money out of the said ten Tenements and two Tofts in Nottingham After the dissolution of Monasteries in 2 E. 6. Sir Gervase Clifton Sir Iohn Hersey Sir Anthony Nevile Knights and William Bolles Esquire Commissioners for the Survey of Colledges Chapels c. certified that no poor were then to be found in this Hospital and that the Lands were then wholly imployed to the benefit of one Sir Piers Bursdale Priest Master thereof Afterwards both the Hospital and Chapel became ruinous and demolished and the very materials imbezilled till after diverse Patents of the said Mastership Nicolas Plumptre of Nottingham 24 Eliz. obtained one and with the Fines he received made some reparations and brought in some poor but after his decease during the Masterships of Richard Parkins of Boney and Sir George his son who it seems were trusted successively for Henry Plumptre son and heir of the Nicolas in his non-age having then married Anne the daughter of the said Richard and sister of the said Sir George Parkins both the Hospital and Tenements belonging to it grew into great decay until after Sir George's death that Nicolas Plumptre son and heir of Henry last named became Master by a Patent 5 Car. 1. and made some repairs and amendments which yet were not judged sufficient by his brother and heir Huntingdon Plumptre Doctor of Physick who also succeeded him in the Mastership which he obtained 1645. being then eminent in his profession and a person of great note for wit and learning as formerly he had been for Poetry when he Printed his Book of Epigrams and Batrachomyomachia for in the year 1650. he pull'd the Hospital down and Rebuilt it as it now appears Hospitalis B. Mariae Virginis ad finem Ponâ—is Nottingh vulgo vocaâ— PLVMPTRES HOSPITALL a Borea zephyro Prospectus Over the Gate of the Hospital at the Bridge-end Xenodochium hoc cum sacello adjuncto in honorem Annunciationis B. Virg. Mariae pro 13. pauperiorum Viduarum 2. Sacerdotum alimoniâ Johannes de Plumptre fundavit A. D. 1390. Quod temporis diuturnitate jam pene confectum instauravit denuo hac qualicunque structurâ se sibi restituit Huntingdonus Plumptre ex familia fundatoris Armiger ejusdem Hospitii Magister A. D. 1650. Will. de Plumptre Thom. de Plumptre temp Regis Joh. -Avicia Willielmus de Plumptre superst 15 E. 1. Paulinus de Plumptre dictus le Clerc temp E. 1. Henricus de Plumptre Willielmus de Plumptre 3 E. 3. E. 3. Henricus de Plumptre de Nott. ob 1408 -Eliz ux 1 -Margar Johannes de Plumptre ob Apr .... 1471 -Helena fil .... Strelley de Woodborough Henricus de Plumptre de Arnale -Matilda fil haer Rob. Medocroft Joanae ux ejus fil haer Joh. Knaresburgh de Kyme in Com. Linc. Henricus Plumptre ob 1508 -Elizabetha-Mauritius Orrell marit 2. 18 H. 8. Johannes Plumptre ob 1552 -Katherina fil Joh. Kyme de Stykford junioris Com. Linc. -Agnes ux 2. Nicol. Plumptre ob Sept. 13. 1597 -Anna fil haer Joh. Sharp de Frisby C. Leic. Mariae uxor fil Will. Saunders de Welford C. Northt ob Apr. 16. 1580 -Elianor ux 2. ob 1602. Henricus Plumptre ob Jul. 26. 1642 -Anna fil Rich. Parkins de Boney ob Apr. 22. 1639. Nicol. Plumptre ob 1644. s.p. Huntingdon Plumptre Med. D. ob 1660 -Jana fil Ric. Scott Ebor. ux 1 -Christina fil Ric. Brook mil. de Norton in Com. Cestr. Cath. ux fil Hen. Nevil de Billingbere Henricus Plumptre de Nott. Ar. aet 30. 1674-Maria fil Thom. Blayney Ar. Herefordensis ob 1673. Christina Plumptre nat Jun. 1673. Richardus Johannes 2 H. 7. Thomas Capellanus Johannes de Plumptre fundator Hospitalis ob 1415 -Emma Johannes vir Annae Elisota and advanced the Rents so that the monthly allowance to the poor is double to what it was anciently His son and heir Henry Plumptre Esquire is now Master or Guardian being so made by his present Majesty 24 Car. 2. 1672. upon the resignation of the Patent by George Cartwright who had it in trust for him it seems and was more kind than Sir George Parkins was to his Grandfather In the Will of Henry de Plumptre dated 11 H. 4. 1408. before mentioned it appears that his dwelling House was a Tenement called Vout Hall which with two other Tenements a Garden and Teyntor within it in Vout Lane all adjoyning to the said Mansion House he left to his said wife Margaret for life remainder to his said son Iohn and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten for default whereof these and all other the Tenements in divers places of Nottingham settled on the said Iohn in like manner were to be sold by the Executors of the said Henry and the money disposed by them for the good of his Soul His Body he ordered to be buried in the Chapel of All Saints beneath or in the Church of St. Peter in Nottingham Henry de Cotegrave and William de Beston of Nottingham Executors of the Testament of William Colyer of Nottingham 12 R. 2. confirmed to Henry de Plumptre of Nottingham and his heirs seven Cottages in Hundegate Henry Plomtre son and heir apparent of Henry Plomtre late of Arnall and Cousin and heir of Thomas Plomtre late of Nottingham Chaplain 3 H. 7. Anno 1488. demised to Ed. Hunte of Nottingham Merchant of the Staple of the Town of Calis five Cottages in Hundegate which were late Iohn Plomtre's father of the said Henry the elder and of the said Thomas Thomas Poge was Major of Nottingham 9 and 10 H. 5. In 23 H. 7. Thomas Poge of Misterton Gent. conveyed to Henry Plumptre of Nottingham Gent. one Messuage and thirteen Cottages whereof the Messuage and nine Cottages lay together in the North side of the Church-yard of St. Mary in Nottingham where now is scituate the chief Mansion House of Henry Plumptre Esquire the Front whereof was rebuilt by his father the said Doctor Plumptre who was son of Henry son of Nicolas son of Iohn son of the said Hen. Plumptre who had it of Mr. Poge To this House it seems belonged a certain Chapel or Oratory with a Quire adjoyning to it in the North side of St. Maries Church called the Chapel of All Saints which in the year 1632. Ian. 19. was confirmed to Henry Plumptre Esquire and Nicolas Plumptre Gent. and Huntingdon Plumptre Doctor of Physick his sons and the rest of the inhabitants of that House to hear Divine Service Pray and Bury in by Richard then Arch-bishop of York under the Hand and Seal of Francis Withington Master of Arts Surrogate of William Easdale Dr. of Laws Vicar General in Spirituals of the said Archbishop Besides these before mentioned many persons and Families of good note have been here resident and sprung from this place Iohn de Tannesley and Thomas de Mapurley named in Basford flourished here in the latter part of the Reign of Richard the second
died Aug. 5.29 Eliz. about five or six months before him for he died about the 20 of Ian. 30 Eliz. leaving his Grandson Gervase a year old his heir and the only hope of this Noble and Ancient Family whom his said son George a Consumptive person under age begot on Winifrid his wife daughter of Sir Anthony Thorold and of Anne his wife daughter and co-heir of Sir Iohn Constable of Kinalton the said Winifrid afterwards was married to Henry Kervile and had issue by him This Gervase was certainly more Gentle than his Grandfather being generally the most noted person of his time for courtesie he was very prosperous and beloved of all He Generously Hospitably and Charitably entertained all from the King to the poorest Begger He served eight times in Parliament he was Knight of the Shire in King Iames's time and in his present Majesties King Charles 2. He was Commissioner at Oxford and Newark for King Charles the first He was an extraordinary kind Landlord and good Master Husband to seven Wives the first was the beautiful Penelope daughter of Robert Earl of Warwick and Penelope his wife howbeit Ch. Blount Lord Mountâ—oy Earl of Devonshire paid her portion she was Mother of the wretched unfortunate Sir Gervase his â—athers greatest foyl she died Oct. 26. 1613. aged 23 years The second was Frances daughter of Francis Earl of Cumberland and Grisilâ—a his Countess she brought him 1. Margaret who was first married to Sir Iohn South 2. To .... Whitchcote And 3. to Sir Robert Carey 2. Frances first wife of Richard Tempest 2. Of Anthony Eyr 3. Anne married to Sir Francis Rodes 4. Sir Clifford And 5. Letice wife of Clifton Rodes This Lady died Nov. 22. 1627. aged 33. years The third was Mary daughter of Iohn Egioke of Egioke in Worcestershire and Anne his wife she was widow of Sir Francis Leek of Sutton in Darbishire and died Ian. 19. 1630. The fourth was Isabel daughter of .... Meek the relict of Iohn Hodges Alderman of London buried here at Clifton as were also the two first Ladies Iuly 10. 1637. The fifth was Anne daughter of Sir Francis South of Lincolneshire Knight buried here likewise Iune 1. 1639. The sixth was Iane daughter of Anthony Eyr of Rampton Esquire she was Mother of Robert Clifton who married ... daughter of Mr. Parkhurst of Woodford in Essex and of Iane Clifton now wife of Chr. Pack of Cotes in Leicestershire and of Charles lately dead a Batchelor She was buried at Clifton March 17. 1655. she died at London The seventh was Alice daughter of Henry Earl of Huntington she died after her husband in the same year 1666. at London and is buried in St. Giles Church as the third Lady also was CLIFTON HOUSE yâ— North Side He received from me the certain notice of his near approaching death as he was wont to do an invitation of good friends to his own Bowling green one of the most pleasant imaginable and thereupon immediately called for his old Chaplain Mr. Robert Thirleby to do the office of his Confessor as if it had been to attend him to that recreation he often used and loved and when he had done with him for his Children whom Patriarch like he particularly bless'd and admonished with the smartness and ingenuity of an excellent and well studyed Orator The day following he received visits from diverse friends sitting in the old Dining-Room near his Bed-Chamber who were not so sensible of his danger because he entertained them after his usual manner yet that night as I easily foretold him his sleepiness begun which could never be taken away by reason that both his Ureters were so petrified as things are by the dropping Well near Knavesburgh in Yorkshire that no Urine could descend into his Bladder as at the opening of his Body did manifestly appear as also that one of his Kidneys had of long time before been totally stopp'd with a wonderful great stone as is reported of the pious and learned D. Hammond whose hair was also Red like that of this worthy Sir Gervase who died Iune 28 166â— and was buried the second of August following with great solemnity Mr. Dugdale Norroy Mr. Ashmole Windsor and Mr. Ryley Lancaster Heralds the Quire of Southwell and many Mourners attending his Funeral Sir Clifford Clifton his son and heir in default of Sir Gervase was buried Iune 22. 1669. leaving by the present Lady Clifton his wife daughter of Sir Henage Finch and half sister of the Atturney General since Lord Keeper one son Sir William Clifton Baronet now about thirteen years old the heir of this Illustrious Family The Rectory of Clifton was 22l. and that of Wilford 16l. value Now Clifton is 21l. 7s. 6d. and Wilford 18l. 7s. 6d. in the Kings Books and the Patron as of old Sir Gervasâ— Clifton In the Church were these Inscriptions in the North I le Hic jacet Isabella filia Roberti Fraunceis uxor Gervasii Clifton militis filii Domini Johannis Clyfton militis quae obiit 13 Iâ—nii 1457. Hic jacet Domina Alicia Clifton filia Johannis Bothe Ar. Soror bonae memoriae Domini Willielmi Bothe Ehor. Archiepiscopi uxor Domini Roberti Clifton militis quae obiit 9 Sept. 1470. Orate pro anima Roberti Clyfton militis fundatoris trium Capellanorum Collegii in hac Ecclesia qui obiit nono die mensis Aprilis Anno Domini M. CCCC.LXXVIII Cujus animae propitietur Deus Amen Orate pro anima Gervasii Clifton militis filii haeredis Roberti Clifton militis fundatoris Collegii de Clifton finiti stabiliti per Dominum Gervasium qui obiit in domo fratrum praedicatorum apud London 12 Maii 1491. Cujus Corpus abinde per Agnetem filiam Roberti Constable de Flamburgh militis secundam uxorem ejusdem Gervasii alias ejus executores juxta voluntatem suam istuc honorificè decenter conductum fuit sâ—b hoc lapide marmoreo hic humatum Cujus animae propitietur Deus Pro cujus quidem Agnetis prosperitate dum vixerit pro cujus animâ cum ab hac luce migraverit speciales ordinantur memoriae orationes per Gardianum Capellanos Collegii praedicti juxta Compositionem Statuta inde ordinatae perpetuis futuris temporibus devote fienda There is a very good Tomb of Alabaster for this mans first wife with her Figure upon it and the Arms of Clifton and Nevil of Rolleston on the side and at the head of it another either for this man or his son without Inscription or Arms saving that upon his breast is a Lyon Ramp A Tombe at Clifton in the South Quire or Cross I le the South side The West side of the Tombe The North side of it A Tombe in the South Wall of Clifton Chancell In the South I le upon a great Tomb. Here lyeth the Bodies of Sir Gervis Clifton of Clifton in the County of Nott. Knight and Dame Mary his first wife daughter of Sir Iohn Nevell
nine Annulets Or within a Bordure of the second Crusulè of the first Leek of Kirton Gules three Pickaxes Arg. Arg. two Bars imbattailed Gules Barry of Torlaston Arg. two Bars Vert Harthill impales with Leek Markham quarters with Leek In another Window which Thomas Mering and Mary his wife caused to be made Arg. upon a Chevron Sable three Escallops Or Mering impaâ—â—s with Gules a Saltire Ermine Nevill Mering impales Leek also There is Babingtons Arms likewise Sir Thomas Brough Knight of the Order built another Window Azure three Flower de Luces Ermine Burgh quarters with Paly Or and Sable which also impales Or a Lion Ramp Az. all which so together quarter with Gules three Waterbugets Arg. Lord Ros which quarters Arg. a Fesse double Cotised Gules Badlesmere Azure a Chief and three Chevronells intermixed in base Or Lord Fitz-Hugh impales with Burgh quartering as before with which quarterings Brough also impales with Gules upon a Chevron Or three Stars sable Pierpont in another Window viz. Arg. a Lion Ramp sable with Cinquefoiles about him impales with Arg. six Annulets sable 2.2.2 Maunvers Peirpont also impales with Azure three Hedgehogs Or Heriz and also with Sable a Saltier engrailed Or. Heriz impales with Arg. three Cocks heads Gules if they be not Escallops and so doth Pierpont And with Lozengy Arg. and Gules Fitz-Williams In the South I le there is a very large Marble overlaid very much with Brass excellently Cut whereon is the Portraiture of a Man with several Sentences out of Scripture in Latin And Hic jacet Alanus Fleming qui obiit Anno 1373. in die S. Helene cujus anima per Dei miseriâ—ordiam requiescat in pace Amen On a high Marble Tomb in Brass upon the upper Edge Hic jacet Robertus Browne Armiger Agnes uxor ejus Nuper Aldermannus Gildae S. Trinitatis hujus Ecclesiae Constabularius Castelli principalis Senescallus libertatis hujus villae ac etiam Receptor tam Thomae Wulsy Cardinalis Ebor. quam Domini Johannis Longlandi Episcopi Lincoln praeterea Vicecomes Com. Nottingham Derby insuper Custos Rotulorum tam in Com. Nottingham quam in partibus de Kesteven in Com. Lincolnie Qui quidem Robertus obiit 10 die mensis Decembris Anno Domini 1532. Cujus anima propitietur Deus On a Grave-stone in the middle of the Quire Hic jacet Willielmus Boshom Armig. qui obiit Anno Dom. 1469. Sept. 21. die Cujus animae propitietur Deus Amen The Arms three Bird-bolts At the South East corner of the Quire there is a Chantry Chappel and in it a Monument of ... Markham over which there is an Arch of Free-stone and on the side of that Orate pro animabus Roberti Markham Armigeri Elizabethe uxoris ejus THE SOUTH PROSPECT OF THE CHURCH OF NEWARKE VPON TRENT On the outside of it several Arms coursely cut Markham impaling Mering Bozome Markham c. At the bottom of the great East Window .... Thom. Mering Elizabet ux ejus hanc fenestram fieri causaverunt ..... M. CCCC o ..... gesimo At the bottom of the great South Window of the Cross I le called Trinity Chappel wherein are the Arms of England and France quarterly and Deincourts before mentioned Orate pro bono statu Willielmi Phelypot Iohanne uxoris ejus omnium ..... sororum .... benefactorum ........ nunciatoris beat Marie virginis qui istam fenestram fieri fecerunt Anno Domini M. CCCCC tricesimo nono On a Brass Plate in the out Ile is the Portraiture of William Phyllypot in an Aldermans Furr'd Gown and below it Here under this Stone lyeth buried the body of William Phyllypot Marchant and Elizabeth his wyffe which William decessyd the viii day of May yn An. Dom. M. CCCCC.L.VII whose dethe desyryng youe all to have in rememberans calling to God for mercy On the same Stone above The eight day of July 1514. was buried the body of John Phyllypot Grandfather to this William Phyllypot At the Vestry Door on a Free-stone Hic jacet Johannes Phelypot Iunior Draper Margareta uxor ejus qui quidem Johannes obiit 23 Augusti Anno Dom. 1519. Quorum animabus propitietur Deus Amen In the Quire upon a Grave-stone Hic jacet Robertus Whitecoumbe quondam Mercator villae Calesie qui obiit III Novembr Anno Dom. M. CCCC.XL.VII Cujus animae c. On a Marble formerly almost covered in Brass Hic jacet Magister Johannes Buâ—ton Doctor Sacrae Theologiae quondam Vicaerius istius Ecclesiae qui obiit tertio die Februarii Anno Dom. 1475. Cujus c. Hic jacet M. Johannes Smythe in legibus Baccalaureus quondam Vicarius de Newark Et Vicariatus sui XL. IIII Prebendarius de Lynchaster ac Rector Kellam qui obiit 14 die mensis Augusti Anno Dom. 1521. Cujus c. On a Brass Plate Orate pro animabus Simonis Bentley Capeliani beati Nicolai Domini Stephani Bentley Capellani S. Trinitatis fratrum quiescentium qui quidem Simon obiit 21 die Jun. Anno Dom. 1530. Quorum animabus c. In the North Ile two Portraits with the Drapers Arms over them Orate pro animabus Johannis Bostone Merceri Willielmi Boli filii dicti Johannis Qui Willielmus obiit 4 die Aprilis Anno Dom. 1551. Quorum animabus c. Pray for the Soule of Thomas Griffeth Gentleman which decessed the V. day of March Anno Dom. M. Vc. XIX On whose Soule JHU have mercy Amen Depositum Johannis Pole Med. D. Denati ad 6t. Nonas 8 br Anno Christi 1674. In Newark Church at the North West corner of the Quire an Effigies and over it Or an Eagle displaied Sable Under which is Here lyeth the body of Robart Ramsey Esquire Servant to his Majesty who dyed the 9 day of Aprill 1639. Then follow Verses and under them Gules a Regall Crowne Or and on a Chief Arg. a Crosse of the first Here lyeth buried the bodye of Robarte Kirkebye the first Maister of the Song-School of this Town of Newark in which rowme he was plast by Master Thomas Magnus the Founder thereof and continued a worthy Teacher therein the space of xlii years who departed this life the 19th of Mar. in the year of our Lord God 1573. And here lyeth also Elizabeth his wife who died before him the 17th of Novemb. Anno 1566. To whom God send a joyful Resurrection Anno Dom. 1579. Maii 17 aetatis suae 68. Here lyeth buried the body of Mr. William Leveret Physician thrice Alderman of this Towne who incresed by the good help of the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Rutland his Lord and Patron the Corporation of the same Town He was of Godly life zealous in Gods Religion and a Benefactor to the poore whose soul resteth with Christ Jesus in Heaven In the Quire an Effigies on the Wall upon a Marble Tablet Memoriae aeternae Arce potiti lucidá inter ordines Coelestium quietos Thomae Atkinsoni Sanguine qui cretus
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
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
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
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
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
of hers remainder to Elizabeth her sister and the heirs of hers remainder to the right heirs of the said Thomas son of Adam de Lound Thomas Palmer sometime Parson of Blaunkeney 16 R. 2. had in Ad quod Damnum to give to the Dean and Chapter of Lincolne two Mess. one Toft one Bovat thirty five Acres of Land and one Rood of Land two Acres of Medow and 5s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Sutton by Retford in the Cley and Lound whereof twenty Acres in Lound were held of Tikhill by doing Suit at the two great Courts of Barsetlowe and one Messuage and fifteen Acres and one Rood of Land and two of Medow and 5s. Rent in Lound by Suit at the two great Courts of Bothumsell And that Messuage Toft and Bovat in Sutton were then held of Roger de Weston Prebendary of the Prebend of Clarburgh by the Service of 3s. 6d. and doing Suit at the Court of the Prebend of Clarburgh Thomas Vavasor 8 E. 4 was against Iohn Perin in a Plea for one Messuage and two Bovats of Land with the Appurtenances in Lound By an Inquisition taken at Retford 14 Octob. 4 H. 8. it appears that William Vavasor dyed 28 Apr. 3 H. 8. leaving his son and heir Thomas Vavasor twenty years old at the Feast of the Assumption of the blessed Mary the Virgin last past before the Inquisition which found that he had thirty three Acres of Land five Acres and one Rood of Medow and two Acres of Wood with the Appurtenances in Lound and one Messuage and two Acres in Styrton and a Wind-Mill in Burton All which Thomas Vavasor of Deneby in Yorkshire who dyed 2 Ian. 22 H. 8. left to Roger Vavasor his son and heir then aged sixteen years twenty weeks and five daies who married Elena the daughter of Thomas Reresby Margaret Wombell was wife of Thomas Vavasor and over-lived him as appeareth by the Inquisition taken at Tuxford 16 Aug. 23 H. 8. and had the Mannor of Deneby which extended it self into Deneby Newhall and Mekesburgh and the Mannor of Stanseby with Lands in South Kirkby and Bentley in the said County of York Robert Brokysby Iohn Allot Clark and Thomas Shawe 23 H. 8. claimed against Thomas Wentworth Knight and Isabell his wife eight Messuages one hundred and forty Acres of Land sixty of Medow eight hundred of Pasture one hundred of Common of Pasture and 12d. Rent with the Appurtenances in Sutton by Lownd Wyeston Lownde Missen Misterton South Clifton and North Clifton and called to warant Thomas Wentworth junior brother of the said Thomas Wentworth Knight The King 7 March 4 E. 6. granted to Walter Iobson and his heirs all that Messuage and Tenement with the Appurtenances and all Lands c. in Lownd in the Tenure of Cuthbert Clark late belonging to the Chantry of St. Iohn in Mattersey The owners of Sutton cum Lownde at least that of Tikhill Fee in 1612. are thus set down Iohn Colbye Thomas Hamond of Lownde Nicolas Hamond of Lownd Gent. Richard Ellis Edward Hartshorne of the same Raph Smith Henry Mattersey William Redshay senior of Lownde Henry Goodcoot Thomas Wadsley William Atkinson widow Ratcliff William Redshaye junior the heirs of .... Freeston Thomas Crumwell of Sutton Nicolas Stringer of Sutton Gent. The Vicarage of Sutton was 10l. when the Sacrist of St. Maries at York was Patron 'T is now of the same value in the Kings Books and the Lady Sara South Patroness West Retford THis Town seems part of East Retford being only divided by the River Idel It was of the Fee of Roger de Busli and in Dooms-day Book is joyned with Odesthorp which is now unknown There was Soc to Clumber in Odesthorp and Retford one Bov. ½ ad Geldam The Land four Bovats .... the Soc in Clumber was waste There was Soc to Westune half a Bov. ad Geldam The Land four Bov. There was one Villain one fourth of a Mill and four Acres of Medow But of the Tayn-land Vlmer had two Bov. ½ ad Geldam in his Mannor The Land one Car. There was in Demesne one Car. and half a Mill 4s. and ten Acres of Medow In the Confessours time this was valued at 40s. in the Conquerours but at 4s. Robert de Mortayne 4 E. 1. by concord in a Plea for Common granted to Iohn de Beringworth Parson of the moyety of the Church of West Retford and his successours Common of Pasture in his Pasture of West Retford with all manner of his animals in all places as freely as himself and predecessours ever had Robert de Hayton as in that place is noted held some Lands here The Jury 26 E. 1. found that Thomas de Maresey Lord of Gameleston held in West Retford eight Bovats freely for 6s. per annum This place for the most part went with Weston and Grove as in those places may be observed until the last Sir Iohn Hercyes disposition of that estate who it seems caused this Mannor to be settled on his sister Anne the wife of Nicolas Denman I find Edward Darrell son of Sir Thomas married Barbara daughter and co-heir of Francis Denman who in the year 1614. had by her three sons 1. Thomas then aged sixteen years 2. Brian and 3. Edward In 1612. these were owners in West Retford Edward Dorrell Gent. ..... Podge Gent. Philip Collye Thomas Lincolne Isabel Sloswick Iohn Colbye of Sutton Robert Gellande George Tompson Thomas Merebeck William Booth William Tomson Thomas Gellande widow Ienyver Richard Ellis The Rectory of West Retford was twenty Marks when Mr. Hersy was Patron 'T is now 9l. 13s. 4d. value in the Kings Books and Iohn Dorrell Esquire the last Patron Dr ..... Darrell hath given his Estate here to Found an Hospital which since his death is built where the Mannor stood for a Master .... Billeby And Ranby IN Billeby before the Conquest Trunchell had a Mannor which paid to the Geld for six Bov. The Land then three Car. There afterwards Ingram the Man of Roger de Busli whose Fee it was had one Car. nine Vill. and one Bord. having three Car. and six Acres of Medow In the Confessours time this was valued at 40s. in the Conquerours but at 20s. This Ingram may well be supposed the Ancestor of the Lords of Auferton whereof Ranulf son 〈◊〉 Engelram or Ingram was Sheriff of these Counties of Nott. and Derb. in the beginning of Henry the second and his sons Robert and William likewise Idonea de Blacquell the wife of William son of or Fitz Ranulf gave to the Canons of Wellebec the whole part of her Mill of Blackwell with her body half of that Mill with the whole Suit and all Customs belonging to that half to sustain and make yearly the Anniversary of Sir William Fitz-Ranulf her Lord and her own Anniversary for ever Isabella the daughter of William Fitz-Ranulf sometime wife of Iohn de Orreby