5 Ph. and Mar. to sustain one Chaplain or Priest The Vicarage of Maunsfeild was 8l. 'T is now 7l. 7s. 6d. value in the Kings Books and the Dean of Lincolne continueth Patron In the year 1339. Iohn the Prior of Felley and the Covent of the same obtaining the Church of Annesley for their proper uses at the request of Robert Stuffyn of Neuwerk who had acquired and bestowed on them the Advowson of the Church of Adyngburgh besides many other Munificences ingaged for themselves and their successours to find a secular Chaplain and to pay him and his successours six Marks of silver yearly to pray for the said Robert and Alice his wife whilst they should live and for the Souls of Richard Stuffyn their Fathers Mothers and Ancestors and for the Soul of Iohn son of Hugh de Portesmouth of London and after the death of the said Robert and Alice for their Souls and all the faithful at the Altar of the blessed Mary in the Church or Chappel of Mammesfelld Wodhous which said Robert Stuffyn during his life in every vacancy was to present a fit Chaplain to the Arch-bishop of York the See being full or else to the Dean and Chapter of York and after his decease his sons Richard Robert William and Iames which of them should survive him according to their seniorities for their respective lives within fifteen daies of the avoidance afterwards the Prior of Felley or if he slipt the fifteen daies the Vicar of Maunsfeild and if he did the Arch-bishop or Dean and Chapter of York In Mansfeild Church South I le East Window Arg. a Lion Ramp sable amongst Cinquefoiles Gules Pierrepont quartering Arg. six Annulets sable 2.2.2 Maunvers And Azure three Hedgehogs Or 2.1 Heriz with a Fox for the Crest and two more for supporters Sable a Buck couchant Arg. impaling Arg. a Falcon rising Sable This is again in another South
heir called also Rese Here were divers 13 R. 2. who held of William Bardolf of Wirmegey Iohn de Loudham a sixteenth part of a Knights Fee in Neuton and Shelford Iohn Lord Grey of Codnar as much in Birton Iorce William de Russeby Hugh de Annesâ—â—y Roger de Duffeild and Thomas de Whatton half a Fee in Carleton Gedling Colwyk and Stoke Iohn Burton and his Parceners a sixth part in Newton Iohn de Babington a sixteenth part of a Knights Fee in Neuton The Prior of Shelford and his Parceners a twelfâ—h part in Shelford Roger de Stanbridge a sixteenth part there William de Wymondeswold a thirteenth part in Gedling and Stoke William Clark and William de Kirketon a twentieth part in Carleton and Gedling Iohn de Birton Chr. and Hugh de Annesley a twentieth part in Carleton This William Bardolf in his life time had the Advowson of the Priory of Shelford which was then valued at twenty Marks per annum and the moyety of the Advowson of the Church of Gedeling at ten Marks The Jury 15 R. 2. returned it not to the Kings loss to grant Iohn de Landfort Vicar of the moyety of the Church of Gedling and Iohn Ward of Shelford licence to give three Mess. twenty two Acres of Land eight Acres and an half of Medow and 26s. 8d. Rent with the Appurtenances in Shelford and Stoke Bardolf to the Prior and Covent of Shelford Henry Plesyngton Knight and Isabel his wife 27 H. 6. claimed against Alice Leek one Mess. two Carucats of Land thirty Acres of Medow and 43s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Gedling and Stoke Bardolf Edmund Molyneux Esquire 30 H. 8. suffered a Recovery of three Mess. two Cottag one hundred Acres of Land three hundred of Medow three hundred of Pasture c. and 4l. Rent c. in Stoke Bardolf Shelford Gedling Burton Iorce and Newton and called to warrant George Gryffyth Knight Gedling Ghelling BEsides what hath been mentioned before in Stoke Bardolf and Carleton of Goisfrid de Alselins Fee in the Conquerours great Survey there is mention of another Mannor in Ghellinge which before his coming was one Dunstanes and answered to the Tax for nine Bovats and an half and a third part of a Bovat The Land two Car. There afterwards Roger de Busâ—i whose Fee it was had two Car. and nine Vill. one Bord. having two Car. and ten Acres of Medow Pasture Wood two qu. long one qu. broad In the Confessours time this was 32s. value then 40s. Richard de Normanvile and Henry de Walleye held half a Knights Fee of Alice Countess of Augi in Carleton Gedling Stoke and Weston The Mannors of Gedling and Weston were both by Fine and Recovery 16 E. 4. passed to Robert Roos of Laxton Esquire by Thomas Normanvile Knight and Elizabeth his wife with warranty in the Fine against Thomas Abbat of Kirkestall and his successours Thomas Bek held in Gedling 15 E. 1. the sixth part of a Knights Fee of Robert de Everingham then dead whose son and heir Adam de Everingham was but seven years old at that time By a Fine at York 2 E. 3. Roger Boteler of Stok and Amicia his wife passed twenty Acres of Land in Gedling to Roger Duket and Margaret his wife and the heirs of their bodies in default whereof the heirs of Roger Duket were to have ten Acres lying in Podhâ—â—h and the heirs of Margaret the other ten lying it a place called Blesedale Alexander de Lee son and heir of Alexander de Lee son and heir of Alexander de Lee and Maud the daughter of Gilbert de Brunneslegh which last named Alexander was also son and heir of Alexander de Lee and Sarra his wife 3 E. 3. claimed an Acre of Land in Gedling against William son of Gilbert de Gedling Iohn de Cave of Nott. 10 E. 3. held in Carleton by Gedling seven Mess. and seven Bovats of Land of Hugh Bardolf and his Ancestors Roger de Pilley held then in Gedling one Mess. and one Bovat of Adam de Everingham of Laxton Richard Ingram held of him a Mess. and four Bovats in Gedling and so did Thomas de Whatton of Stoke Bardolf hold one Mess. and six Bovats of the said Adam The King Feb. 5. 31 H. 8. granted to Michael Stanhope Esquire and Anne his wife amongst other things the Mannor of Shelford with its members and Appurtenances late belonging to the Monastery of Shelford and likewise all the Woods called the Priors Park and Eshawe containing one hundred and forty Acres in Gedling And the Rectories of the Parish Churches of Shelford Saxendale Gedling Burton Ioys and North Muskam Also all Mannors Mess. Lands Tenements c. in Shelford Saxendale Neuton Brigford Gunthorp Loudham Cathorp Horingham Bulcote Gedling Carleton Stoke Lamcote Flintham Long Colingham Caunton the Town of Nott. Newark Burton Ioys and North Muskam to the said Monastery belonging The Parson of the Church of Gedling 12 E. 2. had one hundred and ninety foot long and twenty foot in breadth of Land granted to enlarge the Church-yard of that Church The Rectory of the Mediety of Gedling was twenty Marks and the King Patron The Vicarage of the other Mediety was twelve Marks and the Prior of Shelford Patron the Rectory is now 14l. 6s. 0d. ob and the Vicarage 6l. 16s. 8d. value in the Kings Books and Philip Earl of Chesterfeild Patron of both In the North I le East Window Azure three Cinquefoyles Or Bardolf quartering Azure a Lion Ramp and flowers de Lis Or Beaumont There is also Arg. on a Fesse double Cotised Gules three Flowers de Lis of the Field Normanvile quartering Azure a Chevron between three Birds Arg. In the East Window of the South I le Azure three Cinquefoyls Or Bardolf In the Parsonage Chamber Window Lord Crumwell with Tateshal quartering Everingham Lambley LAmbley in the Book of Doomsday is said to be of the Tayn-land where Vlchet had a Mannor before the Conquest which paid the Tax for two Car. and as many Bovats The Land was three Car. Alden held it of King William the first and there had one Plow or Plow-land or Carucat twenty Villains three Bordars having four Plows or Carucats three Sochm. with one Plow or Car. on half a Car. of Land here were two Mills 20s. and twenty Acres of Medow Pasture Wood one leu long four qu. broad In the Confessours time and in the Conquerours this kept the value of 60s. This Aldene was Lord also of Crumwell of which place the ancient owners of this Mannor took their name the first of which whom I have seen any thing of was Raph de Crumwelle son of Hugh de Crumwelle who about 12 H. 2. held a Knights Fee of the Bishop of Lincolne of the old Feoffment Raph de Crumwell 22 H. 2. gave account of ten Marks of the Amercements of the Forest. The Inquisition taken before
Ph. Mark Sheriff of this County from about 12 Ioh. to 8 H. 3. shows that Raph de Crumwell held the Town of Lamley in Fee Farm for 10l. per annum of the honour of Tikehull Raph de Crumbwell 5 H. 3. was son of Raph son of Raph son of Hugh son of Aldene they were all Raphs down-ward to the last who was Raph Lord Crumwell of Tateshall who was constituted Lord Treasurer 11 H. 6. They were sometimes called of Lamley Hubert Fitz-Raph confirmed to Raph son of Raph de Lamly for his Homage and Service all the Land which the Uncle of Raph Thomas son of Alueric held of the said Hubert in Scartheclive in Derbish The fourth Raph I suppose married Mazera the daughter of Philip Marmion by whom he had a daughter and heir to her Mother called Ioane married to Alexander de Frevile but it seems by another wife he had Raph de Crumwell who married Margaret one of the co-heirs and Parceners of the Inheritance of Nichola who had been the wife of Roger de Somery as in the Pipe Roll of 16 E. 1. appeareth concerning the account of the Mannor of Olney which Isabell Countess of Arundell held in Dower This Raph died about 27 E. 1. and left Raph his son and heir seven years old who 14 E. 3. 12 Nov. was called Raph de Crumbewell the elder and was then Founding a Chantry in the Parish Church of the Holy Trinity at Lamley to which he gave one Mess. and 100s. yearly Rent in Lamley having one hundred Marks Land and Rent in Lamley and Crumbewell remaining over and above Raph the younger I take to be Raph de Crumbewell who married Avicia the daughter of Roger Beler by whom he had Raph Crumwelle of Tatteshale in right of his wife who was Matildis daughter and heir of Iohn son of William Bernak and Alice his wife daughter and heir of Ioane wife of Robert de Dryby and daughter of Robert de Tateshale by whom he had Raph the Father of the Lord Treasurer Crumwell before named and divers other Children as in the Descent in Crumbwell may be perceived Raph Lord Crumwell who married Margaret co-heir of the Lord Deincourt had no issue so that his sister Matildis whom he married to Sir Richard Stanhope about 12 H. 4. became his heir she was his second wife and by him had a son called Henry Stanhope who died without issue 31 H. 6. and two daughters Ioane wife to Humfrey Bourghchier who was therefore styled Lord Crumwell but had no issue that I have found and Maud first married to Robert Lord Willughby of Eresby secondly to Thomas Nevile and thirdly to Sir Gervas Clifton the said Maud their mother died 33 H. 6. Gervas Clifton Knight and Maud his wife late wife of Robert de Willughby 5 E. 4. granted to Anthony Wydevile Lord of Scales and of Newsells the Mannors of Candlesby Halem Lamley Snowdon Boston Bleseby Gippesmere Gourton Dranfeild Baseford Quynton Rasyn Lucton Belcheford and Tuxford with the Rent of Deyncourt there in the Counties of Linc. Nott. Derb. and Warw. also the Mannor of Tumby except the great Wood called Tumby Woods or Tumby Chase in the said County of Linc. which late were Raph Lord Crumwells together with the Advowsons of the Churches Chapells and Chantrys thereto belonging By an Inquisition taken 20 Ianuary 19 H. 6. concerning the Mannor of Hetherset in Norfolk it appears That this Lady Willughby Maud died 30 Aug. 13 H. 7. and that Sir William Knyvet at the time of the said Inquisition aged sixty years who was son of Iohn son of Elizabeth daughter of Constantine Clifton son of Iohn and Elizabeth daughter of Raph Crumwell Knight great Grandfather of the said Lady Willughby and William Fitz-William Esquire then aged thirteen years and above who was son of Iohn son of William son of William son of Iohn son of Iohn son of Maud another daughter of the said Raph Crumwell were found Cousins and heirs of the said Maud Lady Willughby This Mannor as in Arnall is said was Sir William Hastings who died 1 E. 5. and his wife Katherin had the profits till 20 Apr. 12 H. 7. and then Richard de Hastings his younger son A Recovery was suffered 21 H. 7. of the Mannors of Lamley and Bleyseby and the Advowson of the Church of Lamley c. which Thomas Iakes Richard Reynold of London Goldsmith Iohn Wotton and Iohn Parker claimed against Richard Hastings Esquire Michael Purfrey Esquire and Nicolas Beamont 5 Eliz. claimed against Henry Earl of Huntington the Mannor of Lamley c. Francis Willughby Esquire 17 Eliz. claimed against Elizabeth Beamont widow the Mannors of Lamley and Bleyseby c. who called to warrant Henry Earl of Huntington This Mannor of Lamley fell amongst the co-heirs of Sir Francis Willughby of Wollaton whereof Dorothy was married to Henry Hastings second son of George Earl of Huntington and another of them to Mountague Wood whose daughter Mary Wilzey Wright married and enjoyes part most of it being divided now amongst several Freeholders Two Sheaves of the Demesne Tythes seemed to belong to the Chappelry of Blyth wâ—ich King Iohn granted to Walter Arch-bishop of Roan but the Inquisition taken at Blyth 16 E. 3. returned that Roger de Heselarton whom Raph de Crumwell presented to be Parson of the Church of Lamley took all the Tythes and paid a Mark yearly to the Church of Loudham in the name of the Chappelry of Blyth but whether for those Tythes or no they knew not The Rectory of Lamley was 12l. when M. Hastings was Patron 'T is now 10l. 16s. 3d. value in the Kings Books and Iohn Wood Esquire Patron for a sixth turne according to the division made by the husbands of the six co-heirs of the Mannor Woods Waste and Advowson whereof this belonged to and was sold by Henry Hastings and Sir George his son another is in George Willoughby of Cossale Esquire two viz. the Lord Spensers and his own are in Edward Grandson of Edward Willoughby of Booreplace in Kent another viz. Mr. Pargiters in Iohn Marter of Normanton upon Sore Clerk and the other in Wilsey Wright viz. Mr. Mountague Woods of Lamley Burton Jorz Bertune THe Conquerours great Survey shows thaâ— there was in Bertune and Ludham some Land that was Sok to Gulnethorpe of the Fee of Roger de Busli viz. twelve Bov. ad Geld. The Land one Car. There four Sochm. two Vill. had one Car. There were four Acres of Medow but besides this there is mention of a Mannor in Bertune which was Sweynes before the Conquest who paid for one Carucat and a fourth part to the Tax for it The Land was two Car. There Goisfrid de Alselin whose Fee it afterwards was had one Sochm. of five Acres of Land and five Villains one Bordar one Servant one Maid together having three Car. There was a Church and a Priest sixteen Acres of Medow
and for his own Soul and the Souls of all his own Parents and Ancestors Raph de Bellafago gave Snellingmilne on Doverbec to Thurgarton Priory and Emma de Bellafago confirmed the gift of her Uncle the said Raph. Gilbert de Norfolck 2 Ioh. gave account of one hundred Marks and one Palfrey for having the Land of the Inheritance of his wife as long as he should live of whom he had sons which were dead King Iohn 3 Oct. 7 Ioh. confirmed to Emine de Bellafago the Mannor of Ludham with the Appurtenances and her Inheritance in Norfolk viz. Flicham in Crec and Rudham and Cassabile her Dower of the Freehold which was Gilbert de Norfolchs late her husbands but if Emme de Beaufo died without issue the Fee of Ludham was in the King G. de Norf. by the intreaty and consent of Emme de Frivill his wife gave to the Canons of Welbeck quitance of his passage over Trent at Gunthorp as much as belonged to his part and of his Gattley at Lowdham wholly Emma de Bellafago gave account of DC Marks 8 Ioh. for having her Inheritance viz. Ludeham and also in Norfolch and that she should not be distrained to Marry Notwithstanding her Deed to the King she acknowledged Hubert de Burgo Earl of Kent in the Kings Court to be her heir who 11 H. 3. claimed against her that she should hold Covenant with him concerning the Mannors of Gunethorp Ludham and Creke King Henry the third Decemb. 8. in 31 H. 3. at Clarendon granted to Walter Byset and his heirs the Mannor of Ludham until he the said Walter or they should recover their Lands in Scotland In 43 H. 3. Iuly 27. the King granted to Simon de Montefort Earl of Leicester and Alianor Countess of Leicester the Kings sister the Mannor of Gunthorp with the Sok and all Appurtenances for one hundred Marks of Land part of 400l. per annum which the said King was bound to Assign out of Escaets or other Lands to the said Earl and Countess Henry Earl of Lancaster and Leycester 3 E. 3. claimed the Town and Castle of Leycester and all the Lands and Knights Fees held of that Honour which were sometimes Simon de Monteforts Earl of Leycester and forfeited to the Crown which King Henry the third Apr. 22. in the fifty third year of his Reign granted to Edmund his own son and his heirs with all the priviledges belonging to that Honour from which Edmund the right descended to Thomas his son and heir but he dying without issue the said Henry was his brother and heir and claimed the Towns of Goteham and Gunthorp with the Members to be of that Fee of Leycester of which this Sok hath ever since been esteemed though it was formerly of the Honour of Tikhill and King Iohn granted the Church of Loudeham with the Chapel of Gunthorp to Walter Arch-bishop of Roan and the Canons there with Bridgeford and many other Churches as of the Chapelry of Blyth afterwards called part of the Free Chapel of Tikhill though 8 E. 2. the Arch-bishop of York claimed to have ordinary jurisdiction and institution in the Churches and Vicarages of Ludham East-Markham West-Markham Wheteley Harworth East-Bridgeford and Walesby as Parochials and not annexed to the Kings Chapel of Tikhill The Tenency of this Mannor was in Sir Peter de Montefort slain also as Earl Simon was at the Battel of Evesham 49 H. 3. a great Man in those daies as Mr. Dugdale in his Antiquities of Wâ—rwâ—ckshire in divers places shows Peter de Montefort as it appears 6 E. 1. redâ—emed his Lands in Gunthorp of Edmund the Kâ—ngs broâ—her according to the Decree of Kenilworth for two hundred and twenty Marks This Peâ—er died 15 E. 1. leaving Iohn de Montefort his sâ—n and heir who was dead 24 E. 1. and whose son and heir Iohn was slain in the Battel of Sâ—rivelin 7 E. 2. but he had another son called Peter who was first in holy Orders but after his brothers death became a Knight and married Margaret daughter of the Lord Furnivall and by a Fine levied at York 12 E. 3. settled the Mannor of Gunthorp on himself the said Peter de Montefort Chr. and Margaret his wife and the heirs of Peter on the body of the said Margaret remainder on Iohn son of Lora de Ollenhalâ— his Concubine or old Miss and the heirs of his body remainder on Richard brother of the said Iohn and his remainder on Alice wife of â—ulc de Penebrugg and the heirs of her body remainder to the right heirs of Peter The Jury 11 R. 2. found that Baldwin Frevill Knight died seized of this Mannor and left Baldwin his son and heir from these Frevills it descended to the Family of Willoughby of Wollaton according to the Genealogy in that place Sir Francis Willoughby conveyed it to the Trustees or Feoffees of his Lady afterwards Lady Wharton whose heirs claimed it accordingly and it was lately Sir William Dalstons the Lady Reresbyes and ... Munnings Emme de Beaufo 7 H. 3. required her Land in Cathorp to be replevyed to her which Henry de Ludâ—am and Letice his wife claimed against her There was a Family which took their Name from their Residence at Loudham whereof Eustachius de Ludenham 16 Ioh. was Sheriff or his Deputy or under-Sheriff as in Lambecote is noted and was succeeded by Sir Walter de Ludham Knight whose son Sir Walter was Father of Sir Iohn de Loudham who 12 E. 2 died seized of one Mess. and three Virgats in Neuton and Shelford joyntly with Alice his wife who was daughter of Sir Robert de Kirketon in Holand Knight and Mother of Ioane the wife of Sir Geoffrey de Staunton Knight this Land was held of Thomas de Bardolf for 10s. per annum This Sir Iohn de Loudham likewise held his Capital Mess. in Loudham of the Prior of Shelford by the Service of 12d. per annum and in the same Town one Mess. and five Bovats of Land and Medow of Sir Peter de Edensoure by the Service of the twentieth part of a Knights Fee and 3s. per annum and likewise another Bovat of him by the Service of 12d. per annum and 2l. of Cummin He held likewise joyntly with Alice his wife in Loudham and Cathorp seven Tofts and five Bovats of Land of Sir Peter de Montefort by the Service of the twentieth part of a Knights Fee He held likewise one Bovat of the Prior of Newstede for 2s. per an and one and ½ of the Prior of Thurgarton for 2s. 6d. likewise in Ludham and divers other parcels besides six Mess. and twelve Bovats in Bildsthorp held of Henry de Beaumonte Iohn de Loudham was then found his son and heir Eustachius de Ludham Vicecom Nott. Derb. 16 Joh. Walterus de Ludham miles Walterus de Loudham miles Johannes de Loudham mil. ob 12 E. 2 -Alicia fil
Roberti de Kirketon mil. ob 1345. Johannes de Loudham miles-Isabella fil haer Rob. Breton de Walton in Com. Derb. Johannes de Loudham mil. s. p. Tho. de Bekering-Isabella sor haer Alicia fil haer -Tho de Rempston miles Elizabetha-Johannes Cheyney miles Tho. Cheyney miles aet 26. an 16 E. 4 -Anna fil Joh. Parr mil. Eliz. Fitz patris Thomae -Hugh ux etiam Nich. Dom. Vaux Elizabetha ob 3 4 Ph. Mar. -Thom Dom. Vaux Willielmus Dom. Vaux de Harrowdon Brian Stapleton mil. -Isabella Richardus Bingham junior-Margareta Tho. Folejamb-Margareta sor cohaer Joana ux Galfr. de Staunton This Sir Iohn de Loudham married Isabell the daughter and heir of Sir Robert Breton of Walton in Darbyshire and died seised about 11 R. 2. of the Mannor of Walton and the Mannors of Brimington and Whitington and Rodyche in that County leaving Iohn de Loudham his son and heir who was also a Knight and about 14 R. 2. died seized of the Mannor of Walton c. leaving Isabell and Margaret his sisters and heirs He had a wife called Margaret who before had been wife of Sir Iohn Zouch Knight Elizabeth and Margaret the Wives of William and Iohn Chaworth 29 H. 6. were found her Cousins and heirs they were of the Family of Bowytt of Repinghale as in Wiverton may be observed Isabell the sister and co-heir of Sir Iohn Loudham was married to Thomas Bekering and Margaret to Thomas Folejambe Isabell left a daughter called Alice the wife of Sir Thomas Rempston the younger who had the moyety of this Mannor and that of Billesthorpe called Loudhams Mannor and about 37 H. 6. left three daughters and heirs as in Bingham is said Elizabeth the wife of Iohn Cheyney Esquire Isabell of Sir Brian Stapleton and Margaret of Richard Bingham the younger This it seems was allotted to Cheyney and descended to the Lord Vaux who sold it and Billesthorp too to Peter Roos as I suppose .... Roos sold both to Thomas Broughton Esquire of Staffordshire This is now the Inheritance and Residence of Peter Broughton younger brother of Sir Brian Broughton who is now Lord of Bildsthorp and several other Mannors in this County Gilbert the Clark of Ludham gave to his son Iohn a Toft and Croft which he held of William de Passi for 6d. per annum and five Acres of Assart of Emme de Bellafago by finding a Lamp burning before the Altar of the blessed Mary at Loudham every day at the celebration of Mass. Iohn son of Gilbert de Ludham gave them to Richard de Ludham and Agatha his wife reserving 3s. per annum which he gave to Thurgarton Priory The King 6 E. 6. Iun. 10. granted to Francis Earl of Shrowsbury all the Rectories of East Markham Little Markham Lowdham Walesby Wheteley and Hareworth with all oblations in Hasseley Marteyne Limpole and Plumtréefeild late belonging to the Monastery of St. Oswald of Nosâ—ell in Yorkeshire and parcell of the Prebend of Tikehull Westminster This Rectory is now held by the Lord Marquess of Dorchester The Vicarage of Lowdham was 8l. when the Abbaâ— of Westminster was Patron 'T is now 4l. 18s. 4. value in the Kings Books and the Lord Marquess of Dorchester Patron In Lowdham Church South I le East Window Gules Crusuly with a Fesse Or. Chequy Or and Azure a Fesse Gules Clifford Bendy of six pieces Arg. and Gules with a File of five Labels Azure Montefort Azure three Waterbougets Or Roos Gules a Bend betwixt six Martlets Or Mounteney this is twice Or three Chevronels Gules Clare England with a File of five Labells and on each three Flowers de Lis. England Or a plain crosse Gules Barry of six Arg. and Azure Lord Grey of Codnor These two last are in the South-West Window And Barry Ermine and Gules of six pieces Kirketon Gules Crusuly with a Chevron Or Kyme In the North Wall of the Chancell on an old low Stone Tomb lyeth the Effigies of an Armed Knight Cross-leg'd with his Shield on his Arm whereon is Embossed a Bend Crusuly The Inscription on the side is SIR ION Dà LOUDhAm tITICI c. In an high North Window in the Body of the Church is Chequey Arg. and Gules a Bend sable Bekering impaling Arg. a Chevron sable with a Mullet pierced in the dexter point of the same colour Rempston this is transposed and so is the next which should be Rempston impaling Bekering but is on the upper part Arg. a Bend Azure Crusuly Or Lowdham and on the lower half Bekering impaling Rempston all the length of the Shield against the other two Woodborough Vdeburgh IN Udeburg the Book of Doomsday shows that St Mary of Sudwell had Sok to Northwell seven Bov. ad Geldam The Land two Car. There was half a Car. in Demesne and two Vill. and two Bordars had one Car. this belonged to Sudwell Here one Clark had under the Arch-bishop of York whose Fee it was one Bov. ad Geldam This concerned the Prebend of Woodborough in that Church to which it still belongs Here were also several Mannors of the Land of the Tayns one whereof before the Conquest Vlchel had which paid to the Geld for three Bov. The Land one Car. There Aldene Ancestor of the Family of Crumwell named in Lamley after the Conquest had three Villains having half a Car. This kept the old value of 5s. 4d. Another Mannor Vlchel likewise had which paid for three Bov. to the Tax or Geld. The Land whereof was two Car. he held it also after the Conquest of the King and there had one Car. and three Vill. one Bord. with one Car. and ½ and one Mill 20s. and one Virgar of Medow Pasture Wood two leu long five qu. broad In the Confessours time this was 20s. in the Conquerours 30s. Alvric in the Confessours time had another Mannor for which he was rated to the Geld at five Bov. The Land two Car. which seems to be managed when the Conquerours Survey was made with three Vill. one Bord. There was also a Mill 20s. There was in Epreston and Udeburgh of Roger de Buslies Fee and a greater share of Raph de Limesies as in Epreston will be noted where the Family of Samson the most ancient Tenants thereof chiefly resided Some of these Tayn-lands it seems came to be Peverells of which Honour Henry son rather brother and heir of Raph de Wodeburge and the rest of his Parceners 21 E. 1. were certified to hold half a Knights Fee here for which one only Suit was made to the Court by the said Henry Iohn the son of Robert de Cantelupe and Maud wife of the said Iohn granted all the Lands in Wodeburge which should happen to them after the death of Sir Raph de Wodeburge Father of the said Maud to Henry de Wodeburge and the heirs of his body remainder to the right heirs of Sir Raeph Witnesses to this were
Odingseles and Emme his wife for their lives afterwards on Edmund son of the said Iohn and the heirs of his body remainder to the right heirs of Iohn This Iohn was succeeded by three of the same name the first of which died 27 E. 3. his wife was Amicia the daughter of Roger Corbet the second died the 3 or 4 R. 2. and the third 5 H. 4. who was Father of Sir Edward de Odingsels whose son and heir Gerard de Odingsells 11 E. 4. held the Mannor of Long-Ichinton in Warwickshire and the moyety of the Mannor of Epurston It seems this Sir Edward to his latter wife and his son Gerard married two sisters the daughters of Henry Sharpe from which latter marriage that branch of this Family still remaining here are descended But the Posterity of Hugh Sampson before named held the far greatest share for Thomas Sampson in the former part of Henry the third is certified to have paid seven Marks for three Knights Fees and an half in Eperston and Woodborough of the Fee of Limesi and at another time William Sampson is said to hold in Eperston and Woodeborough for one Knights Fee of the Barony of Odingsells of the old Feoffment viz. whereof his Ancestor was enfeoffed before the death of King Henry the first in whose time the first Hugh Sampson lived the second Hugh whose Father I suppose was William gave account of ten Marks 22 H. 2. of the Amercements of the Forest. William Sampson gave to God and the Church of St. Peter at Thurgarton and the Brethren there serving God all his Land of Cressewell wholly whatsoever was contained between his Wood and the Wood of the Canons by the consent of Hugh his son and heir and his other sons This gift he made for the love of God and St. Iames the Apostle in honour of whom the said Canons then founded an Altar in their Church at Thurgarton for the performance of a Vow which he had formerly made for the Souls of his Father and Mother his own and all his The Witnesses were Hugh his heir Walter de Wodeburgh Mr. Anselm the Canon Matthew the Clark Peter the Provost Stephen the Esquire Hugh Sampson and William his son were Witnesses to Robert de Krioll's gift to that Monastery William Sampson Knight son of Sir William Sampson of Eperston gave and confirmed to the said Canons of Thurgarton a place of Land of his Wood of Eperston containing two Acres by the Perch of twenty foot lying on the West side of the Croft of the said Canons which is called Cressewell William Sampson 24 E. 1. had Free Warren at Epereston Iohn Sampson son of Sir William Sampson Knight 5 E. 2. remised to Paganus de Tybetot and Agnes his wife and the Heirs and Assigns of the said Paganus all his right and claim in the Mannor of Eperston c. except the Lands and Tenements which Simon de Cruce held in Wodeburgh the Advowson of the Church he also remised with the rest The Witnesses were Sir Rob. de Clifford Sir Ed. de Eynecurt Sir Bawdewyn de Maners Sir William de Bereford Sir Thomas de Monteney Sir William de Eynecurt Sir George de Thorp in the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross at London 5 E. 2. On his Seal this Iohn Sampson hath a Fesse and one Mullett of six points in the dexter corner of the Scutcheon within the Circumscription of his Name as William Sampson his Father had a Crosse Moline only Ever since this Mannor hath gone with Langar as it yet doth The Mannor of the other Fee Robert Arre it seems gave Sir Robert de Iorce and Isolda his wife and the heirs of their bodies whose son Robert Iorz of Birton as there also is already noted by Fine 18 E. 2. settled Lands in Bulcote Ester-Léek and Eperston and Lands and Rents in Birton Iorz Stoke Bardolf and Gedling on himself and Isabell his wife and the heirs Males of his body with remainder to his daughters Margaret Isolda and Alianora and the heirs of their bodies respectively remainder to the right heirs of Robert Nicolas de Worteley and Isabell de Iorce his wife by their Deed dated at Ebreston the Sunday after the Feast of St. Cedde the Bishop and Confessour 17 E. 3. passed their Mannor of Ebreston with all their Natives and all Lands Tenements and other Appurtenances there to Iohn de Chetewinde Knight and Iohn the son of Robert de Iorce Knight and Maud wife of the said Iohn son of Robert and the heirs of the bodies of the said Iohn and Maud The Witnesses were Sir Thomas le Wasteneyes Sir Hardulph le Wasteneys and Sir Thomas de Longevyllers Knights Raph de Burton Iohn de Burstall Richard Ingram William de Iorce and others By a Fine 18 E. 3. and afterward 19 E. 3. between Iohn de Chetewind Chr. and Iohn Iorce and Maud his wife Quer. and Nicolas de Worteley and Isabell his wife Deforc. the Mannor of Epriston was settled for the use of Iohn Iorz and Maud his wife and the heirs of their bodies Iohn Dunham William Bliton and Humfry Low 4 Aug. 6 H. 7. conveyed their Mannor of Ebreston with the Appurtenances to Robert Hawburgh and Matilda his wife for their lives and after the death of the longer liver of them to Iohn Walker and Margaret Gardner and the heirs between them lawfully begotten remainder to the right heirs of Robert But this Mannor descended to Iohn Walker the present owner according to the Scheme placed in Burton Iorce which was drawn out of his Evidences Apr. 28. 1675. In 3 and 4 Ph. and Mar. Sir Iohn Chaworth of Werton Knight and Harold Rosell of Radcliff upon Trent Esquire and Iohn Rosell his son and heir agreed to divide Rosell Wood in Epurston Parish or Stephen Hage which was in Common between them Sir Iohn having one half by purchase and Harold the other by descent from his Ancestors Sir Iohn to inclose that next Epurston and Harold to have that next Halton Closes being indifferently divided by Henry Bykerstaff and Iohn Saunsom Yeomen Sampsons Woods in the Forest are now called Saunsom Woods The present Lord Chaworth sold his Rosell Wood to Iohn Dunkling who hath built a pretty little Brick-house there and makes it his Residence In 1612. Iohn Walker Gent. was a Freeholder or owner here and his posterity still continue to dwell here as Ed. Hopkinson and Ed. Wetherall were also at that time The Rectory of Eperston was 14l. and the Lord Scroope Patron 'T is now 13l. 1s. 8d. value in the Kings Books and Iohn Scroope Esquire the last Patron In Eperston Chancell East Window Quarterly Gules and Or a Mullett Arg. in the first Vere Azure three Hedgehogs Arg. Heriz Arg. a Crosse Moline sable Sampson Azure a Saltier between four Martlets Arg. Azure a Bend Or Scroop In the South East Window Arg. a Bend Azure Crusuly Or
Lowdham In the South West Window Paly of six Arg. and Gules on a Chief Azure a Fesse Dancè Or Hathersege North East Window Barry of six Arg. and Az. Grey of Codnor In the Church South I le East Window Arg. a Fesse and a Mullet in the dexter point Gules Odingsells In the Steeple Window Paly of six Arg. and Az. Strelley In the South West Window of the South I le of the Church Arg. a Saltier engrailed Gules Tibtot Calverton And Salterford IN the Conquerours Survey in Calverton was there certified to be a Berew of the Mannor of Blidworth of the Arch-bishop of Yorkes Fee and it answered the Dane-geld for six Bovats The Land being twelve Bovats There seven Vill. and two Bord. had two Car. There was a Church and a Priest and two Acres of Medow Pasture Wood eight qu. long three broad This made up the ancient value of the Mannor 40s. as in Blidworth is noted Here was also a Mannor which before the Conquest Vlvric had which paid the Geld for three Bovats The Land was for one Plow or one Car. This afterwards was the Fee of Rogerius Pictavensiis and here then were two Vill. and one Virgat of Medow In the Confessours time it had been valued to 20s. but then was 5s. 4d. In Caivreton of the Tayn-land Alvric had one Car. which paid the Dane-geld for three Bovats There two Sochm. four Vill had two Car. In former time this was valued at 16s. then at 10s. and the same Alvric continued to hold it In Salterford a Berew of Granby of the Fee of Osbern Fitz-Richard if this be not mistaken for some parcel of or about Colston Basset was as much as was rated to the Tax or Dane-geld at six Bovats and in the Conquerours time was waste as it is still there being scarce any memorial of it left but a place called Salterford Damm in the Forest near the beginning of the River Doverbek between Calverton and Oxton there was Pasture Wood one leue long four qu. broad The Prior of Land which Priory was Founded by the Bassetts was certified to hold the Town or Village of Salterford in pure Alms and so were the Chapter of Suwell and the Prioress of Brewode to hold three parts of the Town of Kalverton of the Honour of Peverell it seems William Peverel got the Tayn-land here as he did that at Woodborough That of the Fee of Roger Pictavensis was afterwards accounted of the Honour of Lancaster of which Honour William le Butiler held in Calverton and Crophill one Fee Likewise Iohn de Vylers who held of it one Knights Fee in Neubolt and Outhorp held the fourth part or one here at Calverton The Jury found that Paganus de Vilers who was first infeoffed gave to Alan his son five Carucats of Land in Knights Service The same Paganus gave to the Hospital of Hierusalem one Car. in Bekaneshon in Alms. The same Pagan gave to William de Vilers his son the Land of Newbold to hold by Knights Sâ—rvice which William the son of Paganus the younger then held by that Service The same Pagan gave to Thomas de Vilers the moyety of Uvethorp and the Land of Hole and the Land of Calverton in Knights or Military Service whereof Robert de Vilers held Hole and the moyety of Calverton except one Carucat which William de Vilers held The same Robert de Vilers held also the Land of Calverton by the same Service c. Raph de Vilers gave and confirmed to Robert his brother one Bovat of Land in Calverton which Bernard held reserving only one pound of Cummin or three half-pence at Easter this he gave to the Priory of St. Cuthbert at Radford by Wirkesop William de Vilers confirmed it and so did Robert son of Robert de Vilers and Iohn son of William de Vilers The fourth part of the Knights Fee of Iohn de Vilers Lord of Outhorpe was the Inheritance of Sir Thomas Hutchinson Knight the moyety whereof did descend to him from his Ancestors the other moyety he bought which was the Inheritance of ... Barton of Holme near Newark the chief of which Family Sir Thomas Barton Knight besides that Holme had great possessions in Lancashire By a Fine 5 E. 2. between Sampson de Stretley and Philippa his wife Querents and William son of Walter de Ludham Deforc. forty Acres of Land forty of Wood and 11s. Rent in Saltreford and Calverton were settled on the said Sampson and Philippa and the heirs which the said Sampson should beget on the body of the said Philippa remainder to the right heirs of Sampson Godefrey Folejamb 45 E. 3. who prosecuted against Sampson de Strelley Chr. for taking the heir and Lands of William de Strelley of Woodburgh whom he affirmed to hold of him Lands and Tenements in Calverton viz. six Carucats of Land and ten Marks Rent by Homage Fealty and Scutage c. surceasing his prosecution was Amerced The Free-holders of Calverton 1612. were Christopher Strelley Iohn Scurtivant Robert Cooper Iohn Lees Thomas Leeson Ed. Benet Iohn Barber Iohn Labrey Humfr. You le Euseby Marshall of Arnall Iohn Chaworth of Southwell Esquire Iohn Cressewell Colonel Iohn Hutchinson son and heir of Sir Thomas Hutchinson had that which he called the Mannor of Salterford in the Forest. At Calverton was born William Lee Master of Arts in Cambridge and heir to a pretty freehold here who seeing a woman knit invented a Loom to knit in which he or his brother Iames performed and exercised before Queen Elizabeth and leaving it to .... Aston his Apprentice went beyond the Seas and was thereby esteemed the author of that ingenious Engine wherewith they now weave Silk and other Stockings c. This .... Aston added something to his Masters invention he was sometimes a Miller at Thoroton nigh which place he was born The Vicarage of Calverton was eight Marks 't is now 4l. value in the Kings books The Prebendaries of Oxton should be Patrons or the Chapter of Southwell but this like Woodborough is a great and populous Village with an empty Church for the most part Oxton Oston ELvod paid for his Mannor in Oston before the Normans came to the Dane-tax then in use after the rate of six Bovats The Land of it being two Car. There afterwards Thomas Arch-bishop of York had one Car. in demesne and one Sochm. one Vill. one Bordar having two Car. Of this Land the King had one Bovat viz. lying to Arnall the rest lay in Blidworth In King Edward the Confessours time this was valued at 40s. when the book of Doomsday was made at 20s. In Ostune of Roger de Buslies fee were two Mannors which Thurstan and Odincale had before he came and answered the Geld for one Car. The Land being then accounted two Car. and an half There Roger had two Car. five Villains six Bordars having two Car. There was one Mill. 5s. 4d. In the Confessours time
be William de Heriz mentioned in Widmerpole who married Adelina the daughter and heir of Robert de Whatton as already is noted in Whatton also Against this William Raph de Crumwell descended of the fore-named Aldene commenced suit before 24 H. 2. which continued between the families till the time of H. 3. as in Widmerpole may be observed The Sheriff 25 H. 2. accounted for 78s. 4d. for the Farm of the Land of William Heriz that year which it seems was in the Kings hand Robert de Heriz 26 H. 2. gave account of 100l. for having the Land of William his brother And Aelina who had been the wife of William de Heriz owed an hundred Marks that she should not be compelled to marry but to whom she pleased Ivo de Heriz son of this Robert had an assize 1 Ioh. concerning the last Presentation to the Church of Gunnolveston between him and the Arch-bishop and Canons of Roan to whom King Iohn when he was Earl Moreton had given it amongst many other Churches in this County which they kept not long for in 7 R. 1. and 9 Ioh. it appears that the said Ivo had seisin of the Advowson of this Raph son of or Fitz Simon and Mabilia his wife 10 H. 3. released to Iohn de Heriz the third part of the Mannors of Winesfeud Tibescelf Gonoldeston and Widemarepol which the said Raph claimed as the reasonable dower of his said wife Mabilla out of the freehold which was Ivo de Heriz her former husband's Ivo de Heriz gave and granted to Philip son of Odo for his homage and service two Bovats of Land in Gonalston which Durand held reserving 8s. per annum Which Land the said Philip gave to the Priory of Thurgarton and Iohn de Heriz son of Ivo confirmed it Which Iohn in the year 1235. made an agreement with that Prior and Covent that they should have fifty Cattle to have Common of pasture in the Woods of Gonalston and Thurgarton and he the said Sir Iohn Heriz Knight and his heirs fourscore and the said Priory should have fifty Swine or in a fertile year of Acorns in Thurg. Wood sixty without paunage and Sir Iohn and his heirs as many as they pleased without paunage and if the Priory should Essart that is stock up and inclose their Wood it should be lawful for him to inclose Gonalston wood and the Priory should want their Common The Lord of Gonalston Iohn son of Iohn son of Ivo de Heriz released to that Priory all Homages Wards and Suit of Court and other services due for one Mess. and two Bovats in Gonalston but reserved the 8. per annum rent still The Jury in 27 E. 1. found that this Iohn de Robertus de Heriz temp H. 1. Willielmus Ivo de Heriz 5 Steph. -Emma cohaer 2 Robertus de Heriz 22 H. 2. Ivo de Heriz-Mabilia-Rad fil Simonis 10 H. 3. mar 2. Johannes de Heriz An. 1235. Johannes de Heriz miles defunct 27 E. 1. Johannes de Heriz aet 21. an 27 E. 1. mortuus 3 E. 3. Matildis de Heriz-Richardus de la Rivere mil. -Tho de Baddeford mar 2. Margar. sen. -Rog fil Rog. Beler Alic. ux Joh. de Aylesford mil. mar 2.20 R. 2 -Margareta-Rob de Swillington mil. mort 15 R. 2. Rogerus de Swillington mil. mort 5 H. 5 -Joana fil Roberti Nevil de Horneby mil. -Joana fil Steph. le Scroop Ar. Marg. Swillington defunct 8 H. 6. s. p. -Johan Gra de Ingleby in C. Linc. miles Joh. Swillington Chr. mort 6 H. 5. Rob. Swillington Ar. frat haer specialis Johannis 6 H. 5. Tho. fil Rog. Beler-Marg jun. Alicia 17 E. 3. Eliz. Sara-Jo Garlik Walterus Garlik Sara Henricus Pierpont Edm. Edm. Henricus Pierpont mil. 19 H. 6. Henricus Henricus Pierpont miles 13 E. 4. Henricus de Heriz mortuus 1 E. 1. s. p. Willielmus de Heriz de Wiverton-Matild fil Rad. Basset de Drayton Philip. 1 Will. de Heriz s. p. -Adelina fil haer Rob. de Whatton s. p. Erbertus miles Willielmi Peverel Ivo de Heriz 5 Steph. -Emma cohaer Ivicia Radulph Robertus fil Amani temp Regis Joh. Rob. s. p. Adam Swillington Joh. de Aylesford mil. mar 2.20 R. 2 -Margareta-Rob de Swillington mil. mort 15 R. 2. Rob. Thom. Eliz. consang haer Marg. 8 H. 6 -Rob Sampson de Com. Suff. Heriz died seized of this Mannor of Gonalston and that of Widmerpole in this County and of Tibshelf and South Wingfeild in Darbyshire leaving his son and heir Iohn de Heriz twenty one years old at the feast of St. Gregory in March then last past Iohn de Heriz by Fine 18 E. 2. settled these Mannors on himself for life then to Roger Beler for his life then to Roger son of Roger Beler and Margaret the elder daughter of Richard de la Rivere Knight and the heirs of their bodies remainder to Thomas son of Roger Beler and Margaret the younger daughter of the said Richard de la Rivere Knight as in Widmerpole is said and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of the said Iohn de Herice who in 3 E. 3. was dead and Matilda de Herice whom Richard de la Rivere had to wife was found his Cousin and Heir and above thirty years old In 6 b. 3. there is mention of Richard de la Rivere and Matildis de Heriz his wife Cousin and heir of Iohn de Heriz As also there is in the Book of Newstede where it is said that they the said Richard and Matildis Cousin and heir of the said Iohn de Heriz presented William Bernak to the Church of Gonalston whereinto upon thaâ— presentation he was admitted and instituted but after the death of Richard de la Rivere Thomas de Baddeford and the said Matildis de Heriz his wife alienated the Advowson to Richard de Willughby These Auâ—horities might make one reasonably conclude this Matildis to be Cousin and Heir of Sir Iohn de Heriz who levied the Fine 18 E. 2. howbeit in the great Suit between the Lord Crumwell and Sir Henry Pierpont Knight for Wynfeld and Tibeschelf and for Gonalston and Wydmerpole about 19 H. 6. she is said to be the daughter of the said Sir Iohn de Heriz and Mother of Margaret the elder wife of Roger son of Roger Beler before named and of Margaret the younger wife of Thomas the son of Roger Beler mentioned also before and of Sara wife of Iohn Garlyk who was Mother of Walter Garlyk whose Estate as heir general of Sir Iohn Heriz Iohn Arch-bishop of York William Bishop of Lincolne Thomas Chaworth Knight Richard Vernon Knight Nicolas Dixon Clark and Iohn Taylboys the elder Esquire by Richard Waleden their Atturney pleaded that they had in the Assize of Novell disseisin which the said Sir Henry Pierpoint arramavit arrayed or brought against them at Whytwell in Darbish the Thursday next after the
Iohn Deincourt Knight and of Iohane his wife c. annexed it to the Chantry of Ales Deincourt before noted Thomas Dethick 28 H. 8. resigned the Priory of Thurgarton and Iohn Berwick was admitted Prior by the King The Priory of Thurgarton was granted to William Cowper the Kings Servant and Cecily his wife and their heirs 30 H. 8. Cecilia was daughter and heir of Iohn Toll of Willielmus Cooper de Thurgarton-Cecilia fil haer Johannis Tolle de London Thom. Cooper de Thurgarton-Elianor fil Mich. Stanhop mil. Willielmus Cooper .... fil .... Hutton Justic. Rogerus Cooper miles ... fil ... Harpur Cecil Cooper Ar. -Sara fil Johannis Hotham Baronetti Cecil Cooper aet 4. 1673. Johannes Cooper-Doroth fil Hen. Gilbert Carolus Johan Willielmus Dorothea Rogerus Ann. 2 Drury s. p. Thom. fil haer occisus s. p. Ann. Joana Willielmus Cooper -An fil Jac. Mering Richard Oliva s. p. London she had three sons Thomas Cooper Esquire who married Elianor one of the daughters of Sir Michael Stanhop William who married An. daughter of Iames Mering of Rolleston and Richard Cooper and a daughter called Oliva wife of Ed. Sutton of Averham but she died without issue her eldest brother the said Thomas Cooper had Thomas Cooper his eldest son who was slain without issue and William Cooper his second son who was heir to his brother and married .... the daughter of Judge Hutton by whom he had Sir Roger Cooper a worthy honest Gentleman whose fidelity and constancy to the Royal interest weakened his fortunes so that Cecill Cooper Esquire his son will have too hard a task to make this House and Demesnes intirely his own the Woods being also extremely wasted His brother Iohn Cooper second son of Sir Roger was Carver to his Majesty that now is King Charles the second and a very industrious person but died 1672. in his Majesties debt having been receiver general of the Royal Aid and Additional supply and Collector of the Harth-money c. in this County The Rectory and a great part of the Township of Thurgarton was granted by King Henry the eighth to Trinity Colledge in Cambridge of whom the Coopers have usually held it in Lease and Mr. Iohn Cooper built a Brick-house in the middle of the Town upon one of the Farms now almost all inclosed Hoveringham SWayne before the Conquest had a Mannor in Hoveringham which answered the publick Tax or Geld for two Car. two Bov. The Land was four Car. There afterwards Walter de Aincurt whose Fee it became had one Demesne two Car. and six Sochm. on three Bovats and one third of a Bovat of this Land nine Villains three Bordars having four Car. There was a Priest and a Church and two Mills 40s. two Piscaries 8s. and fourty Acres of Medow In the Confessours time it was valued at 4l. and when the Book of Doomsday was made at 10s. more having Soc in Fiscartune Mortune and Farnesfeld Hugo de Hoveringham paid four Marks for two Knights Fees in the time of H. 3. he was a benefactor to Thurgarton as was also Robert his Father and Hugh his Grandfather and Emme his Grandmother named in that place to which this Church was given by Robert his said Father They had interest in Flintham and Radcliffe on Trent as in those Towns may be perceived as had also the Family of Gousell who continued here long after them whereof Ruph de Gousle son of Robert had a son called Sir Walter de Goushill who married Matilda one of the two co-heirs of Mathew de Hathersege the other sister Cecilia was the wife of ...... Langford Robertus de Gousle Radulphus de Gousle 10 Joh. Walterus de Goushill miles-Matilda fil cohaer Matth. de Haverseche Johannes sive Walterus de Goushill 53 H. 3. Walterus de Goushill miles defunct 20 E. 2 -Margeria Thomas de Goushill Chr. defunct 48 E. 3 -Agnes Nicolas de Goushull Chr. aetat 60. an 48 E. 3. defunct 7 H. 4. ob 16 R. 2. anno dom 1393 Nicolaus de Goushull Chr. Robertus Goushill miles-Elizab fil haer Ric. Comitis de Arundell relicta Thom. Mowbray Ducis Norfolk Robertus Wingfeild mil. -Elizab fil cohaer Thom. Baro Stanley-Joana fil cohaer Simon and mother of Nigellus Father of Oliver father of Iohn father of Nicolas de Langford who lived 4 E. 3. Matilda who had been wife of Sir Walter de Goushill purchased of William son of Hugh de Hoveringham a certain place in the West part of the Medow of Hoveringham called Yirne or Thirne upon which the Medow of the Prior of Thurgarton and Iohn de Gousill abutted on the West part and the Common Medow of Hoveringham on the East for which she gave him 40s. and a quarter of Barley he reserving only a Penny rent yearly to be paid at Christmas to him and his heirs which said rent Hugh Sharpe and Matilda his wife released to the Prior and Covent of Thurgarton to whom Simon de Gousil son of Matilda first named together with some other Medow which his said mother gave him conveyed it and Walter de Goushull Knight Grandson of the said Matilda by her eldest son Walter or Iohn confirmed the gift of the said Sir Simon his Uncle The Jury 20 E. 2. found that Walter de Goushull and Matilda his wife who 30 E. 1. levyed a Fine at York to Lambert de Trickingham then held in Hoveringham Flintham Kneveton and Radcliff on Trent in this County and the Mannor of Barleburgh with its members viz. in Cressewell Whitewell and Columbes and Kinwalinerst Barleburgh Woodhous and Rouley c. in Darbyshire and that Thomas de Goushill son and heir of the said Walter was then above thirty years of age The Father of this Walter was certainly Iohn de Gousehull though in some pleading or other I have seen it Walter also for Adam de Gouschull 4 E. 3. claiming free-warren in Haverseche in Darbyshire makes Tho. de Gouschull son of Walt. son of Iohn son of Matilda daughter of Matthew de Hathersege to be one of the heirs of the said Matthew to whom it was granted Oct. 25. 33 H. 3. as Nicolas de Langford before named was the other And I find that 53 H. 3. Iohn de Gousell offered himself in a plea at Darby against Peter de Monteford Lord of Gunthorp and others demanding by what right they exacted Common in his Land of Hoveringham seeing he had none in theirs and they did no service to him for it The Jury 15 E. 2. found that Stainwath was in Hoveringham and not in Gunthorp and that William Baron and others had forceably pastured the separate Grass of Walter de Goushull with their Cattel to his damage 100s. The Jury 48 E. 3. found that Thomas de Goushill Knight with Agnes his wife joyntly held when he died the Mannor of Kynwaldmersh and two parts of Barleburgh c. and that
of William of Car Coleston with Ales his daughter 6s. 6d. rent in the Town of Gouerton to be perceived of Iohn son of Hugh de Gouerton and his heirs the summ of 4â— and of Iohn son of Albert 2s. 6d. which the said William and Ales after him gave to the Priory of Thurgarton and the said Sir Robert de Burstall confirmed And also gave one Bovat of Arable with Medow in the Fields and Medows of Gouerton and Bleseby and all his Medow in Smething and a Toft in Bleseby and another Bovat in the said Fields and Medows and confirmed several Lands given to maintain the Fabrick of the Church of Thurgarton as for example one Wong with the head-land upon Brecum lying between land of the Chaplain of Bleseby on the West and the Land of Henry son of Robert de Gipesmere on the East which Thomas son of Alan de Gouerton sold to William de Blitheworth for five Marks who gave it for the Soul of Robert de Oxon Canon of Southwell all or most of which Iohn son of the said Sir Robert de Burstall also confirmed There were many other parcels in this territory given to the said Fabrick Dru son of Iohn son of Richard de Gipesmere gave five Selions which his father had given before Iohn son of Hugh de Gouerton gave an Acre of Medow in Smething and Richard called the Cementar son of Hugh de Gourton three Selions and an Head-land and the like which Iohn son of Robert de Burstal confirmed also to the said Fabrick lying all in the fields of Gouerton and Bleseby By a fine 13 E. 2. Robert de Burstall of Birton passed the Mannor of Bleseby to Iohn de Crumbewell and by another Fine 14 E. 2. it was settled on Richard de Crumbewell and the heirs of his body for want whereof it was to revert to the said Iohn de Crumbewell and his heirs Alice who had been the wife of Robert de Cressover then held the said Mannor for term of her life In the time of E. 3. it was Raph de Crumwells as in Baseford may be noted Maud the Cousin and heir of Raph Lord Crumbewell widow of Robert Lord Willoughby levied a Fine 21 E. 4. of the Mannor of Bleseby with the Appurtenances and of two Mess. four Tofts one hundred Acres of Land twenty of Medow sixty of Pasture and 29s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Bleseby Gourton and Gippesmere to William Hastings Knight William Chauntry Dean of the Colledge of the Newwork at Leycester William Moton Esquire William Grimmesby Esquire Robert Morne Clark and Thomas Kebeell whereby the premises were settled on her the said Maud for life and then to revert to the said William William William c. and the heirs of William Chauntry This came from the Family of Hastings as in Lambley may be discerned to Will. Willoughby of Wollaton and is now the inheritance of the Marquess of Dorchester purchased I suppose by his rather Robert Earl of Kingston There was a Fine levyed 20 E. 3. between Iohn son of Thomas de Sireston and Margaret his wife Quer. by William de Batheley Keeper or Guardian of the said Margaret and Thomas de Sireston and Amicia his wife mentioned in Streston Deforcients of two Mess. one Bovat and five Acres of Land fifteen Acres of Medow and 7d. Rent in Bleseby Gourton and Gipsmer whereby they were settled on the said Iohn and Margaret and the heirs of their bodies remainder to Thomas and Amicia and the heirs of Thomas Galfr. de Staunton at the Assizes at Nott. 31. E. 3. recovered his seisin of 2. Mess. 12. Bovats of Land fourty eight Acres of Medow eight of Pasture and 26s. 8d. Rent in Bleseby Gouerton and Gippesmere and Thomas Alweys was amerced The Jury 32 E. 3. found that William de Staunton had an estate in two Mess. 240. Acres of Land and 48. of Medow and 40s. Rent in Gouerton Bleseby and Gibsmere for the life of Iohn Alewys according to a writing dated at Gouerton 27 E. 3. which Lands were held of the Arch-bishop of Yorke by the service of 16â— per annum and three appearances yearly at his Court of Southwell I find no mention of Noetown and therefore suppose it only some houses which are parcel of some of these Hamlets In the year of our Lord 1612. Bleasby with Gibsmere and Gourton had these for owners viz. The Lady Arbella twenty nine Oxgangs William Cooper Esquire five Oxgangs and an half Michael Grundy of Thurgarton twenty six Oxgangs William More five Oxgangs and an half William Ferryman of Goreton four Oxgangs Richard Wightman Gent. a Wind-mill the Bayliff of East Retford seven Oxgangs and Iohn North of Lowdham two Crofts Mr. Iohn Grundy is now resident at Bleseby The Vicarage of Bleisby was seven Marks 'T is now 4l. value in the Kings Books and the Chapter of Southwell hath the Patronage Halloughton or Hawton THis makes a Prebend in Southwell as in that place is shown it was called the Lay Prebend having nothing spiritual but the Tythes of its own Lands Iohn Forest Gent. son and heir of Richard Forest brother of Roger Forest Esquire who died 10 May 1 Mariae seised of the Mannor of Fleton in Huntingtonshire and the Mannor of Halloughton or Haughton in this County was under age at the death of his said Uncle he had both Land and Tythes Sir Charles Owseley or Wolseley had it in Lease lately and I think still hath The Prebend of Halton was 10l. 'T is now 8l. 17s. 6d. value in the Kings Books Southwell Suell And Sudwell THis place with the Hamlets and Members of it which make up that which is now called the Soke before the Conquest was a distinct Hundred lying between the two Hundreds of Torgarton and Lyde with which it is now joyned and was sometimes called Southwell Hundred as out of Doomsday Book in Farnesfeld is manifest and sometimes as I suppose Cherlington Hundred corrupted at length into Chadlington Hundred for so it is called in the Patent 5 E. 6. which gave licence to Iohn Earl of Warwick to alienate it and this most ancient and Noble Mannor to Iohn Beaumont then Master of the Rolls and his heirs The Church is said by Sir Edward Cooke to be founded or built by Paulinus the first Arch-bishop of York who Baptized King Edwin on Easter day in the year of our Lord 627. which may likely enough be true but certain it is that in the year 958. King Eadwy granted to his beloved Bishop Oscytel who was also Arch-bishop of York part of his Land at Sudwellan twenty Farms for an Heritage with all their Appurtenances yet King Edgar brother and successour of Eadwy in the Certificate into the Court of Augmentation is said to be the ancient Founder However the Conquerours great Survey reciting the Land of the Arch-bishop of York in Snottinghamseire in Torgarton Wapentac shows that
in Sudwelle with its Berues then numbred twelve were twenty two Car. and an half for the Tax or Geld. The Land twenty four Car. There Arch-bishop Thomas had ten Car. in Demesne ten Sochm. seventy five Villains twenty three Bordars having thirty seven Car. There were two Mills 40s. and a Fishgarth Piscina or Pool and a Passage 6s. Of this same Land held six Knights four Car. and an half Three Clarks had one Car. and an half according to my Copies or four Car. and an half as Mr. Dugdales of that were two Bovats in Prebend Two English-men had three Carucats and five Bovats The Knights had seven Car. in Demesne thirty five Vill. twenty eight or twenty three Bordars having twenty one Car. and one Mill of 8◠or as Mr. Dugdale's Copy 3s. The Clarks had one Car. and an half in Demesne seven Vill. five Bord. having three Car. The English-men had four or three Car. in Demesne twenty Vill. six Bord. having six Car. and an half To Sudwelle belonged one hundred and fourscore and eight Acres of Medow Pasture Wood eight leuc long two quarentens and an half broad the half is wanting in the Monasticon Angl. vol. 3. part 2. page 10. Arable Land five leuc long three broad In the time of King Edward the Confessour it was valued at 40l. and when the Book of Doomsday was made at 40l. and 15◠St. Mary of Sudwelle had a Mannor in Croppehille which had a Berue in Hegelinge which the Canons then had and another Mannor in Nortwelle but how many Prebendaries there were at this time or whether they held their Prebends distinct or in Common is not easie positively to determine yet seeing that in Woodborough it is recorded that a Clark whom I take for the Prebendary of that place held under the Arch-bishop Lands which answered the Dane-geld for one Bovat 't is most probable that every one enjoyed his own apart Now because in the White-Book of Southwell still remaining with the Chapter there is nothing of the Foundation of the Prebends of Woodborough Normanton the three of Norwell the two of Oxton that of North Muskam that of South Muskam nor of the Sacrista called Sakerson and Segiston and now Sexton it may reasonably be guessed these or the most of them were in being then or near that time viz. the latter end of the Reign of King William the first Most of the rest as by that Book appeareth were not long after for King Henry the first son of the said King William gave to Thurstan Arch-bishop of York the Church of Dunham that he might make it a Prebend in the Church of Southwell and likewise confirmed the gift which that Arch-bishop made of the Churches of his Mannors of North Leverton and Bekingham to make another Prebend in that Church King Henry the second confirmed to his Clark Roger the brother of Martin de Capella the Prebend which Roger Arch-bishop of York had made of the Land of Halton which William the Steward of the aforesaid Thurstan held in the time of the said King Henry the first and afterwards gave to the Church of Southwell Roger Arch-bishop of York certified King Henry the second that his Predecessours did enfeoffe more Knights than they ought to the King not for the necessity of the Service which they did owe but because they were willing to provide for their Kinsmen and Servants Pavia the daughter of Nigellus de Ramtun by the consent of Robert Malovell her son not long after gave the Church of Ramton with the Appurtenances to make another Prebend in this Church of Southwell And Iohn Arch-bishop of York in the year of our Lord 1289. made another of the Church of Eton. And in the year 1291. William Rotherfeild Prebendary of Bekingham resigning for that purpose the said Arch-bishop at his request and by the consent of the Chapters of York and Southwell did ordain the Church of North Leverton before a part of the Prebend of Bekingham to be a distinct one of it self and the Prebendary to have his Stall in the Quire on the North side next that of the Sacrist and his place in the Chapter-house duely assigned by the Chapter and to have and pay his Vicar Choral as the other Canons used and the said William Rotherfeild to enjoy Bekingham so divided during his time which made the number of the Prebends Sixteen as they now are which have been and are thus valued viz.   l. 3. d. Norwell Overhall or prima pars was 42l. is now 48 1 3 Norwell Palacehall or secunda pars was 30l. is now 27 19 7 Norwell tertia pars was 6l. is now 5 2 0 ob Normanton Prebend was 20l. is now 22 6 0 ob Halton or Halloughton was 10l. is now 8 -17 -6 Dunham before the Survey taken by H. 8. was 45 marks is now 23 11 3 Rampton then also was 24 mar is now 15 17 11 Woodborough is wanting in my Copy of the old but is now  9 17 11 Eton before the Survey of H. 8. was 10l. is now -2 11 3 South Muskham then also was 20 mar is now 13 4 7 Oxton prima pars was 40 mar is now 22 19 7 Oxton altera pars was then also 40 mar is now 24 10 0 Beckingham was 20l. is now 16 15 10 North Muskham was 34l. is now -32 5 0 Sacrista was in elder time 30◠is now -1 3 4 North Leverton was 5l. is now 4 17 11 in the Kings Books and the Arch-bishop of York is Patron of all Very great and many priviledges were anciently granted to this Church by several Kings Archbishops and Chapters of York which Pope Alexander the third in the twelfth year of his Pontificate viz. 1171. refers to in his Bull wherein he confirmed to the Canons of the Church of St. Mary of Southwell amongst many others their ancient Liberties and Customs to wit the same which the Church of York had of old and were known to have then and that the Churches of the Prebends and also those belonging to the Chapter should be free from Episcopal Jurisdiction and that they might institute fit Vicars in them without any contradiction as the said Arch-bishops and Chapters of York ever suffered them and their Predecessours to do who likewise granted to them as was of long custom observed and also by the said Pope approved that both the Clergy and Laity of the County of Nottingham should at the Feast of Pentecost come to their Church with solemn procession and that every year according to the old and rational usage of that Church a Synod should there be celebrated and that thither the Chrisma should be brought by the Deans of the County from the Church of York to be thence distributed through the other Churches c. There is yet and from the beginning of this Church I suppose even hath been at Whit sunday a certain small Pension paid from
... fil haer Tho. -Em fil haer Fr. Leeming Rob. Mat. Franc. Cleric Marg. -Laur Sturtivant Tho. Will. 3 Robertus Leek In Halam 1612. the owners were William Leek senior Gent. and William Leek junior Gent. William Cowper junior William Astlyn Thomas Leek Gent. Thomas Maye but not long since Mr. William Loscoe had interest here and at Farnesfeild Iohn the son of Tho. Chamberleyn of Polington by Fine 20 E. 3. and afterwards 21 E. 3. passed to Thomas de Metheley of Thornehill and his heirs the Mannor of Eddinglée by Southwell with the Appurtenances except 49s. and 3d. Rent and the Rent of a pair of Gloves in the same Mannor which Simon Iorce of Lughteburgh and Margaret his wife held for term of life together with the Reversion after their decease and the Homages and all the Services of Richard de Willughby Iohn de Loudham Knights Iohn de Bella aqua Thomas de Nevill Knights and divers others and their heirs for Lands which they held of the said Iohn in the said Mannor In Edingley 1612. William Cartwright Gent. was owner of one Mess. one Cottage one Water-mill one Garden twenty two Acres of Medow and sixteen Acres of Pasture Then in Osmundthorpe was Lawrence Leek Gent. owner In Greaveslane William Beeston Gent. Stephen Tayler and Richard Bennet In Farnesfeild Edward Coppinger of Hexgrave Park Gent. Charles Butterworth Gent. Nicholas Farrington Iohn Watson junior William Leak Iohn Cooper Richard Gunthorpe were owners The Book of Doomsday shows that in Franesfeld the King had one Bovat of Land for the Geld near Snotingham Soc to his Mannor of Grymston and that Walter de Aincurt had Soc to his Mannor of Horingham in Farnesfeild two Bovats for the Geld whereof one was in the Soc of Sudwell and the other of the Kings Soc yet belonged to the Hundred of Sudwell There was one Car. in Demesne In the time of King Edward the Confessour this was valued at 5s. in the Reign of the Conquerour when the Survey was taken at 18s. There was in Osmutthorp Soc to Nortwell which belonged to St. Mary of Sudwell as much as was rated to the Dane-geld at four Bovats The Land two Car. There four Sochm. had two Car. eight Acres of Medow Pasture Wood four qu. long three broad Though there be mention of seven Sochmen in Opeton and Colingham in the Book of Dooms-day which belonged to the Mannor in Rolleston of the Fee of Odo Bishop of Baion yet Vpton is certainly involved amongst the twelve Berues of Southwell of which it is an Hamlet wherein I have not found any great possessions of note The Jury 12 E. 3. said that Will. Melton Archbishop of York when he died held three parts of two Mess. two Bov. and six Acres of Land in Vpton by Southwell of Peter del Wyche and the heirs of Iohn de Wimbishe by the Service of 10s. 6d. ob per annum and that William son of Henry de Melton Cousin of the said William the Arch-bishop was his next heir There was in Vpton a Capital Mess. and a good Demesne of Freehold Land which was heretofore the Inheritance of the Pakenhams from whom it came to Oglethorp It is now Iohn Truemans who hath built a pretty little House there The residue consisteth of small Freeholds but most Copy-holds of the Mannor of Southwell The owners 1612. are said to be Iohn Trewman of Stok Bardolf Owen Oglethorp Thomas Pryde George Pryde The Rectory is appropriate to the Chapter of Southwell and was lately in Lease to Mr. Burnell of Winkeburne after whose death the Chapter augmented the small Vicarage 20l. per an as I have heard about the year 1667. or 1668. There are Vicarages of the Chapters Patronage in this Soc viz. Southwell which was 10l. is now 7l. 13s. 4d. Farnesfeild which was eight Marks is now 4l. Edingle which was ten Marks is now 4l. Vpton which was eight Marks is now 4l. 11s. 5d. value in the Kings Books Kertlington Doomsd. Cherlington I Suppose this the ancient meeting place of Southwell Hundred mentioned in that place and that it is corrupted into Chadlington Hundred because of the very long disuse of this place However the Conquerours Survey shows that in Cherlington Vlf a Saxon whom Gisâ—ebert de Gand succeeded in the chief part of his Estate in this County had three Bov. ½ for the Geld. The Land two Car. But the Soc belonged to Southwell the Mannor of the Archbishop There Gislebert had one Car. four Vill. having two Car. one Mill 16s. In the Confessours time the value of this was 40s. in the Conquerours when the Survey was taken 30s. The Red Book in the Exchequer shows that William de Bella aqua held a Knights Fee of the Arch-bishop of York and half one of Walter de Ayncurt One of that name married a daughter of Iohn Lord Deincourt named in Granby and Sutton In 22 H. 2. William de Beleu gave account of twenty Marks of the Amercements of the Forest. Hugh Bardulf 10 R. 1. gave account of an hundred Marks for having the Custody of the Land and heirs of William de Bella aqua and to have their marriages William had a son called Rod. de Bella agua temp Regis Steph. Willielmus-Beatrix de Bella aqua lib. Alb. 176. de Southwell Willielmus de Bella aqua Willielmus de Bellewe tertius ... fil Johannis Dom. Deincourt Thom. de Bella aqua-Alicia Thom. de Bella aqua Johannes de Bella aqua miles 18 E 3 -Isabella Lucia fil haer -Johannes de Burgh senior Thom. de Burgh Johan de Burgh-Katherina 5 R. 2. Margareta fil haer-Johannes le Zouch mil. mar 1-Johannes Lowdham mil. sine prole Elizabetha fil haer -Nic Bowyt de Ripingale miles Elizab. consang haer de Corp. Joh. de Bella aqua Isab. ob 20 Mar. 17 H. 7 -Will Chaworth mil. mar 1 -Joh Dunham Ar. mar 2. Thom. Chaworth sine prole Joana haer frat -Johannes Ormund Joh. Dunham mil. fil haer aet 28. 18 H. 7-Jana fil Tho. Thurland de Gamelston milit ux 1 -Bennet fil Godâ— Foljamb ux 2. Johannes Dunham obiit juvenis Kath. ux Rad. Okeover Hen. Leigh de Rushall Ar. Fran. ux Joh. Hazelwood Anna ux Georgii Meverell Maria ux Tho. Grantham de Com. Linc. Johannes Chaworth-Margareta Tho. Chaworth s. p. ob 25 Dec. 2 H. 7. Tho. Burgh de Colthorp Ebor. Claus. 33 H. 6. m. 21. Thom. Burgh 33 H. 6. Joana-Guido Roucliff â—rian Roucliff Bar. Scaccar Johannnes fil haer 1297. Adam miles Robertus-Dionysia Hugo Radulphus William and â—e one Thomas de Bella aqua whose wife was Alice Iohn de Bella aqua son and heir of Sir Thomas de Bella aqua granted that he his heirs or Assigns whosoever should hold his Mannor of Kirtelington should be obliged to pay every year to the Church of St. Mary and St. Iames at Wellebek and
here in Demesne two Car. and eight Sochm. upon six Bovats of this Land and twenty one Villains sixteen Bordars having twelve Car. Here was then a Church and a Priest and one Mill 5s. and eighty Acres of Medow small Wood eight qu. long four broad In the Confessours time the value was 6l. and when the Conquerours great Survey was taken 10l. There were appendant to this Mannor five Sochm. in other Hundreds it had Soc in Crumwelle Adam Tisun 5 Steph. gave account of ten Marks of Silver for a Plea of Duel between him and the Man of Hugh de Luvetot and of 32l. and 2s. for the debts of his Father and of fifteen Marks of Silver that he should not plead concerning his Land until the son of Nigellus de Albini should be a Knight Adam Tisun gave to God and St. Peter of Thurgarton and the Canons there serving God that Bovat of Land in Egrum which Leuric Hog held and Henry Hoset would have the Men of the Honour of Egrum to know that by the consent of Avicia his wife he confirmed that Bovat which Adam Tisun gave to that Church free and quit of all secular Service for the safety of Henry son of the Empress and for his own safety his wifes and all his Henry Hose for the safety or health of the Souls of his Father Mother and Ancestors his own and his wifes confirmed to the said Monastery the said Bovat which the said Leuric Hog held as the Charters of Henry Hose his Father and those of his Ancestors did witness William Tisun gave to God and the Brethren of Ruford all his Land in Hecthus of Aghrum Adam Tisun his Father confirmed it so did Henry Hose son of Henry Hose who 13 Ioh. levied a Fine at Westminster to Walter the Abbat of Rufford of sixty Acres in Egrum whereof there had been contention between them in the said Court whether they lay within the bounds mentioned in the Charter of William Tysun Uncle of the said Henry which the Abbat produced Hugh Hose brought to Matthew Abbat of Rufford the Testament or device of Henry Hose his brother who with tears and grief of heart at his death repented that he had disquieted the Monastery and with tears also begg'd their pardon and earnestly besought his heirs that they should permit the Monks to hold their Lands in peace whereof discord had been between them of this the said Hugh was a most faithful witness having the said devise of his brother sealed with the Seal of Iocelin the Queens brother who by the Kings command brought the body of the said Henry into this Land and the said Iocelin had the devise sealed Isabell wife of William le Herper sometime wife of Raph son and heir of Ranulph had Land in Egrom about 7 H. 3. Raph de Chesneduyt and Maud his wife 27 H. 3. claimed against Robert le Sauvage the Mannor of Egrom except 100 Acres of Land in Scarethorpe as their right and inheritance c. He called to warrant Iohn de Gatesden who came and warranted and said That Maud while she was sole and in lawful power gave the said Mannor to him and his heirs for ever for the Service of two Knights Fees whereof there was a Fine between them in the Kings Court before the Justices at Bermondesey Maud and her husband pleaded that she never was selfed of that Mannor so that she might enfeoff the said Iohn thereof and said that when the said Fine was made between them and after the said Maud was in the Custody of the said Iohn and the said Mannor likewise Robert also produced the Chartel of the said Raph of his quit-claiming the Mannors of Egrum and Edling Robert le Sauvage acknowledged that he granted to Robert de Lexington the Mannor of Egrum which he held for term of life of Iohn de Gatesden and remised c. and for this the said Robert de Lexington acquitted the said Robert le Sauvage of a great summ of money wherein he was bound to Aaron the Jew of Yorke The said Iohn de Gatesden acknowledged that he gave to the said Robert de Lexington the said Mannor of Egrum and by his Letters Patents produced before the Justices commanded the said Robert le Sauvage that he should be intending to the said Robert de Lexington as he was to himself Robert de Lexington had Free Warren here about 27 H. 3. This Mannor was found in the time of H. 3. and E. 1. to be of the Honour of Moubray Anno 1250.34 H. 3. the fourth of the Kalends of Iune died Robert de Lexington the Kings Clark and special or spiritual Counsellour who continuing long in the Office of a Justice heaped up to himself ample possessions and enlarged the Kings Treasures The same year his eldest brother Iohn de Lexington who 18 Sept. 31 H. 3. undertook the Custody of the Seal went from the Court and the Seal was committed to P. de Riovallis and Mr. W. de Kilkenny but 37 H. 3. May 15 it was committed to P. Chaceport and him again This Iohn de Lessington was Lord Keeper first in 22 H. 3. secondly 26 H. 3. and thirdly 32 H. 3. c. Sir Robert de Lexington was an Ecclesiastical person and one of the Kings Justices and died without heir of himself and had three brothers and two sisters as followeth Iohn elder brother of the said Robert and Lord after him who also dyed without heir of himself Peter de Laxton Parson of Gedlinge likewise died without heir of himself and so did Henry de Laxton Dean and after Bishop of Lincolne Cecilia the sister of Sir Robert de Lexington was married to one Sir Richard rather William de Marcham of whom came Sir Robert de Marcham Alice the other sister of the said Robert de Lexton was married to Richard it should be Roland de Sutton upon Trent who had two sons both Knights his eldest was Sir William de Sutton and the other Sir Robert de Sutton to whom his said Uncles gave the Mannor of Averham in old writings called Egrom Robert de Sutton son of William de Sutton granted confirmed and quit-claimed to the said Robert son of Roland de Sutton the said Mannor of Egrum with the Advowson of the Church and Knights Fees c. as Sir Iohn de Lessington held it and also the whole Land of Kelum with the Appurtenances to be held of him and his heirs for the Service of two Knights Fees c. Richard de Sutton Canon of Southwell mentioned in that place was son of Robert de Sutton and Alice his wife who also had a son called Iohn Parson of Lexington but I find it was another elder Robert and Alice and in the Pedegree of this Family this Robert de Sutton is said to have married Isabell daughter and co-heir of Sir Hugh Picot Knight as in
Robert Curson Esquire Gyles Heron Esquire Iohn Fysher Gent. and Robert Andrew Gent. claimed against Iohn Kelham Esquire the Mannor of Kelham with the Appurtenances and ten Mess. ten Tofts twenty Gardens four hundred Acres of Land c. in Kelham Deyncourts Fee here was held by the Families of Staunton and Rolleston as in those places may be perceived and Tysuns went with Averham from whose ancient Lords viz. the Lexingtons it descended by inheritance to the present Lord Lexington as in that place is shown Walter de Amundevilla testified that Gilbert de Kelum by the consent of Alase his wife gave in pure Alms to God and the Monks of Ruchford twenty Acres in the territory of Kelum nigh the Parc of Hugh de Muscam Amongst the witnesses were R. the Priest of Wymundetorpe Malger de Houcton and Hawisia his wife W. de Amundevill I suppose him the said Walter Lord of Winthorpe as in that place is said Wil. son of Thomas de Monteburgh of Egram released and quit-claimed to that Monastery all his right of Common of Pasture in the Essarts made in the territory of Egram on both sides the Redegate untill the Justices came to Nottingham in 20 H. 3. and likewise in Kelumshrubs where the wood stood Thomas de Roldeston son of Malger I guess confirmed the gift of his father in the Shrubs and other places of the territory of Kelum and promised the Monks that he would make them a Chartell or Deed sealed with his own seal when he should be made a Knight that which he then made being sealed with the Seal of the Chapter of Southwell as very many in those times were upon the like account Benedict de Rolleston son of Thomas de Rolleston confirmed to the Monks of Rufford three Bovats of Land in Kelum which they had of the gift of Elias de Wytthechirche and Ydonea his wife Ant of the said Benedict and the homage and service of the heirs of Walter Ormal which they had of the gift of Alan son of Hugh de Rodmarthwayt and all the Lands which they had of his Fee in the year 1254. whosoever gave them reserving to himself and his heirs 5â— yearly Rent and the foreign service at two times in the year viz. the feast of the Holy Cross after Easter and St. Martin in Winter Richard son of Iames de Sutton 3 E. 3. recovered against Edmund de Cressy Simon son and heir of Henry Touc of Kelum who held of the said Richard by Knights service seven Bovats of Land and half a Mess. in Kelum and by doing suit at the Court of the said Richard at Averham from three weeks to three weeks Richard de Willughby 27 E. 3. had free warren in Béeston Sutton Passeys Kelome and North Carleton At the Assizes at Nottingham 31 E. 3. Roger de Bakewell recovered his seisin of two Mess. two Bov. of Land and twenty Acres of Land and fifteen of Medow in Kelum and Thomas son of Eustachius de Kelum was amerced In a recovery 6 H. 8. Robert Lawrence Clark George Barton and Martin Cape claimed against Lucia Robertson Widow two Mess. two Tofts three Cottages one Barn one Dovecote three Gardens one hundred Acres of Land sixteen of Medow twenty of Pasture 6s. Rent and the Rent of 1l. of Cumin in Newark Kellom and Codington who called to warrant Henry Robertson son and heir of Thomas Robertson A great part of the Town and Fields of Kelham were of long time the inheritance of Robertson an ancient Gentleman of that Town all which by the death of Iohn Robertson the last heir Male of that house did descend to his sisters and co-heirs and their heirs who have all since sold their inheritances to the said Mr. Sutton late Lord Lexington The Abby of Roughford had diverse Farms there which together with Parkelathes and the said Abby were 6 Oct. 29 H. 8. granted to George Earl of Shrowsbury from whom by descent and mean Conveyance it came to Sir William Sayvile Baronet who sold his interest here to Mr. Sutton the said Lord Lexington who became Lord and owner of the whole township and territories of Kelham and in effect of the whole Island of excellent ground between the two currents of Trent that by Newark and that by Aram and Kelham where he hath since the wars built an house which he made his Mansion Aram House being ruined but there is still a fair Park well stored in that Lordship The Rectory of Kellome was xx Marks when the Abbat of Welbeck was Patron 't is now 19l. 8s. 4d. value in the Kings books and the Lord Lexington Patron Hockerton Ocretone And Hocretone THere was a small parcel in Ocretone Sok to Nortwell which belonged to St. Mary of Sudwell of the Fee of the Arch-bishop of York which at the time of the Conquerours Survey answered the Geld for one Bovaâ— There was then one Villain one Bordar and two Acres of Medow In Hocretune before the Conquest Vlsi and Turchill paid to the Tax or Geld for one Plow-land or Car. for their Mannors the Land whereof was two Car. and an half There afterwards Roger de Busli had in Demesne two Car. eleven Villains three Bord. having four Car. There was Medow of twenty six Acres There was a Church Pasture Wood one leu long four qu. and four Virg. broad In King Edward the Confessours time this was 4l. value then in the Conquerours 3l. Another Mannor in this Town before the Normans came Tori had which paid for three Bov. to the Geld. The Land was one Car. There afterwards Walter de Aincurt who succeeded Tori in all or most places had one Car. five Vill. five Bord. having half a Car. and sixteen Acres of Medow Pasture Wood one leu long one qu. ½ broad In the Confessours time valued at 20s. in the Conquerours at 15s. A. Alan Earl of Britan gave to Richard son of Bostarne a certain Wood Broccellam called Rahag in Fee to him and his heirs to increase a Knights Fee which he had there beyond Trent Rocelin son of Richard for the remedy of his own Soul and his Wifes and Childrens and for the Souls of his Father and Mother Brothers and Sisters gave the Wood called Rahaghe to the Monks of Ruâ—ford in pure Alms. Conan Duke of Britan and Earl of Richmond confirmed to God and the Church of St. Mary at Ruford the gift which Roscelin son of Richard and Raph his brother gave to the said Church to wit the Wood called Rahage To his Deed dated at Wassingburc were Witnesses Robert de Gant Roger de Mumbrey Hamon Botereux Peter Botereux Baldwin de Gant William de Vesci Gaufr de Gant Raph son of Richard Wygan son of Rad. Ioslenus son of Roselinus de Roldeston confirmed to the said Monks all the Land of his Fee called Rahage tilled and untilled as his Father had given it Raph son of Richard in the presence of
the Chapter of Suell now Southwell faithfully engaged himself that he would warrant the Land of Rahage as the Almes of Roselin his brother to the Brethren of Ruford and make them have the Charter of the Earl of Richmond and Confirmation gratis as speedily as he could receiving of them for the business two Marks of Silver The Chapter of Southwell likewise certified that Alured de Walur granted in their presence to the Brethren of Ruford two Bovats of Land in Hocretun with their proper dwelling Houses and other Appurtenances reserving 6s. per annum to himself and his heirs and that this was done by the consent of Basilia the wife of Gumbert and Adelina his own wife their daughter Basilia de Hokerton-Gumbertus Adelina-Aluredus le Walur de Neware Johannes le Walur 1183. Henricus le Walur Willielmus le Walur 6 E. 1. Walterus le Walur 9 E. 2. Henricus le-Alicia 19 E. 2. Walur Henricus 9 E. 2. Agatha ... de Stokes Johannes de Stokes Magota 19 E. 2. Robertus Milo Alicia Margareta Adelina wife of Alured le Walur of Newerc daughter of Basilia de Hocurtun and Milo her son confirmed to the said Monks the said two Bovats in Hokirton which they held in the life time of the said Alured and the Monks should only pay 5s. per annum for which concession they gave her 22s. and one Cow and one Calf and ten Lambs and released a Toft in that Town which they held in her said husbands life time for which they were to have 10d. of their yearly Farm remitted she and her son Affidaverunt did pass their credit in the hand of William le Tuke to observe this Covenant without any deceit and because they had not a Seal of their own put to the Chapters Seal of Southwell Adelizia and Margaret daughters of Miles le Walur in their Widow-hood and free power released to the said Monks the said 5s. per annum for the said two Bovats The Witnesses were Eustachius de Ludham then Sheriff of Nott. William de Staunton William le Butiler Robert Vavassor Robert de S. George Thomas de Roleston Peter de Kelum Gaufr the Constable of Newerch Alan Roald Henry le Walur In the year 1183. Iohn son of Alured le Walur by the grant and good will of Miles his brother granted the said Monks eighteen Acres of Arable Land lying not far from a Wong of theirs on the East side of the Town of Wodehus for ten years and in the hand of Hugh Folenfant passed his credit that they should enjoy the Land the pledges were Cog Battaile and Robert son of Basilia and Hugh de Osmundthorpe amongst the Witnesses were Robert de Furnewx and Philip his brother Hugh de Builli Hugh Folenfant Robert son of Gumbert Gerebert de Hodneskill Richard Barete Henry le Walur of Hokyrton confirmed the Wong culturam which Iohn le Walur his father gave Raph de Hokerton son of Thomas by the consent of his son Roger gave to the Monks of Rufford all the Land he had in Wudehus from the West part of the Ditch which was about the Chapel for 8s. per annum and two Acres and an half in anoâ—her place viz. nigh Hokerton Medow on the East and the Common Pasture of Hokerton the Witnesses were Roger le Grosse crasso Roger le Megre macro Canons of Southwell who lived in the time of King Stephen Malger the Priest of Winkeburne William the Priest of Kelum Maurice de Kelum William de Tulcba Hubert the Clark of Winkeburne Paulin de Osmentorp Richard son of Gumbert Norman de Suella Stori de Winkeburne Ingeram the Clark Roger monetarâ—o the Minter Goafrey le Angevin for the Souls of his Father Henry and of his Mother Aubrey gave to the said Monks that Wong in Hocreton which he held of Iohn son of Adam son of Griffin de Hocreton in the West Field lying between a Selion or Land which they had of the Land of Alfred le Walur and five Acres which they held of the Land of Iohn le Walur The Witnesses were Adam de Bella aqua Robert his brother William le Butiler of Hocreton Robert the Clark of Winkeburne Iohn le Walur of Hocreton Raph son of Thomas of the same Town This was confirmed by the said Iohn son of Adam de Hocreton to whose Deed these were Witnesses viz. Gaufr the Parson of Hocreton Gaufr de Iorz William Pincerna of Hocreton Richard de Lesington Robert his son Iohn le Walur of Hocreton Raph son of Thomas Remboud son of Iohn de Criche Gilbert son of Adam Gilbert Pincerna Habert de Hokerton son of Gilbert gave and confirmed to God and St. Mary and the Monks of Rufford four Selions of Land in the Territory of Hokerton which Monks were of their Charity to give him yearly during his life at the Feast of S. Michael a pair of Shooes sotularium or 4d. And moreover granted him their brother-hood and that after his death they would do for him as for a Convert And because he had not a Seal he caused the Seal of the Chapter of Suell for a Testimony to be hung at his Chartel The Witnesses were William the Canon of Muscham Alan the Canon of Pickering Matthew Barum Ingeram the Chaplain Henry Anselm Alexander Chaplains Gaufr the Parson of Hocreton and the Lady Matilda of the same Town who gave her consent as Witnessed also Raph de Suella sisters son sororio of Hub. de Hocurton William le Butiler of Hecreton sold to Robert Parson of Alreton for eight Marks of Silver all the Farm Rent which the Monks of Rufford were wont to pay him for the Land which they held of his Fee in Rahag wudehuse viz. 8s. which the said Parson bestowed on the said Monks and the said William confirmed Here were three successively of that name William Pincerna of Hokerton 22 H. 2. gave account of two Marks of the Forest Amercements William le Buttiler in the former part of the Reign of Henry the third paid for one Knights Fee in Hokerton two Marks and afterwards Hugh le Butiler is certified to hold a Knights Fee here of the Countess of Ewe Lady of Tikhill Iohn le Botiler 6 E. 1. impleaded William le Walur that he should do him Service and Suit his Court at Hokerton and pay 2s. 9d. ob for two Bovats which the said William acknowledged to hold of him but paid only 2s. 8d. for all Service William le Walour had two sons Walter and Henry and a daughter Agatha Walter had Henry In the year 1302. Iohn le Buteler Lord of Staynton settled his whole Mannor of Hokerton with all its Appurtenances and with the Villanages Villains their Chattels and Sequels and with all the Services of the Free-holders of the said Mannor as well in Kelum as in Hokerton together with Wards Reliefs Escaets Suits of Court and the Advowson of the Church of Hokerton so intirely as the
said Iohn or his Ancestors held it on Andrew his son and Elena daughter of Alexander de Holm and the heirs of their bodies reserving to himself during his life ten Marks sterling yearly Willielmus le Butiler five Pincerna de Hocretun-superst 22 H. 2. Willielmus le Butiler Willielmus Pincerna miles Hugo le Butiler Johannes le Buteler Dom. de Staynton 1299. Andr. le Boteler 3 E. 3 -Elen fil Alexandri de Holm 1302. Johannes Boteler Johan Boteler-Margareta 40 E. 3. Elizabetha 16 R. 2 -Joh de Briggeford Sara 3 H. 6 -Willielmus Multon de-Rousby Com. Linc. Christiana .... Alford Robertus Alford unus consang haer Joh. Botiller 9 H. 7. Willielmus 42 E. 3. Henricus Botiller 9 R. 2. Will. Botiller de Tikhill capellan 24 H. 6. The Jury 18 E. 2. found it not to the Kings loss to grant Andrew le Botiler of Hokerton that he should enfeoff William Ayremine Clark of or in one Mess. one Car. of Land and 40s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Hokerton which were held of the King in Capite as of the Honour of Tikhill by the Service of the tenth part of a Knights Fee The Jury 23 E. 3. found it likewise not to the Kings loss if he granted Rich. de Marnham to give to the Prior and Covent of Thurgarton one Mess. one Bovat and fifteen Acres of Land and two of Medow held of Iohn de Odingselles in Eperston and there would remain at Hokerton and Rohagh one Carucat of Land held of Iohn de Belewe Iohn Boteler of Hokyrton 40 E. 3. granted to Iohn Boteler his son and Margaret his wife during the life of the said Iohn the Father one Mess. and one Car. of Land called Marnham Land with the Appurtenances in Hokyrton and also forty shillings Rent yearly to be perceived viz. 20s. out of the Lands and Tenements which Robert Roughshankes held 13s. 4d. out of the Lands and Tenements of William son of Thomas de Hokyrton and 6s. 8d. out of those of Henry son of Iohn Boteler in the same Town and he likewise gave him eight Acres of Medow in Hokyrton and ten Cart-loads of Thornes out of his Wood of Hokyrton yearly at their pleasure with Wards and Relief and other Appurtenances Iohn Stanhop of Rampton Eschaetor 49 E. 3. gave account concerning the Lands and Tenements which were lately Iohn le Botilers of Hockerton 16 April that year Robert Alford 9 H. 7. one of the Cousins and heirs of Iohn Botiller sometime of Hokerton viz. son of Christian daughter of Sara 3 H. 6. wife of William Multon of Rowsby in Lincolnshire daughter of Elizabeth as I take it 16 R. 2. wife of Iohn de Briggeforth daughter of the said Iohn Botiller released to Iohn Hunt of Nottingham Merchant in his possession being all his right and claim in one Mess. three Bov. of Land and Medow in Hokerton sometimes the said Iohn Botillers The Mannor of Hokerton about Richard the seconds time came to Iohn de Bridgeford and so to .... Bowman and .... Alford of whom Sir Iohn Dunham Knight bought it and in the partition of his Lands it was allotted to Katherin his daughter married to Henry Leigh of Rushall Esquire whose son and heir Edward Leigh then Esquire after Knight sold it by parcels to Iohn Boun Esquire Father of Gilbert Boun Serjeant at Law and to others Thomas de Bella aqua and Roger Robert de Cruche held half a Knights Fee in Hokerton of the Fee of Oliver Deyncurt Bellewes part lies near to Kirtlington and is a great part of the Demesnes used with Kirtelington House and I suppose makes a good share of the Park The first of the Family of Criche is Iohn Father of Reinband whom I have taken notice of the next Gaufr de Cruche who gave to the Monks Johannes de Criche Galfridus de Cruce Robertus de Cryche Richardus de Cryche 1299 -Christiana relict 5 E. 2. Richardus de Cryche-Magota 18 E. 2 -Margetia 44 E. 3. Johannes de Cryche-Margareta 44 E. 3. Johannes de Cryche 14 H. 4. Richardus de Cryche fil haer 1 H. 6. de Halom 9 H. 6. Willielmus 33 E. 3 -Cecilia ob 12 H. 4. s. p. Robertus capellanus Marjoria Agnes Alicia Reinbaldus Beatrix of Rufford the Homage and Service of Beatrix daughter of Reinbald his brother and her heirs with the Farm of 40d. which she ought him yearly for two Bovats of Land which she held of him in Hokerton Robert de Cryche son of Gaufr de Cryche passed a Toft and some small parcel to Iohn son of Iohn de Criche Richard de Cryche son of Robert in the year 1299. confirmed to Margery Agnes and Alice his sisters some small parcels their father the said Robert gave them To this Robert de Criche and his heirs in the year 1296. did Iohn le Botiler Lord of Hokerton give and confirm Robert Gervays of Southwell son of Iohn son of Sibyll de Hokerton his Native or Villain with all his Goods moveable and immoveable and all his Chattels acquired and to be acquired with all his Sequels yet afterwards he gave him liberty to be promoted to the Clergy and receive Ecclesiastical Tonsure and released him lest he should suffer any repulse from the Ordinaries by reason of his Servitude Christian sometime wife of Richard de Criche of Hokerton in her widowhood Iun. 7. 1328. released to Richard de Criche her son all her claim in her said husbands Lands Robert son of Richard de Criche of Hokerton and Hugh Gervays of the same Chaplains 44. E. 3. conveyed to Richard de Criche of Hokerton and Marjory his wife and to Iohn son of the said Richard and to Margaret his wife and the heirs of the bodies of the said Iohn and Margaret the Capital Mess. and all Lands Rents Farms Medows Pastures Buildings c. and another Mess. called Gervays place which they had of the gift and feoffment of the said Richard de Criche who in 33 E. 3. settled two Mess. on William de Criche his son and Cicely his wife who died without issue at Welbek 12 H. 4. Richard son and heir of Iohn Criche 1 H. 6. Iuly 1. released to Robert Warsop Clark and Robert Southwell all his claim in 2s. Rent issuing out of two Mess. in Rohagh and out of all the Lands which Iohn Lawrence sometimes held and which Richard de Criche his Grandfather whose heir he then was gave to Iohn Coke of Maplebeck and Alice his wife and the heirs of their bodies with remainder to himself and his heirs Iohn son of Iohn Criche the elder of Hokerton 14 H. 4. released to Iohn Briggeford of Hokerton Robert Warsop Parson of West Retford and Robert Southwell all his right in all the Lands in Hokerton which they had of the gift and feoffment of the said Iohn Criche his Father All Criches Lands were purchased by Iohn Hunt Merchant of the Staple
whose brother Edmund Hunt was Father of Thomas Hunt of Robertus Boun ... fil haer Ric. Tibtost Richardus Boun de Baukewell Com. Derb. 22 H. 6. Christoph. Boun de Bakewell 5 E. 4 -Emma fil .... Page de Castleton 2. R. 3. Thurstanus Boun de Hulme juxta Baukwell 16 H. 7 -Joana fil .... Brodhurst Will. Boun de Hulme-Joanna fil Will. Goodwin Edwardus Isabel. fil Rad. Marshall de South Carleton Dorothea fil Will. Clerkson Ar. -Ed Hunt Bound-Isabella cohaer Johannes Boun-Barbara fil Joh. Leck de Edelmton -Maria fil Joh. Neubold Gilbertus Boun serv. ad legem -Maria fil Ed. Forset de Billesby Com. Linc. s. p. -Millecent fil Joh. Waring Ar. Johannes Boun Ar. ob -Maria fil ..... s. p. Slatier S.T.P. Gilbertus Boun. -Eliz fil Hen. Bedell Maria ux Car. Shelley An. ux R. Thoroton Authoris Barbar ux Joh. Story Anna-Nic Crouch Franc. ux Chr. Strelley s. p. Anna ux Joh. Arnall Georg. Katherina cohaer -Rob alvy Anna cohaer -Hen Gonaston .... Hunt Johannes Hunt mercator 1 E. 4. Ed. Hunt merc -Stap Thom. Hunt de Normanton juxta Southwell Normanton by Southwell who married Isabell the daughter of Raph Marshall and of Katherin his wife daughter of Thomas Nevill of Rolleston by whom he had Edmund Hunt who upon his marriage with Dorothy the daughter of William Clarkeson of Kirketon Esquire 10 H. 8. intailed this Mannor to the heirs of their two bodies for want of issue Male it descended to his three daughters and heirs Isabell the wife of Edward Boun Katherin of Robert Alvey and Anne of Henry Gonaston whose daughter Anne was married to Thomas Mason from whom Ed. Mason the present Rector of Hokerton is descended but the said Henry 3 E. 6. sold his part to the said Edward and Robert his Parceners Robert Alvey had a daughter named Anne wife of Robert Goodhall of Hollewell in Lincolneshire by this venter and a son called Henry Alvey Doctor of Divinity and Fellow of and Benefactor to St. Iohn's Colledge in Cambridge and President of Trinity Colledge in Dublin but his eldest son by this match I guess was Edward Alvey Father of ... the wife of ... Bell Ancestors of that name in Linne which Edward about 18 or 20 Eliz. sold his part also so that all Hunts Land became the inheritance and possession of the said Iohn Boun Esq from whom it descended to Gilbert Boune Esq his son afterwards Serjeant at Law my wifes Father who sold his interest here to Iohn More 〈◊〉 of Physick whose Nephew Iohn More Lord also of Kirtlington together with that left the possession of this whole Township to Iohn More his son and heir the Doctor also having purchased a Farm in this place held of the Prebend of North Muskham which is supposed to be that belonging to Southwell of the Arch-bishop of Yorkes Fee as 't is like he did Rohagh c. belonging to Rufford and with it granted to the Earl of Shrowsbury The Rectory of Hockerton was xl. when Mr. Wiat and Mr. H. Alford were Patrons 'T is now 9l. 9s. 4d. value in the Kings Books and Thomas Brereton Esquire Patron Winkeburne Wincheburne IN Wincheburne before the coming of the Normans Swayne had for his Mannor twelve Bov. for the Geld. The Land three Car. Gislebert de Tysun whose Fee it became afterwards had in Demesne two Car. and fifteen Sochm. on four Bov. of Land and seven Vill. five Bord. having seven Car. There was a Church and sixteen Acres of Medow Pasture Wood one leu long and half a leu broad In King Edward the Confessours time the value was 100s. when the Book of Doomsday was made 60s. Five Taynes held two Bovats of this Land one of them was Senior who belonged not to Swain Adam Tyson gave the Town of Winkeburne to the Knights Hospitallers of St. Iohns of Hierusalem to whom Henry Hosatus gave the Churches of Wynkeburne and Egrom in this County which King Iohn confirmed as it seems Roger Moubray had done to which Family Tysuns Fee was transferred The Prior of St. Iohn's of Ierusalem 8 E. 1. claimed Free Warren in his Demesne Lands in Ossington and Winkeburne and Emendation of the Assize of Bread and Ale in the Towns of Malington and Winkeburne by the Charters of King H. 3. King Edward the sixth 19 Iuly 2 E. 6. granted to William Burnell and Constance his wife all that his whole Mannor Rectory and Church of Wynkeburne with its Rights Members and Appurtenances late belonging to the Hospital of St. Iohn's of Hierusalem in England as parcel of the late Preceptory of Newland in the County of York and the Advowson and right of Patronage of the Vicarage of the Church of Wynkeburne and all Hereditaments whatsoever in the Towns Fields and Hamlets in Wynkeburne and Malebeck to the said Mannor and Rectory belonging and the Wood called Mausey Wood containing fourscore and eight Acres and another Wood called Estspring containing forty six Acres and another containing twenty six called the Coppe belonging to the said Hospital and Preceptory and the Rectory and Church of Malebeck with the Advowson of the Church belonging to the said Hospital and Preceptory paying for Winkeburne lxxixs. viid. and holding the Rectory of Malebecke in Socage of the Mannor of Southwell by Fealty only Walter Iones Clark and Henry Needham Gent. and William Burnell junior Oct. 30. 12 Eliz. had pardon of alienation for acquiring of William Burnell Esquire all the Mannors Lands Tenements Tythes and Hereditaments of the said William Burnell in Wynkeburne to the use of the said William the younger and his heirs Males This continueth still with the Family Maplebeck Malebec THe great Survey made in the time of King Willliam the first showes that part of Maplebeck was of the Soc of Maunsfeld the Kings own Land viz. as much as paid the Tax for two Bov. the Land four Bov. There three Sochm. had one Car. But the greater part of Mapleberge was Soc to Chenesale and Cheversale now Knéesall and Kersall which answered the Geld for fourteen Bov. The Land being four Car. There had Gislebert de Gand whose Fee it was then become one Car. and nine Sochm. on ten Bov. ½ of this Land and five Bordars having four Car. and thirty Acres of Medow Pasture Wood one leu long and three qu. broad This was held anciently by the Burdons Iohn Burdon was a Witness to the Charter of Anneissa the daughter of William the Constable of Chester wife of Eustace Fitz-Iohn and great Grandmother of Roger the Constable of Chester Iohn Burdon probably son of the former by the Concession and Confirmation of Iohn his heir gave to the Monks of Ruchford for the health or safety of his Soul his wifes and Childrens and for his Lord Roger the Constable and for the Souls of his Lords Iohn the Constable and Richard his father and for the souls of his own father and mother and all
his Parents and Ancestors one Bovat of Land in the territory of Mapilbech as intire and free as himself had it with all the Appurtenances and namely Pasture for one hundred Sheep five Cowes and one Bull and eight Oxen and ten Swine and one Horse and one Masage scituate on the West part of the Town for building the Houses in which are contained fourteen Selions and several other Sarts one having sixteen Selions another six besides Shrubs belonging to it when he gave it the Monks received him his heir Iohn and his own wife into their Fraternity and to Sepulture and his body to be buried under their Roof For the better security of this Alms he was to procure the Confirmation of the Constable of Chester and did put to the Seal of the Chapter of Southwell together with his own Seal to this Chartel Roger the Constable of Chester did accordingly confirm it to whose Charter were Witnesses Richard Chester his brother Iohn Burdun the younger Hugh Dispenser Thomas his brother William de Lungvillers and others William Burdun and Roger his brother were Witnesses to Iohn Burdons Deed and I supppose his sons William Burdun 7 R. 1. complained of Hugh de Redmerstweit that he drew Agnes the wife of him the said William into pleading in the Court Christian contrary to the Kings prohibition he came and acknowledged it and was Amerced three Marks and forbidden to draw her into Plea Iohn Burdon son of this Iohn the Benefactor to Rufford as I guess married Alice daughter of William de Bucton who gave Lands in that Johannes Burdon Johannes Burdon Johannes Burdon-Aeliz fil Willielmi de Bucton Johannes Burdon 1224. Johannes Burdon miles Johannes Burdon de Bucton 6 E. 2. Johannes Burdon Dom. de Malebeck 2 R. 2. 11 R. 2. Nicol. Burdon miles 4 H. 4 -Millecent fil .... Bekering-Joh Markham mil. Justic. de Banc. mar 2 -Eliz fil cohaer Joh. Cressy ux 1. Elizabetha filia haeres-Robertus Markham mil. Robertus Markham de Cotham mil. -Jana fil haer Egid. Daubeney ex Mariā fil cohaer Sim. Leek de Cotham Johannes Markham mil. Capit. Justic. -Margar cohaer Sim. Leek Elizabetha filia haeres-Robertus Markham mil. Robertus 14 H. 3. Basilia Amabilia-Hingram Bluet Willielmus Rogerus Willielmus 7 R. 1 -Agnes Town to Blyth Monastery and brought a good augmentation to this Family as in that place will be noted and by her had a son named also Iohn Burdon who in the year 1224. confirmed his mothers gift to that Monastery and likewise his sister Basilia's and her daughter Amabilia's the wife of Hingram Bluet as did also Iohn Burdon his son he also made agreement with the Abbat of Rufford concerning his Fathers and Grandfathers gifts to Rufford and augmented them and at the intreaty of William the Abbat his Kinsman he gave him and the Covent Robert son of Gaufr the Carpentar with all his Chattels for which the said Abbat gave him half a Mark of Silver and a quarter of Wheat The Witnesses to this were Robert de Muscam Hugh and Robert his sons c. Iohn Burdon likewise confirmed to those Monks the gift which Hugh de Muscham made in the territory of Mapelbek viz. a Wood called Miclehage which the said Hugh held of the Fee of Gilbert Earl of Lincolne paying only 4d. for it yearly to the men of Mapelbek William Burdon was long Prior of Blyth he was there 1273. and 1300. Iohn Burdon son and heir of Sir Iohn Burdon Knight was resident at Bucton 6 E. 2. and in 2 R. 2. Iohn Burdon was Lord of Mapelbek Nicolas Burdon 4 H. 4. did Service in the Battel of Shrowsbury where he was slain his wifes name was Milicent Sir Nicolas Burdon Knight married Millesent the daughter of .... Bekering by whom he had a daughter and heir Elizabeth married to Sir Robert Markham Knight son of Iohn Markham the Judge and Elizabeth the daughter of Sir Iohn Cressy his former wife which Sir Iohn Markham afterwards married the said Millecent widow of Sir Nicolas Burdon and by her had Sir Iohn Markham the Chief Justice who married Sir Robert Markham his Nephew both by his brother and sister to his wifes Niece Ioane the daughter of Sir Giles D'aubeney and heir to her mother Mary his wife one of the daughters and co-heirs of Simon Leek of Cothum Esquire as in that place is shown By a Fine 23 H. 6. the Mannors of Mapulbek and Bughton and the moyety of the Mannor of Caunton were settled on Sir Robert Markham Knight and Elizabeth his wife and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of Elizabeth With the Family of Markham of Cotham this Manor continued till Sir Robert Markham Knight the destroyer of that Family sold it to the Earl of Clare with whose posterity it remains There was a very fair House at this Town built by some of the Markhams which as the Tradition is cost near as much as the whole Lordship was sold for which in the year 1666. the present Earl pulled down and sold the Materials whereof amongst others I bought some small part which I used in rebuilding my own House at Carcolsion Robert Filiol of Mapelbek gave to Rufford with his body certain small parcels there which Thomas the husband of Serith his daughter confirmed There was a Fine at York 28 E. 1. between Durand de Wydemerpol Quer. and Alan de Threngston and Elena his wife Imped of 10s. Rent with the Appurt in Mapulbek the right of Durand for which he gave them 10l. sterling The Mannor or Grange here parcel of the possession of the Abby of Rufford was granted with that Monastery 29 H. 8. to the Earl of Shrowsbury Kneesale Chenesale ULF whose Lands after the Conquest became the Fee of Gislebert de Gand had in Chenesale and Cheversale twelve Bovats for the Geld. The Land of his Mannor was for four Plows or so many Car. There Gislebert had in Demesne three Car. eight Sochm. on three Bov. of Land and sixteen Vill. four Bord. having twelve Car. There were twenty two Acres of Medow Pasture Wood one leu long half a leu broad In the Confessours time it was 8l. value in the Conquerours 6l. having Soc in Almentun and Mapleberg The Constables of Chester held this Mannor very anciently and when they were Earls of Lincolne are certified to have held of the Fee of Gilbert de Gaunt three Knights Fees in Knèesall with the Appurtenances of the old Feoffment The Church was given by some of the first Constables to the Priory of Norton in Cheshire of their Foundation as in Radclive on Sore is noted The first Constable of Chester was Nigellus who with his five brothers Hudard Ancestor of Nigellus Constabularius Hugonis Comitis Cestr Willielmus Constabularius Will. Const. sine prole Matild vel Agn. ux Alberic Gredeley Anneissa-Eustach fil Joh. Richardus Constab. Cestr. -Albreda de-Will
de Clarofagio Lisures -Avicia fil Will. de Taneia Joh. Lacy Constab. Cest. Pip. 12 H. 2. Ebor. -Alicia Vere ux Will. Mandevill suit fil Aliciae de Essex Amitae Comit Will. sor Com. Alberici Rot. de dominabus pueris c. Rogerus Constab. Lacy dictus Hell ob 1211 -Matilda de Clare Joh. Lascy Constab. Cestr. Com. Linc. jure ux ob 1240 -1 Alicia fil Gilberti de Aquila-2 Margareta fil Rob. de Quanci Edmundus Constab. Cestr. non Com. Linc. quia mater supervixit ob 1258 -Alecia fil ... Marchionis de Saluces Henricus Lacy Com. Linc. Constab. Cestr. ob 1310. aet 60 -Margareta fil Will. Longespe Alesia fil haer ob 1348. aet 67. s. p. -Thom Com. Lanc. mar 1 -Ebulo le Strange mar 2. Eustachius Ric. Cestr. Lent 131. Gaufr Lent 46. b. Rob. Constab. Reg. Lent 131. Robertus Hospital Sara ux Rob. Alford Aubrea de Lisures ux Hen. Biset Lent 46. b. .... de Lusoriis Toraldus de Lusoriis 1088 -Beatr Will. de Lisoriis Fulco de Lisoriis 1088-Albreda Rob. de Lisoriis Pip. 5 Steph. -Albred sor Will. de Vesci -Hen de Lacy. Richardus Constab. Cestr. -Albreda de-Will de Clarofagio Lisures -Avicia fil Will. de Taneia Ilbertus de Lacy-Havisia Rob. de Lacy-Matild Rob. de Lisoriis Pip. 5 Steph. -Albred for Will. de Vesci -Hen de Lacy. Robertus Lacy s. p. -Isabella Ilb. -Alic de Gaunt s.p. the Duttons Edward Wolmer Horswin and Wolfan came with Hugh whom William the Conquerour made Earl of Chester to hold as free by his Sword as himself all England by his Crown which said Earl Hugh gave this Nigellus the Barony of Halton to which belonged nine Knights Fees and an half and a fourth part and a fifth part of a Fee by the name of the Constabelry of Chester and made him his Marshall and Constable so that whensoever the said Earl should move his Army towards Wales the said Nigellus and his heirs should go first in and come last out William the Constable son of this Nigellus Founded an House of Canons at Runcorne 1133. he was very old then and was buried at Chester where he died William the younger his son who succeeded in the Inheritance transferred the Canons to Norton and died without heirs of his body leaving his sisters Agnes and Matilda his heirs The story makes Agnes married to Aubert Grelly but certain it is that Anneissa daughter of William the Constable of Chester was second wife of Eustace Fitz-Iohn and over-lived him whose son and heir by her was Richard Constable of Chester who married Albreda the daughter and heir of Robert de Lisures son of Fulc de Lisures and of Albreda his wife This Robert de Lusoriis 5 Steph. gave account of viiil. vis. viiid. that he might marry the sister of Ilbert de Lacy. Ilbert Lacy who lived in the Conquerours time begot of his wife Havisia Robert Lacy who by Matilda his wife had Hilbert and Henry and Founded a Monastery at Pontefract their principal place of residence where he was buried in the time of William Rufus Ilbert his son had to wife Alicia Gaunt but no issue Henry his other son married Albreda it seems the sister of William Vesci Governour of Berwic and by her had Robert Lacy his son and heir who died about 4 R. 1. 1193. and having no issue by Isabell his wife Albreda the daughter of Robert de Lisoures his sister by the mothers side became his heir and carried a very great inheritance to the Constables of Chester though besides her husband Richard before named she had one called William the Ancestor of the Fitz-Williams named in Plumtre By her husband the said Richard she had Iohn Laci Constable of Chester and Robert the Hospitaler and Sara wife of Robert de Alford and Aubrea de Lisures wife of Henry Biset In the year 1186. Garner de Naples Prior of the House of the Hospital of Hierusalem in England by the consent of the Chapter granted to Iohn Constable of Chester and his heirs their whole Town of Knesale which they had of the gift of the said Iohn to be held of their House by the Rent of two Marks of Silver yearly yet so as that at his death and likewise at the death of each of his heirs the third part of his and their substance which they shall have in Knesale shall remain to their said House of Hospitalers for the health of his or their Souls This Iohn had to wife Alice Vere who was also married to William Mandeville she was daughter of Alice de Essex Aunt of Earl William and sister of Earl Alberic Adelicia sometime wife of Iohn Constable of Chester granted and confirmed to the Monks of Rufford her whole Land of Almeton which belonged to her Fee of Cnesale which was of her Dower according as it was confirmed in the Charters of the said â—ohn her Lord and Roger de Laci her son reserving 10s. per annum Rent This Iohn is said to be slain in the Holy Land the fifth of the Ides of Octob. 1183. but that agrees not well with what before is set down except Robert Lacy his Uncle over-lived him and the Hospitalers Deed should be dated 1168. instead of 1186. This Iohn had several sons Eustachius Richard Chester Gaufr Robert Constable of Chester but his eldest son Roger Lacy the Constable for troubling the Welch got the name of Helle he with a sudden raised Company of Shoomakers and Players relieved Ranulf Earl of Chester Besieged in a Castle in Wales for which the said Earl gave him and his heirs the Dominion and Advowson of those kind of people which it seems this Roger gave to his Senescal one of the heirs of Hudard whom his brother Nigellus before-named made Senescal of his Barony because the Duttons Jurisdiction and Inheritance is excepted out of the Statutes 39 Eliz. and 1 Iac. concerning Vagabonds and Rogues This Roger married Matilda de Claere sister of the Treasurer of the Church of Yorke and by her had Iohn the second Constable of Chester whom he left to succeed him 1211. after whose death the said Iohn took to wife Alesia daughter of Gilbert de Aquila and after her death Margaret the daughter of Robert de Quenci Niece of Ranulf Earl of Chester and by-her was made Earl of Lincolne 1221. 5 H. 3. on whom he begot Edmund de Lacy Constable of Chester but not Earl of Lincolne because his mother over-lived him Iohn died the eleventh of the Kal. of August 1240. 24 H. 3. and his son Edmund 1248. after he had begotten his son Henry de Lacy Earl of Lincolne on his wife Alesia daughter of the Marquess of Saluces in Italy her mother after the death of her husband the said Marquess was married to Menfred son of Frederic the Emperour who begat on her Constancia wife of Peter son of Iames King of Arragon In the year 1282. King Edward gave
to Henry de Lacy Earl of Lincoln for his Service two Cantreds in Wales viz. of Roos and Roweignok He had by Margaret daughter of William Longespey Edmund de Lacy junior who died young and Iohn who was slain by a fall from a Tower in Pontefract Castle before he was marriageble and Alise his daughter and heir who at nine years old was betrothed to Thomas of Lancaster King Edwards Nephew son of Edmund Earl of Lancaster his brother which Thomas Earl of Lancaster her husband was beheaded in the year 1321. and she after married her old Love Ebulo le Strange but had no issue her Father the said Henry Earl of Linc. died 3 E. 2. 1310. aged sixty years having settled a great part of his Estate 22. E. 1. for want of heirs of his said daughter Alesia on the heirs of the said Thomas Earl of Lancaster her husband and thus ended this Noble Line Henry Earl of Lincolne died seiâ—ed of this Mannor of Knesale and the Wapentak of Allerton and other Lands of the Fee of Gaunt and Tikhill The heirs of Iohn Burdon held of him a Knights Fee in Maplebeck Kirketon and Bucketon Iohn de Kiâ—nesaâ—e in Kirnesale a 〈◊〉 part Raph de Welwike Iohn de Calneton Robert Coly and Richard Freman a fourth part in Kenesale Margery Foliot a Fee in Grimston with its members Richard de Sutton a Fee in Alerton William Fitz-William three parts of a Fee in Weston Sternethorp Sutton and in â—ieworth in Cotum by Dunham Marneham Batheley Muscham Karleton â—keggeby another Fee in Mareton Hareworth and Lympole half a Fee in Plumtre by â—areworth a sixth part of a Knights Fee in Sâ—yrap and Vlcotes a fourth part in Costerthorp and Hardwick another Fee in Claverburgh and Hayton the fourth and eighth part of a Fee in Clumbre a sixth part in Allerton a third in Drayton a fourth and an eighth part c. Iohn de Felton 3 E. 3. claimed to have view of Frank-pledge and Weyf and Free Warren in his Mannor of Knesale Thomas Earl of Norforlk and Suffolk and Marescal 6 E. 3. passed to the King and his heirs the Mannor of Knesall with many others in several Counties The Jury 34 E. 3. found that William de Bohun Earl of Northhampton held when he died the Mannor of Knesale by the Charter of King Edward the third and that Humfrey de Bohun was his son and heir The Jury 1 H. 4. found that Alianor wife of Thomas late Duke of Gloucester one of the daughters and heirs of Humfrey de Bohun late Earl of Hereford died feised of this Mannor of Knesale Anne wife of Edmund Earl Stafford Willielmus Boun Com. Northampton Humfr. de Bohun Com. Hereford-Essex Northampton Alianor-Tho de Woodstock Dux Glocestr Anna-Edmundus Com. Stafford Humfr. Dux Buckingham Humfr. Stafford Henricus Dux Buckingham Edmund Dux Buckingham attinct 13 H. 3. Joana at 15. 1 H. 4. Isabella aet 13. 1. H. 4. Ioane then aged fifteen years and Isabell thirteen were her three daughters and heirs In 4 H. 4. they found that Edmund Earl of Stafford when he died held the Mannor of Knesale of the inheritance of Anne his wife and that Humfrey his son and heir was then one year old she the said Anne afterwards 7 H. 4. was wife of Iohn William le Bourghchier Chr. Humfr. Duke of Buckingham about 38 H. 6. died seized of the Mannors of Radcliffe on Sore Knesale and Colston Basset leaving Henry son of Humfrey son of the said Duke his heir The Mannor of Knesall late Edmund Duke of Buckinghams 13 H. 8. was granted to Iohn Hussey Knight and the heirs males of his body Iohn Lord Hussey was attaint in Parliament 31 H. 8. and in 3 or 5 E. 6. this Mannor and many others were granted to Edward Fynes Lord Clinton and Say Lord Admiral of England and his heirs Robert Earl of Kingston had it and with his posterity it continueth There was a Chantry founded at the Altar of St. Nicolas in Knesall by one Iohn Chapman of the City of York Publique Notary who held Lands while he lived in Knéesall Ampton and Allerton which were granted by Queen Eliz. 18 Eliz. To Iohn Mershe Esquire and Francis Greneham Gent. there was a recovery 17 and 18 Eliz. wherein Iohn Meringe Gent. and Iohn Burton claimed against William Meringe Knight two Mess. one hundred Acres of Land five hundred Acres of Pasture in Knesall who called to warrant Thomas Meringe Esquire son and heir of the said William In the year 1612. the owners of Kneesall were reckoned to be Samuel Hartop Gilbert Rosse Gent. Robert Clark and William Walhead The Vicarage of Knesall was ten Marks when the Vicars Choral of Southwell were Patrons 't is now ten Pounds value in the Kings Books and the Church of Southwell retains the Patronage Kernesall Kersal Cheuersale THis was a Member as it were of Knesale yet there was a Grange or Hermitage in Kersale which Hugo de Burun a great benefactor and afterwards Monk of Lenton held who gave Land in Almeton to that Monastery but I suspect this Hermitage of Kersale might be in Lancashire Richard son of Robert de Croxton confirmed to the Canons of Stanley Parke otherwise called Dale-Abby the whole gift which his brother Iohn made to them of all his Land in Mickleverge in the territory of Kirnesale which the Abbat and Covent released to Avicia sometime wife of Sir Iohn de Kirnesale and her heirs Robert Walensiâ— son of Rob. Walensis of Kirneshal gave four Acres of Arable Land in an essart of Kirneshal to the Monastery of Rufford with his body paying the Lord of the Fee 6 d. per annum which it seems was one Thomas de Ywardeby Clark who wrote to Sir William de Sutton and Sir Robert his brother Knights Iohn Burdon Iohn de Kirmshale Rob. Maleshover Richard Freman and Henry son of Silvester de Kirmshale stiling them Noble and discreet men that he had released to the Monks of Rufford all his interest in the said Land which Robert Walensit gave of his Fee and likewise the 6â— per annum Rent due to him and his heirs and diligently intreated them that they would bear testimony to that Deed of release sealed with the same seal with which his Letters to them were sealed because they knew certainly that he had not a seal in which his proper name was contained Silvester de Kirneshale son of Henry de Laxton gave to the said Monastery of Rufford one Acre of Arable Land in Kirneshale of his Wong which lay on the North part of the way which leads from Kirneshale to the wood called Bergelhage the witnesses were Robert de Laxton Mr. Peter and Mr. Stephen his brothers Raph son of Henry de Laxton his own brother William son of Iohn de Kalnatheton Robert Broune Esquire Thomas Smith Richard Bevercotes Gent. and others 17 H. 8. claimed against Robert Kellome
Geld or Tax as four Carucats and five Bovats The Land was then returned sufficient for nine Plows and an half or nine Car. ½ There Arch-bishop Thomas whose Fee it was had two Car. in Demesne twenty Sochm. seven Vill. sixteen Bord. having six Car. there was a Mill 2s. and sixty six Acres of Medow and fourscore Acres of small wood In the Confessours time it was valued at 15s. In the Conquerours when the survey was taken at 10s. Here was another Mannor of the Land of the Taynes which Sortebrand had before the Normans came and for it paid the Geld as six Bov. The Land being one Car. ½ Sericus held it of King William and had there one Sochm. two Bord. with two Oxen in Plow and twelve Acres of Medow Pasture wood one qu. long and one broad In King Edward the Confessours time this was also rated at 16s. but in Kings Williams at 5s. There is a descent in the Monasticon Vol. 1. p. 963. which is also in the Register of Beauvale the latter part whereof is erroneous that Robert de Muskam Senescal of Gislebert de Gaunt was father of Hugh de Muskam who was a benefactor to Rufford whose gifts King Stephen confirmed This Hugh in the presence and by the consent of his Lord Henry Murdac Arch-bishop of Yorke who lived in that Kings time gave to that Monastery all that part of the Land of his Fee of Muscam which on the west side of his Park was shut in with the bounds of three Villages viz. Kelum Winkeburne and Thorpe now Middlethorp and the seat of a Grange in his Park which with what was noted in Kelum made the Hamlet or Grange called Parkelathes and the Land on the South side of his Park where the house of Fulc stood and a Wong of his Demesne near his Park on the East side called Geniwode which last gift he made when he rendred himself to the fellowship of the Monks and by the hand of Mat. the Abbat all which and sundry others Rob. de Muschamp his son and heir confirmed as he did also what his father gave in Shipley in Darbyshire adding to the new work of the Church of Rufford and after the finishing thereof to the light of that Church for the Souls of his father and mother his own and his wifes and for the Soul of Fulco de Castilon the brother of his wife half a Mark of Silver of the Farm which Rob. de Sipley was to pay the said Monks for ever To this Deed of Robert son of Hugh de Muscamp were witnesses Roger the Prior of Ruford Iohn the Celerer Roger de Novavilla Ernisius the Monk Ioslenus de Novavilla and others Robert de Sipley and William his son and heir swore upon the holy Gospels in the presence of their Lord Robert de Muscam that they and their heirs would yearly at Pentecost owe half a mark of Silver to the Monks of Ruford for what the said Monks had in Sipley The witnesses were Robert de Muscam Hugh his brother Hugh and Robert sons of the said Robert Walter de Scekebi Adam the Clark of Muscam William de Derby G. Parvo small or little the Cellerer of Ruford Likewise Gilbert son of Fulco de Kelum in the presence of his Lord Robert de Muscham and in his Court quit-claimed to the Monks of Rufford the Toft of Fulc his father called Brunecroft in the territory of Muscam in pure Alms free and quiet as the Chartels of Hugh de Muscham and Robert his son testified and over and above gave them two Acres and an half of Arable Land lying on the South part of the way which leads from the corner of the Park of Muscham towards Carleton which Richard his brother gave them and all that Wong in the territory of Karleton which Robert de Muscham gave to the said Monks with Robert his son buried at Ruford The said Gilbert gave also eleven Acres and an half in the territory of Kelum c. The witnesses were William de Muscam Arch-Deacon of Derbi William Botiler of Hokerton Walter Fitz-Pagan of Newerc and Ganfr his brother Yvo le Walur William son of Warm de Newerc Peter Beuwaleth and Alan his brother Henry son of William de Kelum Henry Ormal Richard son of Robert de Kelum Peter de Kelum Hugh the Clark of Calnadton Raph son of Thomas de Hokerton It appears that the sons of Robert de Muschamp died without issue Hugh eldest son of Robert de Muschamp by Idonea his wife had no heirs neither had his brother Robert by Agnes the sister of Almeric de Gassi Knight not their brother Andrew because Raph de Greseley 15 Ioh. as in Greseley is shown made Fine to the King of five hundred Marks for having the Land which was Robert de Muschamp's father of Isabella wife of the said Raph and that he might marry Agnes his daughter to Robert Lupus Love which marriage either came not to perfection or Rob. Lupus died without issue for Hugh Fitz-Raph and Agnes his wife daughter and heir of Raph de Greseley in 12 H. 3. gave account of 15l. for their relief of three Knights Fees which the said Raph de Gresele held of the Honour of Peverell Nott. viz. two in Claindon and one in Gresele with the Appurtenances Hugh Fitz-Raph for the safety or health of his own Soul and the Souls of his two wives and of Raph and Hugh his sons and all his ancestors and successors gave to the Monks of Ruford a certain part of his Wood of Muschamp near the Grange with the Land in which the Wood stood and certain Arable Land viz. that part of Wood and Land which lay on the South and West part of the new ditch which the Monks made from the corner of Bugwong named in Kellum Raph Fitz-Nicolas and Hugh-Fitz-Raph gave account of the gift of the Prelates granted to the King to marry c. Hugh Fitz-Raph held in Muschampe and Carleton one Fee of the Arch-bishop of York of the old Feoffment Hugh de Muscham in the time of H. 2. held two Fees of Roger Arch-bishop of York of the old Feoffment that is whereof his Ancestor was enfeoffed before the death of King Henry the first This Hugh Fitz-Raph left no son to succeed him but the Inheritance went to Eustachia daughter of his son Raph who was first married to Nicolas de Cantelup and after his death to William de Ros of Ingmanthorp Raph Fitz-William Lord of Grymesthorpe for a Release which Sir William de Ros of Ingmanthorp and Eustachia his wife made for themselves and their heirs to the said Raph concerning Lands and Tenements which they had in Nesham and Morton upon Swale gave to William de Ros son of the said William and Eustachia all his Mannor of South Muscham and Carleton in the year 1286. whereof a Fine was levied in 15 E. 1. William de Ros
of Ingmanthorp Knight by his Indenture 16 E. 2. granted to Galfr. le Scrop and Ivetta his wife during their lives the Mannor of South Muskham and of Karleton and afterwards 17 E. 2. released which Isabell wife of William de Ros also did and so did Robert de Ros of Ingmanthorp Knight to Henry le Scrop Knight 25 E. 3. King Edward the third settled by Act of Parliament on Galfr. le Scrop and his heirs two hundred Marks per annum to maintain the state of a Bannerer which the said Galfr. took by the Kings Precept He was a great Judge in the Reigns of Edward the second and Edward the third he died about 14 E. 3. seised of this Mannor and left Henry le Scrop his son and heir who was Lord Scrop of Masham who had a sister Ivetta married to Iohn son of Iohn Hotham of Bondeby son of Peter brother of the great Iohn Hotham Bishop of Ely and two sisters more Constance wife of Galfr. and Beatrix wife of Andrew Lutterell and a brother Galfr. Scrop Galfridus le Scrop Chr. ob 14 E. 3 -Ivetta Henricus le Scrop Chr. Stephen le Scrope Chr. de Masham-Margeria 1 Henricus s. p. 2 Galfr. le Scrope Chr. s. p. 3 Steph. s. p. 4 Johannes le Scrop de Masham-Eliz fil Tho. Chaworth Thom. le Scrope Thom. le Scrope Elizabetha-Henricus le Scrope 12 H. 7. Jana-Henr Fitz-Hugh Andr. Lutterel-Beatrix Galfr. Lutterell-Constanc Galfr. Ivetra ux Joh. Hotham Henry le Scrop about 16 R. 2. left this Mannor to Stephen le Scrope his son and heir who about 7 H. 4. left it to his son Henry who died without issue as did Galfr. and Stephen his brothers so that it came to his brother Iohn Lord Scrope of Masham the fourth son of the said Stephen which Iohn married Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Chaworth named in East Bridgeford whom he left a widow Thomas being then his son and heir who was Father of Thomas Father of Elizabeth wife of Henry le Scrope 12 H. 7. as in Bridgeford is noted Iohn Savage Clark and William Holgyll Clark 24 H. 8. claimed against Humfr. Coton Gent. and William Strelley the Mannors of South Muskham and Carleton c. and called to warrant Iames Strangwayes Knight Iohn Marshall 34 H. 8. claimed against William Poulet Knight Lord St. Iohn two parts of the Mannor of South Muskham divided into five Iohn Marshall 4 and 5 Ph. and Mar. claimed against Christopher Wyvell Esquire the fifth part and a moyety of a fifth part of this Mannor Hen. Marshall Esquire 2 Eliz. claimed against Dorothy Esshe the fifth part of the fifth part of the Mannor of South Muskam c. with the Appurtenances in South Carleton and Holme Nicolas Strelley was owner of the fourth part of the Mannor of South Muskam 25 H. 8. It came after to the possession of Raph Marshall a Merchant of the Staple at Lincolne in whose Family it continued till Raph Marshall in our times sold it and all other the Lands that belonged to the Family being a fair Inheritance to Iohn Rotheram a six Clark of the Chancery and it was lately the Inheritance of Sir William Willoughby Baronet descended from Iohn Rotherams sister as in Normanton on Sore or Selston may partly be seen which Sir William having no legitimate issue for names sake gave the Lands he inherited here to Mr. Francis Willoughbies son of Wollaton and his they now are South Carleton heretofore the Seat of the Marshalls he bought of Willoughby Pond and as I think gave it with other purchased Lands to his natural issue which were Richard Revell alias Willoughby and Hugh Willoughby who died 1675. Gernon or Garnon had a good Freehold here where the Family hath continued above four hundred years not very great or eminent and so hath that of Scrimshire Richard Skrymsher Thomas Skrymsher Henry Sutton Esquire William Skrymsher Clark and Robert Hewes 17 H. 8. claimed against Reginald Fawcett two Mess. four Tofts one hundred Acres of Land twenty of Medow and twenty of Pasture with the Appurtenances in South Muskam and Carleton William Skrymsher Esquire died the 20 Ian. 3 and 4 Ph. and Mar. Maud the wife of Henry Marshall named before was his daughter and heir he had Lands in South Muskam North Muskam and Carleton The Rectory is appropriated to the Church of Southwell and makes a Prebend called South Muskam Prebend which Henry de Sewell Clark augmented in the time of Henry the third by the donation or gift of three Tofts in the Town of Suell to Mr. William de Marcham Canon of that Church and to his successours Canons of the Prebend of Suth Muschamp c. The Witnesses to the Chapters Certificate of his Deed were Mr. William de Marcham Sir Robert de Lexington Richard de Sutton Canon of Suell Mr. Peter de Lexington Sir Henry de More William the Sacrist Thomas de Barra Chapiains Iohn de Augir Robert de Barra Iohn de Suwell Clark and others The owners or Freeholders of South Muskham and South Carleton in 1612. are said to be William Willoughby Knight Raph Barton Esquire Thomas Powdrell Esquire the heirs of Thomas Greaves Henry Garnon Henry Saxton Francis Wortley three Mess. three Cottages three pounds and seventy seven Acres of Land Mr. William son of William Wolhouse sold his Lands at North Muskham very lately to Mr. William Welby and hath since purchased Firbeck Com. Ebor. of Sir Francis Fane The Vicarage of South Muskham was eight Marks but now is 4l. value in the Kings Books the Prebendary continueth Patron In the East Window of the Chancel Sable a Chevron between three Roses Arg. There is the Arms of the See of Canterbury impaling Arg. three Bores Heads erased and erected Sable Booth I doubt mistaken for the Arms of York as they are with Arch-bishop Lee's again in the same Window and in the Hall Window of Newstede the See of Canterbury impales Savage who was Arch-bishop of York also but not of Canterbury that I know of France and England quarterly Az. a Bend Or Scroop And the same again with a Label of three poynts Arg. Lees is a Cross engrayled quartering a Fesse and Billettè Or. North Muscham Holme And Batheley THat part of Nord Muscham which was of the Soc of Suwell paid the Tax or Geld for one Car. ½ It was a very great Township but the Hamlets Holme and Batheley which were involved with it are not named in Dooms-day Book which shows that St. Peter de Burgo had a share here which paid for ten Bovats The Land four Car. There was then in Demesne one Car. and two Sochm. on two Bov. and an half of Land five Vill. and three Bord. having one Car. and an half and two Mills 20s. and one waste wastam and half a Piscary and thirty Acres of Medow In the Confessours time the value was 60s. then 40s. but
parcelled and were admitted accordingly It seems that Bertram de Mounboucher son of this Bertram and Ioane married Isabell the daughter of Sir Richard Willoughby of Wollaton to his first wife and afterwards Christian the sister of Sir Iohn de Woderington and died leaving his son Bertram who was by his first wife his heir 12 R. 2. and also a daughter called Isabell first married to Henry Heton Chr. and afterwards to Robert de Herbotell Esquire by whom she had Robert Herbotell who died 22 H. 6. and was Father of Bertram Herbotell who 2 E. 4. left his son Robert nine years old heir of this Mannor by descent from the said Isabell his great Grandmother who 5 H. 6. died seised of two parts of this Mannor called South Hall together with the Reversion of the third part which fell to her after the deaths of three Bertram Mounbouchers viz. her brother who died 1 H. 4. his son her Nephew 2 H. 5. and the last Bertram son and heir of her said Nephew who died without issue 4 H. 6. George Harbotell 20 H. 8. left his two sisters heirs of the Mannor of Dalton Travers in Northumberland and of this also viz. Alianor who was married to Thomas Percy and Mary late the wife of Edward Firton There was a Recovery 30 H. 8. wherein Raph Byrkheved and Christopher Harbotell claimed against Alianor Percy widow the moyety of the Mannor of Sutton c. and another 3 and 4 Ph. and Mar. wherein Robert Thomson and Richard Kynge claimed against Iohn Smyth the Mannor of Sutâ—on upon Trent c. and 6l. Rent with the Appurtenances in Sutton upon Trent Strarnethorpe and Wested who called Edward Fytton Knight Iohn Meringe of Sutton married Dorothy the daughter and co-heir of Iohn Smith and by her had William Meringe of Sutton Father of Iohn Father of William fourteen years old 1674. she was after married to Nath. Lodge Gloucesters Mannor continued in that name and Family long Henry Gloucester 20 H. 7. suffered a Recovery to Edward Stanhope Knight of the Mannors of Sutton upon Trent and Carcolston with the Appurtenances and fourteen Mess. two hundred Acres of Land forty of Medow one hundred of Pasture and 26s. 8l. Rent in Sutton and Carcolston These were shortly after Sir William Merings as in Carcolston is said This was Mr. Richard Hackers of Flintham his son Iohn sold it not long since to Hugh Shepherd who hath built a pretty little House and lives there The Jury 2 E. 1. found that Robert de Sutton held a Mannor in Sutton of Wiscard de Charron and his heirs he held likewise Warsop and Eykering c. he was son of William Sutton son of Roland whom I suppose to be a younger son of Harvey de Sutton before named and marrying the sister of Robert de Lexington advanced his posterity thereby aâ— in Warsop and other places of this Book may be noted This Robert de Sutton left his son and heir Richard de Sutton then viz. 2 E. 1. eight years old Who afterwards had a son called Iohn who married one of the co-heirs of Iohn de Somery Lord Dudley and his posterity becoming Lords Dudley this Mannor and Warsop as in that place will appear shortly came to be the inheritance of the Lords Ros of Hamlak The Jury 26 E. 3. found that William Lord Roos of Hamelak when he dyed held Orston and the Mannor of Warsop joyntly with Margaret his wife and the Mannor of Sutton upon Trent of Philip Queen of England as of the Honour of Richmond and that Thomas de Roos was his brother and heir Thomas de Roos of Hamelak Chr. 7 R. 2. held it when he died joyntly with Beatrice his wife as he did Screveton parcel of Orston and also Warsop Iohn de Roos Knight was then found their son and heir who about 17 R. 2. left it to his brother William and so it descended as in Orston may be seen to Roger Earl of Rutland who sold it to Fulc Cartwright Esquire Lord also of Ossington where William Cartwright Esquire his son resides who hath an house here also The owners of this Sutton 1612. are said to be Gilbert Earl of Shrowsbury who I suppose had the Rectory and what belonged to Wirksop which his Grace the Duke of Newcastle sold to ... Clark Fulk Cartwright Esquire Mrs. Lodge Thomas Lee Gent. Edward Sudbury Senior Thomas Truswell Senior William Truswell Thomas Childers Barth Cade c. The Vicarage of Sutton was ten Marks when the Prior of Wirksop was Patron 't is now in the Kings Books 5l. 6s. 8d. value and the Duke of Newcastle Patron Gresthorp And Normanton THese both were of the Fee of Roger de Busli after the Conquest before which they were in many hands In Gresthorp Dunning and Gran. for their two Mannors answered the Tax for six Bov. and an half and a fourth part of a Bovat The Land was two Car. There afterwards in King Williams time Roger the Man or Tenant of the said Roger de Busli had two Car. and four Sochm. twelve Vill. one Bord. having five Car. There were three Mills 20s. and twelve Acres of Medow and four Acres of Pasture Wood. This part retained the old value 3l. having Soc in Sudton In Normentune before the Conquest five Taynes Iustan Durand Elward Elmar and Alsi had every one his hall and every one was chargeable to the Dane-geld for one Bov. and the fifth part of a Bov. The Land was twelve Bov. There afterwards Roger the Man of Roger de Busli had nine Sochm. four Bord. having three Car. and twelve Acres of Medow In the Confessours time the value was 10s. in the Conquerours 6s. Here was also a parcel Soc to Scacheby half a Bov. ad Geldam There two Vill. and two Bord. had one Car. Another part was Soc to Fladburg of the Bishop of Lincolnes Fee which was six Bov. ad Geldam The Land twelve Bov. There eleven Sochm. had three Car. and six Acres of Medow Here was also a parcel Soc to Dunham the Kings Land which was one Bov. ½ to the Geld. One moyety of this Land belonged to Bodmeschell and the other to Dunham it was then waste Pasture Wood three qu. long two broad These townships as most or all of that Rogers did came to William de Lovetot who gave amongst the rest this Church of Normanton to the Priory which he founded at Radeford by Wirksop in the time of H. 1. as in that place will be shown Matildis de Lovetoft his great Grand-child who was sometime wife of Gerard de Furnivall gave the Mannor of Gresthorp with the Appurtenances and Whistan in Yorkshire except the Advowson of that Church to Alda who had been wife of William de Furnivall her son in lieu of her dower in the Mannors of Grengeley Whystan and Gresthorp during her life but it seems that before 52 H. 3. Thomas de
of Shirewood and 12 H. 3. 22 Octob. gave account of the two hundred Marks accordingly Robert de Everingham and Isabell his wife sister and heir of Thomas de Birkin 15 H. 3. made the like Fine of two hundred Marks for the same seisin and did homage Novemb. 21. The Jury 36 H. 3. said that Isabell de Everingham and her Ancestors had the custody of the Forest of Shirwode and for that the forreign service of twelve Knights Fees and an half was released to her Ancestors by the Kings Ancestors Her son Adam de Everingham had the suit with William Burdolf mentioned in Shelford for the Advowson of that Priory The Jury 9 E. 1. said that Adam de Everingham held when he died of the King in Capite the moyety of the Barony of Shelford where he had a free Court from 3. weeks to 3. weeks the Custody of Shirewood this Mannor that of North Leverton and Gedling and that Robert de Everingham was his son and heir who about 15 E. 1. left all these matters to his son Adam who 4 E. 2. had an Ad quod Damnum returned for settling the Mannor of Westburgh in Lincolneshire on Thomas de Suthwell c. By a Fine 7 E. 3. he settled this Mannor of Laxton on himself for life and then to Adam de Everingham his son whom 15 E. 3. he left his heir He had other sons Robert Edmund Alexander and Nicolas This Adam de Everingham Chr. 33 E. 3. had an Ad quod Damnum returned concerning his settling 10l. and 9s. rent in Gedling Nottingham Colewyke Stoke Bardolf Schelford Neuton and Carleton by Gedling and eight Marks and 6s. 8d. Rent issuing out of the Lands and Tenements of the said Adam in Gedling on William his son and Alice his wife daughter of Iohn Grey of Godnor William it seems 43 E. 3. died before his said Father and so did Robert son of this William Adam died 8 Febr. 11 R. 2. his son Reginald de Everingham Chr. was his heir male and then aged thirty years which Reginald by his wife Agnes the daughter of Iohn Lungvillers Lord of Hoghton upon Idell had a great estate but no issue by her but by another wife called Ioane he had Edm. de Everingham who died at 15. years of age in the Kings custody without issue so that Ioane and Katherine his elder brother William de Everinghams daughters were his heirs as they were their Grand-fathers the said Adam son of Adam c. Ioane was married to Sir William Elys who died at Saint Albans in his journey towards Calis and had a son by her called Robert she after married Iohn de Waterson Catherin was wife of Sir Iohn Etton son of Sir Thomas which Sir Iohn had several sons Miles Ivo William Alexander but this Mannor descended to the four daughters and heirs of Sir Miles Etton who died before his father the said Sir Iohn who held this Mannor of Lâ—xton with the Advowson of the Church and the Mannors of Egmanton and North Leveeton by the courtesie of England after the death of his wife the said Katherin till 11 H. 6. that he left it to his Grand-children Elizabeth the wife of Iohn Northwood Isabell of Iohn Roos Margaret of Robert Moresby and Anne of Robert Roucliffe The posterity of this Iohn Roos got all or most of this Mannor by purchase or otherwise his sons name was Robert Roos and he had to wife Elizabeth daughter of Sir William Midleton and by her William Roos who married Eleonor daughter of Sir Christopher Wainsford who brought him Humfrey Roos who for his first wife had Anne daughter of Richard Restwold and his second was Margaret Linne of Southwyke in Northamptonshire he died 17 Iuly 13 H. 8. leaving Francis Roos his son by his first wife his heir which Francis by Elizabeth his wife daughter of Thomas Scrimsal of Morbery in the County of York had Peter Roos who first married .... the daughter of Sir Iames Harvey by whom he had a daughter married to Sir Griffin Markham and after to his second wife had Brigit the only heir of Robert Roos of Ingmanthorp by whom he had Gilbert and Peter This woman after her husbands death married one Richard Clark and as the inhabitants say by her own misfortunes and the wicked unthriftiness of her son the said Gilbert Roos the last Lord of Laxton of this noble race was reduced to so great poverty that she gleaned Corn amongst other poor people in Laxton Field Peter Roos her husband had a brother named Thomas of whom there are many Grand-children yet alive and six sisters married one to ... Fairfax of Gifling another to ... Broughton another to ... Stapleton named in Burton Iorz another to ... Schrimshire of Norbury another to ..... Maxfeild another to ... Whitmore Gilbert Roos married .... the daughter of ... Orrell afterwards wife of Sir Peter Killegrew and by her had two daughters one married to ... Thomas of the County of Essex who had part of North Leverton with her the other never married Peter Roos of Knesale his brother had to wife Frances the daughter of ... Marshall and by her four daughters and a son Gilbert Roos who married Elizabeth the daughter of Augustin Hinde of Laxton Morehouse and died 1661. and left issue Gilbert Peter Mary Frances and Troth There was a Quare impedit recovered 13 E. 4. by Richard Roos Esquire against Isabell Roos Widow Robert Roos Esq and William Roos Chaplain of the Advowson of the Church of Laxton The Earl of Kingston had the Mannor of Laxton which remains with his posterity That Mannor of Lexington which was held by and gave name to the Lord Lexingtons Ancestors descended to his heirs as in Tuxford and other places will be shown Sir Brian Broughton Knight and Baronet hath I suppose all or most of it bought of the Lord Vaux as Bildsthorp and Lowdham were or perhaps of his Kinsman Gilbert Roos The Rectory of Laxton was appropriated to the Colledge of Iesus in Rotheram founded there by Thomaes Rotheram sometime Bishop of Lincolne There was a Chantry in the Church of Laxton to which Lands in Laxton did belong Near this Town lies a small Hamlet called Laxton Morehouse where there was a small Chapel and Lands which belonged to a Guild there Laxton Morehouse is now the inheritance of Augustin Hinde Gent. descended from one of that name Alderman of London and Elizabeth his wife after his decease married to Sir Iohn Lyon Alderman of London also she was a Lee as in Norwell may be noted she made her Will 10 Ian. 1566. which was proved 21 Ian. 1569. by which it appears Henry Lee was her brother and that by Augustin Hinde she had four sons Roland Austine Edward and Iohn and two daughters one married to Edward Gresham who had Richard and the other to ... Dodsmore The owners of Laxton Town
for ten Plows or ten Car. There afterwards Rogerius de Busli whose Fee it was had four Car. and thirty two Vill. and two Bord. having fourteen Car. and one Mill 10s. 8d. In King Edward the Confessors time the value of this was 10l. in the Conquerors when the Survey was taken 8l. it had Soc in Schâ—drinton and Walesby When Halan son of Iordan gave to Galfr. de le Phremunt the Land of Wallesby and of Circheton in Fee and Inheritance to him and his heirs as in Kirketon is noted and the Sarts and Alnatas Osier or Alder holts which belonged to it for half a Mark of Silver yearly he furthermore ordered that whether he was present or absent the said Galfr. should prosequut his Pleas if need were and maintain his Men to or at the Cunty and the Triding and the Hundred The Witnesses to this Charter were Iohel and Michel and Galfr. and Henry the Priest of Marcham and Thoca the praepositus Reeve of Tuxford and the rest of that Town This Halan I should rather suppose great Grandfather than Father of Oliva daughter of Alan son of Iordan named in Kirketon but that she was old as in West Markham may be noted she it seems was married to Roger de Monte Begonis who 7 H. 3. had Estovers in his Woods of Wirsop Tukesford and Legerton as he was wont but she was before viz. 1179. 26 H. 2. wife of Robert de St. Iohn or St. Martin and Roger de Munbegun 2 Ioh. gave account of five hundred Marks for having her to his wife with her Inheritance of which Fine Eustachius de Vesci was pledge for three hundred m. and Raph de Mara for one hundred Marks This Roger was son of Adam de Munbegun and 9 R 1. ought King Richard the first five hundred Marks for having seisin of his Land whereof he was disseized for the Service of Earl Iohn which the King then held in his hand whether William de Albeni restored to him the said Roger that Land of his which the King gave the said William or not I do not find that this Oliva had any Children by either or any of her husbands Henry de Munedegen 18 H. 3. next heir of Roger de Montebegonis paid for relief in Lincolneshire c. After his death I guess she sold this Mannor Warsop c. to Robert de Lexington who 20 H. 3. had a confirmation of it from the King and 21 H. 3. the said Robert made a Charter to Iohn de Lexinton his brother of the Mannor of Tuxford and Hamlet of Warsop of which 41 H. 3. he died seized and of the Land in Leslinton held of Adam de Everingham which descended from their Father Richard son of Robert de Lexinton named in Kirketon which Richard had the Custody or Baylywick of the Barony of Lexinton which belonged to Matilda de Cauz and brought up his sons so fortunately that Robert who was a Clergy-man Canon of Southwell became a great Judge and Baron making this place the principal Seat of his Barony which he left to his said brother Iohn who was Lord Keeper and the eldest son and had to wife Margery Merlay as in Averham is said but no issue for Henry de Lessinton the youngest brother aged above sixty years 41 H. 3. Dean and after Bishop of Lincolne was heir to his brother the said Iohn Lord Lexington Peter and Stephen their brothers both Clergy-men being I suppose dead before and the year following viz. 42 H. 3. Richard de Marcham and William de Sutton were found the next heirs of the Bishop who held this Mannor and the rest and the Wong and Wood called Herteshorne in Knesale of Edmund Lascy for a Sparrow-Hawk or 2s. yearly c. The partition of Lexingtons Lands was made 43 H. 3. by Fine between William Sutton son of Rolande of whom the Lord Dudley descendeth and Richard Marcham son of William Robertus de Laxton Richardus de Lessinton-Matildis Joh. de Lexington custos sig H. 3 -Margeria de Merlay s. p. Ric. de Marcham vel Willielmus -Cecil Robertus de Marcham mort 17 E. 1 -Sarra fil cohaer Jordani de Snitterton Com. Derb. 42 H. 3. .... de Bekering-1 Cecilia aet 30. an 17 E. 1 -Joh de Bray mar 2. Tho. de Bekering mil. ob 19 E. 2. Tho. de Bekering Chr. ob 26 E. 3. Johannes de-Joana Bekering Tho. de Bekering ob 1 R. 2. Tho. de Bekering ob 4 H. 6 -Isabella sor cohaer Joh. de Lowdham mil. Alicia de Bekering aet 30. ampl 4 H. 6 -Tho de Rempston mil. Willielmus de Lungvillers -2 Bertha Joh. de Lungvillers ob 25 E. 1. s. p. Tho. de Lungvillers-Chr aet 19. 25 E. 1. Joh. de Lungvillers Chr. -Eliz Tho. de Lungvillers Chr. Agnes ux Reginaldi de Everingham Rob. Malovell-Eliz Steph. Maulovell Johannes Stanhop -Elizabetha fil haer -Rogerus Arden mar 2. Joh. Stanhop fil haer s. p.-Eliz fil Hen. Pierpont mil. Eliz. ux 1 -Ric Stanhop mil. -Matilda for haer Rad Dom. Crumwell Willielmus de Sanctâ cruce -3 Agnes aet 24. 17 E. 1. 1 Joan. ux Joh. de Baiocis Rob. Hacthorn 2 Marger -Petr Foun Joh. Foun s. p. Eliz. -Thom de Mering Franc. de Mering 3 Eliz. -Joh de Barkworth Joh. de Barkworth 28 E. 3. Richardus de Marcham fil haer s. p. Rob. Dom. Lexington Bato de Tuxford Hen. Episc. Linc. Petr. Step. Alic. ux Rol. de Sutton ut in Aram. Richard de Marcham held of the King in Capite half a Knights Fee which Margaret sometimes wife of Iohn de Lexinton at the time of his the said Richards death had in Dower and half a Knights Fee in Lexinton and the Culture or Wong and Wood in Knesale and in Strathaw three Cultures of Iohn de Eyvile and in Marnham Marcham and Allerton Robert de Marcham his brother and heir was thirty five years old at the time of the Inquisition Robert de Markham about 17 E. 1. left the Park Mannor and Advowson of the Church of Tukesford which Margery de Merley widow of Iohn de Lessington had in Dower c. to his three daughters and heirs and their issue viz. Cecilia wife of Iohn de Bray then thirty years old his eldest daughter Iohn son of William de Longvillers and of Bertha sometimes his wife another daughter of the said Robert and Agnes twenty four years old wife of William de Sancta Cruce Robert Lord Lexinton made two Families of his sister Suttons sons William the eldest had Warsop c. as in that place will be noted and Robert had Egrom or Averham as in that place is said Robert son and heir of William de Sutton gave to Mr. William de Laxton for sixty Marks of Silver and 1d. per annum his Park of Tukesford which the said William de Lessington Dean of Lincolne gave to the Monks of
Johannis White filia Johannis Harpur de Swarkeston in Com. Derb. militis in piam posteritatis memoriam spem certam futurae resurrectionis monumentum hoc posuit Obiit die Ano. It was never filled up West Markham OR Little Marcham WAS of the Fee of Roger de Busli one Mannor in it before the Conquest Eduin had which paid to the publick Taxation or Geld as nine Bovats The Land four Car. There Goysfrid the Man or Tenant of Roger had one Car. and nine Vill. and five Bord. having three Car. There was a Church and one Mill 16s. This in King Edward the Confessours time was 3l. when the great Survey was made in King William's 4l. value In West Mercham before the Conquest Godric had a Mannor which paid but for four Bov. to the Tax though the Land was returned two Carucats There Roger de Busli had afterwards two Car. four Vill. two Bord. having two Car. and sixteen Acres of Medow Pasture Wood five qu. long three qu. broad The value of this continued 40s. Aron held it Here were other parcels Soc to this one which had six Bov. to the Geld. The Land three Car. Soc in Tuxfarne There six Sochm. five Vill. had four Car. and an half There were sixteen Acres of Medow Another paid for one Bov. to the Geld Soc in Grave and one Bov. ad Geld. Soc in Farne and one Bov. ad Geld. Soc in Drayton The Land half a Car. There three Sochm. had two Car. There was a Composition made between the Church of West Marcham and the Chapel of Tuxford at Lanum before the Lord Richard perhaps it should have been Roger Arch-bishop of York in the year of our Lord 1179. 5 Calend Decemb. 26 H. 2. that the said Church of West Marcham should have in Tuxford of seventy three Bovats each one Thrave of Corn and the Chapel of Tuxford the rest of the Tythe Corn and the said Church was to have the small Tythes of those living on that Land viz. Calves and Foals Lambs and Goats and Piggs and Eggs at Easter and the men thrice in the year were to go with their Offerings to West Marcham viz. on All Saints day and that of the Purification of St. Mary and at Easter and to be Confessed there in Lent and receive Communion there at Easter and the bodies of the husbands and wives to be buried there and the said Church was to have two parts of the Tythe Corn growing on the Demesne of Tuxford and likewise of all the Essarts that then were or should be and the Chapel of Tuxford was to have the remaining third part and all the small Tythes and Confession and Communion and Offerings and the bodies of all dwelling on the Demesne and in the Town except the husbands and wives on the said seventy three Bovats and all the Tythe of Flax Milk Wooll Hens Geese Apples Gardens and all Churchings and Weddings of the whole Town of Tuxford the said Chapel was to have and that this agreement might be firm Robert de St. Iohn then it seems husband of Oliva Lady of Tuxford Patron of that ground made his Affidavit in the hand of the Lord Arch-bishop of Yorke and so did Henry the Priest of Marcham and William the Parson of Tuxford and Iacob instead of his Master Walter de Constanciis Chaplain of Tykhill and Richard Parson of Walesby The Arch-bishops Seal was put to it and so was Robert de St. Iohns and the said Iacobs This was certified by Thomas de Maryng Abbat of Barlings and that Covent to be in their Registry 4 Iun. 1307. It seems probable that the successours of that Aron mentioned in Doomsday Book took their name from this place howbeit the first I can certainly fix on was Sir Richard de Marcham or William who married Cecilia the sister of Robert Lord Lexington as before is in several places noted by whom he had Richard and Robert but what sons else I have not yet discovered Robert de Marcham was a great Man and had an Esquire named Robert de Fowich 2 E. 1. he confirmed his Uncle the said Robert de Lexingtons gift of Lands in Scardcliff Rothorne and Sterthorp to the Priory of Newstede he held when he died about 17 E. 1. a Capital Mess. in West Marcham and sevenscore Acres of Arable Land in Demesne and twenty of Medow and a Water-Mill paying the Prior of Monkebreton 8d. per annum and the Nuns of Wallendewelles 6d. c. This Mannor was divided amongst his daughters and heirs as in Tuxford may be discovered with which it continued in the several branches as they were sub-divided Agnes de Sanctâ cruce had a Free-holder William de Marcham who held of her two Bovats of Land and an half 29 E. 1. when she left her share to her daughters as in Tuxford is described From this William de Marcham possibly a younger brother or Cousin of Robert might descend the Ancestors of Sir Iohn Markham the Judge who had a Monument in Markham Church with this Inscription Orate pro anima Johannis Markham Iusticiarii qui obiit in festo S. Silvestri Anno Dom. 1409. His Fathers name was Robert and his Grandfathers Iohn both Lawyers Iohn married the daughter of Nicolas Bothomsell and Robert of Sir Iohn Caunton The Judges posterity may be noted in Maplebeck and Cotteham Iohn Stanhope Knight 9 H. 6. in a recovery claimed against William Lassells Esquire the Mannor of Little Markham with the Appurtenances This surely is miswritten John for Richard or Knight for Esquire Iohn Stanhope son of Richard son of Sir Richard married Elizabeth the daughter of Sir Thomas Talbot and by her had several sons one son named Henry the husband of Ioane the daughter of Henry Rochford Esquire who brought him a son named Edmund Stanhope who by Alice his wife had a daughter Margaret the wife of Thomas Skessington Esquire she died the first day of Ianuary 31 H. 8. seized of the third part of the Mannor of Little Markham and of Lands in Darlington and Ryton her husband had them by the Courtesie or Law of England till Iuly 29. 35 H. 8. that he died leaving William Skevington son and heir of the said Margaret to succeed who was above one and twenty years of age at the death of his Mother Thomas Rayner of East Drayton and Emme his wife 7 H. 6. by Fine passed to Iohn son of Henry de Drayton and to Alice his wife one Mess. twenty six Acres of Land four of Medow with the Appurtenances in Little Markham quit from the heirs of Emme The owners of West Markham cum Milneton in 1612. are said to be Rutland Molyneux Mr. .... Leake Francis Chapman Cler. Robert Belyalde Richard Salmon Thomas Pettinger William Haslaby William Owldham Richard Whitlam Senior and Junior Thomas Heslaby Lawrence Spyby William Turtale Anthony Cawthorne Thomas Butler Henry Wright of Egmanton the Master and Fellows of
William had in Demesne two Car. fifty Vill. three Bord. had ten Car. one Mill 3s. one Fishing 10s. 8l. one hundred and twenty Acres of Medow Pasture Wood six qu. long and four broad In the said King Edwards time it did yield 30l. and six sextaries of Honey in King William's 20l. with all which there belonged to it having Soc besides the four Berues Ragenhill Wymenton Derlington and Swarnesterne in Drayton Marcham Gréenleige Ordsall Grave Hedune Vptone Normentune King Henry the first gave to Thurstan Archbishop of Yorke the Church of Dunham that he might make it a Prebend in the Church of Southwell as in that place is already said Ranulf Fitz-Engelram the Sheriff 2 H. 2. accounted for 60l. Lands in Duneham given to the Earl of Flanders Raph Pluchet gave to the Monks of Rufford for the Souls of his Father and of his Mother and his Brother and all his ancestors one Toft in Dunham on the South part of the Town contiguous to the Gyldehous four Perches long and as many broad and the said Monks were not to receive any more Land in that Town but by the favour and good will of himself and his heirs the Witnesses were Gilbert de Archis Suain de Hoiland Robert de Draiton William de Draiton Richard de Laxton Thomas Clerk of Hedon King Henry the third 4 H. 3. commanded Roland de Sutton Adam de Muscamp Henry de Rolleston William Rufus and Robert de Lexington Clark that they should go together to Kingshagh and there assign to the men of the Sok of Dunham their Pasture to the Brook there running as they ought and were wont to have before the Wood of Kingshagh was made a Park and as it was acknowledged at Nott. before H. de Burg the Kings Justice and to prohibit the said men on the Kings behalf that they passed not that Brook towards the Wood by reason or occasion of having Pasture c. The men of Dunham and Marcham 5 H. 3. had Common of Pasture between Dunham and Marcham and the Wood of Kingshag where the Park was not The men of Dunham Soc and Mannor Tenants of ancient Demesne ought to be quit of Murder Pontage and all other Fines with the Cominalty of the County Raph Fitz-Nicholas 11 H. 3. had to him and his heirs the Mannor of Dunham which was Reginalds Dammartin Earl of Boloigne The men of Dunham said that the Earl of Bolon had 50l. Land of the gift of King Henry who gave it to Earl Matthew and the Earl held it on his wifes behalf and there was in it 10l. Land which B. de Insula had for the keeping of Kingshag in Derleton King Henry the third confirmed 42 H. 3. to his beloved brother and faithful William de Valence the Mannor of Dunham which before he had granted to Raph Fitz-Nicolas and his heirs and which Robert son and heir of the said Raph after the death of him the said Raph restored and quit-claimed for himself and his heirs to the said King to the use of the said William his brother 50l. per annum used to be paid out of it to the Exchequer according to a former extent of that Mannor The Jury 17 E. 2. said that Adomar of Valence Earl of Pembroke held when he died the Mannor of Dunham with the Sok the passage over Trent was then valued at 10l. per annum Iohn de Hasting◠and the two daughters of Iohn Comin were found the next heirs of Adomar of Valence who was Lord here in 9 E. 2. William de Valence who was brother of King H. 3. by the mother married Ioane daughter of Warin de Monte Caniso and Ioane his wife one of the sisters and heirs of William Marescall Earl of Pembroke which occasioned him that title by her he had Audomar of Valens Earl of Pembrok who married Mary the daughter of Guy de Chastillon Earl of St. Paul but he died without issue his sisters were Isabell wife of Iohn de Hastings and Ioane of Iohn Comin of Badenagh who by her had two sons Iohn and William but both died childless and two daughters Elizabeth wife of Richard Talbot and Ioane of David Strabolgy Earl of Athol who had David Strabolgy Earl of Athol who by his wife Katherine daughter of Sir Henry de Bellomonte left a son David also Earl of Athol who by Elizabeth his wife the relict of Iohn Malwain had two daughters his heirs Philippa wife of Iohn de Halsham and Elizabeth Willielmus de Valentia frater uterinus H. 3. Regis Angl. Com. Pembr Weshford jure uxoris -Joana fil Warini de Montecaniso Joanae un sor haer Willielmi Marescal Com. Pembrok Joana-Johannes Comin de Badenagh Joana-David de Strabolgy Comes de Atholl in Scotia David de Strabolgy Comes Atholl-Katherina fil Henrici de Bellomonte David de Strabolgy Com. Atholl-Eliz relicta Joh. Malwain Philippa-Johannes de Halsham Johannes le Scroop-Elizabeth-Thom Percy mar 2. Henricus Percy de Atholl miles Tho. Burgh Ar. -Eliz.-Will Lucy Chr. 14 H. 6 Tho. Burgh sen. miles Edw. Burgh miles-Anna fil Tho. Cobham mil. Thom. Burgh miles creat Dom. Burgh per H. 8 -Agnes fil Will. Terwhyt mil. Willielmus Dom. Burgh .... fil Ed. Dom. Clinton Henricus fil haer occisus sine exitu Henr. Dom. Grey de Codnor ob 17 Jul. 22 H. 6 -Margar Ric. Yere Henr. Dom. Grey ob in vigil Pasch. 10 H. 7. sine prole legitima-Katherina Ric. Talbot-Elizab Johannes s. p. Willielmus s. p. Johannes de Hastings -Isabella Maria fil Guid. de Chastilon Com. de St. Paulo -Audomarus de Valentia Com. Pembr s. p. first wife of Iohn le Scroope Chr. who 15 R. 2. held this Mannor in her right and afterwards wife of Thomas Percy whom I suppose father of Henry Percy de Atholl Chr. who 4 H. 5. claimed against Robert Thorley and others the Mannor and Soc of Dunham and had two daughters and heirs Margaret first wife of Henry Lor◠Grey of Codnour and after of Richard Vere and Elizabeth first wife of Thomas Burgh Esquire and after of Sir William Lucy viz. 13 H. 6. as in Darleton may be noted The Lord Grey had by her Henry the last Lord Grey of Codnour who 5 H. 7. suffered a recovery of this Mannor together with Estwait Touton Barton and Radcliffe as in some or all of those places is noted and died on Easter Eve 10 H. 7. at which time notwithstanding it appeareth by an Inquisition taken at Nott. the Thursday after Palme-Sunday before William Perpoint Knight Edward Stanhope Knight and Raph Agard in the 24 H. 7. that Edward Burgh Knight entred and held this Mannor after the said Lord Greys death as his Cousin and heir he was son and heir of Sir Thomas de Burgh Knight son of Elizabeth the other daughter of the said Henry Percy D'atholl and had to wife Anne the daughter of Sir Thomas Cobham Knight
the wife of Reginald de Everingham Chr. who was daughter and heir of Iohn Lungvillers whose sister Elizabeth was mother of Stephen Malovel Father of Elizabeth mother of the said Richard Stanhope who thereby became heir of both Families Mallovell and Lungvilers as in Turford is shown already to whom also the third part of that Mannor likewise descended from the heirs Female of the Families of Marcham and Lexington At the Assizes at Nott. 29 E. 3. Galfr. de Cotes Parson of the Church of Ketelby impleaded Roger de Maloell of Rampton Iohn Braytoft Henry Wright of Lanum and Henry Bere of Torkesey concerning his Free-hold in Rampton viz. a Were c. They came not but William Heron answered for them that Stephen Maloell was sometime seized of the Mannor of Rampton of which that Were was part which he held of Queen Philip as of the Honour of Tikhill and thereof died seized after whose death the said Queen seized the said Mannor into her hand by reason of the minority of Elizabeth daughter and heir of the said Stephen and conferred the Marriage and Custody of her the said Elizabeth on Roger de Bellocampo c. The Jury found that the said Galfr. was disseized by Iohn Braytoft only but the Judges could not proceed to Judgement by reason of the fore-mentioned Wardship without the Kings knowledge The Mannor of Rampton with the Appurtenances was by Fine 38 and 39 E. 3. between Will. de Eton Vicar of the Church of Rampton and Iohn son of Robert de Lanum Plaintiffs and Iohn de Stannop and Elizabeth his wife Deforc. settled on the said Iohn and Elizabeth and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the heirs of the body of Elizabeth remainder to Richard Stannop for life remainder to the right heirs of Elizabeth Peter Malovell and Thomas his brother 39 H. 3. had a Writ c. The Jury 20 E. 1. found that Simon Maulovell of Rampton and Iohn Furmery were not blameable for eating the Acorns with their Swine in the Woods of Robert de Musters in Tyreswell in which they claimed Common c. There was a Fine levyed at York 16 E. 2. between Iohn Maulovell of Rampton and Katherine the daughter of William Ablot of Pokelington Plaintiffs and Raph Maulovell of Rampton Deforc. of one Mess. sixty Acres of Land thirteen of Medow with the Appurtenances in Rampton which were thereby settled on the said Iohn and Katherine and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of Katherine To this Fine Robert Maulovell of Rampton put to his claim There were Covenants of Marriage 3 R. 2. made between Sir Edmund Pierpont Knight and Iohn his brother on the one part and Iohn Stanhope on the other for the Marriage of Iohn Stanhope his son and heir with Elizabeth sister of the said Sir Edmund but whether it took effâ—ct or no is uncertain but that he had no issue is certain and that he had to wife the heir of Cuily that year as by the Fine noted in Oxton and what is sâ—id before out of Mr. Dugdale's Anâ—iquities of Warwickshire appeareth though his wife might die that year and a new match be treated on Sir Richard Stanhope was brother and heir of Iohn who married Cuily but could not be son as in that place is supposed because it is evident he was son and heir of Elizabeth the daughter and heir of Stephen Malouvell in 22 R. 2. as before is noted This Sir Richards first wife was Elizabeth but by others said to be Ioane the daughter of Robert and sister of Raph Staveley or Staley by whom he had divers Children Richard Thomas Iames Elizabeth and Agnes There were Covenants of Marriage 10 H. 4. between Sir Richard Stanhope and Sir Nicolas Strelley for the marriages of Agnes daughter of Sir Richard to Robert Strelley son of Sir Nicolas The Covenants of Marriage between Sir Richard Stanhope and Sir Raufe Cromwell for Mand sister of the saâ—d Sir Raufe to the said Sir Richard were dated 12 H. 4. By her he had Henry Stanhope who died without issue 12 Aug. 31 H. 6. and was buried at Lamley and Matilda first married to Robert Lord Willoughby secondly to Thomas Nevile and thirdly to Sir Gervas Clifton and Ioane married to Humfrey Bourchier as in Lamley is noted Sir Richard Stanhope 5 H. 6. covenanted with Sir Iohn Assheton and Elizabeth his wife sometime wife of Sir Thomas Talbot of Bashall in Lanc. for the marriage of Iohn Stanhope his Grandson Nephâ—w to Elizabeth daughter of the said Sir Thomas Talbot Sir Richard Stanap about 14 H. 6. died seised of this Mannor of Rampton half Egmanton and the third part of Tuxford the Mannors of Skegby and South Cotum c. leaving the said Iohn Stanap his heir viz. son of his son Richard Stanap Esquire whose death was on the second of March 10 H. 6. as by his Tomb in Tuxford may be seen whereon is only the Coat of Lungvilers viz. A Bend between six Crosse-croslets which notwithstanding in a Window of that Church there is on the Surcoat of Iohn Stanhope Azure a Crosse Moline Or was most constantly used by this Family whilest they continued Lords of this place for their paternal Coat perhaps sometimes counterchanging the colours for I have not seen the Arms of the present Earl of Chesterfeild borne by any but the posterity of Sir Michael Stanhope Elizabeth the daughter of Iohn Markham was wife of Richard Stanhope Esquire and when she died viz. about 16 H. 6. held two parts of Longvilers Mannor in Tuxford settled on her by Sir Richard Stanhope Iohn Stanhope son and heir of that Elizabeth was then also found Cousin and heir of Sir Richard Stanhope viz. son of Richard Stanhope Esquire son of the said Sir Richard Iohn Stanhop Esquire 14 May 33 H. 6. paid Relief for Lands in Rampton Tuxford and Egmanton which till that year Matilda the wife of his Grandfather the said Sir Richard Stanhope held This Iohn's eldest son was Thomas Stanhope Esquire who by his wife Mary the daughter of Edward Ierningham of Sommer Laytun in Suff. was father of Sir Edward Stanhope and his second son Henry Stanhope 17 E. 4. married Ioane the daughter of Henry Rochford Esquire of Stoke in Lincolnshire by whom he had Edmund Stanhope whose daughter and heir Margaret was wife of Thomas son of Sir William Skoffington Sir Edward Stanhope had to his first wife Adelina daughter of Sir Gervas Clifton by whom he had Richard Stanhope Esquire his eldest son and Sir Michael Stanhope who seconded by his son Sir Thomas raised a greater Family as in Shelford may be observed Sir Edwards second wife was Elizabeth daughter of Fulk Bourchier Lord Fitz-Warin by whom he had Anne the wife of Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset Lord Protector in the time of Edward the sixth by whose means her brother Sir Michael Stanhope a great Courtier before might receive some assistance
the Demesne of Gringeley and by Emme the wife of William de Luvetot Founder of the Church of St. Cuthbert near Wirksop with the Consent and Confirmation of Richard de Lovetot her son given to that Monastery to buy Wine for the use of the Mass together with an Essart of Asaley to make Wafers William de Lovetot son of Richard also confirmed that gift of his Grandmother and so did Matilda de Lovetot wife of Gerard de Furnivall only daughter and heir of the said William Lord Lovetot which said Matilda de Luvetot confirmed also to the said Monastery all Bollum in Lands and Medow and Mill to which Richard de Luvetot her Grandfather had given it King Henry the eighth by his Letters Patents dated 28 Octob. 36 H. 8. granted to Robert Swyft and William Swyft and their heirs the Mannor of Bollome and two Mills in Bollome within the Parish of Hayton one called a Walk Mill and two Gardens within that Parish called the Chappell and the Old-yard and five Tofts in East Retford c. all which and many other Lands and Tenements then granted were late belonging to the Priory of Wirkesop and from Swyft it was conveyed to Francis Worteley and Mary his wife and the heirs of Mary 7 Eliz. It was lately the Inheritance of Francis Worteley Knight and Baronet The Tythes of the Mills of Bolum were part of the Vicarage of Clarburgh by the Ordination of Sewall Arch-bishop of York 1258. The Arch-bishop of York gave the Church of Bolum with the Appurtenances which might be worth ten Marks and belonged to a Prebend at York viz. in the Chappel of St. Mary and All Angells mentioned in East Retford to William de Lanum in the absence of the Prebendary Wellome WEllum and Suventon of the Kings great Soc of Maunsfeild lying in Oswardbek Wapentak afterwards called only Oswardbek Sok paid the Geld or Tax as five Bov. â…“ The Land two Car. Five Sochm. one Vill. one Bord. had two Car. Medow one qu. ½ long one qu. and ten Perches broad Pasture Wood nineteen quar long and two qu. ½ broad the value 10s. 8d. Of the Arch-bishops great Sok of Sutton Wellum and Suventon answered for five Bovats ¼ being near alike to the former parcell Matilda de Luvetot sometime wife of Gerard de Furnivall gave to the Canons of Radford near Wirksop for the safety of her Soul and of the Souls of her sons Thomas de Furnivall and Gerard his brother her whole Land which she had in the Territory of Wellum with the Homages and Services of the Men and their Sequells c. There was a Suit 5 E. 2. for Lands in Wellum Clareburgh and Bolum partible amongst heirs Males Adam Prat of Redford who lived in the time of Henry the third had three sons Iohn Walter and Thomas Iohn had Thomas Prat the Plaintiff Adam Robert and William Walter had Adam Iohn and Thomas and Thomas the son of the first named Adam had Thomas Prat of Retford the Defendant There was a Fine at York 9 E. 3. between Iohn son of Iohn de Boughton and Constantia his wife Plaint and Richard son of Walter de Bildeswath Def. of five Mess. three Tofts two hundred sixty nine Acres of Land and forty two Acres of Medow and 50 and 6s. and 8l. Rent with the Appurtenances in Wellum Haâ—ton Grenley and Clareburgh whereby they were settled on the said Iohn and Constantiae and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of Iohn It appears 8 E. 3. that in Wellum with Morehouses 49s. Rent was yearly paid by the Freeholders to the Lords of Oswaldbeck Sok Humfrey Hercy Esquire 8 H. 8. claimed against Iohn Brig of East Retford one Mess. eighty Acres of Land twelve of Medow forty of Pasture and 12s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Grynley and Wellom The Priory of Wirksop had chief Rents in Wellome 21s. 6l. and Lands there Rented at 5l. 5â— 8d. besides 5l. 7â— 8d. in the Parishes of Clareborough Bolome Wellome and Hayton The free Chapel of Tilne in the Parish of Hayton had Lands here and so had the free Chapel of our Lady and All Saints called Sepulchers Chapel near the Minster at York George Lesemore and Iohn Strangman 13 Iul. 37 H. 8. had licence to give a Mess. and Tenement in Wellome late belonging to the Priory of Worksop to Richard Richardson junior of Clareborough and Alice his wife and their heirs Gabriel Richardson Gent. 1 Ian. 7 Eliz. had licence to give it to Chr. Twiselton and Anne his wife George and Brian Twiselton and their heirs Mr. Edmund Browne built a pretty House at Wellome and left two daughters his heirs about 1673. Tilne North and South THe Kings great Soc of Maunsfeild extended it self into Oswardebek Wapentak to which was belonging in Tilne as much for the Geld as was in the same Town of the Arch-bishop of Yorkes Fee belonging to Sudton viz. two Bovats and ¼ The Land one Car. There two Sochm. one Vill. one Bordar had six Oxen in their Plow or six Bovats in their Carucat There was a Mill 32s. and six Acres of Medow the value was 40â— 'T is like the Arch-bishops part was about the same value for he had in Tilne a Mill also yielding 30s. which is said to belong to Lanum King Henry the thirds Precept to the Sheriff of Nott. dated 1 Decemb. 5 H. 3. shows that King Iohn gave to Roger de Lanum Father of Thomas de Lanum who then had paid his Fine of five Marks and done his Homage for it four Marks Rent with the Appurtenances in two Woods and one Mill in Tylne which the Sheriff was then to give the said Thomas seisin of accordingly The Jury 30 E. 1. found that Thomas de Lanum held Lands in Tylne in Hayton and Clareburgh Church and in Carleton upon Trent twenty seven Acres of Land c. and that Roger de Lanum his son and heir was then above threescore years old Roger de Lanum held twenty Bovats of Land in Tilne with the Mill of the gift of Thomas de Lanum and paid yearly 40. and Thomas was enfeoffed by King Iohn for a Sparhawk and it was of the Soc of Oswaldbek It appears by the return of the Ad quod Damnum 32 E. 1. that Roger de Lanum enfeoffed Robert le Power and Roger his son of 13s. 4d. Rent in North Tilne and South Tylne held of the King as of the Soc of Oswardbek paying a Sparrow-Hawk yearly to the Exchequer on the Feast of St. Iames the Apostle The Jury 18 E. 2. found that Robert Power of Tylne held in Tilne 13s. 4d. of the King in Capite as in petty Serjeanty by the Service of 2â— yearly to the Exchequer for a Sparrow-Hawk And one Mess. and two Bovats of Land of the Arch-bishop of York for 2â— per annum and Suit to Lanum Court And twenty Acres
at Lound of Sibyl de Furneis by the Service of 4d. and that Iohn his son and heir was then above twenty nine years old The King 24 Apr. 49 E. 3. took the Homage of William Power son and heir of Iohn Power deceased for Lands in Tilne There was a Fine 30 H. 6. between Raph Crumwell Knight William Stanlowe and Iohan his wife and Richard Illingworth Plaint and Iohn Pouer Def. of the Mannor of Tylne with the Appurtenances twelve Mess. four Tofts two hundred Acres of Land forty of Medow forty of Pasture forty of Marsh two of Wood and 10â— Rent with the Appurtenances in Tylne Hayton Clareburgh Wellum juxta Clareburgh Wellum Morehouse Grynley East Retford and Ordeshall which the said Iohn acknowledged to be the right of the said William Isabell who had been wife of William Pouer mother of the said Iohn held part in Dower and the third part of the Mannor of Tilne There were Lands in Tylne in the year 1460. belonging to the Priory of Wirkesop whereof every Acre contained eight Virg. Rods or Roodes King Edward the sixth Aug. 3. in the second year of his Reign granted to Robert Swift and William Swift and their heirs amongst other things the free Chapel of Tylne in the Parish of Hayton with the Appurtenances in East Retford Wellum Morehouse Bollome Tylne Hayton and Ordesall Hayton THis place I find not expressed in Doomsday Book howbeit it appears to be much as the rest of these Townships of the Fee of the Archbishop of York viz. of the North Sok The Church Arch-bishop Roger gave to the Chapel which he Founded near the Minister at York as in Retford hath been noted and Sewall the Archbishop 4 or 3 of the Nones of May 1258. ordained that the Vicar of Hayton should have the Altarage and Land of the Church of this Town with a Garden and that the Sacrist of the fore-mentioned Chapel should give yearly to the poor of this place three Marks Adam the Chaplain of Radeford gave to God and St. Mary of Blyth and the Monks there serving God all his Rents and Lands which he bought and held of Iohn Fleming of Claverburgh of Richard son of Thomas Hasart and Dieva de Biam and of Nicolas son of Thorald in the Town of Claverburg and all the Land which he likewise bought and held of William son of Hubert de Haiton of Maud the daughter of Ernald de Tilne of Thomas son of Richerius de Haiton of Hugh son of Toke of Albreda daughter of Roger de Haiton and of Alunna daughter of Roger de Haiton in Haiton Robert de Everingham for the health of his Soul and of Isabell his wife quit-claimed to Walter the Prior of Wirkesop c. the Suit to his Court of Leyrton for the Land held of his Fee by that Priory in the Town of Hayton Robert le Ventrer and Matilda his wife 17 E. 1. acknowledged one Mess. two Bov. of Land and two Acres of Medow in Heyton to be the right of Robert Pauleyn and his heirs for ever Hugh son of Osbert of Laxton Morehouses and Isabell his wife and Iohn son of Richard le Grunger of Laxton Morehouses and Alice his wife by Fine 10 E. 2. conveyed to Iohn de Markham of Wyston and his heirs twenty seven Acres of Land six and an half of Medow and 8s. 4d. ob Rent with the Appurtenances in Hayton Tylne Clareburgh North Leverton Lound and Schaftworth The Jury 24 E. 1. found that Robert de Hayton held one Mess. and seven Bovats in Hayton and Claverburgh of the Arch-bishop of York in Socage and Lands in South Leverton Misterton Lound and in Clumber a Water-Mill and eighty Acres in West Retford and that Thomas and Robert were his sons and heirs the elder being two years old at the Feast of All Saints and that several others held of him the said Robert de Hayton The Jury in 4 E. 2. found it no damage if the King granted Robert le Power licence to give one Toft and three Acres of Land with the Appurtenances in Hayton to Henry de Sibthorp the Vicar of that Church and his successours to augment the sustentation of a certain Chaplain c. The Jury 17 E. 3. found that Iohn de Carewell of Hayton held when he died two Mess. and fourscore Acres of Land in Hayton and Clareburgh of the Arch-bishop of York by making two appearances at his Court at Lanum And that Iohn son of the said Iohn de Carewell was his son and heir Laurence Moigne and Elizabeth his wife levied a Fine 9 H. 6. of the Mannor of Hayton with the Appurtenances and four Mess. sixteen Tofts four hundred sixty five Acres of Land and an half ninety two of Medow and an half and 46s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Hayton Clareburgh Wellum Morehouse Lound Walkringham Misterton and Stokyth whereby they conveyed to Gilbert Grayff Clerk and others and warranted against the heirs of the said Elizabeth The Jury in 14 H. 6. said that Raph Makarell and Margery his wife had the Mannor of Hayton and a Capital Mess. a Horse-Mill one hundred Acres of Land forty of Medow and 60s. Rent in Stretton and Fenton in the Clay and Lands in Misterton and Stokyth and Walkringham c. and that Hugh Makarell was son and heir of the said Raph. By an Inquisition taken 21 Septemb. 14 H. 7. it appears that Iohn Fitz-William Lord of the Mannors of Athewyk Warenhall and Potter Newton in Yorkshire died the 4 of Ianuary 13 H. 7. seised of the Mannor of Hayton and that of Stirton called Makerells Mannor and Lands in Stokwith Walkringham Moregate Styrap Blyth Misterton Lownde Clareburgh and Wellum and that Iohn Fitz-William son of his son Iohn was his Cousin and Heir and above nine years old By another Inquisition taken 9 Novemb. 4 H. 8. is shown that Iohn Fitz-William of Athewyk Esquire died 25 Sept. 4 H. 8. leaving Anne Fitz-William his daughter and heir one year five months and two daies old to whom he left the fore-mentioned Mannors and Lands and several others Another Inquisition 8 Octob. 20 H. 8. shows that Anne Fitz-William died 9 Septemb. 7 H. 8. seized of this Mannor Stirton c. and that Thomas Pogge son of Thomas son of Iohn son of Iohn son and heir of Cecilia sister of Margery mother of Iohn father of Iohn father of Iohn father of the said Anne was one of her Cousins and heirs and Richard Laken son of Andrew son of George son of Elizabeth one of the daughters and co-heirs of Agnes another sister of the said Margeries and William Winslowe son of Cecilia the other co-heir and daughter Nicol. Fitz-William-Margeria Johannes Fitz 13 H. 7 -William ob 4 Jan. Johannes Fitz antre patrem -William ob Johannes Fitz 25 Sept. 4 H. 8 -William ob -Eliz Anna Fitz-William ob 9 Sept. 7 H. 8. sâ—ne prole Agnes-Tho Flower
Rogerus Flower Richard Flower Rogerus Flower Richardus Flower infra aet 22 H. 8. consang haer Annae Fitz-William Cecilia .... Poge Joh. Poge Johannes Pogge Thom. Poge Tho. Pogge un consang haer Annae Fitz-William 20 H. 8. Agnes Eliz. fil haer Georgius Laken Andreas Laken Richardus Laken alter consang haer Annae 20 H. 8. Cecilia fil haer Willielmus Wynslowe alter consan haer Annae 20 H. 8. of the said Agnes were found Cousins and Heirs also of the said Anne Fitz-William Another Inquisition taken 29 Iuly 22 H. 8. finds Richard Flower then under age Cousin and heir of the said Anne viz. son of Roger son of Richard son of Roger son of Thomas Flower and Agnes his wife daughter of the said Margery Iohn Flower Gent. 11 Eliz. claimed against Iohn Poge the Mannor of Heyton with the Appurtenances and one Mess. one hundred Acres of Land twenty of Medow and thirty of Pasture with the Appurtenances in Clerburgh Est Retford Welhom Lownd and Stokwyth which Raph Cromewell Knight Lord Cromewell and others gave to Nicolas Fitz-Williams Esquire and Margery his wife c. Iohn Clay 22 H. 7. suffered a Recovery of two hundred Acres of Land ten of Medow two hundred of Pasture ten of Wood and 10â— Rent with the Appurtenances in Hayton and Clarburgh The King 16 Aug. 38 H. 8. granted to Robert and Hugh Thornhill and their heirs a Mess. in Hayton in the tenure of Thomas Peke and a Grange there in the Tenure of Richard Peke both lately belonging to the Monastery of Wirkesop .... which Grange they had lâ—cence 29 Octob. that year to settle on Richard Pecke for life remainder to Humfr. Pecke his son and heir King Philip and Queen Mary 12 Novemb. 5 and 6 P. and M. granted to Nicolas Arch-bishop of York and his successours the right of Patronage of the Churches of Wyfall Gamston Bothomsell Heyton and Gréeneley The Grange and Lands belonging to Wirksop were rated or rented at the Dissolution at 3l. 15s. 4â— and 2s. chief Rent The Chantry of St. Iohn of Mattersey had Lands here granted to Reeve and Cotton in Fee 7 E. 6. The Freeholders of Hayton Town in 1612. are said to be William Lord Cavendish Sir Francis Lâ—ck Knight Francis Gargrave Gent. William â—essop Gent. of Darbyshire .... West Gent. Iervas Markham of Dunham Gent. Nicolas Padley George Worsley Iohn Garlicke Robert Williamson Charles Woode William Sowthworthe Thomas Eastwood Francis Aukeland Cott. George Humfrey and William Padley each a Cottage The Vicarage of Haiton was eight Marks when the Sacrist of St. Maries at York was Patron 'T is now 4l. 15s. 5d. value in the Kings Books and the Earl of Devonshire Patron Clarborough CLarburge and Tillne were part of them of the Kings great Soc of Maunsfeild as much as answered the Tax for two Bovats ¼ The Land one Car. There also two Sochm. one Vill. one Bord. had six Oxen in Plow or six Bov. in Car. and two Mills 32s. six Acres of Medow the value was 40s. There was in Claverburth belonging to Sudton of the Arch-bishop of Yorkes Fee which paid the Geld for six Bovats and an half The Medow was four Quarent and an half long and so much in breadth and at the time of the Conquerours Survey forty five Acres Pasture Wood two leu ½ long two leu broad In Oswardbec Wapentac the Kings part of this Town may probably be that Cledreton noted in Truswell There was of the Fee of Roger de Busli in Claverburch a Mannor which before the Conquest one Reginald had which paid the Geld or Tax for two Bovats The Land of it being two Car. There afterward Fulco the Man of Roger had half a Car. eight Vill. one Bord. with one Car. ½ and seven Acres of Medow Pasture Wood four qu. long two broad In the Confessours time this was 6s. value in the Conquerours 20. There also Vlchill had half a Bovat for the Giâ—â— with Sac and Soc. The Land being sufficient for two Oxen or two Bovats The very same Vlchill himself held it of Roger and had there two Bordars with two Oxen and one Acre of Medow Pasture Wood two qu. long one broâ—d This continued the old value it had before the Conquest viz. 16l. In Claverburge also of the Land of the Taynes was a Mannor which Vlmer named in Truswell held for one Bovat and an half to the Geld with Soc and Sac without an Hall The Land three Bov. The same Vlmer held it of the King William and there had two Vill. three Bord. with half a Car. and three Acres of Medow Pasture Wood six leu long three broad In the Confessours time the value was 3s. when the Conquerours Survey was taken 2. There was another parcel which Archill did hold in this Town in the time of King Edward the Confessour then valued at 4s. in King Williams Erwin held it valued at 2â— there being two Vill. and six Acres of Medow Ernald Flamang of Claverburg by the consent of his heir Roger gave to the Church of St. Cuthbert of Radeford the fourth part of the Church of Claverburg and one Bovat in Drayton and a certain part of Land in the Field of Bolum Roger his son was Witness Iohn Flamang of Claverburg ratified the gift of Arnald Flamang his Grandfather Adam son of Iohn Flandrensis of Claverburgh granted to the Canons of Wirkesop all the Land which they held of his Fee in the Territory of Hayton and of Claverburg There was another Charter of like import of Adam le Fleming dated 5 Non. Iuly 1244. to which were Witnesses Sir Simon de Hedon Robert de Wlfrington and Robert de Ripariis Knights Iohn son of Adam le Fleming released his right to the said Canons Adam the Chaplain of Radeford named before in Hayton gave to Blyth what he bought and held of Iohn Flemenge the elder and others in Clarburgh and Haiton as there is set down In the year 1258. 3 vel 4 Non. May amongst the rest of the Churches belonging to the Chapel of St. Mary and All Angels called Sepulchers near York Minster Sewall Arch-bishop of York ordained that the Vicar of Clarborough should have the Altarage with a Toft and Croft lying next to the Church-yard and the Tythes of the inclosed Crofts of the Town and the Tythe of the Mills of Bolum and should find honest sustentation for the Chaplain of Gréeneley and to another Chaplain if he should serve at Clareburgh Weslum and Bolum and the Sacrist of the fore-mentioned Chapel should give to the poor of this Parish five Marks yearly Thomas Fitz-William held of Alice Countess of Augi Lady of Tikhill in Clareburghe and West Drayton three parts of a Knights Fee and she of the King of the old feoffment Iohn de Boughton gave half a Mark 3 E. 3. for licence of Concord with Robert de
Rodes Baronet and another of his sons named Clifton Rodes who hath some interest in this place married Letice another daughter of the said Sir Gervas Clifton but had no issue by her he since married Elizabeth the daughter of Mr. Iohn Scrimshire of Cotgrave Here was a Mannor called Makarells Mannor which descended to Fitz-Williams as in Hayton may be observed William Fitz-Williams and George Fitz-Williams paid in the time of Queen Elizabeth for Lands in Scretton alias Scurton sometime Walter Olivers and Philip de Sherfords held by the service of two parts of one Knights Fee and a sixth part 5s. 6d. ob dim q. At the Assizes at Nottingham 4 H. 4. Iohn de Willughby recovered his seism of two Mess. one Toft one hundred and sixty Acres of Land forty of Medow with the Appurtenances in Stretton in the Clay and Iohn Dogode and Cecily his wife were amerced The Priory of Matersey had also Lands here granted by King H. 8. to Sir Anthony Nevill Knight with the Monastery which Lands after came to Sturton of Sturton and afterwards became the inheritance of Iohn Millington Esquire The Vicarage of Styrton was xx Marks and the Chapter of York had the Patronage 'T is now 5l. 7s. 3d. ob value in the King books and the Dean of York Patron West Burton PArt of this was a Berue of the Arch-bishop of Yorkes Soc of Lanum besides which there was a Mannor which Speranoc had before the Conq. which paid to the Geld for six Bov. The Land two Car. There afterwards Goysfrid the man of Roger de Busli whose Fee it was had one Car. one Sochm. one Vill. two Bord. having one Car. ½ there was one Fishing yielded two hundred Ecles small Wood one qu. long one broad In King Edward the Confessours time the value of this was 20s. in the Conquerours 40s. having Soc in Evereton and Herewelle In the record of Nom. Vill. the fourth part of Bole and the half of Burton answered for a whole Villa of which Iohn de Nassington Canon of York was then Lord viz. 9 E. 2. Before that time 56 H. 3. Mr. Simon de Preston had Mercat and Fair at Burton in le Clay This I suppose to be the Arch-bishops Fee In the said record of Nom. Vill. 9 E. 2. Saundeby and the half of Burton answered for a whole Villa and the King and Robert de Saundeby were then returned Lords but the most ancient Lord of this place after the record of Doomsday book whom I have yet found was Gaufridus de Malquinci who gave to the Canons of Radeford near Wirksop the Church of St. Elen of Burton his wifes name was Matildis his Nephew Gaufr de Paveli was a Witness and confirmed the Charter of the said Gaufr de Mauquinci his Uncle and gave Lands in Saundeby to that Priory Richard de Rutington gave to the said Canons and confirmed the Advowson of the Church of St. Elen of Burton upon Trent as both this and Burton Iorz may well be called though neither of them now retain that Addition and remitted likewise his whole right and claim in all the Lands and Tenements which Gaufr Mauquinti his Ancestor gave them This Gaufr and Matildis seem to lie buried at Ruddington where they had interest and are named as in that place may be seen in Flauforth Church in the Fields There was a Fine at Westminster 17 H. 3. between Walter Prior of Wyrkesop Quer. and Richard de Ritinton Deforc. of the Advowson of the Church of Burton which was appropriated to that Monastery to which also Richard de Rutington son and heir of William de Rudington gave and confirmed Lands in this Burton upon Trent The Prior of Wyrkesop 53 H. 3. offered himself against Robert de Saundeby concerning the Plea Quod permittat that he should permit him to have Common of Fishing in the water of Burton Henry de Ednestow and the Clark his brother 16 E. 2. granted by their Deed that if they might peaceably possess thirty Acres in Burton in the Clay which they bought of Philip do Baggesoure and Hawisia his wife without the interruption of them the said Philip and Hawisia and their heirs that then the recognizance of forty Marks acknowledged by the said Philip in the Common Bench should be of no force In a recovery 20 H. 6. Katherin who had been the wife of William Sheffeild claimed against Henry Warwike three Mess. one Toft and four Bov. of Land in Burton and Stretton in the Clay In another 20 H. 7. Robert Nevill William Clarkson Iohn Elton Chaplain and Iohn Shaa claimed against William Spylman and Anne his wife the Mannor of West Burton with the Appurtenances and three Mess. four Tofts one hundred and forty Acres of Land forty of Medow sixty of Pasture and 20s. Rent with the Appurtenances in West Burton Bole Styrton in the Cley Lytilburgh Grynley Saâ—onby East Retford Wellom Wellom Morehouse Clareburgh and Moregate The Rectory of Burton 36 H. 8. late belonging to the Priory of Workesop and all Mess. Mills Houses Edifices Lands Tenements Medows c. to it belonging were granted to William Nevill Gent. and his heirs 3 March Both the Mannor and Rectory were late the inheritance or possession or at the disposition of Edward Nevill of Grove Esquire father of Sir Edward The owners of West Burton Town in 1612. are said to be Gilbert Nevell George Holmes Iohn Williamson Gent. Edward North of Watkeringham Esquire Robert Sturton of Sturton Anthony Dickens of Bole Thomas Oxenforth of Bole Richard Cave of Bole Anne Birchâ— of Bole and Thomas Bingham of North Wheatley Hablesthorp Absthorp THis place I find not in Doomsday In Nom. Vill. 9 E. 2. North Leverton Hablesthorp and Cotes answered for one whole Villa whereof Mr. Lodovic de Bellomonte and Adam de Everingham were then Lords This whole Hamlet of Hablesthorp makes a Prebend in the Cathedral Church of Yorke and was of xl. value The owners of Hablestrop Town 1612. are said to be Michael Bland Gent. Iohn Hewett of London Gent. Iohn Clark Robert Cottham Thomas Taylor Widow Munke Widow Rye William Sooby Iohn Chaworth William Fox Abraham Gelland Iohn Thoracton Henry Parnham Anthony Chaworthe Iohn Thorneaughe Esquire VVheatley's VVateley THere was in Wateleg besides what was a Berue of Lanum the Arch-bishop of Yorks great Mannor of the Kings Wapentac or Soc of Oswaldbec which then belonged to Maunsfeld as much as paid the Geld or Tax for two Bov. The Land two Car. There six Sochm. one Vill. had two Car. Pasture Wood one leu and one fourth long one qu. ½ broad In King Edward the Confessours time it was valued at 3s. in the Conquerours at 7s. But the principal part of this place was of Roger de Buslies Fee where before his coming five Tayns had five Mannors which answered to the Geld for nine Bovats The Land eight Car. There
son of Hugh de Saundeby one Mess. and one Bovat and an half of Land in Saundby for life and afterwards by levying a Fine remised to him his whole right in the premises the Court judged the said William son of Hugh to be discharged and William son of Iohn to be amerced Alice Ioane and Sarra de Saundeby 17 E. 1. who were Plaintiffs concerning one Mess. thirty two Acres of Land and six of Medow in Saundby did not prosequute c. against Hugh de Hercy who called to warrant Oliver Bishop of Lincolne therefore Hugh and the Bishop were without day and the women Amerced There was granted to Philip Hobbie amongst other things 3 Apr. 35 H. 8. all Mannors Mess. Lands c. in the Towns Fields and Parishes of Saundby Clifton Rampton Cotham Retford and Sturton late belonging to the Monastery of Torkesey in Lincolneshire Robert Markham Esquire and George Chaworth Esquire 18 Eliz. claimed against Iohn Syddenham the Mannor of Saundby with the Appurtenances and eight Mess. c. in Saundby Burton Bole Mysterton Heyton Welham c. and free Fishing in Babworth who called to warrant Thomas Grene Esquire The Queen 11 Sept. 32 Eliz. granted the Chantry in the Parish Church of Saundeby to Edward Downeing and Roger Rant having one Mess. and ninety Acres of Land and another with seventy six Acres and two Cottages then valued at Cxiiis. iiiid. In Queen Elizabeths time Henry Leeke Esq for his Lands in Saundeby late Sir Iohn Hercys held by the service of a Knights Fee and the eighth part of a Fee paid 7s. 6d. Sir Iohn Hercy disposed it to .... Hotham his Nephew with the Advowson of the Church there it came after to Leek and lately to .... Elwish who sold it to Iames Forsett a Londoner It was the Earl of Kingstons and now remains with his posterity the Right Honourable the Marquess of Dorchester The owners of Sawnby Town in 1612. are represented thus Iervas Elwaies Knight Thomas Wawine of Claworth Esquire Iohn Symons Gent. the heirs of Shadford the heirs of William Smith Robert Carnhill and George Netleship The Rectory of Sandby was 16l. when Mr. Hersy was Patron 'T is now 14l. 9s. 2d. value in the Kings Books and the Marquess of Dorchester Patron Beckingham BEchingham was a Beru of Lanum the Arch-bishop of Yorks Sok There was also a Mannor of Roger de Buslies Fee which before his time Osbern had and discharged the Geld or Tax for it as three Bov. The Land one Car. There Goisfrid the Man or Tenant of Roger had one Plow or Car. and fifteen Acres of Medow Pasture Wood seven qu. long one broad In the Confessours time this was valued at 10s. in the Conquerours at 16s. when the great Survey was taken Roger son of Alexander 9 H. 3. had an Attaint upon an Assize between Roger de Beutoft and Petronilla his wife c. concerning Tenements in Beckingham In an Assize 12 E. 1. Thomas de Bekingham juxta Saundby was Plaintiff Roger de Beutoft Henry le Ken of Beutoft and Walter le Clerk Defendants concerning Common of Pasture in Beckingham in twenty Acres of Wood and More which the Jury found for the Plaintiff The Jury 18 E. 1. found that Alan de Bekingham was Appealed concerning the death of Peter de Dynington by Eva wife of the said Peter in the thirteenth year of Edward the first before the Kings Justices and he pleaded that he was a Clerk and a member of the Church so that he could not nor would answer there whereupon the Justices took an Inquisition Ex officio which found that he was culpable concerning the said death and therefore he was reposed in Nottingham Gaol and there died and that he held Lands in Bekingham of William Iustice and that Iohn de Bekingham was his son and heir who by the Kings favour 20 E. 1. had seisin granted of two Tofts twenty two Acres of Land ½ four Acres of Wood and 13d. ob Rent in Bekingham which were seised into the Kings hands by reason of the death of Peter de Dynington whom the said Alan his father slew and afterwards died in Prison before he was Convict c. the Lands were held of Robert de Beltoft and Guerrina his wife who had seised them as their Escaet by a Jury Alice and Isabell sisters of Iohn de Beltoft 24 E. 1. recovered their seisin of seventeen Acres of Wood and one Acre and three Roods of Medow in Bekingham and Roger de Beltoft and others were in mercy or amerced The Jury then found that Hugh son of Roger de Bekingham enfeoffed Idonea his daughter of or in one Mess. one Mill and one Carucat of Land in Bekingham c. wherefore she was dismissed without day and Iohn Winter and Elizabeth his wife in mercy In 9 E. 2. Bekingham was half a Villa and the King and Chapter of Southwell were returned Lords There was a Fine levied at Westminster 5 E. 2. between Robert son of Alan de Bekingham Quer. and Robert son of Robert de Bekingham and Cecilia his wife daughter of Henry de Sutton Deforc. of one Mess. eighty four Acres of Land twenty of Medow five of Wood and 8s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Bekingham whereby they were settled on the said Robert son of Alan for life and afterwards on the said Robert son of Robert and on Cecily and the heirs of Robert son of Robert The Jury 18 R. 2. found it not to any damage if the King granted to Iohn Bekingham of Bekingham in the Clay Esquire that he might give two Mess. two Tofts fifty Acres of Land ten of Medow six of Wood and 6s. 8l. Rent with the Appurtenances in Beckingham to the Chaplain of the Chantry of the blessed Mary in the Parish Church of Beckingham in the Clay all which were held of Thomas Arch-bishop of York in Socage paying 3s. yearly There was the like return of another Ad quod damnum that year that the said Iohn might give four Mess. twelve Tofts one Wind-Mill two hundred and sixty Acres of Land fifty of Medow twenty and four of .... shillings Rent with the Appurtenances in the said Bekingham to the Prioress of Brodholme all which were likewise held of the said Thomas Arch-bishop of York in Socage for 2◠per annum for all services And there was another that he might give one Mess. twenty four Acres of Land five of Medow with the Appurtenances in the said Bekyngham in the Clay to Richard Vicar of that Church which were likewise held in Socage of the said Arch-bishop paying 12◠per annum Elizabeth wife of Philip Darcy Chr. 1 H. 4. claimed against Thomas Darcy divers Lands in Bekingham and Walkringham In another Recovery 4 and 5 H. 8. Iohn Wylloughby Esquire Iohn Markham Esquire Robert Molyneux Esquire Robert Sheffeild junior Esquire Iohn Dawney Esquire Iohn Thymylby of Beillesby
said Earls and of the ancient Demesne of the Crown c. and that all those upon whom the said Thomas brought the Assize were Sokemen of Misne which was a member of the Mannor of Kirketon in the County of Lincolne and that the said Sokemen could not be brought into other judgement without the said Earl who held the said Mannor of the King to him and the heirs of his body begotten and that the said Sokemen were of the County of Lincolne and not of the County of Notingham and required Judgement that it should not proceed for that it touched the King and the Earl his Lord Therefore the Sheriff was commanded to distrein the Jury of the said Assize to be at Notingham the morrow after All Souls to certifie the Justices concerning certain Articles c. Robert Attekirke of Finningley 18 E. 1. retracted himself from his Writ against Edmund Earl of Cornewall Constantia de Beierne and Mr. Iohn de Clarell and others for four hundred and fivescore and ten Acres of Marsh and ten Acres of Medow with the Appurtenances in Mysene The Jury 26 E. 1. said that Thomas de Mariesay had six Bovats in Misen amongst many other parcels in other places held of the Honour of Lancaster Iohn Scot Chr. 5 Febr. 7 H. 4. had licence to grant the Mannor of Mysne with the Appurtenances to the Prior and Covent of Mathersey and their successours c. who had the said Mannor 7 H. 4. accordingly Queen Eliz. 2 Apr. 38 Eliz. granted to William Borne and Iames Orenge Esquire the Grange of Myssâ—n with its rights and Appurtetenances of the value of 21l. per annum in the occupation of Thomas Fowe late belonging to the Monastery of Mattersey in Fee Farm King Iames 2 Mar. 2 Iac. granted to Sir Iohn Ramsey Knight and Thomas Emerson amongst other things the Chantry of Myssen paying 10l. 2s. per annum The same King 29 Octob. 2 Iac. granted to Lawrence Baskervile and Iohn Styler the Rectory of Myssen sometime belonging to the late Priory of Mattersey of the yearly value of 7l. 18l. 4d. The Mannor of Misne was .... Legats and since Sir Matthew Palmers Mr. Nicolas Terwhyt hath now interest there The Vicarage of Mesyn was ten Marks when the Prior of Mathersay was Patron 'T is now 6l. 4s. 7d. value in the Kings Books and his Majesty Patron Oswardebec Sok Oswaldbec IT appears in the Book of Doomsday that Oswardebec before the Conquest was a Wapentac containing all the Towns between the Rivers of Idel and Trent beginning with Rameton and Treswell and so to Retford which is now called the North Clay Division of Bassetlaw with the Addition of those first named Towns most of which Wapentac of Oswardbec was either of the Fee of Roger de Buslie or Soc to the Kings great Mannor of Maunsfeld except some parcels belonging to the Arch-bishop of York as in the particular Townships immediately foregoing which make it up may be observed and as in South Leverton is already said King Iohn confirmed to Roger de Montebegonis the whole Land of Oswaldbec with the Appurtenances which he gave him when he was Earl Moreton for the service of a Knights Fee Roger de Munbegun 1 Ioh. gave the King half a Mark of Silver for having Oliva who had been wife of Robert de St. Iohn with her whole Land and her inheritance she was Lady of Turford and cost him more as in that place may be seen The King 10 H. 3. assigned to Oliva who had been wife of Roger de Montebegonis the Mannor of Oswardebec in the name of Dower as the said Roger held it Iuly 20. it was then worth 40l. and 19s. per annum Galfr. Gyny had then also seisin of Land of the gift of the said Roger in that Soc. Roger de Monte Bogonis had Oswaldbeck Barthon Brademere and Bulewell in this County Bughdon Haverbergh Stratton with the Soc and Medeburne in Leicestershire Henry Monegoden was heir of Roger de Montebegonis and 13 H. 3. Oswardebek was granted to the King The King 22 H. 3. granted to Henry de Hastings and Ada his wife and to Ada in Fee for her reasonable part happening to her of the inheritance which was Iohns late Earl of Chester her brothers of the County or Earldom of Chester the Mannor of Bromesgrave in the County of Worcester the Mannor of Bolsover with the Castle in the County of Darby the Mannor of Maunsfeld with the Soc and the Mannor of Oswardebec in this County the Mannors of Worfeild Stratton and Cuverdoure in the County of Salop the Mannors of Wiggington and Wolverhampton in the County of Stafford Henry de Hastings held the whole Town of Oswaldbeck with the Soc viz. Oswaldebeck now scarcely known Leyrton Stretton Littilburg Weteleg Sudbeck Wiston and Wellam in exchange of the King for Lands which he had in the County or Earldom of Chester and he had of it yearly 38l. and 19s. It descended with this Noble Family of Hastinges as in Maunsfeld and South Leverton may be partly observed The Jury 15 E. 3. found no damage if the King granted Hugh de Hastings licence to acquire to himself of Laurence de Hastings Earl of Pembrok the Sok and Demesne of Oswaldebeck with the Appurtenances The Jury 13 R. 2. found that Iohn de Hastinges late Earl of Pembroke by his Deed before his death enfeoffed Walter Amyas c. in his Sok called Oswaldebekesoken And 21 R. 2. that Richard Earl .... held this Sok of the Dowry of his wife Philippa wife of Iohn de Hastings Earl of Pembrok son of Iohn 2 H. 4. died seized of it Edmund late Earl of March was her Cousin and Heir The Jury 12 H. 4. said that William de Bellocamp Lord Aburgavenny when he died held joyntly with Ioane his wife the Sok called Oswaldbeksoken and that Richard de Bellocampo was his son and heir Ioane who had been wife of William de Bellocampo Knight Lord Bergavenny held this Sok when she died about 14 H. 6. leaving Elizabeth daughter of Richard de Bellocamp Earl of Worcester her son her heir which Elizabeth was married to Edward Nevill Knight a younger son of the Earl of Westmerland by whom she had George Nevill Lord Bergavenny which Edward and Elizabeth held this Sok 17 H. 6. George Nevyle Lord Bergavenny 18 H. 7. suffered a Recovery of the Mannor of Oswardebek Soke with the Appurtenances and eight Mess. three hundred Acres of Land one hundred of Medow one hundred of Pasture and 20l. Rent with the Appurtenances in South Bek Wheteley Stretton South Leverton Fenton Cotom Clareburgh Wellum Moregate Grenley Wyston Wodhouse and Lyttilborough to Sir Reginald Bray Sir Edward Poinings Sir Thomas Fenys Sir Iohn Pecche Knights Iohn Mordant Iames Hobart c. In the year 1612. Iohn Thorneaughe Knight was Bayliff of the Kings Liberty of Oswaldbek Sok
the Market and Fair and the Homages and Services c. of the Freeholders in Roderham except the Homage of Iohn de Dayvill for the Tenement which Thomas de Dayvill held in Anstan and the Homage of Nicholas de Lyvet for the Fee which he held of him in Hoton near Roch Abby Raph Tilly forfeited the moyety of the Mannor of Roderham to King Henry the third who granted it to Iohn de Lexington and he gave it to the Abby of Rufford The Abbat of Rufford 13 E. 1. had Free Warren in Rufford Cratela Eykering Almton Rohagh Parklathes Kirketon Tuxford Foxholes and Morton in the County of Nott. and in Brampton and Brithefeild in Darbishire and in Roderham and Carlecotes in Yorkshire Alice the Countess confirmed Earl Gilbert her fathers gift and so did Earl Simon her husband of all his Land in Rufford with all the Appurtenances and namely thirty Acres of Medow upon the Bank of Trent and his Land of Cratela c. as in Wellagh and other places is noted already In the year of our Lord 1159. there was an agreement made between the Abbat of Rufford and Thomas son of Paul or Thomas Paul Canon of York at the Feast of St. Michael in the presence of Roger Arch-bishop of Yorke and Elred Abbat of Rievalls and others That the Church of Rufford which appeared to be a Mother Church should pay no more Tenths after the death of the said Thomas to whom the Abbat of Rufford gave ten Marks for the Tenths of ten years and was to pay a Mark of Silver yearly during his life which was also ratified by the said Arch-bishop Roger and his power Legantine The House and Site of the Abby of Rufford with all buildings and Lands belonging to it viz. three hundred and four Acres of Arable and six hundred and forty of Pasture and sixty of Medow and three Water-Mills and the whole Fishing were by Indenture under the great Seal of the Court of Augmentations bearing date Mar. 20.28 H. 8. demised to Sir Iohn Markham Knight and his Assigns for twenty one years from the Feast of St. Michael then next following paying 22l. 8s. per annum But King Henry the eighth by his Letters Patents bearing date Octob. 6. in the twenty ninth year of his Reign in consideration that by an Act of his Parliament held at Dublin in the Kingdom of Ireland the first of May in the twenty eighth year of his Reign the Castles Lordships Honors Mannors Hundreds and Lands c. of George Earl of Shrowsbury and Waterford within that Kingdom were settled on the Crown and being unwilling to diminish the state honour and dignity of the said Earl he granted the Scite of Rufford and all his Lordships Mannors and Granges of Rufford Ekering Bildisthorp Warsop Walesby Allerton Wellugh Notingham Almeton Kirsale Mapulbek Besthorp Boughton Kelham Codington Parkelathes Kirketon Sterthorpe Est Retford Holme Foxholes Lytilborough Rohagh Southwell and Morton in this County and his Lordship of Rotherham and Lands there and in Thurleston Charlecotes and Wynleden in Yorkshire with the Rectory and Patronage of the Vicarage of Rotheram and all his Lands in Brampton Birchefeld Abney Chesterfeld Shirbroke and Glossopdale in Derbyshire with the Rectory of Glossopdale and Advowson of the Vicarage late belonging to the Abby of Basywark in Wales in the County of Flint as they came to his hands by reason and pretext of a certain Act of dissolving certain religious Houses in his Parliament begun at London November the third in the twenty first year of his Reign and then adjourned to Westminster and by divers Prorogations continued till Febr. 4. in the twenty seventh year of his Reign with all their Appurtenances and Lands in Albourne and Dudmandale alias Barton in Leicestershire late also belonging to Rufford and all Lands wheresoever whereof Thomas Dancaster late Abbat of Rufford was seised in right of his said Monastery all which were of the clear yearly value of 246l. 15s. 5d. sterling and no more to the said Earl his heirs and Assigns for the tenth part of a Knights Fee and 46l. 15s. 5d. into the Court of Augmentations for tenths Sir George Savile son of Sir Henry Savile of Barrowby in Lincolneth named in Screveton and Sireston married Mary daughter of George Earl of Shrowsbury Grand-child of the said George the Patentee to his first wife by whom he had Sir George Savile Knight and Baronet the husband of Anne the daughter of Sir William Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse Baronet and by her Father of Sir William Savile Baronet who married .... the daughter of Thomas Lord Coventry Lord Keeper in the time of King C. 1. by whom he had Sir George Savile Baronet who much inlarged and adorned this place and is since created Viscount Halifax by King C. 2. about 19 C. 2. he married the Lady Dorothy Spenser daughter of the Earl of Sunderland and by her hath sons George and William and a Child or two more as I remember his second wife is Gertrud daughter of the Honourable William Pierpont His brother Henry Savile is of the Bed-chamber to his Majesty C. 2. and his sister Anne was married to the Lord Windsor This place hath often entertained King Iames and King Charles his son being very pleasant and commodious for hunting in the Forest of Shirewood There was some distance from the house towards the South a pleasant large pool through which the little River Maun had its course which is now confined to its Channel and carried along the top of the Bank or Damm and the place of the Pool made dry ground and thereby more Profitable Pleasant and Healthful than before though some still think otherwise Clipston BEfore the Norman Conquest Osberne and Vlsi had two Mannors in Clipstune which paid the Geld for one Car. The Land was two Car. There afterwards Roger de Busli had in Demesne one Car. and an half and twelve Vill. and three Bord. having three Car. and an half and one Mill of 3s. Wood by places Pasturable one leu long and one broad In the Confessours time the value was 60s. when the Book of Doomsday was made in Kings Williams 40s. This it seems shortly after became the Kings Demesne for in 5 Steph. Iordan son of or Fitz Alan who ought Cs. of the Farm of the past year either he or his Father the said Alan gave account of Cs. of the Farm of the Mannors of Clipeston but Osbert Sylvan the then Sheriff was to pay it for him William Fitz-Ranulf Sheriff in 20 H. 2. gave account of the Assize of the Kings Demesnes and amongst the rest Clipston 32 s 8d. William Briewerre 2 Ioh. gave account of the year past and of the Costs of carrying the Kings Bacons from Clipeston to Northampton xs. and xd. and to the Chaplain of Clipeston 20â— of his Livery from the Sunday next before the Feast of St. Nicholas until the Sunday next before the
Allerton her second son Standard-bearer to Queen Elizabeths Band of Pensioners who married Mary daughter and heir of Rice Griffin of Dingley slain at Norwich by whom he had Sir Griffin Markham Knighted at Roan but at length banished and very many other children of which George Markham of Allerton married Iudith daughter and heir of Iohn Withernwick of Claxby in the County of Lincolne Esquire by whom he had Thomas Markham of Allerton slain or fighting on the Kings part driven with many others into the Trent and drowned at Gainsburgh in the year 1643. being a Colonel and much lamented But besides Sir Griffin and his brother George before named Thomas Markham of Allerton son of Sir Iohn had other sons viz. Robert Markham who died at Rome William and Iohn who had to wife Mary daughter of Sir Robert Markham of Cottham whose children died without issue Thomas and Charles Twins Charles had a daughter Anne the wife of Thomas Waterton of Waterton in Yorkshire and of Sir Iohn Middleton Knight This Thomas Markham had four daughters married viz. Elizabeth to Ed. Sheldon of Beoly Anne to Sir Francis Smith of Wotron Iane to Sir Iohn Skinner of Castle Comps and Marg. to Nicolas Longford of Longford His son George Robertus Markham de Cottham miles -Joana fil Egidii D'aubency Mariae secundae uxoris ejus cujus haer ipsa suit Johannes Markham miles-Alicia fil Willielmi Skypwith militis Johannes Markham de Cottham miles ob 1558. 1 Eliz. -Anna fil Georg. Nevil mil. ux 1 -Margeria fil Rad. Langford mil. ux 2 -Anna fil cohaer Joh. Strelley Ar. -Ric Stanhop mar 1. Johannes Markham ob ante patrem Willielmus Markham Tho. Markham de Allerton -Maria fil haer Ricei Griffin Griffin Markham miles exul -Anna fil Petri Roos de Laxton Ar. Georg. Markham de Allerton -Judith fil haer Joh. Withernwik Tho. Markham de Allerton occisus apud Gainsburgh 1643 -Ursula fil Will. Clopton de Sledwick in Episc. Dunelm -Henricus Nevill alias Smith de Holt marit 2. Tho. Markham de Allerton Ar. aet 30. 1670 -Anna fil Will. Nevill alias Smith fil Henrici praedicti de Holt. Thom. Markham aet 5. 1670. Maria. Ursula Anna. Georgius Markham de Wirkshop Lodge aet 54. 1670 -Eliz fil Marmad Tunstall Georgius aet 11. 1670. Kath. Eliz. Rob. Will. Joh. Thom. Carol. Saunchia ux Johannis Babington had besides his eldest son Thomas before spoken of a son called George Markham of Wirksop Lodge who married Elizabeth daughter of Marmaduk Tunstall of Wycliff and Hutton and by her had a son George and two daughters Katherin and Elizabeth his sister was Katherin and seems to be almost twenty years younger than he his elder brother the said Thomas Markham when he was slain left a son of his own name about three years old by his wife Vrsula one of the daughters of William Clopton of Sledwick in the Bishoprick of Durrham after his death married to Henry Nevill alias Smith of Holt to whom she brought Henry Anne and Vrsula Her son Thomas Markham now of Allerton married Anne daughter of William Nevill alias Smith son of the said Henry her husband on whom he hath begotten a son of his own name also and three daughters and may have more The owners of Ollerton in 1612. are set down to be the Lord Vaux George Markham Gent. Thomas Stirrop of Normanton Gent. Iames Bacon of Wesley William Walheade Mary Huddleston widow William Yarwood Robert Hooton Robert Bullock Boughton Bucton THis Town as Alreton was of two Fees viz. G. de Gands and Roger de Buslies who had that Mannor in Bucheton which Eduin had before the Conquest and answer'd the Geld for three Bov. The Land of it being then three Car. There the said Roger had in Demesne one Car. and two Vill. and one Bord. with one Car. or Plow In King Edward the Confessours time this was 20s. value in King Williams when the Survey was taken 10s. Another Mannor like this before the Norman Invasion Vlf had which likewise defended it self to the Dane-geld for three Bov. the Land being also three Car. There Gislebert de Gand had three Vill. one Sochm. one Bord. having three Car. ½ there was four Acres of Medow Pasture Wood three qu. long and three broad The value as the former 20s. in King Edward and 10s. in King Williams time Aeliz the daughter of William de Bucton gave to the Monastery of Blith which the said Roger de Busli Founded the Advowson of the Church of Bucton and three Bovats of Land which Alan de Bucton held and three Acres of her great Medow called Bradeng lying between the Town and the water called Fulbek and Common in every Pasture where her own Cattel fed she had been wife of Iohn Burdon Lord of Maplebek as in that place is noted Iohn Burdon son and heir of Alice de Bucton confirmed his mothers gifts in the Court of Tikhill 1224. to the said Monastery Basilia de Bucton the daughter of Iohn Burdon had a Culture or Wong of forty Acres given her by Aeliz her mother in the Fields of Bucton which lay between the Field of Walesby and the Land of the Monks of Ruford and stretched from the way which is between Allerton and Walesby to the way which is between Allerton and Bucton which she gave to the Prior and Monks of Blyth and Amabilia her daughter who had been wife of Hyngram Bluet confirmed it Iohn Burdon son of Iohn Burdon confirmed also the gifts of Aeliz his Grandmother and Basilia his Aunt William son of William de Mering in Bucton by his Deed dated at Bucton the Fryday after Sr. Thomas day 17 E. 1. granted to the Prior and Covent of Blith to pay to Sir Iohn Burdon and Matilda his wife and their heirs 2s. per annum which they were wont to pay to him and the Prior and Covent paid the 2s. Rent accordingly to the said Sir Iohn Burdon and Matilda his wife and the heirs begotten between them by the said Assignment of William son of William de Mering in Bucton William son of Eudo de Bucton gave to the Monks of Blyth one Acre and an half lying between their Land and the Land of Robert de Lexinthon which he bought of Iohn de Malesours and Ivetta his mother There was a Fine at Leicester the Thursday after the Feast of St. Andrew 10 Ioh. between Walter son of Ivo Petent and William Malesour and Ivetta his wife Tenents of five Bovats of Land with the Appurtenances in Bucton whereof they called Alice de Bucton to warrant who came and called Iohn Burdon to warrant who came and did warrant viz. the said Walter remised all his right to the said William and Ivetta and the heirs of the said Ivetta Iohn Burdon held four Bovats of Land in Demesne in Buketon of the Honour of Tikhill by the service of one Horse and one Sack when the Constables of Chester ought
to go into Wales in the Kings Service He held half a Knights Fee in Bucton of the Earl of Lincolne of the old feoffment The Jury 11. R. 2. found that Thomas de Bekering mentioned in Tuxford held some Rent of Assise in Bughton of the heir of Iohn Burdon of Maplebek by the Service of a Rose per annum This Mannor came with Maplebek to the Family of Markham as in that and other places may be noted Robert Wood and Nicolas Blunston 8 Eliz. claimed against Thomas Markham Esquire the Mannor of Boughton with the Appurtenances and ten Mess. eight Tofts one Mill one Dovecote sixteen Gardens three hundred Acres of Land two hundred of Medow two hundred of Pasture forty of Wood one hundred of Marsh forty of Alders and 30s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Boughton Kirketon and Wallesby and called to warrant Robert Markham There was received in the time of Queen Elizabeth by the Collector of Thomas Markham Esquire of Allerton for his Lands in Boughton late Sir Robert Markhams Knight and sometime Nicolas Burdons held by the Service of three parts of one Knights Fees 2s. 2d. ob dim q. By an Inquisition taken 29 Oct. 38 H. 8. it appears that Michael Clarkeson died 9 Oct. 38 H. 8. seized of Boughton Grange and by Saunchia his wife had a son named Iohn Clarkeson his heir aged sixteen years May 22. then past This Family had their most usual Residence at Kirketon as in that place may be seen The owners of the Towns of Houghton Walesby Willoughby cum Boughton 1612. are thus set down Sir Iohn Hollys Knight Michael Clarkson Gent. of Kirton Prebendary of Southwell Richard Hurst of Walesby two Oxgangs Mrs. Talbott one Oxgang and an half William Baker one Oxgang and an half Richard Browne half an Oxgang Iohn Walker the like William Caede of Boughton an Oxgang and an half Anne Browne widow half an Oxgang Richard Hooton Thomas Stocks Iames Iohnson George Markham Gent. three Tenements in Boughton Budby THere were in Buteby of the Soc of the Kings great Mannor of Maunsfeld two Carucats It still continueth a Member of Maunsfeld and consists of ancient Demesne Copy-holders of that Mannor and is within that Parish and since the Forest got the use of Lime is become a pretty Town Perlethorp Peverelthorp THis Town is not thus named in Doomsday Book howbeit there is of the Fee of Roger de Busli a Town called Torpe which I judge may be this in which before the alteration made by King William the Conquerour Thurstan and Vlmer had two Mannors which answered the Geld or Tax as ten Bovats The Land was enough for three Plows or three Car. There Richard the Man of Roger had four Car. and five Vill. and four Bord. having two Car. and an half and seven Acres of Medow Pasture Wood .... qu. long and four broad In the time of the Confessour the value was 40s. in the Conquerours but 20. having Soc in Glethorpe King Henry the second gave the Nuns of Haverholme 4l. Land in Orston in exchange for the Mannor of Peverelthorpe Thomas de Bussey 9 H. 3. claimed against Robert de Veteriponte the Mannor of Peverelthorpe and the moyety of the Mannor of Turesby whereof Vmfry de Bussey his father was seised in Demesne in the time of Henry the second Robert de Vipont 10 H. 3. answered to the like claim that he could not nor ought to plead because the King ought to warrant him that Land and produced the Charter of King Iohn which witnessed that he gave the said Robert that Land In Easter Term following Robert offered himself against Thomas de Bushey the fourth day but he came not and was amerced and Robert dismissed This Robert de Veteriponte married Idonia the daughter and heir of Iohn son and heir of Richard son and heir of Iordan son and heir of Ernald brother of Roger de Bully or Busli whose only son Roger died without issue in the time of Henry the first and in her right therefore 4 H. 3. claimed the Castle and Town of Tikhill against Alice Countess of Augi or Ewe who in 14 H. 3. was found to be daughter of Henry son of Iohn son of Henry son of Beatrix sister and heir of Roger de Buylly who died without issue in the time of H. 1. But they agreed as in Stanford upon Sore is noted before that time by the Fine in 6 H. 3. concerning Tikhill Castle and Town for six Knights Fees to the said Robert and Idonea whereof part was in Peverelthorp Roger de Clifford had the Custody of Isabella the elder daughter and co-heir and Roger de Leyburne of Idonia the younger daughter and co-heir of Robert de Veteri Ponte son of Iohn or Ivo son of the said Robert and Idonia as appears by a Partition made between them 52 H. 3. The King 11 E. 1. by Iohn le Fawkener claimed against Roger de Leyburne and Idonia his wife and Isabell who had been wife of Roger de Clifford the Mannor of Peverilsthorp but upon producing Kings Iohns Charter bearing date the twenty sixth day of May in the eighth year of his raign made to Robert de Veteriponte ancestor of Idonia and Isabella they recovered it against the King The Jury 12 E. 1. said that Roger de Leyburne held the Mannor of Peverelthorp of the inheritance of Idonia his wife and divers others in several Counties and that Iohn his son and heir was then four years old There was a Fine levied at York 30 E. 1. between Iohn de Crumbwell and Idonia his wife Quer. and Gilbert de Ellesfeld Deforc. whereby the Mannors of Kymbreworth in Yorkshire of Eyworth in Bedfordshire and the moyety of Wyntreslowe in Wiltshire and Peverelthorp in this County were settled on the said Iohn and Idonia and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of Idonia Iohn de Crumbwell 2 E. 2. had free-warren in Malteby Peverelsthorp and Stavely Darbysh The Jury found it no damage 7 E. 3. if he gave two Acres in Penreth in Cumberland to the Priory there and that there remained over to him this Mannor which with Thuresby in 9 E. 2. answered for half a Villa whereof the King and the said Iohn were returned Lords The Jury 8 E. 3. said that Idonia de Leyburne held when she died the Mannor of Peverelthorp joyntly with her husband Iohn de Crumbwell by reason of the Fine before noted of the honour of Tikhill and that here was a certain Capital Mess. two hundred Acres of Arable Land twenty of Medow c. Edward le Despenser in 10 E. 3. was Tenent of the Lands which were Idonia de Leyburnes Niece and one of the heirs of Ric. son of Iohn and gave for the relief of the said Idonia concerning the moyety of the fourth part of her inheritance viz. for this Mannor and the third
Sheffeild of Butterwick and by her had Sir Iohn Hollys created by King Iames Baron of Houghton Iuly 9. in the fourteenth year of his Reign and in the twenty second year Earl of Clare 2 Novemb. Anne the daughter of Sir Thomas Stanhope was his wife and bore him Iohn Earl of Clare and Densill Hollis who married Dorothy sole daughter and heir of Sir Francis Ashley Knight of Dorchester Serjeant at Law by whom he hath issue William c. He was by this King in the thirteenth year of his Reign created Lord Hollis of Ifeild in Sussex His brother the said Iohn Earl of Clare married Elizabeth eldest daughter and co-heir of Sir Horatio Vere Lord Vere of Tilbury and by her had Gilbert the present Earl whose Countess is .... the daughter of the Honourable William Pierrepont West Drayton OF Roger de Buslies Fee in Drayton Suen and Vlstan paid to the Geld for their Mannors before the Conquest as four Bov. â…” The Land whereof was two Car. There afterwards two Men of Rogers had one Car. eight Vill. one Bord. having two Car. There were three Mills 5s. and seven Acres of Medow Pasture Wood three qu. long half a qu. broad In the Confessours time this was 30s. value in the Conquerours when the Survey was made 17s. 4d. Here was then also of Roger Pictavensis his Fee which before the Conquest was Swains who answered the Tax for his Mannor as two Bov. and one third The Land being one Car. When Doomsday Book was made Vsi or Vlsi held this of Roger Pictavensis and had here half a Car. and one Vill. one Bord. with half a Car. Here were three Acres of Medow Pasture Wood one qu. long half a qu. broad In the Confessours time the value was 10s. then but 5s. 4d. Thomas Fitz-William held of the Countess of Augi or Ewe in Clarborough and West Drayton three parts of one Knights Fee as in Clarborough is noted this was Roger de Buslies and the Family of Maresey held that of the Lancaster Fee as in Gameleston and other places may be observed Merriell Bridge THomas Fitz-William gave to the Church and Monks of Blith the Rent of 40s. sterling per annum viz. his moyety of the Mill of Mirihil Bridge with the whole Suit and all things belonging to him by reason of that Mill for 30s. and one half Mark yearly in which the Archbishop of York was held bound to him for himself and his successours for a Tenement which he held of him in Plumtrefeld and one Mark of Silver which William son of H. de Adwic was held to him for a Tenement which he held of him in Adwic to be paid to the said Monks by the hands of the said William and his heirs every year at the Purification of the blessed Mary c. Richard de Marcham obliged himself by Oath to pay 20s. yearly to the Monks of Blith for the moyety of the Mill of Mirihild Bridge which they granted to him and his heirs who were to do Homage and Relief and take their Oaths to pay the said 20s. per annum whether Thomas Fitz-William did warrant the Suit to the Mill or not else the Prior to re-enter into the possession of the whole Mill. Murilde Brigg 3 E. 3. was to be repaired c. This Bridge lies at the entrance of this small Township in Yorke Rode Way betwixt Tuxford and Scroby the Town is in the Parish of Elkesley and the Chapel esteemed part of Tikhill as the rest In the beginning of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth this Mannor was the Inheritance of William Swift The owners of West Drayton in 1612. are set down thus Robert Swift Knight .... Meverel Esquire Robert Brett Richard Whitlam senior Nicolas Whitmore William Simpson Richard Whitlam junior Bothumsell Bodmeschel And Lound Hall IN Bodmeschell Earl Tosti had twelve Bovats for the Geld. The Land eight Car. But after the Conquest the King had there five Vill. and one Bord. with two Car. and one Mill. 8s. and forty Acres of Medow Pasture Wood half a leuc long and four qu. broad In the time of Edward the Confessour the value was 8l. when King William took the Survey but 60s. This Mannor had Soc in Elchesleig both Mortunes Babword Oglesthorp and Ordeshale Ranesby and Sudershale Raneby Madrisseig Lund and Barneby In 9 H. 3. of the Scurage of Mungumery Raph de St. George and Richard de Furnells gave account of two Marks concerning one Fee in Bodemescill Richard de Furnell son and heir of Robert de Furn. which Robert was husband of Isabell daughter of Iordan de Chevercourt released all his right in the Chapel of Bomeshull to the Abby of Wellebec and acknowledged it to belong to the Mother Church of Helkesley of that Abbies Patronage The same did Raph de St. George The said Raph and Richard are said to hold this Fee in Bodmescill of the King in Capite but in a later Inquisition Robert de Furneus and Robert de St. George are said to hold it of the Honour of Lancaster of the old feoffment Robert de St. George 18 H. 3. gave five Marks for relief of the Lands which Raph his father held in Lancashire The Jury 30 H. 3. said that Robert de St. George late husband of Petronilla held in the Town of Bodmeshill with the Sok two Car. of Land and an half of the King in Capite by the service of half a Knights Fee whereof he had in Demesne fifty Acres c. he held divers Lands in Lincolneshire Raph de St. George his son and heir was then fifteen years old The King that year viz. 30 H. 3. committed the Custody of the Lands and heirs of the said Robert de St. George to Robert le Norreis In the Scurage of Wales 39 H. 3. and 44 H. 3. Raph St. George and Robert Furnels paid 40s. for one Knights Fee here and one in Lancashire That moyety of this Mannor which belonged to the Family of Furnalls descended with it as in Carleton in Lindrick will be noted The Jury 25 E. 1. said that Richard de Furnous and Richard de Boselingthorpe held a Knights Fee in Bothemsell of Edmund Earl of Lancaster paying 10â— per annum to the Ward of that Castle And in 19 E. 2. the Jury said that Richard de Boselingthorp held this Mannor when he died by the Law of England of the Inheritance of Isabella his quondam wife and that Iohn de Boselingthorp was their son and heir which Iohn 5 E. 3. had a Charter of Fee Warren for Bothmeshull Raph Brasebrigg Chr. 19 R. 2. by one Fine passed the Mannor of Bothumsell to Iohn de Markham and Elizabeth his wife and the heirs of Iohn and by another 110l. Rent in Bothumsell Robert Fletchar and William Bull 8 Eliz. claimed against William Swyft Esquire the Mannors of Bothumsell Vpton and Elkesley with the Appurtenances and twenty
had three Car. ½ six Sochm. on two Bov. of this Land and fifteen Vill. eleven Bord. having three Car. There was a Priest and a Church and one Mill 16d. and half the seat of a Mill Pasture Wood five qu long four broad In King Edward the Confessours time the value was 64. then when the Survey was taken in the Conquerours 4 s less Gilbert de Arches Lord of Grove by the consent of Gilbert his son and heir gave to the Church of Wellebec together with his body his whole Land of Gledethorp and Thomas son of Raph de River gave his whole Land there reserving 8s. per annum to himself and his heirs for which the brethren gave him three Marks of Silver and 20 ◠He did affy or promise to hold this bargain with his right hand in the hand of Walter de Sidenham Andrew son of Thomas de la Rivere confirmed the said gift of his Father and by another Deed released the 8 s per annum Oliva daughter and heir of Alan Fitz-Iordan Lord of Tuxford in her Widowhood and lawful power after the decease of Roger de Montebegonis sometimes her husband as before him was Robert de St. Iohn gave to the Church of Wellebec and Canons there c. a certain Medow in Warsop which was called Bradheng A Grant or Donation 17 H. 3. was made to Robert de Lexington of the Parc of Karleton and Crumbwell and of the Mannor of Warsope with the Advowson of the Church and the Mill of Hilueton which he had of Oliva Fitz-Iordan In 52 H. 3. it seems Robert de Sutton was Lord of the Mannor of Warsop which Margery sometime wife of Iohn de Lexinton held in dower and which the King had given to Queen Alianor his Consort for the redemption of the said Robert de Sutton according to the Edict of Kenilworth Robert de Sutton son and heir of William de Sutton deceased who held the Mannor of Warsop of the King in Capite did his homage 53 H. 3. But there was some strife between the King and the Noble Robert de Sutton concerning the Presentation to the Church of Warsop The Jury◠52 H. 3. found that Robert de Sutton was above twenty seven years old at his fathers death and that there was 3. Car. in Demesne and free-holders c. The Jury 20 E. 1. said that Margery de Merlay held the Mannor of Warsop with a Garden and eight Bov. of Land c. of the inheritance of Richard de Sutton son of the said Robert In 16 E. 2. they said that Iohn de Somery held Warsop and Ekering of Iohn de Sutton son of Richard which Iohn de Sutton then had to wife Margaret one of the sisters and heirs of the said Iohn de Somery and Thomas Bottetort had Ioane the other Richard de Sutton 1 E. 2. had an Ad quod Damnum to settle this Mannor and Advowson on the said Iohn and Margaret and their heirs and then there remained the Mannor of Ekering and 5. Marks yearly Rent in Allerton under Sherwood and the Mannor of Sutton upon Trent The Jury 2 E. 3. said that Iohn Nunnes of London acquired the Mannor of Warsop in Fee of Iohn de Sutton Iohn arte Nunnes 3 E. 3. claimed to have a Mercat here every Tuesday with Toll and Stallage and other things belonging to a Mercat Iohn de Nunnes Citizen of London 3 E. 3. passed his Mannor of Warsop with the Advowson of the Church and with the Parc of Plesele in the County of Derby to Sir Iohn de Roos Knight and his heirs This Mannor with Ekering and Sutton continued with the Lords Roos and their heirs the Earls of Rutland as in those places may be noted The last Earl George gave this to William Willughby late Lord Willughby of Parham his sisters son Iohn son of William de Ros de Hamelak 11 E. 3. had confirmation of free-warren in his Demesne Lands in Tuxford Warsop and Aston and that he and his heirs for ever might freely and without impediment run through the Kings whole Forest in this County at the Fox Wolf Hare or Cat except the Kings Demesne Warrens this was dated March 20. The Abbat of Wellebec confirmed to Hugh son of Robert del Estapilton and the heirs of his body remainder to Robert brother of the said Hugh c. one Mess. with a Toft and one Bov. of Land in the territory of Warsop which the Monks had of the gift of Eva Murdac wife of Hugh Brett which she had by right of inheritance for her part of William de London her brother named in Nettleworth Walter le Brett 9 E. 1. claimed against Iohn de Lascelles six Bov. and two Acres of Land and one of Medow in Warsop and against the Abbat of Wellebec other lands there he was son of Richard son of Eva who had another husband Thomas de Lascelles in the time of H. 3. and gave the Land to Richard de Lascelles who thereof enfeoff'd the said Iohn against whom the Plaint was brought Gledethorp with Welbek is the inheritance of his Grace the Duke of Newcastle The owners of Warsop in 1612. were said to be Roger Earl of Rutland William Kitchen Will. Barker Iohn Whitehead Adam Hawkesworth of Holmefeild Iohn Taylor Iohn Butcher The Rectory of Warsop was 20l. when the Lord Roos was Patron 'T is now 22l. 15s. 2d. value in the Kings Books and William Willoughby Patron Sulkholme Suckholme KIng Henry the son of King William gave to the Priory of St. Oswald of Nostle in Yorkshire three Bovats in Warsop and Sulkholme and two parts of a Bovat of Land which King H. 2. also confirmed The Jury 2 E. 1. said that the Prior of Sr. Oswald paid to the Lords of the Mannor of Warsop for the Town of Suckholme two Marks yearly In the Record of Nom. Vill. 9 E. 2. Warsop and the Sok answered for an intire Villa whereof at that time the King Iohn de Somery and the Prior of St. Oswald were certified to be Lords The Prior 3 E. 3. claimed all sorts of Priviledges But the Jury could not find that in the Mannor of Sulkholme he or his predecessours had Infangtheif or Gallows he had view of Frank-pledge there but it never happened in the Juries knowledge that ever Bread was baked there to be sold that they might have had emendation of the Assize The Demesne and Mannor of Suckholme late belonging to the Priory of St. Oswald 1 Iuly 37 H. 8. was with all the Appurtenances granted to Margaret Leek the Widow of Iohn Leek Gent. for life remainder to Henry Leek her son and heir and the heirs of his body remainder to the right heirs of the said Margaret then extended at 11l. 13s. 9d. ob per annum It was in 1612. the possession of Sir Charles Cavendish and is now his sons the Duke of
Simon son of Galfr. de Whiten the Lands and Tenements given to the said Abby in Whiten and that demand concerning one Palfrey or the value as before Joceus le Flemangh venitad Conquest Angl. Rich. temp W. 1 -N de Nott. ux 1 -Hawifia consanguin Comitis de Ferrariis ux 2. Rich. de Cukeney Rich. de Cukeney Tho. de Cukeney Willielmus Goschire Joana 8 E. 1 -Rob le Porter Joh. suspensus An. 1200. Ric. Germanus de Cukeney Isabella Thom. de Cukeney Radulphus de Cukeney Rich. Rad. Silvan-Margareta Osbertus Silvan Rad. Selvein Osbert Seilvan miles 1246. Radulphus Salvayne -Marger fil cohaer Nic. fil Anketini Malory Anketinus Salvayn Anketinus Salvayn mil. de Thorp Thomas fundator Abb. de Welbek-Emma Emma ux Gerardi de Glanvill Simon Fitz-Simon-Isabel Walterus de Faucomberg -1 Agnes Per. de Fauconberg Walterus de Fauconberg Walterus de Fauconberg Johannes de Faucomberg Walterus de Rieboef -2 Isabella Stephanus de Faucomberg -3 Petronilla Willielmus de Fauconberg -Ida fil Adae de St. Martino Hen. de Fawcomberg 38 H. 3. Willielmus de Faucomberg 8 E. 1. ob 29 E. 1. ... fil Matildae Dom. de Goushull 1 Johannes stultus 23 E. 1. aetat 23 an 2 Henricus de Fauconberg miles -Elena fil Dom. Rob. de Hertford 3 Willielm Hugo Stephen who married the third daughter Petronilla begot on her a son named William This William was in the Custody of King Iohn and the said King gave his Wardship or Custody and marriage to Adam de St. Martin and the said Adam gave to the said William Ida his daughter to wife and the said William begot on the said Ida a son Henry by name Between the said Henry and William son of Thomas a certain Fine was levied of all Lands and Tenements in Cukeney and the said Henry took up the said Land and gave for relief to the King 100s. and to the said King did Homage The said Henry begot a son by name William who took to wife the daughter of Matilda Lady of Goushull and begot on her three sons Iohn Henry and William The aforesaid William father of the said Iohn Henry and William released to the said Abby his whole right concerning all Customs and Services and concerning the prestation or giving of a Palfrey at every removal or creation of the Abbat of the said Abby as appeareth by the Fine That Iohn the first begotten of the said William was a Fool neither could he hold the Land of his father But Henry the second son made Fine with the King for the said Land with such condition that he should sustein his elder brother but he died shortly after And so the said Henry held the said Land and afterwards espoused the daughter of Sir Robert de Hertford Elena by name and as it is more fully found in the Book of Memorand's in the Exchequer 31 E. 1. William de Faucomberg Knight son and heir of Sir Henry de Faucomberg Knight granted for himself and his heirs to the Abby and Covent of Welbek all and all manner of Common which they had in Burneflat c. Petronilla daughter of Simon Fitz-Simon in 2 Ioh. ought 20s. for having her imparlance Loquela in tâ—e Kings Court at Westminster against R. W. de Faucomberg and Agnes his wife and Walter de Rieboef and Ysabel his wife concerning her reasonable part of the xxth part of one Knight in Kukeney and the sixth part of one Knights Fee in Hocwell Sir Henry de Fawconberg Knight by his Deed dated at Yorke the last day of September Anno Dom. 1329. 2 E. 3. mistaken for 3 E. 3. passed to Iohn de Hotham Bishop of Ely his whole Mannor of Cukeney with the Appurtenances together with the Knights Fees and Advowsons as well of the Abby of Wellebecke as others with all his Lands and Tenements in Holbeck by Cukeney as well those which he lately acquired in Fee of Thomas de Furneux as others c. in the Towns or Hamlets of Cukeney Langwath Bondbusk Holbeck Woodhouse Milnethorpe Cloun and Norton or otherwhere in this County c. all which the said Bishop conveyed to the Abbat and Covent of Wellbeck in the time of the Justices Itinerant at Notingham 4 Decemb. 1329. 3 E. 3. by his Deed then inrolled Henry de Faucomberg 10 E. 2. had Marker and Fair granted at Cokeney and his Grandfather Henry de Faucomburge in 38 H. 3. had Free Warren there The process of the Land of Cukeney of the Honour of Tikhill was as followeth Ioceus le Flemingh came to the Conquest of England in the time of William Duke of Normandy and got in Cukeney the third part of a Knights Fee and the said Ioce begot a certain son by name Richard This Richard took a wife in Notingham by name N. and begot on her a certain son by name Richard This Richard enfeoffed the House of Welbek of the whole third part of a Knights Fee aforesaid viz. of the Land of Langwat with the Hay of Cukeney reserving to himself the Capital Mess. in Cukeney and nine Bovats of Land and did the Service to the chief Lords of the Fee of Tikhill for the said Abbat and his successours This Richard begot a son named Richard who confirmed the gift of his father This Richard begot a son by name Thomas This Thomas impleaded the Abbat of Wellebek concerning the third part of a Knights Fee and at length there was a final concord made between them before the Justices Itinerant at Bristoll so that the Abbat should give him 10s. per annum for making Suit to the Court of Tikhill for the said Abbat and his successours This Thomas begot a certain son by name William Goschite This William begot a certain daughter by name Ioane and enfeoffed the House of Welbek of six Bovats of Land reserving to himself two Bovats of Land and the Capital Messuage afterwards he sold all his right to Iohn his brother who for Theft or Larceny was hanged at Notingham and his Land was an Eschaet in the hands of the Lords of Tikhill Afterwards came Ioane the daughter of the said William and impleaded the Lords of Tikhill concerning the said Land and got it before the Justices at Nottingham and enfeoffed Robert le Porter of Welbek who afterwards married her That Robert afterwards enfeoffed Henry de Screveton of that Land That Henry enfeoffed Petronilla de Sulkholm and afterwards married her Henry died without children And the said Petronilla feoffed Benedict de Thornebiry who afterwards married her That Benedict after the death of Petronilla sold his whole right to the Abbat and Covent of Wellebek by the Kings licence And the Abbat did Suit at the Court of Tykhill from three weeks to three weeks for the said Land Memorandum Anno Dom. 1201. 2 Ioh. the day of the Translation of St. Martin Iohn son of Thomas de Cukeney was convict by a certain appealer viz. Raph de Edenestowe and afterwards hanged and
the Monks held in Fee Farm of the said Thomas and his heirs for 8s. and the whole part of the Land of Verbert de Aâ—ches which they likewise held in Fee Farm for 5s. of the said Verbert and his heirs for all Services with the Appurtenances of the said Town of Gledthorp And the Land of Cotes Linc. which they held in Fee Farm of William son of Renâ—r and his heirs for a Mark as his Chartel or Deed and that of Herbert son of Alard witnessed Of the gift of Peter de Cotes the Church of Cotes and the Lands and Medows as the Deed or Chartel of the said Peter witnessed and the Land of Cressewell which was Raph Cordus his which they held in Fee Farm of Iohn de Aiencurt and his heirs for 5s. per annum Of the gift of Simon Fitz-Simon and Isabell his wife two Bovats of Land of their Demesne in Hertewell and the Church of the said Town of Hertewell which they confirmed to them and the space of Wood c. as before Robert de Manill sometimes Lord of Whitewell in the County of Derby gave to the Church of Welbek a Quarry in his Land where ever it could be found most convenient to build the Church of St. Iames and other offices and free ingress and egress for those that carried necessaries for the building Walter de Goushull Knight granted a Quarry through the whole More between the Town of Whitewell and Belgh and other-where in the said Common Pastures of the Parish of Whitewell where ever it could be found and free leave to discover dig work and carry c. as the Charter of the said Robert de Menill his ancestor mentioned without contradiction Raph de Basset by the consent of William Basset his faâ—her and Matildis his mother whose Inheritance they were gave to the Canons of Wellebek his Mills of Languat the condition whereof was That the Men of the Town of Languat and of Hoghton were to make the House and Damm of the Nether Mill at their cost and to grinde the Corn of their proper Wanage or Tillage at the sixteenth grain and what they bought at the twentieth and the Abbat and Covent were to make the Vpper Mill and Damm at their costs and it was lawful for the said William Basset and his heirs to Fish in the upper Pool whensoever they would as the Abbat did Walter de Haincourt by the consent and favour of Iohn his son and heir gave to God and the Church of St. Iames at Welbec the whole Land which Gaufr de Kressewell held of his father and Raph his son of him free from all service belonging to him except five Shillings yearly and three preces Boons of one Plow or Carucat and three preces Boon daies in harvest viz. the first with one Man the second with two and the third with as many as shall be found there daily reaping And free from all service to the King except Dana-geld or the Kings Common Aid by his command should be levied through the whole Country in every County likewise the Sheriffs and the Kings Bayliffs praepositi the Canons were to pay for that Land This grant he made at the intreaty and by the consent of the said Raph son of Gaufr who surrendred the Land to him that he might grant it to the said Church of St. Iames and the Canons who gave the said Raph a Mark of Silver and four Goats The Witnesses were Robert the Presbyter William de Cukeney and Thomas Lord of Cukeney c. Oliver de Eyncuria son of Iohn de Eyncuria gave to the said Church of Wellebek the Tythe of his Multure of his whole Mill at Cressewell and of the issues and profits which Olyver Deyncourt his son recognized 16 H. 3. before S. de Segrave and his fellow Justices Itinerant Roger Deyncourt gave to the Church of Welbek to sustain three Canons to celebrate Divine Service in that Covent his whole Land and Medow in Wynefeild with Common of Pasture in Loghagh except the Advowson of the Church of Wynfeld and the Land which belonged to the Bovat of the Parkhuse c. Iohn de Eyncourt Rector of the Church of Wynefeld brother of Sir Roger de Eyncourt sometimes Lord of the Park of Morton Derbishire for the health of his Soul and the Soul of the said Roger his brother Lord and Ancestor and of the Lady Alice wife of the said Roger confirmed the gifts of his said brother viz. his whole Land of Winnefeld c. and the homage of William de Eyncourt brother of the said Iohn and of the rest of the Free-holders and Services of the Natives with their Sequels and that whoever should hold the Mannor of Park should defend the said Land from all Suits c. Roger de Eyncurt brother of the said Sir Roger Lord of Park made the like confirmation William Deincourt was called Basset after whose decease Iohn Deyncourt entred Sir Richard de Wyverton for forty nine Marks of Silver given him by Galfr. Fitz-Peter gave to the Abby of Wellebek the Town of Dukmanton in Derbysh. which Sir Richard Basset confirmed and so did Henry de Stuteville and Leonia de Reynes his mother of whose Barony it was held There were many Benefactors of several Counties most of this County are noted in the places where the Lands lay as this Sir Richard de Wiverton is in Colston Basset King Edward the first by his Charter bearing date at York 5 Apr. 19 E. 1. granted the Abbat and Covent of Wellebec and their successours Free Warren in all their Demesne Lands in Whyten Filingham Ingham and Cotes in the County of Linc. Whatton Aslacton Flintham Kniveton Yvershagh Gledthorp Hatfeild Hirst Belgh Cukney Colingthwait Languat Cloune Norton Milnethorpe Swaynthorp Vlecotes and Stirape in this County Dukmanton Winefeld Newbold and Cressewell in Darbyshire The same King by another Charter dated at Keneylleworth 1 Iune 29 E. 1. granted his whole part of the Wood and Soyl of Roumwood between the Wood of the said Abbat and the Parc of Thomas de Furnivall extending it self by the Kings High-way between Wirkesop and Warsop towards the West and containing sixty Acres by the Perch of the Forest together with that place of Land which was called Carberton Storth by the said Wood paying 28s. per annum for all Services which last the said Abbat had licence to inclose and make a Park of and to destroy and sell the Wood and Essart the Soyl or otherwise to make profit as he should see convenient and by this warrant 3 E. 3. they claimed c. where the Jury found the Abbat and all his Predecessors and Canons but not their Tenants or Men quit from Toll of all things which they could secure to be their own Demesne and from Bridges except the Town Bridge of Nottingham was broken The Composition between l. de Nottingham Abbat of Wellebech and the Covent of that place and
Iohn de Hothum Bishop of Ely bearing date 29 Decemb. 1329.3 E. 3. was to this effect viz. That for the Mannor of Cukeney with the Appurtenances and two Mess. one hundred and twenty Acres of Land eight of Medow six of Wood with the Appurtenances in Holbeck by Cukeney which the said Bishop gave to the said Abbat and Covent they the said Abbat and Covent without any compulsion freely bound themselves and their successours to find eight Canons in their Abby daily to celebrate Divine Offices for the Soul of Edward King of England Grandfather of the then King and for the Soul of Edward late King of England father of the said then King for the wholesome estate of the Lady Isabell Queen of England the said Kings mother and of her children and chiefly for the state of the King and the Lady Philippa his Consort Queen of England while they lived and for their souls when they should die Also for the souls of Alan and Maud father and mother of the said Lord Iohn de Hothum Bishop of Ely and for the souls of the children of them the said Alan and Matildis then dead and of the living when they should die and for the Soul of Frier or Brother William de Hothum sometimes Bishop of Dublin for the state of the Lady Mary de St. Paul Countess of Pembroke and her Soul when it should be separated from the body and also for the Soul of Peter de Gaveston late Earl of Cornewall and for the Souls of Sir Iohn de Wogan and Isabell his wife and for Sir Raph Camoys and Elizabeth his wife and for their Souls after death for Sir Iohn de Fawconberg and for his Soul after his decease and especially for the healthful state of the said Lord Bishop while he should live and afterwards for his Soul and for all theirs who had faithfully served him and bestowed benefits upon him and for all the faithful departed And besides this they and their successours to celebrate in their Abby as long as the world should endure the Anniversary of the said Lord Bishop with such solemnity as the Anniversary of their first and principal Founder as well in Alms to the poor as in Divine Obsequies was wont in times past to be celebrated and every day whereon Commemorations of the dead should be read in their Chapter House his Soul should therein be absolved by name And when any of the said eight Canons should by sickness or other lawful cause be hindred from celebrating another Canon of their House should faithfully supply his turn And when any of those eight should go the way of all flesh another Canon should immediately be put in his place They were also to swear that they would never diminish the number of eight but maintain the said celebration for ever decently and that they would never obtain any thing of the Pope or the K. of England or the superior of the Order of the Praemonstratenses or of any other whereby any thing should be subtracted from the said celebration And every new Abbat before the Covent should do him obeisance or he be installâ—d in the Monastery and every Novice before he should be admitted to probation in their Monastery should be bound by the same Oath faithfully to keep every Article of the said ordination according to his utmost power for ever Furthermore if their said Order which God forbid should by any emergent chance be suppressed or transferred to any other Order then they willed and granted by the Tenour of the said agreement that the said Bishop or his heirs without any obstacle might enter and peaceably enjoy the said Mannor of Cukeney and two Mess. one hundred and twenty Acres of Land eight of Medow six of Wood with the Appurtenances in Holbeck by Cukeney But that the present ordination might last for ever without any diminution the said Abbat and all the Priests of the Covent with Candles burning and Stoles hung at their necks solemnly excommunicated all and every one that should weaken break diminish or violate or procure the said ordination or any part of it to be weakned broken diminished or violated by any means or presume to go against it in any thing subjecting themselves and their successours in this to the Jurisdiction and cohercion of the Abbat of Neuhus father of their Abbat and of the yearly Visiteâ—s that if in their Visitation they found any thing of this ordinance violated or diminished they might proceed against them as guilty of Perjury and excommunicate And lest oblivion should obolish what gratitude had charitably instituted This Ordination was every year on All Souls day to be read through in their Monastery in the presence of all the Brethren But King Henry the eighth 26 Febr. 30 H. 8. granted to Richard Whalley and his heirs the Scite of the Abby of Welbeck and all the Houses and Lands beneath the Scite of it and the two Granges called Bellers Grange and Hirst Grange and the several Closes and Groves c. Queen Elizabeth 20 May 1 Eliz. granted licence to Richard Whalley Esquire and William Whalley Gent. to alienate the House and Scite of the Monastery of Welbeck by the name of the Demesne of the Mannor of Welbeck and the said two Granges Bellers and Hurst and the Grange of Gledethorpe and the Mannor of Norton and the Grange called Hardwick Grange to Edward Osborne Citizen and Cloathworker of London and his heirs She 9 Febr. 42 Eliz. granted to Robert Booth Esquire and Ranulph Catterall Gent. the whole Scite c. which sometime was belonging to and parcel of the Lands late of Richard Whalley Esquire It is now Nov. 11. 1674. the Mansion House of his Grace the Duke of Newcastle of whose Noble Atchievements I ought to have given some particular account but that the Dutchess his wife not long since dead hath done it far beyond my hopes in her famous Books especially that of his Life besides what himself hath communicated to the World in several Poems and his most excellent pieces concerning Horsmanship both in French and English whereof he is so great a Master that though he be above eighty years of age he very constantly diverts himself with it still insomuch that he is thought to have taken as great pleasure beholding his great store of choice well-managed Horses wherewith his fine stables are continually furnished appear to exercise their gifts in his magnificent Riding-house which he long since built there of Brick as in elder time any one could take to see the religious performances of the Monks in the Quire of the great Church of St. Iames now utterly vanished except the Chapel for the house was any part of it which of late years also hath lain buried in the ruines of its roof the want whereof doth a little diminish the glory of this brave Palace yet seeing that neither the Wisdome nor Piety nor Charity of those formerly concerned here nor their Right
fil Will. Compton ex quib Com. Northam Gilb. Talbot de Grafton mil. Gart. -Eliz Greystok-Andrea Cotton ux 2. Gilb. Joh. Talbot antecess moderni Com. Salop. Humfr. Christoph. 1 Gilbertus Talbot -Joana fil Tho. Duc. Glocest. Ankareta fil haer s. p. Will. de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Gerardus de Furnivall-Christiana Ledec Gerard. de Furnivall Lora de Furnivalle fil haeres -Gerardus Uflet Willielmus de Furnivall Ernulphus de Mandevill Nigellus de Lovetot Baro in Com. Hunt -Margareta Rich. ut in Wishou Rog. de Lovetot Nigel Rob. de Coleston Will. de Lovetot Ernulph de Mandevill was a Witness to this After the great controversie concerning many demands on both parts between her and Wal. the Prior and the Covent of Wyrkesop the said Mat. in her free Widowhood and lawful power on the day of the translation of St. Thomas the Martyr 33 H. 3. confirmed all the gifts of William de L. her father and Richard de Luvet her Grand-father and Gerard de Furnivall her quondam Husband who was entombed at Ebrard in Normandy in his own Demesne which is called Furnefall he begot Thomas Gerard and William Thomas was slain in the holy Land by the Saracens and his brother Gerard after his death returned from thence But the said Maud his mother taking it ill that her son Thomas should remain amongst Heathens sent back the said Gerard that he might bring the Bones of the said Thomas his brother by which means he was intombed in this Monastery on the North side with his Helmet adorned with Gemms and a noble Carbuncle upon his head The said Sir Gerard her son lay on the South side under a Marble Stone next the Chapel of St. Peter and the said William their brother in the middle of the Chapel of the blessed Mary not far from Maud the wife of Iohn first Lord of Furnivall in a Tomb of Stone inscribed thus Me memorans palle similis curris quia calle De Fournivalle Pro Wilielmo rog◠psalle These Chronicles of Wyrksop are not exact in this descent which I suppose misled Mr. Robert Glover in the draught of that noble Pedigree which he designed for George late Earl of Shrowsbury and Earl Marshall of England Lord Talbot Furnival Verdun Lovetoft and Strange of Blackmer Knight of the Garter c. 22 Eliz. 1580. wherein he makes Ger. son and heir of this Thomas de Furnivall to be father of Thomas c. which he was not He indeed married Maud the sister and coheir of Richard Fitz-Iohn Fitz-Geoffrey the Justice of Ireland who was afterwards married to William Beauchamp Earl of Warwick by whom she had Guy Earl of Warwick twenty six years of age and above 26 E. 1. her heir which shows that her former husband the said Gerard de Furnivall had none by her but it further appears for Gerard son and heir of Thomas de Furnivall gave with his body the third part of the Mills of Bradfeld with the suit of his men of the Sok of Bradfeud to this Monastery and Thomas son and heir of Thomas de Furnivall confirmed this gift which Gerard de Furnivall his brother had conferred and Bertrea or Bertha sometimes wife of Thomas de Furnivall in her Widowhood for the health of her Soul and of the Souls of Sir Thomas de Furnivall her quondam husband and of Sir Gerard his brother confirmed 4l. of Silver to be taken out of her Mill at Bradefeld yearly during her life Thomas de Furnivall Lord of Halumschire son and heir of Thomas de Furnivall confirmed to these Canons all Lands c. in which they were seised in the time of Matildis de Luvetot his Grand-mother The Prior of Wyrkesop 53 H. 3. offered himself the fourth day against Thomas de Furnivall in a Plea wherefore he made waste sale and destruction of his Park of Wirksop by which means the said Prior for the future could not as he ought have two Carts to bring dry wood every day to the Monastery c. There was a licence 54 H. 3. granted to Thomas de Furnivall to build a certain Castle at his Mannor of Sheffeild in the County of York Thomas de Furnivall son of Thomas de Furnivall confirmed with his body presentè the yearly rent of six Marks out of the Mill of Bradefeud viz. that Rent which the Canons had of the gift of the Lady Bertr de Furnivall his mother during her life Bertra who had been wife of Thomas de Furnivall 7 E. 1. was Fined 40s. because she retracted or withdrew her self c. Thomas son and heir of Thomas de Furnivall 1 E. 1. was under age and married to Ioane the daughter of Hugh le Dispenser Thomas de Furnivall the third Lord of Hallumshire and of Wyrkesop confirmed to this Priory eight Marks of yearly Rent out of his Mills of Wirkesop and 30s. 6d. in the name of the Tythe of his Rents of his Mannor of Wyrkesop and 10s. in the name of the Tythe of his Mannor of Glesthorp of old constituted or set in this County and twelve Marks of his Mills of Bradefeld per annum and five Marks yearly Rent of his Mills of Brekesherth and also 60. and 6s. and 1d. in the name of Tythe of the yearly Rents of his Mannor of Sheffeld in Hallumshire in the County of York and Pasture for 40. Cartel in his Park and this bore date at Nottingham the Thursday after the Feast of St. Augustine the Apostle of the English An. Dom. 1328. 2 E. 3. Thomas de Furnivall senior 19 E. 2. atturned in his place William de Sheffeld and Adam son of Henry de Sheffeld to prosequnt in the Court of the Exchequer concerning a debt which the said Thomas had paid to the King by Roger de Somervill Sheriff of Yorkshire It appeareth also in 19 E. 2. that the said Thomas de F. senior was amerced as a Baron in several Courts before the 14 E. 2. but he pleaded he was no Baron neither did he hold his Land by Barony nor part of a Barony whereupon several Inquisitions were taken by Robert de Nottingham Remembrancer of the Exchequer assigned thereto viz. one at Rotheram where it was found that the said Thomas de F. senior held the Mannor of Sheffeld in the County of York of the King in Capite by Homage only and the Mannor of Whystan of Galfr. Luterell in Capite by the service of three Fees and an half of a Knight by right of inheritance Another at Nottingham the Saturday next before quindena Paschae where it was likewise found that he held the Mannors of Wyrkesop and Gresthorpe with the members in this County of the King as of the Honour of Tykhull by the service of four Fees and the fourth part of a Knights Fee by right of inheritance after the death of Thomas de F. his quondam father whose heir he was And the third Inquisition was taken before the said
Robert de Nott. at Darby the Fryday before where it was found that the said Tho. de F. senior held in the County of Darby the Mannor of Eyum of the King of the Honour of Peverell of the Castle of the High Peke 1. f. which Mannor he bought of Roger Morteyn And that he held the Mannor of Middelton of Thomas de Chaworth by the Service of half a Knights Fee and that he had of one Richard de Bernake who held it of the said Thomas by the same Service And that he held the moyety of the Town of Bracington as parcel of the Wapentac of Wyrkesoorth which was an Eschaet of the Kings by the forfeiture of Thomas late Earl of Lancaster by the Service of finding two Frank-pledges in that Wapentach and that a certain Ancestor of him the said Thomas de Furnivall had that moyety and held it to him and his heirs by the gift of a certain Earl of Derby who held that Wapentach of King Henry the third Grandfather of the King viz. Edward the second in Fee Farm for ever and the said moyety of the Town of Bracington gave to the said Ancestor of the said Thomas de F. in Frank-marriage with a certain daughter of the said Earl And the said Thomas de F. senior held of Nicolas de Langford as of his Mannor of Haversedge in the said County an Hamlet called Bauntford c. but none by Barony or part of a Barony c. Yet it appears that he was called to all the Parliaments as other Barons were as for example in the 23 E. 1. to one to be held at Westminster the first of August and to another the same year the Sunday next after the Feast of St. Martin in Winter and that at St. Edmunds Bury the day after All Souls 24 E. 1. and that in 12 E. 2. and that in 13 E. 2. and in 14 E. 2. to that to be held at Westminster three weeks after the Nativity of St. Iohn Baptist both Thomas de Furnivall senior and Thomas de Furnivall junior were summoned Thomas de Furnivall senior 6 E. 3. held this Mannor with the Appurtenances and Gresthorp as in that place is noted The Jury 28 E. 3. said that Elizabeth de Monteacuto held the Mannor of Wyrksop of the endowment of Thomas de Furnivall her quondam husband and of the Inheritance of Thomas de Furnivall who then was Cousin and heir of her said husband viz. son and heir of Thomas de Furnivall son and heir of Thomas her husband She was daughter of Peter de Montford and widow of William son of Simon de Montacute and mother of William de Montacute Earl of Salisbury There is a Monument of Marble for her yet standing on the North side of the Quire at Christs Church in Oxford Thomas de Furnivall junior was above forty years old at the death of his father which was the day after the Purification 1332. He married Ioane the eldest daughter and co-heir of Theobald de Verdun Lord of Alveton Castle in Staffordshire Baron of Webley in the County of Hereford the relict of William de Mountague This Thomas de Furnivall Lord of Alveton in Staffordshire died at Sheffeld the day before the Ides it should be Nones of October 1339. the Inquisition saith the Thursday next before the Feast of St. Dionis 13 E. 3. which is on Oct. 9. leaving then his son and heir Thomas de Furnivall about seventeen years old whose brother William de Furnivall which afterwards was his heir and did his Homage 39 E. 3. was born at Alveton Castle the tenth of the Kalends of September 1326. Their father who died about 14 Octob. Anno Dom. 1339. was buried the Munday within the Vtas of the Ascension of our Lord next following in the Abby of Beauchief by the Abbat of Crokesden his said wife Ioane the Lady of Alveton died in Child-bed 6 of the Nones of Octob. 1334. of the age of thirty years and two Months and was honourably buried the seventh of the Ides of Ianuary following at Crokesden amongst her ancestors of the Family of Verdun Founders of that place Her son Thomas de Furnivall 17 E. 3. had an Ad quod Damnum for settling the Castle and Mannor of Sheffeld and in 18 E. 3. the Castle and Mannor of Alveton to the use of him the said Thomas and Margaret his wife and the heirs of their bodies as William de Furnivall his said brother and heir had 40 E. 3. to settle the Mannor of Farneham in the County of Bucks to the use of him the said William and Thomasia his wife and the heirs of their bodies William de Furnivall Chr. dyed the twelfth of Aprill 6 R. 2. seised of this Mannor c. Thomasina his wife held the Mannor of Coggeshalis in Elmedone in Essex and the Mannor of Dagworth in Suffolk Ioane the daughter of the said William wife of Thomas de Nevill was then found his heir and above fourteen years old This Thomas Nevill was brother to Raph first Earl of Westmerland He was Treasurer of England but is not in Mr. Dugdales Catalogue which makes these Chronicles of Wirksop more doubtful and in right of his wife Lord Furnivall he was buried here most magnificently and lieth in the middle above the Quire He died the Munday next before Palmsunday 8 H. 4. leaving behind him another wife who was Ankaretta daughter of Iohn le Strange of Blackmere and widow of Richard son of Gilbert Talebot and mother of the famous Iohn Talbot she and he in her right held the Mannor of Swynden in Wiltshire and the third part of the Mannor and Hundred of Shryvenham in Barkshire of the Dotation of Richard Talbot Chr. her former husband the heirs of the said Thomas de Nevill were then found to be Matilda and Ioane his daughters Thomasia who had been wife of William Furnivall Chr. died on the Feast of St. Margaret the Virgin being Saturday 10 H. 4. Matilda was found Cousin and heir and aged seventeen years viz. the daughter and heir of Ioane the daughter and heir of the said William and Thomasia and the said Iohn Talbot had then taken her to wife This Iohn was brother of Gilbert Lord Talbot and after the death of Ankaretta his said brothers daughter his heir He was in his said wifes right Lord Furnivall and had respite of Homage 7 H. 5. Febr. 12. He was created by King Henry the sixth at Windsor May 20. 19 H. 6. Earl of Shrowsbury He was Earl of Weishford in Ireland by Inheritance and created Earl of Waterford 17 Iuly 24 H. 6. and Steward of that Kingdom and afterwards Marshal of France most worthily where he wan so many Battels and was so formidable to the French during the twenty four years of his most glorious Warfare there He was slain at the Siege of Chastilion the fourth of the Ides of Iuly
four sons Thomas Iohn Henry and Walter de Carleton Esquire who had two sons Hugh de Carleton fifteen years old and Iohn de Carleton thirteen co-heirs and parceners of the said Walters part whereof 6 Novemb. 7 H. 5. they had livery according to the Custome of the Mannor Thomas Carleton Esquire when he died about 7 H. 5. held the 30s. Rent and the White Hall in Carleton in Lindrick and Walter Carleton was his son and heir W. Walter Carleton son and heir of Thomas de Carleton of Lyncolne 14 H. 6. passed this parcel to Raph Makarell Esquire and Margery his wife Thom. del Greene vel de Carleton Clericus Henricus de Carleton 13 R. 2 -Maria 1 Tho. de Carleton Walterus de Carleton 14 H. 6. 2 Joh. 3 Henr. 4 Walt. de Carleton Hugo de Carleton aet 15. 7 H. 5. Johannes aet 13. The owners of Carleton in Lindrick 1612. are thus set down Sir Gervas Clifton Knight Sir Iohn Moyneux Knight Humphrey Pype Esquire of Wallingwells Iohn Buck Clark Robert Glossop and Sam. Simpson The Rectory of Carleton was 20l. 'T is now 15l. 13 s 4d. value in the Kings Books and as it hath been remains in the Cullation of his Grace the Lord Arch-bishop of Yorke Hodsok with the Hamlets IN Odesache Vlsi before the Normans came had a Mannor for which he paid to the Dane-geld for two Car. The Land being then known to be sufficient for four Plows or four Car. There afterwards Turold the Man of Roger de Busli whose Fee it then was become had two Car. and three Sochm. on four Bov. of this Land and twelve Vill. having twelve Car. There were two Mills of 16s. 4d. and eight Acres of Medow Pasture Wood one leu long and half one broad The value in former time and then also was 3l. It had Sok in Blyth of three sorts as in that place will be noted That Turold the Man of Roger I take to be Thorald de Lisoriis brother of Fulc de Lisoriis both Witnesses to Roger de Busli's Charter of foundation of the Manastery of Blyth dated 1088. and both concerned in this place in which Fulco gave two Bovats to that Priory and two which Roger Escossard held of him in Hodesak Pagan son of Cossard granted the Land of Hodesar which Fulco de Lisouriis gave to St. Mary of Blyth as Alms which Land Cossard held of the said Fulco c. Raph Cossard gave to that Monastery six Acres of his Demesne in Cossard-thorpe which his Grand-father Roger gave and three Acres and a Toft which Walter Cossard his father gave The Sheriff 6 R. 1. accounted for 22 s 8d. of the Chattels of Raph de Cossard-thorp sold being one of the Kings enemies Raph Coshart 7 R. 1. gave account of five Marks for having seisin of his Land of Cossard-thorp which was taken into the Kings hands for his being with Earl Iohn Henry de Cossardthorp called also Henry Cossard son of Raph Cossard gave to the Prior and Monks of Blith Roger de Cossardthorp son of Thorald and Beatrix his mother with her whole sequel and their whole Land in Cossard Thorp paying him and his heirs 2s. per an This is an Hamlet of Hodsac now called Costrop But the next Lord of Hodsac that I have found was Roger de Cressey who gave to God St. Mary and the Monks of Blyth half a Bovat of Land in Oulecotes and the Tythes of all his Mills of the Soc of Hodesac and the Monks granted him perpetually four Masses in a week for himself his Ancestors and Successours as well living as dead This gift the said Roger made upon the Altar at Blyth before many Witnesses which was confirmed by his son William de Cressi William de Cressi 2 Ioh. gave the King twenty Marks and one Palfrey that he might justly and according to the Custom of England be brought off from the Dower which Cecily the daughter of Gervas de Clifton claimed against him Cecily who had been wife of Roger de Cressi 2 Ioh. gave the King forty Marks and one Palfrey for having her reasonable Dower which concerned her of the Freehold which was the said Rogers in this County William de Cressi 3 Ioh. pleaded that Cecily was not the wife of Roger de Cressi so the cause was transmitted to the Arch-bishop of York who signified she was lawfully married to him But William said he signified his own will against right and Ecclesiastical custom and offered pledges to try it c. and had day given c. There was a Fine at Clarendon the Munday after Midlent 5 Ioh. between Cecily who had been wife of Roger de Cressi Petent and William de Cressi Tenent concerning the reasonable Dower of the said Cecily which she claimed against the said William of the gift of her said husband Roger in Hoddishac Gedling Kelum Weston Rampton and Marcham all which she quit to the said William and his heirs for half a Knights Fee in Melton and five Acres of Medow in Lokenges for her life W. de Cressi gave to the Monks of Blith the Damms of his Mills from the Bridge of Gildenebriges unto the Land of Suain Sarpesive in the same state they were Anno Dom. 1225. and gave them free firmage firmuram of the Damm of the Mills of Westcroft in his Land paying out of that Mill of Westcroft half a quarter of Rye at Mich. yearly to him and his heirs He released likewise to them 12d. yearly which they paid him for Land in Holm c. William son and heir of Roger de Cressi who was in Ward of Alice Countess of Augi in the former part of Henry the third held of her the whole Town of Hodsok with the Soke by one Knights Fee William de Cressi son of Roger de Cressi confirmed two Bovats in Hoddesak with the Appurtenances which Fulc de Lisoriis gave to the Almoner of St. Mary of Blyth c. and all the Lands Rents and Possessions which the Monks had acquired of him or his Ancestors from the beginning of the world till the Feast of St. Martin 1273. William de Cressi Knight granted for himself and his heirs to the Religious men the Abbat of St. Katherin of Roan and the Prior and Covent of Blyth and their successours that from thenceforth they might Hang Thieves taken within their liberty of Blyth who deserved hanging on the Gallows of Emmeslawe without any contradiction or claim of him or his heirs saving that he or his heirs should Hang the Thieves taken within their Liberty of Hodisac which should deserve hanging on the said Gallows And that if the said Gallows should be thrown down it might be lawful for the said Prior and Covent and their successours to make new ones or set up and repair the old ones as they should please William de Cressi son and heir of Sibylla de Cressi 6 E. 1.
made his Fine before the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer of 40s. for his relief of the Lands which he had by Inheritance of the said Sibyll his mother She was it seems daughter and heir of Iohn de Braytoft William son of Roger de Cressi 13 E. 2. made Fine with the King of 40s. concerning his relief for certain Lands and Tenements which he held in Surflet of the King in Fee Farm paying 40s. per annum for all service by pretext of a Charter of King Richard the first made to Walter de Braytoft Ancestor of the said William de Cressi Rogerus de Cressi Dom. de Hodesac temp H. 2. ... ux 1 -Cecilia fil Gerv. de Clifton Willielmus de Creffi 2. Joh. Rogerus de Cressy-Sibylla fil haer Dom. Willielmus de Cressy 9 E. 1 -Joana Hugo de Cressy Johannes de Cressy miles 21 E. 3. 6 R. 2 -Agnes Hugo de Cressy ob s. p. temp H. 4. Johannes de Clifton Kath. miles 2 H. 4 -Rad Makarell mar 2. Johannes de Markham miles -Elizab Kath. -Joh Erghom mil. Elizab. .... Vavasor Joanna Rogerus Hugo Walterus de Braytoft Com. Linc. Johannes de Braytoft Rogerus de Cressy-Sibylla fil haer Edmund de Cressy Knight held this Mannor for his life and in 3 E. 3. claimed the Priviledges Yet I find that Hugh de Cressy son and heir of William son of Roger de Cressy 9 E. 3. gave the King 40s. for â—is relief of the Mannor of Kysegate in the Town of Surflete in Lincolneshire There was also a certain Hugh de Cressy who 9 E. 2. had licence to give seven Mess. and four Bov. of Land in Blyth and Hodesake to three Chaplains in the Chapel of St. Iohn the Evangelist near Blyth c. because the said Hugh had committed Felony There was a Fine 21 E. 3. between Iohn son and heir of Hugh de Cressy of Rysgate Chr. Quer. by Raph de Quadryng his Guardian ad Lucrandum and Richard de Colishull and Ioane his wife Deforc. of the Mannor of Hodisak with the Appurtenances which Edmund de Cressy Chr. held for term of his life of the Inheritance of the said Ioane and which after his decease should have reverted to the said Richard and Ioane and the heirs of Ioane but by that Fine was settled on the said Iohn and his heirs By and her 1 R. 2. between Iohn de Annesley Chr. Peter de Dalton Clark Robert de Morton and Iohn de Kyneton Clarks Quer. and Iohn de Cressy Chr. and Agnes his wife Deforc. of the Mannor of Hodesak c. whereby it was settled on the said Iohn and Agnes and the heirs of Iohn de Cressy The Jury 7 R. 2. found that Iohn de Cressy Chr. died seized of this Mannor and that Hugh de Cressy was his son and heir And in 9 H. 4. the Jury said that Hugh son of Sir Iohn de Cressy Chr. when he died held in Fee Tayl the Mannor of Risgate and the fourth part of the Mannor of Braytoft in Lincolneshire and the Mannor of Hodsak c. and that Katherin late wife of Iohn de Clifton Chr. and Robert Markham were his heirs The Partition was made at Retford 10 H. 4. between Sir Iohn Markham the elder Judge and Raph Makarell who married Katherin the relict of Sir Iohn Clifton as in Clifton may also be seen The Mannors of Risegate Braytoft and Exton in Lincolneshire of which last Hugh de Cressy of Oulecotes held the moyety for his life fell to the share of the Judges posterity and since Sir Robert Markham of Cotham destroyed the Family Cressy Hall in Lincolneshire became the Seat of Sir Edward Heron Knight of the Bath whose son Sir Henry Heron now hath it and all or most of these Lands Hodsak yet remain to the Family of Clifton and is now the Inheritance of William Clifton under age only son of Sir Clifford Clifton Knight son of Sir Gervas Clifton Knight and Baronet Raph Makarell 7 H. 5. had on his Seal within his name Three Fishes erect 2. and 1. I suppose Makarells Sir Iohn Markhams Seal 10 H. 4. is Party per Fesse and on the upper part a Demy Lion Rampant and so are the Arms in Sedgebrook Hall in Lincolneshire set up by Sir Iohn Markham the Lord Chief Justice his son by another venter as in Maplebec is said who built the House from whom it is descended to Sir Robert Markham Baronet only there is A Border Arg. for a difference the upper part is Or the other Azure and the Demy Lion Gules but now they only make a Chief of the upper half like the Seal of Richard de Furneux mentioned in Carleton In the year 1188. on the Eve of St. Iames in the Monastery of Blyth was there an agreement between R. de Pauliaco Prior of Blyth and Galfr. son of Richard de Hodesac who confirmed Wlmerus de Hodesac Richardus de Hodsac Galfridus de Hodisoc 1188. Rogerus de Hoddishoc Thom. de Hodesak 31 E. 1. Johannes de Hodsak Custancia-Henr de Grendon Henricus de Grendon 18 E. 3 -Isabella Willielmus Will. de Grendon Rector de Babworth 31 E. 1. Willielmus to that Priory all the Land which Wlmer his Grandfather gave and the moyety of the Medow called Fleucesheng which Richard his father gave and engaged himself to pay yearly to the said Priory 18d. whether with the Aid or help of the Prior and Monks he could hold that Land or nor Adam de Novomercato confirmed to Roger son of Galfr. de Hodishoc the whole Land of Wermeswrth with the Appurtenances which Henry de Novomercato his brother sold him William de Cressy Lord of Hoddesak and Thomas son of Roger de Hoddesak in the year 1272. agreed concerning the Chapel of the Town of Hoddishac saving to the said Thomas his wife and heirs free ingress to hear Divine Service the rest he released to the Community of the Town of Hoddisac Thomas de Hoddesac and William de Grendon Rector of Babworth 31 E. 1. agreed that the said Thomas should give his whole Mannor of Wermundesworth with the Advowson of the Church c. and whatsoever the said Thomas had in Hoddesok Woodhouse Holme Blyth and Flyxthorp to Henry de Grendon brother of the said William and Custancia daughter of Iohn son of the said Thomas and their heirs and the said William was after forty daies to re-infeoff the said Thomas in the said Mannor c. for life and to sustain the said Custance with meat and drink c. Henry de Grendon and Isabell his wife 18 E. 3. gave and conveyed to Custance de Grendon his mother and William her son 34s. 8d. yearly Rent out of their Lands in Blyth together with the whole Rent of Holme and 5s. and one pound of Cummin in Flixthorpe Hermeston IN the time of William Arch-bishop of York who lived 18 Steph. William de
the long Ford between Hulecotes and Blyth towards the North of the Fee of William de Cressi yielding 17.d. Cecily daughter of Alan Castell by the consent of Roger de Osberton her husband released the 12d. William de Cressi son and heir of Roger de Cressy confirmed the gift of the said four Acres of Arable in the Fields of Holme and the whole Medow which the said Alan held in Locheng William de Cressi Lord of Hodesak son and heir of Sir Roger de Cressi in the year 1273. confirmed to that Church and those Monks all the Lands c. of his Fee of whose gifts soever they were within the Town of Dulecotes and without together with free Chiminage to carry their Hay and Corn through his Fee as well of their Grange of Hulecotes as other-where excepting the way before his Mannor of Hodesak By a Fine 4 E. 2. Hugo de Cressi settled the Mannor of Oulecotes and one Mess. one Car. of Land and 18s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Great Morton by Babworth on Robert Russel of Tikehull and Cecily his wife and the heirs which he should beget on the body of the said Cecily remainder to the right heirs of Robert Robert Russel 9 E. 3. granted a Mess. and twenty one Acres of Land with the Appurtenances to Laurence Mynyot for the life of the said Laurence By an Inquisition taken at Newark on Thursday 5 Iuly 2 H. 5. where Stirap was pleaded to have been an Hamlet of Oulcotes but the Jury found it otherwise viz. a Town of it self it appeared that Robert Russell and Cicely had a son named Robert Russell who had a daughter Sibyll the wife of Iohn Longespy of Dunham and a son named Edmund Russell of Oulecotes who gave the Mannor of Oulecotes and Lands in Stirap to Sir Iohn Cressy Lord of Hodesak who gave the Mannor of Oulecotes to Hugh son of William Cressy of Wadington and the heirs Males of his body which Hugh gave it to Thomas Hercy Chr. and others 9 H. 4. betwixt whom and the said Iohn Longespy was a special Assize 2 H. 5. concerning Lands in Oulecotes and Stirop Hugh Cressy held a Knights Fee in Oulecotes in the time of H. 6. and after him Christopher Cressy There was a Recovery 20 E. 4. wherein William Hynde claimed against Nicolas Worteley the Mannor of Oulecote with the Appurtenances and one Mess. one Car. of Land 18s. Rent c. in Great Morton by Babworth Gervase Cressy 8 H. 8. suffered a recovery of the same to Richard Sutton Adam Holland Henry Waren and William Clarkson In Queen Elizabeths time Henry Cressy paid 3s. 4d. for Lands in Oulecotes late Sir Iohn Byrons and formerly Christopher Cressyes held by the service of half a Knights Fee Iohn the Constable of Chester was Lord of the Fee of Oulecotes by Blyth Gerard de Sterape begat Gerard who begat Philip de Oulecotes Lord thereof who held the Mannors of Oulecotes and Sterap for one Knights Fee which Philip died without heir of his body but had five sisters who divided the inheritance amongst them being heirs of the said Philip their brother the first whereof was called Alice de Sterap the second Margery or Margaret the third Isabell the fourth Iuliana and the fiâ—th Constance Alice had three sons out of Matrimony viz. Ingeram to whom she gave three Bov. in the Town of Sterap Hamelin de Buggethorp married the second sister and begot on her Galfr. who begot Ingeram de Oulecotes who held the Mannor of Oulecotes and gave it to Roger de Arci about 2 E. 1. with all his Lands in Vlecotes and Stirap and Blyth on condition that the said Roger de Arci should procure him to be made a Knight at his own charge and find him and his three Men and three Horses meat drink and clothes during his life The third sister Isabell took an husband Thomas de Stretton Knight who died without children and in her widowhood sold part of her Inheritance to the said Ingeram and Norman de Sterap and part to the Abbat of Welbec The fourth sister took an husband Galfr. de Barneby who begot on her Norman de Sterap who begot Thomas who begot Iohn who begot Robert de Sterap who gave some Land to the Abby of Welbek The fifth sister Constantia took an husband Daniel of Newcastle who begot her son and heir Iohn de Adham who had part of the Inheritance in Northumberland likewise Apeltan in Sterap fell to him and one Bovat of Land and the Medow in Lokinton but the Lord of Oulecotes held that part because the said Iohn would not do him homage as all the other sisters did The Sheriff 6 R. 1. gave account of 32s. 3d. of the Land of Philip de Vlecot the Kings enemy of the Honour of Tikehill Robert de Veteriponte 9 R. 1. ought 4l. and 4d. of the firm of Stirap and Vlecotes which were Arnald de Diest's the whole year of the Escaets which were delivered to the Knights or Sâ—uldiers of Flanders Philip de Hulecote 1 Ioh. gave the King 100l. and a War Horse which he paid the King Iohn at Xantes for having Iohan daughter and co-heir of Robert de Mesnill the sister of the wife of Sewall son of Henry Progenitor of the Shirleys whom the King had granted before to the said Sewall to be married to his Nephew who was dead This Philip de Vlecotes was a very great Man all the time of King Iohn and Sheriff of Northumberland c. and had Writs to free him from Scutages as in the Pipe Rolls of that time is evident He was a Justice Itinerant 3 H. 3. in Cumberland Westmerland and Lancashire In 4 H. 3. Octob. 13. he was made Steward of Gascoigne and Poictou His five sisters and Gerardus de Styrap Gerardus de Styrap-Matilda Reg. de Blid. p. 73. Philip. de-Joan fil coh Rob. Ulecotes de Mesnill 1 Joh. post 6 R. 1.1 ux Walt. de Goder-Joh 5 H. 3. vill -1 Alic. Ingeram de Styrap -Dionysia relict 1278. Reg. de Blid. p. 76. Richardus de Stirap Willielmus de Stirap Rich. de Stirap petens 10 E. 2. Hamelin de Buggethorp fil Will. de Audreby Regist de Blid. 73 -2 Marg. Galfr. de Burgethorp Ingeramus de Oulecotes mil. 2 E. 1.8 E. 1. Reginald frater Ric. Capellani de Blid. -Aleonora Galfr. de Barne-by-4 Julian Normanuns de Stirap Thom. de Stirap Johannes de Stirap Robertus de Sterap 5 Daniel de Novocastro -Constan Johannes de Adham 3 Tho. de Stretton mil. s. p. -Isab heirs before named 5 H. 3. had the Lands of the said Phil. de Vlcotes the day that he went into Poictou by the Kings Precept and Galf. de Gurdon had the custody of the Land and heirs of Stephen de Muschamp in Biermare which Philip de Vlcotes gave him Walter Crec Hugh de St. Bermero and Galfr. de Cressy were then Knights
Mr. William Saunderson of Blyth She was afterwards wife of Sir George Chaworth which easily brought Harchill and Woodhall to that Family so that it was very lately the Inheritance of my Lord Chaworth who indeed is descended from a daughter of Serleby as in Wiverton may be seen The Arms of Serleby which are at Annesley are Gules a Crosse Moline Arg. charged with Mulletts of six poynts Sable and over all a Bendlets Countercompony Arg. and Azure In Barneby of Roger de Buslies Fee were two Mannors which before he came were Turverts and Sores who paid for them to the Geld as one Bov. ½ The Land was for four Oxen or four Bovats It was waste There was one Acre of Medow Pasture-Wood one qu. long half a qu. broad In the time of Edward the Confessour the value was 10s. in the Conquerours 12d. There was some of Barneby with Lund Ancient Demesne of the Soc of Bodmescell Adam de Barneby by the assent and will of his wife and his heirs quit-claimed to the Monks of Birth all the right he had in the More of Barneby which the Prior had inclosed within his Court and within his Walls and released to them for ever all Nusance which should happen to his Fee from the Walls and Waters of the said Prior. William the Chaplain of Gameleston released to Sir William the Prior of Blyth his whole right in the whole Land of Barneby within the Town and without except that Bovat which Wyot held Wyot de Barneby released to the said Prior and Covent in the year 1235. all his right in the Wood of Barneby and in one Rood of Land within the inclosure of their Mannor of Barneby viz. that Rode next the two Rodes which Rob. son of Richard gave saving to him the said Wyot and his heirs only Common Pasture of Herb and Acorn for the Cattel of his own rearing nutriture with Common of Feuger and Common of dry Boughs prostrate on the earth by blast of wind or age so that neither the said Wyot de Barneby nor his heirs should without the special licence of the Prior stretch forth his or their hand to any Vert or Green viride in the said Wood. Thomas the Clark of Barneby released also his right in the said Wood of Barneby so did Walter son of Thomas de Barneby all that he pleaded to belong to seven Bovats or Oxgangs which he the said Walter and Robert and William Leman held of the said Prior and Covent whereof he impleaded them by the Kings Writ in the time of Stephen de Segrave saving to him his Common Pasture and Herb and Acorn of or for his proper Cattel of his own nurture or rearing while the said Wood should endure which it was lawful for the said Prior and Covent to Assert and Till when ever they should please without the impediment of the said Walter or his heirs and when the fruits were carried off the said Walter with the rest of the Men of the Town were to have Common for this the said Prior and Covent gave him six Marks of Silver Several others released what they had in the Wood called Ravelound .... the daughter of William Frer of Barneby made Fine with Sir William Burdun Prior of Blith for Leyerwith mulct for incontinence and for having licence of marrying her self whither she would she gave 2s. 6d. the Thursday in Easter week 1290. Roger son of Randulf son of Roger de Maresey granted and confirmed the whole gift of his Fee in the Town of Barneby as his Ancestors had made it to God and St. Mary and the Monks of Blyth to whom Thomas de Maresey also released all demand of Homage Fealty and Suit of Court Raneschell was of Arch-bishop Thomas his Fee with Ostone and paid to the Geld as four Bov. ½ The Land one Car. It was waste before the Conquest and so continued in King Williams time Godric held it before and the said Thomas Archbishop of Yorke after the Norman change The owners of Serleby Torworth and Fartworth in 1612. are thus set down George Chaworth Knight 13l. 6s. 8d. .... Wood Gent. 20s. Richard Newcombe junior three Oxgangs Iohn Dobson Richard Ollyver 13s. 4d. Robert Sturton 20s. Anthony Denton 20s. Henry Hawson Thomas Chawner Robert Tibbott Richard Newcombe senior .... Cartwright of Wheatley ... Browne widow Mrs. More widow 13s. 4d. The owners of Barneby Town 1612. are thus Sir Peter Fretwell Knight Robert Eyre Iohn Lyllye Thomas Crumwell Robert Vpton Thomas Meare Raph Wilson Andrew Barrett Alderman and Burgesses of Newark Roger Gregory The Vicarage of Blyth was twenty Marks when the Prior of Blyth was Patron 'T is now 14l. 9s. 4d. ob value in the Kings Books and the Patronage belongs to Trinity Colledge in Cambridge Harworth Farworth Plumtre Limpole Hesle And Marton BEfore the Conquest in Hareword Wade Vlfiet and Vlstan paid to the Geld for one Carucat of Land for their three Mannors The Land whereof was two Car. There afterwards Fulco the Man of Roger de Busli whose Fee it was had one Car. and eight Vill. and one Bord. with three Car. There was a Church Pasture Wood one leuc long one broad The value in King Edward the Confessours time was 40s. and when the Conquerours Survey was made 30s. having Soc in Martune one Car. ad Geld. The Land two Car. There ten Vill. had five Car. Pasture Wood one leu long half a leu broad Fulco de Lisoriis was the Tenant or Man of Roger de Busli it seems and gave to the Priory of Blyth two Bovats in Harewrd and the Multure of Harewrd and of the whole Soc belonging to it part whereof was the Hamlet called Plumtre which Robert de Lisoriis his son and others of his posterity confirmed as before in Oulecotes and other places may be perceived Raph Fraser the Kings Marescal gave to the Monks of Blyth two Bovats which Gamel held of him in Harewrd which gift was confirmed by Henry Cossard the son of Raph Cossard named before in Hodsak Thomas Fitz-William and Albreda de Bassingburne held the whole Town of Harworth of Alice Countess of Ewe or Augi by the service of one Knights Fee Albreda de Bassingburne held in Brigford and Hareword two Knights Fees by reason of the Wardship of the heirs of Iohn Biset She held but half a Knights Fee here In 9 E. 2. Hareworthe with the Soc answered for an intire Villa whereof William Fitz-William was then certified to be Lord. The Jury 14 E. 3. said that Galfr. le Scrop named in South Muscham held in Hareworth of Gerard de Seginton by the Service of 1d. per annum a Capital Mess. one hundred and ten Acres of arable Land ten of Medow c. This Town and the Hamlets have been of long time the Inheritance of Moreton an ancient worshipful Family until Anth. Moreton Esq who paid in
Queen Elizabeths time 3s. 4d. for half a Knights Fee in Harworth sometime Henry Bisets wasted the Estate he was Father of Robert Moreton who sold Hareworth to Mr. William Saunderson Hamo de Burton gave to the Monks of Blith one Bovat of Land in Farewad which Robert de Farewad gave him for his Service Elias de Moles gave them the Land which Hamo Buche held of him by 10l. Rent and that which Elys Pin held of him for 2d. ob and Pasture for two hundred Sheep in his Land of Farewad and Common Pasture in all his Commons Elyas son of Robert de Farewad gave to the said Monks five Acres of his Land which Haco son of Roger held of him and three Rods virgas of Land which Elys Pin held of him Elyas son of Elyas de Farewad gave them one Culture of his Land in the territory of Farewad called Hevedlands as it bore in length and breadth from the Street which leads towards Bautre unto the Street of Tikehill Elias de Farewat son of Elias confirmed it so he did other gifts of his father and released 18d. Rent which Elias son of Alewy of Stirap was wont to pay his said father for half a Bovat of Land in Farewad which his said father sold to Mr. Iohn son of Alice de Styrap for a Mark of Silver which he gave him in his great need Ingeram de Stirap gave to Frier William de Well Prior of Blyth and the Monks there a certain Culture of Land in the territory of Farewat with all the length and breadth as it lay between the way which leadeth from Blyth to Tikhill and the Land of Robert son of Beatrix de Stirap and abutted on one head on the head-land of the said Prior and Covent and on the other on the way which leads from Stirap towards Serleby Dionysia the relict of the said Ingeram also released all her right of Inheritance or otherwise By a Fine at York 13 E. 2. the Mannor of Farewath was settled on Hugh de Serleby for life remainder to Oliver son of the said Hugh and to Alice his wife and to the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of the said Hugh Iohn Flandrensis of Claverbure gave to God and the Monks of Blyth Raph son of Balde of Heselay and his whole Sect and the whole Land which he held of him in Heselay viz. nine Acres Gaufr son of William le Hoser released the nine Acres in Heselay which the said Iohn Flandrensis gave to the Monks of Blyth William son of or Fitz William son of or Fitz Goderic gave those Monks one Mark of yearly Rent of the three which the Lord Archbishop of York was bound to pay him for Plumcrefeld Robert Strey Chaplain Thomas Elys and William Bradford 17 H. 8. claimed against Charles Moreton Esquire one Mess. ninety five Acres of Land thirty four of Medow twenty six of Pasture and ten of Wood in Limpole and Hesley Peter son of Willâ—am de Marton gave to the Monks of Blithe one Carucat of Land invigedun with all Appurtenances and further granted them Timber in his Wood to make them lodgeings Herbergagia and convenients for fire and a Toft in the same Town and free Multure in the Mill of the same Town They were to receive him into their Society when God should give it into his heart Agnes the wife of Nicolas de Marton did Fealty to the Prior of Blyth the Fryday next after the Ascension of our Lord 1289. in the name of Roger her son then under age for two Bovats of Land in Marton which the said Roger claimed to hold of the said Prior and acknowledged to owe 4s. per annum and gave for relief 8s. There was a Fine levied 5 E. 3. between Hugh de Hercy Chr. Quer. and Thomas de Multon of Kirketon Chr. Deforc. of the Mannor of Marton near Bautre which Gerard de Sekinton and Ioan his wife held as dower of the said Ioane and another 40 E. 3. and afterwards 43 E. 3. between Robert de Morton of Bautre and Ioan his wife and William Strete Quer. and Hugh de Hercy Chr. Deforc. of the Mannor of Marton by Bautre which the said Hugh acknowledged to be the right of the said Robert and was after the death of Ioan the wife of Gerard de Sekyngton who held it in Dower and had demised it to Anna le Despenser to revert to the said Robert and Ioane his wife and William and the heirs of the said Robert The Moretons did Found an Hospital in the uttermost edge of the Parish near Bautrey Town in Yorkshire to which there is also a Chapel yet standing wherein they of the Family have used to be buried and amongst the rest there lies Katherin daughter of Iohn Boun Esquire by his first wife and so half sister of Gilbert Boun Sergeant at Law who was widow of George Moreton elder brother of the before named Robert who sold Hareworth which George died long before the said Anthony his father These Moretons bore Quarterly Gules and Ermine the first and last charged with each a Goates Head Erased Arg. The Church of Harewode with the Chapel of Serleby and of Marton with all their Appurtenances were by King Iohn granted to the Church of Roan with many others as part of the Chapelry of Blyth and with that of East Markham and the rest came 6 E. 6. to the Earl of Shrowsbury as in Lowdham and other places is noted The owners of Marten Hesley and Harworth in 1612. are thus set down Gilbert Earl of Shrowsbury George Chaworth Knight Anthony Morton Esquire William Gregory for Lands in Hesley William Weste Esquire Thomas Wright of Rossington George Wagstaffe of Harworth Iames Hall of the same Henry Stryng Nicolas Strea Iohn Robinson Lewes Weste The Vicarage of Harworth was 11l. when the Abbat of Westminster was Patron 'T is now 5l. 9s. 7d. value in the Kings Books and the Duke of Norfolk Patron Auclid Alkeley And Finingley IN Feningley before the Conquest Swayn answered the Tax or Geld at six Bovats for his Mannor The Land whereof was three Car. There afterwards Gislebert Tyson who had most if not all the said Swayns Lands in this County had half a Car. and fifteen-Vill four Bord having five Car. and an half Pasture Wood two leu long two broad In the Confessours time this was valued at 40s. and when the Conquerours Survey was taken at 41s. The Lands of this Gislebert Tysons Fee in this County did afterwards belong to the Family of Moubray as in Averham Kelum Winkburne and Sterthorp may be observed The Jury after the death of Roger de Moubray 29 E. 1. found Nicolas de St. Elena and Alice Touke to have held of him certain Lands and Tenements in Alkeley and Fyningley by the service of one Knights Fee Fyningley and Alkeleye 9 E. 2. answered for half a Villa
Prior of Mathersey 35 E. 1. had free warren in Mathersay and Thorpe The Prior of Mathersey of the Order of Sempringham 3 E. 3. claimed to have for himself and his Men quittance in City and Borough in Markets and Fairs in passage of Bridges and Ports of the Sea and in all places through England from Toll and Pontage There was an Ad quod Damnum 4 H. 4. for Market and Fair to be kept at Mattersey Mathersey and Thorp 9 E. 2. answered for an intire Villa whereof the King and Earl of Lancasser were then found to be Lords Robert de Sumervill son of Robert de Sumervilla granted to the Abby of Wellebek that the Canons their Brethren and Men and all their matters should be carried over Ydele in the Boat at his passage of Madersey as oft as they should come there by the passers passoribus of his Fee freely and quietly so that nothing should be exacted of them for that passage Raph de Sumervill was witness The Abbat of Beacheif 31 H. 3. claimed against Roger de Osherton four Bov. of Land and 3s. Rent in Mareseye as the right of his Church and Roger came and demanded view c. Iohn Markham Knight Sneth Snawzell Esquire and others 22 H. 8. claimed against Thomas Wentworth Knight and Isabell his wife three Mess. two Coâ—tag sixty Acres of Land forty of Pasture two hundred of More and 1d. Rent with the Appurtenances in Mattersey and Mattersey Thorp Barneby and Ranby and called to warrant Thomas Wentworth the younger brother of the said Thomas Wentworth Knight The King 4 Novemb. 31 H. 8. granted to Anthony Nevill Esquire and Mary his wife the Monastery Mannor and Rectory of Mattersey with Blakawe Grange there and Claworth Grange c. the Monastery to them and the heirs Males of the said Anthony the Mannor and Lands in Thorp Wyeston and Stirton to him and his heirs see Claworth The Church was appropriated to the Priory about 8 E. 1. to repair the Priories then losses by a sudden fire It was the Inheritance of Iohn Nevill Esquire by descent from Sir Anthony Nevill his great Grandfather to whom it was conveyed from the Crown Sir William Hickman married .... the daughter and heir of .... Nevill and now enjoyes it A Mess. and Tenement in Mattersey and another in Heyton belonging to the Chantry of St. Iohn of Mattersey were amongst other things 18 May 7 E. 6. granted to Thomas Reeve and George Cotton The owners of Mattersey and Thorpe Towns in 1612. are thus expressed Alexander Iessop of Mattersey Thorp senior Henry Iessop of tâ—e same Richard Eltonhead Gent. Thomas Robinson of the same Alexander Iessop junior of the same Iohn Iessop of the same Iohn Hall of Bekingham for Lands in Mattersey Thorp Henry Bower Anthony Nevell of Mattersey Abby Esquire Thomas Hall of Mattersay Bartholomew Hall of the same Thomas Dawson Robert Oldfeild Iohn Ellyot Robert Hodgeson Thomas Wood Robert Fletcher all of the same William Chapman Gyles More William Staynton William Atkingson Peter Scot Robert Chappell Henry Holmes William Hamond Raph Waddington junior Gent. Tho. Drew Robert Williamson Robert Whitehead William Milner Raph Bing senior The Vicarage of Mathersey was 8l. 'T is now 6l. 8. 9d. value in the Kings Books and is in the Collation of the Arch-bishop of York as it hath been Sutton And Lound THe Arch-bishop of York when the great Survey was made in the time of King William the first had a Mannor in Sudton of which Lund and Scrobye and Madrisseig were Berues which answered the Geld for one Carucat six Bovats before the Conquest The Land then being known to be six Carucats There afterwards the Arch-bishop had two Carucats in Demesne fourteen Villains six Bordars having six Carucats There was Medow of seven Acres Pasture Wood half a leug and eight quarentens long eight qu. and an half broad In the time of King Edward the Confessour it was valued at 8l. and in King Williams time likewise having Soc in Etton Tilne Wellom and Suuenton Gréenleig Scaftord Evarton and Claverburch which Land was for twelve Plows or twelve Carucats and then were there thirty eight Sochm. with eighteen Villains twenty Bordars having twenty five Plows or twenty five Carucats In Lunde and Barnebye Soc to the Kings Mannor of Bodmeschel were six Bovats ½ â…“ ad Geldam The Land .... There three Sochmen had one Carucat and three Acres of Medow Pasture Wood two qu. long half a quarenten broad Of Roger de Busli's Fee in Lund was a Mannor which was Vlchels before the Conquest who paid for it to the Geld as two Bovats ½ The Land one Carucat There after the Conquest in Demesne was one Carucat and six Villains with two Carucats and five Acres of Medow Pasture Wood six qu. long two broad The value of this in the Confessours time was 20â— in the Conquerours but 10s. The Mannor of Sutton continueth with the Nort Soke to the Arch-bishoprick of York The Jury 24 E. 1. found that Robert de Hayton died seized of nine small Bovats in Lound held of Tikhill By an Inquisition taken at Nottingham the Thursday after Palmsunday 23 H. 7. before Sir William Perpoint Knight Sir Edward Stanhope Knight and Raph Agard it appears that Iohn Strelley of Lindeby named in that place died seized of the Mannor of Sutton on Loâ—nd then valued at 10l. beyond all reprises Iohn Porte Serjeant at Law Thomas Coken Knight German Pole Esquire Percivall Strelley and William Blake 16 H. 8. claimed against Nicolas Strelley of Lindeby Esquire and Elizabeth his wife one Mess. forty Acres of Land twenty of Medow sixty of Pasture four of Wood and eighty of Furz and Heath with the Appurtenances in Lownd Robert Hekeling held the third part of a Knights Fee in Lunde and Clumber Iohn Freiston Esquire in the time of Queen Elizabeth paid 20d. for his Lands in Lound sometime Iohn Styrley's held by the fourth part of a Knights Fee The Jury 30 H. 3. said that Gilbert de St. George held half a Bovat in Lound of Robert de St. George Lord of Bodmeshill Alice who had been wife of Robert son of Eustachius de Lund 18 E. 1. withdrew her self from her Writ against the Arch-bishop of Yorke and others for one Mess. sixty Acres of Medow and ten Acres of Land with the Appurtenances in Lound and Sutton By a Fine 19 E. 3. between Thomas son of Adam de Lound Chaplain Quer. and Walter Power Parson of the Church of Wark Deforc. the said Thomas settled one Mess. twenty four Acres of Land fourteen of Medow four of Turbary and 3â— 6d. Rent in Lound nigh Mathersey on himself for life then to his brother William for life then to his brother Robert for life then to Thomas son of his brother Robert and the heirs of his body remainder to Margery sister of the last Thomas and the heirs
sister and heir of Iames Matthew and Roger sons of Iohn brother and heir of Adam and Robert sons of Gley the Britain Lord of the Mannor of Stiteley and Mekesburgh which Gley had a brother who begot Mabilia de Brochton of Craven who had to her husband Iohn de Mounden who begot on her a son named also Iohn which second Iohn had two daughters Matildis and Agnes who dyed without heirs so that Iohn le Vavasor son of the said Robert claimed to be heir of the said sisters and left the inheritance to William le Vavasur his son and heir It appears 5 E. 3. by a Writ of Certiorari that Isabella who had been wife of William de Saxam recovered by a Writ of Cui in vita against Henry le Scrop one Mess. and 100. Acres of Land in Little Morton as her right and marriage William son of Gilbert de Normanton by Bommsell perhaps the same with Norther Moreton did Fealty to William Burdon Prior of Blyth for half a Bovat with one Mess. in Normanton by Bothamsell and acknowledged to owe 4s. per annum and gave 8s. for Relief Normanton Grange belonged to Welbeck The owners of Babworthe Town in 1612. are thus set forâ—h Gilbert Earl of Shrowsbury William Lord Cavendishe Robert Swifte Knight Matilda Bevercotes widow William Iessop Gent. Nicolas Yonge of Babworth Anthony Iohnson Bryan Sturges Philip Collye Robert Hemsworth Robert White The Rectory of Babworth was 20l. when the Prior of Newstede was Patron 'T is now 14l. 19s. 7d. value in the Kings Books and Sir Edward Wâ—rteley the last Patron Ordeshall THere was in Ordsall Soc of the Kings Mannor of Dunham one Bov. ad Geldam The Land one Car. There two Sochm. had one Car. and three Acres of Medow and three Acres of Wood. There was also Soc to Grove one Bov. ½ for the Geld. The Land one Car. Of the Tayn-land there was one Bov. ad Geldam The Land was for four Oxen Erwin held it At the making of Doomsday Book it was waste There were in Ordsall of the Fee of Roger de Busli four Mannors which before his coming with King William Osward Turstaun Oderic and Thurstan had and paid to the Geld as four Bovats for them The Land being four Car. There afterwards the Men or Tenants of Roger had three Car. and five Vill. and two Bord. having two Car. there was Medow of sixteen Acres Pasture Wood one qu. long half one broad In the Confessours time the value of this was 28. in the Conquerours 24s. The principal part of Ordesall went with Grove In 30 H. 3. Mauvesinus de Hercy was found to have held some here of Robert de St. George Lord of Bodmeshell viz. two Bov. for 5s. 4d. per annum Robert de Bakere of Retford 18 E. 1. was Plaintiff in an Assize against Hugh de Hercy Def. because he hindred him from Fishing in the Water of Iddell of Ordeshale unto Suthall The Jury said That the said Hugh did not hold the said Fishing in his several together with Robert Morteyne because said they that all who hold Lands abutting on that Water Fish in it at their pleasure unto the Threed Filum of the Water as they of Gréeneley on the East part and they of West Retford on the West part and they of Wellum on the East part they said further that a certain part of West Retford was of the Fee of Lancaster and abutted on the said Water and they of that Fee Fish there unto the File or Threed of the Water c. Hugh was amerced Upon the disposition made by Sir Iohn Hercy this Ordesall tell to the share of ... Mackworth It after came to Bevercotes a younger brother of the House of Bevercotes a Lawyer of good note here of the learned counsel at York and sometimes Feodary of this County and by the marriage of one of his daughters and heirs it went to Thomas Cornwallis who sold it to the Lady Worteley Countess of Devonshire and she estated it on Sir Edward Wortley her second son There was another part of this Township which belonged to and went with Eton as in that place may be perceived The Jury 9 E. 1. found twenty four Perches of Land and three in breadth twelve Perches of Marish in length and three in breadth with the Appurtenances in Ordeshale to be Frank Almoigne belonging to the Church of Eton in the Clay and not lay Fee Iohn de Ripariis 18 E. 2. levied a Fine to Henry de Faucomberge of the Mannor of Ordishale and of one Mess. two Tofts one hundred sixty one Acres of Land twenty three of Medow 36s. and 3d. Rent and the moyety of a Bovat of Land with the Appurtenances in Eton Retford Gameliston Clareburgh Hayton Wellum Stretton Bekingham Claworth Fenton East Drayton West Markham and Bughton Another Fine was levied at Nott. the Munday after the Feast of St. Martin 3 E. 3. between Iohn de Bolyngbrok Quer. and Iohn de Ripariis of Loversale Deforc. of the Mannor of Ordesale with the Appurtenances and five Tofts one hundred eighty eight Acres of Land twenty seven of Medow and 22s. 3d. Rent with the Appurtenances in Ordesale Eton Retford Gameleston c. whereby the said Iohn de Ripariis of Loversale granted for himself and his heirs that the said Mannor with the Appurtenances except two Mess. twenty seven Acres of Land and three of Medow in the said Mannor which Iohn de Ripariis of Ordesale held for term of his life and that one Mess twenty four Acres of Land and three of Medow in the said Mannor which Adam le Barkere and Dionysia his wife held for the life of the said Dionysia and that one Mess. and three Acres of Land with the Appurtenances which Robert Dokerel held for his life and twenty four Acres of Land eighteen of Medow 21s. and 3d. Rent with the Appurtenances in the said Towns of Eton Retford Gameleston Stretton Bekyngham Fenton East Drayton West Markham and Bughton which the said Iohn de Ripariis of Ordesale held for his life and that one hundred twenty two Acres of Land and an half and four Acres of Medow and an half in the said Towns of Ordesale and Eton which Iohn the son of Iohn de Ripariis of Ordesale held for his life and five Tofts forty one Acres of Land and an half c. in Ordesale which Richard son of Iohn de Ripariis of Ordesale held for term of life of the Inheritance of the said Iohn de Ripariis of Loversdale should remain to the said Iohn de Bolyngbrok and his heirs The Mannor of Ordesall in Ordesall with the Appurtenances and two Mess. and 8s. Rent with the Appurt in East Retford Wellum Morehouse and Eton which Iohn de Bozon and Elizabeth his wife held for the life of the said Elizabeth of the Inheritance of William de Saundeby were by Sir Iohn de Leeke Chr. by Fine 18
Kings Return purchased of Iohn Boun Esquire the Serjeants elder son to enlarge her own to which it was contiguous as she did also perhaps for the Gardens sake wherein she takes great delight the dwelling House but that she shortly after sold to Robert White the present owner who in the place of an old Barn or Stable hath built a pretty New Brick House facing St. Maries Church-yard There was a Fine levyed at Nottingham the Munday next after the Feast of St. Martin 3 E. 3. between Walter son of Robert Ingram Quet and Robert Ingram Chivaler and Orframma his wife Deforc. of four Messuages one Oven forty Acres of Land six Acres of Medow and 100. Rent with the Appurtenances in Nottingham which were then settled on the said Walter Ingram and the heirs of his body remainder to the said Robert and Orframma and the heirs of Robert Iohn Ingram of Nottingham 4 R. 2. conveyed to Sir Gervas Clifton Knight Hugh de Willughby Raph de Adurley Richard de Gifford of Nottingham Thomas Martell Thomas Whatton Raph de Adurley junior and Thomas Ingram Chaplain all his Lands Rents and Services in Sneynton and other where in England c. Edmund Ingram of Nottingham 8 R. 2. passed all his Lands Rents and Services in Sneynton to Sir Edmund Perepunte Knight and his heirs and likewise the yearly Rent of eight Marks issuing out of all Lands and Tenements in Nottingham and Willeford and Whatton The Witnesses were Iohn Samon of Nottingham Iohn Croweshawe of the same Henry de Plumptre then Bayliff of Nottingham Robert de Whatton Iohn de Burton c. I guess that my Lord Marquess of Dorchesters House wherein his Grandfather Sir Henry Pirrepont dwelt on the top of St. Mary Hill was Sir Robert Ingrams for in 13 E. 2. St. Mary Lane is said to lead from the Kings Hall to the Tenement of Robert Ingram c. he is named in Sneynton also if that Robert was not his father or other Ancestor as by the time he should Luke de Crophill Clark son of Gregory de Crophill gave one Messuage in Nottingham which William de Stoke sometime held of him to the Priory of Thurgarton in pure Alms. William son of Roger de Crophull 5 E. 3. passed a Croft c. to William son of William de Crophull in Nottingham of which place they were both then Inhabitants The Witnesses were Laurence le Spicer the Major Robert de Morewode Bayliff Robert de Crophull of Nottingham Roger de Botehale Nicolas de Shelford c. On the Seal of Arms of Nicolas de Crophill of Nottingham within the Circumscription of his name 35 E. 3. is A Lion Rampant as there is on the Seal of Iohn Crophull of Nottingham Skinner 16 H. 6. and at other times empaling A Chevron between three Bulls heads Cabossed Many of the chief men of Nottingham had Seals of Arms within a fair Circumscription of their names as Hugh le Spicer son of Laurence le Spicer of Nottingham which Hugh married Ioane the daughter of William de Amyas and had upon his Shield a Crosse Formie and on a Chief three Palletts 8 E. 3. As Robert de Morewode 9 E. 3. had A Chevron between three Holly Leaves slipped erect And Roger de Hopwelle of Nottingham also 44 E. 3. had A Bend ingrailed between two Crossecrosletts Richard Samon and Thomas de Amyas 5 E. 3. were Bayliffs of Nottingham and 40 E. 3. Iohn Samon was Major These Samons had interest in Gotham and some of them settled at Annesley Woodhouse whereof I have found the Entry set down in the following Page The Arms of this Family at length were Three Samons in pale which quartered with Arg. a Bend ingrailed Azure between a Mullet and an Annulet Gules which are in the South Window of St. Maries Church and supposed to belong to St. Almond or Samon of Nottingham Johannes Samon de Nort. benefactor Eccles. B. Mariae-Joana Richardus Samon Johannes Samon Thom. Samon de Annesley Woodhouse temp H. 7 -Cicelia fil Joh. Babington de Dethick Rich. Samon de Annesley Woodhouse -Jana fil Phil. Draycot de Paynesly in Com. Staff -Jana fil Alex. Mering de Collingham ux 2. Anthonius Samon de Annesley Woodhous -Maria fil Thom. Antwisel Leicest 1 Edw. Salmon-Isab fil cohaer Will. Newenham mil. .... Samon cohaer -Johannes Savile de Darton Grange in Oxton 2 Johannes 3 Wilfrid 4 Thom. Isabell. Mary Milecent ux Rog. Ferenden alias Arundel Joh. Samon Nicol. Isabel. Catharin In the time of King Richard the second here flourished Henry de Plumptre and two Iohns de Plumptre brothers as their several Wills do intimate Henrys Testament bears date 1408. which year he died in which he gave a Legacy to his sister Elisota and another to Iohn de Croweshawe his younger brother besides very many other as one to Thomas his brothers son and another to Elizabeth his own wifes daughter Iohn his son and heir and Margaret then wife of the said Henry were his Executors and Thomas de Plumptre Chaplain a Witness Iohn de Plumptre's Testament was dated 1415. not long before his death he also gave a Legacy to his sister Elisota and another to his brother Iohn His Executors were Iohn de Plumptre his Cousin and Thomas de Plumptre Chaplain his Cousin also Iohn Plumptre junior was a Witness This Iohn the Testator had licence 16 R. 2. to Found a certain Hospital or House of God of or for two Chaplains whereof one should be Master or Warden of the said Hospital or House of God and of or for thirteen Widows broken with old age and depressed with poverty in a certain Messuage of the said Iohn with the Appurtenances in Nottingham and to give the said Messuage and ten other Messuages and two Tofts with the Appurtenances in the said Town to the said Master or Warden and his successours viz. the one Messuage for the habitation of the said Chaplains and Widows and the rest for their sustentation to pray for the wholsome estate of the said Iohn and Emme his wife whilest they should live and for their Souls afterwards In the year 1400. Iuly 12. seeing that God had vouchsafed him to build a certain Hospital at the Bridge end of Nottingham in Honour of God and the Annuntiation of his Mother the blessed Virgin for the sustenance of thirteen poor women c. he proposed ordain a Chantry and willed that it should be at the Altar of the Annuntiation of the blessed Virgin Mary in the Chapel built beneath the said Hospital and should be of two Chaplains perpetually to pray for the state of the King of him the said Iohn de Plumptre and Emme his wife and of the whole Community of Nottingham c. who with the Prior of Lenton after the death of the said Iohn the Founder were to present to it and each of the said two Chaplains were for their stipends to have 100s. yearly paid in
Elizab. uxor ejus charissima hic consepulti jacent egregium par amantium quos una eademque domus ut vivos ita mortuos tenet Diem Annum utriusque obitus supra positum dabit monumentum On an Alabaster Grave-stone Here lyeth the body of Iohn Cave Gent. the fourth son of Roger Cave of Stanford in Northamptonshire He died the 3d. of May 1639. in Joyfull hope of Resurrection to Eternall Life On another course Stone Here lyeth interred the body of George Hutchinson Esq who died the 30. day of March Anno Dom. 1635. being about the age of 59 yeares and 3. Monethes He had to wife Katherin Russell Gen. by whom he had issue Iohn Mary Anne and Katherine Hic reposita sunt ossa Georgii Lacock Gen. qui decimo die Martii Anno Dom. 1647. in manus Dom. Jesu Christi salvatoris ejus emisit spiritum Annoque Aetatis suae 83. qui ante obitum hoc sequens Epitaphium hic insculptum irimandavit Nascimur Querimur Morimur Here lyeth the body of Anne Gregory the wife of William Gregory late Alderman of Nott. She died the 7. day of March 1664. in the 81. year of her age Here lyeth the body of Elizabeth late wife of Robert Bingham Esq Steward to the Right Honourable Henry Lord Marquess of Dorchester She dyed the 6. of March Anno Dom. 1670. in the 54. year of her age after she had been married 22. years She was one of the daughters of Francis Blaney of Kinsham in the County of Hereford Esq In the body of the Church Here lyeth the body of Francis Toplady late Alderman of this Town He dyed the 28. day of Iune 1665. the 84. year of his age On a Pillar Near this place lyeth the body of William Flamstead Gent. late Steward and Town-Clark of Nottingham who for his exemplary piety eminent parts and singular fidelity lived much desired and died no lesse lamented the 38. year of his age August 24. 1653. The Memory of the Just is blessed On a Brass Plate in the North I le Exuviae Josephi Gardiner Med. D. Qui obiit Mar. 4. 1669. On another Hic jacet Hen. Farington servus fidelis D. H. Plumptre qui obiit Jul. 16. 1645. On a Grave-stone in the North I le Domus aeterna Johannis Plumptre Anno M. D. LII defuncti The Arms A Chevron between two Mulletts and an Annulett On an Alabaster Grave-stone in the South I le To the memory of Margaret late the vertuous wife of William Greaves Gent. one of the Aldermen of Nottingham who died the fifth day of March Anno Dom. 1671. Here also lieth buried Margaret late daughter of the said William and Margaret Greaves she departed this life the xxiii day of Ianuary Anno Dom. 1668. In a Window of the South I le Quarterly Gules a Lion Ramp Or and Cheque Or and Azure all within a Bordure engrailed Arg. quarterly France and England and that again impaling quarterly Or a Spread Eagle Sable and Gules a Lion Ramp Arg. Gules a Saltire Arg. Nevil In a high Window of the middle and on an old Tomb Azure a Crosse patè with a Basis and supporting Laces between four Mulletts of six poynts within a Bordure engrayled Or. By the West Doora large Table intended for the Arms of the Earls of Nott. 1. Quarterly Gules a Lion Ramp Arg. and Varry Or and Azure 3. as 2.4 as 1. William Peverell created by Will Conq. 2. England with a Bendlet Azure John Plantaginet by R. 1. 3. John Mowbray by R. 2. Gules a Lion Ramp Arg. 4. Gules a Chevron and Crosletts patè Arg. William Lord Barkly by R. 3. 5. Quarterly France and England within a Bordure also quarterly Ermine and Counter-compony Or and Azure an inescutchion of Peverell Henry Fitz-Roy by H. 8. 6. Gules a Bend between six Crossecroslets Fitchè Arg. charged with a Mullett Charles Lord Howard by Q. Eliz. And the Towns Arms Gules three Crowns Or with a Crosse Raguled and Trunked Vert set in the lowest In St. Peter's Church The East Window of the North I le ARg two Bars Azure three Torteauxes in Chief impaling Azure a Cinquefoyl Arg. Gules seven Mascles voyded Or 3.3.1 Azure a Lion Ramp Or. Quarterly Arg. a Cheif Gules and Bendlet Azure and Cheque Or and Azure a Cheif Ermine Crumwell and Tateshall In a high South Window of the middle I le Sab. two Bars nebulè Arg. on a Chief Gules a Lion of Engl. Arg. a Saltier engrayled sab between four Roses Gules In a North high Window Paly of six Arg. Azure an Annulet Gules Strelley Arg. a Chevron between two Malletts pierced and an Annulett Sab. Plumptre There are divers Marks and Letters in Shields with Crosses and the like In the Chancel East Window Barry of six Arg. and Azure Grey Arg. a Fesse Varry between three Flowers de Lis. On a Monument Memoriae Sacrum Pientissimae conjugis Margaretae Domini Mathaei Saunderii Shanctoniensis in agro Leicestrensi Equitis Aurati filiae Quae cum optimis naturae dotibus ex instinctu praedita tum virtutibus parentum curâ diligentiaque summum quasi ad vestigium aucta quintum vicesimum aetatis annum agens Johanni Lockeo Regiensi in sedibus Hertfordianis Generoso nupta est Quo cum ut piissime conjunctissimeque suum uxoris per tres annos conjugale munus obiit sera sibi cita suis carnem hic depositura se ad plureis penetravit quarto Idus Septembris Anno Verbi incarnati 1633. Cui officii amoris ergo monumentum hoc maritus ille moestissimus extruxit Eja age siste locum tenet hunc matrona sacratum Clara venusta pudens religiosa gravis Ergo jacent charitas pietasque sed astra vicissim Hac poterant aliâ non reperire viâ Margarita jacet non Annis dempta sed anni Vt spectes animum dant obiisse senem Above these Inscriptions are the Arms of Locko and Saunders impaled viz. Arg. a Bend between two Waterbougets Sable Locko Party per Chevron sab and Arg. three Elephants Heads erased Counterchanged Saunders On another Tomb for a second wife are impaled the same Arms of Locko With Gules on a Fesse Arg. between three Crescents Or as many Escallops Azure Ellis of Grantham The Inscription Ad memoriam sempiternam Janae suae Dom. Thomae Elisio de Granthamia in finibus Lincolniensibus Equiti aurato unique à Conciliis Domino Regi in provincia Boreali minoris natu filiae morum pariter formae spectabilis venustate sibique post quadrennium interrupti foelicissimi conjugii paribus auspiciis in secundi tori matrimonium collocatae cui ut ferè quae sunt cordi maximè vertente biennio Nottinghamie accidit humanitus fato praematuro cedere calendis sextilibus Annosque jam haud uno viginti amplius habenti ad humanae salutis M. DC XXXIX Johannes Lockeus Hertfordiensis de Rigia Generosus monumentum hoc desiderii conjunctionis ergo
Johannes Knâ—vet Willielmus Knyvet miles ob 7 H. 8. Edmund Knyvet Thom. Knyvet Edmund Knyvet aet 7.8 H. 8. Willielmus Robertus miles s. p. Thom. Johan s. p. Johannes Clifton-Elizab Constant. Clifton Matild Dom. Willughby de Eresby ob 30 Aug. 13 H. 7. nx 2. Tho. Nevill 1. Rob. Willughby 3. Gerv. Clifton -Elizabeth Matilda Joh. Joh. Willielmus Fitz-Williams Willielmus Fitz-Williams Johannes Fitz-Williams Willielmus Fitz-Williams Tho. Joh. s.p. Will. Johannes de Crumwell-Idonia fil coh Rob. de Veteriponte -Rog de Leiburne mar 1. Alex. Frevill-Joana haer Simon Reg. Ruff. 43. Ossington Oschinton OSmund before the Norman Invasion had a Mannor in Oschinton rated to the Tax or Dane-geld at six Bovats The Land three Car. There afterwards Raph de Buron whose Fee it was become had three Car. four Sochm. on half a Bovat of this Land sixteen Villains six Bord. having six Car. and eighteen Acres of Medow Pasture Wood two leu long one leu broad In the Confessours time this was valued at 3l. in the Conquerours when the Survey was taken at 40â— It had Soc in Almentune Hugh de Burun and Hugh Meschines his son his younger son Roger also praising the Act gave the Church of Oscinton in the year 1144.9 Step. to the Monastery of Lenton as in that place and Cotgrave is already shown Roger de Burun gave his body to God and the Church of the Holy Trinity at Lenton and there took the habit and Religion of the Cluniac Monks that God might avert the scourge of His wrath from him due for the very great multitude of his sins and for the Soul of his Lord King Richard the first his Ancestors and Heirs and likewise for his own gave and granted to God the said Church of Lenton and religious Brethren there serving God the whole Town of Oscington with all its Appurtenances Howbeit it seems he had given it to the Hospitalers of St. Iohns of Hierusalem before which occasioned Suits among the Religious especially for the Church Walter Smallet by his Deed inrolled 5 Ioh. for the Souls of King Iohn the Queen Roger de Burun his Father Mother and their Ancestors confirmed the Town of Oscinton to the Hospitalers retaining nothing but the Prayers of the House of that Hospital The Prior of Lenton 9 Ioh. produced the gift of Hugh de Burun and confirmation of Roger as it is before mentioned The Prior of the Hospital of Ierusalem pleaded that they had seisin of the Town of Oscinton where the Church is scituate of the gift of Roger de Burun who gave them that Town and produced his Charter testifying the same and also another Charter which especially spoke concerning the Church The Prior of Lentons Atturney knew not that he should put himself on the Jury before he had the advice of his Master and therefore day was given till fifteen dayes after Easter at which time viz. 10 Ioh. the Jury found that Roger de Burun presented the last Parson which died to the Church of Oscington and therefore the Brethren of the Hospital should have their seisin and the Prior of Lenton be in mercy Yet not very long before Roger Arch-bishop of York admitted and instituted Galfr. the Clark Parson of this Church upon the presentation of the Prior and Monks of Lenton and gave them 2s. a year as a Pension out of it There was a Fine levied at Leycester the Munday after the Feast of St. Andrew that same year viz. 10 Ioh. between Peter Prior of Lenton and Robert the Treasurer of the Prior of the Hospital of Ierusalem concerning the Advowson of this Church which the Prior of Lenton released to the Hospitalers and they gave to Lenton the moyety of the Advowson of the Church of Huneswrthe of their gift The Hospitalers enjoyed this whole Township in pure Alms with priviledges Spiritual and Temporal Charles Duke of Suffolk 34 H. 8. had licence to alienate the Mannor and Rectory of Ossington to Richard Andrewes Gent. and his heirs Edmund Cartwright Hugo Cartwright 3 Emundus-An fil Tho. Cranmer sor ob 1 Mar. Tho. Archiep. Cant. -Agnes fil Ric. Andrewes ux 2. ob 3 4 Ph. Mar. 2 Georg. Cartwright de Ossington -Doroth fil haer Will. Molyneux de Hawton postea nupta Dabrige-court Will. Cartwright de Ossington -Gracia fil cohaer Tho. -Will Dabridgcourt Dabrigecourt de Langdon mar 2. Hall Com. Warw. 1 Fulc Cartwright de Ossington Ar. -Mari fil Hen. Pierpont mil. Will. Cartwright de Ossington -Kath fil coh Will Marshall de Com. Essex Will. Cartwright fil haer aet 35. 1674. Georgius Geo. -Christian fil Christ. Beresford Georgius Carolus Francisc. Tho. Joh. Gervas Fran. ux Williel Strelley Mari. ux Ph. Lacock Grac. Fulc Stephenson Anna. Jane Kath. 2 Tho. 3 Will. 4 Hugo mil. -Mari fil haer Will. Cartwright de Eddingly Christian -Will Cartwright de NormantoÌ„ Will. Cartwright de Normanton -Eliz fil Tho. Charlton de Chillwell Mari. ux Brookesby Doroth. Thom. Brome Chris. ux Tho. Barton de Holme mil. Elizab. ux Chr. Beresf Georg. Edm. Rob. Eliz. 1 Hug. Cartwright de Mallings in-An fil Cant. de Royney Com. Bodf ..... de Ossington fil haer s. p. Bond. -Jana un ex 17. fil Jo. Newton mil. renupta Jacobo Fitz-James Eliz. ux Regin Peckham Franc. fil Reginaldi -Will Cartwright de Norwell 1614. Th. Cartwright fil hae Franc. Cartwright 2 Georg. 4 Roland 1 Will. Cartwright fil haer -Jennet fil ... Legat. Ed. Cartwright de Norwell Franc. fil Reginaldi -Will Cartwright de Norwell 1614. who after the dissolution of Monasteries had Malling in Kent married Anne sister of Thomas Cranmer Arch-bishop of Canterbury This Edmund died seized of this Mannor and Rectory 21 Iuly 1 Mar. but it seems he had another wife Agnes the daughter of Richard Andrewes who died 18 Aug. 3 and 4 Ph. and Mar. This Mannor and Rectory continue with the posterity and name of the said Edmund Cartwright to this day In the Chancel on a Plate of Brass fixed in a Marble Grave-stone this following Inscription in Capital Letters MARY PIEREPONT daughter to Sir Henry Pierepont of Holme Pierepont Knight in the County of Nottingham and wife to Fulk Cartwright of Ossington in the same County died the 8 day of March 1670. On the South side of the Chancell at Ossington Of your Charite pray for the Soule of Reynold Peckham of Wrotham in the County of Kent Esquire which deceased the xxi day of Iuly in the year of our Lord God M. CCCCC L. Whose Soule God pardon At the upper end of the Chapel on the North side of Ossington Here resteth the Bodies of William Cartwright Esquire late Lord of this Mannor of Ossington Patron of this Church and of Grace his wife youngest daughter and co-heir of Thomas Dabridgcourt of Langdon Hall in the County of Warwick Esquire by whom he had issue Mary married to Thomas Rockly Fulk Dorothy married to Thomas
1612. are said to be the Lord Vaux Gilbert Roosse Esquire Francis Rosse Gent. Augustine Hynde Thomas Chappell Thomas Beedam Iohn Shipton Iohn Samon Richard Smith Robert Grene Rowland Taylor Edward Snowe Thomas Taylor The Vicarage of Laxton was 10l. when the Colledge of Rotheram had the Patronage 't is now 11l. value in the Kings books and William Peirpoint Esquire Patron In Laxton Church three old low cross legg'd Stone Tombs Upon an Alabaster grave Stone beyond an old Tomb is A Shield with 7. Mascles voyded 3.3.1 and ... 1398. cujus animae c. On a Blew grave Stone in Brass is cut Hic jacet Dominus Rogerus Marcaunt quondam Rector hujus ecclesiae qui obijt 17. die Decemb. An. Dom. 1438. On a kind of a Pew there is engraved a Shield with five weeping eyes on it and Robert Trafford Vic. de Laxton hoc fieri fecit Anno Domini 1532. All the Lions of Everingham whereof there are divers both cut and painted seem to be Chequey Arg. and Az. and not Varrey as the opinion generally is they ought to be There is one upon the Breast of the mans effigies on an Alabaster Tomb on the South side the Quire and one imbost on a Shield of one cross legg'd in a Stone Tomb between two Wives on the North side the Quire but the Image of that Wife on the South side is cut in Wood. In the South West Window of the Church Gules a Lion Rampant Arg. with a File of three Labels it should have been Varry or Cheq for Everingham but the Colours are decayed as they are in Az. on a Bend. Arg. between 2. Cotises and 6. Lioncels Ramp Or 3. Mullets Sab. Boun Earl of Northampton Arg. a Crosse Sarcelè Or formerly perhaps Gules Arg. a Chevron Gules Barry of six Arg. and Az. Grey of Codnor Sable a Bend between 6. crossecrosletts Arg. Longvillers Below on a flat Stone ... 3. Waterbougets Ros. And Barry of 6. Grey And on the Wood-work of the Roof of the Body of the Church 3. Waterbougets Ros. In the East Window of the Choire Or a Manch Gules with a File of 3. Labels Arg. Hastings of Pembrok which also impales with Gules a Lion Ramp Cheq Arg. and Az. or else Varry Everingham Everingham impaled with Or a Fesse Gules six Flowers de liz 2.2.2 Counterchanged D' aivile In the upper Windows of the Church 1490. Orate ... Johannis ... Agnetis .... On the out-side of the Church on the top near the Battlement cut in the Stone ....... impaling a fretty and there also A Bend between 6 crossecroslets Lungvillers On the East end of the North I le that again A Chequey with a Bendlett Bekering On the sides of the Chancel East Window A Lion Ramp Cheq for Everingham and that impaling 2. Flowers de Lis above two upon a Fesse and 2. below it Deivile Kirketon And VVilloughby KIrketon is not very clearly found in Dooms-day Book except a place there named Schidrington be for it and that is there said to be of diverse Fees one parcel Soc to Grimston the Kings Land which answered the publick taxation for two Bov. So there was in Wilgebi and Walesby two Bov. ad Geldam The Land one Car. There four Sochm. had one Car. Wood four Perches long and four broad Another parcel of Schidrington was Soc to Laxington of Goisfrid de Alselins Fee and rated to the Geld at two Bov. The Land was four Bov. There five Sochm. had one Car. In Wilgebi there was a Garden or Yard Ortus belonging to Laxington There was also a Mannor in Wilgebi which Tochi the Lord of Lexintune had before the Conquest rated to the Dane-geld at one Bov. and an half The Land for four Oxen was waste There was half a Mill and twelve Acres of Medow which afterwards became likewise the Fee of Goisfrid de Alselin Another parcel in Schidrinton and Walesby was Soc to Tuxferne of Roger de Buslies Fee and that paid the Geld for two Bov. The Land being for six Oxen There five Sochm. and one Bord had two Car. Another was of the Fee of Gislebert de Gand where Ragenale in Schidrinton had two Bov. for the Tax in his Mannor The Land whereof was half a Car. Ther four Vill. had two Car. Pasture wood one qu. long one broad This in the Confessours time was 20s. in the Conquerours 10s. value Iordan Fitz-Alan Lord of Tuxford was Sheriff of these Counties in the fourth year of King Stephen Halan Fitz-Iordan gave to Galfr. de le Phremunt the Land of Wallesby and of Circheton in Fee for half a mark of Silver yearly William son of Gaufr de le Fremunt the younger sold to Hugh Bardulf for five Marks of Silver all his inheritance in Notinghamsir viz. all the Land which his brother Gaufr had in Kirketon and Walesby and in Bestorpe and in Birchewude The witnesses were Hugh de Bobi Henry de Wicheton Henry de Norhanton then the Kings Justices William de Perci then Sheriff of Yorkshire whereby I suppose it was 5 Ioh. Galfr. de le Fremunt held two Knights Fees in the time of H. 2. of the old feoffment of the Barony of Robert de Cauz and one of the new Matilda de Chauz being in her own free power without husband confirmed to Hugh Bardulf all the Land which Gulfr de le Fremunt held of her Ancestors in Kirketon Walesby Wilgheby Bestorp and Birchewude viz. that which William son and heir of the said Galfr. gave the said Hugh in those said Towns to be held of her and her heirs by the service of half a Knights Fee for which the said Hugh gave her an hundred shillings Esterling Hugh Fitz-Raph for the safety of his Soul and of Agnes his wife and Hugh his son gave to God St. Mary the Church and Monks of Rufford his whole Demesne in Kyrketon with all the Appurt which he had of the Fee of William le Fremunt in exchange for all that Land which the said Monks sometime had in the territory of Muscham on the East part of his Park of Muscham and all the residue which he had of the said Fee in Kirketon Wilgebi Walesby Bestorp and in all other places wheresoever as well in Men as in Homages Wards and Reliefs Issues and Customes and Eschaets and in all other things which by reason of the said Land could fall or happen except the Advowson of the Church to be held of him and his heirs for 30s. per an which Rent he afterwards also released of which they paid but 20s. yearly during the life of the Lady Margaret de Furnes who held the moyety of that Land in dower To the Venerable or worshipful and most beloved Lady in Christ Oliva de Mungeban her devoted Knight Hugh Fitz-Raph sent notice that for his profit he had delivered to the Monks of Rufford the Lands which he had of her Fee in Walesby and Kirketon and