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HONORS
AND
KNIGHTS' FEES
AN ATTEMPT TO IDENTIFY THE COMPONENT PARTS
OF CERTAIN HONORS AND TO TRACE THE DESCENT OF
THE TENANTS OF THE SAME WHO HELD BY KNIGHT'S
SERVICE OR SERJEANTY FROM THE ELEVENTH TO
THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY
WILLIAM FARRER, Litt.D.
BY
WITH A PREFATORY NOTE BY
JAMES TAIT, Litt.D., F.B.A.
ARUNDEL
VOLUME III
EUDES THE SEWER
WARENNE
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PREFACE
THE author had only read the earlier proofs of this volume at the
time of his sudden death of heart-failure, at Mosjöen in Norway,
on Sunday, August 17, 1924. He had been unwell but was not
supposed to be in danger, and the day before his death he wrote.
cheerfully to Mr. John Brownbill, looking forward to an early
return to England, and making arrangements about the book.
It was characteristic of Dr. Farrer that the work in which he
took so keen an interest should have been in his mind to the last.
It was no less characteristic that these studies in feudal genealogy,
on a scale never before attempted in this country, should have been
the final development of the modest investigations into his own
yeoman ancestry which had first introduced him to this field of
research nearly forty years before.
Born on February 28, 1861, the second son of William Farrer
Ecroyd, a Burnley manufacturer, and afterwards M.P. for Preston,
Dr. Farrer was descended paternally from the Ecroyds of Fold
House in Briercliffe, who came there in 1544 from Yorkshire,
where they can be traced back to the fourteenth century, and the
Farrers of Grayrigg near Kendal. In later life he repurchased both
the old homesteads.
Until the age of thirty-five he was engaged in the family
business, but his interest in his own genealogy had already widened
into a study of local history, and local history in no narrow sense,
for he was already planning a history of Lancashire, and in 1895,
the year of his marriage, purchased the extensive collections for
such a history made by J. P. Earwaker. It was not, however,
until the next year, when the provisions of the will of his great-
uncle, William Farrer (whose name he took), enabled him to retire
from business, that the preliminary work began to advance rapidly.
He settled down to a country life. He was fond of fishing and
shooting in summer, and remained so to the end. For a time also
he hunted, but this he soon gave up. The long winters were thus
left free for the task which became more and more engrossing.
The then standard history of Lancashire by Edward Baines, though
several times re-edited, was very weak on the medieval period.
Little of the rich material for the history of that period preserved in
the Public Record Office and elsewhere was in print, and Dr. Farrer
had to begin by organising its transcription and publication. The
Court Rolls of the Honor of Clitheroe (1897), his first book, was
followed by a long series of such volumes, published either, like the
Court Rolls, at his own expense, or by the local printing societies.
The most important of these were the Chartulary of Cockersand
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Abbey (Chetham Socięty, 1898, etc.), Lancashire Fines (Record
Society, 1899, etc.), Lancashire Pipe Rolls and Early Charters (1901),
and Lancashire Inquests and Extents (Record Society, 1903, etc.).
Carefully edited, well indexed, and supplied with valuable notes,
these volumes showed how widely and deeply the foundations of
the projected history were being laid. A first instalment, The
History of the Parish of North Meols, was published in 1903, but
negotiations had already begun which ended in the merging of
Dr. Farrer's scheme in that of the Victoria County Histories.
This involved a somewhat embarrassing change of plan. Chiefly
interested in the medieval period, which most needed elucidation,
and anxious to keep his task within manageable limits, he had
fixed the reign of Elizabeth as his downward limit. On the Victoria
scheme, the work had to be continued to the present day. This
enlargement and the consequent labour of condensing the mediaval
material was met by the appointment of Mr. John Brownbill as
co-editor and by external contributions, but traces of the original
scheme may still be detected in the fuller space given to the mediæval
sections. If that scheme had been adhered to on the scale indicated
by the history of North Meols parish, it seems doubtful, despite
its more limited scope, whether even Dr. Farrer's industry could
have carried it to completion. The advantages of collaboration
are well illustrated by the rapid appearance of the Victoria History
of Lancashire, at the average rate of a volume a year, between
1906 and 1914. While it was still in progress, the merits of the
work as a conspicuous embodiment of the high ideals of thorough-
ness and accuracy set before themselves by the founders of the
Victoria County Histories and still more as a great personal achieve-
ment were recognised by the conferment of honorary distinctions
upon the senior editor by the universities of Manchester and
Liverpool, and by an invitation to succeed the late Sir Adolphus
Ward as president of the Chetham Society. The last he resolutely
declined. He had an invincible aversion for public appearances,
and he only consented to serve as vice-president on the understanding
that he should not be expected to preside at meetings.
Of the general articles in the first two volumes he was re-
sponsible for those on the Lancashire Domesday and the Feudal
Baronage, the two subjects to which he had devoted special attention.
In the first he brought a ripened scholarship to the discussion of
difficult problems with which at an earlier date he had been the first
to grapple in papers communicated to the Transactions of the
Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, problems which even
Dr. Round had preferred to leave to others. As the Lancashire
Domesday and that of Yorkshire are to some extent parts of one
story, it was natural that the general editor of the Victoria County
Histories should call upon him for an introduction to the latter.
In dealing with this far heavier task, Dr. Farrer put forth interesting
theories as to the carucate assessment of Yorkshire and the north-
western lands dependent upon her before the Conquest, which
can only be fruitfully criticised by a scholar with a wide knowledge
of early conditions in these regions.
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vii
This diversion to Yorkshire, a county in which, as we have seen,
he had an hereditary interest, and in which he had lived for some
years, is otherwise important as deciding more or less directly the
work that he was to take up on the completion of that which had
occupied him for twenty years. For some time before the appear-
ance of the last volume of the History of Lancashire, he was already
hard at work collecting and editing the Yorkshire charters of earlier
date than 1200, as he had done for Lancashire in 1902, being rightly
convinced of the vital importance of this class of material for the
history of the age preceding the institution of the great series of
Public Records. But this was a task of very different magnitude.
Half a volume had contained the Lancashire charters of that date,
whereas three much fuller volumes of Early Yorkshire Charters
(1914-1916), containing nearly 1900 documents, brought the collec-
tion down no further than Mortimer' in the alphabetical order
of fees. Material for a fourth volume was ready, but no more was
published, and the editor turned to other work. The expense
of publication had greatly increased with the sharp rise in printing
costs, Dr. Farrer was dissatisfied with the amount of local support
he received, and perhaps he was already becoming attracted
towards a less local treatment of the great feudal fiefs. It has been
very generally felt to be a misfortune that a work of such great
value not merely to the local antiquarian, but to the general
historian and the student of diplomatic, should be left incomplete
and without an index. It is to be hoped that the efforts which
are now being made in Yorkshire to secure its continuation may
be successful.
6
Difficulties experienced in dating the charters led to incidental
researches, two of which took shape in valuable contributions to the
English Historical Review, an article on The Sheriffs of Lincolnshire
and Yorkshire 1066-1130,' and what is somewhat too modestly
entitled 'An Outline Itinerary of Henry I.' This Itinerary,'
which analyses some 750 charters and other documents issued by
Henry and fills over 150 closely packed pages, has been published
separately with an index, and forms an indispensable supplement
to Professor Davis's Regesta of the charters of William I and
William II.
While this was in preparation, Dr. Farrer's main line of research
had also ceased to be centred in the north. He turned from
Yorkshire to the Midlands and from the publication of charters as,
among other things, throwing light on the descent of feudal fees to
definite history of such descents drawn from all available sources.
He had not yet, however, realised that the only satisfactory way
of treating this subject was to bring together all the fees of each
great honor or barony, irrespective of the counties in which they
happened to lie. His Feudal History of Cambridgeshire (1920)
therefore formed a false start, valuable as it is to the purely local
genealogist. That he should have been slow in reaching the idea
of a history of Honors and Knights' Fees is not, however,
surprising. The county, though not a natural unit in feudal
history, is a traditional and practical one. To ask the local
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genealogist, in the name of logic, to buy a great deal more than he
needed, or at least thought he needed, was to incur a risk of loss
which no commercial publisher would have faced, and which even
he could not regard lightly. In the preface to the first volume
(1923) Dr. Farrer has fully explained the advantages of the new
method of treatment even for the local genealogist, who may, for
instance, find the families in which he is interested seated in other
counties on fees of the same honor, under the same or different
surnames. To the historical student it provides, inter alia, a much
clearer and more precise means of estimating the local influence
of great feudal magnates than has been hitherto available.
Though the artificial arrangement by counties has been
abandoned, it was part of the scheme to group together in each
volume as far as possible honors which were mainly represented
in a certain group or groups of counties. Thus the fees of the three
honors, Arundel, Colchester (Eudes the Sewer), and Warenne, in-
cluded in the present volume, lay predominantly in Sussex, Essex, and
East Anglia. It will be observed that a few honors, e.g. Petworth
and Halnaker, were offshoots of or subordinate to these larger
complexes and are dealt with under them. Many interesting
details of feudal usage and history are incidentally disclosed. The
description of St. Pancras by the earl of Warenne as my patron
and the caput of my honor' (p. 312) and of the advowson of
Knebworth church as the caput of his honor, without which he
could not have seisin (p. 208), is curious. A grim story of the murder
of an heir by his younger brother, the parson of the parish, appears
at p. 283. As will be seen from casual references in the text, Dr.
Farrer left a further nine or ten honors in a more or less advanced
stage of preparation. It is hoped that some of these, which include
Gloucester, Abingdon, Giffard, D'Oyley, and Wallingford, may yet
see the light.
Although, as already stated, the proofs of this volume had not
the advantage of Dr. Farrer's final revision, and he had expressed
an intention of making some changes, only the most obvious slips
have been corrected by Mr. John Brownbill, who has seen the work
through the press, or by myself, who have read the proofs in page
form.
Of minor evidences of Dr. Farrer's multifarious activity, mention
must be made of the two volumes which he contributed to the
Lancashire Parish Register Society (Register of Burnley, 1899, and
Register of Over Kellet, 1911), and of the large collection of material
for the history of the barony of Kendal which he placed in the
hands of the Cumberland and Westmorland Archæological Society
for publication, and which has appeared in two volumes of their
Record Series (1923, 1925) under the editorship of Mr. John F.
Curwen, and with an introduction by Dr. Farrer. In Westmorland,
as the cradle of the Farrers, he was always interested, and it was in
one of their homes, Whitbarrow Lodge in Witherslack, that the
last years of his life were spent. Here he built a spacious and
beautiful library for the great collection of transcripts and books
which he had gradually accumulated. At all times, the former
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were freely placed at the disposal of the Chetham and Lancashire
and Cheshire Record Societies for publication and of private
students for their work. One of these has told me how he took
lodgings in the neighbourhood and spent several hours a day for
two or three weeks in the library. A strong preference for country
life and a certain personal reserve made Farrer rather a solitary
worker, but both at home and by correspondence he liked to discuss
plans and problems with those engaged in the same fields of research.
By all these he will be greatly missed, but he has left an enduring
monument in the fruitful work of many strenuous years.
In the prefaces to previous volumes of Honors and Knights'
Fees,' Dr. Farrer acknowledged the services rendered by Mr.
Brownbill in searching for and extracting relevant information
from chartularies and other unprinted materials in the British
Museum and the Public Record Office, as well as in assisting to
pass the work through the press. These acknowledgments are
again due to him, and the last-named in larger measure, as the
book was only in first proof at the time of its author's death.
The index is the work of Mr. Thomas Price.
JAMES TAIT.
WITHINGTON,
MANCHESTER,
May 6, 1925.
CONTENTS.
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
HONOR OF EUDES THE SEWER, OR COLCHESTER
HONOR OF WARENNE
INDEX
PAGE
1-163
164-295
296-443
445
1
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
Introduction.
Place.
1. Petworth, Suss.
1. (1) Cocking, Selham, Suss.
1. (2) Tillington, Grittenham, Suss.
1. (3) Barlavington, N. Marden, Suss.
Honor of Petworth
I. (4) Bignor, Glatting, &c., Suss.
1. (5, 12) Stedham, Suss.
1. (6) Burton, Suss.
I. (7) Heyshott, Suss.
1. (8) Sutton, Suss.
1. (9, 15) Linchmere, Suss.
1. (10, 16) Duncton, Suss.
I. (II, 13)
I. (14) Dodelesfold, Fernhurst, Suss.
2. Goring, Preston, &c., Suss.
3. Pulborough, Suss..
4. Nutburne by Pulborough, Suss.
7.
8. North Stoke, Suss.
9. South Stoke, Suss.
4. (1) Binstead, Merston, Suss.
5. Greatham, Tortington, Suss.
6. Marden, Offham, &c., Suss.
10. Bilsham, Suss.
II. Chithurst, Suss.
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12. Treyford, Cudlow, Suss.
13. Sunworth, Hants.
14. Halnaker, &c., Suss.
Bilton, Warwks.
•
Honor of Arundel
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15. Graffham, Suss.
16. Hambledon, Hants.
17. Up Marden, Bosham, &c., Suss.
•
•
. Corbelin-Hauterive.
Ralph-Saunzaver.
Hospital of Portsmouth.
Budeketon.
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•
•
·
Tenant's Name.
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Louvain—Percy.
Alan-Fitz-Ralph-
Bavent.
•
Percy.
Demesne.
Glanvill-Arderne.
Reading.
Tresgoz.
Fleming-Huse L'Isle.
Belmeis-La Zouche.
Oismelin.
Dunstanvill-Montfort.
Falaise Gundevill.
. Toeni.
Toreini-Aguillon.
Esturmi-Champvent.
Girros-Fitz-Alan.
Cauz-Nevill the
Forester.
Avenel.
Morin.
Vilers—Viene.
Sunworth-Clare.
Hay-St. John.
Chesney-Dive.
Pantulf.
Bohun.
III.
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Place.
18. Lyminster, Suss.
19. Angmering, Suss.
20. Nutbourne (by Chichester)
21. Martinsgrave, Drayton, Suss.
22. Hinton Daubeny, Hants.
Binderton, Suss.
23. Catherington, Hants.
24. Storrington, Suss.
25. Martinsgrave, Suss.
26. Harting, Suss.
27. Aldsworth, Suss.
28. West Dean, Chilgrove, Suss.
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32. Wade Court, Hants.
33. Funtley, Hants.
Drayton, Hants.
34. Nytimber, Hants.
35. E. and W. Preston, Suss.
36. Wepham, Suss.
37. Bilsington, Kent
29. Preston Candover, Hants.
30. La Wyke
30. (1) Fishbourne, Climping, Eastergate,
Littlehampton, Suss.
30. (2) Runcton, Upwaltham,
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•
Suss.;
Hayling, Hants.; Horsley, Glos.
30. (3) Lyminster, Climping, Sussex.
30. (4) Penton Mewsey, Hants.; &c.
31. Warningcamp, Suss.
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•
•
•
Tenant's Name.
Harang-Wauncy-
Heuere.
Broc-Rokesle.
Aguillon.
Fresne-Fitz-Alan-
Picheford.
Cumbrai-Aubigny.
Cumbrai-Orval-
Savoy.
Praers Tyrel.
Humez (?)-Lovel—
Tresgoz.
Fresne-Gatesden.
•
Hose.
La Roche.
Rufus
Watevill.
Le Bret.
La Wade-Romeyn.
. Hauvill (Hoivill).
Beaumont-Saunford.
Blund
Sandervill, Child.
Abbey of Sées.
Abbey of Troarn.
Abbey of Almanesche.
Turald.
Hautrive (de Alta
Ripa)-Paynel.
P
Honors of Buckenham and Rising
38. Holkham, Wramplingham, &c., Norf. Muntchenesy.
39. Flitcham, Stanhoe, Norf..
40. Loddon, Inglose, Norf.
41. Snetterton, Tottington, Norf.
42. Stoke Holy Cross, Norf.
43. Sandringham, Dersingham, Norf.
44. Bedingham, Woodton, Norf.
45. Broome, Blo' Norton, Norf.
Sturmi-Falconer.
Toeni-Milliers-
Tresgoz.
Dinan-Maunsel―
Chauvent.
Curci-Maunsel-
Sandwic.
M
Belfou (de Bella Fago).
Ingelose.
Hunstanton-
L'Estrange
Chesnei-Fitz-Osbert-
Shelton.
Brom.
Rikinghale.
Valoignes-Comyn.
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Place.
46. Burnham, &c., Norf.
47. Barkeston, Suff.
48. Thorington, Suff.
49. Congham, Snettisham, Norf.
50. Gasthorpe, Norf.
51. Snetterton, W. Harling, Norf.
52. Grimston, Docking, Norf.
53. Besthorpe, Norf.
54. Seething, Norf.
55. Shotesham, Norf.
56. Snettisham, Norf.
57. Hale Holme, Norf.
58. S. Wootton, Norf.
W. Newton, Norf.
59. Eccles, Norf.
60. Wilby, Norf.
61. Fring, Snettisham, Norf. .
62. Brettenham, Norf.
63. Banham, Norf.
64. Wymondham, Norf.
65. Tuddenham, Norf.
66. Stanhoe, Norf.
67. Middleton, Norf.
68. Baconsthorpe, Norf.
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69. Happisburgh, Norf.
70. Hunstanton (?), Norf.
73. Overland, Kent
74. Stowting, Buckland, Kent
75. Unknown
76. Oxroad, Mount, Kent
·
Barkeston.
Wachesham.
Rustein-Thorp.
Gatestorp-Berdewell.
. Herling-Bukenham-
Belfou.
Docking-Grimston.
Bavent-Fitz-Osbert.
Seinges-Gerberge-
Caltorp.
Ho (Howe).
Hacun.
Verli.
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•
•
•
•
Tenant's Name.
Le Veltre Caltorp-
Snitterton.
·
P
Stutevill-Bulemer.
Stutevill-Bukenham.
Gerner-Parker.
Hareham-Boyland.
Athelburch (?)—In-
goldestorp.
Rohinges.
Rising.
Noth.
Straton-Manteston.
Stanhow.
Scales.
Bacun vel Bacunthorp
vel Hengham.
Milliers.
Mustervill (? potius Mus-
teroil).
Saunzaver.
Unknown
71. Ringleton, Knowlton, Kent
Pirot, of Count of Eu.
72. Beninden, Matham, Rolvenden, &c., Maiham, of Count of Eu
Kent.
-Bohun and Mal-
meyns.
Valoignes Leyburn
&c., of Count of Eu.
Harengot, of Count of Eu.
Milliers, of Count of Eu.
. Costentin Oxrode, of
Count of Eu.
INTRODUCTION
The honor of Arundel, as it was constituted during the period
1136 to 1243, consisted of the following members:
The castle and honor of Arundel with the members in
Sussex, Hampshire and Warwickshire, held temp. Henry II
for the service of 88 knights' fees.¹ It consisted of the rapes
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of Arundel and Chichester and included Arundel Castle, part
of the city of Chichester, and 6 or 7 manors in Hampshire,
including Chalton with its members.
The honor of Petworth, a member of Arundel, having been
originally the fief of Robert Fitz-Tetbald, sometime sheriff
of Arundel, with the members in Sussex and Shropshire, held
for the service of 224 knights' fees.2
The fief of William de Aubigny, the butler, and his suc-
cessors, in Norfolk and Suffolk, of which the chief manor
was that of the bishop of Bayeux at Castle Rising. In the
honor of Rising William de Aubigny I enfeoffed 22 knights
of his demesne lands.³
The Domesday fief of Robert son of Corbucion, with the
service of 15 knights who had been enfeoffed of their fees
before Henry I gave that fief to William de Aubigny.4
The fee of 10 knights of the land of Roger Bigod (d. 1107)
which Henry I gave to William de Aubigny with Matilda
daughter of the said Roger in marriage, while the honor of
Bigod was in the king's wardship.5 These fees included 5 fees
of the land which Ralph son of Herlwin (n. 41) held in 1086,
and 5 fees, of which the Domesday tenants have not been
identified with certainty.
The service of 12 knights' fees which Ralph, son of Godric
(n. 38) the king's sewer in 1086, held in chief of Henry I; to
which appear to have been added the manors of Buckenham,
Kenninghall and Fersfield, unless they had been given already
in augmentation of the fief of Robert son of Corbucion.
The service of Alfred de Athleburch of 2 knights held in
chief of Henry I.
The service of Picot de Bavent of 1 fee similarly held.
The service of Reiner de Saunzaver of 1 fee similarly held.
The service of William de Mustervill (? de Musteroil) of
I fee similarly held.6
Upon his demesne in Kent William de Aubigny I enfeoffed
knights of 11 fees (nos. 71-75), which John count of Eu held
in 1166 in marriage with Alice his wife, daughter of William
earl of Arundel.7
These fees in Norfolk and Suffolk totalled 76 knights' fees
in 1168.8 Sum total of the whole honor of Arundel, temp.
Henry II, 1861 fees.
The details of the Domesday fief of earl Roger de Montgomery
in Sussex will be found in The Victoria County History of Sussex
(vol. i. 421–34); that in Hampshire in the same work (V. C. H.
Hants. i. 477-8). The late Mr. Eyton shewed that 3 manors in
Shropshire, namely Idsall, Kemberton and Woodcote, were held
by Robert Fitz-Tetbald of earl Roger de Montgomery and were
later associated more or less with the honor of Petworth.9 So
much has been written about Arundel, its earls, castle and honor
that the writer must be excused for confining his observations to
the following brief notes; the curious reader being referred to
INTRODUCTION
5
Tierney's History of Arundel, Mr. Round's observations on the
earldom of Arundel in Geoffrey de Mandeville, the earldom of Arundel
in The Complete Peerage (ed. Gibbs, i. 230-63), and The Early
Genealogical History of the House of Arundel by John Pym Yeatman.
Earl Roger de Montgomery died 27 July, 1094. He was suc-
ceeded in his English possessions by his younger son, Hugh, who
died s.p. in 1098, when Robert de Bellême, count of Alençon, earl
Roger's elder son, was permitted by William II to succeed to the
English possessions of his younger brother. Actively supporting
Robert duke of the Normans in 1102 he was attainted and exiled,
whereupon his English estates became forfeited to the crown.10
William de Aubigny was in possession of a fee in Norfolk in the
time of William II.11 He was styled' butler,' as early as ro March,
II01,12 by virtue of his office of 'magister pincerna Regis.' Mr.
Round has preserved some notices of this office and its holders in
The King's Serjeants (140-165), where the thorny question whether
the office had been granted as a territorial serjeanty or as an
office in gross is discussed, preference being given to the latter
view (p. 164). If, however, the former view were correct, Mr.
Round is of opinion that the Kentish manor of Bilsington (n. 37)
possesses the best claim to be the corpus of the territorial serjeanty.
Henry I, prior to 1110, while at Winchester, Roger le Poer
being bishop and (?) chancellor, notified archbishop. Anselm,
Hamon the sewer and the barons of Kent of his confirmation to
St. Andrew's, Rochester, of land, tithes and woodland given by
William de Aubigny, namely tithe of Elham of the king's demesne
and the land of I plough, the woodland that Robert son of Watson
held of the said William and the moiety of the tithe of Bilsington
of the king's demesne.13
William de Aubigny, as pincerna Henrici regis Anglorum,'
founded at Wymondham the cell of St. Mary and St. Alban and
gave it to the abbey of St. Albans during the time of abbot Richard,
who died in 1119. 14
From the records of a dispute between Robert
abbot of St. Albans and William de Aubigny, earl of Arundel, about
the year 1164, touching the church of Happisburgh, it appears that
the founder issued no charter of foundation, nor were there then
existing any charters relating to the foundation of the cell save one
of Henry 1.15 This confirms what one would expect from the text
of the 2 charters, which purport to be the founder's deeds, namely
that they were drawn up long after the date of the gifts which they
record.16 The second of the founder's alleged charters has for
witnesses, Geoffrey de Merlai (n. 39), Ralph Fitz-Godric (n. 38)
and his brother Eudes, William Veltre (n. 46), Albert Francigena
(n. 52) and his brother Reginald, William Revel, William de Curcion,
who gave land and his tithe of Stanfield, Norf., William de Milliers
of Happisburgh (n. 69), Ralph de Estre, Morel de Merlai and others,
including Adeliza Bigot mother of Matilda, the deceased wife of
the founder, Agnes de Belfou (occ. 1130), her daughter Almude and
niece Muriel.17
The confirmation of Henry I, issued at London during the
period 1123-1133, recites the following gifts of the founder:
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HONOR OF ARUNDEL
The church of Wymondham and tithes of the demesne and
men there, a court, two mills, certain lands and 10 librates of
land and the men who held in the manor under the earl of
Warenne.
In Buckenham land for a vicarage.
The manor of Happisburgh with the church and market,
except the land of Ansgot the chamberlain (n. 49).
The church of Snettisham with I carucate.
In Burnham 2 carucates and a mill.
Tithes of two-thirds of the demesnes of Burnham, Flitcham,
Pickenham, Grimston, Congham and Rising.18
By agreement made at Northampton (in 1164 ?), in the dispute
above referred to, the gift of the church of Rising and certain tithes
confirmed by the charter of Henry I was annulled.19 William
earl of Warenne by his letters addressed to Robert his sewer
confirmed to the monks of Wymondham the land which William
de Aubigny, 'pincerna regis,' held of him in the manor of
Wymondham.20 The date seems to be 1140-1148.
William de Albineio, the king's butler, gave to the monks of
St. Andrew, Rochester, all the tithe of his vill of Elham, Kent, with
I car. of land in Achestede and Acholte wood, both in Elham;
and half the tithe of Bilsington; and this for the souls of his lord
king William, of Henry the king, and of grantor's brother Nigel
and his nepos Humphrey.21
The Pipe Roll of 1130 tells us that William de Aubigny, 'pin-
cerna,' was then in possession of lands in Kent, doubtless including
Bilsington (n. 37) and land in Elham, in respect of which he was
as 'pincerna ' pardoned 16s. of the past danegeld (1129) and a like
amount in respect of the current charge (1130).22 In respect of his
different fiefs in Norfolk and Suffolk he was pardoned £13 7s. of
danegeld, representing an estate of 133 carucates of land.23 The
honor of Arundel was then in the king's hands, as it had been
doubtless since 1102. William de Pont de L'Arche was farmer
at a set farm of £249 8s. per annum, out of which the sum of
£22 7s. 8d. had been expended in the works of the castle; William
Chienewe was in receipt of a living of 4 pence per diem; he
extinguished his fine for having seisin of the land and ministry of
William de Witeweie; he was also pardoned danegeld in Norfolk
of 2s. 3d. Pain de Clairvaux was pardoned £81 6s. 8d. of the old
farm of Harting for 2 years and still owed £58 13s. 4d, of the old
farm of the same manor and £22 13s. 4d. of increased farm,
apparently assessed on the manor by the new farmer, Pont de
L'Arche, 24
William de Aubigny attested at Portsmouth, prior to the
king's crossing to Normandy in 1137, Stephen's charter to St.
Denis, Southampton, as pincerna.' 25 He died on All Saints'
Day, 1139.26 By his wife, Matilda Bigod, he had issue William
de Aubigny II, born about IIIO, who married, in or before 1138,
Adeliza the queen dowager, with whom he acquired the honor and
castle of Arundel with its member of Petworth. After Stephen's
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accession or upon succeeding his father he took the oath of allegiance
to Stephen. Queen Adeliza appears to have been friendly to the
empress Matilda, who made the port near Arundel (named in
Domesday) her place of debarkation upon her arrival in England
on 30 September, 1139. Robert of Torigni states that William de
Aubigny, Adeliza's husband, had invited the empress, who was
accompanied by her kinsman, Robert earl of Gloucester, to stay
at Arundel.27 When however Stephen appeared before the
castle and commenced to lay siege to it, Adeliza, fearing the
consequences of her hospitality, apologized to Stephen, who
magnanimously permitted the empress to depart in peace to
Bristol.28 In after years William de Aubigny was a supporter of
Stephen.
As earl of Lincoln' he confirmed to Reading abbey in 1139
or 1140 the manor and church of Easton, Herts., as granted to the
abbey by queen Adeliza his wife, and land with the church of
Stanton Harcourt, Oxon., which tenements had been given to the
queen by Henry I. Among the witnesses were Eudes Fitz-Alan,
Alard the Fleming of Pulborough (n. 3), Geoffrey Tresgoz of Goring
(n. 2), Robert de Calz (n. 9), Pain de Vilers of Trayford (n. 12),
Alan Pirot of Ringleton and Knowlton (n. 71), William de Cuini
(n. 58), and Morel de Merlai (? n. 39). As the editors of Facsimiles
of Charters in the British Museum (of which the above is n. 14)
state, William de Aubigny attested as earl of Lincoln a charter
of Stephen late in 1139 or early in 1140; 29 but the grant of lands
in Lincolnshire made by Stephen by a charter printed by Mr.
Round in Ancient Charters 30 to William earl of Lincoln was probably
in favour of William de Roumare.
William de Aubigny II thus occurs in 1139-40 as earl of Lincoln ;
in 1141 as earl of Sussex; in 1143 he was described as earl of
Arundel and tenant of (Little) Waltham, Essex; in 1147 as earl
of Chichester.31 In the Pipe rolls of Henry II he was invariably
described as 'Comes Willelmus de Arundel.' As earl of Chichester
he, queen Adeliza, William and Godfrey their sons gave in 1150
to their mother church of Chichester the prebend of West Dean
and East Dean, Suss.32 As earl of Chichester he was instrumental
in arranging the treaty of 1153, whereby the crown continued
with king Stephen for life.33
Prior to his wife's death, which occurred at Affligam in Flanders
on 24 March, 1151,34 William earl of Chichester notified William
bishop of Norwich of his confirmation to the monks of Wymond-
ham, for the health of his soul and of queen Adeliza and their
children, of the gifts made by his father to the said monks. The
witnesses were: queen Adeliza, William son of the earl, Alard
the Fleming (n. 3), Ralph son of Savary (n. 17), Thomas de Arden
(n. 1 (9)), Adam son of Alvred (n. 61), Morel de Merlai (n. 39),
Roger de Verli (n. 57), Ranulf de Hernum (? de Cuini, n. 58), Hervey
de Ingelose (n. 40), Matthew son of Alvred, Godfrey son of
Albert (n. 52), Ranulf Sanz Aveir (n. 1 (4)), and 5 others.35
In 1151-1152 William de Aubigny, earl of Chichester, founded
an Augustinian priory in honor of St. Mary, St. James and All
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Saints in his manor of Old Buckenham, Norf., granting to it with
other lands 80 acres in his park with the site of the castle and the
castle itself, which was to be destroyed. Among the witnesses
were earl Hugh Bigot, Hubert de Muntchenesy, Adam son of
Alvred (n. 61), Reginald de Brun (n. 41), Ralph de Bucheham
(n. 51), Richard son of Hacun (n. 56), Godfrey son of Albert (n. 52),
Hervey de Ingelose (n. 40), William de Frainei (n. 21), and Warin
de Muntchenesy (n. 38).36 The editors of Facsimiles of Charters
(Brit. Mus.) note that earl William built a new castle in New
Buckenham subsequently to the above foundation.
In 1156 Henry II confirmed to him as 'William earl of Arundel'
the castle of Arundel with the whole honor of Arundel and all its
appurtenances, and granted to him the third penny of the pleas
of the county (court) of Sussex 'unde comes est,' to hold with
all liberties and free customs belonging to the said honor and
castelry, as Henry I had had that honor when he held it in his
demesne.37 The proof of the date of this grant is found in the
charge made by the sheriff of Sussex in 1157, for the first time,
Comiti de Arundell in tercio denario comitatus xii.li. et xiii.s.
et iiii.d. per breve regis.' 38 The Great Inquest of Service taken.
in 1212 states that Henry I held the rape of Arundel as his escheat,
that his grandson, Henry II, afterwards held it and gave it to William
earl of Arundel, grandfather of earl William, living in 1212, to hold
by the service of 84 knights.39
Some indication of certain of the earl's holdings in Norfolk is
supplied by the remission to him of murder fines,40 namely:
Of £10 for murders on Shropham hundred, 65s. 4d.
Forehoe
Gallow
19s. 6d.
9s. 3d.
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In Shropham hundred the earl held Old Buckenham and lands
in Snetterton and Shropham; in Forehoe hundred lands in
Wymondham and Wramplingham; in Gallow hundred lands in
Burnham Overy and South Creake. There were at that time no
murder fines in Freebridge hundred, in which Castle Rising lay.
In 1162 the earl of Arundel's scutage in Warwickshire amounted
to 20s.41
This was in respect of Bilton (n. 14).
The carta of the earl of Arundel, preserved amongst the returns
made in 1166, was of an unusual character. It states that con-
tention having arisen between the knights of the honor of Arundel
touching a certain army of Wales (1165 ?), our lord King Henry
chose four knights of the honor of the best, eldest and most
liege, namely Humphrey de Sarcillis (n. 14), Ralph son of Brun,
William de Favarches (n. 14?) and Peter de Hamton (n. 14), and
caused them to make a recognition of the service of the knights
of the honor, and would listen to no one who questioned their ruling
and oaths. Their recognition supplied the details of tenure stated
below at nos. 1 to 17, as it was towards the end of Henry I's reign
and during Stephen's. The carta further records that King Henry
gave certain lands of his demesne which the earl had appointed to
military service, namely the tenures described under nos. 18 to 28,
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which appear to be contemporary, i.e. existing in 1166. Further,
that the earl had in Candover in Hampshire the service of one
knight (n. 29), and that there were 13 men who were enfeoffed at
the earl's hand of land of his demesne by knight's service (namely
of 13 knights' fees).42 These may have been of new feoffment
(nos. 30-37). The total service appears to have amounted to 110
knights' fees, a figure difficult to reconcile with the 84 fees of
Henry's grant and of the Pipe rolls of his and his successors' reigns,
save on the assumption that a beneficial service was fixed in 1156
in favour of the earl towards the crown, leaving the earl to exact
scutage and relief from his tenants upon a larger number of knights'
fees.
The carta of William de Aubigny of his honors of Buckenham
and Castle Rising and lands in Kent was also abnormal in that the
knights named belonged to divers periods, ranging from the time
of Henry I to 1166. It opens with a statement of the fees noted near
the beginning of this introduction, as follows:
This is the tenement of William de Aubigny, king's butler,
of the gift of King Henry I, who gave him of the fee sometime
of Corbuchiun 15 enfeoffed knights; and afterwards gave him
a fee of 10 knights enfeoffed of the land of Roger Bigod with
the daughter of Roger Bigod'de manu sua'; and afterwards
gave him the service of Ralph son of Godriche of 12 knights ;
and the service of Alvred de Athelburch of 2 knights, of Picot
de Bavent of I knight, the fee of Reiner Saunzaver (Sine
Averio') of I knight and the fee of William de Mustervill
(? Musteroil) of I knight; sum: 42 knights enfeoffed in his
own barony.
The carta proceeds: The butler enfeoffed 22 knights of his
own demesne in Norfolk (nos. 39, 43, 46, 49–51, 52, 56–58 and
67). And the butler enfeoffed II knights in Kent in his
demesne, which (John) count of Eu then (1166) had in marriage
with (Alice) daughter of the earl of Arundel (nos. 71-75).43
In 1168, to the aid for marrying the king's daughter Matilda,
William de Aubigny, pincerna, owed in Norfolk 76 marks for his
knights, which sum was pardoned in 1171; 44 in Sussex the earl of
Arundel owed £56 6s. 8d. to the same aid for his knights (pardoned
in 1175); Joscelin the castellan paid 22 marks for 22 knights of
the fee of Petworth, whom the earl of Arundel claimed as of his
fee; similarly Randulf de Bealmes (n. 4) paid £4, Geldewin son
of Savary (n. 17) 1 mark, Rolland de Dinan (n. 36) for 2 knights
of his fee of Wepham paid 2 marks, Ralph de Toeni (n. 35) 2 marks
for 2 fees, Walter de Dunstanvill (n. 5) owed 3 marks for 3 knights,
John de Tresgoz and Philip de Tresgoz (n. 2) owed 3 marks for
31 knights. Of these n. 17 denied his liability, as too did
nos. 35-36, while nos. 5 and 2 stated that the numbers of knights
charged against them were of overcharge of the earl of Arundel ';
the charges in these two cases being ultimately pardoned.45
In 1171 the farmer of the bishopric of Chichester claimed
allowance for £10 paid to William de St. John towards the repair
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of Arundel castle.46
In 1172 Robert de Praeres (n. 23), Rolland
de Dinan (n. 36), Ralph de Toeni (n. 35), and Joscelin the brother
of the queen (n. 1), accounted to the scutage of Ireland under the
Pipe roll heading ' De his qui cartas non miserunt.'
The earl died 12 October, 1176, at Waverley, having had issue
by queen Adeliza 4 sons; 47 whereupon the charge of 20 marks on
the farm of Sussex for the third penny of pleas of the county was
suspended for the year ending at Michaelmas, 1176; 48 but was
renewed in the following years in favour of the succeeding earl,
earl William de Aubigny.' The honor of Arundel was taken
into the king's hands upon the late earl's decease and so remained
until the accession of Richard. The issues were : 49
as
Farms
1176-77 1177-78
of Manors, £141 18 2
including:
The vill of Arundel
and 2 mills
Martinsgrave
Berges (in West Dean?)
Land of Baldwin the
Despenser
1178-79
£147 13 9 £125 18 10
32 0
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4 0 9
41 7 5
68
A confirmation to the monks of Boxgrove issued by William
earl of Arundel within the period 1156-1176 was made for the
health of King Henry son of the empress Matilda, by whose gift
the grantor held the honor of Arundel, for the soul of queen Adeliza,
and the souls of Olive his sister (n. 37), Olive his daughter, and
Agatha who was buried at Boxgrove. Among the witnesses were:
Humphrey de Milliers, Robert de Praeres, Robert Aguillun, Richard
Aguillun, Gilbert de Sandervill, Ralph Saunzaver and Roger de
Chesnei. 50
In 1180 the sums of £72 7s. 8d. and £40 13s. were respectively
expended in restocking the honors of Arundel and Petworth.51
In 1181 the new farm of the honor, including the farm of Bromley,
was £381 18s. 5d., out of which 2d. per week for 4 years past was
paid to the recluse of Hastings, 20s. to the church of St. Mary de
La Pré from I hide in Singleton, and a mark to Richard de Wade
for carrying hawks over seas to King (Henry), the king's son.
Out of the farm of Petworth, of £132 8s. 6d., a livery of 2d. per week
was made to the recluse of Stedham and 20s. to the canons of
Merton from the second mill of Duncton.52 Next year the farm
of the honor of Arundel was the same; additional allowances
included 100s. for the land of Geoffrey the falconer in Pebmers
and £9 8s. to the leper sisters of St. James's, Arundel. Considerable
sums of money were being expended yearly on Arundel castle,
this year amounting to £145 2s. 5d. The farm of Petworth and
the allowances were unchanged. 53
In 1184 the earl was described as 'earl William of Sudsex.'
In 1185 under the honor of Petworth Gervase de Pette paid relief
of Ios.54 In 187 the scutage of Galloway was levied on the knights.
of the honor of Arundel, namely £84 10s. on 84 knights' fees;5
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a tallage was levied on the borough of Arundel and on Singleton,
Midhurst, Westbourne, Stoughton, Easebourne (Eselburna),
Stretlington (Strathanton), Martinsgrave, Rustington, Petworth,
Tillington, Linchmere, Cocking, Duncton, Sutton, Stedham, Berges,
and Compton.56 Down to the last year of Henry's reign the farms
of the honors of Arundel and Petworth respectively remained as
last described; but debts of £365 6s. 1od. remained due in 1189
for 6 years past from the men of the earl of Arundel and the men
of Joscelin the queen's brother, of which full details were given
in 1189, namely:
Honor of Arundel 57
Richard de la Roche in Westbourne
Monks of Boxgrove
Canons of Tortington
Safrid the falconer
Albert the clerk
Ralph Gernagan
Canons of Durford
William Ruffus
Park land and where the court of East Dean
•
was set
Ranulf de Broc
Land where Chichester castle was set
Honor of Petworth 58
Monks of Reading land in the manor of Pet-
worth and Tillington given by Joscelin the
castellan
Elbode the knight, given by the same
William Wiritle (Writeler), given by the same
Grundelay, an exchange for the Park
•
Hoctot
Ernald le Holer
Menbroc
Chapel of St. Thomas
Joscelin Regalis .
Enlargement of the park
Geoffrey de Wimbis
Quinchat
Manor of Folkington and Sutton of Hugh de
Fokinton
•
Ralph son of the castellan
William the clerk
Ralph son of Peter
William son of Arthur
Land in the Park
Simon de Wavre.
Jona.
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&
Canons of Durford
Church of Cocking
Joscelin nephew of Joscelin (the castellan)
Terry the cook
William de Hautrive
Canons of St. Bernard
Thurstan the clerk
William son of Alan
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King Richard, by his charter dated at Montrichard, 27 June,
1190, confirmed (and restored) to William earl of Arundel the castle
and honor of Arundel and the third penny of the pleas of Sussex,
whereof he was earl.59 This earl married Matilda relict of Roger
earl of Hertford (d. 1173) and died 24 December, 1193,60 leaving
William, third earl of Arundel, his son and successor. As William
earl of Sussex he had given to the monks of Wymondham a detailed
confirmation of their possessions, for the souls of his father William
earl of Arundel, who was buried there, and his mother Athelidis
the queen. This charter was attested by the grantor's son William
de Albini, his wife Matilda the countess, and his brother Reyner. 61
Another confirmation is printed in the Monasticon (iii. 332).
Richard I, in 1189, confirmed for life to Alured de St. Martin a
grant made by Henry count of Eu, after the death of Alice the
mother of Alured, of Alice's dower lands in Elham and Bilsington,
Kent. 62
Alice daughter of William earl of Arundel had received
the Elham fee on marriage with John de Eu. As Adeliza countess
of Eu and daughter of queen Adeliza and earl William de Arundel
she gave to Horton all the land of Risden which Goldwin held.63
This was confirmed by John count of Eu.64
In 1194, in Norfolk, William earl of Arundel owed £100 for
relief of his land. 65 As William earl of Sussex he confirmed to
the monks of L'Essay the gifts of his ancestors, namely Roger de
Aubigny, William the butler, for the health of the souls of William
his father, son of queen Adeliza, and of Matilda his mother, in-
cluding lands in Normandy and whatever dame Avice, wife of Roger
de Aubigny, gave to the abbey with the consent of her husband and
sons, William and Nigel, the church of Bilsington which Ralph de
la Hay gave (n. 37), and lands of the honor of Aubigny.66 By a
confirmation made to Boxgrove priory, as William earl of Sussex,
he confirmed the gifts of the illustrious earl William, his grand-
father, and inter alia gave land in Stoughton. This was attested
by Godfrey de Aubigny, younger son of the second earl, Richard de
Percy (Perce), Roger Rusteng (Rusteon), Philip de Tresgoz and
Richard his son, Peter Blund, Hugh Esturmi, William de Hauterive
and Robert his son. 67 To Wymondham, in king Richard's life-
time, he confirmed the gifts of William de Albigny his ancestor,
the king's butler, William earl of Arundel his grandfather, and
William earl of Sussex his father, and of his barons and men.68
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In 1203 the earl had a grant of market and fair at Wymondham.69
The manor of Waddon, Bucks. (Giffard, n. 1), late of Adeling de
Marcil, a Norman, was granted to him in 1207, together with the
manor of Fakenham, Norf.70 The former estate was in 1212
described as having been formerly of William de Humet and the
latter as late of Walter de Segn[ur]e, a Norman, and worth £52 4s. Ed.
yearly.71
From Shropham hundred it was presented in 1212 that William
earl of Arundel then held Buckenham in chief of the king, and that
William de Aubigny, his grandfather, had given to the church of
St. James of Buckenham 2 carucates of that fee in alms; from
Guiltcross hundred that the earl held Kenninghall in chief 72;
from Forehoe that he held Wymondham similarly; from Diss
hundred that he had a wood and five homagers in the vill of Fersfield
held of the king, which king Richard had restored to the earl's
father, but whether as his inheritance or for his service the jurors
knew not 73; from Freebridge that the earl held Rising of the king 74;
from Smithdon that he held Snettisham, which belonged to his
barony.75 In the same year William earl of Arundel accounted for
500 marks for the custody of lands late of Robert de Tateshale and
of the heir, with his marriage, paying Robert's debt to the king.76
The earl remained faithful to John until near the end of that
king's reign, but in 1216 the constable of Rising had authority to
obtain timber from the wood of John de Bovill of Bawdsey (?),
the king's enemy, to strengthen the earl of Arundel's castle of
Rising.77 On Henry's accession he returned to allegiance and
recovered such seisin of his lands as he had had when he withdrew
from the service of John the king's father.78 In December, 121S,
the sheriff of Sussex was directed to give him 20 marks of the issues
of that county which he ought to have and used to have nomine
comitis Susexie.' 79 Returning from the crusade by way of
Damietta he died at Cainell, near Rome, on the kalends of February
(1 Feb.), 1221, his body being brought to England by his companion,
Thomas, a monk of St. Albans, and buried at Wymondham.80
By
his wife Mabel, sister of Ranulf earl of Chester, he had issue William
his successor, Hugh who succeeded his brother, and 6 daughters, as
described in vol. ii, pp. 9-10.
$1
William de Aubigny, the 4th earl, gave £100 for his relief and
had livery of his inheritance in April, 1221. The manors of
Fakenham and Waddon, of the Normans' land, were delivered to
him early in 1221, as those which his father had received of the
bail of king John.82 Of Fakenham, Norf., it was presented in
1212 that it had been in the demesne of Henry I, who gave it to
Hugh Capel by the service of 2 knights' fees, from whom it descended
to Hugh Seinure and so to Walter his son and from Walter to his
daughters; from them it fell into the hands of king John, as
the land of Poer, and the king gave it to the earl of Arundel who
held it at the date of the presentment.83 In 1241 Hugh de Aubigny,
earl of Arundel, was required to surrender the manor of Fakenham
to the king as his escheat of the Normans; the earl pleaded that
his father was seised thereof at his death, and that respondent's
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brother, whose heir he was, did homage for the same and likewise
died seised; that respondent after being in ward of the king made
fine for his inheritance and obtained livery of the said manor with
his inheritance, for which the king took his homage; further he
pleaded that when Normandy was lost his father, being then with
king John and in no way desiring to withdraw from his service,
lost all his possessions in Normandy, whereupon king John gave
him in recompense the manors of Fakenham and Waddon; this
he proved by the testimony of knights who saw and heard of the
gift in the year of the birth of Henry III.84 The sequel is recorded
below. By the surrender of earl Hugh in 1243 the king gave the
manor of Fakenham to Beatrice countess of Provence, 85 the queen's
mother. In 1275 the queen held it by the gift of the said countess.86
William, 4th earl of Arundel, died without issue in 1224, Hugh
his brother and heir being then under age and in the king's ward-
ship. In 1233 Hugh gave 2500 marks for seisin of his inheritance
and castles until he attained his age and for the lands late of Ranulf
earl of Chester and Lincoln, his maternal uncle, which pertained
to him; until he attained his age three of his knights were to keep
his castles so that no loss might accrue to the king, namely Hugh
Saunzaver (in place of William de Hautrive) of the castle of Arundel,
Thomas de Ingoldestorp of the castle of Rising, and Roger de
Brom of the castle of Buckenham.87 He was of age on 10 May,
1235, when his said castles, then in the king's custody, were delivered
to him, the 3 wardens named above being directed to give him
possession of the castles in their respective charges.
In 1240 the king forbad the bishop of Chichester imposing a
sentence of excommunication upon the earl of Arundel's lay fee
which he had threatened if the earl entered the chase (of Houghton ?)
to hunt where the respective predecessors of the earl and bishop
had always in the past hunted in common.89 In 1242 the king
directed that the earl should have his writs for having the scutage
of his knights so soon as he had sent 5 knights to perform the
service (in Gascony) due to the king.90 In the same year earl
Hugh surrendered the manor of Waddon to the king, who bestowed
it upon John Fitz-Geoffrey; in the ensuing year the earl similarly
surrendered the manor of Fakenham, whereupon the king gave it
(as above) to his mother-in-law, Beatrice countess of Provence. 91
Hugh died on 7 May, 1243. Six months later the castle and manor
of Buckenham were assigned to Robert de Tateshale, son of Robert
de Tateshale, eldest born of the late earl's heirs; the castle and
manor of Arundel to John son of John Fitz-Alan, the second heir,
then in the king's wardship; Roger de Somery, who espoused
Nicholaa or Nicole, sister and one of the heirs of the said earl,
obtained as chief messuage a manor parcel of the earldom of Chester;
the manor and castle of Rising was assigned to Roger de Mohaut,
who espoused Cecily, second sister and 4th heir of the said earl;
the manor of Bilsington, Kent (n. 37), to which pertained the
serjeanty of king's butler, was retained in the king's hands as
land of the Normans. 92 To Isabel the earl's relict were assigned
the manors of Wymondham and Kenninghall for her support
88
INTRODUCTION
15
until her dower was assigned. 93 Subsequently the manors of
Westbourne and Stanstead with the hundred of Westbourne,
Suss., the manor of Olney, Bucks. (Chester, n. 4), the manor of
Snettisham and hundred of Guiltcross, Norf., and manor of Pleshy,
Essex, were assigned to her in dower; 94 while the Norfolk hundred
of Smithdon was assigned in lieu of lands in the manors of Writtle
and Little Waltham, Essex, previously assigned.95 On 10 January,
1244, a projected tournament at Buckenham was forbidden.96
4
The accounts of the collection of the scutage of Gascony in
1242-3 show that there were then contributory 69 knights' fees
of the honor of Arundel in Sussex, 97 about 41 fees in Hampshire, 98
I fee in Bilton, Warws., and possibly about fee in Shropshire,
leaving about 10 fees to complete the total service of 841 fees.
No contemporary statement exists of the service due from the
honors of Buckenham and Rising, but to the king's sister's aid of
1235-6 Hugh de Aubigny paid £64 6s. 8d. in respect of 481 fees
in Norfolk, 99 which figures, after allowing for about 91 fees in
Kent,100 show a great reduction of service from the 76 fees of the
time of Henry II. It is important to note that lands of the honor
of Chester of the inheritance of Hugh de Aubigny and his heirs
general, as well as lands of the inheritance of the Fitz-Alans, later
earls of Arundel, were frequently described in feodaries of the
time of Edward I and later as held of the honor of Arundel, where
that name is a misnomer.
In 1274 inquiry was made as to the privileges of the men of the
abbot of Fécamp in the hundred of Poling (Palling"). It was
alleged that when they were amerced for any offence to the lord
of Arundel they had been accustomed to give security for the fine
to the lord's bailiffs, the amercement being afterwards taxed
before these bailiffs, in presence of the abbot's bailiffs, by lawful
men of the hundred. The sums so due were collected by the abbot's
bailiffs for his use. The abbot's men had been accustomed to
pay 40s. a year to the lord of Arundel at the term of Hokeday,
but had refused to pay this after the death of Hugh de Albini.
The king ordered that the abbot should receive the amercements
as formerly, but deferred a decision as to the 40s. until his arrival
in England.101 In 1284 there was a further inquiry as to the
infringement of the rights of the lord of Arundel,102
The assignment of knights' fees of the honor to three of the four
heirs was made in 1244 and enrolled on the Close roll,103 those
assigned to the countess in dower having been enrolled in the
previous year.104 The assignment made to Roger de Mohaut was
not enrolled; but the details of the tenements and fees that he
obtained are recoverable from the enrollment on the Patent roll
for 1335 of the surrender made by Robert de Morlee, kinsman
and heir of Robert de Mohaut, late steward of Chester, to queen
Isabel of the tenements that had fallen to Roger de Mohaut in 1243
of the Arundel inheritance.105
After the temporary forfeiture of Edmund Fitz-Alan, earl of
Arundel, in 1326, the castle and honor of Arundel were given to
Edmund earl of Kent, who in turn was attainted and beheaded
16
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
in 1330. During that period lands in the honor were said to be
held of the earl of Kent,106 as will be seen in the sections following.
In 1331 Richard Fitz-Alan, son and heir of Edmund, obtained
restitution.107 He
He made settlements of the honor in 1347
and 1353.109
Roff. (Hearne), 173.
24. Ibid. 42, 95.
3. Red Bk.
14 Hen. II, 21.
1. Red Bk. 200-2; Pipe R. 14 Hen. II, 194. 2. Ibid.
398. 4. Ibid. 397.
5. Ibid. 6. Ibid. 398. 7. Ibid. 8. Pipe R.
9. Hist. of Salop, iii. 1. 10. The Complete Peerage (ed.
11. Davis, Regesta, i. n. 373. 12. Farrer, Itin. of Henry I,
n. 20. 13. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 195; Farrer, Itin. of Hen. I, n. 54. 14. Gesta
Abb. S. Albani, i. 67, 166.
15. Ibid. 167-175; Mon. Anglic. iv. 333.
16. Mon. Anglic. iv. 330, nos. 2-3. 17. Mon. Anglic. iv. 331. 18. Ibid.
19. Gesta S. Albani, i. 174. 20. Cal. Pat. R. 1436-41, P. 391. 21. Textus
Gibbs), i. 233.
23. Ibid. 95.
22. Pipe R. 31 Hen. I, 66–7.
25. Cal. Chart. R. iii. 338. 26. John of Oxenedes, 51.
27. Op. cit. 137.
28. Ibid.; Hen. of Huntingdon, 266.
29. Madox,
Hist. of the Excheq. ii. 138. 30. Pipe R. Soc. x. n. 23.
31. Round,
Geof. de Mandeville, 143, 146, 320-23. 32. Cal. Chart. R. i. 31. 33. Twisden,
Chron. J. Brompton, 1039. 34. Dict. Natl. Biog. 35. Cal. Pat. R. 1440,
36. Facsimiles of Charters (Brit. Mus.), n. 27.
iv. 257. 38. Pipe R. 3 Hen. II, 79. 39. Bk. of Fees, 70.
P. 392.
37. Cal. Chart. R.
40. Pipe R.
3 Hen. II, 128-130. 41. Ibid. 8 Hen. II, 3. 42. Red Bk. 200-202. 43. Ibid.
397-9. 44. Pipe R. 14 Hen. II, 21.
45. Ibid. 194-5.
46. Ibid.
17 Hen. II, 135.
47. Ann. of Waverley, 240; Robt. of Torigni, 271.
48. Pipe R. 22 Hẹn. II, 2OI. 49. Ibid. 25 Hen. II, 38.
50. Mon.
Anglic. iv. 645. 51. Pipe R. 26 Hen. II, 32. 52. Ibid. 27 Hen. II,
145-6. 53. Ibid. 28 Hen. II, 91. 54. Ibid. 31 Hen. II, 172. 55. Ibid.
33 Hen. II, III. 56. Ibid. 113.
57. Ibid. 1 Ric. 13, 212. 58. Ibid.
13, 214.
59. Cal. Chart. R. iv. 257.
60. Ann. of Waverley, 249.
61. Chartulary, Titus C. viii.f.18. 62. Egerton Ch. 372. 63. Stowe MS. 924,
f. 13.
64. Ibid. 65. Pipe R. 6 Ric. m. 4d. 66. Mon. Angl. iv. 645.
67. Ibid. 645b. 68. Titus C. viii. f. 19. 69. R. Chart. 114b. 70. R. Lit.
71. Red Bk. 537, 805. 72. Bk. of Fees, 128. 73. Ibid.
Ibid. 131, 133. 75. Ibid. 136. 76. Pipe R. 14 John,
62.
Claus. i. 91b.
128, 130. 74.
m. 18, Norf.
79. Ibid.
77. R. Lit. Claus. i. 255b.
78. Ibid. 314.
3836. 80. Ann. of Waverley, 294; John of Oxenedes, 146. 81. Excerpt.
Fin. i. 63.
82. R. Lit. Claus. i. 455-56.
83. Bk. of Fees, 129.
84. Abbrev. Placit. III.
85. Close R. 96.
86. R. Hund. i. 455.
87. Excerpt. Fin. i. 250. Cf. Cal. Pat. R. 1235, P. 104.
88. Ibid.
89. Close R. 218. Cf. Placit. de quo war. 753.
90. Close. R. 489, 521.
94. Ibid. 112.
98. Ibid. 697.
101. Cal. Close R. 85. 102. Cal.
105. Cal.
91. Ibid. 346, 364. 92. Ibid. 408. 93. Close R. 99.
97. Bk. of Fees, 688.
96. Cal. Pat. R. 416.
100. Ibid. 681.
103. Close R. 248-52. 104. Ibid. 116.
106. Cal. Inq. p. m. vii. 226. 107. Complete Peerage
108. Cal. Pat. R. 328; Cal. Close R. 243. 109. Cal.
108
95. Ibid. 120.
99. Ibid. 491.
Misc. Ing. i. 384.
Pat. R. 129–30.
(ed. Gibbs), i. 242.
Pat. R. 524.
I.
Robert son of Tetbald in 1086 held of earl Roger in Petworth,
Suss., 9 hides, of which 2 Frenchmen (Turstin being probably one)
held 2 hides; in Toddington (in Lyminster) 4 hides, (which formed
no part of the honor of Petworth). For Sutton see n. 1 (8), and
for Duncton, n. 1 (1o); Heyshott appears to have been involved
in the 12 hides of Cocking (n. I (1)).
Petworth and its members formed part of the Domesday fee
which Robert son of Tetbald held of Earl Roger de Montgomery.
As Robert de Arundel he gave to the monks of Lewes the churches
PETWORTH
17
of Petworth, Hardham and Tillington, with the chapels of Treyford
and Duncton.¹ When near his last hour Robert son of Tetbald gave
to St. Martin of Sées the manor of Toddington, near Arundel. In
this charter, dated in 1087, he mentions his deceased wife Emma
and his son Hugh, who joined his father in this gift, which was
made in the presence of Corbelin, Hamelin and Turstin of Pet-
worth. At the Survey Corbelin held Barlavington and Marden,
Hamelin held Burton, and Turstin held land in Grittenham, of
Robert (son of Tetbald).
On the banishment of Robert de Belleme in 1102 it is supposed
that the honor of Arundel escheated to the crown. It was suggested
by the late Mr. Eyton, the historian of Shropshire, that the fees of
Robert son of Tetbald, namely the honor of Petworth, and the
fees of Goring (no. 2 below), Pulborough (no. 3), and Nutbourne
(no. 4), were not forfeited in 1102, and that Robert did not share
in the fall of his lord, Robert of Belleme, and he cites a document
in support of this contention.3 But Mr. Eyton was not aware of
the testamentary charter of Robert son of Tetbald cited above,
nor of the proof of his death having occurred in 1087. Nor does
there appear to be any evidence that Hugh, or any other son of
Robert the sheriff of Arundel, held these fees under Henry I.
There is, however, in the Lewes chartulary a certificate or
proclamation by Reginald de Wint' (who has not been identified),
setting forth that his predecessor Alan had given certain lands in
alms to the monks of St. Pancras, as he learned by the statement
and confirmation of his wife Aveline, his barons and other honest
men. Desiring to maintain and increase the same, as holding the
honor of Petworth, he confirms to Lewes the church of Petworth
and its appurtenances in churches and chapels, in lands and tithes,
naming the churches of Tillington, Lurgashall and Stedham, the
chapels of Duncton, Treve-River (in Tillington), and Heyshot.
This he did with the assent of his wife Aveline, the witnesses being
Ralph de Stopeham, Robert de Altaripa, Hugh de Querceto, Robert
(?) son of Thurstan, Ralph the sewer, Geoffrey son of Alan, Durand
de Silva, Andrew de Cotes and Alan Belet.4
From this it may be surmised that Reginald held the honor of
Petworth in right of his wife Aveline; that Alan had been her
previous husband; and that she was the representative of Robert
son of Tetbald. The Alan mentioned appears to be the Alan who
held Maldon in Surrey in the time of Henry I and whose heir, as
will be seen below, at a later time made claim to the honor of
Petworth (see I (1)). If so, perhaps the further conjecture will have
to be made that he had no children by Aveline, so that the honor
escheated to the crown. Yet Ido (Eudo) son of Alan gave land in
Sutton to Lewes, his mother Aveline being a witness.
Arundel with its members was a crown estate in 1130 and after
the death of Henry I was part of the dower of his widow queen
Adeliza. She and her second husband, William de Aubigny the
butler, gave the honor of Petworth to her brother Joscelin of Louvain,
generally known as Joscelin the castellan of Arundel or Joscelin
the queen's brother. Henry II, at the beginning of his reign,
6
с
III.
18
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
8
confirmed this gift to Joscelin," who in 1156 was pardoned £9 14s.
out of £217 os. 6d. of the danegeld in Sussex, namely in respect
of 97 hides, and two years later 46s. 8d. out of the donum of the
county,⁹ a sum proportionable to the earlier remission.
In 1168 Joscelin the castellan was pardoned 22 marks which
he owed in respect of 221 fees of the honor of Petworth.10 In 1172
he accounted for the scutage of 9 fees of the Percy fee in York-
shire, doubtless the maritagium of his wife Agnes, daughter, and
soon afterwards co-heir, of William de Percy, and of 21 fees of his
honor of Petworth.12 As Josceline brother of the queen he gave land
in Heyshott &c. to Dureford abbey for the souls of Henry the
rex antiquus and Adelide his queen, 'my sister,' and for Henry II and
Eleanor the queen, and for A. my wife and our sons and daughters.13
He also confirmed a gift by Joscelin his nephew.14 After the death
of William de Percy a partition of the Percy fee was made before
the King's justices shortly after Easter, 1175.15 Two years later.
Joscelin owed 200 marks for a fine made with (Sibil de Valoignes)
Percy's widow,16 of which a moiety was due in 1178 from the Earl
of Warwick, but in the meantime Joscelin's fine had been increased
100 marks.17
These fines were for the right against Sibil of land
of the Percy fee which Joscelin and the earl claimed.18 Joscelin
died towards the end of 1179, or early in 1180, and so at Michaelmas,
1180, the king's keeper of the honor of Arundel accounted for the
issues of the honor of Putewurtha' for part of the 26th year.19
The honor was still in the king's hands in 1189, but two years
later the name of Henry de Percy (his son, and heir to Petworth)
appeared among those who rendered scutage in Sussex, 20 and
again in 1195 as owing £22 10s. in respect of the scutage due from
this honor for the king's redemption.21 He died before 3 April,
1200, when king John granted the custody and marriage of the
heirs of Henry de Percy, with their entire inheritance, to William
Briwerre. 22 In 1203 Richard Revell had a grant of 50 solidates of
C
land in the manor of 'Sumerton' at Petworth which were extended
out of 12 librates of land which the king gave him in the same
manor.23
William son and heir of Henry was under age at his
father's death, for in Trinity term, 1213, he demanded against
Richard de Percy (his uncle), Seamer, Topcliffe, Stamford Bridge,
Catton and Gisburn, Yorks., as his right, of which his ancestors
were seised and of which he himself was seised while he was under
age and in the custody of Sir William Briwerre.24 He confirmed
to the abbey of Dureford land in Tillington given by Joscelin his
grandfather and Isabel de Bruis, his mother.25 He held Petworth
in 1242-3 for 211 fees,26 and died shortly before 28 July, 1245,'
having three years before enfeoffed his 4 younger sons, Ingram,
William, Alan and Joscelin of his manor of Kirk Levington, Yorks.28
On 19 August following the escheator in Yorkshire was directed
to assign to Ellen, late the wife of William de Percy (of Petworth,
Sussex, and Tadcaster, Yorks.), £60 worth of land until her dower
could be set out,29 and on 29 October following the sheriff of Sussex,
with William de Auterive, was directed to assign dower to her in
that county.30
27
PETWORTH
19
On 1 June, 1244, there were assigned to John Fitz-Alan, as one
of the heirs of Hugh late earl of Arundel, 19 knights' fees which
William de Percy then held in Petworth, Tillington, Sutton,
Duncton, Heyshott, Stedham, Cocking, Selham, Linchmere, Treve,
Stopham, Cotes, Linch, Barlavington and Bleatham (in Egdean),
with the advowson of the church of Westbourne and of the
vicariates of East Dean and Singleton, Suss.31 On Christmas
Day, 1245, the king committed two-thirds of the manor of Pet-
worth to Bozo de Mastak, count of Bigorre.32 The hospital of
Sandown, Surr., had been endowed by William de Percy of 20 marks
of rent yearly out of the Yorkshire manor of Gisburn.33 Henry
de Percy, who died shortly before 12 January, 1246,34 was younger
brother of William. His relict Isabel received her dower a month
later in certain socage lands lately held by her deceased husband
in Heyshott and Sutton.35
Henry son and heir of William de Percy was a minor at his
father's death and on 28 July, 1245, the sheriff of York was directed
to send him forthwith to the king to stay in the king's wardship.36
The king took the homage of Henry son and heir of William de
Percy in 1249,37 but was exercising the rights of wardship of Henry
de Percy's lands in 1257.38 In 1272 Henry de Percy held 22 fees
of John Fitz-Alan of the honor of Arundel,39 and died that year
on the feast of the Decollation of St. John (29 Aug.). Henry
his son and ultimately his heir was posthumously born on Lady
Day following (25 Mar. 1273), at Petworth.40 On 15 Oct. 1272
king Henry granted to queen Eleanor the wardship of the lands
late of Henry de Percy, tenant in chief, as of the value of £300
a year,¹¹ and on 23 Nov. following ordered an extent of these
lands to be made, except of the manors of Petworth and Topcliffe,
of which Eleanor, late wife of the said Henry de Percy, had been
enfeoffed in her late husband's lifetime, and, when the extent was
made, to assign to Eleanor her dower.42 In 1278 John de Percy
was described as son and heir of Henry de Percy, being then a
minor, 43
as also in 1285 on the renewal by king Edward to his
mother of the late grant of two-thirds of the custody of the lands
and heirs of Henry de Percy, namely until the majority of John
son and heir of the said Henry, and, in case he died under age
without heirs, then during the minority of Henry his brother
together with his marriage, and so until some heir came of age.44
At this time Ellen de Percy, Eleanor de Percy and Agnes late the
wife of Richard de Percy held lands of the Percy inheritance in
dower.45 John de Percy died in his minority without issue, and
in 1294 Henry his brother and heir, having passed his age, obtained
livery of the lands that Henry father of the said John and Henry
held in chief at his death 46 22 years before. In 1297 he succeeded
to lands in Leicestershire as kinsman and heir of Ingram de Balliol.47
He died in 1314 holding the manors of Petworth, Sutton and
Duncton, with the members, of the earl of Arundel for 21 fees.
Henry his son was aged 13 years and 9 months.48
The following persons held of the honor of Petworth in 1302-3
by knights' service, where it is said that 5 hides made a knight's
20
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
fee, besides a number of other persons (named) who held virgates
by knights' service.49 For comparison another return of the
Petworth fees, made in 1314, is placed in a parallel column.50
Places.
1. Cocking, Linchmere, Minstead
and Selham
2. Treve, Stopham, Linch, Coates
and Yapton
3. Barlavington, Bleatham, Mar-
den, Hardham (and Big-
worth)
4. Bignor, Graffham and Bud-
dington
5. Stedham
6. Burton, Glatting and [Sutton ?]
7. Heyshott (and Hallingelond)
8. Sutton
9. Lavant
IO.
II. Cradele'
"
12. Stedham,
'Litledon'
13. La Hulstre'
Heyshott
14. Dodelesfold' and Fernhurst
15. Linchmere ('Shuldebrede '),
Rugmere, Bepton and Pet-
worth
16. Duncton
17. Tillington and Heyshott
18. A plot of land
19. Dodelesfold
20. North Marden
21. Sutton
22. La Hulstre'
and
[
Fees.
Tenant 1302-3.
31 Archbp. of Canter-
bury
Alan la Sousche
5
2 Roger de Schelve-
strode
3
I
2
w/~ PHYCHLO
AX
1
I
pi padi pad,
1400
مود
of
the Church of
Chichester
[The abbot of
Reading] in
alms
I Canons of Linch-
mere
121
तक
I
and 2 virgates
Prior of Ports-
mouth
Gilbert de Boud-
eketon
Ralph Saunzaver Ralph Saun-
zaver.
Same.
Same.
Same.
Same.
Same.
Lora atte Bysse
Hugh de Sutton
Prior of Shulbred
de Nevill
Will. Waure
Richard de Alta
Ripa
Will. Waure
Community
Hospital of San-
down
Prioress of Ease-
bourne
Prior of Maiden
Bradley
Prior of Lewes
in the hands of
the lord
? in alms
on
23. In the manor of Heyshott
and 2 virg.
Total 26 fees and virgate. (Recte 24, and 4 virg.)
There remain when a scutage is levied 221 fees.
Tenant
1314.
Same.
Will. la
Sousche.
Will. Paynel.
111
1 1 1 1 1
2. Ibid. n. 655.
3. Viz.
1. Round, Cal. of Docs. France, p. 510.
Mon. Anglic. iii. 518. 4. Vesp. F. xv. f. 157. It seems impossible that
Reginald can be Reginald de Dunstanvill who married Adeline de Lisle.
5. Vesp. F. xv. f. 138.
6. Cf. Cal. Chart. R. iii. 420. 7. Percy Chartul.
(Surtees Soc.), n. 914. 8. Pipe R. 2 Hen. II, 61. 9. Ibid. 4 Hen. II,
182. 10. Ibid. 14 Hen. II, 194. 11. Ibid. 18 Hen. II, 62. 12. Ibid.
132. 13. Chartulary, Vesp. E. xxiii. f. 32d. 14. Ibid. f. 37d. 15. Percy
17. Ibid. 24 Hen. II, 71.
20. Red Bk. of the Excheq. 72.
Chartul.
16. Pipe R. 23
18. Ibid. 26 Hen. II, 66.
Hen. II, 191.
19. Ibid. 33.
COCKING AND SELHAM
21
21. Ibid. 92. 22. R. Chart. 48b. 23. R. de Liberate, 56.
Regis R. 58, m. 7d.
25. Mon. Anglic. vi. 939.
27. Excerpt. e R. Fin. i. 440. 28. Close R. 1246, p. 405.
30. Ibid. 367.
31. Ibid. 249.
402.
32. Ibid. 379.
34. Excerpt. i. 447, 450.
35. Close R. 393. 36. Ibid. 332.
Pat. 36. 38. Ibid. 540.
39. Cal. Inquis. i. 279. 40. Cal. Inquis. iii.
42. Cal. Close, I. 43. Ibid. 495.
41. Cal. Pat. 682.
141.
44. Cal.
Pat. 175.
45. Ibid. 46. Cal. Close, 350; Cal. Fine R. i. 346. 47. Cal.
Fine R. i. 410.
48. Cal. Inquis. v. 312.
49. Percy Chartul. (Surtees
Soc.), 465-6. 50. Cal. Inquis. v. 315.
24. Curia
26. Testa, 222.
29. Ibid. 336,
33. Ibid. 429.
37. Cal.
I (I).
Robert son of Tetbald held of earl Roger in 1086 in Cocking,
Suss., 12 hides, of which Turold held hide; in Linch 5 hides; in
Selham 4 hides which Fulcoin then held.
Alan gave the church of Cocking to the abbey of Sées in the
time of Henry I.¹ In 1185 Brien Fitz-Ralph owed £25 for relief
of 5 fees 2 which he held of the honor of Peverel of London in Great
Bricett, Suff., and Bradwell, Essex. He married, as his second
wife, Gunnor, sister and heir or coheir of Eudes Fitz-Alan, who was
said to be great-grandson of Alan the donor of the church of Cocking.3
This marriage took place prior to 1194, when Henry de Percy was
essoigned of sickness of the bed in Yorkshire in a plea against Brien
Fitz-Ralph and Gunnor his wife respecting the land of Petworth.¹
In 1195 this plea was terminated by Brien and Gunnor releasing
to Henry de Percy their claim to the honor of Petworth, so that
there should remain to them the vill of Cocking, except 2 virgates
there, held by Henry de Hesset for fee, which belonged to Heyshott
(n. 1 (7)); all that Henry de Percy had in Linchmere, except the
tenement of Robert de Hallested; the fee of knight which Ellis
Moraunt held [in Minstead?] and of knight which Philip de
Seleam held [in Selham] and of fee which John held; and because
it could not be arranged that Brien and Gunnor should hold of
Henry in chief, they were to hold of Hubert archbishop of Canter-
bury and his successors by the said fee of 3 knights, namely for
the lordship of Cocking and Linchmere I knight and for the other
tenements 2 knights. For this Henry gave them So marks.5
Brian son of Ralph, with the consent of Gunnor his wife, confirmed
to Boxgrove land in Selham which Philip de Seleham had given
at the request of Philip his father's brother."
In 1199 Brien and Gunnor impleaded the abbot of Sées for the
church of Cocking as Gunnor's right, whereof Alan, grandfather of
Gunnor's father, was seised in the time of Henry I when he pre-
sented Amfrid de Pallingham to the church. In 1200 they released
their claim to the advowson of the church to Henry abbot of Sées
for a palfrey and 20s.8 In 1200 Brien and Gunnor his wife acknow-
ledged that 2 hides in Linchmere were the right of Ralph de Arden,
to hold for fee, and for this Ralph gave them 75 marks. See
nos. I and I (9).
9
Eudes de Meldon gave to the priory of Merton the church of
Malden, Surr., in the time of Henry II; William prior of Merton
claimed the advowson in 1206 against Brien and Gunnor his wife;
22
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
Brien alleged that the gift was illegal because it had been made
after Eudes took the habit of religion.10 There was a similar plea
in respect of I hide in Maldon held by Gunnor's father Eudes in
the time of Henry II; William the father of the said Eudes had
given the priory a moiety of the hide and Eudes gave the rest,
according to the prior. Plaintiffs objected to Eudes' charter on
the same ground as before. One Robert son of Humfrey had been
Gunnor's guardian.11
In 1216 Brien was of the party of the barons and his land of
Cocking was committed to the earl of Arundel.12 His lands of
Maldon, Chessington and Farley, Surr., had been seized in the pre-
ceding year.13 Returning to allegiance in 1217 he obtained writs.
of reseisin to the sheriffs of Suffolk, Cambridge, Essex, Sussex and
Surrey.14 In 1218 his lands in the two last-named counties were
committed to the bishop of Winchester,15 with whom he later
made agreement for his redemption.16
In appears that Brien and Gunnor had issue Brien, Eudes,
Aveline and Sarah, to whom belonged the inheritance in Cocking
on the fee of Arundel, and in Maldon and its members on the fee of
Gloucester. This is disclosed by fines levied in 1240. The first is
an agreement between Roger de Bavent and Sarah his wife with
John de Sey, late husband of Aveline, sister of the said Sarah,
whereby a tenement in Shipbourne, Kent, was limited to John
de Sey for his life in return for his release to Sarah of all the residue
of his late wife's inheritance in Easton Bavents (Brandestun), Suff.,
Gosfield, Essex, Hatcham, Surr., Cocking, Suss., and Shipbourne,
Kent.17
The second fine is one in which Roger de Bavent and
Sarah his wife were demandants, and Peter de Codington, vouched
to warranty by Walter de Merton, defendant, touching two-thirds
of 2 fees in Maldon, Chessington and Pistelegh,' Surr., which
Roger and Sarah conceded to Peter with the reversion of 1 fee in
Farley which William de Whitefeld and Isabel his wife held in
Isabel's dower of the gift of Brien Fitz-Brien, her former husband,
and a third part of the above-named 2 fees which Cecily de Gravenel
held in dower of the gift of Eudes Fitz-Brien, formerly husband
of Cecily and brother of the said Brien, after the decease of the said
Isabel and Cecily. For this release Peter released to Roger and
Sarah and the heirs of Sarah as pertaining to her on the side of
Gunnor de Maldon, sister of Eudes Fitz-Alan, and to her issue,
his right in the manor of Cocking. William de Wattevill consented
to the settlement; but 7 others put in claims, presumably con-
tingent on Sarah's decease without issue.18 In 1249 Walter de
Merton, king's clerk, had a grant of free warren in Maldon, Chessing-
ton and Farley, Surr.19 Later these estates formed part of the
endowment of Merton Hall, Oxford.20
Roger de Bavent had exemption for life in 1253 from serving
on assizes or the like.21 He was living in 1255. Adam de Bavent
succeeded and was party to a fine of the manor of Wiston, Suss.,
with the members in 1272.22 In 1279 he established his claim to
free chase in his manor of Cocking, wreck of the sea in his manor
of Heene, liberties which his ancestors had enjoyed time out of
TILLINGTON AND GRITTENHAM
23
mind.23 He had a grant in 1285 of free warren in Cocking, Heene,
Wiston and 9 other places in Suss., Surr., Kent and Suff., and of
market and fair at Cocking and Shipbourne.24 He died in 1292
holding of the archbishop of Canterbury the manor of Cocking
for 3 fees, the manors of Wiston, Heene and Chiltington of Sir
William de Breuse for 4 fees of the honor of Bramber, and divers
other estates; Roger his son was aged 12 years. 25 It was recorded
that Richard de Vabadun, who held 3 fees of the honor of Peverel
of Dover in 1212, was ancestor of Adam de Bavent on his mother's
side, with lands in Hatcham, Surr.26 Roger son and heir of Adam
proved his age in 1301, having been born and baptized at Wiston.27
În 1316 he was lord of Cocking, Wiston, and Poling.28 In 1325
William Elmere held fee in Burpham of a mesne tenant of Roger
de Bavent.29
Roger de Bavent knt. was in 1327 one of the heirs of John
Giffard of Brimpsfield, Gloucs.³ 30 He and Roger his son were in
the service of the crown in various capacities in the early part of
the reign of Edward III. In or before 1331 the younger Roger
married Hawise, daughter of William de Monteacute, 31 for whose
provision he made a settlement in 1339. He died in 1344 or
early in 1345, having granted his estates (recited), or the greater
part of them, to the king.33
32
1. Abbrev. Placit. 626.
2. Pipe R. 31 Hen. II, 41.
3. Abbrev.
Placit. 62b. 4. R. Cur. Reg. i. 37. 5. Percy Chartul. (Surtees Soc.),
412. 6. Cott. MS. Claud. A. vi. f. 76. 7. Curia Regis R. 20, m. 1od.;
R. Cur. Reg. i. 405; ii. 258. 8. Suss. Feet of F. i. 13. 9. Suss. Feet
of F. i. 10. 10. Curia Regis R. 42, m. 3d. 11. Ibid. m. 7d. 12. R.
Lit. Claus. i. 2676–8.
13. Ibid. 2366, 2376.
14. Ibid. 324b, 326.
15. Ibid. 356. 16. Pat. R. 148. 17. Essex Feet of F. 135. Cf. Suss.
Feet of F. i. n. 356.
18. Ibid. n. 357.
19. Cal. Chart. R. i. 345.
20. Placit. de quo war. 7416.
21. Cal. Pat. R. 171.
22. Suss. Feet
of F. ii. n. Soi. 23. Placit. de quo war. 756b. 24. Cal. Chart. R. ii.
319. 25. Cal. Inquis. iii. 57. 26. Ibid. Cf. Red Bk. 560, 721. 27. Cal.
Inquis. iv. 35.
28. Feud. Aids, v. 134, 141-2. 29. Cal. Inquis. vi. 410.
30. Cal. Fine R. iv. 258; Cal. Close R. iii. 227.
31. Ibid. 300.
Pat. R. 1345, P. 440. 33. Cal. Fine R. v. 385, 415.
32. Cal.
I (2).
Robert son of Tetbald in 1086 held of earl Roger in Tillington,
Suss., 5 hides, of which 2 Frenchmen held 1 virgate; in Gritten-
ham 4 hides and I virgate, of which Turstin held hide and 1 vir-
gate. For Treve Park (now River) in Tillington, Stopham, Coates
and Yapton see n. 4, and for Linch see n. 1 (I).
Turstin de Petehorda (Petworth) attested the death-bed gift
made by Robert son of Tetbald to St. Martin of Sées of a manor
near Arundel called Toddington (in Lyminster).¹ King Stephen
confirmed to the abbey of Čluny 4 solidates of land, apparently
in Stedham, given by Thurstan de Cotes (n. 1 (5)).2
No reference to this fee or any of its members of an earlier date
than 1244 has been discovered by the writer. So much as is found
in later records has been incorporated in the account of Nutbourne
by Pulborough (n. 4).
2. Ibid. p. 500.
1. Round, Cal. of Docs., France, n. 655.
24
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
I(3).
Robert son of Tetbald held of earl Roger in 1086 in Barlaving-
ton, Suss., 5 hides which Corbelin held, and in North Marden
5 hides which Corbelin held, and Fulcoin held hide appurtenant
to Marden.
Corbelin attested the death-bed gift of his lord, Robert son of
Tetbald, noticed above. He or another of the same name held
2 hides in Chobham of the abbot of Chertsey in 1086.¹ There
seems to be no evidence to indicate whether the Hautrives were
the successors of Corbelin, or were enfeoffed of Corbelin's lands
after the date of the Great Survey.
It is alleged in the Sussex Archæological Society's Transactions
for 1853 (vi. 36), that William de Alta Ripa married a sister of
Joscelin de Louvain and that they had issue a son, Joscelin de Alta
Ripa. Joscelin, nephew of Joscelin the brother of queen Adelisa,
gave to the church of St. George of Heringham, now Hardham,
certain land and meadow, for the soul of Joscelin his uncle.²
William de Alta Ripa has been generally recognized as the founder
of the priory for Black Canons of the order of St. Augustine at
Hardham; 3 his heirs were patrons of the house.
4
In 1242 William de Hauterive had a grant of free warren in
Barlavington. In 1246 he and Nicholas de Limesi agreed to
present alternately to the church of North Marden.5 See n. 20.
Apparently North Marden was partly of the honor of Petworth,
William de Hauterive being tenant, and partly of the honor of
Arundel, the Aguilluns being tenants. The scanty references to
these lands in the records after this date will be found at n. 31.
William de Hautrive in 1280 released to the prior of Lewes all
his claim in the advowson of Lutgarshall near Petworth.“
1. V. C. H. Surrey, i. 310.
Western Suss. ii. 258.
i. 115.
2. Chartul. of Lewes.
3. Dallaway,
4. Cal. Chart. R. i. 271. 5. Suss. Feet of F.
6. Feet of F., unknown counties, 285/27, n. 23.
I (4).
Robert son of Tetbald held in 1086 of earl Roger in Bignor,
Suss., 4 hides which Ralph held of him; in Buddington I hide
which Ralph similarly held; in Glatting (in Burton) 4 hides which
Ralph similarly held; in Stopham 3 hides which Ralph similarly
held; in East Wittering 1 hide which Ralph similarly held.
In the records there are numerous references to the family of
Saunzaver (Sine Averio). William Fitz-Ralph gave to Lewes
priory the church of Buddington.¹ He attested charters of William
de Aubigny of the date 1132-1141 and 1158.2 Ralph Sanzaver
and Matilda his mother confirmed to Boxgrove the mill of Buteswell
with land, which his uncle (avunculus) William de Chesney had
given and his lord Geudewin (n. 17; the Gildewin son of Sanzaver
of n. 1 (8)) had confirmed; Robert the brother of Ralph Sainzaver
was a witness.³ Ralph Sanzaver at the request of Matilda his
۲۱ ..
BIGNOR AND GLATTING
25
mother and with the assent of his wife Isabel and heir Hugh gave
land in Buddington in Fernhurst to Dureford abbey, for the souls
of Henry II and other. He also gave to Lewes priory the church
of Bignor," and tested the charter of William de Aubigny to the
monks of Boxgrove made 1176-78.6 In 1187 Ralph Sanzaveir was
pardoned scutage of 1 fee in the honor of Arundel,', and in 1199,
as attorney for his wife Isabel, demanded against Ivo Quarrell
I hide in Croxton, Cambs., as his wife's inheritance, and as that
which Richard de Vernon gave in marriage with Cecily the said
Isabel's mother.8 In the same year Walter de Sutton and Sarah
his wife released to Ralph Sanzaveir and Isabel his wife 4 hides
in Crofton, for which Ralph and Sarah gave them I hide and
virgate in Buddington for fee. Ralph Sansaver and Hugh his
son attested a Boxgrove charter; 10 and Ralph Senzaver and Hugh
de Chenei his son attested a Lewes one. 11
In 1214 Hugh Sanzaver (son of Ralph) obtained a writ of
precipe against Richard de Thoreny respecting 1 hide in Walton,
Suss.12
He returned to allegiance in 1217, when he and Isabel his
mother recovered possession of their lands.13 At the perambulation.
of the forest of Sussex near Chichester in 1225 Hugh Sanzaver's
woodland is mentioned.14 He succeeded William de Alta Ripa
as constable of Arundel castle in 1233 15 and held office in 1235.16
Having had a dispute with the monks of Lewes as to the advowson
of Bignor, the matter was referred to arbitration and an agreement
was made by which Hugh, with the consent of Ralph his son
and heir, quitclaimed all right to the monks.17 Hugh was living
in 1248. (See Arundel, n. 15.)
Ralph Sanzaver succeeded. In 1231 he had a gift of the manor
of Newnham Murren, Oxon, from Richard Morin in frank marriage
with Matilda the donor's sister.18 In 1253 he was exempted from
being put on assizes.19 He was one of 4 knights appointed in 1258
to make inquiry in Sussex touching excesses and injuries done in
that county.20 In 1262 he had a grant of free warren in his manor
of Bignor with the hamlet of Rogate, Suss., and in the manor of
Spargrove (in Batcombe), Som.,21 and two years later was one of
those appointed to guard the sea-coast about Pevensey from
invasion.22 In 1265 he and Hugh his son had another important
commission in respect of the defence of the coast of Sussex against
marauders.23 In 1277 Juliana Giffard, abbess of Wilton, acquired
a messuage and 2 virgates in Ugford, Wilts., of Ralph Saunzaver,
who apparently died about that time, 24 and Hugh in 1284, holding
the manor of Spargrove of the heirs of Sir John de Bruwes for
I fee, the manor of Bignor of the heirs of William de Dyve for 3
fees, of which one fee was held by John de Camoys, John de Autryve,
Thomas de Kepston and Remigius de . . ., the hamlet of Rogate
of Sir John de Bohun for fee, and lands in Racton and Eartham
held of the same by suit and service of fee; Ralph his son was
aged 22 years.25 The younger Ralph died in the king's service
in 1314, holding the manor of Bignor, the lordship of the manor of
Graffham which William de Wauncy and Thomas de Kepston held
of him, and tenements in Buddington which Hugh de Buditon
26
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
held of him, all held of the heir of Henry de Percy for 3 fees, and
lands in Croxton and Great Gransden, Cambs.; Ralph his son was
aged 22 years.26 In 1316 Ralph was lord of Bignor, Madehurst
and Racton.27 In 1324 he was one of 4 knights who with others of
Sussex and Hampshire mainperned Roger de Bavent knt. that he
would be ready at the king's orders when the king should cause
him to be summoned.28 In 1339 Ralph with 6 men at arms was,
in the company of Richard earl of Arundel, one of the keepers of
the sea-coasts in Suffolk.29 He was apparently living in 1342, but
died prior to 1347, when there is mention of Elizabeth his relict.³
His successor was Thomas Saunzavoir, deceased in or before
1349, when land in Howick, Suss., was held of Elizabeth his relict,
as of her manor of Bignor.³
30
In 1279 the Hospitallers did suit to the hundred (court) of
Avisford in respect of their tenements in Mellers on the honor of
Arundel.32
31
1. Dugdale, Baronage, i. 271.
883, 1259.
Cambs. 180.
f. 68.
2. Round, Cal. of Docs., France, nos.
3. Cott. MS. Claud. A. vi. f. 75. 4. Chartulary, Vesp. E.
xxiii. f. 36d. 5. Chartulary, Vesp. F. xv. f. 153d. 6. Mon. Anglic.
iv. 645. 7. Pipe R. 33 Hen. II, III. 8. Abbrev. Plac. 7b. See Feudal
9. Suss. Feet of F. i. 5.
10. Cott. MS. Claud. A. vi.
11. Vesp. F. xv. f. 155d. 12. R. de Fin. 534.
Claus. i. 304b. 14. Ibid. ii. 8od. 15. Excerpt. i. 250.
104. 17. Vesp. F. xv. f. 154.
18. Cal. Chart. i. 132.
n. 17.
19. Cal. Pat. 190.
20. Ibid. 647.
22. Cal. Pat. 347.
23. Ibid. 652. 24. In 1284 the manor of Bignor,
which Hugh Saunzavoir held of Henry de Dyve, was taken into the king's
hands; Cal. Fine R. i. 201. 25. Cal. Inquis. ii. 317. 26. Cal. Inquis.
v. 291. 27. Feud. Aids, v. 140-3. 28. Cal. Close R. 306. 29. Ibid.
31. Cal. Inquis. ix. 213.
13. R. Lit.
16. Cal. Pat.
See Wallingford,
21. Cal. Chart. ii. 45.
32. Placit. de quo
118.
30. Ibid. 274.
war. 762b.
I (5), (12).
Robert son of Tetbald held of earl Roger in 1086 in Stedham,
Suss., 14 hides, of which a Frenchman held 1 hide and 4 acres.
King Stephen confirmed to Lewes the church of Stedham with
its tithes and I hide besides the priest's hide, 4 solidates of land
given by Thurstan de Kotes and land which Alan son of Robert
gave.¹ William Vasselier gave to the monks of St. Pancras, Lewes,
a tenement in Lopeherst which the donor's ancestors had granted
to them. Among the witnesses were John de Coking, Simon
Waure, Richard his son, William the chaplain of Stedham and
several officials. The charter is described as of the 12th century.2
In the Percy Chartulary there is a grant by Simon de Wa[ure ?]
to Richard de Perci, son of Joscelin the castellan, of his property
in Stedham, including the moiety of 2 corn mills and land and
wood that his father [held ?] in Wolbidinges.3
It is reasonable to conjecture that one of the Percys gave
Stedham to the Hospital of Portsmouth to hold by the service of
I fee. The wardens of the hospital held the vill in 1316 and
in 1428 for 1 fee.
4
1. Round, Cal. of Docs., France, p. 510. 2. Cat. of Anct. D. iii. A. 4195.
3. Op. cit. (Surtees Soc.), 442. 4. Feud. Aids, v. 141.
BURTON-HEYSHOTT-SUTTON
27
*
I (6).
Robert son of Tetbald in 1086 held of earl Roger in Burton
('Bodecton'), Suss., 5 hides, which Hamelin held of Robert, besides
I hide which Hamelin held immediately of earl Roger [in Glatting?].
6
William son of Ralph confirmed to Lewes priory his gift of the
church of Budiktun,' which he had made in the chapter of St.
Pancras in presence of his lord Joscelin the queen's brother and
Robert de Alta Riva; the church and appurtenances to be in the
same state as in the time of his father Ralph.¹ The said Joscelin also
gave this church to Lewes, the witnesses including Robert de Alta
Ripa, Joscelin the grantor's nephew and Ralph the sewer; 2 and in
another charter stated that William son of Ralph had previously
given it, and Ralph the heir of William had confirmed.³
3
5
William de Budeketun attested a Sokeburne (in Petworth)
charter of the time of Eleanor de Percy. In 1256 he acquitted
the prior of Lewes of the scutage of 4s., when one of 40s. on the
fee ran, in respect of 3 virgates in Sutton (n. 1 (21)). Lawrence
de Bodeketon was party to a fine of land in Redlington in 1296.6
In 1302-3 Gilbert de Bodeketon held 2 fees in Burton, Glatting
and Sutton (?), and he held the same in 1314.8
7
1. Lewes Chartulary, Vesp. F. xv. f. 134d.
f. 135d.
4. Percy Chartul. 393. 5. Suss.
Feet of F. ii. 167. 7. Percy Chartul. 465.
2. Ibid. f. 133.
3. Ibid.
Feet of F. ii. 21. 6. Suss.
8. Cal. Inquis. v. 315.
I (7).
This tenement in Heyshott was clearly that which Henry de
Hesset, or Heyshott, held in 1195 as 2 virgates in Cocking, which
belonged to Heyshott. See n. I (1). The residue of Heyshott,
except 2 small tenements, was held by the Percys in demesne.¹
In 1299 Philip de Theford and Alice his wife granted that Stephen
le Chaumberleyn and Lora his wife should hold in survivorship
a fourth part of the manor of Heyshott, with reversion to the
grantors and the heirs of Alice.²
2. Ibid. ii. 172.
1. Suss. Feet of F. i. 72.
I (8).
Robert son of Tetbald held of earl Roger in 1086 in Sutton,
Suss., 81 hides, of which 3 Frenchmen held 3 hides and I ferding.
The greater part of Sutton belonged to the demesne of the
lords of Petworth.
Alan son of Eudes, for the souls of himself and his son Eudes,
gave to Lewes priory the churches of Sutton and Elingham.¹
Idonis (Eudes) son of A[lan] de Arundel gave to his lord St. Pancras '
a virgate of land in Sutton which had belonged to William son
of Fulk. The witnesses included the grantor's mother Avelina,
Gildewin son of Sanzaver (n. 1 (4)), and William de Querceto.2
1. Lewes Chartulary, Vesp. F. xv. f. 138.
2. Ibid. f. 134d, 156d.
28
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
+
I (9), (15).
Part of the tenements described below belonged to the fee of
Bohun of Midhurst. See n. 17.
The family of Arden or Ardern were tenants of this honor.
Thomas de Ardern was constable of Arundel early in the reign of
Henry II.¹ He accounted in 1165 for 15s. 3d. in Essex for his
render to the army of Wales.2 He was the father of Ralph Ardern,
who served office as sheriff of Hereford from Easter, 1185, to Mich.,
1189, and had been amerced £65 in 1189 for default of 13 days'
delay in coming to the Exchequer when summoned. He appears
to have been more severely amerced at a later date, for in 1201 he
owed £272 12s. 8d. for his fine and for having the good will of king
Richard. He had also officiated as a justice in eyre, a circum-
stance doubtless due to his kinship with the justiciar, Ranulf de
Glanvill, whose daughter and coheiress he had married. On
6 June, 1194, Peter de Peinton essoined himself de malo veniendi
against Thomas de Arderne and the heirs of Ranulf de Glanvill
of a plea of land by Alvred de Baldriseie. 5
6
On 1 July following Ralph son of Robert (of Middleham, Yorks.),
put in the place of Thomas de Arderne, and Ranulf de Aubervill
and Matilda de Aubervill, put in the place of William her husband,
demanded the fee of half a knight in Baldesey, Suffolk, against
Peter de Petton as their right, which descended to them by the
acquisition of Ranulf de Glanvill, whereof they proffered the
charter of the same Peter whereby he released his right in the land
to Sir Ranulf for 15 marks by the service of knight. Peter
defended the plea. The sewer of the court of Eye demanded the
court of Eye respecting the complaint between Matilda de Aubur-
vill and her nephews respecting lands of the honor of Eye. On
13 October, 1194, Thomas de Ardern and Ralph son of Robert
attorned Master William de Lecton against William de Aubervill
and Matilda his wife respecting the partition of the inheritance
of Ranulf de Glanvill. Then on 2 Nov. following they made a
similar appointment. On 27 October previous William de Auber-
vill and Matilda his wife essoined themselves de malo veniendi
against Thomas and Ralph.10
7
8
No further reference to the suits for the partition of the estate
of Ranulf de Glanvill has been found, save that in 1206 Ranulf son
of Robert (? of Middleham) fined with the king to have seisin of the
land in Saxthorpe, Lincs., which Hubert, formerly archbishop of
Canterbury, gave to Theobald (Walter) his brother whilst Ralph,
brother of the said Ranulf, whose heir he then was, was in ward of
the same archbishop; and for having two writs of precipe before the
king, one against Thomas de Ardern, and another against Hugh
de Aubervill, respecting the reasonable share that belonged to him
of the free tenement that of late was Ranulf de Glanvill's.11 Again,
in the same year, Thomas de Ardern proffered 60 marks and a
palfrey for having his reasonable share of the land that Ranulf
de Glanvill gave in marriage to William de Stutevill with his niece
-
LINCHMERE
29
Berta, whereof the same Thomas ought to have the third part.
Later a mandate was issued to give Thomas seisin of such reason-
able share. 12
This partition was in consequence of the recent death
of William de Stutevill without issue of his union with the said
Berta.
for
C
Returning to Ralph de Ardern. In 1200 Brian son of Ralph
and Gunora his wife acknowledged that 2 hides in Linchmere
('Wlenche[mere]') were the right of Ralph de Ardern, to hold
fee.13 In 1208 king John committed the priory of Wolen-
chemere' to Ralph de Ardern during pleasure.14 Before 1206
Ralph de Ardern had married Dionisia, the mother of Godfrey le
Waleis, through the agency of Hubert Walter, archbishop of
Canterbury (1193-1205), and in the year 1210 he resigned to
Godfrey his inheritance in exchange for a life estate in the manor
of Patching and for 100 marks which Godfrey gave him.15
Ralph de Ardern, father of Thomas, died about 1210: in which
year Thomas accounted for 1500 marks for having seisin of his
father's lands and of his chattels to perform his testament.16 Two
years later Thomas the son was the plaintiff in a suit against
Engelger de Bohun. See no. 17 below. In 1216 Thomas Ardern's
lands in Bawsey, Norf., Fimborough, Suff., Hailsham and Preston,
Sussex, Matching and Horndon, Essex, were committed to Osbert
Giffard by King John.17 In the ensuing year a charter was enrolled
whereby Thomas de Ardern, with the consent of Lucy his wife
and Ralph his son and heir, granted to Thomas de Gasteny for
100 marks the land in Preston which the grantor held of Engelger
de Bohun.18 Apparently Thomas de Ardern died before 3 June,
1225, on which day the king forbad the justices to permit an
assize of novel disseisin to be taken that William Butery and his
wife, who was the daughter of Thomas Ardern, had arraigned
against the prior of Russelipe and others touching the manor of
Blakeham.19
Ralph de Ardern II appears to have married Aelina, the third
sister and coheir of Stephen de Beauchamp of Lamarsh, Essex, in
or before 1217, whose land in Coton in the Elms, Derbys., they had
licence in 1228 to alienate to Stephen de Segrave.20 In 1240 Ralplı
de Ardern passed by fine to William de Percy of Petworth, for 65
marks, the advowson of the priory of Shulbrede (Sylebrede ') and
the prior's service of the tenement that he held of Ralph Ardern
in Linchmere-Wildebrig and Mid-Lavant (Midlouinton'), namely
fee in Wlenchmere' and fee in Midlouinton.' 21
P. 19.
8. Abbrev.
1. Bruton Chartul. (Somerset Rec. Soc.), 84. 2. Pipe R. 11 Hen. II,
3. Ibid. I Ric. p. 145.
4. R. Cancel. 3 John, p. 147. 5. R. Cur.
Regis (Pipe R. Soc.), 52. 6. Ibid. 31. 7. Abbrev. Placit. 5.
Placit. 3. 9. R. Cur. Regis, i. 24. 10. Ibid. 102. 11. R. de Fin. 337,
368. 12. Ibid. 348. 13. Sussex Feet of F. i. 10. 14. R. L. Claus.
i. 112b. 15. Sussex F. of F. i. 32. 16. Pipe R. 12 John, m. 4, Essex.
17. R. L. Claus. i. 247-
18. Pat. R. 115.
19. R. L. Claus. ii. 43.
20. Close R. 1228, p. 125.
21. Sussex F. of F. i. 94.
•
30
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
I (10), (16).
Robert son of Tetbald in 1086 held of earl Roger in Duncton,
Suss., 5 hides, of which 4 Frenchmen held 1 hide, 1½ virgate and
10 acres.
In 1303 Simon atte Halle and Joan his wife passed by fine to
Henry de Nevill and Joan his wife for 40 marks two-thirds of a
third part of a messuage, 170 acres of land &c. and 56s. of rent
in Tillington, Petworth and Duncton, with the reversion of the
remaining third part upon the decease of Joan late wife of Ralph.
de Bodenham, being of the inheritance of Joan wife of the said
Simon.¹ This was possibly the tenement held in 1302-3 by
de Nevill for fee.
1. Suss. Feet of F. ii. 188.
•
I (14).
Dodelesfold, near Petworth, and Fernhurst, lying to the east.
of Linch, were estates given to Reading Abbey by Joscelin brother
of queen Adeliza. By a charter addressed to Hilary bishop of
Chichester (1147-69) he gave the monks the lands of Robert de
Dudelesfald, Theodoric de Dudelesfald and Edwin Hunt, in
Petworth, adding that when he was at Reading at the funeral of
his sister the queen (1151) he added the assarts those three men
had occupied. By a later charter, in the time of Henry II, he gave
the land of Fernhurst which pertained to Heyshott, and the mill of
Sutton. These gifts were confirmed and augmented by his son
Henry de Percy and William earl of Sussex, the latter acquitting
the monks of suits to the hundreds.¹
1. Harl. MS. 1708, f. 108d, 109.
II.
Robert (son of Tetbald ?) held of earl Roger in 1086 in Goring
a berewick of 6 hides and 3 manors of 9 hides, 2 hides and 5 hides;
in East Preston part of 7 hides in East and West Preston; lands
in Barpham, Greatham, Elmere and possibly elsewhere may have
been involved in the manors and berewick of Goring.
In the time of Stephen 11 fees in Goring (Garinges') were
held of the honor of Arundel.¹ Robert Tresgod attested a charter
of queen Adeliza to St. Mary's, Oseney.2 In 1158 John Treisgoz
and Philip (his brother) attested a charter of William earl of
Arundel,³ and in 1164 an agreement was made between Henry
abbot of Fécamp and John de Tresgoz touching the wood of Dures-
hurst, Perregate and 'Brunnes buri,' Suss.4 In 1168 John and
Philip de Tregoz owed 46s. 8d. for scutage of 31 fees, which they
alleged was an over-charge made by the earl of Arundel.5 The
sum was pardoned in 1189. Philip de Tresgoz was a benefactor
to Boxgrove priory. He had sons William and Richard, living
towards the end of the reign of Henry II. Philip's charter names
GORING AND PRESTON
31
his wife Emma and William his son and heir. Richard son of
Philip was also a benefactor.8
In 1194 John de Tresgoz essoined himself de malo lecti at Goring
against Ralph de St. Audoen in a plea of boundaries. He died
about this time and on 8 April in the ensuing year John his son
and successor made an agreement with Ralph de Argenciis, abbot
of Fécamp, about the woodlands in Sussex named above, John's
brothers, Henry and Thomas, consenting and Philip their uncle
pledging himself to secure observance.10 In 1197 these 3 brothers
were parties to a fine respecting lands at Mere, Bokelee and Bug-
kenden, Kent.11
10
John died soon after, for in 1201 a boundary was to be made
between the land of Ralph de St. Audoen in Clapham and the
land of Henry Tresgoz in Goring, 12 and the same year it was recog-
nized that Henry Tresgoz was over-charged 60s. of the first and
60s. of the second scutage in respect of fees held of the honor of
Arundel.13 In 1202 Henry de Tresgoz remitted part of the service
of William de Billingehurst for hide, namely the obligation of
providing one entertainment (convivium) yearly at Henry's summons
and providing a horse to carry his child from one manor to another;
thenceforth only the service of knight, part of the ancient service,
was to be done.14 A similar remission was made a year later in
respect of a small tenement in Goring.¹
15 In 1203 the same Henry
had a dispute with one of his tenants about lands in Goring and
Billingshurst.16 He was named in 1213 among other knights of
John de Monte Acuto,17 and in 1219 was instituting proceedings
against three sisters touching a tenement in Goring.18 In 1222
he and Thomas his brother were impleading Roger de Leiburn
(Eudes the sewer, n. 4) that he should hold to them the fine made
in the court of Richard I between Robert father of the said Roger
and John de Tresgoz and the said Henry and Thomas his brothers.19
In 1225 Henry Tresgoz was one of the knights who were directed
to make a perambulation of the forest of Sussex.20
During the 13th century there were three successive tenants of
the fee of Goring named Henry Tresgoz, two at least being knights.
It is a mere surmise that the first survived until shortly after 1243,
the second until about 1290, and the third until shortly after 1312.
In 1242-3 Hugh le Bygot held 6 fees in Goring of the honor of
Arundel, 21 and in 1243 the service of 6 fees held by Henry Tresgoz
was assigned to the dower of the countess Isabel.22 In 1256 Henry
Tresgoz had respite for 3 years from knighthood, 23 and in the
ensuing year a grant of a yearly fair at his manor of Goring and
free warren in Goring, Dattisham and Warburton, Suss.24
He was
appointed with others in 1264 to protect the sea-coast near Pevensey
against marauders.25 In 1271 he acquired from Henry de Leghe
(n. 3) and Emma his wife for 250 marks the manor of Preston,
subject to the claim of Master Gilbert de Mylers.26 In 1276 he
released to Denis prior of Arundel his claim to the advowson of
the church of Billingshurst.27
In 1275 Henry Tresgoz was said to claim wreck at Goring and
to have appropriated warren in the same vill and in the manor of
32
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
Preston.28 Six years later it was found by recognition that neither
Henry Tresgoz nor his ancestors had wreck of the sea in the manors
of Goring and Preston, which right belonged to the castle of
Arundel.29 In 1284-5 he was returned as holding 2 fees in Goring
and Preston of Robert de Mohaut.3 30 He was presented in 1284
as having taken at Goring a tun of wine of wreck belonging to
Arundel castle.31
Henry Tresgoz had letters of protection in 1295 on going to
Scotland on the king's service.32 Down to 1312 there are numerous
commissions appointing him keeper of the peace in Sussex and
summoning him in 1295 to Carlisle with horse and arms.33 In
1303 Henry de Tresgoz settled the manor of Preston Mylers and
land in Goring upon Thomas de Tresgoz, Nicholaa his wife, and
their issue.34
Thomas Tresgoz was returned in 1316 as lord of Goring, Preston
by Arundel, Burpham (Bargham') and Greatham.35 He held,
on 4 Dec. 1314 and also in 1322, 3 fees in Burpham, Greatham and
Elmere, Suss.36 In 1321 he was going on pilgrimage to Santiago; 37
in 1322 and 1323 he was a commissioner of array in Sussex.38 He
obtained licence to crenellate his mansion of Dattisham in 1329.3 39
A great number of persons were in 1331 charged with breaking the
park of Thomas Tresgoz at Goring; 40 in that year he had a grant
of free warren in Goring, Preston, Westham, Burpham, Storring-
ton, Parham, Greatham, Walderton and Dattisham, Suss., and
Bowley, Kent.41 He was deceased in 1335. In 1325 William
Elmere held a messuage and 6 virgates in Elmere of Sir Thomas
Tresgoz for fee and suit at his court at Bargham.' 42
He appears
to have acquired from William de Montfort the manor of Burpham
with its members (see n. 5).
3
In 1388 the manor of Preston was in the king's hands by the
death of Robert de Tresgoz knt., son of Henry de Tresgoz and Joan
his wife, and during the minority of Edward, son and heir of the
said Robert, then aged 9 years.43
Some account of this family will be found in the Topographer
and Genealogist, ii, 127 ff., but several statements therein appear
to require verification. No explanation can be offered of the
reduction of the service for Goring from II fees in the time of
Stephen to 3 fees in that of Edward II.
4. Ibid. n. 142.
646-7, nos. 7-9.
2. Cal. Chart. iii. 420. 3. Round, Cal. of Docs.,
5. Pipe R. 14 Hen. II, p. 195.
7. Cott. MS. Claud. A. vi. f. 65.
9. R. Cur. Regis, i. 106-7. 10. Cal. of Docs., France,
11. Feet of F. (Pipe R. Soc.), xx. 103.
175. 13. R. Cancel. 236-7. 14. Suss. Feet of F. i. 19.
16. Abbrev. Placit. 37. 17. Ibid. 90. 18. Excerpt. i. 37.
Note Bk. n. 169. 20. R. L. Claus. ii. 8ob. 21. Testa, 222.
23. Cal. Pat. 487.
24. Cal. Chart. i. 473.
26. Suss. Feet of F. ii. 72.
27. Ibid. 98.
29. Abbrev. Placit. 201. Cf. R. de quo war. 757.
31. Cal. Misc. Inq. i. 384. 32. Cal. Pat. 167. 33. Ibid. pass. 34. Suss.
12. R. de Oblat.
15. Ibid. 21.
19. Bracton's
22. Close R.
25. Cal. Pat. 247.
28. R. Hund. i. 213.
30. Feud. Aids, v. 128.
II2.
Feet of F. ii. 175. 35. Feud. Aids, v. 142. 36. Ibid. vi. 639.
37. Cal.
Pat. R. 565.
38. Ibid. 213, 267.
39. Ibid. 495.
41. Cal. Chart. R. iv. 258. 42. Cal. Inquis. vi. 410.
40. Ibid. 128.
43. Cal. Close R.
231, 524.
1. Red Bk. 201.
France, n. 883.
6. Mon. Anglic. iv.
8. Ibid. f. 66.
pp. 48-9.
PULBOROUGH
33
III.
Pulborough (16 hides) was held in 1086 of earl Roger by Robert
(son of Tetbald), whose tenants, Tetbald and Ivo, held of him 2
hides and virg.
2
Alart Flamanc attested a charter of William earl of Chichester
of the time of Stephen,¹ when 3 fees in Pulborough were held of the
earl of Arundel.2 King Stephen confirmed to Lewes priory hide
of the manor of Eastbourne at Langport given by Adelard le
Flemeng. Adelard had given it for the souls of his wife Muriel and
his son Adelard; and William Fleming, son of Adelard, confirmed
his father's gift.5
3
4
6
8
9
In 1191 Alard le Fleming held 1 fee in Gloucestershire, and in
1212 Alard held the same knight's fee of William Marshal of Good-
rich Castle,' namely a knight's fee in Sapperton, Rissington and
Frampton. In the last-named place the land of Alard's tenants
was in 1215 delivered to him, because they were with the king's
enemies. Alard died in the Holy Land in 1220, when the sheriff
of Gloucester was ordered to seise into the king's hands lands in
Sapperton and Rissington,10 and later to give Henry son and heir
of the same Alard livery of his inheritance on providing security
for his relief at £20.11 Matilda de Port, widow of Adelard the
Fleming, granted land in Eastbourne to Lewes, her son Henry
being a witness.12 In 1229 William de Molendinis passed by fine
to Henry le Fleming hide in Pulborough, 13 and in 1235-6 the same
Henry rendered to the aid in respect of I fee in Sapperton, Gloucs.14
He died about this time, for in 1236 John le Fleming was engaged
in a suit respecting customs due for a tenement in Rissington,
Gloucs.15 In 1242-3 John de Gatesden held 2 fees in Pulborough
of the honor of Arundel 16 and in 1243 the service of 2 fees held
by John le Fleming in Pulborough was assigned to the dower of
Isabel countess of Arundel.17 In 1244 the reversion of these 2
fees, then held by Alard le Fleming, was assigned to the pourparty of
Roger de Somery and Nicholaa his wife.18
John le Fleming died 1243-4, and was succeeded by Alard
his brother, who obtained a grant in 1247 (renewed in 1260) of
market and fair (at Pulborough) and free warren there and in
Sapperton, Gloucs.19 His houses in the manor of Pulborough were
accidentally burnt in 1252, when he had licence to rebuild the
same, with crenellation, in the park of Pulborough.20 He died in
1263 holding the said manor with land belonging thereto at Hey-
burn, the advowson of the church of Rudgwick, Suss., and the
manor of Sapperton, Gloucs.; Alice late the wife of his brother
John le Fleming had her dower in the Gloucestershire lands, 21
and Henry, another brother, had an interest in the inheritance.22
Alard had married Emma, sister of John Maunsell, treasurer of
York in 1260, and provost of Beverley in 1253. In the last-named
year a marriage had been arranged between Alard's daughter Joan
and Matthew Hose's son Henry.23 Consequently at Alard's death
in 1263 the custody of his lands until the heirs' majority and their
III.
D
34
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
marriage was granted for £100 to John Maunsell.24 In 1268 con-
firmation of the manor of Preston by Arundel, which Felicia de Millers,
a Norman (see n. 35), gave to John Maunsell, clerk, a member of
the king's household, was given to the said John and to his sister
Emma, wife of Alard le Fleming.25 In 1275 the heirs of Henry
le Fleming were said to have appropriated warren in Sussex.26
These heirs were Henry Huse and Joan his wife, Walter de L'Isle
(Insula) and Florence his wife; and in 1284-5 Henry son of Henry
Huse, then in the king's custody, Walter de Yhill (recte L'Isle) and
Henry de Leye, who had married Alard's widow Emma, held the
vill of Sapperton for I fee.27 In 1302 Henry Huse and Walter de
L'Isle each held 1 fee in Pulborough of Robert de Tateshall, 28 and
fee in Great Rissington, Gloucs.29
Geoffrey Hosatus, of another branch of the family, at the request
of his wife Gundreda de Warenne, about 1180 gave the church of
Little Fakenham (Fageham '), Suffolk, to the priory of St. Denis
near Southampton, presenting it to John bishop of Norwich (1175–
1200); and Gundreda afterwards confirmed this gift, the church
being of her maritagium.30 The said bishop also confirmed it,
by charter dated 1180.31 Gundreda de Warenne in 1200 offered
100 marks for having the custody of her son G., and had paid
5 marks scutage for I knight's fee in Wiltshire.32 Geoffrey son of
Geoffrey Hosatus, for the souls of himself and Mabel his wife, gave
to St. Denis 7s. rent in Salisbury, to be spent as to 3s. on his own
anniversary, 2s. on the feast of his patron St. Nicholas, and 2s.
on the anniversary of his grandmother Hawise de Bellocampo.33
This Hawise was apparently mother of the Henry Hosatus 34 from
whom the above-named Henry descended.
Walter de L'Isle and Henry Huse each held a fee in Pulborough
in 1305, valued at 100s. yearly.35
At his death in 1309 Walter de L'Isle held half the manor of
Pulborough by the courtesy of England of the inheritance of
Florence his wife, of Henry Huse, coparcener of the said Florence,
springing from her elder sister, and half the manor of Great Rissing-
ton in like manner; William his son by the same Florence was
aged 28 years.36 In 1316 Henry Huse and William de L'Isle were
joint lords of Pulborough.37 Henry died in 1332 holding a moiety
of the manor of Pulborough with the park and land at Haybourn,
Suss., of John de Somery for fee, and a tenement, jointly with
Isabel his wife, of William la Zousche, doing suit at William's court
of Stopham (n. I (4)); a moiety of the manors of Sapperton
and Rissington of the king; lands on the honor of Giffard (n. 62
of that honor), and other estates; Henry his son was aged 30
and more.38 Dower was assigned to the relict in II manors or
places.39
40.
In 1341 Henry Huse held 3 fees in Harting, Chithurst and Pul-
borough of Alice late wife of William Bernak, who died that year.
William de L'Isle died in 1345 holding a hall and lands in Pul-
borough of John de Somery for fee; Walter his son was aged
28 and more.41 Henry Huse died in 1349; Henry son of Mark
Huse, son of the said Henry, was aged 6 years.42
1
NUTBOURNE BY PULBOROUGH
35
14. Testa, 75-6.
France, p. 511.
Bk. 73.
10. Excerpt. i. 54-
F. of F. i. 61.
17. Close R. 112.
20. Cal. Pat. 134.
23. Cal. Pat. 170.
Chart. ii. 114.
Chart. ii. 166.
ii. 252.
15314, f. 12.
18. Ibid. 251.
21. Cal. Inquis. i. 171.
24. Ibid. 1263, p. 254;
26. R. Hund. i. 215.
28. Cal. Inquis. iv. 107.
30. Mon. Angl. vi. 214; Add. MS.
32. R. Cancell. 230, 232.
34. Mentioned in 1167; Pipe R. 13 Hen. II, 130. 35. Cal. Close R. 240.
37. Feud. Aids, v. 142. 38. Cal. Inquis. vii.
40. Cal. Inquis. viii. 230. 41. Ibid.
1. Mon. Anglic. iv. 645. 2. Red Bk. 201. 3. Round, Cal. of Docs.,
4. Lewes Chartul., Vesp. F. xv. f. 8o. 5. Ibid. 6. Red
7. Ibid. 157.
8. Testa, 77.
9. R. L. Claus. i. 235.
11. Ibid. 57. 12. Vesp. F. xv. f. 95. 13. Sussex
15. Close R. 368. 16. Testa, 222.
19. Cal. Chart. i. 326; ii. 29.
22. Suss. F. of F. ii. 65
Excerpt. ii. 395. 25. Cal.
27. Feud. Aids, ii. 236; Cal.
Cf. ibid. 51. 29. Feud. Aids,
15314, f. 12. 31. Add. MS.
33. Add. MS. 15314, f. 10.
36. Cal. Inquis. v. 98.
333.
426.
39. Cal. Close R. 469.
42. Ibid. ix. 213.
IV.
Nutbourne by Pulborough (6 hides) in 1086 was held of earl
Roger by Robert (son of Tetbald), of whom Warin held it in demesne.
Philip de Belmeis of Staffordshire was living in 1130.1 The
late Mr. Eyton, the historian of Shropshire,2 has given a full account
of Philip's family and descendants. In the time of Stephen Philip
de Belmeis I held 3 fees of the honor of Arundel.³ By Matilda,
daughter (base ?) of William Meschin of Skipton, in Craven, he
had issue Philip II, who succeeded, and was in turn succeeded by
his brother Ranulf. Ranulf was living in 1167; 4 but in the follow-
ing year the sheriff of Sussex accounted for £6 of the issues of the
land of Ranulf de Belmes. In that year Ranulf had accounted
for £4 in respect of his knights, whom the Earl of Arundel claimed
as belonging to his fee. Adelicia sister of Ranulf was the wife
of Alan la Zouche, son of Geoffrey, vicomte de Rohan. William
their son eventually succeeded to this tenement and to 6 knights'
fees in Sussex which his ancestors had held in chief of the crown,
and he was known as William de Belmeis. Alan la Zoche, with
the assent of Adelid his wife, granted land in Lutgarshall to Dureford
abbey."
5
6
9
In 1177 Alan la Zuche owed 40 m. for an unjust disseisin in
Sussex. He died during the period 1190-1193. His son, William
de Belmeis, held 6 fees in chief in Sussex in 1195. He died in
1199, when Roger la Zuche, his brother, owed £100 for his said
brother's land.10 In 1204 the lands held of the honor of Petworth
by Roger la Zouche were committed to the keeping of William
Briwerre, who then had the custody of that honor.11
In a con-
temporary reference to an estate of the Belmeis family in Devon-
shire Roger is styled Roger'de Mortemer.' 12 Roger died shortly
before 14 May, 1238,13 and a month later the king took the homage
of Alan his son and heir for lands held in chief in Devon and Shrop-
shire, and pardoned the relief due.14
In 1241 William de Percy complained that Alan la Zuche
chased in his free warren in Petworth and Tillington (n. 1 (2)),
whereupon Alan released his claim.15 Alan held 1 fee (sic) in
Nutbourne of the honor of Arundel in 1242-3.¹
16 He had a grant
in 1263 of free warren in Treve and Nutbourne, Suss., North Molton
36
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
and Black Torrington, Devon, Ashby de la Zouche, Leics., and
Swavesey, Cambs.17 He held at his death in 1270 of Sir Henry
de Percy 21 fees of the honor of Petworth (no. 1 (2)) and fee
(sic) of Sir Robert de Mohaut; Roger his son and heir was aged
30 years.18
In 1275 Ellen la Zouche held the manor of Treve in dower.19 In
that year Roger la Zouche held of Robert de Mohaut 3 fees in
Nutbourne, Woolbeding and Merston, 20 and dying in 1285 was
succeeded by his son Alan, then aged 18,21 who had been married
before July, 1276, to Ela, then aged 8, elder daughter of Emeline,
countess of Ulster.22 In 1303 Alan held of Robert de Tateshale
3 fees in Nutbourne by Pulborough, Elbridge, Merston alias Weston
and West Marden, Suss.23 In the ensuing year Alan settled his
manor of Ashby de la Zouche, Leics., his manor of Treve, Suss.,
£12 worth of land in Nutbourne, the advowson of the church of
Chiltington and chapel of Treve, Suss., and lands in Cambridge-
shire, on himself for life with remainder to William la Zouche of
Castle Richard and his issue.24 Alan died early in 1314 and two
years later Aymer la Zouche was returned as lord of Nutbourne,
and William la Zouche as lord of Treve, Suss.25 The inquest of
1314 states that Alan held by fine (as above) the manor of Treve
with the advowson of the chapel of Henry de Percy for 5 fees, and
£12 worth of land in Nutbourne and the advowson of the church
of Chiltington of Robert de Mohaut, Roger de Sumery and the
heirs of Robert de Tateshale by knight's service.26
William la Zouche‘de Mortemer' died in 1337 holding the
manor of Treve of Henry de Percy as of his manor of Petworth for
5 fees; the manor of Nutbourne (by Pulborough) of Lady Isabel,
queen of England, as of the honor of Mohaut for I fee; Alan his
son was aged 19 and more.27 Wardship of the lands was granted
to Alan, son of William la Zouche de Mortemer,' until the heir's
lawful age.28 The grantee was apparently the heir himself.
Alan la Zouche had a grant of free warren in Treve, Nutbourne
and Chiltington in 1344,29 and held at his death in 1346 the manor of
Treve with the chapel and park of Henry de Percy for 5 fees; of
which Edward de St. John, le neveu, held 2 fees in Stopham, Linch
and Yapton, Henry son of Roger 1 fee in Mersdon, Henry Romyn
30
fee in West Marden, Edward de St. John, le uncle, I fee in Lurgas-
hall and Coates, and Thomas de Foxele I fee in Rumboldswyke,
all held of the said manor of Treve; Hugh his son was aged 7 years.
The four last tenements were held of the honor of Arundel (n. 4)
and not of that of Petworth (n. 1 (2)).
1. Pipe R. 31 Hen. I, p. 76. 2. Hist. of Salop, ii. 194-223.
3. Red
Bk. 201.
194.
P. 191.
12. Vol. i. 129. 13. Close R. 53. 14. Ibid. 61.
4. Pipe R. 13 Hen. II. 5. Ibid. 14 Hen. II, p. 193. 6. Ibid.
7. Chartulary, Vesp. E. xxiii. f. 36d. 8. Pipe R. 23 Hen. II,
9. Red Bk. 92. 10. R. de oblat. 4. 11. R. Lit. Claus. i. 5b.
15. Suss. Feet of F.
18. Cal. Inquis.
21. Ibid. 345, 451.
same in 1305; Cal.
i. 98-9. 16. Testa, 222. 17. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 46.
i. 234.
19. R. Hund. ii. 214. 20. Ibid. ii. 84.
22. Ibid. IIO. 23. Cal. Inquis. iv. 107. He held the
Close R. 240. 24. Sussex F. of F. ii. 181. 25. Feud. Aids, v. 142-3.
26. Cal. Inquis. v. 255. 27. Cal. Inquis. viii. 65. 28. Cal. Fine R.
V. 21. 29. Cal. Chart. R. v. 31. 30. Cal. Inquis. viii. 484.
BINSTEAD AND MERSTON-GREATHAM
37
IV (1).
Oismelin held of earl Roger in Binsted, Suss., 4 hides, in Merston
6 hides. He also held of the archbishop I hide in Pagham.
Oismelin gave tithes of Merston to Troarn abbey.¹ He appears
to have lost these tenements when Robert of Belême lost Arundel,
for Merston was later in the possession of the Zouches (n. 4), to
whom it had descended from Belmeis. Binsted appears to have
returned to the demesne of Arundel.
1. Round, Cal. of Docs. France, n. 470.
V.
Ernucion held of earl Roger in 1086 in Greatham, Suss., 4 hides:
in Tortington 3 hides.
Roger held of earl Roger in Burpham 5 hides and Nyetimber in
Pulborough 4 hides, which Alward held of him; Roger similarly
held of the abbey of Almanesches (in Clapham ?) 2 hides belonging
to Lyminster.¹
Walter de Dunstanvill and Robert his brother attested a writ
of William Rufus, of the period 1094-1098, addressed to the barons
and lieges of Shropshire.2 Robert attested writs of Henry I in
III0 and 1114.3 He gave to the priory of Lewes the church of
Burpham as recorded below. Robert also gave the chapel of
Greatham. These gifts were confirmed by Ralph archbishop of
Canterbury in the year 1121.5 The record of these gifts was evi-
dently drawn up in the reign of Stephen, and in this reference to
the gift of the church of Burpham, as in other entries, the chronicler
has added the name of the then tenant of the fee. Alan de Dunstan-
vill was at that time the lord of some part of Burpham, and Barp-
ham, wherefore the chronicler records: Ecclesiam de Bercham
quam dedit nobis Robertus de Dunestanvilla, de feodo Alani
nepotis sui, qui postea concessit redditum xx solidorum.' Mr.
Eyton, the great historian of Shropshire, has written a long and
carefully compiled account of the family of Dunstanvill of Idsall,
Salop, Heytesbury, Wilts., and Burpham, Suss., but, like other
later writers, he fell into error in translating the nepos of the before-
cited record as 'nephew,' where 'grandson' should have been
used.8
C
? 6
7
9
Rainald or Reginald de Dunstanvill gave to Lewes the church
of Winterburne, Wilts. Possibly he was son of Robert. He
is alleged to have been present at the court of John bishop of Bath
on 30 June, 1121.10 His danegeld in Surrey, amounting to 19s.,
and in Wiltshire, amounting to £7 and 12d., was remitted in 1130,12
as was that of Gundreda his sister in Wiltshire, amounting to 24s.
11
13
Robert de Dunstan vill, son of Reginald, succeeded. In 1155
he obtained Heytesbury, Wilts., from Henry II.14 Mr. Eyton
records many of his actions. He died in 1167-8 15 without male
issue surviving, his heir being Walter, the son of his deceased
brother Alan. In that year the sheriffs of Wiltshire and Devon
38
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
•
were discharged of their respective farms of the rents of 40 librates.
of land in Heytesbury and 20 librates in Colyton; and the aid of
the men of Heytesbury, then due, was pardoned to Walter.16
Alan, father of Walter, had in 1141 attested a charter of the
empress Matilda at Oxford,¹7 and gave land in Nyetimber to Lewes
priory, which gift William de Aubigny, as earl of Lincoln, con-
firmed evidently in the time of Stephen; William de Dunstanvill
and Walter his brother were witnesses.18 Possibly the tenement
in Sussex, held of the fee of Arundel, had been the maritagium of
Reginald's mother and descended to Alan as younger son. Alan
held temp. Stephen 8 fees of the honor of Arundel 19 and died before
1156, leaving issue: the above-named Walter his heir; Alan of
Shiplake, Oxon., who married Muriel, daughter and coheir of Emma
de Langetot by her husband, Geoffrey Fitz-William (see Giffard,
n. ); and Alice, to whom her brother Walter gave the manor of
Salford, Oxon., in frank marriage with Thomas Basset of Headington,
whose son Gilbert gave 30 m. in 1200 20 for confirmation of this
land, about which there had been a plea between Gilbert and
Walter de Dunstanvill, son of Gilbert's uncle Walter de Dunstanvill,
in the court of Richard I.21
In 1156 Walter son of Alan de Dunstan vill was pardoned
danegeld in Sussex, amounting to 60s.,22 and two years later his
share of the donum of the county, viz., 14s. 6d., was also remitted.23
Walter de Dunstan vill confirmed to the monks of St. Pancras his
parents' gift of land in Nyetimber of his fee; the witnesses included
Robert de Dunstan vill and Herbert brother of the earl Rainald.24
William earl of Arundel III afterwards confirmed this charter of
Walter's, the witnesses including Roger Rusteyn his seneschal,
Robert de Vilers, and Manasser Aguillun.25
Walter held I fee in 1166 of Adam de Port 26 and two years later
owed 3 marks for 3 fees which he alleged were in excess of what he
held of the earl of Arundel.27 He was tenant in 1189 of 40 librates
of land in Heytesbury, to which he had succeeded in 1168, on the
death of his uncle Robert, as above.28 Alan, probably brother of
Walter, occurs in 1181 as keeper of the honor of Giffard, a position.
due to his connexion by marriage with the important family of
Langetot. For some reason the allowances to the sheriffs of Wilt-
shire and Devon in respect of the Dunstan vill lands ceased from
Michaelmas 1171 to Easter 1173.2 29 In 1178 Colyton was taken
into the king's hands.30
Walter's Wiltshire fee of 21 knights' fees was in the king's
hands in 1194.31 Mr. Eyton thought that Walter had temporarily
lost it by forfeiture, 32 but it is more likely that he died, leaving
Walter his son under age. The text of the Curia Regis roll of
1195, printed by the Pipe Roll Society, proves that one at least of
Mr. Eyton's conclusions, as to Walter's being alive in 1195, is
incorrect.33 Another of his references to Walter de Dunstan vill I
clearly refers to Walter II, his son, whose mother had become the
wife of Ingram de Pratellis.34 In 1222 Ingram de Pratellis and
Sibil his wife demanded against Thomas Basset a third part of a
carucate in Colyton, Devon, as Sibil's dower of the gift of Walter
GREATHAM AND TORTINGTON
39
de Dunstanvill, formerly her husband. Walter de Dunstanvill,
who claimed the said manor, was Sibil's warrantor.35
In or before the year 1200 Walter de Dunstanvill gave the manor
of Winterburne Basset, Wilts., to Alan Basset, younger brother of.
Gilbert Basset of Headington, named above, and younger son of
Thomas Basset by his wife Alice de Dunstan vill. This gift was
confirmed by king John in the year 1200.36 Walter de Dunstan-
vill II, for a marriage between his nephew Robert (son of his brother
John) and Grace de Bohun, sister of the earl of Hereford, gave
Grace for life a rent of £50 a year from Heytesbury and Colyton;
Robert de Dunstanvill, a younger brother, was a witness.
In 1204 the prior of Lewes was demanding against the younger
Walter the patronage of the church of Burpham, Suss., which Walter
his father gave the priory by his charter.38 In 1215 Walter obtained
a grant of a market and fair at his manor of Heytesbury, Wilts.,39
which grant was renewed by Henry III in the year 1227.40 He
gave land in Barpham in 1230 to the canons of the Causeway in
Arundel; 41 and died in 1241, when Walter III gave £100 for
relief of the lands in Shropshire and Wiltshire which his father
had held in chief.42 In 1242-3 Walter held 5 fees in Burpham
or Barpham ( Bergham ') of the honor of Arundel,43 and in 1244
the service of his 5 fees in Burpham ( Bering '), Dallington, Torting-
ton, Greatham and Elmer was assigned to the pourparty of Robert
de Tateshale, as one of the coheirs of the earl of Arundel.44
1245 he had a renewal of the grant of a market at Heytesbury,
Wilts.45
Walter de Dunstanvill, for the souls of himself and his
wife Denise, confirmed to Lewes priory his ancestors' gifts of Nye-
timber, the church of Winterbourne and tithe of Scaldeford.4
The Annals of Tewkesbury under date 21 Dec. 1246 record the
death of W., son and heir of Walter de Dunstan vill the younger,
and his burial at Idsall.47
In
46
37
In December 1263 the prior of Lewes produced three charters.
from three lords of Arundel, in the full hundred court of Easwrith
held at Wiggenholt, proving that no suit was due from his land of
Nyetimber. 48
Walter died early in 1270, leaving Petronilla his daughter as
heir; she was 22 years of age and then wife of Robert de Montfort.49
Rohaise, Walter's relict, died in 1281. In 1269 Robert de Mont-
fort had obtained a charter of free warren in Burpham, Thornwicks
and Ham.50 In 1275 Petronilla was said to have acquired free
warren in Burpham recently. 51 Upon the death of her husband
in 1274
52 she married John de La Mare, 53 who held 1 fee in
Burpham in 1284-5 of the Earl of Arundel. 54 She was dead in 1292,
her son and heir William de Montfort being then still in his
minority.55 In 1303 this William held 5 fees (in the places named
below) of Robert de Tateshale, whereof the prior of Lewes held
fee in Nyetimber, Suss., in alms by the confirmation of king
John. 56
Three years later William de Montfort held 5 fees in
Burpham (Bargham '), Bepton, Greatham, Elmer and Tortington
of Robert de Tateshale,57 and in 1309 one moiety of his service was
assigned to the pourparty of Joan de Dryby of the Tateshale
40
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
inheritance and the other to that of John de Orreby and Isabel
his wife. 58
William de Montfort was living in 1309, when he was pardoned
for acquiring lands in Heytesbury from John de La Mare, who held
them by the courtesy of England. 59 In 1311 he was deceased,
leaving Hawise his wife surviving.60 Prior to his death he had
granted to Bartholomew de Badelesmere the reversion of his estates
in Wiltshire upon the death of John de La Mare, the tenant for life.
In 1311 the said Bartholomew granted the said reversion after his
decease and that of Margaret his wife to the king in exchange
for certain other lands.61 Two years later John de La Mare died
and Bartholomew obtained seisin.62 In 1314 Robert de Montfort,
son of Robert de Montfort, for £400 released to Badelesmere
his right in the estates in Wiltshire, Salop and Cheshire, late of
William de Montfort, releasor's brother. 63 În 1316 Thomas Tresgoz
was lord of this part of Burpham. 64
In 1339 and again in 1341 a moiety of 5 fees in Burpham
(Bargham'), Bepton, Greatham, Elmere and Tortington was
said to be held by William de Montfort; 65 but this is a mere
repetition of the entry found in 1303 and 1308.
In 1387, after the death of Joan late wife of Edward de St.
John, knt., the manors of Burpham and Ham, lands in Greatham
and Cootham and rent in Wolderton, held for life by the said Joan
by feoffment made to her and Henry de Tresgoz sometime her
husband and the heirs of Henry, fell to Edward son of Robert son
of the said Henry de Tresgoz by Joan his wife, together with the
manor of Goring and its members. 66 The wardship of the heir was
in the king's hands.
The later descent of Burpham and its members is obscure. In
1412 John Bohun held of the inheritance of his wife the manors of
Preston, Ham, Burpham and Bewbush, Suss. 67 It would appear
that his wife was the heir of Edward de Tresgoz named above.
1. V. C. H. Suss. i. 429, 445b.
2. Cal. of Docs. France, n. 1234.
4. Ibid.
5. Anct, Chart.
Dugdale's Monasticon (ed.
8. See Anct. Charters, p. 15.
10. Itin.
3. Farrer, Itin. of Hen. I, nos. 250, 316.
(Pipe R. Soc.), 12.
6. Mon. Anglic. v. 14;
1661), ii. 908. 7. Op. cit. ii. 271-2.
9. Mon. Anglic. v. 14; Round, Cal. of Docs. France, p. 509.
of Hen. I, n. 441. 11. Probably in Blackheath hund.; Pipe R. 13 Hen. II,
p. 205. 12. Pipe R. 31 Hen. I, pp. 22, 51. 13. Ibid. 22.
Bk. 649, 664. 15. Pipe R. 14 Hen. II, 125,
163. 17. Round, Geoffrey de Mandeville, 123.
F. xv. f. 126d.; Round, Cal. of Docs. France, p.
20. R. de Oblat. 67.
21. R. Chart. 41b.
23. Ibid. 4 Hen. II, 182. 24. Cat. of Anct. D. v. A. 10912.
14. Red
157 et pass. 16. Ibid.
18. Lewes Chartul., Vesp.
510. 19. Red Bk. 201.
22. Pipe R. 2 Hen. II, 61.
25. Vesp.
27. Pipe R. 14 Hen. II, 195. 28. Ibid.
30. Pipe R. 25 Hen. II, 10. 31. Red
33. Rot. Cur. Regis (Pipe R. Soc. xiv.),
F. xv. f. 127. 26. Red Bk. 280.
I Ric. I, 171.
Bk. 95.
94, IIO.
IOL, 1601.
28206, f. 21d.
Chart. i. 30.
43. Testa, 222.
XV. f. 126.
29. See Pipe Rolls.
32. Op. cit. ii. 277.
34. Hist. of Salop, ii. 279, 281. 35. Bracton's Note Bk. nos.
36. R. Chart. 54. 37. Castle Combe Chartulary, Add. MS.
38. Abbrev. Placit. 95.
39. R. Chart. 205. 40. Cal.
41. Cat. Anct. D. v. p. 1ỐI.
42. Excerpt. i. 351.
44. Close R. 249. 45. Cal. Chart. i. 287. 46. Vesp. F.
47. Op. cit. 135. 48. Vesp. F. xv. f. 127. 49. Cal. Inquis.
i. 232.
50. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 117.
Close, 103.
53. Ibid. 1276, p. 293–4.
R. cited by Eyton, op. cit. ii. 301.
51. R. Hund. ii. 213b.
54. Feud. Aids, v. 128.
56. Cal. Inquis. iv. 107.
52. Cal.
55. Assize
57. Ibid.
MARDEN AND OFFHAM
4I
260. Described as a moiety of 5 fees; ibid. 265.
59. Cal. Pat. R. 163, 179.
60. Cal. Close R. 356.
391. 62. Cal. Close R. 15. 63. Ibid. 99. Cf. Cal. Pat. R. 1314, p. 191.
65. Cal. Inquis. viii. 164, 230.
67. Feud. Aids, vi. 523.
66. Cal. Close
64. Feud. Aids, v. 142.
R. 231.
58. Cal. Close, 100-1.
61. Cal. Pat. R.
VI.
Azo held of earl Roger in 1086 in Up (?) Marden 4 hides; in
Offham 4 hides. See n. 20.
William held of earl Roger in Lordington (Harditone') 4
hides. This holding and land in Strettington were later members
of the honor of Petworth.
William de Faleise attested a royal confirmation of a gift of
William de Braose in 1080, and a final agreement in the court of
William I in 1086 (?) between William de Braose and the Holy
Trinity of Fécamp.1 In the time of William I William de Faleise
gave with his daughter to St. Mary's, Romsey, a hide of land in
La Wyche² (? in Binsted, Hants). It is possible that this fee on
the honor of Arundel came by feoffment of Henry I to a kinsman of
William de Faleise, of whose daughter and heir and her issue Sir
Henry Maxwell Lyte has treated in the Proceedings of the Somerset-
shire Archæological Society for 1919 (lxv, 1 ff.).
It is suggested that the tenements described above represented
5 knights' fees held temp. Henry I by Hugh de Faleise of the honor
of Arundel. A mandate of Henry I was issued early in his reign
to Richard de Belmeis, Hugh de Falaise and the barons of Sussex
for the restoration to Ralph bishop of Chichester of land by the
city-wall of Chichester. About the same period Hugh de Faleise,
Alfred of Lincoln and Drew the huntsman attested a writ of Henry I
in favour of Faritius, abbot of Abingdon.5 No gifts to monastic
houses appear to have been made by Hugh de Faleise, nor has
reference been found to point to the identity of his heirs. One
John de Faleise attested with Joscelin the queen's brother, Robert
Tresgoz and others, a charter of queen Adeliza to St. Mary's,
Oseney, at a date between 1135 and 1150.6
7
Henry I confirmed to St. Martin's, Troarn, tithes of Offham
given by Ascius (Azo), and tithes of Grafan and Estretementon'
(Strettington), 2 dwellings in Chichester and tithe of Merston
which (quam) Oismelin gave.8 Oismelin was earl Roger's tenant
in 1086 at Binsted and Merston; Ernald or Arnald held 2 hides in
Graffham and 2 hides in Strettington; Augustin held 3 hides in
Strettington, where other 10 hides were held by William (see n. 14).
9
In 1156 Hugh de Gundovill was pardoned 25s. of danegeld in
Sussex. He had lands in Hampshire, Somerset, Devon and
Gloucestershire, and in the last-named county his sister had 15
solidates of land in Winterburn in 1156,10 which she still held in
1189.11 Hugh de Gundevill and Agnes de Falaise his wife con-
firmed to Boxgrove a hide in Herting which Emma de Falaise, wife
of Gilbert de Sartilli, gave them.12 Hugh also consented to his wife
Agnes giving 3 hides in Huperton and another hide in East Harting
to the lepers of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem.13 Hugh was a man of
importance during the greater part of the reign of Henry II. He
42
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
served the office of sheriff of Hampshire from Easter, 1170, to
Michaelmas, 1179, soon after which date he died. He was succeeded
in office in 1179 by Geoffrey son of Azo, or Aze, who married his
niece (?) Agnes, sometimes described as Agnes de Faleise. Geoffrey
remained in office until Michaelmas, 1189. Hugh de Gundevill
appears to have made the first grant of free burgage to the burgesses
of Chipping Campden, Gloucs.14 (Chester, n. 16). In 1166 he was
a tenant of the honor of Gloucester of new feoffment.1
15 He had
been pardoned danegeld in 1162 in Sussex amounting to 52s.16
He died early in 1181, in which year Robert de Gundevill proffered
40 m. for seisin of a knight's fee in Tarrant Gunville, Dorset, as he
had it before the death of Hugh his uncle.¹7 At the same time
Hamelin de Gundevill owed 10 m. for seisin of 2 fees in Hamme,
Dorset, as he had it before the death of Hugh his uncle.18 Hugh's
lands in Langport, Curry and Cheddarfield? (Cedrefeld), Somerset,
and in the honor of Arundel, in various places in Sussex, were in
the king's hands at Michaelmas, 1181.19 Peter Saracen had Hugh's
land in Lordington, on the honor of Petworth, in 1185.20 About the
same time Henry II gave Hugh's land in Strettington (in Boxgrave,
Suss.) to Henry Turpin, who is described in 1189 as Henry brother
of Turpin.21 Lands in Offham and Up Marden will be referred to
later. In Hampshire in 1190 it was recorded that Geoffrey son of
Azo owed 300 marks as fine for having right of his wife's inherit-
ance.21a In 1199 William Turpin proffered 40 marks for seisin of
his lands, whereof he had been disseised by King Richard.22 In the
ensuing year Geoffrey son of Hascu, otherwise Azo (Acius), and
Agnes his wife claimed this land. The pleadings state that Henry II
gave to Henry Turpin, his chamberlain, the land of Strettington
(Strathamton '), who held it until King Richard took his way to
Jerusalem, the said Henry accompanying him; then came Geoffrey
son of Hascu and Agnes his wife and claimed the land; and Henry
being dead, William Turpin his son applied to the king, who was
then at Messina, and recovered his seisin as Henry's heir, and so
held the land until William earl of Arundel disseised him at his
will, because the earl knew that king Richard bore ill will against
him, the said William Turpin. He obtained seisin.23 In 1205
Agnes de Gundevill demanded against William Turpin, tenant, a
knight's fee in Strettington; and gave him 15 marks for an acknow-
ledgment of her right.24
From the pleadings cited below it appears that Henry II, while
in possession of the honor of Arundel (1176-89), gave Offham to
Hugh Esturmi to hold by the service of two parts of a knight's
fee. When William d'Aubigny (1189-93) regained the honor he
confirmed this grant, and his son, as William earl of Sussex, con-
firmed to Hugh Esturmi Offham with all its appurtenances, saving
the service due to the king and himself, viz. two-thirds of a knight's
fee. His uncles Henry and Reyner d'Aubigny were witnesses.25
In 1203 there was a plea between Agnes de Gundevill and Hugh
Esturmi, the tenant, touching land in Offham.26 Later in that
year an assize came to recognize if Agnes, aunt of Agnes de Gunde-
vill, was seised at her death of 2 carucates in Offham which Hugh
Esturmi then held; it was found that Henry II gave Hugh the
MARDEN AND OFFHAM
43
land by charter, which was produced, to hold by the service of
2 fee.27 Apparently Hugh de Nevill had obtained some interest
in the land of Agnes de Gundevill in 1212, when he granted by fine
to Hugh Esturmi, the tenant, the moiety of fee in Offham.28
3
4
In 1208 a jury found that Agnes de Faleise, late the wife of
Geoffrey son of Azo and aunt of Margaret, Dionisia and Florence,
daughters of Richard Murdac, was seised at her death of a third of
a fee in Up Marden ( Normaneden '), Suss., which William Aguillon
(n. 20) then held, who called to warranty Alvred de Lincoln, who
came and warranted; and further they found that the said Mar-
garet, Dionisia and Florence were her next heirs; whereupon they
obtained seisin and Alvred de Lincoln was in mercy for detinue.29
In 1235 William Aguillun was impleading Walter de Lymesi and
Margery his mother, the tenants, for fee in Normerdon.' 30
In 1241 William Aguillon remised to Walter de Limesi a third part
of a fee in North Merdon' for 16 marks.31 Richard Aguillon's
interest in this land was acquired through his wife Margery, one
of the 3 sisters and coheirs of Richard de Toreini, or Thorney,
tenant of Thorney, Walton and Chidham, and of land in Bosham,
Suss., who was son and heir of William de Toreini. See the pedigree:
Richard de =
Toreini
d. s.p. ante
Trin. 1222.
Matilda,
1223.
William
Aguillon
William de Toreini,
Torinni vel Tornei.
Land in Thorneye,
Walton, Chadham,
and I c.in Boseham.
Margery
Richard
Aguillon.
Hugh le By- Margaret
goth, Suss.
Fines,
712, 718.
nos.
=
Robert Richard de
Grenested
William de
la Faleyse,
s. and h.
John.
These had
half M. of
Burpham,
Suss. Fines, (2) Rich. la
pp. 56, 77.
Laye.
===
Grenested.
Mabel,
living
Jan.,
1223.
Juliana,
1252
Ellis de la
Faleyse,
Suss. Fines,
nos.
718,
786.
Cecily, occ. 36 Hen. 3.
Gilbert le
Mareschal.
Excerpt. Fin. ii. 132.
Christiana
living1270-1,
Excerpt. ii.
528.
Alice,
Abbrev. Plac, 220b.
Christiana ?
Suss. Fines, n. 891.
= Adam de Clo-
hale, vel Clo-
thale, sent to
gaol in 1281,
for calling a
Woman his
wife who was
not, Abbrev.
Plac. 2016.
44
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
In 1222 the representatives of the heirs of Richard de Toreini
acknowledged two-thirds of fee in Offham to be the right of
Reginald Aguillon to hold of them for 4 marks yearly.32 Next year
Richard de Grensted, Gilbert le Mareschal and Cecily his wife, and
William Aguillon, complained that Matilda, the wife of Richard de
Toreini, had more dower than she was entitled to have, namely
in Thorney and Chidham.33 In 1225 Hugh Senzaver impleaded
these heirs for I hide in Bosham which he acquired by fine in the
time of John from Richard de Thorneye, brother of Cecily and
uncle of Richard de Grensted and William Aguillon.34 Some years
later, viz. in 1236, the same parties 35 released by fine to Walter
de Limesi and Margaret de Limesi their rights in fee and fee
in Strettington for 10 marks.36
In 1214 Eudes de Bello Campo claimed the patronage of the
chapel of Lordington against the prior of Lewes, who replied that
it was a chapel of the church of Stocton (Stoughton), of which the
patronage belonged to the priory of Lewes.37 In 1226 Hugh de
Nevill was impleading Reginald Aguillon, tenant, for the manor
of Offham, Eudes de Bello Campo, tenant, for the manor of Lord-
ington, and Margery late the wife of Nicholas de Limesy, tenant,
for the manor of Strettington, Suss.38 If a record of this plea
exists it might explain Nevill's relation to these tenements. The
obvious suggestion would be that he had obtained a grant of the
rights formerly held by Hugh de Gundevill in these places.
In 1242 Walter de Limesy was insane, his chattels in Gloucester-
shire being in the charge of Matilda his wife.39 In 1242-3 he held
I fee in Strettington of the honor of Arundel and Robert de Bello
Campo similarly held 1 fee in Lordington.40 In 1243 the service.
of 1 fee held by John de Limeseye (in Strettington) and fee held
by William Cuvett and Mary his wife, Ralph de St. Owen and
Godeheuda his wife, Peter de Gatesden and Cecily his wife, Robert
Haget and Alice his wife (in Strettington) was assigned to the
dower of Isabel late the wife of Hugh earl of Arundel."
41 In 1244
the service of the above fee in Sussex and of 1 fee in Lordington
held by William de Bello Campo was assigned to the pourparty
of Roger de Somery and Nicholaa his wife; 42 that of 1 fee in
Strettington held by John de Limeseye, of fee in the same vill held
by Walter de Cherleton, of fee in La Grave (n. 25) held by John
de Gatesden, was assigned to the pourparty of John Fitz-Alan ; 43
that of fee in La Grave held by John de la Grave was assigned
to the pourparty of Robert de Tateshale.44 The tenement held
by the Aguillons in Up Marden merged in the fee which they held
of the honor of Arundel. (See n. 20.) Few references to Strettington
are found of later date than those given above. Some portion of
the vill subsequently seems to have been merged in the honor
of Halnaker.45
20
In 1282 John Tracy acknowledged by fine that the manor of
Lordington belonged to Matilda Estur and Walter de Insula the
younger, with remainder to Walter's issue and in default to his
brothers John and Walter.46 Six years later Tracy was called
to warrant Matilda Estur and John de L'Isle in possession of this
MARDEN AND OFFHAM
45
manor, excepting a mill and the advowson of the church, Ralph
de Bello Campo having claimed it against them. Ralph then, at
Tracy's request, granted the manor to Matilda for her life to be
held by the service of one knight and by doing suit to Richard
Fitz-Alan's hundred of Westbourne; with remainder after her
death to John de L'Isle and issue, or in default to Geoffrey the
brother of John.47
10
In 1337 John Haket, Ralph de St. Owen and another held fee
in Strettington of Hugh de St. John.48 In the time of Henry III
the prior of Arundel acquired a wood in Offham from Cecily de
Gatesdene and Alice Haket.49
The Great Inquest of Service taken in 1212 has the following
reference to the family of Esturmi :
Sturmi had certain land outside Chichester, where the king's garden
now is, which rendered 10s. yearly, for which the earl of Arundel gave him in
exchange land in the city and without, which used to render 18s. 41d. Hugh
Sturmi, son and heir, holds that land quit by the king's charter and for 6d.
yearly. After Hugh had the king's charter he bought lands in the city which
used to render 2s. 9d. and these like the others he holds by the said acquittance.50
Hugh Esturmy was one of those who made the perambulation
of the forest of Sussex near Chichester in the year 1225.
51 John
Estormi, knt., son and heir of Hugh Estormi, knt., with the assent
of Rose his wife, gave to Boxgrove a rent of 2s. from a house in
Chichester. 52 Another Hugh was with the king in Gascony in
1253 and was exempted the following year from assizes and juries. 53
In 1272 Peter de la Faleyse acknowledged the right of Hugh Esturmi
in a messuage and carucate in West Lavant, for which Hugh
granted the tenement to Peter and Alice his wife and their issue. 54
In 1282 Hugh Sturmy held of John de Nevill (the forester) fee
in a place in Sussex unnamed, but possibly in Offham.55
1
John Estormi confirmed to Boxgrave a grant made by his father
Hugh, and gave the monks land in West Tichenor, 56 and John's
daughter and heir Sara confirmed.57
Peter de Champvent died in 1303 holding the manor of Offham
jointly with Agnes his wife by the demise of William Sturmy to
them and the heirs of Peter, to hold of Hugh de Nevill for
fee; John his son was aged 30.58
(sic)
In 1303 Roger de Bello Campo held 1 fee in Lordington;
Richard de Pickeford (see n. 21), Robert le Botiler, and Ralph de
la Grave each held fee in La Grave, Suss., of Robert de Tates-
hale. 59 Roger held the same fee in 1305,60 and others of those
named held the same tenements in 1306 of Robert son and heir of
Robert de Tateshale. 61 In 1309 the tenements in La Grave were
assigned to the respective pourparties of John de Orreby and Joan
his wife, and Joan de Driby.62 John de Chavent was one of the
lords of Offham in 1316,63 and in 1322 he held 1 fee in Offham of
Hugh de Nevill. 64
In 1341 Juliana de L'Isle held 1 fee in Lordington and John de
la Grave fee in La Grave of Alice late wife of William de
Bernake. 65
1
40
46
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
201.
1. Davis, Regesta, 33, 127.
4. Mon. Anglic. vi.
6. Cal. Chart. iii. 420.
n. 470.
8. Round, ibid.
2. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 105.
3. Red Bk.
1168, n. 28. 5. Chron. de Abingdon, ii. 82.
Ibid. iv. 282; Round, Cal. of Docs., France,
9. Pipe R. 2 Hen. II, p. 61. 10. Ibid. 49.
11. Ibid. I Ric. I, p. 163. 12. Cott. MS. Claud. A. vi. ff. 75, 67; Geoffrey
7.
son of Azei and Ellis de Gundevill were witnesses.
14. Cal. Chart. i. 340. 15. Red Bk. 291. 16.
17. Pipe R. 27 Hen. II, p. 10. 18. Ibid.
21. Ibid. 1 Ric. I. p. 213.
23. Abbrev. Placit. 26, 30.
13. Vesp. E. xxiii. f. 77.
Pipe R. 8 Hen. II, p. 31
19. Ibid. 4, 146. 20. Ibid.
21a. Ibid. 2 Ric. I. m. 12.
24. Suss. Feet of F. i. 24.
31 Hen. II, p. 172.
22. R. de Oblat. 7.
25. Harl. Ch. 45, B. 29.
28. Suss. Feet of F. i. 32.
31. Suss. Feet of F. i. 104.
35. Ibid. 79.
26. Abbrev. Placit. 44b.
29. Abbrev. Placit. 56b.
32. Ibid. 45.
27. Ibid. 42, 44.
30. Close R. 192.
33. Ibid. i. 47. 34. Ibid.
51.
37.
89.
36. As in the fine of 1223.
38. R. L. Claus. ii. 149. 39. Close R. 463 ff.
41. Close R. 112.
42 Ibid. 251-2.
43. Ibid. 250.
See nos. 19 and 25. 45. Cf. Cal. Inquis. ix. 41.
47. Ibid. 147. 48. Cal. Ing. p.m. viii. 31.
Abbrev. Placit
40. Testa, 222.
44. Ibid. 249.
46.
Suss. Feet of F.
49. Cal. Close R.
ii. 125.
1331, p. 261. 50. Bk. of Fees, 73. 51. R. Lit. Claus. ii. 8ob. 52. Cott.
53. Cal. Pat. R. 232, 295.
55. Cal. Inquis. ii. 256.
MS. Claud. A. vi. f. 86d.
of F. ii. n. 822, n. 1041.
f. 83, 83d.
57. Ibid. f. 102d.
37. 59. Cal. Inquis. iv. 107.
iv. 260, 265. 62. Cal. Close, 101.
vi. 639. 65. Cal. Inquis. viii. 230.
54. Suss. Feet
Claud. A. vi.
Cal. Close R.
61. Cal. Ing.
64. Ibid.
56.
58. Cal. Inquis. iv. 94;
60. Cal. Close R. 240.
63. Feud. Aids, v. 143.
See also ix. 147.
VII.
Two knights' fees held by Stephen' of the honor of Arundel
in the time of Henry I, or Stephen, have not been identified.
Possibly they were either the 2 fees which Ralph de Toeni denied
that he held of the earl of Arundel in 1168, or the 2 fees which
Rolland de Dinan similarly denied that he held of the earl at the
same date. See nos. 35-36 below.
•
VIII.
Rainald in 1086 held of earl Roger in North Stoke, Suss., 8
hides.
In the time of Henry I or Stephen 2 fees in Stoke belonged to
the honor of Arundel. The late Mr. Eyton has elaborated the
descent of the Shropshire family of Girros in his History of Shrop-
shire. There were several Roberts successively in the line. The
first occurs in 1138-9, and in 1155, as tenant of land in Salop by
serjeanty. Robert de Girros, possibly second of the name, died
circa 1190; the third Robert was in possession of his inheritance
in 1196. A few years later his sister Isabel had carried the serjeanty
at Burton, Salop, to her husband, Thomas de Costentin.¹ In
1212 the land of Robert de Girros was committed to Thomas de
Erdinton, among the estates being North Stoke, Suss. Robert
returned to allegiance in 1217, but did not regain possession of
North Stoke until after the death of Thomas de Erdinton (who held
it of the gift of William Fitz-Alan) 3 in 1218, in which year custody
of the manor of North Stoke, late of Thomas de Erdinton, was
committed to Philip de Ascelles on 22 March, and on 5 September
to earl William Marshal.5 Mary daughter of Thomas de Erdinton
had been married by her father to William Fitz-Alan, eldest son of
2
NORTH STOKE-SOUTH STOKE
47
William Fitz-Alan who died in 1214.6 She had her dower in
Mileham, Norf." It would be interesting to know how North
Stoke came into the possession of the Fitz-Alans. Possibly it
was by reason of some feudal dependency in respect of land in
Shropshire.
In 1216 the sheriff of Sussex was notified that the king had
given to Savary de Bohun 15 librates of the land late of William
Fitz-Alan (deceased) in Stoke, to hold during pleasure. In 1230
there was a plea between the bishop of Chichester and those whose
names follow touching the making of bounds between his land
in Amberley and Ferring and the abbot of Fécamp's land in Bury,
the land of the prior of Arundel in Arundel, the land of John Fitz-
Alan in [North] Stoke, the land of Hugh de Nevill in [South] Stoke,
and the land of Amfrey de Fering in Ferring.9 In 1242-3 Robert
de Girros held 1 fee in Stoke of the honor of Arundel.¹
10 In the
ensuing year the service of his said fee was assigned to the dower
of Isabel, countess of Arundel,¹¹ and in 1244 to the pourparty of
Robert de Tateshale.12 With the death of Robert de Girros before
October, 1251, the connexion of his line with North Stoke termi-
nated. In 1254 John Fitz-Alan obtained a grant of free warren
in various Shropshire manors and in that of Stoke, Suss.13 He
held the manor of North Stoke in 1272,14 and in 1284 Matilda, late
the wife of Richard de Amundevill, alias Lady Maud de Verdoun,
died possessed of tenements in North Stoke, Suss., which some-
time had been assigned to dame Matilda de Verdoun in dower.
Richard Fitz-Alan, then aged 18, was her next heir.15 At the
death of Richard, earl of Arundel, in 1302 the manor of North Stoke
was held with other manors by Henry de Guldeford for life by the
earl's demise.1
16 In 1330 the grange of North Stoke with land and
the advowson of the church was in the demesne of Edmund earl
of Kent, who died that year.17 The manor was later delivered to
earl Edmund's son Richard as a member of the castle and honor
of Arundel.18 In 1337 Richard earl of Arundel alienated the
advowson of the church to the prior of Tortington.19
i. 279.
4. R. L. Claus. i. 356b.
Fin. 531; Excerpt. i. 39.
i. 2486. 9. Close R. 403. 10. Testa, 222. 11. Close R. 112. 12. Ibid. 249.
1. Op. cit. vols. iii.-iv. pass. 2. R. L. Claus. i. 121. 3. Cal. Inquis.
5. Excerpt. e R. Fin. i. 17. 6. R. de
7. R. L. Claus. i. 356b, 382. 8. Ibid.
13. Cal. Pat. 263.
16. Ibid. iv. 51.
See pp. 15-16.
14. Cal. Inquis. i. 279.
15. Ibid. ii. 325.
17. Ibid. vii. 227.
18. Cal. Close R. 191, 202.
19. Cal. Pat. R. 424.
IX.
Ernald held of earl Roger in 1086 in South Stoke 4 hides;
in Up Waltham 2 hides, and in Graffham 2 hides. Ernald had a
burgess in Arundel.
It is possible that this tenement was in the possession of Robert
de Curci in 1130, when he had remission of 18s. of the danegeld in
Sussex.¹ If so, the later tenure by Cauz under Nevill the Forester
would be explained. H. de Nevill, for the soul of king Richard
and others, confirmed to Boxgrove a meadow in his manor of
• Stogs.' 2
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4
5
In the time of Stephen Hugh de Calceo or Cauz held 3 fees of
the honor of Arundel. In 1158 Robert de Calz accounted in
Sussex for 1 mark of gold, which was pardoned. In the account
of the custos of the honor of Arundel for 1180 the debt of Godfrey
de Calz of 25 marks for his relief is recorded, and various pay-
ments in liquidation of the debt are accounted for during subse-
quent years. Before 1207 Godfrey was dead; but Muriel his wife
was then surviving. Robert de Čauz, apparently son of Godfrey
and Muriel, appears to have been engaged in a plea with Hugh de
Nevill the Forester touching this tenement, for in that year he
gave 20 marks for the summoning of 4 liege knights of Sussex to
be before the king on the quindene of St. John's day (8 July, 1207)
to elect nine of the more liege of the knights of Sussex, who best
knew the truth, to make a recognition-with Philip de Cumbe,
William de Offinton and Robert de Stanton-between Hugh de
Nevill, demandant, and Robert de Cauz, tenant, touching the fee
of 2 knights in Stoke, whereof the same Robert, who was tenant,
put himself on the grand assize and sought for recognition to be
made as to which of them had the greater right in the said fee,
because all the knights first chosen to make that assize, except the
said Philip, William and Robert, had been removed by considera-
tion of the lord the king, because they, like Robert de Cauz, had
been enfeoffed of the tenement which had been Robert de Bellême's
(de Belalm '). On the octaves of the following Michaelmas
Robert acknowledged by fine that the manor of Stoke was the right
of Hugh de Nevill. In this acknowledgment Hugh granted the
manor to be held by the same Robert and Agnes his wife, who was
the daughter of Richard de Cestre, and the heirs begotten of Agnes,
by the service of 3 knights and 40s. yearly service to Hugh; in
default of issue between them the manor was to revert to Hugh,
saving the dower of Agnes for her life and of Muriel, mother of
Robert, which she had by the gift of Godfrey de Cauz, for her life.
Which concord was made in the presence of William, earl of Arundel,
chief lord of that fee, who took the homage of Hugh of the said
manor, to be held by Hugh of the earl by the service of 3 fees."
Robert de Cauz appears to have died without issue, for in 1227
Hugh de Nevill had licence to demise for 10 years to Ralph, bishop
of Chichester, the manor of Stoke, Suss., in accordance with a
grant made to Hugh by Hubert de Burgh, keeper of the honor of
Arundel.8 Hugh died in 1234, when John his son and heir gave
300 marks for the bailiwick of the king's forest for life from Stamford
Bridge to Oxford Bridge, for £20 yearly rent, as his father had it
by the grant of King John.9
6
In 1241 the sheriff of Sussex was ordered to extend inter alia
20 librates of land in the manor of Stoke, late of Hugh de Nevill,
and give seisin thereof to Beatrice de Fay (relict of Hugh de Nevill),
for her support while proceedings for divorce were pending between
her and Hugh de Plaiz, her husband, so that she might not be in
want; those 20 librates being part of the dower which she ought
to have by the gift of Hugh de Nevill, formerly her husband.10
In 1242-3 John de Nevill held 3 fees in Warningcamp and
SOUTH STOKE-BILSHAM
49
South Stoke of the earl of Arundel,¹¹ and in 1244 the service of
3 fees held by John de Nevill in Stoke, Warningcamp, Waltham
and Graffham was assigned to the pourparty of Roger de Somery
and Nicholaa his wife.12 John de Nevill died in 1246,¹³ his son
Hugh being apparently under age; but of age in 1256.14 Hugh
died in 1269, when John his brother and heir did homage and had
livery of his brother's lands.15 John de Nevill died in 1282 holding
inter alia I fee in South Stoke and Warningcamp of the king in
chief, fee in (Waltham ?), held of him by Hugh Sturmy, and ½ fee
in Graffham, held of him by Robert Trottemenn by doing suit
at the court of South Stoke; Hugh his son was aged 4 years.
16
In 1283 Albin de Bovery was keeper of the manor of South
Stoke and Warningcamp during the minority of Hugh son of John
de Nevill,¹7 and in 1294 the grant of custody to the said Albin was
extended so as to include the advowson of the church of South
Stoke.18 Hugh de Nevill, son and heir of John de Nevill, being
of age in 1298, obtained seisin of his father's lands in the counties
of Nottingham, Essex, Buckingham, Sussex, Devon and Lincoln.19
It does not appear how or when Thomas de Praers (? of Heding-
ham Sibil, Essex) acquired these tenements, but in 1316 he was
returned as lord of South Stoke and joint lord of Warningcamp.20
A fuller account of this branch of the Nevill family will be found
under Curcy, n. 17.
In 1378 Richard earl of Arundel alienated to certain chaplains
in his chapel of Arundel rent out of various manors, including that
of South Stoke, in augmentation of the number of chaplains which
earl Richard, his father, had established with rents of 107 marks
out of his manors of Angmering, Wepham and Warningcamp.21
11. Testa, 222.
12. Close R.
1. Pipe R. 31 Hen. I, 72. 2. Cott. MS. Claud. A. vi. f. 90. 3. Red
Bk. 201. 4. Pipe R. 4 Hen. II, p. 182.
5. Ibid. 26 Hen. II, p. 33.
6. R. de Fin. 374. 7. Sussex Feet of F. i. 27. 8. Cal. Chart. i. 57 ff.
9. Excerpt. i. 260. 10. Close R. 272.
251. 13. Excerpt. e R. Fin. i. 461. 14. Excerpt. ii. 228.
498.
16. Cal. Inquis. ii. 256.
17. Cal. Pat. R. 1283, p. 105.
1294, p. 68. 19. Cal. Close, 162. 20. Feud. Aids, v. 142-3.
Pat. R. 151.
15. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
21. Cal.
X.
Hugh held Bilsham (in Yapton) of earl Roger in 1086 for 4 hides
and (in the same place ?) 3 hides which Warin held of him. Hugh
similarly held Slindon (8 hides) and 8 hides in a place unnamed,
possibly Mellers (later Madehurst ?).
Henry I gave to the archbishop of Canterbury 2 knights' fees in
Slindon, Suss., of the rape of Arundel, whereof in 1212 the service
was demanded of the earl of Arundel, who had nothing there nor
received anything thereof.¹
In 1130
Ragnulf Avenel attested a charter of Robert count of Mortain
at St. Martin's, Marmoutier, in or before 1082.2
William Patric accounted in Kent for 50 marks of the debt of
Ranulf, Avenel's son, for relief of his land.³ Before 1157 William
Avenel attested a charter of William earl of Chichester, to the
III.
12
E
50
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
4
monks of Troarn, and the same earl's confirmation to the cathedral
church of Chichester, made apparently after the death of Queen
Adeliza in 1151.5
A charter of Richard Avenel to the abbey of St. Nicholas,
Blanchelande, of the period 1151-1157 mentions Richard's brother
(? elder) William Avenel, and William's son Richard Avenel.“
Ralph and Robert Avenel occur in Gloucestershire early in the
reign of Henry II.
In the time of Stephen, and possibly in 1166, Avenel' held
5 fees of the honor of Arundel. In 1166' Avenel' was a tenant
of Simon de Bello Campo of fees of both old and new feoffment,8
and tenant also of Matilda the wife of Roger de Clare.9
In 1179 John Avenel was amerced in Buckinghamshire 10 and
in 1194 John Avenel was engaged in a suit with Urso de Linces
touching 2 virgates in Berges, Suss.11 In 1197 an agreement was
made by John Avenel and his tenant touching a virgate and 6 a.
land in Bilsham.12
C
At this time another family of Avenel had an interest at Bicknor,
Gloucs. In 1167 and for a number of years the sheriff of Gloucester
accounted for a mark from 2 virgates in Sandhurst then held by
Ralph Avenel; Robert Avenel accounted for a mark for forest
pleas.13
In 1171 Ralph's name in the record of this account was
altered from ' Robert." 14 In 1176 Ralph was amerced in Gloucester-
shire 20 marks and a destrier for forest pleas, and in Herefordshire
he accounted for a like fine for custody of Philip de Broi's son.15
In 1200 Ralph Avenel had a grant of a market at his manor of
Bicknor.16 In 1217 custody of the land and heir of Ralph Avenel
with the marriage of the heir and the castle of Bicknor was com-
mitted to John de Erlegh.¹
17 In 1223 William Avenel gave a fine of
40 marks for the land of Ralph Avenel his father with the bailiwick
and castle of Bicknor; 18 and in the ensuing year an inquiry was
ordered into the acts of Ralph Avenel at Bicknor in the time of
King John, William Avenel being Ralph's son and heir.19
In 1195 . . . Avenel was beyond seas with John count of
Mortain; the land of William Avenel in the hundred of Cadworth,
Wilts., was in the king's hands.20
4
In 1220 Herbert son of Wulwin released to Sabina Avenel and
William Avenel her son 1 virgate in Bilsham for 4 marks.21 In
1237 in a plea of warranty of charter William Avenel acknowledged
that fee in Bilsham and Mellers was the right of Philip de Croft,
who agreed to pay yearly to William at Denford 40s. during William's
life.22 In the ensuing year there was a suit between William
Avenel, demandant, and Ralph de Montibus, tenant, touching
12 virgates in Bilsham, in settlement of which it was agreed that
Ralph should grant to William 4 virgates in Mellers and Kinrede-
ford and 5 acres of wood called ´ Avenel Sokene,' and that William
should remit his claim to the surplus.23
In 1236 William Avenel (of Bicknor) died possessing lands in
Gloucestershire within the bailiwick of the Constable of St. Briavel
and leaving an heir who was under age."
24
The Chronicle of Peterborough shows that another William
BILSHAM
51
Avenel was a tenant of the abbot of Peterborough in Irthling-
borough temp. Henry II, and that his estates passed to the Bassets
of Ryston.25
In 1242-3 Philip de Croft and Henry de Preston each held 1 fee
in Bilsham of the honor of Arundel.26 In 1243 the service of John
de Montibus of fee was assigned to the dower of Isabel countess of
to C40
Arundel,27 and in the ensuing year the service of the same John
and of William Avenel of fee in Bilsham was assigned to the
pourparty of Robert de Tateshale.28
The cathedral church of Canterbury recovered possession of
Slindon at some unknown date before the 13th century. In 1274
the then archbishop and Sir John Fitz-Alan, lord of Arundel,
made an agreement touching the primate's claim of hunting in the
whole forest of Arundel and Sir John's claim of hunting in the
primate's wood of Slindon.29
In 1272 Richard Blathe of Madehurst, shepherd of William de
Bodiketon, while keeping his lord's sheepfold of Weppehurst by
night, shouted at three women thieves who were milking his lord's
ewes and pulling their wool; one of the women attacked him
and he slew her in self-defence, for which he was pardoned as he
did it in self-defence and to save his lord's goods.30
In 1303 William de Bulsham and Hugh de Croftes each held
fee in Bilsham of Robert de Tateshale II,³¹ and in 1308 they held
the same tenements of the heirs of Robert de Tateshale III, who
died in 1306 under age.32 In 1309 these tenements were respectively
assigned to the pourparty of Joan de Driby and to that of John de
Orreby and Isabel his wife.33 In 1316 William de Bulesham and
Andrew de Medested were lords of Bilsham.34
Ad
36
In 1339 William de Bulsham held fee in Bilsham of William
de Bernake and Alice his wife.35 He died in 1345 so seised holding
of Thomas de Cayly for fee; John his son was aged 28 years.
This John died without issue in 1349 holding the manor of Bilsham
as above; by force of a settlement made by his father in 1344
this estate devolved on Roger brother of John, then aged 30
and more.37
1. Bk. of Fees, 70. 2. Davis, Regesta, n. 145. Cf. Round, Cal. of Docs.
France, nos. 716, 724, 1203. 3. Pipe R. 20 Henry I, 66. 4. Bruton
Chartul. (Somerset Rec. Soc.), n. 338. 5. Mon. Anglic. vi. 1169, n. 35.
6. Round, Cal. of Docs. France, n. 859. 7. Red Bk. 201.
8. Ibid. 319,
322. 9. Ibid. 406. 10. Pipe R. 25 Hen. II, p. 77. 11. R. Cur. Regis.
i. 78, 94; Abbrev. Placit. 4b. 12. Suss. Feet of F. i. 3. 13. Pipe R.
15. Ibid. 22 Hen. II,
17. R. L. Claus. i. 344; Pat. R. 127.
13 Hen. II, 142, 144. 14. Ibid. 17 Hen. II, 85.
43, 128.
16. R. Chart. 79b.
18. Excerpt. i. 109.
(Pipe R. Soc. xiv.), 81.
23. Ibid. 92. 24. Excerpt. i. 304.
20. R. Cur. Reg.
22. Ibid. 91.
Cf. Pipe R.
26. Testa, 222.
8 Hen. II, pp. 8-9; 11 Hen. II, p. 97;
27. Close R. 112.
28. Ibid. 249.
25. Op. cit. 148, 173-4.
15 Hen. II, p. 75.
29. Cal. Chart. ii. 187. 30. Cal.
Pat. 615. 31. Cal. Inquis. iv. 107. 32. Ibid. 260. 33. Cal. Close, 101.
35. Cal. Inquis. viii. 164.
36. Ibid. 421.
34. Feud. Aids, v. 143.
37. Cal. Inquis. ix. 142.
19. R. L. Claus. i, 624, 629.
21. Suss. Feet of F. i. 43.
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(
XI.
Morin in 1086 held Chithurst (Titeherste,' 4 hides), a manor
in the hundred of Rotherbridge (1 hide), and 1 virgate in a place
called Borha.' 1 Morin was associated with Hugh as a tenant at
Ratton and elsewhere of the count of Mortain.
Robert son of Morin gave to Lewes priory tithes of Meslirs
(? Madehurst, n. 10).2 In the time of Henry I or Stephen a feodary
of the honor of Arundel (as returned in 1166 or 1168) recorded this
tenement : Morin de Chitehurst j militem.'
،
4
Land in Chithurst comprised part of the tenement held by the
family of Hose or Husee. See no. 26. In 1263 Lucia de Norton
and Gilbert de Chellesfeud distrained Henry de Tyreserchs to do
suit to their court of Norton and Litlington (Littleton Farm,
near Up Waltham ?) in respect of I hide in Burchechs' and
Chithurst (Thichesherst '), by default of Henry Giffard, the
mesne tenant.5 Possibly Lucy de Norton was the Lucy, daughter
of Reginald, party to a fine of land in Pepering, near Burpham,
in 1248, and daughter of Reginald de Clifton, who made an agree-
ment in 1206 touching lands in Pepering, Litlington' and Norton."
In 1305 William le Vesseler held the advowson of the church of
Chithurst and land there, and in 1316 John le Vassylyr was lord
of Chithurst.9
6
8
3. Red Bk. 201.
France, p. 510.
modern Sutton. 5. Suss. Feet of F. ii. 54.
25. Cf. Nos. 458 and 987.
8. Ibid. 184.
1. In Avisford hundred. Possibly Barnham. 2. Round, Cal. of Docs.
4. This may be involved in the
6. Ibid. i. 120. 7. Ibid.
9. Feud. Aids, v. 141.
XII.
Robert son of Tetbald held Treyford in 1086 of earl Roger.
Cudlow or Codelawe was perhaps involved in Middleton, in Avis-
ford hundred, which ‘William' (no. 14) held of earl Roger. The
greater part of this parish has been overwhelmed by the sea.
In 1088 Pain de Vilers attested a charter of duke Robert.¹ In
1094 he attested the charter of Roger the Poitevin count founding
the priory of Lancaster.2 He or another of the name was living
at the date of the Lindsey survey (1115-18). From the Great
Inquest of Service made in Lancashire in 1212 we learn that Pain
de Vilers, primus feodatus, gave Treyford to his (third) son Alan.3
The same important return tells of the feoffments made to Pain's
sons William and Thomas, and to Vivian Gernet, husband of his
daughter Emma.³ A. de Vilers notified to all the barons &c. of the
honor of Arundel that he had granted to the monks of Lewes 5s.
in alms from 'Treferd,' viz. 2s. from Walter of the mill and 3s.
from Ralph his son. The witnesses were Hugh de Kauneto, Hugh
Haranges and Richard de Tuamchereche."
In the time of Henry I, or Stephen, one fee in Treyford was
held of the honor of Arundel.5 The name of the tenant is not
recorded, but it was possibly the Robert de Vilers who attested
a Lancashire grant made by Stephen, count of Boulogne and
TREYFORD AND CUDLOW
53
Mortain, during the period 1123-1135.6 The inquest of 1212
records that Robert de Vilers was then the tenant of Treyford."
In the time of Richard I there was a dispute between Pain de Vilers
of Kinalton, Notts., son of Alan, son of William, second son of
Pain I, touching the lands in Owthorpe and Calverton, Notts.,
and Much Hoole, Lancs., late of Thomas de Vilers (fourth) son of
Pain I. The agreement made in the court of William le Boteler,
by precept of John count of Mortain, between the disputants, is
preserved among the ancient deeds of the Chancery. In 1194
Robert de Vilers made an agreement with the bishop of Chichester
touching land in Treyford, Suss.9 In I2o8 Robert de Vilers,
seneschal of the earl of Arundel, being in the king's service in Sussex,
a mandate was issued to the sheriff of Lancaster not to put the said
Robert in default in case he failed to answer the sheriff's summons.10
In 1217 a writ was issued for restoration of the goods of Robert de
Vilers of Nottinghamshire, who was also a tenant of the earl of
Chester, in case his goods had been seized by reason of the late
war.11
Robert died in or shortly before 1223,12 and in 1229 Robert
his son acknowledged that lands in Drayton and Shopwyke, Suss.,
were the right of Reyner, prior of Tortington.13 In 1235 his lands
were to be extended for the adjustment of a debt due to a certain
Jew.14 This obligation, or the death of Robert de Vilers II,15
may explain the tenure in 1242-3 by Master Alexander le Seculer
of 2 fees in Treyford and Cudlow under the earl of Arundel.16 In
1243 the service of 2 fees held by Robert son of Robert de Vilers
was assigned to the dower of Isabel, countess of Arundel,¹7 and
in the ensuing year the same service, namely of Robert de Vilers
of 2 fees in Cudlow and Treyford, was assigned to the pourparty
of John Fitz-Alan.18 In 1256 Robert de Vilers of Sussex obtained
a grant of free warren in his manor of Treyford,19 and was exempted
from serving on juries and the like.20 He appears to have sold
Much Hoole, Lancs., in 1260.21
In 1265 the half manor of Codelawe was seized by the earl of
Gloucester.22 In 1268 there was a dispute between Simon le
Draper of Winchester and Peter de Montfort and Luke de Viene
touching the occupation of the manor of Codelawe, Suss., whereupon
inquiry was to be made whether Simon or Luke had the better
right.23 In 1272 Luke de Puninges acknowledged by fine that the
manor of Cudlow was the right of Luke de Vyane and Mary his
wife, 24 who obtained a similar recognition in 1280 from Geoffrey
Fresteng.25
It was found in 1279 that Luke de Viene and his
ancestors had enjoyed wreck of the sea in Cudlow from time out
of mind.26
Luke was still lord in 1281.27
Robert de Vilers III made a settlement of the manor of Treyford
in 1279 on Nicholas de Vilers, with successive remainders to
Nicholas's brothers, John, Richard and William, and to Lawrence
Basset and Hawise his wife.28 Robert de Vilers, son of Robert
de Vilers, put in his claim to the premises.29 In 1282 a writ was
issued to protect Robert de Vilers from being harassed for taking
the king's bucks in the forest of Southampton.30 In 1287 Nicholas
de Vilers made a recognizance of a debt in Sussex. 31
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In 1316, possibly during the minority of the heir, Ralph de
Estdene was lord of Treyford, and Peter de Vienne (Vyne ') lord
of Cudlow.32 In 1327 Nicholas de Vilers, with many others, was
indicted of entering the park of William la Zousche at Treve, Suss.33
In 1330 Nicholas held 1 fee in Treyford, and Luke de Vyenne
I fee in Cudlow, of Edmund earl of Kent.34 In 1336 the grant of
free warren, made in 1256, was renewed and confirmed to Nicholas
de Vilers and Robert his son. 35
1. Round, Cal. of Docs. France, p. 257.
2. Farrer, Lancs. Pipe R.
From the eldest son Matthew descended the Botelers
290. 3. Testa, 402.
of Warrington, Lancs. See V. C. H. Lancs. i. 338. 4. Cott. MS. Vesp. F.
XV. f. 135. 5. Red Bk. 201. 6. Farrer, Lancs. Pipe R. 427. 7. Testa,
402. 8. Cat. of Anct. D. vol. vi. C. 5495.
9. R. Cur. Regis, i. 12-13;
12. Ex-
15. A
11. Ibid. 3156.
14. Close R. 217.
Abbrev. Placit. 4b. 10. R. L. Claus. i. 108.
.cerpt. i. 105. 13. Suss. Feet of F. i. 59.
Robert de Vilers was slain in 1237 near Hastings by two thieves; Close R.
453. In 1238 Mary late the wife of Robert de Vilers was demanding dower
in Much Hoole, Lancs.; Curia Regis R. 118, m. 2. 16. Testa, 222.
17. Close R. 112.
19. Cal. Chart. i. 453. 20. Cal.
Pat. 530.
21. Lancs. Feet of F. i. 132. 22. Cal. of Misc. Ing. i. 275.
23. Abbrev. Placit. 176. 24. Suss. Feet of F. ii. 83.
26. Plac. de quo war. 755. 27. Abbrev. Plac. 201. 28. Suss. Feet of F. ii.
109. 29. Ibid. 30. Cal. Close R. 148. 31. Ibid. 481. 32. Feud. Aids, v.
141, 143. 33. Cal. Pat. R. 348. 34. Cal. Inquis. vii. 230.
18. Ibid. 250.
25. Ibid. 118.
35. Cal.
Chart. iv. 353.
XIII.
In 1086 Walter held of earl Roger Sunworth (in Buriton),
Hants, as 3 hides.
In the time of Stephen one fee in Sunworth was held of William
earl of Arundel.¹ In 1166 Othuer de Sunewrthe held 2 fees of
Margaret de Bohun.2 In 1194, again 2 years later,3 and again in
1201 4 William de Soneworde was the tenant of fee in Hampshire,
and in 1207 he was one of the sureties of Roger son of Adam, sheriff
of Hants.5 As William son of Otewy (Otuer) de Sunworth he
made several gifts of land and pasture in Sunworth to Dureford
priory to release himself from Jewry; in one of his charters his
wife Joan, his heir Ralph and sons Simon and Robert are named.“
Ralph as son and heir of this William confirmed these gifts and
a grant made to William de Chalton, naming 'Othewy' his grand-
father. William earl of Sussex III also confirmed William de
Sunworth's gifts to the priory in places called the Holt and Cley.8
Adam son of Robert de Sonneworth was another benefactor.9
Ralph de Suneworth held 1 fee of ancient feoffment in Sun-
worth in 1242-3 of the earl of Arundel,10 and in 1243 his service
for that tenement was assigned to the dower of the countess of
Arundel.¹¹ In the following year it was assigned to the pourparty
of Roger de Someri and Nicholaa his wife.12 In 1246 Ralph settled
on Thomas de Sunworth his son and heir a third part of 3 carucates
in Sunworth.13 In 1252 the abbot of Dureford obtained a grant
of free warren in his manor of Sunworth.14
Joan de Sonneworth, daughter of Ralph de Sonneworth, con-
firmed to the priory of Dureford all her land in Sunworth, with its
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services, which formerly belonged to her father; the canons were
to render to her and her heirs the service of one knight.15
In 1256 William Finamur and Joan his wife granted their
manor of Sunworth to William de Clare, brother of Richard de
Clare, earl of Gloucester and Hertford, to hold of them and Joan's
heirs for I fee.16 In 1257 William de Clare had a grant of free
warren in Walsingham, Norf., and Sunworth, Hants.,17 and before
his death in 1259 granted land and rent here to Dureford abbey.18
Richard earl of Gloucester succeeded as brother and heir and on
his decease in 1262 Gilbert his son succeeded. He granted the
manor to Roger Loveday, 19 who released it in 1267 to the abbot
and convent of Dureford under certain conditions.20 See V. C. Hist.
of Hants.iii. 91. The estate is now represented by Sunwood Farm,
which belongs to the Ditcham estate.
2. Ibid. 294.
3. Ibid. 91, 99.
4. R. Cancel.
1. Red Bk. 201.
245.
5. R. de Fin. 449. 6. Chartul. of Dureford, Vesp. E. xxiii. 78;
cited in V. C. H. Hants. iii. 91 n. 7. Vesp. E. xxiii. f. 80, 81.
f. 8id. 9. Ibid. f. 82. 10. Testa, 2316. 11. Close R. 112.
13. Feet of F., Hants. 30 Hen. III.
14. Cal. Chart.
15. Vesp. E. xxiii. f. 86d. 16. Feet of F., Hants. 40 Hen. III.
Chart. R. i. 475.
18. Chartul. f. 8o. 19. Ibid. f. 84. 20. Feet of F.,
Hants. 52 Hen. III.
8. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
R. i. 391.
17. Cal.
252.
XIV.
In the hundred of Box, Suss., in 1086 William held of earl
Roger in Halnaker 9 hides; in Boxgrove 6 hides, of which
Humphrey held 3 hides and I virgate, Nigel I hide and I virgate,
Williamhide and the clerks of the church I hide; in East Hamp-
nett 7 hides, which Nigel held of William; in West Hampnett
9 hides, of which William held 1 hide, Restold 1 hide, Richard 3
virgates, Godfrey 1 virgate; in Strettington 10 hides; in an un-
named place 3 hides, of which Richard held 2 hides and Turgis 1
hide; in another unnamed place I hide assessed as part of Halnaker.
In the hundred of Bury William held of earl Roger in Wal-
berton II hides and 2 virgates, of which Rolland held 1 hide less
I virgate and Acard the priest 2 virgates as a prebend; in Barnham
4 hides; in Middleton 5 hides and 2 virgates, of which 3 Frenchmen
held 4 hides and 5 virgates; in an unnamed place 3 hides and in
another unnamed place hide and 2 virgates.
In Manhood hundred William held of earl Roger in Birdham
3 hides which Nigel held of him, but Anschetil held of the manor
I hide.
In Stockbridge hundred William held of earl Roger in Hunston
4 hides.
In Easeborne hundred William held of earl Roger in Todham
4 hides, which Nigel held.
In Westbourne hundred Geoffrey held of earl Roger in Compton
10 hides.
In Manhood hundred Warin held of earl Roger in Itchenor
I hide; it belonged T.R.E. to bishop Osbern's church of Bosham.
In the hundred of Wotton (recte Middle Woking), Surr., Geoffrey
held of earl Roger I hide which belonged to Compton, Suss.
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In the hundred of Stoneleigh, Warws., William held of earl
Roger in Bilton 5 hides less I virgate.
(
The identity of William' has not been discovered. It has
been stated that William son of Reiner gave tithes of Middleton,
Sussex, to the priory of Lewes,¹ but this is a mistake. The donor
was William son of Ranulf de Warenne and the place was Middle-
ton in Freebridge Hundred, Norf. (See Warenne, n. 16.)
Possibly William was William de Anstervill, who held of earl
Roger in 1086 in South Avon (D. B. Avere), Hants., I hide.2 The
land became a royal serjeanty.3 Nevertheless the tenement can
be traced to the possession of St. John of Halnaker and Basing,
confirming this surmise. Hugh de Port of Basing also held land
in Avon in 1086, which ultimately descended to St. John, so that
the two tenements became more or less feudally intermixed. In
1336 land in Avon was parcel of the honor of Basing.
The archives of the abbey of Lessay show that Henry I gave
the honor of Halnaker to Robert de Hai, son of Ranulf the seneschal
of Robert count of Mortain, nephew of Eudes the sewer of William I,
and that in the year 1105 Robert de Hai, with the consent of his
wife (Muriel, sister of Picot son of Colswain),5 gave to that abbey
these churches of the fee of Halnaker: St. Mary of Boxgrove, St.
Peter of (West) Hampnett, St. Leger of Hunston, those of Birdham
and Walburton, St. Mary of Barnham, St. Katherine on the river
Thames, St. George of Bilton (Warws.), and tithe of Todham.6
In 1123 Robert de Hai, by the desire of Muriel his wife and his
sons Richard and Ralph, gave to the abbey of Lessay the churches
of Brattleby and Fillingham with other churches in Lincolnshire?
(formerly of the fee of Picot son of Colswain). Three years later
Henry I confirmed to Lessay, among other gifts, what Robert de
Hai, grandson of Richard (called Turstin Haldup and nephew of
Eudes, son of the said Richard, founders of the said abbey), had
given of his manors in England, namely Brattleby, &c., which
he had received with Muriel his wife.9 Robert de Hai, at the
request of his wife Muriel, gave the church of Sutton, Norf., to
Castle Acre priory, his sons Richard and Ralph witnessing it.10
At a later time Richard de Hai confirmed his father's gift, Ralph
de Hai, his nepos, attesting.11 Richard had a daughter Nicholaa
who married (1) William son of Erneis and (2) Gerard de Camvile,
by whom she had a son Thomas de Camvile.12
In 1115 Rainald de Aureavalle, or d'Orival, made a gift to Lessay
which was attested by (among others) Walter Hingan, the then
tenant of Bilton, Warws.13 It has been shown from evidences
in the chartulary of Boxgrove Priory that Cecily daughter of Robert
de Hai married Roger de St. John and that Muriel their daughter
married Reginald d'Orival.14
Roger de St. John gave before 1121 the church of Compton,
Surrey, to the priory of Lewes.15 The descent of the families of
St. John and of Port has been elaborated by Mr. Round in The
Genealogist, N.S. xvi. 1-13. In 1130 (William ?) the son of Roger
de St. John accounted for 80 marks for the relief of his father's
land on the honor of Arundel.16 He it was, no doubt, who held
HALNAKER
57
in the time of Stephen 12 fees in Halnaker of William earl of
Arundel.17 In 1165 he paid 15s. 3d. de exercitu,' 18 namely in
respect of the charges of a serjeant in the army of Wales. In 1171
out of the issues of Chichester £10 was paid to the same William
for repairs to Arundel Castle.19 He was living in 1187, when £12
due from 12 fees for the scutage of Galloway was pardoned to
William de St. John.20 There appears to be no doubt as to this
William being the same William de St. John who married Olive
daughter of count Stephen of Brittany and widow of Henry de
Fougères.21 Mr. Round cites a charter from the Boxgrove chartu-
lary of William de St. John and Robert his brother with Godeheld
wife of William, in which there is mention of Robertus avus suus
de Haia et pater suus Rogerius de Sancto Johanne,' which docu-
ment bears the date of 1187.22 This confirms to Boxgrove the
churches given to Lessay in 1105. The two brothers also made
further gifts so that 15 monks might be established at Box-
grove.23 Apparently William de St. John died before 1189,
in which year Adam de Port (who had married Mabel de Orval
(de Aureavalle), daughter and heir of Reginald de Orval by his
wife Muriel, sister of William de St. John) owed £200 for fine
of his land and of his wife's inheritance in Normandy and that
king Richard might abate his anger against him and take his
homage.24
Adam de Port, who had succeeded to the honor of
Basing on the death of his father, John de Port, circa 1170, thus
inherited jure uxoris lands in Normandy, but not the honor of
Halnaker, which probably went to Robert de St. John, the younger
brother of William I, who survived until shortly before 1199, in
which year Roger de Montbegon of Hornby castle, Lancs., gave
500 marks to have to wife Olive, late the wife of Robert de St.
John, with her land and inheritance.25 In 1207 William de St.
John II granted the manor of Walberton to Roger and Olive for
Olive's lifetime.26
27
Halnaker must have passed into the possession of William de St.
John II in 1199, when there was a plea wherein Roger de Craft
complained that Thomas de Argentein had imprisoned his man
whom he had sent to essoin him (Roger) in the court of William
de St. John at Halnaker (* Hanac '). It appeared that Roger had
essoigned himself an unreasonable number of times against his lord,
who had impleaded him for detention of the service due for his land;
eventually Roger withdrew from his plea."" Craft was the tenant
of Bilton, as will be shown below. Adam de Port was living on
8 June, 1213,28 but was dead on 13 July following, when William
de St. John, his son, proffered 500 marks to have his father's land.29
Mr. Round has drawn attention to the extraordinary coinci-
dences of the second wife of William de St. John I and the wife of
his namesake, William de St. John II, being both named Gode-
heut, and of the first William's first wife and the wife of his younger
brother Robert being both named Olive.30 In 1242-3 Richard de
Lucy and Godeheut de St. John his wife held the manor of West
Shefford, Berks., of the inheritance of Robert de St. John, being
a member of the barony of Basing.31 See Oilli, n. 31.
1
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HONOR OF ARUNDEL
In 1230 Agatha daughter of William de St. John held a messuage
and land in Hunston, Suss., where the prior of Boxgrove also held.
I virgate and William de St. John, her father, half the manor;
she was under age and in the wardship of James de Cicestre.32
In 1226 a commission was appointed to terminate disputes
between William de St. John and William de Godivewud (of Good-
wood) his man touching arrears of the latter's accounts while he
was bailiff of Halnaker.33 In 1234 William de St. John was
pardoned a demand in respect of service which he had failed to
perform in the parts of Wales in respect of a fee (in Newbery by
Dartford, Kent ?) held of the archbishopric of Canterbury; and
William de Ros, who had married William's daughter, was pardoned
for the same default in respect of the same fee.34 See Eudes the
Sewer, n. 12.
William de St. John gave several charters to Boxgrove, naming
Adam de Port his father, Mabel his mother, and Godeude or Gode-
held his wife; one of them is dated 1222.35 William, who had
sons Robert, Adam, and William,36 died in or about 1241, and in
1242-3 his son, Robert de St. John, held 12 fees in Halnaker of
Hugh de Aubigny, earl of Arundel.37 In 1253 Robert obtained a
grant of free warren in Warnford and Chawton, Hants., Halnaker,
Strettington, West Strettington, Goodwood (Godyvewod'), Wal-
berton and Barnham, Suss., and (West) Shefford, Berks.38 The
first 2 places and the last were members of the honor of Basing,
the remainder belonged to the honor of Halnaker. His charter
exempting the prior of Boxgrove's tenants from suit of court at
Halnaker was exemplified in 1285.39 Robert de St. John was
living in 1267, but was lately deceased on 7 April, 1269.40 In the
former year custody of the castle of Farnham was committed to
Isabel countess of Arundel to keep as Robert de St. John had it.41
In the same year Robert, having resigned the custody of Porchester
castle, it was committed to his son, John de St. John.4
42
The last-named held in 1275 of Robert de Mohaut 12 fees in
Halnaker, Barnham, Walberton, Middleton, (North) Mundham,
Hunston, Keynor, Birdham, Itchenor, Gunton, Tadham and
Hampnet, Suss.43 He had licence to demise to two merchants of
Florence for eight years from Easter, 1276, his manor of Halnaker.44
In 1283 there was a commission to inquire of the recent enlarge-
ment of the old park of Halnaker and as to the fence of the park,
which was so made that deer could enter but could not get out
again, to the injury of the king's ward, Richard son of John Fitz-
Alan.45
In 1290 John demised to John de Mohaut for three years
his manor of Middleton to secure repayment of 575 marks.46 He
died in 1302, holding of Sir Robert de Mohaut the manor of Hal-
naker for 4 fees, with Walberton, Barham and Wodecote; John
his son, aged 30, was his heir.47 Alice his relict had dower in the
manors of Chawton, Hants. and Walberton."
48
It may be suggested that William de Favarches, one of the four
knights who made recognition of the service of the fee of Arundel
in 1166–70 (?), was tenant of land in Walberton, where in 1272
William de Favarches and Olive his wife recovered land and demised
BILTON
59
a moiety for certain lives.49 Geoffrey de Favarches is named in
1279 as mulcted for damage in the forest of the honor.50
John the son of Robert was lord of Halnaker in 1316,51 and as
John de St. John of Basing died in 1329, holding of the honor of
Arundel the manor of Halnaker of Robert de Mohaut for 12 fees,
of which the following fees were parcel:
William de St. George [1] fee in Todham and Le Potte.
Richard Dummer I fee in Keynor and West Hampnett.
Thomas de Badham fee in Hampnett le Moraunt.
William de Hunstan fee in Hunston.
Henry de Hamptonette fee in West Hampnett.
Heirs of Walter de Hamptonett fee in Hampnett.
William de Chenny fee in Itchenor.
Heirs of Robert de Sortell fee in Birdham.
John de Argentem fee in Mundham.
Heirs of Richard de Lyons fee
Heirs of John de Mouun and fee
John de Ayott and fee in Ayott.
Heirs of Thomas de Senebech
} in Compton.
fee in Halnaker. 52
Hugh son and heir of John de St. John was aged nearly 19 at
his father's death.53 In addition to the above fees and many
belonging to the honor of Basing the heirs of George de Charneles
held 1 fee in Bilton, Warws. (Bulton in Donesmor ').54
Hugh de St. John died in 1336 holding the manor of Halnaker
with its members in Barnham and Birdham, the latter demised to
William de Hunston knt.,55 a park 2 leagues in circuit, 10 marks
rent from the manor of Woodcote held for life by Geoffrey de Ledes
by demise of Hugh's father, and the manors of Walberton and
Middleton, as of the barony of Mohaut for 12 fees. The following
knights' fees were held of the manor of Halnaker :
Todham
Le Potte
Keynor
West Hampnett/
Hunston
Ynthrop
West Hampnett
Compton
Kipston
H Ha
grove)
Elbridge
I
I
Hal Hal Hal
~ ~ ~ ~
and
Late held by William de St.
George, deceased, whose heir
was in the king's wardship.
Edward de St. John and
Richard le Dummere.
Godfrey de Hunstane.
Roger de Hamptonette and
John de Westerton.
The same Roger.
John de Lyons, who also held
Henry de Mohun's tenements.
Heirs of William de Hunstan,
Henry Jenyver, William atte
Howe.
Mundham
}
Godfrey de Hunstan.
Worth (and Box- (amortised) Prior of Boxgrove.
1 and 1
John Eyot.
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Seabeach
Crockerhill
Birdham
Strettington
Brockhurst
the Weald
West Hampnett)
Itchenor
Avon, Hants.
바​아바타
​10
10
10
in 10
I
174
Richard de Senebeche.
Ralph atte More.
Robert de Bromore.
John Haket, Ralph de St.
Owen and William atte
Cleye (n. 6).
Matilda de Brokhurst.
John Inge, knt.
William de Chenny.
(Barony of Basing.)
Mirabel relict of Hugh married within 6 months of his decease
Thomas de Aspale; Edmund son and heir of Hugh was aged 4
years. 56
Edmund de St. John died in his minority at Calais, on 18 August,
1347; his sisters, Margaret, aged 18, married to John de St.
Philebert knt., and Isabel, aged 14, married to Henry de Burg-
hersh, were his next heirs.57 Burghersh died two years later,
without issue of Isabel, who then married Luke de Ponynges. 58
Partition of the knights' fees was made in 1349 between the two
heirs, recorded in a document of considerable interest. The
knight's fee in Bilton in Dunsmore, Warws., was then held by Giles
de Chauncels of the St. Philiberts. Halnaker was assigned to the
Ponynges. 59
With the names of the tenants of the honor in 1329 and 1336
we may compare the names of certain benefactors to the priory
of Boxgrove, whose gifts were confirmed by William de St. John Ĩ,
probably about 1180-88:
Geoffrey de Colevill gave tithe of Keynor.
Humphrey de Sartilla (? Sartellei, Sortell) 1 virg. in
'Abbinton.
Gilbert de Sartilla 1 virg. in Hampnett.
Geoffrey de Sartilla I virg. in Birdham.
Roger Hay a mill in Hunston.
Ellis de St. George I virg. next Woodcote and 2 a. meadow
in Hunston.
Philip de Tresgoz 25 a. in Northestret.
Peter de Hampton tithe of his mill and I a. (? in Hampnett).
Robert and Thomas de Campellis 4 a. in Seabeach (Sene-
beche ').
It would appear that Nigel, William's tenant at Todham, Bird-
ham, Boxgrove and Hampnett, was ancestor of the Sartellei or
Sortell family. The family were benefactors of Boxgrove, as
appears above. From the chartulary the descent seems to have
been Humphrey-son Gilbert (who married Emma de Faleise)
-son Geoffrey.60 Humphrey de Sartilli was one of the 4 elder
and more responsible knights of the honor of Arundel chosen by
Henry II to make recognition of the knights' service due from the
honor for the army of Wales. 61 In 1205 the sheriff of Sussex was
BILTON-GRAFFHAM
61
directed to give the bishop of Chichester seisin of the land of Gilbert
de Sartilli in Woodcote.62 He was probably a Norman.
As to Bilton, Warwicks., William de St. John I bore witness
that his grandfather Robert de Hay gave the church to Boxgrove,
but the town remained a member of the honor of Halnaker. This
honor his father Roger received with Robert's daughter and gave
Bilton to his knight Walter son of Ingan (or Ingald). Roger de
Craft, son-in-law of Walter, who held the town of William de St.
John, had promised to pay to the monks the annual pension of 75.
which they had had from Robert de Hay's time.63 Walter son of
Hingam and Mary his wife (who had half the vill as her dowry)
gave land in Bilton to Pipewell; and Roger de Craft, as Walter's
heir, confirmed the same according to a promise he had made
when he married Beatrice the daughter of Walter, in presence of
Ralph the priest, Geoffrey and Robert de Craft, his father and
brother. William de St. John confirmed the gift, and Roger son of
Roger de Craft added to it.64
1. V. C. H. Sussex, i. 431N. 2. V. C. H. Hants. i. 4776. 3. Testa,
2316. 4. Cal. Inquis. ix. 39. 5. Round, Cal. of Docs. France, intr.
P. xlviii.
In III Picot, his nephew Richard and niece Cecily obtained
fraternity of the monastery of Spalding; Mon. Anglic. iii. 218. 6. Round,
Cal. of Docs. France, n. 921. 7. Ibid. n. 922. 8. Ibid.
9. Ibid. n. 923.
10. Chartulary, Harl. MS. 2110, f. 70. 11. Ibid. 12. Ibid. f. 71. 13. Round,
Cal. of Docs. France, n. 924. 14. Round in The Genealogist, N.S. xvi. 4;
Mon. Anglic. iv. 646. 15. Ibid. v. 14; Round, Anct. Charters (Pipe R.
Soc.), 13; Round, Calendar, p. 510. 16. Pipe R. 31 Hen. I, 43.
This entry
is not under Hants. as Mr. Round states, but under 'Honor de Arundel.'
17. Red Bk. 201. 18. Pipe R. 11 Hen. II, III. 19. Ibid. 17 Hen. II, 135.
20. Pipe R. 33 Hen. II, p. III. 21. Mon. Angl. iv. 646b; Round, Cal. of Docs.
France, 281 (1162), 305 (1174). 22. Boxgrove Chartul., f. 18; Round, The
Genealogist, N.S. xvi. 4. 23. Round, Calendar, n. 928; Mon. Anglic.
iv. 646, nos. 7-8. 24. Pipe R. I Ric. I, 199.
25. R. de Oblat. 41.
Olive is named in Boxgrove Charters (f. 30d). 26. Suss. Feet of F. n. 118.
27. R. Cur. Reg. ii. 91.
28. R. Lit. Claus. i. 135b. 29. R. de Fin. 477.
30. He refers for proof to charters in the Boxgrove Chartul., ff. 31, 32d, 33d.
31. Bk. of Fees, 863.
32. Bracton's Note Bk., nos. 410, 421; Close R.
342. 33. Pat. R. 81.
34. Close R. 370-1. 35. Cott. MS. Claud. A.
vi. ff. 31-34.
36. Ibid. f. 82. 37. Testa, 222. 38. Cal. Pat. R. 245.
39. Ibid. 187. 40. Ibid. 380. 41. Ibid. 46. 42. Ibid. 67. 43. Cal.
Inquis. ii. 84. 44. Cal. Pat. R. 206. 45. Ibid. 67.
46. Ibid. 346.
47. Cal. Inquis. iv. 61-2. 48. Cal. Close R. 563, 566. 49. Suss. Feet
of F. ii. 74.
50. Plac. de quo war. 7526.
51. Feudal Aids, v. 141.
52. Cal. Inquis. vii. 186; viii. 51. 53. Ibid. vii. 183.
54. Ibid. 187.
55. Cal. of Misc. Inq. ii. 373. 56. Cal. Inquis. viii. 50-1. Cf. ibid. ix. 41.
57. Cal. Inquis. ix. 37 ff.
58. Ibid. 243. 59. Cal. Close R. 19 ., 68–72.
60. Cott. MS. Claud. A. vi. ff. 70d, 67, 75d. 61. Red Bk. 200. 62. R.
Lit. Claus. i. 19; R. de Fin. 244.
63. Cott. MS. Claud. A. vì. f. 38.
64. Cott. MS. Calig. A. xiii. ff. 61-64; see Dugdale, Warw. i. 26.
XV.
Four Frenchmen in 1086 held Graffham, Suss., of earl Roger,
namely Robert (and) Ralph (of him) 4 hides, Rolland 2 hides
and Ernald 2 hides.
Robert was Robert Fitz-Tetbald and Ralph was either Ralph
de Langetot or Ralph de Chesney. This Ralph also held of Robert
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in Buddington and Bignor on the honor of Petworth (n. 1 (4)) and
had a haw in Arundel.¹ Another Ralph held of Robert Fitz-
Tetbald, who held of earl Roger, I hide in East Wittering, 4 hides.
in Glatting and 3 hides in Stopham. See n. 1 (4). This last-
named Ralph may have been ancestor of Saunzaver.
Ralph de Keidneto confirmed a donation made to William
our clerk of Medlers' by the monks of Lewes; he was to have
tithe of Ralph's demesne, paying 7s. a year to the nuns of Malling.
Among the witnesses were Robert de Alta Ripa and William his
son.2 Roger de Caisneto, who married Alice de Langetot, gave
to Lewes priory tithes of his land of Graffham, the church of
'Meslirs' (this appears to be an early form of the name Madehurst),*
and 3s. rent from Hugh de Caisneto.5 Hugh de Chaisnei and
William his brother attested another Lewes charter." William
de Caisneto confirmed to Lewes the gift made by his father Roger ;
Miles de Langetot attested the charter."
3
'
Hugh de Dive and William his son gave land and wood at
Broadhurst (in Horsted Keynes); the tithes of Fulk of ' Meslirs
and of Robert son of Morin of' Meslirs were similarly given;
William de Dive gave of his fee at Eastbourne 17s. 4d. worth of
land for the soul of Cecily, his mother; Hugh de Dive gave land
at Buryhurst; William de Dive gave land at Brightford when he
became a monk. These references to the family of Dive have no
reference to this particular tenement.
10
The descent of this fee, which presents some interesting
genealogical particulars, followed that of Wicken or Wyke Dyve,
Northants., which Roger' held at the Survey of Robert de Oilgi ; 9
Roger' also held 4 hides in Ducklington of the same Robert ;
land in Deddington of the fee of the bishop of Bayeux, which was
subsequently held by the tenants of this fee of the king in
chief. Ralph de Langetot held land in Campton, Beds., of Walter
Giffard.11
.
8
The Rev. H. E. Salter has elaborated the descent of this
branch of the Chesny family in an excursus in the Chartulary of
Eynsham (i. 411-23). This will be dealt with under the honor
of Wallingford.
Roger de Chesny, by Alice de Langetot his wife, had issue Hugh,
whose name occurs in the Pipe Roll of 1130, where it is shown that
he obtained remission of danegeld in the counties of Oxford (22s.),
Northampton (2s.) and Bedford (6s.) and was pardoned 30s. 4d.
out of 15 marks penalty imposed on Totmore hundred (which
included Easeborne hundred, Suss.), in which Graffham lay, for a
murder.12 Hugh married Dionisia de Bereford, whom Mr. Salter
tentatively identifies as daughter of Walkelin Waard. She gave
to Warin de Plaiz with Alice her daughter in marriage 1 hide in
Barford, Oxon.13 In 1170 Ralph de Camera and Alfwin de Melliers
accounted in Sussex for 20s. for a disseisin made after judgment
(super assisam), which sum was subsequently pardoned to William
de Chesney.14 During the period 1160-76 William earl of Arundel
notified his men of the honor of Arundel that he confirmed the
agreement made by Ralph de Chesney with the abbot of Eynsham
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touching the said Ralph's land of Graffham and Mellers; the
witnesses including William 'Bloet' the grantor's son, Humphrey
de Millieres, Roger de Millieres, Richard Aguillun (Aculeus '),
and Godfrey Aguillun.15
son.
24
I
Ralph de Chesny, son of Hugh and Dionisia, held in 1166 of
the honor of Wallingford 2 fees.16 He left a daughter and heir,
Lucy, who married Guy de Dive, a Norman, described in 1189
as the king's marshal,17 bailiff of Gavray in 1195 18 and constable
of Chinon in 1201-1205.19 On the loss of Normandy Guy had
seisin of his lands in Oxfordshire, except his castle of Deddington
which the king retained.20 He and Lucy his wife gave land in
Deddington to the abbey of Stanley, Wilts., 21 and they confirmed
to dame Alice de Chesny, Lucy's aunt, the gift of land in Barford
made to her by Dionisia de Chesny, Lucy's grandmother.22 Guy
was deceased in July, 1214, when his relict was given in marriage
to Robert, brother of William de Harecurt.23 In 1224 custody
of Guy's land and children was committed to John de Bassinge-
burn, whose daughter (Margaret) had been married to Guy's eldest
The fine was 100 marks, but the grantor became liable for
Guy's debts to the crown, amounting to £372 17s. 9d.2 The heir
was William de Dive, whose guardian in 1229 obtained a writ to
levy an aid from the tenants of the heir's lands to defray the Crown
debts.25 In 1238 William de Dive was impleading Eva de Gray
(relict of Ralph Murdac, son of Beatrice, sister of Hugh de Chesny)
for the moiety of a third part of 2 fees in Deddington.26 In 1243
the service of 1 fee held by William de Dive in Merlirs' and Graff-
ham, Suss., was assigned to the dower of the countess of Arundel
and in the following year to the pourparty of John Fitz-Alan.27 In
1248 Hugh Saunzaver acknowledged the right of William de Dive
in the manor of Bignor, and the latter for 40 marks granted it to Hugh
to hold by the service of 3 knights and doing 3 weeks' suit to
William's court of Woneworth (in Graffham).28 This fine indicates
that the fee of Bignor, Graffham and Buddington, held of the
honor of Petworth, was held by Saunzaver of Chesny, the mesne
tenant. This view is strengthened by the circumstance of Henry
de Percy recording his claim on the above fine. William de Dive of
Deddington was exhorted in 1258 to assist the king with a contri-
bution in aid of the Welsh expedition.29 He died in December,
1261, holding the manor of Wyke Dyve, Northants., of the Earl
of Warwick for I fee.30 In February following the king took the
homage of John de Dive, son and heir of William, who had livery
of lands in Northamptonshire and Sussex.31 John was in arms
against the king at Evesham, but had letters of protection dated
28 Nov., 1265.32 Probably he died of wounds received in the
battle, for on 30 January following Sibyl, late wife of John de Dyve,
the king's enemy, out of his lands in Deddington, Ducklington and
Wyke Dyve, lately committed to Osbert Giffard, had by the king's
clemency the manor and park of Ducklington.33 In 1268 Osbert
Giffard had a grant of the wardship of John's land and heirs,34
and in 1272 an extent was made, which showed that he had held
the manor of Woneworth in Graffham of the earl of Arundel for
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I fee, the hall and lands of Wyke Dyve of Sir Hugh de Plecy, of
whom he also held the manor of Ducklington by the service of I
fee, and the manor of Deddington, held of the king in chief by the
service of a third part of 2 fees; Henry his son was then aged 21
or 22 years.35 Henry died in 1277, having enfeoffed Dame Edelina
Corbet of the manor of Wyke Dyve, then held of Sir Hugh de
Plessy for fee; and holding the old castle of Deddington with
the members of the king in chief for 1 fee; John his son was aged
4 years.36 Wardship of the land and heir was granted to queen
Eleanor, but the marriage of the heir and wardship of the land of
Deddington was later given to Alice, late wife of the said Henry.37
She died in 1282, having demised the manor of Barford, Oxon.,
to Richard de Seyton, then deceased.38 In 1295 John son and
heir of Henry Dyve did homage and obtained livery of his lands.39
In 1292 he had obtained a charter of free warren in Deddington
and Ducklington, Oxon., and in Graffham, Suss.40 He died in
December, 1310, holding the manor of Ducklington of Hugh son.
and heir of Hugh de Plecy, a minor, for 2 fees, and a third part of
the manor of Deddington, including a decayed castle, held of the
king in chief for a third of 2 fees; Henry his son was aged 22
years.41 This Henry died in 1327 holding Wouneworth manor
in Graffham of the earl of Arundel for fee (sic), the manor of
Ducklington and a third part of the manor of Deddington; also
lands which others held of him in Little Minster, Barford St. Michael
and Little Barford, Oxon.; John his son was aged 7 years. 42 In
1330 the said heir held of Edmund earl of Kent 1 fee in Graffham
and Midhurst, Suss.43 For some account of this family see Baker,
Hist. of Northants., ii. 254. There were several other families
of the name, having no connexion with this line, viz. Dive of
Hinxton, Cambs., and Corby, Lincs., tenants of the honor of Bourn
and the bishop of Lincoln; Dive of Brampton, Northants.; and
Dive of Thundridge, Herts., and Balderton, Notts.
13. Cal. of
15. Salter,
1. V. C. H. Suss. i. 421. 2. Lewes Chartulary, Vesp. F. xv. f. 133d.
3. Anct. Charters (Pipe R. Soc.), 12. 4. Meslirs, Merlirs may, however, be a
slurred sounding of Missel-hurst or Merle-hurst. 5. Round, Calendar, 510.
6. Lewes Chartul., Vesp. E. xv. f. 135. 7. Ibid. 8. Round, Calendar,
510-II.
9. V. C. H. Northants, i. 334b.
10. Dom. Bk. i. 158b.
11. V. C. H. Beds. i. 232. 12. Pipe R. 31 Hen. I, pass.
Anct. Deeds, iv. A. 7056. 14. Pipe R. 16 Hen. II, 137.
Chartul. of Eynsham, n. 86.
16. Red Bk. 309. 17. Cal. Chart. R. i. 324.
18. Stapleton, Norman Excheq. ii. lxviii. 19. R. Norman. 36; R. Chart.
103.
20. R. Lit. Claus. i. 7.
21. Mon. Anglic. v. 565. 22. Cal. of
Anct. D. iv. A. 7056. Cf. Abbrev.
23. R. Lit. Claus. i. 168.
24. Excerpt. e R. Fin. i. 115.
25. Pat. R. 271.
26. Close R. 137.
27. Close R. 112, 250. 28. Suss. Feet of F. i. n. 460. 29. Cal. Pat. R.
600. 30. Cal. Inquis. i. 299. 31. Excerpt. e R. Fin. ii. 364, 366, 587.
32. Cal. Pat. 513.
33. Ibid. 541.
34. Ibid. 247.
35. Cal. Inquis.
i. 262. 36. Ibid. ii. 139.
37. Cal. Fine R. i. 109, III.
39. Cal. Close R. 415.
40. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 415.
V. 145.
42. Ibid. vii. 10. 43. Ibid. 230.
Placit. 92.
38. Ibid. 175.
41. Cal. Inquis.
HAMBLEDON-UP MARDEN, BOSHAM
65
XVI.
At the Survey of Hampshire William de Percy held 1 hide in
Hambledon which he had acquired in marriage with his wife (Emma
de Port); and Edward held of earl Roger I hide in Hambledon
in the hundred of East Meon or Meon Stoke, Hants.¹
In the time of Stephen Pantulf held 1 fee of William, earl of
Arundel.2 In 1183' Hameledon ' of William Pantulf was amerced
half a mark.³ Possibly William Pantulf held it through Eleanor,
eldest daughter of Joscelin the castellan. See no. I. Some
years earlier, but probably after 1174, Joscelin, brother of queen
Adelaide, gave to Eleanor his eldest daughter Hambledon with the
mills of Winchester and as much of Heyshott, near Petworth, as
would make £15 yearly value, and to Alice his younger daughter £10
worth of land in Heyshott.4 This grant was confirmed by Henry II.5
At a later date Henry de Percy, the donor's eldest son, who died in
1196, gave his demesne in Hambledon and Denmead with his mills
and burgages in Winchester to the canons of St. Lo of Rouen.“
In the year 1200 king John confirmed to the cathedral church
of Winchester inter alia Hambledon.?
In the 13th century the Percies of Petworth were holding a
knight's fee in Hambledon of the St. Johns, as of their honor of
Basing. See V. C. H. Hants. iii. 239.
8
'
1. Dom. Bk. 44b, 46b. 2. Red Bk. 201.
4. Percy Chartul. (Surtees Soc.), 385.
7. R. Chart. 32. 8. Red Bk. 206; Bk. of Fees, 695.
3. Pipe R. 29 Hen. II, 145.
5. Ibid. 387.
6. Ibid. 411.
XVII.
Engeler held of earl Roger in 1086 3 hides in Up Marden; and
of the king 2 hides in Bosham; Ivo held of earl Roger 9 hides in
Mid Lavant (‘Loventone ') and 5 hides in Racton; the earl himself
held Stoughton, and Trotton (? including land in Midhurst, Wen-
ham, Dumpford, and Didling), and Lyminster (? including land in
Ford, Yllesham,' Rustington, Climping, Poling, and West Preston).
The vill of Easebourne was not mentioned in the Survey.
1
Savary son of Cana gave to the priory of Lewes the churches
of Stoughton and Racton and the chapel of Marden. The fuller
deed in the Lewes Chartulary records the assent of Muriel his wife
and his firstborn Ralph and other sons, and adds the church of
Louentune' (Barlavington) and all the 'cerescot.' 2 Savary
also gave, jointly with Muriel his wife, to St. Martin of Sées before
1108 the church of Isemburn' (Easebourne, near Midhurst),
his sons Ralph and Savary, and Ingelger the man of Richard de
Merei, attesting the gift.3 For references to Engelger de Bohun,
who possibly married a daughter of Richard de Meri, see Stapleton,
Observations on the Norman Exchequer, ii. p. xxvi.
In the time of Stephen Savary held 3 fees of William earl of
Arundel. His heir Ralph son of Savary and Gernegan de Palinges
and Ralph son of the said Gernegan gave to the Hospitallers of
III.
F
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HONOR OF ARUNDEL
6
1
St. John land in Poling.5 In 1157 Savary son of Savary and
Geldwin son of Savary each owed 100 marks for their land, which
had been the subject of one agreement, apparently after the death
of their brother Ralph. A Gildewin son of Sanzaver' occurs
about the same time." In 1160 Geldwin was pardoned 50 marks
of his said fine. Stapleton has preserved a record of this agree-
ment, which was confirmed by Henry II, in 1158,9 according to
Mr. Eyton. To Geldwin or Goldewin son of Savary were by it
to remain the manor of Ease borne with Midhurst, the vill of Rusting-
ton, his portion of Prestebrok,' a moiety of the wood of Strodewic,'
the fee of Ralph de St. George in Trotton, hide of the land of
'Liperinges,' the fee of Gernagod in Poling and Horemere, the fee
of Richard de St. George of the woodland between the New Bridge
and Lacneppe, the fee of Newick and Salscombe, the burgesses
whom his father Savary had in Chichester temp. Henry I, 20 librates
of land given to his brother Ralph son of Savary by William earl
of Arundel, namely the fee of Ralph de St. George of Didling and
of Richard de St. George of Dumpford, land of the manor of Harting
and of the manor of Burne, which William de Chesny, Gernagod,
Richard Ruffus and Thomas de Asevill then held, to hold all these
tenements as Ralph son of Savary held them at his death.10 Savary
son of Savary, who is described as heir to Engelger de Bohun, died
without issue, apparently before 1168, his heir being his brother
Geldwin.
6
Geldwin son of Savary, by charter attested by Estrangia his
wife, confirmed to the monks of Boxgrove the mill of Butheswell,
which William de Chesny had given to them.11 In 1168 he
accounted for I mark for scutage on one fee, which the earl of
Arundel claimed against him, although Geldwin denied the service.12
His son Franco de Bohun succeeded, before 1186, in which year
the sheriff of Sussex accounted for £14 11s. 6d. of the farm of
'Middeherst' que fuit Franconis and 67s. 2d. for corn of the same
vill, 20s. 5d. of the farm of Rustincton' land of the same Franco
and 378. 3d. of the issues of the same.13 This temporary forfeiture
was the result of Henry's rancour against Franco, of which mention
occurs below. In 1187 Esseburn' and ' Midherst' late of Franco
yielded £19 9s. 4d. and 'Rustinton' 60s. He obtained a royal
charter dated on the last day of March, 1 Richard I (1190), at
Gorron, confirming to him Ford, Climping, Rustington, Preston
and (Mid) Lavant, as his inheritance, and Bohun (in Normandy)
with its liberties and free customs, to hold by hereditary right,
as beneficially as Savary son of Savary, heir of Ennilger de Bohun,
held them at his death. Further the king willed that the fine
which Ralph de Arden alleged (dicit) as having been made with
him by Franco (de Bohun) at Caen, before Henry the king's father,
should not be hurtful to Franco or his heirs, because we know
that that deed was against reason and owing to the indignation
of the said Henry our father, which he had against Franco and his
(men), and not of right (ex jure).' With clause quare volumus that
Franco and his heirs should hold by hereditary right the aforesaid
lands and tenements, and furthermore Midhurst and Easebourne
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67
and all the lands of Savary son of Cana, Ralph his son and Savary
son of Savary in Normandy and England, temp. Henry I and
Henry II.14
Franco died before 1196, in which year Engeler son of Franco
de Bohun accounted for 60s. for scutage in Sussex.15 Engeler
made an agreement before King Richard at Le Vaudreuil (Eure),
on Wednesday before Palm Sunday, 1199, by the testimony of
archbishop Hubert, Savary bishop of Bath, William Marshal,
count Robert of Sens, William de Humez constable of Normandy,
Ralph Tessun, Robert de Harewecurt, Roger de Tony, John de
Preaux, Peter de Preaux, Fulk Paynel, William de Mortemer,
Robert de Hai and the king's barons, sealed in form of a cyrograph
by both parties, viz. between Ralph de Ardern, plaintiff, and
Eruinger de Boun, tenant, respecting the whole honor of Boun,
Ford, Climping, the moiety of Yllesham,' Preston (Presinton '),
Lavant, £10 worth of land in Rustington, the service of Ralph
Sanzaver and Ilbert for land in Racton and the service of Ralph
Kenion; whereby Eruinger released to Ralph and his heirs the
manor of Ford, Climping, a moiety of the vill of Yllesham, the
service of Ralph Sanzaver and Ilbert de Rakinton for their tenants
of Racton and the service of Ralph Kenion, and £10 worth of land
in Lavant; moreover the whole of the remainder of the inheritance
late of Ralph son of Savary or Eruinger de Boun in Normandy
and England was to remain to Eruinger and his heirs.16 In 1207
the amercement of Engelger de Bohun in a plea against Richard
de Chesny touching land in Rogate and Elham, Suss., was
pardoned. In 1212 Thomas de Ardern, son of Ralph de Ardern,
was again at suit with Engelger about the inheritance,18 ‹ Juinger
de Boun proffering 100 marks for a writ of mort d'ancestor against
Thomas touching I fee in Ford, and against the prior of Sholebred
touching fee in Lavant.19 Later in the year Thomas de Ardern
acknowledged that I fee in Ford and fee, except 7 virgates, in
Lavant were the right of Eruinger, who granted to Thomas the
fee in Lavant, £12 of land in Pressinton, and other lands there
for fee.20
The pleadings in the suit record a somewhat different
agreement; any deficiency in Prescinton' to be made good in
Yllesham, which was a member of Ford. For this agreement
Eruinger gave Thomas 50 marks.21 Prescinton alias Pressinton
appears to be West Preston in Rustington.22
1
<
In 1213 Engelger de Bohun is named as one of the king's
marshals in Normandy.23 He died towards the end of 1218 in the
Holy Land,24 and was succeeded by his brother Savary, who had a
grant in 1216 of £15 of land late of William Fitz-Alan in Stoke,
Suss.25
Early in 1233 Lucy de Ardern, late wife of Thomas de
Ardern, released for 100 marks to Savary de Bohun her claim of
dower in the manors of Ford and Climping.26 Savary held 3 fees
in 1242-3 in Midhurst and Ford of Hugh earl of Arundel,27 and in 1244
the service of his 3 fees in those places and in Rustington, Climping,
Poling, Wenham (Rogate), Trotton, Dumpford and Didling was
assigned to the pourparty of John Fitz-Alan.28 He died in 1246,
when Franco his son and heir had terms for payment of his father's
:
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debts.29 In 1259 John de Gatesden, the younger, held the manors
of Trotton, Didling and Dumpford of Franco de Bohun for fee,30
and in 1272 the same Franco held 3 fees of John Fitz-Alan, doing
suit to the court of Arundel and ward there for 40 days in time of
war at his own charges.31 He died in the ensuing year holding the
manors of Midhurst, Ford, and Rustington of the earl of Arundel
for 3 fees; his son Sir John de Bohun was aged 26 years. 32
In 1279 the same John claimed free warren and assize of bread
&c. in his manors of Midhurst, Ford, Rustington, Easebourne and
a free borough in Midhurst by prescription.33 Before 1280 John,
son and heir of Franco, gave land in Bere, Dorset, to the nuns of
Tarrant.34 He died in 1284, leaving John his son, aged 9.35
In 1285 Anthony de Bek, bishop of Durham, as trustee, settled
£100 worth of land in Ford on Joan, late the wife of John de Bohun,
for her life, with remainder to John son and heir of John de Bohun
and his heirs.36 This Joan was daughter and heir of John de Baa
(Bathonia) by Eleanor his wife.37 See the settlements made upon
her children in Sussex Feet of Fines (ii. 133, 145). She died in 1328
possessed of lands in the soke of Waltham, Lincs.38 John son and
heir of John died in his minority in 1291.39 James his brother
and heir proved his age in 1302,40 but died in 1307,41 leaving John
his son, then a minor, who proved his age in 1323.42 He held 31
fees in Midhurst, Rustington and Ford in 1330 of Edmund earl of
Kent.43
The manor of Bosham was given to John Marshal, brother of
William Marshal, afterwards earl of Pembroke, by King Richard
and confirmed in 1200 by King John to William Marshal, brother
and heir of John Marshal.44
The manor of Stoughton, as a member of Bosham, was parcel
of the possessions of Hugh le Bigod in 1252, when he had a grant
of free warren there.45 In 1279 by fine between the king and Roger
le Bigod, earl of Norfolk and marshal of England, the manor of
Bosham and its appurtenances and the manor of Stoughton with
other manors were settled upon the earl and his issue with remainder
to the king.46 It was presented that year that Hugh Bigod, Roger's
father, had made warren in Stoughton without warrant, whereupon
earl Roger lost his warren there.47 The earl died in 1307 holding
inter alia the manor of Stoughton, Suss., of the earl of Arundel by
the rent of 1 lb. pepper yearly at the earl's manor of Westbourne.48
I
1. Round, Calendar, 510. 2. Vesp. F. xv. f. 135. 3. Round, Calendar,
238. 4. Red Bk. 201. 5. R. Chart. 16b. 6. Pipe R. 3 Hen. II, p. 80;
4 Hen. II, p. 182; 5 Hen. II, p. 60. 7. Lewes; Vesp. F. xv. f. 138.
8. Pipe R. 6 Hen. II, p. 55. 9. Exemplified and confirmed to John de
Bohun of Midhurst in 1361; Cal. Pat. R. 535. 10. Stapleton, Norman
Excheq. ii. p. xxxii ff.; a better codex is the exemplification of Henry II's
charter in Cal. Pat. R. 1358-61, p. 535. 11. Ibid. xxxiv.; Cott. MS. Claud.
A. vi. f. 75. 12. Pipe R. 14 Hen. II, p. 194. 13. Ibid. 32 Hen. II,
p. 184.
14. Cal. Pat. R. 1354-61, p. 534. 15.
16. Abbrev. Placit. 88.
Trin:, 14 John.
17. R. Lit. Claus. i. 93.
Abbrev. Placit. 86b.
Red Bk. 113 and note.
18. Pleas in co. Suss.,
20. Suss. Feet of F. i. 33.
19.
21. Abbrev. Placit. 88.
Claus. i. 164.
24.
Feet of F. i. n. 273.
22. Cf. Suss. Feet of F. i. n. 307.
Ibid. 383b, 404b, 429. 25. Ibid. 2486.
27. Testa, 222. 28.
23. R. Litt.
26. Suss.
29. Excerpt.
Close R. 250.
LYMINSTER
69
31. Ibid. i. 279.
30. Cal. Inquis. i. 126.
Placit. de quo war. 756b.
36. Suss. Feet of F. ii.
38. Cal. Inquis. vii. 97.
34. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 228.
133. 37. Cal. Close R.
39. Cal. Fine R. i. 301.
42. Cal. Close R. 651.
41. Cal. Fine R. i. 553.
44. R. Chart. 47b; Bk. of Fees, 71. 45. Cal.
46. Suss. Feet of F. ii. n. 891.
47. Placit. de quo
48. Cal. Inquis. iv. 292.
e R. Fin. i. 451.
32. Ibid. ii. 27.
33.
35. Cal. Inquis. ii. 322.
1291, pp. 184, 215.
40. Cal. Close R. 561.
43. Cal. Inquis. vii. 230.
Chart. R. i. 375.
war. 755b.
XVIII.
Earl Roger in 1086 held Lyminster (20 hides), of which some
portion later belonged to the fee of Arundel.
Henry I gave to Reginald Hareng 10 librates of land pertaining
to Chichester, because severed, namely Shopwyke for 100s. and
tilled land outside Chichester for 100s. It was not known in 1212
how Reginald's heirs held the land.¹ Ralph Hareng gave to the
priory of Lewes the tithe of Shopwyke.2 Henry II gave to William
earl of Arundel (land) of his demesne which the earl attorned to
military service and in 1166 (?) Reginald Hareng held a part of it
for I fee.³
In 1230 Ralph II, bishop of Chichester, confirmed to the canons
of the Causeway of Arundel land there given by William Harang
and by Reginald Harang with the assent of William Harang his
heir; Emma mother of William Harang with his assent gave 8s.
rent from land of Bedefund for lights of the church, being of her
maritagium.¹ Land held by William Hareng near Arundel was
given to the priory of St. Bartholomew of Pynham.5 William
Harang married Alice or Felicia, one of the five daughters and
coheirs of Ranulf de Broc of Chetton, Salop (d. c.1179), by Damietta
his wife (d. 1204); Isabel or Sibyl de Broc married (1) William de
Arundel, (2) Ralph Belet (?), and died s.p. in 1253; the eldest
daughter, Edelina (d. 1221), married Stephen de Turneham (d. 1214)
and had issue (see Warenne, n. 5, and Eudes the Sewer, n. 4).6
William Harang left issue (?) Guy Hareng, lord of Lyminster, who
gave to Ralph Noth a tenement in Lyminster, and 5 daughters,
heirs to their brother (?), of whom Felicia married
Wauncy, father of Nicholas de Wauncy, and Emma, the elder
daughter, married
Hotoft and had issue Peter de Hotot,
7
father of Robert de Hotot.
Ranulf de Broc gave land to the canons of the Causeway of
Arundel. Edeline de Broc gave to Sir Richard de Dol a native.
of Chertsand (? near Polstead), and Edeline de Fellech released to
Sir Hugh de Dol her right of dower in the tenements of William de
Sante Fande.⁹
In 1235 Geoffrey de Wykes for 15 marks released to Peter de
Hotot and Nicholas de Wauncy So acres of land in Shopwyke,
touching which they had been vouched to warranty by Ralph
Belet and Sybil his wife.10 In 1236 Adam de Bedinges and Margaret
his wife made a release of similar premises to the same parties.11
In 1242-3 Peter de Hotot held 1 fee in Lyminster of the earl of
Arundel; 12 in 1243 the service of Peter's fee in Lyminster and
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HONOR OF ARUNDEL
4
Shopwyke was assigned to the dower of the countess of Arundel
and in the ensuing year was assigned to the pourparty of John.
Fitz-Alan.13 In 1246 terms were assigned to Peter de Hottot for
payment of £34 of the crown debts of William Harang, his grand-
father.14 In 1249 Nicholas de Wauncy, for 70 marks, acknowledged
that fee in Shopwyke, which Ralph Belet and Sibyl his wife held
in Sibyl's dower of Nicholas' inheritance, was the right of Peter de
Hottot, subject to the said dower, to hold of the said Nicholas ;
William Brito put in his claim.15 Robert de Hotot succeeded
his father soon after 1253. He was described as a knight in 1276,
and in 1284, with Hawise his wife, he acknowledged to Isabel de
Mortemer that the manor of Shopwyke was her right, and she
granted it to them.16 In 1284-5 the same Robert held 1 fee in
Lyminster of the lord of Arundel.17 Fines levied in 1306 between
Rolland Huscarl and Margaret his wife and Ralph de Heure and
Hawise his wife touching the manor of Shopwyke and lands in
Lyminster and Bromhurst point to Robert de Hotot having left
two daughters his heirs, 18 and that the interest of the Wauncy
family in the tenement had ended. Hawise late the wife of Ralph
de Heure held at her death in 1318 the manor of Shopwyke of
the earl of Arundel for fee; Thomas de Heuere, her son, was aged
mnz
20 years.19 This Thomas held fee in Shopwyke in 1330 of Edmund
earl of Kent,20 and the following year he had a grant of free warren
there and in his lands at Ifeld, Heure and Halsted, Kent.21
1. Bk. of Fees, 73.
2. Round, Calendar, p. 510.
3. Red Bk. 201.
4. Cat. of Anct. D. v. A. 11537. 5. Turner and Coxe, Cat. of Bodleian
Chs. 576.
6. Eyton, Salop, i. 170-8; x. 214 ff.; Round, The King's
Serjeants, 99 ff.; Cal. Inquis. i. 84, 99.
7. Turner and Coxe, Cal. of
Bodleian Chs. 580. 8. Vide sup. A. 11537. 9. Hist. MSS. Com., Rep.
vii. 5986. 10. Suss. Feet of F. i. n. 322.
11. Ibid. n. 332. 12. Testa,
13. Close R. 112, 250. 14. Excerpt. e R. Fin. ii. 1.
Feet of F. i. n. 508. 16. Suss. Feet of F. ii. n. 966.
18. Suss. Feet of F. ii. nos. 1198, 1209.
20. Ibid. vii. 230. 21. Cal. Chart. R. iv. 199.
222.
I.
15. Suss.
17. Feud. Aids,
19. Cal. Inquis. vi.
V. 128.
85.
XIX.
Angmering, Suss., was held of earl Roger at the Survey in
moieties by Warin and Geoffrey, each holding 4 hides.
From the Charter Roll of the 7th year of king John we learn
that a certain Guy, with the consent of Nigel de Broc and his
brothers, gave to his nephew Ranulf de Broc, son of Oyn Purcel,
the whole land of Angmering (Angemare') and that Henry II
confirmed this and other grants to the said Ranulf de Broc, his
usher and marshal.¹ In 1156 Ranulf de Broc was pardoned 8s. 3d.
of danegeld in Hampshire, 2 possibly in respect of his wife Dametta's
estate of Frollebury.3 In the same year R(obert ?) de Broc was
pardoned scutage of 20s. of the fee of the bishop of Winchester,4
doubtless in respect of I fee which Robert de Broc held of the
bishop in 1166.5
Nigel de Broc was with the king's court at
Argentan in 1156–7, and at Nottingham and York in 1158.6 From
1158 to 1168 Ranulf de Broc was the receiver of the forest of
ANGMERING
71
9
'Witingelega,' Hants." In 1166 he held fee of the earl of Arundel
14
(as described at n. 18),8 and I fee at Pepperharrow of William de
Winlesores, which he had then recently acquired by purchase.¹º
In the following year his vill of Pitt, Hants., was amerced for forest
trespass,¹¹ and in 1168 he was pardoned his share of a murder fine
in King's Somborne hundred.12 In 1175 'Otteringburne' (Hants.)
of Ranulf de Broc was amerced.13 The township of Angmering
(Hangemara ') of Randulf de Broc was pardoned a mark of default
in 1176 by the king's writ.14 Ranulf died in 1179 or shortly after,
and in 1189 6½ years' rent for land of the honor of Arundel at 60s.
per annum was charged against his name.15 Nigel de Broc also
owed 50s. in Martinsgrave on the honor of Arundel for year.16
In 1197 Nigel de Broc demised to Robert Avenell and William
his brother pasture for their beasts in the common pasture of
'Tuffesdon in Selkeden,' Suff.,17 and in the same year confirmed
the grant by fine.18 In 1201 a grand assize was to be summoned
between Godfrey bishop of Winchester and Nigel de Broc, tenant,
whether Nigel owed the service of 1 fee for the land of Brayfield,
Hants., to the bishop or not; 19 from which it might appear that
Nigel was heir of Robert, who held of the bishop in 1166.
King John confirmed in 1205 to Stephen de Turnham and
Edeline his wife, daughter (and coheir) of Ranulf de Broc, inter
alia the land of Angmering (as described above) and the land of
Pepper Harrow, Surrey, and Thorncumb, Dorset.20 Edeline de
Broc died in 1221, when a mandate was issued to the sheriff of
Hampshire to take her land and chattels into the king's hands.21
Angmering did not descend in her heirs, for in 1229 Robert de Broc
released to Ranulf de Broc his right in 2 carucates in Angmering,
for which Ranulf gave him all his land in Merwenedenn and 40
marks besides.22 Two years later Ranulf gave to Ralph bishop
of Chichester all his land at Graylingwell, Suss.23 In 1233, and
again in 1237, Walter de Dunstanvill and Ranulf del Brok were
taking steps for a determination of the bounds between their
respective lands in Burpham and Angmering.24 In the last-named
year two men were liberated who had been incarcerated for taking
the king's venison in Windsor forest with the son of Ranulf del
Broc. 25
In 1242-3 Ranulf del Brok held fee in Angmering of the earl
of Arundel; 26 in 1243 the said Ranulf's service there was assigned
to the countess of Arundel in dower, and in 1244 to the pourparty
of Roger de Sumery and Nicholaa his wife.27 Before this date
Ranulf had enfeoffed Richard, abbot of Evesham, and his convent
of the manor of Trotsworth (in Egham), Surrey.28 In 1242-3
Henry de Stowell and Robert Pipard held 1 hide in New Windsor
by serjeanty of the barony of Ranulf del Brok.29 In 1256 William
de Braouse remitted his claim against Ranulf del Brok, that he
should do suit to the hundred court of Brightford, and Ranulf
withdrew his claim to chase in certain of Braouse's demesne lands.30
Ranulf's successor was Nigel del Broc, who was not at Evesham
against the king in 1265, although his manor of Albourne, Suss.,
and land in Berenden were seized in 1265-6.31 In 1267 he had
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letters of protection for coming to the king's court with his house-
hold, harness and goods.32 In 1271, for 50 marks, he acknowledged
the right of the dean and chapter of Chichester to a messuage and
fee in Greylingwell (in West Hampnett),33 given by his pre-
decessor. In 1279 Nigel de Brock and Hugh de Buscy claimed
wreck of the sea in their manors of Lancing and Kingston next
Shoreham, but the knights elected to try the matter declared that
they had no such right and that it pertained to William de Braose's
rape of Bramber.34 In 1284-5 Nigel held 1 (recte ) fee in the vill
of East Angmering of the lord of Arundel.35 A small tenement
at Perching was held of him in 1286,36 but in 1294 Roger de Rokeslee,
the elder, passed by fine for £100 to William bishop of Bath and
Wells the manor of East Angmering with the advowson of the
church.37 In 1306 John de Cuckefeld and Ascelina his wife for
100 marks acknowledged that a third part of the manor of East
Angmering was the right of Reginald de Rokesle and Joan his
wife.38 Reginald and Joan in 1310 granted their manor (excepting
the advowsons of the church and a chantry therein) for a term of
years to trustees or mortgagees.39 Eventually East Angmering
was absorbed in the demesne of Arundel and in 1384 Richard earl
of Arundel had a grant of market and fair in that place.40
1. R. Chart. 160b. 2. Pipe R. 2 Hen. II, p. 55.
3. R. Lit. Claus.
i. 4b. 4. Pipe R. 56. 5. Red Bk. 206. 6. Round, Calendar, n. 413;
Cal. Chart. R. iii. 268, 397. 7. Pipe R. 4-14 Hen. II, pass. 8. Red Bk.
9. Ibid. 315.
10. R. Chart. 160b. 11. Pipe R. 13 Hen. II,
12. Ibid. 14 Hen. II, p. 183.
13. Ibid. 21 Hen. II, p. 219.
14. Ibid. 22 Hen. II, 204.
15. Ibid. 1 Ric. I, p. 13.
16. Ibid. 213.
17. Feet of F. (Pipe R. Soc. xx.), 142.
18. Ibid.
19. Abbrev.
Placit. 34.
20. R. Chart. 160b. 21. Excerpt. e R. Fin. i. 63.
22. Suss. Feet. of F. i. n. 248. 23. Cal. Chart. R. i. 141 ff. 24. Close
25. Ibid. 432.
26. Testa, 222.
201.
179.
R. 1233, p.
27. Close R.
F. ii. 20.
308; 1237, p. 561.
112, 251. 28. Ibid. 88. 29. Testa, 124 b. 30. Suss. Feet of
31. Miscel. Inquis. i. nos. 909, 918. 32. Cal. Pat. R. 103.
33. Suss. Feet. of F. ii. n. 776. 34. Placit. de quo war. 754b. 35. Feud.
Aids, v. 128. 36. Cal. Inquis. ii. 361. 37. Suss. Feet of F. ii. n. 1086.
38. Ibid. n. 1215. 39. Cal. Close R. 334.
40. Cal. Chart. R. v. 291.
XX.
C
Nutbourne by Chichester was involved in the Domesday Survey
either in Westbourne, or Estone,' identified as including
Stoughton; probably in the first-named place. Part of the 4 hides
in Up Marden which Azo held of earl Roger (n. 6) appears to have
belonged to this feudal tenement, as also does a manor in Burpham.
In the time of Stephen the land of Manasser Aguillun was held
of William earl of Arundel for 2 fees.¹ In 1156 the same Manasser
was pardoned danegeld in Sussex amounting to 30s., equal to the
charge on 15 hides. Prior to 1157 he attested, as Manasser
Aculeus,' a charter of William earl of Chichester to the monks of
Troarn. He gave or confirmed, with the consent of his sons,
William, Robert and Richard, to Holy Trinity, Chichester, a
church of Burpham (n. 5), where there appear to have been at least
two churches.4 In the time of Henry II he held land formerly
of the demesne of Henry I, which the Earl of Arundel had attorned
3
C
NUTBOURNE
73
to knights' service, for 2 fees.5 Manasser probably died before.
1179, for in that year Robert Aguillon proffered 40 marks for
having seisin of Neoburna,' presumably Nutbourne, and for
licence to make an agreement with his brother. During the period
1175-83 Robert Aguillun and Richard his brother attested a
charter of William earl of Sussex.7
6
6
Possibly the brother of 1179 was William, eldest son and heir
of Manasser. He married Sarra, one of the 3 sisters and coheirs
of Aubrey de Bendevill, and in 1194 he and his wife were impleaded
by Hawise de Walton, another sister and coheir, for a moiety of
the land of Aubrey de Bendevill in West Peckham and East
Barming, Kent, West Betchworth and Farnet,' Surrey. Derkin
de Acra, who had Emma, another of the sisters, had already obtained
a pourparty of the inheritance by agreement made in the king's
court. 8
Agreement was made with Hawise later in the year by
the grant of the manor of 'Fernet,' Surr., and of the reversion,
after the death of William and Sarra, of the manor of Betchworth.9
William and Sarra were dwelling at Burpham at this time, as appears
by the record of their plea against Philip de Stanes of Wiltshire
for the forcible abduction from their house of Constantia de la
Stane, widow 10 of Manasser Aguillon, son of the said William and
Sarra, and afterwards the wife of Godfrey de St. Martin.11 In
1190 an agreement was made by which Henry de Percy obtained
from William Aguillum and Sarra de Bendevill his wife and from
Hugh de Bolton and Basilia his wife, daughter of Stephen de
Dammartin, a quitclaim of land in 'Eissart' or 'Cissoch. Sarra
held her part as dower of her former husband Stephen de Dam-
martin.12
The place has not been identified. Stephen occurs
in Surrey in 1156.13 In 1198 Sarra de Bendevill held the serjeanty
of Peckham by finding a man to bear a goshawk overseas from
Michaelmas to Candlemas.14 Later (1219) Emma de Bendevill
held it.15
At this point the succession is uncertain. In 1199 there was
a suit between Richard Aguillun and Manasser Aguillun in respect
of Richard's free tenement in Inland,' Suss.,16 and the same year
Richard Ageliun attorned his son Robert against Hugh Warin in
a plea of land in Estres and Bretteville in Normandy.17 Richard
Aguillon and Robert his son attested in 1201 an agreement made
at Lambeth between the abbot of Cluny and Hamelin, earl
Warenne.18 This Richard confirmed the charter of Manasser his
grandfather, William, Robert and Richard, sons of the said Manasser,
giving the church of Burpham to Holy Trinity, Chichester, and
renewed the gift by his own charter, attested by William de St.
John, Nicholas de Limesi (see n. 25), and others. These charters
received the royal confirmation in 1227.19 In 1217 Robert Aguillun
returned to allegiance and recovered seisin of his lands in Sussex.20
The identity of the various holders of the name Aguillon during
the period 1200-1230 is difficult to solve. There were: Robert
Aguillon, constable of Wallingford castle in 1203-4; Richard
Aguillon, constable of Oreford 1224-26; Reginald Aguillon, bailiff
of the honor of Arundel in 1226; Robert Aguillon of Debenham,
74
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
Suff., in 1221-2; William Aguillun, the king's serjeant of Adding-
ton (Warenne, n. 9); and families settled in the counties of Lincoln
and York. We reach firm ground with Richard Aguillun, who
married Margery sister and coheir of Richard de Thorney (d. 1222),
son of William de Thorney of Thorney and Chidham, Suss.21 In
1212 Richard de Thorney held of the bishop of Exeter 2 fees of
ancient feoffment of the chapelry of Bosham.22 Matilda his relict
admitted in 1222 that she was not enceinte and acknowledged that
Richard de Grenestede and others were Richard's heirs.23 In the
same year William son of Richard Aguillun, then under age, Richard
de Grenestede and their coparceners acknowledged that three-
fourths of fee in Offham, Suss., were the right of Reginald
Aguillun to hold of them and their heirs for £4 rent.2 24 William
was to have 2 marks as his share, i.e. a third part. Reginald's
father is not identified; his mother is named below.
Early in 1223, Margery wife of Richard Aguillun being pre-
sumably dead and William Aguillun her son representing her,
dower was assigned to Matilda relict of Richard de Thorney.25
In 1227 certain gifts of land in Up Marden, made by Mary, daughter
of Eustace de Valle Pironis, mother of Reginald Aguillun, to John
Aguillun, and her release for £100 to Reginald her son of the manor
of Up Marden, were effected by final agreements.26 In the ensuing
year Richard Aguillun passed by fine to his eldest son William à
third part of 2 fees in Thorney and Walton, as the said William's
inheritance through Margery his mother,27 and by another fine
Richard acknowledged the right of Robert Aguillon in a moiety of
the manor of Burpham and of the chief messuage, who demised it
to Richard for his life, with reversion to his own (Robert's) heirs.28
A curious case came for decision in 1236, the king directing the
trial of his seventh roll by a jury of 12 knights, because it appeared
on that roll that William Agulun, who had an heir of Bartholomew
de Cheym, was on that account liable for knight's service; for
it was recorded that Bartholomew answers for 1 mark to the scutage
of Toulouse of 2 marks a fee, so that the service of half a knight
was due. The jury found that neither Bartholomew nor his pre-
decessors were so liable, their service being one of serjeanty, namely
to find a cook in the king's kitchen on the day of his coronation to
do whatever the steward might direct. William and the heir of
Bartholomew were therefore declared exempt from knight's service,
the judge observing by way of a joke that the said roll should be cast
into the Fleet prison, having been convicted by a jury of twelve.29
I
In 1235 William Aguillun released by fine to John Aguillun a
moiety of the manor of Burpham,30 and Robert le Franceys released
to the same John a virgate in Up Marden.31 In 1241 the same
William released to Walter de Lymesi (son of Nicholas de Lymesi,
n. 25) fee in North Marden.32 In 1242-3 William Aguillun held
3 fees in Nutbourne and Marden of the earl of Arundel.33 In the
ensuing year his service of these fees was assigned to the dower of
the countess of Arundel, and in 1244 to the pourparty of Robert
de Tateshale, as of 3 fees in Nutbourne, Marden and Burpham
('Burch ').34
NUTBOURNE
75
The subsequent descent of this fee is shown in the annexed
pedigree.
Richard Aguillon
d. int. 1228-35.
William
under age
in 1222;
living
1242.
Richard
d. ante
I304.
Thomas
d. 1309
under age.
=
Juliana
a. 3 in 1309;
d. 1312.
=
Margery sister and coheir of
Richard de Thorney (dead 1222).
John Robert Agatha Matilda
Eleanor Sarra
d. 1308.
= Will.
White-
man.
Cecily Richard
Mabel
Richard
de Weston
a. 40 in
1312.
Mary dau.
of Eustace
de Valle
Pironis

1222; had
manor of
Up Marden
Gregory 1227.
Jeudewyn de Chedny
a. 50 in
1312.
Reginald
Aguillon,
Matilda
a. 30 in
1312
Henry
de Bulke- Nicholas
strode. de Chey-
ney a. 16
in 1312.
Isabel
In 1304 John Romeyn, as guardian of the heir of Richard
Aguillon, held 3 fees in Nutbourne, Up Marden and Burpham of
Robert de Tateshale.35
In 1308 Eleanor late wife of Richard Aguillon held at her
death 3 fees in Nutbourne, Up Marden and Burpham of Robert
son and heir of Robert de Tateshale,36 of the inheritance of Thomas
son and heir of the said Richard.37 Next year these 3 fees were
assigned to the pourparty of Thomas de Cailli, kinsman and coheir
of Robert de Tateshale.38 Thomas son and heir of Richard Aguillon
was now deceased and Juliana his daughter, aged 3, was next heir
of the said Thomas.39 Juliana died in 1312, holding the manor of
Nutbourne of the heirs of Robert de Tateshale for 1 fee, a messuage
and 1 carucate in Thorney and a messuage in Chidham, Sussex,
of the bishop of Chichester for fee. The heirs were as they are
described on the annexed pedigree.40 On 5 December, 1312, the
escheator was ordered to make a partition, which was duly enrolled
on the Close Roll.41
John Aguillon, who in 1284-5 held fee in Burpham of the earl
of Arundel,42 died leaving a daughter Sarah, who was the wife of
William Whiteman in 1312, and unsuccessfully claimed the
inheritance as next heir.43 In 1316 John Covert and William
Elmer were lords of Burpham, and Nicholas de Spershute was
lord of Nutbourne.44 In 1327 Nicholas de Spereshute or Pershute
died seised of a moiety of the manor of Nutbourne by Chichester
held with his coparceners of the heir of Thomas de Cailli for 3 fees
and suit at the said heir's court of Walderton; Peter his son was
aged 40 years.45 In 1335 died John son of John de Seyntclere
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HONOR OF ARUNDEL
+
fee
holding the manor of Nutbourne of Peter de Spereshutte for
and suit at the said Peter's court of Nutbourne; John his son by
Alice his wife was aged 3 years. 46
In 1340 licence, at the request of John de Warenne, earl of
Surrey, and Henry de Percy, was granted for the alienation by the
prior of Lewes to the canons of Shulbred of the church of Up
Marden.47
1. Red Bk. 201. 2. Pipe R. 2 Hen. II, 61. 3. Bruton Chartul.
n. 338. 4. Cal. Chart. i. 35 ff.; Mon. Anglic. vi. 1171. 5. Red Bk. 201.
6. Pipe R. 25 Hen. II, p. 38.
7. Cal. Chart. R. 111, 368. 8. R. Cur.
Regis. (Pipe R. Soc. xiv.), 6, 30; Abbrev. Placit. 97. 9. R. Cur. Regis.
(Rec. Com.), i. 13. 10. Ibid. 74, 109. 11. Ibid. 77, 130.
12. Percy
Chartul. (Surt. Soc.), 382. 13. Pipe R. 2 Hen. II, 11. 14. Bk. of Fees, 13.
15. Ibid. 270. 16. R. Cur. Regis. ii. 50. 17. Ibid.
19. Cal. Chart. i. 35, 179.
Calendar, n. 1403.
i. 3386.
21. Suss. Feet of F. i. nn. 181, 204, 298.
71.
23. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 128. 24. Ibid. n.
Feet of F. nn. 181, 191.
26. Ibid. nn. 202-3.
28. Ibid. n. 205. 29. Red Bk. 754. 30. Suss. Feet of F. n. 283.
n. 294. 32. Ibid. n. 394. 33. Testa, 222. 34. Close R. 112, 249.
178. 18. Round,
20. R. Lit. Claus.
22. Bk. of Fees,
189. 25. Suss.
27. Ibid. n. 204.
31. Ibid.
35. Cal.
37. Cal. Fine R. ii. 37.
40. Ibid. v. 227.
42. Feud. Aids,
Inquis, iv. 106. 36. Cal. Inquis. iv. 260.
38. Cal. Close, 100.
39. Cal. Inquis. v. 57.
41. Cal. Fine R. ii. 153-4; Cal. Close R. PP. 492, 499.
V. 128.
43. Cal. Close R. 493.
44. Feud. Aids, v. 140, 142. 45. Cal.
Inquis. vii. 4. 46. Ibid. 472.
47. Cal. Pat. R. 523.
XXI.
Martinsgrave, Drayton, Shopwyke, 'Orrea Regis' and ' Egelie
in the time of King Henry I pertained to the city of Chichester,
wherefor the reeves of Chichester received gavel and took it to the
exchequer; now (1212) they receive nothing.¹
Henry I gave £20 of land in Drayton and Martinsgrave with
appurtenances of Chichester to 2 knights, namely Conan and
William de Fraxino; of which their heirs hold nothing now (1212),
but when the earl of Arundel recovered Chichester and other the said
lands (as above) he gave them to whom he would.2 John de Gates-
dene gave to Boxgrave priory all the land of La Grave which he
had by the gift of William de Fraxino, knt., in exchange for other
land in Harting &c. Henry III gave a confirmation in 1246.3
4
In 1166 or earlier the land of Alan son of Conan was held for
I fee (as described at n. 19). Within the next 20 years this fee
became the property of the Fitz-Alans of Clun, Salop. In 1187
scutage of I fee in the honor of Arundel, viz. 20s., to the scutage
of Galloway, was pardoned to William Fitz-Alan.5 In 1189 William
Fitz-Alan had been tenant of 3 solidates of land of the honor of
Petworth for 6 years. 6 Woodland of John Fitz-Alan is mentioned
in 1225 in the perambulation of the forest of Sussex. In 1242
John L'Estrange, justice of Chester, had the custody of the lands
late of John Fitz-Alan, and possibly in that capacity was returned
in 1242-3 as holding 1 fee in Drayton of the earl of Arundel. In
1244 the service of the same John L'Estrange of fee in Drayton
was assigned to the pourparty of Roger de Somery and Nicholaa
his wife.10
7
8
9
DRAYTON-HINTON DAUBENY, BINDERTON
77
Robert de Tresgoz confirmed to Boxgrove priory (c. 1220) two
crofts in his manor of La Grave which had been given him for his
service. This he did for the souls of his dearest lord William the
venerable earl of Arundel, himself, Sibil his wife and his children.
Henry de Tresgoz was a witness.11
It was found by inquest taken in 1275 that Hamon L'Estrange
had enfeoffed Urian de St. Peter of the whole manor of Drayton,
Suss., and that Urian afterwards enfeoffed Robert de Staundon
of a fourth part of the manor and Robert was in seisin at Hamon's
death. Afterwards, when Urian recovered the manor from the
king's hands he delivered his own and Robert's part to Geoffrey
de Pichford to farm.12 In 1282 John Tregoz acknowledged by fine
that the manor of Drayton was the right of Geoffrey de Picheford
and Alice his wife and their issue.13 The same year Tregoz gave
the manor of Drayton, par. of Oving, Suss., to queen Eleanor,
who gave it to Geoffrey de Picheford, knight of her household, and
Alice his wife; Sir Roger de Clifford, the elder, who held it for life,
released his interest to queen Eleanor; for which grant Geoffrey
gave to the queen in exchange certain lands in Ashford and Sheldon,
Derbys.14 In 1298 Ralph Basset of Sapecote and Margaret his
wife demanded against Geoffrey de Picheford and Alice his wife
a third part of the manor of Drayton as his wife's dower by the
endowment of Urian de St. Peter, her first husband. The de-
mandants released their claim for £10.15 Geoffrey de Picheford
died in or before 1299 holding the manor of Drayton as described
above (1282).16 He was for many years prior to his death constable
of Windsor Castle. In 1327 Bartholomew de Badelesmere died
possessed of the reversion of the manor of Drayton after the death
of John L'Estrange, held of the heirs of Roger de Someri for fee;
Giles his son and heir was aged 16 years.17
1. Bk. of Fees, 72. 2. Ibid. 73. 3. Chartulary, Claud. A. vi. ff. 128-130.
4. Red Bk. 201. 5. Pipe R. 33 Hen. II, p. III. 6. Ibid. 1 Ric. I,
p. 214. 7. R. Lit. Claus. ii. 8ob. 8. Excerpt. e R. Fin. i. 384. 9. Testa,
222. 10. Close R. 251. 11. Chartulary, Claud. A. vi. f. 64d. 12. Cal.
Inquis. ii. 92. 13. Suss. Feet of F. ii. n. 943.
14. Cal. Chart. R. ii.
261; Cal. Close R. 1280, p. 46.
15. Suss. Feet of F. ii. n. 1122.
16. Cal. Inquis. iii. 435.
17. Ibid. vii. 95.
XXII.
Hinton Daubeny in Catherington, Hants., was included in
earl Roger's great manor of Chalton (Ceptune'). Binderton,
Suss., was held by earl Roger as 3 hides.
During the period 1121-29 Roger de Combrai attested a charter
of Ranulf earl of Chester to St. Evroul. In 1166 or earlier the
land of Alvred de Cumerai was held for 1 fee 2 (as described under
n. 18). In the time of Henry II Alvred de Cumbrai and Richard
de Cumbrai attested a charter of earl Hugh of Chester to St. Evroul.³
This name occurs also in other counties. In Buckinghamshire
Ralph de Cambrai was amerced in 1180 for a default.ª Ralph de
Cumbray was said to have held 10 librates of land in the parish of
78
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
Catherington.5 In 1184 William de Cumbrai was amerced for a
new disseisin in Devon. Among forest pleas in Nottinghamshire
in 1185 Alvred de Cumbrai was amerced for default. Two years
later the balance of his amercement was recorded under Nottingham-
shire with the observation 'Sed mortuus est.' 8 Combray is in
Calvados. See Chester, n. 9.
In 1205 Binderton, Suss., late of Robert de la Mote, the king's
enemy, was delivered to the earl as of his fee, and in 1212 he so
held it.10
9
In 1233 the king granted to Emery de Orval (de Rivallis) for
his support, during the king's pleasure, the land which William de
Mileres (late constable of Windsor ?) held in Hinton of the bail of
William earl of Arundel and the land which Reginald Aguillon held
in Binderton of the same earl's bail, being of the said earl's fee of
the Normans' lands.11 In the ensuing year the king committed
to Hugh de Aubigny the land late of Ralph de Cumbrai, a Norman,
in Hinton, being of Hugh's fee, which the king had previously
granted to Emery de Orval; these letters were directed to the
sheriff of Hampshire, and similar letters were written to the sheriff
of Sussex touching the land late of Robert de Mota, a Norman,
in Binderton.12 In 1243 Bernard of Savoy obtained seisin of the
manor of Binderton during the king's pleasure.13 In 1280 the gift
or sale to the abbey of Tarent made by Bernard de Sauve knt. of
the manor of Binderton for £200 was confirmed.14 In 1242-3 the
earl of Arundel held Hinton for I fee of ancient feoffment.1
15 In
1244 the king granted to William de Aubigny and Juliana his
wife for life the manor of [Hinton], Hants., which Geoffrey de
Cumbray, a Norman, held, subject to a competent exchange in
case the manor was restored to the right heirs.16 In 1252 William
de Aubigny, king's serjeant, had a grant of free warren in Hinton.17
He died in or before 1269 when Juliana his relict had the wardship.
of his land and heirs.18 He held land in Kingsholme, Gloucs.,
of the king by the service of keeping the door of the king's dispensary
at the king's summons; John de Aubigny, aged 20, was his heir.19
John de Aubigny was in possession of this fee in 1286.20
In 1303 Richard de Bourhunte complained of trespassers on
his land at Hinton by Catherington.21 In the ensuing year died.
John d'Aubeny holding land and rent at Hinton Daubeny of the
king in chief for fee, and other tenements there of the earl of
Arundel by the service of 6 fleches'; John his son was aged 11
years.22
The same year £9 14s. 6d. of rent in Hinton was assigned
to Isabel late wife of the said John d'Aubeny, besides rent at
Kingsholme, Gloucs.23 In 1316 John d'Aubeny was lord of Hinton
next Catherington.24 He died in 1334 holding the manor of Hinton
of the king by the service of being usher of the king's larder on the
day of his coronation, and other land there of Richard earl of Arundel
by the service of rendering 6 arrow shafts at Michaelmas and doing
suit to the said earl's hundred court of Finchdean every 3 weeks ;
Ellis his son was aged 18 years.25
In 1358 John de Borehunt knt. died seised of the manor of
Hinton, of which he had been enfeoffed jointly with Mary his wife,
CATHERINGTON
79
who survived, held of Ellis D'Aubeny; John his son was aged
14 years.
26
1. Round, Calendar, p. 223. 2. Red Bk. 201. 3. Round, Calendar,
P. 225. 4. Pipe R. 26 Hen. II, p. 128.
cited in V. C. H. Hants. iii. 96.
31 Hen. II, p. 114.
i. 356. 10. Red Bk. 555.
Pat. R. 392.
14. Cal. Chart.
R. i. 280. 17. Ibid. 381.
20. Cal. Close R. 417.
23. Cal. Close R. 143.
vii. 391.
26. Ibid. x. 371.
5. Assize R., Mich. 8 Edw. I,
6. Pipe R. 30 Hen. II, p. 77. 7. Ibid.
8. Ibid. 33 Hen. II, p. 168. 9. R. Lit. Claus.
11. Close R. 239. 12. Ibid. 464. 13. Cal.
16. Cal. Chart.
311.
146.
R. ii. 228. 15. Testa, 2316.
18. Cal. Pat. R. 331. 19. Cal. Inquis. i.
21. Cal. Pat. R. 193. 22. Cal. Inquis. iv.
24. Feud. Aids, ii. 318. 25. Cal. Inquis.
XXIII.
Catherington was included in earl Roger's manor of Chalton,
Hants.
4
8
In 1161 Robert de Praeers was pardoned in Hampshire 2 marks
due from his knight or knights,¹ and in the ensuing year the sheriff
of Sussex accounted for mark for the scutage of the said Robert.2
In 1165 Robert de Praers paid mark in Sussex, possibly in respect
of the levy for the army in Wales.3 In 1166 or earlier the land of
Robert de Praers was held of the earl of Arundel for 1 fee (as in
n. 19), and two years later he accounted under the honor of Arundel
for mark for a knight.5 Among those who did not make a return
of their carte of knights' fees in 1172 Robert de Praeres accounted
for 10s. of scutage.6 At Michaelmas 1180 the receiver of the
honor of Arundel accounted for £9 4s. of the issues of the land of
Robert de Praieres for 9 months," and for the ensuing year £9 12s. 9d.
from Chatlington and Chintinges,' the land of Robert de Praers ;
also 35s. for relief of the socheman of Hinton ('Heanton') and 5s.
of the devise of the same socheman's father. The issues of these
two places continued until 1186, when the sheriff of Sussex, and not
the receiver of the honor of Arundel, accounted for 21s. 6d. of the
farm of Chintinges, which Ralph de Dena held (tenuit) of Robert de
Praers, 68s. 9d. of the corn and other issues, and 40s. of the farm
of the same manor for the half-year in which Ralph de Dena had
held it.10 In 1187 the receivers of the honor of Arundel accounted
for £15 for 18 months' issues of Chateringeton,' late of Robert de
Praers, less 80s. 1od. for 4 oxen (12s.), 178 sheep (59s. 4d.), 13 swine
(6s. 6d.) and 1 boar (3s.) for restocking the said vill; and 100s.
for the last half of the year 1187; 11 further the sheriff of Sussex
accounted for 42s. 4d. of the issues of Chintinges, late of Ralph
de Dena, for one year.12 In 1189 the farm of 'Caterinton,' late of
Robert de Praers, was £10.13
9
Roger Tyrell in 1199 granted a toft in Catherington to William
de Arundel, son and heir of Juliana de Wade, to be held by render-
ing a pair of gilt spurs.14 In 1212 it was recorded that Roger
Tirel then held 1 fee in Chilting which he used to hold of Hascuil
de Praeres by the same service. It was presented in 1237 that
the abbot of Cirencester held certain land in Adderbury, Oxon.,
late of Hasculf de Praeres.16 See Chester, n. 57. Milisent wife
15
L
80
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
of Robert de Praeres delivered to Roger Tirel at farm her dower,
which was seised into the king's hands when Roger departed to
England.17 Roger was dead in 1229, when Olive his widow had
livery of her late husband's land in Chinting (Sentinges '), Suss.,
which the said Roger had held in chief of the king of her inherit-
ance. 18
Thomas Tyrel succeeded and died in 1240, when the
sheriff of Sussex was ordered to assign dower to Alice late wife of
the said Thomas in his land in Chinting, Sussex, which he held of
the king in chief.19 Custody of the land and heirs of the same
Thomas was assigned to Roger le Gras, 20 and in 1241 dower was
assigned to Alice in her late husband's land in Catherington, Hants. ;
her right to marry her daughters, which she claimed by sale made
to her by Hugh earl of Arundel, was under examination until it
was decided whether the right belonged to her or to the king.21
In 1242-3 Thomas Tyrel (sic) was returned as holding 1 fee in
Catherington of ancient feoffment of the earl of Arundel, 22 and in
1243 Roger le Gras complained that the sheriff of Southampton
wrongfully disseised him of the custody of the land late of Thomas
Tyrel in Catherington.23 In the ensuing year the service of John.
le Cunte for I fee in Catherington was assigned to the pourparty
of Roger de Somery and Nicholaa his wife. 24
Robert Corbet, William Wancy and dame Oliva Tyrel held the
manor of Chinting in 1275 of the king in chief.25 In 1284 Lucy de
Wauncy made a settlement of lands in Catherington, Hants., and
lands in Sussex on Roger de Wauncy and his heirs, subject to her
life interest, with an ultimate remainder to her heirs.26
In 1289
Nigel de Cumbe had permission to enter tenements in Chinting
which he had acquired from Lucy de Wauncy.27 The fee appears
to have descended by the marriage of Thomas Tyrel's three
daughters in the families of Olmestede, Hangelton and Cumbe.
In 1312 John de Olmestede held at his death a third part of a
messuage in Chinting by the courtesy of England after the death
of Matilda his wife, daughter and heir of Olive Tyrel, of the king
in chief by the service of the third part of a serjeanty of finding in
the king's army a man with unbarded horse, with haqueton,
hauberk, sword and knife for 40 days and castle guard of Pevensey;
William his son was aged 27 years.28 Ralph de Hangelton and his
parceners held Catherington in 1284-5 or 1302,29 and in 1316
Richard de Hangelton and Nicholas de Cumbe were lords of that
part of Catherington which belonged to this fee.30
In 1338 William de Northo died seised of a tenement in Chinting
held of the king by the service of finding a third part of a hobbler
in his army of Wales for 40 days at his own charges and rendering
17d. for castle guard of Pevensey; William his son was aged 36
years.31
In 1349 William Bouet died seised of tenements in Chinting
held for his life, of the right of Joan his late wife, of the king by
service of finding two-thirds of a hobelar as above; Nigel Bouet,
son of the said William and Joan, was aged 20 years. 32
1. Pipe R. 7 Hen. II, p. 57. 2. Ibid. 8 Hen. II, p. 32.
3. Ibid.
11 Hen. II, p. 93.
4. Red Bk. 201. 5. Pipe R. 14 Hen. II, p. 194.
6. Ibid. 18 Hen. II, p. 132.
7. Ibid. 26 Hen. II, p. 33.
8. Ibid.
STORRINGTON
81
9. Ibid. 27 Hen. II, p. 146.
27 Hen. II, p. 146.
P. 184.
I
1 Ric. I, p. 213.
15. Bk. of Fees, 72.
Recueil des jugements de l'échiquier de Normandie, n. 21.
19. Ibid. 194.
20. Excerpt. e R. Fin. i. 337.
22. Testa, 231b.
23. Close R. 107.
24. Ibid. 251.
i. 208. 26. Suss. Feet of F. ii. n. 969. 27. Cal. Fine R. i. 262. 28. Cal.
Inquis. v. 185.
29. Feud. Aids, ii. 335.
30. Ibid. 318.
31. Cal.
Inquis. viii. 105.
32. Ibid. ix. 211.
10. Ibid. 32 Hen. II,
11. Ibid. 33 Hen. II, pp. 110-1. 12. Ibid. 109.
13. Ibid.
14. V. C. H. Hants. iii. 95, quoting Feet of F. 1 John.
16. Ibid. 614. Cf. Cal. Chart. R. i. 151. 17. Delisle,
18. Close R. 158.
21. Close R. 305.
25. R. Hund.
XXIV.
Robert in 1086 held of earl Roger 3 hides in Storrington (?),
Suss., which Alwin held of him; Alwin also held of earl Roger in
Marden 2 hides. He had held a considerable estate T.R.E.
I
In 1130 Robert nepos episcopi was pardoned 30s. 6d. out of an
amercement of 11 marks for a murder in 'Abrenhale' (now
Longbridge) hundred, Suss.¹ As shown under Eudes the Sewer,
n. 49, this Robert was grandfather of William de Humez or
Hommet, and father of Richard de Humez. In 1154 Richard
de Humez (de Hulmeto') and Engelger de Bohun gave to the
men of St. Fromond's priory, dioc. of Bayeux, freedom from toll
at Le Hommet.3
2
4
6
In 1156 danegeld in Sussex amounting to 36s. was remitted to
Richard de Humez, and two years later his contribution to the
donum of that county, viz. 8s. 6d., out of So marks, was also
remitted.5 In 1162 danegeld in Sussex amounting to 41s. was
pardoned to the same Richard. In 1166 the land of Richard de
Humez was held for 2 fees of William de Aubigny, as of the honor
of Arundel. In 1180 William de Humez the constable succeeded
to the lands of Richard de Humez the constable, and in 1187 he
was pardoned 40s. of the scutage of Galloway on 2 fees of the honor
of Arundel. William Humez gave £200 of Anjou for relief of his
land in 1200.10 His land was in the king's hand in 1205.1 11
9
There is nothing to show that Humez held Storrington, nor any
indication how the Lovels of Castle Cary acquired it. Ralph
Lovel, son and heir of Henry Lovel by his wife Alice de Kari, was
living in 1200,12 but deceased in 1208, when his brother Henry was
heir to the family estates in England and Scotland.13 Henry's
son Richard succeeded in 1218.14 In 1225 Richard Luvel and
Thomas de Argentem acknowledged that a certain pasture in
Aldingbourne was the right of the bishop of Chichester, and for this
the bishop withdrew his claim to the pasture in Hampnett.15 In
1242-3 Richard Lovel held 1 fee in Storrington (Storgeton')
of the earl of Arundel,16 and in 1243 the service of 1 fee held by
Richard Luvel as above was assigned to the dower of Isabel countess
of Arundel and in the ensuing year to the pourparty of Roger de
Sumery and Nicholaa his wife.17 Richard Lovel died early in 1255,
when Henry his son and heir gave £100 for relief of his father's
land.18 This Henry died in 1263, Richard his son being aged
28 years,19 and giving 150 marks for his relief.20 Richard died
in the following year, being succeeded by his brother Hugh.21
III.
G
82
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
The record of a plea heard in December 1264 shows that Henry
Lovel was in possession of the manor of Storrington (Storketon')
except the advowson of the church, and enfeoffed his two daughters
Alice and Christiana for their lives; after Henry's death Alice did
homage for herself and sister to Henry's son and heir Richard;
after Richard's death Hugh Lovel his brother intruded into Alice's
freehold there; she recovered her seisin.22
In 1276 Hugh Lovel demised the manor of Storrington to Sir
Henry de Tregoz, lord of Goring, for 7 years to secure a loan of
£86.23 Hugh Lovel died in 1291 holding inter alia fee in East
Hampnett by Boxgrove held by William de Alta Ripa, having been
given to his mother in marriage; fee held by John de Chaggely
as the dower of Alice his wife of the inheritance of William de
Argenteym, having been given with the said William's grandmother
in frank marriage; fee held by Olive de Gurnay; in Billing-
hurst fee and in Storrington & fee.24 His heir was under age, but
in 1297 Richard Luvel, son and heir of Hugh Lovel, had livery of
his father's lands.25 In 1316 Richard Lovel was lord of Storring-
ton, Suss. (Storgheton ').26 In 1331 Thomas Tregoz of Goring
and Burpham had a grant of free warren inter alia in Storrington.27
Prior to 1347 the manor had passed into the hands of the earl of
Arundel.28
1
3
2. R. de Fin. 199. Cf. Stapleton,
3. Round, Calendar, n. 968. 4. Pipe R.
II, p. 132. 6. Ibid. 8 Hen. II, p. 31.
Hen. II, pass. 9. Ibid. 33 Hen. II,
11. Ibid. 131, 135. 12. R. Cur. Reg.
Hen. I, p. 70.
p. clxxxii.
1. Pipe R. 31
Norman Excheq. ii.
2 Hen. II, p. 61.
7. Red Bk. 202.
P. III.
10. R.
ii. 156, 253.
Fin. i. 13, 16.
R. 112, 252.
5. Ibid. 4 Hen.
8. Pipe R. 26
Norman. 39.
13. R. Chart. 180; R. Lit. Claus. i. 113.
15. Suss. Feet of F. n. 192.
18. Excerpt. e R. Fin. ii. 200.
20. Excerpt. e R. Fin. ii. 405. 21. Cal. Inquis. i. 189.
R. 44-9 Hen. III, m. 17d; Bain, Cal. Scot. i. 471.
386. 24. Cal. Inquis. ii. 489. 25. Cal. Close R. 35, 243. 26. Feud.
Aids, v. 142. Cf. Cal. Close R. 1314, P. 51.
28. Cal. Pat. R. 328; Cal. Close R. 243.
14. Excerpt.
16. Testa, 222. 17. Close
19. Cal. Inquis. i. 164.
22. Curia Reg.
23. Cal. Close R.
27. Cal. Chart. R. iv. 258.
XXV.
Reference to Martinsgrave (now Groves, par. Oving) will be
found at n. 21.
William de Fresne held land there and in Drayton
temp. Henry I.¹ Roger de Fraxino attested charters of Stephen
relating to land of the honor of Pevensey and issued at Lewes
during the period 1149-1153.2 In or before 1166 the land of
Freisne was held of William earl of Arundel for 1 fee. In 1189
Nigel de Broc (n. 19) had 50s. worth of land in Martinsgrave for a
fourth part of the year by writ of Ranulf de Glanvill. In 1202
William de Fraxino of Sussex paid 1 mark for a default.5 In 1217
William de Frayny (or Freyni) returned to allegiance and obtained
possession of his lands in Sussex (?) and Essex.6 In 1223 the king
restored to William earl of Arundel the land late of William de
Fresne (de Fraxino ') in Martinesgrave, Suss., which Robert de
Viliers, who was dead, had held," and the sheriff of Sussex was
directed to take into the king's hands the land late of William de
MARTINSGRAVE-HARTING
83
Fraxino, which Robert de Vilers, then recently dead, held as of
the Normans' lands.8
9
In 1233 the king committed to William de Picheford during
pleasure and so long as it pleased Hugh de Aubigny, heir of William
earl of Arundel, the manor of La Grave, Suss., which Hubert de
Belhus previously held of the king's bail, with the chattels, stock
and corn sown therein.10 This was amplified in the ensuing year
by a grant to the same William de Picheford of land in La Grave,
late held by William de Fraxino, a Norman, of the fee of Arundel,
which the said William previously held of the king's bail.11 In
1238 the land called La Grave, which William de Picheford late
held of the Normans' lands, was committed to John de Gatesden
during pleasure,12 and later in the year the king granted to John
de Gatesdene and his heirs the gift which William de Fraxino, a
Norman, whom the king had taken into his peace, made to the said
John by licence, of a carucate of land in La Grave, which the king
had restored to the said William as his inheritance on 21 Nov.
instant.13
For entries under the years 1242-1244 relating to this place,
see n. 6. In 1246 the king confirmed to the convent of Boxgrove
a carucate in the vill of La Grave which the monks had by the gift
of John de Gatesden, who had it by the gift of William de Fraxino,
a Norman, to be held of the said William and his heirs for 12d. rent
and foreign service.14 William de Fraxino gave to the canons of
the causeway of Arundel plenary tithe of his assart of Kingesham.15
In 1299 Master Roger de la Grave, canon of the church of the
Holy Trinity, Chichester, and his successors, had a grant of free
warren in Thorney and Martinesgrave, Suss.16 For entries under
date 1304, 1308-9 and 1341, see n. 6.
In 1412 John Taverner held 25 librates of land in a plat called
Kingsham, land in Groves, Bilsham, Binsted, Barnham and Wal-
berton and rent in Chichester.17
1. Bk. of Fees, 73.
2. Round, Anct. Charters (P.R.S. x.), 49-52.
3. Red
6. R. Lit.
9. Close
Bk. 202. 4. Pipe R. 1 Ric. I, p. 213. 5. R. Cancell. 238.
Claus. i. 332. 7. Ibid. i. 562. 8. Excerpt. e R. Fin. i. 105.
R. p. 200. 10. Ibid. 206. 11. Cal. Chart. R. i. 188. 12. Close R. p. 107.
13. Cal. Chart. R. i. 238.
14. Ibid. 293. 15. Cat. of Anct. D. v. A. 11537.
16. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 349.
17. Feud. Aids, vi. 522.
XXVI.
Earl Roger held Harting, Suss., in demesne in 1086, and shortly
after gave the church there to St. Martin of Sées.¹ A portion of
Chithurst in the hundred of Dumpford, which Morin held of earl
Roger in 1086, afterwards belonged to this fee.
3
William earl of Arundel gave certain lands (in Harting) to
Henry Hose (Hosatus ') for 2 fees.2 Henry Hose attested in 1141
a charter of Robert the younger, earl of Nottingham. He, or his
son, Henry Hose II, had remission of danegeld in 1154 in Sussex
(58s.), Wiltshire (30s.), Somerset (3s.), Berkshire (4s.) and Notting-
hamshire (5s.).4
84
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
6
8
Henry Hose II gave to the Hospitallers the churches of Aver-
ham and Winkburn, Notts., and Roger de Mowbray confirmed
the gift.5 He married Avice or Amice, daughter of Adam Tisun,
and sister of William Tisun, the two places named above being
doubtless Avice's maritagium. He had a younger brother Geoffrey,
who returned his carta in 1166 under Wiltshire. A charter of
Adam Tisun, Henry Hose and Avice his wife, granting land in
Swinton, Yorks., to St. Oswald's, Nostell, was confirmed during
the period 1154-1159 by Roger archbishop of York." Henry Hose
founded a leper hospital at Harting and also founded, before
1169, the Premonstratensian abbey of Dureford, Suss. He was
in possession of Standen, Wilts., in 1167 10 and lost Littleton,
Hants., about Christmas, 1174.11 Possibly this circumstance was
connected with his death, which is said to have occurred in the
Holy Land, his testament, sealed with the seal of Joscelin the
castellan of Arundel, the queen's brother, being brought to Matthew
abbot of Rufford by Hugh Hose, his brother, whilst his body was
brought to this country by the said Joscelin.12 Henry Hose (II?)
and Geoffrey his son gave to the abbey of Stanley, Wilts., land in
Stapleford, and Hugh Hose gave land in Merecombe; these gifts
being confirmed by Richard I in 1189.13
Henry Hose III had livery in 1190 of certain lands in Sussex
of which he had been dispossessed by Henry II.14 During the
period 1190-1196 he confirmed to the abbey of Dureford the gifts
made by Henry his father, founder of the abbey, and he referred
in his charter to his wife Clemence, daughter of John de Port, and
to her maritagium in the main street of Winchester, to his lands in
Harting, Suss., Standen, Wilts., and Littleton, Hants.15 He also
confirmed to the same house the chapel of Standen, which had
been given by his mother Avice.¹
16 In 1194 he answered for 20s.
for I fee in Wiltshire to the scutage for the redemption of King
Richard,¹7 and to the first scutage of Normandy in 1200 for 2 marks.
of the scutage of Standen as Henry Hose of Harting.18 It is
curious to observe that in 1199 William de Warenne accounted
for the scutage of 1 fee in Wiltshire of Henry Hose which he had
in his custody.¹
19
In Michaelmas term, 1195, Henry Hose put in his place Hugh
Hose against the abbot of Sées in a plea of the advowson of the
church of Harting.20 In Hilary term following he again put in
his place Hugh Hose, or Hubert his (suus) brother, against the
bishop of Chichester in a plea of the churches of Harting and
Rogate.21 The bishop had been summoned to answer to Henry
for not receiving parsons to those churches, the advowsons of
which the said Henry had deraigned against the abbot of Sées,
but replied that he had instituted a clerk 7 years before at the
presentation of the abbot of Sées; 22 whereupon Hugh Hose,
Henry's attorney, said that the parson was wrongfully instituted
against Henry's claim and prohibition.23 The dispute was termin.
ated in February, 1196, by the abbot's acknowledgment of Henry's
right to these churches, saving a pension of 100s. to Sées; for this
Henry increased the said pension by 6os. rent from East Harting.24
HARTING
85
Henry appears to have had a brother Geoffrey to whom King
Richard on 1 Dec., 1198, confirmed his lands of Figheldean with
Ablinton, Stapleford and Knighton, Wilts., the land of Tidcombe
and Sutton, Wilts., and all the lands which Henry Hose his father
held.25 This charter was confirmed in 1252 to Henry Hose, kins-
man and heir of the said Geoffrey.2
26
In 1201 Henry Hose III proffered 100 marks for a writ of mort
d'ancestor respecting the manor of 'Derinton,' Wilts., of which
Hugh de Nevill and his wife deforced him, and whereof Hugh Hose,
uncle of the said Henry Hose, was seised on the day he died.27
This entry on the Oblata Roll was subsequently cancelled, but the
debt was recorded as due at Michaelmas, 1201.28 In 1211 Henry
son of Henry Hose passed by fine to the abbot of Rufford land in
Averham, which had been in dispute between them, whether the
land lay within the bounds mentioned in the charter of William
Tisun, uncle of the said Henry.29
In 1208 a mandate was issued for the delivery to Henry Hose
of the abbey of Dureford, which was of his fee, and all rents and
lands of Hubert Hose his brother which were of his fee. Adam
de Port was mainpernor that Henry should be answerable therefor
to the king.30 A Hubert Hose was about that time rector of
Rogate.31
In 1213 Henry Hose IV gave 100 marks to have the lands late
of Henry Hose his father in Wiltshire; his sureties being William
earl of Arundel, William de St. John, Engelger de Bohun and
William de Feritate.32 He was in arms against the king in 1216,
but upon Henry's accession returned to allegiance and had writs
of reinstatement in his lands to the sheriffs of Hampshire, Wilt-
shire, Berkshire and Nottinghamshire.33 He married Cecily
daughter of Emma de Stanton. In 1217 and again in 1221 he had
livery of the manor of Eling, Hants., for which he had king John's
charter.34
He was suffering from infirmity in 1231,35 and died
by 1235.36 An elder son Henry is mentioned in a Dureford charter,37
but he appears to have been succeeded by another son, Matthew.
Cecily his relict died in 1236, when Matthew her son had seisin of
her lands in Hampshire.38 She held at her decease the vill of
Eling.39
In 1242-3 Matthew Hose held 3 fees in Harting of the earl of
Arundel,40 and in 1243 the service of these 3 fees was assigned to
the dower of the countess of Arundel and in 1244 to the pourparty
of Robert de Tateshale.41 In the last-named year Matthew Hose
granted and rendered to the abbot of Dureford land in South
Moreton, Shalbourn and Sandon, Berks., Ham and Hungerford,
Bucks., the service of a tenement in Harting, subject to the said
tenant's suit to Matthew's hundred of Dumpford and court of
Harting, the chapelry of Standen Huse, Wilts., and £4 rent by
the hands of John du Plessis from the moiety of the manor of
Childerston, Kent; for which the abbot remitted his right to
tenements in Starthorpe (
) and certain tithes of Harting,
and agreed to find a chaplain to minister in the chapel of
Standen.42
In 1252 Matthew Hose had a grant of free warren
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in Harting 43 and died in the ensuing year holding the manor of
Harting of Robert de Tateshale and leaving Henry his son, aged
13 years.44 Custody of Matthew's heirs was granted to John
Maunsel, provost of Beverley, for 60 gold marks, payable by 10.
gold marks yearly, the payments to cease in case Henry the son
and heir of Matthew died under age.45
In 1268 there was a plea between Henry son of Matthew Huse
of Harting and William Paynel and Matilda his wife touching the
manors of Harting, Suss., Standen, Wilts. and Berks., Averham,
Notts., 2 fees in Dummer, rent in Abbotstone, and 2 carucates in
Eling, Hants., and land in Tidworth and Knighton, Wilts., which
was settled by an acknowledgment that the manor of Harting was
the right of Henry.46 The same year Henry Hose and Robert de
Rogate obtained a charter of a fair at Rogate,47 and 3 years later
the same Henry had a grant of market and fair at Harting and free
warren in Harting, Suss., Freefolk, Hants., Tidworth, Wilts. and
Hants., Standen, Berks. and Wilts., South Moreton, Berks.,
Missenden, Bucks. (Giffard, n. 62), Chykeswell (in Brenchley),
"Chilteston,' Deane and Stourmouth, Kent.48 Robert prior of
Boxgrove procured in 1279 an acknowledgment of his right to a
messuage, mill, land &c. in Elvested and East Morden, against
John de Camoys and Margaret his wife, a former prior having
demised the tenement for life to John de Gatesden. Claims were
put in by Henry Huse and the bishop of Exeter.49
Henry Hose died in 1290 holding the manor of Harting of Robert
de Tateshale for 3 fees, land in Sussex of Sir John de Cameys,
besides other estates in divers counties; Henry his son was aged
24 years.50 Henry Hose held 3 fees in Harting and Chithurst of
Robert de Tateshale in 1304,51 and of Robert son and heir of Robert
de Tateshale in 1308,52 which were assigned in the following year
to the dower of Joan late the wife of Robert de Tateshale. 53 In
1316 Henry Hose (Husee ') was lord of the hundred of Dumpford
and vill of Harting, and joint lord of Pulborough. 54
In 1332 Henry Hose died seised of the manor of Harting, held
of the heirs of Robert de Tateshale for 1 fee, besides many other
estates named above; Henry his son was aged 30 years. 55
In
1341 this Henry held 3 fees in Harting, Chithurst and Pulborough
of Alice late wife of William Bernak, one of the heirs of Tateshale.56
1. Round, Calendar, n. 656. 2. Red Bk. 202. 3. Round, Calendar,
n. 582. 4. Pipe R. 2 Hen. II, pass.
5. R. Chart. 16. 6. Red Bk. 245.
7. Nostell Chartul. 49. 8. Mon. Angl. vi. 938. Before 1164, when William
the king's brother, a witness, died. 9. Ibid. 10. Pipe R. 13 Hen. II,
p. 130. 11. Ibid. 21 Hen. II, p. 106. 12. Thoroton, Hist. of Notts. (ed.
Throsby), iii. 107. 13. Mon. Anglic. v. 565. 14. Pipe R. 2 Ric. I, Suss.
15. Mon. Anglic. vi. 937. 16. Dureford Chartul., Cott. MS. Vesp. E. xxiii.
f. 13d. H. bishop of Salisbury confirmed; ibid. f. 23. 17. Red Bk. 89.
18. Ibid. 120. 19. Pipe R. 1 Jno. no. 13d, Wilts. 20. R. Cur. Regis.
21. Ibid. (Pipe R. Soc. xxiv.), 218. 22. Cf. Round,
i. 343, 349.
Calendar, n. 676. 23. R. Cur. Regis (Pipe R. Soc.), 243.
Feet of F. i. n. 3.
25. Cal. Chart. R. i. 394. 26. Ibid.
Oblat. 177.
28. R. Cancel. 238. 29. Notts. Feet of F.,
30. R. Lit. Claus. i. IIob.
500; R. Lit. Claus. i. 170b.
31. Vesp. E. xxiii. f. 21d.
33. R. Lit. Claus. i. 302.
24. Suss.
27. R. de
Mich. 13 Jno.
32. R. de Fin.
34. Ibid. 333,
ALDSWORTH-WEST DEAN, CHILGROVE
87
35. Close R. 541.
36. Ibid. 78. 37. Cott. MS. Vesp. E. xxviii.
38. Excerpt. e R. Fin. i. 304. 39. Cal. Inquis. i. 3.
40. Testa,
41. Close R. 112, 249. 42. Suss. Feet of F. i. n. 419.
43. Cal.
Chart. R. i. 393. 44. Cal. Inquis. i. 74. 45. Excerpt. ii. 154.
46. Suss.
Feet of F. ii. n. 741.
222.
49. Suss. Feet of F. ii. n. 916.
iv. 106. 52. Ibid. 260.
I4I-2. 55. Cal. Inquis. vii.
47. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 88. 48. Ibid. ii. 176.
50. Cal. Inquis. ii. 473-5.
51. Ibid.
53. Cal. Close R. 102.
54. Feud. Aids, v.
333. 56. Ibid. viii. 230.
479.
f. 16d.
XXVII.
Earl Roger's land in Westbourne included Aldsworth.
>
In the time of Stephen the earl of Arundel gave to Robert de
Rupe certain land for fee.¹ William earl of Arundel gave to
Ralph de la Roche the land of Aldsworth (in Westbourne), land of
Elbrugg and land of Eddesden, to hold by rendering a hunting-
spear at Martinmas.2 The witnesses indicate a date early in the
reign of Henry II. In 1189 Richard de Rupe owed £22 19s. 4d.
for 6 years' rent of 70s. 8d. worth of land of the honor of Arundel,³
and 106s. for 1 year's rent in Westbourne (* Burna ') and 70s. 8d.
of new farm. For a long period nothing further occurs respecting
this tenement.
+
In 1270 exemption for life was granted, at the instance of Robert
de la Rogate, to Richard de la Roche from being put on assizes
and juries. In 1292 Richard de la Roche acknowledged that
the manor of Aldsworth was the right of John de Alta Ripa who
demised it to Richard for life, with remainder to John and Cecily
his wife and their issue, in default to the right heirs of Richard."
Apparently Cecily was daughter and heir of Richard de la Roche.
In 1291 Richard granted to the same John and Cecily his wife the
manor of Bykewell, Suss."
In 1412 the manor of Aldsworth was in the possession of the
earl of Arundel, and Bykewell in that of Alice D'Autrey.8
1. Red Bk. 202.
4. Ibid. 212-3.
7. Ibid. n. 1066.
2. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 169. 3. Pipe R. 1 Ric. I, p. 13.
5. Cal. Pat. 450.
6. Suss. Feet of F. ii. n. 1071.
8. Feud. Aids, vi. 520, 523.
XXVIII.
West Dean and Chilgrove were included in earl Roger's manor
of Singleton, where in 1086 Pain held 1 hide, William I hide, and
Geoffrey 2 hides.
3
The earl of Arundel gave certain land to William Rufus for
fee.¹ From Easter, 1184, Hugh Esturmi had land in the honor
of Arundel of the yearly rent of 100s., late of Gilbert de Salnervill,
in ward by the king with the heirs,2 and so down to Michaelmas,
1189,³ if not later. In 1189 William Rufus owed 6 years' farm
of land of the honor of Arundel at 5s. yearly which had been let
to him to farm.ª In the year 1200 Henry de Westdene acknowledged
that I virgates in Westdean and Chilgrove were the right of
Peter Blund.5 In 1216 the vill of Churton, Wilts., was assigned to
Peter Blund in consideration of arrears and liveries due to him.6
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HONOR OF ARUNDEL
7
He returned to allegiance in 1217 and recovered possession of his
lands in Wiltshire, Sussex, Buckinghamshire and in the constablewick
of Windsor. In 1233 Thomas Blund of Buckinghamshire and
Wiltshire, and in 1234 Peter Blund of Buckinghamshire, were
pardoned for being in arms with the earl Marshal.&
In 1244 Thomas le Blund and Starius de Sandrevill held fee
in Westdean and Chilgrove, the service of which was assigned to
the dower of the countess of Arundel and to the pourparty of Robert
de Tateshale.9
John le Chyld, younger, of Erham, who is named in 1276,10
appears to have succeeded to the Sandrevill portion of this fee.
In 1288 Thomas de Sandrevill and Alice his wife were parties to a
fine of land in the suburbs of Chichester.11
In 1304 John le Blount held fee in Chilgrove and West Dean
of Robert de Tateshale, and John le Child of Chilgrove held fee
in Chilgrove of the same Robert.12 In 1308 the same tenants held
these fees of Robert son and heir of Robert de Tateshale,¹³ and in
the ensuing year these tenements were assigned to the respective
pourparties of Thomas de Cailli and Joan de Driby.14
In 1339 Thomas Child held of William de Bernak, and in 1341
of Alice late wife of the said William, fee in Chilgrove.15 West
Dean was not mentioned.
1. Red Bk. 202.
p. 213. 4. Pipe R. I
Lit. Claus. i. 277.
10. Suss. Feet of F. ii.
107.
13. Ibid. 260, 265.
viii. 164, 230.
2. Pipe R. 30
Ric. I, p. 13.
7. Ibid. 299b.
n. 847. 11.
Hen. II, p. 127. 3. Ibid. 1 Ric. I,
5. Suss. Feet of F. i. n. 35. 6. R.
8. Close R. 259, 437·
9. Ibid. 249.
Ibid. n. 1023. 12. Cal. Inquis. iv.
15. Cal. Inquis.
14. Cal. Close R. 100.
XXIX.
Certain clerks in 1086 held 5 hides in Preston Candover, Hants.,
of earl Roger.
Henry I confirmed to the priory of Southwyke the manor of
Preston Candover, Hants., in which were 5 hides and I virgate,
which William de Pont de L'Arche gave of his demesne.¹ In the
time of Stephen the earl of Arundel had the service of I knight in
'Candewra' in Hampshire.2 In 1181 the receiver of the honor
of Arundel accounted for 27s. of the issues of Candover, late of
Ralph son of Richard.3 In the ensuing year he similarly accounted
for 70s. of the issues of the same land.¹
6
In 1194 and 1199 Robert de Watevill was a visor in Surrey, 5
and in 1207 he was taking steps to recover a debt in Hants." In
1217 Hamon de Watevill returned to allegiance and recovered
possession of lands in Surrey, Essex and Buckinghamshire." In
1225 and 1229 Robert de Watevill was involved in a plea against
the abbot of Croix St. Leufroy touching 1 carucate in Esher, Surrey.8
In 1237 he was one of the assessors of the thirtieth in Surrey,
and in the ensuing year his land, which was pledged to Abraham
the Jew of Berkhampstead, was ordered to be valued.¹0 Robert
de Watevill was said to be lord of the manor of Stevenbury in
Preston Candover and granted a chantry therein to the priory of
9
PRESTON CANDOVER-LA WYKE-FISHBOURNE 89
Southwick.11 In 1242-3 Robert held fee in Esher of the abbot
of Chertsey, 12 and in 1243 a mandate was issued to the keeper of
the lands late of Hugh de Aubigny, earl of Arundel, to permit the
executors of the late earl's will to have the administration of the
lands of Robert de Whatevill in Candover.13
Peter de Watevill was a party with Agnes his wife to fines of
land in Chalneye, Pachynesham and Billingshurst, Suss., during
the period 1285-1290.14 Matilda de Watevill had lands in Surrey
in 1289.15
In 1316 Thomas de Cailli, one of the coheirs of Tateshale, died
seised of a rent of 29s. 6d. in Preston Candover, receivable from
William de Horwode. He held the said rent with his two
coparceners of the Tateshale inheritance.16 In 1322 John de
Someri died seised of 2 carucates in Candover held by William de
Horwode for 50s. 5d. rent.17 William de Horwode, late king's
yeoman,18 died in 1349, a few days before his wife Christina; his
son Thomas predeceased him, but left issue William his son, aged
7 years. The inquests taken after their respective deaths prove
that the manor of Stevenbury was not held of the honor of Arundel.19
P. 146.
242, 252.
1. Mon. Anglic. vi. 244. 2. Red Bk. 202. 3. Pipe R. 27 Hen. I,
4. Ibid. 28 Hen. II, p. 91.
5. R. Cur. Regis, i., ii. pass.
6. R. de Fin. 405. 7. R. Lit. Claus. i. 324b. 8. Ibid. ii. 82b; Close R.
9. Ibid. 547. 10. Ibid. III. 11. Add. MS. 33280; V. C. H.
Hants. iii. 3736. 12. Testa, 220b. 13. Close R. 105. 14. Suss. Feet of F.
ii. pass.
16. Cal. Inquis. vi. 20.
vi. 256.
18. Cal. Pat. R. 1317, p. 634; Cal. Fine R. ii. 71 ff.
Inquis. ix. 185.
15. Cal. Close R. 40.
17. Ibid.
19. Cal.
•
XXX.
In 1233 Walter de Dayvill gave £10 for the custody of the land
late of Robert le Bret in La Wyke, until Alice daughter and heir
of Robert was of age to inherit by the law of England; which
wardship belonged to the king by reason of wardship of Hugh de
Aubigny.¹ Emicine late wife of the said Robert was niece of
Walter de Dayvill.2
1. Excerpt. Fin. i. 242.
2. Close R. 184.
XXX (1).
The abbey of St. Martin of Sées had in 1086 a burgess in Arundel
and held of earl Roger in alms Fishbourne, Suss., as 6 hides, a
moiety of Climping as II hides with the church, and Gate, now
Eastergate, as 2 hides.
William held of earl Roger Littlehampton as I hide.
Roger Baolt, a knight of earl Roger, gave to St. Martin's in
1093 tithe of a ploughland at Arundel.' Earl Roger had prior
to the making of the survey given the vills of Gate and Fishbourne,
40s. from the tithes of Stoughton and Littlehampton, and the
church of Harting for a brother of the countess Mabel who was
made a monk in that monastery; after the death of the countess
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Mabel (1082) the earl gave for her soul a moiety of Climping.2
After the date of the survey earl Roger added the vill of Little-
hampton.3 Norman the huntsman gave the tithe of his land,
with the consent of the earl and his sons; he held of William de
Warenne land parcel of the great manor of Rodwell, Suss., and
gave tithe of Halcombe to Lewes priory. Earl Roger also gave
to St. Martin's, with the consent of his son Hugh, the church of
Diddlebury, Salop, and land in Beddingham, Suss.5
4
1. Round, Cal. of Docs., France, n. 660.
n. 656. 4. Ibid. V. C. H. Suss. i. 436n.
2. Ibid. n. 657.
3. Ibid.
5. Round, op. cit. n. 656.
XXX (2).
The abbey of Troarn held of earl Roger in 1086 in alms Runcton,
Suss., as 8 hides; in Bosmere hundred, Hants., 5 hides in Hayling;
in Horsley, Gloucs., 10 hides of the king's gift (sic); in Up Waltham,
Suss., 2 hides.
During the first few years of his reign Henry I confirmed to
St. Martin's, Troarn, Runcton, Hayling (Haringei ') and Horsley
of the gift of earl Roger, 3 hides at Up Waltham which Herlewin
gave, tithes of Graffham and Strettington (n. 25), 2 houses in
Chichester, tithes of Merston which Oismelin gave (n. 4 (1)), the
church of Mundham which Turstin de Fontanis gave, tithe of
Nutbourne which Ralph Bastard gave and tithe of Offham which
Ascio (vel Atso) gave (n. 25).¹
1. Cal. Chart. R. iv. 282; Round, Cal. of Docs., France, n. 470. Cf.
Bruton Chartul., n. 324.
XXX (3).
The abbey of the nuns of Almanesche held of earl Roger
Lyminster, Suss., as 13 hides, of which Roger (Baolt ?) held part
of the said abbey; in Climping a moiety of the vill as II hides,
held of the earl in alms.
In 1178 pope Alexander confirmed to the abbess and nuns of
Almanesche, whose abbey was of the foundation of earl Roger, the
churches of Climping, Ford, Poling, Rustington and Lyminster
(‘Nunmenistre '), and of the founder's gift the manor of Climping,
Ford, Preston (Presintone '), Poling and the moiety of 'Illesart'
with all things pertaining to those vills.¹
1. Mon. Anglic. vi. 1033.
XXX (4). ¦
Turald nephew of Wigot held in 1086 of earl Roger in Penton
Mewsey, Hants., 5 hides, in Houghton Drayton, Hants., 21 hides,
in Hampton Maisey, Gloucs., 5 hides. ; and elsewhere.
Henry I appears to have given the lands which Turald had held
of earl Roger to his natural son, Robert, so that they became
members of the honor of Gloucester (n. 11). They formed part
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91
of the feudal tenement held of William earl of Gloucester in 1166
by Robert de Maisi by the service of 11 knights' fees.¹
1. Red Bk. 288.
XXXI.
Nigel held Warningcamp, Suss., of earl Roger as 4 hides, of
which Rafin held 3 hides of Nigel.
In the next century lands in Lurgashall, Egdean and Fittle-
worth appear to have been held by the family of Hauterive (‘de
Alta Ripa ') of certain tenants of the honor of Petworth. Robert
de Alta Ripa attested the charter of Joscelin de Arundell, brother
of queen Adeliza, granting to Lewes priory the church of Burton,
Suss.; another charter of about the same date was attested by
Robert de Alta Ripa and William his son.¹ Robert himself granted
to the priory of Lewes the church of Egdean ('Bletcham '), the
gift being confirmed by the above-named Joscelin the queen's
brother; 2 and William de Alta Ripa gave to the same priory
tithes of Egdean (Bletteham '), which king Stephen confirmed.3
Among those of the honor of Arundel who obtained remission of
scutage in 1187 was William de Alta Ripa of 54s. (in respect of
21 fees). He was a benefactor of Dureford abbey.5 About
Easter, 1189, the same William had acquired by fine £9 12s. worth
of land in Helingham' (that is, Hardham, Suss., where William
de Alta Ripa founded an Augustinian priory), in the honor of
Petworth, where he held other lands by demise." The land in
Hardham had been held by Joscelin nephew of the castellan.
In 1205 there was a fine between William de Alta Ripa and William
Fitz-Alan in respect of the church of Hamwell, Hants. 8
4
6
In 1216 William de Alta Ripa's land of Kemberton, Salop,
was committed to Thomas de Erdinton, custodian of the Fitz-
Alan fee, but in the following year William returned to allegiance
and had restoration of his Salop estate. In 1227 William de
Alta Ripa, a knight, was visor in several Sussex pleas;
10 in 1233
he had the custody of Arundel castle ¹¹ during the minority of earl
Hugh, and in 1241 was party to a fine about land in Lurgashall.12
In 1244 the service of William de Alta Ripa for fee in Warning-
camp was assigned to the pourparty of Roger de Somery and
Nicholaa his wife.13 Two years later he made an agreement as
owner of the advowson of a mediety of the church of North Marden.14
William de Alta Ripa died before 1247 and on 5 January in
that year Andrew his son and heir did fealty for 2 and fee which
1448
his father held of William de Percy, whose son and heir was then
in the king's custody.15 Andrew de Alta Ripa attested a charter
at Petworth on Easter Eve, 1307; 16 but the earlier Andrew's
successor appears to have been John de Alta Ripa, who had
respite of knighthood in 1259.17 He had been party in 1255 to
a fine of land in Fittleworth, Suss.18
William de Alta Ripa of Sussex occurs later. He was pardoned
in 1266 for his participation in the late disturbances and in the
ensuing year had restitution at the hands of William la Zouche
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of his lands in accordance with the award of Kenilworth, and respite
of knighthood at the instance of the same William.19
In 1279 William de Alta Ripa had a grant of market and fair
at Egdean, and of free warren in Egdean, Petworth and Fittle-
worth.20 In the same year (1279) it was presented that he sold
wood in his woodland called Le Hoke in the forest of Arundel
without licence 21 and claimed liberty by the charter of Henry II
of chasing fox and hare in his demesne lands in Sussex, Hants.
and Salop. This liberty the knights of the county declared that
he rightly possessed. 22 Five years earlier he held an interest in
land in Lurgashall of the fee of William La Zuche (n. 1).23 In
1280 William de Alta Ripa acknowledged that the church of Lurgas-
hall was the right of John prior of Lewes.24 During the period
1295-1301 he held important commissions in Sussex and Surrey.25
In 1296 justices were appointed to try those who broke the parks.
of William de Alta Ripa at Barlavington, Lurgashall, and Flaxham,
Sussex, and carried away the deer.26 In 1296 he held of Hugh
Luvel fee in East Hampnett, which had been given to his mother
in frank marriage.27 In 1302 he had the amercements of his men
in the honor of Petworth of the assize of bread and ale.28
3
From the pleading of 15 Edward III cited below it appears
that William was son of Andrew de Alta Ripa by Alice his
wife, and that his own son John left a daughter and heir Eva.29
According to Elwes William died in 1304, and John had died before
him.30 Eva married one Roger de Shelvestrode (living 1308) 31
and had a son John.32 Then she married (after 1310) William
Paynel, who in 1316 had licence to alienate in mortmain to the
canons of Hardham his manor of Cokeham, Suss., and land in
Lancing; 33 and in the same year was returned as lord of Bar-
lavington and Woolavington and joint lord of Warningcamp,
Graffham and Heyshott.34 A parcel of land was held of him in
1317 by Eva D'Autry by the service of a bolt ( petibulum ') yearly.35
William Paynel died in 1317 holding inter alia a tenement in
Duncton of the heir of Henry de Percy by service of enclosing a
perch of paling about the park of Petworth; John Paynel, his
brother and heir, was aged 50 years.36 This John died in 1319
holding two-thirds of a carucate in Pinkhurst, Suss., of the earl of
Arundel and the other third part of Sir Ralph de Camoys; Edward
de St. John and Eva his wife, sometime the wife of William Paynel
above-named, held a third part of the lands as Eva's dower;
Matilda, daughter of the said John, whom Nicholas de Upton had
married, aged 30, was his heir.37 In 1320 certain feoffees had
licence to grant two parts of certain of the possessions late of William
Paynel in Woolbeding and elsewhere to Aymer de Valence, earl of
Pembroke, and John de Hastinges, and similarly the reversion of
a third part of the same which Edward de St. John and Eva his
wife held in dower.38
In 1321 certain persons were pardoned for abducting the said.
Eva from Cowdray by Midhurst after the decease of William
Paynel her husband, and Edward de St. John had been pardoned
for marrying her without the king's licence.39 Margaret, first
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93
wife of William Paynel, had previously been wife of John de
Camoys.40 In 1323-4 Henry de Nevill acquired for his life two
messuages &c. in Tollington, Petworth, Duncton and Lutgarshale,
from Edward de St. John and Alan de Islesfold; the remainder
was to John son of Roger de Shelvestrode and his heirs, in default
to Eva lately wife of the said Roger.41
In 1334 Edward de St. John complained that certain persons.
of Petworth had broken his parks at Beaugenet, Barlavington,
Flaxham and Lurgashall, hunted there and taken deer, hares,
rabbits, partridges and pheasants.42 Edward de St. John and Eva
his wife in 1341-2 sued William de Alta Ripa for land in Boxgrove
which they averred Richard Lovel had in the time of Edward I
granted to Andrew de Hauterive and Alice his wife, and which
should have descended through their son William and John his
son to the said Eva, as daughter of John.43 Eva died on 16 August
1354 holding Barlavington with Beaugenet and Ludgarshall of
Henry de Percy by 2 knights' fees, to which her son John de St.
John, aged 22, was heir; other estates in Surrey and Sussex as
dower of her previous husband William Paynel; and Oakhanger
and Empshott, Hants., which would descend to Roger son of
John de Shilverstrode, then 20 years of age.44 This Roger, heir
of Eva de St. John, proved his age in 1355.45
1. Mr. Eyton citing Dugdale's MS. (Ashmol. Lib.), xxxix. f. 62. 2. Cott.
MS. Vesp. F. xv. ff. 134, 134d. 3. Round, Calendar, p. 510. 4. Pipe R.
33 Hen. II, p. III. 5. Vesp. E. xxiii. f. 34. 6. Mon. Anglic. vi. 307.
7. Pipe R. 1 Ric. I, pp. 214-5. 8. R. de Fin. 291.
i. 281, 315. 10. Suss. Feet of F. i. nos. 202–3.
i. 250.
12. Ibid. n. 392.
13. Close R. 251.
22. Ibid. 757.
n. 427. 15. Excerpt. e R. Fin. ii. 4. 16. Percy Chartul. 363. 17. Pipe
R., Salop, 43 Hen. III. 18. Suss. Feet of F. ii. 14. 19. Cal. Fine R.
594; ibid. 1267, pp. 122-3, 158. 20. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 219. 21. Placit.
de quo war. 752b.
23. Suss. Feet of F. ii. n. 831.
24. Ibid. n. 908.
25. Cal. Pat. R. 1292-1301, pass.
26. Ibid. 258.
27. Cal. Inquis. ii. 490.
28. Ibid. iv. 51. 29. Wrottesley, Pedigrees
from Plea Rolls, 40. 30. Castles, &c. of West Sussex, 173. 31. Sussex
Fines, iii. 4. 32. Ibid. 53.
33. Cal. Pat. R. 558. 34. Feud. Aids,
V. 141-3. 35. Cal. Inquis. vi. 18. 36. Cal. Inquis. vi. 18. 37. Ibid.
IIO. 38. Cal. Pat. R. 415. 39. Ibid. 559-60. 40. Ibid. 1303, p. 206;
41. Sussex Fines, iii. 53. 42. Cal. Pat. R.
Pedigrees from Plea Rolls, 40, citing De Banco
44. Cal. Inquis, X. 164.
45. Ibid. 238.
Cal. Close R. 1301, P. 494.
64, 135. 43. Wrottesley,
R. Hil. 15 Edw. III, m. 104d.
9. R. Lit. Claus.
11. Excerpt. e R. Fin.
14. Suss. Feet of F. i.
XXXII.
For earl Roger's holding in Stoughton see n. 17. It is uncertain
in what manor Wade (Court), Hants., was included in the Survey.
In 1199 Juliana de Wade attorned in her place William de
Arundel, her son, in a plea of dower in Hampshire against Nicholas
son of Robert and Hilaria his mother.¹ In 1202 custody of land
(in an unknown place) which king Richard gave to Henry de la
Wade was delivered to Geoffrey de Hauvill, and 2 years later the
land of Wade which Juliana de Wade sometime held was granted
to the earl of Arundel; similarly the land of 'Bloneworth,' now
Blendworth, Hants., was to be delivered to the earl if it were of
94
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
C
his fee.2 Romin Hospinel succeeded to this land and in 1205 gave
a carucate in Wade to Richard Falconer in marriage with his
daughter Agnes.3 Roger Tyrel (n. 23) in 1199 granted a toft in
Catherington (next Blendworth) to William de Arundel, son and
heir of Juliana de Wade.4
10
In 1244 the service of John Rumyn of fee in Northwood,
Suss., was assigned to the pourparty of Roger de Somery and
Nicholaa his wife.5 Sir John Rumyn attested a charter of William
abbot of St. Martin's, Troarn, of land in Hayling, Hants., in or before
1271.6 In 1272 John son of John Romyn demised a messuage,
mill and 2 virgates (possibly in Wade) to a tenant."
In 1304 John Romeyn held 3 fees in Nutbourne, Up Marden and
Burpham (see n. 20). This small fee in Northwood lay in Stoughton
parish, and in January, 1314, William Rumyn or Romyn died
holding the manor of Northwood of Edmund earl of Arundel for
fee; Henry his son was aged 1 year and 9 weeks. He also held
a tenement at La Wade, Hants., of the earl of Arundel by the
service of coming to the castle of Arundel with a sparrow-hawk at
Michaelmas and keeping the same throughout the year at the
earl's charges. Thomas Romeyn and Juliana his wife had a grant
of free warren in Stockwell and Clapham, Surrey, in 1310.9
John Romyn of Sussex was named in 1324.10 Henry Romeyn
died in 1349 holding tenements in Northwood, par. of Stoghton,
of Richard earl of Arundel for fee; the manor of La Wade,
Hants., partly of the earl of Arundel as above and partly of others;
Edmund his son was aged 6 years.11
1
10
1. R. Cur. Reg. ii. 34.
2. R. Lit. Claus. i. 1b; R. Liberate, 26, 99.
3. Feet of F.; V. C. H. Hants. iii. 1246.
4. Feet of F.; ibid. 95.
5. Close R. 251.
6. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 161. 7. Feet of F.; V. C. H.
8. Cal. Inquis. v. 246.
9. Cal. Chart. R. III, 134.
Hants. iii. 136b.
10. Cal. Close R. 306.
11. Cal. Inquis. ix. 147.
XXXIII.
Robert son of Gerold had hide and Ranulf Flamine [Flambart]
»
I hide and I virgate in Funtley, in Titchfield, Hants., in 1086.
4
The family of Hauvill, noted as the royal falconers, held land
here of the honor of Arundel. In 1170 William de Hauvill
purchased falcons for Reginald the king's son,¹ and is named 2
years later as a crown official in Hampshire.2 In 1185 and sub-
sequent years Walter de Hauvill of Hallingbury, Essex,3 kept the
king's hawks at Winchester. He or another Walter kept the king's
falcons in Hampshire during the period 1214-1220.5 In the last-
named year Geoffrey de Hauvill, named in the last section under
date 1202, obtained land in Bladon, Oxon., which his uncle Walter
de Hauvill held for his support in the king's service; and in 1221
he held Milcott, Warws."
In 1231 the king granted to Geoffrey de Hauvill that if his wife
Joan survived him she might hold the land in Milcott which he had
of the bail of King John. She held this land in 1246.9 In 1232
Reginald de Hauvill, brother of Geoffrey, had a grant for life of
8
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95
the reversion of the land of Bladon which Geoffrey held of the
king's bail.10 Geoffrey was deceased prior to 1242, when Bladon
was in the king's hands.¹
11
13
Gilbert de Hauvill, who was living in 1240, held land in Halling-
bury for life only; 12 he had lost it prior to December, 1240.1
Possibly he was kinsman of Henry de Hauvill of Lynn, Norf., the
king's falconer, who had charge of the king's goshawks, girfalcons
and other birds of Norway in and before 1230, to whom many
writs were directed respecting the royal falcons.14 Both Henry
and Gilbert were living in 1249.15 In 1257 wardship of the land
and rent in Norfolk, which descended to the heir of Henry de
Hauvill after Henry's decease (? in 1253) by the death of Ralph
de Hauvill and Peter de Hauvill, was committed to William de
Renham.16 Prior to his decease Henry had enfeoffed his son
Thomas of his land and rent in Haconby and the vill of St. Botolph
(Boston), Lincs., Dunton and Renham, Norf.17 This line con-
tinued for several generations.
19
Hugh de Hauvill, apparently another royal falconer, was
deceased in 1232, John de Erlham, son of Ralph de Erlham, being
his heir.18 Hugh was described as John's uncle (avunculus).¹
In 1238 another Hugh de Hauvill had land in Snitterby (now
Blakeney) and Tuddenham, Norf., which was then in pledge of
Jewry.20
In 1242-3, Hugh de Hoivill held fee in Fontley of ancient
feoffment of the earl of Arundel.21 At the same date the prior of
Southwick (Sulwyk) held similarly fee in West Boarhunt, Hants.,
and Roger de Morlay and Geoffrey de Beaumont similarly held
fee in Drayton in Farlington.22 In 1243 the service of these
persons of I fee was assigned to the dower of the countess of Arundel
and the year following the service of these three tenements in
'Funtele, Westburinton' (sic) and Brinton' (sic) was assigned
to the pourparty of Roger de Somery and Nicholaa his wife. 23
Ι
36
6
It was found by inquest taken in 1251 that Hugh brother of
Geoffrey de Hoyvill then held in the vill of Funtley fee of the
countess of Arundel, who held it in dower; that Richard de Hoyvill
sometime held that land, after whose death it descended to Geoffrey
his son; that Philip, the middle brother of the said Geoffrey and
Hugh, was of the allegiance of the King of France, was never in
possession of the land and died before the said Geoffrey;
and no
ancestor of theirs ever forfeited the land whereby it ought to be
the king's escheat.24 In 1256 Hugh de Hoyvill attested a deed
relating to land in Portland, Hants. ; 25 and 2 years later he had
exemption for life from being put on assizes and the like.26
1259 he was charged with over loading the common of La Rugge,
Hants.27
In
In 1266 Philip de Hoyvill had letters of protection to hear
the king's award; he had been in the Isle of Axholme with Simon
de Montefort the younger.28 He was sheriff of Surrey in 1281,
held various commissions in the southern counties, being one of
the justices for delivery of Southampton gaol in 1292,29 and in
1294 had a grant of free warren in Funtley and Frogmore, Hants.30
96
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
He was sheriff of Hampshire in 1306, and in 1309 held of Richard
de St. Valery the manor of Rofford, Oxon., jointly with Mary his
wife and Margaret their daughter for their lives.31 Mary late
wife of Philip de Hauvill held land in 1334 in Little Sombourne,
Hants., by the demise of John de Farlyngton, late lord of the manor
of Ashley, Hants.³2
In 1316 William de Hoyvill was one of the 3 lords of Funtley.33
His kinship to Philip does not appear. In 1324 he was of
Hampshire.34
In 1346 William de Hauvill held fee in Funtley, formerly
Philip de Hauvill's.35 This family used the form Hoyvill.'
4
36
To return to Drayton, which may have been a member of earl
Roger's manor of Boarhunt, where a knight held I hide in 1086.
Geoffrey de Beaumont was a tenant of the Richmond fee in 1230,
and plaintiff in a suit in 1235 touching land in Shawell, Leics.37
Roger de Merlay was one of those commissioned to view the king's
castles in Hampshire in 1241,38 and at his death in 1250 he held a
moiety of the vill of Drayton by Farlington for life of the king's
gift, as of the escheat of the Normans' lands, of the earl of Arundel
for fee; Mary his daughter and Hugh de Turbervill (seneschal
of Gascony) being his next heirs.39 In 1269 Geoffrey de Beaumont
and Richard de Saunford attested a charter relating to East
Cosham.40 Richard de Saunford held at his death in 1290 a
messuage in Drayton of the king for fee; Thomas his son was
aged 24 years. In 1316 Thomas Sanford and John Beumunde
were lords of Drayton in Farlington." 42 For further information
respecting these tenements see The Victoria History of Hampshire,
iii. 144, 149–50.
41
1. Pipe R. 16 Hen. II, p. 15. 2. Ibid. 18 Hen. II, p. 78. 3. Testa,
267, 276. 4. Pipe R. 31 Hen. II, p. 215.
5. R. Lit. Claus. i. 343b
et pass.
6. Ibid. 2636, 411. 7. Ibid. 483b. Cf. Testa, 107.
8. Pat. R.
433. 9. Close R. 408; Cal. Misc. Inq. i. 578. 10. Pat. R. 478. 11. Close
R. 415.
12. Cal. Pat. R. 240.
13. Close R. 255.
14. Ibid. 1230,
PP. 353 ff.; 1236, p. 300. 15. Ibid. 78, 168.
16. Cal. Pat. R. 545.
17. Excerpt. Fin. ii. 169. Cf. Cal. Inquis. i. 72 ff.
18. Close R. 54.
19. Ibid. 1235, p. 213.
20. Ibid. 112, 363.
21. Testa, 2316.
22. Ibid. 23. Close R. 112, 252.
24. Cal. Inquis. i. 56.
25. Cal.
Chart. R. ii. 9. 26. Cal. Pat. R. 613. 27. Abbrev. Placit. 147b. 28. Cal.
Pat. R. 538. 29. Cal. Close R. 1292, p. 222. 30. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 436.
31. Cat. of Anct. D. ii. A. 3195. 32. Cal. Pat. R. 551. 33. Feud. Aids,
ii. 308. 34. Cal. Close R. 306. 35. Feud. Aids, ii. 336. 36. Pat. R.
381. 37. Close R. 327. 38. Ibid. 346. 39. Cal. Inquis. i. 55; Excerpt.
e R. Fin. ii. 94.
40. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 124. 41. Cal. Inquis. ii. 460.
42. Feud. Aids, ii. 320.
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XXXIV.
Sired in 1086 held Nytimber, in Warblington, Hants., of earl
Roger; the abbey of Troarn held 5 hides (in Hayling Island) ¹ of
the same earl.
1
In 1242-3 Hugh Sturmi, Roger Falconer and William Martel
held 2 hides in the vill of Nytimber of the earl of Arundel of ancient
feoffment by the service of falconry; the prior of Rungeton held
NYTIMBER-EAST AND WEST PRESTON
97
4 hides in Hayling of ancient feoffment of the same earl; and the
same earl held land called La Bunthe which paid 12s. when a scutage
(of 40s.) ran.2 In 1251 William Falconer of Wade released land and
rent in Nytimber to John the parson of Warblington.3
In 1316 John le Boteller and Henry Romyn (n. 32) were joint
lords of the vill of Nytimber.4
1. Round, Calendar, nos. 470, 480. 2. Testa, 231b.
V. C. H. Hants. iii. 136b.
4. Feud. Aids, ii. 319.
3. Feet of F.;
XXXV.
Robert held of earl Roger in 1086 in East and West Preston
by Arundel 7 hides.
This was presumably Robert son of Tetbald and the gift to the
priory of Lewes of tithe of Preston ¹ may have been his. No
evidence of the possible connexion of the family of Toeni with these
places has been found. In 1168 the sheriff of Sussex accounted
for 2 marks for the fee of Ralph de Toeni of the knights which the
same earl (of Arundel) claimed, but Ralph de Toeni denied, and
in 1172 the same sheriff accounted for 40s. of the knights of Ralph
de Toeni in his bailiwick for the scutage of Ireland. It is sug-
gested that the family of Millieres or Milliers held these fees of
Toeni. Hugh de Milleres of Norfolk was named in 1130.
Humphrey de Milliers, who was sewer of William earl of Arundel
early in the reign of Henry II,ª held in 1166 1 fee of new feoffment
of William de Avranches, and in 1177 he accounted in Northamp-
tonshire for a crown debt of £100 due in connexion with a dispute
between him and Alan la Zuche. Humphrey was still liquidating
the debt in 1189. In 1179 the keeper of the honor of Arundel
accounted for the issues for 3 years of Preston, late the land of
Humphrey de Milliers, and he accounted for these issues down to
1185, in which year the keeper of the honor claimed allowance
of £7 14s. 4d. for 18 oxen, 4 working horses, 250 sheep, 8 sows and
2 boars for restocking the lands of Offham (n. 6) and Preston, to
the use of Jordan the seneschal of the duke of Saxony.s In the
ensuing years there is no reference to the Milliers land in Preston,
but the keeper of the honor accounted yearly at least as late as
1189 for 30s. from the land late of William de Perreham in
Preston.⁹
7
I
In 1201 Roger de Toeni owed 40s. in Sussex in respect of each
of the 2nd and 3rd scutages of Richard I,10 and in the ensuing
year Jueta de Preston released to William de Milliers, the tenant,
her claim in 1 fee in Preston, for which he granted to her tenements
in the same vill." William de Milliers appears to have been a
Norman, and to have had sons, William, Roger (?) and Master
Humphrey. He was accounting in 1201 12 for the balance of the
fine originally due from Humphrey de Milliers in 1177, as above.
He was taken prisoner at Northampton in 1215, and delivered to
William earl of Arundel.13 In 1222 William de Millers, the younger,
was keeper of the Northamptonshire lands of William his father.14
Η
III.
98
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
In 1237 Master Humphrey de Millers, brother and heir of William
de Millers, acknowledged that carucate in West Preston was the
right of Reiner prior of Tortintun by the gift of William de Milliers.
his brother; for this the prior demised the land to Master Humphrey
for life for £6 rent and bound himself to find 2 canons to celebrate
for the soul of Humphrey, his successors and predecessors.15 He
was prebendary of Chichester from 1222 to his death in 1241,
when his lands in Northamptonshire were taken into the king's
hands, because the heirs were in Normandy.16
In the last-named year Felicia de Milers gave 100 marks to
have the lands in Preston, late of Master Humphrey, so that she
should not alienate them, and to satisfy John Maunsel for the corn
sown there and at Overstone, Northants.17 That year the manor
of Preston had been let to farm to John Maunsel for £15 20d., as
the land late of Humphrey de Millers.18 The estates of this family
in Norfolk will be described at n. 69.
In 1244 John Maunsel had a gift of 10 oaks from the wood of
the bishopric of Chichester for building a stable at Preston.19 It
appears that Felicia de Millers, a Norman, gave the manor of
Preston to John Maunsell, clerk, a member of the king's household,
and the king confirmed the gift as above; afterwards John Maunsel
demised the manor in the king's court to his mother, Amabel
Maunsell, for her life, remainder to the said John, remainder to
Emma the wife of Alard le Fleming (n. 3), sister of the said John ;
during the disturbances of 1264–5 Šimon son of Simon de Montfort
took possession of the manor, and after the battle of Evesham the
king in 1268 caused the manor to be restored to Emma by his
charter.20
It was presented in 1266 that Preston, late of John Maunsel,
was seized by John Fitz-Alan; Pulborough late of Athelard the
Fleming, then in the hands of John Maunsel as guardian, was
seised into the hands of the earl of Warenne and at the date of the
inquiry had been delivered to John Maunsel's executors. After
the death of Alard le Fleming in 1263 the said Emma his relict
married Henry de Legh and in 1271 they released to Henry de
Tregoz the manor of Preston, 22 which subsequently descended as
described at n. 2.
21
24
In 1284-5 Henry de Tregoz held the manor of Preston by
Arundel,23 and in 1316 Thomas Tregoz was returned as lord thereof.2
Thomas de Ardern had land in West Preston in 1216 25 and
1223.26
2. Pipe R. 14 Hen. II,
Chart. R. ii. 169. 5. Red
7. Ibid. 25 Hen. II, p. 39.
Bk. 193.
1. Round, Anct. Deeds (Pipe R. Soc.), 12.
P. 194. 3. Ibid. 18 Hen. II, p. 132. 4. Cal.
6. Pipe R. 23 Hen. II, p. 96.
8. Ibid. 31 Hen. II, p. 172. 9. Ibid. 32 Hen. II, p. 185. 10. R. Cancel.
236 ff.
11. Suss. Feet of F. i. n. 56. 12. R. Cancel. 76. 13. Pat. R.
1576. 14. R. Lit. Claus. i. 519; ii. 2146. 15. Suss. Feet of F. i. n. 339.
16. Excerpt. e R. Fin. i. 341. 17. Ibid. 363; Cannon, Pipe R. 26 Hen. III,
348.
18. Cal. Pat. R. 253. 19. Close R. 169. 20. Cal. Chart. R. ii.
21. Cal. of Misc. Inq. i. 274. 22. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 166. 23. Feud.
Aids, v. 128. 24. Ibid. 142.
25. R. Lit. Claus. i. 247. 26. Bracton's
Note-Bk., n. 1609.
114.
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99
XXXVI.
Picot held of earl Roger in 1086 in Wepham, Suss., 8 hides.
According to Mr. Pym Yeatman there is at Wardour Castle an
inspeximus of Henry III confirming a grant by Henry II to Rolland
de Dinham' of 100 marks worth of land for his good service.¹
In 1168 the sheriff of Sussex accounted for 70s. from the land of
Wepham of Rolland de Dinan and 2 marks for Wepham of the fee
of the same Rolland for 2 fees which the earl (of Arundel) claimed
but Rolland denied.2 Possibly the temporary loss of this land was
due to the non-recognition by Rolland of the service of 2 fees due
for Wepham to the earl of Arundel. In the following year 17s. 6d.
of farm from the land of Rolland de Dinan in Wepham, while it
was in the king's hands, was accounted for, and 20s. of stock sold,
before the king restored the land to Rolland.³ In 1172 the sheriff
accounted for 40s. of the knights of Rolland de Dinan in his bailiwick
for the scutage of Ireland. He is probably the Rolland vicomte
de Dinan who is stated to have died without issue in 1182, being
succeeded in Brittany by a nephew Alan.5
In 1192 and again in 1196 Hawise de la Gyrche (Wirch) owed
40s. for scutage of Wepham.6 In 1201 Hawise de la Wirch (or
Guerche) owed 40s. for the fee of Wepham for each of the second
and third scutages of Richard I (1190 and 1196), that for his
redemption (1194) and for the first scutage of John. In the
Red Book of the Exchequer she is said to owe scutage in 1199 and
1212 in respect of two knights' fees of Wepham.8
9
This Hawise was probably the Hawise de Dinan who in 1201
owed 6 marks in Wiltshire for having peace that she should not
marry. In 1199 Sibil de Plugenai and Hawise de Dinant gave
60 marks for right in the king's court touching the vill of Stanton
(Warine), Wilts., by writ of mort d'ancestor, namely of the death
of Joice de Dinant, their father.10 In 1204 the sisters Hawise and
Sibil gave a horse of price for a writ of precipe in respect of Buck-
land Denham (' Dinant ') and Corton Denham, Som., and Hartland,
Devon, against Oliver de Dinan.11 In 1214 Hawise recovered her
meadowland of the wood of Alveston, Gloucs.12 Oliver de Dinant
died in 1221 in possession of lands in Somerset and Devon, custody
of which was committed to William Briwerre,13 who had custody
of Oliver's land and heir in 1225.14 Collinson shows the subsequent
descent of these tenements.15 As that of Wepham was different
the tenant during the period 1212-1242 is yet to be found.
Possibly this fee passed to Humphrey de Milleres, after whose
death his sister Felicia de Milleres proffered 100 marks in 1242 for
her brother's land, apparently in addition to that in Preston.16
(See n. 35.) In 1244 the sheriff of Sussex was directed to deliver
the manors of Wepham, Wudehus and Walderton ? (Wadrinton ')
to the king's bailee,¹7 who was later directed to deliver three-fourths
of the manor to the three heirs of Hugh earl of Arundel, retaining
the fourth part to the use of John Fitz-Alan, then in the king's
wardship.18 Two years later John Maunsel was pardoned 100 marks
100
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
which he owed the king for Felicia de Mileres (for Preston ?)
and £20 of the farm of Wepham for the years 1244 and 1245.19
It is, however, quite uncertain that the Mileres had any interest
in Wepham.
In 1244 the king granted to John Maunsel during pleasure the
manor of Wepham, an escheat of the Normans' land, for £10 yearly
rent ; 20 and in 1248 the grant was renewed to John Maunsell,
provost of Beverley, to be held in fee by the services due to the
lords of the fee.21
Prior to 1266 John Maunsel seized 15 acres of land in Wepham
from the prior of Tortington, but before his withdrawal to foreign
parts during the Montfort disturbances he had restored the land
to the prior. In 1279 the king sought to seize this land on the
ground that John Maunsel was a bastard and died without issue,
but was non-suited.22
In 1268 the king granted in perpetuity to Peter de Chauvent,
in part discharge of a promise of £80 worth of land for good services
rendered, all the land of Wepham, previously given to John Maunsell
and his heirs, as an escheat of the Normans, and then in the king's
hands as an escheat by the death of the said John.23 Peter de
Chaumpvent had a grant of free warren in Wepham in 1279,24 and
he held in 1284-5 in Wepham (sic) fee of the king in chief.25 He
died in 1303 leaving John his son, aged 30,26 who had the same year
a grant of market and fair at his manor of Wepham.27 Edmund
earl of Arundel in 1315 impleaded John de Chavent and Eva his
wife concerning this manor, and they called John son of Peter de
Chavent to warrant them. As he produced the above-recited
charter of Henry III to his father, the justices dismissed the plea.28
In 1316 John de Chavent was returned as lord of this vill.29 In
1326 Geoffrey Seman of Cambridge was pardoned for acquiring
without licence from John de Chavent the manor of Wepham.
30
1. Hist. of House of Arundel, 264. 2. Pipe R. 14 Hen. II, 194. 3. Ibid.
15 Hen. II, 56.
4. Ibid. 18 Hen. II, 132. 5. Du Paz, Hist. Gen. de
Bretagne, 124.
6.
Red Bk. 92, 113. 7. R. Cancell. 236–7. 8. Red Bk.
118, 147. 9. R. Cancell. 227. 10. R. de Oblat. 38. 11. R. de Fin. 221.
12. R. Lit. Claus. i. 169b. 13. Ibid. 463. 14. Ibid. ii. 61.
of Somerset, ii. 361-2. 16. Cannon, Pipe R. 26 Hen. III, 349.
R. 156. 18. Excerpt. Fin. i. 411.
19. Close R. 394. 20. Pat. R. 425 ;
Abbrev. R. Origin. i. 6; Close R. 83. 21. Cal. Chart. R. i. 334. 22. Placit.
de quo war. 749b. 23. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 89. 24. Ibid. 222. 25. Feud.
Aids, v. 128.
26. Cal. Inquis. iv. 94.
27. Cal. Chart. R. iii. 39.
28. Cal. Close R. 151. 29. Feud. Aids, v. 142.
30. Cal. Pat. R. 322.
15. Hist.
17. Close
XXXVII.
The bishop of Bayeux in 1086 held Bilsington, Kent, in demesne;
it defended itself for 4 solins (15 potential ploughs).
King Henry's confirmation (ante 1110) of a gift by William de
Aubigny I of half the tithes of Bilsington to St. Andrew's, Rochester,
has been cited in the Introduction.¹ Dugdale cites a charter (then
in the Cotton collection) which indicates that the manor was given
to Olive daughter of the same William in marriage with Ralph de
BILSINGTON
ΙΟΙ
la Hay, who gave the church of Bilsington to the monks of the Holy
Trinity of L'Essay, the gift being duly confirmed by William earl
of Chichester, Olive's brother.2 To another confirmation of this
gift by William earl of Chichester were witnesses: Ralph son of
Savari, Alard le Fleming, Manasser Aguillun and Richard Hose.³
Subsequently William earl of Sussex III confirmed to the monks
of L'Essay the church of Bilsington which Ralph de la Hay gave
to the abbey, with land and tithes, with the consent of William
the venerable earl of Arundel. It was subsequently held by Box-
grove priory, by the grant in 1225 of R[obert] abbot of L'Essay.5
In 1187 Bilsington was tallaged like other estates of the ancient
demesne of the crown; William Ruffus accounting for £4 of the
gift of that place. In 1204, on the separation of Normandy from
England, the manor of Bilsington, late of Robert de Curcy, was
granted to Henry de Sandwic in exchange for the land he had lost
in Normandy." In 1205 Bilsington, the land late of Robert de
Curcy, was worth £22.8 In 1207 the manor was granted during
pleasure to the earl of Arundel, saving to Henry de Sandwic his
chattels there.9 In 1217 Henry III gave the manor to Hamon
le Chevaler for his support and directed Philip de Aubigny to give
him seisin.10
It was presented in 1219 from Newchurch hundred that a moiety
of the vill of Bilsington was the king's escheat and was late of
Robert de Curcy; that the earl of Arundel held it by the bail of
king John and it was worth £30.11 As noted below (n. 74) Alice
countess of Eu was tenant in 1230 of a manor in Bilsington, possibly
belonging to Elham.12
In 1233 Hugh de Aubigny had seisin of the manor of Bilsington
and lands in Little Waltham and Havering, Essex, whereof his
brother, earl William de Arundel, was seised at his death.13 On
the death of earl Hugh in 1243 the manor was granted or sold by
the heirs of Arundel to John Maunsel, being reserved out of the
partition of the Arundel inheritance as land of the Normans.14
In 1246 it was confirmed to John Maunsel as that part of land in
the manor of Bilsington which was of the inheritance of Hugh de
Aubigny, late earl of Arundel, and the same John had by the gift
of the four heirs of Arundel (named), the king having no claim in
the future to the land as Normans' land as by inquiry it had been
found not to be land of the Normans.15 Two years later, as John
Maunsel, provost of Beverley, he had a grant of all fines for aliena-
tion of lands belonging to the serjeanty of Bilsington, acquired
as above.16
In 1249 the serjeanty of Bilsington, formerly of the earl of
Arundel, for which he ought to be the king's butler, was found to
have been alienated in part. John Maunsel had a moiety of the
said serjeanty.17 In 1249 the land of John de Sandwic there,
seised because it was of the king's serjeanty, was replevied to John
Maunsel and Bertram de Crioll for Sandwic.18 In 1253 Maunsel
founded a priory of Austin canons at Bilsington. In 1265 Sir
Henry de Montfort seized a third part of the court by the church
of Bilsington, which John Maunsel held when he last passed over
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seas, and held it two years, receiving £8 a year and in the first year
destroying £70 worth of wood; after his death Sir John de Sandwic
put himself in seisin.19 In the same year this manor was granted
to Peter de Kyvelers in fee.20 It was presented in 1275 that Peter
de Kynibers (sic) sold the third part of the lower court of Bilsington
to John Andrew of Winchelsea, who exchanged it with John de
Sandwic knt., who then held it.21
In 1306 Nicholas de Sandwic had a court and lands here 22 and
in 1314 was pardoned for acquiring without the late king's licence
from John de Sandwic the manor of Bilsington held in chief. 23
The same or another Nicholas was owner here in 1342 and 1349.
24
The reader is referred to Mr. Round's very interesting account
of the Bilsington serjeanty, and its possible connexion with the
Aubignys' office of king's butler, in The King's Serjeants, 172 ff.
1. Textus Roffensis, 173; Red Bk. 751. 2. Baronage, i. 186; Mon.
Angl. iv. 645. 3. Boxgrove Chartulary (Claud. A. vi.), f. 34d. 4. Ibid.
f. 36.
5. Harl. Charter, 43 B. 48, with two seals; see Claud. A. vi. ff. 63,
117, for confirmations by the archbishops of Canterbury. 6. Pipe R.
33 Hen. II, 209; 1 Ric. 236. 7. R. Lit. Claus. i. 9b, 36. 8. R. Norman.
I 40.
9. R. Lit. Claus. i. 94. 10. Ibid. 302b. 11. Bk. of Fees, 271.
12. Close R. 347·
13. Ibid. 355.
14. Cal. Pat. R. 385, 408, 426.
15. Cal. Chart. R. i. 292.
16. Ibid. 338.
17. Bk. of Fees, 1251-2.
18. Close R. 177.
19. Cal. Misc. Inq. i. 229.
20. Cal. Pat. R. 515.
21. R. Hund. i. 230b. Cf. Round, The King's Serjeants, 175.
22. Cal.
Inquis. iv. 234.
23. Cal. Pat. R. 103. 24. Cal. Inquis. viii. 263; ix.
272.
XXXVIII.
In Norfolk Godric the sewer held of the king in Sparham 2
carucates, Great Melton 2 carucates and 110 acres, Little Melton
2 carucates, Dunston III acres, Swainsthorpe 35 acres, Hecking-
ham 6 carucates, Wramplingham 45 acres which Ralph held,
Hillington 2 carucates, Ashby 25 acres and Claxton 50 acres.
The king had in Stiffkey carucate, Holkham I carucate belong-
ing to Wighton; Garboldisham 2 carucates, and Winfarthing
6 carucates, of which Godric was keeper.
Gunfrid held of Robert son of Corbucion in Saxlingham 33
acres, Rushall 1 carucate and Starston 1 carucate.
Tovi held of the king in Holkham 3 ploughlands and freemen
1 carucate and sochmen 56 acres, Newton Flotman 42 acres.
In the king's hands were 15 acres in Hapton which Herbert
the chamberlain of Roger Bigot held.
It is suggested that the above went to constitute the fee of
Buckenham and Rising.
According to the charters of St. Benet's, Hulme, Godric the
sewer and Ingreda his wife gave the land of 'Medeltone' (Little
Melton) to that abbey. After their death Ralph, Godric's son,
took it at a rent of 10s., and his wife Letselina gave the church a
curtain so that she might hold the land for life if she survived her
husband. Further, if Ralph should have lawful issue his heir
might hold it of the abbey at 40s. rent. This agreement was made
by abbot Richer (1101-25). Lisewy nepos of Ralph was a witness.¹
HOLKHAM, WRAMPLINGHAM
103
Abbot Anselm (1134-40) confirmed the grant to Ralph, Hubert
son of Godric attesting; 2 and the same abbot gave the land to
Basilia wife of Ralph son of Godric, for life, at 1 mark rent.³
5
Henry I gave to William de Aubigny his butler, subsequently
to certain earlier feoffments, the service of Ralph son of Godric,
of 12 knights.4 It is suggested that either Henry I or his said
butler enfeoffed Pain Fitz-John of this fee, prior to 1130, when Pain
had remission of 40s. of danegeld in Norfolk. The remission in his
favour of danegeld in other counties in 1130 is interesting in regard
to the subsequent tenure of Pain's lands by the Muntchenesy
family. The particulars are: In Oxfordshire 20s. and in Gloucester-
shire 28s.; there is also reference to land in Berkshire which William
Maltravers was claiming against him. In the same year Geoffrey
Talebot proffered 200 marks in Kent for his father's land, and
Agnes the wife of Geoffrey Talebot owed 2 marks of gold for her
dower and marriage. This land was the honor of Swanscombe,
which descended to the two daughters and coheirs of Pain Fitz-
John.
9
Pain died in 1136, Agnes, one daughter and coheir, being the
wife of Warin de Munchenesy and later of Hadenald de Bidun.
These marriages are proved by the chartularies of Thetford priory
and Oseney abbey, which record (a) the gift of the church of Hock-
ham, Norf., made to Thetford by Pain Fitz-John, who held of
William de Aubigny, who had it of his first wife's maritagium of the
fee of Bigod; Warin de Munchenesy confirmed the gift; and
(b) the confirmation by Pain's daughter Agnes and her eldest son
Ralph de Munchenesy of the gift of the same church to Oseney abbey
made by Hadenald de Bidun at the prayer of the same Agnes
daughter of Pain Fitz-John, his wife.10 Warin de Monte Canesi
attested the charter of William earl of Chichester founding the priory
of Buckenham, Norf., in the time of king Stephen (1151-2).¹
11
It was presented in 1170 that 15 days before Candlemas three
years then past the servants of the earl of Arundel took certain
sheep of Maheu de Candos and led them to Snettisham, keeping
them fourteen weeks; two died in the driving, and in their custody
were 18 ewes and So lambs &c. The earl's bailiffs answered
that they took those chattels for default of the service of Hanelald
de Bidun; whereupon Maheu was content and claimed from
Hanelald.12
There is an alternative suggestion as to the fee of Godric, viz.
that the Hubert son of Godric, named as a witness above, c. 1136,
was the Hubert de Monte Caniso who acknowledged to archbishop
Theobald (d. 1161) that the vill of Little Melton which his father
and other * antecessors' had held of the abbey of St. Benet, Hulme,
was of the fee of St. Benet.13 Henry II accordingly ordered the
sheriff to put the monks in possession, Hubert having deforced
them in the war.14
14 This Hubert cannot well be the one mentioned
below, but may have been father of Warin.
If a statement (without reference) in Blomefield's Norfolk (v. 8)
could be trusted it would confirm the above hypothesis, for it is
that the advowson of Little Melton was given in 1121 to Ixworth
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:
priory by Ralph de Monte Caniso, and confirmed by his nephew
Warin de Monchenesy, and appropriation was allowed by
Honorius II. The fines, however, show that the grant was made
by Ralph de Montchenesy in 1228.
Agnes de Muntchenesy, daughter of Pain Fitz-John, made a
grant of land in Catfield and Heigham Potter.15 She was living.
in 1185, being then aged 60 and holding f11 worth of land in Holk-
ham in dower, of the fee of the earl of Sussex.16 Ralph and William,
her elder sons, were then both knights; Hubert, the third son, was
a clerk; her elder daughter was married to Stephen de Glanvill
and her younger one to William Painel.17 She held in Gallow
hundred £7 of land in Cockley Cley (of the Richmond fee); 18 £20
of land in Burgh Apton in Clavering hundred, of the fee of St.
Etheldreda of Ely; and £16 of land in Sutton in Happing hundred,
of the fee of Roger le Bigot.19
It was presented in 1212 that Henry II had given Gooderstone,
Norf., to the ancestors of William de Muntchenesy.20 Ralph eldest
son of Warin de Muntchenesi had obtained in or before 1170 an
aid for his knighthood, for it appears from the inquest of the sheriffs
that in the Muntchenesy fee in Norfolk 1 fee in Hillington and
Wramplingham contributed 30s., Matthew de Candos 6s. from
1
fee, Ellis de Hechingham 30s. from 1 fee and William Malherbe
50s. to make the said Ralph a knight.21 About this date he held
I fee in the two Cowtons, Yorks., of the honor of Richmond.22
During the period 1174-76 Henry II granted letters of protection
for the lands and men of his faithful knight Ralph de Muntchenesy,
acquittance of shires and hundreds and other privileges.23 Ralph
confirmed grants in Melton made to Wymondham.24
In spite of the inference which might be deduced from the
Rotulus de Dominabus that Ralph was alive in 1185, it is possible.
that he died in or about Midsummer, 1176; for the sheriff of Norfolk
accounted for the farm of Gooderstone, late of Ralph de Munt-
chenesy, from that date down to Christmas 1179, when it was
delivered to William de Muntchenesy.25
In 1187 Agnes de Muntchenesy accounted for £15 (for a moiety
of the honor of Talbot of Swanscombe) in Kent, of which she paid
£10, and £5 was pardoned to Stephen de Glanvill; 26 and Walter
de Mayenne accounted for £15 for scutage of his knights (of the same
honor). In 1190 the countess of Hereford, late the wife of Walter
de Mayenne, accounted for £14 10s. to the scutage of Wales in
respect of 14 fees 27 of her moiety of the same honor. In 1194
William de Muntchenesy had acquittance of scutage in Kent,28
and in 1196 to the scutage of Normandy Cecily countess of Here-
ford and William de Muntchenesy together accounted for £29 in
respect of 29 fees of the honor of Walter de Mayenne,29 or more
correctly of the honor of Talbot of Swanscombe.
1
2
During the period 1195-7 William de Muntchenesy was engaged
in a plea with the abbot of St. Pierre-sur-Dive, the tenant, respect-
ing the advowson of the churches of Brumstead and Sutton and
a mediety of the church of Catfield, Norf., which was settled in
1199 by agreement made in the king's court, 30 whereby the abbot
•
HOLKHAM, WRAMPLINGHAM
105
released his claim and William gave him 60s. yearly rent to be
received by the hands of the parsons of those churches.31
In 1198
he gave a fine of 200 marks for himself and his maternal aunt
(matertera), the countess Cecilia, for their right of Ludlow, Weobley
and T...ias.32 About this time he held 2 fees in Foxley and Cley,
Norf., of the honor of Richmond.33 Before 18 April, 1201, he gave
to the abbey of West Dereham a mediety of the church of Holkham
(Heltham), Norf.,34 and prior to his death in 1204
35 he gave a
rent in Gooderstone to Richard de Budicurt, 36 and his land of
Erneslund (in Thredling hundred), to the canons of Hickling.37
By his wife Aveline, sister of William earl of Arundel, he had
issue William and Warine. William was in ward to the same earl
of Arundel in 1204,38 and on 14 April, 1207, the king restored to
William de Muntchenesy, who was then in ward of the earl of
Arundel, the demesnes, fees, homages and tenements which the
countess of Hereford held hereditarily at her death, and writs were
accordingly directed to the sheriffs of Essex, Gloucester and Kent.39
This lady was Cecily, younger daughter of Pain Fitz-John. She
had married in 1138 Roger son of Miles of Gloucester, earl of
Hereford 40 1143-c. 1155. She married secondly William of Poitou
and thirdly before 1166 Walter of Mayenne. She died in or shortly
before 1207, without issue. William de Muntchenesy II, who
died before 8 April 1213,41 and probably before 6 April 1208.42
Warine, second son of William de Muntchenesy I and brother and
heir of William II, gave a fine of 2000 marks in 1213 for his in-
heritance, his sureties being his uncle, William earl of Arundel,
and James le Sauvage.43 The manor of Winfarthing, Norf., belong-
ing to the barony of Warin de Muntchenesy, and the manor of
Wykes, Lincs., were in the king's hands in September of that year.
From a feodary of the year 1212 it appears that the heir of William
de Muntchenesy then held 2 fees in Norfolk (possibly including
I fee in Bicker and Graby (in Aslackby), Lincs.), of the honor of
Richmond.45 Most of the lands held by the Muntchenesy family
of this honor in the counties of York, Lincoln and Norfolk were
held at the survey of 1086 by Godric the sewer, named above.46
Thus in Lincolnshire under count Alan Godric held in Kirkby
Underwood 5 bovates, in Graby (in Aslackby) and Horbling I
carucate; in Norfolk the king had land in Cley which Godric farmed
under him, and under count Alan Godric had 3 car. in Foxby.
A review of the various feudal tenements held by this family of
others than the earl of Arundel will be made below.
44
In 1215 Warin de Muntchenesy appears to have withdrawn
from allegiance to John, and on 9 October his manor of Wikes,
Gloucs., was delivered to Walter de Lascy as his right.47 Similarly
the manor of Toddington (Tudinton'), Beds., was committed
to two officials of the crown.48 On 29 April, 1216, seisin of 2 fees,
held by the king's enemies of the same Warin, was committed to
Henry de Trublevill; 49 but on 6 November, 1217, Warin returned
to allegiance and had writs of reseisin to the sheriffs of Kent,
Gloucester, Essex, Norfolk and Buckinghamshire in respect of his
lands in those counties, as he held them when he withdrew from
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HONOR OF ARUNDEL
service of king John.50 In 1223 he had writs of scutage to the
sheriffs of Worcester, 51 Norfolk and Suffolk, Essex, Kent, Hereford,
Buckingham 52 and Lincoln.53
The following pleadings are of interest as throwing light on the
descent of the Muntchenesy inheritance:
In 1224 in an assize of last presentation to the church of Swans-
combe there was uncertainty whether the countess Cecily, grand-
mother (avia, i.e. great-aunt) of Warin de Muntchenesy, or the
prior of Southwark last presented to the church.54 In the same
year Warin de Muntchenesy demanded against William de Franche-
vill 100 solidates of land in Winfarthing, Norf., which he alleged
that defendant held only by agreement and not by grant in fee. 55
Warin also demanded against Walter de Godardvill fee in Wicham,
Kent, alleging that Hugh de Vallibus gave defendant entry only when
he had wardship of William de Muntchenesy, Warin's brother.56
In 1228 Randulf de Ginges impleaded Warin de Muntchenesy
as mesne that he should acquit plaintiff of suit demanded by the
bishop of London to his court of Bishop Stortford in respect of
plaintiff's tenement in Horndon held of Warin. Warin answered
that Randulf's ancestor Reginald, namely uncle of Roger, father
of Randulf, had done suit by assignment of the seneschal of Cecily,
Warin's great-grandmother (potius great-aunt), and afterwards.
Roger, father of plaintiff, had done suit.57 No judgment was
recorded. The tenement was that known as Cantis, in Horndon-
on-the-Hill, Essex, 58 which appears to have been held of the bishop
of London in 1166 by Walter de Mayenne ( Meine '). 59
In 1232 Warin de Muntchenesy demanded 2 carucates in
Luddesdown, Kent, of which Cecily his ancestress was seised temp.
Henry II and because she died without issue descended to Agnes
as her sister and heir (and from Agnes to Ralph her son and heir
and because he died s.p. to William his brother and so to William
his son and heir) and because William died s.p. the right descended
to this Warin as brother and heir. Defendants pleaded that
the countess Cecily gave the land to Richard Giffard, father of
Mabel, wife of Adam de Kailly, and of Isabel de Frivill, two of
the defendants. Warin denied this, and pleaded that if Richard
Giffard had entry by William de Pictavia, sometime husband of
Cecily, the gift was not good. Defendants' pleadings state that
Cecily, after the death of the said William, married Walter de
Mayenne (Meinne '); they put themselves on the grand assize.6º
Walter de Mayenne stated in his carta in 1166 that Richard Giffard
held Luddesdown, Walter's demesne manor, worth £25, whereof
Walter received no service. 61
Warin, who was a benefactor of Wymondham, 62 married first,
c. 1214-15, Joan, fifth sister and ultimately coheir of Anselm
Marshal, earl of Pembroke, 63 by whom he had issue John, who died
young and without issue in 1247,64 and Joan, who married in 1247
William de Valence, earl of Pembroke. 65 He married secondly, in
1234-5, Denise the relict of Walter de Langeton of Langton, Lincs.,
and of Ridgwell, Essex, brother of Master Simon de Langeton.
She had licence to marry whom she would on 15 November
HOLKHAM, WRAMPLINGHAM
107
66
1234. She was daughter and heir of Nicholas de Anesty and
niece of Hamon Pecche.67 Warin and Denise had lands in Thixen-
dale and Birdsall, Yorks., in 1236.68
In 1236 and 1242-3 Warin de Muntchenesy held the following
fees in Blithfield, Staffs., fee, 69 possibly part of 1 fee which the
earl of Arundel had in ward in 1212 with the heir of William de
Muntchenesy; 70 in Frome Henry, Herefords., I hide held of the
honor of Muntchenesy for fee of ancient feoffment; 71 in
Gloucestershire, viz. in Edgeworth fee, 72 the vill of Painswick,
possibly the Wyka' held for 1 hide in 1212 by William de Munt-
chenesy; 73 in Shrivenham, Berks., half the manor, late the old
demesne of the earl Marshal; 74 in Kent 29 fees of the honor of
Talbot of Swanscombe, as described in the Red Book of the Ex-
chequer (p. 195) and in Testa de Nevill, including 1 fee in Luddes-
down, 75 also I fee in Wickham by Strood and Islingham, held of
the bishop of Rochester; 76 in Dinton, Bucks., fee of the honor
of Swanscombe (Kent), 77 which the heir of William de Muntchenesy
held in 1212; 78 in right of his wife Denise de Anesty he held in
1236 in Anstey and Little Hormead, Herts., 3 (or 5) fees of the fee
of Valoignes,79 and of the fee of Munchenesy 13 fees, 80 whereof
the earl of Arundel held in 1212 Hanningfield, Essex, with the heir
of William de Muntchenesy; 81 in Lincolnshire, in Biker, Donning-
ton and Swineshead fee of the honor of Richmond; 82 and in
Norfolk, besides 11 fees of this honor, I fee in Gooderstone, held
of the king in chief, 83 which the earl of Arundel had held in 1212
in ward with the heir of William de Muntchenesy. 84
In the year 1244 the service of 11 fees of Warin de Munt-
chenesy in Holkham, Hillington, Wramplingham, Newton Flotman,
Melton, Blythford, Heckingham, Garboldisham, Rushall, Hapton,
Quiddenham, Saxlingham, Sparham, Stiffkey and Little Melton
was assigned to the pourparty of Robert de Tateshale.85
In 1253
the same Warin obtained a grant of free warren in his lands in
Luddesdown, Hartley and Milton by Gravesend, Kent, Fordham
and Thorrington, Essex, Holkham and Carbrook, Norf., and Dinton,
Bucks.86 He confirmed to Langley abbey in 1254 the gift of the
manor of Heckingham made by Roger de Thurkeby. 87
1
Warin died in 1255 and was succeeded by his son William, issue
of his second marriage, who was aged 24 in January 1254, when
he was found to be the next heir to Ralph de la Haye of the vill
of Quendon, Essex, held of Warin de Muntchenesy for I fee, and
of Layer de la Haye, Essex, held of Sir Henry de Essex for I fee
(which William de Muntchenesy had held in 1212 of the honor of
Henry de Essex), 88 and of fee in Rettendon, Essex, held of the
bishop of Ely, 89 possibly being a moiety of I fee held in 1166 by
Luke de Berkesheved and Ranulf de Haia of the fee of Richard de
Salcovill,⁹⁰ for which Maurice de Hay and Luke son of Walter de
Brokesheved respectively paid relief in 1171.91 On 1 August
1255, after the death of Warin de Muntchenesy, his relict Denise
obtained livery of her own inheritance 92 and two years later she
gave 200 marks to marry whom she would. 93 The wardship of
the lands belonging to the heir of Warin's first marriage was granted
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HONOR OF ARUNDEL
in 1255 to the king's brother, William of Valence. 94 There are
abstracts of many deeds of William de Muntchenesy in the Catalogue
of Ancient Deeds. He was taken prisoner at Kenilworth in 1265
and subsequently many inquiries were made concerning his
manors.95 He was fully pardoned in 1275 for being in arms against
the king.96 In 1283 his parks at Winfarthing, Norf., and Swans-
combe, Kent, were entered by deer stealers.97 He died in 1287,98
and in the ensuing year his mother Denise, who had obtained a
charter for a market and fair at Hockham in 1272,99 acquired for
2000 marks the wardship of his lands, his daughter and heir Denise
being in her minority.100 In that year (1288) the serjeanty of
Staunton, Worcs., was held of Denise, daughter of the said
William.101 Before 1301 she had become the wife of Hugh de Ver,102
who was returned in 1304 as holding of his wife's inheritance 11½
fees of Robert de Tateshale II, and similarly in 1308 of the said
Robert's son and heir Robert III.103 In 1309 a moiety of these
fees was assigned to the dower of Joan late the wife of Robert
de Tateshale, and a fourth part to Thomas de Kailli.104 In
1310 Hugh and Denise obtained a grant of a yearly fair at their
manor of Gooderstone, Norfolk.105 Denise de Ver died in 1313 106
without issue, her next heir being her cousin, Aymer de Valence,107
afterwards created earl of Pembroke, who was also heir to the
inheritance of Denise's grandmother, Denise, who died in 1304.108
The inquest taken after the death of Denise shows that she held
Hanningfield and other manors in Essex of the king in chief; Great
Braxted, Essex, of Sir Robert Fitz-Walter; Great Anstey and Little
Hormead, Herts., and Nutfield, Surrey, of the honor of Boulogne,
and Meesdon of the bishop of London; Dinton, Bucks., Swans-
combe, Hartley and other manors, Kent, with the honor of Talbot
of Swanscombe; Towcester, Northants., of the earl of Gloucester;
Painswick, Gloucs., and Gooderstone, Norf., of the king in chief
by barony; Holkham and Winfarthing, Norf., of the honor of
Arundel; Hockham and Sutton, Norf., of the earl of Norfolk;
Burgh Apton, Norf., of the prior of Ely; Carbrooke, Norf., of the
earl of Gloucester; and Foxley, Norf., of the honor of Richmond. 109
The particulars of the knights' fees belonging to the barony
of Muntchenesy, as derived from the Aid of 1302 and the extents
taken after the death of Aymer de Valence in 1324, are given below.
Included in the return are: Tenements in Shropham, Brumstead,
Banham, Garboldisham, Hickling and Catfield held of the Earl
Marshal; a tenement in Repps held of the earl of Norfolk; 1 fee
in Cockley Cley held of the honor of Richmond; tenements in Burgh
Apton held of the honor of Clare; and certain tenements in Suffolk.
From evidence noted above it appears that Pain Fitz-John had
held lands in Catfield and Heigham Potter.
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late of Sirs Thos.
and Herbert de
Helgeton
Baldwin de Maners
of Dame Denise
de Muntchenesy
(honor of Clare)
Simon de Ratles-
dene
Agatha atte Howe
of Simon de
Ratlesdene
[Hamon de Mickle-
feld, joint lord
of Blyford in
1316]
1324.111
Same two (or heirs
of Barthol. de
Sparham and heirs
of Geof. de Grene-
keye)
Aymer de Valence
Will. le Veutre
Heirs of Robt. de Peter de Bokenham
Bokenham
Miles de Hastinges
John le Faukener
and tenants late
of Richard Bigot,
of Miles de Has-
tinges
Richard Hakun
Hugh de Ver
Will. de Lek
Heirs of Peter le
Bret
Ralph Hakoun
Richard Neel
Matilda Pyngaz (heir
of Miles de Has-
tinges)
Hubert Hakun (or
his heirs)
Gilbert Baliol (or
Will. de Melton)
John Damas (or Will.
de Hertford)
3 f. John de Claver-
ing (or the heirs
of Cressi)
I
1 f. in Hillington
and Wrampling-
ham by Roger de
Helgeton (or 1 f.
by Thos. de Hel-
weton)
John de Botetourte
(or Will.de Mawers
(sic))
Simon de Ratlisden
(or his heirs)
Peter de Nerford (or
Will. Blound)
2 f. by John Fastolf
and Hamon de
Mikelefeld (or 1 f.
in Blyford by
Hamon de Mikel-
feld)
IIO
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
17. Burgh Apton
1302.110
Richard de la
Rokele (of honor
of Clae)
fee
111
1324.
Rich. de la Rokele
(or his heirs)
Do.
To",
Henry de Heylesdon
Particulars of the honor of Talbot of Swanscombe, part of
which was held in the Survey of 1086 by Helto under the bishop of
Bayeux, will be found among the extents of the lands of Aymer de
Valence taken in 1324.
112
1. Cott. MS. Galba E. ii. f. 54. 2. Ibid. f. 56; Turner and Coxe, Cal.
of Bodleian Charters, 240. 3. Cott. MS. Galba E. ii. f. 56. 4. Red Bk.
398. 5. Pipe R. 31 Hen. I, 95. 6. Ibid. passim.
7. Ibid. 67. 8. Cited
by Mr. Round from Lansd. MS. 229, f. 147d. 9. Ibid. 10. Cited by
Mr. Round from Cott. MS. Vitell. E. xv. f. 162. 11. Mon. Anglic. vi. 419;
Cal. Chart. R. iii. 368; Brit. Mus. Facsimiles of Charters, n. 27. 12. Red
Bk. cclxix. 13. Galba E. ii. ff. 44, 62. 14. Ibid. f. 33d.
Anct. D. iv. A. 9742. 16. R. de Dominabus, 50. 17. Ibid.
58. 19. Ibid. 54.
20. Bk. of Fees, 129. 21. Red Bk. cclxxii. 22. Cal.
Mis. Inquis. i. 169. 23. Cal. Chart. R. i. 325; Cal. Pat. R. 1280, p. 404.
24. Titus C. viii, f. 91d, 92. 25. Pipe R. 22-26 Hen. II, passim. 26. Ibid.
33 Hen. II, p. 209.
27. Red Bk. 70.
28. Ibid. 79.
29. Ibid. 96.
30. R. Cur. Regis, i. 307, 314; ii, 16. 31. Abbrev. Placit. 8b. 32. R.
Cur. Regis, i. 144. 33. Cal. of Miscel. Inquis. i. p. 169. 34. R. Chart.
93. 35. R. de Fin. 227. 36. R. Lit. Claus. i. 149, 151. 37.
15. Cat. of
18. Ibid.
R. Chart.
38. R. de
109.
117. This gift may have been made by the Edwardstone line.
Fin. 227; R. Chart. 133. 39. R. Lit. Claus. i. 81b. 40. Mr. Round in
Anct. Charters (Pipe R. Soc.), 35-8. 41. R. Lit. Claus. i. 129. 42. Ibid.
43. R. de Fin. 514. 44. R. Lit. Claus. i. 149.
45. Red. Bk. 480, 520.
46. See Richmond Fee, n. 1 (F). 47. R. Lit. Pat. 157. 48. R. Lit. Claus.
i. 2326. 49. Ibid. 266b. 50. Ibid. 346b. 51. Probably in respect of
Staunton. 52. R. Lit. Claus. i. 5716. 53. Ibid. 573. 54. Bracton's
Note-Bk. n. 983. 55. Ibid. n. 890. 56. Ibid. n. 893. 57. Ibid. n. 275.
58. V. C. H. Essex, i. 441. 59. Red Bk. 187.
60. Bracton's Note-Bk.
62. Chartulary, Titus C. viii. f. 89.
64. Close R. 527.
65. Ibid.
67. Close
70. Ibid.
74. Ibid.
1234–7, P. 104.
69. Testa, 47.
73. Ibid. 77.
Ibid. 245.
78. Ibid. 260.
81. Ibid. 269. 82. Ibid.
85. Close R. 248.
n. 671.
61. Red Bk. 196.
63. Meyer, Will. le Marescal, iii. 207-8.
529. 66. Excerpt. e R. Fin. i. 268; Close R.
R. 1231-4, PP. 91, 508.
68. Ibid. 352-3.
54b. 71. Ibid. 63b, 68b. 72. Ibid. 74-6.
1256. 75. Ibid. 209, 217.
76. Ibid. 77.
79. Ibid. 265, 270, 272b. 80. Ibid. 264b, 266.
3026, 3126. 83. Testa, 283. 84. Ibid. 2936.
86. Cal. Chart. R. i. 428. 87. Chartulary, Add. MS. 5948, f. 6d, 35d, 42d.
88. Red Bk. 597. 89. Cal. Inquis. i. 79; Excerpt. e R. Fin. ii. 191.
90. Red Bk. 365. 91. Pipe R. 17 Hen. II, 117. 92. Excerpt. e R. Fin.
ii. 213.
93. Cal. Pat. R. 543.
94. Ibid. 419. 95. Cal. of Miscel. Inquis.
i. pass.
96. Cal. Pat. R. pass. See Dugdale's Baronage. 97. Cal. Pat. R.
98. Cal. Fine R. i. 240.
99. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 179.
100, 104.
102. Cal. Fine R. i. 441.
245.
100. Ibid.
101. Cal. Inquis. ii. 410.
Inquis. iv. 106, 261. 104. Cal. Close R. 100, 102.
iii. 138.
103. Cal.
105. Cal. Chart. R.
106. Cal. Fine R. ii. 193. 107. Cal. Inquis. v. 268. 108. Cal.
Close R. 1314, PP. 56, 191., 109. Cal. Inquis. v. 268-70. 110. Feud. Aids,
iii. pass.
111. Cal. Inquis. vi. 333-4.
112. Ibid. 322, 329.
XXXIX.
The bishop of Bayeux had in 1086 7 carucates in Flitcham
(with Appleton), a berewick of Snettisham, and 4 carucates in
Stanhoe, belonging to Snettisham. Humphrey de Bohun had
I carucate in Tatterford (with Barmer) and a berewick of carucate
(possibly in Shereford).
FLITCHAM, STANHOE
III
Thomas
d. 1184
of Seaton,
co. Rut-
land
Ralph-(?) same as Ralph II
gave Snelling
Mill to Thur-
garton.
=Alice dau. Waleran de
Oiri, aged 20 in 1185
Ralph III
aged 2 in 1185.
R. Canc. 336, Norf,
Ralph s. of Ralph
livery 1248, co. Norf.
Excerpt. ii. 37
Agatha
Agatha
Geoffrey de Belfou Thomas
of Seaton, 1283
G
Alice
R. Canc. 337,
I201
Robert
Aguillon,
1233
Adam de
Cokefeld,
1275
Philippa
Isabel -
Ralph de Belfou I
gave to Thurgarton the
church of Lowdham.
Istan
BELFOU PEDIGREE.
Luke de
Ponynges
John de Cokefeld, Thomas de Ponynges,
1302.
1302.
Henry
cf. after 1172 a
Norman, Red
Bk. 630 n.
Emma
Cal. Chart. i. 49, 212,
223; Close i. 236, 319.
d. c. 1240 s.p. Lowd-
ham, Notts, S. Creake,
Norf.
T
Margery
= Robert
Margery
(1) Jordan
¡de Sauche-
vill
Fulk (?)
Andrew de Saukevill,
1283, 1300, 1302.
de Escales,
I233.
Gilbert de Norfolk,
d. 1205
(2) Giles de
Argentem
Amalric (?)
Gilbert.
Joan
Joan
Richard
c. 1172 a Norman,
Red Bk. 630.
Thomas de
Ingoldestorp,
1233.
Reginald de Argentem,
1275, 1283.
Ralph
Fitz-
Bernard
Richard of Waterperry
d. 1246.
=
Isabel
OCC. 1233.
Elena d. Hugh s.
Gilb. de Lacy.
Henry of Waterperry
d. ante 1273, succ.
1246 (Bodl. Ch. 375)
Sibyl
S
John de
Mundeford.
(?) Agnes de
Belfou, 1233
Richard 1273
(?) Richard de Belfou
Waterperry, 1279.

II2
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
Ralph de Belfou (Bella Fago) attested a charter of Henry I
issued about the year 1109.1 From the Testa de Nevill we learn
that South Creake had been given out of the royal demesne by
Henry I to Ralph de Belfou or Beaufou for the service of fee
that Ralph had been succeeded by his son Ralph, and he by his
niece (neptis) Emma de Belfou, the tenant in 1212.2 As will be
shewn this statement is not quite correct.
The first Ralph may have been the Ralph de Bellafago who, with
the consent of his brother Gilbert, gave the church of Lowdham
and mill of Doverbec to the canons of Thurgarton temp. Stephen.3
The second Ralph gave Snellingmilne (or Doverbec) to the same
canons, and Emma de Belfou confirmed the gift of her uncle the
said Ralph.4 Ralph de Belfou son of Ralph de Belfou also gave
to Castle Acre priory tenements in Barsham and Creake, for the
soul of King Henry [I], who brought me up, and for my lord
Henry II, his grandson.'5 This may imply that his father died
temp. Henry I, so that he became the king's ward. An amendment
of the annexed pedigree (p. III) would then be necessary.
There are references to Ralph de Belfou as of Nottinghamshire
and the honor of Tickhill in 1165-6 and of Norfolk in rolls of the
sheriff for 1157, 1161, 1165 and 1167, but it is not quite certain
that he held this fee or that the entries all refer to one Ralph. One
of that name was a tenant under Henry de Rye, son of Herbert de
Rye by Agnes, daughter and heir of Ralph de Belfou, of lands in
Norfolk, Lincolnshire and Rutland, which did not descend like
this fee.
6
In 1166 Geoffrey de Merlay held 5 fees of William de Aubigny
the butler of his demesnes of Norfolk." This Geoffrey attested a
charter of Ralph de Toeni to the priory of Westacre. It may be
suggested that he held this fee either jure uxoris, or as guardian of
the heir of Ralph de Belfou of Flitcham and Lowdham. The
Merlays appear to have been tenants of the Arundel fee and William
de Merlay attests charters of William earl of Sussex during the
period 1175-83.
9
In 1170 Amalric de Belfou certified that he gave to the earl of
Arundel, after King Henry last passed over to Normandy, 60s.
for 3 fees and by a judgment 40s. more. In 1176 the sheriff of
Norfolk accounted for 49s. 9d. of the issues of land in Creake late
of Thomas de Belfou for a quarter of a year, 10 and in the ensuing
year the same Thomas gave a fine of 100 marks for land in Creake."
He was amerced in Rutland in 1180 for a default.12
In 1185 a
Jew of Rising offered £10 for the right of debts due to him by
Amalric de Belfou, Daniel de Merlay and others.13 Two years later
this Jew was burned to death in his house at Lynn.¹4
11
Thomas de Belfou quitclaimed all right in the church of South
Creake to Castle Acre, for the soul of Henry I and for my lord
King Henry II'; and Ralph de Belfou son of Thomas confirmed
the gift of this church according to the grants by his grandfather
Ralph de Belfou and his father Thomas.15 This establishes
Thomas's paternity. Gilbert de Belfou also gave to Castle Acre
the church and two-thirds of the tithes of his brother Ralph's
FLITCHAM, STANHOE
113
demesne of Creak; Reginald de Warenne attesting one of these
charters.16
Thomas de Belfou died in 1184, leaving by Alice his wife, daughter
of Waleran de Oiri, then aged 20, a son Ralph, then aged 23 years,
who was in ward of Nigel Fitz-Alexander, his mother's uncle.
The said Alice had the service of 1 fee in Ashley, Northants, and
land in Seaton in Rutland; her son's guardian had land in his
custody belonging to the heir in South Creake, Norfolk, worth £10,
or when restricted £15.17 A plea in 1203 and 1204 throws some
light on the descent of Seaton. John Marshal and Alvreda or
Alina his wife, Humphrey or Geoffrey de Cestria and Isabel his wife,
claimed against the prior of Shelford and others the advowson of
the church of Seaton. The prior based his title on the gift of the
land of Seaton, Rutland, where the church stood, together with
the advowson of the church, made by Hubert de Ria to Thomas de
Belfou, who afterwards gave that church to the priory of Shelford;
and he called to warranty Ralph de Belfou, son and heir of the said
Thomas.18
But to return. Amalric de Belfou was living in 1189, and a
few years later attested a charter of John count of Mortain to the
abbey of Jerpoint in Kilkenny; 19 and another of Theobald Walter
to the monks of Arklow, Wicklow.20 In July 1215 Aumari de
Belfou agreed with Richard de Burgh to surrender to him by
exchange the castle of Asketon in Ireland.21
It is very difficult to explain the descent of this fee during the
latter part of the twelfth century. It is possible that Ralph de
Belfou II had brothers, Henry, Fulk (?), Amalric and Richard.
Henry de Belfou was appointed to view work upon Norwich castle
in the years 1174-1176.22
In 1190 Gilbert de Norfolk proffered 100 marks in Norfolk
for right of the land of the inheritance of Ralph de Belfou.23 Henry
de Belfou was engaged in a plea of land in Normandy.24 In or
before 1204 he appears to have withdrawn from allegiance to John,
for in 1205 Richard de Belfou had livery of 100 solidates of land
in Waterperry, Oxon., which Henry his brother gave him, and of
which Richard had been disseised because of Henry's withdrawal
from the king's service.25
The inquest taken after the death of Richard son of Richard
de Belfou of Waterperry, Oxon., in January 1246, states that
Henry de Belfou was his heir, but remained in Normandy; that
Richard father of the said Richard impleaded Emma de Pirie of
the manor of Waterperry (Pirie ') by writ of King Henry the
king's grandfather (i.e. Henry II) and they made agreement so
that two-thirds of the manor held in service remained to Emma
and her heirs to be held of the said Richard, and the third part
remained to the said Richard in demesne with the lordship of the
two-thirds.26 See Oilli, n. II.
In 1200 the king granted to Gilbert de Norfolk the inheritance
of his wife Emma de Belfou,27 and in that year Ralph de Belfou
obtained a writ of mort d'ancestor against the said Gilbert touching
fee in Creake and Burnham, Norfolk.28 In the ensuing year
III.
I
114
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
7
1
Alice and Emma, daughters of Henry de Belfou, acquired a writ
touching a messuage in Norwich.29 In 1205 Ralph de Belfou
obtained seisin of the fee in Creake and Burnham, touching
which a fine had been made between him and Gilbert de Norfolk
and Emma his wife, whereby Ralph had granted the fee to them
to hold of him during Gilbert's life with reversion to Ralph and
his heirs.30 Ralph de Belfou owed 20 marks in 1208 and a palfrey
for seisin offee in Creake and Burnham as recovered before the
justices in eyre by assize of mort d'ancestor; but he was afterwards
disseised by the king's order because Gilbert de Norfolk gave the
king to understand that the assize was taken against him (Gilbert)
while he had his knights in the king's service, although he had
earlier protested before the justices that he had no knights in the
king's service.31
Towards the end of 1205 Gilbert de Norfolk had died, and his
relict Emma de Belfou gave 600 marks for her inheritance of
Lowdham, Notts., and in Norfolk, and for her dower in her late
husband's land, and that she should not be constrained to marry ;
on the further condition also that if she had no issue Lowdham
should revert to the king.32 Accordingly the king confirmed to
her the manor of Lowdham and her inheritance in Flitcham,
Creake and Roudham on the terms noted above.3
33 On 19 Septem-
ber 1205 the sheriff of Norfolk was directed to give Emma de
Frivill the lands of her inheritance which Gilbert de Norfolk, her
husband, lately held.3 Emma de Belfo in 1210 owed 3 of 14 marks
for judgment against Adam de Eggemare in a case of debt.35
To the nuns of Blackborough, Norfolk, she gave in her widowhood,
for the soul of Isabel de Frivill, a rent of 400 eels from her fishery
of Wilton, Norfolk.36 She held Lowdham, Notts., in 1212 for 1 fee
of the honor of Tickhill.37
34
So far as can be ascertained, Emma, the daughter of Henry de
Belfou, had sisters Alice (named above), Agatha, who married
Robert Aguillon, Philippa, who married [ Istan, Joan, who
married Thomas de Ingoldestrop, and Margery, who married first
Thomas Penning 38 and secondly Robert de Scales.
In 1212 Emma de Belfou held land in South Creake for fee
of the king in chief.39 In 1219 she was in the king's gift, her
land in Flitcham being worth £30 a year; 40 in 1236 she held of
the king in chief fee in South Creake which Ralph de Belfou
held of her.4 41 In 1227 Henry III confirmed to Emma the manor
of Lowdham, Notts., the land of Creake and her inheritance in
Norfolk in Flitcham and Roudham, and the grant to Hubert de
Burgh of the reversion of the manor of Lowdham and the land of
Creake, Emma having by fine recognised the said Hubert to be
her heir.42 This acknowledgment did not take effect. In 1233
there was a dispute in the King's Bench between Emma de Belfou,
Robert Aguillon, Isabel, daughter of Istan and Philippa his wife,
Robert de Escales and Thomas de Ingoldestorp, plaintiffs, and
William, earl of Warenne, the tenant, respecting 4 carucates in
Wilton and 3 carucates in Foulden, Norfolk (see Warenne, n. 81).43
In 1236 Emma was the tenant in certain disputes about land in
FLITCHAM, STANHOE
115
Lowdham, Gunthorpe and Caythorpe, Notts.; 44 at that date she
held I fee in Lowdham of the honor of Tickhill. 45 Apparently
she died soon after that date, and in 1244 Robert Aguillon, as
husband of the elder heir, namely Agatha de Belfou, held this fee,
and his service for 5 fees in Flitcham, Barmer and Tatterford was
assigned to the pourparty of Roger de Somery and Nicholaa his
wife.46
In 1256-7 and again in 1260-1 Luke de Ponynges was
demandant in fines and land in Flitcham.47 Adam de Cokefeld
of Flitcham was a rebel in 1265, and Giles de Argentem of the same
place was against the king at Evesham.48 In 1275 it was returned
that Adam de Cokefeld, Robert Pujois, Luke de Ponynges and
Reginald de Argentem had leet and assize of bread and ale in
Flitcham, where the prior of Flitcham had 1 carucate by the gift
of Robert Aguillon.49 In 1283 Andrew de Saukevill demanded
against Reginald de Argentem land in Wilton, Hockwold, Fouldon,
Flitcham, Rising and Yelverton. 50
The record of a plea in Trinity term 1300 shows that Robert
Aguillon was the founder of Flitcham priory, and that Andrew
de Saukevill recovered against William de Anemere the right of
presentation to the priory as heir of Robert Aguillon. 51 In 1302
the heirs of Belfou held fee in South Creake of the king in chief;
dame Joan de Rocheford, Thomas de Ponynges, Andrew de Sauke-
vill, and William de Bernardeston held 2 fees in Flitcham and
Appleton of the honor of Arundel; Ivo de Berewyk held fee in
Stanhoe, Barwick and Barmer of the heirs of Robert Aguillon of
Flitcham and they of the heirs of Roger de Somery; Thomas de
Snyterton held 1 fee in Tatterford and Shereford; 52 the prior of
Westacre held fee in Roudham of Robert Aguillon ('Dagolun ').53
See also Warenne, n. 81.
4
I
The Belfous of Seaton, Rutland, long continued there. In 1305
John de Belfou held fee there, and in 1316 was joint lord of the
vill.54 In the same year John de Marshal died holding land in
Seaton which Ralph (sic) de Belfou held of him for 1 fee.55 William
son of John Beaufou of Seaton occurs in 1346.56
He died in 1349
holding a hall in Seaton of Ros of Helmsley; John his son, then
aged 15 years, 57 proved his age in 1357.58 Richard de Beaufou
held land in Seaton in 1361 of Robert de Morlee for 1 fee.59
2. Bk. of Fees, 129. 3. Regist. of Thur-
4. Ibid. f. 55d. 5. Chartulary, Harl. 2110,
461.
7. Red Bk. 398. 8. Mon. Angl. vi.
10. Pipe R. 22 Hen. II, 70. 11. Ibid.
26 Hen. II, 88. 13. Ibid. 31 Hen. II, 40.
15. Harl. MS. 2110, f. 46d.
1. Cal. Chart. R. i. 153.
garton, f. 61 (in Thoroton).
f. 46d. 6. Mon. Angl. iv.
576.
9. Red Bk. cclx.
23 Hen. II, 134. 12. Ibid.
14. Ibid. 33 Hen. II, 55.
17. Rot. de Dominabus, pass.
Anglic. vi. 1132. 20. Ibid. 1128. 21. R. de Fin. 555.
20-22 Hen. II, pass. 23. Pipe R. 2 Ric., m. 9.
25. R. de Fin. 249. 26. Cal. Inquis. i. 17; Testa,
28. R. de Oblat. 90.
29. Ibid. 126.
31. Pipe R. 10 John, m. 19. 32. R. de Fin. 320;
33. R. Chart. 1586. 34. R. Lit. Claus. i. 50.
18. Abbrev. Placit. 70, 95.
55.
16. Ibid.
19. Mon.
22. Pipe R.
24. R. Norman. 97.
105. 27. R. Chart.
30. R. de Fin. 319.
Pipe R. 8 John, m. 3d.
35. Pipe R. 12 John,
m. 4. 36. Mon. Anglic. iv. 207b. 37. Testa, 166, 17b, 196. 38. See
Blomefield's Norfolk, i. 490-2, iv. 524; Thoroton's Notts. (ed. Throsby),
iii. 26-7.
39. Bk. of Fees, 129.
40. Ibid. 279.
41. Ibid. 591.
116
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
42. Cal. Chart. R. i. 49. Cf. ibid. p. 223; Fines of Divers Counties, 283-9,
n. 55; Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 403.
43. Close R. 340.
44. Ibid. 319.
45. Testa, 20b. 46. Close R. 251. 47. Norf. Feet of F. 93, 98. 48. Cal.
of Miscel. Inquis. i. 248.
49. R. Hund. i. 462, 537b. 50. Norf. Feet of
F. p. 125.
51. Placit. 28 Edw. I, Trin., no. 77d. (Blomefield, iv. 530).
52. Feud. Aids, iii. 403, 408-9, 439.
53. Ibid. 424.
54. Ibid. iv. 205,
209. 55. Cal. Inquis. vi. 52. 56. Cal. Fine R. v. 520.
57. Cal. Inquis.
ix. 260. 58. Ibid. x. 322. 59. Ibid. 503.
XL.
Humphrey held of Robert son of Corbucion 1 carucate in
Loddon, land in Long Stratton (n. 45) and I carucate in Ingelose
('Golosa ').
Hervey de Ingelose attested the charter of William earl of
Chichester founding the priory of Buckenham.1 It was found by
the inquest of sheriffs in 1170 that Hervey de Ingelose gave scutage
to the earl of Arundel by writ de ultra mare of the last army of
France, namely £4 for 4 fees.2 William de Ingelose gave a parcel
of land to the nuns of Bungay 3 and was tenant with 6 others in
1208-9 in a fine wherein Gilbert abbot of Langley was demandant,
touching three-fourths of the church of Loddon.4
4
Upon the division of the Arundel inheritance the service of
this tenement appears to have been assigned to Roger de Mohaut.
Blomefield's continuator states that the above William de Ingelose
was father of Hervey Ingelose, whose son Martin de Ingelose held
in 1275 of Robert de Mohaut (sic) fee in Ingelose, Norfolk.5
Reginald son of William de Ingelos gave land in Loddon to Langley
abbey, and confirmed some gifts. Reginald was too infirm in
1278 to receive arms and knighthood." John son of Reginald
de Ingelose made a release to the abbot of Langley; he is named
in 1286,9 1300 10 and 1302.11
John de Ingelose held fee in Loddon (and Hardley) in 1302
of Robert de Mohaut of his manor of Rising,12 and Robert de
Welhorne held fee in Stratton of the said John, who held as above.¹
14
His son Robert de Ingelose was a knight in 1323.14
13
In 1335 the service of John de Ingelose in Loddon and Stratton
was conveyed by Robert de Morlee, kinsman and heir of Robert
de Mohaut, to queen Isabella.15
In 1346 Roger de Halesworth and other feoffees held fee in
Loddon and Hardley of dame Isabel, the king's mother, as pertaining
to Castle Rising, which John de Ingelose formerly held.16
6
The Charles family of Loddon descended from one Carolus
de Jernemuth, whose chapel at his court' in 'Lodnes' was sanc-
tioned by the convent of Langley subject to the usual provision
that no injury was thereby done to their church of Loddon. The
chapel was to be maintained by Charles and his heirs at their own
expense; the chaplains on appointment were to take oath that
the oblations made at the chapel should be given to the parish
church.17 Charles de Jernemue and William his brother were
concerned in a Yarmouth dispute in 1223.1
18 Richard son of
Stephen de Lodnes gave to Langley lands which his brother Geoffrey
LODDON, INGLOSE-SNETTERTON, HUNSTANTON 117
had (in 1241) purchased from Roger de Walesham and the homage
and service of William son of Charles.19 Sir William (son of)
Charles de Jernemuth gave the same house two pieces of land in
Loddon and Heckingham.20 By 1263 part of the Ingelose fee appears
to have been alienated to William Charles (or his predecessors), who
in that year had a charter of free warren in Loddon, Sisland and
Mundham, Norfolk, Kettleburgh and Easton, Suffolk.21
Two years
later he had a grant of market and fair at Sisland and Kettleburgh
and of fair at Loddon.22
In 1288 Edward son of Sir William Charles, in conjunction
with Alice [de Ketelburgh] his wife, acquired the Beauchamp manor
in Loddon, 23 and in 1292 Edward Charles, king's yeoman, obtained
a grant of free warren in Loddon, Sisland, Mundham, Hardley
and six other places in Norfolk, and in Kettleburgh, Easton, and
six other places in Suffolk.24 In 1329 Edmund son and heir of
Edward Charles succeeded to the manor of Loddon of the abbot
of Langley and Robert de Ingelose by service unknown; he had
held it and other manors for some years by his father's grant.25
1. Cal. Chart. R. iii. 368; Mon. Anglic. vi. 419. 2. Red Bk. cclxxi.
3. Dugdale's Monasticon, i. 515. 4. Norf. Feet of F. p. 29.
Inquis. ii. 84. 6. Chartulary, Add. MS. 5948, ff. 25d, 32.
Close R. 514.
9. Placit. de quo war. 2136. 10. Cal. of Anct. D., ii.
C. 2534.
11. Cal. Chart. R. iii, 34. 12. Feud. Aids, iii. 433. 13. Ibid.
413. 14. Cal. of Anct. D. i. C. 707, ii. A. 3583. 15. Cal. Pat. R. 130.
16. Feud. Aids, iii. 501. 17. Chartulary, Add. MS. 5948, f. 26d. Blome-
18. Pat. R. 394. 19. Ibid.
21. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 49.
22. Ibid. 53.
24. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 412. 25. Cal.
field calls him 'Charles son of William.'
f. 44d. 20. Ibid. f. 29.
23. Blomefield, Norf. x. 154.
Inquis. vii. 159.
5. Cal.
7. Cal.
XLI.
Ralph son of Herluin in 1086 held 3 virgates and 5 acres in
Snetterton; he was also tenant of Roger Bigod in Snetterton,
Tottington and elsewhere; John nephew of Waleran had 4 caru-
cates in Ringstead and 2 carucates in Hunstanton.
3
Ralph, son of Herlwin gave land to Thetford priory. He was
also described as Ralph de Hunstanton, and by his wife Helewise,
daughter of Hugh de Plaiz of Barnham, Suffolk, he had issue
Simon Fitz-Ralph and Reginald le Brun, who both died without
issue, and Matilda le Brun, who married Roland le Strange² and
had issue John le Strange of Hunstanton and others. In the time
of Stephen Reginald le Brun attested the charter of William
earl of Chichester founding the priory of Buckenham. Roland,
dean of Holme next Ringstead, is mentioned in the Ramsey char-
tulary as living temp. Stephen.5 In 1192 Robert de Mortemer
proffered 30 marks for the right of 5 fees (as below) against John
L'Estrange; but he had not right. In 1195 there was a plea in
the king's court between Robert de Mortemer, plaintiff, and John
L'Estrange, tenant, respecting 5 fees in Hunstanton, Tottington,
Ringstead and Snetterton, followed by a fine whereby Robert
acknowledged that the land was the right of the said John; for
6
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8
this and for £100 John gave Robert the land in Tottington, to
be held of him for I fee, less a twentieth part, saving the church,
which John gave with Robert's assent to the nuns of Campesse,
and saving the service of 9 tenants in the same vill.' Eyton cites
from the chartulary of Binham a charter of John Le Strange
granting (prior to 1174) to St. Mary's, Binham, for the health of the
souls of Henry II, queen, Eleanor and her children, and for the
health of William, earl of Arundel, his lord, and queen Adeliza,
the whole fee that Ralph de Hunestaneston sometime had in the
vill of Edgefield, his son Simon after him, then Simon's brother,
Reginald le Brun, to whom respectively the donor was heir and
lawful successor. Edgefield had been given to Binham long before
(namely ante 1136) by Simon son of Ralph (de Hunestaneston)
for a small rent, whose gift was duly confirmed by William de
Aubigny I the butler, Matilda his first wife, and his son William,
for the soul of Roger Bigot and his wife; the witnesses being
Geoffrey de Merlay (n. 39), Reginald, Odo de Nueres, Ralph the
sewer, Herbert the clerk, William Veltre (n. 46), William Revel,
Morel and Anesgot the chamberlain (n. 49).9 A good pedigree
of L'Estrange will be found in Eyton's History of Salop (x, 262–3).
Doubtless these 5 fees were assigned to the pourparty of Roger de
Mohaut in 1244.
3
In 1219 John L'Estrange had a suit with Geoffrey Baynard
and Cassandra his wife touching his free tenement in Hunstanton.¹
In 1231 John L'Estrange was in possession of this fee in Hunstan-
ton.11
In 1242-3 his son John held fee in Hunstanton, Holme
and 'Hoverbrok' of the honor of Mileham.12 Eyton states that
he died about February 1269. His son John was in 1271 one
of the heirs of Roger de Someri in right of his wife Joan, daughter
and co-heir of the said Roger.13 In 1275 John L'Estrange held
of Robert de Mohaut 5 fees in Hunstanton, Gayton, Snetterton,
Ringstead, and Holme-next-the-Sea, alias Hale Holme, 14 and in the
same year the service of these fees was assigned to the dower of
Joan late the wife of the said Robert.¹
15
In 1302 John L'Estrange held 2 fees in Hunstanton of Robert
de Mohaut, one of the heirs of Hugh, formerly earl of Arundel;
William Bataille and the tenants of the land late of Emma de Brun-
ham held fee in Great Ringstead and Holme of Walter de Calthorpe
and he of John L'Estrange (as above); William de Bukenham
and the tenants of the land late of Matilda, sister of the said Emma,
held fee in the same places of Walter de Calthorpe (as above);
Hugh de Bukenham held fee in Snetterton of Geoffrey de Kesildele
and two others held each fee there of the said Hugh, who held of
John L'Estrange (as above).16
20
10
3
John L'Estrange also held fee in Hunstanton and Holme of
Edmund Fitz-Alan, as of the manor of Mileham; and other tenants
held fee in (a) Wesenham of the fee of Arundel and fee in (b)
South Pickenham of the fee of Mileham, whereof John L'Estrange
and John Arsyk each alleged that they were mesne tenants (a) of
the earl of Arundel and (b) of Edmund Fitz-Alan.17
4
Possibly the following tenements named in the returns of the
SNETTERTON, TOTTINGTON-STOKE HOLY CROSS 119
aid levied in 1302 belonged to this fee or to that of Mileham :
Isabel L'Estrange and 3 others (named) held I fee in Longham
and Cotes of the earl of Arundel; John Arsik held fee in Great
Dunham of the same earl; and Robert de Felton held fee in
Litcham of John L'Estrange de la Marche' and he of the earl of
Arundel.18
In 1317 Margaret late wife of Sir Hamon L'Estrange of Hun-
stanton made terms with Iseult late wife of John L'Estrange of
Knockin for wardship of the lands of Hamon son and heir of Sir
Hamon, a minor aged 4 years, or of Edmund, Hamon's younger
brother, if the latter died in his minority. Neither of these
youths lived to succeed, and in 1335 the service of John L'Estrange
in Hunstanton, Tottington, Snetterton, Ringstead and Holme,
and that of William de Bokenham in Ellingham, were conveyed
by Robert de Morlee, kinsman and heir of Robert de Mohaut,
to Queen Isabella.20
19
1. Mon. Anglic. v. 149b. 2. Chartul. of Castleacre, f. 28. 3. R. Cur.
Regis, i. 20, 23 ff.; Abbrev. Placit. 5, 100. See Eyton's Salop, x. 262-3, and
Warenne, n. 22. 4. Cal. Chart. R. iii. 369. 5. Op. cit. ii. 271, 276 ff.
6. Pipe R. 4 Ric. m. 2d. 7. Feet of F. (Pipe R. Soc. xvii.), 61. 8. Cott.
MS., Claud. D. xiii. f. 87.
9. Ibid. f. 90.
11. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 591. 12. Testa, 289b.
14. Cal. Inquis. ii. 84. 15. Cal. Close R. 215.
17. Ibid. 417, 447.
18. Ibid. 416.
Pat. R. 130.
10. Excerpt. Fin. i. 26.
13. Cal. Inquis. i. 258.
16. Feud. Aids, iii. pass.
19. Cal. Close R. 582. 20. Cal.
XLII.
Gifart held of Robert son of Corbucion in 1086 1 carucate in
Stoke Holy Cross, land in Fritton and Haddiscoe, Norfolk.
2
William de Chesnei was sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk from
Easter 1157 to Michaelmas 1163, when he was removed, owing
great debts to the Crown. In 1170 the land of William de Chesnei
(de Caisneto) of Stoke gave to the earl of Arundel 20s. by the king's
writ and 20s. to Ralph (de Munchenesy).¹ It may be surmised
that this fee passed to Matilda de Chesnei, who married before
1167 Henry Fitz-Gerold, and to their younger son Henry, whose
son Warin Fitz-Gerold held in 1244 in Haddiscoe and Fritton
fee of the fee of Arundel which was then assigned to the pourparty
of Robert de Tateshale.3 The Norfolk fines record an instance
in which Warin Fitz-Gerold was vouched to warranty in 1239-40
by Robert de Insula and Alice his wife, which Alice was sister and
eventually heir of Warin. In 1260 there was a fine between
Gerald de L'Isle and Robert de L'Isle and Alice his wife respecting
land in Mundford 5 of the fee of the Earl Marshal, and two years
later a fine of the manor of Mundford between the same Gerald
and Alice.
After this period this fee is found in the holding of the families
of Rikinghale, Burtoft and Gylingham. In 1263 John de Vaux
obtained a grant of free warren in Stoke Holy Cross (Cruchestok '),
Norfolk. In 1273 Adan de Burtoft held fee (in Fritton) of Robert
de Tateshale as of his castle of Buckenham. Robert de Gylingham
owed suit in 1275 in Loddon hundred.8
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4
In 1302 Ralph de Burtoft held fee in Fritton; Richard de
Rikinghale and his parceners fee in Stoke Holy Cross of William
Talbot and he of William Pecche; John de Witton held fee in
Stoke Holy Cross of Hugh Pecche; Robert de Gylyngham and the
prior of St. Olave alias the prior of Cluny held fee in Haddiscoe;
Petronilla de Vaux held fee in Stoke Holy Cross (Cruchestok').
These all held of Robert de Tateshale.10 In 1305 the fee in
Haddiscoe held by the prior of St. Olave was assigned in dower
to Eva late the wife of Robert de Tateshale and her then husband
9
6
John de Cove."¹ In 1309 the service of Ralph de Buretoft of 1
fee in Fritton was assigned to the dower of Joan late the wife of
Robert de Tateshale, and that of Petronilla de Vaux of fee in
Cruchestoke' to the pourparty of John de Orreby and Isabel
his wife.12 It is possible that this last tenement was not held of
the fee of Arundel, for in 1273 dame Margery de Creike held fee
in Thorpe Holy Cross (West-thorpe') of Robert de Tateshale,
who held of the king in chief.13
1
،
1
2
1. Inquest of Sheriffs; Red Bk. cclxxi. 2. Rev. H. E. Salter, Eynsham
Chartul. i. 422-3.
3. Close R. 248. 4. Op. cit. p. 64. 5. Feet of F.,
Norf., 44 Hen. III. 6. Ibid. 46 Hen. III. 7. Cal. Inquis. ii. 4. 8. R.
Hund. i. 470.
Herringfleet. 10. Feud. Aids, iii, pass. 11. Cal.
Close R. 239.
12. Ibid. I0I-2. Cf. Cal. Inquis. iv. 105-6, 261.
13. Cal. Inquis. ii. 4; Cal. Close R. 101-2.
9.
XLIII.
Ranulf in 1086 held of Robert son of Corbucion I carucate
in Sandringham. Peter de Valoignes had 2 manors in Dersingham
each of 2 carucates, and he held 12 acres here of Roger Bigod,
who had also 4 carucates and 35 acres here; Rinoldus held a
manor here of Eudes son of Spiruwin.
Some portion of these lands passed subsequently to the fee of
Arundel. The priory of Binham was endowed of the church and
other property here by the family of Valoignes. In 1166 Peter de
Valoignes held 2 fees of William de Aubigny the butler of his
demesne of Norfolk,¹ and in that year Godwin de Dersingham was
amerced.2 In 1170 the men of the earl of Arundel gave for the land
of William de Curci of Dersingham 43 marks for many armies.3
William de Curci's interest in Dersingham was through his wife
Gundreda de Warenne, whose first husband, Peter de Valoignes,
had endowed her of it prior to his decease before 1165. For further
details of this lady's marriages see the notes on the honor of Stoke
Curcy (vol. i, 112). William de Curci died in 1171, but his widow
survived until 1224. In 1219 she was of the king's gift, her land
in Dersingham being worth £30 a year. In 1225 the sheriff of
Suffolk was ordered to give seisin to Hugh de Nevill and Joan
his wife and to Margaret de Rivers of what belonged to them by
inheritance of the land late of Gundreda de Warenne in Little
Fakenham, Suffolk.5 Land in Fakenham, Norfolk, belonged to
the barony of Valoignes, but what Gundreda held there represented
her maritagium. The major part of Great (?) Fakenham was an
4
6
SANDRINGHAM, DERSINGHAM-BEDINGHAM
121
8
I
9
escheat of the Normans and was given by king John in 1207 to
William earl of Arundel. The writ of 1225 did not apply to this
fee, which was of the inheritance of the heirs of Valoignes and
was soon after in the hands of the heirs of Dersingham, namely
Henry Baillol, Peter de Mauule (de Malo Lacu) and David
Cumyn, in right of their wives, who in 1242-3 held 1 fee in
Dersingham. In 1244 the service of 1 fee in Dersingham and
Sandringham, held by the heirs of Christiana de Maundevill,
was assigned to the pourparty of Robert de Tateshale. Christiana
daughter and heir of Robert Fitz-Walter by his wife Gunnora de
Valoignes, heiress of the barony of Valoignes, was the relict of
William de Maundevill, earl of Essex. She died without issue,
shortly before 17 June 1232, her heirs being Lora, Christiana and
Isabel, daughters of William de Valoignes and second cousins of
Christiana de Maundevill.10 In 1270 William Comyn, son and
heir of David, passed by fine to John de Pakenham his interest
in Dersingham. In 1302 William de Pakenham and the prior of
Binham held 1 fee in Dersingham of Robert Fitz-Walter, as of
the honor of Arundel; 12 Peter son of Robert (de Snetesham) and
others held fee in Sandringham of the same honor.13 Isabel de
Derham held fee in Dersingham of Philip son of Robert, 14 of
what fee is not stated. In 1305 John de Cove and Eva his wife,
late the wife of Robert de Tateshale, had dower assigned inter alia
infee in Sandringham held by Peter de Snetesham and fee
in Dersingham held by Isabel de Veteri Aula.15 In 1308 and 1309
the prior of Binham and Edmund de Pakenham held 1 fee in Der-
singham which was assigned to the pourparty of Joan de Driby.16
In 1315 these two and John de Gelham were joint lords of Dersing-
ham.17
In 1351 Edmund de Pakenham died seised of the manor
of Dersingham held jointly with Mary his wife of Adam de Clyfton 18
knt., one of the heirs of Tateshale.19
11
1. Red Bk. 398.
2. Pipe R. 14 Hen. II, p. 30. 3. Red Bk. cclxxi.
4. Testa, 3846. 5. R. Lit. Claus. ii. 37. 6. Testa, 2926. 7. R. Lit.
Claus. i. 91b, 455b. 8. Testa, 283. 9. Close R. 248. 10. See Mr.
Round, Ancestor, xi. 133. 11. Norf. Feet of F. 109.
12. Feud. Aids,
iii. 408, 523. 13. Ibid. 408. 14. Ibid. 15. Cal. Close R. 239. 16. Ibid.
100; Cal. Inquis. iv. 261. 17. Abbrev. Placit. 321b; Feud. Aids, iii. 449.
18. Cal. Inquis. ix. 434.
19. See Ibid. 397.
XLIV.
Nigel held of Robert son of Corbucion in 1086 30 acres of land
in Shelton, 30 acres in Mundham and I carucate in Tharston;
the king had in Bedingham 2 carucates and in Woodton 1 carucate;
Hugh de Corbun held of Roger Bigod carucate in Osmundeston;
all in Norfolk.
Ι
Robert de Selton was amerced in 1175,¹ and was involved in
1194 in a plea of land in Shelton. William de Selton owed 2
marks of scutage in Norfolk in 1201,3 and Ranulf de Selton attested
a charter of William earl of Sussex III to the canons of Bucken-
ham. In 1223 Richard de Seinges claimed the advowson of the
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church of St. Adelbert in Mundham against Ranulf de Shelton,
who said that the advowson remained to him and his father Robert
by fine made in the court of Richard I between them and Alan de
Mundham, and Robert had presented his clerk in the time of John
bishop of Norwich. Richard claimed it as being on the fee which
he had in marriage with Matilda his wife.5
6
9
Ranulf de Selton married before 1226 Katherine daughter and
heir of Henry de Illegh," who held 2 fees of the abbot of St. Edmund
and 3 fees of the honor of Helyun in Brent Eleigh, Suffolk." See
St. Edmund, n. 4. It appears that they had issue Henry de
Shelton, who held 3 fees in Brent Eleigh, Suff., in 1242-3 of the
king in chief. The service of 3 fees of the same Henry held of the
honor of Buckenham was assigned in dower in 1243 to Isabel late
the wife of Hugh earl of Arundel, and in the ensuing year the
service of these 3 fees in Shelton held by Henry de Shelton was
assigned to the pourparty of Robert de Tateshale.10 A Henry de
Shelton of Norfolk and Olive his wife are named in 1258.11 Henry
de Shelton died in 1271 holding the manor of Eleigh for 3 fees in
chief as of the honor of Helyon; the manor of Bedingham with
Woodton, Norf., held of the fee of Arundel for fee; the manor
of Shelton similarly held for fee, and land in Osmundeston similarly
held for fee; Robert his son was aged 25 years and more,12 and
had livery of his father's land the same year.13
1
1
4
2
In 1275 the subescheator was presented for taking the goods late.
of Henry de Shelton from the manor of Osmundeston, and Isabel
late wife of the said Henry for marrying Adam de Heyth without
the king's licence, by reason that Henry had held of the king the
manor of Brent Eleigh.14 In 1286 Robert de Shelton and Walter
de Pavely were joint patrons of the church of Stutton, Suff.15
The former was removed from office of coroner of Suffolk in 1291,16
and was one of the keepers of the coast near Dunwich in 1295.
17
1
4
1
2
In 1302 Robert de Shelton held fee in Shelton; Richard de
Therston fee in Tharston of Robert de Shelton; Sir Richard de
Shelton fee in Bedingham and Woodton; all these held of Robert
de Tateshale,18 at whose death it was found that Robert de Shelton
held of him 3 fees in Shelton, Bedingham, Osmundeston and Mund-
ham.19
Robert de Shelton and Isabel his wife, Thomas and Henry
their sons, made settlements of the manor and advowson of
Osmundeston and land in Shelton in 1306.20 Robert died the same
year, and on 12 November John his son and heir had livery of his
father's lands,21 and an order was made for assignment of dower to
Isabel late wife of the same Robert.22 The inquisition taken after
the death of Robert de Shelton shows that he held the manor of Shelton
jointly with Isabel his wife in tail of the heirs of Robert de Tateshale
for fee; land in Bedingham jointly with his said wife and Robert
their son for their respective lives of the same heirs for fee; and
the manor of Osmundeston jointly with his said wife, Thomas and
Henry their sons, for their respective lives of the same heirs for
4
fee; and also the manor of Brent Eleigh, Suff., of the king in
chief as of the honor of Helyun for 3 fees; John his eldest son and
heir was of full age.23
BEDINGHAM, WOODTON-BROOME, BLO' NORTON 123
Among the fees assigned in dower to Alice late wife of Roger
le Bygod, earl of Norfolk, in 1307 was I fee in Shelton and Hardwick
held by John de Shelton.24 In 1309 the 3 fees held by Robert (sic)
de Shelton in Shelton, Bedingham, Osmundeston (alias Scole) and
Mundham were assigned in dower to Joan late the wife of Robert
de Tateshale. 25 In 1316 Robert (sic) de Shelton held 3 fees in
Shelton, Broome and Bedingham of Isabella de Aubigny, countess
of Arundel, as of her manor of Wymondham,26 and in that year John
son of John de Shelton, John son of Robert de Shelton and John
de Sturmy knt. were returned as the respective lords of Fritton with
Shelton and Hardwick; John de Uvedale and Robert de Shelton
being lords of Bedingham.27
John de Shelton died early in 1333, holding lands in Norfolk,
Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Essex and Hertford.28 Dower was
not assigned to Margaret his wife, because she had long withdrawn
from her late husband and had long stayed with her paramour.29
The wardship of Ralph, son and heir of John de Shelton, in respect
of the lands in Brent Eleigh and elsewhere, was granted to the
bishop of Norwich.30 The same year died Alice, late the wife of
John son of John de Shelton, deceased, holding lands in Shelton for
life of the inheritance of Ralph son and heir of John de Shelton,
tenant in chief of Joan, late the wife of Robert de Tateshale the
younger, for I fee and suit at her court of Buckenham; Ralph son
of John de Shelton knt., aged 18 in August 1334, was her next heir.31
It would thus appear that John son of Robert de Shelton had two
sons, the above-named John (s.p.), whose widow died in 1333, and
Ralph, who had livery of his father's lands in 1337.3
Ι
32
One or two other families bearing the local name were found
in this fee. In 1216 Nicholas de Selton obtained the king's grace
and delivered his son Robert as a hostage.33 In 1240 Robert son of
Henry de Shelton and Jordan de Shelton made a final agreement
about land in Shelton.34 Several of the name of Nicholas occur at
later dates as holders of land in this fee.
1. Pipe R. 21 Hen. II, p. 130.
2. R. Cur. Regis, i. 120, 133.
3. R. Cancel. 318. 4. Cal. Chart. R. iii. 369. 5. Bracton's Note-Bk.
n. 1618. 6. Red Bk. 358, 601. 7. Excerpt. e R. Fin. i. 138. 8. Testa,
2916. 9. Close R. 112. 10. Ibid. 248. 11. Excerpt. e R. Fin. ii. 291.
12. Cal. Inquis. i. 247. 13. Excerpt. e R. Fin. ii. 532.
i. 524.
14. R. Hund.
15. Placit. de quo war. 7246. 16. Cal. Close R. 161. 17. Ibid.
456. 18. Feud. Aids, iii. pass. 19. Cal. Inquis. iv. 105. 20. Norf.
Feet of F. i. 167–8. 21. Cal. of Fine R. i. 541, 545. 22. Cal. Close R.
23. Cal. Inquis. iv. 248.
24. Cal. Close R. 512.
25. Ibid.
26. Cal. Inquis. vi. 41.
27. Feud. Aids, iii. 477, 479. 28. Cal.
413.
102.
Fine R. iv. 344. 29. Ibid. 351. 30. Ibid. 358. 31. Ibid. 376, 400;
33. R. Litt. Claus. i. 254b.
Cal. Inquis. vii. 405. 32. Cal. Close R. 15.
34. Norf. Feet of F. i. p. 61.
XLV.
Humphrey in 1086 held of Robert son of Corbucion in Broome
2 carucates, Loddon acre, Long Stratton 2 carucates; Brant held
of the same Robert 82 a. in Barningham; Alvred the Englishman
held of Roger Bigod 1 carucate in Norton in Guiltcross hundred.
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In 1170 it was presented that William Malerbe gave to the earl
of Arundel after king (Henry) crossed the sea (in March 1166) £7
from 3½ fees for the king's army.¹ This may refer to this fee. In
1186 Joscelin de Brome was amerced for a new disseisin in Norfolk.2
In 1197 the countess Gundreda (Bigod) summoned Roger de Brom
to warrant to her of the charter of William his father touching land in
Wainford, Suff.3 In the same year Roger de Brom and William de
Pirnho made an agreement for the division between them of a mill
in Pirnough, Norf.4 Roger de Brom attested a charter of William
earl of Sussex III to the abbey of Robert's Bridge. In 1233-4
Agnes late the wife of Richard de Brom was demandant in a fine of
lands in Broome, Thwaite, Loddon and Mundham. Roger de
Brom was placed in charge of Castle Rising (quære the castle of
Buckenham) in 1234 until Hugh de Aubigny should attain his full
age. In 1242-3 William de Brome held fee in Hopton, Suff., of
the earl of Arundel.8
5
6
77
In 1243 the service of 3 fees held by William de Brom was
assigned to the dower of Isabel late the wife of Hugh de Aubigny,
earl of Arundel, as of the honor of Buckenham; 9 and in the follow-
ing year the service of the same William in Broome and Blo' Norton
was assigned to the pourparty of Roger de Somery and Nicholaa
his wife.10 In 1255 William de Brom had exemption from being
put on juries and assizes, 11 and in the ensuing year had respite of
knighthood for 3 years.12 It was presented in 1275 that Ralph, son
of earl Hugh Bigod and the countess Matilda, granted to William de
Brom the amercements of his homage in the soke of Stockton,
Norf.; 13 that fee alienated by Robert de Tateshale in the time
of Henry II, was then held of William de Brom.14 In 1280 Roger
de Brom and Margery his wife were ejected from land in Roxeth,
Mids.15 In 1283 Roger de Brom committed trespass at Stoke
Ferry, Norf.,16 and in 1287 he was in the Welsh expedition.17
3
4
In 1302 Roger de Brom held the manor of Broome, Norf., for
fee of the fee of Roger de Somery of his pourparty of the honor
of Arundel, fee in Blo' Norton of the same fee; Walter de
Berningham fee in Barningham of the same Roger de Brom, who
held of the heirs of Somery of the fee of Arundel.18 In the same year
Roger de Brom knt. attested a charter of earl Roger Bigod,¹º and
in 1304 the heir of Roger de Brom, in the king's wardship, held
24 fees in Broome, and Petronilla late wife of the same Roger held
fee in Blo' Norton of Robert de Tateshale II.20 Roger de Brom
held at his death (in January 1304) the manor of Broome for 23 fees
of the heir of Robert de Tateshale II, as of the honor of Buckenham,
and a messuage in Blo' Norton, held by his wife Petronilla, for fee
as above; William his son was aged 9 years.21 In 1305 John de
Cove and Eva his wife, late the wife of Robert de Tateshale, obtained
as assignment of her dower inter alia the fee held by Petronilla de
Brom in Blo' Norton and 21 fees in Broome held by the heirs of
Roger de Brom.22
In 1316 William de Brom was lord of Broome and Petronilla
de Brom lady of Blo' Norton and joint lady of Walsham.23 In 1346
Robert de Brom and Roger his son held fee in Broome of the heirs
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of Somery of this honor. 24 In 1350 the heir of Roger de Brom (sic)
held 21 fees in Broome and Pernel late wife of Roger de Brom (sic)
held fee in Blo' Norton of Eva late wife of Robert de Tateshale.25
1. Red Bk. cclxxii.
(Pipe R. Soc. xxiii.) 35.
also Cal. Chart. R. iii. 369.
Fin. i. 250; Pat. R. 35.
11. Cal. Pat. R. 445.
2. Pipe R. 32 Hen. II, p. 65. 3. Feet of F.
4. Ibid. xx. 97.
See
5. Mon. Anglic. v. 668.
6. Norf. Feet of F. i. 55. 7. Excerpt. e R.
8. Testa, 293.
9. Close R. 112. 10. Ibid.
13. R. Hund. i. 467b.
252.
12. Ibid. 468.
14. Ibid. 4836. 15. Cal. Pat. R. 413. 16. Cal. Pat. R. 90. 17. Ibid.
274. 18. Feud. Aids, iii. pass. 19. Cal. Chart. R. iii. 34. 20. Cal.
Inquis. iv. 106. 21. Ibid. 157.
Cf. Cal. Close R. 125. 22. Ibid. 239-40.
23. Feud. Aids, iii. pass. 24. Ibid. 500.
25. Cal. Inquis. ix. 397.
XLVI.
The king had in 1086 in Burnham in Gallow hundred, of the land
which Godric kept, 3 carucates and 2 berewicks each of 1 carucate;
sochmen held I carucate. In Greenhoe hundred the king had 1
carucate in Holkham and carucate in Warham; also land in
Wighton.
Before 1107 William le Veltre attested a charter of Peter de
Valoignes to Binham,¹ and before 1135 a charter of William de
Aubigny to the monks of Wymondham; 2 William Veltrier held in
1166 of William de Aubigny the butler 3 fees of his demesne of
Norfolk. It was presented in 1170 that when the earl of Arundel
came from over seas, by the king's writ which he carried William
le Velter gave the earl's bailiff 60s. from 3 shields (scuta) of the last
army of France and nothing more after the king (again) passed over
seas.4 William le Veutre II gave to the priory of Walsingham the
church of St. Clement of Burnham (Overey).5 He was also a
benefactor to the monastery of Wymondham. In 1185 he was in-
debted to Deulebencie the Jew of Rising, and in 1192 owed
£114 10s. 8d. on his land of Burnham. In 1201 he accounted for
£109 178. 8d. due to the Jews on his land of Burnham by a charter
and for £77 9s. Id.; he paid 2 marks and owed £186 10s. Id., of
which Richer de Saxlingham, Geoffrey de Reindon, Hugh de Illeie,
Adam de Burneham and Reginald le Moine ought to pay 5 marks
yearly. Probably these 5 were his sons-in-law, for in 1226 an
inquiry was ordered as to what liberties William le Valtre had,
whose daughters and heirs Richer (Ric's) de Saxlingham, Geoffrey
de Reydon, William son of Adam, Reginald le Moine and Hugh de
Hillegh had taken to wife, on the day he took his way to Jerusalem,
namely in the land of Burnham, the sea and port of Brunnemuth
and the market of Burnham; and what liberties Philip de Burnham,
father of Ralph de Burnham, whose heir Ralph was (Warenne,
n. 23), had there; and of such liberties as the said William had the
sheriff of Norfolk was to give seisin to the 5 heirs named above.10
9
In 1227 there was an assize between Ralph de Burneham, plain-
tiff, and Richer de Saxlingham, William son of Adam, Reginald le
Moyne, Hugh de Illegh and Geoffrey de Rayndon, defendants, who
had married the daughters and heirs of William le Veutre, touching
William's rights in Burnham at the time he made his way to the
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Holy Land; Ralph recovered his seisin of a moiety of a marsh in
Burnham called Terholme, which William le Veutre and Philip
father of Ralph de Burnham had enjoyed in moieties.11
In 1244 the service of the 3 fees which the heirs of William le
Veautre held in Burnham was assigned to the pourparty of Robert
de Tateshale.12 Thomas de Sniterton and Matilda his wife are
named in a fine of land in Shropham.13 Possibly Matilda was one
of the daughters and coheirs of William le Veltre.14 According to a
plea temp. Edw. I Thomas de Sniterton was son of Richard de
Sniterton by Margery daughter and coheir of William le Veltre.15
This Richard de Sniterton may possibly be the same person as the
Richard de Saxlingham of 1226.
Richard son of Thomas de Sniterton was party to a fine of land
in Tatterford in 1268,16 and four years later Richard de Sniterton
made an agreement with Roger prior of Peterstrue touching land in
Burnham.17 In 1272 Richard son of Thomas de Sniterton obtained
a grant of market and fair at his manors of Tatterford and Burnham,
Norf., and at his manor of Stevington (Waltons), Essex, and of free.
warren in Burnham, Tatterford, Shereford and Rainham, Norf.18
It was presented in 1275 that William de Caletorp (Warenne, n. 23)
and Richard de Snitterton and his parceners in Burnham claimed
wreck of the sea and view of frankpledge there; 19 and that William
de Caletorp made purprestures on the king by taking toll of ships
and nets in the vill of Burnham and claimed a several marsh which
was common to the homagers of Robert le Moyne and Reyner de
Gymingham; 20 these last-named held 2 fees in Burnham of the
king in chief.21
Reiner de Gymingham was party to a fine of land
in Burnham ‘Ulp' in 1269.22 It is reasonable to assume that he
had inherited or acquired the pourparty of the fee held by William
son of Adam de Burnham or Hugh de Illeigh in 1226. Richard de
Sniterton died in 1275, when dower was assigned to Christiana late
his wife.23 In 1283 Richard de Sniterton, probably member of
another branch of the family, held fee in Snetterton and Shropham
of John le Marshal as of the barony of Rye.24
Thomas de Sneterton has been named above as son of Richard
by Margery le Veltre. He was one of those appointed in 1298 in
Norfolk and four other counties to inquire into ecclesiastical
grievances, 25 and in 1301 he impleaded Robert de Reydon and 3
others for the manor of Denham, Suff.26 In 1302 he and his
parceners held 3 fees in Burnham Overey and in the vills of Holk-
ham, Wighton and Warham of Robert de Tateshale of the fee of
Arundel,27 and they held the same of Robert de Tateshale II at his
death in 1303.28 The service of 3 fees in Burnham held by Thomas
de Sniterton and his parceners was assigned in 1305 to John de
Cove and Eva his wife, late wife of Robert de Tateshale, towards
her dower.29 Thomas de Sniterton was one of the lords of Burnham
in 1316, 30 knight of the shire for Norfolk in 1313, and was removed
from the office of coroner in 1314.31 In 1313 and 1316 he complained
of the breaking of his close at Congham St. Mary by malefactors
and the removal of the rolls touching his office of coroner.32
In 1346 Roger Breton and Alice his wife, John Veutre, Matilda
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Reynald and John her son, William de Calthorp and the prior of
Walsingham held in Burnham with their tenements in Holkham,
Wighton, and Warham in North Greenhoe hundred 3 fees of the
heirs of Robert de Tateshale of this honor.33
4. Ibid.
7. Pipe R.
9. R. Canc. 326.
1. Mon. Anglic. iii. 345.
2. Ibid. 331. 3. Red Bk. 398.
cclxxiii. 5. Mon. Anglic. vi. 74.
6. Ibid. iii. 324.
31 Hen. II, p. 40.
8. Pipe R. 3 Ric. I, Norf.
10. R. Lit. Claus. ii. 150. 11. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 1836. 12. Close R.
248. 13. Norf. Feet of F. i. 34. 14. Cf. Blomefield, Norfolk iii. 735,
737. 15. Ibid. 16. Norf. Feet of F. i. 102. 17. Ibid. III. 18. Cal.
Chart. R. ii. 182. 19. R. Hund. i. 454b. 20. Ibid. 5356. 21. Ibid. 535.
22. Norf. Feet of F. i. 106.
24. Cal. Inquis.
ii. 282.
Marshall; Testa,
27. Feud. Aids,
30. Feud. Aids,
33. Feud.
23. Cal. Close R. 181.
Which John son of Peter held in 1242-3 of Alina
2886. 25. Cal. Close R. 204. 26. Abbrev. Placit. 243.
405. 28. Cal. Inquis iv. 105.
29. Cal. Close R. 239.
iii. 460. 31. Cal. Close R. 67, 120.
Aids, iii. 517.
32. Cal. Pat. R. 54, 496.
XLVII.
Robert son of Corbucion had I carucate in Barkeston, Suff., in
1086.
In 1166 Roald the chamberlain held fee of William de Aubigny
the butler of his demesne of Norfolk.¹ There is no evidence that
Roald held this tenement in Barkeston, but the suggestion is made
tentatively.
In 1244 the service of fee in Barkeston held by Guy de Bareston
was assigned to the pourparty of Robert de Tateshale.2
In 1302
Ralph le Chantour, Arnold Bonde and Henry de Holefen held fee
in Barkestone, in Carlford hundred, of the manor of Buckenham.3
1. Red Bk. 398. 2. Close R. 248. 3. Feud. Aids, v. 33.
XLVIII.
Gifard held in 1086 of Robert son of Corbucion 2 carucates in
Thorington, Suff.
For the descent of this fee see also St. Edmund's, n. 20. During
the period 1146-1170 Richard de Wachesham attested a charter of
Ralph son of Brien and Agnes his wife to the priory of Briset,
Suff.¹ Gerbert de Merlingford is mentioned in 1161 as of Humble-
yard hundred, Norf.2 In 1166 Richard son of Osbert held 1 fee in
Suffolk of the bishop of Ely, and fee of earl Hugh Bigod; 4
Richard de Wicham (recte Wrtham) held } fee of the abbot of St.
Edmunds. In 1170 it was presented that Osbert de Wechesham
gave to Hubert de Ria 2 marks (for aid) for marrying his sister by
the king's precept and 2 marks of aid and 4 marks for the king's
use for the army in Wales. In 1182 Gerard de Wechesham owed
60 marks for a recognition against Richard de Clare touching the
land of Merlingeford of the fee of St. Edmund, as to whether it
descended from his grandfather or grandmother by whom (quam)
Gerard claimed." Temp. Richard I Osbert de Wachesham held
I fee in Wortham, Suff., and Marlingford, Norf., and in 1196 he
8
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acknowledged to abbot Samson scutage of the fee in those places."
In 1199 the same Osbert de Wechesham, a knight of the bishop of
Ely, vouched to warranty the bishop of Ely in a plea wherein abbot
Samson impleaded him for raising gallows and hanging people in
the manor of Hitcham, of which Wattisham ('Wechesham') was a
member.10 In 10 John (1208-9) Osbert de Wachesham recovered
seisin of common in Marlingford against Robert de Mortemer and
others.11
In 1212 he held 1 fee of the bishop of Ely in Wattisham,
Suff.,12fee in Culpho, Suff., of the honor of Lancaster,13 and
jointly with another he held fee of the honor of Henry de Essex.14
He withdrew from allegiance to king John, but in 1217 returned to
allegiance of Henry III and had his lands restored in Norfolk,
Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.15
19
Giles de Wachesham was party to a Norfolk fine in 1228,16 and
two years later had letters of protection upon going over seas on the
king's service with Richard de Argentuein.17 In 1235 he did homage.
as son and heir of Isabel de Wachesham for 11 fee which his mother
held in chief in Suffolk,18 part being doubtless fee in Stanstead
which the said Isabel held in 1219-26 of the honor of Hagenet.¹
About this date also Giles de Wachesham held 30 acres of land in
Wattisham by serjeanty of making unum saltum, siffletum et
pettum.'
In 1242-3 Giles de Wachesham held of the fee of St.
Edmunds fee in Marlingford 21 and fee in Wortham.22 In 1244
the service of 2 fees in Thorington, Suff., held by Giles de Wachesham
was assigned to the dower of Isabel countess of Arundel,23 and to the
pourparty of Robert de Tateshale.2 Four years later Giles had a
grant of free warren in Wattisham, Wortham, Thorington and
Marlingford.25 He died in 1268, Joan his wife holding Thorington
in dower; Giles his son was aged 40 years.
, 20
1
26
4
I
Giles the younger died in 1273 holding 13 fee in Thorington and
fee in Greinsville (which John de Tevetshale held of him) of Robert
de Tateshale; Gerard his son was aged 19 years.27 In addition to
this fee the deceased held the manor of Stanstead, Suff., of the
king in chief for I fee of the honor of Boulogne, the manor of
Wattisham, held partly of Sir Peter de Taleworth for 1 fee and partly
of the bishop of Ely for 1 fee (the service to the deceased for tene-
ments held of the said manor amounting to 63 fees), the manor of
Wortham, held partly of John le Marshal of the barony of Rye for
11 fee 28 and partly of the abbot of St. Edmunds for fee (described
elsewhere as 31 fees together), with the service belonging to the said
manor (?) in four places in Norfolk amounting to 11 fee.29
It was presented in 1275 that the heir of Giles de Wetesham
claimed similar liberties (in Marlingford) in Forehoe hundred as
Isabella countess of Arundel had in Wymondham; 30 that the said
Giles formerly held 1 fee in Stanstead which had been divided
between two sisters, one being in the king's custody after Giles's
death and the other held by John de Verdoun of the said Giles.31
The heir of the said Giles held a sixth part of the hamlet of Henney
in the vill of Soham, Cambs., of the prioress of Littlemore.32
24
In 1299 John de Bocland complained that Gerard de Wachesham,
Giles de Wachesham son of Gerard, and Amice his wife and others
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129
34
entered his manor of Wattisham and took away his goods. 33 Gerard,
being in the king's service in January 1297, had respite of his suit
of the court of Clare of Joan countess of Gloucester and Hertford.³
In 1308 Gerard de Wachesham held 2 fees in Wherstead (? Thoring-
ton) of Robert son of Robert de Tateshale,35 and in 1316 he held
2 fees in Thorington and Greinsvile of Isabel de Aubigny, countess
of Arundel.36 In 1309 the service of 2 fees in Wherstead, Suff.,
which Gerard de Wachesham held was assigned to the pourparty
of Thomas de Cailly,37 who died holding the same in 1324, Giles de
Wachesham being his tenant.38 In 1327 Giles held fee in Culpho
of the honor of Lancaster.39
1
4
174b.
2. Pipe R. 7 Hen. II, p. 5. 3. Red Bk.
5. Ibid. 393. 6. Ibid. cclxxiv. 7. Pipe R.
8. Harl. MS. 1005, f. 86b. 9. Ibid. 743, f. 84b.
13. Ibid.
11. Ibid. 63b. 12. Red Bk. 527.
15. R. Lit. Claus. i. 324.
1. Mon. Anglic. vi.
365. 4. Ibid. 396.
28 Hen. II, p. 72.
10. Abbrev. Placit. 22.
570.
14. Ibid. 597.
16. Op. cit. 47.
19. Red Bk. 742. See
17. Pat. R. 361. 18. Excerpt. e R. Fin. i. 276.
Madox, Hist of Excheq. i. 652, note u. 20. Testa, 286. 21. Ibid. 289.
22. Ibid. 291.
23. Close R. 112. 24. Ibid. 248. 25. Cal. Chart. R.
i. 330.
26. Cal. Inquis. i. 210-11; Excerpt. e R. Fin. ii. 475. 27. Cal.
Inquis. ii. 10, 83. 28. Described as 3 fees in 1316; Cal. Inquis. vi. 51.
29. Ibid. 30. R. Hund. i. 445b. 31. Ibid. ii. 1426.
32. Ibid. 502.
33. Cal. Pat. R. 423, 544-
34. Cal. Close R. 55.
35. Cal. Inquis.
iv. 265. 36. Ibid. vi. 41. 37. Cal. Inquis. iv. 265.
38. Ibid. vi. 287.
39. Ibid. vii. 68.
XLIX.
Land in Snettisham, Docking and Congham belonging to this
fee may have formed part of the bishop of Bayeux's manor of
Snettisham in 1086.
I
4
In 1166 Ansgot the chamberlain held 1 fee of William de Aubigny
the butler of his demesne of Norfolk.¹ Adam son of Ansgot had a
grant of land beyond Ludham (?) from Thomas abbot of St. Bennet
of Holme (1168-86).2 Roger son of Ansgot the chamberlain is
mentioned in the Wymondham Chartulary, together with Ang
his nepos.3 Ralph son of Ansgot gave to Wymondham land in
Happisburgh for the soul of his lord and brother Roger son of
Ansgot. Angot de Cangham, who had sons Roger (with a son
William, a priest), Ralph and Geoffrey, is named.5 Hugh de
Milliers of Congham gave the priory tithes of his mill in Congham."
It was presented in 1170 that Robert son of Ansger of Wimund-
ham gave the earl of Arundel 20s. by the King's writ of over seas
after his return from the army of France; for marrying the king's
daughter he gave 1 mark and nothing more after the king crossed
to Normandy. Possibly this Robert was Robert Rusteyng, who
gave to the monks of Wymondham a marsh in Snettisham and
40 acres of land in Sharnborne of the fee of Nicholas de Sharnborne,
for the soul of Aldreda his wife.8. Roger Rusteng was the seneschal
of William earl of Sussex III and attested several of his charters
to Buckenham. He gave a mill in Snettisham to the monks of
Wymondham,10 and is mentioned in 1217 with his seneschal
Wimar.11
7
III.
K
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William Rustein was a party to a fine with Hervey de Stanho in
1224-5 and to a fine of land in Wymondham in 1227-8.12 He was
impleaded with others in 1232 for a tenement in Waterden, Norf.,13
and was a collector of the aid in Norfolk in 1235-6.14 In 1244 the
service of 1 fee in Congham, Snettisham and Wymondham held by
William Rusteng was assigned to the dower of Isabel countess of
Arundel, and to the pourparty of Robert de Tateshale.15
In 1246
he was escheator in Norfolk and as such excused from assizes and
juries,16 and so also in 1256.17 He or his heir was one of the keepers
in Norfolk in 1264 of the lands late of Hugh Bigod.18 In 1275
William Rusteng claimed the assize of bread and ale in Snettisham
and Sharnborne,19 and also in Congham; 20 he was party to fines
of land in Snettisham, Congham and Wymondham during the period
1278-80.21 In 1285 he was exempted from assizes.22
4
6
This fee descended to Alice, who married John de Thorpe
(Warenne, n. 77), said to be aged 36 in 1306. This John and Alice
his wife held fee in Snettisham and Docking in 1302 of Robert de
Tateshale, one of the heirs of the late earl of Arundel, and fee in
Wymondham of dame Joan de Tateshale; dame Alice Rusteyn held
fee in Congham of Tateshale as above.23 At the death in 1303 of
Robert de Tateshale II it was found that John de Thorpe held of
him, of the inheritance of the said John's wife Alice, & fee in Snettis-
ham and Congham,24 and two years later this fee was assigned in
dower to John de Cove and Eva his wife, late wife of Robert de
Tateshale.25 In 1309 the service of fee in Wymondham held by
Ranulf de Morleye was assigned to the pourparty of Thomas de
Cailly.26 John de Thorp died in 1324, his wife Alice surviving him.27
He possessed large estates in Norfolk and Suffolk, which passed to
his son Robert, who died in 1330, leaving John his son, aged 14.28
4
20
1. Red Bk. 398.
2. Turner and Coxe, Cal. of Bodleian Chs. 240.
3. Chartulary, Titus C. viii. f. 43. 4. Ibid. f. 32d. 5. Ibid. ff. 49, 50.
6. Ibid. f. 49. 7. Red Bk. cclxxiii. 8. Mon. Anglic. iii. 324. 9. Cal.
Chart. R. iii. 369. 10. Mon. Anglic. iii. 324b. 11. R. Lit. Claus. i. 315b.
12. Norf. Feet of F. i. 39, 43. 13. Pat. R. 519, 524; Bracton's Note-Bk.
14. Testa, 413. 15. Close R. 112, 248. 16. Ibid. 456; Cal.
Pat. R. 483. 17. Ibid. 471.
18. Ibid. 321.
19. R. Hund. i. 464b,
20. Ibid. 5376. 21. Norf. Feet of F. i. pass.
151. 23. Feud. Aids, iii. pass. 24. Cal. Inquis. iv.
Close R. 239. 26. Ibid. 100. 27. Cal. Inquis. vi. 295.
n. 377.
5226.
22. Cal. Pat. R.
105. 25. Cal.
28. Ibid. vii. 214.
L.
The king in 1086 had 1 carucate in Gasthorpe, Norf.
In 1166 Gorham de Gatestorp held 1 fee of William de Aubigny
the butler of his demesne of Norfolk.¹ During the period 1175-83
Henry de Gatestorp attested a charter of William earl of Sussex
to Buckenham.2 William earl of Chichester gave to Thetford
priory land in Riddlesworth and Gasthorp which had belonged to
Godric.3
In 1244 the service of 1 fee in Gasthorpe held by Geoffrey de
Gatestorp was assigned to the pourparty of Robert de Tateshale.4
GASTHORPE-SNETTERTON, W. HARLING
IZI
In 1253 John son of Geoffrey de Gatestorp was exempted from
assizes.5 John de Gatesthropp held 1 fee in Gasthorpe in 1273 of
Robert de Tateshale." In 1286 and 1289 John de Gatesthorp made
acknowledgment of debt in Essex and Middlesex," and about this
time he possibly alienated this fee, for in 1286 John son of William
de Berdewell was demandant in a fine of land in Gasthorpe. In
1302 John de Berdewell and his parceners held fee in Gasthorpe
of Robert de Tateshale, and in the following year I fee here was held
of Robert de Tateshale by John de Berdewell and his parceners and
8
9
11
fee by the prior and monks of Thetford.10 The fee held by
Berdewell and his parceners was assigned in dower in 1305 to John
de Cove and Eva his wife, late wife of Robert de Tateshale.¹ The
Thetford holding was assigned in 1309 to the pourparty of Thomas
de Cailly, 12 who died in 1316 holding the same.13 In 1346 Robert
and Thomas the sons of Thomas de Berdeswell and their parceners
held fee here of Adam de Clifton.14
1. Red Bk. 398. 2. Cal. Chart. R. iii. 368.
125.
4. Close R. 248. 5. Cal. Pat. R. 176.
7. Cal. Close R. 467; ibid. 1289, p. 37.
9. Feud. Aids, iii. 441. 10. Cal. Inquis. iv. 105.
12. Ibid. 100. 13. Cal. Inquis. vi. 18, 287.
8.
3. T. Martin, Thetford,
6. Cal. Inquis. ii. 4.
Norf. Feet of F. i. 134.
11. Cal. Close R. 239.
14. Feud. Aids, iii. 530.
LI.
The king had in Harling, a berewick of Kenninghall, I carucate
in 1086. Possibly part of Snetterton, held of Roger Bigod by Ralph
son of Herlewin, as described at n. 41, was included in this feoffment.
Ralph de Bucheam attested the charter of William earl of
Chichester to Buckenham priory temp. Stephen.¹ In 1166 Ralph
son of Hugh held 2 fees of William de Aubigny the butler of his
demesne of Norfolk. It was presented in 1170 that Hugh son of
Ralph de Herlinges gave the earl of Arundel of the armies of
England and of the army of . . . marks from a fee of 2 knights
and, by reason of a certain matter of his right which the earl restored
to him, he gave the earl 5 marks gratis. The next link in the
descent of this fee is uncertain. Blomefield's account of the descent
of lands of this fee in Snetterton and West Harling may be correct,
but is not free from suspicion. The following notes suggest a
different descent.
4
6
In 1196 Eustace de Sireford recovered land in Shereford, Norf.5
In 1206-7 William de Shireford was party to a fine of land in Shere-
ford. It is suggested that members of the respective families of
Buckenham alias Snitterton and Shireford married an heiress
descended from Hugh son of Ralph de Herling, for in 1244 the
service of 2 fees in Snetterton and (West) Harling held by Ralph de
Bukenham and Nicholas de Shireford was assigned to the dower of
Isabel countess of Arundel and to the pourparty of John Fitz-Alan.7
The interest of Nicholas de Shireford passed soon after to a branch
of the family of Belfou, for in 1256 Ralph son of William de
Bukenham and Hugh de Belfou passed by fine to William prior of
Wymondham the advowson of the church of West Newton in
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8
9
4
exchange for other lands. It is possible that the William de
Bukenham named above as father of Ralph was of Buckenham
Ferry, Illington, Ketteringham and other places. In 1275 Ralph
de Bukenham or William de Bukenham held fee in Ellingham
of Robert de Mohaut, as of his manor of Castle Rising. In the same
year it was presented from Freebridge hundred that 20s. had been
extorted from the homage of Ralph de Bukenham and William de
la Rokele in West Newton, 10 and from Guildcross hundred that
the subescheator extorted 6 marks of the goods of Hugh de Belfou
in the manor of West Harling." In 1289-90 a fine of land in
Snetterton was levied between Geoffrey de Kesildele (Kynosede-
leye') and Hugh de Bukenham.12 In 1302 Hugh de Sniterton (sic)
held fee and Nicholas de Belfou (‘Beufeu') fee in West Harling
of the heirs of John Fitz-Alan; Hugh de Bokenham and Nicholas
de Belfou held fee in Snetterton of the earl of Arundel.13 In
1315 Hugh de Bukenham had a grant of market and fair at his
manor of Snetterton, Norf., and free warren in (West) Harling
and West Newton.14 In the ensuing year Hugh de Snyterton (sic)
and Nicholas de Belfou were returned as lords of West Newton
and joint lords of Snetterton and West Harling; Hugh de Bucken-
ham as joint lord of Tottington and West Tofts.15 In that year
(1316) Hugh de Snyterton held fee in Snetterton and Shropham
of John le Marshal of the barony of Rye,16 which John son of Peter
held in 1242–3,17 and Peter son of Robert de Bukenham in 1302.¹
18
See n. 46 above. Of this branch was Robert de Bukenham, of whose
lands an extent was taken in 1279; they lay in Carlton Rode,
Tibenham, Old Buckenham, Bunwell, Wilby, Shropham, Griston,
Ellingham, Dunston, Eccles and Garboldisham.19 In 1348 Peter
de Bokenham held fee in Garboldisham of Lawrence de Hastinges,
14
earl of Pembroke.20
It is noteworthy that in 1302 Hugh de Bukenham and his
tenants held & fee in Snetterton of Geoffrey de Kesildele, who held
of John L'Estrange and he in chief of the king.21 (See n. 41,
and the fine of 1289-90 noted above.) Possibly some connexion
between the early holders of this fee and Ralph son of Herlewin
of the Domesday Survey is discernible by reason of the tenure last
noted.
In 1346 the lady of Snyterton held fee in West Harling of the
earl of Arundel which Hugh de Snyterton formerly held; Thomas
de Berdeswell held fee in the same of the said earl which Nicholas
de Beaufou formerly held.22
3. Ibid. cclxx. 4. Hist.
(Pipe R. Soc. xvii.), 180.
8. Mon. Anglic. iii. 324 ;
1. Cal. Chart. R. iii. 368. 2. Red Bk. 398.
of Norf. i. 199, 286; iv. 167. 5. Feet of F.
6. Norf. Feet of F. i. 25.
7. Close R. 250.
Norf. Feet of F. i. p. 92. 9. Cal. Inquis. ii. 84-5.
10. R. Hund. i. 538.
11. Ibid. 540b. 12. Norf. Fect of F. i. 139.
13. Feud. Aids, iii. 424,
44I. 14. Cal. Chart. R. iii. 289. 15. Feud. Aids, iii. pass. 16. Cal.
İnquis. vi. 51. 17. Testa, 2886. 18. Feud. Aids, iii. 424. 19. Miscel.
Inquis. i. 342.
20. Cal. Inquis. ix. 119.
21. Feud. Aids, iii. 424.
22. Ibid. iii. 530.
GRIMSTON, DOCKING
133
LII.
The bishop of Bayeux had in Grimston in 1086 3 carucates
and in Docking 1 carucate.
Richer de Docching is mentioned in 1158;¹ he held 1 fee in
1166 of Robert son of Hugh (de Tateshale).2 Albert de Doching
occurs in 1165.3 Albert Francesius held 2 fees in 1166 of William
de Aubigny the butler of his demesne of Norfolk. Godfrey son
of Albert tested a charter of William earl of Chichester to the
monastery of Buckenham temp. Stephen.5 It was presented in
1170 that Godfrey son of Aubert gave the earl of Arundel 4 marks
for the army after the king passed over seas, and afterwards by
the king's writ de ultra mare he gave the earl 20s. when he returned
from Saxony (in 1167).
6
Roger son of the dean of Grimston is named in 1178;7 Thurstan
de Grimeston was party to a fine of land in Grimston in 1199,8
and Geoffrey son of Thurstan and Matilda his wife, and William son
of Thurstan and Goda his wife, similarly in 1207-8 with Nicholas
de Doching of land in Docking. In 1235 Richard son and heir of
Nicholas son of Ralph de Docking obtained the royal confirmation
of certain grants to him of land in Docking.10 Nicholas son and
heir of the said Richard occurs in 1256.11
9
Richard de Senges obtained a writ in 1205 against Peter de
Grimeston, 12 who was party to a fine of land in Burnham in 1222.13
He was coroner of Norfolk prior to 1237, when he was deceased.14
In 1244 the service of 2 fees in Grimston, Docking and Burnham
held by Thomas de Grimeston was assigned to the dower of Isabel
countess of Arundel and to the pourparty of John Fitz-Alan.15
This, or a younger, Thomas died before 1288 without issue, for in
that year died Agnes late wife of Thomas de Grimeston, who held
at her death a messuage in Little Breckles in dower, by reason of
her husband's death, of the countess of Arundel for fee; Alice
wife of John de Breckles, daughter of Geoffrey brother of the said
Thomas de Grimeston, was her next heir, aged 26.16
In 1302 John de Brecles and William de Coston held 1 fee in
Grimston of Richard Fitz-Alan; John de Breccles held a tenement
in Burnham Westgate in Brothercross hundred for fee (of Roger
Fitz-Osbert?) and fee in Shropham of the earl of Arundel; 17
Henry de Esthall held fee in Titchwell of John de Breccles and
he of the heir of Richard Fitz-Alan.18 Richard son of Nicholas
de Dockyng held fee in Docking; John Lovel and Martin de
Suthmere and the tenants of the land late of Richard de Dockyng
held fee of the heir of Richard Fitz-Alan.19 Before this time
Richard son of Nicholas de Dockyng and Richer son of Richer
de Dockyng had held fee in Docking; but by 1302 it had been
alienated by parcels, and John Lovel and others then held the
fee of Isabel daughter of William de Derham, who held the same
and fee in Dersingham 20 of Robert de Tateshale of the barony
of Tateshale. In 1316 John de Brecles was one of the lords of
Grimston, Shropham and Breckles.21
134
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
4
In 1346 John de Brekles and William Costeyn held 1 fee in
Grimston of the earl of Arundel; John de Brekles held 1 fee in
Shropham of the earl of Arundel which John de Brekles formerly
held; Henry de Esthalle held fee in Titchwell of John de Brekles;
John Lovel held fee in Docking of William de Calthorp which John
Lovel and Martin de Southmere formerly held.22
Possibly a small tenement in Griston belonged to this fee.
John de Greston occurs in 1167.23 In 1227-8 a fine of land in Griston
was levied between Richard de la Rokele ( de Rupella ') and Henry
de Grestun whereby the demandant settled 120 acres of land and
certain rents on the said Henry.24 In 1244 the service of fee
in Griston held by Richard de la Rokele was assigned to the pour-
party of Roger de Somery and Nicholaa his wife.25 No further
mention of this tenure has been found, and it is probable that the
service merged in that rendered by the local family to the honor
of Clare.26
10
1. Pipe R. 4 Hen. II, p. 130. 2. Red Bk. 389. 3. Pipe R. 11 Hen. II,
P. 7. 4. Red Bk. 398. 5. Cal. Chart. R. iii. 368. 6. Red Bk. cclxx.
7. Pipe R. 24 Hen. II, p. 24. 8. Norf. Feet of F. p. 9. 9. Ibid. p. 26.
10. Cal. Chart. R. i. 214. 11. Norf. Feet of F. p. 91.
12. R. de Fin.
332. 13. Norf. Feet of F. p. 38. 14. Close R. 420.
15. Ibid. 112, 250.
16. Cal. Inquis. ii. 409. 17. Feud. Aids, iii. pass.
18. Ibid. 410, 438.
19. Ibid. 410, 438. 20. Ibid. 438. 21. Ibid. pass.
iii. 522, 525, 550.
23. Pipe R. 13 Hen. II, p. 32.
i. 46.
25. Close R. 252.
26. Feud. Aids, iii. 393.
22. Feud. Aids,
24. Norf. Feet of F.
LIII.
if
The king's land in Besthorpe appears to have been involved in
some other manor in the Survey.
Henry I gave to William de Aubigny his butler inter alia the
service of Picot de Bavent of one knight.¹ Robert de Bavent
gave to the monks of Wymondham his portion of the church of
Besthorpe, with the assent of Picot his first-born and other sons; 2
and Robert his son gave parcels of land there, all which William,
3rd earl of Arundel, confirmed.3 It was presented in 1170 that
Robert Bahevent gave the earl of Arundel 6 marks in money and
horses when he kept ward of the marches of Wales; that Robert de
Badvent gave a mark by weight to Richard the earl's clerk at the
giving of the king's daughter; after the earl returned from Saxony
Robert de Badvent gave him 20s. by the king's writ de ultra mare,
as his peers did.5
4
Eustace de Bautvent confirmed to Wymondham priory a gift
which he had made, in conjunction with his father Robert de
Batvent, of land in Besthorp, at the time when his father became
a brother in the priory. His charter was attested by his brothers
John and Richard and John de Batvent. Richard de Batvent
confirmed land in Wymondham to Sir Robert de Guiz son of Sir
Robert de Guiz." He seems to be the Richard de Curchun who
gave land to Wymondham when his father Robert de Batvent
became a brother there; he also gave land in Stanfield with the
assent of William his son 9 and heir.
BESTHORPE-SEETHING
135
Hubert de Bavent and Michael de Bavent gave parcels of land
in Easton Bavents, Suff., to Bliborough priory.10 In 1216 Michael
de Bavent gave his charter of fidelity to the constable of Framling-
ham and delivered the son of his sister Eustachia as a hostage,
and in the ensuing year he returned to allegiance of king Henry
and recovered possession of his lands in Norfolk and Suffolk.12
In 1230 he was appointed to try a Suffolk plea 13 and in 1238 was
one of the keepers of Yarmouth fair.14
15 and
Thomas de Bavent was a visor in a Norfolk plea in 1241,
three years later the service of 1 fee which he held in Besthorpe,
Norf., was assigned to the pourparty of John Fitz-Alan.16 Hubert
de Bavent and Felicia his wife of Norfolk were mentioned in 1250.17
He had letters of protection in 1245 upon going with Roger le
Bigod, earl of Norfolk, to the court of Rome.18 Robert de Bavent
released to the monks of Wymondham the portion of the advowson
of the church of Besthorpe which belonged to him.19 Roger de
Bavent in 1253 and Hubert de Bavent in 1257 were exempted
from assizes.20 Hugh de Bavent, son and heir of Sir Robert de
Bavent, confirmed the gifts of his ancestors to the monks of
Wymondham during the period 1262-66.21 In 1275 Hugh de
Batevent had waif and toll of those who sold salt and pots in the
vill of Besthorpe in Shropham hundred.22
11
In that year Richard son of Osbert held fee in Besthorpe of
Robert de Mohaut as of his castle of Rising.23
In 1335 the service of Richard son of Osbert (sic) in Besthorpe
was conveyed to Queen Isabella by Robert de Morlee, kinsman
and heir of Robert de Mohaut.24
3. Mon. Anglic.
1. Red Bk. 398. 2. Chartulary, Titus C. viii. f. 29.
iii. 3326.
4. Red Bk. cclxx. 5. Ibid. cclxxi. ff. 6. Titus C. viii. f. 29.
7. Ibid. 8. Ibid. f. 28. 9. Ibid. f. 27d. 10. Mon. Anglic. vi. 588b;
Cal. Chart. R. iii. 484. 11. R. Lit. Claus. i. 254b.
12. Ibid. 332, 374.
13. Pat. R. 354.
14. Cal. Pat. 234, 272.
15. Abbrev. Placit. 108.
16. Close R. 250. 17. Excerpt. e R. Fin. ii. 94.
18. Cal. Pat. R. 454.
19. Regist. of Wymondham, f. 94. 20. Cal. Pat. R. 1253, P. 171; 1257,
P. 577. 21. Regist. of Wymondham, f. 95.
22. R. Hund. i. 473, 538b.
23. Cal. Inquis. ii. 84. 24. Cal. Pat. R. 130.
LIV.
Part of the land of Roger Bigod in Seething appears to have
passed to this fee.
It was presented in 1170 that Robert de Seinges gave the earl
of Arundel 20s. of aid.¹ In 1179 Ranulf de Seingis gave 5 marks
for a recognition, which he obtained in 1184-5.2 In 1194 Peter
de Edisfeld essoigned himself against Ranulf de Seinges in a plea
of mort d'ancestor by Roger de Mundham.3 Richard de Seinges
was a justice in the time of Hubert archbishop of Canterbury.4
As Richard son of Robert de Seinges he gave to St. James', Bucken-
ham, the advowson of the church of St. Mary of Barwick and lands
in Rushall (Riveshale ') and Lincroft.5 In 1199 earl Roger Bigod
attorned Richard de Senges and another in a plea against the earl
of Leicester to receive 10 knights and his cyrograph. In 1204
6
136
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
9
Hugh de Windesores was in the custody of Richard de Seinges,"
who accounted for the farm of Herefordshire in 1201 for Hubert
de Burgh. In 1223-4 a fine was levied between Richard de
Seinges and Ranulf de Scheldon respecting the advowson of the
church of St. Ethelbert of Mundham (n. 44), and in 1233-4
between Edmund de Brunton and the same Richard respecting
land in Seething.¹ 10 Sir Richard de Senges and William his son
attested a Seething charter." Sir William de Senges, son of Richard,
is named in several Seething charters preserved in the Public
Record Office.12 In one of these deeds Roger Bigod, earl of Norfolk,
granted to Richard de Seinges land in Seething (Seinges') for
fee.13
In 1225 Richard was a special justice. Margery late wife
of Sir Richard de Seinges granted to Sir William, son of the said
Sir Richard, her dower right in the wood of Seething and in the
maritagium late of Matilda, mother of the said Sir William, in
Wootton, Norf.14 Possibly this Margery was daughter of Alan
de Mundham.15
In 1244 the service of 1 fee in Seething held by William de
Seynges was assigned to the pourparty of John Fitz-Alan and the
service of fee in Barwick held by the same was assigned to
the pourparty of Robert de Tateshale.16 In 1251-2 a fine was
levied between Simon prior of Norwich and William son of
Richard de Senges of land in Seething and the advowson of a
mediety of the church there.17 Roger Bigot, earl of Norfolk,
confirmed the advowson of Seething church to St. Giles's hospital,
Norwich; one moiety had been acquired from the abbey of Langley,
to which Walter de Seinges had given it, and the other moiety from
the priory of Norwich, to which William son of Richard de Seinges
had given it.18 Sir William son of Richard de Seinges also gave
the hospital land in Seething.19 Walter son of Hugh de Wynde-
lesores gave to the abbey of Sibeton a messuage in Mundham and
all the tenements which Margery, late the wife of Richard de
Senges, father of Sir William de Senges, held in Seething, Mundham,
Thwaite, Sisland, Kirstead, Brooke, Langley (Langhale') and
Wootton, and a windmill in Thwaite.20
1
4
It was presented in 1275 that Philip Burnel took the amerce-
ments of his brewers at Seething; Walter de Senge owed suit
to the hundred for land late of Philip Burnel, but withdrew it for
10 years past; the homage of Philip Burnel in the vill of Seething
is mentioned; 21 Bartholomew de Calthorp had incroached on
the highway in Stanhoe.22 William Gerberd the younger, of
Buscot, Berks., died in 1283; the inquest after his death
mentions rents held of his father William Gerberd and of Isabel
late the wife of Philip Burnel.23 In 1302 Sir William de Calthorp
and Sir William Gerberge, knts., held 1 fee in Seething of the earl
of Arundel belonging to his manor of Milham; Reginald de Cal-
thorp and Richard his brother held fee in Barwick of Walter de
Calthorp and he of Robert de Tateshale, one of the heirs of Hugh,
late earl of Arundel.24 In 1303 Reginald de Calthorp held of
Robert de Tateshale fee in Barwick.25 Walter de Calthorp held
1 fee in Stanhoe of the heirs of Roger de Somery and Nicholaa his
4
SEETHING-SHOTESHAM
137
wife, one of the heirs of Arundel.26 In 1316 the same Walter was one
of the lords of Stanhoe.27 This quarter fee in Barwick was in 1305
assigned in dower to John de Cove and Eva his wife, late wife of
Robert de Tateshale.2
28
In 1303 Joan, daughter of Thomas Gerberge, knt., released to
Sir Walter de Calthorp, William his son and the said son's heirs
her right in £10 rent from tenements late of William Gerberge her
grandfather in Seething, Mundham, Thwaite and other adjacent
vills, which Sir Walter then held in fee farm from his father.2
In 1346 William de Calthorp and the heirs of William de Holbrok
held 1 fee in Seething of the earl of Arundel belonging to the manor
of Mileham which Walter de Calthorp and William Gerbergh formerly
held; the same William held fee in Stanhoe of the heir of Roger
de Somery.30
I
29
i. 130.
13.
1. Red Bk. cclxxi. 2. Pipe R. 25 Hen. II, p. 8. 3. R. Cur. Regis,
4. Abbrev. Placit. 44. 5. Cal. Chart. R. iii. 369. 6. R. Cur.
Regis, ii. 184. 7. R. de Fin. 237.
8. R. Cancel. 106, 360. 9. Norf.
Feet of F. i. p. 39. 10. Ibid. p. 54.
11. Cal. of Anct. D. ii. A. 2946.
12. Ibid. C. 1274, 1910, 2258.
Ibid. C. 1169.
14. Ibid. C. 2332.
16. Close R. 250, 248.
17. Norf.
Topham Ch. (B.M.), 41, 44.
19. Ibid. 34.
21. R. Hund. i. 469b, 541b.
22. Ibid. 523.
24. Feud. Aids, iii. pass.
25. Cal. Inquis.
27. Ibid. 452. 28. Cal. Close R.
15. Cf. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 1618.
18.
30. Feud. Aids, iii. 500, 525.
Feet of F. i. p. 82.
20. Cal. Chart. R. iii. 458.
23. Cal. Inquis. ii. 271.
iv. 105.
26. Feud. Aids, iii. 410, 439.
239. 29. Cal. of Anct. D. iii. C. 3105.
LV.
Godric the sewer in 1086 had 40 acres of land in Surlingham,
the king had 1 carucate in Howe and I carucate in Shotesham,
and 32 acres there which Aitardus the man of Roger Bigot held.
William de Ho accounted twice for 1 mark in Norfolk in 1161
apparently to the donum,¹ and in 1166 he held 2 fees in Howe and
elsewhere of the abbot of St. Edmund's.2 In 1185 Roger de Ho
held fee in Bowthorpe, Norf., of Cecily de Buutorp. For other
references to this family see St. Edmunds, n. 18. In 1207 Roger
de Ho recovered possession of land of which he had been disseised
for forfeiture done to certain crown officials.4 In 1214-15 Roger de
Ho claimed the right of presentation to the church of Mickfield,
Suff., against Bartholomew son of Roger, as that to which William
de Ho, father of the said Roger, last presented.5 Roger had sons
Gilbert and Ranulf; to Gilbert he gave his land of the fee of
St. Edmund, and to Ranulf his land of the fee of Arundel. 6
In 1244 the service of 1 fee in Shotesham held by Ranulf de Ho
was assigned to the dower of Isabel countess of Arundel and to
the pourparty of John Fitz-Alan.' In 1249-50 the same Ranulf
was demandant in a fine against William de Vaux, whom Simon
prior of Pentney called to warranty, respecting the advowson of a
mediety of the church of All Saints of Shotesham.8 Miles son of
Ralph de Ho in 1259–60 had an estate in Howe, including a moiety
of the church. In 1268 Miles de Ho obtained a grant of free
9
138
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
warren in Howe, Shotesham, Holverstone, Rockland, Surlingham,
Sisland, Mundham and Loddon, Norf.10
In 1265-6 Magdalen prioress of Carrow and John de Ho levied
a fine respecting the advowson of a mediety of the church of Howe,11
and in 1275 it was presented that Miles de Ho and John de Ho,
lords of Howe, had free leets in Howe.12 Sir Miles de Howe was
living in 1282.13
4
4
4
In 1302 Ralph de Howe held fee in Shotesham, fee in Surling-
ham and fee in Howe, of the fee of Arundel, 14 besides a share of
the tenements in Lodden and elsewhere known as the fee of Joscelin
de Lodden.15 The manor of Howe was settled in 1306 on Ralph
son of Miles de Howe and Joan his wife and Lettice her sister.
In 1316 Miles de Ho held 1 fee in Shotesham of Isabel de Aubigny,
countess of Arundel.17
16
About Christmas 1326 Miles de Houwe, son and heir of Ralph
de Houwe, granted to feoffees a moiety of the manor of Howe, late
his father's, with the advowson of a mediety of the church and the
reversion of the other mediety which Nicholas Houel and Joan his
wife, the donor's mother, held for Joan's life.18
4
I
In 1346 John de Norwich, knt., and his tenants held fee in
Howe of the fee of Arundel, late of Ralph de Howe; also fee in
Surlingham and fee in Yelverton, of Roger Sturmyn and Edmund
Sire, tenants of Sarra Picot, of this honor, late of Ranulf de Hou.19
48.
1. Pipe R. 7 Hen. II, pp. 3, 4. 2. Red Bk. 3. R. de Dominabus,
4. R. Lit. Claus. i. 87b. 5. Abbrev. Placit. 88b. 6. Blomefield,
Norfolk, iv. 246.
7. Close R. 112, 250.
8. Norf. Feet of F. i. p. 74.
9. Blomefield, viii. 25.
11. Norf. Feet of F. i. p. 99.
12. R. Hund. i. 471b.
14. Feud. Aids, iii. pass.
10. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 93.
13. Cal. Close R. 195.
15. Ibid. 433. 16. Blomefield, viii. 25. 17. Cal. Inquis. vi. 41.
Close R. 1328, p. 382. 19. Feud. Aids, iii. 498-9, 502.
18. Cal.
LVI.
Part of the land in Snettisham of the bishop of Bayeux passed
to this fee.
II
6
Richard son of Hacon of Humbleyard hundred, Norf., occurs in
1158,1 and was one of the witnesses of the charter of William earl
of Chichester to the priory of Buckenham temp. Stephen.2 Richard
Hacun gave 13 acres in Snettisham to Wymondham priory.³
Richard, Geoffrey and Alan, all of Snettisham, were named in 1161.4
W. Hacon attested a charter of Ralph son of Brien II to the canons
of Bricett, Suff., during the period 1146-70.5 Ralph Hakun was
a benefactor to the priory of Walsingham. Blomefield's continuator
states that in 1240 John prior of Wymondham granted to Sir William
Hacon a chapel in his house in Snettisham,' and that William was
the father of Hubert Hacon; but in 1230-1 Hubert Hacon was
demandant in a fine of land in Melton against Robert son of Thomas
Hacun, whom Robert Hacun and others called to warranty, and
in 1241 Hubert Hakun was a visor in a Norfolk plea.9
In 1244
the service of fee in Snettisham held by Hubert Hakun was
assigned to the dower of Isabel countess of Arundel and to the
pourparty of John Fitz-Alan.10
8
SNETTISHAM-HALE HOLME
139
It
In 1249-50 Robert Hakun and Hubert Hakun levied a fine of
land in Great Melton, Norf.,11 and in 1252 land in Hethersett was
held of Hubert Hakun, 12 and similarly in 1270.13 Hubert Hacon
put in a claim in a fine of land in Great Melton in 1256–7.14
was presented in 1275 that Hubert Hakun, John de Ingoldestorp,
William Rusting and Andrew de Sharnborne had amends of the
assize of bread and ale of their men in Snettisham; there was
reference also to the homage of Hubert Hakun in Melton in
Humbleyard hundred.15 In 1286 William de Muntchenesy was
summoned to show by what warrant he claimed view of frankpledge
and amends of the assize of bread and ale broken of the tenants
of Richard Hakun in Great Melburn.16
18
In 1302 Richard Hakun held fee in Snettisham of the heir of
Richard Fitz-Alan, one of the heirs of Hugh late earl of Arundel.¹7
He was also a tenant in Great Melton of the heirs of William de
Muntchenesy. See n. 39. Hubert Hakun was a tenant with Cecily
his wife in Shouldham and elsewhere of the earl of Gloucester.1
In 1346 Richard Hacoun and Ann his wife had licence to alienate
in mortmain to the convent of Bricett a fourth part of the manor
of Great Bricett, Suff.; they had besides £30 land in Melton,
Norf. 19
Ann wife of Richard Hacoun, aged 28 in 1318, was one
of the four sisters and coheirs of Richard Loveday of Bricett.20
In 1346 the prior of Wymondham held fee in Snettisham of
the earl of Arundel, late of Richard Hakon; the same Richard
held fee in Great Melton of the earl of Pembroke, who held of the
heirs of Tateshale.2 21
1. Pipe R. 4 Hen. II, p. 128. 2. Cal. Chart. R. iii. 368.
Titus C. viii. f. 44. 4. Pipe R. 7 Hen. II, p. 5.
1746. 6. Ibid. vi. 71. 7. Hist. of Norf. x. 374.
3. Chartulary,
5. Mon. Anglic. vi.
8. Norf. Feet of
10. Close R. 250. 11. Norf. Feet
13. Ibid. 239.
14. Norf. Feet
16. Placit. de quo war. 4976.
19. Mon. Anglic. vi. 1756.
21. Feud. Aids, iii. 525, 532.
F. i. 49.
9. Abbrev. Placit. IIIb.
of F. i. 75. 12. Cal. Inquis. i. 66.
of F. i. 91.
15. R. Hund. i. 5226, 531b.
17. Feud. Aids, iii. 410, 438. 18. Ibid. 399.
20. Cal. Inquis. vi. 85.
ibid. iii. 382.
Cf.
LVII.
The king in 1086 had carucate in Hale Holme and 72 acres
of land in Pickenham; part of the bishop of Bayeux's manor of
Snettisham passed to this fee.
1
2
Roger de Verli gave land in Pickenham to the priory of
Wymondham, and Hugh his son confirmed it. In 1166 Hugh
de Verlei held 2 fees of William de Aubigny the butler of his
demesne of Norfolk. In 1170 it was presented that after the
king passed over seas Cecily de Hulma gave to the earl of Arundel
2 marks of the armies of Wales, and when he returned 10s. of the last
army of France by the king's writ de ultra mare, and 10s. to discharge
the earl's debt to the Jews.3 In the same year Roger de Verli
gave 5 marks in Norfolk for having the service of his men ;
Roger de Verli of Buckinghamshire was named in 1176.5
4
In 1194 Ralph de Verli was plaintiff against Alice del Hulm
and Amisia her sister in a plea of land in Norfolk, and two years
140
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
later Alice and Amot were plaintiffs against Ralph de Verli in a
plea of land in Holme and Snettisham." In that year (1196)
Amicia released to Ralph de Verli all her right in the land late of
Cecily del Humme, late mother of the said Ralph de Verli, in
Holme (Humme') and Snettisham, 8 and in the following year
Alice daughter of Maximus released to Ralph de Verli, the tenant,
her right in fee in Holme ('Hulmo ') and Snettisham, for which
he gave her 14 acres land and 3s. rent in Snettisham. Ralph de Verli
confirmed his predecessors' gifts to Wymondham.10 Cecily de Verli
also confirmed.11 In 1194 Alice de Verli, late the wife of Alexander
de Verli, made an agreement with Thomas de Bassingburn re-
specting her dower.12 In 1204 the chattels of Ralph de Verli, who
was indebted to the Jews, were ordered to be restored to him.13
Roger de Verli and Alice his wife were parties to a fine of land in
Henstead in 1219.14 Roger de Verli gave land in Pickenham to
Wymondham abbey.15
In 1232 the land of Hugh de Verli was ordered to be extended,
and terms were to be set for payment of his debts to the Jews
of Norwich,16 and two years later a similar order was made in respect
of Roger de Verly and Hugh his son in regard to their lands in
Norfolk and Buckinghamshire.17 In 1235 Hugh de Verli was
directed to pay £4 a year, instead of £10, towards the extinction
of the debts of Roger his father.¹
18 In 1242 the sheriff of Norfolk
was directed not to permit Hugh de Verly to be distrained by Hugh
earl of Arundel in respect of I fee in Buckinghamshire for which.
the sheriff had already distrained him.19 This knight's fee was in
Woughton on the Green, Bucks., and was held by Hugh of the earl
of Arundel as of the honor of Chester.20
In 1243 the service of 2 fees which Hugh de Verly held and of
half a fee which Adam de Verly held was assigned to the dower
of Isabel countess of Arundel, 21 and the year following this half
fee in Holme was assigned to the pourparty of John Fitz-Alan
together with 1 fee held by the said Hugh in Woughton, Bucks.22
As there was no mention of the 2 fees held by Hugh de Verly in
the particulars of the partition of the Arundel fees it is safe to
assume that they were awarded to the pourparty of Roger de
Mohaut.
Hugh de Verli was a mainpernor in 1246,23 and Sir Adam de
Verly attested a charter of land in Marham and Shouldham, Norf.,
in 1267.24 Robert de Virly replevied his land in Tittleshall, Norf.,
in 1275,25 in which year it was presented that Ralph de Verly
claimed the assize of bread and ale in Tittleshall and Hugh de
Verly made a several pasture in North Pickenham.26
Robert de Virly held at his death in 1279 the manor of Euston,
Suff., of Sir William Bardolf; Philip his son was then aged 2 years.27
In 1280 Hugh de Verly held fee in North Pickenham of Isabel
countess of Arundel, who held it in dower after the death of Hugh
de Aubigny, earl of Arundel.28 In 1284-6 the heirs of Hugh de
Verly held a moiety of the vill of Woughton, Bucks., of the heir
of the earl of Arundel.29
In 1302 Petronilla le Gros and the tenants late of the land of
1
4
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Cecily de Verly (Wirly) held fee, namely fee in Hale Holme and
fee in Snettisham; 30 John de Burehill held fee in North Picken-
11
ham of Robert de Mohaut,³¹ and Philip de Verluy held of the fee
of Warenne in Tittleshall and Burnham. (See Warenne, nos. 2, 25.)
In 1303 Philip de Verly and Juliana his wife were party to a fine
of the manor and advowson of the church of Tittleshall.32
In 1330
Philip de Virly held 2 fees of Thomas Bardolf of Stoke Bardolf
and Wormegay in the manor of Euston and in Tunstall, Field
Dalling, East Harling, Burnham Thorpe, Old Lynn, Tittleshall and
Bradenham.33
In 1335 the service of Adam de Verley in Pickenham was con-
veyed to Queen Isabella by Robert de Morlee, kinsman and heir
of Robert de Mohaut.34 In 1346 the heirs of Richard de Germes-
ton and Alice his wife and other tenants of the land late of Cecily
de Verly (in Snettisham) held fee there of the heirs of Verly.³
35
1. Chartulary, Titus C. viii. f. 53. 2. Red Bk. 398.
4. Pipe R. 16 Hen. II, p. 31.
5. Ibid. 22 Hen. II, p. 22.
Regis, i. 112, 115.
7. Ibid. (Pipe R. Soc. xxiv.) 234.
(Pipe R. Soc. xx.), 14. 9. Ibid. 132. 10. Titus C. viii. f. 48.
13. R. de Fin. 422. 14.
16. Close R. 63.
Close R. 478.
f. 47d.
12. Ibid. xiv. 14, 48.
of F. i. 36. 15. Mon. Anglic. iii. 324, 331.
508.
18. Excerpt. e R. Fin. i. 285. 19.
244b. 21. Close R. 112.
22. Ibid. 250.
Pat. R. 132.
25. Cal. Close R. 238.
27. Cal. Inquis. ii.
iii. 410, 438, 448.
Inquis. vii. 179.
23. Ibid. 442.
26. R. Hund. i.
169. 28. Ibid. 209. 29. Feud. Aids, i. 8o.
31. Ibid. 446. 32. Norf. Feet of F. i. 160.
34. Cal. Pat. R. 130.
35. Feud. Aids, iii. 525.
3. Ibid. cclxx.
6. R. Cur.
8. Feet of F.
11. Ibid.
Norf. Feet
17. Ibid.
20. Testa,
24. Cal.
4346, 517b.
30. Ibid.
33. Cal.
LVIII.
The king in 1086 had West Newton in Freebridge hundred,
which Godric kept, and 2 carucates in South Wootton, which
Godric kept.
In 1139-1140 William de Cuini attested a charter of William de
Aubigny, earl of Lincoln.¹ In 1166 Ranulf de Cuiniis? ('Cuneus ')
held 3 fees of William de Aubigny the butler of his demesne of
Norfolk.2 It was presented in 1170 that after the king last passed
over seas and made his assize the men of Robert de Mil[iers?]3
of Wootton and Newton gave the earl of Arundel to the first army
of Wales 60s., to the second army of Wales £6, to the third
60s., and when the earl of Arundel returned from Saxony they gave
him 60s. in aid; these moneys Richard (the chamberlain) and Toco
the chaplain received by precept of William the sewer.¹ Neither
Ranulf de Cumeaus (?) nor Robert de Miliers (?) has been identified;
nor is it certain that the 3 fees of the earlier entry refer to this
feudal tenement. One Hamon de Cumeaus was a benefactor to
the abbey of St. Jean de Falaise.5 Roger de Milliers and his wife
Hodierna gave to Wymondham the church of North Wootton
for the souls of their lord William the butler, William his son, earl
of Arundel, and Randulf de Cuinnis, and for William earl of Sussex.6
The gift does not seem to have been confirmed to the priory. The
widow of Roger de Miliers, as Hodierna de Cuinnis, gave the monks
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one of her men and confirmed a gift by another man, Richard
Noth."
Benedict de Angervill and Emma his wife gave the
church of Newton to the same house for the soul of Roger de Milliers.8
In the following account some particulars are included which
relate to the fee of Gurnai (after Bardolf) in South Wootton,
Bedingham and Kimberley, held by the Stutevills. There is, how-
ever, no evidence that the Bulmers were feoffees of the Stutevills
rather they appear to have been enfeoffed by one of the family of
Miliers.
In Michaelmas term 1194 Benedict de Bedigham came and
avowed (advocavit) Nicholas de Stutevill of the church of St. Mary
of Bedingham, Norf., the advowson of which Theobald Walter
claimed. Nicholas was summoned to Westminster to answer.9 In
1197 a partition was made of the land late of Ralph de Aubigny
in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, namely of 15 knights' fees, part of
which was assigned to Nicholas de Stutevill and Gunnora his wife.10
See the pedigree in Early Yorks. Charters, i, 461. In 1205 the manors
of Kimberley (Kineburn') and Beddingham late of William de
Stutevill were committed to William de Cantilupo,11 and shortly
after they were committed to Walter de Cantilupo, father of the
said William.12 On 3 January, 1207, these lands were restored to
Nicholas de Stutevill, grandson 13 of Hugh de Gurnai, whereof
Nicholas de Stutevill his father had been disseised by reason of the
disseisin of the Normans.14 The younger Nicholas gave 10,000 marks
in 1205 for the inheritance of William de Stutevill his brother.15 In
1218 Nicholas II obtained seisin of the manor of Brinklow, which
Eustace de Stutevill had held by the bail of Nicholas de Stutevill,
father of the said Nicholas.16 In 1219 the land of Liddel which
Nicholas de Stutevill had assigned to Eustace son of Robert de
Stutevill his brother until his full age, which custody William de
Valoignes had held and at his decease devised to Saher earl of
Winchester, was committed to the said earl.17
In 1234-5 a fine of land in Kimberley was levied between Roger
Buteaute and Nicholas de Stutevill, to which Hugh de Gurnay put
in his claim.18 In 1239-40 the same Nicholas was demandant în a
fine of the advowson of Bedingham church,19 and in 1241 he put
in a claim on the ground that one of the parties of a fine of land
in Kimberley was his villein.20
In 1244 the service of 3 fees which John de Bulemer held was
assigned to the dower of Isabel countess of Arundel 21 and, although
not recorded, was doubtless assigned to the pourparty of Roger
de Mohaut.
In 1265 John de Bulemer was attached to answer Alice de Bales-
ham for taking her goods in the vill of Wootton; he replied that
he went to the manor of John de Gurney in South Wootton and
because the said John was in the conflict of Evesham against the
king he seised that manor into his own hands as against the king's
enemy.22
In the ensuing year John de Stutevill had safe conduct
in going to the king's court, directed to the sheriffs of Yorkshire,
Lincolnshire, Rutland and Northamptonshire. 23 He was either
executed for rebellion or died before 3 October, when his relict
S. WOOTTON, W. NEWTON
143
Dionisia had provision out of John de Stutevill's lands in Bedingham
and Wootton by the king's clemency, 24 as stated at n. 44. Extents
of the lands of John de Stutevill, the king's adversary, were made.
about this time, showing that he held the manor and advowson
of Kimberley, the manor of Hingham, and lands in Bedingham
and Wootton.25 Sir William Bardolf received the Michaelmas rent
from Kimberley (as superior lord).26
In 1275 John de Bulemer had the assize of bread and ale in
South Wootton 27 which he held of Robert de Mohaut as of the honor
of Rising; John de Stutevill had leet in Kimberley; 28 certain
amercements made at Carlton Forehoe and Kimberley belonged
to Nicholas de Stutevill.29 In 1285 it was found by inquest that
John Noth of Kimberley was of unsound mind and he was placed
in the custody of Nicholas de Stutevill.30 In 1286 the same Nicholas
was in the king's service over seas. In 1282 Sir Nicholas de
Stutevill, knt., attested charters of John son of John de Lodne
to the earl of Norfolk.32
31
In 1292 William Crungethorp impleaded Nicholas de Stutevill
and others for disseising him of common pasture in Kimberley.33
In 1299 a commission was directed to inquire about those who
committed trespasses against Nicholas de Stutevill, while he was
in the king's service in Wales, at Kimberley, Bradenham and else-
where.34
Sir John de Bulmer, knt., died in 1299,35 leaving by his wife
Theophania (d. 1315), daughter and co-heiress of Hugh de Morewik,
a son Ralph, who had livery of his mother's inheritance in 1315.36
Sir John had apparently an elder son Richard, who was in the
custody of Sir Robert de Mohaut in 1302, when he and dame Theo-
phania de Bulemer held 1 fee in South Wootton of the said Sir
Robert.37
In 1303 Hugh de Bokenham held 1 fee in West Newton
of the heir of Richard de Bulmere.38 The heir appears to have been
Geoffrey de Warenne, who was joint lord of South Wootton in
1316,39 and held with Alice his wife one fee there in 1346 of Queen
Isabel, as of the heirs of Robert de Mohaut; Hugh de Bukenham
held fee in West Newton of the same Geoffrey.40
In 1335 the service of John de Bulmer in Wootton was conveyed
to Queen Isabel by Robert de Morlee, kinsman and heir of Robert
de Mohaut.41 Blomefield's continuator cites deeds to show that
John and Alice de Bulemer were parents of John de Bulemer, who
married Theophania de Morewich and by her had Richard his eldest
son, who married Clementia, daughter of Sir Gervase de Clifton.
Richard and Clementia had an only daughter Alice, who married
Geoffrey son of John de Warenne.42
•
1. Facsimiles of Charters (Brit. Mus.), n. 14.
2. Red Bk. 298. 3. See
n. 69. The heirs of William de Miliers held land in Wutton' of Robert de
Mohaut in 1275; Cal. Inquis. ii. 84. 4. Red Bk. cclxxi. 5. Round, Calendar,
215; R. Chart. 5. 6. Chartulary, Titus C. viii. f. 54. 7. Ibid. f. 54d.
8. Ibid. f. 98. 9. R. Cur. Regis, i. I. 10. Feet of F. (Pipe R. Soc. xx.),
99. 11. R. Lit. Claus. i. 33. 12. Ibid. 28b. 13. Blomefield, Norfolk,
i. 749.
14. R. Lit. Claus. 75b. Cf. R. Chart. 160b.
15. R. de Fin. 305.
16. R. Lit. Claus. i. 357.
17. Ibid. 3936. 18. Norf. Feet of F. i. 57.
19. Ibid. 62. 20. Ibid. 68.
22. Abbrev. Placit. 158.
21. Close R. 112.
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HONOR OF ARUNDEL
24. Ibid. 644. 25. Cal. Inquis. i. 306. 26. Miscel.
27. R. Hund. i. 537b, 461.
28. Ibid. 4456, 527.
30. Cal. Pat. R. 149. Cf. Cal. Inquis. ii. 329, and n. 64
32. Ibid. 190, 195.
33. Abbrev. Placit. 229.
36. Cal. Fine R. ii.
23. Cal. Pat. R. 597.
Inquis. i. 248.
29. Ibid. 4476.
below. 31. Ibid. 233.
34. Cal. Pat. R. 473.
pass. 37. Feud. Aids, iii. 407.
40. Ibid. 522. 41. Cal. Pat. R. 130.
iv. 778.
35. Cal. Inquis. iii. 442.
1. Close R. 112, 251.
4. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 184.
7. Cal. Inquis. vi. 41.
38. Ibid. vi. 554. 39. Ibid. iii. 449.
42. Hist. of Norfolk (ed. 1775),
LIX.
Four of the king's freemen held in 1086 20 acres of land in Eccles,
Norf. Part of this tenement may have been included in 2 carucates
in Hempstead which Godric kept for the king.
In 1243 the service of 1 fee held by William del Gerner ('de
Granario ') in Eccles was assigned to the dower of Isabel countess
of Arundel and to the pourparty of Roger de Sumery and Nicholaa
his wife.¹ In 1256-7 Stephen del Gerner and William del Gerner
and Alice his wife levied a fine of land in Brumstead,2 and in 1269-70
William del Gerner and William le Parker levied a fine of the
advowson of the church of Eccles.3 In 1272 William le Parker of
Brumstead had a grant of free warren in Eccles and other places
in Norfolk, and in 1275 he and William del Gerner had wreck of
the sea in the hundred of Happing.5 In 1302 William del Gerner
and William le Parker held each fee in Eccles of Robert de
Tateshale, and in 1316 they held the same of Isabel de Aubigny,
countess of Arundel. In 1346 Alexander del Gerner (de Granario)
and John le Parker held each fee in Eccles of the heir of Robert
de Tateshale.8
4
7
3. Ibid. 109.
6. Feud. Aids, iii. 434.
2. Norf. Feet of F. i. 90.
5. R. Hund. i. 508b.
8. Feud. Aids, iii. 504.
LX.
This tenement possibly represented Roger Bigod's land in Wilby,
Norfolk.
In 1220 Anselm son of Heloise and Margery his wife demanded
against Reginald son of Thomas and Beatrice his wife, and Agnes,
Alice and Katherine, sisters of Beatrice, 60 acres of land in Wilby
as the right of the said Margery, in which the deforciants had entry
only by Thomas de Dereby, father of Beatrice and her 3 sisters,
who had only wardship thereof during the nonage of Margery;
William father of Margery was brother of the said Thomas who died
seised of that land.¹ In 1227-8 Margery de Bukeham was de-
mandant, Roger de Harham, Beatrice his wife, Agnes, Alice and
Katherine, sisters of Beatrice, tenants, in a fine of land in Wilby.2
In 1275 it was presented that Ranulf de Haricham (alibi Haren-
ham) encroached upon the highway in Wilby.3 In 1276 and 1279
fines were levied between Richard de Boylaund and Matilda his wife
and William D'Evereux of the manor of Wilby, and between the same
Richard and Matilda and Matilda wife of William D'Evereux of land
WILBY-FRING, SNETTISHAM
145
6
in Wilby. From an extent made in 1279 of the land of Robert de
Bokenham it appears that he had land in Wilby.5 In 1281 Richard
de Boyland and Matilda his wife had a grant of free warren in
Wilby, and in 1296 Richard de Boyland died holding a messuage
and land in Wilby of the heirs of William de Valence (d. 1296) by
the service of I fee; John son of the said Richard and Elena his
wife was aged 22 years.7 In 1302 Matilda de Boylaund held ½ fee
in Wilby, Norf., of Joan de Valoignes and fee there of John de
Berdewell; they held of Hugh de Bukenham (n. 51), and he of the
earl of Arundel.8 In 1316 Richard de Boylaund was one of the
lords of Wilby.9 Joan de Valoignes, named above, was the relict
of William de Valence, earl of Pembroke. John de Berdewell was
of Gasthorpe (n. 50).
4
4
In 1346 John de Boylaund, knt., held fee in Wilby, namely
a moiety of Joan de Valoignes and another moiety of John de
Berdewell, who held of the heir of Hugh de Bokenham and he of
the earl of Arundel.10
4
1. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 1381. 2. Norf. Feet of F. i. 41.
i. 473, 538b. 4. Norf. Feet of F. i. 116, 119.
6. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 250. 7. Cal. Inquis. iii. 225 ff.
9. Ibid. 456. 10. Ibid. 551.
iii. 423.
3. R. Hund.
5. Miscel. Inquis. i. 342.
8. Feud. Aids,
LXI.
Another part of the bishop of Bayeux's manor of Snettisham
passed to this fee.
Henry I gave to William de Aubigny the butler the service of
Alvred de Athleburch of 2 fees.¹ In 1165 Adam son of Alvred gave
100 marks for the record of a plea against Agnes de Rieburc.2 (See
Warenne, n. 24.) Adam son of Alvred attested charters of Roger
son of Peter de Valoignes I and Peter de Valoignes II to Binham.³
In 1170 Adam son of Alvred gave the earl of Arundel 40s. by the
king's writ de ultra mare gratis.4 The same Adam gave to Wymond-
ham priory land in Carleton Forehoe; 5 in the time of Henry II
Isolda daughter of Alvred de Plesseto gave to the same priory land
in Besthorpe and Attleborough, Norf., and Fimborough, Suff., with
the consent of William de Ardern her son. Some of the lands
named, namely in Besthorpe and Carleton Forehoe, were later (1302)
in the possession of William Curzon, but were not held of the fee of
Arundel.
Whether the following tenements belonged to the 2 fees held
by Alvred de Athleburch or not is quite uncertain. Blomefield's
continuator gives a long account of the family of Ingoldesthorp in
the Hist. of Norfolk (ed. 1769), iii. So9 ff., and traces the line from
Alan de Ingoldesthorp, son of Robert de Snetesham, who lived
temp. Stephen. Thomas de Ingoldesthorpe held 1 fee in Rainham
and Islington, Norf., in 1212 of the honor of Henry de Essex
(Haughley),' and Thomas son of Thomas de Ingoldesthorp gave to
Wymondham priory temp. Henry III land in Sharnborne.8
In 1242-3 Thomas de Ingoldesthorp held fee in Snettesham of
III.
L
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the earl of Warenne. (See Warenne, nos. 24 and 41.) Robert son
of Ralph de Snetesham gave various rents in the vill to Thomas
de Hingoldestorp.9 In 1243 the service of fee held by Thomas.
de Ingoldestorp was assigned to the dower of Isabel countess of
Arundel.10 As appears below, the tenement lay in Fring and
Snettesham.
4
Sir John de Ingoldesthorp was at the battle of Lewes with
Sir Henry de Hastinges, but was not against the king afterwards; of
his land in Smithdon hundred William son of Matilda de Snetesham
received part of the Michaelmas rent.¹¹
11
It was presented in 1275 that John de Ingoldesthorp withdrew
suit of Thomas Bataille's tenement in Snettesham.12 John died in
1283, holding the manor of Ingoldisthorpe and Snettisham, whereof
Ela late the wife of Thomas de Ingoldesthorpe held a fourth part in
dower; Thomas his son was aged 22 years. 13 He held other lands
of the earl of Warenne and of the honor of Haughley.
Thomas de Ingoldesthorp in 1302 held fee in Fring and Snettis-
ham of the heirs of Roger de Someri and Nicholaa his wife. 14 He died
in 1328, John his son being aged 33 years.15 This John died in
1335, leaving Thomas his son, aged 23 years.16
In 1346 Beatrice de Ingoldesthorp and her tenants held fee in
Snettisham and Fring of the heirs of Roger de Somery.17
1. Red Bk. 398.
2. Pipe R. II Hen. II, p. 10.
3. Mon. Anglic.
iii. 346b, 347. 4. Red Bk. cclxx. 5. Mon. Anglic. iii. 324. 6. Ibid.
7. Red Bk. 597, 741.
10. Close R. 112. 11.
13. Cal. Inquis. ii. 283.
vii. 109.
16. Ibid. 493.
8. Mon. Anglic. iii. 324b.
Misc. Inquis. i. 249, 251.
12.
14. Feud. Aids, iii. 410, 439.
17. Feud. Aids, iii. 525.
9. Add. ch. 14864.
R. Hund. i. 522b.
15. Cal. Inquis.
LXII.
William held 2 carucates in 1086 in Brettenham of John nephew
of Waleran.
In 1201 the seneschal of the earl of Arundel demanded against
Richard de Bretham half one suit belonging to the earl's hundred,
for land which the same Richard held in Brettenham ( Bretham '),
which Richard's predecessors did to the earl's predecessors.¹
In 1233 Robert son of Symon de Roinges demanded against
Alexander de Brethenham fee in Brettenham of which Robert his
grandfather was seised in the time of Henry II, which descended to
Simon his son and heir and so to Robert the demandant as son and
heir; that William, father of Robert the grandfather, had besides
his eldest son Robert a younger son Alexander, who was grandfather
of Alexander the tenant; the said Alexander stated that William
had also a third son Serlo, whom his father William enfeoffed of that
land, from which Serlo it descended to Alexander, grandfather of
him, the said Alexander, the tenant; it was adjudged that the
assize between them should proceed.2
In 1242-3 Alexander de Rohinges held fee in Brettenham of
the fee of Margery de Rivers,³ and in 1244 the service of fee
in Brettenham held by Richard Gernagan was assigned to the
BRETTENHAM-BANHAM-WYMONDHAM
147
pourparty of Robert de Tateshale.4 Alexander de Rothing of
Brettenham was named in 1275.5
1
7
1
Henry de Rothinge died in 1301 holding land in Brettenham as
of the earldom of Albemarle, then in the king's hands, for fee;
Alexander his son was aged 22 years. 6 In 1302 Alexander de
Rothyng held fee in Brettenham of the honor of Albemarle (recte
Arundel), (which Henry de Rothyng held in 1346 of the honor of
Arundel). 8 In 1305 the service of fee in Harling and Bretten-
ham which John de Fauconer held was assigned to John de Cove
and Eva his wife, late wife of Robert de Tateshale, in dower.⁹
There is some uncertainty whether this small tenement (fee) was
held of the barony of Tateshale or of the fee of Arundel,10
or of
both; apparently the fee was held of the honor of Arundel.
Isabel widow of Warin de Bassingbourne quitclaimed to William
de Brianzon, lord of West Thurrock, lands in Brettenham, etc.¹¹
In 1346 Henry de Rothyngg held fee in Brettenham of the king
as of the honor of Arundel, which Alexander de Rothyngg formerly
held.12 In 1368 Henry Rothyng held of Sir Robert de L'Isle fee
in Brettenham.13 At the same time the heir of Bartholomew
Brianzon held fee in Brettenham of the earl of Albemarle. (Eudes
the sewer, n. 46.)
2. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 8og. 3. Testa, 289.
5. R. Hund. i. 479, 538b. 6. Cal. Inquis. iv. 39.
8. Ibid. 551. 9. Cal. Close R. 239. 10. Cf.
1. Abbrev. Placit. 33b.
4. Close R. 248.
7. Feud. Aids, iii. 423.
Cal. Inquis. ix. 396-7.
12. Feud. Aids, iii. 551.
11. Add. Ch. 22566; Morant, Essex, i. 91.
13. Cal. Close R. 497.
LXIII.
This tenement has not been identified with certainty, but the
Hundred Rolls contain reference to the township of Bangham and
Ridim[er].' In the survey of 1086 Berardus held 10 acres of land
in 'Benham,' now Banham.
1
6
In 1244 the service of fee in Ridmere' held by Auger de
Rising was assigned to the pourparty of John Fitz-Alan of the
Arundel inheritance.2 In 1249-50 Auger son of Thomas de
Rysinge and Agnes his wife and Robert son of Hugh de Kellinge
were parties to a fine of the advowson of the church of Kelling.3
1. R. Hund. i. 463. 2. Close R. 250. 3. Norf. Feet of F. i. 78.
LXIV.
This tenement may have been parcel of n. 58.
3
Walter Cnot occurs in 1165.¹ Robert Noth and his tenement
in Kimberley were confirmed to Wymondham priory by William
earl of Sussex (1189–93); 2 Hodierna and Richard Noth gave land
in Wootton to the same house, and Gilbert Noth warranted to
the monks Robert Noth's land in North and South Wootton.4
John de Ferthington gave to Richard Noth, son of Gilbert de
Kemburle (Kimberley), land in South Wootton; 5 and Richard
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gave land in Wigenhale to Wymondham.6 Basilia daughter of
Richard Noth and her husband Henry de Caly each quitclaimed to
Wymondham their right to lands in North and South Wootton."
10
In 1244 the service of fee in Wymondham held by the prior
and by Basilius Not[h] in North Wootton was assigned to the
pourparty of John Fitz-Alan. In 1284 John son of Eustace Noth
of Kimberley, an idiot, held inter alia a messuage of Robert Noth.⁹
In 1316 William Rusleyn (sic) held fee in Wymondham of Isabel
de Aubigny, countess of Arundel,10 and in 1346 the prior of
Wymondham held fee in North Wootton and Congham of the
earl of Arundel.11
40
1. Pipe R. 11 Hen. II, 7. 2. Chartulary, Titus C. viii. f. 18. 3. Mon.
Angl. iii. 324, 3326. 4. Titus C. viii. f. 53d. 5. Mon. Angl. iii. 324b.
7. Ibid. f. 8od. 8. Close R. 250.
10. Ibid. vi. 41. 11. Feud. Aids, iii. 524.
9. Cal.
6. Titus C. viii. f. 1ood.
Inquis. ii. 329.
LXV.
This may represent the land of Hermer, or that of Starcolf in
Tuddenham, Norf.
In 1244 the service of fee in ' Rampston' held by Ranulf de
Straton was assigned to the pourparty of Roger de Sumery and
Nicholaa his wife.¹
3
In 1300 Richard de Manteston levied a fine of lands in Tudden-
ham, Faldgate and Elsing.2 In 1302 Richard de Manteston held
fee in North Tuddenham as of the manor of Rising, and in 1346
Thomas de Mandeston held the same, as of the manor of Elsing
(' Ausyngges ').*
4
2. Norf. Feet of F. i. 153. 3. Feud. Aids, iii. 426.
1. Close R. 251.
4. Ibid. 489.
LXVI.
The bishop of Bayeux had 4 carucates in Stanhoe in 1086.
4
Possibly the following tenement belonged to the Belfou fee
(n. 39). In 1221-2 a fine was levied between Harvey son of Richer
de Docking and John de Aubigny, parson of the church of Stanhoe.¹
In 1244 the service of fee in Stanhoe, held by Hervey de Stanho,
was assigned to the pourparty of Roger de Somery and Nicholaa his
wife.2 This Hervey was a justice and special commissioner in Norfolk
during the period 1224–1232. In the latter year he was one of the
collectors of the subsidy in that county. He or another Harvey
had exemption for life in 1257 from being put on assizes and the
like.4 Two years later he (or his son ?) was sheriff of Norfolk
and Suffolk and constable of Norwich Castle.5
In 1270 Hervey de Stanhow gave to St. Guthlac's, Crowland,
land in Lincolnshire, with clause of warranty binding those who
held his lands of Stanhoe and Seething, Norfolk. In 1273 the same
Hervey held fee of Robert de Tateshale pertaining to his manor of
Old Buckenham. He was a special justice in 1276 and had
6
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149
various commissions in Norfolk during the period 1273 to 1283.7
This may possibly be the tenement described under Seething at
n. 54. Master Richard de Stanhow, king's clerk, had land at
Stanhoe in 1318.8
1. Norf. Feet of F. i. 38.
Pat. R. 537.
5. Cal. Chart. R. iii. 102.
8. Ibid. 149.
Pat. R., pass.
2. Close R. 252. 3. Ibid. 159.
6. Cal. Inquis. ii. 4.
4. Cal.
7. Cal.
LXVII.
Aelod held 2 carucates in Middleton in Freebridge hundred,
Norf., of Hugh de Montfort in 1086, with 84 acres of sochland.
In 1166 Hoel de Middentone held fee of William de Aubigny
the butler of his demesne of Norfolk.¹ This may refer to Middleton
in Freebridge hundred, for Maideston in Taverham hundred did not
belong to the honor of Arundel.2
Blomefield's continuator gives a long account (under Middle-
ton) of the family of Scales. Roger de Scales and Muriel his
wife, with the consent of their sons Robert and William, founded
the priory of Markborough in Middleton, and William the son
became a canon there. Robert confirmed and augmented his
father Roger's gifts.5
3
6
In 1194 Roger de Scales put Robert his father in his place in a
plea of land in Cotes, Leics. A settlement was made by fine in
1198 between the abbot of Bury and Robert de Scales (his son and
heir Roger appearing for him) concerning the church of Wether-
den, Suff., by which it was agreed that each party should have
the advowson of a mediety." In 1199 Roger was defendant in a
plea of land in Wiggenhall, Norf. He died in 1215, when his land
(in Leicestershire ?) and his heir were committed to the wardship of
Ralph de Trublevill.9
This heir was a son Robert, who confirmed to the nuns of
St. Katherine of Blackborough the churches of St. Mary of Middle-
ton, Norf., and St. Andrew of Sandon, Essex, and a mediety of the
church of Wetherden, Suff., according to the charters of his grand-
father Robert de Scales and his father Roger de Scales.10 A fine
was levied in 1218-9, between William de Bello Campo and Matilda
his wife and Robert de Scales son of Roger de Scales, concerning
land in Lynn, Middleton and other places.11 In 1229 Robert de
Scales was a special justice in a Norfolk plea.12 He was on the
commission of the peace in Norfolk in 1242,13 and died in 1250,
holding estates in many counties.14 By Alice his wife, who sur-
vived him, he had a son and heir Robert, and Alice and Robert
in 1257-8 paid 17 marks for livery of the manors of Rivenhall,
Essex, and Newsells in Barkway, Herts.15 Alice was sister and heir
of Peter de Roucestre.16 (See Eudes the sewer, n. 40.)
Robert died in 1267 and the wardship of his land and heir was
given to Robert Waleraund to the use of John de Brittany,17 but
a few months later the wardship was granted to Clemency widow
of Robert on payment of 400 marks.¹ It was in 1275 that the
18
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escheator was ordered to deliver his father's lands to Robert son
and heir of Robert de Scales,19 but already in 1270 Robert de
Scales III had had a grant of market and fair at his manors of
Barkway, Herts., Islington in Tilney, Norf., and Worlington, Suff.,
and of free warren at Barkway, Herts., Islington and Middleton,
Norf.20 In 1283 he had a similar grant of warren at Rivenhall,
Essex,21 and 3 years later at Scales How and South Lynn, Norf.,
and in 4 places in Suffolk.22
In 1275 Robert de Scales held 1 fee in Middleton of the king
in chief, and similarly 1 fee in Islington and 4 other places; 23 he
claimed amercements of his men of bread and ale in Tilney and
Wiggenhall; 24 the subescheator took £26 from the manor of
Middleton of Robert de Scales, which was in the king's hands from
the Epiphany to the feast of SS. Simon and Jude; 25 Sir Roger de
Vaux married dame Clementia, relict of Robert de Scales II, whose
marriage belonged to the king.26
In 1302 Sir Robert de Scales held fee in South Lynn (and
Middleton) of Robert de Mohaut.27 He died in 1305 holding
jointly with Isabel his wife inter alia land in Middleton, of which
they had been enfeoffed by Richard Waylaund of Frameden and
Joan his wife by fine levied (in 1289), of Robert de Mohaut for
1 fee; Robert his son was aged 26 years.28 In 1335 the service of
Robert de Scales in Middleton, Norf., was conveyed to queen Isabel
by Robert de Morlee, kinsman and heir of Robert de Mohaut.29
In 1346 Robert de Scales held fee in Middleton and Tilney of
Isabel Queen of England as of the lands formerly of Robert Mohaut,
for which the said Robert de Scales was charged for relief in the
time of Edward I.30
4
2
1. Red Bk. 398. 2. See Cal. Chart. R. ii. 148, 286; R. Hund. i. 450,
528. 3. Mon. Angl. iv. 206.
4. Ibid. 207.
5. Ibid. 206. 6. R. Cur.
Regis, i. 18. 7. Feet of F. (Pipe R. Soc. xxiii.), 118. 8. Ibid. ii. 22.
9. R. Lit. Claus. i. 217. 10. Mon. Angl. iv. 207. 11. Norf. Feet of F. i. 55.
12. Pat. R. 302.
13. Close R. 485.
14. Ibid. 258. 15. Excerpt.
Fin. ii. 326; Dugdale Baronage, citing Pipe R. 42 Hen. III. 16. Cal.
Inquis. i. 100. 17. Cal. Pat. R. 28. 18. Ibid. 115, 299.
19. Cal.
Close R. 207.
20. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 146. 21. Ibid. 266. 22. Ibid. 331.
23. R. Hund. i. 460b, 461. 24. Ibid. 461. 25. Ibid. 463b. 26. Ibid.
27. Feud. Aids, vi. 554. 28. Cal. Inquis. iv. 220.
29. Cal. Pat. R. 130.
30. Feud. Aids, iii. 521.
LXVIII.
Turold in 1086 held of Roger Bigod 60 acres in Thorpe (Bacons-
thorpe).
Blomefield's continuator gives some account, apparently very
incorrect, of the early tenants of this and other fees, in the History
of Norfolk (vi. 502). In Trinity term 1195 recognition was made
that Roger Bacun wrongfully disseised Silvester son of Simon of
his free tenement in Thorpe, Norfolk.¹ In 1199 Roger Bacun.
was one of four knights who elected 12 to make a recognition
in a plea of land in Plumstead, Wolterton and Barningham.2 In
1208 Philip son of Hamon de Dalling claimed the next presentation
BACONSTHORPE
151
to the church of Dalling against Roger Bacun, who was cast in the
suit.³ In 1211 Roger Bacun had to render account as to 100 marks
due for his delivery from prison.ª In 1216 Roger Bacon was one of
many who were taken in arms against King John, probably in the
castle of Framlingham, but were later received into the king's
grace on finding hostages; Roger Bacon so found Roger his nepos.5
In the ensuing year he returned to allegiance to King Henry and
recovered possession of his land in Norfolk.6
In 1218-19 a fine of land in Attleborough was levied between
Ralph son of Peter and Thomas de Heyngham."
9
In 1228 there was a fine of land in Thorpe between Robert Bacun
and Roger de Hengham, and of rent in Thorpe between the same
Robert and William de Hengham. In 1230 Andrew de Hengham
was with Warin de Muntchenesy in the king's service beyond seas.
In 1243 the service offee (in Baconsthorpe) held by Thomas de
Heingham was assigned to the dower of Isabel countess of Arundel,10
and doubtless to the pourparty of Roger de Mohaut. In the same
year Thomas Bacon held of the earl of Warenne's fee fee in Dalling
(Warenne, n. 2); 11 Thomas de Bacunthorp held fee in Deepham
1444
of Alina Marshall of the honor of Rye; 12 and Reginald Bacon held
fee in Letheringsett and part of 1 fee in Hackford of the fee of
Clare. 13
In 1245 Thomas Bacun had a grant of market and fair
at his manor of Loddon.14
In 1272 George Bacun had a grant of free warren in Bacons-
thorpe, Loddon, Field Dalling and Cockthorpe, Norf.15
It was presented in 1275 that certain horses of Robert de
Bacunestorp in Deepham had been taken for distraint; 16 that
Roger Bacun had warren and fairs in Loddon, and markets there
jointly with the abbot of Langley; 17 the cattle of Roger Bacun
in Dalling were seized,¹8 and also money levied from him for release
of distrained beasts in Holt hundred (apparently in Lethering-
sett); 19 that John de Burgh, father of the then John de Burgh,
appropriated to himself a third part of two suits and a fourth part
of a suit in the vill of Baconsthorpe, which George Bacun, James
de Thorp and William Breton used to owe and perform.20 In the
same year (1275) Thomas de Hengham held fee in Baconsthorpe
of the manor of Rising, late of Robert de Mohaut.21
In 1282 a fine of land in Baconsthorpe was levied between
James de Thorp and Robert de Hengham, 22 and in the ensuing
year tenements in Deepham and Hackford were held by Robert
de Bakknesthorp for fee and by William de Blunvill for fee of
John le Marshal.23 In 1285 Robert de Hengham had a grant of
free warren in Hingham, Attleborough, Ellingham, Deepham,
Brandon, Hempstead and North Plumstead, Norf.24 In 1286 a
fine of 22s. 6d. of rent in Baconsthorpe, Tune' Barningham and
'North Wode' Barningham was levied between Roger Bacun and
Edward Swathyng and Alice his wife.25
C
In the same year Andrew de Hengham was summoned to
answer the king for 96 marks, being 2 marks yearly rent in arrears
for Andrew's tenements in Shropham. Andrew replied that he
and all his ancestors held their lands of William son of Warin de
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Muntchenesy (n. 38), and that the earl of Chester was never in
seisin of the said rent whereby anything could accrue to the king
by an alleged exchange between the king and the earl of Chester.
A jury, including Robert de Bacunesthorp, stated that an earl of
Chester gave the tenement in Shropham to one Ulketell his chaplain
for 2 marks rent, which tenement descended to Henry son of the
said Ulketell and then to Richard brother of the said Henry, who
enfeoffed Andrew father of this Andrew; and that the king was
not in seisin of the said rent after the exchange made between
Henry III and the earl of Chester's heirs.26
Roger Bacon was one of a jury on a South Erpingham plea in
1286.27 William de Hengham died in 1297 holding lands in Hing-
ham and Hackford of Andrew de Hengham his brother, who was
his heir, and did not hold the said lands of the heir of John le
Marshal,28
4
In 1302 Thomas Bacon held fee in Baconsthorpe of Sir Robert
son of Roger; 29 in Yelverton fee was held of Robert de Bacones-
thorpe, who held of the earl of Warenne.30 In North Wode'
Barningham fee was held of Robert de Baconesthorpe, who
held of Roger Fitz-Osbert and he of Roger Bigod, earl of Norfolk,31
formerly of the Creake inheritance. Thomas Bakun held 1 fee
in Dalling of Robert le Virluy, who held of Hugh Bardolf and
he of the earl of Warenne; 32 also fee in Holkham and Cock-
thorpe of the same Hugh Bardolf, who held of the bishop of
Norwich; also fee in Loddon and Hardley of the heir of Mont-
fichet.33
Robert de Baconesthorp, knt., held fee in Bacons-
thorpe of Sir Roger Fitz-Osbern of Somerleton.34 (See Warenne,
n. 5). In 1314 the heirs of Thomas Bacon held lands in Lethering-
sett and Dalling of the honor of Clare.35 (Giffard, n. 57.) In 1316
Robert de Baconesthorp held fee in Hingham and Baconsthorpe
of Isabel de Aubigny, countess of Arundel; 36 and the same year he
was joint lord of Baconsthorpe, Attleborough, Hingham and Wel-
borne. His son Edmund held his tenements in 1346, and Margery
relict of Roger Bacon held the Arundel tenement in Baconsthorpe.37
Roger Bacoun of Baconesthorpe was named in 1323.38 In
1327 Roger Bacoun held 1 fee in Loddon of Margaret late wife of
Richard de Plaiz.39 In 1330 Edmund de Baconesthorp held 1 fee
in Carleton and Quarles of Beatrice late wife of Robert son of John
de Thorp, and Thomas Bacoun held of the same 1 fee in Deepdale.40
In 1335 the service of Thomas de Hengham in Baconsthorpe was
conveyed to Queen Isabel by Robert de Morlee, kinsman and heir
of Robert de Mohaut.41 The reference to Thomas de Hengham is
clearly anachronous; the name should be Roger de Hengham alias
Bacon.
In 1339 Edmund de Baconesthorp and Roger Bacoun, knights,
attested a Hempstead charter.42
There appear to have been two distinct families at Bacons-
thorpe and elsewhere; one bearing the local name of Heingham
or Hengham and holding of the fee of Arundel, of whom were:
Thomas de Hengham (1219); a second Thomas, alias Thomas
Bacun (1242-1275); Robert de Hengham, (1282-5), possibly to be
BACONSTHORPE-HAPPISBURGH
153
•
identified as Robert de Baconsthorpe; Thomas Bacon (1302-1316),
and Roger Bacon, knt. (1323-1340). Of the other line, holding of
Warenne, were: Roger Bacon (1199-1217); Reginald Bacon
(1242-3); George Bacon (1272-5), and Roger his supposed brother
(1275-1286); Robert de Baconsthorpe (1302-1316) and his son
Edmund de Baconsthorpe, knt. (1316-1346).
2. Ibid. ii. 191.
9. Pat. R. 357.
13. Ibid. 288.
15. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 181.
1. R. Cur. Regis, i. 374.
R. de Fin. 443; Pipe R. 10 John, m. 8d.
5. R. Lit. Claus. i. 254b.
6. Ibid. 333.
8. Feet of F. Norf. 12 Hen. III.
11. Testa, 287. 12. Ibid. 2886.
i. 287.
16. R. Hund. i. 449.
4716. 18. Ibid. 486b. 19. Ibid. 493b. 20. Ibid. 4956, 516. 21. Cal.
Inquis. ii. 84. 22. Norf. Feet of F. i. 123. 23. Cal. Inquis. ii. 282.
24. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 305. 25. Norf. Feet of F. i. 133. 26. Placit. de
quo war. 489b.
27. Ibid. 486. 28. Cal. Inquis. iii. 261. 29. Feud.
Aids, vi. 553. 30. Ibid. iii. 428, 430. 31. Ibid. 435.
32. Ibid. 420,
34. Ibid. vi. 553.
35. Cal. Inquis. v. 347.
37. Feud. Aids, iii. pass. 38. Cal. Pat. R. 316.
40. Cal. Close R. 48.
41. Cal. Pat. R. 130.
421.
33. Ibid. 433.
36. Cal. Inquis. vi. 41.
39. Cal. Close R. 174.
42. Cal. Anct. D. ii. A. 3142.
4.
3. Abbrev. Placit. 64;
Pipe R. 13 John, m. 20.
7. Norf. Feet of F. i. 35.
10. Close R. 112.
14. Cal. Chart. R.
17. Ibid.
LXIX.
The king in 1086 had 13 carucates in Happisburgh.
3
William de Mylieres attested the foundation charter of Wymond-
ham, 1107.¹ Hugh de Milleres of Norfolk occurs in 1130.2 Possibly
some of the particulars given under nos. 35 and 58 belong to this
tenement. In 1165 Humphrey de Milleres owed an amercement
of 40 marks in Suffolk, and Roger de Arundel owed 40s. for seisin
of land which he held of the same Humphrey. In 1166 Richard
de Milliers held 2 fees of old feoffment, and Humphrey de Milliers
I fee of new feoffment, of William de Avranches. Humphrey
was sewer to William earl of Arundel; 5 and William de Milliers
tests a charter of William earl of Sussex of the period 1175-83.6
Humphrey de Miliers was a benefactor of Wymondham priory
and Matilda his wife gave the same house 2s. rent from her free
maritagium in Wymondham.8 William de Miliers confirmed this
gift by his mother.9 William son of Humphrey de Milliers occurs in
1189.10 Again, William de Milliers was a Norfolk debtor in 1207,11 in
which year he gave £100 for the redemption of William his son,
William earl of Arundel being pledge for his fine.12 These two,
father and son, attested a charter of William earl of Sussex to Bucken-
ham priory.13 William de Miliers made a gift to Wymondham
dated in the octave of St. John Baptist (1 July) after the consecra-
tion of Ranulf bishop of Chichester (1218), when he was himself
about to set off to the Holy Land.14 Hugh de Milliers was party
to a fine of land in Dalling and Guestwick in 1209-10,15 and tested
a charter of William earl of Sussex to the abbey of Robertsbridge.16
Some further references for the period 1215-1227 will be found at
n. 35 above.
In 1239-40 Godfrey de Mileres was a party to a fine of land in
Happisburgh.17 Godfrey de Miliers gave the priory a man in
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Happisburgh.18 William son of Godfrey gave Nettlehampstead to
Wymondham, his father confirming the same; 19 Roger de Montalt
also confirmed the gift.20 As will be seen below it is likely that in
1244 the service of William de Mileres in Wymondham, Happis-
burgh and Rising was assigned to the pourparty of Roger de Mohaut
of the Arundel inheritance. In 1253-4 and 1255-6 fines were levied
between William de Mileres and Godfrey de Mileres respecting 20
the manors of Wymondham, Happisburgh and Rising, and (2) lands
in Wymondham and Happisburgh.21 In 1275 William de Miliers.
held 1 fee in Wymondham, Happisburgh, Rising and Wootton of
Robert de Mohaut as of his manor of Castle Rising.22 In 1302
William Milliers and William Hautein held fee in Happisburgh
of Robert de Mohaut, and the heir of William de Milers held fee
in Wymondham of the manor of Rising.23 In 1316 William de
Miliers was one of the lords of Happisburgh.24 In 1318, as of
Happisburgh, he acknowledged a debt to Aymer de Valence, earl of
Pembroke.25
I
In 1335 the service of the heirs of William de Milleres in
Wymondham, Happisburgh and Rising was conveyed to Queen
Isabel by Robert de Morlee, kinsman and heir of Robert de Mohaut
of Rising.26 In 1346 William Milleres and his parceners (sic) held
3
fee in Happisburgh of the heir of Robert de Mohaut; John Lythare,
John de Bonigton and their tenants held fee in Wymondham of
the manor of Rising, which the heirs of William de Mileres formerly
held.27
1. Mon. Angl. iii. 330. 2. Pipe R. 31 Hen. I, p. 93.
II, p. 92. 4. Red Bk. 193. 5. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 169.
3. Ibid. II Hen.
6. Ibid. iii. 368.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
12. R. Lit.
15. Norf.
11. R. de Fin. 411.
14. Titus C. viii. f. 33.
7. Wymondham Chartulary, Titus C. viii. f. 33.
10. Yeatman, House of Arundel, 222.
Pat. 71.
13. Mon. Anglic. vi. 419
Feet of F. i. p. 31. 16. Mon. Anglic. v. 668. 17. Norf. Feet of F. i. p. 67.
19. Ibid. f. 75, 75d.
21. Norf. Feet of F. pp. 87-8. 22. Cal. Inquis. ii. 84.
435, 445. iii. 24. Ibid. 469. 25. Cal. Close R. 612.
27. Feud. Aids, iii. 505, 535.
18. Titus C. viii. f. 1ood.
20. Ibid. 75d.
23. Feud. Aids,
26. Cal. Pat. R.
130.
LXX.
Henry I gave to William de Aubigny his butler the service of
I knight's fee (in Norfolk) of Reiner Sanzaveir ('Sine Averio') and
of I knight's fee (in Norfolk) of William de Mustervill.¹ No trace
of these fees has been discovered, but Mustervill may be a mis-
reading for Musteroill, the name of a prominent tenant of the
honor of Boulogne.2 In 1217 William de Musteroill of Norfolk
returned to allegiance and had writs of reseisin.3 Roger de Mustrol
was a special justice in Norfolk in 1229.4 In 1279 Adam de
Mustroyl passed by fine to Hamon his son land in Hunstanton and
Walpole, Norf. 5
Bartholomew Sanzaver confirmed a grant to master Walter de
Raveningham, his wife Olive and son William; and there are
other grants to Roger son of Walter de Raveningham. Robert son
of Walter confirmed to Roger de Halis a tenement formerly belonging
1
RINGLETON, KNOWLTON
155
to Bartholomew Sanz Aver in Hales and Kirby Cane. These notes
are from an old list of Hales family charters for lands in Loddon.6
1. Red Bk. 398.
Claus. i. 3156, 322.
Norf., 7 Edw. I.
2. Pipe R. 8 Hen. II, 70; Red Bk. 575. 3. R. Lit.
4. Close R. 384; Pat. R. 306.
5. Feet of F.,
6. Add. ch. 16533.
LXXI.
Ringleton, Kent, was held by Herbert in 1086, at farm from the
king. It was of the fee of the bishop of Bayeux. Knowlton was
held by Turstin of the bishop of Bayeux.
Nigel de Aubigny had land in Towersey, Bucks., which was held
later by the descendants of Pirot. Nigel de Wast was the under-
tenant in 1086.1
Pirot held of Nigel de Aubigny 4 hides in Streatley, Beds.,
viz. 3 hides of the maritagium of Pirot's wife and I hide in fee of
Nigel de Aubigny, and in Wyboston Pirot held 9 hides and I
virgate of the king as of Nigel's fee.2 The said Nigel held Harling-
ton in demesne. In Beeston Pirot held I hide of Eudes son of
Hubert and I hide in Northill similarly.3
Pirot held of Eudes dapifer a manor in Hawkwell, Essex.¹
Pirot held of Eudes son of Hubert 1 virgate in Babraham,
Cambs., and 4 hides in Sawston.5
Some account of this family will be found under Eudes the
sewer, n. 24.
Alan son of Pirot gave to St. Albans his chapel of Knowlton,
with tithes. Alan Pirot appears in 1166 in the carta of William
de Aubigny the butler as the feoffee of 6 knights' fees, part of
II fees which John count of Eu had in marriage with Alice daughter
of William earl of Arundel, namely of part of the said butler's
demesne in Kent." John count of Eu confirmed to Lewes priory
all the gifts made by his men, Robert the butler, William de Eu
(John's uncle), Geoffrey de Bailloil, Guy de Bonuncourt, Miles de
Langetot and Robert de Chrevill. See also nos. 72-75.
Alan Pirot gave to Bermondsey 6000 herrings from his manor
of 'Erchelawis.' 9 The gift is assigned to the year 1152, but may
have been made at an earlier date.
Ralph Pirot and his wife were buried at Colchester. Their son
Ralph gave to that monastery land in Carlton and Babraham,
Cambs., and in Harlington, Beds.10 His charter was for the souls
of himself and his wife Mahalt etc., and was attested by his brothers,
William and John Pirot. In 1166 Ralph Pirot held 5 fees of
Robert de Aubigny of Cainho, 4 fees of Henry Fitz-Gerold of the
fee of Eudes the sewer, 5 fees of Geoffrey de Ver of the honor of
John the seneschal, 2 fees of Nigel bishop of Ely and, presumably,
6 fees of the count of Eu, who held nominally of the honor of Arundel,11
and fee or more of the archbishop of Canterbury.12 John Pirot
held I fee of Robert de Aubigny.13
In 1201 Ralph Pirot III owed 15 marks in Essex, in respect of
these 4 fees, to escape service beyond seas and to recover land of
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which he had been dispossessed by reason of a disseisin done by
him to John count of Eu.14 In 1217 he and Alan Pirot, both of
Kent, returned to allegiance.15 In 1214 Richard Pirot, son of
Ralph (died 1222), had been excused the scutage of Poitou in respect.
of 2 fees in Kent.16 In 1223 the prior of Dunstable recovered
against Richard Pirot the right of presentation to the church of
Harlington, Beds.17 The prior defended that Ralph Pirot, grand-
father of Richard the plaintiff, presented his clerk to the church of
Harlington and then gave the church to Dunstable by charter
produced; Richard alleged that if Ralph made the gift he did so
after he had divested himself of his land and had taken the habit
in Woburn abbey; this the prior denied, alleging that Ralph held
his lands for 10 years after he made the charter.18 Richard Pirot
died in 1228,19 and the same year Ralph, brother and heir of
Richard Pirot, did homage for the lands which his brother lately
held in chief of the crown. 20 In 1232 Ralph Pirot IV was found
to be brother and heir of Richard, deceased, and he successfully
defended his right to 1 carucate in Windridge, near St. Albans, by
descent from his said brother.21
In 1242 Ralph Pirot held 2 fees in Knowlton and Ringleton,
Kent, of the countess of Eu, who held them of the earl of Arundel,
and Roger de Gatinden held 1 fee in Gatesdenne in Tenterden,
Kent, of Simon de la Haye, he of Ralph Pirot, and Ralph as above.22
Ralph also held in chief 2 fees in Lindsell and Hawkwell, Essex, 23
and 4 fees in Harlington of the honor of Cainho, in Bedfordshire
and Buckinghamshire, which (it is added) ought to be apportioned,
half to Isabella (de Aubigny) and half to Ralph (Pirot).24 He died
in 1252 holding of the crown the manor of Lindsell for 2 fees and
the vill of Sawston for 2 fees; Ralph Pirot, knt., his son and heir,
was aged over 26 years.25 In 1262 the priory of Dunstable recovered
the patronage of Harlington church against Ralph nephew of
Richard Pirot.26
Ralph Pirot was one of those who in 1264 held Northampton
against the king,27 and in consequence of his disaffection his mes-
suage in Knowlton was granted to Roger de Leyburn.28 In 1266
he was in the Isle of Ely, but surrendered to Edward the king's
son and made his peace with Henry.29 In 1275 he held 1 fee in
Knowlton of William de Leyburn, who held in chief, by service
of Dover Castle, and Henry Pirot held 1 fee in Ringleton of Ralph,
who held as above.30 Ralph also held 2 carucates in Lindsell in
chief,31 the vill of Harlington for I fee of Aumary de St. Amand,
as of the barony of Cainho; Richard de Turs held 1 fee in Towersey
and John de Morton & fee there, both holding of Ralph Pirot, and he
of the barony of Cainho.32 In 1284-5 (or 1302-3) Ralph Pirot
held 2 fees in Knowlton and Ringleton of the honor of Eu.33 Thomas
de Gatesdenne held 1 fee in Gatesdenne in Tenterden of William del
I
Hay of Beamonstown (Beaumundeston).34
I
Ralph V died at an advanced age in 1305, his heir being his
grandson Ralph, aged 14, son of Ralph VI.35 Shortly before his
death he had enfeoffed his younger son Simon of the manors of
Sawston and Lindsell to hold for life.36 Simon and his wife.
RINGLETON, KNOWLTON-BENENDEN
157
Jacquemin were living in 1315,37 but Simon apparently died in 1319
without issue, and in that year Simon Pirot, kinsman and heir
of Simon Pirot, tenant in chief, obtained livery of the land that
Simon Pirot his uncle had held in chief at his death.38
The younger
Simon and his widow Elizabeth occur in 1329, in connexion with
Sawston.39
Thomas Perot, or Pirot, perhaps another son of Ralph V, died
in 1330, holding the manor of Knowlton of Juliana, heir of William
de Leybourn, whom William de Clynton had married; Thomas
Pirot, son of Simon, grandson of the said Thomas, was his next
heir, aged 2 years. In the inquisition post mortem of Thomas he
40
is said to have held the manor of Knowlton for 2 fees, as of the manor
of Elham, which was then in the king's hands by the forfeiture of
Henry de Leyburn. The young heir died in 1331.
Master Thomas Pyrot, Doctor of the Civil Law, was a monk of
St. Albans in 1308.43
1. V. C. H. Bucks. i. 268. 2. V. C. H. Beds. i. 244-5. 3. Ibid. 236.
4. V. C. H. Essex, i. 4936. 5. Farrer, Feudal Cambs. 52, 263. 6. Mon.
Anglic. ii. 221. 7. Red Bk. 398; Complete Peerage (ed. Gibbs), v. 157.
8. Chartulary, Vesp. F. xv. f. 81. 9. Annales Mon. iii. 439. 10. Chartul.
of Colchester, 179. 11. Red Bk. 2756 to 298, pass. 12. Ibid. 13. Ibid.
324. 14. R. de Oblat. 152; R. Canc. 160. 15. R. L. Claus. i. 325, 327.
16. R. L. Claus. i. 1776. 17. Annals of Dunstable, 80. 18. Bracton's
Note-Bk. n. 1572.
19. Ibid. 109. 20. Excerpt. i. 166. 21. Bracton's
These 3 fees are elsewhere described
Crekelaw and Dene: Bk. of Fees, 1152.
24. Testa, 25ob. 25. Cal. Inquis. i. 60. 26. Ann. of
27. Ibid. 229. 28. Cal. Chart. ii. 56. 29. Cal. Pat. R.,
31. Ibid. 157. 32. Ibid. 4b, 25. 33. Feud.
22. Testa, 209.
Note-Bk. n. 870.
as being in the 3 places named and in
23. Ibid. 266b.
Dunstable, 217.
30. R. Hund. i. 207b.
pass.
Aids, iii. 24.
34. Ibid. 37. 35. Cal. Inquis. iv. 222. 36. Cal. Close,
1305, p. 282.
37. Cal. Pat. R. 163, 334.
38. Cal. Close, 1319, p. 67.
39. Cal. Pat. R. 375. 40. Cal. of Fine R. iv. 210. 41. Cal. Inquis. vii. 213.
43. Hist. Abbat. Mon. S. Albani, ii. 165, 175.
42. Cal. Fine R. iv. 280.
LXXII.
In Benenden, Kent, Robert de Romenel held solin of the
bishop of Bayeux in 1086; Adam son of Hubert similarly held
one denne of jugum, which remained beyond the division of Hugh
de Montfort and belonged to 'Belice.' In Frinstead Hugh nepos
of Hubert and Adelold the chamberlain held of the bishop I solin.
Robert Latiner had I solin in Herbretiton,' which appears to be
the present Harbledown, where lands of this fee afterwards lay.
There is little information to be found in the Public Records
respecting this feudal tenement. It is possible that a moiety of
the tenement no. 71 became merged in this, possibly by the grant
of a maritagium.
In the time of Stephen Peter de Cherbourg (de Caesaris burgo)
held 3 fees of the maritagium of the count of Eu, as in no. 71.
Wigein de Cheresburc attested the gift of Humphrey de Bohun
the constable to the canons of St. Denis near Southampton of the
church of Chilworth, Hants.¹ It is possible that the Cheresburghs
were tenants of the honor of Bohun and alienated this feudal
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tenement to their chief lord, de Bohun. Ralph de Chieresburh had
been sewer of William de Albini, the butler of Henry I.2
Nothing further is found in relation to the tenement until 1185,
when Herbert de Rulvinden was amerced.3 King Richard in 1199
and John de Eu, son of John count of Eu, in 1200-1205 confirmed
to the monks of Robert's Bridge land held by those monks of the
fee of Randulf de Hethindenne, belonging to the fee of Maiham.4
In 1200 Aumauri de Landry was demanding against Everard de
Hethendenn and 4 others as his escheat a carucate in ' Roverinden,'
into which they intruded after the outlawry of Hamon de Hare-
windinden, who held the land of the ancestors of the said Everard.5
Felicia the wife of William de Wichelegh was claiming in 1230
against William de Langham and Cecily his wife (who were tenants
of the honor of Folkestone) a third part of certain woodland and
rent in Rolvenden, Hendon in Woodchurch (Hethingden) and
Oxendale, Kent.6
The return made of this tenement to the Gascon scutage of
1242-3 is invaluable. It records the following tenements as all
(except the first) held of Orabel de Mayhamm, who held of the earl
of Hereford, he of Alice countess of Eu and she of the earl of Arundel:
Joan de Binindenn 1 fee in Beninden of the countess of
Eu, etc.
Orabel de Mayham I fee in Matham, and Helwise de May-
ham fee in Matham of the earl of Hereford (as above).
The heir of Josc[eus ?] de Egerindenn fee in Taninden
of the same Helwise, and she of Orabel her elder sister, and
she (as above).
1
3
Thomas son of Aucher or Ankerfee in Lossenham of
Ralph de St. Ledger, and he of the prior of Leeds, and the prior
of the same Helwise de Mayham, and she of the earl of Hereford
(as above).
The abbot of Robert's Bridge fee in Cnocke,' fee in
'Wockele' (vel Wokelee) and fee (no place named), all held
of Orabel de Mayham, who held of the earl of Hereford (as
above).
16
0
,
3
4
1
Josc[eus] Poynant fee in Rolvenden of William de
Hethindenn, and he of Orabel de Mayham (as above).
40
William de Hethindenn fee and fee in 'Hethindenn'
of the same Orabel (as above).
1
The heir of Robert de Merelee (vel Merelis) † fee in Staple-
hurst of Helwise de Mayham, and she of the same Orabel
(as above).
4
Orabel de Mayham and Helwise her sister fee in Harble-
down (Hubtinton' sic) of the earl of Hereford (as above).
Fulk Payforer fee in Frinstead of the said Orabel (as above).
Total 5% fees.?
Of the honor of Perche the following tenements were at that
date held of Simon de Crioll :
Richard and Thomas, sons of Orabel de Mayham, fee
in Newington.
6
BENENDEN, MATHAM, ROLVENDEN
159
Helwise de Mayham fee in Newington.8
6
The abbot of Robert's Bridge & fee in Knokk' at‘Foukes-
brok.'
4
Nicholas Aucher fee in Lossenham of Ralph de St. Ledger.
[The tenements in Rolvenden, Hethinden and Staple-
hurst are not mentioned.]
4
John Malmayns and Simon de Mareys fee in Harble-
down ('Herbylton '), late of Orabel de Mayhamme and others,
who held of the count (sic) of Eu, of the honor of Hagenet
(sic, for Arundel ?).
William Payforer fee in Frinstead, late of Orabel de
Mayhamme, who held of the count (sic) of Eu, as of the king
(sic).9
In or before 1242 Henry son of Roger Malemeyns did homage
for land in Kent.10 Nicholas and Peter de Mahon of Kent occur
in 1268.11 In 1266 the land of Thomas Malemeins in the hundred
of Hoo, Kent, was seized by the earl of Gloucester.12 In 1275 the
abbot of Robert's Bridge held three-fourths of the fee of Hethinden
(Hechinden ') by the feoffment of Ralph (Rad') de Hethenden
40 years before. The names of Simon de Meham, Hawise de
Meyham, Fulk Peyforer, late sheriff of Kent, were mentioned in
connexion with Rolvenden hundred.13 John Malemeins died in
1281.14 In 1285 Herbert Barry granted to Matthew del Eschequer
and Matilda his wife, daughter of the grantor, 5 marks of rent in
Matham (Mayhamme ').15 In 1289 William Barry of Rolvenden
complained that William de Poton neglected to repair his sea-bank
in the marsh of Neubrok in Rolvenden, near the sea-coast between
Small Hythe (Smalhede) and Matham (Mayhamme); 16 he also
complained in like manner in 1290 against John Malemeins of neglect.
to repair the sea-bank in Westbrok marsh in Rolvenden by the
sea-shore between Matham and Newenden,17 against whom Hugh
de Herindenne and others also complained.18
In 1295 the church of Rolvenden was in the king's hands by
reason of wardship of the land and heir of Thomas de Malemeins,
tenant in chief.19
In 1298 there was mention, in a plea in which the character of
gavelkind tenure was defined, William, Fulk, and Richard, the sons
of Hugh Peyforer ; 20 and in the same year William Barry recovered
from John Malemeyns the balance of £7 due for damages which
he had sustained by the non-repair of certain ditches, sewers and
banks, which the said John ought to have maintained in respect
of his tenure of lands in the marsh of Westbroc and Rolvenden by
the edge of the marsh between Matham and Newenden.21
In 1302 the tenements described above were held as follows :
follows:
Roger de Benyndenn and his tenants I fee in Benenden
of the earl of Hereford.
John Malmayns fee in Matham of the same earl.
William Barry fee in Matham (as above).
[Taninden is not mentioned.]
Nicholas Ancher fee in Matham [in Taninden' in 1242-3]
of John Malmayns.
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HONOR OF ARUNDEL
From these returns it appears that John Malemeyns held the
tenements formerly Orabel's, and William Barry those that were
formerly Helwise's.
In 1308 William Barry of Rolvenden and another complained of
Thomas son of Hubert de Hethyndenne and three others for neglect
of sea-walls in the marshes of Matham and Gatesden.22
In 1313
John Malemeins of Stoke was a commissioner of sewers for either
side of the river Newenden, between Matham and the bridge of
Bodiam.2 23
In 1318 John Malemeyns of Hoo obtained a grant of free warren
in his demesne lands in Stoke, Rolvenden, and 8 other places in
Kent.24
1. Mon. Anglic. vi. 214.
2. Textus Roff. 173, 176.
3. Pipe R.
31 Hen. II, 231. 4. Mon. Anglic. v. 667b, 668b.
5. R. de Oblat. 97;
R. Cancel. 221. 6. Close R. 388. Cf. Cal. Inquis. i. 173, 254. 7. Testa,
209, 2116. 8. Ibid. 212. 9. Feud. Aids, iii. 38-9. 10. Abbrev. Placit.
1196. Cf. Excerpt. Fin. i. 388. 11. Cal. Pat. R. 273. 12. Cal. of Misc.
Ing. i. 225.
13. R. Hund. i. 2176–8.
14. Cal. Fine R. i. 150.
15. Abbrev. Placit. 208b. 16. Cal. Pat. R. 320.
17. Ibid. 390. 18. Ibid.
19. Ibid. 136. 20. Abbrev. Placit. 238.
R. 168. 23. Ibid. 134.
24. Cal. Chart. iii. 406.
452.
21. Ibid.
22. Cal. Pat.
LXXIII.
1
Overland and Wyntring' were probably involved in the bishop
of Bayeux's demesne estate of Elham, Kent. In the time of Henry I
Roger de Verli held one knight's fee of the count of Eu's mari-
tagium (as in no. 71). Possibly for Verli' we ought to read
'Valoignes,' and this knight's fee may have represented the tene-
ment in Overland. In 1215 land in 'Everland,' late of Robert de
Valoignes, was committed to William Parvus.2 The said Robert
had been in arms against the king, but in 1217 he returned to
allegiance. He was living in 1229, when he had a plea against
John prior of the Holy Trinity, Canterbury, respecting common of
pasture belonging to Harbledown.4
In 1242 Bertram de Crioll, constable of Dover, was directed to
deliver to William de Cantelupe the custody of the heirs of Hamon
de Valoignes (died 1242) and of the said Hamon's land in Kent and
three other counties.5 In 1259 Hamon son and heir of the said
Hamon had terms for payment of his father's debt to Jewry.6
There is no evidence that Hamon his father ever held Overland.
In 1240 Bertram de Cryol was directed to deliver to Burgia,
late the wife of Peter de Bendenges, in the name of her dower, fee
in Everland and the moiety of 52 acres of land there. It also was
recorded that the heirs of the same Peter ought to receive yearly
£20 from the same land.'
In 1241 Bertram de Cryoyl obtained a crown grant of the land
late of Master Simon de Steiland in Everland, Kent, which had
been taken into the king's hands for Master Simon's trespass and
debts due to the crown, to hold by doing the service due to the lords
of the fee.8
In 1242-3 Margery daughter of Reginald de Cornhull (the late
OVERLAND-STOWTING, BUCKLAND
161
sheriff of Kent) held 1 fee in Overland and ' Wyntring' of the countess
of Eu and she of the earl of Arundel. In 1256 Reginald de Corn-
hull and his brothers (sic), Henry, John and Reginald, were named.
In the ensuing year Reginald son and heir of Reginald de Cornhull
had terms for payment of his late father's debts.10 For the family
of Cornhull see Mr. Round's observations and pedigree in Geoffrey
de Mandeville, 304 ff.
Among the memoranda relating to lands taken into the king's
hands after the battle of Lewes was one recording that Bertrand
de Crioll used to render £20 yearly out of the manor of 'Over-
launde' to Thomas de Ber... to the use of Sir Henry de Malemeins.¹¹
In 1266 the manor of Overland, late of dame Matilda de Welles,
was seized by the earl of Gloucester."
12
The record of a plea in 1278 states that Bertram de Crioll had
failed to show the court that William de Leyburn ought to acquit
him of the redemption of the manor of 'Everlonde,' in accordance
with the dictum of Kenilworth against Florentin de Warenne, to
whom Henry III (c. 1261) gave the manor, or that the said William
ought to render the manor to him.13
In 1297 William de Leyburn, having gone over seas with the
king on his service, had licence to demise for life to Peter de Gulde-
ford his manor of Overland, Kent.14 In 1302-3 William de Ley-
burn held 1 fee in Overland of the honor of the count of Eu.15
He made a settlement of his lands in Kent, Sussex and Oxford-
shire in 1308.16 He died in 1310 holding, jointly with Juliana his
wife, of the gift of Fulk Payforer,17 the manor of Overland of Robert
archbishop of Canterbury, for 10s. yearly. Juliana, daughter of
Thomas de Leyburn by Alice his wife, which Thomas was son of
the deceased, was his next heir, aged 6 years.18 In 1328 Juliana,
the heiress, was wife of Thomas le Blount and 2 years later of William
de Clinton.19
In 1346 William de Clinton, now earl of Huntingdon, held 1 fee
in Overland which William de Leyburn and his parceners formerly
held of the honor of the count of Eu.20 He died in 1354 holding
the same of his wife's inheritance.21
1. Red Bk. 399. 2. R. L. Claus. i. 231b.
4. Pat. R. 306, 309, bis.
5. Close R. 474.
7. Excerpt. i. 333. 8. Cal. Chart. R. i. 255.
Fees, 1152. 10. Excerpt. Fin. ii. 231, 265.
of Misc. Inq. i. 233. 13. Abbrev. Placit. 268b.
3. R. L. Claus. i. 325b.
6. Excerpt. Fin. ii. 309.
9. Testa, 209, 219; Bk. of
11. Cal. Pat. 311. 12. Cal.
Cf. Cal. Pat. R. 1261, p. 161.
14. Cal. Pat. R. 307.
15. Feud. Aids, iii. 31.
16. Cal. Pat. R. 34.
17. Cf. Cal. Close R. 212. 18. Cal. Inquis. v. 121-3. 19. Cal. Fine R.
iv. 81, 210. 20. Feud. Aids, iii. 31. 21. Cal. Inquis. x. 174.
LXXIV.
In Stowting hundred, Kent, in 1086 Ansfrid held of the bishop
of Bayeux in Buckland solin.
There is no evidence that this holding ever belonged to the honor
of Arundel. It is included here because it was held by the counts
of Eu.
III.
M
162
HONOR OF ARUNDEL
In 1156 Denise daughter of Stephen Harengot rendered account
in Kent for 10 marks of the pleas of the chancellor and Henry de
Essex.¹ In 1165 Stephen Harengot was amerced 20 marks in Kent.2
In 1180 John Harengot owed 3 marks for a recognition against
Gervase de Cornhull and Reginald his son concerning the land of
Etchden (Haseton,' in Bethersden), Kent,3 for which he did not.
finally account until 1187.
There was a plea in 1199 between Hugh Coffin and Richard
and Hugh Coffin, minors, his nephews, touching I carucate in
Chislet (Chistel'), which Stephen Herengot then held. In 1212
the same Stephen held of the archbishop of Canterbury I fee in
Stowting, and I fee of the land of Henry de Essex of the honor of
Haughley. In 1214 he was appointed constable of Colchester
castle and held office 8 months. In 1216 he was custos, as sheriff,
of Essex. In 1213 he had a royal gift of 40 harts and hinds for his
park in Kent.8 Two years later he had a grant of market and fair
at an unnamed place in Kent.º
5
7
In 1217, on the accession of Henry III, the land of Stephen
Harengod in East Bridge, and elsewhere in Kent, was committed
to the king's bailee; 10 but later in that year Stephen returned to
allegiance and had writs of reseisin to the sheriffs of Sussex, Kent,
Essex, Norfolk and Nottingham.11 In 1218 he had licence to go.
beyond seas for a month.12
In 1226 Stephen Harengod was appealed by Nicholas de Wauncy
for the death of Felicia wife of the said Stephen and mother of the
said Nicholas.13 He had a plea with John prior of the Holy Trinity,
Canterbury, touching the manor of Wells, Kent.14 In 1228 and
1230 there was a plea between the same Stephen and Alice countess
of Eu in respect of land in Elham and Bilsington, Kent,15 and
between John Harengod and Ralph his brother, demandants, and
the same Stephen touching carucate in Twitham, Kent.16
In 1244 Stephen Harengod held 1 fee in Stowting of Alice
countess of Eu, who held of the archbishop of Canterbury.17 He
died in 1257 holding the manor of Stowting of the lord of Elham
for 1 fee, and the hundred of Stowting of the king; William his son
was aged 40 years.18
18 This William was deceased in 1273; his heir,
who was a parcener of the inheritance of William de Eyneford,
was under age.19 In 1275 John de Berkeley held the hundred of
Stowting by reason of custody of the heirs of William Harengod,
and John de Tirkebi held the same by reason of wardship of Emma
daughter of William Harengod; Stephen Harengod had acquired
free chase in Stowting by the grant of King John.20 Stephen's
heir in 1293, namely Christina wife of William de Kirkeby, had
possessed this liberty in Stowting when the said William married
her; she had also view of frankpledge, gallows and other liberties.
there. 21
William de Kirkeby of Kirby Bellers, Leics., died in 1302 holding
the manor of Stowting with the hamlet of Stanford, jointly with
Christina his wife, of Sir Robert, archbishop of Canterbury, for I
fee, and the hundred of Stowting of the king; his sisters, who were
heirs of his own inheritance, were not heirs of this tenement.22
STOWTING, BUCKLAND—OXROAD, MOUNT
163
Christina Heringod, relict of William de Kirkeby, held 1 fee in
Stowting in 1303 of the honor of Eu and gave 2 acres there for
the parsonage.23 In 1315 she gave land in Biddenham, Beds., to
the abbess and sisters Minoresses of Waterbeach.24 Apparently she
alienated the manor and hundred of Stowting, for in 1311 Stephen
de Burghersh died in possession of the same, leaving Matilda his
daughter, aged 5 years.25 The heiress married Walter Pavely,
who died in 1326, holding this manor of his wife's inheritance of
the archbishop of Canterbury; [? Walter] his son was aged 8 years.26
His relict married John de Atheles, knt.27 Afterwards she married
Thomas de Auldoun, knt., and Thomas de Aldon accordingly held
Stowting in 1346,28 dying in 1361.29 Sir Walter de Pavely, K.G., of
Hilperton, Wilts., died in June 1375, and his son Edward a few
months later.30 A younger son, Sir Walter Pavely, succeeded and
died about 1380 seised of Boughton Aluph, &c., as heir of his grand-
father, the Walter who died in 1326. As he had no issue, the
manors went to Thomas Aldoun, son of Matilda and Thomas.³¹
1. Pipe R. 2 Hen. II, 65.
26 Hen. II, 147.
2. Ibid. 11 Hen. II, 105.
3. Ibid.
4. R. Cur. Reg. i. 267, 442.
5. Red Bk. 471, 597.
6. R. Lit. Pat. 123b.
7. Ibid. 172.
8. R. Lit. Claus. i. 151b. 9. Ibid.
191. 10. Ibid. 303, 306b. 11. Ibid. 328. 12. Ibid. 3556. 13. Ibid.
ii. 136.
14. Ibid. 205b.
15. Close R. 104, 347.
16. Ibid. 594.
17. Bk. of Fees, 1153.
18. Cal. Inquis. i. 105; Excerpt. Fin. ii. 265.
19. Cal. Close R. 23. 20. R. Hund. i. 227b. 21. Placit. de quo war.
3586.
22. Cal. Inquis. iv. 56. 23. Feud. Aids, iii. 28; Cal. Pat. R.
123. 24. Ibid. 341, 345. 25. Cal. Inquis. v. 108. 26. Ibid. vii. I.
27. Cal. Fine R. iv. 61. 28. Feud. Aids, iii. 28. 29. Inq. p.m. 35 Edw. III,
file 156. 30. Ibid. 49 Edw. III, file 251; 50 Edw. III, file 255. 31. Cal.
Close R. 1377-81, p. 452.
LXXV-VI.
In the time of Henry I William de Milers held fee and Richard
Costentin fee of the maritagium of the count of Eu in Kent (as
in no. 71).¹ There does not appear to be anything on record to
show the identity of these two tenements. It is possible that the
following represented part of one of them.
In 1242-3 Andrew de Oxrode or Oxerothe held fee in Oxroad
and 'Mintes' (Munte ?) of the countess of Eu, and she of the earl
of Arundel.2
In 1302-3 Simon atte Wealde and Richard Heryng held fee
in Oxroad and Mount (in Elham) of the honor of the count of Eu.³
In 1346 John son of the said Simon held the same.4
2. Bk. of Fees, 1153.
3. Feud. Aids, iii. 31.
1. Red Bk. 399.
ان
4. Ibid.
THE HONOR OF EUDES THE SEWER
Place.
Introduction.
1. Takeley, Essex; Somersham, Suff.
2. Layham, Suff.; Tuddenham, Beds.
3. Intwood, Norf.
4. Leybourne,
Oxon.
5. Arkesden, Essex
Kent;
(COLCHESTER)
•
6. Harlow, Essex
7. Brettenham, Norf. (Arundel, n. 62)
8. Gt. Cheshall, Essex
Steeple Aston,
9. Unidentified
10. Cooling, Cray St. Pauls, Kent
II. Paglesham, Dickley, Essex
12. Plumstead, Lullingstone, Kent
12. (1) Hoo St. Werburgh, Higham, Kent
13. Beckley, Vanne, &c., Kent.
*31. Deddington, Oxon.
*31. (1) Fritwell, Oxon.
•
·
*
•
Leyburn.
. Le Brun-Bayuse-
&c.
Herlawe-Flittwick.
*25 Bowers Gifford, Langdon, Essex
*26-27. Kingston Lisle, Sparsholt, Berks..
*28-29. Worth, Cricklade, Sevenhampton,
Wilts.
*30. Sawbridgworth, Pishobury, Herts.
•
•
Fitz-Roger.
Le Botiler.
. De la Haye.
Ros.
Ros.
Sumeri.
14. Shelve, Kent
Shelves.
15. Layer Breton, Essex; Harkstead, Suff.. Breton.
16. Pinchpoles in Manuden, Essex
17. Theydon Gernon, Childerditch, Essex
17. (1) Henley, Suff.
18. Knebworth, Herts.; Clapton, Cambs.
19. Unidentified
20. Tolleshunt, Gt. Baddow, Essex
21. Layer, Essex
22. Dunmow, Essex
•
•
23. Flowton, Suff.
24. Sawston, Cambs.; Hawkwell, Lindsell,
Essex; Glemham, Suff.
•
•
Tenant's Name.
•
•
Amblie.
Leyham.
Tyvill.
Rohinges.
Chishell.
Sausemares-Ledet.
Gernun.
Henley.
Aundevill.
Flambard.
Merk.
Haunley.
Berners.
Merk-Tybetot.
Pirot.
Fitz-Gerold (escheat).
Fitz-Gerold (crown).
Fitz-Gerold (crown).
Fitz-Gerold
(Mandevill).
Chesney (escheat).
Foliot of Chilton
(Langetot ?).
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Place.
*31. (2) Stanlake, Oxon.
*32. Chadlington, Oxon.
33. Lavingdon, Bucks.
34. Farthingho, Northants.
35. Ringshall, Suff..
36. Milton-on-Stour, Dorset
37. Great Crawford, Dorset
38. Eaton Socon, Beds.
38. (1) Tempsford, Beds.
38. (2) Clifton, Beds.
38. (3) Henlow, Beds.
38. (4) Beeston, Beds.
38. (5) Kinwick Field in Sandy .
38. (6) Wyboston, Beds.
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42. Ashe Maners, Hants.
43. Roding (3), Gt. Hallingbury, Essex
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44. Mundon, Weeley, Essex.
45. Boxted, Essex.
46. Brettenham, Norf.
47. Tunstall, Postwick, Norf.
48. Wakerley, N'hants.
49. Easton, N'hants.; Beeston, Beds.
50. Gamlingay, Cambs.
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52. Pympe, Barming, Kent
53. Stalisfield, Ores, Kent
54. Almeshoe, Graveley, Radwell, Herts.
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38. (7) Ickwell, Beds.
38. (8)
38. (9)
38. (10) Chawston, Beds.
38. (11) Sutton, Beds.
39. Losfield, Berks.
40. Newsellsbury, Barley, Herts.; Eriswell, Merk-Roucestre-
Chelsworth, Suff.
Scales.
41. Aspenden, Herts.; Braxted, Steeple, Sauquevill and heirs
Essex.
general.
Maners.
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Tenant's Name.
Gay (Langetot ?).
Fitz-Gerold (Curcy?).
St. Martin.
St. Amand (Leicester).
Willavesham--
Rokeley.
Aumale.
Mohant.
Beauchamp of Eaton.
Carun.
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Hospitallers.
Cantelupe-Zouch.
Trumpington.
Braibroc.
Baa.
Tyvill.
Anesti.
Sutton-Sandy.
Caldwell priory.
Hospitallers.
In Windsor Park?
51. Hamerton, Hunts.; Chalk, E. Chart, St. Clare-Lanvalei.
Kent.
Morel-Purcel—
Hauvill.
Colchester abbey.
Horkesley-Breton.
Brienzun.
Taverham-Rye.
Lanvalei-Burgh.
Humet-Lindon.
Fitz-Reinfrid-Avenel
-Cornhill.
Barmeling.
Cade-Hospitallers.
. Fitz-Simon (Valoignes
fee).
The sections to which an asterisk has been attached relate to
lands which formed no part of the fee of Eudes the sewer.
INTRODUCTION
Eudes, the youngest of the 4 sons of Hubert de Ryes the friend
and favourite of the Conqueror, obtained lands in 10 counties:
Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Northampton, Bedford, Cambridge,
Huntingdon, Hertford, Berkshire, and Hampshire. In a few manors
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in Norfolk he had succeeded Lisois de Moustiers, as also in one or
two in Essex and one in Bedfordshire. Apparently very soon after
the Domesday survey was made the greater part of the lands which
Adam his brother held under Odo bishop of Bayeux fell to Eudes,
but whether by death, surrender or forfeiture does not appear.
Also at an uncertain date most of the 18 lordships of Roger de
Otburvill or Aubervill and that of William his brother at Barley,
Herts., likewise fell into the hands of Eudes. The same applies
to the lands of Sasselin in Essex.
He held in Normandy the honor of Préaux,¹ and was sewer to
the Conqueror and his sons, William and Henry, in turn. He
attested as sewer the charter of William I to the abbey of St.
Evroult issued at Winchester in 1081.2 Perhaps he is best known
as the re-founder in 1096-7 of the abbey of St. John the Baptist
at Colchester, the chartulary of that monastery recording gifts.
made by the founder and his vassals in more than half the vills
over which his lordship extended. This noble chartulary, in the
possession of Earl Cowper, was printed for the Roxburghe Club
and presented to the members by the owner in 1897.
In the time of Eudes the sewer his honor may have been known
as that of Colchester. About Christmas 1101 Henry I notified
Maurice bishop of London, Hugh de Bocheland and the barons of
Essex, of his gift to his sewer Eudes of the city of Colchester,
the keep and castle and the farms of the city as the king's brother
and father had that city. This was done at Westminster at
Christmas next after the agreement with count Robert the king's
brother. After the time of Eudes it is remarkable that there was
no capital manor and castle on this fief, which was seldom described
officially as an honor. There are consequently no references to
castle guard due from the knights of the honor nor suit to be done
to any baronial court. For nearly a century after the death of
Eudes we find references to 'honor Eudonis dapiferi' and no other
style ever took its place.
By charter, which Mr. Round dates as not later than 1104,4
Henry I confirmed the foundation by Eudes and his wife Rohaise
of the church of St. John, the Lord's precursor, in Colchester, and
granted to the monks there lands, rents (and tithes) which Eudes
and others had given, namely the manor of Weeley, Essex, and that
of Pitsea, except the fee of Ranulf de Mundon and land of Alwin
sochman; a marsh formerly belonging to Lilly Church, near
Higham, Kent, and then belonging to Pitsea-possibly the very
pasture for 200 sheep named in the Domesday survey as lying in
Essex but belonging to Higham, Kent; 5 in Colchester 2 carucates
and other possessions, a fair for 4 days, the land of Ralph Broc,
the church of Thorncroft, Surrey, with 1 hide, tithe of wool and
cheese of Ashe, Hants., and two-thirds of all manors on the north
side of Thames, except in Eaton Socon and Newsells half the tithe
only, the whole tithe of Roding (Abbess) and tithe of Eudes' pannage,
colts and mares and mills; in each of those manors a boor of
2 acres, except in the three manors around Colchester (namely
Weeley, Greenstead and Brightlingsea?), 14 acres of land belonging
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to St. Helen's church, and the church of St. Mary' of Westchepinge
called the Newchurch of London. Others, mainly his men, gave:
Ralph le Boteler hide in (West) Wickham, Kent.
Hamelin in Colchester 4 lodgings, etc.
Robert de Caron 10s. yearly from the mills of Anschitill de
Ros, the tithe of Hoo St. Werburgh, Tempsford, Beds., and
half the tithe of Plumstead, Kent.
Walcer 10s. yearly.
Fulk the sewer the tithe of Roding (Abbess).
William son of Constantine two-thirds of the tithe of
Layer (Breton), Essex (n. 15).
Pirot the tithe of Glemham, Suff.
Ralph de Noion the tithe of Thorpe (dioc. of London).
Humphrey son of Humphrey half the tithe of Bowley (?),
Kent, and tithe of a mill.
Serlo de Matuen the tithe of Fimborough, Suff.
Ralph de Dunmawe his tithe 6 (in Dunmow).
The charter of Eudes and the confirmation of Henry I issued
in 1119 enumerate other gifts apparently made since 1104, namely
of the gift of Eudes the manor of Brightlingsea (not named in
Henry's confirmation), the manor of Mundon, the manor of Halling-
bury (not mentioned in Henry's or any subsequent confirmation),
the fee of Thurstan Wischard, two-thirds of the tithe of (Great)
Barton and Sandford (St. Martin), Oxon., Sandy, Beds., Gamlingay,
Cambs., Hamerton, Hunts., Easton, Northants., Hallingbury,
Takeley and Witham, Essex, Ereswell, Suff., East Stanway and
Lexden, Essex; in Walden, Essex, tithe of mills and wool; in
Sawbridgeworth, Herts., and Great Waltham, Essex, a third part
of the tithe; in Greenstead, Essex, the whole tithe; the church of
St. Stephen, Walbrook, the stone-built house of Eudes by the
Newchurch in London; and all the issues of the chapel in the
castle of Colchester and of all the chapels in his manors on the north
side of Thames.' Also new gifts of his men, namely of Roger de
Vilers hide in Chiche belonging to Weeley, and of Hamon brother
of the said Roger two-thirds of the tithe of Walkern, Herts., and
the tithe of the mill; half the tithe of Chalk, Kent, of the gift of
Hamon de St. Clare, of William Peverel I hide in Pitsea, of Ralph
de Amblie two-thirds of the tithe of Elmsett, Suff., of William de
Curtun 30 acres of land in Weeley, and of Athelais the wife of Ranulf
de La Hai with Hugh her son when he became a monk at St. John's
80 acres of land held of William de Bohun. The gifts which follow
that of tithe of Greenstead were not confirmed by Henry's charter
of 1119. Subsequently other gifts, too numerous to mention here,
were added to the endowment of the monastery.
8
Eudes died at his castle of Préaux early in 1120 and was buried
at his monastery of Colchester on 28 February in that year.9 After
his death his honor escheated to Henry I, who made provision for
his widow Rohaise, who was daughter of Richard Fitz-Gilbert,
with whom Eudes had acquired the Surrey manor of Thorncroft
as her maritagium. The partial dismemberment of the honor
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quickly followed. A number of manors, with Newsells as the
caput, and including Gamlingay, were given to Eustace count of
Boulogne and subsequently descended with that honor. The manor
of Braxted in Essex, with others in that county and Aspenden in
Hertfordshire, had been held by Richard de Sauqueville. These
were severed from the honor of Eudes and erected into an honor
long known as the honor of Richard de Sauqueville, 10 although
held from a date prior to 1130 by heirs general. The manors of
Chalk in Kent, Hamerton in Huntingdonshire, Wakerley in North-
amptonshire, and others had been held by the family of St. Clare
as tenants of Eudes the sewer; these with lands of other fees
were also erected into an honor, known after they had descended
to William de Lanvalei I as the barony of Lanvalei. The Bedford-
shire manors of Eaton Socon and Sandy with its members were
similarly severed. In the time of Henry I and Stephen they were
held by the St. Clares of the crown at a fee farm rent of £40 per
annum. On the accession of Henry II they were granted to Hugh
de Beauchamp, who held them, as did his successors, by barony.
Several estates in Kent and some elsewhere were subsequently
held immediately of the crown, mostly by knight's service, but in
one or two instances as a royal serjeanty. The manor of Almeshoe,
with lands in Graveley, Radwell and elsewhere in Hertfordshire,
were annexed to the honor of Valoignes. Some other instances
of disintegration may have escaped notice.
11
In 1130 we obtain several references to this honor. In Essex
5s. of danegeld on the demesne of Eudes the sewer was remitted;
in Kent 278. was similarly remitted in respect of the danegeld for
1129; 12 the remission in Bedfordshire will be noticed at n. 38;
Hamon de St. Clare accounted for the farm of the city of Colchester
at £40 and of the aid of the city for 1130 and the 2 past years, of
which 8s. 10d. in 1129 and 6s. in 1130 were remitted in respect of
the king's demesne ploughs of the land of Eudes the sewer.13
References to Great Hallingbury, Sawbridgeworth, and other
manors late of Eudes will be found hereafter. It is noteworthy
that remission of danegeld was made to Hamon de St. Clare of 125.
in Essex, 35s. in Hertfordshire, 6s. in Kent, 6s. in Northamptonshire,
37s. in Norfolk, 4s. in Suffolk, 38s. 5d. in Bedfordshire in the demesne
of the land of which Hamon de St. Clare had custody, i.e. of part
of the later barony of Eaton Socon.
Apparently part of the honor was retained by the crown until
the accession of Henry II. He gave it forthwith to his chamberlain
Warin Fitz-Gerold, who held it a few years only, and upon his
death in 1159 (?) it descended, in accordance no doubt with the terms
of Henry's feoffment, to Warin's brother, Henry Fitz-Gerold the
chamberlain.
These two brothers already enjoyed considerable estates apart
from those held of this honor, but they were not merged into it,
as shewn by the carta returned by Henry Fitz-Gerold in 1166.14
Three years later he was charged to the aid for marrying the king's
daughter with £35 5s. 8d. on 53 fees less a 14th part of old feoffment,
and £4 18s. 8d. on 7% fees of new feoffment which had belonged to
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the honor of Eudes the sewer.15 Henry never made any payment
towards the liquidation of this charge down to the time of his death
in 1174-5.
His son Warin paid 10 marks in 1178, then 20 marks,
9 marks and 4 marks in the succeeding years, all on fees of old
feoffment, then 23 marks on fees of new feoffment in the last-
named year (1180), and 3 marks in 1181 on fees of old feoffment.
No further payments were made until after 1189.
16
In the meantime Henry Fitz-Gerold had acquired some 5 or 6
knights' fees in marriage with Matilda de Chesney, whose parentage
is discussed at n. 31. In the year 1185 his eldest son Warin was
aged 18 and Henry the younger son was aged 12 years.
In or
very soon after 1193 Warin married Alice, then relict of Henry de
Cornhill and sister of William de Curcy IV, on whose death about
1195 she became heir to the Curcy inheritance and to the pourparty
of the Meschin inheritance which had fallen to her grandmother,
Avice daughter and coheir of William Meschin. Henry the younger
son married Ermentrude Talbot, as appears by his fine in 1203
for marrying Ermentrude late the wife of William de Grendon,
with her land.17 The identity of this lady is discussed below.
She and her husband Henry Fitz-Gerold granted to a clerk 31
virgates in Wold (Inferiori Waldia ') and I virgate in Burcote
(Field or Wood Burcote, near Towcester, Northants.).18 From
Henry descended the line of L'Isle, which inherited the entire honor
of Eudes the sewer (as it was given by Henry II to Warin Fitz-
Gerold) on the failure of the line of the earls of Albemarle in 1293
and after protracted delay on the part of the crown and litigation
with the Courtenay representative.19
In 1211 Warin Fitz-Gerold had acquittance by writ of 53 fees
less a 14th part of old feoffment and of 7% fees of new feoffment of
Henry II, of the fee of Eudes the sewer, in respect of the scutage
of Wales; 20 the figures corresponding exactly with those returned
in 1166 by his father.
Warin Fitz-Gerold died after 14 Nov., 1216, leaving an only
daughter Margery, or Margaret, who carried in marriage to her
husband Baldwin de Rivers or Reviers the inheritances of her
father and grandfather. Some account of the subsequent descent
of these estates to Isabel countess of Albemarle and Devon and
lady of the Isle of Wight, the last of her line, who died without
surviving issue in 1293, will be found in The Complete Peerage (edit.
Gibbs), vol. iv. s.v. Devon.
In 1225 William de Ferles arraigned a plea against Margaret de
Rivers (de Ripariis), daughter of Warin Fitz-Gerold, respecting 21
hides in Stratton, Wilts.21 In 1230 Margery de Rivers gave 200
marks to be quit of sending her knights with the king to Brittany
and for having her scutage of the knights' fees which she held of
the king in chief and not to be forced to marry so long as she de-
sired to live single.22 The collectors of the aid levied in 1235-6
accounted for £81 2s. 1d. on 60 fees and fee, less th part, of
the fee of Margery de Rivers.23
This lady is usually named Margery in official documents, but
Matthew Paris always describes her as Margaret, 'cognomento de
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Ripariis-that is, de Reviers, countess of the Isle of Wight-and
records her death as having occurred on 2 October 1252. 24 On the
day following her death the king granted to queen Eleanor his con-
sort the wardship of the lands late of Margery de Rivers, countess
of Devon, during the minority of Baldwin son and heir of Baldwin
de L'Isle, sometime earl of Devon, for the issues thereof to be
delivered into her wardrobe for her expenses.25
We now return to Henry Fitz-Gerold, younger brother of Warin.
In 1204 he had a grant of a weekly market at Gainsborough,
Lincs.,26 and in the same year the king sent him 70 hounds with 2
huntsmen their horses and grooms to find in necessary things.27
In 1205 the king granted to earl William Marshal custody of the
land and heir of [Henry] Fitz-Gerold which had been seised into
the king's hands, saving to the king the custody of the land and.
heir of Ermentrude his wife.2 28 In the same year Robert de Tolebu
gave a palfrey to have seisin of his land in the manor of Gains-
borough, Lincs., as he had when the manor was in the hands of
Henry Fitz-Gerold and after of the king, whereof Adam Tisun
wrongfully disseised him after the king had delivered the manor
to him.29 In the following year William de Aunay sought a
recognition touching fee in Cerney Wike (Cernacwic'), Gloucs.,
and fee in Mundford, Norf., against Henry Fitz-Gerold, who put
himself on the record of the court of Wallingford.30 See that fee.
In 1212 Warin Fitz-Gerold, brother of Henry, held Down
Ampney, Gloucs., late of Ralph Tesson.31 He held Stoke-Curcy,
Somerset, as heir to the honor of Curcy.32
In 1215 Henry had a grant of market and fair at his manor of
Campton, Beds.33 Withdrawing from service to John he returned
to allegiance on the accession of Henry III, and on 14 Jan. 1217
the sheriffs of Gloucester, Bedford, Buckingham and Berkshire were
directed to give to Ermentrude, wife of Henry, seisin of her lands.3
Shortly afterwards Henry Fitz-Gerold had seisin of his land of
Gainsborough, as he had it when he withdrew from the service of
king John.35 He was one of the executors of the will of earl
34
William Marshal.36 In 1218 he was commissioned to make an
extent of the honor of Brittany in Lincolnshire and beyond Hum-
ber,37 and in the same year had a grant of market and fair at his
manor of Wing, Bucks., Kemerton, Gloucs., and Balking, Berks.38
In 1227 Ermentrude Talbot had a royal gift of two tree trunks
in Salcey forest.39 Two years later Henry Fitz-Gerold and Ermen-
trude his wife impleaded Nicholas de Fecamp of the last presenta-
tion to the church of Kemerton, Gloucs.; 40 Ermentrude Talbot
had letters patent to her knights for an aid to pay her debts, and
John Talbot for his maintenance in the king's service. In 1234
Ermentrude Talbot had respite while in parts beyond the sea in
respect of suits of counties and the like from her land of Wing.42
Two years earlier (1232) the justices itinerant were directed that,
notwithstanding that William Talbot of Gainsborough who for a
long time stood in compliance with king John was a Norman and
subsequently tarried in parts beyond seas, the imparlance that he
had in their eyre against William earl of Ferrers respecting the
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custody of the land late of Robert Fitz-Walkelin, which belonged
to him because Robert held his land of the same William Talbot
in socage and because William is as he says next heir of the said
Robert, should not remain untried.43
46
In 1230 a suit by the Templars against John Talbot for a tene-
ment in Gainsborough was respited pending John's return from
over seas in the king's service; the said John and Gerard his brother
were serving that year in Brittany.44 In 1229 Henry Fitz-Gerold
had a grant of a weekly market at his manor of Campton, Beds.,
in a place called Shifford.45 In 1235 Ermentrude mother of John
Talbot had letters of protection while she remained beyond seas.4
In 1243 John Talbot had a grant of a fair at Gainsborough manor
and free warren there.47 It may be surmised that Ermentrude
married first a Talbot, probably Quintin Talbot, living 1200, when
he confirmed to St. Nicholas of Angers the church of Wing and
land pertaining thereto in Wing and Crafton with acquittance of
secular service against his heirs and the earl of Warenne.48 Quintin
probably died within the year, for his widow married William
de Grendon and again became a widow before Michaelmas 1203,
when her marriage was acquired by Henry Fitz-Gerold for his own
benefit. By her Talbot husband she had issue John and Gerard,
afterwards of Wing, Bucks., Gainsborough, Lincs., and Snaith,
Yorks. Gerard surrendered Gainsborough to the king in 1257,
reserving a life estate, and the king gave it to his brother, William
de Valence.49
Henry Fitz-Gerold was living in May 1231, but died soon after.
It is uncertain if Henry's son Warin was son of Ermentrude Talbot.
Her estates, which Henry had held by the courtesy of England, all
reverted to the Talbots at his decease. In 1234 Warin Fitz-Gerold,
son of Henry, had terms of payment of the fine of 20 marks which
Agnes his wife had made for having the custody of her daughter, 50
presumably by a former husband. In 1237 Henry de Chequers
(de Scaccario) and Pernel his wife were impleading Warin Fitz-
Gerold and Agnes his wife respecting customs and services in an
unnamed place in Bucks.51 (See Giffard, n. 5.) In 1242 Warin and
Agnes had a grant of market and fair at the manor of Mursley,
Bucks., which was of the inheritance of the said Agnes. 52
In 1242-3 Warin Fitz-Gerold held 1 fee in Iffley, Oxon., in chief
of the king.53 He had held it in 1235-6 as of Richard son of
Nigel. 54 In Berkshire he held in 1242-3 of the abbot of Abingdon
I fee in Fawler and of the fee of Margery de Rivers 1 fee in King-
ston-Lisle of the Chamberlaincy. 55 See below, nos. 25-6. In
Wiltshire Robert de Columbers held fee in Nettleton (?) of Warin
Fitz-Gerold and he of the earl of Salisbury.56 In 1243 he had a
grant of market and fair at Mursley, Bucks.57
4
Warin was engaged all his life in active service on the king's
behalf. In 1253 he had a grant of 40 marks a year from the Ex-
chequer for his maintenance, and in the same year served in
Gascony.58 In the following year he had a grant of market and
fair at his manor of Balking, Berks.59 In August 1257 he was
intending to take part in the Welsh expedition, but died about that
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time. According to the evidence of the Quo Warranto rolls he left
issue an only daughter Alice, who married Robert de L'Isle (Insula).
The identity of this Robert is somewhat difficult to trace owing to
the fact that there was a contemporary Robert, tenant of the
honor of Dover in Lincolnshire, who succeeded his father Otuel in
1250,6⁰ and held lands in Northumberland, and also a Robert de
L'Isle of Stoke Lyne or L'Isle, Oxon. (Giffard, n. 25). Our Robert
was descended from Robert de L'Isle, who married Beatrice de
Cormeilles, one of the daughters and coheirs of Ralph the cham-
berlain of the earl of Richmond; from this Robert descended
Robert de L'Isle, who in 1236-38 held land in Great Wilbraham in
socage of the honor of Brittany, and land of the bishop of Ely in
Oakington and Westwick, Cambs.61 The former Robert was
described in 1206 in a plea for the church of Wimpole, Cambs., as
grandson of Ralph the sewer of Conan count of Brittany.62 He
had a plea in 1199 with Robert Le Vavassour respecting land in
Westwick, Cambs.; he married in 1213 Rohaise, sister and even-
tually coheir of John de Wahull, and relict of Robert de Tateshale;
she had an inheritance in Cambridgeshire 63 and died in 1221. 64
In 1212 Robert de L'Isle held of the bishop of Ely I fee in
Rampton and Cottenham and fee in Westwick, Cambs., with 2
fees in Nedging, Suff., of the bishop of Ely.65
A plea in 1223 indicates that the advowson of the church of
Wimpole held by Robert de L'Isle in 1223 had descended from
Berenger de Borray to Gerard his son and so apparently by
marriage to Robert; Alan de Bassingeburn, who claimed the
advowson, was adjudged not to be the heir of Berenger and was
cast in his suit; he was son of Alexander de Bassingeburn. 66 It
is noteworthy that Ralph the sewer held of the bishop of Ely in
1166 2 fees with his increment in Cambridgeshire. 67 This Ralph
may be identified as Ralph the sewer of the earl of Richmond
named above.
In 1264 the castles of Marlborough and Ludgershall were com-
mitted to Robert de L'Isle, and for a fine of 200 marks the wardship
of the land and heirs of William de Aubigny of Cainhoe.68 In the
ensuing year the land of Robert de L'Isle in Kemerton, Gloucs.,
was seized by the earl of Gloucester.69 In 1269 restitution was
made by licence by Robert de L'Isle to Gerard de L'Isle of his
lands which had been given to Robert by reason of trespasses
charged against Gerard in the late disturbances.70 In 1271 Gerard
and Alice his wife had land in Northamptonshire.71 Robert de
L'Isle was constable and sheriff of Oxford for a year and a quarter
until 1271.72
This may have been Robert de L'Isle of the Lin-
colnshire family, tenants of the honor of Peverel of Dover.
In 1276 Alice de L'Isle held land in Coveney, Cambs.; Robert
de L'Isle had free warren in Rampton, Cambs. ; 73 Gerard de L'Isle
had certain liberties and warren in Kingston Lisle, Berks. 74 In
1275 Robert held lands in Nedging and Fimborough, Suff., of the
bishop of Ely.75 In 1279 he held land in Oakington, Cambs., of
John de Burdeleis, who held of Robert de Brus as of the honor of
Huntingdon, and 5 hides in Rampton of the same John, who
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The same
held of Gilbert Pecche and he of the bishop of Ely.76
Robert also held of the honor of Brittany in Great Wilbraham,
Cambs. In Arrington, Cambs., lands of the honor of Richmond
were held of him.77 In Iffley, Oxon., lands were held of the same
Robert in Forest Hill. 78
Robert de L'Isle was living in June 1283, but died before the
end of 1284, when Warin his son and heir had terms for payment
of the crown debt of his father.79 Warin held land in Fimborough
of the bishop of Ely in 1286, and in the following year claimed
view of frankpledge in Campton and Shifford, and cited charters
made by Henry III to Warin Fitz-Gerold, his predecessor.80 Of
these grants that of free warren in Campton and Shifford was cited
by Warin's son and heir Robert in 1330 as having descended from
the first grantee to Warin's son and heir Henry, and from Henry to
Warin his son and heir, and from Warin to Robert his son and heir,
and from Robert to Alice his daughter and heir, and from Alice
to Warin her son and heir, and from that Warin to Robert his son
and heir living in 1330. 81 The pedigree recited is confused and
inaccurate, and seems to begin with the Warin who died in 1159.
Alice de L'Isle (relict of Robert) was living in 1290, when she
acknowledged a debt as due to Warin de L'Isle. 82 Possibly she
was elder sister and coheir of John de Mucegros, who died in 1266
holding land in Arrington, Cambs. 83 Going to Gascony as yeoman
of Thomas le Latimer of Wardon in 1294, Warin obtained a grant
of the issues of the manors of Heyford Warin and Newenham,
Oxon., and Pishobury, Herts., taken into the king's hands after
the death of Isabel des Forz, countess of Albemarle, which
Warin asserted were his inheritance as Isabel's next heir.84 He
had a brother Baldwin, 85 a knight in 1306. Warin died in 1296
seised of the manors of Nedging and Fimborough, Suff., held re-
spectively of the bishop of Ely and Robert de Mucegros; the manor
of Rampton, Cambs., held of Geoffrey de Burdeleys; those of
Cottenham, Coveney with Manea, Cambs., held of the bishop of
Ely; and that of Campton, held as of the escheat of the late
countess of Albemarle of her inheritance; Robert his son was aged
6 years; 86 Alice his widow survived. Certain lands of the said late
countess were in dispute between Hugh son and heir of Hugh de
Curtenay and Robert son and heir of Warin de L'Isle, and were
retained in the king's hands. 87 These included Heyford Warin,
and Campton with Shifford, which was extended at £12 13s. 6d.88
In 1301 the marriage of the said Robert was granted to queen
Margaret to the use of Margaret daughter of Walter de Beau-
champ. 89
In 1306 he claimed the manors of North Creake, Cambs.,
and Hillington, Norf., as kinsman and heir of Margery mother of
Robert de Ufford and Sarah relict of Roger Fitz-Osbert.90 See
Warenne, n. 42. Alice relict of Warin afterwards married Sir
Robert Fitz-Walter; in 1310 she had a third part of the manor
of Nedging, Suff., in dower, 91 in which year Robert de L'Isle
obtained seisin of his father's lands, having proved his age. 92 In
July of the same year he obtained possession of the manors of
Heyford Warin and Newenham, Oxon., Pysobury, Herts., Harewood
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and Kirkby Overblow, Yorks., which had been in the king's hands
owing to the minority of Hugh de Curtenay and subsequently
that of the said Robert until that date. 93 At this time Warin de
L'Isle (of Kingston Lisle and Fawler, Berks.) was constable of
Windsor.94 (See Abingdon, n. 22.)
For the later story of the line of L'Isle, barons Lisle of Rouge-
ment, see The Complete Peerage (ed. G.E.C.), V, 112 ff. The pedigree
of L'Isle given by Baker in the History of Northamptonshire (i. 619)
in very incorrect.
1. Round, Cal. of Docs. France, 27, 158. 2. Orderic, Hist. Eccles. iii. 29.
3. Chartul. of Colchester, 27. 4. Engl. Hist. Rev. xvi. 723. 5. Dom. Bk. i. 9.
6. Chartul. 12-13. 7. Ibid. 2-3, 5-6.
8. Ibid. 2-3.
9. Chartul. of
Colchester, xviii. 10. Red Bk. 365, 501.
11. Pipe R. 31 Hen. I, 60.
12. Ibid. 66. 13. Ibid. 138. 14. Red. Bk. 354 ff. 15. Pipe R. 15
Hen. II, 125.
16. R. de Dominabus, 31. 17. Pipe R. 5 Jno. m. 1od.
18. Cat. of Anct. D. ii, c. 2135. 19. Cf. Abbrev. Placit. 260b, 311; Round,
The Ancestor, i. 244-5. 20. Pipe R. 13 John, Essex and Herts. m. 6d.
21. Pat. R. 588. 22. Ibid. 14 Hen. III, Oxon. 23. Bk. of Fees, 486,
490 et pass. 24. Chron. Majora, v. 323. 25. Cal. Pat. R. 151. 26. Pipe
Dugdale, Baronage, i. 411b.
44.
29. R. de Fin. 328.
33. Ibid. 222.
37. Ibid. 360-1.
R. 6 Jno. Lincs.;
28. R. Lit. Claus. i.
31. Bk. of Fees 51.
35. Ibid. 308b.
39. Ibid. ii. 1966.
43. Ibid. 76.
46. Cal. Pat. R. 105.
47. Ibid. 368.
49. Cal. Chart. R. ii, 1; Lincs. Feet of F. ii. 162.
462.
51. Close R. 539.
52. Cal. Pat. R.
826, 836.
R. 8.
27. R. Liberate, 76.
30. Ibid. 360, 376.
34. Ibid. 285, 295b.
38. Ibid. 368-70.
42. Close R. 495.
32. Ibid. 83.
36. Ibid. 601b.
40. Pat. R. 297.
44. Ibid. 316, 363.
41. Ibid. 262.
45. Ibid. 152; Cal. Chart. R. i. 91.
48. R. Cur. Regis, iii. 128.
50. Excerpt. Fin. i. 266,
351. 53. Bk. of Fees,
54. Ibid. 455. 55. Ibid. 824, 860. 56. Testa, 1436. 57. Close
Cal. Pat. R. 210, 232, 369.
59. Ibid. 307.
58.
Fin. ii. 91.
61. Farrer, Feud. Cambs. 121–2, 187, 239.
147, 186, 251.
63. R. de Fin. 31, 487; Excerpt. Fin. i. 3, 73-
73. 65. Red Bk. 523, 525.
66. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 1578.
Bk. 365.
68. Cal. Pat. R. 350, 390, 395.
69. Cal. Misc. Inq. i. 211.
70. Cal. Pat. R. 356. 71. Excerpt. Fin. ii. 538. 72. Cal. Pat. R. 536.
73. R. Hund. i. 49b, 51b; ii. 153.
74. Ibid. i. 9-10, 15. 75. Ibid. ii. 191.
76. Ibid. 449b, 451. 77. Ibid. 491, 556. 78. Ibid. 7136, 831. 79. Cal.
Fine R. i. 209. 80. Placit. de quo war. 7, 734b.
81. Ibid. 30. 82. Cal.
Close R. 143.
83. Cal. Inquis. i. 199; Excerpt. Fin. ii. 439. 84. Ibid. 357.
85. Cal. Pat. R. 1292, p. 518. 86. Cal. Inquis. iii. 331. 87. Cal. Close R.
38, 49. 88. Cal. Pat. R. 526, 582. 89. Ibid. 601. 90. Cal. Close R. 395.
91. Ibid. 1310, p. 327. 92. Ibid. 202. 93. Ibid. 273-4, 284. 94. Ibid.
389.
60. Excerpt.
62. Ibid.
64. Ibid.
67. Red
I.
In Takeley, Essex, Eudes the sewer held 1 hide and 15 acres of
land in 1086.
In Somersham, Suff., Roger de Oburville held 1 carucate, and
in Elmsett 6 carucates. Possibly his other lands in Bosmere
hundred were included in the following fee.
See also n. 23.
Before 1120 Ralph de Amblie, with the consent of Eudes the
sewer and in the presence of king Henry, gave to the monastery
of Colchester two-thirds of the tithe of his demesne and plenary
tithe of his mill¹ in Elmsett. This gift was confirmed by Henry I
at Rouen in 1119.2 Ralph's successor appears to have been Richard
de Amblie, who was pardoned in 1156 his share of the common
TAKELEY, SOMERSHAM
175
6
assize of Suffolk,³ in Essex 5s. 8d. of the donum of that county
and 8s. of danegeld. In 1158 he was pardoned 7s. 4d. for a murder
fine in either Hinckford or Lexden hundred, and 6s. of the donum
of Essex; 5 also 6s. for a murder fine in Hertfordshire. In the
ensuing year he was pardoned 10s. for similar fines in Essex and
8s. 10d. in Hertfordshire," and 1 mark of the donum of the borough
of Northampton.8 In 1161 he was pardoned 2s. 6d. of a murder
fine in the hundred of Hertford,⁹ and shortly after that date was
succeeded by Geoffrey de Amblie, who in 1166 held 2 fees of Henry
Fitz-Gerold the chamberlain, as of the fee late of Eudes the sewer.10
In 1177 Geoffrey was amerced 10 marks for forest trespass in Essex
and Hertfordshire.11 He gave to the monks of Colchester, with
the consent of his wife Constance and son William, 4 acres of his
demesne of Elmsett in exchange for tithe of the mill there which
Ralph de Amblie his grandfather had given.12 He also acquitted
the monks of the rent of land in Takeley, Essex, which they had held
of his aunt Rohaise, wife of Alexander de Limesei, namely for the
health of his soul and that of his wife Constance.13 At a later date
William son of the said Geoffrey confirmed to the monks the said
land and other parcels in Takeley given by two members of the
Hauvill family.14
William son of Adeliz de Tachelei, Muriel his wife and Ellis their
son, gave to St. John's, Colchester, land in Takeley by charter
attested by Robert bishop of London (1141-1151) and Ailward
the archdeacon.15 Ellis their son made a similar gift by charter
attested by Hugh prior of Colne.16 William son of Ellis confirmed
lands in Takeley of his deceased father's fee.17
In 1195 or 1197 William de Takele was demanding against
the abbot of Colchester by assize of mort d'ancestor land in Takeley,
but the abbot defended on the ground that William's grandfather
had given that land to St. John's, Colchester, and he produced the
charter and the confirmation of Ellis father of the said William,
and William's own charter confirming his father's and grandfather's
gifts; he prayed for a view. Afterwards the demandant withdrew.18
The land of Alexander de Limesi and Rohaise his wife was granted
as follows. In 1200 the king confirmed to William de Hautevill
Takeley with the appurtenances, which was formerly of Ralph de
Hautevill his father and William his grandfather, as by the grant
and confirmation of Alexander de Lymesy and Rohaise his wife,
for 40s. to be rendered to them yearly.¹
19
Walter son of Humphrey and Agnes his wife, Robert de Lamare
and Alice his wife, Geoffrey de Amblie and Constance his wife,
gave to the nuns of Clerkenwell 30 solidates of rent in Langford,
Essex.20 These 3 ladies appear to have been coheirs of Langford.
With the consent of Constance his wife and William his son, Geoffrey
de Amblie gave to Idonea the prioress and the nuns of Wykes,
Essex, land in Cold Norton, and Geoffrey also gave them land in
Elmsett in exchange for a rent in the mill of Norton.2
In 1190
Geoffrey de Amblie gave 60 marks for the right of Beighton, Langley
and Tubeston.' 22
21
C
In 1198 William de Takele, who appears to have been a
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4
descendant of the line of Amblie, demanded against Geoffrey de
Amblie some part of a knight's fee in Yardley in Essex or Hert-
fordshire,23 and in 1199 a fee in Somersham, 24 and in the same
year the said Geoffrey was adjudged to have disseised the
prior of St. Mary of Thetford of land in Offton, Suff.25 In the pre-
ceding year Philip de Beauchamp had released to Geoffrey, the
tenant, for 14 marks, 28 solidates of land in Little Offton (Offige-
tun).26 In 1203-4 Geoffrey de Amblie quitclaimed to William de
Takele for 20 marks a carucate in Somersham and the homage
and service of William de Hauvill of the land which he held in
Takeley of the said Geoffrey's fee.27 In 1205, by fine of 30 marks,
Geoffrey de Ambly recovered possession of land in Norfolk and
Suffolk of which he had been disseised by the king's precept.28
In 1213 he was a commissioner to inquire about losses lately
suffered by the clergy in the diocese of Norwich.29
William de Amblie succeeded to his father's fee and in 1217,
returning to allegiance, recovered possession of lands in Norfolk
and Suffolk.30 In 1225 he was appointed a justice of gaol delivery
in those counties, 31 and frequently acted as a special justice at
Ipswich during the period 1229-32.32 He was a commissioner of
array in the same counties in 1230,33 and was defendant in a suit
brought by Margaret de Rivers in 1232 respecting customs &c. in
Elmsett and Somersham,34 in which year he was one of the keepers
of escheats in Norfolk and Suffolk and a collector of the fortieth
in the latter county.35 He was a collector in Essex of the aid granted
in 1235,36
a warden of Yarmouth fair, and was superseded as a
coroner in Suffolk in 1238,37 in which year he was a collector of
thirtieth in that county.38
1
4
4
Geoffrey de Amblie succeeded William and in 1236 (?) held 3 fees
in Elmsett and Somersham of Margaret de Rivers.39 Elsewhere he
is said to hold fee in Somersham and fee in Old Newton of the
said Margaret,40 and fee in Elmsett of the lady of Ongar.41 In
1245 he had a royal gift of 3 does from the forest of Essex to celebrate
the feast when he led home his wife, daughter of Robert de Muce-
gros.42
In that year he was found to hold fee in Beyton,
Norfolk, of earl Roger Bigod, which William de Amblie his brother
held of him.43 The date of his death is uncertain; he left issue
a daughter Eleanor, who was the wife of John Luvel, son of William
Luvel, in 1257, when they had a grant of free warren in Elmsett,
Norton and Somersham.44 Before 1263 this lady had become the
wife of John de Baa (Bathonia), who had custody of the manor
of Langford, Essex, in 1265, which manor was held of the heirs
of Sir Geoffrey de Amblie.45 It was presented in 1275 that
Sir John de Baa held 2 fees in Elmsett of the countess of Wight,4
and that he had warren, gallows, view of frankpledge and the like
there.47
In 1278 certain liberties in Great or South Benfleet,
Essex, were allowed to John de Bathonia in right of Eleanor de
Amblie his late wife, of whom he had issue Joan, wife of John de
Bohun; and the said John de Bohun declared that one Geoffrey
(sic) de Amblie ancestor of the said Joan, whose heir she
was, held at the time of the conquest the manor of Elmsett and
46
LAYHAM, TUDDENHAM
177
certain other lands to which the liberties had pertained from heir
to heir.48
John de Bathonia died in 1291 seised of the manor of Elmsett
which he held for life by the courtesy of England of the countess
of Wight for 31 fees, and the manor of Cold Norton, Essex, similarly
held by courtesy in right of his late wife Eleanor, daughter and heir
of Sir Geoffrey de Amblie, who held the manor of Sir Robert son
of Walter de Wodeham for 11 fee; Joan wife of Sir John de Bohun,
aged 30 (or 28), being daughter and heir of the said Eleanor, was
his next heir.49 Four years earlier, namely in 1287, Roger Loveday
died holding of Sir John de Baa (Bathonia) lands in Somersham,
Offton and Elmsett. 50 John de Bohun was deceased before 24 Janu-
ary, 1292.51 Joan his relict was lady of Somersham and Elmsett
in 1316,52 and died in that year holding the manor of Elmsett of
Sir Robert de L'Isle for 3 fees, and the manor of Cold Norton of
Richard Fitz-Walter for 1 fee; John her son was aged 30 years.
53
The next step in the descent of this fee is uncertain, but it was
in the possession of William de Bohun, youngest son of Humphrey
de Bohun, earl of Hereford, in 1328, when he had a grant of special
grace, as the king's kinsman, of free warren in Elmsett, Offton,
Somersham and divers other places. 54 He was created earl of North-
ampton in 1337, and died in 1360, seised inter alia of the manor of
Elmsett. 55 In 1368 the earl of Hereford held 3 fees in Elmsett,
Somersham and Ringshall, Suff., of Sir Robert de L'Isle. 56
Bk. 354.
1. Chartul. of Colchester (Roxburghe Club), 283.
R. 2 Hen. II, 10. 4. Ibid. 17-18. 5. Ibid. 4 Hen. II, 133.
7. Ibid. 5 Hen. II, 5, 7. 8. Ibid. 20. 9. Ibid. 7 Hen. II, 68.
11. Pipe R. 23 Hen. II, 15I. 12. Chartul. of Colchester, 283.
13. Ibid. 338. For Limesei's charter see ibid. 337. 14. Ibid. 339- 15. Chartul.
of Colchester, 340. 16. Ibid. 341. 17. Ibid. 342.
18. R. Cur. Regis, i. 354 ;
ii. 121. 19. R. Chart. 68. 20. Mon. Angl. iv. 85. 21. Cat. Anct. D. ii. A.
3518-19. 22. Pipe R. 2 Ric. m. 9. 23. R. Cur. Regis, i. 193. 24. Abbrev.
Placit. 8, 9b; R. Cur. Regis, i. 398. 25. Ibid. 430; ii. 197. 26. Feet. of F.
(Pipe R. Soc. xxiv), 15. 27. Essex Feet of F. 47.
29. R. Lit. Claus. i. 164b-5. 30. Ibid. 340. 31. Ibid. ii. 77.
33. Close R. 401. 34. Ibid. 127.
28.
R. de Fin. 300.
32. Pat. R.
36. Ibid. 190.
40. Ibid. 914.
35. Ibid. 129, 159.
39. Bk. of Fees, 608.
37. Ibid. 58. 38. Cal. Pat. R. 223.
41. Ibid. 918. 42. Close R. 343. 43. Cal. Misc. Inq. i. 6. 44. Cal.
Chart. R. i. 463. 45. Cal. Misc. Ing. i. 208. 46. R. Hund. ii. 151.
47. Ibid. 1996.
49. Cal. Inquis. ii. 491.
51. Cal. Fine R. i. 302.
54. Cal. Chart. R. iv. 84.
48. Abbrev. Placit. 193b. Cf.
50. Ibid. 397. Cf.
52. Feud. Aids, v. 35, 44.
55. Cal. Inquis. x. 526.
Placit. de quo war. 2356.
Cal. Close, 1298, p. 178.
53. Cal. Inquis. vi. 35.
56. Cal. Close R. 497.
3. Pipe
6. Ibid. 135.
10. Red
2. Ibid. 6.
II.
In Layham, Suff., Eudes the sewer had 4 carucates, and in
Tuddenham 3 carucates. In Little Barford, Beds., Eudes the sewer
held 5 hides of the abbot of Ramsey and Osbern held of Eudes.¹
1
It is suggested that this Osbern was the tenant of that name
in the Domesday Survey, who held of Eudes the sewer 17 acres of
land in Raydon, Suff., and was possibly father of Walcher of Lay-
ham. Osbert son of Walcher held in 1166 of Henry Fitz-Gerold
the chamberlain 3 fees, as of the fee of Eudes the sewer.2 Osbern
III.
N
178
HONOR OF EUDES THE SEWER
3
son of Walcher gave to the monks of St. John's, Colchester, land in
Layham quit, except of the service of Hamon de St. Clare; witnesses,
William de St. Clare, Ralph de Amblie, and others. In 1163
Henry II confirmed to the monks of Sibton land and heath in
Tuddenham given by Gilbert de Tudeham, which his lord Osbert
son of Walcher had confirmed. Peter son of Osbert de Leyham,
by charter attested by his brother William de Leyham, Geoffrey de
Amblie, and others, confirmed the above gift of Osbert his father
to the monks of Colchester.5 There was a contemporary family
of Leyham, tenants of the fee of Peverel of Dover in Bowthorpe,
Norfolk. 6
In the time of Robert abbot of Ramsey (1180-1200 or 1202–1207)
an agreement was made between the said abbot and Hugh de
Beauchamp touching 5 hides of land in (Little) Barford, Beds.,
and the homage of Peter de Leyham." Peter recovered a carucate
in Lawford, Essex, in 1202.8 The next of this line upon record is
Matthew de Leyham, knt., who presented to the church of Little
Barford in 1226,9 was a special justice at Ipswich in 1232,10 and in
1235 had a suit against Master Nicholas de Leyham and others
touching customs and services in Layham.1 He married before
1242 Nesta de Cokefeld, relict of Thomas de Burgh and of John de
Beauchamp.12 In 1242 Hubert de Rulli made fine in £100 for
himself, Richard his son, and 8 others for robbery of the said Nesta.13
In 1236 Matthew de Leyham held of Margery de Rivers as of
the honor of Ongar 1 fee in Layham, and John de Coteham held of
the said Matthew 2 fees in Tuddenham which the said Matthew
similarly held.¹4 Matthew also held 5 hides in Little Barford, Beds.,
of the abbot of Ramsey, in socage for 1 mark yearly.15 Elsewhere
he was said to hold of Margery de Rivers 31 fees in Layham and
Tuddenham.16 In 1243 he obtained from Ranulf abbot of Ramsey
an acknowledgment of his right in 5 hides in Barford, and in return
undertook to find one knight in the king's service at the charges
of the knights of the abbot's barony when the abbot was required
to find 4 knights in the king's service upon his summons.17 On
8 April, 1242, he had been one of 4 knights elected in the abbot's
court to serve over seas in Poitou and Gascony, and, having refused
to serve, had been impleaded by the abbot with the result stated
above.18
In the summer of 1244 he was again one of the 4 knights
similarly chosen to serve in Scotland, but sent in his stead Sir
Hubert de Royli,19 to whom he and his wife Nesta had recently
granted the manor of Kersey, Suff.20 He was living in May 1246.21
Nesta de Cokefeld died without issue, her heirs being Bartholomew
de Creke, Ralph de Berners and William de Beaumont. 22 Philippa
relict of Matthew de Leyham was living as late as 1270.23
In 1257 Peter de Leyham was in the Welsh expedition with
Baldwin de L'Isle.24 In 1264 Thomas de Hemmegrave died holding
Tuddenham with the advowson of the church of Peter de Leyham
for 2 fees.25 In 1270 Henry de Merke died seised of Lawford,
Essex, which Peter de Leyham held of him for 1 fee.26
1 fee.26 This
Peter, who was living in 1271, was the last male representative of
this line and was deceased in 1273 when Joan de Leyham, Margery
LEYHAM, TUDDENHAM
179
and Olive her sisters, Geoffrey de La Mare and Ida his wife
recovered by replevin their land in Layham, Lawford and Barford,
which had been taken into the king's hands for their default in the
Bench against Margery late wife of Peter de Leyham.27 Whether
these 4 ladies were daughters or sisters of Peter de Leyham does
not appear. It was presented in 1275 that Joan de Leyham
held 1 fee in Layham of the countess of Wight and had warren
and assize of bread &c. there; 28 Beatrice de Hemmegrave, late
lady of Tuddenham, was then deceased.29 It was presented by the
hundred of Tendring in 1274 that the heirs of Leyham had view of
frankpledge in Lawford de antiquitate.30 Of the heirs of Peter de
Leyham land was held in 1287,31 and a parcel in Layham was
similarly held in 1290 by John de Leyham of Bowthorpe, in Norfolk,
who held 'Le Overbouhalle' in Layham of the earl Marshal for I
fee.32 Possibly 'Le Nether Bouhalle' was the residence of the
family described in this section.
Apparently the bulk of the inheritance descended to Olive de
Leyham, who in 1303 held her manor in Lawford of the heirs of
Andrew de Merk for fee,33 and the 5 hides in Barford of the abbot
of Ramsey.34
The fee in Layham appears to have been alienated to Hugh le
Despenser the elder (see Chester, n. 14), who assigned to Hugh le
Despenser the younger inter alia the manors of Layham and Kersey.
These were temporarily seized in 1310, but immediately restored
to the elder Hugh,35 who was lord of Layham in 1316.36 Upon the
attainder and forfeiture by Hugh le Despenser, earl of Winchester,
of his estates, Edward III granted inter alia the manor of Layham,
worth £35 9s., and the manor of Kersey, worth £27 6s., to Edmund
earl of Kent.37 At his death in 1330 the earl held the manor of
Layham of the abbot of St. Edmund's; the manor of Tuddenham
was held of the manor of Layham by Edmund de Hungrave for
I fee.38
In 1331 the manor of Layham was assigned to the dower of
Margaret late wife of earl Edmund.39 In the preceding year the
king had granted the manor to Robert de Ufford for life.40 Isabel
de la Dale, then wife of Walter de Cokefeld, had long sued for the
manor as her right, first against Hugh le Despenser prior to his
forfeiture, and afterwards in the king's court; she obtained in
1331 in recompense the custody of the manor of Kenton, Devon."
She died in 1336 in possession of that manor, John de la Dale, knt.,
her son, being aged 32 years.42 As this family succeeded also to
Lawford it may be conjectured that Isabel de la Dale was daughter
and heir of Olive de Leyham.
41
In 1368 the prince of Wales held 3 fees in Layham and Tud-
denham of Sir Robert de L'Isle.43
1. V. C. H. Beds. i. 229. 2. Red Bk. 354. 3. Chartul. 258. 4. Cal.
Chart. R. ii. 96. 5. Chartul. 258. 6. Pipe R. 23 Hen. II, 133; R. de
Dominabus, 48; R. de Oblat. 166. 7. Ramsey Chartul. i. 89. 8. Essex
Feet of F. 30. 9. Reg. Welles, iii. 13.
10. Pat. R. 524. 11. Close R.
328. 12. Mon. Anglic. vi. 493; Feet of F., Suff. 25 Hen. III; Essex Feet
of F. 146. 13. Excerpt. Fin. i. 377, 381; Close R. 448. 14. Bk. of Fees,
918.
15. Ibid. 869. 16. Ibid. 608. 17. Ramsey Chartul. ii. 360.
18. Ibid. iii. 50. 19. Ibid. 51. For the Ruilli family see Chartul. of St. John's,
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HONOR OF EUDES THE SEWER
Colchester. 20. Cal. Misc. Ing. i. 6. 21. Cat. Anct. D. v. A. 11008. 22. Abbrev.
Cf. Close R. 1248, 106.
Placit. 237.
Pat. R. 602.
Cf. Essex Feet of F. 277.
23. Excerpt. Fin. ii. 511. 24. Cal.
25. Cal. Inquis. i. 183.
26. Ibid. 237. 27. Cal. Close R. 44.
28. R. Hund. ii. 151, 1996.
29. Ibid. 196.
30. Ibid. i. 141, 1636. 31. Cal. Inquis. ii. 380. 32. Ibid. 470. 33. Feud.
Aids, ii. 130. 34. Ibid. i. 23. 35. Cal. Close R. 198; Cal. Misc. Ing. ii. 20.
36. Feud. Aids, v. 43. Cf. Cat. of Anct. D. i. A. 526; iv. A. 7163.
37. Cal. Chart. R. iv. 2. 38. Cal. Inquis. vii. 225, 230. 39. Cal. Close R. 190,
208. 40. Cal. Fine. R. iv. 189. 41. Ibid. 278. 42. Cal. Inquis. viii. 11.
43. Cal. Close R. 497.
III.
In Norfolk in 1086 Ralph held of Eudes the sewer in Roudham
I carucate and 10 acres, in Intwood 15 carucates and in Gowthorpe
(Torp ') 60 acres.
From this Ralph may have descended Ralph de Tyvill, who held
2 fees in 1166 of Henry Fitz-Gerold the chamberlain, as of the fee
late of Eudes the sewer.¹ Possibly of the same family was Richard
de Tyvill, who with Cecily his mother quitclaimed by fine in 1196
to prior W and the convent of Ipswich land in Pannington
in Wherstead, Suff., for which the grantees gave to the said Cecily
a provision for life and to her and Richard her son certain parcels
of land in Pannington, one of which had been given to the said
Cecily by Gerard her father in marriage, except an acre which Cecily
had given to the convent for the health of the soul of Robert her
son.2
In 1199 Ralph de Tyvill was a visor in a Bedfordshire plea,
and in that year he was demanding against Reginald de Argentein
a tenement in Ramsey, Hunts.3 In 1202 Gilbert le Esquier held
of Ralph de Tyvill 1 virgate in Ickwell ('Gigewell'), Beds. In 1206
Ralph was demanding against Roger de Hofee in Topcroft,
Norf., 5 but two years later quitclaimed the tenement to Roger
for 15 marks. In 1213 Ralph de Tyvill obtained from Joscelin
de Stivecle, the tenant, an acknowledgment of his right in certain
parcels of hide in Gravenhurst and Ion, Beds., and released his
claim in other parcels. There seems to be no definite connexion
between the Tyvills of Norfolk and those of Bedfordshire. Cf.
Feet of Fines, Beds., pp. 327, 335, 339.
8
In 1218 Ralph de Tyvill recovered possession of the manor of
Intwood ('Incewrth') of which he had been disseised for a debt
to Jews. In the ensuing year Richard de Tyvill was a party to
a plea of land in Beeston, Beds.⁹ In 1220 Matilda, late wife of
Ralph de Tyvill the younger, was claiming dower in the manor of
Intwood against Roger de St. Denis and Sarra his wife, who
vouched to warranty Isaac the Jew of Norwich,10 who defended
on the ground that neither Ralph the father nor Ralph the son
could endow her, because prior to her marriage to the younger
Ralph his father Ralph had pledged the manor to him; Ralph
the father replied that Isaac was wrongfully warrantor, because
he (Ralph) had made fine with king John for £120, whereby he
was in seisin of the manor until disseised without judgment by the
late justices in eyre; he therefore obtained judgment.11
In 1226 Ralph de Tyvill claimed against Matilda de Tyvill the
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church of Intwood, 12 and in the following year his suit against Hugh
Graundin for I carucate in Aspley was put in respite because Hugh
was serving in Gascony.13 In 1227 a convert from Judaism
recovered a tenement in Intwood against Ralph de Tyvill,¹ª and in
that year Thomas bishop of Norwich confirmed to St. John's,
Colchester, 4s. for tithes of the demesne of Henry de Gessinges in
the vill of Goudestorp (in Intwood).15 In 1230 Richard de Tyvill
was serving over seas,16 and in the same year Ralph de Tyvill
demanded against Hugh Graundin carucate in Aspley, Shitlington
and Pegsdon to which he had entry by Clarice de Berevill, wife of
Richard son of Euerwin, Ralph's maternal uncle, which Clarice
held only in dower; although Hugh alleged that he had entry by
the charter of Henry de Glanvill he had no charter or warranty
to show and was nonsuited.17 In 1234 Ralph recovered a tenement
in Aspley against Henry de Trafford and Matilda his wife,18 and in
that year judgment was given in a suit between the said Ralph
and Hugh de Tyvill touching a tenement in Gravenhurst.19
In 1236 (?) Ralph de Tyvill held 2 fees in Intwood, Gowthorpe and
Bodham of Margery de Rivers.20 In 1241-2 Hugh de Tyvill was
one of the knights of the abbot of Ramsey serving in Wales with
his serjeant.21 He was living in 1248. In 1257 Ralph de Tyvill of
Bedford had respite from knighthood, 22 and in that year he or another
Ralph de Tyvill served in Wales as one of the knights of the abbot
of Ramsey.23
In or about 1266 Ralph de Tyvill granted the manor of Graven-
hurst with lands and services there and in Shitlington, Pegsdon
and Meppershall for 200 marks to Ramsey abbey.24 This land was
said to be of the fee of Robert Brien.25 On 14 November, 1265,
Ralph had sold for 74 marks to abbot Hugh and the convent of
Ramsey tenements in Gravenhurst, Ion, Shitlington and Pegsdon,
one of which Elen relict of Hugh de Tyvill, uncle of Ralph, held in
dower.26
These tenements had been held by Ralph and his prede-
cessors of the abbey.27 In 1279 a fine of the advowson of Intwood
was levied between Nicholas de Castello and John de Tyvill.28 In
1302 John de Tyvill held 1 fee in Intwood of the heirs of Aumarle, 29
and died in 1313.30 In 1316 Hugh de Tyvill, who was then in the
bishop's gaol, was joint lord of Intwood.31
I
Subsequently this fee passed to the family of Hedersete. In
1338 John de Hedersete, knt., had a grant of free warren here,32
and in 1346 he held 1 fee here.33 In 1368 William de Hederescyt
held 2 fees in Intwood, Gowthorpe and Bodham (Roudham) of Sir
Robert de L'Isle.34
3. R. Cur.
6. Abbrev.
1. Red Bk. 354.
2. Feet of F. (Pipe R. Soc. xvii), 129.
Regis, i. 396, 401. 4. Abbrev. Placit. 36. 5. R. de Fin. 339.
Placit. 58b. 7. Feet of F., Beds. 84. 8. R. Lit. Claus. i. 355. 9. Bracton's
Note-Bk. n. 61. Cf. Cat. of Anct. D. vi. C. 3935.
10. Bracton, n. 1376.
11. Ibid. n. 1445.
12. Pat. R. 79.
13. Close R. 9. 14. Bracton's
Note-Bk. n. 1825. 15. Chartul. 116. 16. Pat. R. 360. 17. Bracton's
Note-Bk. n. 385. 18. Ibid. n. 829. 19. Close R. 154; Excerpt. Fin. i, 257.
20. Bk. of Fees, 608, 911. 21. Ramsey Chartul. iii. 50. 22. Cal. Pat. R.
523. 23. Ramsey Chartul. iii. 52. 24. Ibid. ii. 337. 25. Ibid. 281;
iii. 212. 26. Cat. of Anct. D. i. A. 104, 128, 130; ii. B.
27. Ibid.
3869.
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iii. B. 3872.
Fin. R. ii. 180.
Aids, iii. 532.
28. Norf. Feet of F. 29. Feud. Aids, iii. 443.
31. Ibid. 476. 32. Cal. Chart. R. iv. 455.
34. Cal. Close R. 497.
IV.
30. Cal.
33. Feud.
In Leybourne, Kent, Adam held of the bishop of Bayeux
2 solins; in Langley, Adam son of Hubert held 1 solin, in Otring-
den solin, in Bowley by Maidstone 2 solins, and in Ridley (‘Red-
lege') I solin.
In Steeple Aston, Oxon., Humphrey held of Adam son of
Hubert, who held of the bishop of Bayeux, 5 hides, and in Little
Tew 3 hides. See Curcy, n. 5.
In 1166 Philip de Leiburn held 7 fees of Henry Fitz-Gerold
the chamberlain, as of the fees late of Eudes the sewer.¹ In 1181 a
demise of land in Leyton, Essex, held of earl Aubrey and the king,
was made before dame Amica and Robert de Leiburn her son.2
Philip's successor was the said Robert de Leyburn, to whom in
1197 John de Tresgoz, Henry and Thomas his brothers quitclaimed
their right in carucate in Meres Court ('Mere,' near Rainham,
Kent) in exchange for Robert's land in Bowley by Maidstone
('Bokelee '), to hold for fee, except Bugkinden' and the wood.3
This Robert was succeeded by Roger his son. In 1201 Robert de
Sudton, being sued for a certain marsh in Essex, proffered the charter
of Robert de Leyburn granting the same to him, and he vouched
to warranty Robert's son, Roger de Leyburn, who was then in the
wardship of Stephen de Turneham. In 1203 it was stated in evi-
dence in a plea of land in Sutton, Kent, that Robert de Leyburn
had impleaded Warin son of Fulcher, father of Warin, then a minor,
touching carucate there and that the said Warin had vouched to
warranty Amabel, daughter of William son of Fulcher, being then
in his custody; on the other side Warin son of Warin stated that
Robert de Leiburn had granted to Warin his father that land and
he proffered his charter and if necessary would vouch to warranty
the son of Robert de Leyburn, then under age and in the king's
wardship.5 In 1207 Margaret de Leyburn of Kent proffered £100
and 2 palfreys to marry whom she would.“
It does not appear
who she was, but it may be surmised that she was the relict of
Robert de Leyburn and an heiress in her own right.
In a confirmation to the abbey of Boxley made in 1204 there
was reference to part of the marsh of 'Scerpenesse' late of Robert
de Leyburn, lying near the Medway.' Roger de Leyburn was of
age in 1215, when he was taken prisoner in Rochester castle.
In the ensuing year he obtained his liberty by fine of 250 marks
and recovered possession of his lands in Shropshire and Kent.⁹
He had been married by his guardian, Stephen de Turneham, to
Eleanor, third of the said Stephen's 5 daughters and coheirs
(Arundel, n. 18), and in 1214 obtained possession of Great Berwick,
Salop, of which he had been disseised owing to the said Stephen's
death.10 See the account of Turneham's predecessors, lords of
Berwick, and of his successors, the Leyburns, in Eyton's Hist. of
Salop, x. 213 ff. The record of a plea brought in 1220 by Edelina
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de Broc, relict of Stephen de Turneham, touching rent in Erdington,
Salop, shows that Roger de Leyburn's wife was then deceased.11
In 1222 Roger successfully defended a plea brought by Henry
de Tresgoz and Thomas his brother that he had not kept the fine
of 1197 touching a carucate in Meres court (Arundel, n. 2). The
pleadings show that a certain Amiria had held that land by inherit-
ance and had pledged it to a Jew.12 In 1223 Roger had land in
'Luiton,' Essex; 13 and in 1224 land in Febbinges' in that
county was held of him.14 About this time he held Bures, Essex,
of the king by serjeanty of scalding the king's swine, Robert de
Sutton being his tenant.15 In 1226 the connexion between this
family and the barons of Kirkby in Kendal is illustrated by a fine
made by William de Lancaster on behalf of Roger de Leyburn
with certain Jews of London and Kent touching Roger's debt to
them.16
In the same year William Bigot and Margaret his wife
were impleading Roger in the hundred court of Milton, Kent,
touching a carucate of land in Siloam (Syleham).17 Two years later
he acknowledged that the marsh of Richerness in Bures, Essex,
was the right of Margery wife of William Bigod, to hold for fee,
and he released to William and Margery 2 carucates and the advowson
of the church of Bures, and I carucate in Siloam (Syleham), Kent.18
4
In 1228 the king granted to Roger de Leyburn the scutage of
2 fees in Oxfordshire which Roger held of Margaret de Reviers,
and of 5 fees in Kent which he similarly held of the same Margaret.¹
In the ensuing year he had terms set for payment of £73 10S.
due to a Jew of Hereford.20 In 1231 he was impleading the tenants
of several parcels of land in 'Cristmelden,' Kent,21 a vill somewhere
near Langley. In 1236 (?) he held of Margaret de Rivers 7 fees in
Leybourn, Bewper, Langley, Ridley Charlton and Cranbrook, Kent,
and in Steeple Aston, Oxon.22
4
Another return supplies the names of the tenants holding in
demesne of Roger de Leyburn, who himself held fee in Leybourne
and fee in Langley and Bowley by Maidstone. They were William
de Oteringeden holding 1 fee in Otringden, Thomas de Bressinges
fee in Langley (and Brushing), James de Cherleton 1 fee in Charlton
by Sutton Valence, Ralph Ruffin fee and fee in Leybourne, and
William de Clovill 1 fee in Shrambroke (or Srawingbroc) by Cliffe, now
known as Mortimers.23
6
I
In 1241 Roger de Leyburn was sued in an Essex plea as guardian
of John de Leyburn and Florence his wife, who was possibly daughter
of Roger de Akyny.24 Roger died about 1242-3, leaving Agnes
his relict, formerly wife of Henry de Miners, 25 and, according to
Eyton, was succeeded before 1244 at Berwick by John de Leyburn,
who died soon after that date. But, as will be seen, Eyton was wrong
in making Roger de Leyburn II son and heir of this John. Clearly
he was his brother, but whether elder or younger than John is not
quite certain.
In 1237 he was one of the collectors of the thirtieth in Kent.26
In 1240 he gave land in Headcorn with the advowson of the church
to the king for the hospital of Ospring.27 In 1242 he was summoned
to Winchester in connexion with the Gascon expedition.28
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Roger de Leyburn II was in the king's special service, obtaining
in 1252 the king's peace for the death of Arnulf de Munteny, then
recently killed by accident at a round table; 29 and in the ensuing
year a grant of 40 marks yearly while in the king's service.30 This
year he went to Gascony; 31 in 1254 he was pardoned 300 marks
of a prest made by the king to Roger his father 32 and obtained a
grant of lands of escheat at Rainham, Kent.31 In 1257 the king
confirmed a grant of Roger de Leyburn I to John le Moyne of land
of his fee in Cliffe, Kent; and a grant of Roger son of the said Roger
de Leyburn made after his said father's death to the said John le
Moyne of land in 'Shanbrook,' now Mortimers, in Cliffe, Kent.32
Much has been written about Roger II by Dugdale and Eyton.
His attitude during the Montfort crises is illustrated by various
chronicles preserved in Annales Monastici. The numerous grants
from the king to Roger le Leyburn, William his son, and Roger
son of Roger de Leyburn during the period of 1265-67 are set forth
in the Calendar of the Charter Rolls,33 as is also the grant of Robert
de Crevequer of the manor of Leeds, Kent, with half his knight's
fees.34
Otho son of Edward of Westminster gave to Sir Roger de
Leyburn, knt., a messuage in Westminster between the courts of
the King of England and King of Germany, extending from the
Thames to the highway leading from Westminster to Charing ;
witnesses Richard abbot of Westminster, Sir John de Kyrkeby,
Sir Roger de Lancastre, Sir Thomas de Musgrave.35 A charter of the
manors of Ashford and Packmanstone to Sir Roger de Leyburn, dated
21 July, 1271, will be found in Cat. of Ancient Deeds, v. A. 11766.
In 1265 William de Leyburn had a grant for life of the manor of
Preston, late of Simon de Sandwic, which should have reverted to
Juliana wife of the said William as heir of the said Simon.36
Ι
Upon the death of Roger de Leyburn II in 1271 William his
son and heir had livery of his father's lands, except those duly
specified as having been held jointly by Roger and Eleanor, countess
of Winchester, his wife, who survived.37 The Hundred Rolls for
Kent contain many references to the holdings of William de Ley-
burn he held an escheat in Rainham at 'Chelesherste' by the
gift of Henry III and I fee in Meres Court and La Gare (now Gore); 38
at Leybourn he had warren and free chase; 39 Harrietsham was
the demesne of Henry II, who gave it to Hugh de Cressy, and in
1275 Roger Loveday held it by demise of William de Leyburn: 40
the valuable manor of Elham, late of Alice countess of Eu and an
escheat of the Normans, which came to the hands of Henry III,
was by him given to Edward his son, who gave it to Roger de
Leyburn, and in 1275 William de Leyburn held it.41 In 1284
Robert de Romeley held 1 fee in Steeple Aston, Oxon., and I fee in
Little Tew (which the abbot of Oseney held of him) of William de
Leyburn and he of the countess of Albemarle ; 42 the same William
held Leybourn of the countess of Devon for fee.43 In 1287 Ralph
de Oteringden held the manor of Otringden and hamlet of Saynden
of Sir William de Leyburn for 1 fee, doing suit to the court of Ley-
bourn.44
In 1293 William de Leyburn claimed inter alia free warren
in Elmstone, Barton in Wy, Packmanstone, Leybourn, Langley and
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La Gore by charter of Henry III made to Roger de Leyburn; but
he failed in his claim in the first, third, and last of these places.45
In 1303 Lawrence de Oteryngdenne held 1 fee in Bicknor of William
de Leyburn.46
I
Thomas de Leyburn, son of William, died in 1307 in his father's
lifetime, seised jointly with Alice his wife of the manor and castle
of Leybourn, which he held for fee as of the honor of Albemarle ;
Juliana his daughter was aged 3 years.47 William de Leyburn,
the father, died in 1310 holding jointly with Juliana his wife the
manor of Langley for fee of the king as of the honor of Albemarle ;
the manor of La Gore jointly as above of the king for fee; the
manor of Dane in Thanet of the inheritance of his said wife of the
abbey of St. Augustine, Canterbury, for 1 fee; the manor of Meres.
Court of the gift of Thomas de Leyburn for life of the king by the
service of being chief larderer at the king's coronation; Juliana,
daughter of Thomas de Leyburn his son, aged 6, was his next heir.48
In 1316 Juliana de Leyburn was lady of Langley, Bicknor, Knowlton,
Elham, Ashford and Harrietsham; and the countess of Warwick
of Leybourn.49 Before 1319 Juliana became the wife of John de
Hastinges, who died in 1325 holding in her right the manor of
Leybourn of John de L'Isle for fee; Lawrence his son was aged
6 years.50 In 1327 died Juliana, relict of William de Leyburn,
holding the manor of Langley of the heirs of Robert de L'Isle for
1
fee, besides other lands of other fees; Juliana, daughter of Thomas
de Leyburn her son, aged 24, and then the wife of Thomas le Blount,
was her next heir. 51 She subsequently became the wife of William
de Clinton, earl of Huntingdon, who held in 1346 fee in Langley
of the countess of Albemarle (sic).52 The earl at his death in 1354
held jointly with Juliana his wife in her right the manors of Ley-
bourn, Bewper, par. Frittenden, Langley, Preston by Wingham,
Deane Court, Westgate, Ripple, Ham, Ash, Ashford, Barton-by-
Boughton, Packmanstone, Coldbridge, Harrietsham, Eastling,
Goodneston, Gore, par. Upchurch, Meres Court, Wateringbury,..
Slayhill, Walderslade, Eynsford, Bicknor, Bromsmythe, Elmstone
and Overland, par. Ash.53 In the same year died Augustine Waleys
holding the manor of Ridley (Redlegh) for fee and 100s. rent to
Leybourn castle; 54 formerly it had been held of the earl of the Isle
(of Wight) for 1 fee. In 1368 it was returned that Juliana countess
of Huntingdon had lately held the tenements which were (in 1166)
of Philip de Leyburn for 7 fees, then kept in the king's hands, but
nominally held of Sir Robert de L'Isle. 55 These tenements were also
described as sometime held by John de Hastinges, namely fee
in Leybourn, fee late Ralph Ruffyn's, fee in Langley and Bowley
by Maidstone, fee in Brushing, I fee in Charlton by Sutton Valence
and fee in Mortimers alias Shambroke by Cliffe.56 In Oxford-
shire Richard de Adderbury held of John de Hastinges I fee in
Steeple Aston and the abbot of Oseney similarly held 1 fee in Little
Tew; in both fees Hastinges held of Robert de L'Isle.57
1. Red Bk. 354. 2. Cat. of Anct. D. iv. A. 6461. 3. Feet of F. (Pipe
R. Soc. xx), 103. 4. Abbrev. Placit. 33.
5. Ibid. 39. 6. R. de Fin.
398, 499-500; R. Lit. Pat. 75b.
7. R. Chart. 130.
8. R. Lit. Claus.
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i. 2416.
9. Ibid. 287b.; R. Lit. Pat. 195.
11. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 1410.
12. Ibid. n. 169.
i. 573.
14. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 929. 15. Red Bk. 507.
Claus. ii. 1296. 17. Ibid. 156b. 18. Essex Feet of F. 83.
85.
20. Ibid. 152.
21. Ibid. 596. 22. Bk. of Fees, 617.; Abbrev.
Placit. 160. 23. Testa. 209b. Cf. Abbrev. Placit. 160. 24. Essex Feet
26. Ibid. 554.
27. Cal. Chart. R. i. 253; Cal. Pat.
29. Cal. Pat. R. 154. 30. Ibid. 215. 31. Ibid.
32. Ibid. i. 457.
33. Loc. cit. ii. 55-57, 61.
For a grant in 1270 by
of F. 137. 25. Testa. 71.
R. 121. 28. Close R. 456.
232, 271; Cal. Chart. R. i. 445.
34. Ibid. 113. 35. Cat. of Anct. D. ii. A. 2508.
Sir Roger to his beloved knight, Sir John de Kirkeby, see ibid. vi. C. 5320.
36. Cal. Pat. R. 456. 37. Excerpt. Fin. ii. 552-3. 38. R. Hund. i. 215b.
39. Ibid. 220.
40. Ibid. 223. 41. Ibid. 230. 42. Feud. Aids, iv. 155.
43. Ibid. iii. 2. 44. Cal. Inquis. ii. 394. 45. Placit. de quo war. 366b.
46. Feud. Aids, iii. 40. 47. Ibid. iv. 274.
48. Ibid. v. 121–3. 49. Feud.
Aids, iii. pass. 50. Ibid. vi. 386. 51. Ibid. vii. 50.
53. Cal. Inquis. x, 174.
56. Ibid. 57. Ibid. 496.
52. Feud. Aids,
55. Cal. Close R.
54. Ibid. 129, 131.
iii. 40.
495.
10. R. de Fin. 542.
13. R. Lit. Claus.
16. R. Lit.
19. Close R.
V.
Eudes the sewer held in demesne in 1086 in Arkesden, Essex,
2 hides less 15 acres.
Roger de Aubervill (Otburvilla ') held by exchange in Arkesden
2 hides.
14
These two tenements descended in two distinct families. In
1166 Jordan [le Brun?] and William de Arkesdene (n. 19) held
3 fees less part of a fee, of Henry Fitz-Gerold, as of the fees late
of Eudes the sewer.¹ Possibly Jordan married Alice de Hakewell,
sister and heir of Robert Fitz-Ernold, and may have been father of
Graland le Brun, whose relict Muriel had dower in Arkesden in
1223, when Jordan le Brun, grandson of Alice de Hakewell, appears
to have held part of this fee.2 In 1236 Jordan le Brun held 1 fee here
of Margery de Rivers.3 In 1246 Philip le Brun demanded against
John le Brun that he should acquit him of the service which Jordan
le Brun and others demanded of him for his tenement in Hakewell.4
John le Brun succeeded and died before January 1263 seised of
lands in Arkesden held of Baldwin de L'Isle, earl of Devon, and,
leaving no issue, was succeeded by Thomas his brother.5
Subsequently the tenement formerly held by Le Brun was
in the possession of the family of Bayhouse, and in 1303 Robert
de Bayhouse, then sheriff of Huntingdonshire, held fee in Arkesden
of the earl of Albemarle." In 1346 John de Bayhouse held the same
tenement.” In 1368 Robert de Baiouse held 1 fee here of Sir
Robert de L'Isle, and in 1373 Robert, son of Robert de Baiocis,
knt., granted to Sir William de Burton, knt., and Eleanor his wife
and the heirs of their bodies the manor of Woodhall in Arkesden.º
Returning to the tenement held by William de Arkesdene,
this appears to have descended to heirs general. Eudes de Arkes-
den about 1185 gave the church of Arkesden to Walden priory.10
In 1236 Ranulf son of Walter de Hai and John Pigace held each
fee in Arkesden of Margery de Rivers.¹¹ In Trinity term 1242
Agnes prioress of Campsey Ash obtained warranty of land in
Arkesden from Ranulf de Hai and Sarra his wife, John Pigaz and
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ļ
Rohaise his wife, for which Sarra and Rohaise and their heirs were
received into the benefits of the convent.12 The subsequent descent
of these tenements is difficult to trace.
2
In 1236(?) Joan de London held fee in Arkesden of Margery de
Rivers¹³ and the abbot of Walden held similarly fee there.¹ª Adam
son of Thomas de London granted to Hamon Peverel a messuage
in Arkesden 15 and a tenant with his tenement in the same place.16
It was presented in 1274 from the hundred of Uttlesford that a
part of Great Chishill and Arkesden, which were held of the king's
chamberlainship, used to come to the sheriff's turn from the time
when Falkes de Breauté held Bedford castle against the king until
the queen had the wardship of the heir of Baldwin de L'Isle the
chamberlain, since when they came not.17 It was also presented
in 1285 that Arkesden was a member of the serjeanty of the Cham-
berlainship of the Exchequer ; 18 that the abbot of Walden held
60 acres of arable which had belonged to Atheland de Graveney, who
held them of that serjeanty, and that he held the fee of Eynesworth
which Ralph de Assartis held of the same serjeanty.
19
In 1303 John Peverel, the abbot of Walden, and the prioress of
Campsey Ash held fee in Arkesden of the fee late of the earl of
Albemarle.20 In 1310 John Peverel of Hanningfeld had licence to
settle his manor of Arkesden on himself and Joan his wife and
John his son and his issue.21
4
In 1368 the abbot of Walden held fee in Arkesden, William
de la Zouche fee there, late of Hamond Peverel, and the prioress.
of Campsey Ash fee there, of Sir Robert de L'Isle.22 In 1401-2
Thomas de Burton, knt., held 1 fee in Arkesden, called Wodehall,
of the honor late of Robert de L'Isle, the abbot held similarly
fee there, Ludwig Bledeslowe held similarly fee there, late of
William la Zouche, and the prioress of Campsey Ash held fee
there.23
3. Bk. of Fees, 477, 608.
1. Red Bk. 354. 2. Essex Feet of F. 64.
4. Essex Feet of F. 168. 5. Cal. Inquis, i. 162. 6. Feud. Aids, ii. 149.
7. Ibid. 178.
8. Cal. Close R. 496. 9. Cat. of Anct. D. i. C. 101.
10. Walden chartul., Harl. 3697, f. 132d. 11. Bk. of Fees, 608. 12. Essex
Feet of F. 141-2. 13. Bk. of Fees, 477. 14. Ibid. 608. 15. Cat. of Anct. D.
vi. C. 5956. 16. Ibid. ii. C. 2581. 17. R. Hund. i. 164b.
Round, The King's Serjeants, 121 note, 132.
20. Feud. Aids, ii. 149. 21. Cal. Pat. R. 283.
23. Feud. Aids, vi. 608.
18. See
19. Morant, Essex, ii. 589.
22. Cal. Close R. 496.
VI.
In Harlow, Essex, in 1086 Eudes the sewer had 1 hide and 3
virgates which Turgis (of Roding) held of him.
In 1166 Gilbert de Helawe held of Henry Fitz-Gerold the
chamberlain fee of the fee late of Eudes the sewer.¹ In 1180
William son of Fulcher proffered 40s. for a recognition of Harlow,
late his maternal uncle's. Gilbert de Herlawe was living in 1199,
when he had a plaint against the abbot of St. Edmund's,³ who held
an extensive fee in Harlow. Possibly the same Gilbert held in
1212, or later, part of Harlow of the honor of Boulogne, as parcel
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4
of the fee late of Pharamus de Boulogne ; but in 1202 Walter de
Herlaue quitclaimed land in Harlow to Henry Fitz-Fulcher.5
William de Herlawe succeeded and in 1217 had a writ of re-
seisin of his land directed to the sheriff of Essex. In 1219 he was
the husband of Joan, third daughter and coheir of Richard de
Raymes, in respect of the barony of Little Rayne, but it was not
known by whom her marriage had been given to him." She was
the relict of Brian Aquarius and, possibly in her right of dower,
William, her then husband, held 1 virgate in Writtle by serjeanty
of keeping vert and venison of the forest there, and by farm of
20s.8 Early in 1220 William and Joan were impleaded by one
of the coheirs of Raymes of land in Rayne (Rennes). In 1222
the tenement in Writtle was in the king's hands, but the sheriff of
Essex was directed to give seisin to William de Herlaue and Joan
his wife of her dower of the tenement late of Brian Aquarius,
formerly her husband, in Writtle.10 In 1223 William was a com-
missioner for the sale of wind-fallen wood in Essex.11 In 1227 he
was party to a plea of land in Stambourne, Essex.12 Prior to
1228 Matilda de Herlaue, formerly nurse of king John, had a
livery of 6d. per diem out of the Exchequer.13
In 1232 William de Herlaue was one of the keepers of escheats
in Essex and a collector of the fortieth.14 Two years later he
obtained a recognition of his right in land in Harlow against the
parson of the church there.15
It is not known how this tenement passed to David son of
David de Flitwyc, who in 1233 was impleaded by Robert son of
Simon de Roinges for customs and services due for the tenement
he held of the said Robert in Harlow and for suit to his court
at Roding; David denied that he owed forinsec service or suit,
because he and his ancestors had always done them to Margery de
Rivers; Robert claimed to be mesne between David and Margery.16
David de Flittewick vouched to warranty Margery de Rivers in
1239 against Robert de Roynges of Roding, who had demanded
against David the service of fee and 2s. rent for the tenement
which he held of the said Margery in Harlow, but afterwards.
released his claim.17 In 1236 (?) the same David held this tenement
of the said Margery.18 He was the tenant of the honor of Skipton
in Flitwick, Beds.19
In 1262 Nicholas Fitz-Fucher or Fulcher held lands in Good
Easter, Writtle, Roding St. Margaret, Nevenden and Benfleet of
David de Flitwyk, to whom the said Nicholas quitclaimed a mes-
suage and carucate in Harlow held of Baldwin de L'Isle.20 This
appears to have been the manor of Brent Hall, later New Hall.21
David son of David de Flittewyk, and Lucy his wife, had in 1265
lands in Ringstone, Rippingale, Dunsby and Leesingham by the
gift of Ralph de Ryngesdon; 22 in 1274 he was presented for
making a purpresture in Harlow.23 In 1282 the same David held
fee in Welford and fee in Lokinton, Northants., of Baldwin
Wake.24
He died in 1296 holding the manor of Flitwick of the
honor of Albemarle for fee and service of 5s. for castleguard of
Craven in Yorkshire; David his son was aged 30 years. This
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189
family had also lands in Leicestershire.26 David de Fletwyk held
2
fee in Harlow in 1303.27 In 1305 died William Gumbaud of
Thorn Gumbald, Yorks., whose heirs were his 4 sisters, Lora wife
of David de Fletwych, Margaret wife of Lawrence de Holbech,
Joan a nun at Swyne and Christiana a nun at Stixwould.28 David
died in 1311 seised of a sixth part of Thorn Gumbald, leaving David
his son, aged 30 years.29 Lora de Flitewyk, late wife of Thomas de
Neufmarché the elder, knt., died in 1337 holding for life the Lin-
colnshire estate in Ringstone and other places and a fourth part
of the manor of Thorn Gumbald and other lands in Holderness;
David de Fletewyk, knt., her son, was aged 40 years and more.
David de Fletewyk, knt., died in 1355, having a year before
his death given his manor of Brendhall in Harlow to Agatha
daughter of David de Fletewyk the younger, knt., for her life
with reversion to his heirs; it was held of John de L'Isle of Rouge-
mont by knight's service; David son of the said David the
younger, aged 6 years, was his kinsman and heir. The deceased
also held the Lincolnshire estate in Ringstone and elsewhere.31
The estate in Flitwick, Beds., had been held in 1346 by David de
Flittewyk, knt., as fee, of John de L'Isle, as of the fee of the
countess D'Aumarle.32 In 1368 the heirs of David de Flettewyk
held tenements in Harlow of Robert de L'Isle for fee.33
30
1. Red Bk. 354.
2. Pipe R. 26 Hen. II, 6. 3. R. Cur. Regis, ii. 91.
4. Bk. of Fees, 236. 5. Essex Feet of F. 30. 6. R. Lit. Claus. i. 376b.
7. Bk. of Fees, 274.
8. Ibid. 278. 9. Essex Feet of F. 55. 10. R. Lit.
Claus. i. 504b.
11. Pat. R. 400.
12. Ibid. 155. 13. Close R. 65.
14. 'Close R. 131, 159. 15. Essex Feet of F. 102. 16. Bracton's Note-Bk.
n. 727. 17. Essex Feet of F. 121. Cf. n. 117 (p. 67). 18. Bk. of Fees, 608.
19. Ibid. 894. 20. Essex Feet of F. 253.
Cf. 107.
21. Morant, Essex, ii. 483.
22. Linc. Feet of F. ii. 224. 23. R. Hund. i. 160. 24. Cal. Inquis. ii. 261.
25. Ibid. iii. 210. 26. Ibid. 195, 350.
27. Feud. Aids, ii. 139. 28. Cal.
Inquis. iv. 198. Cf. Abbrev. Placit. 303. 29. Cal. Inquis. v. 177. 30. Ibid.
viii. 70, 81. 31. Ibid. x. 208. 32. Ibid. 300. 33. Cal. Close R. 495.
VII.
This tenement in Brettenham, Norf., was held of the honor of
Arundel, presumably by Eudes the sewer before 1120, together
with his own fee there (n. 46). In 1166 it was held by Alexander
de Roinges of Henry Fitz-Gerold the chamberlain, as of the fees.
late of Eudes the sewer.1 The descent of this holding has been
described at Arundel, n. 62.
1. Red Bk. 355.
VIII.
In Chishall (Great), Essex, in 1086 Roger de Otburvill had 33
hides.
Roger de Aubervill (Otburvilla ') held there 3 hides.
It is possible that this land was the maritagium of Rohaise,
daughter of Ralph de Amblie (n. 1) and wife of Alexander de
Limesei.¹ In 1166 Alexander de Limesei held 1 fee of Henry
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Fitz-Gerold of the fee late of Eudes the sewer.2 The subsequent
descent of this tenement is obscure.
In 1205 Simon Fitz-Herbert was taking action in Essex and
Hertfordshire to recover his money from the custody of William
de Chissehill.³ In 1236 (?) John de Chishell held of Margery de Rivers
I fee in Chishall (and Crikes,' (?) Criksea),ª and in 1248 the same
Margery impleaded John son of Thomas touching customs and
services for his tenement in Chishall, namely I fee, in respect of
which she demanded 2s. a year and the service of 1 knight.5 In
1267 Isabel des Forz, countess of Albemarle, released to Margaret
de Rivers, countess of Devon, inter alia 1 fee in Chishall and
Crikes.'
<
It was presented in 1274 that a certain part of Great Chishall
and Arkesden, which was held of the chamberlainship of the king,
used to come to the sheriff's tourn from the time that Falkes de
Breauté held Bedford castle (against the king) until the queen had
the wardship of the heir of Baldwin de L'Isle the chamberlain,
but not since then."
In 1303 one whose name is now lost and William de St. Omer
held a tenement in Chishall, late of the fee of the earl of Albemarle,
for I fee.8 In 1368 Thomas Tewe held 1 fee in Great Chishall, late
John de L'Isle's, of Sir Robert de L'Isle.º
2. Red Bk. 355.
5. Essex Feet of F. 175.
8. Feud. Aids, ii. 150.
1. Colchester Chartul. 337-8.
4. Bk. of Fees, 608.
7. R. Hund. i. 164b.
Feud. Aids, vi. 608.
3. R. de Fin. 309.
6. Abbrev. Placit. 160.
9. Cal. Close R. 496 ;
IX.
It is suggested that the tenements held in 1166 by Roger son
of Roger for 2 fees of Henry Fitz-Gerold the chamberlain, as of the
fees late of Eudes the sewer, represented those described below at
n. 35.
X.
In Kent Adam Fitz-Hubert in 1086 held of the bishop of Bayeux
in South or St. Paul's Cray I solin, in West Wickham I solin, in
Cooling by Rochester 1 solin.
2
Ralph Pincerna gave to St. John's, Colchester, hide in his
manor of 'Wicham,' which gift was confirmed by Henry I in 1104
and 1119.¹ He also gave to the monks of Rochester tithes in Cool-
ing worth 5s. a year.² He attested charters of Henry I of the
latter date.³ His son Adam Pincerna confirmed the gift by charter
attested by Robert de Ria, and Ansfrid the chaplain of the lord
Eudes.4
6
In 1155 or 1158 Henry II sent his mandate to Hugh Pincerna
to restore to the monks of Colchester their land of 'Wicham.' 5
This place has been identified as Wickham Skeith, Suff., but
whether correctly or not it is difficult to determine. It is here
taken to have been West Wickham in Kent. Hugh Pincerna
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191
accounted in Kent in 1156 for the relief of his land and paid then
the sum, namely 60 marks, except 16s. 8d., a hawk and a girfalcon."
He cannot be identified satisfactorily as the above-named Hugh,
who during the period 1165-74, at Westminster, before two of the
King's justices and other barons of the exchequer, surrendered to
Colchester the hide in Wicham which Ralph Pincerna, his grand-
father, had given and Ralph's son Adam had confirmed. At the
same time and place Walter abbot of Colchester demised the said
tenement to the same Hugh for 10s. yearly rent. Further refer-
ences to Hugh Pincerna will be found at Curcy (n. 18). In 1166
he held of Henry Fitz-Gerold 7 fees, as of the fee of Eudes the
sewer; 10 of Philip de Columbers I fee in Thornbury, Herefs.11 Pos-
sibly he was the Hugh Pincerna who held of Adam de Port fee,12
namely in Rowden in the same county, as of the honor of Kington,
which was held in 1242-3 of the heirs of Adam le Butiller.13 He
died in 1181, as noted at Curcy (n. 18),14 and in 1189 his heir was
still in the king's hands.14
The heir appears to have been Adam le Buteiller, who in 1206
acknowledged that he owed a rent to William de Paris in respect
of a hide in Newington, Oxon. (Arsic, n. 8 (1).)15 He was of the
party of the barons in 1215, when the sheriff of Kent was directed
to put Reginald de Drumare in possession of Adam's land in Cooling
and Wickham (Wycham ') during pleasure, the sheriff of Oxford-
shire being similarly directed in regard to Adam's manor of Wil-
cote.16 Adam died in 1224, when custody of his land in Cooling,
which Falkes de Breauté had held for an unexpired term from the
said Adam, was committed to Ralph Fitz-Nicholas for the residue
of that term,¹7 and the sheriff of Kent was directed to give Joan
relict of Adam some part of her dower, until Adam's son and heir
assigned to her lands in dower.18 Custody of the land and heir
of Ralph Joas, which John de Breauté had purchased from Adam
Pincerna in Oxfordshire for a term of 17 years, was in 1224 granted
to the king's bailee.19 In 1226 William le Butiller was summoned
to answer William de Stanes why he did not keep an agreement
made between complainant and Adam le Butiller his father touching
custody of the land late of Ralph le Moyne in Rowden (‘ Raden ')
and Wickham.20 In 1230 Ralph Fitz-Nicholas had remission of
scutage of 5 fees late of William le Butiller in Kent, then in Ralph's
custody; Margaret de Rivers, to whom they belonged, being duly
notified of this remission.21 In 1236 (?) William le Botiler held of
Margaret de Rivers 7 fees in Cooling, Wickham and Cray.22 He
died before 1242-3, when Nicholas de Ores held fee in Cooling of
the heir of William le Butiller, who held of Margaret de Rivers;
Ralph Fitz-Nicholas, by reason of custody of the said heir, simi-
larly held 1 fee in Cooling, and William de Staines held 3 fees in
Wickham and Simon de Cray 2 fees in Cray of the said Ralph, as
above.23
1
The heir was another Adam le Butiller, described in 1250 as
son of the lady of Wickham, when he and 15 others were found to
have broken the park of Robert Aguillon at Addington, Surrey.24
The next in descent appears to have been Roger le Butiller, who
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was presented in 1272 for having with others broken into Arundel
park.25 In 1284-5 John de Cobbeham held Cooling for I fee of
Roger le Butiller, who held of the countess of Wight.2
26 This
John died in 1300 holding the manor of Cooling of the countess of
Albemarle for I fee; Henry his son was aged 40 years.27 In 1308
Peter de Huntingfeld died seised of the manor of West Wickham,
Kent, held of Roger le Botiler for 3 fees, who held of the heir of
Isabel des Forz, sometime countess of Albemarle, in the king's
wardship, and by doing suit at the court of Albemarle at Walbrook
in London or at Arkesden in Essex; Hawise de Leyham, his sister,
was aged 60 and more.28
2
Apparently the male line of Butiler had terminated, for although
Robert le Butiller was returned in 1316 as lord of Wilscote, Oxon.,29
the fees in Kent appear to have been held in 1302 as follows:
(1) Peter de Huntyngfeld 3 fees in Wickham of Ralph Fitz-Nicholas
(sic), (2) Peter de Huntyngfeld and Simon atte Broke fee in
St. Paul's Cray of Simon de Crey (sic), (3) William de Crey fee
in Cray of the said Simon (sic),30 (4) Henry de Cobham 1 fee in
Cooling of Margery de Rivers (sic), and (5) Nicholas de Ore fee
in Cooling.31 These details are taken from the returns of 1346,
when the above tenements were thus held: (1) John de Huntyng-
feld, knt., 3 fees, (2) John Champaygne and Margaret Vyvian fee,
(3) John de Pulteney and others fee, (4) John de Cobham 1 fee,
(5) the heirs of Nicholas Ore fee, and Roger de Rokesle, younger,
and his parceners fee in Cray.32
In 1368 these tenements were held of Sir Robert de L'Isle as
follows: the heirs of Sir John de Huntyngfeld 3 fees in West
Wickham by Croydon ; Henry de Scrope, knt., the tenements late
of William de Crey in St. Paul's Cray for 2 fees; John de Cobham,
knt., the tenements in Cooling by Rochester late of Henry de
Cobham for fee, with the tenements there late of Nicholas Grys.33
1. Colchester Chartul. 6, 13.
2. Text. Roff. (Hearne), 164. 3. Itin. of
Hen. I. 4. Colchester Chartul. 137. 5. Ibid. 41. 6. Turner and Coxe,
Bodleian Chs. 62. 7. Pipe R. 2 Hen. II, 66, 102. 8. Colchester Chartul. 138.
9. Ibid. 10. Red Bk. 355. 11. Ibid. 231. 12. Ibid. 280. 13. Testa, 65.
14. Pipe R. I Ric. I, 233. 15. Abbrev. Placit. 51. 16. R. Lit. Claus. i. 235b.
17. Ibid. 622h. 18. Ibid. 6120. 19. Ibid. ii. 5b. Cf. Bracton's Note-
Bk. n. 1131.
20. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 1702. 21. Cal. Liberate R. i. 163.
22. Bk. of Fees, 607.
23. Testa, 209b.
24. Cal. Misc. Inq. i. 555.
25. Ibid. 137. 26. Feud. Aids, iii. 1. 27. Cal. Inquis. iii. 453. 28. Ibid.
29. Feud. Aids, iv. 163.
30. Ibid. iii. 49–50.
31. Ibid. 41.
v. 3.
32. Ibid. 41, 49–50. 33. Cal. Close R. 495; Feud. Aids, vi. 635–6.
XI.
The following tenements have not been identified in the Domes-
day Survey; but in Rochford hundred, Essex, Pirot held of Eudes
the manor of Hawkwell (n. 24); land in Paglesham may have
belonged to this manor. In the hundred of Tendring Eudes held
the manor of Weeley, to which may have belonged land in Dickley
(in Mistley).
Either during the last decade of Henry I's reign or the first
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193
decade of Stephen's, by charter addressed to Walcheline arch-
deacon (of Suffolk), Maurice de Hai gave to the monks of Colchester
the church of Higham, Suff., in so far as it belonged to the fee of
Robert de Vallibus.¹ He also gave with the consent of his son and
heir Ranulf land and rent in Hoo, as related below (n. 12 (1)), by
charter witnessed by Ranulf his son and Ranulf's brothers,
Reimund, Julian and Walter, and Hugh son of Stephen.2 Of this
Hugh son of Stephen Ranulf held hide in Scyrta,' which he
likewise gave to Colchester.³
Within the period 1163-1174 Gilbert Foliot, bishop of London,
confirmed to St. John's two-thirds of the tithes of Walter de La
Hai in Dikeley.4
7
In 1166 Ranulf de Hai held of Henry Fitz-Gerold fee and
fee, of the fee late of Eudes the sewer.5 With the consent of Maurice
his son and heir he gave to Colchester land in Abberton in Essex.6
In 1199 William de la Haie demanded against Maurice de Haie a
rent in Strafford and Higham in Suff. The plaintiff was possibly
the William de la Hay who held in 1201 of the honor of Boulogne
I fee in Mersea and Layer, which Walter de Haye and Rohaise
de Haye held in 1212.9 Pope Innocent III confirmed to St. John's
in 1201 two-thirds of the tithes of the demesne of William de La
Hay in Layer and Dikeley.10
In 1203 Maurice de Haie obtained an acknowledgment from his
tenant of Dickley, Essex, of the service of fee for the same.11
Julian de la Hay went over seas in the king's service in 1230 in the
retinue of Richard de Muntfichet.12 Maurice died 10 years before
1231, when Sanicula his relict demanded against Petronilla late wife
of Saher de la Haye a third part of 9 score acres of wood in Bacham-
stede as parcel of the tenement which she then held in dower of
Julian de la Haye of the free tenement which Maurice her late
husband held in frank marriage; Julian warranted the tenement to
Petronilla for her life.13 There is some uncertainty as to Maurice's
heir. There is nothing to show that he left issue. It is therefore
suggested that the succession fell to a younger line of issue of Ranulf
de la Hay, namely William his (younger) son, who so describing
himself confirmed to St. John's, Colchester, the testamentary gift of
Rohaise his mother of a rent in the suburbs of Colchester. His
charter was attested by Henry prior of St. Botolph's, Colchester
(occ. 1205–6), Walter de Hay, Ranulf de Hay and his brother
Ralph.14 The same William also gave a rent in Wateley for the
soul of his wife Mary, and William his son confirmed the gift.¹ It
is assumed that the son was the William de la Haye who in 1236 (?)
held of Margaret de Rivers fee in Paglesham called Le Gardin
and fee in Dickley, Essex.¹ This was not the William de la Hay
who held 1 fee in Layer de la Haye and Marsea and died in 1229,
when wardship of his land and heir was given to Henry de Tibetot.
Ralph the son and heir of this William had livery in 1244.18 Morant
gives the descent of this branch of the family.
15
16
17
No further information has been found touching this fee
until 1368, when the prior of St. Botolph's, Colchester, held of
Robert de L'Isle a tenement in Paglesham called 'le Gardyn,' late
III.
O
194
EUDES THE SEWER
HONOR OF
of William de la Haye, for fee, and fee in Dickley, formerly
of the same William.19
2. Ibid. 190.
3. Ibid. 191, 217.
Colchester Chartul. 191. 7. R. Cur.
9. Red Bk. 579.
12. Pat. R. 361.
15. Ibid. 194-5.
1. Colchester Chartul. 189.
4. Ibid. 87.
Reg. ii. 129.
5. Red Bk. 355.
6.
8. R. de Oblat. 163.
Chartul. 67. 11. Essex Feet of F. 32.
Note-Bk. n. 558.
14. Chartul. 193.
608. 17. Close R. 205; Excerpt. Fin. i. 196. 18. Close R. 222. 19. Cal.
Close R. 496. Cf. Feud. Aids, vi. 608.
10. Colchester
13. Bracton's
16. Bk. of Fees,
XII.
In Kent Geoffrey de Ros held of the bishop of Bayeux in 1086
in Lullingstone I solin, in Otham by Maidstone I solin and I jugum,
and in Litlelee including Plumstead ('Lasela ') 7 solins. In Milton
by Maidstone Geoffrey de Ros had 1 jugum.
2
4
6
In 1130 Geoffrey de Ros accounted in Kent for 30s. for his
father's land.¹ This was probably the final instalment of a much
larger fine, for his successor held a fee of 7 knights. He gave to the
priory of Sheppey with his daughter a rent in the Holme of Grain,
Kent. The date of his death is uncertain. William de Ros held
in 1166 in chief a fee of 6½ knights of old and fee of new feoff-
ment; 3 of Henry Fitz-Gerold the chamberlain he (?) held 2 fees,¹
and probably he held a fee of the archbishop of Canterbury. In 1165
he had accounted for 7 marks for serjeants in the army of Wales, 5
and was pardoned 1 mark as a tenant of the primate. In 1168
he owed 7 marks for his knights,' which he paid in the following
year. In 1172 he paid in Kent £7 of scutage.8 In the ensuing
year he was one of those commissioned to view the work on the keep
of the city of Canterbury, and again in 1175. In 1176 the sheriff
of Kent claimed allowance of £4 for the land of 'Wuda' which the
king had restored to William de Ros,10 which allowance appeared
yearly down to 1189. In 1182 he had some interest in the wood of
Cestrewald on the land of Henry de Essex.11 In 1187 he paid £7
of the scutage of Galwey of his knights.12 He was deceased before
1194, when James de Ros gave 6 marks to have seisin of 4 librates
of land in Wuda, which was acknowledged before the justices in
eyre to be his inheritance, and not the king's escheat.¹
In 1196
Alexander Arsic as guardian of the heir of William de Ros accounted
for £7 to the scutage of Normandy.14 In December 1201, Arsic
being dead, custody of the land and heir of the same William was
committed to Peter de Stokes, the king's seneschal.15
9
13
William de Ros I gave to the nuns of Sheppey the church of
Bobbing, Kent, and 47 acres of the land of Wode (identified as
Woods Court in Badlesmere), and 3 acres of Grave in Pinegrave.16
He or his son (?) gave a marsh in Sheppey called Slipe.17
In 1203 a plea of fee in Chillingham was removed out of the
court of William de Ros into the county and after into the arch-
bishop's court.18 In 1205 Peter de Stokes had 4 oaks from outside
the king's park of Bexley to make shingles to cover the chamber of
William de Ros, who was in his wardship.19 In 1210 William de Ros
of Kent was at Dublin in the army of Ireland.20
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195
In 1211 the sheriff of Kent was directed to seize the land in
Lullingstone and Farningham which Jordan de Ros held at his death,
of which Alexander de Ros had seisin. Three justices having certi-
fied that Jordan sometime came before them and acknowledged the
land to be the right of Wilekin de Ros, it was adjudged by the court
that William (de Ros) should have his seisin and Alexander be in
mercy.21 In the same year Geoffrey Fitz-Piers gave 30 marks and
2 sound and whole Norway goshawks that the land which Jordan
de Ros held at his death in Lullingstone and Farningham with
the chattels there when Alexander de Ros had seisin should be
taken into the king's hands. 22 However, in 1215 Alexander de
Ros by fine of 40 marks obtained seisin of the land late of Jordan
de Ros in Lullingstone and Farningham.23 (See Arsik, n. 5.) In
1221 William de Ros of Kent owed 14 marks to the first scutage
of Henry III, but he was not to be summoned, because he held of
the archbishop of Canterbury, who owed no scutage.24 Possibly
the service of his 7 fees had been granted to the primate.
In 1226 Thomas de Lullingeston, Richard and John his brothers
attorned their brother Jordan in a plea against William de Ros III,
touching cattle distrained.25 William de Ros II was deceased before
1227, when William his son was vouched to warranty in a plea of land
in Toppefeld which William de Ros his father gave to Roger de
Gloucester. The pleadings show that William III was then under
age, and had been in the wardship of his father, who had himself
been in the wardship of Peter de Stokes.26 In 1230 the abbot of St.
Augustine's, Canterbury, impleaded William de Eyneford in a plea
of quare impedit touching the church of Wickham which belonged
to the abbot's church of Plumstead. From the pleadings it appears
that William de Eyneford had previously sold the marriage of
William de Ros III to William de St. John, 27 and that William de
Ros II, father of William III, had last presented to the church of
Wickham as the mother church to which the chapel of Plumstead
belonged, and that he presented to the chapel of Plumstead by
reason of custody of the land of Plumstead which he had with the
custody of the heir of William de Ros II.28 In 1234 William de Ros III
was pardoned a crown debt due for his not having served in Wales,
because he, like William de St. John, whose daughter he had married,
had been commissioned to maritime watch.29 In 1236 (?) William de
Ros held of Margaret de Rivers 2 fees in Lullingstone, Otham and
'Lehe.' • 30
In 1242-3 the heir of William de Ros held 1 fee in
Lullingstone of the same Margaret and Peter de Otteham held 1 fee
in Otham of the same heir, who held as above.³1 Alice de Ros held
fee in Farningham in the name of dower of Richard de Ros, who
held of the heirs of Robert Arsik. Odo de Cyrinton held fee in
Maplecomb of Richard de Ros, who held it as above.32 For further
reference to this tenure see Arsik, n. 5. In 1246 Gilbert de Kirkebi
of Kent was pardoned for marrying Lora de Ros without licence.33
This lady was living in 1293 as Lady Lora de Otteham.34
Apparently William de Ros III died without issue. His relict
Godehold married Hugh de Wyndlesores. His heir was his brother (?)
Richard and eventually his two sisters, Matilda wife of Geoffrey de
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Percy, and Lora, presumably wife of Peter de Otham. In 1246 the
king made the announcement that he had made a marriage between
the sister of Richard de Ros, deceased, and Geoffrey de Percy, his
(the king's) yeoman, but had no desire to prejudice Boniface
archbishop of Canterbury, having no right in that marriage save by
the archbishop's favour.35 Geoffrey was greatly in the king's favour
during the period 1263-5.36
About the year 1275 the said Geoffrey, Matilda his wife, and Lora
(de Otham), then a widow, her sister, granted to Hugh and Godehold
the manor of North Cray, which Godehold held in dower, with the
advowson of the church and, with the fees, the dower of the said
Godehold respectively held by John Martin in Tatsfield, Surrey,
by Walerand de Ceridone in Maplescombe (?) (Mapeldreschamps), by
John de Offeham in Offham, by Galiena de Burgate in ‘Molonde,'
fee which Geoffrey Stodland late held of William de Ros, and a
quarter of the fee which William de Munchenesy then held in North
Cray (7 witnesses).37 Subsequently Matilda's pourparty of the in-
heritance descended in the family of Rokesley, and Lora's in that
of Valoignes. In 1266 Geoffrey de Ros had a grant of the farm of
the manor of Lullingstone which a certain citizen of London, the
king's enemy, had held of Geoffrey for an unexpired term, to hold
until the expiry of that term, and pardon of £120 the redemption
to be paid by the terms of the demise at the end of the term.38
It was presented in 1276 that the abbot of St. Augustine's,
Canterbury, had more than 30 years before recovered a moiety of
the manor of Plumstead against Richard de Ros, because he had
denied the due service thereof; 39 also that Isabel de Eyneford had
warren in the manor of Otham.40
In 1302-3 Walter de Valoignes and Robert de Valoignes held I
fee in Otham of the earl of Aumale; 41 Walter de Rokesle held 1 fee
in Lullingstone of Margery de Rivers (sic).42 In 1316 Robert de
Valoignes and Robert son of Walter de Valoignes were lords of
Otham.43
In 1346 John de Rokesle, 44 rector of the church of Chelsfield, held
I fee in Lullingstone, and Isabel late wife of Waresius de Valoignes
and others held 1 fee in Otham.45 In 1368 John Pecche held of
Robert de L'Isle the tenements late of Walter de Rokesleye in
Otham by Maidstone and Lullingstone for 2 fees.46
1. Pipe R. 31 Hen. I, 64.
3. Red Bk. 196. 4. Ibid. 355.
7. Ibid. 14 Hen. II, 213.
109.
19 Hen. II, 87. 10. Ibid. 22 Hen. II, 206.
12. Ibid. 33 Hen. II, 209. 13. Pipe R. 6 Ric. I, ro. 17. 14. Red Bk. 96.
16. Cal. Chart. R. iv. 112, 114; R. Chart. 148b.
2. Cal. Chart. R. iv. 112; R. Chart. 148b.
5. Pipe R. 11 Hen. II, 106. 6. Ibid.
8. Ibid. 18 Hen. II, 138. 9. Ibid.
11. Ibid. 28 Hen. II, 103.
15. R. de Liberate, 24.
17. Ibid. 115. 18. Abbrev. Placit. 45b. 19. R. Lit. Claus. i. 50. 20. R.de
Liberate, 219. 21. Abbrev. Placit, 82. 22. Pipe R. 13 Jno. m. 6.
Fin. 567. 24. Pipe R. 5 Hen. III, ro. 14. 25. R. Lit. Claus. ii. 150b, 205.
23. R. de
26. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 1898.
27. Ibid. n. 474.
29. Close R. 371. 30. Bk. of Fees, 607. 31. Testa, 209b.
33. Excerpt. Fin. ii. 447. 34. Cal. Inquis. v. 357·
35.
36. Ibid. 300, 324, 454. 37. Cat. of Anct. D. i. C. 438.
579. 39. R. Hund. i. 234. 40. Ibid. 41. Feud. Aids, iii. 40.
43. Ibid. 16.
44. He was in possession in 1354; Cal. Inquis. x. 129.
45. Ibid. 40, 48. 46. Cal. Close R. 495; Feud. Aids, vi. 635.
28. Ibid. n. 376.
32. Testa, 214b.
Cal. Pat. R. 473.
38. Cal. Pat. R.
42. Ibid. 48.
HOO ST. WERBURGH, HIGHAM
197
XII (1).
Adam (Fitz-Hubert) held in 1086 of the bishop of Bayeux in
the manor of Hoo St. Werburgh, Kent, I solin and I jugum ; in
Higham, Kent, 5 solins and pasture for 200 sheep in Essex.
In 1104 and again in 1119 Henry I confirmed to the abbey of
Colchester of the gift of Anschetil de Ros the tithe of Hoo and half
the tithe of Plumstead.¹ Maurice de Hay gave to Colchester, with
the consent of Ranulf his son and heir and for the soul of Hadewise
of whose maritagium it was, 20 solidates of land and rent in Hoo.²
The same Maurice, by charter addressed to archdeacon Walcheline,
gave to St. John's, Colchester, the church of Higham, Suffolk, of the
fee of Robert de Vallibus; among the witnesses was Thurstan de
Dichelei.³ Abbot Adam granted to the abbey of Boxley the
tithes in their demesne in Hoo, formerly of William de Ros, for 30s.
yearly rent; witnessed by abbot Ralph of Coggeshall, priors Henry
of St. Botolph, Colchester, William of Rochester and Fulk of
Leeds, and by William de Ros the third. The date lay between
1207-1218.
În 1227 Robert de Hecham demanded against Gerard son of
Hamon 3 virgates in Higham of which Dennis (Dionisius), father of
the said Robert, had been seised in fee.5 Presumably these tene-
ments followed the same tenure as that last described. In 1235-6
William son of Robert held of Margaret de Rivers fee in Higham,6
and his heir held the same in 1242-3.7 In 1239-40 Margery de
Rivers demanded against Philip de Pounesse wardship of Henry son
and heir of Ellen de Hecham (Philip's late wife), and complained
that Philip had married the heir without her licence, seeing that
Ellen's land was held of complainant by knights' service; Philip
replied that Ellen died 16 years ago and before her father, whose
inheritance it was; Ellen held only 40 acres of Margery, so that the
marriage of the heir, who was then of full age, belonged rather to the
bishop of Rochester, of whom the defendant held 10 librates of land,
than to Margery; verdict for Margery.
In 1284-5 Henry de Cobeham, John de Hakynton and Ralph
de Tokyngton held fee in Higham of the countess of the Isle.⁹ In
1303 Henry de Cobham the elder, John de Shorne and Robert de
Hakynton held the same of Waresius de Munchenesy, and in 1346
John de Cobham, knt., son of Stephen de Cobham, held this fee.10
In 1368 Thomas de Cobham held of Sir Robert de L'Isle fee
in Higham' by Tamese' which late was of Stephen de Cobham.11
It may be suggested that this tenement was severed from the fee
of Ros by the possible reason of its having been granted in marriage.
1. Chartul. 6. 120. 2. Ibid. 190.
5. Bracton's Note Bk. m. 1781.
8. Bracton's Note Bk. n. 1283.
11. Cal. Close R. 495.
3. Ibid. 189.
6. Bk. of Fees, 607.
9. Feud. Aids, iii. 1.
4. Ibid. 557, 560.
7. Testa, 209b.
10. Ibid. 41; vì. 635.
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XIII.
2
I
Adam (son of Hubert) in 1086 held of the bishop of Bayeux in
Beckley, Kent, solin and in Vanne by Wye solin. Adam son of
Hubert similarly held in Sutton (? in Boughton Malherbe) solin.
In 1130 Roger de Sumeri accounted in Kent for 10 marks for having
the land of his wife's mother.¹ In 1166 Ellis de Sumeri held of
Henry FitzGerold the chamberlain 1 fee of the fees late of Eudes the
sewer.2 In 1176 Henry II confirmed to St. Alban's the gift of Ellis
de Sumeri of the church of All Saints of Sudbury, Suff., with the
chapel of Ballingdon and the land of Middleton of the earl of
Gloucester's fee, a messuage, 500 acres of land in Bygrave and the
church of that vill.3 Possibly he was succeeded by Adam de
Sumeri, who appeared in a Kent plea in 1194 as attorney for Geoffrey
(Gilo) de Merleia. In 1198 Adam de Sumery was impleaded touch-
ing waste which he had made in land and wood in ' Kingesfeld' in
Essex, which he held of the dower of his wife.5 In 1208 the prior of
Leeds obtained enrolment on the Kent Pipe Roll of the grant made
to him before the barons of the Exchequer by Adam de Sumeri of
the chapel of St. John the Evangelist of Boughton ('Boitone')."
The name may be a misreading for Boctone and, if so, we may
identify the chapel as that of Boughton Malherbe. Adam son and
heir of Ellis de Sumeri and Saher son of Henry gave land in Shenley,
Herts., in the time of Henry III to St. Bartholomew's, Smithfield.7
Adam de Sumeri gave to the same priory the manor of Holmes,
Herts, 8
But this probably was not the Adam named in 1194 and
1198, but rather the Adam who held 1 fee in Bygrave in 1212 of
Miles de Sumery; 9 for in 1234 Saher son of Henry was im-
pleading Adam de Sumery touching customs and services which he
demanded from Adam for his free tenement in Shenley, Herts.10 In
1235-6 Adam de Sumeri held fee (?) of the countess of Essex in
Essex or Hertford.11 As Adam de Sumery, knt., was in 1251 one of
the sureties of the executors of Saher son of Henry, citizen of
London, and described as having land in Hertfordshire, 12 he may
perhaps be identified as of Bygrave, and not of the Kent family.
See East Herts. Arch. Trans. iv. pt. 3, pp. 283, 285; and Cat. of Anct.
D. i. A. 1575, A. 1057 ff. and ii. A. 1907; iii. A. 5138, 5141; iv.
A. 6824.
In 1236 (?) dame Muriel de Somery held of Margaret de Rivers I
fee in Vanne and Sutton, Kent,13 and in 1242-3 Muriel de Sumery
held of the same Margaret fee in Boughton (Malherbe), and John de
Cobbeham held fee in Beckley of John de Wolton, who held of
Muriel de Sumery and she of Margaret de Rivers.14
Possibly we have a reference to this fee in 1266, when it was
presented from the hundred of Wye in Kent that John son of Adam
de Somery was a rebel and on the side of the earl of Leicester with
Sir Hugh de Nevill at the battle of Lewes ; his land in the hundred
of Wye, possibly in Vanne in Crundale, was worth 100s. a year and at
the date of the inquiry was held by Roberge wife of the said John.15
In 1303 John de Somery of Boughton held fee in Boughton
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199
4
Malherbe 16 and fee in Vanne.17 Henry de Cobham the younger
held fee in Beckley.18 In 1346 these tenements were respectively
held by the same (?) John de Somery and John de Cobham, knt.19
It has been stated incorrectly that John de Somery of Bygrave
was knight of the shire for Hertford in 1307 and 1314, and presented
to the church of Bygrave in 1349 and 1350.20 As a matter of fact
his father Richard of Hertfordshire was living in 1324, when he
had temporary respite of knighthood.21 In 1347 Geoffrey Somery
released to John Somery, son and heir of Richard Somery, knt., his
right in the manors of Bygrave and Wall Hall, Herts.2
The same
John was living in 1351 and had land in Shenley. 23
22
In 1368 the following held of Robert de L'Isle, viz. John Stoil
fee in Boughton by Sutton Valence, late of John Somery; John
de Haudlo sometime held fee in Vanne by Wye, which was then
in the king's hands; John de Cobham held fee in 'Bekkles by
Hengham upon Tamese' (recte Beckley, in Chalk) of the inheritance
of John de Wolton and John de Somery.24
2. Red Bk. 355. 3. Mon. Angl. ii. 229.
5. Ibid. 147, 169. 6. Pipe R. 10 John, гo. Id.
8. Bodleian ch. (Turner and Coxe), 163. 9. Bk.
of Fees, 124. 10. Close R. 599. 11. Bk. of Fees, 481. 12. Memor. R.
35 Hen. III, m. 12. 13. Close R. 607. 14. Testa, 209b. 15. Cal. Misc.
Ibid. 33. 18. Ibid. 41. 19. Ibid.
Inq. i. 311. 16. Feud. Aids, iii. 39. 17.
20. East Herts. Arch. Trans. iv. pt. 3, 285.
22. Cal. Close R. 84. 23. Ibid. 393.
vi. 635.
21. Cal. Fine R. iii. 299–300.
24. Ibid. 494-5. Cf. Feud. Aids,
1. Pipe R. 31 Hen. I, 64.
4. R. Cur. Regis, i. 34.
7. Mon. Angl. vi. 295b.
XIV.
Adam Fitz-Hubert held of the bishop of Bayeux in Shelve in
Lenham (Estselve '), Kent, solin in 1086.
In 1166 Stephen de Selva held of Henry Fitz-Gerold the chamber-
lain fee as of the fees late of Eudes the sewer.¹ In 1200 Margaret
late wife of Guy de Selves impleaded William de Selves for reason-
able dower of the gift of Guy her late husband in Shelve.2 In 1215
the land late of Adam son of William in Shelve was committed to
Robert de Harevill. For reference to Adam son of William, who
was possibly tenant in demesne here, see n. 54.
3
In 1236 (?) Amis de Shelves held of Margaret de Rivers fee in
Shelve, and in 1242-3 Amisius de Selves held the same.
4
5
Ma
fee
6
In 1302-3 William de Shelve held of the earl of Aumale
in Shelve in Lenham. In 1346 John de Shelve and John Cryel held
the same." In 1368 Lawrence Shelve held of Robert de L'Isle fee
in Shelve by Lenham.8
1. Red Bk. 355.
2. R. Cur. Regis, ii. 153. 3. R. Lit. Claus. i. 229.
4. Bk. of Fees, 607. 5. Testa, 209b.
6. Feud. Aids, iii. 40. 7. Ibid.
40; vi. 635. 8. Cal. Close R. 495.
XV.
Sasselin held in demesne in Layer Breton, Essex, 8 hides. In
Suffolk the king held in Harkstead 5 carucates, being a bere-
wick of Brightlingsea in Essex which Peter of Valoignes then
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kept. Possibly part of these tenements were involved in the fee
described below.
About the year 1120 Henry I at Caen gave to Fulk the sewer
Layer and the land which he held of Eudes the sewer by the service
of 2 fees.¹ This tenement appears to have been held subsequently
by the family of Breton. Lewis le Breton gave to abbot Walter
(1165-72) and St. John's, Colchester, land in Harkstead. In 1166
Lewis held of Henry Fitz-Gerold the chamberlain fee as of the fees
of Eudes the sewer.3 Ranulf le Breton and Mabel his mother con-
firmed to St. John's, Colchester, the gift of Lewis his father in Hark-
stead and two-thirds of the tithes of the demesne of Layer,4 given
apparently by William son of Constantine before 1104.5 A release
made by the same Ranulf was attested by William le Breton, his
son and heir, and by Walter, another son. In 1199 Ranulf le Breton
was a visor upon the grand assize in Essex,' and again in Sussex.8
After the death of Ranulf his relict Adeliza gave a rent in Layer,
with the consent of Robert her son and heir and of her daughter
Catherine, wife of William de Hou.9 Of Robert le Breton all that
appears to be known is that he gave to St. John's, Colchester, parcels
of land in Layer for the souls of his father and mother, who had
sepulture in that monastery, and for the health of the soul of
Amabel his wife. Geoffrey brother of the donor attested.10 Morant
confuses him with another Robert of Ardley, who may have been of
the line of Breton of Chigwell, of whom Ralph was farmer of the
honor of Boulogne from 1169 to 1189, and had issue Robert, who
died before 1199, and was father of William le Breton of Chigwell
(occ. 1231), who was in possession in 1200.11 Obviously it is easy to
confuse the members of these two distinct families of the same name
and county.
A writ of reseisin in 1217 addressed to the sheriffs of Essex and
Suffolk and the bailiff of Colchester in favour of William le Bretun
probably refers to the then tenant of this fee.12 In 1236 (?) William
le Breton held of Margaret de Rivers 2 fees in Layer Breton, Essex,
and Harkstead, Suff.¹ In 1242 the sheriffs of Essex, Norfolk and
Suffolk were notified that William le Breton had respite of knight-
hood.14
In 1242-3 Gilbert de Bolebec held of Margaret de Rivers
fee in Harkstead.15 Doubtless he held it under William le Bretun.
13
medy.
It was presented in 1274 that land in Layer Breton was of the fee
of Nicholas le Bretun,16 and again in the following year that view
of frankpledge of Harkstead was in the hands of the said Nicholas
and that he claimed certain liberty in the vill of Harkstead by pre-
scription and took amends of brewers; it was of the fee of the
countess de L'Isle.17 In 1286 the same Nicholas defended his right
to these liberties in Harkstead.18 He died in 1288 and in 1295 the
king presented to the church of Harkstead by reason of custody of
the land and heir of the said Nicholas.19
In 1331
In 1316 William le Breton was lord of Harkstead.20
land in Harkstead was held of William le Breton by rent and suit
to his court there. 21 Morant cites a settlement of the manor of Layer
Breton made in 1325 on the said William for life with remainder to
his son Nicholas and Isabel his wife.22 In 1368 Lawrence Breton
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201
held of Robert de L'Isle the tenement in Layer by Colchester, late
of William le Breton, for fee, and in Harkstead fee. 23 In 1401-2
&
Nicholas Breton held the same tenement.24
In the feodary of circa 1236 of the knights' fees held by Margaret
de Rivers are two tenements of which the former may have formed
part of this fee, namely William de Haunle fee in Layer and William
son of Richard fee in Elmstead. These were not mentioned among
the knights' fees released in 1267 to Margaret de Rivers, countess of
Devon; 25 nor in the schedule of fees of Robert de L'Isle in 1368,
when he surrendered them to Edward III.
In 1236 Andrew Peverel and Lucy his wife quitclaimed to William
son of Richard a rent in Elmstead, Essex.26 It is possible that this
was a member of the fee of Helyon. For the land in Layer see n. 21.
1. Chartul. of Colchester, 23.
2. Ibid. 186. 3. Red Bk. 355.
4. Chartul.
of Colchester, 187. 5. Ibid. 13. 6. Ibid. 188. 7. R. Cur. Reg. i. 241.
8. Ibid. ii. 268. 9. Chartul. of Colchester, 188. 10. Ibid. 189. 11. Pipe
R. Hen. II, pass.; R. Cur. Reg. i. 304 ; ii. 247; Abbrev. Placit. 25b. 12. R. Lit.
Claus. i. 332. 13. Bk. of Fees, 608. 14. Close R. 431. 15. Testa, 290b.
16. R. Hund. i. 157. 17. Ibid. ii. 1776, 1896. 18. Placit. de quo war. 7236.
19. Cal. Pat. R. 157;
21. Cal, Inquis. vii. 275.
24. Feud. Aids, vi. 608.
20. Feud. Aids, v. 36.
23. Cal. Close R. 496–7.
26. Essex Feet of F. 118.
Cal. Fine R. i. 253.
22. Hist. of Essex, i. 410.
25. Abbrev. Placit. 160.
XVI
Sasselin held in 1086 of the king in Pinchpoles in Manuden,
Essex, I hide.
In 1166 Lambert son of Godebert held of Henry FitzGerold
the chamberlain fee as of the fees late of Eudes the sewer.¹ In
1198 Godebald son of Lambert was one of 4 men who made a
presentment touching a certain outlawry.2 Gerard de Manegeden
was an attorney for Robert de Marenni in an Essex plea in 1199.3
It is suggested, as a conjecture, that the fee, held as above in 1166,
was in Manuden. In 1198 William de Pinkepal and Jordan de
Manegedon were amerced by the justices in eyre in Essex.4
6
In 1226 William de Pinchepol quitclaimed to John de Bassing-
burne and Aubreye his wife I hide in Manuden, 5 and subsequently
the same John and Aubreye demised the tenement to Gerard de
Manekeden for life. In 1235-6 Joan Ledet answered for the aid
due from fee held of Margery de Revers." In 1236 (?) Henry de
Maneheden held of Margaret de Rivers fee in Manuden.8 In 1240
lands in Manuden and other places in Essex were settled upon John
de Bassingburn and the heirs of his body, remainder to Stephen
brother of the said John and the heirs of his body, the reversion to
Aubreye de Bassingeburn and her heirs. It is quite uncertain
whether the land here of the Rivers and later of the Aumale fee
belonged at any time to the Bassingbournes. In 1242-3 John
Sausemares held fee in Manuden of Warin Fitz-Gerold and Robert
Ledet held 1 fee there of Margery de Rivers.10
A plea in 1226 in which Henry de Rumely and Emma
his wife demanded against William Fitz-Geoffrey the moiety of
fee in Roding, Essex, as Emma's share of the land late of
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Richard Fitz-William, her father, shews that the said Richard had
another daughter Margery, who had sons then under age.
11
The prior of Ely had in 1236 a plea with William de Muntchenesy,
Henry de Rumely and Emma his wife, Robert Ledet and Emma his
wife, and Geoffrey de Brunford and Amy his wife respecting an acre
of land in Stoke by Ipswich.12 In 1240 the same Henry and Robert
and their wives quitclaimed to William Fitz-Geoffrey for themselves
and the heirs of their respective wives fee in Roding.13 In 1267
a half fee in Manuden was among the fees that Isabel des Forz,
countess of Aumale, released to Margaret de Rivers, countess of
Devon.14
John de Bassingbourne in 1327 held fee in Manuden of Richard
de Plaiz,15 and his descendants long held lands here of the heirs
general of Munfichet. In 1368 John Bataille held of Robert de
L'Isle fee in Manuden lately (1242-3) of John Sausemer, and fee
there late of Robert Revela (? Ledet).16 The family of Ledet appear
to have been long seated at Roding Abbess. In 1340 Robert Ledet,
son and heir of Walter Ledet of Roding Abbess, released to William
Fitz-Richard of Roding his right in land there held by William of
the gift of Walter father of the said Robert.17
In 1401-2 John Bataille held lands and tenements in Manuden
late of John Sausemer for fee, of the honor late of Robert de Lisle.18
2. R. Cur. Regis, i. 305, 311. 3. Ibid. ii. 61. 4. Ibid. i. 182.
6. Ibid. 63. 7. Bk. of Fees, 477, 480. 8. Ibid. 608.
10. Testa, 271. 11. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 1748.
Essex Feet of F. 129.
71.
128.
13.
14. Abbrev. Placit. 160.
16. Cal. Close R. 496. 17. Ibid. 455.
18. Feud.
1. Red Bk. 355.
5. Essex Feet of F.
9. Essex Feet of F.
12. Close R. 335.
15. Cal. Ing. vii. 26.
Aids, vi. 607.
XVII.
Eudes the sewer in 1086 held in demesne in Theydon (Gernon ?),
Essex, I hide and 40 acres. William son of Constantine held 2
hides and 40 acres in Theydon, which may have passed to this fee.
(See n. 15.)
Sasselin held in demesne in Stantmere' and Winthelle'
2 hides and 30 acres, in Childerditch 1 hide and 30 acres, and in
Bonhunt 2 hides.
C
Richard (de Sauquevill, n. 41) held of Eudes the sewer in
Rockland, Norfolk, 1 carucate, and Roland held of the same Eudes
in Shropham 1 carucate; the soc had belonged to the king's manor
of Old Buckenham until Lisois (de Moustiers) had these lands.
The land in Norfolk belonged to the fee of Sauqueville.
In 1166 Ralph son of Peter son of Constantine held of Henry
Fitz-Gerold the chamberlain 2 fees as of the fees late of Eudes the
sewer.¹ Ralph Fitz-Peter granted to Ralph Gernun 81½ acres in the
field of Bradfield, the service of Godfrey le Moyne and Richard
Bataille and a marsh in Theydon, to hold for 8s. 4d. at a scutage of
208.2 In 1207 king John confirmed to Ralph Gernun the Essex
hundred of Lexden which Matthew Mantel, sheriff of Essex, had
rendered to him as his right and inheritance, and the gift which
Ralph Fitz-Peter made to him of all his land in Theydon, in exchange
THEYDON GERNON, CHILDERDITCH
203
for Ralph's land in Foulmere, Cambs., which gift Richard son and
heir of the same Ralph Fitz-Peter and Warin Fitz-Gerold, lord of
that fee, had confirmed to Ralph Gernun.³ That this grant com-
prised the whole of the above tenement is shewn by a writ to the
sheriff of Essex in 1224 directing him to let Ralph Gernun have his
scutage of 2 knights' fees in his bailiwick of the fee late of Warin
Fitz-Gerold, namely of 2 marks de scuto for the army of Bedford in
which he had been with the king by his direction. In that year
Cecily late wife of Richard Fitz-Ralph demanded of the tenant of a
carucate in Childerditch her dower therein.5
In Feudal Cambridgeshire some account is given of the family of
Gernon, from which it will be seen that in 1236-8 William Fitz-
Richard held fee in Foulmere of the barony of Richard de Mun-
fichet, and that in 1279 the heirs general of the same William held
the same fee of Ralph Gernun (of Theydon Gernon). To that
account some addition may now be made.
6
Matthew Gernun attested the charter of William de Munfichet
founding in 1134-5 the abbey of Stratford Langthorne, Essex," to
which monastery the same Matthew gave the land of Cowbridge,
Essex, and Richard de Munfichet gave land in Foulmere, Cambs.,
of the fee of Ralph Fitz-Urse.8 Ranulf Gernun, son of Matthew,
held in 1166 of William de Munfichet fee of new feoffment, namely
Top
in Foulmere. Ralph son of Ranulf Gernun, born c. 1165, was a
knight and marshal of King John, to whom he firmly adhered all
through that king's troubled reign. He continued to be a faithful
servant of Henry III and died in extreme old age in 1247. A selec-
tion from the very numerous references to Ralph Gernun in the con-
temporary records is given below.
In 1200 John gave him the land of Bakewell, Derbys., as 16 librates
of land, for the service of one knight.10 (See Peverel, n. 29.) Three
years later his service for this manor was granted to William
Briwerre. 11 In 1204 he obtained the escheated land of Thomas
Malesmain, a Norman, in West Compton, Berks., and held it until
its restoration in 1216.12 He was appointed in 1208 to arrest all
foreign ships, save only those of Denmark and Norway, plying to
the Lincolnshire ports.13
In 1212 he held in Essex 6 fees of the honor of Ongar, 14 and in
Broxted 1 fee of the bishop of Ely.15 In 1214 his son was serving
in Poitou and consequently Ralph had acquittance of scutage of the
fees which he held of Richard de Ripariis in Essex.16 In 1215 he
had a crown grant, which Henry confirmed in 1218 and 1224, of
7 librates of rent in the soc of the hundred and a half of Sampford,
Essex; 17 Briwerre was directed to find him in necessary things as the
third knight in Winchester castle while the war continued,18 and to
give him 40 librates of land of the king's enemies.19 He obtained
Robert Gresley's great manor of Pirton, Oxon.20 In September he
was appointed constable of Porchester castle, 21 and in December was
with Richard Fitz-Hugh commissioned to convey many prisoners
of war taken in Rochester castle to Wallingford castle.21a Next year
he and Richard de Ripariis were envoys to the earls of Arundel and
Warenne touching their disposition towards the king.22 His rent
9
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in Colchester and 21 fees late of Luke de Brikesheved of Ralph's fee
were secured to him 23 and, conditionally that he served the king
during the continuance of the war with the barons himself and 2
other knights with 5 serjeants all well equipped, and gave his charter
of fealty, he obtained the lands of Gilbert de Taney in Cambridge-
shire, Essex and Suffolk.24 If Falkes de Breauté approved, he was
to permit Ralph to have the custody of the honor of Eye for the
king's profit.25 Ralph also obtained the land of William de la
Ferte, deceased, the king's bailee, in Marden, Wilts., and the land
of Thomas Mauduit, king's enemy, in Warminster, Wilts., 26 which
grant was confirmed by Henry III in the following year (1217);
but Marden was the subject of a plea in 1218,28 and was taken from
Ralph in 1229.
27
In 1217 Ralph obtained a grant during pleasure of the land of
Adam Maulveisin in Bergholt and Husland, Suff. 29 Next year he
was a justice in eyre in Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Herts.30 In
October 1220 he was sent as a messenger to Poitou, sailing from
Dover, apparently to escort the king's sister Joan from Poitou 31 to
Wallingford castle.32 He was one of the king's council in that year
in respect to the agreement then made between Henry and Beren-
garia, relict of Richard I, in respect of her dower and arrears thereof.3
In 1221 he and John Russel were appointed constables of Corfe
castle, he having a livery of 100 marks a year, and during the period
1221-26 there are about 30 writs mainly directed to Ralph touching
the disposal of munitions and prisoners there.34 In 1223 he had
acquittance (of 6 marks ?) of the scutage of Biham, in regard that he
had been at that time on the king's service in Poitou.35 In 1225 he
was directed to transmit to Portsmouth 10 good balistæ and 10,000
quarrels for delivery on board the king's great ship shortly to sail
for Gascony; previously he had delivered 5 defective balistæde
cornu,' two of 2 feet and three of one foot.36 Two years later he
was pardoned 20s. which had been demanded by the exchequer for
an assart to be made in Theydon, Essex, in the time of John, which
assart he had not made.3
37
33
In 1228 Henry gave him the land late of Roger de Planes in
Easthorpe and Birch, Essex, which Ralph had previously held of the
bail of king John, to hold for the service of 3 fees. He also con-
firmed John's grant of Bakewell, Derbys.38 Two years later, by
reason of infirmity, Ralph had permission to return to England from
over seas.39 In 1231 he had a royal gift of 10 oaks for restoring
his stockade (bretaschia) of Gerner, Essex ('Gernunera '), which had
been destroyed by fire.40 In 1234 the king confirmed to the prior
and canons of St. John the Evangelist of Leighs, Essex, 12 marks
of rent in the hundred and a half of Samford and in the hundreds of
Claydon and Bosmere, Suff., which Adam Malveisin had of the bail
of king John and Ralph Gernun, as heir of Adam and after Adam's
death, had of the goodwill of king John, and had since resigned to
the king to the use of the said prior and canons.41
In the same year
Ralph was constable of Colchester castle,42 which office he retained
until 1236. His resignation of that office was one of the last official
acts of a long career, more than 30 years of which had been employed
:
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205
in service to the crown. In 1244 his son William recovered
possession of a carucate in West Compton, Berks., which Ralph
his father had previously recovered against John Malemeyns and
given to his said son.43
In 1236 (?) Ralph Gernon held of Margery de Rivers 2 fees in
Theydon Gernon, Childerditch, Bonhunt and 'Windhull.' 44 He
died in 1247, when his son William Gernun gave 50 marks for relief
of his inheritance.4
45 The inquest taken after his death shows that
he held the manor of Theydon Gernon of Margery de Rivers for 1 fee
and land there of the heirs of Ongar for fee; Leighs manor held
of the same heirs for fee; Easthorpe and Birch manors of the king
for 3 fees; La Gernunere (tenure unspecified), and Lexden hundred
of the king at farm; William his son was aged more than 60
years.46
William Gernun died towards the end of 1258, holding of Baldwin
de L'Isle 2 fees in Theydon and elsewhere, and fee there of dame
Denise de Munchenesy, besides other lands; Ralph his son was aged
30 or more,¹7 and had livery in due course.48 This Sir Ralph
Gernun was of the Montfort party, his estates being seized in 1265.
Theydon 'Gernun' township was worth £16; John de Ripariis had
taken the Michaelmas rent because Ralph had denied service and
did not claim to hold the manor of him; his manors of Easthorpe
and Birch and that of La Gernunere were also seized.49 From the
High Peak it was presented that Imbert Gey seized the manor of
Bakewell, late of Ralph Gernun, who escaped from Kenilworth,
but was there (as the jury believed!) by the king's command;
it was worth £50 a year.50 Ralph was pardoned in 1267 by the
mainprise of William la Zuche and Richard de Havering of Essex. 51
In 1268, perhaps under constraint, he made a lease of the manor
of Bakewell to Eleanor, consort of Edward the king's son.
52
Sir Ralph was twice married, his first wife being Eleanor
daughter of Robert de Vere, earl of Oxford; and his second wife.
Hawise (Tregoz ?).53 He died in 1274, having previously (namely
in 1271) given the manor of Theydon for 1 fee to his younger son
John, 54 by Hawise his wife, whose guardian was in 1273 Richard
Baynard; the manor of La Gernunere was held of Sir John le
Bretun for fee; William his son and heir was aged 24 years. 55 (See
Chester, n. 103.) In 1293 John Gernun was one of 4 nephews and
coheirs of Nicholas Tregoz of Tolleshunt Tregoz (now Darcy), and
was said to be aged 23 at Michaelmas 1292.
56
John Gernun and his coparceners held in 1302-3 lands in Tolles-
hunt Tregoz; 57 he died in 1321, leaving William his son aged 171
years. John's half-brother William died in January 1327, leaving
a son and heir, John, aged 30 and more. This William had held of
Aymer de Valence, earl of Pembroke, in 1324 in Theydon, Leighs
and Latchingdon 44 fees, and the lady of Theydon had held similarly
58
3
fee in Theydon.59 In 1326 Adam de Welle, a minor, was found to
be next heir of Joan, late wife of Walter Fitz-Robert, of the manor
of Theydon Gernon, held of William Gernon. 60 Adam de Welle died
in 1345, having in his lifetime demised all his lands in Essex to John
his son and Matilda his wife; he held the manor of Theydon Gernon
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of Thomas Gernon at a small rent; his said son was aged 10 or
12 years.
61
John son of John Gernoun, knt., demised in 1334 the bailiwick
of the hundred of Lexden for three years; 62 and in the same year
William Gernoun and Isabel his wife and Ralph their son are named
in the remainder of John de Goldingham's manor of Chigwell. 63
Isabel was a widow in 1340. 64 The grant of Chigwell does not seem
to have become effective, but from a deed of 1354 it appears that
William was a younger son of the William who died in 1327 and that
he had had the manor of Theydon from his father; by the deed
referred to John son and heir of John Gernon, knt., son of William
Gernon, knt., confirmed to Thomas son of the younger William and
to Lucy his wife and their issue the manor of Theydon with the
advowson of the church.65 In 1368 John de Stokesby and his wife
held of Robert de L'Isle 2 fees in Theydon, Bonhunt, Willedon ' and
elsewhere, late (1346) of William Gernon.66
In 1401-2 Roger Walden, clerk, held the manor of Bonhunt and
Thomas Gernon the manor of Theydon Gernon for 2 fees of the
honor late of Robert de L'Isle there and in Wyken (' Wylden') and
elsewhere.67
The land in Rockland, Norf., appears to have been alienated from
this honor like the residue of the fee of Richard de Sauquevill (n. 41).
In 1217 Roger de Rokelund had a writ of reseisin of land in
Essex. 68 In the following year Hugh de Marines and Hawise his
wife had a writ of attaint of jurors against Roger de Rokelund
touching their free tenement in Broxted. 69 In 1227 they put in
their claim in a fine of land in that place ('Brokesheved') between
Ellis the marshal and Rohaise his wife and William de Rokelund. 70
In 1230 Richard le Prestre was demandant against Ralph Gernun
offee in Rockland, Norf., which William de Rokelund held, fee
in Shropham, Norf., which Richard de Cauz held, fee in Steeple,
Essex, which the heirs of Robert Mauntel held, fee in Knipsho (in
Mayland), Essex, which the same heirs held, fee in Steeple, which
demandant held, and fee in Wall (in Bradwell-on-Sea), Essex,
which Felicia Mauntel held in dower; for an assurance to him of the
two last-named tenements the demandant quitclaimed the residue
to Ralph Gernun, saving to William, Richard and the heirs of Robert
Mauntel their tenements.71
1
4
In 1242-3 William son of Roger (de Rokelund) held fee in
Rockland of the lady of Ongar and Richard de Cauz held fee in
Shropham of the same lady. 72 John de Rokelund was named in
1275 as of Rockland.73
In 1302 Robert de Benelond and Isabel de
Cally held fee in Rockland of William Gernun and Roger de Cauz
held ½ fee in Shropham of the same William. 74 In 1346 Geoffrey de
Benelond and another held the fee in Rockland of John Gernoun,
who held of the lady of Pembroke, and Richard Cauz held the fee
in Shropham of the same John.75 (See Chester, n. 103.)
2. Essex Feet of F. 23. 3. R. Chart. 1716. 4. R. Lit.
5. Essex Feet of F. 66. 6. Op. cit. 218-9. 7. Mon.
8. Ibid. 588.
9. Red Bk. 351.
10. R. Chart. 50b.
198 bis. 12. R. Lit. Claus. i. 55, 776. 13. R. Lit. Pat. 84.
1. Red Bk. 355.
Claus. i. 618, 643.
Angl. v. 587b.
11. Ibid. 110, 123,
HENLEY-KNEBWORTH, CLAPTON
207
17. Ibid.
14. Red Bk. 612. 15. Ibid. 525. 16. R. Lit. Claus. i. 176b-7.
226, 3226. 18. Ibid. 228. 19. Ibid. 234b. 20. Ibid.241. 21. R. Lit. Pat. 155b.
21a. Ibid. 161b. 22. Ibid. 187. 23. R. Lit. Claus.i. 263b. 24. Ibid. 265b, 270b.
25. Ibid. 268. 26. Ibid. 277, 285. 27. Ibid. 315. 28. Ibid. 336, 380.
29. Ibid. 347b. 30. Pat. R. 208. 31. R. Lit. Claus. i. 432, 4586. 32. Ibid.
4596. Cf. Pat. R. 255. 33. Pat. R. 265. 34. R. Lit. Claus. i. 460, 469, 584b.
et pass.
35. Ibid. 548; ii. 144b. 36. Ibid. ii. 51b; Pat. R. 540. 37. R. Lit.
Claus. ii. 167b. 38. Close R. 46. 39. Ibid. 448. 40. Ibid. 513. 41. Ibid. 395.
42. Ibid. 499.
43. Ibid. 189. 44. Bk. of Fees, 608, 477. 45. Excerpt. Fin.
ii. 23.
46. Cal. Ing. i. 292. 47. Ibid. 121. 48. Excerpt. Fin. ii. 292.
49. Cal. Misc. Ing. i. 200, 206. 50. Ibid. 196.
51. Cal. Pat. R.
150, 153.
52. Ibid. 213.
53. Staffs. Collect., N.S., i. 257. 54. Essex
Feet of F. 273. 55. Cal. Inq. ii. 44; Cal. Fine R. i. 35. 56. Abbrev.
57. Feud. Aids, ii. 131. 58. Cal. Ing. vi. 175, 478. 59. Ibid.
332. 60. Ibid. 453.
61. Ibid. viii. 433.
62. Cat. Anct. D. vi. C. 5369.
63. Ibid. i. B. 963. 64. Cal. Close R. 489. 65. Ibid. 80, 81. 66. Ibid.
495. 67. Feud. Aids, vi. 607. 68. R. Lit. Claus. i. 339b. 69. Excerpt.
Fin. i. 23. 70. Essex Feet of F. 82. 71. Ibid. 90. 72. Bk. of Fees, 912.
73. R. Hund, i. 522. 74. Feud. Aids, iii. 422.
Plac. 232.
75.
Ibid. 550.
XVII (1).
Eudes the sewer in 1086 held in demesne of Roger de Aubervill
(‘Oburvilla ') in Henley, Suff., 2 carucates.
It is probable that this land afterwards fell to the honor of Ongar.
In 1242-3 William de Henleye held 1 fee in Henley of that honor.1
Hubert de Henleye held fee here in 1303 of John de Cleydon, and
in 1346 William de Henleye held it.2
1. Bk. of Fees, 915. 2. Feud. Aids, v. 26, 51.
XVIII.
Humphrey (de Anslevill) held of Eudes the sewer (1086) in
Knebworth, Herts., 8 hides and I virgate, and in Hertford hundred
hide. In Cambridgeshire the same Humphrey held of Eudes in
Clapton 1 hide, in East Hatley 1 hide and 1 virgate, in Croydon 2
hides, in Wimpole I hide and 1 virgate and in Kingston 10 acres.
In 1086 Humphrey de Anslevill or Anlevill was one of the jurors
of Armingford hundred.¹ Ansleville has been identified as Anne-
ville-en-Saire, Manche. In 1166 Thomas de Andevill held of Henry
Fitz-Gerold the chamberlain 6 fees as of the fees of Eudes the sewer.2
Richard de Anevill attested a charter of William earl of Devon
(1193-1217).3
Ι
In 1198 in a plea of surplusage of dower of Alice wife of Hamelin
de Andevill, the said Hamelin and his wife released to John de
Bassingeburn and Aubreye his wife their land in Kelshall, Sandon
and Woodhall and I hide called Nieweham in the vill of Hatfield and
the reversion of Alice's land in those places. In 1199 Hamelin de
Andevill was a visor in a Cambridgeshire plea.5 John de Andevill
and Hamelin de Andevill were of Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire
in 1200.6 In 1206 the same Hamelin acknowledged that fee in
Sheford, Berks., was the right of Henry, son of William, to be held
of Hamelin and his heirs."
In 1213 Hamelin de Andevill claimed the presentation to the
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church of Knebworth against Richard de Andevill, clerk. The
defendant, a brother of the plaintiff, said that his father Thomas
gave him the presentation after the death of the then incumbent
Richard the Young, who was a canon of St. Paul's, and produced the
deed. In reply the plaintiff said his father had a long illness and if
he did make such a charter it was at that time; and besides, the
mother could have sealed the charter for her son Richard, whom she
loved more. The advowson of that church was the caput of his
honor and without it he could not have seisin. The defendant said
his father made the deed when in good health and appealed to the
witnesses whose names were on it. Finally it was decided that
Richard should have the next presentation, but for that turn only.
In 1214 Richard son of Thomas de Andevill was party to a fine of
land in Knebworth; 9 and in the same year he settled the advowson
of the church of Knebworth on Hamelin de Andevill.10 In 121
1215 the
sheriffs of Hertford, Cambridge and Berkshire were directed to give
seisin to Hugh de Bathonia, clerk, of the whole land, apparently
including Knebworth, late of Hamon de Ablevill (sic), to hold
during pleasure.11
8
In 1217 Hamelin had writs of reseisin directed to the sheriffs of
Cambridge and Hertford.12 He or his ancestor gave to St. Alban's
the church of Eversden, which was confirmed to the monastery in
1218.13 In 1224 the king gave to earl William Marshal the timber
that Falkes de Breauté had caused to be felled at Knebworth, for
the erection of the earl's chamber.14 Contemporary with Hamelin
were Ralph de Aundevill, forester of Feckenham, Worcs., and
Richard his younger brother, sons of Agnes de Aundevill,15 and
John de Aundevill, tenant of land in Dunham, Essex, who abjured
the realm in 1236.16 Richard de Andevill held in 1236 (?) of
Margery de Rivers 6 fees in Knebworth, Clapton and Wimpole; 17
in 1236-8 he held 1 fee in Clapton with 1 virgate in East Hatley and
I hide in Croydon, Cambs., of the barony of Warin Fitz-Gerold, 18 and
I fee in Eversden of 5 hides of the fee of Wiscard Leydet.19 He
also held in Barton of the same fee, and I fee in Wimpole of the
barony of Warin Fitz-Gerold, which Henry de Childerley held of
him; 20 Alexander de Andevill held 2 hides in Clapton, Cambs.21
In 1242-3 Richard de Aundevill and Roger Gulafre held 2 fees in
Pudlicot and Sarsden of Margery de Rivers of the fee of the earl of
the Isle (of Wight), 22 late of the fee of Curcy. See Curcy, n. 4.
In Clapton and Wimpole he held 1 fee of the barony of Warin
Fitz-Gerold.23 In 1241 Richard de Andevill and Clemency his wife
recovered land in Chilson in the hundred of Chadlington, Oxon.24
In 1267 Isabel countess of Albemarle released to Margaret countess
of Devon 5 fees in Knebworth and 1 fee in Clapton of this honor.25
In 1267 Alexander de Aundevill had licence for life to hunt the
hare, fox, badger and cat throughout the royal forests in Oxford-
shire. 26 In 1276 he held, as his ancestors had held before him,
view of frankpledge and assize of bread and ale in the hundred of
Armingford.27 In 1279 a knight's fee in Barton, Cambs., was held
of the heirs of Alexander de Aundevill, who held of the barony of
Ledet;
28 and the same heirs held the manor of Pudlicot, Oxon., of
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209
Adam de Stratton for I fee of the countess of Albemarle (Curcy, n. 4).29
Land in Stanbridge by Romsey, Hants., was held of the fee of
Alexander de Aundevill in 1267.30 His heirs general appear to have
been William de Bereford, Robert de Hoo, and John son of Geoffrey
de Picheford.
Thus a third part of the tenement came to the possession of Sir
William de Bereford, justice of the Common Pleas from 1309. A
messuage in Clapton was held of him in 1306,31 and in 1302-3 he
held 1 fee in Hatley, Clapton and Croydon of the fee formerly of
Warin Fitz-Gerold.32 In 1316 he was one of the lords of Clapton
and Hatley,33 and in 1322 Nicholas de Segrave held of him 1 fee in
Wimpole.34 He died in 1326 holding the manor of Clapton with
the advowson of the church of Robert de L'Isle, as of the said
Robert's pourparty of the earldom of Aumale, for fee; Edmund
his son was aged 30 and more.35 In 1346 the said Edmund held
I fee in Hatley, Clapton and Croydon.³
36
Another third part passed to the family of Hoo, for in 1292
Robert de Hoo had a grant of market and fair at his manor of
Clapton, a yearly fair at his manor of Knebworth, Herts., and free
warren in Knebworth and Harpenden, Herts., Luton Hoo, Stopsley
and Maulden, Beds., Eversden and Clapton, Cambs., and Sibford,
Oxon.37
In 1299 he held the manor of Clapton with certain liberties
(and land in Eversden of the honor of Wardon) of the inheritance of
Beatrice his wife.38 The descent from Robert and Beatrice to their
daughter Joan and her husband Richard de Perers and from their
grandson to Walter de Mauny is described in the Victoria County
History of Hertfordshire (iii. 114b). In 1303 Robert de Hoo held
I fee in Knebworth and Three Houses (Trehus') of the earl of
Aumale.39
In 1335 Richard de Perers died seised of the manor of Knebworth,
which he held by knight's service of Robert de L'Isle, lord of
Coveney; 40 and in 1346 Walter de Mauny and Thomas de Hoo held
I fee in Knebworth of John de L'Isle, late held of the earl of Aumale.41
The other third part passed to John son of Geoffrey Pycheford,
who in 1302-3 held 1 fee in Wimpole of the king and was one of the
lords of Wimpole in 1316.42 In 1346 Ralph de Wyndesores and his
parceners held 1 fee of the king in Wimpole.43
I
I
In 1368 Walter de Mauny, lord of Chepstow, held the tenements
in Knebworth, late of Richard de Perers, of Robert de L'Isle for
I fee; Baldwin de Bereford, knt., held similarly the manor of
Clapton for I fee; Hugh de Clyderhowe, knt., held the manor late
of Ralph de Wyndesores in Wimpole for I fee.44
Ι
In 1401-2, of the honor of L'Isle, Richard Forester held the
manor of Knebworth for I fee, which Walter de Mauny lately held;45
the manor of Clapton, Cambs., was in the hands of Thomas
Haselden for 1 fee and the heir of Hugh de Cliderhowe held 1 fee in
Wimpole.46
I
2. Red Bk. 355.
1. Feud. Cambridgeshire, I.
vi. 1041.
4. Feet of F. (Pipe R. Soc. xxiii.) 115.
18, 113. 6. Ibid. iii. pass.
7. Berks. Feet of F. 140.
Regis R. 58, m. 4d.
9. Feet of F. Herts. 16 Jno. n. 131.
3. Mon. Anglic.
5. R. Cur. Reg. ii.
8. Curia
10. Ibid.
III.
P
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12. Ibid. 329.
14. R. Lit. Claus. i. 611b.
17. Bk. of Fees, 608, 480.
20. Ibid. 252. 21. Ibid. 12.
11. R. Lit. Claus. i. 242b.
R. Hund. ii. 5126.
16. Ibid. 299.
19. Ibid. 169.
354b.
97. Cf. Cat. of Anct. D. iii. A. 5118.
ii. 563b. 29. Ibid. 731. 30. Cal. Inquis. i. 203.
32. Feud. Aids, i. 150, 171.
33. Ibid. 156.
36. Feud. Aids, i. 171.
37.
35. Ibid. 470.
38. Plac. de quo war. 103. 39. Feud. Aids, ii. 430.
42. Ibid. i. 146, 153.
41. Feud. Aids, ii. 437.
Close R. 495-6. Cf. Feud. Aids, vi. 590, 607.
46. Ibid. 590.
24. Abbrev. Placit. 116.
13. Mon. Angl. ii. 232b;
15. Excerpt. Fin. i. 321.
18. Lib. de Bernewelle, 12.
22. Testa, 106. 23. Ibid.
26. Cal. Pat. R.
28. Ibid.
31. Cal. Inq. iv. 250.
34. Cal. Ing. vi. 187.
Cal. Chart. R. ii. 421.
40. Cal. Inq. vii. 453.
43. Ibid. 164. 44. Cal.
45. Feud. Aids, vi. 607.
25. Ibid. 160.
27. R. Hund. i. 51.
XIX.
It is suggested that the knight's fee which William de Archesdene
held in 1166 of Henry Fitz-Gerold the chamberlain, as of the fees of
Eudes the sewer,¹ formed part of the tenements described at n. 5.
An unidentified tenement is that for which William Flambard
rendered mark to the aid levied in 1235-6 in respect of fee in
Essex.2 Two entries relate to this family but neither indicates
where his fee lay. In 1199 William Flambard was attorney for
Thomas de Menelli or Meuli, vouched to warranty by William de
Rocheford against Alan son of Ogger in a plea of land in Essex.³
Land in Tendring was named Flambard's land. In 1248 William
Flaumbard and Alice his wife recovered a yearly rent due to Alice
of 20s. from the Hospitallers.4 William Flambard attested charters.
of the Anesti family of Bracking.5
Another name of a contributor to the aid of 1235-6 of the fee
of Margery de Rivers whose holding has not been identified was
Matthew le Breton, who paid 1 mark for fee. Possibly both of
these tenements were in the fee of Helyon.
1. Red Bk. 355.
2. Bk. of Fees, 480. 3. Cur. Reg. R. ii. 3, 102¸
4. Essex Feet of F. 170. 5. Cat. of Anct. D. i. A.1005 etc. 6. Bk. of Fees, 480
XX.
The bishop of Bayeux held in Tolleshunt, Essex, I hide in 1086.
Roger 'God save the Ladies' held in Great Baddow 1 hide.
In Sussex the bishop of Bayeux had 24 acres in Wenham and
Roger Bigod held of the bishop 1 carucate there. See n. 23 below.
In 1166 Thomas de Mandevill held 2 fees of Henry Fitz-Gerold
the chamberlain, as of the fees of Eudes the sewer.¹ One Thomas
de Mandevill, son of Ralph de Mandevill, confirmed to St. John's,
Colchester, land in Erpeford given by his father." Eustace de
Oeys, son of Henry de Merc, quitclaimed to the monks of St. John's
his right in East Duniland, Essex,³ in which place John de Merc
held land in 1212. Aitrope de Merc was amerced in Essex or Herts.
in 1177 for forest trespass. It is suggested that Aitrop de Merc
was the successor of Thomas de Mandevill on this honor; he married
Petronilla de Mandevill. In 1189 tithes of the fee of Thomas de
Mandevill were confirmed to St. Botolph's, Colchester. Thomas de
4
6
TOLLESHUNT, GT. BADDOW
2II
7
Mandevill also held in 1166 of Geoffrey earl of Essex 4 fees in Tey
Marks alias Tey Mandeville. It is quite undetermined whether
or not Glanvill held of Fitz-Gerold the lands in Great Baddow
described at the head of this section.
In 1194 Hugh Peverel sought to have a plea of warranty of
charter in the court of the honor of Boulogne which was between
Aitrop de Merc and Simon de Merc.9 In the same year Henry de
Merc obtained judgment against William de Scalers and an order
that William should deliver to the said Henry the chattels of Atrop
de Merc, father of Henry.10 Atrop or Eitrop de Merc died in 1200,
when Henry de Merc and James de Merc son of Ralph, a minor,
were heirs to land in Wratling late held by the said Atrop of William
de Scalers.11 In 1201 Simon de Merc held 2 fees, John de Merc 2
fees and Henry de Merc 3 fees of the honor of Boulogne in Essex.12
In 1216 the constable of Bedford was directed to deliver to Henry
de Merc the nephew of William de Merc with his horse and harness,
to be sent to the king.13 In the ensuing year Henry de Merc had
writs of reseisin directed to the sheriffs of Suffolk, Cambs. and
Essex, 14 and in 1223 he was a commissioner in Essex for the sale of
windfallen wood belonging to the crown.15 Henry de Merc con-
firmed to Walden a rent of 2s. from Little Bardfield given by his
father Aitrop, the deed being attested by Richard archdeacon of
Colchester and William de Merc.16 In 1226 Henry de Merc acknow-
ledged the right of John prior of St. Bartholomew's, London, in
I carucate in Shortgrave (in Newport), Essex, as of the gift of his
father, Aitrop de Merc.17 This land was held in 1086 of Eustace
count of Boulogne by Adelolf de Merc.
Henry died about Christmas 1233, and at Easter following his
son and heir Ralph Merk had seisin of his father's lands in Bardfield
and Latton on the honor of Boulogne and gave £15 for his relief.18
Shortly afterwards Ralph was forced to resign the manor of Latton
to Rohaise late wife of Henry de Merc, who had endowed her of the
same at marriage.19 A year later Ralph died and was succeeded
by his brother Henry, who had livery and gave security for £15
relief for 3 fees which he held of the honor of Boulogne in Essex.20
Later in the year 1234 Margery de Rivers was impleading the same
Ralph touching customs and services which she demanded of him
for the free tenement which he held of her in Wenham, Flowton,
Tolleshunt and Baddow.21
23
In 1236 (?) Henry de Merc held of the said Margery 3 fees in the
4 places last named.22 In 1235-6 William de Badewe contributed
2 marks to the aid in respect of 1 fee held of Margery de Rivers.2
In 1238 Gerard prior of St. Bartholomew's, London, quitclaimed to
Henry de Merk the advowson of the church of Little Bardfield
saving the ancient and due pension.24 In 1242-3 Robert de Vallibus
held of Margaret de Rivers fee in Wenham; 25 but she held it
of the honor of Bigod.26 In 1242 Henry de Merc's knights were
required to pay scutage, but Henry was only required to pay in
respect of his demesne.27 He died in 1259, when custody of his land
and marriage of the heir was granted to Roger de Thurkelby.28
His son Henry de Merk, by Rohaise his wife, was of age in 1268,29
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1
but died without issue two years later, when it was found that he
had a sister named Rohaise who was seized in Tey' Mandeville'
church in the time of the late war by Sir Geoffrey Dinaunt and had
by him a daughter named Aubreye or Alda, who was 2 years old.
in June 1270; it was not known if Sir Geoffrey married Rohaise
or not, but if he did so before the birth of Aubreye she would be
heir of the said Henry de Merk; if not, Andrew de Merk, his uncle,
aged 40, would be his heir.30 At the end of 1276 the manor of
Little Bardfield was committed to the king's bailee during pleasure
so that Andrew de Merk, who was of unsound mind, should be main-
tained out of the issues.31 Earlier in the year Alda daughter of
Geoffrey Dinaunt died and Andrew de Merk, aged 61, was found
to be her next heir.32 He was living in 1286.33
This tenement has not been traced to any later date. It seems
probable that it eventually escheated to the chief lord and the
undertenants held directly of him. Possibly the family of Hole-
broke had the land in Wenham. In 1301 Thomas son of Ralph de
Merk obtained from Ralph de Merk, no doubt his father, acknow-
ledgment of his right in a messuage and land in Great Dunmow,
which Ralph was to hold for life.34
141414
In 1303 the manor of Little Bardfield was held by a custodian
at farm until the full age of Thomas son and heir of Andrew de
Merk, then in ward of the king, held of the honor of Boulogne for
3 fees.35
Juliana de Merk held fee in Raydon of the earl of Here-
ford.36
Thomas died in 1310, when wardship of his land and of
that of Lora his wife, in case she died during the minority of the
heirs, with the marriage of the heirs, was granted to Ralph de
Monthermer.37 In 1324-5 a fine of the manor of Raydon by Shelley,
Suff., was levied between Robert de Welle and Lora his wife and
Ralph son of Thomas de Merk.38 In 1346 John de Ash and Adam
de Erdale held the manor of Little Bardfield for 3 fees,39 and Lora
Belet held fee in Raydon.40
1. Red Bk. 355.
23 Hen. II, 153.
7. Red Bk. 345. 8.
2. Colchester Chartul. 171.
5. Cotton ch. xxvii. 96.
3. Ibid. 37. 4. Pipe R.
6. Mon. Angl. vi. 106.
Cal. Ing. i. 297. 9. R. Cur. Reg. i. 48. 10. Ibid.
I29.
11. Ibid. iii. 205.
12. R. de Oblat. 162; R. Cancel. 160. Cf.
Red Bk. 575, 578-9.
13. R. Lit. Claus. i. 245-6. 14. Ibid. 325b. Cf.
Bk. of Fees, 241.
15. Pat. R. 400.
16. Walden Chartulary, Harl.
3697, f. 237d.
17. Essex Feet of F. 71.
18. Excerpt. Fin. i. 255.
19. Close R. 426. 20. Excerpt. Fin. i. 279.
21. Close R. 155. 22. Bk.
of Fees, 608. 23. Ibid. 480. 24. Essex Feet of F. 122. 25. Testa,
290b. 26. Feud. Aids, v. 24. 27. Close R. 469. 28. Excerpt. Fin. ii.
306. 29. Cal. Ing. i. 209, 297; iii. 509.
30. Ibid. i. 237. 31. Cal.
Fine R. i. 76; Cal. Close R. 1285, p. 343. 32. Cal. Ing. ii. 102. 33. Ibid.
359; Placit. de quo war. pass.
34. Essex F. of Fines, 29 Edw. I (59/109).
35 Feud. Aids, ii. 147.
36. Ibid. v. 25.
37. Cal. Fine R. ii. 240.
38. Suffolk Feet of F. 155. 39. Feud. Aids, ii. 176. 40. Ibid. v. 49.
XXI.
For Layer Breton see n. 15.
It is assumed that this was the tenement held in 1166 by William
son of Richard of Henry Fitz-Gerold for fee, as of the fees of Eudes
LAYER-DUNMOW
213
the sewer.¹ It was possibly this tenant who, as William de Hanleia,
gave to St. John's, Colchester, land in Layer, for the souls of
Warin Fitz-Gerold and Henry his brother,2 and held of the last-
named in 1166 in Sevenhampton, Wilts., I fee. In 1204 Geoffrey
Gernun quitclaimed to William de Hanlege fee in Layer.3 In 1236 (?)
William de Haunle held of Margery de Rivers fee in Layer. This
or another William de Haunlegh of Suffolk was deceased in 1258,
when Sarra his relict acquired a writ.5
4
6
Another tenement in Layer was in 1235 released to Thomas de
Ingaldestorp and Isabel his wife and the heirs of Isabel by Alexander
Fitz-Richard, and in 1235-6 the same Thomas contributed to the
aid in respect of I fee which he held of Margery de Rivers in an
unspecified place." In 1240 Thomas de Ingoldesthorpe and Isabel
his wife assured to Hasculf prior of St. Botolph's, Colchester, 2
carucates in Layer to be held of Thomas and Isabel and the heirs of
Isabel in free alms for 7 marks yearly rent; the prior quitclaimed
to them I mark of rent of the gift of Hamon le Envaise in Coddenham,
Suff. Ten years earlier, namely in 1230, Thomas and Isabel were
instituting a plea against Hamon le Envaise touching a tenement in
Essex.9 In 1238 the same or another Thomas, who had served
frequently as a special justice and warden of the king's castles
in Norfolk, had exemption for a year, and in 1249 for life, from being
put on assizes and the like.10 He died in 1252, holding land in Colne,
Essex, of his wife's inheritance; custody of his land and heirs and
their marriage and that of Isabel his relict were granted for £120 to
Peter Chaceporc the treasurer.11 The deceased had land in Hil-
lington, Norf.12
Thomas his son and heir was aged 16 years;
Isabel his mother was daughter of Hamon le Envaise.13 This was
not the same line as those of Ingoldisthorpe and Snettisham, Norf.
See Warenne, n. 41.
No further trace of these tenements has been discovered. As
the manor in White Colne, known as Ingledesthorp, olim Ingaldes-
thorpe, reverted to the family of Le Envaise, as shewn by Morant, 14
it is reasonable to assume that the line of Ingoldesthorpe failed
some time after 1252.
1. Red Bk. 355.
2. Colchester Chartul. 225.
3. Essex Feet of F. 34.
4. Bk. of Fees, 608. 5. Excerpt. Fin. ii. 275. 6. Essex Feet of F. 98.
7. Bk. of Fees, 477, 480.
8. Essex Feet of F. 139.
9. Excerpt. Fin.
i. 207.
10. Cal. Pat. R. 223; 1247-58, p. 51. 11. Ibid. 132, 134; Excerpt.
Fin. ii. 126. 12. Cal. Pat. R. 160, 199.
13. Cal. Inquis. i. 59. 14. Hist.
of Essex, ii. 216.
XXII.
Ralph (de Bernieres) held of Eudes the sewer in 1086 in Dunmow
75 acres.
C
William de Berneres attested about the end of the 11th cen-
tury the charter of Robert Fitz-Hugh, to St. Werburgh's abbey,
Chester, which is preserved in the instrument Sanctorum prisca.
Ralph de Berners attested a charter of Geoffrey de Mandevill,
earl of Essex, in favour of Waverley abbey, which was addressed
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to archbishop Theobald, and Henry bishop of Winchester, and was
of the date 1155-58.2
In 1166 Ralph de Berners held of Henry Fitz-Gerold the cham-
berlain fee as of the fees of Eudes the sewer.³ He also held 4
fees of Geoffrey earl of Essex,ª 2 fees of Nigel bishop of Ely in Street-
hall, Essex,5 and fee of the bishop of London. In 1190 Ralph
de Berners held 1 fee of Robert de Helion's fee."
8
9
In 1177 William de Berners (de Berneriis) owed 5 marks for the
right against William de Mareigni of two knights' fees in Essex or
Herts. From the Essex Assize Roll of 1198 we learn that William
de Berneres was of Barnston, Essex (Barleston '). It would
appear therefore that he was the successor of Ralph of 1166, and was
deceased in 1220. See below. Possibly William had younger
brothers, for in 1195 an assize came to recognize if Pain Burnel,
maternal uncle of Ralph de Bernieres, was seised at death of I
virgate in Hillcot, Wilts., and if Ralph was his heir, which land
Henry de Berniers then held; the verdict was that Pain did not
die in seisin, and judgment was given for Henry.10 William de
Berners and Ralph de Berners attested a charter of Geoffrey de
Say to Walden abbey.11
In 1195 a day was given to Robert de Berners 12 and Simon son
of Simon of a plea of £4, which the same Simon gave to Ralph de
Berners with Isabel his daughter, towards which Simon had given
Ralph 40s. of rent from the manor of Ginges.13 In 1212 the sheriff
of Essex was directed to give Ralph de Berners the younger seisin
of 2 fees in Streethall which Ralph de Berners, uncle of the said
Ralph, held of him (and he held of the bishop of Ely), in case he
had crossed the seas in the king's service to Poitou and held no
other fee for which he ought to cross the seas and that the said Ralph
his uncle did not wish to go over seas for him.14 Two months
later the sheriff was directed to commit to Geoffrey Fitz-Piers,
earl of Essex, the land of Ralph de Berners his knight in Streethall
which had been delivered by the king's precept to Ralph Berners
the younger, for default of service, as Ralph said.15
In 1217 the younger Ralph, having returned to allegiance to
Henry III, had writs of reseisin to the sheriffs of Norfolk, Suffolk
and Essex.16 In 1220 an agreement was made between Beatrice late
wife of William de Berners and Ralph de Berners touching her
dower in the manors of Roding, Barnston and Berwick Berners
and in the vills of Islington, Midd., and Icklingham, Suff., by which
Ralph gave to his brother William de Berners and his heirs the manor
of Islington for fee; to the same Beatrice he granted the manor
of Icklingham for life, for which she released her claim in the other
possessions.17 The land in Barnston was held of the prior of Colne, 18
and partly in 1235 of Matthew de Louvain.19 Ralph de Berners being
deceased in 1224 the bishop of Ely had Ralph's animals and chattels
on his manors of Broomfield, (Black) Notley and Newton to dis-
tribute them for Ralph's soul as might seem most expedient.20
In 1226 there was a plea between John de Berneres and Ralph de
Berneres, that John should acquit Ralph against the bishop of Ely,
because the bishop would not take Ralph's homage.21 This Ralph,
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215
nephew (?) of the elder Ralph, was a special justice in 1229 in an
Essex plea.22
In 1235 the abbot of St. Edmund's complained against Ralph
de Berneres touching a mill pool raised higher in Icklingham.23
On the commission for the appointment of collectors of the aid of
1235 in Essex Ralph de Berners' name was cancelled because he
was dead. 24
At this time John de Berners had a tenement in
Nosterfield, Cambs.25 He appears to be the representative of a
younger branch of the family who had Streethall and land in Great
Dunmow, Essex.
In 1236 (?) Ralph de Berners held of Margery de Riversfee
in Dunmow.26 One Ralph de Berners gave to Dunmow a rent of
25. from the mill of Icklingham for the soul of his wife Matilda.27
William de Bernieres gave a rent from land in Berneston to the same
house, with the body of his father.28 At the first collection of the
aid in 1235 William de Berners (possibly Ralph's brother) paid for
this tenement.29 This may indicate that after Ralph's death
William Berners accounted in place of the heir, who was a minor.
In 1242-3 the keepers of the land and heir of Ralph de Berners held
30
fee in Icklingham of Isabel de Brus, who held it of the king.³
In 1242 John de Berners served over seas with the king, and two
years later in Wales.31 In 1245 his lands were temporarily seised
into the king's hands because he with others had taken part in the
tournament at Cambridge which had been prohibited.32
In 1248 Bartholomew de Crek, Ralph de Berners and William
de Beaumont were heirs of Nesta de Cokefeld, late wife of Matthew
de Leyham (n. 2) 33 and descendant and heir of Pain Burnel. In
1252 John de Berners had a grant of free warren at Streethall and
Dunmow,34 and in the following year licence to hunt the hare,
fox and cat in the royal forest of Essex, except in warrens
and during the fence month.35 In 1253 John de Berners had
exemption for life from serving on assizes and the like,36 and as
John de Berners the elder had a grant in the following year of free
warren at Hersham, Essex, and of market and fair at his manor
of Dunmow.37 In 1254 the younger John (?) was going to Gascony,38
and in 1260 was with Edward the king's son in parts beyond seas.39
In 1262 it was covenanted that John de Berners should hold of
Ralph de Berners 1 carucate in Streethall with the advowson of the
church, the manor of Newton in Great Dunmow, Essex, and the
manor of Waldingfield, Suff., for 4 fees when before he did the
service of 3 fees.40
In 1263 land in Great Dunmow was held of the fee of Ralph de
Berners.41
In 1265 Ralph was of the Montfort party, but obtained
pardon in 1267.42 Two years later he had exemption for life from
assize and the like.43 In 1270 the manor of Streethall, late of John
de Berners, was in the possession of Edward the king's son, by
occasion of the said John's trespasses against the king in the late
disturbances, and by prince Edward was granted to Robert de
Tybetot.44 Ralph de Berners was a knight in 1271,45 and in 1274
had gallows, view of frankpledge, warren, &c., in Barnston and
Roding Berners.46 It was presented from Great Dunmow that the
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sheriff had seized the beasts of the men of that vill for the debt
Judeysmy' of Sir John de Berners.47 In 1279 Ralph was a com-
missioner to inquire in Surrey and Sussex of those who had lands
worth £20 a year and were not yet knights.48 He died at the
beginning of the year 1297, holding the lands described above in
Islington, Midd., Icklingham, Suff., Barnston, Roding Berners and
Berewick Berners; Edmund his son, then in Gascony, was aged
30 or more. 49
Christina de Berners, Ralph's wife, held the manor
of West Horsley, Surrey, of her own maritagium, and in 1302-3
she held 21 fees in dower in Roding Berners and Berewick; Edmund
de Berners held 1 fee in Barnston; Pain de Tybetot held the land
late of John de Berners in Streethall of the bishop of Ely for 1 fee.50
In 1303 Edmund son of Ralph de Berniers passed to Matthew
Flambard for life a tenement in Abbess Rothing; the reversion
was to Christiana, mother of Edmund for her life, and then to Edmund
and his heirs. 51 There were similar remainders in another fine of
the same date by which Edmund gave the manor of Beaumont
(near Tendring) for life to Richard and James, sons of Ralph de
Berners. 52
I
In 1330 John de Berners held the manor of Icklingham of Edmund
earl of Kent.53 John de Berners, chivaler, died in 1342,54 and in
1347 his heir held fee in Barnston of John de Louvain.55 As John
de Berners held Barnston, Roding Berners and Berewick in 1346,56
he was probably heir of John de Berners, knt.57 In 1368 Hugh
de Badewe held of Robert de L'Isle 1 fee in Great Badewe (sic for
Dunmow ?) of the fee of Berners. 58 Thomas de Coggeshale held
the same in 1401-2.59
2. Mon. Angl.
3. Red Bk.
7. Ibid. 78.
10. Ibid. (Pipe R.
1. Chartul. of Chester Abbey (Chetham Soc. N.S. 79), 19.
Cf. Chs. in Brit. Mus. i. 43 ; Round, G. de Mandeville, 229–31.
355. 4. Ibid. 345.
5. Ibid. 365, 525. 6. Ibid. 187.
8. Pipe R. 23 Hen. II, 149. 9. R. Cur. Reg. i. 204.
Soc. xiv), 72. 11. Mon. Angl. iv. 150. 12. Possibly of Ormsby, Norf.
Cf. Anct. Chs. (Pope R. Soc. x), 110. 13. R. Cur. Regis, i. 334. 14. R.
Lit. Claus. i. 1176. 15. Ibid. 120b. 16. Ibid. 3386. 17. Essex Feet
of F. 58, 66. 18. Ibid. 88. 19. Ibid. 98. 20. R. Lit. Claus. i. 611.
21. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 1719. 22. Pat. R. 282. 23. Ibid. 349. 24. Close
R. 190.
25. Ibid. 167. 26. Bk. of Fees, 480, 608. 27. Dunmow
Chartulary, Harl. MS. 662, f. 27d. 28. Ibid.
29. Bk. of Fees, 477.
30. Ibid. 920. 31. Cal. Pat. R. 296, 430. 32. Close R. 362. 33. Ibid.
34. Cal. Chart. R. i. 392.
35. Ibid. 433. 36. Cal. Pat. R.
Ibid. 305. 38. Ibid. 375.
41. Cal. Inq. i. 179.
106, 120.
192. 37.
of F. 257.
Pp. 149, 153.
40. Essex Feet
39. Ibid. 181.
42. Cal. Pat. R. 1266, p. 618; 1267,
45. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 165.
48. Cal. Pat. R. 342. 49. Cal.
43. Ibid. 326. 44. Ibid. 410.
46. R. Hund. i. 157b. 47. Ibid. 145.
Inq. iii. 273. 50. Feud. Aids, ii. 150-2. 51. Essex F. of Fines, 31 Edw. I
(59/109). 52. Ibid. (59/110). See V. C. H. Essex, i. 535a. 53. Cal. Ing.
54. Cal. Fine R. v. 288. 55. Cal. Inq. ix. 10. 56. Feud. Aids,
57. Cal. Close R. 319.
58. Ibid. 496. 59. Feud. Aids, vi. 308.
vii. 230.
ii. 174.
XXIII.
Roger de Otburvill in 1086 held of the king in Flowton, Suff.,
70 acres.
In 1166 Richard son of Gerold held of Henry Fitz-Gerold the
FLOWTON-SAWSTON, HAWKWELL, GLEMHAM 217
chamberlain I fee in Flowton (Flecton) of the fees late of Eudes
the sewer.¹ In the time of Henry II Gerard de Wachesham gave
two-thirds of the tithe of his demesne in Flowton to the abbey of
Colchester.2
Before 1234 this tenement had come into the possession of
Ralph Merc, as shewn at n. 20. Subsequently it descended with the
tenements described in that section. There are indications that it
had been granted before 1296 to Robert de Tybetot.³ In 1314
Pain de Tybetot died seised of inter alia land in Flowton and I
carucate called 'Tounstall' pertaining to the manor of Nettlested
held of the king as of the honor of Albemarle; John his son was aged
14 months.¹
2. Chartul. 432.
4. Cal. Inquis. v. 288.
1. Red Bk. 355.
of F. 99.
3. Cal. Pat. R. 218; Suff. Feet
XXIV.
Pirot held of Eudes Fitz-Hubert the sewer in 1086 in Sawston
4 hides, in Babraham I virgate, and in Pampisford 5 acres, all in
Cambridgeshire; in Bedfordshire, in Beeston I hide and in Northill
I hide; in Hawkwell, Essex, 3 hides less 15 acres; in Glemham,
Suff., 2 carucates and 53 acres.
Eudes the sewer held in Lindsell, Essex, 1 hide.
It is difficult to identify the lands which Eudes the sewer held
in demesne in Kent. Of the lands held in 1086 by Adam son of
Hubert of the bishop of Bayeux about 22 solins do not appear
to have been held by the knights of the honor of Eudes. To the
danegeld of 1129 the sum of 27s. was pardoned in 1130 on the
demesne of Eudes the sewer.¹ In this demesne may have been
Kemsing. Is it possible that the 278. of danegeld pardoned in 1130
to Amfrey the sewer was in respect of this demesne ? ² Warin Fitz-
Gerold was in 1156 pardoned 17s. of danegeld in Kent.3 Kemsing
was then a crown estate, £10 being expended in restocking the
demesne, and £5 of the old rent was given to Warin Fitz-Gerold.4
Pirot gave to St. John's, Colchester, half the tithe of Glemham,
Henry I confirming it in 1119, and possibly in 1104.5
6
Alan Pirot gave to the monastery of Bermondsey 6000 herrings
from the manor of 'Erchlawis.' To St. Alban's he gave his chapel
of Knowlton ('Kenoutone '), with tithe of the vill.' He held of
William de Aubigny the butler 6 fees.8 (See Arundel, n. 71.) A
fragmentary note from the Bermondsey chartulary names, perhaps
incorrectly, Alan Perot, Sibyl his wife, Ralph his heir and Matilda
his wife, and Simon son of Ralph; William, Robert and John Perot,
brothers of Ralph, and Ralph del Bois his nephew.9 Sibyl, Alan's
wife, was a sister of William de Watevill.10
Ralph Pirot gave to St. John's, Colchester, land in Carlton,
Beds., hide in Babraham, Cambs., and 3 solidates of land in Har-
lington, Beds., on the honor of Cainhoe.11 During the period
1119-1146 Ralph Pirot gave to the hospital of St. Julian, near
St. Albans, two-thirds of the tithes of his demesne of Lindsell and
Hawkwell.12 He also gave to Walden a virgate of land and 4s.
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rent in Lindsell, for the soul of his son Simon, &c.13 His son Ralph
confirmed the same by a deed to which William son of Ralph
Pirot was a witness.14 Within the period 1147-1165 Ralph gave for
the soul of Aubreye his wife 20 solidates of land in Carlton, Beds.,
which his chief lord Stephen de Aubigny (of Cainhoe) and Robert
his son confirmed, to abbot Gilbert for the soul of Henry de Aubigny.15
Robert de Aubigny and S. his mother made a similar confirmation
by charter attested by Ralph Pirot II.16 Finally Ralph Pirot II,
for the health of the soul of Mahalt his wife, confirmed the first-
named gift of his father Ralph by deed attested by his brothers
William and John Pirot.17
In 1166 Ralph Pirot II held of Henry Fitz-Gerold 4 fees as of
the fees of Eudes the sewer; 18 Warin Fitz-Gerold, brother of the said
Henry, gave the service of Ralph Pirot with Kemsing, Kent, to his
wife in dower and at that time Geoffrey de Ver had his service.18
Consequently Ralph held of Geoffrey de Ver 4 fees, as of the honor
of John the seneschal.19 He also held 5 fees of Robert de Aubigny
of Cainhoe,20 2 fees of the bishop of Ely, 21 and 6 fees in Kent of
William de Aubigny, titular earl of Arundel, as successor to Alan
Pirot.22 Possibly he held 1 fee of the king in chief in Lindsell,
Essex, which his son held in 1200 and after.23
In 1176 Ralph Pirot was amerced 40 marks for forest trespass
in Bedfordshire, 24 and in 1180 he owed 10 marks in that county
or Buckinghamshire that Thurstan Basset should acquit him towards
the Jews of 25 marks for which he was surety.25 He died before
1195, when Ralph Pirot III owed 30 marks for his fine for a fee of
4 knights of the honor of Colchester and 10 marks of his gift for the
king's redemption.26 In 1201 Ralph Pirot of Essex gave 15 marks
in lieu of service beyond seas, and for seisin of his land of which he
had been disseised by reason of the count of Eu (Augy), if so be that
he held of John of Eu when John last crossed to Normandy.27 For
the further descent of this family see Arundel, n. 71.
In 1196 William Boterel accounted for £9 of the honor of Geoffrey
de Ver for 9 fees to the scutage of Normandy and £5 of the scutage
of the fee of Eudes the sewer for 5 fees, and similarly in 1203.2
He had married the said Geoffrey's relict.
28
King John gave the manors of Kemsing, Brabourn and Sutton
in Kent, late of William Marshal the younger, to William earl of
Albemarle in 1215.29 Subsequently Kemsing passed to Faukes de
Breauté, who in 1219 obtained a grant of a market at his manor
there.30
In that year it was presented from the hundred of Otheford
that Kemsing was the king's escheat and was held by Faukes de
Breauté; it was worth £36 a year.31 The three manors above named
were taken into the king's hands in 1224. Baldwin de Bethune
had sometime given 40s. of rent in Kemsing to the abbess of Wilton.33
In 1225 the three manors were committed to earl William Marshal
together with the stock.34 It was presented in 1275 that the manor
of Kemsing had been sometime given to Baldwin de Bethune, but
at that time William de Valence held it.35
32
Ralph Pirot III died in 1222, when Richard his son did homage
for 2 fees in Lindsell and Hawkwell, Essex, lately held in chief by
SAWSTON, HAWKWELL, GLEMHAM
219
Ralph his father.36 Richard gave 12d. rent in Lindsell and the
garbs of his demesne there to Dunmow, the latter for the works of
the church.37 He died in 1228, having in the year before demanded
against Jordan le Brun the advowsons of the churches of Ashingdon
and Hawkwell, which last-named advowson he quitclaimed to
Jordan.38
In 1228 Ralph Pirot, brother and heir of Richard, did homage
for the lands (in Lindsell and Hawkwell) which his brother had
lately held of the crown in chief.39
He confirmed to Dunmow the above-named rent of 12d. &c. for
the soul of his brother Richard.40 In 1236 Ralph Pirot returned a
certificate of his fees for the aid for marrying the king's daughter,
namely in Lindsell I fee which he himself held, in Hawkwell 1 fee
which Jordan le Brun held, in Sawston, Cambs., 2 fees of which he
held 7 parts and John son of William de Sausiton 1 part.41 In
1240 Odo Burnard, whom Thomas Fitz-Bernard and Alina his wife
vouched to warranty, acknowledged that I carucate in Beeston,
Budna (Budenho), Great and Little Caldecote, Beds., was the right
of Ralph Pirot, who granted it to Odo to hold for fee.42
In 1242-3 Ralph Pirot held by barony in Sawston 2 fees, and in
Lindsell and Hawkwell 2 fees, of the king in chief.43 Apparently
the service of these fees had been alienated by Warin Fitz-Gerold I
from the honor, as stated above, for there is nothing to indicate
any feudal relation between Pirot and the fee of Margery de Rivers
in 1236 or at any later date. At his death in 1252 Ralph Pirot IV
held Sawston, Cambs., of the king in chief for 2 fees, and the manor
of Lindsell, including no doubt Hawkwell, similarly of the king for
2 fees; Ralph Pirot V, knt., his son, was aged 26 and more.
44 In
1284-6 Ralph Pirot and Thomas de Kancia held in Northill, Beds.,
Ralph V, or possibly his son
Ralph Pirot VI, died in 1305 similarly seised of Sawston and Lindsell;
his heir was Ralph VIII, son of Ralph VII, son of the said Ralph V
or VI.46 We have therefore in this family the unusual occurrence
of 7, if not 8, generations successively bearing the name of Ralph.
fee of Ralph de Beauchamp.45
In 1315 John de Locheleye and Isabel his wife gave the manor
of Lindsell to Simon Perot and Jakemine his wife for life, with
reversion to John and his heirs. This fine was made by the king's
order.47
134, 499.
1. Pipe R. 30 Hen, I, 66. 2. Ibid. 67. 3. Ibid. 2 Hen. II, 67. 4. Ibid.
65-66. 5. Colchester Chartul. 6, 13. 6. Annals of Bermond. 439. 7. Mon.
Anglic. ii. 221. 8. Red Bk. 398.
9. Claud. A. viii. f. 117. 10. Ibid. f. IIId.
11. Colchester Chartul. 179. 12. Mon. Anglic. vi. 618. 13. Harl. MS. 3697,
f.207. 14. Ibid. 15. Ibid. 180. 16. Ibid. 17. Ibid. 179. 18. Red Bk.
355. 19. Ibid. 275. 20. Ibid. 324. 21. Ibid. 365. 22. Ibid. 398. 23. Ibid.
24. Pipe R. 22 Hen. II, 24.
25. Ibid. 26 Hen. II, 129.
26. Pipe R. 7 Ric. I, m. 9. 27. R. de Oblat. 151.
28. Red Bk. 105, 158.
29. R. Lit. Claus. i. 230b. 30. Ibid. 393. 31. Bk. of Fees, 269. 32. R. Lit.
Claus. i. 620, 645. 33. Ibid. ii. 17.
34. Ibid. 27-29. 35. R. Hund. i. 234.
36. Ann. of Dunstable, 77; Excerpt. Fin. i. 97. 37. Harl, MS. 662, f. 54.
38. Essex Feet of F. 78. 39. Excerpt. Fin. i. 166. 40. Harl. MS. 662, f. 54.
41. Bk. of Fees, 582. 42. Feet of F. Beds. n. 456. 43. Testa, 355b, 266b.
44. Cal. Inq. i. 60. 45. Feud. Aids, i. 5. 46. Cal. Inq. iv. 222. 47. Essex
F. of Fines, 9 Edw. II (61/1636).
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XXV.
In Pitsea, hundred of Barstable, Essex, in 1086 the king had
3 hides which Ulveva wife of Phin (the Dane) held in 1086 with
hide of woodland; and in the same place 3 hides and 30 acres of
woodland remained in the king's hands.
In Bowers Gifford Serlo held of Ranulf Peverel 1 hide, in Vange
I hide and in' Inga' (? in Pitsea) I hide and 20 acres. These were
all in the hundred of Barstable.
In Bowers Gifford a certain knight held of Walter the deacon
2 hides of the land of Tedric, brother of the said Walter.
In Bowers Gifford Grim the reeve had 2 hides.
One of these estates in Bowers Gifford passed eventually to the
fee of Warin Fitz-Gerold, later of Henry his brother. Another
was granted by Henry I and confirmed by Henry II to Ralph Fitz-
Gerold to hold by serjeanty of scalding the king's swine.
As already noted in the Introduction, the manor of Pitsea was
given by Eudes the sewer and Rohaise his wife to St. John's, Col-
chester, excepting the fee there of Ralph de Mundon and that of
Alwin Sokeman; ¹ the church of Pitsea and two-thirds of the tithe
with the chapel upon the land of the monks there were confirmed to
the monastery.2 In 1119 Henry I confirmed the manor, except as
above, and a hide given by William Peverel,³ whose grant was attested
by Serlo (his Domesday tenant), who held that hide, Robert de
Muntalurme, brother of the same Serlo, Godfrey de Rochela, Richard
Mauduit and 4 others.ª
5
It appears that Richard (de Clare), son of count Gilbert, acquired
an interest in Pitsea soon after 1086 if not before, through Phin
the Dane, holding of him Barrow Hall in Rochford hundred. Further,
that this interest was given in marriage to Eudes the sewer with
Rohaise his wife, daughter of Richard de Clare. In the chartulary
of St. John's, Colchester, there is an interesting quitclaim by Gilbert
son of the said Richard to St. John's, Hugh abbot of the same,
Eudes the sewer and his wife of all claim that the said Gilbert or
his father had in Pitsea; to which were witnesses: Baldwin the
grantor's son, Hamon de St. Clare, Ralph de Amblie (n. 1), Adeliza
sister of Baldwin, Ingram de Albernon, Alvred de Benevill and William
his brother, William Filliol, Swen son of Geremund, Hamelin de
Anslevill, Flambard, William de Hausvill and Ranulf brother of
Falcon.
In 1166 Ralph Fitz-Gerold (?) (Geri ') held of Henry Fitz-Gerold
the chamberlain 1 fee, as of the fees of Eudes the sewer, but of this
5th part of a knight Sir Warin, brother of the said Henry, had
enfeoffed him of his demesne of Kemsing and had given his service
and that of Ralph Pirot with Kemsing to his wife in dower." See
n. 24. In the carta of Geoffrey de Ver, among the 5 fees which he
had of the honor of John the seneschal, duly appeared the entry :
'Ralph Fitz-Gery by the service of 1 knight.' 8 In 1166 the sheriff
of Kent accounted among escheats for 2s. from the land of Ralph
Fitz-Gerold, and so yearly until 1173.
9
BOWERS GIFFORD, LANGDON
221
At Midsummer 1178, after the death of Alexander Fitz-Gerold,
the sheriff of Essex accounted for 48s. 5d. of the issues of Bowers
Gifford (Bures ') late of the said Alexander, 10 and in the following
year of 14s. 8d.11
12
In 1180 Peter de Sutton and Margaret his wife owed £50 in Essex
and Hertfordshire for his part of the land late of Ralph Fitz-Gerold,¹
and John de Tresgoz owed £100 in Kent for having his share of the
same Ralph's land.13 Sutton made several payments by the hands
of William de Bendenges. In 1189 Alan de Valeines owed £10 2s. 8d.
for Peter de Sutton on account of his said fine,¹ª and John Fitz-
Pain accounted in Essex for 1 mark for a recognition of the land of
Langdon (Langoton') against Peter de Sutton and John de Tres-
go2.15
In 1204 Robert de Sutton acknowledged the right of Thomas
de Camvill to the advowson of the church of Langdon, and Thomas
granted him the land which John Fitz-Pain held of the said Thomas
in Langdon with the advowson, to hold for fee; for default of
warranty Thomas covenanted to assign to Robert 3s. of rent in
Fobbing, Essex.16 William Bataille quitclaimed to John de Lange-
dun 15s. of rent in Langdon.17 To both fines John Fitz-Pain
was a consenting party. Peter son of John Tregoz occurs in
1199.18
In 1209-10 king John confirmed to William Bigod the grant in
frank marriage from Robert de Sutton to the said William with
Margaret his daughter of his lands in Sutton and Bowers Gifford,
with the advowson of the church, the serjeanty of the hundred of
Barstaple, and suit of all his lands at Langdon with the advowson
of the church there.19 In 1200 Robert de Sutton had been impleaded
by Thomas de Camvill for 30 acres of land in the marsh of Richer-
ness in Bowers Gifford.20
In 1219 Robert de Sutton, who had returned to allegiance in
1217, held Bowers Gifford by serjeanty of scalding the king's bacon
pigs, and the hundred of Barstaple, Essex, for £18 rent to the farm
of the county.21 He was tenant of the abbot of Colchester for a
parcel in Pitsea.22
Robert de Sutton gave to the abbey of Maldon the advowson
of the church of Langdon and that of the church of St. Margaret of
Bowers Gifford, and in 1238 Margery la Bigod, daughter and heir of
the said Robert, quitclaimed her right therein; John de Langedon
and Thomas le Bygot recorded their claims.23 As far back as
1228 Roger de Leyburn (n. 4) had quitclaimed to William Bigod
and Margery his wife and the heirs of Margery 2 carucates and the
advowson of the church of Bowers Gifford (Bures '), and the marsh
of Richerness to be held of the same Roger for fee.21 The further
descent of these tenements is illustrated by a fine levied in 1243
between William Giffard and William de la Dune and Margery (de
Sutton) his wife, to which premises Thomas le Bigod of Bradelegh,
son and heir of William le Bigod by Margery his wife, put in his
claim.25 In 1246 William Giffard had a grant of land in Barstaple,
Essex, late of Roger Bataile, being of the Normans' lands.26
As Langdon was a member of the honor of Ralegh 27 it could not
have represented the fee held of Fitz-Gerold in 1166, although the
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families of Sutton and Tregoz were clearly heirs general of Ralph
Fitz-Gerold.
In 1265 the land in Bowers late of William Giffard was seized.28
Gundred his wife was possibly the daughter and heir of Thomas
Bigod of Bradelegh, son and heir of William le Bigod and Margery
de Sutton.29 They granted land in Bowers to Richard de Tany
and acknowledged in the king's court the right of the abbot of
Colchester of view of frankpledge of their vill of Pitsea in accordance
with the charters of Henry II and Richard.30 In 1275 William Gif-
fard held the hundred of Barstaple of the king for 25 marks, and
had divers liberties in Bowers.31 In 1276 he and his wife impleaded
William son of Warin de Muntchenesy for deforcing them of view
of frankpledge, suit to Barstaple hundred court, ward and 'ward-
peny' in 4 vills (named), and afterwards quitclaimed their demand
by reason of acquittance granted to Ralph de Muntchenesy by
Henry II.32
In 1281 Robert Giffard, in the court of the exchequer and in
the presence of William Giffard, father of Robert, and Gundred
his wife, mother of Robert, surrendered to the king and Eleanor
the king's consort, the bailiwick of the hundred and a half of Bar-
staple, Essex, held of the king at fee farm for 25 marks yearly,
which he had by the grant and demise of the said William and
Gundred and by charters of Henry I and Henry II, whereby Ralph
son of Gerold, ancestor of the said Gundred, was enfeoffed of the said
bailiwick; saving to the said Robert and his heirs the fair and part
of the market of Horndon and his tenants there; and on condition
that the tenement late of Robert le Lord in Bowers be quit of
suit, two wards etc. in the said hundred with other conditions
(named).³
33
S
Gundred Giffard died in 1299; Robert Giffard her son was
aged 38 and more.34 He had livery in the following year of his
mother's lands.35 In 1302 he was charged with £5 relief of 1 fee in
Rawreth,36 Essex, of which his mother died seised. He died before
1315, when Margery late wife of Peter Savery had livery of lands in
the hundred of Rochford, Essex, which had been acquired jointly
by the said Peter and Margery of Robert Giffard and were held of
the honor of Ralegh for fee.37 In 1321 land in Langdon was held
of John Giffard for rent and suit of his court of Bowers.38
In 1324
John Giffard of Essex had respite of knighthood for a term.39 In
1329 Master Henry de Shorne of Kent acknowledged that he owed.
£3000 to John Giffard, son and heir of Robert Giffard, knt., of
Bowers, Essex.40 As of Bowers he and Eleanor his wife had licence
to alienate lands in Morton by Ongar in 1338, and he had exemption
for life from serving as king's minister.41 The manor of Bowers
and its many members were limited by Henry de Shorne upon John
Giffard and his issue, with remainder to Thomas de St. Nicholas
and his heirs by fine for the benefit of St. Nicholas. This settle-
ment probably represented a purchase of the estate. John died
without issue in 1348, when Thomas, son and heir of the said
Thomas de St. Nicholas, aged 10 years, was found to be entitled
to the reversion of the manor, which was held of many lords;
KINGSTON LISLE, SPARSHOLT
223
John's right heir was William Bigod, son of John Bigod of Vange,
Essex.42
275.
1. Colchester Chartul. 2, 5.
2. Ibid. 95.
3. Ibid. 6. 4. Ibid. 142.
5. V. C. H. Essex, i. 482. 6. Op. cit. 141. 7. Red Bk. 275, 355.
8. Ibid.
9. Pipe R. 12 Hen. II, 114.
10. Ibid. 24 Hen. II, 37. 11. Ibid.
25 Hen. II, 119. 12. Ibid. 26 Hen. II, 6. 13. Ibid. 147. 14. Ibid. 1 Ric. I, 22.
15. Ibid. 29. 16. Essex Feet of F. 33.
17. Ibid. 33.
18. Ibid. 17.
19. Cart. Antiq. H. n. 2; Dugdale, Baronage, i. 133b.
20. R. Cur. Reg.
iii. 296; Cf. Select Civil Pleas (Selden Soc.), i. 36. 21. Bk. of Fees, 276, 345-
22. Ibid. 627. 23. Essex Feet of F. 122, 198. 24. Ibid. 83. 25. Ibid. 143 ;
26. Ibid. 447·
27. Morant, Essex, v. 257. 28. Cal.
29. Colchester Chartul. 473.
30. Ibid. 447-
32. Placit. de quo war. 238b. 33. Cal. Pat. R. 453.
34. Cal. Inquis. iii. 431.
35. Cal. Fine R. i. 425.
Excerpt. Fin. i. 394.
Misc. Ing. i. 202.
31. R. Hund. i. 154 pass.
Cf. Placit. de quo war. 238b.
36. Feud. Aids, ii. 439.
38. Cal. Inquis. vi. 154.
41. Cal. Pat. R. 50, 82.
37. Cal. Inquis. v. 280; Cal. Close R. 151.
39. Cal. Fine R. iii. 302.
40. Cal. Close R. 533.
42. Cal. Inquis. ix. 103.
XXVI-XXVII.
The king in 1086 held Sparsholt in Hildeslaw hundred,¹ Berks., in
demesne; it was assessed at 10 hides. This land included Kingston
Lisle.
3
Upon his accession Henry II gave Sparsholt to his chamberlain
of the exchequer, Warin Fitz-Gerold; it was then farmed by the
sheriff of Berkshire for £32 per annum.2 Warin thereupon enfeoffed
of this land Alexander Fitz-Gerold of 1 knight's fee and Hugh Fitz-
Gerold of the like. They were probably his kinsmen, and the
first-named of these, Alexander, married Alice de Rumeilli, relict of
William Fitz-Duncan, and so held the honor of Skipton in 1166
by the courtesy of England. He died without issue in 1178, when
his fee in Sparsholt reverted to the heir of Henry Fitz-Gerold.
In Sparsholt was an estate called Fawler, of ro hides, which belonged
to Abingdon abbey. In the reign of William II and early in that of
Henry I this estate was held by Ansketill, a knight of abbot Rainald,
who forfeited it for some offence. While the abbey was in his
hands the king gave this estate to Thurstan his despencer, to whom
succeeded Hugh his son. Henry I restored the estate to Abingdon
and directed Hugh son of Thurstan, despencer of his court, to do
fealty to abbot Faritius and perform the due service of that land.ª
Possibly this was the knight's fee which Baldwin de Fagesflore
held in 1166 of the abbot of Abingdon. 5
In 1212 Warin Fitz-Gerold held 32 librates of land in Sparsholt
by the gift of Henry II to his ancestor. It descended to Warin
Fitz-Gerold, who held c. 1236 and in 1242-3 in Kingston Lisle,
Berks., I fee of Margery de Rivers and at the latter date 1 fee in
Fawler (Fauflore ), Berks., of the abbot of Abingdon. In 1267
Margaret de Rivers, countess of Devon, had 2 fees in Kingston
and Sparsholt.8 In 1276 Gerard de L'Isle had gallows and assize
of bread &c. at Kingston Lisle, and free warren; 9 he had withdrawn
the suit of his manor due to the hundred of Hildeslewe.10
In 1316 Warin de L'Isle was lord of Kingston Lisle with Balking
and Fawler (Fauelore). He died in 1327 holding the manor of
11
224
HONOR OF EUDES THE SEWER
I
Ι
Kingston of Robert de L'Isle for 1 fee and that of Fallow or Fawler
of the abbot of Abingdon; Gerard his son was aged 23 or more.12
Gerard de L'Isle died in 1360 holding the manor of Kingston Lisle
of Robert de L'Isle of Rougemont for I fee and 2 carucates in Fawler
in Sparsholt of the abbot of Abingdon for 1 fee; Warin de L'Isle,
knt., his son, was aged 30 or more.13 In 1368 Gerard (sic) de L'Isle
held 1 fee in Kingston in the vale of Whithors' of Sir Robert
de L'Isle, and tenements in Sparsholt of the same Sir Robert, who
held them of the abbot of Abingdon for 1 fee.14
6
I
1. Cf. R. Hund. i. 15.
3. Red. Bk. 355-6.
5. Red Bk. 306.
8. Abbrev. Placit. 160. 9. R. Hund. i. 9-10.
12. Cal. Inquis. vii. 6. 13. Ibid. x. 473.
6.
2. Red Bk. 658 and Pipe R. 2 Hen. II, 34.
4. Chron. of Abingdon, 125-6. ~ Cf. pp. 37, 90–91.
Bk. of Fees, 107.
7. Ibid. 607; Testa, 110, 121.
10. Ibid. 15.
11. Feud. Aids,
14. Cal. Close R. 496.
i. 50.
XXVIII-XXIX.
Worth, Wilts., was in the demesne of the king in 1086; Ralph
the priest held the church of Worth and 3 hides pertained to it.¹
Henry II gave to Warin Fitz-Gerold in 1155 in Worth, Wilts.,
34 librates and in Acre de Crichelade 100 solidates.2 Out of these
lands Warin Fitz-Gerold enfeoffed William de Hanlege (n. 21) of
I fee in Sevenhampton and Jordan de Wicham of fee there.
1166 these two knights held of Henry Fitz-Gerold the chamberlain.³
In
6
In 1212 Warin Fitz-Gerold held Sevenhampton and Cricklade
by serjeanty of the king's chamber, and in 1242-3 Margery de
Rivers held the vill of Cricklade and that of Sevenhampton with
the appurtenances of the king's chamberlaincy at the exchequer. 5
In 1267 Isabel des Forz, countess of Albemarle, assigned to Margaret
de Rivers, countess of Devon, the manor of Sevenhampton until
certain moneys due to her by the said Isabel had been paid. In
1276 the same Isabel, then countess of Albemarle and Devon and
lady of the Isle of Wight, in her widowhood, gave to her clerk
Adam de Stratton the manor of Sevenhampton with the hamlets
of Worth, Stratton St. Margaret and Cricklade with the hundred,
to hold by performing the services pertaining to the office of
chamberlain in the king's exchequer. He was in possession of
the manor in 1289,9 but he was shortly afterwards convicted of
malpractices and lost his estates, including Sevenhampton.
7
Edward I demised the manor to Margaret, queen of England,
for her life. In 1299 the manor with the borough and hundred of
Cricklade and other vast estates were assigned in dower to Margaret,
sister of Philip king of France, the king's consort.10 She was lady
of these vills in 1316.¹
11
1. Dom. Bk. 65b. 2. Pipe R. 2 Hen. II, 35, 57.
4. Ibid. 486. 5. Testa, 153b. 6. Abbrev. Placit. 160.
of him by Mr. Hubert Hall in Red Bk. iii, Introd. cccxix.
ii. 200. 9. Cal. Inquis. iv. 82. 10. Cal. Pat. R. 452.
11. Feud. Aids, v. 206.
3. Red Bk. 355-6.
7. See an account
8. Cal. Chart. R.
Cf. Cal. Inq. v. 27.
WORTH-SAWBRIDGEWORTH, PISHOBURY 225
XXX.
In 1086 Geoffrey de Mandevill held Sawbridgworth, Herts., as
24 hides.
The account of this vill belongs to that of the honor of Mandevill.
In or before 1106 Henry I gave Sawbridgworth and other manors
to Eudes the sewer, to hold until William de Mandevill should have
paid the heavy debt, then due from him to the crown, to the said
Eudes.¹ While in his hands Eudes gave to St. John's, Colchester,
the third garb of the tithes of his demesne of Sawbridgworth, 2
and Geoffrey de Mandevill confirmed the gift early in the reign of
Henry II.3
4
After the death of Eudes the sewer and about the year 1122
Henry I granted the church of Sawbridgworth to St. Peter's, West-
minster. In 1130 a considerable demesne in Sawbridgworth was
in the hands of Henry I, upon which 46s. of danegeld was remitted.5
This land, formerly held by Eudes the sewer, remained in the crown
until Henry II restored it, circa January 1156, to Geoffrey de
Mandevill, quit of the charge of the debt of William de Mandevill
to Henry I. Two years later Geoffrey confirmed to Robert Blund
of London land in Sawbridgworth which Warin Fitz-Gerold the
chamberlain and Henry his brother had granted to him, which was
of the said Geoffrey's fee."
6
In 1166 Henry Fitz-Gerold the chamberlain recorded in his carta
that:
Earl Geoffrey de Mandevill gave to Sir Warin my brother
and to me Sawbridgworth for 74 librates of land, each 20 (recte
10) librates for the service of I knight; but Sir Warin my
brother gave to St. Edmund's for (the health of) his soul 6
librates of land in the same vill quit.8
In 1166 Henry Fitz-Gerold held of Geoffrey earl of Essex 4 fees
which the king then held in his own hands. These were probably
not in Sawbridgworth, for an undated return states that Henry
Fitz-Gerold had of Sawbridgworth 7 knights' fees.10 This state-
ment is of interest as it shows that at that time 10 librates of land
made a knight's fee. Apparently the whole of Sawbridgworth did
not pass by the above feoffment into the possession of the Fitz-
Gerolds. Their manor was subsequently known by the name of
Pishobury, while that which descended to Geoffrey de Say I was
known as Says-bury.
In 1212 Geoffrey de Say the elder, younger son of William de
Say I by his wife Beatrice, sister of Geoffrey de Mandevill, earl of
Essex, held Sawbridgworth in chief of the king; it belonged to
the honor of earl William de Mandevill.¹¹ Geoffrey died in 1214,
when Geoffrey his son and heir proffered 400 marks for his inherit-
ance both on the side of his father and on that of his mother,
including Rickling, Essex, which his father had given him.12 This
last-named manor was in the possession of Beatrice de Say afore-
named in 1185,13 and probably remained in her possession until her
death in 1207.
III.
Q
226
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In 1222 Geoffrey de Say II had a grant of a market at Sawbridg-
worth.14
At this time Faukes de Breauté possessed a manor in this
place, for in 1223 he and Margery his wife were vouched to warranty
in a plea of virgate here,15 and on 22 August, 1224, the sheriff of
Essex was notified that the king had committed to Margery wife
of Faulkes de Breauté the manor of Sawbridgworth for her support.16
In 1236 Margery de Rivers was defendant in a plea of land in this
place,¹7 and in the ensuing year William de Say had a grant of
2 bucks and 8 does to put into his park of Sawbridgworth.18
Baldwin de L'Isle, earl of Devon, held at his death in 1263 the
manor of Sawbridgworth of Sir William de Say for 3 fees; Isabel
des Forz, countess of Albemarle, late wife of the earl of Albemarle,
was his sister and, through the death of his son, his heir, aged 24 or
25 years. The said Sir William de Say died seised of the manor
of Sawbridgworth in 1272; William his son was aged 18 or 19
years.20
19
Margaret de Rivers, countess of Devon, held at her death in
1292 the manor of 'Pyshoo,' later Pishobury, in dower after the
death of her husband Baldwin de L'Isle, who held it of Sir William
de Say for 3 fees; Isabel des Forz, countess of Albemarle and
Devon and lady of the Isle of Wight, was Baldwin's next heir to
this manor.21 William de Say, of whom Pishobury was held, died in
1295 holding his manor of Sawbridgworth of the king in chief;
Geoffrey his son was aged 14 years.
22
1
In 1303 the manor of Pishobury was held of Geoffrey de Say
for 3 fees and was in the king's hands by reason of custody of
Robert de L'Isle, (son of Warin and) heir of the said manor, being
then under age; Geoffrey de Say then held the manor of Sawbridg-
worth.23
Margery late wife of Robert de Vautort held in 1310 a
hall in Sawbridgworth of the heir of Warin de L'Isle as of his
manor of Pishobury for fee; Thomas her son was aged 24 and
more.24
He is named Richard in Feudal Aids (ii. 440). In a writ
issued in 1312 it was stated that by agreement certain of the lands
late of Isabel des Forz, countess of Albemarle, including the manor
of Pishobury, Herts., ought to descend to Robert de L'Isle as her
next heir of the inheritance of Margery wife of Baldwin de Varnoun
her grandmother.25 The tenement given to St. Edmund's before
1166 was held in 1368 by the abbot of St. Edmund's of Robert de
L'Isle as I fee in Tednambury by Sawbridgworth.26
The further descent of these manors in Sawbridgworth is fully
described by Robert Clutterbuck in The History of Hertfordshire
(edit. 1827), iii. 190 ff., where pedigrees of Say, Fitz-Gerold and L'Isle
will be found.
1. Colchester Chartul. 22. 2. Ibid. 68. 3. Ibid. 146.
4. Robinson,
Gilbert Crispin, 156. 5. Pipe R. 31 Hen. I, 62. 6. Round, Geof. de
Mandeville, 235-6. 7. Brit. Mus. Facsim. of Chs. i. 43. 8. Red Bk. 356.
9. Ibid. 347. 10. Ibid. 731.
13. R. de Dominabus, 76.
11. Bk. of Fees, 123. 12. R. de Fin. 527, 535-
14. R. Lit. Claus. i. 514, 540. 15. Bracton's
Note-Bk. n. 1643. 16. R. Lit. Claus. i. 617b, 642b. 17. Close R. 381, 514.
18. Ibid. 445. 19. Cal. Ing. i. 173–4. 20. Ibid. 282. 21. Cal. Inq. iii. 38.
22. Ibid. 170. 23. Feud. Aids, ii. 435. 24. Cal. Inq. v. 134. 25. Ibid.
202. 26. Cal. Close R. 496.
DEDDINGTON
227
XXXI.
The bishop of Bayeux held in Deddington,¹ Oxon., 36 hides.
Adam (Fitz-Hubert de Ryes) held of the said bishop in South
Newington, Oxon., 6½ hides, in Charlton, Northants., 3 virgates.
Roger (de Chesney) held of Robert de Oilli in Heyford (Warin),
Oxon., 10 hides. See Wallingford, n.
Ralph de Langetot held of Walter Giffard in Bedfordshire in
Dunton I hide and 3 virgates, in Campton 4 hides and 1 virgate.
Miles Crispin held in demesne in Oxfordshire inter alia in
Gethampton (Gadintone) 5 hides, in Whitchurch 10 hides. See
Wallingford, n. 24.
Some part of the lands in Heyford Warin and Whitchurch were
held by Ralph de Chesney in 1166 of the honor of Wallingford for
2 fees.2 They descended to Henry Fitz-Gerold the chamberlain by
his marriage to Matilda de Chesney. The land in South Newington
which Adam Fitz-Hubert held in 1086 was in the possession of
Hugh de Chesney circa 1163, and possibly in 1130, together with
land in Charlton. That in South Newington was subsequently
held of the heirs of Fitz-Gerold. Wadard's 4 hides there were
incorporated in the honor of Arsic, while Anschitel's 4 hides there
were held of or by the Grays, his descendants. It was recorded in
the Northamptonshire survey temp. Henry I (1124-29) that Eudes
the sewer (sic) held 8 small virgates, equal to 31 virgates, in Charlton
of the fee of Colchester.
Ralph de Langetot had issue one if not two daughters; of these
Alice became the wife of Roger de Chesney. An account of their
progeny has been given by the Rev. H. E. Salter in the Appendix
to his Chartulary of Eynsham (Oxford Hist. Soc. xlix), 411 ff.; of
that valuable contribution to the history of the Chesney family
much use has been made in these notes. The issue of Roger and
Alice, to whom particular reference will be made, were Hugh, heir
to Roger and Alice; William of Deddington; Robert archdeacon
of Leicester until 1147, when he was preferred to the see of Lincoln
(d. 1168); Hawise (?) and Beatrice.
In 1130 Hugh de Chesney was pardoned danegeld in Oxford-
shire of 22s., presumably in respect of Heyford Warin 10 hides,
and Murdac's hide in Minster; in Bedfordshire of 6s., presumably
in respect of Campton; and in Northamptonshire of 2s., possibly
in respect of land in Thenford or Charlton. The descent of the
lands of his own inheritance and of his mother's appears to indicate
that he was twice married and that he had issue by his first (?) wife
a daughter Matilda; his second (?) wife was Dionisia de Bereford,
whom Mr. Salter identifies as daughter and coheir of Walkelin
Waard, possibly son of the Wadard of the Domesday survey. Mr.
Salter suggests that Hugh may have been married but once and
that Matilda de Chesney may have been daughter of Roger de
Chesney, younger son of Roger and Alice, or of Ralph brother of
the younger Roger, both of whom died before 1148.4 No difficulty
arises in regard to the inheritance of Dionisia; it descended
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regularly to the issue of Hugh and Dionisia, namely to Ralph de
Chesney of Ducklington, who died in or before 1190, William of
Barford St. Michael, and Alice.5 South Newington of this fee was
held of the Fitz-Gerolds and their descendants, the earls of Devon,
and subsequently the earls of Albemarle. Deddington was held
jointly in 1190 by (1) Guy de Dive in right of Lucy his wife, daughter
and heir of Ralph de Chesney; (2) Matilda de Chesney, mother of
Warin Fitz-Gerold; (3) Ralph Murdac III, son and heir of Ralph
Murdac II by Beatrice de Chesney (?) his wife. Here it may be
well to cite the pleadings in a suit brought in 1241-2 by William de
Dive against Beatrice Murdac, Ralph Harang and Alice his wife :
they claimed against William a third part of 2 knights' fees in
Deddington, while he claimed against Ralph and Alice two-thirds
of a third part of 2 fees; Harang and his wife proffered a charter
of Henry II by which he granted to Ralph Murdac and his heirs
the whole of Deddington to hold for 2 fees; William de Dive
proffered another charter of Henry II by which he granted Ded-
dington to William de Chesney and his heirs for 2 knights' fees,
and alleged that on the death of William the grantee the manor
descended to Ralph de Chesney his nephew, then to Lucy daughter
of Ralph and that her husband Guy de Dive demised the manor
to Ralph Murdac.7
8
9
The lands held in 1086 by Rainald, of the fee of William Fitz-
Osbern, were held in 1201 of Warin Fitz-Gerold, who also held
2 fees of the honor of Wallingford, being the lands held in 1166 by
Ralph de Chesney, and in 1086 by Roger de Chesney and Miles
Crispin. Most of the lands held by Anschetil de Grai in 1086 of
the fee of William Fitz-Osbern were held in the first half of the
13th century of the heirs of Warin Fitz-Gerold. Lastly, the land
in Campton, Beds., held by Ralph de Langetot in 1086 of Walter
Giffard, was in the possession of William de Chesney in 1162, of
Matilda de Chesney in 1176 and 1185, of Henry Fitz-Gerold II, her
younger son, at a later date and afterwards of his heirs the L'Isles.
The tenement was described as two-thirds of the vill in 1287, when
it, i.e. the lordship of it, was said to have been given to Henry
Fitz-Gerold II by William earl of Norfolk (recte Pembroke) and
Marshal of England.10 It was also described as of the honor of
Gloucester.
There is no evidence that William de Chesney of Deddington.
left issue, but it is quite certain that Hugh, his elder brother, left
issue by Dionisia de Bereford. Why then was not Hugh's son and
heir by that lady heir to the inheritance of Hugh's father and
mother and of Hugh's brother William? There appears to be a
possible explanation, namely that Hugh had issue by an earlier
wife than Dionisia, and that Matilda de Chesney, who married
Henry Fitz-Gerold prior to the year 1166, was that heir, so that
she carried the lands and lordship which had belonged to her father
and his mother with the esnecy to her husband Henry Fitz-Gerold I.
On the other hand Mr. Salter suggests that Henry II may have
permitted William de Chesney to retain for life property over
which he had obtained control during the time of Stephen on
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condition that two-thirds of it should descend to such Chesneys.
as had married men of the king's household and their heirs.
Towards the end of his life and after May 1163 Hugh de
Chesney, in conjunction with his sons, Ralph and William, and with
the consent of Dionisia his wife, gave to the monks of Eynsham
the church of South Newington, Oxon.; which gift was duly con-
firmed by the donor's brother, Robert de Chesney, bishop of Lin-
coln.11 Apparently Hugh died within the period 1156-1166. As
already stated, he left issue by Dionisia his (second ?) wife, Ralph,
William and Alice, and to their heirs descended the lands which
had been of the inheritance of the said Dionisia.
William de Chesney was a man of some note during the reign of
Stephen and amassed a considerable estate, as Mr. Salter has shewn
at the reference stated above. In 1157 he had remission of 72s. of
danegeld in Oxfordshire, namely on 36 hides, which it is tempting
to identify as Deddington, but probably represented the remission
on other estates in addition.12 In 1160 he had remission of 8s.,
being his portion of an amercement of 5 marks on the hundred of
Langtree for a murder,¹³ possibly due from Whitchurch on the
fee of Wallingford. Two years later he had a similar remission of
3s. 4d., being his portion of an amercement of 40s. on the hundred
of Kenesward,' 1 afterwards either in Chadlington or Wootton
hundred, possibly in respect of Dean and Chalford, or of South
Newington; and also of £8 os. 6d. of danegeld,15 in respect of
80 hides of his lands and custodies in Oxfordshire. Mr. Salter
suggests that this remission was in respect of Deddington 36 hides,
Dean and Chalford 8 hides, Whitchurch 10 hides, Mongewell (?) 10
hides, Heyford Warin 10 hides, Rollright and Hornley 6 hides;
total 80 hides. Similarly he had remission of 5s. 6d. of danegeld
in Bedfordshire,16 in respect doubtless of his land in Campton,
which represented 1 virgate less than his father's holding there in
1130. He returned no carta in 1166, although he most likely held
Deddington in chief of the king by the service of 2 knights, which
service was performed by his successors. Possibly it was through
a feoffment made by Hugh, elder brother of William de Chesney,
that I hide in Thenford was held temp. Henry I by Robert Basset.¹7
In 1169 William de Chesney was pardoned 46s Sd., being his
proportion of the common assize of 60 marks due from the county
of Oxford, 18 and two years latermark for wastes and assarts
and pleas of the forest in that county.19 His tenure of knights' fees
and custodies of lands held of the bishopric of Lincoln is indicated
by the remission to him in 1172 of £9 out of £44 which the farmers
of the bishopric owed for scutage of knights which the late bishop,
Robert de Chesney (d. 1168), did not acknowledge as due to the
king, 20 namely those which were of new feoffment. He was
deceased before 1176, when 'Camelton' of Matilda de Caisneto
owed 2 marks for forest trespass. 21
William de Chesney's heirs were the above-named Matilda, of
whom presently; the heirs of Hawise (?), daughter of Roger de
Chesney; and the heirs of Beatrice, another daughter of the same
Roger. Some account of those who are presumed to have been the
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heirs of Hawise is given below at n. 31 (1). Beatrice is supposed
to have married Ralph Murdac II, son of Ralph Murdac I. He
had issue a son Ralph Murdac III, who granted circa 1173-1180 to
the monks of Eynsham, for the soul of his uncle William de Ches-
ney, a mill in Deddington called the 'Westmull.' 22 He made other
grants to the same monastery, as recited at n. 31 (2), including
that of of the mill of Clifton (in Deddington).23 In a confirmation
of 1194, which will follow in due course, this 3rd part of the mill of
Clifton was described as of the gift of Matilda de Chesney.24
Certain members of this family and of those with which it was
connected by marriage were named in 1176, as amerced for tres-
passes against the forest in Oxfordshire, namely, Ralph de Chesney
of Ducklington and William de Chesney (sons of Hugh); Ralph
Murdac, Geoffrey Murdac and John de Grai (n. 31 (2)); Ralph
Foliot and Bartholomew Foliot (n. 31 (1)).² 25
Henry Fitz-Gerold the chamberlain died either shortly before
Michaelmas 1174 or within 12 months after. The date of his
death has been assigned in error to 1178,26 owing to the neglect
on the part of the exchequer clerks to correct an old item of
account on the Pipe Rolls, namely that relating to the scutage
which remained due from the knights of the honor of Eudes the
sewer,27 which honor had been in the hands of the said Henry from
1158 to the time of his decease. In 1175 and again in 1182 Warin
son of Henry the chamberlain was pardoned 2s. Id., being his
proportion of an amercement of 4 marks (3 marks in 1182) which
had been imposed on the 3 hundreds of Wootton, Oxon., for
murder.28 In 1181 he was similarly pardoned 3s. 4d., being his
portion of an amercement of I mark for a murder in Langtree
hundred.29 In 1183 Matilda de Chesney, his mother, owed 300
marks for having her land and the custody of her son's land.30
This fine must have been made many years prior to its enrolment,
and shortly after the death of Henry Fitz-Gerold in 1174 or 1175.
Mr. Salter has found a grant of the same Henry in favour of
Reading abbey of land in Sawbridgworth which was addressed to
'M. de Caisne (io) uxori mee.' 31 The same Matilda gave or confirmed
to the monks of Newington Longueville two-thirds of the tithe of
her demesne of Campton by charter attested by Henry her (younger)
son and, amongst others, by a layman and a chaplain of Whit-
church.32
It was presented in 1185 from Clifton hundred, Beds.,
that Matilda de Kaineto was of the king's gift and had 2 sons, aged
respectively 18 and 12, and that her land of Campton was worth
£7 a year.33
In the same year Warin son of Henry the chamberlain
was pardoned 18d. of an amercement of 11s. imposed on Clifton
hundred, Beds., for a murder ;34 in the ensuing year he was similarly
pardoned 4s. 7d. out of 100s. imposed on Plowley (Pokelawa")
hundred,35 doubtless in respect of Heyford Warin; and in 1189 he
was pardoned 20d. out of 3 marks imposed on Wootton hundred,
Oxon.36
He had similar remission in respect of lands in the hun-
dreds of Armingford and Wetherley, Cambs.37 In 1190 Guy de
Dyve, who had married Lucy daughter and heir of Ralph de Chesney,
owed 50 marks for having a third part of the land of Deddington
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with other lands of the inheritance of his wife; Matilda de Chesney
owed 50 marks for a third part of the land of Deddington; Ralph
Murdach rendered account of 200 marks for having the king's good
will. 38
Some light is thrown on this last entry by the record in
1196 of the debt of William Walensis of 1 mark because he was
with Ralph Murdac in the war with count John.'
39
Mr. Salter has suggested that Warin Fitz-Gerold was of the
party of John count of Mortain in 1193 and in consequence was
dispossessed of certain lands by Richard I, who appears to have
given them to Guy de Dive, the representative of the line of Chesney
of Ducklington. Hence in 1194 Guy confirmed to Eynsham abbey
inter alia the 'Westmulne' in Deddington, a third part of the mill
of Clifton, which Matilda de Chesney had given, and lands in
Stanlake given by Anschetill de Grai and John de Grai.40 There
appears to be no confirmatory evidence of this suggested defection
beyond that contained in Guy's somewhat presumptuous con-
firmation to Eynsham.
In 1198 Warin Fitz-Gerold owed 100 marks for seisin of his part
of Deddington, such as his mother had at the time of her death.41
In 1201 he owed 295 marks for divers debts due to the crown, as
recorded in the Pipe Roll of 1 John,42 and in the same year had
acquittance of scutage or service in respect of 6 fees in Oxfordshire.43
In 1204 Guy de Dive had seisin of his land in Deddington,
except the castle, which the king retained in his own hands.44 In
1214 land in Deddington, which Thomas Basset had given to
William Malet in marriage with his daughter, was committed to
the same Thomas.45 Two years later Warin Fitz-Gerold's land in
Deddington was committed to the king's bailees, 46 and in 1217 the
relict of one of these bailees obtained possession of land here which
her late husband had held by the bail of king John.47 Upon the
collection of the carucage of 2s. levied in Oxfordshire in 1220
William de Dyve held in Deddington 15 carucates, Ralph Harang
13 carucates, and Eva de Gray 8 carucates; total 36 carucates.48
In 1224 Margery, then the wife of Faukes de Breauté, obtained
possession of the manor of Heyford Warin for her support;
49 and
Geoffrey son of Baldwin, brother and heir of William son of Bald-
win, recovered possession of 1 hide there, for which he had obtained
judgment but could not obtain possession owing to the violence
of Faukes de Breauté.50
I
In 1212 the earl of the Isle held (jure uxoris) 43 fees in Oxford-
shire, Warin Fitz-Gerold 6 fees, and Guy de Dive (and others) 2 fees. 51
In 1219 it was presented from Bampton hundred that the heirs of
Guy de Dive ought to be in the king's custody and were in the
custody of John de Bassingeburn; their land in Deddington was
worth £20 a year and William de Breauté held it; Eva de Gray held
10 markates of land in Deddington of the king; she also held of
the heir of the earl of the Isle, then in the king's wardship, land in
Lew, in the hundred of Bampton, worth £20 a year; Alice Murdac,
daughter of Ralph Murdac, held in Deddington 20 markates of land
of the king and was in the custody of the archbishop of York. 52
In 1235-6 there were in Oxfordshire 7 fees of the honor of the
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earl of the Isle; 53 Margery de Rivers held 6 fees of the honors of
Curcy and Fitz-Gerold, and 2 fees in Whitchurch, Heyford Warin
and Clapham of the honor of Wallingford (n. 13); 54 William de
Dive and Ralph Hareng held 2 fees in Deddington; 55 in Bedford-
shire 1 fee in Campton was described as of the fee of Warin Fitz-
Gerold. 56
In 1242-3 the abbot of Oseney held 1 fee in Little Tew; and
Ralph Ivaus I fee in South Newington of Margery de Rivers,
countess of the Isle ; Agnes de Maydewell fee in South Newington.
1\/1142
of William de Dive, who held it of the earl of the Isle.57 Part of the
tenement in Little Tew was of the honor of Curcy (n. 5).
In 1247 Osbert Giffard II was found to be son and heir of Osbert
Giffard I and next heir of the said Osbert and of Alice Murdac
(n. 31(2)) of a third part of the manor of Deddington, which the said.
Alice held for a third part of 2 fees; also of a fourth part of the
manor of Stanlake held by the said Alice of Beatrice her sister.58
See n. 31 (2).
The Bassets appear to have had an interest in Deddington. After
1259 Alan Basset, knt., gave land here and in Clifton and Hempton
to the canons of Bicester, which he had by the gift of Roger de
Sampford, knt., 59 who granted to Philip Basset a water-mill, land
and rent in Deddington.60 This later became known as the Christ
Church manor there. William de Dyve died in 1262, his heir being
John his son, aged 30 and more. This John died in 1272, holding
a manor in Deddington of the king for a third part of 2 fees;
Henry his son was aged 22 or more. 62
61
Some of these tenements may be traced in the Hundred Rolls
of 1276. In that year it was presented that the prior of Bicester
held a third part of the manor of Deddington which had been some-
time in the king's hands, but it was not known of whom he held it
or by what service; Osbert Giffard, Henry de Dive and the said
prior had gallows and assize of bread and ale in the manor of
Deddington. 63 In 1279 in South Newington Robert de Craunford
held fee of the earl of Albemarle, who was mesne between the
said Robert and the earl of the Isle; 64 John Giffard the younger
held there fee of the fee (late) of William de Chesney by Master
John de Cumpton, Henry de Maydewelle and the heir of Agnes de
Maydewell, mesnes between him and the heir of William de Ches-
ney, and rendered scutage to the heirs of Eva de Gray in Stanlake. 65
Henry de Dyve held at his death in 1277 the old castle and certain
lands in Deddington of the king in chief for 1 fee; John his
son was aged 4 years. In 1279 Alice relict of Henry de Dyve
obtained a grant of the marriage of Henry's heirs and custody of
his land of Deddington during the minority of the heirs for £10
rent.67
In 1281 the castle there was in her custody by the king's
commission.68 In 1296 Warin de L'Isle died seised of the manor
of Campton, held of the king as an escheat of the lands late of the
countess of Albemarle of her own inheritance, for fee; she held
of the earl of Gloucester; Robert de L'Isle his son was aged 6
years.69 For references to the Gray holding in South Newington
see n. 31 (2).
66
1
2
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In 1302 Robert de Craunford died seised of a manor in South
Newington, held for fee of the honor of Albemarle, and of a manor
there held of John de Grey (n. 31 (2)) for fee; Robert his son
was aged 30 and more.70 In 1304 Osbert Giffard, knt., had licence
to grant to John Abel and Margery his wife and John's heirs the
manor of Deddington held in chief of the king.71 Later (?) the
same Osbert granted a mill in Deddington and the advowson of
the church to Sir Hugh le Despenser. 72 Subsequently John Abel
enfeoffed Robert de Harwedene, clerk, of his manor of Deddington,
which he had by the grant of Osbert Giffard, with the reversion of
lands there which Sarah late wife of Osbert son of Osbert Giffard
held in dower. 73 In 1310 John de Dyve died holding a third part of
the manor of Deddington, with a decayed castle, of the king for a
third part of 2 fees. Henry his son was aged 22 years.
In 1315
Robert de Harwedon, king's clerk, had licence to enfeoff Hugh le
Despenser the elder of a third part of the manor of Deddington,
and for the feoffee to regrant it to the feoffor for his life with
reversion to the said Hugh and his heirs.75 This became known
later as the Windsor manor. In 1316 Henry de Dyve, Robert de
Harwedon and the prior of Bicester were lords of Deddington ;
Robert de L'Isle was lord of Heyford Warin; 77 Robert de Craun-
ford, John Giffard and the master of St. John's hospital outside the
gate of Oxford were lords of South Newington.
74
76
78
In 1327 Henry de Dyve of Wanneworth, Sussex, and Duckling-
ton, Oxon., held at his death a third part of the manor of Ded-
dington with the members of the king in chief for a third part of
2 fees; John his son was aged 7 years. 79 Dower was assigned to
Marca the relict of Henry in the manor of Ducklington. 80 This
third part of Deddington became known later as the Duchy manor.
Robert de Craunford died in 1339 holding land in South Newington
of the earl of Albemarle for fee and other land there of the honor
of Arsic by rendering 10s. to the castle-guard of Dover; Robert his
son was aged 27 and more. 81
In 1346 Robert de Craunford held fee in South Newington
(of the honor of Albemarle) and fee there (of the honor of Arsic,
as his predecessors had held it); John Giffard of Tuyford held
fee there (of the honor of Albemarle).82 In 1368 William de Craun-
ford held fee in South Newington of Robert de L'Isle, which was
late of Robert de Craunford. 83
1. Including Clifton and Hempton.
2. Red Bk. 309.
Hen. I, pass.
4. Eynsham Chartul. n. 124. 5. Cf. Cat.
A. 7056; Bk. of Fees, 820, 823. 6. Pipe R. 2 Ric. I, Oxon.
R. 26. Hen III; inform. of Mr. Salter.
9. See section n. 31 (2).
of Eynsham, nos. 17, 84.
14. Ibid. 8 Hen. II, 27. 15. Ibid. 16. Ibid. 17. V. C. H. Northants. i. 3686.
18. Pipe R. 15 Hen. II, 85. 19. Ibid. 17 Hen. II, 134. 20. Ibid. 18 Hen.
21. Ibid. 22 Hen. II, 24. 22. Chartul. of Eynsham, n. 89. 23. Ibid.
II, 97.
31-2. 26. Round, R. de
28. Ibid. 21 Hen. II, 14;
30. Ibid. 29 Hen. II, 103.
Newington-L. Chs. (Oxon.
34. Pipe R. 30 Hen. II. 116.
8. See the next section, 31 (1).
3. Pipe R. 31
of Anct. D. iv.
7. Cur. Regis
10. Placit. de quo war. 7b, 296. 11. Salter, Chartul.
12. Pipe R. 3 Hen. II, S2. 13. Ibid. 6 Hen. II, 9.
n. 90. 24. Ibid. n. 92. 25. Pipe R. 22 Hen. II,
Dominabus, 31 note. 27. Pipe R. 24 Hen. II, 30.
28 Hen. II, 126. 29. Ibid. 27 Hen. II. 112.
31. Citing Cott. MS. Vesp. E. xxv. 48. 32. Salter,
Rec. Soc.), 64.
33. R. de Dominabus, 31.
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35. Ibid. 31 Hen. II, 108.
38. Pipe R. 2 Ric. I, m. 3.
Eynsham, n. 99.
43. Ibid. 280.
449, 445.
36. Ibid. 1 Ric. I, 109. 37. Feudal Cambs. ii. 251.
39. Ibid. 8 Ric. I, m. 8d. 40. Chartul. of
41. Pipe R. Oxon. 10 Ric. I, m. 13. 42. R. Cancel. 275.
44. R. Lit. Claus. i. 7. 45. Ibid. 235.
46. Ibid. 2786.
47. Ibid. 306. 48. Bk. of Fees, 318. 49. R. Lit. Claus. 617b. 50. Ibid.
633. 51. Bk. of Fees, 102-3. 52. Ibid. 251.
53. Ibid. 452.
54. Ibid.
55. Ibid. 451. 56. Ibid. 460.
57. Ibid. 100, 103.
58. Cal.
Inquis. i. 27. 59. Cal. Pat. R. 1315, P. 359. 60. Cat. of Anct. D. i. B.
1323; iii. A. 5018, 5395. 61. Cal. Inquis. i, 299. 62. Ibid. 262. 63. R. Hund.
ii. 36b. 64. Ibid. ii. 848b. 65. Ibid. 849b. 66. Cal. Inquis. ii. 139 d.
67. Cal. Pat. R. 314. 68. Cal. Misc. Inq. i. 367.
69. Cal. Inquis. iii. 332.
70. Ibid. iv. 75. 71. Cal. Pat. R. 235; Cat. of Anct. D. iii. A. 5802–3.
72. Cat. of Anct. D. i. A. 933. 73. Ibid. iv. A. 6864. 74. Cal. Ing. v. 145.
75. Cal. Pat. R. 303. Cf. Ibid. 1318, p. 179. 76. Feud. Aids, iv. 164. 77. Ibid.
170. 78. Ibid. 163. 79. Cal. Inquis. vii., 10.
81. Cal. Inquis. viii. 164. 82. Feud. Aids, iv. 177.
80. Cal. Close R. 377.
83. Cal. Close R. 496.
XXXI (1).
Rainald in 1086 held of the fee late of earl William (Fitz-
Osbern, sewer of Normandy and earl of Hereford) in Fritwell 10
hides, Albury 3 hides, Wilhale 2 hides and Noke 2 hides; all in
Oxfordshire.
Rainald also held of the bishop of Bayeux in Somerton 9 hides
and in Fritwell 6 hides, being associated in the former place with
Wadard, whose name was added as tenant by interlineation.
These lands passed, like other lands of Wadard, to the fee of Arsic.
Rainald also held of Miles Crispin of Wallingford in Wilhale I hide
and in Somerton 2 hides. These tenements continued as members
of the honor of Wallingford, in the account of which (n. 1 (3))
Rainald is identified as son of Croc the huntsman of William I-
Henry I and lineal ancestor of Foliot.
Rainald's lands of the fee of William Fitz-Osbern descended to
the Foliots of Chilton, Wilts., and were held at the beginning of
the 13th century of Fitz-Gerold. This superior tenure was doubt-
less derived from Matilda de Chesney, but in what manner it came
to her is a subject of conjecture. Mr. Salter has shewn ¹ that
Gilbert Foliot, bishop of Hereford (1148-1163) and bishop of
London (1163-1188), described William de Chesney and Robert de
Chesney, bishop of Lincoln, as his maternal uncles, and conse-
quently that his mother was a Chesney. It is assumed that she
was Hawise, one of the daughters of Roger de Chesney by his
wife Alice, daughter of Ralph de Langetot.
Ralph Foliot, one of the knights of Brien Fitz-Count and
Matilda his wife, attested the charter of a tenant of the honor of
Wallingford about 1130-1140,2 and a charter of his lord, Brien
Fitz-Count, c. 1142.3 Walter Foliot and Robert Foliot attested a
grant by Matilda lady of Wallingford of land in Ogbourne, Wilts.4
There were other contemporary Foliots in Oxfordshire, in which
county in 1165 Bartholomew Foliot gave 5 marks for the right of
land.5 Before 1166 Walter Foliot held 2 fees of the honor of
Wallingford (n. 18). It is probable that Robert Foliot was a
brother of bishop Foliot, for in 1167 Chilton of Robert Foliot
accounted for 20s. of the pleas of Alan de Nevill, justice of the
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9
forest, in that county. In 1176 Ralph Foliot was amerced 10
marks and Bartholomew Foliot 40s. for forest trespass in Oxford-
shire; and a Ralph Foliot was similarly amerced 2 marks in
Gloucestershire, the entry of his name following that of Walter de
Chesney. During the period 1175-1180, or perhaps earlier,
William Foliot the seneschal and Walter Foliot attested a charter
of Gilbert Foliot, bishop of London.10 In 1182 Ralph de Chesney,
Roger Foliot, Roger de Oilli and Bartholomew Foliot were amerced
in Oxfordshire as sureties in respect of certain beasts which had
been stolen.11
Ralph Foliot I was undoubtedly Robert Foliot's successor.
In
1199 he or his son Ralph II held 1 fee in Oxfordshire,12 and in the
following year the same Ralph held of the honor of Wallingford
2 fees (in Chilton and the members), of which honor Walter Foliot
held 21 fees.13 This Ralph gave to St. Frideswide's priory, Oxford,
the church of Fritwell for the soul of Hawise his wife.14 He had
brothers, Henry, Roger and Richard; and dying about the year
1204 was succeeded by his brother Henry, who in 1219 quit-
claimed the advowson of the church of Fritwell to St. Frides-
wide's, 15 and confirmed to Richard Foliot land in Chilton, Wilts.,
given by Ralph, his eldest brother, to the said Richard his brother.16
He also gave to Roger Foliot land in Soley, a hamlet of Chilton, in
exchange for land given by his brother Ralph to the said Roger.¹7
Afterwards Richard Foliot gave to St. Frideswide's land in Soley
late of Roger his brother, held of Henry Foliot, who confirmed
the gift.1 18 As a tenant of the honor of Wallingford in Chilton and
elsewhere Henry is frequently named in the records of the reigns of
John and Henry III down to 1230-33. He gave 30 marks in 1229
to be quit of transfretation and to have his scutage of 2 fees held
of the honor of Wallingford (n. 18) and of 3 fees of that honor of
which he had the custody.1 He was dead in 1233, when Andrew
de Cancellis had wardship of his heir.20 Sampson his son and heir
confirmed to St. Frideswide's land in Soley and Chilton given by
Richard Foliot, and in 1241 he remitted the services due for that
land.21
In 1234 Sampson had licence to appoint an attorney to do suit
in his place to the county (court) of Oxford.22 In 1235-6 he paid
20s. in Wilts. to the aid in respect of the fees he held of the king
in Chilton and Draycote of the honor of Wallingford,23 and 6 marks
for 3 fees in Oxfordshire held of the earl of the Isle of Christchurch.24
In 1242-3 he held 1 fee in Draycote of Henry Crok; in Chilton (or
Mildenhall?), Wilts., Hugh de Dovre held fee of the said Sampson,
who held of earl Richard (of Cornwall) as of the said honor.25
In Oxfordshire Roger Foliot held 1 fee in Fritwell and Lawrence
de Broc fee there of Roger Foliot 26 (who held both tenements of
Sampson Foliot); the same Sampson held fee in Noke, 27 Peter
Foliot held fee of Sampson Foliot in Albury, 28 and Geoffrey Foliot
held fee of the same Sampson in Wilhale.29 Sampson Foliot
held these fees of the earl of the Isle.
In 1245 the service of 3 fees in Dorset and Somerset which
Henry Foliot held of Baldwin late earl of Devon, and of 2 fees
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which Sampson Foliot and Olimpiada de Wilton similarly held in
Oxfordshire, was assigned in dower to Amice countess of Devon.30
In 1249 Sampson Foliot had a grant of free warren at Chilton.³¹
Re-tithing of the demesne of Sampson Foliot in Draycote was
confirmed to the monastery of Wallingford in 1243.32 Geoffrey
Foliot held in 1255 of Sampson Foliot fee in Wilhale, Oxon.; the
same Sampson held in Fritwell 8 hides of the earl of the Isle and in
Noke 2 hides of the same earl; 33 in Albury Peter Foliot held the
manor as 3 hides of the same Sampson for fee.34 In 1257 Samp-
son was in the Welsh campaign,35 and in the following year was a
commissioner in Berkshire.3
36 In 1257 he and Ralph his son had
a plea touching land in Hardwell, Berks.37 In 1263 he was again.
engaged in the war in Wales.38 In 1265 after Evesham his land in
Noke, worth £10, and in Fritwell, worth £15, was seized by the
earl of Gloucester, but it was alleged that he was never against the
king.39 In 1267 he was sheriff of Oxfordshire, and four years later
warden of the bishopric of Salisbury.40
4
In 1274 Geoffrey Foliot died seised of land in Wilhale, Oxon.,
held of Sir Sampson Foliot for fee; Joan wife of Nicholas de
Cottelegh, aged 28, Isabel her sister, Lorencia her sister, aged 24,
and Alice her sister, aged 16 and more, were daughters and heirs
of the said Geoffrey; Adam Foliot and Nicholas de Cottelegh had
purchased the marriage of two of the said heirs.41 In 1275 Sampson
Foliot held I fee in Chilton of the earl of Cornwall, and Henry Croc
held similarly I fee in Draycote.42
1
The Oxfordshire fees may be traced in the Hundred rolls of
1279 as follows: Ralph Foliot held the moiety of the vill of Fritwell
of the gift of Sampson Foliot, who held it of the countess of
Wight for fee; 43 Sir Sampson Foliot held the manor of Albury
in the name of wardship as mesne between the countess of the
Isle and Roger Foliot; 44 Nicholas de Cottele held the manor of
Wilhale of his wife's inheritance, she being daughter and heir of
Geoffrey Foliot, for fee of Sir Sampson Foliot, who held of the
countess of Devon and lady of the Isle; 45 Sampson Foliot held a
moiety of the vill of Noke (‘Owe ') of the countess of the Isle for
fee; 46 Somerton was of the fees of Arsic and Wallingford; the
remaining vills were of the last-named honor, except Campton.
Sampson Foliot died shortly after this date, his heir or successor
being Henry le Tyeis, son of Henry le Tyeis of Somerset, who died
in 1282.47 The younger Henry was under age in 1284
48 he held
in 1284-5 fee in Noke of the countess of Albemarle.49
1
2
•
In 1306 it was found that Peter Foliot had recently granted the
manor of Albury to John de London, who before his death granted
it to John le Despencer his nepos, then aged 36 years; it was held
of Henry le Tyeis for fee.50 In 1307 died Henry Tyeis holding
the manor of Fritwell of the king, as of the earldom of Albemarle,
then in the king's hands, for I fee, the hamlet of Noke in like
manner for fee; the manor of Shirburn as of the honor of St.
Valery; the hamlet of Hardwell of Henry de Cobham, who held
of the abbot of Abingdon; the manors of Chilton and Draycote
Foliot, Wilts., as of the honor of Wallingford; Hawise his wife.
#
FRITWELL-STANLAKE
237
had the manor of Hardwell in dower; Henry his son was aged 22
years. 51
In 1316 Henry le Tyeis was joint lord of Fritwell, Noke and
Shirburn, Oxon., 52 and lord of Chilton, Wilts.; 53 John le De-
spenser was lord of Albury, Oxon. 54 Henry le Tyeis died in 1327
seised of the above described estates and many other lands in
Cornwall and Yorkshire; Alice his sister, late the wife of Warin de
L'Isle, was his heir, aged 30 years.
55
In 1346 Gerard de L'Isle held the moiety of Fritwell of
4
for 1 fee, late of Henry Tyeys, and John de Alweton
held the other moiety of the same earl for fee; Alice de
L'Isle held the moiety of the vill of Noke of the countess of
Albemarle for fee, late of Henry Tyeys. 56 In 1368 Warin de
L'Isle held of Robert de L'Isle 3 fees in Fritwell, Noke, Albury and
Wilhale; Lawrence Broke held similarly fee in Wilhale and John
le Spencer held similarly 2 (sic) fees in Wilhale and Albury.57
2
137, 153.
29. Ibid. 106.
9. Ibid. 129.
1. Chartul. of Eynsham, i. 412. 2. Chron. of Abingdon, ii. 109. 3. Ken-
nett, Paroch. Antiq. i. 137. 4 Mon. Angl. vi. 1016. 5. Pipe R. 11 Hen. II, 69.
6. Red Bk. 309. 7. Pipe R. 13 Hen. II, 128. 8. Ibid. 22 Hen. II, 32.
10. Brit. Mus. Facsim. of Chs. n. 58. 11. Pipe R. 28 Hen. II,
127. 12. Red Bk. 124. 13. Ibid. 145; R. Cancel. 268. 14. Chartul. of St.
Frideswide, ii. 219. 15. Ibid. 220. 16. Ibid. 359. 17. Ibid. 18. Ibid. 360.
19. Excerpt. Fin. i. 188.
20. Ibid. 239. 21. Chartul. of St. Frid. ii. 361.
22. Close R. 548. 23. Bk. of Fees, 421, 423.
24. Ibid. 447· 25. Testa,
Testa, 100, 105.
28. Ibid. 105.
26.
27. Ibid. 104b.
30. Close R. 352. 31. Cal. Chart. R. i. 342. 32. Mon. Angl.
iii. 280b. 33. R. Hund. ii. 43-5. 34. Ibid. 386. 35. Cal. Pat. R. 598.
36. Ibid. 647. 37. Excerpt. Fin. ii. 260. 38. Cal. Pat. R. 286. 39. Cal.
40. Cal. Pat. R. 170, 514. 41. Cal. Inquis. ii. 42–3 ;
44. Ibid. 714.
48. Plac. de quo
Misc. Inq. i. 262.
Cal. Fine R. i. 32.
45. Ibid. 784. 46.
warranto, 81b.
51. Ibid. v. 26. 52.
55. Cal. Inquis. vii.
R. 496-7.
42. R. Hund. ii. 260. 43. Ibid. 824.
Ibid. 838. 47. Cal. Fine R. i. 174.
49. Feud. Aids, i. 157.
Feud. Aids, iv. 169–71.
23-4. 56. Feud. Aids,
50. Cal. Inquis. iv. 250.
53. Ibid. v. 203.
53. Ibid. v. 203. 54. Ibid. iv.
iv. 177, 180. 57. Cal. Close
XXXI (2).
Anschitil (de Grai) in 1086 held of the fee of William (Fitz-
Osbern), earl (of Hereford), in Rotherfield Greys (and the members),
Oxon., 5 hides, in Black Bourton 2 hides, in Radford 3 hides, in
South Newington 4 hides, which Robert (
) held of
him, in Woodlay and Dornford ('Widelie '), hamlets in Wootton,
2 hides, in Brighthampton (and Stanlake) 6 hides, in Cornwell
2 hides (Oilli, n. 2).
Some of these tenements were held by the family of Gray, of
the Fitz-Gerolds and later of the earls of Albemarle. In the con-
firmation of Henry I to the abbey of Eynsham, made in 1109, it
was stated that when Richard de Grai sent one of his sons into the
monastery he gave tithe of Dornford, Woodlay and Cornwell; ¹
Roger de Chesney gave tithe of his land of Minster, namely of 1
hide afterwards called 'Murdakes-hyde.' ²
2 After the middle of
the 12th century Stephen de Pontsold and Alice his wife, daughter
of Thomas de Grai, gave the church of Cornwell to the monks of
238
HONOR OF EUDES THE SEWER
3
Eynsham. It is suggested that the lordship of these lands was
granted to Ralph de Langetot and, by the marriage of his daughter
and heir Alice to Roger de Chesney, the lordship descended to
Roger's eldest son Hugh, and so to Matilda de Chesney and her
husband Henry Fitz-Gerold the chamberlain; while the tenure in
demesne was vested in Anschetil de Grai and descended in his line
to Eva daughter and heir of John de Grai and wife of Ralph
Murdac III, and so subsequently as described below.
4
In 1130 Ralph Murdac II was pardoned 23s. 6d. of danegeld in
Oxfordshire, which Mr. Salter identifies as Broughton Poggs 63
hides, held by Robert Fitz-Murdrac in Domesday, and Black
Bourton 5 hides. Possibly his father Ralph I was recently de-
ceased, for in Yorkshire Adam Murdac owed a destrier for having
the land of Ralph his uncle (avunculus).5 Ralph son of Ralph (?)
Murdac and Beatrice (?) de Chesney married Eva, daughter and heir
of John de Grai, son of Anschitil de Grai. Apparently this union
had been effected before the year 1176, when John de Grai
accounted in Oxfordshire for 40 marks for forest trespass, which
amercement was pardoned to Ralph Murdac by the king's writ.6
This suggests that Ralph was already acting as a justiciar, which
office he undoubtedly held in 1182. He became sheriff of Notting-
ham and Derby in 1180, and held office until 1189.' He was one
of the justices in eyre in 12 counties in 1185,8 their activities being
recorded in the Pipe roll of 1186. His sister Alice was wife of
John de Eincurt of Blankney, Lincs. In 1187 he accounted for
40s. of scutage on 2 fees in Oxfordshire.10 He was one of 8 justices
whose activities are recorded in the Pipe Roll for 1189.11 He
supported John count of Mortain in 1193. Three years earlier he
had made his peace with Richard by a fine of 200 marks, 12 of which
£50 7s. 8d. remained unpaid at his death.¹ In 1195 Alan son of
Rolland owed 20 marks for having seisin of 6 librates of land in
Thenford, Northants., which Ralph Murdac had recovered against
him in the court of John count of Mortain for default of warranty
of the king, who was then in his journey of Jerusalem.14
9
13
He died before Michaelmas 1198, as shewn by an agreement
enrolled on the Lancashire Pipe roll of 10 Richard I, whereby
Peter de Wingeham and William de Bosevill quitclaimed their
right in the inheritance of Robert Basset (in Thenford) to Andrew
de Beauchamp and Eva (de Grai) his wife.15 This tenement in
Thenford, Northants., was held in the Northampton survey temp.
Henry I by Robert Basset as I hide, held of the honor of Walling-
ford.16 It was perhaps the maritagium of the wife of John de
Gray. It was held in 1235-6 by Eva de Gray.17 In 1199 William
Briwerre proffered 210 marks for custodies of the lands late of
Ralph Murdac and Walter de Glanvill, and for the marriages of
their daughters at his pleasure.18 In the following year Andrew de
Beauchamp, who, as we have seen, had married Ralph's relict,
Eva de Grai, gave 50 marks for having seisin of the land of Then-
ford, of which the said Ralph had been disseised for his service to
King John when he was count of Mortain, as also of his other
lands.1
19
STANLAKE
239
Ralph Murdac III granted in 1173-4 to the monks of Eynsham
hide at Filkins, Oxon., for his mother's soul, quit of service, save
when his demesne of Broughton Poggs (Pogis) did any.20
Ralph's most important grant was that of a third part of the
mill of Clifton, as he held it in the 3 Richard I (1191-2), and his mill
of Broughton Poggs; in case he or his heirs should be unable to
warrant the said gifts he undertook if God gave him an heir by
his wife Eva to make an equivalent exchange in his manor of
Rotherfield Greys or Stanlake; in case he had no heir by Eva his
wife he or his heirs would make an exchange in their manor of
Broughton Poggs or Black Bourton.21 This proves that Rotherfield
and Stanlake were the inheritance of Eva de Grey and had not
come from the Chesneys; but it is difficult to understand how
Ralph or his heirs could give an exchange in Black Bourton, for
that too was Eva's inheritance.
26
Ralph left issue two daughters, Beatrice, 22 who afterwards
married Robert Mauduit, by whom she had issue, and Alice, the name
of whose first husband is unknown, whose daughter Isabel married
Osbert Giffard, 23 sometime constable of the castles of Windsor,
Odiham and Lincoln, 24 who died in 1229; after which date Alice
married Ralph Harang.25 Eva de Grai, by her second husband,
Andrew de Beauchamp, had issue John de Beauchamp. In 1214
the wood of Stanlake was committed to Andrew de Beauchamp, the
bailiffs of the forest being enjoined to see that it was well kept.2
John de Beauchamp had a grant in 1223 of 10s. which the sheriff of
Berks demanded from Eva de Gray his mother for the scutage of
Biham.27 This John died before 1246, when Ernald de Bosco, who
had married Joan, sister of the said John, had livery of fee in
Assington, Suffolk, as one of his heirs, and Joslain, son and heir of
Joslain de Nevill by Matilda his wife, had livery of fee in the same
Assington, as nephew and heir of the said John.28 In the same year
the above-named Beatrice, Ralph Harang and Alice his wife,
Ernald de Bosco and Joan his wife, and Joslain (son of Joslain and
Matilda) had livery of the land and rent in Stanlake and Dornford,
par. Wootton, which the said Eva de Gray had held of Baldwin late
earl of Devon, whose heir was in the king's wardship, by the service
of 4 fees.29
In 1245 the service of 1 fee in Dorset and Somerset and
of I fee in Wiltshire, which Beatrice Murdac held of Baldwin late
earl of Devon, was assigned in dower to Amice countess of Devon.30
In 1247 Ralph Harang had no estate in the land late of Alice his wife
in Oxfordshire.31 For reference to the line of Joslain de Nevill
see Richmond, n. 40; to that of Bois or ' de Bosco ' see Chester 85,
and to that of Dyve see Oilli, nn. 4 and 5. For the descent of the
Greys of Rotherfield see Oilli, n. 2.
I
In 1247 an inquest was taken after the death of Osbert Giffard II,
lately deceased, who held, besides divers lands in the south-western
counties, a fourth part of the manor of Stanlake held by Alice Murdac
(his wife's mother) of Beatrice (elder) sister of the said Alice, a fourth
of a moiety of the vill of Thenford, Northants., similarly held, a third
part of the manor of Deddington held by the said Alice for a third
part of 2 fees, and rent in Dornford similarly held; Osbert son of
240
HONOR OF EUDES THE SEWER
the said Osbert by Isabel his wife, aged 13 years, was heir of the said
Osbert and of Alice Murdac.32 It will be observed that whilst the
heirs of Eva de Gray took equal parts of the Gray inheritance in
Stanlake and Thenford, namely one-fourth each, only the heirs of
the body of Ralph Murdac III took shares in the Chesney inheritance
in Deddington. In that year Ralph Fitz-Nicholas gave 400 marks
for custody of the land and heir of Alice Harang and Osbert Giffard
with his marriage.33
To return to Eva de Gray: in 1230 she had a grant of a deer
leap in her park of Stanlake and market and fair at her manor
of Stanlake, and a royal gift of 2 harts from the forest of Wych-
wood in the following year; 34 in 1232-3 further gifts of four does
and two bucks to put into her park at Stanlake, and other gifts
in 1233 and 1236.35 In 1235-6 she held 4 fees in Oxfordshire of
the fee of the earl of the Isle of Christchurch.36 In 1237, as Eva
de Gray, mother of John de Beauchamp, she had a gift of 10 tree
trunks from Wychwood for fuel.37 In the following year William
de Dyve was impleading her for the moiety of a third part of 2 fees
in Deddington.38 In 1242 the justice of the forest was directed to
give Alice Murdac seisin of land in Gillingham, Dorset, because the
king understood that Isabel late wife of Osbert Giffard, deceased
(mortua), had recovered custody of the land late of Osbert her
husband in that place, because Osbert held them in socage and
Isabel was next of kin (propinquior) to his heir, which Alice Murdac,
Isabel's mother, was next of kin to Osbert's heirs after Isabel's
death.3
39 Before 1240 Eva de Gray gave the manor of Rotherfield
Greys to Walter de Gray, archbishop of York, who gave it to his
mother Hawise and to Robert de Gray her son. Apparently the
gift included other lands members of Rotherfield, for in 1246 the
king confirmed to Walter de Gray, son of Robert de Gray and nephew
of archbishop Walter, lands in Rotherfield, 'Baggerigge,' Cornwell
and Lew, which the archbishop gave to Robert his brother, father of
the said Walter, and his heirs, with the advowson of the church of
Rotherfield.41
40
I
In 1242-3 Eva de Gray held of the fee of the earl of the Isle 1 fee
in Dornford and 1 fee in Stanlake; the abbot of Oseney held of her
4
fee in Black Bourton, and Walter de Gray, archbishop of York, held
I fee in Rotherfield Greys (and its members); the said Eva de Gray
and Beatrice Murdac 42 held fee in Black Bourton of Patrick de
Chaworth; the archbishop of York held fee in Cornwell of the fee
of Oilly.43 As already noted in section n. 31, William de Dyve and
Ralph Hareng (in right of Alice his wife) held 2 fees in Deddington
of the king in chief. This Ralph was mesne tenant of fees in Bourton
Clanfield and Puttes of the earl of Cornwall, as lord of the honor
of St. Valery.44 In 1249 Ralph Fitz-Nicholas, having the wardship.
of the land and heir of Osbert Giffard and Alice Murdac, obtained
licence to levy a tallage from the tenants of the said heir in Dedding-
ton, which had been sometime the demesne of the king's prede-
cessors.45
In 1258 Robert Mauduit held 1 fee in Black Bourton of
Patrick de Chaworth.46 It does not appear how Chaworth took the
place of the earl of Albemarle as chief lord here.
STANLAKE.
24I
1
2
In 1279 Sir Robert Mauduit held a hall and 2 carucates in Black
Bourton of Sir John Mauduit, who held of Sir Pain de Chaworth
for fee; 47 the return for South Newington has been given above
(n. 31); Robert Mauduit held 1 carucate in the vill of Dornford of
John Mauduit for fee, and he of the earl of the Isle; William
Murdack held 1 carucate there of John de Bois, he of John Mauduit
and he of the earl of the Isle for fee; the prioress of Studley held
the hamlet of Woodlay (' Withele ') belonging to the vill of Dornford
of Robert Mauduit in free alms of the gift of Eva de Gray for the
support of a priest to celebrate mass for ever; 48 Andrew Twynch
held a messuage in Brighthampton of Sir Robert de Grey; 49
Robert de Grey held the manor of Cornwell of the heirs of Stanlake
and they of the countess of Albemarle ; 50 Sir John Mauduit held
land in Stanlake for 3 fee of the countess of Wight; Sir John de Boys
held land there of Sir John Mauduit for 3 fee; dame Isabel de Grey
held land there of Sir Robert de Grey in the name of dower, and he
of John Mauduit, who held of the countess of Wight by giving
scutage; Sir Osbert Giffard held land there of Sir John Mauduit for
& fee.51
In 1284-5 Robert de Craunford held I fee in South Newing-
ton of Robert de Grey, who held of the king; 52 Robert Mauduit
held I fee in Dornford of John Mauduit and he of the earl of the
Isle. 53
,
In 1285 Robert de Gray defended his right to certain liberties in
Rotherfield Murdack' and Harerigg' (recte Hardwick) and cited
the confirmation of those lands by Henry III to him, and the grant
by archbishop Gray to Walter, father of the said Robert, of his lands
in Brighthampton and Hardwick. 54 In 1303 John Mauduit died
seised of the manor of Broughton Poggs held of the king by serjeanty
and of a fourth part of the manor of Stanlake held of the honor of
Carisbrooke for 1 fee, subject to a rent to William de Bois and
others; John Mauduit his nepos, aged 21, was his heir. 55 John
Mauduit rendered to the aid of 1303 for 1 fee in Stanlake with 6
virgates in Norton Brize. 56
In 1316 John Mauduit was one of the lords of Black Bourton,
Stanlake and Brighthampton; Florence de Varney and others were
lords of Dornford with Woodlay; Robert de Craunford, John Giffard
and the hospital of St. John outside the gate of Oxford lords of
South Newington. 57 The returns for 1346 are imperfect. In 1368 the
following fees were held of Robert de L'Isle: William de Craunford
held fee in South Newington, late (1346) of Robert de Craunford;
the heirs of Eva de Gray 1 fee in Dornford and 1 fee in Stanlake;
Lawrence de Broke fee in Stanlake; the abbot of Oseney fee in
Black Bourton of the heirs of Eva de Gray; the archbishop of York
I fee in Rotherfield Greys. 58
1. Chartul. of Eynsham, n. 7; Cf. 1. p. 2.
4. Pipe R. 31 Hen. I, 6.
7. Ibid. 27 Hen. II, 10.
10. Pipe R. 33 Hen. II, 50.
12. Ibid. 2 Ric. m. 3. 13. R. Cancel. 271.
16. V. C. H.
19. Ibid. 48.
3. Ibid. n. 116.
22 Hen. II, 31.
9. Ibid. 18-19.
15. Farrer, Lancs. Pipe R. 102.
of Fees, 496. 18. R. de Oblat. 10.
2. Ibid. n. 7; Cf. i. p. 2
5. Ibid. 34.
6. Pipe R.
8. R. de Dominabus, 65.
11. Ibid. I Ric. I. 69.
14. Pipe R. 7 Ric. I, ro. 8.
Northants. i. 368b. 17. Bk.
20. Chartul, of Eynsham,
III.
R
242
HONOR OF EUDES THE SEWER
n. 94.
21. Ibid. n. 90.
22. She was sole in 1241: Abbrev. Placit. 118.
23. Close R. 1229, p. 204; 1242, P. 448.
24. Pat. R. 1216-1228, pass.
25. Ibid. 455; Cal. Inq. i. 290.
26. R. Lit. Claus. i. 170.
27. Ibid.
i. 576b; Excerpt. Fin. i. 177. 28. Ibid. 464. 29. Cal. Ing. i. 290;
Close R. 389; Excerpt. Fin. i. 455.
30. Close R. 352-3.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid. 27.
33. Excerpt. Fin. ii. 19, 27.
34. Cal. Chart R.
Close R. 348, 549. 35. Ibid. 37, 97, 248. 36. Bk. of Fees,
Close R. 467.
38. Ibid. 137. 39. Ibid. 448. 40. Cal.
Chart R. i. 250-1. 41. Ibid. 293. 42. Testa, 103b-4. 43. Ibid. 105b.
44. Ibid. 103-4. 45. Close R. 145. 46. Cal. Ing. i. 113.
47. R. Hund.
ii. 695. 48. Ibid. 865.
49. Ibid. 701. 50. Ibid. 741. 51. Ibid. 702-3.
52. Feud. Aids, iv. 155.
53. Ibid. 156. 54. Placit. de quo war. 664-5-
56. Feud. Aids, iv. 183.
57. Ibid. iv. 162–4.
537.
i. 112, 121;
447.
37.
55. Cal. Ing. iv. 102.
58. Cal. Close R. 496.
XXXII.
The Domesday survey records that the king had in Shipton
under Wychwood, Oxon., 33 hides; Alsi de Ferendene 8, or
probably 10, hides; Geoffrey had in the same Shipton and in Swin-
brook 4 hides; Rainald Arcarius had in Chadlington 2 hides and
Siward the hunter 2 hides; total 531 hides, of which 50 may have
represented Shipton and Chadlington.
In 1220 Shipton paid carucage on 271 carucates, Chadlington on
21 carucates, and Swinbrook on 5 carucates.
The Hundred rolls of 1279 show approximately 20 hides on the
earl of Gloucester's fee in Shipton, and 24 hides in Chadlington,
where also the countess of Aumale had 9 hides, Stephen de Walecote
63 hides in Walcot and Shorthampton, Roger de Ley and Alan de
Cranele 5 hides in Swinbrook; total 444 hides, all held of the earl
of Gloucester. To this should be added 37 hides in Chadlington
belonging to Spilsbury.
8
The early descent of this land in Chadlington, which was an
escheat from the fee of Oilli, is obscure. It appears that part of the
above tenement subsequently belonged to the honor of Clare and
part to the honor of Curcy and that the residue of the vill belonged
to the honor of Warwick. Proof that part of the vill was at one
time in the king's hands seems to be afforded by the contribution in
1170 by the men of Chadlington and Weston of 40s. to the aid to
marry the king's daughter. About 1160-70 Henry Fitz-Gerold
the chamberlain confirmed the gift made to the monks of Eynsham
by Richard Fitz-Gerold his brother of virgate here.2 After 1173
Matilda de Clare, for the soul of her husband Roger de Clare, earl
of Hertford, and for the souls of her ancestors, confirmed this gift
and that of certain parcels of land in Chadlington given by Henry
Fitz-Gerold. This lady was a daughter of James de St. Hilary;
she subsequently married William earl of Arundel. Possibly a
portion of the remission of 40s. of danegeld in Oxfordshire made in
1156 to Henry Fitz-Gerold was in respect of this land. His brother
Warin's remission was then only 9s. in this county.4
In 1169 the 2 hundreds of Chadlington were amerced £4 for 2
murders.5 This was paid or pardoned as follows:
CHADLINGTON
243
By the hands of the sheriff
Pardoned to the Hospitallers
""
""
•
Richard de Luci .
Guy de Laval (1171)
""
>>
By the sheriff in 1171 and 1172
Remaining upon the land of earl William (of
Gloucester, 1176) .
•
S. d.
56 3
3
2 6
6
13 6
2 2
5 0
80 o
The last item may represent the sum due from the earl of
Gloucester, in case he then held the manor of Shipton under Wych-
wood; but it may refer to William earl of Arundel, Matilda de
Clare's second husband.
6
Before 1198 Hugh bishop of Lincoln confirmed to Eynsham the
chapel of Chadlington. In 1196 Henry de Witefeld, as tenant of a
third part of the lands late of Robert de Witefeld in Whitfield,
Rofford, Chadlington and elsewhere, granted to Robert de Eueresa
and Isabel his wife, for her life, inter alia land in Chadlington and
Dean (in Spilsbury).7
In 1201 an imparlance between Warin Fitz-Gerold and the earl
of Clare, plaintiff, concerning the land of Chadlington was put in
respite until Warin's return from Santiago.8
At a subsequent date this tenement, or some part of it, was in the
hands of John de Nevill the forester, one of the heirs general of
Curcy. In 1220 Simon (de Wahull) paid carucage on 8 carucates
here, (Robert ?) Belet on 7 carucates and William (son of John }
on 6 carucates.9 In 1227 John son of William recovered his land
in Chadlington by replevin.10 Early in January 1229 Henry III
confirmed to the priory of Cold Norton inter alia virgate in Chad-
lington of the gift of Robert Belet.11 In the same year Herbert de
Chadelinton was demanding against Liniota late wife of William son
of John virgate in Chadlington.12 In 1235-6 the land lately held
by Simon de Wahull in Chadlington of John de Nevill the forester
for 1 fee rendered to the aid then levied.13 It is possible that this
tenement was a member of the honor of Curcy. See vol. i. p. 263.
Simon de Wahull)
In 1242-3 Roger de Welton (in succession to
held I fee in Chadlington of John de Nevill.14 Walter de Wahull,
son of Simon de Wahull, confirmed to Eynsham land of his fee in
Chadlington given by John son of William.15 At the death of
Richard de Clare, earl of Gloucester and Hertford, in 1262, Baldwin
de L'Isle held of him fee in Chadlington.16
In 1279 Reginald de Wautham held the hamlet of Chadlington
of the countess of Albemarle and she of the earl of Gloucester for
fee, as a member of the earl's manor of Shipton under Wychwood;
the heirs of Walter de Wahull held the manor of Chadlington of the
countess of Albemarle for 1 fee; 17 John de Honinton held certain
land in Chadlington of Robert de Penedok, who held of the earl of
Warwick, doing suit to the court of Spilsbury and scutage.18
At the death of Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester and Hertford,
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in 1295 the heirs of Baldwin de L'Isle held of him fee in Chadling-
ton.19
In 1302 John de Haudlo had a grant of free warren in
Chadlington and Shippenhull,20 and in 1302-3 Isabel relict of John
Fitz-Nigel held the manor of Chadlington Wahull for I fee.21 John
son of Nigel, who held the bailiwick of the forest of Bernwood, died
in 1289, when John his son had livery of his father's lands and office. 22
The relationship between Fitz-Nigel and Haudlo is shewn by the
record of licence granted in 1299 for John Fitz-Nigel to settle 2
bovates in Boarstall and the bailiwick of the forestership of Bern-
wood, held in chief by serjeanty of keeping that forest, on himself for
life, with remainder to John son of Richard de Hautlo and Joan
daughter of the said John Fitz-Nigel in fee tail.23
I
In 1316 John de Haudlo was lord of Chadlington Wahull with
Shippenhull, 24 and in the same year Richard de Ouvill and Nicholas de
Aston held 1 fee in Chadlington of Guy de Beauchamp, earl of Warwick,
and John de Wytefeld held fee in the same, Richard de Ouvill
fee there (as above), and Nicholas de Aston and John le Venour
held each & carucate for fee each, as of the manor of Spilsbury.25
2
Long before his death, which occurred in 1346, John de Haudlo
settled his manor of Chadlington on himself for life, with remainder
to Richard his son (deceased before 1346) and Isabel wife of the
same Richard; by which gift the manor remained to the said Isabel,
who had subsequently married Robert de Hildesle; it was held in
1346 of John de L'Isle for I fee.26 The grantor held very large
estates, including the bailiwick of the forest of Bernwood. În 1346
Robert de Hildesle held 1 fee in Chadlington of the fee late of the
earl of Albemarle.27 Edmund de Haudlo, son of Richard and
Isabel named above, died in 1358, seised inter alia of the manor
of Chadlington, which he held of Sir John de L'Isle; Margaret, aged
22, and Elizabeth, aged 16, were his sisters and heirs, but Robert de
Hildesley and Isabel his wife, mother of the said Edmund, held the
manor for the life of Isabel.28 In 1368 John de Appelby held I fee
here of Robert de L'Isle.29
1. Pipe R. 16 Hen. II, 68. 2. Chartul. of Eynsham, n. 133. 3. Ibid.
n. 130. 4. Pipe R. 2 Hen. II, 37. 5. Ibid. 15 Hen. II, 85. 6. Chartul.
n. 40A. 7. Oxon. Feet of F. (Pipe R. Soc. xvii), 115. 8. R. Cur. Reg. iii. 417.
9. Bk. of Fees, 317. 10. R. Lit. Claus. ii. 212. 11. Mon. Angl. vi. 421b.
12. Close R. 382. 13. Bk. of Fees, 449. 14. Ibid. 842; Testa, 106. 15. Chartul.
n. 395. 16. Cal. Ing. i. 159. 17. R. Hund. ii. 736b, 738. 18. Ibid. 7476.
19. Cal. Inq. iii. 248. 20. Cal. Chart. R. iii. 40, 44.
22. Cal. Fine R. i. 257-8.
23. Cal. Pat. R. 430.
26. Ibid. viii. 492-3.
25. Cal. Inq. v. 402, 408.
28. Cal. Inq. x. 243. 29. Cal. Close R. 496.
21. Feud. Aids, iv. 161.
24. Feud. Aids, iv. 165.
27. Feud. Aids, iv. 184.
XXXIII.
Anschetil in 1086 held of the bishop of Coutances in Lavendon
I hide and virgate.
}
For reference to lands which Anschetil held of the countess Judith
in Lavendon and Weston Underwood, Bucks., see Huntingdon, n. 64,
where an attempt is made to explain the descent of fee of the
honor of Huntingdon in those places to the L'Isles of Rougemont.
7
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XXXIV.
Earl Aubrey (de Coucy) late (i.e. before 1086) held of the king
in Farningho or Farthinghoe, Northants., 4 hides.
In the Northamptonshire survey temp. Henry I (1124-29) there
were 4 hides in Farningho of the fee of the earl of Leicester.¹
Robert earl of Leicester gave or confirmed to the abbey of La Pré,
Leicester, before 1156, the church of Farningho.2 In 1205 King
John confirmed to the same abbey the gift of Robert earl of Leicester,
son of Petronilla, of the lands of Farningho and Syresham,
Northants., namely Westcote, which earl Robert his grandfather
gave to the church of Lincoln in exchange for the manor of Knighton,
Leics., and the suburb of Leicester, which said lands the said earl son
of Petronilla with the assent of the bishop and chapter of Lincoln
gave to the canons of Leicester for their lands of Asserby ('Effordeby')
and Seagrave, which he gave with the assent of the canons to the
church of Lincoln for the establishment of peace between them about
the said manor of Knighton and suburbs of Leicester.3 In the pre-
ceding year the king restored the land of Farningho and Syresham
to the earl of Leicester, which had come into his hands because
neither the earl nor the canons of Lincoln would have it, owing to
the dispute about Knighton. In or before 1216 the king gave these
manors to Theodore de Sotingham.5
4
9
In 1229 Amaury de St. Amand and Geoffrey son of William,
plaintiff, had a plea of land in Farthingho, which plaint was re-
spited in 1232 because Amaury was about to cross the seas in the
king's service. In 1235-6 there was I fee here of the fee of Roger de
Quency of his part of the honor of Leicester, and in 1242-3 Ralph
de St. Amand, of Farthingho, William L'Abbe, and the monks of
St. Denis held of the said Roger I fee in Farthingho. After the
death of earl Roger de Quency in 1264 it was found by inquest that
Warin Fitz-Gerold ( Gerard ') held 1 fee in Farthingho,10 and by
another inquest that I fee there was defended by the countess of
Albemarle and that Ralph de St. Amand, Geoffrey Cardun and
William Abbot held it in equal shares, but wardship did not pertain
to the earl by reason of many mesne tenants.11 In 1276 Ellen la
Zouche claimed return of writs and the like in this place.12
In 1284 Ralph de Seynt Amaund, William Abbe, and Peter de
Borle held 1 fee in Farthingho with a virgate in Purston of the
countess of Albemarle, who held it of Ellen la Zouche or the earl of
Winchester.13 In 1291 land in Farthingho was recovered by
replevin by William son of William Abbot and Rohaise his wife.14
In 1314 Robert de L'Isle held 1 fee and the abbot of Leicester fee
here of Alan la Zouche.15 Two years later Robert de Holand was
lord of Farthingho and other La Zouche manors in Northampton-
shire.16
In 1326 William de Bereford held a carucate here of Robert
de L'Isle for fee; Edmund his son was aged 28 and more.¹7 In
1329 the abbot of Leicester proved his right to gallows and warren
at Farthingho, and Matilda relict of Robert de Holand to view of
frankpledge and the like in Farthingho, a member of the manor of
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Hawes, by descent from Robert of Meulan, earl of Leicester, to her
father Alan la Zouche.18
I
In 1346 William de Stapulton held 1 fee here of Henry de Ferrers.19
Edmund de Bereford died in 1354 holding the manor of Farning-
hoe of John de L'Isle of Rougemont; his heirs were his three
sisters.20 John son of Edmund de Bereford, knt., died in Gascony in
1356 holding a messuage and 6 virgates here of Robert de L'Isle
for fee; Baldwin his brother was aged 24 years. 21 In 1368 the
tenants of Farthingho held 1 fee there in common of Sir Robert de
L'Isle. 22
1. V. C. H. N'hants. i. 368. 2. Cal. Chart. iii. 379. 3. R. Chart. 145.
4. R. Liberate, 85. 5. R. Lit. Claus. i. 261. 6. Close R. 385.
9. Ibid. 940. 10. Cal. Inq. i. 233.
123. 8. Bk. of Fees, 494.
256. 12. R. Hund. ii. 6.
15. Cal. Ing. v. 256-7.
18. Placit. de quo war. 525, 550. 19. Cal. Inq. viii. 318. 20. Ibid. x. 212.
21. Ibid. 273. 22. Cal. Close R. 498.
7. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
14. Cal. Close R. 188.
17. Cal. Inq. vi. 470.
13. Feud. Aids, iv. 3.
16. Feud. Aids, iv. 19.
XXXV.
William brother of Roger de Otburvill held in 1086 in Ringshall,
Suff., 1 carucate and 40 acres, of which Hugh held 40 acres of the
said William; Fulk held of the same William 80 acres.
Possibly some part of this tenement was held by the family of
Amblie (n. 1). As Otbert is an early form of Osbert we can identify
the Domesday tenant in chief as of Auberville, anciently Osberteville,
in the Calvados. William de Aubervill held Barley, Herts., at the
date of the Domesday survey. Clutterbuck gives the descent of his
line.¹ According to a pleading of 1286, given below, William's
eldest son died without issue, and the shares of his two younger sons
descended to the families of Rokele and Willasham.
In 1196 Matilda de Willavesham released to Ralph her son 48
acres of land in Ringshall (Renkeshall'), Suff., in return for a
demise to her for life of a mill there.2 Auschen de Ringeshale was
party to a fine of land in Ringshall in 1198.3
In 1236 (?) Brian son of Aunsel held of Margaret de Rivers fee
in Ringshall and William de Auberevill similarly held I fee there.4
In 1242-3 Brian de Ringeshale held fee, and Robert de Willakesham
I fee, in Ringshall of Margaret de Rivers.5 In 1247 Brian de Ringes-
hale and Margery his wife were pardoned the moiety of a crown
debt. Brian was sometime the bailiff in Suffolk of Peter of Savoy,?
and in 1256 gave a mark of gold for a charter of warren, for being
quit of the seal, for acquittance of having an assize and for respite of
knighthood, at the instance of Peter of Savoy; he died within the
year. 8
William de Aubervill was deceased in 1248, when the king took
the homage of Henry de Sandwic for the lands he ought to hold of
the king by reason of Joan his wife, daughter and heir of the said
William; he had livery of his wife's inheritance in Kent, Norfolk
and Suffolk. In the following year Reginald de Evermuth gave
40 marks for the recovery of the lands in Kent which his wife Is(abel)
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held in dower of the lands late of William de Aubervill, which had
been seised into the king's hands because Reginald had married her
without licence.10
According to the record of a plea de quo warranto in 1286 neither
of the persons named in 1236, as tenants of fees in Ringshall of the
honor of Albemarle, held those fees of inheritance, for Richard de la
Rokele and Robert de Wyllasham, being then required to prove their
title to view of frankpledge and the like in Ringshall, declared that
one William de Aundevill, who came with William the Conqueror,
was in seisin of those liberties and had issue William, Peter and
Jordan; William died without issue and his right descended to
Peter, as brother and heir, who afterwards gave his pourparty of the
inheritance to one William de la Rokele, father (sic) of Richard the
defendant, whose heir he was; that the right of Jordan's pourparty
also descended from the said Jordan de Aundevill to Matilda his
daughter and heir, and so to Robert (sic) her son and heir, and so to
Ralph as Robert's son and heir, and so to Ralph as Ralph's son and
heir, and so to Robert de Wyllasham, the other defendant, as
Ralph's son and heir.¹¹
Partial confirmation of this descent is supplied by the record of
a fine in 1196 quoted above. Robert de Willavesham has been
named above (n. 1) as owner of land in Somersham and Elmsett in
1287,12 in which places Roger de Oburvill held lands at the Domesday
survey.
In 1302 Lucy de Wylasham held fee in Ringshall of Guy Ferre,
who held of the countess of the Isle of Wight; Richard de la Rokele
held fee there of the same countess.13
In 1346 Ralph de Wylasham held fee in Ringshall of the lady
Ferre, who held of the heirs of the countess of the Isle of Wight;
John de la Rokele similarly held fee there.14 In 1368 the heirs of
Richard de Rokele held fee there.15
1. Hist. of Herts. iii. 381; Glanville-Richards, Records of Glanville, 53.
2. Feet of F. (P.R.S. xx.), 149. 3. Ibid. xxiv. 22. 4. Bk. of Fees, 608.
5. Testa, 290b. 6. Excerpt. Fin. ii. 7. 7. R. Hund. ii. 191.
cerpt. Fin. ii. 227. 9. Ibid. 28. 10. Ibid. 51. 11. Placit. de quo. war.
8. Ex-
13. Feud. Aids, v. 53.
14. Ibid.
728.
12. Cal. Inquis. ii. 397.
15. Cal. Close R. 497.
XXXVI.
Roger held of William de Falaise in Milton on Stour,¹ Dorset, 3
hides in 1086.
This tenement may have descended to Margery de Rivers from
the line of Curcy of Stoke Curcy.
fee in
In 1236 (?) Ralph de Hauvill held of Margaret de Rivers
Milton.2 William des Forz died in 1259 seised of [ ] fee of
Mortain in Milton which Roger de Aumale held of him; Matilda de
Kyme, late wife of the said William, had the manor of Shepton
Malet in dower.3 In 1285 Robert de Aumale held fee of
Mortain in Milton of the heirs of Hugh de Vivonia as of the barony
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4
of Chewton. In 1303 Thomas de Aumale held the same of the small
fees of Mortain of Joan de Vivonia.5 He was one of the lords of this
place in 1316.6
In 1318 the manor of Milton by Gillingham, Dorset, and certain
manors in Somerset were settled upon Thomas de Aumale and Cecily
his wife and the heirs of Thomas."
Richard de Flory held this fee in 1346.8
1. Hutchins, Dorset, iii. 626, for names.
Inquis. i. 298; Collinson, Somerset, iii. 462.
32. 6. Ibid. 40. 7. Dorset Feet of F. i.
2. Bk. of Fees, 607.
3. Cal.
4. Feud. Aids, ii. 22. 5. Ibid.
325. 8. Feud. Aids, ii. 52.
XXXVII.
Edward held of Alvric the king's thegn in 1086 in Great Crawford,
in Spettisbury, Dorset, 2 hides.
In 1242-3 a fee in Great Crawford was held of the fee of
Matilda (sic) de Rivers.¹
In 1288 John de Mohaut had land here by the gift of Joan de
Mohaut his mother.2 In 1303 John de Mohaut and another held
1/4 fee here. In 1311 he held fee here of Henry de Lascy, earl of
Lincoln, and in the following year fee here of Nicholas de Pointz.*
In 1316 John de Mohaut and the abbot of Préaux were lords of
Crawford. 5
2
In 1346 John Frelond held the Mohaut holding here."
2. Dorset Feet. of F. i. 207.
4. Cal. Inquis. v. 157, 195. 5. Feud. Aids, ii. 44.
1. Testa, 160b.
3. Feud. Aids, ii. 28.
6. Ibid. 47.
XXXVIII.
Eudes the sewer in 1086 held Eaton Socon, Beds., as 20 hides, of
which 7 hides were in the demesne, and Tedbald, a man of countess
Judith, claimed I hide of which Eudes disseised him; in Sandy
16 hides and I virgate.
Eudes gave to his monastery of St. John the Baptist at Colchester
inter alia half the tithe of Eaton and two-thirds of the tithe of Sandy.¹
At his decease in 1130 his land in Bedfordshire and mainly elsewhere
escheated to Henry I, who held it in 1130, when the sheriffs of
Bedford and Buckingham claimed allowance in the account of the
danegeld of 1129 in the demesne of Eudes the sewer of £4 8s.2 In
the ensuing year it is possible that the remission of danegeld made
in the demesne of the land which Hamon de St. Clare kept, namely
38s. 5d., and in the queen's land, 47s. 6d.,3 covered the manors of
Eaton Socon, Sandy, and some other part of Eudes' Bedfordshire fee.
The remission of 1129 represented that on 44 hides, which approxi-
mated closely to the Domesday assessment of the then demesne of
Eudes, after deducting 1 hide in Eaton, but including his holdings
in Wyboston, Chawston and Tempsford.
There are indications that the St. Clares held this fee at fee farm
during Stephen's reign. It may be conjectured that Hugh de
Beauchamp, the first of Eaton Socon, was a knight of Henry son of
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4
7
the empress, and that when his lord attained to the crown of
England he was rewarded by a grant of Eaton Socon and Sandy. He
appears to be the Hugh de Beauchamp of the Pipe rolls of the early
years of Henry's reign. Thus in 1156 he had remission of 20s. of
the danegeld of Huntingdonshire, 4s. of that of Hertfordshire and
12d. of the donum of that county (60 marks); 5 £22 Is. 3d. of the
danegeld of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, and £7 7s. Id. of
the donum of those counties and Bedford borough (110 marks).6
Again in 1158 he had remission of 40s. of the donum of those two
counties (£80). The remission of danegeld in the same counties
in 1156 was upon 220 hides and 21 virgates, which would suggest
that he then had custody of some very extensive fief within these
counties, possibly that of Beauchamp of Bedford. Simon de
Beauchamp of Bedford, uterine brother of Geoffrey de Mandeville,
second earl of Essex, cannot have been of age until 1166, as his
mother Rohaise de Vere married Simon's father Pain in 1144, on the
death of Geoffrey de Mandeville, first earl of Essex, her first husband.
For this connexion see Round's Geoffrey de Mandeville (p. 392). For
the descent of the Beauchamps of Eaton Socon see the account
of that family by Dr. G. Herbert Fowler in The Publications of
the Bedfordshire Historical Record Soc. (vol. ii.) and The Genealogist
(vol. xxix., Oct. 1912).
8
In the account of the issues of the lands of Simon de Beauchamp
of Bedford in 1159, Hugh de Beauchamp (of Eaton Socon) was
pardoned 53s. 4d. out of 88 marks of the gift of the knights of the
barony of Bedford, equal to the levy in respect of 2 knights' fees
of that honor. In the same year Hugh was pardoned 16s. 8d. in
respect of the fee that he held of the abbot of Ramsey 9 in Little
Barford, Beds., which Eudes the sewer had held of the abbot in
1086 and Osbern de Leyham had held under Eudes. See Eudes the
sewer, n. 2. Again in 1162 Hugh was pardoned 62s. out of 124 marks
due from the knights of the honor of Bedford for the scutage then
being levied,10 and I mark more in the ensuing year in Huntingdon-
shire. In 1162 he had remission of £4 14s. in respect of danegeld in
the counties of Bedford and Buckingham, and 31s. out of £36 of
scutage due from the honor of Bedford.11 He had also a gift of £20
out of the issues of the honor of Chester.12 In 1165 Richard Fitz-
Osbert, one of the farmers of Bedfordshire, received an allowance of
10 marks for the like sum taken from his farm for the land of Hugh
de Beauchamp'; also out of Hugh Gubion's fine in Northamptonshire
45 marks were given to the same Hugh for Hugh de Beauchamp.13
These gifts and remissions clearly identify the recipient as Hugh de
Beauchamp of Eaton Socon, to whom Henry committed the custody
of the castle of Rhuddlan at the termination of the successful
campaign against the Welsh in 1157.14 Pertinent to Hugh's position
in Wales are two entries on the Pipe roll of 1167, one referring to £10
due to the keeper of the honor of Fitz-Alan, of which the earl of
Chester and Hugh de Beauchamp had deforced him, and the other
to a payment of 20 marks out of the issues of the honor of Boulogne
to Hugh de Beauchamp for munitioning his castles of Wales.15 These
particulars indicate that Hugh was a trusted servant of Henry.
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In 1166 Hugh de Beauchamp held 1 fee of the honor of Simon de
Beauchamp of Bedford of the old feoffment and 1 fee of new feoff-
ment;
16 of the abbot of Ramsey he held 5 hides in Little Barford,
Beds., which he still held in 1184-1187; 17 and of William de Say
of Kimbolton and Sawbridgeworth he held 1 fee.18 In 1172 Hugh
seems to have been farmer or keeper of Bridgenorth.19 In the
ensuing year he and Hugh de Lascy were constables of Verneuil.20
Possibly Hugh was the tenant at this time of 1 fee of the honor of
Mortain in the bailiwick of Coutances.21 A MS. in the British
Museum records that Simon de Beauchamp, son of Hugh de Beau-
champ, first baron of Bedford after the Conquest, begat Hugh called
Agrinomis (sic) who married the heir of the baron of Eaton
(Socon), to whom Pain de Beauchamp his uncle gave Beauchamp
(Bellum Campum) of Normandy and 10 librates of land in England,
namely Dilwick (in Stagsden, Beds.) for 1 fee to him and his heirs.22
On the Hereford Pipe Roll of 1179 Mosse the Jew was invok-
ing the aid of the king's court to recover a debt of 10 marks
against Hugh de Beauchamp.23 Reference to Alda daughter of Hugh
de Beauchamp, and in 1185 relict of William Maubanc, will be found
under Chester, nos. 3 and 121.24 Dr. Fowler cites Hugh's gifts in
alms, including that of a croft in Eaton to the monks of St. John's,
Colchester, in compensation for any wrongs done to them forcibly
and for absolution of the same. He also confirmed the monks in their
possession of tithes of Eaton of the gift of Eudes the sewer, whom
he described as his antecessor.' 25
I
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2
In 1186 Hugh went on the crusade and was slain at the battle
of Hittin (4 July, 1187).26 He married Philippa daughter of Geoffrey
de Trailli, who gave for the souls of her said father and Hugh de
Beauchamp, her deceased husband, to the abbey of Wardon the land
of her maritagium, namely in Southill and Broom, Beds., her
charter being attested by Miles and Richard de Beauchamp, her
sons. 27
She also confirmed to Wardon land given by her husband
Hugh in Ravensden, being of her maritagium.28
Besides the sons here named, Hugh had issue an eldest son
Oliver, who confirmed to the monks of Colchester two-thirds of
the tithe of his demesne in Sandy.29 Dr. Fowler shews that
Oliver had issue by Agnes his wife, Hugh, Roger and Henry, and
a daughter Olive. The first named, as Hugh de Beauchamp, son
of Oliver, confirmed to the monks of Wardon the gift of his grand-
father, Hugh de Beauchamp, in respect of which the monks were
to do forinsec service to the lords of Bedford.30 He founded the
Augustinian priory of Bushmead apparently about 1199, when he
was a sick man. That the date of foundation was subsequent
to 1196 is proved by the reference in a contemporary charter of
Roger de Beauchamp, the founder's brother, to a gift for the soul
of Reginald de Stacheden, 31 who was living in 1195-6.32 Dr.
Fowler shews that Hugh had a grant of the escheated land of
Osbert Martel in Eaton Bray and Edlesborough. See Giffard, n. 20.
In 1194 Hugh de Beauchamp had pleas in Bedfordshire with
Hugh de Welleboef and William de Einesford the younger; 33
in both cases he essoigned himself of sickness of the bed at Hinton,
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Wilts.34 William de Einesford the younger complained that Hugh
and Eleanor his (i.e. William's) mother detained from him his
whole inheritance by reason of the dower of his said mother;
she was not willing to answer without her said husband.35 In
1196 Hugh gave £5 to escape service beyond seas in respect of 2 fees
(in Eaton and Sandy).36 Two years later Philippa de Belchamp
owed 10 marks not to be constrained to marry.37 In 1198 William
de Lanvalay impleaded Hugh de Beauchamp of a plea of land in
Bedfordshire.38 In 1200 there was reference to a cirograph between
them touching the barony of Eaton; 39 the pleadings shew that
plaintiff had demanded against Hugh the vills of Eaton and Sandy,
with the demesnes and homages which ought to descend to him.
from Hamon de St. Clare, grandfather of his wife Gunnor, who held
them at the death of Henry I; he claimed to hold them of the
king at fee farm for £40 rent; Hugh put himself on the grand
assize.40
This confirms the surmise made above that the St. Clares
had held Eaton prior to the time of Henry II. The result of the
plea was evidently in Hugh's favour. A document cited above
suggests that Hugh his grandfather had married an heiress of the
St. Clares and so acquired this barony.
In the foundation charters of Bushmead priory and plea rolls
of 1199-1200 are references to several tenants of the barony,
namely Simon de Pateshull. William Daneis, Richard de Beau-
champ, William de Bretevill, Adam de Chauton, Lawrence de
Sefort, Jordan Orfevre of St. Neots and Geoffrey de Costintin;
among the witnesses of the founder's charters may be noted Geoffrey
de Bretevill, Hugh de Vieuxpont and Reginald de Baa (Bathonia).
In 1208 the king confirmed to Robert de Braibroc among many
other estates the following lands given to him by Hugh de Beau-
champ, son of Oliver: land in the Old Park of Eaton between land
of Simon de Potte and land of Richard de Costentin; many parcels
of land in Eaton (described) with entry and exit between the wood
of William Daneis (Dacus) and land of Richard de Beauchamp
from his house of Cadebury to those lands; also 1 virgate of
villeinage in Eaton.41
I
In 1214 Hugh accounted for £4 of the scutage of Poitou for
2 fees in Eaton and 75s. for 1 in Edlesborough.42 He returned
to allegiance, but was deceased by 3 May, 1217, when the homage of
Roger de Beauchamp was taken for the land late of Hugh de Beau-
champ his brother, as the same Hugh had held it at the beginning
of the war between king John and the Barons, and especially of
the land of Roxton, which was of the maritagium of Roger's grand-
mother.43
In 1221 he had his writ of the scutage of Bisham, having
been with the king in that army; 44 he had also been in the army
of Newark in 1218.45
Roger died in 1221, and on 6 December of that year John son
of William, nephew and heir of Roger de Beauchamp, fined with
the king in £10 for seisin of Eaton and Sandy, which belonged to
him by inheritance.46 This sum was apparently the normal relief
for 2 knights' fees; the usual relief for a barony may have been
waived by reason of the heir's poverty. John was of the family
252
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of Mandevill of Black Notley, near Braintree, Essex. The pedigree.
is thus stated in a plea of 1239 cited below: William de Mandevill,
who had a son Geoffrey, who had a son William, who had a son
John de Beauchamp [occurs 1221 as above], who had a son William.
de Beauchamp, the plaintiff in 1239. From the number of descents
it is obvious that the first William mentioned must have been living
at the very beginning of the twelfth century. He was thus prob-
ably the son of the Walter who in 1086 held of Geoffrey de Mandevill
in Black Notley, Terling (Ridley Hall), Great Waltham (Chatham)
and Broomfield, and possibly others. This Walter was a Mandevill,
as appears by a charter by which Walter de Mannavilla and Gunnild
his wife gave to St. Alban's a third part of the tithes of (Black)
Notley, Broomfield, Chatham and Ridley.47 Matthew of Paris.
says the gift was made in the time of abbot Paul (1077–93).4 48
Of William, probable son and successor, nothing is known
beyond the statement in the plea that he had three sons-Walter
(s.p.), Gilbert and the above-named Geoffrey. Walter de Mande-
vill gave to Holy Trinity Priory, or Christ Church, Aldgate, the
churches of Black Notley and Broomfield; 49 the latter gift being
made before 1147, when Eugenius III confirmed it.50 Walter was
living in 1166, when he held 4 knights' fees in Essex of Geoffrey
earl of Essex.51 Walter's first wife A. occurs in one charter; 52
her name was Atheliz, as appears by a grant which Walter made
with her consent to the Hospitallers of 6 acres in Broomfield in
1153; the witnesses included Gilbert de Mandevill and Geoffrey
his brother. 53 Walter's widow was Mirabilis de Brumfeld, 54 who
was still living in 1190, when her brother Michael Fitz-Oger was
acting for her. 55
Ranulf son of Walter's brother Gilbert is said in the plea to
have succeeded; he confirmed the church of Broomfield to Christ
Church by a deed still extant and bearing his equestrian seal with.
legend-Sigill' Randulfi de M.56 His then wife was Roese, but his
widow was named Milicent, and it should be stated that in 1212
she gave a different descent for Ranulf, saying that his uncle was
Walter's father, unless avunculus is a clerk's error for 57
avus. Ranulf
was succeeded by Gilbert (plea as cited), and he by Thomas de
Mandevill, named in 1210,58 122759 and 1239. In this last-named
year occurred the plea cited for the descent; in it Thomas had to
defend his right to Black Notley, Broomfield &c. against William
de Beauchamp. The latter asserted that his ancestor Geoffrey was
elder brother of Gilbert the great-grandfather of Thomas. 60 The
matter was settled by fine in 1240, William receiving a carucate of
land out of the whole inheritance. 61 Black Notley &c. descended
regularly in the line of Thomas, and in 1302 another Thomas de
Mandevill held 4 fees in Broomfield, Black Notley and Great
Waltham of Humphrey de Bohun, earl of Hereford. 62
Turning to this William's line, we find that his grandfather
William son of Geoffrey was in possession of land in Roding, Essex,
in 1200,63 in which year he proffered 50 marks for confirmation of
his charters, 64 and the same year obtained the king's confirmation
of the gift made to him by Hugh de Beauchamp of all the grantor's
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land in Chellaston, Derbys., of his fee in marriage with Olive sister
of the said Hugh, and to the heirs of the said William and Olive,
to hold of grantor for fee.65 In 1209 he proffered £500 in Essex
for the king's goodwill. 66 In 1212 he held fee in Derbyshire. 67
From that county it was presented in that year that Melbourne
was the ancient demesne of Henry II, who gave it to Hugh de
Beauchamp I; Hugh gave to the canons of Calke 2s. rent, to
the church of Melbourne I virgate, to Oliver de Waldeboef 50
solidates of land in Normanton which the grantor then held of the
king in chief, to another a rent in the same vill; that after the
decease of Hugh de Beauchamp I, Hugh his son held the vill of
Melbourne by his father's gift; that afterwards came Oliver his
eldest brother and claimed the manor, but they made agreement
whereby Hugh quitclaimed to his brother Oliver 100 solidates of
land in Chellaston, which Oliver gave to William son of Geoffrey
with his daughter (Olive) in marriage, and that the same William
then held it by the king's confirmation, as above. 68 In 1216 his
land in Derbyshire was committed to William de Meleburne.69
He died before 7 August, 1220, when his son, John son of William
Fitz-Geoffrey gave 5 marks for inquiry if his said father had been
disseised of 1 carucate in Chellaston by reason of the (Barons')
war and if the said John was his next heir. 70 This was found to
have been the case and that king John had committed the land to
William de Meleburne, whose brother John then held it; where-
upon John son of William had seisin.71 As noted above he was
found to be nephew and heir of Roger de Beauchamp of Eaton
in 1221.
1
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In 1231 an agreement was concluded whereby John de Beau-
champ of Eton' granted to Ralph bishop of Chichester his land
in Roding for 10 years from Michaelmas in that year.72
In 1233
John de Beauchamp levied a fine of land in Roding and 2 years
later put in his claim, as John de Beauchamp of Roding, in a fine
of land in that place.73 In 1235-6 the collectors of the king's
sister's aid accounted for 8 marks of 61 fees of the fee of John de
Beauchamp of the barony of Eaton. 74
John was deceased prior to 7 January, 1236, when Ralph bishop
of Chichester, then the chancellor, had a grant of the custody
during the minority of the heirs of the land and heirs of John de
Beauchamp with the marriage of the heirs.75
In 1239 William de Beauchamp, son of John, was plaintiff in
the plea cited above, and in 1241 he acknowledged that land in
Sandy and the advowson of the church there were the right of
the prior of Caldwell as of the gift of John de Beauchamp, father
of the said William, whose heir he was; Simon de La More and
Matilda his wife put in their claim.76
In 1240 John de Burgh and Hawise (de Lanvaley) his wife made
by fine a quitclaim of their right (see the claim made in 1200) to
the following tenants of the barony of Eaton and their respective
tenements, except the homage and service of Robert de Wauton
and Sarra his wife and her heirs for a tenement late held by them
of William de Beauchamp. Hugh de Beauchamp and the others.
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named had lately vouched to warranty William de Beauchamp
against the said John and Hawise."7
Hugh de Beauchamp
Prior of Caldwell
Prior of the Hospitallers
Matilda late wife of Robert de
Turevill
Geoffrey Bloch
Eudes de Beauchamp
Alice de Vieuxpont, warrantor of
the prior of Caldwell
Osbert de Bathonia
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ranty by Agnes de Bathonia
William de Matan
chamberlain
Matilda his wife
Nigel de Radewell and Amfelisia
his wife
Geoffrey de Teyl
Simon de Pateshull
Henry le Despenser
Robert de Sandeye
Geoffrey le Oysilur
John de Haueden
Richard Godinoch
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wife
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In 1242-3 William de Beauchamp of Eaton held Eaton Socon
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Thomas de Barging
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Walter de Karon, in Eaton
Prior of Caldwell
William de Beauchamp
William Wischard
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Richard de Beauchamp,
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Roger de Stoke
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In 1245 William de Beauchamp of Eaton was temporarily
dispossessed of his land for taking part in the prohibited tourna-
ment at Cambridge. 82 In 1255, after a plea brought against him.
by Geoffrey abbot of Wardon, complaining that William de Beau-
champ of Bedford distrained the said abbot for suit of court and
aids in respect of the latter's tenements in Stagsden, Dilwick,
Southill and Stanford, William acknowledged by fine that the abbot
should hold of him the tenements in Stagsden and Dilwick for
fee or 13s. 4d. at a scutage of 40s., and those in Southill and
Stanford in free alms.83 As Dr. Fowler has stated, these lands
were parcel of the barony of Bedford; evidently William de Beau-
champ of Eaton was mesne in these places between the baron of
Bedford and the abbot of Wardon.
256
HONOR OF EUDES THE SEWER
William de Beauchamp died in the spring of 1259; 84 in the
following year wardship of his lands during the minority of William
his heir was granted to Joan his relict for the maintenance of the
heir and other children.85 In 1266 the marriage of the heir was
granted to William de Clifford, king's clerk, 86 who presented
himself to the church of Sandy in 1267, and in 1268 assigned his
wardship of the heir of Eaton to Richard de Ewell, king's serjeant. 87
In 1276 Ralph de Beauchamp held the barony of Eaton, Ralph
de Beauchamp of Roding Beauchamp being presented in 1275 as
having view of frankpledge and the like.88 In 1276 it was presented.
that William de Beauchamp of Eaton had (long before) appro-
priated warren in Sandy.89 Ralph de Beauchamp held 1 fee in
Sandy in 1284-6,90 and John de Boeles held of him in Eddles-
borough, Bucks., fee, John de Beauchamp fee there of the same.
Ralph, and the prior of Caldwell fee there similarly.91 In 1287
Ralph defended his claim to view of frankpledge and waif; he
stated that Eaton was the caput of the barony he held of the king
and Sandy was another manor of his barony, that he claimed
those and other liberties by prescription, and free warren by the
grant of Henry III in 1223 to William de Beauchamp, his father. 92
In 1291 the earl of Cornwall gave to the rector and brethren of
Ashridge his land in the vill of Eddlesborough of the fee of Ralph
de Beauchamp. 93 Ralph died in 1294 holding the manor of Eaton
by barony for I fee and the manor of Sandy pertaining to the
said barony; Roger his son was aged 22 years. 94
4
4
In 1302-3 the rector of the house of Ashridge held fee in
Eddlesborough, Philip le Botiler fee there of the said rector;
John de Boeles fee there; the prior of Caldwell and the heirs
of William Neybor fee there.95 Roger de Beauchamp held Eaton
with the barony for 2 fees. In 1316 the same Roger was returned
as lord of that vill.96 He and his brother William and others
were indicted by Alice late wife of William le Latimer in 1309
for trespass in her warren at Eaton (Socon) and Catbury.97 Roger
and Alice his wife and Ralph de Beauchamp were charged with
assault at Roxton in 1313. 98 William the warrener of Roger de
Beauchamp of Sandy and John son of Roger de Beauchamp were
charged in 1316 with breaking the park of Bennington, Herts.99
Roger was on the commission of the peace in Bedfordshire in 1327.100
In 1328 Roger de Beauchamp was certified as having done
homage and fealty to the king.101 In 1330 he defended his claim.
to certain liberties in Eaton and Sandy, and cited the grant of
Henry III to William de Beauchamp, his grandfather, of free
warren, market and fair at Eaton.102 În 1334 land in Eaton Socon
was held of Roger de Beauchamp.103 In 1338 Roger de Beauchamp
of Eaton, knt., John de Beauchamp of Wyboston, Beds., Richard,
Thomas, and John his sons, and others of Wyboston and Eaton,
were charged with assault.104
In 1336 licence was granted for the alienation in mortmain
by Roger de Beauchamp of 2 messuages and lands in Eaton and
Sandy to two chaplains to celebrate daily, one in the church of
St. Swithin, Sandy, and the other in the chapel of St. Mary, Eaton
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257
(Socon), for his soul and his ancestors' souls.105 In 1343 the same
Roger, as of Eaton, knight, acknowledged a debt of £200 to John
de Engayne, knt., and at the same time obtained licence to enfeoff
the same John of the manor of Eaton, £4 of rent excepted, and 5
messuages with the reversion of the £4 of rent expectant on the
death of Ralph de Beauchamp.106 In 1346 the same John and
Roger and their tenants held 2 fees in Eaton by barony.1
107
John de Engayne, knt., of Dillington died in 1358 seised of
the manor of Eaton, acquired as above, which had been settled
on the said John for life, with remainder to John de Engayne, knt.,
his son and Joan his wife (dau. of Sir Robert Peverel) and their
issue it was held of the king in chief for 1 fee; also of the manor
of Sandy, which had been settled on deceased for life, with remainder
to Thomas de Engayne his son and Katherine his wife and their
issue it was similarly held for 1 fee; John the son was deceased
and William de Colvill, knt., had married Joan, who survived;
Thomas son of John de Engayne the elder was the next heir,
aged 22 and more.108
:
31
1. Chartul. (Roxburghe Club), 2.
4. Ibid. 2 Hen. II, 14.
4 Hen. II, 140.
104.
7 Hen. II, 12.
2. Pipe R.
5. Ibid. 20.
8. Ibid. 5 Hen. II, 22.
11. Ibid. 8 Hen. II, 41-2.
II Hen. II, 22, 96. 14. Rob. of Torigni, 195. 15. Pipe R. 13 Hen. II,
72, 157. 16. Red Bk. 320-1. 17. Ibid. 370; Chartul. of Ramsey, iii. 48,
218. 18. Red Bk. 373. 19. Pipe R. 16 Hen. II, 133. 20. Robt. of Torigni,
257. 21. Red Bk. 636; Stapleton, Norman Excheq.ii. 530. 22. Add. MS.
24465, n. 307. Inform. of Dr. G. H. Fowler. 23. Pipe R. 25 Hen. II, 41.
24. R. de Dominabus, 30.
25. Chartul. 148. 26. Roger of Howden,
27. Chartul. (John Rylands Lib.), f. 94b.
28. Ibid. 93.
30. Chartul. f. 95. 31. Mon. Angl. vi. 382.
32. R. Cur.
33. Ibid. 103, 106–7.
34. Ibid. 115, 120.
35. Abbrev.
36. Pipe R. 8 Ric. m. 15d.
Cur. Reg. iii. 68ff. 39. Ibid. 227; cf. ii. 279.
Chart. 18ob. 42. Dr. Fowler, cit. Pipe R. 12 John.
37. Ibid. 10 Ric. m. 1d. 38. R.
40. iii. 340.
41. R.
43. R. Lit. Claus.
Excerpt. Fin. i. 76.
(Rolls Ser.), ii. 56 ;
46.
51. Red Bk. 345.
Chart. 67.
68. Bk.
i. 3036, 308. 44. Ibid. 475. 45. Ibid. 3796.
47. Mon. Angl. ii. 220. 48. Chron. Mon. S. Albani.
Walsingham. 49. Mon. Angl. vi. 154. 50. Ibid.
52. Cott. Ch. xiii. 18 (Broomfield). 53. Nero E. vi. f. 332d. 54. Anct. D.
(P.R.O.), A. 6943 (seal). 55. Ibid. A. 6944.
56. Ibid. A. 6942;
see also Cott. Ch. xxvii. 53; Mon. Angl. vi. 309.
57. Curia Regis
R. 56, m. 23.
58. Ibid. 53, m. 2.
59. Assize R. 229, n. 50.
Roese then wife of Richard de Canning was probably Thomas's mother.
60. Curia Regis R. 120, m. 10d. 61. Essex F. of Fines, 127. 62. Cal.
Misc. Ing. i. 509. 63. Essex Feet of F. 23. 64. R. de Oblat. 67. 65. R.
66. Pipe R. 11 John, m. 17d. 67. Red Bk. 183.
of Fees, 152. 69. R. Lit. Claus. i. 289. 70. Excerpt. Fin. i. 51. 71. R.
Lit. Claus. i. 441. 72. Cal. Chart. R. i. 139, 178. 73. Essex Feet of
F. 92, 108. 74. Bk. of Fees, 460. 75. Cal. Pat. R. 134. 76. Feet of
F., Beds. n. 446. 77. Ibid. n. 458, note by Dr. Fowler.
of Fees, 888.
P. 251. 82. Close R. 363. 83. Feet of F., Beds. n. 551. 84. Ex-
cerpt. Fin. ii. 298. 85. Ibid. 343; Cal. Pat. R. 131.
87. Ibid. 49, 183.
88. R. Hund. i. 5, 153. 89. Ibid. 3b.
Aids, i. 3. 91. Ibid. 74. 92. Placit. de quo war. 3b. 93.
ii. 384. 94. Cal. Ing. ii. 110. 95. Feud. Aids, i. 102-3.
97. Cal. Pat. R. 128. 98. Ibid. 61. 99. Ibid. 588, 592.
101. Cal. Close R. 279. 102. Plac. de quo war. 51b. 103. Cal. Inquis. vii. 404.
104. Cal. Pat. R. 181; Cal. Close R. 618. 105. Cal. Pat. R. 315. 106. Cal. Close
R. 86; Cal. Pat. R. 7, 24.
107. Feud. Aids, i. 34. 108. Cal. Inquis. x. 342.
78. Bk.
81. Cf. Close R. 1229,
79. Ibid. 80. Feud. Aids. i. 15.
86. Ibid. 604.
90. Feud.
Cal. Chart. R.
96. Ibid. 15, 18.
100. Ibid. 89.
ii. 316, 325.
29. Ibid. 149.
Reg. i. 375.
Placit. I.
Hen. I, 103.
6. Ibid. 23.
9. Ibid. 55.
12. Ibid. 20.
3. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
III.
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HONOR OF EUDES THE SEWER
XXXVIII (1).
William de Carun held of Eudes the sewer in 1086 in Temps-
ford, Beds., 4 hides and I virgate, in Southill virgate, in Stanford
(in Southill) 4 hides, in Clifton 6 hides. Ulmar of Eaton (Socon)
held most of this land T.R.E. Eudes himself held in Tempsford
1 hide and 1 virgate.
Before the summer of 1119 Robert de Carun gave to St. John's,
Colchester, a mill in Clifton.¹ Possibly in or before 1104 he had
given a rent of 10s. from the mills of Tempsford to the same
priory.2
In 1129 Robert de Carun gave to St. Neots a holme of his
manor of Tempsford and, when Anselm the priest, his nephew, took
the habit, gave to the same monastery, with the assent of Adeliza
his wife and William his son, the church of Tempsford with a
virgate of land, &c.3 Another son, Walter de Carun, with the
assent of his wife Emma and son Robert, confirmed the gift of the
church, and gave further land in Tempsford, which Ralph de
Karun confirmed.5 William de Carun gave 5 acres for the soul of
Robert his father, with the assent of his brother, Walter, of whom
he held the fee. Emma seems to have had a previous husband,
Hugh de Brettevill, with sons Hamon and Geoffrey.?
4
9
In 1130 Robert de Carun had accounted under Bedfordshire
for 69s. for the land of Ralph his brother, possibly the balance.
from an old account. In Devonshire Richard de Greinvill owed a
destrier for having the wardship of Robert de Carun's son, probably
not the Robert of Clifton.9 In Norfolk Ralph de Carun accounted
for 7 marks of the pleas of Geoffrey de Clinton.10 From this Ralph
possibly descended Ranulf de Karun, who held in 1166 of Hubert
de Rye 3 fees, and of Robert de Aubigny 1 fee jointly with 2 others.11
John de Carun attested a charter of Robert de Aubigny issued at
Cainhoe circa 1135. 12 Ranulf de Carun accounted in 1159 by the
sheriff of Norfolk for £4 for some plea.13
In 1179 the sheriff accounted for 20 marks from the county
of Bedford for a duel unjustly adjudged between Juliana and
William Carun.14 In 1189 Richard de Carun owed 50 marks for
fine of his land of Sherrington, Bucks.15 For reference to this
branch of the family, see vol. i, p. 261.
In 1199 both William de Carun and John de Carun had pleas
of land in Bedfordshire with William Loherenge.15a In 1201 John de
Carun gave 6 marks to escape service over seas in respect of 2 fees in
Bedfordshire.16 He died before 1208, when Hugh his son and heir
was a debtor to a Jew of London.17 Hugh son of John de Carun
confirmed his ancestors' gifts to St. Neots, and added others.18
His widow Matilda in 1225 remitted her dower right in the abbey
lands.19
8
In 1217 the sheriff of Bedford was directed to give Amice de Carun
('Crum ') such seisin of a mill in Tempsford as she had before the
war between the king and the barons.20 Ranulf de Carun of
Buckinghamshire died before the end of the year 1224; he had
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259
been in the army of Bedford, wherefore Beatrice his relict was not
to be distrained for scutage of that army in respect of 1 fee held of
the king in chief, but she and Ranulf's heir were acquitted.21 The
same Beatrice gave £80 for wardship of the land and son and heir
of the same Ranulf with the marriage of the said heir. 22 In 1226
3
Miles de Carrun had a plea with Robert de Sutton respecting fee
in Clifton, Beds.23 In 1227 John de Lohereng granted by fine to
Walter de Caron 2 hides in Tempsford, of which one of the under-
tenants was Geoffrey de Bretevill.24
In 1231 Amice de Carun was attached to answer Elizabeth,
Lucy and Margery, daughters and heirs of Hugh de Carun,
touching waste made in her dower lands in Hardwick and Clifton,
Beds., of the endowment of John de Carun, her late husband and
grandfather of the complainants, whose heirs they were.25 He and
William de Creppinges were in Gascony in 1226 in the king's ser-
vice.26 It may be surmised that Amice married Nicholas de Cerne.
In 1230 Nicholas de Cernes was pardoned scutage of 3 marks in
each of 5 fees which he held of John de Beauchamp (of Eaton) in
chief in Tempsford and Clifton.27 In 1232 John Le Lohereng
acknowledged the right of Nicholas de Cerne in land in Tempsford
which he held of the said John's gift for fee.28
29
In 1241 Walter de Caron quitclaimed to Geoffrey de Bretevill,
whom Robert de Bretevill vouched to warranty, land in Tempsford,
for which Geoffrey gave Walter a tenement in Roxton of virgate.2
In the same year Margery daughter and coheir of Hugh de Carun
was wife of Robert de Mora, and in 1246 Elizabeth her sister was
wife of William de Creppinges; in the last-named year they made
exchanges of tenements in Tempsford and Clifton, with the consent.
of Matilda late wife of Hugh de Carun, father of the said Margery
and Elizabeth.³⁰ In 1235-6 John de Carun contributed 4 marks in
respect of 2 fees in Bucks to the aid levied that year.
31
Possibly the heir of Ranulf de Carun, who died in 1224, was
Robert de Carun, who acquired writs in 1239 to sue pleas in Bedford-
shire together with Flandrina his wife.32 In 1242-3 John de Carun
held 2 fees in Sherrington, Bucks., of the king in chief; 33 Nicholas
de Cernes held 1 fee (in Tempsford and the members) in the name
of dower with his wife.34
In 1250 John Carun held in Sherrington 2 carucates and in
villeinage 7 virgates of the king by fee of the hauberk; he also
held land in Oxsted, Surrey.35 In 1259 John Blundel assured to
Richard Blundel tenements in Tempsford which Richard held of
John's gift.36 In 1270 Richard Blundel assured to Roger de La
Leye by fine a messuage and a carucate in Tempsford of the said
Richard's gift.37
1
Martin le Carun of Sherrington occurs in 1285.38 In 1284-6
Robert de Carun held in Tempsford 1 fee of Ralph de Beauchamp
of Eaton; Nicholas de Cernes held 1 fee there of the same Ralph
and fee there of the bishop of Lincoln.39 In 1289 Martin Carun
of Buckinghamshire acknowledged a debt to William son of Roger
de La More.40 In 1291 Ralph son of Hugh le Persone of Tempsford
was pardoned his outlawry for the death of Thomas son of William
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Caroun,41 and William Fitz la Persone of the same sought to replevy
his land in Tempsford, seized for his default against Henry de La
Legh of Tempsford.42 Nicholas de Cernes died in Bedford prison
in or before 1293, accused and afterwards convicted of the death of
Hugh de Legh; he held land in Tempsford as in 1284-6 and parcels
of land of various people, including the heirs of Robert le Caron;
after the offence he fled, when his lands and chattels were seized.43
In 1298 Robert son of William le Caron of Hardwick by Shefford,
Beds., and Lucy his wife brought an appeal against certain of their
neighbours.44 Robert Carun died before 1297, when the abbot of
Stratford recovered his seisin of 2 mills in Tempsford against Roger
de Cantelupe and Agnes his wife, Miles le Drayton and Joan his
wife, which Agnes and Joan were heirs of Robert Carun and then
under age.45 Roger Carun of Sherrington demised his manor of
Sherrington for a term of years prior to 1298.46 He died in 1301
holding the manor of Sherrington for 2 fees of the king in chief;
Sibyl his daughter was aged under 2 years and Joan his wife
survived.47
48
In 1302-3 Roger de Cantelupe and Miles de Drayton held ?
fee in Tempsford; John de Cernes (Sernys) and the prior of St.
Neots held land there of Roger de Beauchamp of Eaton and also
of the bishop of Lincoln.4 Some light is thrown on the descent
of part of this fee by a plea 'de quo warranto' in 1330, when
Hugh de Bray and Ada his wife defended their claim to view of
frankpledge in the manor of Tempsford by descent from William
de Bretevill, who enfeoffed John Blundel and he enfeoffed Roger
de La Leye, who died seised but without issue, when it descended
to Walter his brother and heir, and so to Henry son and heir of
Walter, and from Henry to Roger his son and heir, and from Roger
to Ada his daughter and heir, then claimant with her said
husband.49
In 1316 Roger de Cantelupe, Miles de Drayton, Roger de La
Leye and the prior of St. Neots were lords of Tempsford. 50 Roger
de La Leye died in 1323 holding a messuage and 2 carucates in
Tempsford of the prior of Wallingford for 40s. rent; Adam his son
was aged 16 years.51
In 1315 John de Burgh and others were indicted by Roger de
Pateshull, parson of the church of Bletsoe, to whom the king had
committed the custody of the land and heir of Roger Carun, with
the marriage of the heir, with breaking into the manor house of
Sherrington, abducting Sibyl daughter and heiress of the same
Roger, a minor, and marrying her against the will of the said
Roger de Pateshull, 52 As John de Burgh was in 1316 one of the
lords of Sherrington, 53 it is probable that he married the said Sibyl.
This surmise is justified by a writ of seisin issued in 1314 for John
de Burgh and Sibyl his wife, daughter and heiress of Roger de
Carom of Shirrington, of the land of the said Roger, as Sibyl had
proved her age and her husband had done fealty for the said
land. 54
In 1346 Agnes de Cantelupe and Geoffrey de Drayton held
fee in Tempsford of the king in chief; John Morice and the prior
CLIFTON-HENLOW
261
of St. Neots also held fee there partly of the bishop of Lincoln
and partly of Roger de Beauchamp (of Eaton).55
1. Chartul. of Colchester, 6. 2. Ibid. 13. 3. Mon. Anglic. iii. 473b ;
Chartulary, Faustina A. iv. f. 83. 4. Chartulary, f. 83d. 5. Ibid. f. 84.
6. Ibid. 7. Ibid. ff. 83d, 85. 8. Pipe R. 31 Hen. I, 103.
9. Ibid. 155.
10. Ibid. 92.
11. Red Bk. 324, 400. 12. Chron. of Abingdon, ii. IOI.
13. Pipe R. 5 Hen. II, 11. 14. Ibid. 25 Hen. II, 78. 15. Ibid. 1 Ric. I. 35-
15a. R. Cur. Reg. i. 234, 274. 16. R. de Oblat. 156.
17. R. de Fin. 441.
18. Faustina A. iv. f. 84d, 85. 19. Ibid. f. 85.
20. R. Lit. Claus. i. 346b.
21. Ibid. ii. 10. 22. Excerpt. Fin. i. 120. 23. R. Lit. Claus. ii. 145b.
24. Feet of F., Beds. n. 317.
25. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 580. 26. Pat.
27. Close R. 285. 28. Feet of F., Beds. n. 350.
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid. nos. 427, 473.
31. Bk. of Fees, 469. 32. Excerpt. Fin.
33. Bk. of Fees, 872.
34. Ibid. 889. 35. Cal. of Misc. Inq.
36. Feet of F., Beds. n. 599.
37. Ibid. n. 665. 38. Cal. Close R.
375. 39. Feud. Aids, i. 3.
R. 33.
n. 426.
i. 326.
i. 25.
42. Cal. Close R. 188.
41. Cal. Pat. R. 416.
44. Cal. Pat. R. 379.
47. Cal. Inquis. iv. 15;
49. Placit. de quo war. 67b.
40. Cal. Close R. III.
43. Cal. Inquis. iii. 127.
46. Cal. Pat. R. 379.
Feud. Aids, i. 23.
51. Cal. Inquis. vi. 271.
54. Cal. Close R. 37.
45. Abbrev. Placit. 236b.
Cal. Close R. 460.
48.
50. Feud. Aids, i. 19.
52. Cal. Pat. R. 252.
55. Feud. Aids, i. 23.
53. Feud. Aids, i. 110.
XXXVIII (2).
Within William de Caron's manor of Clifton and at Gretteford,
Beds., lands were given to the Hospitallers which were attached
to their preceptory of Shefford Hardwick.
Hugh de Beauchamp gave them the whole vill of Grutteford
by charter attested by Ralph de Turvill, Hugh de Karun, Geoffrey
de Bruttevill and Hugh de Vieuxpont.¹ Presumably this was the
tenement which the prior of the Hospitallers held of the barony of
Eaton in 1242-3 as 4 virgates,2 and in 1276 as 1 carucate in Clifton
hundred.³ In 1302-3 the prior held of the barony of Eaton
in Clifton, Beds.4
fee
In 1253 Margery Carun acknowledged the right of Ellis de
Smetheton, prior of the Hospitallers, in 2 carucates of land in
Clifton and lands in Stanford (in Southill), Henlow, Langford and
(Shefford) Hardwick, Beds., as of her gift, and with the consent
of William de Creppinges (her sister's husband) she granted to
the prior and his successors all the lands which the same William
held by the courtesy of England of her inheritance, which at his
decease should revert to her and her heirs. 5
In 1346 the Hospitallers held fee in Clifton."
2. Bk. of Fees, 889.
4. Feud. Aids, i. 12. 5. Feet of F., Beds. n. 546.
1. Mon. Angl. vi. 807.
3. R. Hund, i. 2.
6. Feud. Aids, i. 31.
XXXVIII (3).
Land in Henlow, Beds., seems to have been included in the
manor of Clifton which William de Caron held in 1086 of Endes
the sewer.
This tenement was long in the possession of the Cantelupes of
Eaton Bray, Beds.¹
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In 1242-3 William de Cantelupe held 1 virgate in Henlow of the
honor of Eaton of the king of ancient feoffment.2 In 1276 Ives
la Zuche held by mesne I virgate of the king in Clifton hundred
pertaining to the barony of Eaton and had view of frankpledge
and other liberties.3 In 1302-3 William de Cantelupe lately held
I virgate in Henlow of the honor of Eaton which William de la
Zouche then held for fee.¹ William la Zouche held the same
in 1346.5
1. Sec. V.C.H. Beds. iii. 370. 2. Bk. of Fees, 870. 3. R. Hund. i. 2b.
4. Feud. Aids, i. 13. 5. Ibid. 31.
XXXVIII (4).
Norman held of Eudes the sewer in Beeston, Beds., 4 hides.
The same Norman had held T.R.E. these 4 hides and 3 hides more
which Rolland held of the same Eudes in 1086 (see n. 49). The
first of these holdings was said to have been no part of the fee of
Lisois (de Moustiers, predecessor of Eudes).
1
Everard de Trumpington of Trumpington occurs in Cambridge-
shire near the beginning of John's reign. He had various commis-
sions in that county over many years. In 1217 he held land in
Bedfordshire which was restored to him when he returned to
allegiance to Henry. In 1219 he claimed to hold land in Howes,
Cambs., by inheritance from his father William, who had held it for
40 years.2 References to him will be found in the author's Feudal
Cambridgeshire. In 1232 Walter Pertesoyl released to Everard de
Trumpington his right in a messuage in Beeston to be held by doing
for Walter the service due to the chief lord.³
In the same year
Everard was one of the keepers of the escheats in Cambs., where he
was a collector of the thirtieth in 1237.5 In 1236 Fulk le Moyne
warranted to the same Everard of a messuage in Stotfold and land
in Thorncote and Beeston. In 1242-3 Thomas son of Bernard held
4
fee in Beeston of the barony of Eaton.' Early in 1242 Everard
de Trumpinton had been named for appointment as commissioner
of array in Cambridgeshire, but his name was cancelled in favour of
another on the enrolment of the commission.8 In 1251 he had a
plea with Henry de Bathonia, the justiciary, touching a certain
manor.9
Everard was succeeded by Roger his son,10 who was a Crusader
in 1270.11 He acknowledged a debt in 1278 to be levied of his lands
in Cambs., Hunts. and Beds.12 He was passing beyond seas in 1282
with John de Vescy, and was again serving over seas in 1286.13 He
died in 1289 holding a messuage and lands in Moggerhanger, Beds.,
of various lords, including Sir Ralph Pirot, other lands in Trumping-
ton and Girton, Cambs.; Giles his son was aged 22 and more.¹4
fine of the manor of Trumpington had been levied to Giles and Isabel
his wife in 1274.15 Giles son of Roger de Trumpinton had licence
to alienate land in Trumpington to the parson of the church there
in 1291.16
He held land in Beeston in 1300,17 and the manor of
Trumpington of Edmund de Mortimer in 1304.¹
A
18
BEESTON-KINWICK FIELD IN SANDY
263
In 1302-3 Giles de Trumpinton held and fee in Beeston of
the barony of Eaton and was one of the lords of Moggerhanger in
1316.19
In 1303-1305 he was with the earl of Lincoln serving beyond
seas and in Scotland; in 1304 he complained of the loss of 200 of his
sheep at Moggerhanger while he was serving the king in Scotland.20
In 1309 he had letters of protection for 4 years going on pilgrimage.21
Land was held of him in Beeston in 1314,22 and he was living in 1318,
when he appointed Roger de Trumpinton his attorney, prior to going
beyond seas.23 He enfeoffed the said Roger and Matilda wife of
the said Roger of the manor of Moggerhanger, and probably died
not long after. In 1326 Roger de Trumpington died seised as above
of the said manor, leaving Giles his son aged 61 years.24 He held
land in 6 counties. Land in Beeston was held of Matilda de Trump-
ington in 1342, and in 1346 the said Matilda held 1 fee in Beeston
of Roger de Beauchamp of Sandy, and with Roger her son she also
held fee in Beeston of the barony of Eaton.26
25
4
1. R. Lit. Claus. i. 326b. 2. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 57. 3. Feet of F.,
Beds. n. 333.
4. Close R. 131.
5. Ibid. 547·
6. Feet of F., Beds.
n. 392. 7. Bk. of Fees, 889.
8. Close R. 485. 9. Matt. Paris, Chron.
Maj. v. 212. 10. R. Hund. i. 52. 11. Cal. Pat. R. 480. 12. Cal. Close
R. 551.
13. Cal. Pat. ii. 239, 246. 14. Cal. Inquis. ii. 438. 15. Feet
of F., Cambs. 75. 16. Cal. Pat. R. 415. 17. Cat. of Anct. D. iii. C.3416.
18. Cal. Inquis. iv. 163.
19. Feud. Aids, i. 27, 19. 20. Cal. Pat. R. 286.
21. Ibid. 122. 22. Cal. Inquis. v. 248. 23. Cal. Pat. R. 145–6. 24. Cal.
Inquis. vi. 461. 25. Ibid. viii. 237.
For Roger
see Ormerod, Ches. iii. 253.
26 Feud. Aids, i. 27.
XXXVIII (5).
Chenemondewiche of the Domesday Survey of Bedfordshire,
later Kinemondwick, has been identified by Dr. Fowler as Kinwick
Field in Sandy.
The same writer has shewn that Robert de Braibroc acquired
lands of the barony of Eaton by becoming surety for certain debts
to the Jews due by Hugh de Beauchamp II and Oliver de Beauchamp.
He cites a charter of John de Beauchamp releasing Henry de
Braibroc (son of Henry) of his share of the above-named debts by
reason of the lands which the said Henry held of the lands formerly
of the said Hugh and Oliver de Beauchamp.¹ Robert de Braibroc
also freed the adjoining manor of Sutton from Jewry and gave it to
Henry his son and Christiana daughter of Wischard Ledet (d. 1222)
in marriage; the same Christiana acquired similarly the manor
of Cadebury, Beds., held of the barony of Eaton, of which she was
dowered by Wischard her son.2 Henry de Braibroc died in 1234,³
and by 1236 his relict Christiana had married Gerard de Furnivall;
hence they appear in 1240 as holding of the barony of Eaton 2
carucates in Eaton (n. 38).
4
It is quite uncertain if land in Kinwick formed part of the
Braibroc holding in this barony. Before 1242 John de Andevill gave
to the monks of St. Neots I virgate in Kenemundewich.5 In 1242-3
Hugh de Andevill held fee less I virgate in Kenemondewick. This
description is indefinite as to the locality of the fee. Hugh de
6
264
HONOR OF EUDES THE SEWER
Andevill, John his son and Andrew de Cirnindewyk attested a grant
of land in Sandy to Wardon abbey.?
8
The tenement in Kinwick has not been traced further. Dr.
Fowler cites evidences to prove that the prior of Chicksand, as well
as the prior of St. Neots, had land in Kinwick. In 1316 the prior of
Chicksand was one of the lords of Sandy. In 1332 the abbot of
St. Mary's, Stratford, had licence to grant to John Morice and
Agnes his wife messuages and lands in Tempsford, ' Kylmundewyk,'
and 2 other places.9
The manor of Cadebury descended in the line of the heirs general
of Ledet. In 1325 Nicholas le Latimer, son of Alice la Latimere, held
the manor of Roger de Beauchamp for 40d. and 2 pairs of spurs
yearly; John his son was aged 9 years.10
1. Cart. Antiq. 30 F. 13; Beds. Hist. Rec. Soc., 69. 2. Cal. Inquis.
i. 259, 308. 3. Excerpt. Fin. i. 80, 258. 4. Close R. 336. 5. Chartul.,
B.M., Faust. A. iv. f. 54; cited by Dr. Fowler.
6. Bk. of Fees, 889.
7. Chartul. John Rylands Lib. f. 63d., Dr. Fowler's notes. 8. Feud. Aids,
9. Cal. Pat. 375. 10. Cal. Inquis. vi. 383.
i. 19.
XXXVIII (6).
Eudes the sewer held in Wyboston, Beds., 6 hides and 3 virgates.
He also held 1 virgate there under the abbot of Ramsey.
Hugh de Beauchamp gave to St. Neots a virgate of land in
Wyboston for a light in the church.¹
In 1194 Richard de Baa was surety for Hugh de Beauchamp and
Alienor his wife in a plea with William de Einesford.2 In 1195-6 and
1199 Reginald de Baa was a visor in Bedfordshire pleas.³ In 1208
the king confirmed to Robert de Braibroc, of the gift of Reginald
de Baa, all the land he held of the fee of Hugh de Beauchamp
in the Old Park on the fee of Eaton and the land called Cadebury,
with the way from the house of Richard de Costentin to those
lands ¹; and of the gift of William son of William de Soc 10 acres
of land in Wyboston (Wybaudeston); and of the gift of William
de Chalton 12 acres of land in the assarts of Eaton.5
In 1240 Osbert de Baa and Agnes de Baa recovered a carucate
in Eaton, as stated previously." In 1242-3 Osbert held 2 carucates
in Wyboston for fee of this barony. In 1255 Reginald de Baa died
holding fee in Wyboston of William de Beauchamp of Eaton and
land in Compton Durville, Som.; Reginald his son was aged 15
years.8 8 In the same year custody of the land in the last-named
place was granted to one of the king's yeomen during the minority
of the heir of Reginald de Baa.9
Osbert de Baa, knt., occurs in 1283 and 1285.10 He died in 1296,
leaving issue a daughter Elizabeth wife of William de Weyland.¹¹
They were living in 1307,12 but in 1302 Ralph son of William (de
Greystoke) appears to have held this fee, and in 1316 he was one of
the lords of Wyboston.13 He died in 1317 seised of the manor of
Wyboston held of Roger de Beauchamp for fee; Robert his son
was aged 40 years,¹ª but died 2 months after his father, seised as
above, leaving Ralph his son aged 17 years.15 This Ralph baron of
WYBOSTON-ICKWELL
265
Greystoke died in 1323, seised of the said manor held of Roger de
Beauchamp for fee; William his son was aged 3 years.16
Nicholas son of Robert de Eton proved his age in 1327 and had
livery of lands in the counties of Lincoln, Northampton and Rut-
land.17 He died in 1330 holding of Roger de Beauchamp lands in
Eaton, Staploe, Honeydon, Wyboston and Wilden, Beds., partly held
with his wife Avice and partly inherited from Joan his (mother ?)
and Thomas his brother; Margery his sister and heir was aged
30 years.18
William baron of Greystoke died in 1359, having previously
demised the manor of Wyboston for a short term.19
1. Stowe MS. 941, f. 29. 2. R. Cur. Reg. i. 106.
3. Ibid. 371, 437.
4. R. Chart. 180b. 5. Ibid. 181. 6. Feet of F., Beds. n. 458. 7. Bk. of
Fees, 888. 8. Cal. Inquis. i. 87.
9. Cal. Pat. R. 410.
10. Ibid. 61;
Cal. Close R. 350. 11. Cal. Fine R. i. 369, 374. 12. Cal. Close R. 489.
13. Feud. Aids, i. 15, 18. 14. Cal. Inquis. vi. 24.
15. Ibid. 26. 16. Ibid.
19. Ibid. x. 420.
303.
17 Cal. Fine R. iv. 36. 18. Cal. Inquis. vii. 199.
XXXVIII (7).
Ralph held of Eudes the sewer in Northill, Beds., 1 hide.
In 1202 Henry de Tyvill granted land in Caldecote (in Northill)
in return for a release of land in Beeston.¹ Reference to this family
will be found at n. 3. In 1242-3 the heirs of Ralph de Tyvill held
fee in Ickwell (Chykewell) of this barony.2
3
4
In 1260 William de Blancmuster gave the manor of Ickwell to the
Hospitallers, reserving for life a rent of 10 marks. Two years later
William le Coynte and Alice his wife released to William de Blanc-
muster their right in land in Ickwell, which they had apparently
recovered against him, as William son of Robert de Blancmuster,
in the preceding year, when the land was granted to him to be held
of the Hospitallers at a rent payable in the church of Northill for the
souls of the said William and Alice.5 It is reasonable to infer that
the two parties represented the heirs general of Ralph de Tyvill of
Ickwell.
In 1276 the Hospitallers held fee in Ickwell (Gikewell) of the
gift of William de Holecote and had withdrawn suit to county and
hundred courts. They held fee as in Northill in 1284-6 of Ralph
1\/1142
de Beauchamp (of Eaton)." John Mile (? Child) held it in 1302-3,
presumably by demise from the Hospitallers, who held in 1346, of
whom was unknown, fee in Ickwell which John Mile sometime
held.8
1. Feet of F., Beds. (Rec. Com.), 46. 2. Bk. of Fees, 889. 3. Feet
of F., Beds. 607. 4. Ibid. n. 620. 5. Ibid. n. 645. 6. R. Hund, i, 2b.
1. Feud. Aids, i. 5. 8. Ibid. 27.
XXXVIII (8).
This tenement has not been identified.
Nicholas de Anesti is named below at n. 41. In 1221 he held the
manor of Ridgwell, Essex,¹ which his father Hubert had held in or
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4
before 1212 of the honor of Boulogne for 2 fees.2 Hubert also held
of the same honor in 1212 in Anstey, Hormead and Braughin, Herts.;
3 fees.³ In 1212 Nicholas de Anesti held 1 fee in Braughin of the
same honor. In 1232 Denise his daughter and heir was the wife
of Walter de Langeton,5 brother of Stephen de Langeton, after-
wards archbishop of Canterbury. She was niece of Hamon Pecche
and by her husband's death without issue in 1234 she was widowed
and gave 100 marks to marry whom she would by the surety of
Warin de Munt chenesy," whom she later married. In 1242 Isabel
late wife of Nicholas de Anesti had her dower in the manors of
Braxted, Essex, and Hormead, Herts.8
6
9
In 1242-3 the heirs of Nicholas de Anesti held fee of the barony
of Beauchamp of Eaton. In 1245 Warin de Muntchenesy and
Denise his wife had a grant of free warren in Ridgwell and a yearly
fair there.10 Warin died in 1255, his widow Denise surviving him.¹¹
She gave 200 marks to marry whom she would, desiring apparently
to avoid marriage with Guy de Rupe Forti, whom the king had
intended 12 that she should marry. See Arundel, n. 38.
16
In 1266 Denise de Muntchenesy was mainpernor of William her
son to have him before the king, he having been taken lately as the
king's enemy at Kenilworth.13 He was pardoned on 2 February,
1267.14 In 1271 Denise, being old and feeble; had licence to do suit
by her attorney at the county (court) of York, the trithing of Barton,
and the wapentakes of Bucross, Harthill and Dickering; in 1271
she had licence to go beyond seas for 3 years.15 The pardon in
respect of the rebellion of 1266 was renewed in 1275 to William son
of Warin de Muntchenesy, and also for trespass of the forest in the
time of Henry III or the then king.¹ He was living in 1280, when
he obtained a confirmation of the grant by Henry II to Ralph de
Muntchenesy, whose heir he was, of view of frankpledge and sheriff's
tourn in all his lands.17 In 1287 he was in the king's service in
Wales,18 but died before I March, 1288, when his mother Denise
and others made fine in 2000 marks for custody of his lands during
the minority of Denise his daughter and heir.19 In 1290 the marriage
of the heiress was granted to Hugh de Ver, on condition that he
married her himself, 20 which he did shortly after. Denise the
grandmother of the heir died at a ripe old age in 1298.21
For other references to this line, see Arundel, n. 38.
1. R. Lit. Claus.i. 447b. 2. Bk. of Fees, 236. 3. Ibid. 237; Cal. Pat. R.
4. Bk. of Fees, 123. 5. Close R. 91.
1217, 131, 172.
6. Ibid. 508;
7. Excerpt. Fin. i. 268. 8. Close R. 478.
1236, p. 256.
9. Bk. of
Fees, 889.
12. Cal.
10. Cal. Chart. R. i. 288. 11. Excerpt. Fin. ii. 213.
Pat. R. 420, 543.
13. Ibid. 636, 667; 1266–72, p. 16.
Ibid. 32.
14.
15. Ibid. 514, 599. 16. Ibid. 80, 232. 17. Cal. Fine R. i. 136. 18 Cal.
Pat. R. 275. 19. Ibid. 292. 20. Ibid. 362, 376.
21. Cal. Fine R. i. 404.
XXXVIII (9).
In 1196 Robert son of Olimpiada de Clifton quitclaimed to Pain
abbot of Wardon land in Chikesand, Beds.¹ In 1201 Robert de
Sutton quitclaimed to Richard de Pertehale a moiety of the advowson
CHAWSTON
267
of the church of Clifton.2 In the ensuing year a recognition was
summoned whether Henry father of Hugh de Sandei gave a mediety
of the church of Clifton to Ingram the parson, brother of the same
Henry, by reason of the wardship which he had of Olimpiada mother
of Robert de Sutton, or of his own right; the jurors found that he
gave it by virtue of wardship; Robert de Sutton had recently
claimed the advowson against Hugh de Sandei.³
William Wischard was party to a plea of land in Silsoe in
1200-1202.4 Land in Clifton was released to him by Robert de
Sutton in 1219.5 William Wiscard obtained a recognition in 1240
of services due to him for land in Clifton. In 1242-3 he held fee
of this barony."
6
I
In 1284-6 Richard Wiscard held 1 hide in Stanford of the
Hospitallers, who held of Ralph de Beauchamp of Eaton, who held
of the honor of Bedford; Richard held also of other fees in Pullox-
hill. In 1302 William Wiscard held in Silsoe of the fee of Cainhoe.9
There seems to be no record by which the identity of the tenement
held of this barony can be precisely determined.
-
1. Feet of F., Beds. n. 11.
4. R. Cur. Reg. iii. pass.
7. Bk. of Fees, 889.
8.
2. Ibid. n. 73.
3. Abbrev. Placit. 36, 67b.
Feet of F., Beds. n. 233.
6. Ibid. n. 435.
Feud. Aids, i. 6-7.
9. Ibid. 14.
5.
XXXVIII (10).
Eudes the sewer held in 1086 in Chawston (in Roxton), Beds.,
I hide and 1 virgate.
1
Possibly this land lay in Colesdon in Roxton. Part of this
land was, however, in demesne in Roxton. The earliest refer-
ences to the priory of Caldwell are of the time of Henry II;
in the public records it first appears in 1224.1a John de Boeles
brought a plea in 1231 against Nicholas de Cernes (Chernes)
touching a mill-dam raised in Roxton to the injury of complainant's
land.2
In 1236 land in Colesdon and Roxton was the inheritance of 3
sisters. Richard de Etun and Beatrice his wife, Robert de Besevill
and Isabel his wife, and Alice de Vieuxpont claimed against the
prior of Caldwell a tenement and render of cereals in those places,
which they afterwards quitclaimed to the prior for themselves and
the heirs of Beatrice, Isabel and Alice. Some of the plaintiffs are
named as tenants in Eaton in the feudal returns of 1240 and 1242–3
given above, where Richard son of Robert may be identified as
Richard de Etun and where the prior of Caldwell takes the place of
Alice de Vieuxpont.
4
In 1284–6 Ralph de Beauchamp of Eaton held lands in Roxton
of the honor of Gloucester. Possibly land of his own fee was then
incorporated in the larger holding of the honor of Gloucester
(Wardon, n. 11). In 1302-3 the prior of Caldwell held fee in
Chawston with Colesdon of the fee of William de Colesdene and
Hugh de Vieuxpont.5 In 1316 the prior of Caldwell and 2 others
were lords of the vill of Chawston and Colesdon.6
In 1338 the ancestors of Simon Barscote of Bedford were said to
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have been the founders of the priory of Caldwell; that Simon
granted the advowson to Roger Mareschal, who afterwards granted
it to William de Latimer and Elizabeth his wife."
In 1346 the prior of Caldwell held fee of the fee of Colesdon of
John de Engaine, Alexander Boson, and William Mordaunt.8
5.
Ibid. 15.
1: V. C. H. Beds. i. 382. 1a. Pat. R. 454; R. Lit. Claus. i. 632. 2. Pat.
R. 446.
3. Feet of F., Beds. n. 372. 4. Feud. Aids, i. 6.
6. Ibid. 18. 7. Cal. Close R. 341. 8. Feud. Aids, i. 34.
XXXVIII (II).
Alwin in 1086 held of Eudes the sewer in Sutton, Beds., 3
virgates.
It is suggested that some portion of this holding was given to
the Templars, who claimed part of a small tenement in Sutton in
1240, of which Henry de Costentin was vouched to warranty.¹ In
1330 the Hospitallers claimed certain liberties there.2
1. Feet of F., Beds. n. 447· 2. Placit. de quo war. 59b.
XXXIX.
Eudes the sewer in 1086 held in Losfield (Losfelle), Berks., I hide.
In 1130 the sheriff of Berkshire claimed allowance of 2s. of
danegeld in respect of the king's demesne of Losfeld.¹
In 1219 a
certain laund, namely Losfeld, was in the forest of Windsor and
ought to render yearly to the king's exchequer 5s.2
It was presented in 1276 from the hundred of Bray that the
hermit of Losfeld held 3 acres of land in the manor of Bray by gift
of Henry III.3 It appears therefore that Losfield was incorporated
in the Old Park of Windsor.
1. Pipe R. 31 Hen. I, 126. 2. Bk. of Fees, 255. 3. R. Hund. i. 12.
XL.
In Hertfordshire Eudes the sewer held Newsellsbury in 1086 for
5 hides and virgate, with which 2 hides and 20 acres in Barley
were worked with the ploughs of Newsellsbury; in Layston 6 acres
and in Reed I virgate; in Suffolk, in Eriswell 6 carucates, in
Chelsworth ('Cocleswrda ') 8 carucates, in Lakenheath and Brandon
2 carucates. See n. 43. William de Aubervill ('Odburgville') held
in Barley 4½ hides and 10 acres.
Eudes gave the church of Newsells to St. John the Baptist's,
Colchester,¹ and temp. William I gave tithes of Newsells to St.
Martin's, Sées.² Subsequently to 1120 these lands were incorporated
in the honor of Boulogne.
The first known tenant of this fee was Eustace de Merc, founder
of the priory of Crosroys or Royston. In 1170 a mark was levied
from the land of Eustace de Merc in Cambridgeshire for a default,³
3
NEWSELLSBURY, BARLEY, ERISWELL
269
and in 1174 the farmer of the honor of Boulogne claimed allowance
of £4 of land which Eustace de Merch had that year in Layer, Essex,4
and so while the honor was in the king's hands down to 1179.
He had a crown gift in 1184,5 and in 1186 was an envoy for the
crown with Godfrey de Luci and Guy de St. Valery going over seas,
when they were provided with 2 ships for their passage." He
appears to have had land at this time in Yorkshire."
7
In 1185 Ralph de Roucestre (' Roffa ') gave 20s. for the right of
9 marks against Robert de London in Kent. In 1198 he was
essoined at Hertford by Gunter de Berqueia (Barkway).9 In
1200 he had a suit with Eustace de Laghefare in Essex, 10 whereupon
an assize came to recognise if Eustace de Merc, maternal uncle of
Ralph de Roucestre, was seised of 2 carucates in Layer ('Lagefare')
at his death which Eustace de Lagefare held, who claimed to hold
the land of the king, that both he and Ralph were of one stock
(stipes), he being of the elder birth. Afterwards they came to an
agreement whereby Eustace was to hold of Ralph certain tenements
in Layer for fee.12 In 1201 Ralph gave 30 marks in lieu of
service over seas in respect of 5 fees of the honor of Boulogne in
Suffolk and elsewhere.13 It appears probable that he was son of
the Ralph de Roucestre who joined with Eustace de Merc in the
foundation of Royston priory.14 In 1208 Ralph owed 20 marks in
Norfolk and Suffolk for the grand assize touching I knight's fee in
Estmore and Barton.15
In 1212 Ralph de Roffa or Roucestre held 1 fee in Newsells
and Barkway of the honor of Boulogne.16 In 1217-8 the same
Ralph held of this honor in Rivenhall, Essex, Barkway and Newsells,
Herts., Eriswell and Chelsworth, Suff., 5 fees; and in High and
Little Laver, Essex, fee which Richard de Roucestre and Eustace
his brother held.17
Ralph de Roucestre gave to Colchester two-thirds of the tithes
of Eriswell and Chelsworth, including lands of the demesne granted
in fee by his father and by himself; he also confirmed the tithes
granted by Eudes the sewer and Eustace count of Boulogne.18
Another (?) Ralph de Roucestre also granted to the same monks
3 half-virgates in Barley.19 Some reference to the family of
Roucestre will be found in Clutterbuck's Hist. of Hertfordshire,
iii. 365.
In 1216 Ralph's lands were seized and committed to the king's
bailee, 20 but on Henry's accession he had writs of reseisin to the
sheriffs of Hertford, Cambridge, Norfolk and Suffolk.21 In 1236
William de Roucestre, son and heir of Ralph de Roucestre, gave
relief of £27 10s. for his inheritance held of the honor of Boulogne.22
It is uncertain if this was the same Ralph as that named above, or
his son.
In 1248 William de Roucestre died seised of lands in Eriswell
held of the king as of the honor of Boulogne for 2 fees, the manor
of Rivenhall with the advowson of the church similarly held for
I fee, and the manor of Newsells similarly held for 1 fee, of which
Ralph de Handleye held a fourth part; Peter his brother, aged 50
or 60 years, was his heir. 23 Peter de Roucestre gave relief in 1249
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of £25 upon succeeding to his inheritance, 24 and shortly before his
death on Ascension Day, 1255, as Peter de Roucestre, parson of
Rivenhall, he granted the manor of Rivenhall to his nephew (nepos)
Robert de Scales, and the manor of Newsells to Alice wife (recte
mother) of the said Robert, on condition that they founded a chantry
for his soul's welfare; shortly before his death he assumed the habit.
of a Templar.25
In 1255 Robert de Scales had exemption for life from being put
on assizes and the like, and the same year an inquiry was directed to
be made as to what state Peter de Roucestre was in when he granted
the manors to Robert and Alice as just described. 26 In the following
year Robert de Scales and Alice his mother gave 17 marks of gold
for seisin of the manors of Rivenhall and Newsells, which sum
they paid into the wardrobe in three sums, amounting in all to
£113 6s. 8d.; for this they had acquittance in 1260 to the barons
of the exchequer.27
Wardship of the land and heir of Robert de Scales was committed
to Robert Waleraund in January 1267; but later in the year the
same wardship was granted to Clemency, late wife of the said
Robert, for 400 marks, to be paid to John de Britagne, to whom the
wardship had been granted previously.28 Robert son and heir of
Robert de Scales, tenant in chief, had seisin of his inheritance in
1275.29 Two years later he was serving in Wales with the earl
of Lincoln.30
31
It was presented in 1275 that the advowson of the priory of
Croiroys, which was founded upon the fee of Newsels on the honor
of Boulogne, was in the hands of the earl of Gloucester by the
demise five years previously of Alice de Scales; that Ralph Fitz-
Fulk held of Geoffrey de Scales fee in Barley with the advowson
of the church, and sold the advowson to the abbess of Chatteris ;
that William de Roucestre had held the manor of Eriswell of the
king as of the honor of Boulogne and had enfeoffed the priory of
Crosroys of the same manor in alms; that Peter de Roucestre
enfeoffed the same house of the mill of Little Barton and fishery of
Lakenheath, which he held of the same honor.32 It was further
presented from the hundred of Edwinstree, Herts., that Ralph de
Roucestre formerly held the manor of Newsells of the king as the
caput of a certain barony and that Robert Burnel then held it by
the demise of Roger de Scales; the jurors understood that the
barony had been alienated since Ralph's time, and 'quod heres
nichil habet penes se unde possit domino Regi respondere'; it was
of the honor of Boulogne.33 In 1302-3 Robert de Tudenham held
2 fees in Eriswell of the honor of Boulogne.34 In 1307 Robert son
and heir of Robert de Scales gave relief for 3 fees in Newsells and
Barkway, fee in Little Layer and 1 fee in Rivenhall.35
Robert de Tudenham held the manor of Eriswell jointly with
Eva his wife of the king as of the honor of Boulogne for 2 fees by
the grant of Robert de Weston and Hawise his wife by fine levied in
1270 Robert son of the said Robert and Eva was aged 30 and
more.36
Ralph de Roucestre had sometime settled the manor on
himself and Eva his wife, with reversion in default of issue to Eva,
G
ASPENDEN, BRAXTED
271
who afterwards married Robert de Tudenham; Hawise wife of Robert
de Weston was sister and heir of Ralph de Roucestre, and by the
fine levied in 1270 Robert de Tudenham did fealty for the manor
to (Robert ?) de Scales, kinsman and heir of the said Hawise;
Eva died in 1312, seised of the manor; Robert son of Robert de
Tudenham and the said Eva, aged 32 and more, was her heir.37
Robert de Scales died in 1325 seised of the manor of Eriswell,
which Robert de Tudenham held of him for 2 fees; Robert de Scales,
his son, was aged 13 years. 38
1. Chartul. 3.
2. Round, Cal. of Docs. France, 233. 3. Pipe R.
16 Hen. II, 94.
4. Ibid. 20 Hen. II, 75.
5. Ibid. 30 Hen. II, 142.
6. Ibid. 32 Hen. II, 179.
7. Ibid. 93.
8. Ibid. 31 Hen. II, 228.
9. R. Cur. Regis, i. 171. 10. Ibid. ii. 181. 11. Ibid. 219; R. de Oblat.
65. 12. Essex Feet of F. 22.
13. R. de Oblat. 170. 14. Mon. Angl.
v. 405. 15. Pipe R. 10 Jno. m. 8. 16. Bk. of Fees, 125. 17. Ibid. 240.
18. Chartul. of Colchester, 150.
19. Ibid. 157.
20. R. Lit. Claus. i. 252,
263; R. Chart. 220. 21. R. Lit. Claus. i. 324b. 22. Excerpt. Fin. i. 299.
23. Cal. Inquis. i. 38, 46, 293. 24. Excerpt. Fin. ii. 66. 25. Cal. Inquis.
100; Excerpt. Fin. ii. 208. 26. Cal. Pat. R. 403, 437, 508. 27. Excerpt.
Fin. ii. 326.
29. Cal. Close R. 207. 30. Cal.
32. Ibid. ii. 196b.
33. Ibid. i. 193.
35. Ibid. ii. 439.
36. Cal. Inquis. v. 47.
28. Ibid. 28, 115, 299.
31. R. Hund. i. 193b.
Pat. R. 220.
34. Feud. Aids, v. 31.
37. Ibid. 187.
38. Ibid. vi. 371.
XLI.
:
Richard de Sachauvilla held of Eudes the sewer in 1086 in
Aspenden, Herts., 1 hide. Richard de Sauqueville also held of
Eudes the sewer in Essex in Great Braxted 2 hides less 15 acres,
Lawling 3 hides, Steeple 3 hides and 35 acres, Down (Hall) 2 hides
and 20 acres, ‘Landun' hide and 20 acres, ´ Acleta ' 1 hide and
10 acres, Broxted 9 acres, Pledgdon 5 hides less 20 acres, Rettendon
2 hides and 30 acres, Lees 2 hides, Quendon 2 hides, Radwinter
15 acres.
<
Aubreye attested her presence when William de Sauqueville her
late husband gave to the church of Colchester a rent out of the mill
of Rivenhall, due to the manor of Braxted, and from Colchester.¹
Subsequently Richard de Anesti confirmed this gift of his maternal
uncle William de Sauqueville.2
It is not intended to attempt the task of tracing the descent of
these various tenements which descended in the line of the heirs.
general of William de Sauqueville. In 1199 Hubert de Anesti held
5 fees in Hertfordshire and Essex of the honor of Boulogne, of which
1 fee was in Aspenden,³ and in 1212 was in the wardship of Robert
Fitz-Walter with the heir of Hubert. In 1214 Nicholas (son and
heir of Hubert) had his scutage of 8 fees.5 His lands in Hert-
fordshire, Essex, Oxfordshire and Surrey were seized in 1215.6
Morant gives some account of the descent of Braxted and other
lands of Nicholas de Anesti in the History of Essex, ii. 137 ff. For
further account of his descendants, see n. 38 (8) and Arundel, n. 38.
1. Chartul. 163. 2. Ibid. 164.
125.
5. R. Lit. Claus, i. 2016.
3. Red Bk. 133, 174. 4. Bk. of Fees,
6. Ibid. 237b.
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HONOR OF EUDES THE SEWER
XLII.
1
Eudes Fitz-Herbert in 1086 held in Ashe, Hants., 3 hides.
Eudes gave to Colchester the tithe of cheeses, wool, and of the
garden in Ashe ('Esse ').¹ The tenement was later incorporated
with the honor of Camel, Som., which Hubert de Burgh, earl of
Kent, quitclaimed to Henry III in 1228. He had obtained it from
king John,2 to whom it had escheated after the death of William de
Roumare III in 1205.³
From a suit cited below it appears that the manor of Ashe was
acquired (or at least held) by one Robert de Maners before the time
of Edward I, and that it descended to his son John de Maners,
who was a juror for Overton hundred in 1280.4 A Richard de
Maners was visor in a Hampshire plea in 1198,5 but probably was not
the Richard named under Warenne, n. 8. As lord of Ashe, John de
Maners granted to Henry de la Lyegh, rector of the church there,
common of pasture on his demesne lands for 50 ewes, 50 sheep,
3 bullocks, 2 cows and 20 swine for life; witnesses, Roger Lanceleve,
knt., and others." Land in Steventon, Hants., was held in 1277 of
John de Maners." John obtained licence in 1297 to grant the manor
of Ashe to John Randolf and Joan his wife, in exchange for the
manor of Chaddenwick, Wilts., which was to be settled on himself
and his wife Alice for their lives.8
In 1301 John Randolf complained that trespassers had broken.
his houses at Ashe by Overton, Hants., and carried his goods away.⁹
In the following year the said John Randolf, knt., had seisin of
lands in Quidhampton and Ashe which he had by gift of Richard
de Overton, clerk.10 Roger de Arundel, son and heir of Robert de
Arundel, made grants to John Randolf and Joan his wife by
charters dated at Ashe in 1307.11 Thus in 1302-3 John Randolf
held fee in Ashe, and in 1316 was described as lord of that vill.12
In the early years of Edward II, however, he had to resist a
claim made to the manor by Robert de Maners, as son and heir of
the John above named, on the ground that one Reginald son of
Peter had given it to John de Maners in free marriage with Alice
daughter of the said Reginald. John de Drokensford warranted
the manor (with certain exceptions) to John Randolf, whose
defence was that plaintiff's father John had inherited the estate from
his father Robert de Maners and had not received it, as alleged, from
his wife's father. The dispute lasted many years, but at last, in
1318, the jury gave a verdict for Randolf.13
John Randolf was living at Ashe in 1323,14 but was dead in
1342, when his widow Joan responded concerning the tithes in
Ashe.15 John de Stonore held the estate in 1346,16 and John earl
of Kent died in 1352 seised of 1 fee in Ashe Maners, which John
Randolf sometime held.¹ John de Stonore died in 1355 holding
inter alia the manor of Ashe Maners of the countess of Kent as of
the honor of Camel for fee. John his son was aged 40 and more.
18
3. R. Lit. Claus.
6. Cat. of
2. Cal. Chart. R. i. 82.
1. Colchester Chartul. 2.
i. 6ob. 4. Assize R. 789, m. 40d. 5. R. Cur. Reg. iii. 43.
ASHE-RODING, GREAT HALLINGBURY
273
Anct. D. iii. C. 3101. 7. Cal. Inquis. ii. 136. 8. Inq. a.q.d. 25 Edw. I,
n. 2. 9. Cal. Pat. R. 621. 10. Cat. of Anct. D. vi. C. 6008. 11. Ibid.
12. Feud. Aids, ii. 306, 329. 13. De Banco R. 212, m. 410d.
15. Ing. Nonarum, 121.
16. Feud. Aids,
18. Ibid. 171.
ii. C. 2230.
14. Cal. Pat. R. 309-10.
17. Cal. Inquis. x. 54.
ii. 329.
XLIII.
Turgis held in 1086 of Eudes the sewer in Roding Morel 1
hide and 45 acres; Eudes held Roding (Abbess ?) 3 hides and
Shellowhide in demesne.
Roger de Aubervill (Otburvilla') held in Roding 2 hides,
Great Hallingbury 3 hides and 38 acres.
C
Eudes the sewer gave to the monks of Colchester the plenary
tithe of Roding Morel.¹ In or after 1120 Henry I restored to
Rohaise wife of Eudes his sewer the land which Eudes had given
her in dower, namely inter alia Eriswell and Chelsworth, Suff.,
Great Hallingbury and the two Rodings, Essex, Lilly Church
(Ledecirca '), Kent, and Easton, Northants. (n. 49); also the land
of Humphrey son of Humphrey and that of William son of Turgis.2
Later during the reign of Henry I Rohaise restored the manor of
Hallingbury, which Eudes gave, to Colchester; 3 Stephen count of
Mortain and Matilda his wife confirmed to the monks the church
of Lilley Church' (in Higham, Kent), two-thirds of the tithes of
Roding, Eriswell and Chelsworth, the church of Barkway and tithes,
to hold as beneficially as the said monks had held of Eudes the
sewer and of Eustace count (of Boulogne). This confirmation was
issued after the above-named tenements had been incorporated in
the honor of Boulogne. In 1130 Hallingbury was in the demesne
of the crown. 5 Under Colchester the farm of the land late of
Eudes the sewer amounted to £205 3s.6 In Roding Morel the
monks had in 1237 the plenary tithe of the demesne of Ralph
Morel, in the same (recte White) Roding two-thirds only of the
tithe of Walter de Merc, and in Roding Abbess the tithe formerly
of Fulk the sewer.7
4
The gift of Hallingbury did not long continue, beyond that of two-
thirds of the tithes which William de Lanvalei, knt., son of William
de Lanvalei by Gunnora his wife, duly confirmed circa 1200-1215.8
(See n. 51.) In 1215 Ralph Purcel was dead and Isabel his relict,
then wife of Simon de Barton, had livery of her dower in Halling-
bury. It was presented in 1219 that Walter de Hauvill held
Hallingbury La Walle by Henry II; that the relict of Ralph
Purcel then had a sixth part of the vill in dower, the whole vill
being worth, with the stock, £6.10 According to an earlier return
Walter de Hauvill held by falconry and had by king John 60
solidates of land in Hallingbury; Ralph Purcel held by the same
service and had also 60 solidates of land there.11
In 1219 Walter de Merk held land in White Roding by serjeanty
of being the king's falconer, and so also in 1236.12 He died in 1248
holding a manor in White Roding, with the advowson of the church,
of the king; William his son was aged 18 years.13 Custody of his
land and heirs and their marriage were granted for 100 marks to
III.
T
274
HONOR OF EUDES THE SEWER
Henry de Mara.¹ª William son of Walter de Merc died in 1254,
administration of his goods being granted to his late guardian,
who had also the wardship of the land and heirs.15
John de Merc was the king's falconer in 1286.16 In 1297 he
surrendered his manors of Comberton, Cambs., and White Roding,
Essex, to the king, who regranted the same to John and Mary his
wife in fee tail, with remainder to Cecily de Hastang, sister of John,
and her heirs.17 Ralph Merk, aged 40, was dwelling at Roding in
1298, his son Thomas being aged 20 years. 18 After the death of
John de Merk, his relict Mary married Stephen Huvel, who joined
her in granting the manor of White Roding to Peter de Cusaunce
for Mary's life; it was held of the king by service of keeping a
heron falcon at the king's charges; the said Mary was living at
the decease in 1318 of the said Peter.19 She died in 1329 seised of
the said manor as above of the inheritance of Cecily late wife of
Humphrey de Hastang, which Cecily granted the reversion of the
manor to Philip de Hastang, who died in Mary's lifetime; the
reversion belonged to Beatrice, daughter and heir of the said Philip,
whom Thomas de Longevill had married; she was aged 21 years.
Thomas de Longevill died in 1346 seised of this manor jointly
with Beatrice his wife, held of the king with the manor of Com-
berton by keeping from Michaelmas to Candlemas 2 of the king's
lanner heroner falcons and a heroner greyhound at the king's
charges; John his son was aged 16 and more. 21
20
We return to Walter de Hauvill, who died in 1220, when
Geoffrey de Hauvill had livery of the land in Hallingbury, late of
the said Walter his uncle.22 In 1240 the king granted to master
Roger de Ros, his tailor, in fee, the land called la Walle in Halling-
bury which Gilbert de Hauvill sometime held of the king's bail. 23
In 1251 the same Roger had a grant of free warren here.24 In
1265 the manor of Hallingbury Walle was seized by the earl of
Gloucester and committed to William de Valence.25 Three years
earlier the king had confirmed the gift made by Thomasia de Ros,
late wife of William de Rouen, to Henry le Flemmeng of her land
in Hallingbury la Walle (now Wallbury) and elsewhere, late of
Roger le Taillur, brother of the said Thomasia; and also of the
quitclaim made to the same Henry by Emelina de Ros, sister of
Thomasia.26 In 1267 the king granted land in La Walle or Wall-
bury, Essex, late of Roger le Taylur, deceased, as escheat of the
Normans' lands, to his brother, William de Valence, in part satis-
faction of his fee of £500 a year. 27
Another part of Hallingbury belonged to Hugh de Nevill (the
forester), who had a royal gift of does in 1221 for restocking his park
there, and of oak trees for enclosing it.28 Hugh de Nevill and Joan
his wife in 1222 obtained a recognition of their own right, and that
of Joan's heirs, in 100 solidates of land in Hallingbury.29 John
de Neville held fee in Hallingbury in 1242-3.30 John de Nevill
(Curcy, n. 6) had licence in 1278 to enclose his wood of Coringehal,
adjoining his park of Hallingbury, for the enlargement of the said
park. He held at his death in 1282 a manor in Hallingbury, with
the advowson of the church, of the king in chief for fee; Hugh his
14
RODING-MUNDON, WEELEY-BOXTED
275
son was aged 4 years.32 In 1303 Margaret relict of John de Nevill
held Hallingbury similarly for fee.33 Hugh, the son, died in 1335,
leaving John de Nevill, knt., his son, aged 36 and more.34 As John
de Nevill of Essex (of Weathersfield) he died in 1358 holding the
manor of Little Hallingbury, with the advowson of the church, of
the king for fee; William son of John de St. Maur ('Semor ') of
Syleham, Suff., of full age, was his next heir in blood.35
38
In 1215 Ralph Morel's land in Roding was committed to the
king's bailee.36
In 1223 the count of St. Paul had part of White
Roding.37 In 1259 the land of the count of St. Paul in White Roding
was committed to Guillelma of the queen's chamber for her support.
In 1292 the lands of Henry de Broke in White Roding were extended
at £10 13s. 6d.39 Henry de Broke died in 1324 holding a messuage
and land in that place of the king in chief for fee as of the honor
of the count of St. Pol (St. Paul); John his son was aged 16 and
more.40
Reference to the manor of Great Hallingbury will be found at
n. 48.
Fees, 274. 11. Ibid. 345.
14. Excerpt. Fin. ii. 45.
198 bis.
1. Chartul. 3, 69. 2. Ibid. 42.
31 Hen. I, 57, 139.
6. Ibid. 139.
9. R. Lit. Claus. i. 2216. 10. Bk. of
277, 590. 13. Cal. Inquis. i. 293.
16. Cal. Close R. 392.
Inquis. iii. 323. 19. Ibid. vi. 70.
22. R. Lit. Claus. i. 411, 4836. 23. Cal. Chart. R. i. 255. 24. Ibid. 366.
27. Ibid. 84.
29. Essex Feet of F. 65.
32. Cal. Inquis. ii. 255.
35. Ibid. x. 345-
38. Excerpt. Fin. ii. 297.
17. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 469. 18. Cal.
20. Ibid. vii. 158. 21. Ibid. viii. 471.
26. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 44.
cf. R. Chart. 29.
31. Cal. Close R. 514.
34. Cal. Inquis. vii. 474·
37. Ibid. 549b.
40. Cal. Inquis. vi. 376.
25. Cal. Misc. Inq. i. 206.
28. R. Lit. Claus. i. 450;
30. Bk. of Fees, 901.
33. Feud. Aids, ii. 139.
36. R. Lit. Claus. i. 2296.
39. Cal. Misc. Inq. i. 442.
3. Ibid. 48. 4. Ibid. 48.
7. Chartul. 68, 96.
<
5. Pipe R.
8. Ibid. 199.
12. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
XLIV.
Eudes the sewer held in Mundon, Essex, in 1086 10 hides; two
franci homines' had hide which Lisois (de Moustiers) had
resumed because one of them was outlawed; there were two
arpents of vineyard; 50 acres more belonged to the manor, 20
acres being in Rivenhall. Eudes held in demesne Weeley as 3
hides and 38 acres.
These were two out of the 4 manors given to the monastery of
Colchester by Eudes,¹ and confirmed by William II.2 Later Mundon
as 10 hides and Willey as 3 hides were included as part of 38 hides
and I carucate on which Henry II acquitted the monks of Colchester
of danegeld, murder fines and hidages.³
1. Chartul. 2. 2. Ibid. 18.
3. Ibid. 19.
XLV.
Artur in 1086 held of Eudes the sewer in Boxted, Essex, I hide.
There were only 2 fees in this place, namely the above holding
and that of Eustace count of Boulogne of 4 hides. The former
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holding appears to have been held of the Breton family (n. 15), as
of the honor of Rayleigh. In 1212 (?) Robert Fitz-Philip held 3 fees
in Horkesley, Boxted and Fordham¹ of the honor of Rayleigh,
which Robert de Horkesley subsequently held. This family
descended from Godebold, who held land in Horkesley and other
places in 1086 of Suain of Essex, and from Robert Fitz-Gode bold,
founder of Little Horkesley Priory.2 In 1215 king John granted
to Philip Fitz-John acquittance to him and his heirs of suits of
counties, wapentakes and the like. In 1205 he fined for seisin of
carucate in Walmire, Yorks., of which he had been disseised by
Roald Fitz-Alan, when the said Roald made fine with the king
for having the land of William de Rullos.4
In 1224 Robert Fitz-Philip acknowledged that the manor of
Boxted was the right of William le Breton, who granted it to the
said Robert and Juliaña his wife, sister of the said William, and to
Juliana's heirs, for fee.5 In 1234 the said Juliana in her widow-
hood quitclaimed the said manor to Walter Fitz-Robert for 50
marks; William le Breton recorded his claim. Subsequently the
manor returned to the Bretons for lack of heir of the said Juliana.
4
In 1261 William le Breton died holding a hall and I carucate of
land here of Robert de Hastinges for fee and carucate of Walter
de Horkelegh for fee; John his son was aged 28 years.' It was
presented in 1274 that Sir Robert de Horkele held Little Horkesley,
Little Fordham and part of Boxted of the king for 3 fees as of the
honor of Rayleigh, whereof Little Fordham and the land in Boxted
had been alienated by his father; that Robert de Boxstede held a
moiety of the vill of Boxted for 1 fee as of the honor of Boulogne.8
In 1279-81 John le Breton claimed acquittance of suits of
wapentakes and the like by virtue of the charter of king John to
Philip Fitz-John, whose heir he was. 9 In 1298 he was described
as John le Bretoun of Boxted, mesne tenant of land in Harston,
Cambs.10
In 1303 he held fee in Boxted,¹¹ and died in 1311,
holding a hall in Boxted of the heir of Roger de Tany, in the king's
wardship, for fee, and land and rent there of William de Horkesley
for fee; Matilda daughter of John le Bretoun the younger, whom
¹ 4
Richard de la Riviere had married, aged 21 years, was his next
heir. 12
In the following year the said Richard and his wife gave
relief for fee in Boxted.13
1
Morant gives the further descent of
this family.14
8
It is open to question whether the part of Boxted held of the
Horkesleys by the Bretons was that which Artur held of Eudes in
1086. It is to be observed that Everard de Boxstede with the con-
sent of his son and heir Adam and wife Adeliza gave to the monastery
of Colchester, when he became a monk there, 2 lands or lawns in
Boxted; Hugh son of the said Everard notified Gilbert bishop of
London (1163-1178) that he, his mother Adeliza and brothers
William and Reginald had given to Colchester the church of Boxted
with Warner the grantor's brother, who then took the habit; Hugh
de Polstede and Robert, his mother's brothers consenting.15 Hugh
held this fee in 1201.16
On the other hand it is probable that the church went with the
BOXTED-BRETTENHAM
277
4 hides on the Boulogne fee, rather than with Eudes' I hide; also
the service of the former holding was a knight's fee, while the latter
was a fourth part only. It is possible, however, that part of Suane's
manor of Eiland, now Nayland, which is identified in the Victoria
History of Essex 17 as Horkesley, may have included part of Boxted.
If so, the conclusion that Eudes' hide in Boxted was incorporated
in the honor of Boulogne would be incontestable, and in that case
the local family of Boxsted would hold it, and not the Bretons, as
described above.
1. Red Bk. 503, 738.
2. V.C.H. Essex, i., 488, 490.
4. R. de Fin. 266. 5. Essex Feet of F. 66. 6. Ibid.97.
8. R. Hund. i. 140. 9. Placit. de quo war. 209.
11. Feud. Aids, ii. 138. 12. Cal. Inquis. v. 141.
14. Hist. of Essex, ii. 240.
15. Chartul. 151.
cit. 489b.
16.
3. R. Chart. 210.
7. Cal. Inquis. i. 138.
10. Cal. Inquis. iii. 369.
13. Feud. Aids, iii. 440.
R. Cancel. 160.
17. Op.
XLVI.
Eudes the sewer held in 1086 in Brettenham, Norf., 1½ carucate,
which Turgis (see Roding, n. 43) held T.R.E.
Possibly the counts of Eu acquired an interest in this tenement,
for it was held by the family of Briançon, who took their name from
Briencun (?) in Normandy.
In 1198 an agreement was made between Walter de Cambrun
and Alice his wife and Bartholomew de Brienzun, with the consent
of John de Brienzun, Bartholomew's brother, whereby Walter and
Alice quitclaimed to Bartholomew and his heirs their right in the
manor of Thurrock, Essex, for which Bartholomew quitclaimed to
them and the heirs of Alice all the land late of Robert de Eu,
father of Thomas de Brienzun and of the said Bartholomew, in
Normandy and in Vimeu,¹ so that for default of issue of Alice it
should revert to Bartholomew, and for default of issue of Bartholo-
mew by a wife to be married the manor of Thurrock should revert to
Walter and Alice, saving the dower of Bartholomew's wife, besides
10 librates of land which were to remain to John de Brienzun, Bar-
tholomew's brother; for this he gave them £100 of Anjou; the
manor and lands in Normandy to be respectively held of the count
of Eu, namely Briencun in Normandy and the land of Mers 2 in
Vimeu.3
Bartholomew was deceased in 1205, when the custody and
marriage of his son and heir were granted to John de Bassingburn
to the use of his daughter, with the lands and stock, saving the
mother's marriage. In 1213 the heir was still in John's custody,
when he had letters of presentation to the church of Thurrock, to
which Thomas de Briêncun, brother of Bartholomew, had last
presented. In 1219 Bartholomew II, the son and heir of Bar-
tholomew, was still in the same custody; his land in Essex, worth
£40, was of the fee of the countess of Eu; Agnes, Bartholomew's
relict, was marriageable and her land worth £5.6
5
In 1253 Bartholomew III served in Gascony and in 1257 was
serving with prince Edward in Wales. In 1258 the honor and rape
of Hastings, with knights' fees, were given to John de Brittany, the
4
278
HONOR OF EUDES THE SEWER
8
king's son-in-law, and with it went a knight's fee in Thurrock which
Bartholomew de Briencun held of the said honor; four years later
prince Edward surrendered the honor to Peter of Savoy. In 1270
Bartholomew was a crusader with protection for 4 years, going with
the king and Edward his son in aid of the Holy Land. He had a
weir in the Thames in 1275 within the city of London.10 He died
in 1287, seised of the manor of West Thurrock and certain other
lands in Essex of the inheritance of Joan his wife; William his son
was aged 3 years.¹
11 The year before his death he had a grant of
market and fair at his manor of Aveley ('Avillers '), Essex, and free
warren at Farnbridge, Essex, and Chesham, Bucks.12 During the
last ten years of his life he had frequent commissions in the city of
London to inquire into plaints; one in 1278 by a London Jew that
a clipped coin with the forceps for clipping it, tied up in a cloth,
had been thrown maliciously on to the top of his house in the
city, so that being found there he was thrown into the Tower on
suspicion.13 In 1281 Bartholomew impleaded the dean of St. Paul's
in the husting about his chattels wrongfully detained.14 In 1291
custody of the manor of Thurrock was granted to Guy Ferre, and
the marriage of William, son and heir of Bartholomew de Brienzun,
to John de Weston.1
15
In 1298 the dower lands in Thurrock lately held by Margery relict
of Bartholomew II (?) and of the inheritance of Bartholomew his son
fell to the crown,16 and in 1302 those late held by Joan relict of
Bartholomew III (?).17
A
1
In 1302 the heirs of Bartholomew de Brienzun held fee in
Brettenham of the countess of Albemarle.18 William de Brienzun
died in 1310, seised of lands in Essex and Buckinghamshire, John
his brother, aged 24, being his heir,19 who had livery of the
inheritance, saving to Eleanor, William's relict, her dower. 20 She
later married John Bluet. John de Brienzun died in 1316, leaving
John his son, aged 3 years.21 Elizabeth his relict married John
Joce.22 In 1325 the marriage of John the heir was granted to
William de Deen.23 John died in 1339, his wife being pregnant at
the time of his decease; a daughter Joan was born, but died on
II August; William son of Swetman de Alvythele, aged 40, was
her next heir.24
1. Dioc. of Amiens. 2. The vill of Mers is at the mouth of the river
Bresle. 3. Feet of F. (Pipe R. Soc. xxiii.), 125.
4. R. Lit. Claus. i. 41.
5. Abbrev. Placit. 89. 6. Bk. of Fees, 277.
7. Cal. Pat. R. 233, 586.
11. Cal. Inquis.
8. Ibid. 375, 733. 9. Ibid. 440. 10. R. Hund. i. 428b.
ii. 378; Cal. Misc. Inquis. i. 382. 12. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 330. 13. Cal.
Pat. R. 1278, p. 285. 14. Ibid. 475. 15. Ibid. 414, 417, 16. Ibid. 363.
17. Ibid. 56. 18. Feud. Aids, iii. 424. 19. Cal. Inquis. v. 149. 20. Cal.
Fine R. ii. 87. 21. Cal. Inquis. v. 379.
22. Cal. Fine R. ii. 348, 332.
23. Cal. Pat. R. 195. 24. Cal. Inquis. viii. 171-2.
XLVII.
Eudes the sewer in 1086 held in Tunstall, Norf., I carucate.
He also held in Postwick 2 carucates, in Catton 30 acres. All had
been held by Lisois de Moustiers for a manor; in 1086 'Eudes his
successor' held it.
TUNSTALL, POSTWICK-WAKERLEY
279
After the death of Eudes these tenements appear to have been
incorporated in the honor of Hubert de Rye or Henry his son.
After the death of the younger Hubert, in 1185-6, they fell to the
pourparty of Isabel, who was married first to Geoffrey de Cestre
and secondly, on his death in 1206, to Roger de Creissy. They
descended to Stephen de Creissy, who succeeded his elder brother
Hugh in one half of the honor of Rye in May 1263,¹ but died
issueless a few months later.2
4
The king then gave Postwick with other lands of escheat to
William de Valence. Apparently it had descended to Richard de
St. Denis with other lands late of Stephen de Creissy, and possibly
Richard lost them after Evesham. In 1266 an agreement was
reached between the said Richard and William de Valence, whereby
the estates were to be extended, and then divided equally between
them. By the arranged division Postwick fell to the share of
William de Valence, who held in 1282 of John le Marshal 2 fees
in Postwick and Lexham,5 and died in possession in 1296, Aymer
his son being aged 28 years. Aymer de Valence, earl of Pembroke,
held the manor of Postwick at his death in 1324.7 It fell to the
share of Joan daughter of John Comyn and sister and coheir of
John Comyn of Badenoch. She married David de Strathbogie,
earl of Atholl, in 1307, who died 28 December, 1326, holding the
manor by the courtesy of England after the death of Joan his wife. 8
The land in Tunstall probably merged in the holding in that
vill which belonged to the honor of Rye. William son of Baldric
Tunestale held land of Hubert de Rye in 1170.9 Baldric de
Taverham held fee in Tunstall in 1242-3 of Alina Marshal as of
the honor of Rye.10 In 1273 Nicholas de Taverham held fee here
of Giles de Wachesham,¹¹ and in 1295 lands here were held by
Simon de Taverham.12 In 1316 Gerard de Wachesham held land
in Tunstall and 4 other places of John le Marshal for 3 fees,13 as of
the honor of Rye.
1. Cal. Inquis. i. 170; Excerpt. Fin. ii. 398.
2. Ibid. 407.
Pat. R. 1266, p. 674; 1270, p. 449.
4. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 92.
Inquis. ii. 283. 6. Ibid. iii. 254; Feud. Aids, iii. 418.
vi. 316. 8. Ibid. 481. 9. Red Bk. ii. App. cclxxiv.
11. Cal. Inquis. ii. II.
12. Ibid. iii. 147.
909.
13.
3. Cal.
5. Cal.
7. Cal. Inquis.
10. Bk. of Fees,
Ibid. vi. 51.
XLVIII.
Eudes Fitz-Hubert held in 1086 in Wakerley, Northants., 21
hides.
In the survey temp. Henry I (1124-29) there were in Wakerley
21 hides of the fee of Eudes Fitz-Hubert.¹
Like Great Hallingbury, Essex, this land may have passed
after the death of Eudes the sewer to the crown. It is curious
that the expenditure in 1130 of £15 out of the farm of the lands
late of Eudes the sewer for repairing the king's buildings and park
of Hallingbury was supervised by William de Wacherlai. But
the possibility of this manor having been held by the St. Clares
before the death of Eudes must not be ignored, for in 1130
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Hamon de St. Clare had remission of danegeld in Northamptonshire
of 6s.,³ just as William de Lanvalei had of 5s. in 1156.4 For the
connexion between St. Clare and Lanvalei and between Lanvalei
and Burgh, see n. 51.
6
In 1163 an amercement upon the men of Wakerley for forest
trespass was pardoned by William de Lanvalei, as was William the
huntsman's amercement.5 In 1167 William de Lanvalei was
pardoned a similar amercement on this land, and two years later
Wakerley of William de Lanvalei was amerced a mark for a smithy
made in the forest, the charge being pardoned by Lanvalei.
1185 William de Lanvalei II was pardoned an amercement of £5
for waste of Wakerley. In 1190 Julian de Hai owed 60 marks
for having right of the town of Wakerley according to his charters
against William de Lanvalei.9 In 1208-9 the heir of William de
Lanvalei held this land,¹º and in 1215 the land late of William de
Lanvalei in Wakerley was committed to the king's bailees.¹¹
In
10
Soon afterwards this land, with other estates of William de
Lanvalei, passed by marriage to John de Burgh (son of Hubert),
who had licence in 1228 to impark his wood here and make a deer-
leap.12 In 1264 John de Burgh the elder had a grant of market
and fair at his manor of Camel, Somerset, and of a yearly fair
at his manor of Wakerley, Northants.13 This John de Burgh the
elder died in 1274, holding the manor of Hallingbury of the king
as of the barony of Lanvalei of the inheritance of Hawise his wife,
daughter and heir of William de Lanvalei III, for I fee (?), and the
manor of Wakerley by barony; Sir John de Burgh the younger,
his son, was aged 40 and more."
14
John de Burgh died in 1280, holding inter alia the manors of
Hallingbury and Wakerley as of the barony of Lanvalei, the latter
for 1 fee; his heirs were his 3 daughters, Dervorguille, aged 25,
married to Sir Robert Fitz-Walter, Hawise, aged 24, married to
Sir Robert Grelley, and Margery, a nun at Chicksand.15 Wakerley
was assigned to the pourparty of Hawise, 16 and descended with the
members of the barony of Manchester until alienated in 1309 to
John la Warr, knt., who had married Joan daughter of Robert
and Hawise Grelley.'
17
Hallingbury was assigned in 1281 to Dervorguille de Burgh,
It
and was held in 1303 by Robert Fitz-Walter for I fee.18
passed in 1313 to Christiana, daughter and coheir,19 who in that
year had licence to enfeoff Robert Fitz-Walter and Alice his
wife of the moiety of the manor.20 Two years later it was settled
by licence on the said Robert for life, with remainder at his death
to John le Marshal (lord of one moiety of the honor of Rye) and
his heirs.21
1. V. C. H. Northants. i. 386b. 2. Pipe R. 31 Hen. I, 139. 3. Ibid.
31 Hen. I, 86.
4. Ibid. 2 Hen. II, 41 bis.
5. Ibid. 9 Hen. II, 39.
6. Ibid. 13 Hen. II, 119. 7. Ibid. 15 Hen. II, 76. 8. Ibid. 31 Hen. II,
9. Ibid. 2 Ric. m. 3. 10. Bk. of Fees, 18. 11. R. Lit. Claus.
70.
13. Ibid. ii. 49. 14. Cal. Inquis.
51.
i. 243.
ii. 91-2.
12. Cal. Chart. R. i.
15. Ibid. 198.
16. Ibid. 330. 17. V. C. H. Lancs. i. 333.
18. Feud. Aids, ii. 139. 19. Cal. Inquis. v. 38; Cal. Close R. 523. 20. Cal.
Pat. R. 18.
21. Ibid. 275.
EASTON, BEESTON
281
XLIX.
In 1086 Rolland held of Eudes Fitz-Hubert in Easton on the
Hill (Optongren' hundred), Northants., I hide; in the same
Easton (Willybrook hundred) 1 hide, which belonged in 1086 to
St. Peter of Burgh.
Gilbert de Gand gave to the abbey of St. Pierre sur Dive hide
in Easton.
Rolland held of Eudes Fitz-Hubert the sewer in Beeston (and
Budna), Beds., 3 hides.
David held of the king in Little Casterton, Rutl., 3 virgates.
Asketill de St. Medard held of the abbot of Peterborough land
in Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire for 6 knights' fees, and of
the fee of this knight king William the elder gave to Eudes the
sewer in Easton 1½ hide and sent his mandate from Normandy
into England to the bishop of Coutances and Robert de Oilli that
they should give the abbot an equivalent exchange in whichever
of the 3 adjoining counties he wished; but the abbot would not.¹
I
C
Eudes the sewer gave to St. John's, Colchester, two-thirds of
the tithe of Estun,' 2 in the diocese of Lincoln.3 The place was
therefore Easton in Northamptonshire. There is a writ of king
Stephen directing queen Alienore to let the monks of Colchester
have their tithe of Easton, as they had it in the time of Henry I,ª
and a confirmation of the same queen confirming to the monks
two-thirds of the tithe of the demesne of Easton, to hold as bene-
ficially as they had it in the time of Eudes the sewer and as
Henry I, her husband (dominus), confirmed the same.5 Easton
had therefore escheated to the crown on the death of Eudes and
was subsequently held in chief of the crown. No doubt Henry I
included it in the dower provided for his wife Eleanor.
7
In the survey temp. Henry I (1124-29) Simon de Lindon held
both the tenements in Easton as 1 and 2 hides respectively."
We can identify Simon as the son of Rolland, the Domesday tenant,
in an interesting manner. Orderic describes how Odo bishop of
Bayeux begat a son named John, who was, when the chronicler
wrote, very influential in the court of Henry I by reason of his
eloquence and probity. This was John of Bayeux, who attested.
many of the writs and charters of Henry I during the period 1115–
1130, once as 'John son of the bishop of Bayeux,'s his name
standing frequently next after the chancellor's in order of pre-
cedence. Apparently he was dead before Michaelmas 1130, for
then his son Robert, described as 'Robert, grandson (nepos) of
the bishop,' rendered account in Northamptonshire of 145 marks
for Simon son of Rolland for the plea of the property (pecunia)
of his (sui), i.e. Robert's, father; and of 20 marks for a plea of a
hind (bissa).10
Further evidence suggests that the plea referred to here had
been about a mortgage of the land of Easton to John of Bayeux,
Robert's father, by Simon son of Rolland de Lindon; that Robert
had recovered this mortgage or other property of his father against
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Simon; that Simon held of him the land of Easton; that Robert
had been indicted for an offence against the king's deer, of which
he might be suspected owing to the proximity of his manor of
Easton on the Hill to the northern part of Rockingham Forest.
A document of the year 1204 which Thomas Stapleton cited in
his Observations on the Rolls of the Norman Exchequer, ii, p. clxxxii,
in evidence of the descent of the Hommet or Humet family, ha
an important bearing on the Pipe Roll entry cited above and the
suggestions in regard thereto :
Simon de Lindon gives 10 marks for having an inquest
if the vill of Easton with the appurtenances was pledged by
Simon de Eston, grandfather of this Simon, to Robert grand-
son (nepos) of the bishop, grandfather of William de Humet
the constable (of Normandy), and if it was the inheritance
and right of this Simon, and if the same Simon de Lindon
is his next heir, and if William de Humet had any other entry
into that land than by the said Robert, to whom that land
was pledged.11
The sequel of the inquest which Simon desired was his subse-
quent proffer of 300 marks to the king for having Easton and his
finding 44 men of Northamptonshire, Rutland and Lincolnshire
as sureties for payment.12 In 1205 Easton, the land of William
de Humet, was worth £10. IOS. without stock, and with the stock
found there £16 14s.13
Simon's family took name from Lyndon, Rutland.
In 1167
Lindon of Rolland son of Simon was amerced mark for forest
trespass.14 Before 1194 Simon de Lindon III married Margaret,
daughter and heir of William de Oteringham of Yorkshire by
Lecia de Cowlam his wife, and in that year was demanding (as his
wife's attorney) against Martin Martel and Agnes his wife
in Otteringham in Holderness (Holderness, n. 11).15
fee
In 1203 the abbot of Crowland was without a day in a plea
with Simon de Lindon touching the advowson of the church of
Easton, because there was a plea in the king's court between the
said abbot and the seneschal of Normandy (William de Humet)
touching the same church.16 Shortly after this date Simon dé
Lindon appealed Reginald de Eston for feloniously carrying 20
marks of his moneys to the king's enemies beyond seas, namely
to William de Humet and (his) brothers, and giving them the money
on condition they secured to him 5 virgates in Easton from the
abbot of St. Peter sur Dive, then in the king's hands by reason
of the Normans' lands; that he did this to the disinheriting of
Simon, his lord, whose inheritance that land was, in that the
abbot and his house had entry in that land only by the ancestors
of William de Humet, to whom the ancestors of him, the said
Simon, had pledged that and other land in Easton; Roger (sic)
denied the offence and showed that he had gone beyond seas
by licence of Geoffrey Fitz-Piers, whose writ he proffered, to
do homage to the abbot his lord for the land his father had
held of the said abbot, who merely demised to him the land as
1
2
EASTON, BEESTON
283
that which was in his own hand.17 It was stated in a plea of
the crown in 1254 for the manor of Duddington, Northants.,
that prior to 1205 William de Humet had 5 virgates in Easton
which he delivered by a fine with other lands to Gerard de Camvill
and Nicholaa his wife; after William's death and the loss of
Normandy king John took those 5 virgates and gave them to
Simon de Lindon for 200 marks, giving land (in Duddington ?) to
Gerard and his wife.18
Simon de Lindon in 1204 possessed an interest in Creeton,
Lincs.,19 and in 1208-9 he held 1 fee in chief in Northamptonshire.20
In 1212 he was said to hold 2 fees in this county for William
de Humet as of the honor of Chokes, and elsewhere that he held 2
fees late of the said William by fine made with the king.21
As may
be seen in the account of the honor of Chokes this reference to
the fee of Chokes is unintelligible and probably corrupt. It may
be noted that the knight's fee in Creeton, Lincs., which William
de Colevill held of Baldwin Wake, 22 was held of Colevill by Simon
de Lindon III.
In 1217 the lands late of Simon de Lindon in 3 counties were
committed to Bartholomew Pecche, but later the custody of those
lands and of the heir was granted to the bishop of Salisbury,23 who
collected the carucage due in 1220 from 9 carucates in Easton of the
land late of Rolland son of Simon de Lindon.24 In 1222 the bishop
complained that by reason of the reported death of Simon's son
Rolland he had been disseised of the manor of Lyndon, whereupon
the king directed William de Cantelupe to restore the same to the
bishop until assurance of Rolland's death was received, or until he
returned from the Holy Land.25 In 1227 the grant of custody of
Simon's land and heirs with their marriage was renewed to the
bishop of Salisbury.2 This seems to indicate that there had been
a change of custodee or that there was uncertainty in regard to
Rolland's decease.
26
In 1229 Alan de Lindon had licence to assart his wood of 8 acres
called Le Lunde, lying between his manor place of Easton and the
king's highway to Stamford.27 In 1230 he was over seas,
28 and
in that year presented to the church of Lyndon as a knight; 29 to that
of Creeton, Lincs., he presented his own brother Richard, who was
enjoined to go and be ordained at the summons of the bishop.30
In 1231 a curious tragedy came to light. The body of a man
who had been slain was found in the river near Stamford and some
averred that it was Rolland son of Simon de Lindon and some that it
was not. Accordingly the coroner, the people of Easton and of
certain vills of the fee of the abbot of Peterborough to the south of
Stamford, disinterred the body, when all declared that it was Rolland
by recognition of certain marks on the face, nose and hands; this
was also confirmed by a lady friend of Rolland by whom he had had a
boy, and by Alina, Rolland's own sister. It was alleged further by
certain neighbours that Rolland and two other travellers had come
to Easton and been received by Sir Alan the parson, Rolland's
brother, but were never seen thereafter.31 Alan de Lindon after-
wards found sureties to answer before the justices if anyone charged
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him with the death of an unknown man,' for whose death seven of
Alan's men were detained in Northampton gaol.32
1
8
In 1236 (?) Alan de Lindon held of the king 2 fees, namely fee
in Easton, Northants., fee in Little Casterton, Rutland, I fee in
Budna (Budenho ') and Beeston, Beds.33 In 1239 he was dead,
leaving Matilda his relict surviving.34 In the following year Richard
de Lindon presented to the church of Easton, and again, as a knight,
10 years later.35 In 1241 the service of Richard de Lindon for fee
(in Brigsley and Waithe, Lincs.) was assigned in dower to Margaret
countess of Lincoln.36
In 1242-3 Richard de Lindon held of the king in chief in Easton,
Northants., and (Little) Casterton, Rutland, 1 fee; in Budna and
Beeston, Beds., I fee.37 He died in 1254 holding the manor of
Easton (with the members) of the king for 2 fees, the manor of
Creeton of Sir Walter de Colevill for 1 fee; Simon his son was aged
24 years,38 and gave £10 relief and had livery of his inheritance.39.
It seems clear that Rolland, Alan, and the above-named Richard
were sons of Simon de Lindon III, and that Alan and Richard had
been ordained priests. Whether the tragedy of Rolland's death
cast a blight on the family or not may be a matter for surmise, but
the fact remains that the status of the family seems to have declined
during the next 50 years. In 1257 Sir Simon de Lindon attested a
deed in favour of the nuns of Wothorpe, Northants.40
It was presented from Willybrook hundred in 1275 that the
grandfather of Simon de Lindon, 24 years before, had given to the
nuns of Wothorpe ( Wrythorpe') by Stamford 30 acres of land of
the manor of Easton;41 in 1276 from Little Casterton that Richard de
Lindon had 20 years before built a wall on the king's highway there
and encroached land; 42 and in 1275 that Simon de Lindon had
warren in Creeton, Lincs.43 Sir Simon de Lindon, knt., gave land
in Easton to the nuns of St. Mary's, ' Wyrthorp,' abutting on land.
which Sir Simon de Lindon had given them.44
In 1282 Simon de Lindon was amerced 100 marks for not having
the service of 2 knights at Rhuddlan on the morrow of St. Peter ad
Vincula in the army of Wales.45 He demised the manor of Lyndon
to Master Henry Sampson, who released his right in 1285 to the
king and queen, 46 which suggests that he had alienated this manor ;
it was in the hands of Edward II in 1312.47 Simon held the manor
of Creeton in 1288 of Roger de Colevill for 1 fee,48 and was living in
1294; but in 1298 Simon de Bokministre died seised of 2 messuages.
in Little Casterton which he held of the king as of his manor of
Easton for fee, which he and his ancestors sometime held of Simon
de Lindon and his ancestors as of the said manor of Easton, which
manor Eleanor the king's consort had acquired from Simon de
Lindon and was then in the king's hands; Simon de Lindon had
held the manor, including a park and covert, a tall wood in the
forest of Kingscliffe, and a fishery in the water of Welland, of the
king for 2 fees.49
1
In 1303 Simon de Bokministre held Little Casterton for 1 fee;50
Richard de Lindon held & fee in Creeton, Lincs., 51 but this entry may
be anachronous. In 1316 queen Margaret was lady of Easton. 52
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285
The manor house was occasionally the residence of Edward I and
Edward II. It was valued at £40 in 1319, when it was settled upon
Edmund of Woodstock, the king's brother. 53
1. Chron. Petroburg. 168.
4. Ibid. 31. 5. Ibid. 38.
Eccles. (ed. Le Prevost), iii.
9. Ibid. passim, pp. 74-134.
12. Ibid. 218, 272-3.
13 Hen. II, 125. 15. R. Cur.
Placit. 39. 17. Ibid. 76b.
20. Bk. of Fees, 18. 21. Red Bk. 173, 534. 22. Bk. of Fees, 182.
24. Bk. of Fees, 326; Excerpt. Fin. i, 53.
25. R. Lit. Claus. i. 510. 26. Pat. R. 110. 27. Close R. 262, 327; Cal.
28. Close R. 345. 29. Reg. Welles, ii. 158, 179.
31. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 514.
2. Colchester Chartul. 3.
3. Ibid. 62-3.
6. V. C. H. Northants. i. 3676, 388. 7. Hist.
263-4. 8. Farrer, Itin. of Hen. I, n. 381.
10. Pipe R. 31 Hen. I, 82. 11. R. de Fin.
13. R. Norman. 134. 14. Pipe R.
Reg. i. 77; R. de Oblat. 43. 16. Abbrev.
18. Ibid. 1396.
19. R. de Oblat. 209.
199.
23. R. Lit. Claus. i. 309, 329.
Chart. R. i. 113.
30. Ibid. iii. 175.
33. Bk. of Fees, 603.
197, 246.
32. Close R. 489.
34. Excerpt. Fin. i. 330. 35. Reg. Grosseteste,
36. Close R. 261. 37. Bk. of Fees, 931. 38. Cal. Inquis.
i. 88. 39. Excerpt. Fin. ii 199. 40. Cat. of Anct. D. iii., D. 195; cf. D. 98.
41. R. Hund. ii. 14.
44. Cat. of
Anct. D. ii., B. 3740.
46. Cal.
49. Ibid. iii.
52. Ibid. iv. 23.
42. Ibid. 53-
Close R. 375- 47. Ibid. 415.
350-1. 50. Feud. Aids, iv. 205.
53. Cal. Chart. R. iii. 416.
43. Ibid. i. 261b.
45. Cal. Pat. R. 35; ibid. 1294, p.
48. Cal. Inquis. ii. 421.
51. Ibid. iii. 147.
348.
L.
Eudes Fitz-Hubert held in Gamlingay, Cambs., 18 hides, of
which a Frenchman held hide; in Hatley St. George I hide.
Eudes gave to the abbey of Colchester two-thirds of the tithe
of Gamlingay.¹ After his death the manor was given to Eustace
count of Boulogne, who confirmed to Colchester the tithes of those
manors which Eudes the sewer had given, which manors' michi rex
donavit,' namely tithe of the mill of Lilly Church (in Higham, Kent),
tithe of Gamlingay, Roding, Witham, Eriswell and the church of
Newsells.2 Stephen count of Mortain and his wife Matilda similarly
confirmed.3
Mr. Round has shewn how queen Matilda pledged 10 markates
of land in Gamlingay in 1141 to Gervase (de Cornhill), the justiciar
of London, and, the debt being never repaid, that the land so
pledged remained in the line of Cornhill and was held in 10 librates
of land in 1217 by the heirs of Gervase.4
6
Stephen's youngest son William, count of Boulogne and earl of
Warenne, held the manor in 1158,5 the year before his death at
Toulouse. He gave to Sawtrey abbey 220 acres in Gamlingay in
confirmation of a grant made by his father. Possibly his widow
Isabel de Warenne held the honor of Boulogne until 1164, when she
married Hameline Plantagenet, the king's illegitimate brother. For
the year ending at Michaelmas 1165, Ralph le Breton accounted
as farmer for the issues of the honor and so until 1179; but in
1167 he stated that the king had forbidden him to answer for the
issues of Gamlingay and other manors. Presumably the issues of
these were paid into the king's chamber or wardrobe.
8
Ilbert de Carenci had land in Gamlingay from the latter half of
Stephen's reign and gave some part to the monks of Sawtrey; he
9
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still held it in 1167.10 There appears to be no evidence when the
residue of the manor was granted, but before the year 1200 Roger
Fitz-Reinfrid had ro librates, Walter Avenel 10 librates, and Joan
wife of Hugh de Nevill the forester and daughter of Henry de
Cornhill 10 librates; the whole manor being worth £30 a year;
In 1206 Reinfrid son of Roger Fitz Reinfrid had land in Gamlingay
and Hatley,12 which passed after his death to his brother, Ralph de
la Bruere.
11
Some years later the tenure of Gamlingay was thus described :
'Gamlingay is worth £30; of which the heirs of Roger Fitz-Rein-
frid hold 10 librates, Richard Avenel 10 librates, and the heirs of
Gervase de Cornhill 10 librates.'13 In the same return Warin Fitz-
Gerold was said to hold 1 fee here; 14 but this entry may be corrupt.
In 1217 these tenements were held by knights' service of the
honor of Boulogne: by Henry de Cornhill (recte Hugh de Nevill)
I fee, Ralph de Bruera (son of Roger Fitz-Reinfrid) fee, and
Richard Avenel fee.15 Ralph de la Bruere seems to have held
land here of William de Warenne, which was in pledge to a Jew
circa 1227.16 Richard Avenel gave land in Gamlingay to St. Neots,
his son William confirming the same.17 In 1236-38 Robert Avenel
held fee and Walter de Leicestre fee in Gamlingay of the honor
of Boulogne, and Gilbert son of Thomas fee here of the honor of
Nevill the forester, as of the honor of Boulogne.18 In 1246 Richard
de Leicestre impleaded the prior of St. Botolph's, Colchester, for
the advowson of the church here,19 and in the following year a
fine of land here was levied between Thomas son of Dreu de
Huntingdon and Agnes his wife and Adam abbot of Sawtrey. 20
In 1248 the said Thomas and his wife were tenants and Richard
de Leicestre demandant in a fine of land here.21
In that year
Gilbert son of Thomas (de Ilketeshale) had a grant of free warren
in Gamlingay and other places (Chester, 103).22
In 1265 the land of James son of Gilbert de Gamenegeye (in
Gamlingay?), worth £10, and that of William de Leicestre in Gam-
lingay, worth £10, were seised to the king's use because they were
suspected of being adherents of the earl of Leicester.23 In 1268
Walter de Leicester passed by fine to Walter de Merton the advow-
son of a mediety of the church here.24 It was presented in 1279
that the vill of Gamlingay was formerly the escheat of king
Stephen (sic), who enfeoffed the ancestors of John Avenel, William
de Leicestre and Hugh de Babington of the whole vill, except a
tenement which he gave to Walkelin his seneschal, which descended
to Ralph la Faced, and later to Ilbert de Carenci, who gave his
tenement to the abbot of Sawtrey; John Avenel, knt., held of
Robert Fitz-Walter fee and a mediety of the church; William
de Leicestre held fee of Adam Fitz-Simon and he of Robert Fitz-
Walter, but the said William sold his whole tenement to Dom.
Walter de Merton, who gave it to the house of scholars of Merton
at Oxford; the prior of Merton had 20s. of rent there by the gift
of Ralph de la Bruere; Hugh de Babington, knt., held of John
de Nevill fee; the said Robert Fitz-Walter and John de Nevill
held of the king as of the honor of Boulogne, to which honor also
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belonged a messuage held by Richard de Edenesore of the earl of
Gloucester by knight's service and suit to the earl's court of Croy
Royse.25
In 1302-3 William Avenel, the scholars of Merton, Oxford, and
Richard de Babington held each fee in Gamlingay.26 In 1328
the same William and the said scholars held each fee here of
Robert Fitz-Walter of Hempnall, Norf.,27 and in 1330 William
Avenel died seised of a manor with a market here, held of the heir
of Robert Fitz-Walter for fee; John his son was aged 23 years.28
For the land in Hatley St. George see the author's Feudal
Cambridgeshire, 166. The vill was of the honors of Peverel of Bourn
and Richmond. There is nothing to indicate the honor in which
the hide held by Eudes in 1086 was subsequently incorporated.
1
2
1. Chartul. 3.
2. Ibid. 47. 3. Ibid. 48. 4. Geof. de Mandeville, 120.
5. Pipe R. 4 Hen. II, 166. 6. Brit. Mus., Facsim. of Chs. n. 37. 7. Pipe
R. II Hen. II, 26. 8. Ibid. 13 Hen. II, 158.
9. Mon. Anglic. v. 521
note. 10. Pipe R. 13 Hen. II, 166. 11. Bk. of Fees, 343. 12. Camb.
Feet of F. (Rec. Com.), 319. 13. Bk. of Fees, 239.
14. Ibid. 237. 15. Pat.
R. 131, 172.
16. Cat. of Anct. D. iii. D. 118. 17. Chartulary, Faus-
tina A. iv. f. 98d, 99. 18. Lib. de Bernewelle, 244. 19. Rye, Cal. of Camb.
Fines, 26. 20. Ibid. 28. 21. Ibid. 30. 22. Cal. Chart. R. i. 329. 23. Cal.
Misc. Inquis. i. 194. 24. Rye, Cal. of Camb. Fines, 42.
ii. 5926, ff.
26. Feud. Aids, i. 149. 27. Cal. Ing. vii. 129.
265.
25.
R. Hund.
28. Ibid.
LI.
Eudes Fitz-Hubert the sewer held in Hamerton, Hunts., 15
hides; Adam (Fitz-Hubert) held of the bishop of Bayeux in Chalk,
Kent, 3 solins, in East Chart 3 solins; of this land 2 knights held
2 hides.
Eudes gave to Colchester abbey two-thirds of the tithe of
Hamerton. William de St. Clare gave the church of Hamerton by
charter attested by Richard de Amblie, Roger son of Fulk, and
others. Hubert de St. Clare confirmed the gift for the soul of
William de St. Clare, his father's brother, in the same terms as the
donor's charter, with, besides the above witnesses, some eight
others.³ Hubert attested the confirmation by Aubrey de Damartin
and Matilda his wife of the gift of the said church. Robert bishop
of Lincoln, who was invoked by William and Hubert de St. Clare
to confirm their gift, did so by charter attested by Martin the
treasurer and others.5 The date will be 1147-1156. William de
Lanvalei I (husband of Gunnora and father of William de Lanvalei II)
confirmed the gift of his ancestors, namely Hugh de St. Clare
and William his brother, of inter alia the church of Hamerton;
Ralph de Roucestre being a witness. He also gave to Ralph de
Lanvalei, his younger son, after the decease of dame Clemency
(wife of Hubert de St. Clare), the vill of Hamerton to hold of the
donor's son, William de Lanvalei II, for fee; Nicholas archdeacon
too!
of Huntingdon (occ. 1167-1176) was a witness. The younger
William confirmed to Colchester abbey the gift of the church of
Hamerton made by his ancestors the St. Clares (as above);
Eustace de Roucestre and Ralph de Lanvalei were witnesses.
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9
11
In 1130 William de St. Clare had remission of 30s. of danegeld
in Huntingdonshire, evidently in respect of this manor, and of 20s.
out of an amercement of 40 marks charged on the men of the county
for the hays of Brampton.10 He had also remission of 19s. of
danegeld in Dorset, and Hamon de St. Clare had remission of 6s.
of danegeld in Kent. In 1156 William de Lanvalei had remission
of danegeld in Huntingdonshire (in respect of Hamerton) 12 and in
Kent of 7s. (in respect of Chalk), and of 30s. 2d., his portion of the
donum of Kent and murder fines amounting to £106 13s. 4d.13 In
1162 he had a similar remission of danegeld in respect of Chalk.¹4
In 1157 he was pardoned IIS. 8d. (on Chalk) out of 10 marks charged
in Sharnwell hundred for a murder.15
In 1177 William de Lanvalei was pardoned 10s., being his pro-
portion of an amercement in Leytonstone hundred for a murder.16
Possibly he died in 1180, for in that year the sheriff of Dorset and
Somerset eased his farm of £10 in Shaftesbury in favour of William
son of William de Lanvalei, where previously he had done so in
favour of William de Lanvalei.17 In 1183 William de Lanvalei
(younger) was pardoned 3s. 9d. out of 40s. for a murder in Leyton-
stone hundred.18 Two years later he was similarly pardoned 2s. 6d.
out of 2 marks in the same hundred.19
In 1185 it was presented from Leytonstone hundred, Hunts.,
that Clemency de St. Clare, aged 60 years, was of the king's gift
and held Hamerton (Haut') of William de Lanvalei; it was worth
£20 a year with the stock of 4 plough-teams and 300 sheep.20
From the hundred of Broadwater, Herts., it was presented that
Clemency late wife of Hubert de St. Clare, aged 80, was of the
king's gift, her land of Weston being worth a shilling less than £4,
but worth £5 with an augmented stock of half a plough-team and
40 sheep.21
From the Essex hundred of Lexden it was presented
that William de Lanvalei was in the king's custody, his age un-
known. Mr. Round shows that his land in this hundred was in
Stanway, inherited from the St. Clares.22 From Witham hundred
it was presented that William de Lanvalei's land in Hallingbury
(n. 43) was worth £17 a year.23
William de Lanvalei, son of William de Lanvalei, knt., gave to
abbot Adam and the monks of Colchester land in Lexden, Essex,
in exchange for virgate which Clemency his grandmother gave
them, for the soul of Gunnora the grantor's mother, of her mari-
tagium in Weston.24 Mr. H. J. Ellis has noted a grant of William
de Lanvalei to Eustace de Roucestre as fee all his land in Weston
as Clemency the grantor's grandmother held it at her death.25
William de Lanvalei II, son of William de Lanvalei I, con-
firmed to Colchester abbey inter alia tithes of Hallingbury for the
health of the soul of Hawise his wife and for the souls of William
his father and Gunnora his mother; Eustace de Roucestre and
Ralph de Lanvalei attested.26 In her viduity Hawise de Lanvalei,
daughter of Hugh de Boclonde, gave to Colchester certain villeins
and their land in 'Tatcheworde' (? Tetworth, Hunts.).27 This gift
was confirmed by John de Burgh.28 Matilda de Lanvalei gave land
in Harston, Cambs., 29 and this was confirmed by Hamon Pecche,
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son of Gilbert Pecche, for the soul of Matilda de Lanvalei his
sister; 30 and by John de Burgh, for the health of the soul of
Hawise his wife, as the gift of Matilda de Lanvaley, mother
of his wife Hawise.31 This corrects Clutterbuck's pedigree of
Lanvalei.
In 1194 William de Lanvalei owed 100 marks for the king's
goodwill and for having his land and chattels which were taken
into the king's hands.32 In 1198 he and Ralph de Lanvalei had
licence to agree in a plea of land in Hamerton, Hunts., and in
Blackgrove, Berks.33 In 1200 he gave 200 marks for having the
custody of the castle of Colchester and of the forest to Chelmsford
as he had it in the time of King Richard.34 The fine was subse-
quently enlarged to 400 marks and custody of the forest to that
over 7 hundreds.35
In 1205 William de Lanvalei III was under age.36
Two years
later he and Hawise his mother undertook to render 300 marks
owing by William de Beauchamp,37 to whom the king then con-
firmed the gift which William de Lanvalei had made to him of the
vill of Great Bromley, Essex, with the advowson of the church, in
marriage with Gunnora sister of the donor.38 In 1212 William de
Lanvalei held 100 solidates of land in Blackgrove, Berks., which
Henry II gave to Ralph (sic) his grandfather.39 In July 1215 a
mandate was issued for the delivery to William de Lanvalei of the
castle of Colchester, 40 but on 17 October following various writs
were issued for livery of the lands late of the said William to various
ministers of the crown.41
On 5 November, 1217, his lands were granted to Hubert de
Burgh,42 although on the 7 and 29 October the same lands and
the marriage of the heirs had been given to John Marshal.43 It
was presented in 1219 from Shamell hundred, in which Chalk
lay, that Sir Hubert de Burgh had the wardship of a certain
maid, who was the heir of William de Lanvalei, with the manors
of Chalk and Henherst, worth £40 a year.4 44 Sir Hubert married
the heiress to his son John and so brought to the family a large
inheritance.
In 1219 an assize was to recognize if Robert the smith, father
of Robert the complainant, was seised of 4 virgates in Wackerley,
Northants. (n. 48), which Matilda de Lanvalei held, who vouched to
warranty Hawise daughter and heir of William de Lanvalei III, son
of William II; Hubert de Burgh, the justiciar, guardian of the said
Hawise, appeared for her and stated that William de Lanvalei II,
grandfather of Hawise, died seised of that land and William her
father likewise; complainant stated that William II, the grand-
father, gave the land to Robert his father and at Robert's death
took it into his hands by reason of custody and so died holding it
in custody, when William his son entered by reason of the same
custody and died holding the same; the land being held in socage
Robert was dismissed until Hawise was of full age.
45
In 1230 custody of the castle of Colchester was committed to
John de Burgh, with such things belonging to the custody as
William de Lanvalei had when he kept it; 46 the sheriffs of Essex
III.
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and Cambridge were directed to respite the demand for sheriff's aid
from the lands of John de Burgh and Hawise his wife while he
was in the king's service; and the said John also had respite of
the crown debt of William de Lanvalei.47
In 1232 John and Hawise demanded against William de Beau-
champ custody of a moiety of the vill of Hamerton, Hunts., which
belonged to them because John de Beauchamp, William's son, and
likewise heir of William's late wife Gunnora, by whom the same
William had that custody, was dead and his heir under age and
ought to hold that land of them by knight's service.48 Similarly
they demanded against the same William the manor of Great
Bromley as the right of Hawise, in which he had entry only by
Gunnora de Lanvalei, formerly his wife, to whom Hawise de Lanvalei,
formerly wife of William de Lanvalei, demised it, who had only
dower therein by her husband's gift, who was grandfather of this
Hawise whose heir she was.49
In 1233 the executors of the will of Hawise de Lanvaley
obtained a writ to the barons of the exchequer that the debt
demanded from Hawise, who held nothing except her dower of the
lands late of William Lanvalei, should be demanded from the heirs
of the said William; 50 accordingly four months later John de
Burgh and Hawise his wife had terms of payment set in respect
of a crown debt of £125 8s. for the fine made by Hawise de Lanvalei,
grandmother of the said Hawise wife of John de Burgh.51 In
1236-38 William de Beauchamp held the fee of Hamerton, in which
were 8 hides.52 There were 7 other hides, not mentioned in this
return, and it may be assumed that they were held in alms of John
de Burgh. In 1242-3 John de Burgh held East Chalk of the
barony of Hawise his wife. 53
3
In 1235 John de Burgh and Hawise his wife granted to William
de Beauchamp for life the manor of Great Bromley to hold of him
and the heirs of Hawise for fee. 54 The descent of Hamerton was
closely connected with the descent of the honor of Bedford after
this time. In 1257 William de Beauchamp of Bedford gave certain
of his lands to his son William, who died in 1262,55
Three years
later John brother and heir of the younger William had livery of
the inheritance. He was slain at Evesham in 1265, and presumably
Thomas Fitz-Otes, who had adhered to Henry and prince Edward
and had married Beatrice second sister of John, obtained Hamerton
from the crown, to which it had been escheated. He held it at his
death in 1274 of Sir John de Burgh as of the barony of Lanvalei;
Otto or Otes his son was aged 10 years. 56 The manor was assigned
to Beatrice his relict in dower.57
In 1270 John de Burgh the elder, 'son and heir of Hubert de
Burgh,' gave to the monks of Bermondsey the manor of Chalk. 58
In 1272 the prior of Croyroys (Royston) demanded against Robert
de Weston and Hawise his wife (? relict of John de Burgh, elder)
that they should warrant to him the fourth part of the manor of
Hamerton, except the advowson of the church, which John de
Burgh the younger claimed against him as his right.59
It was
presented in 1279 that William de Munchenesy and Beatrice his
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wife held the manor of Hamerton in dower of Otes son of Thomas,
who held it of John de Burgh as of the barony of Lanvalei; the
prior of Croyroys had 1 carucate in demesne and 61 virgates in
villeinage; the advowson belonged to Colchester abbey.60 In
1281 custody of the manors of Hamerton, Hunts., and Little Bel-
champ, Essex, was granted to Hugh Fitz-Otes during the minority
of Otes the son and heir, Beatrice late wife of Thomas Fitz-Otes
being deceased. 61 The young heir died in 1282, when his three
sisters, Joan, aged 14, Matilda, aged 11, and Beatrice, aged 8, were
next heirs of Hamerton.62 In 1284-5 the prior of Bermondsey held
the manor of Chalk, Kent, for I fee of John de Burgh as of the
barony of Lanvalei. 63
In 1302 John Buteturte and Matilda his wife, sister and heir
of Otto son and heir of Beatrice of Beauchamp, sometime the wife
of William de Munchenesy of Edwardstone, had seisin of the lands
which the said William had held in chief by the courtesy of England
(including Hamerton) of the inheritance of Beatrice. 64
In 1303 John Butetourte held 1 fee in Hamerton, and was lord
of the vill in 1316.65 He died in 1324 seised of the manor, which
he had held jointly with Matilda his wife for life of Robert Fitz-
Walter the elder in right of Dervorguille, sometime his wife, one of
the heirs of John de Burgh; John son of Thomas son of the said
John Butetourte, aged 7, was his heir.66
In concluding this section it seems desirable to describe as con-
cisely as possible the pedigree of Lanvalei. In the time of Henry I
Hugh and William de St. Clare of Essex were brothers, the last-
named holding Hamerton in 1130; Hubert de St. Clare described
William as his paternal uncle. It is suggested that he had issue a
daughter Gunnora who married William de Lanvelei I, who held
Hamerton in 1156. They had issue William de Lanvalei II (d.
1180-82), and a daughter Gunnora who married William de Beau-
champ and had issue. William de Lanvalei II married Hawise
daughter of Hugh de Boclonde and died between 1200 and 1205.
In the last-named year Geoffrey Fitz-Piers had custody of his land. 67
William de Lanvalei III, a minor in 1205, married Matilda daughter
of Gilbert Pecche and sister of Hamon Pecche. He died in 1215 or
1217, leaving issue an only daughter Hawise, who married John
de Burgh the elder and was mother of John de Burgh the younger.
1. Chartul. 3. 2. Ibid. 155. 3. Ibid. 161. 4. Ibid. 162. 5. Ibid.
122. 6. Ibid. 197. 7. Ibid. 198. 8. Ibid. 9. Pipe R. 31 Hen. I, 49.
10. Ibid. 48. 11. Ibid. 67. 12. Pipe R. 2 Hen. II, 14. 13. Ibid. 67.
14. Ibid. 8 Hen. II, 55. 15. Ibid. 3 Hen. II, 103. 16. Ibid. 23 Hen. II,
181. 17. Ibid. 26 Hen. II, 106. 18. Ibid. 29 Hen. II, 44. 19. Ibid.
31 Hen. II, 59.
20. R. de Dominabus, 47. 21. Ibid. 66.
22. Ibid. 70.
23. Ibid. 80. 24. Chartul. of Colchester, 199. 25. Harl. ch. 52, I. 37-
26. Chartul. of Colchester, 199–200.
29. Ibid. 203.
27. Ibid. 202.
28. Ibid. 204.
30. Ibid. 204. 31. Ibid. 205. 32. Pipe R. 6 Ric. m. 8.
33. R. Cur. Reg. i. 435, 450-1.
36. Abbrev. Placit. 73.
34. R. de Oblat. 89.
35. Ibid. 102.
37. R. de Fin. 372. 38. R. Chart. 167. 39. Bk.
of Fees, 107; cf. ibid. 87. 40. R. Lit. Pat. 151.
i. 231b.
42. Ibid. 3416.
43. Ibid. 328, 337.
269. 45. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 43. 46. Close R. 314.
41. R. Lit. Claus.
44. Bk. of Fees,
47. Ibid. 429.
50. Excerpt. Fin. i. 246.
48. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 681.
49. Ibid. n. 682.
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HONOR OF EUDES THE SEWER
54. Essex
Cal. Inquis.
59. Abbrev.
62. Cal.
63. Feud. Aids, iii. 1; cf. Ibid. 41. 64. Cal. Fine R.
65. Feud. Aids, ii. 470, 472. 66. Cal. Inquis. vi. 368. 67. R.
52. Lib. de Bernewelle, 269. 53. Testa, 214b.
55. Excerpt. Fin. ii. 254, 381, 427.
56.
Close R. 81. 58. Annals of Bermondsey, 464.
60. R. Hund. ii. 619. 61. Cal. Pat. R. 449.
51. Ibid. 269.
Feet of F. 109.
ii. 40.
57. Cal.
Placit. 184b.
Inquis. ii. 246.
i. 454.
de Fin. 279.
LII.
Adam (Fitz-Hubert) held in 1086 of the bishop of Bayeux in
Pympe (in Nettlested), Kent, I jugum.¹
Ranulf de Columbels held of the same bishop in (West) Barming
(Bermelie ') I jugum.2
3
In 1187 the sheriff of Kent accounted for 40s. of 2 fees of Scot-
landus and William de Bermeling of the fee of Eudes the sewer for
the scutage of Galloway. In 1196 there were 2 fees out of the 14
fees held by Robert de Crevequer which were in the king's hands,
namely Hugh de Botiler 1 fee and William de Bermelinges I fee.4
In 1199 only one of these fees of the fee late of Robert de Crevequer
was in the king's hands, namely William de Barmelinges 1 fee.5
In 1201 he gave 3 marks in lieu of service over seas in respect of I fee
held in chief. In 1212 he and Thomas de Nessenden held 1 fee (in
Barming)."
In 1232 the king took the homage of Ralph de Barlinges alias
Barmeling, son and heir of William de Barlinges, of 1 fee which
the same William held in chief in Barming.8 In 1242 Ralph de
Barmeling was dead, and John his son and heir, whose custody had
been given to Roger Wattehose, king's serjeant, was also deceased
and had been buried in the churchyard of St. Mary's, Southampton;
whereupon his inheritance in Barming and Pympe (in Nettlested)
was delivered to Robert brother and heir of the said Ralph.9 In
1242-3 Robert de Barmlinges held 1 fee in Barming in chief of the
king.10 He died in 1269 holding the manor of Barmling with land
in Pympe of the king for 1 fee; William his son was aged 30 and
more.11
12
William de Barmling died in 1294, seised of the manor of West
Barming with the hamlets of Pympe and Ledhok held as above;
Robert his son was aged 30 and more. In 1303 Robert Barmeling
held 1 fee in West Barming and in 1346 John de Freningham and
John de Huntingdon held it.13 John son of Ralph de Freningham
died in 1349 holding two-thirds of the manor of West Barming with
the advowson of the church for fee; Ralph de Freningham, knt.,
aged 25 and more, was his heir.14 John son of John de Freningham
died in 1351 holding the like tenement for fee; the above-named
Ralph was his heir. 15
2. Ibid.
1. Dom. Bk. i. f. 8d.
4. Red Bk. 96.
5. Ibid. 131, 134.
3. Pipe R. 33 Hen. II, 209.
6. R. de Oblat. 161.
7. Red
Bk. 475.
8. Excerpt. Fin. i. 231, 235.
9. Ibid. 385. 10. Bk. of Fees.
11. Cal. Inquis. i. 221.
12. Ibid. iii. 107.
13. Feud. Aids, iii. 45.
14. Cal. Inquis. ix. 311.
15. Ibid. 427.
PYMPE-STALISFIELD, ORES-GRAVELEY
293
LIII.
Adam Fitz-Hubert held of the bishop of Bayeux in Ores 2 solins,
in Stalisfield ('Stauefelle ') 2 solins.
3
William Cade was an important financier about the king's court
and chamber during the first 10 years of the reign of Henry II, receiv-
ing and making innumerable payments. He was farmer of Dover
from the first year of the reign down to 1161 and received the issues
to his own use. He had a grant of 30 solidates of land in Sutton
(Valence?) in 1159.¹ In 1162 half a mark charged on Ores for a
default was pardoned to William Cade,² and in the same year the
sum of £38 6s. out of the farm of Berkshire was paid to him for gold
to prepare a crown and regalia for the king's son Henry (born
10 April, 1155). He had several sons, who seem to have been
London merchants; one of them, Eustace, had a grant of land
in Wellingore and Navenby, Lincs., temporarily forfeited in 1173.5
Eustace probably died at Midsummer 1184, when half of Navenby
fell into the king's hands." For further reference see the article
by Mr. H. Jenkinson, on William Cade, a Financier of the Twelfth
Century,' in English Historical Review, xxxviii. 209 ff., which
shews that he had financial dealings with a great number of barons,
sheriffs, and other important men during the period 1155-1166.
Mr. Jenkinson describes him as a Christian usurer.'
4
In 1199 the gift of the land of Stalisfield and Ores to the brethren
of the Hospital of Jerusalem, made by Ernaud Cade son of William
Cade, received the royal confirmation. Arnulf Cade also gave a
parcel of land at Ospringe, Kent, to the hospital there.8
The Hospitallers held in 1346 in Stalisfield and Ores 1 fee
which Reginald de Cornhill held of them."
1. Pipe R. 6 Hen. II, 53.
43.
4. Ibid. 11 Hen. II, 31.
30 Hen. II, 21; 31 Hen. II, 93.
i. 318. 9. Feud. Aids, iii. 36.
2. Ibid. 8 Hen. II, 54. 3. Ibid. 8 Hen. II,
5. Farrer, Lancs. Pipe R. 29. 6. Pipe R.
8. Cal. Chart. R.
7. R. Chart. 16.
LIV.
Adam (Fitz-Hubert) held of the bishop of Bayeux in 1086 in
Hertfordshire, namely in Titeberst (in Aldenham) hide, Lampeth'
hide, Graveley 1 hide and 10 acres, Almeshoe (in Ippolitts)
I hide, Little Wymondley I hide and 1 virgate, Radwell 4 hides,
Barley 1 hide, ‘Haslehangra ' hide.
I
Simon son of Adam held in 1166 of the bishop of Ely 1 fee of
old feoffment (in Bishop's Hatfield, Herts.).1 Simon son of Adam
last presented, prior to 1216, to the church of Graveley and chapel
of Chesfield. In 1216 a carucate in Hatfield ('Hedfeld '), Herts.,
late of Adam son of William, was committed to Master Simon the
king's cook. In the following year Adam returned to allegiance
and had a writ of reseisin directed to William de Casingeham.*
In 1218 and 1222 Adam son of William presented jointly with
another to the church of Radwell.
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HONOR OF EUDES THE SEWER
About this time he held of the honor of Dover in Harthanger
I fee, Graveney I fee and Down 1 fee, and owed 50s. for castle-
guard of Dover.5 In 1225 he was a justice of gaol delivery at
Chelmsford and Hertford," and a commissioner in the following year
to assess and collect the fifteenth in those counties." He presented
to the church of Graveley in 1224. In 1225 there was a dispute
touching the presentation to Graveley, to which John son of William
and Ralph son of William were parties; Adam son of William
recorded his claim,8 and in 1232 defended his right in the advowson
of the church of Chesfield claimed by Robert de la Hay.⁹
In 1236 Ralph de la Haye and Robert de la Haye held 1 fee in
Chesfield and Graveley of the barony of Valoignes,10 which Godfrey
held of Peter de Valoignes at the Survey. In 1242 Simon son of
Adam presented to the church of Radwell. In 1254 Simon son of
Adam de Hatfeld had a grant of free warren in Hatfield, Almeshoe
and Radwell, Herts., and Shoebury, Essex; and was exempted
from being put on assizes or made sheriff or the like against his
will.11 In 1252 Richard de Rokesle acknowledged to Simon son of
Adam that I carucate in Shoebury and 4 other places in Essex was
the right of the said Simon and Fina his wife and their issue to hold
for I fee, and in exchange Simon granted to Richard land in Shelve
(in Lenham), Kent (n. 14 above), and certain lands in the parishes.
of Lenham, Ulcombe and Reyton with all feudal appurtenances
except the services of Peter de Oteringber, Bertin of the same,
Robert de la Dune and William de Hertangre for their respective
tenements in that county; Richard and his wife Matilda and their
issue to hold for I fee.12
In 1274 John son of Simon had free warren at Shoebury,¹
where land was held of him in 1294.1 14 He presented to the church
of Radwell in 1304. Possibly, however, there were two Johns during
this period, father and son, for in 1304 John son of John son of Simon
died holding the manor of Almeshoe with its members of Robert Fitz-
Walter for fee, land in Titeberst of Robert Saleman, lands in
the manor of Bishop's Hatfield of the bishop of Ely for fee,
besides other lands, including the manor of Stambridge, Essex, of
the inheritance of Petronilla his wife; Edward his son was aged
6 years.15
From the tenure of Almeshoe it appears that in this fee
the lands of Eudes the sewer had passed to the honor of Valoignes,
or otherwise that not all the land of his brother Adam came to
Eudes and his honor.
13
In 1303 Robert de Rokesle held in Lenham, Kent, fee of the
heirs of John Fitz-Simon; Robert de la Dunne held fee there of
Simon Fitz-Adam (sic); 16 John Fitz-Simon held 1 fee in Great
Stambridge, Essex, by barony, 17 and fee in Almeshoe, Graveley,
Radwell and Barley, Herts., of Robert Fitz-Walter.18 In 1327 land
in Little Holwell in the manor of Bishop's Hatfield was held of Sir
Hugh le Fitz-Simond as of his manor of Simondeshyde,19 and in 1328
Hugh Fitz-Simon held of Robert Fitz-Walter, then deceased, 2 fees.
in Almeshoe, Graveley and Radwell.20
In 1340 Petronilla late wife of John de Benstede died holding
in dower of the inheritance of Hugh Fitz-Simond, who held of John
1
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295
Fitz-Walter, the manor of Almeshoe for I fee.21 Hugh le Fitz-
Symund, knt., was living in 1345, when he held the manor of Caxton,
Cambs., for the life of Margaret his wife, late wife of Richard de
Frevill. 22
2. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 864.
3. R. Lit. Claus.
Ibid. 318. 5. Red Bk. 615, 711. 6. R. Lit. Claus. ii. 76b.
8. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 706. 9. Ibid. 864. 10. Bk. of
11. Cal. Pat. R. 388. 12. Essex Feet of F. 192.
14. Cal. Inquis. iii. 131. 15. Ibid. iv. 149. 16. Feud.
17. Ibid. ii. 136. 18. Ibid. 430.
13. R.
19. Cal. Inquis. vi. 482.
21. Ibid. viii. 250. 22. Ibid. 451.
1. Red Bk. 365.
i. 245b.
4.
7. Ibid. 147.
Fees, 578.
Hund. i. 162.
Aids, iii. 40.
20. Ibid. vii. 129.
HONOR OF WARENNE
(LEWES AND CASTLEACRE)
Place.
1. Hamsey, Saddlescombe, Suss. ; Stinton,
Norf..
Chesney-Cressi Say.
2. Portslade, Suss., also in Norf., Suff. Pierpont-Burgh-Bar-
&c.
7. Kennet, Cambs.; Elvedon, Suff.
8. Orleswick, Suss.; Fincham, Norf.
9. Perching, Suss.; Addington, Surr.
10. Kingston Bucy, Suss.
II. Bevendean, Suss.; Middleton, Suff.
12. Shere, Surr.; Greatham, Hants.
3. Poynings, Suss.; Wrentham, Suff.
4. Hurstpierpoint, Suss.
5. Iford, Suss.; Barsham, Norf.
6. Barcombe, Suss.; High Roding, Essex Watevill-Pierpont-
13. Hangleton, Suss.; Feltwell, Norf.
14. Wickensands, Suss..
17. Hurstmonceaux, Suss.
18. Wickham by Steyning, Suss.
•
•
15. Kingston, near Lewes, Suss.
16. Whitchurch, Salop; Gresham, Aylmer-
ton, Norf.
•
h
•
Tenant's Name.
26. Gt. Dunmow, Aveley, Essex
27. Gt. Ryburgh, Little Snoring, Norf.;
Brundon, Essex. .
dolf.
Poinings.
Pierpont.
Plaiz.
19. Blatchington, Suss..
20. W. Barsham, Norf.; Deepden, Suff..
21. Hilborough, Illington, Denver, Norf.. Cailli.
22. Attleborough, Scoulton, Stanford,
Norf..
23. Burnham Thorpe, Fulmodeston, Norf. Grancurt-L'Estrange
-Calthorpe.
•
Gatesden.
Kenet-Bigod.
Maners Benefeld
Aguillon-Bardolf.
Buci.
Fokinton-La Warre.
Clere-Fitz-Piers, alias
Fitz-John, Butler.
Cokefeld-Beauchamp.
La Mare.
Kingston.
Warenne of Whit-
church-Blancmoster.
Monceaus.
Wickham (?) — Wys-
ham.
24. Ryburgh, Stibbard, Tattersett, Norf. Valoignes.
25. Gressenhall, Elsing, Norf.
Wivill, alias Weyvill.
Wanci, alias Wauncy.
Mortemer.
Fitz-Wimar Stute-
vill-Foliot.
Bumstede.
. Munpincun.
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Place.
28. Weston Colville, Cambs.
29. Arkesden, Essex
30. Polhey in Pebmarsh, Essex
31. Howsham, Cowick Bury, Essex.
32. Caversfield, Bucks.; Stratton, Oxon..
33. Stoke Bruern, Alderton, N'hants.
•
•
47. (1) Itteringham, Wolterton, Norf.
48. Stinton, Norf.
49. Hillington, Norf.
50. Rougham, Fransham, Norf.
•
34. Wing, Crafton, Bucks.
35. Carlton Scroop, Lincs.; Barmbrough,
Yorks.
36. Bennington, Lincs.
37. Cusworth, Yorks.
38. Walton, Shepley, Dalton, Yorks.
39. Mapledurham, Oxon.
40. Castleacre, Tilney, Norf. .
41. Wimbotsham, Norf.
42. Egmere, Welborne, Norf.
43. Hautbois, Norf.
44. Blonorton, Norf.
45. Grimston, Congham, Norf.
46. Foulsham, Guist, Themelthorpe, Norf. Sanes-Gerberge.
47. Carlton, Willingham, Cambs.
•
•
Tenant's Name.
Stutevill-Colevill.
•
Ardern Abbot
Walden.
Essarts-Pebmeshe.
Ardern.
Talbot
Warenne.
Gargate-Winecote.
Malquenci - Briwerre
Chaworth
Combe-martyn.
Earl of
of
Bosevill-Neufmarché.
St. Paul, alias St. Pol.
Freschevill.
Fitz-Swain
Burgh,
and others.
Gurnay-Bardolf
Wormegay.
Glanvill (?)
Chevre-
vill, alias Chervill.
Ingoldesthorp.
Crek-Fitz-Osbert.
Grantcurt
priory.
Wolterton.
Hautbois (de Alto
Bosco), Baynard.
Saxham
La Snore
Brom.
Belhus St. Clare, alias
Sinclair-Reppes.
Pierpont
(n. 6).
of
Lewes
Clere Le Rus-Bri-
ouze, alias Braiose.
Burdeleis-Merlai-
Earl of Warenne-
Reppes.
Gatesden
INTRODUCTION
It is outside the scheme of this work to repeat what has been
written already about the house of Warenne, earls of Surrey. A
few notes will suffice to illustrate special features of the descent,
distribution, and feudal service of this honor. After the conquest
William de Warenne became lord of the rape of Lewes, in which it
is possible that he resigned lands in exchange for certain manors in
Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, which were described in the survey as
298
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held or claimed for the exchange of Lewes, or for the castelry of
Lewes. These were described in the time of Henry II as the earl
of Warenne's 'new land.' Other lands in those counties, which had
been held before the conquest mainly by Tocha, were derived from
William's brother Frederic, who was slain by Hereward before the
rebellion of 1070.1 These were described in the time of Henry II
as the earl of Warenne's' old land.' The only Domesday fee which
was incorporated in the honor of Warenne subsequently to the
Domesday survey was that of Roger son of Renard. See n. 22.
4
5
The identity of William's first wife, Gundreda, has been the
subject of much discussion.2 She is called by Orderic and by
the compiler of the Chronicle of Hyde the sister of Gherbod,3 a
Fleming who was made earl of Chester in 1070, and then, return-
ing to Flanders, where there were civil wars, was taken prisoner
shortly afterwards and disappears from English history. Gherbod
was advocate of the abbey of St. Bertin at Sithiu (now St. Omer).
In one of William de Warenne's charters to Lewes queen Matilda is
called the mother of Gundreda, and it is on the meaning of these
words mater uxoris mee that the controversy turns. If another
charter has been read correctly, king William calls Gundreda
his daughter, and she is styled his daughter also in the fifteenth-
century pedigree of the earls of Warenne in the Lewes chartulary.
The words filie mee in king William's charter, as printed, are
due to a seventeenth-century interlineation; the original words
are now quite illegible, and the sense would be satisfied by filiorum.
The charter has been accepted as genuine (see Davis, Regesta,
n. 232), but its form is not that of a royal charter. Stapleton's
theory that Gundreda was daughter of queen Matilda by a first
(and quite unknown) husband is refuted by Chester Waters'
citation from a letter of St. Anselm to Henry I (Ep. iv. 84).
Another suggestion, that she was the queen's goddaughter, it is
difficult to accept. One alternative remains-that she was an
adopted daughter. As she was the wife of William de Warenne
before Lewes priory was founded (1078), she was probably born
about 1055 to 1060, and thus would be of similar age to the children
of the Conqueror and Matilda, and may have been brought up with
them. Gundreda died at Castleacre, in childbed, on 27 May,
1085, and was buried at Lewes, where her remains and those of
her husband were found in 1845. Her marble gravestone had been
taken, after the destruction of the priory, to the neighbouring
church of Isford, and used for a Shirley family tomb, but it was
recognised in 1774 and taken to Southover church, close to the
priory site. The inscription calls her the offspring of dukes.
(stirps ducum) and the ornament of her age, a Martha in caring for
the wretched and a Mary in piety. The earl's epitaph, from the
Lewes chartulary, is printed in Dugdale's Baronage. William's
'second wife, whose name is not known, offered at his death
Ioos. to the monks of Ely for prayers for his soul, but they
were afraid to take it.9 She is not mentioned in the Lewes
chartulary, but is called sister of Richard Guet in the Bermondsey
Chronicle (1098),¹º and was probably of the family of Gouet or Goet,
6
7
8
INTRODUCTION
299
lords of Montmirail (Sarthe). The Richard named held largely
under Warenne in Essex.
The second earl William, who succeeded his father on the
latter's death on 24 June, 1088, married Isabel daughter of Hugh
le Magne, count of Vermandois, whom he abducted from her husband
Robert, count of Meulan, before his death in 1118.11
A confirmation by Henry I of grants made by this earl, of about
the year 1115, recites gifts to Lewes by William de Grigneuseville
(Grinnosa villa) of land in Eartham, Suss., and by Hugh de
Grigneuseville of rent in lieu of tithes of his land of Caston, Norf.,
land in Brighton formerly held of Ralph Fitz-Warin, which may
have formed part of the late fee of William de Watevill (n. 5),
and the 6 churches on the Domesday fee of the same William de
Watevill in Sussex.12 A recent forfeiture of the fee of William de
Watevill might possibly account for this special confirmation to
Lewes. An early charter of the second earl confirms to Lewes
for the health of his brother Rainald 3 hides in Moulscombe, given
by Richard the archdeacon, which Mr. Round has identified as
part of 7 hides in Patcham, held by Richard,' when a knight of
the same Richard held 1 hide more. This land was to be held
as freely as Falmer (Falemella), which St. Pancras held at the
date of the survey.13 The witnesses of the earl's charter included
Ranulf de Chesney (de Querceto), Robert de Petraponte, William
son of Godfrey de Petraponte, Ralph son of Ralph (not Ranulf as
above), Godfrey de Petraponte, Nigel son-in-law of Godfrey, and
Humphrey.
An abstract of the important charter (or memorial) of the
grants to Lewes priory passed by the second earl is given at the
end of this introduction. Two other important charters of his
are preserved in the Castleacre chartulary. (1) The earl, the countess
Isabel his wife, and their sons William and Ralph give to the
monks of Acre 40 solidates of land in Barmer, Stanhoe, Plumstead,
Wickmere, and Itteringham, Norf., to which were witnesses Osbert
de Caillei, W. de Cricetot, Henry de Ria, Robert constitutor,
Robert de Frievill, Osmund the despenser, Ralph de St. Martin,
and Ralph de Acre.14 (2) The countess Isabel notified Osmund the
despenser that her lord the earl had given her the church of
Trunch (next Gimingham) and she had given it to the monks of
Acre.15 The same earl of Surrey directed Reiner de Grantecurte
to permit the monks of Acre to hold the land (in Tattersett
which Hugh de Pinchenni gave for his own soul, and William his
son confirmed, and 60 acres of land that the same William gave
for his sister's marriage; Roger Fitz-Wimar, the earl's sewer,
was directed that if Reiner (de Grantecurt) did injury to the monks
he was to cause justice to be done.16 In a confirmation charter
to Castleacre we read that Reiner de Grantecurt gave his tithes
of Barsham and 12 acres of arable, and 120 acres of heath in Tatter-
sett; that Hugh (de Pinchenni) his man gave his tithe and 60
acres of land.¹7 In the time of king John the descendant of Hugh,
namely William de Pinkenni, granted to his kinsman Ralph the
priest, son of Hugh le Rus, and to John his brother, in fee, the
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whole tenement which William de Pinkenni his grandfather and
Ralph de Pinkenni his father gave to Hugh le Rus, namely 41
acres in the fields of Tattersett.18
William de Warenne, earl of Surrey, gave to the apostles Peter
and Paul at the stead of St. Pancras, for the health of his brother
Rainald, the land which William de Caili held of him, land which
the monks had in Shippy (in Tilney), Norf., land in 'Salingeford,'
and the marsh of Lynn, 2 hides in Willingham, Suff., which Walter
de Grantcurt held, and the donor's demesne land from ' Bouehorne
bridge to Chailey on the east of the way unto that by the bridge of
Homewoods of Ralph de Chesney. Witnesses: Roger de Glowe-
cestre and his brother Osbert, Godfrey de Petraponte, Richard de
Warenne, Hugh de Grigneuseville (Greniosa villa) and Robert de
Busevill.19 The date was before 1106.
The following charter illustrates the relationship between the
issue of Robert count of Meulan and the second earl of Warenne.
William de Warenne and the countess Isabel his wife and their sons,
William and Ralph, gave to the infirm brethren of All Saints of
Belencumbre (in the Pais de Caux) certain tillages, and the countess
Isabel gave of her inheritance and patrimony of Quillebeuf 100
shillings of Rouen yearly, with the consent of Waleran count of
Meulan her son, in the presence of Hugh archbishop of Rouen when
he dedicated the said church of All Saints; in England 100s. of the
rent of their burgh of Lewes. Done in 1135 and then confirmed
by Henry I.20
William de Warenne, at the request of William de Trublevill,
made a grant to the priory of Longueville of a tenement at Bourg
Dun (Seine Infér.), which was attested by the countess Isabel,
wife of the earl, William and Ralph their sons, who consented,
William de Criketot and Guy the butler, William son of Gulbert,
Ralph (de Rosei?) the clerk of Rosei, Walter de Grigneuseville
(Grinnosevilla), and others. 21 A charter to the monks of St. Evroult
of the same earl was attested by the countess Isabel, Jordan de
Blossevill, and Richard de Torcei.22
The earl's holdings in different counties are illustrated by the
remission of danegeld made in his favour. In 1129 in Yorkshire
78s., Norfolk £18 13s. 9d., Sussex £9, and Suffolk 15s.; in 1130 in
Yorkshire £6 2s. 4d., Hampshire 16s., Cambridgeshire 32s., Surrey
£6, Essex £6, Sussex £52 Is., Norfolk £29 10s. and £18 13s. 9d.,
Suffolk 24s. 7d., and Buckinghamshire 28s.23 Total £123 75. Sd.,
representing the tax on 1233 hides.
The second earl died 11 May, 1138. William, his eldest son
and third earl of Surrey, confirmed to the monks of Lewes about
1145-1146 the lands they held of his fee and granted plenary tithe
from all his demesne lands and a full tenth penny of his rents in
England, and gave seisin thereof by hair from his own head and
that of Ralph de Warenne his brother, cut with a knife by Henry
bishop of Winchester before the altar, when he caused the church
of St. Pancras to be dedicated. Among the witnesses were William
earl of Chichester, Ralph de Warenne, Reginald de Warenne,
Hugh de Petrepont, Ralph de Pleiz, Robert de Wesneval, Robert de
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Frievill, Robert de Petrepont, William de Petrepont, Adam de
Puninges, Guy de Mercecurt, William his son (filio suo), and William
de Drosei. 24 He confirmed to Lewes 20 solidates of land at Massing-
ham, Norf., of the gift of Robert de Frievill, with a provision that
if he could not warrant the land to Robert's heir the monks should
have 20 solidates elsewhere on Robert's fee. The witnesses were
Rainald de Warenne, Ralph de Wiburcvill, Baldwin de Frievill
and William de Sartilli.25
The earl, shortly before he joined the crusade of Louis VII of
France, founded the priory of canons of the Holy Sepulchre at
Thetford, for the remission of the sins of his mother Isabel and of his
brothers, Ralph and Reginald, and gave to it churches, tithes and
lands within and without the borough of Thetford, to hold as
beneficially as king Stephen had held the same, who gave them to
the donor; his said brother and Ralph de Bailol being witnesses.26
The earl set out for the Holy Land in 1147, and there lost his life,
being slain by the Turks in the defiles of Laodicea on 19 January,
1148.27 Soon after that date Reginald de Warenne notified the
sheriff of Lewes and the barons of the earl (of Warenne) that he had
restored to the burgesses of Lewes their merchants' guild as they
had it in the time of his grandfather and father, with covenant
that he would do his best, if God brought back the earl (from
the crusade), to obtain his confirmation, or, if otherwise, that of
William earl (of Warenne ?) the king's son. 28 This charter seems
to suggest that king Stephen had already given Isabel daughter
and heir of the third earl to his son William of Blois, then a youth
of about 14 years. The youthful earl died in October 1159, soon
after his return from the siege of Toulouse. The countess Isabel
appears to have had the honor of Lancaster for her dower, but on
her marriage to Hamelin Plantagenet, illegitimate brother of
Henry II, in 1164, that honor was taken by Henry II into his own
hands.
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The following references to the fourth earl are found in the Pipe
Rolls of the 2nd to the 4th year of Henry II. In 1156 danegeld in
Norfolk of £8 5s. 5d. on the land of the earl of Warenne was in
respite until the close of Whitsuntide 1157, as also was £6 16s. od.
on the earl's land out of 200 marks of assize of the county, in respect
of which 37 marks of the earl's new land' were pardoned; in
Suffolk £9 13s. 2d. was similarly in respite out of £15 1S. 5d. remaining
due of the old assize of that county; 28s. 8d. of the new assize of
£80 being pardoned. In Sussex £23 12s. of the aid of the county
and pleas, amounting in all to £67 6s. 8d., was in respite on the
earl's land (£20 of the former being pardoned in 1157), and
£16 19s. 2d. of danegeld until Christmas. (This was pardoned in
1157.) In Essex £10 and 7d. of the donum of the county was
pardoned to the earl.
In 1157 the earl was pardoned £18 out of the donum of Yorkshire
and York city of £334 2s. 8d.; in Surrey £4 9s. 4d. of danegeld, in
Cambridgeshire £5 2s. 3d. of the same and 27s. 5d. out of £5 for a
murder in Radfield hundred (in respect of Weston Colville ?). The
earl had a small estate in Somerset.
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In 1158 Ralph de Paveilli accounted for 30 marks for a priest
slain, paid £4 16s. 8d. and owed the balance, which Reginald de
Warenne rendered. The following exemptions from murder and
other fines in favour of the earl were recorded:
Name of Hundred.
South Greenhoe
Herbert de Chatte-
grave's sureties
(Hundred unnamed)
Clackclose
Grimshoe
Shropham
Loddon
Humbleyard
Deepwade
Forehoe
Wilford, Suff.
Amercement
on the Hundred.
£10
205.
Iom.
£10
IOM.
£10
£20
20m.
30m.
IOOS.
20m.
Earl of Warenne's
Proportion.
£4 on the earl's new land
20s.
Iom. on the earl's new land
64s.
46s. IId.
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8s. 4d.
3s. 4d. on the earl's new land
8s. on his land of the honor
of Eye
(47s.
14s. on the earl's new land
38s. 6d.
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The earl was also pardoned an amercement of 20s. on Glatton,
Hunts., 2 marks charged against Ralph de Rosei (on Yen Hall) in
Cambridgeshire and 20s. on Gamlingay; in Hampshire 5s. 5d. of
a murder fine of 5m. on Meon Stoke hundred; in Leicestershire
48s. of the donum of 80 marks. The above form part only of the
remissions made to the earl in the 3 years 1156-1158. It is necessary
to remember that the remissions on land of the honor of Eye were
in respect of the dower of the countess Isabel.
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In 1162 earl Hamelin (?) obtained remission of danegeld as
follows: Warwickshire £4 2s., on the earl's demesne of Lancaster
£11 17s. 5d., Gloucestershire 10s., Norfolk £46 14s. 8d., and on the
demesnes of the countess £6 2s., Suffolk 74s. 2d. He seems to have
been styled earl of Warenne upon betrothal to the countess Isabel.
In 1164 the farmers of London and Middlesex charged their account
with £41 10s. 8d. for the clothes of the countess of Warenne,
purchased for her trousseau.29 In 1165 Folcr(un ?) de Lewes was
amerced 20 marks, of which 8 marks (and 12 marks more in 1166)
were pardoned to' Hamelin earl of Warenne.' 30
The earl returned no carta of his knights' fees in 1166. Two
years later the Norfolk roll is full of remissions of amercements to
the earl and Reginald de Warenne, now lord of Wormegay, in
respect of the pleas of the archdeacon of Poitou and his fellow
justices. The details are as follows:
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Name of Hundred
8 hundreds of St.)
Edmund, Babergh
and Lackford
5 hundreds of St.
Etheldreda
Stow
Brothercross and Gal-
low
Clackclose
Flegg and Happing
Smithdown and Free-
bridge hundred and
half
(Blofield and) Walsham
S. Erpingham
Holt
Greenhoe
Humbleyard
Henstead
Loddon
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Eynesford
Wayland
Grimshoe
Mitford hundred and
half
Forehoe hundred and
half
Deepwade
Launditch and S.
Knavering
Guiltcross
Amercement
on the Hundred.
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6m.
27 m.
2111.
Iom.
5m.
I8m.
25m.
I011.
IOM.
IOOS.
IOOS.
5m.
5m.
IOOS.
5m.
4m.
Iom.
5m.
4m.
4m.
4m.
5m.
Earl of Warenne's
Proportion.
14s. 5d. on the earl's new land
25. 10d.
IS.
39s.
27s. 4d.
4s. 6d.
£4 17s. 9d.
ISd.
25s.
7s. 9d.
6s. 8d.
I3S. 2d.
18s. 7d.
31S. 4d.
245.
6d.
78s. 6d.
15d.
12d.
5s. 5d.
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It has been suggested above that the earl of Warenne's land
described as his new land' (nova terra) was that described in the
Domesday survey as of the exchange of Lewes ; it may be suggested
further that when that exchange was made these new lands were
specially exempted from murder penalties and other amercements.
The term 'nova terra' actually occurs in the survey under William
de Warenne's land in Launditch hundred, where in the account of
Weasenham it is stated: 'Hoc est de escagio de nova terra.' 31 It is
also noteworthy that no relief or remission was granted in the hundred
of Taverham, in which the only land held by William de Warenne in
the survey was in Taverham of the fee of 'Fretheric '; not being of
the exchange of Lewes. In Deepwade, Loddon and Knavering the
only lands of this honor were those of the fee of Roger son of Renard
in the survey, namely in Hudeston in Bunwell I carucate, Mundham
20 acres, and Raveningham 2 carucates and 2 acres.32 It is difficult
to explain what land in the hundreds of Walsham and Humbleyard
fell under the description of the earl of Warenne's new land.
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In 1172 the knights of the earl of Warenne accounted for £60 to
the scutage of Ireland,33 of which £9 was pardoned to Hugh de
Creissi. For more than a century from this date the scutage of the
honor was always based on 60 knights' fees.
In 1177 the earl was pardoned £6 16s. 8d., namely of tallage of
the royal demesnes in Forehoe hundred 16s. 6d., South Greenhoe 28s.,
in Tunstead hundred for a default by the township of Bradfield 21s.,
and other similar penalties; an amercement of 10 marks on the
township of Lewes was also pardoned to the earl, as were murder
penalties of 24s. out of 46s. on Crechesfeld hundred and 2s. 8d. out of
5s. 5d. on Wotton hundred, Surrey.34 In 1185 the earl owed mark
for waste of the wood of Greatham, Hants.35
Hamelin earl of Warenne died in April 1202, according to the
accepted statement, and the Countess Isabel on 13 July, 1199. There
is reason to believe that these dates have been confused and that the
earl died in 1199 and his countess in 1202. A charter, of which
Mr. Watson, the historian of Halifax and of the House of Warenne,
has in the latter work preserved a facsimile, records that the countess
made a grant to Richard de Cumbes of a virgate late of Ailnod de
Cumbes and of Robert father of the said Richard 'post obitum
domini et viri mei Hamelini comitis Warennie.' 36 On the dorse of
membrane 12 of the Patent roll covering the period 8 to 22 July, 1202,
is a record of 8 sureties of the countess of Warrenne de facto pro
quo ipsa capta est.' 37 On 12 May, 1202, at Pont del Arche, the
king directed a writ patent to the tenants of the land late of earl
H. de Warenne, notifying them that he, having heard of the death
of the said earl, had taken the homage of William son of the said
earl for the land which the said earl had held of him, and directing
them to do fealty to the said William for the land they had held of
the said earl, ´ salva fide matris sue.' 38 Clearly then the countess
Isabel was alive in May and July 1202.
One hears much about the defective drainage of the Marshland
near Lynn, Norf., in the time of Edward III. Here the earls of
Warenne had an interest. In 1199 the Premonstratensian canons
of West Dereham obtained a confirmation of the gift by Hamelin earl
of Warenne, Isabel his wife and William their son, of a rent of 40s.
customarily paid to them by William Le Curteis for a moiety of the
fishery of Merchenfen.39
In 1206 the earl of Warenne owed 100 marks of a prest made to
him in Poitou, and Roger de Creissi £10 for the same.40
Possibly owing to the relationship of the later earls of Warenne
to the crown no demand in respect of fees of new feoffment was ever
made against them, nor does it appear that they were called to
account precisely for aids and scutages, like other barons. They
simply paid in gross the contribution due from 60 knights' fees.
Upon the collection of the scutage of Wales in 1211 the earl
Warenne had acquittance by writ in respect of the 60 fees of his
barony, and in 1218 he owed £120 in respect of his 60 fees.
A schedule of those who held of the honor of Warenne in 1242-3
is recorded in Book of Fees, 690-91, and supplies the names of 20
tenants, holding 661 and fees. Of these fees 3 were in Surrey
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(ibid. 686–87), 11 fees in Essex (ibid. 900), 221 fees in Norf. and
Suff. (ibid. 904-07 and 919), which contributed to the aid of 1236;
in Cambridgeshire 2 fees (ibid. 923 and 927); in Buckinghamshire
I fees 41 (ibid. 870 and 878); in Lincolnshire 1 fee (ibid. 1094); in
Yorkshire 3 fees (ibid. 1101); in Hampshire 1 fee (ibid. 700 and
705); in Oxfordshire fee (ibid. 826); in Sussex about 21 fees
can be traced in the returns of the aids levied in 1302-3 and 1346.
These particulars yield a total of 683 fees.
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An indication that the actual feoffments of knights greatly
exceeded those narrated above is found in the feoffment made in
1319 by John de Warenne, earl of Surrey, to Thomas earl of Lan-
caster, of inter alia 391 fees in 51 places in Norfolk and Suffolk,
and in 2 places in Essex, 2 fees in Westerfield and Wrentham,
Suff., and 4 fees in Cambridgeshire and Sussex.42
As the Sussex return of 1242-3 is the only complete return
which has been found of the knights who held of the honor and of
their fees of a date prior to 1250, it is here given in full :
These hold of the honor of Warenne, which is in the hand
of lord Peter de Savoy, to wit:
William de Say holds 14 knights' fees in Hammes of the
same honor.
John de Burgo 10 knights' fees in Porteslade of the same
honor.
Thomas de Poninges 10 knights' fees in Poninges of the
same honor.
Simon de Petra Ponte 10 knights' fees in Herst of the same
honor.
Hugh de Playz 7 knights' fees in Iford and Werpesburn of
the same honor.
John de Gatesden 3 knights' fees in Bercompe of the same
honor.
Peter de Kenet 2 knights' fees in Twynem of the same
honor.
Cardo de Hangelton and)
Ralph de Meyners
same honor.
William Aguillun 1 knight's fee in Percinges of the same
honor.
William de Buscy 1 knight's fee in [Kingston by Lewes] of
the same honor.
Hugh de Fokinton I knight's fee in Bevenden of the same
honor.
The abbot of Sipeton (Sybenton) I knight's fee in Rot-
tingeden of the same honor.
Robert de Cukefeld 1 knight's fee in Hangelton of the same
honor.
Pain de Mara knight's fee in Sandes of the same honor.
Warin de Kyngestonknight's fee in Kingeston of the
same honor.
John de Gatesden knight's fee in Dicheling of the same
honor.
3 knights' fees in Hangelton of the
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HONOR OF WARENNE
William de Munceus
honor.
Nicholas de Nugun
of the same honor.
Richard de Wyavill
same honor.
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In this feodary of 1242-3 it will be noticed that 51 fees, out of
the total of something less than 67 fees, were held by 5 persons.
Consequently these 5 tenants of the honor were mesne tenants
between the earl and a great number of under-tenants, whose
names are found in the Testa and Feudal Aids without definite
description to show of what mesne lord they respectively held.
Three special instances of this ambiguity are found in the holdings.
of the Waunci family, the lords of Gressenhall, and the Mortemers.
of Attleborough. Between them these 3 houses held about 18 fees.
Yet in no instance is the particular disclosed as to which of the
5 great tenants who held immediately of the honor were superior
lords of these three tenants. Another unsatisfactory feature is
that hardly any of the fees held in Essex can be definitely traced.
prior to 1324.
The assignment of the service of certain knights who held of
the honor late of the earl Warenne, made to the countess Matilda
by letters close dated 14 August, 1240, throws some light on the
tenure and locale of certain fees. It was as follows:
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Ralph de Wauncy of 8 fees in Norfolk.
Geoffrey de Glanvill of 1 fee in Norfolk.
Peter de Kenet of 4 fees in Norfolk.
Adam de Kaylli of 4 fees in Norfolk.
those who held 5 fees of the land of Burne-
ham, Norfolk.
those who held 6 fees of 'assart' land,44
i.e. in Rodings in Essex.
Roger de Colevill of 1 fee in Cambridgeshire.45
No inquest post mortem was taken after the death of earl
William in 1240, nor after the death of earl John in 1305; but
that taken after the death of earl John in 1347 states that
appurtenant to the manor of Gimingham, Norf., there were 203
and knights' fees in 37 46 places (named). The castle and manors
of Conisborough, Yorks., and the castle and manor of Sandal with
Wakefield, Yorks., were held of the crown by the service of 2
knights' fees.47
With the exception of Reigate 48 and its members, which were
surveyed in Domesday Book under 'Terra Regis,' and the greater
part of the fee of Mortemer of Attleborough, all the lands held of
the honor of Warenne by knight's service had formed part of the
Domesday fee of William de Warenne, as surveyed in that survey,
where they extended into a dozen counties.
In 1307 the king pardoned to John de Warenne, earl of Surrey,
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debts amounting to £6693, due from him and his late father,
excepting the farm of the castle of Bamburgh; among the 35
items were 6800 marks, remainder of a fine of 10,000 marks for
trespass, £120 for the scutage of Wales in the 5th year of Edward I
and a like sum for the scutage of Wales in the 10th year, three
items of 10, 100, and 30 marks respectively for trespass of venison,
and a prest of the wardrobe of £303 in the 26th year.49
A feodary of the knights who held of Aymer de Valence, earl
of Pembroke, at his death on 23 June, 1324, is preserved in the
inquest taken after his death, 50 and shews that about 108 knights'
fees lying in 6 counties were held of him as pertaining to his castle
of Castleacre, Norfolk. They were, in fact, knights' fees held of
the honor of Warenne. As the knights' fees in Sussex, Yorkshire
and Lincolnshire, and some other counties were not included we
have evidence that the total servitium of the honor of Lewes at
this time amounted to about 140 knights' fees.
In 1316 John de Warenne surrendered to the king (who re-
granted to him for life) the following manors: Conisborough
and Sandal with the castles, Wakefield, Thorne, Hatfield, Sowerby,
Braithwell, Fishlake, Dewsbury and Halifax, Yorks.; Stamford
and Grantham, Lincs.; Reigate with the castle, Dorking and
Betchworth, Surrey; Lewes with the castle, Cockfield, Clayton,
Ditchling, Matching in Newhaven, Patcham, Brighton, Houndean,
Northcase, Rodmill, Keymer, Middleton, Allington, Worth, Piecomb
and the towns of Iford, Piddinghoe and Seaford, Suss., and
Kennington manor, Surrey. 51 The king's regrant was to John
de Warenne for life, with remainder to Matilda de Neireford for
life as to the Yorkshire estates only, and to John de Warenne,
son of Matilda de Neirford, in tail male and, failing such issue,
to Thomas de Warenne, son of the said Matilda; excepting the
manor of Kennington, which the king retained, and the manors
of Stamford and Grantham, the reversion of which was to the
king at John's death.52
By a subsequent settlement, made in 1326, the earl having
released to the king the premises in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire,
obtained a grant of the premises in Surrey and Sussex, with certain
estates in Wales to him and Joan his wife in tail male, with remainder
to Edmund earl of Arundel, Alice his wife (only sister of earl John),
and Richard their son in tail.5 53 John de Warenne, earl of Surrey
and Sussex, died 30 June, 1347, holding the castle and town of
Lewes with the members jointly with Joan his wife by the gift
of Edward II to them and the heirs male of the earl's body, with
successive remainders to Edmund earl of Arundel and Alesia
his wife, and to Richard son of the said earl of Arundel and Isabel
his wife and the heirs of their bodies, held of the king as parcel
of the earldom of Surrey; Joan had crossed the seas a year or
more before and her death was suspected; the said Edmund
and Alesia were dead; Richard earl of Arundel, aged 30 and more,
was his heir of blood.54 The castle and town of Reigate and
the manors of Dorking and Betchworth, of which the earl died
seised, were also described as parcel of the earldom of Surrey.
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HONOR OF WARENNE
The castle and lordship of Castleacre descended in like manner
to Lewes, as also did the castles and manors of Sandal and Conis-
borough, Yorks., with the town of Wakefield and the other
members, held of the king for 2 knights' fees.55
An outstanding feature of this honor was its vast area in
relation to the knights' service due from it. This resulted in the
granting away of a large area of the honor to be held in socage
and at fee farm. This especially applies to the lands in Sussex
and Yorkshire. Obviously therefore the feudal history of this
honor covers only a limited area of the whole, and can only deal
with a restricted number of the tenants of the honor.
1. Gesta Herewardi (Rolls Ser.), 369, 374. 2. Stapleton in Arch. Journ.
iii. 16; Blaauw, Archaeologia, xxxii. 117; Chester Waters, Gundreda de
Warrenne; Freeman, Eng. Hist. Rev. iii. 680. 3. Orderic, bk. iv. c. 12;
Bk. of Hyde (Rolls Ser.), 296. 4. Mon. Angl. v. 12; Duckett, Ch. of Cluni,
5. Vesp. F. iii. f. 1; printed in Mon. Angl.
Lower, in Journ. of Brit. Arch. Assoc. i. 347.
9. Hist. Eliensis, 255. 10. Ann. Monast.
i. 47 (an inspeximus of 1417).
6. Mon. Angl. v. 12. 7.
8. Gough, Sepul. Mon. i. 1, 9.
iii. 429.
11. Cf. Notes and Quer. 13 S. i. 403-6; The Genealogist, N.S. x, 2-3.
12. Anct. Chs. (P.R.S. x.), 5.
13. Ibid. 7. Cf. V. C. H. Suss. i. 436.
14. Chartul. Harl. 2110, f. 3. 15. Ibid.
v. 50b.
18. Abbrev. Placit. 77b.
16. Ibid. 17. Mon. Angl.
19. Cat. of Anct. D. v. A. 10988.
Lit. Pat. 29.
m. 3d.
20. Mon. Angl. vi. 1113. 21. Round, Cal. of Docs. France, n. 220. 22. Ibid.
n. 634. 23. Pipe R. 31 Hen. I, pass.
24. Cotton ch. xi. 56; Brit.
Mus. Facsimiles, n. 25. 25. Cat. of Anct. D. ii. A. 2998.
26. Mon.
Angl. vi. 729. 27. G. W. Watson, Genealogist, N.S. xi. 132. 28. Cot.
MS. Nero C. iii. f. 190; Brit. Mus. Facsimiles, n. 31.
29. Pipe R. 10
Hen. II, 20. 30. Ibid. II Hen. II, 92. 31. Dom. Bk. ii. f. 165b. 32. V.C.H.
Norf. ii. 189b. 33. Pipe R. 18 Hen. II, 132. 34. Ibid. 23 Hen. II, pass.
35. Ibid. 31 Hen. II, 212. 36. Op. cit. i. facsimile and pp. 167-8. 37. R.
38. Ibid. Iob. 39. R. Chart, 21b. 40. Pipe R. 8 Joh.
41. Under Kaveresfeud (870) fee is wrongly assigned to the fee
of 'Warewyk.' 42. Cat. of Pat. R. 1317-21, p. 263. 43. Bk. of Fees,
690-91. For Nicholas de Nugun, see Blomefield's Norf. ii. 202 (Toftrees).
44. ´de terra de assarto,' by which one of the Rodings is probably
45. Close Rolls, 1237-42, p. 214.
46. All but the first three
places (Hunton, Fyngham and Feltewell) correspond with the thirty-four last-
named places in the schedule of 1319 named above. 47. Cal. of Inquis.
ix. 46-8. 48. A.D. 1212: Comes Warennae tenet Reygate in capite de
domino Rege in baronia sua de conquestu Anglie '; Bk. of Fees, 69. 49. Cal.
Pat. R. 496-7.
50. Cal. Inquis. vi. 330-1, 334-5.
51. Cal. Pat. R.
483-5.
52. Ibid. 528-9.
53. Ibid. 271.
54. Cal. Inquis. ix. 45.
55. Ibid. 43-53.
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ABSTRACT OF THE CONFIRMATION BY WILLIAM DE WARENNE II,
EARL OF SURREY, TO THE
THE MONASTERY AND MONKS OF
ST. PANCRAS AT LEWES.
(Chartulary, Vesp. F. XV, f. 12d. Words in parentheses, other than
italics, are from the confirmation of Ralph archbishop of Canterbury to
Lewes Priory, dated 1121; Anct. Charters (Pipe Roll Soc.), x. n. 8.)
I William de Warenne, earl of Surrey, when I had first come
into England after my father's death, confirmed to the monastery
of St. Pancras, which my father and Gundreda my mother had
founded below the castle of Lewes, all the gifts which my father
had made while my mother was living and assenting, with the
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consent of myself and Reginald my brother, in lands, churches
and tithes, etc., namely:
The hall (mansio) named Falmer and all that my father had
held there in demesne with a hide which Eustace had held in Bolmer
(Falemera with the church and Burgamera with the chapel) with
2 hides which belonged to Plumpton; the hall (mansio) named.
Carlton which queen Matilda gave to my mother Gundreda (in
Ely diocese Carlent ona and Wilingeam with the churches); in
Swamborough 5 hides and the holme (insula) by the monastery
with the mill (land called Swanberga with the chapel); in
Thorney (in Tuniaco) land which was Norman's, a yardland called
'Redrewell,' and another called Stanford (land in Thornh[ei]); in
Withdean 2 hides with 4 villeins and a meadow (property in
Wistendena); all tithes of any land which Richoard the priest still
holds in Surrey and Norfolk and is to hold for his life as my father
appointed; all the tithes that my men gave in my father's time
or shall give in mine or after; [West] Walton within the marshes
of Lynn (half of Walton with half the church); the soc of Walpole,
'Kenewic' and Brunswen (half Walpole with half the church
and a moiety of the mills of the same soc); a third part of Anmer,
with the fisheries of Well, and whatever my mother used to hold
of my father between the two waters, reserving only two lodgings
(hospicia) yearly in lieu of the services of the men of the marshes
(half Ammera, with half the church and land in Terrington
(Terinton) and the land of Congham (Cungheam) for which Azor
renders 3 marks; in Welle 40 shillings); the hall (mansio) of
Heacham which my father gave them after my mother's death,
in the absence of me and my brother Reginald, as my father
directed at his death (Herceam with the church and what belongs
to it and to the manor); I have confirmed the said manor with the
land of Pain the reeve and whatever William de Kaili and other
free men held of me, paying rent to the said Pain, and this I have
done with the advice of my barons and men, because my father
at his death gave all the moveables of his land to the monks and
they have released their claim lest all my land should be destroyed.
Moreover I have granted and confirmed the church of Clayton
with tithes and I hide and tithes of all things at Middleton and
Allington (the church of Claeton and land in Alincton); the tithe
of Caterham, Fetcham, Northease [in Swanborough hund.], Rodmell,
Meeching, Pyecombe, Sneteholt," Sand and Cuckfield (the chapels
of Redmell and Northese, 2 mills at Meeching with the church,
the church of Cuckfield); the church of Rottingdean, the church
of St. Olaf at Southwark, the church of [High] Roding with a
virgate and tithe of all things of the demesne of the hall (the church
of Rotingesdene, the church of Suthwerc); tithe of West Tofts
(Surretot vel Scuretot) and South Creake, all which my father
gave before his death.
I have confirmed all that my father granted of the gifts of
his barons and other free men and all gifts of my fee made in
my time with my consent: namely the church of Ïford given by
Hugh son of Golde; in Swanborough 2 hides given by Tusard and
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1
I hide given by Bristelm and I hide given by Ormar, when they
were made monks; 2 fields by St. Pancras and a garden given by
Warin the sheriff and all his tithe of Kingston (by Lewes--land
in Chingeston); 20 denariates of land at Binham given by Ralph
son of Warin; tithe of Hugh son of Golde in Iford; in Kingston
the tithe of 2 hides and tithe of land which he used to have in
Rottingdean; 2 hospites' by the mill of Lewes and near the same
a meadow; a mill and 4 acres given by Peter the sheriff at Meeching;
tithe given by William de Herbethinges of all he had at Harebeating
and Herst(?) (land at Herbertinges); a yardland and pasture
for 100 sheep given by William son of William and his mother for
the soul of his father (18 acres with pasture of 100 sheep in
Orthlaueswic, hodie Orleswick); tithe of Halcombe given by
Norman the hunter and a hall (mansio) in Lewes; at Halcombe
tithe of 2 hides given by Joslain the constable; tithe of all things
given by Nigel at Orleswick by my father's consent; land and
pasture for 100 sheep given by Ralph son of Nigel and his wife
after his death by my leave, his tithe in Hangelton and a hide
given by the said Nigel in Wooton; tithe of 1 hide given by
Godard at Orleswick; land and pasture for 20 sheep and tithe of
Balsdean given by Hugh son of Hugh; I hide given by William
de Petroponte in Rottingdean; hide in Brighton given by Wiard
with tithes of his demesne there and at Ratton; I hide at Aldrington
(land of Aldrin chton) given by Ralph de Chesney; tithe of all
things in Hangelton given by the same Ralph, which I confirmed
after that land returned to me; of the gift of Richoard the arch-
deacon I hide at Blatchington, I hide at Kingsford, I hide at
Moulscombe and 4 hides in Withdean (Molescumba, a possession
in Wistendena, land in Blacincton with the chapel); I yardland
in 'Pincheham' which Wulnod held and in Sharnwick 20 denariates
of land; all which I confirmed. Two hides at Pachelesway
given by Hugh son of Hugh son of Golde (land which is called
Piceleswia); at Pangdean tithe of the gift and demesne of Rainald
son of Renner [son of] Reidi; tithe of Saddlescombe given by
Hugh son of Ralph; tithe of corn in 'Wildecumb' given by Walter;
at Patching the tithe of William son of Techelin and of William
son of Alsinene; at Fulking the tithe of Godfrey de Bello Monte;
at 'Panethorne' the tithe of Levenod; at Twineham (Twienen)
a yardland given by Gilbert son of Gozo; tithe of the hall given
by Scotland; tithe of Aubrey and tithe of Alvred the earl's foster-
brother (? nutricius); tithe of Slaugham given by Hugh son of
Golde; at Herst tithe given by Iron Eye (oculus ferreus); two-
thirds of the tithe of Plumpton, all the tithe of Standean and I
hide at Falmer given by Fredesend daughter of Hugh son of
Renner (Rain') for her father's soul; at the other Standean my
father gave them the tithe of all things; at Allington tithe of
I hide given by Basilea mother of Ralph son of Hugh, and I hide
in Allington given by Ralph de Chesney.
I have confirmed the church of Canfield [Essex] with 1 virgate
and the tithe of the demesne of the hall, tithe of Easton and at
Yeldham tithe of Godwin's land (at Estun a carucate of land and
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a rustic, at each Canefeld and at Essendon the churches with land);
tithe of Middleton given by William son of Ranulf and 1 yardland
which Gladio joculator held by gift of Ran' [? Rainald] de Warenné.
I have also granted a third part of Heacham (Hichebourne,
sic), half the mill and all the church, all being the inheritance of
Raginild wife of Roger Talun which she and the said Roger gave
to the monks; at Caston 10s. 8d. rent of the sochmen which Hugh
de Greinusevill gave (land in Catestun); the churches of Shereford
and Tofts with land and tithes given by Hugh son of Hugh.
In addition I have given the land of Southover with 2 pools,
the mills and a marlery outside the vill (the said monastery has
in the bishopric of Chichester land called Southover with the
borough, 2 pools and 3 mills with a holme next the monastery);
2 acres of land in Newick; land in 'Craudon' which Hugelin
held and Wlwin son of Golle and the burgesses of Lewes; I hide
held by Ailwin de Wincestria in Kingston (by Lewes) and hide
in Withdean, in exchange for the house of David de London which
I had previously given, I virgate for my mother's soul and 2 hides.
for part of my father's property (pecunia). I have also given.
the wood of Caneregge' between the bridges of Beuehorne and
Godeswisel and 16 denariates of land which Wlsi de Chagele held;
at Balmer 2 hides which Gozo my foster-brother held and his
house in Lewes; also tithe of my rents in Lewes and land in
London which Herebran[d] held; all the churches in Lewes which
Richoard the priest still holds, after his death, namely St. John's,
St. Peter's, St. Andrew's, St. Mary's, St. Martin's; also the churches
of St. Nicholas and Holy Trinity which Bristelin the priest holds;
and the churches of St. Peter and St. Mary of Westout and the
church of Kingston with 1 acre on which the church stands (in
the castle placed nigh the monastery these churches and chapels,
namely St. John's, St. Peter's, Holy Trinity, St. Nicholas, St.
Andrew, St. Mary, St. Martin, St. Mary of Westota, whereof it
shall freely and quietly possess that called St. John's with the
chapel set in the cemetery of St. Pancras of the gift of our venerable
brother Ralph bishop of Chichester); the church of Rodmell and
Meeching, the church of Patcham, the church of Cuckfield and of
Ardingly and the church of Ditchling with I hide etc. (land in
Dicelinges with the church and 2 chapels; the church of Herding-
helei); and 2 hides there (in Ditchling) for Rainald my brother
at his request.
The church of St. Peter of Thetford and 4 solidates of land
in the acres of Thetford which lie to the church of St. Helen and
St. Helen's church (at Thetford 2 chapels and land in Santon and
the church of St. Helen with land); also Santon and 6 solidates
of land at Wilton with the church of Wilton and the church of
Feltwell and 3 solidates of land which Gilbert held, and 2 solidates
which Sculla held, and in Didlington 10 solidates which Richoard
holds (in Dodilendtun 10 solidates of land; half the church in
Falwella); in Caston the land of Ulf brother of Offord and the church
of Gimmingham with tithes and 20s. [vel 40s.] from the sochmen
(in Gemingheam 40 solidates of land; the churches of Wilton and
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Gemingheam); at Gayton 8 solidates of land and tithe of Roger
Paveili; at Acre a mill which renders 30s.
I have also given the land of 'Belvidere' with the men, wood
and mill (the land also of Bradeherst and of Ulfeole and of Belvidere
with the chapels).
In Yorkshire I have given the church of Conisborough with
other churches, land &c. pertaining and the churches of Wakefield;
as these were in my father's free gift and mine I give them to the
monks (in the archbishopric of York the churches of Wakefield
and Conisborough and whatever belongs thereunto).
Shortly afterwards, when the church of St. Pancras was
completed, I was invited by prior Lanzo and the brethren to cause
it to be dedicated; this I gladly did, calling in the bishops Ralph
(of Chichester), also Walkelin of Winchester and Gundulf of
Rochester to the dedication. Then at the mass the bishops sum-
moned me to endow the church, as I had promised. Considering
that the gift of Heacham was not my pure alms, my father having
already given it, and that I desired to retain St. Pancras as my
patron and the caput of my honor, I resolved to make an additional
gift and so gave tithes of all my lands and rents in England, so
that as my revenues grow so may the monks' tithes increase.
At this point probably the earl's charter ended. The following
appear to be later additions.
And he gave his blessing to those who maintained this alms
and his curse to those who acted contrary, the bishops concurring.
On that same day Ralph de Chesney offered on the altar the
church of Brighton and tithes there and the churches of Balcombe,
Hoathley, Keymer with a virgate and Barcombe (land in Bristel-
mestun with the church, that of Chimela and of Balecumba and of
Hadlega and of Bercham), tithes and mill of ' Gardesey,' a meadow
at Hamsey and the houses of Wlnod the clothier in Lewes and I hide
at Allington; Ralph the younger, son of Ralph, gave 1 hide at
Offham by leave of his father; Walter de Grancurt offered the
church of Willingham with 1 virgate and 2 hides and 7 acres in
the same town, and the church of St. Mary and St. Peter of Burnham
and the church of Harpley (the churches of Bruneam and Herpelai).
I gladly confirmed these gifts.
I will acquit the monks of danegeld etc. and king's dues imposed
on these lands; the monks to have amends of their men. He
gives the whole market of trunks for their 'lignarium' for 3 days
a week so long as the carrying shall last; also rights of hunting
and fishing.
This grant and confirmation he offered on the altar, Raynold
his brother joining in the act. They were received into confra-
ternity. The blessing and curse recited.
Further the good design which his father and mother had of
making a monastery at Acre he undertook to do and make perfect
by the advice of prior Lanzo, being specially desired by the countess
Isabel his wife, who had set her heart on that place. He adds 50s. a
year to his father's gift of 50s. a year to Cluni. All the bishops and
barons present subscribed this. The signa of the company, fixing
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the date between 1091 and 1097, are recorded in an Inspeximus
of 31 May, 1331, at f. 38; and in another of 2 Nov., 21 Ric. II,
1397, at f. 42: William+earl, Ralph+bishop, Walkelin+bishop,
Gundulf+bishop, Rainald+brother of the earl, Ralph de Chesney+,
Walter de Grancurt+, Ralph+son of Ralph, Roger+de Clara,
Warin the sheriff+, Joslain+the constable, Hugh son of Hugh+,
Nigel+, Geoffrey the chaplain+, Ralph the priest+.
The confirmation of 1121 names these additional gifts: Land in
Horsted (-Keynes) with the chapel, Langney (in Westham) and
Eckington (Achinctona ') with the spring-head (galetum) and chapel
and land in 'Dedincton'; tithe of Preston; the churches of
Grinstead, Hangelton, Peeling, Newick, Waldron, Burpham, Great-
ham, Hellingley, Sutton, Lavant, Stoughton, Merton and Tangmere;
at Graffham tithe of the land of Roger de Chesney and a virgate with
a rustic; at Bramber 4 salterns given by Philip de Braiose and I
saltern given by Ralph de Grenestede; the church of Compton with
the things which Roger de St. John gave there.
At London half the chapel of St. Botolf, houses and land with the
same liberty that our lord king Henry gave there to St. Pancras ;
at Ashdon of Geoffrey Bainard 44 acres of land, 3 of meadow and
10 of wood, an oak tree and feeding of 10 sheep; at Stratford a
lodging or hall (mansio) of the gift of our reverend father Richard
bishop of London; at Prittlewell the monastery of St. Mary and
whatever Robert son of Swen gave there to the Cluniac monks under
St. Pancras ; at Stanesgate the monastery of St. Mary Magdalene
with all that Ralph son of Brien gave to St. Pancras by the hand of
our lord Henry king of the English; at Ashdon churches with land.
In the bishopric of Winchester (the monastery) has the church
of Gatton and what Herfred gave there and in the same place
virgate given by Odo de Donmartin.
In the bishopric of Salisbury it has the church of Winterbourne
(Basset) and that of Bishopstrow; at Mappowder I hide by the
hand of Ranulf the chancellor and in Melbury 1 hide.
In the bishopric of Exeter it has the churches of Berry Herbert
('Hertesbirie '), High Bray, Bediston and Bridge.
In the bishopric of Lincoln it has the churches of Foxton and
Melton (Mowbray) with lands.
In the bishopric of Norwich the monastery of St. Mary of Acre
and whatever William de Warrenne and other faithful men gave
there to the Cluniac monks; the land of Wood Rising with the
church; in Merton 60 acres of land; in Miseburne' 12 solidates of
land; the church of Merton; that of Ickborough (? Nicheburna '),
a church and a half in Riston, and one in Old Lynn.
The archbishop himself gave to the monastery a hall (mansio) in
'Careslei' and the church of Burstow, Surr,
I.
C
In Sussex in 1086 Ralph (de Chesney) held of William de
Warenne in Hamsey (formerly Hammes Say ') 13 hides, Allington
6 hides, Street 8 hides, Brighton 51 hides, Saddlescombe 17 hides
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and Newtimber 10 hides; of the said Ralph in Hamsey Hugh held
I hide and Ralph hide; in Allington Warin held 1 hide and
Osmund I hide; in Street Ralph held 1 hide and in Saddlescombe
Ralph held 4 hides.
In Norfolk Ralph (de Chesney) held of William de Warenne
in Stinton 3 carucates and 80 acres (n. 48), Kerdiston 2 carucates
and 75 acres, Marham carucate, Gayton I carucate, Rudham
3 carucates with berewicks in Rudham 1 carucate, Houghton
2
Matilda.
Ralph de Chesney
1086
ITI
Robert
Drew
John,
s.p.
Hugh de
Perieres
d. 1175.
Ralph de C. Emma
d
John de C.
I 147
(1) Alice
de Chesney
d.ante1 199.
Alice de
Suthsex
=
=
Sibyl
Emma
Michael
Belet
John
[de Clavering].
Michael,
Hervey,
Annora,
&c.
(2) Geoffrey,
son of Wil-
liam de Say,
d. 1214.
Geoffrey de Say, William. Robert (2)
d. 1230.
Fitz-
Roger
↑
=
=
Sybil
=
Roger
John Fitz-
Robert the
Sheriff,
s.p.
William de C.
1146
Robert Fitz-Walter
founder of
Horsham.


William de Chesney
(had Markham)
founder of Sibton.
=

Margaret Clemency
Sarra=
(Margery) (1) Gurnay Richard
=(1)Hugh de (2) Jordan de
Creissi
Saukevill
(?) s.p.
Engaine.
Roger de Creissi
(see Gifford, n. 15).
个
​Vitalis
Engaine.
↑
30 acres, Barmer 60 acres, Syderstone 40 acres, and Helhoughton
12 acres; Thorpe Market 2 carucates and 32 acres.
I
Ralph de Chesney I (de Caisneto vel de Querceto) gave to the
priory of Lewes for the soul of Matilda his wife 1 hide in Allington ;
Ralph de Chesney II (his son) gave for the soul of Emma his wife.
the church of Brighton and 1 hide in Gardesei.¹ A later confirma-
tion recites the gifts made by Ralph de Chesney I as the churches
of Brighton (with the tithe), Balcombe, Hoathley, Keynor (with
a virgate of land and tithe), and Barcombe (with tithes), the
mill of Gardesei, a meadow in Hamsey, houses in the borough of
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315
Lewes and I hide at Allington; of the gift of Ralph the younger,
son of the said Ralph, a hide at Wogham by consent of his father.²
A charter of William de Warenne,comes Sudreie,' refers to the
bridge of Hamwde' of Ralph de Querceto.3 Hugh son of Ralph
gave tithe of Saddlescombe to Lewes, and Basilia mother of Ralph
son of Hugh gave the tithe of I hide in Allington.4
Ι
The following early charters relate to the Chesney fee :
John de Chesney gave to Lewes a moiety of the land which
his father Ralph had in Brighton (Bristelmestona) on the day
when he was alive and dead, with the men thereon (named);
for this the monks gave him 100 marks for his relief towards
the earl of Warenne, his lord. Witnesses: Roger the chaplain,
Hugh de Petroponte, Robert de Wasneval, Robert de
Petroponte, Robert de Frievill, Robert his (the grantor's)
son and Drew his (Robert's) brother, Guy the sheriff, William
his son, William de Petroponte, William the constable, Peter
Lovell, Roger de Clere, Edwin priest of Hammes, Roger de
St. Victor, Robert brother of John, Ralph de Mundisdier.5
Agreement between the monks of Lewes and John de
Chesney (de Chaisneto) about the other moiety of the said
land, namely that it was to be held by the monks for 7 years;
the stock being recited. Done on St. Mark's Day, 1147.
Witnesses: Hugh de Perrepount, Robert de Frievill, Ralph
de Pleiz, Drew de Frievill, William de Perepount, Guy de
Mercecurt, William his son, Edwin the priest of Hammes,
Robert de Chesney, Roger de St. Victor, Ralph de Muntisdier."
William earl of Warenne confirmed John de Chesney's
gift.7
King Stephen confirmed the gifts of earl William, including
the moiety of the land which had belonged to John de Chesney.8
During the period 1146-7 John de Chesney gave to his nascent
foundation of Rudham, Norf., which was later removed to Coxford
by Rudham, the 2 churches of Rudham and land which Ralph
de Chesney his grandfather and William de Chesnev his uncle
and the grantor had given; also the mill and stew of Coxford,
land in Coxford (Tocheswd), Marham, the mill of Torp' with the
stew; these he gave for the souls of his said grandfather and uncle,
Roger (de Chesney), their sisters and Waleran de Rochesford, and
for his own soul and those of his brothers and sisters; among
the witnesses were: Sibyl his wife, Peter de Chesney and Matthew
his brother. The donor's charter was renewed before William
bishop of Norwich on the eve of the Ascension, being St. Dunstan's
day (1147). William de Chesney, the uncle named, had confirmed
the mill of Thorp Market in a charter addressed to the same bishop.⁹a
The gift must have been made somewhat earlier, as William earl of
Warenne sanctioned it in a charter addressed to bishop Everard,
who died in 1145. 9b
9
It is not improbable that the demise of John de Chesney of
a moiety of his land in Brighton in 1146 was effected in order to
raise money for the crusade in which the earl of Warenne and his
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half-brother Waleran count of Meulan took part, the former being
slain in the defiles of Laodicea on 19 January, 1148.10 John de
Chesney also gave to Lewes priory land at Brighton and near
Hamsey, and his part of land in Erdlaveswyke. 11
The chronicle of the abbey of Sibton, Suff., gives the following
descent of this fee:
Dame Sibyl, sister of John de Chesney and daughter of
Ralph de Chesney who came at the conquest of England (sic),
was married to Robert Fitz-Walter, founder of the house of
St. Faith of Horsham, who begat of her a son named Roger
and John the sheriff and William de Chesney the founder
of Sibton abbey; Roger and John the sheriff died without
issue; William took a wife and begat of her three daughters,
Margaret, Clemency and Sarra, of whom the last two died
without issue; Margaret married a certain Norman, named
Hugh de Cressi, who begat of her a son named Roger etc.;
the said Margaret after her first husband's death married
Robert Fitz-Roger (de Clavering), who begat of her a son
named John &c.12
The chartulary of Coxford, according to Dugdale's notes,13 gives
a different account, thus:
Ralph de Kayneto came with William the bastard at the
Conquest. He had two sons-Ralph II and William, of whom
the former (Ralph) had a son John and a daughter Sibyl, and
the latter (William) had a daughter Margaret, mother of Roger
de Cressi and (by a second husband Robert, son of Roger) of
John son of Robert. [This confuses William, son of Sibyl, with
her uncle, William de Chesney. The latter, however, is said to
have lived in the time of Stephen.] Ralph II had also
illegitimate offspring-Matthew de Kayneto, first prior of Cox-
ford, Robert de Kayneto (father of Ralph), Bartholomew de
Crek, knt., and William de Torcy (father of Levina, wife of
William de Eskirmesur).
John de Kayneto (son of Ralph II) had a son John, who
died without issue, and three daughters; of the eldest of these
came William de Say, of the second came dame Alice de
Suthsex, and the third was Emma de Kayneto, wife of Michael
Belet of Wroxton.
The descents recorded in these chartularies cannot be wholly
accepted.
Robert Fitz-Walter and Sibyl de Chesney his wife (sister of
John) founded Horsham priory in the time of Stephen or possibly
in the last years of Henry I; Sibyl gave of her inheritance her
land of Rudham.14 Their third son and ultimate heir, William
de Chesney, otherwise William son of Robert Fitz-Walter, founded
in 1149 the Cistercian abbey of Sibton for the soul of his wife
Gille.15 The gift of Sibton was confirmed by king Stephen when
at St. Edmunds Bury.16
William de Chesney was pardoned £5 12s. 10d. of the assize of
HAMSEY, SADDLESCOMBE, STINTON
317
(
In
23
Norfolk (200 marks) in 1156, and William de Say was similarly
pardoned 15s.; in Suffolk Chesney was pardoned 36s. 4d. of the
past danegeld.17 He was sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk from Easter
1157 until Michaelmas 1163. In 1161 he owed in Norfolk £200
of an amercement; since 1157 he had enjoyed a grant of 13 librates
of land in Blyborough and 6 solidates of the rent of a sochman in
Loingeland. 18 In 1164 he was debtor to the crown for over
£319 of the old farm of Norfolk, £150 of increment for 3 years,
and he owed 74s. 6d. for a murder fine on Clackclose hundred, 19
in which Marham lies. In 1165 he owed £15 5s. for the army of
Wales, William de Wurmegai owing a like amount.20 In the
ensuing year he was described as William de Norwich, when his men
and those of the abbot of Holme owed 5 marks of a duel fine.21
1166 William de Chesney of Norwich held of Roger de Keneteswell
I fee, 22 of the honor of St. Edmund I fee and of the honor of
Clare I fee.2 William de Kaysneto and Albreda his wife gave
land to Lewes priory for service at St. James's altar for the soul
of John de Puninges; Philip de Kaysneto and Adam de Punings
were among the witnesses.24 He and Reginald de Warenne of
Wormegay accompanied Henry's daughter Matilda to Saxony in
1167, wherefore Chesney had respite respecting his debts,25 for
which Isaac the Jew was answering in the following year. In
1170 Ralph de Camera and Alfwin de Melliers accounted for 20s.
for a disseisin made after an assize in Sussex, but the debt was
pardoned to William de Chesney.26 In 1172 he was liquidating
his debt of £200 for an amercement under the account of Orford,
Suff.27 Two years later the roll recites the balance of his debt
and adds: but he is dead and Hugh de Creissi has (his) land by
the king.' 28 In the following year Hugh de Creissi duly appears
as tenant of 13 librates of land in Blyborough and as answerable
for Chesney's debt,29 of which he was later pardoned the balance
still due. That year he was a justice in eyre in many counties.
For some account of him and his descendants see Giffard, n. 45.
It appears that William de Chesney left three daughters, as
stated by the Chronicle of Sibton, but at least two of them left issue.
Margaret (Margery) had issue by Hugh de Creissi a son Roger;
Clemency seems to have married a Gurnay, and then Jordan de
Saukevill; Sarra married Richard Engayne, son of Richard (?)
Engayne by Margaret his wife, daughter of Richard Fitz-Urse and
in 1185 wife of Geoffrey le Breton.30 Margaret had the lands of
this fee in Norfolk and Sarra had those of the honor of Boulogne (?)
in Essex and other estates. This appears from a claim by Vital
Engayne, son of the above Richard and Sarra, to a third part of
2 carucates of land in Blythborough and Walberswick held by
Margaret de Cressy, one of the three daughters and coheirs of William
de Chesney. The defendant said that Sarra had released all claim
to her father's land in the presence of Henry II, whose notification
she produced, stating that Sarra had agreed with Hugh de Cressy
and Margery his wife to accept Colum and Serdesley as her share
of the father's lands and to release her claim to the rest. Should
either of the sisters die without issue, the other's claim to the
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inheritance would revive. Sarra and her heirs were to do the service
for Colum by Margaret's husband or her heirs. Vital said this
charter was made while his mother was in the king's custody and
under age; the king married her to his father, giving him Colum,
so that Sarra was never put in seisin as she should have been.
Margaret replied that Sarra was of age at the time. The decision
of the case was deferred until the king should come of age.³¹
In 1214 Clemency de Gerney by Jordan de Sackevill her husband
had a plea with her sister Margery; 32 and in 1218 Margery de
Chesney agreed with Jordan de Saukvill and Clemency his wife
as to the latter's share of her father William de Chesney's lands;
she gave the manor of Ho for Clemency's life, and 100s. rent
also the manors of Marlsford and Helmington, Jordan and Clemency
releasing all further claim on the father's lands in England. Vital
Engain put in his claim.33
Margaret de Chesney gave to the nuns of Carrow the entire vill
of Wroxham, Norf., and king John confirmed the gift at Chinon,
17 January, 1202.34
The Chronicle of Sibton omits mention of Sarra and her issue;
and worse still, it does not mention the heir who succeeded to the
Sussex portion of this fee. This was Alice daughter (?) and heir of
John de Chesney, who married first Hugh de Periers, who died at the
end of 1175,35 and secondly Geoffrey de Say, son of William de Say.
In 1180 Geoffrey and Alice, holding the manor of Ditton Priors,
Salop, in dower by the endowment of Hugh de Periers to the said
Alice, delivered it to the prior of Wenlock charged with an annuity
to Alice.36 Geoffrey de Say, with the consent of Alice his wife and
William his son and heir, and for the health of his lord Henry II, gave
the advowson and church of Bradfield, Norf., to Walden priory.37
Geoffrey de Say confirmed to Coxford the gifts of William de
Chesney and John his nephew, and also gave the church of St.
Margaret at Thorpe by (South) Repps for the souls of his wife Alice,
his father William, and others of his kindred.³ 38 On New Year's
Day, 1198 or 1199, Geoffrey de Sai and Geoffrey son of the same
Geoffrey and Alice (Aeliza) de Chesney, for the souls of the said
Alice de Chesney, William her son and William earl of Mandevill,
gave to the hospital at Drincourt a church and land in the same
district.39 Geoffrey de Say, son of William de Say, made a feoffment
of land in Edmonton, Midd., towards the end of the 12th century;
as Geoffrey de Say, son of Alice de Chesney, he made another feoff-
ment of land there.40 Geoffrey and Alice gave the church of West
Greenwich, Kent, to the abbey of Beigham.41 Within the period
1196-1198 Geoffrey son of William de Say gave to Geoffrey his son
the manor of Rickling, Essex.42 Geoffrey de Say was surety in 1194
with earl Roger Bigod and William de Warenne (of Wormegay) for
Robert de Mortemer (of Attleborough) that Robert would make his
peace with the king, through the mediation of the primate, for having
tourneyed without licence.43
In August 1214 Geoffrey son and heir of Geoffrey de Sai made
fine with the king for his father's lands in the counties of Hertford,
Buckingham, Sussex, Middlesex and Northampton; 44 he gave 400
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marks for this fine to include the manor of Rickling given to him by
his said father.45 In 1223 he was preparing to go on pilgrimage to
Santiago.46 He died beyond seas on 19 August, 1230; when
William his son and heir succeeded,ª7 and in 1237 conceded the right
of William earl Warenne to the fishery of Hamsey (Hammes) and
withdrew his claim to chase venison in certain of the earl's woods in
Sussex.48
About the same date William confirmed to the Templars
their manor of Saddlescombe, which Geoffrey his grandfather had
given in exchange for his earlier gift of the manor of East Green-
wich.49 In 1242-3 he held 14 fees in Hamsey with its members.
A knight's fee in Rottingdean, which the abbot of Sibton then held,
may have been parcel of the manor of Hamsey. As stated above,
the founder of Sibton (c. 1149) was William the sheriff, son of Robert
Fitz-Walter 50 by Sibyl sister of John de Chesney. 51 At the same
date the prior of Coxford held 2 fees in Roudham, Marham,
Gayton-' Croft,'' Mortoft,' Sall, Barmere, Syderstone and Heydon,
Norf., of the earl Warenne, 52 of which the prior's successor in 1302
held fee in East Roudham, Syderstone and Barmere of the heirs.
of William de Sai. 53
In 1243 a knight's fee in Little Buckhill, Bucks., was held of
Geoffrey de Say, who held it of William of Salisbury (Longespee) as
of the honor of Dover. 54 Geoffrey Fitz-Piers, earl of Essex, the
founder of Shouldham priory, appears to have endowed that house
with land in Wereham, Norf., 55 parcel of this fee, for in 1302 the
prior held fee there of William de Say.56
Geoffrey de Say had in 1265 a grant of free warren in Denham,
Suff. 57 In 1280 Gilbert de Woutham held fee in Hamsey, Offham,
Allington and Chailey, Suss., of William de Say.58 In 1284-5 the
vill of Newtimber was held of John de Bohun; William de Say held
Street and Hamsey; both held of the Earl Warenne.59 In 1286
Robert Aguillon died holding a tenement at Perching for fee of
Sir William de Beaumont, who held it of Sir William de Say. 60 In
1295 William de Say died holding the manor of Hamsey for 13 fees
of John de Warenne, earl of Surrey. Geoffrey his son was aged 14. 61
In 1302-3 the following tenements were held of Geoffrey de Say:
Giles de Breuse 62 1 fee in Sall.
Robert le Burgelion
fee
Walter de Calthorp of)
Robert le Burgelyon)
Walter de Clopton and
William de Kerdeston fee
of Walter de Clopton)
Roger de Gyney of)
Robert le Burgelyon
1 fee
fee in Kerdiston.
It belongs to the whole fee of Beamund.'
T
in Themelthorpe.
John son of William Peyvere the manor of Thorpe Market
(Thorpmarch ') for 1 fee.
I
William de Redham the manor of Reedham of William de
Say for I fee.
The prior of Shouldham.
The prior of Coxford
see above. 63
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Geoffrey de Say died in 1322, leaving issue Geoffrey his son and
heir, aged 18,64 who held in 1324 of Aymer de Valence 5 fees in
Coxford, Rudham, Roudham,' Houghton in the Hole ('Houtone
Gemere'), Syderstone, Gayton-' Croft,' Sall, Wood (?) Dalling,
Marham, Kerdiston, Reedham, Reepham, Attlebridge, Taverham,
Stinton, Stoke Ferry, Wereham, Boughton, Gayton, Middleton by
Lenn and Clenchwarton, all in Norfolk. These fees were claimed
by the earl of Surrey as pertaining to the honor of Lewes. 65 Besides
these there would appear to have been 9 fees in Sussex and elsewhere.
In 1334 the king, at the request of John de Warenne, earl of
Surrey, granted to Geoffrey de Say view of frankpledge in his manors.
of West Greenwich, Deptford, Cudham, Birling and Burham, Kent,
with other liberties.66
The Coxford chartulary, as cited above, does not give the names
of John de Chesney's elder daughters, but merely states that
William de Say and Alice de Suthsex sprang from them. It seems
probable, then, that the above Alice de Say was the eldest
daughter. Nothing is known of the second; but the third, Emma,
married Michael Belet, butler of Henry II, son of Hervey Belet.
As Emma de Kaineto, widow of Michael Belet, she gave a man
named Reginald to Walden priory, 67 and confirmed to the canons
of Coxford the two churches of Rudham as her father, John de
Querceto, had given them.68 At the request of Hervey her son
she gave them 40 ac. of heath in Rudham, 69 and Hervey himself
gave his manor of Rudham and whatever could fall to him in
Crython (sic), Marham, Sydesterne, Bermere, and Croft, for the
maintenance of a hospital. 70 Master Michael Belet, the eldest son,
founder of Wroxton priory, Oxon., "¹ confirmed his brother Hervey's
gift.72 Geoffrey de Say also confirmed it.73 There were numerous
other children, but a daughter, Annora Belet, seems to have become
the heir; as widow and patron of Coxford she released to the
canons all the customs the patrons of the house had exercised, and
this for the souls of Walter de Verdun (sheriff of Essex, 1218-20)
and Ralph de Verdun.74 Annora was living in 1255.75 William
son of William de Say acknowledged that he had received from
Hugh de Helman, prior of Coxford, the homage nomine patronatus
due to him by the gift of Robert de Wavere, heir of dame Annora
de Verdun.76 Walter de Verdun was dead in 1229, when his son
Ralph gave relief on succeeding "7; Ralph died abroad in 1230, and
his cousin Amauri de St. Amand succeeded.78 Another daughter
may have been the Emma de Chesney whose son John and grandson
Ralph de Chesney had land in Rudham.79
71
77
We return to the pourparty held by Cressi. Hugh de Creissi was
in possession of some part of this fee in 1173, when £9 remaining due
out of the earl Warenne's levy of £60 to the scutage of Ireland was
pardoned to Hugh de Creissi, as was 40s. due also from Hugh for
the knight's fee which he held, as in 1166, of the honor of Giffard.80
See n. 45 of that honor for the descent of Creissi.
In 1205 Roger de Cressi obtained possession, inter alia, of Rotting-
dean, of which Hugh his father had been seised and in which Richard
de Blenvell, the then holder, had entry only by Robert Fitz-Roger,
HAMSEY, SADDLESCOMBE, STINTON
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81
in whose custody Roger de Cressi had been while under age. In
the ensuing year Roger de Cressi demised to Roger son of William
fee, and to Ralph de Duuerent fee, both lying in Rottingdean and
Baldeshild.' 82 In 1210 Osbert Giffard claimed a knight's fee
in Rottingdean and Baldeshill against Roger de Cressi, son of William,
and a like tenement against Ralph de Duuerent'; Roger de Cressi
the younger put in his claim. 83 Dame Margery de Creissi was in the
king's gift in 1219 with land in Filby, Norf., worth £5 a year, and in
the Suffolk hundred of Blything with £13 a year. 84 Roger de Cressi
confirmed gifts to Sibton made by his mother dame Margaret de
Cressi.85 He gave to Walter (? Robert) Malet land in Rottingdean
and Baldeshilde'; Walter and the other tenant, Osbert Giffard,
were to do the service of 1 knight for the whole, but Walter was to
acquit the grantor of the service due to the earl of Warenne.86
In the Coxford chartulary the sons of Hugh and Margaret
Cressi are said to have been Hugh, Roger, John, and Stephen, who
all died without issue. Margaret afterwards married Robert son
of Roger, and had by him a son Roger, father of Robert, who after
the death of Stephen de Cressi succeeded to the barony of Horsford
as Margaret's heir. This Robert, living in the time of Edward I,
had a numerous family by his wife Margery la Zouche.87
Evidence of another pourparty of this fee which descended to
the Engaynes is found in a Plea Roll of 1222, when Vitalis Engayne
demanded against Peter Fitz-Herbert a third part of 2 carucates in
'Mor,' Norf., as his right, as that whereof William de Chesney
was seised in the time of Henry II; he had 3 daughters, namely
Margery Creissi, Clemency, and Sarra the youngest, who was mother
of Vitalis the complainant. Peter stated that he held the land as
that given in marriage with Alice his wife and he vouched to warranty
Herbert his son and heir. 88 At his death in 1248 Vitalis Engaine
held the manor of Colne Engaine of Hugh de Creissi for fee;89 but
it was not a member of the honor of Warenne.90
1
2
Thomas de Nerford, knt., died in 1344, seised of the manor of
Saddlescombe, Suss., jointly with Alesia his wife, who survived him ;
it was held of the Hospitallers, who held of the earl of Warenne, and
would revert to the Hospitallers after the death of Thomas and
Alesia. 91
1. Anct. Deeds (Pipe Roll Soc. x.), 7; Mon. Angl. v. 14; see p. 312 above.
2. Watson, op. cit. i. 102. 3. Cat. of Anct. D. v. A. 10988.
4. Lewes
Chartul., Vesp. F. xv. f. 13.
5. Ibid. f. 119. 6. Ibid. 7. Ibid. f. 120.
8. Ibid. 9. Mon. Anglic. vi. 369. 9a. Dugdale MS. (Bodleian) 39, f 1016.
9b. Ibid. f. 102. 10. Will. of Tyre, xvi. 25; Geneal. N.S. xi. 132. 11. Mon.
Angl. v. 14. 12. Ibid. iii. 636b.; v. 559b. 13. Dugdale MS. 39, f. 103.
A slight variation is shown on f. 1038. 14. Mon. Angl. iii. 637b. 15. Ibid.
v. 560. 16. Ibid. 559. 17. Pipe R. 2 Hen. II, 7-8. 18. Ibid. 7 Hen. II,
I-2, 7. 19. Ibid. 10 Hen. II, 33-4. 20. Ibid. 11 Hen. II, 8.
Hen. II, 31; 13 Hen. II, 32. 22. Red Bk. 410. 23. Ibid. 393, 404.
Chartul., Vesp. F. xv. f. 125. 25. Pipe R. 13 Hen. II, 18-19. 26. Ibid.
16 Hen. II, 137.
27. Ibid. 18 Hen. II, 25. 28. Ibid. 20 Hen. II, 40.
29. Ibid. 21 Hen. II, 107, 111. 30. R. de Dominabus, 27 (note by Mr. Round).
31. R. Curia Regis 83 (Mich. 7-8, Hen. III), m. gd. Cf. Pipe R. 31 Hen. II,
15. 32. R. Lit. Claus. i. 202. 33. Feet of F., Divers and Unk. Counties,
282/8, n. I. 34. Cat. of Anct. D. iv. A. 6207.
36. Eyton, Hist. of Salop, iii, 331-3. Cf.
21. Ibid. 12
24. Lewes
55.
35. Pipe R. 22 Hen. II,
Stapleton, Norman Excheq.
III.
Y
322
HONOR OF WARENNE
i.90. 37. Walden Chartulary, Harl. 3697, f. 238d. 38. Dugdale MS. (Bodl.) 39,
40. Cat. of Anct. D. ii. A.
Cat. of Anct. D. iii. C. 3188.
45. R. de Fin. 527, 535.
48. Feet of F. Suss. i. n. 341.
50. Ibid. v. 559. 51. Ibid. 559b.
f. 101b. 39. Round, Cal. of Docs. France, n. 280.
1969. A. 2035. 41. Mon. Angl. vi. 913b. 42.
43. R. Cur. Reg. i. 87. 44. R. Lit. Claus. i. 209b.
46. Pat. R. 369.
47. Close R. 431.
49. Ibid. n. 342; Mon. Anglic. vi. 840b.
52. Bk. of Fees, 904.
53. Feud. Aids, iii. 403.
i. nos. 13, 467.
Mon. Angl. vi. 975.
54. Cal. Misc. Inq.
56. Feud. Aids, iii. 400.
55.
62. In 1301
57. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 52. 58. Suss. Feet of F. n. 1045. 59. Feud. Aids,
V. 129–30. 60. Cal. Inquis. ii. 361. 61. Ibid. iii. 169.
Alice late wife of Richard de Brewosa held the manor of Stinton (in Sall) of
the heir of William de Say by knight's service; Cal. Close 1301, P. 457.
63. Feud. Aids, iii. 400-37.
64. Cal. Inquis. vi. 192.
65. Ibid. 330.
66. Cal. Chart. R. iv. 320. 67. Harl. MS. 3697, f. 238d. 68. Dugdale
MS. 39, f. 101b. 69. Ibid. 70. Mon. Angl. vi. 369b.
71. Ibid. vi. 485.
72. Dugdale MS. 39, f. 102. 73. Ibid. 74. Ibid. 75. Ibid. f. 102d.
76. Ibid. 77. Excerpt. Fin. i. 78. Ibid. i. 204; Close. R. 1231, p. 566.
See Foss, Judges, ii. 493. 79. Dugdale MS. 69, f. 102d. 80. Pipe R. 19
Hen. II, 28, 79. 81. R. Lit. Claus. i. 33b. 82. Suss. Feet of F. nos. 106–7.
83. Curia Regis R. 68, m. 9. 84. Bk. of Fees, 280, 282. 85. Sibton
Chartul., Arundel 221, f. 83. 86. Ibid. f. 84d. 87. Dugdale MS. 39, f. 103d.
88. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 181. 89. Cal. Inquis. i. 43. 90. See Mr. Round
in Essex Arch. Trans. N.S. viii. 192-8. 91. Cal. Inquis. viii. 360.
182.
II.
In Sussex in 1086 Godfrey (de Petra Ponte) held of William de
Warenne in Herpingden (Herbertinges') 6 hides, Ovingdean 6
hides, Aldrington 7 hides and virgate, [Portslade] 9 hides, East
Chiltington 1 hide.
Hugh son of Ranulf held of William de Warenne in Plumpton
30 hides which had belonged to Bosham.
William de Watevile held of William de Warenne 10 hides in
Barcombe.
In Suffolk Godfrey de Petra Ponte held of William de Warenne
in Henstead, a berewick of Wrentham, I carucate, Thorington 2
carucates. (See n. 4.)
In Norfolk Turold held of William de Warenne in Filby 1 caru-
cate and 9 acres ; 3 freemen held in Caston 1 carucate belonging to
the castle of Lewes; Lambert held in Waterdene I carucate and in
Rudham I carucate. Of the exchange of Lewes of the land of the
saints William de Warenne held in Wicklewood 1 carucate, Morley 2
carucates and Deopham 30 acres ; 4 freemen held in Tofts (in Rock-
land St. Peter) 1 carucate; Hugh held in Larling 1 carucates
Simon held in Rockland (All Saints) 3 carucates with 63 freemen
holding 70 acres and 91 freemen holding 1 carucate and 54 acres;
2 freemen held in Roudham I carucate.
I
I
In Cambridgeshire Lambert held of William de Warenne im
(Yen Hall in West) Wickham I hide, Wratting 3 virgates.
1
Before 1086 (?) Robert de Petra Ponte and Godfrey his son gave
to St. Michael's, Treport, the tithes of Cuverville. Godfrey de
Petra Ponte, William his son, and Nigel his son-in-law attested the
confirmation charters of Henry I and William earl of Surrey to the
monks of Lewes of the approximate date 1107-1118.2 Godfrey gave
to the monks of St. Pancras at Lewes 2 hides (in Ovingdean ?).³
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It is noteworthy that the ancestor in Domesday of the family of
Borham, tenants in Essex of the honor of Boulogne, was Lambert,
but there seems to be no evidence that he was the same man as
'Lambertus homo Willelmi de Warenna' of the Inquisitio Com.
Cantabrigiensis.
Jordan de Blossevill, who tested a charter of William, 2nd earl
Warenne, during the period 1118-1138, gave to Lewes land in Oving-
dean.4
5
This fee appears to have escheated to the earl of Surrey and to
have been bestowed by him on his illegitimate son, Reginald de
Warenne, who was born probably before 1118 and survived until
c. 1178. This Reginald married Alice daughter and heir of William
de Wormegay, lord of Wormegay until 1166, when he died, for in
that year Reginald de Warenne owed 700 m. for fine of the land of
William de Wormegay. In the ensuing year the barons of the
exchequer respited payment, because Reginald had accompanied
the king's daughter to Saxony. At Reginald's death 250 m. of this
fine were still due and were accounted for by his widow, Alice de
Warenne, with her fine of 200 m. for her patrimony of Wormegay.7
In 1180 their son, William de Warenne, accounts for his parents'
fines. By his first wife, Beatrice de Perepont, he had, besides other
issue, a daughter Beatrice, ultimately his heir. She married first
Doun Bardolf, by whom she had William, afterwards known as
William Bardolf, the elder, who survived until c. 1276. In 1209
Beatrice daughter of William de Warenne rendered account of 3100
marks, to be paid within four years, for having her father's land as
his heir and for dower of her late husband Doun Bardolf's land, and
that she should not be constrained to marry; further, that her
father's debt to the king should be discharged from his chattels and
those that his wife Milisent held at his death. This Milisent was
the widow of Richard de Muntfichet, whom William de Warenne
had married in 1203; he owed 400 marks in 1208 for having her,
and 100 marks for her dower by the king's letters patent granted in
1203.9
6
In 1226 there was a suit between the earl Warenne and William
Bardolf touching the manor of Roding Bardolf in Essex, and in 1229
Bardolf released it to the earl in exchange for £10 worth of land in
Piddinghoe, Suss.10
11
Beatrice married, secondly, Hubert de Burgh, who was created
earl of Kent in 1227. She was dead by 1217, when he married again.
Hubert enfeoffed his daughter Margery of the manor of Portslade
before 1226, in which year she recorded her claim to it, when William
Bardolf conveyed the manor and 10 knights' fees there to Hubert de
Burgh, as Bardolf's gift. She died in or before 1237. The honor
of Wormegay and other lands had come into Hubert's hands owing to
the minority of William Bardolf. Wormegay was restored on
Hubert's death, but before 1241 Portslade had gone to Hubert's son
John de Burgh, for in that year John had respite of his relief for this
manor, due to the crown by reason of the lands of the earl Warenne
being in wardship of the crown, as parcel of the lands late of Margery,
John's sister, which she held of the earl Warenne.12 John de Burgh
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held Portslade in 1242-3, with 10 knights' fees.13 Hubert de Burgh
had fallen into disgrace in July 1232, but his lands had been
restored to him by writ of 13 Nov., including his lands of Burgh,
Sotherton and Beeston, Norf., Rougham and Levington, Suff., of
his own inheritance, and those of Portslade and Fletching, Suss.,
Wormegay, Norf., Stow, Rouberton' and Finborough, Suff., and
Harthill, Yorks., of the inheritance of Beatrice formerly his wife.14
These lands were, however, in the ensuing year again in the king's
hands for the satisfaction of wrongs to Roman and Italian clerks.15
At the same time the king's year and day was granted to William
earl Warenne in the land which Hubert held of him in Norfolk,
Suffolk and Yorkshire; but Hubert was pardoned in 1234 and his
lands were restored.16
Hubert de Burgh died in 1234, when his lands descended to his
son John, named above. In 1247 the widow, Margaret countess of
Kent, claimed dower in the tenements of her late husband, where-
upon John satisfied her by assigning to her the manor of Portslade
with Alderton, the advowson of the church of Alderton and vicarage
of Portslade, and knight's fee which Alfred de Feringes held in
Chiltington, Sussex.17 In 1258 John de Burgh leased the manor of
Portslade for a term of 9 years; 18 and again in 1270 he had licence
to lease it to Robert Aguillon for a term of 4 years.
3
19
In 1265 the earl Warenne seized the land of Nigel de Broc and
Hawise de Nevill in Bevendean, who were never rebels, and the land
of John de Burgh in Portslade.20 In 1269 John de Gatesden died
holding land and rent in Fletching, Barcombe and Bevendean, Suss.,
by sale of Master William de Pierpont, together with the advowson
of the church of Fletching; Hawise de Nevill sometime his wife had
held the premises jointly with the deceased. 21
After the death of John de Burgh in 1275, Portslade and half of
Aldrington were awarded, upon the partition of his lands in 1282,
to his youngest daughter and coheir, Hawise the wife of Robert
Grelley, lord of Manchester, Lancs., and Pirton, Oxon.22 Hawise
held Portslade and a moiety of Aldrington in 1284-5,23 and at her
death in 1299 held Portslade with the church of Aldrington of Hugh
Bardolf for 1o fees; Thomas de Grelley her son was aged 20 years. 24
It descended to John La Warre, 25 who in 1330 held Portslade for
10 fees of Thomas Bardolf as of his manor of Plumpton.26 He died
in 1347 holding Portslade by the grant of Thomas Grelley, knt., to
the said John and Joan his wife, daughter and heir of the said
Thomas Grelley, of John Bardolf.27
In addition to the lands mentioned above Reginald de Warenne
appears to have obtained the manors of Plumpton and Barcombe
with their members in Wivelsfield, Lindfield, Hoathley ('Hadlegh '),
Standean, Moulston, Ardingley, Pipestye' and Fletching. In
these places William Bardolf in 1254 obtained a grant of free warren.28
Reginald de Warenne gave, with the consent of Alice his wife and
William his son, to the canons of Southwark the church of Plump-
ton.29
In 1275 the advowson of the church was released to William
Bardolf by Alan prior of Southwark.30 Bardolf died in 1276
possessed of the manors of Plumpton, Barcombe and Piddinghoe,
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325
held of Sir John de Warenne, earl of Surrey, and of 40s. of rent in
Fletching held of the prior of Lewes ; in Suffolk he held the manor
of Wormgay with its members of Tilney, North Runcton, Stow,
Finborough and Garvestone of the king in chief for 15 fees; of the
earl of Warenne he held 4 fees (unspecified) in Norfolk and the
advowson of the church of Morley, Norf.; William his son and heir
was aged 45 years.31
Reginald de Warenne also received a large estate in Norfolk,
viz. in Barsham, Clipstone, Kettlestone, Waterden, Fulmodeston,
Croxton, Burnham (Thorp), Caston, Lirlingge, Rockland, Rudham,
Wicklewood, Morley, Deopham Dalling, Mortoft and other places,
parcel of the Domesday fee of William de Warenne. Owing to the
Ìands of this fee and those of the honor of Wormegay being some-
what intermixed it is difficult to distinguish the sub-infeudations of
the one fee from those of the other. Some of the places are dealt
with under the Burnham or Calthorpe fee (no. 23).
In 1242-3 these fees in Norfolk were held of the earl Warenne,
some of them presumably of William Bardolf the elder, as mesne :
Reginald de St. Martin 1 fee in Waterden, East Barsham
and Hempton.
Roger de Schovill fee in East Harling.
Robert Malet fee in East Harling.
10
1
William de Lirlinge fee in Rushford (Rischewrthe).
Thomas Bacon fee in Dalling.
Nigel de Risley fee in Morley.
William de Lirlinge fee in Lirling.
Robert de Cateston, John de Rudham and their fellows
I fee in Rudham, Rockland and Beckerton.32
William Bardolf, son of William Bardolf the elder, held the manor
of Plumpton and land in Hoathley in 1284-5, and died in 1290,
holding of the earl of Surrey a messuage at Hoathley, a member of
Plumpton, and the manor of Barcombe; Hugh his son and heir
was aged 30.3
The following tenements were held in 1302 of Hugh Bardolf, who
held them of the earl Warenne :
Robert Crowe and others
fee in Burnham of the heirs of
Verly (Virluy ') and they of Hugh Bardolf &c.
Pertaining to the manor of Fulmerston
fee in Clipstone
held of Hugh Bardolf &c.
William de Caston the manor of Caston for fee of Hugh
Bardolf.
Nicholas Norman of Grimston fee in Grimston.
Matilda de Lirlingg
fee in Larlingge of Hugh Bardolf &c.
William de Crungelthorpe, Robert de Wirlyngworth, John de
Rudham and the prior of Westacre fee in Rudham of Robert
de Caston and he of Hugh Bardolf &c.
John de Faulkener fee in East Harling of dame Matilda
de Boylund and she of Philip de Verly and he of Hugh Bardolf
&c.
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William de Hakeford fee in the same (East Harling) of
Adam de Moreland and he of Hugh Bardolf &c.
12424
Matilda de Gunevile fee in Rushford of Hugh Bardolf &c.
Sir Roger de St. Martin fee in Waterdene of Hugh Bardolf,
whereof the prior of St. Stephen's of Fakenham held fee.
Thomas Bakoun fee in Field Dalling of Robert le Virluy
and he of Hugh Bardolf &c.34
nilo
John de Thorp and Alice his wife (see n. 42) fee in
Gayton Thorpe of Hugh Bardolf.35
Hugh Bardolf died in 1304 holding the manor of Barcombe of
the earl of Warenne for fee; the manor of Plumpton, Suss., held
jointly with Isabel his wife, daughter and heir of Robert Aguillon,
by the gift of William Bardolf his father, of the earl of Warenne; a
capital messuage in Harthill, Yorks., of John de Neufmarché, who
held of the earl Warenne, for fee; Thomas his son was aged 22 and
1111
more.36
Isabel died in 1323 holding the manor of Plumpton with a water-
mill in Fletching and the members in Ditching, Wivelsfield, Cuck-
field, Ardingley, West Hoathley, Lindfield, Smythewyke and
Piddinghoe, and the manor of Barcombe; Thomas son of Hugh
Bardolf and the said Isabel was aged 40 and more.37
In 1324 Thomas Bardolf held of Aymer de Valence, earl of Pem-
broke, 6 fees, which were claimed by the earl of Surrey as pertaining
to the honor of Lewes, in Yen Hall and Fulbourn, Cambs., Caston,
Rockland, Roudham, Croxton, Clipston, Kettlestone, Fulmodeston,
Rushford, Larling, Newton, Houghton in the Hole, Hempton, Bar
sham, Waterdene, Burnham, Euston (Suff.), East Harling, Wickle-
wood, Morley, Deopham and Harling, Norf., and Werling, Suff.38
Thomas Bardolf died in 1330 holding the manor of Plumpton,
with land in Hoathley and the manors of Barcombe and Fletching
jointly with John his son and Elizabeth wife of the said John of the
earl Warenne as of the barony of Lewes for II fees; the manor of
Harthill, Yorks., with the members; the following tenements held
of him probably belonged to this fee:
Philip de Virly held the manor of Euston, Suff. (honor of
Wormegay), and 200 acres of land in Tunstall, Field Dalling,
East Harling, Burnham Thorp, Old Lynn, Tittleshall and
Bradenham, Norf., for 2 fees.
John de Caston held the manor of Caston and 100 a. of land
in Rockland, Thompson, Beckerton, West Tofts, Roudham,
Greston and Old Buckenham for 1 fee.
Nicholas Noreman held a messuage and 60 a. of land in
Grimston for fee.
Edmund de Gonevill held the manor of Larling with 60 a.
of land in Rushford, Shadwell and Newton in Holond, Norf.,
for I fee.
John Bardolf and his parceners held 2 messuages and 200 a.
of land in Waterdene, Hempton, Barsham, Whitsonsett and
Stanfield, Norf., for I fee.
POYNINGS, WRENTHAM
327
Humphrey de Bohun held the manor of Croxton, Norf., for
fee.
Joan de Botetourt held the manor of Yen Hall, Cambs.
(honor of Wormegay?).
John Le Warre held of Thomas Bardolf as of the manor of
Plumpton 10 fees in Portslade and the members.39
1. Round, Cal. of Docs., France, n. 230.
2. Anct. Deeds (P.R.S. x.), 5, 7.
3. Watson, Warren, i. 129. 4. Ibid. 131. 5. Pipe R. 12 Hen. II, 19. 6. Ibid.
13 Hen. II, 19. 7. Ibid. 25 Hen. II, 2. 8. Ibid. 11 John, Norf. m. 5d.
9. R. Lit. Pat. 35; Pipe R. 10 John, m. 19d. 10. R. Lit. Claus. ii. 110;
Essex Feet of F. Hen. III, n. 272. 11. Suss. Feet of F. n. 200. Of Margery
de Burgh see Mat. Paris, Chron. Maj. iii. 386. 12. Excerpt. Fin. i. 342, 344.
13. Testa, 2226. 14. Close R. 166. 15. Ibid. 188. 16. Ibid. 331, 534.
17. Sussex Feet of F. i. 118.
18. Cal. Pat. R. 251.
19. Ibid 419.
20. Cal. Misc. Inq. i. 276. 21. Cal. Inquis. i. 223. 22. Cal. Close R. 186.
23. Feud. Aids, v. 129. 24. Cal. Inquis. iii. 405.
25. V. C. H. Lancs. i. 333.
26. Ibid. vii. 177.
27. Ibid. ix. 37.
28. Cal. Pat. 1254, P. 313.
29. Mon. Anglic. vi. 171.
n. 837. 31. Cal. Inquis.
ii. 115-6.
32. Testa, 287.
34. Feud. Aids, iii. pass.
37. Ibid. vi. 272.
30. Suss. Feet of F.
Cf. Red Bk. 744.
35. Ibid. vi. 554.
38. Ibid. 330, 334.
33. Cal. Inquis. ii. 468.
36. Cal. Inquis. iv. 166–8.
39. Ibid. vii. 175–182.
III.
In Sussex in 1086 William son of Rainald (son of Reiner) held of
William de Warenne in Poynings 8 hides, Pangdean (Piccombe) 10
hides, Pangdean 9 hides, Ashcombe 2 hides; of the said William
son of Rainald land of 2 ploughs in Pangdean was held by Roger
and Walter.
2
In Norfolk William held of William de Warenne in Foulden 1
carucate. William de Warenne held in Wilton carucates and
20 acres, Mundford 1 carucate, Letton carucate, Shipdham I
carucate, Bodney 1 carucate, Hackford 1 carucate, Coltishall 110
acres, held by Turold in 1086, Hockwold and Rising' (? Reymers-
ton) land for 2 ploughs, Northwold 5 carucates. For Filby see n. 2.
I
In Suffolk William (son of Rainald) held of William de Warenne
in Wrentham 3 carucates, also carucate 50 acres which Alvric de
Sanford held, and 1 carucate which freemen held; in 'Norhals'
(? Cove and Covehithe) 2 carucates and 100 acres ; William son of
Rainald held all these lands of William de Warenne.¹
It seems possible that William had succeeded his father not long
before the date of the survey. Rainald son of Renner 2 (son of)
Reidi gave tithes of his demesne at Pangdean to Lewes, a gift else-
where described as made by Raynald de Puninges son of Reinerius.³
Fredesendis daughter of Hugh son of Renner gave to Lewes tithes.
of Plumpton and Handean and a hide at Falmer.4
Adam de Poninges attested charters of William earl Warenne
temp. Stephen 5 and of earl Hamelin temp. Henry II. He was
possibly the Adam vicecomes of a charter of Reginald de Warenne
which Simon de Hangleton also attested. He and Beatrice his wife
gave to Lewes the churches of Poynings and Pangdean and land in
Conicistre.' 7 With the countess Isabel and Philip her brother he
attested c. 1180 a charter of Osbert prior of Lewes.8 As he had
sons, Adam, William and John, it was probably the younger Adam
9
328
HONOR OF WARENNE
de Pouninges who was attorney for earl Hamelin in a Yorkshire plea
in 1194.10 Adam son of Adam de Poinings gave to Lewes priory,
for the soul of his mother Beatrice, the tithes of cheese of Poynings
and Pangdean, by a charter to which Hamelin the earl and Isabel
the countess were witnesses. 11 He had a plea in Suffolk in 1198
with Robert de Pierpont.12
In 1206 Adam de Cailly had a plea against Michael de Puninges
and Margery his wife of admensuration of (Margaret's) dower in
Bradenham, Denver and Ryston, Norf.13 There was another plea
between Adam and Margery in 1232 touching the same matter, 14 and
a fine in 1239 of land in Bradenham.15 Michael de Puninges was in
the Irish campaign of 1210. In 1212 he was commissioned to take
as many fat harts as he could outside the royal park of Knap, Suss.16
In 1216 he was against king John,¹7 but in 1217 he had safe conduct
to travel through the dominion.18
Thomas de Puninges succeeded.
He held 10 fees in Poynings and its members 19 in 1242-3, when
some of the following tenements in Norfolk were held of him, as of
the fee of Warenne :
William de Hakeford fee in Hackford.
William de Hakeford, Walter de Rochefort and their fellows
fee in Coltishall.
Isabel de Hulmo fee in Fileby.
Osbert de Mundeford
and fee in Reymerston.
fee in Mundford, fee in Hockwold,
1
Gilbert de Walsham fee in Northwold.
19/00
Robert Agelliun, Thomas de Ingaldesthorpe and Robert de
Scales 1 fee in Wilton and Hockwold.20
I
It is probable that I fee in Hangleton, Suss., which Robert de
Cukesfeld held of the fee of Warenne in 1242-3 was a member of the
Poynings fee. At this date Margery de Poynings held 1 fee in
Denver, Norf., in dower.21
22
In 1246 Thomas de Poynings was keeper of escheats in Suffolk ;
two years later a perambulation was to be made between his land
of Pyecombe, Suss., and the land of Bartholomew de Capella in
Newtimber.23 He died before 1253, when Avice his relict was
instituting a plea in Kent.24 In 1268 Luke de Poynings held by
knight's service of the heirs of Richard de Muntfichet in Benacre,
Suff.25 In 1269 Adam de Poynings held fee in Sidestrand, Norf.,
of Richard de Plaiz.26 In 1272 Luke de Poynings had a grant of free
warren in Wrentham, Henstead and Benacre, Suff. 27 Shortly after-
wards, as Luke de Ponyngs, knt., son of Thomas de Ponyngs, he
released to Lewes all claim in the church of Pyecombe.28 In 1275
(as one of the heirs of Robert de Aguillon) he held a tenement in
Bicham, Norf., of the heirs of the wife of Roger de Sumeri.29 In
1279 he claimed to have market and fair at Crawley, Suss., by the
grant of Henry III.30 In 1275 Adam de Cokefeld, Robert Pujois,
Luke de Ponynges and Reginald de Argentein had leet and liberties
in Flitcham, Norf.; 31 the same Luke, Adam, and Reginald, with
POYNINGS, WRENTHAM
329
Edmund de Ingoldesthorp and Alice de Scales, had assize of bread
&c. in the vill of Hockwold and Wilton.32
In 1280 Luke was party to a fine of lands in Twineham, Bolney,
Portslade and Slaugham, Suss.33 In 1284-5 he held lands in
Poynings, Piecomb and Slaugham,34 and I fee in Preston of dame
Isabel de la Haye.35 This was the manor of Jevington, which he
held in 1293 of Nicholaa late wife of Baldwin de Aldham.36 In 1286
Luke de Poynings defended his claim to certain liberties at Wrent-
ham, Suff.37 He died in or soon after 1293. His son (?), Michael
de Poninges, was in possession of Slaugham in 1295, when his park
there was broken into and his deer taken whilst he was in Scotland
with the earl of Surrey.3
38
In 1302 the following tenements, or some of them, were held of
or by Michael de Poninges :
39
Michael de Poninges 1 fee in Wrentham, Covehithe
(Northal'), Cove and Benacre, Suff.
Michael de Poninges and his fellows 1 fee in Fouldon and
Bodney, Norf.
Ralph de Schipedham and Simon Brake fee in Shipdham,
of Michael de Ponynges, belonging to the manor of Wilton.
Robert Carle and John de Hokewolde fee in Wilton and
11
Hockwold of John de Cokefeld and Andrew de Sakevile, and
they of the earl Warenne.
3
John de Cokefeld and Andrew de Sakevile fee in Wilton
of the earl Warenne.
Michael de Ponyngges fee in Wilton (as above).
Robert de Skales & fee in Wilton (as above).
John de Mundeford & fee in Wilton (as above).
Adam de Mundeford fee in Hockwold and Wilton of John
1
4
de Cokefeld and his parceners, and they (as above).
William de Hakeforde and his tenants
the earl Warenne.
fee in Coltishall of
Aymer de Valence holds the manor of Filby for fee of the
king in chief.
1
John de Mundeford fee in Mundford of John de Cokefeld
and his fellows, and they of the earl Warenne.
Thomas Dakeny fee in Northwold of the earl Warenne.
4
The abbot of Dereham fee in Dereham of the earl Warenne.40
At the same time Michael de Poninges held 1 fee in Preston
as of the manor of Jevington of the honor of L'Aigle.41
In 1305
land in Wilton and Foulden, Norf., was held of Michael de Poynings,42
who held in 1314 of Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester, fee in
Ineshawe, Norf.43 He died before 1316, when his widow Margery
was returned as lady of Poynings and Pyecombe. She was
living in 1334, when she had the patronage of the church of Hock-
wold, Norf.45
44
In 1315 Thomas de Poyninges, knt., attested a charter of John
de Warenne, earl of Surrey.46 He married before 1321 Agnes,
then aged 22, daughter and coheir of Richard son of John de
330
HONOR OF WARENNE
1
Rokesle of Westwood, Kent.47 In 1324 the lord of Ponynings and
Robert Poteys (alibi Michael de Poynings) held 7 fees of Aymer
de Valence in Wilton, Hockwell, Hackford, Bylaugh ('Belhawe '),
Filby, Letton, Shipdham, Mundford, Fouldon, Bodney, Stibbard,
and Coltishall, Norf., and 2 fees in Wrentham, Cove, and the
members in Suff.48 In 1325 Thomas de Poynings had land in
Benfield, Suss.,49 possibly by reason of wardship, and in 1327
held of Richard de Plaiz 1 fee in Wormingford, fee in Tendring,
Essex, fee in Sidestrand, Norf., and fee in Foulmere, Cambs. 50
In the ensuing year he had a grant of free warren in Slaugham,
Shelly and Ifield, Suss., Westwood, Faversham, Preston, Selling
and Sheldwich, Kent, Bures St. Mary and Wiston, Suff., and
Wormingford, Essex. 51 He married before 1323 Agnes, younger
sister of Joan wife of William Baud, knt., and relict of Walter
de Pateshull, which Agnes and Joan were daughters and heirs of
Richard de Rokesle52 and eventually heirs of John son of Bertram
de Criol, their uncle.53 Lands in Hatfield Peverel in 1337 and
in Ospringe, Kent, in 1339, were held of the same Thomas, who was
slain in battle with the French by sea off Sluys (?) on 17 Octo-
ber, 1339,54 holding the manors of Poynings, Hangleton (? n. 8),
Twineham, Slaugham and Pangdean, Suss., and Wrentham, Suff.,
of the earl Warenne; that of Preston of the heir of John de St.
Clare (Sencler), those of Westwood and Wormingford and a moiety
of that of Tirlingham, Kent, of others; Michael his son was aged
22 (sic) years, 55 and had livery of his inheritance in 1340.56 He
attested in 1342 charters made to Michael de Poynings l'uncle, knt.,
and other feoffees by Hawise late wife of John de Wysham.57
In 1339 the king, in consideration of the great merits of Thomas
de Poynings, knt., tenant in chief, who met his death in his service,
and the affection which the king had for him, took the fealty of
his son and heir Michael, although still under age, and granted
to him the lands which ought to pertain to the king by reason
of his minority with the issues since his father's death, and further
that the same Michael might select the person whom he would
marry.58
In 1349 he had a grant of the lands of Margery late wife
of Nicholas de La Beche.59
It appears that Margery, relict of Michael de Poynings, who
died c. 1313, married Edmund Bacon, and in 1326 a settlement
of the manor of Hatfield Peverel, Essex, was made upon Edmund
and the said Margery his wife in tail male. 6º After his decease
she married Nicholas de La Beche, who died in 1345,61 when she
married John son of Robert de Dalton, knt.62 She died at Calais
in 1352, holding for life the manor of Hatfield Peverel, the reversion
of which belonged to Margery Bacon, then aged 15 years, wife of
John de Molyns, knt., and daughter and coheir of the said Edmund
Bacon.63 On 5 September, 1351, Michael de Poynings and one
of the king's clerks gave an acquittance in respect of certain goods
late of Margery late wife of Nicholas de La Beche; the schedule
contains 160 items and several hundred articles of clothing,
furniture, household use, books, &c.; several were adorned with
the arms of Poyning and La Beche, Poynings and Bacoun.64
HURSTPIERPOINT
331
Luke de Poynings married Isabel, one of the sisters and coheirs
of Edmund de St. John of Halnaker, son of Hugh de St. John.65
See Arundel, n. 14. His relationship to the lords of Poynings
is not clear. The descent of the last-named line will be found in
Dugdale's Baronage, ii. 133–5.
1. Dom. Bk. ii. 399b-400b.
Chs. n. 25.
2. See p. 310 above. 3. Mon. Angelic.
4. Watson, Warren Fam. 97. 5. Brit. Mus. Facsimiles of
6. Ibid. n. 31.
7. Chartul. of Lewes, 124. 8. Cat. of Anct.
D. A. 2389.
9. Chartul. of Lewes, 151, 1596.
10. R. Cur. Reg. i. 72.
11. Vesp. F. xv. f. 310.
12. R. Cur. Reg. iii. 35.
3. R. de Fin.
348. 14. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 672. 15. Feet of F., Norf., 23 Hen. III.
16. R. Lit. Claus. i. 123b. 17. Ibid. 250. 18. Pat. R. 87. 19. Bk. of
Fees, 690.
20. Ibid. 904-7.
21. Ibid. 907.
22. Cal. Pat. R.
482.
23. Close R. 122, 348. 24. Excerpt. Fin. ii. 162.
25. Ibid. 471.
26. Cal. Inquis. i. 226. 27. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 184. 28. Vesp. F. xv.
f. 122d. 29. R. Hund. i. 461.
31. R.
Hund. i. 5376. 32. Ibid. 542b.
34. Feud.
Aids, v. 129. 35. Cal. Inquis. ii. 339. 36. Feud. Aids, iv. 131; Cal. Close,
323. 37. Placit. de quo war. 728.
Cal. Pat. 156, 217. 39. Feud. Aids,
iii. pass.
40. Ibid. 41. Ibid. v. 131. 42. Cal. Inquis. iv. 220. 43. Ibid.
v. 346. 44. Feud. Aids, v. 136.
45. Cal. Pat. R. 486, 517. 46. Ibid. 653.
47. Cal. Inquis. vi. 157, 250, 341.
48. Ibid. 330, 334; Cal. Close R.
13, 266, 277. 49. Cal. Inquis. vi. 360. 50. Ibid. vii. 26. 51. Cal.
Chart. R. iv. 76. Cf. Cal. Inquis. vii. 264, 299.
53. Ibid. 1332, p. 491; Cal. Inquis. ix. 321. 54. The date of the battle of Sluys
was 24 June, 1340. 55. Cal. Chart. R. viii. 170. 56. Cal. Close R. 345.
57. Ibid. 524-5. 58. Cal. Pat. R. 395. 59. Cat. of Anct. D. iii. D. 1230.
61. Cal. Inquis. viii. 414. 62. Cat. of Anct. D.
30. Placit. de quo war. 755b.
33. Suss. Feet of F. n. 910.
38.
52. Cal. Close R. 8, 106,
60. Cal. Pat. R. 317.
iii. D. 1230. 63. Cal. Inquis. x. 9. 64. Cal. Pat. R. 137-41. 65. Cal.
Inquis. ix. 243; x. 228.
v. 14b.
IV.
Robert (de Petra Ponte) held in 1086 of William de Warenne
in Hurst-pierpoint, Suss., 18 hides, of which William held of Robert
3 hides and Gilbert held similarly 3 hides; in Westmeston, Suss.,
12 hides, of which a knight held of Robert 3 hides and 3 virgates;
in East Chiltington, Suss., 5 hides and I virgate, of which a knight
held of Robert 2 hides.
In Suffolk Robert de Petra Ponte held of William de Warenne
a manor in Wrentham of 2 carucates, another manor of 2 carucates,
and a third manor of 2 carucates and 360 acres held by freemen.
2
Hugh de Petra Ponte attested a charter of Henry count of
Eu in 1106,¹ and a charter of William earl Warenne of Stephen's
reign. Within the period 1145-1146 Hugh de Petreponte, Robert
de Petreponte, and William de Petreponte attested the confirmation
charter of William earl of Warenne to St. Pancras of Lewes.³
Hugh and Robert attested a charter of Reginald de Warenne to
the same monastery of the date 1148-1149.4 Simon de Petraponte
and 3 others held in 1166 of the bishop of Chichester 1 fee in Aldwick,
Suss.5 Hugh de Perepont attested a charter of Godfrey bishop of
Winchester (1189-1204).6
I
7
Walter de Petraponte, who held of the archbishop of Canterbury
fee in Stanstead and elsewhere in Kent, occurs in 1194. He was
party as tenant with Lucy his mother as demandant to a fine in
332
HONOR OF WARENNE
1197 of land in Sheppey, Detling and Boxley, which he warranted
to her with a condition that in default he would give her land in
Stanstead, Kent, or Elinton,' Suss.8 Richard de Petraponte of
Sussex and Norfolk occurs temp. Richard and John. Richard
de Petraponte and Matilda his wife granted 12d. a year rent to
Matthew de Suldeham, among the witnesses being Robert de
Petraponte and Simon his brother.10 Matilda de Petraponte was
party to a plea in Sussex in 1194, and in 1199 she impleaded a
chaplain to show his warrant of entry on her fee in Roding, Essex.11
In the last-named year William de Petraponte was a suitor in a
plea of land in Holwell and Stondon, Beds.12 In 1198 Robert de
Petraponte had a plea with Adam de Poynings respecting right
of pasturage in Suffolk, probably in Wrentham.1 Prior to July
1199 he attested with Adam de Poninges, Philip de Brunham and
others a charter of Hamelin earl of Warenne and the countess Isabel
his wife to the church of Melewode, a cell to Castleacre.14
13
Simon de Petraponte was a visor in a Shropshire plea in 1200.15
In 1206 Matilda de Berecamp and Ralph de Perepont her son re-
leased to Reginald de Trusanvill fee in Fletching, Suss., with a third
part of the advowson of the church. Land in Fletching appears
to have descended to Master William de Perepunt, who had acquit-
tance of his relief in 1229.¹ 16 He sold land in Fletching, Barcombe
and Bevendean, Suss., to John de Gatesden, as stated at n. 2.
Robert de Petraponte lost the tenancy of the fishery of Totemere,
Suff., in 1203.¹ 17 He was a commissioner in 1213 in the diocese
of Chichester to inquire of injuries done to the church during the
late disturbances.18
In 1229 a carucate in Benacre, Suff., and 30 acres 19 of land
in Kessingland were claimed against Simon de Perepunt and 3
others, as tenants.20 John de Perepunt of Shropshire was named
in 1231.21 In the following year Simon de Perepunt was claiming
customs from his tenant in Benacre, Suff.22 In 1237 he was a
collector of the thirtieth in Sussex.23 In 1238 he defended his
claim to wreck of the sea in Sussex by prescription.24 In the
following year he complained that the earl Warenne had made
warren in his demesne lands of Hurstpierpoint and Goldbridge
and would not permit the said Simon to take beasts of the chase;
afterwards Simon relinquished his claim.25
In
Simon was deceased before 7 October, 1240, when custody of
the lands late of Simon de Perepunt was restored to Hugh de
Plaiz, who had made fine in 700 marks for custody of Simon's
heir and his lands in Sussex and Suffolk.26 In 1247 certain of
his lands, including land in Aldwick held of the bishop of Chichester,
were in pledge to Jews; the heir being still under age.27
1242-3 Simon de Petra Ponte (or rather, the guardian of his heir)
held 10 fees in Hurstpierpoint and the members.28 Peter de Haut-
boys, brother and heir of William de Hautboys, conveyed to
Guichard prior of St. Pancras, Lewes (1244-48), and his monks
lands inherited from his said brother in Hurstpierpoint, Suss.,
with the reversion of the dower of Helewise relict of the said
William, to hold for fee of the heirs of Simon de Perepont.29
HURSTPIERPOINT
333
Robert de Perepont, a constant adherent of the king and
Edward his son, was taken in the battle of Lewes and kept in prison
by Hugh le Despenser until he made fine by 700 marks for his
ransom; in 1265 the king ordered the obligations made by Waleran
de Munceaux to secure this ransom to be returned to Robert or
Waleran.30 In 1275 Robert had warren at Wrentham, Henstead
and Benacre, Suff., gallows at Benacre, and wreck of the sea as
all his ancestors had from the conquest of England.³¹
In 1284-5 Matilda de Perpunt, late wife of Robert de Perpunt,
held Westmeston of the heirs (sic) of Simon her son, who held
of the earl Warenne.32 At the same time Simon de Perpunt held
Hurstpierpoint,33 as he also did in 1288.34
In 1286 he defended his claim to liberties in Wrentham, Henstead
and Benacre.35 In 1296 he and Mary his wife were parties to a
fine of land in Benacre and Northales (now Covehithe), Suff.36
In 1302-3 he held 1 fee in Wrentham.37 In 1313-14 he or his son
put in a claim in a fine of land in Westhale in Benacre and the
advowson of the church of Benacre.38 In 1316 Simon de Perepunt
was returned as joint lord of Wrentham, Henstead and Benacre,
Suff., and Newick, Suss., and lord of Hurstpierpoint.39
In 1317 Simon son of Simon de Perepount made acknowledgment
to a citizen of London of a debt chargeable on his property in
Sussex,40
He was in the army of Scotland in 1323 with the earl
Warenne.41 In 1324 he held of Aymer de Valence, earl of Pembroke,
2 fees in Wrentham and Covehithe; two years later land in West-
meston was held of Simon de Perepunt.42 In 1331 the manor of
Wrentham with its members was settled upon Simon de Perepunt,
chivaler. 43 In that year Walter de Perepount (whose son John
was of Sussex in 1342) recovered his land of Howe which had been
seized for his default against Simon de Perepount.44
This Simon and his tenants held 1 fee in Wrentham in 1346
of the earl Warenne; apparently he held similarly fee in West-
meston.4 45 In 1354 confirmation was issued of a grant of William
sometime earl Warenne granting licence for Simon de Perepount
to enclose his wood of Daneghithe (Dannay in Hurstpierpoint)
and attested by the abbots of Roche and Sawley, Sir Thomas
Fitz-William and others (1215-1240); and of a grant of John
de Warenne, earl of Surrey, dated at Stoke next Guildford on
10 January, 16 Edward III (1342), granting to his bachelor, Sir
Simon de Perepount, licence to enclose the wood of Dannay
and the demesne lands adjoining, which were then parcel of the
earl's free chase, so that Simon and his heirs might there have
beasts, savage and others, as they would; attested by Sir Michael
de Poninges and 4 others, all chivalers.46
1. Round, Cal. of Docs., France, n. 399.
3. Brit. Mus., Facsimiles of Chs. n. 25.
199; Close R. 1247, P. 513. 6. Cal. Chart. R. iii. 430.
(P.R.S. xiv.), 44. 8. Feet of F. (P.R.S. xx.), n. 113.
ii. A. 2950, 2970; iii. A. 4133. 10. Vesp. F. xv. f. 255d.
i. 71, 439. 12. Ibid. 247; ii. 68. 13. Ibid. iii. 35.
16. Pat. R. 273. 17.
Feet of F., Suss. n. 11O.
72.
15. R. Cur. Reg. ii. 169.
18. R. Lit. Claus. i. 164b. 19.
3
4
2. Watson, Warren Fam. i. 92.
4. Ibid. n. 31.
5. Red Bk.
7. R. Cur. Reg.
9. Cat. of Anct. D.
11. R. Cur. Reg.
14. Mon. Angl. v.
Abbrev. Placit. 44b.
20. Close R. 253.
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HONOR OF WARENNE
21. Ibid. 558.
24. Bracton's Note-Bk.
26. Ibid. 229;
n. 1272.
25.
Cal. Pat. R. 267.
of Anct. D. iv. A. 7210.
22. Ibid. 132. 23. Close R. 546.
Feet of F., Suss. n. 353; Close R. 434.
27. Close R. 513. 28. Bk. of Fees, 690. 29. Cat.
30. Cal. Pat. R. 464, 492. 31. R. Hund. ii. 148.
32. Feud. Aids, v. 130.
35. Placit. de quo war. 724.
Aids, v. 59.
33. Ibid. 129.
34. Feet of F., Suss. n. 999.
36. Feet of F., Suff. 24 Edw. I. 37. Feud.
38. Feet of F., Suff. 7 Edw. II. 39. Feud. Aids, v. 39-40,
136-7. 40. Cal. Close R. 461. 41. Cal. Pat. R. 237. 42. Cal. Inquis.
44. Cal. Close R. 392.
vi. 331, 438. 43. Feet of F., Suff. 5 Edw. III.
45. Feud. Aids, v. 59-60, 161. 46. Cal. Pat. R. 18.
V.
In Sussex Hugh (son of Golda) held of William de Warenne in
1086 in Iford 2 hides, Rottindean 2 hides, Waningore 3 hides,
Beeding 3 virgates, Allington 2 hides.
Surveyed under Surrey, Worth, Suss., was held by Siward of
Richard (de Tonbridge), being assessed at
hide.
In Norfolk Hugh (son of Golda) held of William de Warenne
in Threxton I carucate, Barsham 4 carucates.
In Suffolk Hugh son of Golda held (as above) in Barnham 1
carucate and 4 acres; Hugh similarly held in Clopton I carucate.
Humphrey son of Roderic held similarly in Rattlesden 100 acres
of land.¹
In Norfolk some part of the land held by William de Warenne
in Gayton, Methwold, Northwold (n. 3), Feltwell, Weeting 5 caru-
cates, Tofts (Rockland St. Peter), Fransham 1 carucates, held
by Gilbert (ancestor of 'de Fransham '), Scarning 1 carucate,
held by Gilbert, Barnham Broom 2 carucates and 6 acres, West
Bradenham 30 acres, Shereford 1 carucate and Sidestrand I carucate
and 21 acres, belonged to the fee held by Plaiz.
،
Hugh son of Golda gave to the monks of Lewes the church
of Iford, Suss., with tithes there and in Slaugham, Kingston and
Rottingdean. Hugh son of Hugh son of Golda gave to the same
monks the churches of Shereford and Tofts, Norf., and 2 hides at
Pacheleswye, Suss.,2 a place named in 1250 as via que vocatur
Palchinges weye,' and again in 1262, when the prior of Lewes
obtained an acknowledgment of his right in 2 hides in Pacheleswy.3
The place was apparently somewhere between Lewes and Brighton.
In 1121 Ralph archbishop of Canterbury confirmed to Lewes priory
inter alia the church of Iford and land called ' Piceleswia.' 4
The connexion between these donors to Lewes priory and their
successor, Hugh de Plaiz, is not known. In 1147 pope Eugenius
confirmed to the prior of Huntingdon the church of Weeting and
in Feltwell, Norf., 6 solidates of land of the gift of Hugh de Plaiz.5
A charter of William earl of Warenne of the period 1145–1146 was
attested by Ralph de Plaiz (Pleiz), who also attested a charter of
Reginald de Warenne which is ascribed to 1148-49.6 Ralph de
Plaiz granted to Lewes the church of Iford, Suss., and those of
Tofts and Shereford, Norf., whatever he had in the church of
Feltwell and land there; he also confirmed what his ancestors had
given." William 3rd earl of Warenne confirmed Ralph's gifts.8
Ralph de Plaiz II was named on the sheriff of Norfolk's roll
IFORD, BARSHAM
335
of 1177,9 and 2 years later 'Bernham' of Ralph de Plaiz was.
amerced.10 In 1185 John son of Robert owed 2 marks for the
right offee in Weeting, Norf., against Ralph de Plaiz.11 In
1197 Ralph de Plaiz granted to Matilda de Dive and Hugh her
son the mill pool and watercourse of Wapsbourne (Weplesburn')
flowing to Sheffield. 12 In 1194 there had been a plea between
John L'Estrange (Extraneus) and Ralph de Plaiz touching land in
Bernham, › 13 which was later continued against Ralph Le Neveu.¹4
This was settled by fine in 1197, subject to the due service being
done to Ralph de Plaiz.15 The pleadings disclose the fact that one
Hugh de Plaiz had given the land of Barnham, Suff., with his
daughter Helewise in marriage to Ralph son of Herlewin, who gave
it temp. Henry II to the monks of Thetford, 16 and whose son,
Reginald le Brun, afterwards held it. This Reginald was maternal
uncle of John L'Estrange father of John L'Estrange the demandant
in the plea.17 This identifies Hugh de Plaiz with the Hugh first
above-named and carries him back to the fourth generation from
John L'Estrange, the demandant in 1194, so that it is possible.
that Hugh de Plaiz and Hugh son of Golda, or Hugh son of the
said Hugh, may be the same person. It is, however, more probable
that they were contemporaries only. In 1198 Roger de Scures
quitclaimed to Ralph de Plaiz 2 natives of Fratton, Hants.18
In the year 1212 Hugh de Plaiz held 7 hides in Little Barford,
Oxon., which had been given to Richard de Meri in augmentation
of his barony at the conquest (sic) of England for his service,
and he had given them to Enjugier de Bohun in frank-marriage,
and he the said Enjugier gave them to the ancestor of Hugh de
Plaiz. 19
See Arundel, n. 15. In 1201 Ralph de Plaiz held fee in
Newington, Oxon., and fee in Acrinton and Newington, of Roger
son of Fukerel and he of William de Clinton.20
4
Ralph de Plaiz was living in November 1204, when he had
licence to make his peace with Baldwin de Akenny.21 Apparently
he died soon afterwards.
In 1215 10 librates of land late of Hugh de Plaiz in Portsea,
Hants., were committed to the king's bailee.22 In the following
year the king forbad Henry Belet to receive to the king's peace,
until he received further direction, Hugh de Plaiz, Michael de
Puninges, William de Stutevill, William de Mortemer, Adam de
Cailli and Ralph de Clere.23 In 1217 Hugh de Plaiz, knight of the
earl of Warenne, returned to allegiance and recovered seisin of
his lands.24 Some years later the manor of Feltwell, Norf., of
Philippa de Plaiz (wife of Hugh), was extended; the land held
by scutage was worth £13 14s. 7d. yearly; that held in socage was
worth 30s. 10d.25
In 1240, while divorce between Beatrice de Fay and Hugh
de Plaiz was in process, the sheriffs of Surrey and Sussex were
directed to provide for her by giving her possession of 20 librates
of land in each county of her dower of the estate of Hugh de Nevill
(d. 1234), her late husband.26 In the ensuing year Hugh had
livery of her land in Surrey, she being under sentence of excom-
munication for contumacy.27
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HONOR OF WARENNE
In 1242-3 Hugh held 7 fees in Iford and Wapsbourne (in
Fletching), Suss., the following tenements in Sussex, Norfolk and
Suffolk being held of him as of the honor of Warenne :
Roger de Ratlesden fee in Rattlesden, Suff.
2
Alice late wife of William de Creppinges fee in Wang-
ford, Suff., of Bartholomew de Stanham, who held of the earl
Warenne.
William de Wadington fee in Barnham, Suff.28
Richard de Nerford fee in Wreningham, Norf.
Philip de Haskeby fee in Tunstall, Norf. 29
Hugh de Plaiz was founder of the priory of Broomhill, Norf.,
which he endowed with a moiety of Croxton, a member of Weeting.30
He died in 1244, the service of his fees having been assigned in
1240 in dower to countess Matilda (Marshal), wife of William
late earl of Warenne.31 Prior to 1228 he married Philippa sister
and in her issue coheir of Richard de Munfichet, by whom he had
a son Richard de Plaiz; his second wife was Beatrice de Fay
named above, and at his decease his third wife Alice survived him.
In 1256 she demanded against Richard de Plaiz a third part of
the manors of Worth, Chailey, Kingston, Barcombe, Iford, Wanin-
gore. and Wapsbourne, Suss., of the manor of Leye, Kent, and of the
manors of Weeting, Feltwell, Tofts and Brisley, Norf.; whereupon
Richard satisfied her.32 In the same year Richard de Plaiz had
respite of knighthood.33
Richard de Munfichet died at the end of 1267, when his inherit-
ance was divided between the issue of his 3 sisters. To Richard
de Plaiz, his nephew and coheir, being son of his sister Philippa,
were assigned the manor of Great Oakley, Essex, with the advowson
of the church, Bentfield and 10 librates of land in Stansted
Montfichet, So acres of wood in the park of Stansted, the park of
Alsieshay, 7 fees held by George Bakon, Richard de Houbrugg,
the prioress of Stratford, Giles de Argentein, Luke de Poninges,
Adam de Cokfeld, John de Cherebrok, the abbess of Stratford,
Robert de Malteby, the earl of Athol and the heirs of Robert le
Buteler; for this he gave security for the relief due for a third part
of a barony and had seisin in May 1268.34 He was then aged
40 years.35
He lived but little more than a year to enjoy this
inheritance, dying at the beginning of July 1269, when he held
lands of the honor of Warenne in the places named above (1256),
including rents in Blatchington, Withdean and Kingston, Suss.,
also the manor of Weeting, Norf., the advowson of the churches
of Weeting and Croxton, rents in Santon, Croxton and Shipdham,
I fee in Rattlesden held by Sir Roger de Ratlesdene, fee in Barn-
ham,fee in Northwood, fee in Methwold, and fee in Runhall,
all held as of the manor of Weeting; also the manor of Knapton
with the advowson and fee in Sidestrand held by Adam de
Poninges belonging to the said manor, all being held of the honor
of Warenne; he also held the manors of Great Oakley and Bent-
field, Essex, with 9 knights' fees pertaining to his Munfichet
inheritance; Ralph his son was aged 3 years. The wardship of
36
1
3
IFORD, BARSHAM
337
the heir and his land was granted to Robert Aguillon.37 Joan
late wife of Richard de Plaiz had licence in 1271 to marry whom
she would.38
In 1275 the heirs of Richard de Plaiz held a 4th part of Feltwell,
the whole vill of Weeting and a moiety of Croxton of the earl of
Warenne; they claimed assize of bread etc. in Wilton with Luke
de Poininges; 39 Alice de Plaiz had her leet in Tofts and Shereford,
and warren in the wood of West Rys.40 The said heirs, who were
in the custody of Robert Aguillon, had view of frank-pledge and
other liberties in their fee of Knapton; 41 in Grimshow hundred ;
Robert son and heir of Richard de Plaiz had gallows and other
liberties in Weeting; Alice de Plaiz had assize etc. in Feltwell.4
Similar returns were made from the honor of Munfichet in Essex
and Cambridgeshire. Partition of the knights' fees of the said
honor, late of Aveline des Forz, was made in 1276 between the
coparceners, Isabel relict of Richard de Plaiz receiving her share
of dower thereof.43
42
Ralph de Plaiz died in 1283,44 custody of his land and the
marriage of his heirs being granted in the ensuing year to queen
Eleanor, saving to Isabel relict of Ralph her dower.4
45 The manor
of Iford was assigned to her in dower with other lands.46 In
1284-5 Chailey, Suss., was in the king's hands by reason of custody
of Giles de Plaiz.47 The heir was still a minor in 1288, when the
king presented to the church of Barrington, Cambs.48 The date.
when Giles de Plaiz succeeded has not been recorded, but it was
prior to 1293, when he had acquittance of the common summons
of the eyre in Kent.49 He was evidently younger brother of
Ralph, who was born in 1266.
Giles de Plaiz defended his right to certain liberties on the
barony of Munfichet in 1299;50 he died in 1302,51 holding the
manors of Wanningore and Wapsbourn with the advowsons of
Worth, Chailey, and of the free chapel of Wanningore; in Norfolk
a hall and lands in Weeting and the same in Tofts; in Suffolk
the manor of Le Wodehall in Rattlesden held by Simon [son of
Adam] de Rattlesden for 1 fee and the manor of Barnham held by
Ralph [James] de Schirle for fee; pertaining to the manors of
Weeting and Feltwell were the following knights' fees in Norfolk :52
William de Fransham I fee in Fransham and Scarning.
John de Geyton fee in Gayton.
fee in North Barsham.
4
John le Sire
William Maupas
Ralph atte Rode
fee in West Bradenham.
(William le Marshal I fee in Sparham.)
Constantine de Mortemer
fee in Barnham Broom.
Ranulf de Hakeford
(William de Blunvill (of William le Marshal in 1302) 1 fee
called Creppyngefe in Deopham.)
(Roger Cosyn 1 fee in Deopham and Lit. Ellingham.)
John le Boteler fee in Northwold.
The advowsons of St. Mary's and All Saints' in Weeting
and the church of Croxton.
III.
N
338
HONOR OF WARENNE
Besides these lands Giles held the manor of East and West
Ham, Essex, with knights' fees belonging to the barony of
Munfichet; Richard his son was aged 7 years. 53
The 3 fees in Sparham, Deopham and Little Ellingham did
not belong to the honor of Warenne.54 In the returns to the aid
of 1302-3 in Essex, John Marmion was said to hold the manor
of Great Oakley, Essex, of Richard son and heir of Giles de Plaiz,
a minor in the king's wardship.55
Dower was assigned to Joan his relict in 1306, and custody of
his lands to queen Margaret. 56 During the heir's minority the
king presented in 1309 to St. Mary's, Weeting, and in 1310 to the
church of Chailey.57
In 1316 Giles (sic) de Plaiz was one of the joint lords of Worth,
Suss. In 1317 Richard de Plaiz, son and heir of Giles, having
proved his age, had seisin of his father's lands.58
In 1324 Richard de Plaiz and his tenants held of Aymer de
Valence, earl of Pembroke, 3 fees in Weeting, Knapton, Toftes-rys,
Shereford, Feltwell, Fransham, Baconsthorpe, Barnham, Broom,
Gayton, Sparham, Sidestrand, South Bradenham, Barsham,
Loddon, Deopham and (South) Creake. 59 The tenements in
Baconsthorpe, Sparham, Loddon, Deopham and South Creake did
not belong to the honor of Warenne.
Richard de Plaiz died in 1327 holding the manor of Iford with
its members of Wanningore, Wapsbourn and Worth of the earl of
Warenne, and two-thirds of the manor of Weeting of the countess
of Pembroke. To this manor were appurtenant the following fees:
William de Houvill fee in
Constantine de Mortemer
Northwold;
Welborne ;
}
Heirs of John de Mountcorbyn fee in Barnham and
1
Thomas de Ponynges fee in Sidestrand;
Geoffrey de Fransham I fee in Fransham and Scarning;
Ralph de Shirle fee in Barnham by Thefford, Suff.;
John de Ratlesden 1 fee called Le Wodehall in Rattlesden,
Suff.
Margaret wife of Richard survived; Giles his son was aged
7 years.60 Custody of the heir's lands was granted to Gilbert
Talbot, king's chamberlain, 61 and dower was duly assigned to the
widow. 62
Giles de Plaiz the heir died in his minority on 10 July, 1334;
Richard his younger brother attained his age in 1344, when he had
livery of his inheritance.63
1. Ing. Com. Cantab. 193.
2. Watson, Earls of Warren, i. 95–7.
3. Feet of F., Suss. nos. 515, 670. 4. Anct. Chs. (P.R.S. x.), 12. 5. Mon.
Angl. vi. 8ob. 6. Brit. Mus., Facsimiles of Chs. nos. 25, 31. 7. Cal. of
Bodleian Chs. 558. 8. Chartul. of Lewes, f. 33, 1156, 257b. 9. Pipe R.
23 Hen. II, 134. 10. Ibid. 25 Hen. II, 7.
11. Ibid. 31 Hen. II, 40.
12. Feet of F. (Pipe R. Soc. xx.), 139.
13. Curia Regis R. (P. R. Soc.
xiv.), 10. 14. R. Cur. Regis, i. 20.
16. Mon. Anglic. v. 143.
15. Feet of F. (P. R. Soc. xxiii.), 72.
17. R. Cur. Regis, i. 20; Abbrev. Placit. 5.
Testa, 1346.
20. Abbrev. Placit. 65-66 ;
21. Pat. R. 476.
22. R. Lit. Claus.
19.
18. R. Cur. Reg. iii. 36.
R. Cur. Reg. iii. 216, 258, 377.
BARCOMBE, HIGH RODING
339
i. 2366.
23. Ibid. 250. 24. Ibid. 31ob.
25. Cal. Misc. Inq. i. 551.
26. Close R. 190, 272. 27. Excerpt. Fin. i. 355. 28. Bk. of Fees, 919.
29. Ibid. 905-6.
30. R. Hund. i. 439.
31. Excerpt. Fin. i. 421, 427.
32. Feet of F., Suss. n. 607.
33. Cal. Pat. R. 483.
34. Excerpt.
Fin. ii. 470-1. 35. Cal. Inquis. i. 218. 36. Ibid. i. 226. 37. Cal. Pat.
R. 348.
38. Ibid. 507.
39. R. Hund. i. 438. 40. Ibid. 4526, 535b.
41. Ibid. 496b, 516b.
42. Ibid. 5426. 43. Cal. Close R. 420, 422; ibid.
1284, PP. 253, 279.
44. Cal. Fine R. i. 194.
45. Cal. Pat. R. 113.
46. Cal. Close R. 252-3.
47. Feud. Aids, v. 130. 48. Cal. Pat. R. 296.
49. Cal. Close R. 310. 50. Placit. de quo war. 100b.
51. Cal. Inquis.
iv. 80, 81. 52. Cf. Feud. Aids, iii. 416, 426, 445; v. 30,
53. Cal.
Inquis. iv. 80. 54. See Giffard, n. 46; Cal. Inquis. i. 8.
55. Feud. Aids,
ii. 129.
56. Cal. Close R. 460, 300. 57. Cal. Pat. R. 117, 282.
58. Cal.
Close R. 498; Cal. Inquis. vi. 80. 59. Cal. Inquis. vi. 330. 60. Cal.
Inquis. vii. 26.
62. Cal. Close R. 174, 230.
63. Cal. Inquis. viii. 356;
73.
61. Cal. Pat. R. 159.
Cal. Close R. 419.
VI.
In Sussex William de Watevill in 1086 held of William de
Warenne in Brighton 5 hides with a church, Hangleton 8 hides,
Perching 5 hides, Keymer 14 hides, Barcombe 10 hides.
The wife of William de Watevill held of William de Warenne
in Clayton 7 hides with a church and in Wickham 3 hides held of
her by Alwin.
In Essex William de Watevill held of William de Warenne in
(High) Roding 2 hides.
1
William de Watevill probably came from Watteville on the Seine
below Rouen. He appears to have resigned his English lands or
to have died shortly after the date of the survey. Possibly he
or a descendant was the donor of the church of Croismere to the
abbey of Jumieges. Henry I, in or about 1115, confirmed to
St. Pancras of Lewes the gift of William de Warenne, earl of Surrey,
of the churches of Brighton, Hangleton, Barcombe and Clayton,
and the chapel of Keymer.2 The earl's gift was made not much
later than 1106; possibly long before. William de Warenne II
also confirmed the church of Roding with 1 virgate of land, and
tithes of the hall demesne,³ which his father had given at his death.
The lands described above were in part granted to new tenants.
As to Hangleton see n. 13, Perching n. 9. Keymer and Clayton
were mainly retained in the demesne of the earls; as also was High
Roding in Essex, which became the caput of the Warenne fee in
that county. The Great Inquest of Service records in 1212 that
the earl of Warenne held (High) Roding for 13 knights' fees.*
Lands of the Domesday fee of William de Watevill in Sussex
may be traced as follows. Reginald de Bercam was a suitor for
Henry Hose in a Sussex plea in 1196.5 Two years later Ralph de
Stapelford sought that Matilda de Bercamp should take his homage
for his free tenement in Roding and that of Robert de Insula for
a tenement there." In 1200 there was an assize of mort d'ancestor
between Robert Trehan, a minor, and Robert Painard respecting
fee in Barcombe. In the same year there was a plea of a fine
levied between Matilda de Bercamp and Reginald de Trussanvill. 8
In 1206 a fine was levied between the said Reginald, complainant,
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and Matilda de Bercamp and Ralph de Pierepont her son, tenants,
respecting a moiety of fee in Fletching. See n. 4.
9
Again, in 1204, 4 librates of land in Barcombe of the Normans'
lands were committed to the king's bailee, and in the ensuing year
the sheriff of Sussex was directed to give to Philip de Aubigny
seisin of the land of Barcombe late of Robert Pennard which was
of Philip's fee.10 It is suggested that the land of Ralph de Pierpont
in Barcombe descended to William de Pierpont, who held the
prebend of Bridgenorth (?) until 1215,11 and before 1242 sold his
lands in Barcombe, Bevendean and Fletching, Suss., and Rougham,
Norf., to John de Gatesden.12 In 1233 there had been a fine of
land in Rougham between Richard son of Martin and Master
William de Perepunt.13 In the time of Gregory IX (1227-41)
Walter rector of Barcombe acknowledged the right of the prior
of Lewes to two parts of the hay tithes from the demesnes of dame
Milisent de Munfichet and of Master William de Perepunt in
Barcombe.14 In 1242-3 John de Gatesden held 3 fees in Barcombe
and fee in Ditchling, and in Surrey jointly with John de Albernun
I fee in Fetcham, all of the honor of Warenne.15
John de Gatesden married in or after 1246 Hawise late wife of
John de Nevill 16 the forester, lord of Stoke Curcy. See Curcy, n. 17.
He died in 1262, when Hawise his wife had the manor of Bradford,
Som., for her dower; 17 Fletching, Barcombe and Bevendean were
part of his extensive possessions. 18 Another John de Gatesden,
styled the younger, had died on 25 November, 1258, holding
Gaddesden, Herts., and various manors in Sussex (not of Warenne
fee) and Bedford, and leaving Margaret his daughter, aged 13 on
St. Vincent's day, 1259.19 In that year Margery late wife of John.
de Gatesden (the younger) and Richard de Gatesden gave 60
marks for custody of the lands lately held by the said John of the
king in chief. The said Margery had lands in Hertfordshire and
Bedfordshire. 20 The estates descended in another line of Gatesden.21
In 1269 the king gave the wardship of 200 marks of the elder
John's land and the marriage of his daughter and heir to Robert
Walerand, saving the dower of Hawise his wife.22 The said
Hawise held many manors belonging to the heir at her death,
possibly in 1269.23 In 1268 she gave William de Braose 96 marks.
for acquittance of certain services due in respect of 8 fees of the
honor of Bramber in Broadwater and other places to her, as Hawise
de Nevill, and to the heirs of John de Gatesden, formerly her
husband.24 The grant of the wardship of the heir gave trouble,
for it appears that soon after 1258 Margaret daughter and heir of
John de Gatesden became the wife of John de Camoys,25 and that
her father had given in frank marriage with his said daughter a
moiety of the manor of Lasham, Hants. The contract of marriage
at least must therefore have been made by 1262. Camoys alienated
the land, it was said, to Robert Walerand (the king's grantee), who
gave it in exchange to the Master of St. Nicholas's, Portsmouth,
and in 1319 Ralph Camoys claimed it back and it was awarded to
him.26
John de Camoys died in 1298, Ralph his son being of full
age. 27
In 1316 Ralph was one of the lords of Barcombe.28
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his death in 1335 his holding descended to his son Hugh Camoys.
In 1412 this manor was held for fee, valued at £5 only.29
Another manor in Barcombe descended in the line of Warenne
of Wormegay to the Bardolfs. In 1241 William Bardolf granted
an easement to the prior of Lewes for the latter's mill adjoining
land in Barcombe, Hugh de Plaiz being a consenting party. In the
claim of Alice late wife of Hugh de Plaiz 30 in 1256 for her dower
against Richard de Plaiz, a manor in Barcombe was included, as
one of her late husband's tenements 31 (n. 5). This appears to have
been the third manor in that place.
William Bardolf held a manor there at his decease in 1276, as
shewn at Warenne, n. 20. This descended to his son William, at
whose death, in 1294, it was assigned in dower to his widow Isabel,
as of the yearly value of £17 12s. 4d.32 Isabel late wife of Hugh
Bardolf held it at her death in 1323 as of the inheritance of Thomas
Bardolf her son,33 to whom it then passed.³4
He died in 1329
holding the manors of Barcombe and Fletching jointly with Agnes
his wife, who survived, except the capital messuage of the manor
of Barcombe with the wood and the plat within the great dyke
newly made, of which Thomas died seised, having held it of the earl
of Warenne.35 His relict Agnes continued in possession of these
manors,36 which were in 1363 in the wardship of queen Philippa
with the honor of Wormegay and other Bardolf manors, late of
John Bardolf, knt., during the minority of the heir.37
William Bardolf held Barcombe in 1412 as I knight's fee, worth
£15 yearly.38
The family of Combe had an interest in Barcombe. In 1220
Richard de Combe (Cumba) claimed land in Surrey by descent
from Osbert his grandfather.39 In 1233 Richard de Combe brought
a plea of disseisin against the earl of Warenne and William de
Monceux concerning tenements in Barcombe and 'Laweland.' 40
In 1239 prior Albert and the convent of Lewes took all tithes of
corn from the ancient demesnes of Richard de Combe within the
parish of Westham, Suss.41
The tenure of High Roding, Essex, by the earls of Warenne
is illustrated by the following notices. In 1224 the earl had a royal
gift of 6 oaks from Hatfield park for the repair of his houses at
Roding,42 and in the same year a recognition was to be made
whether a virgate in the earl of Warenne's Roding was alms of the
church of Roding or the lay fee of Geoffrey Biendene; 43 the finding
was in favour of the church.44 In 1226 a plea of land in Roding
between the earl and William Bardolf was put in respite for a
month.45
Three years later Bardolf quitclaimed the manor of
Roding Bardulf to the earl for an exchange in Piddinghoe, Suss.,46
as noted at n. 2. Again in 1228 the earl had 10 oaks from Hatfield
to be used for enclosing his park of Roding. In 1231 the earl's
market at Roding was to be held in the future on Monday.47
In 1235-6 the collectors of the aid accounted in Essex for
101 fees (alibi II fees) of the earl of Warenne.48 In 1240 the
manor of Roding, Essex, and Methwold, Norf., were assigned in
dower to Matilda late wife of William earl of Warenne.49
In 1251
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HONOR OF WARENNE
John de Warenne had a royal gift of 10 does and 5 bucks from the
forest of Hatfield for restocking his park of Roding.50 In 1255 he
had a grant of market and fair at Roding. 51 In an inquiry made in
1276 as to the value of the earl of Surrey's markets and fairs it
was presented that the earl's market at Roding often failed and
that toll was not exacted. 52
In 1303 the earl held the manor of High Roding. 53 In 1314
he granted to Edmund earl of Arundel the reversion at his death
of the manors of Roding, Woolston, Housham (Hall), Prittlewell
and Margaretting, Essex. 54 In 1321 the earl of Arundel settled.
these manors on himself and Alice his wife.55 In 1328, after the
said Edmund's forfeiture, John de Warenne, earl of Surrey, regained
possession of these manors. 56 This was a measure of security.
In 1345 Richard earl of Arundel was nominally in possession of
those manors with Little Canfield, Essex, and Isabel la Despensere
held them for her life.57
The particulars of the 13 (or less) knights' fees held with the
manor of Roding are nowhere recorded.
1. Mon. Angl. vi. 1087b. 2. Anct. Chs. (P.R.S. x.), 5- 3. Vesp. F.
XV. f. 13.
4. Red Bk. 498.
5. R. Cur. Reg. (P.R.S. xxiv.), 243.
6. Ibid. ii. 199.
7. Ibid. iii. 230, 290.
8. Ibid. 311.
9. Feet of F.,
Suss. n. IIO.
10. R. Lit. Claus. i. 14, 27.
11. R. Lit. Pat. 126.
12. Cal. Chart. R. i. 265. 13. Feet of F., Norf. 17 Hen. III.
14. Vesp.
F. xv. f. 122d. 15. Testa, 220, 222b. 16. Close R. 515; Cal. Pat. R.
483, 487. 17. Excerpt. Fin. ii. 370, 377, 384.
18. Cal Inquis i. 223.
19. Cal. Inquis. i 126. 20. Excerpt. Fin. ii. 316, 326. 21. V.C.H. Beds.
iii. 406.
22. Cal. Inquis. i. 224. 23. Ibid. 223, 300.
24. Suss. Feet
of F. n. 730.
25. Ibid. nos. 766, 904, 916.
26. Abbrev. Placit. 334.
27. Cal. Fine R. i. 349, 400. 28. Feud. Aids, v. 136.
29. Ibid. vi. 521.
31. Ibid. n. 607.
32. Cal. Close R. 227.
34. Cal. Close R. 22. 35. Cal. Inquis. vii. 175.
37. Cat. of Anct. D. i. C.758. 38. Feud. Aids,
Note-Bk. n. 113. 40. Close R. 331. 41. Cat.
42. R. Lit. Claus. i. 581. 43. Pat. R. 485.
Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 1025. 45. R. Lit. Claus.
47. Close R. 55, 506. 48. Bk. of Fees,
50. Ibid. 517.
51. Cal. Chart. R. i. 449.
Feud. Aids, ii. 152. 54. Cal. Pat. R. 175.
57. Ibid. 488.
30. Feet of F., Suss. n. 383.
33. Cal. Inquis. vi. 272.
36. Cal. Close R. 10.
vi. 525.
39. Bracton's
of Anct. D. iv. A. 8010.
44. Feet of F., Essex, 69;
ii. III. 46. Feet of F., Suss. 86.
488, 900. 49. Close R. 212.
52. Cal. Misc. Ing. i. 316. 53.
55. Ibid. 600. 56. Ibid. 336.
VII.
In 1086 in Cambridgeshire Nicholas (de Kenet) held of William
de Warenne in Kennet 2 hides.
In Suffolk the same Nicholas held of William de Warenne in
Elvedon 2 carucates, Herringswell 40 acres, Tunstall 1 carucate
and 20 acres.
In Norfolk William de Warenne held in Banham 1 carucate
and 31 acres.
In Sussex land in Twineham, unrecorded in the Survey, formed
part of this fee.
The tenant of William de Warenne in Kennet is described in
the Inquisitio Comitatus Cantabrigiensis as Nicholas de Kenet.
From Nicholas descended Nicholas de Kenet, who was amerced
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343
40s. in 1160 for a default in Cambridgeshire.¹ Nicholas de Kenet
in 1161 gave the monks of Sibton all his land between the roads
leading to the fords of Kennet and Freckenham as fully as his
father and he had held the same, with right in the common pasture
beyond the river. The monks forgave him all he owed them and
the injury he had done, and promised mark rent, which was to
be paid to his wife Emma as part of her dower.2 In 1169 William
Giffard was amerced 40s. for disseisin done to Nicholas de Kenet
in Suffolk. For later references to this family see Feudal Cam-
bridgeshire, 148-9.
3
6
Nicholas de Kenet and Peter his son attested a charter of
Hamelin earl of Warenne made temp. Richard I. He was constable
of Bolsover castle in 1209.5 He attested a royal charter at Rocking-
ham in 1208, but in 1215, being against the king, 20 librates of
his land in Lamberhurst, Kent, were given to the king's bailees,"
as also was his land in Shelsley, Worcs. In 1217 he returned to
allegiance and had writs of reseisin to the sheriffs of Worcester,
Norfolk, Suffolk, Bedford, Cambridge and Kent. In 1225 William
de Beauchamp recovered against Nicholas de Kenet the manor
of Shelsley Beauchamp, Worcs., which the king had given to the
said Nicholas with Isabel mother of the said William in marriage,
and she was deceased without issue by Nicholas.9
His name
appears on the commission for taking up knighthood and arms
in 1230 for Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, but was imme-
diately cancelled.10 He probably died shortly after, for in 1232
Peter de Kenet was impleading 4 persons for a tenement in
Banham, Norf.11
I
In 1236 Nicholaa (?) de Kenet held 3 hides in Kennet, Cambs.,
of William de Warenne for 1 fee.12 In 1240 the service of Peter
de Kenet of 4 fees, which he lately did to the earl of Warenne,
was assigned to the dower of the countess of Warenne.13
In
1242-3 Peter de Kenet held of this honor 1 fee in Kennet,¹4 and
2 fees in Twineham, Suss.15; John de Seyncler and Richard de
Crungelthorpe fee in Elvedon of the same Peter; Peter son of
Richard and Edmund de Suhethfee in Barton (Mills) and
Herringswell of the same Peter.16 Nicholaa de Kenet held in
the name of dower fee in Lamberhurst, Kent, of the honor of
Crevequer.17
In 1258 a fine of land in Blakenham, Suff., was levied between
Richard de Kenet and Nicholas de Kenet.18 Possibly this was
the Nicholas who was party with Joan his wife to a fine of land
in Marston Moretaine, Beds., in 1254.19 He may have been of
the Montfort party, for before November 1266 he enfeoffed Hugh
le Bigod, justiciar of England, of the manor of Kennet 20 with the
members.
In 1276 Roger le Bigod, earl Marshal, was in possession of
Kennet,21 and in 1279 he held the entire vill with Kennetsford
of the earl of Warenne for 21 fees with gallows and free warren.22
In 1285 Peter de Kenet passed the manor by fine to the earl
Marshal,23 who held in 1303 in Kennet 21 fees of the earl of
Warenne; 24 in Herringswell, Ellen la Blunde and Richard de
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¥
1
4
Suthale held of the earl Marshal fee and Giles de Gelham
similarly held fee in Elvedon.25 In Banham, Norf., John de
Grey held 1 fee of the earl of Warenne.26 Nicholas de Kenet
was living in 1298, when he held land in Little Blakenham,
Suff. 27
In 1276 the earl Marshal had pledged certain manors, including
Kennet, to the king as security for a debt of £943; they were
restored in the following year, 28 but the earl Marshal's surrender
of the same manors was not cancelled by the king until 1291.29
At his death in 1306 the earl held jointly with Alice his wife, by the
king's charter made in 1302, the manor of Kennet; but having
no issue all his lands reverted to the king by the form of the earl's
feoffment.30 Kennet was delivered to Alice the earl's relict for
life with reversion to the king.31 In 1312 the king gave the late
earl Marshal's castles and manors to his brother, Thomas Planta-
genet, called 'de Brotherton,' excepting the dower lands of Alice
as above.32
On 1 January, 1319, the earl of Surrey enfeoffed
Thomas earl of Lancaster of 4 chief manors in Norfolk with 391
knights' fees, in Suffolk 2 knights' fees, and in Kennet and Kennets-
ford, Cambs. and Suff., Banham, Norf., Elvedon, Suff., and
Twineham, Suss., 4 fees, subject to the earl of Surrey's life estate
therein.33
After the forfeiture of earl Thomas these fees were
given to Aymer de Valence, earl of Pembroke, at whose decease
in 1324 Thomas de Brotherton, earl Marshal, was returned as
holding of him 4 fees in the places named above, except in one of
two returns, where Herringswell and Hundon, Suff., were substi-
tuted for Elvedon.34 Two years later these 4 fees were assigned
to the pourparty of David de Strabolgi, earl of Athol, and Joan his
wife, kinswoman and coheiress of the earl of Pembroke.35 The
earl of Athol died in 1327 seised of the same 4 fees which the earl
Marshal held of him; David de Athol his son was aged 20 years.36
On the death of the earl Marshal the manor of Kennet, extended
at £23 75., was in 1338 assigned in dower to Mary his relict 37; in
the following year, subject to the dower of the said Alice, the lands
late of Roger le Bigod, earl Marshal, were confirmed to Edward de
Montacute, who had married Alice second daughter and coheir
of Thomas de Brotherton.3
38
In 1346 Margaret countess Marshal held Kennet for 2½ fees of
the honor of Warenne; 39 Anselm le Marshal held 1 fee in Banham
of the said countess as of the same honor; 40 the abbess of Marham,
John de Norwich and others held fee in Herringswell of the same
countess, who held by reason of minority of Thomas son and heir
of Richard de Gelham fee in Elvedon.41
4
No references have been found relative to the holding in Twine-
ham or its tenant; but it is possible that the manor there held by
Thomas de Poynings (n. 3) at his death in 1339, and later by the
Benefelds (n. 8), was an alienation from this fee.
1. Pipe R. 6 Hen. II, 33. 2. Harl. ch. 83, f. 54; with a large number
of witnesses; seal. Cf. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 96. 3. Pipe R. 15 Hen. II, 26.
6. R. Lit. Claus. i. 234b,
Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 1071.
4. Mon. Angl. vi. 730b.
2376. 7. Ibid. 240.
5. R. Lit. Pat. 89.
8. Ibid. 375b.
9.
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345
11. Pat. R. 524.
10. Close R. 401.
where' Nicholaus' may be a misreading for Nicholaa.'
12. Lib. Mem. de Bernewelle, 260,
13. Close R. 214.
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14. Bk of Fees, 927. 15. Testa, 2226. 16. Bk. of Fees, 919. 17. Testa,
2136. 18. Feet of F., Suff. 42 Hen. III. 19. Cal. of Fines, Beds. n. 559.
20. Placit. de quo war. 102b. 21. R. Hund. i. 54b. 22. Ibid. ii. 498, 504.
23. Cal. of Cambs. Fines, 55.
24. Feud. Aids, i. 159. 25. Ibid. v. 32.
26. Ibid. iii. 441.
27. Cal. Inquis. iii. 370.
28. Cal. Pat. R. 166,
215.
29. Ibid. 441. 30. Cal. Inquis. iv. 291, 293.
See Cal. Chart. R. iii.
25. 31. Cal. Close R. 478, 523. 32. Cal. Chart. R. iii. 205; Cal. Close R. 504.
33. Cal. Pat. R. 263-4. 34. Cal. Inquis. vi. 331, 334.
35. Cal. Close R.
447. 36. Cal. Inquis. vi. 483. 37. Cal. Close R. 539, 582. 38. Cal.
40. Ibid. iii. 529.
41. Ibid. v. 79.
Pat. R. 177.
39. Feud. Aids, i. 159.
VIII.
In Sussex Nigel in 1086 held of William de Warenne in Orles-
wick 5 hides, Esmerewic' (? Hangleton) 1 hide, Wootton I hide,
Allington virgate.
2
1
In Norfolk William de Warenne held in Fincham 2 carucates,
South Burgh carucate, Helhoughton carucate and 12 acres,
Hackford 1 carucates.
I
Nigel gave tithes of Orleswick and of 1 hide in Wootton to the
monks of Lewes by consent of William de Warenne; Ralph son
of Nigel and his wife gave land with pasture for 100 sheep by
consent of the second earl Warenne, and his tithe in Hangleton ;
Godard gave the tithe of 1 hide in Orleswick.¹ About 1148-9
Simon de Hangelton attested a charter of Reginald de Warenne,
brother of the third earl. Ralph de Hangeltun attested a charter
of earl Hamelin.3
2
4
Before the end of the 12th century the line of Nigel the Domes-
day tenant failed. In 1199 Lucy de Cokefeld and Adam her son
recovered their free tenement in Hangleton against Wolwin reeve
of Bleachington and others. Their position in the vill is un-
determined. In 1250 Robert son of Robert de Cokefeld acquired
from his said father a messuage and 2 carucates in Hangleton and
Aldrington in return for an annuity of £20 to his said father.5 In
1291 Robert de Cokefeld passed to Luke de Ponynges the manor of
Hangleton, to hold in fee by rendering 40s. at a scutage of 40s.,
reserving to himself a life estate. See below.
6
8
Before 1100 Robert de Maners (de Maneriis) attested a charter
of Robert count of Eu. Robert de Maners prior to 1147 gave
to Waverley abbey Nutshaw (Nutescheolva'), Hants. In 1176
Richard de Maners was pardoned 10 marks of an amercement of
40 marks for forest trespass in Hampshire." He may have been
of Ash Maners, Hants. See Eudes the sewer, n. 42. Another (?)
Richard de Maners made an agreement in 1207 with Robert Fitz-
Roger of Norfolk.10 In 1209-10 Thomas de Benefeld and Walter
de Bergh levied a fine of the advowson of the church of St. Andrew
of Burgh next Hingham, Norf.¹¹ John de Beningefeld had proffered
100s. in 1187 for a recognition respecting fee in Lewes and Garton
against the earl of Warenne.12 In 1222 Richard de Mesners or
Mainers was charged by a Norfolk man with detention of a horse
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HONOR OF WARENNE
which was seen yoked in the earl of Warenne's harrow at Stanford,
Norf.13 In the following year Richard de Mesners had letters of
protection on going on pilgrimage to Santiago with the earl of
Warenne.14
In 1242-3 Cardo de Hangelton and Ralph de Meyners held
3 fees in Hangleton of the honor of Warenne.15 The said Ralph.
died soon after without issue, leaving his sisters his heirs, namely
Agnes late wife of William de Benefeld and Isabel wife of Philip
de Neubaud. In 1247 a partition of the inheritance was made,
whereby Agnes granted to Philip and Isabel land in Orleswick
and the tenement in Marham, Norf., which Agnes had of the gift
of their father, Richard de Meyners, in frank marriage; certain
tenements in Fincham, Norf., then held in dower by Leticia late
wife of their deceased brother Ralph, were to be divided upon
reversion between them, so that the chief messuage at Fincham
should fall to Isabel's share.16 Philip and Isabel were living in
1253,17 and in 1262 they sold to Master Henry de Lewes a messuage
and 2 virgates in Allington, Suss.18
Agnes de Benefeld seems to have been mother of Richard de
Benefeld, who acquired in 1269 for 9 marks from Philip and Isabel
de Neubaud a tenement in Dene, Suss.19 Three years later he
acquired from Richard son of Cardo de Hangelton for 40 marks a
messuage and 110 acres of land in Hangleton, and the reversion of
land held in dower by a certain widow, Joan (de Hangelton).2 20
In 1267 William de Rusham exchanged his land in Saund by
Poynings, now Perching Sands, Suss., with Richard de Benefeld
for the vicomté of Meyners and other lands in the realm of the
king of France held of the abbot of Corbie.21
The Clackclose hundred roll of 1275 records a plea between
Richard de Benefeld and Philip de Neubaud, plaintiffs (?), and
William de Causton.22 Richard de Benefeld is also mentioned as
of Buntinghill hundred, Suss., in that year.23 Further reference.
to this Richard, or his son, will be found in the account of Shere,
Surr. (n. 12).
In 1302 John de Benefeld held of this honor in South Burgh
fee; with Edmund de la Combe and Ralph Neubaud he held in
Fincham fee of the honor of Lewes.24 He was joint lord of
Fincham in 1316.25 He held of Aymer de Valence, earl of Pembroke,
in 1324 in Fincham, Burgh, Hackford, Hargham and Helhoughton
I fee,26 and died in the following year; James son of Walter son
of the said John was aged 9 years.27 Part of this fee was in 1327
assigned to Thomas le Blount and Juliana his wife, late wife of
John de Hastings, in dower, and the reversion to the pourparty of
Lawrence de Hastinges. 28
It is possible that Thomas de Poynings had wardship of this fee
in Sussex, for he held at his death in 1339 manors in Hangleton and
Twineham.29 See n. 3.
John de Benefeld held these tenements in 1346 and another
John held in 1412 the manors of Hangleton and Twineham.30
The name Hangelton continued in Hampshire. In 1334 a
dispute about estovers in 300 acres of wood in Charlton and land
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347
in Catherington, Hants., between John L'Estrange and Richard
de Hangelton was settled at the earl of Arundel's request.31
1. Watson, op. cit. i. 96.
3. Watson, ut sup. i. 167.
n. 514.
6. Ibid. n. 1062.
4.
2. Brit. Mus., Facsim.
R. Cur. Reg. iii. 105. 5.
7. Round, Calendar, n. 230.
of Chs. n. 31.
Feet of F., Suss.
8. Mon. Angl.
v. 2426. 9. Pipe R. 22 Hen. II, 194. 10. R. de Fin. 378. 11. Feet
of F., Norf. 11 John. 12. Pipe R. 33 Hen. II, 109.
13. Bracton's
Note-Bk. n. 194.
14. Pat. R. 369. 15. Testa, 222b. 16. Feet of F.,
Suss. n. 437.
17. Ibid. Norf. 37 Hen. III.
18. Ibid. Suss. n. 660.
19. Ibid. n. 746.
20. Ibid. n. 793.
21. Cal. Pat. R. 176.
Hund. i. 520b.
23. Ibid. ii. 210. 24. Feud. Aids, iii. 391, 399. 25. Ibid.
452. 26. Cal. Inquis. vi. 331. 27. Ibid. 360.
28. Cal. Close R. 1325,
P. 277; 1327, P. 13. 29. Cal. Inquis. viii. 171.
30. Feud. Aids, vi. 525.
31. Cat. of Anct. D. ii. B. 3481.
22. R.
IX.
In Sussex William de Warenne had in 1086 in Perching 2 hides
which Tezelin held of him and in Fulking 3 hides and I virgate
held by Tezelin. These two lands of Tezelin's then lay together
(as one manor).
In Surrey Tezelin the cook held Addington in chief for 1 hide,
and Hurtmore (in Godalming) of Walter son of Other for 3 hides.
William second earl Warenne confirmed to Lewes the tithes
of William son of Techelin at Perching.¹
4
In the time of Henry II and Richard I the kitchen serjeanty
of Addington was in the possession of Bartholomew de Caisneto,
or de Cheney. He is mentioned in the roll of the sheriff of Kent
for 1176, as having been disseised of land by Hugh pincerna.2
Richard bishop of Winchester (1173-1188) confirmed to St. Mary's,
Southwark, the church of Addington with the chapel of All Saints
given by Bartholomew de Caisneto.3 In 1161 Bartholomew de
Caisneto accounted in Surrey for 1 mark of scutage. This was
in respect of Addington, and the above entry led to a protest on
the part of the owner in 1234 against being charged to scutage in
respect of this estate, which appeal was supported by the verdict
of twelve knights.5 It appears probable that the fee of Tezelin in
Perching, Fulking and Addington was acquired in marriage by a
cadet of the house of Cheney (n. 1), and so descended unsevered
to the heir general of Bartholomew de Cheney.
7
In 1165 Alan and Henry, sons of Ailwin son of Lefstan, accounted
in Essex and Hertfordshire of 20 marks for a fine of land. Of Leof-
stan son of Orgar and his sons Ailwin and Robert see Mr. Round's
The Commune of London, 105. Henry son of Ailwin attests many
London charters and one as mayor of London. He was the first
mayor of the commune of London (1187 to 1212). There is no
evidence that his descendant, William Aguillun, held land in
Sussex prior to his marriage to the granddaughter of Henry son
of Ailwin, whose son Peter held Tezelin's land and serjeanty.
Aguillun was probably a Norman who entered the service of king
John. Perhaps he may be identified as the son of William Aguillun,
who in 1200 made a covenant with John the marshal to deliver
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William Aguillun, his eldest son and heir, to the wardship of the
said John and £40 of rent and land in Meautreu (Méautry, in
Calvados) and in the mill of La Coudre at Gossiert Molins, which
rent the father gave to William his son subject to John the marshal
holding it in his hands while the son was under age; and further
that John should give the son a wife by the joint advice of John
and the father, who also delivered to John all his (William's) other
lands in Normandy for a term of 10 years.8
In 1205 Peter son of the mayor of London held a moiety of
Addington by kitchen serjeanty.9 On 10 December, 1203, King
John granted to Peter, son of Henry then Mayor of London, the
custody of the land and heirs of Isabella de Chesney, late the wife
of the said Peter, namely Margaret and Joan, daughters of the said
Peter and Isabella, and their marriages.10 Margaret, the elder
daughter, was married to Ralph de Clere (n. 12), who held in her
right the manor of Greatham, Hants., and Joan, the younger
daughter, was married to Ralph le Parmenter, of whom see Stapleton
in his preface to the Liber de Antiquis Legibus (pp. vii-xii).
The first Aguillon definitely connected with Perching was William
Aguillon, living temp. John, who obtained the serjeanty of Adding-
ton, Sussex, in marriage in 1212, in which year a mandate was
issued to William de Harecurt to deliver to William Aguillun a
lady named Joan, late the wife of Ralph Parmenter and then in
Harecurt's custody.11 On 5 October in that year the mayor and
sheriffs of London were ordered to take into the king's hands the
lands and rents in London late of Henry Fitz-Ailwin, late mayor of
London, deceased, and to provide to William Aguillun and Joan,
late the wife of Ralph Parmenter, Joan's dower of the lands late of
the said Ralph in London.12 The sheriffs of Norfolk, Sussex and
Surrey were ordered to deliver to William Aguillun the chattels
then in the king's hands in the land of Ralph Parmenter in their
respective bailiwicks.13 Mr. Stapleton shows that the land in
Norfolk lay in Scroteby.14
In the year 1212 it was returned by the inquest for Walton
hundred, Sussex, that Bartholomew del Chennay held a part of
Addington in chief of the king by serjeanty of the kitchen, by whose
gift was not known; that king Richard gave the same tenement
to Peter son of the mayor of London with Bartholomew's daughter,
and king John afterwards gave it to Ralph Parmenter 15 with
Peter's daughter, and that it was in the king's hands at the time of
the inquiry.16 By a later return (c. 1219) it appears that William
Aguillun then held certain land in Addington by serjeanty of making
hashes (hastias) in the king's kitchen on the coronation day,
or some one for him ought to make a certain mess called 'Le
Girunt,' and if stuffing is put in it then it is called 'Malpiger-
See a very full account of this family and serjeanty in
Stapleton's Liber de Antiquis Legibus and in Mr. Round's account
of this serjeanty in The King's Serjeants (245-9). In 1215 seisin of
the land late of Ralph de Clere in Greatham, Hants., was ordered
to be given to William Aguillun and Joan his wife, if it was found
by inquiry to be the right and inheritance of Joan.18 In June 1214
noun.' 17
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349
William Aguillun, being with the king in Poitiers, had restoration
of the land late of Gilbert de Norfolk in (East) Harling, Norf.19
(See n. 20.)
On 2 September a mandate was sent to the bishop of Win-
chester that, in accordance with the record of an agreement made
between the king and William Aguillun touching the daughter and
heir of Peter son of Henry Fitz-Eilwin the mayor of London and
the said Henry as to the mayor's lands and tenements in London,
they should give the same William seisin of the lands, rents and
other possessions of the said Henry within the city of London and
without.20 Part of the property lay in Kent, Surrey and Hertford-
shire. 21 Afterwards William Aguillun withdrew his allegiance to
John, but returned again, and on 17 Sept., 1217, had restoration of
his lands in Gloucestershire, Norfolk, Oxfordshire, Hampshire and
the city of London.22 In 1217 Orabilis late wife of Alan son of the
mayor demanded against William Aguillun a third part of a knight's
fee in Beckenham and of & fee in Stoke, Kent, as her dower ; William
vouched to warranty his wife Joan, whose inheritance that land
was.23 In 1219 he and Joan his wife purchased a writ against
Ralph de Clere touching the manor of Greatham, Hants.24
In 1234 William Aguillun obtained a grant of the land late of
Robert de Curcy in Emsworth and Warblington, Hants., which he
had previously held of the bail of king John.25
To the aid of 1235-6 he paid mark in respect of (?) fee in
Greatham,26 and in 1242-3 was returned as holding Greatham of
the fee of the earl Warenne and I fee in Perching, Sussex, of the
same fee.27 The heirs of Bartholomew de Kaisneto held 2 mes-
suages in Lewes, by what service was not known.28
William Aguillun died in 1244, when Robert his son and heir
paid £10 for relief of the lands he held in chief in (Addington),
Surrey, (Watton), Herts., and (Greatham) Hants.29 This Robert
was a man of some importance in the time of Henry III. In 1260
he obtained a release from John son of John de Scalers and Alice
his wife of two-thirds of the manor of Perching, with the reversion
of the third part of the same which John Pycot and Lucy his wife
held in dower of the inheritance of the said Alice.30
John de
Scalers and Alice his wife were parties to fines of land in various
places in Norfolk during the period 1256-1263. Alice de Scalers
was named in 1275 among the heirs general of Fulk de Beaufou
of Hockwold.
In 1267 Robert Aguillon was appointed sheriff of Surrey and
Sussex and constable of Guildford castle.31 In 1269 he granted
to Stephen le Marshal of La Wyke, for his life, a rent charge of
20 marks out of the manor of Perching,32 and gave bond for due
performance with power of distress to be levied in default of payment
in his manors of Perching, Fulking and Edburton.33 In 1264 he
had licence to crenellate the manor house of Perching,34 and again
in 1268 to enclose the manse of his manor of Perching with a ditch
and wall of stone and to crenellate it.³ 35 About the same time he
married Margaret countess of the Isle, and, for his good service
in the time of the disturbance of the realm, the king gave him a
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provision of £200 yearly in land.36 In 1284-5 he held the vill of
Perching of the earl Warenne,37 and died early in 1286 holding
the manor of Perching with its members of the earl Warenne for
I fee, a tenement there of Sir William de Say for fee, another of
Sir William Grandyn for fee and fee; in Surrey he held the
manor of Addington with Waldingham, a member thereof, in
chief by serjeanty of making certain food at the coronation called
'le mes de Maupygernoun'; in Kent land at Hoo Allhallows;
in Hertfordshire the manor of Watton, held in chief by serjeanty
of finding a footman in the king's army for 40 days at his own
cost; in Hampshire a messuage at Greatham held in chief and
rent of assize at Emsworth pertaining to the manor of Perching;
he also held lands in London and in Kent, Buckinghamshire,
Norfolk and Suffolk; dame Isabel his daughter, wife of Hugh
Bardolf, was aged 28 years.38
Later in the year dower was assigned to Margaret the relict
of Robert, namely the manor of Greatham, rent and land in
Emsworth, Hoo, Addington, Waldingham, and the manor of
Crofton, Bucks.39 At her death in 1292 she held the manors of
Addington, Surrey, Bures Tany, Essex, and Greatham, Hants.,
with lands in Edmonton, Midd., Hoo, Kent, and Crofton, Bucks.,
of the inheritance of Isabel daughter and heir of Robert Aguillon
and then wife of Hugh Bardolf, aged 28 years.40
At his death in 1304 Hugh Bardolf held the manor of Perching
of the inheritance of Isabel his wife, who survived him, of the Earl
Warenne for I fee, with the other lands of her inheritance; Thomas
his son and heir was aged 22 years. 41 Dower was assigned to her
in 1306 in 6 counties.42 In 1315 the lordship of lands, villeins etc.
in Emsworth and Warblington, Hants., given by Henry III to
William Aguillon and lately seised into the king's hands, was
restored to dame Isabella, late the wife of Hugh Bardolf.43 She
was lady of Perching in 1316.44
Thomas Bardolf at his death in 1330 held part of the Aguillon
inheritance, but Perching and Fulking were not included.45 In
the preceding year Robert de Ardern had licence to crenellate his
mansion of Perching, Suss.46 In 1338 John de Molyns had letters
of protection at his manor of Perching and other manors.4
47
1. Watson, op. cit. i. 96. 2. Pipe R. 22 Hen. II, 210.
3. Mon.
Anglic. vi. 1726. 4. Pipe R. 7 Hen. II, 43. 5. Madox, Hist. of the Excheq.
i. 651; Round, The King's Serjeants, 23-4. 6. Pipe R. 11 Hen. II, 18.
7. Cal. of Anct. D. i. A.1474 et pass. 8. R. Chart. 98. 9. Bk. of Fees,
340. 10. R. Chart. 114. 11. R. Lit. Pat. 95. 12. R. Lit. Claus. i. 124b.
Cf. ibid. 127.
13. Ibid. 126b. 14. Cf. Testa, 284b. 15. Ralph was
ill in 1204 in Wilts; R. Lit. Claus. i. 146. 16. Bk. of Fees, 68. 17. Ibid.
274. 18. R. Lit. Claus. i. 242. 19. Ibid. 167. 20. Ibid. 1716. 21. Ibid.
187. 22. Ibid. 322. 23. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 1302. 24. Excerpt. e R.
Fin. i. 37.
25. Close R. 515; Cal. Close R. 1315, p. 159.
26. Testa,
2386. 27. Ibid. 222b, 232b. 28. Ibid. 226b. 29. Excerpt. Fin. i. 424 ;
Cal. R. Original. i. 6b. 30. Feet of F., Suss. n. 643. 31. Cal. Pat. R. 25.
32. Suss. Feet of F. n. 728. 33. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 82-3.
35. Pat. R. 189.
36. Ibid. 1269, p. 348.
37.
38. Cal. Inquis. ii. 360. This union is recorded in an
a Sussex return made in 1212 or 1219; Testa, 228.
34. Cal. Pat. 307.
Feud. Aids, v. 129.
interpolation added to
39. Cal. Close, 389.
KINGSTON BUCY
351
40. Cal. Inquis. iii. II.
41. Ibid. iv. 168.
43. Cal. Close R. 1315, p. 159; Cal. Pat. R. 1314, p. 139.
Aids, v. 136.
45. Cal. Inquis. vii. 174 ff.
47. Ibid. 106.
42. Cal. Close R. 440-1.
44. Feud.
46. Cal. Pat. R. 357.
X.
Of the land of Hangleton, which belonged to Kingston Bucy
(now Kingston by the Sea), Sussex, described (at n. 5) as 14 hides
and 1 virgate, some part may have lain in the vill of Kingston
Bucy, where a certain Ralph held 6 hides in 1086 of William de
Braose, lord of Bramber. He also held Shermanbury of the same
lord, and both manors, with the advowsons of the churches,
descended together in the Buci family.
8
The origin of the family is perplexing. To the charter of William
de Braose founding the priory of Sele in 1075 Ralph son of Landric
de Boceo was a witness,¹ and may have been the Ralph named
above. To a charter by Philip de Braose, made when he was about.
to set off to Jerusalem, one Bucei was a witness; 2 and this is
probably the Buci the sheriff who attested a certificate issuing
from the court of Philip at Washington concerning the parishes
of Southwick and Bramberden.3 Bucei and Hugh Bucei attested
Braose charters to Lewes.4 Hugh son of Buci and Mahald his
wife gave their portion of a saltern in the marsh of Bramber, by
the castle, to the monks of Dureford, and William de Braose II
confirmed the same. Seifred II, bishop of Chichester (1180-1204),
also confirmed this gift of the fourth part of a saltern given by
Hugh Buci. To another charter of William de Braose II Robert
de Buci and Buci de Selliterne and William his son were witnesses;
and Robert de Buci attested another charter of the same William
de Braose, which must be dated in or before 1144, when Seifrid I,
bishop of Chichester (1125–1148), confirmed it. It seems probable
that Robert de Buci was the son of Ralph of 1086 and ancestor of
the later lords of Kingston, and that Bucei was another person
who may have had the Braose part of Sullington.
A plea of 1201 yields the descent of the line. Robert de Buci
demanded of William Hansard the service of knight for land in
Kingston, where William acknowledged only 2s. of rent. The
plaintiff stated that the defendant's grandfather William held of
his grandfather Robert de Buci (no doubt the Robert named
above); and that the defendant's father, another William, held
of his own father, Hugh de Buci; and further that defendant had
done homage to him the said Robert de Buci. Later in the year
Robert released the knight's service, so that the tenement should
thenceforth be held by 2s. rent, making a share of the fence of the
park of William de Braiose at Knapp and giving sheriff's aid.10
Robert de Buci in 1199 sold half a virgate of land in Kingston to
Philip Hoel; it was to be held for the fortieth part of a knight's
fee.11
A John de Buci was one of the men of William de Braiose
in 1203.12
9
7
In 1214 Robert de Buci had his writ of the scutage of Poitou,13
and was a surety for Robert le Sauvage in respect to his fine in
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Sussex.14
Robert de Busey was chief lord of Roland de Acstede in
1231 of land in Wantley, Suss.15 In 1241 he was a commissioner
to view the royal castles in Sussex.16 In 1242-3 he was tenant of
4 fees of the honor of Bramber in Kingston Bucy, William de
Buci being the tenant of I fee of the honor of Warenne.17 In
1248 Robert son of Robert de Buci manumitted one of his Sussex
natives of his bondage.18
19 Hugh
Hugh de Buci succeeded and occurs in a fine of 1255.¹
de Buscy released to Lewes priory about this time all his claim
in the services of I knight's fee (less 2 virgates) in Wantley, where
20 virgates made a knight's fee; a rent of 4s. was to be paid.20
He held 4 fees of the honor of Bramber in 1267, and paid 48 marks
to William de Braiose for the discharge of his land from liability
to murage.21 He claimed wreck of the sea at Kingston Bucy in
1275,22 but in 1279 it was presented that he ought not to have it.23
Robert de Buci held the 4 fees in Kingston Bucy and the
members in 1291.24 He was dead in 1314, when his widow Lucy
held a third of the manors of Kingston and Shermanbury and the
advowson of the church of the latter place; the reversion was
settled on Hugh de Boucy (probably son of Robert) and Agnes
his wife and their issue, together with the advowson of Kingston
church and the other two-thirds of the manors.25 In 1316 Hugh
de Bussy was lord of Kingston Bucy.26 Land in Kingston was held
of Hugh de Boucy in 1338,27 and he was appointed sheriff of Surrey
and Sussex in 1341, continuing in office for a year.2 28 He died
about 1359, leaving as heirs two daughters-Sibil wife of John de
Lillebon (L'Islebon) and then of Andrew de Changeton, and Joan
wife of Sir William de Fifhide. The former in 1348 transferred their
rights in the inheritance to the Fifhides and Sir William died
seised of Kingston in 1361. His son Sir William dying in 1387
without issue, the manors of Kingston and Shermanbury descended
to his cousin Joan, daughter of his aunt Agnes and wife of Sir
John Sonde or Sondes. 29
In 1428 it was returned that the heir of William Fyfhide held
fee in Shermanbury, and the heirs of Henry (sic) Boucy and
William Fyfhide held 2 fees in Kingston; 30 a half fee in Kingston
had been divided between three persons-John Cambray, William
Merlot and Richard Norton.31
1. Mon. Angl. iv. 669a. See Round, Doc. France, 396, 397 (Radulf and
Randulf). 2. Mon. Angl. iv. 669b. 3. Dallaway, West Sussex, II. ii. 62
(from deeds at Magd. Coll. Oxon.). 4. Lewes Chartul., Vesp. F. xv. f. 131.
5. Dureford Chartul., Vesp. E. xxiii. f. 29d. 6. Mon. Angl. vi. 938b.
9. R. Cur. Regis, iii. 469.
12. R. Lit. Pat. 29.
15. Bracton's Note-Bk.
8. Dallaway, loc. cit.
11. Ibid. n. 19.
14. R. de Fin. 527.
17. Testa, 222. 18. Suss. Feet of F. n. 490.
7. Ibid. iv. 669b.
10. Suss. Feet. of F. n. 50.
13. R. Lit. Claus. i. 200b.
n. 546. 16. Close R. 346.
19. Ibid. n. 588. 20. Lewes Chartul., Vesp. F. xv. f. 128, 128d. 21. Suss.
Feet of F. n. 721.
22. R. Hund. ii. 201; cf. Cal. Misc. Ing. i. 316.
23. Plac. de quo war. 754b.
24. Cal. Close R. 179.
25. Add. Charter,
54501; Suss. Feet of F. n. 1376, 1378.
26. Feud. Aids, v. 152, 160.
27. Cal. Inquis. viii. 105.
28. Cal. Fine R. v. 200.
29. Dallaway,
West Sussex, II. ii. 322. See Suss. Feet of F. nos. 2069, 2071, 2168, 2171, 2180;
Cal. Pat. R. 1361-64, pp. 58, 475; 1388-92, p. 201. 30. Feud. Aids, v. 160.
31. Ibid. 152.
BEVENDEAN, MIDDLETON
353
XI.
In Essex in 1086 Walter held of William de Warenne in (Leaden)
Roding 3 hides, including 1 hide which belonged T.R.E. to Ely.
Walter held of William de Warenne in Bevendean, Suss., 4
hides with 1 virgate outside the rape.
In Suffolk Ranulf the nephew (nepos) held of William de
Warenne in Middleton 2 carucates.
William 2nd earl of Warenne confirmed to Lewes the tithes
of Middleton, Norf., of the gift of William son of Ranulf, and I
virgate (in Middleton, Norf.(?)), which Gladio the jester held, of
the gift of Ranulf de Warenne.¹ He also confirmed the gift of
his father, the first earl, of plenary tithes of Middleton, Norf.2
In 1086 William de Cahainges held Folkington of the count
of Mortain, of whom Walter held the Easthall in Eastbourne
(? Cholington) and 3 hides in Beverington. The count himself
held Tarring Neville, with which went 1 virgates in Standen which
was part of Bevendean. Most of these estates were held subse-
quently by the family of Fokinton. Possibly 'Walter' who held
of the archbishop's manor of South Malling two-thirds of half a
hide was the same Walter as he who held in Bevingdean.
If so
his tenement was in Isfield.
100S.
In 1171 the farmers of the archbishopric rendered account of
for relief of Hugh de Fokinton.3 In 1177 Robert de Folkinton
was amerced for a default in Norfolk or Suffolk. A man of Hugh
de Folkinton is named in the rolls of the sheriff of Worcester for
1184 and 1185.5 In the account of lands granted prior to 1189 in
the honor of Petworth by Joscelin the Castellan a rent of £8 125. 3d.
for 6 years for 26 solidates of land on the manor of Folkington
and Sutton of Hugh de Fokinton remained undischarged. Hugh
and Reginald de Fokinton attested the charter of the translation
of Otham abbey to Beigham, Suff.7
6
III.
In 1200 a controversy touching the advowson of the church
of Tarring, after the decease of Martin rector of the said church,
was settled between Ralph de la Haye, patron of a third, the prior
and convent of Lewes, patrons of a third, and Thomas de Heldham
and Thomas his son, patrons of a third, namely that each party
should successively present in turn.8
9
Among the fees of the archbishop in South Malling in 1212,
Hugh de Fokinton held 1 fee in Isfield. At the same time Sarra
de Hay held the manor of Middleton, Suss., in demesne.10 Hugh de
Fokinton was at Dublin in the army of Ireland in 1210.11 Hugh
de Fokington gave to the same monks a third part of the church of
Tarring, being of his right, and of his right in the said part after
the decease of Thomas the clerk to whom he had given it for life.12
This gift was confirmed by Simon bishop of Chichester (1204-1207).
In 1214 Eggelina late the wife of Hugh de Fokinton demanded
dower against Hugh de Fokinton in the vills of Folkington, Isfield,
Tarring, Heyshott and Cholington (in Eastbourne); whereupon
he satisfied her in Folkington, Beverington and Isfield.13
2 A
354
HONOR OF WARENNE
¿
In 1216 the sheriff of Sussex was ordered to give Roger (recte
Robert) de Mortemer seisin of the lands of Berwick and Wikinton
which were the marriage of the mother of the same Robert's wife
and whereof Hugh de Fokinton disseised him.14 In the following
year a mandate was issued to Gilbert Gernet, the prioress of Celle,
and Stephen de Heendon to cause Saher earl of Winchester to
have the son and heir of Hugh de Fokinton, whose land was of his
fee.15
In 1230 Matilda late the wife of Reginald de Fokinton
obtained dower in 75 acres of land in Bevendean.16 Hugh de
Fokinton held in 1242-3 in Bevindean 1 fee of the earl Warenne's
fee.¹
17 He made restitution to the monks of Lewes of land given
by his father in his manor of Isfield which he had seized.¹
18
In 1249 Hugh de Fokinton acknowledged that I fee in Beven-
dean and fee in Yeverington and Beverington were the right
of John la Warre and Olimpias his wife, doing the service of the half
fee at Pevensey Castle.19 Olimpias was either daughter or niece.
and heir of Hugh de Fokinton. This land descended c. 1275 to
Roger la Warre, son and heir of John and Olimpias, of Wickwar,
Gloucs., who obtained in 1285 a grant of free warren in Folkington,
Tarring, and other places named above. 20 He held this fee of
Robert de Kaynes at the latter's death c. 1282.21 No further
reference is found to any member of the Warenne fee in Bevendean.
Possibly the Warres held of the Warenne fee in Leaden Roding,
for in 1251 John de La Warre and Olimpias (his wife) impleaded
John de Warenne for two-thirds of a messuage and carucate in that
place, 22 and in 1257 the same John and Olimpias obtained from
Richard Filiol an acknowledgment that a carucate in Leaden
Roding was the right of John son of the said John La Warre; the
land was of the inheritance of Olimpias and was held by Filiol of
La Warre. 23 In 1303 Margery Filiol held fee here, doubtless of
La Warre as of this honor.24
2
In 1282 John de Mohaut (de Monte Alto) acquired from John
de Middleton I carucate in Middleton (next Pevensey ?) and the
advowson of the church, to hold for the term of his life,25 and in
1288 Roger la Warre acknowledged that the manor of Middleton
next Pevensey was the right of John de la Hay and Joan his wife
and the heirs of John, for which acknowledgment they granted to
Roger the manor of Folkington.26
In 1317 the dean and chapter of Chichester released to the prior
and convent of Lewes any right they had in the advowson of
Tarring by reason of a third part of the manor of Tarring which was
formerly of Roger de la Warr, knt., and further they ratified the
charter of Hugh de Fokinton, great-grandfather (proavus) of the
said Roger, to the monks of Lewes of the advowson of the said
church.27
Roger la Warre died in 1320, leaving issue, by Clarice his wife,
John his son and heir, aged 40 years; the manor of Middleton,
Suss., had been demised to Roger for his life by his son Roger, and
the manor of Isfield similarly by his son John.28
1. Watson, op. cit. i. 97. 2. Ibid. 95. 3. Pipe R. 17 Hen. II, 142.
4. Ibid. 23 Hen. II, 132. 5. Ibid. 30 Hen. II, 66. 6. Ibid. 1 Ric. 13-14.
SHERE, GREATHAM
355
9. Red Bk.
12. Cat. of
7. Mon. Angl. vi. 911b. 8. Cat. of Anct. D. v. A. 13131 (4).
473, 556. 10. Bk. of Fees, 72. 11. R. de Liberate, 215.
Anct. D. v. A. 13131 (1 and 2). 13. Sussex Feet of F. no. 137. 14. R.
Lit. Claus. i. 259. 15. Ibid. 3286, 3426. 16. Sussex Feet of F. n. 245.
18. Cat. of Anct. D. iii. A. 4209. 19. Sussex Feet of F.
n. 507. 20. Cal. Chart. ii. 282. 21. Cal. Inquis. iv. 337; Cal. Close, 1279-88,
PP. 225, 240.
22. Close R. 536. 23. Feet of F., Essex, 219. 24. Feud.
Aids, ii. 152.
25. Sussex Feet of F. ii. nos. 945, 961. 26. Ibid. n. 1035.
27. Cat. of Anct. D. v. A. 13131 (3). 28. Cal. Inquis. vi. 148.
17. Testa, 222b.
XII.
In Surrey the king held in demesne in 1086 Shere, assessed
T.R.E. at 9 hides (out of 16 hides) and in Wotton hundred
3 virgates which belonged to Shere.
In Sussex Scolland held of William de Warenne in Benefield
in Twineham land assessed T.R.E. at 2 hides. Alfred held similarly
in Benefield 1 hide and I virgate.
In Hampshire the king held in Soberton 3 hides (?), Greatham
I hide (Queen Edith T.R.E.), Lasham 2 hides, Wellow 3 virgates.
Oismelin held of William de Warenne in Fratton (in Portsea)
4 hides.
Some account of the descent of these lands in Sussex and Hamp-
shire in the family of Benefeld will be found above at n. 8.
The second earl of Warenne confirmed to Lewes 1 virgate in
Twineham which Gilbert son of Gozo gave, tithe of a hall there
which Scotland gave, the tithe of Aubrey and the tithe of Alvered
the earl's foster-brother.¹
Shere, Reigate and Dorking belonged to queen Edith T.R.E.
All three became members of the honor of Warenne, possibly when
the first earl of Warenne was created earl of Surrey by William II
within the period 1087-89. The third earl was pardoned danegeld
in Surrey in 1130 of £6; that is, on 60 hides. These were probably
Shere 16 hides, Reigate 34 hides, Dorking 10 hides.
C
3
Until the middle of the thirteenth century the references to
Shere are extremely meagre. It is assumed (without evidence)
that the Cleres were enfeoffed of Shere with the other lands de-
scribed at the head of this section. The descent of the family has
been described by the writer in Early Yorkshire Charters, i. 480-1
(Bigot Fee). In 1167 Greatham of Roger (de Clere) owed mark
for pleas of the forest.2 Roger son of Roger de Clere gave his
land in Athelingworth' to Lewes, for the health of his lord king
Henry. Hawise de Gurnai acknowledged this gift by her husband
Roger de Clere; it was part of her dower. In 1180 William son
of Turstin owed 40s. for having right in the king's court of the
land of Greatham, Hants., against Roger de Clere.5 In Norfolk
the same Roger gave 40 marks for the postponement of the recogni-
tion which Ralph de Clere claimed against him. Helewise de
Clere, foundress of the nunnery of Little Mareis, near Yedingham,
Yorks, was probably his wife and seems to have survived as
Helewise de Gornai. Roger died in 1183-4 without issue, being
succeeded by his brother Ralph, who gave to Little Mareis the
6
356
HONOR OF WARENNE
church of Sinnington, Yorks." Ralph de Clere, brother and heir
of Roger de Clere, confirmed to Lewes the gift made by his brother
for Ranulf de Glanvill and the soul of Bertha, Ranulf's wife. By
Mabel his wife, who was also a benefactress to Little Mareis, he
had issue Ralph II, a minor at his father's death in 1205,9 but of
age in 1209.
In 1205 the sheriff of Hampshire and 2 other sheriffs were
directed to give the earl of Warenne seisin of the lands of Ralph
de Clere, who was in the custody of the archbishop of Canterbury,
being of the said earl's fee.10 The sheriff of Norfolk was directed
to take into the king's hands the custody of the land and heir of
Ralph de Clere which did not belong to the fee of the earl of
Warenne.11
Hawise de Gurnai died in 1201, when Thomas son of William
son of John proffered 60 marks for his land of Englishcumb, Som.,
late of Hawise de Gurnai.12 In 1206 Walter de Abernun was
found to be brother and heir of Richard de Abernun of fee in
Lasham, of which land Ralph de Clere was tenant (sic).18
13 In 1210,
the primate having the wardship of Ralph de Clere and his
land, his attorney complained that Walter de Abernun, William
and Richard his brothers, held as of their own fee certain land in
Lasham which by hereditary right ought to descend to Ralph de
Clere after the death of Hawise de Gurnai, of whose dower it was. 14
In 1215
In 1215 Ralph de Clere was of the party of the barons, his
land in Lasham being committed to the king's bailee.15
William Briwerre was directed to give Robert de Venuz seisin of
the hamlets of Southington (Suterinton) and Greatham, late of
Ralph de Clere and John Mautravers, worth £12 a year; a fortnight
later the same Robert was directed to inquire if the land late of
Ralph de Clere in Greatham was the right and inheritance of
Joan wife of William Aguillon, and if so to give her seisin thereof.16
As this manor was later in the possession of the Aguillons it would
appear to have formed part of the holding described above at n. 9.
In 1216 Ralph was one of those who were not to be received
to the king's peace pending his mandate.¹7 On Henry's accession
he returned to allegiance 18 and had a writ of reseisin directed to
the sheriff of Oxford and William de Aubigny.19 In Hampshire
Mabel de Clere also returned to allegiance.20 Ralph granted his
manor of Soberton to Jordan de Waltervill, who in turn demised
it to the abbot and convent of Beaulieu at a rent of £12 10S.21
In 1230 Ralph was demanding from Jordan customs and services
for the tenement that Jordan held of him in Soberton; Jordan
made default and a mandate issued to seize the land into the king's
hands.22 Later Jordan resigned this rent of Beaulieu, his charter
being confirmed by Henry III, Ralph de Clere and his son Roger.23
Ralph survived until after 1232, before which year his son
Roger had married Matilda elder daughter of Ralph de Fay of
Bramley, Surrey, and eventually sister and coheir of John son of
Ralph de Fay (d. 1223) 24 by Beatrice his wife, one of the daughters
and coheirs of Stephen de Turneham (d. 1214) and his wife Eveline,
daughter and heir of Ranulf de Broc, usher and marshal of Henry II.25
SHERE, GREATHAM
357
On the death of John de Fay in 1241 Roger de Clere and Matilda
his wife had livery of a moiety of her brother's inheritance and
gave relief of £7 10s.26 for their part of the manor of Bramley, Surr.
In 1242-3 Roger de Clere held 1 fee in Shere of the honor of
Warenne.27 In Hampshire the abbot of Beaulieu (de Bello Loco)
held in Soberton I fee of new feoffment of the heir of Ralph
de Clere; William Aguillon (n. 9) held Greatham of the earl
of Warenne for I fee of ancient feoffment; 28 the prior of Domus
Dei of Portsmouth held in Fratton fee of ancient feoffment of
Hugh de Plaiz (of his wife's dower (?)), who held of the earl of
Warenne.29 Prior to 1242 Roger had granted to John de Gatesden
I carucate in Lasham.30
Beatrice relict of Ralph de Fay married secondly before 1232
Hugh de Nevill the forester, 31 and thirdly, in or before 1241,
Hugh de Plaiz, who divorced her and died in 1244.32 (See n. 5.)
Beatrice was deceased in 1246, when the lands that she had held
in dower of the inheritance of Matilda de Clere and Philippa de
Nevill (her sister), about which there had been contention as
to partition between Roger de Clere and his wife Matilda and
William de Wintereshull and Beatrice his wife, to whom the said
Philippa gave in frank marriage the portion which belonged to her,
were restored to the said Roger and William and their respective
wives, after having been in the king's hands by reason of the said
contention.33
Roger de Clere in 1243 sold to Netley abbey a tillage in his
manor of Shere and the advowson of the church for 300 marks.34
He died in 1248, holding jointly with his wife Matilda (de Fay) a
moiety of the manor of Bramley of her inheritance for 1 fee and
lands in Yorkshire of his own inheritance; Alice daughter of
William le Rus (d. 1253) by Agatha his wife, daughter and heir
of the said Roger and Matilda, was his heir, aged 2 years.35 This
Alice was unmarried in March 1260 when she was 15 years of
age; 36 but shortly after that date she married Richard de Braiose.
Matilda de Clere died in 1249. 37
In the meantime Roger de Clere, described as Roger de Shyre,
passed by fine to John Fitz-Geoffrey the manor of Shere with the
vill of Crawley (in Worth) with the advowson of the church and
the meadow of Vacherye, together with the homage and service
of certain knights, viz.: of Walter Weps in Benefield, Suss., of
William son of William de Benefeld in Benefield, of William Aguylun
in Fulking, Suss., and Greatham, Hants., and of John de Gatesden
in Lasham, Hants.38
In 1251 Henry III confirmed to St. Edward's Stead (Netley)
inter alia 100 acres in the manor of Shere and the advowson of
the church there.39
John Fitz-Geoffrey died in 1259, when John his son did homage
for his father's lands and obtained the custody of the same for
£300.40 He appears to have been already married to Margery
daughter of Philip Basset. He was against the king in 1265,
whereupon the manors of Shere and Vachery were extended ¹¹ and
committed to the earl of Gloucester, with whom the same John
41
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redeemed his lands otherwise than in accordance with the dictum
of Kenilworth. Consequently his lands were in 1268 again taken
into the king's hands.42 He died in 1275 holding the manor of
Shere of the earl of Warenne for 7½ fees, of which he held 1 fee in
his own hands (in Shere), the prior of Lewes held 1 fee (in Atling-
worth), the abbot of Beaulieu I fee (in Soberton), Robert Aguillon
1 fee (in Fulking and Greatham), William Bardolf fee (in Pipesty),
Walter le Weps I fee (in Benefield), Richard de Benefeld I fee
(in Benefield), the heirs of Simon de Montut and the prior of Ports-
mouth 1 fee (in Lasham and Fratton), and the abbot of Netley
fee (in Wellow (?)) 43; Sir Richard his brother was aged 27 and
more. 44
In 1279 Richard Fitz-John claimed view of frankpledge, gallows,
free warren and other liberties in his manor of Shere; it was pre-
sented that in the time of Roger de Clere the men of the manor
came twice a year to the sheriff's tourn, but Roger gave John de
Gatesden, then sheriff, 20s. a year and appropriated view to him-
self; other presentments referred to John Fitz-John and John
Fitz-Geoffrey, father of Richard.45 Margaret de Rivers, countess
of Devon, held at her death of the inheritance of Isabel, daughter
and heir of Robert Aguillon, wife of Hugh Bardolf, a manor in
Greatham, Hants.46
Richard Fitz-John died in 1297 holding of the earl of Warenne
the manor of Shere for 7 fees and suit of court at Reigate, to
which manor that of La Vachery pertained, in Benefield 1 carucate
held by John de Benefield (alibi Henry de Benefeld) for 1 fee, and
I carucate there held by Roger le Weps (alibi John Weps) for 1 fee,
in Pipestyfee held by Sir Hugh Bardolf, and in Atlingworth
fee held by the prior of Lewes; in Hampshire, at Lasham 1
carucate held by the prior of Portsmouth for fee, and 1 carucate
there held by John d'Abernon for 1 fee. His heirs were: Matilda
de Beauchamp, countess of Warwick, eldest sister of the said
Richard Fitz-John; Robert de Clifford, son of Isabel de Clifford,
daughter of Isabel de Veteri Ponte, and Idonea, daughter of the
same Isabel the second sister; Richard de Burgo, earl of Ulster,
son of Aveline the third sister, and Joan late the wife of Theobald
le Botiler, the fourth sister.47 The manor of Shere was assigned
to the pourparty of Joan Botiler,48 to whom were assigned also
I fee in Benefield held by Henry de Benefeld, a fee there held by
John Weps, fee in Pipesty, fee in Atlingworth held by the
prior of Lewes; to Richard de Burgh, earl of Ulster, was assigned
I fee in Lasham held by John d'Abernoun, and the advowson of
the church of Shere; to Robert de Clifford 1 fee in Lasham held
by the prior of Portsmouth.49
4
2
Joan la Botillere died in 1303 holding the manor of Shere with
La Vachery, a member of Shere, and a park of the earl of Warenne
for 1 fee; Edmund le Botiller her son was aged 29 and more.50
He died in possession of Shere in 1321; James his son had livery
of his inheritance in 1325. As earl of Ormond, the heir had a
grant of free warren in Shere in 1328,52 and held the manor at
his death in 1338.
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359
William de Burgh, earl of Ulster, held at his death in 1333 a
capital messuage in Shere held of John de Warenne, earl of Surrey,
for two-thirds of fee; John D'Abernoun held of him the manor
of Lasham for I fee pertaining to Shere. 53
James le Botiller, earl of Ormond, by his will dated in 1379 at
La Vachery, directed that if he should die in England his body
should be buried in the church of Shere.
54
3. Lewes Ch., Vesp.
1. Supra, p. 310.
Pipe R. 13 Hen. II, 186.
5. Pipe R. 26 Hen. II,
8. Vesp. F. xv. f. 121.
135. 6. Ibid. 23.
Ralph de Clere and
9. R. Lit. Claus. i. 42b.
12. R. de Oblat. 151. Cf. Bracton's
14. Ibid. 66. 15. R. Lit. Claus. i.
17. Ibid. 250.
18. Ibid. 310b.
21. V. C. H. Hants. iii. 258.
Close R. 250.
2.
F. xv. f. 121d. 4. Ibid.
7. Cal. Chart. R. i. 312.
William son of Ralph de Clere were witnesses.
10. R. Lit. Claus. i. 42b. 11. Ibid.
Note-Bk. n. 1379. 13. Abbrev. Placit. 51.
2356, 270b.
16 Ibid. 2396. 242.
19. Ibid. 319b-20.
20. Ibid. 3386.
22. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 468;
24. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 679.
Claus. i. 4b, 141b, 274 et pass.
28. Ibid. 232b. 29. Cal. Chart. R. i. 266. 30. Ibid. 234. 31.
Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 679. 32. Excerpt. Fin. i. 421, 427.
1246, p. 392. 34. Mon. Angl. v. 696. 35. Cal. Inquis. i. 49.
37. Excerpt. Fin. ii. 66.
38. Suss. Feet of F. n. 422.
Anct. D.ii. A. 3239. 40. Excerpt. Fin. ii. 294; Cal. Inquis. i.
Misc. Ing. i. 273. 42. Excerpt. Fin. ii. 472.
44. Cal. Inquis. ii. 96. 45. Placit. de quo war. 7426.
iii. II; iv. 167.
Cal. Inquis. ii. 281–87.
49. Cal. Close R. 287–8.
242, 248, 287.
50. Cal. Inquis. iv. 99. 51. Cal.
Fine R. iii. 71, 367 ff. 52. Cal. Chart. R. iv. 95. 53. Cal. Inquis. vii. 372.
54. Cat. of Anct. D. iii. D. 440.
23. V. C. H. Hants. iii. 258.
25. R. Chart. 160b.; R. de Fin. 339; R. Lit.
26. Excerpt. Fin. i. 352.
27. Testa, 220.
Close R. 272 ;
33. Close R.
36. Ibid. 128.
39. Cat. of
195. 41. Cal.
43. Cf. Testa, 2316, 235.
46. Cal. Inquis.
48. Cal. Close 1299, PP.
47.
Cf. C. 3273.
XIII.
In Sussex a manor in Hangleton of 8 hides formed part of the
holding which William de Watevill held of William de Warenne in
1086, as described at n. 6.
In Norfolk William de Warenne had in Feltwell 2 ploughs in
the demesne which Alveva had held T.R.E. St. Etheldreda of
Ely had the soke.
Possibly the land of a freeman belonging to the royal manor of
Holt, Norf., was granted to William de Warenne; in 1086 Walter
Giffard held 31 carucates belonging to that manor which 8 freemen
had held T.R.E.
A plea in the time of William I concerning invasions of the
lands of Ely states that Gerard, a knight of William de Warenne,
held the land of plough in Feltwell, and that William himself
had 45 sokemen in the town, who at the abbot's will ploughed his
land and rendered other services.¹ This Gerard may have been
the ancestor of the Adeliza through whom Feltwell came to the
Cokefeld family.
The antecessor of the Cokefelds was Berard, who held in 1086
in Norfolk under Roger Bigod the land of a sochman in Banham,
and jointly with Aselin 110 acres in Tasburgh. But Berard's
chief holding was under the abbot of St. Edmund's in Suffolk.
In Cockfield Berard held 3 carucates, Rede carucate, Layham
(Lafham) caracute, Whatfield 1 carucate and 100 acres, and
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40 acres in Naughton.2 Berard's descendants are not known,
and the land probably reverted to the abbey. Henry I, perhaps
during the vacancy in 1120, gave land to another Berard, who
from his name may have been a kinsman. He, however, resigned.
it to abbot Anselm (1121 to 1148), the king allowing this.3
Then this abbot granted to Berard son of Aldstan, no doubt the
same man, in Bardwell 10 acres, in Barton all the land of Hereward
with Goda his daughter to wife; he also granted to Berard son
of Aldstan the land of Wulfric Aquenesima, his kinsman (cognatus),
in Hepworth; Stephen confirmed a grant by abbot Ording to
Berard his nepos, and Henry II by writ directed abbot Hugh
(1157-80) to give to Berard son of Aldstan seisin of land in
Whelnetham late of William de Sapiston, whose heir Berard was.5
It appears that Aldstan was living when Anselm became abbot."
In the fourteenth century Berard was the name of a family seated
at Whatfield.
In 1130 Edstan owed 100s. of the property of Ulchetel the
moneyer in Norfolk." Possibly he was the father of Walter son
of Edstan or Elstan who accounted in 1162 for 40s. of his donum
in Norfolk.8
Of the various Cockfield families the clearest account is given
of that of Cockfield itself, in the Chronicle of Jocelin de Brakelond.
In the time of abbot Samson, c. 1185, Robert de Kokefeld claimed
to hold this manor by hereditary right; he had no charter from
the monks, but it had descended in the family for 60 years or more.
One Lemmer held it before his death; then his son Adam I till
his death, Henry I having ordered abbot Anselm to allow him to
hold it so long as he paid the accustomed rent; Robert, the claim-
ant, succeeded his father Adam I. In the time of king Stephen
the monks of St. Edmund's gave this Adam the vills of Semer and
Groton because from his castle of Lindsey he could well defend
them from neighbouring castellans, W. de Mildings and W. de
Ambli being named. When Robert succeeded the rent of Semer
was doubled, becoming £10; for Groton one farm' (or banquet)
had been due annually. There were no charters for these two
vills, and Robert had to disclaim any hereditary right in them.
Adam had a hall in Bury itself, and appears to have succeeded
to land there of Hemphrey de Criketot, where the houses of dame
Adelizia once stood. Robert had the convent charters for socage
lands in Rougham held later in dower by the lady Rohais de Koke-
feld, widow of Adam II. The estate in Cockfield had originally
been held in socage, but abbot Anselm, in Stephen's time, changed
it to the service of half a knight. Robert de Cokefeld was also
lord of Hopton.10 It appears that Adam I was the grandson of
Wulfric who had had land in Groton.11
9
The mention of dame Adeliza and Hemfrey de Criketot is
evidence of the connexion between the Cokefelds of Cockfield and
those of Feltwell. Adeliza de Kokefeld, for the souls of the earl
of Warenne, of her lord Adam de Kokefeld, her brother William
de Crichetot and her son Alan-all, no doubt, then deceased-gave
to Castle acre priory land in Feltwell rendering 7s. a year, and
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this 'with the consent of my son Adam, who after my days is
to inherit Feltwell according to my will.' The charter was attested
by Roger de Muntchenesy and Denise, Robert, Simon and Odo de
Kokefeld.12 It does not appear whether Adam was a younger
son to whom she bequeathed her land, or whether, as seems more
probable, she was the second wife of Adam I. William de Crichetot,
her brother, may have been the William father of Heimfrid de
Criketot mentioned in a St. Edmund's plea of 1199.
13 In 1162
Hugh Talebot granted to Beaubec abbey in Normandy his lands
in Feltwell, from which 100s. yearly rent was to be paid by Aeliza
de Cokefelt and Adam her son; the grant was made with the assent
of Hugh's wife Ermentrude and his sons Girard, Geoffrey, Hugh
and Richard.14 Henry II confirmed the gift,15 as did William
Talbot at a later date.16 An episode of 1171, described below,
may have had some connexion with this benefaction. The story
of this branch of the Cokefeld family is related hereafter.
In 1166 Robert de Cokefeld held 3 fees of earl Aubrey de Ver
(in Beaumont, Essex); 1 fee of new feoffment of the bishop of Ely
in Kersey, (?) Suffolk; 1 fee of the abbot of St. Edmund's (in
Whatfield and Naughton); I fee of new feoffment of Roger Bigod.17
In 1171 Robert was a surety for Simon de Methelwold's amerce-
ment, who had forcibly removed corn from the land of Feltwell,
Norf., while it was in the king's hands; 18 and in 1175 Robert
accounted for one moiety of Simon's amercement of 100 marks.19
Robert gave to his sister Alice in frank marriage with William de
Valoignes land in Chedburgh and Hitcham, Suff., and had another
sister, Sabina wife of Robert son of Humphrey.20
In 1176 Eudo de Cokefeld, named above as witnessing a Castle-
acre charter, was amerced 2 marks, and in the following year
Robert de Cokefeld 100 marks, in Essex for pleas of the forest.21
Robert's debt was charged by the sheriff of Norfolk in 1178, but
'required' in Essex. Robert de Kokefeld, son of Odo, had land
in Barton about 1180, the charters being in the custody of the
Cokefelds of Cockfield.22
In the period 1175-1180 Robert de Cokefeld, with the assent
of his sons Hugh and Adam, who joined in the gift, granted the
church of Beaumont, Essex, to Hatfield priory.23 In 1181 and 1182
Robert de Cokefeld was one of the farmers of the abbey of St.
Edmund sede vacante.24 He died before 1191,25 and in the preceding
year Adam son of Robert de Cokefeld accounted for 60 marks
in Norfolk for his father's tithes.26 In 1191 Adam son of Robert
de Cokefeld quitclaimed to abbot Sampson of St. Edmund's his
right in the half-hundred of Cosford, for which the abbot assured
to Adam his holdings in Layham, including 5 acres of ware'
in that vill which Adam grandfather of the said Adam gave to
the chapel of St. James of Lindsey (Leleseia), with land in What-
field, Naughton,
(Wordeseia), Lindsey and Brettenham.27
Possibly Robert had another son Robert who recovered in 1195
land in Frenze, Norf.28
In 1194 Adam de Cokefeld of Suffolk occurs as a witness from
the court of St. Edmund's.29
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In 1196 Adam de Cokefeld acknowledged to the abbot of St.
Edmund's the service of 1 knight's fee in Naughton (? 'in Alneto')
and castle-guard of Norwich.30 He died shortly afterwards, while
Richard I was still living, for the king claimed against abbot
Samson the wardship of the heir, a daughter only three months.
old; desisting, however, in face of the abbot's protest.31 In 1198
the bishop of Ely and the abbot had a dispute concerning the
wardship of the land of Adam de Cokefeld; it was presented from
Suffolk that the land late of Adam de Cokefeld was worth £98 12s.,
besides Semer and Groton, Suff., which were worth £6; the relict
was to have her dower.32 The abbot could have sold the wardship
of the heir for 300 marks, but, as the child's grandfather had carried
her off and she could be recovered only through the archbishop
of Canterbury, he gave the wardship to the archbishop (Hubert
Walter) for £100, and then the grantee sold it for 500 marks to
Thomas de Burgh, brother of the king's chamberlain, Hubert,
who at once claimed the father's manors.33 In consequence at
Easter 1201 Margaret, as daughter and heir, being of course still
under age, obtained from the St. Edmund's monks a recognition
of her right to the manor of Cockfield; of two other manors,
Semer and Groton, she recovered her seisin by verdict of the jurors
and judgment of the court that Adam de Cokefeld, father of Robert,
long and peacefully held the two manors and died in seisin, and
Robert his son similarly held them all his life and Adam his son,
father of the said Margaret, similarly, and died so seised.34 In
December 1201 Thomas de Burgh, who had the heiress of Adam
de Cokefeld, was pardoned £133 which had been claimed against.
him by Jewry by the charter of Robert de Cokefeld, father of the
said Adam.35 In 1204 Thomas de Burgh had licence to enclose his
house of Lindsey (with a moat ?).3
36
Rohaise de Cokefeld, widow of Adam II, has been mentioned
above. After the decease of Thomas de Erdinton in 1216, Rohaise
de Cokefeld, late his wife, obtained in 1218 and in 1220 dower in
his lands, including 5 marks rent in Worthy, Hants.37 Erdinton.
had held at his death, of the dower of his wife Rohaise, Beaumont,
in Essex, Rougham, Suff., Diddington, Warws., and Pattishall,
Northants.38 A fine of lands in Cockfield, Semer and Groton was
levied in 1219 between Rohaise widow of Adam de Cokefeld and
Thomas de Burgh and Nesta his wife 39 respecting Rohaise's dower.
By this it was agreed that Rohaise should release all claim to her
third part of the lands named, and in return should have Beaumont
and Rougham for life without any dispute as to admeasurement.
Nesta de Cokefeld, who seems to be the same as Margaret the
heir of Adam de Cokefeld, was married at least three times. Her
first husband was Thomas de Burgh named above; her second
husband, whom she married before 1240, was John de Beauchamp,
who then joined with her in assuring to the prior of St. Anthony
of Kersey the advowson of the church of Kersey, by fine to which
Bartholomew de Crek, William de Beaumont, Hugh bishop of
Ely, and the abbot of St. Edmund's put in their respective claims;
her third, in or before 1242, Matthew de Leyham.41 As late wife
40
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363
of Thomas de Burgh, the said Nesta confirmed to the brethren of
Kersey the mother church of that vill and tithe of her mills of
Cockfield, Semer, Lindsey and Kersey, Suff.42 By another charter
she confirmed to the same brethren the church of Kersey and the
gifts which she and her late husband, John de Beauchamp, had
made.43 By a third charter she confirmed to them in her widow-
hood the church of Lindsey,44 and by a fourth charter, with the
consent of her then husband, Matthew de Leyham, she similarly
confirmed rents in Lindsey.45
In 1243 in a plea of warranty of charter William le Breton
obtained from Matthew de Leyham and Nesta his wife an acknow-
ledgment of his right in the manor of Beaumont, Essex, and that
of Rougham, Suff., which Rohaise de Cokefeld, mother of Nesta,
held in dower of Nesta's inheritance; for the reversion after the
death of Rohaise of these manors Breton paid 200 marks; at the
time Rohaise was feeble at Erdington, Warws., the manor of her
last husband, Thomas de Erdinton." In the preceding year she
had been the victim in a case of assault and robbery in which
Matthew de Leyham (her son-in-law) and William son of Robert.
were implicated.47
Nesta died without issue before 1248, in which year the abbot
of St. Edmund's was ordered to render to Bartholomew de Crek,
Ralph de Berners and William de Beaumont a carucate in Groton
except the advowson of the church, 3 carucates in Semer except
the advowson of the church, to which premises his predecessor
abbot Henry had intruded, while Nesta de Cokefeld, whose heirs
the said Bartholomew, Ralph and William were, lay dying and of
unsound mind, by virtue of a demise made by Matthew de Leyham,
formerly Nesta's husband, to John de Cramavill without Nesta's
consent.48 It was presented in 1275 that Henry abbot of St.
Edmund's had acquired the manor of Cockfield from Matthew de
Leyham and Nesta his wife to hold of the king in chief for 3 fees,
of which Henry de Cokefeld then held 1 fee, Thomas de Weyland
I fee, John de Falsham and Robert de Lindholt each fee.49
46
In a plea in 1210 another Robert de Kokefeld, as attorney for
his mother Philippa, demanded against his mother's warrantor
an exchange in lieu of land (fee) in Kettleburgh, Suff., which
had been successfully demanded against her. 50 The identity of
this Robert has not been discovered. The exchange was given in
Redingham and Coleston.
We now return to Adam de Cokefeld, son of Aeliza de Cokefeld
of Feltwell, named above under date 1162. He seems to be the
Adam de Cokefeld who in 1180 was amerced for a default in
Sussex. 51
In the chartulary of Lewes there is an agreement
between an Adam de Cukufeld with the monks of Lewes respecting
10 librates of land in Hangleton.52 We can identify him as the
Adam de Cokefeld who with Lucy his wife confirmed to the nuns
of La Pré of Northampton land in Sherrington, Bucks., given by
Robert de Tenerchebrai and Aveline his wife. The same Lucy gave
to the said priory a rent out of Sherrington which her grandson
Robert de Cokefeld later confirmed, 53
53 Adam de Cokefeld gave to
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1
Castle acre priory a toft in Feltwell and land from his demesne, for
the souls of his parents, his wife Lucy, and her mother Aveline;
Helias de Hangeltun was a witness to this deed. 54 Possibly Adam
was dead in 1185, when a mutilated entry records the tenure of 12
librates of land in ‘Sniterle' (now Blakeney), Norf., by (Lucy?)
de Cokefeld(?).55 He must have been dead in 1194, when a plea
between Lucy de Cokefeld and Hugh Peverel was pending.56 She
and the same Hugh released land in Swanbourn, Bucks., in 1196 for
land in Stewkley, which Hugh was to hold of Lucy for knight's
fee.57
In the same year William abbot of Bittlesden had a plea of
intrusion in Sherrington, Northants. (sic), against Lucy de Cokefeld. 58
Two years later Lucy made an agreement with Otuel de L'Isle for
an exchange of lands in Stoke Lyne, Oxon.59 Lucy, by her
attorney, Ralph de Tenerchebrai, had demanded against Otuel
land in Stoke as that whereof Robert de Tenerchebrai (her) father
had been seised in the days of Henry II.60 In 1199 she was
successful in resisting a claim made against her to 8 messuages.
in Cambridge.61 Reference to her and her son Adam in Sussex
pleas in 1199 will be found above at nos. 5 and 8.
In 1159 Robert de Tenerchebrai was pardoned 2 marks of the
donum of 252 marks of the knights of Nottinghamshire. 62 In 1163
he accounted for a mark for waste of the forest in Northampton-
shire. 63
In 1167 Little Oakley (' Acheleia ') of Robert de Tenerche-
brai was amerced for forest trespass and the land of William de
Tenerchebrai in the same county of Northampton was similarly
amerced. 64 In 1176 Ralph de Tenerchebrai accounted for 40s.
for the same pleas in that county.65 Little Oakley was an escheat
from the fee of Chokes and was held in the time of Henry I (1124–
29) by William Fitz-Alvered, ancestor of Montacute and possibly
father of Richard Fitz-William. 66 See vol. i, pp. 199–200.
Robert de Tenerchebrai and William Peverel of Sampford
Peverel, Som., were first cousins, being sons of two brothers. In
1194, after Robert's death, Hugh Peverel, son and heir of William,
demanded against Lucy de Cokefeld, daughter and heir of Robert,
the inheritance of the said Robert, alleging that Lucy was born of
Robert's wife before he married her and so was a bastard; the
land demanded lay in Swanbourn, Bucks., Little Oakley, Northants.,
and Stoke Lyne, Oxon.67 The result is not recorded, but in
Hilary term 1196 Richard Fitz-William (de Montacute), Hugh
Peverel and Lucy de Cokefeld were given a day in Mid-lent and
had licence to agree in a plea of land in Oxfordshire. 68 In that term
Hugh Peverel and Henry de Clinton made agreement about an
exchange for fee in Swanbourn, which Hugh and Lucy de
Cokefeld had claimed against Henry by warranty of the charter
of his father Geoffrey de Clinton; whereupon Henry gave them
72 solidates (?) of land in Stewkley, namely 12 virgates, 8s. of rent
and 8 score acres of land in places named.69 This agreement was
reached in 1195, for it was enrolled in the Pipe roll of that year.70
Adam son of the same Lucy was tenant in 1205 of fee, Little
Waldingfield, Suff., of earl Aubrey de Ver, who held of the honor
of Lancaster." This was held in 1235-6 and 1242-3 by Robert
2
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de Cokefeld, apparently the son of Adam.72 Lucy de Cokefeld
held in 1201 of the honor of Gloucester I fee in Moulton, Suff. 73
This tenement was held similarly by Robert de Cokefeld in 1242–3.74
In 1212 the heir of Adam de Cokefeld was stated to hold 2 fees
in Moulton of the archbishop of Canterbury.75 In 1214 custody
of the land and heir of Adam de Cokefeld was acquired by the
crown from Geoffrey de Mandevill for 300 marks and granted to
Thomas de Erdinton; the lands lay in Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk,
Sussex, Cambridgeshire and Oxfordshire. 76 This was clearly the
heir of Adam son of Lucy. About the same time the heir of
another (?) Adam de Cokefeld was committed to the custody of
Richard de Rivers.77 In 1216 the sheriff of Oxford was directed
to ascertain by inquiry if Adam de Cokefeld formerly held any-
thing in that county of the king in chief, and, if he so held, to give
Thomas de Erdinton seisin of the manor of Stoke (Lyne) late of
the said Adam; but if not to deliver the manor to Ellis de Beau-
champ.78 See Giffard, n. 25.
There is some difficulty in identifying Robert de Cokefeld, the
tenant of the honor of Warenne in Feltwell and Hangleton, owing
to the circumstance that he had contemporaries of the same
name. One Robert in 1229 agreed with Simon de Cokfeld concern-
ing a knight's fee in Cockfield, Bradfield and Corsford, and half a
fee in Herterst and other lands; Simon's right was acknowledged,
but he gave Robert land in Wileby and Hapesburg which would
revert to him if Robert had no issue. Claims were put in by Robert
and Simon and Osbert de Cokefeld.79 Simon de Cokefeld and Isabel
his wife occur in Nottinghamshire in 1247.80 There were also
Robert, son of Adam de Cokefeld of Nutall, Notts., and Agatha his
wife (Peverel, n. 32), and Robert de Cokefeld, sheriff of York
1226-1229, who married Nicholay, sister and coheir of Richard de
St. Mary of Friston, Yorks. The last named was a prominent
official in Yorkshire from 1225 to 1242 and was of Cockfield in
Durham.
The Robert of Feltwell was the Robert de Cokefeld to whom
Geoffrey de Harun in 1227 quitclaimed 1 knight's fee in Querelegh
in Woodham Walter, Essex; 81 to whom also John de Montacute
in 1228 passed by fine two-thirds and the third part of the manor
of Little Oakley, Northants. 82 The same Robert held the tenement
in Querelegh in 1242-3 of Robert Fitz-Walter as of the barony
of Baynard. He also held 1 fee in Hangleton, Suss., of Thomas
de Poninges (n. 8), as of the honor of Warenne; 84fee in Little
Waldingfield, Suff., of the honor of Lancaster;85 fee in Snitterby
}
(now Blakenham), and I fee in Feltwell, Norf., of the honor of
Warenne 86; possibly also fee in Wilby (and) Happisburgh,
Norf., of Robert Fitz-Walter, 87 and 1 fee in Sherrington, Bucks.,
of John de Carun.88
Robert de Cokefeld in 1250 settled upon Robert his son 2
carucates in Hangleton and Alderton, Suss.89 In 1257, at the
instance of William de Valence, he had exemption for life from
serving on assizes and the like.90 He must not be confounded
with Robert de Cokefeld who married Alice, nor his son Adam
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with the Adam de Cokefeld who married Isabel, which Alice and
Isabel were sisters and coheirs of Geoffrey le Constable of Briston
and Irmingland, Norf. By a partition made in 1254 Robert and
Alice took land in Snitterby, Adam and Isabel land in Briston,
Irmingland and Langham.91
In 1263 Adam son of Robert de Cokefeld was a tenant of Matthew
de Luvaine in Swilland, Suff., Little Chesterford and Wix, Essex. 92
In 1265 Adam was a rebel, his land in Debenham and Flitcham,
Norf., being seized into the king's hands. 93 In 1267 he had licence.
to hunt the fox, hare, badger and cat in the forest in the counties.
of Rutland, Northampton and Oxford, being described as of
Suffolk and Northants. ;94 and had a grant of free warren in Little
Waldingfield and Debenham, Suff.95 Two years later he had
exemption for life, at the instance of Robert Aguillon, from serving
on juries and the like.96 In 1275 he held fee in Feltwell, Norf.,
of the earl of Warenne, 97 and in conjunction with Robert Dyvenes.
(recte de Aygeuens) held 1 fee in Moulton of the earl of Gloucester.98
He does not occur after 1276, unless he was the Adam de Cokefeld
who was returned in 1284-6 as holding of John de Cokefeld a
moiety of the vill of Sherrington, Bucks.99
In 1283 Robert de Cokefeld had a grant of market and fair at
his manor of Feltwell, Norf.100 In 1284-5 John de Cokefeld held
of Robert de Cokefeld, who held of the earl of Cornwall and he
of the earl of Gloucester, fee in Stoke Lyne, Oxon.; 101 William
de Nonancurt held the vill of Guilsborough, Northants., of Robert
de Cokefeld.102 In 1290 lands in Guilsborough and Little Oakley,
Northants., were held of Sir Robert de Cokefeld.¹
103 In 1291 Robert
de Cokefeld held Hangleton and a moiety of Aldrington of the earl
of Warenne.104 Luke de Poninges demised to the same Robert
for the term of his life the manor of Hangleton to hold by rendering
40s. at a scutage, which signifies that the service was that of one
knight.105 In 1294 certain persons were alleged to have impeded
Ermentrude de Sauquevill, Joan late wife of Adam de Cokefeld, and
Roger de Aspehale from holding their market anywhere within
their manor of Debenham.106
Robert de Cokefeld died in 1297, holding the (South Hall)
manor in Feltwell of the earl of Warenne for I fee; the manor
of Moulton, Suff., of Joan countess of Gloucester and Hertford,
whose lands were then in the king's hands, of the honor of Gloucester
for I fee; the manor of Waldingfield, Suff., of William de Munt-
chenesy of Edwardstone for I fee and part of his manor of Little
Waldingfield of the honor of Lancaster for fee; Joan sister of
the said Robert and daughter of Adam de Cokefeld, aged 23 years,
was his heir.107
In 1302-3 Joan de Cokefeld held 1 fee in Debenham of the earl
Marshal.108
In 1316 she was joint lady of Stoke Lyne, Oxon.109.
In 1314 John de Ayguens and the heirs of Robert de Cokefeld
held 2 fees in Moulton of the honor of Gloucester.110
In 1322 a
moiety of the manor of Little Oakley, Northants., was held of
Joan de Cokefeld for fee.111
Joan de Cokefeld married first John Tregoz of Ewyas (d. 1301),
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367
and secondly Lawrence de Hameldene, who in 1302-3 held 1 fee
in Little Waldingfield of the earl of Oxford as of the honor of
Lancaster, and with Joan his wife held 1 fee in Feltwell of the
earl of Warenne.112 In 1302 the said Lawrence had been pardoned
for taking to wife Joan late wife of John Tregoz, tenant in chief.113
Joan married thirdly William de Beauchamp,114 and in 1314 the
manor of Feltwell was settled upon them and the heirs of Joan."
In 1324 William de Beauchamp held of Aymer de Valence, earl
of Pembroke, I fee in Feltwell,116 and in 1346 he held jointly with
others I fee in Debenham which Joan de Cokefeld had held in
1302-3.117
115
Returns made in 1401-2 shew that Robert de Cokefeld, chivaler,
and others held in East Tudenham a manor called Cokefeld Hall
and Holewelle Hall, for I fee of Thomas Bardolf as of the barony
of Wormegay, and the same Robert (with the heirs general of
Geoffrey le Constable) held 3 fees in Melton, Sharrington, Langham
and Sniterlee of the bishop of Norwich.118
48. Close R. 106, 120.
1. N. Hamilton, Inq. Com. Cant. 194. 2. Dom. Bk. ii. 359, 368b-9, 426.
3. W. Farrer, Itin. of Henry I, n. 461. 4. Suff. Institut. of Archæolog. x.
5. Add. MS. 7096, f. 91, 91d.
32.
6. Ibid. f. 90. 7. Pipe R. 31
Hen. I, 94.
8. Ibid. 8 Hen. II, 64. 9. Chron. of Bury St. Edm. (Rolls
Ser.), i. 334-5.
10. Ibid. 265.
11. Add. MS. 7096, f. 75. 12. Harl.
MS. 2110, f. 93d. 13. R. Cur. Regis, ii. 10.
14. Harl. ch. 112 D. 57-
15. Ibid. III B. 48. 16. Add. Ch. 19804; cf. Brit. Mus. Facsimiles of Ch.
n. 60.
17. Red Bk. 352, 364, 393, 397. 18. Pipe R. 17 Hen. II, 1O.
19. Ibid. 21 Hen. II, 116. 20. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 1100. 21. Pipe R.
23 Hen. II, 150-1. 22. Chron. Jocel. (Rolls Ser.), i. 335. 23. Add. Ch.
28333. 24. Pipe R. 27 Hen. II, 93; Chron. Jocel. i. 216, 218. 25. Chron.
Jocel. i. 262. 26. Pipe R. 2 Ric. I, m. 9d. 27. Feet of F. (P.R.S. xvii), 9.
28 Ibid. 39. 29. R. Cur. Regis, i. 16-17. 30. Feet of F. (P.R.S. xx.), 44.
31. Chron. Jocelin, i. 298. 32. R. Cur. Regis, iii. 33, 36. 33. Chron.
Jocelin, i. 321. 34. R. Cur. Regis, iii. 430.
35. R. de Liberate, 24.
36. Ibid. 104. 37. Ibid. 356b-7, 440b; R. Lit. Pat. 169b.
38. Cal.
Inquis. i. 287.
39. Suff. Feet of F. 212/6, n. 24. 40. Feet of F., Suff.
44. 41. Ibid. 46.
42. Mon. Angl. vi. 592. 43. Ibid. 5926. 44. Ibid.
593. 45. Ibid. 5936. 46. Feet of F., Essex, 146. 47. Close R. 448 ;
Excerpt. Fin. i. 377.
Cf. Abbrev. Placit. 237-
49. R. Hund. ii. 142, 150b-1. 50. Curia Regis R. 68, m. 6d. 51. Pipe R.
26 Hen. II, 31.
52. Vesp. F. xv. f.
53. Mon. Angl. v. 212b.
54. Harl. MS. 2110, f. 93d.
55. R. de Dominabus, 56. 56. R. Cur. Regis,
i. 89. 101. 57. Feet of F. (P.R.S. xvii.), n. 138; xxiv. p. 241. 58. Ibid.
236.
59. Ibid. xxiv. n. 49. 60. R. Cur. Reg. iii. 60.
61. Ibid. 71.
62. Pipe R. 5 Hen. II, 52. 63. Ibid. 9 Hen. II, 36. 64. Ibid. 13 Hen. II,
118, 121.
65. Ibid. 22 Hen. II, 51. 66. V. C. H. Northants. i. 387.
67. R. Cur. Reg. i. 46. 68. Ibid. (P.R.S. xxiv.), 221.
69. Ibid. 241;
Feet of F. (P.R.S. xvii.), 122-5. 70. Beds. Rec. Soc. vii. 103. 71. Lancs.
Pipe R. 198; Red Bk. 141, 478. 72. Testa, 411b and 291b, 73. R. Cancel.
339; Red Bk. 141. 74. Testa, 2926.
75. Red Bk. 471, 726.
Claus. i. 140b, 159.
77. Ibid. 156. 78. Ibid. 2726. 79. Feet of F. Divers
and Unkn. Counties, 283/9, n. 67. 80. Ibid. 283/12, n. 222. 81. Feet of
F., Essex, 81. 82. Feet of F., N'hants. 12 Hen. III. 83. Testa, 263, 284.
84. Ibid. 2226. 85. Ibid. 291b. 88. Ibid. 287b. 87. Ibid. 282b. 88. Ibid.
244. 89. Feet of F., Suss. n. 514. 90. Cal. Pat. R. 578. 91. Feet of F.,
Norf. 86. 92. Ibid. Essex, 260. 93. Cal. Misc. Ing. i. 248, 273. 94. Cal.
Pat. R. 54, 149–50. 95. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 73.
Hund. i. 438. 98. Ibid. ii. 142, 150b–151. 99.
Chart. R. ii. 265. 101. Feud. Aids, iv. 157.
Inquis. ii. 476. 104. Feud. Aids, v. 129. 105. Feet of F., Suss. n. 1062.
106. Abbrev. Placit, 233b. 107. Cal. Inquis. iii. 256, 308. 108. Feud.
76. R. Lit.
96. Cal. Pat. R. 325. 97. R.
Feud. Aids, i. 82. 100. Cal.
102. Ibid. 442.
103. Cal.
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Aids, v. 92-3.
vi. 234.
Cal. Pat. R. 527. 114. Ibid. 211.
116. Cal. Inquis. vi. 331, 335.
iii. 632-3.
110. Cal. Inquis. v. 348. 111. Ibid.
113. Cal. Fine R. i. 449 ;
115. Blomefield, Hist. of Norf. i. 499.
117. Feud. Aids, v. 92-3.
118. Ibid.
109. Ibid. iv. 169.
112. Feud. Aids, iii. 427; v. 28.
XIV.
Wickensands, in Sussex, is not named in the survey.
In 1199 Hugh de Fokinton (n. 11), who essoigned himself of
sickness of the bed at Folkington, Suss., was plaintiff in a plea of
relief against Thomas de la Mare and Matilda de la Mare.¹ Egelina
de Fokinton had a similar plea against the same Thomas and
Mabel (sic).2
In 1203 Henry de la Mare had a grant of 30 librates of land of
escheat.³ In 1205 the sheriff of Sussex was directed to give Henry
de la Mare such seisin of his land of Wickensands ('Sanda ') as he
had when he withdrew from the king's service, saving the chattels
of Hugh de Sanford who late had custody of that land. In 1207
the earl of Warenne had respite for payment of 40 marks for surety
of Henry de la Mare.5 In 1210 Henry de la Mare of Normandy
was in the army of Ireland."
Pain de la Mare was in possession of land in Hurstpierpoint
in 1229,7 and in Sharnwick and (West) Blatchington in 1241,
when he acknowledged the right of Stephen le Mareschal in land.
in those places by fine, whereupon Henry de la Mare put in a claim
for himself and the heir of the earl Warenne. In 1242-3 Pain
de la Mare held fee in Wickensands ('Sandes,' 'Sandys ') of the
fee of the said earl.⁹
In 1245
In January 1241 there was issued an order for the delivery
of the chattels found in the manor of Garsington to Roger de Clere
(n. 12), subject to the claim or right of the executors of Ralph de
Tony.10 Roger de Akeny was probably deceased that year holding
land in Garsington of the heir of Ralph de Tony then in the king's
wardship; his land in Garsington was demised at farm for £20
a year by the king to St. John's Hospital, Oxford.11 Joan de
Akeny was then claiming dower in Garsington.12 In the following
year queen Eleanor gave to Bernard de Savoy the custody of
Isabel younger daughter and coheir of Roger de Akeny, with her
land in Garsington which fell to her and her marriage, if the matri-
mony before contracted with her ought not to stand.13
the abbess of Wherwell was directed to deliver the said Isabel,
who was in her charge by the king, to Matthias (Mazius) de la
Mare, to be taken where the king directed. 14 See Abingdon, n. 17 (1).
Evidently the damsel was married soon after to Pain de la Mare.
In 1244 Pain was the king's messenger sent to Gascony,15 and in
1250 he had a rent out of hide in Garsington of the fee late of
Roger de Akeny.16 It was presented in 1255 that Pain de la
Mare held 1 hide in Garsington which belonged to the manor of
Headington which the king's grandfather (i.e. Henry II) gave to
dame Ida de Tounay; it was worth £20 a year.17 See Abingdon,
n. 17 (2). In 1254 the same Pain had a grant of free warren in his
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369
"
demesne lands in the counties of Oxford and Sussex, and in the same
year he had exemption from serving on juries and the like, at the
instance of Matthew (sic) de la Mare.18 In 1256 he went to Jersey in
the service of Edward the king's son.
19
2
In 1279 dame Isabella de la Mare held the manor of Garsington
of Roger de Tony for fee; 20 land there held of her by Philip
Mimecan was said to be held of Isabel Rapin in 1264.21 In 1284-5
John Pecche held the manor of Garsington in the name of Isabel
de la Mare, his wife, for fee of Roger de Tony.22 In 1286 John
de la Mare had land in Perching, Suss., and in 1288 John de la
Mare of Sussex was named.23 Probably he married Joan, elder
daughter of Nicholas de Auney of Bergholt, who died in 1274,
the said Joan being then unmarried and under age.24 In 1286
he defended his right of warren in Bergholt which he enjoyed
jointly with John son of Pain de la Mare of the inheritance of
Roger de Akeny and with Thomas de Maydenhatch and Isabel
his wife. 25
Also the king demanded against John son of Pain de
la Mare and John de la Mare 2s. of rent in Bergholt due to the
hundred of Saunford; they claimed to hold the tenement as of
the inheritance of Roger de Akeny; view of frankpledge of the
tenants of Nicholas de Auney was claimed by John de la Mare,
Thomas de Mayden-Hatch and Isabel his wife, namely John in
pourparty with John son of Pain de la Mare his parcener of
the inheritance above named; Thomas and Isabel by the grant
and gift of H. (recte Isabel), mother of John son of Pain de la
Mare, whose heir he was, and they vouched the said John to
warranty.26
In 1302-3 John de la Mare held the vill of Bergholt, Suff., of
Robert de Tony, 27 and in 1305 Walter Baldwyne held land there
of the inheritance of Joan his wife of John de la Mare.28
Joan de
la Mare was joint lady of Garsington in 1316,29 being relict of John
de la Mare, who died in 1315 as of Garsington, Oxon., holding the
manor of Sonde, Sussex, and the hamlet of Wyke (now Wicken-
sands) of John de Warenne, earl of Surrey, for fee, and the manor
of Garsington of the heirs of Robert de Tony in free socage; his
wife Joan was then pregnant and Isabel his sister, late the wife
of Thomas de Maydenehatch, aged 50, was next heir apparent.30
The said Isabel died 17 April 1318, holding the tenements named
above whereof Joan late wife of John de la Mare had dower in
Wickensands; Isabel also held for life the manor of Aston by
Birmingham by feoffment to Thomas de Maydenhatch and the
said Isabel his wife and the heirs of Thomas, held of Henry de
Erdington; also the manor of Bergholt, Suff., of William de la
Zouche and Alice his wife, sometime countess of Warwick, of the
said Alice's inheritance; her daughters-Joan, aged 30, married
to John D'Aundely (Oilli, n. 8), Sibyl, aged 28, Isabel, aged 26,
and Margaret, aged 25-were her heirs.31
1. R. Cur. Reg. i. 272, 276.
4. R. Lit. Claus. i. 49b, 5ob.
7. Sussex, Feet of F. nos. 225, 259.
10. Excerpt. e R. Fin. i. 334.
11.
III.
2. Ibid. 282.
5. Ibid. 99b.
8. Ibid. n. 358.
Excerpt. Fin. i. 345.
3. R. de Liberate, 46.
6. R. de Prestito, 228.
9. Testa, 222b.
12. Close R. 260.
2 B
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14. Close R. 314.
15. Cal. Pat. 422.
16. Cal.
19. Ibid.
13. Cal. Pat. R. 283.
Inquis. i. 48. 17. R. Hund. ii. 39. 18. Cal. Pat. R. 312, 318.
469. 20. R. Hund. ii. 720b. 21. Cal. Inquis. i. 178. 22. Feud. Aids,
iv. 159.
23. Cal. Inquis. ii. 361; Cal. Close R. 513. 24. Cal. Inquis. ii. 123.
25. Placit. de quo war. 725.
26. Ibid. 733.
27. Feud. Aids, v. 26.
28. Cal. Inquis. iv. 193.
29. Feud. Aids, iv. 168.
30. Cal. Inquis.
v. 387. 31. Ibid. v. 98.
XV.
In Sussex William de Warenne had in 1086 in Ditchling 33
hides, of which Warin held of him 3 hides.
Warin the sheriff gave to Lewes a garden at the vivary and his
tithes of Kingston (by Lewes); William 2nd earl of Warenne
confirmed to Lewes the tithes of 2 hides in Kingston; he also
confirmed 1 hide in Kingston which Ailwin de Wincestre held; 1
and Henry I confirmed to Lewes the gift of a rustic named Brihmer
and the land that he held of Ralph son of Warin.2 William 3rd
earl of Warenne commanded Hugh the sheriff of Lewes to give
to the monks of Lewes seisin of 1 acre of land in Kingston given
by Peter the sheriff.³
Warin de Kingeston attested with Richard de Pierpont, Philip
de Kingeston, and others a Lindfield, Suss., charter of the 12th
century.4
In 1229 Warin de Kingeston was called to warranty by Robert
de Kingeston respecting the mill of Kingston. In 1242-3 the same
Warin held fee in Kingston of the fee of the earl Warenne." He
attested with Sir John de Gatesden an Ovingdean charter."
Walter de Kingeston attested a charter of land in Little Hampton,
near Arundel. He was coroner of Arundel in 1275, acting in the
half hundred of Suthover, near Lewes.9
8
Philip de Kingeston held (in 1346?) in Kingston in Swanborough
hundred fee.10
1. Above, p. 311. 2. Anct. D. (Pipe R. Soc.), 5.
Warren, i. 129. 4. Cat. of Anct. D. iii. A. 4133.
n. 247. 6. Testa, 222b. 7. Cat. of Anct. D. iii. A. 4120.
9. R. Hund. ii. 209b. 10. Feud. Aids, v. 161.
5.
3. Watson, House of
Sussex, Feet of F.,
8. Ibid. B. 4176.
XVI.
In Norfolk in 1086 William de Warenne held in Fincham 2
carucates which William Brant held; in Feltwell I carucate which
Simon held; in Northwold some part of 5 carucates; in Rockland
All Saints part of 3 carucates and 70 acres which Simon held; in
North Barsham I carucate and another carucate which Reiner held;
in Houghton I carucate which Simon held and 30 acres which a
sochman held; in Wiveton 2 carucates, in Gresham 2 carucates,
in Salthouse 30 acres, in Aylmerton 2 carucates; in Barwick 1
carucate which Simon held; in South Creake carucate.
I
In Suffolk William de Warenne held in Middleton 2 carucates.
In Essex William de Warenne held in Great Easton 2 hides,
in Little Canfield 2 hides less 8 acres, in Halstead 2 hides less
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371
4 acres, of which Richard held 34 acres; in Payton Hall in Manuden
('Pachenhou ') I hide and 30 acres which Simon held.
C
In Salop William de Warenne held Westune,' now Whitchurch,
of earl Roger for 7 hides.
The first earl of Warenne gave to St. Pancras, Lewes, the church
of Little Canfield with a virgate and the tithes there and in Great
Easton; the second earl added the gift of the church of Feltwell.¹
In 1121 a carucate at Great Easton, the church of Little Canfield
and a mediety of the church of Feltwell were confirmed to Lewes.2
3
The Simon named in the Domesday survey as tenant of
William de Warenne in various places was the ancestor of the
family of Rosei. Reference will be found below (n. 31) to Richard
Guet, who is described as brother of the countess of Warenne.
It is probable that he was the Richard who held lands of William
de Warenne in Essex, including Little Canfield, at the time of the
survey. Richard de Guerres, whose tithes at Canfield were con-
firmed by Stephen to Lewes priory, may have been father of
Manasser de Guerres, who succeeded his father in, or shortly before,
1130, and was tenant of Geoffrey earl of Essex in 1166. Another
Richard' gave tithes and land in Canfield. This may be Guet.
Certain other tenants of these lands were benefactors to Castleacre.
Among them Ralph de Rosei gave land in Massingham of the fee
of earl Hugh, and a rent in Rocklund;5 Martin de Bermere gave
a manor in Barmer;6 Lambert de Rosei and his son Walcheline
gave tithes in Houghton, Rocklund and Northwold; Hugh de
Hocton gave tithes (in Houghton); Nigil de Fincheam and
William de Spinevill gave tithes; Ralph de Paveli gave tithes of
Northwold. William Branche attested a charter of William
second earl of Surrey.8
4
7
It appears probable that an important part of this fee was
parcel of the demesne of the earls of Warenne until the time of
Stephen, when those lands and the service of other portions of
this fee were given to a cadet of the house of Warenne, who is
generally supposed to have been a younger brother of the third
earl. The first feoffee was probably Randulf de Warenne, who
may be identified as the Rad' de War' who attested the confirmation
of William earl of Warenne to Lewes priory in 1145-46.9 He gave
to the monks of Lewes a virgate at Great Easton, Essex; William
son of Randulf gave the tithe of land at Yeldham which Godwin
had held.10 He attested in 1154 the grant to Sawtrey abbey of
William count of Boulogne and earl of Warenne,¹¹ and was donor
of tithe of Middleton, Suff.(?), to Lewes priory, in which place
Randulf de Warenne sometime gave a virgate which Gladiou the
jester had held.12
In 1176 William son of Randulf was surety for a Shropshire
suitor, and in the following year he was amerced 40 marks for
pleas of the forest in Essex.13 In 1194 Walkelin de Rosei proffered
20s. for such seisin of 12s. rent and 6d. service of Harvey Gorge as
Baldwin (de Rosei) had when he began his journey to Jerusalem.14
During the year 1199 there are frequent references to a plea
between William Fitz-Randulf and Richard son of Peter respecting
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a mediety of the church of Halstead, Essex.15 In 1200 William de
Haustide put in his claim to a fourth part of that church 16 after a
fine had been levied whereby Richard quitclaimed his right to
William Fitz-Randulf.17 Mr. Eyton found in the Lilleshall chartu-
lary (f. 75) a grant by William de Warenne, son of Randulf, with
the consent of his heirs, to the canons of Lilleshall, for the soul of
his (late) wife Emma, of a mediety of the church of Halstead,
reserving a vicarage.18 He occurs several times on the roll of the
sheriff of Essex for 1201 as owing scutage on knight's fee in that
county,19 and in that year was named as mesne (?) tenant of a
knight's fee in Dawley, Midd., held of the honor of Wallingford
by the Shropshire family of Corbet.20 William Fitz-Ranulf con-
firmed to Lewes the church of Canfield, as the earls of Warenne
his antecessors had given it.21 See Wallingford, n. 28, where
other references to this family will be found. He was apparently
deceased before 1203.22
In June 1213 the castle of 'Eggelawe' was committed to the
keeping of William de Blancmoster, who was son and heir of William
Fitz-Randulf.2 He was of the party of the barons, whereupon
his lands were seized, but in 1217 he returned to allegiance and
had a writ of reseisin to the sheriff of Essex.24 In 1219, when
vouched to warranty by Matilda de Blancmoster, who was
impleaded for land in Ickenham, Midd., of which she alleged that
she had been endowed by William Fitz-Randulf, formerly her
husband, whose son and heir the said William the warrantor was,
he was a crusader.25 In 1222 he demanded against John de
Trumpington and Agnes his wife land in Ickenham which others.
then claimed against Matilda de Blancmoster.26 In 1228 he was
a special justice at Shrewsbury, 27 and in 1233 one of the collectors
of the fortieth in Shropshire.28 In the last-named year Alan de
Creppinges quitclaimed by fine to William de Blancmoster the
advowson of a mediety of the church of Halstead. 29 Matilda de
Blancmoster was alive in 1235-6,3⁰ and William de Blancmoster
was vouched to warranty in 1238-9 by Matilda de Blancmoster in
respect of land in Dawley, Midd.31
William Talebot gave to the monks of Castle Acre the church
of St. Michael of Fincham, about the year 1190, John bishop of
Norwich and the archdeacons Thomas and John being witnesses.32
The gift was confirmed by his nephew Samson Talebot.33 Baldwin
de Rosey confirmed to the same monks the gifts made by his
ancestors in Enhale, Siderston, Northwold, Houghton, Rocklund
and Creak; Lambert de Rosey and William and Ralph de Spinevill
were witnesses.34
Richard Branche, son and heir of William
Branche, about 1230 gave the monks the disposition of tithes in
Gresham according to the gifts of his ancestors, after the death of
his son Simon, then rector, who had the tithes for his life.35
In 1242-3 certain members of this fee were held as under:
In Norfolk :
Samson Talebot 2 fees in Fincham.
William de Spinevill fee in Feltwell.
WHITCHURCH, GRESHAM
373
Baldwin de Rosey 1 fee in Rocklund.
Baldwin de Rosey 1 fee in Houghton.
Robert Agellun and the prior of Binham fee in Wiveton
and Salthouse.
Robert de Cokefeld fee in Sniterle,' now Blakeney (n. 13).
Peter Branche 2 fees in Gresham and Aylmerton.
Ralph son of Robert Wylekyn 1 fee in North Barsham.
John de Rosey fee in South Creak.
William de Spinevill fee in Barmer.36
Peter Giffard fee in Wickham, Suff., of William de Albo
Monasterio, etc.37
In Essex in 1246–48 :
John de Rosey fee in Manuden of Baldwin de Rosey
and he of Sir William de Blancmoster etc.38
In 1246, owing to the passage of victuals through Whitchurch
to the king's Welsh enemies, a mandate was issued to William de
Warenne of Whitchurch to deliver the castle of Whitchurch to
John de Grey, justice of Chester,39 and later in the same year
William son and heir of William de Warenne of Whitchurch (‘de
Albo Monasterio ') made fine in 20 marks for relief of the land which
he held of the heir of William late earl Warenne in Shropshire,
and had seisin of his fee, but the castle of Whitchurch was retained
in the king's hands.40
In June 1260 William de Blancmoster was dead and John
de Warenne claimed wardship of the land and heirs.41 Shortly
afterwards the castle of Whitchurch and Bertreya the eldest daughter
of William, then of age, were delivered to John de Warenne, of
whom William had held the castle by knight's service.42 In 1269
William de Criketot died holding the manor of Middleton, Suff.,
[of the heirs] of William de Blancmoster for 1 fee; William his son
was aged 31 years.43
In
In 1275 Thomas de Blancmoster claimed certain liberties in
Little Canfield and William le Moyne in Great Easton, both claim-
ing free warren; the monks of Tiltey held 70 acres of land in
Easton by the feoffment of Ralph le Moyne 40 years before.44
Norfolk the prior of Shouldham and abbot of Derham held land
in Fincham of the earl of Warenne; 45 Ralph de Spintevill and
Richard de Warenne had assize of bread in Feltwell; 46 the prior
of Castleacre held the advowson of the church of St. Michael,
Fincham, of the gift of the ancestors of Adam Talbot who held
of the fee of Warenne; 47 John de Vaux had leet and other liber-
ties in Houghton; 48 William de Wauncy claimed view of frank-
pledge in North Bassham (n. 20); 49 Robert de Ufford had a market
at Wickham, Suff.50
Bertreya de Blancmoster died unmarried in 1281, holding a
fourth part of the manor of 'Blaminister' of the earl Warenne
by the service of the fourth part of a huntsman (sic) to the earl
at his will and at his cost; in Great Easton, Essex, 2 carucates
held by the service of 1 fee; in Little Canfield land held for fee;
Eleanor L'Estrange (who was the wife of Robert L'Estrange, 51
374
HONOR OF WARENNE
deceased in 1276), Joan the wife of Sir William de Barentyn, knt.,
and Matilda the wife of Sir William de Bracy were Bertreya's
sisters and heirs, all over 30 years of age. 52
In 1286 Robert de Stutevill claimed certain liberties in Gres-
ham, Norf., which his predecessor Peter Braunche had used temp.
Henry III.53 In 1292 Hugh de Onovill (recte Bogo de Knovill)
and Eleanor his wife, Robert de Bracy and Matilda his wife, in
defending their right to free warren, market and fair and other
liberties at Whitchurch, Salop, which they claimed as the pour-
party of Eleanor and Matilda of the inheritance of their father
William de Blancmoster and of Joan late wife of William de
Barentyn, declined to plead without the said Joan; she was to
be summoned in Middlesex. 54 In 1300 Robert Corbet and Joan de
Barentyn held 1 fee in Dawley, Midd., of the honor of Wallingford.
For information relative to the heirs of Blancmoster see Eyton's
History of Shropshire, x. 20-25.
55
I
In 1302-3 the members of this fee, so far as they can be traced,
were held as follows:
In Norfolk :
Samson de Litelwelle fee in Fincham.
Adam Talbot I fee in Fincham of William de Wancy.
Matilda de Rokelund and Henry Carbonel fee in Rocklund
of John le Moigne and he of William de Blauncmoster etc.
John le Moyne fee in Rocklund of William de Blaunc-
moster and he of the earl Marshal (sic).
3
Henry son of Henry de Walpol 1 fee in Houghton of the.
fee of Blaumoster.
Robert de Stutevill, 56 whose lands are in the king's hands
by reason of the war between the kings of England and
France, holds the manor of Gresham of the earl of Surrey for
2 fees.
2
Sir Nicholas Braunch fee in North Barsham of the fee
of Blaumuster of the heirs of Blaumuster etc.
John de Cokefeld and Cecily his wife and Edmund Adel-
wald fee in South Creake of Sir Walter de Calthorp and he
of John le Moygne etc.
Ivo de Berwyk holds the lands of Elvered le Knycht in
Barmer for fee.
The prior of Castleacre fee in Barmer of the land of
Elvered Knycht.
4
In Essex :
Drew de Barentyn and Robert de Bracy I fee in Great
Easton (Eystan atte Mounte') and Little Canfield.
The prior of Lewes recovered the advowson of Canfield against
Drew de Barentyne, who claimed as heir of his mother, Joan wife
of William de Barentyn. 57
Some of the following are conjectural :
The prior of Lewes
tyn (?)].
fee in Halstead of Drew [de Baren-
:
HURSTMONCEAUX
375
1
William de St. Martin fee in Halstead.
John son of William fee in Halstead.
The Prioress of Hengham fee in Halstead.
John son of Hugh fee in Halstead.
Margery Blaumosteer fee in Halstead.
1
Roger de Mounchensy, John de Sutton and John Burser
fee in Halstead. 58
In 1324 Fulk le Straunge, Drew le Barentyn, and the heirs
of Fulk le Bracy held of Aymer de Valence 15 fees in Little Can-
field, Great Easton, Halstead, Manewden, Essex; Rocklund,
Northwold, Fincham, Barwick, (South) Creake, Feltwell, Houghton,
Kelling, Salthouse, Wiveton, Snyterle' (Blakeney), (North)
Barsham, Ikeburgh, Gresham and Aylmerton, Norf.; Clopton
and Middleton, Suff.59 John de Botetourte similarly held I fee
in Halstead, 60 but whether it was a member of this tenement or
not is quite uncertain, nor has it been possible to ascertain how
Botetourte acquired it.
In October 1326 John son of Walter de Blankmoster and
Matilda his wife claimed the third part of a tenement in Halstead
against John son of Simon de Stanley and Juliana his wife.61
3. Round,
1. Above, p. 311.
2. Anct. Chs. (P.R.S. x.), 13-14.
Cal. of Docs., France, p. 512. 4. Ibid. 5. Harl. MS. 2110, f. 18. 6. Mon.
Anglic. v. 44 n.
8. Ibid. 49.
7. Ibid. 50.
9. Brit. Mus., Facsim.
Chs. n. 25. 10. Mon. Angl. v. 14b. 11. Brit. Mus., Facsim. Chs. n. 37.
12. Above, p. 311. 13. Pipe R. 22 Hen. II, 56; 23 Hen. II, 151.
14. Pipe R. 6 Ric. m. 4d. 15. R. Cur. Reg. i. 309, 388; iii. pass. 16. Ibid.
I77. 17. Feet of F., Essex, 21. 18. Eyton, Hist. of Salop, X. 17. 19. R.
Cancel. 150 ff. 20. R. de Oblat. 158; R. Cancel. 276–8. 21. Vesp. F. xv.
f. 307.
22. Eyton, op. cit. x. 18.
23. R. Lit. Pat. 100.
24. R.
Lit. Claus. i. 375b.
25. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 59.
26. Ibid. n. 1559.
27. Pat. R. 223. 28. Cal. Pat. R. 18. 29. Feet of F., Essex, 94. 30. Bk.
of Fees, 474.
31. Feet of F., Midd. n. 183. 32. Chartulary, Harl. MS.
2110, f. 88d. 33. Ibid. 34. Ibid. f. 42. 35. Ibid. f. 59. 36. Testa,
287. 37. Ibid. 2926. 38. Ibid. 271. 39. Cal. Pat. 490. 40. Excerpt. e
R. Fin. i. 450.
41. Cal. Pat. 77. 42. Ibid. So. 43. Cal. Inquis. i. 223.
44. R. Hund. i. 157b. 45. Ibid. 459. 46. Ibid. 5426.
47. Ibid. 459.
48. Ibid. 526b.
49. Ibid. 455. 50. Ibid. ii. 1996. 51. Cf. Cat. of Anct. D.
iii. D. 227.
52. Cal. Inquis. ii. 226.
53. Placit. de quo war. 498b.
54. Ibid. 680. 55. Cal. Inquis. iii. 480; Boarstall Chartul. 56. He died
in 1306, so seised; Cal. Inquis. iv. 241. 57. Vesp. F. xv. f. 309. 58. Feud.
Aids, ii. 143. 59. Cal. Inquis. vi. 330, 334.
60. Ibid. 61. De Banco
R. 264, m. 118.
XVII.
Hurstmonceaux is in the hundred of Foxearle, Suss. It is
difficult to see what land, if any, in that vill belonged to the honor
of Warenne.
1
William son of William and his mother gave to Lewes a yard
land and pasture for 100 sheep; Oculus Ferreus' gave tithe at
Hurst. In 1130 Ralph de Monceus was pardoned 20s. 6d. of
danegeld in Sussex. Wibert's holding of the count of Eu in
1086 was 9 hides and 1 virgate, of which the danegeld would be
18s. 6d.; 1 hide on the honor of Warenne would make the total
376
HONOR OF WARENNE
danegeld 20s. 6d. William de Monceus was tenant of Oliver de
Tracy of I knight's fee (in Combe, Devon (?)) in 1166.3
Possibly the wife of William de Monceaus was the Idonea de
Herste who gave her land in Broomhill, Suss. and Kent, to Roberts-
bridge abbey, for which the monks gave her a mark of silver and
to Robert her son a talent of gold. The editors of the British
Museum Facsimiles of Charters 4 date this gift c. 1176-80. It was
confirmed by Idonea's son and heir Waleran de Herste, who on
his seal was named Waleran de Monceaus.5 Another possibility
suggested by this charter is that Idonea was the wife of Walter
de Herste who attested a charter of 1176 with Robert his son."
There is some reason to suppose that Idonea and the ancestress
of Warberton were coheirs of Hurstmonceaux.
The descent of part of another inheritance of the line of
Monceus is interesting. Certain lands in Hampshire, Wiltshire
and Essex were held in 1130 by Robert Duisnell, who in that
year had remission of danegeld in Wiltshire of 6s. and in Hamp-
shire of Ios. His daughter and heir Juliana married William
Fitz-Aldelin, marshal to Henry II, who gave him Robert Doisnell's
land with the heiress in marriage. In 1166 Hurst (Monceux)
and Warbleton, Suss., were held of John count of Eu for the service
of 5 knights, but the name of the tenant or tenants is not recorded.
These two manors had been held in 1086 by Wibert and descended
to William his son and to Reinald de Ansevill, heir of William.¹º
Little Maplestead, Essex, was also Juliana's inheritance; it had
been held at the survey by Osmund of John son of Waleran, the
mill there being then mortgaged to William de Warenne.11 Little
Ongar was also of the same inheritance and was held in 1086 by
Roger (of Fyfield) of John son of Waleran.12
9
In 1162 William Fitz-Aldelin was pardoned danegeld in Hamp-
shire of 15s. and in Essex of 3s. 6d.13 Juliana daughter of Robert
Doisnell, with the assent of her husband William Fitz-Aldelin, the
king's sewer, in 1186 gave to the Hospitallers the vill of Little
Maplestead with the church; among the witnesses were Ralph
Fitz-Aldelin and Ralph her husband's son.1
14
In 1198 in Teversham, Cambs., 20 librates of land late of William
Fitz-Aldelin by serjeanty of the marshalsea were the king's escheat
in the hands of Stephen de Turneham.15 In 1199 William de
Werbinton and Ingram de Monceaus gave 500 marks for the in-
heritance late of Juliana wife of William Fitz-Aldelin, whose next
heirs they were.16 In 1204 William de Warberton gave 400 marks
to have the land of Sherfield and Compton (Monceux), Hants.,
Teversham, Cambs., and (Little) Ongar, Essex, which Hugh de
Bosco held with him in ward, for which he had made fine with
the king by 500 marks, but had paid only 200 marks.17 In the
ensuing year Waleran de Monceus gave 100 marks for having his
share of the inheritance late of Juliana formerly wife of William
Fitz-Aldelin against William de Warberton, whose heirs he and
the same William were, the esnecy falling to William, whereupon
the sheriff of Hampshire was directed to make a partition of
Juliana's land in Sherfield and Compton.18
HURSTMONCEAUX
377
Ingram de Monceux, son of Alan, was possibly father of Waleran
de Monceux, and died before 1205.19 Waleran is thought to be
the same person as Waleran de Herst, a Sussex visor in 1200.20
In 1212 Waleran de Hurst and William de Warberton each held
2fees in Sussex of the honor of the count of Eu; 21 William de
Warburton held Sherfield by serjeanty of the marshalsea in the
king's house and Waleran de Monceus held Compton similarly;
in Essex William de Monceus held Little Ongar of the king, of the
marshalsea, which was late of the barony of Gilbert de Toeni.23
(See Round, The King's Serjeants, 92-96.) In 1210 William de
Monceus, being in the army of Ireland, had a prest of 20s. upon
his father, 24 in whose place he was no doubt serving.
22
Having been of the party of the barons, William de Monceus
returned to allegiance in 1217 and had a writ of reseisin to the
sheriff of Hampshire.25 In 1221 he had exemption from serving
on assizes whilst a knight of the household of the earl of Warenne.26
In 1226 he was impleaded touching a tenement in Compton, 27
and in 1229 land in Hurst, Suss., was released to him. In 1235-6
he held in Essex 2 fees of the countess of Eu.28 For some sub-
sequent years he served as a special justice; down to 1241 he was
constable of Lewes castle, an executor of the will of William earl
of Warenne and keeper of his lands.29 William de Munceus gave
I lb. of wax from land in Hedfeld Beigham for the souls of his
father and mother, Waleran and Margaret, and of his wife Matilda.30
In 1242-3 William de Monceus held fee in Combe Monceaux,
Devon, of Henry de Tracy of the honor of Barnstaple, 31 fee in
12242
Hurst, Suss., of the honor of Warenne; 32 fee in Compton, Hants.,
golo
by serjeanty of ancient feoffment of Thomas Mauduit; it pertained.
to the king's marshalsea, and out of the vill he rendered yearly to
William de Warblinton £10 rent; 33 in Sussex he also held 21 fees
of the countess of Eu.34 He died in 1243, when his land in Tevers-
ham, Cambs., was temporarily committed to the king's bailee;
custody of the manor of Hurstmonceux, which he held of the
countess of Eu, was committed to Bernard of Savoy until the heir's
35
full age.3 36 Out of his lands in Teversham and Little Ongar dower
was assigned to Matilda late his wife in the last-named place.37
Thomas de Warblinton semes to have claimed custody of the manor
of Hurstmonceux,38 but unsuccessfully.
In 1252 Waleran de Monceaus had licence to chase hare, fox and
cat in the forest of Southampton.39 In 1264 the lands of Waleran
de Monceus in Hurst were committed to John de Warenne during
pleasure,¹º and two years later the king pardoned Waleran for
trespasses said to have been done by him against the king in the
time of the disturbance of the realm.41 Joan de Saunford, late the
wife of Waleran de Monceus, deceased (sic), died in 1278.42 The
Hundred roll of the ensuing year contains a reference to the liberties
of Waleran de Munceus in Hurst and Lanekestrode.' 43
He was
apparently living in 1281.
The lands in Teversham seem to have been given to Thomas
son and heir of Andrew Peverel, knt., in frank marriage with
a daughter of Waleran de Monceus; they were subsequently
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HONOR OF WARENNE
alienated for £300.44 This was later than 1279, when Thomas
Peverel was in possession of 16 virgates held by serjeanty and
William de Warbelton had a number of tenants in villeinage,
part of whose service was carriage once a year to Maplestead and
Ongar.45
This proves that these tenements in Teversham were of
the Domesday fief of John son of Waleran.
John de Monceaus was one of 6 commissioners in Kent, Surrey,
Sussex and Hampshire, appointed in 1297 to maintain 12 ships for
the safe-keeping of the coast.46 He died in 1302, holding Hurst-
monceaux (‘Esthurst') of the earl of Brittany for 21 fees and in
Compton Monceus' a messuage and 8 virgates held of Thomas de
Warblyngton for I fee; John his son and heir was aged 23 years.47
Two years later the manor of Hurstmonceaux was settled upon
John and Olimpias his wife and their issue, with remainder to
Waleran brother of the same John, and further remainder to
Margaret sister of the same Waleran.48 John died in 1316, leaving
John his son aged 10 years.49 No mention of the fee held of the
earl Warenne is found after the time of Henry III. It may have
been merged in the greater fee held of the earl of Brittany.
1. Watson, op. cit. i. 95, 97. 2. Pipe R. 31 Hen. I, 72.
255. 4. Op. cit. n. 61. 5. Campb. Chs. xxv. 10.
Facsimiles of Chs. n. 57. 7. Pipe R. 31 Hen. I, 22, 41.
3. Red Bk.
Ibid. vi. 5;
6.
8. Red Bk. 209.
9. Ibid. 203. 10. Add. Ch. 20161. 11. V. C. H. Essex, i. 5446. 12. Ibid.
14. Cott. Nero E. vi. f. 305 ;
545b. 13. Pipe R. 8 Hen. II, 36, 71.
R. Chart. 16.
217.
18.
Placit. 74b.
Fees, 75.
15. Bk. of Fees, 9. 16. R. de Oblat. 19. 17. R. de Fin.
Ibid. 310.
19. Farrer, Early Yorks. Chs. n. 1062; Abbrev.
20. R. Cur. Reg. ii. 246. 21. Red Bk. 554, 623. 22. Bk. of
23. Ibid. 122. 24. R. de Prestito, 180. 25. R. Lit. Claus.
i. 310b. 26. Ibid. 458b.
27. Pat. R. 74. 28. Feet of F., Suss. n. 213;
Bk. of Fees, 484. 29. Cal. Pat. R. 260 ff. 30. Chartulary, Otho A. ii, f. 24.
31. Testa, 1756, 190. 32. Ibid. 222b.
33. Ibid. 234, 237. 34. Ibid. 223.
35. Excerpt. Fin. i. 403. 36. Close R. 128, 166. Cf. Cal. Pat. R. 420, 422.
37. Close R. 115. 38. Ibid. 120. 39. Cal. Pat. 140. 40. Ibid. 315, 492.
41. Ibid. 613. 42. Cal. Fine R. i. 95. 43. Quo War. R. 757b. 44. Cal.
of Bodleian Chs. 42.
45. R. Hund. ii. 432b-3.
46. Cal. Pat. R. 291.
47. Cal. Inquis. iv. 68. 48. Sussex Feet of F. ii. n. 1163. 49. Cal. Inquis.
v. 415.
XVIII.
In Sussex William de Warenne in 1086 had in Wickham (near
Hurstpierpoint) 3 hides, which Alwin (Arundel n. 24), who had
held it T.R.E. of Azor, held of the wife of William de Watevile
(lady of Clayton).
Possibly this tenement continued until the middle of the 13th
century in the possession of the local family, of whom little or no
information is forthcoming. It is suggested that Nicholas de Nugun
or Noyon, who held fee in 1242-3 of the earl Warenne's¹ fee, had
the custody of this tenement during the minority of the heir.
In 1328 John de Wysham had a grant of free warren in 14
places (named) in the counties of Hereford, Worcester, Norfolk and
Surrey.2 In 1332 the same John died holding the manor of
Wickham by Steyning, Suss., jointly with Hawise his wife, of John
earl Warenne for fee; John his son, aged 12, was his heir.³
+
BLATCHINGTON
379
Hawise late wife of John de Wysham, knt., died in 1359 holding
lands in Norfolk; John her son was aged 26 years and more.
Wickham in Icklesham on the honor of Hastings must not be
confused with this Wickham in Steyning, where lands were held
both of the honor of Warenne and of that of Bramber.4
3. Cal. Inquis. vii. 321, 401.
1. Testa, 222b. 2. Cal. Chart. R. iv. 84.
4. Cal. Close R. 1326, p. 487; 1329, P. 502.
XIX.
6
In Sussex in 1086 William de Warenne had in Brighton 6 hides
and 1 virgate which Widard held of him. Possibly land in Blatch-
ington was included in this tenement.
Wiard gave to Lewes hide in Brighton, tithe of his demesne
there and of the demesne of Ratton (Ratteden '); Richard the
archdeacon gave I hide in Blatchington, I hide at Kyngisford,'
I hide at Moulstone ( Mulescumba '), and 4 hides in Witteden.' ¹
In 1203 an agreement was made between Robert and Richard
de Wyvil concerning 3 virgates of land in Grafton, by which Robert
granted most of it to Richard, retaining, in right of his seniority,
half the wood and a capital messuage etc., which Hugh de Wyvill,
father of Robert, had held.2
In 1205 Robert de Wivill demanded against Robert de Wivill,
brother of Richard de Wivill, 24 virgates in Grafton (Regis),
Northants., whereof demandant's father Hugh by command of his
(Hugh's) father William and mother Emma, of whose maritagium
that land was, received Robert's homage; defendant acknowledged
that he owed the service of 1 virgate to demandant.³ In the fol-
lowing year a recognition was to be made if Hugh father of Robert
de Wivill was seised at his decease of 3 virgates in Grafton which
Robert de Wivill claimed against Richard de Wivill, and if Hugh
did homage to the abbot of Grestein, who granted to him 5 solidates
out of 25 solidates which William de Wivill, Hugh's father, used to
render to the abbot; which same William permitted his son Hugh
to marry and build housing in his chief court and gave him a tillage,
in which house the same Hugh afterwards died and the father had
his land for the residue of his life.4
To the same Hugh was given in the time of kiug John by William
earl Ferrers the Northamptonshire hundred of Cleley, which
descended in his line.5 Hugh died in or before 1205, and in the
following year a fine of 3 virgates in Grafton Regis was levied
between Robert de Wivill and Richard de Wivill. 6
In 1217 Richard de Wyauvill returned to allegiance to the
crown. A certain Richard de Wyavill defended with Godehude his
wife in 1230 their claim to land in Chapmans-Combe, Som. In
1233 he or another Richard de Wyavill was one of the keepers of
the castle of Devizes under Hubert de Burgh, and in 1242 Richard
de Wivill owed mark in Northants. for licence to agree.10 In
1242–3 Richard de Wyavill held fee in Blatchington, Suss., of the
earl of Warenne's fee.11 He was the earl's steward when Hugh de
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HONOR OF WARENNE
Plumton was sheriff of Lewes.12 In 1242-3 Walter de Wyvill held
fee in Thornby, Northants., of the small fees of Mortain.13
Possibly John de Wivill was son of Richard. In 1243 to 1245
he occurs as an official of the Exchequer at Winchester.14
In 1246
he was appointed a justice for the custody of the Jews, 15 and in
1254 he was a justice of Common Pleas.16 He had royal gifts of 2
bucks from the Isle of Wight in 1248, and from the New Forest in
1249.17 On 27 May, 1259, he was sitting on the King's Bench
in Westminster.1
18 It is probable that this John was brother of
Walter de Wivill. John son of Walter de Widevill remitted to
the abbot and convent of Grestein for their tenants of Grafton
suit of the hundred of Cleley, Northants.19 The approximate date.
of this act may be deduced from the fact that in 1279 John de
Wyvill sought to replevy to Margery late wife of Walter de Wyvill
her land in Thornby, Northants., which had been seized for her
default.20 In 1284 John de Widvill of Grafton presented to the
chapel of the Hermitage of Grafton.21 Thomas (?) de Bray held.
in Thornby, Northants., fee of John de Widevill, who held of
John de Daventre.22
No further reference to the family has been found until 1316,
when John de Widevill was lord of the hundred of Cleley.2
23 A
John de Wivill or Weyvill who died in 1322 was certified to have
held no lands of the king in chief in Sussex; 24 as, however, the writ
of diem clausit was directed to the escheator beyond Trent,25 it is
improbable that he was of this family.
In 1329 John son of John de Widevill, by Richard de Widevill
his attorney, claimed to hold the hundred of Cleley by the gift in
the time of king John made by William earl of Ferrers to Hugh de
Widevill, father of William de Widevill, great-great-great-grand-
father (triavus) of the said John, whose heir he then was.26
There is no satisfactory evidence that the tenants of land in
Blatchington on this honor were the same family as that which
held Grafton. In 1336 Thomas de Weyvill was a commissioner of
sewers in Sussex.27 In 1412 Richard Weyvill held the manors of
Rodmell and Blatchington with land called Knolland, Suss., and
an annuity of £20, of the lord of Lewes.28
D. iii. A. 4114. 13. Bk. of Fees, 939. 14. Close R. pass.
1. Watson, op. cit. i. 96.
Placit. 73b. 4. Ibid. 50.
7 Jno. 7. R. L. Claus. i.
R. 180. 10. Pipe R. 26 Hen. III, m. 15d. 11. Testa, 222b. 12. Cat. of Anct.
15. Ibid. 415.
16. Cat. of Anct. D. i. A. 536. 17. Close R. 76, 187. 18. Cat. of Anct.
D. iv. A. 7836. 19. Mon. Angl. vi. 1092b. 20. Cal. Close R. 556. 21. Reg.
Oliver Sutton, Bp. of Linc.
24. Cal. Inquis. vi. 210. 25.
27. Cal. Pat. R. 285.
22. Feud. Aids, iv. 441. 23. Ibid. iv. 22.
Cal. Fine R. iii. 136. 26. Placit. de quo war.
28. Feud. Aids, vi. 525.
549.
2. Northants. Feet of F. 5 John. 3. Abbrev.
5. Placit. de quo war. 6. Feet of F., N'hants.
310b. 8. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 452. 9. Close
XX.
In Norfolk William de Warenne held in Denver (Danefella ')
2 carucates and 3 a. held by Hugh ; in Dereham 30 a. ; in Fordham (?)
3 a.; in Dunham 30 a. ; Larling 1 carucates held by Hugh (see n. 2);
W. BARSHAM, DEEPDEN
381
in Barsham part of 4 carucates (see n. 5); in Fincham 2 carucates
held by Hugh, and land of freemen for 2 ploughs.
In Suffolk William de Warenne held in Deepden 3 carucates
held by Hugh de Wanceio; in Clopton I carucate held by Hugh.
Hugh de Wanci attested the charter of William 2nd earl of
Surrey to Castleacre, in which charter are confirmed the gifts of
Hugh de Wanci of the churches of Deepden and Barsham, and the
gifts of his Frenchmen of their tithes, namely of William Talebot,
Osbern de Denver (Danevela '), Ralph de Wanci, and 6 others
(named). Osbern and Ralph, sons of Hugh de Wanci, and their
mother placed the gift upon the altar of St. Mary in the presence of
Withebert (de Acra), Tosard, Tostan (de Acra), and others. After
Hugh's death Rainer de Grantcurt gave the church of Barsham and
his tithes and Ralph son of the said Hugh gave the mill of Barsham
Bridge and 3 sochmen of the manor of Barsham who dwelt at
Snoring. The said Ralph and Roger his brother placed these gifts
on the altar of St. Mary in the presence of Roger the sewer (son of
Wimer), Peter de Cranewices, Richard de St. Clare, and others.¹
Ralph de Wanci was father of Hugh whose charters to Castleacre
are cited in Blomefield and Parkin's Hist. of Norfolk, iii. 751 (vii. 42).
Hugh had a son Walter, who confirmed his father's gifts. The name
had become widespread by 1181, when a Hugh de Wanci was an
approver in Surrey.2 In 1184 Brunus the London Jew had credit
against his debt to the crown of £280 acquitted to Roger de Wanci
of the land of Pont
, Wales (de Ponte de Tegl').3
In 1201 Walter de Wanci attests a charter of earl Hamelin with
others of the earl's men. In 1212 Nicholas de Wancy held 2 fees
of the bishop of Exeter of his chapelry of Bosham, Suss. In 1220
a Walter de Wauncy of Hampshire had failed in a matrimonial
venture. 6
Ralph de Wauncy held 8 fees in Norfolk of the earl Warenne in
1240, which were in that year assigned in dower to the countess
Matilda." In 1242-3 he held 1 fee in West Barsham and 2 fees in
Deepden in demesne, and the following tenements were held
of him :
8
Robert de Denevere 1 fee in Fordham, Hilgay, Dereham
and Dunham.
Robert de Denevere fee in Larling."
In 1247 Ralph de Wauncy had a grant of free warren in Deepden
and West Barsham,10 and Berta the mother of Ralph de Wauncy
had a royal gift of wine.11 There was another Ralph living,
probably in Sussex, at this time.12 In 1275 William de Wauncy
was lord of Deepden,13 and as son and heir of Sir Ralph de Wauncy,
knt., released to Lewes priory all claim in the advowson of West
Barsham.14 He in 1275 claimed view of frankpledge and warren
in West Barsham.15 William de Waunci, knt., attested charters
in 1280 and 1288.16 In the Sussex Pipe roll of 1279 Nicholas de
Wauncy and Alice Danmartin his wife were chargeable with £130
of the chattels of Elias le Evesk as in the roll of 43 Henry III.17
In 1295 he was one of the keepers of the coast about Dunwich,¹
and in 1309 an assessor of the twenty-fifth in Suffolk.19
18
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The returns to the aid levied in 1302 record these members of
this fee in Norfolk :
Sir William de Vancy I fee in West Barsham.
William son of Nicholas
fee in North Barsham of Sir
William de Vancy etc.
Peter de Spaldyng I fee in Denver, Dunham, Fordham
and Dereham of William Wancy and he of the earl of
Gloucester (sic).20
Hawise de Themeworth fee in Dereham of Peter de
Spalding and he of William de Wancy etc.
Adam de Methelonde fee [in Melond East Hall] in Larling
of William de Wancy etc.
13/08
Adam Talbot I fee in Fincham. See n. 16.21
In Suffolk :
William de Wauncy I fee in Deepden.22
In 1316 William de Wauncy (the younger (?)) was lord of West
Barsham and Deepden.23 In 1324 William de Wauncy and his
tenants held of Aymer de Valence 8 fees in Deepden in Suffolk, and
in West Barsham, Denver, Dunham, Dereham, Fordham, Larling,
Melond, Fincham and North Barsham, Norf.24 He held the same
8 fees in 1327 of David de Strabolgi, earl of Athol.25
1. Mon. Anglic. v. 50. 2. Pipe R. 27 Hen. II, 153.
3. Ibid. 30
Hen. II, 138. 4. Round, Cal. of Docs., France, n. 1403. 5. Bk. of Fees,
71.
6. R. L. Claus. 440.
7. Close R. 214. 8. Testa, 287, 2926.
9. Ibid. 287.
10. Cal. Chart. i. 323. 11. Close R. 517. 12. Cal. Pat.
1248, p. 28. 13. R. Hund. i. 5206-21; ii. 196. 14. Harl. MS. 2110, f. 5d.
15. R. Hund. i. 455, 520b-21.
16. Cal. Close R. 113, 513. 17. Pipe R.
9 Edw. I, m. 14d. 18. Cal. Close, 456. 19. Cal. Pat. R. 484. 20. In
the return of 1346 this fee was held by the tenants of William de Wauncy,
who held of the earl Warenne; Feud. Aids, iii. 509.
21. Ibid. iii. pass.
22. Ibid. v. 78. 23. Feud. Aids, iii. 460; v. 45. 24. Cal. Inquis. vi. 331,
334. 25. Ibid. 482.
XXI.
In Norfolk in 1086 William de Warenne held in Cranwick (2
carucates) and Ely had the soc of 2 other carucates; in Illington
1 car.; in Hilborough a manor held by W(illiam); in Cockley
Cley car. held by the same W(illiam); in Bradenham 30 a. held
by the same (William); in Denver 2 car. and 109 acres which
William held of him; in Heacham 2 car. which W(illiam) held.¹
William the first earl gave an estate in Heacham to the monks
of Lewes as he lay on his death-bed.2 William 2nd earl of Surrey
confirmed to Lewes the land that William de Cailly (Kayly) held
of him and whatever the grantor had in his demesne from the
bridge of Peathorne to Chailey, Suss.3 He also granted whatever
William de Cailly held of him in the manor of Heacham, Norf.,
which he had given to the monks. Osbert de Caillei attests the
second earl's charter to Castleacre.5 The name of Osbert was
common both to this line of Cailly and to that of the lords of the
honor of Cailly in Normandy."
In 1166 Ralph de Cailly held 2 fees in Trumpington and
HILBOROUGH
383
.
elsewhere of the honor of Skipton in Craven, and Jordan de Cailly
held I fee of new feoffment of earl Hugh Bigod. There is no
evidence that either Ralph or Jordan held of the honor of Warenne.
In 1197 William de Cailly obtained an acknowledgment that land
in Tuddenham, Suff., was inheritance." Roger de Cailli, who tests
charters of earl Hamelin, died before 1199, when Beatrice his
widow claimed 2 carucates in Denver, in dower of the gift of Roger
her late husband, against John de Cailli, against whom Alice de
Cailli also brought a plea of marriage, afterwards settled, as it
appears, by fine in 2 John (1200-1), which shews that Alice's claim
was to a tenement in Hildeburchworth, now Hilborough, Norf.9
In the same year the claim to land in Denver was settled with
Beatrice, who had married Peter de Beche.10 In 1202, in a suit
against Peter de Beche and Beatrice his wife for 40s. of rent in a
mill in Cranwich, John de Cailly was called to warranty by the
tenants on the ground that his father had given that mill to Beatrice
in dower. The demandant obtained judgment and John was
ordered to give Beatrice an exchange.¹
11
13
Adam de Cailly appears to have succeeded to this fee in or
before 9 John, when he was demandant in a fine with Michael de
Ponynges and others touching lands in Bradenham, Denver and
Ryston, Norf.
Michael appears to have married Margery late the
wife of John de Cailly, and her dower appears to have been de-
manded against Adam.12 In 1216 the king refused to receive
Adam de Cailly and other tenants of the Warenne fee to peace.¹
During the years 1227-30 Adam was a justice commissioned to
take certain assizes of novel disseisin in Norfolk, and in the last-
named year was one of the keepers of the seaports in Norfolk
under the earl of Warenne.14 Another Adam, with Mabel his wife,
was party to a plea of land in Shute, Gloucs., in 1231-2,15 and held
fee there in 1235-6 of the fee of John le Brun.16 See Arundel,
n. 38, and Giffard, n. 76.
In 1232 Margery de Poninges impleaded Adam de Cailly in that
he had not held to the fine made in the court of king John respect-
ing the manors of Bradenham, Denver and Ryston, and the park of
Bradenham, but she failed in her plea.¹7 See n. 3 above. In
1240 Adam held 4 fees in Norfolk of the Warenne fee, which 4 fees
were assigned to the dower of the countess Matilda.18
In 1242-3 Adam de Cailly held 1 fee in Hilborough and I fee
in Cranwich; William de Illington and his fellows held 1 fee in
Illington. Margery de Poninges held (in dower) I fee in Denver.19
mas.
¿
In 1244 Osbert de Kaylly had respite of knighthood until Christ-
In 1257 Osbert de Cailly of Norfolk was excused from being
put on assizes and the like. 20 In 1263 he conveyed to Walter de
Bersted £10 and 16d. of rent in Wivelsfield, Worth, Iford, Mitching,
Ovingdean and Wychcenden,' Suss., for £90 with the service of
John de la Bysse in those places, namely I knight's fee.21 Possibly
Osbert had held this fee of the Plaiz family. In 1265 Osbert de
Cailly and Simon de Cailly had letters of protection.22 In 1275 it
was reported that Sir Osbert de Cailly, knt., and Walter de [Cailly
of ?] Denever had their leet at Denver; that Sir Osbert claimed
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HONOR OF WARENNE
assize of bread at Bradenham and Oxborough, and that he held
the whole vill of Cranwich ('Kernewiz ') of the earl of Warenne.23
Adam de Cailly claimed assize etc. and waif in Clackclose hundred.24
Osbert was living as late as 1285, when he had acquittance of the
common summons of the eyre in Norfolk.2 In 1287 he was in the
army of Wales.26
25
It is assumed that Adam was son and heir of Osbert and that
he and his tenants held the following tenements in 1302–3:
Adam de Cailly I fee in Cranwich, I fee in Hilborough,
Fouldon, Didlington and Cley, and I fee in Denver, Dunham,
and Fordham.
8
Henry de Esthalle fee, William de Bokenham fee,
Ralph de Illyngton fee, and 9 others (named) holding of
Henry de Esthalle fee in Illington, all holding of Adam de
Cailly.27
It appears probable that Adam de Cailly was twice married,
having issue a son Thomas and a daughter by his first wife, Emma,
sister of Robert de Tateshale the elder, whose grandson Robert
died in 1307 without issue, upon whose death Thomas de Cailly,
son of Emma, succeeded to a third part of the Tateshale inheritance
and obtained the castle and a fourth part of the manor of Bucken-
ham for his chief messuage.28 By a second wife Adam appears to
have had issue a son Edmund.
By fine levied in 1307 Michael de Cailly, parson of Hilborough,
conveyed the Cailly manor in Denver to Adam de Cailly and
Edmund his son, 29 and so in 1316 Edmund de Cailly and Peter de
Spaldyng were returned as joint lords of Denver.30
Thomas de Cailly died in 1316 holding of his own inheritance
the manor of Hilborough of the earl of Pembroke for fee as of
the manor of Castleacre, which the said earl late acquired of John
de Warenne, earl of Surrey, out of which Michael de Cailly (parson
of Hilborough) received an annuity of £12 by Thomas's gift; Adam
son of Roger de Clifton, nephew and heir of Thomas, was aged 9
years.31 Margaret relict of Thomas did not obtain assignment of
knights' fees towards her dower until 1324, when she was wife of
Robert de Ufford.32 In that year the heir of Thomas de Cailly
held of Aymer de Valence, earl of Pembroke, 4 fees in Hilborough,
Cranwick, Bradenham, Denver and Illington.33 In 1326 Joan late
wife of Adam de Cailly died holding the manor of Cranwick in
dower of the inheritance of the said Adam of the heir of Thomas
de Cailly; Adam de Clifton, Thomas's kinsman, was next heir,
aged 18 years.34 He had livery of his inheritance in 1329.35
1. It is not clear in all cases whether W.' and 'idem' refer to William
de Warenne or to William de Cailly his tenant.
2. Lewes Chartulary,
Vesp. F. xv. f. 13. 3. Watson, op. cit. i. 92. 4. Vesp. F. xv. f. 13. Cf.
Mon. Anglic. v. 14b, s. t. Hercheham.
5. Ibid. 51. 6. Stapleton, Hist.
of Norman Excheq. ii. pass. 7. Feet of F. (P.R.S. xxiii.), 48. 8. R. Cur.
Reg. ii. 58, 137; iii. 167. 9. Norf. Feet of F. p. 14. 10. Ibid.; R. Cur.
Reg. iii. 198.
11. Abbrev. Placit. 36b.
12. Hist. of Norf. ed. 1775,
iv. 78.
P. 585; 1232, p. 142.
13. R. L. Claus. i. 250. 14. Pat. R. 364. 15. Close R. 1231,
16. Testa, 82.
17. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 672.
[
ATTLEBOROUGH, SCOULTON, STANFORD
385
18. Close R. 214.
of F. n. 711.
24. Ibid. 519.
Aids, iii. pass.
29. Hist. of Norf. iv. 78.
19. Testa, 2876.
22. Cal. Pat. R. 446.
25. Cal. Close R. 406.
20. Cal. Pat. 582. 21. Suss. Feet
23. R. Hund. i. 437b-8, 438, 458.
28. Cal. Pat. R. 274. 27. Feud.
28. Cal. Inquis. iv. 258, 262; Cal. of Fine R. i. 547.
30. Feud. Aids, iii. 451. 31. Cal. Inquis.
32. Cal. Close R. 117, 236. 33. Cal. Inquis. vi. 331, 335; Cal.
Close R. 266, 278. 34. Cal. Inquis. vi. 419.
35. Cal. Close R. 427.
vi. 19.
XXII.
In Norfolk Roger son of Renard held in 1086 in Stanford 2 car.,
and 2 car. and 36 a. which freemen held; in Buckenham 1 car.
and 20 a.; in Ickburgh 40 a.; in Ingoldesthorpe 1 car.; in
Scoulton 2 car. and 12 a. ; in Attleborough 2 car. and 3 a. and 80 a.
held by sochmen; in the other Attleborough 2 car. and 47 a. held
by sochmen; in Rocklund I car.; in Mundham 20 acres in
Hudeston (in Bunwell) I car.; in Raveningham 2 car. and 21
acres; in Thurlton 20 acres.
William de Warenne held in Heacham land of 14 ploughs and
freemen's land of 1 carucate; in Tofts part of 1 car. (nos. 2 and
5); in Ellingham So a.; in Barnham 2 car. 6 a.
Robert de Mortemer attested the foundation charter of Castle-
acre priory with other tenants of the earl of Surrey.¹ This charter
was attributed by Dugdale to the first earl, but it appears to have
been the act of the second earl (1089-1138).
4
There were, as will be shewn, two if not three Mortemers of
Attleborough in the 12th century who bore the name of Robert.
In 1177 Robert de Mortemer was amerced for wrongful disseisin
in Lincolnshire.2 In 1180 Alexander son of William de Rogham
of Norfolk had licence to take his suit against the earl of Arundel
and Robert de Mortemer into the king's court.3 The following
year Richard de Mortemer and 16 persons or vills in Norfolk were
amerced for having broken into the park of William de Bouvill,+
the knight of earl Hugh Bigod, in the neighbourhood of Castle
Rising. In 1192 (as noted at Arundel, n. 41), Robert de Mortemer
owed 30 marks for right of 5 knights' fees in Hunstanton and 3
other places against John L'Estrange; but the record stated that
he had not the right.5 He gave to Lewes land in Heacham in
return for land in Thomson and Caston which the monks restored
to him, his charter being attested by Hamelin earl of Warenne,
William de Warenne, and others." In 1194 Robert de Mortemer
found sureties, namely earl Roger Bigod, Geoffrey de Say and
William de Warenne (of Wormegay), to make his peace with the
king for holding a tournament without licence, and recovered
possession of his lands."
The following fine levied in 1195 possibly indicates that the
demandant claimed some part of the inheritance of John le
Estrange in Hunstanton as one of the heirs of Reginald le Brun.
He demanded against John le Estrange 5 knights' fees in Hun-
stanton, Tottington, Ringstead and Snitterton, and by the agree-
ment made acknowledged the land to be John's inheritance and
that he (Robert) and his progeny had no right therein against John,
III.
2 C
386
HONOR OF WARENNE
0
who gave him all the land he had in Tottington to hold for 1 fee
less fee, except the church, which by Robert's assent he gave
to St. Mary and the nuns of Campsey in alms, and except the
service of 9 tenants (named). For the land in Tottington Robert
gave John £100 of silver of which Hubert archbishop of Canter
bury, for the said Robert, had acquitted John ubi eas debuit.8
In 1219 in a dispute as to the ownership of land in Tottington,
Norf., between the prioress of Campsey and William de Mortemer,
the latter shewed that John L'Estrange gave the land to his father
Robert de Mortemer (in 1195), who demised the land to William
le Brun, parson of the church of Tottington, for life, and he was
recently deceased after 22 years' tenure of the same; William de
Mortemer was said to be kinsman and seneschal (?) of John
L'Estrange.⁹
In 1199 Petronilla de Mortemer instituted a plea of dower in
land in Cambridgeshire, 10 and in 4 John the same Petronilla made
an agreement with William de Bukenham touching the advowson
of the church of Buckenham, Norf.11 This lady held land in 1199
in the Essex hundred of Dengie, possibly in Woodham Mortimer.12
This may point to a connexion between the Mortemers of Attle-
borough and those of Woodham. Two years later Walter son of
Roger made an agreement with Robert de Mortemer touching the
advowson of the church of Raveningham.13 In Michaelmas term
1203 a verdict was given in a suit about the presentation to that
church that Robert de Mortemer, grandfather of Robert de
Mortemer, had presented the last parson to the church of Raven-
ingham.14
In 1204 there was a mandate to the sheriff of Norfolk to give
to Robert de Mortemer seisin of the manor of Scoulton, of which
king Richard had disseised him per voluntatem suam and had caused
William de Mortemer to be seised thereof, to hold it by such right
as he had before he was disseised.15 In October 1205 the sheriff
was directed to let Robert de Burgate have the land of Scoulton,
late Robert de Mortemer's; 16 in January following the sheriff
was ordered to let William earl Warenne have seisin of the manor
of Scoulton' which Robert de Burgate holds,' being of the earl's
fee.17
Presumably the following entries relate to these Mortemers:
On 30 November, 1204, the sheriff of Lincoln was ordered to give
Robert de Mortemer seisin of the land in Harlaxton late of William
de Mortemer,18 and in April 1205 to give the same Robert seisin
of the land late of Jordan de Bosco, and also of £20 worth of land
of the king's escheats without delay, in order that Robert might
not be hindered by reason that the king was sending him into
Poitiers in his service with Geoffrey his son.19 In February 1216
the sheriff of Leicester (sic) was directed to put Robert de Mortemer
(of Richard's Castle ?) in possession of £10 worth of land late.
of Robert de Mortemer of Norfolk, by reason that the last-named
was then with the king's enemies.20 Within a few days of that
date Hervey Belet was forbidden to receive to the king's peace
William de Mortemer and other tenants of the fee of Warenne.21
ATTLEBOROUGH, SCOULTON, STANFORD 387
Late in the preceding year Constantine de Mortemer had been
taken prisoner at Rochester castle and committed to the custody
of the constable of Wallingford. 22 Again in February 1216 the
presentation to the church of Raveningham was in the king's
gift by reason of the land of William de Mortemer, the king's
enemy, being in his hands. 23
In September 1217 William de
Mortemer returned to allegiance and had letters for the restoration
of his lands to the earl of Arundel 24 and the sheriffs of Norfolk,
Suffolk, Lincoln, Cambridge, and Huntingden.25 Guy de Mortemer
confirmed to the canons of Bayham land in Rokelund which they
had held of Robert de Mortemer his father; it was of his mother's
maritagium. The period is uncertain, but Jordan is named as
abbot.26
From a return made in 1226-8 it appears that William de
Mortemer then held 10 librates of land in Harlaxton which king
John had given to Robert de Mortemer, his father, of the Normans
lands, and similarly £5 worth of land in Denton, Lincs.27 These
lands belonged to the soc of Grantham which the earl of Warenne
then had.28 William de Mortemer still held land in Harlaxton
in 1242-3.2 29 In a return made in 1212 it was stated that the earl
of Warenne then held Scoulton of the king of the inheritance of
William de Mortemer. 30 In 1238-9 William de Mortemer was
seneschal of William de Warenne, earl of Surrey.31
3
In 1239 a fine was levied between Roger son of Walter de
Raveningham and William de Mortemer touching the advowson of
the church of Raveningham.32 In 1242-3 William de Mortemer
held of the fee of Warenne I fee in Attleborough, Barnham, Little
Ellingham and Tofts; fee in Scoulton; fee in Stanford and
Buckenham, Roger de Ravengham fee in Raveningham, Robert
de Besevill I fee in Hadeston, and John de Hoe fee in Bixton
and Barnham.33 William de Mortemer had a grant of free warren
in 1250 in his manors of Attleborough, Barnham and Scoulton,
Norf., and Kingston and Foxton, Cambs.34 His lands in Cam-
bridgeshire were of the fiefs of Pecche and Richmond.³
35
<<
Robert de Mortemer succeeded before 1246, when he and his
wife Isabel were instituting a plea of assize of mort d'ancestor in
Cambridgeshire.36 In 1252 he had exemption for life from being
put on assizes and the like.37 In 1261 land in Harston, Cambs.,
was held of Sir Robert de Mortemer.38 It was presented in 1265
from Shropham hundred (in which Attleborough lies) that in the
recent disturbances Sir Robert de Mortemer sent a servant named
Leonius to Buckenham castle when Sir Henry de Hastinges came
thither to besiege the castle, because Sir Henry had threatened
to burn his manors in Norfolk; Sir Robert was since then deceased
and his heir in the wardship of the earl of Warenne.39
In 1273 a William de Mortemer had an order for free passage
in the port of Dover with horses and equipment returning from his
pilgrimage to Santiago.40 In 1275 William son of Robert de
Mortemer gave a receipt to the prior of Barnwell for money be-
queathed under the will of Sir Geoffrey de Bancs for fighting men
who should set out for the Holy Land.41
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HONOR OF WARENNE
In 1275 William de Mortemer claimed to have waif in the vill
of Attleborough,42 and in 1283 he had a grant of market and fair
at his manor of Stanford.43
In 1285 he demanded against the prior of Shouldham the advow-
son of the church of Stanford, of which Robert de Mortemer was
seised temp. Henry II, and set forth his descent from the said
Robert, viz. the said Robert had issue William, who had issue
Robert, who had issue William, who had issue Robert, who had issue
William the then demandant.44 The italicised words are probably
redundant. In 1289, as of Norfolk, he had letters of protection
upon going to Scotland.45 He died in 1297, holding of the earl
of Surrey lands in Harlaxton, Lincs., lands in Barnham, Scoulton
and Attleborough of the said earl by the service of 6 knights'
fees; lands within the park of Attleborough of Sir Robert de
Tateshale, and lands and the service of certain knights in Kingston,
Wimpole and Eversden, Cambs., late held of Sir Gilbert Pecche
by the service of 3 knights' fees; Constantine his son and heir was
aged 18.46 In Norfolk William de Bosingle held of him the manor
of Hadeston and Bunwell for I fee, William Ponyaunt fee in
Attleborough and Ellingham and Robert de Castune the manor
of Rocklund Tofts for fee. He had the advowson of the churches
of Bixton, Barnham and Scoulton, and a third of that of Attle-
borough.47 Dower was duly assigned to Alice late wife of the
said William.48
In 1302-3 Constantine de Mortemer's fee consisted of the
following tenements :
Constantine de Mortemer 1 fee in Attleborough.
John de Thorp and Alice his wife, in the name of Alice's
dower, the manors of Scoulton, Ellingham and Tofts for I fee
of Constantine de Mortemer.
William Poygnant fee in Ellingham as above.
William de Besevill fee in Bunwell as above.
Nicholas de Castello fee in Raveningham of Peter
Roscelyn and he as above.
th
John de Thorp and Alice his wife fee in Stanford as above.
Nicholas de Langetot fee in Buckenham of John Avenil,
he of John le Bere, who held as above.
Constantine de Mortemer fee in Bixton of Sampson de
Hoo and he of the earl of Warenne.
4
Margery le Hauteyn fee in Barnham of Walter de
Bernham and he of the earl Warenne.49
In 1306 Constantine de Mortemer had a grant of market and
fair and free warren at Kingston, Cambs., and in 1310 of a yearly
fair at his manor of Attleborough and the same at his manor of
Foxton, Cambs. 50
In 1324 Constantine de Mortemer and his tenants held of Aymer
de Valence, earl of Pembroke,51 4 fees in Attleborough, Barnham,
Scoulton, Tofts, Rocklund, Stanford, Debenham, Little Ellingham,
Raveningham, Bixton, Haddeston and Heacham.52 In 1338 he
had a grant of free warren in the first 6 places above named and
A
BURNHAM THORPE, FULMODESTON
389
Ellingham, and in Besthorpe, Caston, Thompson, Totington,
Little Buckenham, Beckerton and Coston, Norf., Kingston and
Foxton, Cambs., and Harlaxton, Lincs. 53
Constantine de Mortemer, knt., son and heir of Constantine the
elder, died without issue in 1355, shortly before his father, leaving
Agnes his wife surviving; upon the death of the elder Constantine,
in 1357, Robert his younger son succeeded; the said Agnes had the
manor of Kingston, Cambs., held of the honor of Peverel of Bourn,
in dower.54 She married before 1358 Thomas de Gissing, knt. 55
3. Ibid. 26
1. Mon. Anglic. v. 49.
2. Pipe R. 23 Hen. II, 113.
Hen. II, 23. 4. Ibid. 27 Hen. II, 90. 5. Pipe R. 4 Ric. m. 2d. 6. Cat.
of Anct. D. iii. A. 5489. 7. R. Cur. Regis, i. 87. 8. Feet of F. (Pipe R.
10. R. Cur. Reg. i. 326.
13. Norf. Feet
15. R. L. Claus. i. 6. 16. Ibid.
19. Ibid. 27.
20. Ibid. 249.
9. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 21.
Soc. xvii), 61.
11. Norf. Feet of F. n. 147- 12. Mon. Anglic. v. 625b.
of F. n. 299.
14. Abbrev. Placit. 45b.
54b. 17. Ibid. 76.
18. Ibid. 15b.
21. Ibid. 250. 22. R. Lit. Pat. 161. 23. Ibid. 166. 24. In respect of lands
of the Richmond fee, and in Attleborough of the Arundel fee. 25. R. L.
Claus. i. 324.
26. Chartul. Otho A. ii. f. 24d. 27. Bk. of Fees, 359.
28. Ibid. 29. Ibid. 322b. 30. Ibid. 131. 31. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 1243.
32. Norf. Feet of F. p. 60. 33. Testa, 287.
34. Hist. of Norf. i. 344.
35. Farrer, Feudal Cambs., pass. 36. Excerpt. Fin. i. 465. 37. Cal.
Close R. 154. 38. Cal. Inquis. i. 139. 39. Cal. Misc. Ing. i. 251. 40. Cal.
Close R. 46.
41. Lib. Mem. de Barnewelle, 150.
43. Cal. Chart. ii. 266.
46. Cal. Inquis. iii. 278.
49. Feud. Aids, iii. pass.
Calendarium Inquis. (Rec. Com.) says 6 fees.
53. Cal. Chart. R. iv. 444. 54. Cal. Inquis. x. 306. 55. Cal. Close R. 439.
42. R. Hund. i. 472b.
44. Holinshed, Chron. ii. 266. 45. Cal. Pat. 335-
47. Ibid. 279.
48. Cal. Close R. 143, 146.
50. Cal. Chart. R. iii. 72, 159.
51. The
52. Cal. Inquis. vi. 331, 335.
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XXIII.
In Norfolk in 1086 William de Warenne held in Burnham
Thorpe 2 car. held by Walter and I car. held by socmen; in
Fulmodeston 2 car. held by Walter; in Croxton I car. held by
Walter; in Harpley land for 4 ploughs held by Walter; in Hackford
1 car. held by Turold.
Walter de Grancurt gave to Lewes the churches of St. Mary
and St. Peter at Burnham with land and tithes, then held by
Philip de Warenne for the term of his life.¹ This was confirmed
by William the 2nd earl.2 At the dedication of the church of
St. Pancras, Lewes, Ralph de Grancurt, probably son of Walter
de Grancurt, gave or confirmed to the monks the two churches
of Burnham and that of Harpley.3 Reiner de Grancurt gave
to Castleacre tithes of Barsham and land in Tattersett and Hugh
(de Pinkenni ?) his tenant (homo) gave tithes and land in Tattersett.
Hugh de Fulmodeston gave the church and tithes of Fulmodeston
and Hugh de Burnham his tenant gave a rent there. A pedigree
of the Grancurts will be found in The Genealogist, N.S. xxi. 20.
In 1206 Hugh de Polsted and Hawise his wife and William
de Gimingham and Juliana his wife recovered seisin against Walter
de Grantcurt of I carucate of land in Burnham as of the maritagium
of Ascelina the wife of Hugh de Candos, their mother, whose
heirs they were; it was given by William de Grantcurt, father of
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the said Ascelina.5 In 1209 Walter son of William de Grantcurt
proffered a goshawk for exemption from serving on any assize
save between barons. Walter de Grantcurt, knt., notified to
Pandulf bishop of Norwich (1218-1226) that he renounced all
claim to the church of Croxton, having been assured that it was
appurtenant to the church of Fulmodeston." William de Grantcurt
in 1239 confirmed to Castleacre the gifts made by his prede-
8
cessors.
At some period in the 12th century it appears that the depend-
ant tenure of the Burnhams nnder the Grantcurts was reversed,
and the Burnhams became immediate tenants of the earls of
Warenne.
In the time of king Stephen, Walter son of Philip, ancestor of
Philip de Burnham (living 1199), presented to the church of
Burnham Thorpe.⁹ In 1166 Walter de Burnham and his fellows
accounted for I mark of the pleas of earl Geoffrey and Richard
de Luci.10 Philip de Burnham married Emma daughter and coheir
of Ralph L'Estrange of Ercall, Salop, who died 1193-4. There
was a plea of land in 1198 between Emma L'Estrange, by her
husband Philip de Burnham, against Fulk de Oirri; 11 and in the
following year Philip and the monks of Lewes had a plea touching
a duel.12 In this year (1199) also a partition of the inheritance
was made, before Hubert archbishop of Canterbury, between
Philip and Fulk de Oirri, who had married Matilda, Emma's elder
sister and coheir.13 Emma's pourparty was in Sturmer, Essex,
and next year Philip gave 20 marks to have seisin of his land at
Felsted, Essex, of which the king had caused him to be disseised.¹4
This may have been Grancurt's alias Gronker's manor in Felsted.
In 1200 also Philip and Emma had a plea with John L'Estrange
touching land in Childs Ercall, Salop, of which Hamon, John's
uncle, was alleged to have died seised; this plea was postponed
until Emma's sister should come to answer with Emma.15 In
1201 the archbishop of Canterbury resigned to Philip de Burnham
the wardship of the land and heir of William de Feldstede, saving
to the abbess of Caen her right.16
In 1213 Philip de Burnham was one of three commissioners
in Norfolk to inquire about the losses incurred in the recent
disturbances by the clergy and Robert Fitz-Walter.¹ At this
time he and John the Chamberlain held of William de Heliun
fee in Sturmer, Essex.18 They still held it in 1214-15.¹
19 Philip
died before 1226, when the sheriff of Norfolk was directed to make
personal inquiry at Burnham by liege men of the vicinage as to
the liberties that Philip de Burnham, father of Ralph de Burnham
his heir, and William le Valtre had in the land of Burnham, the
sea and port of 'Brunnemuth' and the market of Burnham, and
of the accepted liberties to give seisin to the said Ralph.20 See
Arundel, n. 46. In or before 1240, presumably on the death of
Ralph de Burnham, Hugh de Plaiz fined with the earl of Warenne
in 200 marks for custody of the land and heir of Philip (sic) de
Burnham.21 In 1240 the service of those who held 5 fees in
Burnham of the fee of Warenne was assigned to the dower of the
BURNHAM THORPE, FULMODESTON
391
countess Matilda.22
tenement :
Hugh de Plaiz, by the heir of Ralph de Burnham, 1½ fee
in Burnham Thorpe.
Hugh de Polstede and William de Gimingham fee in
Burnham-Sutton.
Cecily the daughter of Philip de Burnham fee in Harpley.
William de Gurney fee in Harpley.
William de Grancurt 23 1½ fee in Fulmodeston and Croxton
and fee in Clipston.
Ralph de Birston fee in Briston.24
In 1242-3 these fees were held as of this
1
4
Philip
s. & h.
In 1261 a fine was levied between William de Grauncurt and
William de Calethorp and Cecily his wife (who was daughter and
heir of Philip de Burnham the younger), whereby the demandant
released to them I carucate of land in Harpley.25 In 1271 William
de Calethorp had a grant of free warren in Burnham, Harpley,
and Hingham, Norf., and Barnham, Suff., and of market and fair
at his manor of Burnham.26
William
s. & h.
d. s.p.
In 1275 there is reference on the Hundred rolls to William de
Calethorp's fair at the manor of Burnham, Walter de Grancurt's
right of free warren at his manor of Fulmodeston, and Ralph son
of John de Brunham's suit of his tenants.27 William de Caletorp
held I fee in the vill of Harpley, with the moiety of that fee which
John de Gurney held of him there, of William earl of Warenne.28
The year following Cecily de Calethorp, in claiming the right of
patronage of the church of Harpley, gave this pedigree: 29
William (recte Walter) s. & h.
1
2
Philip de Burnham
temp. Stephen.
Ralph
s.p.
Emma dau. and coheir of Ralph L'Estrange
of Childs Ercall, Salop.

William
s. & h.
d. s.p.
Francis
s.p.
Philip
heir to his
brother
Cecily
William de
heir to her ↑ Calethorp.
brother
In 1283 William and his wife Cecily with others were charged
with trespasses against Ralph Crundel.30 Two years later the
same Cecily acknowledged that a messuage in Burnhamthorpe
was the right of Ralph Grundel.³¹ In a fine levied in 1286 between
Walter de Grancurt and William de Calethorp and Cecily his wife
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HONOR OF WARENNE
reference was made to a fine levied temp. Henry III between
William father of the demandant and the same tenants respecting
lands in Burnham Thorpe, Burnham-Sutton, Harpley, Fincham,
East Winch and Hungres-wauton' (East Walton).32 In 1287
John de Vaus died holding of William de Calethorp fee in Hack-
ford, Norf.33
6
In 1298 Walter de Calthorp had licence to alienate in mortmain
to the prior and Carmelite friars of Burnham a parcel of meadow
there.3 34
In 1302-3 these feudal tenements belonged to this fee:
Sir Walter de Calethorp 2 fees in Burnham.
Sir Ralph de Hemenhale fee in Burnham of the heirs of
Walter de Grancurt, they of Sir Walter de Calethorp etc.
The manor of Fulmodeston is held of the same Sir Walter
for 2 fees, whereof John de Birston holds fee in Briston in
the hundred of Holt.
Pertaining to the manor of Fulmodeston fee in Clipston is
held of Hugh Bardolf etc. (See n. 2).
William de Ros fee in Hackford of the same Walter.
Walter de Calthorp, John de Gurneye, and their tenants
1 fee in Harpley.35
In 1324 Walter de Calthorp, knt., and his tenants held of
Aymer de Valence 5 (alibi 51) fees in Burnham, Burnham Thorp,
Harpley, Fulmodeston and Hackford.36 Walter was living in
October 1324.37
William de Calthorp, a knt. in 1327, who succeeded, was Walter's
son and heir, born before 1303.38 He was a commissioner of array
in Norfolk in 1330.39 Two years later David earl of Athol demised
to him and 3 others for their lives the manor of Stiffkey with knights'
fees pertaining thereto quit for 5 years and then at £50 yearly rent.40
In 1346 William de Calthorpe held in Burnham of the fees of
Warenne and Wormegay,¹¹ and at his death in 1359 he held manors
in Seething and Burnham Thorpe of the honor of Arundel for 1 fee ;
John his son was aged 30 years. His wife's name was Isabel;
she seems to have inherited land in Seething.43 See Arundel, n. 54.
42
1. Mon. Anglic. v. 14b. 2. Vesp. F. xv. f. 33d. 3. Above, p. 312.
4. Mon. Anglic. v. 50. 5. Abbrev. Placit. 47. 6. Pipe R. 11 John m. 5d.
14. R. de Oblat. 86.
7. Castle Acre Chartul. Harl. MS. 2110, f. 59d. 8. Ibid.
9. Abbrev.
Placit. 6b. 10. Pipe R. 12 Hen. II, 29. 11. R. Curia Regis, iii. 50, So.
12. Ibid. 78.
13. Abbrev. Placit. 22; R. Cur. Regis, i. 274; ii. 187.
Cf. R. Cur. Regis, iii. 264, 397.
15. R. Cur. Regis,
iii. 119, 133. 16. Ibid. 418. 17. R. L. Claus. i. 154b, 1646-5. 18. Red
Bk. 358. 19. Bk. of Fees, 233. 20. . Lit. Claus. ii. 150. 21. Pat. R.
22. Close R. 214.
23. See Red Bk. 744.
1241, p. 267.
24. Testa, 287.
25. Norf. Feet of F. n. 1443. 26. Cal. Chart. ii. 174. 27. Op. cit. i. 520-1.
28. Ibid. 461. 29. Blomefield, Hist. of Norf. iv. 556. 30. Cal. Pat. R.
IOI. 31. Cal. Close R. 352. 32. Norf. Feet of Fines, 4 Edw. I, n. 416.
33. Cal. Inquis. ii. 404.
34. Cal. Pat. 354.
35. Feud. Aids, iii. pass.
36. Cal. Inquis. vi. 331, 335.; Cal. Close R. 1326, p. 447. 37. Cat. of Anct.
D. iii. C. 2933.
38. Ibid. i. C. 234, 237; iii. C. 3105. 39. Cal. Pat.
R. 574.
40. Ibid. 305. 41. Feud. Aids, iii. 517.
42. Cal. Inquis. x. 395·
43. Cat. of Anct. D. i. C. 867, 1481; iii. C. 3105.
RYBURGH, STIBBARD, TATTERSETT
393
XXIV.
In Norfolk William de Warenne held in 1086 in Anmercar.,
which Guy claimed (revocat) by reason that it was delivered to
Osmund, his maternal uncle, and count Eustace, but the men of
William de Warenne disseised them; in Snettisham 2 car. and 20 a. ;
in Fring 20 a.; in Shernborne 2 car. and 40 a. ; in Didlington 4 car.,
of which Oger held 1 car.; in Foulden 6 car., of which William
(nos. 3 and 21) held 1 car.; in Sculthorpe 3 car. and 32 sochmen.
I car., 2 of whom had 40 a. in Toft; in (Little) Ryburgh and
Stibbard 30 a. held by Peter de Valoignes; in Ryburgh I car. held
by (the same) Peter; in Tattersett I car. held by Reiner and 69 a.
by sochmen; in Barsham some part of 4 carucates.
These lands, or part of them, became the component parts of a
feudal tenement created in 1316 by the earl of Surrey.
The charters in the Binham chartulary (Claudius D. xiii.) give
the following Valoignes descent :
Peter I de Valoignes
founder of Binham,
C. 1108.
William Roger
*
===
Peter II Gundred
Agnes
Hubert
(sister of de Monte
Pagan) Caniso
(de Warenne)
s.p.
Albreda (sister of Eudes
the sewer).

-
Muriel¹-
Roger
Robert Gunnor
Fitz-
Walter
=
William
de
Bacheton
Robert Hawise Geoffrey Roger
John Philip
Durand
de Steill'
Christiana William de Mandevill,
earl of Essex.
dau. Alvred
Adam Roger
Beccha
Walter de Valoignes, nepos of Peter I,2 in conjunction with
Agnes his daughter and heir and Rohese his wife, gave to Binham
his land of Barney and Thursford, for the souls of Peter de Valoignes.
and Albreda his wife, Roger de Valoignes (grantor's lord and kins-
man) and Agnes his wife. Walter became a monk in the abbey.
Roger de Valoignes approved the gift, with the sanction of arch-
bishop Theobald and others.4 The second Peter also confirmed
the gift; 5 and Robert de Valoignes, Peter's brother, was another
benefactor of Binham.6
Adam son of Alvred, 'for the soul of Peter de Valoignes my
grandfather, and for Roger de Valoignes his son my uncle, and
Peter the younger my kinsman,' gave crofts in Ingoldisthorpe in a
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HONOR OF WARENNE
specially distinctive manner, the witnesses including the whole town
of Ingoldisthorpe and grantor's wife the lady Beccha and his brother
Roger." In 1165 Adam son of Alvered owed 100 marks to have the
enrolment (recordatio) of the king's court respecting the plea between
himself and Agnes de Rieburc (n. 27); 8 and in the next year the
wife of Fulqui de Munpincun [the same Agnes] owed £100 for the
hastening of her right of the land which she claimed against Adam
son of Alvred.9 Adam is supposed to have been the ancestor of
the Ingoldisthorpe family (Arundel, n. 61; and n. 41 below). Adam
son of Alvred and Ralph de Dalling were in 1166 tenants of Robert
de Valoignes.10
Other benefactors to this Valoignes foundation at Binham were
Thurold of Wood Dalling, who gave tithes of Dalling, Ralph son of
Thurold and Roger his son, who gave the churches of Wood Dalling
and Little Ryburgh; 11 the latter gift was confirmed by Philip de
Pavilly.12 Peter son of Ralph, with the assent of Lefquene his wife
and Thomas his son and heir, gave land in Little Ryburgh, among
the witnesses being Wymer the sheriff, Richard de Mortemer and
Geoffrey son of Azon.13 Lefquene the wife confirmed this by a
separate charter.14 Bartholomew de Crehec gave land in Barney,15
and his grandson Robert de Crec confirmed this.16
William de Warenne (of Wormegay) gave to Lewes certain tene-
ments that Richard de Snetesham and Geoffrey his brother held
in free alms of Reginald de Warenne, the grantor's father, in
Shernbourne.17
Philip de Pavily of Norfolk returned to allegiance in 1217 and
recovered possession of his lands.18
In 1220 Ywan de Dunton and Amabil his wife instituted a plea
against William de Beaumont respecting a third part of I fee in
Tatterset and Seingeham,' Norf.19
In 1238-9 it was found that Ralph de Pavilly had raised a ditch
in Little Ryburgh to the injury of Giles de Montpincun in Great
Ryburgh.2
20
In 1242-3 these tenements were members of this fee:
Mabel and Basilia, daughters of Philip de Naringes, I fee in
Stibbard, Croxton and Little Snoring.
Robert Aguillun fee in North Barsham.
Thomas de Ingaldesthorp fee in Snettisham.
1
4
Giles de Montpincun held 2 fees in Ryburgh and Snoring
of this honor.21 But see n. 27.
In 1275 John de Pavily had warren at Ryburg and Stibbard; 22
John de Montpynchun claimed to have a leet in the vill of
Ryburgh.23 He had a grant in 1281 of free warren in Ryburgh and
Ingoldesthorpe.24
The members of this fee in 1302-3 were :
John de Warenne, earl of Surrey, fee in Sculthorpe and
Stibbard of the fee of Lewes.
Petronilla de Tyrne fee in Foulden of Thomas Koc and
he of the earl Warenne.
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395
Thomas Koc fee in Didlington (as above), whereof a
10th part is in Shernbourne.
Roger de Aylesham fee in Tattersett.25
John de Helweton
Hamon Pynkeney
Walter de Calthorp
fee in Tattersett.
fee in Tattersett.
fee in Tattersett.
John de Pavely fee in Little Ryburgh.
John de Thorp and Alice his wife fee in Snettisham,
Shernbourne and Fring (and Barmer).
4
Thomas de Ingaldesthorp fee in Snettisham, which of
late was Augustine de Cangham's.
Roger Fitz-Osbern 26fee in Hillington of Philip son of
Robert [no barony named].
Giles de Montpincun and Christiana his wife I fee in Shern-
bourne and Snettisham 27 of the barony of Valoignes.28
Giles de Munpinsoun and his tenants held his manor of
Great Ryburgh with Little Snoring for 2 fees of the earl
Warenne, namely in the hundreds of Gallow and Brothercross.28
See n. 27.
On 5 Aug., 1316, John de Warenne, earl of Surrey, granted to
Sir Walter de Norwich, knt., and Katherine his wife the manor of
Sculthorpe, Norf., with the advowson of the church, knights' fees,
etc., in exchange for the manor of Scredyngton, Lincs.29
In 1324 Walter de Norwich, knt., held of Aymer de Valence
8 fees in Sculthorpe, Didlington, Foulden, Northwold, Tattersett,
Hillington, Little Ryburgh, Stibbard, North Barsham, Snettisham,
Anmer, Shernborne, Fring, Ingoldesthorpe and Docking.30
1. Lansd. MS. 229, f. 146d.
viii. f. 53.
4. Ibid. f. 49.
3. Claud. D.
2. Mon. Angl. iii. 345.
Ibid. f. 50. 6. Ibid. f. 137.
10.
7. Ibid.
9. Ibid. 12 Hen. II, 21. 10. Red
12. Claud. D. xiii. f. 164d. 13. Ibid.
16. Ibid. f. 52. 17. Cat. of Anct. D.
19. Excerpt. Fin. i. 55. 20. Bracton's
22. R. Hund. i. 521. 23. Ibid.
These four tenements in Tattersett
26. See n. 42.
27. This fee
28. Feud. Aids, iii. pass. 29. Cal. Pat.
5.
f. 173. 8. Pipe R. 11 Hen. II,
Bk. 360. 11. Mon. Angl. iii. 347.
f. 164.
14. Ibid. 15. Ibid. f. 49d.
A.2950. 18. R. Lit. Claus. i. 323b.
Note-Bk. n. 1253.
21. Testa, 287.
24. Cal. Chart. ii. 248.
535.
25.
were held of John de Norwich in 1346.
was not of the Warenne fee.
525.
30. Cal. Inquis. vi. 331, 335.
XXV.
In Launditch hundred, Norfolk, William de Warenne in 1086
held in Gressenhall 2 car. and 18 sochmen I car., all held by
Wimer; in Scarning, a berewic of Gressenhall,car. held by
Wimer; in Lexham 2 car. held by the same (Wimer); in Weasenham
2 car. held by Wimer; in Kempston I car. ; in Tittleshall 1 car.
held by Wimer; in Eynesford hundred, in Elsing 2 car. held by
Wimer; in Taverham 1 car.; in Irmingland 1 car. which Turold
held; Freebridge hundred, in (Castle) Acre land for II ploughs,
and I carucate held by freemen; in Grimston 3 car. (n. 45); in
Congham 2 car. ; in Congham and Grimston I car. ; in Smethden
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hundred, in Heacham it is assumed that land in Ingoldesthorpe
was involved; in S. Greenhoe hundred in South Acre I ploughland
held by Wimer.
In Suffolk Wimer held of William de Warenne in Withersfield 2
car. of the fee late of Fedric.
Wimar-that is, Guihomar or Wihomarc-the earl of Warenne's
sewer at Castleacre and Roger his son gave to the priory there, soon
after its foundation, land in Weasenham, tithes and a rent in
Gressenhall, tithes of Elsing, Withersfield and Foulden, tithes of
Geoffrey de Congeham, tithes of the hall and mill at Grimston and
Lexham, and the churches of Lexham and Dunham, tithes of
ploughs and of Herlebold in Wereham; and further Wimar gave
I car. at Kempston when he took the habit of a monk. His son
Roger's confirmation of these gifts was attested by William second
earl Warenne, Osbert de Gloucester, Turstan de Acre and Wibert
de Acre.¹ Roger son of Wimar the sewer confirmed the gifts of
his father and Gilla his mother, particularly the gift of the churches.
of Kempston, Dunham, East Lexham and the two churches of
Weasenham Thorp, and of his own gift of land in Snettisham, and
in Congham with the church there. Among the witnesses of his
charter were Rodland L'Estrange, Richard de St. Clare, Osmund
the earl's dispenser and Walter the donor's brother.2
Charters of Roger the sewer of the earl of Warenne mention
William his father, and other charters of Drew son of William the
sewer indicate that Roger son of Wimar was succeeded by his
son William. Thus Roger son of William the sewer confirms the
gift to Castleacre made by his father, grandfather and ancestors by
charter attested by his mother Æliva and his brother William.3
William son of Roger was pardoned 20s. of danegeld in Norfolk
in the year 1130, and the earl of Warenne was similarly pardoned
£29 105.4
The descent of this fee from the younger Roger is not clear, but
the main line ended in an heiress Isabel, apparently Roger's sister
and heir. She is said to have been first married to Berenger de
Cressi. She married secondly Osmund de Stutevill, with whom she
joined in confirming to Castleacre the gifts of her ancestors, namely
Wimar the seneschal of Gressenhall, Roger his son, Walter son of
Wimar, William son of Roger, Roger son of William and Drew his
brother, and Berenger de Cressi.5 Osmund died at Joppa in 1187 (?).
In 1194 Isabel was the wife of William de Huntingfeld (Giffard,
n. 10), when the abbot of St. Edmunds demanded against the
said William and Isabel his wife the land of Wendling, Norf., as a
member of the manor of Runton, whereof the then abbot was seised
temp. Henry I, but Isabel's ancestors took possession in the time
of the war (in Stephen's reign) and Isabel still disseised them of it.6
In 1197 William and Isabella, tenants of 60 a. of land in Lexham,
Norf., obtained from Richard de Lechesham a release of all claim
to certain new improvements in Lexham."
In 1200 the imparlance between William de Stutevill and Isabel
de Gressingehale in respect of her dower in Cowesby, Yorks., was
respited to various terms, William de Huntingefeld joining the
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397
said Isabel his wife as plaintiff in demanding her dower. In the
quindene of Michaelmas agreement was reached whereby the vill
of Cowesby of the lands late of Osmund de Stutevill, her former
husband, was to remain to Isabel, any excess in the value thereof
beyond that of a third part of Osmund's lands to remain to William
de Stutevill, who should e contra make good any deficiency.9
William and Isabel having demanded in 1197 against William
de Stutevill dower belonging to Isabel's free tenement, late of
Osmund de Stutevill, formerly her husband, in Brantingham, Stil-
lingfleet, Newsham, Cowesby, and other places in Yorkshire,
Stutevill in 1202 satisfied her, as related above, out of his demesne
in Cowesby.10 The plea had been in respite owing to Huntingfeld's
absence beyond seas.
8
In 1203 half a knight's fee in Wellingham was held by William
de Huntingefeld and Isabella of Michael Capran, but a claim by
Michael that they also owed ward of Castle Bainard was disputed.¹¹
About this time, as Isabella de Gressingehale, with the assent of her
husband William de Huntingfeld, she released to Castleacre the
service of Hugh de Crec in Weasenham.12
William de Stutevill [son and heir of Osmund de Stutevill by
his wife Isabel de Gressingehale] was one the knights of the earl of
Warenne who were not to be received to the king's peace in
February 1216.13 It is uncertain whether this was the William de
Stutevill named above or William his son. In November 1219
the king gave his assent to the marriage of Margery (de Say) late
wife of Robert de Mortemer of Richards Castle to William de
Stutevill.14 For this marriage William gave but 2 palfreys.15 For
various references to his wife's estates see Eyton's History of
Shropshire (iv. 314 ff.).¹
16
In 1225 there was a plea at Norwich between William de
Stutevill and Hamon Chevre touching the church of Tittleshall
(Tydeshale),17 and between the same William and Gilbert Fitz-
Roger and Simon Fitz-Vincent respecting a third part of the
church of Fransham.18
In 1229 the king granted to our beloved and faithful William
de Stutevill' market and fair at his manor of Gressenhall,19 and
in the same year a ship of Maldon, Essex, was assigned for his
crossing the seas in the king's service.20 In 1230 a present of £5
out of the king's wardrobe was pardoned to him, the keepers of the
wardrobe and the sheriff of Norfolk being duly notified.21 In the
following year he was pardoned 2 palfreys and 20s. demanded of
him by summons of the Exchequer for having to wife Margaret
late wife of Robert de Mortemer.22 This notice is of importance
as proving that it was William de Stutevill of Richards Castle who
was constantly in the king's service for some years prior to 1231.
In 1233 William de Stutevill was one of eleven barons of the
Welsh marches who found hostages for their true service to the
king, Stutevill's hostage beingh is son Osmund. 23 In the following
year the justiciary Segrave, to whom Osmund had been committed,
delivered him to his father again.24 In 1238 Stutevill was one of
12 barons of the Marches directed to provide for the sufficient
398
HONOR OF WARENNE
defence of the March against Llewelyn; William de Warenne of
Whitchurch was another.25 He received a similar commission in
1245.26
In 1242-3 the following fees were held of the fee of Gressenhall :
William de Stutevill I fee in Elsing, Norf., and fee in
Withersfield, Suffolk.27
Roger de Frivill 1 fee in Sherringham, Norf., of William
de Stutevill.
Baldric de Taverham 1 fee in Taverham and Drayton of
the same.
William de Cangham fee in Congham of the same.
John de Hoe fee in Fringham and fee in Hoo of the
same.
Philip de Verly fee in Tittleshall of the same.
John de St. Clare fee in West Lexham of the same.
Alan son of William de Helgeton fee in Helhoughton of
the same.28
ū
The hermitage of Stratfieldsaye, Berks., was founded by William
de Stutevill, sometime lord of that vill, being charged with a
chantry of 2 monks and works of piety, namely that whoever
sought the charity of the house should have it for one night and
one repast.
29
In 1250 William de Stutevill and Stephen de Redham his knight
had acquittance of the common summons of the eyre in Norfolk,
and in the ensuing year in Yorkshire.30 In 1257 he was one of 14
knights and barons commissioned to aid John de Grey, who had
been appointed by Edward the king's son to keep the march of
Wales. He died in 1259, having held, apparently since his wife's
death about the year 1239,32 the honor of Richards Castle by the
courtesy of England, in that he had begotten issue of his said
wife. 33
In 1262 Robert de Stutevill, son of William de Stutevill, was
pardoned for the death of a man of Radnor some time before in
the marches of Wales.34 In 1265 Robert de Stutevill of Norfolk
had letters of protection,35 and later in the year the king restored
to Robert de Stutevill, son of William de Stutevill, who had been
kept in prison by Henry de Montfort the king's enemy because he
constantly adhered to the king and Edward his son, the manor of
Withersfield, Suff., and another manor, which the said Robert sold
to raise part of his ransom with the said Henry.36 In the same year
William de Wendling made acknowledgment coram rege that he
had restored to Robert de Stutevill the land he had of Robert's
gift in Wendling after the battle of Lewes, saving lands that the
said William and the abbot of Wendling had previously held there;
he also surrendered charters that he made to the abbot of Wend-
ling of the advowson of the churches of Weasenham and Weasen-
ham Thorp etc.37 In 1273 Robert son of William de Stutevill of
Gressenhall, for the soul of Joan his wife, gave to the abbot of
Wendling all the land of his fee in Wendling, Scarning, Gressen-
hall, Great and Little Fransham, given by William de Wendling
GRESSENHALL, ELSING
399
the founder.38 He died before August 1275, being described as
uncle of Jordan Foliot, who was his heir.39 In 1262 reference
occurs to William Talbot, a Norman, father of Joan wife of Robert
de Stutevill, whose heir she was.40 Possibly she was Joan, mother
of Baldwin Wake, who died in 1276.41
Jordan Foliot was son of Richard Foliot of Norton, Yorks.,
by the sister of Robert de Stutevill. It was presented in 1276 that
Robert de Stutevill had had warren in Cowesby which Jordan
Foliot then held, 42 and in Norfolk in the preceding year that
Jordan Foliot had view of frankpledge and other liberties in the
vills of Gressenhall, Wendling, Lexham, Weasenham, Bresley and
Stanfield.43 In 1282 Jordan held 2 fees in Cowesby and elsewhere
in Yorkshire of Baldwin Wake of Lydell, Cumb., and of Cotting-
ham and Ayton in Cleveland, Yorks.44
C
In 1290 a verdict was given that one Thomas of Rocklund was
Jordan Foliot's villein, whom Jordan could tallage (talliare) 'de
alto et basso' at his will and that Thomas did merchet' of flesh
and blood; the manor of Gressenhall with Hornetoft and other
members was not of the ancient demesne of the crown, and was
held of the earl of Warenne by the service of 9 knights' fees.45
At his death in 1299 Jordan Foliot, then aged 50 years, held the
manor of Gressenhall with the members of the said earl for 81 fees,
and the manor of Elsing, where there was a motte, he held partly
of the earl of Gloucester and partly of the earl of Warenne;
Richard his son, aged 15, was his heir.46 In 1298 Roger Loveday
died holding the manor of Withersfield of Sir Jordan Foliot.47
The members of this fee in 1302-3 were :
Richard Foliot, in the custody of the earls of Gloucester
(fee) and Warenne (1 fee), I fee, in Elsing, held of the said
earls, whereof Margery Foliot holds a third in dower; and 2
fees in Gressenhall, Weasenham and Lexham of the earl
Warenne.
John de Lacy and Thomas de Erlham 1 fee in Scarning of
the same Richard Foliot.
Philip de Verluy fee in Tittleshall of the same.
Edmund le Leche fee in Lexham of the same.
Sampson de Hoo fee in Hoo of the same.
The prior of Castleacre fee in Kempston of the same.
Simon de Taverham fee in Taverham and Drayton of
the heirs of Jordan Foliot etc.
Henry Digoun ((?) Nugoun) and Fina his wife and
Reginald de Sprouston fee in Congham of the same heirs.48
In 1324 (the heirs of) Richard Foliot held of Aymer de Valence
9fees in Gressenhall, Weasenham, Elsing, Lexham, Withersfield,
Grimston, Scarning, Swanton, Haveringland, Felthorp, Taverham,
Oxwick, Attlebrigg, Ranworth, Hoo, Brisley, Barnham, Irming-
land, Ingoldesthorpe, Lynford and 'le Cherville' in Castleacre.49
Richard son of the said Richard died in the ensuing year holding
the manors of Gressenhall and Weasenham of John de Warenne,
400
HONOR OF WARENNE
earl of Surrey and Sussex; it was recited in the inquest that John
earl of Warenne had enfeoffed Aymer de Valence of the manor of
Castleacre with the members, including Gressenhall, and that
Aymer took attornment of the fee of Richard Foliot (younger) and
dame Joan wife of Sir Richard Foliot; upon partition of the fees
held of the said Aymer, Gressenhall fell to the pourparty of Law-
rence son and heir of John de Hastinges. Richard Foliot, son of
Richard Foliot, died in his minority in June 1325; 50 a year later
his heirs were found to be Margery his sister, wife of Hugh Hastang,
aged 13, and Margaret wife of John de Camoys, aged 12 years. 51
Margery Foliot the elder, relict of Jordan Foliot, died in 1330,
holding the manor of Elsing of the honor of Clare for 2 fees, and
that of East Lexham, Norf., of the honor of Castleacre, in dower,
besides lands in Yorkshire of the inheritance of her heirs, namely
Margery Hastang, aged 17, and Margaret de Camoys, aged 16,
daughters of Richard Foliot, son of the said Jordan. 52
3. Ibid. 52.
2. Ibid. 51.
F. (Pipe R. Soc. xx.), 92.
10. Yorks. Feet of F. p. 57.;
12. Mon. Anglic. v. 52b.
1. Mon. Anglic. v. 49b-50.
31 Hen. I, 94. 5. Mon. Anglic. v. 52.
6. R. Cur. Reg. i. 25.
8. R. Cur. Reg. iii. 130, 227.
R. Cur. Regis, i. 344, 382. 11.
13. R. Lit. Claus. i. 250.
4. Pipe R.
7. Feet of
9. Ibid. 285.
Abbrev. Plac. 38.
14. Ibid. 4076.
15. Excerpt. Fin. i. 39.
17. R. Lit. Claus. ii. 83b.
16. Also Bracton's Note-Bk. nos. 195, 1606.
18. Pat. R. 578, 596. 19. Close R. 174; Cal.
Chart. R. i. 95. 20. Close R. 253. 21. Ibid. 281. 22. Ibid. 560.
23. Ibid. 313.
24. Cal. Pat. R. 39. 25. Ibid. 235; Close R. 124.
26. Close R. 363, 472. 27. Testa, 2926. 28. Ibid. 287. 29. Cal. Misc.
Inq. ii. 445. 30. Close R. 367. 558. 31. Cal. Pat. R. 553. 32. Excerpt.
34. Cal.
Fin. i. 324.
33. Cal. Inquis. i. 120; Excerpt. Fin. ii. 302.
Pat. R. 215. 35. Ibid. 453. 36. Ibid. 509. 37. Abbrev. Placit. 156b.
42. R. Hund.
38. Mon. Anglic. vi. 890b. 39. Cal. Inquis. ii. 88; Cal. Close R. 248.
40. Cal. Pat. R. 728. 41. Cal. Close R. 1276, p. 281.
i. 118. 43. Ibid. 540b. 44. Cal. Inquis. ii. 260; iii. 410.
46. Cal. Inquis. iii. 411. 47. Ibid. 382.
49. Cal. Inquis. vi. 330, 334.
50. Ibid. 394.
52. Cal. Inquis. vii. 204.
45. Abbrev.
48. Feud. Aids,
51. Cal. Fine
Placit. 221b.
iii. pass.
R. iii. 357.
XXVI.
In Essex in 1086 William de Warenne held in (Great) Dunmow
hide which Guibert held (in Southhall); in Kenningtons (' Keli-
tuna,' in Aveley) 4 hides which Wlbert held (in
}
and hide which Ranulf held (in
); in (Steeple)
Bumpstead 3 hides and 18 acres which Gulbert held (in Sturmer
and Moyns Manor); in (West) Hanningfield 4 hides and 27 acres.
which Ulbert held.
In 1186 Gilbert son of Robert was amerced in Essex for default
of his surety.¹ In 1196 he granted by fine to Thomas son of
William and Camilla his wife dower belonging to the tenements of
Bartholomew son of Robert, her late husband, in Bumpstead and
Finchingfield, namely his tenement in Dunmow to hold for fee,
the service of Walter de Gellam offee and 30 marks, with an
addition of dower after the death of Joan mother of the said Gilbert,
namely in Kenningtons (Kelinge or Kelingt'); Gerard de Bomsted
was Gilbert's attorney to take the cyrograph of the agreement.2
GREAT DUNMOW, AVELEY
401
In 1190 Gilbert son of Robert held fee of the king in chief in
(Leyton), Essex.³ At some period unknown one Osbert son of
Robert appears to have held 6 fees in Essex of the earl of Warenne.ª
2
6
No further reference to this tenement is forthcoming until
1240, when the service of those who held 6 fees in Essex of the
earl of Warenne was assigned to the dower of the countess
Matilda. In the same year Southall in Dunmow, late of the count
of St. Paul, was granted to Thomas de Duresme (de Dunholmo),
citizen of London, in fee. In 1257 Alice late wife of William the
clerk of Bumpstead was instituting a plea in Essex.' In 1262
Stephen de Bumpsted assured by fine to Peter son of Roger de
Bumpsted a messuage and 50 acres of land in Bumpstead for the
term of Peter's life. In 1264 Joslain de Duresme died holding
the manor of Southall in Great Dunmow of the king as of the honor
of the count of St. Paul (or St. Pol); Joslain his son was aged
years.⁹ In 1256 it was agreed by fine that William de Bumstede
should hold of Peter de Manne and Christina his wife (one of
the coheirs of Valoignes) and Christina's heirs a messuage and a
carucate in Leyton for fee and suit of court at Higham.10
8
12
In 1265 a man of Sturmer was pardoned for slaying Gilbert son
of Ralph de Bumsted in self-defence.11 In 1269, at the instance of
the dean of St. Paul's, London, Gilbert son of William de Dune-
mawe had exemption for life from serving on assizes and the like.'
Morant cites a grant by Matthew son of
de Bumsted
Steple (ad Turrim) to his son G(eoffrey) de Bumsted of his land
and services in Alveley, which deed was attested by Bartholomew
de Brianzoun (1260-1286).13
In 1276 William de Bumstede had land in Guiltcross hundred,
Norf., and Jordan de Bumstede in Whetacre, of the honor of Castle
Baynard.14
It was presented from the hundred of Dunmow in 1274 that
Gilbert son of William had view of frankpledge in Great Dunmow.15
Morant cites a deed of William son of Robert de Bumsted Steeple
whereby he granted to Sir Richard de la Vache his manor called
Rocholte hall in Leyton, about the year 1284'; 16 but this Richard
was living and in possession of this land in 1346.¹
17
4
In 1303 Geoffrey de Bumstede held fee in Alveley; William
de Bumstede fee in Leyton; Geoffrey son of Matthew de Bum-
stede fee in Great Dunmow, and Gilbert son of William fee
there.¹
18
William de Bumstede died before 1316, when Matilda his
relict had letters of protection.19 By inquest taken in 1317 it was
shewn that Bartholomew de Brianzoun, sometime lord of the
manor of Micheleslond (in West Thurrock), consisting of a messuage.
and I carucate, had 25 years before purchased it of Michael de
Holweton; it descended to John de Brianzoun, who died in 1316
holding it of William de Bumstede, who held of the fee of Warenne
for fee.20 In 1324 William de Bumpstede held of Aymer de
Valence, earl of Pembroke, 5 fees in Great Dunmow, Aveley,
Gubstede (in Aveley), Sturmer and (West) Thurrock, elsewhere.
described as 6 fees in unspecified places held by Osbert son of
Robert.21 In the ensuing year these 5 fees were assigned to the
III.
2 D
1
4
402
HONOR OF WARENNE
pourparty of Elizabeth Comyn, one of Aymer's heirs, and to the
dower of his widow Mary.22
Gilbert de Bumstede is named in 1319 with other people of
Great Dunmow.23 In 1339 John de Brianzoun died holding
Michael's tenement in West Thurrock of William de Bumsted in
socage and by knight's service.24
By deed dated at Stepel Bumstede, 10 April, 1336, William de
Bumpsted, son and heir of William de Bumpsted, knt., of Essex,
released to Sir Thomas Clench, rector of Birdbrook, Essex, and
Michael Clench his brother, citizen and fishmonger of London, the
manor of Stepel Bumpsted.25 The end of this family was as follows.
In 1341 William de Bumpsted, having married Joan daughter of
Nicholas de Shordych, settled the manor of Ruckholt Hall, a
messuage and mill, 180 acres of land, 27 acres of meadow and
pasture, and 44s. of rent in Alveley upon himself and Joan his wife
and their issue, by fines to which Nicholas de Shordych and John
de Shordych, knt., were respectively the demandants;
in 1345
William was convicted and hanged for killing the said John de
Shordych, knt. ; the tenement was then delivered to Joan his relict
in accordance with the settlement.26
1. Pipe R. 32 Hen. II, 16. 2. Feet of F. (P.R.S. xx.), 33. 3. Red Bk.
733. 4. Cal. Inquis. vi. 334.
5. Close R. 214. 6. Cal. Chart. R. i. 250.
7. Excerpt. Fin. ii. 265. 8. Feet of F. Essex, 259. 9. Cal. Inquis. i. 179.
10. Feet of F. Essex, 217. 11. Cal. Pat. R. 519. 12. Ibid. 314. 13. Hist.
of Essex, i. 82 (Lord Dacre's deed). 14. R. Hund. i. 470b, 476. 15. Ibid.
1576. 16. Hist. of Essex, i. 24. 17. Feud. Aids, ii. 176. 18. Ibid. 150–2.
19. Cal. Pat. R. 457. 20. Cal. Inquis. v. 379–80.
22. Cal. Close R. 267, 274. 23. Cal. Pat. R. 305, 359. 24. Cal. Inquis.
25. Cal. Close R. 669. 26. Cal. Close R. 625-6; Cal. Fine
21. Ibid. vi. 331, 334.
viii. 171-2.
R. v. 439.
XXVII.
In Norfolk in 1086 William de Warenne had land in Great
Ryburgh which Peter (de Valoignes) held, as shown at n. 24; in
Little Snoring, Clipston and Kettlestone carucate which Reiner
held.
In Essex William de Warenne had land in Halstead, of which
Richard held of him 34 acres. Possibly these lay in Balingdon
and Brundon.
Ralph Fawn (Faeto, Facatus) held in Gateley, Little Snoring
and Great Ryburgh under Peter de Valoignes, who had a consider-
able estate in Ingoldisthorpe. Ralph gave tithes to Binham priory
at its foundation (in or before 1107),¹ and afterwards gave a rent
of 2 marks a year from the mill of Ryburgh, for the soul of Peter
de Valoignes, who gave him that vill, and by consent of his lord
Roger de Valoignes, when he was made a monk at Binham, in the
time of king Henry. This appears from a charter of confirmation
granted by Agnes lady of Riburg, in agreement with her sons Ralph
and Thomas.2 In another of her charters she is called Agnes de
Montepincun, being, it appears, the wife of Fulk de Munpincun.
Fulk was perhaps the son of Roger de Munpincun, who attested
3
GT. RYBURGH, LIT. SNORING, BRUNDON 403
7
charters of William I and Matilda before the Domesday survey, in
one instance as dapifer. Fulk attested the charter of Roger de
Valoignes confirming his father Peter's gifts to Binham,5 and various
other charters of the time." He died before 1166, when his wife
owed £100 (extinguished in 1176) for hastening her right to land in
Norfolk which she was claiming against Adam Fitz-Alvred (n. 53) ;
she was named as Agnes de Riburc. As Agnes de Munpincun
she, or Ralph her son, held part of 1 fee of the abbot of St. Albans,
as well as 5 fees of Robert de Valoignes. Another of the family
appears in Gloucestershire, for in 1186 the sheriff charged his
account of the farm of that county with 40s. for the purchase of
clothing for Clemency daughter of William de Munpincun,10 who
was possibly a crown ward.
Ralph de Munpincun was a visor in a grand assize in 1199
relative to land in Plumpstead, Wolterton and Barningham.11 At
the same time Isolda late wife of Hugh de Munpincun was
demanding, in conjunction with Henry Biset then her husband,
dower in her late husband's tenement in Ovingdean ( Hingindon '),
Suss., against Ralph de Amundevill.12 Ralph appears to have
been succeeded by his son (or brother ?) Fulk. A Valoignes feo-
dary records that the fee of Fulk de Munpincun comprised 3 fees
in Ballingdon, Essex, Ingoldisthorpe and Ryburgh, Norf.13 Ralph
the son of Fulk was living in 1227, when he impleaded Adam de
Cailly and others of wrongful disseisin in respect of a tenement in
Great Ryburgh which he said had been given him by Fulk de
Munpincun in full county court, by rod and staff, three years
before his said father's decease. Adam and the others answered
that Ralph was not in seisin at his father's death, when the
bailiffs of the earl of Warenne and Robert Fitz-Walter in respect of
portions of the tenement of their respective fees seised the tenement
into their lords' hands, whereby Adam and the others had custody.
Judgment was given in favour of the defendants.14
Giles de Munpincun succeeded Ralph. In 1234 he was im-
pleaded by William Talbot and Alice his wife concerning land in
Norfolk; and Reginald de Munpincun also had a plea with William
and Alice respecting 40 a. of land in Gateley, Norf.15 Giles and
Reginald may have been sons of Ralph, and Alice his widow. In
the same year Reginald de Munpincun was one of several knights
who were taken at Pevensey castle, which they had held against
the king, but he was pardoned later in the year, the king ordering
the sheriff of Sussex to restore to him his hay (fenum) at Bege-
hurst.16 Giles was impleaded in 1237 by a tenant of Ryburgh
respecting his customs and services.17 In 1242-3 he held 2 fees
in Ryburgh and Snoring of the fee of Warenne; 18 he also held 2
other fees there of Walter Fitz-Robert and 1 fee in Ingoldisthorpe
of David Cumin, these being of the fee of Valoignes.19 The above-
named Alice was living in 1246, when she was called Alice de
Munpinzun. 20
Sir Giles de Munpincun and John his son attested a Binham
charter.21 Thomas de Ryseby having complained of the services
demanded from him by Giles de Munpincun for a tenement in
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HONOR OF WARENNE
Ryburgh, an agreement was made in 1247 by which the services
were defined; they included a payment of 201d. to the king's
scutage of 2 marks.22 Next year (1248) Giles came to an agree-
ment with William Talebot and Alice his wife, widow of Fulk de
Munpincun, respecting Alice's dower in Ryburgh and other places,
giving her land in Ryburgh and Ingoldisthorpe and the service of
one-third of 2 knights' fees in Naring, Croxton, and other places.23
In the same year Giles went on pilgrimage to Santiago, 24 and was
living in 1258, when he recovered a messuage and land in Baling-
don, Essex, against William de Clopton and Alice his wife, 25 and
in 1259, when Ralph son of Ralph de Ryburgh quitclaimed certain
land in Ryburgh to him.26 Sir John de Munpincun had succeeded
before 1273,27 for in the preceding year he agreed with John de
Ryseby as to his tenement in Great Ryburgh.28 He married in or
before 1285, without licence, Orabella late wife of William de
Staundon, tenant in chief.29 In 1284 a perambulation was ordered
to be made between his land of Ingoldisthorpe and that of a neigh-
bour in Sharnborne.30 Before 1287 he enfeoffed Roger de Loveday
of the manor of Elm, Cambs.31
Giles de Muntpincun succeeded. He and Christiana his wife
were in 1299 demandants of the manor of Ingoldisthorpe against
Oliver de Muntpinzun and another, their right being acknow-
ledged.32 Giles and Christiana put in their claims in 1301 in a
settlement of Thomas de Grandcurt's estate in Clipston and other
places, as did Edmund de Munpinzun also.33 Edmund occurs
again in 1313. He was a son of Giles.35
34
In 1303 Giles held the manor of Great Ryburgh with Little
Snoring for 2 fees of the earl of Warenne; and with Christiana his
wife he held 1 fee in Ingoldisthorpe, Shernborne and Snettisham
of the honor of Valoignes.36 He attested various local charters,
as a knight, about that time.37 He died before 1308, in which year
Christiana his relict held rents in Suffolk of Stephen de Brokedissh.38
In 1311 John de Cove, knt., acknowledged a debt of £320 to
Joan and Alice, daughters of Giles de Munpincun, knt., which bond
was subsequently cancelled on payment by the acknowledgment of
Richard son of Richard de Goldesburgh who married the said
Joan.39
cun.
Robert son of John Walkefare acquired the manors of Ryburgh
and Ingoldisthorpe from William son of Giles de Munpincun in
1313, the purchase including the dower of Giles's widow Christiana
and lands held for life by John de Lambpet and Fulk de Munpin-
William Goscelyn and Agnes his wife and Alice daughter of
William put in their claim, as also did Giles son of Giles de Moun-
pinzon.40
Robert Walkefare and Margaret his wife made a settle-
ment of this estate in 1315.41 In 1316 Christina de Munpincun
was lady of Ingoldisthorpe, 42 which was part of her dower. By
November 1320 Christina late wife of Giles de Munpincun had
demised her dower in the manor of Great Ryburgh to Robert
Walkefare, knt., for a yearly rent of £24 13s. 4d.43 In December
1321 Robert's lands were seized for his rebellion; 44 but Christina
6 months later obtained the restoration of her dower.45 The
BRUNDON—WESTON COLVILLE
405
unreliability of statements made at inquests post mortem is illustrated
by the appearance of Giles de Munpincun's name as tenant of
Edward Comyn, at the latter's death in 1320, of Ingoldisthorpe
and Great Ryburgh,46 and also of Robert de Walkefare as tenant
of Aymer de Valence in 1324 of 2 fees in Great Ryburgh, Little
Snoring, Norf., and Brundon, Essex; 47 although correctly described
elsewhere as 2 fees of the land of Munpincun in the king's hands. 48
Walkefare recovered possession of Ryburgh and in 1331 en-
dowed chantries (for the king's soul after death) with land there and
at Ingoldisthorpe, in the churches of those and another place.49
His relict Margery held in 1346 the 2 fees in Ryburgh and Little
Snoring belonging to the honor of Warenne,50
21.
14. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 1838.
17. Feet of F. Norf, 21 Hen. III.
1. Mon. Anglic. iii. 345. 2. Binham Chartul., Claud. D. xiii. f. 167d,
168.
3. Ibid. f. 167. 4. Round, Cal. Docs. France, pass.
5. Mon.
Anglic. iii. 346b. 6. Claud. D. xii. f. 49, 52, etc. 7. Pipe R. 12 Hen. II,
8. Ibid. 20. 9. Red Bk. 360 bis. 10. Pipe R. 32 Hen. II, 118.
11. R. Cur. Regis, i. 192, 195.
12. Ibid. 279; iii. 214. 13. Testa, 2716.
15. Close R. 155, 182. 16. Ibid. 473, 484.
18. Testa, 287. 19. Ibid. 282, 289b.
20. Excerpt. Fin. i. 462. 21. Blomefield, Norf. vii. 170. 22. Feet of F.
Norf. 156/60, n. 665. 23. Ibid. n. 667.
of F. Essex, 224. 26. Feet of F. Norf. 157/72, n. 954. 27. Claud. D. xiii.
f. 172d. 28. Feet of F. Norf. 159/101, n. 1692. 29. Cal. Close R. 318.
30. Ibid. 296. 31. Cal. Inquis. ii. 397. 32. Feet of F. Norf. 161/118,
n. 776. 33. Ibid. n. 826. 34. Ibid. 162/129, n. 309. 35. Norf. Feet
of F. 163.
36. Feud. Aids, iii. 404, 440. 37. Cat. of Anct. D. A. 2783,
3143, etc.
39. Cal. Close R. 443; ibid. 1319,
24. Cal. Pat. II.
25. Feet
38. Cal. Inquis. v. 20.
p. 137. 40. Feet of F. Norf. 162/129, n. 349. 41. Ibid. 162/131, n. 442.
43. Cal. Close R. 333.
42. Feud. Aids, iii. 452.
44. Ibid. 469; Cal.
Fine R. iii. 84. 45. Cal. Close R. 469. 46. Cal. Inquis. vi. 153. 47. Ibid.
331. 48. Ibid. 335. 49. Cal. Pat. R. 222. 50. Feud. Aids, iii. 516.
XXVIII.
In Cambridgeshire William de Warenne held 7 hides in Weston
(Colville).
William 2nd earl of Warenne gave the church of Weston to
Lewes, and at a later date Osmund de Stutevill, living 1166, or
Anselm de Stutevill, confirmed the gift.¹ Anselm de Stutevill,
son of Roger, died without issue, whereupon his five sisters, or their
respective issue, became heirs to Anselm's estates.2 Beatrice had
Weston for her pourparty, and married Bartholomew son of William
de Bussey for her first husband. In 1200 she, being the wife of
William de Colevill, was impleaded with her said husband by the
abbot of Wardon for the church of Wardon, but pleaded in response
that she claimed no right in the church save dower by the gift of
Bartholomew son of William de Bussey.3 (See Wardon, n. 1.) In
the same year William de Colevill was called upon to warrant
fee in Muston, Leics. In 1217 William de Colevill of Cambridge,
Leicester and Lincoln returned to allegiance, as also did Roger de
Colevill of Cambridgeshire and Rutland.5 William de Colevill of
Castle Bytham, Lincs., died in 1230, when Roger his son and heir
had livery of the inheritance. He was not the same person as
William de Colevill of Muston, Leics., who was living in 1243.7
4
406
HONOR OF WARENNE
8
In 1236-38 Roger de Colevill held 1 fee in Weston of the earl
of Warenne, and in 1240 he held 1 fee in Cambridgeshire, which
was assigned to the dower of the countess Matilda. In 1242-3
he held 1 fee in Weston, Cambs., of the fee of Warenne.10
9
Walter de Colevill was in possession of lands in Lincolnshire
in 1253.11 He was against the king in the Montfort rising and in
1265 his lands in Castle Bytham and the members in Lincolnshire
and Rutland were in the king's hands.12 He obtained the royal
pardon in 1267 and in the next year redeemed his manor of
Haborough, Lincs., which the king had alienated.13 Walter died
in 1277 possessed of the manor of Weston, which he held of the
earl of Warenne for 1 fee; Roger his son and heir was aged 26
years.14 He also held at his death fee in Barrow, Rutl., of the
fee of Wake; 1 fee in Muston, Leics., and I fee in Auburn, Lincs.,
of the fee of Ros; 21 fees in Bytham, Lincs., of the fee of Albe-
marle; and fee in Ledenham, Lincs., of the fee of Hugh Fitz-
Otho.15
18
Roger de Colevill died in 1288, leaving Edmund his son and heir,
aged about 3 months.16 In 1302-3 Edmund de Colevill held 1 fee
in Weston of the earl of Warenne,¹7 and died in 1316, leaving
Robert his son, aged 10 years. In 1324 Edmund de Colevill (sic)
held of Aymer de Valence I fee in Weston Colville.19 In another
return this tenement was said to be held by William de Colevill; 20
the first statement is clearly an anachronism.
Margaret late wife of Edmund de Colevill, tenant in chief
of the king as of the honor of Albemarle, had dower assigned in
Lincolnshire in 1316, the details being fully set forth.21 Margaret
late wife of Roger de Colevill still survived.22 In 1329 Robert
de Colevill settled the manor of Castle Byham on himself, Cecily
his wife, and his heirs.23 By the death of his grandmother, Margaret
daughter of Richard de Braose, in 1335, he inherited the manor
of Aikton, Cumb.24 He held Weston-Colville in 1346 of this
honor, 25
2. Ibid. 76. 3. Ibid. 32; R. Cur. Reg. iii. 471.
5. R. L. Claus. i. 323b. 6. Close R. 423. 7. Excerpt.
Cf. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 1208. 8. Lib. Memor. de Berne-
Cal. Misc. Inquis. i. 65.
14. Cal. Inquis. ii. 137.
18. Cal. Inquis. v. 375.
296, 348. 22. Ibid. 352.
25. Feud. Aids, i. 158.
1. Abbrev. Placit. 39.
4. Abbrev. Placit. 28b.
Fin. i. 199, 400.
welle, 257. 9. Close R. 214. 10. Testa, 355b. 11.
12. Ibid. 238, 262. 13. Cal. Pat. R. 146, 281.
15. Ibid. 16. Ibid. 420. 17. Feud. Aids, i. 141.
19. Ibid. vi. 331. 20. Ibid. 334. 21. Cal. Close R.
24. Cal. Fine R. iv. 451.
23. Cal. Pat. R. 393.
XXIX.
In Essex William de Warenne in 1086 had I hide and 40 a. in
'Eineswrd' (in Arkesden, identified as Chardwell manor), held by
Richard.
The Richard who was Warenne's under-tenant here and in
other Essex manors was no doubt the Richard Guet (n. 31) who
was described as brother of the countess of Warenne (see Intro.).
He appears to have been succeeded by the families of Essarts or
ARKESDEN
407
Assarts (n. 30) and Ardern (n. 31); but a minor family of Goet was
settled at Eynesworth in the 12th century, for the history of the
Foundation of Walden ¹ gives some account of it, and the chartulary
of that abbey supports the story. The name occurs in other places
in the county.2
1
The earliest member recorded is one Richard Goet, who mort-
gaged some of his land to Henry de Essex (miscalled Robert),
whose public career came to an end in 1163. Henry's wife, Alice
de Vere, afterwards came into possession and appears to have bought
it outright from William Goet, one of Richard's sons. William
Goet quitclaimed all right in Rumburgh to Robert son of Roger,
Alice's son by her second husband, and Robert gave it to Walden.³
William had had an elder brother, Henry Goet, who mortgaged
his estate for a term to one Walter de Hay (Eudes, n. 5), and
William on succeeding had great difficulties through his poverty.
Being befriended by the monks of Walden, when the chapel of Eynes-
worth fell vacant he gave it to them as a reward, the gift being
confirmed by Gilbert bishop of London (1163-88), whose brother
Richard archdeacon of Colchester was put in possession. Walter
de Hay, though annoyed by the transaction, made no open opposi-
tion. Finally, at the expiry of the term, William regained
possession of his land. Being then unmarried he gave a third
part to a younger brother Geoffrey in fee. William afterwards
married and had a daughter; but his wife and her uncle, a knight
named William Wachet, reproached him for having thus diminished
his inheritance. Geoffrey was compelled to defend his title, and
demised his land, apparently to obtain funds, to the monks of
Walden for six years at a rent of 20s. and went away to another
part of Essex to a knight he had formerly served. He fell ill
there and in his poverty and distress sent to prior Reginald (1190–
1200), who helped him; then by his will he left a third part of
his land to Walden,5 making a nephew, Richard Goet, his heir.
He took the religious habit and died.
The elder brother William protested against this disposition of
the property, but at last took Richard's homage and that of the
prior of Walden. It appears from the chartulary that Richard
Goet was a son of Alice sister of William and Geoffrey, and had
a brother Hugh." Richard, who married a Juliana and had
children Robert and Amabilia, gave part of his land to Walden,
so that the monks obtained a moiety of what William had given
to Geoffrey. William's daughter Roese married John de Melhowe
and left a son and heir William.9
The overlordship appears by the confirmation granted by Hugh
de Assartis when William Goet gave Eynesworth chapel to the
monks; the deed was attested by Hugh's son Richard de Assartis.10
One Richard de Essarz gave a hide in Kingston, Surr., to Lewes.11
At a later time Ralph de Assartis confirmed the gifts made to
Walden by William Goet, Roese de Melho and Robert de Goet,12
and as Ralph de Assartis, knt., quitclaimed to the monks all the
royal service which they used to render for tenements in Arkesden
of the fee of the earl of Warenne.13 Ralph de Ardern, knt. (c. 1240),
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quitclaimed to the monks his whole tenement in Arkesden of
the earl of Warenne's fee, which they had formerly held of
Ralph de Assartis.14 In 1248 Ralph de Assartis acknowledged
that certain lands in Arkesden of his fee were the right of the
abbot and church of Walden and released to them his right in the
chantry of the chapel of Eynesworth.15 At the same time Alard
Fitz-Robert (? grandson of Alice de Essex) agreed that the said
abbot should hold of him 60 a. of land in Arkesden.16 Morant cites
a plea of 1285 in which it was asserted that the abbot of Walden
had the whole fee of Eynesworth which Ralph de Assartis had held
in the same place of the serjeanty of the chamberlainship.17
In 1303 the abbot of Walden held lands in Arkesden of the fee
of Albemarle,18 but in this return there is no reference to any
tenement there held of the Warenne fee. In 1324, however, the
abbot of Walden held fee in Arkesden ( Haukisdene ') of Aymer
de Valence, 19 i.e. of this honor.
3
4
3. Chartulary,
1. In Vesp. E. vi. f. 43d. 2. Essex Feet of F. 44, 74, 95.
Harl. MS. 3697. f. 138d. 4. Ibid. f. 132. 5. Ibid. f. 132d. 6. Ibid.
f. 134d. 7. Ibid. f. 133, 135d. 8. Ibid. f. 136, 135d, 134. 9. Ibid. f.
137-8. 10. Ibid. f. 132. 11. Vesp. F. xv. f. 21d. 12. Harl. 3697, f. 138d.
13. Ibid. f. 139. 14. Ibid. f. 140. 15. Essex Feet of F. 159. 16. Ibid.
17. Essex, ii. 589.
18. Feudal Aids, ii. 149. 19. Cal. Inquis. vi. 331.
XXX.
In Essex William de Warenne held in Polhey (in Pebmarsh)
in 1086 3 hides and 13 a., of which Richard held 25 a. and Gladiou
3 virgates.
Gladiou has been mentioned above at n. II.
C
Hugh de Assartis and Richard his son have been mentioned
in the last section (n. 29) as apparently the successors of the
Richard' of 1086 in Arkesden. Richard de Essarts was one of
the knights who in 1213 made recognition of the custom in Essex
touching outlawry at the fourth county court after failure to
answer for any forfeiture at those four courts.1 In 1217 he had a
writ of reseisin to the sheriff of Essex upon returning to allegiance.2
In 1224 the king committed to Brian de L'Isle the manor of Polhey,
Essex, which Brian previously held of the bail of king John.3
4
In 1227 Randulf (? Ralph) de Assartis and Randulf son of
William de Pebbenesse were knights of Essex. In 1235 a plea
was respited between Grace, who was the wife of Brian de L'Isle,
and Peter de Marevill, tenant, touching a third part of I½ car.
in Polhey (Polehech'), which Peter held of the bail of William
earl of Warenne, who was detained by sickness and ought to
warrant to him.5 In 1238 Gilbert son of Roger de Assartis
had licence to implead Peter de Marevill for the manor of Polhey,
which Gilbert claimed, notwithstanding that Gilbert was a Norman.6
In 1239 Gilbert de Assartis, a Norman, released to Peter de
Marevill I carucate of land in Polhey, to hold of the chief lords
of that fee; Ralph de Essartis put in his claim. In 1242 Ralph
son of William de Pebanesse was one of the commissioners of
7
POLHEY IN PEBMARSH-HOWSHAM, COWICK BURY 409
the peace in Essex. In 1248 Peter de Marevill and Bernard his
brother were knights in the king's employ.9
8
In 1260 Walter son of Humphrey failed in his claim against
Ralph son of William de Pebenesse, a minor, to two-thirds of a
messuage and I carucate of land in Passefeld, Essex.10
It was
presented in 1274 that the fee of Polhey had withdrawn suit of the
sheriff's tourn for 30 years past.11
In 1286 Hugh de Creppinges granted to Sir Ralph son of
William de Pebenesche the manor of Stanley in the vill of Pebeneshe
and elsewhere.12 In 1296 William son of Ralph had a grant of
free warren in Pebmarsh and Alphamstone, Essex.13
1
8
In 1303 Ranulf de Merevill held fee in Pebmarsh of the earl
of Warenne; Thomas Gernoun, John de Polheye, the heirs of
Alexander de Polheye, William son of Ralph (de Pebeners) and two
others held fee in Pebmarsh of Drew de Barantyn (see n. 16).14
In 1314 William son of Ralph held 3 fees of Gilbert de Clare, earl
of Gloucester and Hertford, in Pebmarsh and 8 other places in
Essex and Suffolk.15 In 1324 the same William son of Ralph held
of Aymer de Valence fee in Pebmarsh of this honor.16
2. Ibid. 328. 3. Ibid. 596b. 4. Bracton's
6. Ibid. 73. 7. Essex Feet of F. p. 120.
152. 11. R. Hund. i. 158.
14. Feud. Aids, ii. 142.
1. R. Lit. Claus. i. 165b.
Note-Bk. n. 243. 5. Close R. 77.
8. Close R. 485. 9. Ibid. 57. 10. Abbrev. Placit.
12. Abbrev. Placit. 215. 13. Cal. Chart. ii. 466.
15. Cal. Inquis. v. 349.
16. Ibid. vi. 331.
XXXI.
In Essex William de Warenne held in 1086 in Howsham (Hall
in Matching) I hide and 3 virgates, which Richard held of him; in
Cowick (Bury in Sheering) 3 hides, which Richard also held.
This Richard is identified as the Richard Guet, brother of the
countess of Warenne, who in 1098 gave Cowick Bury to the monas-
tery of Bermondsey.¹ Others of Richard's holdings have been
mentioned in former sections (nos. 16, 29, 30), and it has been
noted that the families of Essarts and Ardern seem to have held
them later. According to the Annals of Bermondsey Thomas de
Ardern and Thomas his son in 1122 gave to the monastery inter
alia tithes of the corn of their demesne in Horndon (on the Hill),
Essex.2 Thomas and William de Ardern occur in 1194 in Suffolk.3
Ralph de Ardern was son-in-law of Ranulf de Glanvill; for his
connexion in 1199 with the fee of Bohun of Midhurst, Sussex, see
the honor of Arundel (n. 17). Thomas son of Ralph de Ardern
obtained lands of the fee of Midhurst in 1212. He died before
1233.
Next Ralph de Ardern occurs, as above (n. 29). In 1258 the
prior of Bermondsey impleaded Ralph de Aredern and Erneburga
his wife that they should acquit him of the services demanded of
him by John de Warenne, earl Warenne, for the tenements which
he held of them in Cuwyk,' namely I knight's fee, which was of
Erneburga's inheritance.4
In 1272 Hugh de Coleworth and Elizabeth his wife made an
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HONOR OF WARENNE
agreement with Thomas son of Ralph de Arderne respecting land
in Horndon and Fobbing. Thomas granted a tenement which
Richard de Coleworthe and Erneburga his wife held as Erneburga's
dower in Horndon of the said Thomas's inheritance to the said
Hugh and Elizabeth after Erneburga's death; in default of issue.
of Hugh and Elizabeth the tenement to revert to Thomas and his
heirs.5 In 1284 Thomas de Arderne, son and heir of Ralph de
Arderne, released to Avice late the wife of John Horn the manor
of Howsham with the advowson of the chapel and £10 yearly rent,
to be held of the earl of Warenne."
7
In 1303 the prior of Bermondsey held 1 fee (in Quickbury) in
Sheering, John earl of Warenne I fee in the manor of Matching,
and Ranulf de Arderne fee in High Roothing. In 1324 the
prior of Bermondsey held of Aymer de Valence I fee in Cowick
Bury, Essex. 8
In 1314 John de Warenne, earl of Surrey, granted to Edmund
earl of Arundel the manors of Weng, Bucks., Blackwell, Roding,
Howsham, Prittlewell and Yenge Margaret' (now Margaretting).9
By virtue of this grant the earl of Arundel held in 1324 of Aymer
de Valence 2 fees in Howsham (Ewisham ') and 2 fees in Mar-
garetting? (Bengham ').¹º In another return it was recorded
that 6 fees' de terris de assartis' were held of Aymer de Valence in
Essex.11 This description may refer, as stated, to the two Rodings,
or possibly to the holdings of the Assarts family.
10
1. Annal. Monast. iii. 429.
Soc. xiv.), 31.
4.
of Anct. D. i. A. 455-
9. Cal. Pat. 175.
2. Ibid. 433.
Essex Feet of F. p. 223.
7. Feud. Aids, ii. 138-9.
10. Cal. Inquis. vi. 331.
11.
3. R. Cur. Regis (Pipe R.
5. Ibid. p. 279.
6. Cal.
8. Cal. Inquis. vi. 331.
Ibid. 334.
XXXII.
In Buckinghamshire in 1086 William de Warenne held in
Caversfield 5 hides which Brienz held of him.
In Oxfordshire William de Warenne held in Stratton (Gadin-
tone') I hide which Brien held of him.
2
About 1160 Roger Gargate, with the assent of Agnes his wife,
gave to the abbey of Missenden, Bucks., the church of Caversfield,
with its appurtenances of 7 acres of Roger's demesne and hide;
the gift was made for the king and queen, and the earl and countess
of Warenne.¹ Among the witnesses were Hugh de Noers and
William his son, and Robert son of Amauri. Robert bishop of
Lincoln (1147-67) confirmed the gift to abbot Peter and the monks,
Guy the clerk to retain possession for his life.2 Hugh son of Roger
Gargate confirmed his father's gift,³ and Sibil as Hugh's widow also
confirmed the hide which Guy the parson of the church formerly
held; the monks were to do the services due to the king and the
earl of Warenne as much as pertained to a tenth part of the vill of
Caversfield. As Dame Sibil de Kaveresfeld' she took oath to
move no disturbance concerning the church or its land.5
4
6
The Gargates also held lands in Northamptonshire of the abbots
of Peterborough. Hugh Candidus (d. c. 1175) wrote of the knights
CAVERSFIELD, STRATTON
4II
of the abbey: The first was Robert Gargate; Hugh Gargate holds
in Warmington and Irthlingborough, Northants., the fee of I knight.' 6
Hugh is identified with the Hugh son of Roger of Caversfield by the
descent of the properties. In 1200 king John confirmed to Peter-
borough, inter alia, the gift made by Robert Gargate of a virgate in
Warmington, two garbs of the tithe of the parish of Paston chapel
and two-thirds of a garb of four knights in that parish, namely
Ivo de Gunsthorp, Ascelin de Preston, Robert Peverel and Robert
Grip.7 In 1168 Robert Gargate owed mark for a default in
Northamptonshire, and in 1176 he accounted for 4 marks of
forest pleas in that county.9 He was named again in 1179.
Robert Gargat sold some of his land in Warmington to William
Ruffus, who afterwards gave it to St. Andrew's priory, Northamp-
ton, Robert confirming.10
Richard Gargate received a serjeant's livery of 1d. per diem out
of the farm of London and Middlesex from 1165 till after 1189.11
Hugh Gargate owed 8 marks in 1180 in Norfolk or Suffolk for
right of knight's fee in Warmington, Northants., against Robert
Gargate,12 and in the ensuing year the charge was to be demanded
in Buckinghamshire instead of Norfolk.13
The earl of Warenne answered in 1201 for 2 marks of scutage
in Buckinghamshire. 14
In 1206 Robert Gargat (who appeared by Richard Gargat)
released to Hugh Gargat all right in 8 virgates in Warmington,15
and Hugh afterwards sold portions to St. Andrew's, Northampton,
and to the Templars.16 In 1212 Hugh Gargate held 1 fee of the
honor of the abbot of Peterborough.17 In 1216 he was William
Briwerre's serjeant in Blisworth,18 but he died before 1220, when
Sibyl de Caversfeld sought inquiry whether William de Ros had
seisin of the land of Warmington and Irthlingborough, late of Hugh
Gargate formerly her husband, by the king's precept to the sheriff
of Northampton or by his own authority.19 Dodsworth records
an agreement made at Oxford in the same year between the said
William and Sibyl de Caversfield and Muriel her daughter, whereby
Sibyl and Muriel released to William the lands late of Hugh Gar-
gate in Warmington for the maintenance of the children he had by
Muriel.20 The lands in Northamptonshire did not descend like
Caversfield. Muriel as daughter of Hugh Gargate confirmed to
Missenden the hide which her grandfather Roger Gargate had
given, 21
and afterwards confirmed it as widow of William de
Ros. Hugh left another daughter, Isabel, who with her husband
Gerard son of Roger de Muniberi and Peter their son confirmed the
samehide to the monks.23 Isabel, as widow of Gerard, gave a
further confirmation.24 In 1227 a Hugh Gargate held of the abbot
of Peterborough I fee in Warmington and Irthlingborough, 25 and
the same was plaintiff in 1243 concerning lands in Warmington.26
22
Sibyl widow of Hugh Gargate in 1227 obtained 1 virgate in
Caversfield from Osmund son of Robert.27 In 1233 Isabel Gargate
and Muriel her sister impleaded Robert de L'Isle as to his right to
have common of their land of Caversfield, when they had none in
his land.28 About the same date Muriel de Ros, widow, gave the
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canons of Bicester land in the vills of Caversfield and Stratton,
with the chief court at Caversfield; witnesses: Roger Amauri,
Ralph Harang, Ralph de Chetwde and Ernald Biseth.29 Isabel
daughter of Hugh Gargate of Caversfield in her widowhood gave
to the canons of Bicester her part of the croft lying by the canons'
court (in Stratton), of which they had the other part by gift of her
sister Muriel.30 Sibyl de Caversfeld, widow of Hugh Gargate, con-
firmed to the canons her daughter Isabel Gargate's gift of I virgate
in Stratton; the deed is attested by Robert de la Hay, then sheriff
of Oxford (1226-32),31 and nine of the witnesses attested Isabel's
charter. In 1236 dame Isabel Gargate demised to the canons of
Bicester, for a term of six years, her demesne lands of Caversfield,
except the land of Sibyl her mother in that vill.32
In 1240 the service of Hugh Gargate which he did to the late
earl of Warenne for land in Warwickshire (sic) was assigned to the
dower of the countess Matilda; 33 and in 1242-3 Sibyl Gargate
held fee in Stratton of the fee of Warenne and William Hay
fee in Caversfield of the fee of 'Warewyk' (recle Warenne). 34
Dame Sibyl de Caversfeld occurs in a deed of 1244, Robert Gargat
being a witness.35
1
4
4
William Hay and the prior of Bicester each held 2 hides in
Caversfield in 1255.* 36 The Oxfordshire hundred roll of 1279
records that the abbot of Cirencester held in Stratton 1 virgate
and the prior of Bicester 4 virgates, of which 2 virgates belonged
to the chapelry and 1 virgate was given by a certain dame of
Caversfield (Keresfeld') with 3 canons, the prior doing suit for
2 virgates, namely 15d. in hidage; among the prior's tenants
Simon de Winecote held 1 virgate.37
In 1284-5 Simon de Winecote held of William de Winecote
and he of the earl of Warenne half the vill of Caversfield for fee,
and the prior of Bicester the other half similarly for fee.38 John
le Bret and Sarra his wife in 1287 quitclaimed to Simon de Wynes-
cote all their right in I carucate of land in Caversfeld, on behalf
of themselves and the heirs of Sarra; at the same time releasing
all claims on the land in Stratton held by Simon.39 In 1302 the
same Simon and the prior of Bicester held Caversfield for 1 fee,
and in 1316 they were lords of the vill.40 In 1313 Master Simon
de Wonnecote acknowledged the right of John de Wonnecote to
19 messuages, 2 carucates and 7 virgates of land, 10s. rent and the
moiety of a mill in Caversfield; whereupon John gave the same to
Simon for life, with reversion to himself and his heirs.41
The prior of Bicester and the heirs of William de Wincote in
1324 held of Aymer de Valence I fee in Caversfield, Bucks.42 In
another return it is stated (anachronously) that Hugh Gargate,
(Bargate') held 1 fee in Buckinghamshire.43 In 1325 a knight's
fee in Caversfield held by John de Winecote was assigned to the
dower of Mary late wife of Aymer de Valence and to the pourparty
of Elizabeth Comyn; 44 another fee in Caversfield held by the
prior of Bicester and the heir of William de Winecote was assigned
to David de Strabolgi, earl of Athol, and Joan his wife.45
In 1337 land in Caversfield was held of John de Winecote,46
STOKE BRUERN, ALDERTON
413
and in 1346 the prior of Bicester held in pure alms fee there of the
honor of Castleacre and John de Winecote fee similarly.47
2. Ibid. f. 189d.
3. Ibid.
6. Chron. Petroburg. 176 n.
9. Ibid. 22 Hen. II, 51.
130. 12. Ibid. 26 Hen. II,
R. Cancell. 355.
15. Feet
17. Red Bk. 619. 18. R.
20. Dods. MS. xlii. f. 134.
23. Ibid. f. 127d.
1. Chartulary, Harl. MS. 3688, f. 126d.
f. 126d. 4. Ibid. f. 127d.
5. Ibid. f. 132d.
7. R. Chart. 32. 8. Pipe R. 14 Hen. II, 55.
10. Chartul. Reg. 11, B. ix. 11. Ibid. 12 Hen. II,
13. Ibid. 27 Hen. II, 71, 87.
14.
23, 87.
of F. Northants. 171/11. 16. Ibid. 171/12.
Lit. Claus. i. 288b. 19. Excerpt. Fin. i. 43.
21. Harl. 3688, f. 127d. 22. Ibid. f. 128.
24. Ibid.
f. 126d. 25. Cal. Chart. R. i. 20. 26. Cur. Reg. R. 130, m. II.
27. Feet
of F. Bucks. 15/16, n. 25.
28. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 803. 29. Cat. of
Anct. D. i. B. 946.
30. Kennett, Par. Antiq. i. 265. 31. Ibid. 266.
32. Cat. of Anct. D. i. D. 1104.
33. Close R. 214.
34. Bk. of Fees,
826,; Testa, 105, 243b. 35. Court of Augment. Misc. Bks. xlv. n. 258; see
also n. 54, 280. 36. R. Hund. i. 29b. 37. Ibid. ii. 828b. 38. Feud.
Aids, i. 87. Cf. Cal. Close R. 1285-6, p. 408. 39. Feet of F. Bucks. 17/50,
40. Feud. Aids, i. 99, 109. 41. Feet of F. Bucks. 18/64, п. II.
n. 4.
42. Cal. Inquis. vi. 331. 43. Ibid. 334. 44. Cal. Close R. 267, 274. 45. Ibid.
47. Feud. Aids, i. 124.
447. 46. Cal. Inquis. viii. 67.
XXXIII.
In Northamptonshire Suain (son of Azur) in 1086 held in Stoke
(Bruern) 4 hides; the count of Mortain 2 hides and virg. in
Alderton, and I hide there which a thegn held of the count.
In the survey temp. Henry I (c. 1124-9) there were 7 hides and
2 small virgates in Stoke Bruern and Alderton.¹
In 1172 Geoffrey de Malquenci held I knight's fee in Normandy
and was then and in 1180 bailiff of the district of Caux. Blainville-
sur-Ry is near Mauquenchy in the. Roumois.2 There was in
England in 1166 a Geoffrey de Malquenci, tenant of fee of Henry
de Lasci of Pontefract,³ who may be identified as the person of
the same name who gave the church of West Burton, Notts., to
the canons of Radford, who later removed to Worksop.4 The donor
was uncle of Geoffrey de Paveilli.
In 1199 John Mauduit demanded against Gerard de Malquenci
II virgates in Shittlehanger, 2 virgates in Stoke (Bruern) and half
the mill of Twyford, Bucks.; Gerard made default in the plea
and in 1200 Robert son of Alan sought to recover the tenements
for him by replevin.5 In 1201 Gerard de Malquenci accounted for
the scutage of I knight's fee in Northamptonshire of the honor of
Mortain.6 He was dispossessed in 1204, when Normandy was
severed from England, and his lands in Stoke Bruern and Shittle-
hanger appear to have been bestowed on William Briwerre, who
held them in 1212, as the former possession of Gerard de Mau-
quency. Before his death in 1227 William Briwerre gave 4,000 m.
to his nephew William bishop of Exeter, who was going on the
crusade in expiation of his own and his uncle's sins, to be disposed
by the bishop for the welfare of the Holy Land. William Briwerre
succeeded his father and died in 1232, Joan his wife surviving and
having Stoke and Alderton for her dower.9 In 1235-6 she
answered through Adam her serjeant for the aid due from I fee in
Stoke, and in 1242-3 she held 1 fee here of the earl of Warenne's fee.¹
7
10
414
HONOR OF WARENNE
The manor had been assigned in 1233 to the pourparty of
Margaret de la Ferte, one of the 5 sisters and coheirs of the said
William Briwerre the younger.11 This Margaret was late the wife
of William de la Ferte of Marden and Lavington, Wilts., and
Alphington, Devon, who died in 1216,12 in which year the sheriff of
Devon and constable of Devizes were ordered to give Pain de
Chaworth seisin of the lands of William de la Ferte which belonged
hereditarily to Pain's wife, 13 Gundreda daughter and heir of
William de la Ferte and Margaret Briwerre his wife. Pain de
Chaworth died in 1237, when Patrick his son proffered £500 for
livery of the lands which descended to him from Pain his father
and Margaret de Briwerre his grandmother.14 Patrick died in
1258, Pain his son being aged 14 years; 15 which Pain held the
manor of Stokebruern with the messuage of Alderton at his death
in 1279 of John de Warenne, earl of Surrey, by the service of one
small fee of Mortain, Patrick his brother and heir being aged 25
years.16 Patrick died young in 1283, leaving his daughter Matilda,
then but one year old. He had been possessed of Stokebruerne,
Shittlehanger and Alderton, out of which dame Matilda la Salvage
and her sons Geoffrey and Robert were entitled to provision for
life.17 At an inquest taken in 1297 the descent of Stoke bruern
and Shittlehanger was recorded from William 'de la Bruere' to
Joan his relict, until her death, then to Pain and Patrick de
Chaworth, and then to Isabel late the wife of the said Patrick and
in 1297 the wife of Hugh le Despenser.18
Matilda daughter and heir of Patrick de Chaworth married
Henry Plantagenet or 'de Lancaster,' second son of Edmund earl
of Lancaster, created earl of Leicester in 1324. She conveyed this
fee in 1306 to William de Coumbemartyn,19 citizen and merchant
of the city of London, who was lord of Stoke and its hamlets in
1316,20 and held one fee here in 1324 of Aylmer de Valence.21 In
1327 this knight's fee was assigned to the pourparty of Thomas le
Blount and Juliana his wife, late wife of John de Hastinges, kins-
man and coheir of Aymer de Valence, as her dower, during the
minority of John's heir.22 In 1328 Adam de Coumbemartyn was
lord of Stoke Bruern.23 Subsequently Adam de Courtenhall held
it with the members as of the honor of Castleacre.24
1. V. C. H. Northants, i. 322, 328, 348, 374.
2. Stapleton, Norm. Excheq.
i. p. civ. 3. Red Bk. 424. 4. Mon. Angl.; Cal. Chart. R. iii. 298. 5. R. Cur.
Reg. i. 417; ii. 18; iii. 336.
6. R. Cancell. 88.
7. Red Bk. 534.
10. Testa, 28b, 36. 11. Close R. 228–9;
R. L. Claus. i. 277-9.
15. Cal. Inquis. i. 113.
8. Pat. R. 89. 9. Close R. 227.
Excerpt. e R. Fin. i. 243.
12.
13. Ibid. 2936.
14. Pipe R. 21 Hen. III, Hants.
16. Ibid. ii. 182.
17. Ibid. 289. 18. Ibid. iii. 322. 19. Quo war. 568b; Abbrev. Placit. 325b.
20. Feud. Aids, iv. 22. 21. Cal. Inquis. vi. 331.
22. Cal. Close R. 12-13.
23. Cal. Inquis. vii. 106.
24. Feud. Aids, iv. 43.
XXXIV.
In Buckinghamshire the count of Mortain had in Wing 5 hides.
and in Crafton 2 hides which the monks of St. Nicholas (of Angers)
held.
WING, CRAFTON
415
In 1130 the earl of Warenne had exemption of danegeld in
Bucks. of 285., equal to the tax on 14 hides, which probably
represented 9 of his 10 hides in Broughton and 5 hides in Cavers-
field.¹ Apparently Wing and Crafton were not then in his posses-
sion. The empress Matilda in 1148 gave to St. Nicholas of Angers
inter alia the church of Guuiunge.”2
Giles Talebot gave 100s. rent in Wing to Beaubec abbey in
Normandy.3 In 1200 Quintin Talbot gave to Jordan abbot of
St. Nicholas of Angers, by Ralph prior of Kirkby, 660 acres of land
which the said abbot then held in Wing and Crafton, and acquitted
him of all secular service. His charter confirming to St. Nicholas
the church of Wing has been cited in the introduction to the honor
of Eudes the sewer, where additional information relative to the
Talbots has been given. The acquittal was the outcome of a plea
originated in 1198, wherein Quintin Talebot demanded regal
services against the prior of Kirkby, who had custody of that land
by the abbot of St. Nicholas of Angers.5 In 1209 the agreement
between Quintin and the abbot was confirmed, and the abbot
gave him 10 marks for confirmation of the charter of Hugh Talebot
his ancestor, and of the church of Wing and the lands which the
abbot had in alms in Wing and Crafton.6
8
In 1234 Ermentrude de Talbot, then beyond seas, had respite
of suits of county etc. in respect of her land of Wing, Bucks."
In 1235-6 she held I fee in Wing, and, in 1235, as the mother
of John Talbot and being then over seas, had letters of protection.9
In 1242-3 William Talbot held 1 fee of the Earl of Warenne's
fee in Buckinghamshire.10 A mandate was issued in 1244 for
taking the manor of Wing into the king's hands, saving to William
Talbot his grain and store there, and the manor of Offton, Suffolk,
in like manner; 11 but later in the year they were restored to
William Talbot. They had been seised into the king's hands by
reason of those who were of the power of the king of France and
held lands in England.12 In 1249-53 it was returned that William
Talbot held Wing, worth £30 yearly.13
In 1255 John de Warenne, earl of Surrey, had a grant of a
weekly market at Wing, Bucks.14 In 1284-5 the earl held the vill
of Wing for I fee,15 and in 1302-3 John earl of Warenne and his
tenants so held it.16 In 1314 the earl granted to Edmund earl
of Arundel the manors of Wing, Bucks., and those of Blackwell,
Roding, Housham (Hall), Prittlewell and Yenge Margarete
(Margaretting).17 In 1324 it was returned that Quintin Talbot
(sic) held 2 fees in an unspecified place in Buckinghamshire.18
The record was anachronous.
After the earl of Arundel's capture by the queen's party and
his subsequent execution without trial the earl of Surrey re-entered
the manor of Wing and other manors in Essex, with the advowson
of the priory of Wing, and had confirmation of the same in 1328.19
In 1345 the manor of Wing was assured to Richard earl of Arundel,
and his heirs.20
1. Pipe R. 31 Hen. I, 102.
Ch. 112, D. 59.
2. Mon. Anglic. vi. 1104b. 3. Harl.
4. Feet of F. (Rec. Com.) i. 195. 5. Abbrev. Placit. 7.
416
HONOR OF WARENNE
6. Ibid. 62. 7. Close R. 495.
11. Close R. 157.
8. Testa, 258b-9, 262.
12. Ibid. 187.
9. Pat. R. 105.
13. Testa, 2576.
10. Testa, 246.
14. Cal. Chart. i. 449. 15. Feud. Aids, i. 78. 16. Ibid. 1OI. 17. Cal.
18. Cal. Inquis. vi. 334. 19. Cal. Pat. R. 336. 20. Ibid. 488.
Pat. 175.
XXXV.
In Lincolnshire in 1086 William de Warenne had in Carlton
(Scroop) 5 car., which Aldelin his man held. In Yorkshire he had
in Barmbrough 6 car., Bilham I car., and Warmsworth 1 car. and
6 bovates.
Ellis brother (and heir ?) of Fulk de Bosevill held Barmbrough
in the time of Henry archbishop of York (1147-53), and gave the
mill of Harlington and I bov. in Barmbrough to the canons of
Nostell. This gift was confirmed by William de Warenne, son
of Henry earl of the Northumbrians 2 by Ada or Adeline, daughter
of the second earl Warenne, which William appears to have claimed
some part at least of the fee of Warenne, as against Stephen's
youngest son, William of Blois, after the death of the third earl
in 1148. Ellis de Bosevill gave to Lewes the church of Harthill.³
After the death of Ellis this fee appears to have been, partially at
least, in the hands of Henry Picot and Leticia his wife, but
descended through Otes de Tilly and Dionisia his daughter to her
first husband, as will be presently described.
Adam de Neufmarché died in or before 1161, in which year his
brother William fined for custody of Adam's land and heir.5
This heir appears to have been Henry de Neufmarché, who married
Dionisia daughter and heir of Otes de Tilly, a tenant of the honor
of Warenne in Barmbrough, Bilham, and elsewhere.
This lady,
after the death of Henry de Neufmarché, married Henry de Puiset,
son of bishop Hugh Puiset of Durham. In 1170 William de
Neufmarché proffered 120 marks for record of a duel, which debt
was finally extinguished in 1188. In 1172 his nephew Henry de
Neufmarché proffered £100 to have his land which had been in
the custody of his uncle. He died before Midsummer 1178,
when his land and custody of his widow were committed to his
uncle.8 In 1182 Henry de Puiset (Pusaz ') proffered £100 that
he might take to wife the daughter of Otes de Tilli.⁹
6
Adam son and heir of Henry was of age about 1195. He was
pardoned in 1201 20 marks of a loan of 50 marks made to
him at Domfront,10 and in 1212 held 4 fees of the honor of
Tickhill.11
In 1213 his sons John and Adam were hostages in the custody
of William de Harecurt at Corfe, but were restored to him upon
security given by Saher earl of Winchester and Gerard de Furni-
vall.12 Again in 1219 the constable of Knaresborough was ordered
to release the son of Adam de Neufmarché, whom king John had
taken as a hostage for Adam's fidelity.13 In that year and in 1226
Adam was patron of the church of Carlton Scroop.14
there was a suit by Hugh prior of Lewes against Adam de Neuf-
marché about the advowson of the church of Hatfield, Yorks.15
In 1227
4
CARLTON SCROOP, BARMBROUGH
417
From Bracton's Note-Book we learn that Adam demanded against
William earl of Warenne and the prior of Lewes the advowson
of the church of Hatfield, as son of Henry de Neufmarché by his
wife Dionisia, daughter and heir of Otes de Tilli by his wife Mabel,
daughter and heir of William Fitz-Raven.16 William Fitz-Raven
had been sheriff of William earl of Warenne (1148-1159) at
Wakefield.17 Otes de Tilly had been seneschal of earl Hameline
at Conisborough.18 In 1229 Hugh parson of Carlton released to
Lewes his claim in the tithes from the demesne of Adam de Neuf-
In 1242-3
marché, formerly the demesne of the earl of Warenne.19
Adam held I fee in Barmbrough and Bilham and I fee in Warmsworth
of the fee of the earl of Warenne, 20 and his son John held 1 fee
in Carlton Scroop, Lincs., of the same fee.21 Adam died in 1247,
John his son having predeceased him, whereupon John's son
Adam did homage for the land that Adam de Neufmarché, whose
heir he was, had held of the honor of Tickhill.22 In 1241 an agree-
ment was made between Matilda countess of Warenne and this
Adam touching a watercourse or drain in Balne, 23 and another in
1253 between John de Warenne and Adam de Neufmarché, son
of John, touching the same.24
Ι
In 1272 Adam de Neufmarché assured to Durant abbot of St.
Mary's, Cherbourg, land in Carlton Scroop.25 Adam de Neufmarché,
knt., died during the period 1288–9, leaving apparently a grandson
John his heir, who was going with the earl of Lincoln in 1301
beyond seas, and was addressed in a mandate of 1308 as John son of
Adam de Novo Mercato.26 Sir Adam had a son Adam, living in
1273;27 and Joan, possibly relict of Sir Adam, petitioned Parliament
touching her dower in Bentley in 1290.28 She was named as his
relict in 1289.29 Another Adam was dead in 1291, leaving a
widow Cecily, who had lands of her own inheritance in Redburn,
near Hibaldstow, Lincs.,30 but it is uncertain whose relict she was.
In 1303 John de Neufmarché held 1 fee in Carlton Scroop.31
He was dead 20 May, 1310, when Amice or Avice his relict held
for life the manor of Kedington, Suff., of the inheritance of Roger
de Neufmarché. She was living in Yorkshire at this time and was
too infirm to appear before the King's Bench to assert her right
to the manor, for which Margery de Wyluby and John her son
were impleading Roger de Neufmarché.32 Margaret de Wyleby was
lady of Kedington in 1316, and in 1346 it was recorded that half
a fee there was formerly held of the heir of Adam de Neufmarché.3
The connexion between the families of Neufmarché and Willoughby
is explained by a charter cited by Hunter in the History of South
Yorkshire.
In 1317 free warren in Carlton Scroop was granted to Avice
late wife of John de Neufmarché for her life and thereafter to
Geoffrey le Scrop and his heirs, and similarly to Elizabeth late
the wife of Adam de Neufmarché for her life and thereafter to
Geoffrey le Scrop.34 So much of these tenements as lay in York-
shire and had not been alienated appears to have descended to
Roger de Neufmarché, younger brother and heir of John de Neuf-
marché. Geoffrey le Scrop died in 1340 seised of the manor, it
2 E
III.
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HONOR OF WARENNE
being held of the earl of Warenne for an arrow yearly; Henry his
son and heir was aged 25 and more.35
Henry le Scrope died in 1336 seised of a messuage and I caru-
cate held of John earl of Warenne by knight's service; 36 William
his son was then aged 16 years, and died similarly seised in 1344,
leaving a brother and heir Richard, aged 17 or more.37
3. Lewes Chartul.
1. Nostell Chartul. p. 576.
2. Ibid. pp. 57-8.
P. 3036. 4. Nostell Chartul. pp. 576-8. Henry Picot was earl Hameline's
constable of Conisborough; Mon. Anglic. iii. 618b. 5. Pipe R. 7 Hen. II, 37-
6. Ibid. 16 Hen. II, 41. 7. Ibid. 18 Hen. II, 63. 8. Ibid. 24 Hen. II, 76.
9. Ibid. 28 Hen. II, 45. 10. R. de Liberate, 23. 11. Red Bk. 181. 12. Pat.
R. 105.
13. Ibid. 188. 14. Regist. Welles, i. 176; iii. 147. 15. Pat.
R. 206b. 16. Genealogist N.S. vi. 9. 17. Mon. Anglic. vi. 99. 18. Ibid.
iii. 6186. 19. Vesp. F. xv. f. 209. 20. Testa, 364b. 21. Ibid. 311, 324b.
22. Excerpt. e R. Fin. ii. 19. 23. Cat. of Anct. D. v. A. 11128. 24. Ibid.
A. 10762.
25. Linc. Feet of F. (Rec. Soc.), 243.
26. Cal. Pat. 46.
27. Cat. of Anct. D. iv. A. 7223. 28. Rolls of Parliament, i. 62. 29. Cal.
Close, 53. Cf. Cat. of Anct. D. iv. A. 9883. 30. Cal. Close, 177.
31. Feud.
Aids, iii. 171.
32. Cal. Close 211. 33. Feud. Aids, v. 76. 34. Cal.
Chart. iii. 366. 35. Cal. Inquis. viii. 205.
36. Ibid. viii. 18. 37. Ibid. 399.
XXXVI.
In Lincolnshire William de Warenne in 1086 had in Bennington,
a berewick of Carlton (Scroop), 2 car. and 2 bov.
The homage and service of Roger Purden was given by William
son of Ralph son of Drew son of Hermer, founder of the abbey
of Humberston, Lincs., to that monastery, and so Robert de
St. Paul who descended from the said Roger, held of the abbot.
In 1244-5 Agnes late the wife of William de St. Paul was required
to render to the abbot of Humberston Robert son of the said
William, whose custody belonged to him, as he said.¹ This
William held in 1242-3 of the fee of the earl of Warenne fee
said to be in Foston,2 and elsewhere described as in Bennington.3
Robert de St. Paul was a juror on the inquest for the return from
the hundred or wapentake of Bradley, Lincs., in 1275.4 According
to one return the king held the fee in Foston in 1303 which
William de St. Paul held in 1242-3,5 but elsewhere William de
St. Paul was said to hold it in 1303. The prior of Long Bennington
held it in 1346.7
3
6
1. Linc. Notes and Queries, ix. 151.
4. R. Hund. i. 263. 5. Feud. Aids, iii. 171.
2. Testa, 311.
6. Ibid. 175.
3. Ibid. 324b.
7. Ibid. 214.
XXXVII.
In Yorkshire William de Warenne had in 1086 in Cusworth
3 carucates.
Ancher de Freschenvill attested in 1197 a charter of John
count of Mortain.¹ In 1200 Anker de Freschevill had £50 yearly
for his fee, as an official of king John, until lands to that value
should be assigned to him.2 In 1212 he held 1 fee in Sussex of
the countess of Eu.3 In 1218 a mandate was issued to Ives de
CUSWORTH-WALTON, SHEPLEY, DALTON
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4
7
8
Heriz to deliver Ralph, son and heir of Anker de Fressunvill,
to Philip Mark, to whom Ralph's wardship and marriage had been.
given. In 1225 the said Ralph fined 100 marks for the land of
Hubert Fitz-Ralph of Crich, as one of Hubert's heirs.5 Hugh
(potius Hubert) Fitz-Ralph was described in a plea in 1231 as
Ralph's grandfather. Ralph's father Anker married Juliana, one
of the daughters and heirs of Hubert Fitz-Ralph, lord of Crich.6
In 1237 Ralph de Freschenevill claimed knight's fee in Dorking
against William earl Warenne, but released his claim on receiving
land in Conisborough, Yorks. In 1242-3 he held fee in Cusworth,
Yorks., of the fee of the earl of Warenne, and more than 5 fees of
the barony of Hubert Fitz-Ralph.9 In 1251 Ralph de Freschevill
had a grant of free warren in Cusworth, and in the manor of Boneye,
Notts, and various places in Derbyshire.10 He died in 1261,
holding lands of the barony of Crich, and left Anker his son and
heir,11 who held in or before 1268 his late father's estate and land
in Staveley, Derbys., of the inheritance of Amice his wife, she being
a coheiress of Ralph Musard.12 In 1269 Brian de Brampton had
the wardship of the manor of Crich, late of Anker de Fressenevill,
which the king gave to the said Brian in the form of the award
of Kenilworth, by occasion of trespasses charged against Anker
in the time of the late disturbance.13 His lands had been seized
in 1264 and himself taken prisoner at Northampton, but he and
others were to be exchanged for prisoners taken at Lewes, or
released on mainprise.14 The said Ancher (or his son ?) held at
his death in 1287 the tenements named above, and left Ralph his
son and heir, aged 22 years. For the later descent of the family
see Collect. Topog. et Genealog. iv. 3 ff. Mr. Jeayes prints many
charters relating to this family in his Derbyshire Charters.
15
It does not appear at what date the fee in Cusworth was alienated,
nor to whom. In 1298 Ralph de Fressenvill attested a charter of
Nicholas Musard of Saintbury and ‘Musarderi' (Miserden), Gloucs.¹
16
1. Cat. of Anct. D. iv. A. 6686. 2. R. de Liberate, 3, 8. 3. Red
Bk. 554, 623. 4. R. L. Claus. i. 381b. 5. Excerpt. e R. Fin. i. 134.
6. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 486.
Feet of F., Divers and Unkn. Counties,
7.
239/10, n. 137. 8. Testa, 364b. 9. Ibid. 6, 126. 10. Cal. Chart, i. 371.
11. Cal. Inquis. i. 140; Excerpt. ii. 347. 12. Cal. Inquis. i. 140, 221, 224.
13. Cal. Pat. 353. 14. Ibid. 1264, pp. 313, 359. 15. Cal. Inquis. ii. 375-
16. Cat. of Anct. D. i. A. 934.
XXXVIII.
In Yorkshire the king had in 1086 in Walton 8 car. (of which
4 car. passed to the fee of Warenne), Shelley I car., Shepley 2 car.,
Quarmby (something besides 2 car. held by Ilbert de Lascy), (West)
Bretton I car., Thurstanland 1 car (?), and (Upper) Cumberworth
I car.
William de Warenne had in Dalton (par. of Rotherham) 3 car.
In 1226 Thomas de Burgh recovered against Diana late wife
of Geoffrey de Beslum fee in Shepley which she had claimed in
dower.¹ În a plea in 1231 it was shewn that Matthew de Shepley,
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HONOR OF WARENNE
father of Matthew the plaintiff, purchased from Thomas son of
Isabel 1 bovate in Bretton, I bovate in Clayton and bovate in
Thurstanland; on Matthew's decease Henry de Sellay had had
the wardship of Matthew son and heir of the said Matthew with
his land.2
The elder Matthew de Shepley was steward of William earl
of Warenne in 1219, when the earl was impleaded by Ralph de
Eccleshale of having disseised him of his free tenement in Dalton.3
The records show that this fee was held by many tenants in small
holdings.
In 1242-3 one knight's fee was held in Walton (‘Walfon '),
Shelley, Shepley, Dalton, Quarmby, Bretton, Thurstanland and
Cumberworth of the earl of Warenne's fee. Of these tenements
the family of Burgh held fee in Walton and fee in Shepley.
It is by no means improbable that Adam Fitz-Swain was tenant
of the earls of Warenne of all these tenements. In 1284-5 John
de Morthen and Peter de Rodes held the vill of Morthen, par. of
Rotherham, of John earl Warenne for fee. It would be possible
to show that several other knights' fees were held of the earls of
Warenne in the 13th century in other vills in Yorkshire than those
already named; but the account would occupy much space.
The surrenders made by John de Warenne, earl of Surrey, to
Edward II of the castles of Lewes, Conisbrough, Sandal, and prac-
tically the whole of his fee, are enrolled on the Close Roll under
date 17 June, 1326.6
5
The extent of the Warenne fee in Yorkshire made in 1327
records that the castles of Sandal and Conisbrough, with the towns,
manors and lands pertaining to them, were held in chief for 2 fees,
and the manors of Hatfield, Thorne and Fishlake by the service
of I fee.?
1. Feet of F. Yorks. 17, n. 18.
2. Assize R. 1042, m. 26. 3. Ibid.
1040, m. 5d.; Add. MS. 12269, f. 4b. 4. Testa, 264b.
5. Kirkby's
Quest, 7.
6. Cal. 573.
7. Cal. Inquis. vii. 58. Cf. Ibid. ix. 48.
XXXIX.
In Oxfordshire in 1086 William de Warenne held in Maple-
durham 7 hides.
Tithes of Mapledurham were given to Lewes priory some time.
after 1121. Some account of the early members of this Norman
family of Gournai-sur-Epte, in the Pais de Bray, on the confines
of Normandy and France, will be found in the publications of the
Bedfordshire Historical Record Society (vol. iii. 153-7). The
reader is also referred to D. Gurney's House of Gournay. Much of
the property which the family held in England seems to have been
bestowed by the crown in order to secure the fidelity of a family
whose service was important to the security of Normandy. Maple-
durham was doubtless the maritagium of Edith sister of William
second earl of Warenne, who married Gerard elder son of Hugh de
Gurnay I (Hugh III in Normandy) by his wife Basilia, daughter of
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Gerard Flaitel,¹ which Hugh held at the Domesday survey the three
Essex manors of Liston, Ardleigh and Fordham, none of which
descended in his line. He became a monk at Bec. To Basilia and
her son Hugh may be assigned the gifts to the abbey of St. Mary
of Bec of a moiety of Lungoly (Longueil, Seine-Inf.) 2 and
Le Bois de Girard; to Gerard the gift of Lisingham' (Lessingham,
Norf.). Gerard and Edith had several children, including Hugh II.
Edith married, secondly, Drew de Monceaux, Gerard having died
in the Crusades.2a
3
From Stephen, Hugh de Gurnay II (IV) obtained a grant of the
important crown manor of Wendover, Bucks. In 1155 and until
1156 Hugh de Gurnay's manors of Wendover and Houghton Regis,
Beds., were in the king's hands at a yearly farm of £60; ³ the king
then granted Wendover away. In 1165 the sheriff of Norfolk
accounted for 10 marks from the land of Hugh de Gurnay. At
Midsummer 1173 the king by writ de ultra mare' granted to
Hugh de Gurnay the younger lands in Houghton Regis and in
Norfolk and Suffolk to the value of £50 per annum.5 This grant
continued but 3 months, for the rolls of the three ensuing years show
that Hugh's serjeants had carried away the stock and implements
of husbandry from Wickham and the king's part of the manor of
Hintlesham, Suff., and the sheriff of Buckingham had received for
the king the farm of Bledlow. This manor was the king's escheat
until Easter 1182, when Henry gave it to Geoffrey his son and
chancellor. As a result of the loss to Hugh of this manor king
Richard in 1197 confirmed to St. Mary's, Bec, an exchange made
to them by Hugh de Gurnay of rent and tithe in his Norman lands
for land previously given in his manor of Bledlow." Hugh II
married (1) Beatrix de Vermandois and (2) Milicent de Couci.
Hugh and Milicent founded a nunnery at Gaille-Fontaine, Pais de
Brai, approved by Hugh archbishop of Rouen (who died in 1164),
and removed it to Clair-Ruissel soon afterwards, as appears by their
charter and the confirmation of archbishop Rotrou (1164-83). To
this house they gave the church of Mapledurham, Oxon., and 2
marks of silver yearly from Caister, Norf., with the assent of their
sons Gerard and Hugh.7a They also gave the church of Kim-
berley in Norfolk. Hugh II is said to have died in the Holy
Land, and was succeeded by his son Hugh.
In 1179 Hugh de Gurnay III (V) gave £100 for a fine for relief of
his land, and 40 marks and a destrier for a loan made to his father.³
A return, made apparently by the Great Inquest of Service in
Buckinghamshire in 1212, states that king Stephen gave the manor
of Wendover to Hugh de Gurnay, father of Hugh, who held it during
Stephen's life; that Henry II, after his coronation, allowed Hugh
to hold the manor without payment (sine dono); that upon Henry's
return from Toulouse he seised the manor into his own hands as his
demesne and gave it to another (as described), his grant and the
confirmation of king Richard being duly recited; but Hugh de
Gurnay (III) shewed (in 1212) a charter of Henry II confirming to
Milisent de Gurnay the dower which her husband Hugh (II) had
given to her, namely Gaille-Fontaine in Normandy and in England
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HONOR OF WARENNE
the new land that king Stephen gave to Hugh in augmentation of
his inheritance, which Hugh gave to his wife, namely Wendover
and Houghton Regis and the land that Edith (Ediva) mother of
Hugh had in England, possibly a reference to Mapledurham.
The statement is not consistent in all respects with the evidence
of the Pipe rolls.
9
The younger Hugh's fine and loan remained unpaid until 1186,
when it was shewn that the fine of £100 for his English lands had
been rendered at the exchequer of Normandy.10 Richard I at his
accession restored Houghton Regis, as 23 librates of land, to Hugh
de Gurnay.11 In 1201 Hugh held it as 40 librates,12 and in 1202
king John restored to him Wendover, saving the year's corn crop
to (Felicia) the widow of Ingram de Fienes.13 In 1200 the king
confirmed to the canons of Bellozanne (near Gournay) the site
where the abbey was founded in 1198 by Hugh de Gurnay, with a
parcel of the forest of Bray near the abbey, and with churches and
lands.14 Hugh soon afterwards founded the nunnery of St. Aubin.15
In May 1203 writs were issued for the seizure of Hugh's lands in
Normandy and England upon his withdrawal from service to John.16
Hugh's land in Cantley and Caister, Norf., the land of Hugh de
Agée in Norfolk, and all other the lands of Hugh de Gurnay
betrayor' in Norfolk and Suffolk, were committed to John Marshal,
son of William Marshal, earl of Pembroke.17 Other land in Norfolk
of this fee lay in Swathings, where Hugh de Gurnay II had given.
a manor to Robert de Burgeinuin, which Hugh son of the donor
confirmed to Hugh son of Robert de Burguinuin.18 A grant by
Hugh de Gurnay II and Millesent his wife to his tenant of 5 librates
of land in Bledlow was attested by William de Merlo, Oliver de Age,
Hodus de Brumustier, Hugh de Burgeinuin, and others.19 Hugh III
is said to have married Juliana de Danmartin, and had issue
Gerard, Hugh, and Millesent.19a Millesent daughter of Hugh de
Gurnay, married Aumari earl of Gloucester, and upon his decease
in 1214 married William de Cantelupe the younger.20 She had
land in France and in Petersfield, Hants., and Mapledurham for
her dower.21
our
On 13 February, 1206, the king pardoned Hugh the malevolence
he bore him for his withdrawal, and directed that his lands should
be restored, including Pillarton, Warws.22 In September 1213
the sheriff of York was notified that the king had given Hugh de
Gornay the honor of Whorlton and Rudby, Yorks., with the
chattels on the demesne.23 In 1214 he obtained a grant of a yearly
fair at Wendover.24 A note of some of his English possessions will
be found in Powicke's The Loss of Normandy, pp. 497-8. He died
before mid-March 1215; 25 on 9 September previous, in anticipa-
tion of his impending death, he prayed the king to take the homage
of his eldest son Gerard, which the king did.26
There is no further mention of Gerard, and in 1216 Hugh IV,
younger son of Hugh de Gurnay, having succeeded to the
inheritance, obtained his fees in Norfolk and Suffolk, which the
king's enemies had held of Hugh and were then in the king's
hands.27 But if he obtained he did not retain Wendover, 28 for it
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423
was delivered in August of that year to William de Fienes,29 and in
September Hugh's lands in Norfolk and Suffolk were committed
to John Marshal until peace should be made between the king and
his barons; Hugh's lands in Buckinghamshire and Lincolnshire
being committed to another.30
In 1222 Henry III restored to Hugh son of Hugh de Gurnay
all his lands in Norfolk and Suffolk,31 and in the soc of Waltham,
Lincs.32
In 1233 Hugh de Gurnay had a royal gift of 2 bucks and 10
does from Windsor forest for restocking his park of Mapledurham,
Oxon.33 In 1239 Matilda late wife of Hugh de Gurnay held the
manor of Mapledurham in dower.34 It is possible that she subse-
quently married Roger de Clifford.
Juliana, daughter and heir of Hugh de Gornay, married William
Bardolf the younger (n. 2).35 In 1255 Mapledurham of the fee of
Gornay had its park, where four years earlier malefactors had
hunted; one Nicholas de Mongewell was suspected; he gave to
Sir Roger de Clifford, lord of the vill and park, a soar-hawk for
having peace.36 Geoffrey de Chausi then held Little Mapledur-
ham of the honor of Wallingford.37 In 1276 William Bardolf had
warren here. 38
In 1272 John de Chausy was impleaded by William Bardolf the
younger and Juliana his wife touching common of pasture of
Mapledurham Chauzey, Oxon., of which Hugh de Gurnay, father
of Juliana, had been seised, as belonging to his free tenement in
Mapledurham Gornay.39 In 1271 the priory of Lewes had 14s.
yearly in tithes in this place.40
William Bardolf died in 1290 holding inter alia of the inherit-
ance of Juliana de Gurnay, his wife, the manor of Mapledurham,
held of the earl of Warenne for I fee.41 In 1304 John Bardolf had
a grant of free warren at Mapledurham,42 and in 1316 was returned
as lord of Mapledurham Gornay.43
In 1341 John Bardolf of Wormegay had licence to grant to
John Bardolf of Mapledurham and 3 others 2 of his Norfolk manors
for their lives at £150 rent."
44
1. Orderic, Hist. Eccles.iii. 322. 2. Mon. Angl. vi. 10686. 2a. Gurney, House
of Gournay, 69. 3. Pipe R. 2 Hen. II, 24. 4. Ibid. 11 Hen. II, 9. 5. Ibid.
19 Hen. II, 70, 118–9. 6. Ibid. 20 Hen. II, 39, 86. 7. Cal. Chart. R. iv. 261.
7a. Mon. Angl. vi. 1088. 7b. Gurney, op. cit. 118. 8. Pipe R. 25 Hen. II, 7.
9. Abbrev. Placit. 79. 10. Pipe R. 32 Hen. II, 60. 11. Ibid. 1 Ric. I, 30.
12. R. Cancel. 341. 13. R. Liberate, 32. 14. R. Chart. 33. 15. Gurnay,
op. cit. 159. 16. R. Liberate, 92, 94-5, 117. 17. R. Chart. 116b. 18. Stapleton,
Norman Excheq. i. p. cxxvi. 19. Cat. of Anct. D. vi. C. 5895. 19a. Gurney,
op. cit. 143. 20. Stapleton, op. cit. p. cxliv. 21. R. Lit. Claus. i. 141, 300b.
22. Ibid. i. 65, 67 23. Ibid. 149. 24. Ibid. 209. 25. Ibid. 191. 26. Ibid.
1726. 27. R. Fin. 596. 28. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 1465. 29. R. Lit. Claus.i.
283, 286b. 30. Ibid. 287b, 3086, 348. 31. Ibid. 494b. 32. Excerpt. Fin. i. 86.
33. Close R. 277.
34. Excerpt. Fin. i. 328. 35. Cal. Fine R. i. 184.
36. R. Hund. i. 38.
37. Ibid. 42.
38. Ibid. 336.
39. Abbrev.
Placit. 184b. 40. Cat. of Anct. D. A. 7918, 7963. 41. Cal. Inquis. ii. 469.
42. Cal. Chart. iii. 43.
43. Feud. Aids, iv. 170.
44. Cal. Pat. R. 273.
424
HONOR OF WARENNE
XL.
In Suffolk William de Warenne had in 1086 in Burgh (in Carl-
ford Hundred) 1 car. 20 a., which R(obert) de Glanvill held of him;
in Boulge car. and 13 a. which Robert held; in Debach 4 a. ; in
Torstanestuna' 6 a. which R(obert) de Glanvill held; in Bredfield
3 a. which the same Robert held.
In Norfolk land in Tilney and Wiggenhall may have been in-
volved in the manor of Castleacre.
Robert de Glanvill also held lands in these counties of Robert
Malet, which seem, though Robert himself is not known to have
had any children, to have been held by kinsmen of the same sur-
name, descending to the coheirs (six sisters) of Geoffrey de Glanvill.
The lands held of Warenne, however, may have been granted out
otherwise after Robert's death. About the only connexion of the
family of Glanvill, or the heirs general of Geoffrey de Glanvill, with
the fee of Warenne is that in 1240 the service of Geoffrey de Glan-
vill of 1 knight's fee in Norfolk was assigned to the dower of the
countess Matilda,¹ and that in 1324 William de Glanvill held of
Aymer de Valence I knight's fee in an unknown place in Norfolk.2
The only Suffolk vill known as Thurstanston (now Thurston in
Hawkdon) is at the other side of the county from Burgh by Grundis-
borough and the other places named above, so that its identifica-
tion is doubtful. Yet a Bury St. Edmund's charter records that
William count of Mortain and earl of Warenne (1148-59) gave to
the abbey land which had belonged to Reginald son of Eudes of
Turstaneton of the fee of Roger the Poitevin, among the witnesses
being Reginald de Warenne, Bartholomew and Ranulf de Glanvill.3
Later Thurstanston seems to have come to the Multon family,
being held of the earl of Lancaster, and then to the Haringtons
of Cumberland.5
In 1207 Thomas de Ingoldesthorp had land in Tilney adjoining
the fee of Thomas de Burc. In 1208 he and another were impli-
cated in the killing of Dreu brother of John the chamberlain.
Thomas escaped by endowing a monk or canon of the slain man's
kindred at one of the following houses: Norwich, Castleacre,
Binham, or (if a canon) Thetford, Cocksford or Walsingham. The
other escaped by serving seven years in the land around Jerusalem,
or justice to be done as if convicted in case he returned within
that term.7
In the time of Henry I William de Glanvill gave to the monks
of Acre, whom he established at Bacton, inter alia tithes of Burgh.&
But this was in Castle Burgh in Lothingland hundred. Bartholo-
mew his son removed the monastery to Bromholm. In or before
1229 Geoffrey de Glanvill gave to the monastery a rent of m.
out of his lands.9
In 1235 Burgh in Lothingland hundred was held by Ralph
de Burgo by the service of a crossbow-man for 40 days at Norwich
castle at his own cost.1
10 Roger de Burgo had held the same
serjeanty in 1219.11
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425
Possibly this tenement may be identified as the following:
Wicbert or Wibert de Achra gave to Castleacre his mill with
the consent of his wife and sons Rotbert and Rainald.12 In 1166
Robert de Chefrevill held 2 fees of the honor of Wormegay.13
Walter de Capravilla attested a Clenchwarton charter.14 In 1199
a fine was levied between Simon son of Roger de Cherevill or
Chevrevill and Robert son of Walter de Cherevill of land in Tilney,
Norf.15 In 1200 Peter de Hautbois was impleading the prior of
Westacre, the prior of Eastacre alias Castleacre, and the prior of
Pentney for proceeding in his cause touching a lay fee against
the prohibition of the justices.16 In 1212 the earl of Warenne
held Est Acre' in Freebridge hundred of the king by service.
unknown.17
In 1231 and 1232 Roger de Chevrevill was sick and unable
to warrant land in a Norfolk vill.18 Walter de Caprevill, with
the assent of Isabel his wife, gave a man to Castleacre.19
In 1242-3 Fretheric de Chervill held 1 fee in Castleacre of the
fee of the earl of Warenne,20 and 2 fees of the honor of Wormegay
in Tilney and Wiggenhall.21 He was party to a fine levied in
1246-7 touching a watercourse in Terrington. Reginald de Karevill
and Alice his wife gave to St. Benet's, Hulme, their manor of
Grensevill, in the time of abbot Adam (1256–68); 22 Alice was
daughter of Richard Rokele.23 In 1267-8 a fine of lands in Tilney
was levied between Alice de Chervill and Philip de Chervill.24
In 1275 Roger de Chervill, knt., had lands in Beechamwell.25
In 1302-3 the prior of Castleacre held 1 fee in Eastacre of the
earl Warenne; 26 William de Bradenham held for term of his life.
fee in Tilney and Wiggenhall of the abbot of Wendling of the
honor of Warenne; William de Chervill, Thomas at Grange, and
their parceners fee in Tilney and Wiggenhall of the honor of
Warenne.27
8
1. Close R. 214.
4. Cal. Inquis. ii. 383.
Plac. 56. 7. Ibid. 6ob.
Fees, 403.
11. Ibid. 282.
14. Vesp. F. xv. f. 283d.
iii. 335.
17. Bk. of Fees,
19. Harl. MS. 2110, f. 8.
ii. f. 138. 23. Ibid.
26. Feud. Aids, iii. 408.
2. Cal. Inquis. vi. 335.
3. Add. MS. 7096, f. 72d.
5. Feet of F. Suff. 15 Edw. III, n. 7.
8. Mon. Anglic. v. 63.
9. Ibid. 65.
6. Abbrev.
10. Bk. of
12. Mon. Anglic. v. 50. 13. Red Bk. 399.
15. Norf. Feet of F. p. 12. 16. R. Cur. Reg.
133.
18. Bracton's Note-Bk. nn. 562, 858.
20. Testa, 287. 21. Red Bk. 743. 22. Galba E.
24. Norf. Feet of F. p. 104. 25. R. Hund. i. 459b.
27. Ibid. 409.
XLI.
In Norfolk William de Warenne in 1086 had in Wimbotsham
1 carucate.
For the possible ancestor of the Ingoldesthorpes see Warenne
(n. 24) and Ârundel (n. 61). Blomefield derives them from a local
family at Snettisham. William the chamberlain held land in
Wimbotsham of the second earl of Warenne and gave tithes there
to Castleacre.¹ Alan son of Robert de Snetisham, alias de
Ingoldestorp, occurs temp. Richard I, and Alan de Ingoldestorp
in 1199.3 William prior of St. Pancras (c. 1170 or c. 1200) gave to
2
426
HONOR OF WARENNE
Robert son of Alan de Ingoldestorp the land of Kenewic with its
appurtenances at a rent of 20 marks.4 Thomas de Ingoldestorp,
Sibil his wife, and Matilda his mother occur in 1202-3 in fines
relating to Snettisham and other places in Norfolk, and again
in 1207.5 Sibil had previously been wife of Peter de Bekeswell,
and was dead in 1218.6
7
9
In October 1216 the land of Thomas de Ingoldesthorp in
Norfolk was committed to one of the king's valets. When the
earl of Arundel returned to allegiance in 1217 Thomas de Ingoldes-
thorp obtained a writ of reseisin to the sheriff of Norfolk.8 In
1223 and after he served as a special justice in Norfolk, and as
one of the keepers of Yarmouth fair.10 In the following year
he was appointed sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk,11 and in 1229
was one of the keepers of the temporalities of Ely. Thomas son
of Thomas de Ingaudestorp and Robert de Scales in 1228 acquired
the advowson of the church of Clenchwarton from the abbot of
Derham, paying 20 marks.12 They also obtained the advowson of
South Rainham.13 In 1233 Thomas was one of the heirs general
of Fulk de Beaufou who were demanding against William earl of
Warenne 4 carucates in Wilton and 3 carucates in Fouldon, and in
that year and until 1235 he was keeper of Rising castle.14 In
November 1234 Hamon Fitz-Walter quitclaimed to Thomas de
Ingaldestorp and Isabel his wife, and the heirs of Isabel, his right
in fee in Wimbotsham and other places; and for this William earl
of Warenne, at Thomas's petition, gave him land at Castleacre.
Thomas and Isabel, for Isabel's heirs, in return released to the earl
all their right in the manor of Hilgay.¹
15 Robert son of Walter
de Denver put in his claim to Wimbotsham, but afterwards released
it.16
In 1235 he was one of the 4 knights appointed to be wardens
of Yarmouth fair, and in the ensuing year was sheriff for one year
of Norfolk and Suffolk and constable of the castles of Norwich
and Orford.17 In 1238 he had exemption for a year from being
put on assizes and the like.18 Presumably he died about that
time.
1
In 1242-3 Thomas de Ingoldesthorpe II held fee in Wim-
botsham of the fee of Warenne.19 See also 'Eudes the sewer
(n. 21), where a reference to this Thomas and Isabel his wife under
date 1230 will be found. In 1249 he had exemption for life from
assizes,20 and died before mid-March 1252 holding land in Colne,
Essex, of the inheritance of Isabel his wife and leaving Thomas his
son and heir, then aged 16 years. Wardship of his land and heirs
and the marriage of Isabel his relict was granted to a crown nominee.
In that year there was trespass and robbery on land in Hillington,
Norf., late of the said Thomas, which was then in the king's hands.21
John de Ingoldesthorpe succeeded. In 1265 he was at the
battle of Lewes with Henry de Hastinges, whereupon his lands in
Tilney and in the hundred of Smithdon, Norf., were seized.22 (See
Arundel, n. 61.) Later, he was in the service of the king's son and
was admitted to pardon.23 In 1268 the king claimed against him
the advowson of the church of Clenchwarton by reason of wardship
of the land and heir of Robert de Scales, 24 who was one of the heirs
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427
general of Fulk de Beaufou. In 1270, going to the Holy Land, he
had licence to demise for 5 years his manors of Ingoldisthorpe,
Rainham and Kenwick in Tilney, Norf.25 In 1275 he held in
Brothercross hundred, Norf., I fee of the honor of Dover; land in
Snettisham was held of him; in Tilney he claimed wreck of the
sea.26
Master Thomas de Ingoldesthorpe, sometime archdeacon of
Middlesex and dean of St. Paul's, bishop of Rochester 1283-1291,
was possibly his kinsman. John died in 1283 holding Wimbotsham
and the church for fee of the manor of Castleacre and lands in
Norfolk of many fees; Thomas his son was aged 22 years. Ela
late wife of Thomas de Ingoldesthorpe held certain of the lands in
dower. No lands in Essex were named; but the deceased had held
I fee in East Rainham and Ilsington in chief, rendering 10s. to the
ward of Dover Castle, and land in Tilney of the bishop of Ely and
Sir William de Thiryngton.28
27
31
In 1301 Thomas de Ingoldesthorp claimed that he and Robert
de Scales were lords of the manor of Rainham with view of frank-
pledge there; they had caused a pillory to be thrown down which
had been raised by Thomas de Hauvill, lord of a third part of the
manor.29 In 1302-3 Thomas de Ingoldesthorpe held inter alia
fee in Wimbotsham of the earl of Warenne.30 In 1321 he was a
commissioner of sewers for the Marshland around Lynn.3
In 1324
he held the tenement described in 1302-3 of Aymer de Valence,
earl of Pembroke,32 and in 1325 had exemption for life from serving
on assizes and the like.33 In 1327 he held fee in Wimbotsham
of David de Strabolgi, earl of Athol,34 to whom and to Joan his wife
the service of the said Thomas had been assigned in 1326 upon the
division of the lands of Aymer de Valence.35 The date of his death
is not known, but John de Ingoldisthorpe succeeded, was a com-
missioner of sewers in Marshland, Norf., in 1334, 36 and died in
1336, when Joan his relict, who subsequently married Gilbert
Pecche, had dower assigned in the presence of Thomas son and
heir of the said John.37 Thomas survived only a brief term and,
dying in November 1337, was succeeded by his brother William,
aged 21 years, who through official obstinacy did not obtain livery
of his inheritance until February 1339.39 In 1346 dame Beatrice,
probably relict of Thomas de Ingoldesthorpe, held fee in Wim-
botsham of this honor.40
38
2. Blomefield, op. cit. iv. 690.
5. Abbrev. Placit. 56.
Claus. i. 290b.
8.
11. Ibid. 438.
1. Mon. Anglic. v. 50b.
Regis. ii. 49. 4. Vesp. F. xv. f. 277.
of F. Norf. 155/34, n. 3.
7. R. Lit.
9. Ibid. 552.
10. Pat. R. 384, 469.
Norf. 155/47, n. 327. 13. Ibid. n. 326. 14. Close R. 340, 352. 15. Feet
of F. Norf. 156/58, n. 606. 16. Ibid. 156/60, n. 656. 17. Cal. Pat. R.
19. Testa, 2876. 20. Cal. Inquis. i. 59.
Cal. Misc. Ing. i. 249, 251.
23. Cal. Pat.
25. Cal. Pat. R. 480, 517. 26. R. Hund.
28. Ibid. ii 283. 29. Abbrev.
Abbrev. Placit. 339. 32. Cal.
34. Ibid. vi. 482. 35. Cal.
Close R. 600, 634. 38. Cal.
40. Feud. Aids, iii. 510.
119, 142-3.
18. Ibid. 223.
21. Cal. Pat. R. 132-4, 160. 22.
R. 516. 24. Abbrev. Placit. 176.
i. 452b, 522b, 537. 27. Cal. Inquis. ii. 283.
Placit. 243b. 30. Feud. Aids, iii. 401. 31.
Inquis. vi. 331, 335. 33. Cal. Pat. R. 200.
Close R. 447· 36. Cal. Pat. R. 68. 37. Cal.
Inquis. viii. 104. 39. Cal. Fine R. v. 117.
3. R. Cur.
6. Feet
Ibid. 315b.
12. Feet of F.
428
HONOR OF WARENNE
XLII.
In Norfolk William de Warenne had in 1086 in Egmere car.
appraised in Barsham; in Welborne 1 car. and 40 acres.
The king had in Quarles, a berewick of Wilton, car. ; in Egmere,
another berewick, car.
There is a slight possibility of these tenements having been held
of the earl of Warenne by Bartholomew de Crec, lord of North
Creake, who in 1166 held 8 fees of earl Roger Bigod.¹ In 1175 he
owed 20 marks for the right of 'Sudflet,' Norf. He was deceased
in 1189, having failed to obtain the right licet multum institisset.' ³
He appears to have had an illegitimate son Bartholomew, born of
the lady who married Richard de Cadewell (of Cadwell in Tathwell,
Lincs.) several months after her marriage; which Bartholomew
endeavoured in 1220 to make himself heir of Richard, to the dis-
advantage of Osbert son of the said Richard, the true heir. The
utility of the plea lies in the statement by Osbert that the said
Bartholomew was born in Suffolk and nourished in the house of
Robert de Crek, where he was recognized as Robert's brother;
Bartholomew admitted that Robert was his elder brother.4
،
Robert de Crec, son and heir of Bartholomew, married before
1199 Agnes daughter and heir of William de Glanvill, son of Hervey
de Glanvill. In that year they were impleaded by Gundreda the
countess, late wife of Roger de Glanvill, whom she had married after
the decease of Hugh le Bigod, earl of Norfolk, circa 1175, for dower
in Middleton, Yoxford and Bacton, Suff., belonging to the Glanvill
inheritance. By the said Agnes, Robert had issue Bartholomew,
his son and heir, and two daughters, Margaret, who married John
de Thorpe, and Isabel, who married Thomas de Valoignes." In
1203-4 Robert de Glanvill seems to have passed to them land in
Middleton and Yoxford, and 2 years later Bartholomew de Glanvill
passed to them the land of Combs, Suff.” In 1212 Robert de Crec
held Combs, Suff., of the king at fee farm for 22 marks and 25s.
scutage, which he had once held of Rolland Avenel.8
Before 1225 Robert granted to his son Bartholomew all the
lands of the inheritance of his late mother Agnes, formerly Robert's
wife, including the advowson of the church of Helmingham, Norf.9
In 1229 Joan prioress of Campsey released to Bartholomew and
his heirs the manor of Helmingham.10 Robert died in 1232, when
the sheriff of Norfolk was directed to assign to Richemay late wife
of Robert de Crec 10 librates of land for her support until Bartholo-
mew son and heir of Robert returned from Ireland, where he was
in the service of the countess of Pembroke,¹¹ and assigned dower to
her.12
She was mother of Peter de Crec, who recovered from his
half-brother Bartholomew in 1233 land in North Creake which
Peter had when aged 7 of his father's gift.13 He seems to have been
father of John son of Peter de Crek of Wiggenhall, living in 1254.14
Bartholomew was one of the 3 coheirs of Nesta de Cokefeld 15
(see n. 13). He married before 1235 Margery daughter and heir
of Geoffrey de Aunus alias Danys of Hillington by Castle Rising,
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429
who held of the fee of Warenne (n. 24) and of that of Tateshale.16
Margery made her will in 1282, probably the year of her death.
(See Chester, n. 104.)
In 1242-3 Bartholomew held the vill of Combs at fee farm of
the king for 22 marks rent and a yearly scutage of 30s.17 He
was forbidden in 1251 to sell any lands that he held of the king to
religious men.18 He died in 1252 and in the ensuing year a fine
was levied between his relict Margery and James de Crek of land
in Middleton, Yoxford and Wilby.19 In 1256 the same James had
respite of knighthood for 3 years and exemption for life from being
put on assizes and the like. 20 Margery relict of Bartholomew, the
foundress of the priory of Flixton, in 1260 passed the manor of
Flixton with the advowson of the church to Eleanor prioress of
Flixton.21 In 1286 the then prioress held the manor by Margery's
gift in alms.22
James de Crek was named in the North Erpingham hundred
rolls of 1275; Margery de Crek had view of frankpledge in Funden-
hall and Ashwellthorpe, free warren in North Creake and free fish-
ing in Waveney.23 În 1280 John de Crek had a grant of market.
In
and fair at his manor of North Creake, and in 1285, as John son
of Bartholomew de Crek, a grant of free warren in North Creake
and Fundenhall, Norf., Combs and Helmingham, Suff.24 It is
possible that his mother was during her lifetime in possession of
the Crek estates by a joint feoffment to her and her husband. In
1286, by agreement made between Alice daughter of William de
Pyrrow and John de Crek, the said Alice released to John and his
heirs two large estates in Yoxford (Ickesford), Burgh and Grundis-
burgh of which William de Pyrho died seised in or before 1227,
when his heir was a minor, 25 and a third estate in Ditchingham,
Norf.26 In the same year James de Crek, in defending his claim
to liberties in Yoxford, stated that he only held these by the
courtesy of England of the inheritance of William de Crek his son,
who stated that he and his ancestors had those liberties by reason
of one William de Pyrrho, his ancestor, who came at the conquest
of England.2
Returning to the issue of Bartholomew and Margery de Crek,
in 1253 the said Margery and Robert her eldest son made a grant
of a tenement in Shipdham.28 Besides Robert, they had issue
Geoffrey, who had a grant of free warren in Helmingham in 1267,29
and John; all died without issue, the last-named in 1289,
having in 1284, after the death of Margery his mother, acquired
the manor of Combs, Suffolk.30 His heir was his only sister Sarah,
then wife of Roger son of Peter son of Roger son of Osbert, usually
named Roger Fitz-Osbert of Somerleyton, Suff., and in 1289 they
had livery of the lands of John de Crek, Sarah's brother.31 Roger
son of Osbert was a crown official in Norfolk in the early part
of the reign of Henry III. In 1251 Peter his son was exempted
from being placed on assizes etc.32
Roger Fitz-Osbert died in 1306 holding the Crec inheritance by
the courtesy of England. His own heirs were his sister, Isabel de
Walpole, late the wife of Walter Gernegan, and John de Noyon, son
430
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of Alice, another sister, by her husband Ralph de Noyon.33 At
Roger's death the Crek inheritance 34 was divided between the
heirs-at-law of Sarah his wife, viz. John de Thorpe, son of Robert
son of John de Thorpe by his wife Margaret, sister of Bartholomew
de Crec; and Edmund de Pakenham and Rose his wife, and
Robert de Ufford (father of Robert de Ufford, created earl of
Suffolk in 1337) and Cecily his wife, which Rose and Cecily were
the daughters and coheirs of Robert de Valoignes of Hickling,
Norfolk, son of Robert son of Thomas de Valoignes 35 by Mabel
his wife, another sister of Bartholomew de Crec.36 Three other
sisters of Bartholomew, Agnes, Dionisia, and Joan (? prioress of
Campsey), had died without issue. A pedigree of the heirs general
of Crec will be found in The Genealogist, N.S. x. 135.
In 1199 Martin de Quarueles and Stephen son of Bartholomew
de Walsingham were tenants of messuages in Lynn, and in the
ensuing year the sheriff of Norfolk was to make partition between
them of the land and rent in Burnhamthorpe late of Hawise de
Burnham, saving the life estate of the said Hawise.3
37 This appears
to indicate that lands in Egmere and Quarles held by the descend-
ants of Martin and Stephen were derived from one of the lords of
Burnham.
In 1242-3 Robert son of Ralph held fee in Welbourne and
Egmere of the fee of the earl Warenne.38 According to Parkin the
tenants of Robert son of Ralph de Quarles held fee in Quarles of
the lord of North Crek, who held of earl Bigod.39
2
In 1251 Robert de Mares had a grant of free warren in Egmere.40
In 1272 James de Thorpe had respite for one year from making
himself a knight.41 In 1275 he was said to have withdrawn aid
from Egmere.42 He had the assize of bread and beer in Grimston.43
In 1280 James de Thorpe of Welborne conveyed by fine to Sir
Robert de Hengham the manor of Welborne with land in Bacons-
thorpe in trust (for Richard de Walsingham ?).44
In 1302-3 the tenants of the land of Robert son of Ralph de
Quarles held fee in Quarles of Roger Fitz-Osbert and he of the
earl of Warenne; Richard de Walsingham fee in Egmere of the
same; and Robert de Hengham fee in Welborne of the same. 45
In 1324 Robert de Bakounesthorp (see no. 5) held fee in
Yelverton and Welbourne, and Richard de Walsingham fee in
Egmere, of Aymer de Valence.46 Elsewhere the fee is described
as fee in Welborne ( Wilburgham '), Egmere and elsewhere, held
by Edmund de Bakenesthorpe and his parceners.47 In 1325
these tenements were assigned to the pourparty of Elizabeth
Comyn, Aymer's kinswoman and coheiress.48
1
2
1. Red Bk. 395.
2. Pipe R. 21 Hen. II, 125.
4. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 303. 5. R. Cur. Reg. iii. 83;
pass.
6. Bracton's Note-Bk. n. 1378. 7. Feet of
8. Bk. of Fees, 135. 9. Bracton, op. cit. n. 724.
13 Hen. III. 11. Cal. Pat. R. 2. 12. Close R. 40.
4
4
3. Ibid. 1 Ric. 41.
also vols. i and ii.
F. Suff. 5-7 John.
10. Feet of F. Suff.
13. Bracton, op. cit.
n. 754. 14. Excerpt. Fin. ii. 194. 15. Abbrev. Placit. 237. Cf. Feet of F.
Suff. 26 Hen. III; Close R. 1248, pp. 106, 120. 16. Close R. 1235, PP. 43,
240; Cal. Inquis. ii. 25. 17. Testa, 283.
18. Close R. 401.
of F. Suff. 37 Hen. III, 42 Hen. III.
20. Cal. Pat. R. 474-5.
19. Feet
21. Feet
HAUTBOIS
43I
of F. Suff. 44 Hen. III.
23. R. Hund.
22. Placit. de quo war. 730b.
i. 471, 521 ff. 24. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 247, 307. 25. Pat. R. 1227, p. 155.
26. Abbrev. Placit. 2116.
32. Cal. Pat. 1251, p. 112.
27. Placit. de quo war. 722.
28. Cal. of
Bodl. Chs. 214. 29. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 77. 30. Ibid. 197.
31. Ibid. 257;
Cal. Inquis. ii. 441.
33. Ibid. iv. 266;
Abbrev. Placit. 297b. 34. The partition was recorded with great minuteness
of detail. It occupies 9 pages of the Cal. of Close R. 1306, 113, PP. 462–70.
35. Cf. R. L. Claus. i. 334 et pass. 36. Cal. Inquis. iv. 266; The Genealo-
gist, N.S. x. 135. 37. Cur. Reg. R. iii. 81, 187, 445.
38. Testa, 287.
39. Hist. of Norf. v. 815.
40. Cal. Chart. i. 354.
41. Cal. Pat. 633-
42. R. Hund. i. 526b. 43. Ibid. 5376. 44. Norf. Feet of F. 8 Edw. I,
46. Cal. Inquis. vi. 331. 47. Ibid.
n. 202.
45. Feud. Aids, iii. 421, 445.
48. Cal. Close R. 273.
335.
XLIII.
In Norfolk William de Warenne in 1086 had in Hautbois
(Hobuist') 160 acres belonging to Hoveton, which earl Ralph
gave to St. Benet with his wife; there also 2 sochmen of St. Benet
had 165 acres; this was delivered for I car. of land; in Tuttington
(Tatituna ') 16 acres.
According to Blomefield the Hautbois family descended from
Herman, dapifer of St. Benet's, Hulme, who had sons Adam,
William, and Richer.¹ William is said to have had a son Peter.
Peter de Hautbois I was said to have bequeathed on his death-
bed to St. Mary's, Rudham, the churches of Hautbois (Hobwise)
and Tuttington, saving the right of his chapel of Hautbois, his
gift also comprising tithes of the mill of Pikenhill' and certain
goods; in 1200 Peter de Hautbois II, son of the testator, denied
the validity of the gifts alleged to have been made. Afterwards
the prior of Rudham and the said Peter made an agreement,
whereby Peter granted to the prior of St. Mary's, Rudham, the
church of Hautbois; whereupon the prior released to Peter all
right in the church of Tuttington, tithes of the rent of Peter's
men, of the mill of Pikenhill, of the fish of the mill, hay and other
things which the prior had claimed under the charter of Peter's
father. In 1199 the grand assize touching the advowson of the
church of Erpingham, Norf., between Peter de Hautbois and
Robert de Herpingham was respited during Peter's absence beyond
seas in the king's service; in 1200 the jurors, except Humphrey
de Milleres, found in favour of Robert. The matter was settled
by an agreement that each party should have a mediety of the
church.5
In 1213 Peter de Hauboys complained of disturbance of his
seisin of lands in Thurgarton, Antingham and Holme, but this was
due to the keeper whom king John had placed in the abbey of
Holme, as in all houses of religion in England.6
In the Miliers part of Hautbois Roger son of Reiner de Holbosia
received land in Lindle, Thomas de Hobboss' being a witness, in
the time of abbot Reginald (1214-29)."
About 1240 Sir Peter de Hauboys founded a hospital for the
poor at the head of the causeway of Great Hautbois; to some of
his deeds Thomas de Hauboys and Richard his son were witnesses.&
432
HONOR OF WARENNE
In 1242-3 Peter de Auboys held fee in Hautbois and Tuttington
of the fee of the earl of Warenne, and in 1243 Peter son and heir
of Peter de Alto Bosco obtained restoration of the lands his father
had held in Hautbois of the son and heir of William late earl
Warenne, then in the king's custody.10 The younger Peter gave
to St. Benet's, Hulme, a fishery in Little Hautbois, the charter
being witnessed by John de Hauboys, another son of Sir Peter.11
Within the period 1244-1248 Peter de Hautbois gave to Lewes
priory land in Herst held for fee which he had inherited from
William his brother, together with the dower of Helewise relict of
the same William.12 (See n. 4.) In 1247-8 two Jews quitclaimed
to the abbot of Hulme all right in the land of Peter de Hautbois.13
Peter son of Peter de Hautbois gave to Nicholas de Turri land
in Calthorpe, Norf. 14 He also sold to Walter de Caletorp in fee
in 1247 a messuage in Calthorpe which Peter his father had held,
and land near the dower land of Matilda late wife of the said
Peter.15 Parkin cites evidence to show that Peter de Hautbois was
indebted to Jewry.15 In 1249-50 Peter son of Peter de Hautbois
passed by fine to Thomas de Thurkelby land in Tuttington, to
which Geoffrey de Crakeford and Robert de Harling put in their
claims.16
4
9
The next step in the descent of this holding is obscure. Various
members of the family are mentioned in the period 1250-1270.
Isabel widow of Roger son of Roger de Hauboys released to St.
Benet, Hulme, all her right to land in Scottow; 17 Avice (or Alice)
widow of Thomas son of Ralph de Hauboys gave the monks a
quitclaim as to Little Hautbois; 18 Richard de Hauboys attested
local deeds; 19 and Margery, Matilda, and Eufrasia, daughters of
Richard son of Thomas de Hauboys, surrendered to the abbey
their tenements in Calthorp, Erpingham, Tuttington and Thur-
garton.20 From the following details there appears to have been
a division between these three sisters.
In 1280 Eufrasia, probably the above-named Eufrasia, as wife
of Peter de Braunford, by her husband impleaded Robert Baynard
and others for a messuage in Great Hautbois.21 In 1285 Robert
Baynard and William Baynard complained that in a recent suit
against the said Robert brought by Bartholomew de Redham,
who recovered seisin of 10 messuages 15 villeins and a free fishery
in Great Hautbois and 3 messuages in Scottow, they had been
wrongfully disseised.22 Robert Baynard died in 1299,23 and in
the ensuing year Robert his son complained that the bailiffs of
queen Eleanor, the king's late consort, had occupied against Robert
Baynard his father, beyond certain lands recovered by Bartholo-
mew de Redham in Great Hautbois, 10 messuages (etc. as above)
in Hautbois and Scottow; whereupon a commission to inquire was
issued, which returned that certain tenements had been appropri-
ated as alleged and an order was made for restitution.24
In 1301
Bartholomew de Redham obtained restitution of a messuage and
150 acres of land in Great Hautbois which had been wrongfully
appropriated as above.25
In 1302 William de Neuton and Margaret his wife passed by
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HAUTBOIS-BLO' NORTON
433
fine to Robert Baynard a tenement in Great Hautbois, to which
John Peverel and Joan his wife and Thomas de Framlingham and
Agnes his wife put in their claims.26 In 1302-3 Robert Baynard,
with the said John and Thomas his tenants in Hautbois and with
John de Suthmere his tenant in Tuttington, held in those places
fee of the earl of Warenne.27 In 1312 the same Robert had licence
to crenellate his mansion house of Great Hautbois, 28 and at this
time he appears to have acquired from Thomas de Framelingham
and John Peverel and their respective wives their interest in the
manor.29
In 1324 Robert Baynard, knt., held of Aymer de Valence fee
in Hautbois, Tuttington, Calthorpe and Beeston, 30 which was
assigned in the following year to the pourparty of Elizabeth
Comyn.31 Robert died in 1330 holding the manor of Hautbois
jointly with Matilda his wife of John de Warenne, earl of Surrey,
as of his manor of Castleacre for fee; the manors of Wheatacre
and Chidgrave (which his father had held in 1275); Thomas his
son was aged 30 years and had married Lucy daughter of Roger
atte Asshe, who had brought him several manors in Norfolk in
marriage.32
In 1332 Thomas Baynard alienated to Thomas Roscelyn, knt.,
the manors of Hautbois and Wheatacre, saving the dower of
Matilda late wife of Robert Baynard.33 In 1346 the same Matilda
held fee in Hautbois and Tuttington of the earl of Warenne.34
She died in 1349. 35
1
3
They occur 1101-1140.
2. Cur. Reg. R.
4. R. Cur. Reg. i. 390; Abbrev. Placit.
Ibid. 91. Cf. R. de Fin. 292. 7. Galba
9. Testa, 287. 10. Excerpt. Fin. i. 403.
1. Chartul. Galba E. ii. f. 54, 55.
iii. 352.
3. Abbrev. Placit. 27.
30b. 5. Galba E. ii. f. 114d. 6.
E. ii. f. 86d. 8. Ibid. f. 95d, 96.
11. Galba E. ii. f. 100. John was parson of Tuttington; ibid. f. 95d.
12. Cat. of Anct. D. ii. A. 3032; iv. A. 7210. 13. Galba E. ii. f. 115d, 116.
14. Cat. of Anct. D. i. C. 816. 15. Ibid. vi. C. 6290, 6404. 16. Feet of F.
Norf. 34 Hen. III. 17. Galba E. ii. f. 107, 122d. 18. Ibid. f. 127, 136d.
19. Ibid. f. 137.
Pat. R. 207.
23. Cal. Fine R. i. 415.
425-6; 1303, p. 39. 26. Feet of F.
iii. 389.
28. Cal. Pat. R. 492.
30. Cal. Inquis. vi. 331, 335. 31. Cal. Close R. 273.
vii. 211.
33. Cal. of Bodl. Chs. 226-7. 34. Feud. Aids, iii. 487.
Inquis. ix. 145, 181.
20. Ibid. f. 132.
21. Cal. Close R. 112.
24. Cal. Close R. 415-6.
Norf. 30 Edw. I.
22. Cal.
25. Ibid.
27. Feud. Aids,
29. Feet of F. Norf.
5 and 7 Edw. II.
32. Cal. Inquis.
35. Cal.
XLIV.
In Norfolk in 1086 William de Warenne had in (Blo') Norton
I car., which Fulcher held of him.
'
In 1228 Ralph son of William de Saxham was impleaded by
Alice his mother for her dower in Selventham' (? Thelnetham),
Suff.¹ In 1242-3 Ralph son of William de Saxham and Ralph
de Snora (son of Ralph) held fee in Norton of the fee of the earl
of Warenne.2
Ralph de Saxham's tenement was acquired by the family of
Brom, who held lands on the Arundel fee in Blo' Norton (Arundel
n. 45). In 1302 Roger de Brom held of the heirs of Arundel of
III.
2 F
434
HONOR OF WARENNE
2
the pourparty of Roger de Sumery fee in Norton of the earl of
Warenne.3 The same Roger at his death in 1303 held fee here
of the honor of Buckenham and fee of the earl of Surrey; William
his son was aged 9 years, and held the tenements in 1316 with
Pernel his mother.5
4
1
4
The other moiety of this tenement continued in the family
of La Snore. In 1267 John de La Snore had letters of protection.
for one year, so that if the king should have given his lands the said
John would stand to the award of Kenilworth. In 1302-3 William
de La Snore held fee in Norton of the earl of Warenne and in
1316 he was one of the lords of Fordham, Norf."
6
4
4
1
4
In 1324 Petronilla de Brom held fee in Blo' Norton and William
de Blonorton fee there of Aymer de Valence, 8 elsewhere described
asfee held by the heirs of Brom and fee held by William de
Norton.9 In 1326 the service of these two persons was assigned
to the pourparty of David earl of Athol and Joan his wife,10 and
they held the same at the earl's death in 1327.11
4
1. Excerpt. Fin. i. 177. 2. Testa, 287.
3. Feud. Aids, iii. 441.
4. Cal. Inquis. iv. 157. 5. Feud. Aids, iii. 6. Cal. Pat. R. 43. 7. Feud.
Aids, iii. 441, 450. 8. Cal. Inquis. vi. 331.
Close R. 447. 11. Cal. Inquis. vi. 482.
9. Ibid. 335.
10. Cal.
XLV.
In Freebridge hundred Berner the arblaster in 1086 held of
the king in Grimston I carucate, in Congham 60 acres.
William de Warenne had in Grimston I car.
The lands above described were given in the presence of
Henry II by Hamelin earl of Warenne to Reiner son of Nicholas
de Wacstonesham in exchange for land which the said Nicholas had
held of the ancestors of the countess Isabel, and after of Hamelin
earl of Warenne and the said countess his wife, in Gimingham and
the soc, and Reiner later held, as of the land late his father's, after
his father's time of earl Hamelin; except the land of Barton, which
Reiner's father held and which had remained to Reiner and his
heirs, to be held of earl Hamelin. In 1199 the king confirmed the
tenements named in the above recital to Richard de Belhus, to
whom Reiner de Wacstonesham was maternal uncle, with the
service of certain tenants (named) in Grimston and Congham,
together with the land in Barton, to be held for fee.¹ As the
family of Belhus were long established at North Tuddenham it
is possible that the land in Grimston and Congham was alienated
prior to the year 1242.
+
Richard de Belhus, who had land in Sledmere, Yorks., returned
to allegiance in 1217.2 In 1228 he was pardoned amercements
in respect of lands in Essex and Norfolk. Richard son of Robert
de Belhus alienated to Paulin Peyvre and Joan his wife before
1251 a mill in Belhouse in North Tuddenham, Norf. Another
Richard de Belhus in 1275 held land in Budney (n. 5) by grant
from William de Gynay.5
In 1288 Nicholas son of William son of Reiner passed by fine
GRIMSTON, CONGHAM
435
to Thomas de Weylaund the service of 6 tenants (named) in
Grimston.6 (See Arundel n. 49.)
Gilbert de St. Clare was a tenant in 1166 of the abbot of St.
Edmund's. Another Gilbert, of Norfolk and Suffolk, returned
to allegiance in 1217.8 Gerbert de St. Clare occurs in a Suffolk
plea in 1231.9 In 1242-3 he held fee in Grimston of the earl
Warenne's fee.10 He was father of John de St. Clare, who died
in 1252, leaving John his son and heir, aged 19.11 The St. Clares
long continued to hold land here. In 1267 John de St. Clare was
pardoned for his part in the late disturbances on condition he
stood to the award of Kenilworth.12
In 1292 a rent of 100s. in Congham, Gayton and Grimston
lately held by Thomas de Weylaund, who for felony abjured the
realm, was in the king's hands for a year and a day; he held the
rent of Nicholas son of Reiner, whose kinsman and heir was John
de Beaumont.13 In 1297 Beaumont had livery of the said rent.14
1
In 1302 John de St. Clare ('le Sencler ') held fee in Grimston
of William de Huntingfeld.15 It is not certain that the St. Clares
holding in Grimston was the same as that which Belhus held.
The former may have been a member of the Gressenhall fee (n. 25).
Although the descent of the manor of Upton in Walsham
hundred has no relation to this fee, it is interesting to note that
Ranulf de Glanvill gave the manor to Reiner le Sireve, who gave
it to Nicholas le Buteler the elder in marriage with his sister, and
in 1275 Thomas Roscelin and Catherine his wife held it in right of
Catherine, who was daughter and heir of the said Nicholas.16
Reiner de Waxtonesham was for many years deputy sheriff for
Ranulf de Glanvill. In December 1316 Robert de Reppes was
pardoned for acquiring in fee without licence from John de
Warenne, earl of Surrey, the manor of Hillington and £10 2s. 93d.
of rent in Grimston, Congham, Gayton and Stibbard, with the
advowson of the church of Stibbard.17 In 1324 Robert de Reppes
held of Aymer de Valence fee in Grimston, Congham and Gayton,
1414
Norf.18 After the death of David earl of Athol in 1327, to whose
pourparty, in right of Joan his wife, the service of this tenement
had been assigned, Robert de Reppes held fee in the 3 places
named of the king in chief and not of the said earl.19
4
In 1346 Robert de Morlee held fee in Grimston of the heirs
of Huntingfeld which John de St. Clare formerly held.20 At his
death in 1360 the same Robert held the manor of Grimston of the
heirs of Richard Foliot, namely John Camoys, knt., aged 40, and
Hugh de Hastinges, knt., aged 25, as of the manor of Gressenhall
(n. 25) for fee.21
1. R. Chart. 24.
2. R. Lit. Claus. i. 333b-4.
3. Close R. 34, 148.
4. Ibid. 1251, P. 463. 5. R. Hund. i. 5176. 6. Feet of F. Norf., 16 Edw. I.
7. Red Bk. 393. 8. R. L. Claus. i. 376b. 9. Pat. R. 446. 10. Testa,
12. Cal. Pat. R. 47-
15. Feud. Aids,
18. Cal. Inquis.
522. 21. Cal.
2876. 11. Cal. Inquis. i. 62; Cal. Pat. 1256, p. 469.
13. Cal. Misc. Ing. i. 446, 463.
iii. 408.
16. R. Hund. i. 504.
vi. 331.
19. Ibid. vi. 483.
Inquis. x. 502.
14. Cal. Close R. 38.
17. Cal. Pat. 610.
20. Feud. Aids, iii.
436
HONOR OF WARENNE
XLVI.
This tenement (in Foulsham, etc.) appears to have been an
escheat of the Normans' land of the honor of Giffard (nn. 46–7).
The returns for Eynesford hundred in 1212 state that the earl
of Warenne held of the king II librates of land in Foulsham (Falesh')
in exchange for his land beyond seas by the gift of king Richard.1
Gilbert de Sanes, nephew of Henry de Bernevall, was an official of
king John.2 In 1229 the king pardoned him 64s. of a prest made
to him in Wales in John's reign.3 In 1231 Aubrey son and heir of
Gilbert de Sanes was to be delivered to William Longespée, to whom
his wardship belonged.*
It was presented in 1244 that in 1236 earl William de Warenne
gave to Geoffrey de Sane 10 librates of rent in the vills of Guist,
Themelthorpe, Bintree, Foulsham, Wood Norton, Guestwick,
Thurning, Wood Dalling, Sparham, Weston and Felthorpe.5 In
five of the places here named there were lands belonging to the
honor of Giffard.
2
In 1242-3 John de Sanes held fee in Guist of the earl of
Warenne's fee, and in 1244 he held 10 librates of land in Themel-
thorpe and Guist." In the following year he was appointed to
keep Stamford Fair as in the time of William late earl of Warenne.
8
In 1248 the king granted to Alice, nurse of Edward his son,
in fee, the land late of John de Sanes, a Norman, in Themelthorpe
and Guist, as an escheat of the Normans. For other references
to this lady see Peverel, n. 25. In 1259 a fine was levied between
William son of William (Gerberge) of Great Yarmouth (' Jernemue')
and John de Litton and Alice his wife of lands in Themelthorpe,
Guist, Guestwick, Foulsham, Wood Norton and Sparham.10
In 1269 the king confirmed a charter of John de Luton and
Alice his wife granting to William son and heir of William Gereberge
of Great Yarmouth the land which they had of the king's gift
in Themelthorpe, Guist, Foulsham, Norton, Guestwick and
Sparham, which John de Sanes, a Norman, sometime held.11
In 1286 Thomas Gerberge put in his claim in a fine levied
between William Gerberge and Joan his wife and Richard Gerberge
of Yarmouth.12 In 1302-3 Thomas Gerberge held fee in Wood
Norton, Guist and Themelthorpe of the earl Warenne.13
In 1303 Joan daughter of Sir Thomas Gerberg knt., widow,
quitclaimed to her father her right in fro rent which Sir Walter
de Caltorp was bound to render yearly to Sir Thomas for tenements
held of Sir Thomas in the vills of Seething, Mundham and six
others; for this her father gave her 5 marks rent for life in his
manors of Thorlee' and Wood Norton, Norf.14 In 1316 John
Gerberge was one of the lords of Foulsham and Themelthorpe, 15
and in 1324 he held fee of Aymer de Valence in Guist, Themel-
thorpe, Sparham and Felthorpe,16 his service being assigned in
1326 to the pourparty of David earl of Athol and Joan his wife.17
،
1. Bk. of Fees, 133. 2. R. Lit. Claus. i. 43, 370b.
4. Ibid. 544. 5. Cal. Inquis. i. 8. 6. Testa, 287.
7.
3. Close R. 259.
Bk. of Fees, 1151.
CARLTON,
WILLINGHAM-ITTERINGHAM
437
8. Cal. Pat. R. 449.
9. Cal. Chart. i. 336.
12. Ibid. p. 132.
10. Norf. Feet of F. p. 96.
13. Feud. Aids, iii. 413.
11. Cal. Chart. R. ii. 123.
14. Cat. of Anct. D. vi. C.5227. 15. Feud. Aids, iii. 465. 16. Cal. Inquis. vi.
331, 335.
17. Cal. Close R. 447.
XLVII.
In Cambridgeshire William de Warenne had in Carlton (and
Willingham) one virgate and 2 hides 7 a., which Walter de
Grantcurt held of him; and 4 hides, which the abbot of Cluny
similarly held.
The charter of William de Warenne II says that at the dedica-
tion of Lewes (c. 1108) Walter de Grancurt offered the church of
Willingham (with 1 v.) and 2 h. 7 a. there and churches of
Brunham and Harpley (see 23).
Before 1121 Fredebert gave 40 a. of land in Willingham and
Ralph de Grancurt gave the church of Willingham, with I virg.
and 2 hides 7 acres of land, and Richard son of Hardwin de
Scalers gave the church of Carlton, Cambs., to the monks of
Lewes.1 These were confirmed by Archbishop Ralph.2 Other
references to the Grancurts will be found at no. 23. In 1236-38
the prior of Lewes held 6 hides in Carlton and Willingham.3
As will be seen below, Roger de Wolterton was said to hold
fee in 1324 in Weston Colville and Carlton, Cambs., but this was
apparently an error.
1. Above, p. 312; Round, Cal. of Docs., France, 512. 2. Anct. Charters
(Pipe R. Soc.), 13. 3. Lib. de Bernewelle, 257.
XLVII (1)
In Norfolk William de Warenne had in 1086 in Itteringham
15 acres; in Wolterton 16 acres which Turold held of him.
4
Turold de Gimingham gave the church of Witton(?) to Castle-
acre.¹ Sometime after 1148 William de Walton (? Wltreton)
gave to lady Ela de Warenne 100s. for relief and she gave it to the
earl Warenne.2 In 1200 Hamelin earl of Warenne was claiming
a tenement in Wolterton against Robert son of Roger and Peter
de Eggesfeld.³ In 1209 Walter de Wolterton and Christiana his
wife held land in Costessey of the fee of Brittany. In 1217
Walter returned to allegiance and regained his land in Norfolk
and Suffolk.5 In 1227 a jury found that Walter father of William
de Wulterton 8 days before his death gave a messuage in Eding-
thorpe, Norf., to his sister Margery; judgment was for William,
who claimed the tenement.6 In 1242-3 Roger de Wlterton held
1 fee in Wolterton and fee in Ittringham and Stutevill (sic) of
the fee of the earl of Warenne."
D
In 1276 Roger de Wolterton was one of the grand assize in
a plea touching the rectory of Banham. In 1302-3 Roger de
Wolterton held fee in Wolterton of the earl of Warenne,⁹ and
in 1324 he held the same of Aymer de Valence, 1º elsewhere stated
to be in Weston Colevill and Carlton, Cambs.,11 but apparently
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HONOR OF WARENNE
in error, although by that description in 1326 Roger de Wolterton's
service was assigned to the pourparty of David earl of Athol and
Joan his wife.12
1. Harl. MS. 2110, f. 1d. 2. Red Bk., Introduct. p. 279. 3. R. Cur. Reg.
iii. 261-2. 4. Abbrev. Placit. 63b. 5. R. L. Claus. i. 331. 6. Bracton's
Note-Bk. n. 1818. 7. Testa, 287. 8. Abbrev. Placit. 267b. 9. Feud.
Aids, iii. 389. 10. Cal. Inquis. vi. 335.
11. Ibid. 331. 12. Cal. Close R.
447.
XLVIII.
In Norfolk in 1086 Rardulf (i.e. Ralph de Chesney) held of
William de Warenne in Stinton (in Sall) 3 car. and the sochmen
had 80 acres.
4
This was a member of the fee described at the Ist section and
was held of the family of Say by the Cleres. In 1185 Ralph de
Clere owed £20 for a recognition of I knight's fee in Stinton against
Ralph brother of Roger de Clere;¹ but he never obtained it.²
In 1197 Warin de Saulle, by his sons Thomas and Matthew,
demised to the chaplain of Sall for life a messuage in Sall and
Stinton.3 In 1243 inquiry was to be made by the sheriff of Norfolk
as to those who took in the house of Roger de Clere at Stinton
the chattels of John de St. Denis while he was in prison. These
are the only early references to Stinton, but the first and third
clearly point to Stinton having been at a later date the mari-
tagium of Agatha daughter and heir of Roger de Clere, to whom
some reference has been made at n. 12. By Agatha's marriage to
William le Rus of Suffolk this estate descended through their
daughter and heir Alice to Richard de Briouze or Braiose, whose
descendants assigned Stinton as dower of their wives, a policy
frequently employed in mediæval times in regard to estates acquired
in marriage.
Some notice may be taken of the family of Rus (Ruffus).
Prior to the summer of 1125 Stephen count of Mortain, with the
consent of Henry his uncle and for 20 marks and a mewed hawk,
granted to Ernald le Rus, son of Roger le Rus, his manor of Strad-
brook, Suff., being of the honor of Eye, with liberties and the
advowson of the church and that of Wingfield, to hold for a fee
farm of £28.5 The grant purports to have been confirmed by
Henry I, but his charter is probably a forgery.6
8
In 1130 Ernald son of Roger was in receipt of a yearly fee or
livery of 60s. at the hands of the farmers of Norfolk and Suffolk."
In 1159 Ernald le Rus, son of the above, was in receipt of the
same fee, but not afterwards. He was amerced 60s. that year for
recreancy. In 1165, among the knights of the honor of Lancaster
who were pardoned scutage because they had been in the army
(of Wales) with the king, earl Hugh Bigod obtained remission of
40s. for Ernald le Rus." This was, as will be seen later, in respect
of 3 fees in Whitlingham, Clopton, Hasketon and Akenham, Suff.
In 1166 Ernald held 1 fee of Roger de Raimes.¹º This also was
in Akenham, where in 1214-15 Arnald le Rus III was tenant of
STINTON
439
earl Roger Bigod, the mesne tenant.¹¹ It was probably this Ernald
who founded the priory of Black Canons at Woodbridge, Suff.12
In 1199 Ernald son of Ernald le Rus proffered 10 marks to have
the manor of Stradbrook at farm for £28 per annum, to hold as
beneficially as Arnold' his grandfather held it temp. Henry I; he
also proffered 15 marks for a grant of a market at Whitlingham.13
In the ensuing year king John confirmed the grant of Stradbrook.14
In 1216 Hugh le Rus gave £100 to obtain the king's good will
and delivered Isabel his daughter and Thomas his nephew as
hostages, whereupon he had writs of reseisin to the sheriffs of
Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, the constable of Eye being specially
directed to restore his goods and chattels.15 On Henry's accession
he had the like writ, Hugh Bigod being mainpernor that Hugh
would give his charter of fidelity.16 In 1222 the king pardoned
him 50 marks of the fine of £100 made in 1216.17 In 1225 he was
appointed sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, in which office he continued
until 1227; he was also an assessor of the fifteenth in those counties
and frequently acted as a special justice.18 In 1227 he was made.
warden of the sea-coast from Orewell to Lynn, and in that year
was guardian of the land and heir of William de Pyrho,19 and had
a grant, as Hugh le Rus son of Ernald le Rus, of weekly markets
at his manors of Stradbrook and Woodbridge.20 Three years later
he died, and in 1231, when the king complained of the injury done
by the prior of Woodbridge's market to that of Ipswich, the prior
vouched to warranty Hugh's son Hugh, who was then under age
and in ward of the bishop of Norwich.21 Hugh II died in 1232,
when earl William de Warenne had custody of the land and heir
of the elder Hugh.22
26
In 1234 William le Rus, probably younger brother of Hugh II,
made fine with Richard earl of Cornwall, lord of the honor of Eye,
for his relief.23 In 1235-6 (?) earl Roger Bigod held of the honor
of Lancaster 3 fees late of Hugh le Rus. In 1242-3 Roger de
Clere held 1 fee in Ludborough, Lincs., of the heirs of William de
Aubigny of Belvoir.25 In 1249 William le Rus was appointed one
of the escheators of Norfolk in place of William Rusteyn, but was
removed 3 months later.2 In 1250 he gave the king £100 for the
marriage of Alice his daughter, 27 aged 2 years, who had become
an important heiress by the recent death in 1249 of Roger de Clere,
whose only daughter Agatha, begotten of Matilda sister and co-
heiress of John de Fay of Bramley, Surrey, was wife of William le
Rus and mother of his only child Alice.28 In 1254 inquiry was to
be made if Agatha late wife of William le Rus was daughter and
heir of Roger de Clere and if the said Roger held Ludborough
manor of Odinel de Aubigny.29 As far back as 1197, upon partition
of the barony of Ralph de Aubigny of Auburn, Lincs., Ralph de
Clere had then held of that fee in Ludborough and Buslingthorpe
the fee of 3 knights.30
William le Rus died in 1253 and, by inquest held then and
again in 1260, it was found that he held the manor of Stinton with
the advowsons of Sall and Heydon of Roger de Clere, of whom he
had purchased the same for 400 marks, who held it of William de
440
HONOR OF WARENNE
Say for I fee; the manor of Ludborough, Lincs., of the heirs of
William de Belvoir (of William de Aubigny in 1260), for 3 fees;
the manors of Aketon, Hasketon and Clopton, Suff., of Roger le
Bigod, Earl Marshal, of the honor of Lancaster, and the manor of
Whitlingham, Suff., similarly held for I fee; the manor of Strad-
brook, Suff., of Richard earl of Cornwall (king of Almain in 1260),
of the honor of Eye for 40 marks fee farm, and the manor of
Bircholt, Suff., pertaining to Stradbrook, of Roger de Huntinge-
feld (William de H. in 1260). Alice his daughter was aged 5 years;
but Hugh le Rus, aged 30, was heir of the manor of Stinton to hold
of the said Alice, because she could not be 'heir and lady.' 31 It
was found further in 1261 that Alice was then wife of Richard
Lungespeye, who held with her a moiety of the manor of Bramley,
Surrey, of the king in chief for 1 fee.32 After the decease of Roger
de Clere, in 1249, his relict Matilda (de Fay) had held the moiety
of that manor.33 The identity of this Richard, who was always
afterwards named 'de Briouze' (Braiosa, Breuse etc.), has never
been established. The late Mr. Chester Walters suggested that he
was son of John lord Braiose of Gower by Margaret daughter of
Llewelyn prince of Wales, and certain evidences which follow
seem to support the suggestion. A plea tried in Sept. 1265,
which shews incidentally that Richard de Briouze and Alice
le Rus were then married, records a claim against them brought by
Matilda Lungespeye as to why they took goods worth £100 from
the manors of Stradbrook, Stinton, Bramley, Ludborough and
Sinnington, which she had at farm.34
36
This lady was daughter and heir of Walter de Clifford 35 by
Margaret daughter of Llewelyn prince of Wales, and married in
1254 William de Longespée, only son and heir of William de
Longespée, earl of Salisbury (d. 1250); after whose death in 1257
she was intended by Henry III for his brother Geoffrey de Lezig-
nan; but she was unmarried in 1263 and later married John
Giffard, first lord Giffard. In 1271 an agreement was made by
Richard and Alice with John Giffard and Matilda his wife, who
claimed dower of Matilda in all the property named in the inquests
after the death of William le Rus, including Bramley, Surr., and
Sinnington, Yorks., whereby John and Matilda obtained the manors
of Asketon and Stinton for Matilda's life only.³
37
In 1281 Richard de Briouze (Breuse) and Alice his wife defended
their right to a market at Ludborough ; 38 in 1286 to view and other
liberties in Heydon, which the king's attorney alleged to have been
appropriated from the crown by Matilda de Muleton, and to the
like in Whitlingham, Stradbrook and Akenham.39 Richard de
Briouze, knt., attested a Suffolk charter in 1290, but died soon
after. In 1294 Mary late wife of William de Briouze (Breouse)
held a moiety of the manor of Bramley of Alice late wife of Richard
de Briouze.40 In 1298 Alice held the 3 fees in Suffolk on the honor
of Lancaster, formerly of William le Rus, of the earl of Norfolk,
who held of Edmund earl of Lancaster.41 She died in January
130142 holding the manor of Stinton of the heir of William de Say
for I fee; Giles de Briouze, her son, was aged 28 and more.43
STINTON
441
As stated at n. 1, Giles de Briouze in 1302 held 1 fee in Sall,
Lincs. (including Stinton), of Geoffrey de Say, who held of the earl
of Warenne.44 He also held tenements in Heydon, Corpusty and
Oulton, Norf., pertaining to his manor of Stinton and to his
barony.45 Giles died in 1312, holding jointly with Joan his wife
the manor of Stinton of Geoffrey de Say and all the other manors
before named, except Bramley, and also excepting the manors of
Akenham, Whitlingham and Hasketon, which David de Fletewyk
and Agatha his wife held for life, and that of Wytlisham similarly
held by Alice de Beaumont, of which last the reversion was to
Joan, Giles' relict; Richard their son was aged 9 years. In 1311
a moiety of the manor of Bramley was held of the young Richard.46
Robert (? potius Richard) de Briouze, son of Giles, died in his
minority in 1325; John his brother, aged 19, was his heir.47 This
John died in 1342; 48 to him John de Warenne, earl of Surrey, gave
the manors of Holme and Sowerby, Yorks., with the hamlets of Cart-
worth, Wooldale, Scammonden and Warley, and pasture in Sowerby-
shire and Aringden Park, in fee; after John's death the earl held
the premises for 2 years, until his death, when the king gave them
to Edmund de Langley his son; John de Briouze, son of the said
John, was aged 19 on 23 March, 1348.49
It appears that Richard de Briouze acquired from Thomas
de Muleton and Matilda his wife, granddaughter and heir of Robert
de Vaux of Gilsland, 50 the Cumberland manor of Aikton, except
the advowson of the church, and gave it in frank marriage with
his daughter Margery to Roger de Colevill of Castle Biham, Lincs. 51
This transaction appears to account for the occasional references
to Matilda de Muleton in the foregoing account. In 1281 she
claimed the manor of Thorganby, Yorks., against William de
Briouze and William son of Alina de Briouze. She held land in
Surlingham and Keswick, Norf., of her own inheritance.
52
2. Ibid. 1 Ric. 44.
1. Pipe R. 31 Hen. II, 41.
xxiii.), 42.
4. Close R. 67.
7. Pipe R. 31 Hen. I, 90.
52. 10. Red Bk. 354.
13. R. de Oblat. 13, 39.
R. Lit. Claus. i. 264b.
5. Cal. Chart. R. i. 46.
8. Ibid. 5 Hen. II, 9, 11.
11. Bk. of Fees, 233. 12.
14. Cal. Chart. R. i. 47.
16. Ibid. 3326. 17. Ibid. 4936.
20. Cal. Chart. R. i. 46.
3. Feet of F. (P.R.S.
6. Ibid. 47.
9. Ibid. 11 Hen. II,
Mon. Angl. vi. 600.
15. R. de Fin. 587;
18. Pat. R.
21. Bracton's
24. Red
ii. 75.
532, 564. 19. Ibid. 31, 155.
Note-Bk. n. 578. 22. Excerpt. Fin. i. 227. 23. Cal. Pat. R. 43.
Bk. 569. 25. Testa, 3186. 26. Close R. 137, 155. 27. Excerpt. Fin.
28. Cal. Inquis. i. 49, 143. 29. Ibid. 85. 30. Feet of F., Lincs.
i. 112. 31. Cal. Inquis. i. 73, 128.
32. Ibid. 143.
33. Ibid. 50.
34. Abbrev. Placit. 1576. 35. Cal. Pat. R. 1263, p. 260.
36. Ibid. 1257,
P. 537; Mon. Angl. vi. 916b. 37. Feet of F. Lincs. ii. 291. 38. Placit.
de quo war. 399. 39. Ibid. 486, 732.
40. Cal. Pat. R. 79. 41. Cal.
42. Cal. Fine R. i. 436. 43. Cal. Inquis. iv. 19.
45. Ibid. 390.
46. Cal. Inquis. v. 146, 192.
48. Cal. Fine R. v. 288. 49. Ibid. ix. 89. 50. Close
51. Cal. Inquis. ii. 421; i. 277-8. 52. Cal. Misc. Inq.
Inquis. iii. 308.
44. Feud. Aids, iii. 414.
47. Ibid. vi. 440.
R. 1240, p. 188.
i. 366.
442
HONOR OF WARENNE
XLIX.
In Freebridge hundred, Norfolk, William de Warenne in 1086
held in Hillington 2 ploughlands, of which he held 1 ploughland
in demesne; a freeman held 15 acres.
Berner the arblaster held of the king in Hillington 2 carucates.
In 1181 the sheriff of Norfolk accounted for £7 of farm of the
land of Hugh de Burdeleis in Hillington, and in subsequent years
to the time of Richard I for £10 each year.¹ Hugh de Burdeleis
was father of a long line by Lauretta daughter of Eustace Picot,
an heiress whose inheritance descended to her heirs. It is not clear
why Hillington became escheat at Hugh's death in 1181. It was
evidently part of the Domesday holding of Berner the arblaster,
whose lands in Scoulton Burdeleis and Thompson descended as
a tenure by serjeanty to Hugh's heirs. For other references to
this family see Farrer, Feudal Cambridgeshire (183-185), and Round,
The King's Serjeants (233, 239 ff.).
2
In 1190 William de Warenne owed 20 marks for recognition
whether Daniel de Merlay had better right to hold 10 librates of
land in Hillington of him for £4 a year or whether it was the king's
demesne (as an escheat); Daniel accounted for 40 marks for the
said convention.3 In 1198 Eva daughter of Hawise de Merlai
passed by fine to Ralph de Toicy 40 acres of land and a mill in
Hillington, and Nicholas Crawe and Avice his wife passed a similar
tenement to the same Ralph.4
In 1212 Geoffrey de Merlai held a certain fee in Hillington of
Hubert de Burgh by the heiress of William de Warenne (Wormegay)
his wife, which Berner the serjeant sometime held of the king's
progenitors by serjeanty and was afterwards given to Reginald
de Warenne by Henry II.5 In 1220 Sara de Anes was assured in
her seisin, as against Richard de Merlay, of the advowson of the
church of Hillington, to which she had presented the last parson.6
Presumably she was connected with Geoffrey de Anes or Danys
already named at n. 42. In 1228 a fine of the advowson of a
mediety of the church of Hillington was levied between Richard
de Merlay and Bartholomew de Crek and Margery his wife,"
which Margery was daughter and heir of Geoffrey de Anes.
In 1252 the land late of Thomas de Ingoldesthorpe in Hilling-
ton was in the king's hands. In 1254 Margery de Crek made
agreement with John son of Bartholomew de Crek (her son) re-
specting her dower in the manor of North Creake, and with Sarra
daughter of the same Bartholomew respecting the manor of Hilling-
ton and the advowson of a mediety of the church. (See n. 24.)
This was the holding afterwards divided into the Uphall and Nether-
hall manors.
In 1297 John son of Alan Aubyn of Stamford and Sibyl his
wife acquired land here from Robert son of Albyn of Stamford,
and three years later the same John and Sibyl acquired from Sarra
daughter of Richard de Merlay land in Hillington with the advow-
son of a mediety of the church.10 Mr. Parkin identified this holding
HILLINGTON-ROUGHAM, FRANSHAM
443
3
as Aubyn or Albon's manor. In 1302 the earl of Warenne and his
tenants held fee in Hillington by an escheat.11 This presumably
refers to that part of Hillington which had been held by the Merlays.
Reference has been made above (n. 45) to the acquisition in 1316
by Robert de Reppes from the earl of Surrey of the manor of Hill-
ington.12 In 1329 the same Robert alienated a messuage here to
the priory of Cocksford, 13 and in 1338 he and Sibyl his wife settled
upon Lawrence de Reppes their son and Margaret his wife the
manor of Hillington, with 70 acres of land and £7 14s. 4d. of rent
in Stibbard, Grimston, Congham and Gayton, with the advowson
of Stibbard.14 Mr. Parkin identified this holding in Hillington as
Burys Hall.
1. Pipe R. 27 Hen. II, 92. 2. Bk. of Fees, 10, 346, 387 bis. 3. Pipe
R. 2 Ric. m. 9d.
4. Feet of F., Norf. 10 Ric. 5. Bk. of Fees, 133.
6. Bracton's Note- Bk. n. 1452. 7. Feet of F., Norf. 12 Hen. III. 8. Cal.
10. Ibid. 25 and 28 Edw. I.
13. Ibid. 415. 14. Ibid. 106.
Pat. R. 160. 9. Feet of F., Norf. 38 Hen. III.
11. Feud. Aids, iii. 408. 12. Cal. Pat. R. 610.
L.
In Launditch hundred in 1086 William de Warenne had in
Rougham and Fransham 2 carucates.
This holding formed part of that described above at n. 6.
Hugh de Fokinton gave to the monks of Castleacre two-thirds
of the tithe of his demesne of Rougham, for the soul of his brother
Robert de Fokinton, to which among others Ralph son of (Joscelin)
the castellan of Arundel was witness ¹ (c. 1190). Alexander son
of William de Rogham occurs in 1180, as stated above (n. 22), and
was attorney for Emma wife of Philip de Burnham in 1201.2
1
The superior lords of this holding under the Warennes were the
Pereponts, who passed their interest away before 1242 to John de
Gatesden. From that date the descent was as described above
(n. 6). The family of L'Estrange were mesne tenants of a portion
of the holding, probably of that in Fransham.
William le Buteler of Rougham gave to abbot Nicholas and the
convent of Wendling the service of 2 tenants in Fransham; wit-
nesses: Hamon Burch, Gilbert de Fransham, Saer de Frivill, and
Hamon de Pattesle, knights. Olive late wife of William le Buteler
of Rougham,'widow, released to the convent of Wendling her dower
in the above holdings. 5
41
1
In 1302 the heirs of William le Buteler held 1 fee in Rougham
and Fransham of the heirs of Henry de Skegeton (of Brighton (?)),
who held of John de Gatesden and he of the earl of Warenne; of
this knight's fee Ralph le Marshal held fee (in Fransham (?)) of
Roger L'Estrange, who held of Gatesden as above. In 1316 John
de Cressingham and Alice de Rugham were two of the 5 lords of
Rougham. In 1324 John de Cressingham and his parceners held
this fee of Aymer de Valence, the service of which was assigned in
the following year to the dower of Mary relict of the said Aymer.9
6
8
1. Chartul. f. 24. 2. R. Cur. Reg. iii. 407. 3. Cal. Chart. R. i. 265.
4. Cat. of Anct. D. v. A.10572.
416. 7. Ibid. 453. 8. Cal. Inquis. vi. 330. 9. Cal. Close R. 266.
5. Ibid. A.12118.
6. Feud. Aids, iii.
INDEX
The figures in heavy type indicate principal accounts of places and families.
ABBE, Will., 245
Abberton, Essex, 193
Affligam, Flanders, 7
Agatha, 10
Abbess Rothing. See
Abbess, Essex
Abbinton,' Suss., 60
Abbot, Rohaise, 245; Will., 245
Abbotstone, Hants., 86
Abduction from Burpham, Suss., 73;
from Cowdray by Midhurst, Suss.,
(
Roding,
•
92
Abel, Jo., 233; Margery, 233
Abernon [Abernun, D'Abernon], de,
Ingram, 220; Jo., 340, 358-359 ;
Ric., 356; Walter, 356; Will., 356
Abingdon, Berks., abbey, 223; fee,
174, 368; abbots-171, 224, 236;
Faritius, 41, 223; Rainald, 223
Ablevill, de, Hamon, 208
Abraham, Jew of Berkhampstead, 88
Abrenhale.' See Longbridge, Suss.
Acard, priest, 55
Acheleia.' See Oakley, Little
Achestede, in Elham, Kent, 6
Achinctona.' See Eckington
Acholte Wood, in Elham, Kent, 6
Acleta,' Essex, 271
Acre, 312; monastery, 312, 313,
424. See Castleacre
Acre de Crichelade. See Cricklade,
Wilts.
Acre [Achra, Acra], de, Derkin, 73;
Emma, 73; Rainald, 425; Ralph,
299; Roland, 352; Rotbert, 425;
Tostan, 381; Turstan, 396; Wie-
bert [Wicbert, Withebert], 381,
396, 425
Acrinton, Oxon., 335
'Aculeus.' See Aguillon
Adam, sergeant, 413
vicecomes, 327
(of Leybourne, Kent), 182
Adderbury, de, Ric., 185
Adderbury, Oxon., 79
Addington, Surr., 191, 296, 347–350 ;
serjeant of, 74
Adeliza (of Feltwell, Norf.), 359
Adeliza [Adelide], queen, 6, 7, 10,
12, 17, 18, 24, 30, 41, 50, 65, 84,
91, 118
Adelold, chamberlain, 157
Adelwald, Edm., 374
Aeliva, wife of Will. the sewer, 396
Age, de, Oliver, 422
Agée, de, Hugh, 422
Agnes, sister of Pagan, 393
wife of Geoff. son of Hascu, 42.
See Faleise
wife of Joscelin the castellan, 18
wife of Ralph son of Brien, 127
Agrinomis,' Hugh, 250. See Beau-
champ, de
Aguillon [Aculeus,' Ageliun, Agel-
liun, Aguillun, Agullun, Aguylun],
family, 1, 2, 24, 44, 72-75, 296,
348, 356; Agatha, 75, III, 114,
115; Cecily, 75; Constantia, 73;
Eleanor, 75; Godfrey, 63; Isabel,
326, 350, 358; Joan, 348, 349,
356; Jo., 74, 75; Juliana, 75;
Mabel, 75; Manasser, 38, 72, 73,
IOI; Margery, 74, 75; Margt.,
349, 350; Mary, 74, 75; Matilda,
75; Reg., 44, 73-75, 78; Ric.,
10, 43, 63, 72-75; Rob., 10, 43,
72-74, III, 114, 115, 191, 319,
324, 326, 328, 337, 349, 358, 366,
373, 394; Sarra, 73, 75; Tho., 75;
Will., 43, 44, 72-75, 305, 347-349,
356-357
$
Aikton, Cumb., manor, 406, 441
Ailward, archdeacon, 175
Aitardus (of Shotesham, Norf.), 137
Akenham, Suff., 438, 440 ; manor, 441
Akeny [Akenny, Akyny], de, Bald-
win, 335; Florence, 183; Isabel,
368; Joan, 368; Rog., 183,
368-369
Aketon, Suff., manor, 440
Alan, 1, 21
Alan (of Snettisham, Norf.), 138
Albemarle [Aumale, D'Aumarle],
countesses-184-185, 189, 192, 209,
232, 236-237, 241-243, 245, 278;
Isabel, 208; Isabel des Forz, 173,
190, 192, 202, 224, 226; Albe-
marle and Devon, Isabel, 169
earls-147, 186-187, 190, 196,
199, 209, 226, 228, 232-233, 237,
240, 244; Will., 218
See also Aumale, Forz, des
fee, 201, 406, 408; honor, 147,
185, 188, 217, 233, 247, 406
446
INDEX
Albert, clerk, II
Albini, de. See Aubigny, de
Albo Monasterio, de. See Whit-
church
Albon or Aubyn, in Hillington,
Norf., manor, 443
Albourne, Suss., 71
Albreda, sister of Eudes the sewer,
393
Albury, Oxon., 234-236; lord of, 237;
manor, 236
Aldelin (of Carlton Scroop, Lincs.),
416
Alderton, N'hants., 297, 413-414
Suss., 365; church, 324
Aldham, de, Baldwin, 329; Nicholaa,
329
Aldingbourne, Suss., 81
Aldon [Aldoun], de, Matilda, 163;
Tho., 163; Sir Tho., 163
Aldrington [Aldrinchton], Suss., 310,
322, 324, 345, 366
Aldsworth, Suss., 2, 87
Aldwick, Suss., 331, 332
Alençon, Rob., count of, 5
Alfred (of Benefield, Suss.), 355
Alice, dau. of Joscelin the castellan,
65
dau. of Maximus, 140
nurse to Prince Edward, 436
Alienore, queen, 281
Allington [Alincton], Suss., 309, 310,
312-315, 319, 334, 345-346; manor,
307
Almain, Ric., king of, 440
Almanesche, abbey of, 2, 37, 90
Almeshoe, Herts., 165, 293–295;
manor, 168
Alphamstone, Essex, 409
Alphington, Devon, 414
Alsieshay, Essex (?), park, 336
Alta Ripa [Alta Riva]. See Hautrive
Alto Bosco, de. See Hautbois
Alvered (of Twineham, Suss.), 355
Alveston, Gloucs., wood, 99
Alveva (of Feltwell, Norf.), 359
Alvred, 310, 393
the Englishman, 123
Alvric, thegn (of Great Crawford,
Dors.), 248
Alvythele, de, Swetman, 278; Will.,
278
Alweton, de, John, 237
Alwin (of Storrington, Suss.), 81
(of Sutton, Beds.), 268
(of Wickham, Suss.), 339, 378
sochman, 166, 220
Amabel, dau. of Will. s. of Fulcher,
182
Amauri, Rog., 412
Amberley, Suss., 47
Amblie [Ambli, Ambly], de, family,
164, 176, 246; Constance, 175;
Eleanor, 176, 177; Geoff., 175–176,
178; Sir Geoff., 176-177; Ralph,
167, 174-175, 178, 189, 220; Ric.,
174, 287; Rohaise, 189; W., 360 ;
Will., 175-176
Amfrey, sewer, 217
Amiria (of Mere,' nr. Rainham,
Kent), 183
Amundevill, de, Matilda, 47; Ralph,
403; Ric., 47
Ancher, Nich., 159
Andevill [Anevill, Aundevill], family,
164; Agnes, 208; Alex., 208-209;
Alice, 207; Clemency, 208;
Hamelin, 207, 208; Hugh, 254,
263-264; John, 207, 263-264;
Jordan, 247; Margery, 442;
Matilda, 247; Pet., 247; Ralph,
208; Ric., 207, 208; Ric., clerk,
208; Tho., 207, 208; Will., 247
Andrew, John, 102
Anemere, de, Will., 115
(
Anes, de, Geoff., 442; Sarah, 442
Anesti [Anesty, Anestye], de, family,
165, 210, 271; Denise, 107, 266;
Hubert, 265-266, 271; Isabel, 266;
Nich., 107, 255, 265-266, 271; Ric.,
271
Angers, St. Nich., abbey, 171, 414,
415; Jordan, abbot, 415
Angervill, de, Benedict, 142; Emma,
142
Angmering ['Angemare'], Suss., 2,
70-72; manor, 49
Anjou, 81, 277
Anmer, Norf., 309, 393, 395
Anneville-en-Saire, Manche, 207
Anschetil [Anschitel], 55
(of Lavingdon, Bucks.), 244
(of South Newington, Oxon.), 227
Anselm, priest, 258
Ansfrid, chaplain, 190
(of Buckland, Kent), 163
Ansgot [Anesgot], chamberlain,
118, 129
Ansketill, knight, 223
Anslevill [Anlevill, Ansevill, Anster-
vill], Hamelin, 220; Humph., 207;
Will., 56, 376
6,
Anstey, Herts., 107, 266; Great, 108
Antingham, Norf., 431
Appelby, de, John, 244
Appleton, Norf., 110, 115
Aquarius, Brian, 188; Joan, 188
Aquenesima, Wulfric, 360
Arblaster, Berner the, 434, 442
Arcarius, Rainald, 242
Ardern [Arden, Arderne, Aredern],
de, family, 1, 28-29, 297, 407, 409;
Aelina, 29; Dionisia, 29; Erneburga,
409; Isolda, 145; Lucy, 29, 67;
Ralph, 21, 28, 29, 66, 67, 409,
410; Sir Ralph, 407; Ranulf,
410; Rob., 350; Tho., 7, 28, 29,
67, 98, 409, 410; Will., 145, 409
INDEX
447
Ardingley, Suss., 324, 326; church,
311
Ardleigh, Essex, manor, 421
Ardley, Oxon., 200
Argenciis, de, Ralph, 31
Argentem [Argentan, Argentein,
Argenteym, Argentuein], de,
70; Giles, III, 115 336; John,
59; Margery, III; Reg., III, 115,
180, 328; Ric., 128; Tho., 57, 81;
Will., 82
>
Aringden Park, Yorks., 441
Arkesden [Archesdene], de, Eudes,
186; Will., 186, 210
Arkesden, Essex, 164, 186–187, 190,
192, 297, 406-408
Arklow, Wicklow, monks of, 113
Armingford, Cambs., hund., 230
Arnald or Ernald (of Graffham and
Strettington), 41
Arrington, Cambs., 173
Arsic [Arsik, Arsyk], Alex., 194;
John, 118, 119; Rob., 195
fee, 191, 195, 234, 236; honor,
227, 233
Artur (of Boxted, Essex), 276
Arundel, countesses-54, 63, 70, 71,
74, 85, 88, 95; Alice, 307, 342;
Isabel [Isabella] de Aubigny, 33,
44, 47, 51, 53, 58, 81, 122-124, 128-
131, 133, 137-138, 140, 142, 144,
146, 148, 151, 152, 307; Mabel, 13;
Matilda, 12, 242, 243
earls-4-5, 19, 22, 33, 35, 38-39,
45-46, 49, 53–54, 63-64, 68–70, 74,
76, 78, 82, 85, 87-88, 92-93, 96–
97, 99, 103, 107, 112, 119-120,
124-125, 129-130, 132-137, 139,
141, 145-146, 148, 156, 158, 161,
163, 203, 347, 385, 387, 415, 426;
Edm., 15, 16, 94, 100, 307, 342,
410, 415; Hugh de Aubigny, 13-15,
19, 44, 58, 67, 80, 89, 91, 99, 101,
118, 122, 124, 136, 139, 140; Ric.,
26, 47, 49, 72, 78, 94, 307, 342,
415; Will. de Aubigny I, 4, 5, 8,
10, 12, 30, 42, 54, 57, 62, 65-66,
69, 72, 82-83, 87, 97, 105, 118,
153, 155, 218; Will. II, 7-10, 12,
141, 242-243; Will. III, 12, 13, 38,
48, 77, 85, 97, 101, 105, 121, 134;
Will. IV, 13, 14, 78, 82, 83
See also Aubigny, de
see
Arundel, de, family, 116; Alan, 27;
Avelina, 27; Emma, 17; Eudes
[Idonis], 27; Hugh, 17; Isabel,
69; Joscelin the castellan,
Joscelin; Juliana, 79, 93, 94;
Rob., 16, 272; Rog., 153, 272;
Sybil, 69; Will., 69, 79, 93, 94
Arundel, Suss., 89, 97; borough,
II; castle and manor, 3, 4, 6,
8, 10, 12, 14, 32, 47, 57, 91, 94;
castellan, see Joscelin; Causeway,
canons, 69, 83; chapel, 49; con-
stable, 25, 28; coroner, 370; court,
68; fee, 22, 38, 164, 182-183,
217, 218, 266, 271, 331, 335, 378,
383, 385,
385, 390, 394, 426, 433;
forest, 51, 92; honor, 1-163,
189, 392; leper sisters of St.
James's, 10; lord of, 51, 72;
park, 192; port near, 7; priors-
45, 47; Denis, 31; sheriff, 4, 17
Ascelles, de, Phil., 46
Ascio (or Atso), of Offham, Suss., 90
Ascius (Azo), of Offham, 41
Aselin (of Tasburgh, Norf.), 359
Asevill, de, Tho., 66
Ash, de, John, 212
Ash, Kent, manor, 185
Maners, Hants., 165, 166, 272,
345
Ashby, Norf., 102
Ashby de la Zouche, Leics., manor,
36
Ashcombe. Suss., 327
Ashdon, Essex, 313
Ashford, Derbys., 77
Kent, manor, 184, 185; lady
of, 185
Ashingdon, Essex, church, 219
Ashley, Hants., manor, 96
N'hants., 113
Ashridge, rector and brethren of, 256
Ashwellthorpe, 429
Askby, Norf., 109
Asketon, manor, 440
Asketon, in Ireland, castle, 113
Aspale [Aspehale], de, Mirabel, 60;
Rog., 366; Tho., 60
Aspenden, Herts., 165, 168, 271
Aspley, Norf., 181
Assarts [Assartis, Essarts, Essarz],
de, family, 297, 406, 407, 409, 410;
Gilb., 408; Hugh, 407-408; Ralph,
187, 407-408; Sir Ralph, 407;
Randulf, 408 ; Ric., 407-408;
Rog., 408
Asserby, Lincs., 245
Asshe, atte, Lucy, 433; Rog., 433
Assington, Suff., 239
Aston, de, Ric., 244
Aston by Birmingham, manor, 369
Athelburch [Athleburch], de, family,
3; Adam, 145; Alfred [Alvred],
4. 145
<
Athelingworth,' Surr., 355
Athol, David de Strabolgi [Strath-
bogie], earl of, 279, 336, 344, 382,
392, 412, 427, 434-436, 438; Joan,
countess, 279, 344, 412, 427,
434-436
Atlingworth, 358
Attleborough, Norf., 145, 151–152,
296, 306, 318, 385-389
Attlebridge [Attlebrigg], Norf., 320,
399
448
INDEX
Aubervill [Odburgville, Osberteville,
Otburvill], de, Hugh, 28; Joan,
246; Matilda, 28; Ranulf, 28;
Rog., 166, 174, 186, 189, 207, 216,
246, 247, 273; Will., 28, 166,
246-247, 268
Auberville, in the Calvados, 246
Aubigny [Albineio, Albini, Aubeny],
de, family, 2; Adeliza [Athelidis],
6, 7, 10, 12, 17; Alice, 9, 12, 155;
Aveline, 105; dame Avice, 12;
Cecily, 14; Ellis, 78, 79; Godfrey,
7, 12; Hen., 42, 218; Hugh, 13,
15, 58, 78, 83, 89, 101, 124, 140;
Humph., 6; Isabel [Isabella], 14,
78, 123-124, 129, 138, 140, 144, 148,
152, 156, 307; Jo., 78, 79, 148;
Juliana, 78; Matilda, 4-6, 12,
118; Nicholaa [Nichole], 14;
Nigel, 6, 12, 155; Odinel, 439;
Olive, 10, 101; Phil., 340; Ralph,
142, 439; Reyner, 12, 42; Ric.,
307; Rob., 155, 218, 258; Rog.,
12; S., 218; Steph., 218; Will. I,
butler, 4-9, 17, 24, 38, 78, 81, 100,
102-103, 112, 118, 120, 125, 127,
129–131,133-134, 139, 141, 145, 149,
154-155, 158, 217; Will. II, 6-9,
12, 25, 42, 118; Will. III, 10,
12, 42; Will. IV, 13; Will., 172,
218, 356, 439, 440
See also Arundel
Aubigny, honor, 12
Auboys, de.
See Hautbois
Aubrey, 310; earl, 182; (of Twine-
ham, Suss.), 355
Auburn, Lincs., 406, 439
Aubyn, Alan, 442; Jo., 442; Sibyl,
442
Aucher, Nich., 159
Augustin (of Strettington), 41
Augy. See Eu
Aumarle, family, 165, 181; Cecily,
248; Ric., 247; Tho., 248
See also Albemarle
Auney [Aunay], de, Joan, 369;
Nich., 369; Will., 170
Aunus, de, Geoff., 428; Margery,
428
See also Anes
Aureavalle. See D'Orival
Ausyngges.' See Elsing, Norf.
Auterive [Autryve], de.
See
Hautrive, de
Aveley ['Avillers'], Essex, 296,
400-402; manor, 278
Avenel [Avenell, Avenil], family, 1,
50, 165; Jo., 50, 286–287, 388; Sir
Jo., 286; Ragnulf, 49; Ralph,
50; Ranulf, 49; Ric., 50, 286;
Rob., 50, 71, 286; Rolland, 428;
Sabina, 50; Walter, 286; Will.,
49-51, 71, 287
'Avenel Sokene,' Suss., wood, 50
Averham, Notts., 85; church, 84;
manor, 86
Avisford, Suss., court, 26
Avon, Hants., 60; South, 56
Avranches, de, Will., 97, 153
Axholme, Isle of, 95
Aygenens, de, Rob., 366
Ayguens, de, John, 366
Aylesham, de, Rog., 395
Aylmerton, Norf., 296, 370, 373, 375
Ayott, de, John, 59
Ayott, Suss., 59
Ayton in Cleveland, Yorks., 399
Azo (of Up Marden, Suss.), 72
Azor (of Congham), 309; (of Wick-
ham, Suss.), 378
286; Sir
BAA [de Bathonia], family, 165;
Agnes, 254, 264; Eleanor, 68,
176-177; Eliz., 264; Hen., 262;
Hugh, clerk, 208; Joan, 68,
176-177; Jo., 68, 176; Sir Jo., 176;
Osbert, 254-255, 264; Reg., 251,
264; Ric., 264
Babington, de, Hugh,
Hugh, 286; Ric., 287
Babraham, Cambs., 155, 217
Bachamstede, Essex (?), 193
Bacheton, de, Will., 393
Bacon [Bacoun, Bacun, Bakon,
Bakoun, Bakun], family, 3; arms,
330; Edm., 330; Geo., 151, 153,
336; Margery, 152, 330; Reg.,
151, 153; Sir Rob., 152; Rog.,
151-153; Sir Rog., 152-153; Tho.,
151-153, 325, 326
See Hengham
Baconsthorpe [Baconesthorpe, Ba-
cunesthorp, Bacunthorp, Bakenes-
thorpe, Bakknesthorp, Bakounes-
thorp], de, family, 3, 152; Edm.,
152, 430; Sir Edm., 152-153; Rob.,
151-153, 430; Sir Rob., 152; Tho.,
151
Baconsthorpe,
338, 430
Bacton, Suff., 424, 428
Norf., 3, 150-153,
Baddow, Great, Essex, 164, 210-212
Badelesmere, de, Barthol., 40, 77;
Giles, 77; Margt., 40
Badenoch, 279
Badewe, de, Hugh, 216; Will., 211
Badham, de, Tho., 59
Badlesmere, Kent, 194
'Baggerigge,' Oxon., 240
Bakewell, Derbys., 203; manor, 205
Balcombe [Balecumba], Suss., I;
church, 312, 314
Balderton, Notts., 64
Baldesey, Suff., 28
Baldeshill [' Baldeshild '], Suss., 321
Baldriseie, de, Alvred, 28
Baldwin the despenser, 10
INDEX
449
$
4
Baldwyne, Joan, 369; Walter, 369
Balesham, de, Alice, 142
Balking, Berks., 170, 223; manor, 171
Ballingdon, Essex, 402-404; chapel,
198
Balliol [Bailloil, Baillol, Bailol,
Baliol, de, Geoff., 155; Gilb.,
109; Hen., 121; Ingram, 19;
Ralph, 301
Balmer, 311
Balne, Yorks., 417
Balsdean, 310
Bamburgh, Northumb., castle, 307
Bancs, de, Sir Geoff., 387
Banham [Bangham, Benham '],
Norf., 3, 108, 147, 342-344, 359;
rectory, 437
Baolt, Rog., 90; Sir Rog., 89
Barcombe [Bercham, Bercompe],
Suss., 296, 305, 312, 322, 324,
339-342; church, 314; manor,
324-325, 336; Walter, rector, 340
Bardfield, Essex, 211
Little, Essex, 211; church, 211;
manor, 212
Bardolf, family, 142, 296, 341; of
Stoke Bardolf and Wormgay,
141, 297; Agnes, 341; Beatrice,
323; Doun, 323; Eliz., 326;
Hugh, 152, 324-326, 341, 358, 392;
Sir Hugh, 358; Isabel, 326, 341,
358; dame Isabel, 350; Jo., 324,
326, 423; Sir Jo., 341; Juliana,
423; Tho., 141, 326-327, 341, 350,
367; Will., 323–326, 341, 358, 423 ;
Sir Will., 140, 143
Bardwell, Suff., 360
Barentyn [Barantyn], de, Drew, 374,
375, 409; Joan, 374; Sir Will., 374
Bareston, de, Guy, 127
Barford, Beds., 179
St. Michael, Oxon., 62-64, 228;
manor, 64
Bargate.' See Gargate
Bargham.' See Burpham, Suss.
Barging, de, Tho., 255
Barham, Suss., 58
Little, Beds., 64, 177-178, 249,
250, 335; church, 178
Barkeston, family, 3
Barkeston, Suff., 3, 127
Barkway [Berqueia], de, Gunter, 269
Barkway, Herts., 149, 269; church,
273; manor, 150
Barlavington, Suss., 17, 19, 20, 24;
church, 65; park, 92, 93
Barley, Herts., 165–166, 246, 268–271,
293, 294
'Barleston.' See Barnston, Essex
Barmbrough, Yorks., 297, 416-417
Barmeling [Barlinges, Barmelinges,
Bermeling, Bermelinges], de,
family, 165; Jo., 292; Ralph,
292; Rob., 292; Will., 292
III.
Barmer, Norf., 110, 115, 299, 314,
319, 373-374, 395; manor, 371
Barming, Kent, 73, 165
West, Kent, 292
Barney, Norf., 393, 394
Barnham, Norf., 338, 385, 387, 388;
church, 388
Broom, Norf., 334, 337
Suff., 117, 334-336, 391, 399;
manor, 337
by Thefford, Suff., 338
Suss., 52 n., 55, 58-59, 83;
St. Mary's church, 56
Barningham, Norf., 123, 150, 403
"
North Wode,' 151, 152
Tune,' 151
1
Barnston [Bernardeston], de, Will.,
115
[Berneston], Essex, 214-216;
manor, 214
Barnstaple, honor, 377
Barnwell, prior of, 387
Barpham, Suss., 30, 37, 39
Barrington, Cambs., church, 337
Barrow, Rutl., 406
Hall, Essex, 220
Barry, Herbert, 159; Will., 159, 160
Barscote, Sim., 267, 268
Barsham, Norf., 112, 296, 299, 325-
326, 334-338, 389, 393, 428
East, Norf., 325
North, Norf., 337, 370, 373-375,
382, 394-395
West, Norf., 296, 381-382
Barstaple, hund., Essex, 221
Barton, de, Isabel, 273; Sim., 273
Barton, Cambs., 208
-by-Boughton, Kent, manor, 185
in Wy, Kent, 184
Norf., 434
Great, 167
Little, 270
Suff., 269, 360, 361
Mills, Suff., 343
Barwick, Norf., 115, 136, 137, 370,
375; St. Mary's church, 135
See Berwick
Basham, North, Norf., 373
Basilea (of Allington), 310
Basing, Hants., 56; barony, 57, 60;
honor, 56-59, 65
Basset, family, 232; of Ryston, 51;
of Sapecote, 77; Alan, 39; Sir
Alan, 232; Alice, 38, 39; Gilb.,
38, 39; Hawise, 53; Law., 53;
Margery, 357; Margt., 77; Phil.,
232; Ralph, 77; Rob., 229, 238;
Tho., 38, 39, 231; Thurstan, 218
Bassingburn [Bassingbourne], de,
family, 201; Alan, 172; Alex.,
172; Aubrey, 201, 207; Isabel,
147; John, 63, 201-202, 207, 231,
277; Margt., 63; Steph., 201;
Tho., 140; Warin, 147
2 G
450
INDEX
Bastard, Ralph, 90
Bataille [Bataile], John, 202; Rog.,
221; Tho., 146; Will., 118, 221
Bath, bishops-Savary, 67; Will., 72
Baud, Joan, 330; Sir Will., 330
Bavent [Badvent, Bahevent, Bat-
vent, Bautvent], de, family, 1, 3;
Adam, 22, 23; Eustace, 134; Eus-
tachia, 135; Felicia, 135; Hawise,
23; Hugh, 135; Hubert, 135; Jo.,
134; Mich., 135; Picot, 4, 9, 134;
Ric., 134; Rob., 134, 135; Sir Rob.,
135; Rog., 22, 23, 135; Sir Rog.,
23, 26; Sarah, 22; Tho., 135;
Will., 134
Bawdsey, Suff., 13
Bawsey, Norf., 29
Bayeux, bishops-4, 62, 100, 110,
129, 133, 138-139, 145, 148, 155,
157, 160, 182, 190, 194, 197-199,
210, 217, 233-234, 287, 292-293;
John, 281; Odo, 166, 281; Rob.,
281-282
Bayham, canons of, 387; Jordan,
abbot of, 387
Bayhouse [de Baiocis, Baiouse,
Bayuse], de, family, 164; Jo.,
186; Rob., 186
Baynard [Bainard], family, 297;
Cassandra, 118; Geoff., 118, 313;
Lucy, 433; Matilda, 433; Ric.,
205; Rob., 432-433; Sir Rob., 433;
Tho., 433; Will., 432
barony, 365
Bealmes, de, Randulf, 9
Beamonstown
[Beaumundeston],
Kent, 156
Beaubec (Normandy), abbey, 361,
415
Beauchamp [de Bello Campo], family,
296; of Bedford, 249; of Eaton
Socon, Beds., 165, 249, 266;
Adam, 254; Aelina, 29; Agnes,
250; Alda, 250; Alienor, 264;
Andrew, 238-239; Beatrice, 290,
291; Ellis, 365; Eudes, 44, 254;
Eva, 238-240; Gunnora, 290, 291;
Guy, 244; Hawise, 34; Hen.,
250; Hugh, 168, 178, 248-250,
252-254, 261, 263, 264; Isabel, 343 ;
Joan, 239, 256, 367; Jo., 178, 239–
240, 251-253, 256, 259, 263, 290,
362, 363; Juliana, 255; Margt.,
173, 362; Matilda, 149, 358;
Miles, 250; Nesta, 178, 362-363;
Olive, 250, 253; Oliver, 250-251,
253, 263; Pain, 249, 250; Phil.,
176; Philippa, 250, 251; Ralph,
45, 219, 256-257, 259, 265, 267;
Ric., 250-251, 255-256; Rob., 44;
Rog., 45, 250-251, 256, 260-261,
263-265; Sir Rog., 256-257; Ro-
haise, 249; Sim., 50, 249, 250;
Steph., 29; Tho., 256; Walter,
252; Will., 44, 149, 253-256, 264,
289-291, 343, 367
Beauchamp (in Loddon), manor, 117
Beaufou. See Belfou
Beaugenet, Suss., park, 93
Beaulieu [de Bello Loco], Hants.,
abbey, 356; abbot, 357-358
Beaumont [Beamund, de Bello
Monte], de, family, 2; Alice, 441 ;
Geoff., 95-96; Godfrey, 310; Jo.,
435; Will., 178, 215, 362–363, 394;
Sir Will., 319
Beaumont (near Tendring), Essex,
361-362; church, 361; manor, 216,
363
fee, 319
Bec, St. Mary, abbey, 421
Beche, de la, Beatrice, 383; Mar-
gery, 330; Nich., 330; Pet., 383 ;
arms, 330
Beckenham, Kent, 349
Beckerton, Norf., 325-326, 389
Beckley [ Bekkles by Hengam upon
Tamese '], in Chalk, Kent, 164,
198-199
Beddingham, Suss., church, 90
Bedefund, Suss., 69
Bedford, 181, 211, 249, 255, 267,
290; army, 203, 259; barony, 249,
254; Hugh de Beauchamp, baron
of, 250; castle, 187, 190; honor,
249, 267, 290; prison, 260
Bedinges, de, Adam, 69; Margt., 69
Bedingham [Bedigham], de, Bene-
dict, 142
Bedingham, Norf., 2, 121-123, 142-
143; St. Mary's church, 142
Bediston, church, 313
Beechamwell, 425
Beeding, Suss., 334
Beeston, Beds., 155, 165, 180, 217,
219, 255, 262-263, 265, 281-284
Norf., 324, 433
Begehurst, Suss. (?), 403
Beigham, Suss., 353; abbey, 318
Beighton, Suff., 175
Bek, de, Anthony, 68
A
Bekeswell, de, Pet., 426; Sibil, 426
Belchamp, Little, Essex, manor, 291
Belencumbre (Pais de Caux), All
Saints, 300
Belet, Alan, 17; Annora, 314, 320;
Emma, 314, 316, 320; Hervey,
314, 320, 386; Hugh, 335; Isabel,
69; Lora, 212; Mich., 314, 316;
Master Mich., butler, 320; Ralph,
69, 70; Rob., 243; Sybil, 69, 70
Belfou [Beaufou, de Bella Fago,
Beufeu], de, family, 2, 3, 111–115,
131; Agatha, III, 114, 115;
Agnes, 5, III, 112; Alice, III,
113, 114; Almude, 5; Amalric,
III-113; Aumari, 113; Elena,
III; Emma, 111-114; Fulk, III,
INDEX
45I
113, 349, 426-427; Geoff., III;
Gilb., III, 112; Hen., III, 113,
114; Hugh, 131, 132; Isabel,
III; Joan, III, 114; Jo., 115;
Margery, 111, 114; Nich., 132;
Philippa, III, 114; Ralph, III-
115; Ric., III, 113, 115; Tho.,
111-113; Will., 115
See Waterperry
fee, 148
Belhawe.' See Bylaugh, Norf.
Belhouse, in North Tuddenham,
Norf., 434
Belhus, family, 297, 434; Hubert,
83; Ric., 434; Rob., 434
'Belice' (Benenden, Kent), 157
Bellême [de Belalm '], de, Rob., 5,
17, 48
Bello Monte, de. See Beaumont
Bellozanne, near Gournay, canons of,
422
Bellum Campum [Beauchamp] of
Normandy, 250
Belmeis [Belmes], de, family, 1, 35;
Adelicia, 35; Matilda, 35; Phil.,
35; Ranulf, 35; Ric., 41; Will.,
35
Belvidere,' 312
Belvoir, de, Will., 440
Benacre, Suff., 328, 329, 332, 333
Bendenges, de, Will., 221
Bendevill, de, Aubrey, 73; Emma,
73; Sarra, 73
Benefeld [Beningefeld], family, 296,
344, 355; Agnes, 346; Hen.,
358
Benefield, de, Jas., 346; Jo., 345–346,
358; Ric., 346, 358; Tho., 345;
Walter, 346; Will., 346, 357
Benelond, de, Geoff., 206; Rob., 206
Benenden [Benyndenn], de, Rog.,
159
Benenden, Kent, 3, 157-160
Benevill, de, Alvred, 220; Will., 220
Benfield, Suss., 330, 355, 357, 358
Great or South, Essex, 176
Benfleet, Essex, 188
儒
​Bengham.' See Margaretting, Essex
Bennington, Herts., 256
Lincs., 297, 418
Long, Lincs., prior, 418
Benstede, de, John, 294; Petronilla,
294
Bentfield, Essex, church and manor,
336
Bentley, Suff.. 417
Bepton, Suss., 20, 39
Ber..., de, Tho., 161
Berard, family, 360
Berardus (of Banham, Norf.), 147
Bercam, de, Hen., 339
Bercamp [Berecamp], de, Matilda,
332, 339, 340
Bercham. See Burpham, Suss.
Berdewell [Berdeswell], de, family, 3 ;
John, 131, 145; Rob., 131; Tho.,
131-132; Will., 131
Bere, Dors., 68
Bere, le, John, 388
Bereford, de, Baldwin, 246; Sir
Baldwin, 209; Dionisia, 62, 227,
228; Edm., 209, 245-246; Sir
Edm., 246; Will., 209, 245; Sir
Will., 209
Berenden, Suss., 71
Berengaria, queen, 204
Berevill, de, Clarice, 181
Berges, in West Dean, Suss., 10, II,
50
Bergholt, Suff., 204, 369; manor, 369
Bering.' See Burpham, Suss.
Berkeley, de, John, 162
Berkesheved, de, Luke, 107
Bermelie.' See Barming, West,
Kent
Bermere, de, Martin, 371
Bermere, Norf., 320
<
Bermondsey, monastery, 155, 217,
290, 409; prior, 291, 409, 410
Bernake [Bernak], de, Alice, 34, 45,
51, 86, 88; Will., 34, 45, 51, 86, 88
Bernard of Savoy, 78, 377
Berner, serjeant, 442
Berner the arblaster, 434, 442
Berners [Berneres, Bernieres, Ber-
niers, de Berneriis], de, family,
164; Beatrice, 214; Christina,
216; Edm., 216; Hen., 214;
Isabel, 214; Jas., 216; Jo., 214-
216; Sir Jo., 216; Matilda, 215;
Ralph, 178, 213-215, 363; Ric.,
216; Rob., 214; Will., 213-215
fee, 216
Bernevall, de, Hen., 436
'Bernham.' See Barnham, Suff.
Berningham, de, Walter, 124
Berningham, Norf., 124
Bernwood, Oxon.(?), forest, 244
Berqueia, de, See Barkway
Berry Herbert, church, 313
Bersted, de, Walter, 383
Berwick [Berwyk], de, Ivo, 115, 374
Berwick, 354
Berners, Essex, 216; manor, 214
Great, Salop, 182, 183
Besevill, de, Isabel, 254, 267; Rob.,
254-255, 267, 387; Will., 388
Beslum, de, Diana, 419
Besthorpe, Norf., 3, 134–135, 145, 389
Betchworth, Surr., manor, 73, 307
West, Surr., 73
Bethersden, Kent, 162
Bethune, de, Baldwin, 218
Beuehorne, bridge, 311
Beumunde, John, 96
Bevendean, Suss., 296, 305, 324, 332,
353-354
Beverley, provost of, 33, 86, 101
452
INDEX
Beverington, Suss., 353, 354
Bewbush Suss., manor, 40
Bewper, par. Frittenden, Kent, 183;
manor, 185
Bexley, Kent, king's park, 194
Beyton, Norf., 176
Bicester, canons, 232, 412; prior,
232, 233, 412, 413
Bicham, Norf., 328
Bicker, Lincs., 105, 107
Bicknor, Gloucs.,
manor, 50
Kent, 185; lady of, 185;
manor, 185
Biddenham, Beds., 163
Biddlesden [Bittlesden], Will., abbot
of, 364
Bidun, de, Agnes, 103; Hadenald,
50; castle and
103
Biendene, Geoff., 341
Bignor, Suss., 20, 24-26, 62; church,
25; lord of, 26; manor, 25, 26,
26 n., 63
Bigod [Bigot, Bygod, Bygot, Bygoth],
family, 296; Adeliza, 5; Alice,
123; Alice, countess, 344; earl,
430; Gundreda, 222, 428; Gun-
dreda, countess, 124; Hugh, 31,
43, 68, 124, 127, 130, 428, 439
Hugh, earl, 8, 383, 385, 438
Hugh, justiciar, 343; John, 223;
Margery, 183, 221, 222; Margt.,
183, 221; Matilda, 4-6, 124;
Ralph, 124; Ric., 109; Rog., 4,
9, 68, 104, 117-118, 120-121,
123-124, 131, 135-137, 144, 152,
176, 210, 343-344, 361; Roger,
earl, 318, 385, 428, 439-440; Tho.,
221-222; Will., 183, 221-223
fee, 103, 355; honor, 4, 211
See also Norfolk
Bigorre, Boze, count of, 19
Bigrave. See Bygrave, Herts.
Bigworth, Suss., 20
89;
Biham. See Bytham Castle
Bilham, Yorks., 416-417
Billingehurst, de, Will., 31
Billinghurst, Suss., 31, 82
church, 31
Bilsham, in Yapton, Suss., I, 49–51,
83
Bilsington, Kent, 2, 6, 12, 100-102,
162; church, 12; manor, 5, 14;
priory, 101; serjeanty, 102
Bilton, Warwks., 1, 8, 15, 56-57, 59,
60; church, 56, 61
Binderton, Suss., 2, 77-78
Binham, Norf., 310; monk, 424;
prior, 121, 373; priory, 120, 125,
145, 393, 394, 402-403; St. Mary's,
118
Bininden, de, John, 158
Binstead, Hants., 41
Binstead, Suss., 1, 37, 83
Bintree, Norf., 436
Birch, Essex, 204; manor, 205
Bircholt, Suff., manor, 440
Birdbrook, Essex, rector, 402
Birdham, Suss., 55, 58-60; church,
56
Birdsall, Yorks., 107
Birling, Kent, manor, 320
Birmingham, 369
Birston, de, John, 392; Ralph, 391
Biset [Biseth], Ernald, 412; Hen.,
403; Isolda, 403
Bisham, Berks., 251
Bishop Stortford, court, 106
Bishopstrow, Wilts., church, 313
Bixton, Norf., 387; church, 388
Blackborough, St. Katherine, nuns
of, 114, 149
Blackgrove, Berks., 289
Blackwell, Essex, manor, 410, 415
Bladon, Oxon., 94, 95
Blainville-sur-Ry, 413
Blakeham, manor, 29
Blakeney, Norf., 95, 364, 373, 375
Blakenham, Suff., 343, 365, 366
Little, Suff., 344
Blaminister,' manor, 373
Blanchelande, St. Nicholas, abbey, 50
Blancmoster [Blancmuster, Blauk-
moster, Blaumosteer, Blaumoster,
Blaumuster, Blauncmoster], de,
family, 296, 374; Bertreya, 373;
Eleanor, 373-374; Joan, 374; Jo.,
375; Margery, 375; Matilda,
372, 374-375; Rob., 265; Tho.,
373; Walter, 375; Will., 265,
372-374; Sir Will., 373
fee, 374
<
Blankney, Lincs., 238
Blatchington, Suss., 296, 310, 336,
379-380
West, 368
Blathe, Ric., 51
Bleachington, Wolwin, reeve of, 345
Bleatham (in Egdean), Suss., 19, 20
Blechinton, Suss., 306
Bledeslowe, Ludwig, 187
Bledlow, Bucks., 421, 422
Blendworth [' Bloneworth '], Hants.,
93, 94
Blenvell, de, Ric., 320
'Bletcham,'
Bletteham.' See
Egdean, Suss.
Bletsoe, parson of, 260
Bliborough. See Blythborough.
Blisworth, 411
Blithfield, Staffs., 107
Bloch, Geoff., 254
Bloet,' Will., 63
Blois, Isabel of, 301; Ralph del,
217; Will. of, 416
Blonorton, de, Will., 434
Blo' Norton, Norf., 2, 123-125, 297,
433-434; lady of, 124
INDEX
453
Blossevill, de, Jordan, 300
Blound, Will., 109
Blount, le, John, 88; Juliana, 161,
185, 346, 414; Tho., 161, 185, 414
Bluet, Eleanor, 278; Jo., 278
Blund [Blunde], family, 2; Ellen la,
343; Pet., 12, 87-88; Rob., of
London, 225; Tho., 88
Blundel, John, 259, 260; Ric., 259
Blunvill [Blunvyle], de, Will., 109,
151, 337
Blythborough, Suff., 317; priory,
135
Blythford [Blyford], Suff., 107, 109
Boarhunt, Hants., manor, 96
West, Hants., 95
Boarstall, Bucks., 244
Bobbing, Kent, church, 194
Boceo, de. See Buci
Bocland [Bocheland, Boclonde], de,
Hawise, 291; Hugh, 166, 288, 291;
Jo., 128
See Boughton Malherbe,
"
Boctone.'
Kent
Bodeketon. See Budeketon
Bodenham, de, Joan, 30; Ralph, 30
Bodham, Norf., 181
See Roudham
Bodiam, Kent, bridge, 160
Bodney, Norf., 327, 329-330
Boeles, de, Jo., 256, 267
Bohun, de, family, 1, 3; Engelger
[Enjugier, Ennilger], 29, 65-67,
81, 85, 335; Franco, 66-68;
Grace, 39; Humph., 110, 157,
177, 252, 327; Jas., 68; Joan,
68, 176-177; Jo., 40, 68, 68 n.,
176–177, 319; Sir Jo., 25, 68, 177;
Margt., 54; Savary, 47, 67;
Will., 167, 177
See also Hereford
Bohun, fee, 28, 409; honor, 157, 158
Bohun (Normandy), 66
Boitone.' See Boughton Malherbe,
Kent
Bokelee, Kent, 31
(
"
Bokelee.' See Bowley by Maid-
stone, 182
Bokenham, de, Pet., 132; Rob.,
109; Will., 384
See Bukenham
Bokministre, de, Sim., 284
Bolebec, de, Gilb., 200
Bolmer, 309
Bolney, Suss., 329
Bolsover Castle, constable of, 343
Bolton, de, Basilia, 73; Hugh, 73
Bomsted. See Bumstede
Bonde, Arnold, 127
Boneye, Notts., manor, 419
Bonhunt, Essex, 202, 205; manor,
206
Bonigton, de, John, 154
Bonuncourt, de, Guy, 155
Borehunt [Bourhunte], de, Sir Jo.,
78; Mary, 78; Ric., 78
Borha,' Suss., 52
Borham, family, 323; Lambert, 323
Borray, de, Berenger, 172; Gerard,
172
Bosevill [Busevill], de, family, 297;
Ellis, 416; Fulk, 416; Rob., 300;
Will., 238
Bosham, Suss., 1, 43-44, 65–68, 322;
chapelry, 74, 381; church, 55;
manor, 68
Bosingle, de, Will., 388
Bosmere, Suff., hund., 204
Boson, Alex., 268
Boston, St. Botolph, Lincs., 95
Boteler [Boteller, Botiler, Botiller,
Buteiller, Buteler, Butiller, Pin-
cerna], le, family, 164, 192, 296;
of Warrington, Lancs., 54 n.;
Adam, 190-191; Cath., 435; Edm.,
358; Hugh, 190-191, 292, 347;
Jas., 358-359; Joan, 191, 358;
Jo., 97, 337; Nich., 435; Olive,
443; Phil., 256; Ralph, 167,
190-191; Rob., 45, 192, 336; Rog.,
191-192; Theobald, 358; Will., 53,
191, 443
Boterel, Will., 218
Botetourte [Butetourte, Buteturt],
de, John, 109, 291, 327, 375;
Matilda, 291; Tho., 291
Boucy, de. See Buci
Bouehorne' bridge, 300
"
Bouet, Joan, So; Nigel, So; Will., 80
Boughton, Norf., 320
Aluph, Kent, 163
Boughton Malherbe, Kent, 198, 199 ;
chapel, 198
Boulge, Suff., 424
Boulogne, de, Pharamus, 188
Boulogne, counts-Eustace, 168, 211,
269, 273, 275, 285; Steph., 52;
Will., 285, 371
fee, 277; honor, 108, 128, 154,
187, 200, 211-212, 266, 268–271,
273, 276-277, 285-286, 317
Boun, de, Eruinger, 67
honor, 67
Bourg Dun (Seine Infér.), 300
Bourn, honor, 64
Bourton, Black, Oxon., 237-241
Clanfield, Oxon., 240
Bouvill, de, Will., 385
Bovery, de, Albin, 49
Bovill, de, John, 13
Bowers Gifford, Essex, 164, 220–222
Bowley, Kent, 32, 167
by Maidstone, Kent, 182-183,
185
Bowthorpe, Norf., 137, 178, 179
Boxgrove, Suss., 42, 55-61, S2, 93;
convent, 83; monks, 10, II, 25,
66; priors-58, 59; Rob., 86;
454
INDEX
priory, 12, 21, 24, 30, 41, 45, 47,
56-58, 60-61, 76–77, 101; St. Mary's
church, 56
Boxley, Kent, 332; abbey, 182, 197
Boxsted [Boxstede], family, 277;
Adam, 276; Adeliza, 276; Everard,
276; Hugh, 276; Reg., 276; Rob.,
276; Warner, 276; Will., 276
Boxted, Essex, 165, 275-277
Boyland [Boylaund, Boylund], de,
family, 3; Elena, 145; Sir Jo.,
145; Matilda, 144-145; dame
Matilda, 325; Ric., 144, 145
Boys [Bois, de Bosco], de, family,
239; Ernald, 239; Hugh, 376;
Joan, 239; Jo., 241; Sir Jo.,
241; Jordan, 386
Brabourn, Kent, manor, 218
Bracking, 210
Bracy, Fulk le, 375; Matilda de,
374; Rob. de, 374 ; Sir Will.
de, 374
Bradeherst, 312
Bradelegh, 221, 222
Bradenham, de, Will., 425
Bradenham, Norf., 141, 143, 326,
328, 382-384; manor, 383; park,
383
West, 334, 337
South, 338
Bradfield, Essex, 202
Norf., 304; church, 318
Suff., 365
Bradford, Som., manor, 340
Bradley, Lincs., 418
Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex, 21, 206
Braibroc, family, 165; Christiana,
263; Hen., 263; Rob., 251, 263-
264
Braiose [Braose, Braouse, Breouse,
Breuse], de. See Briouze
Braithwell, Yorks., manor, 307
Brake, Sim., 329
Brakelond, de, Jocelin, 360
Bramber, Suss., 313; honor, 23,
lord of, 351;
340, 352, 379;
marsh, 351; rape, 72
Bramberden, 351
Bramley, Surr., 356, 439;
357, 440, 441
Brampton, de, Brian, 419
Brampton, Hunts., hays, 288
N'hants., 64
g da
Brandon, Norf., 151
Suff., 268
Branche [Braunch, Braunche], Sir
Nich., 374; Pet., 373-374; Ric.,
372; Sim., 372; Will., 371-372
Brandestun, Suff., 22
manor,
Brantingham, Yorks., 397
Brattleby, Lincs., church, 56
Braughin, Herts., 266
Brant (of Barningham, Norf.), 123
Brant, Will., 370
Braunford, de, Eufresia, 432; Pet., 432
Braxted, Essex, 165; manor, 168,
266, 271
Great, 108, 271
Bray, de, Ada, 260; Hugh, 260;
Tho., 380
Bray, Essex, manor, 268
High, church, 313
(Normandy), forest, 422
Brayfield, Hants., 71
Breauté, de, Falkes [Faukes], 187,
190-191, 204, 208, 218, 226, 231;
Jo., 191; Margery, 226, 231;
Will., 231
Breckles [Breccles, Brecles], de, Alice,
133; Jo., 133, 134
Breckles, Norf., 133
Little, Norf., 133
Bredfield, Suff., 424
Brendhall in Harlow, Essex, manor,
189
Brent Eleigh, Suff., 122-123; manor,
I22
Hall, manor, 188
Bressinges, de, Tho., 183
Bret, le, family, 2; Adam, 109;
Alice, 89; Emicine, 89; Eustace,
109; Jo., 109, 412; Pet., 109;
Rob., 89; Sarra, 412
Bretevill [Brettevill, Bruttevill], de,
Emma, 258; Geoff., 251, 255,
258-259, 261; Hamon, 258; Hugh,
258; Rob., 259; Will., 251, 260
Bretham, de, Ric., 146
Brethenham, de, Alex., 146
Breton [Bretoun, Bretun], le, family,
164-165, 200-201, 276-277; Ade-
liza, 200; Alice, 126; Amabel,
200; Catherine, 200; Geoff., 200,
317; Isabel, 200; Jo., 276; Sir
Jo., 205; Juliana, 276; Law., 200;
Lewis, 200; Mabel, 200; Margt.,
317; Matilda, 276; Matt., 210;
Nich., 200-201 ; Ralph, 285;
Ranulf, 200; Rob., 200; Rog., 126;
Walter, 200; Will., 151, 200–201,
276, 363
Brettenham [' Bretham '], Norf., 3,
146-147, 164-165, 189, 277-278
Suff., 361
Bretteville, in Normandy, 73
Bretton, Yorks., 420
West, Yorks., 419, 420
Brewosa, de, Alice, 322 n.; Ric.,
322 n.
Bricett [Briset], Suff., canons of, 138;
convent, 139; priory, 127
Great, Suff., 21, 139
Bridge, Kent, church, 313
Bridgenorth, 250
Brien, Rob., 181
Brien (of Stratton, Oxon.), 410
Briencun, Normandy, 277
Brienz (of Caversfield, Bucks.), 410
INDEX
455
Brienzun [Briançon, Brianzon, Brien-
cun], de, family, 165, 277; Agnes,
277; Barthol., 147, 277-278, 401 ;
Eleanor, 278; Eliz., 278; Joan,
278; Jo., 277-278, 401-402;
Margery, 278; Tho., 277; Will.,
147, 278
Brightford, Suss., 62, 71
Brighthampton, Oxon., 237, 241
Brightlingsea, Essex, 199; manor,
166, 167
Brighton, Suss., 299, 310, 313, 315-
316, 334, 339, 379, 443; church,
312, 314; manor, 307
Brigsley, Lincs., 284
Brihmer, a rustic, 370
Brikesheved, de, Luke, 204
Brimpsfield, Gloucs., 23
Brinklow, Norf., manor, 142
'Brinton,' Hants., 95
Briouze [Braiose, Breuse], de, family,
297; Alice, 357, 440; Alina, 441 ;
Giles, 319, 440-441; Joan, 441 ; Jo.,
440-441; Margery, 441; Margt.,
406, 440; Mary, 440; Phil., 313,
351; Ric., 357, 406, 438, 440–441 ;
Sir Ric., 440; Rob., 441; Will.,
41, 71-72, 340, 351-352, 440-441;
Sir Will., 23
Brisley, Norf., 399; manor, 336
Bristelin, priest, 311
Bristelm (of Swanborough), 310
Bristelmestona.'
See
(
Suss.
Bristol, 7
Briston, Norf., 366, 391-392
Britagne, de, John, 270
Brito, Will., 70
Brighton,
Brittany, de, John, 149, 277
Brittany, 99, 169, 171
57
counts-Conan, 172; Stephen,
earl, 378
fee, 437; honor, 170, 172, 173
Briwerre [de Bruera, de la Bruere],
family, 297; Joan, 413-414; Margt.,
414; Ralph, 286; Will., 18, 35,
99, 203, 238, 356, 411, 413-414;
Sir Will., 1S
Broadhurst (in Horsted Keynes),
Suss., 62
Broadwater, Herts., 340
Broc [Brock, Brok], de, family, 2;
Alice, 69; Dametta [Damietta],
69, 70; Edeline [Edelina], 69,
71, 182-183; Eveline, 356; Isabel,
69; Law., 235, 237, 241; Nigel,
70-72, S2, 324; Ralph, 166;
Ranulf, 11, 69-71; Ranulf, usher
and marshal, 356; Rob., 70, 71;
Sybil, 69
See also Broke
Brockhurst [Brokhurst], de, Matilda,
60
Brockhurst in the Weald, Suss., 60
Broi, de, Phil., 50
Broke, atte, Sim., 192
Broke, de, Hen., 275
See also Broc
Brokedissh, de, Steph., 404
Brokesheved, de, Luke, 107; Walter,
Brokesheved. See Broxted
Brom [Brome], de, family, 2, 433;
Agnes, 124; Joscelin, 124; Mar-
gery, 124; Pernel, 125, 434;
Petronilla, 124, 434; Ric., 124;
Rob., 124; Rog., 14, 124-125,
433-434; Sir Rog., 124; Will.,
124, 434
Bromholm, Norf., priory, 336, 424
Bromhurst, Suss., 70
(
Bromley, 10
Bromley, Great, Essex, 289, 290
Bromore, de, Rob., 60
Bromsmythe, Kent, manor, 185
Brooke, Norf., 136
Broom, Beds., 250
Broome, Norf., 2, 123–125, 338
Broomfield [Brumfeld], de, Mirabilis,
252
Broomfield, Essex, 252; manor, 214
Broomhill, Suss., 376
Brothercross, Norf., hund., 427
Brotherton, de, Alice, 344; Mary,
344; Tho., 344
'Brotherton, de.' See Plantagenet
Broughton, Bucks., 415
Poggs [Pogis], Oxon., 238, 239;
manor, 241
Broxted, Essex, 203, 206, 271
Bruis, de, Isabel, 18
Brumstead, Norf., 108, 144; church,
104
Brumustier, de, Hodus, 422
Brun, le, family, 164; Graland, 186;
Jo., 186, 383; Jordan, 186, 219;
Matilda, 117; Muriel, 186; Phil.,
186; Reg., 8, 117-118, 335, 385; Sir
Rog., 109; Tho., 186; Will., 386
Brundon, Essex, 296, 402–405
Bruneam. See Burnham
Brunford, de, Amy, 202; Geoff., 202
Brunham, de, Emma, 118; Phil., 332
Brunham, Cambs., church, 437
$
f
Brunnemuth,' Norf., port, 125, 390
Brunnes buri,' Suss., 30
Brunswen, 309
Brunton, de, Edm., 136
Brunus. See Jews
Brus, de, Isabel, 215; Rob., 172
Brushing, Kent, 183, 185
Bruwes, de, Sir John, 25
Bucheam, de, Ralph, 8, 131,
Buci [Boceo, Boucy, Buscy, Busey,
Bussey], de, family, 296, 351–352 ;
Agnes, 352; Barthol., 405; Bea-
trice, 405; Hen., 352; Hugh, 72,
456
INDEX
"
351-352; Joan, 352; Jo., 351;
Landric, 351; Lucy, 352; Ralph,
351; Rob., 351-352; Sibil, 352;
Will., 305, 352, 405
Buckenham, Norf., 13, 123, 385, 387,
388; abbey, 103; canons, 121;
castle, 14, 119, 124, 387; church,
13, 135, 386; fee, 102; honor, 2,
3, 15, 122, 124, 434; manor, 4, 14,
127, 384; monastery, 133; priory,
7, 8, 116-117, 129–131, 138, 153;
tournament, 15; vicarage, 6
Ferye,' Norf., 109, 132
Little, Norf., 389
New, Norf., castle, 8
Old, Norf., 132, 326; manor, 8,
148, 202
Buckhill, Little, Bucks., 319
Buckland, Kent, 3, 161–163
Buckland Denham [' Dinant '], Som.,
99
Buddington [Budinton], de, Hugh,
25
Buddington, Suss., 20, 24, 62, 63
in Fernhurst, Suss., 25
Budeketon [Bodeketon, Bodiketon,
Boudeketon], de, family, 1; Gilb.,
20, 27; Law., 27; Will.,
51
27,
See Bodeketon
Budicurt, de, Ric., 105
Budna ['Budenho'], Beds., 219, 281,
284
Budney, Norf., 434
Bugkenden, Kent, 31
Bugkinden,' Kent, 182
Bukenham [Bokenham, Buckenham],
de, family, 3, 131; Hugh, 118, 132,
143, 145; Margery, 144; Pet., 109,
132; Ralph, 131, 132; Rob., 132,
145; Will., 119, 131-132, 386
Bulkestrode, de, Hen., 75; Matilda,
75
Bulmer [Bulemer, Bulmere], de,
family, 142; Alice, 143; Clemen-
tia, 143; Jo., 142-143; Sir Jo., 143;
Ralph, 143; Ric., 143; dame
Theophania, 143
Bulsham, de, Jo., 51; Rog., 51;
Will., 51
Bulton in Donesmor.'
See Bilton,
Warws.
Bumpstead, Essex, 400, 401
Bumstede [Bomsted, Bumpsted,
Bumsted, Bumsted Steeple], de,
family, 296; Geoff., 401; Gerard,
400; Gilb., 401-402; Joan, 402;
Jordan, 401; Matilda, 401; Matt.,
401; Pet., 401; Ralph, 401; Rob.,
401; Rog., 401; Steph., 401;
Will., 401-402; Sir Will., 402
Bungay, nuns of, 116
Bunthe, La, Hants., 97
Buntinghill, Suss., hund., 346
Bunwell, Norf., 132, 303, 385, 388;
manor, 388
Burch, Sir Hamon, 443
'Burch.' See Burpham, Suss.
Burchechs,' Suss., 52
Burcote, N'hants., 169
Burdeleis [Burdeleys], de, family,
297, 442; Geoff., 173; Hugh,
442; Jo., 172; Lauretta, 442
Burehill, de, John, 141
Bures, Essex, 183
St. Mary, Suff., 330
Tany, Essex, manor, 350
'Bures.' See Bowers Gifford, Essex
Burgamera, 309
Burgate, de, Galiena, 196; Rob., 386
Burgelion [Burgeinuin, Burguinuin],
de, Hugh, 422; Rob., 319, 422
Burgh [Bergh, Burc, Burgo], de,
family, 165, 280; 296-297, 420;
Aveline, 358; Beatrice, 323-324 ;
Dervorguille, 280, 291; Hawise,
253-254, 280, 289–291; Hubert,
48, 114, 136, 272, 280, 289–290,
323-324, 379, 442; Hubert,
justiciar, 289; Hubert, king's
chamberlain, 362; Sir Hubert,
289; Jo., 151, 253-254, 260, 280,
288-289, 291, 323-324; Sir Jo.,
280, 290; Margery, 280, 323;
Margt., 324, 362; Nesta, 178, 362–
363; Ralph, 424; Ric., 113, 358;
Rog., 424; Sibyl, 260; Tho., 178,
362-363, 419, 424; Walter, 345;
Will., 359
Burgh, Norf., 324, 346
•
"
Apton, Norf., 104, 108, 110
next Hingham, Norf., church,
345
South, Norf., 345, 346
Suff., 424, 429
Castle, Suff., 424
by Grundisborough, Suff., 424
in Lothingland, Suff., 424
Burghersh, de, Hen., 60; Isabel, 60;
Matilda, 163; Steph., 163
Burham, Kent, manor, 320
Buriton, Hants., 54
Burna.' See Westbourne, Suss.
Burnard, Odo, 219
Burne, Suss., manor, 66
Burnel, Isabel, 136; Pain, 214, 215;
Phil., 136; Rob., 270
Burnham [Bernham, Brunham], de,
family, 390-391; Adam, 125–126;
Cecily, 391; Emma, 390-391, 443;
Francis, 391; Hawise, 430; Hugh,
389; Jo., 391; Phil., 125–126,
390-391, 443; Ralph, 125-126,
390-391; Walter, 388, 390; Will.,
126, 391
Burnham, 6
church, 312
fee, 325
INDEX
457
Burnham, Norf., 3, 113-114, 125–127,
133, 141, 306, 325-326, 389-391 ;
churches, 389; priory, 392
Overy, Norf., 8, 126; church,
125
Sutton, Norf., 391, 392
Thorpe, Norf., 141, 296, 325-326,
389-392, 430
Westgate, Norf., 133
Burpham [ Bargham'], Suss., 23,
32, 37, 52, 71, 73, 75, 82, 94;
church, 37, 39, 72, 73, 313; lords
of, 75; manor, 40, 72, 74
Burser, John, 375
Burstow, Surr., church, 313
Burtoft, de, family, 119; Adam,
119; Ralph, 120
Burton, de, Eleanor, 186; Sir Tho.,
187; Sir Will., 186
Burton, Salop, 46
Burton [Bodecton,'' Budiktun '],
Suss., 1, 17, 20, 27; church, 27, 91
West, Notts., church, 413
Bury, Suss., 47
Bury St. Edmund's,
360, 424;
abbot, 149
Buryhurst, Suss., 62
Burys Hall, in Hillington, Norf., 443
Buscote, Berks., 136
Buscy [Busey, Bussey], de. See
Buci
Bushmead, prior, 255; priory, 250,
251
Buslingthorpe, Lincs., 439
Buteaute, Rog., 142
Butery, Will., 29
Buteswell [Butheswell], Suss., mill,
24, 66
Butler. See Boteler, le
Butler, king's, IOI
Buutorp, de, Cecily, 137
Bygot. See Bigod
Bygrave, Herts., 198-199; church,
198
Bykewell, Suss., manor, 87
Bylaugh, Norf., 330
Bysse, atte, Lora, 20
de la, John, 383
Bytham [Biham, Byham] Castle,
Lincs., 405-406, 441; manor, 406;
scutage, 204, 239
Cailli [Caili, Caillei, Cailly, Cally,
Caly, Cayly, Kaili, Kailli, Kaylli,
Kaylly], de, family, 296; Adam,
106, 306, 328, 335, 383-384, 403;
Alice, 383; Basilia, 148; Beatrice,
383; Edm., 384; Emma, 384;
Hen., 148; Isabel, 206; Joan, 384;
Jo., 383; Jordan, 383; Mabel,
106, 383; Margery, 383; Margt.,
384; Mich., 384; Osbert, 299,
382-383; Sir Osbert, 383-384;
Ralph, 382; Rog., 383; Sim.,
383; Tho., 51, 75, 88–89, 108, 129–
131, 384; Walter, 383; Will.,
300, 309, 382–383, 384 n.
Cailly in Normandy, honor, 382
Cainell, nr. Rome, 13
Cainhoe, Beds., 155, 172, 218, 258;
barony, 156; fee, 267; honor,
156, 217
Caisneio [Caisneto], de. See Chesney
Caister, Norf., 421, 422
Calais, 60, 330
Caldecote, Great and Little, Beds.,
219
Caldecote (in Northill), Beds., 265
Caldwell, prior, 253–256, 267; priory,
165, 267-268
CADE, family, 165; Arnulf, 293 ;
Ernaud, 293; Eustace, 293; Will.,
293
Cadebury [Catbury], Beds., 251, 256;
manor, 263, 264
Cadewell, de, Osbert, 428; Ric., 428
Cadwell in Tathwell, Lincs., 428
Cadworth, Wilts., 50
Caen, 66, 200; abbess, 390
Cahainges, de, Will., 353
See Keynes
Calke, canons of, 253
Calthorpe [Calethorp, Caletorp, Cal-
torp], de, family, 3, 296; Barthol.,
136; Cecily, 391; Isabel, 392
Jo., 392; Reg., 136; Ric., 136;
Walter, 118, 136–137, 319, 395, 432
Sir Walter, 137, 374, 392, 436
Will., 126-127, 134, 137, 391–392 ;
Sir Will., 136, 392
fee, 325
Calthorpe, Norf., 432-433
Calverton, Notts., 53
Calz. See Cauz
>
·
Cambray [Cambrai, Cumbrai], de,
family, 2; John, 352; Ralph, 77
See Cumbray
Cambridge, 100, 364; tournament,
215, 255
Cambrun, de, Alice, 277; Walter, 277
Camel, Som., honor, 272; manor, 280
Camelton.' See Campton, Beds.
Camera, de, Ralph, 62, 317
Camoys [Cameys], Hugh, 341; Jo.,
25, 86, 93, 340, 400; Sir Jo., S6,
435; Margt., 86, 93, 340, 400;
Ralph, 340; Sir Ralph, 92
Campellis, de, Rob., 60; Tho., 60
Campesse, nuns of, 118
Campsey Ash [Campesse], Suff., nuns
of, 118, 386; prioresses—187,
386; Agnes, 186; Joan, 428, 430
Campton, Beds., 62, 173, 227-230,
232, 236; manor, 170-171, 232
Camvill [Camvile], de, Gerard, 56,
283; Nicholaa, 56, 283; Tho., 56,
221
458
INDEX
Cancellis, de, Andrew, 235
Candidus, Hugh, 410
Candos, de, Ascelina, 389; Hawise,
389; Hugh, 389.; Juliana, 389;
Maheu, 103; Matt., 104
Candover ['Candewra '], Hants., 9,
88
"
Caneregge,' 311
Canfield, Little, Essex, 342, 370,
373-375; church, 310-311, 371–372
Cangham, de, Angot, 129; Augustine,
395; Geoff., 129; Ralph, 129;
Rog., 129; Will., 398; Will.,
priest, 129
Canning, de, Ric., 257 n.; Roese,
257 n.
Cantelupe [Cantilupo], de, family,
165; of Eaton Bray, Beds., 261;
Agnes, 260; Millesent, 422; Rog.,
260; Walter, 142; Will., 142, 160,
262, 283, 422
Canterbury, 194; cathedral, 51
archbishops-20, 23, 49, 58, 155,
162-163, 194-195, 331, 356, 365;
Boniface, 196; Hubert Walter, 21,
28, 29, 67, 135, 362, 386, 390;
Ralph, 37, 334, 437; Rob., 161;
Sir Rob., 162; Steph. de Langeton,
266; Theobald, 103, 393
Holy Trinity, John, prior, 160,
162
St. Augustine, abbey, 185;
abbot, 195-196
Cantis, in Horndon-on-the-Hill, 106
Cantley, Norf., 422
Capel, Hugh, 13
Capella, de, Barthol., 328
Capran, Mich., 397
Caprevill [Capravilla], de, Isabel,
425; Walter, 425
Carbrook, Norf., 107; Great, 109
Cardun, Geoff., 245
Carenci, de, Ilbert, 285, 286
<
Careslei,' Surr., 313
Carey [Kari], de, Alice, 81
Carisbrooke, honor, 241
Carle, Rob., 329
Carlisle, 32
Carlton, 309
Beds., 217, 218
Cambs., 155, 297, 437
Norf., 152
Forehoe, Norf., 143, 145
Rode, Norf., 132
Scroop, Lincs., 297, 416-417,
418; Hugh, parson, 417
Carrow, Magdalen, prioress of, 138;
nuns, 318
Cartworth, Yorks., 441
Carun [Caron, Caronn, Caroun,
Karon, Karun], de, family, 165;
Adeliza, 258; Agnes, 260; Amice,
258-259; Beatrice, 259; Eliz., 259;
Emma, 258; Flandrina, 259;
Hugh, 258-259, 261; Joan, 260;
Jo., 258-259, 365; Juliana, 258;
Lucy, 259-260; Margery, 259, 261 ;
Martin, 259; Matilda, 258-259;
Miles, 259; Osbert, 255; Ralph,
258; Ranulf, 258-259; Ric., 258
Rob., 167, 258-260; Rog., 260
Sibyl, 260; Tho., 259-260; Walter,
255, 258-259; Will., 258-261
Casingehan, de, Will., 293
Castellan, Joscelin. See Joscelin
Castello, de, Nich., 181, 388
Casterton, Little, Rutl., 281, 284
Castleacre, Norf., 297-298, 395–396,
424-425; castle, 307-308; honor of
Warenne, 296-443; manor, 384,
400, 427, 433; monks, 299, 372,
424, 443; prior, 373-374, 399, 425;
priory, 56, 112, 332, 360–361, 364,
371, 381-382, 385, 389, 390, 396-
397, 425, 437
'le Cherville,' 399
Castle Bainard, London, 397
Baynard, honor, 401
Biham,
Castle
Lincs. See Bytham
Richard, 36
Rising, Norf., 8, 9, 116, 124,
132, 385, 428; manor, 4, 154
See Rising
Caston [Castune, Catestun], de Jo.,
326; Rob., 325, 388; Will., 325
Caston, Norf., 299, 311, 322, 325–326,
385, 389; manor, 325-326
Catbury. See Cadebury
Caterham, 309
Catestun. See Caston
Catfield, Norf., 104, 108; church, 104
Catherington, Hants., 2, 77, 78, 347
in Chalton, Hants., 79, 80
next Blendworth, Hants., 94
Catton, Norf., 278
Yorks., 18
Causton, de, Will., 346
Caux, bailiff of, 413
Cauz [Calz, de Calceo], de, family,
I, 47; Agnes, 48; Godfrey, 48;
Hugh, 48; Muriel, 48; Ric., 206;
Rob., 7, 48; Rog., 206
Caversfield [Caversfeld, Kaveresfeld],
de, Hugh, 411; Rog., 411; Sibyl,
411-412; dame Sibyl, 410
Caversfield [Kaveresfeud],
Bucks.,
297, 308 n., 410-413, 415; Guy,
parson, 410
Caxton, Cambs., manor, 295
Caythorpe, Notts.,
Cedrefeld. See Cheddarfield
Celle, prioress of, 354
Ceptune.' See Chalton
Ceridone, de, Walerand, 196
Cernes [Cerne, Chernes, Sernys], de,
Amice, 259; Jo., 260; Nich.,
254, 259-260, 267
INDEX
459
Cerney Wike [' Cernawic '], Gloucs.,
170
Cestre [Cestria], de, Agnes, 48;
Geoff., 113, 279; Humph., 113;
Isabel, 279; Ric., 48
Cestrewald, Kent, wood, 194
Chaceporc, Peter, 213
Chaddenwick, Wilts., manor, 272
Chadlington [Chadelinton], de, Herb.,
243
Chadlington, Oxon., 165, 242–244
Wahull, Oxon., manor, 244
Chagele, de, Wlsi, 311
Chaggely, de, Alice, 82; Jo., 82
Chailey, Suss., 300, 319, 337, 382;
church, 338; manor, 336
Chalford, Oxon., 229
Chalk, Kent, 165, 167, 287-288,
289; manor, 168, 289, 291
East, Kent, 290
Chalneye, Suss., 89
Chalton, de, Will., 54, 264
Chalton, Hants., manor, 4, 77, 79
Chamberlain [Chaumberleyn], Lora,
27; Steph. le, 27
Chamberlain. See Adelold; Ansgot;
Burgh, de; Cormeilles, de; Fitz-
Gerold; Herbert; John; L'Isle,
de; Richard; Roald;
Roald; Talbot ;
Turpin; Warin; William
Chamberlaincy at the Exchequer,
171, 187, 224
Champaygne, John, 192
Changeton, de, Andrew, 352; Sibil,
352
Chantour, le, Ralph, 127
Chapmans-Combe, Som., 379
Chardwell manor, in Arkesden, Essex,
406
Charing, 184
Charles, of Loddon, family, 116;
Edm., 117; Edw., 117; Will.,
117; Sir Will., 117.
Charlton, Hants., 346
N'hants., 227
by Sutton Valence, Kent, 183,
185
Charneles, de, Geo., 59
Chart, East, Kent, 165, 287
Chateringeton.'
C
See Catherington,
Hants.
Chatham, Essex, 252
Chattegrove, de, Herbert, 302
Chatteris, abbess of, 270
Chauncels, de, Giles, 60
Chausi [Chausy], de, Geoff., 423;
Jo., 423
Chauton, de, Adam, 251
Chauvent [Champvent, Chaumpvent,
Chavent], de, family, 1, 2; Agnes,
45; Eva, 100; Jo., 45, 100;
Pet., 45, 100
Chaworth, family, 297; Gundreda,
414; Isabel, 414; Matilda, 414;
Pain, 414; Sir Pain, 241; Pat.,
240, 414
Chawston (in Roxton), Beds., 165,
248, 255, 267
Chawton, Hants., 58; manor, 58
Chedburgh, Suff., 361
Cheddarfield, Soms., 42
Chedny, de, Gregory, 75; Isabel,
75; Mabel, 75; Matilda, 75
See Cheney and Chesney
Chelesherste,' Kent, 184
Chellaston, Derbys., 253
Chellesfeud, de, Gilb., 52
Chelmsford, 294; forest, 289
Chelsfield, Kent, rector of, 196
Chelsworth, Suff., 165, 268-269, 273
Chenemondewiche. See Kinwick
(
Field, Beds.
Cheney [Chenei, Chennay, Chenny,
Cheyney], de, family, 347; Barthol.,
347, 348; Hugh, 25; Isabel, 75;
Nich., 75; Will., 59, 60
See Chesney
Chepstow, lord of, 209
Chequers [de Scaccario], de, Hen.,
171; Pernel, 171
Cherbourg, St. Mary's, Durant, abbot
of, 417
Cherebrok, de, John, 336
Cheresburgh [Cheresburc, de Caesaris
burgo], family, 157; Pet., 157;
Wigein, 157
Cherleton, de, James, 183; Walter, 44
Chernes, de. See Cernes
Chertsand (? near Polstead), 69
Chertsey, abbey, 24; abbot, 89
Chervill [Chefrevill, Cherevill,
Chevrevill, Chrevill, Karevill], de,
family, 297; Alice, 425; Fretheric,
425; Phil., 425; Reg., 425; Rob.,
155, 425; Rog., 425; Sim., 425;
Walter, 425; Will., 425
Chesfield, Kent, chapel, 293; church,
294
Cheshall, Great, Essex, 164
Chesham, Bucks., 278
Chesney [Caisneto, Chaisnei, Chais-
neto, Chesnei, Chesny, Kaineto,
Kauneto, Kayneto, Kaysneto,
Keidneto], de, family, 1, 2, 62, 63,
164, 227-231, 239-240, 296, 314;
Albreda, 317; Alice [Aeliza], 62,
227-229, 234, 238, 314, 318; dame
Alice, 63; Barthol., 349; Basilia,
315; Beatrice, 63, 227-230, 232,
238; Clemency, 314, 316–317, 321;
Dionisia, 62, 63, 227-229; Drew,
314, 315; Emma, 314, 316, 320;
Hawise, 227, 229-230, 234; Hugh,
17, 52, 62, 63, 227-230, 238, 315;
Isabella, 348; Joan, 348; John,
314-316, 318-320; Lucy, 63, 228,
230; Margaret [Margery], 314, 316–
318; Matilda, 119, 169, 227-231,
460
INDEX
234, 238, 314; Matt., 315, 316;
Pet., 315; Phil., 317; Ralph, 61-63,
227-230, 235, 300, 310, 312-316,
320, 438; Ranulf, 299; Ric., 67
Rob., 227, 229, 234, 314-316;
Rog., 10, 62, 227-229, 234, 237, 313;
Sarra, 314, 316, 317, 321; Sibyl,
314-316, 319; dame Sibyl, 316;
Walter, 235; Will., 24, 27, 62,
66, 119, 227-230, 232, 234, 314-318,
321. See Chedny and Cheney
Chesney, fee, 315
Chessington, Surr., 22
Chester, 15; abbey (St. Werburgh's),
213; fee, 42, 79, 205, 206, 239,
250, 286; honor, 140, 249;
justice, 76, 373; steward, 15
Chester, earls-14, 53, 152, 249;
Gherbod the Fleming, 298; Hugh,
77; Ranulf I, 77; Ranulf III, 13, 14
Chesterford, Little, Essex, 366
Chetton, Salop, 69
Chetwood [Chetwde], de, Ralph, 412
Chevre, Hamon, 397
Chevrevill. See Chervill
Chewton, barony, 248
Cheym, de, Barthol., 74
Chiche, Essex, 167
Chichester, 4, 41, 45, 57, 66, 69, 76,
83, 88, 90, 332
bishopric, 9, 98, 311
bishops-14, 47, 53, 61, 75, 81,
84, 331-332; Hilary, 30; Ralph,
41, 48, 71, 253, 311-313; Ralph II,
69; Ranulf, 153; Seifrid I, 351;
Seifrid II, 351; Sim., 353
castle, II; cathedral,
50;
churches, 7, 20, 25, 72–73, 83; dean
and chapter, 354; prebendary, 98
Will. de Aubigny II, earl, 7;
Will., earl, 33, 49, 72, 101, 103,
116, 117, 130-131, 133, 138, 300
See also Aubigny, de
Chicksand [Chikesand], Beds., 266;
prior, 264; priory, 280
Chidgrave, Norf., manor, 433
Chidham, Suss., 43, 44, 74, 75
Chienewe, Will., 6
Chieresburh, de, Ralph, sewer, 158
Chigwell, Essex, 200; manor, 206
Child [Chyld], family, 2; John, 88,
265; Tho., 88
Childerditch, Essex, 164, 202–206
Childerley, de, Hen., 208
Childerston, Kent, manor, 85
Child's Ercall. See Ercall, Salop
Chilgrove, Suss., 2, 87-88
Chillingham, Kent, 194
Chilson, Oxon., 208
Chilteston,' Kent, 86
Chilting, Suss., 79
Chiltington, Suss., 23, 324; church,
36
East, 322, 331
Chilton, Wilts., 234-236; lord of, 237;
manor, 236
Chilworth, Hants., church, 157
Chimela. See Keymer
Chingeston. See Kingston by Lewes,
Suss.
Chinon, 318; constable, 63
Chinting Chintinges'], Suss., 79,
80; manor, 80
Chipping Campden, Gloucs., 42
Chishall, Great, Essex, 187, 189-190
Chishell [Chissehill], family, 164; Jo.,
190; Tho., 190; Will., 190
Chislet ['Chistel'], Kent, 162
Chithurst, de, Morin, 52
Chithurst, Suss., 1, 52, 83, 86
Chobham, Surr., 24
Chokes, fee, 364; honor, 283
Cholington, 353. See Easthall in
Eastbourne
Christ Church, manor, 232
See Deddington, Oxon.
Christian usurer,' 293
Churton, Wilts., 87
Chykeswell (in Brenchley), Kent,
86
Chykewell. See Ickwell, Beds
Cicestre, de, James, 58
Cirencester, abbot of, 79, 412
Cirnindewyk. See Kinwick, de
Cissoch,' 73
(
"
Clae, honor, 110
Clair-Ruissel (Seine Inf.), nunnery,
421
Clairvaux, de, Pain, 6
Clapham, 232
Surr., 94
Suss., 31, 37
Clapton, Cambs., 164, 207-209
Clare [Clara], de, family, 1; Adeliza,
220; Baldwin, 220; earl, 243;
Gilb., 55, 220, 243, 329, 409;
Gilb., count, 220; Matilda, 50,
242-243; Ric., 55, 127, 220, 243;
Rog., 50, 242, 313; Rohaise, 220;
Will., 55
See Gloucester and Hereford
court of, 129; fee, 151; honor,
108-109, 134, 152, 242, 317, 400
Clavering, de, John, 109
See Fitz-Roger
Claxton, Norf., 102, 109
Claydon, Suff., hund., 204
Clayton, Suss., 339; church, 309;
lady of, 378; manor, 307
Clayton, Yorks., 420
Cleley, N'hants., hund., 379, 380
Clench, Mich., 402; Sir Tho., 402
Clenchwarton,
Norf., 320, 425;
church, 426
Clere, de, family, 296, 297, 355,
438; Agatha, 357, 438-439; Ha-
wise [Helewise], 355; Mabel, 356;
Margt., 348; Matilda, 356-357,
INDEX
461
439-440; Ralph, 335, 348-349,
355-357, 359 n., 438; Rog., 315,
355-358, 368, 438–440; Will., 359 n.
Clere. See Shyre
Clerkenwell, nuns of, 175
Clerks, Italian and Roman, 324
Cley, Norf., 105, 384
Cleydon, de, John, 207
Cleye, atte, Will., 60
Cliffe, Kent, 183, 184
Clifford, de, Isabel, 358; Matilda,
423, 440; Rob., 358; Rog., 423 ;
Sir Rog., 77, 423; Walter, 440;
Will., king's clerk, 256
Clifton [Clyfton], de, Adam, 121, 131,
384; Clementia, 143; Sir Ger-
vase, 143; Lucy, 52; Olimpiada,
266-267; Reg., 52; Rob., 266;
Rog., 384
Clifton, Beds., 165, 258–259, 261;
church, 267; lady of, 255
in Deddington, Oxon., 232,
233 n.; mill, 230-231, 239
Climping, Suss., 2, 65-67, 89, 90;
church and manor, 90
Clinton [Clynton], de, Geoff., 258,
364; Hen., 364; Juliana, 157, 161,
185; Will., 157, 161, 185, 335
See Huntingdon
Clipston, Norf., 325, 326, 391-392,
402, 404
Clitheroe [Cliderhowe, Clyderhowe],
de, Hugh, 209; Sir Hugh, 209
Clohale [Clothale], de, Adam, 43;
Christiana, 43
Clopton, de, Alice, 404; Walter,
319; Will., 404
Clopton, Suff., 334, 375, 381, 438;
manor, 440
Clovill, de, Will., 183
Clun, Salop, 76
Cluny, abbey, 23, 312; abbot, 73,
437
(
St. Olave's, prior, 120
Cnocke,' Kent, 158
Cnot, Walter, 147
Cnot. See Noth
Coates, Suss., 20, 23, 36
Cobham [Cobbeham, Cobeham], de,
Hawise, 192; Hen., 192, 197,
236; Jo., 192, 198; Sir Jo., 197,
199; Steph., 197; Tho., 197
Cockfield, Durham, 365
·
Suff., 363, 365; manor, 307,
362, 363
Berard, Suff., 359
Cocking, Suss., I, II, 16, 19, 20,
21-23, 27; church, 12, 20; manor,
22, 23
Cockley Cley, Norf., 104, 1OS
Cockthorpe, Norf., 151, 152
Cocleswrda.' See Chelsworth, Suff.
Coddenham, Suff., 213
Codelawe. See Cudlow, Suss.
Codington, de, Peter, 22
Coffin, Hugh, 162; Ric., 162
Coggeshale, de, Tho., 216
Coggeshall, Ralph, abbot of, 197
Coin, clipped, 278
Cokefeld [Cokefelt, Cuckefeld, Cukes-
feld, Kokefeld], de, family, 296,
359, 360; of Cockfield, 360-361; of
Feltwell, 360; Adam, III, 115,
328, 336, 345, 360-366; Adeliza,
359, 360; dame Adelizia, 360;
Aeliza, 361, 363; Agatha, III,
365; Alan, 360; Alice, 361, 365–
366; Ascelina, 72; Berard, 359,
360; Cecily, 374; Denise, 361
Eudo, 361; Hen., 363; Hugh, 361;
Isabel, 179, 365-366; Joan, 366–
367; Jo., 72, III, 329, 366, 374;
Lucy, 345, 363-365; Margt., 362
Nesta, 178, 215, 363, 365, 428;
Odo, 361; Osbert, 365; Philippa,
363; Rob., 305, 328, 345, 360-365,
373; Rob., chivaler, 367; lady
Rohais, 360; Rohaise, 362-363;
Sabina, 361 ; Sim., 361, 365;
Walter, 179
Cokefeld Hall, in East Tudenham,
Norf., 367
Cokeham, Suss., manor, 92
Coking, de, John, 26
Colchester, 155, 166, 168, 200-201,
204
abbey (St. John Baptist), 165,
166, 175, 181, 190-191, 193, 197,
210, 213, 217, 220, 225, 258, 268-
269, 271-272, 275, 281, 285, 287-
288, 291
abbots-175, 221-222; Adam,
197, 288; Hugh, 220; Walter,
191, 200
castle, 162, 167, 204, 289
fee, 227
honor of Eudes the Sewer,
164-295
monastery, 155, 167, 174, 248,
276; monks, 175, 178, 190, 193,
250, 273
priory of St. Botolph, 210
priors-286;
Hasculf, 213;
Hen., 193, 197
Ric., archdeacon of, 211, 407
Coldbridge, Kent, manor, 185
Colesdene, de, Will., 267
Colesdon (in Roxton), Beds., 267;
fee, 268
Coleston, Suff., 363
Colevill [Colvill], de, family,_297 ;
Beatrice, 405; Cecily, 406; Edm.,
406; Geoff., 60; Joan, 257;
Margery, 441; Margt., 406; Rob.,
406; Rog., 284, 306, 405-406, 441 ;
Walter, 406 ; Sir Walter, 284;
Will., 283, 405-406; Sir Will.,
257
462
INDEX
Coleworth, de, Eliz., 409, 410;
Erneburga, 410; Hugh, 409, 410 ;
Ric., 410
Colne, Essex, 213, 426
priors-214; Hugh, 175
Engaine, Essex, manor, 321
White, Essex. See White Colne
Colney, Norf., 109
Coltishall, Norf., 327-330
Colum, Suff., 317, 318
Columbels, de, Ranulf, 292
Columbers, de, Phil., 191; Rob., 171
Colyton, Devon, 38, 39
Combe [Cumba], de, family, 341;
Edm., 346; Osbert, 341; Ric.,
341
See also Cumbe
Combe, Devon, 376
Monceaux, Devon, 377
Combemartyn [Coumbemartyn], de,
family, 297; Adam, 414; Will.,
414
Comberton, Cambs., manor, 274
Combrai, de. See Cumbray
Combray, in Calvados, 78
Conibs, Suff., 428-429; manor, 429
Compton, II; church, 313
Compton, Hants., 377
Monceus,'' Monceux,' Hants.,
376-378
(
Surr., church, 56
Suss., 55, 59
Durville, Som., 264
West, Berks., 203, 205
Comyn [Cumin, Cumyn], family, 2;
David, 121, 403; Edw., 405; Eliz.,
Joan, 279;
402, 412, 430, 433;
Jo., 279; Will., 121
Conan, knight, 76
Congeham, de, Geoff., 396
Congham [Cungheam], Norf., 3, 6,
126, 129-130, 148, 297, 309, 395-
396, 398-399, 434-435, 443
Conicistre,' Suss., 327
Conisborough, Yorks., 417, 418 n.,
419; castle and manor, 306–308,
420; church, 312
Constable, le, Alice, 366; Geoff.,
366-367; Isabel, 366
Cooling by Rochester, 164, 190–192
Cootham, Suss., 40
Corbelin (of Petworth), 1, 17, 24
Corbet, family, 372; dame Edelina,
64; Rob., 80, 374
Corbuchiun, 9
Corbun, de, Hugh, 121
Corby, Lincs., 64; abbot, 346
Corfe, 416; castle, 204
Coringehal, Essex, wood, 274
Cormeilles, de, Beatrice, 172; Ralph,
chamberlain, 172
Cornhill, family, 165; Alice, 169;
Gervase, 285, 286; Hen., 286;
Joan, 286; Reg., 293
Cornhull, family, 161; Gervase, 162;
Hen., 161; Jo., 161; Margery,
160; Reg., 160–162
Cornwall, earls-236, 240, 256, 366;
Ric., 235, 439, 440
Cornwell, Oxon., 237, 240; church,
237; manor, 241
Corpusty, Norf., 441
Corsford, Suff., 365
Corton Denham, Som., 99
Costentin [Costentein,
[Costentein, Costentyn,
Costintin], de, family, 3; Geoff.,
251; Hen., 268; Isabel, 46; Jo.,
255; Reg., 255; Ric., 163, 251,
264; Tho., 46
Costessey, 437
Costeyn, Will., 134
Coston, de, Will., 133
Coston, Norf., 389
Cosyn, Rog., 337
Coteham, de, John, 178
Cotes, de, Andrew, 17; Thurs., 23
Cotes, Leics., 149
Norf., 119
Suss., 19
Coton in the Elms, Derbys., 29
Cottelegh [Cottele], de, Joan, 236;
Nich., 236
Cottenham, Cambs., 172; manor, 173
Cottingham, Yorks., 399
Couci [Coucy], de, earl Aubrey, 245;
Milicent, 421
Courtenhall, de, Adam, 414
Coutances, 250; bishop, 244, 281
Cove, de, Eva, 120, 121, 124, 126,
130, 131, 137, 147; Jo., 120-121,
124, 126, 130-131, 137, 147; Sir
Jo., 404
Cove, Suff., 327, 329-330
Covehithe, Suff., 327, 329, 333
Coveney, Cambs., 172; lord of, 209
Coveney with Manea, Cambs., manor,
173
Covert, John, 75
Cowbridge, Essex, 203
"
Cowdray by Midhurst, Suss., 92
Cowesby, Yorks., 396, 397, 399
Cowick Bury in Sheering, Essex, 297,
409-410
Cowlam, de, Lecia, 282
Cowton, Yorks., 104
Coxford [Cocksford], Norf., 320;
priory, 315-316, 318, 320–321, 443
Coxford, priors—319; Hugh de
Helman, 320; Matt. de Chesney,
316; canons, 320, 424
Coynte [Cunte], le, Alice, 265; Jo.,
80; Will., 265
Cradele,' Suss., 20
Craft, de, Beatrice, 61; Geoff., 61;
Rob., 61; Rog., 57, 61
Crafton, Bucks., 171, 297, 414-415
Crakeford, de, Geoff., 432
Cramavill, de, John, 363
INDEX
463
Cramele, de, Alan, 242
Cranbrook, Kent, 183
Cranewices, de, Pet., 381
Cranwick, Norf., 382-384; manor,
384
"
Craudon,' 311
Craunford, de, Rob., 232-233, 241;
Will., 233, 241
Craven, Yorks., 188
Crawe, Avice, 442; Nich., 442
Crawford, Great, in
Dors., 165, 248
Crawley (in Worth), Suss., 328, 357
Cray, de, Sim., 191
Cray, North, Kent, manor, 196
South or St Paul's, Kent, 164,
190-192
K
Spettisbury,
Creake, Norf., 112-114, 372
North, Norf., 428-430; manor,
173, 442
South, Norf., 8, 111-115, 338,
370, 373-375; church, 112
Crec [Creike, Crek, Creke], de, family,
152, 297, 428-430; Agnes, 428,
430; Barthol., 178, 215, 362-363,
394, 428-430, 442; Sir Barthol., 316;
Dionisia, 430; Geoff., 429; Hugh,
397; Isabel, 428; Jas., 429;
Joan, 430; Jo., 428-429, 442;
Mabel, 430; Margery, 428-429, 442 ;
dame Margery, 120; Margt., 428,
430; Pet., 428; Richemay, 428;
Rob., 394, 428-429; Sarah [Sarra],
429, 442; Will., 429
Creeton, Lincs., 283; manor, 284
Crekelaw, Kent (?), 157 n.
Creppinges, de, Alan, 372; Alice,
336; Eliz., 259; Hugh, 409;
Will., 259, 261, 336
Creppyngefe. See Deopham, Norf.
Cressi [Creissi, Creissy, Cressy], de,
family, 109, 296, 320; Berenger,
396; Hugh, 184, 279, 304, 314,
316-317, 320, 321; Isabel, 279, 396;
Jo., 321; Margery, 321; dame
Margery, 321; Margt., 314, 316–
318, 321; Rog., 279, 304, 314, 316–
317, 320-321; Steph., 279, 321;
Will., 321
'Cristmelden,' near Langley, Kent,
183
Croc, huntsman, 234
Croc [Crok], Hen., 235, 236
Crockerhill, Suss., 60
Cressingham, de, John, 443
Crevequer, de, Rob., 184, 292
honor, 343
Crey, de, Sim., 192; Will., 192
Crich, Derbys., barony, 419; manor,
419
Cricklade [Acre de Crichelade], Wilts.,
164, 224
Criketot [Cricetot, Crichetot], de,
Adeliza, 360; Hemfrey, 360–361;
Will., 299, 300, 373
Criksea ['Crikes '], Essex, 190
Crioll [Criol, Cryel, Cryol], de, Ber-
tram, 101, 160-161, 330; Sim., 158
Crispin, Miles, 227-228, 234
Croft, de, Phil., 50, 51
Croft, Norf., 320
Croftes, de, Hugh, 51
Crofton, Bucks., manor, 350
Suss., 25
Croismere, church, 339
Croix St. Leufroy, abbot of, 88
Crowe, Rob., 325
Crowland, Lincs., St. Guthlac's, 148;
abbot, 282
Croxton, Cambs., 25, 26
Norf., 325-326, 336-337, 389,
391, 394, 404; church, 336-337,
390; manor, 327
Croydon, Cambs., 207-209
Kent, 192
Croyroys [Croiroys, Crosroys]. See
Royston
Cruchestok.' See Stoke Holy Cross,
(
Norf.
Crum.' See Carun
Crundel [Grundel], Ralph, 391
Crungelthorpe [Crungethorp], de,
Ric., 343; Will., 143, 325
Crusaders, 262, 278, 301, 421
Crython, Norf., 320
Cuckfield, Suss., 309, 326; church,
311
Cudham, Kent, manor, 320
Cudlow, Suss., 1, 52-54
Cuini, de, Ranulf, 7; Will., 7, 141
Cuiniis [Cuneus '], de, Ranulf, 141
Cuinnis, de, Hodierna, 141; Ran-
dulf, 141
Culpho, Suff., 128, 129
Cumbe, de, family, So; Nich., So;
Nigel, So; Phil., 48
See also Combe
Cumberworth, Yorks., 420
Upper, 419
Cumbes, de, Ailnod, 304; Ric., 404;
Rob., 304
Cumbray [Combrai, Cumbrai,
Cumerai], de, Alvred,
de, Alvred, 77, 78;
Geoff., 78; Ralph, 77, 78; Ric.,
77; Rog., 77; Will., 78
See Cambray
Cumeaus, de, Hamon, 141; Ranulf,
141
Cumin [Cumyn]. See Comyn
Cumpton, de, Master John, 232
Curchun [Curcion], de, Ric., 134;
Will., 5, 134
Curci [Curcy], de, family, 2, 165, 243 ;
of Stoke Curcy, 247; Alice, 169;
Rob., 47, 101, 349; Will., 120, 169
fee, 49, 182, 191, 208-209, 274,
340; honor, 170, 232, 242, 243
Curry, Soms., 42
464
INDEX
Curteis, le, Will., 304
Curtenay, de, Hugh, 173, 174
Curtun, de, Will., 167
Curzon, Will., 145
Cusaunce, de, Beatrice, 274; Pet.,
274
Cusworth, Yorks., 297, 418-419
Cuverville, 322
Cuvett, Mary, 44; Will., 44
Cuwyk.' See Cowick Bury
¿
D'ABERNON
[D'Abernoun].
Abernon, de
Dagolun. See Aguillon
Dakeny, Tho., 329
Dale, de la, Isabel, 179; Sir John,
179
Dalling, de, Hamon, 150; Phil., 150;
Ralph, 394
Dalling, Norf., 152, 153, 325, 394;
church, 151
Field, 141, 151
Dallington, Suss., 39
Dalton, de, John, 330; Margery,
330; Sir Rob., 330
Dalton, par. Rotherham, Yorks.,
419-420
Dalton, Yorks., 297
Damas, John, 109
428
Dartford, Kent, 58
See
Damietta, 13
Dane in Thanet, Kent, manor, 185
'Danefella.' See Denver, Norf.
Daneis [Dacus], Will., 251
Danmartin [Damartin, Dammartin,
Donmartin], Alice, 381; Aubrey,
287; Basilia, 73; Juliana, 422 ;
Matilda, 287; Odo, 313; Sarra,
73; Steph., 73
Dannay [Daneghithe], in Hurstpier-
point, wood, 333
Danys, Geoff., 428, 442; Margery,
S
Dattisham, Suss., 31, 32
D'Aubeny. See Aubigny, de
D'Aumarle. See Albemarle
D'Aundely, Joan, 369; John, 369
D'Autry [D'Autrey], Alice, 87; Eva,
92
Daventre, de, John, 380
David (of Little Casterton, Rutl.),
281
Dawley, Midd., 372, 374
Dayvill, de, Walter, 89
Dean [Deen], de, Will., 278
Dean [Deane, Dene], Kent, 86, 157 n.,
185
Dean (in Spilsbury), Oxon., 229,
243
Dean, Suss., 346
East, Suss., 7, II, 19
West, Suss., 2, 7, 87-88
Debach, Suff., 424
Debenham, Suff., 73, 366-367, 388
Deddington, Oxon., 62, 164, 227-
233, 240; castle, 63, 64; manor,
63, 64
Dedincton,' 313
(
Deepdale, Norf., 152
Deepden, Suff., 296, 381-382
Deepham, Norf., 151
Dena, de, Ralph, 79
Denford, Suss., 50
Denham, Suff., 319; manor, 126
Denmark, 203
Denmead, Hants., 65
Denton, Lincs., 387
Denver [Danevela,' Denevere], de,
Osbern, 381 ; Rob., 381, 426;
Walter, 426
Denver, Norf., 296, 328, 380, 382-
384 manor, 383-384
Deopham, Norf., 322, 326, 338;
Creppyngefe, 337; Dalling, 325
Deptford, Kent, manor, 320
Dereby, de, Agnes, 144; Alice, 144;
Beatrice, 144; Kath., 144; Tho.,
144
Dereham [Derham], de, Isabel, 121,
133; Will., 133
Dereham, Norf., 329, 380-382
West, abbey, 105, 304, 329, 373,
426
Derinton,' Wilts., manor, 85
Dersingham, de, Godwin, 120
Dersingham [Dursingham], Norf., 2,
120-121, 133
Despenser, le, Baldwin, 10; Hen.,
254; Hugh, 179, 223, 333, 414;
Sir Hugh, 233; Isabel, 342, 414;
John, 236, 237; Thurstan, 223
See Osmund
Detling, Kent, 332
Deulebencie the Jew.
D'Evereux, Will., 144
Devizes, Wilts., 414; castle, 379
Devon, countesses-184, 236; Amice,
See Jews
236, 239; Isabel des Forz, 224, 226;
Margery de Rivers, 170; Margt. de
Rivers, 190, 201–202, 208, 223, 226,
358
<
<
earls-228; Baldwin, 235, 239;
Baldwin de L'Isle, 170, 186, 226;
Will., 207
See also Albemarle
Dewsbury, Yorks., manor, 307
Dichelei, de, Thurstan, 197
Dickley [Dikeley] in Mistley, Essex,
164, 192-194
Diddington, Warws., 362
Diddlebury, Salop, church, 90
Didling, Suss., 65-66; manor, 67, 68
Didlington, Norf., 311, 384, 393, 395
Digoun. See Nugoun
Dillington, 257
Dilwick, in Stagsden, Beds., 250,
255
INDEX
465
Dinan [Dinant, Dinaunt, Dinham],
de, family, 2; Alan, 99; Alda,
212; Geoff., 212; Sir Geoff., 212;
Hawise, 99; Joice, 99; Oliver, 99;
Rolland, 9, 10, 46, 99; Rolland,
vicomte, 99; Sibil, 99
Dinton, Bucks., 107, 108
Ditcham, Hants., 55
Ditchingham, Norf., 429
Ditchling [Dicelinges], Suss., 305,
326, 340, 370; church, 3II;
manor, 307
Ditton Priors, Salop, manor, 318
Dive [Dyve], de, family, 1, 62, 239;
of Balderton, Notts., 64; of
Brampton, N'hants., 64; of Hinx-
ton, Cambs., and Corby, Lincs.,
64; of Thundridge, Herts., 64;
Alice, 64, 232; Cecily, 62; Guy,
63, 228, 230, 231; Hen., 26 n.,
64, 232, 233; Hugh, 62, 335; Jo.,
63, 64, 232, 233; Lucy, 63, 228,
230; Marca, 233; Margt., 335;
Sibyl, 63; Will., 25, 62, 63, 228,
231, 232, 240
Docking [Docching, Doching, Dock-
yng], de, family, 3; Albert, 133;
Harvey, 148; Nich., 133; Ralph,
133; Ric., 133; Richer, 133, 148
Docking, Norf., 3, 129, 130, 133–134,
395
Dodelesfold, nr. Petworth, Suss., I,
20, 30
Dodilendtun. See Didlington, Norf.
Doisnell [Duisnell], Juliana, 376;
Rob., 376
Dol, de, Sir Hugh, 69; Sir Ric., 69
Domfront, 416
Donnington, Lincs., 107
D'Orival [Aureavalle, Aurevalle,
Orval, de Rivallis], family, 2;
Emery, 78; Mabel, 57; Muriel,
56, 57; Rainald, 56; Reg., 56, 57
Dorking, Surr., 355, 419; manor, 307
Dornford, par. Wootton, Oxon., 237,
239-241
Dover, 233, 293, 387; castle, 156,
427; constable, 160; honor, 172,
294, 319, 427
Doverbec, mill, 112
Dovre, de, Hugh, 235
Down Ampney, Gloucs., 170
Down Hall, Essex, 271
Draper, le, Simon, 53
Draycote, Wilts., 235, 236
Draycote Foliot, Wilts., manor, 236
Drayton, le, Geoff., 260; Joan, 260;
Miles, 260
Drayton, in Farlington, Hants., 2,
95-96
Drew, huntsman, 41
Driby [Dryby], de, Joan, 39, 45, 51,
88; Jo., 121
Drincourt, hospital, 318
Drokensford, de, John, 272
Drosei, de, Will., 301
Drumare, de, Reg., 191
Dublin, 194, 353
Ducklington, Oxon., 62, 228, 230-231,
233; manor and park, 63, 64
Duddington, N'hants., manor, 283
Dudelesfald, de, Rob., 30; Theo-
doric, 30
Suss., 2, 53, 76–77, 82
Norf., 398, 399
Dreu brother of John the chamber-
lain, 424
III.
Dummer, Hants., 86
Dummere, Ric. le, 59
Dumpford, Suss., 65, 66; lord of,
86; manor, 67, 68
Duncton, Suss., 1, 11, 16, 19, 20, 30,
92, 93; chapel, 17; manor, 19;
mill, 10
Dune [Dunne], de la, Margery, 221;
Rob., 294; Will., 221
Dunham, Essex, 208
Norf., 380-382, 384; church, 396
Great, Norf., 119
Duniland, East, Essex, 210
Dunmawe [Dunemawe], de, Gilb.,
401; Ralph, 167; Will., 401
Dunmow, Essex, 164, 167, 213–216,
219
Great, Essex, 212, 296, 400-402
Dunsby, Lincs., 188
Dunstable, priory, 156
Dunstanvill, of Idsall, Salop, Heytes-
bury, Wilts., and Burpham, Suss.,
family, 1, 37-39; Adeline, 20 n.;
Alan, 37, 38; Alice, 38, 39;
Denise, 39; Grace, 39; Gundreda,
37; Jo., 39; Muriel, 38; Petronilla,
39; Rainald or Reg., 20 n., 37;
Rob., 37-39; Rohaise, 39; Sibil,
38, 39; Walter, 9, 37-39, 71; Will.,
38
Dunston, Norf., 102, 109, 132
Dunton, de, Amabil, 394 ; Ywan, 394
Dunton, Beds., 227
Norf., 95
Dunwich, Suff., 122, 381
Dureford, Suss., abbey, II, 12, 18,
25, 35, 54, 55, 84-85, 91, 351
Dureshurst, Suss., wood, 30
Duresme [Dunholmo], de, Joslain,
401; Tho., 401
Durham, bishops-Anthony de Bek,
68; Hugh Puiset, 416
Duuerent, de, Ralph, 321
Dyve. See Dive
Dyvenes, Rob., 366
EARTHAM, Suss., 25, 299
Easebourne [Eselburna, Esseburn],
Suss., II, 65, 66; manor, 68;
prioress, 20
2 H
466
INDEX
Easebourne, near Midhurst, Suss.,
church, 65; manor, 66
Eastacre. See Castleacre
Eastbourne, Suss., 62; manor, 33
East Bridge, Kent, 162
Eastergate, Suss., 2, 89
Easthall in Eastbourne, 353
Easthorpe, Essex, 204; manor, 205
Eastling, Kent, manor 185
Easton [Eston], de, Reg., 282; Sim.,
282
Easton [Essendon, Estun], 310, 311
Easton, Herts., manor and church, 7
N'hants., 165, 167, 273, 281-285
Suff., 117
Bavents, Suff., 22, 135
Great, Essex, 370, 371, 373-375
Easwrith, court, 39
Eaton, Beds., 267
Bray, Beds., 250, 261
Socon, Beds., 165, 166, 248-257,
259-261, 264-265, 267; barony,
168, 261, 263; honor, 262; manor,
168
Eccles, Norf., 3, 132, 144
Eccleshale, de, Ralph, 420
Eckington, Derbys., 313
Edburton, 349
Eddesden, Suss., 87
Eddlesborough
[Edelesbiri],
Hugh, 254; Oliver, 254
Eddlesborough [Edlesborough],
Bucks., 250, 251, 256
Edenesore, de, Ric., 287
Edgefield, Norf., 118
Edgeworth, Gloucs., 107
Edingthorpe, Norf., 437
Edisfeld, de, Pet., 135
Edith, queen, 355
Edmonton, Midd., 318, 350
Edstan, 360
Edward (of Great Crawford, Dors.),
de,
248; prince, 184, 205, 215, 277–
278, 290, 333, 369, 398
Edwardstone, Suff., 291, 366
•
Edwin, priest of Hammes, 315
Effordeby.' See Asserby
Egdean, Suss., 19, 91, 92; church, 91
'Egelie,' Suss., 76
Egerindenn, de, Josceus, 158
Eggelawe,' castle, 372
Eggemare, de, Adam, 114
Eggesfeld, de, Pet., 437
Egmere, Norf., 297, 428-430
Eiland. See Nayland, Essex
Eincurt, de, Alice, 238; Jo., 238
Einesford, de, Eleanor, 251; Will.,
250-251, 264
'Eineswrd.' See Chardwell manor,
in Arkesden, Essex
'Eissart,' 73
Elbode, knight, II
Elbridge [Elbrugg '], Suss., 36, 59,
87
Eleanor, daughter of Joscelin the
castellan, 65; princess, 205; queen,
18, 19, 64, 77, 118, 170, 222, 281,
284, 337, 368, 432
Eleigh, Suff., manor, 122
Elham, Kent, 5, 6, 12, 101, 160,
162, 163; lady of, 185; manor,
157, 184
Eling, Hants., 86; manor, 85
Elingham, Suss., church, 27
Elinton,' Suss., 332
Ellingham, Norf., 119, 132, 151, 385,
388, 389; Little, 337, 338, 387, 388
Ellis, marshal, 206; Rohaise, wife, 206
Elm, Cambs., manor, 404
Elmer [Elmere], Will., 23, 32, 75
Elmer, Suss., 30, 32, 39
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Elmham, Suss., 67
Elmsett, Suff., 167, 174-177, 247;
lady of, 177
Elmstead, Essex, 201
Elmstone, Kent, 184; manor, 185
Elsing, Norf., 296, 395-400; manor,
148
Elvedon, Suff., 296, 342-344
Elvested, Suss., 86
Ely, 353, 382, 426
bishops-107,
St. Etheldreda, 359; fee, 104;
monks, 298; prior, 108, 202
Empshott, Hants., 93
Emsworth, Hants., 349, 350
Engaine [Engayne], de, family, 321;
Joan, 257; Jo., 257, 268; Sir Jo.,
257; Kath., 257; Margt., 317;
Sarra, 314, 317, 318, 321; Tho.,
257; Vital [Vitalis], 314, 317-318,
321
Engeler (of Up Marden, Suss.), 65
England, marshal of, 68
127-128, 172-
173, 203, 214, 216, 218, 293-294,
361-362, 427; Hugh, 362; Nigel,
155, 214
Englishcumb, Som., 356
Englishman. See Alvred
Enhale, Norf., 372
Envaise, le, family, 213; Hamon,
213; Isabel, 213
Ercall, Salop, 390
"
Child's, Salop, 390, 391
Erchelawis,' Kent, manor, 155, 217
Erdale, de, Adam, 212
Erdington [Erdinton],
de,
Hen.,
369; Mary, 46; Rohaise, 362-363;
Tho., 46, 91, 362–363, 365
Erdington, Salop, 183
·
Warws., manor, 363
Erdlaveswyke,' Suss., 316
Erham, Suss., 88
Eriswell, Suff., 165, 167, 268-271,
273, 285
Erlegh, de, John, 50
Erlham, de, Jo., 95; Ralph, 95;
Tho., 399
INDEX
467
<
Ermentrude (of Eaton Socon, Beds.),
255
Ernald (of Graffham, Suss.), 61;
(of South Stoke, Suss.), 47; see
Arnald
Erneslund, in Thredling hund., Norf.,
105
Ernucion (of Greatham, Suss.), 37
Erpeford, Essex, 210
Erpingham [Herpingham], de, Rob.,
431
Erpingham, Norf., 432; church,
431; South, 152
Escales, de, Margery, 111; Rob.,
III, 114
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See Scales
Eschequer, del, Matt., 159; Matilda,
159
Esher, Surr., 88, 89
Eskirmesur, de, Levina, 316; Will., 316
Esmerewic,' Suss., 345
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?
Esquier, le, Gilb., 180
Essarts [Essarz], de. See Assarts
'Esse.' See Ash Maners, Hants.
Essex, countesses-198; Christiana
de Mandevill, 121, 393
See also Mandevill, de
Essex, de, Alice, 407, 408; Hen.,
128, 162, 194, 407; Sir Hen., 107;
Rob., 407
Estdene, de, Ralph, 54
Esthalle, de, Hen., 133, 134, 384
'Esthurst.' See Hurstmonceaux,
Suss.
Estmore, Norf., 269
Estone,' Suss., 72
Estrangia, wife of Geldwin son of
Savary, 66
earls-Geoff., 211, 225, 252, 371;
Geoff. de Mandevill, 213, 214, 225,
249; Geoff. Fitz-Piers, 214, 319;
Hugh, 371; Will. de Mandevill,
121, 225, 393
Estre, de, Ralph, 5
Estres, in Normandy, 73
Estretementon.' See Strettington
Estselve.' See Shelve, Kent.
Estun,' dioc. of Lincoln, 281
See Easton on the Hill, N'hants.
Estur, Matilda, 44, 45
Esturmi [Estormi, Esturmy, Sturmi,
Sturmy], family, 1, 45; Hugh, 12,
42-43, 45, 49, 87, 96; Jo., 45; Sir
Jo., 45, 123; Rose, 45; Sarah, 45;
Will., 45
Etchden, Kent, 162
Eton [Etun], de, Avice, 265;
Beatrice, 267; Joan, 265; Mar-
gery, 265; Nich., 265; Ric., 267 ;
Rob., 265, 267; Tho., 265
Eu, counts of, 3, 157, 159–161, 163,
218, 277, 375, 377; Hen., 12, 331;
Jo., 4, 9, 12, 155-156, 158, 376;
Rob., 345
Eu, countesses-156, 161, 163, 277,
377, 418; Alice, 4, 9, 12, 101, 155,
158, 162, 184
de, John, 158, 218; Rob., 277 ;
Will., 155
honor, 156, 163
Eudes the sewer, 31, 56, 58, 69, 81,
147, 149, 155, 165–166, 168-169,
174-175, 177, 180, 182, 186-187,
189-193, 198-202, 207, 210, 212-
214, 217, 218, 220, 225, 227, 230,
248-250, 258, 261-262, 264-265,
267-269, 271, 273, 275, 277-279,
281, 285, 287, 292, 294, 345, 393,
407, 415, 426
Rohaise, wife, 166, 220, 273
honor, 164-295
Eueresa, de, Isabel, 243; Rob., 243
Eustace, 309; count, 393
Euston, Suff., 326; manor, 140, 141,
326
Everland.’ See Overland, Kent
Evermuth, de, Isabel, 246, 247;
Reg., 246, 247
Eversden, Cambs., 208, 209, 388;
church, 208
Evesham, battle, 63, 71, 98, 115,
142, 236, 279, 290
Ric., abbot of, 71
Evesk, le, Elias, 381
Ewell, de, Ric., king's serjeant, 256
Ewisham.' See Howsham, Essex
Ewyas, Herefords., 366
Exchequer, chamberlainship, 187
Exeter, bishops-74, 86, 313, 381;
Will., 413
Eye, constable of, 439; court of, 28;
honor, 204, 302, 438-440
Eyneford, de, Isabel, 196; Will., 162,
195
(
C
Eynesworth, Essex, 407; chapel,
407, 408; fee, 187
Eynsford, Kent, manor, 185
Eynsham, abbey, 231, 237, 243;
abbot, 62; monks, 229, 230, 237–
239, 242
Eyot, John, 59
'Eystan atte Mounte.'
Great, Essex
See Easton,
FACED, la, Ralph, 286
Fagesflore, de, Baldwin, 223
Fakenham, Norf., 120; manor, 13,
14
St. Stephen's, prior, 326
[' Fageham '], Little, Suff., 120;
church, 34
Falaise [Faleise, Faleyse], de, family,
I; Agnes, 41-43; Alice, 43, 45;
Ellis, 43; Emma, 41, 60; Hugh,
41; Jo., 41; Margt., 43; Pet.,
45; Will., 41, 43, 247
See St. Jean
468
INDEX
Falcon (of Pitsea, Essex), 220
Falconer [Fauconer, Faukener,
Faulkener], family, 2; Agnes, 94;
Geoff., 10; Jo., 109, 147, 325;
Ric., 94; Rog., 96; royal, 94–95;
Safrid, II; Will. of Wade, 97
Faldgate, Norf., 148
'Falesh.' See Foulsham, Norf.
Falmer [Falemella, Falwella], Suss.,
299, 309, 310, 311
Falsham, de, John, 363
Farley, Surr., 22
Farlington [Farlyngton], de, John, 96
Farlington, Hants., 95, 96
Farnbridge, Essex, 278
Farnet,' Surr., 73
Farnham, castle, 58
•
Farningham, Kent, 195
Farthingho [Farningho], N'hants.,
165, 245-246
Fastolf, John, 109
·
Fauflore.' See Fawler, Berks.
Favarches, de, Geoff., 59; Olive, 58;
Will., 8, 58
Faversham, Kent, 330
Fawler [Fallow], in Sparsholt, Berks.,
171, 174, 223; manor, 224
Fawn [Faeto, Facatus], Ralph, 402
Fay, de, Beatrice, 48, 335-336, 356-
357; Jo., 356-357, 439; Matilda,
356, 439, 440; Philippa, 357;
Ralph, 356
"
Febbinges,' Essex, 183
Fecamp, de, Nich., 170
Fécamp, Holy Trinity, abbey, 41;
abbots-15, 47; Hen., 30; Ralph
de Argenciis, 31
Feckenham, Worcs., forester of, 208
Fedric, fee, 396
Feldstede, de, Will., 390
Fellech, de, Edeline, 69
Felsted, Essex, 390
Essex, Grancurt's alias Gron-
ker's manor, 390
Felthorpe, Norf., 399, 436
Felton, de, Rob., 119
Feltwell, Norf., 296, 308 n., 334,
337-338, 359-367, 370, 372, 375;
church, 311, 371; manor, 335-337
Ferendene, de, Alsi, 242
Fering, de, Amfrey, 47
Feringes, de, Alfred, 324
Feritate, de, Will., 85
Ferles, de, Will., 169
'Fernet,' Surr., manor, 73
Fernhurst, Suss., I, 20, 25, 30
Ferre, Guy, 247, 278
Ferrers, de, Hen., 246
Ferrers, Will., earl of, 170, 379, 380
Ferring, Suss., 47
Fersfield, 13
Ferte, de la, Gundreda, 414; Margt.,
414; Will., 204
Ferthington, de, John, 147
Fetcham, Surr., 309, 340
Field or Wood Burcote, near Tow-
cester, N'hants., 169
Field Dalling, Norf., 141, 326
Fienes, de, Felicia, 422; Ingram,
422; Will., 423
Fifhide [Fyfhide], de, Agnes, 352;
Joan, 352; Will., 352; Sir Will., 352
Figheldean with Ablinton, Wilts., 85
Filby, Norf., 321-322, 327-330
Filiol [Filliol], Margery, 354; Ric.,
354; Will., 220
Filkins, Oxon., 239
Fillingham, Lincs., church, 56
Fimborough, Suff., 29, 145, 167,
172-173, 324, 325; manor, 173
Finamur, Joan, 55; Will., 55
Fincham [Fyngham], Norf., 296,
308 n., 345-346, 370, 373-375, 381,
392; St. Mich., church, 372-373
Finchdean, court, 78
Fincheam, de, Nigel, 371
Finchingfield, Essex, 400
Fishbourne, Suss., 2, 89
Fishlake, Yorks., manor, 307, 420
Fittleworth, Suss., 91, 92
Fitz-Adam, Sim., 294
Fitz-Alan, family, 2, 15, 47; of Clun,
Salop, 76; Edm., 15, 16, 118
Eudes, 7, 21, 22; Gunnor, 21, 22;
Jo., 14, 19, 44, 47, 53, 58, 63, 67–68,
70, 76, 98-99, 131-133, 135-138,
140, 147-148; Sir Jo., 51; Mary, 46;
Ric., 16, 45, 47, 58, 133, 139; Roald,
276; Will., 22, 46-47, 67, 76, 91
fee, 91; honor, 249
Fitz-Aldelin, Juliana, 376; Ralph,
376; Will., marshal, 376
Fitz-Alexander, Nigel, 113
Fitz-Alvred, Adam, 403; Will, 364
Fitz-Bernard, Alina, 219; Joan, 111;
Ralph, III; Tho., 219
Fitz-Brien, Aveline, 22; Brien, 22;
Cecily, 22; Eudes, 22; Isabel, 22;
Sarah, 22
Fitz-Count, Brien, 234; Matilda, 234
Fitz-Duncan, Alice, 223
Fitz-Eilwin [Ailwin], Alan, 349;
Hen., 348-349; Isabella, 348;
Orabilis, 349; Pet., 348-349
Fitz-Ernold, Alice, 186; Rob., 186
Fitz-Fucher or Fulcher, Hen., 188;
Nich., 188
Fitz-Fulk, Ralph, 270
Fitz-Geoffrey, John, 14, 253, 357-358;
Margery, 357; Sir Ric., 358;
Will., 201-202, 253
Fitz-Gerold, family, 164-165, 211,
226, 228, 234, 237; Agnes, 171;
Alex., 221, 223; Alice, 119, 169,
172-173, 223; Ermentrude, 169-
171; Hen., 119, 155, 168–171, 173,
186, 191, 193, 212–213, 218, 220, 223,
228; Hen., chamberlain, 175, 177,
INDEX
469
180, 182, 186-187, 189-190, 194,
198-202, 207, 210, 214, 216, 220,
224-225, 227, 230, 238, 242; Hugh,
223; Margt. or Margery, 169
Matilda, 119, 169, 227-228, 238;
Ralph, 220-221; Ric., 242; Rob.,
172-173; Warin, 119, 169–171, 173,
201, 203, 208-209, 213, 217-220,
224, 228, 230-232, 242-243, 245,
286; Warin, chamberlain, 168-169,
223, 225; Sir Warin, 220, 225
Fitz-Gerold, fee, 221; honor, 232
Fitz-Gery['Geri '], Ralph, 220
Fitz-Gilbert, Ric., 167; Rohaise, 167
Fitz-Godebold, Rob., 276
Fitz-Godric, Eudes, 5; Ralph, 5
Fitz-Herbert, Eudes, Alice, 272,
321; Herbert, 321; Sim., 190
Fitz-Hubert, Adam, 190, 197-199,
227,287, 292-294; Eudes, see Eudes
the sewer; Pet., 321
Fitz-Hugh, Ric., 203; Rob., 213
Fitz-John, Agnes, 103-104; Aveline,
358; Isabel, 358; Joan, 358; Jo.,
358; Matilda, 358; Pain, 103-104,
108; Phil., 276; Ric., 358
Fitz le Persone. See Persone
Fitz-Murdrac, Rob., 238
Fitz-Nicholas, Ralph, 191, 192, 240
Fitz-Nigel, Isabel, 244; Joan, 244;
Jo., 244
Fitz-Oger, Michael, 252
Fitz-Osbern, Rog., 395; Sir Rog.,
152; Will., 228, 234, 237. See
Hereford
Fitz-Osbert, family, 2, 3, 297; Alice,
430; Isabel, 429;
429; Pet., 429;
Ric., 249; Rog., 133, 152, 173,
429, 430; Sarah, 173, 429, 430
Fitz-Otes, Beatrice, 290-291; Hugh,
291; Joan, 291; Matilda, 291;
Otto or Otes, 290-291 ; Tho.,
290-291
Fitz-Otho, Hugh, 406
Fitz-Pain, John, 221
Fitz-Peter, Ralph, 202, 203
Fitz-Philip, Juliana, 276; Rob., 276
Fitz-Piers, Geoff., 195, 214, 282, 291,
319
Fitz-Piers alias Fitz-John, family, 296
Fitz-Ralph, family, I; Brien, 21;
Cecily, 203; Hubert, 419; Hugh,
419 Juliana, 419; Ric., 203;
Sim., 117; Will., 24
Fitz-Randulf, Matilda, 372; Will.,
371-372
Fitz-Raven, Mabel, 417; Will., 417
Fitz-Reinfrid, family, 165; Rog., 286
Fitz-Richard, Alex., 213; Will., 202,
Fitz-Roger, family, 164; Gilb., 397;
Jo., 316; Margt., 316, 321; Rein-
frid, 286; Rob., 316, 320–321, 345;
Sir Rob., 109
Fitz-Simon, family, 165, 297; Adam,
286; Jo., 294
Fitz-Simond [Symund], le, Hugh,
294; Sir Hugh, 295; Margt., 295
Fitz-Swain, family, 297; Adam, 420
Fitz-Tetbald, Rob., 4, 61, 62
Fitz-Urse, Margt., 317; Ralph, 203 ;
Ric., 317
Fitz-Vincent, Sim., 397
Fitz-Walkelin, Rob., 171
Fitz-Walter, Alice, 173, 280; Chris-
tiana, 121, 280, 393; Dervorguille,
280, 291; Gunnor [Gunnora], 121,
393; Hamon, 426; Jo., 294-295;
Ric., 177; Rob., 121, 173, 271,
280, 286-287, 291, 294, 314, 316,
319, 365, 390, 393, 403; Sir Rob.,
108, 280; Rog., 314; Sibyl, 314,
316, 319
Fitz-Warin, Ralph, 299
Fitz-William, Emma, 38, 201; Geoff.,
38; Margery, 202; Muriel, 38; Ric.,
201-202, 364; Sir Tho., 333
Fitz-Wimar, family, 296; Rog., sewer,
203
Fitz-Robert, Alard, 408; Gille, 316;
Joan, 205; Jo., sheriff, 314, 316;
Rog., 314, 316; Walter, 205, 276;
Will., 316; Will., sheriff, 319
299
Fitz. See Son of
Flaitel, Basilia, 421; Gerard, 421
Flambard [Flambart, Flaumbard,
Flamine], family, 164; Alice, 210;
Matt., 216; Ranulf, 94; Will.,
210
Flambard (of Pitsea, Essex), 220
Flambard's land in Tendring, 210
Flanders, 298
Flaxham, Suss., park, 92, 93
Fleet, prison, 74
Fleming [Flamanc, Flemeng, Flem-
meng], le, family, 1, 33; Alard
[Adelard, Alart, Athelard], 7, 33-
34, 98, 101; Alice, 33; Emma,
33-34, 98; Gherbod, 298; Hen.,
33-34, 274; Joan, 33; Jo., 33;
Matilda, 33; Muriel, 33; Will., 33
Fletching, Suss., 324–326, 332, 336,
340; manor, 341
Flitcham, Norf., 2, 6, 110–115, 328,
366; priory, 115
Flitwick [Fletewyk, Fletwych, Flet-
wyk, Flittewyk, Flitwyc, Flit-
wyk], de, family, 164, 188, 189;
Agatha, 189, 441; David, 188-189,
441; Sir David, 189; Lora, 189;
Lucy, 188
Flitwick, Beds., 188-189; manor, 188
Flixton, Suff., manor, 429; Eleanor,
prioress, 429
Florence, 58
Flory, de, Ric., 248
Flowton [Flecton], Suff., 164, 211,
216-217
470
INDEX
Fobbing, Essex, 221, 410
Foleby, de, Rob., 255
Foliot, family, 164, 234-236, 296;
Adam, 236; Alice, 236; Barthol.,
230, 234-235; Geoff., 235-236;
Gilb., 193, 234-235; Hawise, 235;
Hen., 235; Isabel, 236; Joan, 236;
dame Joan, 400; Jordan, 399,
400; Sir Jordan, 399; Lorencia,
236; Margery, 399, 400; Margt.,
400; Pet., 235-236; Ralph, 230,
234-236; Ric., 235, 399, 400, 435 ;
Sir Ric., 400; Rob., 234; Rog.,
235-236; Sampson, 235-236; Sir
Sampson, 236; Walter, 234; Will.,
seneschal, 235
Folkestone, honor, 158
Folkington [Fokinton], de, family,
296, 353; Eggelina, 353, 368;
Hugh, 11, 305, 353-354, 368, 443;
Matilda, 354; Olimpias, 354; Reg.,
353-354; Rob., 443
Folkington, Suss., 353-354, 368;
manor, II, 353-354
Fontanis, de, Turstin, 90
Fontley. See Funtley ['Funtele'],
Hants.
Ford, Suss., 65-67; church, 90;
manor, 68
Fordham, Essex, 107, 276; manor,
421
Little, Essex, 276
Norf., 380-382, 384, 434
Forest Hill, Oxon., 173
Forester, Ric., 209. See Nevill
Forz, des, Aveline, 337; Isabel, 173,
190, 192, 224, 226; Will., 247
See Albemarle
Foston, Lincs., 418
Fougères, de, Hen., 57; Olive, 57
Foukesbrok,' Kent, 159
Foulden, Norf., 114, 115, 327, 329,
330, 384, 393-396, 426
Foulmere, Cambs., 203, 330
Foulsham, Norf., 297, 436
Foxby, Norf., 105
Foxele, de, Tho., 36
Foxley, Norf., 105, 108
Foxton, Cambs., 389; church, 313;
manor, 387, 388
Frameden, Norf., 150
Framlingham, de, Agnes, 433; Tho.,
433
Framlingham, Suff., castle, 151;
constable, 135
Frampton, Gloucs., 33
Francesius, Albert, 133
Franceys, le, Rob., 74
Franchevill, de, Will., 106
Francigena, Albert, 5; Reg., 5
Fransham, de, Geoff., 338; Gilbert,
334; Sir Gilb., 443; Will., 337
Fransham, Norf., 297, 334, 337-338,
398, 443; church, 397
Fratton (in Portsea), Hants., 335,
355, 357-358
Freckenham, Cambs., 343
Fredebent (of Willingham, Cambs.),
437
Fredesend dau. of Hugh son of
Renner, 310, 327
Freefolk, Hants., 86
Frelond, John, 248
Freningham, de, Jo., 292; Ralph, 292;
Sir Ralph, 292
Frenze, Norf., 361
Freschevill [Freschenevill, Fressun-
vill], de, family, 297, 419;
Amice, 419; Anker [Ancher],
418-419; Juliana, 419; Ralph,
419
Fresne [Frainei, Frayny, Fraxino,
Freisne, Freyni], de, family, 2, 82;
Rog., 82; Will., 8, 82-83; Sir
Will., 76
Fresteng, Geoff., 53
Fretheric,' fee, 303
(
Frevill, de, Margt., 295; Ric., 295
Fring, Norf., 3, 145-146, 393, 395
Fringham, Norf., 398
Frinstead, Kent, 157-159
Friston, Yorks., 365
Frittenden, Kent, 185
Fritton, Norf., 119-120, 123
Fritwell, Oxon., 164, 234-237
Frivill [Frievill], de, Baldwin, 301;
Drew, 315; Emma, 114; Isabel,
106, 114; Rob., 299-301, 315;
Rog., 398; Sir Saer, 443
Frogmore, Hants., 95
Frollebury, Hants., 70
Frome Henry, Herefords., 107
Fulbourn, Cambs., 326
Fulcher (of Blo' Norton, Norf.), 433
Fulcoin, 21, 24
Fulk (of Midhurst, Suss.), 62
(of Ringshall, Suff.), 246
sewer, 167, 200, 273
Fulking, Suss., 310, 347, 349, 357-
358
Fulmerston, Norf., manor, 325
Fulmodeston, de, Hugh, 389
Fulmodeston, Norf., 296, 325-326,
389-392
Fundenhall, Norf., 429
Funtley, in Titchfield, Hants., 2,
94-96
Furnivall, de, Christiana, 254, 263;
Gerald, 254; Gerard, 263, 416
Gaddesden, Herts., 340
Gadintone.'
•
See Gethampton, and
Stratton, Oxon.
Gaille-Fontaine, Pais de Brai, nun-
nery, 421
Gainsborough, Lincs., 170, 171:
manor, 170
INDEX
471
Galloway, scutage, 10, 57, 76, 81,
194, 292
Gamenegeye, de, Gilb., 286; Jas., 286
Gamlingay, Cambs., 165, 167, 285-
287, 302; manor, 168
Garboldisham, Norf., 102, 107-109, 132
Gardesei,' Suss., 314
Gardesey,' Suss., mill, 312
Gardin, Le, in Paglesham, Essex, 193
Gare, La. See Gore, Kent
Gargate [Gargat], family, 297, 410;
Agnes, 410; Hugh, 306, 410-412;
Isabel, 411, 412; Muriel, 411, 412;
Ric., 411; Rob., 411, 412; Rog.,
410, 411; Sibyl, 410-412
Garinges.' See Goring, Suss.
Garsington, Oxon., lady of, 369;
manor, 368-369
"
4
•
Garton, Suss., 345
Garvestone, Suff., 325
Gascony, 14, 15, 45, 158, 171, 173,
178, 181, 184, 204, 215, 216, 246,
254, 259, 277, 368; seneschal, 96
Gasteny, de, Tho., 29
Gasthorpe, Norf., 3, 130-131, 145
Gate. See Eastergate, Suss.
Gateley, Norf., 402, 403
Gatesden [Gatesdene, Gatesdenne],
de, family, 2, 296–297, 340; Cecily,
44, 45; Hawise, 340; Jo., 33,
44, 68, 76, 83, 86, 305, 324, 332,
340, 357-358, 443; Sir Jo., 370;
Margery, 340; Margt., 340; Pet.,
44; Ric., 340; Tho., 156
Gatesdenne, in Tenterden, Kent, 156,
160
Gatestorp [Gatesthropp], de, family,
3; Geoff., 130, 131; Gorham, 130;
Hen., 130; Jo., 131
Gatinden, de, Rog., 156
Gatton, Surr., church, 313
Gavray, bailiff of, 63
Gay, family, 165
Gayton, Norf., 118, 312, 314, 320,
334, 337, 338, 435, 443
Croft,' Norf., 319, 320
Thorpe, Norf., 326
Gelham, de, Giles, 344; Jo., 121;
Ric., 344; Tho., 344
Gellam, de, Walter, 400
Gemingheam. See Gimingham
Geoffrey, chaplain, 313
earl, 390
falconer, 10
king's son, 421
Geoffrey (of Angmering, Suss.), 70
(of Compton, Suss.), 55
(of Shipton and Swinbrook,
Oxon.), 242
(of Singleton, Suss.), 87
(of Snettisham, Norf.), 138
Gerard, knight, 359
(of Pannington in Wherstead,
Suff.), 180
C
Gerard.' See Fitz-Gerold
Gerberge [Gerberd, Gerberg, Ger-
bergh, Gereberge], family, 3, 297;
Joan, 137, 436; Jo., 436; Ric.,
436; Tho., 436; Sir Tho., 137,
436; Will., 136, 137, 436; Sir
Will., 136
Geri.' See Fitz-Gerold
"
•
Germany, king of, 184
Germeston, de, Alice, 141; Ric., 141
Gernagod, fee, 66
Gernegan [Gernagan], Isabel, 429;
Ralph, II; Ric., 146; Walter, 429
Gerner, del, family, 3; Alex., 144;
Alice, 144; Steph., 144; Will., 144
Gerner [Gernnere,' Gernunera '],
•
Essex, 204-205; manor, 205
Gernet, Emma, 52; Gilb., 354;
Vivian, 52
Gernon [Gernoun, Gernun], family,
164, 203-206; Eleanor, 205;
Geoff., 213; Hawise, 205; Isabel,
206; Jo., 205-206; Sir Jo., 206;
Lucy, 206; Matt., 203; Ralph,
202-206; Sir Ralph, 205; Ranulf,
203; Tho., 206, 409; Will., 205,
206
Gessinges, de, Hen., 181
Gethampton, Oxon., 227
Geudewin, 24
Gey, Imbert, 205
Geyton, de, John, 337
Gherbod the Fleming. See Chester
Gifard (of Thorington, Suff.), 127
Gifart (of Stoke Holy Cross, Norf.),
119
Giffard, 38
Giffard, Eleanor, 222; Gundred, 222;
Hen., 52; Isabel, 106, 239, 240;
Jo., 23, 222-223, 232–233, 241; Jo.,
lord, 440; Juliana, 25; Mabel,
106; Matilda, lady, 440; Osbert,
29, 63, 232, 240, 321; Sir Osbert,
233, 241; Pet., 373; Ric., 106;
Rob., 222; Sir Rob., 222; Sarah,
233; Walter, 62, 227-228, 359;
Will., 221-222, 343
fee, 86, 152, 172, 250, 314, 317,
365, 383, 396; honor, 34, 38, 320,
436
Gigewell.' See Ickwell, Beds.
Gikewell. See Ickwell, Beds.
Gilbert (of Feltwell), 311
(of Hurstpierpoint), 331
Gilla, wife of Wimar the sewer, 396
Gillingham, Dors., 240, 248
Gimingham [Gymingham],
Juliana, 389; Reyner,
Turold, 437; Will., 389, 391
Gimingham, Norf., 299, 434; church,
311, 312; manor, 306
Ginges, de, Randulf, 106
Ginges, manor, 214
Girard, Le Bois de, 421
de,
126;
472
INDEX
Girros, family, 1, 46; Isabel, 46;
Rob., 46-47
Girton, Cambs., 262
Girunt, Le,' 348
Gisburn, Yorks., 18; manor, 19
Gissing, de, Agnes, 389; Sir Tho.,
389
Gladio [Gladiou], jester [joculator],
311, 353, 371
Gladiou (of Polhey, Essex), 408
Glanvill, de, family, 1, 211, 297,
424; Agnes, 428; Barthol., 424;
428; Bertha, 356; Geoff., 306,
424; Gundreda, 428; Hen., 181;
Hervey, 428; Ranulf, 82, 356,
409, 424, 428, 435; Ranulf,
justiciar, 28; Rob., 424, 428;
Steph., 104; Walter, 238; Will.,
424, 428
Glatting, in Burton, Suss., I, 20,
24, 27, 62
Glatton, Hunts., 302
Glemham, Suff., 164, 167, 217-219
Gloucester [Glowecestre], de, Osbert,
300, 396; Rog., 195, 300
Gloucester and Hertford, countesses
-Joan, 129, 366; Matilda, 12;
Millesent, 422
earls-53, 108, 139, 159, 161,
172, 232, 236, 242, 270, 274, 287,
357, 366, 382, 399; Aumari, 422;
Gilb. de Clare, 243, 329, 409; Ric.
de Clare, 55, 243; Rob., 7; Rog.,
12; Rog. de Clare, 242; Will.,
91, 243
See Clare, de
Gloucester, fee, 22; honor, 42, 90,
228, 267, 365–366
Goda, wife of Berard, 360
Godalming, Surr., 347
Godard (of Orleswick, Suss.), 310,
345
Godardvill, de, Walter, 106
Godebold (of Horkesley, Essex), 276
Godeswisel, bridge, 311
Godfrey (of Chesfield and Graveley,
Kent), 294
Godfrey (of Restold, Suss.), 55
Godinoch, Ric., 254
Godric, Alan, count, 105
(of Burnham, Norf.), 125
(of Hempstead, Norf.), 144
(of West Newton, Norf.), 141
sewer, 102, 105, 137
fee, 103
God save the Ladies,' Rog., 210
Godwin, 310
407;
(of Yeldham), 371
Goet, family, 407; Alice,
Amabilia, 407; Geoff., 407; Hen.,
407; Hugh, 407; Juliana, 407;
Ric., 407; Rob., 407; Roese, 407;
Will., 407
See also Guet
Goldbridge, Suss., 332
Goldesburgh, de, Joan, 404; Ric.,
404
Goldingham, de, John, 206
Golosa.' See Inglose, Norf.
Gonevill, de. See Gundevill
Good Easter, Essex, 188
Gooderstone, Norf., 104, 105, 107-
108; manor, 108
Goodneston, Kent, manor, 185
Goodrich Castle, 33
Goodwood [Godivewud], de, Will., 58
Goodwood ['Godyvewod '], Suss., 58
Gore, par. Upchurch, Kent, manor,
185
<
[La Gare], Kent, 184, 185;
manor, 185
Gorge, Harvey, 371
Goring, Suss, 1, 7, 30-32; fee, 17;
lord of, 82; manor, 40
See Gurnay
Gornai [Gornay].
Gorron, 66
Goscelyn, Alice, 404; Will., 404
Gosfield, Essex, 22
Gossiert Molins, La Coudre at, 348
Goudestorp,' in Intwood, Norf., 181
Gouet [Goet], lords of Montmirail
(Sarthe), 298, 299
"
Gournai-sur-Epte, Pais de Bray, 420
Gowthorpe, Norf., 180, 181
Gozo, 311
Graby (in Aslackby), Lincs., 105
Graffham [Grafan], Suss., I, 20, 41,
47, 49, 61-64, 90, 92, 313; manor,
25
Grafton, N'hants., chapel of the
hermitage, 380
(Regis), N'hants., 379
Granario, de. See Gerner
Grancurt [Grandcurt, Grantcurt,
Grantecurte, Grauncurt], de,
family, 296-297, 389-390, 437;
Ascelina, 390; Ralph, 389, 437
Reiner [Rainer], 299, 381, 389;
Tho., 404; Walter, 300, 312, 313,
389-392, 437; Sir Walter, 390;
Will., 389-392
Grandyn, Sir Will., 350
Grange, at, Tho., 425
Gransden, Great, Cambs., 26
Grantham, Lincs., 387; manor, 307
Gras, Rog. le, 80
Graundin, Hugh, 181
Grave, de la, John, 44, 45; Ralph,
45; master Rog., canon, 83
Grave in Pinegrave, Kent, 194
La, Suss., 44, 45, 76, 83; manor,
77
Graveley, Herts., 165, 168, 293–294
Gravenel, de, Cecily, 22
Graveney, de, Atheland, 187
Graveney, Kent, 294
Gravenhurst, Beds., 180, 181; manor,
181
INDEX
473
Gray [Grai], de, family, 227, 232,
237; Alice, 237; Anschetil, 228,
231, 237, 238; archbp., 241; Eva,
63,231-232, 238-241; Hawise, 240;
Jo., 230-231, 238; Ric., 237; Rob.,
240, 241; Walter, 240-241
See also Grey
Graylingwell [Greylingwell], Suss.,
71, 72
Greatham, Hants., 296, 349, 350,
355-358; church,
church, 313; manor,
348-349; wood, 304
Suss., 1, 30, 32, 37-39, 40;
chapel, 37
Greenstead, Essex, 167; manor, 166
Greenwich, East, Kent, manor, 319
West, Kent, church, 318;
manor, 320
Greinsville, Suff., 128, 129
Greinvill, de, Ric., 258
Grelley, Hawise, 280, 324; Joan,
280, 324; Rob., 324; Sir Rob.,
280; Tho., 324; Sir Tho., 324
Grendon, de, Ermentrude, 169, 171;
Will., 169, 171
de,
Grenekeye, de, Geoff., 109
Grenested [Grenestede, Grensted],
43; Christiana, 43;
Juliana, 43; Margt., 43; Ralph,
313; Ric., 43-44, 74
Grensevill, manor, 425
Gresham, Norf., 296, 370-375
Gresley, Rob., 203
Gressenhall, Norf., 296, 306, 395–400 ;
fee, 435; manor, 435
Gressingehale, de, Isabel, 396, 397
Grestein, abbot of, 379, 380
Greston [Grestun], de, Hen., 134;
John, 134
Greston, Norf., 326
Gretteford [Grutteford], Beds., 261
Grey, de, family, of Rotherfield, 239;
dame Isabel, 241; Jo., 233, 344,
398; Jo., justice, 373; Rob., 241 ;
Sir Rob., 241
See also Gray
Greystoke, de, Ralph, 255, 264-265 ;
Ralph, baron, 265; Rob., 264;
Will., 255, 264-265; Will., baron,
265
Grigneuseville [Greinusevill, Greniosa-
villa, Grinnosavilla], de, Hugh, 299,
300, 311; Walter, 300; Will., 299
Grim, reeve, 220
Grimeston, de, Agnes, 133; Alice,
133; Geoff., 133; Goda, 133;
Matilda, 133; Pet., 133; Tho.,
133; Thurstan, 133; Will., 133
Grimston, Norf., 3, 6, 133-134,
297, 325-326, 395-396, 399, 43º,
434-435, 443
Grinstead, church, 313
Grip, Rob., 411
Griston, Norf., 132, 134
Grittenham, Suss., 1, 17, 23
Gros, le, Petronilla, 140
Groton, Suff., 360, 362-363; manor,
362
Groves, Suss., 83
par. Owing, Suss.
grave, Suss.
Grundel. See Crundel
Grundelay, II
Grundisburgh, Suff., 424, 429
See Martins-
Grys, Nich., 192
Gubion, Hugh, 249
Gubstede, in Aveley, Essex, 401
Guerche [Gyrche], de la. See Wirch
Guerres, de, Manasser, 371; Ric., 371
Guestwick, Norf., 153, 436
Guet, Ric., 298-299, 371, 406, 409
See also Goet
Guibert (of Southhall, Essex), 400
Guihomar. See Wimar
Guildford Castle, constable of, 349
Guillelma of the queen's chamber,
275
Guilsborough, N'hants., 366
Guist, Norf., 297, 436
Guiz, de, Sir Rob., 134
Gulafre, Rog., 208
Gulbert (of Sturmer, Essex), 400
Guldeford, de, Hen., 47; Pet., 161
Gumbaud, Christiana, 189; Joan,
189; Lora, 189; Margt., 189;
Will., 189
Gundevill [Gonevill, Gundovill,
Gunevile], de, family, 1; Agnes,
41-43; Edm., 326; Ellis, 46 n.
Hamelin, 42; Hugh, 41, 42, 44;
Matilda, 326; Rob., 42
Gundreda, daughter of queen
Matilda, 298
sister of Gherbod the Fleming,
298
Gunfrid (of Saxlingham), Norf., 102
Gunnor, wife of Alan, 21
Gunora, 29
Gunsthorp, de, Ivo, 411
Gunthorpe, Notts., 115
Gunton, Suss., 58
Gurnay [Gerney, Gornai, Gornay,
Gurnai, Gurney, Gurneye], de,
family, 297, 420–423 ; -314,317;
Basilia, 420-421; Beatrix, 421;
Clemency, 314, 317, 318; Edith
[Ediva], 420-422; Gerard, 420-
422; Hawise [Helewise], 355-356 ;
Hugh, 142, 420-423; John, 142,
391-392; Juliana, 422, 423
Matilda, 423; Milicent [Millesent],
421-422; Olive, 82; Will., 391
fee, 142
•
Guuiunge.' See Wing, Bucks.
Guy, butler, 300
clerk, 410
sheriff, 315
(of Angmering, Suss.), 70
474
INDEX
Guy (of Anmer, Norf.), 393
Gylingham, family, 119; Rob., 119,
I20
Gynay, de, Will., 434
Gyney, de, Rog., 319
HABOROUGH, Lincs., manor, 406
Hackford, Norf., 109, 151-152, 327-
328, 330, 345-346, 389, 392
Haconby, Lincs., 95
Hacun [Hacon, Hacoun, Hakoun,
Hakun], family, 3; Ann, 139;
Cecily, 139; Hubert, 109, 138–139;
Ralph, 109, 138; Ric., 109, 138-
139; Rob., 138-139; Tho., 138;
W., 138; Walter, 109; Sir Will.,
138
Haddeston, Norf., 387, 388; manor,
388
Haddiscoe, Norf., 119, 120
Hadlegh ['Hadlega'].
ley, Suss.
Hagenet, honor, 128, 159
Haget [Haket], Alice, 44, 45; Jo.,
45, 60; Rob., 44
Hailsham, Suss., 29
Hakeford, de, Ranulf, 337; Will.,
326, 328-329
Hakewell, de, Alice, 186
Hakewell, 186
.<
154
Hales, Norf., 108, 155
Hakynton, de, John, 197; Rob., 197
Halcombe, Suss., 90, 310
Haldup, Turstin, 56
Hale Holme, Norf., 3, 118, 139-141
Hales [Halis], de, family, 155; Rog.,
See Hoath-
Halesworth, de, Rog., 116
Halifax, Yorks., manor, 307
Halle, atte, Joan, 30; Sim., 30
Hallingbury, Essex, 94, 95, 167, 288;
manor, 167, 280
Great, Essex, 165, 168, 273-
275, 279
Hallingelond,' Suss., 20
Halnaker, Suss., 1, 55–61, 331; honor,
earl. See Warenne
(of Colchester), 167
(of Petworth), 17
K
44
Halstead [Hallested, Haustide], de,
Rob., 21; Will., 372
Halstead, Essex, 370, 372, 374-375,
402
Kent, 70
Ham, Bucks., 85
[Hamme], Dors., 42
E. & W., Essex, manor, 338
Suss., 39; manor, 40
Hambledon ['Hameledon '], Hants.,
I,
65
Hameldene, de, Joan, 367; Law, 367
Hamelin, 27
Hamerton, Hunts., 165, 167, 287-
291; manor, 168
Hamon, sewer, 5
Hampnett, Suss., 58-60, 81
4
East, Suss., 55, 82, 92
le Moraunt, Suss., 59
West, Suss., 55, 59, 60; church,
56
Hampton [Hamton], de, Peter, 8, 60
Hampton, Little, near Arundel, 370
Maisey, Gloucs., 90
Hamptonette, de, Hen., 59; Rog.,
59; Walter, 59
Hamsey ['Hammes Say '], Suss., 296,
305, 312, 313-321; Edwin, priest,
315
(
Hamwde,' bridge, 315
Hamwell, Hants., church, 91
'Hanac.' See Halnaker
Handean, Suss., 327
Hangelton [Hangeltun], family, 80,
346; Cardo, 305, 346; Helias, 364;
Joan, 346; Ralph, 80, 345; Ric.,
80, 346-347; Sim., 327, 345
'Hangemara.' See Angmering, Suss.
Hangleton, Suss., 296, 305, 310, 328,
339, 345-346, 351, 359-367; church,
313; manor, 330, 345
Hanley [Handleye, Hanlege, Hanlegh,
Hanleia, Haunle, Haunlegh, Haun-
ley], de, family, 164; Ralph, 269;
Sarra, 213; Will., 201, 213, 224
Hanningfield, Essex, 107, 187; manor,
108
}
West, 400
Hansard, Will., 351
Happing, Norf., hund., 144
Happisburgh [Hapesburgh], Norf.,
3, 153-154, 365; church, 5, 6;
manor, 6
Hapton, Norf., 102, 107
Harang [Hareng], family, 2; Alice,
69, 228, 239-240; Emma, 69;
Felicia, 69; Guy, 69; Ralph, 69,
228, 231-232, 239-240, 412; Reg.,
69; Will., 69, 70
Haranges, Hugh, 52
Harbledown, Kent, 157-160
Hardham [ Helingham,' Hering-
ham'], Suss., 20, 91; canons, 92;
church, 17, 24; priory, 24, 91
Harditone.' See Lordington, Suss.
Hardley, Norf., 116, 117, 152
Hardwell, Berks., 236; manor, 237
Hardwick, Beds. See Shefford
Hardwick
Norf., 123
4
['Harerigg '], Oxon., 241
Harebeating, 310
Harecurt [Harewcurt], de, Lucy, 63;
Rob., 63, 67; Will., 63, 348, 416
Hareham [Harham], de, family, 3;
Beatrice, 144; Agnes, Alice, Kath.,
sisters of Beatrice, 144; Rog., 144
INDEX
475
Harengot [Harengod], 3; Denise,
162; Emma, 162; Felicia, 162;
Jo., 162; Ralph, 162; Steph.,
162; Will., 162
Harevill, de, Rob., 199
Harewood, Yorks., manor, 173
Hargham, Norf., 346
Haricham [Harenham], de, Ranulf,
144
Harington of Cumb., family, 424
Harkstead, Suff., 164, 199–201
Harlaxton, Lincs., 386-389
Harling, de, Rob., 432
Harling, Norf., 147
East, Norf., 141, 325-326, 349
West, 3, 131–132
Harlington, Beds., 155, 156, 217;
church, 156
Kent, 155
Yorks., mill, 416
Harlow, Essex, 164, 187-189
Harpenden, Herts., 209
Harpley, Norf., 389, 391–392; church,
389, 391, 437
Harrietsham, Kent, 184; lady of,
185; manor, 185
Harston, Cambs., 276, 288, 387
Harthanger, Kent, 294
Harthill, Yorks., 324, 326; church,
416; manor, 326
Harting [Herting], Suss., 2, 6, 34,
41, 76, 83-86; church, 89; leper
hospital, 84; manor, 66
East, 41
Harrowden [Harwedene], de, Rob.,
clerk, 233
Hartland, Devon, 99
Hartley, Kent, 107, 108
Harun, de, Geoff., 365
Haselden, Tho., 209
Haseton,' in Bethersden. See
Etchden, Kent
Haskeby, de, Phil., 336
Hasketon, Suff., 438; manor, 440–441
'Haslehangra,' Kent, 293
Hastang, de, Cecily, 274; Hugh,
400; Humph., 274
Hastings [Hastinges], de, Hen., 426;
Sir Hen., 146, 387; Sir Hugh,
435; Jo., 92, 185, 346, 400, 414;
Juliana, 185, 346, 414; Law., 132,
185, 346, 400; Miles, 109; Rob.,
276
See Pembroke
Hastings, 54 n.; honor, 277, 379;
recluse, 10
Hatfield Peverel, Essex, manor, 330
Yorks., church, 416, 417; manor,
307, 420
Hatley, Cambs., 209, 286
East, Cambs., 207, 208
St. George, Cambs., 285, 287
Haudlo [Hautlo], de, Edm., 244;
Eliz., 244; Isabel, 244 ;
Joan,
244; Jo., 199, 244; Margt., 244 ;
Ric., 244
Haueden, de, John, 254
Haughley, honor, 146, 162
Haukisdene.' See Arkesden, Essex
Hausvill, de, Will., 220
Haut'. See Hamerton, Hunts.
Hautbois [Auboys, de Alto Bosco,
Hauboys], family, 297, 431–433 ;
Adam, 431; Avice or Alice, 432;
Eufrasia, 432; Helewise, 332, 432 ;
Herman, 431; Isabel, 432; Jo.,
432, 433 n.; Margery, 432; Matilda,
432; Pet., 332, 425, 431-432; Sir
Pet., 431-432 ; Ric., 431-432;
Richer, 431; Rog., 432; Tho.,
431-432; Will., 332, 431-432
Hautbois, Norf., 297, 431-433
Hautein, Will., 154
Hauteyn, le, Margery, 388
Hautrive [de Alta Ripa, de Auterive,
Hauterive], de, family, 1, 2, 24, 91 ;
Alice, 92-93; Andrew, 91–93 ;
Cicely, 87; Eva, 92-93; Jo., 25,
87, 91-93; Joscelin,
Joscelin, 24; Ric.,
20; Rob., 12, 17, 27, 62, 91;
Will., 12, 14, 18, 24, 25, 62, 82,
91-93
Hauvill [Hautevill, Hoivill, Houvill,
Hoyvill], de, family, 2, 94-96, 165,
175; Geoff., 93-95, 274; Gilb.,
95, 274; Hen., 95; Hugh, 95;
Joan, 94; Margt., 96; Mary, 96;
Pet., 95; Phil., 95, 96; Ralph,
95, 175, 247; Reg., 94; Tho., 95,
427; Walter, 94, 273-274; Will.,
94, 96, 175, 176, 338
Havering, de, Ric., 205
Havering, Essex, 101
Haveringland, Norf., 399
Hawes, manor, 246
Hawkdon, Suff., 424
Hawkwell, Essex, 155-156, 164,
217-219; manor, 192
Hatcham, Surг., 22, 23
Hatfield [Hatfeld], de, Adam, 294;
Edw., 294; Fina, 294; Jo., 294;
Petronilla, 294; Sim., 294
Hatfield, forest, 342; park, 341;
priory, 361
Bishop's, Herts, 207, 293-294 ;
manor, 294
Hay [Hai, Haia, Haie, Haye], de la,
family, 1, 164, 193, 194; Athelais,
167; Cecily, 56, 61 n.; Hadewise,
197; Hugh, 167; dame Isabel,
329; Joan, 354; Jo., 354;
Julian, 193, 280; Mary, 193;
Maurice, 107, 193, 197; Muriel,
56; Nicholaa, 56; Olive, 100, 101;
Petronilla, 193; Ralph, 12, 56,
100-101, 107, 193, 294, 353;
Ranulf, 56, 107, 167, 186, 193,
197; Reimund, 193; Ric., 56,
476
INDEX
·
61 n.; Rob., 56-57, 61, 67, 294,
412; Rog., 60; Rohaise, 193;
Saher, 193; Sanicula, 193; Sarra,
186-187, 353; Sim., 156; Walter,
186, 193, 407; Will., 156, 193–194,
412
Haybourn, Suss., park, 34
Hayling [Haringei '], Hants., 2, 90,
94
Island, Hants., 96, 97
Heacham [Hichebourne],
Norf.,
309, 311, 312, 382, 385, 388, 396;
manor, 382
Headcorn, Kent, 183
Headington, Oxon., 38, 39; manor,
368
Hecham, de, Dennis, 197; Ellen,
197; Hen., 197
Hechingham, de, Ellis, 104
Heckingham, Norf., 102, 107-108,
117; manor, 107
Hedersete [Hederseyt], de, family,
181; Sir Jo., 181; Will., 181
'Hedfeld.' See Hatfield, Herts.
Hedfeld Beigham, 377
Hedingham Sibil, Essex, 49
Heendon, de, Steph., 354
Heene, Suss., manor, 22, 23
Heigham Potter, Norf., 104, 108
Heldham, de, Tho., 353
Helgeton [Helweton], de, Alan, 398;
Sir Herb., 109; Jo., 109, 395;
Rog., 109; Tho., 109; Sir Tho.,
109; Will., 398
Helhoughton, Norf., 314, 345-346,
398
Hellingley, church, 313
Helman, de, Hugh, 320
Helmingham, Suff., 429; church, 428
Helmington, manor, 318
'Heltham.' See Holkham, Norf.
Helyon [Helion, Heliun], de, Rob.,
214; Will., 390
fee, 201, 210; honor, 122
Hemenhale, de, Sir Ralph, 392
Hemmegrave, de, Beatrice, 179;
Tho., 178
Hempnall, Norf., 287
Hempstead, Norf., 144, 151–152
Norf., 325, 326
Hempton, Oxon., 232, 233 n.
Hendon in Woodchurch, Kent, 158,
159
Hengham [Heingham, Heyngham],
de, family, 3, 152;
Andrew,
151-152; Rob., 151–152, 430; Sir
Rob., 430; Rog., 151; Tho.,
151-152; Will., 151–152
alias Bacon, Rog., 152
P
Hengham, prioress of, 375
Henherst, Kent, manor, 289
Henley, family, 164; Hubert, 207;
Will., 207
Henley, Suff., 164, 207
Henlow, Beds., 165, 261-262
Henstead, Suff., 322, 328, 333
Hepworth, Suff., 360
Herbert, brother of earl Rainald, 38
(of Hapton, Norf.), chamber-
lain, 102
clerk, 118
(of Ringleton, Kent), 155
Herbertinges. See Harebeating
Herbethinges, de, Will., 310
'Herbretiton.' See Harbledown,
Kent
C
'Herbylton.' See Harbledown, Kent
Herceam, 309
Herdinghelei, church, 311
Herebrand, 311
Hereford, countesses-104; Cecily,
104-106; Matilda de Clare, 242
earls 39, 158-159, 212;
Humph. de Bohun, 177, 252;
Rog., 105; Will. Fitz-Osbern, 234,
237
See Bohun, de, Clare, de, and
Fitz-Osbern
Gilb. Foliot, bishop of, 234
Jew of.
See Jews
sheriff of, 28
Hereward, 298
(of Barton, Suff.), 360
Herfred (of Gatton), 313
Herindenne, de, Hugh, 159
Heringod, Christina, 162, 163
Heriz, de, Ives, 418, 419
Herlawe [Helawe, Herlaue], de,
family, 164; Gilb., 187; Joan,
188; Matilda, king's nurse, 188;
Walter, 188; Will., 188
Herlebold in Wereham, 396
Herlewin (of Upwaltham, Suss.), 90
Herling [Herlinges], de, family, 3;
Hugh, 131; Ralph, 131
Hermer (of Tuddenham, Norf.), 148
Hermit of Losfield, Beds., 268
Hernum, de, Ranulf, 7
Herpelai. See Harpley
Herpingden [' Herbertinges '], Suss.,
322
Herpingham, de. See Erpingham
Herring [Heryng], Ric., 163
Herringfleet, St. Olave, Suff., prior
of, 120, 120 n.
Herringswell, Suff., 342-344
Hersham, Essex, 215
Herst [Herste], de, Idonea, 376;
Rob., 376; Waleran, 376-377;
Walter, 376
Herst, Norf., 432
Suss., 305-306, 310
Hertangre, de, Will., 294
Herterst, Suff., 365
Hertesbirie.' See Berry Herbert
Hertford, de, Will., 109
See also Gloucester
A
Hertford, 269, 294
INDEX
477
Hesset (or Heyshott], de, Hen., 21 27
Hethenden [Hethendenn, Hethinden,
Hethyndenne], de, Everard, 158;
Hubert, 160; Ralph, 159; Ran-
dulf, 158; Tho., 160; Will., 158
fee, 159
Hethersett, Norf., 139
Hethindenn'
See
[Hethingden].
Hendon in Woodchurch, Kent
Heure [Heuere], de, Hawise, 70;
Ralph, 70; Tho., 70
Heure, Kent, 70
Heyburn, Suss., 33
Heydon, Norf., 319, 440-441; church,
439
Heyford Warin, Oxon., 227, 229–233;
manor, 173
Heylesdon, de, Hen., 110
Heyshott, Suss., 1, 16, 18-20, 27,
30, 65, 92, 353; chapel, 17
Heytesbury, Wilts., 37-38,
40;
manor, 39
Heyth, de, Adam, 122; Isabel, 122
Hibaldstow, Lincs., 417
Hickling, Norf., 108, 430; canons of,
105
Higham [Hecham], de, Rob., 197
Higham, Kent, 164, 166, 197, 273
by Tamese,' Kent, 197
Suff., 193, 401 ; church, 193, 197
Hilborough [Hildeburchworth], Norf.,
296, 382-383; parson, 384
Hildesley [Hildesle], de, Isabel, 244;
Rob., 244
Hilgay, Norf., 381; manor, 426
Hillcot, Wilts., 214
Hillegh, de, Hugh, 125
Hillington, Norf., 104, 107, 213, 297,
395, 426, 442-443; manor, 173,
435
by Castle Rising, Norf., 428
by Norwich, 109
Hilperton, Wilts., 163
Hinckford, Essex, hund., 175
Hingan, Walter, 56
Hingham, Norf.,
151, 152, 391;
manor, 143
Hingindon.' See Ovingdean, Suss.
Hingoldestorp. See Ingoldesthorpe
Hintlesham, Suff., manor, 421
Hinton ['Heanton '], Hants, 79
Wilts., 250
Daubeny, in
Hants., 2, 77-79
Catherington,
•
Hinxton, Cambs., 64
Hitcham, Suff., 361; manor, 128
Hittin, battle, 250
Ho, manor, 318
Hoathley, Suss., 324, 325; church,
312, 314
<
West, 326
Hobuist.' See Hautbois, Norf.
Hockham, Norf., 108; church, 103
Hockwell, Norf., 330
Hockwold, Norf., 115, 327–329, 349 ;
church, 329
Hocton, de, Hugh, 371
Hoel, Phil., 351
Hoke, Le, wood, in Arundel, 92
Hokeday, term, 15
Hokewolde, de, John, 329
Holand, de, Rob., 245
Holbech, de, Law., 189; Margt., 189
Holbosia, de, Reiner, 431; Rog., 431
See Hautbois
Holderness, 189, 282
Holebroke [Holbrok], family, 212;
Will., 137
Holecote, de, Will., 265
Holefen, de, Hen., 127
Holer, Ernald le, 11
Holewelle Hall, in East Tudenham,
Norf., 367
Holkham, Norf., 2, 102–110,
102-110, 125-127,
152
Holme (Hulme), Norf., 118, 119, 431
St. Benet's abbey, 431
abbots-317; Reg., 431; Tho.,
129
next Ringstead, Norf., Roland,
dean of, 117
[Hale Holme],
next-the-Sea
Norf., 118
of Grain, Kent, 194
Yorks., manor, 441
Holmes, Herts., manor, 198
Holt, Norf., manor, 359
and Cley, in Sunworth, Hants.,
54
Holverstone, Norf., 138
Holvyston, de, Rob., 109
Holwell, Beds., 332
Little, Herts., 294
Holweton, de, Mich., 401
Homewoods, bridge, 300
Hommet, Le, toll, 81
See Humet
Honeydon, Beds., 265
Honinton, de, John, 243
Hoo, Kent, 160, 350
Allhallows, Kent, 350
St. Werburgh, Kent, 164, 167,
193, 197
Norf., 398-399
Hoole, Much, Lancs., 53, 54 n.
Hopton, Suff., 124, 360
Horbling, Lincs., 105
Horemere, Suss., 66
Horkesley [Horkele, Horkelegh], de,
family, 165, 276; Rob., 276; Sir
Rob., 276; Walter, 276; Will.,
276
Horkesley, Essex, 276, 277
Little, Essex, priory, 276
Hormead, Herts., 107, 266; manor,
266
Little, Herts., 108
Horn, Avice, 410; Jo., 410
478
INDEX
Hornby Castle, Lancs., 57
Horndon, 222
Essex, 29, 410
-on-the-Hill, Essex, 106, 409
Hornetoft, Norf., 399
Hornley, Oxon., 229
Horsford, barony, 321
Horsham, priory, 314, 316
St. Faith's, Norf., 316
Horsley, Gloucs., 2, 90
West, Surr., manor, 216
Horsted Keynes, Suss., 62, 313
Horwode, de, Christina, 89; Tho.,
89; Will., 89
Hose [Hosatus, Huse, Husee], family,
I, 2, 52, 83-86; Avice or Amice,
84; Cecily, 85; Clemence, 84;
Geoff., 34, 84-85; Gundreda, 34;
Hawise, 34; Hen., 33-34, 83-86,
339; Hubert, 84-85; Hugh, 84-85;
Joan, 33-34; Mabel, 34; Mark,
34; Matt., 33, 85, 86; Ric., 101
Hospinel, Agnes, 94; Romin, 94
Hospitallers, the, 26, 65, 84, 165,
210, 243, 252, 254-255, 261, 265,
267-268, 293, 321, 376; prior, 261
Hotoft [Hoctot, Hotot, Hottot], de,
11, 69; Emma, 69; Hawise,
70; Pet., 69, 70; Rob., 69, 70
Houbrugg, de, Ric., 336
Houel, Joan, 138; Nich., 138
Houghton, chase, 14
Norf., 314, 370-373, 375
in the Hole ['Houtone
Gemere '], Norf., 320, 326
Drayton, Hants., 90
Regis, Beds., 422; manor, 421
Houndean, Suss., manor, 307
Houvill. See Hauvill
•
Hoverbrok,' Norf., 118
Hoveton, Norf., 431
Howe [Ho, Hoe, Hoo, Hou, Houwe],
de [atte], family, 3, 209; Agatha,
109; Barthol., 137; Beatrice,
209; Cath., 200; Gilb., 137 ;
Joan, 138, 209; Jo., 138, 387, 398 ;
Lettice, sister of Joan, 138; Miles,
137-138; Sir Miles, 138; Ralph,
137, 138; Ranulf, 137; Rob., 209;
Rog., 137, 180; Sampson, 388,
399; Tho., 209; Will., 59, 137, 200
Howe, Norf., 137-138, 333; church,
138
Howes, Cambs., 262
Howick, Suss., 26
Howsham, Essex, 297
Hall in Matching,
409-410; manor, 342, 415
Hubert, archbp. See Canterbury
'Hubtinton.' See Harbledown, Kent
Hudeston in Bunwell, Norf., 303, 385
Hugh, despencer, 223
nepos of Hubert, 157
sheriff of Lewes, 370
Essex,
Hugh (of Bilsham, in Yapton, Suss.),
49
(of Chithurst, Suss.), 52
(of Denver, Norf.), 380
(of Fincham, Norf.), 381
(of Hamsey, Suss.), 314
(of Larling, Norf.), 322
(of Ringshall, Suff.), 246
Hugelin, 311
Hulme [Hulm, Hulma, Hulmo,
Humme], del, Alice, 139, 140;
Amisia, 139, 140; Amot,
Amot, 140;
Cecily, 139, 140; Isabel, 328;
Maximus, 140
Hulme, St. Benet, Norf., abbey, 102,
103, 425, 431-432
abbots 432; Adam, 425;
Anselm, 103; Richer, 102
Hulmo.' See Hale Holme, Norf.
Humber, river, 170
Humberston, Lincs., abbey, 418
Humet [Hommet, Hulmeto, Humez],
de, family, 2, 165, 282; Ric., 81;
Ric., constable, 81; Rob., 81;
Will., 13, 67, 81, 282, 283; Will.,
constable, 81
(
Humme.' See Hale Holme, Norf.
Humphrey (of Boxgrove, Suss.), 55
(of Broome, Norf.), 123
(of Patcham, Suss.), 299
(of Steeple Aston, Oxon.), 182
Hundon, Suff., 344
Hungerford, Bucks., 85
Hungrave, de, Edm., 179
Hungres-wauton.'
East, Norf.
Hunstanton [Hunestaneston, Hun-
stane, Hunston], de, family, 2;
Godfrey, 59; Helewise, 117;
Ralph, 117, 118; Sim., 118;
Will., 59; Sir Will., 59
Hunstanton, Norf., 3, 117, 119, 154–
155, 385
Hunston, Suss., 55, 58-60
St. Leger, Suss., church, 56
Hunt, Edwin, 30
Huntingfeld [Huntingefeld, Hunt-
yngfeld], de, family, 435; Hawise,
192; Isabel, 396-397; Sir Jo., 192;
Pet., 192; Rog., 440; Will., 396,
435, 440
(
"
See Walton,
Huntingdon, de, Agnes, 286; Dreu,
286; Jo., 292; Tho., 286
Huntingdon, countesses Judith,
244, 248; Juliana de Clinton, 185
earl-Will. de Clinton, 161, 185
honor, 172, 244; prior, 334
Huntingdon, Nich., archdeacon of,
287
Hunton, Norf., 308 n.
Huntsman. See Drew
Huperton, Suss., 41
Hurst, Suss., 375, 377
Hurstmonceaux, Suss., 296, 375–378
INDEX
479
Hurstpierpoint, Suss., 296, 331-333,
368, 378
Hurtmore (in Godalming), Surr., 347
Huscarl, Margt., 70; Rolland, 70
Huse [Husee]. See Hose
Husland, Suff., 204
Huvel, Mary, 274; Steph., 274
ICKBOROUGH [Ickburgh, Ikeburgh],
Norf., 375, 385; church, 313
Ickenham, Midd., 372
Ickesford. See Yoxford
Icklesham, Suss., 379
Icklingham, Suff., 214-216
Ickwell, Beds., 165, 180, 255, 265
Idsall, Salop, 37, 39; manor, 4
Iffley, Oxon., 171, 173
Ifield, Kent, 70
Suss., 330
Iford, Suss., 296, 305, 307, 310, 334–
338, 383; church, 298, 309
Ilbert. See Rakinton, de
Ilketeshale, de, Gilb., 286; Tho., 286
Illegh [Illeie, Illeigh], de, Hen., 122;
Hugh, 125, 126; Kath., 122
Illesart,' Suss., 90
(
Illington, de, Ralph, 384; Will., 383
Illington, Norf., 132, 296, 382-384
Ilsington, Norf., 427
Incewrth.' See Intwood, Norf.
Ineshawe, Norf., 329
Inga' (in Pitsea), Essex, 220
Inge, Sir John, 60
Ingelger, 65
Ingelose, de, family, 2; Hervey, 7,
8, 116; Jo., 116; Martin, 116;
Reg., 116; Rob., 117; Sir Rob.,
116; Will., 116
"
Inglose [Golosa,' Ingelose], Norf.,
2, 116-117
Ingoldesthorpe [Ingaldesthorpe, In-
gledesthorp, Ingoldisthorpe], Norf.,
213, 385, 393-396, 399, 402-405 ;
lady of, 404; manor, 146, 213, 404,
427
Ingoldesthorpe [Hingoldestorp, In-
galdestorp, Ingaudestorp, In-
goldestorp, Ingoldestrop], family,
3, 145, 297, 394, 425; Alan, 145,
425-426; Beatrice, 146; dame
Beatrice, 427; Edm., 329; Ela,
146, 427; Isabel, 213, 426; Joan,
III, 114, 427; John, 139, 426–427 ;
Sir John, 146; Matilda, 426
Rob., 425-426; Sibyl, 111, 426;
Tho., 14, III, 114, 145, 146, 213,
328, 394-395, 424, 426-427, 442 ;
Master Tho., 427; Will., 427
Ingram, parson of Sandy, Beds., 267
Ingreda, wife of Godric, sewer, 102
Inland,' Suss., 73
•
Insula. See L'Isle. de
Intwood, Norf., 164, 180-181
Ion, Beds., 180, 181
Ippolitts, Kent, 293
Ipswich, 176, 178, 439; W., prior of,
180
Ireland, army, 368, 377; scutage, 10,
97, 99, 304
Irmingland, Norf., 366, 395, 399
Iron Eye [Oculus ferreus], 310, 375
Irthlingborough, N'hants., 51, 411
Isabel, countess, 31, 327, 328
[Isabella], queen, 15, 36, 116,
119, 135, 141, 143, 150, 152, 154
Isemburn.' See Easebourne, Suss.
Isfield, Suss., 353; manor, 354
Isle, the. See Wight
Islesfold, de, Alan, 93
Islingham, Kent, 107
Islington, in Tilney, Norf., manor,
Midd., 214, 216
150
Istan, -III, 114; Isabel, 114;
Philippa, 114
Itchenor, Suss., 58-60
Itteringham, Norf., 297, 299, 437
Ivaus, Ralph, 232
Ivo (of Mid Lavant, Suss.), 65; (of
Pulborough, Suss.), 33
Ixworth, Norf., priory, 103
(
JENYVER, Hen., 59
Jernemue.' See Yarmouth, Great
Jernemuth [Jernemue], de, Charles,
116, 117; Rob., 109; Will., 116,
117; Sir Will., 117
Jerpoint, in Kilkenny, abbey, 113
Jersey, 369
Jerusalem, 42, 125, 238, 351, 371,
424; St, Lazarus', lepers of, 41;
see Hospitallers
Jester, 353
Jeudewyn, Matilda, 75; Ric., 75
Jevington, Suss., manor, 329
Jews, custody of, 380; Abraham of
Berkhampstead, SS; Brunus of
London, 183, 381; Deulebencie of
Rising, Norf., 112, 125; Isaac of
Norwich, 140, 180, 317; of Here-
ford, 183; Mosse, 250
Joan, sister to Hen. III, 204
Joas, Ralph, 191
mar-
Joce, Eliz., 278; John, 278
John, chamberlain, 390, 424;
shal, 347, 348; nephew of Waleran,
117, 146; parson of Warblington,
Hants., 97; of Selham, Suss., 21;
seneschal, 155, 218, 220
•
Jona. II
•
Joppa, 396
Jordan, seneschal of the Duke of
Saxony, 97
Joscelin [Regalis] of Louvain, the
castellan, 9, 10, 11, 17, 18, 24, 26,
27, 30, 41, 65, 84, 91, 353, 443;
Joscelin, nephew, 12, 91
480
INDEX
Joslain, constable, 310, 313
Judeysmy,' debt, 216
Judith, countess.
Jumieges, abbey, 339
Justiciar of England, 343
See Huntingdon
KAILI [Kailli, Kailli], de.
Kaineto [Kaisneto], de.
Kancia, de, Tho., 219
Karevill, de. See Chervill
Kari, de.
See Carey
Karon [Karun]. See Carun
Kauneto [Kayneto, Kaysneto], de.
See Chesney
Kaveresfeld
Caversfield
See
See Cailli
See Chesney
[Kaveresfeud].
Kaylli [Kayly], de. See Cailli
Kaynes, de, Rob., 354
Kedington, Suff., lady of, 417;
manor, 417
Keidneto, de. See Chesney
'Kelinge or Kelingt.' See Kenning-
tons, Essex
'Kelituna.' See Kenningtons, Essex
Kelling, de, Hugh, 147; Rob., 147
Kelling, Norf., 375; church, 147
Kelshall, Herts., 207
Kemberton, Salop, 91; manor, 4
Kemerton, Gloucs., 170, 172; church,
170
Kempston, Norf., 395-396, 399;
church, 396
Kemsing, Kent, 217-218, 220; manor,
218
Kenemondwick
[Kenemundewich].
See Kinwick Field, Beds.
Kenet, family, 296, 343 ; Emma, 343;
Isabel, 343; Nich., 342-344;
Nicholaa, 343, 345 n.; Pet., 305–
306, 343; Ric., 343
Keneteswell, de, Rog., 317
Kenilworth, 108, 205, 266; award,
92, 161, 419, 434-435; dictum, 358
Kenion, Ralph, 67
Kennet, Cambs., 296, 342–344
Kennetsford, Cambs., 343, 344
Kenninghall, Norf., 13, 131; manor,
4, 14
Kennington, Surr., manor, 307
Kenningtons, Essex, 400
'Kenoutone.' See Knowlton
Kent, countesses-272; Margt., 179;
Margt. de Burgh, 324
earls-Edm., 15, 16, 47, 54, 64,
68, 70, 179, 216; Hubert de Burgh,
272, 323; Jo., 272; Ric., 47
Kenton, Devon, manor, 179
Kenwick 'Kenewic'], in Tilney,
Norf., 309, 426; manor, 427
Kepston, de, Tho., 25
Kerdeston [Kerdyston], de, Will., 109,
319
Kerdiston, Norf., 314, 320
C
Keresfeld.'
See Caversfield
Kernewiz.' See Cranwick, Norf.
Kersey, Suff., 361; church, 362–363 ;
manor, 178-179; St. Anthony's
priory, 362-363
Kesildele, de, Geoff., 118, 132
Kessingland, Suff., 332
Keswick, Norf., 441
Ketteringham, Norf., 132
Kettleburgh, Suff., 363
Kettlestone, Norf., 325, 326, 402
Keymer [Keynor], Suss., 58–60, 339 ;
church, 312, 314; manor, 307
Kimberley [Kemburle], de, Gilb.,
147
Kimberley [ Kineburn '], Norf., 142,
147; church, 421; manor, 142,
143
Kimbolton, Hunts., 250
Kinalton, Notts., 53
C
Kingesfeld,' Essex, 198
Kingesham, Suss., assart, 83
Kingscliffe, forest, 284
Kingsford, 310
Kingsholme, Gloucs., 78
King's nurse, 188
Kingston [Kingeston, Kyngeston],
family, 296; Phil., 370; Rob., 370;
Warin, 305, 370
Kingston, Cambs., 207, 388-389;
manor, 387, 389
Surr., 407
Suss., 305, 334, 336; manor,
336; mill, 370
in Swanborough hund., 370
by Lewes, Suss., 296, 305,
310-311, 370; church, 311
by the Sea [Kingston Bucy],
Suss., 296, 351-352
next Shoreham, Suss., manor, 72
Lisle, Berks., 164, 171-172, 174,
223-224
Kington, honor, 191
Kinredeford, Suss., 50
Kinwick [Cirnindewyk], de, Andrew,
264
Kinwick Field [Chenemondewiche,
Kenemondwick, Kinemondwick],
in Sandy, Beds., 165, 254, 263-264
Kipston, Suss., 59
Kirkby [Kirkebi, Kirkeby, Kyrkeby],
de, Christina, 162, 163, 255; Gilb.,
195; Sir Jo., 184; Lora, 195;
Will., 162-163, 255
Kirkby, Ralph, prior of, 415
Bellers, Leics., 162
Cane, Norf., 155
Kendal, barons of, 183
Overblow, Yorks., manor, 174
Underwood, Lincs., 105
Kirk Levington, Yorks., manor, 18
Kirstead, Norf., 136
Knap, Suss., park, 328
Knapp, 351
INDEX
481
Knapton, Norf., 338; fee, 337;
manor, 336
Knaresborough, Yorks., constable of,
416
Knebworth, Herts., 164, 207-209
Knight [Knycht], le, Elvered, 374
Knighton, Leics., manor, 245
Wilts., 85, 86
Knipsho (in Mayland), Essex, 206
Knockin, Salop, 119
Knokk,' Kent, 159
Knolland, Suss., 380
Knovill [Onovill], de, Bogo, 374;
Eleanor, 374; Hugh, 374
Knowlton, Kent, 3, 7, 155-157;
chapel, 155, 217; lady of, 185
✔
Koc, Tho., 394, 395
Kokefeld. See Cockfield
Kotes, de, Thurs., 26
Kylmundewyk.
Field, Beds.
✔
Kyme, de, Matilda, 247
Kyngisford,' Suss., 379
Kynosedeleye. See Kesildele
Kyrkeby. See Kirkby
Kyvelers, de, Pet., 102
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See Kinwick
L'ABBE, Will., 245
Lacneppe, Suss., 66
Laghefare [Lagefare], de, Eustace,
269
La Hulstre,' Suss., 20
L'Aigle, honor, 329
Lakenheath, Suff., 268; fishery, 270
Lamare, de, Alice, 175; Rob., 175
Lamarsh, Essex, 29
Lamberhurst, Kent, 343
Lambert (of Waterdene, Norf.), 322
(of Yen Hall), 322
Lambeth, 73
Lambpet, de, John, 404
Lampeth,' Kent, 293
Lancaster, de, Hen., 414; Matilda,
414; Sir Rog., 184; Will., 183
Lancaster, earls-424; Edm., 414,
440; Tho., 305, 344
Lancaster, 53; honor, 128, 129, 301,
364-367, 438-440; priory, 52
Lanceleve, Sir Rog., 272
Lancing, Suss., 92; manor, 72
Landry, de, Aumauri, 158
'Lanekestrode,' Suss., 377
Langdon [Langedun], de, John, 221
<
Langdon ['Landun,'
un, Langoton'],
Essex, 164, 221, 271
Langetot, de, family, 38, 164, 165;
Alice, 62, 227, 234, 238; Emma,
38; Miles, 62, 155; Muriel, 38;
Nich., 388; Ralph, 61, 62, 227–228,
234, 238
Langford, family, 175
Langford, Beds., 261
Essex, 175; manor, 176
III.
Langham, de, Cecily, 158; Will., 158
Langham, Norf., 366, 367
Langley, de, Edm., 441
Langley, abbey, 107, 136
abbots-108, 117, 151; Gilb.,
116
Essex, 175
Kent, 182-184; lady of, 185;
manor, 185
['Langhale '], Norf., 136
Langney, in Westham, 313
Langport, Suss., 33, 42
Langton [Langeton], de, Denise, 106,
266; Master Sim., 106; Steph., 266;
Walter, 106, 266
Langton, Lincs., 106
Lanvalei [Lanvalay, Lanvaley], de,
family, 165, 280, 289, 291;
Clemency, 288; Gunnora, 251,
273, 287-291; Hawise, 253, 280,
288-291; Matilda, 288-289, 219;
Ralph, 287-289; Will., 168, 251,
273, 280, 287-291; Sir Will., 273,
288
barony, 168, 280, 290, 291
Laodicea, 301, 316
Larling, Norf., 322, 325, 326, 380–382;
manor, 326
Larlingge. See Lirling
Lascy [Lacy, Lasci], de, Elena, III;
Gilb., III; Hen., 248, 413;
Ilbert, 419; Jo., 399; Walter, 105
'Lasela.' See Litlelee, Kent
Lasham, Hants., 355-359; manor,
340
Latchingdon, Essex, 205
Latimer [Latimere], le, Alice, 256,
264; Eliz., 268; Jo., 264; Nich.,
264; Rob., 157; Tho. of Wardon,
173; Will., 256, 268
Latton, Essex, manor, 211
Laval, de, Guy, 243
Lavant, Suss., 20, 67; church, 313
Mid, Suss., 65, 66
West, Suss., 45
Laver, High and Little, Essex, 269
Lavingdon [Lavendon], Bucks., 165,
244
Wilts., 414
Laweland,' Suss., 341
Lawford, Essex, 178-179; manor,
179
Lawling, Essex, 271
·
Laye, la, Ric., 43
Layer [' Lagefare '], Essex, 164, 193,
269
Layer Breton, Essex, 164, 167,
199-201, 212-213
Suff.,
de la Haye, Essex, 107, 193
Little, Essex, 270
Layham [Lafham],
177-179, 359, 361
Layston, Herts., 268
Leche, de, Edm., 399
2 I
164,
482
INDEX
Lechesham, de, Ric., 396
Lecton, de, Master Will., 28
'Ledecirca.' See Lilly Church, Kent
Ledenham, Lincs., 406
Ledes, de, Geoff., 59
Ledet [Leydet], family, 164, 202,
264; Christiana, 263; Emma, 202;
Joan, 201; Rob., 201-202; Wal-
ter, 202; Wischard [Wiscard],
208, 263
Ledhok, Kent, 292
Leeds, Kent, manor, 184
priors-158, 198; Fulk, 197
Lees, Essex, 271
Leesingham, 188
Lefquene, wife of Peter son of Ralph,
394
Legh [Leghe, Ley, Leye, Lyegh], de,
Ada, 260; Adam, 260; Emma,
31, 34, 98; Hen., 31, 34, 98, 260,
272; Hugh, 260; Rog., 242, 259,
260; Walter, 260
'Lehe,' Kent, 195
Leicester [Leicestre], de, Ric., 286;
Walter, 286
Leicester, 245
abbey (La Pré), 245; abbot,
245
archdeacon, 227
countess-Petronilla, 245
earls-135, 198, 286; Hen., 414;
Rob., 245; Rob. de Meulan, 246
fee, 165; honor, 245
Leighs, Essex, manor, 205; priory,
204
Lek, de, Will., 109
'Leleseia.' See Lindsey, Suff.
Lemmer (of Cockfield, Suff.), 360
Lenham, Kent, 199, 294
Lenn, Norf., 320
Leonius, servant, 387
L'Essay, Holy Trinity, abbey, 56,
57; monks of, 12, 101; Rob.,
abbot, IOI
Lessingham [Lisingham], Norf., 421
L'Estrange [Extraneus, Strange,
Straunge], family, 2, 118, 296, 443 ;
Eleanor, 373; Emma, 390-391 ;
Fulk, 375; Hamon, 77, 119, 390;
Sir Hamon, 119; Isabel, 119;
Iseult, 119; Joan, 118; Jo., 76-
77, 117-119, 132, 335, 347, 385-
386, 390; Margt., 119; Matilda,
117, 390; Ralph, 390-391; Rob.,
373; Rodland, 396; Rog., 443;
Roland, 117
Letheringsett, Norf., 151, 152
Letselina, wife of Ralph son of
Godric, 102
Letton, Norf., 327, 330
Levenod, 310
Levington, Suff., 324
Lew, Oxon., 231, 240
Lewes, de, Master Hen., 346
Lewes, Suss., 82, 297, 307, 308, 345,
349, 380; barony, 326; battle,
146, 161, 198, 333, 398, 419, 426;
borough, 300, 315; castle and
manor, 298, 307, 308, 322, 377,
420; churches [named], 311; fee,
394; honor, 320, 326, 346; honor
of Warenne, 296-443
St. Pancras, priory, 17, 24-27,
33, 37-39, 44, 52, 56, 62, 65, 69,
90-91, 97, 155, 297-301, 308-313,
327-328, 331, 334, 339, 347, 351-
356, 363, 370-372, 375, 379, 381-
382, 385, 389, 394, 405, 407, 416,
420, 423, 432, 437; monks, 16,
25-26, 38, 52, 62, 300, 322, 334,
345, 354, 390; priors-20, 24, 39,
44, 76, 325, 340–341, 358, 374, 417;
Albert, 341; Guichard, 332; Hugh,
416; Jo., 92; Lanzo, 312; Osbert,
327; Will., 425
Lexden, Essex, 167, 175, 205-206, 288
Lexham, Norf., 279, 395, 396, 399
East, Norf., church, 396;
manor, 400
-
West, Norf., 398
Leybourne, Kent, 164, 182-186
Leyburn [Leiburn, Leybourn], de,
family, 3, 164, 182; Agnes, 183;
Alice, 161, 185; dame Amica,
182; Eleanor, 182, 184; Florence,
183; Hen., 157; Jo., 183; Juliana,
157, 161, 184-185; Margt., 182;
Phil., 182, 185; Rob., 182; Rog.,
31, 182-185, 221; Sir Rog., 184
Tho., 161, 185; Will., 156-157,
161, 184-185; Sir Will., 184
Leye, Kent, manor, 336
Leyham, family, 164, 178-179;
Hawise, 192; Joan, 178-179; Jo.,
179; Margery, 178-179; Margt.,
362; Matt., 178, 215, 362-363:
Sir Matt., 178; Nesta, 178, 215,
362-363; Master Nich., 178; Olive,
179; Osbern, 249; Osbert, 178
Pet., 178-179; Philippa, 178;
Will., 178
Leyton, Essex, 182, 401
Lezignan, de, Geoff., 440
Liddel, 142
Lilleshall, canons of, 372
Lilly Church, nr. Higham, Kent, 166,
273; mill, 285
Limesi [Limesei, Limeseye, Limesy,
Lymesi, Lymesy], de, Alex., 175,
189; Jo., 44; Margery, 43, 44;
Margt., 44; Matilda, 44; Nich.,
24, 44, 73-74; Rohaise, 175, 189;
Walter, 43-44, 74
Linces, de, Urso, 50
Linch, Suss., 19–21, 30, 36
Linchmere [' Wolenchemere '], Suss.,
I, II, 19-21; priory, 29; canons,
20
INDEX
483
Linchmere-Wildebrig, Suss., 29
Lincoln, Alfred [Alvred] of, 41, 43
Lincoln, bishops-64, 259–261, 313;
Hugh, 243; Rob., 287, 410; Rob.
de Chesney, 227, 229, 234
castle, constable of, 239
church of, 245
countess-Margt., 284
earls-263, 270, 417; Hen. de
Lascy, 248; Ranulf, 14; Will.
de Aubigny I, 38; Will. de
Aubigny II, 7
Lincroft, Norf., 135
Lindfield, Suss., 324, 326, 370
Lindholt, de, Rob., 363
Lindle, Norf., 431
Lindon, de, family, 165; Alan, 283 ;
Sir Alan, parson, 283-284; Alina,
283; Margt., 282; Matilda, 284;
Ric., 284; Rolland, 281, 283;
Sim., 281-284; Sir Sim., 284
Lindsell, Essex, 156, 164, 217-219;
manor, 156, 219
Lindsey, Suff., 362, 363; castle,
360; chapel (St. James'), 361
Liniota wife of Will. son of John, 243
Liperinges, Suss., 66
Lirling [Lirlinge], de, Matilda, 325;
Will., 325
Lirling. See Larling, Norf.
Lisewy, 102
4
4
L'Isle [de Insula], de, family, 1, 169,
174, 226, 228, 244; Adeline, 20 n. ;
Alice, 119, 172-173, 237; Baldwin,
170, 178, 186, 188, 205, 226, 243–
244; Baldwin, chamberlain, 187,
190; Sir Baldwin, 173; Beatrix,
172; Brian, 408; countess, 200
Florence, 34; Geoff., 45; Gerard,
172, 223-224, 237; Grace, 408;
Hen., 34; Jo., 44-45, 185, 189, 190,
209, 244, 246; Sir Jo., 244; Juliana,
45; Margt., 226; Otuel, 364; Rob.,
119, 172-174, 185, 189, 193, 196,
199, 201-202, 206, 209, 216, 224,
226, 232-233, 237, 241, 245-246,
339, 411; Sir Rob., 147, 177, 179,
181, 185-187, 190, 192, 197, 224,
246; Rohaise, 172; Walter, 34, 44;
Warin, 223, 226, 232, 237; Sir
Warin, 224; Will., 34
L'Islebon [Lillebon], de, John, 352;
Sibil, 352
Liston, Essex, manor, 421
Litcham, Norf., 119
Litelwelle, de, Samson, 374
Litledon,' Suss., 20
Litlelee ['Lasela'], Kent, 194
Litlington. See Littleton Farm
Littlehampton, Suss., 2, 89, 90
Littleton, Hants., 84
Littleton Farm, nr. Up Waltham, 52
Litton [Luton], de, Alice, 436; Jo.,
436
Llewelyn prince of Wales, 398, 440 ;
Margt., dau., 440
Locheleye, de, Isabel, 219; John,
219
Lodden, de, Joscelin, 138
Loddon, Norf., 2, 116-117, 123-124,
138, 152, 155, 338; manor, 151
Lodne, de, John, 143
Lodnes, de, Geoff., 116; Ric., 116;
Steph., 116
'Lodnes.' See Loddon, Norf.
Lohereng, de, John, 259; Will., 258
Loingeland,' Norf., 317
Loingeland,' Suff., 317
Lokinton, N'hants., 188
London, de,
<
"
311; Adam, 187
David, 311; Joan, 187; Jo., 236;
Rob., 269; Tho., 187
London, 5, 196, 198, 225, 258, 278,
333, 350, 401-402, 411, 414
bishops-106, 108, 214; Gilb.,
276, 407; Gilb. Foliot, 193, 234-
235; Maurice, 166; Ric., 313;
Rob., 175
Jews. See Jews
justiciar of, 285
mayor (first, of commune),
347-349
merchants, 293
Aldgate, Holy Trinity or Christ
Church priory, 252
Newchurch, 167
St. Barthol., priors-Gerard,
211; Jo., 211
St. Botolf, chapel, 313
St. Helen's church, 167
St. Mary of Westchepinge,'
church, 167
St. Paul's, dean, 278, 401, 427
St. Paul's, Ric. the Young,
canon of, 208
Tower, 278
Walbrook, 192
Longbridge, Suss., 81
Longespée [Lungespeye], de, Alice,
440; Matilda, 440; Ric., 440;
Will., 319, 436, 440
Longevill, de, Beatrice, 274; Jo.,
274; Tho., 274
Longham, Norf., 119
Longueil ['Lungoly '], Seine-Inf., 421
Longueville, priory of, 300
Lopeherst, Suss., 26
Lora, wife of Steph., chamberlain
27
Lord, le, Rob., 222
Lordington, Suss., 41-42, 45; chapel,
44; manor, 44
Losfield [Losfelle], Beds., 268; her-
mit, 268
Losfield, Berks., 165
Lossenham, Kent, 158, 159
'Louentune.' See
Suss.
Barlavington,
484
INDEX
Louvain [Luvaine], de, family, I;
John, 216; Joscelin, 17, 18, 24,
see Joscelin the castellan; Matt.,
214, 366
Loveday, Ann, 139; Ric., 139; Rog.,
55, 177, 184, 399, 404
Lovel [Lovell, Luvel], family, 2, 81;
Alice, 81, 82; Christiana, 82;
Eleanor, 176; Hen., 81, 82; Hugh,
81, 82, 92; Jo., 133, 134, 176;
Pet., 315; Ralph, 81; Ric., 81,
82, 93; Will., 176
Loventone.' See Lavant, Mid.
Lowdham, Notts., 114, 115; church,
"
III, 112
Luci [Lucy], de, Godeheut, 57; God-
frey, 269; Ric., 57, 243, 390
Ludborough, Lincs., 439; manor, 440
Luddesdown, Kent, 106, 107
Ludgershall, castle, 172
Ludham, Norf., 129
Ludlow, Salop, 105
'Luiton,' Essex, 183
Lullingeston, de, Jo., 195; Ric., 195;
Tho., 195
Lullingstone, Kent, 164, 194–195
Lunde, le, N'hants., 283
Lurgasall [Lurgarshall, Lurgashall,
Lutgarshale, Lutgarshall], Suss.,
35, 36, 91, 93; church, 17, 24, 92;
park, 92, 93
Luton Hoo, Beds., 209
Lydell, Cumb., 399
Lyegh, de la.
See Legh
Lymesi. See Limesi
Lyminster, Suss., 2, 16, 23, 37, 65,
69-70, 90; church, 90
Lyndon, Rutl., 282; church, 283;
manor, 283, 284
Lynford, Norf., 399
Lynn, Norf., 95, 112, 149, 309, 430,
439; marshland, 300, 304, 427
Old, Norf., 141, 326; church,
313
South, Norf., 150
Lyons, de, John, 59; Ric., 59
Lythare, John, 154
MABEL, Countess. See Montgomery
Madehurst (? Meslirs), Suss., 49, 51-
52; church, 62; lord of, 26
Magne, le, Hugh, 299; Isabel, 299
Mahon, de, Nich., 159; Peter, 159
Maiden Bradley, prior of, 20
Maideston, Norf., 149
Maidstone, Kent, 182-183, 185, 194
Maiham, family, 3
Maisi, de, Rob., 91
Malden, Surr., 17, 22; church, 21
Maldon, de, Gunnor, 22
Maldon, Essex, 397; abbey, 221
Malet, Rob., 321, 325, 424; Walter,
321; Will., 231
Malherbe [Malerbe], Ralph, 109
Sir Rob. le, 109; Will., 104, 124
Malling, Kent, nuns of, 62
South, Kent, manor, 353
Malmeyns [Malemeins, Malesmain,
Malmayns], family, 3; Hen., 159;
Sir Hen., 161; John, 159, 160,
205; Rog., 159; Tho., 159, 203
Malpas [Maupas], Will., 337
Malquenci, family, 297; Geoff., 413;
Gerard, 413
Malteby, de, Rob., 336
Maltravers [Mautravers], John, 356;
Will., 103
Malveisin, Adam, 204
Manchester, Lancs., barony, 280;
lord of, 324
Mandevill [Maundevill, de Manna-
villa], de, family, 164; of Black
Notley, Essex, 252; Atheliz, 252;
Beatrice, 225; Christiana, 121,
393; Geoff., 213, 214, 225, 249,
252, 365; Geoff., earl, 225; Gilb.,
252; Gunnild, 252; Jo., 252
Milicent, 252; Mirabilis, 252;
Olive, 253; Petronilla, 210; Ralph,
210; Ranulf, 252; Roese, 252;
Tho., 210, 211, 252; Walter, 252;
Will., 225, 252-253, 393; Will.,
earl, 318
See Essex
honor, 225
Manegeden [Manegedon, Manekeden],
de, Gerard, 201; Jordan, 201
Maners [de Maneriis], de, family, 165,
296; Alice, 272; Baldwin, 109;
Jo., 272; Ric., 272, 345; Rob.,
272, 345
Manewden [Manuden], Essex, 164,
201-202, 371, 373, 375
Manne, de, Christina, 401; Pet., 401
Mantel, Matt., 202
Manteston [Mandeston], de, family,
3; Ric., 148
Mapeldreschamps
[Mapelscombe],
196
Mapledurham, Oxon., 297, 420-423
Chauzey, Oxon., 423
Gornay, Oxon., 423
(
Maplestead, Essex, 378
Little, Essex, 376
Mappowder, Dors., 313
Marche, La,' Norf., 119
Marches, Welsh, 397, 398
Marcil, de, Adeling, 13
Marden [Morden], Suss., I, 17, 20, 81 ;
chapel, 65
East, 86
North, 1, 20, 24, 74, 91
Up, Suss., 1, 41-45, 65-68, 72,
74, 94; church, 76; manor, 74,
75
West, Suss., 36
Wilts., 204, 414
INDEX
485
Mare [Mara], de la, family, 296,
368-369; Geoff., 179; Hen., 274,
368; Ida, 179; Isabel, 368–369 ;
dame Isabella, 369; Joan, 369; Jo.,
39, 40, 369; Mabel, 368; Matilda,
368; Matt., 369; Matthias [Ma-
zius], 368; Pain, 305, 368-369;
Petronilla, 39; Tho., 368
Mareigni, de, Will., 214
Mareis, Little, nr. Yedingham, Yorks.,
nunnery, 355, 356
Marenni, de, Rob., 201
Mares, de, Rob., 430
Marevill [Merevill], de, Bernard, 409;
Pet., 408-409; Ranulf, 409
Mareys, de, Sim., 159
Margaret, dau. of Llewelyn prince of
Wales, 440
princess, 221; queen, 173, 224,
284, 338
Margaretting, Essex, manor, 342,
410, 415
Margery, dau. of Will. of Wilby,
Norf., 144
Marham, Norf., 140, 314-315, 317,
319, 320, 346; abbess of, 344
Marines, de, Hawise, 206; Hugh,
206
Mark, Phil., 419
Markborough, in Middleton, Norf.,
priory, 149
Markham, 314
Marlborough, castle, 172
Marlingford [Merlingford], de, Gilb.,
127
Marlingford, Norf., 127, 128
Marlsford, manor, 318
Marmion, John, 338
Marmoutier, St. Martin's, 49
Marsea, Essex, 193
Marshal [Mareschal], Alice, countess,
344; Alina, 127 N., 151, 279;
Alvreda (or Alina), 113; Anselm,
106, 344; Cecily, 43, 44; Ellis, 206
Gilb., 43, 44; Joan, 106; Jo., 68,
113, 115, 126, 128, 132, 151, 152,
279, 280, 289, 347-348, 422-423 ;
Margt., countess, 344; Matilda,
336; Ralph, 443; Rog., 268;
Rog., earl, 440; Rohaise, 206;
Steph., 349, 368; Will., 33, 67, 68,
218, 337, 442; Will., earl, 46, 170,
208, 218
See Bigod, Broc, de, Fitz-Aldelin
and Pembroke
Marshal, earl, 68, 88, 107-108, 119,
179, 343-344, 366, 374
king's, 63
Marston Moretaine, Beds., 343
Martel, Agnes, 282; Martin, 282;
Osbert, 250; Will., 96
Martin, John, 196
rector of Tarring, 353
treasurer, 287
Martinsgrave, Suss., 2, 10, 11, 71,
76-77, 82-83
Massingham, Norf., 301, 371
Mastak, de, Bozo, 19
Matan, de, Will., 254
Matching, Essex, 29, 409; manor, 410
in Newhaven, Suss., manor, 307
Matham ['Mayhamme'], Kent, 3,
158-160
Matilda, countess, 306; empress, 7,
10, 38, 415; lady of Wallingford,
234; princess, 317; queen, 285,
298, 309, 403
•
Matuen, de, Serlo, 167
Maubanc, Alda, 250; Will., 250
Mauduit, Beatrice, 239; Jo., 241,
413; Sir Jo., 241; Ric., 220;
Rob., 240-241; Sir Rob., 241;
Tho., 204, 377
Maulden, Beds., 209
Maulveisin, Adam, 204
Maunsel [Maunsell], family, 2; Ama-
bel, 98; Emma, 33-34, 98; Jo.,
33-34, 86, 98–101; Jo., clerk, 34, 98
Mauntel, Felicia, 206; Rob., 206
Mauny, de, Walter, 209
Maupas. See Malpas
Mauquenchy in the Rumois, 413
Mauquency. See Malquenci
Mautravers. See Maltravers
Mauule [de Malo Lacu], de, Pet., 121
Mawers, de, Will., 109
Maximus, Alice dau. of, 140
Maydenhatch, de, Isabel, 369; Joan,
369; Margt., 369; Sibyl, 369;
Tho., 369
Maydewell, de, Agnes, 232; Hen., 232
Mayenne [' Meine,' Meinne '], de,
C
Cecily, 104-106; Walter, 104-106
Mayham [Maiham, Meham, Meyham],
de, Hawise [Helwise], 159, 158–160;
Orabel, 158-160; Ric., 158; Sim.,
159; Tho., 158
fee, 158
Mayland, Essex, 206
Méautry [Meautreu], in Calvados, 348
Medeltone.' See Melton,
Little,
Norf.
Medested, de, Andrew, 51
Medway, river, 182
Meeching, 309, 310; church, 311
Meesden, Herts., 108
Melbourne, 253; church, 253
Melburn, Great, Norf.,
Melbury, 313
139
Meldon, de, Eudes, 21
Meleburne, de, Jo., 253; Will., 253
Melewode, church, 332
Melford, Little, Norf., 103
Melhowe [Melho], de, John, 407;
Roese, 407; Will., 407
Mellers, Suss., 26, 49, 50, 63
Mellers, Merlirs, Meslirs.
hurst, Suss.
See Made-
486
INDEX
Melliers, de, Alfwin, 317
Melond East Hall, Norf., 382
Melton, de, Will., 109
Melton, Norf., 107, 138-139, 367
Great, Norf., 102, 109 139
Little, 102-103, 107, 109
Mowbray, Leics., church, 313
Menbroc, II
Menelli [Menli], de, Tho., 210
Meon, East, Hants., 65
Meppershall, Norf., 181
Mercecurt, de, Guy, 301, 315; Will.,
301, 315
Merchenfen, Norf., 304
Merchet' of flesh and blood, 399
'Merdon,' North. See Marden, Up,
Suss.
Mere ['Meres Court'], Kent, 31,
182-184; manor, 185
Merecombe, Wilts., 84
Merelee [Merelis], de, Rob., 158
Meri [Merei], de, Ric., 65, 335
Merk [Merc, Merch, Merke], de,
family, 164, 165; Adelolf, 211;
Aitrop or Eitrop, 210, 211; An-
drew, 179, 212; Aubreye or Alda,
212; Cecily, 274; Eustace, 210,
268, 269; Hen., 178, 210, 211;
Jas., 211; Jo., 210, 217, 274;
Juliana, 212; Lora, 212; Mary,
274; Petronilla, 210; Ralph, 211,
212, 217, 274; Rohaise, 211, 212;
Sim., 211; Tho., 212, 274; Walter,
273, 274; Will., 211, 273, 274
Merlay [Merlai, Merleia], de, family,
112, 297, 443; Daniel, 112, 442;
Eva, 442; Geoff. [Gilo], 5, 112,
118, 198, 442; Hawise, 442 ; Mary,
96; Morel, 5, 7; Ric., 442; Rog.,
96; Sarra, 442; Will., 112
Merlo, de, Will., 422
Merlot, Will., 352
Mers (Bresle), 278 n.
Mers, in Vimeu, 277
Mersea, Essex, 193
Merston, Suss., 1, 36, 37, 41, 90
alias Weston, Suss., 36
Merton, de, Walter, 22, 286; dom.
Walter, 286; Walter, king's clerk,
22
Merton, 313; church, 313
priory, 21; canons, 10; Will.,
prior, 21
Merton Hall, Surr., 22
Merwenedenn, Suss., 71
Meschin, family, 169; Avice, 169;
Matilda, 35; Will., 35, 169
" Meslirs.' See Madehurst, Suss.
Mesners or Mainers, de, Ric., 345, 346
Messina, 42
Methelonde, de, Adam, 382
Methelwold, de, Sim., 361
Methwold, Norf., 334, 336; manor,
341
Meulan, counts-Rob., 246, 299,
300; Waleran, 300, 316; countess
-Isabel, 299
Meyners, de, Agnes, 346; Isabel,
346; Leticia, 346; Ralph, 305, 346;
Ric., 346
vicomté of, 346
Micheleslond,
in West Thurrock,
manor, 401, 402
Mickfield, Suff., church, 137
Mickleford, de, Hamon, 109
Middentone, de, Hoel, 149
Middleham, Yorks., 28
Middlesex, archdeacon of, 427
Middleton, de, John, 354
Middleton, 198, 309, 311
by Lean, Norf., 320
Norf., 2, 353-354
Norf., St. Mary, church, 149
in Freebridge hund., Norf., 56,
149-150
Suff., 296, 370-371, 375, 428-429;
manor, 373
next Pevensey, 354
Suss., 52, 55, 56; manor, 58,
59, 307, 353, 354
North, Suss., 58
Midhurst [Middeherst'], Suss., II,
64-67, 68 n., 409; manor, 68
Mid-Lavant ['Midlouinton'], Suss.,
29
Mikelefeld, de, Hamon, 109
Milcott, Warws., 94
Mildenhall, Wilts., 235
Mile, John, 265
Mileham, Norf., 47: fee, 119;
honor, 118; manor, 118, 136, 137
Milliers [Melliers, Mileres, Miliers,
Milleres, Mylieres], de, family, 2,
3, 97, 100, 142, 431; Alfwin, 62;
Felicia, 34, 98-100; master Gilb.,
31; Godfrey, 153-154; Hodierna,
141; Hugh, 97, 129, 153; Humph.,
10, 63, 99, 153, 431; Humph., sewer,
97, 153; master Humph., 97, 98 ;
Matilda, 153; Rob., 141; Rog.,
63, 97, 141, 142; W., 360; Will.,
5, 78, 97-98, 143 n., 153-154, 163
Milton by Gillingham, Dors., manor,
248
on Stour, Dors., 165, 247–248
Kent, 183
by Gravesend, Kent, 107
by Maidstone, Kent, 194
Mimecan, Philip, 369
(
Miners, de, Agnes, 183; Hen., 183
Minstead, Suss., 20, 21
Minster, Oxon., 227, 237
Little, Oxon., 64
Minter' (Munte ?). See Mount, Kent
Miseburne,' 313
Missenden, Bucks., 86; abbey, 410,
411; abbot-Peter, 410
Mistley, Essex, 192
INDEX
487
Mitching, Suss., 383
Moggerhanger, Beds.,262-263; manor,
263
Mohaut [Montalt, de Monte Alto,
Montut], de, family, 165; Cecily,
14; Joan, 118, 248; Jo., 58, 248,
354; Rob., 32, 36, 58, 59, 116,
118, 119, 132, 135, 141, 143, 143 n.,
150, 152, 154; Sir Rob., 36, 58,
143; Rog., 14, 15, 116, 118, 140,
151, 154; Sim., 358
barony, 59; honor, 36
Mohun, de, Hen., 59
Moine [Moigne, Moygne, Moyne],
le, Fulk, 262; Jo., 184, 374;
Ralph, 191, 373; Reg., 125; Rob.,
126; Will., 373
Molendinis, de, Will., 33
'Molonde,' Kent, 196
Molton, North, Devon, 35
Molyns, de, John, 350; Sir Jo., 330;
Margery, 330
Monceaus [Monceaux, Monceus, Mun-
ceus], de, family, 296, 376; Alan,
377; Drew, 421; Edith, 421;
Idonea, 376; Ingram, 376, 377;
Joan, 377; Jo., 378; Margt., 377,
378; Matilda, 377; Olimpias, 378;
Ralph, 375; Rob., 376; Waleran,
333, 376-378; Will., 306, 341, 376,
377
Mongewell, de, Nich., 423
Mongewell, Oxon., 229
Montacute [de Monteacuto], de,
family, 364; Alice, 344; Edw.,
344; Hawise, 23; Jo., 31, 365;
Ric., 364; Will., 23
Montbegon, de, Olive, 57; Rog., 57
Monte Canesi [Caniso], de. See
Muntchenesy
Montfichet. See Munfichet
Montfort, de, 100, 184, 205, 215, 343,
406; family, I; Hawise, 40; Hen.,
398; Sir Hen., 101; Hugh, 149,
157; Pet., 53; Petronilla, 39;
Rob., 39, 40; Sim., 95, 98; Will.,
32, 39, 40
Montgomery, de, countess Mabel, 89,
90; Hugh, 5, 90; earl Rog., 4, 5,
16, 21, 23-24, 26-27, 30, 33, 35, 37,
41, 46–47, 49, 52, 54-56, 61-62, 65,
69, 70, 72, 77, 79, 81, 83, 87-91,
93, 96-97, 99
Monthermer, de, Ralph, 212
Montibus, de, John, 51; Ralph, 50
Montrichard, 12
'Mor,' Norf., 321
Moraunt, Ellis, 21
Mordaunt, Will., 268
More [de Mora], de la, Margery, 259;
Matilda, 253; Ralph atte, 60;
Rob., 259; Sim., 253, 255; Will.,
259
Morel (of Edgefield, Norf.), 118
Morel, family, 165; Ralph, 273, 275
Moreland, de, Adam, 326
Moreton, South, Berks., 85, 86
Morewich [Morewik], de, Hugh, 143;
Theophania, 143
Morice, Agnes, 264; Jo., 260, 264
Morin (of Chithurst, Suss.), 52, 83
Morin, family, 1; Matilda, 25; Ric.,
25
de,
Morlee [Morlay, Morleye],
Ranulf, 130; Rob., 15, 115, 116,
119, 135, 141, 143, 150, 152, 154,
435; Rog., 95
Morley, Norf., 322, 325-326; church,
325
Mortain, counts-52, 353, 413, 414
John, 50, 53, 113, 231, 238, 418
Rob., 49, 56; Steph., 53, 273,
285, 438; Will., 424
countess-Matilda, 273, 285
fee, 247, 248, 380, 414; honor,
247, 250, 413
Mortemer [Mortimer], de, family,
296, 385-389; of Attleborough,
306; Agnes, 389; Alan, 36;
Alice, 388; Constantine, 337-338,
387-388; Sir Constantine, 389
Edm., 262; Geoff., 386; Guy, 387;
Isabel, 70, 387; Margt., 397 ;
Margery, 397; Petronilla, 386;
Ric., 385, 394; Rob., 117, 118,
128, 318, 354, 386-389, 397; Sir
Rob., 387; Rog., 35; Will., 36,
67, 335, 386-388; Will., seneschal,
387
Morthen, de, John, 420
Morthen, par. Rotherham, Yorks.
420
Mortimers, Kent, 183-185
'Mortoft,' Norf., 319, 325
Morton, de, John, 156
Morton by Ongar, Essex, 222
Mosse. See Jews
•
Mota, de, Rob., 78
Mote, de la, Rob., 78
Moulscombe, Suss., 299, 310
Moulstone, Suss., 324, 379
Moulton, Suff., 365-366; manor, 366
Mount (in Elham), Kent, 3, 163
Mountcorbyn, de, John, 338
Moustiers, de, Lisois, 166, 202, 262,
275, 278
Mouun, de, John, 59
Mowbray, de, Rog., 84
Moyns Manor, Essex, 400
Mucegros, de, Alice, 173; Jo., 173;
Rob., 173, 176
<
Mulescumba. See Moulstone, Suss.
Multon [Muleton], de, family, 424;
Matilda, 440-441; Tho., 441
Mundeford, de, Adam, 329; Jo., III,
329; Osbert, 328; Sibyl, 111
Mundford, Norf., 170, 327-330;
manor, 119
488
INDEX
Mundham, de, Alan, 122, 136; Mar-
gery, 136; Rog., 135
Mundham, 436
Mundham, Norf., 117, 121, 123, 124,
136-138, 303, 385 ; church, 122, 136
Suss., 58, 59; church, 90
Mundisdier [Muntisdier], de, Ralph,
315
Mundon, de, Ralph, 220; Ranulf, 166
Mundon, Essex, 165, 275; manor, 167
Munfichet [Muntfichet], de, family,
152, 202; Milisent, 323; dame
Milisent, 340; Philippa, 336; Ric.,
193, 203, 323, 328, 336; Will., 203
barony, 337-338; honor, 337
Muniberi, de, Gerard, 411; Isabel,
411; Pet., 411; Rog., 411
Munpincun [Montepincun, Montpyn-
chun, Mounpinzon, Munpinsoun,
Munpinzun, Muntpincun], de,
family, 296, 402-405 ; Agnes,
394, 402-403 ; Alice, 403-404 ;
Christiana, 395, 404; Clemency,
403; Edm., 404; Fulk [Fulqui],
394, 402-404; Giles, 394-395,
403-405; Sir Giles, 403-404;
Hugh, 403; Isolda, 403; Joan,
404; Jo., 394, 403; Sir Jo., 404 ;
Oliver, 404; Orabella, 404; Ralph,
402-403; Reg., 403; Rog., 402;
Tho., 402; Will., 403-404
Muntalurme, de, Rob., 220; Serlo,
220
Muntchenesy [de Monte Canesi, Cani-
so], de, family, 2, 103–110; Agnes,
103-104, 106; Aveline, 105; Bea-
trice, 290-291; Denise, 106-108,
266; dame Denise, 109, 205;
Hubert, 8, 103, 393; Hubert, clerk,
104; Joan, 106; John, 106;
Muriel, 393; Ralph, 103-104, 106,
119, 222, 266; Rog., 361, 375, 393 ;
Waresius, 197; Warin, 8, 103-107,
151-152, 222, 266; Will., 104-108,
139, 151-152, 196, 202, 222, 266,
290-291, 366
barony, 108; fee, 104, 107;
honor, 107
Munteny, de, Arnulf, 184
Murdac [Murdach, Murdak], Adam,
238; Alice, 231-232, 238-240;
Beatrice, 63, 228, 230, 238-240;
Dionisia, 43; Eva, 63, 238-239;
Florence, 43; Geoff., 230; Margt.,
43; Ralph, 63, 228, 230-231,
238-240; Ric., 43; Will., 241
Murdac (of Minster, Oxon.), 227
Murdakes-hyde.' See Minster,
Oxon.
•
Muriel, niece of Agnes de Belfou, 5
wife of Savary son of Cana, 65
Mursley, Bucks., manor, 171
Musard, Nich., 419; Ralph, 419
'Musarderi,' Gloucs., 419
Musgrave, de, Sir Tho., 184
Mustervill [Musteroil, Musteroill,
Mustrol, Mustroyl], de, family, 3;
Adam, 154; Hamon, 154; Rog.,
154; Will., 4, 9
Muston, Leics., 405, 406
Mylieres. See Milliers
NARING, Norf., 404
Naringes, de, Basilia, 394; Mabel,
394; Phil., 394
Naughton, Suff., 360-362
Navenby, Lincs., 293
Nayland, Essex, manor, 277
Nedging, Suff., 172; manor, 173
Neel, Ric., 109
'Neoburna.' See Nutbourne, Suss.
Nerford [Neireford], de, Alesia, 321;
Matilda, 307; Pet., 109; Ric.,
336; Sir Tho., 321
Nessenden, de, Tho., 292
Nether Bouhalle, Le,' in Leyham,
Suff., 179
Netley, abbey, 357; abbot, 358; St.
Edward's Stead, 357
Nettlehampstead, Norf., 154
Nettlested, Kent, 292; manor, 217
Nettleton, Wilts., 171
Neubrok in Rolvenden, Kent, marsh,
159
Neufmarché, de, family, 297, 416–417;
Adam, 416-417; Sir Adam, 417;
Amice or Avice, 417; Cecily, 417;
Dionisia, 416-417; Eliz., 417;
Hen., 416-417; Joan, 417; Jo.,
326, 416-417; Lora, 189; Rog.,
417; Sir Tho., 189; Will., 416
Nevenden, Essex, 188
Neveu, le, Ralph, 335
Nevill, de, family, 49 ;
20; Alan,
234; Beatrice, 48, 335, 357; H.,
47; Hawise, 324, 340; Hen., 30,
93; Hugh, 43-45, 47, 49, 85, 120,
275; Hugh, forester, 48, 274, 286,
357; Sir Hugh, 198; Joan, 30,
120, 274, 286; Jo., 48, 49, 274-275,
286; Jo., forester, 45, 243, 340;
Sir Jo., 275; Joslain, 239; Margt.,
275; Matilda, 239; Philippa, 357
Nevill the forester, 1, 47, 286
Newark, 251
Newbaud [Neubaud], de, Isabel, 346;
Phil., 346; Ralph, 346
Newbery by Dartford, Kent, 58
New Bridge, Suss., 66
Newenden, Kent, 159, 160
Newenham, Oxon., manor, 173
New Forest, 380
New Hall, manor, 188
Newick, Suss., 311, 333; church, 313
fee, 66
Newington, Kent, 158, 159
Oxon., 191, 335
INDEX
489
Newington, Longueville, monks of, 230
South, Oxon., 227-228, 232, 237,
241; church, 229; manor, 233
Newnham Murren, Oxon., manor, 25
Newport, Essex, 211
Newsells, Herts., 166; church, 268,
285; manor, 168
in Barkway, Herts., manor, 149
Newsellsbury, Herts., 165, 268–271
Newsham, Yorks., 397
Newtimber, Suss., 314, 319, 328
Newton [Neuton], de, Margt., 432;
Will., 432
Newton, Essex, manor, 214
•
in Great Dunmow, Essex, manor,
215
Old, Essex, 176
Norf., 326
in Holond, Norf., 326
West, Norf., 3, 141-144; church,
131-132
Flotman, Norf., 102, 107, 109
Neybor, Will., 256
'Nicheburna.' See Ickborough
Nicholas archdeacon of Hunting-
don, 287
Nieweham in Hatfield, 207
Nigel, 313, 322
See Sartellei
(of Boxgrove, Suss.), 55
(of Orleswick, Suss.), 310, 345
(of Patcham, Suss.), 299
(of Shelton, Norf.), 121
(of Warningcamp, Suss.), 91
Noers, de, Hugh, 410; Will., 410
See Nueres
Noke ['Owe'], Oxon., 234-236; lord
of, 237
Nonancurt, de, Will., 366
Noreman, Nich., 326
Norfolk, de, Emma, 114; Gilb., III,
113, 114, 349
countesses-Alice le Bigod, 123,
344; Gundreda le Bigod, 124,
428; Matilda Bigod, 124
earls-108, 143, 430, 440; Hugh
Bigod, 8, 124, 127, 383, 385,
428, 438; Rog. Bigod, 123-124,
135-136, 152, 168, 176, 318, 385,
428, 439, 440; Will., 228
Norhals,' Suff., 327
Norman, Nich., 325
Norman, hunter, 90, 310
(of Beeston, Beds.), 262
(of Thorney), 309
Normandy, 6, 12, 14, 57, 63, 67, 84,
98, 101, 104, 112, 113, 129, 166, 218,
250, 277, 281, 283, 348, 368, 413,
420, 422; constable, 67, 282;
king's marshal, 67; seneschal, 282 ;
sewer, 234
'Normaneden.'
See Marden, Up,
Suss.
Normans, Rob., duke of the, 5
Normans' lands, 14, 78, 83, 96,
100-101, 121, 184, 203, 221, 274,
340, 387, 421, 436
Normanton, 253
'Normerdon.' See Marden, Up, Suss.
Northal.' See Covehithe, Suff.
Northales, Suff., 333
Northampton, Will. de Bohun, earl
of, 177
Northampton, 6, 97, 175, 419; gaol,
284; nuns of La Pré, 363; St.
Andrew's priory, 411
酱
​Northcase, Suss., 309; manor, 307
Northestret, Suss., 60
Northill, Beds., 217, 219; church, 265
Kent, 155
Northo, de, Will., 80
Northwold, Norf., 327-329,
337-338, 370-372, 375, 395
Northwood, Norf., 336
Suss., manor, 94
Northumbrians, Hen., earl of the, 416
Norton, de, Lucy [Lucia], 52; Reg.,
52; Ric., 52; Will., 434
Norton, Essex, 176
334,
Cold, Essex, 175; manor, 177;
priory, 243
Suss., court, 52
Yorks., 399
See Blo' Norton, Norf.
Norway, 95, 195, 203
Norwich, de, Jo., 344, 395 n.; Sir Jo.,
138; Kath., 395; Sir Walter, 395;
Will., 317
Norwich, 114, 176, 317, 397; castle,
113, 148, 362, 424, 426
archdeacons-Jo., 372; Tho.,
372
bishops-123, 152, 313, 367,
439; Everard, 315; Jo., 34, 122,
372; Pandulf, 390; Tho., 181;
Will., 7, 315
hospital of St. Giles, 136
Jews of.
See Jews
monk of, 424; priory, 136; Sim.,
prior, 136
Nostell, St. Oswald's, 84; canons of,
416
Nosterfield, Cambs., 215
Noth, family, 3; Basilia, 148;
Eustace, 148; Gilb., 147; Ho-
dierna, 147; Jo., 143, 148; Ralph,
69; Ric., 147-148; Rob., 147-148
Notley, Black, nr. Braintree, Essex,
252; church, 252; manoг, 214
Nottingham, 70
Nottingham, Rob., earl of, 83
Novo Mercato, de. See Neufmarché
Nueres, de, Odo, 118
See Noers
Nugun [Noion, Noyon, Nugoun], de,
Alice, 430; Fina, 399; Hen., 399;
Jo., 429; Nich., 306, 308 n., 378 ;
Ralph, 167, 430
490
INDEX
'Nunmenistre.' See Lyminster, Suss.
Nurse, king's. See Herlawe
Nutbourne, Suss., 17, 90, 94
by Chichester, Suss, 2, 72-76
by Pulborough, Suss., 23, 35-36
Nutfield, Surrey, 108
Nuthall, Notts., 365
Nutshaw ['Nutescheolva '], Hants.,
345
Nyetimber, Suss., 39
Nytimber, in Warblington, Hants.,
2, 37-39, 96-97
OAKHANGER, Hants., 93
Oakington, Cambs., 172
Oakley, Great, Essex, manor, 336,
338
Little, N'hants., 364; manor,
365
Oburvill [Oburvilla], de. See Auber-
vill
(
Oculus Ferreus.' See Iron Eye
Odburgville.' See Aubervill, de
Odiham, castle, constable of, 239
Oeys, de, Eustace, 210
Offeham, de, John, 196
Offham, Suss., 1, 41-45, 74, 90, 97,
196, 312, 319
Offinton, de, Will., 48
Offord, brother of Ulf, 311
Offton, Essex, 177
Suff., 176; manor, 415
[Offigetun], Little, Suff., 176
Ogbourne, Wilts., 234
Oger (of Didlington, Norf.), 393
Oilgi, de, Rob., 62
Oilli, de, Rob., 227, 281; Rog., 235
fee, 57, 113, 239, 242, 369
Oirri [Oiri], de, Alice, III, 113; Fulk,
390; Matilda, 390; Waleran, III,
113
Oismelin, I
(of Binsted and Merston), 37, 41,
90
(of Fratton, Hants.), 355
Old Park (Eaton Socon), Beds., 264
Olmestede, de, family, 80; Jo., 80;
Matilda, 80; Will., 80
Olney, Bucks., manor, 15
Ongar, Essex, 222, 378; heirs of,
205; honor, 178, 203, 207; lady
of, 176, 206
Little, Essex, 376, 377
Onovill, de. See Knovill
Ore [Ores], de, Nich., 191, 192
Ores, Kent, 165, 293
Orewell, Norf., 439
Orfevre, Jordan, 251
Orford, Suff., 317; castle, 426; con-
stable, 73
Orival. See D'Orival
Orleswick [Orthlaueswic], Suss., 296,
310, 345-346
Ormar (of Swanborough), 310
Ormond, James le Botiller, earl of,
358, 359
Ormsby, Norf., 216 n.
Orrea Regis,' Suss., 76
Orreby, de, Isabel, 40, 51, 120;
Joan, 45; Jo., 40, 45, 51, 120
Osbern, bishop, 55
Osbern (of Little Barford, Beds.),
177
Osberteville [Otburvill]. See Auber-
vill, de
Oseney, Oxon., abbey, 103; abbot,
184-185, 232, 240, 241
St. Mary's, 30, 41
Osmund, dispenser, 299, 396
Osmundeston, Norf., 121-123; manor
and church, 122
Ospring, Kent, 293, 330; hospital,
183
Otburvill [Otburvilla], de. See
Aubervill
Oteringber, de, Bertin, 294; Pet.,
294
Oteringden [Oteryngdenne], de, Law.,
185; Ralph, 184; Will., 183
Oteringham, de, Lecia, 282; Margt.,
282; Will., 282
-
Otham [Otteham], de, Lora, 196;
lady Lora, 195; Pet., 195, 196
Otham by Maidstone, Kent, 194-
195; abbey, 353; manor, 196
Otringden, Kent, 182, 183; manor,
184
(
(of Allington, Suss.), 314
(of Anmer, Norf.), 393
(of Little Maplestead, Essex),
376
Otteringburne,' Hants., 71
Otteringham, in Holderness, 282
Oulton, Norf., 441
Ouvill, de, Ric., 244
Overbouhalle,
"
(
Le,' in Leyham,
Suff., 179
Overland, Kent, 3, 160-161; manor,
185
Overstone, N'hants., 98
Overton, de, Ric., clerk, 272
Overton, Hants., 272
Oving, Suss., 77
Ovingdean, Suss., 322, 370, 383, 403
Owe.' See Noke, Oxon
Owthorpe, Notts., 53
Oxborough, Norf., 384
Oxendale, Kent, 158
Oxford, 38, 411, 412
constable, 172
earls-367; Rob. de Vere, 205
St. Frideswide, priory, 235
St. John's hospital, 233, 241,
368
Merton, house of scholars, 286,
287; prior, 286
Oxford Bridge, 48
INDEX
491
Oxroad [Oxerothe, Oxrode], de,
family, 3; Andrew, 163
Oxroad, Kent, 3, 163
Oxted, Surr., 259
Oxwick, Norf., 399
Oysilur, le, Geoff., 254
PACHELESWAY,' 310
Pacheleswye, Suss., 334
Pachynesham, Suss., 89
Packmanstone, Kent, 184; manor,
184, 185
Pagham, Suss., 37
Paglesham, Essex, 164, 192-194
Pain (of Singleton, Suss.), 87
reeve, 309
Painard, Rob., 339
Painswick, Gloucs., 107
Pakenham, de, Edm., 121, 430; Jo.,
121; Rose, 430;
121; Mary,
Will., 121
Palinges, de, Gernegan, 65; Ralph,
65
Palingesham, de, Amfrey, 12
Pallingham, de, Amfrid, 21
Pampisford, Cambs., 217
•
Panethorne,' 310
Pangdean (Piccombe), Suss., 310,
327-328; manor, 330
Pannington, in Wherstead, Suff., 180
Pantulf, I
Pantulf, Will., 65
Parham, Suss., 32
Paris, de, Will., 191
Parker, le, family, 3; John, 144;
Will., 144
Parmenter, le, Joan, 348; Ralph, 348
Passefeld, Essex, 409
Paston Chapel, N'hants., 411
Patcham, Suss., 299; church, 311;
manor, 307
Patching, 310
Pateshull [Pattesle], de, Agnes, 330;
Sir Hamon, 443; Rog., 260; Sim.,
251, 254, 255; Walter, 330
Pati, Christina, 255
Patric, Will., 49
Pattishall, N'hants., 362
Paveli [Paveili, Paveilli, Pavely,
Pavilly, Pavily], de, Edw., 163;
Geoff., 413; Jo., 394-395; Matilda,
163; Phil., 394; Ralph, 302, 371,
394; Rog., 312; Walter, 122, 163;
Sir Walter, 163
Payforer [Peyforer], Fulk, 158–159,
161; Hugh, 159; Ric., 159;
Will., 159
Paynel [Painel], Eva, family, 2, 92;
Fulk, 67; Jo., 92; Margt., 92–93 ;
Matilda, 86, 92; Will., 20, 86,
92-93, 104
Payton
Hall [ Pachenhou '],
Manewden, Essex, 371
in
Peathorne, Suss., bridge, 382
Pebmarsh, Essex, 297, 408–409
Pebmeshe [Pebanesse, Pebbenesse,
Pebeners, Pebenesche], de, family,
297; Ralph, 408-409; Sir Ralph,
409; Randulf, 408; Will., 408-409
Pecche, Barthol., 283; Gilb., 173,
289, 427; Sir Gilb., 388; Hamon,
107, 266, 288-289, 291; Hugh, 120;
Isabel, 369; Joan, 427; Jo., 196,
369; Matilda, 291; Will., 120
fief, 387
Peckham, Kent, serjeanty, 73
East and West, Kent, 73
Peeling, church, 313
Pegsdon, Norf., 181
Peinton, de, Pet., 28
Pembroke, countesses-338,
428;
Joan de Valence, 106, 145; Mary
de Valence, 402; lady, 206
Pembroke, earls-139, 344, 384;
Anselm Marshal, 106; Aymer de
Valence, 92, 108, 154, 205, 279,
307, 326, 333, 338, 344, 346, 367,
384, 401-402, 427; Law. de Hast-
inges, 132; Will. Marshal, 68, 228,
422; Will. de Valence, 106, 145
Penedok, de, Rob., 243
Pennard, Rob., 340
Penning, Margery, 114; Tho., 114
Pentney, priors-425; Sim., 137
Penton Mewsey, Hants., 2, 90
Pepering, nr. Burpham, Suss., 52
Pepperharrow, Surr., 71
Perche, honor, 158
Perching [Persinges], Suss., 72, 296,
305, 319, 339, 347-350, 369
Sands, Suss., 346
Percy [Perce, Perci], de, family, 1,
26, 27; of Petworth, Suss., 65;
Agnes, 18, 19; Alan, 18; Eleanor,
19, 27; Ellen, 18, 19; Geoff., 195,
196; Hen., 18, 19, 21, 26, 30, 36,
63, 65, 73, 76, 92, 93; Sir Hen., 36;
Ingram, 18; Isabel, 18; Jo., 19
Joscelin, 18; Matilda, 195-196
Ric., 12, 18, 19, 26; Sibil, 18;
Will., 18, 19, 29, 35, 65, 91
fee, 18
Perepont [Perepount, Perepunt, Per-
punt, Perrepount], de. See Pier-
pont
Periers [Perers, Perieres], de, Alice,
314, 318; Hugh, 314, 318; Joan,
209; Ric., 209
Perot. See Pirot
Perregate, Suss., 30
Perreham, de, Will., 97
Pershute, Nich., 75; Pet., 75
Persone [Fitz le Persone]. le, Hugh,
259; Ralph, 259; Will., 260
Pertehale, de, Ric., 266
Pertesoyl, Walter, 262
Peter of Savoy, 246, 278
492
INDEX
Peter, sheriff, 310, 370
Peterborough, 50; abbey, 410, 411;
abbot, 51, 281, 283, 411
Petersfield, Hants., 422
Peterstrue, Rog., prior of, 126
Petraponte [Petrepont, Petroponte],
de. See Pierpont
Pette, de, Gervase, 10
Petton, de, Pet., 28
Petworth [de Petehorda], Turstin, 23
Petworth ['Putewurtha '], Suss., I,
6, 11, 16-20, 27, 29, 30, 35, 91-93 ;
chapel (St. Thomas's), II; church,
17; fee, 9, 20; honor, 1, 4, 10, II,
16-19, 21, 24, 36, 41–42, 62–63, 76,
91, 92, 353; manor, 11, 19; park,
92
Pevensey, castle, 80, 354, 403 ; honor,
82; sea-coast, 31, 205
Peverel, Andrew, 201; Sir Andrew,
377; Hamon [Hamond], 187;
Hugh, 211, 364; Joan, 187, 257,
433; Jo., 187, 433; Lucy, 201;
Ranulf, 220; Rob., 411; Sir Rob.,
257; Tho., 377-378; Will., 167,
220, 364
fee, 203, 365, 436
of Bourn, honor, 287, 389
of Dover, honor, 23, 178
of London, honor, 21
Peyvre [Peyvere], Joan, 434; Jo.,
319; Paulin, 434; Will., 319
Philip, brother of countess Isabel, 327
king of France, 224
Philippa, queen, 341
Phin the Dane, 220; Ulveva, wife,
220
(
Piceleswia,' 310
Picheford [Pickeford, Pycheford], de,
family, 2; Alice, 77; Geoff., 77,
209; Sir Geoff., 77; Jo., 209; Ric.,
45; Will., 83
Pickenham, Norf., 6, 139–140
North, 139-141
South, 118
Picot [Piccot, Pycot], Eustace, 442 ;
Hen., 416, 418 n.; Jo., 349; Lau-
retta, 442; Leticia, 416; Lucy,
349; Sarra, 138
(of Wepham, Suss.), 99
See Son of Colswain
Pictavia, de. See Poitou
Piddinghoe, Suss., 307, 323, 326, 341 ;
manor, 324
Piecomb, Suss., 309, 328, 329; church,
328; lady of, 329; manor, 307
Pierpont [Perepont, Perpunt, de
Petraponte], de, family, 296, 297,
443; Beatrice, 323; Godfrey, 299,
300, 322; Hugh, 300, 315, 331;
Jo., 332-333; Lucy, 331; Mary,
333; Matilda, 332-333, 340; Ralph,
332, 340; Ric., 332, 370; Rob.,
299, 301, 315, 322, 328, 331-333;
Sim., 305, 331-333; Sir Sim., 333;
Walter, 331, 333; Will., 299, 301,
310, 315, 322, 331-332, 340;
master Will., 324, 332, 340
Pigaz [Pigace], John, 186; Rohaise,
187
'Pikenhill,' Norf., mill, 431
Pillarton, Warws., 422
Pincerna, 5, 6, 9. See Boteler, le
Pinceware, Will., 255
'Pincheham,' 310
Pinchepol, de, Will., 201
Pinchpoles in Manewden, Essex, 164,
201-202
Pinegrave, Kent, 194
Pinkenni [Pinchenni], de, Hugh, 389;
Ralph, 300; Will., 299, 300
See Pynkeney
Pinkepal, de, Will., 201
Pinkhurst, Suss., 92
Pipard, Rob., 71
Pipesty ['Pipestye '], Suss., 324, 358
Pipewell, 61
Pirie, de, Emma, 113
Pirie.' See Waterperry
3,
Pirnho, de, Will., 124
Pirnough, Norf., mill., 124
Pirot [Perot, Pyrot], family,
155–157, 164, 217-219; Alan, 7,
155-156, 217, 218; Aubreye, 218;
Eliz., 157; Hen., 156; Jacquemin
[Jakemine], 156-157, 219; John,
155, 217, 218; Mahalt, 155, 218;
Matilda, 217; Ralph, 155-156,
217-220; Sir Ralph, 156, 262;
Ric., 156, 218, 219; Rob., 217,
218; Sibyl, 217; Sim., 156-157,
217-219; Tho., 157; master Tho.,
D.C.L., 157; Will., 155, 217, 218
(of Glemham, Suff.), 167
(of Hawkwell, Essex), 192
(of Sawston, Cambs.), 217
(of Towersey, Bucks.), 155
Pirton, Oxon., lord of, 324; manor,
4
203
Pishobury [Pysobury], Herts., 164,
173, 225–226; manor, 173
Pistelegh,' Surr., 22
Pitsea, Essex, 167, 220-222; church,
220; manor, 166, 220
Pitt, Hants., 71
Plaiz [Playz, Pleiz], de, family, 296,
383; Alice, 62, 336-337. 341;
Beatrice, 48, 335-336, 357; Giles,
337, 338; Helewise, 117, 335;
Hugh, 48, 117, 305, 332, 334-336,
341, 357, 390, 391; Isabel, 337;
Joan, 337-338; Margt., 152, 338;
Philippa, 335–336 ; Ralph, 300,
315, 334-337; Ric., 152, 202, 328,
330, 336-338, 341; Rob., 337;
Warin, 62
fee, 334
Planes, de, Rog., 204
>
INDEX
493
Plantagenet, Hamelin, 285, 301;
Hen., 414; Isabel, 285, 301;
Matilda, 414; Tho. ['de Brother-
ton'], 344
Plecy [Plessy], de, Hugh, 64; Sir
Hugh, 64
Pledgdon, Essex, 271
Pleshy, Essex, manor, 15
Plesseto, de, Alvred, 145; Isolda, 145
Plessis, du, John, 85
Plowley ['Pokelawa '], Oxon., hund.,
230
Plugenai, de, Sibil, 99
Plumpton [Plumton], de, Hugh, 379,
380
Plumpton, Suss., 309, 310, 322, 327 ;
church, 324; manor, 324-327
Plumstead, Norf., 150, 167, 194-195,
197; manor, 196
North, 151
Poer, le, family, 13; Rog., 5
Pointz, de, Nich., 248
Poitevin, Rog., the, 52, 424
Poitiers, 386
Poitou [de Pictavia], Cecily of, 105,
106; Will., 105-106
Poitou, 156, 178, 203-204, 214, 251,
304, 351; archdeacon of, 302
'Pokelawa.'
See Plowley
Polhey ['Polehech '], in Pebmarsh,
Essex, 297, 408-409
Polheye, de, Alex., 409; Jo., 409
Poling, Suss., 23, 65-67; church, 90
Polling [ Palling '], hund., 15
Polstede, de, Adeliza, 276; Hawise,
389; Hugh, 276, 389, 391; Rob.,
276
Poninges. See Poynings
Pont del Arche, 304
Pont de L'Arche, Will., 6, 88
Ponte de Tegl', 381
Pontefract, Yorks., 413
Pontsold, de, Alice, 237; Steph., 237
Popes-Alex., 90; Eugenius, 252,
334; Gregory IX, 340; Honorius II,
104; Innocent III, 193
Porchester, castle, 58, 203
Port, de, family, 56; Adam, 38,
57-58, 85, 191; Clemence, 84;
Emma, 65; Hugh, 56; Jo., 57,
84; Mabel, 58; Matilda, 33
Portland, Hants., 95
Portsea, Hants., 335, 355
Portslade, Suss., 296, 305, 322-327,
329
Portsmouth, 6, 204
hospital, 1, 26
Domus Dei, prior, 20, 357-358
St. Nicholas, Master of, 340
Postwick, Norf., 165, 278–279
Poteys, Rob., 330
Poton, de, Will., 159
Potte, de, Sim., 251
Potte, Le, Suss., 59
Pounesse, de, Ellen, 197; Phil., 197
Poynant [Ponyaunt, Poygnant], Jos-
ceus, 158; Will., 388
Poynings [Poinings, Poninges, Pon-
ynges, Pouninges, Poyninges, Pun-
inges, Punings], de, family, 60, 296,
327-331; Adam, 301, 317, 327–328,
332, 336; Agnes, 329, 330; Avice,
328; Beatrice, 327-328; Isabel,
60, III, 331; John, 317, 327;
Luke, 53, 60, 111, 115, 328-329,
331, 336-337, 345, 366; Sir Luke,
328; Margt., 328; Margery,
328-330, 383; Mich., 328-330,
335, 383; Sir Mich., 330, 333;
Raynald, 327; Reinerius, 327;
Tho., III, 115, 305, 328, 330, 338,
344, 346, 365; Sir Tho., 329, 330;
Will., 327
arms, 330; fee, 328
Poynings, Suss., 296, 305, 327-331,
346
Praers [Praeers, Praeres, Praieres],
de, family, 2; Hascuil [Hasculf],
79; Milisent, 79, 80; Rob.,
79, 80; Tho., 49
Pratellis, de, Ingram, 38; Sibil, 38
Préaux (Normandy), abbot, 248;
castle, 167; honor, 166
Préaux, de, John, 67
Prescinton [Pressinton]. See Preston,
East and West, Suss.
Prestebrok,' Suss., 66
Preston, de, Ascelin, 411; Hen., 51;
Jueta, 97
Preston, Kent, 330; manor, 184, 330
by Wingham, Kent, manor, 185
[Presintone '], Suss., 1, 29, 66–
67, 90, 99, 100, 313, 329; manor,
40
(
East and West, by Arundel,
Suss., 2, 30-32, 34, 65, 97-98,
Candover, Hants., 2, 88-89
Mylers, Suss., manor, 32
Prestre, le, Ric., 206
Prittlewell, Essex, manor, 342, 410,
415; monastery, 313
Provence, Beatrice, countess of, 14
Pudlicot, Oxon., manor, 208
Puiset [Pusaz], de, Dionisia, 416;
Hen., 416; Hugh, 416
Pujois, Rob., 115, 328
Pulborough, Suss., 1, 7, 17, 33–35, 86,
98
All
IO,
Pulloxhill, Beds., 267
Pulteney, de, John, 192
Punings. See Poynings
Purcel, family, 165; Isabel, 273;
Oyn, 70; Ralph, 273
Purden, Rog., 418
Purston, N'hants., 245
Puttes, Oxon., 240
Pycot. See Picot
Pyecombe, Suss.
See Piecomb
494
INDEX
Pympe, Kent, 165, 292
Pyncheware. See Pinceware
Pyngaz, Matilda, 109
Pynham, St. Barthol., priory, 69
Pynkeney, Hamon, 395
See Pinkenni
Pyrot. See Pirot
Pyrrow [Pyrho], de, Alice, 429; Will.,
429, 439
Pyshoo.' See Pishobury, Herts.
"
QUARLES [Quarueles], de, Martin,
430; Ralph, 430; Rob., 430
Quarles, Norf., 152, 428, 430
Quarmby, Yorks., 419, 420
Quarrell, Ivo, 25
Quency, de, Rog., 245; earl Rog., 245
Quendon, Essex, 107, 271
Querceto, de.
See Chesney
Querelegh, in Woodham Walter,
Essex, 365
Quickbury, in Sheering, Essex, 410
Quiddenham, Norf., 107, 109
Quidhampton, Hants., 272
Quillebeuf, 300
Quinchat, II
RACTON, Suss., 25, 65; church, 65;
lord of, 26
'Raden.' See Rowden
Radewell, de, Amfelisia, 254; Nigel,
254
Radford, Oxon., 237; canons of, 413
Radnor, 398
Radwell, Herts., 165, 168, 293–294
Radwinter, Essex, 271
Rafin (of Warningcamp, Suss.), 91
Raimes [Raymes], de, Joan, 188;
Ric., 188; Rog., 438
Rainald, 228
earl, 38
(of Fritwell, Oxon.), 234
(of North Stoke, Suss.), 46
Rainham, Kent, 182, 184
Norf., 126; manor, 427
East, Norf., 427
South, Norf., church, 426
Rakinton, de, Ilbert, 67
Ralegh. See Rayleigh
Ralph, I
111
priest, 61, 224, 299, 313
sewer, 17, 27, 118, 172
son of the castellan, II
(of Bignor, Suss.), 24
(of Graffham, Suss.), 61
(of Hautbois, Norf.), 431
(of Kingston Bucy), 351
(of Northill, Beds.), 265
(of Roudham, Norf.), 180
(of Street, Suss.), 314
(of East Wittering, Suss.), 62
(of Wramplingham, Norf.), 102
"
Rampston,' Norf., 148
Rampton, Cambs., 172; manor, 173
Ramsey, Hunts., 180
abbey, 181
abbots-177, 179, 181, 249, 250,
264; Hugh, 181; Ranulf, 178;
Rob., 178
Randolf, Joan, 272; Jo., 272; Sir
Jo., 272
Ranulf, chancellor, 313
nepos (of Middleton, Suff.), 353
seneschal, 56
(of Kenningtons, Essex), 400
(of Pitsea, Essex), 220
(of Sandringham, Norf.), 120
Ranworth, Norf., 399
Rapin, Isabel, 369
Rardulf. See Chesney, de, Ralph
Rattlesden [Ratlesdene, Ratlisden],
de, Adam, 337; Jo., 338; Rog.,
336; Sir Rog., 336; Sim., 109, 337
Rattlesden, Suff., 334, 336
Le Wodehall, Suff., manor, 337,
338
Ratton ['Ratteden '], Suss., 52, 310,
379
Raveningham, de, Olive, 154; Rob.,
154; Rog., 154, 387; Walter, 387;
master Walter, 154; Will., 154
Raveningham, Norf., 303, 385, 387-
388; church, 386-387
Ravensden, Beds., 250
Rawreth, Essex, 222
Raydon, Essex, 212
Suff., 177
by Shelley, Suff., manor, 212
Rayleigh [Ralegh], honor, 221-222,
276
Raymes. See Raimes
Rayndon, de, Geoff., 125
Rayne [Rennes], Essex, 188
Rayne, Little, Essex, barony, 188
Reading, abbey, 1, 7, 30, 230; abbot,
20; monks, II
Redburn, nr. Hibaldstow, Lincs., 417
Redham, de, Barthol., 432; Steph.,
398; Will., 319
Redingham, Suff., 363
Redlege,'
Redlegh.
Kent
{
See Ridley,
Redlington, Suss., 27
Redrewell,' in Thorney, 309
Reed, Herts., 268
Reed [Rede], Suff., 359
Reedham, Norf., 320; manor, 319
Reepham, Norf., 320
Regalis, Joscelin. See Joscelin the
castellan
Reginald, 320
king's son, 94
(of Edgefield, Norf.), 118
Reigate, Surr., 306, 308 n., 355, 358 ;
castle and manor, 307
Reindon, de, Geoff., 125
INDEX
495
Reiner (of Little Snoring, Norf.),
402
(of North Barsham, Norf.), 370
(of Tattersett, Norf.), 393
Remigius, 25
Renham, de, Will., 95
Renham, Norf., 95
'Renkeshall.'
Rennes. See Rayne
Reppes, de, family, 297; Law., 443;
Margt., 443; Rob., 435, 443;
Sibyl, 443
Repps, Norf., 108
See Ringshall, Suff.
South, 318
Restold, Suss., 55
Rettendon, Essex, 107, 271
Revel, Will., 5, 118
Revela, Rob., 202
Revell, Ric., 18
Reydon, de, Rob., 126
Reymerston, Norf., 327, 328
Reynald, John, 127; Matilda, 126–
127
Reyton, Kent, 294
Rhuddlan, 284; castle, 249
Ria, de. See Rye
Riburc [Rieburc]. See Ryburgh
Richard, abbot of St. Albans, 5
archdeacon, 211, 299, 379
[Richoard], archdeacon, 310
chamberlain, 141
earl. See Cornwall
earl's [Arundel] clerk, 134
[Richoard], priest, 309, 311
(of Arkesden, Essex), 406
(of Halstead, Essex), 371, 402
(of Howsham Hall, Essex), 409
(of Patcham, Sus3.), 299
(of Polley, Essex), 408
(of Restold, Suss.), 55
(of Snettisham, Norf.), 138
Richard's Castle, Salop, 386, 397-398
Richerness in Bowers Gifford, Essex,
marsh, 221
in Bures, Essex, marsh, 183
Richmond, earl of, 172
Richmond, fee, 96, 104, 239, 387,
389 n.
honor, 104-105, 107-108, 173,
287
Rickling, Essex, 225, 318, 319
Ridel, John, 255; Ralph, 255
Ridgwell, 106, 266; manor, 265
Ridley, Kent, 182; manor, 185
Charlton, Kent, 183
Hall, Essex, 252
Ridmere,' Norf., 147
Rikinghale, de, family, 2, 119; Ric.,
120
Ringeshale, de, Auschen, 246; Brian,
246; Margery, 246
Ringleton, Kent, 3, 7, 155–157
Ringshall, Suff., 165, 177, 246–247
Ringstead, Norf., 117, 119, 385
<
Ringstone [Ryngesdon], de, Ralph,
188
Ringstone, Lincs., 188, 189
Rinoldus (of Dersingham, Norf.), 120
Rippingale, Lincs., 188
Ripple, Kent, manor, 185
Rischewrthe. See Rushford, Norf.
Rising [Rysinge], de, family, 3;
Agnes, 147; Auger, 147; Tho., 147
Rising, Norf., 13, 102, 115, 154, 327
castle, 13, 14, 426
church, 6
honor, 2-4, 15, 143
Jew. See Jews
manor, 116, 151
See Castle Rising
Risley, de, Nigel, 325
Rissington, Gloucs., 33
Great, Gloucs., 34
Riston, Salop, church, 313
Rivallis, de. See D'Orival
Rivenhall, Essex, 150, 269, 275;
manor, 149, 269, 270; mill, 271;
See Treve Park in
parson, 270
River, Suss.
Tillington
Rivers [Reviers, de Ripariis], de,
Baldwin, 169; Jo., 205; Margt.,
120, 169, 170, 176, 183, 190-191,
193, 195, 197-202, 223, 226,
246-247, 358; Margery, 146, 169,
171, 178, 181, 186-188, 190, 192,
196-197, 201, 205, 208, 210, 211,
213, 215, 219, 223–224, 226, 232,
247; Matilda, 248; Ric., 203, 365
See Wight
fee, 201
Riveshale [Reveshale, Ryveshale],
de, Hen., 108; Jo., 108; Wynesia,
108
Riveshale.' See Rushall, Norf.
Riviere, de la, Matilda, 276; Ric.,
276
Roald, chamberlain, 127
Robert, butler, 155
constitutor, 299
count, 166
duke of the Normans, 5, 52
sewer, 6
sheriff of Arundel, 17
smith, 289
(of Graffham, Suss.), 61
(of South Newington, Oxon.),
237
(of Storrington, Suss.), S1
Robert's Bridge, abbey, 124, 153,
376; abbot, 158-159; monks, 158
Roche, de la, family, 2; Cecily, 87;
Ralph, 87; Ric., 11, 87
Roche, abbot of, 333
Rocheford [Rochesford], de, dame
Joan, 115; Waleran, 315; Will.,
210
Rochefort, de, Walter, 328
496
INDEX
Rochela, de, Godfrey, 220
Rochester, 192
bishops-107,
dulf, 312, 313
197, 427; Gun-
castle, 182, 203, 387
monks of, 190
prior-Will., 197
St. Andrew's, 5, 101
Rocholte hall, in Leyton, Essex,
manor, 401
Rockingham, 343
Forest, 282
Rode, atte, Ralph, 337
Rodes, de, Pet., 420
Rockland [Rocklund, Rokelund], de,
John, 206; Matilda, 374; Rog.,
206; Tho., 399; Will., 206
Rockland, Norf., 138, 202, 206,
325-326, 371-375, 385, 387
All Saints, Norf., 322, 370
St. Peter, Norf., 322, 334
Tofts, Norf., 388
Roding, Essex, 165,187-188,201-202,
252-253, 256, 285, 306, 308 n., 332;
fee, 277; manor, 214, 410, 415
Abbess, Essex, 166-167, 202,
216, 273
Bardolf, Essex, manor, 323, 341
Berners, Essex, 215, 216
High, Essex, 296, 339–342, 410;
church, 309
"
Leaden, Essex, 353
Morel, Essex, 273-275
White, Essex, 273, 275; manor,
273-274
Rodmell [Rodmill], Suss., 309;
church, 311; manor, 90, 307, 380
Roffa.' See Roucestre, de
Rofford, Oxon., 243; manor, 96
Rogate, de la, Rob., 86, 87
Rogate, Suss., 25, 67, 86; rector, 85
Roger, chaplain, 315
God save the Ladies,' 210
son of the dean of Grimston,
Norf., 133
(of Burpham, Suss.), 37
(of Fyfield), 376
(of Milton on Stour, Dors.), 247
(of Pangdean, Suss.), 327
(of Wicken or Wyke Dyve,
N'hants.), 62
Rohaise, wife of Eudes the sewer,
166–167, 220, 273
Rohan, de, Geoff., vicomte, 35
Rohinges [Roinges, Roynges], de,
family, 3, 164; Alex., 146, 189;
Rob., 146, 188; Serlo, 146; Sim.,
146, 188; Will., 146
Rokele [de Rupella], de la, family,
165, 246; Alice, 425; Jo., 247;
Ric., 110, 134, 247, 425; Will.,
132, 247
Rokesle [Rokeslee, Rokesleye], de,
family, 2, 196; Agnes, 329-330;
Joan, 72, 330; John, 196, 329–330;
Matilda, 294; Reg., 72; Ric., 294,
329-330; Rob., 294; Rog., 72,
192; Walter, 196
Roland, dean of Holme, next Ring-
stead, 117
(of Shropham, Norf.), 202
Rolland (of Beeston, Beds.), 262
(of Easton, N'hants.), 281
(of Graffham, Suss.), 61
(of Walberton, Suss.), 55
Rollright, Oxon., 229
Rolvenden [Rulvinden], de, Herbert,
158
Rolvenden [' Roverinden'], Kent, 3,
158-160; church, 159
Rome, 135
Romeley, de, Rob., 184
Romenel, de, Rob., 157
Romeyn. See Rumyn
Romsey, Hants., 209
St. Mary's, 41
Roothing, High, Essex. See Roding
Ros, de, family, 115, 164, 194–196;
Alex., 195; Alice, 195; Anschetil
[Anschitill], 167, 197; Emelina,
274; Geoff., 194, 196; Godehold,
195; Jas., 194; Jordan, 195; Lora,
195-196; Matilda, 195; Muriel,
411; Ric., 195-196; master Rog.,
274; Thomasia, 274; Wilekin,
195; Will., 58, 194-197, 392, 411
fee, 197, 406
Roscelin [Roscelyn], Cath., 435;
Pet., 388; Tho., 435; Sir Tho., 433
Rosei [Rosey], de, family, 371; Bald-
win, 371-373; Jo., 373; Lambert,
371-372; Ralph, 302, 371; Ralph,
clerk, 300; Walkelin [Walcheline],
371
Rotherfield, Oxon., church, 240
Greys, Oxon., 237, 241; manor,
239, 240
·
Murdack,' Oxon., 241
Rotherham, Yorks., 419, 420
Rothing [Rothyng, Rothyngg], de,
Alex., 147; Hen., 147
Rottingdean, Suss., 305, 310, 319-
321, 334; church, 309
'Rouberton,' Suff., 324
Roucestre ['Roffa'], de, family,
165, 269; Alice, 149; Eustace,
269, 287-288; Hawise, 271; Pet.,
149, 269, 270; Ralph, 269–271,
287; Ric., 269; Will., 269, 270
Roudham, Norf., 114, 115, 180, 320,
322, 326
Rouen, de, Thomasia, 274; Will., 274
Rouen, 174, 300, 339
archbishops-Hugh, 300, 421;
Rotrou, 421
St. Lo, canons, 65
Rougemont, 224
Rougement, barons Lisle of, 174
INDEX
497
Rougham [Rogham, Rugham], de,
Alex., 385, 443; Alice, 443; Will.,
385, 443
Rougham, Norf., 297, 340, 443
Suff., 324, 360, 362; manor, 363
Roumare, de, Will., 7, 272
Rowden, Herefs., 191
Roxeth, Mids., 124
Roxton, Beds., 251, 256, 259, 267
Royli, de. See Ruilli
Royston [Croiroys, Crosroys, Croy-
roys], priory, 268-270, 287; prior,
290-291
Ruckholt Hall, Essex, manor, 402
Rudgwick, Suss., church, 33
Rudham, de, John, 325
Rudham, Norf., 314, 316, 319, 320,
322, 325; church, 320
[Roudham], East, Norf., 319
St. Mary's, priory, 315, 431;
prior, 431
Ruffin [Ruffyn], Ralph, 183, 185
Rufford, abbots-85; Matt., 84
Rugge, La, Hants., 95
Rugmere, Suss., 20
Ruilli [Royli, Rulli], de, family,
179 n.; Hubert, 178; Sir Hubert,
178; Ric., 178
Rullos, de, Will., 276
Rumboldswyke, Suss., 36
Rumburgh, Suff., 407
Rumeilli [Rumely], de, Alice, 223;
Emma, 201-202; Hen., 201–202
Rumyn [Romeyn, Romyn], family,
2; Edm., 94; Hen., 36, 94, 97;
Jo., 75, 94; Sir Jo., 94; Juliana,
94; Tho., 94; Will., 94
Runcton, Suss., 2, 90
North, Suff., 325
Rungeton, prior of, 96
Runhall, Norf., 336
Runton, Norf., manor, 396
Rupe, de, Ric., 87; Rob., 87
Rupe Forti, de, Guy, 266
Rupella, de. See Rokele
Rus [Ruffus], le, family, 2, 297,
438-440; Agatha, 357, 438-439;
Alice, 357, 438-440; Ernald [Ar-
nald], 438-439; Hugh, 299, 300,
439-440; Isabel, 439; Jo., 299;
Ralph, 299; Ric., 66; Rog., 438 ;
Tho., 439; Will., 11, 87, 101, 357,
4II, 438-440
Rushall, Norf., 102, 107-108, 135
Rusham, de, Will., 346
Rushford, Norf., 325, 326
Rusleyn, Will., 148
Russel, John, 204
Russelipe, prior of, 29
Rustein [Rusteng, Rusteon, Rus-
teyng, Rusting], family, 3; dame
Alice, 130; Aldreda, 129; Rob.,
129; Rog., 12, 38; Rog., seneschal,
129; Will., 130, 139, 439
III.
Rustington ['Rustincton '], Suss.,
II, 65-67; church, 90; manor, 68
Ryburgh [Riburc, Rieburc], de,
Agnes, 145, 394, 402, 403; Ralph,
404
Ryburgh, Norf., 296, 393-395; lady
of, 402
Great, Norf., 296, 402-405
Little, Norf., church, 394
Rye [Ria], de, family, 165; Agnes,
112; Hen., 112, 279, 299; Herbert,
112; Hubert, 113, 127, 258, 279;
Rob., 190
barony, 126, 128, 132; honor,
151, 279, 280
Ryes, de, Adam, 166; Eudes, 165;
Hubert, 165; Rohaise, 166
See Fitz-Hubert
Ryngesdon. See Ringstone
Rys, West, 337
Ryseby, de, John, 404; Tho., 403
Rysinge, de. See Rising
Ryston, Norf., 328, 383;
383; manor,
383
Ryveshale. See Riveshale
SACHAUVILLA [Sackevill].
Sauquevill
Saddlescombe,
313-321
See
Suss., 296,
Safrid the Falconer, II
St. Alban's, abbey, 5, 155, 198, 208,
217, 252
310,
abbots-403; Paul, 252; Ric., 5
monks-157; Tho., 13
St. Julian's hospital near, 217
St. Amand [Seynt Amaund], de,
family, 165; Amauri [Amaury,
Aumary], 156, 245, 320; Ralph,
245
St. Anselm, 298
St. Aubin, nunnery, 422
St. Audoen, de, Ralph, 31
St. Bernard, canons of, 12
St. Botolph (Boston), Lincs., 95
St. Botolph's. See Colchester
St. Briaval, constable of, 50
St. Clare [Sencler, Seyncler, Seynt-
clere, Sinclair], de, family, 165, 168,
248, 279, 280, 297, 435; Alice, 76;
Clemency, 288; dame Clemency,
287; Gilb., 435; Gunnor [Gunnora],
251, 291; Hamon, 167-168, 178,
220, 248, 251, 279, 280, 288;
Hubert, 287-288, 291; Hugh, 287,
291; Jo., 75, 330, 343, 398, 435;
Ric., 381, 396; Will., 178, 287-288,
291
St. Denis [Dennis], de, Jo., 438; Ric.,
279; Rog., 1So; Sarra, 180
St. Denis, monks of, 245
St. Edmund's Bury, Suff., 316, 361
abbey, 225, 226, 303, 361-362
2 K
498
INDEX
St. Edmund's Bury, abbots—122,
127-128, 137, 179, 187, 359, 361–
363, 396, 435; Anselm, 360; Hen.,
363; Hugh, 360; Ording, 360 ; Sam-
son, 128, 360-362
fee, 127, 137; honor, 317;
monks, 360
St. Evroul [Evroult], abbey, 77, 166;
monks, 300
St. Fromond's (dioc. Bayeux), priory,
81
St. George, de, Ellis, 60; Ralph, 66;
Ric., 66; Will., 59
St. Hilary, de, Jas., 242; Matilda,
242
St. Jean de Falaise, abbey, 141
St. John, de, family, 1, 56–61, 65;
Adam, 58; Agatha, 58; Alice, 58;
Cecily, 56; Edm., 60, 331; Edw.,
36, 59, 92-93 ; Sir Edw., 40;
Eva, 92-93; Godeheld [Godeheut,
Godeude], 57-58; Hugh, 45, 59,
60, 331; Isabel, 60, 331; Joan, 40;
John, 58-59, 93; Mabel, 58; Margt.,
60; Mirabel, 60; Muriel, 56–57;
Olive, 57, 61 m.; Rob., 57-59;
Rog., 56-57, 61, 313; Will., 9,
56-58, 60–61, 73, 85, 195
St. Katherine (on the Thames),
church, 56
St. Ledger, de, Ralph, 158, 159
St. Margaret, Essex, 188
St. Martin, de, family, 165 ; Alice, 12 ;
Alured, 12; Constantia, 73; God-
frey, 73; Ralph, 299; Reg., 325;
Sir Rog., 326; Will., 375
St. Mary, de, Nicholay, 365;
Ric.,
365
St. Mary de Pré, church, 10
St. Maur [' Semor '], de, John, 275;
Will., 275
St. Medard, de, Asketill, 281
St. Neots, Hunts., 251
priory, 258, 264, 286; prior, 255,
260-261, 264; monks, 263
St. Nicholas, de, Tho., 222
St. Omer, de, Will., 190
St. Omer, abbey, 298
St. Owen, de, Godeheuda,
44;
Ralph, 44-45, 60
St. Paul [St. Pol], de, family, 297;
Agnes, 418; count, 275, 401;
Rob., 418; Will., 418
St. Peter, de, Margt., 77; Urian, 77
St. Peter of Burgh, 281
St. Philibert, de, family, 60; Sir Jo.,
60; Margt., 60
St. Pierre sur Dive, abbey, 281;
abbot, 104, 282
St. Valery, de, Guy, 269
St. Valery, honor, 236, 240
St. Victor, de, Rog., 315
Saintbury, Gloucs., 419
Sakevile. See Sauquevill
Salcey, forest, 170
Salcovill, de, Ric., 107
Saleman, Rob., 294
Salford, Oxon., manor, 38
Salingeford,' Norf., 300
Salisbury, Will. of, 319
Salisbury, 34
4
440
Sall, Norf., 319-320, 441; chaplain
of, 438; church, 439
Salnervill, de, Gilb., 87
bishops-236, 283, 313; H., 86 n.
earls—171; Will. de Longespée,
Salscombe, fee, 66
Salthouse, Norf., 370, 373, 375
Salvage, la, Geoff., 414;
Matilda, 414; Rob., 414
Sampford, de, Sir Rog., 232
Sampford, Essex, hund., 203, 204
dame
S
Peverel, Devon, 364
Sampson, Master Hen., 284
Sancto
de (surnames).
Saint
Sand, 309
'Sanda.' See Wickensands, Suss.
Sandal with Wakefield, Yorks., castle
and manor, 306-308, 420
Sandervill [Sandrevill], de, family, 2;
Alice, 88; Gilb., 10; Starius, 88;
Tho., 88
(
See
Sandes, Suss., 305
"
Sandes,' Sandys.' See Wicken-
sands, Suss.
Sandford (St. Martin), Oxon., 167
Sandhurst, Gloucs., 50
Sandon, 207
· Berks., 85
Essex, St. Andrew, church, 149
Sandown, Surr., hospital, 19, 20
Sandringham, Norf., 2, 120-121
Sandwic, de, family, 2; Hen., 101,
246; Joan, 246; Jo., 101; Sir
Jo., 102; Juliana, 184; Nich.,
102; Sim., 184
Sandy [Sandei, Sandeye], de, family,
165; Hen., 267; Hugh, 267; Rob.,
254
Sandy, Beds., 167, 248–251, 253-254,
263-264; church, 256; Ingram,
parson, 267; manor, 168, 248, 257
Sanes, de, family, 297; Aubrey,
436; Gilb., 436; Jo., 436
Sante Fande, de, Will., 69
Santiago, 32, 243, 319, 346, 387, 404
Santon, Norf., 311, 336
Sanzaver [Sainzaver, Sanzaveir, San-
zavier, Saunzaver, Saunzavoir,
Senzaver, Sine Averio], de, family,
I, 3, 24-26, 62, 63; Barthol., 154-
155; Eliz., 26; Hugh, 14, 25, 26 n.,
44, 63; Isabel, 25; Matilda, 24,
25; Ralph, 10, 20, 24-26, 67;
Ranulf, 7; Reiner, 4, 9, 154; Rob.,
24; Tho., 26
INDEX
499
Sapecote, 77
Sapiston, de, Will., 360
Sapperton, Gloucs., 33-34; manor,
33
Saracen, Peter, 42
Sarcillis, de, Humph., 8
Sarsden, Oxon., 208
Sartilli [Sartellei, Sartilla, Sortell], de,
family, 60; Emma, 41, 60; Geoff.,
60; Gilb., 41, 60-61; Humph., 60;
Nigel, 60; Will., 301
Sasselin, 166
(of Childerditch), Essex, 202
(of Layer Breton, Essex), 199
(of Pinchpoles in Manewden,
Essex), 201
Saulle, de, Matt., 438; Tho., 438;
Warin, 438
Saund by Poynings, Suss., 346
Saunford [Sanford], de, family, 2;
Alvric, 327; Hugh, 368; Joan,
377; Ric., 96; Tho., 96
Sauquevill [Sachauvilla, Sackevill,
Sakevile, Sakevill, Saqueville,
Sauchevill, Saukevill], de, family,
165; Andrew, III, 115, 329;
Aubrey, 271; Clemency, 314, 317,
318; Ermentrude, 366; Jordan,
III, 314, 317, 318; Margery, 111;
Ric., 168, 202, 206, 271; Will., 271
fee, 202
Sausemares [Sausemer], family, 164;
Jo., 201-202
351
Sauvage, le, Jas., 105; Rob.,
Sauve, de, Bernard, kt., 78
Savary. See Bohun, de
Savery, Margery, 222; Pet., 222
Savoy, de, family, 2; Bernard, 78,
368, 377; Pet., 246, 278, 305
Sawbridgeworth, Herts., 164, 167,
168, 225–226, 230, 250
Sawley, abbot of, 333
Sawston [Sausiton], de, John, 219;
Will., 219
Sawston, Cambs., 155-156, 164, 217–
219; manor, 156
Sawtrey, abbey, 285, 371; Adam,
abbot, 286
Saxham, de, family, 297; Alice,
433; Ralph, 433; Will., 433
Saxlingham, de, Ric., 126; Richer,
125
Saxlingham, Norf., 102, 107, 109
Saxony, 133, 141, 317; duke of, 97
Saxthorpe, Lincs., 28
Say [Sai], de, family, 226, 296, 438 ;
Alice [Aeliza], 314, 318, 320;
Beatrice, 225; Geoff., 214, 225-
226, 314, 318-320, 385, 441; Isabel,
226; Margery, 397; Will., 225-226,
250, 305, 314, 322 N., 316–320, 439,
440; Sir Will., 226, 319, 350
Saynden, Kent, 184
Saysbury, Herts., manor, 225
III.
Scaccario, de. See Chequers
Scaldeford, Suss., 39
Scalers, de, Alice, 349; Hardwin,
437; Jo., 349; Ric., 437; Will.,
2II
Scales [Skales], de, family, 3, 149-
150, 165; Alice, 149, 270, 329;
Clemency [Clementia], 149, 150,
270; Geoff., 270; Isabel, 150;
Margery, 114; Muriel, 149; Rob.,
114, 149, 150, 270-271, 328-329,
426-427; Sir Rob., 150; Rog., 149,
270; Will., 149
Scales How, Norf., 150
Scammonden, Yorks., 44I
Scarning, Norf., 334, 337-338, 395,
398-399
Scerpenesse,' marsh, Kent, 182
Schelvestrode. See Shelvestrode
Schirle, de. See Shirle
Schipedham, de, Ralph, 329
Schovill, de, Rog., 325
Scole, Norf. See Osmundeston
Scolland (of Benefield, Suss.), 355
Scotland (of Twineham, Suss.), 355
Scotlandus (of Barming, Kent), 292
Scottow, Norf., 432
Scoulton, Norf., 296, 385–389
Scoulton Burdeleis, Norf., 442
Scredyngton, Lincs., manor, 395
Scrope [Scrop], le, Geoff., 417; Hen.,
418; Sir Hen., 192; Ric., 418;
Will., 418
Scroteby, Norf., 348
Sculla (of Feltwell), 311
Sculthorpe, Norf., 393; manor, 395
Scures, de, Rog., 335
Scuretot. See Surretot
1
Scyrta,' Kent, 193
Seabeach ['Senebeche '], Suss., 60
Seaford, Suss., 307
Seagrave, Leics., 245
Seamer, Yorks., 18
Seaton, 253
Seaton, Rutl., 111, 113
Seculer, Master Alex. le, 53
Sées (St. Martin), abbey, 2, 17, 21,
23, 65, 83, 89, 90, 268; abbot, 21,
84
Seething, Norf., 3, 135-137, 148, 149,
436; manor, 392
Sefort, de, Law., 251
Segrave, de, justiciary, 397; Nich.,
209; Steph., 29
Seingeham,' Norf., 394
(
Seinges [Seingis, Senge, Senges,
Seynges], de, family, 3; Margery,
136; Matilda, 122, 136; Ranulf,
135; Ric., 121, 133, 135-136; Sir
Ric., 136; Rob., 135; Walter,
136; Will., 136; Sir Will., 136
Seinure [Segnure], Hugh, 13; Wal-
ter, 13
Sele, priory, 351
2K 2
500
INDEX
Seleham, de, Phil., 21
Selham, Suss., 1, 19, 20, 21
Sellay, de, Hen., 420
Selling, Kent, 330
Selliterne, de, Buci, 351; Will.,
351
Selton. See Shelton
Selve [Selves].
Selventham.'
Suff.
Seman, Geoff., 100
Semer, Suff., 360, 362-363; manor,
362
Semor.' See St. Maur, de
Sencler. See St. Clare
Senebeche, de, Ric., 60; Tho., 59
Seneschal. See Foliot
(
See Shelves
See Thelnetham,
king's. See Stokes
Sens, count Rob. of, 67
'Sentinges.' See Chinting, Suss.
Senzaver. See Sanzaver
Serdesley, Suff., 317
Serjeant, king's, 78
Serlo (of Bowers Gifford, Essex), 220
Sernys. See Cernes
Sevenhampton, Wilts., 164, 213, 224
Sey, de, Aveline, 22; Jo., 22
Seyton, de, Ric., 64
Shadwell, Norf., 326
Shaftesbury, 288
Shalbourn, Berks., 85
Shambroke by Cliffe, Kent, 185
Shanbrook,' Kent, 184
Sharnborne, de, Andrew, 139; Nich.,
129
Sharnwick, 310, 368
Sharrington, Norf., 367
Shawell, Leics., 96
Sheering, Essex, 409, 410
Sheffield, 335
Shefford, Beds., 260
Hardwick, Beds., 259–261; pre-
ceptory, 261
Berks., 207
West, Berks., 58; manor, 57
Sheldon [Scheldon], de, Ranulf, 136
Sheldon, Derbys., 77
Sheldwick, Kent, 330
Shelford, Notts., priory, 113
Shelley, Suff., 212
Yorks., 419, 420
Shellow, Essex, 273
Shelly, Suss., 330
Shelsley, Worcs., 343
Beauchamp, Worcs., manor, 343
Shelton [Selton], de, family, 2;
Alice, 123; Hen., 122-123; Isabel,
122; Jo., 122-123; Sir Jo., 123;
Jordan, 123; Kath., 122; Margt.,
123; Nich., 123; Olive, 122;
Ralph, 123; Ranulf, 121–122;
Sir Ric., 122; Rob., 121-123;
Tho., 122; Will., 121
Shelton, Norf., 121, 123
Shelve in Lenham, Kent, 164, 199,
294
Shelves [Selva, Selve], de, family,
164; Adam, 199; Amis [Amisius],
199; Guy, 199; Jo., 199; Law.
199; Margt., 199; Steph., 199;
Will., 199
Shelvestrode [Shilverstrode], de, Eva,
92, 93; John, 92, 93; Roger, 20, 92,
93
Shenley, Herts., 198
Shepley, de, Matt., 419, 420
Shepley, Yorks., 297, 419-420
Sheppey, Kent, 332
priory, 194; nuns, 194
Shepton Malet, Soms., manor, 247
Shere, Surr., 296, 346, 355–359
Shereford, Norf., 110, 115, 126, 131,
334, 337-338; church, 311, 334
Sherfield, Hants., 376, 377
Shermanbury, Suss., 351, 352
Shernborne [Sharnborne, Shern-
bourne], Norf., 129, 130, 145,
393-395, 404
Sherringham, Norf., 398
Sherrington, Bucks., 258-259, 363-
366; manor, 260
Shifford, Oxon., 171, 173
Shipbourne, Kent, 22, 23
Shipdham, Norf., 327, 329, 330, 336,
429
Shiplake, Oxon., 38
Shippenhull, Oxon., 244
Shippy (in Tilney), Norf., 300
Shipton under Wychwood, Oxon.,
Shirburn,
lord of, 237;
Oxon.,
manor, 236
Shireford [Sireford], de, family, 131;
Eustace, 131; Nich., 131; Will.,
131
Shirle, de, James, 337; Ralph, 337,338
Shirley, family, 298
Shitlington, Norf., 181
Shittlehanger, N'hants., 413, 414
Shoebury, Essex, 294
Shopwyke, Suss., 53, 69, 70, 76;
242; manor, 243
manor, 70
Shordych, de, Joan, 402; Sir Jo.,
402; Nich., 402
Shorne, de, Master Hen., 222; Jo.,
197
Shortgrave (in Newport), Essex, 211
Shorthampton, Oxon., 242
Shotesham, Norf., 3, 137-138; All
Saints' church, 137
Shouldham, Norf., 139, 140; priory,
319; prior, 319, 373, 388
Shrambroke [Srawingbroc] by Cliffe,
Kent, 183
Shrewsbury, 372
Shrivenham, Berks., 107
Shropham, Norf., 8, 13, 108, 126,
132-134, 151–152, 202, 206
INDEX
501
Shulbrede [Sylebrede '], priory, 29;
canons, 76; prior, 20
Shuldebrede,' Suss., 20
(
Shute, Gloucs., 383
Shyre, de, Rog., 357
Sibford, Oxon., 209
1
Sibton, Suff., 317, 318; abbey, 136,
monks, 178,
316; abbot, 319;
343; priory, 314, 321
Siderston, Norf., 372
Sidestrand, Norf., 328, 330, 334, 336,
338
Siloam. See Syleham, Kent
Silsoe, 267
Silva, de, Durand, 17
Simon, Master, king's cook, 293
Simon (of Feltwell), 370
(of Payton Hall), Essex, 371
(of Rockland All Saints), 322
Sinclair. See St. Clare
Sine Averio. See Sanzaver
Singleton, Suss., 10, 11; manor, 87;
vicarage, 19
Sinnington, Yorks., church, 356;
manor, 440
Sire, Edmund, 138
le, John, 337
Sireve, le, Reiner, 435
Sisland, Norf., 117, 136, 138
Sithiu, St. Bertin, abbey, 298
Siward, hunter, 242
(of Worth, Suss.), 334
Skales. See Scales
Skegeton, de, Hen., 443
Skipton in Craven, honor, 35, 188,
223, 383
Slaugham, Suss., 310, 329, 330, 334 ;
manor, 330
Slayhill, Kent, manor, 185
Sledmere, Yorks., 434
Slindon, Suss., 49, 51
Slipe, in Sheppey, Kent, marsh, 194
Sluys, battle, 330
Small Hythe [Smalhede], Kent, 159
Smethden, Norf., 395
Smetheton, de, Ellis, 261
Smithdon, Norf., hund., 426
Smithfield, St. Barthol., priory, 198
Smythewyke, Suss., 326
Snaith, Yorks., 171
Snellingmilne (or Doverbeck), III-
112
Sneteholt,' 309
Snetesham [Snetisham], de, Alan,
145, 425; Geoff., 394; Matilda,
146; Pet., 121; Ralph, 146; Ric.,
394; Rob., 121, 145-146, 425;
Will., 146
Snetterton, Norf., 2, 3, 8, 117-119,
126, 131-132, 385
M
Snettisham, Norf., 3, 13, 103, 110,
129–130, 138-139, 140-141, 145–146,
213, 393-396, 404, 425-427; church,
6; manor, 15
'Sniterle,' 'Snyterle.' See Blakeney.
Sniterlee, Norf., 367
Snitterby, Norf., 95, 365, 366
Snitterton [Sniterton, Snyterton], de,
family, 3, 131; Christiana, 126;
Hugh, 132; Margery, 126; Matilda,
126; Tho., 115, 126
Snore [Snora], de la, family, 434;
Jo., 434; Ralph, 433; Will., 434
Snore Brom, la, family, 297
Snoring, Norf., 381
Little, Norf., 296, 394-395, 402-
405
Soberton, Hants., 355, 357-358;
manor, 356
Soc, de, Will., 264
Soham, Cambs., 128
Sokeburne, in Petworth, Suss., 27
Sokeman, Alwin, 220
Soley, hamlet of Chilton, Wilts., 235
Sombourne, Little, Hants., 96
Someri [Somery, Sumeri, Sumery],
de, family, 125, 164, 198; Adam,
198; Sir Adam, 198; Ellis, 198;
Geoff., 199; Isabel, 34; Joan, 118;
John, 34, 89, 198, 199; Miles,
198; dame Muriel, 198; Nicholaa
or Nicole, 14, 33, 44, 49, 54, 71,
76, 80-81, 91, 94, 95, 115, 124,
134, 136, 144, 146, 148; Sir Ric.,
199; Roberge, 198; Rog., 14, 33,
36, 44, 49, 54, 71, 76-77, 80-81,
91, 94-95, 115, 118, 124, 134, 136-
137, 144, 146, 148, 198, 328, 434
Somerleyton, Suff., 152, 429
Somerset, 236
Somersham, Suff., 164, 174-177, 247
Somerton, Oxon., 234, 236
Son of Adam, Rog., 54; Sim., 293-
294; Will., 125
Agnes lady of Ryburgh, Ralph
and Thomas, 402
Ailwin, Alan, 347; Hen., 347
Alan, Eudes [Ido, Idonis], 17,
27; Geoff., 17; Rob., 413; Will., 12
Albert, Godfrey, 7, 8, 133
Albyn, Rob., 442
Aldstan, Berard, 360
Alsinene, Will., 310
Alvred, Adam, 7, 8, 393, 394 ;
lady Beccha, wife, 393, 394; Matt.,
7; Rog., 393, 394
Amauri, Rob., 410
Anker. See Aucher
Ansger, Rob., 129
Ansgot, Adam, 129; Ralph,
129; Rog., 129
Arthur, Will., II
Aucher or Anker, Tho., 158
Aunsel, Brian, 246
Azo [Aze, Azei], Geoff., 42, 43,
46 n.
Azon, Geoff., 394
Azur, Suain, 413
502
INDEX
Son of Baldwin, Geoff., 231; Will.,
231
Bernard, Tho., 255, 262
Brien, Ralph, 127, 313; Agnes,
wife, 127
Brien II, Ralph, 138
Brun, Ralph, 8
Cana, Savary, 65, 67; Muriel,
wife, 65
Colswain, Picot, 56
Conan, Alan, 76
Constantine, Peter, 202; Will.,
167, 200, 202
Corbucion, Rob., 4, 102, 116,
119-121, 123, 127
Croc the huntsman, Rainald,
234
the dean of Grimston, Rog., 133
Drew, Ralph, 418
Edstan or Elstan, Walter, 360
Edward of Westminster, Otho,
184
Erneis, Will., 56
Eudes, Alan, 27
Euerwin, Ric., 181
Fukerel, Rog., 335
Fulcher, Warin,
182, 187
Warin, 182; Will.,
Fulk, Rog., 287; Will., 27
Geremund, Swen, 220
Gerold, Ralph, 222; Ric., 216;
Rob., 94
Godebert, Lambert, 201
Godric, Hubert, 103; Ralph, 4
Godric, sewer, Ralph, 102, 103;
Letselina, wife, 102
Godriche, Ralph, 9
Golda [Golde], Hugh, 309, 310,
334, 335
Golle, Wlwin, 311
Gozo, Gilb., 310, 355
Gulbert, Will., 300
Guy the sheriff, Will., 315
Hacon [Hacun], Ric., 8, 138
Hamon, Gerard, 197
Hascu, Geoff., 42
Heloise, Anselm, 144; Mar-
gery, wife, 144
Henry I, Robert, 90
Henry, Pet., 347; Saher, 198
Henry, mayor of London, Peter,
348
Herlwin [Herlewin, Herluin],
Ralph, 4, 117, 131-132, 335
Hermer, Drew, 418
Hingam, Walter, 61; Mary,
wife, 61
Hubert, Adam, 157, 182, 197–
198, 217; Eudes. See Eudes the
sewer
Hugh, Hugh, 310, 311, 313,
334; Jo., 375; Ralph, 131, 310
Humphrey, Humph., 167, 273;
Rob., 22, 361; Walter, 175, 409
Son of Humphrey, Walter-Agnes,
wife, 175
Ingan (or Ingald), Walter, 61
Isabel, Tho., 420
John, Will., 243, 356; Liniota,
wife, 243
Joscelin the castellan, Ralph,
II, 443
Lambert, Godebald, 201
Lefstan, Ailwin, 347
Lemmer, Adam, 360
Leofstan, Rob., 347
Martin, Ric., 340
Miles of Gloucester, Roger, 105
Morin, Rob., 52, 62
Nicholas, Will., 382
Nigel, Ralph, 310, 345; Ric., 171
Ogger, Alan, 210
Orgar, Leofstan, 347
Osbert, Ric., 127, 135
Other, Walter, 347
Peter, Jo., 127 n., 132; Ralph,
II, 151, 202; Reg., 272; Ric.,
371; Tho., 394
Pirot, Alan, 155
Rainald, Will., 327
Ralph, Brian, 21-22, 29; Hugh,
310, 315; Pet., 394-Lefquene,
wife, 394; Ralph, 299, 312, 313;
Rob., 430; Rog., 394; Will., 27,
409, 418
Randulf, Will., 371
Ranulf, Hugh, 322; Will., 311, 353
Reidi, Renner, 310, 327
Reiner, Nich., 435; Rainald,
327; Will., 56, 434
Renard, Rog., 298, 303, 385
Renner [Rain'], Hugh, 310,
327; Rainald, 310, 327
Richard, Ralph, 88; Will., 201,
212
Robert, Alan, 26
Barthol.,
wife, 400
400; Camilla,
Joan,
Gilb., 400, 401;
mother, 400
Jo., 335
Nich., 93; Hilaria, mother,
P
93
Osbert,
401; Osmund,
411; Phil., 121, 195; Ralph, 28;
Ranulf, 28; Ric., 255, 267; Rob.,
289; Will., 197, 363
Roderic, Humph., 334
Roger, Ernald, 438; Hen., 36;
Hugh, 411; Rob., 407, 437; Rog.,
190; Walter, 386; Will., 396
Roger (earl), Hugh, 90
Rolland, Alan, 238; Sim., 281
Sanzaver, Gildewin, 24, 27, 66
Savary, Geldwin [Goldewin],
9, 66; Estrangia, wife, 66
Ralph, 7, 65-67, 101;
Savary, 66-67. See Bohun, de
INDEX
503
Son of Simon, Jo., 294; Rolland, 282;
Silvester, 150; Sim., 214
Spiruwin, Eudes, 120
Stephen, Hugh, 193
Swen, Rob., 313
Techeling, Will., 310, 347
Tetbald, Rob., 16, 17, 21, 23-24,
26, 27, 30, 33, 35, 52, 97
Thomas, Gilb., 286
Reg., 144; Beatrice, wife,
144
Thurold, Ralph, 394
Thurstan, Rob., 17
Turgis, Will., 273
Turstin, Will., 355
Ulketell, chaplain, Henry, 152;
Richard, 152
Walcher, Osbern, 178; Osbert,
Waleran, John, 376, 378
Walter, Ralph, 52
Warin, Ralph, 310, 370
Watson, Rob., 5
Wibert, Will., 376
William, Adam,
293-294;
Charles, 117 n.; Geoff., 245; Gilb.,
401; Hen., 207; Jo., 243, 294,
375; Nich., 434; Ralph, 294;
Rog., 321; Will., 310, 375, 436
Tho., 356, 400; Camilla,
177
wife, 400
the sewer, Drew, 396;
Rog., 396; Will., 396
Wimar, Rog., 396; Walter, 396
Wimer, Rog. the sewer, 381
Wulwin, Herbert, 50
See also Fitz
Sonde or Sondes, Joan, 352; Sir Jo.,
352
Sonde, Suss., manor, 369
Soneworde [Sonneworth], de. See
Sunworth
Sortell, de, Rob., 59
See Sartilli
Sotherton, Norf., 324
Sotingham, de, Theodore, 245
Sousche. See Zouche
South Acre, Norf., 396
Southall, in Great Dunmow, Essex,
400; manor, 401
Southampton, So; forest, 53, 377;
gaol, 95
priory (St. Denis), 6, 34; canons,
157
St. Mary's, 292
South Hall manor, in Feltwell, 366
Southill, Beds., 250, 255, 258, 261
Southington [Suterinton], Hants., 356
Southmere, de, Martin, 134
Southover, Suss., 311; church, 298
Southwark, canons of, 324
priors-106; Alan, 324
St. Mary's, 347
St. Olaf, church, 309
Southwick [Southwyke,
[Southwyke, Sulwyk],
Hants., 351; prior of, 95; priory,
88, 89
Sowerby, Yorks., manor, 307, 441
Sowerbyshire, 441
Spalding, de, Pet., 382, 384
Spalding, monastery, 61 n.
Spargrove (in Batcombe),
manor, 25
Som.,
Sparham [Sperham], de, Adam, 109;
Barthol., 109
Sparham, Norf., 102, 107, 109, 337,
338, 436
Sparsholt, Berks., 164, 223–224
Spencer, le, John, 237
Spershute [Spereshutte], de, Nich.,
75; Pet., 75, 76
Spettisbury, Dors., 248
Spilsbury, Oxon., 242, 243
Spinevill [Spintevill], de, Ralph, 372,
373; Will., 371-373
Sprouston, de, Reg., 399
Stacheden, de, Reg., 250
Stagsden, Beds., 250, 255
Staines, de, Will., 191
Stalisfield ['Stauefelle '], Kent, 165,
293
Stambourne, Essex, 188
Stambridge, Essex, manor, 294
Great, Essex, 294
Stamford, 442
Stamford, fair, 436
Lincs., manor, 307
N'hants., 284; tragedy, 283
Bridge, Yorks, 18, 48
Stanbridge by Romsey, Hants., 209
Standen, Wilts., 84; chapel, 84;
manor, $6
Huse, Wilts., chapelry, 85
[Standean], Suss., 310, 324, 353
Stane, de la, Constantia, 73
Stanes, de, Phil., 73; Will., 191
Stanesgate, monastery, 313
Stanfield, Norf., 5. 134, 326, 399
Stanford (in Southill), Beds., 255,
258, 261, 267
Kent, 162
Norf., 296, 346, 385-389
in Thorney, 309
Stanham, de, Barthol., 336
Stanhoe, Norf., 2, 3, 110-115, 136–
137, 148–149, 299
Stanhow [Stanho], de, family, 3;
Hervey, 130, 148; master Ric.,
king's clerk, 149
Stanlake, Oxon., 165, 231–232, 237–
242
Stanley, de, John, 375; Juliana,
375; Sim., 375
Stanley, Wilts., abbey, 63, 84
in Pebmarsh
Essex, manor, 409
Stanstead, Kent, 331, 332
Suff., manor, 128
[Pebeneshe],
504
INDEX
Stanstead, Suss., manor, 15
Montfichet, Essex, 336
Stantmere,' Essex, 202
Stanton, de, Cecily, 85; Emma, 85;
Rob., 48
Stanton Harcourt, Oxon., church, 7
(Warine), Wilts., 99
Stanway, Essex, 288
East, Essex, 167
Stapelford, de, Ralph, 339
Stapleford, Wilts., 84, 85
Staplehurst, Kent, 158, 159
Staploe, Beds., 265
Stapulton, de, Will., 246
<
Starcolf (of Tuddenham, Norf.), 148
Starston, Norf., 102
Starthorpe, 85
Staundon, de, Orabella, 404; Rob.,
77; Will., 404
Staunton, Worcs., serjeanty, 108
Staveley, Derbys., 419
Stedham, Suss., I, 11, 19, 20, 23, 26;
chaplain, 26; church, 17, 26;
recluse, 10
Steeple, Essex, 165, 206, 271
Aston, Oxon., 164, 182-185
Bumpstead, Essex, 400-402;
manor, 402
Steiland, de, master Sim., 160
Steill', de, Durand, 393; Gunnor,
393
Stephen, chamberlain, 27; Lora,
wife, 27
Stevenbury (in Preston Candover),
Hants., manor, 88, 89
Steventon, Hants., 272
Stevington (Waltons), Essex, manor,
126
Stewkley, 364
Steyning, Suss., 378, 379
Stibbard, Norf., 296, 330, 393-395,
435, 443
Stiffkey, Norf., 102, 107; manor, 392
Stillingfleet, Yorks., 397
Stinton (in Sall), Norf., 296-297,
314-321, 438-441; manor, 322 n.
Stivecle, de. See Stukeley
Stixwould, priory, 189
Stockton, Norf., 124
Stockwell, Surr., 94
Stodland, Geoff., 196
Stogs,' Suss., manor, 47
Stoke, Kent, 160, 349
by Ipswich, 202
next Guildford, 333
Bardolf, Notts., 141
Bruern, N'hants., 297, 413-414
Curcy, Soms., 120, 170, 247;
lord of, 340
Ferry, Norf., 124, 320
Holy Cross, Norf., 2, 119–120
Lyne or L'Isle, Oxon., 172,
364-366; lady of, 366
Suss., 67
Stoke, North and South, Suss., 1,
46-48
Stoke, de, Rog., 255
Stokes, de, Peter, 195; king's sene-
schal, 194
Stokesby, de, John, 206
Stondon, Beds., 332
Stonore, de, John, 272
Stopeham, de, Ralph, 17
Stopham, Suss., 19, 20, 23, 24, 34,
36, 62
Stopsley, Beds., 209
Storrington, Suss., 2, 32, 81-82
Stotfold, Beds., 262
Stoughton [Stocton], Suss., II, 12,
65, 72, 89, 93-94; chapel, 44;
church, 65, 313; manor, 68
Stourmouth, Kent, 86
Stow, Suff., 324, 325
Stowell, de, Hen., 71
Stowting, Kent, 3, 161-163
Strabolgi [Strathbogie], de, David,
279, 344, 382, 412, 427: Joan,
279, 344, 412
See Athol
Stradbrook, Suff., manor, 438-440
Strafford, Suff., 193
Strange [Straunge],
le.
See
L'Estrange
Stratfieldsaye, Berks., hermitage, 398
Stratford, 313; abbess, 336; prioress,
336
Langthorne,
Essex, abbey,
203
St. Mary's, abbot, 260, 264
Strathamton.' See Strettington,
Suss.
Straton [Stratton], de, family, 3;
Adam, 209, 224; Ranulf, 148
Stratton, Norf., 116
<
Long, Norf., 116, 123
Oxon., 297, 410-413
Wilts., 169
St. Margaret, Wilts., 224
Streatley, Beds., 155
Street, Suss., 313, 314, 319
Streethall, Essex, 214-216; manor,
215
Stretlington [Strathanton], II
Strettington (in Boxgrove), Suss.,
41, 42, 44-45, 55, 58, 60, 90;
manor, 44
West, Suss., 58
'Strodewic,' Suss., wood, 66
Studley, prioress of, 241
Stukeley [Stivecle], de, Joscelin, 180
Sturmer, Essex, 390, 400, 401
Sturmi [Sturmy]. See Esturmi
Sturmyn, Roger, 138
Stutevill, de, family, 2, 3, 142, 296–
297; Anselm, 405; Beatrice, 405;
Dionisia, 143; Eustace, 142;
Gunnora, 142; Isabel, 396–397 ;
Joan, 398-399; Jo., 142–143 ;
INDEX
505
Margt., 397; Margery, 397; Nich.,
142-143; Sir Nich., 143; Osmund,
396-397, 405; Rob., 142, 374,
398-399; Rog., 405; Will., 28–29,
142, 335, 396-398
Stutevill (?), Norf., 437
Stutton, Suff., church, 122
Suain [Suane] of Essex, 276, 277
Sudbury, All Saints, Suff., church,
198
'Sudflet,' Norf., 428
Suffolk, archdeacon.
line
Suheth, de, Edm., 343
Rob. de Ufford, earl of, 430
sea-coasts, 26
+
See Walche-
Suldeham, de, Matt., 332
Sullington, 351
Sumeri [Sumery], de. See Someri
Sumerton,' Petworth, manor, 18
Sunwood Farm, Hants., 55
Sunworth [Soneworde, Sonneworth,
Sunewrthe], de, family, I; Joan,
54; Othuer [Otewy, Otuer], 54;
Ralph, 54; Rob., 54; Sim., 54;
Tho., 54; Will., 54
Sunworth, in Buriton, Hants., I,
54-55
Surlingham, Norf., 109, 137-138, 441
Surretot, 309
Surrey, countesses-Isabel de
Warenne, 312; Joan de Warenne,
307
earls-297, 323, 329, 344, 374,
388, 393, 415, 434, 443; John de
Warenne, 76, 305, 306, 319, 320,
325, 329, 333, 342, 359, 369, 384,
394-395, 410, 414, 415, 420, 433,
435, 441; Will., 322; Will. de
Warenne I, 355, 382; Will. II,
371, 381-382; Will. de Warenne,
300, 308, 313, 315, 339, 387
and Sussex, Joan de Warenne,
countess, 307; Jo. de Warenne,
earl, 307, 400
Sussex, earls-104; Will., 30, 42, 54,
73, IOI, 112, 121, 124, 129, 130,
141, 147, 153; Will. de Aubigny,
7, 10, 12
See Arundel
coast defence, 25; forest, 31, 76
Suthale, de, Ric., 343, 344
Suthmere, de, Jo., 433; Martin, 133
Suthsex, de, Alice, 314, 320; dame
Alice, 316
Sutton [Sudton], de, family, 165,
222; Hugh, 20; Jo., 375; Margt.,
221; Margery, 221, 222; Pet.,
221; Rob., 182-183, 221, 259,
266-267; Sarah, 25; Walter, 25
Sutton, manor, II
Beds., 165, 268; manor, 263
Essex, 221
Kent, 182, 198; manor, 218
Sutton Valence, Kent, 183, 185, 199,
293
Norf., 104, 108; church, 56,
Suss., 1, 16, 17, 19, 20, 27, 353;
church, 313; manor, 19; mill, 30
Wilts., 85
Swamborough, 309
Swanberga, 309
Swanbourn, Bucks., 364
Swanscombe, Kent, church, 106;
honor, 103; manor and park, 108
Swansthorpe, Norf., 109
Swanton, Norf., 399
Swathings, Norf., 422
Swathyng, Alice, 151; Edw., 151
Swavesby, Cambs., 36
Swilland, Suff., 366
Swinbrook, Oxon., 242
Swineshead, Lincs., 107
Swinton, Yorks., 84
Swyne, priory, 189
Sybenton [Sipeton], Suss., abbot of,
305
Syderstone [Sydesterne], Norf., 314,
319, 320
Syleham, Suff., 183, 275
Syresham, N’hants., 245
K
104
TADCASTER, Yorks., 18
Tadham (Todham], Suss., 55, 58-60
Takeley [Tachelei, Takele], de, Ade-
liz, 175; Ellis, 175; Muriel, 175;
Will., 175, 176
Takeley, Essex, 164, 167, 174–177
Talbot [Talebot], family, 297, 415;
Adam, 373-374, 382; Agnes, 103;
Alice, 403, 404; Ermentrude,
169-171, 361, 415; Geoff., 103,
361; Gerard, 171; Gilb., king's
chamberlain, 338; Giles, 415;
Girard, 361; Hugh, 361, 415; Joan,
399; Jo., 170-171, 415; Quintin,
171, 415; Ric., 361; Samson,
372; Will., 171, 361, 372, 381,
399, 403-404, 415
of Swanscombe, Kent, honor,
104, 107-108, 110
Taleworth, de, Sir Peter, 128
Talun, Raginild, 311; Rog., 311
Tangmere, Suss., church, 313
Taninden, Kent, 158, 159
Tany [Taney], de, Gilb., 204; Ric.,
222; Rog., 276
Tarrant [Tarent], abbey, 78; nuns
of, 68
Tarrant Gunville, Dors., 42
Tarring, Suss., 353, 354; church,
353 manor, 354
Neville, Suss., 353
Tasburgh, Norf., 359
Tatcheworde.'
Hunts.
See
Tetworth,
506
INDEX
Tateshale, de, family, 39, 86, 89, 121,
139; Emma, 384; Eva, 120,
124-126, 130-131, 137, 147; Hugh,
133; Joan, 86, 108, 120, 123; Rob.,
13, 14, 34, 36, 39, 44-45, 47, 51,
74-75, 85-86, 88, 107-108, 119–131,
133, 136-137, 144, 147-148, 172,
384; Sir Rob., 388; Rohaise, 172
Tateshale, barony, 133, 147; fee, 429
Tathwell, Lincs., 428
'Tatituna.' See Tuttington
Tatsfield, Surr., 196
Tatterford, Norf., 110, 115, 126
Tattersett, Norf., 296, 299, 300, 389,
393-395
Taverham, de, family, 165; Bal-
dric, 279, 398; Nich., 279; Sim.,
279, 399
Taverham, Norf., 303, 320, 395, 398,
399
Taylor [Taillur, Taylur], le, Emelina,
274 Rog., 274; Thomasia, 274
Tedbald (of Eaton Socon), 248
Tednambury, Herts., 226
Tedric (of Bowers Gifford, Essex), 220
Templars, the, 171, 268, 270, 319, 411
Tempsford, Beds., 165, 167, 248,
258-261, 264
Tendring, Essex, 210, 216, 330
Tenerchebrai, de, Aveline, 363-364;
Lucy, 364; Ralph, 364; Rob.,
363-364
Tenterden, Kent, 156
Terholme, in Burnham, marsh, 126
Terling, Essex, 252
Terrington [Terinton], 309, 425
Terry, cook, 12
Tesson [Tessun], Ralph, 67, 170
Tetbald (of Pulborough, Suss.), 33
Tetworth, Hunts., 288
Teversham, Cambs., 376-378
Tevetshale, de, John, 128
Tew, Little, Oxon., 182, 184, 185,
232
Tewe, Tho., 190
Tewkesbury, 39
Teyl [Tylia, Tyvill], de, Ellen, 255;
Geoff., 254-255; Ralph, 255
See also Tyvill
Tey' Mandeville,' Essex, church, 212
Marks alias Tey Mandeville,
Essex, 211
Tezelin, cook (of Addington, Surr.),
347
(of Perching, Suss.), 347
Thames, river, 184, 278
Tharston, Norf., 121, 122
Thefford, Suff., 338
Theford, de, Alice, 27; Phil., 27
Thelnetham, Suff., 433
Themelthorpe, Norf., 297, 319, 436
Themeworth, de, Hawise, 382
Thenford, N'hants., 227, 229, 238, 240
Theobald, archbp., 214
Thetford, Norf., borough, 301;
church, 311
Norf., priory, 103, 117, 130–131
canons, 301, 424; monks, 335;
prior, 176
Theydon, Essex, 204
Gernon, Essex, 164, 202-206
Thichesherst.' See Chithurst, Suss.
Thieves, women, 51
Thiryngton, de, Sir Will., 427
Thixendale, Yorks., 107
Thomas, clerk, of Tarring, 353
monk of St. Alban's, 13
Thompson, Norf., 326, 385, 389,
442
Thorganby, Yorks., manor, 441
Thorington, Suff., 3, 127-129, 322
Thorlee,' Norf., manor, 436
Thornbury, Herefs., 191
Thornby, N'hants., 380
Thorncote, Beds., 262
Thorncroft, Surr.,
Surr., church,
church, 166;
(
(
manor, 167
Thorncumb, Dors., 71
Thorne, Yorks., manor, 307, 420
Thorney [Thoreny], de, Margery, 74,
75; Matilda, 74; Ric., 25, 74, 75;
Will., 74
Thorney, Suss., 43, 44, 74-75, 83, 309
Thorn Gumbald, Yorks., 189
Thornwicks, Suss., 39
Thorpe [Thorp], de, family, 3;
Alice, 130, 326, 388, 395; Bea-
trice, 152; Isabel, 428; Jas., 151,
430; Jo., 130, 152, 326, 388, 395,
428, 430; Margt., 430; Rob., 130,
152, 430
Thorpe (dioc. of London), 167
by South Repps, church, 318
Holy Cross, Norf., 120
Market [Thorpmarch '], Norf.,
314; manor, 319; mill, 315
See Baconsthorpe, Norf.
Thorrington, Essex, 107
Three Houses, Herts., 209
Threxton, Norf., 334
Thundridge, Herts., 64
Thurgarton, Norf., 431-432; canons,
112; priory, III
Thurkelby [Thurkeby], de, Rog.,
107, 211; Tho., 432
Thurlton, Norf., 385
Thurning, Norf., 436
Thurold of Wood Dalling, 394
Thurrock, Essex, 278; church, 277;
manor, 277
West, Essex, 401, 402; lord of,
147; manor, 278
Thursford, Norf., 393
Thurstan, clerk, 12
despencer, 223
Thurstanland, Yorks., 419, 420
Thurston [Therston], de, Eudes of,
424; Reg., 122; Ric., 122
INDEX
507
Thurston [Thurstanston], on Hawk-
don, Suff., 424
Thwaite, Norf., 124, 136–137; wind-
mill, 136
Tibenham, Norf., 132
Tibetot, de. See Tybetot
Tichenor, West, Suss., 45
Tickhill, honor, 112, 114, 115, 417
Tidcombe, Wilts., 85
Tidworth, Wilts., 86
Tilli [Tilly], de, Dionisia, 416, 417;
Mabel, 417; Otes, 416, 417
Tillington, Suss., I, II, 18-20, 23,
30, 35; church, 17
Tilney, Norf., 150, 297, 300, 325, 423–
424, 426-427
Tiltey, monks of, 373
Tirel. See Tyrel
Tirkebi, de, John, 162
Tirlingham, Kent, manor, 330
Tisun, Adam, 84, 170; Avice or
Amice, 84; Will., 84, 85
Titchwell, Norf., 133, 134
Titeberst, in Aldenham, Herts., 293,
294
"
Titeherste.' See Chithurst, Suss.
Tittleshall, Norf., 140, 141, 326, 395,
398-399; church and manor, 141,
397
Tocha, 298
Tocheswd. See Coxford
Toco, chaplain, 141
Toddington [Tudinton'],
Beds.,
manor, 105
in Lyminster, Suss., manor, 23
nr. Arundel, manor, 17
Todham, Suss. See Tadham
Toeni, de, family, 1, 2, 97: Gilb.,
377; Ralph, 9, 10, 46, 97, 112;
Rog., 97
Toftes-rys, Norf., 338
Tofts, Norf., 334, 337, 385, 387–388,
393; church, 311, 334; manor,
336
(in Rockland St. Peter), Norf.,
322
West, Norf., 309, 326
Toicy, de, Ralph, 442
Tokyngton, de, Ralph, 197
Tolebu, de, Rob., 170
Tolleshunt, Essex, 164, 210-212
Darcy [Tregoz], 205
Tollington, Suss., 93
Tonbridge, de, Ric., 334
Tony, de, Ralph, 368; Rog., 67, 369
Topcliffe, Yorks., 18; manor, 19
Topcroft, Norf., 1So
Toppefeld, Kent, 195
Torcy [Torcei], de, Levina, 316;
Ric., 300; Will., 316
Toreini [Torinni, Tornei], de, family,
I, 43; Cecily, 43-44; Mabel, 43;
Margery, 43; Matilda, 43-44;
Rob., 7; Ric., 43-44; Will., 43
'Torp.' See Gowthorpe, Norf.
See Thorp Market, Norf.
Torrington, Black, Devon, 36
Torstanestuna,' Suff., 424
Tortington, Suss., 1, 37-39; canons,
II
(
priors-47, 100; Reiner, 53, 98
Tosard, 381
Totemere, Suff., fishery, 332
Tottington, Norf., 2, 117-119, 132,
385-386, 389; parson of, 386
Toulouse, 74, 285, 301, 421
Tounay, de, dame Ida, 368
Tounstall,' Kent, 217
Tovi (of Holkham, Norf.), 102
Towcester, N'hants., 108, 169
Towersey, Bucks., 155, 156
Tracy, de, Hen., 377; Jo., 44
Trafford, de, Hen., 181; Matilda, 18I
Trailli, de, Geoff., 250; Philippa, 250
Trayford, 7
Trehan, Rob., 339
Trehus.' See Three Houses
Trent, river, 380
Treport, St. Michael's, 322
Tresgoz [Tregoz, Treisgoz, Tresgod],
family, 1, 2, 30-32, 222; Edw.,
32, 40; Emma, 31; Geoff., 7;
Hawise, 205 ; Hen., 31-32, 40,
77, 98, 182, 183; Sir Hen., 82;
Joan, 32, 40, 366-367; Jo., 9,
30-31, 77, 182, 221, 366–367; Nich.,
205; Nicholaa, 32; Pet., 221;
Phil., 9, 12, 30-31, 60; Ric., 12,
30-31; Rob., 30-31, 40-41, 77;
Sir Rob., 32; Sibil, 77; Tho.,
31-32, 40, S2, 98, 182-183; Sir
Tho., 32; Will., 30, 31
Treve, Suss., 19, 20, 35; chapel, 36;
manor, 36; park, 54
Treve Park, in Tillington, Suss., 23
River (in Tillington), Suss.,
chapel, 17
Treyford, Suss., 1, 52-54; chapel, 17
Troarn, St. Martin's, abbey, 2, 41,
90, 96; abbot-Will., 94; monks,
50, 72
{
Trotsworth (in Egham), Surr., 71
Trottemenn, Rob., 49
Trotton, Suss., 65–67; manor, 68
Trumpington, de, family, 165; Agnes,
372; Everard, 262; Giles, 262–263;
Isabel, 262; Jo., 372; Matilda,
263; Rog., 262-263; Will., 262
Trumpington, Cambs., 262, 382;
✔
manor, 262
Trunch (next Gimingham), Norf.,
church, 299
Trusanvill [Trussanvill], de, Reg.,
332, 339
Tuamchereche, de, Ric., 52
Tubeston,' Essex, 175
Tuddenham, Beds., 164
Norf., 3, 95, 148
508
INDEX
Tuddenham, East, Norf., 367
North, Norf., 434
Suff., 177-179, 383; lady of, 179
Tudenham, de, Eva, 270, 271; Gilb.,
178; Rob., 270, 271
Tuffesdon in Selkedon,' Suff., 71
Tunestale, Baldric, 279; Will., 279
Tunstall, Norf., 141, 165, 278-279,
326, 336
Suff., 342
•
Turbervill [Trublevill], de, Hen., 105;
Hugh, 96; Ralph, 149; Will., 300
Turgis, 55
(of Roding), 187
(of Roding Morel, Essex), 273,
277
Turneham, de, family, 182; Bea-
trice, 356; Edeline [Edelina], 69,
71, 183; Eleanor, 182; Eveline,
356; Steph., 69, 71, 182-183, 356,
376
Turold [Turald], 2, 21
nephew of Wigot, 90
(of Coltishall, Norf.), 327
(of Filby, Norf.), 322
(of Hackford, Norf.), 389
(of Irmingland, Norf.), 395
(of Wolterton, Norf.), 437
Turpin, Hen., chamberlain, 42 ; Will.,
42
Turri, de, Nich., 432
Turs, de, Ric., 156
Turstaneton. See Thurston
Turstin, 16, 23
(of Knowlton, Kent), 155
(of Petworth), 17
Turvill [Turevill], de, Matilda, 254;
Ralph, 261; Rob., 254
Tusard (of Swanborough), 309
Tuttington, Norf., 431-433; church,
431; parson, 433 n.
Twineham [Twienen, Twynem], Suss.,
305, 310, 329, 342-344, 355;
manor, 330, 346
Twitham, Kent, 162
Twyford, Bucks., mill, 413
Twynch, Andrew, 241
Tybetot [Tibetot], de, family, 164;
Hen., 193; Pain, 216, 217; Rob.,
215, 217
Tydeshale. See Tittleshall, Norf.
Tyeis [Tyeys], le, Alice, 237 ; Hawise,
236; Hen., 236-237
S
Tyrel [Tirel, Tyrell], family, 2; Alice,
80; Matilda, 80; Olive, 80; dame
Olive, 80; Rog., 79, 94; Tho., 80
Tyreserchs, de, Hen., 52
Tyrne, de, Petronilla, 394
Tyvill, de, family, 164, 165, 180, 265;
Cecily, 180; Elen., 181; Hen., 265;
Hugh, 181; Jo., 181; Matilda, 180;
Ralph, 180-181, 265; Ric., 180-
181; Rob., 180
See also Teyl
UFFORD, de, Cecily, 430; Margt.,
384; Margery, 173; Rob., 173,
179, 373, 384, 430
Ugford, Wilts., 25
Ulbert (of West Hanningfield, Essex),
400
Ulchetel the moneyer, 360
Ulcombe, Kent, 294
Ulf brother of Offord, 311
Ulfeole, 312
Ulketell, chaplain, 152
Ulmar, of Eaton Socon, Beds., 258
Ulp,' Burnham, Norf., 126
Ulster, countess-Emeline, 36
"
earls-Ric. de Burgh, 358;
Will. de Burgh, 359
Ulveva, wife of Phin the Dane, 220
Upton, de, Matilda, 92
Upton in Walsham hund., manor,
435
Upwaltham, Suss., 2, 90
Uvedale, de, John, 123
VABADUN, de, Ric., 23
Vache, de la, Sir Ric., 401
Vachery, La, Surr., 357, 359; manor,
357-358
Valence, de, Aymer, 92, 108-110, 205,
279, 307, 320, 326, 329-330, 333,
338, 344, 346, 367, 375, 382, 384,
388, 392, 395, 399-402, 405-406,
408-410, 412-414, 424, 427, 430,
433-437, 443; Joan, 106; Mary,
402, 412, 443; Nich., 92; Will.,
106, 108, 145, 171, 218, 274, 279,
365
See Pembroke
Valery, de, Ric., 96
Valle Pironis, de, Eustace, 74, 75;
Mary, 74, 75
Vallibus, de, Hugh, 106; Rob., 193,
197, 211
See Vaux
Valoignes [Valeines], de, family, 2, 3,
120-121, 160, 196, 296, 393; Agnes,
393; Alan, 221; Albreda, 393;
Alice, 361; Cecily, 430; Chris-
tiana, 121, 401; Geoff., 393 ;
Gundreda, 120, 393; Gunnora,
121; Hamon, 160; Hawise, 393;
Isabel, 121, 196, 428; Jo., 393;
Joan, 145; Lora, 121; Mabel,
430; Pet., 120, 125, 145, 199, 294,
393, 402; Phil., 393; Rob., 160,
196, 393–394, 403, 430; Rog., 145,
393, 402-403; Rohese, 393; Rose,
430; Sibil, 18; Tho., 428, 430;
Walter, 196, 393; Waresius, 196;
Will., 142, 393
barony, 120-121, 294, 395; fee,
107, 165, 403; honor, 168, 294, 404
Vancy, de.
See Wauncy
Vange, Essex, 220, 223
INDEX
509
Vanne, Kent, 164, 198
by Wye, Kent, 198
in Crundale, Kent, 198, 199
Varney, de, Florence, 241
Varnoun, de, Baldwin, 226; Mar-
gery, 226
See Vernon
Vasselier [Vesseler], le, Will., 26,
52
Vassylyr, John le, 52
Vaudreuil, Le (Eure), 67
Vautort, de, Margery, 226; Ric.,
226; Rob., 226; Tho., 226
Vaux [Vaus], de, dame Clementia,
150; Jo., 119, 373, 392; Petron-
illa, 120; Rob. (of Gilsland), 441;
Sir Rog., 150; Will., 137
See Vallibus, de
Vavassour, le, Rob., 172
Veltre [Valtre, Veautre, Veltrier,
Veutre], le, family, 3; John, 126;
Margery, 126; Matilda, 126;
Will., 5, 109, 118, 125-126, 390
Venour, le, John, 244
Venuz, de, Rob., 356
Ver [Vere], de, Alice, 407; earl
Aubrey, 361, 364; Denise, 108,
266; Eleanor, 205; Geoff., 155,
218, 220; Hugh, 108-109, 266;
Rob., 205; Rohaise, 249
Verdun [Verdon, Verdoun], de, dame
Annora, 320; Jo., 128; lady
Maud, 47; Ralph, 320; Walter,
sheriff, 320
Verli [Verlei, Verley, Verly, Verluy,
Virluy, Virly, Wirly], de, family, 3,
325; Adam, 140-141; Sir Adam,
140; Alex., 140; Alice, 140 ;
Cecily, 140-141; Hugh, 139, 140;
Juliana, 141; Phil., 140–141, 325–
326, 398-399; Ralph, 139, 140;
Rob., 140, 152, 326; Rog., 7, 139,
140, 160
Vermandois, de, Beatrix, 421
Hugh le Magne, count of, 299
Verneuil, constables of, 250
Vernon, de, Cecily, 25; Ric., 25
See Varnoun
Vescy, de, John, 262
Veteri Aula, de, Isabel, 121
Veteri Ponte, de, Idonea, 358;
Isabel, 358
Viene [Vienne, Vyane, Vyne], de,
family, I; Luke, 53; Mary, 53;
Pet., 54
Vieuxpont, de, Alice, 254, 267;
Hugh, 251, 261, 267
Vilers [Viliers], de, family, 1, 52-54;
A., 52; Alan, 52-53; Emma, 52;
Hamon, 167; Jo., 53; Mary, 54 n.;
Nich., 53-54; Pain, 7, 52-53; Ric.,
53; Rob., 52-54, 54 n., 82-83;
Rog., 167; Tho., 52-53; Walter,
38; Will., 52-53
Vimeu, dioc. of Amiens, 277, 278 n.
Vivonia, de, Hugh, 247; Joan,
248
Vyane, de. See Viene
Vyvian, Margt., 192
WAARD, Dionisia, 227; Walkelin, 62,
227
Wacherlai, de, Will., 279
Wachesham [Wacstonesham, Wax-
tonesham, Wechesham, Wetes-
ham], de, family, 3; Amice, 128;
Gerard, 127-129, 217, 279; Giles,
128, 129, 279; Isabel, 128; Joan,
128; Nich., 434; Osbert, 127–128;
Reiner, 434-435; Ric., 127
Wachet, Will., 407
Wadard (of Somerton, Oxon.), 234
(of South Newington, Oxon.),
227
Waddon, Bucks., manor, 13, 14
Wade, de la, family, 2; Hen., 93;
Juliana, 93-94; Ric., 10
Wade Court, Hants., 2, 93-94
Wade, La, Hants., 94
Wadington, de, Will., 336
Wahull, de, Jo., 172; Rohaise, 172;
Sim., 243; Walter, 243
Wainford, Suff., 124
Waithe, Lincs., 284
Wake, Baldwin, 188, 283, 399;
Joan, 399
fee, 406
Wakefield, Yorks., 306, 308, 417;
church, 312; manor, 307
Wakerley, N'hants., 165, 279-280,
289; manor, 168
Walberswick, Suff., 317
Walberton, Suss., 55, 58, 83;
church, 56; manor, 57-59
Walbrook, St. Steph., church, 167
Walcheline, archdeacon of Suffolk,
193, 197
Walcher of Layham, Suff., 177
Walcot, Oxon., 242
Walden, Rog., clerk, 206
Walden, Essex, 167
Walden, abbey, 211, 214, 217, 407
abbots-187, 297, 408; Gilb.,
218
priory, 186, 318, 320; prior-
Reg., 407
Walderslade, Kent, manor, 185
Walderton ['Wadrinton'], Suss., 32,
75; manor, 99
Waldingfield, Suff., manor, 215, 366
Little, Suff., 364-367; manor,
366
Waldingham, Surr., manor, 350
Waldron, Suss., church, 313
Walecote, de, Steph., 242
Waleran (of Ringstead, Norf.), 117
Waleran, John, nephew of, 146
510
INDEX
Walerand [Waleraund], Rob., 149,
270, 340
Wales, army, 8, 28, 57, 60, 79, 80,
104; prince, 179
Walesham, de, Rog., 117
Waleys [Waleis, Walensis],
Augustine, 185; Dionisia,
Godfrey, 29; Will., 231
Walkefare, Jo., 404; Margt., 404;
Margery, 405; Rob., 404-405; Sir
Rob., 404
Walkelin, seneschal, 286
Walkern, Herts., 167
Wall (in Bradwell-on-Sea), Essex,
206
Wallbury, Essex, 274
Walle, La, in Hallingbury, Essex,
273, 274
Wallingford, 234
castle, 73, 203, 204; constable,
73, 387; fee, 170, 227, 229, 236;
honor, 62-63, 227-228, 232, 234-
236, 238, 372, 374, 423; lady
of, 234; monastery, 236; prior,
260
Walmire, Yorks., 276
Walpole, de, Hen., 374; Isabel, 429
Walpole, 309
Walpole, Norf., 154
Walsham, de, Gilb., 328
Walsham, Norf., lady of, 124
Suff., 109
Walsingham, de,
Barthol., 430;
Ric., 430; Steph., 430
Walsingham, Norf., 55
le,
29;
priory, 125, 138; canon, 424;
prior, 127
Walter, Hubert, 28, 29, 135, 362;
Theobald, 28, 113, 142
Walter, brother of Wimar the sewer,
396
(of Treyford, Suss.), 52
(of 'Wildecumb'), 310
Waltervill, de, Jordan, 356
Waltham, Great, Essex, 167, 252
15
deacon, 220
(of Burnham Thorpe, Norf.),
389
(of Leaden Roding, Essex), 353
(of Pangdean, Suss.), 327
(of Sunworth in Buriton,
Hants.), 54
Lincs., 68, 423
Suss., 49
Up, Suss., 47, 52, 90
Little, Essex, 7, 101; manor,
West, Norf., 309
Suss., 25, 43, 74
Yorks., 297, 419-420
Walton, de, Hawise, 73; Will., 437
Walton, East, Norf., 392
Wancy [Wanceio], de. See Wauncy
Wangford, Suff., 336
Wanneworth, Suss., 233
Wanningore, free
manor, 337
Norf., 338
Suss., 334; manor, 336
Wantley, Suss., 352
Wapsbourne (Sheffield), watercourse,
335
chapel, 337;
Norf., 338
(in Fletching), Suss.,
Suss., 336;
manor, 336-337
Warberton [Warbelton, Warblington,
Warblinton, Warburton, Werbin-
ton], de, family, 376;
Tho.,
377-378; Will., 376-378
Warbleton, Suss., 31, 376
Warblington, Hants., 96, 349, 350;
parson of, 97
Wardon, abbey, 250, 264
abbots-255, 405; Geoff., 255;
Pain, 266
church, 405; fee, 267, 405;
honor, 209
Wardour Castle, 99
Warenne, de, family, 296, 341; Ada
or Adeline, 416; Alice, 143, 307,
323-324; Beatrice, 323; Edith,
420; lady Ela, 437; Emma, 372;
Florentin, 161; Frederic, 298;
Geoff., 143; Gundreda, 34, 120, 298,
308-309, 393; Isabel, 285, 301;
Joan, 307; John, 76, 143, 305, 307,
319, 320, 329, 333, 341-342, 354,
359, 369, 373, 377, 394-395, 399,
409-410, 414-415, 420, 433, 435,
441; Sir Jo., 325; Matilda, 307,
341; Milisent, 323; Phil., 389;
Rainald [Raynold], 299-301, 311,
312; Ralph, 299-301, 311; Ranulf
[Randulf], 56, 353, 371–372; Reg.,
113, 300-302, 309, 317, 323-325,
327, 331, 334, 345, 394, 424, 442;
Ric., 300, 373; Tho., 307; Will.,
56, 84, 90, 286, 297–300, 303–304,
308, 313-315, 318, 322-325, 327,
331, 334, 339, 342-343, 345, 347,
353, 355, 359, 370-373, 376,
378-382, 384 n., 385, 389, 393-395,
398, 400, 402, 405-406, 408-410,
416, 418-420, 424-425, 428, 431,
433-434, 437-438, 442-443
countesses-343, 371, 406, 409,
410; Isabel, 299-302, 304, 332,
434; Matilda, 336, 341, 381, 383,
391, 401, 406, 412, 417, 424
earls-98, 146, 151–152, 171,
203, 297-298, 321, 323, 326, 329,
330, 333, 335-337, 341, 343-346,
349, 350, 354, 356-358, 360,
366-368, 370-371, 373, 377-379,
382 n., 383-384, 387-388, 390, 394–
397, 399, 401, 403-404, 406–413,
415, 418, 420, 423, 425, 427-428,
430, 432-436, 441, 443; Hamelin,
INDEX
511
73, 302, 304, 327, 328, 332, 343, 345,
381, 383, 385, 417, 418 n., 434, 437;
John, 306, 378, 400, 409, 410, 415,
418, 420; Will., 6, 114, 285,
299-301, 306, 315, 319, 324, 327,
331, 333-334, 336, 341, 347, 353,
355, 370, 371, 373, 377, 386, 389,
391, 396, 405, 408, 416-417, 419,
420, 424, 426, 432, 436, 439
Warenne, earls of Surrey, 297. See
Surrey
fee, 56, 69, 74, 85, 114, 115,
125-126, 130, 141, 145, 152-153,
173, 272, 328; honor, 296-443
'Warewyk,' fee, 308 n.
Warham, Norf., 125-127
Warin, Hugh, 73
Warin, chamberlain, 254; Matilda,
(
wife, 254
49
K
sheriff, 310, 313, 370
(of Allington, Suss.), 314
(of Angmering, Suss.), 70
(of Bilsham, in Yapton, Suss.),
35
Warley, Yorks., 441
(of Ditchling, Suss.), 370
(of Itchenor, Suss.), 55
(of Nutbourne by Pulborough),
Warmington, N’hants., 411
Warminster, Wilts., 204
Warmsworth, Yorks., 416, 417
Warnford, Hants., 58
Warningcamp, Suss., 2, 48, 49, 91–93;
manor, 49
Warre [Warr], la, family, 296;
Clarice, 354; Joan, 280, 324; Jo.,
324, 327, 354; Sir Jo., 280;
Olimpias, 354; Rog., 354; Sir
Rog., 354
Warwick, countesses-185; Alice,
369; Matilda de Beauchamp, 358
earls-18, 63, 243;
Guy de
Beauchamp, 244
honor, 242
Washington, 351
Wasneval, de, Rob., 315
Wast, de, Nigel, 155
Wateley, Essex, 193
Waterbeach, minoresses of, 163
Waterden, Norf., 130, 322, 325, 326
Wateringbury, Kent, manor, 185
Waterperry, Agnes of, III; Hen.,
III; Ric., III
See Belfou
Waterperry, Oxon., manor, 113
Watevill [Watevile, Wattevill,
Whatevill], de, family, 2, 296;
Agnes, 89; Hamon, 88; Matilda,
89; Pet., 89; Rob., 88-89;
Sibyl, 217; Will., 22, 217, 299,
322, 339, 359, 378
Wattehose, Rog., 292
Watteville on the Seine, 339
Wattisham [Wechesham '], Suff.,
128; manor, 128-129
Watton, Herts., 349; manor, 350
Wauncy [Wanceio, Wanci, Wancy,
Waunci], de, family, 2, 69, 70, 296,
306; Alice, 381; Berta, 381;
Felicia, 69, 162; Hugh, 381; Lucy,
80; Nich., 69, 70, 162, 381
Osbern, 381; Ralph, 306, 381
Sir Ralph, 381; Rog., 80, 381;
Walter, 381; Will., 25, 80, 373-374,
381-382, 382 n. ; Sir Will., 381-382
Wautham, de, Reg., 243
Wauton, de, Rob., 253-255; Sarra,
253-254
Waveney, 429
Waverley, abbey, 213, 345
Wavre [Waure, Wavere], de, Rob.,
320; Sim., II, 26; Will., 20
Waylaund. See Weyland
Wealde, atte, John, 163; Sim., 163
Weasenham, Norf., 118, 303, 395–397,
399; church, 398
Thorp, Norf., church, 396, 398
Weathersfield, Essex, 275
Weeley, Essex, 165, 275; manor, 166,
192
Weeting, Norf., 334-338;
church,
334, 337-338; manor, 336-337
Welborne, Norf., 152,
297, 338,
428-430
Welford, N'hants, 188
Welhorne, de, Rob., 116
Well, fisheries, 309
Welland, fishery, 284
Welle, de, Adam, 205; Jo., 205;
Lora, 212; Matilda, 205; Rob.,
212
Welleboef, de, Hugh, 250
Welles, de, dame Matilda, 161
Wellingham, Norf., 397
Wellingore, Lincs., 293
Wellow, Hants., 355, 358
Wells, Kent, manor, 162
Welnetham [Whelnetham], Suff., 360
Welton, de, Rog., 243
Wendling, de, Will., 398
Wendling, Norf., 396, 398–399
abbots-398, 425; Nich., 443
Wendover, Bucks., 422; manor, 421
Weng, Bucks. See Wing
Wenham, Essex, 211, 212
Suff., 65, 67, 210
Wenlock, prior of, 318
Weobley, Herefs., 105
Wepham, Suss., 2, 99-100; fee, 9;
manor, 49
'Weplesburn.' See Wapsbourne
Weppehurst, Suss., sheepfold, 51
Weps, le, Jo., 358; Rog., 358;
Walter, 357-358
Wereham, Norf., 319, 320, 396
Werling, Suff., 326
Werpesburn, Suss., 305
512
INDEX
Wesneval, de, Rob., 300
Westacre, prior of, 115, 325, 425;
priory, 112
Westbourne,
87;
Suss., II, 72,
church, 19; manor, 15, 68
Westbrok in Rolvenden, Kent, marsh,
159
'Westburinton.'
See
Boarhunt,
West, Hants.
Westcote, N'hants., 245
Westdene, de, Hen., 87
Westerton, de, John, 59
Westgate, Kent, manor, 185
Westhale in Benacre, Suff., 333
Westham, Suss., 32, 313, 341
Westmeston, Suss., 331, 333
Westminster, 142, 166, 191, 380
St. Peter's, 225; Ric. abbot,
184
<
Westmull ['Westmulne '],
Deddington, Oxon., 230, 231
Weston, de, Cecily, 75; Hawise,
270-271, 290; Jo., 278; Ric., 75;
Rob., 270-271, 290
Weston, Herts., 288
C
>
Norf., 436
Oxon., 242
Suss., 36
Colville, Cambs., 297, 301,
405-406, 437
Underwood, Bucks., 244
Westout, St. Peter's and St. Mary's,
churches, 311
West-thorpe.' See Thorpe Holy
Cross
West Tofts, Norf., 132
Westune.' See Whitchurch, Salop
Westwick, Cambs., 172
Westwood, Kent, 330; manor, 330
Wetherden, Suff., church, 149
Wetherley, Cambs., hund., 230
Weyland [Waylaund], de, Eliz., 264 ;
Joan, 150; Ric., 150; Tho., 363,
435; Will., 264
Weyvill, de. See Wivill
Whatevill, de. See Watevill
Whatfield, Suff., 359–361
Wheatacre, Norf., 401; manor, 433
Wherstead, Suff., 129
See Thorington, Suff.
Wherwell, abbess of, 368
Whitchurch, Oxon., 227, 229, 230,
232
in
¿
Salop, 296, 371-375, 398
White Colne, Essex, manor, 213
Whitefeld [Witefeld, Wytefeld], de,
Hen., 243; Isabel, 22; Jo., 244;
Rob., 243; Will., 22
Whiteman, Sarra, 75; Will., 75
Whitfield, Oxon., 243
Whithors,' vale of, 224
Whitlingham, Norf., 438-439; manor,
440, 441
Whitsonsett, Norf., 326
Whorlton and Rudby, Yorks., honor,
422
Wiard. See Widard
Wibert, 375
(of Hurstmonceaux), 376
Wiburcvill, de, Ralph, 301
Wicham [Wrtham], de, Jordan, 224;
Ric., 127
'Wicham.' See Wickham
Wichelegh, de, Felicia, 158; Will.,
158
Wicken or Wyke Dyve, N'hants.,
62
Wickensands, Suss., 296, 368-369
Wickham, family, 296
Wickham, 421
<
Kent, 106; church, 195
by Strood, Kent, 107
West, Kent, 190–192, 322
Suff., 373
Skeith, Suff., 190
Suss., 306, 339
by Steyning, Suss., 296, 378-
in Icklesham, Suss., 379
near Hurstpierpoint, Suss., 378
Wicklewood, Norf., 322, 325-326
Wickmere, Norf., 299
Wickwar, Gloucs., 354
Widard [Wiard], of Brighton, Suss.,
310, 379
Widelie.' See Dornford, Oxon.
Wiggenhall [Wigenhale],
148-150, 424-425, 428
Wiggenholt, 39
Wight, Isle of, 380; lady of, 169,
224, 226
Wight, countesses-176-177,
179,
192, 197, 236, 241, 247; Margt.,
349; Margt. de Rivers, 170;
Margery de Rivers, 232
earls-185, 208, 231-232, 235-
236, 240-241
Wighton, Norf., 102, 125-127
Wigot, 90
Wikes, Gloucs., manor, 105
Wikinton, 354
Wilbraham, Great, Cambs., 172, 173
'Wilburgham.' See Welborne, Norf.
Wilby, Norf., 3, 132, 144–145, 365
Suff., 429
Wilcote [Wilscote],
Oxon., 192;
379
f
manor, 191
Wildecumb,' 310
Wilden, Beds., 265
Wilhale, Oxon., 234-237;
Norf.,
manor,
236
Wilkin. See Wylekyn
Willavesham [Willakesham, Willas-
ham, Wylasham, Wyllasham], de,
family, 165; Lucy, 247; Matilda,
246; Ralph, 246, 247; Rob., 246,
' Willedon,' Essex, 206
INDEX
513
Willey. See Weeley, Essex
William, chamberlain, 425
26
chaplain of Stedham, Suss.,
clerk, II
clerk of Bumpstead, 401; Alice,
wife, 401
clerk of Medlers,' Suss., 62
constable, 315
huntsman, 280
sewer, 141
warrener, 256
(of Brettenham, Norf.), 146
(of Foulden, Norf.), 393
(of Halnaker, Suss.), 55, 56
(of Hilborough, Norf.), 382
(of Hurstpierpoint), 331
(of Littlehampton, Suss.), 89
(of Lordington, Suss.), 41
(of Middleton, Suss.), 52
(of Singleton, Suss.), 87
(of Strettington), 41
Willingham, 309; church, 312
Cambs., 297, 437
Suff., 300
Willisham [Wytlisham], Suff., manor,
44I
Willoughby
[Wyleby, Wyluby],
family, 417; Jo., 417; Margt.,
417; Margery, 417
Wilton, de, Olimpiada, 236
Wilton, Norf., 114, 115, 311, 327-
330, 337; abbey, 25; abbess, 25,
218; fishery, 114; manor, 329
Wimar, seneschal, 129, 396
[Guihomar, Wihomarc], sewer,
396
Wimbis, de, Geoff., II
Wimbotsham, Norf., 297, 425-427
Wimer, sheriff, 394
Wimer (of Gressenhall, Norf.), 395,
396
(of South Acre, Norf.), 396
Wimpole, Cambs., 207-209, 388;
church, 172
Wimundham. See Wymondham
Wincestre [Wincestria], de, Ailwin,
311, 370
Winch, East, Norf., 392
Winchelsea, 102
Winchester, 5, 53, 84, 94, 166, 183,
380; castle, 203; cathedral, 65;
mills, 65
Winchester, bishops-22, 70-71, 313,
349; Godfrey, 71, 331; Hen., 214,
300; Ric., 347; Rog., 5; Walkelin,
312, 313
countess-Eleanor, 184
earls-245; Hugh le Despen-
ser, 179; Saher, 142, 354, 416
Windesores [Winlesores], de, Hugh,
136; Will., 71
'Windhull,' Essex, 205
Windridge, nr. St. Albans, 156
Windsor, constablewick, 77, 78, 88,
174, 239; forest, 71, 268, 423;
manor, 233; park, 165
New, 71
Winecote [Wonnecote, Wynescote],
de, family, 297; Jo., 412, 413;
Sim., 412; master Sim., 412;
Will., 412
Winfarthing, Norf., 102, 106; manor,
105; park, 108
Wing, Bucks., 171, 297, 414-415;
church, 171; manor, 170, 410;
priory, 415
Wingeham, de, Pet., 238
Wingfield, church, 438
Wingham, Kent, 185
Winkburn, Notts., church, 84
Wint', de, Aveline, 17; Alan, 17;
Reg., 17
Winterbourne, Suss., church, 39
Winterburn, Gloucs., 41
Winterburne, Wilts., church, 37
Basset, Wilts., church, 313;
manor, 39
Wintereshull,
Will., 357
Winthelle,' Essex, 202
de, Beatrice, 357;
Wirch [de la Guerche, Gyrche], de
la, Hawise, 99
Wirly, de. See Verli
Wirlyngworth, de, Rob., 325
Wiscard, Ric., 267; Will., 267
Wischard, Thurstan, 167; Will., 255,
267
Wisham. See Wysham
Wistendena, 309, 310
Wiston, Suss., manor, 22, 23
"
Suff., 330
Witefeld. See Whitfield
Witeweie, de, Will., 6
Witham, Essex, 167, 285
Withdean, Suss., 309-311, 336
'Withele.' See Woodley, Oxon.
Withersfield, Suff., 396, 398; manor,
398-399
――
C
Witingelega,' Hants., forest, 70, 71
Witteden,' Suss., 379
Wittering, East, Suss., 24
Witton, de, John, 120
Witton, Norf., church, 437
Wivelsfield, Suss., 324, 326, 383
Wiveton, Norf., 370, 373, 375
Wivill [Weyvill, Widevill, Wyauvill,
Wyavill, Wyvil], de, family, 296,
379-380; Emma, 379; Gode-
hude, 379; Hugh, 379, 380; Jo.,
380; Margery, 380; Ric., 306,
379, 380; Rob., 379; Tho., 380;
Walter, 380; Will., 379, 380
Wix, Essex, 366
Wlbert (of Kenningtons, Essex), 400
Wlenche[mere].' See Linchmere,
f
Suss.
Wlnod, clothier, 312
514
INDEX
Wlterton, de.
See Wolterton
Wltreton. See Walton, de
Woburn, abbey, 156
"
Wockele' [Wokelee], Kent, 158
Wodeham, de, Sir Rob., 177; Walter,
177
Wogham, Suss., 315
Woking, Middle, Surr., 55
Wolbidinges, Suss., 26
Wold['Inferiori Waldia'], N'hants.(?),
169
Wolderton, Suss., 40
Wolterton [Wulterton], de, family,
297; Christiana, 437; Margery,
437; Rog., 437-438; Walter, 437 ;
Will., 437
Wolterton, Norf., 150, 297, 403, 437
Wolton, de, John, 198, 199
Wolwin, reeve of Bleachington, 345
Wonnecote. See Winecote
Woodbridge, Suff., manor,
prior, 439; priory, 439
Woodcote, Salop, manor, 4
Suss., 58, 60, 61; manor, 59
Wood Dalling, Norf., 320, 394,
436
Woodhall [Wodehall], in Arkesden,
Essex, 187; manor, 186
Le, in Rattlesden, Suff., manor,
337, 338
Woodham Mortimer, Essex, 386
Walter, Essex, 365
Woodley, Oxon., 237, 241
Wood Norton, Norf., manor, 436
Wood Rising, 313
Woods Court [Wode] in Badlesmere,
Kent, 194
Woodstock, Edm. of, 285
Woodton, Norf., 2, 121-123
Woolavington, Suss., 92
Woolbeding, Suss., 36, 92
Wooldale, Yorks., 441
Woolston, Essex, manor, 342
Wooton, 310
Wootton, Norf., 136, 154
141
€
North, Norf., 147, 148; church,
South, Norf., 3, 141-144, 147,
148
Oxon., 237
Suss., 345
Worcester, 353
>
439;
Wordeseia, Suff., 361
Worksop, canons of, 413
Worlington, Suff., manor, 150
Wormegay [Wurmegai], de, Alice,
323; Will., 317, 323
barony, 367; fee, 392; honor,
325-327, 341, 425
Wormegay, Norf., 141, 297, 302, 317,
318, 323, 324, 341, 385, 394, 423,
442 manor, 325
Wormingford, Essex, 330; manor,
330
Worth, Suss., 59, 334, 338, 357, 383 ;
church, 337; manor, 307, 336
Wilts., 164, 224
Wortham, Suff., 127-128; manor,128
Worthy, Hants., 362
Wothorpe by Stamford, Northants.,
nuns of, 284
Woughton on the Green, Bucks.,
140
Wouneworth [Woneworth], in Graff-
ham, Suss., 63; manor, 64
Woutham, de, Gilb., 319
Wramplingham, Norf., 2, 8, 102-110
Wratling, Essex, 211
Wratting, Cambs., 322
Wreningham, Norf., 336
Wrentham, Suff., 296, 322, 327-331,
332, 333
Writeler [Wiritle], Will., 1I
Writtle, Essex, 188; manor, 15
Wroxham, Norf., 318
Wroxton, Oxon., 316; priory, 320
Wrythorpe.'
Wothorpe,
See
N'hants.
(
Wuda,' Kent, 194
Wudehus, Suss., manor, 99
(
Wulfric (of Groton, Suff.), 360
Wulnod (of Pincheham'), 310
Wurmegai. See Wormegay
See Wootton,
Wutton.'
"
South,
Norf.
Wyboston [Wybaudeston], Beds.,
155, 165, 248, 255-256, 264-265
Wycham.' See Wickham
Wychcenden,' Suss., 383
Wyche, La, in Binsted, Hants., 41
Wychwood, Oxon., 240, 242-243
Wyka,' Gloucs., 107
Wyke, La, Suss., 2, 89, 349, 369
Wyke Dyve, N'hants., manor, 63, 64
Wyken [' Wylden'], Essex, 206
Wykes, de, Geoff., 69
Wykes, Essex, Idonea prioress of,
"
f
(
1
175
Wykes, Lincs., manor, 105
Wylasham [Wyllasham]. See Wil-
lavesham
-
Wylekyn, Ralph, 373; Rob., 373
Wyluby. See Willoughby
Wymer. See Wimer
Wymondham, Norf., 3, 8, 13, 128,
130, 147-148
abbey, 104, 106, 140-141; cell
of SS. Mary and Alban, 5; church,
6; manor, 6, 14, 123, 154; monks,
6, 7, 12, 125, 129, 134-135; priory,
12, 129, 138, 140, 145, 147-148,
153-154
priors-139, 148; Jo., 138;
Will., 131
Wymondley, Little, Kent, 293
Wyndlesores [Wyndesores], de, Gode-
hold,195,196; Hugh, 136, 195–196;
Ralph, 209; Walter, 136
INDEX
515
Wynescote. See Winecote
Wyntring,' Kent, 160, 161
Wysham, de, family, 296; Hawise,
330, 378-379; Jo., 330, 378-379 ;
Sir Jo., 379
Wytefeld, de. See Whitefeld
Wyvill, de. See Wivill
"
YAPTON, Suss., 20, 23, 36, 49
Yardley, Essex, 176
Yarmouth, 116, 436; fair, 135, 176,
426
Yedingham, Yorks., 355, 356
Yenge Margaret.' See Margaret-
ting, Essex
Yen Hall, in West Wickham, Cambs.,
302, 322, 326; manor, 327
Yeldham, Essex, 310, 371
Yelverton, Norf., 138, 152, 430
Yeoman, king's, 117
Yeverington, Suss.,
354
•
Yhill, de, Walter, 34
See L'Isle, de
Yllesham,' Suss., 65
Ynthrop, Suss., 59
York, 19, 70, 266
archbps.-231, 241; Hen., 416;
Rog., 84; Walter de Gray, 240
sheriff of, 365
treasurer of, 33
Young, Ric. the, 208
Yoxford, Suff., 428, 429
ZOUCHE [Sousche, Zousche, Zuche],
la, family, 1, 35, 36, 165; Adelisia
[Adelid], 35; Alan, 20, 35, 36, 97,
245, 246; Alice, 369; Aymer, 36;
Ela, 36; Ellen, 36, 245; Geoff.,
35; Ives, 262; Margery, 321; Rog.,
35, 36; Will., 20, 34, 36, 54, 91, 92,
187, 205, 262, 369
Printed in England at THE BALLANTYNE PRESS by
SPOTTISWOODE, BALLANTYNE & Co. LTD.
Colchester, London & Eton
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