YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Bought with the income of the ANN S. FARNAM FUND THE §:tm%i tfjf SiEMttfitrt DEANERY OF BRISLEY. IN THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK, FROM PUBLIC RECORDS, HERALDS' VISITATIONS, WILLS, COURT ROLLS, OLD CHARTERS, PARISH REGISTERS, TOWN BOOKS, AND OTHER PRIVATE SOURCES; COLLECTED BY ME. G. A. CAETHEW, F.S.A., M.A.I., &c. DIGESTED AND ARRANGED AS MATERIALS POR PAROCHIAL, MANORIAL, AND FAMILY HISTOEY. Jit %\lXU ^IXttB. " Topographical pursuits tend to preserve and promote the civUization of which they are a consequence and a proof. Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favourable both to individual and national character." — Southey, The Doctor. NORWICH : PRINTED BY MILLER AND LEAVINS, RAMPANT HORSE STREET. 1877. INTRODUCTION IHE compiler of the matter contained in the following pages did not consider himself qualified to write history, not being a scholar ; only one whose literary compositions from his early youth have almost invariably commenced with the words, " This Indenture ; " but having always taken an interest in topo graphical pursuits, has availed himself of any opportunity of collecting the materials from which history may some day be written, and has been induced with that object to make them public. He has had, to apply the words of Sterne, " various accounts to reconcile ; anecdotes to find up ; inscriptions to make out ; stories to weave in ; traditions to sift ; personages to call upon." There are, in such a pursuit, " archives at every stage to be lookt into, and rolls, records, documents, and endless genealogies, which justice ever and anon calls him back to stay the reading of." Here will be found the names of many men and the sequence of many events, but " no pictures of men," " no comments on events." The records are briefly connected by a dry narration of the descent of landed property from one generation to another, or from one family to another ; nevertheless, some thoughtful reader may find hints for illustration of his views on some doubtful points, for or against ; such, for instance, as an inference to be drawn from the Domesday extracts, that the invasion of William the Norman made little or no change in the condition of the English people or in the tenure and possession of the land. Indeed William claimed to succeed to the Crown, not by conquest, but of right ; with the same jurisdiction or dominion as had been held by King Edward. It was only when offering resistance and opposition that the Saxon thane was supplanted by the Norman baron; but the actual occupier of the estate was generally left in undisturbed possession. So also the services by which his land was held by his villans, his bondsmen,1 &c, remained unchanged; and we find them subsisting for some following centuries. It was not until the reign of Stephen or Henry I. that military services were imposed upon the land in lieu of the soccage tenures. There is, I believe, still a difference of opinion in understanding the Great Survey ; whether after the enume ration of the number of carucates or plough lands in each estate, the summing up of a 1 The servi or serfs are supposed to have heen Celts, descendants of the aboriginal inhabitants whom the Saxon immigrants had enslaved. INTRODUCTION. different number of caruc' (so abbreviated), refers to the quantity of land then under cultivation, the number of teams of cattle employed upon it, or whether it was not the assessment to the land-tax payable in respect of the estate; and it may afford a subject of some interest to compare such assessments with the quantities of military service afterwards imposed ; and whether they bore any relation to each other. The theories of philosophical historians upon these and other questions may perchance be supported or disproved by what is contained in this book. Again, an inquirer into the history of nomenclature and origin of surnames may derive illustrations to the subject, from the names of parties and witnesses to the ancient charters set forth : Norman-named children from English-named parents, and the reverse : names derived from localities or personal peculiarities abound. The condition of the priest hood and the legitimacy or illegitimacy of their offspring, — names of sons and daughters frequently occurring, but not of wives, — may also form subjects for consideration. If the writer is forming too high an opinion of the utility of his materials for such purposes, he yet claims credit for originality in his arrangement of them : taking first those relating to the fiefs held immediately of the Crown; then the mesne tenants and sub- tenants; proceeding, through the acquisitions of estates under the Tudor and Stuart kings, to the landowners of the present day. Independent of and besides the higher aims alluded to, the origin and history of our landowners, noble and gentle, is a subject affording interest to many, and they will find the writer has not neglected noticing the families of some of our Norfolk yeomen, of which our county may be justly proud, and from whom have sprung, and may hereafter spring, soldiers, sailors, statesmen, and divines, such as have in former times graced and will grace our country's history. "A yeoman is a gentleman in the ore," says worthy old Fuller, " whom the next generation will see refined ; " and therefore I have not passed over our yeomen. To use the same metaphor in another sense, the collector of these specimens hopes they contain some ore from which, amongst much dross, metal may at some time be drawn out by a skilful workman. The social changes which occurred after the Reformation and the Great Rebellion will be observed from different points of view, and afford other streams of thought, as they bear more upon our present condition and habits. Cnntats ai I) art 1 SECTION I.— TENANTS IN CHIEF. The Hitndred The Deanery The Fief of Fitz Alan Pedigree . . . . The Earl of Richmond's Fief . . Pedigree . . . . , . The Fief of William de Warren Pedigree The Fief of Roger Bigot Pedigree The Bishop's Fief The Fief of Heemertjs (Wormegay Fief) Pedigree of Bardolf The Fief of St. Edmund's Abbey The Fief of the Abbat of St. Ethel dkeda (Ely) Page 1 46 1619 28 3036 38 39 4149 51 59 61 Page The Fief of Ralf de Bellofago (Beau- foe) . . 63 Pedigree of Rye . . 67 Pedigree of Morley . . 73 The Fief of Raymond Fitz Ivo ,. 83 Pedigree of Clare .. 85 The Fief of Ralf de Toeni .. 86 Pedigree . . . 89 The Fief of Hugh de Montfort . 94 Pedigrees of Rokele .. 99 The Fief of Ralf de Bainard . . . 103 Pedigree of Fitz Walter . 105 The Fief of Peter de Valoins . 107 Pedigree . 108 Castleacre Prioey . 110 Walsingham Priory . 135 The Fitz Alan Fief . . 139 Le Strange of Hunstanton . . 13Q Pedigree 142 Le Strange of Litcham 146 Pedigree 147 Longham . . 152 Wesenham 153 Felton family 155 Pedigree 157 J Dunham — Harsick family . . 158 Pedigree 160 Dunham — Wingfield family . . 161 The Eael of Richmond's Fief . , 164 Family of Fitz Roger 165 Pedigree 166 Pedigree of Norwich 167 3 Mileham — Burghwood 168 Rougham 171 Pedigree of Tattesall 171 Pedigree of Clifton . . 172 Horningtoft 173 Pedigree of Castell 181 The Eael Waeeen's Fief . . 189 Gressenhall Honor 189 Pedigrees of Fitz Roger, Stutevile, and Foliot . . . . . . 195 Pedigrees of Hastings . . ... 198- Hoo 221 Titleshall 223 Pedigree of Fincham , . 226 Fransham and Scarning . . 228 Pedigree of Plaiz . . 229 Fransham and FrancheviUe family . . 233 Pedigree of Sharington 237 Rougham and Fransham 238 Pedigree of Gatesden and Camoys 241 Scarning 244 Bigod's Fief 248 Whissonsett 248 PAET I., SECTION I Cenants xn Cjjicf, LAUNDITCH HUNDEED. HE Hundred and the Deanery were originally co-extensive, containing ten parishes ; each parish containing ten families or heads of families, called Decennaries. "Est autem Hundredus portio comitatus qua olim degebunt centum pacis- Regni fidejussores : uti Decennia, qua decem, et complexus est igitur Hundredus decem Decurias : ut centenarius numerus, decies decinarium. Fidejussores isti, nomen similiter a numero sumentes, Hundredarii juxta vernaculum Hundredarii ; juxta Latinum Centuriones et Centenarii nuncupantur : et tanquam centenarii illi apud Taciturn et Ovidium judices, de litibus in Centuriatu seu Hundredo suo cognoscebant et judicabant." " Non quidem omnibus (nam hoc prohibent leges 44 Inse MS. adjectse) ut de mediis solummodo. Leves enim a decurionibus terminabantur in Decuriis : difficiles ad comitatum sunt delatse." — Vide Sir Henry Spelman, De Hundredo et Hundredario apud Anglice Saxones et Antlquos, Glossary, p. 302. "Et de multicipli Decano Decania Decanatu Decennia Decuria." — Ibid., 164. " Hidani ex 100 acris constitisse : Hundredum vero in hidarum aliquot centenariis." Such are the derivations of the area given by Spelman. Which were the ten decennaries or parishes comprising this Hundred can only be conjectured. There are upwards of twenty named in Domesday ; in the time of Edward III. thirty- three ; and the Hundred now contains thirty- six parishes. The Hundred Court was held at Mileham ; according to law, monthly, vide Spelman ubi supra. How the Deanery derived its ecclesiastical title from Brisley, a place not named in Domesday, I have no conjecture. The name of the Hundred, I agree with the writer of Blomefield's History, to be derived from the vallum or ditch called the Lawen-dic, which runs from Wendling, dividing it from Longham, in the direction of the mound and earth works at Mileham ; but not, as he calls it, a Long-ditch, although it had a fosse, but rather B ^ HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OR LAUNDITCH. from Laund-dyke, the grassy or wooded bank, dyke, or barrier.1 At the time of the Conquest the Lordship of the Hundred and chief jurisdiction belonged to Archbishop Stigand, and was granted, with the Manor or Honour of Mileham, to Alan Fitz Flaald, as will be mentioned when treating of that fief, as well as the subinfeudation to Le Strange of Lutcham. In the record of the inquisition made in the third year of King Edward I., known as the Hundred Roll, the Hundred is named Laundiz. It was made by Sir Robert de Hulm, Sir Robert de Caston, and Sir Robert de Saham, knights, by the oaths of twelve free men, and by five men of each ville or town, with others able to give evidence. The names of the jurors were William de Sapy, Roger Thony, William Godefry of Fransham, Alexander le Estraunge, William de Thyteleshale, John Edriz, William Burel of Dunham, William son of Geoffrey of the same place, Eadmond Threkel of Wesenham, Adam March of that place, James de Munesle, William de Ry, Richard Dusing of Swanton ; and, amongst divers other things, we learn that John Fitz Alan (the lord of the Hundred) was then in the king's own custody, which John held it as appertaining to the Manor of Melam (Mileham) from the gift of the ancestor of John son of Alan, from the time of the Conquest ; and John le Straunge rendered yearly for the same for blanch farm, ad albam firmam, £1. As. Sd., and the Hundred was worth or taxed at forty shillings a year. This roll also gives an account of all the franchises, customs, and services attached to the several manors within the Hundred, and we are informed that very many lords of manors had privileges in their own courts which otherwise belonged to the Hundred Court ; as, where the lord of a manor had view of frank pledge, his tenants were entitled to give their attendance, suit, or service at the Manor Court instead of the Hundred, from which latter they were freed, as did the Hundred service excuse from that of the County, and had other liberties set down in the roll ; originally acquired by royal charter, but in some cases found to have been usurped. In a MS., Nomina Hundredorum et Villarum, temp. Edward III.,2 the Hundred of Laundych consisted of the following parishes : Wendlyng, Dunham magna, Dunham parva, West lexham, Est lexham, Kempston, Lutcham, Fransham magna, Fransham parva, Beston, Betteryng magna, Swanton Morley, Worthyng, Hoo, Stanfeld, Est bylney, Bryslee, Oxwyk, Gatelej^e, Hornyngtoft, Wissyngsett, Pattislee, Goddwyk, Tetyleshale, Wellyngham, Wesenham, Rougham, Northelmham, Beteley, in all thirty-three ; Colkyrk being accounted for in Galehowe Hundred. The area covered by these parishes forms a very irregular figure, but the Hundred is bounded towards the north by the Hundreds of Freebridge and of Gallow and Brothercross ; by the latter also partly towards the east and by Eynsford ; towards the south by Thetford and South Greenhoe ; and westerly by Weyland and Freebridge. The highest ground lies about Dunham and Fransham and at Hoe. Its eastern side is drained by the river Wensum and its affluents, one of which, the Scar, taking 1 Lawnde, of a wode; saltus, "a wild, unfilled, shruhhic or bushy plain." — Cotgrave. Vide Promptorum Parvulorum, and authorities there cited. 2 Vide also Copia de nominibus villarum et dominorum earundem in Comit. Norff. " Laundich : in manu dementis le Estrange, Armigeri." — MS. 9 Edward II. Record Office. THE HUNDRED. 3 its rise at Scarning, acquires at Gressenhall the name of the White-mill River, and joins the Wensum at Worthing, having first received a small stream which runs through Bilney and Beetley. Another stream, which rises in Mileham Fen, runs westward, through Litcham, Lexham, and Castle Acre, and forms the Nar. In objects of antiquarian interest this Hundred is somewhat barren. Its prehistorical remains consist only of the vallum or dyke which gives name to the Hundred, and of the mound at Mileham, with earthworks round it, or proceeding from it, in the form of a circle or rather horseshoe, and a similar mound and banks at Horningtoft; while Roman quadrangular works or camps are to be seen at Elmham and Mileham. Sepulchral tumuli or barrows, or their sites, are at Mileham, Weasenham, Elmham, Worthing, and Hoe. There is no castle or stone erection, except the remains of the episcopal manor-house at Elmham, within the Roman earthworks ; and of the Fitz Alan's castle of Mileham there is nothing extant but the base of the keep. The only monastic foundation was that of Wendling, of which not a trace remains ; but there are some moated mansions or halls of the Tudor period. It has not been the scene of any historical events, but has given residence to some ancient families, and been the cradle of some noted men. The evidences which I have gathered relating to the history of these families form materials for an enlarged topography of the Hundred, supplementary to the accounts given by Blomefield and his continuators, and bringing it down to the present time. It is with this, view that I offer them to the public. The appointment to the Deanery was, as now, in the Bishop, but an unbeneficed office ; still it must originally have been of some value, as it was taxed at 20s., and paid 17s. half-yearly to the Archdeacon of Norwich for Synodals. The earliest entry concerning it, in the Institution Books of the Bishop of Norwich, is in 1300, when on the 12th of July (20th June), at Hoxne, Simon de Fresingham, chaplain, was collated to the then vacant office. The Lordship of the Hundred descended from the Fitz-alans to the Howards. The Duke of Norfolk, until recently, appointed a steward, an office which has now fallen into desuetude, but the Hundred is considered as part of the Duke's Liberty, and is under the jurisdiction of his Coroner. The last Steward of the two Hundreds of Launditch and South Greenhoe, which were always associated, was James Smyth, Esq., of East Dereham, whose seal I possess. b 2 HISTORY OE THE HUNDRED OE LAUNDITCH. THE DEANERY. DECANATTJS BRISLY. Domesd. Taxatur ad xxs. et mem. quod Dniis Archidiaconus Norwici pcipiet de Decano de Brysley in Synodo S. Michis pro synodalibus xvijs. Item in synodo Paschse pro synodalibus xvijs. Denarijs S. Petri pro eodem Termino xviij. iiijd. Lib. I. 3. v. 58. 79. Lib. II. 47. Lib. III. 6. Lib. IV. 93. 12 Kal. Jul., 1300. 6 Kal. Maij, 1304. 15 Kal. Nov., 1314. v. Kal. Maij, 1319. 10 Kal. Apr., 1331. 16 Aug., 1341. 10 Jul., 1349. Sim. de Fresingham ad coll. Epi. Jo. de Glynton ad coll. Epi. Ric. de Hedirsete ad coll. Epi. Joes de Norwico ad coll. Epi. Johes de la Coppe ad coll. Vic. Gus. Joes de Thorney ad coll. Epi. Rob. de Stanmere ad coll. Epi. Duo decimo Kalen. Julij, Anno Dfii m° ccc° apud Hoxne Dns contulit Decanatu de Brisele vacantem % ad suam collonem spectante Simoni de Fresinghfh capello. Sexto Kaln. Maij, a.d. 1304, apd Thorneg. Dns contulit Decanatum de Brissele vacantem et ad suam collonem pleno iure spectantem Johni de Glynton ciico *t ipfh pfecit in gpetuum decanum eiusdem Decanatus. XV. Kaln. Nouemfer, a.d. 1314, apd Norwycu des Dns Epiis contulit Decanatum de Bryselee vacantem ad collaconem suam pleno iure spectantem dno Ricardo de Hedersete psfetro intuitu caritatis cum omib^ juribi; T; ptinentiis suis suo ppetuo possidendum. Quarto Kaln. Maij, anno Dni milo cccmo decimo nono, London. Des Pater Norwicen. contulit Dilto clico suo Johi de Norwyco subdiacono Decanatum de Brisele vacante et collaconem suam spectantem cum ofnib-j iurib? 1 ptinenciis suis intuitu caritatis. Jirstfrutts anfc Eentfjs PAYABLE IN RESPECT OF LIVINGS IN BRISLEY DEANERY. tfxam tfje Hmjj'ss ISooka. NORWICEN' DIOCES.— D. BRISLEY. Livings remaining in charge. Yearly Tenths. £. s. d. 7 15 10 Framesham magna, R. £. s. d. 0 15 0 15 13 4 Gressenhall, R. 1 11 4 11 1 10§ Mileham, R 1 2 2i 8 18 9 Pastley Sancti Johannis, R. 0 17 10i 15 10 2§ Swanton Morley cum Worthing, R. 1 n 01 9 0 2\ Skerning, R 0 18 Oi THE DEANERY. 5 Clear Yearly Value. Livings discharged. Yearly Tenths. £. s. d. 38 0 0 46 0 0 Beteley, R. . . Beeston, R. . . £. s. d. 0 18 9| 16 0 43 0 0 10 0 0 49 0 0 Brisley, R. . . Betring parva, R. . . Colcirk, R.1 0 16 9J 0 5 4i 0 0 0 48 0 0 48 0 0 30 0 0 Dunham magna, R. . . Dunham parva, R. . . East Lexham, R. . . 1 4 2\ 0 19 li 0 16 li 30 0 0 West Lexham, R. . . 0 11 2 30 0 0 30 0 0 East Bilney, R Framsham parva, R. 0 11 5 0 12 10 30 0 0 18 0 0 Gateley, V. . . Goodwick, R. 0 6 3i 0 3 1 40 0 0 15 0 0 45 0 0 Horningtoft, R. Kempston, V. Lycham alias Lutcham, R. 0 13 9J 0 9 10 0 18 3 40 0 0 Northelmham, V. . . 1 7 6 44 0 0 Oxwick, R. . . 0 12 11 20 0 0 26 0 0 Rougham, V. Skerning, V. 0 2 lOJ 0 19 11 40 0 0 Stanfield, R. . . 0 13 5 48 0 0 TitleshaU, R. 0 19 3i 28 0 0 16 0 0 WiRingham, R. Weasenham, V. 0 10 101 1 11 0 19 0 0 Weasenham Sancti Petri, V. 0 0 0 49 0 0 Wysingset, R. 10 4 The following report of an inquisition made in the eleventh year of King Edward II., 1387-8, relates to a considerable portion of this Hundred : — " Gressenhale, Magna Fransham, Wendling, Skerning, Swanton, East Dereham, et Hoo, omnia blada in villis predictis fuerunt concussa et ad terram prostrata per inundacoem aque." — Inq. ad q. d. 11 Ed. II. I will now give the evidences of the history of the great Fiefs of the Crown, so far as they lay in this Hundred ; and first of the chief manor of Mileham. 1 In Toftrees Deanery, as a Living remaining in charge — £10. Os. Od. Colkirke Beatee Mariae, R. £1. 0*. Od. Capella Hoo is valued in Hingham Deanery with East Dereham Vicarage. HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OE LAUNDITCH. Eafiular ^nalgsts of tfje Homtsfoag Surbeg. Lands late of Bishop Stigand, under the care oe W. de Noiers eor the King, in 1086. I. n. m. rv. V. VI. vn. vm. Name of Land under Occupiers. Classes of Teams of Pasture Other features Place. cultivation. Labourers. Cattle. Land. 1 T.R.E. Vill 20 Bord Ser 44 6 . Don 2 Horn Wood for 24 a Another team Jleleham 10 carucates. In hand. l Conq. 11 11 1 4 18 > 10 acres. pannage of might be set up or LVI. ( 1086. ii 11 » „a „' 1000 swine, a mill, and a salt pit. another carucate of land brought into cultivation on the lord's land. J And five on the tenant's. / T.R.E. 12 10 0 1 4 \ 4 acres. Wood T. c Half a team or 1 car. & 1 acre. 3 socmen. < Conq. n 11 0 1 2 2 R.E. for 100 carucate could be ( 1086. 4 V 0 11 „o swine; 1086 set up on the lord's for 50. ¦ land, and the two on the tenants' re stored. 30 acres. 4 socmen. Semper. 0 1 0 •• 1 4 acres. 1 carucate. 1 socman. 1 T.R.E. ( 1086. 0 10 0 2 0 ( 5 acres. Wood for lvtl 8 acres. 1 socman. J) J> )1 3 1 10 swine. Licham 40 acres. 7 socmen. Semper. 0 1 0 2 0 4 acres. ( T.R.E. 9 11 5 2 9 ) 4 carucates. In hand. < Conq. 11 11 11 11 >> > 4 acres. d The other four ( 1086. 11 11 11 11 bd J could be restored. 4§ acres. 2 socmen. ( T.R.E. 18 8 2 n a U j "Wood for Dunham 4 carucates. In hand. J Conq. 10 t» 11 1 > 1 acre. 20 swine. ( 1086. 0 ii i 2 ) To this be- ruitebelong- ed the moiety of a market and half an acre of land in Thetford. 34 acres. 8 socmen. /T.RE.1 1086. 0 l 0 11 le 1/ \ 1 acre. e On the lordship a team or carucate 40 acres. and half could al 2 socmen. ¦.. .. 0 2 0 1 ways be restored. / And one on the Britringa 1 acre. .... 4 0 •• •• . .. 7 acres of wood. tenant's land. Kertlinga 17 acres. 2 socmen. / T.R.E. 1 1086. i 0 •• [ 1 acre. The live stock in Mileham were 1 working horse, 13 neat stock, 24 hogs, 30 sheep, and 50 goats. „ m Lucham 1 working horse, 1 ox, 16 hogs, 104 sheep, and 20 goats. „ in Dunham 2 oxen, 8 hogs, and 6 sheep. ». i1* 1hasvll°w6ve^b1fen1ar8-"e^ tha* the ™**<* °f carucates which I have entered in column II. comprehended all the land which might be ploughed and in column V. the land actually under cultivation at the respective periods Under column IV. are entered the inhabitants and cultivators of the soil in three classes,-tbe villL or v'illans who dwelt in the town or village ; the bo, -darn or provisioners of the lord's table or board, or, according to some who dwelt m cottages round the lords mansxon; thirdly, the servi, serfs or slaves,-at three several periods, the t^e ifnd^LlZ ' " ' ^ ^ Ume °f th° SUIV6y' " WSU » the lMdshiP - « ^ tenanTs' \i" c 20tf ya-rds yfc//?, LilYfaa&i?7& £s?. " <7ent/e/r?.-(/s?> AS TO THE CROWN LANDS IN THE HANDS OF GODRIC FOR THE KING, AFTERWARDS LN THE RICHMOND FIEF. I. Domesday Name of Pice. n. Land under cultivation. m. Occupying Tenants. IV. Classes of Labourers. V. Teams of Cattle. VT. Pasture Land. VII. Other Features. vm. 3 carucates. Aluric. Go drie. 1 T.R.E. ( Conq. 1086. Vill. Bord Serv. In Dom In Tens. I 4 acres of j meadow. Wood for 300 swine. Half a fishery. Horninghe- toft. XXIV. 7 5 ¦ »j 3 4 2 nn 2 \\a 11 1 \a 11 a The half might in each case be re stored. 1 carucate. 9 socmen. ( T.R.E. ) Conq. ( 1086. ) 0 2 •f ¦• 2 1 * > } acre. Wood for 40 swine. b The team or carucate might be restored. Chiptena. 3 carucates. \ carucate. f Aluric& \ \ Alf er. / Ralf. Godric.9 socmen. T.R.E. Conq. 1086. Semper. 2 1111 20 c 0 1 \ 4 acres. 1 acre. c Here four caru cates or carucae might be re-estab- Ushed. Ruhham. XXV. Wesenham \\ carucate. \\ carucate. 1 carucate. ( Aluin. \ Ralf. ( Godric. 14 socmen. 4 freemen. T.R.E. Conq. 1086. ( T.R.E. < Conq. ( 1086. Semper. 73 11 2 0 4 ii n 2 0 3 0 d 0 1 0 d 02ile 11 2 1 acre. Semper 3 sci. of un derwood. d Here also four might be brought into cultivation or re-estabUshedinthe demesne, and one for the tenants. e The half might be restored. Mulcham & Bitringa. 1 carucate & 12 acres. 24 acres. 15 acres. ( Alwin'. ( A widow. 1 socman. 3 socmen. T.R.E. Conq. 1086. Semper.T.R.E. 20 0 i21 Live Stock. — In Horningtoft, 1 ox, 20 hogs, 140 sheep, and 20 goats. In Ruhham, 12 hogs and 30 sheep. Note particularly that the word car', inserted in this (V.) and in the corresponding columns in these analyses is the contraction used in the Survey itself, and may be extended to either caruca or carucata. The question whether that is intended to refer to the quantity of land which a team of cattle could plough in a year, or to such a team of cattle, depends upon which of these terms is meant by the contraction. D 2 20 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. dj* €m\ ai §it{jM0tttr's i\iti HE greater portion of the Norfolk manors which King William had taken into his own hands was managed for him by his steward, Godric, who had under his charge sixty-seven towns, comprising in this Hundred Horningtoft with Kipton, and lands in Rougham, Wesenham, Mileham, and Bittering. Horningtoft, including Kipton, had been the heritage of one Aluric, a freeman of the Archbishop Stigand, who also held lands under Stigand in Stanhoe, Docking, Fundenhall, Loddon, Mundham, and other places. Under that last named, it is said in Domesday that he was outlawed, and that the king's bailiff had seized the lands into the king's hands, who had granted them to Roger Bigot. The same name occurs as a free tenant of Denver and Banham, and, again, as a free man holding EUingham. There was also Aluric, a thegn of Harold, holding Ashill, perhaps another person. Probably his fate was involved in that of the Saxon archbishop, which has been spoken of in the last chapter. The Earl Ralph, whom we shall have occasion to mention in another place, had, before his rebellion, seized upon Horningtoft and Kipton, which, with his other estates, became forfeited to the Crown. They were valued together, and had increased from £A. 10s., T.R.E., to £6, and were at the Survey valued at £7. A Saxon named Alfere was tenant of Kipton jointly with Aluric, perhaps the same person named in the Survey Alfah, holding Ling and Siderston, and as Alfahc, tenant of JSTereford, T.R.E. A connection between Alfere and Aluric appears in another place. Alfere is named as tenant of Stow, in Weyland Hundred, of which Ellingham, then in the tenure of Aluric, was a member. A carucate and a half of land in Rougham (Ruhham) which had been held by a free man, Alain, (also named as holding in Gunthorp, Hocham, Hingham, Shipdham, &c.) and which was in the soe of Stigand, and afterwards possessed by Earl Ralph, had been committed to the custody of Godric, and increased in value from 40s. to 50s. There was also land in Wesenham, which had been held by four free men, not named, who were in the soe of Stigand, and then of William de Noiers, and was valued in Sporle (esparlea) . This I consider was included in the fief of Alan son of Flaald. Land in Mileham and Bittering, (Mulcham and Britinga), which Alain had held, was then possessed by a certain widow, but yielded nothing. THE EARL OF RICHMOND'S FIEF. 21 Now, regarding the Earl Ralph, there is no doubt that the person here referred to was Ralph Guader or Waer, otherwise designated in EngUsh as Raoul de Gael, who accompanied the Conqueror in his invasion, as a leader of the Bretons, and was rewarded with the Earldom of the East Angles. This earl, with or without the consent of the king, married Emma, a daughter of WiUiam Fitz Osborne, Earl of Hereford, and conspiring with Roger Earl of Hereford, his brother-in law, against the king, in 1075, was betrayed, but escaped with his life, when aU his possessions were forfeited. Of those possessions, some, if not all, were afterwards comprised in the Honor of Richmond. The authorities as to his country and parentage are however conflicting. Mr. Planche (Rouge Croix) has endeavoured to reconcile them in a paper, read at the Norfolk Congress of the Archaeological Association in 1858, and printed in their Journal (p. 30), and to this carefully and weU- considered memoir I crave leave to refer. It appears pretty weU estabUshed by the evidence of entries in Domesday Book, and other cotemporay documents, that Ralf de Guader was born in Norfolk, and that he as weU as another Earl Ralf, his father, had been earls in England under the Confessor. Mr. Planche considers that he has identified the old Earl Ralf, who died 1057, and was buried at Peterborough, with Ralf Earl of Hereford, nephew of the Confessor. The old earl, "vetus comes Radulf" had large estates in Norfolk, and might have been Earl of Norfolk as weU as Hereford, and therefore Ralf the son might have been born in Norfolk; but it is also certain that he was of Breton descent through his father, and he possessed the castles of Guader and Montfort in Brittany, which were inherited by his posterity. It is probable that Mr. Planche is right in assuming his English blood to have been derived from his mother, contrary to the general acceptation. His plea in justification of Earl Ralf's rebellion appears also weU founded, but it is foreign to my purpose to enter into that subject. He did rebel, the king seized upon his estates, put them under the charge of Godric, and afterwards gave them to Earl Alan, and the earldom itself to Roger Bigod. Mr. Planche's theory of the genealogy of this earl is best shewn by the foUowing table. Dreux, Count of the Vexin,=T= Goda, sister of =f= Eustace of Bologne, 2 husband. &c, 1 husband, ob. 1035. King Edw. Con fessor, dead before 1056. 1. Walter de Mantes, = Biota, da. of Count of Pontoise, Herbert, Count and both poisoned of Maine. at Falaise 1065. i r 2. Aumary. 3. Fouques. 4. Raoulf,= E. of Hereford, the old Earl of Domes day, bur. at Peter borough 1057. = Githa or Gueth, an EngUshheiress. 1. Harold, Lord of Sudeley, co. Glouc. Raoul de Gael,=f= Emma, dr. i Earl of. East AngUa, deprived 1075, died in a pUgrimage to Holy Land. of William Fitz Osborn, E. of Hereford. Mr. Stapleton, in a paper which Mr. Planche has passed over unnoticed, "On the pretended Marriage of WiUiam de Warren," printed in the Archceologieal Journal for 22 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. March 1846, noticed a charter of the Conqueror, in his second year, 1067, confirming gifts made to the monastery of St. Ricquiere in France, by Earl Ralf and his son Ralf, T.R.E. The subject of these gifts being lands, &c, at Sporle, Southacre, Custhorp, Cotes, Pickenham, Narford, Swaffham, and Gaywode.1 And he goes on to remark that "Earl Ralph, by his wife, of the race of the Bretons, had inherited the towns of Gael and Montfort in Brittany, being himself probably a Fleming. He was succeeded in his title of Earl of Norfolk by his son, of the same name, whose conspiracy in 1074 is fuUy detaUed by WilHam of Malmesbury. Alan the Red, son of Eudo, Earl of Penthievre, who was the second son of Geoffrey, Earl of Bretagne, commanded the rear of the Conqueror's army at the battle of Hastings, and was at the siege of York in 1071. He was rewarded by WiUiam with the County of Richmond, and 160 Lordships in Yorkshire, 101 in Lincolnshire, 63 in Cambridgeshire, 12 in Herts, 8 in Essex, 1 in Northamptonshire, 7 in Notts, 1 in Dorset, 7 in Hants ; and in Norfolk his possessions at the time of the Survey comprised no less than fifty-six manors, lying in eighty-one parishes, including Swaffham, (one of the possessions of the late Earl Ralph) Nereford, Cotesey, Lyng, Belega, (Bylaugh) Somerton, and indeed lands in every hundred in the county. His tenure, however, in Launditch was then very small, consisting only of half a carucate of land in Mulham (MUeham), and six acres in Stanfeld, which the son of Almar held, and which had been held by two socmen of Stigand, T.R.E., until the addition made out of the forfeited estates of the Earl- Ralph, whose sister he is said to have married. The words of the Conqueror's grant of the Honor of Richmond are, "Do et concedo tibi, nepoli meo, Alano Britannia? comiti." Mr. Clutterbuck considers that his mother may have been an illegitimate sister of the king.2 " Li cuens Alain de Bretaigne Bien ferit od sa campaigne ; Oil i ferit cume baron, Mult le firent bien Breton ; Od le rei vint en ceste terre Pur lui aider de sa guerre. Sun cusin ert de sun lignage, G-entelshome ert de grant parage ; Le roi servi mult e ama ; Sil tres bien le guerdona ; Richement li dona en North, Bon chastal e bel e fort ; En plusors lius en Engleterre Li rei li dona de sa terre. "Alan Rufus, lord of the Honor and founder of the castle of Richmond, in Yorkshire." [L'Estorie des Engles solum la translation Maistre Geffrei Gaimar.— Mon. Hist. Brit. 828.] 1 St. Ricquier had lost aU these possessions at the date of the Survey, except one carucate of land in Palgrave (part of Sporle.) - History of Hertfordshire. THE EARL OF RICHMOND'S FIEF. 23 The Rev. George Munford, in his Analysis of the Domesday Book of Norfolk, (p. 9) has been careful to distinguish this Earl Alan from Alan Fergaunt, with whom Blomefield had confounded him.3 This distinction 4 will be clearly seen from the pedigree foUowing, in which the descent from Earl Alan the Red is carried down to the extinction of his race. There were several interruptions in the tenure of the earldom and of the honor, and there are some obscurities respecting it. It was first seized by King Henry II. on the death of Conan, fifth earl, without male issue It was, perhaps, while in this king's hands that Horningtoft was granted to the Albinis to be held in capite, and so came to the Tattershales. Robert de Tattershale, who married one of the sisters and coheirs of Hugh, de Albini, the last earl of that family, being the tenant in chief in 1301 — 5, when we find, in the Usts of fees held of the crown before recited, that Nicholas de CasteU held Horningtoft at half a knight's fee of Robert de Tateshale, and he of the king. At the same time half a knight's fee in Myleham was held by Giles de Hulmo of Robert Fitz Roger, who held of the king. In the Museum copy of this feodary (MS. A.) in Myleham one knight's fee is returned as held of Robert Fitz Roger under the Earl of CornwaU 5 as tenant in chief ; and Richard de Burwode as holding one knight's fee of the Manor of Lyng by the service of ten shiUings per annum, which said Manor of Lyng was held of the Earl of Rychmond. Of this hereafter. Geoffry Plantagenet, fourth son of King Henry II., and first husband of Constance, who was the daughter and heir of Conan, Duke of Brittany and fifth Earl of Richmond, has been styled Earl of Brittany and Richmond in right of his wife ; and so has Prince Arthur his son, the story of whose miserable death aU are familiar with. I am sorry to say that Constance is quite undeserving of the sympathy with which her name has been invested by our immortal bard in King John. She was divorced from her second husband, Ralf de BlundviHe, Earl of Chester, for incontinency, and married thirdly Guy Viscount de Thouars, by whom she had two daughters, of whom AUce the elder married Peter de Dreux, who in 1219 had Hvery of aU the lands of the Honor of Richmond, and in a patent dated 14 Henry III., 1230, is styled Duke of Brittany and Earl of Richmond. Henry had engaged to marry Yolenta daughter of Peter, and promised, if the duke should lose his lands in France, to give him honor em de Richmandia in England, as he did ; but afterwards faiUng in his aUegiance to Henry and yielding to France, Peter forfeited the earldom. He died in or before 27 Henry III., when John his son petitioned for restoration of the earldom ; but in the meantime the king had given, it to the queen's uncle, Peter de Sabaudia or Savoy (by patent 6th May, 25 Henry III.) " to hold to him and his heirs, or to any one of his brothers or cousins to whom he should choose to assign it." Peter de Savoy accordingly willed the whole County or Earldom (comitatem) of Richmond to Alienora the queen, and died in s Blomefield n. (Cossey) 406. 4 But even this is not entirely free from doubt, for the then Earl of Brittany was Alan Fergaunt, who was son-in-law to the Conqueror, to which relationship the term nepos used in the grant before referred to might possibly he intended to apply. 5 Edward Plantagenet, who was Earl of Cornwall, died 1300 : he may have had a temporary grant of Richmond. 24 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. 52 Henry III., 1268. However, John, eldest son of Duke John, having married Beatrice the king's daughter, Henry restored to John the father the Earldom,6 as weU as the Castle and Honor of Richmond ; 7 and the queen accepted an annuity of one thousand marks a year in Heu of the revenues of the earldom or county. Duke John immediately conveyed it to John his son, whose countess, the Princess Beatrice, died in 1275, anno 3 Edward I. On referring to the Hundred RoUs of that year, we find a complaint " that the Stewards of the Honor of Richmond had usurped the Sheriff's turn, and held two turns in the year of the tenants of the fee of Richmond, in the hundred of Laundiz, where no turn used to be held, before King Henry, father of the present king, granted the said Honor to the Lord Peter de Saveya, with its f uU Uberties ; and that, notwithstanding the said tenants attended others in the year, viz., those held by the Sheriff of Norfolk in respect of other tenements, and so they had to attend two turns more than they were accustomed to do." 8 And in the same roU is another complaint of an extortion, made by the person who had formerly been the baUiff of the Lord Peter de Savoy, from Sir Robert de Hulm in MUeham. From which it seems the great man's officials had been somewhat arbitrary in their proceedings. There is no inquisition made upon his death extant ; but in the 8th Edward I. an extract was made of the several knights' fees in the County of Norfolk, belonging to the Honor of Richmond, and the times when ward was due at Richmond Castle 9 in respect of the same. Amongst others, the Manors of Lyng, Fincham, Nereford, Mileham, and Swaffham, were said to be held by the service of two knights' fees and a half, by the heirs of Roger de Cressy, in respect of which ward ought to be performed in June ; and Horningtoft with Kypton were held by Robert de TatteshaUe at one knight's fee, and also owed ward in June. John de Dreux the son had been summoned to attend the king as Earl of Richmond, on 12th December, 5 Edward I., 1276. The earldom had been more than once forfeited by and regranted to John de Dreux II. before his death1 in 1306, 34 Edward I., when he was accidentaUy kiUed at Lyons. His elder son, Arthur,2 succeeded him as Duke of Brittany, but the king granted the Earldom of Richmond to his nephew, John de Britannia, the younger son.3 To this John III. King Edward II. gave aU the possessions of John de Baliol, including those held in dower by Agnes de Yalentia, wife of Hugh de Baliol. In the fourth year of this reign, John III. had license to convey the earldom, and aU his lands in England, to his brother Arthur, Duke of Brittany, and his heirs, and the latter to reconvey the same to him, John, and the heirs B 6th July, 1268. 7 26th July, 1268. Pat. 52 Henry III., m. 9, 27. Pat. 53 Henry III. m. 24. 8 Hundred RoU. 9 Esc. 10 Edward I., m. 28.— Blomefield. 1 Pat. 11 Edward I. m. 22; 27 Edward I. ; 32 Edward I. m. 17. 2 "Johannes de Britannia Comes Richemund, habet filium, Arthurum nomine, aatatis viginti unius anni et amplius." — Inq. p. m. 13 Edward I. n. 23 ; Cal. Gen. p. 358. 3 15th October, 34 Edward I., 1306. THE EARL OF RICHMOND'S FIEF. 25 of his body, with remainder to Arthur. During the commotions which ensued aU the possessions of the earl were seized into the hands of the crown, but restored on the deposition of Edward II.4 In 7 Edward III. he granted the castles, manors, and lands belonging to the earldom to his niece, Mary de St. Paul, Countess of Pembroke, for life ; and died in the foUowing year, 1334,5 unmarried. He was succeeded by his nephew and heir, John Duke of Brittany, eldest son and heir of Arthur, late Duke, who was found " cousin and heir of John de Britannia, late Earl of Richmond," and of full age. John IY. died 15 Edward III!, 1341, having been thrice married, but without issue by either wife. Upon his death the right of succession to the Duchy of Brittany was contested by Charles de Blois, who had married the niece of the whole blood, against John, Earl of Montfort, his brother of the half-blood, son by a second wife of Duke Arthur. The King of France supported the former, and seized the Earldom of Montfort ; whereupon Edward III., who espoused the cause of John, granted to him the Earldom of Richmond until he should recover or be restored to Montfort,6 and in the foUowing year, without any limitation.7 But he was taken prisoner by his rival, and died in prison that same year, 16 Edward III., having by will appointed the king guardian to John, his son and heir, an infant. In the meantime, King Edward invested his son, John of Gaunt, Johannes de Gandavo, then about three years old, in the Earldom of Richmond, with the whole county, and aU the manors, lands, and tenements,8 which he held for thirty years. John de Dreux YL, the king's ward, having attained his majority, and being restored to the Earldom of Montfort, released his right. The Earl of Montfort married the Princess Mary of England about 1361, who died soon after ; and in 1372 again received the Earldom of Richmond ; when John, by the title of King of Castile and Duke of Lancaster, surrendered to the king, his father, the county and honor of Richmond, with the appurtenances ; and the king then granted them to John, Duke of Brittany, Earl of Montfort, and Joan his wife, with remainder to him in taU general, to be held of the crown by lawful homage.9 King Richard II. (anno 6) granted to the said duke and to Joan his wife, the king's half sister, the Castle and Manor of Rysing in Norfolk. She seems to have been the daughter of the Earl of Kent by the king's mother. At the Parliament of the 14th year of King Richard, it was declared that in the 7th year of that king the Earldom and Seignory of Richmond, with the appurtenances, were adjudged by king and lords to be forfeited to the Crown, "by reason of the adherence of John, Duke of Brittaine, then Earl of Richmond, to the French, against his alyance (aUegiance), made as weU to the now king as to Edward III., for which alyance he enjoyed the said earldom ; which judgment was not inrolled in the roll of ParHament, for certain causes then to king and lords well known." And in the very next year the king granted to John, Duke of Brittany, Earl of Montfort, in tail general, the County, Castle, Town, and i Pat. 20 Edward II., m. 3. K Esc. 8 Edward HI., n. 70. ' Pat. 15 Edward III , p. 2, m. 8. 7 Pat. 16 Edward III., p. 1, m. 35. 8 20th Sept., 1342. Pat. 16 Edward III, p. 3, m. 10. 9 Pat. 46 Edward III., m. 32. E 26 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Honor of Richmond, and aU other castles, manors, lands, and tenements to same earldom belonging.1 The same king, in his 21st year, pardoned John de Montfort, Duke of Brittany, £15,125. 7s. 3d., due to him for divers services ; at the same time a special deHvery was made to Joan, who had been the wife of Ralph Bassett, of Drayton, Knt., sister of the king's brother ; John, Duke of Brittany and Earl of Richmond ; Anthony, Richard, and Nicholas Alderwick, in fee, of the whole County, Castle, and Honor of Richmond, and of aU other castles, manors, lands, and tenements thereto belonging.2 In the first year of Henry IY., 1399, a grant was made to Ralf de NeviU, Earl of Westmerland, caUed the king's brother,3 for Hfe, of the Castle, County, Honor, and Lordship of Richmond, together with aU castles, honors, lands, knights' fees, &c, to the said castle, county, honor, and lordship appertaining, as freely and fuUy as John, Duke of Brittany, or any of his ancestors, had enjoyed. On the 28th October in that year, the Commons declared to the king how the Duke of Brittany had sent word that he was ready to do the king all that he ought to do, and prayed that the Earldom of Richmond, being his inheri tance, might not be granted away ; with which the Commons prayed compHance ; and further, that the letters patents thereof made to the Earl of Westmerland since the last ParHament, might be repealed; whereunto the king made answer, that the letters patents had been granted long before. The name of the Earl of Westmerland does not appear as the tenant in capite of the lands belongmg to the Honor of Richmond in the book of fiefs compiled from an inquisition made 3 Henry IY., where we find Nicholas de Castel holding half a knight's fee in Horningtoft and Wesenham of John Clyfton, who held (it is said) of the king ; Roger Bechampe, Knt., holding half a fee in MUham of the heirs of John de Norwich, who held of the king ; and Ralph Bedingham and John Yelverton the third part of a fee in Rougham of the Manor of Horsford, which was held of the Honor of Richmonde, which honor was in custody of the king by reason of the minority of the Duke of Brittany. On the back of the Patent RoU, 2 Henry Y., is the exemplification of a treaty between the king and John, Duke of .Brittany, the king's brother. By patent, dated 6th May, 1414, 2 Henry Y, and enrolled in ParHament, that king confirmed to John (Plantagenet) Duke of Bedford, and the heirs male of his body, the Castle, Earldom, Honor, and Lordship of Richmond, late of John, Duke of Brittany, and which Ralph, Earl of Westmerland held during his Hfe. In 1425 (4 Henry YL) as reported by Blomefield,4 Ralph Nevile, Earl of Westmerland, died siezed of the Honor of Richmond, given to him for life by Henry IY. ; and twenty knights' fees and a quarter, and of rents of assize issuing out of Mileham, Horningtoft, 1 Pat. 15 Ric. II. '• Pat. 21 Ric. II, p. 3, m. 12. 3 He had married for a second wife, Joan, daughter of John of Gaunt by Katherine Swinford, and so was Henry's brother-in-law. 4 Vol. vi. 200. THE EARL OF RICHMOND'S FIEF. 27 Kypton, Rougham, Wissingsett, and Titeshale, aU held by knight's service ; the reversion having been granted by Henry IY. in .mmmmf Isitho/by CJftWprom a Survey- zi. THE BISHOP'S FIEF 41 Eaimlar ^nalgsis of tfje ©omesrjag Sur&eg. AS TO THE BISHOP'S FIEF. Ekaenham. BeteUea. In whose hands. Bishop Ail- mar. 24 socmen. The Bishop. Land under cultivation. 8 carucates. 1 carucate. 1 carucate. 26 acres. 6 acres. Occupiers. The Bishop himself. In hand. 1 socman. The church ( T.R.E. | Conq. ( 1086. Classes of Labourers. Vill. 46 Bord 13 Serv. Ofwh. in Dom. Teams of Cattle. Ter'a et Hom } 4 car 4 car. lcar.a 1 car. 1 car. 16 Pasture Land. 24 acres of meadow. 4 acres. 10 acres. IJ acre. Other Features. Pannage for 1000 swine, now 500. 4 mUls. Pannage for 30 swine. A mill a Two might be restored. Pannage for 5 swine. Live Stock. — 3 working horses, 32 hogs, 300 sheep, 35 goats — taxed at 5s. id. The value of the whole had been £10, the subsequent and present value was £32. The manor was one leuca in length and half a leuca in width ; the hamlet was eight furlongs long by four in width. In BrodercrosHundred, Colechirca. The Bishop 2 carucates. f T.R.E. | 1086. (2c 4 acres of meadow. Pannage for 60 swine. Live Stock. — 7 neat stock, 27 swine, formerly 10 sheep, now 100, 60 goats. 14 socmen. 66 acres. 40 acres. The church. ( 1086. . 3 car. 2 J car. This was five furlongs in length and four in width. The value had been £6, but was then £9. 42 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. %\t %w\n$% JfM. E now come to the lands described in Domesday as belonging to the Episcopate of Thetford, " Terra Episcopi Tedfordensis ad episcopatum pertinentes," T.R.E. The holder of the see at the time of the Survey was Bishop WilKam, and almost aU the manors and estates so belongmg are stated to have been held, T.R.E., by Bishop Ailmar — by some caUed Agelmar — who was the brother of Archbishop Stigand, and was elected to the see in 1047. We find him to have been possessed of lands or manors in Gaywode, Thornham, Stoftham, Elmenham, Colechirch, SaxKngham, Thornage, Swanton, Hardingham, Egmere, Helmington, Stratton, and other places, aU of which were held by his successors, as belonging to the see. Almar, the Bishop, is also stated to have been the owner of several other estates, which if they ever did belong to the see had been aKenated before the Survey. Amongst Roger Bigot's territories, Kirkby, Willingham, &c, were originally held by Aimer, and afterwards by Earl Ralph, and all are described as held of the fee of Almar the Bishop. Eccles, however, which was held by Earl Ralph, T.R.E., and afterwards by Earl Ralph his son, is said to be held after that by Ailmar the bishop, of both earls in succession, afterwards by Bishop Arfast, and at the Survey by Bishop WiUiam, of his own fee. In some of Aimer's manors and possessions his title is set forth. For instance, he is said to have held Begeton (Beighton) by purchase, and the Manor of Blofield he acquired with his wife before he became bishop, and afterwards held it in his episcopate. Blomefield says he left it to the Bishopric. Hemsby he had of the gift of his brother Stigand, who does not appear to have got it honestly, and it became part of the episcopal demesne. His tenure of Plumsted was obtained in a remarkable manner, he having entered upon it after the arrival of King WilKam into the land, for a forfeiture, because a woman to whom it belonged had married again within the year after her first husband's death. All these, and many more of Ailmar's possessions, were at the time of the Survey part of Bishop William's own fee. Of the parishes described in Domesday as appertaining to the Bishopric, that which comes within my particular province is Elmham. the bishop's fief. 43 Elmenham (says that record) was held, T.R.E., by Ailmar the Bishop for a residence (pro manerio), and was a considerable lordship, consisting at the time of the Survey of eight carucates of land held by Bishop WilKam in demesne. It had twenty-four acres of pasture, wood for 1,000 swine, four mills, and was well stocked, Another carucate was occupied by twenty- four socmen, with four acres of pasture, pannage for thirty swine, and another mill. To this manor Beetley (Betellea) was a beruite, or hamlet, containing one carucate of land and ten acres of pasture, besides twenty-eight acres of arable and an acre and half of pasture, with pannage for five swine, in the hands of a socman. There was a church in this manor, endowed with sixty acres of land, valued at 5s. Ad. And the value of the whole had increased from £10, T.R.E., to £32. And here I pause to consider the question whether this Elmham was the original episcopal seat. Eor a summary of all that is known of the early history of the Bishops of the East Angles, I cannot do better than refer to a paper of the late Mr. J. M. Kemble on the subject, printed in the Norwich volume of the Proceedings of the Archceologieal Institute, 1847, pp. 24 — 56. Supplementary to that paper, which was introductory to the will of Theodred, Bishop of Elmham as weU as of London, Mr. Kemble has given the Kst of bishops from the Appendix to the Chronicle of Florence of Worcester, with the, note that this, and the other episcopal lists of the Saxon Church, are confused and in a very imperfect condition- Referring to ;the text of the Chronicle itself, as printed in Monumenta Historica Britannica, we find the series of bishops entered thus : — " 1038. In this year died Alfric, Bishop of the East Angles. In place of Alfric, Stigand, the king's chaplain, was con stituted, but afterwards expelled, and Grimketel was elected in his stead, 'pro eo est electus.' " The reading of another MS. of the Chronicle gives the last passage thus : " Grimketel, Bishop of the South Saxons, was elected for money, pro auro, and then held two dioceses, Sussex and East AngKa. But again Stigand was restored and Grrimketel expeUed, [and Stigand retained the South Saxon see and acquired that of the East Angles for his brother Agelmar ; and, little thinking what animosity it would raise, he ascended the thrones of Winchester and Canterbury. After Agelmar, Arfast was Bishop of Elmham, who, that he might not seem to have done nothing, as the Normans are most greedy of future fame, transferred the bishopric from Helmham to Thetford.] " The sentence within brackets being, as suggested in a note, an interpolation from William of Malmesbury. Mr. Kemble conjectures that Grimketel or Grimcytel might have taken the see in conunendam until 1044, when Stigand returned, and that .ZEgalmar or Ailmar was elected in 1047. Bartholomew Cotton, the monk of Norwich, who wrote at the close of the thirteenth century, after describing the division of the Diocese,1 and giving Ksts of the bishops seated at Elmham and Dommoc (Dunwich), respectively corresponding with those of Florence, 1 The annotator of Bede mentions the division of the province, and the appointment of Accea to Dommoc and Beadwin to Helmham in 673.— Hist. Led. Gentis Angl. Ub. iv. cap. v. G 2 44 HISTORY OE THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. says, " these two were bishops of the East Angles, viz., Hunfertus, who was the same as Alherdus, was of Elmham, and Thichefertus of Dunwich, in the reign of King Offa." The name of Alherd does not appear in the Monk of Worcester's list at aU ; but Mr. Kemble gives a charter of Archbishop Adelhard, who died in 803, to which Alhheard, Bishop of Elmham, was a subscribing witness. Mr. Kemble also states that the name of Alhhard or Ealhheard, who reaKy was the seventh Bishop of Elmham, occurs in several charters between 788 and 805, and that in 803 he was present as Bishop of Elmham at the synod of Litchfield. Cotton, however, identifies him with Hunferth the ninth bishop, Sibba intervening. He then gives the names of Humbrict, Weremund, and Wilred, who were in the time of Ludecan, King of Mercia, and Egbrict, King of the West Saxons, without naming the particular diocese of either ; bnt, he continues, Ludecan and his predecessor Burched having invaded the province, and the bishops being left destitute of the necessaries of life, one see was made out of the two, and fixed at Elmham. The succeeding Bishops of Elmham in Cotton's Kst foUow in the same order as in Florence's down to Agelmar, to whom succeeded Arfast, who transferred the see from Elmham to Thetford. Next comes the name of WilKam de Belfago, "vir egregius," foUowed by that of Herbert, named Losinga, and those of succeeding bishops, ending with John Salmon, 1399. The next Chronicle I have consulted is that of John of Oxnedes, who was a monk of the Abbey of St. Benet's at Holm, and must have been a cotemporary of Cotton. He chronicles, under the year 1052, that Stigand, formerly Bishop of the East Angles, after encroaching upon the See of Winchester, encroached upon the Archiepiscopate while Archbishop Robert was Kving. " 1070. The General Council was held at Winchester, when Stigand the Arch- " bishop was degraded in the octave of Easter ; and, in the same year, the degradation " of iEgelmer, Stigand's brother, Bishop of the East Angles ; instead of whom, Arfast, " an Italian,2 the king's chaplain, was appointed. He (sc. Arfast) transferred the see "from Hengham to Thetford." In the Chronica Minor of St. Benedict, the translation of the episcopal see from Hengham to Thetford is entered under the year 1071. With this exception, aU the Chronicles agree that one of the sees into which the East AngKan episcopate was divided in 670 or 673, was placed at Elmham or Helmham. iElfric, the seventeenth bishop, who died in 1038, by his will, without date, gave the Fen that Durlac sold him to find food for the priests at Elmham, "unto JElmham the prcestes tofodden." But there are two Elmhams : North Elmham in Norfolk, South Elmham in Suffolk, in both of which the bishops had manor-houses or residences. South Elmham in Suffolk, — in Domesday Almaham, Halmeham, Almeam, — belonged to the fee of Bishop Almar, T.R.E., and was at the Survey in the fee of the Bishop of Thetford. It had already seven churches, and afterwards contained nine parishes, forming a deanery of itself. There, within the limits of a Roman camp, stand the 2 Romanus, sed q. Normanus (?) 45 ruined waUs of a smaU but remarkable building of great antiquity, called the Old Minster, and but a short distance off is the moated manor-house called St. Margaret's HaU, the site of a palace, said to have been originally erected by Bishop Herbert de Losinga, crenellated by Bishop Spencer in 11 Ric. II., and an occasional residence of the Bishops of Norwich to the time of Elizabeth. Was South or Suffolk Elmham, then, the seat of the bishopric ? My friend, Mr. Harrod, in a paper communicated to the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology (vol. iv. 7), contends that it was, and I believe he is the first person who has started the idea. His hypothesis is supported by the following reasoning : That Bede speaks of the see of Elmham alone, without any addition of North or South ; and that Camden, Spelman, and Blomefield, who all quote Bede as their authority for placing the see at North Elmham, have no grounds whatever for doing so ; that one of the nine parishes within the Liberty of South Elmham is FKxton, presumably Felixton, so named after the first Apostle of the East Angles, which may be concluded to be the original site of his labours ; that the title of minster is applied to no other edifice in the eastern counties than the ruined chapel, or whatever the building may have been, within the Roman camp. But Mr. Harrod appears to lay most stress on the words made use of by Bishops Theodred and .ZElfric in their wiUs, as quoted by Blomefield, speaking not of Elmham, but Hoxne in Suffolk, which the first-named bishop aUudes to as " my bishopric" and particularly on the description of the bishop's Manor of Hoxne in Domesday, where it is stated that "in that manor teas a church, the see of the Bishop of [in?] Suffolk," T.R.E. And he infers the greater probability of the removal of the see, from South Elmham to Hoxne, and thence to Thetford, than from from North Elmham to Thetford. Now, aU these arguments are worthy of great respect. Some few others, which are adduced in his paper are faUacious, not being founded on facts ; but my friend might have added in support of his position the fact of the South Elmham parishes, which are a portion of Wangford Hundred, forming a deanery of themselves, and that the important Hundred of Hoxne was in the time of Domesday known as the Bishop's Hundred. Against these inferences, however, we have both probability and tradition. It is -improbable that upon the division of the diocese both sees should have been placed in Suffolk, leaving the whole of the larger county without a bishop ; and it is the more improbable, because aU the western hundreds of Suffolk were comprised in the Liberty of St. Edmund, which was free from episcopal jurisdiction, thus narrowing the Suffolk see to little more than half the county. The tradition of centuries has fixed the northern see at North Elmham. Thomas de Elmham., in his Chronicle, compiled about 1414, to which Mr. Harrod only aUudes in a note for the purpose of easting discredit upon his testimony, distinctly says that EKnham, the bishop's see, was seven miles from Walsingham. John de Oxnedes, also a Norfolk man, speaks of the see being transferred from Hengham — this was a slip for Helmham — but it shews that a place in Norfolk was running in his mind. Now, as to local evidence. There, at North Elmham, within the vallum of the Roman camp, stand the remains of what appears rather to have been a castle than " a small manor house," as Mr. Harrod designates it, which was creneUated by Bishop Spencer in 11 46 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Richard II., under the same Ucense as his manor house at South Elmham ; and we know from Domesday that there was a manerium, a residence of Bishop Almar, in the Confessor's time, and there, we are told, Bishop Herbert buUt a church. Theodred, JElfric, Almar, were bishops not of Norfolk or Suffolk but of aU East AngKa, having manor-houses or palaces, in which they alternately resided, in both counties, originally missionary stations, and doubtless Hoxne was their chief residence in Suffolk as Elmham was in Norfolk. With respect to the minster at South Elmham, I think that Mr. Woodward, in a paper communicated to the Suffolk Institute, in the same volume as Mr. Harrod' s, has given the best explanation the subject affords.8 On the deposition of iEgelmar or Almar, Arfast or Herfast, the Conqueror's chaplain, was, as has been before told, appointed to the see, which he removed to Thetford. He had been ChanceUor of England in 1068. Dying 1084, he left a son, Richard, who is related to have possessed lands and tenements at Thetford by inheritance from him.3 We learn, too, from Domesday that he had a nephew, Helewis, who held Witton from him ; and that he, Herfast himself, invaded or seized upon Billockby, both places being, at the Survey, in the possession of Bishop WiUiam, his successor in the episcopate. This last-named prelate, caUed Galsagus, Belfagus, de Bellofago, Beaufoe, and also Welson, was a great favourite of and chaplain to the Conqueror, who, upon the death of Herfast, nominated him to the See of Thetford, in right of which we have found him possessed of the Manor of North Elmham, and many others, which had originally belonged to the See of Elmham ; amongst them, besides those which have been already mentioned, was Colkirk, then reckoned in the Hundred of Brothercross. Colechirca was held, T.R.E., by Almar as a manor, consisting of two carucates of land, with pannage for sixty swine, and four acres of meadow. Here was a church, endowed with forty acres of land, valued at 2s. ; and fourteen socmen held sixty-six acres. The whole had increased in value from £6 to £9. In aU, Bishop WiUiam held, belonging to the bishopric, fourteen manors, valued, T.R.E., £103. 4s. Ad. ; T.R.W., £166. 10s. Od. But he was also possessed of large private property derived from the bounty of the king, of some part of which Stigand is accused of robbing the see, and these at his death he restored to it. The remainder continued in his descendants. It is recorded in Domesday that a freeman held of this fee six acres of land in Gatelea, which had been the freehold of Bonde a Saxon, the predecessor of Hugh de Montfort, but afterwards made the man of Erfast the Bishop, and so came to WiUiam ; and that in Colkirk (in Brothercross Hundred) Erfast had laid hands upon the wood of Fangeham, sixty acres in extent. This bishop's private possessions, which were valued, T.R.E., at £136. 19s. 8d., had increased, T.R.W., to £190. 17s. lOd. He died about 1091. To him (I quote Bartholomew Cotton) " succeeded Herbert, in the time of WilKam ''¦ I have to express my deep regret that by the death of both these gentlemen since the above text was written, I have been deprived of much valuable assistance, on which I might have reUed in completing this work. 3 Foss, Judges, vol. i. 27 ; Monast. Angl. ; Godwin, de Prcesul, 60. the bishop's fief. 47 the younger (Rufus), named Losinga. He was first Prior of Fescamp (Fiscanni), after wards Abbat of Ramsey, and his father was Robert, Abbat of Winchester. This Herbert, born in pago Oxymensi, a monk of Fescamp, after diKgently governing the Priory of that place, was brought into England by King WilKam the Second, and preferred to the Abbey of Ramsey, whence, after three years, he was elected and consecrated to the Episcopate of the East Angles." Omitting our monk's panegyric upon his virtues and intellectual qualifications, "he was a man of prudent counsel, not caring for reproach in moving the see, which was seated at one time in a village caUed Elmham, in a wooden chapel (sacello ligneo), afterwards at the smaU town of Thetford, in a church belonging to another body, or in whatever other locality, according to the pleasure of each bishop, he purchased at great expense a place at Norwich, first from the kings, WiUiam II. and Henry, and then from the citizens, in which he commenced the building of a church in the name of the Holy Trinity." Cotton further says that in order to purchase the favour of the saints, Herbert con structed other churches of excellent work: one on the hiU which overhung the episcopal church, the river being between ; the second in the court of the Palace at Norwich, the third at Elmham, the fourth at Lynn, the fifth at Yarmouth ; aU of which he made over to the monks whom he had placed in the monastery which he had founded and annexed to his cathedral church. His death is placed by Cotton in the year 1119, the 29th of his pontificate, on the 11th kalend of August (23rd July).4 The Rev. W. T. Spurdens has hazarded a conjecture that this Bishop Herbert is identical with his predecessor Bishop WiUiam, and that his real name was WiUiam Herbert, the son of Robert Herbert, and quotes Weever as his authority, but there does not appear to be any ground for such a supposition. Another proposition which Mr. Spurdens endeavours to establish is, that Herbert was not a Norman, but an Englishman, in fact a Suffolk man. The authorities differ as to the place of his birth, some saying Exmes in Normandy, others Orford, others Oxford. Cotton, we have seen, places it in pago Oxymensi ; Giraldus, apud Fxines in pago Oxiunensi. Bales' statement however is, " natus apud Esham in pago Oxonensi in Sudwolgia." Now Esham was a manor and hamlet in the parish of Syleham, hundred of Hoxne, and county of Suffolk. In Domesday the hundred is not known by the name of Hoxne, but as Bishop's Hundred, in which one Herbert 5 held a carucate of land in the parish of Syleham. And this same land in Syleham Bishop Herbert gave to Earl Roger Bigot, in exchange for Taverham ; and WilUam Bigot, son of Roger, gave it to the monks of Thetford : subsequently known as Monk's Hall. In the charter of WiUiam Bigot he grants to the Prior of Thetford aU that land of SUeham, with the appurtenances, as freely and amply as ever Herbert the chaplain held it, of the gift of Herbert, Bishop of Norwich, who exchanged the same with his (William's) father. And in the charter of Bishop Herbert, confirming the gift, he uses Lie Episcopis Norwicensibus, 389. 5 Qu. Herbertus capeUanus (?) 48 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. almost the same terms: "Terram meam de Sileham, cum omnibus quce ad earn, 8cc, sicut Herbertus capeUanus earn tenebat de me." Here is nothing whatever to identify Herbert the chaplain with Robert the father of the bishop : on the contrary, it would seem that the chaplain held the manor as tenant to the bishop ; and so all the superstructure of the birth of Herbert at his father's manor of Syleham, based upon this assumption, faUs to the ground. For the history of Herbert's successors in the episcopate at Norwich I refer to Blomefield's third volume ; 6 and as to their manor and residence of Elmham in particular, to vol. ix. 486. The church, we have seen, was by Herbert given to his monks of Norwich. The grant I have not inspected, but it is referred to in Tanner's Index as in Reg. Pr. et Conv. Norv. iv. f. 16. The confirmation by Bishop Eborard of this grant, together with a fair and market, &c, belonging to the church. (Ibm. p. 23.) Of the vicarage I shall have to speak hereafter. Upon the dissolution of monasteries by Henry YIII., the Prior and Monks of Norwich were transformed into a Dean and Prebendaries, and their lands, which were the endowment of Elmham Church, became the " Manor of North Elmham Dean and Chapter," which will also be mentioned hereafter. One of the Bishops had enfeoffed Milo de Noiers 7 in a portion of the Elmham manor, before the year 1180, which was thereafter known as Nowers Manor. Subject as above mentioned, the bishops in succession were lords of North Elmham and Betely, and collated to the vicarage of Elmham and retory of Betely, until the time of WiUiam Nykke or Nix, the blind bishop, who was compeUed by Henry YIII. to give up the possessions and barony of the see in exchange for those of the Abbey of St. Bennet at Holm. The future history of these manors in the grantees of the Crown wUl come in its proper place. s I should also refer to the History of his Cathedral by the present accomplished Dean of Norwich, now in course of publication. 7 Bishop William had in his own fee 43 acres of land in Mendham, in Earsham Hundred, which had originally been Church land, and in Domesday time were under William de Noers or Noiers. WORMEGAYE FIEF. 49 tabular &nal2Sts of tfre ©omesuag Surfon. FIEF OF HERMERUS (WORMEGAYE FIEF). Domesday Name of Place. Lecham. Torp. Ruhham.Lawingham. n. In whose hands. Turchetel, Uber homo, pro manerio. WiUiam, 1086. The Church. WiUiam.Fulbertus. One free man. m. Land under cultivation. 3 carucates. a 4 acres of land. 4 acres of land and 1 vUgate. J a carucate. b 1 carucate. \ a carucate. IV. Occupiers. Turchetel. 3 socmen. The- same freeman. ( T.R.E. [T. Conq. 1086. ( T.R.E. 1 1086. fT.RE.I 1086. V. Classes of Labourers. VI. Teams of Cattle. Vffl. Bord Serv. I In Dom Hom 44 4 4 44 22 11 3 322 1 •• 2 11 i 1 l 2 1 1 12 vn. Pasture Land. 8 acres of meadow. 2 acres of meadow. 2 acres of meadow. VIII.Other Features. Wood for 7 swine,always a mill. The moiety of the in terest in the church. The fourth part of the interest in a market. Wood foi- 10 swine. Live Stock. — a T.R.E., 2 working horses, 9 head of neat stock, 27 swine, 200 sheep. 1086, 3 head of neat stock, 27 swine, 220 sheep. b Always 25 sheep and 2 pigs. N.B. — The value of the whole had increased from 40s. to 50s. and 10s. in addition. The value of Lawingham, 5s., and in this no commendation or vassalage. H 5(J HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Wiaxnxt^t JM. ERMER, surnamed de Ferrariis, is entered in the Survey as holding about twenty- two manors in Norfolk, most of which had been held, T.R.E., by a noble Saxon named Turchetel.1 These included Wermegai, which he had pro manerio, with other manors in Clackclose, Lecham in Launditch, Winbergh, and six Or seven other parishes in Mitford, besides Ryston, which had been part of the possessions of Ketel, and Stradset, the freehold of one Suartinc. To the territory which he received of the gift of the Conqueror, Hermer added much by taking forcible possession of the lands of native freemen. He is the first and largest of those intruders recorded in Domesday under the title " Invasiones," where no less than thirty-two cases are laid to his charge. Lecham, which Turchetel held pro manerio, T.R.E., contained three carucates of land, with eight acres of meadow, wood for seven swine, a miU, and four acres of land and one virgate occupied by three socmen ; also the moiety of a church endowed with four acres of land. To this manor Ukewise belonged half a carucate of land and the fourth part of a market, in the tenure of William, probably William Warren, with two acres of meadow. This was in Thorpe (Torp). The manor had been worth 40s., T.R.E., and was then valued at 50s., and 10s. in addition, and one carucate of land in Rougham (Ruhham) held by one Fulbert, T.R.E., worth 10s. The soe belonged to the king in Mileham. Altogether Leccham was eight furlongs in length and six in breadth, whoever held there. Hermer de Ferrariis had also usurped from a free man in Longham (Lawingham) half a carucate of land, with two acres of meadow and wood for ten swine, worth 5s., in the king's soe of Mileham. It was upon the earthworks of Wirmegaye that Hermer erected his castle, which became the head of his barony, and thence his descendants assumed the title of Barons of Wirmegaye. So it came to the Bardolfs, in which family it remained for many generations, 1 Turchetel is mentioned as also holding other possessions in the County besides those given to Hermer. WORMEGAYE FIEF. 51 as shewn by the foUowing Pedigree, derived mostly from Mr. Stapleton's Preface to the edition of the Liber de Antiquis Legibus, published by the Camden Society. Richard de WUmegay,=y= supposed son of Her. mer de Ferrarns. WUliam de WUmee-ay,^ ob. 1167. | Reginald de Warren,=p Ahce, dr. and hr. brother of 3rd Earl of Surrey. Beatrix . ...=p WUUam de Warren, = MiUcent, widow of 1 ux. Richard, Lord Montfichet. Reginaldde Warren, ob. p.v. s.p. Dodo or Doun BardoU,T= Beatrix, = Hubert de Burgh, d. before 23 Feb. 1205. r dr. and hr. of WUl. de Warren. Earl of Kent, 2 husb. who survived tiU 1243. Isabelde Warren, ob. s.p. WiUiam, Lord Bardolf , =j= Nicolaa. s. and h. , ob. 4 Edward I. 1275.1 WUUam, Lord Bardolf ,=p Juliana, only dr. and hr. set. 45, 1275, ob. 18 Edw. I. 1289." of Hugh de Gourney, ob. 23 Edw. I. Hugh, Lord Bardolf ,=j= Isabel, dr. & hr. of born 29 Sept. 1259, ob. 32 Edw. I. 1303.3 Robert Aguillon, set. 26, 14 Edw. I. ob. 17 Edw. II. 1323. SU John Bardolf, of Mapledurham, 2nd son. Thomas, Lord Bardolf,1 born 4 Oct. 1282, ob. 15 Dec. 2 Ed. III. 1328. r = Agnes, 7th dr. of Thos. Beauchamp, E. of Warwick, ob. 11 Dec. 31 Ed. III. 1357. WilUam Bardolf, 2 son, died in his mother's lifetime, s.p. John, Lord Bardolf, =j= EUzabeth, dr. and hr. of Sir born 13 Jan. 1312, marr. under age, had Uvery 9 Ed. III. 1335, died at Assisi in Italy 31 July, 1363.* Roger Damorie by EUzabeth de Burg, his wife, dr. of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, aged 30 years and more 34 Ed. III. 1360, ob. 51 Ed. in. 1377. Thomas. Edmund, WUliam, Lord Bardolf ,=j= Agnes, dr. of SU Michael born Aug. 1350, aged 14 years 11 wks. mort. pat. WUl dat. 12 Sept. 1385,mort.29 Jan. 1386, bur. in Fryer's Church, Lynn. ( Poynings, Knt. ; mar. 21y Sir Thos. Mortimer, whom she survived. WiU dat. 9 Jan. 4 Hen. IV., ob. 12 June, 1403. Isabel. Agnes. 1 Inq. p.m. Norf. 4 Edward L, m. 41. ¦'- Inq. p.m. 18 Edward I., n. 29. 3 Inq. p.m. 32 Edward I., n. 64, apud Bures, Suff., 22 Sept. 1304. i Inq. p.m. at Woodbridge, Suff., 18 Dec, 45 Edward III. H 2 52 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. (a) Thomas, Lord Bardolf, =p Avice, dr. of Ralph, aged 16 mort. pat. — mar. prior to 8 July, 6 Ric. II. 1382— of full age 1390, convicted of treason 5 Dec. 1406, — died of wounds received at Battle of Bramham Moor, fought 19 Feb. 1408. Lord Cromwell, of Tattershall, by his wife, Maud Bernake. Ob. 1 July, 1421. Sir William Bardolf, = 2nd son. dr. of mar. 21y to Richard Selling. Anne, eld. daur. and coh. born 24 June. 1389; mar. 1, SU Wm. CUfford ; 2, Sir Eeginald Cob- ham ; survived, and died 6 Nov. 1453, s.p., bur. in collegiate church of Longfield, co. Surrey. Sir William Phelipp. Knt.,=j= Joane, dr. and coh, of Dennington, Suff. created Lord BardoU. born 12 Nov. 1390, d. 12 March, 1447. John, Viscount Beaumont, K.G.=t= EUzabeth, only ob. 1459 ; mar. 21y, Katherine, dr. of Ralph NevUle, Earl of Westmoreland. dr. and hr. Henry Beaumont, Elizabeth,= WiUiam Beaumont,= Joane, da. of Sir John LoveU, s. and hr. ob. 1 ux. da. 2nd Viscount, ob. Humphrey, of Tichmarch. 6 Nov. 1442. andcoh.of 20 Dec. 1507, s.p. Duke of ob. 9 Jan. 1465. SU Rich. set. 70. Buckingham, Scrope, , 2 w. m. Knt. ¦• Joane,— Sir Will. ob. Stanley, of 5 Aug. Koll Castle, 1466. co. Den- bigh. Francis, Vise. LoveU, ob. s p., attainted 1 Hen. VII. Joane .=r Sir Brian Stapleton, Kt. N Arms of Baedolp : Azure, three cinquefoUs or. Fredyswide.=f= SU Edward Norres, Kt. Upon occasion of the aid levied upon the marriage of the daughter of King Henry II. to the emperor, William de Wirmegay made a return to the king of the knights' fees held by him, being fourteen and a half, including the names of Robert de ChiefreviUe, Robert de Watlington, and Alan Rufus, the two latter being his tenants of Longham and East Lexham.3 WiUiam de Warren gave to the canons of Southwark lands in Kent for the souls of his father Reginald, of his mother Alice, of his wife Beatrix, of Reginald their son, and of Beatrix and IsabeUa their daughters. Beatrix de Bardolf, after her husband's death, confirmed the gift of her father for the souls of her grandfather Reginald de Warren, and Alice her grandmother, of her father WilKam, and mother Beatrix, of her brother Reginald, deceased, and her sister Isabel, also deceased.3 These are without date, but they prove the Pedigree so far. In the first year of King John, Beatrix paid a fine to the Crown for possession of the lands which were her father's, and to have her dower of the tenements which were Doun Bardolf's her husband, and that she might not be distrained for the dues of her late father to the king of the chattels of her father, or of Milisent his wife. Hubert de Burgh, Justiciary of England and Earl of Kent, who was the second husband 2 Liber Niger Scac, 12 or 13 Henry II, 1166-7. 3 Monast. Angl., Dugd. WORMEGAYE FIEF. 5 o of Beatrix de Warren, had by patent of the same king, 9th October, anno 18, dated at Lynn, protection for the Manors of Wirmegay, &c, which he held as tenant by the curtesy until his death in 1243 ; so she must have had issue by him. He was the tenant in 1230, when the Inquisition entered in the Testa de Nerill was taken, and the name of Alanus Ruffus is mentioned as holding the half of a knight's fee in Est lechesham of the Honour of Wermegay. William Bardolf, son of Beatrix, had possession in 1244, when he had a month's respite for payment of dues to the Crown.1 In the lists of knights' fees temp. Edward I., circa 1300, Hugh de Bardolf is named as tenant in chief of the Honour of Wermegay, and Alan de Roos, de Rus, or le Rous, as holding the half of a knight's fee in Est lexham and Dunham, and Robert de Watlington the quarter of a fee in Longham. This Hugh, who was " a man of mighty deeds, rich, gaUant, and courteous," is mentioned in the Roll of Caerlaverock as bearing for arms, " Upon azure, three cinquefoils of pure gold beautifully wrought." 5 Hugh Bardolf at the time of his death, in 1303, was seized of the Hundred of Mitford, with the Manors of Whinbergh, Mattishall, &c, but Lexham and Longham having been subinfeuded are not named in the inquisition. IsabeUa his widow, daughter and heir of Robert Aguillon by Agatha one of the daughters and heirs of Fulk de Beaufou, Lord of Hokewold and East Hariing, presented, on 13th June, 1308, Robert de Lexham, acolyte, to the rectory of Stapleford, Herts. By Isabel, Hugh, Lord Bardolf, had two sons, Thomas the elder and WilKam, the latter of whom died without issue in his mother's lifetime. Agnes the wife of Thomas was daughter, not of Lord Grandison, as stated by Parkin,6 but of 'Thomas Earl of Warwick, as we see in the foregoing Pedigree ; and instead of dying childless, as falsely stated in some inquisitions held some time after, left three sons. Of these, John, the elder, had previously to his father's decease married Elizabeth Damory, a great heiress.7 Her mother, " EUzabeth 4 Mandatum est Baronibus de Scaccario quod dimidium omnium debitorum qui facient WUlo Bardulf de debitis WUU de Warren avi sui, Beatrice matris ejus ponatur in respitum usque in unum mensem a die Pent. T.R. apud Rading vUij die Febr.— Rot. fin. 28 Henry III. 6 " Hue Bardoulf de grant maniere Riches horns, preus et courtois, En asure quint-fueUes trois Portoit de fin or esmere." Eoll of Caerlavcroek, by Sir Harris Nicholas. " Blomefield's Norfolk, vii. p. 495. 7 An elegant seal of John, Lord Bardolf of Wormegaye, appended to a deed of 12 Edward HI., amongst the muniments of SU Thomas Hare, Bart., of Stow Bardolph, is engraved in Mr. Dashwood's SigUla Antiqua, 1st series, nl 9 n. 6. It bears the arms on a highly-decorated ground of Gothic tracery. In the same coUection is figured a seal, purporting to be that of Katherine, wife of John Bardolph of Fretenham, to an indenture on the marriage of Thomas theU son and heir with Agnes daughter of Thomas de Essex, in 10 Edward ILL It represents a female, holding in the left hand a shield bearing the arms of Bardolf (1st series, pi. 7, n. 3.) The legend, however, gives it as iohis malestestbensis. I am unable to say what was his affinity to the Baron, nor does Blomefield say, speaking of Bardolph of Frettenham (x. 417.) The seal of John Bardolf to the same deed bears the arms with Jive oinquefoUs 2 12 (Ibid. n. 8.) The seal of EUzabeth, Lady Bardolf, attached to a power of attorney, dated 54 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. de Boug, Dame de Clare," made her will on 25th September, 1355, in which she mentions two granddaughters, " ma jeofne fille Isabel Bardolf" and " Agneis sa soer," but she Uved until the year 1360, when her daughter, Lady Bardolf, was thirty years old. In 1347, when an aid was granted to King Edward III., on the occasion of making his eldest son a knight, Alan de Rous and his parceners were holding the moiety of a knight's fee in Est lexham and Dunham, and the heirs of Jeffrey Bruisyard the fourth part of a fee in Longham, of John, Lord Bardolf. He died, as we have seen, in Italy, while on a mission to the Pope, in 1363 ; and the wardship and marriage of WilKam his son, a minor, which had been given to Queen PhiKppa, was by her granted unto Sir Michael Poyning, Knight, to the intent that he should marry Agnes the daughter of Sir Michael. In an extent taken of the possessions of John Bardolf, amongst the manors enumerated as held of the king in chief is that of East Lexham Rous's. At the time of the aid raised in the third year of King Henry IY., 1402, upon the marriage of his eldest daughter, the heirs of Osbert Mundeford were the subtenants of half a knight's fee in East Lexham and Dunham of the Lord Bardolf e of Wyrmegay, as of the barony ; and the heirs of John Broseyard, the subtenants of the quarter of a fee in Longham, as parcel of that barony ; the lord being Thomas Bardolf, eldest son of WiUiam and Agnes Poyning, who was a minor at the time of his father's death in 1385, and during his minority resided with his father-in-law, Ralph, Lord Cromwell, at Tattershall Castle. He proved his age 13 Richard II., 1390. In 1403 Agnes, Lady of Wormegay, then late wife of Sir Thomas Mortymer, Knight, had license to travel to Rome and Cologne in performance of a vow.8 She died on Tuesday next after the 11th of June in that year ; her son, Sir Thomas Bardolf, being then thirty years of age, as found by one inquisition ; twenty-one years and above, by another. She died seized of the manors of Wirmegay, Stow Bardolf, &c, of the inheritance of Sir Thomas Bardolf, Knight, son and heir of her late husband, Sir William Bardolf, Chevalier ; also of one-third part of the manor of Castre in Flegg near Yarmouth, the reversion of which belonged to her second son, Sir WiUiam Bardolf, Knight ; as well as several other fees and advowsons assigned to her in dower, including the advowsons of Winberg and Garvestone. Thomas, Lord BardoU, at Wirmegay 13 Edward III., and printed in extenso in the Topogragher and Genealogist, is there engraved, and is thus described : " The ground is of elaborate Gothic tracery work : a heater-shaped shield of the arms of Bardolf occupies the centre, and is surrounded by eight cUcular tablets; those in chief and base bear the arms of De Burgo. On the dexter side are the well-known chevronels of the house of Clare, and opposite, the lady's paternal coat of Damory, Barry nebuly of six argent and gules, a bend azure. The other four tablets display alternately the castle triple-towered and the Uon rampant, denoting her descent from the royal line of Castile and Leon."— Top. and Gen. vol. i. p. 222. The seal of WilUam, Lord Bardolf, to an indenture, 3 Ric. II., is also engraved in SigUla Antiqua, 2nd series, pi. 2, n. In the return to one of the inquisitions taken after the death of John, Lord Bardolf, it is said that he had granted to one Robert Bardolf an annual rent out of the manor of Stowe for Ufe. This Robert, Mr. Stapleton teUs us, was the last male descendant of SU John Bardolf of Mapledurham, second son of WUUam Bardolf and Juliana de Gournay. He died 20th May, 1395, and left no issue. 8 Patent, 4 Henry IV., p. 2, m. 33. WORMEGAYE FIEF. 55 obtained from King Henry IY. a confirmation of the original grant made by Edward II. to Roger Damory, for himself and the heirs of his body. Notwithstanding this instance of good will on the part of the new sovereign, Lord Bardolf espoused the cause of his opponents, and joined the Earl of Northumberland in a rising in the north ; consequently he was impeached and convicted of high treason in the Parliament of 7 Henry IY., all his lands and chattels were forfeited, and he himself died a prisoner from wounds received in battle 19th February, 1408, being then in the twenty-eighth year of his age. His body was decapitated and quartered, one quarter being set up on the gate at Lynn. He left two daughters and coheirs, both born in Tatersal Castle, and baptised in the parish church there : Anne, being then aged nineteen years and more, and Joan, eighteen years and more. In the month of April following, upon the petition of the widow, the head and body of her iU-fated husband were ordered by the king to be delivered up to her for burial ; and Henry, in his fourth year, issued writs in favour of her daughters ; and evidence or proof of their birth and age having been taken, — as to Anne, then wife of WiUiam CKfford, Chivaler, on 7th June, 1409 ; as to Joan, then wife of WiUiam Phelip, on 13th July in that year, — the forfeiture was reversed. Prior, however, to the restoration to these ladies of their patrimony, the Honor of Wormegay had been granted by the king to Thomas Beaufort his brother, created, 1416, Duke of Exeter, and the heirs of his body; while other manors and lands had been granted to Sir WUliam Bardolf, Knight, brother to the late earl, the reversions remaining in the king. The terms of this new grant, by letters patent 19th July, 1408, were to Sir WiUiam Clifford, Knight, and Anne his wife, and to WilKam Phelipp and Joane his wife, and the survivors of them, and the heirs of their bodies, the reversion in default of such heirs stiU being in the king. Sir WiUiam CKfford, who was second son of Roger, Lord Clifford of Westmerland, died without issue 25th March, 1418 ; Avicia, Lady Bardolf, 1st July, 1421, as appeared by inquisition taken at Bungay before William de Lexham, Escheator of Norfolk and Suffolk, on 8th October foUowing. WiUiam Phelipp was only surviving son of Sir William, Knight of Dennington, Suffolk, and JuUana his wife, daughter of Sir Robert Erpingham. WiUiam the son was with the king at Harfleur in 1413, and afterwards at the battle of Agincourt.9 He was by Henry Y. made a Knight of the Garter and Treasurer of the Royal Household. In 1435 he again served abroad, and on his return was admitted a Privy CouncUlor ; and, 13th November, 1437, raised to the dignity of a baron, by the title of Lord Bardolf. In the 15th Henry YL he obtained a charter for the foundation of the PheKpp Chantrey at 9 Shakspere speaks of Bardolph, whom he designates as Lieutenant, as " a soldier firm and sound of heart, of buxom valour," and has made his fiery nose proverbial. Boy. " Do you not remember, a saw a flea stick upon Bardolph's nose ; and a said it was a black soul burning in hell P "— King Henry V., Act II., Scene IV. And again — Fluettin. " His face is all bubukles and whelks and knobs and flames of fire, and his Ups plows out his nose, and it is Uke a, coal of fire, sometimes plue and sometimes red; but his nose is executed, and his fire's out." — Upon the report that he was to be hanged for sacrUege, lb., Act III., Scene VI. The poet knowing nothing of the man, took this Uberty with the i 56 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Dennington, and in the same year, November 13th, letters patent were issued, granting to our Chamberlain, Lord Bardolf, by name of Lord William Phelipp, Chivaler, the custody of the manor of Swaffham (of which a third part was held by Jacqueta, late wife of the "king's brother, Duke of Bedford, in dower) for ten years. Other letters patent, dated 11th of the same month, contain a recital that the Honor and Manor of Wyrmegay had been leased to William de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, on the 15th July, 15 Henry YL, for seven years, at the annual rent of £40, in which William Phelipp, the king's Chamberlain, is described as Lord de Bardolf, and Anne, sometime the wife of Sir William CKfford, Knight, and then the wife of Sir Reginald Cobhani ; and she and Joane as daughters and coheirs of Thomas, Lord Bardolf. William de la Pole having delivered his grant of the Honor and Manor of Wyrmegay into Chancery to be cancelled, the king then granted the same to- Sir WilKam Phelipp, Knight, and Joan his wife, and the heirs of their bodies. And further, by other letters patent, 31st January following, the king granted the Lincolnshire manors, together with Quinbergh alias Whinbergh, &c, in reversion, after the death of Sir William Bardolf, to Sir William Clifford and Sir WiUiam Phelipp, and to Anne and Joan their wives respectively, for the term of their lives and the life of the survivor, and to the heirs of their bodies ; and in default of such issue, the reversion of each moiety to devolve upon the king. The reversion contingent upon the decease of Anne without issue, was given first to Sir William Phelipp, Lord Bardolf, and Joan his wife, and the heirs of their bodies. The will of William Phelipp, Lord Bardolf, is dated 1st September, 17 Henry YL He thereby appointed his executors Joan, Lady Bardolf, his wife, John Heydon and WUliam Goode, Esquires, John Puttok, and Richard Palmer, chaplain. He gave to Joan his gold and silver vessels, and after her death to Elizabeth their daughter, if living ; and he gave to John, Lord Beaumond, a piece of gold plate and a horse, unum equum vocatum le Cowcer ; and to Elizabeth his daughter a bed of silk, late of Sir Thomas Erpingham, and a pair of sheets de Reynes ; and to Katherine Boteler his sister a like pair of sheets and a set of coral beads ; with many other legacies. There are two codicils, and a week after the date of the latest, 6th June, 1441, the testator died. He was buried at Dennington, where a sumptuous monument, with the effigies of himself and wife, was. erected over his remains. John, Lord Beaumont, who had married the only child of William and Joan Phelipp, was created, 12th February, 1440, the first English viscount. Elizabeth died in the same year as her father, whereupon the king, understanding the great loss that had been sustained by the Yiscount, granted to him the custody of all the castles, manors, lordships, towns, lands, tenements, rents, and services, with the knights' fees, advowsons of churches, and other hereditaments which had devolved upon Henry, the son of said Yiscount and Elizabeth, and heir of the latter, or in event of default of issue by the death of said Henry, upon WilUam their younger son ; or in default of any such issue, upon Joan their daughter ; by reason of the deaths of the said WiUiam Phelipp, Elizabeth, and Joan (then surviving), or of Ann, the wife of Reginald Cobham, Knight (also still surviving x), and which belonged 1 This lady died on 6th November, 1453, without issue by either husband, whereupon WiUiam Beaumont became heU of one moiety, and was found to be sixteen years old on the Friday after St. Mark, in June, 1454. WORMEGAYE FIEF. 57 to the Crown in consequence of the minority of same sons and daughters or otherwise, saving the paternal inheritance of the Yiscount Beaumont, to be held by him during such minorities. This was dated 10th August in the 19th year of the king. We learn from this document that Joan Phelipp was then Kving : she survived until 12th March, 25 Henry YL, 1447,2 and it was found by inquisition that she held to her and the heirs of her body and that of Sir William Phelipp, late Lord Bardolf, her deceased husband, the Honor and Manor of Wyrmegay, with all the knights' fees, advowsons, and other profits thereof, as fully as Thomas, late Lord Bardolf, her father, had held the same ; aU which devolved upon her grandson and heir, William Beaumont, then thirteen years of age, the only surviving son of her daughter, who from that time bore the title of Lord Bardolf, but remained in the custody of his father during his minority. John, Yiscount Beaumont, was slain in battle at Northampton, on the side of King Henry YL, on 16th July, 1460. William, his son and heir, was then of full age, having attained the age of twenty-two on St. George's day in that year ; and the king, by letters patent, on 15th November following, granted to him to have livery of seizin of aU the castles, manors, and lands of his deceased father. As an adherent of the house of Lancaster, he was of course declared a rebel and attainted when York became in the ascendant ; and Edward IY., on 5th March, 1462, granted manors and lands in divers counties, which were formerly of Thomas, Lord Bardolf, and of WiUiam Phelippe, late Lord Bardolf, to trustees, for the benefit of Joan his wife, daughter of Humfrey, late Duke of Buckingham, and her heirs in tail general, with remainder to the heirs of William Beaumont. But the honor of Wirmengaye, &c, was given to John Neville, Lord Montagu, and the heirs male of his body.3 It seems that Joan Stafford, wife of WiUiam Beaumont, considered herself free from the marriage tie when he became a ruined man. She was divorced from him about 1468, and was before 1477 the wife of Sir WiUiam Knyvett, of Buckenham Castle. Upon the accession of Henry YII. to the Crown, the attainder was reversed, and WiUiam Beaumont was restored to his honours and inheritance. In the first year of the new reign, 24th April, 1486, he married Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Sir Richard Scrope, Knight, but the change in his fortunes was too much for him ; he became imbecUe, and died on 19th December, 1507, in his seventieth year, without issue by either wife ; when his estates reverted to the Crown, subject to the dower of his widow. She afterwards married John de Yere, thirteenth Earl of Oxford, who in her right was possessed of the Honor of Wirmegay.4 Her wiU was dated 30th May, 1537, and proved on 6th November following. The heir general of Bardolf was Francis, Lord LoveU of Tichmarch, son of Joane sister of WiUiam, " last Yiscount Beaumont, Lord Comyn, Bardolphe, Phelipp, and 2 Her sister Anne, widow, first of SU WUliam CUfford, and lastly of SU Reginald Cobham, died on 6th Nov., 1453, without issue, whereupon WiUiam Beaumont became her heU, and was found to be sixteen years old on the Friday after St. Mark, in June, 1454. 3 Patent, 2 Edward IV., p. 1, m. 6. i Escheat 13 Henry VII. n. I 58 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Erpingham ; " which Francis died without issue, and his coheirs were his sister, Joan, wife of Sir Brian Stapleton, Knight, and John Norres, son of Frediswide, another sister. The first Sir WiUiam Phelipp had a second son, Sir John Phelipp, Knight, who had two wives, named respectively Matilda and Alice, the latter of whom remarried to Thomas Montacute, Earl of Salisbury, and afterwards to WiUiam de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk. He had also a daughter, Katherine, wife of Sir Andrew Botiler, before mentioned as an executor of Sir Thomas de Erpingham, and Escheator for Norfolk in the first year of Henry IY., 1413. But the Honour of Wirmegay remained in the Crown under the limitations of the Patent of Edward IY. The title of Beaumont, however, has recently (1840) been restored to Mr. Miles Thomas Stapleton, of Carteret, co. York, the representative of that family, and eldest brother of the accurate historian and genealogist, Thomas Stapleton, before named as editor of the Liber de Antiquis Legibus, from the Introduction to which so much of this history has been derived. Carta Willelmi de Wirmegai.— Liber Niger Scacc. Henrico Regi Anglorum karissimo domino suo WiUelmo de Wormeg' salutem et fidele servicium. Sciatis quod omnes miUtes quos de vobis teneo in capite feodati sunt vel antecessores eorum anno et die quo- Rex Henricus avus vester fuit vivus et mortuus, et post, Ricardum filium Wace, quam pater meus feoffavit de dominio suo, postea unde facit mjtam partem servicii j mihtis. Et isti sunt milites quos de vobis teneo in capite. [Amongst other names.] Alanus Ruffus, j militem. Robertus de Watlington, j militem. Feoda Honoris de Wirmegey. Alanus Ruffus di feod' in Estlechesham. — Testa de Nevill. Alanus de Roos tenet in Est lexham et Dunham medietat' feodi miUtis de Hugone de Bardolf et idem de Rege. Robertus Watlyngton tenet in Longham iiij"™ partem unius feodi militis de Hugone de Bardolf, et idem de Rege in capite. — Liber Feodorum, Edward I., MS. A. Alanus de Rus et parcenarii in Est lexham et Dunham, &c. Rob'tiis de Watlyngton in Longham &c MS. B. ° Alanus de Rous et parcenarii tenent in Estlexham et Dunham dimid' feodi militis de Johanne Bardolf de Wyermegeye et idem de Rege. Heredes Galfridi Bruszerd tenent quartam partem unius feodi militis in Longham de Johanne Bardolf de Wyrmegeye et idem de Rege. — Booh of Aids, 20 Edward III. Heredes Osberti de Mundeforde in Est lexham et Dunham, &c. Heredes Galfridi Broseyarde in Longham. — Aid, 3 Henry IV. Further authorities in Preface to Liber de Antiquis Legibus. Camden Society, 1846. THE FEE OF ST. EDMUND. 59 EaMar ^nalgsts of tije Homafoag Storfws. THE FIEF OF THE ABBAT OF ST. EDMUND. In whose hands. Land under Cultivation. Occupying Tenants. Classes of Labourers. Plough Teams. Pasture Land. Other Features. RicaUdus. 1 carucate. 12 acres. RicaUdus.A socman. Semper. Vill. Bord 6 1 Serv. 0 In Dom 11 Hom * 6 acres of meadow. WenUnga. 2 0 Woodfor 100 swine A mill. The only Stock named, 19 swine. The value of the whole, T.R.E., 20*., and at the Survey, 30s. The contents of the lordship, nine furlongs hy six. The tax to the geld, Is. 0\d. Cjw Jfte nf Bt (ftommfcr. NLY two of the great East Anglian Monasteries held lands in our Hundred at the Domesday Survey ; where, after stating, under the head of " Lands of the Abbey of St. Edmund," that one Bicaiardus held a carucate of land in Hariing, which he held, T.R.E., it is recorded that in Lawendic Hund. the same Bicard held WenUnga of the Abbat, which St. Edmund held, T.R.E., for one carucate of land, with six acres of meadow, and wood for a hundred swine. A socman also held twelve acres, and there was a mill. The value had increased at the Survey from 20s. to 30s. The length was nine quarantines, the breadth six. This Bicard held another carucate under the abbey at Middleton. More of him we know nothing. The Abbey of St. Edmund's Bury had been founded by Canute about 1020, in the place of one originaUy instituted by Sigebert. How it became possessed of the land at Wendling does not appear, but it was left in undisturbed possession by the Conqueror. By some means, which I have failed to discover, the interest of Richard as tenant of the great abbey had faUen into the hands of the lords of GressenhaU, and in the 6th of I 2 60 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Richard I., 1194, WiUiam de Huntingfield and Isabella his wife, who was daughter and heir of WilKam de GressenhaU, by fine then levied, quit-claimed to the Abbat of Bury all their right in the town of Wendling and the advowson of the church. The abbat conveyed to them and their heirs the whole township, to be held of him and his successors, by service, and payment of 60s. rent per annum ; and they (WUUam and IsabeUa) were to hold the men and tenants of the town by the same services and customs which were performed to the abbey, before William son of Roger de Gressinghale held the same.1 About the year 1298 this rent, which the abbey then received from Sir Jordan FoKot of GressenhaU, was granted by Abbat John de Norwold to WiUiam son of Ralph de Saham.3 The Abbat of Bury claimed and was aUowed the advowson of the church of Wendling amongst those belonging to his office, as distinct from those of the convent. Joceline de Brakelond teUs us that he made a schedule of the churches in the gift of the abbat and of the convent respectively ; et rationabilia precia earum sicut possent poni ad firmes tempora quo bladus mediocritur venditur. And, amongst ecclesie de maneriis et sochagiis abbatis, he enters Wenelinge c solidos.3 In the time of Henry III. a slice of this parish had been given by the lords of GressenhaU and their tenants to Castle Acre Priory, constituting the manor caUed Her ringshall ; and before the death of that king, all or almost all the rest of the land, with the church, had become the endowment of the Prsemonstratensian Abbey which had been founded there, and which wiU form the subject of a future notice. Of the supremacy of Bury Abbey we hear no more. " Ao. 1277, 9 Edward I.4 Carta Jo. Abbis [St. Edmund] de L. s. in villa de Wenling concess. Willo fiUo Radi de Saham. Hiis testibp, Dnis Jordano de SaukewiU, tunc Sen'elli lib'tatis Sci. Edi., Osberto de CayHy, Robto de Catteston, Warin de Hareford, militibus, q'"1 Rado de Alneto, L. de Offlngton, Robto de Norwold, Wo. de Badeham, Rico de Saham, & al. [Q. Abbat Johan de Northwold ?] From magnum Registrant de vestiario, in custodio Nichi Bacon, mil. et Baronetti, apud Culford." — MS. Chitting. 1 Blomeneld, x. 87, referring to Bury Register, Alb. vel Pincebek, f. 126. 2 Ibid. Bury Eeg. Niger. 3 Cromia Jocelini de Eralcelond, 46. 4 The 9th year of Edward I. was that of our Lord 1280-81. ' THE FEES OF THE ABBAT OF ELY. 61 Mular ^nalgsts of tfje ©omesfcag Sur&eg. THE FIEF OF THE ABBAT OF ST. ADELDREDA. Domesday Name. Ossuic. Hou. Mesne Lord. Rainald Fitz Ivo. [This lay in Der ham, and was valued there with. ] Land under cultivation. 1 carucate. 6 acres. 1 carucate. 24 acres. Occupying Tenants. T.R.E. \ 1086. J 3 socmen. 2 socmen. Classes of Labourers. Ploughs or Teams. Pasture Land. Vils. Bord Serv. Dom Hom 2 acres of meadow. 0 4 »{ 1 2 i 8 10 0 3 l 8 acres of meadow. 4 acres of meadow. Other Features, Fannage for 24 swine. One-half of a plough team could be restored. Pannage for 100 swine. One mill. Pannage for 4 swine. The soe of these belonged to the king's manor of Mileham ; the value 4s. The abbat had theU protection and Uberty of foldcourse. 8C&* £m d % &Mrat nf <% HE possessions of the Abbey of St. Etheldreda at Ely also extended into this Hundred. The great Survey informs us that St. Adeldreda always held, at the time of King Edward and thenceforward, in Oxwick (Ossuic), one carucate of land, three socmen having six acres, with two acres of meadow, and wood for twenty-four swine ; that Rainald son of Ivo then held it of the abbey, but had previously held it of the king. The name of Rainald Fitz Ivo occurs as a tenant in chief at Fincham, Wereham, &c, but I can say nothing of him. His interest in Oxwick appears to have terminated soon after the Survey, as, indeed, did that of Ely Abbey ; and afterwards the name of the Earl Warren appears as the capital lord there. In the Life of Simeon, ninth Abbat of Ely, who died 1093, it is said that the then Earl WiUiam (the first of that name) miserably perished for having taken away lands from the monastery.1 The Conqueror, indeed, issued a warrant to WiUiam de Warren, Richard Fitz GUbert, Hugh de Montfort, Ralf de Belfo, and others, to restore 1 Gul. Comes Warenne miserabUe morte pemt hoc tempore propter terras abbatas a monaster' EUensi. — (Es vita Simeonis, 9 Abbatis Eliensis.) 62 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LADNDITCH. to the abbey all lands of which it .was possessed at the death of King Edward. If it were obeyed, the restitution did not extend to Oxwick. The abbey also always held one carucate of land in Hou, with eight acres of meadow, pannage for one hundred swine, and a miU. This was said to lie in Dereham, to have the same customs, and to be included in the valuation of that town, but the soe was in the king's manor of Mileham. Two socmen there had twenty-four acres of land and four acres of meadow, with pannage for four swine, valued separately at 4s. The abbat had the protection of these and the right of foldage. Dereham is in the adjoining Hundred of Mitford and, ecclesiastically, in the Arch deaconry of Norfolk ; but as it was and is the chief manor, I cannot treat of the fief of the Abbey of Ely without referring to the history of the Manor of Dereham.2 This may be told in a few words. Dereham or Dyrham, with aU that belonged to it, was granted to St. Etheldreda by Ethelwold, Bishop of Winchester, in the reign of King Edgar, who confirmed the gift in the year 963. And in the days of King Edward the Martyr, son of Edgar, 975 — 978, one Godwin, then lord of the town of Hoo, by deed under his own hand gave that town to the monastery. It soon afterwards appears to have been added to and formed part of the manor of Dereham ; if, indeed, the gift did not refer to Hoo in Suffolk. Upon the foundation of the bishop's see of Ely, in 1109, 9 Henry I., the lordship passed with the other possessions of the monastery to the bishop ; and, by Act of Parliament in 1 EKzabeth, became vested in the Crown, and has since been known as the manor of " East Dearham of the Queen," remaining part of the Crown land revenue until this year, 1875, when the manor and lands have been sold to divers purchasers. HOO. Hec est descriptio quomodo beatus .ZEthelwolds, Eps., &c. "De dyrham, int. aba ue (vero) magnifica confessor dni iBdelwold5 expetin (expetitum) a rege dyrham cum om'ibj q, ad eandem villain p'tinebant ecclie de Ely adiec' (adjecit) et see .ZEdeldreda gratanter optulit." — Historia Eliensis Insulce Kb. ter. a tempore Edgari Regis ad Ediuardum Confessorem, fo. 14, MS.3 A.D. 975—8. " De villa de Hoo. In diebj namqj beatissime martiris Edwardi regis dns ville de Hoo cognomine Godwin', morbo percussus in toto corpore tumque inquietudinis dep'ssus c, magnitudine ut spe vite h'ret minime sanitatis recuperandi, si iste carnis infirmitate in spem meliorem confortat' optime: dompmim .Mstun' elyensem abbem accessivit monachatum ab eo petiit et recep. secuqj p'mccde optulit in benedictionem see -SSldrede sclt memoratm possessionem de Hoo et sub cyrog'hhi firmitate in meliora' testimonio confirmat' : ut deinceps a nemine posterum sive gptione seu comutatione ab usibus fr'm distrahi licet, qd. in redemptione' sue aie d'o et seis ei» illic donavit. Deni n' m'lto p' t'pr' defunct8 sepelitur in cimiterio ecclesie." — Ib. fo. 186.* "Comes vero de Warrenne WiUelmus quasdam villas fratribus Elyenibus violenter detinuit unde seepe ab abbate correptus nee correctus miserabile morte diem clausit."— Hist. Eliensis, liber secundus ut supra, cap. cxix., transcribed by D. J. Steward from MS. at Ely. " Blomefield, x. 204. 3 Lib. Eliensis, secundus, cap. xl., ad fidem codicum variorum. Soe, vol. 1. 4 Ib. cap. Ixix. FIEF OF RALF DE BELLOFAGO OR BEAT/FOE. 63 &a*mlar Inalgsts of tfje JBomtstiag Surbfg, FIEF OF RALF DE BELLOFAGO OR BEATJFOE. Domesday Name. Mesne Tenant. Land under cultivation. Occupiers. Classes of Labourers. Teams of Cattle. Pasture Land. Other Features. Suantuna. [Swanton w. Worthing.] 8 carucates. [No quantity mentioned.] 12 acres. Godwinus, T.R.E. Eudo, T.R.W. T.S. 7 socmen. T.S. Vil. 24 2424 Bord 393954 11 Serv. 6 6 In Dom 4 35 .. Hom 13 1318 2 i2 0 10 acres of meadow. 2 acres of meadow. 2 acres of meadow. Wood for 500 swine, 3 miUs, a fishery, a church endowed with an acre and half of land, with all theU customary services. Live Stock. — T.R.E., 2 neat stock, 39 swme, T.S., 48 swine, 85 sheep. In Lecesham. Ricards. Herold. 3 § carucates. J carucate. 60 acres. Fader,Ricard, T.R.E. T.R.W.T.S. 6 socmen. 1 freeman. 985 7 77 2 3 22 1 a 1 i a 6 acres of meadow. 2 acres of meadow. IJ acre of meadow. Wood for 30 swine, a Another team might he restored. A mill, a fishery. The fourth part of a salt pit. The half team might be restored. Live Stock.— 1 working horse — T.R.E., 7 neat stock, 24 swme, 80 sheep. T.S., 5 swine, 214 sheep, and a skep of bees. There was a church endowed with 30 acres of land, valued at 16rf. In Derham. [Drayton HaU in Scarn ing and DUUngton.] Odar. 2 carucates. 43 acres. Herold, Odar, T.R.E. T.R.W. T.S. 5 socmen, T.R.E. „ T.R.W. T.S. 2 2 1 2 1 2 1 1 i 3 6 acres of meadow. 2 acres of meadow. Wood for 30 swme, a mill The whole might be restored. Live Stock. — Always 1 working horse— T.R.E., 4 neat stock, 7 swme, 7 goats. T.S., 2 swme, 8 goats. Value T.R.E. 20s. ¦ at Survey, 40s. Extent, one leuca and five furlongs, and half a leuca and three furlongs in breadth. Assessment to gelt, Wd. 64 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Jfuf nf gdplj to §dl0%0 0r §e;mf0t. IR Henry Ellis l considers Ralph de BeUofago, Belfou, or Beaufoe, to have been a near relation to-, if not a son of, Bishop WilKam of Thetford ; Mr. Planche, that he was the son of Robert de Belfoe and nephew of the bishop. He received from the Conqueror grants of fifty-two lordships, besides burgesses in Norwich, and he encroached a little on his own account. The value of his possessions at the time of the Survey was upwards of £125. In Laimditch Hundred (Laioendic) he held Swanton (Suantuna), which had been, T.R.E., a possession of Godwin, a free man. It contained eight carucates of land, with ten acres of meadow, pannage for five hundred swine, three mills, and a fishery. To this manor belonged seven socmen with aU their customs, and two acres of meadow. Another free man, not named, had twelve acres of land there, and two acres of meadow, of whom Ralph's predecessor, T.R.E., had only the protection, the soe belonging to Mileham. One Eudo had held this lordship, and Ralph then held it of the king's gift. There was a church, endowed with an acre and half of land, worth twopence a year. The whole of Swanton had been valued at £8, T.R.E., and was at the Survey valued at £12, but had afterwards been let to farm at £25. It was one leuca and a half in length, and one leuca in breadth, and was assessed to the gelt at 10c?. He held in Lexham (Lecesham) three carucates and a half of land, which, T.R.E., belonged to Fader, and were then in the tenure of Ricard. With this were six acres of meadow, wood for thirty swine, a miU, a fishery, and the fourth part of a saKna or salt-pit. There were six socmen, holding half a carucate of land and two acres of meadow. The value of the whole had increased from 40s. to 60s. A free man there had held sixty acres of land and an acre and half of meadow under Herold, which had been worth 5s., but then only 4s. There was a church, endowed with thirty acres of land, valued at sixteenpence. The 1 Introduction to Lomesday. Blomefield made the same suggestion, vol. a. 53. FIEF OF DE BEAT/FOE OR RYE. 65 length of this lordship was one leuca, the breadth a half. It was assessed sevenpence, and one halfpenny to the gelt. In that part of Derham which lay in Launditch Hundred Herold had held two carucates of land under Stigand, which at the Survey were in the tenure of Odar or Odarus, under Ralph de BeUofago, with six acres of meadow and a mill. There were five socmen, holding forty-three acres of land and two of meadow. This lordship was doubled in value, being then 40s., and was a leuca and five quarentines long, by half a leuca and three quarentines broad. The soe of the whole belonged to Mileham. The Saxon owner of Swanton in the Confessor's time was Godwin (Goduuinus), a free man. There are several • Godwins named in Domesday. Parkins suggests that this was the Earl Godwin, the father of Harold,2 but I think it more likely he was Godwin the free man of Stigand, named as holding the manor of Markeshall. Whoever he was, he was dis possessed in favour of Eudo, who was a Norman.3 One named Fader held lands, T.R.E., in WUby and Banham, which afterwards came to William de Scohies ; and a king's thane, called Fradre, held in Bircham (Brecham), which was, T.S., in the hands of WiUiam de BeUofago. They may be identical with each other and with the Saxon landowner in Lexham. The tenant in Derham under Stigand is caUed Heroldus, a name of frequent occurrence in Domesday. This is supposed by Parkins to be the Earl Harold who, as king, feU at Hastings. It is certainly remarkable that there is only one instance in the Domesday Survey of Norfolk in which the title of Comes is allowed to Harold, and not once to Godwin. Eudo is named as the immediate predecessor of Ralph in other places as weU as Swanton. Two persons of that name were tenants in capite at the time of the Survey; Eudo Dapifer and Eudo filius Spiruwin? A third Eudo is surnamed^/ms Clama. I think the last-named was the first grantee of Swanton from the Conqueror, and not Eudo Dapifer, as supposed by Parkins. In the Domesday account of the Conqueror's lands in Hingham it is recorded that Eudo filius Clama had held certain socmen, then held by Ralph de BeUofago, who also succeeded him in Fransham ; and in enumerating the encroachments of this Ralph it is said that he had in Thorpe (Blofield Hundred) a socman, eight acres of land, with all his customs, from his predecessor, Eudo Clama. In another place Eudo is styled the man of Earl Ralph, namely Ralf Guader. It is therefore not improbable that he followed the fortunes, or rather misfortunes, of that earl; that his estates were forfeited by his rebellion, and were then granted by the Conqueror to Ralph de BeUofago. Eudo the Dapifer was the youngest son of the first Hubert de Rye ; so there was a connection between him and Ralph de BeUofago, but he was a distinct person from Eudo son of Clama. Of Ricard or Ricardus, to whom Ralph de BeUofago had subinfeuded his lordship at 2 Blomefield, ubi supra, note. 3 Quere, was he the same Godwin who has been mentioned (supra, p. 62) as the owner of the adjoining lordship of Hoo, which he gave to Ely ? 4 Supposed ancestor of the Tateshales. K 66 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Lexham, we have had some notice before as holding Hariing and Wendling under Bury Abbey. Under Ralph he had also lands at Barford, Todenham, Mulbarton, &c. Ricardus filius Alann occurs as having the protection of certain men at Scroutby, under Bishop WiUiam ; and he, or some other Ricard, had the bishop's manor at Reedham. Odarus, the tenant under Ralph of his lordship at Dereham, held also under him in Walton (Freebridge Hundred ?) and in Draiton (Taverham Hundred), and he is mentioned as holding seven free men and a half in Thurton (Clavering Hundred), of which the predecessor of Ralph de BeUofago had only the protection, T.R.E. Blomefield supposes the family of the Draytons to have descended from him. Of Ralph de BeUofago, the tenant in capite, little more is known. It is said that he left an only daughter and heiress, wife of Hubert de Rye, Governor of Norwich Castle and second son of Hubert de Rye, one of the Conqueror's companions in arms, who brought these fiefs into the family of Rye. It is however suggested by the writer of " An Account of the Family of Rye " in the Herald and Genealogist,5 that Agnes, the wife of Hubert de Rye, the CasteUan of Norwich, was the widow of WiUiam de BeUofago the Bishop, who died in 1091 ; and in that she was a daughter of Robert de Tony or Todeni he accords with Dugdale.6 This does not account for the seizin of Hubert de Rye in the fief of Ralf de Beaufoe, who was either a nephew or son of the bishop. Ralf de Beaufoe, a son or nephew of the first Ralf,7 had a grant from King Henry I., of Creak, which descended from him to his son, also named Ralf, and from the latter to Emma his niece,8 one of the daughters and coheirs of Fulk de Beaufoe and, in the 1st John, wife of Gilbert de Norfolk. And there was no faUure of male issue in the Beaufoe family, who continued at Hariing, one of the bishop's manors, for several generations. King WiUiam was under some obligation to the Rye family, for in his youth, shortly after succeeding to the Duchy of Normandy, a conspiracy was formed against him, and his opponents would have obtained possession of his person and put him to death, if he had not been aroused from his bed, aud made his escape, half dressed, on horseback ; and reaching the Castle of Rie, Hubert its lord recognised him, and learning the emergency, not only placed him on a fresh horse, but misled his pursuers who were following at his heels. In gratitude for this service, WilKam, when King of England, intrusted Hubert with high office in Normandy ; made his first and second sons, Ralph and Hubert, the one CasteUan of Nottingham, the other of Norwich ; and gave to Eudo, the youngest, the possession of many lordships in England, as described in Domesday, but not situate in our Hundred. He was made the king's Dapifer, in place of Fitz Osbern ; and being with the king at the time s Vol. vii. p. 235, by Walter Rye, Esq., to whom I am indebted for valuable assistance in this article. " Dugdale says that Agnes de Beaufoe was wife of the first Hubert de Rye, in which he was certainly wrong. 7 He was Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. 8 Testa de Nevill, 340. She was then unmarried. She had three sisters, who married, Agatha = SU Robert Argenton; Joan= Thomas de Ingaldesthorpe ; and Margery = Robert Scales.— Bl. viU. 412, ix. 32. FIEF OF DE BEAUFOE OR RYE. 67 of his decease, in Normandy, accompanied William Rufus to England, to whom he remained faithful. He died 1120, and was buried in the church of St. Peter at Colchester, which he had founded. By his wife Rohesia, only daughter of Walter Giffard, Earl of Buckingham, Eudo left one sole daughter and heir, Margaret, married to WiUiam de MandeviUe.9 Hubert de Rye granted to Norwich Cathedral the tithes of Hokering, Swanton, Deopham, and MerkishaU; as did Agnes de Belfo his wife the church of Aldeby, with Richard her son, who was received there as a monk.1 Mr. Walter Rye refers to a charter of confirmation by King Henry II. of this grant, with the consent of Henry de Rye, son and heir of Hubert and Agnes,2 which Henry afterwards confirmed by another charter, referring to his father and mother's original grant, as made when the former laid the second foundation stone of the cathedral (1096). Henry de Rye, by an undated charter,3 gave to the monks of Castleacre, for the good of the souls of himself, his father, mother, and brothers, the mill of Worthing, with Turstan the miller, and his mother and brothers, and aU their lands and substance ; which gift he afterwards confirmed by another charter, with the addition of PhiKp and Adelwald, and their servants and tenures. The latter is witnessed by Almeda his sister. The name of Henry de Rye occurs as a witness to a grant of WiUiam de Warren and Isabel his wife to the monks of Castleacre, also undated. Hubert de Rye, nephew of Henry and last Baron of Hengham of that name, died shortly before 34 Henry II. (1188), as shewn by the Pipe Roll of that year, which contains an entry of his death, and without male issue. The descent of the fief from his daughter, through the MarshaUs and Morleys, may be found in Blomefield under Hingham,4 and wiU be seen at a glance in the following Pedigkee. Hubert de Rye I.=j= comp. of WiU. Conq. and Ambassador to Edward the Confessor. 1. Ralph de Rye, aUas Fitz Hubert, s. andh., Baron of Crich, co. Derby, and ancestor of the Ryes, Lords of WhitweU. 3. Adam de Rye, of Kent, a compUer of Domesday. 2. Hubert de Rye II. : made CasteUan of Norwich 1074-75, living 1096, died after 1100. Laid 2nd stone of Nor wich Oath, in 1096. Henry de Rye, Baron of Hingham, s. and hr., ob. cUca 1162, s.p. ~r = Agnes, da. of Robt. de Toni or Todeni, living 1130, founder of Aldby Priory. [Widow of WiUiam de Beaufoe, Bp. of Norw. ?] 4. Eudo, the King's Dapifer, ob. 1120, s.p.m. in Normandy, founder of St. John's Abbey, Colchester. Hubert de Rye IH.: ob. cUca 1158-9. = Avelina or AUce, d. bef. 1179, said to have been the illegitimate dau. of WiUiam Rufus. Walter [de Rye P], bur. at Colchester 1120. Albreda, only da., mr. Peter de Valoignes, the Conque ror's nephew, and founder of Binham Priory.Almeda vel Almunda de Rye. (a) 9 Planche : The Conqueror and his Companions, vol. U. p. 126. 1 The Bishop (WiUiam de Beaufoe) had a son Richard, who was Archdeacon of Norwich 1107. 3 Henry de Rye is described as son of Agnes and grandson of Robert de Todeni. 3 Reg. Castleacre, No. 47, fo. 57b. Harl. MS. 2110. 4 Blomef. ii. 432 et seq. K 2 68 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. (a) WiUiam de Rye, witnessed charters of Hubert 1175-80, ancestor of Ryes of Swanton? =j= Hubert de Rye IV.= Baron of Hingham, succeeded Henry his uncle 1161-2, dead shortly before 1188. ; Margaret, da. of = 2, SU WUUam Fitz^ Rocelin, survived. Dagworth. Arms of Mareshall : Gu. a bend lozengy or. John Mareschall,=f=Ahiia de Rye, nephew of WiU. E. of Pembroke, ob. cUe. June, 1235. dr. and coh., m her issue sole heU, ob. 1266, aged 90 in 1263. Geffery de = Isabel de Rye, dr. : Chester, dead before 1206. and coh., ob. 48 Hen. III. 1263, s.p.v. AUna la MareschaU, sister and heU. = SU Roger de Cressi, ob. 1245. John Mareschal, s. and h., Baron of Rye, ob. 1242, s.p. William le Marischal,! Baron of Rye, succeeded hisbrotherl242, ob. 1264. : EUzabeth, da. of Mar. 21y David, son of Griffin, Prince of Wales. AUsia de Carrow, dead 55 Hen. III. John le MarischaU,=f= Hawyse. s. and h., and h. of Aliva his grandmr., ob. 1282-3. Anselm le MarischaU. John, younger son, ob. inf. etat. WiUiam le MarischaV aged 5 a0 10 Edw. L, proved his age 26 Ed. I., ob. 7 Ed. II. 1314. Summ. to ParUament 1309-13. Signed the Baron's Letter to the Pope in 1301. : Christian, da. and hr. of DevoigUl, 1st wife of Robert Fitz Walter, who was one of the das. and cohs. of John de Burgh de LanwaUei. John Marischale,=Ela, da. of Dionese, s. & h., ob. 1316, mar. 21y Robert Fitz sister and hr. s.p. Pain. His 2nd wife. ob. s.p. Hawyse,T= Robert de Morley ,= Joan, dr. of SU sister and hr. of John, set. 15, 1316, dead bef. 1342. husband of Hawyse 1316, ob. 34 Edw. I. 1360. Peter de la Tye, Knt., 2 wife. Arms of Morley : Arg. a Uon rampant sab. armed or. WUUam, Lord Morley ,- s. and h. of Hawyse, Mar shal of Ireland. WUl dat. 9, proved 26 March, 1379, at Norwich. SU Robert Morley, Knt., of Framsden, Suff. =f= Joan, da. of = . . Gourney, 1 wife. = Thomas, Lord Mor ley, s. and h., ob. 4 Hen. V. 1417. '¦ Cecily, da. of Thos. Lord Bardolf, ob. 10 Richard II. : Anne, da. of Edward, Lord Despencer, reUct of SU Hugh Hastings of Elsing, 2 wUe. Robert de Morley ,=p Isabel, da. of John, ob. v.p., buried in Austin Friars, Norw. Lord Molins. Mar. 21y Richard Berners. Thomas, Lord Morley ,=j= Isabel, da. of Michael de la grandson and heU, ob. 1435, monum'. in Hingham chancel. Pole, Earl of Suff., ob. 1464, wiU proved 28 Feb. 1466. Robert, Lord Morley ,=f= Eleanor, da. of set. 17, 1435, ob. 21 Hen. VI. 1442. WUUam, Lord Roos, survived. Anne, mar. John Hastings of Elsing. Arms of LoveU : Barry nebulae of six, or and gu. WiUiam Lovel,=p AUenore de Morley 2 son of WUl. Ld. Lovel of Titchmarcb, summ. to Pari. 9 Edw. IV. as Lord Morley jure ux. Ob. July 23, 1476 only da. and hr., aged 6 months 21 Hen. VI. Ob. Aug. 20, 1475 or 6. (*) FIEF OF DE BEAUFOE OR RYE. 69 (?) Henry Lovel,= Elizabeth, da. of a minor at his father's John de la Pole, death, had Uvery of his D. of Suffolk. lands 1489, slam in Flanders 4 Hen. VII. s-P- Sir WUliam Parker,=j= AUce Lovel, — Sir Edw. Howard, Knt. Kt. , Standard Bearer to Richard III. Ob. Ap. 25, 5 Hen. VIIL 1513. sister & heU, son of Thomas, Duke of Lady Morley. Norfolk, 2nd husband. Henry Parker, K.B.,=j= Ann, da. to SU John s. and h., summoned to Pari, as St. John of Bletshoe. Lord Morley, Baron of Rye, 14 H. VIII. Ob. 1556, 27 Nov. Grace, dr. of John Newport,: Esq. [SU Robert Newport, of Pelham, Herts.] : SU Henry Parker, K.B.,: marr. 1st 1536, ob. cUca 1550, p.v. = EUzabeth,- da. & hr. of = SU WUUam SU PhUip Calthorpe, Wodehouse, 2nd wUe. 2nd husb. Henry Parker,^ EUzabeth, da. Thomas Parker. succeeded his grandfather as Lord Morley, Baron of Rye, heU to the Hundreds of Forehoe&Eynesford,&c. of Edward, E. of Derby. SU PnUip Parker, a quo the Parkers of Erwarton, Suffolk. Edward Parker,1 Lord Morley, Baron of Rye, ob. 16 Jac. I. Sold Swanton. : EUzabeth, da. and hr. of WilUam Stanley, Lord Monteagle. A junior branch of the famUy of Rye appears to have remained at Swanton or the neighbourhood. Henry de Bye, a juror on the Common Pleas RoU for 34 Henry III. (1250) for Launditch Hundred, in which year he, with his wife Lecia, and her sisters, Mabel (wife of Roger de Verly), Emma, and AUce, had a conveyance by fine from Saher de Fryville of land at Scarning.— Feet of Fines, 34 Henry III., No. 999. Henry de Rye and Robert de FrieviUe were witnesses to deed of WiUiam, Earl of Warren. He was father of William de Bye, and Alice his wife, mentioned in Fine RoUs, 39 Henry III. (1255), described as son of Henry. WiUiam de Rye of Swanton and AUce his wife, 52 Henry III. (1268), conveyed by fine to Thomas, son of Adam de Swanton, a messuage and land in Swanton, to hold of them at the annual rent of fifty shillings, the consideration being a hawk of the first year. — Feet of Fines, Henry III., No. 1521. A juror for Launditch Hundred, 3 Edw. I. (1275).— Sot. Hund. Johanna de Rye was of Swanton in 1327, vide Norf. Subsidy RoU for that year. See more about the Ryes in Herald and Geneal., vol. vU. p. 246, by Walter Rye, Esq. We see here that upon the death of Hubert, the last Baron of Rye of that name, the barony became divisible between his two daughters and coheirs, AKna, AveKna, or AKva, who married John le Mareschal or MarshaU, and Isabel, who married Roger de Cressi. IsabeUa, however, had first been married to Geffry de Castria or Chester,5 after whose death Roger, son of Hugh de Cressy (8 John), paid a fine for marrying her without a Ucense ; and jn the first year of King John (1199), Robert Fitz Roger, caUed de Corbrigg, Lord of Warkworth in Northumberland, gave three hundred marks for AUva the younger daughter to marry his nephew, John MarshaU. This John le MarshaU or MarescaU, in the fifth year of that reign, received a grant from the king of all the lands in Norfolk and Suffolk which 5 Bl., Roydon, i. 45. Geoffry de Chester married her without the king's Ucense, and had to pay a fine of twenty marks and twelve palfreys for so doing. 70 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. had been Hugh de Gurnai's, and is entitled nephew of William, Earl of Pembroke,6 known as the old MarshaU. John, in 1207, was made MarshaU of Ireland. In what manner he was nephew to Robert Fitz Roger is not clear ; but that Roger de Cressy, the husband of Isabel de Rye, was stepson of Robert Fitz Roger is shown thus : — Hugh de Cressy,1 1 husb., Uv. 1186. = Margaret, eldest daughter : & coh. of Wm. de Chequey, Baron of Horsford. = Robert Fitz Roger, 2nd husb., ob. 1214. 1 A sister.=f= A quo the Lords of Clavering. Roger de Cressy ,=j= Isabel, da. and coh. of s. & h. ob. 1245. Hubert de Rye, ob. 48 Hen. III. 1263, s.p. Hugh de Cressy, s. and h. ob. 47 Hen. III. 1262, s.p. 1 — i Roger. John.Both died bef. Hugh, s.p. 1 AUva,: sister and heU to Isabel, ob. 1270. le Marischal. = John Mareschal. Stephen de Cressy ,= Ermentruda heU of his brother (or Alice) Hugh, set. 40, 1262, survived 1263. ob. s.p. same year. In the scutage, entered in Testa de Nevill,1 26 Henry III., it is stated that John MariscaU and Roger de Cressy held Swanton of the king ; and, under the " Fees of Ry which AUva MarescaU held," that Agnes Lenweyse, Thomas son of Baldwin, Roger le Estraunge, and Reginald de Dunham, held of her one knight's fee in Scherninghe, Wauton,8 and W'lton. And, further, that Robert Fitz Roger held Lechesham of the king, but it was not known by what service, as it belonged to the barony of his wife. As this latter manor was not included in the share of Aliva MarescaU in the barony, I defer what I have to say about it. Isabel de Cressy survived her second husband, and died on 28th October, 1263 ; 9 and as AKva la Marscale or Mareschale her sister was found to be her next heir, aU her sons, of whom she had four, must have predeceased her. In fact, Hugh de Cressy, the elder, had died without issue in the preceding year, Stephen his brother and heir being then forty years old,1 the exact time of whose death is not known, there being no inquisition extant, but it was in the same year. In the return to that held after the death of Isabel, in the county of Lincoln, Aliva la Mareschale was said to be sixty years old, but the Norfolk jurors returned her age to be quaterviginti et decem annorum, ninety years and upwards, which latter period was undoubtedly correct, if Hubert de Rye her father died, as it is said, in 1172, ninety-one years before. AKva le Marescal thereupon became entitled to the entire barony, but Kvery was granted to her upon condition that if Ermentrude, the widow of « Rot. Chart., 5 John. 7 Testa de Nevill, p. 294. B Walton (East) was a Domesday manor of Ralf de Beaufoe, which, T.R.E., had been Bund's, and at the time of the Survey was held of Ralf by Odar. WUliam le Strange held it temp. Henry ni, Wolverton adjoining. 9 Inq. p.m. 48 Henry III., n. 23. Cal. Gen. p. 111. 1 Inq. p.m. 47 Henry III., u. 28. Ib. 106. FIEF OF DE BEAUFOE OR RYE. 71 Stephen de Cressy, should be with child, the lands were to revert into the king's hands during the minority of such child.2 The exact time of the death of AKva le Mareschale is likewise unknown, for although the return to her post mortem inquisition is extant, it is amongst those of uncertain date. Blomefield places it in 1266. John, son of Sir WiUiam le Mareschal, was thereby found to be her right heir and of the age of twelve years.3 She was certainly dead before 1271, as in that year, 55 Henry III., it was found by inquisition that Alicia de Carrow, or Carhou, was enfeoffed of the manor of Asclokeby in Lincolnshire, by AKva le Mareshall her mother, for her life, and after her death to revert to the heirs of Aliva ; and that such heir was then John le Marechal, son of Sir WiUiam le Marechal.4 He was a minor in the 1st year of Edward I., when the wardship of the lands and heir of WiUiam de Mariscale was granted to the Lord John of Britany ; 5 but he seems to have been of age in the 6th year of that king, when an extent was taken of all his lands and tenements, which is entered on the escheat roll of that year.6 In the following year, 1279, he had Uvery of his lands, including the manor of Swanton as a member of the barony of Rye. According to Dugdale, WiUiam Mareschall, father of this John, was son and heir of John Mareschall, who was the eldest son of Aliva ; but in the foregoing Pedigree I have followed Blomefield, whose statement is supported by the evidence of an entry on the Fine RoU of 26 Henry III., to the effect that the king delivered to WiUiam MarescaU, brother and heir of John MarescaU, aU the lands which the said John held of the king in capite, in Norfolk, and received his fealty, and he did homage upon the first return of the king to England ; and the Sheriff of Norfolk was to take security from the said WiUiam for his reKef, which was given by the Archbishop of York, at Dorchester, on the 3rd of December.7 There was another WiUiam Marescale, son and heir of John le Marescal, lord of the manor of Haselburg in Northamptonshire,8 and who was in 1264 appointed a Baron of the Exchequer, but, adhering to the fortunes of Simon de Montfort, forfeited his lands. This WiUiam MarescaU of Haselburgh is confounded by Blomefield and by Banks9 with, but distinguished by Foss1 from, WiUiam son of AUva. The latter died about 1264. John le Marischale his son died in or about 1283, WiUiam his eldest son and heir being five years old, according to the Lincolnshire inquisition on the 29th, and according to the Norfolk one on the 14th of September, 1282.2 EUzabeth, wife of David son of Griffin, was endowed ; whom I take to have been the reUct of William le Marischale the grandfather. In the same year John de Boun (Bohun ?) had a grant of aU the lands and tenements in Hertford, 3 Blomefield, x. 433. 3 Esc. Henry HI., incert. temp., nn. 77, 240. Cal. Gen. pp. 169, 181. * Esc. 55 Henry HI. n. 16. Cal. Gen. p. 148. 5 As custos of the manor he claimed assize of bread and ale and other royalties. Rot. Hund. 3 Edward I. 6 Esc. 6 Edward I. n. 33., v. et Rot. Fin. eod. an., m. 8. ' Rot. Fin. 26 Henry III. 8 Inq. p.m. 45 Henry in. n. 34. Cal. Gen. 95. 9 Earonia Anglica Concentrata, by SU T. C. Banks, vol. i. p. 309. 1 Judges of England, vol. U. 399. 2 Inq. p.m. 11 Edward I. n. 27. 72 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Norfolk, and Essex, which were the late John le Mareschal's, during the minority of the heir, together with his marriage.3 An extent was then made of the manor of Swanton, said to be held of the king in chief, as a member of the barony of Rye. The jury returned that the advowson of the church belonged to the manor, and was worth sixty marks a year ; and the yearly rental of the manor was principaUy derived from the foUowing sources :— £. s. d. A messuage, with curtUage and garden ' 0 5 0 Rents of assize, as weU free as customary, and rents of capons, hens, eggs, and cummin ....-• In Worthing, 4 score and 12 acres, arable, at 6d. the acre In Swanton, 5 score and 12 acres, arable, at Is. „ 57 acres at 8d. . And in the field there, 4 score and 6 acres, at Ad. . Meadow land in Worthing and Swanton Underwood ...... Turbary at Esterhawe .... Herbage and pasturage over the whole . The fishery of the rivers and miU pool . Two watermills ..... Customary labour in autumn and winter, carting and the Uke ToUs or taUage of the viUans The whole yearly value, with other items which I have omitted, being Amongst other, manors and lands mentioned in the extent as belonging to the Barony, the lordship of Hokering is caUed the Capital Manor ; lands in Drayton, Skarning, Bareford, Fransham, and Dunham, as held by Godefre de Bemmond, by the service of four knights' fees ; and lands in Poswick and Lechesham, by WiUiam de Valence, at two fees.4 The entire Barony was held by the service of castleguard at Norwich Castle, commuted for payment of one mark every seven months, and 15s. for waytese 5 at the said castle at the four terms of the year. Evidence of WiUiam le MarischaU having attained his fuU age was taken one month after Michaelmas day, in 26 Edward I., 1298, when it was proved that he was baptised in Denham church, Suffolk, by John, afterwards Abbat of Bury.6 In the feodaries of that reign it appears that John de Herford held the sixth part of a knight's fee of Thomas de Ware and Hugh de Snytterton, and they of WUUam de MarescaU, who held of the king. This was afterwards known as the Manor of Herfords. WilUam le MarischaU, who had been designated Baron of Hengham, died in 1314, and John his son with ploughing and 14 17 5i 2 6 0 5 12 0 1 18 0 1 8 8 1 0 0 0 5 0 0 13 A 2 7 0 0 6 8 9 13 4 5 13 4 4 0 0 68 11 71 ' j. " Rot. orig. 10, 11 Edward I. n. 22. Ib. 11 Edward, Rot. 1. * John le Mareschal also held three fees of the Bishop of Ely, belongmg to East Dereham. 5 Watch. 6 Esc. 26 Edward L, u. 73. FIEF OF DE BEAUFOE OR RYE. 73 and heir, three years afterwards;7 whereupon the Honour of Rye, including Draitons Manor in Scarning and Dereham, and knights' fees in Fransham, Dunham, Lexham, and many other places, came to Hawise his sister and heir, and from her the Honor descended as shewn in the pedigree until about 1583, when the manor of Hockering, which carried the seigniory of Drayton Hall, Fransham, and Lexham, was sold by Edward, Lord Morley, to Sir Thomas LoveU of East Hariing, and the manor of Swanton to Sir Henry Bedingfeld. In the third year of Henry VIL, upon a survey of the Morley estates, which had been held by the Crown since the 20th September, 1476, after the death of Alianor Lovel, and during the minority of her son Henry, the yearly value of the manor of Swanton was returned as £26. 13s. Ad. In 2 Henry VIII. Sir Edward Howard, the second husband of AKce, Lady Morley, was lord in right of his wife. Henry Parker, her son by Sir WUUam Parker, and grandson of Alienora Lovel, who succeeded to the Barony in the fourteenth year of Henry VIIL, obtained a Ucense of alienation under the Great Seal, dated 20th November, 3 and 4 PhiUp and Mary, 1556, under which he granted the manors of Swanton Morleye, Hockeryng, Folsham, and Buckston, and the Hundreds of Eynford and Forehoo, to Thomas Hanchett, Francis Scrogges, Henry Sentjohn, WiUiam Sydley, Arthur Waterhowse, and Edward Hunte, Gentlemen, as trustees, after certain uses therein mentioned, for the use of his wiU ; and by his wiU, dated the 24th 8 of the same month, he provided that if his "neivy" (meaning his grandson), "Henry Parker, Knyght, dye without issue of his body lawfully begotten, special or generaU, as God it defend," then the said manors and hundreds were to remain to his newye Thomas Parker and his heirs. The testator died on the 27th November, and thereupon the said Henry Parker, who was son and heir of Sir Henry Parker, Knight, the deceased son of the late Lord Morley, being of fuU age — twenty-four years and upwards — succeeded to the title and estates. The Inquisition held at Norwich, on the 26th of AprU foUowing, returned that the manor of Swanton was held of the king and queen in capite, as also the manor of Hockering, and the hundreds, as of the Barony of Rye, their clear yearly value being £69. 6s. 8d. I wiU now show the present representation of this ancient Barony. Arms op Parker: Sable, a stag's head' cabossed between two flaunches arg. WiUiam Parker,=j= Lord Morley, and Monteagle, Baron of Rie, ob. 1622. Henry Parker, =j= s. & h. d. 1655. Catherines John, Visct. Savage, Parker, ob. 1654. (a) 2nd Earl Rivers, 1664. EUz* .= Edward Cranfeld, Parker, probably the younger son of the Earl of Middlesex, and who ob. s.p. («) 7 Inq. p.m. 10 Edward II. 8 Inq. p.m. 3 and 4 Philip and Mary, p. 1, n. 87. L 74 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. (a) Thos. Parker, s. and h. d. 1686, s.p. when the Baronies of Rye, Mar shaU, Morley, and Monteagle f eU into abeyance between the descendants of his aunts. Thomas,1 3rd Earl Rivers,ob. 1694. _!2_ = 1, Eliz4" = 2, Lady Scroope. IsabeUaLindsay, ob. s.p. Thomas,=f= Lady Charlotte Lord Colchester, ob. p.v. 1694 Stanley, da. of the Earl of Derby. Catherine Rivers, ob. unm. Rivers. =pl, Fredk. Nassau,= 2, Rev Carter. 3rdEarlofRochford, d. 1738. John, s.p. Richard.= John, 5* Earl Rivers, ob. unm. Bridge,of Traford, co. Chester. — r~r i i i 5 daughters. Richard,=p Penelope 4* Earl Rivers,ob. 1712, s.p.m. WiUiam Henry ,=Lucy Young. 4"> Earl of Roch- ford, born 1717, d. 1781, s.p. Richard.=p EUzabeth Spencer. J Lucy, bap. 1754. Son, WiUiam Henry, 6th d. inf . Earl Rochford, d. unm. 1830. Downes. EUzabeth =p James, Earl Rivers, d. Barrymore, and coh. ob. 1712. Penelope,= Major-Gen1. James da. and h. Cholmondeley, son of 2nd Marquis of Cholmondeley. < EVIDENCES, (For many of which I am indebted to Mr. Rye.) Carta Regis Hen'ici p'm1. (Reg. I., fo. 545, of the Prior and Convent of Norwich.)9 De decimis de Hokerynge, Swanetuna, de Depham, 1c. , vt cotinet1. f^. Rex Angl. omnibp fideUbj suis ffrancis & Anglis de Norfff & Suthff saltm Notum vobia faciet qd ego concedo donum qd fecit Hubeetus de Ria de decimis suis monachis Ecclie See Trinitatis de Norwyco Scilt Decimas de Hokeringe, de Swanetune, de Depham, de Bukestune, de Merkeshale Ooncedi etiam eidem ecclie eccliam See Marie de Aldeby qm Agnes de Bosco 1 uxor eius donavit cum Rico fiUo suo & Anthonio capello suo quos monachi eiusdem ecclie in monachatu suscepunt cum decimas totius ville & Aule & cum 0 acris tre arabil' & 0 ovibus & mariscu ad victum 0 oviu & cum comunitate pasture & una car? & sex Sokemannis & sex Landsethes reddentibp p ann xl sol' ffutecta de TurketeUsard, & dimid pannag' nemoris eius ville & unu molend xso1 Decimas etiam de Wrokesha, Newet Morlai, Gissinge. Has donacones petitofie & cocessione Henrici filii & hered ipor eidem ecclie in ppetuam elemosina firme & quiete & libere concedo & auctoritate sigiUi mei confirmo T. WiU'mo de Tancardisvill & Ric' Basset ap London. 9 Other copies in Reg. II. p. 264, Re 1 BeUo in one copy. III. p. 57a, xxU, and Reg. V. p. 7 (p. 55.) FIEF OF DE BEAUFOE OR RYE. 75 Qd terre T; res de Audeby teneantr bene T; in pace patet p carte seqnte.2 H. Rex Angloj & Dux Norman & Aquit & Com And, Henr' de Ria Saltm Precipio qd ecclia de Norwyco teneat bene & in pace & juste & quiete totam [terram] suam & res suas de Audebya sic [ut] melius tenuit tpr Regis H. avi mei & sicut carta sua testat'. Et no disseysiat1 inde injuste neq> sine iudico. Et nisi fec'is Vic' de Norfff faciat fieri T. Thorn Cancf apd London. Item de consinrUi carta predci Regis. H. Rex Angl. vie' & ministr suis de Norfff & de Suthffj Salt. Precipio qd eccliam & totam tram & homines & ceta omia que Agnes de Belfo dedit monachis See Trinitatis de Norwyc^ in Audeby ; idem monachi bene & libere & quiete in ppetuam elemosinam teneant, Et ne quis eis inde injuriam vel cotumeliam faciat Tf Rogf fil' Ricf & WiU'o de Tancf apud Rokynham [Rochingcham, Reg. III.] In Pope Adrian LV.'s Bull, dated 1156, confirming to Richard the Prior and the monks their possessions which are briefly mentioned, is this : — " Terram de Aldeby qm nobiUs matrona Agnes de Tonia voB cencessit." "Tonia "is a softening down of "Todneia." Saham Tony in Norfolk derived its name from these Todneis or Toneys. — J. L'E. in lit. Register V,, eo. 7. Carta Henr de Rya de sepalis decim in Baron) sua T; de Aldeby. jJiOIUttt sit omibp ec'ce fidelibp qd ego Henr. de Rye oines duas ptes decimaa meag de omibp tris quas pr meus vel ego unco^ in domenio hiiimus Ec'ce See Trinitat de Norwico & monachis ibid do sfiintibp in ppetuam elemos p salute ale mee & patris mei & mris mee. Dedi & concessi sicut pr meus Hub'tt/s eas g'tuita bonitate cocessit. Pr eni meus ou mre mea fundator ecce eiusd scdm lapidem in fundamento ponens, easd cocessit de manijs suis scilt de Swanetuna de Hokering de Newetone de Bukeston eisd de Kynysthorp mat de Depham de Wroxham eccm de Aldeby cum decimis eid ec'ce ptin & hoibp & tris & pascuis & molendifis & omibp q mr mea Agnes eid eccie dedit & decimas omu trarf quas tras pf meus v'l ego in domenio uncqja huim quicuq. eas teneat. Volo g> [igitur ?] & diligent pcipio ut pfata Eccia pdea omia in pace & quiete & incoctisse in ppetuu teneat. Register III., fo. 239. Ite Carta Huberti de Ria concefs J. Epo Norc9 de tota tra sua in Kinesthorp. SCtETtt fisentes & futuri qd Ego HtTB'Tirs de Ria dedi & concessi diio Johi Epo & Ecclie Norwic' totam tram meam de Kinestorp tam in dmo qam in hoibp qam WiU's fihus Aluredi tenuit Tenendam in ppetuu illi & successoribp suis de me & de heredibp meis reddendo inde p annu vnu nisum 3 sorum p oim s'vicio & consuetudine pret messuagfh qd est in bosco Hanc itaq. donacoem meam psenti carta & sigillo meo confirmo. Hiis testibp Tengf i Arch, Magro Nicho Wufi vicecomite, Thoma Clico de Middelt Gauff filio Petri, Will'o de Ria, Hug' de Bure\ Manasserio, HildeDto, Magro Henr de Bole-wic. 2 Another copy in Reg. III. p. 57, a xxxi. 3 Nisus a hawk. 4 He was chaplain to Bishop Turbus and Archdeacon of Norwich 1174 — 80. L 2 76 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Liber Niger Scaccarii, taken in 1167. Carta Hufcti de Ria. (ffifXCellttltiSStmR 3BttO suo H. Di gra Hlustri Regi Angl' Hub' de Ria salt et fidele servitiu. 1st! sunt milites de teneihto Hub de Ria feofati ex tepore Regis H. sc'lt anno et die q° ip fuit viv' et mortuus. Rocel fiUus Osbt, v mint. Alex, de Draiton, iiij milit. Ranulffj' de Oarun, iij milit. Hug' Com, ij milit et dim, scilt feodum Hub de Baduent. Rad de Betevill, i milit. Will's de Caisneto, i milit, soil' feod Humfridi de Macini. Rog' de Herkeham, i milit. Henf de SchaUers, dim milit de feod Hub de Ria. Ric' fil' Rabode, dim mUlt. Rad fil' Albf , dim milit. Will5 Coet, dim milit. WiU' de Valain, sextam partem militis. WiRelmus de Hereford, sexta parte milit qui e feofatfj1 pf^ morte Regf . Rad de Bella Eaga, v milit. Et in Stodenh' uj, et in Assele in Roteland ij. Et super dfim accidiu x milit et sexta pars militis. Willelmus LupeU tenet feod i mint in Docking. Close Roll, 8 John. 3&EX &c. Vic' Norf. & Suff. salt Precipim t' qd stati visis littis istis capias i manu nf am omes tras Rogi de Cressy & uxoris q fuit Gaufri de Cestf & WiUi fil' RosceUni I BaUa tua cu omib? catall & istauris i eis inventis & eas sic libes Robto de Burgate & Robto de Bristoll cllco nfo ad faciendu in comodu nf m T. com G. fil' Petri ap Berdef x die max". Sub ead forma stfbit' Vic' de Bukingha & Vic' de Kent. 2a£X Vic' Line' &c. Precipim t' qd hfe facias Alex' de Poynton plenaf saisina de ij bovatis tre cu ptin in Groiby un Rob de Tresgo? dissaisivit eu dfl[m] fuit custos tre & hedu Hubti de Rye qas pdcus Alex' tenuit de feod ipi Hubti qd ric [nunc] — in manu nf a. T. me ipo ap Neuw'c xxx die Maij. (A simUar letter had been sent 8 John.) MS. Harl. 2110. Castle Acre Cartulary, p. 576. Nov'int psentes & futi q, ego Henf de Rie dono do & S. Marie de Ac" q, monach' ibi do servie1;ibj p salute ale mee & pris & mris mee necno & fratrll meo? molendinu de Wordinga ou Turstana molendinario & mre & frib} eJ9 cu tota tra tra Sua & oi substantia sua ita Ube sic ego eu teneba a necb ego nee aliqs frm 1' qcuq> h'edum meo? inde videHcet de molendino & molendinario amplio, aliqa 9suetudine expeotat iii monachi q peo of onum vota deo psolvet H. testes Rad. Capel' Mauric9 Burnel Rad fil Rannulf Robtp de Hereha WiU de Hefort Ph. Belet. FIEF OF DE BEAUFOE OR RYE. 77 Nov'int psentes & futi q> ego Henf de Rie dono do q. see Maf de Aca & monach' ib do servientib} p salute aie mee & pfis & matris mee ncnon & frm & parentu meo} molendinu de Wordinga & Turstano molendinar & mre & ff ib} ei9 & tota tra sua & oi substatia sua et Philipp & Adewald & suis seruiciis tenurisq. oib} ta in 9suetudinib} qa in humagiis v1 in reutinendo atq> volo ut monachi ita (Crete) ita Ube ita honorifi.ee teneat sic ego umqa libig teneba ita uidel' q, necq> ego neq aliqs f f m & heci meo? aliqa 9suetudine ab hiis supa dcis ex petoe n' monachi qdo vota oronu psolvet & jure ppetuo possideat H. T. Aimed mea sorore Rad de Betevill Robt de Norfolc Oddon de finchea. HeUot Rem' Coo. Rob. Testard Elm' Stabul Brism' & aUis multis et ex aba pte vj acas tre 1 pvo pato caq turstanp tenet. Nov'int psentes & futia q> ego Henr de Ria dono do q> s' maf de aca & monach & c' ut supa. Sciant psentes & futi q, ego Hub de Ria dono & 9cedo & psenti carta 9firmo p salute aie mee & ancessogj meog do t eccle s' Maf de Aca & monach ibid do servietib? i libam elema omne tenemtu qd Philippfj1 Belet tenuit 1 tris i patis I pascuis & 1 oib? reb? I die qa pf mefj' fuit vivus & mortuf^ & I die qa recepi saisina tre mee & i die qa dedef t m1 pdci monachi ijc ma p gfirmacone hp carte Atq> volo ut ipi monachi habeat & tenent i ppetuu libe & qete H. tenemtu sic Uba Elina H. T. Luca de Ho. EUa Pbro de Swanet Unit ffe eip Hilb dap meo Rob de Mortuo mari Ph. de Ambl Gauff de Drait Lamb cUco Turst de Wurethingh Ph. Belet Rog. Eiliast' ejs Alured de Aca Rob de Aca. Omib? Xpi fideUb? ad quos psent scptu p venit Anna le MareschaU salt Nov'it unlsitas vfa qd cu prior & ,coventp de Oastelaca nos p littas dni regis coram Justiciariis de Banco traxissent i placitu ppt iiijot sol annui redditp de tenemento Philippi Belet qd Baduinp de Burgate tenuit I villa de Wrthinge qd nos anno gfe m° cc° lv' dcos iiijor sol' annui redditp eisde debitos in plena curia nfa recognovimp atq, nos & hedes & successores nf os & assignatos ad solutione dci redditp tmino debito et consueto videlicet i dnica Palmaru tenore psentm imppetuu duxim8 obUgandos Atq> in h9 rei testimoniu psentib? Uttis signu nfh duximf^ apponend test magfo Henf Sampson, Hamone de Aca, Will' Sen, Widon de Merley, Henf de Rudham. Belver Muniment Room. (Original Charter quoted by Dugdale.) Henricus de Ria omnibus S. Ecclesie Dei Eiliis Notu sit vobis me concessisse et dedisse S. Marie de Belvoir & monachis ibide Deo servientibus omne decima. de maneriis meis dominicis scincet de Aslakebi de Saitoun de Hortune cu apperticus eora. semota tertia parte Presbyteri et in unaquaq, istaru villaru una Bovata Terre cum homine et suo orto sicut Robertus de Totoneio avus et Hubertus Pater meus cum Agnete matre mea eas dederunt et benigna concesserunt ita Ubere et quiete in perpetuaf eleemosinam eis pro salute anime mee et avi mei et Patris mei et omniu Parentu meorum caritative [corobative ?] concedo et sio-illi mei corrobatatione oonfirmo et si alique Terre de Dominis distincte sint et aUcui date ad tenendO in Eeudo quicuncj Terras teneat illas Decima ejde ecclesie perpetuahter remanet. Henricus de Rya karissimo amico Reginaldo de Warena salutem et amorem Mando vobis et obnixe precor quatinus pro amore Dei et S. Marie et omnium SS. et mei monachos de Belveer in omnibus locis manuteneatis Sciatis bene me concessisse et warentazze donationem Roberti de Belveer deo et S. Marie servientibus sciheet duas partes in bladis in vituhs in agnis in velleribus in caseis in porcellis in apibus in pomis et in omnibus rebus de quibus decima solet dari Valete et faceatis iHis monachis habere decimas quietas ne amplius deteriorentur inde. 78 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Madox's Form. Angl., p. 294, No. dii. Henricus de Ri Willelmo Olerico & Praeposito suo Salutem Mandando vobis firmiter prsecipio quatinus monachis de Belvoir terram suam in Loctona cum homine suo Suein nomine decimamq, in Hoselochebi hebere faciatis & tenere bene & in pace permitatis, nominatimq; decimam de pomeris meo; sicut avus meus Robertus de Toteneio aUquam contumeliam inde inferre prsesumatis ut me et meam pacem diUgitis valete. [Part of seal remains, — a knight on horseback.] Ex Chron. Gervasii Durobernensis, MS. in Bibl. Cott. (Dugdale, Mon. i. p. 22.) Gift to Cathedral Church of Canterbury. A.D. MCSLVI. Henricus de Rva seisivit Eccles. Christi de manerio de Diepham per quendam cultellam super altare Christi preesentibus Theobaldo Archiepisc. Waltero Priore aliiscf multis et acceptus fuit in fraternitatem a praedictis Archiepisc. et Prior anno supradicto Quam donationem Hen. rex 2 confirmavit. Madox's Form. Angl., p. 40, No. lxix. S.[tephanus] Rex Angl' Episcopo Norwicensi & Justiciariis & Vicecomitibus & Baronibus & Ministris & omnibus EideUbus suis de Norfolc & Sudfolc Salutem Sciatis me concessisse & confirmasse donationem illam quam Henricus de Ria fecit Deo & monachis S. Trinitatis de Cantuaria de Terra de Diepham in escambio Terrae Muchberdestona quam Hubertus de Ria pater Henrici eis in morte sua dedit Quare volo & firmiter preecipio quod prsedicti monachi terram iUam bene et in pace et honorifice teneant & habeant sicut prsefatus Henricus earn illis dedit & concessit & carta sua confirmavit & sicut malus et liberius tenent aUas elemosinas & teneuras suas Testibus W. Mart & Ricards de Luci & Warnero de Lusoriis apud Cantuariam. — Ex Aut. in Arch. Eccles. Christi Cant. Dodsworth's MSS. cii. fo. 33. (Ex Ubro Jos. Vincentu notato cum dddd, p. 117.) Universis Francis et AngUs, etc., Hubtus de Ria saltm Sciatis me dedisse Cannonicis de Southwarke ecclam meam de Hokeringe cu capella de Berch cu oibj ptinentiis utriusq p salte Dili nfi Heii Rt3 Angl. & fiUog suoj & p salte aia mea & p aia pris mei Hubti de Rye & avunouU mei Odonis dapifer in ppetuam elemosma SigilU mei apposui confirmavi Hujus donacois sunt testes, etc. Johes dei gra Norwioensis Epus Noveritis nos confirmasse cannonicis de Southwarke eccliam de Hokeringe in pprios usus suos cii oibus ad eil ptinent (salva possessione M«s Rob'ti de BeUofago Rectorio ejusdem eccle quadni vixerit) ppetuo possuendam ex donacoe Hub'ti de Rye ejusdem eccle Patronu sicut in ipsius carta continetr Salva etiam honesta & sufficiente sustentacoe vicarii. Entries from the Norfolk Pipe Rolls. 31 Henry I. Agnes de Belfago redd copot de xxxv m arg' qia filig suus prex' ad Com Flandf . In Thauro x in arg'. Henrie' de Ria redd copot de xj" xiij» & uij'1 p plac' qd fuit int eu et Archiepm. In thauro x m arg' & det Cs. 4 Henry II. Id vie' redd comp de iiij" de plac' p Henf de Ria. FIEF OF DE BEAUFOE OR RYE. 7& 5 Henry II. Id vie' redd comp de x m p Henf de Ria. In pdon p br Rf3 eid Henf x fh. Et Quiet est. Id vie' redd comp de m m p Avehna de Ria. In th' coc et xxx" in ij taU. 6 ,, Avel' de Ria redd comp de C et xxxiij1' et vjs et viijd. 7 ,, Henf de Ria redd cop de xlX Rad de BeKo rodd cop de vm- 8 ,, Id Vic' redd comp de Scutag' Hub'ti de Ria. In th' xxh. NU. Henf de Ria redd comp de xxiij11 et vj* et viijd- In th' xix1' in ij tall. Et deb' iiij11 et vj' et viijd. Hub' de Ria redd comp de iiij1' et yj* et viijd. In th' xxs. Et deb' lxyj8 et viijd. Hub' de Ria deb' lxvj8 et viijd de v militib? sed Rex ht ex eis iij mil' de feodo Henf de Essex et Rad de Bellafago tenet ij in Nicolscf in capite de Rege. 14 ,, (De auxil Matild fine Rf.) Hub't9 de Ria redd comp de xxxv m de eod aux' p mil suis. In thf o xxvij m. Et deb' viij fh. Avelina de Ria redd comp de cc" qz fee fi' fil' suu mil' q' erat in cgtodia Regis. In thf o 9 and 10. 11 It 12 ) 1 13 11 iij1' et vjs et viijd. Et deb' C et lxvj11 et xiijs et injd 15 ,, Hub't9 de Ria deb' viij m de mil' suis. Avelina de Ria redd comp de C et lxvj11 et xiij8 nijd. In thfo xx fh. Et deb' C et Iiij1' et vjs et viijd. Ead redd comp de eod debito. In thfo xx11. Et deb' C et xxxiij11 et viijd. 16 ,, Hub' t9 de Ria deb' viij m p mil' suis. Avelina de Ria redd comp de C et xxxiij11 et vjs et viijd de mia p fil' qe fee milite. In thfo xiij" et vjs et viijd. Et deb' C et xx11. 17 „ Hub't.9 de Ria deb' viij xa p mil' suis. Avelina de Ria redd comp de C et xx11. In thfo xiij11 et xvjd- Et deb' C et vj11 et xviij5 et viijd. 18 „ Hub't.9 de Ria deb' viij fh p mil' suis. Avelina de Ria deb' C et vj11 et xviij8 et viijd. 19 ,, Hub't9 de Ria deb' viij ni p mil' suis. Avelina de Ria deb' C et vj11 et xviij3 et viijd. In thfo xxvj" et vhjd- Et deb' C11 et C et xij8. 20 „ Hub't9 de Ria deb' viij fh p mil' suis. Avelina de Ria deb' C11 et C et xijs de, &c. 21 Hub't9 de Rya redd comp de viij fh p mil' suis. In thfo libavit. Et Quit9 est. Avelina de Ria deb' c11 et c et xij8 de, &c. Hub't9 de Ria deb' c5 de ead scut (Scut. Hybm.) q1 req^ebant" de eod scut a Regin de Waf du erat in custodia eJ9- 80 HISTORY OP THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. 22 Henry II. Hug' de Cressi redd comp de c et qfr xx et x11 de mia Willi de Caisneto. AveUna de Ria deb' c11 et c et xij8 de mia, &c. Hub't9 de Ria redd comp de cs de eod scut. In Thfo libavit. Et Quiet est. 23 ,, AveUna de Ria deb' c11 et c et xijs de mia, &c. Tom de Bellofago redd comp de c m p fine tre de Crech. 24 ,, Avelina de Ria deb' c1' et c et xij8 de, &o. 25 „ Aveling (sic) de Ria Hubert9 fin9 ei9 p ea redd comp de c" et c et xij- de mia matris sue. In thfo ix1'. Et deb' qtf xx et xvj11 et xij8. 26 ,, Avehn de Ria Hubert^ filig ei9 p ea redd comp de qtr xx et xvj11 et xij8. In thfo xxs. Et deb' qtr xx et xv11 et xijs. (In Line. Hub. de Ria is charged with ten marks for not coming before the Justices.) 30 ,, Hub't9 de Ria redd comp de lxvj11 et xviij8 et vnjd de mia mats sue. In thfo xx11. Et deb' xl11 et xviij1 et viijd. 31 Henry II. Hub't9 de Ria redd comp de xl11 et xviij8 et vujd de mia mats sue. In thfo xvj11 et viij8 et vujd. Et deb' xxx11 et x'. 32 „ Hub't9 de Ria redd comp de xxx11 et xB de mia matis sue. 33 ,, Toih de Bellafago deb', &c, Sz mortuus est. Hub't9 de Ria deb' xxx11 et xs de mia mat's sue. 34 ,, Hub't9 de Ria deb' xxx11 et x8 de mia mat's sue S? rn.0rt.u9 est et tra ei9 e i custod R^>. 1 Richard I. Ditto. (1189.) Margareta de P'ci deb' xx et xv1' vj8 et viijd p hnda convent sua v8 Hub'tu de Ria de tra de Aselakebi. 20 Henry III. Compotus de Warda debita Castri de Norwic'. Et de Liij" et iujd de Baronia Hub de Rya q fac' wardam de vj Sept. in vj Sept. de tmino S. Mich. Et de vij et iujd de ead de Weytfeu de tminio S. Johis et S. Mich. Ex Antiq. Mem. penes Sampson Lennard (quoted by Dugdale, i. p. 414, as relating to Horsham Priory, Norfolk.5) Genealogia Fundatoris. " Rogerus de Crescy accepit uxorem nomine Isabellam de Ry et genuit ex ea quatuor fiUos videUcet Hugonem Rogerum Johannem et Stephanum qui mortui sunt sine prole," &c. Escheat, 11 Edward I. n. 27. Extenta facta de manerii de Swanton quod fuit Johannis le Mareschal die quo obht per Bicardum atenhawe de Bitereng, Johannem Chep de Hoo, Willielmum Brochard de eadem, Walterum de Northale, Bicardum le Tauerner, Simonem Eswald de Skerning, Thomam leneve de Wendlinge, Bicardum leport' de 5 The same genealogy is given sub voce Sibeton Abbey from another MS., " Ex regrant de Sibton in com Norf., in Bibl. Arundel, fo. ia." FIEF OF DE BEAUFOE OR RYE. 81 Swanton, Simonem Lleberd, et Johanem, le port', qui dicunt, &e., idem Johanes le Marischal tenuit manerium de Swanton de domino Rege in capite et est membrum Baronii de Rye et quod manerio spectat advocatio ecclesiae de Swanton quae valet per annum lx marcas. Est ibi quoddam mesuagium cum curtilagio et gardino quod valet per annum vs. Item sunt ibi de redditibus assisse tam liberorum quam eustumarium et redditibus altilium 6 gallinarum et ouorum et cumini per annum xiiijKJ. xvijs. vd ob. Item sunt iiij'1 xij acrae terrae arabilis in villa de Worthing precium acrae vjd. et est summum xlvjs. Item in villa de Swanton v" xij acre terrse arabuis precium acrae xijd. summum Cxiijs. Item in eadem villa Lvij acrae terras arabilis p'o acr' vujd. vna summum xxxviijs. Item in eodem campo iiij11 vj acr' terrae arrabilis p'c acr' iiijd. summum xxviijs. viijd. Item quoddam pratum in Worthing et quoddam pratum in Swanton et valent per annum xxs. Item subbosoum valet per annu m vs. Item turbarium in Esterhawe et valet per annum xiijs. iiijd. Item herbagium et pastura per totam (?) et valet per annum xlvijs. Item piscarium in ripariis et in stagno mollendini valet per annum vjs. viijd. Item sunt ibi duo molendina aquatica quae valent per annum ixlibr. xiijs. iiijd. Item sunt ibi opera oustumaria in antupno et yerne cum arrura et cariate et consimilibus et valent per annum Cxiijs. iiijd. Tallagium viUanorum valet per annum mjlibr. Summum. totale valet LxviijK6?\ xjs. vijd. ob. q. Willielmus filius dicti Johannis de Mareschal, &c, erat etatis quinque annorum in festo exaltationis sancte crucis anno r. r. E. decimo. Extenta terrarum et ten' D'ni Johis le Mareschal defuncti in com. Norff. p. vie. escaetorem de Munpinsun et dfium Thorn, de Hakeford et alios fide dingnos — dominium de Hokeringe — et quod est capitale manerium de Baronia de Ry. Godefre de Bemmond tenet in Drayton, Skerning, Bareford, et Fransham et Dunham pro iiij feod. Willielmus de Valence in Possewik et lechesham pro ij feod. Et tenetur Baronia Integra per servicium reddendi per annum ad custodianum castri Norwici pro dictis maneriis ut continetur in extento de Buxton ad gardum castri Norwici de sex septimanis in sex septimis j marc et de waytese ad dictum castrum ad quartuor terminos xvs. 9 Hen. ILL 1225. Warinus de TJtlage dat diio R dimid marc' p hfido q°da pone oora Justic de banco qa Thom de Hereford & Isab mrem ejp de xxx acris tre cii ptin i Swaneton & i Ho & mand est Vic' Norf. qd capiat &c. T. R. ap Westih viij die Apri. — Fin. Rot. (127). Inq. p. m. 10 Edward II. n. 79. Johis le Marischal def. Breve diem clausit, 2nd Sept. Inquisitio capta ult0. Sept. Item Henr' Turnecourt tenet in Swanton terras & tenementa per servicium sexti partis feodi unius mihtis & valet xvjs. viijd. Item Walter de Langeton Episcopus Cestriae & Johanna Bemond tenent terras & tenementa in Drayton, Skernygg, Berford, Fransham, & Dunham per servicium iiij feodorum unius militis & valent xxli. Item Adomar de Valentia comes Pennbr' tenet in Lexham per servicium j feodi — et valet c s. Et quod Ela que fuit uxor predicti Johis de assensu Roberti de Morley qui Hawyse sororem & heredem predi' Johis duxit in uxorem dotata de ..... . Nortun & Plum .... Total.— 24J knights' fees. Testa de Nevill. Lawendich. Johes MarescaU et Rog8 de Cressy tenent Swanton de dno Rege set nescit' p quod servicium. 6 Altilis, a boar, brawn. M 82 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Feoda de Ry que AUcia Marescalla tenet. (1236.) Agnes Leuveyse, Thomas fil. Baldewin, Rog8 le Estrange et Regin8 de Dunham, unum feod. milit. in Scheringha [Seherningha] Wauton et W'lton de eadem. — Testa de Nevill. Temp. Edward I., 1301—5. Willmus de MariscaUus tenet manerium de Swanton de dno Rege in capite ut de Baronia de Rye. Johes de Horstede tenet in Swanton vjtam p'ta unius feod. mil. de Thoma de Warren et Hugone de Snitterton et ijdam de Willo MarescaHo et idem de Rege. — Liber Feod. MS. A. WiR'ms de MarescaU tenet manor de Swanton de diio Rege in capite. Johes de Herford infra etatem tenet, &c, de Thoma de Ware et Hug. de Snytterton et idem de WUl'mo de MarescaUo, &c. — MS. B. WiU'ms de Marschall tenet manor de Swanton, &c. [p'dict maner modo est in manu d'ne de Morley.] Johnes de Hertford ten. vjtam p'tem, &o., de Thoma. de Ware et Hugone de Snytterton et iUi, &c. \_p'dcus vj p'sfeod. mo" est in manu Johis Pegon], — MS. C. Henricus de Segrave ten. in Skernyng un. feod. mil. de Willo Mar. et idem de Rege. — MS. A. Henricus Segrave cum tenentibus suis tenet, &c, de Willo de Mareso. — MS. B. Henr' de Wygrave tenet, &c, de WiRo le Maresch', &c. — MS. C. Temp. Edward III., 1346. Robertus de Morle tenet manerium de Swanton de diio Rege in capite. Thomas de Horsford tenet vj partem unius feodi militis in Swanton de Roberto de Morle et idem de Rege. Constantinus de Mortuo mari tenet in Skernigg' unum feod. militis de Roberto de Morle et idem de Rege. — Book of Aids. 43 Edward III. Robertus de Morle, maner de Hokeryng ut parceU baronie de Ry, &c, ac manerium de Swantone ut parcell manerii de Hokering qd est parceU baronie de Rye, — ac maner de Buxtone ac hundr' de Forehoue ut de antiquo domifi, &c. — Harl. MS., 708. Aid, 3 Henry TV, 1402. Thomas Morle — Swanton of the king in capite, by what service unknown. Thomas de Horsforde held sixth part, &c, as of the manor of Swanton, of Thomas Morlee, who held of the king as parcel of the barony of Rye. Testament dated 3rd May, 1463. Prob. penult., Februar, 1466. Dame IsabeU, lady of Morley — in my place within the citie of Norwich. To the heigh awter of Swanton vjs. viijd. To the heigh auter of Wurthyng iijs. iiijd. To the reparaon of the same chirch xxs. To my por tenante} of Swanton & Wurthyng to be divided a monge hem xxvjs. vujd. My sone Johne Hastyng;— my daughter Anne, the wiffe of sd John Hastyng ;— Isabel BosweU, daughter to said Anne ; — dame Eleanor my daughter, the Lady Morley. Codicil.—" Itm I bequeth to the parych chirch of Swanton Morley an hole westement of blak velwet with the orfreys that I made therto." — Norw. Reg. Jekkys, p. 2, fo. 50. FIEF OF RAINALD FITZ IVO. fta&ular ^nalgsts of tfje JBomestfag Sur&eg. FIEF OF RAINALD FITZ IVO. 83 Domesday Name. Mesne Tenant. Land under cultivation. Occupiers. Classes of Labourers. Plough Teams. Pasture Land. Other Features. Sutton. [Greynston in TittleshaU.] Olova. Boteric. j 2 carucates. (T.R.E. {T.R.W. (T.S. Vil. 16 1610 Bord Serv. 2 22 In Dom lcar i Hom 3 11 a 10 acres of meadow. Wood for 200 swme ; at T.S. 100. a A half could be restored. Live Stock. — T.R.E., 5 hogs, 120 sheep; at Survey, 5 hogs, 100 sheep. Value, T.R.E., 40s. ; at Survey, 80s. Extent, half a leuca in length, five furlongs in breadth. Assessment to the gelt, 5d. Cjre Jftef 0f §awaltr $&\ fkr. MONGST the tenants in capite who are described in Domesday as holding lands in Lawendic is the name of Rainald Fitz Ivo, with this peculiarity, that the pen has been drawn across the name. Although he is described as holding near fifty lordships in the county we know nothing about him. The probability is, that when the Survey was made Rainald was the tenant, but when the returns were completed and entered in the book he had been deprived of his possessions, perhaps by death ; and shortly afterwards we find the greater portion of them added to those of Gilbert son of Richer or Richard Eitz Gilbert, his son, as part of the Honor of Clare. Ten or twelve of these lordships were in Clackclose. In some places he succeeded Ketel ; in others, Godwin ; in Rainham, Bondus or Bond. The only lordship which he held in capite, in Launditch, — he has been mentioned before as holding Oxwick under the Abbey of St. Etheldreda at Ely, — is called in the Survey Sutton — Suttuna. Now there is no parish or manor, that I am aware of, so named in the Hundred, and Blomefield does not venture to assign this description to any manor or parish in the Hundred, or indeed in the County. It is as follows : — " Sutton was held by a certain lady, named Olova, in the time of King Edward, for a manor or residence. It contained two carucates of land, now T.S., held by Boteric, with ten acres of meadow and pannage for 200 swine, T.R.E.— 100, T.S. This, it is added, was held by Stigand in Mileham. Hoc tenuit Stigandus in Mulcham. Its value had been doubled and was, T.S., estimated at 80s. and measured in length half a leuca by five quarentines." The fact of this manor or soe belonging to Mileham affords a fair inference that the m 2 84 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. compilers of the Survey did not enter it under Launditch in error. To ascertain its locality is a question of no little interest. We do not meet with it under that name amongst the possessions of the Earls of Clare, with the other lordships of this Rainald. The name of Boteric, the sub-tenant, occurs once more as holding of Rainald four free men in Reineham, which had also belonged to Bond, who had half a carucate of land there. This half carucate was included in the Honour of Clare, for in 1176 Pope Alexander confirmed to the Bishop of Norwich land in West Rainham given by William Fitz Buteri, and in the assessment to the aid made 6th May, 20 Henry III., 1236, amongst the fees of the Earl of Clare, the heirs of William Boteri were charged for the half of a knight's fee in Reinham Parva. I conceive it to be highly probable that William Boteri was a descendant of Boteric, the Domesday tenant. In the same assessment, the heirs of Roger de Greynston are charged as holding one knight's fee in Greynston of the Earl of Clare. Gilbert de Clare, fifth in descent from the first earl, became also Earl of Gloucester; and from him the inheritance descended to Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, who was son and heir of Edward Mortimer, Earl of March, by Philippa his wife, daughter and heir of Lionel Duke of Clarence, by Elizabeth his wife, who was daughter and heir of William de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, son of John de Burgh and of Elizabeth de Clare, one of the sisters and coheirs of Gilbert, last Earl of Clare, Hertford, and Gloucester. FIEF OF THE EARLS OF CLARE. So we find in 1402 the knight's fee in Titleshall is returned as held of the Earl Marche, who was the tenant in capite. This was Edmund Mortimer, the last earl, after whose death the fee descended through his sister Ann to her son, Richard Duke of York, whose son Edward, called by courtesy Earl of March, became Xing of England, the fourth of that name, and it became united to the Crown. Parkins ' says that Walter Giffard, Earl of Bucks, or his son, succeeded Reinald son of Ivo in the Lordship of Walsingham, with others, soon after the Survey, from whom they came by marriage to Richard Fitz Gilbert, ancestor of the Earls of Clare and Gloucester. We may assume that Greynston passed in the same way. Walter Giffard, one of the companions of the Conqueror, had the gift of several lordships in Norfolk, mentioned in Domesday, and the Earldom of Buckingham, to which the estates of Rainald seem to have been subsequently added. He died in 1102, and Walter his son, the second earl, in 1164, without issue, whereupon Rohaise, daughter or sister of the first Walter, having married Richard Fitz Gilbert, the first Earl of Clare, her descendants may have inherited his possessions.2 1 Blomefield, ix. 268. 2 Walter Giffard is mentioned in Norman history as Lord of Longueville in 1053. He accompanied Duke William to England with thirty vessels and a hundred men, and distinguished himself at Hastings. The earldom was given him in 1070, and he was one of the commissioners appointed to superintend the Great Survey. His wife's name was Ermengarde, daughter of Gerard Flintel. By her he had two sons, of whom Walter the elder succeeded him as Earl of Buckingham, and WUliam the younger became Chancellor to William Rufus, and in 1107 Bishop of Winchester. Rohaise or Rohesia, Countess of Clare, was the only daughter.— The Conqueror and his Companions : Planche. FIEF OF RAINALD FITZ IVO. 55 Geoffry, natural son of Richard =f= L, Duke of Normandy. | r ' Gislebert, surnamed Crispin,=p Count of Brien. I Richard Eitz GUbert, called de =f= Rohaise, da. and in her issue heU of Walter Clare, temp. W. Conq., 1 earl. Giffard, Earl of Buckingham, afterwards married Eudo Dapifer. Gislebert or Gilbert Fitz Richer, =j= AdeUza, da. of the called de Tonebruge, 2 earl. Count of Clermont. GUbert de Clare, Earl of Hertford, ob. 1151, s.p. Richard Fitz Gilbert, =y= AUce, sister of Ranulph, Earl of Hertford temp. 2 Earl of Chester. Stephen, ob. 1139. Roger de Clare,=Y=Maud, da. of James St. bro and hr., Earl of Hertford, ob. 1173. HUlary ; mar. 21y WUUam, Earl of Arundel. Richard de Clare,=^= Amicia, da. and ultimately son and heir, Earl of Hertford, ob. 1218. sole heir of WUUam, Earl of Gloucester. j Gilbert de Clare,"- Earl of Hertford and Gloucester, ob. 1229. Margaret, da. to = Richard de Clare,: Hubert de Burgo, E. of Hertford and E. of Kent, 1 ux. Glouc, ob. 1262. : Isabel, sister and coh. of Anselm MarshaU, Earl of Pembroke. = Maud, da. of John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, 2 ux. Uving 1285. AUce, da. of Hugh le = Gilbert de Clare,=f= Joan of Acre, da. of King Edw. Brun, Earl of Angou- leme, 1 ux., divorced. E. of Hertford and Glouc, ob. 1295. I., mar. after to Ralph de Morthermer ; ob. 1307. Gilbert, s. & h. ob. 1313, s.p. AUanore,mar. 1st Hugh, Lord de Spencer, and 21y WUliam, Lord Zouche. Margaret,mar. 1st Piers Gavestone,2nd to Hugh de Audley. "l John de Burgh,=f= EUzabeth Earl of Ulster. 1 husband. Theobald, Lord ob. 4 Novem. Verdon, 2 husband. 1360, 34 Edw.=j=SU Roger D' Amory, 3 husb., mar. 10 Edward II. WUUam de Burgh,=j= Maud, sister of Henry, Earl of Ulster. [ Duke of Lancaster. 1 Lionel, Duke of Clarence,=j= Elizabeth de Burgh, 3 son of Edw. III., ob. 1368. | da. and hr. Edmund Mortimer,=p Philippa, da. and hr. 3rd Earl of Marche, ob. 1381. | III. Foun dress of Clare HaU, Camb. EUzabeth, mar. to SU John BardoU, ut supra, p. 53. Roger Mortimer ,=j= Eleanor, da. of Thomas Earl of March, ob. 1398. | HoUand, Earl of Kent. Edmund Mortimer, last Earl of March, mar. Anne, da. of Edmund, E. of Stafford, but died s.p. 1424. Ann.= ¦ Richard Plantagenet, I Earl of Cambridge. Richard, Duke of York, father of King Edward IV. 86 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Eabular ^nalgsis of tfie ©onusoag Surbeg. FIEF OF RALF DE TOENI. Domesday Name. Land under cultivation. Occupying Tenants. Classes of Labourers. Ploughs or Teams. Pasture Land. Other Features. 3" carucates. 30| acres. 16 socmen, T.R.E T.R.W. T.S. 1 socman, T.R.E.T.S. VilB. Bord Serv. Dom Hom 6 acres of meadow. Frounesham. Dunham. 12 1212 4 4 3 4 11 Mast for 60 swine. One mill. These were included in the valuation of Necton, to which they were appurtenant ; and one carucate has been treated of as part of the Fief of Ralf de Beaufoe. Goduic. 1 carucate. A king's T.R.E. freeman. T.R.W. TS. 4 acres. 1 socman. 6 7 6 7 2 6 7 9 acres of meadow. Mast for 200 swine. This carucate was also valued with Necton, and was six quarentines in length by four in breadth, and was taxed at sixpence and a halfpenny to the gelt. Cbt Jftef d JStalpjr k feni IMONGST the companions of William the Norman was Raoul, Radulf, or Ralph de Toeni, son or grandson of Roger Lord de Toeni and de Conches, surnamed of Spain, who had a character for violence and aggression on his neighbours, and perished in the broils which arose in Normandy on the Bastard's accession to the duchy, of which he was hereditary standard-bearer. This Roger is mentioned as the founder of an Abbey at Conches in 1035. His death is stated by Ordericus Vitalis1 to have occurred in the 3rear 1051 with two of his sons. Ralph de Toeni, otherwise called de Conches, was witness to a charter of Duke William, in 1050, to the Abbey of St. Evrauld, and in 1054 he was sent by him on an important expedition to Henry I. of France ; but in 1063, through the malicious suggestions of some who bore a grudge against him, he incurred the displeasure of William, who exiled him.3 We find him received into favour again as one of the duke's counsellors, in 1066, whom he followed in his invasion of England, and was present at the battle of Hastings, when 1 Vol. i. 401, Guizot'a edit. The family sprung from a Frank, named Hugh de Calvacamp, one of whose sons, licing Archbishop of Rouen in the middle of the tenth century, is accused of having aliened the domam of Toeni from the Church to enrich his own family. — Ord. Vit. iv. 147 n. 2 Ord. Vit. i. 431. FIEF OF RALPH DE TOENI. 87 William would have delivered his standard to him to bear as of hereditary right, but he declined, promising to do better service with his sword. William rewarded him with grants of one hundred and thirty manors in England, of which the greater part lay in Staffordshire and nineteen or twenty in Norfolk. He had in Normandy carried off Agnes his half sister, daughter of Richard, Count of Evreux, whom he gave in marriage to Simon de Montfort. He obtained in return the hand of Isabel or Elizabeth de Montfort, Simon's daughter, by whom he had two sons, Roger and Rodolph or Ralph, and a daughter, Godehilde, who married, first, Robert de Newburgh, Count of Mellent, and afterwards to Baldwin, son of Eustace Count of Boulogne, and ultimately King of Jerusalem.3 Upon the death of the Conqueror, Ralph took up arms, with Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, and William, Count of Evreux, in support of Robert Curthose, who succeeded to the Duchy of Normandy ; and his nephew William de Breteuil, son of his sister Adeline, joined him. But, in 1090, some contemptuous words spoken by Isabel his wife having been reported to Hawise, the wife of the Count of Evereux, this lady revenged, or hoped to revenge herself, by fomenting deadly hostilities between the two brothers-in-law, in which William de Breteuil took part with the count. In this contest Ralph was victorious, and having captured William de Breteuil, terms of peace were agreed upon. This was in 1090. William made his cousin Roger, Ralph's second son, heir of the whole fief of Breteuil; and the Count of Evereux nominated the same Roger, who was also his own nephew, his successor in that county. These intended successions were however frustrated by the death of Roger, which occurred in the same year. In 1091 William Rufus and his brother Robert being reconciled, the fiefs of Ralph de Conches in Normandy were ceded to William. "He was reckoned," says Ordericus, "among the first of the Norman nobles for honours and wealth, serving bravely in the armies of King William and Duke Robert his son for nearly sixty years. This young man, Ralph, died 24th March, 1102, and was succeeded in his honours and estates by Ralph III., his son. He had been a benefactor to the abbey of St. Evreux, to which he gave the manor of Caldecot in Norfolk, his wife and his sons Roger and Ralf being parties. His daughter Isabel became a nun. In 1103 Ralph (III.) de Conches, alias de Toeni, came over to England, and received a gracious reception from King Henry, who confirmed him in his father's English honours and estates, which we find described in the Domesday Survey. In Norfolk his chief possession was the Manor of Necton, (Nechetuna), which extended into or had lands held of it in several other parishes, — Bradenham, Pickenham, Cressingham, Caldecot and Bodney, in Grenehow ; Carbrook, in Weyland ; Fransham, Dunham and Godwick, in Launditch ; Westacre and other parishes in Freebridge, and Wretham in Shropham, all valued together at £60 and Is. According to my plan I confine myself to those in Lawendic, which consisted of three carucates of land in Frounesham (Fransham), which were held, T.R.E., by sixteen socmen of Herold with six acres of meadow, wood for sixty swine, and a mill, all valued in Necton. 3 Ord. Vit., Guizot xi. 188 (refs. in orig. edit. 460a 485a, 495«*, 501c.) 88 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Of these three carucates, we are informed, Eudo son of Clama held the liberation or fealty of one as long as he lived, and afterwards Ralph de BeUofago had it, but Toeni was then possessed of it as belonging to Necton, to which it appertained in the Confessor's time. Also of thirty acres and a half of land in Dunham, held by another socman of Herold, T.R.E., and valued in Neketun. In Godwic he had one carucate of land, which had belonged to a freeman of King Edward, with nine acres of meadow, and wood affording pannage for two hundred hogs ; also four acres of land held by a socman. This was also valued in Neketun, and contained six quarentines in length by four in breadth ; but although it was held with Neketon it did not lie in it, either in the time of the Confessor or of Harold ; and Roger Bigot claimed it as the gift of the king (William) to him, and reclaimed the livery or right of fealty, revocat liberator em. There can be no doubt that the Saxon superior here mentioned was Harold the king, with whose other possessions Necton was seized by the Conqueror, and with its dependencies descended, as we have seen, to Ralph de Toeni III, son of the Domesday tenant in capite, except Caldecot, which Ralph, the father, had given to the Abbey of St. Evrault in Normandy, and Westacre and Godwic, which he had granted, according to most authorities, to the Priory of Westacre, founded by him in the reign of Rufus.2 In these grants Isabel, 2 It has been assumed that it was Ralph II. who was the founder of Westacre Priory ; but I think that admits of some question. The grant, purporting to be taken from an exemplar in the possession of SU Henry Spelman, is given in the Monasticon, wherein, after reciting that OUver, priest of Acre, and Walter his son, had devoted themselves with great sanctity at Westacre under canonical rule, with aU their goods within the territory of Ralph de Tonei ; therefore the same Ralph de Tonei, with his wife Aelic, and his sons Roger and Ralph, granted and confirmed to the Church of AU Saints of Acre, and to Oliver the priest and Walter his son, and all the canons there abiding, and theU successors there serving God, the fee which OUver the priest held under him. — Mon. Any., Edit. 1846, p. 576. It is also given in Weever's Funeral Monuments, 816. Blomefield says that this gift included the Manor of Godwick. The names of the sons, Roger and Ralph, i-orrespond with those named hy Ordericus VitaUs as concurring in the grant made by Ralph II. to Evrault ; but here the wUe's name is not Isahel or Elizabeth, but Aelic, which is nearer to the name of AdeUza the wife of Ralph III. Mr. Clutterbuck, who has noticed this, gives the Pedigree thus : — Eoger de Toeni the elder,=f= Godehilde. Standard Bearer to Duke WiUiam. Ralph de Toeni the elder ,=p Aelie. Alice, mar. WilUam called Ralph de Todeni, a ob. 9 cal. AprU, 2 Henry I. 1102. Fitz Osbern, Steward of Normandy. Margaret =f= Ralph de Toeni. =f Alice, da. of Judith aged 60 years 32 Hon. II. | | and Waltheof. > ' -K Roger de Toeni. b~ Constantia. a " Ego Radulphus de Tony cum Godehilde matre mea."— Cart, dated before 20th year of the Conqueror's reign in England. — Mon. Ang. i. 559. t> "Ego Rogerus de Toeni filius Margarete de Toeni pro salute, &c, et uxoris mee Constantie de Toeni.— History of Herts, i. 354. 1 Rot. Pip. 10 Henry IT. Dugdale notices the grant to Westacre, but says not a word about AUce. — Vol. i. 469. FIEF OF RALPH DE TOENI. 89 the founder's wife, and his sons Roger and Ralph, are said to have joined. Isabel survived him several years and ultimately took the veil. Ralph III. married Adeliza, the daughter of Waltheof, the great Earl of Huntingdon and Northumberland, and Judith, niece of the Conqueror, who bore him two sons and several daughters. He survived his father nearly twenty-four years, and was buried by him at Conches. Roger II. de Toeni,3 the eldest son, succeeded him. He seems to have been of age in 1134, and in 1135 we find him impetuously plunging with varying fortune into the hostilities then raging between Henry of Anjou, the Plantagenet, and King Stephen, and at the same time gratifying his hereditary feud with the two brothers, Robert, Earl of Gloucester, the Lord of Breteuil, and Waleran, Earl of Mellent. He was taken prisoner in one of those affrays, but in 1138 was at liberty, and at the head of a gallant but lawless band, with which he attacked and burnt the town of Breteuil. This, however, was the occasion of peace between him and the two Earls, by whom he was taken to Stephen's court in England and reconciled with him on honourable terms.4 His first wife was a sister of Baldwin IV., Count of Hainault. He afterwards married a daughter of Robert, Earl of Leicester. The following Pedigree is derived from Vitalis, Dugdale, Blomefield, Nicolas, &c. ; but I can by no means vouch for its accuracy, except those portions where public records are referred to. Akms : Argent, a maunch gules. Ralph I., Lord de Toeni and de=F Conches, Normandy, descended from Hugh de Calvacamp. Roger L, de Toeni and de- Conches, Standard Bearer of Normandy, slain 1051. : Alice, da. of WiUiam Fitz Osborn. Ralph II., de Toeni and de=^= Isabel or EUzabeth, Conches, Domesday tenant in capite, ob. 1101. a da. of Simon de Montfort. Elbert.Elewin. Slain with theU father. (*> a. Mr. Munford (Norfolk Domesd. 34) has interpolated another Ralph here, I think without authority. Henry II. confirmed to the church of St. Peter of CasteUni (Conches) donations which " Rogerus senior de Toenio et fiUus ejus Radulphus senex et Radulphus juvenis fiUus predicti Radulphi senex, et Rogerus fiUus Radulphi juvenis," &c— Mon. Ang. i. 559, 560. Of one Eobert de Toni and Agnes (de Belfo) his daughter, vide supra pp. 66—75. I think, perhaps, the name of Soger has been confounded with Eobert, and that the latter is a mistake. 3 Eoger de Toeni granted the wood of Heringshae to Castleacre, his mother A. and IsabeUa her daughter being witnesses. Salf de Toeni confirmed his father's grant. 4 See Ordericus VitaUs, by whom aU these events are detaUed. N 90 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. (*) Roger de Toeni, 2 son (eldest?), ob. 1090 s.p. Ralph III. de Toeni =j= AdeUza, da. of Waltheof, and de Conches, ob. Earl of Huntingdon, by cUc. 1125. Judith, b 1. Ida = Roger II. de Toeni,: da. of Count of ob. 1162, 8 Hen. II. c Henault. --[Isabel ?] da. of Robert, Earl of Leicester, 2 w. Roger III. de Toeni,=j= Constance, da. of Uving 1199. Richard, Vise Bellomonte. Godehilde, mar. 1st, Robert de Newburgh, Earl of Mellent ; 2nd, Baldwin of Boulogne. 2. Hugh, ob. ante matrem, bur. in Priory of Holy Trinity, Lond. Simon. IsabeUe. Ralph IV. de Toeni,=j= PetroniUa, da. and coh. of Tho. ob. 1239 on the sea on his way to the Holy Land. Roger IV. de Toeni,= dead 1264. e de Malmains ; mar. 21y, William, son of Thos. St. Omer; was en dowed 5 Edw. L, occ. 1286. d •¦ Isabel. Roger. Ralph V. de Toeni,: aged 22, 5 Edw. I., occ. 1294./ = Clarissa. Robert de Toeni,=i='Maud, da. of Baron Tony 1299, g MaUsius, Earl ob. ante 2 Jan. 1309-10. of Stratherne, Uving 1335. Alice de Toni,= sister and heU. - 1 . Thomas de Ley burns. 2. Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. 3. WUUam de la Zouche. b. "AUce de Toeni, &c, ecclesiae Sancti Trinitatis, London, pro salute anime Hugonis de Toeni fiUi mei qui ibid jacet sepultus et pro salute anime Radulphi de Toeni mariti mei et omnium antecessorem, &c. , et pro mcolumitate fiUorum meorum Rogeri de Toeni et Simonis et filial meaa Isabella)," kc.—Mon. Ang. ii. 80. «,-. Anno 3 Henry II., Eoger de Tony and Ida his wife had certain socmen in Holkham granted to them in frank maxrmge.-ElomeJield. According to the pedigree in Clutterbuck, Roger de Toeny III. was the son of Ida «-._"Rex concessit PetroniUe que fuit ux. Radi de Toyny ad firmam usque ad leg. etat hed' ipius Rad', &c. Manerium de Neketon, &c_Fin. Rot. 25 Henry III. 1241. Petit dotem, 21 Henry III. Clans. 35 Henry III , m. 9. e. Roger de Toeny was in ward to Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Essex and Hereford.-Pat. 35 Henrv III m 7 Esc. 5 Edward I., n. 30. •> • • /. RaduUus de Tony de Neketon et Clarissa ux. pro terris ibm.-Fines Norf. 24 Edward I., n 132 Clans 25 Edwardi., m. 11. g. Claus. 25 Edward I., m. 11. Esc. 3 Edward II., n. 33. FIEF OF RALPH DE TOENI. 91 In 1264 (48 Henry III.B) is an extent of the manors and lands of Roger de Tony or Thony, then some time since deceased, which included Necton, Sparham Hall in Necton, with rents and services in Fransham and Dunham, and the patronage of the church of Fransham Parva ; and it is stated that Godwick was held by the Prior of Westacre as one carucate of land, subject to the payment of 15s. a year to the lord of Neketon, and suit of court. In the following year an enquiry was made as to certain oppressions alleged to have been committed on the men of Flemsted, Herts, by Isabella, who was the wife of Roger de Thony, deceased, when the jurors returned that Ralf de Thony, grandfather of Sir Ralph de Thony the father of Roger, then deceased, never took any tallage, &c. ; that he was succeeded by Roger his son, a brave soldier, who went to the wars, and at one time, when he had lost his horses and was in want, sought aid of his men at Flemsted, and they voluntarily supplied his needs. After him came Ralph de Thony, the father of Roger, then dead, which Roger was at his father's death under age, and was in ward of the queen for fifteen years ; and when the said Roger was of full age he received his lands bare and unstocked, and sought aid from his men of Flemsted to seed his lands.6 In 2 Edward I., Ralph, the heir of Roger de Thony, alias Toney, was under age and in ward of the king ; and in 5th of that reign he was 22 years of age,7 when Petronilla his grandmother was still living, and endowed in his lands, of which an account is given on the Escheat Roll of that year, n. 44. Ralph de Thony died in Gascony in King Edward's service, who, in his 23rd year, in consideration of his services, granted to his executors all the issues of his lands from the day of his death until they were taken possession of by the king, Robert his heir being under age. Robert de Tonei had livery in the 25th Edward I., being then of full age. Upon the death of Robert de Toeni without issue in 1309, his inheritance devolved upon his only sister, Alice, then the wife of Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, being then of the age of 26 years. She had issue by her first husband, Sir Thomas de Leyburne, a daughter, Juliana, married first to Sir John Hastings of Elsing, secondly to Sir Thomas Blount, steward of the king's household, and thirdly to Sir William de Clinton ; but the lands of the Toenis went to the Beauchamps. Maud, the widow of Robert, held the manors of Necton and Little Fransham in dower, and was living 1335. The Beauchamps were superior lords until the attainder of Richard Neville, the Earl of Warwick, when it was forfeited to the Crown.8 It is however, stated in the return to the inquisition after the death of Robert de Tony, 1309, that the manors and advowsons of which he died seized were held by William de Wygenhale as of the Honour of Richmond, by the service of half a knight's fee ; so they had been subinfeuded before that time. 6 Esc. 48 Henry III. , n. 28. Vide post. p. 93. 6 Inq. 49 Henry III., n. 26. 7 Inq. p. m. 5 Edward I., n. 34. 8 Vide Blomefield, U. 327, Saham Toney. K 2 92 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. In anno 3 Henry VIL, the escheator for Norfolk accounted for the issues of the manors of Little Cressingham, Painsforth Hall, and Neketon, of which Richard III. had usurped the possession, and died seized, together with the advowsons of the churches of Necton, Little Cressingham, and Little Fransham.9 The descent through the Beauchamps is shewn by the following Pedigree (Dugdale, Baron, i. 226.) Anns : Gules, a fess between 6 cross crosslets or. Guy de Beauchamp,1 Earl of Warwick, ob. 9 Edward II. 5 AUce, sister and heir of Robert de Toeni. a 5 Thomas de Beauchamp, =p Catherine, da. of Earl of Warwick, ob. 43 Edward III. WUl dated 6 Sept. 1369; ob. 13 Nov. bur. at Warwick. Roger Mortimer, Earl of March. John de B. Admiral of England, ob. 34 Edw. III. s.p. — i — n — i — i MatUda.= Geoffrey de Say. Elizabeth.= SU Tho. de Astley. Emma.= Raoul Odinsels. Isabel.= CUnton. Jane. = Robert de Napton. 1 Thomas, Earl of : Warwick, ob. 2 Hen. IV. SU Guy de Beauchamp,1 ob. 28 AprU, 1351, bur. at Vendosme. c n Katherine.Elizabeth.Both nuns at Shouldham. ¦ Philippa, da. of Henry, Ld. Ferrers of Groby. = Margery, da. of WUl. de Ferrars, Lord Groby. Reynburne left issue a daughter. WilUam, Lord Bergavenny. r Isabel, dr. andhr. of =j= Richard, Earl of =p EUzabeth, da. & hr. of Thomas, Lord Berkley, 1 wife. Thos. Lord Despen- ser, 2 wife. Warwick and Al- bermarle, ob. 17 Henry VI. i I 1 Elizabeth, Catherine, Margaret, nuns at Shouldham. Cecily,: dr. of Rich. Nevill,Earl of SaUsbury. lh = Henry de Beauchamp, Duke of Warwick, ob. 23 Henry VI. i Ann, only child, died in infancy. Ann, wife of Rich. NeviU, Earl of Warwick and SaUsbury. Margaret. = John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury. Alienor. = 1, Thomas de Ros. 2, John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset. EUzabeth. = Geo. NevUl, Lord Latimer. Matilda.= Roger de Ufford. Philippa.= Hugh, Earl of Stafford. Alice. = John Beauchamp de Hach. Joan.= Ralph Basset of Drayton. ~r~\ — i — r~i Isabel.= Robert de Ufford. Margery.= Guy de Montfort. Agnes.= 1, .... Cokesey ; 2, Thomas, Lord BardoU. Katherine, a nun. JuUana. a. AUce had dower assigned as widow of Guy de Beaucham (Claus. 9 Edward II, m. 22), and in the year foUowing gave a fine for Ucense to marry WUUam Zouch. She died 18 Edward II. b. Thomas de Beauchamp was two years old at his father's death. He was married before 14 Edward III. c. Guy de Beauchamp, who was knighted 29 Edward III., by his will, dated 26th September, thirty-third of that reign, appointed that the church of Neketon should be appropriated to the Monastery of Shouldham. He died at Vendosme in France on 28th AprU foUowing, seized, jointly with Philippa his wife, by vUtue of his father's feoffment, of the manor of Saham, the hundreds of Wayland and Grimeshoe, the manors of Neketon, Little Cressingham, Little Fransham, and West Wretham, with the advowsons of the priories of Westacre and Shouldham. His daughters and coheirs were at their father's death aged respectively, Katherine seven years and Elizabeth one year and upwards. Philippa, his widow, was Uving 1360, when she took her vow of chastity at Warwick.— Dugdale' s History of Warwick. Rot. Esc. 3 Henry VII. FIEF OF RALPH DE TOENI. 93 Escheat 48 Henry ILL, n. 28. Rogerus de Tony dudum defunctus. Writ of enquiry tested 18th June. Extenta manerii de Neketon, — tenetur in capite. Et est patronus ecclesie de Franesham parva que valet xx marcas et est patronus Prioratus de Westacre. Item Prior de Westacre tenet Godewick unam carucatum terre reddendo per annum domino de Neketon xvs. Et debet sectam, ad Necton ad curiam de Neketon pro predicta carucata terre de tribus septimanis in tres septimanas. Item qd idem Prior debet duos soUdos annualis redditus de senescaulis. Rogerus de Clifford tenet in Sparham et Bodney et Hengham et in Dunham reddita et servicia iv"r villanorum, et in Franesham reddita et servicia xuij viUanorum — que quidem, &c, extendit ad xx libratas terre, — tenentur de domino de Neketon per servicum xlme partis feodi unius miUtis. Willus le Sapy tenet de feoffamento Rogeri de Tony, in viUa de Franesham quoddam tenementum reddendo p afim ijs. ixd. Escheat 3 Edwaed LL, n. 33. Inquisitio, capta apud Wadeton, Norff., 3rd Jan. 3 Edward II., post mortem Roberti de Tony. Tenuit manerium de Saham de Rege in capite ut antiquum dominium. AUcia, que fuerit uxor Thome de Leyburn, soror dicti Roberti de Tony, est propinquior heres, et est etatis xxiiij annorum et amplius. Inquisitio, capta apud Neketon, 5th Jan. ano 3 Edward II., (per breve test. 2nd December,) per sacramentum Henrici le Estraunge, Bartholomei AngeU, Willi Maupas, Adami Ohaumpeneys, Willi filii Radulfi de Estbradenham, Walteri Baroun, Radulfi de Skarningg, Petri Attelund, Galfridi Bertyn, Ricardi filii Radulfi de Neketon, et Galfridi filii Ricardi de eadem, qui dicunt, &c, quod Matilda, que fuit uxor Roberti de Tony defuncti, qui de domino Rege tenuit in capite conjunctum cum prefato Roberto, quondam viro suo, feoffati sunt per Radulfum de Tony, patrem dicti Roberti, de Maneriis de Neketon et parva Cressingham, una cum advocationibus eeclesiarum de Neketon, parva Cressingham et parva Fransham, et earum vicariis cum omnibus pertinentiis, in liberum Maritagium, et quod predicti Robertus et Matilda seisinam suam conjunctum inde continuerunt usque ad obitum predicti Roberti viri, sine impedimento, &c. Et dicunt, &c. Maneria cum advocationibus tenentur Willi de Wygyhale, ut de honore Rychemond, per servicium medietatis feodi unius miUtis. Ecclesia de parva Fransham valet per ann. x U. Assignatio dotis Matilde que fuit uxor Roberti de Tony defuncti, ex consenta Guidonis de BeUo campo comitis Warr. et AUcie uxoris ejus sororis et heredis ejusdem Roberti. The manor called Sparhams in Necton, which extended into Fransham and Dunham, was subinfeuded by Roger de Tony before the reign of Edward I. It remained in the Bretuns for some generations, and was held, temp. Henry VIIL, by the Cockets. But the greater part of Little Fransham and Dunham had been granted by the founder to Westacre Priory, as was Godwick. He, however, retained the advowson of the rectory of the church of Fransham Parva, which followed the chief manor of Necton, as will be seen by the list of rectors. 94 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. tabular &nalgsts of tfje ©omrsoag Surueg. FIEF OF HUGH DE MUNTEFORT. In whose hands. Land under Cultivation. Occupiers. Classes of Labourers. Plough Teams. Pasture Land. Other Features. Radulfus. 5 socmen. 4 carucates. 30 acres. .... T.R.E.T.R.W. T. Surv. Vill. 23 Bord Serv. 1 In Dom Hom 30 acres of meadow. 4 acres of meadow. Gatelea. 2 6 4 1 Wood for 300 swine. Now for 80. Live Stock.— Always 2 working horses ; 7 neat stock, T.R.E., and after 5 ; 23 hogs, T.R.E., now 7, and 29 sheep; 60 goats, T.R.E., now 17. The value, T.R.E., 110s. . at Survey £4. Half a leuca in length and same in breadth, and paid lOd. to the gelt. CJtt jfxef nf %u%\ to gfantfarl N the time of the Confessor a certain Saxon Thane named Bond, Bondus, or Bundus, held manors and lands in Bodney, Stanford, Southcreek, Burnham, Rainham, Runcton, Islington, Midelton, West Bilney, Gayton, Gately, and Bodham, all of which, with other lordships in Norfolk, in number seventeen valued at £60 and 5s., were granted by the Conqueror to Hugh de Montfort, to whose lot altogether fell 114 lordships in England. Hugh de Montfort, called Earl Hugh the Constable, was son of Hugh I. de Montfort, surnamed a la Barbe, a Norman baron, Lord of Montfort sur Risle, Constable of Normandy, who perished in a duel with Vauquelin de Ferriers circ. 1035, when both combatants were slain. Hugh II. was present at the battle of Hastings, to which he contributed fifty ships and sixty knights, and in 1054 at the battle of Mortemar. In 1067 he was associated with Bishop Odo in the defence of the kingdom when William visited Normandy, and made Governor of Dover Castle. FIEF OF HUGH DE MONTFORT. 95 In the Domesday account of the lands of Hugo de Montford, we find one Ralph holding Gatelea, which had been a manor of Bundo, T.R.E., containing four carucates of land, thirty acres of meadow and wood, which had afforded pannage for 300 swine, and then for eighty. There were also five socmen holding thirty acres of land. The value of this manor had been £5. 10s. but was then only £4. This deterioration may be perhaps accounted for thus : A free man here who under Bonde had held six acres of land had been invaded by Bishop William (v. supra p. 46), and Bonde also had the protection of two socmen and foldage over thirty-four acres of land, which Ralph indeed held at the time of the Survey, not under Hugh de Montfort, but under Peter Yalonis. The length of Gately was half a leuca, its breadth the same. Hugh III. de Montfort, who was son and heir of the Domesday owner, by his wife, a daughter of Richard de BeUofago, died without issue male ; his sons Hugh and Robert having both died in his lifetime issueless,1 and his heir was his grandson Hugh de Gant, eldest son of Gilbert de Gant,2 by Alice de Montford, daughter and heir (by another wife) of Hugh III. He assumed the name of Montfort, and was called Hugh IV., and was founder of the family of the Lords of Montfort Barons of Coquanilliers. % This Hugh IV. married Adeline, one of the daughters of Robert de Bellemont or de Meulan, Count of Mellent, and with him, in 1122, he entered into a conspiracy against Henry King of England, towards whom he appears to have acted with much ingratitude. His perfidy was discovered to Henry, who was in Normandy, and although he himself escaped, his castle of Montfort was besieged, and his wife and brother Ralph de Gant, who were entrusted with its defence, surrendered it to the English. In 1124 Hugh and his father-in-law re-entered Normandy in a hostile manner, but were encountered and taken prisoners by William de Tankerville at Bourgherode and delivered up captive to the king, who took his revenge ; for in the year 1135, when Ordericus Vitalis wrote, Hugh de Muntfort was still kept in prison. I do not know when he died. A son Waleran is named by Ordericus, who must have died young. Two other sons, Robert and Thurstan, were successively possessed of estates in England, and from the latter of these the celebrated Simon de Montfort was probably descended ; but I am inclined to think that King Henry seized the Norfolk fief into his own hands, for in the time of Henry III. and his successors we find Gatele held of the Crown in capite as part of the Honour of Haughley.3 As there was no other lordship or land in Launditch appertaining to the Honor of Hagenet or Hauo-hley, I shall give in this place all that I know of the tenants in capite of Gately. In the assessment to the aid levied 20 Henry III. one knight's fee and three-quarters in Gatele are comprised in the Honour in Norfolk,4 but the name of the tenant is in the 1 Hugh II. before his death became a monk in the Abbey of Bee. His second son Robert commanded the Norman army in France in 1099 as Hereditary Marshall of Normandy, from which it may be inferred that his elder brother was then dead. He joined in the Crusade of 1107.— Planche, vol. i. p. 169. 2 Of Gilbert de Gant see Ord. Vit., Guizot's edit., vol. xi. 506. 3 " Baronia de Hagenet est in manu regis." — Testa de Nevill, p. 296 b. * The others were in Burnham, South Creke, Walton, Bodham, Stanford, Runcton, Rainham.— Testa de Nevill, ut supra. 96 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Testa de Nevill left blank. Thomas de Inland is stated to hold one-fourth part of a knight's fee in the same place. In 36 Henry III. Sir Ralph de Gatele, whom Blomefield supposes to have been a descendant from that Ralph who was the tenant under De Montfort at the time of the Domesday Survey, was found to have died seized of the manor of Gately, held of the king in capite, and Sir Ralph de Gately, his son and heir, was upwards of sixty years of age.5 Sir Ralph, the son, in the same reign, granted two pieces of his land there, together with the advowson of the church of Gately, to the abbey of St. Mary de Pratis in Creke,6 but the manor he sold to Sir Richard de la Rokele. He appears to have died in the 16th of Edward I., when he was called Ralph de Gatel, senior ; 7 but only the writ of diem clausit is extant.8 In the Hundred Roll, 3 Edward I., the manor of Gately is said to be held of the king in capite by the service of two knights' fees, and was then in the tenure of Sir Richard de Rokele, who acquired it of Sir Ralph de Gatele, and he claimed free warren and other franchises ; and in a subsequent part of that roll, Richard de Rupella (which is the same name as Rokele) is returned as holding that manor, which formerly was in the hands of the king's predecessors, but by what title the jurors knew not. In the MSS. Libri Feudorum, temp. Edward I., Richard de la Rokely being then under age and in custody of the king, Gately is entered as two fees held of the Honour of Haueli (Haule). He also held in Colkirk one knight's fee of the Bishop of Norwich. In the time of King John one Richard de Rokele was lord of Appleton in this county, which he held under the family of De Vaux ; and in 43 Henry III. Sir Richard de Rokele of Appleton occurs as witness to a deed of Sir Richard de la Rokele of Wokendon in Essex, relating to the manor of Gatele. In that year Sir Richard de St. Denys covenanted to convey to Sir Richard de la Rokele the manor of Colkirk in exchange for that of Wokendon, Sir Ralph de Gatele being a witness. And in 1 Edward I. Sir Richard de la Rokele demised his manor of Wokendon to Sir Richard de St. Denys for life.9 Sir Richard de la Rokele of died on the morrow of St. Nicholas, 5 Edward I., leaving Philip, his son and heir, then thirty years old and upwards ; l which Philip was dead in 23 Edward I., Matilda, his daughter and heir, being then of the age of nine or ten years.3 In the year following, 24 Edward I., 1296, we find Richard de la Rokele died that year seized of the manors of Colkirk and Gately, which were held of the heir of Philip de Rokele, then under age, and dower was assigned to Cecilia his wife. Richard, his son and heir, was found to be fourteen years of age.3 And by an inquisition held on Friday before the feast of St. Mark, in anno 32 Edward I., Richard the son was found to have died on Inq. p.m. 36 Henry III., u. 31a. 6 Fin. 44 Henry III. ' Esc. 16 Edward I. n. 1. 8 RockeU, A ; Rokele, B ; Rokeley, C. 9 Esc. 1 Edward L, n. 54. 1 Esc. 5 Edward I., n. 6. Cant. Rot. Fin. 5 Edward I. m. 14. 2 Esc. 23 Edward I. u. 39. 3 Esc. 24 Edward I. u. 48, Norf. FIEF OF HUGH DE MONTFORT. 97 the morrow of the feast of the Conversion of St. Paul then last, 130^, seized of two parts of Colkirk and Gatele, leaving his only sister Matilda, his heir, aged seventeen years ; whom Roger de Fraxino had married. But it having been reported that Margaret, wife of said Richard, was pregnant, a writ was directed to the Escheator, tested 10th May, to enquire by a jury of knights and other good men and women into the fact, and also as to the age of Richard at the time of his death. To which it was returned that that writ could not be fully executed, because Margery was at the time in Sussex or Kent ; but the jurors at an inquisition held at Colkirke, on Monday after the feast of St. Augustine, returned answer that Richard on the day of his death was aged twenty-one years and a half, eleven weeks and two days. In answer to a subsequent writ of inquiry, dated the 6th of June, it was found after due examination that the widow was not pregnant. This last inquisition was held at Lagkton in , on 3rd July, all in the same year, by two knights, ten gentlemen, and six ladies, who said that they had carefully examined the fair Margaret with the result mentioned. Consequently the inheritance devolved upon the sister Matilda, then the wife of Roger de Fraxino, or Fraxinis, called also Atte Ashe or Atte Esche. She is named in July, 35 Edward I., when an enquiry was held at Colkirk, whether it would be any public injury if Roger de Fraxino and Matilda his wife shut up two public roads next their wood in Colkirk, and substituted others ; and she appears to have survived her husband, who was dead before the 9th November, 1307, when Lucia, their daughter and heir, was two years old. He had a grant of free warren in Colkirk and Gatele, 55 Edward I. Now as to the fortunes of Matilda, the daughter and heir of Philip de la Rokele, who was the chief tenant under the Crown, or of the Honour of Hawle, I find that proof of her age was taken by an inquisition held in Kent, on 16th June, 29 Edward I. (1301), she being then the wife of Maurice le Brun, when the jurors found that she attained the age of fourteen years on the day of St. Dennis then last (9th October, 1300), but that they had no other evidence of the fact than hearsay, because the said Matilda was born in Ireland. The heir of Philip de la Rokele was described as a minor and the king's ward in the thirty- second year of that reign. Her interest must soon afterwards have merged in the Honour of Hawle, as in the lists of knights' fees before quoted, which cannot have been later than 1305, probably about 1303, Richard de la Rokele, then under age and in ward to the king, is said to hold the two fees in Gatele of that Honour. In that year, as before mentioned, Richard died, and the other Matilda, his sister, who in 1307 became the widow of Roger atte Asche, immediately afterwards married Robert Baynard of Whetacre, in which year a settlement was made upon her of the manors of Whetacre and Chatgrave. She was living 21 Edward III. Her daughter, Lucia atte Ashe, married Robert Banyard, the son of her husband by a former wife, and Gatele and Colkirk were then settled upon them. And now arises some difficulty. In the fourth year of Edward III., the king's writ was issued for taking the usual inquisition after the death of a Robert Banyard, tested o 98 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. 22nd February, which was a.d. 1329 ; and there are three returns annexed to this writ of inquisitions taken at Norwich.3 One of them, which contains extents of the manors of Colkirk and Gatele referred to in Blomefield (ix. 473, 504) has been so smeared with nutgall juice as to be almost all obliterated. I read its date 16th May : Blomefield gives it 16th April. In this, Robert Baynard was found to hold the manor of Colkirk for his life by the courtesy of England, as the inheritance of Lucy, daughter of Roger atte Ashe, of the Bishop of Norwich as of his manor of Elmham ; also some part of the manor of Bathely of Isabel, the Queen Dowager, as of the manor of Fakenham ; and also to hold by the courtesy as the inheritance of Lucy, of that queen as of the Honour of Hawle, the manor of Gatele, as well as I could decipher it. Blomefield gives it very fully ; but the final part of the return, which doubtless would have cleared up the difficulty, does not appear in his history, and was illegible to me save the concluding words — " Roberti Banyard per licensiam domini Regis durit in uxorem est heres propinquior de omnibus terris, &c, et est etatis xxx annorum." By another inquisition taken at Norwich on the 17th May, as I read it, Robert Baynard was found to hold the manor of Great Hautbois in Erpingham hundred, and Thomas his son and heir was aged twenty- six years and upwards ; and by another it was said that, jointly with Matilda his wife, he held Whatacre and Chatgrave. This last inquisition must have been of the lands of Robert Baynard the father. Le Neve states that Robert the son died in the father's lifetime. It, is probable that both died in the same year, and that the two inquisitions were held at the same time, the others being after the death of Robert the son. Yet Thomas, who was found to be the son and heir, and aged twenty-six years in 1309, could not have been the son of Lucy, who was only two years old in 1307. I must leave this for further investigation. Thomas, the son and heir of Lucy, appears to have died anno 46 Edward III. (circa 1372) without issue, and was succeeded by his sister Joan, wife of Sir Edmund Thorpe of Ashwell Thorpe, and from her Gatele and Colkirk passed in the manner indicated in the following Pedigree, taken chiefly, thus far, from Le Neve's MSS., who adds in a note — "All this descent proved by a Record, Fin. 46 Edward III., de banco Rot. 432." Never theless, in the Book of Aids, 20 Edward III. (1347) Sir Peter de Ty, Knight, is entered as holding these two fees of the Honour of Hauele. GATELE. Radulfus de Gatle,=j= Agnes de Waharun, tenuit Gatle et advoc' ecclesia? 36 H. III. vidua Radi de Gatle patris, vixit 41 Hen. III. Radulfus de Gatele, 1. Ela de Gatele, reclusa. 1 „ fiUus et heres, etat 60, vendidit _ ( Sorores Radulfi, Gatele Ricardo de la Rokele per 2. Prudentia, reclusa. ) 4* Henry III. finem, dat. 44 Hen. III. MS_ L^ Nem Of this time occur John de Gateley and Margaret his wifo, 29 Edward HI. (fine of land in Itoringham) ; Geffry Gatlcy of Lenne, 1 1 Henry IV. 3 Esc, 4 Edward III., n. 28. FIEF OF HUGH DE MONTFORT. 99 DE LA ROKELE OF WOKENDON. THE (SUPPOSED) ELDER BRANCH. SU Richard de la Rokele,T= Justiciary of Ireland, ob. 5 Edw. I. PhiUp de la Rokele, s. & h.,=f= aged 30 yrs. 5 Ed. I., ob. 23 Ed. I. L — i Maurice le Brun,= MatUda de la Rokele, da. & hr., born mar. before 16 June, 1301. in Ireland, aged 14 yrs. 9 Oct. 1300. DE LA ROKELE OF GATELY. Richard de la Rokele.=p Alisia, da. of | WUUam Curson. Richard de Reginald la Rokele, de le Rokele s.p. s.p. WUUam de^f la Rokele. Richard de la Rokele,=f= Cecilia, da. of of South Wokendon, Essex, pur chased Gatele and ColkUk 43 Hen. III., ob. 24 Edw. I. a widow 1295. Richard de la Rokele,= b. & h., aged 14, 1295, ob. 32 Ed. I. 1303, s.p. ' Margery. SU Roger atte ; Ashe, 1 husb. ob. 1 Edw. II. 1307. : Matilda, sister & hr.= Robert Baynard, of Richard de la Rokele, aged 17, 1303. of Whetacre, 2nd husb. : Joanna, da. of 1st wife. Lucia, da. and h.=p SU Robert Baynard, of SU Roger atte Ashe, aged 2, 1307, died bef. 1329 ob. 4 Edw. IH. 1329. Thomas Baynard, = s. & h of Robert, ob. 1372, 46 Edw. III. s.p. ¦ SibiUa. Maud, SU Edmund de Thorp,=p Joan Baynard, d. bef. sen., of AshweUthorpe. sister and heU 1372. of Thomas. EVIDENCES. 36 Henry ILL n. 31a, p. m. Redulfi de Gatel. Writ de inquirend. &c, tested 4th Jan. Inquisitio facta per Stephanum de Brokdis escaetorem in Norf. per sacramenta Alani le Rus, Eoberti Payn, Adam Bussim, Willi fil Radulfi, Radulfi filii WUHelmi, Cosselini de Aulderhus, WUHelmi edrich, Roberti fil herueie, Roberti filii WUHelmi, WUHelmi Oris, Roberti fil Hereberti & Roberti Thornelcin, qui dicunt, &c, tenuit in capite, &c, valet per annum vnju xvj5 yijd set reddit inde per annum ad wardum castelli Doroburie xx. Idem Radulfus tenuit de pluribus aliis dom in is tenementum quod valet per annum in omnibus terrarum exitibus xxxB vijd set reddit inde per annum vjs ijd. Item advocacio ecclesiae de Gatel pertinet ad feudum dicti Radulfi, — tenetur de domino Rege et valet dicta ecclesia per annum xx marcas. Fin. Rot. 36 Hen. HI. 1252. R. cepit homag. Radi de gatel fil & hectis Radi de Gatel de omibj tris & temets que ds Rads. tenuit de R. in capite in com, Norf. Et mand est Abbi de Perso? escsetori R. qd accepta o 2 100 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. sufficiente securitate a pdco Rado de dece Ubris R. reddend p relevio suo de omibj terris, &c, que ide Rads pater ip» Radi cujus beres ipe est tenuit de R. in com. pdco de quibus fuit seis. in dominio suo ut de feodo die quo obnt in eod com. pfato heredi plenam seisinam habere face. Test apd Winton 25 die Jumi, m. 7. 24 Edward I., n. 48. Edwardus, &c, dilecto clerico suo mascuUno de Harle escsetori suo ultra Trentam, &c, quia Ricardus de la Rokele qui de herede PhiUppi de la Rokele defuncti qui de nobis tenet in capite infra etatem et in custodia existente tenuit per servicium miUtare diem clausit, &c. Test, apud Berewyk super Twedam xj die Septembris, a0 24. Inquisitio de terris, &c, Ricardi de la Rokele die quo obiit facta apud Colkyrk. Manerium de Colkyrke & manerium de Gatele cum ptiii ut de feodo de herede Philippi de la Rokele per servicum iij feodarum miUtarum. There is an extent of these manors, but it is much obscured by the use of nutgaU. The entire value of Colkirk is given at £31. 2s. and some pence, the value of Gately at £9. 2s. Id. 24 Edward I., n. 48. Edwardus, &c, masculino de Harlegh, &c, per vos certiorari verum Cecilia quae fuit uxor Ricardi de la Rokele defuncti qui de nobis tenuit, &c, dotata sit in uno manerio de Colkyrk & Gatele quam idem Ricardus tenuit, &c, de nobis in capite. Test. 11 July, a° 24. Inquisitio facta, &c, apud Colkyrke, 15 June, a0 24 R. per Johannem de Longham, Johan. de Nekeketon, Thomam le hyrne, Edmundum le ferers, Willielmum le Schawmpeneis, Philippum de Thomekin, Willm. Siger, Hamonem de patesle, Willm. atte gates hend, Hamonem de la londes, Henricum ou'mor, et Seward mora, qui dicunt, &c, quod Ricardus de la Rokele die, &c, tenuit, &c, de Philippo de la Rokele qui est in custodia Domini Regis et infra etatem existente manerium de Colkirk & manerium de Gatele per servicium iij feodorum miUtum. Et est apud Gatele capitale mesuagium val. per ann. 2s cum esiamentis curise. [54 acres of arable land worth 27s. at Gd. per acre ; 24 acres worth 16s. at Sd. ; 15 acres worth lis. There were 4 acres of mowing land worth 8s. ; 6 acres of marsh worth 6d. ; 14 acres of pasture worth 9s. id. at 8d. per acre. Also a fishery worth 3s. There were also rents of assize payable, viz., at Michaelmas, 12s. lOJrf. ; at the Nativity of our Lord, 45s. 8|d. ; Easter, 21s. id. ; and at the decollation of John Baptist, 21s. id; also three quarters of barley worth 6s. at 2s. the quarter ; one lb. of pepper worth 8d. ; nine geese at St. Michael worth Is. Gd. at 2d. ; 12 capons at the Nativity worth Is. Gd ; 100 hens Is. Sd. ; six days' work in Autumn worth 5s ; also . . . . Gd. ; underwood (boscagium), 1 2d. ; a mill, 12s. ; pleas and profits of court worth 2s. 6d. ; and view of frank pledge. Sum total £10. 14s. 2£<2.] Et est apud Colkirke quoddam capitale mesuagium et valet per annum cum esiamentis curife ijs. Item est ibidem quoddam columbarium et valet per annum ijs. Sunt et ibidem. [79 acres of arable land worth 79s. a year at 12d. ; 63 acres arable worth 42s. at 8d. ; and 4 score and 18 acres arable worth 24s. 6d. at 3d. There were 4 acres of mowing land worth 6s. at Is. Gd. ; 20 acres of several pasture fpasturce separabiles) worth 10s. at Gd. The underwood was worth 13s. id. per annum; the windmill 17s.; a barley rent payable at Michaelmas of 100 quarters 2 bushels and 1 peck The rents of assize payable at Michaelmas were £4. 17s. i\d., at Christmas 17s., at Easter 23s., at St. John's 18s.; also at Christmas 6 capons worth 9d., 100 hens worth 3s. id. ; 1100 eggs worth 2s. 9d. at Easter; 7 geese at Christmas worth lid. There was also arrura of 45 acres of land and a half at the time of sowing wheat, and 4o| acres at autumn sowing, and it was worth 45s. Gd. at Gd. per acre. Also wagon work (opera saracorum) in summer, and reaping of corn in autumn, worth 48s. ; pleas and profits of court worth 22s. ; and there also belonged the advowson of the church of Colkirk valued at 30 marks the year. Total £34. 6s. 0\d.~] Richard de la Rokele, son and heir, was fourteen years old. Assignatio dotis Cecilia que fuit uxor Ricardi de la Rokele defuncti qui de Rege tenuit in capite, &c., facta eidem per MalcoUnum de Harleye escaetori, &c, viz., in the Manor of Colkyrke, with free ingress and egress to and from the same, the third FIEF OF HUGH DE MONTFORT. ' 101 part of the capital messuage there as well within the moat (fossatum) as without, viz., one chamber next the chapel, a certain house called domus maritis ; also the great barn within the gate, one horse stable, &c. Also part of the rents to be taken of the Prior of Norwich, Hamon de Pattisley, Henry do Sittmede, John de Scherwode, Geoffry de Sohildreus, Elias de Colkyrke, and Geoffrey Punchard, free tenants, and a proportion of all the other revenues. The particulars in Gatele are obscure and illegible. 32 Edward I., n. 36, post mort. inquis. Edwardus, &c. Quia Ricardus fiUus et heres Ricardi de la Rokele defuncti qui de hoorede PhiUppi de la Rokele defuncti qui de nobis tenuit in capite nuper infra etatem et in custodia nostra existente tenuit. — Breve teste nij die Aprilis a0 r. r. E., &c. 32. Inquis. facta apud Colkirke die veneris prox ante festum Sancti Marci Evangeliste, — per Johem de Congham, Willielmum Chaumberleyn, Bicardum le Rous, PhiUppum Thomekyn, Henricum lambe de Norton, Thomam de Kirby, Johem de lexham, Willm. de Weston, Henf de Ouermor, Hamonem de Inlaunde, Thorn, de Skerndene, et Hamonem de Patesle juratores, qui indiount quod dictus Ricardus fiUus Rici de la Rokele die quo obUt tenuit de prsedicto hserede PhiUppi, duas partes Maneriorum de Colkirke et Gatele per servicium duorum partium trium feodorum miUtum. [Then follows an extent of both manors.] Dicunt etiam quod predictus Ricardus, obut in crastino conversions Sci PauU ultimo preterite Et quod Matilda soror ejusdem Ricardi propinquior hseres ejus est et est etatis xvij annorum et ampUus. Edwardus, &c, Eschaetori, &c, Ucet per inquisitionem quam per vos fieri fecimus de terris et tenementis que fuerunt Rici fiUi et heredis Ricardi de la Rokele defuncti, — accepimus quod Matilda soror ejusdem Rici filii Rici quam Rogerus de ffraxino duxit in uxorem est hseres ipsius Rici pro pinquior et etatis decern et septem annorum et amplius, quia tamen intelleximus quod Margareta que fuit uxor ipsius Rici filii Rici est pregnane de eodem Rico, terras et tenementa que fuerunt predicti Rici fiUi Rici die quo obut et quse occasione mortis ejusdem in manu nostra existunt prefatis Rogero et Matilde distulimus Kberare Volentes igitur per vos inde plenius certiorari et quod justum fuerit fieri in hac parte vobis mandamus quod predictam Margaretam personaUter videatis et ipsam in presentia tam militum quam aUorum proborum et legaUu hominum et muUerum de balUva vestra diligenter examinari faciatis utrum videlicet sit pregnans sicut predictum est necne, et si ipsam Margaretam pregnantem inveneritis tunc diligenter inquiratis quo tempore ipsam parituram. Et nihilominus per sacr inquiratis cujus etatis prefatus Ricardus filius Rici fuit die quo obut. — Teste x die Maij, &c. (In dorso.) Ad videndum et examinandum personaliter Margaretam que fuit uxor Rici filii Rici de la Rokele defuncti utrum videlicet eadem Margareta sit pregnans nee ne mendatum istud postquam breve ad me venit e sequi non potuit pro eo quod eadem Margareta moratur in partibus Sussex vel Kantite ut dicitur, &c. Inquisitionem tamen de etate, &c, per subeschaetorem meum, &c, fieri feri, &c. Inquis. apud Colkirke die Jovis proximo post festum sancti Augustini, &c, de qua etate Ricus fiUus, &c, qui de Uerede Philippi, &c, fuit die quo idem Ricus, &e., obiit per Robtum Ouermor WiUm Syger de Oxwyke Thorn de Skernedale Hamone de Patesle Johem de Patesle Thorn in Anglo Reynorum de Ryburg Henricum Lamberd Ricum le Rous de Renham (and three others) qui dicunt quod predictus Ricardus &c, die conversionis sci PauU ultimo preterito quo die obiit fuit etatis xxj annorum et dimidii xj septimanarum et ij dierum. (Another writ of inquiry in the same terms as that of 10 May to the escheator.) Vobis mandamus sicut aUas mandimavimus quod dictam Margaretam personaliter videatis et ipsam examinari et inquisitionem inde fieri faciatis in forma supradicta. Teste vj die Junij, &c. Inquisitio facta coram eschaetore apud Lag'hton tertio die Julij anno, &c., si Margareta que fuit uxor Rici filii Rici de la Rokele pregnans sit de predicto Ricardo nee ne per sacramentum WilU Maufe Johis Heringaud militum Johis de Rademelde (and nine other men) et per sacramentum Emme de BoUam 102 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Agnetis uxorem Simonis (?) atte Chaumbre, Nich'e uxoris Thome le Gyr Muriell uxoris Nich'i atte Tour, Roes uxoris Henr' le Rous et AUce uxoris Simonis le Wafre mulierum juratorum. Que dictam Margaretam in presentia dictorum militum et aUorum viderunt et earn diligenter examinaverunt et precise dicunt super sacramentum suum quod predicta Margareta non est impregnata. Escheat, 35 Edward I. n. 79. Edwardus, &c. Vicecomiti Norff — precipimus tibi quod — inquiris si sit ad dampnum si concedimus Rogero de ffraxino et Matilde uxori ejus quod ipsi duas regias vias nostras — Colkirke, vnam videUcet bosco predictorum Rogeri et Matilde in eadem villa ex parte orientate ejusdem contiquam et alteram jacentem juxta boscum predictum ex parte AustraU ejusdem, quarum quidem viarum vt dicatur continet trescentas perticatas terre in longitudine et octo pedes terre in latitudine ad largacionem bosci sui predicti, includere et eas sic inclausas teneri possunt sibi et heredibus suis inperpetuum. Ita quod ipsi Rogerus et Matilda loco viarum predictarum fieri fuerint in solo suo proprio in eadem villa duas aUas vias ejusdem longitudine et latitudine. (Breve teste 1 June, anno 35°.) Inquisitio, apud Colkirke die veneris in vigiUa sci Johis Baptiste anno, &c, per Johem de Lexham Johem de Ingham Ricum le Rous Hamonem de Patesle Thomam de Norton Ricum Iwyne Willm. Truyt Barth. de Byntre PhiUppum Thomekyn Johem Warde Cressabum (?) de Byntre et Ricum de Thorplond jurat'. Qui dicunt quod non est dampnum, &c. 1 Edward II. Inq. p. m. Rogeri de Fraxinis, n. 42. Breve-teste 9 Nov. Inquisitio facta aj)ud Bathele, 3 Dec, anno, &c, per sacramentum Willmi de Sharrington, &c, Johis Capel de Gatele Johis Reyner de Colkirke et Hamonis de Inlond de Gatele juratorum qui dicunt quod Rogerus tenuit quasdam terras et quedam tenementa in vUla de Bathele, &c, nuRas aUas terras seu tenementa in balliva mea. Dicunt quod Lucia fiUa predicti Rogeri hseres est, et est etatis duorum annorum. 4 Edward III. Inq. p. m. Robert Banyard. Esc. n. 28. Breve-teste — 22 Feb. anno 4, &c. Inquisitio apud Norwic [date iUegible, but apparently 16 May, 4 Edward III.] — tenuit manerium de Colkirk ad termmam vitse per legem Anglise ex hereditate Lucie fiUse Rogeri atte Ashe heredis Roberti fiUi Roberti Banyard de Episcopo Norwici ut de manerio suo de Elmam per servicium reddendi pro castri wardam. Item dicunt quod tenuit die prefato de Isabell regina ,, ,, ,, de manerio Fakenham , , ,, , , Uteras patentes domini Regis cujus datum est xxvUj die JuUj, A0 12°. Item tenuit per legem AngUoe ex hereditate Lucie, &c, de IsabeU regina ut de Hawle Gatele per servicium duorum feodorum militum et per servicium reddendi • Et quod Roberti Banyard per Ucentiam domini Regis duxit in uxorem est heres propinquior de omnibus terris, &c, et est etatis xxx annorum. [This inquisition is so stained by the use of nutgall as to be almost all obliterated.] FIEF OF RALF DE BAINARD. 10; tabular ^nalgsts of tijc JBomesrjag Sur&eg. FLEF OF RALF BANIARD. Domesday Name. Mesne Domesday Tenant. Land under cultivation. Occupying Tenants. Classes of Labourers. Teams of Cattle. Pasture. Other Features. Ralf Turmit. 4 carucates. Socman, T.R.E. T.R.W. Ralf, T.S. Vil. 1212 8 Bord 4 4 14 Serv. 6 62 In Dom Int' Hom 10 acres of meadow. Titeshala. 222 44 2 Wood for 100 swme. One miU. Live Stock. — T.R.E., 6 neat stock, 30 swme, 100 sheep, 40 goats. At Survey, 18 swine, 80 sheep, 73 goats, 4 skeps of bees, 6 acres of land, 1 socman. Walnecham. Ralf Turmit. 2 carucates. 20 acres. 40 acres. .... T.R.E. T.R.W. RaU, T.S. 7 socmen, T.R.E. T R W. T.S. 3 socmen, T.R.E. T.R.W. T.S. 99 9 322 1 T 0 11 0 222 14 acres of meadow. Wood for 60 swine. Schiminga. 80 acres of land, held with the Manor of Braden iam. 12 acres. 2 socmen. Scerninga. 24 acres. 1 free man. 0 2 0 0 1 2 acres of meadow. Cb* Jfixf of Salplj k § a mart*. ALPH Bainard is described in the Domesday Survey as holding fifty-two lordships in Norfolk, lying in fifteen hundreds, and valued at £172. 16s. ld. Two of these were in Lawendic, viz., Titeshala had been held, T.E.E., by a free man named Norman. It consisted of four carucates of land, to which belonged ten acres of meadow, wood to maintain one hundred swine, and a mill. Six acres more were held by a socman. It was valued at £3. 10s., besides a church, to which belonged six acres, valued at 5d. The whole containing nine quarentines in length by half a leuca in breadth, and paid 5d. to the gelt. Walnecham (Wellingham) had been held, T.R.E., by Harold, for a manor, 104 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. containing two carucates of land, fourteen acres of meadow, and wood for sixty hogs, with seven socmen holding twenty acres of land. Titleshale and Wellingham were both,' temp. Survey, held under Ealph Bainard by Ealph Turmit. It is moreover stated that three socmen of Stigand, who then appertained to Mileham, were under the protection of the king, with all their services, having been delivered to Stigand during his life, but were then Baignard's by exchange, as the men themselves said. The Manor of Wellingham had been worth, T.E.E., 20s. and then 10s., and the services of the three socmen which were valued at 4s., T.E.E., were then assessed at 3s. Ad. The length of the whole was one leuca, the breadth nine quarentines. There were also eighty acres of land in Scarning which belonged to and were included in the valuation of Bradenham ; and twelve acres of land there, held by two socmen, their soe being in Mileham. Bradenham was one of the lordships comprised in the Conqueror's gift to Ealph Bainard. It had formerly belonged, with other manors, to a Saxon lady named Ailid, who also had several other lordships. Moreover Ealph Baignard is described in the Survey as an invader of other men's possessions to the value of £1. 15s. Amongst other intrusions, he had seized upon a free man's interest in twenty-four acres of land in Scarning, (the protection only), to which belonged two bordars, two acres of meadow, and half a plough team, worth 5s., the soe of which was in Mileham. I do not find much more about this Ealph Bainard. He was dead in 1104, when Juga, whom Dugdale, followed by Blomefield, supposes to have been his widow, was seised; and in 1106 Jeffry Bainard was her son and heir. He was succeeded by William Bainard his son, who taking part with the Earl of Maine and others against the king, Henry I., was deprived of his barony, the chief seat of which was Bainard' s castle, on the Thames, in London. "Upon this the barony was given by the king to Eobert, a younger son of Eichard Eitz Gilbert, Earl of Clare, which Eobert was the progenitor of the line of the Eitz Walters shewn in the Pedigree. But before this forfeiture the Manors of Merton, Hadeston, and others, had been sub infeuded in a younger branch of the Bainard family, now represented by the De Greys of Merton, who continued tenants under the Eitz Walters. Of the successors of Ealph Turmit, the mesne tenant of Tittleshall and Wellmo-ham I know nothing until the reign of King John, when these manors were returned as held under Fitz Walter by Chevere or de Capra. King Henry III. received scutage against his passing over into Gascony from Walter Fitz Eobert for a quarter of a knight's fee in Teteleshal, Godwic, and Wychingset, which were held of him by Hamo Cheve. In the Testa de Nevill, on the assessment to the aid for marrying the king's sister, 20 Henry III., the knights' fees belonging to the Barony and Honor of Baynard were estimated at sixty-one and a half and eight parts of a fee, of which Hamo Theil, which must be a misprint for " Chevrr," held two fees in Tittleshall, Norfolk, and Wydekestro, in Suffolk, of Eobert Fitz Walter as part of the barony. FIEF OF RALF DE BAINARD. 105 In the Liber Feudorum, supra cited, temp. Edward I.,1 it is stated that William Sutton' then held half a knight's fee in Titylleshale, of Eobert Fitz Walter, who held of the king. And Alexander Frevyll held half a fee in Wellingham of Eichard Folyot, who held the same of Ealph Eothyng, and he of Eobert Fitz Walter the tenant in capite. In the L'Estrange MS. it is added, " this fee is called Eykardres [or Pykards] in Wellingham" Upon the death of Walter Fitz Walter, the eighth baron, in 1386, he was succeeded in the barony by Walter his eldest surviving son, but the seignory of Wellingham seems to have been in his eldest son, Eobert, who died in his lifetime without issue but leaving a widow, Philippa, a daughter of John, Lord Mohun, who was afterwards the wife of Edward Plantagenet, son of Edmund of Langley, Duke of York, and created Earl of Eutland in 1390, but not restored to the Dukedom of York until 1406. This Philippa probably held this fief in dower, for in 1402 the half fee in Tyteshale was held by John Tye, and the half fee in Welyngham by Nicholas Beaupre, who held of Edward Hastings, and he of Ealph Rothing ; and both of the Earl of Eutland in right of his wife. She survived him, and died Duchess of York in 1431. PEDIGEEE OF FITZ WALTER. Arms : Argent, a fess between 2 chevrons gules. Richard Fitz GUbert,=j= Earl of Clare. Robert de Tounhrigge,= 5th son, Steward to Henry I. Ob. 1134, bur. at St. Neots. = Maud, da. of Simon de St. Liz,= 21y, Suier de Margaret de Bohun,= Walter Eitz Robert,- 2 ux. s. and h., ob. 1198. Earl of Northampton and Herts, by Maud his wife, da. of Wal- theof and Judith. = Maud, eld. da. and coh. of Richard de Lacy, Chief Justice of England, 1 ux. Quincy, whom she survived. Gunnora, da. and h.=f Robert Fitz Walter, s. and h.=p Rohesia, da. of of Robt. de Valoins, 1 ux. one of the 25 Barons appointed to enforce observance of Magna Charta, ob. 1234, 19 Hen. III. bur. at Dunmow. Christiana, Gundreda, cohs. of the Barony of Valoins. 2 ux. Robert Fitz Walter,=j= b. andh., ob. 1257. AUce.= = Sir GUbert Peche. Devorgill, da. and coh.=j= Robert Fitz Walter, =j= Eleanor, da. of of John de Burgh, son of Hubert, 1280, ob. 1284, 1 ux. set. 12, 1258, Knighted 1274, sum. to Pari. 1295, became a friar at Colches ter, ob. 1325. Maud, said to have been poisoned by order of King John, 1213. Earl Ferrars, 1290. 2ux. Christiana, da. & hr. r — ; ~~' , ., , , , to her mother, mar. Joan, da. of John = Robert Fitz Walter,=f Joan, da. & coh. of John de WUl. Mareschal. de Botetaut, 1304, s. and h., ob. 1328. I Moulton, of Egremond, Cumberland. s.p. («) 1 In MS. A, " in Tytelshale, Godwyke, and Wyssyngsett." P 106 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. (a) John Fitz Walter ,=j= Eleanor, da. of Henry, s. & h., a;t. 13, 1327, ob. 1361. Lord Percy. Eleanor = Walter Fitz Walter,=p PhUippa 1 ux., s.p. s. and h., of age 1362, ob. 1386. Robert Fitz =f= Philippa, da. and coh. of Walter Fitz ; Walter, ob. John de Mohun, mar. aft. Walter, 2 son v.p. s.p. Edward, Earl of Rutland and h., had and Duke of York, whom Uvery 1389, she survived, and d. 1431. ob. 1407. : Joan, da. and ultimately h. of John, Baron Devereux, remar. to Hugh, Lord BurneU. Humphrey Fitz Walter, ob. 1422, infra Eetat, s.p. Walter Fitz Walter,=p EUzabeth, da. of brother & h. 1428. prov. 1432, s.p.m. WUl remar. to WUl. Massey, ob. 1463. Tho. Ratcliffe, Esc[.=Anne, ob. p.v. s.p. Arms of Batclijfe : Argent, a bend engrailed sable. Sir John Ratcliffe, K.G.= son of SU John RatcUffe and Katherine his wUe, da. and coh. of Hugh, Lord BurneU, ob. 1456 [? 1461]. : EUzabeth, da. and ultimately sole heU, aged 30, 1463. John Ratcliffe,: Lord Fitz Walter, summoned to Pari. 1485, beheaded and at tainted 1495. Robert Ratcliffe, s. & h.=T= Elizabeth, da. of Humphrey restored 1509 to Barony of Fitz Walter, created Earl of Sussex 1529, KG. 1540, ob. 28 Nov. 1542. Stafford, D. of Buckingham. _!_ EUzabeth, da. of Tho.=f= Henry, 2nd Earl of Sussex,^ Anne, da. of D. of Norfolk, 1 ux. ob. 17 Feb. 1556. Calthorpe, 2 ux. Humphrey Ratcliff,=p 2nd son. Elizabeth, da.: of Thomas Wriothsley. Thomas, 3rd Earl of Susssx, ob. 9 June, 1583. (a) Mar. Frances, da. of Sir WUl. Sidney. Henry RatcUff,^= 4th Earl of Sussex, ob. 14 Dec. 1593. Henry & Robert, both died young. r Robert Ratcliff, 5th Earl of Sussex, ob. 1629, s.p. Frances RatcUff, only da., mar. to Thos. Mildemay, upon whose issue the Barony of Fitz Walter descended, Edmund RatcUff, 6th and last Earl of Sussex, ob. 1641, s.p. ( a) Seized of the fief at his death. FIEF OF PETER DE VALOINES. 107 &a&ular gfaalgsis of tfje ©omesttag Surfag, FIEF OF PETER VALONIENSIS. Patesleia. In whose hands. Roger. Land under cultivation. 2 carucates of land. Occupiers. Not men- T.R.E. tioned. T.R.W.T. Surv, Classes of Labourers. Vil. Bord Serv. Not enume rated. Plough Teams. In In Dom Hom Pasture Land. Other Features. Wood for 10 swme. HaU a fishery. Live Stock.— T.R.E., 4 hogs. T. Survey, 1 working horse and 15 neat stock, 13 neat stock, 59 sheep. Value 20*. Survey, 4 quarantines long and 2 broad. Taxed to the gelt at 3d. In Gatelea. I Radulf. I 34 acres. 2 socmen. IJ acre of meadow. ®{re jfief nf |j*ler toe iaI0m.es ($Khmmxm)t T the time of the Domesday Survey one Roger was the tenant of Pattesley (Patesleia), which had been held, T.R.E., by a free man named Alestan, for a manor, containing two carucates of land, with pannage for ten hogs, and the half of a fishery. Its value was the same as in the Confessor's time, and it was four quarentines long and two broad. The soe belonged to the king's manor of Mileham. There were two socmen in Gately, belonging to Radulfus, holding thirty-four acres of land, over which the predecessor of Hugh de Montford (the chief tenant of Gately), had the liberty of foldage, and the commendation, but all other soe or liberty belonged to Mileham. These had been delivered to Peter de Yaloines, with an acre and half of meadow, and were valued at 20s. This Radulfus or Ralph, was, I suppose, Hugh de Montfort's tenant at Gately, (ante p. 95) but he held also in Great Snoring (Esnaringa), and Ryburgh (Reienburgh),1 under Peter de Valoins. __ 1 There caUed Radulfus faeto. p 2 108 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Including Pattesley, Peter de Valoins had received from the Conqueror, whose nephew he was, seventeen lordships in Norfolk, valued altogether, T.R.E., £49. 4s. 6d., and T.S., £70. 10s. 6d., not reckoning his invasions. He had also several lordships in Essex and Herts, and six in Suffolk, in which latter county the head of his barony, Orford, was situate.2 In the early part of the reign of Henry I., between 1093 and 1106, Peter de Valoins and Albreda his wife founded Binham Priory, and their grants were confirmed by their son Roger, who, as well as Peter the younger, and Robert de Valoins the founder's grandson, were benefactors there, but their gifts do not extend to any land in Launditch Hundred.3 I give the descent of two lines of this family, but Pattesley apparently descended through the elder to the Baliols. Peter de Valomis,T= Albreda, sister to Eudo de Brie tenant in chief. or Hubert de Rhie, Steward to Henry I. Roger de Valoines.^ Agnes. WUUam. i 1. Peter de V.= Gundreda d. 12 Hen. II. de Warren. s.p. 2. Robert,1 ob. 30 Hen. II., 1134. = Hedewise or Hedwig. 3. Geffery, 4. John .=f= IsabeUa, da. of mar. Emma Sir Robert de de Humet, Creke. Inq. p.m. ob. s.p. 37 Hen. III. 5. Roger. Robert, Baron Fitzr Walter, ob. 19 Hen. III. 1234, buried at Dunmow. ; Gunnora, =^ Robert de da. and hr. OsteU, 1 vU. 1. Alan, s.p. 2. Robert de V.=pRoesia, sister and s. &h.,ob. 1210. coh. of SU WiUiam Le Blund, slam at Lewes. WUliam de Mag- naville, Earl of Essex, 1 husb. 5 Henry III. ob. 1190. = Christiana,= Raymond s.p., ob. 22 de Bourgh. Henry III. ast. 35, 18 Edw. I. Gundred : de Valoins. Robert de Valoins,=j= Eva, da. of s. and h., ob. 10 Edw. I. Criketot,d. 21 Ed. I. de Maule. =r Christian, a widow 1278. Henry de Balliol,=j= Lora. 17 Hen. III., 22 Hen. III. David =j= Isabel, _i_. Comyn,i7H.ni. coheU of Christiana. Arms : Paly of 6 or and gules. Alexander de BaUiol, 56 Henry III. Guy de BaUiol. Roesia, da. & coh. aged 2 yrs. on AU Saints, 10 Edw. I. mar. Sir Edm. de Pakenham, aged 23, 34 Edw. I. Cecily, da. and coh. aged abt. 1 year 10 Edw. I. mar. SU Robert de Ufford, aged 22, 34 Edw. I. Sir Harris Nicolas4 makes Roger, son and heir of the second Peter de Valoins, to die 1184, s.p.m., and Gunnora, wife of Fitz Walter, to be daughter and heir of Eoger; but this is a palpable error. Was Christiana, the daughter of Gunnora, married to Eaymond de Burgo before she became Countess of Essex, or was he her second husband? Vincent and others state the 2 Taylor says eighteen in Suffolk, twenty in Norfolk, and thUty-one in other counties. » Blomefield however states that when Peter de Valoins founded Binham Priory, Roger, a knight of his, gave two parts of his tithes in this town to that Priory. * Synopsis s. t. Valoins. See extracts from Foundation Charter of Binham and confirmations at end. FIEF OF PETER DE VALOINES. 109 latter, but according to Blomefield's version of her grant to Binham Priory of the manor of Dersingham, she makes it for the souls' health of William de Mandevile, Earl of Essex, and of Eaymond de Burgo, her late husband. Eaymond is a witness to Lady Alice Nerford's charter to Creke Abbey, but that is without date. Theobald de Valoins, the founder of Hickling Priory, is called a son of Eobert, Lord Valoins. In 16 Edward I., John, son and heir of William Comyn, a minor, is described as one of the coheirs of the Barony of Valoins, in right of his grandmother Isabella ; and Gunnora, his ancestress, wife of Lord Eobert Fitz Walter, is styled heiress of the whole barony. This appears incidentally in an inquisition p. m. Emma La Base.5 EVIDENCES. I. — Notum, &c, quod ego Petrus de Valoniis et Albreda uxor mea, concedentibus filiis meis WiUielmo et Rogero, consilio etiam Walteri nepotis mei, &c, et Ucentii et per breve Henrici regis domini mei et Mathildis regine, dono, &c et pro Albrede uxore mea et Eudone fratre suo et Rohaysia uxore, &c. Testis Hamone nepote Petri et Ricardo fratre suo.- — Monast. Angl. LT. — Notum, &c, Rogerus de Valonns, patris mei Petri de Valonus inhDerens vestigia, concessi, &c. Testis Agnes de Valoniis uxor mea Petrus et Robertus et Gaufridus et Johannes filii mei. — Mon. III.— Notum, &c, ego Petrus de Valoniis, &c., omnes, &c, predecessores mei Petrus, sc'lt de Valoniis, avus meus et post ejus decessum, pater meus Rogerus, in nberam eleemosinam, dederunt, &c. Testes Agnes de Valonus, Robertus et Gaufridus et Rogerus et Johannes et PhiUppus de Valoniis, &c. — Mon. Angl. temp. Henry II. IV. — Notum, &c., ego Robertus de Valonus, consilio domine Agnetis matris mea et Hadewise uxoris mese, &c, concessi, &c., donationem quern Petrus de Valomis avus meus et Rogerus pater meus et Petrus de Valoniis frater meus et domina Agnes mater mea, &c. — Temp. Henry II., III. V. — Robert Valoniis, &c, pro salute mea et Athewige uxor mea et Gunnor filise mese, &c. 5 Esc. 16 Edward I. n. 21. There is an extent of the lands of Robert Fitz Walter, deceased, in the Fine RoU of 20 Henry HI., but I have no copy of it. 110 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. AVING thus traced the descent of the great Domesday Fiefs, from the original tenants in chief to the extinction of each in the Crown, I now propose to treat of the possessions of the monasteries in the Hundred ; and first of Casile %m tjiitrrg. The history of this famous house, founded by William de Warren, first Earl of Surrey, in 1090, has been amply and ably written by Mr. Bloom and Mr. Harrod. In the Appendix to the Monast. Angl. are printed the founders' and other charters, taken from the Eegister or Chartulary of this Priory, now preserved in the British Museum : extracts numbered I. to X. inclusive, given amongst the authorities for this part of jny subject, are copied from these ; the others are extracted from the Chartulary itself. I have already said that to the charter of the founder the witnesses are William his son, Wimer the dapifer or sewer, Geoffry the chaplain, William Branche, Wankelin de Eoseto, Hugh de Wanci, Eobert de Mortimer. The charter of William the second earl confirms the several donations made by his father, and by their tenants as well in his father's time as his own : as to gifts in land, cum meo respectu ; and as to gifts in tithes and churches, sine omni respectu; meaning, I take it, that the lands were still to be held of himself,1 but not so the ecclesiastical property. From this charter we learn of what these, grants consisted. Wimer, the earl's dapifer, had granted to the said monks whatever Geoffrey his nephew and chaplain held of him, viz., at Wesenham two arable fields of the value of 24s., at Chersingehall (Gressenhale) two solidates, or twenty-four acres of land ; 2 the tithe of Alsingars (Elsing), wood, mill, and arable land ; at Chersingehall tithe of wood, mill, and arable land ; twenty pence payable from the priest of that town ; two shillings from Ortmar, three shillings from Anschetin ; tithes of several parishes, and amongst them the tithe of 1 Or, perhaps, with power of resumption. » Decem acrae terra? (inquit. MS.) faciunt, secundum antiquam consuetudinem unam fardeUam et 4 fardeUs faciunt virgatam et 4 vUgatse faciunt unam hidam et 4 hidse faciunt unum feodum militis Cum igitur contineat soUdus 12 denarios, libra 20 solidos, deprehendcret que ille in Regist. brevium original,— soUdata? et librata terras Solidatam de 12 acris, libratum de vicies 12 (hoc est 240 acris) intelligit— Spelman's Glossary in voce Fardella. CASTLE ACRE PRIORY. Ill Lecesham (Lexham), both hall and mill ; the church of that town, with the land thereto ; tithe of Wesneham, carucates or arable fields ; the tithe of Herlebold in that parish. At Cameston (Kempston) also one carucate of land when Wimer himself took the monastic habit. Of all which Eoger his (Wimer' s) son had made a donation and grant to the monks, in the witness of the Earl William, and Osbert of Gloucester, and Tostan, and Wibert of Acre. The grants of several others of the earl's tenants are mentioned in this charter, such as by Gilbert de Froesham 3 (Fransham), his tithe ; by Osmund clispensator, his tithe ; by Eobert de Verli, the tithe of one carucate, &c. ; all which are confirmed by the earl, and the charter is signed by him, by Eoger Dapifer, by Ealph de Caimton, by Ealph de Pavely, and by Hugh de Wanci, but with the sign of the cross, for not one of them could write his name. In another charter of confirmation of the same earl [II.] the grant of Wimer is referred to in somewhat different words, viz., in Wesneham twelve solidates (144 acres) of land and the tithes of that manor ; the church of Lexham, with the land and the priest or priest's endowment (presbiterum), and the tithe of the manor and of its mill; in Cameston twenty solidates (240 acres) of land, with the presbitery ; the church of Dunham, with the land which belonged to it ; in Cressingehale two solidates (24 acres) of land, and the tithe of hall and mill and pannage (pasnagii). To one of the grants confirmed by this charter, Sewal, a nephew of Wimer, is a witness. These donations were confirmed by Bishop Herbert. By a charter of Eoger son of Wimer, dapifer, [III.] he grants and confirms all the gifts and all the alms, elemosinas, which his father and Gilla his mother had granted to the monks of Acre, in lands, in churches, and in tithes, namely, the church of Kemestune with its appurtenances ; the church of Dunham with its appurtenances ; the church of Estlechesham with its appurtenances ; and the two churches of Wesenhamtorpe with their appurtenances ; the tithe of his lordship in that town; two lands of fourteen shillings value, and all the tithes which his men or tenants had given to the monks ; and the tithe of the Lordship of Lechesham and of the mill ; and, after naming other gifts, the church of Kemestun, which his father and mother had given to the said monks for the health of their souls. Attested by Ketel the priest, Eodbert the priest, Eodland Le Strange, Walter the brother of Roger, Richard de St. Clare, Osmund the earl's dispensator, Humfry de Dunham, Arnald Flamang, Hulf, Ketel, Turstan the cook, Godwin, and Godard. Roo-er son of William, who was a grandson of Wimer> granted a croft of land which lay to the west of the house of Wlnoth de Kemestun, between the house and the road, in free alms, for his soul's health and that of his father, &c, by a charter [IV.] to which Fulk de Gressinghale, Gilbert de St. Clare, and William de Salle were witnesses. Again, by another charter, [V.] the last-mentioned Roger, himself called the Earl Warren's dapifer, granted to the monastery, for the souls of Oddo his brother and William his father &c. a mark of silver from the mill of Lechesham, which was at the west part of 3 In the earl's second charter, " Gislebert de Fravesham." 112 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. that town. Henry de Rie, Ralph de Frivill, Baldwin de Frivill, Walter son of Wimar, William the master, Ralph son of Osmund, and William son of Walter being witnesses. Subsequently Roger, son of William the dapifer, made a grant [VI. ] of the mill itself, — "my mill of Lechesham, viz., Westmulne," — besides eleven shillings which Baldwin de Friville had therein, and also land which he had given them in Wesenham, with the homages thereto belonging; the church of Doneham (Dunham), with the land which belonged to it; the services of the tenants, for the soul of his father ; and two shillings yearly paid by Durandus. Moreover he confirmed all the alms and donations which his father and grandfather and ancestors had made to the said church. The witnesses to this charter are Aliva his mother, William his brother, WilKam master of Geytun, Baldwin de Friville and his wife Basilia, Walter son of Wimar and William his son, Fulk son of Ordin and Walter his brother, Harve the clerk, Robert de Verli, Ralf de Gatelai, Simon his brother, Henry Rufus, Fulk priest of Lechesam, Matthew priest of Gressinghale, Nicholas the priest, Swifte, Richard de Blanchevill, Geffrey Choise. And John Le Strange, son of Ronald or Euald Le Strange, was a donor of six acres of land in Lucham. Drogo, another son of William the dapifer, of Gressinghale, granted [VIL] the church of Est lechesham, with all its appurtenances, and the tithe of his lordship and of his mill ; also the church of St. Andrew of Dunham, with all its appurtenances ; and the church of Kemestune, with all its appurtenances ; and the land of Ter chill and the land of Bolle, and all their assarts4 and all their rights of pasture. Likewise the two churches of Wesenham, viz., of the Apostles Peter and Paul, with all their appurtenances, and the tithes of his lordship in the same town, and two lands of fourteen shillings value, and the tithe of Herbold his man, with other possessions out of the Hundred, all of which it was his will and desire that the monks of St. Mary of Acre should hold for ever in free, pure, quiet and perpetual alius. Moreover, he granted and confirmed all the donations and gifts which William the dapifer, his father, or any other of his ancestors, had made to them. Amongst the witnesses' names are those of Ealph de Bellocampo, Humfrey de Dunham, Eichard de Briseley, Alan de Wesenham. In deducing the descent of the Honor of Gressenhall from Wimer the sewer we shall find that Isabella, the daughter of William de Gressenhall and heiress of the family, was thrice married, her first husband being Berenger de Cressi, her second, William de Hunt- ingfeld, and her third, Osmund de Stuteville. The Monasticon gives a charter by which she, Ysabella de Gressingehale, with the assent of William de Hunteinfeld her lord, and of her heirs, granted and quit claimed to the monastery the homage of Hugh de Crec, without any power to reclaim, for fifteen marks which he rendered to her lord, and thirty shillings which he rendered to her ; and all the tenement of the said Hugh in Wesenham, and a house and vestitum,5 which he had there. And if any question should arise touching his homage, she 1 Clearances, nearly cleared land, woodland brought into cultivation. 6 " Terra vcstita dicitur pro terra- satm." — (Spelman, a. v.) cf. cropped land. CASTLE ACRE PRIORY. ] 13 warranted the same against all men. Witnesses, William the steward, Geoffry de Barsham, Walter de Scultorp, Godfrey chaplain of Ausing, Eobert de Frivill, &c. Osmund de Stuteville, with the counsel and assent of Ysabel his wife and of his heirs, also granted and confirmed all the donations and alms which his predecessors, viz., Wimer steward (senescallus) de Gressinghale, Eoger his (Wimer' s) son, Walter son of Wimer, William son of Eoger, Eoger son of William and Drogo his brother, and Berenger de Cressi, and also whatever his men of the Honor of Gressinghale had given to the priory, whether in churches, in tithes, in homages, in lands, in grass, in meadows, in pastures, in woods, in mills, in waters, in ways, in paths, in rents, in tenements, and in all other things whatsoever, held by the said monks in the times of his said ancestors and of his said men, and which they there held ; and besides he gave to the said monks William son of Alan of Wesenham, with his whole family and all his tenement ; and Harvey Salle of Wesenham, with all his family and his tenement ; and a croft of land in Chemestune, lying towards the west, between the house which was Wulnoth's de Chemestune and the road ; all which were to be held, &c, for the soul's health of himself and Isabel his wife, and of his heirs and ancestors. This charter was witnessed by William, chaplain of Gressinghale, Eoger chaplain, Eabell the knight, Eoger the lord's "brother, Alan de Wesenham and Matthew his son, Master Eichard, Eustace, William the elder, Hamon the earl's servant, and Walter and Ealph his sons, Simon and Anchetil the prior's servants, and Simon the marshall, Pauline, &c. William de Stutvil confirmed to the monks all the grants of his ancestors, saving to himself and his heirs the advowsons of the churches of St. Peter and St. Paul of Wesenham Thorpe, and granting to the monks the advowson of Est lechesham.6 The donations before enumerated were all portions of the fief of William de Warren. The gifts of Henry de Eie and Hubert de Eie of the services of their feudatories and mill at Worthing have been mentioned above, p. 67. 7 Eobert de Vals (Vallibus or Vaux), for his own health and that of his wife and children, and for the soul of his father and mother and of his brother Eobert the fat, and his other brothers Gilbert and Hubert, granted to the monks a mill in Penteney, and also four solidates (48 acres) of land which he had in Gatelai, and land at Massingham. And William de Vals confirmed the same by another charter, to which, amongst others, Oliver his brother, Simon his uncle, and Ealph his brother, are named as witnesses, as also are Eobert Fitz Warin Gerard Fitz Warin, William Fitz Eobert, Ealf Fitz Durand, Eichard Fitz William, and others. Eoo-er Bozun gave two parts of the tithe of his lordship in Wichingsete or Whissonset.8 6 Reg. Castl. f. 28. Fine. Norf. 35 Henry III. n. 27 and 63 ; 41 Hen. III. n. 4. 7 In noticing the gift of Henry de Rie, Mr. Bloom, from a want of knowledge of the condition of a villan tenant and the nature of his services at the period, has a somewhat amusing remark. " We can readily suppose (he says) what became of the mill, but how the unfortunate mUler and his family were ttrrned to account is not so easy to guess. Henry de Rie must have been a very simple or a very bad man, and it is hoped that the change of masters would be to the advantage of poor Thurstan. The fact however (he adds) is an amusing illustration of landed tyranny."— History of Castle Acre, p. 141. 8 Reg. 56 b. Q 114 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. William de Lisewis, with the consent of Godfrey his son, gave all the tithes of his woods and assarts at Gately, and of the lands of his lordship there, and the tithe of land there called Tolisnap, for which the monks were to keep his anniversary and that of his father and mother. — Blomeneld. The Castle Acre chartulary gives other grants and confirmation by the second earl and by Isabella his countess. William the third earl, who died 1148, confirmed the gifts of his grandfather and father, as well as his own previous donations ; amongst which latter he names five shillings and sixpence of rent in land and homages in Eougham (Rucham) and the mill called Edicoldesmelne, which he himself gave as an endowment to the church of St. Mary when it was dedicated.9 And he further confirmed the grants of the tenants : mentioning, amongst those of Wimer the dapifer, the church of Chemestun, and the lands of Turchill and of Bolle in that town; the two churches of Wesenham, and the tenths of his demesnes in the same, with two lands of the value of fourteen shillings in Gersinghale, tithes of the lordship, wood and mill; in Alsingers, the same; in Lechesham, the church, and tithe of the lordship ; in Dunham, the church, &c, besides tithes in other parishes ; also the gifts of Eoger son of Wimer, of William son of Eoger, and others. To which last confirmation, William, Bishop of Norwich, Reginald de Warren, with others, were witnesses. Again, in another charter of confirmation, he entreats all his men for the love of him to favour and defend the monks in their possessions, and if any one should do them an injury he enjoins Rainold his brother to do them justice. The gifts here mentioned are those of Roger de Toonei, William de Pelevill, Richard de Chabers, Robert de Vals, and others. Afterwards, in contemplation of his pilgrimage to Jerusalem, where in 1148 he died, he again confirmed the charters of his ancestors and himself, and committed the care of the monastery in his absence to Reginald his brother. Bishop Eborard, about the year 1140, gave a charter confirming all that the monks of Acre justly and canonically possessed in his diocese, and whatever William first Earl Warren, and William second earl, and William third earl, and other faithful men had given to them; naming, amongst others, the church of Lechesham, the church of the other Lechesham, the church of Dunham with the chapel of St. Mary which belonged to it, the church of Kemestune, the church of Wichingesete, the churches of St. Peter and St. Paul in Wesenhamtorp. — Reg. 117. The confirmation by Symon, Bishop of Norwich, dated 31st July, 1265, contains a complete summary of the ecclesiastical possessions of the Priory, including — The church of Kemestun. A yearly pension of 2s. out of Dunham St. Mary. ' Quod dedi in dotem eccelisie sancte Maria quandum dedicata est.'- CASTLE ACRE PRIORY. 115 The like out of Dunham St. Andrew. One mark out of the churches of St. Peter and St. Paul of Wesenhamtorp. Half a mark out of Est lexham. In Gressinghale, Elsing, and Wesenham two parts of all the tithes of the demesnes of Robert de Stutevile. In Gressinghale and Skarning two parts of the tithes of the demesnes of William de Kirtling, Ralph Crow, Henry formerly son of Isabella, and Ralf de Hingresho, of the tenement which was Peter Cupar's. In Est Lechesham all the tithes of the demesne of Robert de Stutevile. In Gatele all the tithe of assarts in the woods of William de Lisewis* and the tithe of the land called Telisnap. In West Lexham the tithe of the land called Kalveswode, of the demesne of William, son of Richard de Lechesham, and two parts of the tithes of the demesne late of Roger de Cressy. In Titleshale two parts of the tithe of the demesne of Robert de Verli and William Capri. In Wichingsete two parts of the tithe of the demesne late of Roger Buzun. In Skerninge two parts of the tithe of the demesne of Saer de Frevile and the tithes of the assarts of Heringshae. In Wendlyng all the tithe of great and little Ditchwoode of the demesne of Reginald son of Elwold, as well of the fee of Giffard as of William de Franchevile. In Fransham and Skerninge two parts of tithe of the demesne of Gilbert de Fransham. In Dunham the tithe of 30 acres of ... . In Hoe two parts of the tithe of the demesne of John de Hoe.1 In the Valuation made between the years 1288 and 1291, called Pope Nicholas' Taxation, because that pope had granted the tenths of all ecclesiastical benefices to King Edward I. for six years, towards defraying the expense of an expedition to the Holy Land, in order that they might be assessed at their full value, — the spiritual possessions of the Prior of Castleacre, in the Deanery of Brisele, are set down as follows, p. 79.2 Wesenham thorp. Porciones de Castleacre Tytyllishale. Porcio P. de Castelacr' in eadem Gatale. Porcio P. de Castelacr' in eadem Gressinghale. Porciones de Castelacr' in eadem Hornyngtoft. Porcio P. de Castelacr' in eadem Wissingsete. Porcio P. de Castelacr' in eadem Rogham. Porcio P. de Castelacr' . £. s. d. 2 11 A 2 6 8 0 6 8 4 11 4 0 13 4 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 Blomef. viu. 369. MS. Macro per Tanner. 2 Printed by the Record Commissioners. Q 2 116 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Kemston (Ecclesia appropriata Priori et Conventu de Castleacre cum Vicaria) West lexham. Porcio P. de Castelacr' in eadem . Skernyng. Porciones de Castelacre in eadem . s. d. 0 0 10 0 15 0 Bona temporalia Prioris de Castelacre, Decanat. de Bryselee (fo. 111.) JE. s. d. In Kemeston de terra redditibus et consuetudinibus, 8 9 0 Est lexham de redditibus ..... 0 3 0 West lexham . de redditibus .... . 0 0 7 Gressenhal de redd' ..... . 0 2 8 Rucham . de redditibus et terra 0 16 0 Gatelee . de redditibus et molendina 1 2 0 Lucham . de redditibus . 0 5 0 Bryselee . de redd. ..... . 0 0 5 Beston de terra .... . 0 7 6 Wesenham de redditibus et terra . 2 3 qi Swantone de redditu et terra . 0 1 8 Wyssingsete de redditu 0 2 0 Fransham mag na, de terra et redditu . 0 15 5 Dunham parva de redditu . 0 4 4 Hoo de redditu . 0 5 0 Wenlingg de terris redditibus et fetu anim alium 5 17 8 It is to be observed that during the foregoing period, the Priory of Castle Acre being subject to that of Lewes, which in like manner was subject to the mother Priory of Cluny, was considered an alien priory ; but in the year 1373, being the 34th Edward I., that monarch, at the request of John de Warren, then Earl of Surrey, by his charter dated 24th January, made it indigenous and discharged from foreign dependence. The "Valor Ecclesiasticus," or Survey, made in pursuance of the Act of Parliament, 26 Henry VIIL, gives the then value of the possessions of Castleacre Priory, from which I extract the following particulars : — Spirituals. Annual pensions and portions paid by — The Abbat of Wendling for tenths in Wesenham The Rector of West lexham for tenths there The Rector of Dunham Magna for tenths there Rector of Skernyng for tenths there . Rector of Titalesall for tenths there Rector of Wyssyngsett for tenths there Rector of Gressenale for tenths there . Rector of Est lexham £. s. d. a .. 4 0 0 . 1 0 0 . 0 8 0 . 1 0 0 . 1 3 4 . 2 0 0 . 1 6 8 . 0 6 8 CASTLE ACRE PRIORY. 117 d. 7 ¦ £. s. 12 12 2 6 8 0 5 0 15 4 3 0 10 10 ^ 0 0 6 8 15 17 6 Temporals. Manor of Kempston, annual value — In rents and farm Sheep pasture in the hands of the Prior . Profits of Court, yearly average Manor of Heryngsall, annual value — In rents and farm Demesne land in the hands of the Prior . Profits of Courts, yearly average Value of wood expended within the dwell ing of the Prior, grown upon this lordship, yearly average From which the following deductions had to be made : — Annual rent to the Hundred of Laundich for land in Kempston Annual rent to the Manor of Middleton for land in Heryngsall George Pescodd, bailiff of Heryngsall, had a yearly fee of . The Prior received for land at Wendlyng, from the Abbat of Wendling, 3s. Ad. per annum, and the Sub-prior 2s. He paid to the Vicar of Kempston a yearly pension of £2. Os. 8d., and to the Vicar of Rougham 13s. Ad. per annum. 5 0 0 £. s. 0 4 0 2 0 10 d. A 00 Hec sunt carta Comitum Warrene qum habentur apud Castleacram. I. Charta Willielmi comitis secundi, &c. — Reg. f. 1. Notum sit omnibus presentibus et futuris meis fidelibus de Nordfoc et de Sudfoc, quod ego Willielmus, comes de Surrea, pro salute animse mese et parentum meorum, concedo Deo et sanctse Marise et Sanctis Apostolis ejus Petro et Paulo, ad locum sanctse Marise de Achra, ubi serviunt Deo et sanctse genetricse ipsius, Cluniacensis monachi de sancto Pancratio, duas carrucatas terrse, in ipsa Achra, quas eidem ecclesise pater meus dedit In super etiam quicquid mei homines, tempore patris mei et meo tempore, prsedictis monachis dederunt, et daturi sunt, in terra cum meo respectu, in decimis et in ecclesiis sine omni respectu : Wimerus itaque dapifer meus eisdem monachis quicquid Gaufredus nepos suus et capeUanus de eo tenebat dedit sciHcit ad Wesenham duas terras de viginti quatuor sondis, Ad CheringehaUam duas solidatas, Decimam Alsingarum, nemoris, molendini et carucarum, De Cheringehalla decimam nemoris molendinorum et carucarum, De sacerdote ejusdem villse viginti denarios, de Ortimaro duos sohdos de Anschetino tres sohdos Decimam de Lecesham haUse et molendini, Ecolesiam ejusdem villse cum 118 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. terra ad eam pertinente ; Ecclesiam de Doneham cum terra quse ad eam pertinet ; Decimam de Wesneham carucarum ; Decimam Herleboldi in eadem villa ; ad Oamestonam etiam unam carrucatam terrse ipsemet Wimerus quando monachalem habitum succepit. De hiis omnibus Rogerus fiUus ejus fecit donationem et concessum Deo et sanctse Marise et monachis sibi servientibus. Teste Wilhelmo comite et Osberto de Gloecestre et Tostano et Wiberto de Acra Hugo quoque de Wanci dedit Omnes quoque homines sui francigense decimas suas dederunt sciUcet, Gillebertus de Froesham suam decimam Osmundus dispensator decimas suas, Robertus de VerU decimam carucatse unius Hsec omnia sicut supradixi prsedictis monachis do et concedo ut ipsi ea libere in pace et quiete et sine omni querela perenniter teneant, et ideo manu propria signum crucis faciens indissolubititer confirmo meisque hominibus ad confirmandum trado. Signum W. comitis + S. Rogerii dapiferi + S. RaduM de Camston -f- S. Radulfi de Pavilaco + S. Hugonis de Wanci -f- II. Carta Willielmi secundi comitis, &c. — Reg. f. 1. Noverint presentes et futuri quod ego WUUelmus comes de Suthreia, &c In super quidquid mei homines tempore patris mei et meo predictis monachis dederunt et daturi sunt : in terra cum meo respectu ; in decimis vero et ecclesus sine omni respectu. Wimerus itaque dapifer meus dedit monachis quicquid Gaufredus capeUanus ejus de eo tenebat; scilicet in Wesneham duodecim solidatas terrse et decimam ejusdem manerii ; de Lechesham ecclesiam cum terra et presbiterum et decimam manerii et molendini sui Camestone, viginti soUdatas terrse et ecclesiam cum presbitero, de Duneham ecclesiam cum terra que ad eam pertinet ; in Gressingehale duas soUdatas terrse et decimam hallas et molendinorum et pasnagu De hns omnibus Rogerius fiUus Wimari fecit donationem et concessum Deo et sanctse Marise et monachis sibi servientibus Gislebertus de Fravesham dedit decimam suam. III. Carta Rogeri filii Wimeri, domini Honoris de Gressinghale, &c. Notum sit tam presentibus quam futuris quod ego Rogerus filius Wimeri dapiferi dono confirmo et concedo et quiete clamo omnia dona et omnes elemosinas quas pater meus et mater mea GiUa dederunt et concesserunt Deo et sanctse Marise et monachis de Acra; sciUcet in terris in ecclesiis in decimis et nominatim ecclesiam de Kemestune cum pertinentiis suis et ecclesiam de Dunham cum pertinentiis suis ; et ecclesiam de Estlechesam cum pertinentiis suis ; et duas ecclesias de Wesenhamtorpe cum pertinentiis suis, et decimam de dominio meo in eadem viUa, et duas terras de quatuor decim sohdis ; et omnes decimas quas homines mei iUis dederunt. Et decimam de dominio de Lechesham et de molendino Et terram de Kemestun quam pater meus et mater mea praedictis monachis pro salute animse suse dederunt. Hns testibus, Ketello presbitero, Rodberto presbitero, Rodlando Extraneo, Walterio fratre meo, Richardo de sancto Claro ; Osmundo dispensatore comitis, Humfrido de Dunham, Arnaldo Flemang, Hulf, KeteUo, Turstano coco, Godwino, et Godardo, et multis aliis. — Fo. 20. IV. Sciant prsesentes et futuri quod ego Rogerus fiUus Willielmi dapiferi dono et concedo Deo et sanctse Marise et monachis de Acra unum croftum terras quod jacet ad occidentem domus Wlnothi de Kemestun inter domum ipsius et viam in Uberam et quietam elemosinam pro salute mea et pro anima patris mei et omnium parentum meorum. Hiis testibus Fulcherio de Gressinghale, Gileberto de sancto Claro, WiUielmo de SaUe.— Ib. 20. CASTLE ACRE PRIORY. 119 V. Sciant prsesentes et futuri quod ego Rogerus dapifer comitis Warrense dono et concedo Deo et sanctje Marise et monachis de Acra pro anima Oddonis fratris mei et Willielmi patris mei et animabus omnium parentum et amicorum meorum in Uberam et quietam et perpetuam elemosinam unam marcam argenti de molendino de Lechesham quod est in occidentali parte ejusdem villse. Hiis testibus, Henrico de Rie, Radulfo de Frivill, Baldwino de FriyiU, Walterio fiHo Wimari, Wilhelmo Magistro, Radulfo filio Osmundi, Wilhelmo fiHo Walterii.— F. 27. VI. Sciant, &c, quod ego Rogerus filius WiUielmi dapiferi dono, &c, molendinum meum de Lechesham scilt. Westmulne prseter undecim solidos quos Baldwinus de Friville habet in eodem molendino. Insuper et terram quam dedi eis in Weseham cum humagns pro anima patris mei et duos soUdos quos Durannus reddit per annum. Prseterea confirmo omnes elemosinas et donationes quas pater meus, et avus meus, et antecessores mei fecerint supradictse ecclesise in omnibus rebus. Volo autem ut haec omnia monachi supradicti teneant jure perpetuo. Hus testibus. AHna matre mea, WiUielmo fratre meo, WilHelmo magistro de Geytun, Baldewino de FriviUe et uxore sua Basilia, Waltero fiHo Wimari, et WilHelmo fiHo suo, Fulchero filio Ordini, et Walterio fratre ejus, Herveo clerico, Roberto de VerH, Radulfo de Gatelai, Simone fratre suo, Henrico Ruffo, Folchero presbitero de Lechesham, Matheo presbitero de Gressinghale, Nicholao presbitero, Swifte, Richardo de Franchevill, Gaufrido Choise. — F. 27. VIL Sciant, &c, quod ego Drogo fiUus Willielmi dapifer de Gressinghale dedi, &c, ecclesiam de Estlechesam cum omnibus pertinentiis suis et decimam de dominio meo et de molendino meo. Et insuper ecclesiam sancti Andrese de Dunham cum omnibus pertinentiis suis et ecclesiam de Kemestune cum pertinentiis suis et terram TerchiUi et terram Bolle et omnes assartas suas et omnes Hbertates pasturse suse et preterea duas ecclesias de Weseham, scilt ecclesiam sanctorum Apostolorum Petri et PauH cum omnibus pertinentiis suis et decimas de dominio meo in eadem viUa et duas terras de quatuordecim soUdos et decimam Herboldi hominis mei [Et in Witheresfeld, Winebotesham, Congham, Grimeston, &c] Hsec omnia, &c. Et prseteria concessi prsedictis monachis et prsesenti carta mea confirmari omnes donationes et omnes concessiones quas WilHelmus dapifer pater meus eis fecit vel ullus aHus antecessorum meorum. Hanc autem donationem, &c, pro Dei amore et pretatis intuitu et pro salute animse mese et praedicti WiUielmi patris mei et heredum meorum et antecessorum et suocessorum meorum. Hiis testibus ; — Waleriano canonico sanctas Marias de Suthwere, Oddone sacerdote illius parochiae, WiUielmo presbitero filio Fulcheri, Radulfo vinitario, Rogero de Holm, Radulfo de Bellocampo, Humfrido de Dunham, Richardo fiHo Simonis, Richardo de Briselei, Radulfo de Quatuormarcis, Alano de Wesenham, Fulchero fiHo Ordini, PhilHppo de AmbHe, Godfrido de Hyrmingeland, WilHelmo Talebot, Augustino de Congeham, Lamberto de Ros, et multis ahis.— F. 27. VIII. Notum sit — Ego Berenger de Cressi, — terram in guersighnehaul, — unam marcam annuaH redditas, — in villa de Wesenham. Testibus, Ricardo capellano, Hugone de Cressi, Roberto de Mortuomari, Ricardo de BlunviU, Radulfo de Bellomont, Jordano de Belnai, Ricardo le bigot, Wasee senescaUo, Jordano de Bosco Ricardo de Sancto dionisio, WilHelmo de beUenbr, Ricardo clerico fratre suo, Roberto de daeviU, Roberto dalebr, Roberto torbt, OHvero m°.— F. 29. 120 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. IX. Notum, &c, ego Tsabel uxor Berengarii de Cressi, confirmavi. — F. 29. X. Sciant, &c, quod ego Tsabella de Gressingehale assensu et voluntate WilHelmi de Hunteinfeld domini mei et hseredum meorum concessi et quietum clamavi Deo et Sanctse Marise de Acra, &c, homagium Hugonis de Crec, sine reclamatione hominum omnium in perpetuum pro xv marcis quas dedit domino meo et xxx sol. quos mihi dedit et totum tenementum prsedicti Hugonis in Weseham et unam domum et vestitum quem ipse iUuc habuit. Et si ahqua questio moveatur de homagio suo contra omnes homines warrantizabimus eum. Test. WilHelmo senescallo, Gaufr. de Barsham, Waltero de Sculetorp, Godefrido capeUano de Ansing, Roberto de Frivill, Will. Britt. — F. 29. XI. WilHelmus de huntinfeld assensu, &c, TsabeUe uxoris mee, &c, confirmavi. — F. 29. XII. Sciant, &c, quod ego Osmundus de Stutevile consiHo et assensu Tsabel uxoris mei et hseredum meorum, &c, confirmavi, &c, omnes donationes et omnes elemosinas quascunque antecessores mei vide!'. Wimerus senescaUus de Gressinghale et Rogerus fiHus ejus et Walterus fihus Wimari et WilHelmus filius Rogeri et Rogerus fiHus Willielmi et Drogo frater ejus et Berengarius de Cressi. Et insuper quidcunque homines mei de honore de Gressinghale dederunt et concesserunt, &c, in ecclesns in decimis in homagus in terris in herbis in pratis in pascuis in nemoribus in molendinis in aquis in vhs in semitis in redditibus in tenementis et in omnibus aHis rebus quascunque prsedicti monachi tenuerunt temporibus prsedictorum antecessorum meorum et prsedictorum hominum meorum et modo tenent. Et prseteria dedi, &c, praedictis monachis WilHelmus fiHum Alani de Weseham cum tota sequeta sua et toto tenemento suo et Herveum Salle de Weseham cum tota famiHa sua et cum toto tenemento suo. Et unum croftum terrse in Chemes tune que jacet versus occidentem inter domum quse fuit Wulnothi de Chemestune et viam. Omnia ista volo et desidero et prsecipio ut prsedicti monachi teneant et possideant in Hberam et quietam et perpetuam elemosinam pro salute animae mese et Isabel uxoris mese et hseredum meorum et antecessorum meorum. Hiis testibus, WilHelmo capellano de Gressingehale, Rogero capeUano, Rabello miHte, Rogero fratre domini, Alano de Weseham et Matheo fiHo ejus, magistro Richardo, Eustachio et WilHelmo seneschalHs, Hamone servient* comitis et Waltero et Radulfo finis ejus, Simone et AnchetUlo servientibus Prioris, et Simone MareschaHo, Paulino, et multis aHis. — F. 29. XIII. Sciant, &c, ego WilHelmus de Stuteville, omnes concessiones confirmationes venditiones et possessiones quascunque Osmundus de Stuteville pater meus VsabeUa mater meus et alu ancessores mei sive homines mei de honore de Gressenhale dederunt, &c. Hanc autem concossionem et confirmationem feci dictis monachis apud Westmonasterium coram justiciariis de banco in quindecimo Sancti hyUarii anno regni regis Henrici fiHi Regis Johannis xlj°. — Ib. 28. [See the charters of Henry de Rie and Hubert de Rie, printed supra, p. 77.] XIV. Hec est finaHs concordise, a die S. Martini in xv dies anno regni regis Henrici fiHi Johannis xij coram Hen? de Bichor, &c, inter Joh'em priorem de castelacre querent et Willm de Stutevill defforcient de advocationibus ecclesiarum sanctorum Petri et Pauli de Wesenham torp ct ecclesiam Sancti Andree de CASTLE ACRE PRIORY. 121 estlechesham, cum alta ultime presentacionis su'm fuit inter eos in eadem curia scil. quod prior recogn' predictas advooaciones esse jus ipsius Will'i. Et pro hac, idem WiU8 concessit predicti priori advocaoionem predicte ecclesie de est lechesham cum pertinentiis et j marchatam annui redditus peroipiendam annuatim eidem priori et successoribus suis in ecclesia sua de castelacra, per manus Ricardi de Bavent et heredum suorum de tenementis quos idem Ric. tenuit de predicto Willo in Ausing et Tudenham ad tres terminos, &c. salvia eidem W. et heredibus suis homagus et omnibus aHis serviciis, &c. Habendum, — priori, — in puram et perpetuam elemosinam. Et hec concordia facta fuit inter eos salva eidem priori — debita et antiqua pensione sua de eoclesiis de Wesenham torp. Et similiter hec concordia facta fuit presonte predicto Ricardo et cognoscente se debere predictum redditum. Et si ita contingat quod Prior vel successores sui vel ecclesia sua aHquas cartas vel munimenta de advocacionibus predictarum ecclesiarum sanctorum Petri et PauU, de cetero pertulerunt pro nulHs habeantur. — F. 108. XV. In carta Willielmi tertii Comitis de Warrerme. — Reg. 4. Precor que omnes homines meos ut pro amore meo ipsos manteneant et defendant, et si ullus eis injuriam fecit Rainaldus frater meus faciat ipsis in justicia. SciUcet, hec quse carta ista continet in se. Rogerus de toeneio dedit et concessit et carta sua confirmavit, sub testibus multis predictis monachis in Hberam elemosinam et quietam ab omni servicio, nemus suum de Haringeshae, cum tota terra et sartis quse ad illud pertinent, pro xiij marcis quos de ipsis monachis habuit. WilHelmus de Pelevill dedit ipsis monachis in liberam elemosinam terciam partem nemoris de Dichwode quse sua erat, pro xv marcas, quos habuit de caritate ipsorum. Ricardus de Chambeis dedit ipsis monachis, &c, nemus suum de Dichwode parva, pro v marcas, quos de ipsis habuit, &c. XVI. In carta ejusdem comitis. — Reg. 4. Sciant, &c, " ego W. comes de Sudregia, Jerosalumam ire desiderans, pro salute animse meae et ante cessorum meorum, do, concedo, &c, confirmo Deo et ecclesia Sanctse Marise de Acra, &c, omnes donationes quos antecessores mei eis dederint, et eas quse ego ipse meo tempore eis dedi, &c. Testes, Reginaldus de Warrenne frater meus, cui domum illam de Acra commisi custodiam ; Radulfus frater meus, Robertus de Frivill, Drogo de Frivill, Jordanus de Blossevill, Radulfus de Plaiz, Simon de CaiUi, Robertus de StutevUl, Rogerus de Stutevill, Osmundus de Stutevill, Henricus de Ysil, Radulfus de Wiburevill, Osmundus Dispensator, Radulfus filius suus, WilHelmus fihus GUberti, Radulfus Camberlengus, Rogerus capeUanus, Warinus frater ejus, Henricus capeUanus." XVII. Eborardus episcopus fidelibus et futuris de Norfolc et Sudfolc salutem. Quoniam debitores sumus ea quse reHgionis locis devotio fidehum contuht pia solicitudine tueri, nos conservata in omnibus dignitate Norwicensis ecclesise omnia quae dilecta fratres nostri monachi de Acra in diocesi Norwicensi juste et canonice possident auctoritate Dei et nostra eis concedimus et confirmamus, vid'. monasterium sanctae Mariae de Acra et quicquid ibidem WilHelmus comes Warrenniae primus et WilHelmus secundus comes et WilHelmus tertius comes Warrennias et ceteri fideles eis dederunt, et ecclesiam vUlae de Acras ecclesiam de Neuton ecclesiam de Lechesham ecclesiam de altera Lechesham, ecclesiam de Dunham cum capella Sanctae Marias quae ad eandam ecclesiam pertinet, ecclesiam de Kemestun ecclesiam de Wichingesete ecclesias Sancti Petri et Sancti PauU in Wesehamtorp [and seventeen other churches]. Ne igitur quisquam praesumat prasdiotos fratres monachos de Acra injuste vesare aut possessiones eorum ulla temeritate turbare firmissime prohibemus et sub interminatione anathematis interdecimus. Quisquis vero eos conservare et ampHficare studuerit Dominus conservet eum et beatum faciat in terra multiphcans ei bona temporaHa pariter et eterna. Amen. Teste, Wilhelmo Archidiacono, Walchehno Archidiacono, Rogero Archidiacono. R 122 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Carta Regum Anglise. XVIII.— Eeg. Castleacre 106. Notum sit. — Henricus, dei gratia rex Anglorum, concedo, &c, quicquid Will, de Warrenna dedit eis scil', &c. "Hlud quoque quod Wimerus, dapifer ejus dedit eis. In Kemestona, xxiuj°r soHdatas terre, et xnij.0'', in Wesneham, et in Gressingehalla. Et duas ecclesias de dunham et de lechesham; et decimas maneriorum suorum et molendinarum et pasnagu ; et decimas miHtum suorum." Signum Henrici regis, signum herberti episcopi, Rogeri episcopi, &c. Henricus, rex Anglie, et dux Normandie et Aquitanee, et comes andeguina : vicecomiti de Norf., et omnibus ministris suis et aHis. Sciatis, me concessisse Monachis de Acra, boscum de Haringeshage, cum omnibus pertinentiis suis, sicut carta Rogeri de toeni et Radulphi filii sui eis testantur. Quaere volo, &c. Test. cane, apud s' edmundum, &o. Another of same king. Justicus suis, &c, boscum de haringeshage. — Test. War. fil. gerold. XIX. Henricus rex, &c. Ph' Archid Norwic. Salutem Precipio quod ecclesia Sancti Andree de duneham magna habeat parochiam suam ita bene, et in pace et juste, Hbere et integre et plenarie, sicut habuit, tempore regis H. avi mei, et quam novissime transretavi, ac prohibeo ne aHquis monachis de acra quorum et ecclesia predicta, injuste ponat in placitu de iUa, quia ipsi sunt in mea custodia et protectione, ac non feceris episcopus Norwic. faciat. — Test Ric. de luceio apud Rothm. XX. Henricus rex, &c. Sciatis nos concessisse, — priori de conventu de castelacra, — Hberam warrenam, in omnibus dominius terris suis de Heringeshagh et Kemestun, in comitatu Norf. Hns testibus venerabaH patre, Walteri, norvicensis episcopo ; Guidone lezyniaco, fratre nostro ; WiUo de Grey, Rad de Bagepur, Petro everardi, Barthol le bygot, WiUo de sanca ennina, Will Gernun, Ph'o de bukelaund, et aHis. Data per manum nostram apud Walsingham, xv die Martii anno regni nostri quadragesimo. — Reg. 110. DUNHAM.— Reg. Castleacre. Sciant, &c, quod ego herveus canis do, &c, ecclesiam Sancte Marie de dunham et advocaoionem ejusdem ecclesie et omnes donaciones quos ancessores mei dederunt Preterea v acras terre juxta rachesnese quondam partem prati mei de Sudacre. Test. Johanne Rose de Sparlei, PhiHppo presbytero, &c- — Fo. 19. Sciant, &c, ego Eudo Arsic de consensu Alicie uxoris mei et heredibus, omnes conoessiones, &c, quos predecessores mei eis concesserunt, sci. carta hervei canis que fuit pater Alicie uxoris mei plenius testat, vid» ecclesiam S. Marie de dunham, &c, advocationem ejusdem, &c, et v. acras, &c, et totum stagnum molendini de Witewell quod ad me pertinet usque ad viam qua duxit de Suthacre usque ad forum de dunham et insuper dimidiam terre versus austrum extra predictam viam ad emendationem molendini et stagni predicti. Et Ulam placeam qua exitur calceam versus occidentem inter vias quibus itur ad castelacre et ad forum de dunham. Testibus WilHelmo comite Warrenni, Nicholas de Kenet, Ada de KailU, Alexandro fiUo meo et herede, Herveo filio meo, Hamone filio Walteri de Acre, WilHelmo fratre ejus, Hamoni filio Godrici, WilHelmo fratre ejus, Gafr' Camberlang' prioris, W. de herigh', Ricardo filio gileberti— Ib. f. 19. Sciant, &c, ego Alicia quondam uxor domini Eudonis in libera viduitate, confirmavi, terras que fuerunt basilie uxoris hugonis. Testibus, Domino Alexandro arsic filio et herede meo, Domino fredrico de CASTLE ACRE PRIORY. 123 capravillo, Eudone et rollando fihis meis, Reginaldo de gete tunc senescallo de acre, Hamone fiHo Walteri de acre, WilHelmo tym, WilHelmo de acre, Drogone clerico, Magistro Galfrido de derham, WUHelmo MoUe, Johanne senescallo prioris, &c. — Ib. [On a separate strip.] Sciant, — ego Joh. fil. robti lole de magna dunha consensu Alvoyee Mat9 mee dedi, petro saxe de Castelao in maritagio cum eva sorore mea et heredibj, &c, unam croftam, &c, in magna dunham. Sciant, &c, ego Alanus de lechesham dedi — iiij°r acras de terra arabUe in campo de dunham, quarum una jacet ad — chemestun, — et silvam vocatam harnesle &c, pro anima wilHelmi fiHi Ricardi et pro meipso et pro omnibus parentibus et amicis vivis et defunctis. Testibus, Radulfo de Neketon, WilHelmo filio Radulfi, Wlnotho de chemestun, Rogero fiHo ejus, Rogero m° qui seisintur de terra predicta, Wimaro carpentario de frauesham, Galfrido patre ejus, Ricardo de Neketon. Sciant, ego Alanus de lechesham, — nij°r acres de terra mobile in campo de duneham quos Rogerus birun de me tenuit, &c. Sciant, &c, ego Alexander filius reginaldi de dunham, — unam quadrigatam cum tribus acris, quos ancessores mei dederunt. Testibus, Eudone de arsic, Thoma de suthao, Roberto de pagrav. Sciant, ego Robertus marescaUus cognomine hoppeford, — duas acras in campo de parva dunham. Testibus, Waltero de capravilla, Waltero fiHo hamonis, Hamone filio godefridi, Alino de Suthacre, Alexandro senescallo, Galfrido camerlano prioris, Nicholao pincerna, Anketillo Januario, GUeberto de franchevil, &c. [Carta Alexandri harsyk mUitis de Gravelpitts et de prato adjacente. Inter testes, Reginaldo de Dunham, Gilberto de Fraunsham, mihtibus.] Inquir de pasture de Dunham, Norff. Johannes Arsik in merciam pro pluribus defaltis, — ad respon dendum Priori de Castellaor de placito quare ipse cum Humfrido herbert cepit averia ipsis Priori, &c, anno regis nunc xvij" in viUa de magni dunham in quodam loco quo vocatur Dunham mor, &c, et Ulos fugaverint usque manerium ipsius Johannis Arsik in predicta villa. — [The defence was that the Prior had no right of common on Dunham More, to which the Prior answered he had a right as belonging to a tenement in Kempston. The issue was in favour of the Prior, who recovered damage in Michaelmas term anno regis Edwardi xvuj.J Sciant, ego Henricus prior de Acre consensu fratrum nostrorum concedo Hamoni servienti comitis terram qua fuit Lamberti flammeg in Duneham, quam ipse Hamo tenere solebat de nobis pro v. sol. et viijd per vj. sol. annuatum reddendis. KEMPSTON. [Noverint, &c, quod ego Alanus fihus Flaaldi et Adelina uxor mea pro salute, &c, concedimus, &c, terram et frutectam quam habebamus apud Kemistunam et quam ipsi incluserunt et apud Sparletam viginti acras terre quas tenebat TurchiUus Rufus et iijs. in meo molendino, &c. Testibus, Hamone, Waltero capellano, Rualdo extraneo, Gorhanno, Oddone, Ginnio, Henrico de pagrave, Turstano de Acra, Suvardo.] Sciant &c, e°-o Simon de Norfolc, &c, de feodo quod modo teneo, — terram illam quam aveHna mater mea dedit ecclesia predicta, id est terra qua Wimarcha tenebat et calvecroft et anschetillam de Wenlinges cum tota tenure sua, &c. Hec et aha omnia que sunt de meo feudo unde fuerunt vestiti et seisiti die quo ego conquisivi honorem de Meleham libere et quiete, &c., preteria molendinum de neutone unde haberent x sohdas de dono willielmi fratris mei. — Reg. f. 20. Noverint &c, WilHelmus fihus Roberti — confirmo — quod cunque Alanus fiUus flaaldi dedit, &c. Testibus WilHelmo presbytero, WilHelmo de blumviU, Waltero hallenn, Radulfo filio baldwini, WiUielmo bardulf, Omfre de Dunham, &c— lb. Fin. 34 Hen. II. Inter Matild, que fuit uxor Vbbe vs. priore de acra de lx. acras terre cum ptin in Kemestun.— Reg. f. 55. (Prior dedit pro hoc quieto clameo prescripta MatiU. iiij°r m« arg'.)— F. 108. R 2 124 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Notum sit, &c, ego Willielmus filius Gurwandi, &c, — dimidiam acre unam rodam et dimidiam de terra mea in Kemestun preterea iij acras et dim. apud Herigesh. qua vocatur brictmerestoft et duas acras prati, &c. Omnibus, &c, ego Rogerus buzun salutem, remisi, &c, clameum, &c, de terra de kemestun in homagus et advocatione ecclesie ejusdem vUle et de omnibus rebus si quid juris habui in omnibus predictis pro me et heredibus meis, &c. Hoc in Sanctis evangeUs jurayi. Testibus, Thoma archidiacono, Magistro petro de tilneia, Magistro Ricardo fluri, Magistro Roberto de opetun, &c. Sciant, &c, ego Gilebertus de fransham dedi, — Ingrithan uxorem aylmeri kele de kemestune cum omnibus Hberis suis et cum tota sequeta sua et insuper totum tenementum predicte et cum toto servicio et omnibus consuetudinibus qui pertinent ad predictum tenementum ut teneant et habeant, &c. Testibus, WilHelmo presbytero de Gressinghale, Vincentio presbytero de Scorning, WilHelmo presbytero de beestun, Alcio presbytero, Rogero Richeo, Alexandro niiHte de dunham, Roberto fiHo rocelini, Simone et WiUielmo fratribus predicti, gileberti, — Reiner miHte fransham, Reg. clerico, Turstano de fransham, Johanne de oxewic, Herveo fiHo alcij, Anketello et MoUe. Sciant, &c, ego Turstanus de fransham consiHo, &c, aeliz uxoris mei, — dimidiam acre, &c, versus occidentem de domo eudonis de dunham, et meam partem ilHus terre quam SanwaUo tenuit in viUa de kemestun qua fuit anketilH de fransham. (Inter testes Alexander de Rucham.) Ricardus cocus de gressenhale, — 3 a. in Kemestun. Testes, Eudo Arsic, Alexandre Arsic, Ricardus le rus, Rogerus le strange, WiUielmus de bitring, &c. RUCHAM (ROUGHAM). Sciant, &c, ego hugo de fochighetune concessi, &c, duas parte de decimarum de dominio meo in rucham cum omnibus rebus sive in garbis in aquis in lana et Uno, et ceteris rebus un' decim debuit dari pro anima fratris mei Roberti de fochightun et pro anima patris mei et matris, &c. Testibus, Gileberto de baiUol, Radulfo fiHo castellani de Arundel, Gaufrido fiHo GUeberti, Alexandro de rucham, Eustachio clerico, &c. — Reg. 24. Sciant, &c, ego Juliana filia Willielmi filii Ricardi de Wirmele patrona ecclesie S. marie de rucham voluntate, &c, — WiUielmi fiHi et heredis mei dedi, &c, medietatem omnium decimarum de dominio meo in vUla de rucham, &c. — Ib. Sciant, &c, ego Willielmus filius Walteri herewen consiHo, &c, heredum meorum, — deo &c, ad elemosinam eorundem, antiquam ecclesiam S. Marie de rucham consitam super feodum meum et dimidiam acram terre mee in stitiUe qua jacet in occidentale parte, &c. — Lb. Sciant, &c, ego Willielmus filius Walteri de rucham do, &c, unam acram terre mee in stitiUe, &c. Testibus, Thoma albo de rucham et rolando patre, WiUielmo Bald de Kemestun, Rogero le senec', Radulfo burello, &c. — Ib. Ego Willielmus yrvai de rucham do, &c- — Ib. Ego Willielmus de Curcun fiHus Radulfi de Curcun, — liberum tenementum quod Walterus fiHus yruer dedit rogero dusing quando desponsavit fiHam prefati Walteri xuij acras terre quas Rogerus fihus thoroldi tenuit. Testibus, Nicholao de dokinges, WUHelmo pigun, &c. — F. 24. Sciant, &c, ego WiUielmus filius Walteri de rucham,— totum tenementum et servicium Rogeri dusine et leuene uxoris sue et homagium leuene et infantum suorum. — Ib. Sciant, &c, ego WiUielmus filius Walteri,— iiij acreas quas Rogerus fiHus torondi tenuit de me et de patre mea in campis de rucham. — Ib. Sciant, &c, ego Alexander de rucham,— croftum in rucham quod vocatur mocus-croft. Testibus, PhiUppo de burnham, fredrico fratre suo, &c. — Ib. Sciant, &c, ego Alexander de rucham— totum terram, &c, quas tenui in rucham de eis, quod fuit hereditatum Galfredi fiHi turchill et Alenie sororis sue. — Ib. 24. CASTLE ACRE PRIORY. 125 Sciant, &c, ego Willielmus filius et heres Alexandri de rucham consilio, &c., Ismane matris mee et Ricardi fratris mei — duas acras terre in campis de rucham, versus leotunestede, pretarea redditum viij d. et j gaUine quod Rogerus fihus turchil de rucham mihi reddidit, &c. Testibus, Rem' de duntun tunc tenente domini comitis Warrenni, &c. Sciant, &c, WiUielmus filius Alexandri de rucham, — redditum xrf. et j galHne quod rogerus de rucham fihus turchil mihi reddere consuevit, &c. — Ib, 24. Noverint, &c., ego Ricardus de rucham fiHus Alexandri de rucham, — annuale redditum quod mihi reddere consuevit Alanus fihus Ricardi de Massingham, &c. — Ib. f. 25. Sciant, &c, ego Ricardus filius Alexandri de rucham recipi, &o., a priori, &c, ex eorum donatione unam perticatam terre in rucham qua vocatur mocusescroft. Testibus, Domino baldwino de fruuile, Domino ricardo pincerna, Domino janitore de ferentino, &c. [This was in exchange.] — Ib. Noverint, &c, ego Willielmus glor de rucham, — annuale redditum, — vijd. et ob et al' ob. Thomas blundus de rucham, — vj acras terre. Thomas albus, — unam acram et dim. Idem, — iij acras apud grengate et redditum iijd et galHne, et faldagu. Gaufridus filius Thurkilli, &c. Ailene filia turchilli de rucham consiHo, &c, Thome albi nepotis et heredis mei, &c. — F. 25. Johannes bon payn et henricus frater meus de rucham. — F. 26. Petrus Aldus de Hnn. Vincentius filius Aluredi de rucham. Ricardus pincerna de rucham miles, confirmo, — totam terram quam Vincentius filius Aluredi eis concessit, videl' duas acras terre et dimid. in campis de rucham apud Stithille, — inter terram WilHelmi fiHi Emme de Acra, et terram Olementis de lechesham, — inter terram Thome fiHi Ague, — terram Alex. fil. Roselin, — super terram Walteri fiHi hamonis, — terram Walteri de Capravill. Hiis testibus, Reg. de Geyton, Ham. fil Walt' WiU. sen°, Galfr' Janit', Ric Sen5, Will. Wanci, WiU brett, WiU Marise, Johi aurifabro, WiU de Peres, WiUo broket, Will, gemecolt.— F. 26. Notum sit, &c. W. com. Warr. do, &c. [With one mark and five shilHngs in Massingham.] " V. soHdatas et dimid. in rucham quas turchiUus tenuit." — F. 5. LUCHAM. Sciant, &c, quod Agnes uxor Radi Extranei de Lutcham jam defuncti dedi, &c, duos sohdos annuale peroipiend de Edrico de Suthacre. Sciant, &c, quod ego Johes Extraneus dedi Deo et See Marise de Acrae et monachis ibidem Deo servientibus vj acras terrae in campo de Lucheam in fine culturae de Melegrene in Hberam et perpetuam elemosinam pro salute animarum patris mei Rollandi et Matilde matris mee et Hamonis fratris mei, et heredum meorum. Hujus donationis testes sunt WilHelmus CapeUanus de Lucheham, Willielmus fiHus Alani, Radulfus Extraneus, Galfridus de Berlingeham, WUUelmus delbant [?], Durandus extraneus, WiUi de Burna, Petrus de Hunstaton, Lefwinus Prsepositus, Walterus de Hunstaton, Hamo Clericus, Guido fiHus Rogeri, Rogerus Faber. — F. 28. LECHESHAM (LEXHAM). Sciant, &c, ego Johannes capeUanus de kemestun, remisi, — iiij acras in hunedwde et decimas ij acrarum ad foxemere notum, &c, WiUielmus fihus Johannis quondam presbyteri de Kemestun, obHgat, &c. — Reg. f. 27. Rogerus dapifer v. supr. Hi. p. 118. Rogerus fil. wiU v. supr. vi. p. 119. Drogo fil. will v. supr. vii. ib. Alanus dapifer v. 126 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Sciant, &c, ego basilia uxoris baldewini de friuill do, &c, ij soHdas redditus in molendino de lechesham. Testibus, Waltero de Winebotesham, WilHelmo de Waltun, Johanne capeUano de neutun, Radulfo de neketun, Ricardo fiho ejus, &c. — Reg. f. 27. Sciant, &c, ego Ricardus le rus de est lechesham, xv acras terre in campis de lechesham, viz., ad marketegate— apud dolesberge— apud dunesdich— apud frithling,— apud Wdelondesdele, &c. Testibus, Eudone Arsic, Rogero de friviH, Radulfo extraneo, WilHelmo de bitering, Galfrido fratre ejus, Rogero clerico de bestun, Waltero fiho hamonis de Acra, AUno de Suthacre, Semano de houton, Alexandro dapifero monachorum, Gileberto franchevill. — Reg. f. 28. Noverint, &c, ego Ricardus rufus de lechesham miles,— deo et ecclesie, &c, pro salutem anime mee et cum corpore meo ibidem ad sepeUendum xijd. annuahs redditus, &c, de radulfo fratre meo pro terram qua vocatur cranemor wong. Testibus, Domino Johanne capellano, Ricardo de oxwic, Alano rufo, &c, Waltero hujus carte scriptore. — F. 28. Sciant, &c, ego WiUielmus filius Ricardi de lechesham,— omnes decimas meas de terra mea qua vocatur Kalveswde.— F. 28. Johnes extraneus v. LONGHAM AND WELLINGHAM. Ego alanus dapifer do,— Uj acras— ad dunedich. Test., Ricardo filio ejus, Agnes uxore ejus, et Johanne fiUo ejus, &c. — F. 27. Robertus tusard consUio, &c, botilde uxoris mee' et fiUorum nostrorum et heredum meorum Walteri et radulfi et johannis, &c. [By this the gifts of Walter Tusard his brother, Gerard Tusard his grandfather, and Robert Tusard his father are confirmed.] Walterus tusard — totam terram qua jacet inter locum quod dicitur puttocke eshe et curiam eorum [monachorum] a ripa aque usque ad fossatum quod vocatur longediche. Dedi ad eis tam le longediche quam totum fossatum quod monachi fecerunt a puttock eshe usque ad longedich. Testes, Hamon servus comitis, Gaufr de Swafham, Ric. de Neketun, &c. [There are other charters, — from Walter Tusard with assent of Emma his daughter, witnessed by said Emma, by Robert Tusard, Ralf son of Robert, &c. ; from Emma Tusard for the soul of Walter her husband ; from Walter, son and heir of Robert Tusard of Neketun, confirming grants of Robert his grandfather and Walter his son, grantor's uncle, Robert his father and of Emma wife of Robert, grantor's uncle; from Ayice Tusard, confirming gifts of Walter Tusard her grandfather, and with consent of IsabeUa her daughter and heir, who also confirmed.] Johannes filius Roberti, concessi, — anschetin et terram suam quam renus coc de me tenuit in WelHngam. Testibus, Herveio Walteri, WilHelmo presbytero, Rogero de bitring, Rogero de Wesenham, Rogero de greinest', lewino presbytero, Edru pistore, Radulfo de pagraya, fratre Raineri qui donum fratris sui concessit. — Reg. f. 96 b. WESENHAM. Sciant, &c, Ricardus filius WiUielmi de Wesenham reddidi, &c, totam partem libertatis faldagie quam habui in Wesenham cum duas acras, &c, et in bruario de Wesenham, &c. Testibus, Wilhelmo de circum, Rogero filius Alani, WilHelmo fratre ejus, &c. — F. 29. Sciant, &c, Rogerus de sancto dionisio, — totam terram quam Ricardus frater meus de eis tenuit in campis de Wesenham. Testibus, Alexandro de rucham, Gaufridus de cangeham, Barth' de Colekirke, &c. — Reg. 29. Rein' filius Willielmi de Acra, — redditum vjd. Sciant, &c, ego durannus extraneus consiHo, &c, heredum meorum et prudencie uxoris mee — tres soHdas de redditu quod habui in Wesenham. Hos, &e., debent reddere Vlfeketellus mercator Godefridus textor, Margareta vidu. Testibus, Radulfo filio durafii, Prudentia matre ejus, Matheo de grenestr', Jocehno de gatel', Jocelino preposito de WeHngham, Gaufrido de duleligton, Ricardo de lech', Roberto marescaUo. CASTLE ACRE PRIORY. ] 27 [Descambio v acrarum et dimidie ad andleste mere quos paganus mercator tenet in WUHelmi comitis Warrenni inter Priorem et conventum monachorum de Acra et priorem et conventum canonicorum de Westacra.] Robertus de Salle assensu Botalde uxoris mee — terras— juxta nelwoidesbrege et juxta Scedmere de maritagio predicta Rois uxoris mee. — Ib. 29. Radulfus filius Stephani de Upgate de Wesenhamtorp.— Testibus, Rogero de Wesenham, Alano filio suo, Roberto de Salle, Godefrido filio suo, &c. — Reg. 30. Johannes filius lamberti de Wesenhamtorp. — Testibus, Domino Rogero de Wesenham, Alano fiho suo, &c. Lambertus filius thurstani de Wesenhamtorp. — Ib. 30. Hec est finaHs concordia, &c, in oct sci Trinitatis anno regni regis Henrici fiHi regis Johannis xij, coram Hugo abbate de S. Edmundo, marc' de patishaU Archid' Norf, Steph. de Segrave, Tho. de Heyden, WiU de Insula Justic, &c. Inter Magistrum Adam persona ecclesise s' Petri de Wesenham presentem et Rog' fil Math' tenentem de iuj0'' acris et tribus perticatis terre et pascui in Wesenham, — ad recognoscand utrum hij°r acr. &c, sunt Hberi doni pertinentes ad ecclesiam suam sci Petri' — an laicum feodum ipsius Rog' fil Mathi, — scil quod Rog recognovit totam predictam terram, — ipsius Magistri Ade et ecclesiae suse, &c, reddendo per ann. xxijd.. ad predict, — pro omni servitio, &c. Hec est finaHs, concordia, &c, in oct sci Trinitatis [12 Joh.] Inter Magistrum Adam personam, &c, et Matheum fil Pagoni de Wesenham tenentem de vj acre terre, &c. Habend eidem Matheo heredibus suis de predicto Magistro A. successoribus suis et ecclesie sue sci Petri, &c, reddendo, per ann. xd. sterlingorum ad pent. HERRINGSHALL AND DIKEWOOD. Omnibus, &c, ego Rogerus de toeneio dono deo et sancte Marie de Acra et monachis ibidem deum servientibus nemus meum de haringeshae cum tota terra et sartis qui ad nemus supradictum pertinent. Testibus,' matre mea A. et Tsabella fiHa sua et WilHelmo port', Nicholao de Hijor marcis, Radulf de bosco, Rogero et Ricardo de portes, Waltero magistro, Getel clerico, Osberto clerico, Radulfo clerico de neketun, JosceHno Helya clerico [caperum ?] Rogero de nectun, Rogero de hoton, Rogero de port, Radulfo capeUano, Radulfo de neketun, Rogero rucham. — -Reg. f. 88. Omnibus, &c, ego Radulfus de thoeni, &c, donationem quam fecit pater meus de nemore de Haringeshage. Testibus, Rogero de hoton, Rogero de portes, Ricardo de portes, WilHelmo de Uij°r marcis, Ricardo de rumellis, Radulfo capellano, Radulfo de neketun, Geroldo Rogero de holme, Radulfo et Heberto fihis Gurwant, Alan fratre ejus celerario, Roberto de saham, Rogero de Scales, Nigello filio WilHelmi, Vlmar presbytero, Baldwino presbytero de frauesham, WilHelmo de clare, Rogero de Hre, Petro fiHo Adelwaldi, Rogero fiho Normanni, Arnoklo, Avando, Radulfo fiHo Ingelini, WilHelmo blund', Roberto Tusard. — Ib. Sciant, &c, ego Johannes filius Ricardi de lettune abjuravi, &c, totum jus, &c, in terra de Heringshae qua quondam fuit Vlfketel cronai avi mei. Testibus, Thoma fiHo Simonis de holt, Thoma de Waburn, Hamone de hemstedes, Hugone branche, Andrea persona de fakenham, Galfrido de congham, Ricardo de neketun. — Ib. Sciant, &c, ego Walterus filius Ricardi de lettune abjuravi, &c. Sciant, &c, ego Ricardus de Cambeis concedo, &c, boscum de dichewde quod pertinet ad mideltoniam pro anima comitis Gileberti et pro meipso et pro patre meo, &c. Testibus, Rogero de scales, Ricardo Mascharel de ipso meo feudo, Wilhelmo dapifero monachorum, Adelwald fiho estedde et toche fratre ejus, Wolnotho de kemestuni. — F. 88 b. Sciant, &c., ego Willielmus de pelevilla do, &c., meam partem nemoris de dichwde assensu petri filii et heredis mei, &c, pro anima Hugonis de muntford' et Roberti de muntford et pro anima Simoms de molendinis et Adehne uxoris sue et pro anima, Roberti de Ver pro me meipso et pro animabus uxorum meorum aufride 128 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. et ricolde et pro fihis et fihabus meis, &c. Testibus, Petro fiho meo, Radulfo de ulmo, Roberto fiho meo, Agneta fiHa mea, Radulfo de neketun, Radulfo capeUano, WilHelmo pinto, WiUielmo coco, Roberto port.— Ib. Sciant, &c, ego petrus de pelevilla confirmo donationem patris mei WUHelmi de pelevUla. Testibus, Roberto fratre meo, Roberto fiHo newini, Magistro WiUielmo de bileneia, fulcone Osberti, WUHelmo de Walt, WiUielmo de candos, Radulf fratre Radulfi, WilHelmo clerico, Radulfo capellano de Acra, WilHelmo dapifero, Lamberto clerico, Roberto port, Galfrido de hospitio. — Reg. f. 88 b. Robert' de ver constabularius, et A. fiHa hugonis de monteforti uxor sua, omnibus hominibus suis, &c, concessisse, &c, petitionem et concessum WUHelmi luxoniensis, nemus et terram delandic, &c, de suo feudo et ibi, sciHcet, ilHus nemoris terciam partem cujus nemoris WiUielmus de pelvavUla et Ricardus de francaviUa fuerint equi per omnia participes in feudo et jure hereditario tenentes, &c, sic godefridus pater predicti WilHelmi unique, &c. Testes, Hervius dapifer, GUebertus blundus, WUUelmus de pUatviU, Rogerus de scales, Hamon de avenai, Robertus de juvenis, Paganus clericus, Simon de chandos. [In margin, " de feudo de Usewis."] — Lb. f. 88 b. Sciant, &c, ego Willielmus de franceville dedi, &c, x acras et dimidiam terre apud heringeshage in magna sciHcet dichwde juxta parvam dichwde versus orientem qua jacent juxta terram Walteri Veynekole ac lx perticatas in longitudine de terra mea in GaUecroft, &c, ac vj perticatas in latitudine que abbuttant super terram predictorum monachorum et terram henrici toterlippe. Ac vij acras et j rodam apud dichwde que abuttant super terram WiUielmi fiHi Alwaldi quos oddo carpentarius tenuit. Testibus, PhiHppo de burnham, Nicholao de dokinge, Herveo de stanhowe, Roberto mordac, Johanne de pe^gue, God' senescallo, Magistro Simone, Ricardo janitore, &c. — F. 88. Sciant, &c, Ricardus de francavill, x acras et dimidiam terre in magna dichwde juxta parva dichwode, &c, qua jacet juxta terram Walteri veneoola, &c. Testibus WiUielmo senescallo de gressengehaud, Johanne fiHo ejus, Magistro WilHelmo de Massingeham, Magistro fulcho de newtun, Eustacio senescallo, Magistro Rich', Hamone servienti comitis, WiUielmo filio Athelwoldi, Ricardo port', Gaufrido de swaf ham, &c. — F. 89. Sciant, &c, ego Ricardus de francavill, &c, — lx perticatas in vaUecroft. Testibus, Thomas de Ingaldestorp, Nicholao de dockinge, Rogero de lesewis, Hueo de dockinge, Alexandro dapifero, Ricardo portario, Henrico camberlano, WilUelmo coco, Alexandro coco, Henrico Ricardo molle. — Ib. Sciant, &c, ego Ricardus de franchevill dedi, &c, redditum meum quod oddo carpentarius modo reddidit pro vij acris terre et j roda quas de me tenuerit apud dichwde, scUt xjd. Testibus PhiHppo de burnham, Alexandro de rucham, Rand' de crec, Eustacio senescallo, Ricardo portario, Alexandro dapifero, WUHelmo de mortem', Henrico de broctun, WiUielmo de franchevill, Rogero Rogero camburr', Hamone geywald, Humfrido bagge. — F. 89. Sciant, &c, ego Ricardus de franchevill dedi, &c, Oddoni filio Roberti de fransham vij acras terre et unam perticatam terre de feodo meo de dichwde soil ad capud terre WiUielmi filii Adelwaldi apud boream— quas de feudo heringeshege, — illi et heredibus suis tenenda de me et heredibus meis. Reddendo xd. de censu ad Uj terminos, &c, ad nativitatem domini, ad pascham — ad nativitatem Johannis baptisti — et ad scutagium domini regis quum venerit jd. Pro hoc, &c, dedit mihi x soHdas de gersuma. Testibus, WilHelmo de franchvill', Radulfo cellareo, Rogero filio gileberti de fransham, Ricardo sacerdote de lowingham, Reginaldo clerico de fransham, et fiHis ejus thoma et andrea et Rogero, WiUielmo fiUo adelwaldi, Waltero marescaUo, Johanne de oxewic, Gileberto rufo et turstino fratre ejus, benedicto fiHo petri, Henrico filio WilHelmi de fransham, Henrico fiHo Walteri senescalH de gressinghale. — Ib. Sciant, &c, ego Willielmus de franchevill, &c, concedo x acras terre et dimidiam in magna digwde juxta parvam digwde, &c, quas habuit de dono Ricardi de franchvill' ac vij acras et j rodam, &c, ac lx perticatas, &c, concedo, &c, mesuagium quod fuit Ricardi de franchevill' et vij acras terre cum omnibus pertinentiis quos habent de dono GUberti de francheville fiHi et heredis Ricardi de franchevill'. Testibus, Domino eudone arsic, Domino osberto de stradesete, Domino Rogero le strange de langham, Waltero filio hufi, Johanne de hoswic, WiUielmo de beteringhe, Alexandro de suthacre, Alexandro dapifero, Ada janitore, Galfrido camberlano prioris, Johanne de elm', Nicholao pincerna, WilHelmo Wodekoc. Ib. CASTLE ACRE PRIORY. 129 Willielmus de franchevill dilectis suis WilHelmo lenveise et Ricardo fiho senescalU, stiatis me dedisse, &c. , priori et conventui de castelacra totam terram quam tenuisti de feudo meo apud dichwde in fransham. Sciant, &c, ego Reginald filius Elwoldi assensu WiUielmi fratris mei et thorne et andree heredum meorum dedi, &c, totas decimas de feudo meo quod habeo in magna dicheswde et parva dicheswde tam de feudo Giffardi quam de feudo WUHelmi de francheviU, &c— Reg. f. 89. Notum sit, &c, Reginald filius Adelwaldi de fransham consiHo et assensu WilHelmi fratris mei, &c— confirmavi, &c, de vij acras de terra mea in parva dichswde. Testibus, WiUielmo fratre meo, Henrico de beston, Eustacio clerico, Waltero clerico de breeham, PhiHppo albo, Waltero seint engreine, Alfero de haringshae, Sewardo lawingham, Fulchero de Wesenham, Simone fiho simonis, Ricardo de claUle, Henrico de secceford, Rogero capeUano, W. de dunham, W. port. — Ib. Sciant, &c, ego Reginaldus clericus de harigg, — totam terram quam idem monachi tenebant de me in parva dichewde. Testibus, Magistro fulchero de neutun, Osprig senescallo comitis, Ricardo de neketun, Rogero de neuman, Wilhelmo fiHo Athelwd, Ordmaro de neutun, Waltero port, Gaufrido de swaf ham.— Ib. Sciant, &c, ego Reginaldus filius Adelwaldi de fransham, — v acras terre et dimidiam in campo quod vocatur parva dichewde juxta haringeshale, soil, de feudo comitis giffardi. Testibus, Magistro Ricardo, Eustacio senescaUo, Godrico senescaUo, Alexandro senescaUo, Ricardo port, Rogero de la haie, &c— F. 90. Sciant, &c, ego Ricardus de Wenling fiHus WUHelmi quondam persone de fransham — v acras terre quos habui de dono Ricardi de francheviU in dichwde juxta haringhale, quarum iij acre jacent juxta terram sewardi oppehere versus boream et duo acre inter terras Ricardi sacerdotis quas tenet de canonibus de acra, &c. Testibus, Alexando de Suthacre, Alexandro dapifero, Galfrido camerlano, WilHelmo de heringeh., WilHelmo brett, Nicholao Johanne de eHch, Johanne de oxwic, GUeberto de francheviU, WiUielmo Wdehoc, WiUielmo buscage, Ricardo le chat. — lb. Sciant, &c, ego Ricardus de francheviU dedi, &c, Ricardo fiHo WilHelmi persone de fransham pro homagio suo et pro una tunica quam mihi dedit in gersuma, y acras terre arabiUs quos pater ejus tenuit de me, salvo jure patris sui in vita sua ejusdem terre. Reddendo annuatim miM et heredibus meis vd. ad pascham et ad scutagium domini regis quam venerit ad xx soHdas, j obulum. Et si predictus Ricardus obierit absque heredibus de uxore desponsata frater ejus primo genitus teneat predictam terram, &c, et sic de ceteris fratribus, &c. Testibus, Eudone de arsic, Radulfo extraneo, Ricardo de lechesham, Rogero de fransham, Radulfo fratre ejus, Johanne de oxwic, H fiHo baldwini, Benedicto fiHo petri, Henrico fiho WiUielmi, Waltero marescaUo, Rogero filio wilHelmi g'want. — Ib. Noverint, &c, [de escambio] inter Robertum priorem de castelacra 3 et Willielmum filium Sewardi — de«quinque acras terre et j rodam in parva dichewde que fuit de terra quam tenuit de monachis Rogerus fiHus emme. Testibus, Domino Rogero extraneo, Domino Radulfo extraneo, WiUielmo de beteringe, Johanne de oxwic, Johanne fiho suo, Ricardo de sancto germano, Rogero cucu, Galfrido janitore, MichaeH camerlano prioris, WilHelmo de heringh', Alano fiho WiUielmi, Johanne gainburc. — F. 90. [De escambio, inter monasterium de castelacra et monasterum de Westacra.] Prior et conventus de Westacra eoncesserunt xvj acras, &c, in campo quod vocatur dichwde, juxta terram monachorum de acra, spectante ad manerium suum de haring', in commutatione pro xvj acras terre et Uj perticatas, in campo de Reinham, prope locum qui vocatur Kiptone howe. Testibus, Domino Ricardo branche, Waltero fiHo hamonis de acra, Hamone filgod de acra, Alexander senscaUo de acra, Galfrido portario de acra, WUHelmo de heringh', Eudone extraneo, Rogero fiho suo, Alano filio Walteri de marham, Stephano filio WiUieUni de Westacre, Eudone senescallo de Westacre, Osberto de denevere— Ib. Noverint, &c, ego Robertus de Wenling, rector ecclesie de fulmedestun, resignavi, &c, priori et conventui eanonicorum de Westacre, totam terram quam de ipsis tenui per cartam.— Ib. Omnibus, &c, ego Walterus filius WiUielmi de Watlingetun, — resignavi— totum tenementum quod 3 Robert Alanson was Prior about 1220 ; perhaps same as Robert de Bozun, who occurs 1219, 1227. S 130 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. dicitur dichwd, priori et monachis de acra, quod tenementum de UHs emi, pro vj marcis et uno paUfrido de duobus marcis et dimidio. Pro quo tenemento UHs dimidium marci annuatim redditi. Predicti vero, prior et monachi, de xix marcis argenti et dimidio, me versus ernaldum fratrem meum adquietaverint. Pro quibus xix marcis et dimidio predictum tenementum meum de dichwde predicto fratri meo vadiavi, quum item arripui versus terram ierosoHmitanam. Testibus, Roberto de Watlingetun fratre meo, Roberto fiHo ejusdem Roberti, WiUielmo presbytero de Watlingtun, Eustacio senescaUo, Ricardo janitore, baldwino de kemestun, AnketiUo de ket, Roberto marescaUo. — Lb. Ego, ernaldus de herlaue, recipi xv marcas de priori, &c, pro W. fratre meo. — lb. Noverint, &c. , ego thomas de herford, et beatrix uxor mea, — unam peciam terre, inter culturas domus de Castelacre, &c. Testibus, Domino eudone arsic, Alexandro fratre ejus, Domino Rogero extraneo, Johanne extraneo, WilHelmo de heringh', Galfrido camerlano, WilHelmo filgod, Ricardo fiho GUeberti, WUHelmo de laueham. Noverint, &c, ego thomas de herford, fiUus Warini de herford, et beatrix uxor mea, fiHa henrici de gressinghale, concessi, &c, xl soHdas, vel faciemus eis rationabile escambium, de terra nostra qua proximior adjacebit manerio suo de heringeshag et de kemestun. — F. 91. HERINGSHALL. Hec est finaUs concordia — a die sci. Ylarii in xv dies anno regni regis Joh. iuj. — inter elferfi et AHc uxor sua petentes et philippum priorem de Acra tenentem de xl acris terre cum ptin in heringeshag — et pro hac, &c, prior dedit elfer et AUc xl sol. estHngorum. Hec est finaHs concordia — in octayo S. Marci anno Joh'is quinto — inter Elfer de WenHng et AHc. uxor sua petentes et Ph. priorem de acra tenentem de xl acris terre in heringshag. Et prior dedit elfer & AHc' V8 ma argenti. — Reg. f. 108. FRANSHAM. Sciant, &c, ego Gilbertus de franchevile fiHus et heres Ricardi de FranchevU dedi, &c, mesuagium quod fuit Ricardi de franchvile patris mei et postea meum in parochia de fransham — et vij acras terre que jacent juxta predictum mesuagium. Testibus, Domino meo, domino WiUielmi de franchevUe qui hanc meam do nationem sua carta confirmavit, Domino Eudone arsic, Waltero fiHo hamonis, AUno de Suthacre, &c. — F. 91. Sciant, &c, ego WiUielmus de franchevil dedi, &c, homagium et servicium GUberti de franchevUe fiHi Ricardi de franchevile cum toto tenemento suo quod tenuit de feudo meo. Et homagium et servitium Ricardi fiHi WilHelmi de gressinghale cum toto tenemento suo quod tenuit de feodo meo. Et homagium et Beryicium heredum henrici de gressinghale cum toto tenemento suo quod tenuerunt de feudo meo. Et totam terram quam habui in dominio meo apud dichwde. Testibus, Domino eudone arsic, Domino osberto de stratesete, &c. — F. 91. Notum sit, &c, ego Willielmus de franchevil dedi, &c, Ricardo de franchevile et Matildi uxori sue— vij acras terre mee in viUa de fransham— reddendis, &c, xiUjd. Testibus, Rogero de frevile, Rogero bussum, Rogero de fransham, Rogero de strange, WiUielmo trusebut, Homberto, Ricardo clerico.— F. 91 b. Sciant, &c, ego Tsabel filia Ricardi de franchevil uxor WiUielmi fiHi Walteri de bicham weUes— tres acras terre in parochia de fransham juxta heringshale quas Ricardus pater meus mihi dedit in maritagium et prefatus WiUielmus maritus. Testibus, Ricardo clerico de lechesham, Alano fiHo ejus, Jordano persona de dunham, Rogero lestrange, Radulfo le strange, Gilberto de fransham, WiUielmo lenviese, Johanne de oxewic, Johanne fiHo ejus, Rogero clerico de bestun, Ricardo fiHo senescaUi, Wilhelmo serviente de heringh', Reni preposito de dunham. Sciant, &c, ego WiUielmus filius Walteri de bicham welles, &c, consensu, &c, Tsabel de franchevil uxoris, &c. (Confirmavi.) CASTLE ACRE PRIORY* 131 Sciant, &c, ego Ricardus de franchevil in Hbero maritagio cum Tsabel fiHa, &c. Testibus, Gilberto filio Rogeri de fransham, Johanne de oxwic, Johanne filio ejus, Ricardo fratre ejus, Rogero marescaUo, Radulfo de aula, Rogero fiHo hawis', WilHelmo fiHo Agnetis, Henrico filio edwardi, Ho fiho Reginaldi clerici.— F. 91 b. Sciant, &c, ego Willielmus filius Walteri fabri Wenlinge— unam peciam terre in campis de fransham quse vocatur kinges croft— vj acras— abut' super terram lestheyn fiHi Adelwaldi. Testibus, Hom. filio baldwini, Ada de gressenhale, WilHelmo de WendHnge, Magistro Gerardo de Wesenham, Roberto fratre ejus, Ricardo senescallo, WilHelmo geynecolt, WiUielmo brocher, Johanne marscallo— F. 91 b. Sciant, &c, ego benedicius filius Willielmi presbyteri de fransham et hawis' uxor mea assensu, &c, heredum nostrorum— tres perticatas. Testibus, Rogero miHte de fransham, Radulf fratre ejus, Rogero extraneo, Henrico fiHo WiUielmi, Ricardo witherward, Galfrido de swaf ham, WUHelmo b Rogero gambun. Sciant, &c., ego benedicius filius petri de fransham assensu, &c., WiUielmi fiHi et heredis mei — duas acras in campis de fransham et unam marescam ad capud eorundem et unam viridem viam, &c, apud halvildes- croft. Testibus, Rogero miHte de fransham, Radulfo fratre ejus, Rogero extraneo, &c. — F. 92. Sciant, &c, ego henricus filius botilde de Wenling adjuravi, &c. Testibus, Waltero Tusard, Roberto de sancto thoma, Galfrido janitore de Acra, Drogone clerico, Ricardo pincerna, WilHelmo de Wanci, Ricardo chat, WilHelmo de barsam, PhiHppo Whit, Ada de Wigehale, GUberto franchevil, God mosse. Sciant, &c. , ego Radulfus filius benedicti de parva fransham — -duas acreas terre in campis de fransham que jacent inter terram quam Rogerus fiHus Stephani vicarii ecclesie de neketun tenuit de botilda matre mea — et inter terram henrici fratris mei. Testibus, Gilberto de magna fransham, Rogero extraneo, God fiHo Johannis, WilHelmo de claie, Roberto de sancto thoma de neketun, &c. Noverint, &c, ego Robertus de S. thoma serviente de neketun recipi, &c. — F. 92. Noverint, &c, ego Thomas filius Reginaldi de fransham de assensu, &c, filiorum meorum Rogeri et Reginaldi concessi, &c, deo et ecclesie sancte marie de castelacre, &c, totum tenementum meum in terra arabih et non arabiH quod tenui in viUa de fransham de Gilberto de fransham cum mesuagio et omnibus domibus meis, &c. — et ij d annuaHs redditus quos mihi reddere consuevit Henricus fiUus Reginaldi fiHi semod pro terram quam de me tenuit in viUa de fransham — -et ad scutagium — domini regis j d. et de WUHelmi harald j ob. ad scutagium et de beatrice vidua j ob. ad scutagium — quos mihi reddere consueverint. Testibus, Domino eudone arsic, Alexandro fiho ejus, Domino Johanne de dunham, WUHelmo de medlers, Hamone fiHo Walteri de Acra, Ricardo fratre ejus, Hamone fiHo God, WilHelmo fratre ejus, Galfrido Camerlano, WilHelmo de leneham. — F. 92 6. Sciant, &c, ego Gilbertus de fronsham dedi TsabeUe uxori Reginaldi fiHi adelwaldi de fronsham et thorne fiHo ejus — mesuagium predicti Reginaldi et viij acras terre in tofta sua et iuj acras in tulles croft et j acram in caulinge — tenenda de me, &c, reddendis, &c, annuatim quasdam calcearia deaurata vel vjd. Salvo scutagio, &c. Testibus, Rogero de freviU, WiUielmo fiHo haraldi, Baldwino de Scemingga, Petro de Ingrigehoe, Henrico fiho fulcheri, Turstano de fronsham, Johanne de Oxewic, Ren'o milite, Rogero extraneo. — F. 92 b. Noverint, &c, ego Rogerus filius thorne filii Reginaldi de fransham, — confirmavi. Testibus, Thoma patre meo, Reginaldo fratre meo, Wilhelmo de heringh', &c. Ego Reginaldus filius thorne filii Reginaldi, &c., confirmavi. — F. 92 b. Sciant, &c., ego WiUielmus filius adelwaldi de fransham petione Reginaldi fratris mei dedi — thorne nepoti meo fiho Reginaldi ijcc marcas argenti de gersuma et pro homagio suo et pro servitio suo, totam terram meam in furodia de feodo hormhishaie apud fransham cum mesuagio et cum domo quos ibi habui, — illi et suis heredibus tenere de me, &c. Reddendo annuatim — ij soHdas de censu pro omnibus con- suetudinibus. Testibus, Alexandro de dunham, Radulfo extraneo, Ricardo de lechesham, Rogero et Radulfo fihis GUberti de fransham, Ricardo mihte, Rogero extraneo, Waltero marescaUo, Petro et benedicto " s 2 132 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. fiUis ejus, Henrico fiHo WiUielmi, Johanne turstan, Radulfo preposito, Waltero de hering', Galfrido fiHo ejus.— F. 93. Sciant, &c, ego WiUielmus filius Adelwaldi reddidi, &c, totum quod tenui in heringeshage et in fransham. Sciant, &c, ego Willielmus filius Willielmi filii Adelwaldi, confirmavi. Noverint, &c, ego Robertus de sancto thoma concessi, &c, homagium et terram et serviciam Johannis filu Rogeris de parva fransham cum duo soUdis redditus quos mihi solvere debuit annuatim de mesuagio quod vocatur hodelespicthil. Et de duobus acris terre et dimidii, &c, et tribus acris terre — inter terram prioris de penteneye, &c, et de una acra, &c. Et homagium et terram et servicium quos Radulfus fiHus gileberti de fransham tenuit de me et vjd. redditus, &c, ad sustationem luminis lampadis unius ante altare sancti Nicholai in predicta ecclesia de Castelacre. Testibus, Reginaldo de geyt, Ricardo senescaUo, Galfredo de Alenzun, Nicholao fiHo Johannis presbyteri, WiUielmo brother, WilHelmo geynecolt, Eborado de kemestune, WilHelmo wanci, Ada brother. — F. 93. Sciant, &c, ego Radulfus filius gilleberti de fransham concessi — homagium, &c, WiUielmi fiUi Warini de toftes — in villa de la hume. — F. 93 b. Ego Petrus filius henrici de fransham. Sciant, &c. — ego GUebertus de fransham miles, — confirmavi — omnes terras, &c, que predicti monachi et ecclesia habuerunt de dono thorne filii Reginaldi de fransham in viUa de fransham. Reddendo — sex denarios — et scutagium. Testibus, Domino Reginaldo de dunham, Domino Alexandro arsick, Hamone fiHo Walteri de acra, WilHelmo fiHo Godefridi, Johanne le porter, WUHelmo Tym de dunham, WilHelmo de lechesham, GUberto de aula, Alano de Walpol. — F. 94. Fin. 19 Henr. fil Johis — Inter Ph' fil Oddonis de fransham petent et Rad — priorem de castelacra tenent — vj acris terre in fransham. — F. 108. Noverint, &c, ego Willielmus faber filius fulcheri fabri de WenUnge. Testibus, Rogero extraneo, Ricardo rufo nepote suo, Gilberto de fransham, thoma fiHo baldwini, thoma adelm, Johanne de oxwic, Johanne et Ricardo fiUis ejus, WUHelmo clerico de Wenling, Ednod fiHo elferii, WUHelmo fratre ejus, Ricardo fiHo WiUielmi persona, Johanne fiHo laurentii, WiUielmo de broc. — F. 96. Ego Galfridus faber de WenUnge — duas pecias prati in WenUnge. Testibus, Ada de gressinghale, WiUielmo fiUo lesehenn' de Wenling, Johanne fiUo laurentii, &c. Ego Willielmus filius lescenn de WenHng. Ego Willielmus filius et heres Galfridi geynecolt de WenHng. — F. 97. WEST LEXHAM. Notum sit, &c, ego Ricardus de Sancto Claro dedi, &c, ecclesiam de West lexham in Ubera et perpetua elemosina pro salute anime mee et uxoris mee, &c. Testibus, KeteUo decano, Alurico presbytero, Benedicto presbytero, WiUielmo fiHo lesyeni, Petro preposito, Vmfredo de dunham, Roberto tusardo, Wlstano dapifero.— F. 95. [Conventio] inter Johannem priorem et conventum de Castelacra et Rogerum Priorem de Peterston. Prior et conventus de Castelacre concesserunt Priori de Peterstone et fratribus, — duas partes omnium decimarum de dominicis quondam Rogeri de Cressy et WilHelmi de lexham et de terra vocata Kalvelwod spectantes ad monasterium de Castelacra in villa de West lexham pro 40 soHdas argenti annuatim solvendis ad ofiitium sacriste. Et Prior de Peterston, &c, obHgant omnes terras et tenementa qua nunc teneant in villa de Rucham in quorumcunque manibus devenerint distriotione, &c, baUivorum domini comitis Warenni et eciam baUivorum vicecomitis Norff quod possint distringere, &c. Datum apud Castelacra die sabati in festo assumptionis beate marie yirginis anno domini m1 ccm° nonogesimo nono et anno regni Regis Edwardi vicesimo septimo. — F. 95. CASTLE ACRE PRIORY. 133 KIRTLING, Ac. Sciant, &c, ego Willielmus filius Walteri de Gressinghale concessi — vj acras terre in campis de Kirthnge, quarum duo acre jacent in Kingescroft — If acra in crofta que fuit ade de Kirthnge et dimidiam acre super eUervestub, 2 ac. in delelond— cum annuo redditu vujd. quos Radulfus crowesher reddere consuevit. Testibus, Domino Eudone Arsic, Alexandro filio ejus, WiUielmo filio God, &c. — Reg. f. 96. Sciant, &c, ego Willielmus filius huberti venatoris de gressingehal — quinque acras in Kirthng. Testibus, Domino Rogero estraneo, Domino WilHelmo de bitering, Ada de Gressinghal, WUHelmo de WenHng, WilHelmo de frevill, Henrico filio Adami, WilHelmo cnict, WilHelmo brochard, Simone capeUano, Johanne de oxwic, Henrico capeUano. — Ib. Sciant, &c, ego Philippus Prior monachorum de castelacre et ejusdem loci conventus dedimus— Zejfemo filio WiUielmi de Wendlyng et heredibus, suis xvj acras terre et dimidiam in campis de Wendlyng stil. in longlond — in le rode — in hoUerode, — juxta terram Henrici de Wendlyng — in Blakepitt — ad portam ecclesie — apud oldmilnestede, — et in campo in Fransham. Tenenda de nobis, &c, reddendo inde annuatum duos sohdos. Testibus, Waltero marescaUo, Johanne de Pagrave, Johanne de oxwyc, Alexandro dapifero. — Ib. Sciant, &c., ego WiUielmus de Huntingefeld et Tsabel uxor sua concessi, &c, Homagium Rogeri filh elferi, nepotis thoke de Wendlinge, priori, &c, de castelacra pro duobus marcis argenti et duobus bisantis quos dedit uxori mee predicte. Testibus, WiUielmo bratano, Robdo de horningetoft, benedicto clerico, WilHelmo de frawesham, Magistro osberto de hoyet, Magistro folcho de newetun, Ricardo janitore. — Ib. 96 b. Sciant, &c., ego lawrentius filius elferi de WenUnge assensu, &c, heredum meorum — xyj acras et dimidiam tam in terra arabUe quam in prato et in turbaria in campis de WenUnge et Fransham quas lestei fihus lewini de WenHnge de me tenuit. Ego Radulfus filius elferi de Wenlinge. — Ib. 96 b. GATELY. Sciant, &c, ego Willielmus de liseiois concessi omnes decimationes qui, &c, de sarcis de omnibus nemoribus meis de Gathele et tam in bladis quam in omnibus rebus. Preterea duas acras de dominio meo ibidem ad facienda edificia. Dono et eis omnes decimas de tota terra quam dedi Simoni presbytero de gathele qua vocatur tolisnap. Testibus, Henrico pichot, Ricardo de refham, Johanne de newtun, Godfrido paupere, WilHelmo Wimer de heletun, Henrico de Gathele, Wilhelmo de hospitio, Roberto lestard, WU Helmo fiho Ricardi de refham, Radulfo de bumeham, Hugone de candos— Reg. f. 54. Sciant, &o., ego WiUielmus de lisewis concessu Godfridi heredis mei, confirmavi, &c. Another confirmation witnessed by Godfrido paupere, Godfrido camberlengo, Duranno extraneo, WilHelmo de lecheham, Hewin de gathele, WilHelmo barbit, Henrico de gathele, Jocelino de gathele, Adamo de Wesenham, Roberto h'o, Radulfo Wodward, Eustaieo dapifero, lamberto clerico, Gaufrido de swafham. — Ib. [Carta PhiUppi de candois de terra quam Johannes tenuit in Gatele inter cartas de creic et burnhamtorp. Item carta concessu Roberti de Wals de Hij sohdis in Gatele in carta de penteneye et Narford.]— Lb. Nos frater Petrus prior monasterii de Catelacre, &c, domino Thome abbati monasterii beate Maria de pratis in Northcreyk, &c, totum jus, &c, in [6s. 8d.] quos ab eisdem singuhs annis recipere consuevimus pro quandam portionem, vid' duarum partium decimarum garbarum, &c, de omnibus terris, &c, que fuerunt de feudo Godefridi lesewys sparsim in campis de Gatele jacentes et de terris que cognorantur Tolyesnapp. Datum apud Castleacre in capitulo nostro die dommica proxima post festum assencionis Domini a0 m1 cccmo vicesimo quarto. 134 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Sciant — Phihppus de candos dedi — pro meipse et pro infantibus meis terram meam [in Crec et burnham torp.] " In Gatelaie terram quam Johes de me tenet." Testibus, WUl. fiho meo qui bene concedit donationem istam et super altarem sancte Marie cartam istam posuit indentibus multis, Ric. estumi, Matheo fiUis meis, Rad. de roseto, Rad. de crec, WUl. prompto, PhiHppus de crec — sciatis quod dedi ecclesie sancte marie de acra pro me et infantibus meis — " Et terram quam Joh'es clericus tenuit de gateleia ij sol." WilHelmus fiHus PhiUppi de Candos — confirmatio. Galfridus de Ver — confirmo — "quod cunque PhiHppus de candos eis in Hberam elemosinam pro seipso et pro fiiiis suis et pro meipso dedit." — Reg. f. 44. Notum sit — ego Robertus de Vals "dono sancte marie et monachis de acra fratribus meis ibidem pro salute mea et uxoris mee fiHorumque meorum et patris mei et matris mee fratrisque mei Roberti pinquis et ceterum fratrum meorum GUeberti S. et Huberti." Noverint, &c, ego WiU. de Vals — concedo et eis "iUas iiijor soHdatas terre quas habebam in gatalai." — Reg. f. 87. Placita assisarum apud Thetford coram Johannem Cokayn et Johanem Markham Justiciaries, &c, die lune proximo ante festum sancti Nicholai anno regni Regis Henrici 4ti. 4to. quod Johannes Bosoun de "V^yssyngsete, Johannes Patecok de Beston, et Ranulph Whytlok de Beston capeUanus injuste diseiserunt Simonem Priorem de Castelacre de Hbero tenemento suo in Wendlyng et unde querit quod disseis' eum de 42 acris terre et 8 acris bosci — Carta Ricardi de Cambeys — boscum de Dychewde, &o. — Prior inde seisitus fuit tempore Henrici Regis fiHi regis Johannis. [Verdict in favour of the Prior.] — Reg. f. 96. I have in my possession an authentic office copy of the grant by the Crown of Castleacre Priory and its possessions to the Duke of Norfolk, which I intended to print here, but it is mislaid. WALSINGHAM PRIORY. 135 Wdsmgjmm tjrbrg, In what is called the Taxation of Pope Nicholas, a.d. 1288-91, the possessions of the Prior of Walsingham in this Hundred are entered thus : — £. s. d. Land in Longham, annual value . . 1 10 0 Rents in Bilney s. . 1 d. 3\ Wyssingsete . 1 0 Dunham magna . . 0 8)0 5 8 Godwyk . 2 0 Stanfeud . 0 9/ And in Colkirk . 0 1 0 In the assessment to the aid to King Edward III. (1347) the Prior of Walsmgham is returned as holding one knight's fee hi Longham, jointly with John de Guntun and Isabella de Bagthorpe, from whose gift I have no information, unless by Richard le Deneys and Sibilla his wife.1 In the Valor Ecclesiasticus of King Henry VIIL, amongst the divers towns where this Priory held lands, is named " in Worthyng," [land] of the yearly value of four shillings. Amongst their yearly outgoings, the following were payable in respect of their manor of Riburgh Magna : — Episcopo Norwic. manerio suo de Northelmham „ manerio de Gately Priori de Castelacra , Manerio Johis Heydon de Penthorp Et hundr dni Regis de Landich • Y)Q- ¦ iiijd- • x^. xiija. iiijd. iiij8. is;d. I have no original evidences concerning these or other possessions of the Priory, nor can I account for the lands at Longham, which I suppose to have formed the manor there, known as " Longham Priors," not occurring in the Valor Ecclesiasticus ; but it is evident that it had been parted with in some manner. Other monasteries possessed of property in the Hundred will be referred to in treating of the parishes within which such possessions were situated. 1 Fin. H Edward I. n. 85. PAET I. SECTION II. tmt %mwat& anfcr JSirfr-Cntamis. THE HUNDRED. HE Castleacre Charters before cited give some early notices of the ditch or dyke from which I consider the Hundred derived its name. Thus in Longham, which joins the dyke on the east side, Alan dapifer gave three acres there at Duneditch. — P. 126. Walter Tusard gave other land in Longham extending to a watercourse running into the foss, fossatum, called Longediche. — Ib. The charter of Robert de Yer refers to the wood (or grove) and land of Landic. That of William de Franceville (or Fransham) gave land at heringshage in great dichwode. Richard de Francavilla gave land in great dichwode next to little dichwode. Another William de Franchvill, also land in magna digwode adjoining to parva digwode. Heringshage or Heringshae was the name of a wood on the western or Wendling side of the bank, and the name is preserved in the manor and estate of Herringshall, which will be treated of under Wendling.1 In my former notice of the Hundred, I omitted to refer to an indenture printed by Madox,2 made upon the marriage of Thomas Howard, eldest son of the Earl of Surrey, with the Princess Anne, sister of the Queen of Henry YII. It is dated on 12th Eebruary in the tenth year of that king, and, amongst other things, declared the uses of a fine or recovery, covenanted to be levied or suffered, of the reversion of the manors of Hunworth, Little Framlingham, Syselond, Dykelburgh, and the Hundred of Landishe in the Counte of Norfolk, and of the manor of Earles Stonham in the Counte of Suffolk, immediately after the death of Elizabeth Duchesse of Norfolk, to Henry Duke of Yorke, Thomas Marqueis Dorsett, " and such other personnes as the Quenes Grace woll thereunto appoynte," to the use of the said Thomas Lord Howard and Anne his wife for the term of their lives, and after their decease to the use of the said earl and of his heirs forevermore. Some of the provisions contained in this settlement are curious, but they do not concern the title of the Hundred, and are too long- to be entered here. 1 Magna and parva dicheswode are named in several others of these charters. — V. in p. 129. 2 Formulare Anglicanum, cxci. p. 109. THE FITZ-ALAN FIEF. 139 THE FITZ ALAN FIEF Eaule of Suhtttfeurjations. Domesday Manors. Knights' fees. Tenant in capite temp. Edw. I. Mesne Tenant temp. Edw. I. Sub-tenant temp. Edw. I. Modern Name of Parish. Meleham. One fee. John Fitz Alan. None. None. Mileham.Beoston nt. MUeham. Little Bittering. Lucham. Quarter of one fee & half of a quarter. Ditto John le Estrange. Robert Eelton at haU a fee. Litcham. Weasenham. Longham. One fee. Ditto Wm. de Bures. < Isabel le Strange. Richard Deneys. Nichs. le Skerning. Prior of Walsingham. Longham.Tittleshall.Longham. Dunham. Half of one fee. Ditto. John Harsick. None. Great Dunham. KertUng. $it$-%hrt $uf. HUstu Cm ants. LE STEANGE OF HUNSTANTON. JlMONGST the mesne tenants of knights' fees held of the Honor of Mileham, we find no name of greater interest than that of Le Strange. Mr. Eyton, in his Antiquities of Shropshire,1 has devoted a large space to the origin and early history of that family, of which I shall make ample use. The name of Rodland, Ronald, or Ruald le Strange occurs as an attesting witness to some charters temp. Henry I. Ruald Extraneus attested Alan Fitz Flaald's deed to Castle Acre, about 1112,3 and Rodland Extraneus witnessed Roger Fitz Warin's about the same time : and that he was the father of John le Strange (I.), who had been enfeoffed of Hunstanton before 1135, appears from the grant made by the same John to Castle Acre, between the years 1157 and i Vol. x. 259, 281. 2 Extracts from Castleacre Chartulary, supra p. 123. T 2 140 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. 1160, of land in Lucheam (Litcham), "pro salutem animarum patris mei Rollandi et Matilclee matris meas et Hamonis fratris mei." 3 To this deed we find the names of Radulfus Extraneus and Durandus Extraneus as attesting witnesses, Ralf being the brother of the grantor. Durandus le Strange was, it seems, the ancestor of a family of that name, afterwards styled of Lytcham, to distinguish it from the Hunstanton Stranges, with whom no connection can be proved, although both held under Fitz- Alan, and both had an interest in Lytcham. John le Strange was a witness to the foundation deed of Haughmond Abbey, in Shropshire, by William Fitz-Alan, between 1130 and 1138. The same John, and Wido (Guy) his brother, John, son of John le Strange, and Wido and Hamo, sons of Wido, were all witnesses to a deed of William Fitz-Alan to Buildwas Abbey in that county, about 1175. Between the years 1172 and 1177, John le Strange, the father, gave the church of St. Mary of Hunstanton to Haughmond, to which house he also seems to have given land at Lytcham. Guy, Eudo, or Wido le Strange, third son of Roland, made a gift to that Abbey, Haugh mond, before his death, to which Ralf his son and Adam, son of Hamo le Strange, were witnesses. Mary le Strange his widow, who was living in 1186, then only forty years of age, held Rungeton, Norfolk, of the fief of Warren of Wirmegay, probably of the dower of a former husband.4 He was succeeded by his son and heir, Ralf, who was of age about 1182, and died 1195, without issue, leaving three sisters and coheirs: — Margery, wife first of Thomas Noel and afterwards of Thomas de Blancminster ; Juliana, wife of Richard de Wapenburi, and Matilda, who married Griffin ap Gervase Gohc ; and they, in 1197, resigned to their cousin, John le Strange [II.], their rights in Knockin, in exchange for lands in Shropshire, which the said John covenanted to warrant to them, or else thirty solidates of land in Norfolk.5 Ralf le Strange, fourth son of Roland, was of Ercall, in Shropshire. He was the Ralf le Strange who gave the advowson of East Winch to Carhow Nunnery. He seems to have had some feoffment in Hunstanton and Lucham from his brother John, after whose death, in 1178-9, he granted Hunstanton mill to Haughmond Abbey ; for in the charter by which the gift was made, it is said to be for his soul, the soul of his father and mother, and of John his brother, who gave him that fee, and of Ronald his son * and the said mill is stated to be of the inheritance of his father, that is of the fee of Fitz-Alan. It is tested, with others, by William de Brun, who was Rector of Hunstanton at that time.6 This Ralf le Strange de Ercall was dead before June 1194, as appears from proceedings at law then taken by his heirs. He was succeeded by his two daughters and coheirs, Matilda, wife of Fulk d'Oiri, and Emma, wife of Philip de Brunham. In Easter term 1198, a suit was still pending in the king's court between these ladies, touching their shares in their father's inheritance, and a partition was directed to be made; but some questions in dispute seem to have remained unsettled, for we find that 3 Extracts from Castleacre Chartulary, supra p. 12.5. 4 Eyton iii. 129. 5 lb., ,\. 367. 6 lb., viii. 10. THE FITZ-ALAN PIEF. 141 in 4 John 1202-3, Philip de Burnham and Emma his wife were impleaded by Fulk d'Oiry and Maud his wife, for a moiety of East Winch, and certain messuages in Litcham and Ringsted.8 John le Strange [II.], the eldest of the brothers, succeeded his father in 1178-9 ; and about that time he confirmed some gift to Haughmond Abbey ; William Fitz-Alan, Wido le Strange 9 his brother, and Ralf le Strange of Lucheham, being witnesses. This John le Strange is named in the Testa de Nevill1 as holding one-fourth and one-eighth of a knight's fee in Lutcham of John Fitz Alan, of the fee of Mileham ; he gave land in Lytcham to his daughter Margery on her marriage with Ralph de Pichford, as appears by deed without date, but made between 1238 and 1255, whereby Nicholas de Willilegh, with the assent and will of Burgia his wife,8 sells to Sir John le Strange [III.] all that land in the vill. of Lucam which the father of the said John gave for the frank marriage of Ralf de Pichford with Margery his daughter. John le Strange [III.] had succeeded his father about 1237-8. About 1260-1, he gave to his daughter Alice, towards her marriage, half his manor of Lucham, together with the advowson of the church. Witnesses, Sir Fulk de Orreby, Sir Hamo le Strange, Roger le Strange, &c. At the same time he gave the other half of his manor of Lucam to his son Robert, saving the curia or manor-house. Witnesses, Sir Griffin son of Wenunwyn, Sir Fulk de Orrebi, Sir Hamo le Strange, Roger le Strange? This John recovered from Haughmond Abbey some land in Lytcham which had been granted by an ancestor, and gave other land in Shropshire in lieu. He was Custos of Chester and other border castles, and a Baron Marcher. He died about February, 1269. John le Strange [IY.], Lord of Knokin, married Joan, one of the three daughters and coheirs of Roger de Somery, by Nicholaa his first wife, who was one of the heirs of Hugh de Albini, Earl of Arundel.4 By the inquisition taken after his death he was found to have held the manor of Hunstanton, on one side of the water, ex una parta aque? of the heirs of the Earl of Arundel, by the service of five knights' fees, and on the other side of the water, ex altera parte aque, [of the Honor] of Mileham, by the service of one knight's fee.6 The 8 Xn referring to these suits, Mr. Eyton gives the name Alexander de Such or de Eutham, as attorney for one of the parties : it should probably be read Alexander de Sucham, a name of frequent occurrence at this time. 9 Wido or Eudo le Strange and Roger his son were witnesses to a deed of exchange without date between the Priors of Castleacre and Westacre. — Cartul. f. 90, supra, p. 129. This son of Guy does not appear to be mentioned elsewhere unless he were the same Roger le Strange who was witness to some gifts of land in Fransham to Castleacre. He may have been an elder son who died in his father's Ufetime, before 1179. 1 P. 289 b. 2 Cited by Mr. Eyton from Glover's CoUection, A fo. Ill b. Burgia, wife of Nicholas de WUileg, was the daughter of Ralf de Pichford by Margery le Strange, Ralf de Pichford having died 1252. Burgia was Uving a widow in 1259. 3 Eyton, x. 274. * Inq. p.m. 1 Edward I., n. 15. 6 Fitz Alan's fee in Hunstanton lying on one side of a brook there and Albini' s on the other. 6 Inq. p.m. 4 Edward I., n. 38. 142 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. writ, diem clausit, 8fc, was tested 26th February, anno 4 Edward I., 1275-6, and John le Strange' his son and heir was found to be of the age of twenty- two years and a half. In the preceding year, 3 Edward I., Hamo le Strange is reported to have unjustly deprived Simon de Cotes of certain lands, which after the death of said Hamo had come into the hands of the king.7 I have not found where these lands are located, but lands called Cotes afterwards passed with Longham. Hamo enfeoffed his brother Robert of a manor in Salop, before the departure of the latter to the Holy Land, where he died ; and John le Strange [IY.], the elder brother, quit-claimed the same year. Robert le Strange, fourth son of John le Strange [III.], and grantee of a moiety of the manor of Lucham, was the ancestor of the Lords Strange of Blackmere. This grant was probably a subinfeudation, and the le Stranges of Knokin continued to be the mesne tenants. Whether Robert le Strange, who was dead on 10th September, 1276,8 or John his eldest son, styled of Whitchurch, who was dead before June 18th, 1289, sold Lutcham to Sir Robert de Felton, or whether one of them surrendered to his superior, who enfeoffed Felton, does not appear ; but in the Feodary, 1301 — 5, Robert Felton was the tenant of half a knight's fee in Luccham, de Johanne Extraneo de la March, who was of course the Shropshire baron, John le Strange [Y.] of Knokin. Alice le Strange does not seem to have married. Between 1269 and 1275, John le Strange [IY.] her brother, confirmed to her ten solidates of rent in Totington, and that is all we hear of her: her moiety probably reverted. Lord Arthur Hervey, indeed, in the history of " Play ford and the Feltons," makes Sir Robert Felton to have married Matilda, living 1316, daughter of John le Strange of Knokyn; but does not give his authority for the statement. It would explain the ownership of the Feltons. As they are afterwards described as holding immediately of the Earl of Arundel, I do not pursue the line of Le Strange farther at present, but I continue the descent in the Pedigree, from Sir Hamon le Strange of Hunstanton, because his descendants, in a future generation, became possessed of other property, to be treated of hereafter, by marriage with the coheiress of Hastings. Pedigree of Le Strange of Hunstanton. Part I. Herlewin.=j= Hugh de Plaiz, Suff.=p X Ralph Fitz Herlewin als. de Hunstanton =p Helowisa de Plaiz. Ralph de Plais = temp. Hen. I. occ. 1086. i Ruald or Ronald le =j= 3. MatUda le Brun. 2. Reginald 1. Simon Fitz Ralph, Strange occ. 1112. I lo Brun, s.p. temp. Hen. I., ob. s.p. (a) ' Esc. 3 Edward I., Cal. Gen. n. 93. " Inq. p.m., 4 Edward I., n 37. THE FITZ-ALAN FIEF. 143 (a) —1 2. Hamo le Strange, deft. 1160 s.p. 1. Johnle Strange (I.) : ob. 1178-9. 3. Ralph, occ. c. 1198. 1 2. Hamo, occ. 1198, 1221. : Hawise, 1177-8. 3. Guy le Strange, ob. circ. Dec. 1179, twice married. 4. Ralph le= Strange,deft. 1194. 1. John le Strange (II.) = occ. 1178, 1232, ob. cUca 1237-8. '¦ Amicia. 4. William, a cleric, 1189, 1227. = Ela, da. of Richard de Wirmegay,lord of Wirmegay. (A.) 2. Hamo, 1227-9. 1. John le Strange (III.) ¦¦ ob. cUc. Feb. 1269, 1st Baron of Knokyn. : Lucia, da. of Rob. de Tregor. Margery .=t= Ralph de Pichford,ob. 1252. 2. Hamo, died in 1273. 3. Roger, mar. Maud de Beauchamp, widow of Roger de Mowbray, ob. 1311, s.p. John le Strange (IV) occurs 1252 -75, ob. cU. Deo. 1275. =p Joan, da. of Roger de Somery and Nichola d'Albini, Uving 1276. 4. Robert : le Strange, ob. circ. Aug. 1276. =j= Alianore deBlanc-minster,Uving 17 Ed. I. 1. AUanore,= John le Strange (V.) ; occ. 1278. ob. cir. July, 1309. 2. Eubolo le Strange, mar. AUce de Laci, ob. 1335, s.p. Inq. p.m. made 9 Edw. III. Rogerus le Lestrange, miles, consan. & heres. — ¦ Topog. i. 332. = 2. Maud, da. & h. of Roger d'EiviUe,superst. 1309. 1. John le=T=Isolda, Strange (VI.) natus ante 1282,ob.l311. Lord of Knokyn, 4 Edw. II. ^ da. & h. of John de Wal ton. Sir Hamo le : Strange, enfeof fed in Hunstan ton, March 28, 1310, defs. Nov. 1317. =j= Margaret, da. of Ralph Ver non of Mat- tron, co. Cestr. John le Strange of Whit church, ob. 17 Edw. I. 1288, s.p. Fulk, Lord^ Strange, 1st Baron of Blackmere,ob. 17 Edw. II. 1324. Hawise, mar. Griffin, Prince of Powis. AUce, occ. 1260-70. :AUenora, da. and coh. of John Gifford of Brimmes- field. John, Lord Strange, Hamo, of Blackmere. younger ?js son, s.p. Edmund le Strange, twin brother of Hamon. Hamon le : Strange,ob. 1399. =j= Katharine, da. and coh. of John de Camoys. SU John le Strange,=f= Eleanor, da. and h. of ob. 6 Hen. V. 1418. SU Richard Walkfare. Christopher. Leonard. John le Strange, =j= Alice, da. and hr. of ob. 1436. I John Beaumont (qu. Nichs.) Hamon.= Eleanor, da. of SU Philip Radford. Roger le Strange.=p Jane Beke. 1. John le Strange,= Brewose. ob. s.p. Sir Henry le Strange,: will dated 1483, ob. 25 Nov. 1485. = Katherine, da. of Roger Drury of Hawsteed. 1. Sir Roa-erle Strange,=f Anne, da. of 2. Robert le=f=Anne, da. & 3 John le-,- ob. 27 Oct. 1506. SU Henry Heydon, will prov. Jan. 15, 1510 Strange, ob. 3 Hen. VIIL John, ob. v.p. s.p. coh. of Thos. Strange of Walton Dei- ville, md. 21y Edward Kne- vett, Esq. Strange of ham. Inq. p.m. 25 Oct. 10 H. VIII. da. & coh. of Thomas Strange of Walton. Anne.= Gourney. (*) Henry, ob. p.v. "i Barbara, only, da. & hr. mar. Robert Mordaunt. 144 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. (») 2. Richard, mar. Doro thy Astley. SU Thomas le Strange, =f Anne, d. of wiU dat. 14 Jan. 1544, 36 Hen. VIII. Ob. 18 Jan. Inq. p.m. 18 Apr. 36 Hen. VIIL Katherine,1 Nicholas, ob. 1564, Lord Vaux. s.p. = 1 , Sir Hugh Elizabeth.— John Hastings of Wotton of Elsing ; 2, Thomas Gawdy of Harleston, Serj.-at-law. Tuddenham. 3. WUliam, 4. John. 5. Roger, of Wiveton, * Esq. ob. 1584, mar. Marga ret — ' J ' ' 6. Henry, mar. Kath. Lawrence. 7. Thomas, mar. Anne, widow of SUFras.Shawe. 8. WUUam, jun. 9. Edmund. SU Nicholas : le Strange, ob. 19 Feb. 1579; mar. 21y, Kathe rine, da. of John Hide, widow of Nich. Mynn of Basham, living 24 Eliz. ¦EUen, da. of SU WUUam Fitz- WUUam, 1 wife, of Melton. I l I I 1 Anne. = Anthony SouthweU. Elizabeth. = John Cressener of Morley, Gent. Mary. = Tho. Prentiss. Alice. = Thomas Calthorp. Katherine.= SU Rowland Clarke. I 2. Richard, of Lynn, ob. 1575, mar. Joan, da. of .... Athow. Thomas le Strange, s. & h. living 1589. 3. John, of =j= Anne, da Sedgeford, Esq. ob. 23 Feb. 1582. h. of Richard Gooding of Booton. Hamon le : Strange. = Elizabeth, da. and coh. of SU Hugh Hastings of Elsing and Gressenhall. T-| 2 daurs. Vibe Part II. Eleanor, mar. SU Henry Spelman, Kt., the Antiquary. Dorothy, mar. Roger Anderson. Catherine, died unmarried 1599. * The wiU of Roger Le Straunge, of Wiveton, Esq. is dated 4 June, 26 Eliz. 1584 ; names only and sole executrix, and is witnessed by another Roger Le Straunge, Richard Stubbs, Wil. Maddocks, and WiUm. Boyton. Proved 12 Dec. 1584, in Consistory Court, Norwich. his wUe Briggs, (A.) Emma le =j= PhiUp de Burnham, Strange, da. & coh. Lord of Burnham or Grancourt, Fincham, and Harpley. Maud le = Strange,dau. and coh. t = Fulk D'Oiry. William de Burnham, son and heU, ob, s.p. Cecilia de Burnham,=SUWm. de sister & hr. of Wil- Calthorpe. Uam, Uving 4 Ed. I. t Blomefield makes another daughter of Ralf le Strange, Alice, wife of WiUiam de Bellemonde, whose daughter and coheU, Ela, married Sir Hervey de Stanhow, Uving 1260. Part II. Hamon Le Strange of Hun-=j=Elizabeth, da. & coh of Sir stanton, Esq. ob. 7 Oct. 22 EUz. Hugh Hastings, Knt. ob. 1580, 1580. bur. 22 April at Hunstanton. 1. Thomas —Marr. 25 July, Lestrange,s. & h. bapt. 19 Oct. 1561, ob. 1 Feb. 1580, s.p. 1580, Griselda, da. of WUlm. Yelverton of Rougham, Esq. She mar. 21v PhiUp Wode house of Kim- berley, ob. 1635, Roger, Sir Nicholas Lestrange =pMary, da. of SU 2 son, bapt. 13 March, 1562, ob. Robert Bell. T,m bapt. 15 Dec. 1591. He mar. 15 Sept. 21y Anne, da. of Sir 1565, WiUm. Paston, Knt., by Uving whom two daurs. who d. 1591. young. Robert Bell, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, mar. at Outwell 6 Aug. 1582. M Anne. = Roger Bozun of Whissonsett. Elizabeth. = , Lumnor. 1. Henry Lestrange,eld. son, ob. s.p. v.p. THE FITZ-ALAN FIEF. — , 1 145 3. Roger, ob. s.p. v.p. SU Hamon Lestrange, Knt., =t= Alice, da and heir of Richard aged 8 years 6 mths. 1591, bur. at Hunstanton, 2 June, 1654. Will dat. 2 July, 1652, prov. 7 July, 1654.— PlC.C. Stubbe of Sedgeford, Esq. ob. 1656, rot. 71. 2. Hamon Le =p . Strange of ^f, Pakenham,Suff.John, ob. 1618, s.p. v.p. Sir Roger le Strange mar. Mary, da. of Sir Tho. Dolman of Shaw, co. Berks, Knt., ob. Dec. 11, 1704, bur. at St. GUes in the Fields, co. Middx. SU Nicholas Le Strange,1 son and heU, created a Bart. 5 Car. I. ; mar. at St. Stephen's, Norwich, 26 Aug. 1630, bur. at Hunstanton, 25 July, 1655. 1. SU Hamon le Strange, Bart., bapt. 8 Dec. 1631, bur. 16 Feb. 1655-6, at Hunstanton, unmar. -r~r i i i - John. =Anne, da. of Sir Edw. Leuknor of Denham, Suff. Knt., ob. 1663. Will nuncupative,made 14 July, proved 20 July. To John Le strange, Gent. i l l ~l Elizabeth. = SU William — Spring of Pa kenham, Sufi. Dorothy, ob. 1609^ Jane, ob. 1620 Mary, ob. 1621 - unmar'd. 4. WiUiam. 5. Edward. 6. Roger. 7. Charles. 8. Thomas. 2. SU Nicholas Le : Strange, 2nd Bart. bapt. 17 Oct. 1632, bur. 15 Dec. 1669, at Hunstanton. He mar. 21y EUzabeth, da. of Sir Justinian Is ham, Bt. by whom a da. EUzabeth. = Mary, da. of John Coke of Holkham, Esq. 1 wife. Settle ment dated 22 Apr. 1657. Anne, ob. inf. 1647. Susan.Jemima. SU Nicholas Le Strange,1 3rd Bart., born 2 Dec. 1661, died at GressenhaU 18 Dec. 1724. WiU dated 8 March, 1722, prov. 25 June, 1725, P.C.C. ¦ Anne, only da. of SU Thomas Wode house of Kimberley, Kt. ; mar. 2 Dee. 1686, died at Gressenhall, 10 April, 1727. Will dat. 10 Feb. 1726, proved 12 June, 1727, P.C.C. r-1 1. Hamon, I John, i 3. SU Henry = Mary, da. 2. SU Thomas =Anne, da. Armine,= f= Nicholas Lucy,= pSU bp. 17 Nov. died le Strange of of the Hon . le Strange of of SU baptized Styleman bapt. Jacob 1687, at young, Gressenhall, Roger Hunstanton, Christo- 9 June, of Snet- 23 Jan. Astley, Hunstanton set. 2. 5th Bart. bap. North of 4th Bart, son & pher Cal- 1691, mr. tisham. 1699, Bart. ob. 13 Aug. 10 Dec. 1698, Rougham, heir, bap. 9 Ap. thorpe of at Snet- WiU dat. ob. ob. Jan 1715, ajt. ob. 2 Septem. ob. 4 Nov. 1689,ob.8Nov. Cockthorp tisham 6 Dec. 1739, 5, 1760 28 at Basle, 1760, s.p. 1781, aged 1751, s.p. KB., 16 Feb. 1746, Jul.25. bur. there, buried at 81. born 8 Aug. 1720. proved unmar. Hunstanton. 1685, ob. 4 Feb. 1742. 31 Jan. Nicholas Styleman = Catherine, da. of ill I John, \ Armine Styleman,=j= Anne, da. of s. & h., bapt. 3 Apr . Hy. Hoste Henley Robert, J s.p. of Ringstead, clk. James Blakeway, 1722, ob. 9 Jan. 1788 , of Leigh, co. WiUiam, ) Will dat. 12 Feb. Esq. s.p. Somerset, Esq. 1802. ,f Rhoda, eldest sister =f= Sir Edward Astley, Bt.= of Lord Delaval, I ob. 27 March, 1802, set. 1st wife. I 72. : Anne, da. of Christopher Milles of Nackington, co. Kent, Esq. 146 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. LE STEANGE OF LITCHAM. I have mentioned another family bearing the name of Le Strange, styled of Lucham or Lytcham, also holding a portion of the Arundel fief, but distinct from the Hunstanton stock, with which it was cotemporary. This duality does not seem to have been within the knowledge of the Norfolk historian, and has not unnaturally created some confusion, which Mr. Eyton has satisfactorily cleared up. He has shewn that the John le Strange who, with dementia his wife, was in 1293 or 1294 enfeoffed of the Hundreds of Launditch and South Greenhoe, was descended from Durandus le Strange, one of the attesting witnesses to the grant of John le Strange of Hunstanton, the son of Roland, between 1157 and 1160. To quote Mr. Ej'ton's words: " Siward, living in Henry I., was succeeded by a son Ralph, and Ralph by a son Durandus, living about 1155 — 1160. Durandus le Strange, by his wife Agnes, had a son Ralph, who was also called le Strange, living from 1180 to 1217. John le Strange, son of Ralph, occurs from 1240 to 1292. He had, by his wife Isabella, two sons, John and Ralph. John, the elder son, died May 31st, 1305, s.p. Ralph, his brother and heir, was living in 1310. The property of this branch of the Stranges consisted of the lordship over the two Hundreds of Launditch and South Greenhow, and of lands in Wellingham, Sutton, Bittering, Lytcham, Mileham, Stanford, [Stanfield] Titeshall, and Wesenham." 9 The historian, usually so accurate, had overlooked the deed in the Castleacre Chartulary of Durannus Extraneus, from which we find that his wife, the mother of his son Ralph, was named Prudence. Agnes was the name of Ralph's wife. The jurors of the Hundred, in answer to the inquisitions made in 3 Edward I., say, that the Hundred of Laundiz is in the hand of John le Strange of Lucham, of the gift of the ancestor of John fitz Alan of Melam, who held the said Hundred as belonging: to the ' DO Manor of Melam from the time of the Conquest. And Blomefield does tell us, under Wellingham, that William son of Alan granted or rather confirmed to Durand, son of Ralph, son of Seward, the land of Yrellingham, Bittering, and Sutton, for payment of 8s. per annum, to which John, Hamo, and Guy L'Estrange were witnesses ; and that in 6 Edward I., John, son of Ralph L'Estrange of Lucham, conveyed to John, son of John L'Estrano-e of Lucham, a messuage with lands and a mill in Wellingham, and lands in Wesenham, with the advowson of two parts of the church of WeUingham.1 By the inquisition taken 7th July, 33 Edward I., after the death of John " Lestrauno-e O alias Le Straunge de Lucham," who held of the heir of Richard Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundell, then under age, the jurors found that said John Le Straunge de Lucham and dementia his wife were jointly seised of certain lands and tenements in Walyngham, with the hundreds of Laundiz and Suthgrenehowe, held of the heir of Richard Fitz Alan, late Earl of Arundell ; and. that they held the said lands and tenements in Welyngham by fine thereof levied in the king's court, and the two hundreds by the gift and feoffment of John Le Straunge, father of Antiquities of Shropshire, x, 260, u. i Blomefield x. 76. THE FITZ-ALAN FIEF. 147 the said John, deceased. In answer to a further inquiry regarding the hundreds, the jurors say that John Lestraunge of Lucham and dementia his wife were enfeoffed by John Lestraunge, father of said John, in the 22nd year of King Edward, and that they held them jointly until the 21st day of March then last, on which day the said John, the husband of said Clementia, died. And further, that one Durantus Le Straunge, ancestor of John Le Straunge of Lucham, the father of said John, deceased, time out of mind acquired (perquisivit) the hundreds of Laundiz and Suthgrenehowe of Flancus, (Flando filio Alani) formerly Lord of Mileham : and the same hundreds had descended in hereditary succession from Durant to one Ralph, as son and heir of Durant ; from said Ralph to another Ralph his son and heir ; from which Ralph to John Le Straunge, who enfeoffed the said John and Clementia, to hold to them and the heirs of the said John, of Richard Fitz Alan, then Earl of Arundel and Lord of Milham.2 Besides the hundreds and lands before mentioned, he died seised of a moiety of the manor of Narringes parva (Snoring) and an annual rent of six quarters of barley and three quarters of oats for land in Fransham parva,3 the latter held of Robert de Tony. The inquisition also found that Ralph, the brother of John, was his next heir, and was then aged fifty years and upwards. In a MS. book in the handwriting of Peter Le Neve, being additions to Hervey's Yisitation, in the possession of W. E. L. Bulwer, Esq., are copied two Pedigrees, side by side, of this family, which I here transcribe. Siwardus =j= Radulfus.=F Durandus,=p [Prudentia.] fils. Eadi fil. Sewardi, p' quis. Manin de WeUingham & Hun dred' de Laundiche & S. Greenho. Rads Lestrange de Testerton,=p Agnes, vid. p' cart. dat. 17 Edw. 3««. Johes Lestrange, mil.=f= Isabella. vixit 56 H. 3'" & Ed. lrai. I Johes Lestrange.— Clementia, Esc. 33 Ed'i I. ob. 33 Maij. 2 Ed. 2. Wellingham Man. 2 Edw. II., L. i. n. 70. ' Inq. p.m. 33 Edward I., n. 63, vide post. » Blomefield says that messuages, lands, and rents in WeUingham, Weasenham, and Fransham, with the advowson of the church of WeUingham, were conveyed to John le Strange and Clementia his wife by John de Stoneham and Roger de Neketon, who were feoffees, perhaps, of Ralph le Strange, the father. U 2 148 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Radutf5 Extraneus de Luchesham,=p com. Norf. superst. 2 Hen. 3"'. Joh'es Extran8 de Lutcham,=T= Isabella, vidua, 2. Robert Extra. & heres, pro man. Longam. masc. Johis. Fine Norf. 34 Ed'i lmi. L. 7, n. 100. pro terr. in WeUingham. — Fin. Norff. 6 Edw. I L. 1, n. 27; 13 Edw. I. L. 3, n. 36; pro Testerton eccl'ia, 20 Edw. I., pro terr. in Lytcham, L. 4, n. 120. Johes fil3 Johis Lestrange de Lutcham.=j= Clementia, fiUa WUU. Borough, mil. Fin. Norff. pro terr. in Snoring 17 Ed. I. Ob. s.p.m. h'uit man"" de Wellingham et p'va Snoring. WiU. de Claver de StUston,=f= Catherine, fil. & coh. vixit sup'stes 4 Ed'i 3. 1 12 Ed. 1 and 4 Ed. 34ii.— Fin. L. 3, n. 7. Bad. de Hales, mil.= Damieta, filia & heres. 4 Ed. 3.— Fin. L. 1, Nos. 140 & 147, pro man'" Mendham & Houeton. Vincent's Book, N.B. u. fol. 46, transcript p. P. Neve, Norroy. The inquisition, 33 Edward I., shews that the latter pedigree is erroneous, inasmuch as it ignores the fact that John le Strange left a brother Ralph, who was his heir ; and I find no authority for giving him Catherine Clavering for a daughter. The arms given to this family are, Sable, two lions passant guardant argent. According to Blomefield, Basilia, one of the daughters and cohiers of Sir PhiHp de Snaring, married .... Le Strange of Litcham : in 6 Edward I., John, son of Ralph Le Strange of Litcham, held part of Snoring parva : in 14 Edward I., John Le Strange, Henry de Warham, and Richard le Rus, of Lexham, conveyed by fine the advowson of that church : in 17 Edward I., John, son of John Le Strange and Clementia his wife, had the moiety of the manor : 4 Ralph Le Strange was found his brother and heir by settlement, 33 Edward I., and in 10 Edward II. the said Ralph, son of John Le Strange, conveyed by fine 5 the said moiety, then held for life by Clementia widow of John Le Strange, to Alexander de Walcote and Maud his wife, probably, he says, daughter and heir of Ralph. I have before remarked that Mr. Eyton has made a slip in giving the mother of Ralph, son of Durand, the name of Agnes,6 for the gift of Durannus to Castleacre of rent in Wesenham expressly names Prudence as his wife, and mother of Ralph. In proceedings on the Plea Rolls, 17 Edward II., relative to the advowson of the church of Testerton, John Le Strange (grandson of Ralph) is described as son and heir of Basilia, 4 Johes fiUus Jo. Lestrange de Lucham et Clementia ux. pro man. p'va Snoring. — Fines, 17 E. I., L. 4, n. 46 ; 33 E. I., L. 7, n. 5. Clementia vidua, 11 E. II., quas tunc dedit terr. in Snaring Alex. AValcote et MatUd. ux. L. 4, n. 46.— MS. Le Neve. 5 Radus fil. Jo. Le Strange de Lucham — proman'p'va Snoring given to Alex. Walcote. — 9 E. II., fines L. 3, n. 70. —MS. Le Neve. 6 Le Neve, however, correctly describes Agnes as widow of Ralph, and that she gave lands to the monks of Castleacre (Reg. f. 22) ; and John Lestrange as son of Agnes and Ealf, and father of John, the husband of Clementia, referring to Cart. 55 and 56 11. III. THE FITZ-ALAN FIEF. 149 one of the daughters and coheirs of Philip de Snaringe. Was she then identical with Isabella, or was she a former wife of John the father ? About 1305 we have seen that Isabel le Strange, Richard Deneys, Nicholas de Skernyng, the Prior of Walsingham, and their parceners, were holding in Longham and Cotes one knight's fee of the Earl of Arundel ; and in 1306 Isabel Le Strange conveyed her interest in Longham to Ralph de Bagthorpe and Isabel his wife. In 1316 Isabel le Strange is returned as holding a lordship in Lytcham,7 and also as lady of Bolas in Shropshire, which had been conveyed to John le Strange in 1301. The John Extraneus who, about 1304, claimed to be mesne tenant, between Thomas dc Wesenham and the earl, of one-fourth part of a knight's fee in Wesenham, of the fee of Mileham, of which fourth, in a cotemporaneous feodary, John de Harsyk alleged that he was the mesne tenant : this was of course John of Lutcham. The manor and advowson of Wellingham were conveyed by Ralph le Strange, subject to the life estate of Clementia his brother's widow, in 4 Edward II. (1310-11),8 to John son of Gilbert, who, as Blomefield says, was father of Richard, who took the name of Beaupre. Clementia presented to two parts of the church of Wellingham, belonging to the Mileham fee, in 1311 ; to the other third part, which was attached to the fee of Baynard, but was then under lease to her, in 1313; and again to the two parts in 1315. In the latter year, 9 Edward II., she was holding the hundreds and the lordship of Wellingham, but by a strange mistake is designated as " Clement le Estrange, Armiger." The authority of Yincent for making Catherine, the wife of Sir William de Claver, to be a daughter and cohier of John and Clementia le Strange, I have yet to find, as well as for Blomefield's supposition that Maud de Walcote was a daughter of Ralph le Strange. Yet there does seem to have been a connection between Isabel the wife of John le Strange and Isabel wife of John de Bagthorpe, and between the latter and the wife of William de Claver. In 34 Edward I. (c. 1305), Isabel, then widow of John le Strange, conveyed by fine the manor of Longham to Ralf de Bagthorp and Isabel his wife, with reversion in default of issue of their bodies to herself. In the same reign a fine was levied of one- sixth part of the manor of Hoveton between Ralf de Grelley and Margaret his wife, querents, and Ralf de Bagthorp and Isabel his wife, deforcients. In 9 Edward II., Ralf de Bagthorp, Ralf de Grelley, and William Claver, are all described as lords in Hoveton ; and, in 5 Edward III. (c. 1331), one-sixth part of Hoveton, according to Blomefield, was conveyed by William le Claver and Katherine his wife to William de Crostweyk and Margaret his wife.9 But then, in Blomefield, William de Claver of Stirston (Starston), who with Katherine his wife held a manor in Forncet and also in Starston, in 1283 and 1285, was dead in 1318, and William de Claver is described as his son and heir, whose daughter and heir, Maud, married to William 7 Homina Villarum, 9 Edward II. 6 Johes filius Johis Lestrange habuit Wellingham maner ex dono Radi.— 2 E. II., L. 1, n. 76. Radulfus fil. Jo. le Strange de Lucham concessit Johi. fil. Jo. L. maner Wellingham, &c— 2 E. II., L. 1, n. 76. Iste lladus vendidit maner prd', &c, per finem 4 E. II., L. 1, n. 145.— MS. Le Neve. 9 Blomefield, x. 40, 150 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. de Burwood, and was his widow in 1362.1 Compare this statement with that in Yincent's Pedigree, copied above, where a fine, levied A Edward III. (c. 1330), of the manors of Mendham and Hoveton is referred to as an authority that Dameta, wife of Ralf de Hales, was daughter and heir of Katherine de Claver.2 AUTHORITIES. Escheat, 33 Edward I. n. 63. Edwardus, &c. Johannes le Straunge de lucham qui de herede Ricardi fiUi Alani quondam Comitis ArundeU defuncti qui de nobis tenuit in capite infra etatem et in custodia nostri existente. [Writ diem clausit.] Test, apud Arundel xxUij die Junu A. r. n. 33°. Inquisitio capta apud Thittelleshale, coram escaetorem (7th July) post mortem, &c, per Alexand' de Acra, WiUm Petygard, WUlm de Esthall, Eicardum atte Grene de Rugham, Ricardum fil. Joh'nis de eadem, Johem Giles de Wesenham, Radulfum .... Johem Fryng de Byteryngg, Simonem de Greyneston, Hamone Thornekyn, Gilbertum le ken, et Robertum Rickard de Welyngham qui dicunt super sacramentum suum quod dictus Johannes le straunge de lucham et Clementia uxor ejus die quo idem Johnes obiit conjunctim tenuerunt quasdam terras et quodam tenementa in Welyngham cum Hundredis de Laundiz et Suthgrenehowe de herede Ricardi UUi Alani quondam Comitis ArundeU per servicium decem soUdorum reddendum per annum ad festum Sancti Michaelis pro dictis terris et tenementis in Welyngham et per servicium sex librarum, reddendum per annum ad festa Santi MichaeUs et Paschae pro dictis hundredis et reddendo domino Regi ad castrum Norwici pro dicto comite ArundeU xl soUdos et vj denarios ad albam firmam pro hundredis predictis. Et est apud Welyngham quoddam capitale mesuagium val. p ann. ijs. Item lxx acre terre arrabilis et val. p ann. xxxvs. precium per acram vjd. Item xij acre prati falcabUis, val. p ann. vjs. precium per acram vjs. Item unum molendinum ventriticum et valet per ann. xs. Item sunt ibidem quatuor Uberi tenentes et octo customarii qui reddunt per annum de redditis assisce xls. ad festum Annunciacionis be. M. et ad festum sancte Margarete per equales porciones. Item de redditis assise ad natale Domini xxiiij galUnas et valent ijs. precium galUne jd. Item sunt ibidem duo opera carucarum et valent p ann. vjd. Item xl opera autumpnales et valent per ann. Ujs. Uijd. Item placita et perquisitfe curise cum visu franci plegu val. p ann. xs. Item de redditis assisi Hundredi predicti de Laundiz xxxixs. vijd. viz. ad pascham xxviijs. ad festum sancti Botulphi ijs. iiijd. et ad festum Sancti Michaelis ixs. uijd. Item de placitis et perquisitis predicti Huudredi p ann. xxs. Item de proficus letarum ejusdem Hundredi lxs. Item de redditis assisse Hundredi de Suthgrenhowe xlvs. xd ob., &c. Et predicti jurati quesiti quaUter predicti Johes et Clementia uxor ejus tenuerunt predictas terras et tenementa cum hundredis conjunctim, dicunt quod predictas terras et tenementa in Welyngham tenuerunt per finem inde levatum in curia domini Regis, et predicta duo hundreda tenuerunt de dono et feoffamento Johannis le Straunge patris predicti Johannis le Straunge defuncti. Summa xvij//. xs. xjd. ob. Item dicunt, &c, quod Johannes et Clementia, &c, conjunctim tenuerunt medietatem manerii de parva Nartynggss, &c, per finem levatum de Willo de Bale per servicum unius feodi mihtis. Dicunt etiam, &c, Johannes et Clementia die quo idem Johannes obut: — conjunctim tenuerunt per Blomefield, v. 348. Vide also " Tho. de Bagthorp et IsabeUa ux. fines div. com. 5 E. III., L. 2, u. 5, pro terr. in Stirstou."— P. L. N. THE FITZ-ALAN FIEF. 151 finem, &c, reddita sex quart' ordi et trium quart' avene cum pertinentibus in ffransham de Roberto de tony per servicium duorum soUdorum per ann. ad festos sancti Michaelis et Paschse et valent sex quart' ordi xviijs. p ann. et valent tres quart' avene vs. p ann. Dicunt etiam quod Radulfus frater predicti Johis propinquior heres ejus est et est etatis quinquaginta annorum et ampUus. Breve de predictis hundredis inquirend' quo tempore, &c, test, apud Dovor xvj die JuUi a. i. 33. Inquisitio capta xvij die JuUi (anno 33) apud Hoo sancte Withburge in comite Norff., &c, per Johannem de Lexham, Ricardum fil. Joh'is de Rugham, Bicardum atte Grene de eadem, Reginald de Gressenhale, Johem fring de . . . . ngg, Ricardum le Deneys de Longham, Henricum Dykner (?) de eadem, Alexandrum ffot de Skernyng, Thomam de Blakeson, Geryas atte bin (?) de WiUm Brochard de eadem, — qui dicunt, &c, quod Johes le straunge de Lucham et Clementia uxor ejus fcoffati fuerunt de hundredis de Laundiz et Suthgrenehowe per Johem Lestraunge patrem predicti Johis anno regni regis Edwardi vicesimo secundo et predicta hundreda conjunctuu tenuerunt usque vicesimum primum diem Man ultimo preteritum quo die prefatus Johes quondam vir ipsius Clementie obUt. Et predicti juratores requisiti de quo vel de quibus prefatus Johes pater ipsius Johis vel aliquis antecessorum suorum dicta hundreda perquisivit et qualiter et quomodo, dicunt quod quidem Durantus le Straunge antecessor Johannis le Straunge de lucham patris predicti Johis defuncti tempore quo non extat memoria perquisivit predicta hundreda, &c, de fflando fiUo Alani quondam domino de Milham tenenda sibi et heredibus suis de predicto Flando et heredibus suis per servicum sex Ubrorum per annum, &c. Et predicta hundreda successione heriditarie descendebant de predicto Duranto cuidam Radulfo ut fiUo et heredi ipsius Duranti, de ipso Radulfo cuidam Radulfo ut fiUo et heredi, — de ipso Radulfo Johanni le Strange qui predictos Johannem et Clementiam feoffavit tenenda sibi et heredibus ipsius Johannis de Ricardo fiUo Alani tunc comite ArundeU domino de Milham. Fixe, 33 Edwabd I. Hec est fmalis concordia, &c, in octavo purificationis beate marie a° regni Regis Edwardi fiUi Regis Henrici tricesimo tertio Inter Johanem le Estrange et Clemenciam uxorem ejus querentes et Johanem de Stonham et Rogerum de Neketon deforc' de 44 mess. 60 acr. et 10 acr. terree 12 ac. prati 45so1 redd, et sex quart, hordei et 3- quart, avene in Welhngham, Wesenham, et Fraunsham et de advocatione ecclesiae de Wellingham et de medietate maneru de parva Narrings, &c. Jus ipsius Johanis de Stonham ut Ula quae idem Johanes de Stonham et Rogerus habuerunt de dono predicti Johanis le Estrange. Habendum, &c. , eisdem Johani et Olemencise et heredibus ipsius Johanis le Estrange de capitatibus dominis, &c. Fixe, 34 Edward I., n. 100. Haec est finaUs concordia, &c, in crastino Sci Martini a° regni Regis Edwardi fiUi Regis Henrico vicesimo quarto. — Inter Radulfum de Bagethorp et IsabeUam uxorem ejus quer et IsabeUam quae fuit uxor Johannis Lestraunge de Lucham deforc' per B de Hakeford positum loco suo ad de manerio de Longham cum pertinentibus, &c, jus ipsius Isabellas quae fuit uxor Johanis Lestraunge, &c. Habendum eisdem Radulfo et IsabeRae uxori et heredibus quos idem Radulfus de corpore ipsius IsabeUEe uxoris procreavit, de predictse IsabeUae quae fuit uxor Johis Lestraunge et heredibus suis imperpetuum. Reddendo inde per annum eadem Isabellse quae fuit uxor Johis, &c, tota vita ipsius Isabellas quae fuit uxor, &c, viginti Ubras ad duos terminos, &c. Ex post decessum Isabellae quae fuit uxor, &c. Radulfus et IsabeUa uxor et heredes sui reddent singuUs annis heredibus ipsuus IsabeUaa quae fuit uxor Johanis Lestraunge unam rosam ad festum nativitatis Sancti Johanis Baptisti pro omnibus servicUs. Et si contingat quod predictus Radulfus obierit sine herede de corpore ipsius IsabeUae uxoris ejus procreato tunc post decessum Radulfi et IsabeUae predictum manerum, &c, revertabit ad praedictam IsabeUam quae fuit uxor Johanis Lestraunge et heredes suos. 152 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. SUB-TENANTS IN LONGHAM, &c To return to the lands in Longham, Tittleshall, and Wesenham, included in the Mileham Fief, which in 20 Henry III., 1236, were held by William de Bures, by the service of one knight's fee, and which seems to correspond with the fee in Longham and Cotes, held about 1504, between Isabella le Strange, Richard Deneys, Nicholas de Skerning, and the Prior of Walsingham, as parceners, I have little to add to what has been already stated. First, as to the place called Cotes or Cootys : a complaint was made, 3 Edward I., as I have said before, that Hamon le Strange had wrongfully disseised Simon de Cotes of lands somewhere, — I think in Shropshire, — the first time I meet with the name. There was a hamlet called Cotes in North Pickenham. Perhaps Cote was used to signify a hamlet — as we should say, Longham, with the Cotes, or members lying outside it. About William de Bures I am equally in ignorance, nor do I know how or when that fee was subdivided, or whether the tenants named were coheirs or purchasers. Isabella was the widow of John le Strange of Lutcham: of her parentage we know nothing ; but about 1306 she settled her portion on Ralf de Bagthorpe and Isabel his wife,1 a daughter of Philip de Yerli of Tittleshall. The portion of the Prior of Walsingham seems to have been a grant of Richard le Deneys and Sibilla his wife, about 1286 2 : but the part which had been held by Richard le Deneys3 was about 1345 conveyed by Thomas Pottere to Robert Pottere and Claricia his wife, and was afterwards held by James Brice and Isabel his wife and Edward le Blound and Elizabeth his wife. About 1362, Edmund le Blound and Elizabeth his wife conveyed one fourth part of the manor of Newhall in Tittleshale, which was of • the Earl Warren's fee, to Robert Potter and Claricia4; probably a partition or exchange, but I have no evidence of either. The manor in Longham, however, came to Thomas Bokkinge, as we shall see hereafter. Regarding the portion of Nicholas de Skerning, there is a statement in Blomefield5 that one Alexander de Skerning did, about 24 Henry III., 1250, marry " Nichola, daughter and heir of Roger le Strange." Now it is quite possible that, instead of Nicholas de Skerning, the portioner in Longham was Nichola. The only Roger le Strange of the Hunstanton family flourishing at that period, except Roger, youngest son of John of Knokin, the third of that name, who died we are told without lawful issue in 1311, was the son of Guy, before mentioned as witness to an exchange between the Priors 1 Fin., 34 Edward I., n. 100, "pro manerio Longham, fuit ut opinor MatUda p'dca fiUa et heres PhiUpi Verly de Tittleshale. Vide Fines, 6 Edward II., L. 2, n. 12."— P.L.N. 3 Fine, 14 Edward L, n. 35. 3 This name may be identical with de Sancto Dionisio. Richard de Sancto Dionisio witnessed a charter of Beringer de Cressi. His son Roger de Sancto Dionisio was a grantor to Castleacre of land in Wesenham. Was not his wife Sara daughter of Roger de Verli ? * Blomefield, x. Go. J II.. x. 51. THE FITZ-ALAN FIEF. 153 of Castleacre and Westacre, or who, as Roger le Strange of Fransham, witnessed the charter of confirmation of Alice, widow of Eudo de Arsic, to Gaywood Hospital, after 1241.6 According to the same authority, Alexander de Skerning settled lands and tenements in Skerning on John de Gunton in 8 Edward II., 1315. In 1347, John de Gunton,7 Isabella de Bagethorpe, and the Prior are returned as holding this fee. In 1402, the tenants named were Thomas Gunton, Thomas Bokkinge, and the Prior. For another century the history of Longham is a blank. The manors of Longham and Gunton's and of Priors and Watlingtons in Longham will come on in due course. SUB-TENANTS OF WESENHAM. As to so much of the fee of William de Bures, first mentioned in 1236 as extending into Wesenham, the resident tenant had from such residence assumed the name of de Wesenham; 8 and in 1301 — 5, Thomas de Wesenham held, as we have seen before, one-fourth part of a knight's fee of the fee of Mileham, under the mesne lordship, according to one authority, of John le Strange ; according to another, of John de Harsyk. The latter seems to have been the true state of the case, but in what manner of subinfeudation we have no information. The name of Thomas de Wesenham occurs as witness to a charter, s.d., of Jordan Foliot, of land at Tilney, where Adam de Wesenham held lands in the reign of King John.9 Thomas de Wesenham was son of Alan, for in the Hundred Rolls, 3 Edward I., Alan de Wesenham is said to claim certain franchises in his land at Wesenham, but shewed no title ; and Thomas, son of Alan de Wesenham, claimed assize of bread, &c, and view of frank pledge, of his tenants in that town. Alan and Roger de Wesenham were both witnesses to a charter of Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent, temp. Henry III., and to one of William de Pagrave. Alan de Wesenham was also witness to a deed of Sir John de Lodne of land in Colveston, together with Sir Osbert de Cailli, Sir Gilbert de Fransham, Sir Reginald de Dunham, Sir Alexander Arsyk, Sir Frederick de Capervill, John de Hoo, and others ; as well as to the grant and confirmation of Drogo, son of WilKam Dapifer.1 Osmund de Stutevile granted to Castleacre Priory William the son of Alan de Wesenham, with his service, sequela, and all his tenement ; and to this both Alan himself and Matthew 6 Cart. vU. supra, p. 119. ' " John de Gunton testis cartse, 3 Edward III." (1328).— P.L.N. 8 The earUest mention I find of the name is temp. Henry L, when Gilbert de Wesenham was a grantee of Ralph son of Roger de Burgh of land in Lothingland.— Blomefield, xi. 23. 9 Adam de Wesenham and BasiUa his wife gave lands in Tilney to Dereham Abbey, 5 John, 1303-4. Adam de Wesenham was, in company with Durannus le Strange, witness to a charter of WiUiam de Lisewise to Castleacre. i Extract from Castleacre Chartulary, vii. supra p. 119. X 154 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. his son were witnesses.3 Roger, son of Alan de Wesenham, is named by Parkins as conveying the fourth part of a knight's fee in Wesenham and Wesenhamthorpe to Alan, to be held of said Roger, 10 Henry III. Richard, son of William de Wesenham, by deed, to which Roger son of Alan and William his brother were witnesses, gave to Castleacre land in Wesenham, and his foldcourse there.3 Roger de Wesenham and Alan his son occur as witnesses to other grants of land in Wesenham, in one of which he is called Sir Roger.4 In 1239 Ralf de Wesenham was Prior of Castleacre. Roger de Wesenham was Bishop of Litchfield 1252. William de Wesenham died a rector in Shropshire in 1299. Between 1300 and 1330 John de Wesenham was Rector of Opetun or Upton. Alan de Wesenham was Rector of Longham in 1329, and John de Wesenham, Yicar of West Lexham, in 1357. Roger de Wesenham was lord of this manor in 1315-16, which was then called Northall in Wesenham, and was, in 1 Edward III., settled on him and Cecilia his wife.5 In the 20th year of that reign, 1346, the heirs of Roger were found to hold it, by the service of the fourth part of a knight's fee, of John de Harsick, and he of the Earl of Arundel, which Thomas de Wesenham formerly held. During this reign one Sir John de Wesenham, a wealthy citizen of London, became the owner by purchase of divers lands, rents, and services in the county. Sir Edmund Weyland of Oxburgh, who died 43 Edward III. without issue, is said to have married his daughter. I do not know whether he had this manor, but about 1378 it was conveyed by John de Wesenham and Petronilla his wife to John Leverington, probably a trustee.6 In 1402 it was held by Nicholas Beaupre, and remained in that family for several generations, as will be seen in a future section. John de Wesenham is said in Blomefield to have conveyed, in 15 Richard II., land in Fincham, which he had of Hugh his father.7 Sir Hugh de Wesenham was one of the knights commemorated by the Erpingham window as having died without male issue.8 And now I have recorded all the information I can find of this family,9 who bore for arms, Sable, a fesse dancettee between three mullets pierced argent. I ought to observe here that although I have treated Wesenham as belonging to the Fitz Alan fief, because it is so included in the feodaries, Wesenham is not mentioned by name in Domesday as any part of the land held for the king by William de Noiers, but one carucate of land in Wesenham is there comprised in the survey of the crown lands held by Godric, and under him by four free men, of whom William de Noiers had the soe, and therefore passed under the grant to Alan son of Flaald. 2 Castleacre Register, xii. supra p. 120. 3 Ib. p. 126. 4 Ib. (John son of Lambert) 127. 6 Blomefield, x. 77. 6 Blomefield, x. 78. ' lb. ubi supra. s lb. iv. 87. 9 Thomas de Wesenham, pro terris in Dersingham.— Fines Norf., 3 Henry IV., P. L. N. John de Wesenham, pro terris in Wrongery.— Fines Norf., 2 Henry V., P. L. N. 9 Henry VI. lived Eobert de Wesenham, brother and heU of Thomas, who was son and heir of Robert de Wesenham of BekesweU. THE FITZ-ALAN FIEF. 155 FELTON, SUB -TENANT OF LUTCHAM. The half knight's fee in Luccham, held under the Earl of Arundel by John le Strange de la Marche, was subinfeuded in Robert de Felton, in the reign of Edward I., as we have seen from the feodaries, 1301 — 5, before cited. He appears to have been the resident tenant, and had in the 25th year of that king a grant of a weekly market and yearly fair in Litcham, and also of free warren.1 He is supposed to have been the son of one Pagan or Payne of Felton, in the county of Northumberland. He had a son Robert, who was knighted at Westminster in 34 Edward I., on the occasion of the creation of the king's son, afterwards Edward II., as Prince of Wales, being described on the roll as Robert son of Robert son of Pagan. He was summoned to Parliament as a baron in the 6th and 7th years of the last-named king, in which latter year, 1313, he died, leaving John de Felton his son and heir, who was not summoned. We find the name of John de Felton as Lord of Litcham in 9 Edward IY. He presented to the rectory in 1319, and Dame Sibilla Felton, his widow, as I presume, in 1349. In what right she so presented I do not know, for Parkins says that about 1331 (5 Edward III.) Thomas de Felton by the name of Sir Thomas de Felton, senior, granted to Richard de Lambeth of London an annuity out of this manor. This Sir Thomas was distinguished for his military talents, and for fourteen years filled the office of Seneschal of Aquitaine. He was taken prisoner in an encounter with the French in 1377, but was afterwards ransomed by King Richard, who in January, 1381, made him a Knight of the Garter. On the 4th April in that year, 4 Richard II., he died, seised of Litcham and other manors in Norf oik and Suffolk. He left two, or it would rather seem three, daughters and cohiers by Joan his wife, daughter and coheir of Sir Richard Walkfare : — Mary, betrothed but apparently never married to Sir Edmund de Hemegrave, and afterwards married to Sir John Curson of Beckhall in BiUingford ; Sibyll, wife of Sir Thomas de Morley ; and Hellen or Eleanor, wife of Sir Thomas de Ufford.2 In 3 Henry IY., 1402, Joan de Felton is returned as then holding half a knight's fee in Lytcham of the Earl of Arundel. These daughters, we are told, did not inherit Litcham ; that manor, having been settled by John le Strange upon the marriage of Maud his daughter with Sir Robert Felton in special tail male, reverted to the family of Le Strange upon the death of Sir Thomas Felton without issue male.3 In the face of this settlement it is difficult to see how Sir Thomas Felton could have dealt with Litcham as early as 1331, and how it was afterwards held by Joan his wife, for his elder brother Sir Hamon de Felton would have taken as heir male of Sir Robert. Sir Hamon was lord of Pensthorpe and of Bawsey. He was Knight of the Shire, 1377. By his 1 Rot. Chart. 25 Edward L, n. 1. 2 Qy. whether the latter did not die in her father's lifetime ? ' Elayford and the Feltons, by Lord Arthur Hervey, Proceedings of Suffolk Institute of Archeeology, vol. iv. p. 28. x 2 156 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. testament, dated at Glosthorpe 13th April, 1379, and proved at Norwich 1st August following,4 he desired to be buried in the church of the Carmelites at Lynn. The residue of his goods he gave to John de Pagrave, Thomas Clog, and Roger Reed, Chaplain, whom he appointed his executors. No relations are named, nor is any will of real estate extant. Margaret his wife had died 42 Edward III. seised of Sidistern, probably, says Parkins,5 as relict of William de Kerdeston, but more probably of William Breton de Kerdeston. John Breton of Wichingham, who was son of William Breton and Isabel his [former ?] wife, married Mary the daughter and heir of Sir Hamon de Felton ; and in 10 Henry IY., 1410, Cecilia, daughter of John Breton and Mary his wife, released all her right in Felton's manor, called Netherhall, in Litcham, and the advowson of the church to Sir Thomas Erpingham. In the 8th Richard II. a fine was levied by Joan the widow of Sir Thomas Felton, K.G., and Sir John le Strange, Knt., and Alienore his wife, daughter of Sir Richard Walkfare, and consequently sister to Joan, by which Ryburgh, Dersingham, and other manors of the Walkfare inheritance were conveyed to Joan ; and the same year Sir Steven de Hales, in pursuance of a trust for that purpose, aliened the advowson and manors of Ryburgh to Walsingham Priory, for founding a chantry for Sir Thomas Felton, Thomas his son, and Joan his wife. This son had probably predeceased his father. A few years later, 1401, Joan settled the manors of Banham and Wilby, which had been her husband's, on her two daughters, Mary, wife of Sir Edmund Hemegrave, and Isabel or Sybill, wife of Thomas de Morley, and their husbands ; Robert Braybrook, Bishop of London, Sir Thomas de Erping ham, Sir William Rokele, and others, being trustees, who in 1415 held in trust for Sibill de Felton, Abbess of Berkyng, the mother, as I take it, of Sir Thomas Felton, K.G., still living. It is not impossible that Sir Thomas de Erpingham held Litcham as a trustee only, and not in his own right. From him it came to the Wodehouse family, who will be considered under a separate notice. In the window placed by Sir Thomas Erpingham, in 1419, in the church of St. Michael Coslany, Norwich, to the memory of the knights of the county of Norfolk who had died since the coronation of Edward III. without issue male, were the arms of Hammonde de Felton and Thomas Felton, according to the MS. seen by Blomefield. Before leaving the Feltons, however, I may here observe that in the old Pedigree of the Wodehouse family, quoted by Blomefield (ii. 542), speaking of Sir Bertram de Wodehouse, temp. Edward I., is this passage, " He married Muriel, daughter and heir of Felton, by whom he had Feltons in Great Massingham, and Feltons or Hemegreves in Fordham, in Cambrido-e- shire, besides several other manors and a vast estate. " Hamo Loed Felton in a ruby field Two Uons passant ermine crowned gold." How little are these ancient Pedigrees worthy of confidence ! The manor of Felthams, not Feltons, in Great Massingham did not come into the Wodehouse family until near two centuries later. 4 Reg Heydon, 168. 5 Blomefield, vii. 180. THE FITZ-ALAN FIEF. 157 The earlier descents of the Feltons are involved in some obscurity. The following is given by Banks. — Baronia Concentrata, vol. i. 204, ex Segar's MSS. in Coll. Arms. Pagan de Felton I WiUiam, 25 Edw. I. WUUam, summ. to Parl.=p 16 Edw. III., ob. 41. T i John, set. 28. Roger, or Robert, 10 Edw. Lt3. I l ' Robert, sum. to Pari. 6 and 7 =r • Edw. II. i ' John.=F SU Thomas, E.G., temp.=f= Joan. Edw. III., slain 4 Ric. " n.T I Thomas. Sibyl. — .... Harsley. Margaret, mar Hengrave. This it will be seen differs in many respects from that printed by Lord Arthur Hervey in his Paper on Playford and the Feltons, which is taken from Davy's Suffolk Collections (Additional MSS. 19, 129, fo. 120). Some of the descents however have, I conceive, been there misplaced in the printing ; I therefore do not follow it. Raymond Fitz Payne, filius Pagani, was an attesting witness to a charter of Thomas Fitz Herlewyn de Gatelea to Norwich Priory. There was a possible derivation of the Feltons from Le Strange to be found in Mr. Eyton's work which may be mentioned here. One of the Le Stranges named Hugh, with his brother John, were witnesses to a charter of Guy le Strange in 1174. Hugh was dead in 1240, and his inheritance in Shropshire divided amongst females, being held under John le Strange of the Fitz Alan fief. In 1255 the persons representing these females, but whether sons or husbands of four cohieresses of Hugh le Strange is not known, were — 1. Richard de Drayton ; 2. WilHam Fitz Alan, or son of Alan de Drayton ; 3. John Fitz Phillip ; 4. Philip de Hungefort. Richard de Drayton was dead before 1292, and Thomas de Felton was his heir. Stephen, son and heir of Thomas de Felton and Sibil his wife, was born in 1281. But neither these Draytons or Feltons seem to belong to Norfolk. Pedigree. Pagan, of Upper Felton,=p co. Northumberland. WiUiam Fitz Pagan or De Felton,= s. and h., Uving 25 Edw. I. 1297 and 5 Edw. II. 1311, Sheriff of Northum berland, Governor of Bamborough Castle 9 Edw. II. 1315. SU John de Felton, Knt. s. and h. aged 28 years 41 Edw. III. 1367. Roger or Robert de "Felton,1 or Fitz Pagan, 10 Edward I. 1282, 25 Edw. I. 1297. Sir Robert de Felton, Kt.' s. and h., Governor of Scarborough Castle 5 Edw. II. 1311, summon, to Parliament 6 and 7 Edw. II., slain at Stirling, Scotland, 1314. (b) - MatUda, da. of [John le Strange of Knokyn] Uving 9 Edw. II. (c) («) 158 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Sir John de Felton, Kt.=f= s. and h., Governor of Alnwick Castle 8 Edw. II. 1314. _(«) 1 ; — ;r; ~ — ~ : — : :; r -i Hamon de Felton, Kt.=p Margaret, da. of Sir Thomas Felton,=^= Joan, da. of SU Richard Edmund, (d) eldest son, ob. 1379. K.G., ob. 2 April, ob. 42 Edw. III. 4 Ric. II. 1381. Walkfare, Uving 8 Ric. II. 1384. r 1 — i John Breton of = Mary Felton, Mary Felton,= SU Edmund SibU Felton,= Sir Thos. Morley. Witchingham. da. and hr. da. and coh. aged 25, Hemgrave of da. & coh. aged 1381, marr. 21y to Mutford, Kt. 23, 1381. Sir John Curson of ob. 1374. — Beckhall. Alienor, 3 da. &== SU Robert de coh. Uving 1393 Ufford, Knt. of a widow. Wrentham. (e) (b) In the printed Pedigree to Flay ford and the Feltons this Robert is placed as a son of William Fitz Pagan. It gives two sons, Adam and WiUiam, to Robert Fitz Pagan, of the former of whom it makes SU WiUiam de Felton, who was summoned to Parliament 16 Edward III., 1342, and died 40 Edward III., 1363, a grandson, with numerous other issue. (c) Lord Arthur Hervey does not give his authority for inserting the name of John le Strange as the father of Matilda. (d) In that Pedigree is here inserted the name of Edmund de Felton as another son of Sir John, and from him the Feltons of Coddenham, afterwards of Playford in Suffolk, are derived ; but, as Lord Arthur Hervey truly remarks, this would be wholly inconsistent with the fact of failure of the male Une of SU Robert de Felton upon the death of Sir Thomas, K.G. Sir Edmund, from whomsoever descended, was living 1364. His eldest son and heU, Sir Thomas de Felton, was Chief Justice of Chester, and had an only daughter and heir, EUzabeth, married to Thomas Lord Hoo and Hastings. John Felton called le Chapman, another son of Sir Edmund, living 1365, married Agnes daughter of Roger le Deneys, from whom the Feltons of Playford were ultimately descended. (?) By this marriage Alianor had three daughters only. HARSICIC, TENANTS OF DUNHAM. That portion of the Fitz Alan fief which comprised Dunham was, we have seen, enfeoffed in Sir Eudo de Arsick or Harsick by the service of one knight's fee. He is styled Castellan of Castle Acre, in which office he succeeded his father, who was a retainer of the Earl Warren, and received from that earl a grant of South-Acre. By that service Alice Arsick, widow of Eudo, held Dunham 20 Henry III. of the Honor of Mileham, and in 3 Edward I. Roger Arsyk, as lord of Dunham, claimed view of frank pledge and all liberties and privileges appertaining to the manor as a member of Mileham. In 2 Edward II. John de Harsyck and Christian his wife had a grant of free warren • 6 and Parkins supposes Christian to have afterwards become the wife of Thomas de Bitterino-. In this family the manor of Great Dunham continued until 1454, when by the marriage of Jane, one of the daughters and coheirs of Sir Roger Harsick, to Richard Dorward, third c Bot. Chart, u. 43. THE FITZ-ALAN FIEF. 159 son of John Dorward, Esq., of Booking in Essex, it fell to her share of the inheritance, and through their daughter and sole heir passed to a branch of the Wingfields of Lether- ingham in Suffolk, who resided at the manor-house there, called Dunham Hall. The uninterrupted descent of this manor through the Harsicks, Dorewards, and Wingfields for 350 years is shewn by the Pedigree. It appears to have been sold by the trustees of Roger Wingfield in 6 Elizabeth, with Rouse's Manor. The Harsick Pedigree is derived chiefly from the Harl. MS. 1552, p. 5 b. That of Wingfield of Dunham from three distinct MSS., each in some respect differing from the other, viz., the Yisitation of 1563, Harl. MS. 1177, Camden's Yisitation of Hunts in 1613, edited by Sir H. Ellis for the Camden Society, and from the Harl. MS. 6071, p. 177, " 5ta familia Wingfeld de Dunham." I give in the appendix to this section copies of two deeds, both without date : the first by which Eudo Arsic, the second of that name, granted to God and St. Mary Magdalene upon the causeway between Lenn and Geywode, — an hospital which had been founded there in the reign of King Stephen for the relief of poor people, — for his own soul and that of Alice his wife, sixteen acres of land in the field of Dunham, of which seven acres lay in Wlnozedale, between land of Robert de Kemeston and land of Mabil, wife of John Pitt ; other seven acres lay next land of John, Priest of Thursford, land of John son of Robert, and land of said Eudo ; one acre, which Symon, Priest of Dunham, held at Wymundespit or Symundespit; and the remaining acre was William's, son of Roger de Dunham ; together with a fold-course for 250 sheep, and common of pasture in Dunham. This is witnessed by John de Dunham, Richard le Rus, Symon de Wendlinge, Nicholas, parson of West lechesham, Jordan, parson of Dunham, Thomas Edeline, John de Oxewic, Robert, Mayor of Lenn, and others. A fragment only is left of the seal, which has a mutilated impression of a quartered coat of arms within a circle. The second quarter, the only one remaining, has the bearing of four annulets in saltire. By the other deed, Alicia, late wife of Eudo Arsic, in her widowhood, granted to the hospital, discharged from all secular service, twenty-one acres and one rood of land in the field of Dunham, viz., the seven acres in Wlnothesdele between the land there of Maude de Kemestune and that of Mabil late wife of John Pitt ; the seven acres next land of John, priest of Thyrsford ; the one acre held by Symon, priest of Dunham, at Symondespit ; and the one acre which was of William, son of Roger de Dunham ; being the same sixteen acres comprised in her husband's gift; and in addition two acres of land between the way called Strategate and land of Gilbert Trig, abutting on land of John, son of Robert of Est lekesham; two acres and a half more in the tenure of Richard de Spinei; and three perches which Rayner Hoche formerly held between land of Helewise de Dunham and land of William, clerk of Kemestun; together with the foldcourse and common pasture for sheep in Dunham. Amongst the witnesses to this latter deed occur the names of John, son of Alan de Dunham, William, son of the Knight of West lekesham, Alan Ruffus, Richard le Rus, Roger le Strange of Frawesham, Gilbert of the other Frawesham, Godfrey, son of the Knight of Frawesham, William de haye in Frawsham. 160 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. The charters of Eudo Arsic and Alice his widow to Castleacre Priory, confirming the gift of Hervey Canis her father and making other benefactions, have been printed amongst other charters extracted from the Chartulary of that house. — Supra, pp. 122, 123. Pedigree of Harsick of Southacre. Eudo Arsick, : Castellan of Castle Acre. SU Eudo Arsick. CasteUan of Castle Acre. ob. 17 Sept. 1241. Alice, da. of ...... Wotshall [Hervey Canis], surv. occ. 20 Hen. III. SU Alexander Arsick, ^= CecUy, da. of son & heU, occ. 1239. .... Jernegan. Rowland,spent all. Hervy. Eudo. Sir Roger Harsick, occ. 3 Edw. I. Sir John Harsick,T= Margery, da. of 20 Edw. III. WUl dat. 14 Nov. 1381, buried at Southacre. (a) . Driby, reUct of Symon Doyley. Margery,wife to Sir Rog. Holt. Sir John Harsick,=f= Katherine, da. to ob. 6 Sept. 1384, bur. at Southacre. SU Bartholomew Calthorpe by EUz. his wUe, da. & hr. of SU John Gest- ingthorpe. 2. Rowland =p Harsick. J Christian, da. and hr. mar. Rogerus Arsyk de Magna Dunham pro terris in est Runton. — Fines Norf. 52 Hen. III. n. 73. John Harsyk, mUes, et Xtiana uxor, pro manerio Bokenham HaU. — Fin. Norf. 16 Ed. III. n. 31. Johes Arsyke, mUes, et Katherina uxor, pro terris in Calthorpe. — Fin. Norf. 48 Ed. III. n. 82. r Sir John Harsick,=p Agnes, da. & coh. son and heU. Eudo. Brian. of SU Wm. Calye of Oby. Robert le Strange,1 surnamed de Tymworth, Lord of Tymworth, 21 Edw. III. SirBogerHarsick,=F AUce, da. of ob. 1453. (c) Nicholas Witchingham, Esq. of Fishley, ob. 1458. (d) WilUamHarsick,dweltwith the LadyMorley. John le Strange, =p Elizabeth. Lord of Brockley, co, Suff. 15 Ric. II'. • Mabilla. wife to Hen. Walpole.Catherin, wUe to Ric. Barret of Hichham. sister and h. of Wm. Boteler, s. and h. of Geoffry Boteler of Walden, co. Essex. Thomas =F Agnes le =F Robert Foderinghayof Brockley. cU. 20 Ric. II. Hving 13 Hen. IV., 2 husb. Strange,da. and coh. widow 1432 Mordaunt, of Turvey, co. Beds. 1st husb. EUzabeth, da. and coh. mar. John Warren,s.p. Wm. Doreward,=j= Margery Harsick, Richard Doreward,=r= Jane 2nd son of John Dorward of Essex. eldest da. and coh. 3rd son of John Harsick, Dorward, Serj.-at- da. and law, and Speaker of coh. Dom. Com. - -. (A.) Gerard =p SibiUa. Foderinghay,son and heir 10 Hen. V. Robert Mor daunt, ances tor of Earls of Peterboro. John Doreward,= Margery, da. of of Spains Hall, Essex, John Naunton. only son, ob. ult. Feb. Afterwards mar. 1495, s. p. Sir Jas. Hobart. Elizabeth Doreward,=f= Thomas Fotheringhay, = Margaret, 2 ux. 1 ux. of Brockley, son and hr. Mar. aft. John Drury. Ob; 14 Henry VIL Nicholas Beaupre,=j= Margaret, eld. da. Henry Thoresby,=j= HeUena, 2 da. of Beaupre in Outwell, Norf. ob. 20 Feb. 6 Henry VIII. and coh. ob. 10 Feb. 5 Henry VIII. of Booking, Essex. and coh., after, wUe of Thos. Sharnburn. John de Vere,= Christian, 14th Earl of 3rd da. & Oxford. coh. s p. THE FITZ-ALAN FIEF. 161 (a) By his testament, dated 14th November, 1381, SU John Harsyke (Urected his body to be buried in the Chapel of the Assumption of the blessed Virgin, in the aisle of the parish church of Southacre. Names Katherine, wUe of John Harsyke his son and heU.— Reg. Harsyke, Cur. Ep. Nor., fo. 3. Blomefield says that in 2 Edward III. a charter of free warren in Southacre and Dunham was granted to John de Harsick and Christian his wife. She was probably a second wife and the mother of Rowland. The latter SU- John rebuUt the church of Southacre. (b) The ViU of this SU John is dated on the Wednesday after the Feast of the Dedication of St. John the Baptist in 1384, 8 Richard II. He names Katherine his wUe, his sons Eudo and Brian, besides his eldest son SU John Harsyk, Knt. The effigies of himself and his wife Katherine are in Southacre church, and they are engraved by Gough, plate IviU. 146. In the inscription he is styled third of that name — John. The Harl. MS., 1552, also makes four SU Johns, by giving Katherine Calthorpe as wife to the second John, and Katherine, daughter of SU John Gestynthorpe, to the tlnrd of that name. The visiting herald was probably deceived by the arms of Guestingthorpe impaled with the knight's, but that family of Calthorpe had adopted the arms of Guestingthorpe. (c) Cur. Epi. Nor. Reg. AUeyn, p. 2, fo. 190. In his testament, dated on Sunday after the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, 1452, he directed his body to be buried in the chancel of Southacre before the high altar, giving amongst other legacies to the fabric of the church of the Blessed Mary of Dunham, 13s. 4d. ; to the high altar there, 6s. 8d. ; and to the fraternity of the BleBsed Mary of Dunham, 6s. 8d. ; and names the Lady AUce his wUe. His wUl made at Southacre bears the same date, and mentions Edmund Harsyk his brother and Margery Harsyk his sister ; he thereby giving to the poor of Dunham Magna 6s. 8d. Both were proved at Norwich on 8th April, 1454. Administration of his goods had been previously granted to Alice his reUct on 16th March, 1453. — (D'Ewes.) (d) Her testament is dated 3rd October, 1458. She requests to be buried in the church of the Friars Preachers in Norwich. She gives to the reparation of the church of Blessed Mary of Dunham Magna 8s. ; to Edmund Harsyk £1. 6s. 8d. ; to Geoffrey Broun, Rector of the church of St. Mary of Dunham Magna, 13s. 4d., with other legacies ; and names Dame CecUie Wychyngham her sister. Proved 18th December same year. — Reg. Brusyard, 129. (A.) Sir John Wingfeld of Dunham Magna, Knt.=j= Margaret, daughter and coh, 4th son of SU John Wingfeld of Lethering- ham in Suff. Knt. and EUzabeth Fitz Lewys. of Richard Dorward, Esq. Thomas ' Wingfeld,of Dunham, Esq. : EUzabeth, da. of Thos. Woodhouse of Kimber- ley, Knt. (a) Margaret.= Nicholas Bohun of Chelmondeston, Suff. Alice. w = John CaUbutt of Castle Acre, Norf. w ~1 — I — I Frances. = John Curson of Bastwick, Norf. Esq. Margery. = Anthony Grice of Brodish, Esq. Jane.=.... Gilgant of Ipswich, (d) WUUam =j= Margaret, da. of Wingfeld of Spix- worth, Norff. Thomas Petis- huU (/) of . . . . She remar. Wm. Barret of West- haU, Suff. by whom she had Owen Barret. (») (c) " Father of y' John Calybut who by his wiff Beatrix da. of Rob. Hoogan of Norff. had issue his da. and heir, Susan, wife of Arthur Downing."— Visit. Hunts. (d) Gilgate.— Visit. Hunts. (e) Camden interpolates another daughter, " AUce wiffe of Audley," who is not named in either of the others. (/) Camden gives the name " Pettinghall of Norwich." Y 162 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. (a) Roger (?)=t= Elizabeth, da. Wingfeldof Dunham Esq. Ann.. Kenricke. of JohnGolding of Belchamp St. Paul's, Essex, Knt. John Wingf eld,=p Ann, da. of of Winch, Norf . I Thomas EUzabeth.= Jeffrie Downinge. and of Eston, bur. Jan. 1584. John Wingfeld,= EUzabeth, son and h., s.p. da. of .... — Foster of Edmond Wing- Yorkshire. feld, B.p. — TT- Jane.= : Humfrey Berwicke. Elizabeth.= Thomas, s. & h. of Henry Poole of DicheUng, co. Sussex. "Ill J 3. Ursula.: Townshendof Testerton, Esq. (h) 2. Frances.= . . Attelough, M.n. (i) Thomasine.= Boorde. Anne, died inf. (*) Thomas Wingfeld, slain at Huntingdon tire. 1627, unmar. Anthony Wingfeld, died unmar. Thos. Athow,= Ann, of Beaucham only Well, Serj.- da. and at-law. hr. (g) So the Visitation of 1563. Camden has Eobert. The MS. 6071, which gives the name Thomas, goes on, «' qui Luxuriaj (inquit Demey) patrimonium omne exhausit." The Dunham Register shews that the name was Roger. (h) So Camden. The MS. 6071 makes the wife of this John to be EUzabeth Foster, whom Camden gives to John the nephew as above. (i) In Camden, Arslowe. EUzabeth, wUe of Thomas Winfeild, bur. 16 May, 1545. Joan, daur. of Roger Winfeild, bapt. 29 October, 1539. John, son ,, „ 24 AprU, 1542. Thomas, „ „ 8 September, 1544. Frances, da. „ ,, 9 November, 1545. Edmond, son „ ,, July 9, 1547. Anthony, son of Roger Winfeild, bapt. October 3, 1548. Ursula, da. „ „ 5 May, 1549. Anne, „ „ 2 April, 1551. EUzabeth, „ „ Nov. 7, 1552. Anthony, buried 11 November, 1548. Anne, „ 4 AprU, 1560. Great Dunham Registers. DUNHAM. EVIDENCES PENES CORPORAT. DE LYNN. Hospital of St. Mary Magdalen upon the Causeway between Lynn and Gaywood. Sciant, &c. Quod ego Eudo Arsic concessi, &c. Deo et See Marie Magdalene sup calcetam int' Lenn et Geywode et fratribus ibidem deo servientibus et servienturis pro salutem anim.Ee mee et ancessorum meorum et pro salutem anime Alicie vxoris mee et ancessorum suorum in puram et perpetuam elemosinam solutam et quietam ab omni seculari servicio sexdecim acras terre jacentes in campo de dunham, sciUcet, Septem acras terre in Wlnozedele inter terram Rolandi de Kemeston versus occidentem et terram MabiUe quondam uxoris Johis pist versus orientem et abutat super regalem viam versus aquUonem, et septem acras terre jacentes inter terram Johi presbit'i de thursforde et regalem viam in longitudine et abutat versus occidentem super terram Johis fil Robti et versus orientem super terram dicti Eudonis Arsic, et vnd acra terre quam Symon presbiter de dunham tenuit versus lechesham inter regalem viam apud Wymundespit sive ibi habeatur plus sive minus, et vnam acram terre que fuit WUU fil Rog'i de dunham jacentem inter terram Johis fil Roberti et predictam terram que fuit dicti Symonis presbiteri. Et preterea concessi et dedi predictis fratribus unam faldam ducentarum ovium et quinqueginta habendam et ponendam in eadem terra et comuna pastura de dunham cum ovibus suis comunicare. Ad hec eciam ego Eudo Arsic et heredes mei warantizabimus, &c. Hiis testibus, Johe de dunham, Ricardo Le rus, Symoe de Wenlig'e, Nich. psona de West lechesham, Jordan psona de dunham, Thorn edeline, Johe de oxewic, Robto maiore de lenn, Rog'o Godlam, Petro fre ei", Willo gaphir, Petro fil sirici, Magro Alex' et aliis. THE FITZ-ALAN FIEF. 16 9 On a label a fragment of a round seal in green wax, and about two inches in diameter, charged with a shield, the bearing of which appears to have been quarterly ; in the second quarter (the only one entire) four annulets. [Query, whether a label in chief?] SU Eudo de Arsic or Harsyk died 17th September, 1241.— Blomefield, vii. 77 ; viii. 519. [Deed indented.'] Sciant, &c. Ego Alicia quondam vxor Eudonis Arsic in pura viduitate mea dedi, &c. Deo et HospitaU See Marie Magdalene super calcetam inter Lenn et Geywode et fratribus ibidem deo servientibus et servienturis pro salutem anime mee et antecessorum meorum et omnium fidelum defunctorum in puram et perpetuam elemosinam solutam et quietam ab omne seculari servicio Viginti vnam acras terre et vnam rodam in campo de Dunham vid' septem acras terre in Wlnothesdele jacentes inter terram Maude de Kemestune versus occidentem et terram MabiUe quondam uxoris Johis Pitt versus orientem et abuttat super regalem viam versus aquilonem, et septem acras terre jacentes inter terram Johis psbri de thyrsford et regalem viam, et vnam acram terre quam Simo psbf de Dunham tenuit versus Lekesham iuxta regalem viam apud Symundespit sive ibi habeatur plus sive minus, et vnam acram terre que fuit Wilh fil' Rog'i de Dunham jacentem inter terram Johis fil Robt et dictam terram que fuit dicti Symonis presbiteri de Dunham, et duas acras terre jacentes inter viam que vocatur Strategate et terram GUberti Trig et abuttat super terram Johis fil Rob' de Est Lekesham, et duas acras terre et dimidiam quas Ric de spinei tenuit et tres percatas terre Reynerus [?] Hoche quondam tenuit jacentes inter terram Helewise de Dunham et terram WiUi clerici de Kemestun. Et preterea vnam faldam ducentarum ovium et quinquaginta habendam et ponendam in eadem terram et in comunem pasturam de Dunham cum ovibus suis comunicare. Et ego, &c. In cujus, &c, sigUle mee impressionem apposui. Hns testibus Johe fil AUa de Dunham, WiUo fil miUtis de West lekesh', Alano Ruffo, WiUm Tybi, Alano de Rokeshale in pagrave, Alan fil. Philippi de pagrave, WiUo fil. Rob de Pagrave, Ric. le Rus, Rogo Le Strange de Frawesh', GUib de aUa frawsh', Godefrido fil. miUtis de frawsh', WiUo de haye (Saye ?) in Frawsh', Kuneyno de Stowe, et aUis. To this is appended an oval seal of green wax, about 1\ in. by 1 in., with the device of a fox (?), surrounded by legend, partly broken — gillvm aelic y 2 164 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. t tel nf gkjjmnnb's Jfirf. FROM TENURES TEMP. EDWARD I. 1301—5. MS. A. (a). Johes de Dunham tenet in Dunham parva unam quartam feodi miUtis de Johe Breton et idem de Robto fiUo Rogeri et idem de Rege. (b). Heredes WiUi de Boteler et parcenarii sui tenent in Lucham, Runham, et Fraunsham unum feodum militis de heredibus Henrici de Skeyton et idem de Johe Gatysden et iUe de comite Warren unde Ricardus Marche tenet quartam partem de Rogo Extraneo et iUe de Johe et tenetur de manerio de Lyng per servicium xld. p ann. et iUe de Comite Rychemonde et ille de Rege. Idem heres ten. in eadem Uja ptem unius feodi miUtis de Robto fiUo Rogeri et idem de Rege. (c). Egidius de Hulmo tenet in Mylham unum feodum mUitis de Robto fiho Rogeri et iUe de comite Cornubiee et iUe de Rege. (d). Ricus de Burwode tenet in Mylham unum feodum miUtis de manerio de Lyng p servicium xs. p ann. et idem manerium de Lyng tenetur de Com. Rychmond et idem de Rege. MS. B. (a). Dunham. Johes de Dunham tenet in Dunham p unam quart, feodi miUtis de Johe Breton et idem de Robto fiHo Rogeri et idem de Rege. (b). Lycham. Heredes Wilh. de Boteler tenent terciam partem, &c, de Robto fil' Roger et iUe de Rege. (c). Myleham. Edus de Hulmo tenet dimidiam feodi in Myleham de Robto fiUo Rogeri et idem de Rege. (d). Desit. MS. C. (a). Johes de Dunham tenet in Dunham pva unam quart feod mil' de Johne de Bretoun et iUe de Robto fiUo Rogeri. (b). Idem Heredes [WiUi de Boteler] tenent terciam partem feodi in eadem [Rougham et Fraunsham] de Robto fiUo Rogeri et iUe de Rege. (c). Egidius de Hulmo tenet dimid feod mU' in Myleham de Robto fiho Rogeri et idem de Rege [pdict dimid feod modo est in manu Will. Capell mil. addit temp. Henry VIII.'] (d). Desit. THE EARL OF RICHMOND'S FIEF. 165 MESNE TENANTS. FITZ EOGER HE knight's fee in Mileham which belonged to the Honour of Richmond was, while the earldom was in the possession of the Crown under an early forfeiture, separated from it and granted, with the manor of Lyng, to one of the family of Caineto or Cheney, lords of Horsford.1 King Stephen gave the hundreds of Taverham and Forehoe and manor of Hingham, with other manors in the county, to William Fitz Robert, called de Cheyney, in exchange for Mileham,8 but with the condition that if he, William, or his son, liked Mileham better he might retain it, and so he did. This William was the son of Robert Fitz Walter de Cadomo, founder of Horsham Priory, by his wife Sibil, sister and coheir of John de Cheney, only son and heir of Ralf de Caineto or Cheney, lord of Horsford and Lyng. Robert Fitz Roger, who held Mileham circa 1301 — 5, was great-grandson of Robert Fitz Roger, Baron of Warkworth in Northumberland, by Margaret his wife, widow of Hugh de Cressi, and daughter and heir of William de Cheney before named.3 Under him the fee in Mileham was returned as in the tenure of Giles de Hulme, and afterwards as in the tenure of Richard de Burwode; but there is much variation in the different books of tenures or feodaries of that time which I cannot attempt to reconcile, and I can only refer to the extracts from them preceding this.* The lands in Rougham which he held as belonging to this fief were then subinfeuded in WilKam de Botiler or his heirs, but of these Robert Fitz Roger was said to be tenant in chief, as he was of a fourth part of a knight's fee in Dunham held of him by John Breton, the Earldom of Richmond being at this time in the king's own hands. Robert Fitz Roger was a year and a half old at the time of his father's death in 1249.5 He was summoned to Parliament from 2nd November, 23 Edward I., 1295, to 16th June, 4 Edward II., 1311, in which year he died, being called Dominus de Clavering. John his son and heir, also called de Clavering, who was summoned to Parliament as well during his father's lifetime as after, died about the 5th Edward III. ; but he had previously, Blomefield says 14 Edward II., conveyed his estates, including the manor of Lyng,6 to Sir Walter de Norwich. One Sir Alexander de Clavering presented to Lyng Rectory in 1304 and 1305, and Dame Joan his widow in 1317. Blomefield considers him to have been the eldest son and heir of Sir Robert Fitz Roger, and Sir John, the younger brother of Sir Alexander ; and he says that the lady Joan had a life interest in that manor at the time of the sale to Sir Walter de Norwich, which she conveyed to him. 1 Blomefield, viii. 249. s Ib. 433. I presume MUeham is meant, but Blomefield says Moleham. 3 V. supra, p. 70. i MSS. A, E, and C, ut supra. 5 Inq. p.m. Roger Fitz John, 33 Hen. III., n. 66.— Cal. gen. p. 26. 6 Fines, 14 Ed. II. n. 82—89. 166 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Pedigree. Robert Fitz Walter,=j= Sybil, da. of Ralf founder of Horsham Priory, temp. Hen. I. de Cheyney, sister and heU of John. Roger, s.p. JohnVicecomes, rms : Or, two chevrons gu s.p.m. es. WUUam Fitz Robert,=j= GUla. als. de Cheyney, lord of Horsford, Uving 2 Hen. II. , sometimes caUed WUl. de Norwich. Hugh de Cressi,=p Margaret, (a) to =j= 2nd, Robert Fitz Clementia." lst husband living 1186. whom her sisters released, Uving 1217. Roger de Cressi,=j= Isabel, da. of Hubert Roger, Baron of Warkworth,founder of Lang- ley Abbey, ob. 1214. = Jordan de SackvUle. Sarah.= Richard Engayne. ob. 1245 de Rye, ob. 1263. John Fitz Robert,1 ob. 1240. Hugh de Cressy, ob. 47 Henry III. 1262, [mar. Isabel, bastard daur. of Beginald de Cres sy (b), who sur vived & after mar. Robert le Blund.] Stephen = Ermentrude. de Cressy, Mar. afterwards brother and WUl. de heU of Stutevile. Hugh, set. 40, 47 Hen. III. Roger Fitz John,=j= ob. 1249, 33 Henry III. Roger de Clavering,= Beatrice. s.p. Alan de Clavering, 28 years old in 1307. Robert Fitz Roger,1 sum. to Parliament 2 Nov. 23 Edw. I. to 4 Ed. II. Ob. 1311. Anns Quarterly, or and gules, a bend sable. John Fitz Robert,^ caUed de Clavering, ob. 1332. • Hawisia, da. and hr. of Robert de Tiptoft. EUen.= John Engaine. Eva, only da. and hr. had four husbands, v. post. (a) Dicunt qd Marg'ia de Cressy est de don. dni. Regis terra sua in hoc hundr' (Estleg) val. xx1', vidua est. — De dominabus, Test, de Nev. 366. (b) Persona ecclesiarum. — Esc. 47 Henry III. 104. Ut supra, Eva, da. and hr. of John de Clavering. 1st husband, SU Thomas de Audley, ob. s.p. 2nd husband, Sir Thomas de Ufford, mar. 9 Mar. 2 Ed. II. 3rd husband, SU James de Audley. 4th husband, SU Robert de Benhal. 1 Sir John de Ufford. 2. Sir Robert de Ufford. 3. SU Edmund Ufford.=j= Sibil, da. of Sir WUl prov. 3 Oct. 1374, Simon Pierpoint. bur. at Langley Abbey. 4- (A.) THE EARL OF RICHMOND'S FIEF. 167 Sir Robert de Ufford died seized of West Lexham 35 Edw. III. as parcel of the Barony of Robert Fitz Roger. Sir Robert de Ufford = of Wrentham, Suff. in ward to Isabel de Coucy, Duchess of Bedford, 4 Edward III. 1375, knighted before 11 June, 1381, Uving 7 Jan 1389, ob. 1400, buried at Langley. : Alienor, 3rd da. and coheU of SUThos. Felton, K.G. of Litcham, Norf. Seneschal of Aquitaine, Uving his widow 17 Ric. II. 1393. Ela, mar. Richard Bowett, ob. 1400, bur. at Wrentham. Topographer, vol. U. 270. SibU, a nun at Barking. Joan.=i= 1, Sir Wm. Bowett, of Wrentham 4- 9 Hen. TV. 1421, bur. at Langley. = 2, SU Henry Inglose of Inglose in Loddon, mar. before 10 Hen. VIII. 1422. WiU 20 June, 1451. Sir Walter de Norwich was Remembrancer of the Exchequer in 35 Edward I., and became one of the Barons in 1311, 5 Edward II., Treasurer in 1314, and Chief Baron 1320, which appointment he held until his death in the 3rd of Edward III.6 He was succeeded in his estates by Sir John de Norwich, his eldest son, who was Vice- Admiral of England, and who was summoned to Parliament in 16 and 34 Edward III. In 1350, or according to Tanner, 1343, he founded at Raveningham (which manor had been conveyed to him, Dame Katherine his mother, and Remigius de Hederset her brother, with the services of Sir Gregory de Castello for the same, in 6 Edward III.) a college for secular canons to pray for his soul and that of Margaret his wife. This college was moved, first in 1387, to Norton Subcors, and again in 1393 to the castle of Mettingham in Suffolk, for which license had been granted to the executors under the will of Sir John de Norwich, the grandson, in 1382. He had in 1373 conveyed the manor and advowson of Lyng to trustees to settle it upon this college, who in 1382, after some difficulties respecting the establishment of it had been removed, settled the same accordingly. The lordships in Mileham and Rougham, purchased by Sir Walter de Norwich from the Claverings, evidently accompanied that of Lyng. Thus we find that the half of a knight's fee in Mileham, which, temp. Edward I., had been held of Robert Fitz Roger, and temp. Edward III. of John de Norwich, and which in 3 Henry IY. was returned as held of the heirs of John de Norwich, was by subsequent inquisitions found to be held of the College of Mettingham ; so also was the third part of a fee in Rougham, which had also been parcel of the same fief. The heirs of John de Norwich are shewn in the following Pedigree. Sir Walter de Norwich, =7= Katherine, da. of SU John of Mettingham Castle, Baron of the Exchequer temp. Edw. II., ob. 3 Edw. III. (b) Hederset and reUct of Peter Braunche. (a) (b) Esc. 3 Edward III., n. 58. Inq. p.m. 3 Edward III., u. 58. 168 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. (a) Alice, da. of = SU John de Norwich, =f Margaret, da. William de Huntingfeld. son and h. aged 20, 3 Edward IIL, of Metting ham Castle, founder of the college, summoned to Parliament 16 and 34 Edw. IIL, ob. 36 Edw. III. 1362. (b) ofMortimer of Attleborough. Sir Thomas de=f= Norwich, mort, 1371 SU Roger de Norwich, ob. 1371, s.p. SU Walter de Norwich, : ob. p.v. -¦ Margaret da. of SU MUes Stapleton, living 1373. (c) Catherine, — . cousin and hr. of SU John de Norwich, jun.. died a nun at Deptford, 3 Ric. II. 1380, s.p. (d) Margaret, mar. 1, SU Thos. Cailly.2, Sir Rob. de Ufford Earl of Suffolk.CeciUa, mar. SU Roger de Huntingfeld. de Brewse. Sir John de Norwich = AUanor, da. of Richd. of Mettingham, succeeded Fraunceys, Uving 1374 his grandfather, 1362, aged his widow. 14 ao.. 40 Edw. III., ob. 1373, 48 Edw. III. s.p. (e) (b) Esc. 50 Edward IIL, n. 46. (c) Esc. 7 Richard II., n. 32. (d) Inq. p.m. 3 Richard II., n. 14. (e) Inq. p.m. 48 Edward IIL, u. 52, his mother then Uving in possession of the lands which would have been his inheritance had he Uved. Before his passage over sea on the king's service, with WilUam de Ufford Earl of Suffolk, viz., on 6th June, 47 Edward IIL, he confirmed to SU John Plais, SU Robert Howard, and Sir Robert Boys, Knights, his castle of Mettingham, &c, as trustees. Upon the death of Catherine de Brewse without issue in 3 Richard II., WilKam de Ufford, Earl of Suffolk, was found her heir as son of Margaret de Norwich, who was Catherine's aunt, the issue of Cecilia de Huntingfeld, her other aunt, having failed. But as the fees now under consideration had become vested in Mettingham College, I need not pursue that descent. The college followed the fate of other religious houses in the time of the Eighth Henry, and the Manor of Lyng, with most of its other possessions, was granted to Sir Anthony Denny. Whether the manors of which we are now treating were part of the possessions so granted I have not found ; but neither Mileham nor Rougham are mentioned in the Valor Ecclesiasticus as such. Their value, however, as mesne seignories would have been but nominal. THE SUB-TENANTS OF MILEHAM. The tenant of Robert Fitz Roger in Mileham in the reign of Edward I. was named De Hulmo. One of this family had probably been a retainer of one of the Earls of Richmond. We find that James, son of Henry de Hulmo, held lands in Wissingsett, of the grant of Thomas Burd of the Richmond fief. An inquisition was taken by command of King Edward I., in his third year, by Sir Robert de Hulmo and two other knights, by the oaths of twelve jurors of the Hundred ; THE EARL OF RICHMOND'S FIEF. 169 and in their returns to the several heads of inquiry, they say that Sir Robert de Hulmo claimed to have franchises in Wyresthorp in the parish of " Melam " from the time of the Conquest. I do not find the name of Wyresthorp afterwards. And in reply to the inquiry as to those who had used the power of office to inflict malicious injury, it was found by the jurors that the bailiff of the Lord Peter of Savoy, at Mileham had extorted of Sir Robert de Hulm assize of bread and ale, which the said Robert had in Wyresthorp in Melam, and had appropriated the same to the Lord Peter for twenty years past. Also that the bailiff of the Hundred had taken a horse in the fee of Sir Robert de Hulm, which he retained for. part of his office, until the men of the said Robert should give him 6s. 8d., and this in the time of King Henry ; and he had also seized in the fee of Sir Robert ten milch cows, and driven them to the house of John le Strange, and then kept them for nine days in virtue of his office. The jurors likewise said that Ralf Brodoke, the castellan, had taken a horse of Sir Robert de Hulm, in his fee at Melam, and kept the same in his team for seven days as part of his office. And to another inquisition, made by command of the king in the same year, amongst other returns it was found that Robert de Hulmo for his tenants in Bytteresthorp (? Wy- theresthorp) had assize of bread and ale, and held view of frank-pledge. — Rot. Hund. The reason of the grievances of Sir Robert de Hulme occupying so large a portion of these inquisitions may doubtless be accounted for by the fact of his being one of the royal commissioners. In one MS. feodary of that reign, which I have assumed as dating between 1301 and 1305, Edward de Hulmo is said to hold half a knight's fee in Myleham of Robert Fitz Roger, the tenant in capite ; l and in another copy of the same,3 Egidius de Hulmo is named as the subtenant, who in the 5th Edward II. is described as lord of manors in Myleham and Tytelshale. In the Museum copy 3 of this feodary, after stating that Giles de Hulmo held this fee of Robert Fitz Roger, and he under the Earl of Cornwall, who held of the king, it is stated that Richard de Burwode held in Myleham one knight's fee of the manor of Lyng by service of ten shillings per annum, which said manor of Lyng was held of the Earl of Rychmond, who held of the king. This, of course, was an entry made after the compilation of the feodary. In the assessment for the aid for knighting the Black Prince, 20 Edward IIL, 1346, the same, again described as a half fee, was held by Richard de Burghwode of Sir John de Norwich, the then tenant in chief. And in the assessment for the aid levied on the marriage of the daughter of Henry IV., 1402, it was held by Roger Bechamp, Knt., of the heirs of John de Norwich. This family of de Hulmo or Holme appears to have derived from Holme Hale in the hundred of South Greenhoe. In 8 Richard I., Ralf de Verb" levied a fine of land in Snettisham late of Cecilia de Holme his mother.* The Verbs manor in Pickenham i MS. B. 2 MS. C. 3 MS. A. 4 Amicia petent Ralf de Verli tenant of land now of CeciUa de Hume (Hulm) mother of said Ralph, in Hulm and Snettisham, for %\ marks of sUver.— Fin. 8 Richard II., n. 66. Z 170 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. extended into Holme Hale. Sir Gyles de Hulmo, son of Sir Robert de Hulmo by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Richard Aguillon, was lord of Filby in Flegg hundred, and he also held half a knight's fee in Holme Hale and Swaffham in 24 Henry IIL, 1239, of Robert Fitz Roger, who held of the Earl of Richmond; and this was then held under Sir Gyles by Olive de Aula Sir Robert de Hulmo, the Commissioner of Edward I., above named, was the son of Sir Gyles and the father of another Sir Gyles de Hulmo, who with Joan his wife occurs in the 18th of that reign, but died without issue, leaving Alice his sister and heir, who married John de Plumstead, living 1324. Their daughter and heir Alice married Sir Edmund de Illey. In 1304 Ralf de Holme of Wyssingsett was rector of Wellingham, presented by John and Clementia le Strange. In 20 Edward III. (1346) Stephen de Titeshale and Richard de Burghwood held the manor in Hohne Hale late of Giles de Hulmo, and in 1367 Alianora de Burghwode had one-third part of Filby. Robert de Burwode was Rector of Holm in 1340, in the patronage of Richard, and on his resignation in 1352 John de Titeshale was instituted on the presen tation of Stephen de Titeshale. Whether this Richard de Burghwood succeded De Hulmo . by descent or purchase I find not ; at all events he gave the manor in Mileham his name, which it retains to the present day. The transcript of the feodary of Edward I., made in the time of Henry VIIL, saye of this half fee, in addition, " modo est in manu Willi Capel mil." It is now in the possession of Sir William Capell, Knight. On the 6th Sept., 7 Henry VIIL, Sir William Capell was found to die seised of the manor of Burghwode, and three messuages, 300 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, 40 acres of pasture, 120 acres of wood, and 40s. rent in Myleham, Tyttleshale, and Byston, held of the master and brethren of Metyngham, formerly of John de Norwich, but by what service the jurors did not know.5 Blomefield tells us it was conveyed to Sir William Capel by fine in the 4th of Henry VIII. by John St. John and Joan his wife, previously to which, 14 Henry VL, it was in the tenure of Sir Roger Shotesbrook ; and in the 1st of Edward VI. Sir Henry Capel and Anne his wife conveyed it by fine to Roger Townsend. None of which statements I can either prove or disprove. In the 9th and 10th Henry VII. the escheator for Norfolk accounted to the Crown for the issues of the manor of Lucham after the death of Sir Roger Townsend, Knt., (which occurred 9th Nov. 1493) held of the Countess of Richmond, as of the manor of Burghwood Hall in Mileham, parcel of the Honour of Richmond. I do not find that the Townshends had any manor in Lutcham (Litcham). The Roger Townshend who was living in 1 Edward VI. was apparently the grandson of Sir Roger who died 9 Henry VII. Blomefield says that Burghwood manor was conveyed, 1st of Philip and Mary, by George Townsend and Alice his wife to Robert Coke. Of the territorial possessions of the Capels, Townshends, and Cokes, in the Hundred, I shall fully treat hereafter. 5 Inq. p.m. 7 Henry VIII. n. 5. THE EARL OF RICHMOND'S FIEF. 171 SUB-TENANTS OF EOUGHAM. In the Domesday Survey lands belonging to this fief are mentioned both in Rougham and Wesenham. I do not find afterwards that the Honour of Richmond included any in the latter place, but Lutcham and Fransham are both named as dependencies, and there must have been in the interval exchanges both with Warren and Fitz Alan. In one of the MS. feodaries of Edward I., where the heirs of William de Boteler are stated to hold one knight's fee in Lucham, Runham,6 and Fraunsham, of the Earl Warren's fief, part of which was held of the manor of Lyng, as of the Earl of Richmond, the same heirs are said to hold there the third part of a knight's fee of Robert Fitz Roger. In another MS. this third is in Lytcham only, and in a third MS. Rougham and Fransham again are named.7 In the 20th of Edward III. John atte Green and John atte Doune held this third part of a fee of the manor of Horsford, then in the tenure of Ralf de Nevill ; and in the 3rd of Henry IV. it was returned as held of the manor of Horsforde, which was part of the Honour of Richmond, by Ralf Bedingham and John Yelverton. The manor of Rougham, of which William Yelverton died seised in 11 Henry VIIL, was found to be held of the college of Metyngham by fealty only, and an annual rent of 3s. Ad. 8 ; but it is not mentioned in the subsequent inquisitions of the Yelverton estates. That family will require a separate notice. And in writing about the sub-tenants of the Warren fief, as I shall have to speak of the Botelers and succeeding lords of Rougham, it is unnecessary to say more about them now. Robert Fitz Roger had also a quarter of a fee in Great Dunham, but it formed no part of the original Richmond fief. MESNE TENANTS. Mesne tenants of Horningtoft and Kipton, owing service of ward to Richmond castle, in the time of Henry IIL, were the Tatteshalls of Buckenham castle, who before the close of the followino- reign were the tenants in chief, holding immediately of the Crown. From them the fief descended to the Cailys as shewn in the following Pedigree. A 2nd wife,== Robert de TattesaU, Lord=f= AmabUia or Mabel da. and coh. of Hugh de da. of Jo.' of Buckenham Castle, ob. AThini. -Ra.rl nf Arundel, rrin n-f Will Ho de Grey. ' 1248.— Inq. p.m. 33 Hen III. Albini, Earl of Arundel. [Da. of WUl. de Albini, 3rd Earl of ArundeU and sister and coh. of WUl. and Hugh.] SU Robert de Tatesale, =f Joan 2nd and posthumous da. and coh. of s and h aged 26, 33 Hen. HI. I Ralf Fitz Ranulf, lord of Middleham co. o'b. 1 Edw. I. 1272. York, Uving 34 Edw. I. (a) 6 For Ruhham or Rougham. ' Supra p. 164. B Inq. p.m. 11 Hen. VIIL, n. 32. Z 2 172 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. (") SU Robert de =p Joan, da. of Tateshale, s. and h. set. 24, 1 Edw. I. mort. 1297.— Inq. p.m. 26 Ed. I. [a) SU Osbert =f= Emma de NeviU, ob. his widow 9 Ed. ni. de CayUi. 1 Edw, 1. Tateshall, sister of Robert.Mort. 34 Edw. I. SU Robert de : Dryby. :Joan, coh. of Rob. de Tateshale,est. 50, 34 Edw. 1. SU John =j= Isabella, coh. de Orreby. of Robt. de Tateshale,aet. 40, 34 Edw. 1. SU Robert de : Tateshale, ». & h. set. 30, 26 Edw. I. ob. 31 Edw. I. 1303. (4) :Eva, da. of Rob. de Tibetot, mar. to John de Gouet (Cove) bef. 34 E. 1. Sir Thomas de CayUi, = Margaret Margaret de CaylU, =j=SU Roger coh. of Rob. de Tateshale, set. 22, 34 Edw. I., summoned to ParUament by writ, 1309, ob. [1316, s.p.] 10 Edw. II. only sister. de Clyfton. (A.) Robert de Tateshale, = da. of Hugh aet. 15, 31 Edw. I. s. and h. Bardolf. ob. 34 Edw. 1 , 1306, s.p. (a) A partition was made of the lands of Ralf Fitz Ranulf between Robert de Tatesale and others, 54 Henry III. At the time of his death he and Joan his wife held manors in Yorkshire of John de Britannia as of the Honor of his castle of Richmond. He had summons to Parhament as a baron. — Esc. 26 Edward I., n. 40. (b) His death was on Sunday after St. Peter ad Vincula in that year. The writ diem clausit is tested 28th June. Robert his son attained the age of fifteen years on the feast of the Translation of St. Edward the King in the same year. He was seized of the castle and manor of Buckenham, the hundred of Shropham, the manors of Tybenham, Topcroft, &c, and of one-fourth part of the rent of the Tolbothe at Lenne. An extent was made before the escheatoi at Buckenham, on the day after the feast of St. Valentine, in the foUowing, 32nd year, of Edward, to inquire into the true value of his lands, and it is said that Gregory de CasteUo and Hugh de Sprouston held under him one knight's fee in Horningtoft and Kipton, and its yearly value was £15. — Esc. 31 Edward I., n. 40. On the death of the last Robert de Tateshale his demesnes were divided between his three coheirs. The inheritance which would have come to his aunt Emma had she been alive devolving upon Thomas de Cailly her son, who had livery of her portion of the Norfolk estates, and upon his death, unmarried, passing to Sir Adam de Clifton, son of his sister Margaret. The descent of the seignory of Horningtoft and Kipton will appear below. (A.) SU Roger de CUfton. =j= Margaret or Margery, only sister of SU Thomas de CaUli of Buckenham Castle. Sir Adam de CUfton, ¦ set. 9, 10 Edward II., 1316. : Eleanor, da. of SU Roger Mortimer of Attleburgh. Constantine Clifton, =j= Katherine, da. of eld. son, ob. p. v. SU John Clifton : of Buckenham Castle, s. & h, aged 15, 1368, occ. 1376, ob. 1388. Will, de la Pole. = Elizabeth, da. of Ralph Lord Cromwell. Mar. 21y SU Edward Bensted. Sir Adam Clifton ; of Denver, 2nd son, ob. 1411. SU Robert Clifton, : s. and h. (*) w THE EARL OF RICHMOND'S FIEF 173 (») J? Constantine Clifton, = Kt. 16, 1388, occ. 1393, ob. 1395. WiU in Reg. Harsyke. Katherine, da. of Robert Lord Scales, ob. 1432. Thomas CUfton. Sir John CUfton, =p Joane, da. and coh to Edmund aged 1 year, 1395. Will dated 16 Aug. 1447, prov. Sept. 8, 1447 — Reg. Wylby. de Thorpe of Ashwell Thorpe, widow of Sir Rob. Echingham. Elizabeth, =j= Sir John sister and h. of Sir John Clifton. Knevet. AUce. — Sir Andrew Ogard, = Margaret Clifton, ob. 1454. ob. s.p. p. v. In the 30th year of Edward III. a partition was made between Adam de Clifton, as one of the kinsmen and coheirs of Robert de Tatishale, Robert son of William de Bernak, and John son and heir of John de Orrely, when the king assigned to Adam de Clifton, with two knight's fees and one quarter in Brom, one knight's fee with the appurtenances in Hornyngtoft and Kepton, which Nicholas de Castello and Hugo de Sprouston held, and which was estimated at one hundred shillings, and the moiety of a fee in Massingham, which Thomas de Felton held.8 I shall speak of the Knyvetts, to whom the inheritance of the Cliftons devolved upon the death of the last Sir John Clifton, hereafter. UNDER-TENANTS. Under the Tatteshalls, Horningtoft with Kipton and land in Wesenham, were in the reign of King Henry III. possessed by a family named Byhurt, Buhurd, Burd, or Burt. The successors of Aluric the Saxon, as the occupying tenants of Horningtoft, probably assumed that surname; and Le Neve mentions one Hamo, son of David de Horningtoft, whom he considers he has identified with Hamo Burd.1 Referring to Blomefield, under Horningtoft,2 Hamo Buhard or Burt had forty acres of land in this town and Whissyngsete, by fine from Richard de Geel and Andrew and Henry his brothers, in the 10th of Richard I., and Alice their mother released her dower ; and by fine in the 5th of King John the Bishop of Norwich released to him his right of common in Horningtoft. In the 15th year of Henry III. a fine was levied between Thomas Buhurd, querent, and Simon de Rudham and Emma his wife, deforceants, of certain customs and services due and payable for lands in Wesenham Thorpe, payable to ward of Richmond Castle.3 Fines, 5 Johis, Norff. 8 Orig. 30 Edward IIL, Rot. 13. ¦'- Vol. ix. 620. 3 Ib. x. 78. 174 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. In the 18th year of the same reign (1234), Thomas Burd paid one mark for a writ for attaching twelve jurors against Roger de St. Dionis and Sarra his wife, as to tenements in Horningtoft.4 Sir Thomas Burt is witness to a deed of the Prior of Normansburgh in 1227, and also to the charter of William de Stutevile to Castleacre Priory, circa 29 Henry IIL, 1244-5, as was Ralf Burt.5 The name of Sir Hamo Burt stands first amongst the witnesses to a deed, s.d., of tenements in Rainham belonging to Normansburgh ; and, as Sir Hamo Burd of Horning toft, he witnessed a charter of the manors of Gatele and Colkirk in 43 and 44 Henry III.6 (1259), which was the exchange between Sir Richard St. Denys and Sir Richard de la Rokele. Blomefield7 again tells us that Sir Hamo Burt had two sons, Ralph the eldest and Thomas ; which Ralph granted by fine to Thomas his brother, in the 54th of Henry IIL, the manor and advowson of Horningtoft, in consideration of a life annuity of 2J)s. Of the former I find no more ; the latter I suppose to have been the Sir Thomas Burt before named, and who, according to the same authority, circa 1270, entered into an agreement with Peter Buzun, the lord of Wyssingsete, touching the commons ; and who, being then called son and heir of Sir Hamon Burt, granted to James, son of Henry de Hulmo of Wyssingsete, lands in the latter parish. Thomas Burt held his court at Horningtoft in the 3rd year of Edward I.8 In the hundred roll of 3rd Edward I. Thomas de Burt claimed for his land in Hokerin? (Horningtoft?) Uberties and franchises which had been enjoyed therewith from the Conquest; and Thomas de Snitterton9 then claimed the like for his land in Wesenham, held in the name of the dower of OrabeU, who was wife of Sir Hamo Burt. To quote Blomefield again,1 one Roger de la Ware impleaded several persons in 10 Edward I. for lands in Hey Wesenham, Rupham Magna and Parva, and Fransham, as his right, whereof his ancestors had been seised from the time of King John ; and in the 18th year of that reign (1290) Sir Thomas Burt of Horningtoft granted by fine the lordship of Horningtoft, with the advowson of the church, to Nicholas de CasteUo and CecUia his wife ; and the purchase seems to have included land at Wesenham with a mill, on the death of Sir William de la Ware and Arabella his wife, who perhaps was the same person as OrabeU, the widow of Sir Hamo Burt. * Rot. Fin. 265. 5 Castleacre Charters, sup. 124. " MS. Le Neve. 1 Blomefield, ix. 521. " Rot. Cur. in British Museum, Addit. RoUs, n. 1689. 9 Thomas de Snitterton was lord of Taterford, and had also lands in Hunstanton and in Shipdham.— Fines, 15 Edward I., 1 Edward II., 7 Edward II. He was son of Richard de Snitterton by Agatha, daughter and coheU of WiUiam le Veutre of Burnham, where he held under the Lord TattesaU. The Thomas here mentioned may have been of the famUy of Bokenham de Snitterton, in some way connected with Nicholas de CasteUo. 1 Blomefield, x. 78. THE EARL OF RICHMOND'S FIEF. 175 HORNINGTOFT MANOR. FROM COURT-ROLLS AND BAILIFF'S ACCOUNTS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. ADDIT. ROLLS. Temp. Henry III. Ouria tenta apd Hornigtoft die sabt. px ante festam conusiofi Sci. Pauli [s.d.] Leman hare qui questus de PhiUppo fil. Roger', &c venerunt die cjon noctam ad domu Thom fil. Matild px post Ephanam cont1 pacem ipm iusultauint & ipm verbaru'int & male in m'auint ' cont pace, &c. Attingit p inquisone qd WiU. Faber invenit quend lepore submersum inqi» & foss. trasportau't ad domu suum & in mia.2 Thoih Smyth Dno de Hornigtoft & petr. q. no h'unt leman Hare ad cur dct dfio j lib? cerei ad luminacoem sea. mat. de Hornigtoft & pd'eus pet? dat xijd. [Curia in dorso anno regni dfii regis qfigesimo tercio ; another, anno lv. ; Henry IIL] (Addit. Rot. 2019.) Edward I. Apd Hornigtoft die Sci. Edmundi Archiepi. Anno r. r. H. E. pmo incipiente scdo. Roger fil. Ranulphij hcencia habenda ducendi Cunu' fil. Alani in uxore Ujs. pig. Will. Robet. ad Sweyn. Cur. Thome burt apd Hornigt die m'cur px fest. sci. HiUar anno r. r. E. T'cio. Leta apd Horningtoft 1, 2, 4 Edward I. Alexand russol q de MatUd uxor Henr gel. pt. fil. dicti Alexand sunt in m'ia q dct Matilda ub'it iUa I via & ipm die v'ba c'tumeUa ad trufi gpue dapnu r. h. recognovit dict MatUd ovis i ma.". Joh's Welbeloved Ric. le gel. Fca e inquio de tra Johis botesur vt deberet hre ciLu p diebus pcariis t. fi p, &c, diciit q. dt. hre cibu.— (1689.) Hornyngtoft. Compus Henrie' Barker ballavi ibih a festo Sci. Mich'is a" Hen. 6 post Conq. xxxvj'°, usq, &c, xxxvij. Arra. — Sm xxvjs. vhjd Reddit assis. Hornyngtoft and Wyssyngset £3. 18s. T\d. Ward Richni. Et de vs. recept p ann. de tenent custuma? in Hornyngtoft & Wyssingset pt delay ut ps in comp ft p ward Richemond. Feod. firm, sni xxijs. Fyrm ter? & pastur [Thom. Athow] £10. 3s. 6±d. Firm warrenn xxd. Agist, bestiar de Rico Sylvester p iij puU, Thoma Sylvester ij pull, Robti Barker uj pull, John Neele p j puU, pastur in bosco dfii p capite ijd. Is. Gd. Reddit mobil. [Lambs, capons, &c. ; at 2s. for 2 lambs, 3d. a capon, l£d. a hen, 3d. for 50 eggs.] Sma 33s. 4d. S'uicia £8. 19s. 4d. P quis cur. £6. 19s. 7d. Total (with arrears) £35. 6s. 2|d., out of which pd — 1 This is an early instance of the criminal jurisdiction of the Courts Lete, where the jurors entertained a complaint against two men for going to the house of Thomas son of MatUda, and insulted or stamped upon him, beat him, and otherwise Ul-treated him. 2 Here they took cognisance of an offence against the game laws, when they fined WilUam Smith for carrying home a hare, which he found drowned in a ditch. 176 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Acquiet redd. ] In reddit resolut manr de Northelmham 2s. 6d. cu decas. j Man'r de Tofts lid. Maner de Gressenhale p 1 Inclo. voc. Brytecolt & uno Inclo. voc. le Ryght 3d. Itm solut. p ward Richemond in crastiii see. margar p ann. vs. It solut. ballivo hundr de Laundych de fine p respect sect hund? ibih hoc a0 ijd. solut. sen0 eiusdem hundr p ingru eiusdem finis xiujd. Et in decas diyis terrar in Brislee infirm exist xvjd. q. Sm lis. 2jd. E stipen. 6s. 6|d. Expii diii & seneso cur. at 3 courts and 1 lete, 12s. 8d. Vad. baUi 40s. Aleocacoes 8s. ld. Libacoes £26. 5s.— (Addit. Rot. 1773.) Compotus Robti Wryght balhyi, 32 & 33 Hen. 6. (2027). Wardesylu de Wardesi Richemond, viz., in Horningtoft 5s. 10jd., in Wyssingset 2s. ld. [Totheles Croft and TothiU Heath named.] [Other Compotus 2027a and 2027J.J There are a few other points worth notice to be observed in these extracts. One Roger had to pay three shiUings for a Ucense for marrying, and to find a surety for the payment. Leman Hare was fined one shilling for not bringing to the court a pound of wax for the light of the Holy Mother at Horningtoft, to which he was bound by his tenure. Matilda, who of Henry Ged, had flogged a Uttle girl, daughter of Alexander Russel, and greatly ill-used her, in compensation for which she gave a sheep. A tenant who owed day labour was declared to be entitled to have his food on working days. HORNYNGTOFT. Compus Rofcti Wryght batti ibm. A festo sci. Mich'is Archi. anno rrB. Henrici sexti xxxmo vsq, jdem fm sci. Mich'is anno regni eiusdm Reg8. xxxjm° videlt p j an integru. Arreg. Idem om'at et r'd de xxvnj1' vUj8 Uiijd de arragct vit compt. Redds assis. Et de iiij" V vjd de redd assis tam Ubeg tenent qu riat' p a™ in Hornyngtoft ad festa Mich'is Archi. natal dfii Pasche et nat sci. Johis Bapte p equales porcones. Et de xxvs jd qu de redd assis tam Ubeg tenent qm nat p am ad eosdm F'inos. Et de xvs xjd q" de redd assis tam Ubof ten qfii nat in Bryslee et Bylney et. Et de ob de mors reddit dnis Warre quand Johis Howede. Et de ijd de novo redd Nichi. Boys p — iac, apd Clements gapp in Hornyngtoft. Et de hijd de novo reddit WiUi Elyot et IsabeU vx'is sue p vna rod. tre nat ten jolys. Et de — Johanne Shortereed p — iacent ex pte austr Onmth [?] de Hornyngtoft, &c. Et de ijd de ij agnell de redd in Skarundell. Et de Uj8 vjd — Reginaldi lemman p vno, &c, quond Johis Knowles. Et de Rog'o langdon de sup le holm c, &c, iuxa wrongdyke. Sma ^jh xjjy8 ™d 0:f)m Wardfee. Et de v= xd ob recept de wardfee de Richemond de diu'sis tenem in Hornyngtoft vt in diu'sis comp peedent. Et de ijs jd recept de wardefee de Richemond in Wyssyngsete p am. Feod. firm. Et de — recept de Johe Bylmyn p — de dnics diii in Wyssyngsete et j acr et dimid de tris eschaetis in eadem, &c. Et de ij» rec' de Nich'o Roo et Marga? vxe eius p vno mes', &c, in Wyssyng sete, et de iij» iiijd rec' de WiUfho Crane, &c, tre nat ten Craskys. Et— de WiUfho Foglyon p, &c, voc. Godesyard cum — in Hornyngtoft et de Thoma Turno1' p — in Bryslee, &c. Et de Thoma atte ho'we p yno jnclaus voc' Oldestedeyard nup Johis Hamond in Bryslee et de WiUmo chetyng — ten Bernerds in Wyssyngsete vt pat in rot cur. gma sixs »jd> THE EARL OF RICHMOND'S FIEF. 177 Et de rec' de Willmo Gylgony (p tre in ladyescroft. Et de rec' de Thoma atte howe (p t?e ex pte orient de lez Ponde, et de Robto Godewyn ,p herb' unius pui jnclaus voc' Aleyns. Et de Thoma atte howe p — tre ex pte occid de lez Ponde. Et de Johe Capman p vno pightell voc. Totehillyard ac, &c, tre in Hornyngtoft. Et de Johe Stonesby p tre iacent ad finem viUe, de Robto Godewyn, in Southfield. Et de Thoma Feyre p iuj ac? tre subts Cokshotedyk; et Thoma FuUer p t?e apud Fullergate, abutt sup JEgm'e. Et de Robto Gode-wyn — in Southfield. Et de Thoma Fuller p vno jnclauso vocat Shephensyard. Et p vno jnclaus' voc' Tutelysyard, et de Johe Wake p t?e ex pte austr de lez Ponde,— de Johe lyng p — tre apd hallepond, de Thoma Godynoue p — tre in Chyr cheer oft, — de Willmo Godynowe p — t?e voc' Rammes, de Thoma Godynowe p mediet vniu8 jnclaus voc' Consuowales yard, de lawr' Betts p alta. mediet eiusd, — de Thoma FuUer p vno jnclaus voc' lenotts, — de Thoma Wake p — voc' Howong cont xx* ac? simul cii vno parr suiu de xx" slats p tris suis stercorand in Hornyngtoft, — de Thoma FuUer p j pec tre pti e pastur' voc' Egme cont ix acr tre in eadffi, — de Johe Tyre p — t?e in Oldecroft, — de Johe lose p — tre ex or' mes sui e xj ac'r tre in d'ui's pecus vna cum j pan ounium de lx ovibj p terris suis stercorand in eadfn, de Edmo stencroft p herbag' vniu8 inclaus' voc' Brydecolt in Bryslee, — de Ada Preston p tre apud Hornyngtoft myllhyll, — de WUmo Gylgony et Willmo Godynowe p vno inclauso voc. Cokshote cont xxxuij acr tre de dnic8 dni in Hornyngtoft, — de Johe Stonest p tre voc. subbylcroft in Southfeld, de Johe Wake, Johe lose, Johe lyng, et Johe Forest p vna pec' tre voc. Hornyngolf Uj ac? t?e in croft Johis Bradlee voc. Bolyscroft et j acr — in croft Rectorie de Hornyngtoft, — de Johe Bradlee p vna rod t?e cu vna pua cur in Hornyngtoft Wyssingsete — de Willmo Skepper p — t?e iuxa semita duo' a Wyssyngsete vsq> Hornyngtoft, de Johe Watden p — apud Woderowe myUe in campo de Oxewyk in diu' sis pecus — et de xviUjd — de Rico Bozoun armig0 p iij ac? tre subtu8 boscum ipius Rici in Wyssyngsete sic s' di hoc anno — de Johe Whitmay — in Wyssyngsete — de And? Neve apud Totehill — de Thoma FuUer p fald dfii cum vna pastu? voc. lez heythe ac cfl cert t?is eidfft pastu? adiac' ac cu vno inclaus voc. la launde — de Edmo Tommeson p vno inclauso voc. meUeyard meUewood — de WiUo Asshelee p vno jnclaus voc. le Ryght — de Thom Thurlak — in Wyssyngsete — de WiUo Godynowe p tre ad fin crofti Rectorie — de WiUmo Skeyt — tre iac' apd Southme'lond — et de ij de fin-na, vni8 jnclaus' voc. haUeclos s° eidm computi8 hoc anno ac di Johi Wake. Sma xu iijs -vj°. Redd mol'm ) Et de vijd. et ob recept'de cert tenent p ij auc8 et di p'c capit" iijd. vt exd. Et de Ujs. iijd. de cu opibj vend. J xvij capon vend p'c capits iijd. Et de nijs. ixd. de xxxviij gall' et galUfi vend p'c capit8 jd. ob. Et de ijd. ob' de Iij ouis vend hoo anno. Et de de ijs. vjd. p lx sarcul' ibm vend hoc a° vt exta p'c opis ob'. Et de vs. rec' de v opib? sarc8 ibm vend hoc a0 sc'afii qd unigunt p's opis xijd. Et de xijs. hijd. ob' rec' p hijsx et xix opib? aut ibm vend hoc a0 p'c opis jd. ob' vt exu. Sma xxixs. viijd. ob. Agistan' bestias. D. agistant bestia* in bosc' dm n1 hie ?e't q null best ibm pastur hoc anno p sacrum ipius computs. Bosc' vend. Et de xli. ixs. ijd. ob rec' de d'uc homib? p xv acr dj di rod x ptie' et dj bosc' ibm vend hoc anno p ac? xiijs. iujd. vt pcellatum patj in tribj foUis papiri huic compo confict. Et de iujs. viijd. rec' de Johe Goold ,p subbosc' cressent sup fossat ex pte aquil' de Cokshote s's. vend hoc anno. Et de vjs. ob recept de Rob'to Ketyll et WUlmo Hern ,p subbosc' crescent sup fossat iuxa pastu? sub bosco ex pte borial. Et de iijs. hijd. rec' de Regifi Webster ,p bosc' crescent sup fossat iuxa Tunnan Wode ex pte austr s's' vend hoc anno. Sma xjK. ujs. iijd. P'quis cu?. Et de iiiili. viiijs. xd. de pquis iij cu? & unius lete tent ibih hoc anno vt pj p Rotul eardih sup hunc comp'm ostens. Sm" hijZi. viijs. xd. Sma tot rele cii aragu lxiijW. xvs. iiijd. ob. D. quib?. Acq'reddits ) In redd resolut manio de Northelmhm p ann ijs. vjd. Et in redd resolut manio de Toftes cu decors. J p anni xjd. Et manio de Gressenhale p vno jnclaus' voc. Brytecolt et vno jnclauso voc' 2 A 178 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. le Ryght cont .ix acr tef p am iijd. Et solut p'poitu de swafhfn p quadfh cons' voc' Richemond warde p am vs. Et alloc eidih computir' ,p eodm cons' ,p cert tris et ten' in manio d'ni in Hornyng toft et Wyssyngsete p a- ijs. xjd. ob. Et solut hundr° de laundych (p fine sect eidm hundf re'land hoc anno xuijd. Et in aUoc' redd suic et cons' terr et ten' accid in man' dni in Hornyngtoft et Wyssyngsete vt pcellatum pat? in compis p'ceden' et ad firma supius dimiss' xxxUjs. vujd. Et in all' redd8 suic' et cons' t?e et ten' in Bryslee accid in man' dni et supius dimiss' ad firma. Thome Turnor et aUjs xxjd. ob. Et in all' vnius jnclaus' et j ac? tre in crofto quond Johis Knowle Ujs. hijd. Et in alloc' ten' Johis Ram in man' dni ijs. uijd. Et in alloc' ten' AUciee Randolff in man' dni xvjd. Sma lvs. iijd. Oust mU \ Et solut p expn Thome FuUer Johis atte hoo Wilh Skeyte Robti Godewyn existenen ibm ad cu neccess ' mensurand boscu ibm p j diem di xuijd. Et solut Robto Godewyn

ni hent infra doi p que dist'i possunt. Et in suic et cons' Thome Wake rec p dfim xxd. Et in afhc Johis Euard p donat p dom sup hue compm ijs. Sma xs. iijd. Vadj et feod'. Et in vad ipius comput8 (p officio suo hoc a0 faciend ex cone' facto cu diio bis ano p'cepto de xls. Lib'coes den. Et in denar lib'as Dno sine bill vel all' hoc a° sec tantomodo p testim dni sup hunc compm xx li. Sma omi expn alloc et libat xxvijZi. xujs. jd. Et deb xxxvjZi ijs. iijd. ob. D. qubj Ubat Dfio sup claus' huius compi exjs. iiijd. ob. Et sic deb de clar vt insorius patj xxxZi. xs. xjd. Original penes me, G. A. C. Vellum roll endorsed, "Hornyngtoft Comp. Robti Wryght bailU ibm x' ad fin vgi' a° xxx™," bought of Golding and Laurence, BookseUers, by G. A. C. THE EARL OF RICHMOND'S FIEF. 179 MANOR OF HORNINGTOFT. Summary of Contents of the Bailiff's Account for the Year 1452-3, as above. The Bailiff first accounts in his receipts for what are caUed rents of Assize, or, as we say now, free-rents and quit-rents, for lands lying partly in Hornyngtoft and partly in Wyssyngsete and Bryslea. They were due quarterly, and amounted to £7. 14s. 8Jd. per annum.6 He received from divers copyhold tenants in Hornyngtoft and Wyssyngsete 5s. 10d., saddled upon them for ward fee of Richmond, by payment of which the manor was held of that Honor. And the bailiff in his disbursements credits himself with the payment of that amount to the bailiff of Swaffham, the head manor of the fief in Norfolk. The next receipts are for fee-farm rents, at which lands had been let which had fallen into the lord's hands by escheat. It was the custom to sell the tenants' services, such as the labour they were under obhgation to perform for the lord in respect of their tenures, and other rents not being money payments. Thus the rent of two geese and a half payable by certain tenants were sold this year for 7d., seventeen capons for 3s. 4d., twenty- seven cocks and hens for 4s. 9d., fifty-two eggs for 2i-d. ; five days' work in carting at one shilling each day; the service of four score and nineteen days' work in harvest for 12s. 4Jd., at one penny per day; sixty days' work in weeding for 5s. 6d., or one halfpenny each; but five others by agreement at the rate of a shilling each ; four score and thirty days' work in harvest at three halfpence the day. There was nothing taken that year for agistment of cattle for want of pasturage, by the oath of the baiUff, which shews that was a dry season. The wood cut from sixteen acres, two roods, and twenty perches of wood was sold to tenants for £10. 9s. 3d., and ten perches and an half at the rate of 13s. 3d. per acre, as to which reference is made for particulars to three folios of paper said to be annexed to the roU, but not now. Underwood growing upon the moats there on the north side of Cokeshote 7 was sold for 4s. 8d. ; that growing in the moats in the pasture, on the north side, for 6s. OJd. ; that growing in the moat next Tunman wood, on the south side, for 3s. 4d. The profits arising from three courts [baron] and one lete held that year amounted to £4. 8s. 10d., the expenses attending which were 7s. 10Jd. The receipts altogether (including balance of preceding account) were £63. 15s. 4J-d. The disbursements consisted of chief and other rents, viz., 2s. 6d. yearly rent to the manor of North elmham; lid. yearly rent to the manor of Toftes ; 3d. a year to the manor of Gressenhall for a close caUed Brydecolt and a close caUed le Ryght ; and to the baiUff of Swaffham, as before-mentioned, for Richemond ward 5s. yearly. This baiUff was also aUowed for certain lands and tenements in the lord's hands, in Hornyngtoft and Wyssyngsete, 11 Jd. extra this year; the fine certain to the hundred of Laundyk paid in heu of personal suit was 4d. ; and for rents, services, and customs in respect of lands in Hornyngtoft and Wyssyngsete fallen into the lord's hands, and by him let to farm, £1. 13s. 8d. ; and further, in respect of such lands in Bryslee, let to Thomas Farrow and others, Is. 4-Jd. ; and for one close lying in a croft formerly of John Knowle 3s. 4d. ; for the tenement of John Ram in the lord's hands 2s. 3d. ; and was further = In a previous year they were only £3. 18s. 7|rf. Originally these were paid in kind, as appears by the Compotus in the British Museum, from which it appears the labourers were entitled to their food in their day's work. 7 These moats I suppose to have been the fosses in the earthworks stUl existing in Hornyngtoft wood, and now covered with brushwood, as then. The mound and horseshoe-formed outworks here have been remarked upon before. Cokshote however, is stUl the name of a wood in Horningtoft, quite distinct from the great wood so well known to fox-hunters. 2 a 2 180 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. aUowed, in respect of the tenement of AUce Randolf in the lord's hands, 16d. These outgoings, in all, were £2. 15s. 3d. Then follow the payment of labourer's wages : — for measuring the wood sold, at Is. 4d. for a day and a half; for hedging round the lord's wood at 4d. a day; for cutting bushes at 3d. a day by agreement, but others were paid 6d. a day; also for carting bushes and, probably, hurdle wood from Hornyngtoft to Kypton, and delivered for the lord's foldcourse there, 2s. 8d. ; and Is. was paid for making fagots for the use of the lord's hospice or lodge there — at Kypton, I suppose. £1. Os. lid. were paid for the tithe of topwood sold that year, over and above fagots made for the lord's lodge, which were not titheable by the custom of the town. The account was credited with the amount of certain amercements remitted by the lord, or lost for want of goods on which to levy distresses, and also for such sums as had been paid by the baiUff into the lord's own hands. His own wages were 40s. a year. The total of his charges amounted to £27. 13s. Id. ; he paid to the lord £o. lis. 4d., leaving in his hands a balance to the next account of £30. 10s. lid. In this account we meet with the following local names, Cokshote close and Cokshote dyke, Melwodys, other woods, les ponde, hall ponde, &c. SUBTENANTS OF HORNINGTOFT. DE CASTELLO OR CASTELL. In the Feodary 1301 — 5, Nicholas de Castello is entered as holding in Horningtofte half a knight's fee of Robert de Tateshale, the tenant in chief. Nicholas de Castello and Cecilia his wife 3 conveyed the manor and advowson by fine, 31 Edward I., to Gregory de Castello, their son. In an extent of the possessions of Robert de Tateshall in the following year, 1303-4, the escheator returned that Gregory de Castello and Hugh de Sprouston held one knight's fee in Horningtoft and Kipton, valued at £15 a year. Gregory de Castello had a grant of free warren in Horningtoft in 3 Edward II. In the 9th 3 year of the same reign he was returned lord. He was succeeded by Sir Nicholas de Castello his son, and he by another Nicholas his eldest son, who must have died between the 8th May, when he presented to the rectory, and the 24th of June, 1349, when Hugh de Castello, his second son and heir male, presented: but the heir of Sir Nicolas was his grand-daughter, Etheldreda, the daughter of Nicholas, his eldest son, whose wardship appears to have been granted to Queen Phihppa, for she recovered the right of presentation to the rectory against Hugh, and presented her own clerk. Upon the death of Hugh, his son and heir, another Nicholas (IV.) was a minor ; and in 1361 the lady of Adam de Clifton presented to the rectory in right of the seigneury. In 1370 Nicholas, being of full age, himself presented. 2 Nicholas de CasteUo and Cecilia his wife presented to the rectory of Horningtoft in 1302. 3 On 2nd October, 1316, Nicholas de CasteUo was instituted, on the presentation of Gregory de Castello who presented again on the 25th September, 1321, being then a knight. Ou the 6th May, 1335, Jeffery de Meldeburn was instituted on the presentation of Sir Nicholas de CasteUo, the son of SU Gregory, and was doubtless a brother or relative of his wife. THE EARL OF RICHMOND'S FIEF. 181 In 3 Henry IV. (1402) Nicholas de Castell was taxed to the aid for half a knight's fee in Horningtoft and Wesenham, held of John Clyfton ; and in 12 Henry VI. (1433 or 1434), for [the half of] one knight's fee in Horningtoft, held of the Honor of Richmond. The Le Strange copy of the feodary temp. Edward I.,4 which I have assumed to be of the time of Henry VIIL, has this addition : " the said half fee is now in the hands of the heir of Ralph de Castello by right of inheritance." This inheritance is shewn by the Pedigree subjoined. Ralph Castell had died in the lifetime of Leonard his father, to whom John Castell, son of Ralph, was heir, being six years old at the time of his grandfather's death on the 20th Sept., 1511. It seems at this time the superior lordship was.no longer in the Clifton family, and that by some means it was annexed to the manor of North Elmham, granted by Henry VIII. to Thomas Crumwell, as in the P.M.I, of Leonard Castell no superior lord is mentioned ; and upon the death of Rcger Castell, in 1581, the manor was found to be held of Henry, Lord Cromwell, as of his manor of Northelmham. Some passages in this Roger's will, which I have extracted, excite a curiosity to know his private history. We cannot but draw the inference that his domestic life was not a happy one. We learn from the inquisition p.m. of John Castell his brother, 1593, that Roger died childless, and that Elizabeth the widow was then Elizabeth Forthe. By the will of Talmach Castell, dated 28th February, 1661-2, the manor of Horningtoft was directed to be sold after his death, which occurred in 1666 or 1667 ; and accordingly in that year, the same manor, with the advowson and lands in Elmham, Tittleshall, Bilney, Brisley, Gateley, Testerton, Whissonsett, Longham, and Mileham, theretofore the estate of Roger Castell, Esq., and afterwards of Augustine Castell, Esq., were conveyed to Sir Richard Berney, Baronet, the purchaser. Nicolas de CasteUo I. (a) =j= Cecilia, da. of purchased Horningtoft 1290, occ. 1302. Pedigree. Sara, da Uving 1300. Cecilia, da. i [SU Robt. Shelton ?] Walter de ChasteU,=T= Sara, da. of 7 John. Sir Gregory de CasteUo (*) =j=Eufemia Julia.= WiUiam 1302, 1318, 1320, 1321. [a Mortimer of Attleburgh f] Bokenham. Sir Nicolas de Castello II. (c) =j= Christiana, da. of Geffry de AUcia, 1318, 1320, 1338. Melburne or Meldeburne, occ. 1338. 13 Ed. II. Nicolas de CasteUo III. (d) =p Margaret or Margery (12 Ed. IIL), TTT 1 OOO m"U In ¦(-..;¦. Q Ti/TnT-r An /-!¦£ fli-p TTiirvn TTq otrn era qti/1 TvTaT» 12 Edw. III. 1338, ob. inter 8 May and 24 June, 1349. da. of SU Hugh Hastings and Mar gery Foliot his wUe ; mar. 21y Sir J. fioyland. (a) * MS. C. 182 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. (f) Nicholas CasteUo IV.=f Margaret, da. of mort. ante 24 June, 1349. Sir Robert Bemey , J of1 Etheldred, unmar. : Wichingham. Hugh de CasteUo,=j= 2nd son, heU to his brother Nicholas 1349, ob. circ. 28 Edw. III. 1354. Nicholas de CasteUo V. (e) =j= Margaret, da. and hr. occ. 1361, 1390, 1402, ob. cUc. 1452. of SU WiUiam Spayn. Humphrey CasteU, s. & h.=y= Margaret, da. and hr. of = SU Ralph Wffloughby, 1458, wiU dat. July 24, 1461. Tho. Fleet, Esq., ob. 9 Mar. 1483, bur. at Raveningham. John Castell. Leonard Castell, (/) =f Eleanor, da. of Rich. ob. 20 Sept. 1511. Bracebridge, Esq. Gregory =f= Margaret, da. Castell. of Anthony Wright. - I I I I I " Thomas.Nicholas.John. Adlard. Humphrey. 2nd husband, SquUe to King Richard III. Nicholas CasteU,= EUzabeth, wiU dat. 10 June, buried at 1490, to be buried Langley at Langley. Abbey. 1. Ralph ¦ CasteU, ob. p.v. :Anne, da. of Sir Roger Townshend of Rainham. r~l Agnes. EUzabeth. Gregory CasteU, : Gt. mar. atHorn- ingtoft 21 Jan. 1597, bur. there 9 Oct. 1601. : Alice Oldman, (g) remar. to Edm. Stud 28 Oct. 1606. Ralph, = Constance, 1579. da. of .... Laws. John CasteU, Esq.=f= EUzabeth, da. of heU of his grandfather Leonard, aged 6 years 1511, wiU dated 10 April, 1551, proved 24 Jan. foUowing. John KervUe of WigenhaU St. Mary, Esq., Uving 1548. Joanna CasteU, bapt. at Horning toft Oct. 22, 1598, ob. 1605, unmar. 1. Roger CasteU, Esq.,: ob. 4 May, 1581, s.p. (h) set. 44, bur. at Horn ingtoft, wUl dated 20 April, 1579, proved 13 May, 1581, Cur. Ep. Nor. = EUzabeth, da. of Wm. Sander, Esq. of EweU, co. Surrey, mar. 21y . . Forthe, Uving 18 April, 1593. 2. John Cas- =j= Frances, da. teU, (i) bro. & hr. of Roger, aged 34, 1581, bur. at Raven ingham 16 April, 1598, 33t. 44. ~\ — I — I Mary.= Humphry Bedingfeld. of Tho. Play ters of Sotter- ley, Esq. bur. 24 Feb. 1614, aged 63, at Raveningham. Grisell.= Roger Townshend of (e.) Twyf ord, Gent. Martha. = Owen Ho bart of Morley, Gent. (a) Nicolas de Castello. Fines pro ecclesia Intwood, 8 Edw. I., L. ii. n, 48— pro terra in Cringleford, n. 78 — vocatur eodem anno Nicol. fd. Walteri del ChasteU, n. 92. — MS. Le Neve (b) Gregorius de Castello fiUus, pro manerio de Horningtoft. Fines Norm, 31 Edw. I., n. 61. Pro manerio Bedingham, 11 Edw. II. Pro manerio Baveningham, 13 Edw. II. — Ibid. (c) Nicolas Alius Gregorii de ChasteU pro manerio de Bedingham, 11 Edw. II. Pro manerio de Raveningham, 13 Edw. II., 12 Edw. IIL— Ibid. In 1324, Nicholas, son of SU Gregory de Castello, was one of the trustees of a settlement made by Hugh de Bokenham, aUas Snitterton, on the marriage of the latter with AUce his wUe. In 1333, Nicholas de CasteUo of Stanefeld, and Maud his wife, presented George Picot, her son, to the Rectory of Framingham, Norfolk. This Maud was the widow of Ralf Picot of Framingham, and as such had presented in 1317.— Blomeneld, v. 436. " Nicholas CasteU, Lord of Horningtoft, temp. Henry III., married a daughter of Henry Bokenham of Snitterton, and had issue, Walter, living temp. Henry III. and Edward I., who married Sarah Joscelyne, and not Boseelyne, as stated by Parkin."— East Anglian, vol. U. p. 272, from SuckUng's Pedigree of CasteU in the British Museum, Addit. MSS. 18,477, p. 17, but I question the accuracy of Suckling. (d) Nicolas filius Nicolai de Chastel et Christiane uxoris pro manerio de Bedingham settled on these two (himself and Margaret) by the father and mother, 12 Edw. III. — Ibid. THE EARL OF RICHMOND'S FIEF. 183 Blomeneld has it Hugh, and interpolates another Nicholas between him and Nicholas IV., and his wife Elizabeth daughter of John Holbrook of Suffolk. These descents after the first four are unsupported by evidence. (e) Nicholas de Castello, heU of Hugh, was a minor on 13th October, 1361, when the Lady de CUfton presented to the rectory, but was of fuU age on 27th September, 1370, when he himself presented. (/) I]iq- P m., 5 Henry VIIL (g) Suckling says Alice Knight, [q. widow of Oldman ?] (h) Inq. p.m. 23 Elizabeth.— Horningtoft Registers. (i) Inq. p.m. 35 EUzabeth. Castell of Raveningham. Arms : Argent, three castles triple turreted gules. Crest : A dragon's head couped. (B.) John CasteU of Raveningham, Esq.=r= EUzabeth, da. of John Carvile living 1548, wUl dat. 10 April, 1551, proved 24 Jan. foUowing. [KervUe], Esq. of WiggenhaU St. Mary's, ob. cUc. 17 July, 1551. Roger Castell, Esq.= of Raveningham, ob. 4 May, 1581, aet. 44, s.p. bur. at Horning toft, wiU dat. 20 April, 1579, prov. 13 May, 1581, Cur. Ep. = EUzabeth, da. of Wm. Saunders, 'Esq., of EweU. She afterw. mar. Forthe, and was living 18 Apr. 1593. John CasteU,1 Esq. of Rav eningham, bro. and hr. of Roger, aged 34 yrs. 1581, bur. at Rav eningham 16 April, 1598, aged 44.— Inq. p.m. 35 EUz. : Frances, da. of Thos. Playters of Sotterley, co. Suff. Esq. , bur. at Raveningham 24 Feb. 1614, aged 63. [Ob. 16 Mar. 1593-4, wUl dat. 20 Oct. 1592.] Mary, Uving 1623, mar. Humphrey Bedingfeld. Esq. of Thorndon, Suff. 4th son of SU Edm. Beding feld of Oxburgh. Martha, mar. Owen Hobart, Esq. of Morley. Grisel, mar. Roger Townshend of Twyford, Esq. 1. Nicholas CasteU, Esq. of Ravening ham, aged 9 yrs. 20 June, 1592, ob. s.p. wUl dated 25 June, 1606, proved July following, Cur. Ep. Nor. 1 — I 3. John Cas teU, living 25 June, 1606. 4. Thomas C. died appar ently before 25 June, 1606. 2. Roger CasteU, Esq. brother and heU of Nicholas, buried at Raveningham, 3 Sept. 1644. = Mary, 2nd da. of SU Lionel Talmach of Helmingham, Suff. Bt. buried at Raven ingham 23 June, 1667, in her 82nd year. Will dated 16 May, 1656. 1 — I — l 1. EUzabeth, mar. Edm. Bedingfeld of Buxton, 2nd son of Edmund, eld. son of Sir Henry Bedingfeld. 2. Dorothy, ob. Dec. 1618, buried at Heydon. Mar. George Mordaunt, 2nd son of Henry Mordaunt of Little "iam. 3. Beatrice, mar. 3 Aug. 1615 [1625] to Talbot Pepys of Impington, co. Camb. Esq. 1 w. Eleanor,=j= Talmach Castell of = Mary, da. da. of Sir Wm de Grey of Merton, Bart. mar. at Mer ton, ob. 9 Nov. 1648, bur. at Ravening ham. Raveningham, Esq. 1 s. & h. WUl dated 28 Feb. 1661, then of Moulton, prov. 1665. 3 w. EUzabeth, a da. of Edm. Anguish of Melton, Esq., reUct of Tho. Anguish of Moulton, Gent. bef. 1 July, 1667, wiU dat. 4 April, 1684: then widow. of [Matth. Trot of Beccles]widow of Robt. BeU, ob. 2 May, 1653, bur. at Mutford. Nicholas, 1- son, Uving 1644, '61, '66, a wife Uving 1666. John, 3 son, living 1644, '61, '66. Roger CasteU, =p Susan, da. (*) Frances Cas tell nom. 16 Aug. 1666. Esq. 4 & young est son, ob. 17 Jany. 1708, let. 86, bur. at Rav eningham, wiU dated 12 March, 1704, proved 22 Feb. 1708, Cur. Ep. of Thomas Cooper of Raveningham. Frances, eld. da. mar. to WiUiam Denny.Mary, only other daughter, mar. Thos. Lone of Ravening ham. to 184 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. w to Augustine Cas- = teU, of Raven ingham, Esq. wUl dat. 26 Oct. 1671, proved 9 Dec. 1673, Cur. Ep. desUed to bur. in chancel at Ravening ham.— MS. vol. iu. 107. : Alice Anguish, da. of Thos. A. of Moulton, Gt. baptized at St. Peter Mancroft 21 Nov. 1634, bur. at Heydon 15 May, 1706. Eleanor Castell, da. and sole hr. a minor 1671, mar. to Erasmus Earle of Heydon, Esq. He died 5 Mar. 1721, aged 55. She died 12 Feb. 1733-4, aged 66 ; both buried at Heydon. ~i rn I I Barbara, wUe of Robt. Naunton of Lethering- ham, Esq., a wid. 1666. Mary, bur. at Merton 1631. Mary, liv. unmarried 25 June, 1661; 16 May, 1666, mar Drake. Katherine, mar. 1 John Eiches of Stalham, Gt. and afterw. Eev. Wm. Smith, d.d., Preb. of Norw. Cath. Ob. 26 May, 1718, aged 78, bur. at Stalham. EUzabeth, 5th da. died unmar. 7 Jan. 1728, aged 86, bur. in Norw. Cathedral. John: CasteU of Baven- ingham,Esq., mr. 22 Sept. 1592, ob. 17 Nov. 1735, set. 71, bur. there. =Avis, da. of Thos. LondonofAldeby[Cring- leford], ob. 1 Sep. 1715, set. 54, bur. at Eaven- ingham. Anne, only: da. of Eich. Gardiner of Cransford, Suff. Gent. ob. 2 Mar. 1697, [1698 ?] aged 21, bur. at Eav- eningham. 4 sons, aUdied infants. T" 1 : Roger1 CasteU Gent. ofEav-ening- ham, ob. 27 Aug. 1734, 63, br. there. --Anne, da. of John Pells of Crans ford, Gt. ob. 26 Dec. 1724 set. 53, bur. at Baven- ingham. ? 3 wife. H Mary, eld. da. and coh. mar. 17 Apr. 1713, to Sir Edm. Bacon of GiUing ham, Bt. 2nd wUe, ob. 1 Oct. 1758, aged 65. EUzabeth, yost da. and coh. died unm. 8 Apr. 1771, aged 73, bur. at Baveningham. Mary, da. and coh. bn. 12 Mar. 1697, mar. J. Hammond. Susanna,da. and coh. bap. 17 Jan. 1705, mar. Simon Ker rich of Har leston, ob. 8 Sept. 1732, aged 27. Ann Castell, Uving 12 March, 1704. On 26th Feb., anno 2 Henry V. (1414-15) £6. 15s. Od. were paid out of the treasury to Soger CasteU, Esq., in money into his own hands for the carriage of " waynscotes and regale," therewith to make doors, &c, in Kyllynworth Castle. — Issue roU eod. an. The name of a John Castell and his descendants occur at Milborne, Cambs, 1601, and seq. ann. CASTELL EVIDENCES. An inquisition, held on the 20th October, in the 5th Henry VLIL (1513) after the death of Leonard CasteU, Esq., found that John Fynchebek, Clerk, Rector of Stokton, and Thomas Reynold, Clerk, Vicar of Norton, bemg feoffees of the manors of Raveningham, Hornyngtoft, and Bedyngham, with the advowson of the church of Hornyngtoft, enfeoffed same to the said Leonard CasteU and Alienor his consort, WiUiam WiUoughby, Lord de WiUoughby and de Eresby, Knight, Edward Howard, Knight (since deceased), Christopher WiUoughby, Richard LitUbury, WiUiam Jenney son of Edward Jenney, Knight, and John Throkmorton, Esq., to uses in favour of the said Edward and AUenor, and afterwards of the will of the said Leonard ; and that the said Leonard by his wUl declared that Thomas and Nicholas, his sons, should each of them have eight marks a year, and that John CasteU, Adlard, Humfry, and Gregory CasteU, other sons,' should each of them have five marks a year for their respective lives, and that Agnes and Elizabeth, his daughters, should each of them have two hundred marks for marriage portions. It was also found that the said Leonard CasteU died about the 20th of September in the 3rd of Henry VHI. (1511), and that John CasteU his kinsman and next heir, viz., the son of Ralf son of the said Leonard, was of the age of six years and more. — Esc. 5 Henry VIIL n. 47. The tenure of Horningtoft is not stated in this inquisition. WiU of John CasteU of Raveningham, Esq., dated 10th April, 1551, 5 Edward VI. He thereby directs his executors to hold the manor of Horningtoft until Roger his son and heir attained twenty-four, and then devised same to him in fee. EUzabeth his wife and cosen George Townshend, Esq., executors. Sir Henry Bedingfield, Knight, supervisor. Froved by Townshend alone 24th Jan., 1551, Elizabeth Castell the widow having made her whl on her deathbed, on 17th July preceding.— Reg. Arch. Norw. fo. 280. THE EARL OF RICHMOND'S FIEF. 185 WiU of Roger Castell of Raveningham, Esq., dated 20th April, 1579. He therein states that his wife Elizabeth being sufficiently provided for, he had the less to remember, beseeching God " to haye mercie on her and to forgive her for I doe." He gave to his brether, John Castell, the manors of Raveningham and Horningtoft, then in jointure to the said Elizabeth his wife, after her death ; and devised the manors of Bedingham Castells and Holme Hale. He gave to his executors one lease, which he bought of his brother-in-law, Mr. Wilham Mynne, of the parsonage of Sporle for payment of his debts. Mentions his nephew Alexander Bedingfeld ; — Katherine Jernegan his goddaughter ; — Roger Howberde his godson ; — James and Richard (Hobart) his brethren, and Ehzabeth their sister ; — Roger Townshend his godson, whose mother was testator's sister; — his nephew Thomas Bedingfeld; — his nephew John Braie and his -wife, testator's niece. He also gave to " Raphe Castell my kynsman his dwelling in my howses wch I bought of Thom. Curson in Hornyngtoft, with the occupation of such grownde as he nowe hathe of me," &c, paying neither rent nor farm, more than two capons yearly at the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord, for the same, to the lord of the manor for the time being. He names Gregorie Castell, Raphe's brother. He then expresses a hope that Elizabeth his wife may live quietly with John his brother, nor mistake anything he had done in his will ; and gave her certain furniture and jewels. John his brother and Richard Davy of Attlebrygge were appointed executors. The will was proved by John Castell on 13th May, 1581, and on 26th June following by Richard Davy. — Cur. Ep. Nor. Reg. Moyse, fo. 308. An inquisition taken 13th Sept. anno 23 Eliz. (1581), after the death of Roger CasteU, Esq., recites that he being seized of the manors of Ravenyngham and Hornyngtoft, with the advowson of the church of Hornyngtoft, entered into a covenant (by an indenture the date of which is Ulegible), with Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, and Wilham Sander of Ewell, in Surrey, Esq., to marry EUzabeth, the daugliter of the said Wilham Sander, and to make a settlement ; which was performed and the marriage solemnized. The wiU is then recited, to the effect above set forth, as to the real estate ; and it is stated that the messuage and lands mentioned to be purchased of Thomas Curson, except five acres part thereof, were copyhold of the manor of Hornyngtoft. It is found that the said Roger Castell died on the 4th of May, anno 23 Ehz. (1581), without issue ; that Elizabeth his widow was then Uving, and that John CasteU, his brother and heir, was, at the taking of the inquisition, thirty-four years old. The jurors returned that the manor and rectory of Hornyngtoft were held of Henry, Lord CromweU, as of' his manor of Northelmham, in free soccage, by fealty and the annual rent of 2s. and 6d., and were worth £1 per annum. The five acres purchased of Thomas Curson were also held of the said manor of Northelmham.' — Esc. 23 Ehz. p. 2, n. 99. An inquisition taken 18th AprU, anno 35 Eliz. (1593), after the death of John CasteU of Raveningham, recites his will, dated 20th October, 1592, in which he mentions Frances his wife and Nicholas their son and heir ; and that being seized in reversion of the manor of Hornyngtoft, with the advowson of the church thereto belonging, and of five acres of land there, expectant on the death of one EUzabeth Forthe, late wife of Roger CasteH, Esq., deceased, he gave such reversion to the said Nicholas CasteU his son. It is found that the said EUzabeth Forthe was still Uving; that the said John CasteU died on the 16th March, 35 EUz. ; and that the said Nicholas his son and heir was, on the 20th June then last, aged nine years. The manor of Hornyngtoft, &c, was returned as held of Edward, Lord Cromwell, of the manor of Northelmham, at the yearly rent of 2s. Gd., and to be of the yearly value of £7 : the five acres purchased of Thomas Curson, as worth five shiUings a year. — Esc. 35 EUz. WiU of TaUamaoh Castell, of Moulton in Norfolk, Esq., dated 28th February, 14 Car. II. (1661). To be buried in chancel of church of Raveningham ;— to Elizabeth my wife ; — to my- brothers, Mr. Nicholas, Mr. John, and Mr. Roger Castell; — refers to will of Roger Castell, Esq., his late father, deceased; — my daughters, Mary Castell, Katherine Castell, Elizabeth CasteU ; — refers to deed, dated 4th of February then last between Mary CasteU his mother, and testator, and Ehzabeth his wife, of the one part, and Thomas 2 B 186 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Lone, of Raveningham, Esq., his brother-in-law, and William Randall, Gent., of the other part ;— the manor of Horningtoft to be sold after death of testator ;— daughter Barbara, now wife of Robert Naunton of Letheringham, Esq. ;— the said Elizabeth my wife, Robert London of Alderby, Esq., and Charles Wyndham, Esq., executors;— John Castell a witness.— Proved 1667, Cur. Ep. Norw. Will of Mary Castell of Raveningham, widow and rehct of Roger CasteU, Esq., dated 16th May, 1666. To my three sons, Nicholas Castell, John CasteU, and Roger Castell ;— my son-in-law Thomas Lone and Mary his wife;— my grandchildren, Augustine Castell, Barbara Naunton, widow, Mary C, Catherine C, and EUzabeth C. ;— to Frances Castell, daughter of my son Nicholas;— to my sister Playters;— to my grandchildren, Lone, EUzabeth, Ann, Mary, and Frances when 21 ;— John Castell and Mary C, son and daughter of my son Roger ;— to my son Nicholas, his wife ;— to my son Roger's wife ;— to my grandchild Augustine Castell's wife.— Proved 1666-7, in Archdeaconry of Norfolk. UNDERTENANTS OF KYPTON. The name of Hugh de Sprowston has been mentioned as one of the tenants of Robert de Tateshale in Kypton. Temp. Henry IIL, Reginald and Hugh de Sprowston held lands in Reynham and Kypton by the service of half a knight's fee. Reginald de Sprouston and Theophania his wife occur in 1273, as having an interest in "Weston. Reginald de Sprouston presented to the rectory of Sprouston in 1300, and again in 1307 ; and Hugh de Sprouston in 1335 ; and a service was ordained in that church for the souls of Hugh de Sprouston and Margaret his wife, and of Reginald and Tifania, his father and mother. In the Nomina VMaram, 9 Edward II., 1315-16, Hugh de Sprowston is named as lord of a manor in "Wesenham. Blomefield tells us that in 17th of that reign (1323 or 24) Henry (meaning Hugh ?) son of Reginald de Sprowston, and Margaret his wife conveyed the manor of Kypton by fine to Thomas son of Thomas de Stirston : according to the same authority Thomas Neel and Catherine his mother held, in 1345, lands in Reynham and Kypton, by the service of half a fee, of the heirs of Robert de Tateshale, which Hugh de Sprowston formerly held; and again, under Holkham, that in 50 Edward III., 1376, Thomas Neal died seised of a tenement in Kypton by "Wesenham, leaving two sisters and coheirs, Margaret, wife of John Quarles, and Mary, wife of John de Lyng ; and that the same was held in 1400 by Edmund Lucas and John (Quarles) in right of Jeffry Neal deceased; and in 1406 John Quarles of Holkham and Margaret his wife conveyed land in Wesenham and Rainham, and a moiety of the manor of Kypton, to John Felbrig and — Gurney, probably in settlement. Here we first get the name of Lucas. Referring to Letheringset, Edward (Edmund) Lucas and John Quarles presented to that church in 1387, and again in 1400. In 1430, Edmund Lucas and Mary his wife, and THE EARL OF RIOHMOND'S FIEF. 187 Margaret daughter of Gilbert (Jeffry) Neal, presented ; and in 1457 Thomas Payne and Etheldreda his wife ; but in the next year the patronage was in John Heydon. Putting these parts together, we arrive at the conclusion that if the Castells ever possessed Kypton as belonging to Hornyngtoft, it passed immediately to Reginald de Sprouston or Hugh his son, and from the latter to Thomas Neel or Neal, who had two coheiresses, through whom one moiety went to Quarles, the other to Lucas, the latter eventually taking the entirety, which in 1446 was held by Thomas Lucas of Holkham, Esq. This gentleman, by his will made in that year, gave his manor of Kypton in the towns of Wesenham and Reynham to his wife Etheldreda, during the minority of Ehzabeth his daughter, and then one moiety for her life, and, so subject, the whole to his daughter and her heirs male, with remainders over. Blomefield (Parkins) states that Etheldreda, the wife, first of Thomas Lucas of Holkham, and afterwards of Thomas Payne of East Dereham, was Etheldreda Castell the daughter of Nicholas Castell and Margaret Berney his wife, and heiress of Nicholas her grandfather. A glance at the dates in the Castell Pedigree shews that to have been impossible, or she was nearly one hundred years old when her first husband died. Most likely 'she was a Castell, as Etheldreda was a family name. An Etheldreda Castell was buried in Dereham church, who died in 1486, as is testified by her effigy in brass and sub- inscription. The widow of Thomas Lucas was, it seems, the wife of Thomas Payne in 1457, and as they presented to Letheringset in that year, Elizabeth Lucas, the daughter, had not attained her majority. "Whether she lived to do so I know not. It is certain, however, that either from her, in the event of her living, or from the remainder-man under her father's will, if she died under age, the manor of Kypton passed about that time into the hands of Richard Southwell, Esq., of "Woodrysyng, who gave it by his will to Katherine his wife for her Hfe, with remainder to Sir Robert Southwell, Knt., his son, in fee. After the death of Sir Robert Southwell in 5 Henry VIIL, 1514, the manor of Kipton is described as held of Sir "William Knyvet by knight's service. Its possession by the Southwells, and afterwards successively by the Townshends and the Cokes, will be described in treating of those properties.1 1 1 see however, in SU Hamon L'Estrange's extracts from court-roUs of the manor of Gressenhale a presentment of the 21st year of Henry VL, 1442-3, that Nicholas Castell, Esq., held at the time of his death lands in Brisley and Horningtoft of the lord of that manor by knight service, and that Etheldred vrife of Thomas Lucas, Esq., daughter of the said Nicholas, was his next heir, and then of fuU age ; and in the 36th year of that reign (1457-8) Thomas Payne and Etheldrede his wife, late wife of Thomas Lucas, daughter and heU of Nicholas Castell, Esq., were the tenants. 2 b 2 188 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. KYPTON EVIDENCES. Will of Thomas Lucas of Holkham, Esq., dated on Tuesday before the Feast of St. Gregory the Pope (March 12), anno 25 Henry VI. (1446). To my wife Etheldreda ; -to the fabric of the church of Hornyng toft, and to the high altar there ;— to the church of St. Peter of Wesenham ; — an honest priest to celebrate for his soul in the church of Holkham for one year or two years, if enough after debts paid ;— wife to have his manors in Holkham, Surlyngham, and Swaynsthorp, with advowson of church of St. Andrew de Leryngsete, and also his manor of Kypton in the towns of Wesenham and Reynham, with all rents, homages, &c, during the minority of Elizabeth his daughter ; and when said EUzabeth come of fuU age, she to have one moiety of said manor of Kypton to her and the heirs male of her body lawfuRy begotten ; his wife to have the other moiety of Kypton and the whole of the manors of Holkham, &c, for life, and then to his daughter in tail as before, with remainders over in favour of Stephen Lucas his brother and Robert Lucas his brother successively in tail male. In the testament of same date his brother Richard Lucas is mentioned as Rector of Hornyngtoft. They were both proved on 20th April, 1447, in the Bishop's Court of Norwich.— .%. Wilby, fo. 133. THE EARL WARREN'S FIEF. 189 WILLIAM DE "WARREN'S FIEF. Eafcle of Sufoinfeurjatitms temp. E&foarrj L Domesday Name Knights' Tees. Tenant in capite. Mesne Tenant. Sub-tenants. Present Manors. Under Manors. Gressenhala. - (Stenuelda.) j Wesenham. | Leccesham. 2 kn'ts' fees. L. , Earl Warren. 1:' Richard Folyott, GressenhaU, North Soken & South Soken. Weasenham. Including parts of Beetley, Bris ley, Stanfield, & Gt. Bittering. Leccesham. 5 of a knt.'s fee. L. J of a knt.'s fee in Hoo. L. Edmudi de Leche. Sampson de Hoo. East Lexham. Titeshala. Scerninga. J a fee. L. 1 knt.'s fee. L. John de Verley. John de Lacy. Thos. de Erleham. [Afterwards Prior of Cokes- ford.] [Booking.] Newhall. Remestuna. f of knt.'s fee. Earl Warren. Prior of Castle acre. None. Scerninga. | Frandesham J Ruhham and Frandesham. 1 knt.'s fee. L. 1 knt.'s fee. ?> ,, Heirs of GUes de Plaiz. John de Gatis- den. Wm. de Fransham. Gt. Fransham, Rougham, and GreenhaU als. Finchams. Those fees marked L. came afterwards to the Duchy of Lancaster. % dfari Mrxxuxb gut THE HONOR OF GRESSENHALE. HE fees of William de Warren, in Gressenhale, Wesenham, Est Lexham, Kempston, and Great Fransham, with their dependencies, were, as we have already seen, subinfeuded by that earl in Wimer, his dapifer or steward. The grants made by Wimer and Roger his son, and others of their family, to the Priory of Castle Acre, in Kempston and other places, have been mentioned in another place. In the tenure of his (Wimer's) descendants these lordships continued until almost the present day, either as immediate possessors or as mesne lords. Roger, son of WilUam the grandson of Wimer, assumed the name of De Gressenhall, having probably his abode in that place, which became the head manor. 190 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. William Fitz Roger de Gressenhall left an only child, his daughter Isabell, who succeeded to his inheritance. This lady had three husbands :— 1, Berenger de Cressi ; 2, WilHam de Huntingfeld; 3, Osmund de Stutevile, who was a younger brother of Robert de Stutevile, a baron of Yorkshire. By the last only had she any issue. William de Stutevyle, her eldest son and heir, married, 15 Henry IIL, with the consent of the king, dated 5th November, 1219, Margaret or Margery, daughter and heir of Hugh de Say, Baron of Ricard's Castle, co. Hereford, and relict of Robert de Mortimer of Essex.1 At the time of his death, 1259, William de Stutevyle held, by the courtesy of England, several knights' fees of his wife's inheritance in many counties ; which thereupon descended upon Sir Hugh de Mortimer, her son and heir, then forty years old, but he had nothing of his own inheritance.2 Not finding any inquisition as to his lands in Norfolk, I presume that Gressenhall had not descended upon him when he died, but that his mother Isabel was still hving. The time of her death does not appear. Robert de Stutevile, son and heir of William, is said to have died in the first year of Edward I., without issue, leaving Margery, his only sister and heir, married to Richard Fobot, by whom she was mother of Jordan Foliot ; and in the third year of that reign an inquisition was held as to lands of Jordan Foliot in the county of York, which were Robert de Stutevile's his uncle, whose heir he was, and from which he had been ejected by the king's escheator under the plea that they were held of the king in chief, which the jurors found not to be the fact.3 Jordan was in possession of Gressenhall in that year, when the jurors of the Hundred returned that Robert de Stutevile, in his lifetime, had appropriated to himself, de novo, warren in Brisele and Fransham ; and that Jordan Folyot claimed Kberties in Gressenhall, Wendling, Lechesham, and Wesenham, but they could not say by what right. It was however afterwards said that he had assize of bread and ale, and held view of frank-pledge in those towns, and also in Brisele and Stanfeld. Richard Foliot, the father, Hved until 1299, and it appears from an inquisition held at York on the 23rd June in that year,4 that Jordan his son and heir, who was then fifty years old, survived his father only five weeks, and that Richard FoHot, the son and heir of Jordan and Margery his wife, had attained the age of fifteen on the Christmas Day preceding the date of the inquisition.5 Robert de Stutevile had been a benefactor to the Abbey of Wendling, of which he was patron in 1273, as had Jordan Foliot ; and the Lady Margery, his widow, was buried in the church of that abbey in 1330. Sir Jordan had been summoned to Parliament as a baron in 23 and 25 Edward I., 1295-7, but it does not appear that any of his descendants were, by that title. 1 Robert de Mortuomare or Mortimer witnessed a charter of Berenger de Cressi to Castleacre, supra, p. 119, VIII 'l Esc. 43 Henry III. n. 23, writ of diem clausit, May 20. 3 Esc. 3 Edward I., u. 43. 4 Inq. p m. 27 Edward I., u. 49. s Inq, p m. 27 Edward L, n. 49. See extent of possessions in fuU amongst the Evidences, post. THE EARL WARREN'S FIEF. 191 Part of the inheritance which fell to Richard in Norfolk consisted of two knights' fees in Gresnall and Lecham, but being a minor, the Earl Warren had his wardship, as superior lord of the fee ; and he is described as being in the custody of the earl in the MS. copies of the feodary which have been often referred to in these pages. The date, there fore, of this feodary is confined within the six years between the time of his father's death, 1299, when he was fifteen years old, and 1305, when he would have attained his majority.6 Other portions of Wimer's fief had before this time been subinfeuded by some of its possessors in undertenants, so that in the feodary before mentioned we see that in Tyteshale half a knight's fee was held of Richard Folyot, by Philip de Verlay ; in Skarning one fee was held of him by John Lacey and Thomas de Erleham ; in Lexham one-fourth of a fee by Edward or Edmund de Leche ; and another fourth in Hoo, by Sampson de Hoo. This Richard Foliot died in the early part of Edward the Second's reign, and was succeeded by Richard his son. From a Hst of the names of towns and their lords in the county of Norfolk, returned to the King's Exchequer, under a writ of Edward II. dated on 5th March in his ninth year,7 under Lawndich I extracted the foUowing : — Wesenham : Richus Follyot. Bryslye cum Bilney : Richus Follyot. Hooe : Richus FoUyot. Skerninge : Richus filius et heres Ric Follyot. Gressenhall cum Bitteringham ma : Richus Follyot. Kempson : Richus FoUyott. Dunham magna : Richus FoUyott. Est lexham : Margeria Follyot. Stanfeilde : Ric fil Ric FoUyot. Horningtofte : Ric fil Ric FoUyott. There appears to have been advanced at this time an adverse claim to the rights of the Earl of Surrey on the part of the Earl of Pembroke, who was lord of West Lexham ; for, 'in answer to an inquisition, held by virtue of a writ, tested at Tonbrigg on 28th June in 17 Edward II., of the knights' fees which were of Adomar de Valence, late Earl of Pembroke then deceased, of the fee of Castleacre, it was said that the heirs of ffoliot held nine knights' fees and the fourth part of a fee in Gressenhall, Elsinge, Wesenham, Rougham, and other places ; 8 and on a partition amongst the earl's coheirs, these fees 6 In 1325 Richard Filiot (Foliot) held Elsynge at one fee and a fourth, Margery FyUot having one-third in dower. ' Harl. MS. 901. 9 In the return to the inq. p.m., Adomar de Valence, Earl of Pembroke (17 Edward II. n. 75), these nine fees and a fourth are said to be in Gressenhale, Wesenham, Elsyng, Lexham, Wethersfield, Grymeston, Skernyng, &c, Oxwyke, Attelugh, &c, Hoo, Brisele, &c, which Richard ffoliot and his tenants held and valued at £60. John de Warren,' the Earl 'of Surrey, had conveyed— Parkins says sold-the Castle of Acre to Aymer de Valence, which probably carried the lordship over these fees. He was repossessed of them before 9 Edward III. 192 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. were assigned to Laurence, son and heir of John de Hastings; but by another inqui sition, taken 6th June, 18 Edward II., and removed into the Court of Chancery, Richard, son of Richard Foliot, was found to hold the manors of GressenhaU and Wesenham of John Warren, Earl of Surrey, by the service of one knight's fee and a half.9 By another inquisition, taken at Fakenham Dam (Hempton) on 24th July, 19 Edward II., (1325) after his death, it was found that Richard, son of Richard Foliot, held no lands in Norfolk and Suffolk of the king in chief, but that he was seised at the time of his death of the manors of GressenhaU and Wesenham, which were held of John de Warren, Earl of Surrey and Sussex, by the service of one knight's fee and a half; that the annual value of the manor of GressenhaU with its appurtenances was about £40, and that of the manor of Wesenham with its appurtenances was £18 ; and, further, that Margery, aged twelve, and Margaret, aged eleven years, were the sisters and coheirs of the said Richard, who had died under age ; and that the said earl was at that time seised of the manor of GressenhaU, as guardian, by reason of such minorities ; and John de Nerford, on the day of the death of the minor, was seised of the manor of Wesenham by the grant of the earl, during the minority. Consequently a writ of scire facias was issued to the escheator, dated 23rd September in the same year, in which, after reciting the purport of the last inquisition, and the claim of wardship of the Earl of Surrey, who had petitioned the king to remove his hands from the said manors ; that officer was commanded to give notice to IsabeUa de Hastyngs, to whom the king had granted the custody of the purpart of Margery, and to Ralph de Camoys, to whom he had given Margaret's purpart, to shew cause why the king should not comply with the request of the earl. The execution of this mandate appears on the back of the writ.1 We may suppose that some compromise was made with the Earl of Surrey for his right of wardship, as the king's grants were not annulled ; and Isabel Hastings, who was widow of John, second Baron Hastings of Bergavenny, lost no time in taking advantage of her purchase by marrying the young heiress Margery, whose wardship she had, to her second son, Hugh Hastings. The Lady Isabel herself had remarried to Ralph de Monthermer, who obtained a pardon, 12th August, 1319, for having married without the king's license.2 Ralph de Camoys in Hke manner married the other daughter, Margaret, to his son John. These marriages had taken place before the 1st June, 4 Edward III. (1330) on which day an inquisition was held after the death of Margery de Folyot, the widow of Jordan, who held in dower of the lands of her late husband the manors of Elsing and Est lexham, when Margery, daughter of Richard de Folyot son of Jordan and wife of Hugh Hastings, and Margaret her sister, wife of John de Camoys, were found heirs of those manors, Margery being then sixteen years and a half old and Margaret fifteen years and a half. A partition was then made of these ladies' inheritance; and Gressenhall and the other possessions of the family in this hundred, with Elsing, were aUotted and released to Hugh and Margery Hastings. In 12 Edward IIL, the manors of Elsing and Wesenham were conveyed by fine, between 9 Vide post. i Esc. 19 Ed. II., n. 22. 2 R0t. Pat. 13 Ed. II., n. 37. THE EARL WARREN'S FIEF. 193 " Hugo de Hastynges chivaler " and Margery his wife, querents, and Ralph de Hastynges, chivaler, Edmund de Lexham and Nicholas de Lammer, chaplains, deforcients, to Hugh and Margery for their lives, with remainder to John and Hugh their sons, and ultimately to the right heirs of Hugh the son.3 In the assessment for the aid levied 20 Edward III. (1346-7), Hugh de Hastings and John Camoys were both entered as tenants of two knights' fees in Gressenhale, Wesenham, and Lexham ; of half a knight's fee in Tyteshale, held under them by IsabeUa de Bagthorp ; and of one fee in Skerning, held under them by Henry le Lacy and John de Rothinge. The one-fourth in Lexham held by John Gurney was said to be held of John Camoys only, and one-fourth in Hoo to be held of Hugh de Hastings only. Sir Hugh, the father, died in 1347 ; 4 and Margery, who survived him, on the 8th [or 20th] August, 1349.5 Sir Hugh Hastings [II.] the second son of Margery, died in 1369, leaving another Sir Hugh [III.] his son and heir, who had two sons, Hugh [IV.] 6 and Edward; and, on the death of Hugh [IV.] the elder brother, in 1396, without issue, Elsing and Wesenham came to Edward his brother, as right heir of Sir Hugh Hastings [II.] TJpon the death of John Hastings, the elder son of Hugh [I.] and Margery, which occurred on 31st August, 1393,7 Edward Hastings, his grand nephew, was found his heir-at-law, and succeeded also to Gressenhale and Lexham; and thus the FoHot fees became reunited in him. This Edward, who was born on the 21st May, 1382, at the manor of Fenwyk in Yorkshire, was knighted, and proved his age, in 1403. He caUed himself Lord Hastings and StuteviUe. The touching story of his contest in the court of chivalry, with Reginald Lord Grey, for the right of bearing the arms of Hastings entire, the sentence pronounced against him, his imprisonment and death, forms a romantic episode in the history of the House of Hastings, The FoHot inheritance, however, was not involved in those proceedings, and I pass them over. For the aid levied by King Henry IV., in 1402, for marrying his daughter Blanch, Edward Hastings, Knight, then in ward to the king, as a minor, was taxed for two knight's fees in Gressenhale, Wesenham, and Lexham, held of the Duchy of Lancaster. The half of a fee in TittleshaU was then held of him by the Prior of Cokesf ord ; the fee in Skerninge by John Peyntor and John Sterlinge ; the fourth of a fee in Hoo by WiUiam atte Chirch ; and the Prior of Castleacre was said to hold one-fourth part of a fee in Kempston of Edward Hastynge, in pura et perpetua elemosyna. From him these lordships descended, in direct male line, untU the death of the last John Hastings in 1542, without issue, when they devolved upon his sisters and coheirs, as shewn in the Pedigree. The early portion of this Pedigree is derived from Eyton's History of Shropshire; the latter parts from a roll in the possession of Charles Richard Browne, of Elsing HaU, Esq., one of the representatives of the Hastings family. The proofs are mainly taken s Rot, Fin. 12 Ed. TIL 4 Inq- P-m. 21 Ed. III. 6 Inq. p.m. 23 Ed. III. R Inq. p.m. 10 Richard II. 7 Inq. p.m. 5 Henry IV. 2 C 194 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. from the "Minutes of Evidence " given before the House of Lords in support of the claims to the Hastings Peerage, and the inquisitions post mortem there printed. From these inquisitions we observe that, in the one taken after the death of John Hastyngs in 1477, the advowson of the church of GressenhaU only is named as appendant to that manor : in that after the death of Sir Hugh Hastyngs in 1488, those of Brysle and Stanfeld, and also of the chapel of Nicholas of Rougholme, are likewise mentioned. But Brisley and Stanfield had gone with GressenhaU for many years previously. The chapel of Rougholm, which was founded by WiUiam de StuteviUe, temp. Henry IIL, wiU be alluded to afterwards. Sir George Hastyngs, who died in 1511, was found also to have died possessed of the manor of Heymers in GressenhaU and Hoo, and of the watermiU caUed Gryndmille in North Elmham, and lands belonging. Sir Hugh Hastyngs, his son, had purchased other lands in Wesenham and Rougham of John Bekham, as well as at Elsing and elsewhere. We find that friendly relations existed between the houses of Elsyng and Hunstanton in 1508, when Sir George Hastyngs and Robert Lestrange entered into an arrangement for the marriage of their children, then of tender years. By deed, dated 7th August, 23 Henry VI. , Sir George covenanted, upon the marriage of his then eldest son and heir apparent, John Hastings, or any other of his sons who for the time being should be his heir apparent, with Katherine Lestrange, one of the daughters of Robert, to settle the manors of Elsyng and Wesenham to the use of the said Robert for eleven years, remainder to Katherine for life, or to Elizabeth Lestrange, another daughter of Robert, for life, if it happened she should marry said John Hastyngs, or any other son of Sir George for the time being his heir apparent ; and, after the death of Katherine or EHzabeth, as to Elsyng, to the right heirs of Sir George, and as to Wesenham, to the heirs of his body. Gressenhall and East Lexham were to be limited, in the first instance, to Sir George for Hfe, with remainder to Katherine, and so forth. Sir George Hastyngs died 11th June, 1511, and the guardianship of John, his son and heir, was granted to John Lestrange and Sir Robert Drury, Knt. John Hastyngs however survived but a brief period ; and, dying 10th Feb., 1513-14, his brother Hugh, then nine years old, became heir, and on 24th April, 1523, was married to Katherine Lestrange. Hugh, then a knight, died at Elsyng, 14th December, 1540, leaving Katherine surviving, who afterwards married Serjeant Thomas Gawdy ; and John, their only son, died in the following year, 8th January, 1541-2, only eleven years old. The heirs of Sir George Hastyngs were then his two daughters; Ann, between fourteen and fifteen years old, and Elizabeth, between ten and eleven. The wardship of Elizabeth Hastings, the younger daughter, had been granted by the Crown to Sir Anthony Browne, K.G., Standard Bearer of England ; and he by his wiU gave it to his youngest son Francis, who was intended to have married her, but she disappointed him, and married her cousin Hamon le Strange, the great-nephew of Katherine her mother, instead. The executors of Sir Anthony Browne thereupon took legal proceedings against Le Strange for the value of her marriage ; and Sir Nicholas le Strange, Hamon' s father, gave security to Francis Browne for one thousand marks, for which the THE EARL WARREN'S FIEF 195 executors released him, 21st December, 1552. WilHam Browne, the second son of Sir Anthony, married Anne, the elder daughter. Sir Anthony had probably purchased the marriage of both daughters. A partition was made of these ladies' inheritance, under which Elsing and Wesenham were assigned to William Browne and Anne. Hamon le Strange and EHzabeth had GressenhaU and Lexham, with Heymers, &c. From a memorandum roU of the Exchequer of 18 EHzabeth, 1573, being the record of proceedings to obHge Hamon le Strange and EHzabeth bis wife to shew the Crown by what title they held those manors, it appears that Anne Browne was then dead, leaving issue, and WiUiam Browne held Elsing and Wesenham as tenant by the courtesy of England. Hamon and EHzabeth were ordered to do homage for their manors and lands. In such proceedings a settlement of these estates by fine in 14 EHzabeth is fuUy set forth. The estate having thus become divided, the future descent of the parts is postponed for further notice. Pedigree shewing the descent of the Manor of Gressenhall. Wimer, Dapifer or Steward =f= Gilla. to Will, de Warren, 1st Earl of Surrey, 1090. (a) Roger Fitz Wimer,=j= Dapifer to William, 2nd Earl of Surrey, temp. H. I. (b) Walter. WUUam Fitz Roger ,=j= Aliva. Dapifer. Oddo.Drogo. Roger Dapifer.= " r WiUiam, surnamed = de Gressenhale. (d) WUliam. Berenger de Cressi, 1st husband, s.p.= Isabel, : WiU. de Huntingfeld, 2nd husband, da. & hr. living 6 Ric. I. (e), ob. 1220, s.p. by Isabel. = Osmund de StutevUe, 3rd husband, Uving 1215, ob. ap. Joppa cUc. 1220. 2, Ermentrude, da. of ,== WUUam de StutevUe,=f= 1, Margaret, da. of Hugh de Say, widow of Stephen de Cressi. " ' '' of Brantingham, co. York, (/) mar. 1219, ob. 43 Hen. IIL 1259. of Ricard's Castle in Hereford, reUct of Robert de Mortimer, 15 Hen. ni. 1219, defuncta 1242. Roger de Stutevile. Robert de StutevUe,= Joan, da. of Osmund, Margery, sister and hr.=p Richard Foliot, occ. 3 Ed. I. (g) ..it ttt __ -nr.'ll Torhnf nh an nf -Robert, de Stntmnlfi. nb. 27 Edward T. 1 299. 59 Henry III. s.p. Will. Talbot. ob. s.p ob. 27 Edward I. 1299. Jordan Folyot,= aged 60, 1299, ob. eod. an. = Margery, ob. 3 Edw. III. bur. at WendUng Abbey. Edmund FoUot. Richard FoUot,=r= Cecilia. aged 15, 1299, died bef. 1316. | (a) Beatrice.= Simon de Steyngrave. 2 c 2 196 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. (a) L — 1 — ] Richard FoUot, Margery, sister and coh.= Hugh Hastings. ob. 19 Edw. II. 1325. mar. before 1 June, 1330, infra etat, s.p. then about 17. Margaret, sister & coh.— John de Camoys. mar. be. ore 1 June, 1330, then about 16. Arms of Stutevile : Per pale arg. and sab. a saltire counterchanged. Arms of Foliot : Gules, a bend arg. Arms of Hastings : Or, a maunch gules. AUTHORITIES FOR PEDIGREE AND NOTES. (a) Wimer was a witness to the charter of the foundation of Castleacre Priory in 1090, to which he MmseU was also a benefactor, and in which it appears he became a monk. He had a nephew Geoffry the chaplain, and another, Sewal. (b) The name of Eoger son of Wimer, also a benefactor to Castleacre, occurs as a witness to the charter of the second Earl Warren before 1135, as does that of Walter, brother of Roger. (c) In charters of Eoger son of WiUiam son of Roger, we get the names of Aliva his mother, Oddo his brother, William his brother, Walter son of Wimar, and William, Walter's son ; and there is a charter of Drogo, another son of William. To one of these the name of Fulcher or Fulk de Gressenhale occurs as a witness ; to another that of Falk son of Ordin (q. Oddo P) AU these are earUer than 1148. We have also that of WilUam son of Fulcher. (d) William son of Soger the dapifer, who was caUed de Gressenhale, was lord of the town of WendUng, under the Abbat of Bury St. Edmund. Bobert de Stuteville, his great grandson, was a benefactor to the abbey there in 1273. (e) Wm. de Huntingfeld, lord of East Bradenham, was Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk 11 to 15 John, and was one of the twenty-five barons appointed to enforce the provisions of Magna Charta. He died hi or before the year 9 Henry III. 1224. In 8 Richard I. 1196-7, by fine, in which Richard de Lechesham was petent and WUliam de Huntingefeld and Isabel his wife were deforcients, sixty acres of land in Lechesham, " et totam brueriam de chemino de Norton usque Harthornesgate," were exchanged for twenty acres in Lucham, thirty acres in QuenhUl, two acres in the same town, and four acres of bruery, " que tangunt capud novi fossati ejusdem Willelmi." (f) William de Stutevile founded the chapel of St. Nicholas in Gressenhall at Rougholm cir. 34 Henry III. The great manor of GressenhaU extended into aU the parishes of Brisley, BUney, Hoo, Skerning, Stanfield, and Horningtoft. (g) Richard FoUot was son of Jordan Fohot by Beatrice his wife, sister and coheU of Robert Bardolf, which Robert was son of Hameline Bardolf, who was brother of William grandfather of Doun Bardolf. Another daughter and coheUess was wife of .... PageneU or PayneU, and mother of RaU PayneU. GRESSENHALL. Annexed to an inquisition, taken in the County of York, after the death of Jordan Foliot, is a return of the lands and tenements held by him in the County of Norfolk, made on 19th July, 27 Edward I., and containing a full survey of the Manor of GressenhaU, the name of every tenant, the description and extent of his holding, the amount of his rent, and the nature of his service. The manor is mentioned as held of the Earl Warenne in capite, by the service of eight knights' fees and a half, and suit at the earl's court at Castleacre from three weeks to three weeks. The demesnes of the manor contained a THE EARL WARREN'S FIEF. 197 messuage with curtilage and gardens, worth ten shillings per annum; seventy acres of arable land, at fourpence the acre ; six score acres of wood, worth £1. Is. 8rf. ; another wood, called Oldehalle Ker (Carr), containing forty acres, and yielding yearly 6s. 8d. ; 12a. 2r. of grass land, valued at 6s. 3d. ; two windmills and one watermUl, worth together twenty shillings a year. Amongst the names of the free tenants (forty tenements) are those of Reginald de Gressenhale, Alina ele Herteford and Alice her sister, Simon de Hereford, Walter de Northalle, Reginald de Jakesham, Richerus de Skemigg, the heirs and tenants of the lands of Henry de Brisele. The yearly amount of free-rents being £5. 18s. The viUan and customary tenures and services are also fuUy set forth. Payments in oats are valued at Is. Ad. the quarter. The number of days' work, their value, and the summary of rents are unfortunately so defective in the MS. that I cannot answer for the exactness of the copy which I give amongst these " evidences," post. No other town than GressenhaU is named, but the manor extended into Brisley and Stanfield. An attentive perusal however of this survey, as copied, wiU shew that a day's work in harvest time was estimated at l±d., a day's dung-carting the same, the ploughing of an acre of land at 3d., sowing the same with two bushels of oats at 5cl., and reaping in summer time at ld. the day. Weeding was charged at one farthing the day. The value of a hen was Id., and five eggs one farthing ; a capon l|rf. For instance, one messuage and one acre of land was held by the rent of three days' work in harvest time or l±d., payment of a hen at Christmas or one penny, and five eggs at Easter or one farthing. There is in the muniment room at Hunstanton a MS. in the handwriting of Sir Hamon L'Estrange, containing extracts from court-roUs of the manor of GressenhaU, wherein it is recorded, amongst other tenures, that in 27 Henry VI. John Aggas held the manor of Northendhall in Scarning of the lord of Gressenhall, by knight service; that the manor of Overker in Stanfield and Bilney, was held by fealty ; that Nicholas Booking, in the 36th year of that reign, held one knight's fee in Tittleshale ; Thomas Sparkes held the fourth part and a knight's fee in Hoe, formerly Sampsons Littlewell in Hoe, which WilUam atte Church late held ; that John Heydon held the moiety of one knight's fee in Skarning, formerly of Henry de Lacy and John de Bitering, by homage to the lord, of which John Agges held the other moiety ; and in the 37th year of the same king, Thomas Kettleston paid twelvepence for the respite of his homage for the manor of Harfords in Gressenhall, held of the lord of Gressenhall by knight service ; also that in 7 Edward IV. John Booking, son and heir of Nicholas Booking, deceased, did homage to John Hastings, son and heir of Edward Hastings, late lord, for the manor of the said Nicholas, caUed Newhall in Tittleshall, held of the manor of GressenhaU by the service of one knight's fee. The manor of Linford is mentioned as held of the lord of Gressenhall by knight service, by the Prior of Thetford ; as is land in Congham, in Thorpe, and Estwinch, by the Prior of Pentney ; lands in Brisley and Horn ingtoft, late of Nicholas Castell; in Taverham and Draiton, in Irmingland, and other places. In the inquisition p.m., Sir Hugh Hastings, 1541, the manor of GressenhaU was valued at £62 a year; the manor of Wesenham at £21. lis. 8d. ; the manor of Est lexham at £16. 13s. Ad. 198 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Pedigree of Hastings. Theodore. =f= Walterus Diaconus. =f= 1086. (a) [ Tedric. Robertus d'Estan,: de Hastings, or Mascherel. Walter Mascherel, = or de Hastings, temp. H. I. I : Hawisia, Alexander de Waham,= or de Wikes, temp. Hen. I. ; Alice. WiUiam son of =f= Robert, 1165. William de Hastings. (A.) William. "Edith.=f= SewalUs. Robert de Hastings.=j= da. and hr. of WUUam de Windsor. Ralf de Hastings. John de Hastings.1 i RaH de CornhiU.= DeUcia de Hastings ^ Godfrey de Louvain. -f- (a) Walter the deacon, Galterus diaconus, is named in Eoomsday as a tenant in capite in Essex and Suffolk, and in Norwich. In Coxford Hundred, Suffolk, " Babaubergam tenet Galterus, et est de feodo Thedrici fratris sui." In Stow, " Teodericus antecessor Walteri diaconi." In Essex, "In Bura tenet Galterus ij hidas de terra Teddrici fratris sui." (A.) Hugh de Flamville, defunctus 1130. Eobert de F. 1100-1117, ob. s.p. WilUam de Hastings,=p AUcia H Erneburga de FlamvUle,= sole heU to her father and undo, occurs 1130. defunctus 1 1 30, [of Fillong- ley], lord of Ashele or Ashill in Weyland Hun dred, and Steward to King Henry I. sister and (in her issue) heir of Maurice de Wind sor of Eton, Berks. Maurice de Windsor, kinsman and heU of Radulf , Steward of St. Edmundsbury, occ. 1115,'19, 'SO, and after 1135, ob. s.p. : 2, Hugh de Hastings, mar. cUc. 1130, def". 1163 [1201.] 1, Ralf de Hastings, Wm. de Eton. Steward of St. Edmunds- John. bury and Steward to Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, occ. 1155-58, def". 1163, s.p. Thomas, a quo Hastings of Gissing, Earls of Huntingdon. 2, Thomas de Hastings, occ. AprU, 1182. WiUiam de Hastings, =f= Matilda, widow of Wm. Cumyn Steward to King Hen. II. and of St. Edmund's, occ. 1163, def*. 1182. and da. of Thurstan Banaster of Cheslure, superst. 1199, ob. circ. 1222. 1, Henry de Hastings, nat. circ. 1168, inf. vet. 1182-8, plen. set. 1190, ob. 1194, s.p. 2, WilUam de Hastings,1 succeeded his brother 1194, occ. June, 1222, ob. cue. Jan. 1226. ^Margery, da. of Roger Bigod, Earl of Norf. ob. 31 Mar. 1237. Henry de Hastings, had hvery Jan. 28, 1226, ob. 1250. it Ada, da. of David and younger sister and cohr. of John le Scot, Earl of Huntingdon & Chester, ob. 1247. Ida.= Steghen de Sir Henry de Hastings,1 infra setat 1250, plen. setat 1258, ob. 1268, summoned to Parhament as Baron Hastings 1263-64. — Esc. 52 Hen. III. n. 43. Bur. in Grey Friars, Coventry. (») : Joan, da. of WUl. and sister and (in her issue) coh. of George de Canti- lupe, Baron de Bergavenny, superstes 1269, buried at Coventry. Margery de Hastings. HiUaria or Eleanor, 2nd wife of Will. de Harcourt. THE EARL WARREN'S FIEF. 199 Edmund de Isabel, eld. da.=f= Sir John de Hastings,: Hastings, of WilUam de born at Ashele 1262, a Baron in Valence, Earl 2nd Baron, ob. 6 Edw. 1298. of Pembroke, II., 9 March, 1312. 1 ux., ob 3 Oct. 1305. : Isabel, da. of Hugh = Sir Balf de le Despencer, Earl Monther- of Winchester, 2nd mer, Earl ux., mar. bef. 1308, of Glouces- ob. Dec. 1334. ter and Hereford. SU John de Hast ings, 3rd Baron, aged 26 mort. pat. ob. 15 Edw. II. 1324-5. : JuUana, da. & hr. of Sir Thos. Ley- bourne. She mar. 21y,1325-6,Tho.le Blunt ; 31y, 1329, WUl. de Clinton, Earl of Hunting don, & ob. 1367. Joan.^=Will de Huntingfeld. Eliz. or = Eoger Isabel. Lord Grey de Ruthyn. Margaret. Thomas Hastings, eld. son, by Isabel, Despencer, ob. vita mat. 6 Edw. III. 1331, s.p. SU Hugh Hast- = ings I. heir to his brother Thos. in 6 Edw. IIL, heU of his mother 9 Edw. III. 1334, then aatat 24, ob. July 21 Edw. III. 1347, bur. at Elsing. i n Audra.= Rhys ap Meredith. Lora. Joan. 'Margery, da. and coh. of Sir Richd. FoUot of Elsing & Gressenhall, mar. bef. 1 June, 1330, ob. 23 Edw. IIL 1349, August. SU Lawrence de = Hastings, 4th Baron, set. 6 mort. pat., created Earl of Pembroke 13 E. III. By 1 wife, da. of Earl of St. Paul, s.p. Ob. Aug. 22 Edw. III. 1348. : Agnes, 2 w. da. of Roger, Lord Morti mer, after wards Earl of March. John Hastings, a. & h. set. 21 mort. pat., ob. 31 Aug. 17 Ric. II. 1393, s.p. SU Hugh Hast-: ings II. 2 son, ob. 1369, onCalkeweU HiU. = Margaret, da. of Sir Adam Ever- ingham, will dat. Nov. 25, 1375. SU Hugh Hastings,=^= Anne, da. of Edw.=?= Thomas, III. s. and h., ob. 6 Nov. 10 Ric. II. 1386, in Spam. Lord de Spencer, ob. 5 Henry VI. Lord Morley, 2nd husb. IsabeUa.= John de Rochford, sett. 10 Edw. III. Maud.= R. de la Mare. Margery.= 1, SU Nic. CasteU of Horning toft ; 2, SU John Boyland. Sir John de PIastings,: only son, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, inf. set. 2 mort. pat., K.G. By 1 w. Princess Margaret, da. of Edw. III. s.p. Ob. AprU, 49 Edw. III. 1375. :Ann, 2 w. da. & hr. of Sir Walter Manny, K.G. Hugh Hastings IV.= Sanche, s. & h., set. 9, 1386, da. of Sir ob. Nov. 20 Ric. II. Walter 1396, s.p. Blount,occ. 6 Hen. IV. Sir Edw. Hastings,^ Meriel, da. of Sir bro. and hr. to Hugh 1396, plen. aet. 1403. On the death of Jno. last Earl of Pem broke, he claimed the Barony as hr. gene ra], and died in the Fleet Prison 6 Jan. 17 Hen. VI. 1436. John Denham, 16 Edw. IV. 1st wife. Margery, da. of Sir Robert Clifton of Denver, 2 wife, sur vived, & afterw. mr. Jno. Windham, Esq. 1440, '46, '53. Sir John de Hastings, only son,= PhUippa, da. of Edmund, Earl setat 2 mort. pat. , 3rd Earl of Pembroke of March ; she mar. 21y Richard and 6th Baron Hastings, slain in tourna- Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundel ; ment at Woodstock 30 Dec. 13 Ric. II. 31y Tho. Poinings, Lord St. 1389, s.p. John, ob. 2 Sept. 2 H. IV. 1400. John Hastings, Esq.=f= Anne, da. only surviving son and hr. set. 26, 1436, ob. ap. Elsing April, 17 Edw. IV. 1477, bur. at Gressenhall. of Lord Morley. 1, Sir Hugh Hastmgs,=p Anne, da. of SU s. & h., set. 30, 1477, ob. 7 WUl. Gascoigne. June, 3 Hen. VII. 1488. 2, Edmund Hastings. (B.) 3, Robert Hastings. 4- (c.) SU John Hastings, s. and h., setat 22, 1488, ob. 12 July, 19 Hen. VII. 1504, s.p. [Q. whether he did not marry Katherine, da. to Sir Joseph Ash, who was his widow ?] 2, Sir George = Hastings, br. & hr. set. 30, 1504, ob. 4H. VIIL 1512, 11 June. = Anne [Joane] da. of Alexander Brabazon of Estwell, co. Leic. Uving his widow 11 Hen. VIII. EUzabeth,= da. to John Leyk. 3, SU Bryan =j= Anne, da. Hastings. of Thos. Partington. Sir Francis = Hastings of Hartfelde, co. York, 1554. :Jane, da. of Edw. Rast- wold, Esq. TT I I Dorothv.= St. Quintin. Jane, 6 Edw. VI. W Ann.= John Wentworth of ElmsaUe. Christian.^ Francis Fro- bisher. Mary.= Philip Copley, son of Sir Will. Copley. — rrrm Muriel = Sir Ralph Euro. Elizabeth,= Sir [?Jane]. Ralph Salven. Isabella. = Sir John Hotham. . .= . . Gryssacre. Ann.=. . Wastlyn of Lincolnsh. Katherine. = Sir John Melton. 200 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. (0 John Hastings, s. and h. set. 14, 1512, 10 Feb. ob. 5 Hn. VIII. 1514, s.p. SU Hugh Hast-: ings, bro. & hr. set. 9, 1514, ob. 32 Henry VIII. 1540, at Elsing, Dec. 30. Katherine, da. of Robt.= Thomas le Strange of Hunstan- Gaudy, ton, Esq. 24 Apr. 15 Hn. Esq. VIII. WiU dat. 6 June, Serj.-at- 1557, then widow of Tho. law. Gaudy, proved 21 June, 1564. Bur. at Elsing, 2 Feb. 1558. Martyn Hastings,: of Hindringham, Esq. Will dated 3 Aug. 1574, bur. at Elsing 25 Oct. following, s.p. John Hastings, s. & h. set. 10, 1540, ob. 8 Jan. 33 Henry VIII. 1542, s.p. Anne Hastings,=j= Wm. Browne, Esq. sister and cohr. born 24 Feb. 20 Henry VIII. 2nd son of SU An thony Browne, K.G. EUzabeth Hast-: ings, sister and coh. bn. 6 Sept. 24 Hen. VIII. : Hamond le Strange of Hun stanton, Esq. s. & h. of Sir Nic. le Strange. = 1st, Ann, Anne.= John da. of Jeffry NeweU. Mabbs of Binham, Esq. 1 w. mar. bef. 1541, bur. at Elsing as Amye, 3 Jan. 1562-3. 21y, Mary, da. of Thos. StutvUle of Dalham, Suf. Esq. and reUct of James Brigge of SaU, Norf. Esq. Mar. at Elsing 9 August, 1564. (B.) Edmond Hastings, of t= Mary, da. of Sir Roger Hindringham, Esq. 2 son. I Wodehouse of Kimberley. William Hastings, s. and h., ob. s.p. John Hastings.1 John, Uving 6 Edw. VI. . . da. of Wollastone. A daur.= .... Browne of Lincoln. A daur.=. . . . Stanley. Anne.= 1, Robert Reymes of Overstrand, Esq. 2, Richard Calthorpe of Antingham, Esq. (C.) Robert Hastings, 3rd son,=p Elizabeth, da. of John Thwaites of Elsing, Esq., dead in or bef. 1505. of Hardingham, Norf. Esq. William Hastings, s. & h , ob. before 5 July, 1507, inf. setat, s.p. Hugh Hastings of Elsing,=j= Constance, sister of Gent. WUl dated Feb. 13, 1545, proved 19 May, 1546, buried at Yaxham. Richard Calcote. Henry Hastings of Yaxham,=p Elizabeth, da of GUes Sefoul Gent, dead in or before 1558. I of Waterden, Esq., survived. r-r-TT Giles,Francis, John, George,lOdward, aU s.p. Margaret, da. of = Thomas Hastings: Tho. Stutville of of Hindringham, Dalham, Suff. 1619. Esq 1 w. s.p. = Frances, 3 da. of Tho. Tyrcll of Gipping, Suff'., Esq. 2nd w. living 4 Apr. 1620. (-0 EUzabeth. = Robert Yarrom [or Harrowe.] Anne.= Thomas Lane of South Creake. Catherine.^ Charles Stutteville of ElsinK, Gent. Anne.= Henry Alsop of co. Salop. Alice, ob. s.p. THE EARL WARREN'S FIEF. 201 (d) _j 1, Martyn =p Elizabeth, da. of Hastings, Uving 1619. Thomas Browne of Elsing, Esq. 2, Thos. Hastings,=f= Elizabeth, Uving 1619, 1644 ; dead 1667. 1, Martyn H. of Thornage, WiU dt. 1668, then of Nor wich, Gent., prov. Archd. Norw. 1669. I l l Charles.WUUam. Francis. 2, Francis =p H. of Nor wich 1664, Uv. 1669. "X1 • Dionis. Judith. 4, Hen. Hastings1' of London 1619, Goldsmith. Hannah Hastings, wUe of Richard Warner, Esq. of EUnham. 1, Robert H. of Barney, Gt. 1667, wm dat. 21 July, 1682. 'EUz. da. 2, Thomas. of ... . 3, Roger. survived. — Frances. James Hastings, living 1670. Anne, da. and coh. mar. Fountayne Elwin of Thurning, Gent. Joyce, da. and coh. mar. Christopher Mynns, Gent. Arms : Or, a maunch gules. :Ann, da. of Alex. Godwyn of Abbotts Brom ley, co. Staff. Frances. Elizabeth. 3, James, ob. beyond sea, s.p. WUl dat. 24 Aug. 1670, prov. 5 Oct. foUowing. 5, Phillip, Uving 1619, of Brining- ham. 6, Robert, s.p. of Barney. Margaret, da. and coh. mar. John Rant, after 1703. GRESSENHALL EYIDENCES. CHARTERS IN EVIDENCE-ROOM AT HUNSTANTON. S. d. Henry III. Sciant, &c, ego Adam fil Henf de Gressinghal concessi, &c. Thome fil Henf Ordin de parva bitering pro homagio, &c. [2 acres of land "in campo de magna Bitering" abutting on lands "Symois fil Roge metild quam tenet de me, Robti de la gore, Ric fil Wilh mercatoris, Henf fil Heruei, &c] Hus testib|, Thoma de Herford, Warino fil suo, Galfrido de bitering, Ricardo ijting, Olyuero pygate, Henf fil hamois, Thome de Ingelwele, Robto de ho, WiUo de Herford, Warino fil suo, Symone de bradenis, Ricardo franceis, Robto de la gore. [Seal gone.] S. d. Henry III. Sciant, &c, Hfir fil Oliueri Pigor de Gressinghal concessi Thome de Wynkal un acra, &c, le Elderlond, &c. Hiis testibj, Diio Baer de freuill, Thome de Herford, Warini fil suo, Galfrid de Bitring, Alex de Gresinghal, Alex de Skerning, Ad. fil Petr, Rog. de Herford, Ricard de le Nab. [Seal gone.] S. d. Henry III. Sciant, &c, Gocelinus de Topcroft assensu, &c, margaret uxof mee dedi, &c, Thome de Wynkel unam peciam terre vocat le Bothinelond in Germundescroft in campis de Gressinghal, &c. Hhs testibus, Dno Rob de Stutevill, Alexand' de Gressinghal, Ric de Bradehfh, Ric de Bavent, Alexand' de Skering, Ric de le nab, Ada fil Pet, Rog' de Nerford, Petro de Ingeringehoe, WiUo dicun de Launghm, Jacobo de Munesle, Ohuero Pigur, &c. [Seal gone.] [Will de Gressenhale fihus Walteri de Gr.— Reg' Castleacre.— Ric fil WiU. de Gr., Henry de GressenhaU.— P. Le N.] 24 Edward I. Sciant &c, Margareta fil Johis Burel de Ho, concessi, &c., WiUo fil Radi ad Eccha, de Ho, &c. Curtilagium in Gressenhale. Hiis testibus, Martino de Ho, Willo de Herford, Gervas atte Bur, Walter de 2 D 202 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Northal, Rog'o Omelyn, WUlo Louas, Willo de massinghfh, WiUo Brochard, John Sheep, Rado fil suo, Thom de Blakefeu, Johe ad Ecclm, &c. Dat apd Ho die mart px' ante fest sci Laurencii anno r. regis E. xxiiij. [Seal a pointed oval.] 14 Edward II. Sciant, &c, WiUus fil Radi ad Eccham de Hoo, &c, Thome et Willmo filliis meis, &c. Test., Robto de Hoo, Gervasio atte Bure, &c. Dat. 14 Edward LT. 1 Henry IV. Grant from Petrus Hertyng de Gressenhale, Johannes de Merton persona ecclesise ejusdem, Thomas Stanton de Est derham, and Ricus de buxton. Testibus, Simone attebek de longham capeUano, Johe dekon capeUano. Dat. 1 Henry IV. Conveyance from Hamon Lestrange of Hunstanton to Wilham Stanhow of Est derham of messuage in GressenhaU, dated 10 June, 20 EUzabeth. Inquisition p.m. 27 Edward I., No. 49, memh. 9. NORFF. Inquis de tris et ten que fuerunt Jordani ffoliot in Com Nofff coram Esc' Dni Reg' fca apud Derham fhcatum decuo nono die Jul' anno r. R' Edwardi vicesimo septimo p sacfm Rici de Belhous Johnis de Wygenhale Johfiis de Dunham Johnis de Harsyk Egid de Hulmo et Radi de Nuiun Milit Thom de Wesenham Johnes de Lexham Alexandr le Estraunge Radi de Bynetree Thom le Gloz et Johnis ffrere de Est Derham. Qui dicunt sup sacfm sufi qd pdcus Jordanus nichU tenuit de Dno Rege in capite in Com pdco die quo obut. Dicunt eciam qd predcus Jordanus tenuit man'ium de Gressenhale in dnico suo vt de feodo die quo obut de Comte Warrenfi in capite p s'uiciu vUj feod milit et di et sect faciend ad Cuf predci Coin de Castel Acre de t'bus septim in tres septim. In quo quidem man'io est vnfl mes cum curtilag et gardinis et valet p ann' ij sol'. Sut eciam ibidem lxx acf tre arabU' que valent p ann' xxiijs. Uijd. pciu acre uijd. Sunt eciam in pco vj1* acf bosci vnde j> ficuu valet p ann' xxvjs. vujd. Est eciam ibidem quid aUus boscus qui vocatur OldeeaUe Ker qui continet in se xl acf emi} jpficuu' valet p ann' vj sol' vujd. Sunt ibid de prato falcabili xij acf et di debit" que valent p ann' vjs. Ujd. Sunt eciam ij molend ventritica et vnu' aquaticum que valent p ann' xx sol' stilt quib? p se vj sol' vujd. Sm UijK. nijs. xjd. Lib'e ten'. Dicunt eciam qd Regin de Gressenhale tenet vnu' mes t'ginta acras tre et redd p ann' xxj sol' Ujd. ad festa pent Sci Mich'is et Puf be Maf p equales porcones. Alma de Herteford et AUc' soror eius ten vnu' mes et xl acf tre et reddunt p ann' x sol' ad eosdem Eos p equal' porcoes. Waltus Danemark tenet vnu' mes xx acf tre et redd p ann' vj sol' ad eosdem tmios. Heredes Walti Crowon ten iij acf tre et reddunt p ann' xvd. ad eosdem tm. Ric'us Vue ten vnu' mes et ij acf tre et redd p ann' vd. ob' ad eosdem tmios. Thom le Clerck tenet vnu' mes vj acf tre et redd p ann' iijs. yd. ob' ad eosdem Eos Joh's de Fremle tenet vnu' mes et ij acf tre et redd p ann' ixd. ad eosdem tmios. Simon Tipping tenet vnu' mes x acf tre et reddunt p ann' v sol' cf ad eosd tmios. WiUfhs filius Radi atte Strete tenet vnu' mes ij acf tre et redd p ann' xixd. ob' . Henf fihus Stephi tenet unu mes iiij ac'r Ee et di et fac in autupno Uj pear ptii jd. ob et dab ad nat Dni vna gaU' pen jd. et ad pascha v ova pen cp. Henf ad pontem ten vnu mes xv ac'r Ee et fac' in autupno hj pear ptii jd. ob et ad nat Diii j gaU' p jd. et ad pascha v. ova ptii $. Johnes TJlwyne tenet vnu mes ij ac'r Ee et fac sect ad cur de hj septim in hj septim. BeaE' Schelle tenet vnu mes et v. ac'r Ee et faciet hj pear in autupno pcii jd. ob et ad nat Dni j gall' pen jd. et ad pascha v ova ptii cp. Phils GunuUd tenet vnu mes j ac'r Ee et di et j rod et fac sect ad cur p totu ann— Steph's atte Gatesende tenet vnii mes vj ac'r Ee et faciet in autupno vj pear pcii ujd. et ad nat Dni ij gall' pai ijd. et ad pasch' x ova pen ob. Edms cler et Joh's ff eius et Henf fihus Ric'i tenent vnu mes iiij ac'r Ee et faciunt in autumpno ix pear pen uij ob. Et ad nat Dni hj gall' ptii iijd. et ad pascha xv ova pen ob q,. Rob's Henun tenet vnu mes ij ac'r Ee et fac' in autupno iij pear precii jd. ob et ad nat Dni j gaU' pen jd. et ad pascha v ova pcii q, Galf 'is le monn' tenet vn' mes di ac'r Ee et fac in autupno hj pear pen jd. ob— ad nat Dni j gaU' et ad pasch' v oua ptii q,. WiUms fihus Gilbi tenet vnu' mes iij acf et j rod Ee et fac' in autupno hj pear pen jd. ob ad nat Dni j gaU' pen jd. et ad Pascha v oua p q>. Johnes Hare tenet vnii mes ij acf Ee et di et facit in autupno Uj facar pen jd ob ad nat Dni j gaU' pcii jd. et ad Pascha v oua pcii . Henf Paxeman tenet vnu' mes iiij acf Ee et facit in autu'pno ix pcaf p iiijd. ob ad Nat Dni tres gaU' pen ujd. et ad Pascha xv oua pen ob q, et fac' hj auerag' cu' vna carecta et ij equis pcii xijd. pc auerag' iiijd. WiUms Dytemay ten j cotag' j acf Ee et fac' in autumpno hj pcaf pcii jd ob ad Nat Dni j gaU pen jd. et ad Pascha v oua ptii q. Rog's de Hoo ten' vnu' mes vij acf Ee et fac' 2 D 2 204 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. in autu'pno vj pcaf pcii iijd. ad Nat Dni ij gall' ptii ijd. et ad Pascha x oua p ob. Rog'us Beltere tenet vnu mes hj acf Ee et fac' in autumpno vj pcaf pen Ujd. et ad Nat Dni ij gaU' pch ijd. et ad Pascha' x oua pcu ob et fac' hj au'ag' p ann' p xijd. Ric'us Kempe ten' vnii mes' xij acf et facit in autu'pno hj pcaf pcu jd. ob et ad Nat j gaU' pen jd. et ad Pascha v oua pcii . WUlms atte Mere ten' vn cotag' j acf Ee et di et fac' in autup nj pear pcu jd. ob et ad Pascha v oua pcii cp et ad Nat j gaU' p jd. WiUms NorthaU ten' vnu' mes' vj acf Ee et fac' in autu'pno vj p'car pen ujd. et ad Nat Dni ij gaU' pen ijd. et ad Pash' x oua pch ob John'a Hubyn tenet vn' cot dimid acf Ee et fac' in autu'pno uj pcaf pcii jd. ob et ad Nat Dni j gaU' pen jd. et ad Pascha v oua jjtii cp. Thom de Massingham ten' vn' mes' xij acf Ee et fac' in autup'no hj pcaf pcij jd. ob ad Nat Dni j gaU' p jd. et ad Pascha v oua jStii q>. Ric'us fiUus Joh'is ten' vnu mes' viij acf Ee et Robs Tannate v acf Ee et redd ad Pascha x oua pc' ob. WiUms Randchoke ten' vn' mes' uj acf Ee et dimid et fac in autu'pno ix pear pcu iujd. ob ad nat Dni Uj gaU' pc' Ujd. et ad pascha xv oua p ob qj et fac' hj auerag' p ann p xijd. ptiu' auerag' Uijd. Johnies le Heyward ten' j Cotag' dimid acf et j rod Ee et fac' in autu'pno hi pear pch jd. ob ad nat Dni j gaU' pcu jd. et ad Pascha v oua pcii qa Ricus de Tetil tenet iuj acf Ee et facit ad Pascha v oua. Ric'us le Heyward tenet vnu' mes v acf Ee et fac' in autu'pno Uj pcaf p j d. ob ad Nat Dni j gaU pch jd. et ad Pascha v oua jjtii q|. Simon fiUus Galff ten' vnu' mes' v acf Ee et facit in autu'pno hj pcaf p jd. p jd. ob ad Nat Dni j gaU p'cii jd. et ad Pascha v oua pcu q$j. Alex' fiUus Simon' ten' vnu' mes' vuj acr Ee et fac' in autu'pno ix pear pen uijd. ob ad Nat Dni nj gall' jptii iijd. et ad Pascha xv oua p ob q,g. Radu's Belte ten' unu' mes' di acf Ee et fac' in autu'p uj pear, pcij jd. ob ad Nat Dni gaU ptii jd. et ad Pasch' v oua p q?. Robs Fuke ten' vnu' cotag' et facit in autu'pno ix pear pen Uijd. ob ad Nat hj gal' p Ujd. et ad Pascha' xv oua pcu ob qg. WiUms Sakelyn ten' vnu' mes' vij acf Ee et facit in autupno ix pear p' Uijd. ob ad Nat' Dni Uj gaU' p'cU Ujd. et ad Pascha' xv oua p' ob qg. Robs fiUus Thom ffabf ten' ij mes' ix acr' t're et facit in autu'pno xij p'caf p'cu vjd. ad Nat' Dni iuj gaU' p'en Uijd. et ad Pascha xx oua pcu jd. Robs Bercaf ten' j cotag' j acf et dimid Ee et facit in autupno hj p'car' p'cii jd. ob ad Nat Dni j gaU' p'cu jd. et ad Pascha v oua p'c qj. Joh'es atte Heth tenet vnii cotag' j acf et fac in autupno hj p'caf p'cu jd. ob ad Nat Dni j gaU' p jd. et ad Pascha v oua p'cii qj. Galfis ad Ponte ten' unfl mes' x acf Ee et facit in autu'pno Uj p'car p'cu jd. ob et Nat j gaU p' jd. et ad Pascha x oua p' ob et fac nj auerag' p'c xijd. p'c auerag' Uijd. Henf Aylmer ten' vnu' mes' vuj acf Ee et fac in autu'pno Uj p'car p'cu jd. ob ad Nat Dni j gall p'cu jd. et ad Pascha v oua p' qg. GaUena Bukeman et Henf ff eius ten' vnu' mes iiij acf Ee et faciut in autu'pno vj p'car p' iijd. et ad Nat ij gaU' p'c ijd. et ad Pasch x oua p'cii ob. Henf Galyoman tenet vnu' mes hj acf Ee et dimid et unam rod et fac' in autu'pno uj p'car p'cu jd. ob et ad Nat j gaU p' jd. et ad Pasch' v ouu p'cu qj. Rog'us Suton ten' vnu' mes x acf Ee et fac in autu'pno hj p'caf p'cu jd. ob et ad Nat' Dn'i j gaU' p'c jd. et ad Pasch' v oua p'c qp. Thom Vnderwode ten vnii mes j acf Ee et facit in autupno uj pcaf pen jd. ob' j gall' pcii jd. ad Nat Dfii et ad Pascha v oua pcii cp. Thoih Skeyt ten vnu mes xx acf Ee et facit in autupno hj pear p jd. ob et ad Nat Dfii j gaU' pen jd. et ad Pascha v ova pen q,. Lesent Paunch ten vnu mes hj acf Ee et d'i et facit in autupno iij pear pcu jd. obi ad Nat Dni j gall' pcii jd. et ad Pascha v oua pch cp— John'es GUfrey ten' vnfl mes hj acf Ee et di et factit in autupno vj pear pcii iijd. et ad Nat Dni ij gallin' pch ijd. et ad Pascha x oua pcu ob'— Rob's Panch ten' vnu mes iiij acf Ee et fac in autupno iij pear pch jd. ob' ad Nat Dni j gaU' pcii jd. et ad Pascha v oua pcii cp— Rog'us Giffe ten vn mes et vj acf Ee et facit in autupno hj pear pch jd. ob' ad Nat Dni j gall' pcii jd. et ad Pasch' v oua pcii q— Henf Panch ten vnu mes ij acf Ee et d'i et facit in 205 autupno vj pcarp iijd. ad Nat Diii ij gaU' p ijd. et ad Pasch' u oua jich ob' Radus Panch ten vnu mes ij acf tre et facit in autupno iij pear pcii jd. ob' et ad Nat Dni j gall' pcii jd. et ad Pascha v oua pch q — Johnes Panch et Rob's filius Willfhi ten ij mes xj acf Ee et fac in autupno vj pcaf pcii iijd. et ad Nat Diii ij gaU' pch ijd. et ad Pascha x oua p ob' Johns Astil ten vnii mes iiij acf et fac in autupno vj pear pch iijd. ad Nat Dfii ij gaU' pch ijd. et ad Pascha x oua poii ob' — Goscehn' fiUus Rob'i Astil Rob's Brm et Ricus Skeyt ten hj mes x acf Ee et faciut in autupno ix jicar pen Uijd. ob' ad Nat Dni iij gaU' p iijd. et ad Pasch' xv oua pen ob' q> — Rob's DaUy ten vn' mes j acf Ee et facit in autupno iij jpcar pcii jd. ob' ad Nat Dni j gaU' pcii jd. et ad Pasch' v oua pcii q? — Johnes filius WalE Nich'us Helfere ten ij mes viij acf et faciut in autupno xij pear pen vjd. et ad Nat Dni inj gaU' pcii iujd. et ad Pasch' xx oua j3 jd. Radus Leff ten vnii mes ix acf Ee et fac in autupno hj pear precii jd. ob' ad Nat Dni j gaU' pcii jd. et ad Pasch' v oua q> Thom Leffe ten vnu' mes xvj acf et fac in autupno ix pear pch hijd. ob' et ad Nat Dni iij gaU' ptii iijd. et ad Pascha xv oua pch ob' q? Will's atte Hil et fres eius ten vnu' mes vij acf Ee et fac in autupno xij pear jpeii vjd. ad Nat Dni iiij gall' pcii iiijd. et ad Pasch' xx oua jjtii jd. Henf Crips et Muriel Spitekake ten vn' mes xj acf Ee et redd ad Nat iij gal' pcu ujd. et ad Pasch' x oua j5 ob'. Joh'nes le Neweman et Leuena Humfrey ten vnu' mes v acf Ee et fac ad Nat j gaU' precii jd. et ad Pasch' x oua jich ob'. Matill' le Rede ten vnu' mes j acf Ee et redd p ann' ij b? di auen pch vd. ad nat dni. Symon le Mylur ten vn' mes xj acf Ee et redd ij qrt di auene p'cu Ujs. Uijd. ad Nat Dni. Rog'us Wrag ten vn' mes ij acf Ee et redd ad Nat Dni ij gaU' p'ch ijd. et ad Pascha v oua p'cii q>. Alexander Pynet et Henf Ascelyn ten ij mes v acf Ee di et faciut ad Nat Dni vj bus auen pcii xijd. ij gaU' pch ijd. et ad Pasch' x oua precii ob. Adam Druggerunghuit et Walt'us ff eius ten vn mes ix acf tfe et redd iiij bj auen ad Nat Dni pen vujd. et j capon pch jd. ob et ij gaU' pen ijd. et v oua pch q> et fac vnu auerag cu' carect sua et val? Uijd. Ric'us Humfrei ten vnu' mes iiij acf tfe et redd ad Nat Dni ij b} auen pch hijd. ij gaU' pch ijd. et ad Pascha v oua pcu q;. Adam Brumger ten vnu' mes xxiiij acf tfe et redd ad Nat Dni vj buss' auene p'cu xijd. et ij gaU' p'cii ijd. Petr Vincent et Joh'nes Vincent ten vnu' mes et ij acf tfe et reddunt ad Nat Dni inj gall' p'cii iiijd. x oua p'tii ob et iuj caupon p'cii vjd. p'c caupon jd. ob. Matild Kembale ten vnu' mes j acf tfe et di et redd ad Nat' Dni j b? auen p'ch ijd. j gaU' p'cu jd. et v oua p'cu q? ad Pascha. Will'ms le Lethe et pcenar sui ten j mes vij acf tfe et reddunt ad Nat' Dni iij capon p'cii iujd. ob j gall' p'cu jd. et ij bj auene p'cu iujd. et fac xvj cariag ad boscum caf que valent viijd. p'ciu' cariag ob. Matild de Holbeck ten vnu' mes viij acf tfe et redd vnu' qr et di auene ad Nat' Dni p'ch ijs. et ad Pascha ij capon p'ch Uijd. et ij gaU' ad Nat' Dni p'cii ijd. et v oua p'ch q> ad Pascha Adam Crachemale Symon atte et Robs tenent t'a mes xviij acf tfe et redd p ann' iij qr di j buss' auen' scilt' ad fm Sci Mich's p'ch hijs. xd. p'ciu' qr xvjd. et ad Nat' Dni ij gall' p'tii ijd. et ad Pascha ix oua p'cii ob. Agn' fiha maur ten vnu' mes v acf tfe et redd vna gaU' ad Nat' Dni p'cii jd. WiUms le TaiUur, Vincentius GUbert, Bafilia Bache, et WUlms Martyn ten iiijor mes ten v acf tfe et redd ad Nat' Dni xj gaU' p'ch xjd. et j capon p'ch jd. ob ad eund tm et ad Pascha xv oua p'ch ob gp. MatiU' Loumyn et soror eius ten vnu' mes et vj acf tfe et redd p ann' ad fm Sci Mich' v buss' auen p'cu xd. et ad Nat' Dni j gaU' p'ch jd. et ad Pascha v sua p'ch qj. Vine' de Holegate ten vn' mes iij acf tfe et unam rodam et redd ad Nat' Dni hj buss' auen p'ch vjd. et ad Nat' Dni j gall' p' jd. ad Pascha v oua p'ch cp. Alex' Wymer, Ricu's Gilberd redd ad Nat' vj gaU' p'cii vjd. et ad Pascha ij capon p'cii ujd. et x oua p'cu ob. Henf Kembald Math' fil' Be .... t Letitia atte Bregg redd ad Nat' hj gaU' p'tii Ujd. et xv oua p'cii ob q, ad Pasch' Symon Hobild Holm Ba . . . . et Rog'us Druggerung f ad Pascha nj capon p'ch hijd, ob p' capon jd. ob. Rad'us Teale, Thom Skeet, Rad'us Leffe, Joh'nes de Argwell, Rob's fiUus Willmi, Emma atte ffere, Adam Brun, Rob's le Neweman, et Emma filia Nich'i ten ix mes xxxij acf tfe equal'r et faciu't in aut' xxvij p'cof p'ch hjs. ujd. ob p'ciu' p'car jd. ob et ad Nat' ix gaU' p' ixd. et ad Pasch' xiv oua p'ch ijd. q, et stiend qd quihbet facit equaU porcone. Henf Pistor et Goscehng Christian ten ij acf tfe et faciu't in autupno ij p'car p'ch jd. et ad Nat' j gaU' et di p' jd. ob et ad Pasch' vij oua et di p'cii q, et di, stilt quobi, alt'o anno. Duns Ohartres ten vnu' mes xxx acf tfe et facit in autu'pno iij p'car p'tii jd. ob. WiUms ad Fontem et Will's Wodehuset ten vnu' mes et j cotag' et ij acf tfe et di et faciu't in autu'pno vj p'car p'tii iijd. et ad Nat ij gaU' p'cii ijd. et ad Pascha x oua p' ob. Joh'nes Dode ten vnu' mes iiij acf tfe et facit in autu'p ij 206 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. p'car p'cii jd. et ad Nat' Dni j gaU' et ad Pascha x oua p'ch ob. Walt'us BaUe tenet vnu' cotag' j acf tfe et di et facit in autu'pno hj p'car p'cu jd. ob et ad Nat' Dni j gaU' p' jd. et ad Pascha v oua p'ch cp. Galfis et Joh'nes Helewys ten ij mes xxxv acf tfe et faciu't in autu'pno hij p'car p' hijd. et ad Nat' Dni iij gaU' p'ch iijd. et ad Pascha xv oua p'tii ob q> . Radus Corpe ten viij acf tfe et fac in autu'pn j p'car et di p'ch ob q, et ad Nat' di' gall' p' ob et ad Pascha ij oua et di' p' d q, Item sunt ibidem x villain quog quibt, eo? ten vnu' mes xxiiij0' acf tfe et quibt, eo? sarclabit p iij dies in est et valet opus q, et quib' eog faciet in autu'pno xxxvj opa ad cibu' dni et val' ob. Itfh quUibet eo* cariabit fimos cu' carect' p ij dies ad cibu' dni et valet op9 jd. ob et quib' eo? dabit ad Nat' Dni j gaU' p'cu jd. et ad Pasch' v oua p'cu q, et quib' eog arabit j acf ad st'agesim et val' hijd. et quib' sem de auena sua ,pp'a sup dcam tf am ij buss' de p'c vd. et falcabunt in estate quibt, eog p hj dies et val5 dieta jd. Itm quib' eo? .... bosci cont' .... iij dies et valent Ujd. et quib* eog dabit vnu' capon ad Nat' p' jd. ob. Sm opum sarclatuf xxx opa p' vijd. ob p'ciu' opis q, Sm opum autu'p ccclx p'ch ws. p'ciu opis ob. Sm opum ad fimos ad cariend xx opd p' ijs. vjd. p'c opis jd. ob. Sm gall' x p'cu xd. Sm ouog 1. p'cii ijd. ob. Sm opum arure x p'ch ijs. iujd. p' . . . Sm auene hj qr' j buss' p'ch hijs. ijd. p' qr' xvjd. Sm opum falcaconis xxx p' ijs. vjd. p'ciu' op'is jd. Sm op'um bosci cariand' xx op'a p'ch ijs. vjd. p' op'is jd. ob. Sm capon .... vd p'ciu' capon jd. ob. Rob's de Ponom'cato ten' vnii mes xij ac'r Ee et faciet in estate j opus et di pch qj ad blada sarcland et in antupno xviij opa ixd. j5ciu opis ob' et fac vnii ad fim cariand p jd. ob' et ad Nat Dni di gaU' pen ob' et ad Pascha ij oua et di pch d q' et arabit di ac'r Ee pen ijd. et sem sup dcam Eam j bj j pekke auen pch ijd. ob' et falcabit p di die et valj ob' et cariabit vj carect bosci pch . . . . et dabit di capon ad nat pch ob q? Rob's ffulcher, Ricus Backe, Adam Gern'e, et pcenar sui tenent mesuag' xxxvj ac'r Ee et faciut ad blada sartcland hj opa pch ob' q$ et in antupno lxx opa pch vjd. jpc' opis ob' et arabunt di acr Ee et valj ijd. et sem sup dcam Eam ij b? j peck .... ijd. ob' et fac' iiijor opa ad fimos cariand et valj vjd. pc' opis jd. ob' et dabunt ad Nat vj gaUinas pch vjd. et ad Pasch'a xxv oua pch jd. q, et ij capon pch hjd. Radus Drema tenet vnu' mes xij ac'r Ee et fac in antu'pno xvhj opa p ixd. pciu' opis ob' et ad Nat Dni j gaU' pch jd. et ad Pascha v oua pch qj et j capon prech jd. ob' et opab'r qUbet septima a f" sci ... . vsq> fm sci Joh' Bapt j opus exceptis iiijor septim sm xxxhj opa pc' vhjd. qj pc' opis q? Rob' Sewole ten' vnu' mes yj ac'r Ee et fac in antu'pno xij pear pcii vjd. et ad Nat Dni j gaU' pcU jd. et ad Pascha v oua pch q? j capon pch jd. ob' et fac a festo sci mich' vsq> gul' Augusti xxxviij opa pch ixd. ob' pciu' opis q> stilt qlj sept j opus p't° hij»r septim WUlms fUius Rog'i et Rog'us atte Shoppe ten' vnu' mes xihj ac'r Ee et fac in antu'pno xxv opa pch xijd. ob p'ciu' op'is ob et ad Nat' Dm ij gaU' p' ijd. et ad pascha x ova p' ob j capon p'ch jd. ob et fac a fo Sci Mich' usq,'Guf Aug'ti xxxviij opa p' ixd. p'c' opis ob et qbt, septima j opus exceptis vt s\ WiU'ms Mole et WiU'ms Duiggale ten vnu' mes xiij acf tfe et fac in autu'pno xxihj" opa p' xijd. p'c' opis ob et ad Nat' duas gall, p'ch ijd. et ad pascha x oua p'ch ob ij capon p' iijd. et a fs Sci Mich' usq, Gul' Aug' lxxvj opa p'cii xixd. p' opis q, scUt qbj, sept' ij opa vt sa MatiU' la strute et Thom Prikel ten vnu' mes et hij°r acf tfe et fac in autu'pno xv p'car p'ch vijd. ob p'c' p'car ob et ad Nat' ij gall' p'cii ijd. et ad pascha x oua p'c' ob et falcabunt p vnu' diem in estate et val' opus jd. et fac etia a f° Sci Mich' vsq, Gulam Augusti xxxviij opa p'c' ixd. ob . . . . septima j opus p'c' qt, except' hijor septim. Adhuc Gressenhal. Custumaf. NORFF. WiUms fiUus Walt'ri et Rog'us le Cupe et pcenar sui ten ij mes xihj acf tfe et fac in autu'pno xv opa p'tii vijd. ob et ad Nat' ij gall' p'ch ijd. et ad pascha x oua p'ch ob et j capon p'ch jd. ob et falcabunt p vnu' diem et valt, jd. Petf Auenaund, Ricus atte Brende, Dy . . . Tiffe, Walt's Spwe et pcenaf sui ten hij<" mes et xxj acf tfe equaU porcone et fac in autu'pno xij p'car p'ch vjd. et ad Nat' Dni iiij"' gaU' p'ch hijd. et ad pasch' xx oua p'ch jd. et Walt'us f j capon ad eund t'm p'ch jd. ob. Henf Spwe ten vnu' mes j acf tfe et fac in autu'pno hj p'caf j di, Thom Twede et Henf Cady ten vnu' mes vnu' THE EARL WARREN 's FIEF. 207 cotag et j acf tfe et fac in autu'pno vj p'caf p'ch hijd. et ad Nat' ij gall' p'cii ijd. et ad pasch' x oua, ob Lemna Leff ten vn' cot' et fac in autu'pno iij p'car p'ch jd. ob et ad Nat' vnam gaU' p'ch jd. et ad pasch' v oua qt, Ricus Corbyn, Whims Picher et pcenar ten ij mes xxvj acf tfe et fac in autu'pno vj p'car p'cii iijd. et ad Nat' ij gaU' p'ch ijd. et ad pasch' x oua p'ch ob et ad fm Sci Mich' j qr. vj buss, auene p'cii ijs. hijd. p'c' qr xvjd. Rads LuUeman, Henf Dase, et Edihs de Wisbeche ten hj mes xvj acf tfe et fac in autu'pno xviij p'car p'cii ixd. p'ciu' p'car ob et ad Nat' v gall' p' vd. et ad pasch' x oua p' ob. Huwelyn le Clutere et ffulcher' le Parker ten ij mes viij acf tfe et fac in autu'pno xihj p'caf p'ch vijd. et redd ad fm Sci Mich' j qr vj buss, auen p'ch ijs. iiijd. p'c' qf xvd. et ad Nat' j gaU' p' jd. et ad pasch' v oua p' q. Henf Trunende et Henf But ten ij mes ix acf tfe et fac in autu'pno v p'car p'cii ijd. ob et ad fm Sci Mich' vj buss, auen p' xijd. et ad Nat' Dm ij gaU' p'ch ijd. et ad pasch' v oua. Itfh quib vt p'scept custumar in dorso istius rot'h faciet vn' auerag p ann' p'cii hijd. Sin" auer xx auer p'ch vj sol' vhjd. Whims atte Strete senior et WiUms atte Strete junior et pcenar sui ten ij mes vij acf tfe et fac in autu'pno hij p'car et di p'ch ijd. 03 et ad Nat. Dni ij gall' p'ch ijd. et ad pascha x oua p'ch ob. Whims Styp ten vnii mes vhj acf tfe et redd Dno xxjd. vid5 ad fm Puf be Mar xvd. et ad Pent' iijd. et ad festum Sci Michis hjd. Wilhhs de Winkel et Will's fihus Rici de Wynkel ten ij mes xiij acf tfe et redd Dno iijs. vjd. ob qi, ad eosd eq'h porcone et ad Nat' Dni ij caupon p'ch hjd. Thom. Leffe ten vnii mes ij acf tfe redd dno vd. ob ab eosd t'ios. Radus Ghde et pcenar sui ten vnu' mes hj acr' t're et redd xijd. ad eosdem et fac in autu'pno ij p'car p'ch jd. et ad Nat' Dni j gaU' p'ch jd et ij capon p'ch iijd. et ad pasch' j caj5 p'ch jd. ob. Thom de Chttere et Symon Weyde ten unu' mes et vnu' cotag' et hj acf t're et fac in autu'pno vj p'car p'ch hjd. et ad Nat' Dni ij gaU' p'ch ijd. et ad pasch' x oua p'ch ob. Thom de Langgelond ten vnu' mes vj acr" t're et redd p ann' xjd. ob qt, ad t'mios suspsc'ptos eq porcon et facit in autu'pnb iiijor p'car p'ch ijd. et ad Nat' Dni ij gaU' p'ch ijd. et ad pasch' x oua p'ch ob ihjd. capon p'ch vjd. ad eund tm. Henf de Trunneme et pcenar sui ten vnii mes vj acf Ee et redd xvd. ad trs t'mios p'sciptos et fac in autu'pno hj p'car p'cii jd. ob et ad Nat' Dni ij gall' p'ch ijd. et ad pasch' x oua p'ch ob et hij" capon p'cii vjd. Adam Wrenne ten j cotag' j acf t're et redd p ann' ixd. ob ad t'ios p'dcos. Johnes de Bliclingg et pcen sui ten vnu mes vhj acr' t're et redd p anfi xvjd. ob ad eosd t'mios eq pore et fac in autu'pno hj p'car prech jd. ob et ad Nat' Dm ij gall' p'ch ijd. et uij01 capon p'ch YJd. et ad pasch' x oua p'ch ob. Walt'us Pelle ten vnu' mes et redd p ann jd. ob ad t'mios p'sc'ptos et hj capon p'ch ihjd. ob. Henr Sabyn ten vnu' mes et fac in aut' hj p'car p'ch jd. ob et vna gall' p'cii jd. ad Nat' Dm et ad pascha v oua p qt,. Henr' Martyn tenet vnu' mes hj acr" t're et redd p ann' ijd. ad t'mios p'sc'ptos et fac in autu'pno iij p'car p'ch jd. ob et ad Nat' Dm j gaU' p'ch jd. et ad pascha t' oua y'ch q-,. Rog'us Gurr' . . ten vnu' mes iij acf t're fac in autu'pno j p'car p'ch ob. Joh'nes Martyn tenet vnu' cotag' et redd p ann' vhjd. ad t'mios p'sc'ptos. Henf de Sco Claro ten- vnu mes viij acf tfe et redd' p' ann' vhjd. ob. q3 ad t'mios p'sffptos et faciet in autu'pno j p'car et di p'ch ob qi, et ad Nat' Dni vnam gaU' p'ch jd. et ad pascha v oua p'ch qt,. Emma Makefare ten vnu' mes et redd' p' ann' vjd. qt, ad t'mios p's'ptos et fac in autu'pno j p'car et di p'ch ob qt, et ad pascha v oua p' qt, et ad Nat' Dni j gaU' p'ch jd. Petr. de DiUington ten vnu' mes vj acr' t're et redd' p ann' xixd. ob ad t'mios p'sc;ptos. Symon Petyt ten vnu' mes vj acr" t're et redd p ann' vjd. ad t'minos p'se'ptos et fac in autu'pno iij p'car p'tii jd. ob. Walt'us Petyt ten vnu' cotag' j acr' t're et redd p anu' jd. ob ad t'mios p'se!ptos eq pore'. Sma redd custumar, xvs. hjd. Sma redd aven, xx qf ij buss' auene p'ch xxvijs. p'ch qf xvjd. Sma opum, cccxxxiij opa p'ch hijs. xd. q> p'cia opis Sm" auerag'. Sn> opum, vj opa p'ch hjs. vij. p'cia opis Sm* opum ad . . . cariand xxxvij opa et di p'ch hjs. jd. ob p'ciu' opis Sma opum ad blad sarcland Sm» opum, , xxxij opa et di p'cii ijs. vhjd. ob. 208 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Inq. p.m. 19 Edward II. Inq. ap. fakenham dam 24 July ao. r. r. Edward' fil r. Edw. xix. Ricus fil Ric Fohot — non tenuit ahquos ten, &c, in Norff. et Suff. in cap. — seis de maneriis de Gressenhall et Wesenham que quidem man. tenentur de Johe de Warenn com. Surf et Sussex p serv' unius feod mh et dj — maner de Gressenhall cum ptin valp ann in oibus exitibus iuxa veru' valore xK. Et manerium de Wesenham cu .ptin val. p ann' xviijK. Et dicunt quod Margeria et Margareta sorores — heredes, &c.' — Marg. etat xij. — Margareta xj. Et quod pf d Ricus fil. Rici Fohot obht infra etatem et pdcus Com. Surr. et Suss. co. tempore fuit seisitus, &c. maner de Gressenhale noie custodis racone etatis minoris etat ejusd. Et quidam Joh'es Nerford die obitus pdic Rici fuit seisitus de man de Wesenham concessione et dimissione pdi Com. qui hlud co concessit usque ad plen. etat.1 Edwardus, &c. Mandamus quod scire fac. IsabeUe de Hastyngs cui custodiam ppartis pfatam Marg'iam, &c, tenen. que fuerunt pfati Rici fratris sui et etiam Rado de Camoys sui custodiam partis Margaretam — comisimus usq ad legit, etat. Test, xxhj Sept. 19 Edw. [Mem. of execution indorsed.] Compertum est p inquis capta et in cane, recom. qu'd Ricus fil. Rici Fohot tenuit, &c. — Manef de Gressenhale et Wesenham de Johe Warenn com. Surr. p servicium feodi unius mihtis. 6 Jun. a0 r. xyiij. It. comp. &c, de feodis militum que fuerunt Adomar de Valenc nup com. Pemb. int feod de Castelacre qd heredes de FoUot ten. novem feoda et qf tam ptem feod. in GressenhaU, Ellsinge, Wesenham, Rougham et ahbz. — T. ap. Tonnbrigge xxviij die Junii, a0 xvij.2 It. in pticoe feodog pdm comp. est qd. dee 9 feod. assign fuerunt Laurencio fil. et hered. Johis de Hastings xxij die March a0 xvhj. 9 et J feod. mh. in Gressenhale, Wesenham, Elsyng, Lexham, Witherfeld, Grymeston, Skirnyng, &c, Oxwyke, Athling, &c, Hoo, Brisele, &c, quod vocatus Chetvhl in eod. com. que Ricus FoUot et tenentes sui tenent et que ad . . . hdi. Fin. Norf. 12 Edw. III. Int. Hugo de Hastyngges Chivaler et Marg. ux. ejus quer.— Radulphum de Hastynges Chivaler, Edm. de Lexham, Nichum de Lammer capeU. def.— maner de Elsingge et Wesen ham com. Norf.— jus Edmi qui cone. Hugoni et Margerie p vitis reman. Johi fiho eog. — R. Hugoni fratri— reman, rectis hered. Margerie, — Ug. 58. Fin. 35 Edw. III. Int. Johem Epm Lincolne et al. quer.— Henr. Ducem Lancaster def.— in Line. Staff. North' ton— 39 feod. mil. et 4 pt. un. feod. mil. in [inter aha] Rougham, Fransham, Greysinghale, Lexham, Elsing, Wesenham, Stanfield, Brisleye, BUney, Titleshale, Westlexham, Skerning, et Ho— Jus ipo? Episcopi Comitis et heredum suorum — Ug. 78. Fin. 38 Edw. III. Int. Hugon de Hastings Chivaler et Marg. ux. ejus, quer.— Ricum Maulever parsonem eccUe de Fishlake, def. -de medietate maner de Elsing et Wesenham. Jus Rici qui concessit Hugoni et Marg. in taUo ipsis et heredibus de corporibus — Ug. 125. Fin. 16 Hen. VI. Int. Edward Hastyngs mh. et Marg. ux. eius, 0.— Johem Heydon et Reginald Rous, def.— de maneriis de Wesenham, Norf., et Cretingham, Suff.— jus ipsius Johis, qui cone Edwardo et Margar. pro vita— rem. hered. Edri p.m. W.— ahud m. eis in taUio. Inquis. p.m. Hugonis de Hastynges, 21 Edward III. 1348. Inquis. capta apud Swafham in com Norff., &c, xv die Augusti a" r R. E. Ill, xxj- p sacrm Alani le Rous, &c, Qui dicunt, &c, Hugo de Hastynges defunctus non tenuit aliquas, &c, in Norff. de Rege in capite-tenuit Elsing, &c. Et dicunt shit qd' idem Hugo tenuit die quo obht maniu' de Wesenham cu' ptm' m eod' com Norff. cojuncti cu' Marger. ux'e sua ad turn vite et post decessum pd'co* Hugonis et Marger. defh maniu' cu' ptin' Johi et Hugoni fil. co? dm et hered. Hugonis remaneat imp'petuu' in forma ' Inq. p.m. 19 Edw. II. n. 22. » Inq. pm 17 HwJ n> n> ?5 THE EARL WARREN'S FIEF. 209 p'dca et qd. dcm maniu tenet' de Henr' com Lancestre sit de pquis Thoih nup' com Lancastie avu'cli sui cuj' heres ip'e est ut de honora de Castelacr p' s'vic' q'rte p'tis uni8 feod. mh. Est ibid' unu' mes q'd val. p' an' xijd. Itm su't ibid' c. acr' arrabiT que val. p anfh xyjs. viijd. It. est ibidm de redd' ass' p' anni xl8. ad t'ios usual'. It. opa s'vic' et cosuetud' custumar val. p' annu' xs. It. p'la et p'quis cur' cu' leta val. p' anih vjs. vhjd. Et die' qd' ibih Hugo obht Sabti pr' an' fm Sci Jacobi ultio p't'ito. Et q'd Johnes fil. ejusdfh Hugonis est heres ej' p'pinquior et etat xxj annoa et amphus. — Min. of Evid. in Peerage, p. 63. Inquis. p.m. Hugonis de Hastyngs, 10 Ric. II. 1386. Inquis. capt. apud Lenwad' in corn Norff. xij die mens. Aprilis a0 r. Reg. Rici II. xm° — coram Simone Baret, esc, &c. Qui dicunt, q'd Hugo Hastyngs chivaler — non tenuit — in capite — set tenuit die quo obht conjunctim cu' Anna ux'e ejus adhuc sup'stite man'ia de Elsyng et Wesenhih cu' p'tin' in com Norff. una cu' advocatione ecche de Elsyng ex dono et feoffament' Clement WaUsh' et Thome Calwer cl'ico? tenend. p'd' eis Hugoni et Anne et hed. int. eos legitime p'creat' quequid man'ia tent1 de Johe duce Lancastr. ut de feod. Warenn' p' s'vic' militare excepto quod' redditu assis' [p' p'ceUa de Elsyng]. Et dicunt qd p' d'cus Hugo obht vj die Novembr ultimo et qd Hugo fil. p'd' cog Hugon' et Anne est h'res ejus p'pinq. et etat' ix annO| et ampUus. — P. 67. Inq. p.m. Johannis Hastynges, 17 Edward IV., 1477. Inquis. capt apd le Shyrehows infra Norwicu' in com Norff. (1 Oct. a°. r. Edw. IV. 17°.) coram Johne Penley eschaet, &c, p s'cfm Robti Morley armig'i, Johis Bernard armig'i, Johis Jermi armig'i, Thome Jermey armig'i, Johis Bumpstede armig'i. Johis Bukenhm armig'i, Thome Astley armig'i, Thome Sefoul armig'i, Clementi Herward armig'i, Robti Broun armig'i, Thome Sekford armig'i, Thome Hevenynghm armig'i, Robti Walshe et Thome Jermyn jurat, Qui dicunt — qd Johnes Hastyng armiger — nuU' — tenuit — de Rege — set qd idm Johnes diu ante obitu' suu fuit seis de maner de Wesenh'm Gresenhale Estlexham et Elsyng — simul cu' advocacone ecche de Gresenhale — man'io de Gresenhale spctant'z appendent' ac de advocatione de Elsyng. Et sic inde seis idm Joh'nes Hastynges de p'dls man'io de Wesenham cu' ptin p' quand carta sua— in evidenc' monstrat' feoffavit Joh'nem duce Suff., Joh'nem dnm Denh'm, Will'm Gray ep'm EUen's, Robt Wyngfeld, Ric'm Harcourt mihtes, Joh'nem Heydon, Henricu' Heydon, Wili'm Harleston Edm Bokenham Ric'us SouthweU armig' os WiU'm Hather et Thoma Palme clic'. — Ac ultus qd pdcus Johnes Hastynges de pdict manef de Gressenhale Estlexham et Elsyng siml cu' advocacoibp — seis' dedit eadm man'ia, &c, pfat Joh'i duci Suff., &c, p quandam aUam carta, &c. — Dicunt, &c, qd omia et singula maner' de Wesenham, Gressenhale, Estlexham, et Elsyng, &c, tenent' de Elizabt' Regina Anglie ut de ducat' Lancastrie in com p'dict' p' s'vic' mUitare et qd p'dict' maner de Wesenh'm cu' prin' valet p' annu' ulta repfis xK. Et qd diet' manef de Gressenhale simul cu' advocacoe ecche de Gressenhale cu' p'thi' valet p annu' ult1 rep's viginti Ubras. Et qd diet' manef de Est lexham cu' p'tin valet p annu' ult» reprls decem hbras. Et qd dict manu' de Elsyng, &c., valet p' annu' ulta repris viginti marcas. — Dicut, &c, obht apd Elsyng p'dict' die Marcurii in septia Pasche ultio jam p't'io et qd Hugo Hastynges miles est fihus et h'res — etat triginta ann et amphus. — Evid. p. 73. Probacio etatis Edwardi Hatsyngs chivaler, ffis Hugonis Hastyngs armigi, fil Hugonis Hastyngs chivaler, fil Hugonis Hastyngs chivaler, ffis junioris Johis Hastyngs, fil Hugonis Hastyngs chivaler, ac consanguinei et hedis ejusdem Hugonis patris Johis defuncti, capta apud Carleton die Sabti in vigiha see Trinitat anno r. r. Henrici quarti, &c, quarto, coram, &c, virtute brevis, &c, per sacrum, 4c, qui dicunt, &c, quod dictus Edwardus Hastyngs, &c, fuit natus apud manium de Fenwyk in com. Ebor. et in capeUa Be. Marie in Campis infra parochiam de Campsale fuit baptizatus, fuit etat xxj anno|j xxj die Maij ult pEto, &c. 2 E 210 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Inquisic. capta apud Selby die Sabti px ante festum Sci Martini in Yerne anno regni (Henry VI. 17.) Et die. qd deus Edwardus obijt sexto die Januarh ult prito et qd pdcus Johes Hastynges fihus pdci Edwardi est heres ejus ppinquior et est etatis viginti et sex annog et amphus. 2 Dec. 16 Henry VI. Relaxio Margarate, nup vxor Edwfi, dni de Hastings, Johi Hastings ar. fiUo et hered pd Edfi, in olb? terf nup pd Edri, in Ebor et Notinghm. Ebor. Inq. apud Pountefrete (24 March, 32 Henry VIII.) post mortem Hugonis Haistynges mihtis nup de Elsyng — Norff., &c. Seis, &c, in sepahbus tenuris, &c, Francisci Haistynges arm.1 (and others) per indent (11 Dec. 32 Henry VIIL) dimisit Martino Haistynges arm, Hugoni Haistynges, Francisco Reymes et Henrico Haistynges gefiro', &c. Testamentum 14 Dec. 32 Hen., &c. Pro maritagio fiUarum ejusd Hugonis, &c. Fin. term Sci Hilarii 29 regis ult Martin et Annam uxorem quer ; et Hugonem et KaEnam uxorem def, &c. Hugo Haistynges miles apud Elsyng obiit (29 Dec.) ult Johes H. fihus et heres — temp mortis— fuit etat decem annog, &c. Inq. p.m. Hugonis Hastynges mil. 4 Henry YII. 1488. Inquisico capta apud Baldeswelle in com Norff' (25 Sept. anno 4) coram Edwardo Clopton armig'o eschaetore, &c, p sacrih WiUi Folcard gentilman Joh'is Thomys, &c, qui dicunt, &c, qd Hugo Hastyngges miles — null' tenuit — de rege— qd idem Hugo diu ante obitii suu fuit seit de et in manhs de GressenhaU, Est lexhm, Elsyng, et Wesenhm — simul cu advocaeSib? eceliaK de Gressenhale, Elsyng, Brysle, Stanfeld, et capelle Sci Nich'i de Rougholm in Gressenhale pdea pdict manhs spectantibj et appendent. Et sic inde seits idm Hugo — p quanttm cartam suam — feoffavit Henricu Heydon et Thomam LoveU mihtes p noia Henrici Heydon et Thome LoveU armigog ac Ricm Southwell, Johem Dabney, et Thomam Medylton armig'os necnon et Johem WhUamson el'icum h'end, &c. — Dicunt eciam — qd omia mania, &c, tenent' de dno rege ut de ducatu suo Lancastf p serviciu mihtare. Et qd dem maniu de Gressenhale simul cii advo- cacoib? ecchag de Gressenhale, Brysle, Stanfeld, et capeUe Sci Nich'i de Rougholm pdict valet p annu ultra repris xxxK. Et qd diet maniu de Est lexham cum ptin valet p annu ulta repris sli. Et qd dem maniu de Elsyng cii advocacoe, &c, xx marc. Et qd dem maiiiu de Wesenham cii ptin valet p annii ulta repris xK. Dicunt insup — pdcus Hugo Hastynggez miles obht septimo die Junii ultimo — et qd Johes Hastynggez armiger est filius et heres — etatis viginti duo? anno* et amplius. — Evid. p. 75. Inq. p.m. Johannis Hastynges mil. 20 Henry VII. Inquisitio— apud Norwic' in le Sher Howse— xx"10 die Aprilis (anno 20 Henry VII.)— sup sacrih Robti Bulwar, &c— Qui deciunt— qd Johes Hastyngez miles, &c— nuUa tenuit— de Rege— sed— fuit sei'tus de et in manhs de Gressenhale, Estlexham, Elsyng, et Wessyngham— cii advocacoib? eccUa* de Gressenhale, Elsyng, Brysele, Stanfeld, et capelle Sci Nich'i de Rougholme in Gressenhale pdict pdictis man spectantibj et appendentibj et sic, &c, feoffavit Thoma LoveU miUte p nomen Thome LoveU armig'i habend, &c. Dicunt ecia, &c, tenent'— de diio Rege ut de ducato suo Lancastf, &c. [valet, &c, ut supra]— obht xh die Julii a- xix°, &c, et qd Georgius Hastyngez armig' est frat et hef, &c, etatis xxx'0 annos et ampll.— Evid. p. 77. 1 SU Francis Hastings of Hartefelde, co. York, living anno 1 Mary. THE EARL WARREN7 S FIEF. 211 Inq. p.m. Johannis filii Georgii Hastyngs, 6 Henry VIII. 1514. Writ dated 18 Feb. 5 Henry VIII. Inquis. capt. apud Henghih in com. Norff. (3 Nov. R. Henry VIII. 6) coram WiUo Gryce armig'io escaet, &c, p' morte Johis Hastyngs filh et hered Georgii Hastyngs militis— p sacrih, &c— Qui dicunt— qd dcfis Georgius Hastyngs fuit seisit de manhs de Gressinale, Elsyng, Wesenhm, et Estlexham. Et, &c. — dca mania tenent' de diio Rege ut de ducat suo Lancastf p s'vic' quatuor feod miht. set si p'dcus Georgius Hastyngs obht seisit' annon— nesciut set dims Rex p suas literas patent post morte dci Georgii dedit — tam custod corpis dicti Johis Hastyngs qm custod omi manerio? — Thome Boleyn milit et Johi Sharpp miht p nomen Johis Sharpp que fuer dci Georgu tempof mort sui Hend, &c, durant minof etate ejusdfh Johis, &c. Shit — qd dcfis Thoihs Boleyn et Johes Sharpp concessef quibusdfh Robto Drewry miht et Johi Lesfunge armigo — custod, &c. — et qd pcus Johes Hastyngs obht decimo die Februarii ultio — et qd Hugo Hastyngs fihus junior dicti Georgh est frat et heres ejus, etat8 novem anno?. — Evid. p. 79. Inq. p.m. Hugonis Hastyngs militis, 33 Henry VIIL, 1541. Norff. Inquisico indentat capt apud castrii Norwic' — xxvij0 die Aprilis anno, &c. (33) p sacrih WiUm Lambe gent, &c. Qui dicunt, &c, nulla — tenuit de diio Rege in capite, &c. — qd Georgius Hastyngs miles pater pdci Hugonis cujus Georgii heres ipe est diu ante obitu ejusdem Georgh fuit seit — in manhs de Gressenhale, Estlexhm, Elsyng, et Heymors cum omibj suis jitm in villis et campis de Gressenhale, Est- lexhfh, Elsyng, Wesenhm, Skernyng, Byteryng Ma, Hoo, Bylney, Brysley, Stanfeld, Hornyngtoft, Oxewyke, WeUnghfh, Wesenham, Pagrave, Dunhm Magna, Kempston, Fraunsham Magri, et Barsham ac eciam de et in uno molendino aquatico voc' GryndmyR cii ptin in Northelmehm necno de et in viginti acris terf quadragent acf prati et uno denaf redd cfiptin in Northelmhm pd. BylUngford, Bealows, et Worthyng, ac de et uno mesuag', &c, in Northtuddenham. Ac qd p'dcus Georgius Hastyngs sic, &c. — in considera- cone maritagh — celebrand int quandih Johem Hastyngs ad tunc fiiliu et hered apparefi ejusdem Georgh sen' alique aliu filio*; ejusdem Georgh et extunc heredem apparefi diet Georgii existen et KaEna Lestraunge fiha Robti Lestraunge armig'i, &c, p quandam indentura, &c. (7 Aug. Henry VIII. 23) pred Georgius — convenebit, qd faceret bonum statum in lege Thome Darcy militi dno Darcy, Rado Evers, Johi Evering- ham, Robto Drury, Nicho Vaus, Pho Calthorp mUitib?, Willo Evers arnrig'o, ac Johi Heydon militi adhunc armigef existen, Johi Wentworthe, Rogero Towneshend miht, p nome Rogeri T. armig'i, Johi Lestraunge, Rico Lyster armig'is, Johi Smyth, et Rico Base cl'icis, de et in p'dcis manhs, &c. Habend, &c. — videl' qd starent — seiti, &c, de et in man'hs de Elsyng et Wesenham — ad opus, &c, Robti Lestraunge— ad terminu undecim anno* — et post, &c. — ad usfi p'dce Katerine Lestraunge, ad terminu vite — et post ejus decessum ad usum Elizabeth Lestraunge alie filie ipius Robti Lestraunge si contingerit ipam Elizabeth fore maritat dco Johi Hastyngs aut aUcui alio fiho? dci Georgh Hastyngs ad tunc suo hered apparefi, &c. — -et qd de manio de Wesenham, — post decessum, — Katerine vel EUzabethe, — ad usu hered de corpore — dci Georgh Hastyngs — et pro defect tal' exit, — ad usu rectog hered dci Georgh, &c— et de et in mafiiis de Gressenhale et Estlexham, ad usu dci Georgh H. p termio vite sue — et post, &c, ad usu ejusdem Katerine, &c. Et dicunt qd deus Georgius H. p execucon, &c. — p carta, sua dedit, &c. — eisdem Thome, &c, hend, &c. Ac ulterius— qd pd Georgius Hastyngs obht (11 Junii anno Henry VIIL 3°) post cujus, &c, videlt (24 April anno R. 15°) pd Hugo Hastyng — adtunc fil' et heres pdci Georgh apud Hunstanton, maritavit Katerina fiha pdci Robti Lestraunge ,p textu cujus pfati Thomas dfis Darcy, &c, fuerunt seiti, ad opus— Hugonis Hastyngs et diie Katerine ux'is— et post decessum ipius Katerine tunc de man'io de Elsyng— ad opus — pdci Hugonis et hered masculo?, &c. — et in man'hs de Wesenham, Gressenhale, et Estlexham — ad opus pd Hugonis, et hered de corpore ipius — et ,p defect, &c, ad opus, &c, recto* hered ipius Georgh— ac de et ceteris p'missis, ad opus, Hugonis hered et assign impptih. Et, &c. [Statute of Uses, 27 Henry VIL] Et pdict Hugo Hastyngs obht, et pd dna Katerina eu supvisit et adhuc supstes, apud Elsyng. Ac ulterius, 2 e 2 212 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. qd pd Hugo Hastyngs, fuit seit, in quatuor mesuagiis duob? toftis cent et vigint acf terre quadragint acf pastuf viginti tres denaf reddit ac' Ubtat faldag' in Wesenham et Rowham, que pd Hugo p quisivit de Johe Bekham ac etia de et in uno mesuag' sexdecim acf terf et quiq acf pastuf — in Elsyng, pquisivit de Johe Wotton, necnon de et in septe acf terf et pastuf — in Wesenham, de Thoma Smyth et sic, &c, idm Hugo Hastyngs apud Elsyng (14 Dec. anno r. 32°) fecit, voluntat, et int al' voluit qd executof sui, uscp tale tempus qd Johes fiUus pdci Hugonis, ad plena etate. Ac ulterius, qd man'h de Elsyng, Wesenham, et Gressenhale, ac Estlexham — tenent' de diio Rege ut de ducat suo Lancastf p s'vic mihtare — man' de Elsyng, valet, &c. — -man'iu de Gressenhale, valet [illegible] — maniu de Wesenham, valet xxjZi. xvjs. vhjd. — man'iu de Estlexham, valet p annfi [illegible] xiijs. ihjd. Ac, &c, man'iu de Heymers tenetur de rev'end pre in Xpo Thoma Goodrich epo Eliensi p fideletat et duodecem denaf redd et valet p annu (40s.) et qd molendinu aquaticu voc' le Gryndemylle, vigint acf, &c. — tenent' de Gregorio CromweU dno CromweU ut de man'io suo de Northelmeham p fidelit et redd quatuor libf sex soUd et oct denaf p annu et valent, &c, xxxiijs. et iujd. — Ac qd, pcell, que nup fuerunt Johis Bekham tenent' de pdict dna Katerina reUcta pdci Hugonis H. ut de man'io de Wesenham, p fideUt et ixs. v. d ob reddit et valent (£3. 6s. 8d.) et resid po!, &c, pdci Johis Bekham tenent' de p nobil' Thoma duce Norff. ut de man'io s' de Castlakre p fidelit et sex soUd et decem denaf et ob reddit — et valent, &c, viginti sex soUd et octo denaf — ac etia qd pd septem acf — in Wesenham, — tenentur de Edo Beaupre armigef, ut de man'io s. de NorthaU in Welingham, &c, et valent, &c, tres solidos. Et dicunt, &c, qd pd Hugo Hastings miles, obiit tricesimo die Decembf ultimo, &c. — et qd Johes Hastyngs et ejus filius et heres — et natus fuit vicesimo septimo die Juhi a" R, vicesimo terco — et niic est etatis novem ann' trigint oct septimana? ac uni9 diei. — Evid. pp. 85 — 91. Inq. p.m. Johannis filii et heredis Hugonis Hastyngs mil. 34 Henry VIII. Inquiscio — capt apud Castrum Norwici (21 May, 34 Henry VIII.) post mortem Johis Hastyngs fil et heredis Hugonis Hastyngs militis defunct in custodia dci Regis racionis minoris etatis ejusdem Johis tempore mortis sue [setting forth the seizin of Sir George Hastyngs, the contract for marriage between John Hastyngs and Katherine Lestraunge, 7th August, 23 Henry VIL, and other matters recited in the last inquisition]. Ac Johannes Hastings obht sine hered de corpore suo l'thne pcreat post cujus Johis mortem — man'iu de Elsyng, — devenire, — debet post decessum dee KaEne cuidam Martino Hastyngs armigo consanguineo et hered mas'clo dci Johis ac fiho et pe hered mas'clo de corpore pdci Georgh Hastyngs, &c. Ac eciam,— man'ia de Wesenham, Gressenhall, et Est lexham— post decessum dee KaEne quibusdam Anne et Ehzabeth Hastyngs ut sororibj et px hered dci Johis Hastyngs et prim' hered pfat Georgh H. de corpore suo le'time pcreat— necnon man'ium de Heyms et molendinum aquaticum voc' GryndmyU', &c, post mortem, &c, pfat Anne et Elizabeth Hastyngs ac hered eo?dem, &c. [seizin of Hugh Hastyngs, his whl and death, &c] Man'iu de GressenhaU valet, sexaginta duas Ubras — man'ia de Wesenham (£21. 16s. 8d.) — man'iu de Estlexham (£16. 13s. 4d.) Ac, &c. (as in last inquisition). Et pdcus Johes Hastyngs, obiit apud Elsyng (8 Jan. a0 33°). Anna et EUzabeth, sorores et hered— Anna nata fuit xxiiij de Februarii a° r. vicesimo, etatis xihj anno* et triu mensiu — EUzabeth nata fuit sexto die Septembris a" r. vicesimo quarto, etatis decem anno? et oct mensiu. — Evid. pp. 92 — 99. 3 Edward VI. 21 Dec. Edw. VI. 3». My Lord Riche, L. Chancello' of England, the Lord S' John, L. great M' of the King's househould, Jo. Lord RusseU, L. privy seale, S' Jo. Gache, Knight, S' Jo. Baker, Knight, chancel' of the court of the fyrst fruites & tenthes, & John Seymer, esq., execut" of the last will of S' Anth. Browne, knight, who had the wardshipp of Eliz. Hastings, one of the daughters of S' Hugh Hastings, and now wife to Ham' Lestr', esq., the wardship of the said Eliz. the said S' Anthony did give unto Francis Browne his sonne, and for that she did design to marry w'h the said Francis & maried wlh the said Hamon, the said THE EARL WARREN'S FIEF. 213 executors were intituled to have the valew of the mariadg of the said Eliz to the use of the said Francis, in recompence wherof Sr N. Lestr' became bound in recogniz. in ij m. ihkes, to pay the said Francis 1000 ihkes at divers daies, whereupon thesecutors released the said Hamond of any chardg for the said maridg.— Abstract of Evidences, MS. Le Strange, 1605. The descent of Wesenham and of the Browne family will be more fully treated of in the next part. Mich. Term, 10 Elizabeth. Precept. 12 Nov. same year, distring. Will Browne, Esq., and Anne his wife, and Hamon le Strange and Eliz. his wife, sisters and coheirs of John Hastyngs, Esq. Manors of Wesenham, GressenhaU, and Est lexham held as of Duchy of Lancaster. Return made that said WilUam held nothing (said Anne being dead) in GressenhaU and Lexham, and said Hamon and Elizabeth nothing in Wesenham, and setting forth partition fine, &c. — See Peerage case. Also prec' distr. Hamon le Strange for manor of Rougholm, &c. Trin. Term, 10 Elizabeth. Mem. &c. Fine Roll, HiU. Term, 10 Elizabeth. Hamon Lestrange, Esq., made fine with Wilham Warner and Maria his wife of the manor of Rougholme als. Rowgholme held of the queen in capite. Said Wilham being seised suffered recovery of said manor and 6 messuages, 1 watermill, 40 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, 100 acres of pasture, 40 acres of wood, 80 acres of heath (jampnorum et bruer') 10 acres of alder car (alneti) and 50s. rent, and liberty of one foldcourse in GressenhaU and Hoo juxta Dereham. Said Hamon afterwards levied fine, &c. Trin. Term, 8 Jac. Mem. Precept distring (21 May last) Thoms Oxburghe, Esq., and Whim. Boyton, Esq., for homage and fealty for manor of Rougholme in GressenhaU held in capite, which they had of the grant of Sh Hamon le Strange, Knt., by Ucense. — 6 p. orig. a° 3° rot. 134. Return nil habent. Also precept same date to the same persons for manor of Gressenhall, held of Duchy of Lancaster, of the grant of said Sir Hamon, by indenture dated 26th May, anno 3 Jac. Same return, nil, &c. Plea of Sir Hamon le Strange, Knt., and Ahce his wife, that said Sir Hamon was seised of the free chapel of St. Nicholas, commonly called Rougholme manor in Gressinghall, and of divers lands and tenements in Gressinghall to same belonging; also of manor of Gressinghall, with appurtenances in Gressinghall, Hoe, Scarning, Bilney, StanfeUd, and Brysley; sets forth letters patent, 1 April, 3 Jac, referring to hcence from Queen Elizabeth to alienate by fine and recovery to use of said Tho. Oxburgh and WiU. Boyton the manor of Rougholme, &c. ; and an indenture dated 26th May between Sir Hamon of the 1st part, Richard Stubbe of Sedgeford, Esq., of the 2nd part, and said Oxburgh and Boyton of the 3rd part, comprising manor of Rougholme and also manor of GressenhaU by names of manors of GressenhaU, Heighmer als. Heighmers, and Rougholme in GressenhaU, with aU their appurtenances; and one watermiU caUed Grint Mill in Gressenhall; and aU other, &c. Recovery suffered under same, including advowsons of churches of Gressenhall, Stanfeild, and Brisley. Term Michis. 18 Ehz. De Hamone Le Strange ar. occasionat ad ostend dne Regine nunc qual} et quo titulo ingfi sunt et ten' man'ia de Gressenhalle et Estlexham in sepahtate. Memorand qd pcept. fuit vie', &c, distring' Whim Browne ar. et Annam uxorem ejus et Hamonem Le Strange et Elizabeth ux'em ejus soror et cohered Johis Hasting ar. defuncti fil. et hered de corpore Hugonis Hasting mh. et diie Kat'ine uxoris ejus, &c, in octav' Hilarh ad faciend homagium et fidehtatem (p maneriis de Wesenham, GressenhaU, et Estlexham que de Regina tenentur ut de ducatu suo Lancaster et pro quibus hdem Will'us et Hamon fecer' fidehtat f one phs inter ipos WiUm et Hamonem et deas uxores 214 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. suas suscitat [8th May, 1 and 2 Phihp and Mary, Orig. p. 1, rot. 6] ad quem diem Henricus Doyleye ar. nup. vie. com. pdci retomavit, &c, quod Willus nichh habet in Gressenhale et Estlexham et qd Anna mortua fuit, &c. Et quod Hamon et Elizabeth nichh, &c, in maneri de Wesenham, &c. Super quo, &c, per ahud breve, &c. [12 Feb. anno 16, &c] distring' ten' manio* GressenhaUe et Estlexham, &c, ad faciend homag' et fideUtat necnon ad ostend quaUt et quo titlo tenent', &c, ad quem diem pfat' nup vie', &c, retorn, &c, quod Hamon et Elizabethe fuerunt ten' manef de GressenhaUe et Estlexham. Memorand etiam qd precept fuit vie', &c, p breve [12 Nov. anno 15] qd distring. Robtum Shepparde in octav' Sci Hharii ad faciend homagium, &c, pro GressenhaU, Elsing, et Estlexham et Wesenham, &c, que pfat Robtus ac quidam Ricus Skinner, nup huer ex dono, &c. Hamonis le Strange ar. et Ehzabeth uxoris et Anthonii Browne ar. pretextu cujusdem finis, &c, t'mio Mich. ao. Regine nunc 14 et 15 levat ut in orig. de 1 & 2 Ph. & M. p. 1, rot. 6, &c. Retorn. qd Shepparde nichh h'uit, &c. Memorand eciam qd precept p breve [22 Junii ult.] distring. Hamonem le Strange, &c, pro man'io de Hunstanton quod nup fuit Betricis Hasting sicut in memord de 25 Hen. VIIL Memorandum insuper qd precept per breve 22 Junii ult, &c, distring. Hamonem, &c, ad faciend homagium, &c, pro man'io de Rougholme als. Roughholme cum ptin ac 6 mes. duo molend aquatico xl acr. terr., 30 acr. prati, c acr. pastuf, xl ac. bosc, 80 acr. jamp. et bruef, 10 acr. alueti, et 2s. reddit ac Ubtate unius faldag' cum ptin in GressenhaUe et Hooe juxta Est Derham que de Regina nunc tenent' in capite et que pfat Hamo p bre de ingrfl sup disseam in le post versus Whim Warner recupavit sicut in memord de a0 10 Regine nunc Trinitatis record rotlo. Et modo [28 Oct.] venerunt Hamon et Elizabeth, &c, et petent audit, &c, et intellect hdem Hamon et Ehzabeth querunter se in terf et catl suis pro ingrfi suo in Wesenham et Est lexham, &c, colore sepal brevium, &c, graviter district vexat et inquietat fore et hoc nimis juste. Quia dicunt qd tempore finis levat inter pfat Robtus Sheppard et Ricus Skynner queren' et Hamonem le Strange et Elizabeth ux ejus et Antonium Browne deforcien ac diu ante pfat Hamon et Elizabeth et pfat Willus Browne et Anna ux. ejus ut de jure ipa? EUz. et Anne se'it conjunctim in comune, &c. Et pfat WiUms Browne et Anna habuerunt, &c, pfat Antonium filium &c, et postea apud Elsinge Anna obnt, post cujus mortem Willus simul cum Hamone et Eliz. ac Antonio fiho fuit de Wesenham, Gressenhall, et Estlexham, pro termino vite ut tenens p legem Anglie, &c. Cujus quidem finis tenor sequitur, &c. Hec est furalis Concord, &c, die Sci Michis in tres septiman anno EUzabeth, &c, 14°, &c, iidem Robtus et Ricus concess' pdcis Hamoni et Ehzabeth pdict man'ia de GressenhaU, Estlexham, Heymers als. Heyners cum ptin ac pdict ten' reddit piscaf et hbtat cum ptin in Gressenhall, Estlexham, Skarning, Bytterynge magna, Hoo, Bylney, Brisley, Stanfeld, Beeteley, Horn ingtofte, Oxwicke, Pagrave, Dunham magna, Fraunsham magna, Kempstone, Gateley, Tytlesale, Longham, Mileham, Lynford, Barsham, Northelmham, BilUngforth, Beelowe, et Worthinge, necnon advocationes ecclia*. de Gressenhall, Stanfeild, et Brysley pdict, &c, tenend eisdem Hamoni et Elizabeth et hered. de corporibus suis, &c, et si continget qd obierunt sine hered. de corpof suis, &c, tunc post decessum, &c, reman' rectis hered. EUzabeth, &c, concesserunt eciam pdci Robtus et Ricus pdco Antonio pdea man'ia de Elsynge et Wesenham cum ptin ac pdea ten' reddit piscar et hbtat in Elsinge, Wesenham, Northtuddenham (and several other parishes), Rowham, Wellyngham, Lucham, et Rayneham, necnon advoc' de Elsinge, &c, tenend eidem Antonio et hered. suis, &c. Quo omnia et singla, &c. Et vitis premisis p baron', &c, dictum est, &c, pfat Hamoni le Strange et Ehzabeth quod ipsi quodd ulterius ostend, &c, eant sine die, &c, salvis regine homagium, &c, debit et sup hoc vie. com. pe bre, &c, distring Hamonem et Ehzabeth, &c, in octab' Sci Hharii ad faciend, &c, et tandem in octav' See Trinitatis anno xxj° Regine nunc. Inquisitio capta apud Lynne Reg'— septimo die M'eii a0 Elizabet, &c, xxiiij" cora Thoma Hoogan, Thoma Fermor, et Thoma Heywar, armigeris, virtue commissionis,2 &c, ad inquirend post mortem Hamonde Lestrange nup de Hunstanton, ar. defunct, &c. 2 The writ, dated 8 Feb., 24 Eliz., was directed to SU Edward Clere, Knt., Thomas Hoogan, Thos. Fermor, George Carleton, Thomas Hewar, Nich. Mynne, and Cristofer Dawbeny, Esqs. THE EARL WARREN'S FIEF. 215 Qui dicunt, &c, quod Nichus Lestrang mh nuper de Hunstanton pater pd Hamondi fuit seit, &c. (Hunstanton, &c.) Et sic seis. a0 Edw. VT., primo cepit In uxorem quandam Katherinam Mynne viduam que quidem Katherina adhuc superstes et in plena vita existit apud Lynne Regis, &c Et quod pd Nichus Lestrange, &c, postea per scriptum suum in lege sufficient geren dat 10 Sept. a° Regine sext, &c, concessit Johi Lestrange genos fiho suo et Anne Goodyng modo uxoris ejusdem Johis quandam annuitatem, &c. Et quod postea pd Johes et Anne legitime nupti fuerunt apud Hunstanton, &c, qui quidem Johes et Anna adhuc supstit, &c, apud Lynne. Et ulterius — dicunt — quod pdcus Nichus Lestrange, &c, xix die Februarh a° Regine nunc xxijd0 apud Hunstanton obht. Post cujus mortem pd maneria, &c, remanef pfat Hamondo Lestrange. Et ulterius, &c, dicunt quod pd Hamondus, &c, fuit seis', &c, in maner de Hunstanton, &c, et in una hbra capeUa Sci Nichi vulgarht vocat Rougholme maner in Gressenhall ac de et in divsis terr tent et heredit cum ptifi in GressenhaU pd eidem ptinen. Et, &c, quod pdcus Hamondus Lestrange sic, &c, p scriptum suum, &c, ultimo die mensis Septembris anno regni. &c, xxijdo. &c, concessit Rogero Lestrang fiho suo quandam an'em, &c. Et quod pd Rog' supstes, &c, apud Sowthacrie. Et jur pd ulterius sup sacrum suum dicunt qd pdcus Hamondus jam defunct et Elizabetha quondam uxor ejus siliter defunct (ante decessum pd. Hamondi) fuerunt in vitis suis seit, &c, de et in maneriis de GressenhaU cu ptin in GressenhaU, Hoo, Skarnyng, Bylney, Stanfeld, et Brysley et ahbi in divsis villis adjacefi ac de et in uno molend voc GrinmiU cu certis terr eidem ptin in Northelmam ac de et in maiiio de Heymers in Hoo cu ptin ac de et in manio de Estlexham cii ptin. Et quod pd Hamondus, &c, fuit seit8 de et in certis alhs terf tent et hered in Estlexham et Dunham Magno nup pquisit de diversis hominibus. Et pd Hamondus sic de pdict, &c, postea per script, &c, ultimo die Sept. a" Regine xxijd°, &c, concessit cuidam Nicho Lestrange fiho suo quandam an'™ £40, exeun. de man'io de Rougholme in GressenhaU ac de omnibus alhs terris, &c, in Gressenhall, Hoo, Byttering, Skarning, et Brysley, &c, pro termino vite ipius Nichi, &c. Et quod pd Nichus Lestrange adhuc supstes, &c, apud Sedgford. Et ulterius, &c, pd Hamondus Lestrange sic de manio de Estlexham seita, &c, in consideracone maritagu int Thoma Lestrange gen'os' tunc filium et heredem suum apparentem jam defunct et Grisillam filiam Willi Yelv'ton af habend et solemnisand, &c, dedit et assignavit pd manerium de Estlexham et pdict terram in Dunham pfat Thome et GriseUe et hered de corporibus int eos legittime jcreat cum diversis rem ultra et postea xxv die Julii. a0 regni, &c, xxhj° Maritagum int pfat Thomam et GriseUam solemnit, &c, apud Hunstanton virtute cujus pdi Thomas et Grishla intraverunt, &c. Et ulterius, &c, Grishla adhuc supstes, &c, apud Rougham et pdcus Thomas obitus est siue exitu, &c, 1 die Feb., a0 r. xxiijtio. Et pteria jur, &c, qd pd Hamondus Lestrang — die Octobris a0 regine xxij0. — fecit ultimam voluntatem suam, &c, et legavit Humfrido Thomas anntem £4. Manerium Muskets in Hunstanton — de Com. ArundeU. Manerium Ringsted Magna et Ringsted Parva — de Regina. Man. de Barnards tenent1 de manio de Milham. Manerum de Caleys in Hecham — de Com. Arundell. Man. de Hunstanton cum Holme. Et qd pd Ubera capeUa terf et tent in Gressenhale vulgaht' voc Rougholme maner tenent' de dna Regina in capite p s'vic' quadragesime partis unius feodi mil et valet p ann. in oib? exihbj ultra repris' iiijli. xvjs. vijd. ob. Et qd manium de GressenhaU, &c, tenent' de Regina ut de due' suo Lane' p s'vic' militar et valet p ann in oibj exitibj ultra repris sexaginta et duas hbf . Et q molend de GrinmiU, &c, tenent' de Henrico dno Cromwell ut de manio suo de Elma sed p que s'vic' jur pd penitus ignorant et valet p ann in oib? exiti ultra rep5 xxxiijs. hijd. Et qd man'um de Heymers in Hoo tenet' de epo Elien' p fideht et redd — et valet p ann in oib} exitib? ultra reps xls. Et qd manerum de Estlexham, &c, de Regina ut de ducat suo Lane p s'vic militar et valet p ann in oibj exitib? ultra reps xvjKJ. xiijs. ihjd. 216 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Et qd terf et tenta in Estlexham et Dunham que pdcus Hamond in vita sua pquisivit de divsis hominibj tenent' de Regina set p que s'vic, &c, ignorant et valent, &c, 36s. Et ulterius— dicunt qd pdcus Hamondus, &c, 7 Oct. a° Regine nunc xxij» apud Hunstanton obht, &c, et qd pd Thomas Lestrang temp, mortis, &c, fuit ejus fihus et heres, &c, et fuit etatis octodecem anno* et undecem mensium qui quidem Thomas post mortem Hamondi apud Hunstanton. 1 Feb. a" Regine xxiij0, &c, et sine aliquo exitu, &c, obht et modo quidem Nichus Lestrang frater et heres pd Thome et filius pd Hamondi est ppinquior heres pdi Hamondi et temp, mortis pdi Thome fuit etatis septem-decem anno* decem mens' et trium septimar et in plena vita exist' apud Sedgford. Inquicio capt. apud Swaffham M'ket, 22 Jan. a° Eliz. 34 post mortem Nichi Le Straunge mihtis defuncti, &c Qui dicunt, &c, qd pdcus Nichus [22 April, a0 Eliz. 32] fuit seis in manerio de Hunstanton, &c, manio de Gressinghale in Gressinghale, Hoo, Skarning, Bhneye, Stanfeilde, et Brisleye, &c, cum uno parco in Gressinghale ex de et in liba capeUa Sci Niche vulgr voc' Rougholme man' in Gressinghale et divsis terf et tent, &c, spectant necnon de et in uno molendino vocat Grenemill in North Elmham cum certis terf, &c, spectan' et qd pd Nichus Le Straunge sic de olb? et singlis pmisis (cum div'sis ahis maneriis terris, &c, p ipm in vita sua venditis) postea 20 April, Eliz. 32, sigillavit, &c, indentur' eisdem die et anno, viz. : — [Ind're made 20 April, 32 Eliz., between Sr Nicholas Le Straunge of Hunstanton, K'., of thone ptye, and S' Jhon Peyton of Kinges Lenne, Knt., Roger Le Straunge brother of sd S' Nicholas, and Thomas Le Straunge sonne and heire of Richarde Le Straunge, esq', deceased, of the other partye (being a settlement to the use of Sir Nicholas for life, rem' to the use of his executors for fourteen years, rem1 to the use of his son and heir apparent Hamonde Le Straunge and the heirs male of his body, rem' to the use of Roger Le Straunge, second son of sd Sr Nicholas, and the heirs male of his body, rem' to the use of the right heirs male of the body of S' Nicholas ; rem' to the use of sd Roger Le Straunge, brother of Sr Nicholas, and the heirs male of his body, rem' to the use of sd Thomas Le Straunge and the heirs male of his body, rem' to WilUam Le Straunge, son and heir apparent of Roger Le Straunge, and the heirs male of his body, rem' to the right heirs male of the body of S' Thomas Le Straunge, K'., great grandfather of sd S' Nicholas, and the heirs male of their bodies, and in default, &c, to the right heirs of sd Sr Nicholas Le Straunge forever) reserving to Sir Nicholas the power of revocation of uses, &c.J Et ulterius, &c, pdcus Nichus Le Straunge condidit testamentum, &c, in hec verba. S' Nicholas Le Straunge, knight. S' Jhon Payton, k'., Henrie Spilman, and Roger Le Straunge my brother, shall seU, &c, all my lands, casteUs, &c, in Ireland. Item, shall have for the preferment of my children and paiment of my debts the possession, &c, of all my lands, woodes, &c, within the parishes of Gressenhall, Bilney, Little Bitteringe, Great Bitteringe, Stanfeilde, Hoe, and Skarninge, and also the manours of Gressenhall, and also my manors, &c, in Hunstanton, &c, during twenty years after my death. Manors, &c, in Hitcham to the intent that they shall convey unto such childe as Dame Anne my wife is nowe withall, and if not a manchild, shall sell and dispose, &c Then I will yf Dame Anne my wife have a daughter then I will all my lands, ten'ts, and hereds caUed Grenemill unto my executours to sell to the use of my said daughter, &c. In witness, &c, 14 Dec. 34 Eliz. Et qd pdcus Nichus le Straunge obiit 15 Dec ult. Maner de Gressenhall val. per ann., &c, £46. Libera capeUa, &c, £4. Grenemill, &c, 33s. 4d. Et quod Hamondus Le Staaunge est fiUus et px heres masculus de corpore pd Nichi et etatis octo annorum et sex mensium tempore capcois hujus Inquisicois. Et quod pd Nichus Le Straunge [20 April, 33 Eliz.], before pubhshing his will, revoked the uses of said indenture as to and concerning the manor of Gressinghall, and all lands, &c, in GressinghaU, with THE EARL WARREN'S FIEF. 217 the advowson of the Church of Gressinghall, and also the manor and lands of Barretts Ringsted, and appointed the premises to himself in fee simple. — Esc. 34 Ehz. p. 1, n. 53. Ind're dated 26 May, 3 Jac. betw. Sir Hamon Lestrange, Kt., of the first part, Richard Stubbe of Sedgford, Esq., second part, and Thomas Oxbrughe of King's Lynn, Esq., and WiUiam Boytonn of Sedgford, Esq., third part, being settlement in pursuance of articles entered into by Sir Hamon before his marriage with Dame Ahce his wife by the name of Ahce Stubbe, of the manors of Gressenhall, Heyghmer als. Heighmers and Rougholme in Gressenhall with the appurtenances, and the watermih called Grintmill with the appurtenances, in Gressenhall, and all other lands, &c, in those and other parishes named, to lead uses of recovery to be suffered. Indenture dated 25 August, 6 Car. I., 1630, between Sir Hamon le Strange of Hunstanton, Knight, and Dame Ahce his wyfe, first part, S' Nicholas Le Strange, baronet, sonne and heire apparent of said S' Hamon Le Strange and dame Ahce, second part, dame Mary Lewkenor, relict of S' Edward Lewkenor, late of Denham, Suff., knight, deceased, Richard Catline of Lakenham, esquier, and Thomas Catline of Norwich, gent., third part, and John Spelman, esquier, sonne and heire apparent of Sr Henry Sjselman of Congham, knight, and Robert Walpole of Houghton, esquier, fourth part ; in consideracon of a marriage presently to be solemnised between Sr Nicholas Le Strange and Anne Lewkenor, one of the daughters of Sh Edward Lewkenor and Dame Mary his wife, &c. Grant by Sr Hamon and dame Ahce of " Mannors of Gressenhall, Rougholmes," &c, together with advowsons of GressenhaU, Stanfeild, Brisley, &c, and also aU messuages, &c, in Hunstanton, GressenhaU, Sternfeild, and Brisley, Hoo, great Bit teringe, Skarninge, Bilney, Beetly, Dunham Magna, Fransham Magna, Oxwicke, Horningtoft, North EUnham, &c, unto Richard Catline and Thomas Cathne, their heirs and assigns, to the intent to levy fine and suffer recovery to the use, as to manors of GressenhaU and Rougholmes and other hereditaments (except advowsons of Stanfeild and Brisley) of S' Nicholas Le Strange for hfe, remamder to the use of Anne Lewknor for life, and of the heirs male of the body of Sr Nicholas, and in default, &c, in remainder successively to the use of Hamon Le Strange the sonne, &c, Roger Le Strange, &c, the heirs male of the body of S' Hamon Le Strange, knight, and so forth. As to advowsons of Stanfeild and Brisley, to the use of Sr Hamon for hfe, and then to the use of Sr Nicholas for life, and so forth. May 6, a0 12 Eliz. Writ si sit ad damnum, &c, si nos concedimus Hamonis Lestrange arm qd ipse quendam viam in Gressenhall que deducit a campo vocat Churche Field usque regiam viam juxta heyfeld inter mansionalem domum et parcum et clausas ipsius Hamonis, includere, &c, ad elargationem curie mansionis sui, &c. Inquisition taken at Gressenhall 24 May, same year, before Wilham Andrewe, Gt, bailiff of the hberty of the Queen's Duchy of Lancaster, by the oaths of Thomas Warner, Gt., Thom. Sturgeis, Gt., Will. Warner, Gent., Edm. Hinde, Gen., John Southouse, Gen., Tho. Taverner, Gen., Will. Skippon, yeoman, Luke Skippon, yeoman, Thos. Skippon, yeoman, Thos. Feveryer, &c, who returned that it would be no damage &c, to grant to said Hamon Lestrange tb inclose said way, and keep same inclosed to him and his heirs for ever and in heu thereof to make another way across the soil of said Hamon, to lead from his field called Heyfylde to the common pasture of GressenhaU called Horsfrythcomen, &c— Inq. ad quod dam., a° 12 EUz., n. 72. Cole's Escheats, Norp. 105. 1 Edward VT. Nichus Le Strange, mil. =J= Katina Mynn, vid. ob 19 Feb. 22 EUz. (a) 2 F 218 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. M i i Hamond Le Strange, ar. f. et=p EUz. Johes = Anna Gooding. h. vol. Octobr. 22 EUz. ob. 7 Oct. 22 Eliz. 1 Tho. le S. f. et her. (23 EUz.) Nichus fr. et her. Roger. tunc set. 18 an., &c, duxit set. 7 ann. 10 mens. Griseuam, fil Willi Yelv'ton, ar. 3 septimam, 7 Oct. ob. 1 Feb. 23 Eliz. 1 Eliz. GressenhaU and other manors (inter aUa.) M. Heymers, &c, in Hoo ten de Epo EUen p fidel et 12d. M. East Lexham ten' de R. ut de due. Lane, p servic miht. Libera CapeUa Sci Nich. voc Rougholme m' in Gressenhall tent' de Regina ut de ducat- suo Lane, p servic miht. — Cole's Escheats hi Brit. Mus., 450. From "Book of Tenures of ye sever11 Mannors, &c., of ye Estate, out rents issueing from the same, &c., searches in ye Cort Rolls of ye sevra11 Manors, &c.< By Sr Hamon L'estrange, a° 1614." R. II. 5°. Hugo de Hastings. Jur. de Gress. pr. quod dns istius manerh de iure debet here serchiam suam semel in a0 a quodam loco vocat Cattes folgate, vscf Cokesbuske, ubij, exceptis Galtswood et Wendling- hawe, ubi non debent here serchiam suam, sed tamen debent fugare averia capta a Cattesfalgate vsq? Cokesbuske vltra Galteswood, et quod omnes antecessores dni istius m.aneri*. habuerunt serchiam suam in loco jidco, a tempore quo non extat memoria. H. VI. 21°. Jur. de Northsoken pr. quod Nicho Castle, arm. tenuit die quo obht, tres acras terf hbef tent Gatesende in Briseley et Horningtoft, et 9 acf tefr Ub de feod. Henf Hamond in Brisely, de dno, tent perservic. miht. sed de quantitate ignorant ad presens; et quod Etheldred, vxor Tho. Lucas, arm. fil. pdi Nichi, est heres inde ppinquior, et plen. etatis. H. VI. 27°. Jur. de Northsoken. De Johi Aggas tenenti manerh voc. Northendhall in Scarning, quod tenuit de dno huius manerh p servic' mihtis, de fine p respectu homag' 20 d. Jur. de Gressenhall p' quod Johes Gnatteshale, clicus, jisona ecclesise de Beetly, tj de dno huius manerij j peciam terf Ub cont j acf iac in campo de Bitering, vz. inter terf dni huius manerij, ex8e austral, et coem semitam ecclesiasticam, exBe aquilonem, et abutt. sup. regiam viam vers, orient, p fidel. et servic. custod. ij catul leporarios dnj istius manerh, &c. H. VI. 30°. Jur. de Gress. pr quod Johes Briggs pquisivit de Johe Rilley manerium de Linford, quod tenetur de dno istius manerh, p servic' medietat. vnius feod. milit. et p 10 sohd. redd., &c. Et pr quod maneriu (Je Overker in Stanfeild et Bilney tenet de dno istius manerij p fidel' et 2d. H. "VT. 36°. Ad cur. Robtus Beverle venit coram Johi Hastings armig. dno istius manerii, in rectoria de Gress. et fecit ibih eidem Johi homag' p hlos mess, et 3bus acris et dj terre, q. tenet de eod. Johi p servic. miht. in Bitering m". Pr. distringere tenent mediet vnius feod. milit. in Congham, q Robtus Cappes, Jun'., Rogerus de Bauldswell, et aUj nup idm teniunt, (p homag' dno faciendo. Pr. distre priorem de Penteny, tenentem vnius feod. miht. in Thorpe et Estwinch, ,p homag' dno faciend. .... Et distf Thomam Spirkes, tenent' quartam partem vnius feod. mil. quond' Sampson's Littlewell in Hoe, q Wills atte church nup ibm tenuit, ,p homag' dno huius maner faciend. Et distringere Tho. Payne et Etheldredam, uxorem ej. nup uxore Tho. Lucas, et hered Nich. THE EARL WARREN'S FIEF. 219 Castell, armig. in vno inclo. cont. 9 acf terf vocat. le Frith [?], et 26j acf pasture in Byrcolte in Briseley, de tento q Henricj Hamond, et 369 acf tef hb, tenti Gatesende in Briseley et Horningtoft, tent de dno, &c, per servic' mil. tam p homag., &c, qua. p relevio. Et distringere oes tenent tenti q Henrici Hamond in Briseley ,p homag., &c. Johes Veise, prior monachorum de Thetford, tenens vni3 quart, feod. mihtis in Linford, dat. dno p resp. homag., &c, 2s. Nich9 Booking, tenens mediet j feod. mil'is in Titleshale, dat. dno de fine

A". Hen. VI. 19<>. July 1, 1442. Sciant, &c., nos Walterus Barkere et Johes Rycheman cUci et Johes Roo de Wyssyngsete concessimus, &c. Thome Cupany de eadem, Ahcie vx'i sue et Johni Bylmyn de eadem, heredibus, &c.-tres rod. bigod's fief. 255 tfe, &c— in campo de Wyssyngsete apud medew furlong, &c. — Hend', &c. — Et ego p' dictus Johes Roo et heredes mei, &c, warantizabimus, &o. In cujus rei, &c. Hiis testibj, Rico Boszoun, Thoih Bylmyn, Johne Bylmyn, Henrico Stalworth, Nicho. Roo, Thofh Lyng. Dat. apud Wyssyngsete die Jouis (px ante fin Translacois sci Thome m°rt's Anno, &c. Henrici sexti post conquestu vicesimo. [Strips of three seals, the last only retaining the wax with part of impression — a figure standing under a canopy with a legend meeci.] March 26, 1454. Sciant, &c, ego Johannes Wace de Toftes dedi, &c. — Johanni Mason, Johi Richema. chco, et Nicholao Bodyn de Wyssingsete, &c, unam acram et dimid' terr' iacent in Wyssingsete &c. — Hend', &c. Hiis testibj, Johe Bylmyn, Thoma Thurlok, WiUo Knyth, Johe Whytman, Rico Wat'den. Dat. apud Wysingsete die sahbi (px fm Anuficiacois he mae Anno, &c, Henrici sexti tricessimo secudo. [Seal, smaU: a peUcan in her piety.] 1457. Nouint, &c, nos Thomam Danyell de Walsoken filiu' Laurencij Danyel, Gregoriu' Gybon, Robtu' Fyncham et Thomam Curson armig' os remisse, &c, Jacobo Gresh'm hedibj, &c., totu jus, &c, in mafiio nro — in viUa Wyssyngsete ac vna cum advocacoe ecclie eiusdem ville que nup coniuct h'uim9 cu pfat Jacobo ex dono, &c, WiUi Boson armig'i iam sup t. Ita, &c. In cuis rei, &c. Dat. apud Wyssyngsete die ven'is ,p'x ante festii Natahs Dni (A0 Hen. VI. 36to). [Seals gone.] 1459-60. Sciant, &c, Ego Whims Cheteryng de Wesyngsete dedi, &c, Johi Skarlet seniori de Myllh'm,~Wi~\mo Prenteys de Castelacre, et Johi Skarlet juniori de Mylhm — hered, &c, unum mesuagium edificat ac ofnia terras et tenementa — in vul. et in campo de Wesyngsete simul cum redditibj serviciis libro^ tenentium vna cum wardis maritagiis, releu' et escaetis — que quondo fuerunt WiUm Blakeney — quod quid nup Lui cii Gregorio Wery chco, Johe Richeman chco, Henrico Stalworthy iam viuent Rico Skarlet de Mylhm et Johe Cheteryng de Bresele iam defunct ex dono, &c, Johis Banyard de Wyssyngsete et Katerine vx'is sue. Hus testib?, Johe Bylmyn, Henrico Goodynow, Thoma Gave, Robto Phelypp, Thoma Bylmyn. Dat. apud Wyssyngsete duodecimo mensis February (A° Hen. VI. 38°.) 1471. Sciant, &c, nos Rog'us DyUay et Anna uxor mee p vltiam voluntatem Agnetis Blakeney nup m'ris Anne vxoris mee dedimus, &c, WiUo Yeluerton jun. arming'o, WUlo Waytes, WiUo Patryk, Rico Farewell, Johi Dyn, Rog'o Awte, et Hamoni Russell— unam acf nup pdict Agnetis Blakeney iac'— in Wyssyngsete int tram nup Wilh Bosom armig'. Hiis testib?, Henrico Stalworth, Henrico Godynow, WiUo Plowryght, Thome Bylmyn, et Johe Grene. Dat. die martis ,p'x post Fm see Trinitatis (A0 Edw. IV. 11°.) seisine, &c. [Endorsed.] 1472-3. Sciant, &c, nos Whlm> Ejryth Plowewryth et Robertus Waddenowe Barker de Wyssyngsete— WiUiho Bokenhm de ead Thome Bylmy silo de ead Johi Colman de Estreynhm, Johi Clerk de Snoryng parva, Matheo Salman de KettyUyston, et Johi Bonde de Crowston— mesuagium, &c, quond Whlmi Candeler cu ofihb? trs, &c. de Wyssynsete et Oxwyk— ex dono et relaxat' Henrie. Stalworthy. Hiis testibus, &c. Dat. apud Wyssyngsete (2 March, A" Edw. IV. 12°.) 1475. Sciant, &c, nos RoDtus Newman Clicus et Hamo Russel de Wyssyngset— Rico Orme chco omia terras, 256 HISTORY of the hundred of launditch. &c, in vilUs de Wyssyngset et Godwyk que nup fuef Henrici Stalworthi de Wyssynset. Dat. 5 April a0 Edw. IV. 15°. 1479. Sciant, &c, nos Johes Braunche armig', Wills Cobbe, Johes Vssher, Jacobus Petewyn, et Alicia Stalworthy dimisim8, &c. AUcie que fuit, q, vx' WiUi Rokewode armig'i, Gregorio Guybon armig' o, et Thome Guybon, hef, &c, decem acf et tres rodas tre arrabil in sex pec. et vnam acf prati— in Wyssynsete —(abutt. int' tr'am Edi Cawdewell, Prioris de Castelacre). Que quidem, &c, simul cum Robto Neweman clico et Hamone RusseU iam defunctis— ex dono Rici Orme (6th April, a0 Edw. IV. 15). Hend, &c, et nos, &c, ordinanims— WiUm Isaak et Nichm Honghm— attorn', &c. Hus testib?, WiUo Wayte sen., Jacobo Gresham, Thoma Neve, Thoma Thirton de Wyssyngsete, Thoma Bynnyng. Dat. apud Wyssyng sete, die sabbi (p'e ante festum Nat. sci Johis Bapte (a0 Edw. IV. 19.) [Two seals out of five perfect ; 1 qy. an armorial shield or a heart with fohage branching from the top ; 3, a monogram, JV.] 1482-3. Sciant, &c, nos. WiUms Cheteryng de Wyssyngset, Simon Botore de eadm, Johes Chet'yng nup de eadm, Nich. Whitmay, et Joh. Barret, Willmo magistro, Galfro Knyth chco, Thome Tyxton, et Edmo Sowter — mesuagiu cii crofto voc. Skylmannes et duas pecias, &c. Quodquidm, &c, iacet in Wyssyngset, &c. Hus testib? Johe Bozoun armig'o, Johe Vssher, Rico Trumpe, Rog'o Awty, Robto Wadnowe. Dat. apd Wyssyngset (20° Marcij, a0 Edw. IV. 23). [Mem. of hvery of seisin.] January 5, 1487-8. Sciant, &c, nos Thoms Ketelston, Matheus Bokenhm, Thoihs Smyth, Ricus Trumpe, Galfridus Kentyng, et Robtus Wadnowe de Wyssyngsete dimisimus, &c. — Johi Person de Puddyng norton, Johi Leek, et Henrico Grene — duas acras tfe — in villa et in Campo de Wyssyngsete, &c. — Quas quidm, ex concessione, WiUmi Knyth et Simonis Botors de Wyssyngsete — Habend, &c. Hiis testibus, Johne Bozoun Armig'o, Rogero Godenowe cUco, Johne Greve, Rogo Johne Wadnowe. Dat. Wyssyngsete (5 Jan., 3 Hen. VII.) [Places of four seals, none extant.] [On three seals : the two first, letters ; the third, an armorial shield surrounded by a legend, indis tinguishable.] January 7, 1487-8. Sciant, &c, ego WiUms Knyth de Wyssyngsete concessi, &c, Willmo Wayte de Tytelyshale, Genoso Rico Gyrlyng de Lyng, Robto Waddenough de Wyssyngsete, et Willmo Crabbe de Wychynghm parva, heredibj, &c— vnu mesuagiu cu croft' adiacen in Wyssyngsete vnam acram pti et vndecim acras tre arabh' in duis pecus in Wyssyngsete et Horningtoft.— Quod quidm, &c. nup h'ui coniucti cu Robto Crabbe, Johne Bylmyn, Willmo Chetyng iam defunct' ex dono, &c, Willmi Toyte de Wyssyngsete, &c— In sup qj dedi, &c, p'fatis, &c— vna pecia tfe iac in Campo ele Wyssyngsete contifi tres acras apud Wenteneye.— Qua quidm, &c, nup hui coniucti cu Henrico Stallworthy et Robto Crabbe iam defunct' ex dono, &c— Johis Richeman cUci et Johis Bylmyn, &c. Habend, &o. Hiis testibj, Rico Leek, Johne Greve, Henrico Greve, Johne Waddenough, Johne Leek. Dat. apud Wyssyngsete, die Jouis (p'x ante ffih Eph'ie Dfii Anno, &c. (3 Hen. VII.) [Seal lost] November 10, 1492. Nou'int, &c, me JuUana Alyard vidua nup vx'em Thome Aliard remississe, &c, Henrico Aliard fiho et hered de Thome totu juf , &c, de et in omibj tf et teii, &c, quas diet Thomas in villis de Hornyngtoft, Wissingset seu aUbi in Com Norff. racoe dotis mei, &c. Dat. decimo die Nouembri anno, &c. (8 Hen. VII.) [Impression of seal not distinguishable.] bigod's fief. 257 15 October, 1498. Omnibj, &c, Henricus Greve de Wyssingsete saltm Sciatis me, &c, remisisse, &c., Johi Leek de Wyssyngsete pdict Henrico Leek, Thome Greve de eadih, et Thome Vewtf de Oxwyk heredibj, &c, totu jus, &c. — in vna pecia— in campo de Wyssingsete — abutt sup Aldmeer weye — que, &c, nup fuit Thome Bylmyn de Wyssyngsete— postea Thome Typton de eadem, &c. Hiis testibj, Johne Greve, Rico Leek, Edo Clement, Jacobo Mundy, Galfrid Kentyng. Dat. quinto decimo die mens' Octobf, Anno, &c. (14 Hen. VIL) [Seal lost.] 1485-6. Sciant, &c, nos Johes Branche Armiger, Willms Cobbe, Johes Vssher, Jacobus Pytewyn, et AUcia Stalworthe dedhnus, &c, Johi Lorde aUas Greve, Ricardo Trumpe, Robto Wadnowe, et Johi Warde — omia tras et tenement' nostra prat, &c, in vilUs de Wyssingsett et Godwyk que nup fuer' Henrici Stalworthy de Wyssingsett — vel quas — ex dono — Rici Chci nup de Tetelyshale — Habend, &c., et ego p'dicta AUcia, &c. Hiis testibus, Willo Godynowe, WiUo Bokenhfii, Johe Grygge, Thoma Howe, Edmudo Sowter, &c. Dat. apud Wyssyngsett (10 Feb. A0. 1 Hen. VII.) 1489. Sciant, &c, nos Henricus Toun, Rog'us Godynowe Rector ecche de Wyssyngsete, Johes Vssher, et Ricus Leeke de eadem — WiRo Webst' de Wyssyngsete, Edo Clement de eadem, WiUmo Est de Brysle — vnii messuagum, &c, quod quidem, &c, ex dimissione, &c., Robti Newman cUci (20 March Ao. Edw. TV. 19». ) et ego Henricus Toun, &c. Hns testib?, Johne Leek, Willo Knyght, Rico Trumpe, Johne Greve, Galfrido Kentyng, &c. Dat. apud Wyssingsete (18 July A0. Hen. VLL 4t0.) 1491. Sciant, &c, nos Thomas Ketelston de MUehm, Matheus Bokenhfii de Wesenhm, Thomas Smyth de Massyngham magna, Ricus Trumpe, Galfridus Kentynge, et Robtus Wadnowe de Wyssyngset — Johi Grygge et Johni Potter — tres rod tre arrab apud Berkemeld, &c, quas, &c, ed dimisione, &c, Simonis Botore nup de Wyssyngset (10 June A0. Hen. VII. 2do.) Hiis testib?, Johe Greve, WiUmo Godynowe, Thoma Sarlec, jun', Henrico Greve, Thoma Howse, &c. Dat., &c, (4 Octb. A0. Hen. VH. 7°.) 1492-3. Sciant, &c, nos WiUms Knyth, mag'ster Gulfr'us Knyth OUcus, Thomas Typton et Robtus Wadnowe de Wyssyngset; — Alicia Rickw'd vidue, Rog'o Godynoghe cUco, WiUmo Godgnoghe capeUano, et Johi FardeU de Testerton — quinqj acras terre — apd Potters Pytt, &c. Quas quidem, &c, ex dimissione, &c, Thome Lyng et Robti Thurston (11 Oct. A0. Ed. IV. 18°.) Et ego Willms Knyth. Hhs testibj, Johe Greve, Henr' Greve, Edms Clement, Thoma,Howe, Robto NeeU, &c. Dat. (10 Eeb. A0. Hen. VIL S°.) 1495. Sciant, &c, ego Robtus Wadnowe de Wyssyngsette dedi, &c, Alicie Rokewoode vidue, Thome Wylbey, Johi Vssher, et Johi Cabothe— duas aoras— in campo de Wyssyngsett in quod stadio voc Frankesho— et ego Robtus Wadnowe, &c. Hhs testibj, WUlo Fayre, Thome Howse, Johi Greve, Edo Clemet, Rico Trump, Edo Somer, et Johi Lek, &c. Dat., &c. (4 April A°. Hen. VII. 10°.) 1496. Sciant, &c, nos Juliana Alyard nup de Wyssyngset, Robtus Hervy de Ryburgh mangna, Johes Greve, et Ricus Leek— Johi Leek, Thome Trumpe, Willmo Wadnowe, et Henrico Leek— vnu mesuagiu, &c. Quod quid', &c, cu Thoma Alyard nup de Wyssyngset defunct ex, &c. Hhs testibj, Rogero Goodynowe chco, Willmo Goodynowe capell, &c. Dat. (1 Oct. A". Hen. VII. 12°.) 2 L 258 history of the hundred of launditch. 1497. Sciant, &c, nos Johes Edyman de Oxwyk, Xpoforus Vewter, et Thomas Vewter de eadem— Thome BaUard de Colkyrke, Johi Oolman de Estreynhfii, Robto Waddenowe, et Johi Leek de Wyssyngsete— mesuagium— tres acras— inclausum Hardeleyerd. Quod quidem ex dono, &c, Johis Cohnan et Mathei Salman de KetyUeston. Dat. &c., 3 Oct. A° Hen. VIL 13°. 1498. Sciant, &c, nos Nichus Qwytmay de Wyssyngsett et Johes Barett de Hornyngtoft— Johi Watys de Wyssyngsett, Edmudo Clements de eadem, et Johi Leek de eadem— totam parceUam vnius messuagu— in viUa de Wyssyngsett— in quodam vico vocat Vpgate — abutt— terr quodam Henrici Gryce modo Roger Awty, --quondam Baldewyn Berysfote, quam quidem, &c, cum Thoma Bylmyn jam defunct— ex concessione, &c.,_ Kat'ine Thurlok vidue, PhiUppi Thurlok fiUi ejusdem, Willmi Knyght, et Willmi Wattys (21° Dec. A". Edw. IV. 14°.) Hhs testibus, Rog'o Goodynow Chco Rectore ecche de Wyssyngsett, WiUi Goodynow de eadem, Johe Lorde al' Greve, WiUo Phayre, et WiUo Oxwy. Data apud Wyssyngsete (1 May A°. Hen. VIL 13°) 1498. Sciant, &c, nos Johes Greve et Ricus Leek— Henrico Greve, Galfro Kentyng, Thome Kentyng, Johi Warde— tres rodas— apud Blakemeld, &c. Dat. &c, die sabbe px post ffh see Luce Ev'ngeUste, A" Hen. VII. 14. 1498-9. Sciant, &c, nos Thomas Ballard nup de Colkyrk modo manens in Lynge, Johes Oolman de Estreynhfii, Robus Baddenowe de Wyssyngsete, et Johes Leek — Johi Dyght de Horningtoft et Johi Baret de eadem — mesuagium edific' cum croft — in yiUa de Wyssyngsete — tres acras tfe et p'ti in croft' ejusdem mes'. In clausam vocat Hardeleyard. Quodquidem, &c, ex dono, &c, Johis Edyman de Oxwyk, Xpofori Vewtr', et Thome Vewtre de eadem. Hus testibj Johne Oldman, Robti Oldman, Willmo Fayre, Willmo Wadnowe, Willmo Rother. Dat apud Wyssyngsete (17 Jan. Ao. Hen. VII. 14°.) [Four small seals, aU initial letters.] 1500. Sciant, &c, ego Galfridus Knyght clicus — Rogero Godynowe chco mesuagium edificat cum crofto vocat Skylmannes et duas pecias terre, in viUa et campis de Wesyngsete, abuttat, — Johis Bozom Armig'i — Quod quidem, &c, conjunctim cum WiUfiio Knyght fratre meo, Thoma Thyxton, et Edo Sowter jam defunctis ex, &c, WiUi Cheteryng, Simonis Botore, Johis Cheteryng, Nichi Whytmay, et Johis Barette (20th March, A° Edw. IV. 23°.) Hiis testibus, Robto Wadnowe, Thoma Howde, Johe Barett, Robto Oldeman, Galfro Kentyng. (Dat., &c, 24 Nov., A° Hen. VII. 16°.) [Seal, an eagle.] 1505-6. Sciant, &c, nos Ricus Trumpe, Robtus Wadnow, et Johes Warde, Henrico Greve de Fakenham, Johi Somer, Thome Kentyng, Nicho Trumpe, Petro Mundy, et Thome Trumpe, Omnia, &c, in vhi. et camp, de Wyssyngsett et Godwyk que quondam fuerunt Henrici Stalworthy et que, &c. (10th Feb., A° Hen. VII. 1°.) Hiis testibj, Stepho Whyteacr, Henrico Leeke, Johne Leeke, Jacobo Mundy, Johne Heynes. (Dat, &c, 4 Feb., A° Hen. VII. 21°.) 1506. Sciant, &c, Ego Ricus Trumpe de Wyssyngsete— Petro Mundy de Wyssyngsete— mesuagium edificatum ac omnia Ula tras et tenta in Wyssyngsete una cum redditibj et s'uiciis, &c, que quondih fuerunt WiUi Blakeney. Que quidem, &c, nup habui cum Robto Newman chco, Willmo Bokenham de Wyssyngsete, bigod's fief. 259 et Ade Trumpe de Skernyng jam defunctis ex, &c, Wilh Prentys nup de Castelacr (12 April, Ao. Edw. IV. 16°). Hiis testibj, Stepho Whytacre, Henrico Leek, Johe Jamys, Robto Tolle, et Johe Leek. (Dat. 2 Dec, A°. Hen. VIL 22.) 2 November, 1506. No'uint, &c, me Johem Leek de Wyssyngsete, remisisse, Henrico Greve, totum jus, &c, de et in duas acras, &c. Dat., &c. (2 Nov., 22 Hen. VIL) [Seal gone.] December 1, 1507. Sciant, &c, ego Johes Warde nup de Wissingsete— Thome Wadnowe de Wissygsete, Johi Burgeys de Godwyk, Johi Leek de Wissingsete duas pec' terf arrabil', &c. Quas quidem, &c, nup habui coniucti cu Edfo Wodnowe, Johe Wodnowe ii. defunct ex dimissione, &o., WiUi Dym, Wilh Bokenhfii de Wissygsete, Thoe Byknyn, Johis Cheteryn, et Johis Greve. Hus testibj, Johe James, Edo Clement, WiUo NobyU, Henf Leeke, Thoma Trompe. Dat, &c. (1 Dec, 23 Hen. VII.) [Seal without impression.] 1513. Sciant, &c, Johes Dyghte de Hornyngtoft et Johes Barrett de eadih,— Henrico Greve de Fakenhfh— mesuagium, inclausum vocat Hardelyarde. (Dat. 20 Oct., 19 Hen. VIL erased, and 5 Hen. VIII. sub stituted.) 1514. Sciant, &c, Henricus Greve de Fakenham — Johi Pycher, Edmudo Clement, et Johi Jam8— mesuagium cum crofto, tres acras, inclausum Hardlyarde, quod quidem, &c, ex — Johis Dyght de Hornygtoft et Johis Barett (20 Oct., Ao. Hen. VIII. 5. Dat., &c, 12 Oct., Ao. Hen. VHI. 6t0.) " A Trewe coppye of two deds remayning in the hands of Ambrose Worts of Estraynham, yoman.'' Edihs Clement de Wyssynset, Wilhhs Fayre, et Johes Warde — Thome Trumpe, Rico Trumpe, et Johi Barrett — octo acf terf, in campo de Wyssyngset in tribj peciis (abutment "terf quond Ade Byllyngford ") quas quidem, &c, Johis Beckham nup de Northe Oreak. (Dat 20 July, Hen. VII. 17°, 1501.) Johes Maykyn, Nichus Trompe, et Johes Jamys de Wyssyngset — Henrico Marsh capeUano, WUlfiio Hastings de Godwyk, Thome Smythe de eadem fiUi Johis Smyth [same eight acres granted to feoffors 28 Dec, Ao. Hen. VHI. 4«.] (Dat. 10 Oct. Ao. Hen. VIIL 6°, 1514.) 1516-17. Sciant, &c, nos Thofiis Trump de Wyssyngset et Wilhhs Clement de eadem ad instanciam et specialem requisicoem Rogeri Godynogh chci Rectoris ecche de Wyssyngset, et IsabeUe Kentyng de eadem vidue execut' — Katherine Warde nup de eadem vidue iam defunct — dedhnus, &c, Johi Potter de Wyssyngset, Byero Touneshend armigero, WiUiho Bottour de Hornyngtoft, Henrico Shottyng, et Johi Oldman — vna pecia. terre in campo de Wyssyngset — abutt. sup coefh viam vocat Thetford gate. (Dat. 2 Jan., Ao. Hen. VEIL 8°.) 1518. Sciant, &c, Ego Rogerus Godynoght Clicus et Rector ecche bte Marie de Wysyngset dedi, &c, Johi Bozum armigero, Thome Trump, Nicho Trump, et Johi Jamys de Wysyngset— mesuagium, — Skylmans — Quod quidem, &c (24 Nov., 16° Hen. VII.) Hiis testibj, Johe Potter, Edmudo Clement, Johe Leeke, WiUiho Clement, Petro Mudy. Dat. (1 April, Ao. Hen. VIII. 9o.) 1519-20. Sciant, &c, nos Johes Bozom Armig', Thoms Trumpp, et Johes Janys — dedhnus, &c. Johi Pott', 2 L 2 260 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Nicho Marche chco, Henrico Clyfton, et WiUo Rutter, — Skylmans. (Dat. 4 March A° Hen. VII. 11°.) Indorsed mem. of seisin test. Rogo Godynow chco, Thoma ToUe, Willo Clement, &c. 1520. Sciant, &c, Thomas Trump et Petrus Mudy— Thome Toll, Nicholao Trump— mes. vac. in Wyssyngsett (1 Sept. A° Hen. VIIL 12°.) 21 Sept., A.D. 1523. I John Pyeher of Wyssyngsette— WiU. Item I bequeth to our ladis gUd of Wyssyngsett xijd. ;— to the sepulcur light of the same Towne hijd. ;— to the comon hght of Wyssyngsette hijd.; — to the reparon of Wyssyngsett church xijd.; — to the trinite gilde of Brysley xijd. ; — to the gUde of Seynt bartilmewe of the same Towne xijd. ; — to the repafcon of Bylney churche xijd. ; — to the hey autyer of Bylney vjd. ; — my mese and my lands to Joon my wiff. Witnes Sr Roger Godynowe pson of Wyssyngsett, Wilham Clement, and John Kentynge.— Probatum, — apud Hempton, — Archi. Norwic. 11 Nov. 1523. [Seal of the Official appended.] Sciant, Johes Pecher, Edmund, Clement, et Johes— Johanna Pecher vidua, Nichol Trump, et Johi Kentynge — mesuagium et tres acras, — et inclausum vocat. Hardlyarde — ex dono Henrie Greve de Fakenhfh (20 Dec. Hen. VHI. 17°). Hns testibj, WiUo Clement, &c. [Dat. Dec. 20, Hen. VIIL 17°.] 1526-7. Sciant, &c, nos Edus Clement de Wyssynset et Whlfiis Est nup de Brysley — Johi Potter, Henrico Marshe cUco, Ediio Hunt, et Johi Kentyng — mesuagium, &c, quod quidem, &c. (18 July, A° Hen. VH. 4°.) Hhs testibj, Johi Jamys, WiUmo Clement, Thome Wadnow, WiUmo Scherynghfii, Rico Okys, et Petro Mundy. (Dat. 20 Feb. A° Hen. VIIL 18°.) 1529-30. Omibus, &c, Johes Bozum de Studdey in com. Norff. Armiger — Nou'itis, — remisisse, &c, Alicie Trumpe de Wyssyngsett vidue, totum jus, &c, in vno mesuagio et vno inclauso, vocat. Somers nup iure Thome Trumpe mariti dee AUcie, &c. (Dat. 21 Marcij Ao. Hen. VIII. 21°). [Seal bearing a shield of arms, A chevron and in base an annulet. Some letters round the edge, of which I can only read eiv.] 1530-1. Sciant, &c, Georgius Hipgam de Wyssyngset ad instanciam, &c, Wilhm Rutter executor', Margerie Greve vidue, dedi, &c, Robto Curson, WiUiho Rutter, Thome Curson, et Johi Kentyng — mesuagium, edif., &c, et quatuor pecijs, quod quidem, &c (1 Dec, Ao. Hen. VIII. 12.) (Dat. 15 Feb., Ao. Hen. VTH. 22.) 1531. Sciant, &c, Robtus Oldman de Wyssyngset, — Johi Manser de Wyssyngset, Robto Curson, et Rico Oldma, parceUam mesuagu, &c, quas quidem, &c, Thome Trump, Rici Trump, et Nichi Trump. ("10 Nov., Ao, Hen. VHI. 14.) (Dat. 27 July, Ao. Hen. VIIL 23.) 1533-4. Indenture made 12th January, 25th of Kyng Herry the eyght, between Thomas Toll of Wissingset husbandman and John Potter yoman. Bargain and sale of messuage, &c, in Westgate Strete. "And the said John to tide, arrye, and sow w' the seede of the said Thoihs all the bly, oots, and pesyn that is mete to be sowen this yere upon eny of the said londs, the said Thoihs to cause them to be ffelled in a dewe tyme, and then the said John to cause them to be aried." bigod's FIEF. 261 1543-4. Sciant, &c, Johes Potter de Wodenorton, &c, dedi, &c, Johi Bozom Armig'o, omnia, &c, in villa et campis de Wyssyngsett — Johes Potter feci, &c, Georgium Hypgayme et WiUih Clement, attornatos, &c. (Dat. apud Wyssyngsett, 1 Feb., A° Hen. VIII. 35.) 1550-1. Omnibus, &c, Thomas Toll— dedi, &c, Johi Bozum, Armigero, omnes domos, &c. (Dat., &c, 8 January, A° Edw. VI. 4°.) 1552. Ofiiibj, &c, Georgius Hipgam de Wyssyngsett Tanner ecut' testi, &c, AUcie Trumpe de Wyssyngsett defunct Saltfii, &c, cu (pd Alicia voluit vnu mesuagiu edific cum duabj acr tre in viUa de Wyssyngsett, &c, ac quinqj peeias terre, &c (apud langlond — -apud Whertelond — apud pylmer — apud medewest — apud medewhyrne) et tres pecias pti in campo de Godwyk (t'rs p'oris de Westacr' modo diie lestrange) michi pfat Georgio, &c, ad vendend — volunt dat. (26 August, 1544) — vendidisse, &c, Georgio Hipgam fiho meo, &c. Dat. (28 Nov., Edw. VI. 6°.) 1552. Sciant, &c, Ego Reginaldus Hipgam de Wissyngsett vnis filiox Georgh Hipgam senior, dedi, &c, Georgio Hipgam pfi meo, Georgio Hipgam fratri meo omnia, &c, quas nup hui ex dono, &c, Georgii Hipgam prls mei exec' testi, &c, Alicie Trumpe defuncti (30 Nov., 6 Edw. VI.) (Dat. 1 Dec. 6 Edw. VI.) [Witness to hvery of seisin, Robt. Curson and others.] 1552. Sciant, &c, Georgius Hipgam fiUus — Georgio Hipgum pfi meo et Reginaldo Hipgam fiho suo ac ffi meo — mes, &c, quinque pecias, &c, in villa et campis de Godwyk et Wyssingset — quod quid, &c, (28 Nov., Edw. VI. 6°) ad opus, &c, mei pdci Georgii, &c. Dat. (1 Dec, Ao. Edw. VI. 6°.) 1555. Hec carta indentata fact int Johem Bozom armigu et Robtfl Bozom geiiosu fihum et heredem apparen dec' Johis Bozom ex una pte et Jacob u Besand de Wyssyngsett ex altera pte testat', &c, vnam acf tre — in Wyssyngsett— Hend, &c, Res'uand — annuatim — duos denar. Dat. (2 April, Ao. Ph. et Mar., &c, 1 et 2.) 1557. Hec carta indentata facta int Johem Bozome ar et Robtum Bozome gen'osum filiu et hered apparen dci Johis Bozome ex vna pte et Johem Spekk de Wyssyngsett — Testatur qd, &c, omia iUa mesuagia mea vacua et terr liber' in inclo vocat ByUyngfords closse in Wyssyngsett — Habend— Johi Spekke hered, &c, Reservand, &c, annuatim, sex denarios, &c. (Dat. 7 Sept., Ao. Ph. et Mar. 4 et 5.) 1558. Omnibus, &c, Thomas Fowler de Wissingsett, &c. Sciatis me, &c, vendidisse, &c, Charolo Wylde de Oxwick, et Johi Kentyng de Wyssyngsett— parceUum mesuagii, &c Quam quidem cum Xpofer Benton et Georgio Hypghfh defunctis ex— Johis Menser, Robti Curson, et Rici Oldeman. (4 April, Ao. Edw. VI. 3). [As an indemnity against payment of £7. 6s. 8d., for which they were bound. Dat. 31 Dec, Ao. Ehz. I0.] Two parts. 1569-70. Indenture made 8th January, 12th Eliz., Betwen Roger Towneshend of Estreynham esquier of thone partie and Robert Bozome of Studdye esquier on thother partie, Witnessethe that whereas one Elyonor 262 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Towneshend, widowe, grawndmother of said Roger, demised, &c, to him aU those her lands, tents, et hereditam* in Wissmgsett et Horningtoft during the term of divers yeres yet to come— the said Eoger in part accomphshment of certain articles, &c, in indentures of same date hath granted, assigned, &c, unto said Robert Bozome and his assigns aU, &c, in the said lands, &c, in Wissingsett aforesaid demised to said Roger, and in fourteen acres of land and half a rode medowe in Horningtofte for remainder of term. Signature of "Roger Touneshend." Seal, impression effaced. Witnesses' signatures, "Roger le Straunge," "John Style," "Robt. Reymes," "Edwarde Bramton." 1570. Sciant, &c, Robtus Tomson de Hornyngtoftem, Blacke Smythe, in consideracione maritagii inter Agnetam Purdye vid., fiham meam nup vx' Johis Purdye defunct et quendfii Thom Ketylbye de Este Rayneham yoman— mes. 4 pecias in Wissingset. Dat. 20 April, 12 Eliz. Ed. Hunt, Gent., a witness to Hvery of seizin. Fine Hillary, 12 EUz., Robtum Bozome Armig'um quer ex Rogum Townesend armigium deforc' de 40 acf tfe 10 prati, &c, in Wyssyngsett et Hornyngtofte. 1570-1. Thoihs Ketylbye de Wisshyngsette yoman (mortgage), Robti Wylde, als. Charles de Wysshyngset, 20 Jan., 13 Eliz. [Two parts.] 1582. Sciant, &c, me Robtum Bozoun de Thornage Ar. feoffasse, &o. WiUfho Prentys de Burston gen'oso, et Francisco Bowse de Thornage gen'oso. Quinquagint acf pastuf vocat. ScandeUs pastures decem acf pastur' vocat. medowe et Hards, duodec' acf pastur vocat. Claypitte closse duas acras pastur vocat. conyu' quatuor dec' acf pastur in Godwyck vna pighteUa cont una. acra. duas acf pastur. in Le grene yard, vna acra et di pastur in orto vltra horrea rectoris de Wissingsett, tres acf pastur, &c, una. pighteUa vocat Wren parck cont vna acf et duas acf pastuf, necnon viginti et quatuor acf et tres rod terf arrabihs, in campo occidental de Wissingsett Sept. acf terf arrabil in campo boreal ibfii, viginti et tres acf et vna rod in campo orientaU ibfii et sex acf terf arrabil in campo de Hornyngtoft. Habendu, &c, vsum WUlfiri et Francisci hered, &c. Dat. 24 May, 24 EUz. [Signature of "Robt Bozoun." Seal gone.] Seisin by Nichffi Browne as attorney for Robert Bozoun. Roger Bozoun a witness. Reconveyance of same by Prentys and Rowse to use of Robert Bozoun for life, remainder to use of Roger Bozoun, son and heir of Robert, and the heirs male of his body, remainder to the heirs of the body of Robert, and ultimately to the right heirs of Robert, dated 28th May same year. Signatures of " Wylhh Prentys" and"Frauncis Rous." Seals of arms, 1, Party, per chevron three greyhounds courant; 2, A fess dancette, between three crescents on the fess a ...(?) for difference. Above the shield F.B. Nich's Browne a witness. [Another part of the same, signed by Robt. Bozoun. Seal gone.] 1582 (?) Omnibus, &c Robertus Bozoun de Thornage armiger Saltm Sciatis me Robtum Bozoun tm pro certis— consideraconibus, &c, qui in accomplement, &c, convene, &c, int me— et Rogerfl Bozoun fiUu ac heredem meu apparent concessisse, &c, omia iUa dies maneria me de Wissingsett et Grymston— cum omibus, &c, in Wissingsett et Grymston, Hornyngtofte, Oxewyk, Godwyk, Pachelye, et aUis, &c Except semper ac reservat omnes reddit servic, &c, except etiam Scandells pastures, &c. [Described as in last deed.] Habend, &c. (except certain specified pieces, including If acre in Mylham and 1£ acre in Elmeham) Rogero Bozoun et hered mascuUs de corpore, &c, reman rectis heredibus mascuhs Robti. &c. Et habend (excepted parcels) ad vsum Rogeri hered et assign imppum. Dat 26 Maij A° Eliz. (24 ?) [Signature to this part of Roger Bozoun, seal gone.] bigod' S FIEF. 263 1581-2. Ofiubus, &c, scriptu indentatu — Rogerus Bozome de Wyssingsett armiger. Grant of mess, and 20 acres of land, meadow and pasture, in Wyssingsett to Thomas Cooper in fee, subject to payment of 10s. a year to lord of manor of Wyssingsett. Dat 3 Feb. 24 Eliz. [Part signed by Cooper.] 1590. Ofiubus, &c, Robtus Bozoun de Thornage af saltfh. Soiatis me pfatu Bobtu Bozoun tam pro et in consideracoe paterni amoris quam erga Bogeru Bozoun fiUum et heredem meu apparentem gero et pro meliore preferram10 et viuend' modo ipius Rogeri et heredu suo?, &c, dedisse, &c, oia iUa terras, &c, nup Rogeri Touneshend modo militis et antea Elianore Touneshend avie dict Rogeri — in Wissingsett — necnon 14 acras et dimid rod — in Horningtofte necnon advocacoem Ecche in Wissingsett ac oia et singula aUa, &c, in Wissingsett et Horningtoft. Habendu, &c, ad solu et propriii opus et usu ipius Rogeri heredu et assignat suoru. (Dat 20 April, A° Ehz. 32.) [Signature, Robt. Bozoun. Seal broken. Witnesses of Uvery of seizin, Eobt. Oldman, Nicholas Browne.] 1590. Omnibus, &c, Eogerus Bozome de Wyssingsett gefi salutem, &c, sciatis, &c, dedisse, &c, Robto Bozome de Thornage af annuitat siue anual redditu triginti et quinq? Ubf — exeunt de manio de et in Wissingsett, &c, et in omnibus ilhs terris, &c, mei pfat Eogeri — in Wissingsett et Horningtoft. Habend' &c, duran vit natural ipius Robti ad festa sci Michael archi et aniiciacois bte Marie, &c. (Dat 20 April, A" Ehz. 32.) [Signature of Roger Bozoun. Witnesses, Sylvester Oldeman, Eobert Oldman, Nicholas Brown.] 1592. Ofhibus, &c, Eog'us Bozome de Wissingsett ar. Dfius manij de Wyssingstt — saltffi — Sciatis me — ,p quadam pecunie suma. mihi p Eobtum Barsham de Oxwick, &c, dedisse, &c, septem acf et un' rod terf iacent in div'sis pechs, &c. Hend, &c, ad solu opus et vsu ipius Robti heredu, &c. Reddendo annuatim mich pfato Rog'o, &c, dnis man'ij, &c, septem denarios, &c. Dat. apud Wissingssett — AprU Ao EUz. 34. A.D. 1592. Schedule of lands annexed — abutt sup de healedlond. [Part signed by Robert Barsham. Witnesses to hvery of seizin, John Athowe, Nicholas Browne, clerk, &c] 1601. Paper writing beaded " The Abbuttelle of a messuage with 18 acres and an half of land, medowe and pasture — within the Towne and feilds of Wissingsett — in seaven seu' ale pecis wch nowe is letten & demised vnto Nicholas Bedingfeld of Bodney, esqui', and Kathering Richers of the same towne, gentlewoman, as by Indenture of lease whose date is the xviij* daye of September," A.D. 1601, &c. [This lease it appears was made by EUzabeth Webster, widowe, and John CoUs of Wissingsett, yeoman, by whom the property was purchased from Thoms Acres the elder and Thoms Acres the younger, by feoffment, in which Edmond Richars, late of Swannyngton, Esq., was made feoffee in trust, dated 1 June, 42 EUz., and was a demise for one thousand years, in consideration of £100.] 1608. An indenture made the last day of (month obhterated) Ao. 6 Jac. I., between Roger Bozam of Wyssyngsett, Esq., and Anne his wieffe on one part, and Wilham Pearne of Patchly, Gent., and Nicholas Browne of Wyssingsett, Clarke, on the other part, reciting that said Eoger and Anne were seized to them and the longer liver of them and the hehs of the body of Eoger in the scite and mansion house of the manor of Wyssingsett, and of all buildings, lands, &c, late in the occupation of one Eichard Tooly, and of meadow called Thurspitt containing 15a, close called Hartewood 8a, Mill-hiU close 18a, a wood near to said 264 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. mansion house 40a, 12 acres of arable, 19 acres lying towards Oxwicke, and 50s in divers pieces, &c, and the advowson and patronage of the church late the possession of Robert Bozoun of Studdy, Esq., deceased, father of said Roger, and lately conveyed by said Robert to Roger and Anne, &c, by deed dated 16 August, Ao. 13 Eliz. Now to enable said Eoger to cut off such estate in tail and to dispose of the premises, yet preserving the life estate of said Anne, they covenanted to levy a fine to said Wilham and Nicholas, as to MiU-hiU Close and 12" late Mr. Tounshend's to the use of Roger and his heirs ; and as to the rest to the use of said Roger and Anne during their lives and the hfe of the longer hver, and after the death of both to the right heirs of Roger. [Signatures of WiUiam Pearn and Nicholas Browne. Browne's seal of arms, A chevron between three ? spear heads. Robt. Halman a witness.] [The fine appears to have been levied in Hilary Term.] Indenture made 21 March Ao. 6, Jas. 1, between Roger Bozam of Wissingesett, Esq., and Hamon Bozam, gent., sonne and heire apparant of said Roger. Reciting covenant in articles of agreement between Sir Thomas Playters of Soterly in co. Suff., Knt., and said Roger Bozum, dated 5 Feb. Ao. 5 Jac, in consideration of marriage to be between said Hamon Bozam and Frances Playters, daughter of said Thomas, in pursuance of which said Roger by deed dated 20 March 6 Jac, had conveyed to said Thomas divers lands and tenements in Wissingsett, viz., Coniver Close 9a, MillhiU Close 18", Lynges Close 6a, Hartewood 8a, those 16a of arable in fields of Wissingsett, Horningtoft, and Oxwicke, 15£a of meadow lying amongst the Towen meadows. Pasture called Comen Close 15a, Pasture caUed Walker's Close 6a, Pasture caUed Towenshend Close 12% another Towenshend Close 10a, Pasture called Alye Ruckwoodes 10% Oxwick pasture 40a, another Oxwicke pasture 15a, four closes of pasture caUed ScardeU's 52a, six acres lying on South of Thurspitt, Pasture caUed Beasants 3a, Pasture caUed Meadowe Close 18a, three jrieces caUed Claypitt Closes 12a, Close of pasture in Ridinge hirne 3a, Close of pasture lately purchased of Wilham Barsham, gent., 3a, Close of pasture called Norman's Hill 3a, — to the uses therein mentioned. And further covenant in said articles for conveyance by said Roger of his Manor of Wyssingsete with all other his lands (ten acres of land sold to John Bozam, gent., brother of said Roger, lying in or near the field of Horningtoft excepted) as aftermentioned : It is witnessed that said Roger thereby conveyed the said Manor and also the Patronage, Advowson, &c, of the Church at Wyssingsett to the said manor belonging, and all other his messuages, lands, &c, not comprised in conveyance to Playters, to hold to said Hamon Bozam, his heirs and assyns, to the use of said Roger and Anne his wife during their lives, and after the death of the survivor, to the use of said Hamon Bozam, his heirs and assigns, for ever. [One part executed by "Roger Bozoun," another by "Hamon Bozoun,'' both attested by Godfrey Ireland, Nicholas Browne, and John Warner.] Conveyance, dated 22 October, 1617, from Mathew Kitmer of Rayneham St. Margaret, butcher, son and heir of EUzabethe Wilde, late wife of Robt. Kitmer of Wyssenset, husbandman, to Hamon Bozoune of Wissenset, gent., of messuage, &c, in Upgate. 4th Jan. 1450. Ric'us Bosun dniis de Wyssyngsete commorans in eadem villa— testamentum. Corpus sepeUend in cancello ecclie de Wyssynsete coram ymagine bte Marie ; — lego suffio altari ejusdem ecclie de W. vjs. vujd. ;— emendacio ejusd ecclie hjs. iujd. ; — lumen bte Marie tent in ead ecce ijs. ;— gilde sci Trini tatis iijs. iujd. ;— aliis gildis cuiUbet earum xxd. ;— lego Margarete vxori mee manerium de Ovyngton ad termin vite sue ; — sibi totum reditum in Grymston, Reydon, et Congham ; — volo quod habeat dotem suam in manerio meo de Wyssyngsete;— volo quod habeat onria utensilia et necessaria ptineii ad aula, camera coquina et pistrina ;— Willihs fiUus meus in millo pturbet sive inquiebat dcam Margaretam uxore mea in manerio de Ovington ac redditibus meis in villis de Grymston, Reydon, et Congham ac dote sua in manio de Wyssyngsete aut aUis sibi p me legatis sub pena indignacois Jhu. Xpi et mei. Itfli lego fiho meo bigod's FIEF. 265 domino Thomo -Bosun Monacho xls. ; — ded Willmo filio moo blodiam togam moam ou furrura; ' — Constancie filio moo nioniiili xujs. iiijd. ;— lilio mno spual Eico Brayoll j vacoam juvonculam ; — Margareto Brayoll vnam vaociim juvenoulam;- lilio moo spiritual Rico Lyng viijd. ; — filio moo spiritual Eico Stalworthy viijd. ; — quilibet i'amula in villa clo Wyssynsote h'oat unum modium do mixtiliono ot ultorum inodium do ordeo ; — RoHiduum filio inoo Johni Brayoll, diio Johi Eychomaii Eoctori do Wyssynsoto, ot dno Johi Modylton Rnctori do Godwyk quas ordino ot oonstituo oxoros. — Prob. 5 March, 1450, Cur. Ep. Norw-— Reg. Aleyn 68. Williolmus Bozoun do Wyssyngset, test., dat. 2 Oot. 14G0. .Corpus sopohond in cimitorio occlie do Wyssyngsot;— logat Gildo Sco Mario; — fratri suo, dompno Thomo Bozoun, xxvjs.;' — sorori sue, domine Constancie, xiijs. iiijd. ; — logat divorsa Alioio uxori suo, et Johanni fiho suo, cum ad otatom lcgalom por- veniret; — oon.Htitu.it oxooutoros suos, Alioiam uxorem, Qrogorium Gybono, ot Thomii Gybone. Itfh voluntem suam fact apud Wyssingsot, 2 Oct. 1400; — logat Alicio vxori suo manerium do Wyssingset, oum omnibus suis portinontibus ac advocationom occlo.sio do W. pd ad terminu vito suo [according to chartor of fooffmont]. Manorium do Ovington, jiost mortom Margarotis matris sue ; - — Johanni, filio suo, tunc infra otatom ; — ot advoc. occ.e do Ovyngtouu et nianorium de Wyssingset, cum advocatione ecclio ibid. post mort diet Alicio, tonoutt sibi ot horodibuH do c.orporo suo legitime procroatis. — Prob. test, una cum voluntate 28 April, 1-Kil, Cur. Ep. Reg. Brosiard, p. 2, f. 234. [MSS. D'Ewos, Brit. Mus.] l'robato copy. 25th January, 1623. Will of Eogor Bozoun of Wissingset, esq. To bo buried within the chancell of tho pishe churcho of Wissingsot. Itom my will and mynd is that my mortuary shalbe paid according to the oustome of this our English malum. Item I givo ton jiounds to the church of Wissingset, and my mynd is that tho usu of tho sumo ton pounds shalbo omployod by tho minister of the same pishe tho paling in ol' tho churchyard w"' a good and sufficient pale by twenty shillings the year, but the said then I Will that tho said ton pounds wch is the stock shaU for evor bo imployed by the minister of the said pishe uso of tho Itom I givo othor ton pounds to tho poore people of Wissingset and , Itom I givo to Fruno" Bozoun my daughtor-in-law, tho wifo of Hamon Bozoun my sonne pounds of money ;— unto Thomas Bozun my grandchild £20;— unto Eoger Bozoun my grandchild £10;— unto William Bozouu my grandchild £10;— unto Anno Bozoun my grandchild £5;— unto Eranc8 Bozoun my grandchild £;"> ;— unto tho children of Mr. Christofor Crowo my sonno-in-law £10 ;— unto Roger Johnson my godson and tho sonne of Mr. Bartholmow Johnson my sonno-in-law £20, upon condition that before pay- ruont— said Bartholomew shall seale and deliver unto Hamon Bozoun my sonne and sole executor n, good acquittance of and from all matters, debts, &c, botweon thom for any cause, &c, from the beginning of tho world untill tho day, &o., and if the said Bartholomew Johnson refuse to scale such au acquittance unto Hamon my sonne whereby they may live togothev in the fearo of the Lord as brethren and friends, then — tho said legacies unto tho said Roger Johnson my godsonno shall bo utterly void, &e. Item I give unto Sr llamon le Strange, Knight, two peeeos of gold to make him a riug contayning two and twenty shillings a pooeo. Item I give unto tho Ladio Lo Strange his wifo one spurriall3 of gold and one small Bozar 4 stone ; 1 My blue gown, furred. 3 With tho rents aud services at Cilmston, Congliain, &o. a Spurriall, a gold coin of James L, valuo 15s., on tlio reverse of which was, Sun with rays roscmbUng tho rowels of a spur, whence the namo of "spur ryal." •> Eezar or bozoor stono. Tho nuzo.ui stone, brought from Tei-sia and tlio East Indies, was esteemed an antidote against poison. " lt is generally of a round form, and its size between that of a horse-bean and a small walnut. It is always smooth and glossy ; but whon broken is found to consist of several coats or crusts of stony matter, laid over a piece' of stick or seed of a fruit, for a nucleus or basis. Tbe bozom- is, lite the pearl, a distemper in the animal that bveeds it, and is a concretion of stony matter in tho stomach of an animal of the goat kind."— Barclay. M 266 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. — unto Mr. John Bozoun my brother the sixe pounds wh. he owes me ; — unto Sr Thomas Playter, Knight and Barronet, one spurriall of gold, and to the Ladie Playter his wife one spurriall of gold and one small besar stone; — unto Mr. Thomas LoveU my nephew 20s. ;— unto Anne Bozoun my neice £10; — unto my cosen Leedes his wife of Lyn my neece two peeces of gold contayning two and twenty shillings a peece ; — unto Hamon le Strange my godsonne ; — Henry Spelman my godsonne ; (?) — Anthony Browne my godsonne ; — Dennis Buck my godsonne ; — Roger LoveU my godsonne ; — Roger Monyment my godsonne (each 20s.) ; — unto Thomas Browne, clarke and pson of Wissingset, £3 ; — unto Hamon Bozoun my sonne one peece of • gold called a .... eigne contayning three pounds and ten shillings. All the residue, &c, unto Hamon Bozoun my sonne, my sole executor. Eoger Bozoun, his mark. Witnesses, Thomas Browne and WUlffi Barsham. 24 Feb. 1623, proved in Episcopal Court of Norwich, by Hamon Bozoun the executor. 1626, July 22, Car. 2. Lease from Hamon Bozun to Charles Wortes, yeoman, of three acres in East field, in three pieces, for one thousand years, at 4d. rent. 1630, July 6, Car. 6. Covenant by Henry Hibgham of Little Walsingham, miller, with Thomas Coke of Grayes Inn, Middlesex, Esq., and John Fairefax of Little Walsmgham, Gent, to suffer recovery of messuage and land in Whissonsett, to use of said Henry Hipgham and Ehzabeth Fairefax of Little Walsingham, spinster, their heirs and assyns, for ever. 1643, Dec. 10, Car. 19. Conveyance by Hamon Bozoun to Wilham Wilkinson of Godwicke next Titleshale, yeoman, of a piece of pasture ground with a wynde mylne thereupon buUt. 1645, June 9, Car. 21. Conveyance by Hamon Bozoun to Edmonde Brigge of Wissingsett, Gent., of messuage and land in Wissingsett purchased of Kitmore. 1651, Dec 24. Indenture between Hamon Bozoun of Wissingsett, Esq., and Frances his wife, Thomas Bozoun of Wissingsett, Gent., son and heir apparent of said Hamon, Sir WUUam Playters of Sotterley, Bart., Thomas Goodrick of North Creake, Gent., and John Goodrick of Wissingsett, Clerk, of one part, and Robert Sturges of Horningtoft, Gent., and Thomas Stark of Wissingsett, yeoman, of other part. Con veyance of several small pieces of field land. Indenture dated 12th Oct., 1649, between Hamon Bozoun of Wissensett, Esq., and Thomas Bozoun of same towne, gen., sonne and heire apparant of sayd Hamon of the one pte, and Sr WUlm Playters of Sotterly, Suff. K' and Baronett, and Thomas Playters of same towne, Esq., Thomas Goodrick of North Creake, gen., and John Goodrick of Wissensett, clerk, on the other pte. In consideration of the payment by Sir WUUam Playters, &c, of the sums set forth in a schedule, beeinge the upper debts of sd Hamon and Thomas Bozoun, amounting to £831. 3s., and of £40 a year to be paid by them to sd Hamon for his Ufe, and of £10 to be paid unto WiUm Bozoun seconde son of Hamon for his future liveUhood and subsistance during his life, after the death of his father, and for the payment unto Hamon Bozoun, youngest son of sd Hamon, of £100 within three years after the death of Hamon the father, and for the payment unto sayd Thomas Bozoun of £40 a year during his Ufe for his maintenance and subsistence after the death of Hamon the father ; they, Hamon the father and Thomas Bozoun, enfeoffed the manor of Wissensett, and all the lands, tenements, and hereditaments of them, s" Hamon and Thomas, in the townes and feilds of Wissensett, Patchly, Oxwick, and Hornyngtoft, together with the perpetual patronage and advowson of the parish church of Wissensett, unto the said S' WUl- Playters, Thomas Playters, Thomas Goodrick, and John Goodrick, theh heirs and assigns, but subject to redemption. Amongst the scheduled creditors appear the names of Francis Barrett, gen., Captayne Kinge of Godwick, M' Willm Tubbinge of Burnham, M' WilUam Neve of Dereham, Doctor Browne of Beeston, &c, as bondholders. John Hase of Bawdswell, M' Roger Castle of RaningalJ, M' Edm. Brigge of Bradfeild, Thomas Neave of Horningtoft, and others, for smaU sums. bigod' s FIEF. 267 Signatures of " Hamon Bozoun," " Tho. Bozoun." [Seals cut off.] A memorandum to the effect of the performance of all the conditions by the Bozouns before the 10th May, 1651, is endorsed, and signed by Thomas Goodricke, and witnessed by "Lestr. Calthorpe," " Simon Lombe," " Cha. Turner." Indenture dated 31 January, 1651, between Sir Willm Playters, Hamon Bozoun, and Thomas Bozoun, of the one part, and Dennys Buck of Old Walsingham, gent., and Nicholas Browne of the City of Norwich, gent., of the other part. They Sir Wilham Playters, Hamon and Thomas Bozoun, in consideration of the release of her jointure by Frances, the wife of Hamon and mother of Thomas, granted to Bucke and Browne an annuity of one hundred marks to be issuing out of the manor of Wissingsett, &c, payable to Frances for her life after the decease of Hamon. Signatures of Will. Playters, Hamon Bozoun, Tho. Bozoun. Witnesses to Playters, Cha. Turner, Hen. Lawrence, John Turner. The Bozouns, by Thomas Goodricke, and others. [Seals effaced.] Indenture dated 10 August, 1652, feoffment by Hamon Bozoun and Sir Wilham Playter of the manor, &c, to Thomas Bozoun, his heirs and assigns. 1653, May 9. Grant by Thomas Bozoun to Hamon his father of annuity of £50 out of the manor and premises, except the Great Close containing eight score acres in occupation of Thomas Goodricke, gent. Deed dated 24 August, 1655, by which Hamon Bozoun of Wissingsett, Esq., son and heir of Roger Bozoun, Esq., deceased, being, as is stated at the time of the last-mentioned indenture, solely seized of the manor and premises; and Sir WUUam Playter, having no interest therein, confirmed the conveyance to Thomas his son, and entered into covenants for title. Seisin deUvered to Thomas by attorney. Witnesses, Wm Browne, John Goodrick, Edward Drewett. Indenture dated 25 August, 1655, by which Thomas Bozoun granted to Hamon his father an annuity of £50, to be issuing out of the capital messuage or mannor house called Wissingsett HaU, yards, gardens, &c ; a close adjoining containing 20a of pasture caUed the Home wood ; close containing 6a of pasture caUed the Lawen ; two closes, formerly one, containing 24a caUed Dovehouse close ; two other closes, formerly one, called the croft containing 26' arable ; close caUed Mileham Hume containing 20a pasture ; pightle containing 3a of pasture ; close adjoining containing 12» arable ; close called FeUed Wood containing 40a of pasture, — payable to said Hamon during his life. [Counterpart signed by Hamon Bozoun. Seal of Bozoun arms. Witnesses, Anne Goodrick, Elizabeth Goodrick.] 1656, May 12. Mortgage by Thomas and Hamon to John Playters of Wissingsett, Esq., of the Great Close, then in several closes, containing together 160 acres, to secure £400 and interest. [Seals cut off.] 1657, Oct 23. The articles of agreement between Thomas Bozoun and Katherine Calthorpe for the sale pf the estate, the purchase-money to be £3600, of which £1400 to be paid at time of conveyance, and £2000 retained to indemnify against incumbrances of John Playters and Francis Alkine, with interest in the meantime. [Part executed by Tho. Bozoun, with seal of his arms and crest. Witnessed by Tho. Catelyn, Cha. Turner, Tho. Godfrey, Thomas Goodrick, John Goodrick, Symon Lombe, cler.] Indenture dated 16 Nov., 1657. Bargain and sale by Thomas Bozoun of Wissingsett, Esq., to Katherine Calthorpe of East Barsham, widow, her heirs and assigns, of manor of Wissingsett, and aU other the lands, tenements, &c, of said Thomas in Wissingsett, Horningtoft, and Oxwick. Purchase-money £3600. 2 m 2 268 history of the hundred of launditch. [Signature of Tho. Bozoun. Witnesses, Tho. Catelyn, Cha. Turner, Tho. Godfrey, Thomas Goodricke, John Goodrick, Symon Lombe, cler. EnroUed in Chancery 1 Feb. following.] Same date. Deed of covenants from Thomas Bozoun to Katherine Calthorpe for title. Incumbrances mentioned, — a lease to Thomas Playters for one thousand years for security of £457 ; another lease to Francis Alkine for one thousand years for security of £212, and the annuity of £50 during the life of Hamon Bozoun. Same date. _-Receipt signed by Tho. Bozoun for £1400 in part. Indenture dated 18 Nov., 1657, containing agreement that Katherine Calthorpe should pay £1400, part of the purchase-money, then, and £200 on 1 Feb. foUowing, and that she should retain the remaining £2000 in her hands as an indemnity against the incumbrances at 6 per cent, interest, with a demise by her of part of the estate for a term of years by way of security. [Signature of Katherine Calthorp. Counterpart signed by Tho. Bozoun.] Memorandum dated 14 May, 1658, by WiUiam Browne, that by the confession of my Br. Playters, deced. he was satisfied that the interest of £400 was paid by my cosen Bozoun to May, 1657. 1658, Oct. 12. Acknowledgment under hand and seal of Tho. Bozoun, of the payment by Katherine Calthorpe, on 2 Sept. then last, to Francis Alkyn, barber, of £212, in discharge of mortgage made 23 Aug., 1655, by Thomas and Hamon Bozoun. The seal bears a coat of arms, On a fess between two Uons passant guardant, a cross (or Us) between two crescents. Witnesses, Ed. Peartree, Jo. Goodrick. 1658, Oct. 19. Receipt by Thos. Bozoun, styled of Wissingsett, for £84 paid to him by Catherine Calthorp, under his hand and seal of arms, viz., the three birdbolts, and crest, a sword in pale, with sparks issuing from the blade. Witnessed by Edw. Catelyn, Chas. Turner. 1659, May 14. Receipt for £400 more, by Thomas Bozoun, then late of Wissensett, sealed with the crest only, as above. Witnesses, Simon Lombe, Edmund Scott. 1659, Oct. 1. A Uke receipt for £100. 1660, March 27. Another receipt under hand and seal for £200, making in aU £1000, with note that the other £1000 was to remain in Katherine's hands at interest, till the death of Hammond Bozoun. 1660, AprU 30. FuU discharge under hand and seal of Tho. Bozun for £1000. Receipts signed by Hamon Bozun for £12 10s. quarterly from Jan. 1657-8 to AprU 1, 1664, witnessed by Tho. Goodriche. One in June, 1664, dated from North Creake, endorsed as " old Mr. Bozoun." 1664, April 22. Receipt for half-year's interest to the administrator of Thomas Bozoun, late of South Creake, deceased. Signed Edm. Brigge. 1664, Jan. 11. Receipt from Edmonde Brigge as such administrator, in fuU, of £10 a year to Thos. Bozoune, Esq., during the life of Hamond Bozoune his father, this day deceased. 1660, Aug. 1. Lease by Katherine Calthorpe to Thomas Catlin of Kirby, Esq., and Simon Lombe of East Barsham, clerk, of the manor, &c, for three years, at a peppercorn rent. Signature of Katherine, and seal, arms of Calthorpe, Cheeky, a fess ermine; helmet and crest. Witnesses, Christopher Calthorpe, Lestr. Calthorpe, Ferrers Rugeley. 1660, Aug. 2. Release from her to them, their heirs and assigns. To the use of said Katherine for life ; remainder to the use of James Calthorpe her second son and the heirs of his body; remainder to the use of Charles Calthorpe, third son, and the heirs of his body; remainder to the right hehs of Katherine. bigod's FIEF. 269 Power reserved to her to grant leases for three hves, to grant rent-charges. Proviso that if by the death of Christopher Calthorpe, eldest son of Katherine, without issue in ber lifetime, James should succeed to lands of the yearly value of £300. Wissensett should descend to Charles. She also reserved full power of revocation- Counterpart signed by Tho. Catlyn and Symon Lombe. First, seal of arms, Three lions passant. Second, crest, A wolf's head (Calthorpe). First witnessed by John Lestrange, Christopher Calthorpe, Ric. Catelyn. Second, by Christopher Calthorpe, Lestr. Calthorpe, Ferrers Rugely. 1662, March 21. Feoffment from Thomas Goodricke of North Creake, Gent., SamueU Smyth of Colcreake, Esq., and Mathew Ward of Colcreake, Gent,, to Katherine Calthorpe, of four pieces of land in Whissonsett, containing 5a. lr., for £58. Covenants for title by Goodricke. Signatures of Thomas Good ricke, Sam. Smythe, and Matt. Warde. The two first seals each a shield of arms, the bearings not distinguishable. The third, a crest, apparently a stag's head surrounded by a wreath. Witnesses, Luke Skippon, Rector of Wissingsett, Charles Calthorpe, James WolnaU, WiUm. Manning. 1669, Sept. 30. Deed of revocation by Katherine Calthorpe of yearly rent-charge of £60, granted 10 August, 12 Car. II., to Charles Calthorpe. 1669, Oct. 1. Grant by her of yearly rent-charge of £50, payable to said Charles, with a proviso to be void if James Calthorpe should within three years after her death (if Charles should have attained twenty-one years) or within six months after pay to him £1000. Witnessed by Lestr. Calthorpe, Thomas Spearman (mark), Pr. Scrivener. 1680, April 20. Indenture between James Calthorpe of the Middle Temple, Esq., first part; Peter Scrivener of London, Gent, second part; and Reynolds Calthorpe of Middle Temple, Gent., third part. Bargain and sale of manor, advowson, lands, and hereditaments, for the purpose of suffering a recovery to the use of James, his heirs and assigns for ever. WISSINGSETE. Three membranes, court-rolls, in 29th and 30th years of King Edward III., containing entries of the proceedings of nine Courts. The entries are not of much interest, chiefly of fines for non-performance of services by the bond- tenants, e.g., "quod retraxit unum diem precarium in autumpno ; " Pleas of land, &c. Prima cur. WiU. Bosun — die martij in festo See Marie Magdalene a0, r. R. E. tcij a conquest xxix. De Galfro Ward ,p chevag' 5 suo p.v. annos et post quinq? annos veniat et dabit chevag', &c. One membrane containing the roll of three Courts of 37 Edward. III. Another of the 45th Edward III. Cur. Johis Bosoun tent die Sabti ,px p' Ste Fid. Anno, &c, xlv'°. Homag' de Wissingsete dant dno de recognicone. Homag' de Vphous dant ,p eodhi. Cur. die fiiart' in festo See Agfi Virg'is — and die Jovis in octav' assencois dfii anno, &c, xlyj. Cur., &c, die Jovis p post ffh Sci Jacobi Aph Anno r. r. Rici p'mo. 6 5 Chevag ium, " est tributum quod aUas servitutis aUas subjectionis nomine, domino, tanquam capiti penditur." — " Quod dicitur recognitio, in signum subjectionis et domini de capite suo."- — Spelman, Gloss. 6 Names occurring, John de Vphous, Margar' Vphos, Thom. fil. Henr', surr. ad opu? Thom. Skernyg, Jacob' de BUlyngford — Homag' de Schipd'm. 270 HISTORY of the hundred of launditch. Cur, &c, die Jovis px fest sci luce Evang'li anno Ric sc'di primo. WY8SYNGSETE. Cuf gen'aUs ibfii tent die lune .px'ia ante ffii Sci Nichi Epi Anno regni Regs Henf quinti post conquestu pmo. — die Jovis px post festfl sci Jacobi Apli anno, &c — die lune futuf qui no venit recipient offic' suu io ("pr' seis' ten pdict. Extracts from Minutes of Proceedings at Manor Courts. 6 24 Henry VIIL 1532-3. Names of persons owing suit, — Henry Eermor, Knt., WiUiam Clement, Robert Curson, Robert Oldman, WiUiam Oldman, &c, Roger Touneshend, Knt., John Hopson, the farmer of the manor of Pattesley, WilUam Wyngfeld, Prior of the monastery of the Blessed Mary and AU Saints of Westacre, &c. 25 Henry VIIL 1534. Presentment that Henry Fermor, Knt., had aliened to Richard Sturgyes, Gent., copyholds in Southreynham and Wellingham, formerly of John Townshend, late of Richard Hervy, and since of Robert Hervy. 27 Henry VIII. 1535-6. Presentment that John Oldman, sen., Thoms Oldman, Thoms Maddy, late farmers of the manor of Hornyngtoft, had unlawfully entered upon the common pasture of Wissingsett with their flock to the west of the old Fosse called Lynghilleyp, leading from Russel's close towards Spryngwell, late Skerndelholm, &o. And that the townsmen and inhabitants of Oxwyk for many years past have owed 2|d. annual rent and one capon, due to the lord of this manor. 29 Henry VIIL 1537. " Md that all the hool homage wh oon assent & consent have affermed by ther othes that oon Thoihs Toll beyng p'sent in this Court the wiche Toll sayeng openly that he sold to John Bozom squier xl qf ters & j comb of whete mystelyn & bly that is to saye of eyche grayn xxvij comb to be delyu'ed in thre yers then next folowyng his said bgayn and for non payment & delyu'y of the same graynes the same John Bozom to have in sale to hym & his hens all his londs & tenements bothe fre & bond in Wyssingset payeng to the same Toll or his assignes the holl sume of xxiiijZj. the p'ses of the said come to be in ptie of payment of the said sume." 30 Henry VIIL 1538. That the townsemen of Horningtoft have unlawfully turned sheep and beasts upon Wissingset common, between Skernedeale wood and Hornegong. 30 Henry VIIL 1538-9. That the inhabitants and townsmen of Oxwick have turned stock on the field of Wissingset called Eranshoo, between WyndmyUiill and Skarundell wood. 31 Henry VEIL 1539. That one John Estlot died thirty-six years since and more, holding of this manor four acres of free land in the field of Wissingset called Fraunshoo field, held by 20d. rent per annum, which four acres said John gave to the inhabitants and bromets de Oxwick for tho use of the town of Oxwick for ever, to the intent of exonerating the lete fee of the said town, by Ucense of the king and the lord of this manor for that purpose had, as in the Statute of 23rd year may appear, &c. The death of Richard Sturges, gen., presented, and that Thomas Sturges his son was his heir. 35 Henry VIII. 1543. The suit of the Shipdham tenants received, viz., Henry Hall, Will. Houslyn, 6 Sometimes caUed " Wyssingset Bozomes." bigod's FIEF. 271 John Bullock (for land late Eobert Mynnes') John Newman : the land held by the latter was on the terms of exoneration of the lord of this manor from rendering one capon to the hall of Watton. 35 Henry VIII. 1 543-4. Quod Eobt. Davy de Stanfelde venat fuit infra hoc dom' et cum leporariis suis interfecit diversos lepores cont' form' statt', &c 5 Edward VI. 1550-1. William Bromefeld, gen., named as a suitor.7 Thomas Clement and Alice Clement, widow. 5 Edward VI. 1551. The lord received of Ahce Clement, widow, 9s. in full payment for her fine for lands as well late of William Clement as late Wadnowe, the rest being remitted at the request of Sh Roger Towneshend. 6 Edward VI. The name of Grace, wife of Richard Hastyngs, amongst other malefactores in breaking hedges and stealing sticks, &c. Cur. 8 Aug. A0 Marie lmo 1553. Presented the death of Robert Oldman, having surrendered tho tenement Uphous, &c, in Wissingset, which he and Richard Oldman took up 28 Henry VIII., to use of Elizabeth his wife; and also surrendered a cottage, &c, to use of Wiburie his daughter. "Et qd prefatus Robtus Oldman obht super Uberum solum domini vj super dictum Tenementum voc Uphous quod est capitale Tenementum omnium tenementorum nativ in Wissingset et quod secundem consuetudinem hujus manerii optuUt domino optimum jocale suum ad eleccionem domini ut ex antiquo tempore per eviden' domini et idem dominus his in plena curia elegit sibi nomine predicti optimi jocali 8 [unum bovem nigri coloris etatis vj annorum que deUberatum est."] Dorothea, late rehct of WiUiam Oldman of Wissingset, paid fine for lands of her late husband. Rot. Cur. 15 Eliz. 1572-3. Thomas Ouldeman surrendered a messuage and croft in Wyssingsett, which, inter aUa, he took up on surrender Terrei Walpole, gen., et Wiboroughe uxoris suce at court 10 EUz. The names of Thomas Ouldeman, sen., Eichard Ouldeman son of Wilham, Thomas Ouldeman, Lawrence Ouldeman, Eichard Ouldeman son of Eobert, and Thomas Ouldeman, jun., are all in the Inquisitio ex officio. Eot 15 Ehz. 1573. After referring to the presentment of the death of Thomas Clement, many years past, WiUiam Clement his son and heir, now of full age, is admitted. The death presented of Eobert Dunham, seised of copyhold, which he took up A0 6 EUz. on surrender of Edward Clement. The names of Thomas Barsham de Oxwick, gen., Robert Skippon, Vincent Goodwyn, clerk, amongst defaulting suitors. Eot. Cur. 9 Feb. 16 Eliz. 1573-4. Edmunde Hunt of Horningtoft, Gent., presented for over commoning. 19 July, 16 Eliz. 1574. That Roger Townesende, Knt., died several years since, holding of this manor thirty-two acres of land caUed Sextie rode, lying in the field of Helgeton in one piece, formerly of Thorn8 de Helgeton, at 2s. 8d. yearly rent, held of the lord of Wissingset by the fourth part of a knight's fee, and that Roger Townesend, Esq., son of Richard Townesend, Esq., son of John Towneshend the grandfather of said Eoger Towneshend, Knt, is kinsman and next heir of same Eoger, whereby, &c. 16 Eliz. 1574-5. Eichard Ouldeman surrendered prior to intended marriage with Ehzabeth Warner, widow. 17 Eliz. 1575. Thomas Barsham, gen., admitted on surrender of Thom3 Ouldeman, jun. 18 EUz. 1575-6. Thorn3 Ouldeman, jun., and Katherine his wife, late rehct of George Hypgam, deceased. Lib. Wissingsett Bozouns, Cur. 15 August, 18 Eliz. 1576 (Robert Dowghtye, steward.) That Agnes Kentyng, wid., had not yet replaced and refixed in its former site a boundary stone between her lands and the lands of divers tenants in the quarentine called Almoregate furlong, as she was commanded, &c. 7 Jure uxoris. Names of Robert Oldeman, Richard Oldeman, sen., and Richard Oldeman, jun., on the homage. 8 This is the only instance I have met with of a heriot. The words within brackets struck through with the pen. 272 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. A" 21 Ehz. 1579. That Edmund Bagg, late of Shipdham, died eighteen years ago, seised of nineteen acres in one close in Shipdham, held in soccage, and Ralf Bagg his son and heir was of full age. 23 Ehz. 1581. William Calybutt named as a free tenant. 25 Eliz. 1583. James Bezant surrendered one acre of land with a mill, molendino tritico, thereon built, lying at Mylhyll in the West field of Wyssingset, to the use of Roger Bozon, Esq., and his heirs, who was admitted by attorney. 26 EUz. 1583-4. Nicholas Erie querent against John Deye, Gent., in a plea of debt. That Robert Bozoun, Esq., lord of the manor, and Roger Bozoun, his son and heir, had sold free land. 30 Eliz. Jan. 31. A sale by Thomas Skyppon presented. The preceedings in a suit concerning land at six successive courts in the 27th, 28th, 29th, and 30th Eliz. are here entered as Curia magna, Roberti Bozome, armigeri, tenta coram Johanem Browne, senescallo dicti Robert Bozome, and suitors of the manor. In the latter year, 30 Eliz., the name of Skynner first appears in the Inquis. ex officio. On 29 Jan., 31 Eliz., 1588-9, the name of SUvester Oldeman, Gent, stands at the head of the hst, and almost every other name is an Ouldeman. At the first court of Roger Bozome, Esq., on 29 July, 1590, Wilham Clement was amongst the tenants who attorned, and Thomas Barsham amongst those who omitted. Bartholomew Skyppon was then admitted on the surrender of SUvester Ouldman. 33 EUz. 19 Jan. It is presented that Sir Roger Towneshend, Knt., a free tenant, who held by the fourth part of a knight's fee, had died some years since, and that John Towneshend his son and heir was of full age. 34 EUz. 27 Jan. The name of George Clement, Gent., is at the head of the inquisition. Lib., 35 EUz. 1593. The name of Robert Barsham, Gent., as well as that of Thomas. 36 EUz. July 31. Edward Coke, Esq., Solicitor General, admitted on surrender of Thomas Acres of Wissingset, passed 31 Jan. last. A long parchment Poll. WISSINGSET. Rentale Johnis fil. WiUfiu Bosome [Bosoun 9] de Wissmgsett, renovat p homag' suu ad hoc jurat Anno Regni Regis Ricardi secundi post conquest sexto et ex antiquis monumentis siUt vis' p Johem Norman [de Wilby '] Senescal' diet Johis Bozome [nuc penovat p Robertfii Bosome armig' Anno Regni Re Elizahe nuc vicesimquarto.1] Ternu Michis Purine' bte Marie Pasche et Ffh Pentacost. Libe Tenent de diuersis vilUs subscript. Matshal. Johes Hastel tenet — quondrh Rogeri de Matshall, &c ixs. jd. Shipdham. Johes Godzene, Thomas Marwe, Adam Colbye tenent, &c, et dant p anu vnu Capone

j diem et habut indie vnu repast viU ad nonani vel dabunt dno sarclacius ob. Et falcabunt ptm fac falcac' et dabunt dno tunc tempore ijd. ob et antiq, consuetuds. Et cariant blads dni cu caruca sua pj die et habut aUu si carett habent et inuenient j hoim ad ptu dni. Et dabunt jd. p ten' Gascon et erunt ppett tociens quociens. Sfii redd vs. ob. Suif opu autupn' — v pt aUa seruic'. [Thirty-three other copyhold tenants or tenements are mentioned, held by services of the same nature as those above, sometimes differently expressed, as " j opus sarclarionis— sarcl' p ij dies dabit ad falcacionem ¦ 6 Temp. Ric. II. Additions in two later hands. <* Added in handwriting of Hamon. bigod's FIEF. 275 prati jd. — inveniet hominem ad pratum domini — fac' j coUig' fen' pro domino — portabat officium messoris — solvet ad officium prepositi quoties evenerit — ad scutagium quando evenerit." Lands or tenements are mentioned as, quondam Johis Gurnay, — quondam Hamonis Punguhon — Effie Milkezdropes — perquisit de Baldewino Bosown. Local names — apud Swynhag, apud Launde, infra le dykes, apud Aberhowo milles— aU those in the parcels of one tenant] Custumar de Uphous in South reynham. [Under this head six tenants are named, holding by rents and services, amongst them Eogerus Uphous and Johes fil Rogeri de Uphous.] Hesoluta man'ij. Man'iu' de Wissyngsete tenet de dno de Eoos p duos Feodj miht et dj et tenet de Watton hall reddend ad id maniu vd. It Priori de Normaunesbergh (p cultura de Franksho p annu ijs. It Priori de West Acre xiiijd. ,p coteswong [two hnes erased.] It Dno Rog'o de Welyngton dj lj pipis. It man'io de Pynkeneys xijd. Offic' ppositi et tenent qui obligantar ad offic ppositi sut isti, &c Isti ptabut offic' messoris [with the names of the tenements.] Mattishall et Yaxham, parceU manerii de Wyssingsett. Rental nuper Eoberti de Estfilde ibm renovat per visum et informationem Willielmi Patrick, &c, tenementium ibidem xxvij die Junii a0 Elizabeth 6°. Enumerates thirty-three separate rents, with descriptions of the tenements in respect of which payable, of which two were held by William Watts, fiUum Thom. Watts, two by MattishaU churchwardens. Nine rents for twelve parcels, payable by Eobert Harleston nuper Thome Harleston, ten by John Watts. The total amounting to 9s. 2d., one gander and one hen [j anatem masculum et j gallinem.] Eental ibm fact et renovat ,p le bynde dayes ,p uno anno ad festum purificacionis, &c, EUzabethe nuper regine xiv'", 1602. P. Eico Pitcher ,p tento Sparrowes quondam Johis Leakes et q Eobti Oldman (p quinque diebus in Autumpnu xxd. Itm de eo. p ij diebj cum aratro xijd. Itfii de eo p ij diebj in prato dfii [j galhn, v ova] iiijd. Itm de eo p uno le wedinge daye ' jd. Itm de eo ,p pcell Ten'ti Gurnys q Kentingis ,p iiij°r diebj et di in autumpno [j galhn, v ova] xviij d. Suma hijs. vijd., ij galhn, x ova. A mem. dated 16 Ehz., shews that the tenement Maynardes in Wissingsett, containing 17a. lr. Op. of land, was holden of the manor of Hornyngtoft, of which la. lr. Op., held by Mr. Eoger Bozum, was lying at Bedman's grave. In 16 Car. (1640) it appears there was a suit in Chancery, by Eoger Castle, Esq., and Talmach Castle, Gent., his son and heir, against Hamond Bozome, Esq., WUliam Skinner, and others, tenants of the manor of Hornyngtoft. 1 Elsewhere, " pro opere unius diei cum sarculo" — "opere sarculacionis." "Pro opere falcarii vno die iijd." Not a wedding day, but a day's weeding. 2 n 2 276 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Pedigkee of Bozun or Bozoun. (From Herald's Visitation of Norfolk, supplemented from my MSS., and printed by the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society.) Arms : Quarterly, 1 and 4, Argent, three birdbolts gules feathered and headed or. Herbert Bozoun.=j= It™ r& Gmvytj. t^e-f'Sl'i J SU Roger Bozoune, Knt.; J T SU Peter Bozoune, Knt.=j= eld. son, Uving 1227, 1233. SU Roger Bozune, Knt. s. and heu.' T SU Peter Bozoune, Knt.: SU John Bozoune, Knt.=j= AUce . . . . , of f uU age 1256. SU Peter Bozoune, Knt.=T= 34 Hen. III. Ob. circ. 1297. Sir Peter Bozoun, Knt. of Wissing-=j= Sarah , caUed sett 14 Ed. I. Ob. ante 1337 bis widow 11 Edw. IIL SU John Bozoun, Knt.=f= Roger Bozoun, 1330. John Bozoune, Esq. 1351, 1358.=p- , J Wm. Bozoune, Esq.=f= Margerie, widow of son and heU, 1351, 1366. SU Nich. BeUows. John Bozoune, Esq.=p Jane or, Joan, da. of Richd. son and heU, 1366, 1403. Spinke of Norwich. Margaret. Richard Bozoune : of Wissingset, Esq. son and heU. i Wm. Bozoune of Wissmgsett, Esq.: 1457, son & heU. Will dat. 12 Oct. 1460, proved 28 April, 1461. Ob. 13 Feb. 1460-1, desires to be buried in churchyard of Wyssingset. = Marg'. da. & h. of Rich. Chappis. She married 21y John Pecock of Norwich, and was his wife 1458, 1470. Alice Bozoune, wife of Stephen Guibon of North Lynn. His wUl, dated 1432, mentions two sons, John and WiUiam. ; Alice, da. of Stephen Guibon of Linne (Lynn Bishop). She mar. 21y Wm. Rokewood, Esq. His wife 1479. Her wUl dat. 20 Jan. 1495. SU Thomas, a monk 1450-60, Prior of Nor wich, 8 June, 1471. Buried in St. Luke's Chapel, April, 1480. Monument there. Constance, a nun 1450—60. John Bozoune - of Wissingsett in com. Norf. Esq. Ob. 8 Feb. 1489. = Eleanor, da. of Sir Edward Wodehouse of Kimberley in Norf. Knt. and relict of Edmund Hastings, Esq. She mar. 31y Thomas Cressener of Morley, Norf. Esq. , Jota Bozoune of Wissingsett, Esq.^ Elizab. da. of ... . Rouncerey . and h., of Stody 1518, living 1548, 1559. | of Bretaigne in France. 7 (a) BIGOD'S FIEF. ;77 (a) Anne, ux. ,. BuUy. 2 w. Winefred, da = and coh. of William Knightly of Norw. and reUct of Robert Coke of Mileham, Esq. Bur. at Tittles haU 16 Jan. 1569. Eobert Bozoune of =f= 1 w. Elizab. oldest da. Wissingsett in Norf. Esq. Of Stody 1569. Of Thornage 1582— 90. of Humphry Kervill of Wignall (Wiggenhall) St. Mary in Marshland, Esq. Eleanor, ux. Thos. Barton (Buxton, Le N.) of Frcming-liam in Suff. gent. Anne . . ,= John Bozoun = buried at of Horning- Horning- toft, gent. ; toft, 24 married 21y at January, Horningtoft, 1615. 12 Nov. 1617; bur. at EUn ham, 11 Dec. 1631. = Hanna, da. of .... and wid. of . . . Fur- neys. WiU dated 12 Nov. 1647, then of N. Elmham, widow, buried there 28 Dec. 1647. She had by her 1st husb. Furneys 3 daurs. viz. Mary, w. of Robt. Breese, gt. ; Lydia, w. of Nath. Duckett, clk. Rector of Tittleshall ; and Hanna, w. of Richd. Everard of Gateley. 2. Herbert. 3. Thomas. 4. Jeffrie. (Roun- cerie.) Jane,ux. Wm. Pren-tis of Burs-ton, Marsh land. Elizab.ux, John Buck of Old Wal singham.Mar. at Gt. Wal singham 10 Feb. 1568, Roger : Bozoune, eld. son, of Wis singsett,Esq. Will dat. 25 Jan. proved 24 Feb. 1623. Amy (or Anne) ux LoveU of Laxfeld,Suff. : Anne, da. of Hamon le Strange, of Hun stanton,Esq. by Eliz. his wife, da. and coh. of Sir Hugh Hastings of Elsing, living 1611. ~l Robert,s.p. Elizabeth, wife of Christopher Crowe of East Bilney, Norf. gent. Mar. settlement dated 26 April, 37 Eliz. 1595. Hamon Bozune,= s. & h. of Wis singsett in Norf. Esq. 1608, after of South Creake, Uving 1657. Ob. 11 Jan. 1664-5. : Frances, da. of SU Thomas Playters of Sot- terley in Suff. Bart. Marriage settlement dated 6 Jac. I. Anne, mar. Bartholo mew John son of Bittering,Norf. Katherine, mar. 4 Dec. 1605, Wm. Howman of Stanhoe, Norf. She died 7 Nov. 1624. Susan, mar. Thos. Good rick, gent, of N. Creake. Frances Bozoune. Eleanor Bozoune, Uving unmarried 14 June, 1614. WiUiam Bozoune, living 1649. Hamon, living 1649, then youngest son. Roger Bozoune, Uvins; 1623. Thomas Bozoune, of Wissingsett, Esq. eld. son. Sold the manor 1657. Died unmarried before 22 April, 1664, at South Creake. Anne Bozoune, livinsr 1623. Frances Bozoune, mar. to Edm. Brigge of Bradfield, 1664. Vide SU E. Byshe's Norf. p. 60. (Le N.) EXTEACTS FEOM AN OEIGINAL MANUSCEIPT IN THE POSSESSION OF THE LATE EEV. E. J. HOWMAN, WHO WAS DESCENDED FROM THE FAMILY. William Howman and Mrs. Katherine Bozoune were married 4th December, 1605. Roger Howman, son to the said Wilham and Katherine, borne 14th February, 1606, christened 22. His godfathers, Mr. Roger Bozoune of Wissingsett, his grandfather, and Mr. John Bozoune of Horningtoft, his uncle ; his godmother, Mrs. Crow of Billney, his aunt Anne Howman, daughter, borne 24th February, 1607, christened 3rd March. Her godfather, Mr. Francis Singleton, deputy for Sir Hamon Lestrange ; her godmothers, old Mrs. Bozoun, her grand mother, and yonge Mrs. Bozoun, her aunt. Elizabeth Howman, daughter, borne 15th April, 1609, christened 20th April. Mrs. Warner of Docking and Mrs. Ehnor Bozoun, godmothers. Henry Howman, son, &c, borne 20th May, 1610, christened, &c. His godfathers, Mr. Bartholomew [Johnson], his uncle, &c. 278 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. William Howman, son, &c, borne 18th December, 1611, christened, &c His godfathers, Wilham -Strange, Esq. and Mr. Roger Warner ; his godmother, old Mrs. Bozoun of Wissingsett, his grandmother. Mary Howman, daughter, &c, borne 6th January, 1612, christened, &c. Her godfather, Mr. Robert Buck of WaUsingham ; her godmothers, Mrs. Thurlowe of Burnham and Mrs. Mary Baxter. John Howman, son, &c, born 14th June, 1614. His godfathers, Mr. Henry Cursson and Mr. Thomas Crowe ; his godmother, Mrs. Ellenor Bozoune, his aunte. Isaac Howman, son, &c, borne 24th October, 1624. His godfathers, Mr. Thomas Crowe,8 his uncle, &c. Katharine Howman, wife to the said William, departed this Ufe 7th November, 1624. William Howman, departed, &c. 14th December, 1644. — Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, Monthly Scries, 399. MILEHAM REGISTER. 1563. Robertus Bozoun arm'i et Winifrede Cooke, nuper uxor Robti Cooke ar., nupt. Adam Bosum of Wendhng, gent., in his will dated 14 Sept. 1612, speaks of his "lovinge cosen John Bozoune of Horningtofte." HORNINGTOFT REGISTERS. 1615. Anna Bozoune, uxor Joh'is Bozoune generosi, sepulta fuit vicesimo quarto die mens. Jan. 1617. Johannes Bozoune generosus de Horningtoft et Hanna Furneyes vid. de Elmham maritat' fuere duodecimo die mens. Novembris. 6 f Christopher. a . ra-,1- ml- rvs~~- o /Vf; %&>• fefratf ml tu utfit Uf^^ mW jsftfag #|mrt tm$ owa omnia ^tfc /,,. S. On a stone by its elf 7 15-1- inches- 0 J Vt-w- del'et lithu-. l/^Jnc/ies. THE BISHOPS FIEF, NORTH ELMHAM. 279 SCfr* gist's Jfief, Itnrilj <$Im{jam. "THE PLACE," OR SITE OF THE MANOR OF NOWERS IN ELMHAM. OMETIME in the reign of Edward I., Symon de Walton, who was Bishop of Norwich from 1258 to 1265, by deed without date,1 confirmed to Reginald Dau beneye, styled his valet, the messuage, with the lands, tenements, and appurtenances which the same Reginald then held of the bishop, in North Elmham, and which were of the property of Nicholas de la Bruer ; and likewise the land which the said Reginald had purchased of Warin de la Bruer. In the same reign,2 John son of Eadwin or Eadward, in angulo de Northelmham, granted to Gerard son of Andrew de Gossele, and Elwine his daughter, wife of said Gerard, his right in a messuage in a close called Affaldesby, which he had by charter of Warin Attelyng (who I suppose to be the same person called Warin de la Bruer3), paying to Reginald Daubeneye and his heirs fourteen pence at the four terms of the year, in con sideration that the said Gerard and Aluine his wife, and their heirs, should deliver to the grantor, yearly, for his life, two seams 4 of barley at the feast of All Saints, if he were willing to take the same ; and it was declared that the same tenements were held of Reginald Daubeneye, his heirs and assigns, freely, by that service. To the deed containing this grant Reginald -Daubeneye is a witness, and it appears, by an endorsement upon it, that it related to the Place. The Place we learn elsewhere was the site of the manor of Nowers. By a charter dated in the 14th Edward II. one John Knych (Knight ?), chaplain of Northelmham, granted to John, son of Henry Dankyn, of the same place, and Cecilie his wife, a messuage and twelve acres of land in that town, as more fully appeared by certain deeds of feoffment. A Roger Daubeneye is one of the witnesses to this. It is endorsed in a coeval hand "de feodo Noeres," and it has another endorsement, stating that it ' Evidences, post, p. 285. ! Post, ib. 3 "Lynge or hethe, bruera." — Fromptorium Parvulorum. * Scmos or quarters. 280 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. concerned " the very mansion house of Roger Martyn, called the Place." And in 39 Edward III. Joan, Matilda, and Katherine, daughters of John Dankyn of Northelmham, granted to John Dankyn their brother an enclosed pightle in Northelmham, called Afaldesbiyerd. Con veyances of other lands to John Dankyn will be found in the Evidences, here printed, which appear to have subsequently come into the hands of the Martyns. In the 10th year of King Edward III. (1335) John Claver and Robert Clere, keepers of the temporalities of the See during its vacancy, demised to William But of Norwich, Thomas But, Peter But, and John de Beston, of Norwich, lands belonging to the See, to be sown in winter seed; naming amongst other places, in the manor of Northelmham 110 acres, in the manor of Betele 10 acres of land, to be held until the feast of St. Matthew Apostle.5 According to Blomefield, the manor of Noers was conveyed to Sir William de Hackford, in 7 Edward II., by Henry de Coleburne and Margery his wife. William, son of Thomas de Hakeford, who held the manors of West Herling, Bridgham, and Crabshall, in 7 Edward II.,6 had also lands in North Elmham in that year, of which he died seized before 6 Edward IIL, leaving Margery his widow, and his two daughters and coheirs (as Le Neve was of opinion) — Joan, wife of John de Sekford, and Elizabeth, wife of Henry de Elmham ; as in the latter year they levied a fine of the manor of Frenze, which had come to them in equal moieties, and of land in North Elmham, which appears to have fallen to the share of Elizabeth.7 Henry de Elmham, by Elizabeth his wife, was the father of, — besides Robert Elmham of North Walsham, Esq.," and three daughters, married to Reymes, Watton, and Bertram, — Sir William de Elmham, Knt. This Sir William was one of the captains in the army sent to the aid of the Duke of Brittany by Richard II., 1379, and he accompanied Bishop Spencer in an expedition to Flanders in 1383. His will, as "Sir William de Elmham, chivaler," Suffolk, is dated April 2nd, 4 Henry IY. 1403. He mentions land at Ingaldis- thorp, Frenge, and Bouthorp, Norfolk, and Sir John de Ingoldesthorp was one of his executors. But some years before his death he had enfeoffed his lands in North Elmham in John atte Damesende of North Elmham, chaplain, Walter de Felstede, William Caly, and John Dankyn ; to whom Sir Ralph Shelton, senior, Knt., Sir William de Wyngfeld, Knt., and Geffry de Barsham released all right. What that right was and how acquired I have no information, as I have only a mutilated portion of the deed of release, which applies to lands and tenements and liberty of foldcourse, with the rents and services thereto be longing, formerly of Sir William de Elmham, Knt., in North Elmham, and which the said John atte Damesend, &c, had of the feoffment of Sir William de Elmham. The year of the reign of Edward III. in which this release was given is defaced, but it is not improbable that the property was the same as that which I am about to mention as contained in the feoffment of Dionisia de Ty. ' Orig. 10 Edward III., rot. 16. " Fines Norf- L- i;- a- 73- ' Fin. Norff. 6 Edward III. L. xxi. n. 237. « Robert de Elmham's will dated 1472.-(Cur. Ep. Reg. Paynott, fo. 3.) Ho had two wives, Margaret and Joan, by the latter of whom he had Margaret, his daughter and heir.— MSS. Le Neve. THE BISHOP'S FIEF, NORTH ELMHAM. 281 John atte Dammesend was also enfeoffed of other lands in Elmham, one being a piece of land granted in 40 Edward III. by John de Stanfeld, in cultura vocata Thome Wellefeld, lying next the way leading ad portem laude Domini, and abutting on lands of Lawrence de Thornewell. The feoffee probably was a native of Hempton, which was known as Fakenham Dam. There were three manors, or, more properly speaking, mansion-houses, which on May 23rd, in the 43rd year of Edward III. (1369) were granted by the Lady Dionisia de Ty to John Atte damesende of Northelmham, chaplain, and Thomas Attebrige, draper, by the description of three messuages, named Dunhamstede, Thorneicell, and le Hil, and three free foldcourses in Northelmham, with all her lands, tenements, rents, and services, &c, in Northelmham, Betele, and Gatele ; and by another deed, annexed, of the same date, Robert, son of Sir Peter de Ty, Knight, released his right. It would appear, however, from a schedule of the documents relating to this property, that Dionisia de Ty had made a grant to the same persons of the manor called Dunhamstede, and two messuages, together with all lands, tenements, meadows, pastures, &c, fisheries, rents, wardships, reliefs, marriages, and escheats, in the towns above named, by deed dated 2nd May, 42 Edward III. ; and that Robert de Ty released his right in those and all other lands and tenements which were his father's, in North Elmham and Gatele, by deed dated 19th June in the following year. Those general words, applicable to a manor, are not contained in the charters above mentioned, which I have set out in the Evidences. Dionisia de Ty is supposed to have been the daughter of John de Hoo in Suffolk ; and I subjoin the Pedigree, given in MS. Blois, which appears to have been founded upon her will. By that document, in which she describes herself as relict of Sir Peter de Ty, late Knight, she directed her body to be buried before the door of the church of the Holy Trinity at Barsham (in Suffolk), where she willed that a porch should be built at her cost over her place of sepulture. She gave a legacy to the fabric or repair of the chapel where the bodies of her father and mother rested : to her son Edward Charles one hundred shillings a year, out of the manor of Kessyngland ; and twenty shillings a year to Margaret de Ty, out of the same. She gave to Robert de Ty the manor of Hoo in Suffolk ; he to find a chaplain to celebrate for the souls of John de Hoo, Dyonisia his wife, and William their son. She does not call them her father, mother, and brother, but speaks of Robert de Ty as her son and heir. She left to John de Hoo part of a debt of William de Hoo, sometime Knight ; and a legacy to Lawrence de Ty, son of Sir Peter. Her executors were Robert her son, and John de Hoe, a monk. This will, or rather testament, was proved 1st August, 1375, by Robert de Ty,9 who will be mentioned again as lord of the manor of Peak Hall in Tittleshall. 9 WiU of Sir Robert, son of SU Peter de Tye, dated 6 Richard II. His feoffees to hold manor of Titleshall tUl Dionysia his daughter attain the age of fourteen. Names Lawrence his brother and SU John de Hoo his brother (qu. uncle ?), SU Emery de Wellingham, his uncle. Proved Sept. 25th, 1385, by EUzabeth. SU John de Hoo was Prior of Yarmouth. — Cur. Episc. Norw., Reg. Heydon, p. 94. 2 o 282 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Sir Wm. de Hoo.=t= Eleanor, da. of Thos. Wingfeld. John de Hoo, ar.=^ Dionisia. i n WUliam de Hoo, SU Peter de Ty =j= Dionisia, =j= . . . . Charles, ar., s.p. of Barsham. da. andhr. 9-nrf vii-.i 1375. Lawrence. SU Robt. de Ty =j= Elizabeth. Edward Charles. of Barsham. Sir Peter de Tye and Dionysia his wife, 21 Edward IIL, levied a fine of lands in Weston,2 Honingham, Sparham, and Lyng, in Norfolk, and Kessingland and Hoo in Suffolk. Some of the lands and tenements vested in John atte Damesende passed from him through several other feoffees to one William Fysher 3 and others, and, in a feoffment made by him, in 32 Henry VL, to John Heydon and Ralf Shelton, Esqs., Edmund Leche, clerk, and Simon Cosyn, clerk, is described as a messuage in Northelmham, and all other lands, &c, in the towns and fields of Northelmham and Gatelee, together with liberty of three folds, one belonging to the tenement called Dunham, the second to the tenement formerly of Emma de Hyll (elsewhere called Emma atte Hill4), and the third to the tenement formerly of William de Elmham, Knt. They in the same year passed it to other feoffees, to the use of Richard Hogge, who, in 6 Edward IV., conveyed to Thomas Brampton, John Heydon, Henry Heydon, Thomas Griggys, and Simon Bettys. In the 18th of that reign all these messuages, lands, and foldcourses, and other lands and tenements in Northelmham, &c, were enfeoffed to Richard Southwell, Esq., Robert Clare, Esq., Hugh Awstyn, Esq., James Hobart, John Barty, clerk, John Sullys, clerk, and Richard Brasyer, citizen of Norwich, who by deed dated 30th September, 6 Hen. VIL, conveyed to Richard Martyn and Roger Martyn. The messuage called Dunham does not appear to have been included in the two last deeds, for by another deed, dated 28th November, 20 Edward IV., Thomas Brampton, described of Brampton in Norff. Gentilman, bargained and sold the manor of Dunham and all other his lands and tenements in Northelmham and Gatele, to William Sparke, citizen and draper of London. In the 6th year of Henry IV., 1404, John Pawle of the city of Norwich, Esq., granted by deed to his mother Cecily, sometime wife of John de Shuldham, late mercer and citizen of Norwich, and to Roger Pratt, clerk, and Simon de Hackford, mercer and citizen of 1 Le Neve considered SU Peter de Ty the second husband. = Vide Blomeneld, " Manor of Tyes in Weston," vui. 286 ; " PeakhaU in TittleshaU," x. 76. " Fyssher and his co-feoffees in 7 Henry VI. granted out parcels of land at yearly rents, payable in manerium nostrum de Eunham in Elmham. i Thero is an entry in a court-roU of 8 Henry VIII. in reference to a messuage of Roger Martyn, Gent., caUed le bell, formerly of Richard Hoge, and before of WUUam Fisher, lo which belonged two hundred acres of freehold land. This may have heen an error for le hill; if so, it was perpetuated. THE BISHOP'S FIEF, NORTH ELMHAM. 283 Norwich, their heirs and assigns, his manor in Northelmham ; and Roger Pratt and Simon de Hackford released to her. In the same year she seems to have granted this manor to Sir Miles Stapylton and others ; and in the 10th of that reign John Paule released all right in the manor called Nowers to Sir Myles Stapylton, Cecilia de Shuldham, William Snetesham, Robert de Martham, and Master John Wade. They probably were her trustees, and in the year following, 11 Henry IV., they conveyed to Richard Gegge, Edmund Oldhalle, and John Thornham, their heirs and assigns, subject to the payment of £100 to the executors of the will of Cecilia. In 8 Henry V., 1420-1, John Thornham, the surviving trustee, conveyed to new trustees, who in the same year reconveyed to Richard Gedge,4 William Paston, and others. In 1455 the manor seems to have been in the hands of William Gedge. In 49 Henry VL, 1470, Robert Gedge of Great Yarmouth, Gent., granted to Robert Oby, son of John Oby of Worsted, and Elizabeth wife of said Robert Oby, daughter of said Robert Gedge, his manor of Northelmham called Nowers, to hold to said Robert and Elizabeth Oby, and the heirs of Elizabeth, they paying to said Robert Gedge, during his life, forty shillings yearly. By deed, 14 Edward IV., 1476, Robert Oby and Elizabeth his wife, described as daughter and heir of Robert Gedge, enfeoffed Henry Smyth, James Hobart, Nicholas Oby, and others, in this manor, with the watermill and lands belonging, which were stated to have descended to said Elizabeth after the death of Robert Gedge her father, who inherited same after the death of William Gedge his brother ; and in the same year Henry Gedge, a burgess of Great Yarmouth, one of the sons of Richard Gedge the elder, Esq., late of Saham, released the said manor, &c, late of Richard Gedge his father, and afterwards of Richard Gedge his brother, to the same trustees. In a fine levied that year, between the feoffees and Oby and wife, the property is described as consisting of the manor of Noers, with the appurtenances, and of one messuage, fifty acres of land, thirty-four shillings in money rents, and the rent of five hens and fifteen days' work in Autumn, in Northelmham and Betelee. Robert Gedge in his lifetime had demised the mill, parcel of the manor, to William Camme and others for a term of one hundred and two years, from Epiphany, 1470-1, who had enfeoffed John Dunham and another in fee ; and afterwards Oby and wife re-entered, on the forfeiture incurred by the feoffment, pulled down the mill, and sold the materials. In 1490, 6 Henry VIL, the surviving feoffees conveyed the manor, lands, tenements, rents, and services, and a watermill, with all, &c, in the towns and fields of Northelmham, Estderham, Hoo, Swanton Morley, and Worthing, to Richard Martyn of Melford, Roger Martyn his son, John Paston, Knt., Thomas Curson, Esq., and three others. The Martyns, who thus became possessed of the manor of Noers, were of Long Melford in Suffolk. Richard Martyn of Long Melford, the first purchaser, died in the year 1500, his will 1 Richard Gedge was one of the executors of Sir Thomas Erpingham, 1427. 2 o 2 284 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. being dated 13th June, and proved 11th September in that year.5 He names Margery his wife, Roger his son, and other children, but does not notice any Norfolk property. At a court held for the manor of Northelmham in 16 Henry VIIL, it was reported, on the information of the lord's supervisor, that Roger Martyn had sold to Henry Palmer, Gent., all his lands both free and copy in Elmham, but certainly no such sale was completed. The will of Roger Martyn was dated 20th April, 1535 ; 6 it makes no mention whatever of property in Northelmham. He died in 34 Henry VIIL, leaving Richard his eldest son and heir, to whom he had probably granted this estate by a deed dated 12th June, 23rd of that reign, 1531. This Richard Martyn, who died 1st September, 1572,7 was the father of another Roger, who was the owner of this manor of Nowers and other lands before mentioned, but they appear to have been conveyed to him by his father, by feofiment dated 1st November, 7 Elizabeth, 1565, and very soon after that date he sold them to various persons. Amongst them were William Batche, Thomas Franklyn, Thomas Hanford, all of Northelmham ; but the largest purchasers were Robert Bozon, or Bozome, of Stodey, Esq., and Roger Bozome his son, of the family of Bozon of Wissingsett, whose conveyance was dated 29th November, 9 Elizabeth, 1566, and they parcelled their acquisition out again to sub-purchasers. By deed dated 12th March, 1566-7, Roger Martyn, Robert Bozum, and Roger Bozum, released all right in lands sold to William Batche, he rendering therefore to the said Robert Bozum and Roger Bozum, as to their manor of Nowers, fealty only. By deed dated 25th July, 1567, Roger Bozun, styled son and heir apparent of Robert Bozun, Esq., in performance of an indenture made on the 1st of March preceding, between the said Roger and Robert and Roger Martyn, conveyed to Richard Franklyn of North elmham, yeoman, their rights and interests in the lands and tenements specified in ah annexed schedule, which the said Richard Franklyn had lately purchased, and which were formerly of the said Roger Martyn and of John Deye, excepting however out of such convej^ance the rent of assize belongmg to the manor of Noers, — manerio meo. About the same time the same parties had bargained and sold to Thomas Franklyn " the scite or howse nowe called the manor of Nowers, or the place, in Northelmham, and certain lands thereto belonging ; " and to him all the evidences of title, touching the manor and the lands thereto lately belonging, were delivered ; and he thereupon entered into a covenant for their production to Bozun and Richard Franklyn, and to all persons who should have any parcel of the said manor of Nowers. This deed of covenant is dated 8th October, and two deeds of feoffment, one from Roger Marten, Robert Bozom, and Roger Bozom, the other from Roger Bozome alone, described as of Bakonsthorp, Gent., to Thomas Franklyn, are both dated 10th November following, 9 Elizabeth, 1567, of totum manerium ele Noicers, in Northelmham, communiter vocatum the Place, with all the demesne lands to the same manor now belonging, and all 5 Iiervey's Visitation of Suffolk, edited by J. Jackson Howard, LL.D., vol. i. p. 209. 0 Visitation of Suffolk, 212. i Pedigree of Martin, ibid. 226. THE BISHOP'S FIEF, NORTH ELMHAM. 285 rents, &c. ; but actual seizin does not appear to have been delivered until 22nd July, 1571. There are deeds of members of the Franklyn family to 34 Elizabeth. By that time not only the Place or site of the manor, but the lordship also, had passed into the hands of the Cromwell family, but none of the charters relating to the transfers are in existence. Henceforth it has passed with the principal manor. NORTH ELMHAM EVIDENCES. OEIGINAL CHAETEES IN THE MUNIMENT EOOM AT ELMHAM HALL. Grant from Simon de Walton, Bishop of Norwich, to Reginald Daubeney, temp. Edward I. Omnibus Xpi fidehbus, present' scriptum visurum vel auditurum. Sym,' Divina inspiratione Norwyc Eps. salutem in Dno sempiternam. Noverint universitas uestra nos de unanimi assensa et voluntati CapituU nostri Norwioensis concessisse et hac presenti carta mea confirmasse Reginaldo Daubeneye valetto nostro. Totum mesuagium cum terris et tenementis et omnibus aUis pertinentns que idem Reginaldus tenet in villa de Northelmham. One videlj mesuag' et terre fuerunt de perquisit' Nicholai de la Bruer. Et preterea Totam terram cum omnibus suis pertinentiis quam predictus Reginaldus de Warino de la Bruer perquisivit. Habend, &c. In cujus, &c, sigillum nostrum una cum sygiUo capituU Norwico, &c. Testibus, Dnis Hamon Wurth et Hamon de Pattesl', Hamon Cheure, Johe de Preston, Augustino de Brom, Roger de la Gyrn, Johanne Tebauld, &c. Both seals are lost. Simon de Walton was bishop from 1258 to 1265. Grant from John son of Eadwin to Gerard son of Andrew de Gossele of Messuage in Elmham called " the Place," temp. Edward I. Notum sit omnibus, &c— qd ego Joh. fil Eadi in Angulo de Northelmhm concessi, &c— Gerardo fil' Andree de Gossele et Elune fil mee uxor eiusdm Gerardi, &c— totum jus, &c— in uno mesuagio in clauso qd vocat Affaldesby cum fossis et hays et alhs ptin, &c— que, &c— per cartam de Warino Attelyng, &c* Habend, &c— Reddendo, &c— Reginaldo Daubeneye et heredibus, &c— quatuor decem denarios ad quatuor terminos viUe de Northelmham censuales, &c— p hac ante donacone, &c, pdci Gerard et Alune uxor eiusd et herect eo? dabunt mihi annuatim in tota vita mea duas summyas ' ordi ad festum omnium sanctorum si easdem capere voluerim. Et sciendum quod certam feoffamenti quam habui de dicto tenemento de dicto Warino atteling dicto Warino me in seyssinam de eodem tenemento aliquo tempore libere ponente eandem cartam dicto Gerardo et Annie uxori eiusdem tradidi. Et ut eadem tenementa teneant de Reginaldo Daubenye et heredibus suis sive assignatis suis libere ppdicto servicio reddito, &o. HUs testibus, Reginaldo Daubenye, Thorn, de Dunham, Augustino de brom, Elya fil' eius, &c. Endorsed in later hand, " This Dede conteyneth the place in in occupat Thome Franklyn [modo vocat le grange dni Henrici CrumweU.] " 8 Warin attelyng was doubtless the same person who in the preceding charter is caUed Warin de la Bruer. 9 Seams or quarters of barley. 286 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Sciant, &c. Ego Johes Kny'ch capeUanus de Northelmham concessi, &c. Johi fiho Henrici Dankyn de eadem et Cecihe uxore sue, &c, unum messuagium et duodecim acras terre arabihs, &c, m villa antedicta, &c Sicut plenius evenietur in cartis feoffamenti inde confectis de Tenementis Dm Robh de Noers militis, &c. Testibus, Robto atte Gyrin, Bartholomeo fre eius, Rogero Deubeneye, Reginaldo de Brisele, Thom. fil eius, Johne de Brunham, Robto de Dunham, Walter' de Hoxsene, &c Dat apud Northelmham die Lune px post festum Sci Martini Episcopi A. R. reg. E. fil Reg. Edwardi decimo quarto. Seal, a lion rampant with " sum leo roims " around it.— (Vide fig. 1.) ' Endorsed in a later hand— " This is the dede of the very mansion howse of Eoger Martyn caUed the Place in EUnham [which Franklyn occupyeth"] ; and in a coeval hand " defeodo Noeres." Paper copy without date. Sciant, &c. Qd ego Warin tauern' de northelmhm dedi, &c, quiet clamavi Eeginaldo deubeneye et margaret uxori sue et eo? hered quinque acr terre in campis de northelmhm apud Osmundes crofte inter et terr' Roger' de HU u's aquilone et abuttant sup Inlondegat vers' orients lP nouem marcas argente quas mihi dedit p' manibj Tenend et hend de capituh diio feodi schj epo norwic' et successor suis. Reddend inde annuatim dco diio feodi duodecim denar', &c. Et si cotingat dem Reginald infat'a decede ante dcam margareta volo et cocedo pro me et hered meis qd remaneat dee margarete et hered suis Et si contingat dcam margaretam ante deft Reginald infata deced'e, &c remaneat dco Reginaldo et hered suis, &c Hus testibj Hamon buerts, et Hamon pattesly, Augustino de Brom. Ely fils eis Walt de Sun' fil' ei8 Rog'o de gyrn, Sim' de Brodemers, Robs fils eis Ricard degore Alano le calye de Elmhm. CapitaU scriptu sigillatu remanett inter Copia hec concordat Evidentias Jacobi Taverner apud- cii pneipal' teste Wighton. me Edmundo dennye Scriptor. I. Copy of grant of Manor of Nowers from John Pawl to Cecilia Shuldham his mother. Hen. LV., 1404. Sciant, &c, qd ego Johes Pawle concessi, &o. — Cycelye quondam uxori Johi de Shuldham nuper m'cer' civis Norwici matre mee, dfio Rog'o Pratt cl'ico et Simoni de Hacford mercatori et civi Norwici heredibus et assignatis eorum totum manerium meum in Northelmham cum omnibus terris et tenementis redditibus et servicUs ac molendinum aquaticum, &c. Dat apud Northelmham, 10 Oct. A" R. Hen. IV. G". II. 1404-5. Noverint, &c. Nos Rogerum Prat clericum et Simonem de Hackford mercatorem civem Norwic" remissimus, &c. — CeciUe quondam uxori Johis de Shuldham nuper mercatoris civis Norwic' totum jus, &c. — in manerio nostro de Northelmham cum omnibus terris, &c. — in Northelmham et villis adjacentis que quidem habuimus ex dono et feoffamento Johis Paule. Ita quod, &c. Dat apud Langele die mercurii proximo post festum Sci Matthie Apli A0 R. Hen. IV. 6°. Two seals on one pendant : the upper, a Uon rampant; the lower, a merchant's mark. — (Vide figs. 2, 3.) [" A dede of Cecile Sholdham to Miles Stapleton and others," dated 1 May, 6 Hen. IV., &c, mentioned in a schedule temp. Eliz., is no longer in existence.] 1 The matrix of this seal is in the CoUection of Robert Fitch, Esq., F.S.A , of Norwich. Drawl iXiHI'li: ty CJWfntv: THE BISHOP'S FIEF, NORTH ELMHAM. 287 III. 1404-5. Patent universis, &c, quod nos Milo de Stapylton miles, Willms Snetysham, Eobtus Martham, et Magister Johes Wade attornavimus, &c, Johem Reetorem ecclesie de Belyngford et Hugon' yerdly de eadem, &c, attornatos nostros, &c. — seizinam de manerio suo in Northelmham, &c. Dat apud Byloghby primo die Marc A0 R. Hen. IV. sexto. IV. 1408. Noverint, &c — me Johanem Paule de Comitate Norff. armigerum remississe, &c — MUoni de Stapylton mihti, Cecihe que fuit uxor Johannis Shuldham, WUlo Snetesham, Robto de Martham et Magistro Johi Wade, &c. — totum jus, &c, — in manerio vocato Nowers in villa de Northelmham, &c — Data sexto die Novembris A. R. Hen. IV., 10 decimo. A seal, broken, but bearing a shield of arms, 3 round buckles 2 and 1. Indorsed, Irrotulat in Banco, &c [Rot. 2, Mich. Term, 10 Hen. IV.] V. Henry IV. 1409. Sciant, &c, qd Mho de Stapylton miles, Willms Snetesham, Robtus de Martham, et Magister Johes Wade demiserunt, &c — Rico Gegge, Edmo Oldhalle, et Johi Thornham, &c — totum Ulud manerium suum in North Elmham cum. omnibus terris, &c, quod, &c — nuper habuerunt ex dono et feoffamento Cecilie quondam uxoris Johis de Shuldham nuper civis Norwic, &c, sub conditione, &c, solyendo inde Eogero Prat clerico et Eoberto Palgrave executoribus testamenti predicti CecUie, &c, centum hbras, &c. Testibus, Rado de Shelton, WiUmo Calthorpe, Johe Harsyk mihtibus, Bryan Harsyk, &c Dat apud North Elmham sexto decimo die Octobris (A° Henry IV. 11°.) Two parts of this deed, both mutilated by damp, endorsed, "Carta Manerh de Nowers fact Henrico Gedge." VI. Pateat vniversis qd nos milo de Stapylton, miles, &c — attornavimus, &c, Rogft Prat et Johem Spyer, &c, ad Uberandum nomine nostro Rico Gegge, Edmo OldhaRe, et Johi Thornham, &c, in manerio nostro in North Elmham, &c Dat. apud North EUnham sexto decimo die Octobris (A° Henry IV. 11.°) Two seals remaining : one bearing the owl with wings expanded and crowned, the crest of Stapylton ; on the other, a swan. VIL Henry V. 1420-1. Sciant, &c, qd Ego Johes Thornham de Norwico dimisi, &c, Stepho Mynyot capllo, Eobto Baas Civi Norwico, et Eobto Swofham, heredibus, &c, totum manerium meum in North Elmham cum omnibus terris, &c, que nuper habui cum Eico Gegge et Edmundo Oldhalle iam defunctis, &c, Mhonis de Stapylton mihtis, WUlmi Snetesham, Eobti Marham, et Magistri Johis Wade in North Elmham et villis adjacentis. Testibus, Hugone de Tardlee, Edfto Atte Girn, WiUmo qwhetele, &c. Dat. apud Elmham pdict die Jovis proximo ante festum conversionis Sci PauU, A° regni Eegis Henrici quinti [8°.] Seal, an eagle, the impression encircled with a rush braid, embedded in the wax. VIII. Sciant, &c, Stephus Mynyot capllus, Eobtus Baas Cives Norwici, et Eobtus Swofham— Rico Gegge, WiUmo Paston, Magistro Willmo Barnham clerico, Clementi Herward et Simoni Greyne capllo, heredibus, &c — totum manerium nostrum in North Elmham, &c Dat. apud North Elmham pdict die Jovis proximo post festum conversionis Sci Pauli, a° Henry V. [8°.] Three seals: 1, S; 2, a horse (P) passant; 3, tfj. 288 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Other Deeds relating to the Manor of Nowers. IX. Hen. VL, 1470. Sciant, &c, ego Robtus Gedge de villa magni Jernemuth, Gentilman, dedi, &c, Robto Oby fiho Johis Oby de Worsted, et Elizabeth ux . . . . Robti Oby filie mee prefati Robti Gedge manerium meum de Northelmham vocatum Nowers cum omnibus pertinentiis suis ac unum molendinum aquaticum in eadem viUa de Northelmham. Habendum, &c, prefatis Roberto Oby et Elizabeth et heredibus et assign ejudem Elizabeth inppetuum, &c, Redendo inde michi prefato Roberto Gedge durante vita mea naturaU annuatim quadraginta sohdos, &c. Hiis testibus, Henrico Smyth clerico, Rico Pynnes, Henrico Mayken, Johe Godeman, Johe Longe, et aUis. Dat. apud Northelmham — 24th Decembr — anno ab inchocoe regni Regis Henrici sexti post conquestum 49°, et redempcionis Regie potestatis sue anno primo. Edw. IV., 1476. Sciant, &c, Robtus Oby de Worsted et EUzabeth uxor mea fiUa et heres Robti Gedge nuper de magna Jeremutha dedimus, &c. — Henrico Smyth, Jacobo Hobart, Nicho Oby, Johi Barly cUco, Johi Bulman cUco, Johi Jullys clico, Robto Portekmd, et Thome Caumbrigge manerium nostrum de Northelmham vocatum Noers ac omnia, &c, unum molendinum aquaticum, &c. — in campis de North elmham, Est derham, Hoo, Swanton Morley et Worthyng, &c. — que, &c, predicte EUzabethe jure hereditario descenderunt post mortem, &c — Roberti Gedge patris mei, &c- — prefato Roberto, &c, jure hereditario descenderunt post mortem Willmi Gedge fratris ejusdem Roberti. Testibus, Thoma Brame, WUlmo Pedder, Henrico Mayken, Johe Warner, Simone Eoxe, &c. Dat. apud Northelmham, &c 1 Aug. A". Edw. IV. 16. XI. 1476-7. Omnibus, &c, Henricus Gedge Burgenses viUe magni Jernemuthe unus fihorum Ricardi Gedge seniori armigero nuper de Saham in comitate predicto, &c. — sciatis, &c — remississe, &c, Henrico Smyth, Jacobo Hobart, &c, totum jus meum, &c, de et in quodam manerio vocato Nowerys maner in Northelmham, &c, que nuper fuerunt dicti Ricardi Gedge patris mei ac postea Ricardi Gedge fratris mei, &c. Testibus, Edo BideweUe, Edo Thoresby, Johe Taune', Robto Crowmer, Johe Elmham, &c. Dat. 17 Jan. A". Edw. IV. 16. XII. Michaelmas Term, 16 Edw. IV. Fine between Henry Smyth and others, querents, and said Robert Oby and Elizabeth his wife, deforcients, de Manor de Noers cum ptin ac de uno mesuagio 50 acris terre et 34 soUdis redditus, et redditu quinque gallinis et quindecim operum autumnaUum cum ptin in Northelmham et Betelee.2 Pes Finis. M-i. qd Robtus Gedge de magna Jernemuth fuit seit de mania de Nowers, &c, et sic inde seit demisit molendinum cfi fundo et aqua eiusdem in Northelmham pcellum eiusdem manerii WiUmo Camme, Johi Bernard, et Rico Skarlet de Mylhm, Hend, &c, p tiho centu et duo? anno* tunc incipiente ad Epiphanium Dni anno regni Regis E. quarti pmo virtute cujus, &c, Willms Camme et al' fuerunt, &c. — et sic inde possessi, &c, feoffaverunt Johem Dunham et Petrum Bryghtmer, Hend her3 et assign suis, &c. Et postea pdcus Robtus Gedge h'uit exit Elizabeth et obut et dict EUzabeth nupt fuit Robto Oby de Worstede et ydm ' In 33 Henrj', this Manor was in the hands of WilUam Gedge, as appears in the Dragg." THE BISHOP'S FIEF, NORTH ELMHAM. 289 Robtus et Elizabeth eo qd dc'm feoffamentii, &c, — fact' fuit ad heredacoem eiusdem Elizabeth, &c, indem molendinum cum fundo et aqua intraver* et inde fuer seit, &c, et sic inde seit domos eiusdem molendini jistraver' et vend' et postea quidem finis levat fuit, &c [ut supra.] XIII. 1490. Sciant, &c. Henricus Smyth, Jacobus Hobert, Johes Barly Clicus, Johes Bulman Clicus, Johes Jullys Chcus, et Robtus Portlond tradidimus, &c, Eico Martyn de Melford, Eogo Martyn fiUo dicti Eici Martyn, Johi Paston militi, Thome Curson armigero, Johi Aleyn de Bury sci Edi, Eico Seyham, et Johi Hyll heredibus, &c. Manerium nostrum de Northelmham vocatum Nowers ac omnes terras et tenementa redditus et servicia et unum molendinum aquaticum cum, &c, in viUis et campis de Northelmham predicta, Estderham, Hoo, Swanton Morley et Worthyng, &c — quequidem, &c. — simul cum Nicho Oby et Thoma Caumbrigge jam defunctis nuper conjunctim habuimus ex dono, &c — Eobti Oby de Worsted et Elizabeth uxoris sue filie, &c — Insuper quod, &c, fecimus, &c, Thomam Warner et Henricum TrendyU, &c, attornatos, &c. Hhs testibus, Eico Pynnes, Willo Pedder, Eobto Piers, Nicho Tau'ner, Eico Trendhl, &c Dat. apud Northelmham secundo die mensis Octobris A0 R. Hen. VII. 6°. [The only perfect seal is the second, that of Hobart, which bears an estoile.J Deeds relating to three minor Manors : Dunhamstede, Thornwell, and Hills. 43 Edw. III. Sciant, &c, qd ego Dionisia de Ty concessi, &c, Johi attedamesende de Northelmham capeUano, et Thome Attebrigge de eadem draper tria mesuagia scilt Dunhamstede, Thornewell, et le hU, et tria Ubera faldagia in Northelmham ac omnia terra et tenementa mea redditus et servicia cum omnibus pertinentiis et Ubertatibus suis in Northelmham, Betele, et Gatele. Habendum, &c— In cujus rei, &c. Hhs testibus, Thom Deye, Johe Dankyn, Willmo Johe Stepho de Hopson, Johe Wace, et Johe Heye de Northelmhani, Johe Cote de Gatele, Henr' Hamund de Betele, et aUis. Dat. apud Northelmham vicesimo tercio die mensis maii anno regni Regis Edwardi tercii post conquestum quadragesimo tercio. [The seal has an armorial shield bearing a bend between six cross crosletts fitchee, Tye, impaHng a bend ingrailed between two cotises encircled by a garter, on which, in old characters, " SigiUum Dion de Teye."]-(Fig. 4.) Omnibus, &c Noveritis me Robtum fil Petri de Ty mihtis remississe, &c, Johi attedamesende de Northelmham capeUo, et Thome Attebrigge de eadem draper heredibus, &c— totum jus, &c, in tiibus messuaghs et tribus hberis faldaghs ac in omnibus terris, &c, que Hdem Johes et Thomas habent tenent ex concessione et feoffamento Dne Dionisie de Ty matris mee. Et ego, &c— In cujus rei, &c. Dat. apud Northelmham (23 May A° Edw. III. 43.) Seal apparently from an ancient intagHo with a boar surrounded by an inscription in the setting, not legible. — (Fig- 5.) These two last charters are annexed together, and have this endorsement—" the Ladye Attyes dede with a Release," also, " Deedes releases & a rentaU of ye manno' of ThornweU." Note.— In a schedule of deeds temp. EUzabeth, are mentioned the foUowing : Robtus de Ty fil Petri de Ty remiss, &c, Johi atte Damesende et Tho atte Brigge jus, &c, in three mess voc Dunham stede, Thornewelle, et HU in No. EUn. cum om terr, &c, que al temp, fuer' patri UUus in No. Elm. et Gatele, &c. Dat. 19 Junii 43 Edw. III. Dionisia de Ty concess, Sea., Johi Damesend, &c, ut supra, Man'™ voc Dunhamstede et 2 mess in No. EUn. un' cu' om' ter' et ten' prat' pasc' past' mor' mar' pise' red' ward' relevUs marc' et esch' in vU» ut supra. Dat. 2 Maij, 42 Edw. III. 2 p 290 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Edw. Ill Shelton miles senior, Wills de Wyngfeld miles, et Galfrid de Barsham remisimus, &c— Johi atte Damesende de Northelmham capeUano, magistro Walto de Eelstede capeUano, WUlo Caly ppe— totum jus, &c— faldagh et cum omnibus redditibus servicUs et libertatibus et ahis pertinentiis universis ad easdem terras et tenementa . . . quondam dfii Willi de Elmham militis fuerunt in Northelmham et que omnia integras terras supra dicti Johes atte Damesende, Walt'us de Eelstede, WiUus Caly, et Johes Dankyn nunc habent feoffamento predicti dfii WiUi de Elmham militis. Ita quod nos predicti Radus WiUmus de Wingfeld, &c— In cujus rei, &c. Dat. tercio die mensis Aprihs Anno regni Regis Hdwardii terch post conquestum The whole of the left or first side of this chart is in a mutilated state and illegible. It has three seals attached, but only the last can be deciphered— a female figure standing in the midst of crescents. Chcular legend imperfect. — (Fig. 6.) Ricardus fil Johis de Stanfeld dedi, &c— dno Johi atte Dammesend de Northelmham capellano et dno Jacobo de Makeslee capeUano de caruar' Norwic unam peciam terre arabil' Elmham in cultur' vocat Thome WeUefeld inter terras dni Roberti Day de Northelmham capeUani ex parte orientaUs et viam que ducit usque ad portam laude ejusdem dni ex parte occidentalis, &c, et capud aquilonar abuttat super terras Lawf ncij de ThorneweU. Testibus, Rado de Hoxfi, Johe Bate, Johe atte grene, Walto de Fulfurde- hagh, Johe Dankyn, Johe Holdeygh, &c. Dat apud Northelmham die doininica in vigiH sci Barthi apli A° R. Edwardi terch 40°. [The seal is rudely cut.] A hare riding upon a hound and blowing a horn; chcular legend, so ho v robin. — (Fig. 7.) A matrix of this seal, which I have often met with appended to charters in different locaUties in Norfolk and Suffolk (as at Flixton), is in the large and valuable collection of my friend Mr. Eitch. Mr. Winter has a drawing of a seal from the late Mr. Dawson Turner's coUection, bearing the same device, but a variation in the legend, allone i bide. Endorsed, " Burgrave et ThornweU." Johes atte Damesende concess. Thome atte Crosse et als. un. terr, &c in No. Elm. et Gatele. Dat 28 May, 2 Hen. 4. Tho. atte Crosse et als. concess. Willo Eissher et als. Dat 11 Apr. 6 Hen. 5. WiUms Fissher et Willms Clerk concess, &c, Johi Medowe om. ter. &c, pd, viz., una falda pt ad ten. voc Dunham et cu al. fald pt ten' qndm Emma de Hyl et tert. pt ten. qu Dni Will de Elm. mil, &c Dat die lun. ,px ant. fes. see Marg. virg. 2 Hen. VI. Johes Medowe concess. &c. Willo Eyssher et als. omn. terr. et ten. red. et serv. in vil. et cam. No. Elm. et Gatele una cu curs, et Ubt. 3 faldag, &c, 1 pt ad ten Dunham al. ad ten Emme atte hill, 3 ad ten Dni WUl de Elm. Dat die ,px pst. fes. beat. virg. 3 Hen. VI. Willas Fysshe et als. concess. Simoni Oodlyng, 19 Hen. VI. [These last from Schedule of Deeds temp. EUzabeth. The deeds themselves, with many others, destroyed by damp.] Hen. VI. Sciant, &c, Willms Fyssher, Vicr (?) de Thornegg, Magister Walter Noon, clericus, Johes Spaldyng, Rector ecclesie de GressynhaU, Robert Edyman, Rector ecclesie de Bryslee — Thome Hoe de Northelmham et Johi fiHo suo de eadem unam acram de marisci jacentis in Elmham, &c. Habendum, &c Reddendo inde, &c, duos denarios argenti in manerium nostrum vocatum Dunham in Elmham, &c. Dat apud Elmham die Sabati proximo ante festum Sci Jacobi ApH, A" Hen, VI. 7m°. Endorsed, " ,p j acr marysci qudm Fysshers in Elmham apd occolte." THE BISHOP'S FIEF, NORTH ELMHAM. 291 Sciant, &c, Willms Fyssher de Northelmham, Magister Walter Noon, Eector ecclesie de Styberd, Johns Spaldyng, Eector ecclesie de Gressynale, et Eobertus Edyman, Eector ecclesie Bryslee, concessimus, &c Johi Pasker de Elmham predicta Johi hrwode, capellano, et Johi Barnard de eadem, quatuor acras terre arabihs et dimidium acre marisci in Elmham. Habendum, &c. Eeddendo inde duos denarios, &c, in manerium nostrum de Dunham in Elmham et ad — duos denarios, — 2d. et — 2d. Dat apud Elmham, &c, die Sabati proximo ante festum Sci Jacobi Aph, A° E. Henry VI. septimo. Two charts in tatters. Both dated 19° Henry VI. One from Wilham Fyssher of Northelmham, Eichard Fysher, clerk, and Eobert Fysher of Apton ; the other from Simon Codlyng, clerk, to WiUiam Fysher and others. Sciant, &c. WUlmus Eysher de Northelmam dedi, &c, Johi Heydon, Eadulpho Shelton, armigeris, Edmundo Leche, clerico, et Simoni Cosyn, clerico, unum mesuagium, &c, in Northelmham, &c, ac omnia aha, &c, in villis et in campis de Northelmham et Gatelee una cum cursu et Hbertate trium faldarum, &c, una falda pertinet at tenement vocat Dunham et alia falda pertinet at tenement quondam Emme de HyU et tercia falda pertinet ad tenementum quondam WUH de Elmham, miUtis, que, &c, ego Willms simul cum Johi Spaldyng, nuper Eectoris ecclesie de Gressynhale, &c, ex concessione, &c, Simonis Codlyng, clerici. A° Hen. VL. 19°. Dat apud Northelmham die mercurii proximo post festum See fidis Virginis, A0 32 Hen. VL. Hen. VT. Sciant, &c. Johes Heydon, Eadulphus Shelton, armigeri, Edmundus Leche, clericus, et Simon Cosyn, clericus — Johi Bulman, clerico, Henrico Smyth de Kirkeby, et Johi Sharynton de Sharyngton, &c. — unum mesuagium, &c. — Hbertate trium faldarum, &c. — ex concessione WiUmi Fysher, &c Testibus, Johi Bernard, &c, Henrico Tav'ner, &c Dat apud Northelmham 9 Jan. 32 Hen. VT. Edw. IV. From a copy of the lower portion of a charter (the upper part being torn away) the above John Bulman, &c, appear to have granted the messuage, lands, and foldcourses which they held under the last deed as feoffees to the use of Richard Hogge, to Thomas Brampton, John Heydon, Henry Heydon, Eobert Brampton, Thomas Griggys, and Simon Bettys, in fee. Dated 6th Aug., A° 6 Edward IV. Amongst the witnesses, Johne Curson, militi, Johi Conyers, Will. Rokewood, jun., Adam Graye, armigeris. Note.— At a court held for the manor of North EUnham in 8 Henry VIIL, the homage presented that Roger Martyn, Gent., ought to repair a messuage " voc le bell quond le Rici Hoge et antea Willi Fyssher cui quidem mes p'tinet cc acr ter Ub et quod quid'm mes est valde ruinosum," &c— Cur. Rot. Edw. IV. Sciant, &c, nos Johes Bulman, clericus, et Thomas Plombe de Folsham dimisimus, &c, Eico Southwell, armigero, Eobto Clere, armigero, Hugoni Awstyn, armigero, Jacobo Hobart, Johi Barly, clerico, Johi Jullys, clerico, et Eico Brasyer, civi Norwici, omnia ilia mesuagia terras et tenementa redditus et servicia cum cursu trium faldarum wardis maritagiis et omnibus alus, &c, in Northelmham que nos, &c, nuper conjunctem habuimus cum Thoma Constantyn nuper de Lenn Epi, armigero, Johe Grey, et Edo Keche, clericis, Thoma Cawmbrigge cive Norwici, ac Robto Bernard de Northelmham pdict modo defunctis ex tradicone et feoffamento Rici Wylshyre, clerici, prout in quadem carta feoffamenti cuius datum est 20 July, 7 Ed. IV., &o. Et que quidem, &c, predictus Eicus Wylshyre quondam habuit ex tradicone et feoffamento Eadi Shelton, armigeri, mei predicti Johis Bulman, Thome Bateman, Johis Sharyngton, et Edi de Soham prout in quadem carta feoffamenti cujus datum est 10 March, 5 Ed. IV., &c Concessimus eciam prefatis Eico Southwell, &c, omnia iUa terras et tenementa que nos prefati Johes 2 p 2 292 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Bulman et Thomas Plumbe nuper habuimus cum prefatis Thomas Constantyn, &c, ex dono et confirmacone Johis Molett nuper Prioris ecclesie Sancte Trinitatis, Norwic, et ejusdem loci conventus et que Henricus Smyth, Johes Langge, et Johes Grene, de predictis Priori, &c, quondam per virga et ad firman tenuerunt prout in quodam scripto indentato cujus datum est in domo capitulari ejusdem conventus 28 July, A° Ed. IV. 9, &c. Habendum, &c Insuper, &c, fecimus, &c, Thomam Barker et Gregorium Brimston nostros legittimos attornatos, &c. In cujus, &c. Hhs testibus Thoma Curson, armigero, Thoma Brampton, Thoma Grene, Johe Grene, &c. Dat apud Northelmham 24 Man, A° Edw. IV. 18. A Dede by Hen. Smith to Ric. SouthweU and others, 6 Dec. 20 Edw. IV. [In schedule.] A Dede from Richard SouthweU and other to Ric. and Roger Martyn and other. Dated ult. Sept. A» 6 Hen. VEL A Dede by Eoger Martyn to Eic Martyn, 12 June, 25 Hen. VILT. [In schedule temp. Ehz.] Edw. TV. This Indenture made 28 Nov. 20 Edw. IT. bytwene Thomas Brampton of Brampton in Norff. Gentilman, on that one parte and WiUiam Spark Citizein & Draper of London on that other parte Witnesseth that the sd Thomas hath bargayned and solde unto the sayde WilHam the Manor of Dunham with thappurtenances and aU other londes & tentes which the same Thomas or any other psone or psones to his use have in the townes and parishes of Northelmeham and Gatele, wherupon it is covenanted, &c. Consideration 360 marks to be paid in the parish church of Aylesham in instalments. Further Evidences in Muniment Room at Elmham Hall. Johes Atte Park de Northelmham concessi Eado de Hoxne marsh apud Eowhil, 22 Edward ILL Nos Radulphus de Hoxne et Margareta uxor mee de Northelmham dedimus, &c. Robto Hay capeUano de eadem [3a. arable, 3a. marsh, 2 pightles caUed Rendeslond] 33 Edw. 3. Thomas de Percy Dei gratia Norwicensis Episcopus, &c. — Thomas le Deye de North Elmham teneat de nobis per virgam natie unum mesuagium, &c. — Nos volent' dicto Thome graciam. facere specialem— quod — teneantur — a terminum — quatuor viginti armorum de nobis, &c, per fidehtatem et serviciem 22| per annum, &c, et faciendum sectam ad curias nostras, &c Testibus, Johe de Berneye, WUlo Boret, Johe King de Northelmham, &c Dat apud Honyngham 17 Aug. A0 Edw. 3, 41. [To this is appended a round seal of extra fine and bright red wax, injured by pressure, only about one inch and a quarter in diameter. Design : beneath a rich canopy is seated the blessed Virgin, crowned, and holding towards her right side the infant Jesus ; in her left hand an oHve branch : and five shields of arms, one at the base of canopy, and two on either side. On the dexter side — 1. England, with a label of three points. 2. A Hon rampant — Percy. On the sinister 1. Percy quartering cheeky 2. Cheeky over aU a fess. Below, A Hon rampant within a bordure. Round the edge, ctfl : ccclest : tho— me : pern : ept — (Fig. 8.) * Thomas Percy was bishop from 1355 to 1369.— See Blomefield Ui. 514.] 3 Differing from the seal of this bishop, described by Mr. T. G. Bayfield, in Original Papers, Norfolk and Norwich Archeeological Society, vol. i. p. 316. 4 Seals 1 to 8 are figured in plate opposite p. 286. THE BISHOP'S FIEF, NORTH ELMHAM. 293 Sciant, &c, nos Johes Vicarius ecclie de FHtcham et Johes Daunce de Geyste dedimus, &c— Alicie Oldman de Northelmham et Johi fiho suo medietatem unius mesuagii que vocatur le Parkhus et omnia terras, &c, cum medietate ejus' unius falde et terciam partem alterius medietatis falde illius dictis medietati et terris jacent' in villa et campis de Northelmham in diversis peciis, &c, Hhs testibus, Robto Atyegim de Northelmham, Ricardo Quytset (?) Henrico Cote, Johe de Bfdhni, Johe Attegrene, &c Data apud Northelmham die sabati proxima post festum concepcionis beatie marie virginis Anno Eegni Regis Edwardi Terch, &c, sexto. [An oval seal of green wax.] 5 Edw. II. Sciant, &c. Juhana que Simonis Lange in pura viduitate mea concessi, &c, WiUo fil' Rogi Kyngwyne capellano pro quadum summa pecunie, &c octo denarios annualis redditus quos annuatim me reddere consuevit pro quedam pecia marisci jacente per Halfakerholm cum wardis, &c. Tenendum, &c, annuatim percipiend de dictu Rogero, &c. Hhs testibus, Eobto de Girn, Eobto de Dunham, Johe de Bynnhm, Johe de Grena GeUe, &c. Data apud die sabati proximo post festum sancte Agnetis anno regni Eegis Edwardi fiHi Regis Edwardi quinto. [Mutilated and defaced.] L. S. desit. Edw. III. Sciant, &c, nos WiUs Lyngwine et Johes Attepark de Northelmham dedimus, &c, Emme reHcte Rodlandi le Bulwere de eadem unam acream terre, &c, in campo de Northelmham inter, &c, quondam Rogeri Daubeneye, &c, abuttat super regiam viam vocatam Indelondegate versus orientem et super quandum placeam vocatam Hayenespit versus occidentem, &o. Hus testibus .... Johe Attegyrn, Johe de Brahm, Radulfo de Hoxne, Johne Attepark, &c Data apud Northelmham die veneris proxima post festum Sanctorum Tiburth et Valeriani Martirum Anno regni Regis Edwardi terch, &c viginti [Two labels for seals.] Endorsed, " Carte de Winespyt. Johem GeUe et Emmam uxorem ejs. " Edw. III. Sciant, &c, nos Joha, Matild, et Katina fiUae Johis Dankyn de Northelmham concessimus, &c, Johi Dankyn de eadem fratri nostro unum pigtheUum inclusum in Northelmham vocatum Afaldesbiyerd iacentem, &c. Habendum, &c. Hhs testibus, Thoma Deye, Johe attepark, Eobto Kette, Johe Ling, (?) mich' Blacwyn, Walto de Fulfurdehagh, &c Data apud Northelmham die dominica in festo sancti Thome Apostoh anno regni Eegis Edwardi terch, &c, 39°. [Three labels for seals. The first seal perfect, circular, about f in. in diameter, a Catherine wheel, legend round.] Sciant, &c, nos Thomas Deye de Northelmham, Eobtus Kette, Johes Gelle, Henrs Bulwere, Ad Kyngashed, Mich et Waltus de Fulfurdehagh de eadem concessimus &c, Johi Dankyn, &c, unam parceUam, &c, apud Blacwyne, &c. Hiis testibus, Stepho de Hopton, Willo Hng, Johe Long, Johe March, &c. Data, &c translacionis sancti Thome martins anno regni Eegis Edwardi terch, &c, quadragesimo (?) [Mutilated. One small round seal, the device not decipherable.] Pateat vniversis, &c, quod nos Gregorius Bonde capeUanus, Johes de Oxburgh, Henf Frank de Fakenham, Eadus de Hoxne, et Ad Kyngeshed de Northelmham remisimus, &c, Dno Fulcon' Eectori ecclesie de Folsham, Dno Johi atte dammesed de Northelmham capellano, Johi Toly de Walsyngham pva, Eobto Kette, Michael Blacwyn, et Thome Deye de Northelmham heredibus, &c, totum jus, &c, in quodam mesuagio cum omnibus teriis et tenementis moris mariscis turbariis pratis pascuis et pasturis simul cum 294 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. cursu unius falde Hbere, &c, quodquidam, &c, adquisimavimus de Johe atte park de Northelmham, &c Ita quod, &c. In cujus rei, &c Data apud Northelmham die Jovis proximo post festum sancte Dunstani Archiepiscopi Anno, &c, Edwardi terch, &c, quadrageshno. [Five labels for seals, none more than § in. in diameter : — 1. Head of St. John Baptist in a sepulchral urn ; above it a hand pointing downwards in attitude of blessing, within a pomted oval ; legend on border indecipherable— (Fig. 9.) Note.— A variation of this seal, an oval about the same size, was in the collection of the late Mr. Dawson Turner : the hand of blessing pointing to the right, and a dove on either side of the foot of the urn ; with this legend on the outer rim, iesvs : est : amob : mevs. 2. Off. 3. Impression of the seal flaked off, but a portion of wax left the fuU size of seal, impressed with the thumb. 4. Within a circle the monogram of Jesus, surmounted with a crown of thorns ; legend outside of rim imperfect. — (Fig- 10.) 5. A rude figure of a stag lodged within a circular legend, imperfect. — (Fig. 11.) Endorsed, " de tfi de park cii falda Hber' A0 rr. Edwardi t'cij xl°."] Edw. III. Sciant, &c, Robtus atte Style de Byntr' dedi, &c, Johi Dankyn, &c.,.vnam peciam marisci, &c, in viUa de Northelmham, &c, caput orientaUs abuttat super comunem ripam dividentem Elmham et Byntr' et capud Occident abuttat super communem pasturem de Northelmham, &c. Hiis testibus, Thome Deye, Johe Amy, (?) Thom atte heth, Johe GeUe, Walt'o de Fulfurdehagh, &c. Dat apud Northelmhm septimo die mensis Novembris Anno, &c Edwardi terth, &c, quadrigesimo primo. [Label for seal gone.] Sciant, &c, Johes Barker de Northelmham dedi, &c, Johi Dankyn, &c, vnam acram marisci, &c, apud Blacwynes, &c Dat, &c, die dominica proximo post festum sancti Petri advincula, Anno, &c, Edw. HT. 48°. [Round seal, § of an inch in diameter. Holy Lamb and flag within a legend, pbdivesvmv.J — (Fig. 12.) Ric. LI. Sciant, &c, nos Joh ernald de Northelmham et Matild uxor mea dedimus, &c, Johi Danky' de eadem vnam acram et di jacentem in elmham apud Wygmanishill, &c. Hns testibus, Thom Deye, Stepho de opto, Johe Marche, &c Data apud Northelmham die mercurii proximo post festum sancti Jacobi, Anno, &c, Ricardi secundi, &c, septimo. [Two seals : — 1. Lamb bearing flag and cross with surrounding legend. — (Same seal as to preceding deed, Fig. 12.) 2. A cock, crowing, with surrounding legend, sig. hen. le covt.] — (Fig. 13.) Sciant, &c, Johes Heye de Northelmham dedi, &c, Thome Deye de Northelmham draper unam acram terre in Northelmham super viam regiam vocatam Bromgate. Hus testibus, Johe Dankyn, Johe Huys, Stepho de Hopton, Thome atte Brigge, Johe Bate, Henr Bulwere, Henf fil Thome Deye, &c. Data apud Northelmham die Mercurii in festo Jnventionis sancti crucis anno, &c, Ricardi sedi, &c, octavo. [Endorsed, "This conteyn j acr in Franklyn Close abbutt on brome waye." Seal of red wax, f of an inch in diameter. between a crescent dexter and star sinister, surrounded by legend.] Hen. V. Sciant, &c. Willms Clerk, Thomas Bron de Northelmham, et Johes Lomb eives Norwyci — Johi Mundeforth armigero de Elmham — 8| ac. terre arabilis — j ac. prati — 4 acr. marisci in Elmham in diversis locis, viz., apud Burgrave, apud Burgrave Dyk, apud Jellammys, on Walsingham Waye, &c, Brome Way, &c. Dat. apud Elmham die Jovis ,px post festum Sci Michis Archangeli A0 Reg [Hen. V.] quinto. II \ | I '.VX,- v '^t^v*P ''7f ,! *** i?>^&7 Jell et 1 J Margaretse 3 17 A\ 6 0 0 3 16 9 0 3 0 0 7 0 3 0 13 0 12 0 0 1 0 18 0 0 6 8 0 0 8 0 2 0 4 0 12 0 0 3 4 0 1 0 24 7J- ' 2 2 0 0 0 1 10 1 0 Hi 0 7 9 16 8 £53 14 11{ A±d £72. 5s. De quibus in reprisis, viz., in — Sinodalis. Episcopo Norwicensis solutis pro ecclesia de WendUng 1/3 et pro ecclesia de Longham 1/3 ....... Procurationibus. Archidiacono Norwicensis pro eccUa de Wendlyng ........ Longham ........ Et Wesenham cum libera capella Sti. Pauli annexata Pensiones — ¦ Priori de Castell Acra per annum Capellano Cantarie de Saham per annum 0 4 0 0 7 71 ' 2 0 15 3 4 0 0 3 6 8 0 2 6 1 6 101 7 6 0 1 6 0 3 4 0 2 0 0 0 5 0 1 4 FIEF OF ST. EDMUND. 3X1 Eedditus resoluti— £m s> ad nova. Fo. 83. Cenob. Premons. Wendlyng, in Com. Norf. Mandatu Visitationis Abbati de Dereham, intimans, quod Abbate de Wenlyng indigno mortuo, in- digniore elegerunt ejusde Domus Canonici; quodcf eundt- novu Abbatem electii cora eo comparere citet, ostensurii quare Electione ipse non adnullaret. August .... [1345], Fo. 38a. 1. Frater W. humUis Abbas Ecclesie de Langdon, vices gerens D. D. Johannis Premonstratensis Abbatis, Abbati de Derham, Salute, et sincera in Domino Caritate. 2. Fama publica referente Rumor ad nos pervenit, quod Frater Johannes de Norwyco, Ecclesie de Wenlyng Canonicus, et Statu Prelacie ipsius Ecclesie sue injuste occupans, viam universe carnis est ingressus ; et quod Fratres dicte Ecclesie, ad Electione novi Abbatis nuper processerunt minus rite, cu hoc de Jure facere non potuerunt, maxime cu Provisio Abbatis novi ad Reverendu Patre nostril ei D. D. Patre Abbate legitione erat devoluta, eo quod in Electione ultima indignu scienter elegerunt, et Pater Abbas dicti Ecclesie tale indignu non ignoranter set scienter quasi inscius (Salva Reverentia Prelacu sui) minus juste et abscf consilio seu Presentia cujuscunq, alterius coabbatis sui confirmavit. 3. Quo circa vobis, in virtute sancte obedientie qua Deo et Ordini tenemur, firmiter injungendo mandamus, quatenus dicta. Abbate sic de novo creatu ac Conventu dicte Ecclesie citetis, quod ide Abbas (si tabs diei debeat) cora. nobis in Ecclesia S. Radegunde, die Jovis proximo post Festii Exaltationis S. Crucis personaUter, et conventus per duos Procuratores compareant, ostensuri quare Electione sic minus canonice facta adnuUare, et eide Ecclesie de Novo Pastore, Auctoritate Superioris nostri, providere minimi debeamus, &c. i. Dat. in Ecclesia nostra de Langdon, Die Martis proximo post Festii S. Petri ad Vincula, A.D. Fo. 84. Cenob. Premons. Wendlyng, in Com. Norf. Sententia quedam contra Ricardfi Chapman, Cononicu de Wendlyng, deficients in Purgatione sua, prolata a Johanne Schernyng ibide Abbate. Martii 18, 1477, 18 Edward IV., fo. 121b. 1. Anno Domini mcccclxxvij. Mensis Martii Die xviij. ego Johannes Schernyng, Abbas Monasterii B. Marie de Wendlyng, in Domo nostra capitulari, confratribus associatis, judiciaUter sedens ; Fama pubUca laborante contra Ricardu Schapman, Fratre et Obedienciariu rostra, super Crimen Adulterii, cum Avicia, uxore Alexandri Baldewyn de Schernyng, sapius (ut dicebatur) commissi, tam infra sacru Tempus Quadragesime qua et Passionis Dominice et extra. 2. Observatis debitis circumstanciis in ordine requisitis eide Ricardo, Purgatione criminis supra dicti manu confratru nostril induximus ; set, quia dictus Ricardus dictu Crimen prius cora pluribus extra Iudiciu pubhce confessus fuit, ideo in Purgatione sua super dicto Crimine defecit. Una-propter eu super Crimine premissa legitime convictum declaravimus. 2 s 314 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Fo. 85. Cenob. Prem. Wendlyng, in Com. Norf. Questionibus a Domino Ricardo Redman, Comissario generali, propositis, Anno Domini mcccclxxviij. Sic respondetur. 1478, 18 Edward TV., fol. 117b, fol. 18a. 1. Cenobiu de Wendlyng. 2. In [Comitatu Norfolcii, &c.J 3. Diocesi Norwici. 4. Anno Domini m . . . . 5. [A Wilhelmo de Wendlyng] fundatu est. 6. In Honore B. Marie Virginis ad Festii Assumptionis. 7. Abbas de Langley — Pater Abbas. 8—11. 12. Tres habet Ecclesiaci. 13. Quarti Curati quida. Seculares, quida Canonici revocabiles. 14—16.17. Dominus Hugo Hastinges MUes est Fundator [sive Patronus]. 18. FEE OF THE BISHOP OF ELY. 315 jfw ai % §itejj0p nf d% HOO. HE carucate of land in Hoo, which belonged to the abbey, and was, as I have said before, considered as part of the manor of East Dereham, and with it was transferred to the bishopric,1 so it has no separate history. In a survey of the possessions of the See, made in 1277, as quoted in Blomefield, there is a reference to a common in Hoo caUed Apelho and Lyncroft, in which the bishop's tenants, the tenants of WUliam de Stutevile (of Gressenhall), and Thomas de Hereford intercommoned. A small manor caUed Heymers in Hoo was held of the bishop, but when or to whom granted there is no evidence that I have found. OXWIC, or OXWYK. The first notice I find of this small fee, if indeed it be the fee referred to, is a claim in the 3rd year of Edward I. (1275) by one Ealf de Erleham, of franchises in Oxewic, by grant from the king. Ealf de Erleham is said to be derived from a family styled De Alta Eipa, HautviUe, or Havile, a member of which, Ealf de Havile, a younger brother of Humphry de HavUe, on coming to the manor of ErIham by Norwich, about 1196, assumed that surname.2 About 1201, 2 John, WiUiam de HauviUe and Ealf de ErIham came to some arrangement affecting the lordship of Helgeton or Helhoughton, which had been held by the father and grandfather of William, by the grant of King Stephen, at the same time as that of ErIham.3 Sir Ealf de HauviUe, Knight, perhaps the same person, was sometimes caUed De Dunton, from the lordship of that town, said to have been given to his father by Henry II.4 He probably died about that time, for in the second year of Henry III. 1 Dominus Episcopus EUensis tenet manerium de Schipedham, cum hundredo de Mitford, et manerium de Estderham, de domino Rege in capite in puram Elemosinam et sunt membra Baronise suae. — AuxU. 30 Edward IIL = Blomeneld, iv. 510. 3 Blomeneld, vii. 102, 139. * lb. 84. 2 S 2 316 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Henry HauviUe, his son, was lord of Dunton, and in 1233, probably earlier, also of Helgheton and Eeynham, to which latter Oxwick seems to have become an appendage. Henry de Hauvile, alias Havil, appears to have died in the year 1252, and divers inquisitions were held after his death, 37 Henry IIL, from which we learn the foUowing particulars. He had three sons, of whom Ealf the eldest died in his father's lifetime, without having had seizin of any land of his father ; and this Ealf also had three sons. But the Lincolnshire inquisition returned Henry, another son, the second in fact, of the said Henry de Hauvile, to be his next heir ; and that the deceased gentleman before his death had enfeoffed his other son, Thomas, of the manor of Hawnley in that county; and the Norfolk jury was induced to return this Thomas to be the next heir of his father, having been enfeoffed by him of the manor of Dunton ; Thomas being then thirty years old. The Bucks inquisition found that Henry, the deceased, begat of Elena his wife a son named Ealph, which Ealph had of his lawful wife sons, the eldest of whom was seven years old ; and it is added that the said Henry had, by the said Elena, another son, also named Henry.5 As the returns to the Lincoln and Norfolk inquisitions were erroneous, another inquisition was held in the former county, in the 39th of the same reign, which found that the deceased Henry de Hauvile had two sons, named Ealph and Thomas ; that Ealph married and had two boys in his father's lifetime, the elder of whom was in the king's wardship ; and that Henry left a widow who was endowed.6 A second inquisition was also held in Norfolk, in the return to which we are told that the reUct of the said Henry, deceased, had >a moiety of 47s. in Lenn, in dower; that Ealph's son, the grandson and heir, was also named Henry, and succeeded, after the death of Ealph his father, to 100s. per annum in Lenn and Ketleston, and after the death of Peter his kinsman, to 40s. a year in Eeynham. This jury also found that Thomas de Hauvile was then in possession of the said lands and rents, and had held them for four years at the next feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, the day his father died, at Lynford in Bucks, when he came to Eeynham and took seizin as of the gift of his father, and the next day at Dunton. Thomas also held lastage (lestagium) in the town of Lynn. And here we learn the name of Henry's widow, Amicia, who had her dower in it.7 We find, however, that this usurper, Thomas de Hauvil, was not permitted to go scot free. He was dead in 1267, and inquisitions were accordingly taken whether he died seized of any lands held of the Crown. The jury in the county of Bucks returned that if he held any land in fee, Henry his son, then aged twelve years, was his heir. In the meantime Henry, the son of Ealph de Hauvile, and the rightful heir of the first Henry, had attained the age of twenty-one years, and had lately had livery of his grandfather's lands, for which he had performed homage to the king. The jurors therefore, in Norfolk, said that Thomas de Hauvile held nothing of the king in capite, nor Inq. p.m. 37 Henry III. n. 48. , e Inq. p m_ 39 Henry IIL n_ 36> 7 Inq. p.m. 40 Henry III. n. 32. FEE OF THE BISHOP OF ELY. 317 any land at all in Norfolk; but that he held the wardship of his nephew Henry, son of Ealph, which he had bought of William de Eenham, who had such wardship "and his marriage of the gift of the king. And they added to their return that Thomas, although the youngest brother, by false representation, after the death of Henry his father, deceived the court, so that he obtained seizin of some lands that were his father's, and held possession untU William de Eenham recovered it under the authority of his grant of the wardship, and this wardship he afterwards sold to Thomas.8 Whether he disposed of his ward in marriage does not appear, but the young heir did not live long after his majority. Henry de Hauvile, the grandson, was dead in 1271, and his brother Thomas, another son of Ealph, was his next heir, then twenty-two years old. Amicia, the widow of Henry the grandfather, was still living, and held in dower one third part of the lands in Dunton, and one moiety of the lands in Eeynham.9 This last Thomas de Hauvile lived tiU about 1301, and the return to the inquisition, taken at Dunton on the 9th of April, 1302, by John de Hengham, Eichard le Eus, and others, states that he held, at the time of his death, manors, lands, rents, &c, in Donetun and Kettleston, and also in the towns of Eeynham, Helgeton, Toftes, Oxwyk, Pattesley, Norton, Gatele, Horningtoft, and Stanfeld, of the gift of the king, in capite, subject to the yearly payment of 40s. for blanch farm (ad albam firmam). Thomas de Hauvile, son of said Thomas deceased, was declared to be his next heir, of the age of twenty-one years and upwards.1 I do not pursue this branch of the Hauviles any further. I have done so thus far because the story is an interesting one, and I hoped the records from which it is derived would lead to the discovery whence sprung Ealph surnamed de ErIham, who claimed the royalties in Oxwick in 1275. They do not throw any light upon that question ; and although Oxwick is one of the parishes named in the inquisitions, it seems only as appertaining to the manor in Eeynham caUed Haviles, which eventuaUy came to the Townshends, as may be seen in Blomefield, and not as referring to any distinct manor of Oxwick. StiU I think we may rely upon Blomefield's statement that the first Ealf, called De ErIham, was of the Hauvile family, which spread out into several branches, and so acquired the lordship of Oxwyk. He gave the advowson of ErIham to Carhow Priory, 1240. John de ErIham, his son, held, in right of Nicolaa his wife, daughter of EUas Drury of Heckingham, land in Heckingham, in 56 Henry IIL, 1272. Ealf de ErIham, who was lord of Oxwyk in 1275, was a party to a fine of the advowson of that church in 10 Edward I., 1282,2 the right of presentation being in Ealph de ErIham and William Syger of Oxwic, in turns, after which it was in Syger alone and his successors. Ealph de ErIham died in 1295, and from an inquisition, taken after his death by James de Swanton, Thomas de Hoo, William Brochard of Hoo, Eeginald de ErIham, and others, it is said that he held, in the town of ErIham, of the king in capite, and that he held, in the town of Oxwyk, of the Earl Warenn; the 8 Inq. p.m. 51 Henry IIL n. 34. ' Inq. p.m. 55 Henry III. n. 14. 1 This inquisition, 30 Edward I. n. 51, is very iUegible. 3 Fine 10-11 Edward I. n. 250. 318 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. tenements, in the latter place, consisting of a capital messuage of the yearly value of one shiUing, ten acres of land, and certain rents and services, valued altogether at 16s. 3^d. Geoffry his son was found his next heir and of age.3 AU that I know of the ErIham famUy after this is from Blomefield, under that hamlet, iv. 510. EVIDENCES. Inq. p.m. Radulfi de ErIham. Per Jacob de Swanton, Thoih de Hoo, WiUm Brochard de Hoo, Reginald de ErIham, &c— qui dicunt, &c, tenuit die quo obiit de Dno Rege in capite in villa de ErIham, &c. Dicunt, &c, tenuit die quo obut in vhla de Oxwyk de comite Warenn quasdam terr et ten de val. YJd. ; capitale mesuagium et valet xijd It x acras terrae valent vs. — sunt ibidem de redd' ass. (quarterly) hjs. — vj gaU. vd It xvj opera autumnalia et valent xvjd Galfridus fihus ipsius Radulfii propinquor heres ejus est et etatis summa xvjs. iijd ob. — Esc. 24 Edw. I. n: 34. [Et vide Rot. Fin. 25 Edw. I. m. 23.] Gilbtus de ErIham, Johes, Thom, et Gralffs, fil' ejusdem Gilbti, finem fec'unt cum R. ,p viginti solid', tp heen' adquirand' sibi et hered" ipsius GUbti man'ium de ErIham. — In orig. de A0 8 Edward II., Rot. 8. Mand' est esc. cap. in manu Regis omnes terr' et ten' q. fuer' Galfri de Erlhem def. et q. fuer' Thome de ErIham def.— In orig. 13 Edward II., Rot. 10. MatUd' q. fuit uxor Thome de HauvUe finem (p Uc' adqun-' man'ia de Dunton et Reynham.— In orig. 1 Edward ILL, Rot. 34. Henr' de Brisele dat. 5 marc. j> Uc. adquir' man'ia de Dunton et Raynham S. Marie. — 29 Edward ILL WiUs de Cressyngham psona eccUe de Raynham B. Marie et Wills Ray capeUanus, manerium de Dunton.— 39 Edward III. Inq. p.m. 24 Edward I. n. 34. BEAUFOE FIEF, BARONY OF RYE. 319 \tmdaz Jfixf, §ar0ixjr of |^e. ^aftle of Sufitnftuoattons temp. dFofoarU ff. Domesday Name. Knights' Fees. Tenant in Capite. Mesne Tenant. Sub-tenants. Present Manors. Swanton. In Barony of Rye. WiUiam de MarescaU. None. In hand. Swanton with Worthing. One-sixth of a fee. Thomas de Ware and Hugh de Snitterton. John de Herford. Hoe Herfords. Derham. One fee. None. Henry de Segrave or Wygrave. Drayton HaU in Scarning and Dillington. Lecesham. J part of one fee. WUUam de Valence. .... West Lexham. SUBTENANTS.— HEKEFOKDS IN HOE AND SWANTON. CCOEDING to Blomefield l the manors of Swanton and Hargham were conveyed in 1273 by WiUiam de Harcham, who held them in 1249 as part of the barony of Eye, to Thomas his son for life ; and afterwards the said WiUiam granted them to Sir Warine,2 son of Thomas de Hereford, or Herforth, of Swanthone, and his heirs; Sir John de Escalers and others being witnesses. By deed, dated at Gressenhall in the kalends of October, 1279, the said Warine gave Hargham and Swanton to Henry de Herford his brother for life, on condition that he should perform aU the services due to the lords of the fees during the time that he enjoyed them, and in particular the castle ward due for the fee of Hockering. Henry de Herford, before 1313, conveyed the advowson of Harpham to John de Herford of Swanton Marshall, his brother, who presented Adam de Herford, another brother, to the rectory, after which it was reconveyed to him again and settled on Mabel his mother, then the wife of Thomas de 1 Blomefield, i. 413. 2 "Warin de Hereford et Margaret ux. 15 Edw. I., jure ux. of her dower."— MS. P. L. N. . . . How renupta Warino de Hereford." — Ib. . . . vidua de 320 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Lavenham, and they presented in 1330.3 On referring to the list of rectors, we find Sir Henry de Herforth patron in 1281 ; that in 1313, 9th kalend October, Adam de Herford was instituted at the presentation of John de Herford and MabeU his wife ; and that in 1330 Thomas de Lavenham and MabeU his wife presented.4 Blomefield also states that in 1307 Adam de Herford was presented to a mediety of Bixton church by John de Herford, lord of that manor, and that in 1313 Nicholas de Blonorton de Swanton was presented by the same ; that in 1330 Eoger de Dingley, and in 1335 John son of William Payn of Swanton, were presented by Thomas de Herford. In the assessment to the aid levied 3 Henry IY., Thomas, Lord Morley, held Swanton manor in capite, and Thomas de Herforde held one-sixth part of a fee in Swanton as of the manor of Swanton of Thomas Morlee, who held of the king as parcel of the barony of Eye. At the same time William Cat held in Skernyng one knight's fee of Thomas, Lord Morley, who held of the king as parcel of the barony of Eye. In 1345, (20 Edward III.) Thomas de Herford settled the manor and advowson of Hargham, after his mother's death, on Maud, Countess of Ulster, and Nicholas Gernon and John Castelyn, her trustees ; and John, son of Warine de Herford, who was brother and heir to Henry, and Mabell his wife, released their right ; and afterwards Sir Thomas de Hereford, Knt., Thomas de Lavenham and MabeU his wife, the Countess of Lister and her trustees, released their rights in the advowson to the Prioress of Campese, or Campsey, to which monastery the countess had given it, for her own soul, the souls of her two husbands and two daughters, and the soul of Sir Thomas de Hereford.5 We have seen that in the feodary of Edward I., John de Herford, then under age,6 is assessed for the sixth part of a knight's fee in Swanton, which he held of Thomas de Ware and Hugh de Snytterton, who were mesne tenants of William de MarescaU. Thomas de Hereford had land in Swanton in the preceding reign, for on 8th April, 1225, Warine de TJtlege gave the king, Henry IIL, a fine for a petition against Thomas de Hereford and Isabel his mother, for thirty acres of land in Swanton and Hoo.7 Thomas de Herford was also party to a fine of lands in Swanton and Hoo in the 12th of that reign. Thomas de Herford and Beatrix his wife 8 to a fine of lands at Beston (Bixton ?) in the 34th year of the same king. Thomas de Hereford is also styled lord of the manor of Hereford HaU in Gressenhall, in 1277. John de Herford appears to haAre been a son of this Thomas. Thomas de Ware and Hugh de Snytterton were probably the grantees of his wardship and land during minority. Thomas de Ware held half a fee in Tottington of Petronel, or PetroniUa, de Vaux, which he had in 1285 of Margaret, widow of Stephen de Ware ; and about 1290 he granted 3 Blomefield, i. 4 fi Lib. Feod. MS. E. In IIS. A. > mentioned in E. ' Rot. Fin. Norf. 9 Hen. III. 127. 8 She was daughter of Henry de Gi 4 lb. 418. 5 Blomefield, i. 413. orstede, and in MS. C. John de Harfford ; his minority only ir.eficld, x. 48. BEAUFOE FIEF, BARONY OF RYE. 321 a part of it to Hugh de Bokenham, who was to hold it of Petronel, who held it under the Earl Marshall.9 The families of Bokenham, otherwise Snitterton, and de Ware or de la Ware, have been mentioned under Horningtoft and Wesenham,1 but I do not find either as landowners in Swanton. There is a confusion in the foregoing accounts of the Herford family taken from Blomefield, which I cannot clear up. In 1316 Henry Turnecourt was the holder of lands and tenements in Swanton by the service of the sixth part of one knight's fee of John de Mareschal, which was valued at 16s. M? Sir Thomas Herfort made his will at Swanton, dated 13th September, 45 Edward IIL, proved 30th December, 1371. He directs his body to be buried in the church of the Friars Preachers at Thetford, and makes his cousin Jo. Hertford and others executors.3 In the Book of Aids of 20 Edward IIL, 1347, as well as in the assessment made to the aid on the marriage of the daughter of King Henry IV., 1402, Thomas de Horsforde is named as still holding one-sixth part of a knight's fee in Swanton, as of the manor of Swanton, of Thomas Morlee. I think this was an error of the scribes, one copied from another, and that the reading should be Herford. In Henry VIII.'s time this sixth part was held, it is said, by John Pegon (Pegeon).4 SUB-TENANTS IN SCAENING AND DILLINGTON, Two carucates of land, held under Ealf de Beaufoe by Odar, are described in Domesday as lying in Dereham, but in Laundich Hundred, and in the soe or legal jurisdiction of MUeham. Blomefield or Parkin erroneously considers these to constitute the manor afterwards caUed Oldhalls in Dereham, extending into Scarning,5 but in fact they comprise the manor known as Drayton Hall in Scarning and Dillington, the latter parish being always considered as part of Dereham. This manor derived its title from the family of the Draytons, which may have descended from Odar, who also held the lordship of Drayton in Taverham Hundred under Ealf de Beaufoe, and, residing there, assumed that surname.6 Of these, was WiUiam de Draiton, who gave a mediety of the church of Scarning to Waltham Abbey, in the time of Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury, which was confirmed by John de Grey, Bishop of Norwich from 1200 to 1214, and 9 Blomefield, ii. 360. 1 The names of Ware, or De la Ware, and Snitterton are connected in the title to land in Wesenham, temp. Edward I., and Nicholas son of Sir Gregory de Castello was one of her trustees of a settlement made upon the marriage of Hugh Bokenham, aUas Snitterton, with Alice his wUe, of the manor of Snitterton, &c, in 1324.— Blom., i. 423. 2 Inq. p.m. Joh. le Mareschal, 10 Ed. II. n. 79. 3 Reg. Heydon, fo. 16«. i Lib. Feod. MS. C. addit. 5 Blomefield, x. 207. " Ib. 409. 2 T 322 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. in the reign of King John.7 He left two daughters and coheirs, one of whom, Agnes, was, 14 Henry IIL, the wife of WiUiam Lenveise ; 8 Alice the other was wife then of Jervase de Bradfield, and afterwards of William de Bellomonte or Beaumont. Agnes Lenveyse we have before named as holding in Scarning of the fee of Eye under Alice Marescale in 1236. It may be assumed that Agnes died without issue, for in the Hundred Eoll, 3 Edward I., we find Godfridus de Bellomonte claiming franchises in Scarning (Scherninge). He was the eldest son of William de Bellomonte by Alice the other daughter and coheir of WUUam de Drayton. Godfrey apparently had two wives, one was named CecUia de EerrarUs, in whose right he held the manor of Bockebrok in ; she died before the 28th July, A0. 18 Edward I., 1290, in his lifetime and without issue, her heir being John son of Eobert de Ferrariis.9 Godfrey died in 21 Edward I., and, although another wife, AUonora, is named his widow, also without issue, Sir John de BeUomonte, his brother, being found his next heir, then aged forty and upwards,1 who did homage to the king for the lands in Norfolk of which Godfrey died seized in chief in the foUowing year.2 John de BeUomonte, living in 25 Edward I., was dead in 27 Edward I., when AUcia his widow recovered the manor of Drayton against Eichard de Bellomonte,3 who appears to have succeeded him, but whether he was a son or a brother I have no information. It was her dower, I suppose. She recovered it a second time in the 33rd of that reign,4 in which year Eichard de Beaumont sold it. He sold Scarning in 3 Edward II.5 1309, so says Le Neve ; yet, in the return to the inquisition held after the death of the last John de MareschaU, in the 10th of that reign, Walter de Langeton, Bishop of Chester, and Joan Bemond are said to be holding lands and tenements in Drayton, Skernyng, Berford, Fransham, and Dunham. William de Drayton,^ temp. Henry III. | WiUiam Lenveiae.= Agnes de Drayton, Jervase de=AUce de Drayton,=j= WUliam de da. and coh. 14 Henry Bradfield, daughter and coh. " III. 14 H. III. Beaumont,5 Edward I. Cecilia, da. of = Godfrey de Beaumont,= Alienora, held John Beaumont,=p Alicia Robert Ferrars, of Drayton & Skerning, in Skerning aa of Drayton, ¦ his wife' 21 Ed. I. ob. 1290. ob. 21 Edward I. s.p. a widow. " mort. 27 Edw. I. \ widow 33 Edw. I. r -I Richard de Beaumont, 1307. ' Previous to this, one Richard de Draiton had been Rector of this mediety. " WilUam le Enveise had a new feoffment from Earl Hugh Bigod of one knight's fee in 1167.— Liber Niger Scacc. He was named as one of the attorneys of WiUiam de FranchevUe to deUver seizin of lands granted to Castleacre Priory. — Chart, supra. ' Rot. Orig. 18 Edward I. Cal. Gen. p. 464. In consequence of some act of which I have no record, the lordship in Seaming, of the fee of WilUam de MariscaU, stands in the Feodary about this time aa in the tenure of Henry de Segrave, who with his tenanta waa assessed at one knight's fee. 1 Inq. p.m. 21 Edward I. n. 49, Suffolc— Orig. 21 Edward I. Rot. 24. 2 Orig. 22 Edward I. Rot. 3. 3 Fin. Patent, 27 Edward I. Rot. Orig. 26. * Fin. div. com. 33 Edward I. n. 30. Ib. n. 66. Redeaseisim 33 Edward I. Rot. Orig. 21. 6 Fin. 3 Edward II. n. 29. BEAUFOE FIEF, BARONY OF RYE. 323 William Catts was lord in 39 Edward IIL, 1365, and paid 3.s. 9d. per annum to the Lord Morley, as mentioned in Blomefield.6 In 1402, 3 Henry IV., WUUam Cat7 was returned as holding one knight's fee in Scarning of the Lord Morley. Sir Henry Heydon was afterwards lord, by whom it was given in exchange to William Berdewell, and in the reign of Henry VIII. by the name of the manor of Drayton HaU in Skerning and DilUngton, was held by Eobert Berdewell of the Lady Morley by knight service as of the manor of Hockering, from whom it came through EUzabeth wife of John Wotton to Bassingbourn Gawdy, and afterwards to Edmund Anguish, as wUl be hereafter mentioned. The foUowing notes may, some day, afford a clue to the process by which Drayton manor was carried from the Beaumonts to the Catts. Katherine, daughter and coheir, by one account, of Thomas de Holveston,— by another of William, son and heir of John de Holveston, — was wife, first of WiUiam Boteler, and afterwards of Henry Cat. The name of William Boteler, it wiU be remembered, occurs as a tenant of a Fitz Eoger fee in Eougham. The family of Holveston was derived from a viUage of that name. One James de Holveston married Joan daughter and coheir of Sir Eichard Belhouse of North Tuddenham,8 and left two daughters ; one of them, Agnes, wife of Gilbert de Fransham in 1342, who died 1404. These Holvestons appear to have had some feudal or other connection with Fitz Eoger. In 1309 John Engaine and EUen his wife, a daughter of the Eobert Fitz Eoger who died 1311, conveyed BUckling, part of the Beaufo fief, to Eobert de Holveston, whose son, James de Holveston, in 1368, and Joan his wife, settled it on trustees for- themselves, with remainder, after their Uves, to Sir Nicholas Dagworth in fee ; which Sir Nicholas was son of Sir John Dagworth and Alice de Beaumont his wife. These particulars are all derived from Blomefield,9 but both dates and facts are obscure and contradictory. SUB-TENANTS IN FRANSHAM. From the records referred to, we have seen that in 1283 Godfrey de Bellomonte or Beaumont held fees as of the Barony of Eye, not only in Drayton and Scarning, but also in Fransham and Dunham, which in 1316 were in the tenure of Walter, Bishop of Chester, and Joan Beaumont. The fief of Ealf de Beaufoe, in Domesday, does not include any lands in either of those last-named places ; but in describing three carucates 6 Blomefield, x. 42. ' For some account of a fanuiy of this name, refer to Blomefield under Hevingham, vi. 376. e The others bemg Emma wife of Sir Peter Le Strange of Fransham, and Maud wife of WilUam Bozoun of 9 Vol. v. 488, 199 ; vi. 383 ; vni. 229. 2 T 2 324 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. of land of Ealf de Toeni in Fransham (Frounesham) and Dunham, it is said that of those three, Eudo son of Clama had one carucate, as long as he lived; that, afterwards, Ealf de BeUafago held it, and that Ealf de Toeni then possessed it as belonging to Necton. It must however have been subsequently restored to Beaufoe or to Hubert de Eye, and so descended, as part of the Barony, to the MarescaUs and Morleys, of whom it was held by the Draytons and Beaumonts. MESNE TENANTS IN LEXHAM. How the wife of Eobert Fitz Eoger, who was Margaret daughter and coheir of William Fitz Eobert, or de Cheyney, Baron of Horsford,2 acquired any estate in Lexham which her husband enjoyed in her right, as stated in Testa ele Nevill,3 I cannot imagine ; indeed Blomefield doubts that the Cheyneys had any. I am inclined to think there is an error in the record, or its transcript, and that instead of Eobert Fitz Eoger the name should have been written Eoger de Cressy, who would be estated in right of his wife Isabel, one of the daughters and coheirs of Hubert de Eye. The issue of Isabel having faUed upon the deaths of Hugh and Stephen de Cressy, as before stated, the fee of Lexham escheated to the king, Henry III. ; and a few years after, in his 32nd year, 1267, that monarch granted it, with BUckling and other inheritances of the Cressies, to William de Valence, Earl of Pembroke. Yet it still seems to have been accounted as a member of the Barony of Eye, for in the extent of that barony made after the death of John le MarischaU, in 1283, WilUam, Earl of Pembroke, is described as holding lands in Posewik and Lechesham, of the barony, for two knights' fees ; and, again, in the return to the inquisition after the death of John le Marischal, the grandson, in 1316, Earl Adomar, or Aymer, was the tenant of the barony in West Lexham by the service of one fee. The king (Edward I.) must have altered the tenure in his favour. Aymer de Valence was murdered in France on 23rd June, 1323, and upon the Inq. p.m. taken 29th August after, the jurors found that he was seized of the manor of Westlexham, held of the king in chief, by the service of one obolus of gold, to be paid in lieu of all other services at Michaelmas every seven years. It contained a capital messuage, with two hundred acres of arable land,4 &c. He also was childless, and his two brothers having predeceased him without issue, his inheritance devolved upon his two sisters, Joan, '- Vide Richmond Fief, supra p. 165. 3 " Robertus filius Rogeri tenet Lechesham de domino Rege set nascitur per quoddam servicium set pertinet ad baroniam sua uxoris." 4 Inq. p.m. 17 Edward II. n. 75. BEAUFOE FIEF, BARONY OF RYE. 325 wife of John Cumyn, and Isabel, wife of John Hastings. Yet Sir Eobert de Ufford died seized of it 35 Edward IIL, 1361, as parcel of the barony of Eobert Fitz Eoger, from whom he traced his descent through Eva, daughter and heir of John Fitz Eobert, Lord Clavering. His Warren fief we have already seen came to the Hastings family,5 while Lexham feU to the Cumyn, and Blomefield gives its subsequent descent in that Une, through females, until its sale by John Leuknor or his feoffees to Sir Geoffrey Boleyn of BUckling.6 The further history of the manor of West Lexham, in the hands of the Boleyns and Calibuts and afterwards of the Cokes, wiU be the subject of future remarks. By another inquisition held 18th August, 18 Edward II., 1324, Joan, daughter and coheir of Sir John Comyn and wife of David, Earl of Athol, was found to be twenty-six years old, and EUzabeth the other daughter twenty-two years. Pedigree eeom MS. Le Neve. John Comvn,T= Joan, sister and cohr. Lord of Badenoc, ob. 1325, s.p.m. of Adomar de Valence, Earl of Pembroke. David de Strabolgi,=p Joan Comyn, ob. 20 Edward II. da. and coh. Rot. Claus. 4 Edw. III. Richard Talbot.= EUzabeth Comyn, da. and coh. David de Strabolgi,=j= Katherine, da. of Earl of Athol, ob. 9 Edward IIL David de Strabolgi,= Earl of Athol, ob. 10 Oct. 43 Edward III. s.p.m. Henry de Beaumont, ob. 42 Edward III. 2. WiUiam. 3. Adomar. : EUzabeth, da. of = John Malvoisyn, sen. Henry Ferrers, Lord 2nd husband. of Groby, ob. 49 Ed. III. Thomas Percy,' Earl of Wore. 1st husb. : EUzabeth, da. & = John le Scrope, cohr., of fuU age 2nd husb. 50 Edward III. SU Ralph Percy ,— PhiUppa, = brother of Thom. da. & hr. of 1st husb. s.p. full age 52 Ed. III. = Sir John Halsham, 2nd husb. ob. 3 Hen. V. of W. Grmstead, Sussex. SU Henry Percy, of Athol, Knt. ob. 16 Hen. "VT. SU Hugh Halsham, Kt.= Jocosa, ob. 1 Hen. VI. ob. 20 Henry VI. s.p. : PetroniUa, 2nd wUe. Richard Halsham,: heU to his brother. John Lewknore = of Goring, co. Sussex. = Joan, da. and heU,1 (1464.) David, son and heir of John de Strabolgi (executed 34 Edward I.) died 1 Edward III. David, son and heir of David, died 9 Edward IIL, David his son being only one year old. 5 Supra p. 199. * Blomefield, vU. 249 ; x. 2. ' Pro maneriis Poswyk, FUby, Stivekey, Holkham, West lexham.— Fines 4 Edward IV. n. 11. 326 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. EVIDENCES. Inq. p.m. 17 Edward II. n. 75. Extenta manerh de West lexham facta ibidem coram escaetorem domini Regis xxix die Augusti A" r. r. E. fil. E. xvnj. Juratores dicunt quod Adomarus de Valenc' quondam comes pembrok. fuit seisitus, &c., de manerio de Westlexham — de diio rege in capite — per servicium unius oboh auri pro omnia servicia solvend' ad festum Sci Michi in fere quorumhbit septem annorum. Et est ibidem quodam capitale mesuagium inolusum et valent herbagium et agistamenta ejusdem per annum vs. — cc acr. terrse arabihs, &c. David Strabolgi comes AthoU — tenuit die quo obht ad terminum vite sue castr' de Castelacre cum ptiii in com. Norf. de R. in capite per servic' militare. Ac maner de Westlexham de R. in capite per servic' j ob. de auro et solvend in quoUbit septimo anno pro omnibus serviciis ad festum Sci Michis. Ac maner de Styvekey, &o. Ac maner de Postwik, &o. Rem' inde Davido fiho predicti comitis. — Inq. p.m. 1 Edward HI. Harl. MS. 708. David de Strabolgi nuper comes Athol tenuit die, &c, 2 partes maner de Possewyk — item maner de Westlexham per servicium reddendi R. ad scaccarium suum quoUbet septimo anno unum obolum auri — Item Stivekey, &c. — Inq. 11 Edward IU. ut supra. Robertus de TJfford Chr. tenuit die, &c, manerium de West lexham et Possewyke de R. in capite ut parceU' baronie Roberti fil. Rogeri. — Inq. 35 Edward III. ut supra. ief nf Jf xi\ fuxr. HONOUR OF CLAEE, HE MESNE TENANT of the Earl of Gloucester's fee in Tittleshale, about 1300, was one Gregory de Spalding, who also held Wiveton, which was one of Eainard Fitz Ivo's manors, under the earl, and who presented to that church in 1299. The subtenants of Titleshall were then Simon de Greynstone and Hamo de Thornekyn. In 20 Edward III. (1347) Robert l de Greynstone and Ealph Caley were returned as holding this fee of the heirs of Gregory de Spalding, and in 1402 the heirs of Geoffry Butler held it of the heirs of Gregory de Spalding ; and, again, in 12 Henry VII. (1497) WiUiam Wayte was found to die seised of the manor of " Greynstons alias Caleys," of the heirs of Geoffry (perhaps meaning Gregory) Spalding, by fealty only. Who were the heirs of Gregory de Spalding, I have no knowledge. He was probably dead in 1309, when the Lady Maud de Brunne presented to Wiveton, which was held in 1323 by WiUiam de Brunne, but in what right does not appear. 1 Query, Ealf. tony's fee. 327 Cnirg's gzt WESTACBE PBIORY. N speaking of the fief of Ealph de Toeni, I have already mentioned that one OUver, a priest, and Walter his son, having devoted themselves to the canonical rule in the territory of Ealph de Toeni at Westacre, that baron, with AeUc his wife, and his sons Eoger and Ealph, for their own souls and the souls of their ancestors, by their charter without date, granted and confirmed to the church of AU faints at Acre, and to OUver and Walter and all the canons there serving God, the fief which Oliver held under him ; to which grant all the soe of Necton were witnesses. I have also raised the question whether this Ealph was the second or third of that name,2 and I am incUned to consider him, as Parkin3 expressly says he was, to have been Ealph IIL, who Uved temp. Henry I. From this charter it would seem that a house of canons had already been founded by OUver and endowed with his fief, of which Ealph de Toeni was the superior lord ; but as this territorial endowment would have been ineffectual without his confirmation, he thereby acquired the right of founder and patron. It was under either this grant, or one subsequent, that the priory so founded at Westacre became possessed of most of the lands in Launditch of which Ealph de Toeni was tenant in chief in the Domesday Survey, viz., of the manor of Godwick and of a portion of Little Fransham comprised in a manor to which the name of " Cannons " was given. The house also acquired lands and rents in other parishes. Amongst the benefactors in Taylor's Ust, we find the names of Osmund de Stutevile, WiUiam Earl Warren, and William de Dunham (1219). The Prior of Westacre had charters of free warren in Godwyk, 55 Henry III. and 1 Edward II. In 1286 the Priory of Westacre with the Canon's church were burnt down. In the Taxation qf Pope Nicholas, temp. Edward I. (circa 1291), the possessions of the Prior of Westacre in the Deanery of Brisley, are stated as under : — £. s. d. In Beeston, de terra et de redditu 4 6 In Estlegesham, de redditu - 5 In Eucham, de redditu 4 0 In Gatele, de redditu U ° 3 See Pedigree. 3 ix- I59 £. s. d. . 6 8 9 10 41 7 0 . 3 0 7 1 0 3 1 2-a 328 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. In Lucham, de redditu In Wesenham, de terra ...-••• In Wyssingsete, de redditibus et consuetudinibus In Fransham magna, de terra et redditibus In Fransham parva, de terra, redditibus, et fetu animaUum In Dunham magna, de redditu ..... In Godewyk, de terra, redditibus, molendino et fetu animalium No church property in the deanery is mentioned as then belonging to Westacre Priory, and the church of Eougham must have been appropriated afterwards. In the register of Castleacre Priory i occurs a deed, without date, by which WUUam, son of Walter Herewin, granted and confirmed to "St. Mary de Acra," and the monks serving God there, the ancient church of St. Mary de Eucham, which was upon his fee, and half an acre of land at the west side thereof, for the soul of Sir WiUiam de Warren (his chief lord) and for his own soul. The words of this grant give the impression that it was made to the monks of Castleacre, who already possessed a moiety of the tithes, and not to the canons of Westacre, dedicated to St. Mary and AU Saints ; or why entered in the register of the former house? Certainly the right of presentation to the church of Eougham was vested in the Prior and Convent of Westacre in 1301, but it was the bare right of presentation only. They presented the nominee of the Bishop of Norwich. They had also acquired the other moiety of the tithes, and, on 6th October, 1301, an agreement between the' two priories, that the EeUgious of Westacre should receive aU the tithes of Eucham, paying to the Prior and Convent of Castleacre 30s. per annum, was made and confirmed by the bishop.5 It would seem from Parkin (p. 35) that the endowment of the vicarage was at the same time settled.6 In the Valor Ecclesiasticus (temp. Henry VIII.) the value of the tithes of Eougham was estimated at £3 a year, and no other spiritual possessions in the deanery are named. The following entries are extracted from that record. Spiritualia. Firma garbarum decimalium in Eougham, per ann. . . lxs. Temporalia. Eedditus assisee in Fransham parva per annum . . . xUjs. x J?.an; da- °f Wm. Lord Bardolf. Catherine, mar. 1 Henry IV. Will dat. May 12, 2 Henry IV., ob. 1402. 2, EUzabeth . . . . , remar. to SU H SU Arnold Savage. Percy. Robert de Scales, Thomas de Scales,=T= Emma, da. of SU Ills liTiTmnnnnd _1- i a fin s~,- TTr. - , - Simon Whalesburgh. ob. 1418, unmarried. ob. 1460 r Sir Henry Bouchier,= Elizabeth, = Anthony Woodvile, afterwards 1st husband. da. & hr. Earl Rivers, 2nd husb. Upon the attainder of Sir Edward Woodvile, Earl Eivers, brother and devisee of Anthony, his estates became forfeited to the crown, and were first granted by Eichard III. to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk ; but by Henry VIL, to Elizabeth, wife of James de Vere, Earl of Oxford ; except Eeynham, which was retained by the Crown, until granted by Henry VIII. to Sir Eoger Townshend, as before mentioned. EVIDENCES. f> xxxj. Carta Godefridi de Lisewis de vnescroft "t de dimid acra in Litlewode in Gatelee.— Fo. 145. Sciant, &c, qd ego Godeffus de Lisewis dedi, &c. Herlewyno fiUo Willi de Gatelee totam que fuit Aielnod in Gatel' scilt de feudo meo et dimid' ac'm in Litlewode, illi et heredibus suis, tenend de me et heredibj meis. Reddendo inde annuati xuij denaf pro oi serviciis et cosuetudine. Et ad esc'agium dfii Regis ad temp cum venit sive sit minor sit maior vnii obolum. Et ad hoc tminos, &c. Et pro hac c'tu homagium suum recipi. Et p hac donacone dedit m' Herlewyn duos marcas argenti et dim. Hus testibus, Robto de CapWUl, WUlmo de Lecheshfh, Rog'o de Seal', Alexo monacho, Willo de Lisewis, Rog'o de Bintre, Simone le Noreys, Godeffo fiho arketel, Godefrido de Helmhm, Willmo del Een, Walto Doraunt, Reginaldo fiUo Hugon, Walt de Surlha, Simone Purcel, Gerardo Eabro, et WiUmo fiho Emelot. Rr xxxij. Item carta eiusdem Godefri de toto sarto infra Foveas parci de Gatelee. — Fo. 145. Godefridus de Lisewys dnis suis et amicis et hominibus Erancis et Anglis tam futuris qm presentibus saltm. Sciatis me dedisse, &c. Herlewyno filio WiUmi totu clausum Parci mei qd e' in Gatelee ptinat ad feodum meu de Renham sicut fossatum e'eiuit. Tenend, &c. Hereditaf suis et heredibus suis de mea et heredibus meis p serviciu qfite partis milit qu continget pro omibus serviciis. Pro homagio suo qd michi fecit et C. sold denar quos michi dedit et vnu talentu qd dedit vx'i mee — Hii sunt testes Godeffus pauper, Godeffus cam'arius, Petrus de Pellata vill, Wills de Erancha villa, WiUmo filius Johi, WiUs fil Hervei, WUls filiol Rob de Seal', Robt de Anhous, WUls fihus Roland, Odo Maisnare, Hubts Woresmari5, Johnes Spraggs, Radus Framingen', Robs Framingen' Johnes Ribald, Petr5 CapeU's qui hanc cartam fecit. B/ xxxiij. Carta WiUmi Lisewis de tra T; comunis pascua in Gatelea. — Fo. 145 b. Willelmus Lisewis dnis suis et amicis et. hominibus Francis et AngUs saltm. Sciatis me dedisse — Herlewyno filio WiUmi terram meam quam fovea de Pare oircuivit cu comuni pascua feudi anei qd est in Gatelea qd ptinet ad tram meam de Renham sibi et heredibus suis de me et heredibus meis hereditame 336 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. tenendam p qiita pte servich vnius militis, &c., p omibus serviciis et consuetudinibus hbere et q'ete et honorifice. Pro hac d— donacoe fecit m' homagium et duo talenta dedit m1 et vxori mee. Hhs testibus, WiUo fiUo Hervei, Rico filio Walti, Osbto de Pageham, Johe filio Rici, Ad de Wesehm, Johe fiho Alani, Rico de Wygenhale, Walto fiho Osbti, Gilb'to sacerdote de Denevario qui fecit cartam. fy xxxiiij. Carta Thome filii Herlewyn de Gatelea de ¥ra T: mesuag capitali suo in Gatelea. Omnibj, &c. Thomas fiUus Herlewyn de Gatelea Saltm in Diio. Nov'it, &c, me caritatis intuitu et pro salute anime mee et anima? ancessor et successor meog dedisse, &o. Deo et ecc'ie See Trinitatis Norwyc' et monachis ibidem deo servientibj totam tram meam de Gatelea qm tenui in capite de Robto de Scales tam in feodo mihtari qm in soccagio cum capitaU mesuagio et cum omibj libertatib?, &c. Hndam— in puam et ppetuam elemoslam in ppfh Faciendo inde d'eo Robto et heredity suis serviciam q'nte ptis feodi mihtis unius et insup duos soUdos ad wardam Cash Doverie singl' annis ad Pascha. p tenefiito miUtari et xihj den'ios ad eunde trninu pro socagio— In hujus, &c— sigillu, &o. Hiis testib?, Robto de Scales, Baldewyno de FriwiU, Willo ffe ejus, Rado fiho Robti de Scales, Willo fiUo Fulconis, Reymfido fiho Pagani, Thom de Brom, Robto de Elmhm cl'ico, G. de Lodnes, W. de Hakeford, &c. — Fol. 145. xxxv. Item Carta ejusdem de eodem tenore UC3 aliqntulu variat. Sciant, &c, ego Thomas filius Herlewyne de Gatelea caritatis, &c, dedi, &c, Deo et eccle See Trinitatis, &c— totam meam qm h'ui in villa de Gatelea de cujus cuq, feodo terra iUa sit. Et simiUt xuij acras tfe in campis de Colekyrke de feodo Rici de Sco Dyonis cu capitali mesuagio meo et cum omibj libtatibj, &c, exceptis sex acris tfe in minutis pecus quas adhuc in manu mea retinui — Hend, &c. Hiis testib?, Rbto de Scales, Baldewyno de FriwiU, Willo ffe ejus, Galffo de Lodnes, WiUo de Hakeford, Rado de Thurstun, Reymundo fil Pagani, Thoma de Brom, Robto de Elmham. Dat ap Norwic die cov'sionis Sci PauU anno gfe millesimo ducentesimo quadrageto quarto. IJ; xxxvj. Confirmaco Eici de Sco Dionisio de tota iUa tra % pastu qih pdcus Thomas tenuit de feodo dci Eici in Gatelea. Sciant, &c, ego Ricus de Sco Dionisio caritatis intuitu, &c. — concessi, &c. Deo et eccie see Trinitatis Norwyc et Priori et Monachis ibidem Deo servientibj et eo suceessoribj tota illam t'am et past' am qm Thomas filius Herlewyne de Gatelea tenuit de feodo in Colekyrke que vocat' Colveshag que iacet int' boscum dci Prioris in Gatelea et cult'am meam vers' occidente sive in eade pastura heat plus sive minus. Hfid, &c. — Redd inde annuati m1 et heredib? meis tres soUdos ad duos anni t'minos soil', &c. Hiis testib?, Dominis Rado de Gatelea, Rado de Paveli, Ma'gro Henrico de Fakenham, WiU'mo de Hakeford, Galfro de Lodne, Rado de Thurstun. xxxvij. Confirmaco Eadi de Gatelea de tota terra qih Thoih filius Harlewyn de eo tenuit in Gatelea. Omnib?, &c, Rads de Gatelea miles salm — nov'it, &c, concessisse — tram qm Thomas fUius Harlewj'ni de me tenuit in Gatelea cum omib?, &c. Hfidm, &c, Reddo inde qnq, sol et unu den, &c, et ad scutag' diii Regis unu den. Et p comuna past™ p tota villam meam de Gatelea vnam libram pipis ad nat dfii pro omn serviciis, &c. Hiis testibus Rado de Pavely, Hamon do Hemstede, Bartho de Bodham, Rado de Thurstun, Reymundo filio Pagani, Thoma de Brom, WilUelmo de Hakeford. xxxviij. Confirmaco Alani filU Willmi de Helgheton de tota terra q pdcus Thomas de eo tenuit in Gatelea. totam tram qih Thomas, &c, tenuit de feodo meo in campis de Gatelea scilt illam culturam que MONTFORT' S FEE. 337 vocat morgyawe et jacet iuxta tram dfii Rici de Sco Dyonisio. Hiis testibus, Dfio Rado de Gatelea, Dfio Hamone Burt, Johne psona de Gatelea, Johne fiho Thome de Inlonde, Johns de Mundeheii, Willo de Hakeford, Albino de Stanford, WUlmo de Inlond, Hfirico de Briselee, Elya de Briselee, WUlmo de Hoga. f> xxxix. Quieta clamancia Eici filie Eoftti de Testerton de qtuor den annui redditus quos pcipe solebat de duabs; peciis pti i G. [in Gatele. J R/ xl. Carta Eadi de Gatelea de redditib3 datis Priori de Norwico in viUa de Gatelea. Sciant, &c, qd ego Radus fiUus WiUmi de Gatelea concessi, &c. Deo et eccie See Trinitatis de Norwico WiUfho de Kyrkeby Priori et eiusdem loci conventui, &c, homagium et s'rvicium Robti de la more et sex sohdos et q'tuor defiios annui reddit quos michi reddere debuit et cosuevit ,p vno mesuagio et octo decim acf tre quos de me tenuit in viUa de Gatelea et ad scutagiu viginti soUdag qu evenerit duos denaf et homagium et servicum Ede sororis dci Robti et qtuor denarios et obulu cum redd — qs &c. — Et homagiu et serviciu Thoe Capel, &c, pro vna dimidia acra, &c, et homagium et servicum Emme sororis del Thome, &c, et homagiu et servicium Isolde filii WUlmi de Gatelea, &c. Radi 0,'ntyn, WiUi de Prestun, Hamonis Fabri, Gervas de Testreton. Habenda — de me et heredib? meis in Uberam et ppetuam elemosinam Raddo inde annuat noie mei et heredum meorfi Priori de Fakenhmdam xs. den', Priori de Castelacre ij soUd, Rico de la Rokle vjd., Priori de Teford vjd., Hfirico de Hauuile vjd., Rico de Plaiz vjd., In cujus, &c. Hiis testib?, Dfio Johne de Munpynstun, Dno Thoma Brut, Hamone de Inlonde, Goscelino atte childrehous, Willmo de Oumor, WUlmo fiho Robti de eadem, Rogo de Oumor, Johne Sturnes, Hubto ouer the brook. Convents Eadulphi filii Willmi de Gatelea de redditu. Nov'int, &c, qd cum Radus fil de Gatelea dedit, &c, WiUmo Priori eccie see Trinitat Norwyk, &c, totum redditu see solidos et qtuor denarios quos pcipe debuit et cosuevit ,p manu Robti de Overmor de quodam tenemento in Gatelea videlt vno mesuagio et octodecim acris tre quas eidem vendiderat, &c. [As in preceding charter. He then exonerated the Prior of Norwich from the payment of the reserved rents payable to the Priors of Eakenhamdam, Castleacre, &c.J Hiis testibj, Dmis Thoma Burt et Thom de Hakeford militib?, Hamone de Hynlonde, Johne de Schermedel, GoceUno atte Childerehous, WUlmo de Prestune, Henr' de Briselea. xUj. Confirmaco Eobti de Scales de tota terra q Thomas fiUus Herlewyn de eo tenuit in Gatelea. [Witnesses names as before.] xUij. Confirmaco diii Eobti filii dni Eobti de Scales de terra et redditu in Gatelea. HUs testibus, Simone de Noers, Thoma Burt, Petro Bouzun, et Thoma de Hakeford mUitibus, WUlmo fiho Hamonis de Pateslee, Johne de Myngtone, Johne le Porter de Nortune, Johne le Gros de eadem, Hamone de Inlaunde de Gatel, WiUmo Ou'mor de eadem, Robto Daubeneye de Elmhm. Dat. ad festum Pur' beate Marie Anno Dfii m° cc° octogesimo et R. R. E. nono. xUiij. Carta Eborardi sutoris de redditu dati W. Priori. Testibus, Diio Johne le Straunge, Dfio Rico de la Rockele, Diio T. Burt miUtibus, Hamone de Indeland, Willmo de Prestun, Thoma Oumor, Hnr' Oumor, Huberto Ou brook, Henr' ad Aulam, Johne Capel.— F. 149. 2 x 338 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. iapatfr's £ui MESNE TENANTS IN WELLINGHAM. HIS was subinfeuded by Fitz Walter in some retainer, named Caper or de Capra, de Chevre or Chevere. In the reign of Eichard I. fines were levied by Michael Chevere, of lands in Titleshale and Godwick, and in the 10th of that reign of lands in Wellingham. In the 8th of King John, circa 1206, I'find a fine in which Mariora, the widow, que fuit uxor, of Michael 1 Capri was petent, and Hamo Capr' her son, defendant, for dower in Titleshale, Widegho, and Godwic ; naming Eobert Capr', the uncle of Hamon.2 In the certification of knight's fees of the barony of Baynard, which Eobert Fitz Walter held of the king in chief, in pursuance of his writ, tested 6th May, 1236, Hamo- Chevre (for so I must read Theile) was assessed for Titteleshale, Norff., and Wydekeseho,3 Suff, at two fees ; and in the list of fees, of which the king took scutage, against his going into Gascony, Hamo Chevre was assessed at the fourth part of a knight's fee for lands in Teteleshal, Godwic, and Wychingset. MESNE TENANTS IN TITTLESHALL. In 34 Henry III. (circa 1250) occur Hamo, son of Hamo Chevere, and Catherine widow of Hamo, who was possessed of lands in Colkyrke before 1258^ and appears to have had a daughter named Margery de Walsham.4 1 Le Neve reads it Nicholas, and Hamon Capra as son of Nicholas and Mariota, referring to a fine of lands in Godwik and TittleshaU (fines divers' com'. 8 Johis).— MS. pen. Capt. Bulwer. Michael de Capra and Rose his wife were founders of the Hospital of St. Leonard of Gaimes in Essex. 2 Fines Norff., 8 Joh. n. 42, vide post. 3 WilUam son of Jeffry de Capra is said to have been lord of Wygesho (Wixhoe) in Suffolk in 6 Richard I., and Hamo Capra held three-quarters of a knight's fee in Wydekow of Walter Fitz Robert, temp. Henry III. 4 MS. Le Neve, citing Cartas Manerii de Colkirk. baynard' s fief. 339 Hamo de Chevere had a royal charter, dated 12th September, 1267, granting a weekly market and a fair in Tittleshall, and free warren in Titleshale, WeUngham, Godwike, Wissingsete, and Greynston.5 Soon afterwards this fee came to Isabel, daughter and heir of William de Chevere, who in 13 Edward I. was wife of William de Sutton, and probably died without issue, for in 24 Edward I. (circa 1296) their feoffees, Benedict Wade and Eobert Sutton, conveyed it by fine to the said WiUiam and Margery (or Margaret) his second wife, by the description of seventeen messuages, one mill, six carucates of land, eight acres of meadow, sixteen acres of pasture, thirty acres of wood, one hundred shiUings rent in Tytleshale, Greyneston, Godewyk, Wissingset, Wellingham, and Pateslee, in the county of Norfolk.6 WUliam de Sutton is returned as holding half a knight's fee in Tityllshale of Eobert Fitz Walter. The subsequent descent of the tenure from Sutton to Vere is shewn in the Pedigree. Tittleshale was the head of the manor which extended into the other parishes before named. John de Vere, the thirteenth Earl of Oxford, being through his mother seised of the manor of TytleshaU in fee tail, by deed, dated 16th Nov., Ao. 3 Henry VIIL, 1511, in contemplation of the intended marriage between John Veer, his nephew and heir, and Ann, daughter of the Earl of Surrey, covenanted to settle the same, together with Knapton, to uses for himself for life, with remainder to John Veer and the Lady Anne for their successive Uves, and afterwards to. such uses as should be declared by the will of the Earl of Oxford. But if John Veer were to die before the age of fourteen years, when the marriage was to be solemnised, then the property was to be immediately at the disposal of the earl. This agreement was carried into effect by a recovery and feoffment made by the earl, dated the 15th April foUowing, 1512, under which the manors were vested in trustees to the uses mentioned. He made his will, dated , in which, after mentioning the " Eecovery of myn manor of TytleshaU and Knapton, which manor ben of my olde Inheritance, and I therof in the tyme of the seid recovery sole seised to me and myne heirs males of my body," &c. I wull that the said Edward Howard and the other feoffees stand seized, &c, for his nephew John Veer and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten, and for default of such issue, " to thuse of theyrs of my lady my mother lawfuUy begotten," and for default of such issue to the use of the heirs of his mother. At the inquisition taken after the death of this Earl John, before the escheator for the county of Suffolk, it was found that John Veer, who was the nephew and next heir, being son and heir of Sir George Veer, Knt., deceased, brother of the said earl, was of the age of thirteen years on the 14th day of August next before the earl's death, which occurred on 10th March, 1512-13. In the Escheat EoU of that year Titleshall is stated to be held of the Lord Fitwauter. That the marriage between John de Vere the nephew and the Lady Anne Howard " Rot. Chart. 51 Henry III. m. 1. 6 Inter WiU. de Sutton et ux. quarentes, Benedictum Wade et Robtum Sutton def. Jus. Benedicti, qui reconcessit dicto WUlo et Margaret. Fines, Norf., 24 Edward I., n. 25. [? 25 Edward I.] 2x2 340 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. took effect, and that after his uncle's death, in 1512, he succeeded to the Earldom of Oxford, ' and died himself without issue, leaving the three sisters named in the Pedigree his coheirs, are historical facts. In 1 Eliz., Sir Eobert Wingfeld, son of Sir Anthony, had livery of one moiety, and the Lord Latimer of the other moiety, upon whose death, in 1577, the latter came to his four daughters and coheirs. 1 ux. Isabell, da. and hr.= of WiU. de Chevere, Uving 13 Edw. I. 2 ux. • WUliam de Sutton. =f= Margaret, da. and hr. of Sir Richard BattaU of Wivenhoe, Suff., by Catherine his wUe, da. and hr. of Sir Andrew le Blund of Tendring, 24 Edward I. Sir John Sutton,=j= Margery, da. and hr. of SU John s. and heir, of Wivenhoe 1388, ob. ante 8 Richard II., Uving 43 Ed. IIL, dead 46 Ed. III. de Whelnetham, Suff., widow, 1st, of Sir John de Brokesbourn; 2nd, of John de Cockefield. 2 ux = SU John Sutton, =j= 1 ux. Alice, rehct of Sir da. of SU s. & hr., living 43 Michael Edw. TIL, ob. 17 Poynings. Richard II. Andrew de Bures, da. & hr. of SU John de Roydon of Overbury Hall in Leyham. Sir Eichard Sutton,=T= Alienore. brother and heU of John, aged 60, 17 Richard II. John Walton, Esq.=f= Margery, da. and hr. Sir Richard Walton. 1, Sir Robert de Bures,=^= Joan, da. and hr. = 2, Richard de s. and hr. of Andrew de B. Waldegrave. ob. 7 Oct. 1361. AUce de Bures, mar. SU Guy de Bryan. John Howard, son and hr.= of SU John Howard by Margaret Plaiz, ob. p.v. 1404. : Joan, da. or sister and hr.= SU Thomas Erpingham, of SU Richard Walton, ob. 2nd husband. 1424. John de Vere, 12th Earl of = Oxford, mar. 1428, attainted and beheaded 1461. 1, Aubrey de Vere, beheaded with his father, = EUzabeth, da. and hr. of SU John Howard, a widow 1 Edward IV. 2, John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, mar. 1st Margaret, da. of Rich. Neville, Earl of SaUsbury ; 2nd, EUzabeth, da. of SU Rich. Scroope, Kt. Ob. s.p. 1512. 3, SU George =t= Margaret, da. and hr. Vere, Knt. to WUUam Stafford of Froham. John de Vere,= Anne, da. of EUzabeth, mar. 14th Earl, aged 13 Tho. Howard, SU Anthony on 14 Aug. 1512, E. of Surrey. Wingfeld. ob. 1526, s.p. ^ Dorothy .=j= SU John NeviU, Knt. afterwards Lord Latimer, by whom 4 das. and cohrs. Ursula, mar. 1, George Windsor, 2, SU Edm. Knight, s.p. 1, Katherine, wife of Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland. 2, Dorothy wife of Thomas CecU, 1st Earl of Exeter. 3. Lucy, wife of SU WilUam CornwalUs. 4, EUzabeth, wife 1st of Sir John Danvers, Kt., and 21y of Sir Edm. Carey, Knt. baynard's fief. 341 SUB-TENANTS IN WELLINGHAM. It appears by a pleading in the 4th of King John, (so we read in Blomefield,7) that Michael Capra had granted by fine in 10 Eichard II., (1199) two carucates of land in WeUingham to WiUiam de Huntingfeld and Isabel his wife and the heirs of Isabel, to be ' held of Michael, [who held] of Baynard's Castle, London. In that year, A John, Michael was petent against William de Huntingfeld for this manor, and in the same reign Eoger de Frevill impleaded Michael Capra to shew cause why he brought a quare impedit against him and hindered him from presenting to the rectory of the third part of the church.8 In the Huntingfeld Pedigree, copied in the Monasticon, the wife of WiUiam de Huntingfeld is caUed Isabella de Frevill, and her death year given as 1209. But I have said before, on what seems good authority, that Isabel, second Avif e of Will iam de Huntingfeld, was the daughter and heir of William, caUed de Gressinghall, the widow previously of Berenger de Cressi and afterwards of Osmund de StutevUl; and it seems that she was Uving at the death of WiUiam de Stutevill her son in 1259, through whom her inheritance came to the FoUotts, as described under GressenhaU. And Le Neve refers to a fine, in the same 4th year of King John (circa 1202-3), in which William de Huntingfeld and Isabel his wife, relict of Osmund de Stutevile her former husband, were querents,' and WiUiam de StutevUe deforciant of lands in Yorkshire. Eoger de FreviU, therefore, could not have become possessed of this manor as heir of Isabel, but as a grantee. The Foliots inherited the mesne lordship held by her, and the FrevUles held under her and them, and yet, by some mistake in 3 Henry III., Baldwin de FreviU is returned as holding at the fourth part of a knight's fee immediately of Walter Fitz Eobert. In the foUowing reign, however, Alexander de Ereville is found to hold WeUingham of Eichard Folyot, and he of Ealph Eothyng. At this time, then, the mesne seigneury which de Chevere had held had become vested in de Eothyng, and the links of the chain of subinfeudation were thus arranged : Fitz Walter was tenant in chief ; De Eothyng held of Fitz Walter ; Foliot held of De Eothyng, and FrevUl held of FoUot. Of the family of de Eothyng I find Uttle information.9 WiUiam de Eothyng and Joan his wife were parties to a fine of land in Colkyrke, 43 Henry III. He was Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk between the 11th and 17th years of Edward I., viz., in 1281-2 to 1288-9, in which last year he died, called sometimes de Eoing or Eoying, and in the last five years as WiUiam de Eothing, miles. He died possessed of lands in Westhall, Wenhaston, Walpole, and Carlton, in Suffolk, and in Lechesham Norfolk. In 15th Edward I., WUUam de Eothing claimed a market in Dunham Magna as belonging to Lord Baynard's fee. In that year the said WUliam and Joan his wife held a manor in South Walsham and HemUngton, apparently of her inheritance, but in the year foUowing Henry de Cat and Margery his wife 7 Blomefield, x. 72. 8 Ib. 74. Abbr. Placit. temp. John. Rot. cur. Regis, Ebor. temp. John, et vide post. 9 They bore for arms, Arg. three bars gules, a bordure of martlets' of the second. — Dashwood's Sheriffs. 342 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. recovered it of Ealph de Eothing, and in the 19th of that reign the Lady Margaret Foliot conveyed the manor there, which she had of Ealph Eothing, to John Fastolf and Margery his wife, relict of Henry Cat.1 In 31 Edward I.2 it was testified to the king that Joan, the wife of Eobert de Caston, and William, the son of the said Joan, should recover seisin against Ealf, son and heir of Joan de Eothing, of three acres of land in Suthwalsham. The name of Ealph de Eothyng, then called knight, occurs as a witness, with John de Dunham and John de Arsick, knights, to a grant, undated, made to John son of GUbert de Beaupre. In 1344, one John de Eothing was Eector of Gressenhall, on the presentation of ; and in 1402, Ealph Eothing is named as the mesne lord of WeUingham, between Fitz Walter and Edward Hastings. This was in the taxation for an aid ; probably the name was copied from feodary to feodary and kept up only for form, and there was no such person then in existence. How the intervening tenancy became extinguished I have no information. The FrevUles were tenants of the manor of Bagthorpe under the Earls Warren. In the reign of Henry I. Eobert de FriviU gave the tithes of his demesne lands in Foulden 3 to Castleacre Priory, with half the manor of Bagthorpe and land in Massingham, which grant was witnessed by Ealph his son, by Emma de FreviU, and MatUda her sister ; and to another grant or confirmation of the same, made with the consent of his wife and his son; two other sons, Eobert and Drogo de FreviU, were witnesses. Ealph de FreviU, son of Eobert, confirmed this gift, to which Ealph de FreviU, his nephew, was a witness ; and by another deed gave the other moiety. Gerard de Canvilla confirmed both gifts. Afterwards Osbert Giffard, with consent of Isabel his wife, granted the whole viUe of Bagthorp according to the gifts of Eobert and Ealph Frevill, Eoger de FreviU being a witness.4 Eoger de FreviU was a donor of land in Skerning to Waltham Abbey, as was Lecia his wife ; and in 11 King John, Eoger son of Baldwin de FreviU passed a small rent in Letton. The name of Baldwin occurs as holding under Eichard BalUol in Wimbotsham, temp. Henry II., and in 13 Henry III. land there was conveyed by fine from Hamon Lenveise to Eoger de Frevil.5 Eoger de FreviU was a witness to a charter of WiUiam de FranchevU, to one of Gilbert de Fransham, and to one of Eichard le Eus. Ealf de FreviU and Baldewin de FreviU both witnessed a grant of Eoger Dapifer, and Baldwin and his wife Basilia another to Castleacre Priory, to which BasiUa, wife of Baldewin, gave two shillings rent in Lexham mill. The name of Sir Baldwin de FrevUl occurs as witness to a charter of Eichard son of Alexander de Eucham. Eobert de FreviU witnessed a grant of IsabeUa de Gressinghall during the life of 1 Blomefield, xi. 139. 2 Eot. Orig. n. 15. * Blomefield, vi. 34, referring to Castleacre Register, fo. 34—49. Blomefield, vU. 40. « Fin. Norff. 13 Henry III., n, 2. BAYNARD'S FIEF. 343 WiUiam de Huntingfeld, her husband, and William de Frevile, a charter of WiUiam fitz Hubert of Gressenhall. These charters are all without date.6 Baldwin de Frevill died in September, 1288, seized of the manor of Welyngham. An inquisition held after his death in Herefordshire found that the Lady Matilda de Ebroicis and Baldwyn her son, and- Alexander brother of Baldwyn, were jointly enfeoffed of land in Tadminster, co. Hereford ; and another inquisition in Norfolk gave the day of Baldwyn's death, Monday after the Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin (8th September) ; and that Alexander his brother and next heir was of the age of thirty years and more.7 The wife of Alexander de Frevile was Joan, daughter and heir of Ealf de Crombewell (CromweU) by Mazera his wife, second daughter and coheir of Philip Marmyon of Tamworth Castle.8 Alexander was lord of WeUingham in 9 Edward III. Baldwin de Frevil, son of Alexander, died seized of Wellingham, held by the service of the half of one knight's fee, in October, 1343, 17 Edward IIL, and Baldwin his son and heir, who was then twenty-six years old,9 was lord in 1346, holding of Sir Hugh Hastings. Comparing the extent of the manor of Wellingham in the inquisition of 1343 with that of 1288, there seems a difference in the service by which it was held, but that is only apparent ; the earlier survey merely states that it was held by scutage ; the latter defines the quantity of service — the half of a knight's fee. I continue the Pedigree until the extinction of the family in the male Une ; but ere then Wellingham had passed to Beaupre. Sir Richard de Freville = of Scarning, Norf. and Shelford, co. Cambs. — Ped. Her. CoU. Sir Baldwin de F.: served in aid of Earl of Brittany 1234. = Lucia, da. and hr. of Richard de Scalers. SU Richard de F.= Mabel. ancestor of FrevUles of Shelford co. Cambs. ob. 1299. Baldwin de FreviU, ob. s.p. 1288. Sir Sayer de F. Sheriff of Hunts and Cambs. =p Robert de F. Uving 1276. Roger de Freville espoused, con trary to the king' s wUl, Margery, da. & hr. of Eobert of KelUng- worth. Contract dissolved, Rot. Fin. 16 and 17 Henry III. Sir Baldwin de F.=p Basilia (?) lord of the manors of WeUingham & Lutcham. [MatUda de Ebroicis.' — Vide Inq. p.m. 17 Ed. I. n. 9.] SU Alexander de FrevUle,=j= Joan, da. and hr. of Ralph does homage for Tamworth 1295—1328. (a) Cromwell, 1339. 24 in 1291. She was 6 Reg. Castleacre. 7 Inq. p.m. 17 Edward I., n. 9 ; Cal. Gen. p. 400 ; et vide post. 8 Another daughter and coheir of PhiUp Marmyon was MatUda, wife of Ralf de Boteler ; and in 24 Edward I. Alexander FryvUl and Joan hie wife came to an agreement with Ralf, son and heir of RaU de Boteler, for a partition of the inheritance of Joan de Morteyn, deceased, who was another daughter of Philip.— Cal. Gen. 770. 9 Inq. p.m. 17 Edward III. n. 37, post. 344 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. (?) Baldwin de F.= 36 at father's death, pardoned for rebelUon against the king under Roger Mortimer 1324 — 1343. Elizabeth. Margaret.— SU Henry WUUngton of Sittisham. 2nd, Ida Clouting.= Sir Baldwin de FrevUle,T= 1st, EUzabeth, da. and coh. of 3rd, Joan, da. of 1375. ' ' " ' Lord Strange. SU John de Montfort. EUzabeth, = Baldwin de FreviUe,; died very young. 1387. : 2nd, Joyce, da. of SU Jno. Botetourt of Werly ; mar. 21y SU Adam PeshaU. SU Baldwin de F. 1401.=f Joan, da. of SU John Green. 1 Baldwin de FrevUle, EUzabeth.= Thomas, 2nd son Margaret.= 1, Sir Hugh Joyce.= Roger Aston, Esq. ob. s.p. 1418. of WilUam, Lord WiUoughby. Ferrers. 2, SU Richard Bingham. EVIDENCES.— FEEVILLE. Fin. Norf. et Suff. 8 John, n. 42. Hie est finaUs concordia, &c. — apud Norwic die mercurii prox ante festum Divi Laurencii. A° Johis 8» coram J. de PateshaU, &c, inter Marioriam que fuit uxor Michi Capr' petentem et Ham' Capr' fiUi ejus tenentem de dote quod eam contingat de Ubero tenemento predicti Michi quondam viri sui in Titleshale et Widegeho Godwyc — concessit Mariorie tertiam ptem, &c. — in dominicis suis quam in redditibus et in vUenagns et serviciis Uberorum hominum et in omnibus alus rebus. Hab., &c, nomine dotis — Salvis eidem Ham' et heredibus suis capitalibus mesuagiis de Titleshal et Widegesho et Hamon concessit Mariorie mesuagium in Widegesho quod fuit Roberti Capr' avuncuU Hamon'. Placita de Banco Term. Mich, de temp Johis. Roger de Erivill habeat brevem ad summon' Michaelem Caperum, &c, ostensarum quare impedivit eum presentare idoneum personam ad tertiam partem ecclesie de WeUngham et ipse non venit et fuit petento, unde consideratum est quod Michael habeat brevem ad episcopum quod idoneum clericum suum, &c. — Abbrev. Placit. Johis incert. temp. rot. 7. Id. Pasche Ao. 3 Edward I. Per breve de certior' — Ideo concedat est quod ij acr prati in Magna Fransham sunt pertinent ut hbera elymosina ad ecclesiam de Eransham et non laicum feodum WiU. de la Sale. — Rot. 50. Inq. p.m. 17 Edward I. Co. Hereford. Writ diem clausit tested 8 Octob. Co. Norff. Writ tested 10 Dec. Inquisitio de terris et tenementis que fuerunt Baldwyni de Frevill in vUla de Welyngham facta ibidem die Dominica prox post festum exaltacionis sci Crucis, A0 r. r. Ed. xvij0 per subscriptos, Galfr' le Clerke, baynard's fief. 345 Ricum de Cymitio, Johem Giles, Allan Franke, Ac Marche, Whim de Reynhfh, WiUih fil Radi, Radum Hamund, Willm de Cymetio, Robtum Hethedine, Robtm fil WiUi, Godefr'm Durant; qui dicunt, &c, quod idem Baldwyn tenuit in predicta vUla unum manerium cnm pertinentibus, de domino Jordano FoUot,' per servicio iijs. per annum, et per scutagium quondem evenerit, vnde est ibi unum capitale mesuagium, et valet p ann. cum herba et fructu gardini xviijd Et est ibi unum columbarium, et valet p ann. ijs. Item sunt ibi vij" et xv acre terre arabihs, pc acr iiijd Sm Ijs. vhjd Item sunt ibi hj acr' prati falcabiUs, pc acr' xijd Sm hjs. Item sunt ibi iiij acr' pastur' falcabiUs, pc acr' iiijd Item est ibi de redditis assise liberum tenentium et custumar' per ann. xxxvhjs.- vijd Item sunt ibi xxx opus in autumpno pc operis jd Item sunt ibi ad natale Domini viij gallinas, pc galUni jd Item sunt ibi Uj capones, pc caponis jd ob. Item dicunt quod Baldwynus tenuit manerium suum de Tatington de Rege in capite, in com. Hereford; et quod obiit die lune prox' post festum Purificacionis beate Marie Virginia Dicunt eciam quod Alexander de Frevill frater dicti Baldwini est propinquior heres et est etatis xxx annorum, &c. Summa totaUs Cs. xixd ob. — N. 9. Norf. Inq. p.m. 17 Edward III. Inquisitio— apud Lucham— (13 Dec. A" 17) per sacrum WiUi de Patesle, Johis atte Grene, Alani le Rous, Johis Rad, Radi Thornekin, de Roughfh, Robti Jorum, Rici Thomas, WUU Roberd, Thom Roberd, Henr' de Hardingham, Johis Alex, &c, qui dicunt, &c, quod Baldwynus de FreviRe tenuit quoddam manerium cum pertinentiis in vUla de Welyngham de Hugone de Hastyngges per servicium medietatis unius feodi miUtis. Item sunt ibidem quoddam capitale mesuagium quod valet p ann. xviijd Item hij11 acr' terre arabUis valent xs. pc acr' iijd., iij acr' terre falcabiUs valent p ann. iiijs. vjd pc acr' xviijd Item iij acr' pastura valent p ann. xviijd Item de redditis assis' p ann. xs., &c. — quod obiit die veneris prox' post festum sancti Jeronimi ult. — et quod Baldwynus fiUus predicti Baldwyni est propinquior heres et etatis xxvj annorum, &c. Obiit die Veneris ante festum sci Luce Evang. — Wilts. Obiit in partibus transmarinis 3 Octob. ult. ut inteUigitur.- -Hereford. Baldwynus fiUus, &c, fuit etatis xxvj ad festum Assumptionis b. V. prox' preter'. — Warr. Et in Wigom et Stafford.— N. 37. SCAENING. I suppose that the lands of this fee described in Domesday as lying in Scarning, but belonging to the manor of East Bradenham, were not after the Baynard forfeiture included in the grant to Fitz Walter, but passed with that manor to Saer de Quincy, Earl of Winchester, who held it in the time of Henry II., and through the Lacys, Earls of Lincoln, to Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, as detailed in Blomefield,1 who also informs us that in the second year of Edward II. the manor was granted by Earl Henry to the Abbat of Bury, one-fourth part being then held by WUliam de Huntingfeld. Eoger de Huntingfeld, the ancestor of this WUUam, is said to have purchased the manor of East Bradenham in the 14th of Henry IIL, about 1230. He was the eldest son of 1 Bl., vi. 134. 2 Y 346 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. WiUiam de Huntingfeld, of Huntingfeld, in Suffolk, by Isabel his wife, daughter of Henry de GressenhaU, as has been already mentioned under the fee of Warren. Eoger de Huntingfeld' s second wife is stated in the Pedigree to have been Joan, daughter and heir of Geoffrey de Hobrugg, who survived him, and was possessed of the land in Scarning. In the 56th Henry IIL, it was found after the death of WiUiam La Zouch, that he held the manor of Hobrug, in Essex, as tenant by the courtesy of England, of the inheritance of MatUda his wife, one John de TraUy being the next heir of the said MatUda ; 2 but in the same year a writ was issued to seize the lands of Joan de Huntingfeld, touching the custody of Joiose, daughter and heir of WiUiam La Zouche and MatUda, his wife, both deceased.3 Joan de Huntingfeld claimed free warren in Scarning in 15 Edward I., and in the foUowing year a distress was levied upon her land there for 36s., withheld from the king at the sheriff's tourn for eighteen years.4 She died in 25th of same reign (1297), Eoger de Huntingfeld, her grandson and next heir, being then upwards of thirty years old.5 Eoger had succeeded WiUiam his father in the manor of Huntingfeld and other manors in 1282, having married, so the Pedigree states, in 8th Edward I. (1279), Joyce, daughter of John de Engaine. In the absence of that statement, made I know not upon what authority, I should have inferred that she was the daughter and heir of WiUiam La Zouch and Matilda his wife, whose guardianship his grandmother seems to have had. In 26 Edward I., Eoger had Uvery of the lands which Joan his grandmother held of the king in chief. He was knighted at Westminster, 31 Edward I., with the Prince of Wales.6 He was one of the barons who, at the Parliament at Lincoln in 1301, signed the celebrated letter to the Pope, as "Dominus de Bradenham." He and Joyusa his wife were jointly seized of Frampton, and other manors in Lin colnshire, and of Huntingfeld, of the feoffment of Simon de EUesworth, as was returned at an inquisition taken after his death in 31 Edward I. (1302),7 WiUiam his son and heir then aged twenty-two years.8 Joyce was Uving, his widow, in 1311. By an inquisition held at East Bradenham in the following year, 9 November, 7 Edward II., William was found to have died seized of lands and tenements in that town and Scarning, held of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster. Eoger, his son and next heir, then of the age of eight years, was 2 Cal. Geneal., 154. 3 Dj., 159. 1 Abbrev. Elacitorum, 16 Edward I., rot. 32. 6 Inq. p.m. capta apud HuntingfeUd die martis prox post festum omnium sanctorum. 25 Edward I. n. 48. (Rot. Fin., 26 Edward I. m. 20.) 6 Ashmole, p. 38. ' The writ, diem clausit, Sec., was issued on 5th December in that year, and an inquisition held at Estbradenham on 30th January foUowing. Amongst the jurors I see the names of Reginald de Gressenhale and Simon Elbald de Skernynge. Bradenham was returned as held of the Earl of Lincoln. — Inq. p.m. 31 Edward L, n. 31. (Rot. Fin. 31 Edward I., m. 15.) 8 This WiUiam paid a reUef for the fourth part of a knight's fee in Bokesworth, Cambridgeslure, as heU of Roger, and also the relief due from his father, as grandson and heU of Joan who was one of the daughters and coheUs of WUliam de Hobrugg. — Fines Norff. a0 33 Edward I. baynard's fief. 347 born at Frampton; he was by Joan, the first wife, daughter of John, Lord Hastings of Abergavenny. Blomefield quotes an agreement, dated 22 AprU in that year, between Thomas, Earl of Lancaster and Leicester, and Eichard, Abbat of Bury St. Edmunds, touching the wardship of the lands which were WiUiam de Huntingfeld's, late tenant of the manor of East Bradenham, till the full age of Eoger his son and heir, as well as future wardships. In the Originalia of the 8th year of the same king it is recorded that he had granted the custody of these lands, during the minority of Eoger de Huntingfeld, to Hugh Le Despenser, which grant was revoked on the Earl of Lancaster asserting that WUliam the father held no lands of the Crown, but that he held the manors of East Bradenham and Scarning, in Norfolk, and Mendham, in Suffolk, of him, the Earl.9 In 13 Edward II., Sir Walter de Norwich had the guardianship of the young Eoger, and married him to his daughter Cecily. The manor of East Bradenham, with the members, is enumerated amongst the possessions of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, being held by Eoger de Huntingfeld by the service of one quarter of a knight's fee, as of the Honor of Lancaster, as appears in the inquisition after the Earl's death.1 Eoger died seized in 1337, WiUiam his son and heir being seven years and a-half old,2 who proved his age in the 25th and died in the 50th year of Edward III. (November, 1377.) John de Huntingfeld, only child of this last WiUiam, having predeceased him without issue, his heir, according to the inquisitions post mortem, was his kinswoman Alice, wife of Sir John de Norwich, knight, then thirty years of age.3 In what degree of relationship she stood is not stated, nor was it of importance. She had only an empty inheritance, for from evidence produced before the jurors at the inquisition held at Huntingfeld, they found that WiUiam, Lord Huntingfeld, being long before his death seized of the manors of Huntingfeld, Mendham, and Benges, in Suffolk, infeoffed John de Stykford, clerk, John de Lynsted, clerk, Eichard Franceys of TicheweU, John Wace of Kerketon, and Thomas son of Eobert de Toft, in the same, to hold to them and their heirs ; and afterwards in HUary Term, in the 48th year of that reign, levied a fine thereof to the use of the said John Wace,4 who with the other feoffees regranted them to WiUiam, Lord Huntingfeld, for life, with remainder to themselves and the heirs of John Wace. And in Michaelmas Term, same year, 48 Edward IIL, by means of another fine, wherein WiUiam de Ufford, Earl of Suffolk, was querent, and the feoffees defendants, these manors were settled, subject to the life estate of WiUiam de Huntingfeld therein, on the Earl of Suffolk for life, with remainder to Thomas, WiUiam, and Edmund, his sons, successively. The inquisitions for Norfolk and Essex made simUar returns. The former was held at Swaffham Market, on the Monday in the Festival of the Conception of the Blessed Virgin, (December 8th), the jurors being John Colyer, John de Longham, WiUiam Tony, WiUiam 9 Orig., 8 Edward IL, Rot. 2. 1 Inq. p.m. 1 Edward IIL, n. 88. 3 Inq. p m. 2 Edward IIL, n. 47. 3 Inq. p.m. 50 Edward IIL, n. 32. " Obut die dominica prox. post fest. Bci martini in hyeme ult. prefer." The writ, diem clausit, issued 21 November following. 4 Fines div. com. 47 Edward IIL, n. 106 2 y 2 348 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Deck, WiUiam Schort, John Sodale, Simon le Heige, Geffry Foulcher, Eichard Deck de Beston, John dil Welle, John le Mellere, John Secom, or Secom ; and it appears that Bradenham was subject to the same settlement as Huntingfeld. There are variations, however, in some of the other inquisitions. The limitation of the manor of Frampton in Lincolnshire, in remainder, after the death of Sir WiUiam, was to Margerie, [widow4] of John de Hun tingfeld, [son of4] said WiUiam, for life, and after the deaths of both WiUiam and Margerie, then to the Earl of Suffolk and his sons in succession as before mentioned. The finding of the Cambridgeshire jury was that the deceased nobleman held Bokesworth for life, of the grant of William de Spagne of St. Botulph, John Lynsted, parson of the church of Cawston, Thomas Heme, parson of the church of Huntyngfeld, and Eichard Wright of Holbeche, clerk, by fine and the royal license, with remainder to John Knyvet and AUenore his wife,5 and the heirs of their bodies, with remainder in default of such issue to the right heirs of Sir William, but it was unknown who were such heirs. It is stated somewhere that one Sir John Cobeldyk, or Copledyke,5 after the death of the last Sir WiUiam de Huntingfelde, entered upon the manor of Horham in Suffolk, as his kinsman and heir, probably under some special limitation ; and this Sir John Copledike is supposed to have been the grandson of Joan de Huntingfeld, daughter of WilUam, the fourth of that name, by Sybil his second wife. Bradenham, however, with its member of Skerning, came, as we have before seen, to WUUam de Ufford, Earl of Suffolk. This earl was the son of Eobert de Ufford, the first earl, by Margaret his wife, daughter of Sir Walter de Norwich,6 and sister, as I suppose, of Cecilia de Huntingfeld, so that he was first cousin on the mother's side. The three sons of Earl WiUiam aU died in their father's lifetime, without issue, Eobert his eldest son having also predeceased him, and he had no other children. By his wUl, dated on Tuesday next ensuing the Feast of St. Barnabas, 1381, he gave to Isabel his wife "lands which should descend to me after the death of my dear cousin of Huntingfield," also lands " which I should have after the death of Dame Margery, widow to Sir Walter de Norwich." He names his sister Dame Maude de Ufford, his nephew WiUoughby Lord Eresby, his cousin Sir Eobert Ufford, &c. His heirs were his three sisters, Cicely, who married, John, Lord WiUoughby of Eresby ; Katherine, married to Eobert, Lord Scales ; and Margaret, to William, Lord Ferrars of Groby. Roger de Huntingfeld I.=p William de Huntingfeld I.=j= SibiUa, da. of Roger founder of Mendham Priory, Suffolk, ob. 1 Henry II. 1155 Gyney, ob. 1189. (a) 4 IUegible. 6 Ascuns dissount que Monsieur John Cobeldik seroit estre prochein cousin et heir a lui, et ascuns diont que Monsieur Thomas CokereU f uist prochein cousin et heir a luy, et la grendre partie tient que Cobeldik est plus prochein heUe a lui, et ascuns diont que U fist a dame AUonour Knivet bone chier et lui appeUe tut dis son bele consUle et done a lui diverse choses, mais U nest congnu comment nul de ea nest cousin ne heir, mea que WUUam Cobeldyk occupie certes terres come heir. — Marl. MS. 406, f. 145. " For the family of Norwich, v. ante 167. BAYNARD'S FIEF. 349 (a) -J Roger de Huntingfeld II.=j= Alice de St. Liz, vixit temp. Hen. II., ob. 1204. ob. 1200. Thomas de Huntingfeld, 2 son, Uving June, 1219. Roger de Huntingfeld, 3 son, Just. Itm. 1206. : William de Huntingfeld II. = son & hr. temp. Joh., Just. Itm. 1208-10, Sheriff of Norf. & Suff. 11 to 15 John, one of the 25 barons, Uving June 1219, ob. 1220. : Isabel, da. and hr. of WiUiam de Gressenhall, and relict of Berenger de Cressi ; afterwards mar. Osmund de StutevU. ~r Lucia, 1st w.= Roger de Huntingfeld III.=F 2nd, Joan, da. and cohr. of ob. 1236. s. and hr. 14 Hen. IIL, ob. 41 Hen. III. 1256.— Esc. n. 29. WUUam de Hobrugg of Essex, bought her son's wardship of the king, ob. 25 Ed. I. 1297. Alice.= Richd. Solers. [? Hugo Ruffus. Claus. 17 Joh.] Roger de Okenhill, ob. 1309. WilUam de Huntingfeld III.: son and hr. setat 20, Aug. 24, 1257, ob. 11 Edw. I. 1283. Roger de Huntingfeld IV. : son and heU, mar. 8 Edw. I. 1279, sum. to Pari. 22 and 25 Ed. I., heU of his grandmother Joan 1297, then 30 years old, ob. 30 Edw. I. 1302. : Emma, da. and coh. of John de Grey and Emma his wife, da. and coh. of Jeffry de GlanviUe, ob. 1264. = Joyce, da. of John de Engaine, Uving his widow 1311, ob. 1312. Joan, da. of John de Hastings =j= WUUam de Huntingfeld IV.=t= 2nd w. and Isabel de Valence, 1st wife, ob. 1307, buried in the Friars Minors at Coventry. son & heU, 21 years old 1302, ob. 7 Edw. II. 1313. SibiUa mar. 21y to WiUiam de Latimer, 8 Edw. II. John de Huntingfeld, buried at Coventry. Roger de Huntingfeld V.=j= Cecilia, da. of Sir Walter son & h., 7 years old 7 Edw. II. Uving 1335, 1336, ob. 11 Ed. IIL 1337. Joana. de Norwich, Knt., of Mettingham Castle. William de Huntingfeld V.=p EUzabeth, da. of s. & h., 7 J years old 11 Ed. III. ob. 50 Edw. III. 1375, s.p.v. de WiUoughby. John de Huntingfeld,^ Margery, da. of John, Lord WeUes ; ob. 49 Ed. III. 1375, v.p. s.p. mar. 21y 51 Ed. III. Stephen le Scrope. 2 Y 3 3-50 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Cfr* fakws Jfkf. PATTESLEY.— SUB-TENANTS. F the family deriving their surname from this manor I have but little information. Hamo de Patesley was the tenant there 20 Henry III. He was the son of Ealf. Ralf ele Patesle, Hamon his son, and Roger Patesle were witnesses (with Sir Peter Buzun and others) to a grant, s.d., of JoceUne, son of Eichard de Herewin, to Normansburgh Priory. Hamon de Patesle witnessed a grant of Simon, prior of that house, in 1227. Sir Hamond de Patesle also witnessed a charter of Fraer de Capravilla to Castle acre, temp. Henry III.,1 and a release of Sir Hamo de Burt of right in Horningtoft. I find the names of John de Patesle, Eector of Harpley, in 1349 ; and of Thomas Patesley, Archdeacon of Ely in 1387. In a0 9 John, John Chamberlaine and Herbert de Patesle were indicted for the murder of Drogo Chamberlain, the former's brother, for which he was to travel to Jerusalem for seven years.2 In 50 Henry III. Hamon de Patesle, senior, settled on Hamon his son, by fine, certain messuages, lands, and tenements in Oxwick, Tittleshale, Eeynham, Wissingset, and Tofts ; and 29 Edward I. William, son of William de Patesle, conveyed by fines lands and tenements in those towns to William, son of Hamon de Patesle ; -and John de Patesle, the manor and advowson of Pattesle to William de Patesle the elder for life, remainder to John, who was lord in 9 Edward II. and presented to the church in 1304 ; to which John, son of John Patesle, presented in 1321. In 1327, 1 Edward IIL, Roger, son of William de Patesley, gave, by fine, to WiUiam, son of William de P., and Nicholaa his wife, messuages and lands in Patesly, Oxwyk, Godwyk, Wissingset, &c. 1 Blomefield, ix. 168. 2 Ib. x. 337, referring to Placita 10 Joh. Term Pasch., rot. 9. Hamo de Patesle a juror in Inq. p.m. Richard de la Rokele, 31 Edward I. <£nrj of fart I. NOMINAL INDEX TO PAET I., SECTION I. Adam brocher or brother, 132 ; Jani tor, 128; persona S'ti Petri, 127; fil. Johis presbyter, 132 Adami, Henricus filius, 133 Adelherd, Alherd, or Alfheard, Bp., 44 Adelwald, 131 Athelwald filius EsteUde, 127; Regi nald, son of, 129, 131 ; Peter, son of, 127; WiUiam, son of, 129, 132 Alwold, Willm", fil» de, 128, 131, 132 Elwold, Reginald, fil. de, 115, 128 Agelmar (Ailmer), Bishop, 41, 42, 44, 46, 111, 112 Agnes, uxor Alcuin, 126 Aguillon, Robert, 53, 83 AiUd, 104 Alain, 11, 21 Alan Celerarius, 127; dapifer, 125; fils. Ricardi clerici, 130 ; John, son of, 2; fihus WiUi, 129; the Red, 22 ; Fergaunt, 23 Alanus dapifer, 126, v. Fitz-Alan Albums, Hugh de, 23 Albus (White), Thomas, 124, 125; Philippus, 129 Alcius presbyter, 124 ; Herveius, fiHus, 124; Peter, fiHus, 125; Petrus de Linn, 125 Alderhus, GosceUnus de, 99 Alderwick, A., R., and N., 26 Alenzun, Galfrid8 de, 132 Alestan, 107 Alexander cocus, 128 ; dapifer, 128, 129, 133 ; monachorum, 126 ; sen- escallus, 123, 129, 133 ; de Acra, 129 ; fils. Rocelini, 125 Alfar, Alfah, AUere, 11, 20 AUar de Haringshae, 129, v. Elfer Alin, 20 AUva, mater Rogeri, 119 Alneto, Radulf de, 60 AUesford, Johes de, 37 Alured de Acra, 77 Aluric, 11, 20; presbyter, 132 AnchetiU Januarius, 123 Andrea, persona de Fakenham, 127 AngeU, Bartholomew, 93 Anglo (Angulo) Thomas in, 101 AnketeU, 124 ; a priest's servant, 113, 120 AnscheteU de Ket, 130 ; de Martham, 124 ; de Wendlinges, 123 Arbaldus, 127 Arderne, Radulf and IsabeUa de, 18 Arfast (Herfast), Bishop, 42, 43, 44, 46 Argenton, SU Robert and Agatha, 66 Arsic, Alexander de, 122, 123, 126, 130, 131, 133; Dominus, 132; AUcia de, 11, 122; Eudo de, 122, 123, 124, 126, 128, 129, 130, 131, 133; Dominus, 128, 131 ; Herveius de, 122 ; John de, 123 ; Roger de, 12 ; Roland de, 123 Arundel, Richard de, 14 Asche, Roger atte, 97, v. Esche ; Lucia and Matilda atte, 97 Atenhawe, Ricards de Bitring, Atte Church, WiUiam, 34 Atte Esche, Roger, 97, 98, 102 ; Lucia, 97, 102 Attegateshend, WUlm's, 100 Attelund, Petrus, 93 Attetour, Muriel, wife of Nicholas, 102 Aula, AnschetUl de, 126 ; GUbert, de, 132; RaUde, 131 Avandus, 127 Avenai, Hamon de, 128 Bagge, Humfrid, 128 Bald, WiUus, de Kempson, 124 Baldwinus, presbyter de Fransham, 127 Barsam, Willus de, 131 Beatrix, vidua, 131 Beaumont, Godfrey de, 72 Bedingfeld, Sir Henry, 73 Bedingham, Ralph, 26, 34 Belet, Philippus, 76, 77 ; Roger, 77 Belevill, Radulf de, 77 Bellenber, Richard de, 119 Belnai, Jordanus de, 119 Belvere, Robert de, 77 Benedictus, fil. Petris, 128, 129 ; pres byter, clericus, 132 ; fil. WUH, presbyter de Fransham, 131 ; fils. Walter MarescalU, 131 ; fils. Petri de Fransham, 131; WUls. fils. Benedicti, 131 Berlingham, Galfrid9, de, 125 Bertyn, Galfridus, 93 Beston, Henrics de, 129 Beteringhe, Willm8 de, 128, 129 Betring, WUlm8 de, 124 ; Dominus, 133 Betering, Wills, de, 129 Bitering, 126 ; Magister, 128 Bitring, Galfrid" de, 126 ; Roger de, 126 Bicham weUes, WUl" fil. Walter de, 130 ; Ysabel, uxor de, 130 Bigod, Roger, 30, 31, 38, 40, 42, 47, 88; Hugh de, 38, 39 ; SU John de, 40 ; Ricardus de, 119; WilUelm8, 47 Bygod, Barthol" de, 122 BUneye, Bilnea, Thomas, 15 : Magister WiUs. de, 128 Birkelaunde, PhUip de, 122 BlanchevUle, Richard de, 112 Blois, Charles de, 25 Blossvill, Jordan de, 121 Blumvill, Willm8 de, 123 Blund, WiUielmus, 127 BlunderviU, Ralf, 23; Ricardus de, 119 Blundus, Gilbertus, 128 ; Thomas, de Rucham, 125 Blunt, SU Thomas, 91 Bokkinge, Thomas, 15 Bolebec, Henricus de, 75 Bond, Bondus, 46, 83, 94 Bonpayn, Johes — Henricus, 125 Bosco, Agnes de, 74 ; Jordanus de, 119; RaduU de, 127 Bosvile, William" de. 10 n. Boswell, Isabel, 82 Boteri (Buteri), WUUam, 84 Boteric, 83, 84 Botilda, 131; Tusard, 126 Boett, WUl", 125 Branche, WUlm8, 110; Hugo, 127; Richard, 129; Dominus Ricardus, 129 Bretanus, WUlm", 133 Bretagne, Alan de, 22 ; Conan de, 22 Brittania, John de, 24, 25 Breteiul, WilHam de, 87 Brien de Chien, 10 n. Brisley, Richard de, 112 Briselai, Ricardus de, 119 Bristol. Robert de, 76 Broc, Wills, de, 132 Brochard, Wills., 80, 131, 132 Broctun, Henricus de, 128 Broket, William, 125 Broseyard, Galfridus (Jeffry), 54, 58 ; Johes. 54 Brown, WUliam, 34 Brun, Maurice le, 97 Bure, Hugh de, 75 Bures, WiUm. de, 11, 13 Burel, WilHam, 2 ; Ralf, 124 Burgate, Badwinus de, 77 ; Robertde,76 352 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Burgh, Hubert de, 52 ; John de, 84 ; Elizabeth de, 54, 84 ; WiUiam de, 84 Burgo, Raymond de, 108 Burnham, Philip8 de, 124, 128 ; Fred eric de, 124; Radulfus de, 133; Willus. de, 125 Bussim, Adam, 99 Buzun, Bozon, Bozoun, Bussum, John, 40, 134 ; Peter, 40 ; Roger, 110, 113, 115, 124, 130 Byntre, Bartholomew de, 102 CaUly (Cayley), Osbert de, 60 ; Sunon de, 120 Caisneto, Willus de, 76, 80 Calvacamp, Hugh de, 86 n. Candos (Candois, Chandos), Philip de, 133; Hugo de, 133; Matthew de, 134; Simon de, 128; WUHam de, 128, 134 Canis, Herveus, 122 Caimston, Camston (Kempston), Ralf de, 111, 118 Chemestun, Wlnothe de, 123 ; Roger filius, 123 Camburr', Roger de, 128 apel, John de Gatele, 102 Capra ville, Doms Frederic de, 121 ChiefreviUe, Robert de, 52 ; Walter Capri, WiUiam, 115 ; AValter de, 123 Carhow (Carrou), AUcia de, 77; Ra- nulfus de, 76 Castell, Nicholas de, 23, 26 Caston, Eobert de, 2, 60 de. 125 Cestria, Chester, Geffry de, 69, 76 Chabers, Richard de, 114 Chambeis, Ricardus de, 121, 127, 134 Chamber, Simon atte, and Agnes, 102 Chamberlain, Willus, 101 Chase, Geffry, 112; Gaufridus, 119 Chat, Richard, 131 Chaumpneys, Adam, 93 ; WiUusde, 100 Chevare (Chevre), Hamo, 104 Chien, Brian de, 76 Chip, Johan, de Hoo, 80 Christian, daughter of Gunnora, 108 Church, WilHam atte, 24 CUcun, Curcun, Willus de, 124, 126 Claie, Willus de, 127, 129, 131 ClaiUe. Ricard de, 129 Clare, Gilbert de, 84 ; Elizabeth de, 54, 84; WiUusde, 127 CUfton, John, 26 Clinton, SU William de, 91 Cobham, SU Reginald, 57 Cockfild, Roese de, 10 Cocus, 118 Colkyrke, Bartholomew de, 116, 126; EUas de, 101 Comyn, WUliam, 109 Congham, John de, 101 ; Augustinus de, 119; Gaufridus de, 126, 127 Coo Rem', 77 Coppe, Johes de la, 4 Corbrig, Robert de, 69 Crec, Rand, de, 128 Cressy, Cresci, Berenger de, 112, 113, 119, 125; Hugh de, 69, 70, 119, 120; John de, 80; Isabel de, 69, 70, 112, 120; Roger de, 24, 69, 76, 80, 81, 115, 132; Stephen de, 76, 80 Cromwell, RaU, Lord of TattershaU, 54 Crowe, Ralph, 115 Crowesher, Radulfus, 133 Cupar, Peter, 115 Curcum, Radulfus de, 124; WiUus, fiUus de, 124 DaevUl, Robertus de, 119 De la londes, Hamo, 100 De la Pole, WUHam, 56, 58 Daleber, Robertus, 119 Damone, Elizabeth and Roger, 53 Denham, John de, 12 Denis, Deneys, Denyes, Richard, 13 Denver, Osbertus de, 120, 129 Derham, Galfridus de, 123 Docking, Hugo de, 128 ; Nicholas de, 124, 128 Draiton, Alexander de, 76 ; Gaufridus de, 77 Dreux, Arthur de, 24, 25, 29 ; John de, 24, 25, 29 ; Peter de, 23, 29 Drogo, clericus, 123, 131 ; fiHus dapi feri, 112; fils. WUH, 112, 113, 125 Dulingeton, Gaufridus de, 126 Dunham, Alexanderde, 131 ; miles, 124 ; Eudo de, 124; Humfrid' de, 111, 112, 118,119,132; Omfrede, 123; Dom's Johan. de,mUes, 131 ; Eeg inald de, 70, 82, 123; Dom's, 132; Alexander, fil'sde,123; W.de, 129 Dunton, Rem's de, 125 Dusine, Levine, 124 Dusing, Ricard', 2 ; Eoger, 124 Durandus (Extraneus), 112, 119 ; Ea- dulf, fils., 113 Durannus, Extraneus, 126, 133; Pru- dentia, uxor, 126; Eadulfus, fil's, 126 Eborard, Bishop, 48, 114, 121 Ediz, Johan., 2 Edrich, WiUs, 99 Edrus pistor, 1 26 Elfer de Wenling, 130 Elferi, Edmod, filius, 132; Laurentius, fils., 133; Eadulfus, fils., 133; Roger and Will's, fil., 132, 133 Elias, presbyter, 77 Elich, Johes de, 129 Elm', Johis de, 128 Eudo, senescallus de Westacre, 129 Eustachius senescallus, 120, 128, 129; dapifer, 133 Extraneus, Radulfus, 129, 131; Domi nus, 129; Dom's Roger, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133; Eudo, 129; Johes, 130; Durannus, 133 Faber, GaUridus, 132; WUlus, fil. Walter de WenHng, 131 ; WUlus, fils. Fulcheri, 131, 132 Fader, Fradre, 63, 65, 66 Felton, Alianora de, 15; Johanna de, 15 ; Jordan de, 60 ; Richard de, 43; Eobert de, 13; SibiUa de, 14; SUvester de, 1 4 Ferentinas, Dominus, Janitor de, Ferrers, Edmund le, 100 Filgod, WiUus, 130 Fincham, Oddo de, 77 Fitz Alan, Alan, ; John and Mary, 11 ; Richard, 14; WUUam, 9, 11, 125 Fitz Gilbert, Richard, 61, 83, 84, 104 Fitz Ivo, Ranulf, 83 Fitz Osborn, WilUam and Roger, Earls of Hereford, 21 Fitz Robert, Walter, 104; WUHam, 10, 113 Fitz Roger, Robert, 23, 27, 69, 70, 109 Fitz Walter, Ranulf, 38; Robert, 10, 104, 105 Fitz Warren, Gerard, 112 ; Robert, 113 Fitz WUliam, Richard, 113 Flaald (Fleance) 6, 8 ; Alan son of, 2, 7, 9, 12, 16, 123 Flamang, Arnald, 111, 118; Lambert, 123 Flancus, 11 FHntell, Gerard and Ermingard, 84 n. Fochigholm(Fokington),Hugo de, 124; Robert de, 124 Folyott, Jordan, 60 ; Richard, 34, 105 Fransham, Fravesham, Froesham, Fronsham ; Anchetillus de, 1 24 ; Benedict, fil. Petri de, 131; Gal fridus (Geoffry) de, 34 ; GUeber tus, mUes, 132; Gaufridus, fils. Adelwaldi de, 129 ; IsabeUa, uxor Reginald, 131; Johes, fils. Rogeri c\e parva, 132 ; GUbert de, 34, 111, 115, 118, 123, 124, 126, 128, 130, 132; Henricus fil. WUH., 128; Magna, Gilbert de, 131 ; Oddo filius Roberti de, 128 ; PhiHp' fil. Odo- nis de. . 132; Parva, Johes. fil. Rogeri, 132; Peter de, 131 ; Peter fil. Henrici, 132; EaduUus de, 1 29, 131 ; Eadulfus fil. GUberti de, 132; Radulf fil. Benedicti de, 131 ; Reg inald de, 132 ; Reginald fil. Elwald or Adelwald de, 129, 130; Regi nald fil. Thome, 131; Reginald frater Rogeri, 131; Reiner, miles de, 124 ; Ricardus de, 129 ; mUes, 131 ; Ricard' fil. Gileberti de, 125, 130; Roger fri. GUberti de, 128; Roger fil. Thome de, 131; Roger de, 129, 130 ; miles de, 131 ; Simon, frater GUberti de, 124: Thomas fil. Reginaldi de, 131; Turstan de, 124, 131; WiUus de, 34, 128, 129, 130, 133 ; WiUus fils. Adelwald de, 131 ; Willus fils. Benedicti, 131 ; WUlus frater GU berti, 124 FrancaviUa, Ricardus de, 119, 128 Franchevil, Francevil, Ricard' de, 129,130,131; Gilbert de, 123, 126, 128, 129, 130, 131; Willms, de, 115, 128, 129, 130, 131; Ysabel de, 131 Fraxino, Roger de, 97, 101, 102 ; Lucia fiHa Rogeri de, 120 ; MatUda de, 97, 102 NOMINAL INDEX TO PART I., SECTION I. 353 Fresingham, Simon de, 3 FrevU, Frivil, AUva de, 112 ; Baldwin de, 112, 119, 126; BasUia de, 112, 126; Drogo de, 121, 131; Radulf de, 112, 119, 121; Saer de, 115; Roger de, 126, 130, 131; Robert de, 113, 120, 121 ; WiUus de, 123, 133 FrewyU, Alexander, 105 Froesham, v. Fransham Fulbert, 49 Fulcher de Wesenham, 129 Fulco, Osberti, 128 Fulk son of Ordini, 112; priest of Lechesham, 112, 119 Gael, Guader, Raoul de, 8, 12, 21, 22, 38, 65, 112 Gainbure, John, 129 GaUridus, bertyn, 93 ; Camerlanus, 129, 130, 131 ; CapeUanus, 1, 18, 120 ; dehospitio, 128; Prioris, 128; Janitor, 125, 129, 131 ; Porter de, 129 Gant, GUbert de, 95 ; Hugh de, 95 ; Ralf de, 95 Gatele, JoceUne de, 126, 133 ; Henri cus de, 133 ; SU Ealf de, 96, 112, 119 ; Simon, his brother, 112, 119 Gatelai, Ralf de, 112 Gathele, Henrie' de, 133 Gatesden, John de, 34 Gaufridus (Gaufredus) de Congham, 126; fils. Galfridi, 132; fils. GU berti, 124; fils. Petri, 75: fils. TlurkilU, 125 ; Hawisie nepos, 117 ; fils. Ricardi de Neketon, 93 Geoffry the chaplain, 110 Gernan, WiUiam, 122 Gernecolt, WUls., 125, 128 ; Galfridus, de WenHng, 132 Geynecolt, WUUam, 131, 132 Gerold, Roger, de Lettun, 127 Geyt, Eeginald de, 132 Geyton, Regin' de, 125 Geywald, Hamo, 128 Giffard, Walter, 31, 67, 84 ; Rohaise, 84 GUebertus Blundus, 128; de Aula, 132 ; Comes, 127 GUla, 118 Ginnius, 123 Gislebert, 34 ; Richard Fitz, 62 Glynton, John de, 4 God, SenescaUus, 128; fitz Johis, 131 Goddard, 111 Godefridus de Duleington, 126 ; Cam- berlengus, 1 33 ; fiUus Johannis, 131 ; pater Walteri, 126 ; textor, 126 Godefry, WUUam, 2 Godfrid mosse, 131 Godfridus pauper, 133 ; Camerlengus, 133 Godfrey, chaplain of Elsing, 113 Godricus senescaUus, 129 Godwin, Earl, 7 Goode, WUUam, 56 Gorhannus, 9, 123 Grenestr' Mattheus, 126 Grenston Greynston, Henrie de, 130 ; Matheus de, 126 ; Ricardus de, 130; Roger de, 34, 126 Gresham, Thomas, 16 GressenhaU, Adam de, 131, 132, 136; Alan de, 1 31; Fulk, or Fulcher, de, 111,118; Henrie de, 1 30 ; IsabeUa de, 112, 119; Ricardus de, 130; Ricard' fil. WUU de, 130; WUls. de, 60 ; Wills, fil. Huberti vendit de, 133 ; Wills, fil. WUH de, 133 Grey, Willus de, 122 Gris, WiUs, 99 Grimketel, Bishop, 43 Guido fil Rogeri, 1 25 Gundreda, Countess, 31 Gunton, John de, 14; Thomas de, 15 Gurandi, Herebert filius, 180 Gurney, Hugh de, 70 Gurwandi, WiUus fiHus, 124 Gurwant, Radulf and Herbert fiHi, 127 G'ward, Walter fil WUH, 129 Gyr, Thomas and Agnes, 102 Hakeford, Thomas de, 81 Hamo, 123 ; clericus, 125 ; deAcra, 77, 129; Filgbd de Acra, 129; fiilus Walter de Acra, 123, 125, 131, 132; fil. WUH, 131, 132; FUgod, 129 ; Geywald, 121 ; fil. God' 123, 131; Godrici, 122; serviens Com itis, 113, 120, 123, 126, 128; Wal ter and Ralf his sons, 113, 120 Hanchett. Thomas, 73 Harald, WiUus, 131 Harold, Earl and King, 65 Harveius clericus, 112, 119, v. Herveius Heaton, Semanus de, 120 Hedersete, Ricard' de, 4 Heleton, WUUam Wimer de, 133 Helewis, nephew of Bp . Arfast, 46 Heliot, 77 Helyas, Jocelinus, cler , 127 Hempstedes, Thomas de, 129 Henricus Camberlanus, 128 ; oapel- lanus, 121, 123, 133; fils. Adami, 133 ; fils. Edwardi, 131 ; fils. Ful- cheri, 131 ; fils. IsabeUe, 115 ; fils. Reginaldi, 131; fils. Willi, 129, 131, 132; fil. Walter SenescaUi de Gressenhall, 128; Pichot, 133; Prior of Acre, 123 ; Sampson, 77 ; ToterUppe, 128 Herald, 63, 64, 65 Herbert (Lozinga) Bp. 44, 45, 46, 47 ; filius Alcer', 124; HumbUd, 123; Johan de, 72, 82 ; Venator de Gressinghale, 133 Hereford, Thomas de, 30, 81 ; Isabella de, 81 ; Joan, Countess of, 14 ; Warin de, 60, 130 ; WiUus de, 26 Herford, Thomas and Beatrix de, 130 ; John de, 72, 82 ; Warm de, 130; WiUusde, 76 Herewin, Willus fil Walter, 124 Herigh', WiUus de, 122 ; Walter de, 131 Heringhae, Alfer de, 129 ; Galfrid de, 131 ; Willus serviens de, 130 Heringshae, WUlus de, 122, 129, 130, 131 Heringaud, Johes de, 101 Herkeham, Roger de, 76 Herlaue, Ernaldus de, 130 Hermer, Hermerus, 50 Hersyke, Harsyke, John de, 13, 14, 15, v. Arsic Herveius dapifer, 128; fil. AUci, 124; Walter, 126 Hesding, Ernulph de, 8 Heydon, John, 56 ; Thomas de, 127 Hingresho, Rad. de, 115 Hirmingland, Godfridus de, 119 Ho, Lucas de, 77 ; Robertus, 133 ; fils. Reginaldi, 131 ; clerici, 131 Hoe, Johan de, 115 Hoo, Johes de, 1 25 ; Sampson de, 34 Hoet, Magr. Osbertus de, 133 Holm, Gerold Roger de, 119, 127 Holt, Thomas fil. Simonis de, 123, 127 Horn' fils. Baldwini, 131 Hombert, 130 Hoppeford, Robts. marescaUus, 123 Horningtoft, Robert de, 133 Horsford, Thomas de, 82 Horstede, Johes de, 82 Houton, Semanus de, 126 Hoton, Roger de, 127 Howard, Sir Edward, 73 ; Sir John, 34 Hoxwic, Johan de, 128, v. Oxwic Hoyet, Magr. Osbert de, 133 Hugo, Comes, 76 Hulf, 111, 118 Hulm, SU Robert, 2, 24 ; Giles, 23 Humbriet, Bishop, 44 Humfridus, Herbert, 123 Hunfert, Hunfertus, Bishop, 44 Hunstanton, Petrus and Walter de, 125 Hunte, Edward, 73 Huntingfeld, Willus de, 60, 112, 120, 133 ; Ysabel uxor, 133 Hurst, Edward, 34 Hyrne, Thomas, 100 Ilbert, Simon, 81 Ingham, Johes de, 102 Ingoldestorp, Thomas de, 66, 128 Ingringhae, Peter de, 131 ; Johannes capeUanus, 126 ; capeUan de Gatele, 102; capell' de Kemeston, 125 ; capeU' de Neutun, 126 ; Au- rifaber, 125; fils. Alani, 126; fils. Laurentu, 132; Prior of Castle acre, 120, 132 ; le port', 81, 132 ; senescaUus prioris, 1 25 Inland, Inlonde, Thomas de, 96 Inlande, Hamo de, 101, 102 Jordanus persona de Dunham, 130 Josceline, prepositus de WeUingham, 126 Yrvai, Wills de Rucham, 124 Yruer, Walterus filius de, 124 Ysyle, Henrie' de, 121 Ywyne, Ricard', 102 KaiUi, Adam de, 122, v. CaUey Kemestun, Baldwini de, 130 ; Eborar- dus de, 132 Chemestun. Roger de, 123 ; Wlnoth de, 120,123, 127 Camston, Radulf de, 118 354 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Kate or Kete, Aylmer ; Ingritha, uxor de, 124 Ket, AnketU de, 130 Kenet, Nicho de, 122 Kervile, Walter de, 125 Ketel, 83, 111, 118; clericus, 127; presbyter, 111 ; a prior's servant, 113 Ketellus decanus, 132 Barby, Thomas de, 101 KirtHng, WilHam de, 115 Knyvet, SU WUUam, 57 Lacy, John de, 34 Lambe, Henrie', 101 Lambert, Henrie', 101 Lambertus clericus, 77, 128, 133; de Wesenham, 127 ; fils. Christiani, 127 Lancaster, Thomas, Earl of, 35 ; John, Duke of, 35 ; Henry, Duke of, 35 Laneham, WiUus de, 130 Langeton, Walter de, Bp. of Chester, 81 Lawingham, Longham, Sewardus de, 129 Leche, Edmund de, 34 ; Richard de, 126, 129 Lechesham, Ricardus de, 129, 131 ; WUlus de, 132, 133 Lexham, Alan de, 123, 125; Johes de, 101, 102; Eobert de, 53; WiUus de, 55 ; WUlus fil. Eicardi de, 115, 123, 126 Leffemi fils. Willus de WenUnge, 133 Leffemus fils. WiUi de WenHng, 133 Lefwinus, 125 Lemeham, WiUs de, 131 Le Neve, Thomas, 80 Lenwise, Lenveise, Agnes, 70, 82 ; WUlus, 129, 130 Lerwine, presbyter, 126 Lescenni, WUlus fiHus de, WenUnge, 132 Leschenni, WUlus, fil., 132 Lesyeni, WiUus fils., 132 Lesewis, Thomas de, 128 Lestard, Robert, 133 Lestei fil. Lewini, 133 Lestheyn fil. Adelwaldi, 131 Le Strange, Alexander, 11 ; Johes, 2, 11, 12, 14, 112; Isabel, 14; Rod- lande, 111; Ronald, 112; Roger, 130 ; Dominus Roger' de Lang ham, 128 Lesyniaco (Lusignan), Guy de, 132 Lettune, Joh. fil. Ricardi de, 127; Walter fil. Eicardi de, 127 Leyburne, Thomas de, 91, 93 Lisewis, Lesewis, Godfrid'de, 114, 133; WiUsde, 114, 115, 133 Lole, Johes, fil. Eoberti de Dunham, 122 ; Alwoyse, mater ditto, 122 ; Eva, soror ditto, 123 Londes, Hamo de la, 100 Lovel, Aleanor, 73 ; Francis, Lord, 57 ; Henry, 73 ; Sir Thomas, 73 Luceio, Ricus de, 78, 122 LupeU, WUlus de, 76 Lusoniensis, WUls de, 128 Lusorius, Warnerus de, 78 MandevUle, Eicardus and MatUda de, 18 March, Adam, 2 ; Edward, Earl of, 84 Mareschal, Alina, or AUva de, 70, 77 ; AUcia de, 82; Ela de, 81 ; Hawise de, 73, 81; John de, 69,72,80, 81 ; Joh. fil. WUH, 71 ; Walter de, 121 ; WUlus fil. WUH, 81, 83 Marshall, John, 131 ; Robert, 126, 130 Margareta. vidua, 126 Marham, Alan fil. Walteri, 129 Mascherel, Ricard' de, 127 Massingham, Mag'r WUls de, 128 Mattheus, presbyter de GressenhaU, 112, 119; fils. Pagani de Wesen ham, 27 Maupas, WilHam, 93 Medlers, Willus de, 131 Michael, Camararius Prioris, 129 Molendino, Simon de, 127 MoUe, 124, 128; Ricard, 128; WiUus, 123 Montecute, Thom., E. of SaUsbury, 58 Montford, AUce de, 95 ; Hugh de, 62, 107, 128 ; John de, 62; Isabel de, 87 ; Ralf de, 87 ; Roger de, 87 ; Simon de, 87 ; Isabel, or Elizab., daur. of Simon, 87 Robert and Thurstun de, 95 Mundford, Robert, 54 Mundeford, Osbert de, 54, 58 Muntfort, Robert de, 127 Munteford, Hugh de, 46, 94, 95, 127 Morle, Morley, Robertus de, 82; Thomas de, 82 ; Isabel, Lady, 82 Mosse, Godfridus, 131 Munesle, James de, 2 Necton, John de, 133 ; Roger de, 127 Neketon, Johis de, 18, 100, 126, 127, 129; Rad. de, 123, 128; Ricardus de, 123, 126, 127, 128; Nigellus fil. WUH, 126, 127; WUlus fil. Radulfi, 123 Nerford, Lady Alice, 109 Neuman, Roger de, 129 Neuton, Fulcher de, 129; Mag'r, 133; Eichard de, 133 Neutun, Mag'r Fulk de, 128 ; Ord- mar' de, 129 NeviU, EaU de, 26 ; John de, 57 ; Bi card de, 9 1 Newburgh, Eobert de, 87 Nicolaus, presbyter, 112,119; pincerna, 123; fils. Johannis presbyter, 132 Nix, or Nykke, Bishop of Norwich, 48 Noiers, WilHam de, 7, 20 ; MUo de, 48 Norfolc, Gilbert de, 66; Avelina de, 123; Emma de, 66; Eobertus de, 60, 77 ; Simon de, 9, 123 Norman, 103 Norris, John, 58 Northale, Walter de, 80 Norton, Thomas de, 102 Norwald, Joh. de, 60 Norwico, Joh. de, 4 Odar, Odarus, 63, 64, 65, 66 Oddo, 118, 123; carpentarius, 128; sacerdos, 119 Odo, Bishop of Baieux, 87 Odo, dapifer, 78, 111, 119 Offington, L. de, 60 OHver, Mag'r, 119; priest of Acre, 88 n. ; Walter son of, 88 Olova, 83 Opetun, Mag'r Robert de, 124 Ordini, Fulk and Walter fiHi, 112 Osbertus clericus, 127 Osberti Fulco, 128 Osmond dispensator, 111, 118, 121 ; Eadulfus fiHus, 121 Osprig, senescallus comitis, 129 Overmore, Henrie', 100, 101 ; Eo bertus, 101 Oxewic, Johes de, 124, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133; Johes fiUus, 132; Ricardus de, 126, 132 Paganus, clericus, 128 ; mercator, 127 Pagani, Matheus fils., 127 Pagrave, Henrie' de, 123 ; Johes de, 133; Radulfus de, 126; Robertus de, 123 ; WiUus de, 9, 10 n. Palmer, Richard, chaplain, 56 Parker, Henry, 73 ; SU WiUiam, 73 Patcock, Joh. de Beston, 134 Patesle, Joh. de, 101 ; Hamo de, 100, 101, 102 Pauline, 113 Pavele, Ralph, 111 ; Radulf., 118 PaveUaco, WiUus de, 118 Payne, Robertus, 99 ; WUlus Nar burgh de, 124 PelevUe, Ricard' de, 127 ; Agneta fiHa, 138 ; Peter de, 127, 128 ; Robertus de, 128 ; WUlus de, 114, 121, 127-8 PUatvile, WiUus, 128 Pembroke, WUUam, Earl of, 70 Perci, Margaret de, 80 Peres, Robert de, 12; WiUus de, 125 Pescod, George, 117 Peter, Petrus, Everardi, 122 ; preposi tus, 132; fils. Walter MarescaUi, 131 ; Prior of Castleacre, 133, 135; fiHus Adelwaldi, 127 Peyntor, Joh., 34 PheHp, WilUam, 55, 56, 57, 58 ; Sir John, 50 ; WilHam and Joan, 57 ; Matilda and AHce, 58 ; EUzabeth, 56 PhUippus, albus, 129; white, 131 ; pres byter, 1 22 ; Prior of Castleacre, 133 Pincerna, Dom's Ricard's, 125; Ri- card's mUes, 125 Plays, Gyles de, 34 Plaiz, Jordan de, 121 ; Radulf s de, 121 Plumstede, WiU'm son of John, 11 ; WUl'm and Joan, 57 Pourchard, Geffry, 101 Poyning, Sir Michael, 54; WUliam and Agnes, 54 Poynton, Alexander de, 76 Puttok, John, 56 Quatuor marcis, Nicolaus de, 127; RaduHus de, 119; WUlus de, 127 RabeUus, 113, 120 NOMINAL INDEX TO PART L, SECTION I. 555 Rabode, Ricard's fiUus, 76 Radmelde, Joh. de, 101 Radulfus, 94, 107 ; de Aula, 131 ; Cas teUan of Arundel, 124 ; fiHus Cas- teUani de Arundel, 124 ; CeUarius, 128 ; Camerlengus, 121 ; capel- lanus, 76, 127, 128; clericus de Neketon, 127 ; de BeteviU, 76 ; de bosco, 127 ; de Crec, 134 ; de Roxto, 134; de Ulno, 128; fils. Baldwini, 99 ; fils. Alber, 76 ; fils. Ingelini, 127 ; fils. Ranulfi, 76 ; fils. Willi, 99; frater Radulfi, 128; prepositus, 132; Yinetarius, 119 Rainer, Reyner, Joh., 102 ; fil. WiUi de Acra, 126 Ralf, Earl, 42; son of Osmund, 112, 119 Raveningham, Thomas fil. Roberti de, 111 Bead, Roger, chaplain, 156 Refham, Ricard's de, 123, 133; WUlus fils. Ricard. de, 133 Reginald clericus, 129; de Hales, 124; de Fransham, et fiHi ejus, 128; fils. Elwoldi, 129; Ren' miles, 131 Reiner, 126; fils. WUH de Acra, 126; frater Johis fil. Roberti, 126 Ren', prepositus de Dunham, 130 Reyner, Johes de ColkUke, 102; Prior of Cokesford, 227; Ricard, Ri cardus, 59, 62, 64, 70 ; clericus, 119 ; de Lechesham, 130 ; capel- lanus, 119 ; cocus, 124 ; Chat, 131 ; le Chat, 129 ; fils. Alani, 60, 126 ; fils. GUberti, 130; magister, 113, 120, 128, 129 ; mag' fluer, 124 ; mUes, 131 ; porter, 128, 129, 131 ; le porter, 80 ; de portes, 129 ; janitor, 120, 123, 128; portarius, 128; Pincerne, 125, 131 ; sacerdos, 129 ; de Lawingham, 128 ; sen- escal', 125, 129, 131, 132; fiHus senescaP, 129, 130 ; filius Simonis, 119 ; fils. Radulfi de Neketon, 93 ; fils. Walter" de Acra, 131 ; fils. WUH persone, 132 ; de Frans ham, 129 Ricardi, Galfrid' s fils., 93 Rich', Magister, 128 Eye, Agnes de, 66, 77 ; AveUna, 79, 80; Eudo de, 65, 66 ; Isabella de, 70, 80; Henrie' de, 69, 76, 77, 80, 101, 112, 113, 119, 120; Hubert de, 65, 66, 67, 69, 74, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 89, 1 1 3, 1 20 ; Lecia de, 69 ; Walter, Esq., 67, 69 Ry, WUHam de, 2, 69 Robertus de Acra, 77 ; Prior of Castle acre, 129; de Hersham, 76; de Juvenis, 128 ; MariscaUus, 124, 130; porter, 128; de WendUng, 129 Rodbert, presbyter, 111, 118 Roger', archidiaconus, 121, 128 ; capel- lanus, 120, 121, 129 ; Camburr', 128; Gamburc, 131s; clericus, 130 ; de Beston, 126, 130; dapUer, 111. 118, 119, 125; frater domini, 113, 120; fils. Alani, 126; de Beston, 126 ; Birun, 123 ; de hoton, 127 ; de la haie, 129; de Hre, 127; Faber, 125; de Port, 127; fils. GUberti, 122 ; fil. Hawisie, 133; fil. Stephani vicarii de Neketun, 131 ; fil. Thoroldi, 124; fil YinnH, 118; fil. WUlelmi, 113, 125; fil. Willi persone, 132 ; fil. WUH Gurwant, 129 ; fil. Wimer' dapiferi, 113, 114, 118, 120; fil. Mathei, 127; fil. Stephani, 131; fil. Normanni, 127; Magister, 123; Prior of Peterston, 132 ; Richeus, 124 Rokele, Rokeley (de Rupella) SU Richard de, 96, 97, 100; Ricardi fiHus, 101 ; CeciUa, 96, 100 ; Mar garet de, 101 ; MatUda de, 96, 97, 101 ; Ralph de, 96, 97, 100, 101 ; Sir WiUiam, 156 Rosceline fils. Osberti, 76 Ros^tini, Robert' fils., 124 Rose, Johes, 122 ; de Sparlei, 122 Roseto, RaduUus de, 124 ; Wankelyn de, 110 Rothyng, Ralph, 105 Rous, Rus, Rufus, Alanus, 52, 53, 54, 58, 99, 126; GUbert', 128; Hen- ric's, 112, 119; Ricardus le, 101, 124, 126, 132 ; Eicardus mUes, 126 ; Ricardus nepos Extranei, 132 ; TurcMllus, 123; Turstan, 128; WiUus de, 40 Rucham (Rugham, Rougham), Alex ander de, 124, 126, 128; Humber- tus de, 119; Ismana mater, 125; Eicardus de, 126 ; Eicard's fils. Alexand. de, 125 ; Eoger de, 125, 127 ; Vincentius fils. Alexand. de 125 ; WUlus fils. Walter de, 124 Rudham, Henrie' de, 77 RumelHs, Ricard' de, 127 RupeUa de, vel Rokele Rutland, Edmund, Earl of, 105 Ryburg, Reyner de, 131 SackvUl, SankvUl, Jordan, 60 n. ; Ricardus de, 69 Saham, WUlusfils. Radulfi, 60; Robert' de, 127 SaUe, BotUde de, 127; Galfridus de, 127; Hervey de Wesenham, 113, 120 ; Robert' de, 127 ; Roise de, 127; WUlus de, 111, 118 Salmon, John, Bishop, 44 Sancto Claro, GUbert de, 111, 118; Ricard's de, 32, 118 Sanwall, 124 Sapy, WUlus de, 93 Savoy (Sabandia), Peter de, 23, 24 Saxe, Peter de Castleacre, 123 Say, Hugh de, 190 Sea. Envina, WUlus de, 122 St° Dionisio (St. Denys), Ricardus de, 96, 119, 126 , Rogerus de, 46, 126 St. German, Ricard' de, 129 St. John, GUbert de, 118; Henrie' de, 73 St. Paul, Mary Countess of Pembroke, 25 St. Thomas, Robert de, 132 Scales, Roger de, 127, 128 ; Robert de, 66 Scaliers, Henricus de, 76 SchaumpenseB, Willus de, 105 Seeming, Skernynge, Skerning, Bald win de, 131 ; Nichus de, 13 ; WilHam de, 134 Scherwode, Johes de, 101 SchUdhous, Galfridus de, 101 Scohies, Willus de, 65 Scroggs, Francis, 73 Scrope, Sir Richard, 57 Scultorp, Walter de, 113, 120 ScutamUne, Walter, 129 Secceford, Henrie' de, 129 Segrave. Henrie' de, 82 Semod, 131; Reginald fils. , 131 Sewar', 111; Seward, 123 ; de Lawing ham, 129; Mora, 100 Sharrington, WUlus de, 102 Sibba, Bishop, 44 Sigon, Tygar, WiUus, 100. 101 Simeon, Bishop of Norwich, 128 Sunon, capeUanus, 133; fils. Simonis, 129 ; magister, 128 ; a prior's ser vant, 113, 120 ; presbyter de Gatele, 133 ; MarescaU, 113, 120 ; de molendinis, 127 Sittmede, Henrie' de, 101 Skerndale, Thomas de, 101 Skerndene, Thomas de, 101 Smyth, James, Esq., 3 Snitterton, Hugh de, 72, 82 Spencer, Bishop Thomas de, 45 Spikeworth, Petrus de, 37 Stafford, Joan, 57 ; Alanu de, 126 Stanhowe, Henricus de, 128 Stanmore, Robert de, 4 Stapleton, SU Brian de, 58 ; Thomas, Esq. , 58 ; Lord Beaumont, 58 Stigand, Archbp., 2, 4, 7, 20, 43, 44, 83 Stradsete, Alexander de, 2 ; Dom's Osbert de, 128, 130 Strange, IsabeUa, 13; vide Le Strange ; Radulf de, 130 ; Rogerus le, 124 ; de, 130 ; Rogerus de Longham, 128 StutvUle, StutevUe, Osmund de, 112, 113, 120, 121 ; Roger de, 121 ; Robert de, 115, 121 ; WUlus de, 113, 120; Ysabelde, 113 Suthacre, Alexander de, 128, 129 ; AHce de, 130 ; AHnus de, 123, 126, 130 ; Edric de, 125 ; Thomas de, 123, 126 Swafham, Galfridus de, 126, 128, 129, 131, 133 Swanton, Thomas de, fil. Adami, 69 Swifte, 112, 119 Talbot, WiUielmus, 119 TancardisviU, Willus de, 74, 75 TankarvUe, WUlus de, 95 Tattersale,TattersaU, Robert de, 23, 24, 172; of Buckenham, 171 Taverner, Richard de, 80 Testard, Robertus, 77 Theodred, Bishop, 41, 46 Thickferth, Bishop, 104 356 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Thiel, Hamo, 104 Thoke de WendUnge, 133 Thomas, Abbat de North Creyk, 133; Adebur, 132; Albus, 125; Arch- diaconus, 124 ; Blundus, 125 ; in Angulo, 101 ; fils. Agnetis, 125 ; fils. Baldwini, 82, 132 Thoresby,Thornekm, Philipp's, 100, 101 Thorney, Johes de, 4 Thorpe, Sir Edmund, 98 Thorpelond, Ricard's de, 102 Thouars, Guy, Viscount, 123 Threkel, Edmund, 2 Tilney, Peter de, 124 Toftes, Willm. fils. Warini de, 132 Toke, 10, 32; Toche, 127 Tonv, Thony, Todeni, Agnes de, 75, 77; IsabeUa de, 87, 91, 127; RaduU de, 86, 87, 122, 127; Robertus de, 66, 77, 78, 89 ; Roger de, 2, 86,88, 114, 121,127 Toeneio, A., mater de Eoger, 127; EaduU' de, 122, 127; Eoger de, 122, 127 Torondi, Eogerus fils. , 1 24 Tresgoz, Robert de, 76 Trusebut, WUUam, 130 Truyt, William, 102 Turcheld, 49, 50 Turchild, Galfrid' filius, 124, 125 Thurkilli, Ailcne fiHa, 125 Turmit, Ralf, 103, 104 Turnecourt, Henry, 81 Turstan, IU; Cocus, 118; de Acra, 123; John, 132 Tostan, 118 Tusard, Avice, 126 ; BotUde, 126 ; Emma, 126; Isabella, 126; Gerard, 126; Radulfus, 126; Eobertus, 126, 127, 132 ; Walter', 126, 131 Ty, SU Peter de, 98 Tye, Johes, 105 Tym, WiUus de Dunham, 132 Ubbe, MatUda uxor, 123 Ulfchetellus Mercator, 126 UUketel cronai, 127 Ulmer, presbyter, 127 Ulmo, Eadulfus de, 127 Upgate, Eadulfus fil. Stephani de, 127 Utlage, Warinus de, 81 Valentia, Agnes de, 24 Vallin, Willus de, 76 Valoins, Valoniis, Agnes de, 109 ; Al- buda de, 109 ; Eudo et Roheysia de, 109 ; Galfridus, Johes, et PhiHp de, 109; -Gunnora le, 108, 109; Hamo de, 109 ; Peter de, 95, 108, 109; Robert de, 108, 109; Roger de, 108, 109 ; Theobald de, 109 Ver, Robert de, 127 ; Constabula rius, 128; A. uxor, 128; Hubert de, 75 ; WUlus de, 75, 134 Vere, Johes de, 57 ; Henrie' de, 75 Verdon, MatUda de, 8 Verlay, Johes de, 34; Robert de, 111, 112, 115, 119 Vincentius fils. Aluredi, 125 Waburn, Thomas de, 127 Wace, senescaUus, 119; Ricardus fils., 68 Wafre, Alec or Simon le, 102 Waleranus, canonicus, 119 WalgheHnus, archidiaconus, 121 Walpol, Alan de, 132 Walter, baroun, 93 ; capeUanus, 123 ; clericus, 129; fils. Hamoni, 125, 126, 128, 130; fils. Hamonis de Acra, 126, 129 ; fil. Hun', 128; fil. Ordini, 119; fil. Warini, 112, 113, 118, 119 ; frater Rogeri, HI ; Hallen, 123 ; magister, 127 ; Mar- escallus, 128, 129, 131, 133 ; pater, 124; port', 129: presbyter, 128; Prior of Canterbury, 78 ; senes caUus de Gressenhall, 128 ; Vincu- la, 128 Waltheof, Earl of Huntingdon and Northumberland, 89 Wals (Vaux), Robert de, 133 Wanei, Hugh de, 110, HI, 118 ; WUHam, 125, 131, 132 Warde, John, 102 Ware, Thomas de, 82 Warehinga, Turstan de, 77 Warren, Beatrice de, 52 ; Isabel de, 52, 67; John de, 116 ; Radulf de, 121 ; Reginald de, 52, 77, 79, 114, 126; Thomas de, 82; WilHelm's de, 9, 50, 52, 61, 67, 110, 121, 127 ; second Earl of, 110, 121 ; third Earl, 121, 123 Warwick, Edward Earl of, 34 Waterhowse, Arthur, 73 WatUngton, John de, 52 ; Robert de, 14, 52. 53, 58, 129 Wenling (Wendling), Elfer de, 130 ; Henricus de, 133 ; Henrie' fil. Botilde de, 131 ; Leffemus fils. Willi de, 133; Lestius fils. Lewini de, 133; Ricardus fils. WiUi de. 129; Robertus de, 129; WiU'mus de, 131, 133; WiUus fils. leschenn' de, 132 Wesenham, Alan de, 112, 113, 119; Adam de, 133; Fulcher de, 129; Mag'r Gerard de, 131 ; Matheus fil. Alan de, 113, 120; Matheus fils. Pagani de, 127; Torp, Johes fil. Lamberti de, 127 ; Lambertus fils. Turstan de, 127 ; Ricardus fil. WUH de, 126; Robert de, 131 ; Roger de, 14, 126, 127 ; Dominus Roger, 127 ; Thomas de, 13 ; WUlus fils. Alani de, 113, 120 Westacre, Eudo senescaUus de, 129 ; Stephen fils. WUU de, 129 WeBton, Willus de, 101; Thomas de, 14 Wibertus de Acra, 111 Wibui-vill, Radulfus le, 121 WUliam (WilHelmus), archidiaconus, 121; de Acra, 123; B., 131; de Beston, 124; Barbit, 133; Brocher, 131 ; Brochard, 133 ; Bret, 126, 129 ; Britt', 120 ; Bus- cage, 129 ; capeUanus de Acra, 128 ; capeUanus de GressenhaU, 113 ; clericus, 128 ; cnict, 133 ; Cocus, 1 28 ; dapifer, 128; — mona chorum, 127; Delbant, 125; FU- god, 130 ; filius Aluredi, 75 ; fil. Alani, 125, 126; fil. Arnaldi, 128; fil. Agnetis, 131 ; fil. Emme de Acra, 125; fil. God', 132; son of Geoffry, 2 ; fil. Galfrid' ; fil. Godfridi, 132; fil. Gurwant, 123 ; fil. GUberti, 121; fil. Heroldi, 131 ; fil. Johannis presbyter', 132 ; fil. Johis quond' presbr de Kem- stune, ; fil. Radulfi, 99 ; fil. Radulfi de Est Bradenham, 93 ; fil. Eoberti, 123; fil. Rogeri, 113, 114; fil. RosceHni, 76; fil. Sewardi, 129 ; fil. Walteri, 112, 119 ; father of Roger, 119 ; frater Rogeri, 112, 119 ; Bishop of Norwich, 42, 114 ; Marescal', 125 ; Magister, 112, 119; de Gayton, 112, 119; de Medlers, 131; Pintus, 128; pres byter, 119, 120, 123, 126; presby ter de Gressenhall, 124; presbyter de Watlington, 130 ; port', 127; de Lucham, 125; sen. de Wesenham, 128; de Insula Justic', 127 ; Tym, 123 ; de Dunham, 132 ; Wodecok, 128, 129 Wigenhale, Wygenhale, Adam de, 131 ; WUlus de, 91, 93 Wimarsh, 123 Winebotesham, Walter de, 126 Winkfeld, Thomas de, 37 Winn, Mag'r Nicholas, 75 Wirmegaie, WiUus de, 52, 58 Wirmele, Juliana fil. WUH de, 124; Walter fils. WiUi de, 124; WiUus fils. Ricardi de, 124 Wlstamis dapifer, 132 Wodecock, Wodekoc, WUlus, 128, 129 Wodward, Radulfus, 133 Wygrave, Henrie' de, 83 Yelverton, John, 26, 34 ; Henry, 35 Yeynecolt, Walter, 128, v. G York, PhUippa, Duchess of, 105 NOMINAL INDEX TO PAET I., SECTION II. Abernon, GUbert de, 238 Acra, Alexander, 150 Acres, Thomas, elder and younger, 263, 272 Adam fils. Petri, 201 Aggas, Johes, 197, 218, 219, 245 Agillon, AguUon, Ricus, 170 ; Sir Robert, 230 Agnes fil. Maur', 205 Alan dapifer, 128 Albini, Hugh de, Earl of Arundel, 141 Alexander fil. Johis, 345 ; Magister, 162; Monachus, 355; fil. Sunon, 204 Aleyn, Johes, 289 AHard, Alyard, Henr', 256 ; JuUana, 256, 257 ; Thomas, 256, 257 AHce, dau1 of Martin, 223 Aliva, 196 Alkine, Francis, 267, 268 Allen, Christopher, 221 Allington, SU Robert, 301 Aluina, 223 Aluric, 173 Anahouse, Robtus de. 335 Andrewe, Thomas, 296; WUUam, 217 Andrews, Richard, 329 Anguish, Edmund, 323 Antingham, WUlus, 270 Ardenne, Johes de, 247 ArgweU, Johes de, 205 Arketel, Godfr', fils., 335 Arnold, Agatha, Thomas, 238 Arsic, Arsyk, Sir Alexander de, 153 ; AHce de, 153, 158, 159, 161, 162; Eudo, 300 ; de, 153, 158, 159, 161, 162 ; Sir, 158, 163, 233 ; Joan de, 158 ; John de, 342 ; Roger de, 158, 159 Ascelyn, Henr', 205 Aschele, Willus de, 177 Aslak, John, 236 ; William cler, 235 AstU, GosceUn, fil. Robti, 205; John, 205 Astley, Thomas, 209 Athol, David, Earl of, 325, 326 Attebek, Simon, 202 Atte Brende, Ricus, 206 Atte breg, brig, Letitia, 205 ; Thomas, 281, 289, 294, 297 Atte Chirch, Church, Ad ecclesiam, Henry, 202, 222 ; Johes 202, 222 ; Nich", 202; Johes fils., 222; Ricus, 202 ; Thomas fil. Johis, 202 ; Wil lus, 193, 197, 221 ; fil. Johis, 202; fil. Radi, 201, 202 Atte Crosse, Thomas, 290, 297 Atte Damesend, John, 280, 281, 282, 289, 290, 293, 297 Atte doune, John, 171, 241, 243 Atte Essch. Thomas, 297 Atte fere, Emma, 205 Atte gate, Ricus, 202, 244 Atte Gatesende, Stephen, 203 ; Willus, 203 Atte grene, John, 171, 203, 241, 290, 293, 345; Ricus, 150, 151, 244 Atte Gyrn, Barthol", 286; Edmund, 287 ; Johes, 293 ; Robert", 287, 293 Atte Heth, Johes, 204 ; Thomas, 294 Atte HU, Emma, 290 ; WiUus, 205 Attehow, Athow, At howe, Johes, 178, 263, 296; Thomas, 175, 176, 177, 296 Atte Lathe, Lethe, Thomas, 242, 329 Atte lyng. Warin, 279 Atte Mere, WUlus, 204 Atte Park, Johes, 292, 293, 294 Atte shoppe, Roger', 206 Atte Strete, WUlus, fil. Radi, 202; sen' and junr, 207 Atte Style, Robtus, 294 Atte Woderowe, Galfr', 203; Henr', 203 ; Johes, 203 Audley, Alice, 161 Aula, OUva de, 170 Austen, Awsten, Hugh, 282, 291, 296 Avenaunt, Petrus, 206 Awte, Awty, Roger', 255, 256, 258 Aylmer, Henr', 204 Baas, Robtus, 287 Babingley, Johes de, 243 Bache, Batche, BasiUa, 205 ; WUlus, 284 Backe, Ricus, 206 Bacon, SU Nicholas, 252 Baddenowe, Robtus, 258 Bagg, Edmund, RaU, 271 Bagthorpe, Isabella de, 149, 151, 152, 153, 193, 224, 226, 227; Ralf de, 149, 151, 152, 153, 224, 226, 227 Baldewyn, Alexander, 309 ; Avice, 309 Bale, Robert, 295 ; WUlus de, 150 Ballard, Thomas, 258 BaUe, Walter8. 206 BaUiol, Richard, 342 Bamburgh, Beatrix, 237 Banham, Ralf de, 233 Banyard, Fulk, 246; Johes, 255 ; Kate rina, 255 ; Ricus, 312 BardoU, HameHne, 196; Hugh de, 302; Robert, 196; William, 196, 303; Lord, 299 ; SU, 224 Barker, Henr', 175; Johes, 294; Ni cholas, 254, 274 ; Robert, 175 ; Thomas, 292 ; Walter, 254 Barly, John, 282, 288, 289, 291, 296 Barr, Joan de, 246 Barret, Baret, Francis, 266 ; Johes, 256, 258, 259, 273 ; Simon, 209 Barsham, Geffry de, 280, 290 ; Robtus, 263, 272 ; Thomas, 271, 272 ; William, 266 Bartholomew, John de, 302 n. Base, Ricus cler, 211 Bate, Johes, 290, 294 BauldsweU, Roger de, 218 Bavent or Bavens, Rieus de, 201, 306 Baxstere, Johes le, 202, 227; Mary, 278 ; Thomas, 295 Baynard, Ricus de Burnham, 202 Beaufoe, Ralf de, 321, 323 Beaupre, Edward, 212 ; Johes fil. GU berti, 342; Nicholas, 154; Rich ard, 149 Bechamp, Beauchamp, Sir Roger, 169 Beckham, Bekham, John, 194, 212, 259 Bedingfeld, Alexander, 185; Sir Hen ry, 184 ; Nicholas, 263 ; Thomas, 185 Bedingham, Ralf, 171, 241, 243, 244 Bedon, Henr', 254 Beene, Ricus. 297 BekesweU, Hermerus de, 334 ; Peter de, 334 ; SibU da, 334 Beleward, Johes, 203 Belhous, Emma de, 330 ; Ricus de, 202; SU, 306, 323, 330 BeUomonte or Beaumont, AUanora de, 322; Alice de, 322; Cicely de, 322; Godfr' de, 322, 323; Joan de, 322, 323 ; SU John de, 322 ; Richard de, 322 ; WUHam de, 322 Belte, Radus, 204 Beltere, Roger", 204 Benedict, son of WilHam priest of Fransham, 232 Benton, Christ', 261 Bercar', Robtus, 204 Berdewell, Robert, 323 Bereffet, Petrus, 203 Berisfot, Baldwyn, 258; Hamo, 253, 273; Johes, 253 ; Roger', 253 Bernak, Robtus fil. WiUi de, 173 Bernard, Barnard, Henr', 295 ; Johes, 2 z 358 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. 209, 288, 291, 295, 296, 297; Rob tus, 291, 295 ; WilUam, 295 Berney, EHzabeth, 301 ; Joan, 301 ; Johes, 301 ; de, 292 ; Margaret, 187; SU Richard, Bart., 180, 181 Besand, Jacob8, 261 Beston, John de, 230 Betts, Lawrence, 177 ; Simon, 282, 291; Thomas, 219 Beverley, Robtus, 218, 219 Bezant, James, 271 Bicham, WUlus fil. Walteri de, 233 Bidewell, Edus, 288 Bidun, Ermingard Johes de, 238 Bigot, Earl Hugh, 322; Roger IV., 248 seq. Bildewis, Jeffry de, 306 ; Simon de, 201 Bintre, Bynetree, Radus, 202 ; Eoger' de, 335 Bitering, Alan de, 253, 273, 274 ; Galfr' de, 201 ; Jeffry de, 306 ; Johes de, 197, 219, 245 ; Thomas de, 158 Blacwyn, Mich", 293 Blakefeu; Thomas de, 202 Blakeneye. Agnes, 255 ; WUlus, 254, 255, 258 Blakeson, Thomas de, 151 Blaneminster, Thomas de, 140 BHckUnge, Johes de, 207 Blonorton. Nicholas de, 320 Blounde, Edmund, EUzabeth le, 152 Blundell, James, OUve, 236 Booking, Boking, Cecilia de, 225, 226 ; Joan, 226 ; John, 197, 219, 226; Katherine, 219, 220, 226; Margaret, 225; Nicholas de, 197, 219, 225, 226 ; Ricus, 219 ; de, 177, 220, 226 ; Thomas, 152, 153 Bodham, Barthol", 336 Body, John, 219 Bodyn, Nichol', 255 Bohun, WiUiam de, Earl of North ampton, 240 Bokenham, als Snitterton, AHce de, 321 ; Edmund, 209 ; Henry 182 ; Hugh de, 321 ; als Snitterton, 182, 321 ; Math', 256, 257 ; Walter, 225 ; WiUus, 255, 257, 258, 259 Boleyn, SU Geoffrey, 325 ; Thomas, 211 Boluwer, WiUus, 228, 230 Bonde, Greg', 293; Johes, 255 Boret, WiUus, 292 Boteler, Buteler, Butler, Clement le, 243 ; Hugh le, 242 ; John, 273 ; le, 243 ; RaU de, 343 n. ; SU Richard, 242 ; WiUus le, 164, 165, 171, 240, 241, 242, 323 Buttilere, Joan la, 242 Botesur, Johes, 175 Botore, Bottour, Simon, 256, 257, 258 ; WUlus, 259 Bozoun, Bozom, Bosome, Adam, 278 ; Alexander, 273 ; Alice, 265 ; Ann, 263, 264, 265, 278 ; Constance, 265 ; Eleanor, 252, 277 ; Elizabeth, 252 ; Frances, 252, 266, 267 ; Hamon, 252, 253, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 274, 275 ; Hanna, 278 ; Herbert or Hubert, 250, 274; Joan, 251; John, 251, 252, 253, 256, 258, 259, 260, 261, 269, 274, 277, 278; Katherine, 277; Law rence, 253 ; Maud, 330 ; Peter, 174, 248 seq., 250, 251, 274, 337; Sir, 251, 253, 333 ; Richard, 177, 255, 274 ; fils. WUU, 253 ; Robert, 252, 261, 262J_2£3_264, 272, 274, 27§, 284 ;, Roger, 251, 252, 262, 2637-26*7 265, 272, 274, 275, 277, 284 ; Thomas, 252, 253, 265, 266, 267, 268, 274; WiUus, 251, 253, 255, 265^26^274, 330; fils. Johis, 253 ; /priest, 23^ Boys, SU Robert, 16&- -"-""^ Boyton, Thomas, 214; WUlus, 213 217 Bradenham, Johes de, 293 ; Ricus de, 201 Bradenis, Symone de, 201 Bradfield, AUce de, 322 ; Jervase de, 322 Bradhow, Ricus, 312 Bradlee, John, 177 Braie, John, 185 Brame, Thomas, 288 Brampton, Bramton, Edward, 262 ; John, 236 ; Robert, 291, 292, 296; Thomas, 282, 291 Branch, Johes, 256, 257 Brasyer, Richard, 282, 291, 296 Braybrook, Robert, Bp. of London, 156 Brayell, Johes, 265 ; Margaret, 265 ; Ricus, 265 Breton, Cecilia, Isabel de, 156 ; Johes, 156, 164, 165; Mary, 156; WUlus de Kerdeston, 156 Bretton, WiUus, 272 ; de 329 Brewer, Nich" de la, Warin de la, 279, 285 Brews, Brewse, Catherine de, 168 ; Thomas, 296 Brice, Isabel, James, 152 Brigg, Edmund, 253, 266, 268 Briggs, Johes, 218 Brisele, Elyas de, 337; Henr' de, 197, 203, 318, 337; Reginald de, 286; Thomas fils. de, 286 Britannia, John de, 172 n. Brochard, Katherine, 219; Richard de, 219; Willus, 317, 318; de, 151, 202 Brodmers, Sunon de, 286 ; Robtus de, 286 Brodoke, RaU, Castellan of Mileham, 169 Brome, Brom, Ann, 236 ; Augustine de, 285, 286 ; Elias de, 285 ; Henry, James, John, 236 ; Margaret, Mary, Oliva, 236; Richard de, 236; Robert', 205, 236; Thomas de, 336 Bromefield, WiUiam, 270 Bron, Thomas, 294 Broun, Broune, Ann, 236 ; Geoffry, Rector of Dunham Magna, 161 ; John, Mary, OUve, 236 ; Richard, 236; Robert, 209, 236; Thomas, 297, 332 Brown, Browne, Ann, 213; Anthony, 266; Sir, 194, 212, 214; C. R., Esq., 193 ; Francis, 194, 212 ; John, 272; Nicholas, 262, 263, 264, 267; Robert, 220; Thomas, 221, 266, 296; Dr., 266; WUUam, 195, 213, 214, 267, 268 ; cler., 223 Brumger, Adam, 205 Brun, Brunne, Adam, 205 ; Maud, 326 ; WiUus de, 326 ; le, 140 Brunston, Greg', 292; John, 295 Brusyerd, Agnes, 302 ; Geoffrey, 302 Bryghtmer, Petrus, 288 Brysingham, Fulk, WUlus, de, 243, 244 Buck, Dennis, 266, 267 ; Robert, 278 Buerts, Hamon, 286 Bukeman, GaUena, 204 Bukenham, Johes, 209 BuUock, John, 270 Bulman, Johes, 288, 289, 291 Bulwere, Emma, 293 ; Henr', 293, 294 ; Rodland, 293 Bumpstede, Johes, 209 Burd, Burt, Buhurd, Brut, Hamo, 173; Sir, 174, 175,337,350; Orabel, wife of SU, 174; Ealf, 174; Thomas, 168, 173 ; SU, 174, 175, 333, 337 Burel, Johes de Hoo, 201 ; Margareta fil. Johis, 201 ; Robtus, 243, 244 ; WiUus, 303 Bures, WUliam de, 139, 152, 153 Burgeis, Burgeys, Johes, 259 ; Thomas, 218 Burgh, Hubert de, 153 ; Ralf, son of Roger de, 153 Burghwode, Burwode, AUanora de, 170 ; Ricus de, 164, 165, 169, 170; Robert de, 170 ; WUUam de, 150 BurneU, Johes, 295 Burnham, Bernham, Brunham, Bar thol', 254 ; Emma de, 140, 141 ; Johes de, 286; PhiHp, 140, 141; Willus, 287 Burton, Thomas, 306 But, Peter, Thomas, WiUiam, 280 BylHngford, Adam, 259; de, 273; Jacob', 254, 269 Bylmyn, John, 176, 254, 255, 256; Thomas, 254, 255, 257, 258, 259 Bynnham, Johes de, 293 Bynyng, Thomas, 256 Cabothe, Johes, 257 Cadomo, Robtus fil. Walteri de, 165; Sibil de, 165 Cady, Henr', 206 CailH, CaiUy, CaU, CaylU, Sir Osbert de, 153, 172, 306 ; Ralf, 326 ; Thomas de, 172 ; WUHam, 280, 290 Caineto, Cheney, Johes de, 195, 223; Ralf de, 165 Calstock, John, 161 Calthorpe, Charles, 268; Christopher, 268, 269; James, 268, 269; Ka therine, 161, 253, 267, 268, 269; Lestrange, 266, 268, 269 ; Sir PhiUp de, 211 ; Reynolds, 269 ; WUlus, 287 NOMINAL INDEX TO PART I., SECTION II. 359 Calwer, Thomas, 209 Calybutt, WilHam, 271 Cambrigge, Caumbrigge, Agnes, 296; Anney or Amey, 296 ; Thomas, 288, 289, 291, 296 Camme, WiUiam, 283, 288 Camoys, John, 193, 223 ; de, 238, 239, 244 ; Margaret, 192, 219, 238, 241 ; Ralph de, 192, 208, 329, 330 Candeler, WUlus, 255 Canis, Hervey, 160 CanvUla, Gerard de, 342 Capel, Ann, 170; Emma,. 337; Sir Giles, 329 ; Sir Henry, 170 ; Johes, 337 ; Thomas, 337 ; SU WUliam 164, 170, 229, 230 Capervill, Capravilla, Fraer de, 350 ; SU Frederick de, 153 ; Robtus de, 335 ChifrevUl, Robtus de, 298 Capman, John, 177 Cappes, Robtus, jun., 218 Carleton, George, 214 n. Carpenter, Jacob', 253 CasteU, CasteUo, Castle. ChasteU, Ad- lard, 184 ; Agnes, 184 ; Augustine, 181, 186; CecUia, 174, 180; Cris- tian, 182 ; Elizabeth, 181, 185, 186; Etheldreda, 180, 187 ; Frances, 185, 186 ; Gregory, 167, 180, 184, 185; de, 172; Hugh de, 180; John, 181, 185, 186; Katherine, 185 ; Leonard, 181, 184 ; Marga ret de, 167, 182; Mary, 186; Maud de, 182; Nicholas de, 173, 174, 180, 181, 182, 185, 186, 197, 218, 228, 250 ; son of SU Gregory de, 321 n. ; fil. Walteri de, 182; Ralf, 181, 185; Roger, 181, 182, 184, 185, 186, 266, 275 ; Talmach, 181, 185, 275; Walter, 182 Castelyn, John, 320 Caston, Joan de, 342 ; Robert de, 342 ; WUliam, 342 Cat or Cattes, Clement, 274 ; Henry, 323, 341, 342; Margery, 341; WiUiam, 320, 323 Cateston, Sir Robert de, 306 CatHne, Edward, 268; Richard, 217; Thomas, 217, 267, 269 Cautel, Johes, 297 ; Thomas, Wini fred, 301 Cawse, Thomas, Winifred, 301 Chamberlain, Chaumberlayne, Drogo, 350 ; Joan, 240 ; John, 350 ; Kate rine, 296 ; Leonard, 329 ; Richard, 240, 296; Robert, 296; Roger, 296 Chapman, Joh', als. Bradman chap lain, 221 ; Richard, 309, 313 Charles, Edward, 281 Chartres, Duns, 205 Chaumpeneys, Johes, 270 ; WiUus fil. de, 272 Cheep, John, 203 Cheney, Alexander de, 251 ; John de, 165; Margaret de, 224; WiUiam de, 165, 224, 324 Chetering, Chiteryng, Johes, 254, 255, 256, 258, 259, 295 ; WUlus, 255, 256, 258 Chetyng, Willus, 176 Chevere, Chevre. or de Capra, Cathe rine, 338; Hamo, 285, 338, 344; Isabel de, 339 ; Mariora, 338, 344 ; Michael, 338, 341, 344; Robert, 338 ChUderhouse, GosceHn' atte, 337 Chirch, WUliam atte, 193 Chirchyard, Cymiterio, Eicus de, 227, 345 ; Willus de, 345 Claver, John, 280 ; Katherine de, 149, 150 ; Sir WUliam, 149 Clavering, Sir Alexander de, 165 ; Joan dp, 165 ; John de, 165 ; Katherine de, 148 ; Sir WUHam, 149 Clement, Alice, 270, 271 ; Edward, 257, 258, 259, 260, 271 ; Thomas, 270 ; WiUiam, 253, 260, 261, 270, 271, 272 Clere, SU Edward, 214 n. ; Eichard de, 242; Robert, 280, 282, 291, 296 Clerk, Johes, 255, 273 ; Peter le, 253 ; Robtus, 273 ; Willus. 290, 294 CUfton, Sir Adam de, 172, 173, 180; Constance, 235 ; Henr', 260 ; John de, 235; Sir, 173. 181 Clittere, Thomas de, 207 Cloy, Thomas, 156 Cobb, Willus, 256, 257 Codlyng, Simon, 290, 291, 295, 296 Coke. Edward, 272 ; Lawrence, 273 ; Robert, 170, 220; Thomas, 266; Winifred, 278 Cole, Henry, 293 ; Johes, 289 Coleburne, Henry de, 280 ; Margery, 280 Coleby, Adam. 272 Colechurch, WiUus de, 297 Colles, John, 263 Colman, Johes, 255, 258 Colney, Johes, 273 Colyer, John. 347 Company, Cumpany, Ricus, 274 ; Thomas, 254 Constantine. Thomas, 291, 292 Conyers, Johes, 291 Conyngesby, AmphilUs, 301 ; Hum phrey, 301 ; WiUus, 225 Cook, Thomas, 254 ; WUlus, 297 Cooper, Richard, 219 Copledyk, SU John, 348; WUHam, 348 n. Corbyn. Ricus, 207 Corpe, Radus, 206 Cosyn, Simon, 282, 291 Cotes, Simon de, 142, 152 Coutone, Robtus de, 227 Crabb, Robtus, 256 ; WUlus, 256 Crachemale, Adam, 205 Crane, Johes, 253 ; WiUus, 176 Cressi, Cressy, Berenger de, 152 n., 190, 341 ; Hugh de, 165, 224, 324; Isabel de, 324 ; Margery de, 166 ; Roger de, 324 ; Stephen, 324 Cressingham, Alice, 243 ; Amina de, 243 ; Clement de, 243 ; Fulk, 244, 318; John de, 243 _; Lawrence de, 243; Thomas WiUiam de, 244, 318 2 z 2 Crips, Henr', 205 Croft, Alan de, 273 ; Thomas de, 272 ; Willus de, 253 Cromwell, Edward, Lord, 185 ; Grego ry, Lord, 212; Henry, Lord, 181, 182, 185, 215, 285 ; RaU de, 343 ; Thomas, 181 Crostweyk, Margaret, WiUus, 149 Crow, Christopher, 265 ; sen. and jun., 221 ; Thomas, 278 Crowen, Walter, 202 Crowmer, Eobtus, 288 Crudde or Curde, John, 237, 300; Nicholas, 235 Crafts, WUlus de, 253 Curcun, Eobert de, 304, 308 Cumyn, Joan, John, 325 Cunn' fil. Alani, 175 Cupere, Eoger' le, Walter le, 206 Curson, Henry, 278 ; John, 291 ; Sir, 155; Mary, 155; Eobtus, 260,261, 270 ; Thomas, 185, 221, 255, 260, 289, 292 Dabney, Dawbeney, Christopher, 214 n. ; Johes, 210 ; Margaret, 286 ; Eeginald, 279, 286; Eoger, 279, 285, 286, 293 ; Eobtus, 337 Dagworth, Sir John, SU Nicholas, 323 Dallington, Peter de, 207 Dally, Eicus, 204 ; Eobtus, 205 Dalnia, Eadulf, 206 Danemark, Walter,' 202 ; William, 219 Daukyn! CecUia, 286 ; Joan, 279, 280 ; fil. Johis, 293 ; John, 279, 280, 289, 290, 294 ; son of Henry, 279, 286 ; Katherine, 279, 280 ; fil. Johis, 293; Matilda, 279, 280 ; fil. Johis, 293 Danyel fils. Lawrencii, 255 Darcy, Eobert, Thomas, dom's, 211 Dase, Henr', 207 Daunce, Johes, 293 Davy, Eichard, 185 ; Eobert, 221, 270 Day, Eobtus, 290 Deck, Eichard, 348 ; WiUiam, 348 Decon, Simon, 295 Denby; Richard, 220 Deneys, St. Dionise, Agnes, daughter of Roger, 158 n. ; Eichard, 139, 149, 152, 154, 295 ; de, 332, 333, 336 ; le, 149, 174 ; le de Longham, 151, 152; SU, 174; Eoger de, 174; le, 158 ii.; Sarra, 174; SibiUa, 152 Delahay, Thomas, 296 Denham, SU John, 209 Denne, John, 329 Denny, Sir Anthony, 168; Edmund, 286 ; Eichard and SibUla, 308 Derham, Johes dom's, 209 Despenser, Hugh le, 147, 347 Deye, Henry, 296 ; fil. Thomas, 294 ; John, 271, 284; Thomas, 289; le, 292, 293 DilUngton, Petrus de, 207 Dingley, Eoger de, 320 Dobbe, Johes, 273 Dode, John, 205 D'OUi, Fulk, 140 ; Maud, 141 Domelet, Nich., 273 360 HISTOEY OF THE HUNDEED OF LAUNDITCH. Donne (v. atte Donne), AnnabeU, 244 ; David, 243, 244 ; Johes, 240, 244 Dorward, johes, 159 ; Richard, 158 Dowghty, Robert, 271 Downing. Arthur, Susan his wife, 161 Doyley, Henry, 214 Draper, Johes, 272 Drayton, John de, 302 ; Richard de, 157, 322; WiUiam de, 321, 322; son of Alan de, 157 Drewett, Edward, 267 Drewry, Drury, EHas, 317 ; Sir Robert, 194, 211 Drogo, son of WiUiam dapifer, 153, 196, 223 Druggerung, Roger', 205 Druggerunghuit, Adam, Walter, 205 Driggale, Willus, 206 Dunham, Alan de, Rector of St. Cle ment's, Conisford, 305 u. ; Hele- wise de, 159, 163; Johes de, 159, 162, 164, 202, 250, 283, 288, 306, 342; fils. Alani, 159, 163; Sir Reginald de, 153; Robtus. 286; de, 293; Roger de, 159; Thomas de, 285 ; Willus de, 159, 327 ; fils. Rogeri de, 159, 162, 163 Dunton, SU Ralf de, 315 Durant, Doraunt, Godfr', 345 ; Wal ter, 335 Dyght, Johes, 258, 259, 297 Dykner, Henr', 151 DyUay, Anna, Roger', 255 Dym, WiUus, 259 Dyn, Dynne, Henry, 301 ; Johes, 255 Dytemay, WUlus, 203 Eborard, sutor, 337 Ebroicis, Matilda de, 343 Echarde, Katherine, Thomas, 297 EdHne, Thomas, 159, 162 Edmundus cler et Johes frater, 203 Edrich, Johes de Tytshale, 227 Edyman, John, 258 ; Robert, 290, 291 Elbald, Simon, de Skerning, 346 Ellesworth, Simon de, 346 Elmham, Edmund, 308; EHzabeth. 280; Godfr', 335; Henry de, 280 Johes, 288 ; Robtus de 280, 336 WUUam de, 280 ; Sir, 282, 290 Elyot, Isabel, 176 ; WiUus, 176 Elys, Adam, Galfr', 203 ; Thomas, 254 Emma, fil. Nicholai, 205 Engaine, Ellen, 323 ; John, 323 ; de, 346 ; Joyce de, 346 Enveise, WUliam le, 322, vide Lenveise Eresby, WiUoughby, Lord, 348 n. ErIham, Erleham, Galfr', 318 ; Gilbert, 318; John, 318; de, 317; Nicho laa, 317 ; Ralf de, 315, 317 ; Regi nald de, 317, 318 ; Thomas de, 189, 191, 244, 318 Erie, Nicholas, 271 Erpingham, Sir Thomas, 156 Escaler, SU John de, 319 Est, John, 295 ; WUlus, 257 Esthall, WiUus de, 150 Estlot, John, 270 Estrange, Estraunge, Extraneus, Alex ander le, 202; Clement le, 149; Durannus, 146; Johes le, 139; Johes de Lucham, 149 ; de la Marche, 142; Prudence, 146; Rod- land, 139; Roger, 164, 240; Ruald, 139 Eton, Nicholas de, 247 Eu'ard, Everard, John, 178 Eudo, son of Clama, 324 Everingham, Johes, 211 Evers, Radus, 211 ; WiUus, 211 Faber, Gerard, 335 ; Hamo, 337 ; Rob tus fil. Thomas, 204 ; Vincent', 203 ; William, 175 Fairfax, EUzabeth, 266 ; John, 266 Fakenham, Henr' de, 336 ; Johes de, 272, 273 Fardell, Johes, 257 Fare, WUlus, 257 FareweU, Eicus, 255 Farrow, Thomas, 178, 179 FastoU, Sir John, 307, 308, 342 Felbrig, John, 186 ; Sir Symon, 301 Felstede, Walter de, 280, 290 Felton. Agnes, 158 n. ; AHanor, 158; Edmund de, 158; SU Hamon de, 155, 156 ; Isabella or SibiUa, 155, 156; Joan, 155, 156; Johude, 155; Margaret, 156 ; Pagan or Payne, 155; Robert, 139, 142; de, 155; Sir, 142 ; Stephen de, 157 ; Tho mas de, 173; SU, 155, 156, 158 n. Fermor, Henry, 225; SU, 270, 301; Thomas, 214 Ferrers, Alianor de, 250 ; Cicely de, 322 ; John son of Robert de, 322 ; WiUiam, Lord of Groby, 348 ; de, Earl of Derby, 250 Feveryer, Thomas, 217 Feyre, Fayre. Phayre, Thomas, 177, 178; WUlus, 258, 259 Finch, Johes, 272 Fincham, Adam de, 244 ; Robtus, 255 Fisher, Richard, 291 ; Robert, 291 ; William, 282, 290, 291, 295 Fitz Alan, Flandus, 151 ; John, 139, 141,146; Margery, 141; Eichard, Earl of Arundel, 146, 147, 150, 151 ; WiUiam, 140, 146 Fitz Flaald, Alan, 139, 300 Fitz Herlewyn, Thomas, de Gatlea, 157 Fitz Hubert, WilUam, 343 Fitz Ivo, Eainard, 326 Fitz Pagan or Payne, Eaymond, 157, 332 Fitz PhiHp, Johes, 157 Fitz Eanulf, Ealf, 172 n. Fitz Eobert, Alexander, 165; John, 325 ; Walter, 341 ; WUHam, 165, 324 Fitz Roger, Margaret, 324 ; Robert, 164, 165, 168, 169, 171, 224, 323, 324, 325 ; WUliam, 296 Fitz Walter, Eanulf, 248 ; Eobert de, 165, 338 Fitz Warrin, Eoger, 139 Flaald, Alan son of, 154 ; Fitz, 300 Flancus, 147 Flesshe, Simon, 178 Flowerdew, — , 273 Fochigetune, FoUdngton, Hugh de, 242 ; Robert de, 242 Foglyon, Adam, Edmund, Thomas, 178; WUlus, 176 FoHot, Follyot, Beatrice, 196 ; Jordan, 153, 190, 196, 292, 345; SU, 306; Margaret, 190, 191, 192, 208, 307; Lady, 342; Margery, 190, 191, 192, 208, 307; Richard, 189, 190, 191, 192, 196, 221, 244, 341 ; Ricus fil. Eici, 208 Forest, John, 177 Forthe, Elizabeth, 181, 185 Fowler, Thomas, 261 Fox, John, 225 ; Simon, 288, 296 Framingeren, Radus, Robtus, 335 FranchevUle, Franca villa, GUbert' de, 232, 233 ; fils. Rici de, 233 ; Isabel de, 233 ; daur. of Richard, 233 ; MatUda, 233; Radus de, 233; Ricus de, 138, 231, 232, 233 ; Rob tus fils. Radi, 233; WUliam de, 138, 232, 251, 322 n., 332, 335, 342 ; SU de, 233 ; YsabeUe de, 231 Francis, Franceys, Ricus, 201, 347 Franke, Allan, 245; Henr', 293 Franket, Roger, 274 Franklyn, Richard, Thomas, 284, 285 Fransham, Fravesham, Fronsham, Adelwald or Elwold de, 231 Aeliz de, 231 ; Agatha, 237, 238 Agnes, 234, 235, 237 ; de, 233, 234, 235, 237; Alexander de, 234 AHanor, 234, 235, 237; de, 235. 236 ; Alice de, 235, 236, 237 ; Au drew, 231 ; Beatrix de, 234, 235 237 ; Benedict son of Peter de, 232 ; son of WUHam the priest of. 232; Botilda de, 232; Galfr' de! 254, 255, 257; Gilbert de, 233, 234, 235, 305 n., 342; de cler., 234 of the other Fransham, 159, 163 son of Richard de, 233 ; son of Roger de, 231, 232 ; Sir, 153, 231 GUlebertus or Gislebertus de, 231 234 ; Godfrey son of the Knight of, 159, 163 ; Henry son of Wil Ham de, 231, 232; Isaac, 236 Isabel, 235 ; Jeffrey de, 234 ; Joan. 235 ; de, 234, 235 ; John de, 235 j of HilHngton, 235 ; Katherine, 235; Margaret de, 235; MatUda de, 234; Mawte de, 235; Oddo son of Robert de, 231, 232; Peter son of Henry de, 232 ; PhiUp son of Odo de, 233 ; Ralf de, 231, 232, 233; son of Gilebert de, 232; Reginald son of Adelwald de, 231 ; Reiner miles de, 231 ; Robert of N. Elmham, 236 ; son of John de, 234; Eoger, 231; de, 233, 251; miles, 232 ; son of Gilbert de, 231, 232 ; son of Thomas de, 231 ; Simon de, 231 ; son of Robert de, 235 ; Thomas de, 231, 235 ; son of Reginald, 231; Turstan de, 231; WiUiam, butcher, 236; de, 183, 228, 230, 232, 234 ; Sir, 234, 306 ; Sir de, 234, 305 ; son of Adelwald, 231, 232 NOMINAL INDEX TO PART L, SECTION II. 361 Magna, GUbert de, 232, 323 ; Henry son of William de, 232 Parva, John son of Roger de, 232 ; Ralf son of Benedict de, 232 Frere, John de est derham. 202 Fresingfeld, Robert de, 224 Fresingham, Willus de, 234 Frevile, Alexander, 345 ; le, 341, 343; Baldwin de, 332, 336, 341, 342, 343, 344, 345; BasUia de, 342; Drogo de, 342; Emma de, 342; Joan de, 343; Isabella de, 341; Matilda de, 342; Ralf de, 342; Robert de, 342; Roger de, 251, 341, 342, 344; Saer de, 201; Sir Sayer de, 306 ; WiUiam de, 332, 336, 343 Frenile, Johes de, 202 Fryng, Johes de Bittering, 150, 151 Fuke, Robtus, 204 Fulbert, 302 Fulcher, Fucher, Foulcher, Geoffry, 348 ; Henr', 203; le parker, 207; Robtus, 206 Fulfurdehagh, Walter de, 290, 293, 294 Fulk, Rector of Folsham, 293 Fuller, Robtus, 273 ; Thomas, 177, 178, 254 Furneys, Hanna, 278 Fygulyon, Hamo, 273 Fyneux, SU John, 301 Fysshe, Willus, 290 Gache, Joh', 212 GaUridus le Monn, 203; ad Pontem, 204 Gall, WiUus, 178 Galyoman, Henr', 204 Gambon, Ricus, 274 Gatele, Gateley, Herlewyn, son of WU Ham de. 331, 335; Isolde fil. WiUi, 337; Radus fil. WiUi, 337 ; Sir, 333, 336 ; Thomas fils. Her lewyn, 336, 337 Gatesden, Gatysden, Gatesend, John de, 164, 189, 238, 240, 241, 243, 247 ; de jun., 239 ; SU, 247 ; Mar garet, 239 ; Richard, 238 Gave, Thomas, 255 Gawdy, Bassingbourn, 323 ; Serjeant Thomas, 194 Gedge, Gegge, Richard, 283, 287; Robert, 283, 288; WiUiam, 283, 288 Geel, Gele, Ghel (GeUe 293); Alice, Andrew de, Anthony de. 173 ; Emma, 293 ; Henry de, 173; John, 178, 293, 294 ; Margaret, 274 ; Matilda, wife of Henry, 175; Richard de, 173, 175 ; Thomas, 254, 273 ; WiUus, 274 Geoffry, nephew of Wimer, 196 Gerebert als. Gerebald, 223 Gerne, Adam, 206 Gernon, Nicholas, 320 Gervas atte bur (bure), 151, 201, 202 Geyton, WiUiam de, 308 Giffe, Roger, 204 Gifford, Isabel, 342 ; Osbert, 342 GUbert, GUberd, le con, 227 ; le Ken, I 150; Priest of Denever, 336; Ricus, 205; Trig, 159; Vincent', 205 Giles, Johes, 295, 345 ; de Wesenham, 150 Gilfrey, Johes, 204 Gilgant, Jane, 161 Gimmingham, Gymmyngham, Reyner de, 308 ; fils. Willi de, 305 Gislebert, 228, 230 Glide, Radus, 207 Gloz, Thomas le, 202 Gnatteshale, Johes cler., 218 Godeman, Johes, 288 Godevile, Hubert, 203 Godewyk, Johes, 270 Godewyn, Robtus, 177, 178 Godfrey, Camerarius, 335 ; pauper, 335 ; Thomas, 267 Godlam, Peter, Roger, 162 Godric, 154 Godwinus fils. Thomee, 203 Godynowe, Henr', 255 ; Roger, 256, 257, 258,260; Thomas WUlus, 177, 178, 257, 258 Godynowht, Johes fils. Rici, 254 ; Roger', 259 . Godzene, Johes, 272 Gogney, Simon, 295 Gooch, Thomas, 221 Goodrede, WiUiam, 295 Goodrich, Goodrick, Ann, Elizabeth, 267 ; John, 266, 267, 268 ; Thomas, 253, 266, 267, 269 ; Bishop of Ely, 212 Goodwin, Vincent', 271 Goodyng, Ann, 215 Goold, John, 177 Gore, — de, 286 ; Rob. de la, 201 Gorge, Walter, 300 GosceUn' Christian, 205 ; fils. Robti Astil. 205 Gossele, Elwine, or Alvine, 279, 285 ; Gerard son of Andrew de, 279, 285 Grace, Catherine, Henry, John, 303 Gray, Adam, 291 ; William, Bishop of Ely, 209 GreUey, Margaret de, RaU de, 149 Grene, Henr', 256; Johes, 255, 292; Thomas, 292, 296 Gresham, Jacob', 255, 256 GressenhaUe, Gressinghale, Adam fils. Henrici de, 201, 233 ; Alexander de, 201, 205, 306 ; Fulk or Fulcher de, 196; Henr' de, 201, 233, 320 n., 346 ; Isabel de, 190, 342; Reginald de, 151, 191, 196, 346; Ricus fils. WiUi de, 201, 233 ; Roger de, 189 ; WiUus de, 190, 201, 341 ; son of Fulcher de, 196 , son of Hubert de, 343 ; son of Regerde, 190,196; fils. Walteri de, 201 Greve, Henr', 256, 257, 258, 259, 260; Johes, 256, 258, 259;' Margery, 260 ; Thomas, 257 Grey, John, 291 ; de, Bp. of Norwich, 321 ; Reginald, Lord, 193 Greyne, WUlus, 287 Greyneston, Simon de, 150, 326; Robert de, 326 Griffin ap Gervase Gohc, 140 ; SU, son of Wenunwyn, 141 Griggys, Thomas, 282, 291 Grunet, Laur', 253 Gryce, Grys, Henr', 258,274; Johes, Rector of Oxwyk, 254 ; Roger 254, 270, 295 ; WilHam Escheator, 311 Grygge, Johes, 257 Guestingthorp, Sir John, 161 Gulafre, Roger, 234 Gunton, John de, 153 ; Thomas, 153 Gunnild, PhiUp', 203 Gurney, John, 193, 223 Gurr, Roger', 207 Guybon, Gybon, Gybone, Greg', 255, 256, 265 ; Johes, 295, 296 ; Tho mas, 256, 265 Gylgony, Willus, 177 Gyrhyng, Eicus, 256 Gym, Barthol', 286 ; Eobert, 293 ; atte, 286 ; Eoger de la, 285, 286 Hackford, Hskeford, B de, 151 ; IsabeUa. 296; Margery de, 280; Simon, 282, 283, 286 ; Thomas de, 280, 333, 337 ; WUliam de, 336 ; Sir de, 280, 332 Hales, Dameta wife of EaU de, 150 ; SU Robert de, 306 ; SU Steven de, 156 Hall, John, 286, 287 Halman, Robert, 264 Hamond, Henry, 218, 219, 289 ; John, 176; Radus, 295 Hancock, Henr', 203 Hanford, Thomas, 284 Harcham, Thomas de, 319; WUHam de, 319 Harcourt, Ricus, 209 Hare, AUcia ux. Johis, 274 ; Johes, 203; Leman, 175 Harleston, Robtus, Thomas, 275 ; WU lus, 209 Harneys, Katherine, 237 Harsick, Harsyk, Brian, 161, 287; Christian, 161 ; Edmund, 161 ; SUEudo, 158, 161 ; Johnde, 139, 149, 153, 154, 158, 161, 202, 287; Sir, 161; Katharine, 161, 194, 210; Margery, 161; Roger de, 306; Rowland de, 161, vide Arsic Hastel, Johes, 272 Hastings, Hastynges, Ann, 194, 210 ; Betric, 214; SU Edward de, 193, 197, 209, 223, 224, 245; EUzabeth, 194, 212; SU Francis, 210; Sir George, 194, 210, 211 ; Grace, 271 ; Henry, 210; Hugh, 218; de, 192, 193, 194, 197, 208,209, 210 seq., 211, 212, 244, 345 ; SU, 314, 331 ; Isabella de, 192, 208, 325 ; John, 209, 325; Lord, 347; SU, 192, 193, 197, 211, 212 seq., 218 seq., 219, 221, 225; Katherine, 210, 211 ; Lawrence de. 192, 208 ; Mar gery de, 192, 193, 208; Martin, 210, 212; Ralf de, 193, 208; 362 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Richard, 271 ; WUlus de Godwyk, 259 Hather, Willus, cler., 209 Hauteyne, AHce, 246 Hauvile, Henr' de, 337 Havile or HautviUe, Amicia de, 316, 317; Henry, 316, 317; Humfrey de, 315; Matilda, 318; Ralf, 316, 317; de, 315; Thomas de, 316, 317, 318; WiUiam de, 315 Hay, Robtus, 292 Haze, Hase, John, 266; WiUiam de, 159 Hazlett, Eobert, 221 Heders et Remigius de, 167 Hekham, Benedict de, 331 Helfere, Nicholas, 205 Helgeton, Helgheton, Alan son of WilHam de, 333, 336 ; John, 333 ; Thomas, 272 Hellgate, Vincent, 205 Helmham, vide Elmham Helwys, Galfr', 206 ; Johes, 203, 206 ; Nicholas, 212 Hemegrave, Sir Edmund de, 155, 156 ; Mary, 156 Hemstede, Hamon de, 336 Hengham, John de, 317 Henricus, ad Aulam, 337 ; But, 207 fils. Hamonis, 201 ; Hancock, 203 fils. Hervei, 201 ; ad pontem, 203 Pistor, 205 ; fils. Rici, 203 ; fils. Stephani, 203 ; Trunen, 207 Henun, Eobtus, 203 Herewyn, GosceUn son of Eichard de, 350 Heme, Willus, 177; Thomas, 348 Hermerus, 302 Hertford, Hertfort, Herford, Hereford, Herfort, Herforth, Adam de, 319, 320; AUcia, 197, 202; AHna, 197; Beatrix de, 320 ; Galfr', 200 ; Henry de, 319 ; SU 320; John, 321 ; de, 319, 320 ; son of Warine de, 320; Mabel de, 319, 320; Margaret de, 319 ; Eoger de, 201 ; Simon de, 197, 202 ; Thomas de, 201, 315, 319, 320, 321 ; Sir, 321 ; Warm', 222; de, 222; fils. thomas de, 201 ; fils. WiUi, 201 ; Sir, son of Thomas de, 319; Willus de, 201 Hertyng, Peter, 202 Herveus fil. Julianje, 233 Hervy, Robtus, 257, 270 ; WiUus, 273 Herward, Clement, 209, 287 Hethedine, Robtus, 345 Heveningham, Isabel, 301 ; Thomas, 209 Hewar, Hey wer, Thomas, 214 n. Heydon, George, 219,226,228; Henry, 209, 210, 282, 291; Sir, 323; Isabel daur. of Sir WiUiam de, 246; John, 187, 197, 208, 209, 211, 219, 245, 282, 291 ; SU, 21 1, 220, 226 ; Katherine, 220, 226, 228 Heye, Heige, Johes, 289, 294 ; Simon le, 348 ; WUlus, 272 Heynes, Jacob', 258 Heyward, Johes, 297 ; le, 204 ; Ricus le, 204; Thomas, 214, 297 Hill, Emma de, 290, 291 ; Johes, 289 ; Roger de, 286 Hinde, Edmund, 217 Hipgam, George, 260, 261, 271; Henry, 266; Reginald, 261 Ho, Hoe, Hoo, Johes, 290; de, 153, 221, 271, 296 ; fils. Simoni, 222 ; Martin' de, 201 ; Radus de, 248 ; Robtus de, 201, 202 ; Roger' de, 203; Samson de, 189, 191, 222; Thomas, 290; de, 317, 318; Wil Uam de, 271 ; SU, 330 Hobart, Hoberd, Howberde, Elizabeth, 185; James, 185, 282, 283, 288, 289, 291, 296; John, 185; Richard, 185; Robert, 234; Roger, 185 Hobild, Simon, 205 Hobrugg, Geoffry de, Joan, 346 Hoga, WiUus de, 337 Hogge, Richard, 282, 291 Holand, IsabeUe de, 246 Holbeck, Matilda de, 205 Holbrook, John, 183 n. Holdeygh, Johes, 290 Holegate, Vincent', 205 Hollay, Robtus, 295 Holveston, Agnes de, 234, 323 ; James, 323, 330; de, 234; Joan, 330; John, 323; Katherine, 323; Richard, 323; Robert, 323; Thomas de 323 Hougham, Nicholas, 256 Hoogan, Hogan, Beatrix, 161 ; Robert, 237 , Thomas, 214 Hoppe, Eobert, 295 Hopson, John, 270 ; Ricus, 295 ; Stephen', 289 Hopton, Stephen de, 293, 294 Horningtoft, Hamo fils. David de, 173 Horsforde, Thomas de, 321 Horstede, John de, 320 n. Houell, Johes, 176 ; JuUanafil. Rogeri, 203 Howard, Ann, 138 ; Lady, 339; Ed ward, 184, 339; Sir, 229; SU Robert, 168 ; Thomas, 138 Howede, Johes, 176 Howde, Thomas, 258 Howe, Thomas, 257 Howman, Ann, 277 ; EHzabeth, 277 ; Henry, 277 ; Isaac, 278 ; John, 278 ; Katherine, 278 ; Mary, 278 ; Roger, 277 ; WilHam, 277, 278 Howse, Thomas, 257 Hoxne, Hoxsene, Margaret, 292 ; Ra dus, 290, 292, 293; de, 293 ; Walter, 286 Hubertus Ou' brook, ouer the brook, 337 ; Woresmari, 335 Hubyn, Johanna, 204 Hulmo, (Hulme) AHce de, 190 ; Cecilia de, 169, 223; Edus de, 165, 169; EgilHus or Giles de, 164. 165, 169, 202 ; Sir, 170 ; Henry, 165 ; James, son of Henry de, 168, 174; Joan de, 169; Ralf de, 170; Sir Robert de, 169, 170, 306 Humfrey, Leuena, 205 ; Ricus, 205 Hungefort, PhiHp de, 157 Hunt, Edward, 243, 244, 260, 262, 271 Huntingfeld, CecUia de, 168, 348; Isabel de, 196, 341, 346; Joan de, 347, 348 ; John de, 347, 348 ; Margery de, 348 ; Roger de, 345, 346; WiUiam de 190, 196, 341, 343, 345, 347, 348 ; SU de, 348 Hurst or Hust, Edward, 241, 244 Huwelyn, le Clutere, 207 Iakesham, Reginald de, 197, 203 ; Roger de, 200 Ijting, Ricus, 201 Illey, SU Edmund de, 170 Ingelwele, Thomas de, 201 Ingeringehoe, Peter de, 201 Ingoldesthorp, Isabel de, 334; John de, 334 ; SU de, 280 ; Richard de, 333, 334; Thomas de, 300, 329; Sir, 334 ; WilHam, 333 Ingrith, Kete, 231 Inlond, Hamo de, 337 ; Johes, fil. Thomas, 337 ; WiUus de, 337 Ireland, Godfrey, 264 Isaak, WiUus, 256 Is. le Baxstere, 202, 226 Jamys, Johes, 259, 260 Jenney, Christopher, 225 ; John, 236 ; WilHam son of Edward, 184 Jermi, Johes, 209 ; Thomas, 209 Jermyn, Thomas, 209 Jernegan, Katherine, 185 Johnes, fil. Alani, 336 ; Alwyne, 203 fil. Eadwin, 279, 285 ; de Fremle, 202 ; persona de Gateley, 337 Gosceline, 203; le Gros, 337; Bp. of Lincoln, 208; Parson, 178 Person de Merton, 202 ; de Pud- dyng Norton, 256 ; pistor, 162 ; fils. Rici, 336 ; son of Robert, 159, 203 ; of Est lekesham, 159 ; Tho mas fil. Robti, 1 62, 203 ; priest of Thursford, 159, 162; Vicar' de FHtcham, 293 ; fils. Walteri, 205 Johnson, Barthol6, 265, 277 ; Roger, 265 Joly, Thomas, 178 Jordan parson of Dunham, 159 Jorum, Robtus, 345 Joscelyne, Sarah, 182 Jullys, Johes, 288, 289, 291, 296 Keche, Edward, 291 Kembald, Henr', 205 Kembale, MatUd, 205 Kemeston, Maud de, 159, 163; Robert de, 159; Roland', 162 Kempe, Ricus, 204 Ken, Gilbert' le, 150 Kentyng, Agnes, 271; Galfr', 256, 257, 258 ; Isabel, 259, 260 ; Johes, 261 ; Thomas, 258 Kerdeston, WilHam de, 156 Kete, Aylmer, 231 Kett, Robtus, 293 Ketteringham, Johes de, 253 Kettleston. Ketelston, Thomas, 256 ; de, 197, 219, 257 Ketylbye, Thomas, 262 KetyU, Robtus, 177 NOMINAI INDEX TO PART L, SECTION II. 363 Kild, Johes, 204 King, Captain, 266 ; Johes, 292 Kirkeley, Kyrkelv, William de, 239 : Prior of Norwich, 337 Kitmer, Mathew, 264 ; Robert, 264 Knight, Knyght, Knyth, Alice, 183 ; Galfr', 256, 258; John, 279, 286; WUlus, 255, 256, 257, 258 ; Plow- right, 255 Knowles,' KnoUes, Johes, 176, 178, 179; Robtus, 272 Knyvett, Alienore, 348 ; John, 348 ; Sir WUHam, 187 Kubbing, William, 266 Kyngashed, Adam, 293 Kyngwyne, WUlus fils. Rogeri, 293 Lacey, Lacy, Henry de, 193, 197, 219, 244; Johnde, 189, 191, 244 Lakenheath, Sir John de, 331 Lambe, WiUus, 211 Lambert, John, son of, 154 Lambeth, Richard de, 155 Lammer, Nicholas, chaplain, 193, 208 Lancaster, Henry, Earl of, 209, 245 ; Duke of, 208 ; John, Duke of, 209 ; Thomas, Earl of, 209, 245 Langdon, Ricus, 178; Roger, 176, 178 Langelond, Thomas de, 207 Langge, Johes, 292 ; JuHana, 293 ; Simon, 293 Langham, Thomas de, 308 ; son of Barthol" de, 304 Langton, Walter de, 322 Larwood, Henr', 295 ; Johes, 295 Lavenham, Mabel de, 320 ; Thomas de, 320 Lawrence, Henry, 267 Leche, Edmund le, 189, 191, 223, 282, 291 Leedes — , 265 Leek, Henr', 257, 259 ; Johes, 256, 257, 258, 259, 275; Ricus, 256, 257, 258 Left, Lemna, 207; Radus, 205; Tho mas. 205, 207 Leman, Reginald, 176 Lenveise, Agnes, 322 ; Hamon, 342 ; WilUam, 233, 322 Lesingham, Annora, 236 ; Henry, 236 Le Strange, Straunge, vide Strange Lethe, WUlus le, 205 Leuknor, Ann, 217; SU Edward, 217; John, 325; May, 217 Leverington, John, 154 Lexham, Lechesham, Edmund de, 193, 208; Johes de, 151, 202; Richard de 196, 208 ; WUUam de, 222, 331, 335 Lidgate, James, 221 Lincoln, John, Bishop of, 208 Lirwood, Johes, 291 Lisewise, Godfrey de, 332, 333, 335; Jeffrey de, 331; Maud, 332, 333; Muriel, 333; WiUiam de, 153, 332, 333, 335 Lite, WUlus, 203 Litilbury, Richard, 184 Lodne, Geoffry de, 332, 336 ; Sir John de, 153 Lombe, Lomb, Johes, 294 ; Sunon, 266, 267, 268, 269 London, Robert, 186 Lone, Ann, Elizabeth, Frances, Mary, Thomas, 186 Long, Johes, 288, 293 Longcamp, WUUam de, 250 Longham, John de, 347 Lopham, Johes, 295, 296 Lord als. Greve, Johes, 257, 258 Lose, John, 177, 178 Loumyn, MatUd, 205 LoveU, Roger, 266 ; Thomas, 210, 265 Lowen, Nich's, 272, 273 Lucas, Edmund, 186; Elizabeth, 187, 188; Etheldreda, 187, 188, 218; Mary, 186; Richard, 188; Robert, 188; Stephen, 188; Thomas, 187, 188, 218 LuUeman, Radus, 207 Lyneford, WUlus de, 202 Lyng-, Ling, John, 177, 254, 293; de, 186 ; Mary de, 186 ; Eicus, 265 ; Thomas, 255, 257 ; WiUus, 293 Lyngwine, WUlus, 293 Lynsted, John, 348 ; de, 347 Lyster, Ricus, 211 Maddy, Thomas, 270 Maisnere, Odo, 335 Makefare, Emma, 207 Makeslee, Jacob', 290 Manners, SU George, Lord, 249; Thomas, Lord Roos, 248 Manning, WiUiam, 269 Manser, Johes, 260, 261 Mara, Henry de, 250 Marcawnte, Robtus, Rosa, 296 Marche, Adam, 227, 245 ; Alicia, 244 ; Johes, 244, 293, 294; Nich', 260; Radus, 240 ; Ricus, 164 Marmyon, PhiUp, 343 Marsh, Henr', 259, 260 Marshall, WUHam, Earl of Pembroke, 250 Martham, Robert de, 283, 287 Martyn, Ann, 207; Henry, 207; Johes, 207; Richard, 282, 283, 284, 289, 292; Roger, 280, 282, 283, 289, 291, 292, 296; WUlus, 205 Marwe, Thomas, 272 Mascal, MarescaU, AUce, 241, 322 ; John de, 321 ; le, 324 ; Radus de, 240 ; Thomas de, 240, 241 ; WUlus de, 319, 320, 322 Mason, Johes, 255 Masyngham, Massingham, Thomas de, 204 ; WUlus de, 202 Matilda la Struts, 206 MatshaU, Roger, 272 Maulever, Ricus, 208 Maunsell, Henry, 295 ; John, 295 Mauteby, John, Margaret, 301 Mayken, Henr', 289 Maynard, Thomas, 273 Meeke, AUce, Geffry, John, Richard, 244 Medewe, Johes, 290 Meldeburn, Jeffrey de, 180 n. Mellere, John le, 348 Mercator, Walter, 204 Merton, Johes, 202 ; Persona, 202 Metild, Roger, 201 Middleton, Midylton, Johes, 265 ; Richard, 299 ; Thomas, 210 Mole, Willus, 206 Molett, Johes, 292 Montfichet, Ricus de, 230 Montfort, Hugh de, 332 ; Simon de, 239 Monthermer, Ralph de, 192 Monyment, Roger, 266 More, AHce, 220 ; William, 220 Morgan, Henr', 273 Morley, Morlee, Robert', 202; Sibil, 155 ; Thomas, 320, 321 ; Lord, 320 ; SU, 155, 156 Morteyn, Joan de, 343 n. Mortimer, SU Hugh de, 190 ; Robert de, 190 Mowbray, Adeliza da. of Roger de, 346 Munday, Jacob', 257, 258 ; Petrus, 258, 259, 260 Mundeford, Mondeford, Mundeforth Adam, 301 ; Catherine, 301 EHzabeth, 299, 300 ; Esseline, 301 John, 294, 295, 300 ; Mary, 299 300, 301 ; Osbert de, 299, 300 SibU, 300 ; Thomas, 305 ; de, 305 Mundehen, Johes, 337 Munesle, Jacob' de, 201 Munpynson, dom's Johea de, 337 Munyng, WUlus, 303 Murre, Johes, 297 Mylur, Symon le, 205 Myngtone, Johes de, 337 Mynne, John, 225; Katherine vidua, 215 ; Nicholas, 214 n., 220 ; Wil Ham, 185 Mynnes, Robert, 270 Mynyot, Steph', 287 Narburgh, CeciUa, WUlus de, 226 Naunton, Barbara, Robert, 186 Neel, Neal, Catherine, 178, 186; GU bert, 186 ; Jeffry, 186, 187; John, 175 ; Robtus, 257 ; Thomas, 178, 186, 187 Neketon, Roger de, 151 Nerford, Nyerford, Johes de, 192, 208; MatUda, Maud de, 243, 245, 246, 247 ; PetroniUa de, 247, 250 ; Roger de, 201; WUUam de, 245, 250 Neuton, Ralf de, 202 Neve, Neave, Andrew, 177, 219; Thomas. 156, 266 ; William, 266 Nevill, NevUe, Hawisia, 239 ; RaU de, 171 Newecroft, Thomas de, 203 Neweman, John, 270 ; le, 205 ; Rob tus, 255, 257, 258 ; le, 205 Niche, Walter, 219 Nicholas fils. Robti, 204 ; parson of W. Lechesham, 162 ; of W. Lex ham, 159 NobyU. WUlus, 259 Noel, Thomas, 140 Noge, Ricus, 272, 273 364 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Noiers, Noers, Sir Robert, 286 ; Sir Simon de, 233,237; WiUiam de,154 Noon, Walter, 290, 291 Noreys, Simon le, 335 Norman, Johes, 272 NorthaUe, Walter de, 197, 202 ; WU lus, 204 Norton, Johes de, 227 Norwich, Alice de, 347 ; Cicely de, 347 ; John de, 308, 313 ; Sir, 166, 167, 170, 347; Katherine, 167, 168; Margaret, 166; Margery de, 348 ; Sir Walter de, 165, 167, 347, 348 Nuers, Simon de, 297 Nuiun, Radus de, 202 Oby. Elizabeth, 283, 288, 289; fil. Johis, 288; Nicholas, 283, 288, 289, 296 ; Robert, 283, 288, 289 Odar, 321 Oddo, son of WiUiam, 196 O'Rys, Ricus, 260 OldhaU, Edmund, 225, 283, 287 ; Sir WUHam, 236, 300 Oldman, Alicia, 293; Dorothea, 271; EHzabeth, 271; Johes, 259, 270, 293 ; Lawrence, 271 ; Ricus, 260, 261, 271 ; Robtus, 258, 260, 270, 271, 275 ; Sylvester, 263, 272 ; Thomas, 270, 271 ; Wiburie, 271 ; William, 270, 271 OHver, priest, 327 Omelyn, Roger, 202 Ordin, Thomas fils. Henr', 201 Orreby, Sir Fulk de, 141 ; John son of John de, 173 Orive, Ricus, 255 Overmor, Henr', 337 ; Roger', 337 ; Thomas, 337 ; WUlus de, 337 ; fils. Robti, 337 Oxburgh, Johes de, 293 ; Thomas, 213, 217 Oxewic, Johes de, 159, 162 ; Robert, 297 ; WUlus, 258 Oxford, John, Earl of, 230; Ricus, 296 Pagenham, Osbert, 332 ; de, 336 Pagewell, PayneU, Margaret, 239, 240 ; Ralf, 196 ; William, 239, 240 Palgrave, Pagrave, Alan fil. PhiHp de, 163 ; John de, 156 ; Eobtus, 287 ; WUliam de, 153; fils. Eobti de, 163 Palmer, Henry, 284 ; Thomas cler., 209 ; Peter, 230 Panch, Henr', 204; Johes, 205; Radus, 205 ; Robtus, 204, 205 Parne, William, 263 Pasker, John, 291, 296 ; WiUus, 295, 296 Paston, Johes, 289, 297, 299, 301 ; William, 283, 287 ; SU, 301 Patesle. Hamo de, 228, 230, 285, 286, 350 ; SU, 306 ; Herbert de, 350 ; John de, 350 ; son of John de, 350 ; Nicholas de, 350 ; Eoger de, 350 ; son of William de, 350 ; WilHam de, 345 ; son of Hamo de, 337, 350 ; son of WilHam de, 350 Patryk, Patrick, WilHam, 255, 275 ' Paunch, Henr', Lesent, Robert, 204 Pauper, Poer, Gilbert le, 333; Godfrey le, 332 Paveli, Radus de, 336 Pawle, Cicely, 282 ; John, 282, 283 Paxeman, Henr', 203 Payne, Etheldreda, 187, 218 ; John, son of WiUiam, 320; Thomas, 187, 218 Peartree, Edward, 267 Pedder, WUlus, 288, 289 Peers, Piers, lUcus, 296 ; Robtus, 289 Pegon (Pegeon), 321 Pelesson. Galfr', 273 Pelle, Waltus, 207 PelvUle, PeUataville, Peter de, 248 n., 332, 335 ; Richard de, 232 ; WU Ham de, 232 Penley, Johes, 209 Penton, John, Richard, 220 Percy, Thomas de, Bp. of Norwich, 292 Pesonhale, Beatrix de, Jeffery de, 237 Peter Capel, 335 Petewyn, Jacob', 256 Petygard, Willus, 150* Petyt, Symon, Walter', 207 Peyntor, John, 193, 244 ; Robtus, 273 Peyton, Sir John, 216 Phelypp, Robtus, 255 Picher, Pitcher, Pecher, Pycher, Cle ment, 260 ; Joan, 260 ; Johes, 259, 260 ; Ricus, 275 ; WUlus, 207 Pichford, Margery de, RaU de, 141 Picot, George, Ralf, 182 n. Pigor, Pygur, Henr' fils., Oliver de Gressenhall, Henr' fils. suus, 201 Pincerna, WUHam, 242, vide Boteler Pinkeman, AHce, 237 ; de, 236 Pitt, John, MabU, 159, 163 Plaiz, Plais, Playz, Egidius or GUes de, 189, 228, 229, 230, 234 ; SU John, 168 ; Radus de, 230 ; Richard de, 228, 230, 237 ; Sir, 234 Playters, Frances, 252, 264 ; John, 267 ; Sir Thomas, 252, 264, 265 ; Sir William, 266, 267 Plombe, Plowmbe, Johes, 272 ; Tho mas, 291 Plowryght, WiUus, 255 Plumstead, John de, 170 Pomfret, Powmfrett, Clement, 312 ; Oliver, 220 Ponomercato, Robtus de, 206 Port, Joan, da. of SU Hugh, 246 Porter, Johes le, 337 ; Robtus, 297 Portland, Robtus, 288, 289 Potter, Pottere, Claricia, 152; Johes, 257, 259, 260, 261 ; Robert, Tho mas, 152 Pratt, Roger, 282, 283, 286, 287 Prenteys, WiUus, 255, 259, 262 Preston, Adam, 177 ; GUbert de, 305 ; John de, 285 ; WiUus de, 337 Prik, Ricus et RobtuB fiHi Johis, 224, 227 Prikel, Thomas, 206 Purcel, Simon, 335 Purdv, Purdye, Agnes, Johes, 262; Nich', 297 Puttock, Katherine, 274 Pyers, Robtus, 296 Pygate, Olyver, 201 pyleman, WUlus, 203 Pyles, Johes, 296 Pynchbek, John, 184 Pynet, Alexander, 205 Pynnes, Ricus, 287, 289, 296 ; Robtus, 295 Pyrton, Sir John, WUHam, 237 Pytewyn, Jacob', 257 Quarles, John, Margaret, 186 Quincy, Saer de, Earl of Winchester, 345 Quintyn, Radus, 337 Quytmay, Nich', 258 Quytset, Ricus, 293 Qwhetele, WUlus, 287 Ealf, Drema, 206 ; son of John, 345 ; son of Siward, 146 ; son of Wal ter, 251 Eam, John, 178, 179 ; Simon, 254 RandaU, WUlus, 186 Randchoke, Willus, 204 Randolff, Alicia, 178, 180 Eay, Wrey, Greg., 255 ; Thomas, 178 Rayner, Eeynor, Reyner, Hoche, 169, 163 ; Hugh, 272 ; Prior of Cokes ford, 227 Reed, Eede, Matilda la, 205 ; Roger, chaplain, 156 Eeginald fils. Hugo, 335 Eeppys, Johes, 295 Eeymes, Eobtus, 262 Eeymond fils. Pagani, 336 ; Robtus, 254 ; Willus, 254 Reynham, Renham, WUliam, 345 ; de, 317 Reynold, Thomas, 184 Ribald, Johes, 335 Richeman, Rycheman, Emma, 274 ; GaUr', 204 ; Johes, 254, 255, 256, 265; Syward', 203 Richers, Edmund, Katherine, 263 Eickard, Johes, 273 ; de la Nab, 201 ; Eobtus, 150 ; Sylvester, 175 ; Thomas, 175 Eiokwod, AUcia, 258 Eicus fils. Henr', 203 ; fils. Johis, 204 ; fils. Walteri, 336 ; fils. WUU mer- catoris, 201 Rikke, Eicus, 203 Robert, Mayor of Lenn, 159, 162 ; de la more, 337 ; WUlus, 345 ; fils. WUU, 298, 345 ; Thomas, 345 Robert8 de la Gore, 201 ; le Neweman, 205 ; fils. WilH, 205 Robet, Willus, 175 Eochfort, MatUde de, 238 Roger dapifer, 342; Godlam, 162; Bp. of Norwich, 306; Prior of Thetford, 219 ; son of Ranulf, 175; son of William dapifer, 189, 232, 300; son of Wimer, 196 Rokele, Eichard de la, 250, 337: Sir de la, 174 ; Sir WiUiam, 156, 196 Rokeshale, Alan de, 163 RokeweU, Willus, 291 NOMINAL INDEX TO PART I., SECTION II. 365 Rokewode, AUce, 256, 257 Rolstan, Richard, 308 Roo, Barthol', 254; Johes, 254, 265; Margaret, 176 ; Nicholas, 176, 255 Ros, Roos, Edmund Lord, 249 ; Isa bella, 249 ; Matilda de, 250 ; William de, 247, 248, 250 Rother, WiUus, 258 Rothing, Rothinge, Joan, 342 ; John de, 193, 244, 342 ; Ralf de, 341, 342 ; WilUam de, 224, 227 Rouchin, Piers, 303 Rous, Rowse, Alan le, 208, 345 ; Ed mund, 300 ; Francis, 262 ; Henry, 300 ; Reginald, 208 Roy, Thomas, 178 Roying, WiUus de, 227, 299, 303 Rucham or Rougham, Alexander de, 141 ; Ricus fils., 342 ; fils. Johis, 150 ; WUlus de, 227 Eudham, Emma de, 173; Simon de, 173 Ruffus, Rufus, Alan, 159, 163, 300 ; Gilbert, 300 ; Joan, 300 ; Tur- chUlus, 300 ; Turstan, 300 Eugeley, Ferrers, 268 Eus, Eous, or Rufus, Alanle, 298,299; IsabeUa, 299 ; Margery, 299 ; Eichard le, 148, 159, 162, 163, 228, 230, 298, 299, 303, 317, 342 Eussel, Alexander, 175 ; Damett, 204 ; Hamon, 255 Eust, Symon, 227 Rutter, WiUus, 260 Eye, Hubert de, 324 Eyngsted, Rynsted, Thomas, 295 Sabyn, Henr', 207 Saham, Seyham, Ricus de, 289 ; Eo bert, 251 ; SU, 306 ; William de, 208, 306, 311 St. Clere, GUbert, 223 ; Henr' de, 207 ; Johes, 223 ; Eichard, 223 Sakelyn, WiUus, 204 Sale, WUlus de la, 344 Salman, Math., 255, 258 Sander, EUzabeth, WiUus, 185 Sarlec, Thomas, 257 Savoy, Lord Peter of, 169 Saxlyngham, Edmund de, 308, 312 ; John de, 308 Say, Hugh de, 190 Scales, Ealf son of Robert de, 332, 336; Robert de, 329, 331, 332, 333, 334, 336, 337; Lord, 348; Roger de, 333, 335 ; WiUus fiUol' Robti, 335, 336 Schelle, Beatr., 203 Scheptre, WUlus fils. WUH, 273 Schermedel, Johes de, 337 Schetal, WUlus, 254 Schort, William, 348 ScUina, WUlus, 253 Scrivener, Peter, 269 Seeker, WUHam, 219 Secorn or Secom, John, 348 Sefoul, Thomas, 209 Segrave or Wygrave, Henry de, 319, 322 Sekford, Joan, 280; John de, 280; Thomas, 209 Sende, Ricus do, 203 Sewal, Sewole, 196 ; Eobtus, 206 Seward, 146 ; Ralf son of, 146 Sharrington, EHzabeth, 235, 237 ; Iienry, 235, 237, 238; Johes, 291; Thomas, 235, 237, 297 ; WiUiam, 237 Sharpp, Johes. 211 Sheep, Johes, Radus fils. 202 Shelton, Ralph, 236, 282, 287, 291, 296; . Sir, 280, 290 Sheppard, Robtus, 214 Sheryngham, WUlus, 260 Shortereed, John, 176 Shotesbrook, Sir Roger, 170 Shottyng, Henr', 259 Shuldham, Cicely, 282, 283, 286, 287 ; John de, 282, 286 ; Thomas, 295 Siger, Syger, Ricus, 272; WUliam, 317 Simon, Symon, Abbat of Langley, 305; fils. GaUr', 204 ; fils. Rogeri Me- tild, 201 ; priest of Dunham, 159, 162, 163 ; de Walton. Bp. of Nor wich, 279, 2S5; fils. WUH, 203 Singleton, Francis, 277 SUici, Petrus fils., 1S2 Skarlet, Scarlet, Johes, sen. and jun., 255 ; Ricus, 255, 288, 295 Skepp, Nicholas, 296 Skepper, WiUus, 177 Skerning, Alexander de, 151, 152, 153, 201, 306 ; John, 308, 309, 313; Miles le, 139, 149 ; Nicholas le, 139; de, 149, 152; Eicherus de, 197, 203; Thomas, 269 Skeyt, Skeet, Ricus, 205 ; Thomas, 204, 205 ; Willus, 177, 178 Skeyton et Skegeton, Sir Eudo de, 243 ; FeHcia, 247 ; Henry de, 164, 240, 243, 247 ; Sir John de, 243 ; Ralf, 243, 246, 247 ; Eichard, 246, 247 SkUman, WUlus, 273 Skinner, Ricus, 214; WUHam, 275 Skippon, Barthol5, 272; Luke, 217, 269; Eobert, 271; Thomas, 217, 272; William, 217 Skott, Isabel, wife of Henry, 235 Skylmans, 260 Smith, Smyth, George, 296 ; Henry, 221, 283, 288, 289, 291,292,296; Johanna, 296: Johes, 211 ; Eadus, 272, 274 ; Samuel, 269 ; Thomas, 175, 212, 256, 257, 259; WUUam, 175, 296 Snaringe, BasUia de, 148, 149; Isa bella, 149 ; Sir Philip de, 148, 149 Snetesham, William, 283, 287 Snitterton, Hugh de, 319, 320; Richard de, 174; Sunon, 272; Thomas de, 174 Sodale, John, 348 Soham Edus, 221 Somer, Edus, 257 ; Johes, 258 Somery, Joan de, 141 ; Nicholas, 141 ; Eoger de, 141 Southgate, Margery de, 203 Southouse, John, 217 Southwell, Richard, 187, 209, 210, 282, 291, 292, 296 Sowter, Edmund, 256, 257, 258 Spagne, WilHam de, 348 Spalding, Gregory de, 326 ; Johes, 290, 291 Sparke, William, 282, 292 Sparowe, Ricus, Walter', 206 Spekk, Johes, 261 Spelman, Spilman, Henry, 266 ; SU, 216, 217; John, 217 Spinei, Ricus de, 159, 163 Spii-kcs. Thomas, 197, 218 Spitekake, Muriel, 205 Spragg, Johes, 335 Sprowston, Hugh de, 172, 173, 180, 186, 187; Margaret de, 186; Reginald, 186, 187; Theophania, 186 Spycr, Johes, 287 Spynk, Richard, 251 Spyrk, Thomas, 222 Stalworthy, AHcia, 256, 257; Henr', 255, 256, 257 ; Johes, 254 ; Ricus, 265 Stanfeld, Ricus fils. Johis, 290 Stanford, Albinus, 337 Stanho, WilHam, 202, 220 Stanton, Thomas, 202 Staple, Stapyl, John, 331 ; Thomas de, 253 Stapylton, SU Miles, 283, 286, 287 Stark, Thomas, 266 Steele, Eobert, 236 Stencroft, Edmund, 177 Sterling, Starting, John, 193, 245 St. Thomas, Robert de, 232, 242 Stirston, Thomas de, 186 St. John, Joan, John, 170 Stokesby, Nicholas de, 306 Stonesby, John, 177 Stonest, John, 177 Stonham, Johes de, 151 Stowe, Kuneynus de, 163 Strabolgi, David de, 325, 326 ; John de, 325 Strange, Adam le, 140; Agnes, 146; Alice, 141, 142, 213, 217; BasUia le, 148; Clement, 149; Clementia le, 146, 148, 150, 151 ; de Lucham, 146, 151, 170, 330 ; Durandus, Durantus le, 140, 146, 147, 148, 151. 153 ; Edmund le, 331 ; EUza beth le, 194, 213, 214, 215 ; Emma le, 140, 330 ; Eudo, 140, 141 : Grisilla le, 215 ; Guy le, 140, 141, 146; Hamo, Hamon le, 140, 141, 142, 152, 194, 195, 197, 202, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 220, 266; Sir, 142, 265, 277; Henry le, 330, 331 ; Hughle, 157; IsabeUe, 139, 146, 149, 152; le, of Lucham, 151, 308; John le, 139, 140, 141, 142, 146, 147, 148, 150, 151, 211, 241, 269, 308, 330 ; Sir le, 337 ; son of Gilbert, 149; of Knokin, 152; of Lucham, 146, 148, 151, 170 ; de la Marche, 155 ; Juliana le, 140 ; Katherine le, 193, 194, 211 ; Mar gery, 140, 141 ; Mary le, 140 ; Ma tUda, 140, 141 ; Nichola le, 152, 331 ; SU Nicholas le, 194, 215, 3b 366 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. 216, 217, 221, 329, 330; Peter le, 330; Sir, 241, 330; Prudence le, 148 ; Radus le, 140, 148, 151, 300, 330 ; of Lucheham, 141 ; Eicus, 150, 331 ; le, 216; Robert le, 141, 142, 159, 193, 194, 211 ; Rodland le, 139 ; Roger, of Fransham, 153; of Frawesham, 159, 163 ; le, 141, 152, 215, 216, 217, 240, 262, 331; Eoland, 140 ; Eonald le, 139, 140 ; Ruald le, 139, 140 ; Thomas le, 215, 216, 225, 331, Sir le, 329; Wido le, 140, 141, 152, 157; WUHam le 331 Stubbe, Alice, 217 ; Eichard, 213, 217 Sturges, Eichard, 270 ; Eobert, 266 Thomas, 217, 270 Sturnes, Johes, 337 StutevUle, Joan, 306 ; Margery or Margaret, 190 ; Osmund de, 153, 190, 327, 329, 341; Eobert de, 190, 196, 306; Sir, 201; WilHam de, 174, 190, 193, 194, 196, 221, 223, 315, 341 Stykford, John de, 347 Style, Johes, 262 Suffolk, Johes, Duke of, 209 SuUys, John, 282 Suriam, Walter, 335 Sutton, Suton, Geoffry de, 242, 329 ; Robert, 339; Eoger', 204; WU Ham de, 339 Swanton, James de, 317, 318; Johes, 296 Swathing, Edmund de, EHzabeth, Mar garet, WilHam de, 237 Swetman, Willus, cler., 296 Sweyn, Ad, 175 Swofham, Robtus, 287 Swon, Galfr', 253 Sylvester, Johes, 296 ; Ricus, 175 ; Eobtus, 296: Thomas, 176; WU Ham, 296 TaUlur, Willus le, 205 Tateshale, Tatesale, Emma de, 172 ; Margaret, Eobert de, 170, 172 n., 173, 180, 186 Tau'ner, Taverner, Henr', 291, 295 ; Jacob', 286; Johes, 288, 296; Nich', 289, 296, 297 ; Eadus, 227 ; Thomas, 221 ; Warin, 286 Teale, Eadus, 205 Tebauld, Johes, 285 Testerton, Gervas, 337 ; Eichard, son of Eobert de, 333, 337 Tetil, Eicus, 204 Thaverham, WiUus de, 253 Thedric, 198 Thirton, Thomas, 256 Thomas, le clerck, 202 ; son of Harle- wyn, 332 ; fils. Henr1 Ordin, 201 ; Humfrid', 215 ; son of MatUda, 175; Eicus, 345; fils., 273 Thoresby, Edus., 288 Thornekyn, Hamo, 150 ; de, 326; Radus. 345 ThomeweU, Lawrence de, 290 Thornham, John, 283, 287 Throckmorton, John, 184 Thurlak, Thurlok, Katherine, Philip, 258; Thomas, 177,255 Thurlowe, Mrs., 278 Thurstan, Thurston, Thruston, Henr', 254, 270; John, 296; Eadus de, 336 ; Eobtus, 257 Thuxton, AHce de, 236 ; Theobald de, 236, 238 Thyxton, Thomas, 258 Tiffe, Dy, 206 Tipping, Simon, 202 Tiptoft, Sir Payne de, 303 Titeshale, Tytleshale, John de, 170, 308; Stephen de, 170 Toft, Thomas son of Eobert de, 347 Toke, Johes, 295 Toket, Thomas, 273 Tolle, Eobtus, 259 ; Thomas, 260, 261, 270 Toly, Johes, 293 Tomson, Tommeson, Edmund', 177; Eobtus, 262 Tony, Ealf de, 324, 327, 329; Robert de, 147, 151; Roger de, 302, 327 William, 347 Topcroft, Jocelin' de, 201 ; Margaret, 201 Totale, John, 295 Tothil, Henr', 203 Toun, Henr', 257 Townshend, Townneshend, Alianor, 252 ; AUce, 170 ; dau.' of Eoger, 246; Eleanor, 262, 263; GaUr', 184 ; George, 170 ; John, 270, 271, 272 ; Eichard, 271 ; Eobtus, 273 ; Roger, 259, 261, 262, 271; atte, 270 ; SU, 170, 185, 211, 225, 235, 252, 263, 270, 271, 272, 334; Thomas, 220 Toyt, Willus, 254, 256 TraUy, John de, 346 Trench, Johes, 220 ; Thomas, 220 TrendyU, Henr', 289, 297 ; Ricus, 289, 297 Trig, Gilbert de, 163 Trolop, Andrew, Elizabeth, 301 Trump, Tromp, Adam, 259 ; Alicia, 260, 261 ; Nicholas, 258, 259, 260 ; Eicus, 256, 257, 258, 260; Tho mas, 258, 259, 260 Trunneme, Henr', 207 Trusbut, Trussebut, Agatha, WilHam, 251 Turnecburt, Henry, 321 Turner, Charles, 266, 267, 268 ; John, 267 Tumour, Thomas, 176, 178 Turstan de Fransham, 231 Tusard, Walter, 138 Twede, Thomas, 206 Ty, Tye, Dionisia de, 280, 281, 282, 289; Lawrence de, 281 ; Eobert de, 281 ; fil. Petri, 289; Sir Peter de, 281, 282 Tymworth, John, 236 ; Katherine, 236 Tyndale, Alana, 301 ; AmphilUs, 301 ; John, 301 ; Sir WiUiam, 301 Typton, Thomas, 257 Tyre, Johes, 177 ; Thomas, priest, 177 Tyxton, Thomas, 257 Ufford, Hellen, 155 ; Maude, 348 ; Eobert de, Earl of Suffolk, 348 ; Sir, 167, 325, 326, 348; SU Thomas de, 155 ; WiUiam de, Earl of Suffolk, 168, 347, 348 Ulster, Maud, Countess of, 320 Ulwyne, Johes, 203 Underwode, Thomas, 204 Uphous, John de, Margaret de, 269 Ussher, Johes, 256, 257 Utlege, Warine de, 320 Valence, Adomar de, Earl of Pembroke, 191, 208, 324, 326 ; WiUiam de, Earl of Pembroke, 324 Vals, Valibus or Vaux, Agues de, 250 ; Hubert de, 248 ; John de, 247 ; Maud de, 247 ; Oliver, 250 ; Pe troniUa de, 247, 250, 320, 321 ; Eobert de, 248, 250; WiUiam, 250 Vaus, Nicholas, 211 Vere, Ver, Ann, 339; EHzabeth de, 335 ; Sir George, 339 ; James de, Earl of Oxford, 335 ; John, 339 ; Earl of Oxford, 229, 237 n., 239 ; Eobert de, 138 Verlev, Verly, Verli, John de, 189, 224 , Juliana, 224, 227 ; PhiHp de, 152, 191, 224, 227 ; Ealf de, 169, 223, 224 ; Robert de, 223 ; Roger, 244 ; Sara de, 152 n. Vernonn, GUes de, 308 Yeutre, Vewtre, Agatha, 174 ; Christ', 258 ; Thomas, 257, 258 ; WUHam le, 174 Vincent, Johes, Petrus, 205 Vise, Johes, Prior of Thetford, 219 Wace, Johes, 254, 255', 289, 347 : Ricus, 298; Simon, 254; Steph', 274; WiUus, 254 Wade, Benedict,, 339 ; John, 283, 287 Waddenowe, Wodnowe, Edward, 259 ; Johes, 256, 259 ; Robtus, 256, 257, 258; barker, 255; Thomas, 259, 260 ; Willus, 257, 258 Wake, John, 177, 178 ; Thomas, 178 Walcote, Alexander de, 148 : Maud de, 149 Walerand, Robert, 239 Walkfare, SU Richard, 155, 156 Walpole, Henry, 222 ; Robert, 217 Walshe, Robtus, 209 Walsham, Clement, 209 ; Margery de, 338 Walsoken, Thomas, 308 Walter diaconus, 198 ; Hubert, Arch bishop of Canterbury, 321 ; son of OHver, 327 ; fils. Osberti, 336 ; Sp'we, 206 ; son of Wimer, 196 Walton, Simon de, 279, 285 Wapenburi, Richard de, 140 Ward, Johes, 257, 258, 259 ; Katherine, 259 ; Mathew, 269 Ware, Margaret de, 320 ; Roger de la, 174 ; Stephen de, 320 ; Thomas de, 319, 320 Warham, Henry de, 148 Warmele, Juliana de, 242 ; Richard de, 242; WUliam de, 241 NOMINAL INDEX TO PART I., SECTION II. 367 Warner, EUzabeth, 271 ; James, 221, ' 270 ; John, 264, 273, 288 ; Maria, 213; Mrs., 278; Roger, 378; Thomas, 217, 289 ; WUUam, 213, 214,217 Warren, Edward de, 243, 247 ; Sir, 245, 246 ; John the Earl, 191, 208, 230, 243, 245, 246 ; SU, 243, 247 ; Reginald de, 246 ; WilHam de, 328; the Earl, 327; SU W. de, 243, 246 ; son of Reginald, 246 Waterden, John, 177, 270; Ricus, 255 WatUngton, Agnes de, 302 ; John son of WiUiam de, 302 ; Robtus, 298; SU de, 302 ; Thomas de, 302 ; Walter son of WiUiam de, 302 ; WUliam de, 302 ; priest, 302 ; son of Richard de, 302 Wattys, Watts, Johes, 258, 275; WiUus, 258 ; fils. Thomse, 275 Wayte, WiUus, 256 Webster, EHzabeth, 263; Regen', 177; WUlus, 257 WeUbeloved, John, 175 WeU, WeUe, John dU, 348 ; Roger de, 333 WendUng, Wendlyng, WenHng, Ri chard de, 233 ; Symon de, 1 59, 160, 162 ; WiUiam de, 234, 304, 305 Wentworth, Johes, 211 Wery, Greg, cler., 255 Wesenham, Adam de, 153, 332, 336 Alan, 153 ; BasUia de, 153 n. CecUia de, 154; Gilbert de, 153 n. SU Hugh de, 154 ; John de, 154 son of Lambert, 154 ; SU, 154 Mathew son of Alan de, 153 ; Pe tronUla de, 154 ; RaU de, Prior of Castleacre, 154; Eichard son of WUHam de, 154 ; Eobert de, 154 ; Roger, 153, 154 ; son of Alan de, 154 ; SU, 154 ; Thomas de, 149, 153, 154, 202, 227 ; WilHam son of Alan de, 153 Westwik, Alan de, 227 Weyde, Symon, 207 Weyland, Sir Edmund, 154 ; John de, 334 ; William de, 305; Sir de, 334 Whitefoot, John, 178 Whitmay, John, 177, 254 ; Nicholas, 256, 258 Whyteacre, Stephen, 258, 259 Whytman, Johes, 255 Wilkinson, WUHam, 266 • Willake, William de, 308 WiUelegh, Burgia de, Nicholas de, 141 WUHam, Willus, clerk of Kemeston, 159, 163; dapifer, 223; dicun de Laungham, 201 ; fils. Emelot, 335; del Feu. 335 ; ad Fontem, 205 ; fils. GUberti, 203 ; de haye, 159, 163 ; Hervi, 253, 335 ; fils. Hervei, 336; fils. Fulconis, 336 ; fils. Johis, 335; son of Jeffry, 338 ; fils. Klam, 272, 273 ; son of the Knight of W. Lekesham, 159, 163 ; Lite, 203 ; Louas, 202 ; magister, 256 ; Mercator, 201 ; parson of Frans ham, 232, 305 n.; fils. Radi, 345 ; fils. Robti, 273 ; fils. Rogeri, 206 ; fils. Eolandi, 335 ; Seilina, 253 ; Styp, 207 ; le TaUlur, 205 ; Tybi, 163 ; son of Walter, 196 ; son of Walter Herewyn, 328 Williamson, Joh. cler., 210 WiUingham, David de, 273 ; Emma, dom., 273 WUloUghby, Christopher, 184; John, Lord, 348; WiUus, Lord de Eresby, 184 Wimer, Wymer, Alexander, 205 ; dapifer, 189, 196, 223 Winkel, Wynkel, Thomas de, 201 ; WUlus de, 207 ; fils. Rici, 207 Winfeld, Wingfield, Wyngfeld, Sir Anthony, 340 ; Sir de, 280 ; Ro bert, 209 ; SU, 340 ; Roger, 159 ; WUHam de, 290 ; Prior of West- acre 270 Wirmele, Juliana, 242 ; WUliam, son of Richard, 242 Wisbeche, Edmund de, 207 Wodehouse, SU Bertram, 156 Wodehuset, WUlus, 205 Woller, Robtus, 295 Wolnall, James, 269 Woodvile, Anthony, Edward, Earls Rivers, 335 Wormegai, WUlus de, 297, 302 Worts, Ambrose, 259 ; Charles, 266 Wotton, EHzabeth, 323; Johes, 212,323 Wrag, Roger', 205 Wrenne, Adam, 207 Wright, Wryght, Wrychte, Alexander de, 253 ; Jacob' le, 253 ; John, 301 ; Ricus, 348; le, 253; Robert, 176, 178 Wryde, Symon, 207 Wurth, SU Hamon, 285 Wyehyngham, dame CeciUa, 161 Wygenhale, Johes de, 202 ; Eichard de, 332, 330 ; William de, 329 Wygrave or Segrave, Henry de, 319 Wylbey, Thomas, 257 Wylde, Car', 261 ; Robert als. Charles, 262 Wylshyre, Ricus, 291 Wyndham, Charles, 186 ; John, 296 Wyssingset, AUcia, 253 ; James do, 251; Petrus de, 253 Yelverton, GresUla, 215 ; John, 171, 241, 243, 244; Robert de, 251 ; WilHam, 215, 255 Yerdly, Hugo, 287 York, John, 308 Y-ting, Richard, 201 Yue, Ricus, 202 Zouch, MatUda la, WUUam la, 346 3 b 2 GENEEAL INDEX TO PAET I. Adelwald (Elwold), Charters of, to Castleacre, 131, 132 Alan fitz Flaald and wife, Charters of, to Castleacre, 123 Alan the Ked, Earl of Bretagne, 22, 28 Albini, Earls of, 24 Aldeby, Tithes granted to Norwich Priory, 75 Arsyk or Harsyck, Fee of, 158 Arundel, Earls of, Bainard, Baynard, or Banyard Fief, 103,338; Account of Family , 1 04 ; Barony of, 104 ; Mesne Tenants and Sub-tenants, 338 seq. Bardolf Family, Account of, 51 ; Pedigree of, 51, 52; Seals de scribed, 53 Bardolph in Shakspere, 55 n. Baynard, Eobert, Inquisition post mor tem, Extract from, 98, 102 Beauchamp, Earls of Warwick, 91 ; Pedigree, 92 Beaufre, Belfo, BeUofago, de, Notice of Bishop WiUiam de, 44, 63; Fief of, 64 seq., 319 seq.; Notices in Pipe RoUs concerning, 78, 79 ; Sub-tenants, Herfords, 319; Dray- tons, 321 ; Comyn, 325 Beaumont Barony, 51, 57 Beeston Manor, 46 Beetley or Betele, 41 Belver Monastery, Charters to, 77 Bezar or Bezoar Stone described, 265 n. Bicham, MatUda, Extract from Inq. p.m., 239 Bigod or Bigot, Fief of, 38 seq , 248 seq. ; Roger, notice of, 38 ; Ped igree of Family of, 39 ; Charter of Earl Hugh, 39 Bilney, East, mentioned, 37 Bilney and Stanfeld, Local Names in, 218, 221 Bishop's Hundred, Hoxne, Suffolk, 45 Bishop of Norwich, Fief, 279 ; Simon de Walton's Charter to Richard Daubeny, 285 Bittering, 6, 19 Blofield, Acquisition of by Bishop WiUiam, 42 Booking, Suffolk, FamUy of, 226; Will of Richard, 226 Boteler (Botler), Account of Familv of, 242; Coheirs of Sir William, 243 Bozon, Bozun, Bosoun, Bosun, Bosum, Bossum, Lords of Wissingset, Ac count of Family of, 250 seq. ; WUls and Testaments of, 264, 265 ; Estates of, 250; Deed of, 251, 263; Pedigree, 276; Authorities, 277 ; Extracts from Registers, 278 Bradenham, East, Baynard's Fee in, 104, 345 Brisley Deanery, History of, 1, 4, 37 Brisley Town, Local Names in, 219,221 Brun, Maurice le, 97 BuUdwas Abbey, Shropshire, 140 Burd, Buhurd, Byhurt, or Burt, Fam ily so named, 173, 174; Identity of Hamo Burd with Hamo de Horn ingtoft considered, 173 Burghwode Manor in Mileham, 170 Burnham Ulp Church appropriated to Wendling Abbey, 305 Bury, Abbey of St. Edmund, 59; Register of referred to, 60 Caley's Manor in Heacham, 216 Camoys Pedigree, 241 ; Descent from Gatesden, 241 ; John, repudiation of his wife, a case of wife seUing, 239 Cameston or Kempston, 119, 120 Carhow or Carrow Nunnery, 140 Castello, Castell, Chastel, Pedigree, 181, 182, 183, 184; WUls and Inqui sitions, 184, 185, 186 Castleacre Priory, Foundation of, 110; Possessions of , 1 10 to 1 17 ; Charters of Henry and Hubert de Rie, 76, 77; of William, second Earl War ren, 117, 118; of WUHam, third Earl, 121 ; of Roger son of Wimer, 118; of Roger son of WilHam, 1 18, 1 1 9 ; of King Henry II., 122; of Hervey Canis (Dunham), 122 ; of Eudo and Alicia Harsic (Dun ham), 122; of Philip de Candos (Gatele), 133, 134; of Land in Dunham, Kempston, Lechesham, 122 Charter deposited on Altar, 134 Chersing-hall, v. GressenliaU Chevere or De Capra Family, 1 04 Clare, Descent of Earldom, 85 ; Honor of, 83, 326 Clavering, Lords, 165; Eva, her four husbands, 166 Clifton Pedigree, 172, 173 Cokesford (Coxford) Priory, Founda tion of, 224 ; Grants to, 34 ; Records of, 227; in Valor Eccle siasticus, 225 Coxford Priory, possession of, 225 Cokshote Wood in Horningtoft, 177 Cokon, Bartholomew, Chronicle of, re ferred to, 43 Colekirk, Eomesday Survey, 41 ; Lord ship of, 96 ; PubUc Way shut up and Inquis. ad quod damnum, 97 ; Extent of Manor temp. Ed. I., 100 Conches in Normandy, 86, 87 Congham, Land there held of Gressen haU by knight's service, 218 Cressy, Margery, widow, Grant of her Marriage, 160 Cressingham, 243 Creyk, North, Abbey, Release of Right from Prior of Castleacre, 133 Orudd's in Fransham, Manor, 236 Damesend, John atte, his Property in Elmham, 281 Dapifers of Earls Warren, 33, 111 Daubeny, Reginald, the Bishop's valet, 285 Deanery of Brisley, 1 Deopham, Manor of, 78 Derham, Dereham, East, 61, 62, 64 Dichwode, nemus de, 121, 127, 128 Dikewode, 128 ; Dychewode, 134 Dicheswode in Fransham, 129; Ten ement of , 128, 136 Dillington, 63, 321 Eomesday Survey, Analysis of ; Crown Lands under Will, de Noiers, 6 ; under Godric, 19; Fief of Roger Bigot, 38 ; Fief of Ealf de Beau fre, 63, 64 ; Fief of Ralf Barnard, 103 ; Fief of Bishop of Thetford, 41 ; Fief of Bury Abbey, 59 ; Fief of Ely Abbey, 61 ; Fief of Her merus, 49 ; Fief of Peter de Valoins, 107 ; Fief of WUUam Warren, 30 Draj-ton Lordship, 72 Dreux, Counts of, 21, 28 Dunedich, 126 Dunham Lordships, 4, 6, 73, 86, 298 ; Arsick' s Fee, 158 ; Foliot' s Fee, 191 ; Church and Land granted to Castleacre Priory, 111, 112, 114, 115; Eoyal Charter of Confirma tion, 122 ; Church of St. Andrew GENERAL INDEX TO PART I. 369 made parochial, 122 ; Church of St. Mary given to Castleacre by King Henry, 122; divers Charters, 123 ; Dispute between John Arsic and Prior of Castleacre as to right of pasturage, 123; Rachemere in Dunham, 122 ; Dunham More, 123 East Angles, Episcopal See of, 42, 43, 44, 48 ; Earldom of, 21 Eborard, Bishop of Norwich, Charter of Confirmation to Castleacre, 121 Ecclesiastics, Children of, mentioned, 128, 131, 132 Elmham, Bishops of, 42, 43, 44, 48 Elmham, North, the Bishop's Fee, 41 to 48 ; Nowers Manor, 41, 43, 279; tbe Place, 285; Dunham Stede, 281, 289 ; ThornweU, 289 ; La HiUs, 281, 289; WatermiU, 211, 215 Elmham, South, Suffolk, 45 Ely Abbey (St. Etheldreda), 61; Fief of Abbat, 61 ; Bishop's See, 62 ; Tenants of, 315 Eliensis Liber referred to, 62 Erleham, Family of, 315; Evidences, 318 Erpingham, Window in Church of St. Michael's Coslany, Norwich, 156 Eudo, Landowners so named in Eomes day, 65 Eyton's Antiquities of Shropshire re ferred to, 139, 146, 148 Faber of Wendling, Charters of, 132 Fader (Fradre), Possessions of, 64 Feltham's Manor in Gt. Massingham, 156 Feltons, Lords of Litcham, 155 ; Ped igree of, 157, 158; WUl of SU Hamon, 156 Fincham, Pedigree of Family, 226, 227 Fitz-Alan, Notices of FamUy, 8; Ped. igree; 16 ; Fief of, 7, 139 ; Sub infeudations, 139 Fitz-Gilbert, Fief, 83; Pedigree of FamUy, 85, 105 Fitz Ivo, Rainald, Fief of, 83, 326 Fitz Roger, Fief of, 165 Fitz Walter, Barony of, 104, 105 ; Pedigree of Family, 105, 106, 166 FHxton, Suffolk, 45 Folyot Family, History of, 34, 190 ; Pedigree, 196, 197 Foliott, Richard, Inq. post mort. and Wardship of Coheiresses, 308 Fothering-hay, Pedigree of FamUy, 160 Franklvn FamUy, of Northelmham, Notice of, 284 Fransham and Rougham Fief, 201 Fransham and Scarning Fief, 34, 115, 228 ; Lordships in, 30, 34, 35, 64, 72, 86, 87, 245, 323 ; Grants of Lands and. Tithe to Castleacre, divers Charters, 111 to 131 Fransham, Francavilla, Franchville, identity of names, 232 ; named in charters, 128, 129, 131 Fransham, Geoffry, Coheirs of, 235 ; Robert of Northelmham, Will, 206 Freville Family, Notice of, 341 ; Ped igree, 342 ; Evidences, 344 ; In quisitions p.m., 345 Gatelea, Gately, Lordship, 94, 98 ; Extent of, 100; Church and Ad vowson, 96 ; Valoins Fee in, 107 ; Fee of Simon, 332 ; Charters, 133, 335; to Castleacre, 134; to Nor wich Priory, 335 ; Land in, called Tolisnap. 115, 133; Pedigree of Family from Le Neve, 98 ; Ralf de, Inquis. post mortem, 98 ; Charters of, 336 Gatesden, John de, Persons so named, 238, 239, 240 ; Pedigree of Family, 241 ; Fee of John de, 241 ; Inqui sitions post mortem Johis, Marga ret, Hawisie, 219 Gaywood Hospital, foundation of, 159; Charters of, 162, 163 Giffards, Fee named, 129 Godric, a Saxon Landowner, 86 Godwick, Manor of, 330 ; Evidences, 331 ; Lordship, 327 Godwin, a Saxon freeman, 65 Godwin, Earl, 65 Godwin of Hoo, his gift to St. Ed mund's Abbey, 62 Green's HaU Manor in Tittleshall, 226 GressenhaU, Lordship, 30, 32, 34, 37 ; Lands in, granted to Castleacre, 110, 114, 115; the Honor of, Fees comprised in, 189, 196; Manors owing service to, 319 ; FoHot's Fief in, 191 ; Free Tenures of Manor. 202 ; ViUan Tenures, 203; Customary Tenants, 216; Rents rendered in kind, corn, fowls, labour, &c, 205 to 207 ; Family, Charters of, 201 ; Pedigree of, 197; Local Names in, Catts falgate, Cokes Bushe, 218 ; Horsfryth Common, 218 ; Germonds, 220 : Oldcar Mor, 2C3; Prest's Croft. 210; Manorial Services, 220 Grenemill, Grintmyll, Gryndmyll, in North Elmham, 211, 212, 216, 217; Conveyance to John Hastings, 221 Greynston, Lordship, 81, 84 Grimketel, Bishop, 43 Guader, Ralf, 12, 22, 23, 38, 65 ; Ped igree of, 21 Hariing Lordship, 64 .Harrod, Mr., on See of Elmham, 45 Harsick or Arsyk, Pedigree, 160 Harsyk Wills, 161 Hastings Family History, 193 Hastyngs, Hugbde, Inq. p.m. (1488), 208 ; Hugh de, Inq. p.m. (1541), 211 ; Release from Lady Margaret, 210 ; Coheiresses, their Wardship and Marriage, 212; Partition of Estates, 213 Hastings and Le Strange, Marriage, 195 Haughmond Abbey in Shropshire, 140, 141 Hauville, HavUe, or HautvUle, Family of, 315 Hawle, Hawleigh, Honor of, 97 Heddingham Honor, 230 Heighmore, 218 Helmham, vide Elmham Herbert, Bishop, 47, 48 Hereford, Earls of, 22 Herfords or Harfords Manor, 72, 319 Heringshae, belonging to Castleacre, 115, 117 Hervey, Lord Arthur, his paper on " Playforda and the Feltons," 157 Heydon, John, his Homage to Gres senhaU, 245 Heymer's Manor, 212, 214, 216 Hoe, Hoo, Lordship, 34,37,61,315; Sub-tenants in, 221, 315, 319; Tithe granted to Castleacre, 115; Chapel MUl, 221; FoHot's Fee, 191; Sampson's LittleweU, 218 ; St. Withberge, 151 Hokering, Lordship, 67, 72, 73 Hokewold, 53 Hoo and Tye Pedigree, 282 Holme or Hulme, Manor of, 223 Homage, Proceedings to enforce, 214 ; Performance of in Manor Court,218 Horningtoft, Lordship, 19, 24, 171, ISO; Mesne and Sub-tenants, 171; Extracts from Court Rolls and BaUiff s Account, 175 to 180 Horsham Priory, 80 ; Foundation of, 165 Hoveton Manor, 149 Howard Family, Dukes of Norfolk, 18 Hoxne, Suffolk, Episcopal Seat, 45 Hulmo, SU Robert de, 20, 24 Hundred of Launditch, 138, 146 ; in cluded in Deed of Settlement, 151 Hunstanton Church and Mill, 140; Tenure of Manor, 141 ; old Char ters in Muniment Room at the Hall, 201; Musket's Manor, 206; Holme Manor, 216 Huntingfeld, Family of, 345 seq. ; Pedigree, 348 Kalveswode in Lexham, 115. 126 Kempston, Lordship, 30 ; Charter of Alan Fitz Flaald and Adelina his wife, 123; other Charters made to Castleacre Priory, 123, 124 ; FoHot's Fee in, 191 ; VUlan Ser vice in, 124 Kipton Manor or Lordship, 91; Mesne Tenants of, 171; Under-tenants, 173, 186 KirtUng, 6 Lancaster, Earl of, 34 ; Duchy of, 35, 212, 215, 218 Langley Abbev, Praemonstratensian, Abbat of, 312 Launditch, origin of name, 138 Lechesham, Lexham, Lordship, 30, 32, 34, 49, 63, 64, 70 ;• Church of East, 111, 112, 114, 115, 121, 122; 370 HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH. Charters to Castleacre, 111, 112, 114, 115 ; Church of West, given to Castleacre ; Charter of Ric. St. Clare, 132; Exchange with Prior of Peterston, 132; Sub-tenants of Fee, 223, 298; Kalveswade in West Lexham, 115, 126, 132 Le'Strange of Hunstanton, History of Family, 139; Pedigree, 142, 144; Inquisitions post mortem, ex tracted, 150, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 216; Settlements abstracted. 215, 217 ; Testament of SU Nicholas, 216 ; MS. Notes by SU Nicholas, from Court RoUs and Evidences, 219, 220 Letes Court, jurisdiction of and pro ceedings at, 175 Lisewis, Fee, 332 ; Charter, 335 Litcham or Lucham, Lordship, 4, 6 ; Subtenants of, 146, 149, 155, 221, 324 Longdiche, 126, 138 Longham, Lordship, 6, 7, 49, 141 ; Charters to Castleacre, 126; Sub tenants of, 152; Lands formerly Narburgh's, 220 Lucas of Holkham, Contents of WUl of Thomas, 187, 188 Lucham, see Litcham Manorial Tenures and Customs, 175, 177 ; Rents paid in kind, 177 ; Rents in corn, fowls, labour, &c, 203 to 207 ; Homage performed in Court, 245 March, Earls of, 84 Marescal, or Marshall, 69, 70, 71 ; John, Inq. post mort. 81 Martyn of Melford, FamUy, 283, 284 Mellent, Counts of, 95 MUeham, Honour of, 6, 19; Knights' Fees in, 139, 165 ; Eichmond Fief in, 12, 168 ; Notices of in Hun dred Rolls, 169 ; Wyrethorp in, 169 Mitford Hundred, 53 Montford, Earldom of, 25 ; Fief, 94, 332 ; Family History, 94, 95 ; in Normandy, 95 Morley, Barony of, 68, 69, 73, 74; Dame Isabel, Extract from WUl of, 82 Mowbray, House of, 40 Necton, Neketon, Lordship, 86, 88. 93 Nerford, Maud, Concubine of Earl Warren, 243, 245, 246 ; Arms of, 247 Neve, Peter le, MSS. referred to. 147 Newton Church granted to Castle acre Priory, 121 Newhall Manor in Tittleshall, 220 Noiers, William de, the King's Stew ard, 5, 48 Norfolk, Earldom of, 12, 21 Normansburgh Priory, Foundation of, 332 Northelmham, vide Elmham Norwich Priory, 48 ; Grant of land in Gateley, 332 ; Dean and Chapter, 48 ; Register of, 335 seq. ; Cathe dral, 67 ; Castellan of Castle, 66 ; Castle Guard to, 71, 80 Norwich, Sir John, Inq. p. m. 168; Margaret. Inq. p. m., 168 ; Pedi gree of Family, 167; Charter of Bishop Simon de Walton, 285 ; Charter of Bishop Thomas Percy and Description of Seal, 292 ; Seal engraved, 293 Nowers Manor in EUnham, Charters relating to, 297 seq. ; the Site of the Manor, 297 OldehaUe Ker in Gressenhall, 203 Ouerker Manor in Stanfield and Bilney, 218 Oxwick, Oxwyk, Lordship, 313 Oxnede, John, Chronicle of, referred to, 4 Parker, Sir Henry, Lord Morley, his Will, 73; Representation of Fam ily, 73, 174 Patesle, Pattesley, Lordship of, 107, 350 ; Domesday Analysis, 107 ; Family of, 350 Pedigrees, tabular, of Bardolf, 51 n. ; BaUiol, 108 ; Beauchamp, 92 ; Beaumont, Lords, 52 ; Bigod or Bygot, 39 ; Bretagne, Earls and Dukes of, 28 ; Cressi, 70 ; Felton, 157, 158; Fitz Alan, 17; Fitz Gilbert, 85, 105 ; Fitz Robert and Fitz Roger, 116; Fitz Walter, 105, 106, 166; FreviUe or Frevyl, 343; Gatesden and Camoys, 241 Harsick or Arsyk, 160 ; Hastings, 198, 200, 201 ; Hoo and Tye, 282 Howard, 229; Huntingfeid, 348 Strabolgi, 325; Scales, 333, 334 Le Strange of Hunstanton, 142, 143, 144; Le Strange of Lucham. 147, 148, Mareschal or Marshall. 68; Morley, 68; Norwich de, 167' 168; Parker Lord Morley, 73 Playz, 229 ; Rie or Rye, 67 ; Ralf Guader, 21 ; Rokele, de la, 99 Roos de, 249 ; Scales, 333, 334 Sutton, 340 ; Toeni, Thony, 88 89; VaUibus or Vaux, de, 249 Valoins, 108 ; Warren, 36 Peleville, Charters of William and Peter de to Castleacre, 127, 128 Pembroke, Adomar de Valence, Earl of, his claim to Inheritance of FoHot, 191 Pentney, Prior of, 218 Phelipp. Family of, 52 to 57 ; Will of WilHam, Lord, 56 PUewode, local name in Tenure of WilHam de Fransham, 234 Place, the, in Elmham, 279 " Playford and the Feltons," a Paper bv Lord Arthur Hervey noticed, 157 Playz and Howard Pedigree, 229 Playz, Inquisitions post mortem, 230 Priests' Sons named, 128 Puttocke eske, local name, 126 Ralf Guader, the Earl, 8, 11, 21, 22, 24 ; Pedigree of, 21 RatcUff, Baron Fitz Walter, 106 Raynham Lordship, 332, 334 Ricard, Possessions of, 59, 63 Rie or Rye Family, Account of, 64 ; Pedigree, 67 ; Barony, Descent of, 67, 71 ; Knights' Fees in, 76 ; Charters, 74, 76, 77 ; PubHc Re cords of, 78 Richmond Honor and Earldom, 20, 22, 24, 25, 27 ; Knights' Fees com prised in Fief, 20 ; Subinfeuda tions of, 164 ; Mesne Tenants, 165 ; MUeham Sub-tenants, 160 Ringstead Lordship, 216 ; Barrett's Manor, 217 Rokele, Margaret de la, Inquisition as to her Pregnancy, 97 Rokele, de la, Pedigree of Family, 99 ; Inquisition post mortem, 100, 101 Rokele of Wokendon, 96, 99 Roos de, Pedigree of, 249, 250 Eougholme, Chapel of St. Nicholas, 210, 221 ; Manor of, 213, 216 Rucham, Rupham, Rougham, Fees in, 19, 30, 35, 37, 49 ; Sub-tenants, 171, 238, 245 ; Charters to Castle acre, 114, 124, 125 Rougham and Fransham Fief, 34, 241; Charters of Hugh de Fochington, Juliana de WUmele, WUliam Fitz- walter, WilHam de Curcun, and Alexander de Rucham, 124, 125 ; Earl Warren's Fief, 242 seq. St. Edmund's (Bury) Abbey, 59, 304 ; Analysis of Fief, Wendling Abbey, 304 St. Etheldreda (Ely) Abbey, 61 Savoy, The Lord Peter of, 169 Scarning, Scherninghe, Skerning, Fees in, 30, 32, 34, 37, 70; Sub-tenants, 103, 228, 244, 321; Baynard's Fief, 103; FoHol's Fee, 191; Charters to Castleacre Priory, 115; Northend Hall Manor, 218, 244, 245 ; Agreement for apportion ment of Tithe, 234 ; Gunton's Manor, 244; Baynard's Fief in, 345 Scales Pedigrees, 333, 334 Seal of Bishop Percy described, 292 ; impression set in rush braid, 287 ; of Wendling Abbey engraved, 304 SUeham in Suffolk; 46 Skegeton or Skeyton Family, 243, 245 SoHdate of Land, Quantity of, 110 n. Southelmham Deanery, Suffolk, 45 Southwark, Canons of, Grants to, 78 Sparhams in Necton Manor. 93 Spencer, Henry, Bishop of Norwich, 45 Spurdens, Rev. W. J. on Bishop Her bert. 47 Spurriall, Corn so named, 265 Sutton Pedigree, 340 Stanfield, 30 GENERAL INDEX TO PART I. 371 Stigand, Archbishop, Notice of, 5, 44 ; Possessions of, 4, 42 Strabolgi, Earl of Athol, Pedigree, 325; Evidences, 326 Strange, le, of Hunstanton, Ancestors and Plistory of Family, 139 to 142; Pedigree of, 142 to 145; of Luc ham or Litcham, 140; Notices of FamUy, 146 to 150; Inquis. post mortem; 150, 151; of Ercall, Suit between Co-heiresses, 140 ; Des cendants of, 144; of Blackmercs of Knokin, 142; of Wiveton, 144; of Tymworth, 160; Sir Thomas, Contents of Will and Inquis. p. m. 331 ; Sir Peter, Franchises in Fransham granted to him, 241 StutevUl FamUy, 190 ; Pedigree, 195 Swanton, Fees in, 63, 319 Tattersett, Manor of, 225 Tattesale, Robert, Inq. p.m., 172 Tattesall, Pedigree, 171, 172 Taverner, Warm, Deed of, temp. Ed ward L, 285 Testerton, Advowson of Church, 148 Titelshall, Fees in, 4, 6, 30, 34, 37, 103 ; Baynard's Fief, 103 ; FoHot's Fief, 191 ; Tithe belongmg to Castleacre, 115 ; Advowson of Church. 224 ; Tenants of Manor, 223, 327, 338 Theodred, Bishop, Notice of, 43 Thetford, See of, 43 ; Prior of, Homage to GressenhaU, 219 Toeni, RaU de, Fief of, 86 ; his Char ter to Castleacre, 127 Toeni, Tony, Thony, Pedigrees, 88, 169, 170 ; Inquisitions post mor tem, 93 ; Roger, Charters to Castleacre, 127, 132 Tusard Family, Charters to Castleacre Priory, 126 Tye Family and Estates, 281, 282 ; Dyonisia, Lady, purport of her WiU, 281 Ufford, Sir Robert, his heirs, 167 Valence, Earl of Pembroke, 324 Valoins, Peter, Fief of, 107 ; Barony of, 108; Pedigree of FamUy, 108; Charters, 109 Vaux, Vals, de VaUibus, Family, 113; Coheirs of, 248; Pedigree, 249; Records concerning, 250 ; Clause of WiU of Earl John, 339 Veiiey, John de, Lands of, 34 VerUs Manor in Pickenham, 170 Vestitum, Explanation of, appUed to land, 112 n. VUlan, tenant and services, instances of transfers of, 67, 113, 120, 231, 232 Wages, Rate of, temp. Edward L, 177, 179 Walsingham Priory, Possessions of in Hundred, 13, 14, 135 ; in Longham, 152 Warren, Fief of Earls, 31, 189; Pedi gree of, 36 ; John, last Earl, his Proceedings to obtain Divorce, 245 ; his Illegitimate Descendants, 243, 245 ; theU Arms, 247 ; of Poynton, 245 ; Foundation of Castleacre Priory, 110 Warwick, Edward, Earl of, 34 Watson's History of Earls of Warren and Surrey referred to, 245 WeUingham, Domesday Analysis, 103 ; Lordship of, 104 ; Tenants in, 238, 341 ; Extent of, 150 ; Charters to Castleacre, 126 WendUng Abbey, Foundation of, 304 ; Manors in Scarning, 244 ; Land in Fransham, 234; Plan of Site, 304 Wendling, Trial as to Title of Land in, 134; Charters, 111, 114, 115, 121, 126, 127 Wesenham, Charters to Castleacre, 110, 111, 112, 114; Thorpe, 127 Wesenham, Charters, 111, 114, 115, 121, 126, 127 ; Manors, Sub tenants of, 153, 173 ; Notices of Family, 153 Westacre Priory, Manor in Fransham, 241 _; Foundation of, 317; Pos sessions of exchanged with Castle acre, 127 Wetyng Castle, 228 Wife, Sale of, by Deed, 239 Wimer, Dapifer, his Descendants, 110, 111, 112, 114, 195; his Possessions, 33, 189; Charters to Castleacre, 110, 118, 119 Wingfeld of Dunham, Pedigree, 161 Wirmele, Family of, 242 Wirmegai, Wormegay Fief, 56, 58 ; Charters,' 58 Wlnothesdale in Dunham, 159 Worthing, Tenants of, 63, 304 Wydekeshoe in Suffolk, 104 Wyresthorpe in Mileham, 169 Wyssingset, Wissonsett, Lords of, 38, 248 seq; Church, 121; Charters, 253 seq; Court Rolls, 269; Ex tracts from Court Books, 270 ; Rental of Manor, 272 STjenfoorg in 1$ari £ Thus I send thee, my first and only child, the offspring of my old age, into the world ; indulging the hope that as thou attainest maturity thou wilt meet with more patrons than thou hast been favoured with since the announcement of thy conception. Thou hast many imperfections, yet it is possible there may be those who will upon acquaintance have a better opinion of thy merits than even thine own fond parent. Thou art but a skeleton, but thou mayest come under the notice of some who will have charity to clothe thy dry bones with flesh and blood, and infuse life and spirit into thy thin limbs. — G.A.C.