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PREFACE.

THE manuscript, known as the Liber de Antiquis Legibus, now deposited
in the Record Room, Town Clerk's Office, at the Guildhall of the city of
London, is a small folio, nine inches and a half in length and seven inches
in breadth, the binding of white leather, covering wooden backs, and con-
taining 159 leaves of parchment, paged continuously with Arabic cyphers.
The index prefixed to the volume indicates the successive chapters which
it was originally intended should compose the volume ; but the first chapter
and three others in the body of the manuscript were left blank, though
since written over by matter of later insertion. The original portion of
this manuscript will have been written throughout in Latin in the year of
our Lord 1274, 2 Edward I., and the remainder added at different intervals
in French, which later date will also apply to the references in the margins.
A considerable portion of this volume is filled with extracts from the Gesta
Regum Anglorum of William, the monk of Malmsbury, under titles of the
writer's own composition. At the top of the page the reverse of folio 63
commence the Chronicles of the Mayors and Sheriffs of London and the
events which occurred in their times, from the year 1188 to the year 1274,
up to the month of August, the preparations for the coronation of Edward I.,
who landed at Dover the 2d of that month, being the subject matter of the
closing paragraphs of this valuable portion of its contents. The title of the
Book of Ancient Laws is only applicable to the chapters 38 and 44 ; the
first of which contains the regulations prescribed, by the name of Assise, as
to the inhabitants of London in respect of their buildings and dwellings, and
the second the Provisions made by the Lord Henry the King, son of King
John, and his council, to amend the English laws, of which the larger por-
tion had been ordained in the time of the Earl of Leicester, in the year of
the Lord 1264, after the battle of Lewes, fought on Wednesday the four-
teenth day of May. In each instance of the Latin name of the city of Lon-
don, where written at full length in this manuscript, the plural termination

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is used, and Roger de VVendoTer adopts this form in his Chronicle ; it has
consequently heen adhered to by the editor. The mode in which the city of
London and county of Middlesex were fermed by the Sheriffs prior to the
yar 1188 may he seen in the Finna Burgi hy Madox, chap. ix. p. 164,
and from the Pipe Rolls we learn that the Sheriffs were sometimes four in
number, and in the 4th vear of Hen. II. there were five Sheriffs. The two
Sheriffs Henry de Corahill and Richard son of Reyner, whose names are
first mentioned in this chronicle, had rendered accompt of the ferm of Lon-
don and Middlesex hi the S4th year of Henry II. and on the feast of St.
Michael in that year, 29th September 1188, they were again elected to the
same office. On the Pipe Roll 1 Ric, I. they are accountants both of the
old ferm and of the new ferm, and their accompt is closed with this entry :
Et in pardonis per breve Regis eisdem \lcecomitibus, c/i, et debent ccc/i.
et quater xx. et xuli. et xxiirf. Blanca. de quibus c, et quater xx. et xuVi, et
xxiidL blanca sunt super predictum Henricum et c. et quater xx. et xii/i. et
xxiu blanca super Ricardum filium Reineri." Henry de Cornhill, husband
of Alice de Courcy, the heiress of the barony of Stoke Courcy, com. Somer-
set, and who after his decease remarried Warine Fitz-Gerold, the King's
Chamberlain, leaving by each an only daughter, coheirs of this barony, of
whom Joan de Cornhill was the wife of Hugh de Nevill, Proto-forester of
England, and Margery, wife first of Baldwin de Reviers, eldest son and
heir apparent of William de Vernon, Earl of Devon, deceased in his father's
lifetime, and secondly of the well-known favourite of King John, rfi&f'a'e
Breaute, who had name from a commune of the canton of Goderville,
arrondissement of Le Havre, departement of La Seme Inferieure, rendered
accompt of this his debt on the same roll, proving his expenditure of a sur-
plus of 2/i. Is. 4<L blanch money over the said sum, under the King's writ
in providing for the several armaments and dresses preparatory to his coro-
nation. This accompt will therefore have extended over the years from
Michaelmas 1187, 33 Hen. II., to Michaelmas 1189, 1 Ric. ! in which
interval of time Henry H. was deceased 6th July, and Richard was crowned
on Sunday the 3d of September ; and it was on occasion of that solemnity
that the Jews were destroyed throughout England. In the same year, ac-
cording to our chronicle, Henry, son of Eylwin of London-stone,* was made

The dwelling of Hemy Fit* Avlwin, the fin* Mayor of London, a very fiur house,

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Mayor of London, who was the first Mayor in the city, and who continued
Mayor up to the close of his life, namely, well nigh for twenty-five year?.
The day of the election of the Mayor was on the 28th day of October, the
feast of St. Simon and Jude, and as he was deceased before the 5th day of
October 1212, 14th John, it wanted but a few days of the completion of the
twenty-fifth year of his mayoralty, if elected in 1187.

In the Appendix to the Introduction prefixed to the Rotuli Curiae Regis
by Sir Francis Palgrave is copy of a deed by which Henry Fitz Ailwin
grants to William Lafaite the land which Emma, sister of the aforesaid
William, had held in Lime-street, which lay next the land of the Abbot of
Ramsey, to be held of him and his heirs by the grantee and his heirs in fief
and in inheritance for ever at the annual rent of I2d. 9 for which concession
the aforesaid William gave to him half a mark of silver by way of boon.
Witnesses, Peter son of Alan, Ralph Brand, Jordan son of Sperling,
Robert the Chamberlain, Jordan son of Jordan. Appendant to this deed
is a seal of yellow wax, varnished, impressed with the representation of a
man on horseback, a hawk perched on his fist, with an inscription round its
circumference, but so defaced as to be illegible, and is now in the Treasury
of the Exchequer. In the same Appendix is also copy of a convention and
concord made in the Curia Regis at Westminster on the feast of St. Andrew
the Apostle, third year of the reign of King Richard, before John Comte of
Mortain, brother of the King, and before Walter Archbishop of Rouen, then
Justiciary of England, and Richard Bishop of London, then Treasurer of
the Lord the King, and the Barons of the Exchequer, between William son
of Reiner and Henry his brother, concerning lands in Middlesex and London,
with these witnesses, Hugh Bishop of Chester, William Le Mareschal,
John Le Mareschal, Robert de Witefeld, Roger Fitz Reinfrey, Robert
Fitz Roger, Osbert Fitz Hervey, Robert Ruffus, Chamberlain of Comte

stood on the north side of the Church of St. Swithin and churchyard, and the adroi
was appropriated to the mansion, as appears from an inquest taken after the death of
Robert Aguylon, his descendant, hereafter cited. This Church of St. Swithin was situate
at the south-west corner of St. Swithin's-lane, OTCT against London Stone, in Candlewick-
street, but in Walbrook ward, and from the situation thereof hath been called St. Swithin
in Candlewick-street, but more frequently of late St. Swithin London-Stone. At the
present time this street goes under the name of Cannon-street. Hence the appellation
given to Henry Fitz Aylwin, as being of London Stone, in the Chronicle.

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John, Henry de Cornhulle, Ralph and Reginald his brothers, Ralph Fitz
Ralph, Henry Fitz Ailwin, William de Haverhulle, Roger Fitz Alan, Alan
Fitz Peter, Michael Fitz John, Richard his son, Geoffrey Bucointe, John
Fitz Elinant, William Badue.

On the Roll of the Curia Regis, containing assises, &c. in the quinzaine
of St. John the Baptist, 1 John, 1199, 8th July, is this entry: " Sudsexia.
Assisa venit recognoscere si una virgata terre cum pertinentiis in Percinges
sit libera elemosina pertinens ad capellam de Percinges, que est Johannis de
Brancester, an laicum feodum Petri filii Henrici majoris Londoniarum et
Isabelle uxoris ejus. Juratores dicunt quod est laicum feodum Petri et
Ysabelle.

Perching is in Edburton parish, hundred of Burbeach, rape of Bramber,
and was parcel of the honour of Warren, which at the time of the Survey
was held of him by William de Watteville and afterwards by Bartholomew
de Cheney, whose daughter and heir Isabella was then the wife of Peter,
eldest born son of Henry Fitz Ailwin, Mayor of London. In Surrey the
same Bartholomew held a certain portion of the vill of Addington, in the
hundred of Wallington, com. Surrey, in chief of the Lord the King, by the
serjeanty of the kitchen, and it was not known of whose gift, and Richard
the King gave the same portion to Peter, son of the Mayor of London, with
the daughter of the same Bartholomew, and the Lord John the King after-
wards gave the same portion to Ralph le Parmentier with the daughter of
the same Peter ; and it was at the time of the inquest, of which this record
is preserved in the Testa de Nevill, in the hand of the Lord the King. At
the same time the heirs of Bartholomew de Cheney held in the vill of Lewes
two messuages of the Lord the King, but it was not known by what service.
In the same record Peter son of the Mayor of London is said to hold the
moiety of Addington by the service of the kitchen.

On the great Roll of the Pipe, 3d John, under London and Middlesex,
where entry is made of the fines of those holding by military service, given
lest they should cross the Channel, Henry Mayor of London was charged
ten marks for the fiefs of two knights of the honour of Peverell of London ;
but afterwards recorded by Geoffrey Fitz Piers that he had only fined for
six marks. By a Letter Close of the year 1205 entered upon the Roll of
the seventh year of his reign, the King instructed the Barons of the Exche-
quer to reckon on behalf of the citizens of London nine hundred marks of

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silver by weight, which they had paid into the Privy Chamber at Stokes,
through the hands of Peter, son of the Mayor, of John, of Constentine son
of Aluf, of William the Chamberlain, and of Alan de Balon, of the proffer
made to him in aid of his expedition beyond sea, and is dated from Por-
chester the third day of June, through Philip de Lucy.

Another property of Henry the Mayor of London was the manor of
Watton, in the hundred of Broadwater, com. Herts, held by the serjeanty
of finding one foot soldier for the host of the Lord the King in Wales with
bow and arrows, and the ancestors of the Mayor had held by the same ser-
vice of the ancestors of the Lord the King. It had also the name of
Watton at Stone, and was a parish in the deanery of Hertford, archdeaconry
of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln, having the church under the invo-
cation of St. Mary and St. Andrew. There appears to have been anciently
a chafepy in this enurcn, dedicated to St. Mary, and known by the name of
Whemsted, and there were lands and tenements in the parishes of St.
S within and St. Mary Abchurch in London subjected to the customary
render of five marks annually to the support of the chantor or custos of this
chapel, whose presentation was in the gift of the Lords of the Manor.

At the time when the survey of the county of Surrey was made for in-
sertion in Domesday Book, Tezelinus the Cook held of the King Edintone.
Godric had held it of King Edward. Then it was geldable for eight hides,
now for one hide. There is land to four ploughs. In the demesne are two
ploughs, and eight villains and nine cotters with two ploughs and a half.
Forest for twenty swine. It is worth and was worth five pounds. In the
7 Hen. II. 1161, Bartholomew de Cheney rendered accompt in Surrey of
one mark for scutage, and of his gift the Canons of St. Mary Overy, South-
wark, acquired the presentation of the church of St. Mary of Addington in
the deanery of Ewell, archdeaconry of Surrey, and diocese of Winchester,
to which priory Richard, Bishop of Winchester, confirmed it by his charter
in these terms : ecclesiam de Edintone cum capella Omnium Sanctorum et
omnibus aliis pertinentiis suis ex concessione et presentatione Bartholomei
de Kaisneto. In qua videlicet capella Omnium Sanctorum Reginaldus de
Edintone jus patronatus quandoque sibi vendicaverat, ipsamque postea
coram nobis et pluribus aliis Deo et Ecclesiae prescripts Canonicisque
ibidem Deo servientibus in perpetuam elemosinam concessit, ita quod ipse
velheredes sui nichil in ea juris de cetero modis aliquibus poterunt vendicare.

v i PREFACE.

Subsequenter etiam idem Reginaldus memoratam capellam coram Herberto
Cantuariensi Archidiacono et aliis viris discretis et honestis, quos ad facien-
dum destinaverimus hoc, in ecclesia beatae Mariae de Suwerch sepedictis
canonicis concessit eamque super majus altare per cultellum plicatum, velut
in memoriale perpetuum, eisdem astantibus, optulit, seque id ipsum fecisse
statim coram nobis confessus est. Richard, Archdeacon of Poitiers, was
elected to the see of Winchester 1 May 1173 and consecrated 3 August
1174, and the duration of his prelacy lasted to the morrow of the feast of
St. Thomas the Apostle, 22d December 1188. Bartholomew de Cheney
was witness to the charter of Geoffrey de Say confirming the benefactions
of William de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, deceased 14th Nov. 1 190, and of
Beatrix, his mother, to the church of Blessed Mary and St. James of
Walden in Essex, which had been made an abbey on the first day of August
the year above-named.

As early as the year 1203 Isabella de Cheney, wife of Peter, eldest son
of Henry Fitz Aylwin, was deceased, and, as we learn from the following
entry in the Cottonian MS. Claudius A. vm. she was buried in the
Priory of Bermondsey, founded by Aylwin Child, a citizen of London,
about the year 1082, in Southward near St. Mary Magdalen in Bermond-
sey, to the honour of our Holy Saviour, and a cell to the abbey of La Charite-
sur-Loire in France, and who was probably the lineal ancestor of Henry
Fitz Aylwin first mayor of London. The monks of La Charite were of the
order of Cluny.

Petrus filius Henrici filii Ailwini de Londoniis dat ecclesie Sancti Salva-
toris de Bermondsey et monachis ibidem servientibus xvi. solidos redditus
de tenemento de Edintone cum corpore Tsabelle uxoris sue, filie Bartholomei
de Chesneto, ibidem sepulta. Testibus Henrico Maiore Londoniarum, patre
meo, &c.

Her issue were two daughters, whose custody was committed to their
father by the King in this form ; " Johannes Dei gratia, etc. Sciatis nos
dedisse concessisse et presenti carta nostra confirmasse Petro filio Henrici
tune Majoris Londoniarum custodiam tocius terre et heredum Isabelle de
Chasney, que fuit uxor ejusdem Petri, scilicet, Margarete et Johanne filia-
rum eorumdem Petri et Isabelle et maritagia illarum, ita quod possit eas
maritare ubi non disparagientur et quod ipse non inplacitetur de aliquo
tenemento quod ad predictas heredes pertineat, quamdiu fuerint in custodia

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sua nisi coram nobis vel capital! justiciario nostro. Quare etc. Testibus
G(alfrido) filio Petri comite Essexie tune justiciario Anglie, W(illelmo)
Marescallo comite Penbroc, W(illelmo) comite Arundelli, Willelmo de
Braosa, Willelmo Briwerre, Hugone de Nevilla, Reginaldo de Cornhulle,
Roberto de Veteriponte, Henrico de Bernevalle. Datum per manum
Simonis prepositi Beverlaci et Wellensis archidiaconi apud Merlaberga x
die Decembris anno etc. quinto."

This charter is entered on the Roll of Charters, and is there preceded by
an enrollment of another charter in these terms ; Johannes Dei gratia etc.
Sciatis nos concessisse et presenti carta confirmasse Henrico filio Ailwini
Majori Londoniarum omnes rationabiles donationes suas quas fecit assensu
heredum suorum de terris et tenementis suis, quibuscunque eas fecerit, sicut
carte quas ipse inde eis fecit rationabiliter testantur. Testibus G(alfrido)
filio Petri comite Essexie, comite W(illelmo) Marescallo, W(illelmo)
comite Arundelli, Willelmo de Braosa, Roberto de Veteriponte, P(etro) de
Stokes, Gaufrido de Luci. Datum per manum S(imonis) prepositi Bever-
laci et archidiaconi Wellensis apud Marlebergam xi die Decembris anno etc.
quinto.

Margaret, the eldest daughter and coheir of Isabella de Cheney, was
married to Ralph de Clere, who in her right held the manor of Gretham, in
the hundred of Alton, com. Hants ; and Joan, the second daughter and
coheir, was married to Ralph Le Parmentier, a serjeant of the Privy Cham-
ber of the King, and whose surname indicates that he was a citizen of London
and member of the gild of Merchant Taylors. On the Roll of Letters Close
of the 9th year of King John we read as follows ; " Rex R(eginaldo) de
Cornhulle etc. Mandamus vobis quod sine dilatione faciatis habere Radulfo
Parmentario, servienti nostro, plenariam saisinam terre que fuit Petri filii
Majoris Londoniarum, quam habuit cum uxore sua. Teste meipso apud
Waltham xxx die Octobris anno regni nostri nono." Ralph Le Parmentier
was in office in 1204, when the King wrote from Northampton on the 7th day
of August to the Treasurer and Chamberlains to pay to his Chamberlain of
London sixteen marks, owing to him for green cloths and for wrappers and
for silk pieces and other things, which he caused Ralph Le Parmentier to
have for his (the King's) use, and which he had received in his chamber.
In the same year the sheriff of Wiltshire was told to procure for Ralph Le
Parmentier, then lying sick in his bailiwick, what should be necessary for

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him, while he stayed there, by the King, whose letter close bears date at.
Christchurch 14th day of November. In the following year the king wrote
to Reginald de Cornhull, enjoining him to procure for Ralph Le Parmentier
those things which he was to notify to him on the King's behalf to carry on
the business for which he was despatched, and to find him in necessaries
during his stay in London for this purpose, from Ludgershall, second day of
April. On the Roll of Letters Patent, 6th John, 1205, is one addressed to
the Master of the Knights Templars in England and to the Preceptor of
London, commanding them to send the regalia and jewels of the King, which
they had in their custody, to him by Ralph Le Parmentier, his serjeant, and
by some trusty servant of their own, so that they be with the King at
Reading on the day next before Christmas, dated from Bristol, 13th De-
cember. On the Roll of Letters Close of the same year is one addressed
to the Mayor of London and to Reginald de Cornhull, bidding them know
that he the King had given to Ralph Le Parmentier, his serjeant, the houses
which were those of William son of Turstatus in the city of London, which
Thomas de Blunvill had, with their appurtenances, and commanding them
to give him full seizin thereof without delay. The King, during his stay at
Niort in Gascony, wrote on the 14th day of June 1206 to Master Elyas
and Geoffrey Lutterel, commanding them to send him from his treasury
which they had in their custody 2000 marks by Ralph Le Parmentier and
the persons of the retinue of Savary de Mauleon, whom he had sent to
them on this account. In the month of September he had returned to
Niort, for on the back of the fifth membrane of the Letters Close of the
8th year of King John we read, " Nomina militum et servientium prisonum,
quos Alfredus de Thorntona et Willelmus de Coleman et Rogerus de Warne-
forda tradiderunt Radulfo Parmentario apud Niortum in vigilia Sancti
Lamberti anno etc. viii. 16 Sept. 1206 ; among whom were these five
knights, Reginald de Livery, Gaffur L'Hermite, Robert de Nevile, Peter
de Piri and Geoffrey de Burgo, two provosts of Angiers and three ser-
jeants-at-arms. This entry is on the Roll of Letters Patent of the 8th of
John 1207, memb. 2, in dorso, Littere iste liberate erant in camera Domini
Regis Radulfo Parmentario apud Craneburn vi die Aprilis, referring to
Letters Patent of William Earl of Devon, binding himself to payment of his
whole debt to the King on the feast of St. Michael in the ninth year of his
reign ; and on the 12th of the same month he was the sole witness to two

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Letters Close of the King at Reading. Of the third of May following is a
Letter Close to the sheriff of Southamptonshire, bidding him know that he
had given to Ralph Le Parmentier, his serjeant, the house which was that
of Henry Buchard in Winchester, and commanding him to cause seisin
thereof to be made to the messenger of Ralph, the bearer of these presents,
and dated from Lambeth. The Roll of Letters Close of the 9th year of
King John contains several entries as to the performance of his duties in
attendance upon the King down to the month of April 1208, on the 7th
day of which a Letter Close was sent to the Barons of the Exchequer from
Guildford through Ralph Le Parmentier. Of the regnal years in succes-
sion up to the 14th year of King John there are no Rolls of Letters Close
preserved, and from the following entry on that Roll it would seem that he
had died without issue in the interval : " Rex Hugoni de Nevilla, etc.
Mandamus vobis quod statim visis litteris istis habere faciatis Willelmo
Scissori nostro domum cum pertinentiis que fuit Radulfi Parmentarii in
Wintonia. Teste Rege apud Lameheth xvi die Maii (1212)."

In the same year, before the expiration of the term of his mayoralty,
Henry Fitz Aylwin, the first Lord Mayor of London, was deceased,
and a successor chosen in the person of Roger Fitz Alan, as we learn from
the Chronicle printed as the text of this publication by the Camden Society,
page 4. When this event occurred William Aguillun had already made
fine with the King for the custody and marriage of Joan, the grand-
daughter and heiress of Henry Fitz Aylwin, widow of Ralph Le Parmentier,
who after the death of her husband had been placed in the custody of
William de Harcourt, Seneschal of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke.
On the Roll of Letters Patent of this fourteenth year of King John entry
is made as follows : " Rex Willelmo de Harecurt, etc. Mandamus vobis
quod liberetis Willelmo Aguillun Johannam que fuit uxor Radulfi le Par-
mentier, que est in custodia vestra. Et in hujus rei testimonio has litteras
nostras patentes vobis mittimus. Teste Willelmo Briwerre apud Westmo-
nasterium v die Octobris." On the same day the King sent his Letters
Close with the same teste to the Mayor and Sheriffs of London, enjoining
them that immediately upon view of his letters they take into the King's
hand all the lands and rents, with their appurtenances, which Henry Fitz
Aylwin, late Mayor of London, had in London on the day on which he died,
and that they guard them well. " Et habere faciatis sine dilatione Willelmo

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Aguillun et Johanne que fuit uxor Radulfi Parmentarii, rationabilem dotem
ipsius Johanne, quam ei contingil de libero tenemento quod fuit ipsius Ra-
dulfi, quondam viri sui, in Londoniis." Copies follow on the Roll of Let-
ters Close to the Sheriff of Hertfordshire, commanding him that he cause
William Aguillun to have without delay plenary seisin of all lands in his
bailiwick, with their appurtenances, of which Henry Fitz Ail win, late Mayor
of London, had been seised on the day on which he died, which hereditarily
belong to Joan, who had been the wife of Ralph Le Parmentier ; also to
the Sheriff of Surrey in like form with this additional clause, that he cause
the same William to have plenary seisin of all the lands with the appurten-
ances in his bailiwick, which the aforesaid Ralph had of the inheritance of
the same Joan, and which were in the King's hands ; also to the Sheriff of
Kent in like form, without the clause. It was also commanded to the
Sheriff of Sussex that he cause William Aguillun to have without delay
plenary seisin of all the lands in his bailiwick which Ralph Le Parmentier
had of the inheritance of Joan, who had been his wife, and then in the
King's hands ; and in like form was it written to the Sheriff of Norfolk and
Suffolk.

On another membrane of the same Roll we read, " Rex Vicecomiti Nor-
folchie, etc. et custodibus excaetarum suarum in eodem Comitatu, etc.
Precipimus vobis quod faciatis habere Willelmo Aguillun omnia catalla
que fuerunt in manu nostra in terra Radulfi Parmentarii in Ballia vestra.
Teste G(alfrido) filio Petri comite Essexie apud Westmonasterium v die
Novembris. Coram Baronibus de Scaccario."

In the same form was it written to the Sheriff of Surrey and to the
Keepers of the Escheats and to the Sheriff of Sussex. The land in Norfolk
which belonged to Ralph Le Parmentier in right of his wife had name
Scroteby, a parish in the hundred of East Flegg, which at the time of the
survey in 1086 was of the fief of William de Beaufoe, Bishop of Thetford,
and had been held by his predecessors, Arfast and Almar. The grant of
this manor to Bartholomew de Cheney will have been subsequent to 1165,
14 Hen. II., as this name is not mentioned in the Carta of the Bishop of
Norwich of that date ; its subsequent tenure is thus set down in that inva-
luable record, the Testa de Nevill, under the heading, " De escaetis et
serjantiisin Comitatu Norfolcie; Hundredum de Estflega. Domina Jo-
hanna que fuit uxor Radulfi Pelliparii, est de donatione domini Regis, et est

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maritata Willelmo Aguilun per dominum Regem Johannem, et valet terra
sua in Scrouteby vu7z." The change in the name of Ralph Le Parmentier
from Parmentarius to Pelliparius in this entry identifies the trade of this
citizen of London to be that of a merchant tailor, in supplying clothes or
furs for the King's wearing, and the following Letter Close affords proof
of his being so employed.

" Rex Baronibus, etc. Computate Reginaldo de Cornhulle pro quinque
penulis de bissis liberatis Radulfo Parmentario in festo Sancti Eadmundi ad
opus nostrum, unde iiii or erant de x fessis et una erat de xi fessis, viii mar-
cas, scilicet pretium cujuslibet iiii or penulorum de x fessis xx solidos, et
precium illius de xi fessis ij marcas. Pro sarpelario ad eos imponendum
vi denarios. Pro cariagio xii denarios. Pro tribus coopertoriis de grisso
liberatis eidem Radulfo per Willelmum de Insula iiii or libras. Pro cane-
vacio ad imponendum vi denarios. Pro duabus coopertoriis de grisso
liberatis eidem Radulfo in vigilia Sancti Andree per Willelmum hominem
suum iiii or marcas. Pro duabus furruris de agnellis i marcam. Pro una
penula de cuniculis ix solidos per eundem. Pro quatuor ulnis et dimidia
de burnetta xv*. ixrf. et obolum, scilicet ulna xlijc?. per eundem. Pro cane-
vaciis et sarpellariis ad imponendum ij*. Pro duabus ulnis de griseing ad
j barrudum faciendum xxe?. scilicet ulna xc?. Pro cordis ijd. et obolum.
Pro carriagio ij*. Pro j coopertorio de griso liberato Radulfo Parmentario
apud Lameheth xl*. Pro uno pelliceo de griso ad opus nostrum liberato
eidem Radulfo per manum Willelmi Cissoris apud Lameheth die Sancti
Vincentii xiiij solidos. Pro furruris de agnis vi*. T(este) G(alfrido) de
Novilla Camerario apud Merlebergam iij die Februarii anno regni nostri
nono. (3 Feb. 1208) Per Ricardum de Marisco."

The cutter-up of the clothes, the Cissor, corresponding with the tailor
in its ordinary acceptation, is evidently not identical with the term " Par-
mentarius" or " Pelliparius," and Du Cange errs in his explanation of the
word, " Gallis, olim Paramentier, qui hodie Tailleur d'habits." The char-
ter of Rannulph Earl of Chester granting to the monks of St. Werburgh
at Chester a fair before the gate of the monastery, cited by this eminent
glossographer, obviously places the " Parmentarius" on a level with the
merchant. " Quapropter prohibeo super amorem meum ut nee mercator,
nee institor, nee permentarius, nee corvesarius, nee ullus minister volens
vendere vel emere, non vendat nee emat aliquid alicubi nisi ibi quamdiu

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nundinas duraverint ;" that is to say, neither the merchant, the shopkeeper,
the dealers in clothes and furs, or in shoes of Cordovan leather, were to
buy or sell in Chester during the fair but there only, thus distinguishing
the merchants from the artizans who made the articles. Of the manors in
Surrey, Addington, and of that in Sussex, Perching, mention has been
made above, as having belonged to Bartholomew de Cheney. Of the same
date, 5th Nov. 1212, are other Letters Close to the Sheriffs of Hertford
and Kent, respecting the lands of Henry Fitz Aylwin, in this form :

" Rex Vicecomiti Hertfordie, etc. Precipimus tibi quod omnes terras
unde Henricus films Ailwini Major Londoniarum in Ballia tua saisitus fuit
anno et die quo obiit, unde Willelmus Aguillun habuit saisinam, capias in
manum nostram exceptis terris que pertinent ad dotem uxoris predicti Ma-
joris. Teste ut supra, per Willelmum Briwerre. Eodem modo scribitur
Vicecomiti Kancie. Data eadem." These entries refer to the manor of
Watton-at-Stone, com. Herts, and to Hoo manor, in the parish of Allhal-
lows, in the hundred of the same name in Kent.

The name of the wife of Henry Fitz- Aylwin was Margaret, but her
lineage is unknown ; this fact we learn from other Letters Close bearing
date at Westminster, 17 day of November following, before the Barons of
the Exchequer to the Sheriff of Hertford, the Sheriff of Surrey, the Mayor
and Sheriffs of London, and the Sheriff of Kent, commanding them that
without delay they cause Margaret, who had been the wife of Henry Fitz-
Aylwin, late Mayor of London, to have her reasonable dower, which was
belonging to her of the lands and tenements which had been those of the
same Henry, late her husband, in their bailiwicks.

In the following year, 1213, this Letter Close is entered on the Roll :
" Rex G(alfrido) filio Petri comiti Essexie, etc. Mandamus vobis quod
habere faciatis Alano, Thome, et Ricardo, filiis Henrici quondam Majoris
Londoniarum, partes suas de terris quas predictus Henricus, pater eorum,
eis dedit in Watton et Edeho, Walingeham, Begeham, Edelmetona, et in
Londoniis, secundum tenorem carte quam habent de predicto Henrico,
patre eorum, et secundum concessionem Petri fratris eorum primogeniti,
et secundum confirmationem nostram et secundum consuetudinem regni
nostri Anglic. T(este) me ipso apud Bechamptona xv die Junii. Per
dominum P(etrum) Wintoniensem."

The places named are Watton-at-Stone, com. Herts, Allhallows, Hoo,

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com. Kent, Warlingham in the hundred of Tundridge, com. Surrey, Burn-
ham in the hundred of Woking in the same county, and Edmonton in
Middlesex.

On the Roll of Fines of the fifteenth year of the reign of John, 1214, is
a mandate to the Barons of the Exchequer, that of the 300 marks which
William Aguillun ought to have rendered at the instant term of St. Michael,
in that year, he have such respite, namely, that at the same term he render
to the lord the King 150 marks, and at Easter next following in the same
year 150 marks, dated at Southwell, 4 day of September. In the following
year King John, on the day of the Purification of blessed Mary, embarked
at Portsmouth, in company with the Queen, and within a few days landed
at Rochelle with a strong force, and during his stay at Partenay he ad-
dressed the following Letter Close to Peter des Roches, Bishop of Win-
chester, one of his vicegerents of the kingdom during his absence :

" Rex domino P(etro) Wintoniensi Episcopo, etc. Mandamus vobis
quod secundum recordum fidelium nostrorum, W(illelmi) comitis Arun-
dellie et W(illelmi) Briwerre quod ab eis factum fuit de convencione facta
inter nos et Willelmum Aguillun de filia et herede Petri filii Henrici filii
Eilwini Majoris Londoniarum et de terris et redditibus que fuerunt ejusdem
Henrici, Majoris Londoniarum, eidem Willelmo sine dilatione plenariam
saisinam habere faciatis de predictis terris, redditibus, et aliis que fuerunt
predicti Henrici filii Eilwini tarn infra civitatem Londoniarum quam extra.
T(este) meipso apud Partenai ij die Septembris."

King John returned to England in the month of October, and was at
Dartmouth on the 15th day of that month, in the sixteenth year of his
reign, and was residing at the New Temple in London at the date of the
following Letters Close 2nd of January, 1215, over which the word "Pa-
tentes" is written on the Roll.

" Rex Vicecomitibus Kancie, Surreie, et Hertefordie salutem. Sciatis
quod concessimus dilecto et fideli nostro Willelmo Aguillono quod quietus
sit de omnibus placitis et querelis a festo Sancti Nicholai anno regni nostri
xvi usque in ij annos proximo sequentes de omnibus tenementis que fuerunt
H(enrici) filii Aylwini quondam Majoris Londoniarum, que idem Willelmus
habet in Balliviis vestris cum Johanna nepte ipsius Majoris Londoniarum
per manum nostram per finem quern nobiscum fecit, et ideo vobis precipimus

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quod eundem Willelmum usque ad terminum predictum de omnibus placitis
et querelis quietum esse permittatis ; et in hujus rei, etc."

In the same year another Letter Close, marked " Inquisitio," was issued :
" Mandatum est Roberto de Venuz quod si inquirere poterit per probos
homines de partibus de Gretham quod terra que fuit Radulfi de Clere in
Gretham sit jus et hereditas Johanne uxoris Willelmi Aguillun, tune eidem
Willelmo et Johanne uxori ejus sine dilatione de predicta terra cum perti-
nentiis plenariam saisinam habere faciat. T(este) Rege apud Wintoniam
xiij die Decembris."

According to Matthew Paris a William Aguillun was one of those who
swore to obey the mandate of the twenty-five Barons chosen to be conser-
vators of Magna Charta at Runnimede, between Staines and Windsor, on
the 15th day of June, 1215, and the following entry in the Patent Rolls is
conclusive of this being the case, where we read, " Willelmus Aguillon
habet litteras de salvo conductu sine termino in veniendo ad dominum Regem
et morando et recedendo," with the date " Apud Roffam, xxviii die Octo-
bris," in the same year. His return to his allegiance to his sovereign was
continuous up to the date of the Letter Close of the 13th day of December,
but there can be little doubt that he again joined the Barons, and was of
their party up to the time of the accession of Henry the Third. On the
Roll of the Letters Close of the first year of the new reign, under the
heading " De reversis," is one to the Sheriff of Gloucestershire in these
terms : " Scias quod Willelmus Aguillun venit ad fidem et servicium nos-
trum. -Et ideo tibi precipimus quod ei sine dilatione talem saisinam habere
facias de omnibus terris suis cum pertinentiis suis qualem inde habuit in
principio guerre. Et quia sigillum non habuimus has litteras sigillo fidelis
nostri Comitis W(illelmi) Marescalli fecimus sigillari." Letters in the
same form were sent to the Sheriffs of Norfolk, Oxford, Southampton, and
to the Mayor and Sheriffs of London.

On the Roll of Fines of the third year of Henry III., A.D. 1219, this
entry is made in relation to the claim advanced previous to the war to the
manor of Greatham : " Suhamtonia. Willelmus Aguillun et Johanna uxor
ejus dant domino Regi dimidiam marcam pro habendo quodam pone coram
Justiciariis apud Westmonasterium a die Sancti Michaelis in quinque sep-
timanas contra Radulfum de Clera de manerio de Gretham cum pertinentiis.

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Habeant breve et mandatum est Vicecomiti Suhamtonie quod capiat secures
plegios, etc. T. H(uberto) de Burgo Justiciario apud Novum Templum
Londoniarura xvii die Septerabris."

This suit was successful, and in the " Testa de Nevill" for the county
of Southampton, under the heading " Feoda que tenentur de Comite War-
renne in capite," we read, " Willelmus Agulon tenet Gretham de Comite
Warrenne pro feodo militis de veteri feoffamento, et idem de Rege ; item de
feodis que tenentur de Radulfo de Clera in Comitatu Suthhantonie." Be-
fore the 5th day of June, 1222, Alan, son of the Mayor of London, was
deceased without issue, and his land devolved upon William Aguillun in
right of his wife, in Edmonton, com. Middlesex, as this record evinces :

" De quietancia. Rex Baronibus suis de Scaccario salutem. Quia dilec-
tus et fidelis noster W(illelmus) Briwerre protestatus est coram H(uberto)
de Burgo Justiciario nostro et vobis super scaccarium nostrum quod ipse
per preceptum domini J(ohannis) Regis patris nostri recepit austurcum
quern exigitis a Willelmo Aguillun de fine quern Alanus films Majoris
fecit cum ipso domino J(ohanne) Rege patre nostro pro homagio suo capi-
endo, vobis mandamus quod ipsum Willelmum de austurco illo quietum esse
faciatis. T(este) H(uberto), etc. apud Westmonasterium v die Junii, per
manum Stephani de Segrave."

The following entry is on the great Roll of the Exchequer, 18 Hen. III.
1233-4 : " Surreia. Willelmus Aguilon, qui habet heredem Bartholomei de
Cheney in uxorem, debuit unam marcam de scutagio de Kery, sicut supra
continetur, et xxs. de finibus et scutagiis, sicut continetur ibidem, et x*. de
scutagio de Elveyn sicut continetur ibidem. Sed non debet summoneri :
quia recognitum est per preceptum Regis coram Baronibus de Scaccario
per sacramenta xii militum ejusdem comitatus, quod non debet servicium
militare de terris quas tenet in hoc comitatu de hereditate dicti Bartho-
lomei de Cheney in Adintone, sed serjanteriam, scilicet, inveniendi unum
Cocum in coronatione Regis ad faciendum cibum, qualem Senescallus pre-
ceperit, in coquina Regis."

By Letter Patent, bearing date at Westminster, 25th day of September,
1241, King Henry III. granted to Peter de Savoy the lands of John de
Warren in Sussex and Surrey, and the honour of L'Aigle, with all its ap-
purtenances, to support himself therewith in his service, during the royal
pleasure, and during his tenure of these lands in Sussex, this entry was made

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of one of his fiefs in the Testa de Nevill." " Willelmus Agilun tenet
unum feodum militis in Percinges ;" and below we have heredes Bartho-
lomei de Kaisneto tenent in villa de Lewes de domino Rege, sed nescitur
per quod servicium."

In Surrey, in the last-named Record, the tenure of Addington is thus
noted : " Willelmus Aguilun tenet quandam terram in villa de Adinton per
serjantiam faciendi hastias in coquina domini Regis die coronacionis sue,
vel aliquis pro eo debet facere ferculum quoddam quod vocatur Girunt, et
si apponatur sagina tune vocatur Malpigernoun." Again, in Buckingham-
shire, we read Crofton, " Willelmus Aguilun dimidium feodum de feodo
Willelmi de Say et ipse de Rege ;" which manor, in the hundred of Cotslow,
had been of the land of the Bishop of Lisieux, Gislebert Maminot, at the
survey, and had continued in the line of a family of that name until the
reign of Richard I., when, by marriage, it was transferred to that of Say.
In Hertfordshire we read, " Willelmus Agulon tenet in Watton per servi-
cium inveniendi unum garcionem cum arcu et sagittis ad exercitum domini
Regis in Wallie."

William Agulon, the survivor of his wife, of whose inheritance were the
manors named above, was deceased before the 3rd day of October, 1244,
as we learn from this entry on the Fine Rolls of the 28th year of Henry
III. : " Pro Roberto Agulun. Rex Vicecomiti Surreie salutem. Scias
quod suscepimus homagium Roberti Aguilun, filii et heredis Willelmi Agui-
lun, de omnibus terris et tenementis que predictus Robertus tenuit de nobis
in capite, et securitatem nobis fecit de x libris per quas finem fecit cum
nobis pro relevio suo. Et ideo tibi precipimus quod de omnibus terris et
tenementis, que fuerunt predicti Willelmi patris sui in baillia tua, de quibus
seisitus fuit in dominico suo ut de feodo die qua obiit, eidem Roberto plenam
seisinam habere facias. Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium iii die Oc-
tobris."

Another entry relating to this act of homage occurs on the Rotulus Ori-
ginalis of the same regnal year of Henry III. in these words : " Rex cepit
homagium Roberti Agulun filii et heredis Willelmi Agulun de omnibus
terris et tenementis, que idem Robertus tenuit de Rege in capite, et securi-
tatem Regi fecit de decem libris pro relevio suo, et sunt terre sue in comi-
tatibus Hertfordie et Suthhantonie." Surrey and the two counties named
are inserted in the margin. Notwithstanding these evidences of succession

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of Robert Aguilon to his father William Aguilon, that eminent genealogist,
Dugdale, writes as follows : " To this William succeeded another William,
who, in 42 Hen. III., received command to attend the King on Monday
next preceding the feast of St. John Baptist, well fitted with horse and arms,
to restrain the incursions of the Welch," citing k Glaus - 42 Hen. III. in dorso,
m. 11." This entry is found on Rot. Claus. 44 Hen. III. m. 11, in dorso,
and regards Robert Aguilon, who held his manor of Watton-at-Stone by
this service ; nor is the error corrected, where other records are cited, but
every act of Robert is ascribed to a second William Aguilon, and even the
inquisition post mortem upon Robert Aguilon is ascribed to this imaginary
Baron. In like manner, in his biography of his father, the same writer,
after copying Matthew Paris, adds, " Whereupon the King caused all his
lands to be seized and given to Simon de Campo-Remigio, quoting Claus.
17 Joh. in. 6. 5. On membrane 6 the name of Aguilun does not occur,
but on membrane 5 we read, " Mandatum est Vicecomitibus Norfolcie et
Suffolcie ' et Essexie,' quod facient habere Simoni de Campo Remigii totam
terram que fuit Roberti Aguillun cum pertinentiis in balliva sua, quam do-
minus Rex ei concessit. Apud Storteford xxx die March'." This entry
has reference to a Robert Aguillon, son of William Aguillun, who had
married Agatha, one of the daughters and coheiresses of Fulk de Beaufou,
Lord of Hokewold and East Herling, com. Norfolk, and of Debenham in
Suffolk, and of Borley in Essex. His heirs were four daughters, Agatha,
Isabella, Johanna, and Margeria, of whom Adam de Kokefield, Lucas de
Poynings, Ralph Fitz Bernard, and Andrew de Sakevill, were respectively
the heirs, as appears by a pleading of " Quare Impedit/ for the advowson
of the church of Hokewold, of Hillary Term, 7 Edw. III. 1334.

In or before the year 1257, 41 Hen. III. Robert Aguilon married Joan
de Mohun, one of the seven daughters of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby,
who succeeded to that title upon the decease of his father, 22d September
1247, by his first wife Sibilla, deceased in the lifetime of his father, who was
sister of the Earls Marshal of Pembroke, and whose issue were heirs to
that vast inheritance after the decease of the five brothers without issue, who
severally bore this title. Afterwards William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby,
married Margaret, one of the daughters and coheirs of Roger de Quincy,
Earl of Winchester, by whom he left issue two sons, Robert, his successor,
and William, seated at Groby, com. Leicester. He was deceased 24th

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March 1254, at Evington, near Leicester, 38 Hen. III., and had sepulture
in the abbey of Merevale, leaving his wife surviving and his son a minor.
Margaret, Countess of Derby, heiress of Groby, was deceased in the ninth
year of Edward L, 1281, having previously enfeoffed William de Ferrers,
her second son, in the said manor. The five brothers, Earls Marshal, sons
of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, Regent of the Kingdom during the
minority of Henry the Third, had name William, Richard, Gilbert, Walter,
and Anselm ; and their five sisters were, Maude, married to Hugh Bigot,
Earl of Norfolk, and afterwards to Jefe'de Warren, Earl of Surrey ; Joanna,
to Warine de Munchensy ; Isabella, first to Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Glou-
cester, and afterwards to Richard Earl of Cornwall, and Emperor of Ger-
many and King of the Romans ; Sybilla, to William de Ferrers, Earl of
Derby ; and Eva wife of William de Briouze. William, the eldest son,
married first Alice, daughter of Baldwin de Betune, Comte of Aumale,
and Lord of Holdernesse in right of his wife, in the lifetime of his father,
and secondly Alienora, sister of King Henry the Third, and, dying without
issue, was buried in the New Temple, at London, 14th of April 1231, near
the grave of his father. Richard, second son, died of his wounds in Ire-
land on the 16th day of April 1234, and on the morrow was interred at
Kilkenny in the oratory of the brethren of the order of Minors, leaving no
issue by Gervasia his wife. Gilbert, the third son, knighted at Worcester
by King Henry in the Feast of Pentecost, 1 1th June following, married
first Maud de Lanvaley, and secondly, in 1235, Margaret, daughter of
William and sister of Alexander, Kings of Scotland, and died from injuries
received from a fall from his horse at a tournament at Ware on the 27th
of June, in the evening, at the priory of Hertford, whence the body was
conveyed to London, and interred in the New Temple. Walter, the fourth
son, married Margaret, daughter of Robert de Quincy, widow of John de
Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, and Constable of Chester, who also died without
issue 24th November 1245, at Castle Goderich, leaving his widow surviving,
and was buried at Tynterne Abbey. Anselm, the fifth brother, had been
Dean of Salisbury ; but was subsequently the husband of Maud, daughter
of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford. He outlived his brother only
eleven days, being deceased on the fifth of December following, at Chepstow,
and was also interred at Tynterne, leaving no issue. Alienora, the widow
of William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, remarried after his decease the

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famous Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester. At this time of the succes-
sion devolving upon the surviving sisters, Maud and Isabella, the others
being already deceased, partition was made of this inheritance, valued at
7600ft. iSigfi Bigot, Earl of Norfolk, had the Earl Marshalship^; and
William de Valence, husband of Joan de Munchensy, whose brother, John
de Munchensy, had died without issue, had the earldom of Pembroke ; Gil-
bert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, had for the share of his wife 1520ft.,
whilst the seven coheirs of Sibilla de Ferrers had each 217 ft. 2s, lO^d. and
the three coheirs of Eva de Briouze had each 506ft. 13s. 4d. Of the last
named there was another coheir, Isabella, wife of David, son of Leweline
Prince of Wales, as the following entries on the Fine Rolls of the 30th year
of Henry III., 1246, prove.

" De castris et terris tenendis in manu Regis. Mandatum est Roberto
Waleraund quod, non obstante mandate quod Rex ei fecit de terris et castris
que fuerunt Walteri Marescalli quondam Comitis Penbrokie liberandis he-
redibus ipsius Comitis, retineat in manu Regis castrum de Haverford et Ixv
libratas xvi solidos et viii denarios terre in Haverford, que assignate sunt
et pertinent ad portionem uxoris que fuit Davidis filii Lewelini quondam
Principis Norwallie unius heredum prefati Comitis, que ad opus Regis salvo
custodiat donee aliud a Rege habuerit preceptum. T. Rege apud Oxoniam
xxi die Julii.

" Eodem modo scribitur Walerano Teutonico de xxv libratis et xix de-
nariatis terre in Karliun et Morgan et xxv libratis et ix denariatis terre
in uno vel in alio illorum maneriorum, et recompensationem ii mesuagiorum
competencium ad opus ii nliarum Willelmi de Ferrariis que sunt in custodia
Regis, que assignate sunt et pertinent ad portionem uxoris que fuit predict!
Davidis, retinenda in manu Regis."

The daughters of William de Ferrers by Sibilla Marshal are enumerated
in this order in the chronicles of the Abbey of Tintern, according to the
extract made by Francis Thynne in the Cotton Manuscript Cleopatra C. in.
which is apparently of as late date as the reign of Henry the Sixth, and
printed in the Monasticon by Dugdale. Agnes, the first daughter, was
married to William de Vescy, of whom John de Vescy, issueless, and Wil-
liam de Vescy, who had issue John de Vescy, who died before his father,
and afterwards the said William de Vescy the father without heir of his
body. Isabella Basset, second daughter, married to Reginald de Mohun

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(de Monteminori, Moyon in Normandy, a commune of the canton of Tessy,
arrondissementof St. Lo,and departement of La Manche), of whom William
de Mohun, and of him William de Mohun, without heir of his body. Of
the same Reginald and Isabella a daughter, by name Alianora, married to
John son of Nicholas de Carrew, and Margaret her sister, issueless, and
Maria, her sister, married to John de Meriet, who died without heir of her
body. Matilda de Kyme, third daughter, married to Almaric de Roche-
chouart (de Rupe Canardi), of whom Joanna de Vivonne ( Vyvon), Cecilia
de Beauchamp, Sibilla, married to Almaric of Archiac in Saintonge (Pi-
ganra). Sibilla de Bohun, fourth daughter, of whom John de Bohun of
Midhurst. Of the same John, John. Joanna, fifth daughter, married to
John de Mohun, of whom John de Mohun, of whom John, of him John.
Alianora, sixth daughter, was Countess of Winchester, and died issueless.
Agatha, seventh daughter, was married to Hugh de Mortemer, Lord of
Chelmarsh, who was son of Ralph de Mortimer, Lord of Wigmore, of
whom Hugh and Agatha, John de Mortymer, who died without heir of his
body, and Henry Mortymer, of whom Hugh, of whom Henry de Morty-
mer, who married Elizabeth, of whom William, Hugh, James, Edmund,
Thomas, Roger, who all died issueless, and Johanna and Margaret. In
Vincent upon Brooke there is this extract from the Communia a 10 Ed-
ward II. term. Pasche, rot. 9 Sussex : " De Sibilla uxore Willelmi de
Ferrariis, Comitis Derbie, procreate fuerunt septem filie, que successerunt
ei in hereditate sua, videlicet, Agnes primogenita, que nupsit Willelmo de
Vescy, Isabella, secunda filia, que nupsit Reginaldo de Moun, Matildis,
tertia filia, que nupsit Willelmo de Kyme, postmodum Willelmo de Vivoniis
alio nomine de Fortibus, Sibilla, quarta filia, que nupsit Franconi de Bohun,
Johanna Aguillon, quinta filia, que postmodum nupsit Johanni filio Regi-
nald! de Moun, procreate de prima uxore ipsius Reginaldi, Agatha, sexta
filia, que nupsit Hugoni de Mortuomari, et Alianora, septima filia, que
nupsit Rogero de Quincy, Comiti Wyntonie, que obiit sine herede de se et
descendebat hereditas sua Agneti de Vescy et quinque sororibus suis pre-
scriptis." Dugdale also refers to this record in the margin under Ferrers,
Earl of Derby, with these additions : Isabel to Gilbert Basset of Wycombe,
com. Bucks, and afterwards to Reginald de Mohun ; and Eleanora first to
William de Vallibus, secondly to Roger de Quincy, Earl of Winchester, and
lastly to Roger de Leyburne.

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Alianora and Agatha were both unmarried and in the King's custody at
the time of the succession of the Earls Marshals devolving upon these co-
heiresses ; but the former was married to William de Vallibus in the follow-
ing regnal year of Henry III. without the King's licence, who made fine
with the King for 200 marks for having seisin of the lands hereditarily be-
longing to her the daughter of William de Ferrers, as one of the heirs of
Walter Marshal, late Earl of Pembroke. In the same year the King con-
ceded to William de Ferrers that of 300 marks by which he made fine with
him because he had married Sibilla his daughter to Francus de Bohun with-
out his assent and licence that the render should be 2Qli. annually until the
sum was paid. In the same year both William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby,
and Agnes, his countess, were deceased, and their lands taken into the King's
hands and committed to custody, as we learn from an entry on the Fine
Roll, dated at Westminster 25th September 1247 ; and on the 10th of No-
vember following the King took the homage of William de Ferrers of all
the lands and tenements which had been those of Agnes, late Countess of
Derby, of which the Castle of Chartley, com. Stafford, was the chief seat.
The following entry on the Fine Roll of the 35th year of Henry III., 1251,
under the heading, " Pro heredibus W(alteri) Marescalli quondam Comitis
Pembrochie, et pro Comite Leycestrie et uxore ejus," is of importance as
regards the date of the marriage of Robert Aguilon with Joanna de Mohun.
" Mandatum est Baronibus de Scaccario quod in instanti crastino Sancti
Johannis Baptiste diligenter intendant particioni faciende inter heredes
W(alteri) Marescalli quondam Comitis Pembrochie de porcione singulos
ipsorum contingente de cccc libris quas solvere debent per annum S(imoni)
de Monteforti comiti Leicestrie et Alienore uxori ejus pro dote ipsius Alie-
nore in Hybernie, unde sumus plegius, et eisdem heredibus respectum
habere faciatis usque ad quindenam Sancti Michaelis proximo futuram de
hoc quod Regi restat reddendum de arreragiis predictarum cccc librarum
per annum ad Scaccarium Regis. Teste Rege apud Clarendonam xvi die
Junii."

William de Vallibus was already deceased before the fifth day of Decem-
ber, 1252, and his widow having remarried Roger de Quincy, Earl of
Winchester, without the licence and goodwill of the King, her lands were
taken into the King's hands and committed to custody up to the date of the
following entry on the Fine Roll of the year following ; " Memorandum

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quod Rogerus de Quincy comes Wintonie venit coram Rege apud Winde-
soram die Veneris proxima post festum Sancti Hilarii et ibidem misit se in
misericordiam Regis de ccc marcis pro transgressione quam fecit ducendo in
uxorem Alienoram, que fuit uxor Willelmi de Vallibus, que fuit de donacione
Regis, sine licencia Regis. Et postea Rex de gratia sua remisit ei predic-
tas ccc marcas pro quinque marcis auri. Postea solvit in garderoba Regis
P(etro) Chaceport et quietus est." In the same year Eudo la Zuche prof-
fers to the King 150 marks for the marriage of Agatha, daughter of William
de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, if the same earl should choose to give him his
assent to the marriage ; which it seems was refused, and she afterwards
married Hugh de Mortemer. In 38 Hen. III. 1254, William de Vescy
being deceased, extent was made of his lands, and the King on the 2nd of
March assigned to Agnes de Vescy the manors of Malton and Langton,
with their appurtenances, in the county of York, and the manor of Tuggle
in Northumberland, in dower, paying out of the manor of Langton Hi. xii*.
to Peter de Savoy, to whom the custody of the other lands, which were
those of William de Vescy, had been granted to the time his heirs should be
of full age. On the fourth day of April following the King committed to
William de Wylton all the lands and tenements which had been those of
William de Ferrers junior, late Earl of Derby, with the castles and all their
other appurtenances, to be kept in his custody so long as it should be the
royal pleasure.

On the Fine Roll of 43rd Hen. III. this entry proves William de Fortibus
to have been deceased in that year : " Quia Willelmus de Fortibus diem
clausit extremum, mandatum est Vicecomiti et Escaetori Surreie quod omnes
terras et tenementa que de Rege tenuit in capite et de aliis in balliva sua,
capiant in manum Regis, et ea sine vasto et districtione custodiant et per
sacramentum, etc. terras illas et tenementa extendi faciant. Eodem modo
mandatum est Vicecomiti et Escaetoribus Sumerset et Dorset, et cum con-
stiterit eis de valore terrarum que fuerunt predicti Willelmi in ballia sua
manerium de Skypton Malet tradant Matildi, que fuit uxori prefati
Willelmi, tenendum in quarentenam suam quousque per Regem dotata fuerit.
T(este) R(ege) apud Westmonasterium xvi die Maii."

On the Great Roll of the Exchequer of the 44th year of Hen. III. these
several entries occur in regard of the then existing heirs of the Earls Mar-
shal. " Lincolnia : Agnes de Vescy una de filiabus Willelmi de Ferrariis

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comitis Derbie et una de heredibus W(alteri) comitis Marescalli xi marcas
vs. \iiid. de porcione ipsam contingente de denariis Regis debitis de DC.
marcis quas Rex solvit per annum ad Scaccarium pro heredibus Comitum
Marescallorum Simoni de Monteforti comiti Leicestrie et Alianore uxori
sue sorori Regis pro dote sua de terris que fuerunt Willelmi comitis Mares-
calli, quondam viri sui, in Ybernia, sicut continetur in memorandis anni xlv.
Et cxxxvij marcas xxii denarios de xii annis preteritis. Sumerset et Dorset.
Heres Isabelle de Ferrariis, que fuit uxoris Reginald! de Mohun, et una de
heredibus W(alteri) comitis Marescalli xi marcas (ut supra). Et cxxxvij
marcas xxii denarios de xii annis preteritis quando Rex incepit reddere
predictos denarios ad Pascha, anno xxxii. Sussexia. Franciscus de Bohun
et Sibilla de Ferrariis uxor ejus una de heredibus W(alteri) comitis Mares-
calli xi marcas (ut supra.) Sumerset et Dorset. Robertus de Aguylon et
Johanna uxor ejus una de heredibus W(alteri) comitis Marescalli xi marcas
v solidos viii denarios de porcione ipsam contingente de denariis Regis debitis
de DC. marcis quas Rex solvit per annum ad Scaccarium pro heredibus
Comitum Marescallorum Simoni de Monteforti comiti Leicestrie et Alienore
sorori Regis pro dote sua de terris que fuerunt Willelmi comitis Mares-
calli, quondam viri sui, in Ybernia, sicut continetur in memorandis anno xlv.
Et cxxxvij marcas xxii denarios de xii annis preteritis. Warwich' et Legre-
cestria. Rogerus de Quincy comes Wyntonie, qui habuit in uxorem unam
de filiabus Willelmi de Ferrariis comitis Derbie et una de heredibus Walter!
comitis Marescalli xi marcas (ut supra). Et cxxxvii marcas xxii denarios de
xii annis preteritis quando Rex incepit reddere dictos denarios ad Pascha anno
xxxii. Essexia et Hertfordia. Hugo de Mortuomari et Agatha uxor
ejus una de heredibus W(alteri) comitis Marescalli xi marcas (ut supra). Et
cxxxvii marcas xxii denarios de xii annis preteritis. On the same Roll
are also similar entries as to William de Valentiis (Valence, chef-lieu of the
Departement de la Drome), who had to wife the daughter of Warine de
Munchensy, one of the heirs of Walter Earl Marshal in Essex and Hert-
ford, and of Humphrey de Bohun, who had to wife one of the daughters of
William de Briouze, and one of the heirs of the Earls Marshal in the same
counties, and of William de Cantilupe, who had to wife another of the
daughters of William de Briouze and one of the heirs of Walter Earl Mar-
shal, in Wiltshire ; as also the following entry in Lincolnshire : " Margareta
comitissa Lincolnie, que fuit uxor Walteri comitis Marescalli, que plene

XXIV PREFACE.

dotata est in Ybernia de terris dicti Marescalli, cc marcas de porcione ipsam
contingente de denariis Regi debitis etc. et M.M.cccc marcas de xii annis
predictis."

On the Fine Roll of the 46th year of Henry III. are two entries regard-
ing these coheirs; one dated at Westminster, 18th January, 1262, granting
to William la Zuche, his heirs and assigns, the marriage of the heirs of
Isabella, who had been the wife of Reginald de Mohun, for a fine of 200
marks, and the other at Merton, 16th of December, 1261, to the sheriff of
Surrey, informing him that though the King had assigned to Matilda de
Kyme reasonable dower of the lands of William de Fortibus, his tenant in
capite, of his lands and tenements, upon condition of rendering up to the
King the daughters and heirs of the same William, whose custody and
marriage was the King's right, upon a certain day which had been assigned
to her, she had failed to observe it ; wherefore this officer was enjoined
to distrain the aforesaid Matilda by her lands and chattels in his bailiwick,
of which he was to account at the Exchequer, to the surrender of the said
heirs, so that the King should have them before the feast of St. Hillary
next following. On the Roll of the 50th Henry III. is this entry : " Rex
Baronibus suis de Scaccario salutem. Sciatis quod in recompensacionem
cujusdam equi quam dilectus et fidelis noster Hugo de Mortuo Mari nuper
amisit in servicio nostro in obsidione castri de Kenillworth perdonavimus ei
et Agathe uxori ejus uni heredum Comitum Marescallorum quadraginta
marcas, in quibus iidem Hugo et Agatha nobis tenentur ad Scaccarium
nostrum de debitis Marescallorum predictorum. Et ideo vobis mandamus
quod predictos Hugonem et Agatham de predictis quadraginta marcis
quietos esse facias. Teste Rege apud Kenillworth xxvi die Octobris."

Robert Aguilun was an equally devoted loyalist as his brother-in-law,
Hugh de Mortimer, and on the Patent Roll of the 49th year of Henry III.
when the battle of Lewes had ended in the capture of the Sovereign by the
rebel Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, are inserted under the heading
" De securitate recipienda a Roberto Aguilun, inimico Simonis de Monte-
forti," four Letters with the King's teste at Northampton, llth day of
April, 1265, severally addressed to Thomas Fitz Thomas, Mayor of Lon-
don, Robert Aguilon, and Master Thomas de Piweleden, from which we
learn that he had deferred taking the oath, which had been required by the
rebels of those who were suspected of adherence to their opponents.

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" Rex dilectoet fideli suo Thome filio Thome, maiori Londoniarum, salutem.
Cum, sedata turbatione nuper habita in regno nostro, de consilio magna-
torum nostrorum fuerit provisum quod a nonnullis ejusdem regni sacramen-
tum, quod vos non latet, nobis prestaretur, ac Robertus Aguiilun ad man-
datum nostrum nobis sacramentum illud nondum prestiterit, de fidelitate
vestra plene confidentes, vobis presentibus litteris nostris damus potestatem
recipiendi a prefato Roberto, vice nostra. sacramentum predictum. Et ideo
vobis mandamus quod sacramentum illud a prefato Roberto nomine nostro
recipiatis, sicut predictum est. In cujus etc. Teste Rege apud Northamp-
tonam xi die Aprilis. Per comitem Leicestrie et to turn concilium."

" Rex eidem Maiori salutem. Cum, sedata turbatione nuper habita in
regno, de consilio magnatum nostrorum fuerit provisum, quod a nonnullis
ejusdem regni sacramentum, in forma quam magister Thomas de Piwelesdon
vobis exponet de parte nostra, nobis prestaretur, et Robertus Aguilun sacra-
mentum illud hactenus prestare distulerit, ac, de concilio nostro predicto
vobis per litteras nostras patentes, quas una cum presentibus vobis trans-
mittimus, potestatem dedimus sacramentum illud ab eo recipiendi vice
nostra, prout litteris predictis plenius continetur ; vobis mandamus quod, si
prefatus Robertus sacramentum predictum coram vobis prestare recusaverit
vel malitiose distulerit, tune ipsum arestari et salvo custodiri faciatis, donee
aliud a nobis inde receperitis in mandatis, et hoc nullatenus omittatis. Ad
hec, quia prefatus Robertus per dilationem prestationis sacramenti predicti
magis se nobis reddidit suspectum, volumus quod, prestito sacramento pre-
dicto, bonam ab eo recipiatis securitatem super observatione sacramenti
ejusdem, et etiam emendis competentibus nobis faciendis pro transgressione et
contemptu nobis factis in premissis. Teste ut supra."

" Rex eidem Roberto salutem. Cum, sedata turbatione nuper habita in
regno nostro de consilio magnatum nostrorum provisum fuerit, quod a
nonnullis ejusdem regni sacramentum, quod fortassis vos latere non credi-
mus, nobis prestaretur, ac vos sacramentum illud hactenus prestare distu-
leritis, propter quod Maiori nostro Londoniarum mandavimus, quod sacra-
mentum vestrum a vobis recipiat vice nostra, vobis mandamus nrmiter
injungentes, quatenus in presentia dicti Maioris sacramentum ilium sine
difficultate prestetis in forma quam vobis injunget ex parte nostra, et hoc,
sicut vos et vestra diligitis, nullatenus omittatis. Teste ut supra."

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XXVI PREFACE.

Rex Magistro Thome de Piwelesden salutem. Transcriptum litterarum
nostrarum Maiori Londoniarum directarum vobis transmittimus presentibus
interclusum, vos regards quatinus, earum tenore plenius intellecto et vestra
mediante industria, negotium illud una cum prefato Maiore compleatis,
prout magis videritis expedire et prout aliis sacramentum illud injunxistis,
ita quod diligentiam vestram exinde merito commendare debeamus. Teste

ut supra."

Robert Aguilun was a dweller within the city of London, in the mansion
which had descended to him from his ancestor Henry Fitz Aylwin, the first
Mayor of London, on the north side of the church and cemetery of St.
Swithin, in Can die wick-street, and to which the advowson of that church
was attached, over against London Stone. The result of these commands
is unknown, and if Robert Aguilun was arrested and imprisoned at this
time, yet the glorious victory of Prince Edward over the rebels at Evesham,
on Tuesday the fourth of August following, will have caused his release,
as all the prisoners taken by the Earl of Leicester and his accomplices were
upon news of the battle forthwith set at liberty without ransom. On the
other hand, the Mayor of London and Thomas de Piwelesdon were arrested
at Windsor by the King, who delivered them to his son, the Prince Edward,
by whom they were detained in the Tower of Windsor. On the 12th day
of January, 1267, 51 Hen. III. Robert Aguylon was witness to a royal
charter in favour of the town of Wallingford, and on the Roll of Letters
Patent of that year the following grant " pro Roberto Aguylon " is entered :
" Rex omnibus, &c. salutem. Sciatis quod pro diutino et laudabili ser-
vitio quod dilectus et fidelis noster Robert Aguilon, qui de nobis tenet in
capite, nobis impendit, concessimus ei pro nobis et heredibus nostris quod si
ipse, antequam heredes sui de corpore suo procreati ad legittimam etatem
pervenerint, contigerit in fata concedere, ipse ante suum decessum in suo
testamento de custodia omnium terrarum et tenementorum suorum ad hos
pertinentium de quibuscunque tenebantur, similiter et maritagia heredum
predictorum pro sua voluntate ordinet et disponat, prout sibi et heredibus
suis predictis melius viderit expedire, et nos et heredes nostri ordinacionem
et dispositionem illam ratam habemus et acceptam. Et si forte, dictis heredi-
bus infra etatem existentibus, prefatus Robertus decedere contigerit, nulla
per ipsum facta ordinacione et assignatione de custodia et maritagiis pre-
dictis, volumus et concedimus quod dicti heredes sui sine impetratione nostri

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vel heredum nostrorum habeant custodiam omnium terrarum et tenemento-
rum predictorum usque ad suam legittimam etatem una cum maritagiis eo-
rundem, salva tamen nobis et heredibus nostris servicia nobis debita de terris
et tenementis predictis et homagiis dictorum heredum cum ad plenam etatem
pervenerint. In cujus, &c. Teste Rege apud Oxoniam xxiii die Octobris."

At the time of this grant Robert Aguylon was a widower, as we learn
from the following entries on the Plea Rolls of Michaelmas Term, in the
51st year of the reign of Henry, son of King John, under the heading,
" Placita coram Rege a die Sancti Michaelis in tres septimanas," eleventh
membrane :

" Hibernia. c Convenit inter Agnetem de Vescy in legali viduitate sua ex
Eborum. I una parte et Robertum Aguilun et Johannam de Mohun
uxorem ejus ex altera, videlicet, quod dicta Agnes concessit pro se et here-
dibus suis predictis Roberto et Johanne et heredibus ipsius Johanne vel
suis assignatis reddere annuatim tota vita Margarete Comitisse Lincolnie
decem libras sterlingorum ad duos terminos anni, scilicet, centum solidos in
octabas Sancti Michaelis et centum solidos in octabas Pasche, apud Novum
Templum Londoniarum testimonio Magistri vel fratrum ejusdem domus,
scilicet, pro molendino de Kildare quod predicta Johanna habuit in excham-
bium pro decem libratis terre que accident eidem Johanne de Mohun in
villa de Karlion in sua purparte de hereditate Walteri Marescalli quondam
Comitis Penbrok et de quo molendino dicta Comitissa Lincolnie est dotata,
ita vero quod post decessum dicte Comitisse dictum molendinum cum per-
tinentiis predictis Roberto et Johanne et heredibus ipsius Johanne, &c.
sine aliqua contradictione predicte Agnetis et heredum suorum integre et
hereditarie revertetur inperpetuum. Et tune imposterum predicta Agnes et
et heredes sui quiete permaneant a predicta solucione decem librarum pre-
dictis Roberto et Johanne et heredibus ipsius Johanne vel suis assignatis
facienda imperpetuum. Et si ita contingat quod predicta Agnes et heredes
sui vel assignati sui de ipsa solucione facienda ad dictos terminos in aliquo
cessarerint, predicta Agnes obligat se et heredes suos vel suos assignatos
distringendum per dominum Regem vel per ballivos suos quoscumque pre-
dicti Robertus et Johanna et heredes ipsius Johanne voluerint eligere ad
hanc districtionem faciendam per omnes terras suas in Anglia et VVallia, et
per omnia bona sua mobilia et immobilia, quousque predicta Agnes et he-
redes sui vel sui assignati satisfecerint predicto Roberto et Johanne et he-

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redibus ipsius Johanne, &c. de principal! debito et de omnibus expensis et
dampnis qiie predicti Robertas et Johanna et heredes ejusdem Johanne sus-
tinuerint occasione dicte pecunie, ut predictum est, non solute per inquisi-
tionem et considerationem bonorura et legalium hominum. Et sciendum
est quod post decessum dicte Comitisse quando dictum molendinum cum
pertinentiis reverteret predicto Roberto et Johanne et heredibus ipsius
Johanne vel suis assignatis, tune si extenta dicti molendini excedat decem
libras per extentam que facta fuit per preceptum Domini Regis, sicut conti-
netur in rotulis dicti Regis de predicta extenta quando participatio facta
fuit inter heredes dicti Marescalli, predicti Robertus et Johanna et heredes
ipsius Johanne id quod superfuerit de decem libris secundum predictam
extentam predicte Agneti et heredibus suis annuatim per manus suas
restituerint et solvent ad terminos predictos, scilicet, medietatem ad octabas
Sancti Michaelis et aliam medietatem ad octabas Pasche. Predicti insuper
Robertus et Johanna remiserunt et quietum clamaverunt pro se et heredibus
dicte Johanne predicte Agneti et heredibus suis imperpetuum totum jus et
clamium quod habuerunt vel aliquo modo habere potuerint in decem libratis
terre predicte Johanne assignatis in participatione hereditatis dicti Mares-
calli infra manerium dicte Agnetis de Karlyun. Et ad majorem securitatem
ambe partes cuidam scripto inter eos ad modum cyrographi confecto si-
gilla sua, etc. secundum quod plenius continetur in eodem scripto.

" Eborum. Agnes de Vescy attachiata fuit ad respondendum Roberto
Aguylun de placito quare, cum inter ipsam Agnetem,unam heredem Comitum
Mareschallorum, etipsum Robertum et Johannam, quondam uxorem ejusdem
Roberti, et alteram heredem Comitum predictorum, dudum convenerat quod
molendina de Kyldare que fuerunt de hereditate predictorum Marescallorum
et que Margareta quondam Comitissa Lincolnie nuper defuncta tenuit in
dotem, reverti deberent eisdem Roberto et Johanne post decessum prefate
Comitisse in purparte ipsius Johanne ipsam contingente de hereditate pre-
dicta, sicut constat domino Regi per inspectionem rotulorum cancellarie sue,
eadem Agnes statim post mortem prefate Comitisse intrusit se in molendina
predicta et ea adhuc detinet, propter quod dominus Rex nuper ei mandavit
quod molendina ilia prefato Roberto restituere juxta convencionem pre-
dictam. Agnes venit et in misericordia pro pluribus defaltis. Postea con-
cordat! sunt per licenciam, et est concordia talis, quod predicta Agnes recog-
noscit predicta molendina cum pertinentiis esse jus ipsius Roberti secundum

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purportum script! ipsius Agnetis, quod idem Robertas inde habet, et ilia ei
reddidit in curia in forma que contineturin scripto predicto superius scripto.
Et Robertus se tenet inde contentus, et concessit quod si predicta molendina
plus valeant quam valuerunt quando extensa fuerunt, predictus Robertus
concessit quod reddet singulis annis predicte Agneti superplus valoris pre-
dicte extente, scilicet, medietatem ad festum Sancti Michaelis et aliam me-
dietatem ad Pascha, et cetera sicut plenius continetur in scripto predicto.
Ideo mandatum est domino Edwardo et Justiciario Hibernie per dominum
Regem quod faciant predicto Roberto habere seisinam de predictis molen-
dinis, sicut predictum est. Postea mandavit Dominus Rex per predictum
Robertum quod ipse remisit predicte Agneti misericordiam. Et Robertus
remisit ei predicta arreragia decem librarum, etc."

From this important record we are able to correct the singular blunders
of former genealogists, and, as being contemporary, it far outweighs the mis-
statements of the later pleadings. Johanna de Mohun was the widow of
John de Mohun, who died in his father's lifetime, leaving a son and heir of
the same name, who succeeded to his grandfather, Reginald de Mohun, Lord
of Dunster, deceased 20th Jan., 41 Hen. III., 1257. and a second son,
named Robert de Mohun. In the volume of Parliamentary writs and writs
of military summons of the time of Edward I. during the fifth year of his
reign, 20th Nov. 1276 20th Nov. 1277, p. 202. " Somerset. West
Wallia. Johannes de Mohun recognoscit servicium iii feodorum militis pro
terris que fuerunt Reginaldi de Mohun avi sui et recognoscit quod debet
Regi servicium sexte partis servicii quinte partis de hereditate Mareschal-
lorum et quintam partem servicii quod Willelmus de Briwerre debuit, set
quantum ignorat per se ipsum, Robertum fratrem ejus et per Thomam du Pyn
milites." The writs of (( Diem clausit extremum," issued upon the death of
this Johnde Mohun, are tested at Windsor, 14th July, 7 Edw. I., 1279, and
by the inquisitions taken thereon it was found that John de Mohun, his son
and heir, was then of the age of ten years or thereabouts. The name of his
wife was Alienora, and the several fiefs which were assigned to her in dower
in the counties of Somerset and Dorset are specified in the same record.
The service of his mother's share of the inheritance of the Earls Marshals
had been increased to a sixth part by reason of the death of Alianora, Coun-
tess of Winchester, without issue, in the 2nd of Edward the First, when
William de Leyborne had livery of the manors which had been held by her

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in dower of the inheritance of Roger de Leyborne, her third husband, de-
ceased 56 Hen. III., 1272. Alice, the mother of Reginald de Mohun, was
a daughter and coheir of William Briwerre. In his account of this family
Dugdale has entirely omitted one generation of the family of Mohun, and
marries the grandson, who died 7 Edw. I., to Joanna the daughter of Sir
Reginald Fitzpiers, citing Claus. 36 Hen! III. m. 17, for the name, and an
old manuscript penes Willelmum Mohun, equ. aur. ano 1583, for her pa-
rentage. He then adds, " and died in Gascoigne upon Sunday the feast
day of St. Barnabas the Apostle, 7 Edw. I., 1279, leaving John his son and
heir ten years of age, and Alianora his wife surviving, who had for a dowry
twenty-seven knight's fees and a ninth part in the counties of Somerset,
Dorset, and Devon." The death of John de Mohun in Gascony is taken
from a genealogy of this family, as descended of Alicia, fourth of the daugh-
ters and heirs of William Briwerre, in the register of the Abbey of Sib ton,
and printed in the Monasticon under Newenham Abbey, com. Devon,
founded by Reginald de Mohun, in the manor of Axminster, on the sixth day
of January, 1245, when that day fell on a Sunday, where we read, " Qui
supradictus Reginaldus de Mohun habuit duas uxores, scilicet, Hawysiam de
Mohun et Isabellam Basset, et in dicta Hawysia procreavit unum filium,
nomine Johannem, heredem ipsius. Qui Johannes predictus in Gasconia
moriebatur ; cujus corpus jacet coram magno altare inter sepulcrum Regi-
naldi de Mohun et Willelmi de Mohun domini de Moun-Otery et de Newe-
ham ; corpus vero apud Brewton. Qui Johannes de Mohun secundus habuit
unum filium heredem nomine Johannem, qui Johannes modo tertius fuit in
custodia domini Regis in tempore quo justiciarii domini Reg isitinerantes in
Devonia sederunt." In the Monasticon corpus is a misprint for cor, as ap-
pears by what follows, under the heading, " Corpora istorum qui jacent hu-
mata coram magno altare de Nyweham," where we read, " Item juxta ilium
(i. e. Reginaldum de Mobun, principalem fundatorem) in sinistra parte sub
parva petra jacet cor Johannis de Mohun, filii et heredis dicti Reginaldi, et
ejus corpus jacet apud Brewton." In the fifth of Edw. I., 1277, on occasion
of the expedition against Lewelin Prince of Wales, muster before the Con-
stable and Earl Marshal at Worcester on eight days of St. John the Baptist,
Robert Aguillon acknowledges the service of half a knight's fee for tene-
ments in Dorset held by the courtesy of England, and makes fine for the
same, they being of the inheritance of Joan de Mohun, his first wife, of whom

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he had had issue born ; but prior to his decease the only survivor was a
daughter, Isabella, then married to Hugh, Lord Bardolf of Wirmegay, com.
Norf. as will appear by the sequel.

On the Roll of Letters Patent of the fifty-third year of Henry III., 1269,
is this entry : " Pro Roberto Aguilon. Rex omnibus, &c. salutem. Cum
nuper ratione matrimonii inter dilectum et fidelem nostrum Robertum
Aguillon et dilectam nobis Margaretam Comitissam Insule, uxorem suam,
contrahendi et pro fideli et laudabili servitio quod idem Robertus Aguillon
tarn in tempore turbationis habite in regno nostro quam pacis nobis impendit,
concesserimus providere eidem in ducentis libratis terre, hinc in parte satis-
factionis concessionis nostre predicte concessimus ei custodiam terrarum et
heredum Ricardi de Plaiz nuper defuncti, qui de nobis tenuit in capite,
habendam et tenendam eidem Roberto et assignatis suis cum feodis militum,
advocacionibus ecclesiarum, cum acciderint, et omnibus aliis que hujusmodi
custodibus cum custodia accidere poterunt vel pertinere, usque ad legittimam
etatem heredum predictorum, una cum maritagiis eorum sine disparagatione ;
ita tamen quod si terre et tenementa predicte valorem concessionis nostre
predicte non attingant, time eidem Roberto de eo quod eidem defuerit, alibi
satisfaciemus. Et si valorem ejusdem concessionis excedant, tune id quod
inde superfuerit nobis remaneat. In cujus rei testimonium has litteras
nostras fieri fecimus patentes. Teste Rege apud Wyntoniam xiii die Junii.
Et mandatum est Johanni le Moyne, Escaetori citra Trentam, quod sine
dilatione faciat habere eidem Roberto plenam seisinam de custodia predicta
cum pertinentiis in forma predicta, et facta legali extenta de valore terrarum
et tenementorum predictorum quod Regem de eadem valore quam citius
certificet."

Richard de Plaiz, one of the coheirs of Richard de Montfichet, of Stan-
stead, com. Essex, his uncle, who did homage for Okeley Magna and other
lands in Essex, parcel of the barony of Montfichet, on the 12th May, 52
Hen. III. 1268, was deceased the following year, leaving an infant heir,
Ralph de Playz, aged nine years, in 3 Edw. I., being then in ward to Robert
Aguilon. His paternal inheritance was the manor of Witing, com. Norf.
held of the Earls Warren, together with other manors in Sussex held of
their barony of Lewes. Margaret, Countess of Devon and of the Isle of
Wight, was a daughter of Thomas Comte of Savoy, and sister of Beatrix,
wife of Raymond-Berenger Comte of Provence, mother of Alienora wife of

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King Henry III. ; espoused first to Herman, Comte of Ribourg,in June 1218,*
and secondly in 41 Hen. III., 1257, to Baldwin, Earl of Devon and of the
Isle, the last heir male of the illustrious family of de lleviers, who in July
1262 died by poison (together with Richard, Earl of Gloucester, Ingelram
de Percy, and some others of the King's household,) eaten at the table of
Peter de Savoy, his wife's brother, without surviving issue, leaving a sister,
then the wife of William de Fortibus, Comte of Aumale and Lord of
Holdernesse, to inherit his honours,! who assumed the style of Countess of

* Herman, Comte of Ribourg, was deceased without issue at the time when Richard,
Earl of Cornwall, was Emperor of Germany, who bestowed his succession upon Peter,
Comte of Savoy, as to all which was held of the Empire. The election of Richard, Earl
of Cornwall, was assented to by him on the feast of the Holy Innocents, 28th Dec. 1256,
in the chapel of St. Stephen in Westminster before the King and his council, and in the
following year Margaret de Savoy was married to Baldwin, Earl of Devon and of the
Isle. The words of Matthew Paris are as follows : " Baldewinus de Ripariis, Domina
Regina procurante, quandam alienigenam ducit in uxorem, Sabaudiensem, ipsius Reginse
consanguineam. Ad ipsum vero Balduinum spectat Comitatus Devonise ; et sic diatim
devolvuntur nobiles possessiones et haereditates Anglicanas ad alienigenas. Quod scire
nolunt vel dissimulant Anglici pusillanimes ; quorum ignavam et supinam simplicitatem
Wallensis strenuitas reprehendit." In the following year Thomas, Comte of Flanders,
came to England, according to the same historian : " Ad quindenam vero Paschse, venit
Thomas comes quondam Flandrise, Londoniis, infirmus vectus in lectica, liberatus a carcere
Taurinensium, pro qua liberatione mercatores Astenses multa pecunia sunt redempti.
Rex enim Francorum, ad petitionem Papse, multos eorum cepit et ad redemptionem
coarctavit ; donee dictus Thomas liber in Angliam rediret, adubera munera recepturus."
Thomas, Comte of Flanders in right of his wife Joan, was second son of Thomas, Comte of
Savoy, who died 20th Jan. 1233, and brother of Margaret, Countess of Devon. His
decease in England is assigned to the next year (1259) by this contemporary historian.

f 1 Baldwin de Reviers, the last Earl of Devon of this family, was born 1st Jan. 1235,
according to the Book of Tewkesbury, " Amicia, filia Gilberti comitis de Clare, peperit filium
Baldwino de Ripariis dum adhuc esset in custodia, in nocte Circumcisionis Domini, nomine
Baldwinum ; " as also two daughters, Isabella, born a. 1237, wife of William de Fortibus,
Comte of Aumale, and Margaret, a nun at Lacock. This son, husband of Margaret,
whom Brooke and Cleaveland and the editors of L'Art de Verifier les Dates wrongly
name Avicia, died in 1262, according to the chronicles of Gloucester, Baldwinus de
Insula, Comes Devonie, nepos Richardi, Comitis Gloucestrise, obiit. The writs of Diem
clausit extremum to William de Weylond, escheator of the King citra Trentam, are dated
apud Turrim Londoniarum xiii die Julii, anno regni nostri xlvii, 13th July, 1263, but
the inquisitions are of earlier date. The jury in the county of Devon found that he held
Plympton with the appurtenances, and that it was worth Ix li. per annum in all issues,

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Devon and Lady of the Isle in addition to the title of Aumale, and died
21 Edw. I. 1293, having survived all her issue. After the death of her
second husband, assignation of her dower was made to his widow by the
King of these manors, namely Newnham, com. Oxon. of the inheritance
of Margaret de Reviers, named above, grandmother of the deceased Earl ;
Pyshoo, in Sawbridge worth, com. Herts ; Faukeshall, alias South Lambeth,
now corruptly Vauxhall, com. Surrey ; Christchurch, com. Hants, with
Freshwater and Wroxhall, in the Isle of Wight ; together with knight's fees
in the counties of Oxford, Berkshire, Northampton, Bedford, Hertford,
Cambridge, Norfolk, Suffolk, Kent, and Essex, and the advowsons of the
churches of Honiton, Buckland, and Walkhampton, in Devonshire. On
the Roll of the Pleas before the Lord the King in the octaves of St.
Michael, 51 Hen. III. 1266, Isabella de Fortibus, Countess of Aumale,
was summoned to answer to Margaret de Reviers, Countess of Devon,
of a plea, wherefore, when the Lord the King long since after the de-
cease of Baldwin de Reviers, Earl of Devon, late the husband of the
same Margaret, who held of the Lord the King in capite, to whom
the custody of the lands and heirs of the same Baldwin belonged, had
caused to be assigned to the aforesaid Margaret of all the lands and tene-
ments, fiefs of knights, and advowsons of churches, which had been those
of the aforesaid Baldwin, through a certain and true extent thereof made by
the precept of the same Lord the King, the reasonable dower of her the
said Margaret as is the custom, the aforesaid Isabella had deforced her of
the several knight's fees and advowsons comprised in the assignment, to the
manifest loss of her the said Margaret ; and therefore the aforesaid Mar-

with Honiton, Columpton, Bickleigh, Buckland, and Walkhampton, with their appurte-
nances, which were worth yearly xx xx li. held of the Lord the King in capite, but they knew
not by what service, and that his nearest heir was Isabella, Countess of Aumale, after the
decease of the son of the same Baldwin. The jury in the county of Surrey found that
Baldwin de Insula, late Earl of Devon, held on the day he died of the Lord the King in
capite in that county the manor of South Lambeth, with its members, Streatham and
Mitcham, worth in all issues xx li. xviis. \id., and they say that Isabella de Fortibus,
Countess of Aumale, is the nearest heir of the said Baldwin de Insula, and is of the age of
twenty-five years, which inquisition was taken on the morrow of Palm Sunday, 47th
Henry III. 26th March, 1263. Also the jurors of Hertfordshire for the manor of Saw-
bridgeworth say that his sister was of the age of twenty-four years or more. The name of
this son was John, who died in his infancy in France. Baldwin of the Isle, the last Earl
of Devon of this line, had interment at Bromere, an Austin priory, com. Hants.
CAMD. SOC. f

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garet, by her attorney, complains and declares that she has suffered detri-
ment to the value of one hundred marks. And Isabella, through Martin
de Campo Florido, her attorney, constituted in the presence of Robert the
Falconer, who had been sent by the aforesaid King to see whom the afore-
said Countess would choose to be her attorney in the aforesaid suits, came,
and the parties were brought to concord by licence of the Lord the King at
the instance of the Lady the Queen. " Et est concordia talis quod predicta
Isabella per predictum attornatum suum concessit predicte Margarete quod
ipsa habeat omnia feoda militum et advocaciones ecclesiarum secundum quod
Dominus Rex ei assignari fecit, excepta advocatione ecclesie de Honytona,
tenenda in dotem tota vita ipsius Margarete, salvo eidem Isabelle jure suo
ad dotem ipsius Margarete mensurandam secundum legem et consuetudinem
regni Anglie per brevem domini Regis cum inde loqui voluerit. Et pro advo-
cacione ecclesie de Honitona predicte Isabella concessit predicte Margarete
advocacionem ecclesie de Wytcherche in comitatu Oxonie tenendam tota vita
sua nomine dotis, et Margaretaper attornatum suum se tenet inde contentam.
Ideo preceptum est vicecomitibus quod de predictis feodis militum et advoca-
cionibus ecclesiarum faciant predicte Margarete habere seisinam suam," &c.
Isabella de Fortibus,* Countess of Aumale, was also attached to answer
to Margaret de Reviers, Countess of Devon, of a plea, wherefore during
the late convulsion of the realm she had taken and carried off the goods
and chattels of the same Margaret at Christ Church, Freshwater, and
Wroxhall, in the county of Southampton, to the value of one thousand
marks, and at Lambeth (Lamhethe) in the county of Surrey to the value of
one hundred marks, and still detains them, to her no small loss and injury,
and against the peace, &c. And Robert Falconer, sent by the Lord the
King to the aforesaid Isabella to hear her acknowledgement wherefore she

* The surname de Fortibus was derived from Fors, a commune of the canton of
Prahecq, arrondissement of Niort, departement of Deux Sevres, in Poitou, as is evident
from the following charter, copied in the register of Philip Augustus, at the Bibliotheque du
Roi, Paris, No. 8408 :

" Ego Alicia, Comitissa Augi, notum facio universis presentes litteras inspecturis, quod
ego terrain de Forz, quam habebam in pignorepro centum et quadragint^ marcis argenti,
de quibus me teneo pro pagata, dimisi in manu karissimi domini mei Ludovici Regis
Francie illustris, ad cujus manus devenerat ex exchaeta Guillelmi, quondam domini de
Forz et Comitis Aubemarle. In cujus," etc. Actum Parisiis, anno Domini Mo. CC. xxx
tercio, mense Februarii.

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had so acted, returned for answer by his brief, and the aforesaid Isabella de
Fortibus by her letters patent, that she had acknowledged before the
aforesaid Robert that she was a debtor to the aforesaid Margaret Countess
of Devon, for the fruits, issues, and other emoluments which she had
received in the time of the aforesaid disturbance from the manors aforesaid,
in 834 marks, 5*. and sixpence, to be rendered at certain terms until the
aforesaid money was fully paid ; and, in case of the decease of either party,
their executors were to be in their room. " Et similiter predicta Isabella
cognovit et concessit pro se et heredibus suis quod si mobilia ipsius Isabelle
adhuc non sufficiant, obligat se et assignat eidem Margarete aut executori-
bus suis manerium ipsius Isabelle de Sevenhampton in comitatu Wyltscire,
quod est de hereditate ipsius Isabelle, ad quorumcumque manus manerium
illud devenerit, habendum et tenendum in tenenciam cum omnibus suis
pertinentiis quousque eadem Margareta vel sui executores de exitibus
ejusdem manerii levaverint pecuniam que a retro fuerit, ita tamen quod de
dicto manerio nullum faciant vastum, venditionem aut exilium, ut cum
pecuniam eidem Margarete debitam levaverint, predictum manerium cum
omnibus suis pertinentiis heredibus predicte Isabelle restituant in adeo bono
statu, sicut illud recipiant," etc.

On the Roll of Letters Patent of the 52d year of Henry III. 1268, we
read as follows : " Rex omnibus, etc. salutem. Sciatis quod Magister Giflerus,
camerarius venerabilis patris O(ttoboni) Sancti Adriani diaconi Cardinalis,
apostolice sedis legati, per preceptum nostrum recepit quingentas marcas ad
opus dilecte nobis filie Thome quondam Comitis Sabaudie, quas sibi con-
cessimus ad se maritandam de dono nostro de decima nobis in regno nostro
concessa, videlicet, a cancellario Cicestrie de decima episcopatus Cicestrie
centum et quadraginta marcas, a decano Cicestrie et Roberto de Purle
canonico Cicestrie ducentas et unam marcas, a priore de Bermondeseia
quadraginta et quinque marcas de decima prioratus sui, a priore Sancte
Katherine Lincolnie centum marcas de decima episcopatus Lincolnie, et de
abbate de Waltham quatuordecim marcas de decima abbatie sue. De quibus
quidem quingentis marcis predictos cancellarium, decanum, Robertum,priorem
et abbatem penitus quietamus et eas in predictis decimis volumus et faciemus
allocari. In cujus, etc. Teste Rege apud Westmonasterium decimo die Maii."

That this gift of the King to Margaret, daughter of Thomas Comte of
Savoy, was made in contemplation of her marriage with Robert Aguillon ;

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there can be no doubt, as is evident from the fact of their being already
married at the time of the grant of wardship, which bears date on the 12th
of June, 1269, and from the certainty that a daughter of this Comte of
Savoy was wife of Baldwin Earl of Devon. In the L'Art de verifier les
Dates, and elsewhere, she is in error called Avicia instead of Margaret,
originating in the name of the Countess of Devon, Amicia, mother of Earl
Baldwin and of Isabella Countess of Aumale, and daughter of Gilbert de
Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, whose husband had the same name
of Baldwin, and died in the flower of his youth on the 15th day of Febru-
ary, 29 Hen. III. 1245. She survived till the 12th of Edward I. 1284,
when Isabella Countess of Aumale had livery of her dower. Dugdale
in his account of the family of Redvers commits a yet more inexplicable
blunder at page 256, where, after stating that Margaret de Reviers, widow
of Baldwin de Reviers and of Falcasius de Breaute, departed this life on
the sixth of the nones of October (2nd Oct.), 36 Hen. III. (an. 1252), he
nevertheless confounds her with Margaret of Savoy in this paragraph;
" This Margaret held the lordships of Pishoo, Niweham, South Lamheth,
Wrokeshale, and Christechirche, in dower from Baldwine, sometime Earl of
Devonshire, her husband ; and came at last to be the wife of Robert
Aguillon, but died not till 20 Edw. I. by which it is evident that she lived
to a very great age." Matthew Paris is also in error in styling Margaret
de Reviers, the daughter and heiress of Warine Fitzgerold, Comitissa de
Insula,* inasmuch as her husband died in the lifetime of his father, and as
the following entry on the Fine Rolls of the year of her decease attests :
De terris Margerete de Ripariis capiendis in manum Regis. Mandatum
est Escaetori Regis in comitatu Oxonie quod sine dilatione capiat in manum
Regis omnes terras et tenementa que fuerunt Margerete de Ripariis in ballia
sua die quo obiit, et ea salvo custodiri faciat donee Rex aliud inde preceperit.
Teste Rege apud Windesoram xxix. die Septembris. She had died on the
sixth of the calends of October, 28th September, 1252, and not on the
day stated by that most incorrect historian, Matthew Paris.

From the 50th year of the reign of Henry III. to the close of his reign
Robert Aguillon was a member of the King's Privy Council, and on the
morrow of his decease, 17 Nov. 1272, John de Kirkeby delivered the seal

* The same error is also to be found in the historical narrative at p. 204 of the Appendix
to this volume.

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of the aforesaid Lord the King under his own seal and the seal of Peter of
Winchester, Keeper of the Wardrobe of the same Lord the King, to the
Lord Walter, Archbishop of York, Robert Aguillon, and the rest of the
King's Councillors, in presence of the same Councillors. From this sovereign
he had licence to castellate his two mansions of Perching, com. Sussex, and
Adington, com. Surrey, in the 48th and 54th years of his reign.

" Rex omnibus, etc. salutem. Sciatis quod concessimus pro nobis et he-
redibus nostris Roberto Aguilun et heredibus suis quod mansum manerii sui
de Percinges in comitatu Sussexie fossato et muro de petra et calce includere
possint et firmare et kernellare ad voluntatem eorum et ilium taliter firma-
tum et kernellatum tenere inperpetuum sine occasione vel impedimento nostri
vel heredum nostrorum. In cujus, etc. Teste Rege apud Oxoniam xv die
Marcii. (15th March, 1264.)

" Rex (ut supra, mutatis mutandis) pro manso manerii sui de Adintone
in comitatu Surreie. Teste Rege apud Westmonasterium xxii die Novembris.
(22d Nov. 1269.)"

After the decease of John Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundel, 18th March 1272,
Robert Aguilon was made Custos of the Castle of Arundel and of the lands
of his honour, and so continued to be in the 3d year of Edward I., for on
the Hundred Rolls of that date, under the heading " Civitas Cycestrie," we
have this finding of the jurors : " Dicunt quod Robertus Aguylon, custos
Ricardi filii et heredis Johannis filii Alani, domini de Arundello, vi armata
aliquando cum ccc hominibus, aliquando cum pluribus, approviavit sibi nun-
dinas Sancti Jacobi extra civitatem Cycestrie, que quondam fuerunt perti-
nentes ad dictam civitatem et hoc ad grave dampnum tocius civitatis." At
the same date he had also the wardship of John son of Thomas Malmains,
who held half a knight's fee in the parish of Stoke, in the hundred of Hoo,
of the King in capite, now corruptly called Maamans Hall. Among the
Placita de quo Warranto tried before the Justices in Eyre at Hertford,
3d Nov. 1278, we read as follows, under this title, " Libertates Roberti
Aguylon: Robertus Aguylon clamat habere visum franciplegii cum omni-
bus que ad visum pertinent in manerio suo de Stapilford, quod habet ex dono
et concessiorie Johannis le Moyne. Et dicit quod predictum manerium est
de honore de Maundevylla, et quod predictus Johannes et omnes tenentes
predicti manerii antecessores sui usi sunt libertatibus predictis ex antiqua
consuetudine, et ipse similiter toto tempore suo postquam predictum mane-

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rium devenit ad manus suas usus est eisdem libertatibus. Clamat etiam
habere per cartam Regis Henrici, patris domini Regis nunc, liberam war-
reniiam et feriam singulis annis duraturam per tres dies in omnibus dominicis
terris suis maneriorum suorum, scilicet, Wattone, Adingtone, et Percinges.*
Et dicit quod ipse postquam predictum manerium devenit ad manus suas
plene usus est eisdem libertatibus ; et quod ipse nichil occupavit super do-
minum Regem, qui nunc est, nee predecessores suos ; et quod ita sit ponit
se super patriam. Et milites ad hoc electi, una cum xii de hundredo, in
quibus predicta maneria sunt, dicunt super sacramentum suum quod pre-
dictus Robertus plene usus est omnibus libertatibus predictis, sicut predictum
est et quod nichil occupavit super dominum Regem vel predecessores suos.
Et ideo dictum est ei quod eat sine die cum libertatibus suis predictis, salvo
domino Regi jure, etc." Stapleford, in Domesday Stiuicesuuorde, was then
held of Geoffrey de Mandevilla by Germund, his tenant, ancestor apparently
of John le Moyne.

In Surrey, among the pleas of Quo warranto before the Justices in Eyre
at Guildford, 7 Edward I., 1279, is one set down on the roll in this form:
" Robert Agulun and Margaret his wife were summoned to show by what
warranty they held the hundred of Lambeth in that shire. And by what
warranty they claimed to have suit to the hundred aforesaid from the men
of the same hundred. And by what warranty they claimed to have suit to
the aforesaid hundred from the vill of Streatham. And by what warranty
* The charter here referred to is entered on the Roll of Charters of the 32d year of
Henry III., 1248, in these words: "H(enricus) Rex, &c. Archiepiscopis, &c. salutem.
Sciatis nos concessisse et hac carta nostra confirmasse dilecto et fideli nostro Roberto
Aguyllun quod ipse et heredes sui imperpetuum habeant liberam warrennam in omnibus
dominicis terris suis maneriorum suorum de Watton et de Adyntona et de Percinges, ita
quod nullus intret terras illas ad fugandum in eis vel ad aliquid capiendum quod ad
warennam pertineat sine licencia et voluntate ipsius Roberti et heredum suorum super
forisfacturam nostram x librarum. Concessimus etiam et hac eadem carta nostra confir-
mamus predicto Roberto, quod ipse et heredes sui inperpetuum habeant unam feriam
apud predictum manerium suum de Watton singulis annis duraturam per tres dies, vide-
licet, in vigilia, in die, et in crastino Nativitatis Beate Marie, nisi feria ilia sit ad nocumen-
tum vicinarum feriarum. Quare volumus et firmiter precipimus pro nobis et heredibus
nostris quod predicti Robertus et heredes sui imperpetuum, &c. Hiis testibus, W(altero)
Norwicensi episcopo, R(ogero) le Bigod comite Norfolcie et marescallo Anglie, Roberto
Passelewe archidiacono Lewensi, Rogero de Thurkelby, Johanne de Lessinton, Paulino
Peyvre, Roberto le Noreys, Willelmo Grernun et aliis. Datum per manum nostrarn apud
Bliburgam xxix die Marcii. (Blythburg, com. Suff.)"

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they claimed to have view of frank-pledge in their court of Mitcham of the
men of the same vill, who ought to come, and so were wont, to the Sheriff's
turn in the hundred of the Lord the King- of Brixton, which suits Guy de
Rocheford long since, at the time when he had the custody of the aforesaid
men and villages in commission from the Lord Henry the King, father of
the Lord the now King, who then had that custody by reason of the mi-
nority of Baldwin of the Isle, deceased, had withdrawn from the same Henry
the King, father, from his hundred of Brixton. And by what warranty
they appropriated to themselves free warren in their lands in Adington.
And by what warranty they had withdrawn from the Lord the King suit of
the manors of South Lambeth and of Streatham, which they were accus-
tomed to do to the hundred of Brixton. And Robert and Margaret came
by their attorney, and as to all the aforesaid suits, warren, and view of frank-
pledge, they say that they have and hold them in dower of the aforesaid
Margaret of the dotation of Isabella de Fortibus, Countess of Aumale, with-
out whom they cannot bring this matter to judgment. And her they call
to warrant, &c. and beg that they may be summoned, &c. Wherefore it
was enjoined the Sheriff of Dorset that he summon the aforesaid Countess,
that she be at Sherborne, in the county aforesaid, on the octaves of St.
Hilary, &c. Afterwards, on that day (20th Jan. 1279), the aforesaid
Countess came by her attorney and warranted to them, &c, as her dower,
saying that she has the aforesaid liberties by hereditary descent, and that
she and all her ancestors, from the time beyond memory, had used the same
liberties without any occupation or usurpation made of the same upon the
Lord the King or any of his ancestors, Kings of England, and this she begs
may be inquired by the country. Wherefore the Sheriff was enjoined to
cause 12 men to come before the King at Westminster within three weeks
from Easter-day, &c., by whom, &c., and that they be those who have no
affinity to the aforesaid Countess, to make that jury, &c."

Robert Aguillun was also summoned before the Justices in Eyre at
Winchester, in the county of Southampton, on the octaves of St. Martin,
8 Edw. I. 1280, to show to the Lord the King by what warranty he took
fines for breaches of the assize of bread and beer in Warblington, belonging
to the Crown, without the assent and goodwill, &c. And Robert says that
his tenements, which he holds now in Warblington, were an escheat of the
Normans, and that at the time when those tenements were in the hands of
the Normans they always had and took the aforesaid fines for breach of the

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assize of bread and beer, wherefore he says fliat the Lord King Henry,
father of the Lord the now King, gave to the ancestor of him the said
Robert the aforesaid tenements with the right aforesaid, as freely as the
Normans had held them, and by that warranty he claims to have the fines
aforesaid, &c.* The result of these suits is not stated.

In the same sitting Robert Agulun and Margaret his wife were sum-
moned to show by what warranty they claimed to have wreck of sea, return

* The grant under which Robert Aguylon put forth his claim had been made to his
father, William Aguylon, in these terms, according to an entry on the roll of Charters of
the 15th year of Henry III. 1231, under the heading Pro Willelmo Aguillun. Henricus
Dei gratia Rex Anglie, &c. salutem. Sciatis nos concessisse et hac carta nostra confirmasse
Willelmo Agollun terrain que fuit Roberti de Curcy in Emeleworth et Warblinton cum
redditibus et homagiis, et quam predictus Willelmus prius tenuit de balliva Johannis
Regis, etc. habendam et tenendam de nobis et heredibus nostris sibi et heredibus suis,
quousque terram illam reddimus rectis heredibus ejusdem terre per voluntatem nostram
vel per pacem nostram, reddendo inde nobis et heredibus nostris ipse et heredes sui
singulis annis ad Pascham unum par calcarium deauratarum pro omni servicio, et si
forte terram illam reddiderimus rectis heredibus, sicut predictum est, nos vel heredes
nostri faciemus eidem Willelmo vel heredibus suis rationabile excambium in wardis vel
escaetis ad valorem ejusdem terre. Quare volumus, etc. pro nobis et heredibus nostris quod
predictus Willelmus et heredes sui imperpetuum habeant et teneant predictam terram cum
omnibus pertinentiis suis tarn in redditibus quam in homagiis, bene et in pace, libere,
quiete, et integre, faciendo predictum servicium, sicut predictum est. Hiis testibus,
H(uberto) de Burgo etc. Godefrido de Craucumbe, Johanne filio Philippi, Emerico de
Sacy, Henrico de Capella, Radulfo Marescallo et aliis. Datum per manum venerabilis
patris R(adulfi) Cicestrensis Episcopi cancellarii nostri, apud Windesoram xxx. die Junii.
Robert de Courcy was Baron of Courcy in Normandy, now a commune of the canton of
CoulibcEuf, arrondissement de Falaise, departement du Calvados, and with other Normans
withdrew his allegiance from King John, and transferred it to the Conqueror of his
sovereign, King Philip Augustus. Warblington is a parish in the hundred of Bosmere,
division of Portsdown, and Emsworth is a hamlet in the same parish. He had also a
manor in the parish of Bilsington, in the hundred of New Church, lathe of Shepway,
com. Kent, together with lands in Snargate, a parish in the hundred of Langport, which
were also escheats of the Normans. Upon the forfeiture of Robert de Courcy his manor
of Bilsington was committed to Henry de Sandwich by Letter Close of King John, dated
at Winchester 30th Sept. 1204, and addressed to the sheriff of Kent. He held it up to
18th October, 1207, when the King gave the custody of it during pleasure to William,
Earl of Arundel, and it continued in his descendants down to Hugh, last Earl of Arundel
of the line of Albini. Hasted, in his account of this manor, which was held by the ser-
jeanty of beiog Chief Butler to the King at his coronation, totally omits all notice of the
tenure of Robert de Courcy, and falsely ascribes its acquisition to William de Albini in
the reign of Henry I.

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of the King's briefs, plea of wrongful distress, and free gallows in Christ-
church, and also to take fines for breach of the assise of bread and beer in
the same vill, &c. And Robert and Margaret came, and, as to the return
of briefs, say that they claim nothing on that score, and were therefore to
be without day as to this head. And as to the other liberties they say that
they hold the manor of Christchurch in dower of the same Margaret of the
inheritance of Isabella de Fortibus, Countess of Aumale, with all the afore-
said liberties annexed to the aforesaid manor, and call the aforesaid Coun-
tess to warrant the same, who then came upon summons and warranted their
claim, and says that, as to the franchises last named, she has a free hun-
dred annexed to the aforesaid manor, and by that warranty she has these
liberties as belonging to the hundred. So as to this head the aforesaid
Countess without day, &c. And as to the wreck of sea, she says that she
and all her ancestors, from the time of King Richard and before, had been
in seisin of having wreck of sea in the aforesaid manor as belonging to the
same manor, &c. and William de Gisselham, who follows on the side of the
crown, says that she the Countess, nor her ancestors, who had held the
aforesaid manor, never had wreck of sea in that manor until the time that
Richard, Earl of Cornwall, who had obtained the custody of Baldwin of the
Isle, father of the aforesaid Countess, from the demise of the Lord King
Henry, took wreck of sea in the same manor. Wherefore he says that the
Countess herself, nor any of her ancestors, took nor had wrecks of sea in
the same manor, except through the occupation, which the aforesaid Rich-
ard, Earl of Cornwall, had made upon the lord the King, as aforesaid, and
this he begs on the King's part that it be inquired into and the Countess
likewise. Wherefore inquiry was made, and the jurors chosen for this
purpose say, upon their oath, that the aforesaid Countess, and all her pre-
decessors from time beyond memory, always up to the present time had had
wreck of sea in the manor aforesaid as belonging to the said manor. And
therefore it was adjudged that the aforesaid Countess thereof should be
without day in respect of the aforesaid warranty, saving always the King's
right, &c. And as to the plea of wrongful distress, the Countess says that,
as regards it, she claims nothing beyond what her ancestors had been used
to do, namely, that when any one of her tenants made complaint of the
unjust caption and detention of their cattle, her bailiffs, upon such complaint,
caused the same cattle to be delivered up, and held that plea as to the
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unjust caption and detention. Moreover, she says that the sheriff, who
might be in office at the time, could plead a plea of this sort in his county
by brief or without brief as she chose, at the complaint of any one of her
tenants of the manor aforesaid, and says that she and her ancestors from
the time of King Richard, cousin of the King that now is, were accustomed
to plead a plea of this sort in the form aforesaid, and of this she puts her-
self upon the country. And William de Gisselham, who follows on the
King's behalf, in like manner. Wherefore an inquiry was made, of which
the jurors say upon their oath that Robert Aguyllon and Margaret his
wife, who hold the aforesaid manor in dower of her the said Margaret, of
the inheritance of the aforesaid Countess, pleaded a plea of unjust caption
and detention of cattle in their court at the complaint of any of their tenants
of the manor aforesaid. And that Baldwin of the Isle, brother of the
aforesaid Countess, whose heir she is, pleaded a plea of this sort in the
aforesaid manor the whole time of his tenure. And they say that Baldwin,
father of the aforesaid Countess, was the first who pleaded a plea of this
sort in the aforesaid manor, and that plea was an encroachment upon the
right of Henry the King, father of the King who now is, in the time of
the same lord Henry the King. And because the aforesaid Countess
claims nothing as a principal in the suit, and by the aforesaid verdict it is
proved that Baldwin of the Isle, father of the aforesaid Countess, had been
the first who pleaded that plea in the manor aforesaid, and that it was
an encroachment upon the lord Henry the King, father of the lord the
King that now is, therefore the crown had judgment.

On the Roll of Charters of the 54th year of Henry III. 1270, is entered
a grant of a market weekly on Mondays, and a fair for three days, on the
vigil, the day, and the morrow of the Decollation of St. John Baptist, at his
manor of Greatham, com. Hants, dated at Westminster, 28th day of May;*

* Pro Roberto Aguillon. Rex Archiepiscopis, Episcopis, &c. salutem. Sciatis nos con-
cessisse et hac carta nostra confirmasse dilecto et fideli nostro Roberto Aguillun quod ipse
et heredes sui imperpetuum habeant unum mercatum singulis septimanis per diem lune
apud manerium suum de Greteham in comitatu Suhantonie et unam feriara ibidem singu-
lis annis per tres dies duraturam videlicet in vigilia, in die, et in crastino Decollationis
Sancti Johannis Baptiste, nisi etc. Hiis testibus, WaSfe? de Valencia fratre nostro,
Johanne de Warenna comite Surreie, Hunfredo de Bohun comite Herefordie, Philippo
Basset, Roberto Walerand, Willelmo de Wintreshull, Willelmo de Aete, Petro de Chaump-
vent, Willelmo Belet, Radulfo de Bagepuz, Galfrido de Percy, Waltero de Burges, Rogero

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and on that of the year following is a grant of free-warren, and a weekly
market on Thursday, and a fair on the vigil, the day, and the morrow of
St. Michael, at his manor of Bures, com. Suffolk, dated at Westminster, 13th
day of June^ 1271.* Bures is a parish in the hundred of Babergh, Suffolk,
on the river Stour, and the fair is still kept up, but the day has been altered
to Holy Thursday, On the Hundred Rolls for this county, 3d Edward I.,
1275, under the heading, " Hundredum de Balberg de libertate Sancti Ead-
mundi," the jurors say that Stephen de Langton had held half a knight's
fief in Bures, and Mabilia, his wife, now holds the aforesaid half fief for the
term of her life of Sir Robert Aguiloun, and the said Robert holds the same
of the King in capite. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, had been in the
gift of the alien priory of Stoke by Clare, a cell to the Abbey of Bee in
Normandy, made denison in after times, until converted into a college for
secular priests in 1415, by Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March, to which
this living was appropriated at the time of the dissolution. On the Charter
Roll 51 Hen. III., 1267, is an inspeximus charter of that King of one by
Robert Aguylon to Stephen Marshal, of La Wyke, who in consideration of
an annual rent for his life had relinquished his claim to the manor of Per-
cings, as appears by this recital : " Quod quidem manerium dictus Stepha-

de Wauton et aliis. Datum per manum nostram apud Westmonasterium xxviii die Mail
(28th May, 1270).

* Pro Roberto Aguillon. Rex Archiepiscopis, Episcopis, etc. salutem. Sciatis nog
concessisse et hac carta nostra confirmasse dilecto et fideli nostro Roberto Aguillon quod
ipse et heredes sui imperpetuum habeant liberam warrennan in omnibus dominicis terris
suis de Bures in comitatu Suffolcie, dum tamen terre ille non sunt infra metas foreste
nostre, ita quod nullus intret terras illas ad fugandum in eis vel ad aliquid capiendum
quod ad Warrennam pertineat sine licencia et voluntate ipsius Roberti et heredum suorum
super forisfacturam nostram x librarum. Concessimus etiam eidem Roberto quod ipse et he-
redes sui imperpetuum habeant unum mercatum apud predictum manerium suum de Bures
singulis septimanis per diem Jovis et unam feriam ibidem singulis annis per tres dies duratu-
ram, videlicet, in vigilia et in die et in crastino Sancti Michaelis, nisi mercatum illud et feria
etc. Quare etc. Hiis testibus venerabile patre W(altero) Eboracensi archiepiscopo Anglie
primate, G(odfrido) Wygorniensi et R(ogero) Lichfeldensi et Coventrensi episcopis,
Gilberto de Clare comite Gloucestrie et Hertfordie, Johanne de Warrenna comite Surreie,
Humfrido de Bohun comite Herefordie et Essexie, Rogero de Mortuomari, Rogero de
Leyburn, Willelmo de Wyntresimll, Willelmo Belet, Petro de Chaumpvent, Rogero de
Wauton, Gilberto filio Hugonis et aliis. Datum per manum nostram apud Westmonas-
terium xiii die Junii (13th June, 1271).

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mis michi et heredibus meis dedit et concessit cum omnibus pertinentiis suis ?
et plenarie incartavit me in manerio meo de Percynges, in Folkinges et in
Adburton," which was dated on the feast of St. Ypolitus the martyr (13th
Aug.) in the 51st year of Henry III. This record is now imperfect, from
the roll being torn, but enough remains to convict Cartwright in his Pa-
rochial Topography of the Rape of Bramber of a total misunderstanding of
its purport, who at page 231 writes as follows : "In 1261 Robert Aguylon
died seized of the manor of Edburton," and cites in the margin at foot of the
page, " Ibid. 51 Hen. III., No. 1," it being on that membrane of the Charter
Roll, and 1261 is a misprint for 1267. The hamlet of Folking is in the
parish of Edburton, on the east side, in the rape of Lewes, whilst Percing
is a manor of the same parish in the rape of Bramber ; the one in the hun-
dred of Poynings and the other now in the hundred of Burbeach. Both
manors were held of the honour of Lewes, and on the Hundred Rolls of the
rape of Lewes, for that of Poynings, there is this finding as to encroach-
ments in this parish by the jurors in 3d Edw. I., 1275 : " They say that
William, late Earl of Surrey, father of John the then Earl, and the said
John, had newly appropriated to themselves chaces and warrens through
their whole barony of Lewes, and in the lands and tenements of Robert
Aguylun, and of the others who hold of the fief of the said Earl, where the
same Earl has no warren, nor of right ought to have, and strives in as much
as he can there to appropriate to himself warren by placing there his armed
men to hinder the said Robert Aguylun and others from their hunting with
their dogs where they were accustomed to hunt from time immemorial, and of
which the said Robert is still in seisin. And because the said Robert makes
use of his seisin in the aforesaid lands, the said Earl caused him to be fre-
quently distrained by the most grievous distraints, as appears by the inquest.
They also say that when the said Earl, Richard de la Vache, and William
Yvor, took from Robert Aguilon fifty-two oxen in the parish of Edburton *

* The account of Edburton parish in Cartwright 's Rape of Bramber, vol. ii. p. 236, is
extremely deficient, and he has neglected to cite the entry in Domesday relating to this
parish. It is evident that this entry under Terra Willelmi de Warene in Poninges hun-
dred is applicable to this parish : " Osuuardus tenet de Willelmo Berchinges. Ipse tenuit T.
R. E. et potuit ire quo voluit. Tune et modo se defendebat pro iii hidis. Terra est ii
earuearum et dimidie. In dominio est una, et ii villani et iiii bordarii cum una caruca, et
dimidium molinum de xl denariis, et vii acre prati. Silva ii porcorum. In Leuues una

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for the hunting of the dogs of the said Robert there, and the same Robert
thereupon obtained the King's brief for the delivering up of the said oxen,
and the Serjeants of the King had come with the aforesaid brief to deliver the
aforesaid cattle, the said Earl and his bailiffs prevented them, so that they

haga et dimidia de Ix denariis. Valet et valuit xl solidos. In eadera villa tenet Tezelinus
de Willelmo ii hidas et pro tanto se defendit. In Trailgi jacuere, quam tenet Willelmus
de Braiosa. Bellinc tenuit de Goduino comite. In dominio est una caruca et iii villani
et ii bordarii cum dimidia caruca. Dimidium molinum de xiii solidis et iiii denariis et iii
acre prati. Silva ii porcorum. In Leues dimidia haga de ii denariis. Isdem Tezelinus
tenet de Willelmo Fochinges. In Sepelei jacuit, quam te.net Willelmus de Braiosa.
Heraldus tenuit T. R. E. Tune et modo se defendit pro iii hidis et una virgata. Villani
vi ibi sunt cum ii carucis. He duse terre Tezelini insimul sunt. Valet et valuerunt
semper 1 solidos. Willelmus de Wateville tenet Percinges. Azor tenuit de Rege E. et ii
homines de Azor. Pro v hidis et dimidia se defendit tune et modo. Tune fuerunt
ii* Hallse, modo in uno manerio. Terra est v carucarum et dimidie. In dominio est
una, et iiii villani et iii bordarii cum una caruca. Ibi ii servi et iii acre prati. Silva iiii
porcorum. De pastura vi denarii. T.R.E. valebat Ix solidos et post xl solidos. Modo 1
solidos." Under the heading Terra Willelmi de Braiosa, in Burbece Hundredo mention is
made of Trailgi, the land of- Earl Godwin in the tenure of Bedling, then held by William
Miles of William de Braiosa, who had seven hides, which lay in Berts, which William de
Warren had in his rape. Now Tezelinus was the predecessor of Bartholomew de Cheney
in the manor of Addington, com. Surrey, and the manor of Perching was belonging to his
daughter, and the heirs of Bartholomew de Cheney held the two hagse in Lewes ; hence
both will have been derived from this common ancestor. Truleigh, or Truly, is a hamlet
of Edburton parish, and as it lay in the vill of Berchinges that place will be identical with
the modern name of this parish. The church of Edburton, dedicated to St. Andrew, paid
xl shillings pension to the prior of Lewes ; and in the charter of William de Warren, the
second Earl of Surrey, son of William de Warren, Earl of Surrey, and of Gundreda his
wife, we read " ad Perching decimam Willelmi filii Techelini et Willelmi filii Alfinene et ad
Folkinges decimam Godefridi de Bellomonte." William, the son of Tezelin, the Domesday
tenant in Berchinges, had therefore lands at Perching, and thus the identity is confirmed, as
to its site in Edburton. The benefice is a rectory in the archdeaconry of Lewes and deanery
of South Mailing, to which it was given by Theobald Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1150,
and paid a yearly pension of 6s. and 8d. to the dean. It is now in the gift of the Archbishop
of Canterbury. From the context of this deed it would seem that the manor of William
de Watevill had descended to Stephen Marshal, and that it was by this grant that the
now principal estate in this parish, consisting of Perching and Edburton farms, was united
in the same possessor. In the ninth of Edward II. Isabella Bardolf, the daughter and
heiress of Sir Robert Aguylon, occurs in the Nomina Villarum in this form : " Hundredum
de Ponyngg est Johannis Comitis Warrenne, villata de Percynge est Isabelle Bardolf ; " and
Thomas Bardolf, her son, in the hundred of Burghbeche, belonging to William de Brewosa,

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were not able to deliver the same cattle according to the King's precept,
until it had been a second time enjoined the Sheriff by the King and his
council that he should go himself to the said Earl, to Richard de la Vache,
and to Walter Dragun, to cause the rescue of the said cattle by the King's
precept. Moreover, when certain servants of the said Robert had been
taken in the liberties of William de Briouze and of the Bishop of Chichester,
together with the dogs of the said Robert, and imprisoned in the Castle of
Lewes, whereupon the King's brief was obtained for their deliverance, and
afterwards sent to the said castle by William le Boghyere, the King's ser-
jeant, they of the castle, had not permitted the said mandate of the lord the
King to be executed, but had absolutely contemned the order to do so, so
that the Sheriff in his own proper person was with difficulty able to execute
the King's said mandate. The jurors of the hundred of Bottynghull found
by their verdict that John de Boun and the bailiffs of the Earl of Surrey
had pursued the men of Robert Aguylon with horses and arms as far as to
the house of Robert Burnell in Henfield, and there took them and led them
to the Castle of Lewes and imprisoned them, against the dignity of the
Crown, until they were set free by the King's writ." A similar finding

as follows : " Villa de Edburton et Thrule est Willelmi de Northo, Hugonis de Hamme,
Thome Bardolf." From this valuable record it would seem that Perching and Folking
were both in the Hundred of Poynings and Rape of Lewes, and that Edburton and
Truleigh (Berchinges, Trailgi) were the vills in the Hundred of Burbeach and Rape of
Bramber. Another hamlet of this parish has name Peathorne, or Pawthorne, and in
Domesday of the land of William de Warene in the hundred of Poninges we read, " Trevenot
tenet de Willelmo Paveorne. Ipse tenuit de rege E. et potuit ire quolibet. Tune se
defendebat pro iiii hidis, modo pro una hida et dimidia, quia alias sunt in rapo Willelmi
de Braiosa. Terra est i caruce et ibi est in dominio cum ii bordariis. In Leuues iii hagse
de xviii denariis. Valet et valuit xxx solidos." The land of William de Braiose in Bur-
beach hundred comprised the vills of Beeding, Erringham, Shoreham, Truly, Totington,
together with eight hides which lay in Redmelle, which William de Warene holds in his
rape, and seven hides which lay in Berts (Berchinges) which William had also in his
rape. In the Nomina Villarum those in the Hundred of Poynings are Percynge, Nytymber,
Ponyngges, and Picoumbe ; and in the hundred of Burbeach, Edburton et Thrule, Horton
et Eringeham, Beding, and Old Shoreham. In the Nona returns this parish has the
name of Edbourghton. The only church mentioned in Domesday is that of Poynings in
the hundred of that name, and in Beeding in the hundred of Burbeach there were two
churches ; Radmell and Shipley are the other places named above. The chapel at Percyng
is now destroyed.

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was made by the jurors of the hundred of Paling, in the rape of Arundel,
who declared that the men of Robert Aguylon had been captured, with their
dogs, upon the liberty of the Bishop of Chichester at Henfield, by John de
Boun, and had been incarcerated by the same, namely, in the Castle of
Lewes, and thereupon the King's writ had been obtained for their deliver-
ance, and the keeper of the castle aforesaid had denied and refused to deliver
the said prisoners to the officers of the Sheriff by a precept of this kind,
until the Sheriff came in his own person. On the other hand, the jurors of
the hundred of Avisford brought in verdicts for misdemeanours against
Richard de Niton and John de Pollingfeud, successively bailiffs of the li-
berty of Arundel by appointment of Robert Aguylun ; and the jurors of the
burgh of Arundel declared that the then Sheriff came with the King's brief
on the eve of All Saints, to receive the Castle of Arundel by virtue of the
same brief on behalf of the King, and that John de Pollingfeud detained
the said castle, and still detains it, in contempt of the King. From a peti-
tion to Parliament in the 6th year of Edward I., addressed by Robert
Aguylun to the King and his Council, we learn that, whereas Stephen de
Pencestre and Robert de Sandwich had been appointed justices to inquire,
hear, and determine, according to the law and custom of the realm, what
malefactors had hunted in the free-warren and chace of the Earl of Warren ;
and he, Robert, and others were indicted therefore, and the justices sent to
the Sheriff to seize the persons of Robert Aguylon and the others, and to
place their lands and castles in the King's hands, and this on the first day
of the inquest, and that he bring their bodies to Kingston, in a different
county ; on which day those attached put in essoigns, which the justices
would not allow, but amerced their mainpernors, at their will, against the
custom of the realm ; and besides, though their letters patent only gave them
power to inquire as to the free chase and the injuries done to the men of the
Earl, they, beyond their authority, inquired and made him answer as to the
chaces, without inquiry of the Earl of Warren if he had free chace there or
not ; notwithstanding that he, Robert Aguylun, was ready to aver that his
people had not hunted save where he and his ancestors were accustomed to
hunt, and of right ought to hunt, the judges refused to receive the averment,
and charged the jury to his grievance, of which he prays remedy and of the
imprisonment he prays remedy, of him and of his people, who are still in
prison, as it seems to him that imprisonment does not lie in this case.

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" Responsio : Sequatur versus Justiciaries, et audiatur et fiat ei Justicia."
Another petition against this transgressor, John de Warren, Earl of Surrey,
is on the Roll of the same Parliament, couched in these terms :

" Johan de Warenne, Cunte de Surre, tient la Baronnie de Lewes et cleyme
aver guarenne et foreste e chase en toutes celes terres de Sussex, aussi
bien en les terres les chivalers et les frans homines, comme en ses demeynes,
a grant deseritesun a ceus du pays et saunz garant de nul Roy et encuntre
Real dignite, e amercie la gent et emprisune pur les bestes et pour les
leures, dunt le pays est en grant grevaunce de ce tort, et bien fut trove par
enquest devant Sire Barthelmeu de Briaun^on, ke poer aveyt de enquer de
ceus choses ; pur la quele chose Sire Robert Aguylon prie nostre Seigneur
le Roy, ke il voyle faire venir meimes eel Cunte par breif a demustrer par
quel garaunt il cleyme cele Franchise tenir ; e prie le avaundit Robert ke il
puisse seure pur le Roy e pur lui meymes pur le tort fit a Roy e al pays."

" Responsio. Sequatur per breve de Cancellaria."

The result of this quarrel between the lord of the barony of Lewes and
Sir Robert Aguylon, knight, his feudatory, is learnt from the Placita de
juratis et assisis coram Johanne de Reygate et sociis Justiciariis itineranti-
bus apud Cycestriam in comitatu Sussexie in crastino Sancti Johannis Bap-
tiste, anno regni Regis Edwardi filii Regis Henrici septhno. On that occasion
John de Warenn, Earl of Surrey, was summoned to be there on that day, 25th
June, 1279, to show by what warranty he claimed to have free warren and
free chace in the vills of Adburton, Folking, and Percing, together with divers
others there named, in that county ; and as to which William de Giselham,
the King's attorney, says that William de Warren, father of the aforesaid
Earl, had the aforesaid warren and chace in the aforesaid vills through
encroachment upon the lord King Henry, father of the then King, and the
aforesaid Earl yet holds them by wrongful occupation, to the damage of the
lord the King of 1,000 li. Answer was made by the Earl, who called
upon the King to be his warranty, and afterwards in the octaves of St.
Martin, (18th Nov.) at Chichester, the aforesaid Earl came and says that he
has in Worth, Cuckfield and Ditchling, his parks, and asks if the King
claims any thing in the same parks. To which answer was made that the
King claimed nothing at that time in those parks ; and the Earl set forth
his right to those franchises as being prior to the time of King Henry.
Six knights and six lords of vills were then chosen, by the consent of the

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King's attorney, William de Heure, and of the said Earl, who gave their
verdict in favour of the Earl, as belonging to the honour and barony of
Lewes. They found also that in the vill of Adburton as much as was of
the fief of William de Briouze, arid likewise in Lindfield as much as was of
the fee of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the aforesaid Earl had not nor
claims to have chace or warren. So that, with these exceptions, it was
adjudged that the King should take nothing by his brief, and that John do
Warren, Earl of Surrey, on this score should be without day.

On the Hundred Rolls are copies of an inquisition respecting the manor
of Newenham in the hundred of Bullington, com. Oxon. 7 Edw. I., at the
time of its being held in dower of the Countess of Aumale by Sir Robert
Agulon and Margaret Countess of Devon and of the Isle, his wife, to this
effect : The jurors say that the manor of Newenham is held of the King in
capite by serjeanty, as they believed, and the service of the Chamberlain-
ship, and that for the manor of Newenham and other lands he who is
lineal heir will have of right the third key of the receipt of the lord the
King. And they also say that the lord the King in tunes of old gave the
manor with the appurtenances to Sir William de Courcy, and so the manor
had descended from heir to heir, and that Sir Robert Agulun now holds
the manor in dower with Margery his wife, whom one of the heirs had
previously espoused. Also the manor has attached to it several franchises,
namely, view of frankpledge, infangthief, and gallows to execute judgment
upon him who should be taken with stolen goods within the manor ; also
fines for breaches of the assise of bread and beer, and for shedding of blood,
with hue and cry within the manor, and every other franchise save what
belongs of right to the crown. Also the lord had park and warren and
the water of the Thames, with the bank from Bunseloke as far as the mill
of Stokgrave. The jurors also say that Sir William (misprinted Galfri-
dus) de Courcy, son and heir of William de Courcy, gave to the lord
Abbot of Abingdon and to the convent the advowson of the church of
Newenham, and two parts of all the tithes of the same manor, except hay,
and one virgate of land with the appurtenances, which is called La Wike,
with the water and the meadow belonging to it, and a certain meadow
which is called Koumede, from Hockday (the second Tuesday after Easter)
until thefeast of St. Peter ad Vincula (1 August), and after that day to revert
to the lord of Newenham. And the lord Abbot was bound to give to

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the mowers on the day of mowing the meadow of the lord eleven pence,
and on that day they were of right to fare upon the best sheep, save one,
and the second best cheese ; and also the men who customarily raked tip
the hay into cocks were entitled to fare in like manner. The names of the
several free tenants follow, with the quantities of land held by each, and the
service and rents due to Sir Robert Agulon, among whom Adam de la
Penne held four virgates of land subject to suit of court only in lieu of all
service, which Margaret de Reviers had given to Richard de la Penne in
frank marriage with Eleanora, his wife, whose heir the same Adam was.
By tenants in vassalage 38 roods of land were held at the will of the lord,
and there were 17 cottarii at will, besides others who paid rents in money or
fowls or both. This manor in the time of William the Conqueror was
belonging to Richard de Courcy, Baron of Courcy-sur-Dive in Normandy,
and after his decease was apportioned to his second son, William de
Courcy, who by marriage with Emma, daughter and heiress of William de
Falaise, acquired the manor of Stoke, com. Somerset^ the site of a castle,
the caput of the barony which was inherited by his descendants, now cor-
ruptly written Stokegursey. Of his gift the abbey of Abingdon, under the
invocation of St. Mary, acquired the church of NiWeham, otherwise New-
enham, dedicated to All Saints, with the glebe and tithe and a fishery, to
which his son and heir of the same name added the meadow and pasture,
with the counsel and goodwill of Robert de Courcy, his brother, the reputed
founder of the nunnery of Cannington, of which the Blessed Mary was
patron, in the vicinity of the Till, which gave name to the hundred in
which the castle of Stokecourcy was situate.* The heiress of this illus-

* The cartulary of the abbey of Abingdon, Cotton MSS. Claudius B. vi. which has a
chronological statement of the several benefactions made to the abbey in the lives of each
abbot, contains this notice of the gift of the church of Newnhatn in the time of the abbot
Faricius, who was elected in 1100, and died 23 Feb. 1117 under the rubric De ecclesia
de Niweham.

"Willelmus de Curceio, Regis dapifer, hunc plurimo excolere abbatem solebat amore.
Hujus villa erat Niweham trans fluvium Tamesim sita, ville vero que Culeham dicitur
contermina, de qua in gestis Abbatis Athelelmi fit meiitio, Idem itaque Regis dapifer
ejusdem sue possessionis ecclesiam cum terra, id est, una hida, et decimis sive cyresceattis,
reliquisque suis consuetudinibus abbati Faricio et monachis in Abbendonia perpetuo
dono concessit preter duas portion es sue proprie decime in eadem villa. Hujus autem rei
donationem cum sua conjuge altari sancte Marie imposuit atque coram his testibus con-
finnavit, Serlone Episcopo de Sais, Nigello Abbate de Burtona et nniltis aliis. Sees was

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trious family has been named above, but this manor never descended to her,
as her mother, Guudreda de Warren, held it in dower during her life,
which was prolonged beyond that of her daughter, as we learn from this

the seat of the Bishop, in whose diocese the castle of Courcy was situate, and Serlo, abbot
of St. Evroult, had been consecrated bishop of that see on the 22nd June, 1091 ; the other
witness was the abbot of Burton-upon-Trent.

Under the rubric <f De decima ejusdem ville " the narrative is thus continued : " Non multo
post vero tempore predictus abbas cum eodem "Willelmo de duabus suprascriptis porcionibus
decime sermonem habuit, et de quadam piscatione, que Anglice nominatur Sotiswere,
qviatinus et istam cum predicta donatione ecclesie Sancte Marie et sibi condonaret. De his
quoque rebus, dum abbas se intromitteret apud eundem virum, per viginti marcas argenti
fineni fecit, ita ut ipse concessum cum litteris sigillatis Regis prefati (Henrici) de omnibus
jam dictis donationibus requireret, et requisitum Abbendoniam deferet, et die festivitatis
Romani Rothomagensis archiepiscopi (23 October) coram omni conventu monachorum et
presentia horum laicorum super altare sancte Marie offerret, Willelmi Regis camerarii,
Wini et multorum aliorum. Et misit ipse Willelmus dapiferum suum, Goisfredum, ct
saisavit inde ecclesiam et abbatem per Willelmum Cellerarium. Piscationi adjacent xvii.
acre telluris. Que tali ipse abbas decretione monasterii officinis locavit ; capellam predicte
ville cum rebus suis universis edituo, Duas vero decime dominii partes elemosinario.
Piscariam cellerario impertiri curavit."

Under the rubric "Confirmatio Regis Henrici" we read as follows: " Henricua Rex
Anglorum Roberto episcopo Lincolnie et Willelmo vicecomiti de Oxeneforda et omnibus
baronibus Francis et Anglis de Oxenefordscira, salutem. Sciatis quod concede Sancte
Marie de Abbendona et monachis ejusdem loci perpetuo habendam ecclesiam de Neweham
et terram et decimam totam ipsius manerii, et alia que ad ipsam ecclesiam pertinent, et
piscariam cum omnibus sibi pertinentibus, sicut Willelmus de Curci, dapifer meus, eis
dedit et concessit. Testibus Rannulfo Episcopo Dunelmensi et Rogero Bigod per Goiffre-
dum Peccatum apud Corneberiam in die Sancti Luce Evangeliste (18 October.)

This royal concession is of earlier date than the battle of Tenchebray, fought on Satur-
day, the eve of St. Michael, 1107, when Robert, Duke of Normandy, was made prisoner
by Waldric, the King's chaplain, qui militibus sociatus in certamine constitit, Chancellor
of England in 1108, and afterwards ordained Bishop of Laon by Pope Paschal at Avignon
in 1109, which diocese he held about three years, up to the 25th April, Friday in Easter
week, 1112, when he was assassinated in the cloisters of his cathedral. Woodstock,
Cornbury and Whichwood were the names of the demesne forests of the King in Oxford-
shire at the time of the Survey in Domesday, and the park of Cornbury was doubtless in
the vicinity of Woodstock. Under the rubric " Carta Henrici Regis de diversis rebus quas
abbas Faricius adquisivit," we have again this recital : " Et ecclesiam de Niweham cum
terra sibi pertinente et decimam ejusdem ville et unam piscariam cum rebus sibi pertinen-
tibus, sicut Willelmus de Curceio predicte ecclesie dedit in elemosina ; " which charter has

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entry on the Fine Roll 9th Henry III. 1224, under the heading De villa
de Newenham capta in manum Domini Regis.

" Mandatum est Vicecomiti Oxonie quod capiat in manum Domini Regis

the signatures of King Henry, his Queen Mathildis, his son William, Ralph Archbishop of
Canterbury, Turstan Archbishop of York, William Bishop of Winchester, William Bishop
of Exeter, Theoldus Bishop of Worcester, Roger Abbot of Fecamp, and Rannulph Chan-
cellor of King Henry, and not those printed by Dugdale in the Monasticon, vol. i. p. 106,
though professed to be taken from this very manuscript, where we read of a Theobald
Bishop of Winchester, a pure invention of that compiler. The date of this charter may be
assigned to the year 1120, as Thurstan was only consecrated to his see at the Council of
Rheims, held in October 1119, and the son of King Henry perished in the Blanche Nef
25th November of the year following.

The decease of William de Courcy is mentioned by this chronicler in these words :
" Post mortem autem istius Willelmi, filius ejus Willelmus donation em patris sui taliter
confirmavit," which precede the rubric " Carta Willelmi junioris de Curceio de ecclesia de
Niweham," and is the charter produced before the jurors :

" Ego Willelmus de Curceio reddo Deo et beate Marie et ecclesie de Abbendonia ele-
mosinam, quam pater meus dedit predicte ecclesie, videlicet, ecclesiam de Niweham, et
unam hidam terre et omnem decimam de dominio meo et tocius ville et unam piscariam
cum omnibus sibi pertinentibus, et pasturam ccc ovium et octo bourn et x vaccarum in mea
dominica pastura, et uiium pratum qui vocatur Cumede, unde ego accrevi elemosinam
patris mei, consilio et voluntate fratris mei, Roberti, et militum meorum. Et volo ut ec-
clesia predicta teneat ista in pace et quiete et libere et honorifice et ut nullus earn inquietet.
Qui vero hanc redditionem vel donationem actu vel consilio violaverit, maledictionem Dei
et ejusdem genetricis Marie sustineat. Huic autem redditioni vel donationi interfuerunt
testes, Robertus de Curceio, Philippus Dapifer, Willelmus de Estuna, Hugo Walensis, Be-
rengerus, Rotbertus presbyter, Godefridus presbyter, Willelmus Nepos, Rogerus de Lille-
bona, Ricardus filius Fulconis, Mainardus de Niweham."

Emma de Falaise, his mother, was living in 1131, the date of the earliest Pipe Roll,
where her name occurs among the tenants of lands in Wiltshire to whom the King had
remitted the amercements due for murders committed in the hundreds where their fief
was situate. Mention of the county of Somerset is unfortunately omitted on this roll.
The charter of her son is probably of the reign of Stephen, as the only one of the witnesses,
his knights, surviving in 1168, was Berenger, who held half a knight's fief of William de
Courcy the Third, who, as well as his grandfather, was Dapifer Regis Anglic. By his wife,
Grundredade Warren, he left an only son, under age 3 John, 2d May 1201 22d May 1202,
as appears by this entry on the Pipe Roll of that year : " Wiltescira. Ofundreda do
Warrenna c marcas pro habenda custodia (T(uillelmi) filii sui, sicut continetur in Rotulo
precedenti. " He died without issue, and Alice de Courcy was his sister and heir, as men"
tioned in the text,

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villain de Newenham, quam Gundreda de Warrenna tenuit in dotcm, et
que est hereditas partibilis inter Johannam uxorcm Hugonis de Ne villa et
Margaretam uxorem Falkasii de Breaute, et earn salvo custodiat donee inter
eas partita fuerit per preceptum domini Regis, salvis executoribus testa-
menti ipsius Gundrede catallis, que ibidem habuit ad faciendum inde
rationabile testamentum suum. T(este) R(icardo) Sarum Episcopo apud
Westmonasterium vi. die Decembris."

The last mention of Alice de Courcy occurs on the Close Roll 18th
John 1216, where is a letter to the sheriff of Gloucesterehire, dated at
Cirencester, 2nd day of September, letting him know of the King's grant to
Alice de Curcy, the wife of Warine Fitzgerald, of the manor of Dumham-
enell (Down- Amney) with its appurtenances, which had been that of John
des Preaux, together with all the chattels which had been those of the afore-
said Warine in the said manor, for her support, and enjoining him to cause
her to have seisin thereof. Warine Fttzgerold was present at the confer-
ence at Runnimede on the 15th day of June, 1215, on the side of the
King, but his name is among those of the barons who swore to obey the
mandate of the twenty-five barons chosen as conservators of Magna Charta.
The following Letter Close furnishes proof of his adherence to the barons,
and is on the Roll of the seventeenth year of King John, and bears date at
Rochester, 25th day of November, 1215.

" Castrum. Rex Johanni Marescallo salutem. Mandamus vobis quod
committatis Priori de Stokes terrain Warini filii Geroldi in eadem villa de
Stokes, retento in manu nostra castro ejusdem Warini, quod habuit in
eadem villa, ita quod exitus et proventus ejusdem terre cedant in usus ipsius
Warini per manum predict! Prioris, et ne ipse Warinus aliquam jacturam
vel dampnum habeat in predicta terra bene concedimus quod ipse Prior
ponat tres vel quatuor de hominibus suis in predicto castro una cum hiis
qui ex parte nostra in eo sunt, qui terrain predictam protegant et defendant,
et vos providatis quod castrum illud ad opus nostrum salvo custodiatur.
T(este) me ipso apud Roffam xxv. die Novembris."

The Priory of Stokes was a cell to the monastery of Lonlay, in the
diocese of Le Mans, but in a territory annexed by William the Conqueror
to the Duchy of Normandy, and of the foundation of William de Belleme
in 1026, who was then lord of this tract and owner of several castles in

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Normandy. To this abbey William 4e Falaisc and Geva his wife gave
the church of St. Andrew of Stokes, as appears by Martin's extracts out of
the muniments of Eton College, as quoted by Tanner in his Notitia Mo-
nastica, p, 468, note h, and the grants of William de Courcy and Hugh de
Nevill were mere confirmations of the original foundation. At the time of
the survey by William the Conqueror, William de Falaise held of the King
in Somerset the manors of Stoche, Otone, and Worspring, of which the last-
named was of the frank -marriage of his wife, the daughter of Serlo de Borci ;
the manor of Otone is Wootton-Courtenay, in the hundred of Carhampton.
By Letter Close, dated at Corfe, 16 July, 1216, addressed to Alan de
Bocland, he was informed that the King had committed the vill of Stokes
Curcy to William Briwcrre, his lord, and enjoining him to take that land
into his lord's hands ; and of the same date is a Letter Patent to the free
tenants and others of Stokecurcy of Warine Fitzgerald, bidding them know
of this custody, and enjoining them to obey the same William in everything.
As to the castle, order had been sent for its destruction four days earlier, as
we learn from this Letter Patent.

" Rex priori de Stoke Curcy et Herevico pilet salutem. Mandamus vobis
quod castrum de Stoke Curcy sine dilatione dirrui et penitus prosterni fuci-
atis. Et in hujus, etc. fieri fecimus. T(este) me ipso apud Corfam xii
die Julii anno regni nostri xviii ."

In another Letter Close, dated at Hereford, 26th July, addressed to
Henry Fitz Count, he lets him know of his having committed to William
Briwerre the manor of Stoke Curcy with Wootton and all its appurte-
nances, which had been the property of Warine Fitzgerold, and warns him
not to intermeddle with the aforesaid lands. The year of these several
orders was the last of his reign, and of their being executed we may safely
doubt at the moment of a general insurrection, which would have placed a
rival prince, son of the King of France, upon his throne, had not death
terminated his days on the 19th day of October following at Newark. In
this interval of time King John appears to have forced a marriage between
his favourite, Falcasius de Breaute, and Margaret de Reviers, daughter and
presumptive heiress of her father, Warine Fitzgerald, as appears by the
following entry upon the Rolls of Letters Close of the first year of Henry
III, within less than a month after his father's decease :

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" Mandatuhi est Vicecomiti Sumersete quod faciat habere Falkesio de
Breailte plenariam saisinam de manerio de Stokescurcy cum pertinentiis quod
contingit uxorem suam, quam habet de dono patris domini Regis. Datum
ut superius proximo, id est, t(este) W(illelmo) Marescallo Justiciario Anglie
apud Bristollum xiii die Novembris."

On the Charter Roll 1 John, 1200, there is a copy of a charter of King
John dated at Porchester, 28th day of April, in the first year of his reign,
reciting a convention made between William de Vernon, Earl of Devon, and
Hubert de Burgh, the King's Chamberlain, in regard of the marriage of
Joanna, younger daughter of the said earl, whom the said earl had given to
be a wife to the aforesaid Hubert at the request and with the goodwill and
assent of the King. By it the earl assigned to his eldest born daughter the
caput of his honour in Devonshire, with the Castle of Plympton, as hers by
right of primogeniture, and with a reasonable portion belonging to her of
his inheritance ; and to Joanna, his younger daughter, the entire Island of
Wight, and Christchurch, com. Hants, with a reasonable portion belonging
to her of his inheritance. Then follows this saving clause : " Idem vero
comes fecit memoratum Hubertum capere homagium baronum et militum
suorum de Insula salva fidelitate Domini Regis et ipsius Comitis ; salva
etiam fidelitate heredis masculi, si forte heredem masculum habuerit de
uxore sua ; salvo etiam dominio et saisina ipsius Comitis in vita sua de om-
nibus terris et feudis suis. Si vero contingat ipsum comitem heredem mas-
culum habere do uxore sua, tune remanebit eidem Huberto Ix libratas terre
et feuda decem militum in maritagio cum predicta Johanna in loco conipe-
tenti." This contingency actually occurredj and the birth of his son and
heir will have been subsequent to this date ; thus proving that the marriage
with Margaret Fitzgerald subsisted Up to the year 12 16* as otherwise the
age of puberty would not have been reached by the husband. The register
of the Abbey of Ford correctly fixes the time of his decease on the first day of
September, 1216, Icavhig an only son, Baldwin ; so that in this space of one
month and nineteen days, between the 1st of September and 19th of October,
his widow, Margaret, had been compelled by the ruthless tyrant to marry his
favourite against her will, in her weeds, and without her father's consent.

Within a few months after the accession of Henry III. Warine Fitzgerold
quitted the party of the Barons, and returned to his allegiance, as appears
by these Letters Close on the Roll of the first year of his reign :

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" Rex Vicecomiti Oxonie salutem. Scias quod Warinus films Geroldi
rediit ad fidem et servicium nostrum. Et ideo tibi precipimus quod sine
dilatione plenam ei saisinam habere facias de omnibus terris suis in ballia tua
unde prius disseisitus fuit. Et quum sigillum non habuimus, has litteras
sigillo fidelis nostri Comitis W(illelmi) Marescalli fecimus sigillari, T(este)
me ipso apud Notingeham xi die Januarii per Comitem W(illelmum) Ma-
rescallum. Eodein modo scribitur Vicecomitibus Norhamtonie, Sumersete,
Wiltescire, Warewici, Lincolnie, Eboraci, Bedefordie, Hertfordie, Essexie,
et Gloucestrie. T(este eodem)."

The Battle of Lincoln, fought on Saturday in Whitsunweek, June 20,
1217, against Prince Lewis and the Barons, was won chiefly through the
bravery of Falkasius de Breaute, who forced his way into the besieged
castle, which still held out for the King, and, though taken prisoner in a
sally from the fortress, his knights and bowmen succeeded in effecting his
rescue. The approach of the royal army, which entered the town, was
followed by a speedy victory, many of the Barons and the Comte of Perche
having fallen in the battle, and Robert Fitz waiter and others being made
prisoners. His services on this occasion were amply rewarded by divers
grants of custody and wardship ; and on the 9th of September following a
Letter Close, witnessed by the Earl Marshal at Chertsey, was sent to the
Sheriff of Lincolnshire, enjoining him to cause his beloved and faithful Fal-
kasius de Breaute to have the land of Yreby, with its appurtenances, which
was the frank-marriage of his wife, as Baldwin, son of the Earl of the Isle,
had held it, as he affirmed. The manor of Irby, in the hundred of Bradley,
in the reign of Henry I. was parcel of the barony of William Meschines,
brother of Rannulph Meschines, Earl of Chester, his tenure consisting of
three carrucates and four bovates in Irby, and one carrucate and three bo-
vates in Coates, in Bradley wapentake, according to a contemporary record,
Cott. MS. Claudius C. v. By his marriage with Cecilia de Romeilli, lady of
the honour of Skipton, he had a daughter, Avicia de Romeilli, wife first of
William Paynell, Lord of Irnham, com. Line, and Drax, com. Ebor., by
whom she had an only daughter, Adelicia, and secondly of William de
Courcy, of Stokecourcy, named above, living in 1168, when, in the Carta of
Robert de Gant, the second husband of her daughter Adelicia and in her
right possessed of the honour of her father, the tenure in dower is thus
described s Avicia, mater Willelmi de Curci, tenet feoda duorum militum,"

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Through this marriage the manor of Irby and an extensive honour in Lin-
colnshire, as also the manor of Harewood, com. Ebor., derived from her
mother, descended in the line of the family of Courcy to the heiress, Alice
de Curcy, named above. There is also a Letter Close on the same roll to
this effect :

" De dote. Mandatum est Roberto de Cardinania quod nisi Comes de
Insula sine dilatione plenariam seisinam faciat Falkesio de Breaute et Mar-
garete uxori ejus de rationabili dote que ipsam Margaretam contingit per
Baldwinum de Insula, quondam virum ipsius Margarete et filium ipsius
Comitis, tune dotem suam eis habere faciat sine dilatione secundum con-
suetudinem regni Anglie. Et quum, etc. Teste ipso Comite apud Oxoniam
xx die Februarii."

William de Vernon, Earl of Devon and the Isle, was deceased on the
tenth day of September, 1217, and custody of his lands in Devonshire was
granted to Henry de Pont Audemer by Letters Close directed to the
Sheriff of Devon 12th Nov. following, and in other counties to Ralph de
Wilitona ; and by other Letters Close of the 9th April, 1218, his lands in
Middlesex and Surrey were committed to Falcasius de Breaute. In the
same year he obtained the custody of the infant heir of the Earl of Devon,
with the castle of Plympton, and also the third penny of the county of
Devon, as William, Earl of Devon, had been accustomed to receive it in
the name of his Earldom, together with the arrears from the time in which
the custody of the same heir had come into his hand by the King's precept.
In the course of this second year of Henry III. Warine Fitzgerold was
deceased before the 27th May, 1218, on which day the King received the
homage of Falcasius de Breaute of all the land which had been his in the
several counties named above, being inclusive of the castle of Stokecurcy
and the fiefs of sixty knights. Eventually, his outrageous conduct in or-
dering his knights, lodged in the castle of Bedford, to seize upon the King's
Justices in Eyre, who in their session at Dunstaple had amerced him for
divers spoliations, which resulted in the capture and imprisonment of Henry
de Braybroc in the castle of Bedford, which the garrison refused to deliver
up to the King, unless they had an order to that effect from their lord,
caused such indignation in the monarch's breast that not only was the
castle besieged, but the Archbishop and all the Bishops with lighted candles
excommunicated the said Falcasius and all who were in the castle. Siege

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was laid to the castle on Thursday, 20th June, 1224, and meanwhile the
King sent an armed band to seek for Falcasius. and when found to bring
him to the royal presence, who returned with intelligence that he had fled
to Wales. The castle was taken on the 14th day of August, and Henry
de Braybroc set at liberty. Disheartened by this news, the rebel came to
the King under the conduct of Alexander bishop of Coventry, at Bedford,
and falling at the King's feet asked for mercy in consideration of his great
services to him and his father in the time of insurrection and war. Then
the King, by advice of his council, delivered him into the custody of
Eustace bishop of London, until the final sentence was resolved upon.
On the Roll of Letters Close of the 13th year of Henry III. m. 17, in
dorso, is a copy of an instrument, to which Dugdale has affixed an erro-
neous date, as if of that year, 1229, and in consequence of this blunder
falsely charges our historians with a great mistake as to the time of his
banishment.

" Omnibus Christ! fidelibus presentes litteras inspecturis Falkasius de
Breaute, salutem. Ad universitatis vestre noticiam volo pervenire, quod
cum excommunicatus essem pro detencione Henrici de Braybroc, Justiciarii
domini Regis, et incarceratione ipsius in castro Bedefordie et pro detentione
ejusdem castri contra dominum Regem et alia turbatione regni, ego post-
modum ad cor revertens absolucionis beneficium petii humiliter et devote,
et in primis totam summam pecunie, quam tune temporis habui, Domino
Regi coricessi et dedi pro parte satisfactionis de dampnis sibi illatis. Aurum
etiam et argentum, tarn in pecunia quam in vasis, arma etiam et equos,
omnes etiam terras, possessiones et redditus, quos habui, firmas et custodias
et vadia, volo quod Dominus Rex habeat sibi similiter pro parte satisfactionis
ad faciendam voluntatem suam. Et quod michi gratia facta est in eo, quod
absolutus fui, antequam pro posse meo satisfecissem omnino, consensum
adhibui quod si castra de Plymptona et de Stokes-curcy, que reddidi Domino
Regi, ei restituta non fuerint infra xv dies, ego in pristinam sententiam
recidam appellatione remota. Juravi etiam super sancta Evangelia quod
nichil amplius, quod scirem, habui die conceptionis litterarum istarum in
vasis vel pecunia, auro vel argento, armis vel equis, in Anglia vel alibi, et si
in hoc falsam dixero, volo quod nichil michi prosit absolutio, set excommu-
nicatus sim appellatione remota, sicut prius. Et si occurrerit postmodum
memorie mee quod aliquid amplius habeam et non transmisero illud statim

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Domino Regi, volo quod statim, appellatione remota, recidam in sententiam
memoratam. Idem etiam fiat si aliquo tempore per me vel per alium movero
Domino Regi gravamen aliquod vel turbationem, vel aliquid machinatus
fuero contra ipsum. Et hec omnia ad instanciam meam et partes et de mera
voluntate mea et spontanea processerunt. In cujus rei testimonium has
litteras meas'patentes sigillo meo signavi. Actum Londoniis Anno Domini
MCC O XXIIII in crastino beati Bartholomei Apostoli."

The morrow of St. Bartholomew is the 25th day of August, when he
was in custody of the Bishop of London, and about the same time the wife
of the said Falcasius, presenting herself before the King and the Arch-
bishop, said^that she had never given consent in that degree that she should
be joined in matrimony to him ; wherefore, as in the time of warfare she
had been made captive and espoused without consent, she demanded a
divorce to be made. Day was given to her by the Archbishop in order to
have further time for deliberation as to what he ought to do ; whilst the
King granted to her all her lands and possessions throughout England, and
placed her under the custody of William Earl Warren. The archbishop
subsequently pronounced for the divorce, and on the Fine Roll of the 9th
Hen. III. under the heading " Pro Margareta que fuit uxor Falcasii," we
have copy of a precept to Thomas de Cyrences that he take with him honest
and law worthy men of the vicinity of Buckland, Bickleigh, Walkhampton,
and Colyton, which manors William, Earl of Devon, had assigned in dower
to Margaret de Reviers, when Baldwin his son married her, and by their
view and testimony cause all the corn growing upon the land of the said
manors to be valued, and if the said Margaret was willing to receive the
corn at the same price to answer thereof to the King at the terms appointed
by him, then to leave to her the aforesaid corn ; and if not, then retaining
the aforesaid corn to the King's use, to cause the aforesaid Margaret to
have seizin of the said manors, having first taken security from her as to
the safe custody of the said corn ; and which is dated from Winchester,
llth day of March. In the same month Falcasius de Breaute was sentence*
to abjure England for ever, and after this had been done William, Earl
Warren, was commanded by the King to conduct him safe to the sea, and
putting him on board to leave him to the winds and sails. Thus with only
five attendants having crossed into Normandy, as soon as he landed he was
captured by the servants of the King of France and brought before him,

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who, by reason of his having taken the cross, dismissed him, when he
straitway set out on a journey to Rome in company with Robert Passelewe,
his clerk. In England the Legate Otho had in vain interceded for his
restoration to the royal favour, wherefore, having dispatched his affairs at
the Court of Rome, he hastened to return to England, bnt falling sick on
his journey he ended his flagitious life at St. Ciriac in Languedoc in the
course of the following year.*

In the Testa de Nevill, com. Wiltescira, are these entries, " Hnndredum
de Crickelade. Margeria de Ripariis est de donatione Regis et est maritanda ;
Margeria de Ripariis tenet villam de Cricklade de cameraria Domini Regis
ad Scaccarium. Eadem Margeria tenet villam de Sevenhampton cum per-
tinentiis de domino Rege per predictum servicium. Oxonia, Heyford
Magna. Margeria de Ripariis tenet in eadem feodum unius militis de
Honore de Walingford. Eadem Margeria tenet Newenham pro uno feodo
militis. Eborum. De honore de Curcy. Margeria de Redveieriis feodum
unius militis et dimidii in Harewood." The castle of Stoke Courcy,
Wootton, Hartham com. Wilts, and a moiety of the Honour of Courcy,
had been severed from the barony, held entire by her late husband, and
was at this date transferred to Hugh de Nevill, the Protoforester of
England, and husband of Joan de Cornhill, her uterine sister, to whom
King Henry III. granted freewarren in his manor of Stoke-Courcy, by
charter at Westminster, 28th April, 1228. From him it descended to John de
Nevill, his son and heir, also Protoforester, husband of Hawisia, daughter
of Robert de Courtenay, Baron of Oakhampton, com. Devon, who had with
her in frankmarriage twenty Kbrates of land out of the manor of Wotesdoa
com. Bucks. The death of John de Nevill took place in the month of
June, 1246, whose illness was the effect of grief at his condemnation to the
payment of 2000 marks for various transgressions in his office of forester.

* Dagdale concludes his biography of Falcasius de Breaute, misprinted Breant, with
a remark that he had a daughter called Eve, second wife to Lewleyn ap Jorworthj
Prince of North Wales, citing in the margin, History of Cambria, by David Powell, p. 315.
The edition of that work, 1774, concludes the life of Lhewelyn ap Jorworth, deceased in
1240, in these words : " he had issue by his only wife Joan, daughter to King John of
England, one son called David, who afterwards succeeded in the Principality of Wales ;
and a daughter named Gladys, who was married to Sir Ralph Mortimer." Hence, if taken
from some older edition, that writer saw reason to discredit the fiction in the one of later
date.

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According to Matthew Paris he breathed his last at his manor of Wethers-
field in Essex, and had interment in the abbey church of Waltham, near
the sepulchre of his father, leaving his wife surviving, and two sons, Hugh
and John de Nevill, under age, On the Fine Roll of the 30th year of
Henry III. is an entry with the King's teste at Woodstock on the 28th day of
August after his decease, notifying that John de Courtenay, his brother-in-
law, had made fine with the lord the King for 2500 marks, for having the
custody of the land which had been that of John de Nevill, and which had
been in the King's hand until the full age of the heirs of the same John,
together with the marriage of the same heirs, and enjoining Henry de
Wingham, the escheator, that having taken security for the payment of the
said fine at certain fixed terms, he should cause the same John de Courtenay to
have full seizin of all the lands with the appurtenances, and of the castle of
Stokecurcy, which had been those of the aforesaid John de Nevill, and which
had been in the King's hand. On the Roll of the 48th year of Hen. III.,
1263, is this entry pro Johanne de Curtenay. " R(ex) perdonavit Johanni
de Curtenay c libras de fine cccclxvi li. quern fecit cum R(ege) pro custodia
et maritagio Hugonis filii et heredis Johannis de Neville habenda. Et de
residuis ccclxvi libris concessit ei quod reddat R(egi) per annum ad scac-
carium R(egis) xl marcas, &c. donee predicte ccclxvi li. R(egi) persolvantur.
Et mandatum est Baronibus de Scaccario quod predictum Johannem de
predictis c li. quietum esse et eidem terminos predictos habere et sic fieri et
irrotulari faciant. T(este) R(ege) apud Windesoram xxiii die Decembris."
In the following year the battle of Lewes, fought 15th day of March, placed
the King in the power of the rebel Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester,
and at the foot of a letter patent committing Dover Castle to the cuotody
of Henry de Montfort, son of the Earl, with the King's teste at West-
minster, 28th day of May, we read in the Roll per Regem et R(obertum)
Aguilon.* Hugh de Nevill, and his brother John de Nevill, warmly

* In the Roll of Arms compiled in the reign of Henry III., MCCXL MCCXLV, we read,
" Robert Agulon porte de goules ov ung fleur de lis argent," and " John de Nevill le For-
restier d'or ung bende de gules, croiselles noire." In the 51st year of Henry III., 1267,
Robert Agulon exercised the office of Sheriff for the counties of Sussex and Surrey for
three parts of that year and for the first quarter of the following year, being also governor
of Guildford castle. By Letter Patent, dated at Reading, 5th October, 1267, King
Henry III. granted to Robert Agulon the land which had been that of William Marmion,
situate at Berwick, a parish in the hundred of Long-bridge, rape of Pevensey, com.

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embraced the faction of the party now in power, and the former was made
prisoner at Kenilworth on the 1st of August, 1265, four days prior to the
defeat and death of his rebel leader. The place of his confinement was the
castle of Norwich, from which he succeeded in making his escape ; and
having carried on the war in the behalf of the younger Simon de Montfort,
in the Isle of Axholme, for some months, was eventually obliged to submit
to the King and place himself at his mercy in the week of Christmas fol-
lowing. During the course of next year, whilst the royal army was
besieging the castle of Kenilworth, the King admitted him to favour upon
his subscribing to the conditions set forth in the following instrument,
which is copied on a schedule attached to the Roll of Letters Patent of the
50th year of his reign, 1266.

" Le Roy salue tote gent. Cum Huge de Neville se fust ahers a Symon
de Montfort jadis Cunte de Leycestre, nostre enemi e nostre felun, e a ses
empris en tens de la guerre muwe entre nus e le dit Cunte a la bataille entre
nus e li ferue, e apres la mort 1'avantdit Cunte pus s'ahert a Symon de
Montfort, fiz de 1'avantdit Cunte, nostre enemi, fesant nuvele guerre en
nostre reaume. E pus a Bykerdich* al Noelle le an de nostre corone-

Sussex ; and in the same Roll of Letters Patent in which this grant is entered is also an
inspeximus of a charter of Hugh de Mortimer, of Richard's Castle, com. Hereford,
demising to Robert Agulon the annual rent of 12 li., which William Marmion, son of
Robert Marmion, used to render to him out of his lands in Wygeton and Berwic, having
these witnesses, Sir John de Lynde, Robert de Brewes, William de Faukesham, Henry de
Ponyngs, Hugh Boffy, Robert de Kokefield, Robert Peake, Walter Perfyngs, Peter de
Nevill, William de Wyntrinton, William le Covert, and others. William Marmion had
forfeited this manor of Berwick by reason of his adherence to the revolted barons, but it
was eventually restored to his son and heir, John Marmion.

* Bicker is a parish in the hundred of Kirton, parts of Holland, Lincolnshire, lying
between Boston and Folkingham, and it was doubtless whilst lurking in one of its dykes-
that Hugh de Nevill, on seeing the approach of the royal forces, came forth and threw
himself upon the mercy of the King. On the same Patent Roll is also this letter of the
King on his behalf, given on the same day as this dictum, after the King's return from the
siege of Kenilworth to Warwick, which castle only surrendered on the feast of St. Martin,
llth Nov. following:

" Rex omnibus ballivis et fidelibus suis &c. salutem. Sciatis quod perdonavimus
Hugoni de Nevilla transgressionem, quam fecit frangendo prisonam nostram de Norwyco
et ab ipsam evadendo, et eciam utlagariam, si qua in ipsum ea occasione promulgata fuerit^
et firmam pacem nostram ei inde concessimus. In cujus rei &c. Teste R(ege) apud
Warrewicum xxiiii die Junii."

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ment cinquantieme se meist 1'avantdit Huge en nostre dit e en nostre
ordeinement de tote rien, sauve vie e membre e prisun. Nus pur ce que
1'avandit Huge se mist en nostre dit e en nostre ordeinement a le avaunt e
en pees se seit tenu e porte sanz mesprendre vers nus, puisqu'il se fut mis en
nostre dit, si come avantdit est, li voluns en ceste partie fere grace espe-
ciale. E num del Pere e del Fiz e del Seint Esprit recevoms 1'avantdit
Huge a nostre pees, e li pardonums nostre rancur e nostre indignation e tuz
les trespas qu'il ad fet par encheson de 1'avantdite guerre en quanque en nus
est e a nus apent. Estre ce par le assen e la volonte nostre fiel Robert
Walerand, a qui nus avums done totes les terres e les tenemens qe fureut a
1'avantdit Huge od le dowere sa mere, quant il escherreit, nous rendoms e
grauntoms a 1'avantdit Huge les maners de Wakeringe e de Wetherfeld od
les aportenances e od 1'avantdit dowere sa mere, quant 1'escherrat, od totes
les aportenances, e od les feez des chivalers qe ele tent ensement en dowere
e le homage e la servise Phelip Basset, Willame de Fegny, e des heirs
Robert de Eston, a aver e tenir a 1'avantdit Huge e a ses heirs, fesant a nus
e a nos heirs les deus parties des servises qe 1'avantdit Huge deveit tant
cum il tint les avantdits. terres enterement, e fesant les servises qe as autres
seigneurs apendent; issi neporquant qe 1'avantdit Huge se porte ben e
leaument devers nus e nos heirs desoremais.* E qe 1'avantdit Huge
quitecleime pur li e pur ses heirs a 1'avantdit Robert e a ses heirs le chastel

* Wakering, a parish in the hundred of Rochford, com. Essex, distinguished from
another of the same name by the epithet Magna, Anglice Much Wakering, was of the
inheritance of Henry de Cornhulle, father of Joan, the wife of Hugh de Nevill, the
Forester, as we learn from an entry in the Testa de Nevill, under Hundredum de Roch-
ford. " Wakeringa est in manu Hugonis de Neovilla per dominum regem cum filia
Henrici de Cornhulle, et tenetur per servicium unius militis, et valet xl li. cum stauro."
Weathersfield, a parish in the hundred of Hinkford, in the same county, was of the inhe-
ritance of the family de Courcy, as we learn from this entry on the Rotulus de Dominabus,
pueris et puellis de Essex, in 1185, 31 Hen. II. under Hundredum de Henigforde.
" Willelmus filius Willelmi de Curci est in custodia Domini Regis, et per eum in custodia
Robert! le Poher, et est xx annorum. Werefeld, terra sua, valet per annum xx libris, et
dictus Robertus habuit custodiam jam xv annis." By his wife Gundreda de Warren this
William de Courcy was father of a son of the same name, in ward of his mother as late as
3 John, 1201-2, who is among the debtors to the crown in Wiltshire on the Pipe Roll of
that year in 100 marks for having the custody of William her son, who died without
issue, and of Alice, wife, first of Henry de Cornhulle, and secondly of Warine Fitz-
gerold.

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e le maner de Stokecurcy e les maners de Radeweye od le Hundred e
Harham od les aportenances, e les homages e services de Symon de Grind-
ham, Felipe de Columbers, Water de Badle, e des heirs Michel de Spictes-
wyk des feez qu'il tenent.* E les queus chastel, maners, hundred e feez
od les aportenances nus avoms done a 1'avantdit Robert pur son homage e
pur son leal servise a aver e a tenir a li e a ses heirs de nus e de nos heirs
par la terce partie de la service qe 1'avantdit Huge nus deveit pur totes les
terres avantdites. E qe 1'avantdit Huge face a 1'avantdit Robert e a ses
heirs tote la seurte qe nus vodrons e qe cele Robert voderat, issi qu'il ne
ses heirs desormais ne pussent chalenger nule manere de dreit ni de cleim
en les avantdits chastel, maners, hundred e feez od les aportenances a toz
jurs. Estre ce nus pardonums a 1'avantdit Huge totes les dettes, qu'il ou
ses ancestres nus deveient la meite. E de 1'autre meite grantoms a li e a
ses heirs termes a paer vint marcs par an a nostre escheker. En est nostre
dit donne en cele manere qe si 1'avantdit Huge desormais face chose qe seit
encontre nostre fei ou de nos heirs apertement on qu'il ou ses heirs mettent
contencion ou chalenge en les avandits chastel, maners, hundred e fees,
lesquels nus avums done a 1'avantdit Robert, totes les avantditus terres e
tenemens, les queux nus avums rendu a 1'avantdit Huge, seient a nus e a

* Radway is a hamlet in the parish of Cannington, which, with Week, a hamlet, in the
parish of Stoke-curcy, were members of the Honour. The hundred of Cannington was
given by King Henry III. to the elder Hugh de Neville. The church and manor of Can-
nington had been made parcel of the endowment of a nunnery, established there by
Robert de Courcy in the reign of Stephen. West Harnham is a chapelry in the parish of
Combe Bisset, in the hundred of Cawdon and Cadworth, com. Wilts, and is mentioned in
the Testa de Nevill under the heading Feoda Johannis de Nevill, in that county. " Walterus
de Lillebon unum feodum in Myddelton ; Willelmus Gerbert unum feodum in Odestok ;
Johannes de Nevilla unum feodum in Harreham de Honore de Stokecurci." Odstock is a
parish in the same hundred, and Milton Lilbourn a parish in that of Kinwardstone. In
1168 Robert Gerbert held one knighfs fief of William de Curci, the steward, of the old
feofment, and of the new feofment by his father Walter de Lillebone held one knight's
fief. Michael de Spichwic was then a tenant of the barony of Meschines, then belonging
to his mother Avicia de Romeilli. Michael de Spichewyk died seized of the manor of
Spicheswicke, in the county of Devon, owing suit of court to the manor of Stokecurcy, in
33 Edw. I. (Esch. 33 Edw. I. n. 42.) Philip de Columbers, in 45 Hen. III., died seized
of one knight's fief in Honibere, held of Hugh de Nevill, and worth yearly 10 li., leaving
Philip his son and heir, aged 33 years, the person named. Honibere is a tything of the
now parish of Lilstock, formerly a chapelry to Stoke-curcy.

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nos heirs encorus, ensement od les feez e od la dowere, quant il escherrat.
E totes celes terres e tenemens somes tenus a rendre a 1'avantdit Robert ou
a ses heirs enterement, si cum mis li avions avant done, sanz nul contredit,
e qe tute nostre grace avantdite seit pur mile e de tut repele. Derechef a le
requeste cele Huge recevums a nostre pees Johan de Neville, sun frere, qe
se fut ahers a 1'avantdit Cunte en la guerre avautdite, e li pardonoms nostre
rancur e nostre indignation. E grantoms a 1'avantdit Huge le maner de
Arnhale * od ses aportenances, lequel 1'avauntdit Johan aveit du don Huge
sun frere, a aver e tenir de nus e de nos heirs a li e a ses heirs od totes les

* Arnhale, Arnall, otherwise Arnold, is a parish in the hundred of Broxtow, com.
Nottingham, and by charter, dated at Winchester, 4 May, 1204, King John gave to
Hugh de Nevill his manor of Ernhale. with all the soke and all its appurtenances, and
with the advowson of the church, to hold of him and his heirs in feefarm, rendering there-
from annually ten pounds by tale, payable at the Exchequer of London ; namely, at the
Exchequer of St. Michael, and doing the service of the fourth part of the fief of one knight
for all sen-ice and demand in that behalf. After the death of Hugh de Nevill it was held
by Herbert de Nevill, a younger son, by the concession probably of his elder brother, John
de Nevill, whom he sun rived. In the Testa de Nevill is this entry : " Herbertus de Nevill
tenet totam villain de Arnhall et quartam partem ville de Wudeburg, pro quibus reddit
per annum x libras." The following Letter Patent, on the Roll of the nineteenth year of
Henry the Third, fully establishes this seizin in contradiction to Thoroton, who supposed
that Herbert was a misprint for Hugo. " Rex liberis hominibus tenentibus terras de Her-
berto de Nevilla in Arnhale et in soka, salutem. Rogamus vos quatinus prefato Herberto
domino vestro, qui auxilio nostro indiget ad se sustentandum in servicio nostro et ad debita
sua acquietanda, rationabile auxilium benignius impendatis, ita quod eundem dominum
vestrum in hiis, que penes ipsum habebitis expedienda, promptiorem et benigniorem
invenire merito debebatis, nosque devotionem vestram, quam erga dominum vestrum
geritis memoratum, habere debebamus ob hoc merito commendatam. T(este) R(ege)
apud Windsoram vii die Junii." Woodborough is a parish adjoining Arnall, but in a
different hundred, that of Thurgarton, concerning which we have these entries. " In
Wudeburg est una bovata terre de dominico Regis de Arnhal, quam Hugo de Nevill tenet
infra nrmam de Arnhal de dono domini Regis Johannis, qui respondet de xxviii s. x. d.
In Oxton est una parva bovata terre, que perficit illam magnum bovatam de "Wudeburg, et
debit respondere ad Hernhal." Oxton is in the same hundred, and there were two
bovates in Strelley, anciently of the soke of Arnall, rendering iii s., and other two in
Broxtow by the same service of the same soke, and one bovate in Bilborough, rendering
vii d. to the soke of Arnall. Strelley and Bilborough are parishes, but Broxtow, which
gave name to the hundred, was only a chapelry in the last-named parish. The statement
of Thoroton that Hugh de Nevill held a fourth part of a knight's fee in Arnall, which
Hugh de Nevill, his father, held, citing Testa de Nevill, is utterly fclse, as there is no such

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franchises qe solerent apendre a eel manere devant la guerre avandite,
rendant a nus e a nos heirs a nostre escheker le meite de la value de ee
manere par estente par an a tuz jurs. En tesmoine de ceste chose nus
avoms fes mettre nostre seel en cest escret doblee, dunt le un remaunt a le
avantdit Huge e 1'autre a 1'avantdit Robert. Par ces tesmoins Water, par
la grace de Deu esveque de Baa e de Welles, Humfrey de Boun cunte de
Hereford e de Essex, Johan de Warenne cunte de Surreye, Willame de
Valence notre frere, Roger de Mortemer, Roger de Clifford, Roger de
Leyburn, Robert Agulon, e autres. Tesmoins mei memes, a Kenilleworthe,
le vintequarte iur de Jun, le an de notre coronement avantdit."

This dictum incidentally attests the presence of Sir Robert Agulon at
the siege of Kenilworth, and explains the mode in which the castle and
manor of Stokecurcy, with its fiefs and members, were transferred to an
utter stranger in blood to the line of its ancient possessors, which the topo-
grapher of Somersetshire sought to account for in this absurd paragraph :
" After the death of this Hugh de Neville, the manor and borough of
Stoke-curcy came to the possession of Robert de Walerond, who was
affianced by marriage to the said Hugh de Nevill, and held the lands
1 Edward I." Prior to the 4th of February, 1273, 1 Edw. I. Robert
Walerand was deceased without issue, seized of this castle and manor of
Stokecurcy, and it was found that his heir was Robert, son of William
Walerand, brother of the aforesaid Robert, and then of the age of seven-

entry, and Hugh de Nevill had no son of that name. On the Fine Roll, 30 Hen. III.,
1246, is also an entry, pro Herberto de Nevill, in these words : " Quia constitit Regi quod
Johannes de Nevill in vita sua legavit Herberto de Nevill custodiam terre et heredum
Willelmi de Nevilla, que fuit in manu ipsius Johannis, habendam et tenendam usque ad
legittimam etatem ipsorum heredum una cum maritagio eorumdem, mandatum est
Henrico de Wingham et Coescatori suo in comitatu Surreie, quod de custodia predictorum
terre et heredum eidem Herberto plenam seisinam habere faciarit cum omnibus catallis et
proficuis in predicta terra inventis, quando illam capi fecerunt in manum Regis. Teste
Rege apud Wudestokam xxviii die Augusti." William de Nevill was probably another
brother, who held land in Oxstead, a parish in the hundred of Tandridge, com. Surrey,
of the inheritance of his mother, Joan de Cornhull, as the following entry in Testa de
Nevill proves : " Hugo de Nevilla tenet quandam partem in Acstede in capite de domino
Rege per servicium duorum militum et dimidii de Honore Bolonie ; quam cepit cum filia
Henrici de Cornhulla." Herbert de Nevill, as appears by the dictum, died without issue,
as Arnall reverted to the elder line.

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teen years. This second Robert Walerand was succeeded by a brother
John Walerand, who was deceased without issue in the month of March,
2 Edw. II., ] 309. Both these last possessors were idiots, and though it
was eventually proved that they had two aunts, both of the name of Alicia,
of whom one was abbess of Romsey and the other married to Alan de
Plugenet, whose son of the same name acquired other manors of his uncle
Robert Walerand to the exclusion of the heir, and died in the lifetime of
one or other of his cousins, 27 Edw. I., 1299, leaving a son, Alan de Plu-
genet, who in 2 Edw. II. was declared to be the legitimate heir of John
Walerand after a solemn trial ; yet the castle and manor of Stokecurcy,
and all included in the above dictum, except Harham, reverted to the crown,
and in the following year were granted to Robert Fitzpayne ; whence the
hamlet of Radway has now the adjunct of Fitzpayne.

In the second volume of the Rotuli Hundredorum, p. 38, are inserted
copies of the inquisitions made before the justices in eyre, in the county of
Oxford, 39 Hen. III., 1255, of the rights and liberties and other things
belonging to the King, and as being of earlier date than the marriage of
Robert Aguilon with Margaret, Countess of Devon, it would seem that he
had acquired that portion of Newnham which had been of the inheritance of
Joan de Cornhulle, the wife of Hugh de Nevill, some ten years or more
previous to this inquiry. The following entries concern this manor,
according to the verdict of the jurors of Bulenden hundred. " Newenham.
In Niwenham sunt x hide, quas Baldewinus de Insula qui est in custodia
domini Regis tenet in capite de domino Rege per servicium unius feodi
militis, et valet manerium xxx li. Non sequitur hundredum." Below fol-
low the answers of the jury to the several heads of inquiry, one of which
was as to those who had view of frankpledge without warranty, where we
read, " Domina Regina tenet visum franci plegii apud Newenham racione
warde heredis Baldewini de Ripariis." Again, to the inquiry as to youths
and girls, who are and ought to be in custody of the lord the King, who have
them, and through whom, and how much their lands are worth by the year,
we have this answer : " Dicunt quod Baldewinus de Insula est in custodia
domini Regis cum Newenham quod valet per annum xxx libras, ut supra-
dictum est, quam wardam domina Regina habet per dominum Regem."
Lastly, to the inquiry as to the religious who had entered upon the fief of
the lord the King, whereby the King loses wardship, relief, and tallage, who

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and from what time, we read as follows : Dicunt quod Priorissa de
Clerkenewell feffata fuit xiiii annis elapsis de dono Margerie de Ripariis de
vi virgatis terre et dimidia in Newenham in puram et perpetuam elemosinam
cum quodam redditu annuo xxiii solidorum et vi denariorum. Terra preter
redditum valet xl solidos. Item prior de Bissupesgate habuit in eadem
villa centum solidatas terre et redditus de dono Roberti Aguilun jam x annis
elapsis vel amplius, et deffendit pro dimidio feodo militis."

The charter of Margaret de Reviers in favour of the nunnery of Clerken-
well, as far as regards the rent from the manor of Newenham, is copied into
the Register of that House, contained in the Cotton MS. Faustina, B. XL,
and Dugdale has inserted a short abbreviation of its contents in the Monas-
ticon, so mutilated as to make it unintelligible, it being applicable to a rent
from two manors in Oxfordshire; namely, Newnham Courtenay, and
Heyford Warine, which last manor had been held by Sir Thomas de
Breaute, brother of the aforesaid Falcasius, and had the adjunct of
Warine from its having been of the inheritance of her father, Warine
Fitz Gerold.

" Omnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos presens scriptum pervenerit, Mar-
gareta de Redeveris salutem in Domino eternam. Noveritis me dedisse et
concessisse et hac carta mea confirmasse in ligia potestate et viduitate mea
pro salute anime mee et patris mei et matris mee et Baldewini filii mei pri-
mogeniti et aliorum puerorum meorum Deo et beate Marie de Clerkenewelle
et monialibus ibidem Deo servientibus in puram et perpetuam elemosinam
quinquaginta solidatas quieti redditus in auxilium ad vestiendum conventum
ejusdem loci, unde eisdem tenear de testamento Alicie de Churci, matris
mee, annuatim percipiendas, videlicet, in manerio de Newenham xxv soli-
datas, scilicet, De Johanne Algar et heredibus suis xii cim solidos per annum.
De Johanne Passore iii s. De Waltero Golding iii s. De Muriella relicta
Fabri iii s. De Sailda de Wyke et Muriella ii *. De Matilda relicta
Gregorii xii denarios. De Ricardo Crispo xii d. Et in manerio meo de
Heyford xxv solidatas quieti redditus, scilicet, De Rogero serviente xviii d.
De Willelmo filio Radulfi xviii d. De Thoma de Cherleton xviii d. De
Willelmo de Rolesham xviii d. De Johanne Capellano xviii d. De Here-
berto xviii ?. De Johanne persona xviii d. De Willelmo filio Herberti
xviii d. De Agneta vidua xviii d. De Alano filio Galfridi xviii d. De
Rogero Chipping xviii tf. De Ada Piscatore xviii d. De Willelmo de

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Bradestoke xviii d. De Henrico Nono xviii d. De Ada de Northbroc
xviii d. De Petro xviii d. De Rogero Parvo vi d. De Roberto Bovet
vi d. Habendas et tenendas et recipiendas eisdem momalibus et successo-
ribus suis in perpetuum in prenominatis duobus maneriis et a prenominatis
hominibus et eorum successoribus ad quatuor anni terminos, scilicet, ad
Nativitatem Sancti Johannis Baptiste xii s. et vi d. et ad festum Sancti
Michaelis xii s. et vi d. et ad festum beati Thome Apostoli xii s. et vi d. et
ad festum Beate Marie in Martio xii s. et vi d. sine ullo impedimento mei
vel heredum meorum vel aliquorum meorum sub pena decem solidorum.
Que quidem pena, si forte commissa fuerit, eisdem monialibus ad distric-
tionem ballivorum meorum vel heredum meorum solvitur. Has vero quin-
quaginta solidos quieti redditus tantum dictis monialibus assignavi, salvis et
retentis mihi et heredibus meis serviciis, taillagiis, consuetudinibus et aliis
omnibus, que de eisdem accidere possint in eisdem locis. Et ego Margareta
et heredes mei prenominatum redditum, sicut predictum est, Deo et Beate
Marie de Clerkenwell et raonialibus ibidem Deo servientibus imperpetuum
warrantizabimus sine aliquo impedimento mei vel heredum meorum contra
omnes gentes. Et ut hec mea donatio et concessio firma et stabilis imper-
petuum permaneat presentem paginam sigilli mei munimine roboravi. Hiis
testibus, Rogero tune Londoniarum episcopo, Roberto Sarum episcopo,
Galfrido tune decano Sancti Pauli, Magistro P(etro) tune archidiacono
Londoniarum, Ricardo tune priore S(ancte) Trinitatis, Fratre Waltero
tune priore Predicatorum, Magistro Roberto de Suwerk, Domino Gileberto
de Bolebek, Willelmo de Berchamsted, &c.

The names of the witnesses accord with the testimony of the jurors that
this gift was made in the year 1241, and it furnishes direct evidence of one
of the numerous false assertions of Matthew Paris, who designates her as
Countess of the Isle. The Priory of Bishopsgate was a hospital under the
government of a prior and canons regulars of the order of St. Augustin, of
the foundation of Walter Brun, citizen of London, and Sheriff in the year
1202-3, and of Rohesia his wife, dedicated to the blessed Virgin Mary, in
the suburb of the city of London without the Bishop's Gate, and usually
designated St. Mary Spittle. In the deed of foundation there is this men-
tion of a tenement demised by Henry Fitz Aylwin, Mayor of London, to the
said Walter and his heirs, for the render of a pound of cinnamon. " Item
totam terram illam, quam Henricus Maior Londoniarum mihi, Waltero, et

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heredibus meis dimisit, que jacet intra terrain que fuit Godardi filii Eilredi
versus aquilonem et terrain que fuit Reginald! Herbarii versus austrum et
continet secus vicum regium in latitudine xxv ulnas et tres quarteria. et in
capite oriental! xxiiii ulnas et unum quarterium, et in profunditate xlii ulnas
de ulnis ferreis Regis Johannis Anglic, reddendo hide annuatim eidem
Henrico vel heredibus suis unam libram cinnamoni infra viii dies Sancti
Michaelis." In a charter of King Edward II. dated at Westminster, 20th
March, 1318, confirming the possessions of this hospital in London, is also
this recital : " Dimissionem, etc. quas Willelmus Aguillon fecit eisdem de
quadam domo ex opposite dicti hospitalis in parrochia Sancti Botulfi extra
Bishopesgate apud Hundesdic." Tanner in his Notitia Monastica, p. 3 12, cites
Placita in com. Oxonie, 13 Edw. I. assis. vol. 12, pro messuagio et centum
acris terrae in Newenham, under the heading of St. Mary Spittle, or New
Hospital of our Lady without Bishopsgate ; and from the quantity specified
it is of accord with the half of a knight's fief given by Sir Robert Aguilon.
His holding property in this manor doubtless led to his first acquaintance
with Margaret of Savoy, Countess of Devon, who had it in dower of her
first husband.

In the expedition against Llewelin Prince of Wales, of which the muster
was for the 6th July, 5 Edw. I., 1277, at Worcester, Henry le Taillur did
the service for Sir Robert Aguilon of one foot soldier with a bow and
twenty-five arrows, by which serjeanty he held his manor of Watton-at-
Stone, com. Herts. In 10 Edw. I., for a like expedition against the Welch,
muster at Worcester, 17 May, 1282, he was summoned by the King's writ,
dated at Devizes, 6th April preceding ; and in the same year, under the
heading, Proffrum factum apud Rothelan die Mercurii proxima post festum
Beati Petri ad vincula(5 Aug.), we read as follows : " Willelmus de Pagham
recognoscit servicium pro Roberto de Aguillono existente in partibus trans-
marinis, id est, servicium unius feodi militis et unius hominis peditis cum
arcu et viginti et quinque sagittis pro manerio de Watton. Quod quidem
servicium Rex de gratia sua per absenciam ipsius Roberti respectuari fecit
usque reditum ejusdem. Et mandetur ei quod cito accedat servicium ilium
facturus." His absence in parts beyond the sea was probably owing to his
being on a visit with his wife in her native land of Savoy. The mortal
career of this illustrious Baron terminated on Friday, 15th February, in the
fourteenth year of Edward L, whose writ of Diem clausit extremum to

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Master Henry de Bray, Escheator of the King hitherwards of Trent, with
instruction to take his lands into custody until further order was sent, bears
date at Westminster, 17th day of February, 1286, and is endorsed Sussex,
Surrey, London, Kent, Hertford, Buckingham, Norfolk and Suffolk.

The extent of the manor of Sir Robert de Aguylon of Crofton, com.
Bucks, taken on the Sunday next before the feast of St. Gregory the Pope,
10th March, describes it as held of Sir William de Say, by what service
was unknown ; its value vi li. \ s. 6d. ob. quad, and therefrom was owing to
the lord the King for hidage 13 d. Residue vi li. iiii s. vd. ob. quad. The
jurors say that Isabella, daughter of the aforesaid Sir Robert, is his next
heir, and is the wife of Sir Hugh Bardolf, and is of the age of 24 years and
more. They also say that he was deceased on the 15th day of February.
This manor of Crofton, in the parish of Mentmore, hundred of Cotslow,
Bucks, was held by Robert de Nouuers (St. Martin-des-Noyers, Calvados,
arr. de Lisieux, c. de Livarot) of Gislebert Maminot, Bishop of Lisieux ;
and in 1168 Ralph de Nuers held the fief of one knight of Walchelin Ma-
minot, whose honour was of the inheritance of William de Say in the reign
of Henry III., as appears by the Testa de Nevill, in which record we have
" Willelmus de Agulun tenet dimidium feodum in Crofton de dicto Willelmo,
et ipse de Rege."

The extent of the lands and tenements of Sir Robert de Aguylon in Ed-
monton (Adelmeton), com. Midd. taken on Friday next after the feast of
St. Gregory the Pope, 15 March, describes his tenure to consist of nine
acres of meadow, each acre being worth 1 1*., and were held of William de
Say by an annual rent of 10s., besides an annual assised rent of 20*. from
ten free tenants, payable quarterly. The jurors say also that Isabella,
daughter of the aforesaid Robert, is his next heir, and is the wife of Sir
Hugh Bardolf, and was of the age of 28 years on the Purification of Blessed
Mary last past, and that the aforesaid Robert died on the 15th day of Fe-
bruary, 14 Edw. I. Value 38*., out of which 10*. were owing to Sir Wil-
liam de Say, residue 28*. Edmonton was of the honour of Mandeville at
the time of the Survey, which was likewise of the inheritance of Sir William
de Say.

The inquisition of the lands and tenements, which had been those of Ro-
bert Agyyllun deceased, at Greatham, com. Suthhampton, taken at Great-
ham on the day next after the feast of St. Gregory the Pope, 13 March,

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describes him to have held the said lands and tenements of the lord the King
in capite on the day on which he died, by the service of 18$. by the year, to
be rendered to the lady the Queen, for releasing the suit due to her hun-
dred of Alton, total value ix lib. iis. ix d. Moreover 40 acres of wood ex-
tended were not included in the value, because they could not be cut down
without the license of the lord the King by view of the forester. They
say that the said Sir Robert died on Friday next after the feast of St. Va-
lentine, 14 Edw. I., and that Isabella, the daughter of the said Robert, who
is the wife of Sir Hugh Bardolf, is his next heir, and of full age. Also at
Emelsworth are 100$. of assised rent belonging to the manor of Persinges.
Greatham, a parish in the hundred and deanery of Alton, com. Hants, was
of the King's demesne at the time of the Survey, and afterwards parcel of
the honour of the Earls Warren, save one portion on the borders of Wat-
mere Forest, which is all that is comprised in this extent ; the church is a
rectory dedicated to St. John Baptist.

The extent of the lands and tenements which were those of Sir Robert Agy-
loun in the vill of All Saints of Hoo, taken there on Wednesday next before
the feast of St. Gregory the Pope, 6 March, 14 Edw. I. before Robert de
Periers, subescheator in the county of Kent, describes all the lands and
tenements, with the rents and every thing else, which the aforesaid Robert
held in the vill of Hoo, to have been held of the Abbot of Reading by an
annual rent of 25$. 3d. ob. qua. at the four principal terms of the year, and
doing suit for the same to the court of the said Abbot in the said vill, from
three weeks to three weeks. Also the aforesaid jurors say upon their oath that
Isabella, daughter of the said Sir Robert Agyloun, is his next heir, and will
be of the age of 28 years at the feast of the Annunciation of the blessed
Mary in the 14th year of King Edward. Entire value vi It. vi s. viii rf., out
of which are paid to the Abbot of Reading xxv s. iii d. ob. qu. and so the
clear sum is c s. xvi d. et quadrans. The manor of the Abbot of Reading
in the parish of All Saints or All Hallows in Hoo, had the name of Wind-
hill.

Inquisition of the lands and tenements which were those of Robert de
Aguilon in com. Norf. taken on Friday before the feast of the Annuncia-
tion of blessed Mary, 14 Edw. I., 22nd March, describes the capital mes-
suage of Scrouteby, containing three roods in Scrouteby, which was that of
the aforesaid Robert, to be worth, with the herbage of the court, iiii$., and

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that there was annexed to it a dovecot in bad condition, worth annually
xiic?. The jurors say that Robert de Aguilon held his manor in Scrouteby
of the Bishop of Norwich in capite, by the service of the sixth part of one
knight's fief, rendering annually to the ward of the castle at Easter xviii d.
They also say that Isabella, daughter of the said Robert, who is now the
wife of Hugh Bardolf, is the next heir of the same Robert, and is of the
age of 24 years and more. They also say that the said Robert held nothing
in capite of the Lord the King in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk.
They also say that he died on Friday next after the feast of St. Valentine,
14 Edw. I. Sum total of the extent xi li. iii s. viii d.

Extent of the manor of Watton, com. Herts, which was that of Sir
Robert Aguylon, made there on Thursday after the feast of St. Mathias
the Apostle, 28th Feb. 14 Edw. I. The jurors say that the said Robert held
the manor of Watton with its appurtenances of the King in capite, by the
serjeanty, namely, of finding one foot soldier in the King's army for forty
days at his own cost. They also say that Isabella, daughter of the said
Robert, married to Sir Hugh Bardolf, is his next heir, and was of the age
of twenty- six years at the Annunciation of the Blessed Mary in the year
aforesaid. Sum xvii li. iii s. ii d. out of which are paid to the Lord the King
annually by the hand of the sheriff of Hertfordshire vi s. ii d. ob. to Ro-
bert de Gravele i d. and to Richard Cook i d. so it is of the value of
xvi li. xvi s. ix d. ob. The same jurors also say that the said Sir Robert held
in Stapilford near Watton vii acres and a half of meadow, with the advowson
of the church of Stapilford, and worth annually xvi s. ii d. Also that there
is of assised rent xi s. \id. two pounds of pepper worth xii d. one pound of
cummin worth 2 d. and one pair of white gloves worth 1 d. and of annual
common fine vi d. together with a water mill worth xiii s. iiii d. All
which said lands, tenements, and adowsons are held of the heirs of John le
Moygne by the service of one clove of gillyflower. Sum xli s. vii d.

Extent of the manor of Percynge, with its members, in com. Sussex,
which was that of Sir Robert Agyloun, made on Tuesday next before Ash
Wednesday, 26th Feb. 14 Edw. I. before Robert de Periers subescheator in
com. Sussex. The jurors say upon their oath that the said manor of
Percynge, with its member of Horaewood, is held of the Lord the Earl
Warren in chief by the service of the fief of one knight, doing thereof
annually to the said Earl at Lewes suit of court from three weeks to three

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weeks, and towards inclosing the Park at Dycheninge, namely, on the
feast of St. Nicholas each year, xx d. ob. and two bushels of corn, with xii d.
to be paid up at the said feast, and also for doing the work yearly to Roger
Waspe xii d. Also the said Robert Agyloun held there of Sir William le
Say a certain tenement, which had been that of Sir William Beawmund, by
the service of half a knight's fief, and owed a contribution to the same Earl
Warren on behalf of William le Say to enclose the said park, of two bushels
of beans, on the chair of St. Peter, worth viii d. Also the said Robert
Agyloun held of Sir William Grandyn a certain tenement by the service of
half a knight's fief and a sixth part. Also the said Robert held a certain
tenement of John de la Mare, of the Prior of Lewes and Nigel de Brok,
rendering therefrom annually to John de la Mare v s. and to Nigel de
Brok ii d. and to the said Prior of Lewes ii s. and to the sheriff's aid ob. quad.
Also the said jurors say that the capital messuage, with the fruit of the
garden, was worth yearly xs. Also the aforesaid jurors say upon their
oath that Ysabella, daughter of the said Robert Agyloun, and wife of Hugh
Bardolf, is his next heir, and will be of the age of twenty-eight years upon
the Annunciation of the Blessed Mary the Virgin in the year aforesaid ;
and that the said Robert Agyloun ended his last day on Friday the
morrow of St. Valentine in the year aforesaid. Sum of the whole extent
Iviili. vis. viid. quad, et dimid. quad, out of which xs. xic?. dim. quad, were
annually paid to the different capital lords, as it appears.* This manor was
his principal and favourite residence, and here he died on the 15th day of
January, 1286, having in his will bequeathed to the Priory of Tortington,
of the order of St. Augustin, in the parish of that name in the rape of
Arundel, hundred of Avisford, dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen, with his
body, his mansion in the parish of St. Swithin, London, with the advowson
of the church.-r The writ of the King to Ralph de Sandwich, guardian of

* There is also an extent of the manor of Addington, with lands in Waldingham and
Crowhurst, com. Surr. from which a rent of three shillings and three pence was payable
on the feast of the Purification of St. Mary to Reginald de Ymmesworthe, and other sums
at the terms of Easter, St. John the Baptist, and St. Michael, as also a pound of cummin
to the Prior of Lewisham in Kent ; but it is now utterly illegible.

t Tanner, in his Notitia Monastica, under Tortington near Arundel, page 561, cites
Plac. ad Busting. London. 14 Edw. I. de mansione in parochia Sancti Swithini London,
cum patronatu dicte ecclesie, etc. legato huic Prioratui per Robertum d'Aguilon cum
corpore suo.

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the city of London, enjoining him to ascertain by a jury of citizens of
London the value of the tenements and rents in the same city, which Ro-
bert Aguillon, late deceased, had held on the day of his decease, and to
inquire as to the liberty of the same city, whether it were such as that in
his will he could bequeath them to whom he chose, as if they were a chattel,
or not ; and if they be in the same condition as his other lands and tene-
ments are without the city, so that they ought to descend to his right heirs
after his decease, and if he could not transfer them by legacy into the
hands of others by reason of the aforesaid liberty or otherwise, is dated at
Woodstock, 9th March, 1286.

" Inquisitio capta apud Londonias die Jovis proxima post festum Annun-
ciationis beate Marie anno regni Regis Edwardi xiiii. (28th March,) de
terris et tenementis de quibus dominus Robertus Asruylun fuit seisitus in
dominico suo ut de feodo die quo obiit in Londoniis per sacramenta Henrici
le Coffrer, etc. (26 jurors.) Qui dicunt quod dictus Robertus fuit seisitus
in dominico suo ut de feodb die quo obiit de uno mesuagio et quatuordecem
libris, octodecem solidis, duobus denariis et obolo redditus in Londoniis et
tenuit dicta tenementa de domino Rege in capite per socagium reddendo
inde Domino Regi annuatim sexdecem denarios die Dominica proxima post
mediam quadragesimam. Et dicunt quod predictum mesuagium valet per
annum in omnibus exitibus xxxix *. iiii d. et dicunt quod dictus redditus
redditur annuatim ad Pascham, ad festum Xativitatis Saiicti Johannis
Baptiste, Sancti Michaelis, et ad festum Natalis Domini. Dicunt etiam
quod dictus Robertus fuit patronus ecclesie Sancti Swythini in Candelewyke-
strete, que valet per annum octo marcas et quod advocacio ecclesie pre-
dicte pertinet ad capitale mesuagium predictum. Dicunt etiam quod
domina Isabella filia dicti Roberti, quam Dominus Hugo Bardolf despon-
savit, est heres dicti Roberti propinquior, et fuit etatis xxviii annorum ad
festum Annunciacionis beate Marie anno supradicto. In cujus rei testimo-
nium predicti jurat ores huic inquisitioni sigilla sua apposuerunt. Summa
xvi /i. xvi j. ii d. ob. salvo redditu inde debito."

Another inquisition had been previously taken before the same guardian,
and Walter le Blund and John Wade, the sheriffs of the same city, by pre-
cept of the Lord the King at London on Thursday next after the feast of
St. Edward King and Martyr, 14 Edw. I. (21st March) by the oaths of

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twenty-four jurors, in answer to the matters suggested in the King's writ,
who gave their verdict that all the lands and tenements and rents of the
aforesaid Rohert de Aguillon, late deceased, in the city of London, on the
day on which he died were of the liberty of the same city, and liable to the
same condition as others in the city, and that he could bequeath them in
his will as his chattel to whomsoever he chose, according to the custom of
the aforesaid city ; and that they were not as other lands without the city ;
adding nevertheless that they ought to have descended to the right heirs by
hereditary right, unless they had been bequeathed in his will according to
the liberty and custom of the city, as is aforesaid. Pursuant to this find-
ing the mansion and advowson continued to belong to the Priory of Tor-
tington until the Dissolution, when Hen. VIII. in the 31st year of his reign
granted it to John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, and hence it was sometimes
called Oxford Place.

Margaret de Savoy survived her last husband more than six years, dying
in the year 1292, as we learn from the following writs of Edward I. of
Diem clausit extremum, and from the inquisitions held pursuant to them.
She appears to have been most richly endowed by both Baldwin Earl of
Devon and of the Isle, and Sir Robert Aguillon.

" Edwardus dei gratia Rex Anglie Dominus Hibernie et Dux Aquitanie
dilecto clerico suo Masculino de Harley, Escaetori suo citra Trentam,
salutem. Quia Margareta de Rypariis, quondam Comitissa Devonie, que
de nobis tenuit in capite diem clausit extremum, ut accepimus, vobis manda-
mus quod omnes terras et tenementa, de quibus eadem Margareta fuit
seisita in dominico suo ut de feodo in ballivia vestra die quo obiit, sine dila-
tione capiatis in manum nostram et ea salvo custodiri faciatis, donee aliud
inde preceperimus. Et per sacramentum proborum et legalium hominum
de ballivia vestra, per quos rei veritas melius sciri poterit, diligenter inqui-
ratis quantum terre eadem Margareta tenuit de nobis in capite in ballivia
vestra die quo obiit, et quantum de aliis, et per quod servicium et quantum
terre ille valeant per annum in omnibus exitibus, et quis propinquior heres
ejus sit et cujus etatis. Et inquisicionem illam inde distincte et aperte
factam nobis sine dilatione mittatis et hoc breve. T(este) meipso apud
Spalding xiiii die Maii anno regni nostri vicesimo.

" Edwardus ut supra. Malculino de Harleye Escaetori sua ultra Trentam,

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salutem. Quia Margareta, que fuit uxor Domini Robert! Aguillon, etc. ut
supra. T(este) meipso apud Berewik super Twedam sexto die Junii anno
regni nostri vicesimo."

This writ is endorsed Pro domino Hugone Bardolf, and at its date the
King was beyond Trent.

Under the first writ the following inquisitions were taken in respect of
her dower, as Countess of Devon ; the first is for her manor of Newnham,
com. Oxon :

" Inquisitio capta vicesimo octavo die Junii anno regni Regis Edwardi
xx super articulis subscripts, videlicet quantum, &c. (as in the writ,) per
xii juratos subscriptos, videlicet per Robertum de Lulle, &c. qui dicunt
super sacramentum suum quod dicta Margareta nichil tenuit de domino
Rege in capite in comitatu Oxonie, sed tenuit manerium de Neweham in
eodem comitatu in dotem de dotatione Baldewini de Insula, quondam viri
sui, et de hereditate Ysabelle de Fortibus Comitisse Albemarlie et Devonie
et ad ipsam Isabellam reverti debet post mortem ipsius Margarete tanquam
heredem propinquiorem predict! Baldewini et plene etatis. Et tenebit
manerium predictum de domino Rege in capite per serjanteriam, ita quod
ipse qui tenet manerium dabit domino Regi aquam ad lavandas manus suas
die Natalis Domini, et asportabit et habebit pelves et manutergium pro servicio
predicto, et valet manerium per annum in omnibus exitibus quadraginta libras.
In cujus rei testimonium predicti jurati huic inquisitioni sigilla sua appo-
suerant. Datum apud Neweham die et anno supradicto."

The next is for the manor of Pishobury in Sawbridgeworth, com.
Herts:

*' Inquisitio facta in manerio de Pyshoo die Sabbati proximo ante festum
Sancti Johannis Baptiste (21 Jun.) anno regni Regis Edwardi vicesimo, de
terris et tenementis que fuerunt Margarete de Rypariis, Comitisse Devonie
et de Insula, defuncte in comitatu Hertfordie per Galfridum de Sacham, c.
Qui dicunt super sacramentum suum quod predicta Margareta Comitissa
Devonie nullam terram tenuit in predicto comitatu in capite de domino
Rege. Dicunt etiam quod predicta Margareta tenuit manerium predictum
de Pyshoo et hoc in dote post mortem Baldewyni de Insula, quondam
mariti sui. Idem Baldewynus tenuit predictum manerium de domino
Willelmo de Say in capite per servicium trium feodorum militum et dimidii
et unius quartarii, et valet predictum manerium per annum xl libras in

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omnibus exitibus. Dicunt etiam quod Isabella de Fortibus Comitissa
Albemarlie et Devonie ac Domina Insule est heres propinquior predict!
Baldewini et predicti manerii de Pyshoo, et est plene etatis. Dicunt etiam
quod predicta Margareta nullas terras tenuit in Sabrictworth nisi per dotem
tantum, neque in comitatu Hertfordie."

The third inquisition is for the manor of Vauxhall, or South Lambeth,
com. Surrey:

" Inquisitio capta apud Suth Lambeth de terris et tenementis que fuerunt
Margarete de Ripariis die lune in vigilia Nativitatis Sancti Johannis Bap-
tiste (23 June) anno regni Regis Edwardi xx per xii juratos de hundredo
de Bryxeston, videlicet Johannis le Ermener, &c. Qui dicunt super sacra-
mentum suum quod capitale messuagium cum gardino apud Faukeshalle
valet per annum us. Item sunt ibidem tin** acre terre, et valet acra per
annum niid. Summa xxiii.?. vine?. Item sunt ibidem xxix acre prati, et
valet acra per annum iii s. Summa imli. v'ns. Item redditus assisi libere
tenentium per annum xxxixs. iiiie?. Item redditus assisi custumariorum per
annum xiiifo'. viiis. xirf. ob. quad. Opera custumariorum per annum nichil
valent per quod possent extendi, quia plus capitur pro opere quam valeat.
Item placita et perquisita curie valent per annum iii*. v'md. Item heriet
et relevium per annum valent iiiis. Et valet manerium predictum per
annum in omnibus exitibus xxi/z. viiis. viid. ob. q. Et predicta Margareta
tenuit predictum manerium nomine dotis ex dotatione Baldewyni de Insula,
Comitis de Insula, quondam viri sui de hereditate Isabelle de Fortibus
Comitisse Albemarlie. Item dicunt quod predicta Isabella est soror et
heres propinquior predicti Baldewyni, et est etatis liiii annorum. Et tenetur
idem manerium de domino Rege in capite pro homagio. In cujus, &c.
Indorsed, Surreia pro Isabella de Fortibus Comitissa Albemarlie."

Extents of three manors in Hampshire follow, Christchurch, Freshwater,
and Wroxall ; the two last in the Isle of Wight.

" Extenta manerii de Christi ecclesia in comitatu Suthantonie quod fuit
Margarete de Ripariis quondam Comitisse Devonie, facta die Jovis proximo
post festum Sancti Barnabe Apostoli (12th June) anno regni Regis Edwardi
vicesimo, per sacramentum Rogeri de Boclond, &c. qui dicunt super sacra-
mentum suum quod Margareta de Rypariis tenuit manerium de Christi
ecclesia nomine dotis de Isabella Comitissa Albemarlie et domina Insule de
domino Rege in capite per servicium scutagii. Item dicunt quod predictum

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manerium valet per annum in omnibus exitibus cum redditibus, pratis,
pasturis, serviciis et consuetudinibus iv libras. Item dicunt quod Isabella de
Fortibus, Comitlssa Albemarlie, est propinquior heres dicte Margarete, et
est plene etatis.

" Extenta manerii de Fressewater in com. Suthhantonie, quod fuit Mar-
garete de Ripariis quondam Comitisse Devonie, facta die Jovis in crastino
festi Sancti Barnabe Apostoli (12th June) anno regni Regis Edwardi
vicesimo per sacramentum Willelmi de Clyve, &c. qui dicunt super sacra-
mentum suum quod Margareta de Ripariis tenuit manerium de Fressewater,
nomine dotis de Isabella Comitissa Albemarle in capite, et dicta Isabella
in capite per servicium militare. Item dicunt quod manerium de Fresse-
water valet per annum in omnibus exitibus cum redditibus pratis, pasturis,
serviciis et consuetudinibus et omnibus aliis exitibus xxv libras, Dicunt
etiam quod Isabella de Fortibus, Comitissa Albemarlie, est propinquior
heres predicte Margarete, et est plene etatis.

"Extenta manerii de Wrockeshale quod fuit Margarete de Ripariis quon-
dam Comitisse Devonie, facta die et anno supradicto per juratos predictos
qui dicunt per sacramentum suum quod Margareta de Ripariis quondam
Comitissa Devonie tenuit manerium de Wrockeshale de Isabella Comitissa
Albemarlie nomine dotis, et dicta Isabella de domino Rege in capite per
servicium militare. Item dicunt quod predictum manerium de Wrockeshale
valet in omnibus exitibus xv libras. Dicunt etiam quod predicta Isabella
de Fortibus predicte Margarete est propinquior heres et plene etatis. In-
dorsed, Coram Domino Cancellario.

"Pro Isabella Comitissa Albemarle. Quia Rex accepit per inquisitiones,
quas per Malculinum de Harle Escaetorem ultra Trentam fieri fecit, quod
Margareta de Ripariis quondam Comitissa Devonie nuper defuncta nichil
tenuit de Rege in capite die qua obiit, et quod tenuit maneria de Pisshoo,
Neweham, Suth Lambeth, Fressewatre, Wrokeshale, et Cristechirche, in
dotem de dono Baldewini de Insula quondam comitis Devonie viri sui, et
quod Isabella Comitissa Albemarlie est soror et propinquior heres predicti
Baldewini et plene etatis, mandatum est prefato Malculino quod eidem
Isabelle maneria predicta cum pertinentiis, una cum omnibus inde perceptis
a tempore capcionis eorumdem in manu Regis liberet tenenda, salvo jure
cujuslibet. Teste Rege apud Berewicum super Twedam vii die Julii."

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Under the second writ these several inquisitions were taken, of which the
first is for the manor of Addington, com. Surrey.

"Inquisitio capta apud Croyndon die Sabbati proximo ante festum
translationis sancti Thome Martiris (5 July), anno regni Regis Edwardi
xx per, &.c. Qui dicunt super sacramentum suum quod capitale messuagium
cum gardino de manerio de Adynton valet per annum v solidos, quod qui-
dem manerium Margareta de Rypariis Comitissa Devonie tenuit. (Extent.)
Item redditus assisi libere tenentium de Adyngton lixs. \d. ob. Item
redditus assisi libere tenentium de Crowehurst, que est pertinens ad pre-
dictum manerium x$. xe?. Item redditus libere tenentium in Waldyngham
que est pertinens ad idem manerium xis. et unde idem manerium reddit per
annum ad firmam vicecomitis per annum iiiis. iiie?. ob. et ad curiam de
Wykham per annum iiiie?. et xis. et tie?, ad curiam de Immeworth, et v*.
ad curiam de Farnlegh per annum. Et xis. solvendos Roberto Russel et
Priori de Suwerk, vie?. Et valet manerium predictum de claro in omnibus
exitibus, ixfo'. Us. et vie?. Et dicunt quod Margareta de Rypariis Comi-
tissa Devonie, defunata, tenuit predictum manerium in dotem de donacione
Roberti Aguilon defuncti, qui illud manerium tenuit de domino Rege in
capite per servicium unius ferculi die coronacionis domini Regis, et vocatur
illud ferculum Maupygernon. Et dicunt quod Isabella, filia Roberti Agulon,
quam dominus Hugo Bardolf desponsavit, est propinquior heres predicti
Roberti, et est etatis triginta annorum. In cujus," &c.

Sir Robert Aguylon would have had an opportunity of executing the
office of cooking this dish for King Edward I. at his coronation on Sunday,
19th of August, 1274, but how made up, or of what it consisted inde-
pendent of the stuffing wherewith the meat was crammed or fatted, has not
come down to posterity ; of its extreme antiquity there can be no doubt, as
the following extract from Domesday proves that this manor was granted
to his cook, Tezelinus.

"Sudrie. In Waleton Hundred. Tezelinus, coquus, tenet de Rege
Edintone. Godric tenuit de Rege E[duuardo]. Tune se defendebat pro
viii hidis, modo pro una hida. Terra est tin carucarum. In dominio sunt
ii caruce, viii villani, et ix cotarii cum ii carucis et dimidia. Silva de
xx porcis. Valet et valuit c solidos."

Crowhurst, Waldingham, and Farley are parishes in the hundred of

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Tanridge, com. Surrey. Emsworth is a hamlet in the parish of Warbling-
ton, com. Hants, and West Wickham is a parish in the hundred of Ruxley,
com. Kent, adjoining Addington. There is also an inquisition hefore
Richard de Pympe, on Monday, the feast of the translation of blessed
Thomas the Martyr, as to the lands in All Hallows Hoo, held of the abbot
of Reading, in which the age of Isabella Bardolf is said to be twenty-seven
years; and another as to the lands in Edmonton, taken there on Sunday, on
the feast of the apostles St. Peter and Paul, where she is said to be of full
age, and are merely repetitions of the inquisitions taken 14 Edw. I. as
above. The inquisition as to the manor of Crofton taken there on Thursday
next after the feast of the apostles Peter and Paul, which was extended
at cs. xviiie?. has, as to the heir, this finding: Item dicunt quod predicta
Margareta tenuit omnia predicta tenementa in dotem per mortem Roberti
le Aguylon, quondam viri sui, qui de domino Rege tenuit in capite per
servicium dimidii feodi militis, et dotata fuit per Hugonem Bardulf, qui
desponsavit Isabellam, filiam et heredem predicti Roberti propinquiorem, et
etatis xxviii annorum. The following inquisitions furnish new details as to
the property held by her in dower of this her last husband.

" Inquisitio de terris et tenementis que Margareta de Ripariis quondam
Comitissa Devonie, quondam uxor Roberti Aguillon, tenuit in comitatu
Suthhantonie die quo obiit tarn nomine dotis quam de hereditate sua propria
facta apud Gretham xxvii die Junii anno regni Regis Edwardi xx per
juratos, &c. Qui dicunt quod dicta Margareta nichil tenuit de domino Rege
in capite nee de aliis die quo obiit in comitatu predicto de hereditate sua
propria. Dicunt tamen quod tenuit die quo obiit nomine dotis per mortem
domini Roberti manerium de Gretham cum foro ejusdem et etiam centum
solidatas redditus in manerio de Emlesworth una cum quadam bruera et
aliis pertinentiis, que quidam tenementa remanere debent Isabelle filie et
heredi domini Roberti, uxor domini Hugonis Bardulf, per mortem dicte
Margarete. Et valent aysiamenta curie de Gretham iiis. per annum, et
forum predictum valet per annum xiis. (Extent.) Et dicunt quod eadem
Margareta tenuit omnia tenementa predicta, tarn in Gretham quam in
Emlesworth, nomine dotis, per mortem dicti Roberti de Hugone et Isabella,
ut predictum est, una cum brueria predicta in Emlesworth, et iidem Hugo
et Isabella de domino Rege in capite, reddendo inde annuatim domino Regi

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pro tenementis predictis in Gretham iiid. et domino de Warblington pro
dicta brueria vie?."

" Inquisitio de terris et tenementis, que fuerunt Margarete, que fuit uxor
Roberti Aguillon, in comitatu Sussexie, facta apud Plumpton die Mercurii
proximo post festum Apostolorum Petri et Pauli anno regni Regis
Edwardi xx. Dicunt, &c. quod dicta Margareta tenuit nichil in capite.
Dicunt tamen quod dicta Margareta tenuit in socagio ad terminum vite sue
ex hereditate Isabelle, filie et heredis Roberti Aguillon, quoddam mes-
suagium et quinquaginta acras terre arabilis apud Bissenersse in comitatu
Sussexie de Thoma de Hautentot per servicium unius oboli et dimidii qua-
drantis solvendi per annum ad Natale Domini, et dicta Margareta tenuit
dictum mesuagium et dictam terram ad terminum vite sue quia conjunctim
feofata fuit cum Roberto Aguillun in quadam carta ad tenendum ipsum
mesuagium, et ipsam terram dicto Roberto et dicte Margarete et heredibus
dicti Roberti. Summa valoris dicti mesuagii et dicte terre cum redditu per
annum viii*. ixe?."

" Inquisitio facta apud Bures vii die Julii anno regni Regis Edwardfxx
de terris et tenementis que fuerunt Margarete quondam uxoris Roberti de
Aguilon, per xii juratos, &c. Qui dicunt super sacramentum suum quod
dicta Margareta nichil tenuit de domino Rege in capite die quo obiit in
eomitatu Suffolcie, sed tenuit manerium suum de Bures Tany de Ysabella
filia Roberti de Aguylon, ad terminum vite sue nomine dotis per mortem
Roberti Aguillon per servicium duorum denariorum annui redditus. Item
dicunt quod dictum manerium debet revertere Ysabelle, uxori domini
Hugonis Bardolfi, tanquam filie et fteredi Roberti Aguilon patris sui.
Summa totalis extente xlfo*. ixs. viiid. ob. de quibus debent resolvi per
.annum Abbati de Saneto Edmundo us. et iirf. et ob. pro warpany. Et sic
remanet de claro xili. \iis. et virf."

" Pro Hugone Bardolf et Isabella uxore ejus. Quia Rex accepit per
inquisitiones quas per Malculinum de Harleye Escaetorem suum ultra
Trentam fieri fecit, quod Margareta, que fuit uxor Roberti Aguillun, nuper
defuncta, nichil tenuit de Rege in capite die quo obiit, set quod tenuit
maneria de Grutham, Adinton, Hoo et Burestany et viginti solidatas et
quatuor denariatas terre et redditus cum pertinentiis in Emlesworth, centum
Midatas decem et octo denariatas terre et redditus cum pertinentiis in

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Crofton, et quadraginta solidatas terre et redditus cum pertinentiis in Edel-
meton in dotem de dono predicti Roberti, quondam viri sui, et quod Isabella,
uxor Hugonis Bardolf, est filia et heres propinquior predicti Roberti et
plene etatis, mandatum est predicto Malculino quod dicta maneria, terre et
redditus predicti, que occasione mortis predicte Margarete capta sunt in
manu Regis, se de cetero in nullo intromittat, et exitus inde medio tempore
per ipsum perceptos illis, quibus fuerunt, restituat. Teste Rege apud
Stanhope, xxix die Julii."

" Quia Rex accepit per inquisitionem, quam per predictum Escaetorem
fieri fecit, quod Robertus Aguillun et Margareta uxor ejus nuper defuncta
conjunctim fuerunt feoffati de uno messuagio et quinquaginta acris terre
cum pertinentiis in Disshenersse, habendis eisdem Roberto et Margarete et
heredibus ipsius Roberti, et quod Isabella uxor Hugonis Bardolf est filia et
propinquior heres predicti Roberti et plene etatis, mandatum est predicto
Escaetori quod de predictis messuagio et terra, que occasione mortis ejusdem
Margarete capta sunt in manu Regis, se de cetero in nullo intromittat.
Teste ut supra."

These Letters Close are on the Roll of the 20th year of Edward I., and
as regards this last acquisition its site appears to have been in the manor
of Lindfield, hundred of Rushmonden, rape of Pevensey, com. Sussex,
anciently within the limits of the hundred of Street, rape of Lewes, accord-
ing to the Nomina Villarum, 9th Edw. II. 1316, where we read Villata de
Lyndefeld est Archiepiscopi Cantuarie. Isabelle Bardolf. Prioris Ecclesie
Christi Cantuarie et Prioris de Lewes. Plumpton, where the inquisition
was taken, is a parish in the same hundred of Street, and Ditchling is also,
in the same division.

Of Hugh Bardolf, Baron of Wormegay, com. Norf., we have this descrip-
tion in the Roll of Caerlaverock, among those of the squadron of Henry de
Lacy, Earl of Lincoln.

Hue Bardoulf de grant maniere,
Riches horns, preus e courtois,
En asure quint fuelles trois
Portoit de fin or esmere.*

* The term esmere signifies richly wrought, and is unnoticed by Sir Harris. Nicolas in
his translation. (Roquefort, Glossaire, p. 517); and that of de grant maniere has been mis-

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This rich, gallant, and courteous knight was eldest son of William Bardolf
by his wife Juliana, only daughter and heiress of Hugh de Gournay, and
born on Michaelmas day, 29th Sept. 1259 * Upon his marriage with
Isabella, daughter and eventually heiress of Sir Robert Aguilon, his father
settled upon him and his bride the manor of Plumpton, com. Sussex, to have
and to hold to the same Hugh and Isabella conjointly, for the term of their
lives, with remainder to the heirs of the said Hugh. On the other hand

understood. " Hugh Bardolf, a man of mighty deeds, rich, gallant, and courteous, bore
upon azure three cinquefoils of pure gold beautifully wrought." The same editor in his
biographical notice of this baron prefaces it with this uncalled for observation, " the parti-
culars, which have been preserved of this individual are exceedingly few and unsatis-
factory;" and, as a specimen of his accuracy, he tells us that his ancestors had been
possessed of baronial rank by tenure of the lordship of Bradwell in Suffolk from the reign
of Henry the Second. Now it so happens that Bradwell is a parish in the hundred of
Dengy, Essex, situated on the sea-shore, and had been given in part by Thomas Bardolf
in frank-marriage to three of his daughters, wives respectively of William Bacon, of Robert
de St. Remy, and of Baldwin de Thony. The entry is in the Testa de Nevill, under the
heading De serjantiis arentatis in comitatu Essexie per Robertum Passelewe tempore
Henrici filii Regis Johannis, and reads as follows ; Willelmus, frater Domini Regis
Henrici, dedit Bradwell per servicium unius militis Thome Bardolf et Thomas Bardolf
dedit tres partes ville tribus filiabus suis in maritagio, scilicet, Roberto de Sancto
Remigio, Willelmo Bacun et Baldwino de Thony ; et idem Thomas retinuit dimidium
feodum militis, scilicet, quartam partem, quam Baldwinus de Thony et Thomas de Borfare
tenent, et quartam partem, quam Simon Cocus tenet in eadem villa. Et quando Nor-
manni demiserunt terras suas dominus Rex Johannes dedit partem Willelmi Bacun et
partem Roberti de Santo Remigio Thome filio Bernard!, et postea dedit Alicie de Garpen-
villa, que modo tenet per servicium dimidii militis. In the Rotuli Normanniae, p. 127,
we read, Essex. Bradewella. Terra, que fuit Doonis Bardolf, et modo est Willelmi
Bacun et Roberti de Sancto Remigio, whose portions, of the value of 20 li. with the stock,
were then in the King's hands, as escheats of the Normans. The suzerainte of this fief,
with the advowson of the church, dedicated to St. Thomas the Apostle, continued in the
line of Bardolf till the attainder of the Lord Bardolf in the reign of Henry IV.

* The writ of Diem clausit extremum to the escheator, Henry de Bray, for taking into
his custody the lands of the deceased William Bardolf, as well those of his own inheritance,
as those of the inheritance of Juliana de Gurnay, his wife, has the King's teste at West-
minster, 23rd day of December, 18th year of his reign, 1289. The finding of the jurors
at Mapledurham, com. Oxon, on the 3rd day of January following, which manor he had
held of the inheritance of his wife, by the service of one knight's fief of the Earl Warren,
as to the age of his son and heir at that time, is thus expressed ; Item dicunt quod dominus
Hugo Bardolf films dicti Willelmi Bardolf, propinquior heres est dicti Willelmi, et fuit
etatis triginta annorum circa festum Sancti Michaelis anno regni Regis Edwardi xvii.

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his father-in-law made over to him and his daughter his capital messuage
and manor of Watton-at- Stone, where Thomas, their eldest son and heir,
was born, on the feast of St. Francis, 4th October, 1282, as we learn from
the inquisition taken after the decease of his father, 33rd Edw. I., who died
seized of this manor in right of his wife, who was herself born on the feast
of the Annunciation of the blessed Virgin, 25th March, 1258.

" Hertfordscira. Watton. Inquisicio facta de terris et tenementis que
fuerunt Hugonis Bardolf defuncti, qui de Rege tenuit in capite, facta
coram Escaetore Domini Regis apud Cestrehunte xxviii die Octobris anno
regni Regi Edwardi xxxii. per Thomam de Scoland militem, Robertum de
Melkeley militem, Ricardum de Gatisbury militem, Willelmum de Hurst,
Petrum de Tany, Johannem filium Radulphi, Gamelum de Ware, Petrum de
Beauchamp, Thomam de la Mare, Johannem de la Mare, Sampsonem
Gregori, Eudonem de Peletot, Ricardum de Heylee, Johannem de Wand-
lyngton, Willelmum de Chelseu, Johannem de Netherwik, Robertum de
Kersebrok, Johannem de Blomvill, Stephanum le Blak, Willelmum de
Berkyng, Petrum atte Halvehide, Johannem de Melkelee, Thomam de
Whiteberwe, Reginaldum clericum de Repindon, et Willelmum Gernoun.
Qui dicunt per sacramentum suum quod Hugo Bardolf die quo obiit tenuit
unum mesuagium et unam carucatam terre cum pertinentiis in Watton
Stone in comitatu Hertfordie, ut de hereditate Isabelle, que fuit uxor pre-
dict! Hugonis, que adhuc superstes est. Et dicunt quod messuagium et
terra predicta cum pertinentiis tenentur de Rege in capite per serjantiam
inveniendi domino Regi in guerra Wallie unum hominem peditem cum
arcu et sagittis per xl a dies ad custos suos proprios, et valent in omnibus
exitibus xv li. Summa xv IL"

" Dicunt etiam predicti jurati quod Thomas Bardolf films predicti Hugonis
est ejus heres propinquior, et fuit etatis viginti et duorum annorum die
Sancti Francisci proximo preterite. Requisiti qualiter hoc sciunt ; dicunt
quod ipse Thomas natus fuit in predicta villa de Watton die Sancti Fran-
cisci anno regni Regis Edwardi nunc decimo, et quod ipsi et eorum quilibet
tune temporis fuerunt in visneto predicti manerii residentes, per quod bene
recolunt quod tantum tempus est elapsum. In cujus rei testimonium predicti
Jurati huic inquisicioni sigilla sua apposuerunt."

" Facta fuit inquisicio predicta apud Cestrehunte in comitatu predicto pro
eo quod predictus Thomas Bardolf natus fuit apud Wattone Stone in

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eodem comitatu, ut prediction est, et huic inquisicioni faciende interfuerunt
Prior de CruceRois, Prior de Hertford, Prior de Wilmondele, Johannes de la
Legh vicecomes Hertfordscire et alii domini Regis fideles, qui omnes sin-
gulariter examinati in fide, quam debent Regi, concordant quod predictus
Thomas est etatis viginti et duorum annorum et amplius, ut predictum est."
The several Priories of Hertford, Royston, and Wymondsley Parva are
all situate in the county of Hertford, and this testimony to the birth of the
eldest son may be taken in proof of the marriage having been solemnized in
the preceding year. Upon the decease of Sir Robert Aguillon, this manor
of Watton and that of Perching devolved upon the Lady Isabella Bardolf,
as his heiress, and upon the death of his father on the first of December,
18th Edw. I. 1289, her husband succeeded to the barony of Wormegay,
com. Norf., of the inheritance of Beatrix, daughter and heiress of William
de Warren, wife first of Doun Bardolf, and secondly of Hubert de Burgh,
Earl of Kent, together with a moiety of the barony of Shelford, com. Notts,
of the inheritance of Rosa Hanselyn, and to the ancient inheritance of his
family at Fillingham, a parish in the hundred of Aslacoe, part of Lindsey,
Lincolnshire. To these possessions the decease of Margaret, Countess of
Devon, added the land of her jointure in 20th Edw. I., and that of his
mother in 23rd Edw. I., all the lands of the barony of Gournay, except
Mapledurham, com. Oxon., which was inherited by his younger brother,
Sir John Bardolf. He was summoned as a baron to attend Parliament
from 8th March, 27th Edw. I. 1299, to 29th Sept. 30th Edw. I. 1302, and
was the twenty-second peer who subscribed the letter to the pope at Lin-
coln, 12th Feb. 1300, 29th Edw. 1. by the style and title of Dominus de
Wirmegeye. The earliest inquisition taken after his decease is dated at
Bures on Tuesday the morrow of St. Matthew the Apostle, 22nd Sept.
1304, which manor was of the inheritance of his wife, and held of the king
in capite by the service of the fifth part of one knight's fief, and he will have
died in that month. Under the heading Extenta terrarum et tenementorum
que fuerunt Hugonis Bardolf defuncti, we have this summary of their value.
Norfolcia, Manerium de Wyrmegay cum Rungeton, Fyncham, Stowe et
Well, Quynbergh, Cantley, Castre et Strumpshagh. Summa clxvii/e. vis.
Hid.* Bedeford. Redditus in Houtone, ixs. id. Nottingham. Shelford

* Wormgay is a parish in the hundred of Clackclose, com. Norff., and its castle was
the caput of an extensive honour in that county, held by Hermerus de Ferrariis under

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xli. xviiic?. ob. quad. Bucks. Bledelowe, Wendover et Huccote, xis. xid.
Sussex. Berlyng et Bercamp, xxxiiii^'. xviis. id. et ob. Summa cxxxv/e.
xviiis. viic?. ob. quad.* On the Close Roll, 33rd Edw. I. are these entries :

William the Conqueror, whose immediate descendants assumed the local surname from
this residence, a proof that he was a younger brother of Henry de Ferrariis, baron of
Ferrieres in Normandy. In 1168, William de Wormegai held in capite of the king four-
teen knight's fiefs and a half, all of whom had been enfeoffed in the time of King Henry I.,
except Richard, son of Wace, whom his father had enfeoffed of his demesne afterwards,
whereof he did the service of the fourth part of a knight. Of the see of Norwich he also
held ten knight's fiefs. The inquisition on the death of Hugh Bardolf describes Wormegey
cum membris, Rungeton, Fincham, Stowe et Welle et Quynberg as held by barony, and
the render of eight shillings each month towards the custody of the castle of the king at
Norwich. Of the foundation of the family of Warren , was a priory of canons of the order
of Saint Augustine, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, the Holy Cross, and St. John the Evan-
gelist, who were patrons of the parish church under the invocation of St. Michael, which
curacy has been described by Ecton and Willis as that of the Holy Cross. Cantley and
Caistor were parcel of the inheritance of Juliana de Gournay, and Strumpshaw was an
acquisition from Sir Stephen de Strumpshaw, who in the fourth year of the reign Edw. I.,
1276, enfeoffed William Bardolf and Juliana de Gournay, his wife, of this manor, with its
appurtenances, and was held of Sir John de Wauton by the service of half an ounce of
silk or muslin annually, or Qd. at Michaelmas.

* Houghton, near Dunstaple, com. Bedf., Bledlow, Wendover, and Hulcott, com.
Bucks, and Birling, near Eastbourne, com. Sussex, were all of the barony of Gournay,
and Shelford com. Notts was the caput of the barony of Ralph Hanselyn. The inquest
taken at Shelford on Friday next before the feast of St. Luke the Evangelist, 16th Oct.,
1304, describes the lands in Shelford to be held with other lands in divers counties of the
lord the King in capite by the service of the moiety of one barony. The same jury say
that Thomas Bardolf is the next heir of the said Hugh, and is of the age of 22 years and
more, and that the court then was worth annually xiii s. iiii d. Sum of the whole extent
x K. xviii d. ob. quad. Stoke Bardolf was also part of the same moiety, owing the ser-
vice of one knight's fief, and valued at xvifo'. vis. ob. As early as the 8th year of Henry I.,
1108, the barony of Geoffrey Alselin had been divided between his nephew's son, Robert
de Caux, and Geoffrey Halselin, his own son, as appears by this entry in Jerburc
wapentake containing the amount of land held by each tenant in capite at that date,
Cotton. MS. Claudius C. v. Rodbertus de Chalz et Goffridus Halselinus in Wragebi iiii
carucatas, et v bovatas et tertiam partem unius bovate. At the time of Domesday survey,
Geoffrey Alselin was tenant of Wrawby, and Ralph, his nephew, held it under Geoffrey, as
also of a berewick and soke of this manor in Elsham and Kettleby, which descended to their
heirs. In 1131, Ralph Halselin rendered account of 200 marks of silver, and one mark of
gold, for the relief of the land of his father, Geoffrey, in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.
In the last named county Ockbrook was of the inheritance of Ralph Alselin, and was held
by William and Hugh Bardolf, for half a knight's fief, aa part of the barony of Shelford.

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" Pro Isabella que fuit uxor Hugonis Bardolf. Rex dilecto et fideli suo
Waltero de Gloucestria Escaetori suo ultra Trentam, salutem. Quia accepi-
mus per inquisitionem quam per vos fieri fecimus, quod Hugo Bardolf
defunctus, qui de nobis tenuit in capite die quo obiit et Isabella conjunctim
feoffati fuerunt per Willelmum Bardolf patrem predicti Hugonis de manerio
de Plumpton cum pertinentiis in comitatu Sussex, habendum et tenendum
eisdem Hugoni et Isabelle et heredibus ipsius Hugonis, et manerium illud
sic conjunctim tenuerunt die obitus predicti Hugonis ; quodque manerium
illud tenetur de herede Johannis de Warrenna, quondam Comitis Surreie
defuncti, qui de nobis tenuit in capite infra etatem et in custodia nostra
existente, cepimus fidelitatem ipsius Isabelle de manerio predicto, et ideo
vobis mandamus quod eadem Isabella manerium predictum cum pertinentiis,
quod occasione mortis prefati Hugonis quondam viri sui captum est in
manum nostram, una cum exitibus per vos inde perceptis in tempore
capcionis ejusdem in manum nostram sine dilatione liberetis tenendum
juxta formam feoffamenti predicti, salvo jure cujuslibet. Teste Rege apud
Brustwyk xxv die Novembris."

" Rex prefato Waltero, &c. salutem. Quia accepimus per inquisitionem,
quam per vos fieri fecimus, quod Hugo Bardolf defunctus, qui de nobis
tenuit in capite, et Isabella uxor ejus conjunctim tenuerunt de hereditate
ipsius Isabelle, die quo idem Hugo obiit, quasdam terras et quedam tene-
menta in Scroteby in com. Norff., manerium de Percyng cum pertinentiis
in com. Sussex, quedam tenementa in Crofton in com. Buk., quedam tene-
menta in Hoo in com. Kane., quedam tenementa in Gretham et Emles-
worth in com. Suhant., manerium de Bures cum pertinentiis in com. Suff.,
quedam tenementa in Watton Stone in com. Hertf. et manerium de Adyng-
ton in com. Surr.,* vobis mandamus quod, retentis in manu nostra qui-

Halloughton, com. Leicester, was also parcel of this barony, which descended in the line
of Bardolf.

* The inquest taken after the decease of Hugh, Lord Bardolf, respecting the manor of
Addington in Surrey, contains the fullest and most correct details as to its tenure, and is
as follows: Inquisitio facta coram Escaetore Domini Regis apud Adyngton xiiii die
Octobris anno xxxii regni Regis Edwardi de terris et tenements, que fuerunt Hugonis
Bardolf in comitatu Surreie, die quo obiit, per sacramentum, &c. Qui dicunt per sacra-
mentum suum quod dominus Hugo Bardolf tenuit die quo obiit in comitatu predicto
manerium de Adyngton de domino Rege in capite de hereditate Isabelle uxoris sue, filie
et heredis Roberti Aguillon, que superstes est, per servicium ad inveniendum unum cocum

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busdam de causis dictis tenementis in Emlesworth et Watton et dicto
manerio de Adyngton, donee aliud a nobis super hoc habueritis in mandatis,

ad coronamentum domini Regis ad faciendum unum ferculum pro domino Rege, quod
vocatur Mees de Geroun, sumptibus domini Regis in una olla lutea. Et dicunt quod pre-
dicta hereditas simul cum aliis terris descendebat prefato Hugoni et Isabelle uxori sue ut
jus et hereditas ipsius Isabelle per mortem predict! Roberti Aguillon post matrimonium
inter prefatum Hugonem et Isabellam contractum. (Extent.) Dicunt etiam quod est
ibidem quoddam capitale mesuagium cum gardino adjacente, una cum aysiamentis grangie
de Waldyngham et valet per annum xviii<. Summa totalis huius inquisitionis xili.
quadrans. Inde in auxilium Vicecomitis Surreie ad festum Natalis Domini viiid. ad
Pentecosten xxi d. et ad festum Sancti Michaelis xxi d. Item Johanni de Bures ad
Pascham vs. et ad festum Sancti Michaelis v s. Item custodi de Mertone Hall Oxonie ad
Pascham et ad festum Sancti Michaelis vs. per equalem porcionem. Item Roberto Russel
iis. ad predictos terminos per equalem porcionem. Item domino de Wykham ad festum
Sancti Michaelis mid. Item Priori Sancte Marie de Suthwerk ad predictum terminum
vi d. Item Priori de Levesham unam libram cumini, pretium i d. et ob. ad predictum ter-
minum. Summa Redditus resoluti xxiis. id. ob. et sic remanet de claro ixli. xviis. nd.
ob quad. Et dicunt quod Thomas filius predicti Hugonis est heres ejus propinquior, et
fuit etatis viginti et duorum annorum die Sancti Francisci ultimo preterite.

Suthantonia. Inquisitio capta apud Wordy in comitatu Suthhantonie secundo die
Octobris anno regni Regis Edwardi xxxii de terris, &c. ut supra. Qui dicunt super sacra-
mentum suum quod Hugo Bardolf, die quo obiit, nichil tenuit in dominico suo ut de feodo
de domino Rege in capite nee de aliis in comitatu predicto. Qui dicunt quod unum tene-
mentum in Gretham cum pertinentiis et quatuor marce annui redditus in Emmesworth
tenta de Domino Rege in capite per quod servicium ignorant sunt hereditas Isabelle, que
fuit uxor Hugonis Bardolf, que eidem Isabelle descendebant post mortem Roberti Aguil-
loun, patris sui, ut filie et propinquiori heredi ejusdem Roberti ; qui quidem Robertus
Aguillon obiit nunc ad decem et octo annos post tempus quo dictus Hugo dictam Isabellam
desponsavit et ex ea prolem suscitavit ; et post mortem dicti Roberti dicta tenementa
seisita fuerunt in manum domini Regis et ex postfacto dictis Hugoni et Isabelle restituta,
dicte Isabelle tanquam hereditas. Item dicunt quod est in dicto tenemento de Gretham
una grangia et una boveria debilis cooperta cum stramine et valet cum exitu unius gardini
per annum xiid. (Extent.) Item sunt apud Emmesworth xvi custumarii reddentes iiii or
marcas pro omnibus serviciis in grosso. Item dicunt quod Thomas Bardolf, filius predicti
Hugonis, est eius heres propinquior et est etatis viginti et duorum annorum die beate
Francisci post festum Sancti Michaelis in anno regni Regis Edwardi xxxii s. Interrogati
quare hoc sciunt, dicunt quod bene recolunt quod natus fuit in comitatu Hertfordie apud
Wattonam in anno regni Regis decimo, et magno fuit inde locucio et noticia in partibus
istis ita quod bene recolunt quod tantum tempus est elapsum.

Summa totalis \iili. viis. ob.

This last inquest relates only to what was held of the king in capite in the county, and
not to the manor of Greatham itself, which was held of the Earls of Surrey.
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XC PREFACE.

prefate Isabelle omnia alia maneria terras et tenementa supradicta cum
pertinentiis, que occasione mortis prefati Hugonis, quondam viri sui, capta
fuerunt in manum nostram una cum exitibus per vos inde perceptis a tern-
pore capcionis eorumdem in manum nostram sine dilatione liberetis tenenda,
salvo jure cujuslibet. Teste Rege ut supra."

" Rex dilecto et fideli suo Waltero de Gloucestria, Escaetori suo ultra
Trentam, salutem. Sciatis quod de terris et tenementis, que fuerunt Hugonis
Bardolf defuncti, qui de nobis tenuit in capite, in ballivia vestra die quo
obiit, et que occasione mortis ejusdem capta sunt in manum nostram, assigna-
vimus Isabelle que fuit uxor ipsius Hugonis terras et tenementa subscripta,
videlicet, manerium de Bercampe cum pertinentiis in com. Sussex, quod ad
decem et septem libras duodecim solidos et quatuor denarios, manerium de
Ryskinton cum hamelettis de Diggeby et Lesingbam cum pertinentiis in
com. Lincoln, que ad Ixii. libras iis. viiid. et unum obolum, manerium
terras et quedam tenementa cum pertinentiis in Fillingham in eodem comitatu,
que ad xxti libras xvis. et id., quasdam terras et quedam tenementa cum
pertinentiis in Rungeton in com. Norff. que ad ixli. et xvs. vid. et obolum,
quasdam terras et tenementa cum pertinentiis in Strumpesbagh in eodem
comitatu, que ad vili. xs. et unum obolum quasdam terras et tenementa in
eadem villa que ad xiiiili. xviii s. viii d. et unum obolum extenduntur per annum,
et sexaginta solidatas et unam denarriatam annui redditus cum pertinentiis per-
cipiendas per manus quatuor libere tenencium in Houton juxta Dunstaple in
com.Bedeford,habenda in dotem ipsius de terris et tenementis predictis secun-
dum legem et consuetudinem regni nostri contingentem. Et ideo vobis man-
damus quod eidem Isabelle terras et tenementa predicta liberetis habenda in
dotem in forma predicta. Teste Rege apud Brustwyk xxi die Novembris.

" Et memorandum quod ista assignacio facta fuit cum assensu Thome
Bardolf filii et beredis predict! Hugonis. Et idem Thomas venit in can-
cellaria Regis apud Eboracum die predicto, et concessit et recognovit quod
ipse qnadraginta et tres solidatas, novem denarriatas et unam obolatam terre
et redditus, que prefate Isabelle deficiunt de rationabili dote sua, eidem
Isabelle in loco competenti unde ipsa reputet rationabiliter se contentam,
assignari et haberi fecerit nomine dotis tenendas." *

* The manor of Barcomb, in the hundred of that name, rape of Lewes, com. Sussex,
was held of the Earls of Surrey by the service of the fourth part of one knight's fief, and
the sum total of the extent is put down at xviifo'. xiis. iiiid. by the jurors, and was

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On the back of the membrane on which these Letters Close are written
is this copy of a charter of the Lady Isabella Bardolf, bearing date at

parcel of the inheritance of the junior branch of the great family of Warren, men-
tioned above.

Ruskington is a parish in the hundred of Flaxwell, parts of Kesteven, Lincoln, and with
its hamlets of Digby and Leasingham, now parishes, was parcel of the barony of Shelford,
as also Rowston and Brancewell named in the extent.

Fillingham, a parish in the hundred of Aslacoe, parts of Lindsey, west riding, was at
the time of the survey of Domesday the land of the Saxon Colsuan ; and in 1108 Robert
de Haia held in Figlingaham six carrucates and six bovates, to whom this estate had been
granted after the decease of its previous tenant. Of his son Richard de Haia Doun Bar-
dolf held one knight's fee in 1168, and had two sons, Doun Bardolf and Thomas Bardolf.
The first named gave to the Premonstratensian abbey of Blanchelande, in the diocese of
Coutances, of the foundation of Richard de Haia, in 1154, on the day of the dedication of
the new church, 14th Jan. 1185, an annual rent of four marks of silver out of his manor of
Fillingham, and assigns this rent in this manner ; namely, six bovates of the land of his
demesne in the same vill, each bovate of nine acres of arable land, and three of meadow,
together with two tofts in the north part of the vill ; and other six bovates, with the vil-
lains upon them. His brother, Thomas Bardolf, who married Rosa, daughter of Ralph
Hanselyn, heiress of Ralph Hanselyn, her grandfather, left issue a son, Doun or Dodo, the
heir to his father and uncle, who was of age in 1198, when he paid a fine to have livery of
his Honour. The inheritance of Richard de Haia, by descent through the families of
Canville and Longespee, came to Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, in right of marriage with
Margaret Longespee. The inquest on the decease of William Bardolf, father of Hugh
Bardolf, 18th Edw. I., describes this manor as held of the Earl of Lincoln by the service
of one knight's fief, and the sum total of the extent to amount to xili. xs. yd. ob., whose
heir, Hugh, was then of the age of thirty years and more. The church of Fillingham,
dedicated to St. Andrew, rendered annually ten shillings to the church of Cameringham,
which had been an alien priory, subject to Blancheland.

Strumpshaw is a parish in the hundred of Blofield, com. Norfolk; and in the 4th year
of Edward I., 1276, Sir Stephen de Strumpshaw and Margaret his wife conveyed the
manor of Strumpshaw, with lands in Redham and Tunstal, and the advowson of St.
Peter's church in North Birlingham, after the decease of the survivor, to William Lord
Bardolf and Juliana his wife. On the decease of William Lord Bardolf the jury,
upon the inquest taken at Strumpshaw on Wednesday next after the Circumcision of
the Lord in the year of the reign of King Edward xviii., 4th Jan., 1290, declared that
the aforesaid Juliana, his wife, had been in full and peaceful seisin of this manor, together
with her aforesaid husband, up to the day of the decease of the aforesaid William, and that
the aforesaid manor was held of Sir John de Wauton by the service of half an ounce of
silk yearly, or sixpence on the feast of St. Michael. Sum of the extent xix li. iiii s. viii d.
Upon the inquest taken after her decease at Cantley, 23rd Edw. I., 1295, the jury found
that she also held lands in the same vill of the Bishop of Norwich, and of Sir Robert de

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Burstwick in Holdernesse, one of the chief mansions of the lords of Holder-
nesse, and then belonging to the crown, after the decease of Isabella de
Fortibus, Countess of Aumale and Devon, Lady of Holdernesse and of the
Isle of Wight, by reason of the extinction of the line of its ancient lords in
her person.

" Omnibus Christi fidelibus hoc presens scriptum visuris vel audituris
Isabella, quondam uxor Hugonis Bardolf, salutem in domino. Noveritis
me concessisse, remisisse, relaxasse et omnino quietum clamasse pro me et
heredibus meis imperpetuum excellentissimo principi Domino Edwardo Dei
gratia Regi Anglic illustri totum jus et clamium, que habui vel aliquo modo
habere potui in maneriis de Wattona in comitatu Hertfordie, Hadingtona in
comitatu Surreie, et Emlesworth in comitatu Suthhantonie, et eorum per-
tinentiis que sunt de hereditate mea et de predicto Rege tenentur in capite,
que quidem maneria in manu ejusdem domini Regis per mortem prefati
Hugonis, quondam viri mei, existant. In cujus rei testimonium huic scripto
sigillum meum apposui. Hiis testibus, venerabili patre W(altero) Coven-
trensi et Lychfeldensi Episcopo, Dominis Henrico de Lacy Lincolnie et
Hunfrido de Bohun Herefordie et Essexie comitibus, Johanne Lovel de
Tichemersh, Johanne de Ferrariis, Edmundo de Malolacu, et Eustachio de
Hacche militibus, et aliis Domini Regis predicti fidelibus tune ibi presentibus.
Datum apud Brustwyk xxi die mensis Novembris, anno regni domini Regis
predicti tricesimo tertio (21 Nov. 1304.)

" Et memorandum quod prefata Isabella venit in Cancellaria Regis apud
Eboracum vicesimo sexto die Novembris, et recognovit scriptum predictum
et omnia in eo contenta in forma supradicta."

On the Charter Roll 33 Edw. I. m. 1. is the following copy of a charter
headed Pro Isabella que fuit uxor Hugonis Bardolf et Willelmo filio ejus.

" Rex Archiepiscbpis, &c. salutem. Sciatis quod cum nos nuper per
mortem Hugonis Bardolf defuncti, qui de nobis tenuit in capite, manerium
de Watton cum pertinentiis in comitatu Hertfordie, manerium de Adyngton
cum pertinentiis in comitatu Surreie, et manerium de Emlesworth cum per-

Caston, and of Simon de Caverham, in the vill of Tunstall. The family of Caston were
patrons of the advowson. The advowson of the church of North Birlingham was ex-
changed by William Lord Bardolf with the prior and monks of Castleacre for that of
Westbnggs in Norfolk, 13th Edw. I., 1285, of which the presentation remained in this
family until the reign of Henry the Fourth.

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tinentiis in comitatu Suthhantonie, que dictus Hugo tenuit die quo obiit de
hereditate Isabelle uxoris sue, et que de nobis tenentur in capite, simul cum
aliis terris et tenementis, que fuerunt ipsius Hugonis die predicto, capi
fecerimus in manum nostrum, ac nos, dictis maneriis sic in manum nostram
existentibus, ceperimus homagium ejusdem Isabelle de eisdem maneriis,
ipsaque Isabella per scriptum suum concesserit, remiserit et omnino quie-
tum clamaverit pro se et heredibus suis imperpetuum nobis et heredibus
nostris totum jus et clamium que habuit vel aliquo modo habere potuit in
maneriis supradictis ; Nos, volentes eidem Isabelle et Willelmo filio suo
gratiam facere specialem, concessimus eidem Isabelle maneria predicta cum
pertinentiis tenenda et habenda prefate Isabelle ad totam vitam suam adeo
plene et integre, sicut in manum nostrum capta fuerunt, ita quod post
mortem ipsius Isabelle maneria predicta cum pertinentiis remaneant prefato
Willelmo habenda et tenenda sibi et heredibus suis de corpore suo legittime
procreatis de nobis et heredibus nostris per servicia inde debita et consueta
imperpetuum. Et si idem Willelmus sine herede de corpore suo legittime
procreato obierit, tune maneria ilia cum pertinentiis ad rectos heredes ipsius
Isabelle integre revertantur tenenda de nobis et heredibus nostris per servicia
predicta imperpetuum. Quare volumus, &c. sicut predictum est. Hiis
testibus, venerabili patre Waltero Coventrensi et Lychefeldensi episcopo,
Henrico de Lacy comite Lincolnie, Johanne de Britannia juniore, Amaneuo
de la Bret, Hugone de Veer, Willelmo le Vavasur, Willelmo de Ryther,
Roberto de la Warde senescallo hospicii nostri. Datum per manum nostrum
apud Brustwyk xxviii die Novembris. Per ipsum Regem nunciantem
W(altero) Coventrensi et Lychefeldensi Episcopo."

On the Close Roll is the King's letter to Walter de Gloucester, the
escheator beyond Trent, reciting the contents of the above charters of
Isabella Bardolf and of himself, and adding, " Nos volentes eidem Isabelle
gratiam uberiorem facere in hac parte, vobis mandamus quod eidem Isabelle
omnia bona et catalla nostra in eisdem maneriis existentia, simul cum
omnibus exitibus a predicto vicesimo primo die Novembris inde perceptis
liberetis de dono nostro speciali. Teste Rege apud Brustwyk xxviii die
Novembris."

The entail of these manors upon William Bardolf, second son of Hugh
Lord Bardolf and of the Lady Isabella, never took effect, owing to his
decease in her lifetime without issue. In the 6th year of Edward the

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Second, Isabella Lady Bardolf released to Sir Michael de Poynings knight
and Margaret his wife all her right in the manor of Bures in Suffolk, by
deed dated at Barcomb in Sussex on the feast of the Annunciation of
the Virgin Mary, 25th March, 1213. The seal attached to it was of red
wax, the impress a cinquefoil, each leaf of it charged with a fleur-de-lis, the
cinquefoils being her husband's arms, and gules, a fleur de Us argent, her
paternal arms.

In the returns of the names of the lords and ladies of townships, &c, for
the purpose of effecting the military levies ordained in the Parliament at
Lincoln, ix Edw. II. pursuant to a writ to the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk,
with the King's teste at Clipston, com. Notts. 5th day of March, 1316,
are these entries in regard of the Lady Isabella de Aguilon, widow of Hugh
Lord Bardolf, and of her son, Thomas Bardolf. Hundredum de Frethe-
brigge. Rungeton cum Sechhithe, Westwynche, Herdwyck, et est Dominus
earumdem Thomas Bardolf. Hundredum de Clakelose. Downhamhithe.
Wynbodesham cum Stowe. Watlyngton. Wyrmegeye cum hamelettis,
Fyncheham. Thomas Bardolf. Hundredum de Estfleg. Scrouteby. Do-
mina d'Agellioun. Castre. Thomas Bardolf. Hundredum de Walsham.
Begheton. Moutona. Tunstale. Hemelyngton. Isabella Bardolf. Hun-
dredum de Blofield. North Birlingham. Strumpesawe cum Breydistone.
Isabella Bardolf. Cantele. Dominus Thomas Bardolf. Hundredum de
Mitford. Villata de Yaxham. Whineburgha. Thurston cum Gerviston.
Thomas Bardolf. Pursuant to a writ of same date to the sheriff of South,
hampton, are these entries : Hundredum de Aultone. Villa de Gretham, unde
Domina Isabella Bardolf. Hundredum de Bosburgha. Villa de Empnes-
worthe, unde Domini Robertus le Ewer, Isabella Bardolf.* Under Surrey,

* On the Rolls of Parliament of the 15th and 16th years of Edw. II., 1321-2, among
the Petitions in Parliament is one in this form : A nostre seignur le Roi e a son counseil
monstre Isabelle, que fust la feme Hugh Bardolf, que come nadgaires que nostre Seignur
le Roi eit sui un bref scire facias vers la dite Isabelle des tenemen3 en Emnesworth et
Warbleton, dount ly e son pere e son ael unt este seisis peisiblement par les chartres le Roi
Henry et le Roi Edward, Piere notre Seignur le Roi que ore est, et dount plee pent
unqore devant Sire Henry le Scrope et ses compaignouns, Lieutenans notre Seignur le
Roi, et la dite Isabelle ad plede a juggement, lequel juggement ad pris delay ja par quatre
auns ; et sur ceo, nient contre esteant, le plee et le proce3 pendaunt3 devaunt les dit$
justices, laquel suyte est faite par Robert le Ewer pur le Roi a ceo qu'il dit, et Robert
le Ewer en les ditj tenement} c'n est abatu, en despit de la Court notre Seignur le Roi ou

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Hundredum de Waltone. Villa de Adington est Isabelle Bardolf. Under
Sussex, Hundredum de Bercompe. Villata de Bercompe est Isabelle Bardolf,
Radulfi de Camoys, Prioris de Lewes. Hundredura de Ponyngges. Villata
de Percynge est Isabelle Bardolf. Hundredum de Strete. Villata de Lyn-
defeld est Isabelle Bardolf. Hundredum de Burgbeche. Villa de Edburton
et Thrule est Thome Bardolf. Hundredum de Wylindon. Villa de Berlyng
est Thome Bardolf. Under Nottinghamshire, Wapentacha de Byngham.
Shelford. Newton. Thomas Bardolf. Wapentacha de Thurgarton. Nether
Colwyk et Over Colwych, Carleton, Gedeling, Stokes. Thomas Bardolf.
Under Derbyshire, Morleston Wapentagium. Alwaston cum membris
respondet pro villa integra. Thomas Bardolf.

Of her own inheritance the Lady Isabella Bardolf was possessed of the
advowson of the church of Stapleford, com. Herts, dedicated to St. Mary,
and during her widowhood she presented to this living John de Wagham,
3rd June, 1307, Robert de Lexham, accolyte, 13th June, 1308, William de
Assele, accolyte, 2nd Dec. 1316, and William de Grendon, priest, 6th Nov.

1322. Of her dower was the advowson of the church of Fincham St.
Martin, com. Norf, to which living she presented William de Rotyngdene
in 1310, and Simon de Ayscheles in 1314.

Before the end of the month of May, in the sixteenth year of Edward II.

1323, the Lady Isabella Bardolf was deceased, in as much as the writ to the
escheator beyond Trent notifying this close of her life, and directing him to
take her lands into the King's hand, bears date the 28th day of May, at
Bisshopthorpe, in the vicinity of York. Pursuant to this writ record is
made of these several inquisitions ; at Lewes, on Tuesday, after the feast of
the Apostles St. Peter and Paul, 4th July, the jurors found that she had

le dit plee pent, et la dite Isabelle de tout en ad nettement oste. Dount la dite Isabelle
prie, q'ile peusse estre restitut a les avant dits tenemen^ selon ley de terre et usage
du reaume. Et que les justices en le pie et le proces devant eux pendauntj aillent au
juggement, pour le droit notre Seignur le Roi declarer et droite faire, si plesir ly soit.

Responsio. Quoad primum articulum. Habeat breve in cancellaria ad communem
legem. Et quoad secundum articulum. Habeat breve ad excitandum Justiciaries, &c.
quod procedant ad judicium, &c. Et si difficultas interfuit quare id facere non possint,
hinc mittant Recordum et processum in Parliamento.

Robert le Ewer was Lord of Warblington, of which parish Emsworth is a hamlet,
pleasantly situated close to the sea, and, as her son, Thomas Bardolf, died seized of these
tenements, 3rd Edw. III., 1330, Isabella Bardolf will have had judgment in her favour.

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held the manor of Plumpton with its appurtenances, together with forty
acres of land, ten acres of meadow, and one water mill at Fletching, of
Thomas Bardolf, son and heir of Hugh Bardolf, for the term of her life, of
the gift of William Bardolf, grandfather of the said Thomas, by the service
of one penny paid yearly for all services, and of which manor the reversion
ought to belong to the said Thomas under the feofment aforesaid. Clear
value xxx li. yearly. They also found that the same Isabella held the
manor of Barcombe (Berekompe) in dower of the inheritance of the afore-
said Thomas, and worth ten pounds annually. They found also that the
aforesaid Isabella held twelve pounds of rent, with the appurtenances, in
Berwick and Wilmington (Wyngeton), for the term of the life of the said
Isabella, of the inheritance of Hugh (de Mortimer) of Castle (Richard),
by the service of one clove gillyflower yearly in lieu of all services, of the
gift of Master James de Mohun, and of which the reversion was belonging
to the aforesaid Thomas by virtue of the said gift. All these places are in
the vicinity of Lewes ; but that of the manor of Perching in Edburton does
not now remain among the inquisitions, and it would seem that this manor
was granted by Isabella Lady Bardolf, as well as Bures in Suffolk, to the
family of Poynings, subsequent to 9th Edw. II. 1316, at which date
Margeria, widow of Sir Michael Poynings, was returned as lady of the
manor of Bures St. Mary, in Suffolk. Perching Magna and Perching
Parva were of the inheritance of Thomas Lord Poynings, deceased 49th
Edw. III., leaving his brother Richard his heir, then seventeen years of
age, who also died seized of Perching Parva.

The jurors on the inquisition at Watton, 16th day of June, found that
the manor of Watton, of her inheritance, was held of the lord the King in
capite by the service of one petty serjeanty, namely, of finding one footman
with bow and arrows for forty days in the King's service in his war of Wales,
and that her lands and rents in Stapleford, together with the advowson of
the church of Stapleford, were held of Humphrey de Boun, Earl of Here-
ford. Those on the inquisition taken at Strumpshaw, com. Norfolk, 23rd
day of July, 17th Edw. II., found that the aforesaid Isabella held on the
day on which she died the manor of Scroteby, in that county, for the term
of her life, of the gift and feofment of Master James de Mohun, who had
enfeoffed her Isabella by fine levied in the King's court of the said manor, to
hold to the same Isabella for the term of her life, and with reversion after

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her decease to Thomas Bardolf arid his heirs for ever, which manor was
then held of Lawrence de Huntyngfield, by what service was unknown, and
worth c s. yearly in all issues, and they state the age of Thomas Bardolf to
be forty years and more, he being in fact in his forty-first year.

The jurors on the inquisition taken at Croydon, com. Surrey, on the last
day of August, 17th Edw. II., found that she had held the manor of
Adyngton, in the aforesaid county, for the term of her life only, by the
service of making a certain dish called Maupigernoun at the coronation of
the lord the King, and that after the decease of the said Isabella it was to
remain to Thomas Bardolf and his heirs, by fine thereof levied in the court
of the said lord the King by charter of licence between the said Isabella
Lady Bardolf and Master James de Mohun, to hold of the lord the King
and his heirs by the service aforesaid. It is evident from the age of Thomas
Lord Bardolf, severally stated on these inquisitions as of thirty years and
more, of forty years and more, and fifty years and more, that her successor
in these manors was her only surviving son and heir Thomas Lord
Bardolf, and that owing to the decease of William Bardolf her second son
without issue, such manors as had been settled upon him by the feofment of
King Edward I., reverted in fee to the Lady Isabella Bardolf, whereupon by
fine, to which this Master James de Mohun, probably the son of her mother
by her first husband, John de Mohun, was a party, they were resettled upon
her eldest son, who by the jurors of the inquisition taken at Lewes is
described in these words, et dicunt quod predictus Thomas est films et pro-
pinquior heres predicte Isabelle de sanguine, et est etatis triginta annorum
et amplius. On inquisitions of later date, after the failure of the male issue
of Isabella Lady Bardolf, the charter of Edward I. above recited was pro-
duced before the jurors, who supposing that the entail had taken effect, they
falsely describe this elder brother, Thomas Bardolf, to have died without
issue, and that William Bardolf, his brother, left a son of the name of
Thomas Bardolf, who was the common ancestor, at variance with the find-
ings upon these contemporary inquisitions, taken immediately after the
decease of the Lady Isabella Bardolf.

Thomas Lord Bardolf married a lady of the name of Agnes, whose
lineage remains unknown, and the assertion of the continuator of Mr.
Blomfield's Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of
Norfolk, that she was the daughter of the Lord Grandisson, is contradicted

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by contemporary evidence. Agnes, daughter of William de Grandisson, a
Baron of Parliament, by his wife Sibilla, daughter and coheir of John de
Tregoz, who had name from the commune of Troisgots, in the canton of
Tessy, arrondissement of St. Lo, departement of La Manche, in Normandy,
and was a Baron of Parliament, was the wife of John de Northwode junior,
eldest son of Sir John de Northwode, so named from a manor in the parish
of Milton, anciently Middleton, in the hundred of the same name, lathe of
Scray, com. Kent, deceased in the lifetime of his father, leaving his wife
surviving, and a son Roger de Northwode, who had livery of the lands of
his grandfather 1 Edw. III. 1327. At the time of this marriage her father
granted to her for life the manor of Lydiard Tregoz, com. Wilts, of which
manor so held she died seised on the fourth day of December, 22 Edw. III.
1348, and of which the reversion had been granted to Roger de Beauchamp
and Sibilla his wife, and his heirs male, by Peter de Grandisson, her brother.
Agnes Lady Bardolf, who had been left a widow by the decease of her
husband, Thomas Lord Bardolf, on the 15th day of December, 2 Edw. III.
1328, having had issue by him three sons, John the next Lord Bardolf,
born on the feast of St. Hilary, 13th Jan. 1312, Thomas and Edmund, as
we learn from the inquisitions taken after his death,* survived him well

* The writ to John de Bolyngbroke, the escheator of the King beyond Trent, notifying
the decease of Thomas Lord Bardolf, has the King's teste at Kenilworth, 30th day of
December, 3rd year of his reign. Before this escheator an inquisition was taken at Stoke-
Bardolf, a hamlet in the parish of Gedling, hundred of Thurgarton, Notts, on Monday
next before the feast of the Purification of Blessed Mary the Virgin, 4th Edw. III. 30
Jan. on which the finding of the jurors was, that Thomas Bardolf held in his demesne as
of fee on the day on which he died, in the county of Nottingham, the manor of Stoke
Bardolf, with meadows, rents, and woods belonging to the same manor in Shelford, and
elsewhere beyond Trent, which are not extended in this extent, of the Lord the King in
chief as of his crown, by the service of the fief of one knight. (Extent.) Pasture of
Aldenholm, and a certain ferry over Trent, as also a certain wood with underwood and
pasture of no value because in the forest of Shirewood. They also say that Thomas held
on the day of his death, in the aforesaid vill of Stoke, one messuage of Adam de Evering-
ham by military service and by suit of court of the same Adam at Shelford, from three
weeks to three weeks, and worth annually as regards the herbage in summer Gd. Sum
total, Uli. Us. M. and no more, because the rest of the issues are beyond Trent. They
also say that John Bardolf, son of the aforesaid Thomas Bardolf, is his next heir, and was
of the age of 17 years on the day of St. Hillary last past. Another inquisition was taken
before the same escheator at Shelford on the Monday following, 4 Edw. I. on which the

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nigh thirty years, the Monday next after the feast of the Conception of the
blessed Virgin Mary, llth December, 31 Edw. III. 1357, being the day

finding was that Thomas Bardolf died seized of a moiety of the manor of Shelford with
the appurtenances, of the Lord the King in chief by the service of half a knight's fief, and
they say that there are no messuages and no lands in demesne belonging to the same
moiety, but that the sum of the value of the said moiety of the manor of Shelford was
8li. 5s. At Ockbrook, a parish in the hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, the lands
and tenements held of the King in chief by military service, were valued at 12 li. Qd.
The extent of the lands and tenements which had been those of Thomas Bardolf made
by the escheators of the King beyond Trent was returned at 218i. 17s. Id. and those
on the hither side of Trent made the sum total of 253 i. 8s. 10 d. and one farthing.
In Leicestershire he held the manor of Halloughton of the King in chief, as parcel of the
moiety of the Barony of Shelford, by the service of one knight's fief, and of the same
honour were the manors of Ruskington with its members, Westborough with its members,
and Wrawby with its members, in Lincolnshire, that of Middleton alias Milton Malsor in
Cambridgeshire, and Alvaston, Ambaston, Thurlston, Eskinton, and Breason in Derby-
shire. He also held these advowsons, half of the church of Gedling, com. Notts, the
churches of Tilney, Morley, Westbriggs, Fincham St. Martin, and North Rungton in
com. Norfolk ; of Owmby, Brinkhill, Ruskington, and Westborough, Lincolnshire ; of
Plumpton, com. Sussex ; of Stapleford and the chapel of Whemsted, com. Herts ; and of
Bradwell, com. Essex. At the time of the survey of Domesday, Goisfridus Alselin was
lord of Shelford, and in several entries mention is made of Ralph, his nephew, and
before the year 1108, 8th Henry I. this barony of the Domesday tenant was in moieties
between Robert de Caux (Chalz or Calz) and a second Geoffrey Halselin, the son of
Ralph, as appears by this entry in a record of that date. Rodbertus de Chalz et Goffridus
Halselinus in Wragebi 4 carrucatas, et 5 bovatas, et tertiam partem unius bovate, under
Jerburc wapentacha. In Domesday, this manor in Yarborough wapentake is thus de-
scribed under Terra Goisfridi Alselin. Manerium. In Waragebi habuit Tochi ii carrucatas
terre, et iii bovatas, et v partem unius bovate ad geldum. Terra vii carucarum. Ibi
nunc in dominio ii carrucae, et xvi villani, et xv bordarii habentes iiii carrucas. Ibi
ecclesia et presbiter et c acrse prati, et c acrae silve. Pastura per loca. Tempore Regis
Edwardi valuit x libras, modo vi libras. Tailla xx solidi. Radulfus tenet de Goisfrido.
Soca. In Eleham ii carucatae terre et ii bovatse ad geldum. In Chetelbi iii bovatae terrao
et iii pars i bovate ad geldum. Terra vi carrucarum. Soca et inland in Waragebi. Ibi
nunc in dominio i carruca, et xi sochmanni, et iiii villani, et viii bordarii cum ii carrucis,
et cxiiii acrse prati. This Robert de Caux had apparently married the daughter and
heiress of Geoffrey Aselin, and the barony descended in moieties to each of these repre-
sentatives of the two tenants in Domesday. In the Pipe Roll, 31 Hen. I, under the
heading Nova Placita et Nove Conventiones in Notinghamscira et Derbiescira, we read
Radulfus Halselinus reddit compotum de cc marcis argenti et i marca auri pro relevatione
terre patris sui ; and this Ralph will have been son of Geoffrey living in 1108, and was

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on which she departed this life at her manor of Ruskington, hundred of
Flaxwell, parts of Kesteven, Lincolnshire, which she held in dower of her
son, John Lord Bardolf, parcel of the inheritance acquired by the marriage
of Thomas Bardolf with Rosa Hanselyn, in the reign of Henry II. and
reckoned as parcel of the barony of Shelford, com. Notts.

John Lord Bardolf, though yet a minor at the time of his father's decease,
being in the sixteenth year of his age, was nevertheless already the husband
of Elizabeth, daughter and only child of Roger Damory, a Baron of Par-
liament, by his wife Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of
Gloucester and Hertford, by his wife Joan of Acre, daughter to King
Edward I., and sister and coheir of her brother, Gilbert de Clare, the last
Earl of that illustrious family, slain at the battle of Bannocksburne near
Stirling, without surviving issue. This niece of King Edward the Second
had married in succession John de Burgh, eldest son of Richard Earl of
Ulster, deceased in his father's lifetime, leaving a son by her, William Earl
of Ulster, and Theobald de Verdon, a Baron of Parliament, from which
match the issue was an only daughter, Isabella, wife of Henry Lord Ferrers
of Groby, com. Leicester, prior to this third marriage with Roger Lord
Damory, who, having taken part in the insurrection of Thomas Earl of
Lancaster, was stayed by sickness at Tutbury Castle, which terminated in
his death prior to the close of the sixteenth year of Edward II. when his
lands, which had been seized as an escheat of the crown by reason of his
being an enemy and a rebel, were restored to his widow as her dower, with
reversion to his daughter, Lady Bardolf, after her decease. By King
Edward III. the custody of two-thirds of the lands until the heir should
attain his majority was by letters patent committed to John de Warren,
Earl of Surrey, as his mother was entitled to the other third in dower.

yet alive in 1168, of which date is his carta, containing the names of those who held of
him of the old and the new feofment, from which we learn that his mother had received
a marriage portion out of lands purchased by the Bishop of Lincoln, Robert Bloet,
deceased 10th Jan. 1123, and that he had given eight solidatse of land out of his demesne
to his son. Rosa Hanselyn, the daughter and heiress of this son, also named Ralph
Hanselyn, was given in marriage by Henry II. to Thomas Bardolf, who, 18th Hen. II.
accounted for 25 K. of the scutage of this honour upon occasion of the expedition to Ire-
land, the same number being mentioned in the carta of his grandfather. The manor of
\Vrawby was subinfeuded from the time of Henry I. and in 1168 William Hanselin of
Wrawby held the fief of two knights of the old feofment.

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Owing to certain charters of feofment made in his lifetime by Thomas
Lord Bardolf, in favour of his sons to the exclusion of his widow's right, the
latter was obliged to sue them in the King's court, and to demand their
restitution from their guardian. After a long process, of which record is
annexed to the inquisitions post mortem, the Earl consented to restore her
dower upon finding that the King by his brief had upbraided Sir John de
Stonore, and the other justices of his bench, for having delayed to give
judgment in the suit upon view of his letters patents ; whereupon, a new
extent was ordered on her behalf of the manors so claimed, as specified in
this writ, of which copies in the same words were addressed to each sheriff
of the counties wherein the lands were situate.

" Edwardus, Dei gratia Rex Anglie, Dominus Hibernie, et Dux Aquitanie,
Vicecomiti Sussexie, salutem. Cum Agnes que fuit uxor Thome Bardolf
defuncti, qui de nobis tenuit in capite, nuper petivisset coram justiciariis
nostris de Banco per breve nostrum versus Johannem filium Thome Bardolf
et EHzabetham uxorem ejus terciam partem manerii de Plumpton ut dotem
ipsius Agnetis, que earn contingit de libero tenemento quod fuit predict!
Thome, quondam viri sui,et iidem Johannes et Elizabetha placitando coram
justiciariis predictis vocassent inde ad warrantum Johannem filium et heredem
predict! Thome infra etatem et in castodia Johannis de Warenna comitis
Surreie, cui custodiam duarum partium terrarum et tenementorum, que
fuerunt ejusdem Thome usque ad legittimam etatem heredis predict! com-
misimus sub certa forma habendam, existentem, ideoque comes nomine
predict! heredis per licenciam curie nostre prefate Agneti predictam dotem
suam reddidisset, per quod consideratum est quod eadem Agnes habeat de
terra predict! heredis in custodia predict! comitis existentis ad valorem dotis
supradicte, sicut per recordum et processum inde habitum que coram nobis
in cancellaria nostra venire fecimus, plenius apparet, nos super verum
valorem manerii predicti premissa occasione certiorari volentes, tibi pre-
cipimus quod manerium predictum per sacramentum proborum et legalium
hominum de balliva tua, per quos rei veritas melius sciri poterit, diligenter
extendi facias, quantum, videlicet, valeat per annum ut in dominiis, homagiis,
serviciis, redditibus et aliis exitibus terre juxta verum valorem ejusdem, et
extentam inde factam nobis sub sigillo tuo et sigillis eorum per quos facta
fuerit, sine dilatione mittas et hoc breve. Teste meipso apud Croyndon
primo die Marcii anno regni nostri quinto." (1 March, 1331.)

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Pursuant to these writs, John Dabernun sheriff of Sussex, John de
Scures sheriff of Southamptonshire, Ralph de la Lunda sheriff of Lincoln-
shire, Ralph de Buhner sheriff of Yorkshire, and the sheriff of Norfolk
and Suffolk, each sent copies of the extents made of the manors of Plumpton,
Greatham, Fillingham, Herthili, Strumpshaw, and Scroteby.

" Extenta quorundam terrarum et tenementorum, que fuerunt Thome
Bardolf facta per diversos vicecomites :

"Extenta manerii de Plumpton . . . iiii xx ixfo". xiiiis. id. ob.

" Extenta manerii de Gretham . . . xv&. xvie?.

"Extenta manerii de Fillingham . . . xxxifo'. xviii$. iid.

"Extenta manerii de Herthili . . . xiiiift. vis.iiiid. q.

"Extenta manerii de Strompeshey . . xxixft. xviiis. xrf. q.

"Extenta manerii de Scrouteby . . . viili. vii*. vine?, q.
"Summa totalis . . . ciiii xx \iiili. vis. vie?, q.

"Inde duo partes . cxxv/z. xis. et duo partes unius quadrantis.

"Inde tercia pars . Ixii/i. xvs. vie?, et tercia pars unius quadrantis."
Notwithstanding these returns, other lands, with the exception of Filling-
ham, were eventually assigned to her in dower, inasmuch as at the time
of her decease she held the advowson of the church of Bradwell, in the
hundred of Danesey, and two knight's fiefs in the tenure of Johanna the
widow of John de Orreby, com. Essex, a knight's fief in Middleton or
Milton, in the tenure of John de Mallesores, com. Northampton, a mes-
suage, &c. in Halloughton, com. Leycester, two carucates of land in Ock-
brook, com. Derby, the manors of Birling and rent in Berwyck, com.
Sussex, and the manors of Ruskington, Westborough, and Fillingham, in com.
Line. Of his other lands John Lord Bardolf had livery 9th Edward III.
1335, on doing his homage, he being then of age.

Of the inheritance of Roger Damory was a fourth part of the manors of
Kirkby-under-Knoll and Eskrick in Yorkshire, parcel of the property
which had been that of Roger de Lasceles, a Baron of Parliament, and of
the purparty of Johanna, his eldest daughter, wife of Thomas de Cule-
wenne, who having enfeoffed Sir Simon Ward of this her share, he again
conveyed it to Roger Damory, and in right of his wife it was held by John
Lord Bardolf until the 12th year of Edward III. 1339, when he conveyed
it to the Lady Avice, late wife of Sir Robert Constable of Halsham, also
one of the coheirs of Roger de Lasceles. By deed dated at Wermegay,

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this John Lord Bardolf, and the Lady Elizabeth his wife, appointed John
de Lasceles junior to deliver in their name to the said Lady Avice seisin
of the fourth part of the manor of Kirkby-under-Knoll, to which were
two seals : one of the Lord Bardolf, azure, three cinquefoils or ; the other
a large and round seal, in the centre the arms of Bardolf, in the summit
and base, or, a plain cross gules in a bordure sable, the arms of De Burgh
differenced to distinguish an eldest son ; on the right side three shields of
arms, 1st, argent, a lion rampant gules, Leon ; 2nd, or, three chevrons
gules, Clare ; 3rd, gules, a castle triple-towered or, Castile : on the left
side other three, 1st, Castile ; 2nd, barry of six argent and gules nebuly,
a bend overall azure, Damory; 3rd, Leon. The illustrious lady, through
whom this royal descent was conveyed to her daughter and her descendants,
by the title of " Elizabeth de Bourg, Dame de Clare," made her will on
the 25th day of September, in the year of the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus
Christ, 1355, containing these bequests ; "Item, je devise a ma fille Bardolf
mon lit de vert velvet raie de rouge ove quantque a ce attient, ensemble-
ment ove une coverture d'un drap murre ove la paane de minever puree,
une dymy coverture de la seute, et une coverchief d'Ynde samyt ove la
paane de blammer et i coverture de tanne mesle ove la paane de grys.
Item, je divise a ma dite fille une grand shale de worstede, le champe tanne
ove paperayes et cokerele de blu et quantque a ce appent. Item, je divise
a ma dite fille mon grant char ove les houces, tapitz et quissyns et quant-
que a ce appendent. Item, je divise a Monsieur Johan de Bardolf et a ma
dite fille, sa compaigne, joyntement en mes manoirs de Calthorpe et Clopton
de furment pur le semail, come appartient a seson yvernaille, xxvi quarters.
De mixtilon et segle viii quarters iiii busseaux. Item, pur la seson
quaresmel des pois xvii quarters iiii busseaux. D'orge xxviii quarters,
iiii busseaux, De draget ix quarters, iiii busseaux. Des aveignes xxii
quarters, i bussell. Des chivaux charettes iiii. Des affres, xii. Des boefs
xvii, ensemblement ove mes charettes et carues qe as dits manoirs appar-
tinent et tut leur apparail. Item, je divise a ma joefne fille Isabel Bardolf,
en eide de lui marier un hanap plat d'or, ii grant draguers amaillez en
parcelle et xii grosses sausers d'argent, mon lit de sandal murre ove une
coverture de cendryn mesle ove la paane de menever. Item, a Agneis sa
soer en eide de lui marier, i croiz d'argent, ii chaundelabres, ii salers,
i godet, i grant esquile pur 1'aumerie, i hanap d'argent pounsone, i nief pur

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encens, i encenser, i mors del annunciation, et vi chargeors novelles d'argent.
Item, a la dite Agneis un lit d'Ynde, dont la chevicere et cuntepoynt d'un
camelot de tripe ove les appurtenances, et i coverture de blu ove la pane de
gris."

Elizabeth de Burgh, Lady of Clare, died on the fourth day of November,
34 Edw. III. 1360, and the writ of diem clausit extremum to Walter de
Kelby, the King's escheator in the county of Lincoln, to take her lands into
the King's hand, is dated from Westminster, on the sixth of November
following. Pursuant to it an inquisition was taken at Caythorpe, on the
eleventh day of December next ensuing, on which the finding of the jury
was to this effect, namely, that Elizabeth de Burgh was not seised in her
demesne as of fee of any lands or tenements in the county of Lincoln on
the day on which she died, but that a certain Gilbert de Aton had been
seised in his demesne as of fee of the manor of Caythorpe with the appur-
tenances in the county aforesaid, and of the same manor with the appur-
tenances enfeoffed Roger Damory and the aforesaid Elizabeth, then the
wife of the said Roger, to have and to hold to the same Roger and Elizabeth,
and to the heirs of the said Roger. And the aforesaid Roger died ; after
whose decease the aforesaid Elizabeth had been seised of the aforesaid
manor with its appurtenances, as of her frank tenement by virtue of the afore-
said feofment, and of such tenure and no other died seised ; which said
manor with the appurtenances was held of the Lord the King in capite
by the service of one knight's fief, and was worth yearly in all issues
iiiixxxvft. vi *- viiic?. Adding that the aforesaid Elizabeth died on the
fourth day of November, in the 34th year of the then King, and that Eliza-
beth, daughter of the aforesaid Roger and Elizabeth his wife, whom John
de Bardolf knight had taken to wife, is the next heir of the aforesaid
Roger, of the manor aforesaid with the appurtenances, and is of the age of
thirty years and more.

Another inquisition made at Staundon, in Hertfordshire, before Roger
de Wulferton, the King's escheator in the same county, on Monday next
before the feast of St. Thomas the Apostle, contains this finding, that Eliza-
beth de Burgh held on the day on which she died for the whole of her life a
certain manor, called Le Dons, in the vill of Staundon in the aforesaid
county, of the inheritance of Elizabeth wife of John Bardolf, daughter and
heir of Roger Damory.

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A third inquisition, taken at Clopton in Suffolk, before the same escheator,
on Wednesday next before the feast of the Nativity of the Lord, in the
year of the reign of Edward the Third, after the conquest thirty-four, con-
tains this finding of the jurors ; that Elizabeth de Burgh held for the term
of her life the manors of Clopton and of Ilketeshale with the appurtenances
in the county aforesaid of the gift and concession of the then lord the
King, so that after the decease of the aforesaid Elizabeth, the aforesaid
manors with their appurtenances should remain to John Bardolf and Eliza-
beth, daughter of Roger Dammory and of the aforesaid Elizabeth, as to the
heir of the same Roger, and to the heirs of the same Elizabeth, wife of the
aforesaid John Bardolf, to hold of him, the Lord the King and his heirs, by
the service of a fourth part of one knight's fief for all service, and that the
aforesaid Elizabeth de Burgh died seized of the said manor of Clopton with
the appurtenances, as of the estate aforesaid. And as to the aforesaid
manor of Ilketeshale, that a fine had been levied with the licence of the
King between John de Lenne querent, and the said Elizabeth de Burgh
and the aforesaid John Bardolf and Elizabeth his wife deforcients, of the
same manor, to wit, that they the aforesaid Elizabeth de Burgh, John Bar-
dolf and Elizabeth, his wife, had granted to the aforesaid John de Lenne
the aforesaid manor with the appurtenances, to hold to the same John de
Lenne of the lord the King and his heirs by the service aforesaid, all the
life of him the said John de Lenne, rendering to the aforesaid Elizabeth de
Burgh 20 pounds yearly at the feasts of Easter and St. Michael by equal
portions, and after the decease of the same Elizabeth to the said John and
Elizabeth, his wife, and to the heirs of her the same Elizabeth, 20 pounds,
at the same terms, all the life of him the said John de Lenne ; and that after
his decease the aforesaid manor with the appurtenances ought to revert to
the aforesaid Elizabeth de Burgh, John Bardolf, and Elizabeth his wife,
and to the heirs of her the said Elizabeth, wife of John, to hold of the King
and his heirs by the aforesaid service for ever. By her will, Elizabeth de
Burgh, lady of Clare, bequeathed " a Sire Johan de Lenne i maser ove
covercle, hernoise d'argent surorre et kernelle, i chali3 d'argent surorre, et
i vestiment pour confessours d'un drape de soye chekere ove tut 1'apparail,"
a proof that he was in orders as a priest, and she also appointed him one of
her principal executors.

The jurors on an inquisition taken at Cranburne before Thomas de

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Bekynton, the escheator of the King in the county of Dorset, on Monday
next before the feast of the Epiphany, 4th Jan. 1361, found that Elizabeth
de Burgh died seized of these manors and burghs in that county ; Cranburn,
Ixxft. Tarente Gundevill, xv/a. Pymperne, xxft. vs. Stupel, xviift. xxc?.
The burgh of Wareham, xvi&. Hid. ob. Wyke, xxx//. us. Portland,
xxxiiift. xv s. vid. The burgh of Weymouth, xiiiili. xvs. vi d. ; and also of
certain tofts, lands, meadows, pastures, woods, and rents in Cranburn for
the term of her life only, of which the reversion was belonging to Eliza-
beth, daughter and heir of Roger Dammory, whom John Bardolf had
already taken to wife, as of the inheritance of the same Roger her father,
and that she died on Wednesday next after the feast of All Saints last past,
4th Nov. 1460, and that Elizabeth, daughter of William de Burgh, whom
Leonellus, Earl of Ulster, had already taken to wife, was cousin and next
heir of the aforesaid Elizabeth, deceased, and of the age of twenty years and
more.

Dugdale in his Baronage under Bardolf, vol. i. p. 682, has totally mis-
understood the purport of this inquisition in the following paragraph, in
which he cites the annals of the Abbey of Langley among the collections of
Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, in proof that Thomas Lord Bardolf,
father of John, was buried in Shelford Priory, com. Notts, and the Close
Roll, 9th Edw. III. m. 30, in proof that John Bardolf was then of age, and
had livery of his lands, in which year he marched into Scotland on the
King's service, and the Close Roll, 10th Edw. III. m. 15, in proof that he
then wedded Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir Roger Damory, by that
great woman, Elizabeth de Burgh, his wife, by whom at length he had a fair
inheritance, viz. the manors of Craneburn, Tarent Gundeville, Pymperne,
arid Wyke, with the boroughs of Wareham and Waymouth in Dorsetshire.
In proof of this last assertion he cites the above inquisition and Close Roll
35th Ed. III. m. 41, erroneously, as the only portion of this inheritance,
which descended to Elizabeth Bardolf, her daughter, was such property, as
had been acquired by purchase in the manor of Cranburn during her mar-
riage with Roger Lord Dammory, as noted in the extract given above.

Caythorp or Cauthorpe, Carltorp in Domesday, was the capital manor
of the Vescy Fee in Lincolnshire, and is now a parish in the hundred and
deanery of Loveden, parts of Kesteven ; it had anciently an extensive soke,
inclusive of the three hundreds of Frieston, Normanton, and Willoughby. By

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an inquisition taken at York before the King's esclieator beyond Trent on
the second day of June, 9th Edw. II., 1316, Gilbert de Aton was found to
be the next heir of William de Vescy, senior, deceased without legitimate
issue on the 19th July, 25th Edw. I, 1297, but leaving a bastard son,
William de Vescy of Kildare, who had held this manor up to the time of
his being slain in the battle of Bannockburn, in the year preceding, 8th
of Edw. II. By this Gilbert de Aton the manor of Caythorp, with its
members, was conveyed to Roger Dammory, and to the aforesaid Elizabeth,
his wife, and to their heirs, prior to the 12th year of Edward II., 1318, in
which Roger Lord Dammory had a grant of freewarren in all his demesne
lands at Catthorpe in Lincolnshire. Standon, com. Herts, was parcel of
the barony of Clare, and this separate manor within its limits will have been
an acquisition of Roger Lord Dammory and Elizabeth, his wife. In the
13th year of Edward the Second, the following grant was made to the same
parties :

" Edwardus Dei gratia Rex Anglic Dominus Hibernie et Dux Aquitanie
omnibus ad quos presentes littere pervenerint, salutem. Sciatis quod cum
nuper, de assensu Prelatorum, Comitum, Baronum et Procerum regni nostri
in Parliamento nostro apud Eboracum a die Pasche proximo preterite in
unum mensem convocato existencium, pro bono et laudabili servicio quod
dilectus et fidelis noster Rogerus Damory nobis impenderat et impenderet
in futurum, dederimus et concesserimus eidem Rogero et Elizabethe, uxori
ejus et nepti nostre carissime, manerium de Sandhall cum pertinentiis in
comitatu Eboracensi, quod habuimus ex dono et concessione dilecti et fidelis
nostri Gerardi Salvayn, manerium de Halghton cum pertinentiis in comi-
tatu Oxonie, quod Edmundus de Cornubia quondam comes Cprnubie sibi
et heredibus suis in feodo acquisivit, et quod postmodum idem Comes dedit
Bartholomeo de Kancia habendum ad totam vitam ipsius Bartholomei, quod
eciam post mortem ipsius Bartholomei ad manus nostras devenit, et mane-
rium de Faukeshalle in comitatu Surreie, quod Ricardus de Gereseye tenuit
ad terminum vite sue ex concessione nostra, et quod post mortem ipsius
Ricardi ad manus nostras devenit,* Habenda et tenenda eidem Rogero et
heredibus de corpore ipsius Rogeri legitime procreatis, una cum feodis
militum, advocacionibus ecclesiarum, et omnibus aliis ad maneria predicta

* These three manors had been granted to Sir Roger Damory and Elizabeth de Burgh,
his wife, in recompence of the former's service at the battle of Bannockburn, nigh Stirling,
fought on the eve and day of St. John the Baptist, 1314, 7th Edw. II., as we learn from

CVlil PREFACE.

spectantibus, de capitalibus dominis feodorum illorum per servicia hide prius
debita et consueta imperpetuum, in valorem quinquaginta marcarum terre
per annum in partem satisfactionis centum libratarum terre annuarum, de
quibus eidem Rogero pro servicio suo predicto sibi et dictis heredibus suis
habendis promisimus providere, prout in litteris nostris Patentibus inde con-
fectis plenius continetur, Nos, de assensu Prelatorum, Comitum, Baronum
et Procerum predictorum concessimus pro nobis et heredibus nostris pre-
fato Rogero pro se et dictis heredibus suis centum marcas percipiendas sin-
gulis annis ad Scaccarium nostrum ad festa Sancti Michaelis et Pasche per
equales portiones, quousque dictas centum marcatas terre annuas de dictis
centum libratis terre adhuc remanentes sibi et heredibus suis predictis
fecerimus provider! ; ita tamen quod si sibi et heredibus suis predictis inde
particulatim per nos et heredes nostros provisum fuerit, tune de dictis
centum marcis annuis tantum decidat, quantum sibi vel dictis heredibus suis
per Nos vel heredes nostros provisum fuerit, ut est dictum. In cujus rei
testimonium has litteras nostras fieri fecimus patentes. Teste me ipso
apud Goseford in Northumberland xii die Augusti, anno regni nostri tertio-
decimo.

three charters on the Patent Roll, 10th Edw. II., pro Rogero Dammory et Elizabetha
uxore ejus:

Rex omnibus ad quos, &c. Sciatis, quod cum, pro bono et laudabili servicio, quod
dilectus et fidelis noster Rogerus Dammory nobis nuper in conflictu inter nos et Scotos
inimicos et rebelles nostros apud Stryvelyn habito impendit, promisissemus dare eidem
Rogero centum marcatas terre per annum, habendas et tenendas sibi et heredibus suis
imperpetuum, Nos, volentes promissionem nostram sic factam observare, prout decet, et
eo libentius quia idem Rogerus Elizabethan! de Burgo consanguineam nostram caris-
simam duxit in uxorem, ipsamque Elizabethan!, una cum eodem Rogero, prospicere
gratiose, dedimus et concessimus pro nobis et heredibus nostris prefatis Rogero et Eliza-
bethe manerium de Faukeshall cum pertinentiis, quod Ricardus de Gereseye, nuper
Pincerna hospicii nostri, tenuit ad terminum vite sue, et quod post mortem ejusdem
Ricardi ad manum nostram jam devenit, Habendum et tenendum eisdem Rogero et
Elizabethe et heredibus ipsius Rogeri, una cum feodis militum, advocationibus eccle-
siarum, et omnibus aliis ad manerium ilium spectantibus, de capitalibus dominis feodi
illius per servicia inde debita et consueta imperpetuum, in valorem viginti librarum terre
per annum, in parte satisfactionis dictarum centum marcarum terre. In cujus, &c. Teste
Rege apud Northamtonam sexto die Julii. Per ipsum Regem.

By previous charters, dated respectively at Clarendon, llth Feb., and at Windsor,
3rd May, 1317, the manor of Halghtone of the value of 7li., and the manor of Sandhalle
of the value of 20 li. were granted to the same parties in like form.

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Gosforth is the name of two villages in Castle ward, (anciently in the
parish of St. Nicholas,) Newcastle, now distinguished by the epithets North
and South, and in the last named village is a chapel, whence it may be in-
ferred that there was here a royal residence in the immediate vicinity of
that town. In company with the King at Newcastle were the Earls of Lan-
caster, Pembroke, Arundel, Hereford, Warren, and the Earl Marshall, the
King's brother, also Hugh Despenser, Roger Dammory, and Hugh de
Audley, who were the three heirs of the earldoms of Gloucester and Hert-
ford, by their marriages with the three sisters of the late Earl, Gilbert de
Clare. The chronicle of Lanercost thus notices the further progress of
the royal army :" eodem etiam anno, 1319, facta concordia finali, ut crede-
batur, inter Regem et cpmitem Lancastrie, intraverunt ambo circa festum
Assumptionis Virginis gloriose terram Scotie cum magno exercitu, et posue-
runt se ad invadendum villam Berwici." Upon news of the victory of the
Scotch army at Myton upon Swale,, the siege was raised, and the army dis-
banded as soon as it was discovered that the enemy had withdrawn into
Scotland, taking their route by Staynmore, and Gillesland, and the western
parts. The Earl of Lancaster and the Earl of Hereford not long after-
wards were defeated at Boroughbridge on Tuesday 16 March, 1323, when
the last named was slain and the former made prisoner ; who was subse-
quently, on the morrow of St. Benedict, 22 March, beheaded on a small
hill in the vicinity of Pontefract. " In this year, 15 Ric. II. in Lent,
Thomas, Earl of five counties, was beheaded, the Earl of Hereford slain
in battle, and barons and knights killed and put to death after trial, and
imprisoned in castles," writes our chronicler ; and by the monk of Laner-
cost he is thus described : " ditior comes mundi, utpote qui quinque habuit
comitatus, scilicet, Lancastrie, Lincolnie, Salisburie, Leicestrie et Ferrers.
The manor of Sandal Parva, otherwise Kirk Sandal, was of the lands of
the Earls Warren ; but in its immediate vicinity is the hamlet of Long
Sandal, in the parish of Doncaster, which was of the land of the Earl of
Mortain, and subinfeuded at the time of the survey to Nigel Fossard, and
of his descendants the family of De Mauley this manor will have been held
by Sir Gerard Salvin, and by him surrendered to the king. The manor of
Holton, in the hundred of Bullington, com. Oxon. Eltone in Domesday,
and then the land of Roger dTvry, was subsequently parcel of the Honour
of St. Walery, which had been given to Richard Earl of Cornwall, King

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of the Romans, and descended to his son, Edmund Earl of Cornwall, of
whose gift Bartholomew de Kaiicia held it for his life, who was living *>th
Edw. II. 1316, when he was returned Lord of the vill of Halghtone in
Bolindene hundred. Of the manor of Faukeshalle, of the inheritance of
the family of Reviers, and after the decease of Isabella de Fortibus,
Countess of Aumale and of Devon, the property of the crown, we have
already made mention, and together with the manor of Kennington,* also
situate in the extensive parish of Lambeth, com. Surrey, it was exchanged
by the parties on whom it had thus devolved, with King Edward III. for
the two manors of Clopton and Ilketsall, as we learn from these entries on

* The charter of Isabella de Fortibus, Countess of Aumale and Devon, and Lady of
the Isle, by which she granted to King Edward I. the whole Isle of Wight, the manor
of Christchurch in Twynham, in Hampshire, ac manerium de Lamheth, in comitatu Sur-
reie, simul cum manerio, quod vocatur La Sale Faukes, in Parochia de Lamheth, cum
omnibus suis pertinentiis, for 6000 marks, bears date apud Stokwell prope Lamhothe
die lune proximo ante festum Saucti Martini in hyeme, Anno Domini Millesimo cc
nonagesimo tertio, and was witnessed by the Lord Anthony, Bishop of Durham, Sirs
Richard de Aston, Gilbert de Knovill, Richard de Waldegrave, Jordan de Kingeston,
Robert de Glaumorgan, and John Heynonia, knights, John de Grymstede, Philip de
Tanga, Roger de Gardino, Walter de Langton, clerks, and others. On the same day
she made her will, and named by her fingers her executors, namely, the Abbot of Quarr,
the Prior of Brommore, the Prior of Christeschurch, and Gilbert de Knovill, and being
thereby fatigued, she retired to rest. After having partaken of the holy communion at
the hands of Brother William of Gainsborough, her confessor, between midnight and
dawn, 12 Nov. 23 Edw. I. she expired ; and on the same day, the feast of St. Martin,
the aforesaid sum of money was paid to the merchants of Spina in the house of the
Bishop of Durham, who were to answer thereof to her executors, when they should claim
it. The hall of Falcasius, otherwise Faukeshalle, now corruptly Vauxhall, doubtless
owes its names to some construction erected by Falcasius de Breaute in this extensive
parish, when he had the custody of Baldwin de Reviers, Earl of Devon and the Isle,
the son of his wife, Margaret de Reviers, named above. (In the Nomina Villarum for
the county of Surrey, 9th Edw. II. 1316, under Hundredum de Bryxiston. we read. Villa
de Kenington est Comitis Warenne, Villa de Lambethe et Stoekwell est Domini Regis et
Juliane Romayne, Villa de North Lambethe est Archiepiscopi Cantuarie.) In tho Testa
de Nevill under Surrey is this entry : Baldwinus, filius et heres comitis de Insula, est
in exist odia Falconis de Breaute, qui debet esse in custodia domini Regis ; et terre ejus
in hundredo de Bricsiston, et valent per annum xviii. libris. Kennington was granted to
King Kdward tho Second by John Karl Warren, on the 30th day of June, t>th Edw. II.
1316, and subsequently to the date of this exchange it was a royal seat.

PREFACE. CXI

the Rolls of Charters and Letters Patent of the eleventh year of his reiirn,

Pro Elizabetha de Burgo. Rex Archiepiscopis, &c. salutcm. Sciatis nos
dedisse, concessisse, et hac carta nostra confirmasse dilecte consanguiuee
nostre Elizabethe de Burgo, que fuit uxor Roger! Dammory, duas panes
manerii de Ilketelleshale cum pertinentiis in comitatu Suffolcie, que fuerunt
Johannis nuper Comitis Cornubie, fratris nostri,* necnon illas viginti libra-
tas redditus, quas Johannes de Sekford nobis ad terminum vite ipsius Jo-
hannis annuatim reddere tenetur pro manerio de Clopton cum pertinentiis
in eodem comitatu, quod tenet ad terminum vite sue ex concessione dicti
Comitis ;f que quidem due partes una cum eodem redditu viginti librarum
ad manus nostras per mortem ipsius Comitis devenerunt, et reversio dicti
manerii de Clopton post mortem prefati Johannis de Sekford ad nos spec-
tat, eo quod idem Comes obiit sine herede de corpore suo procreate ; Ha-
bendas et tenendas, videlicet dictas duas partes cum pertinentiis ad totam
vitam prefate Elizabethe, ac dictum redditum ad terminum vite ipsius Jo-
hannis de Sekford, si ipsam eundem Johannem supervivere contingat, una
cum feodis militum, advocacionibus ecclesiarum, parcis, boscis, warrennis,
feriis, mercatis, libertatibus, consuetudinibus et servitiis tenentium tarn libe-
rcrum quam nativorum et omnibus aliis ad dictas duas partes et redditum
predictum qnalitercumque spectantibus, de nobis et heredibus nostris per
servicium quarte partis feodi unius militis pro omni servicio ; ita quod post
mortem predicte Elizabethe predicte due partes cum pertinentiis, simul cum

* John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall, brother of Edward the Third, according to the
Scotichronicon, died of a wound received from the King at Perth, during the month of
September, 1336 ; tandem sibi occurrit ad villam de Perth frater ejus Johannes, Hel-
tham nomine, per partes occidentals Scotia? iter agens, que terras, quas frater suus nuper
ad pacem acceperat et eeclesiam Prioratus de Lesmaliago gladio et igne consumpsit, ac
plures animas ad ecclesias confugientes, igne supposito, cum ipsis ecclesiis extinxit et
penitus delevit, Cumque idem Rex, ante magnum altare Sancti Johannis, super pra>
missis ipsum, ut debuit, argueret ; et ipse Regi indignanti animo responderet, subito
fratris spata sive cultello extracto percussus, rebus exutus est human is. Dugdale sup-
presses this imputed assassination, describing him to have merely fallen sick at the town of
St. John, and to have there departed this life, without wife or issue ; whence his body was
brought to the Abbey of Westminster, and buried in St. Edmund's chapel under a monu-
ment, which yet remains, without any epitaph to tell the sad story of his unhappy end.

t John de Sekford had a confirmation of the grant of the manor of Clopton for life in
the sixth year of Edward III. 1322. (Rot. Pat. 6 Edw. III. pars prima.)

Cxii PREFACE.

feodis, advocacioriibus, parcis, boscis, warrennis, libertatibus et omnibus
aliis predictis, necnon dictus redditus viginti librarum, si idem Johannes de
Sekford prefatam Elizabethan! supervixerit, dilecto et fideli nostro Johanni
Bardolf et Elizabethe uxori ejus filie predictorum Rogeri et Elizabethe, ut
heredi ejusdem llogeri, et heredibus ejusdem Elizabethe uxoris Johannis
remaneant, tenende videlicet dicte due partes de nobis et heredibus nostris
per servicium predictum imperpetuum, in excambium pro maneriis de
Kenyngton et Faukeshalle cum pertinentiis in comitatu Surreie, que pre-
dicta Elizabetha de Burgo tenet ad terminum vite sue, et que post mortem
ejusdem Elizabethe de Burgo prefate Elizabethe, uxori predicti Johannis, ut
filie et heredi predicti Rogeri et heredibus suis remanere deberent, nobis per
dictam Elizabethan! de Burgo ad vitam suam dandis et concedendis, et nobis
etiam et heredibus nostris per prefatos Johannem Bardolf et Elizabethan!
uxorem ejus remittendis et quietis clamandis imperpetuum. Concessimus
insuper pro nobis et heredibus nostris et hac carta nostra confirmavimus
quod tercia pars dicti manerii de Ilketleshale cum pertinentiis, quam Alia-
nora, que fuit uxor Guidonis Ferre, tenet in dotem vel alias ad terminum
vite sue,* et que post mortem ipsius Alianore ad nos et heredes nostros
reverti deberet, post decessum ipsius Alianore, ac predictum manerium de
Clopton post mortem prefati Johannis de Sekford predicte Elizabethe de
Burgo ad totam vitam ejusdem Elizabethe, si ipsam predictos Alianoram et
Johannem de Sekford supervivere contingat, et predictis Johanni Bardolf et
Elizabethe uxori ejus et heredibus ipsius Elizabethe, uxoris ejusdem Johannis,
post mortem predictorum Elizabethe de Burgo, Alianore, et Johannis de
Sekford remaneant, habenda et tenenda in forma predicta, una cum feodis
militum, advocacionibus ecclesiarum, parcis, boscis, warrennis, feriis, mer-
catis, libertatibus, liberis consuetudinibus, ac serviciis tenencium tarn libe-
rorum quam nativorum et omnibus aliis ad predictum manerium de Clopton
et tertiam partem qualitercumque spectantibus, de nobis et heredibus nostris

* Alianora, the widow of Guy de Ferre, was deceased 23 Edw. III. 1349, and in the
Nomina Villarum, 9 Edward II. in the county of Suffolk, Hundred de Waynford, we read
Ilketleshale, Domini, Comitissa Mariscalla, Guido Ferre, Jacobus de Feleshale ; and Hun-
dred de Carleford, Clopton, Dominus Thomas le Latymer. But of Clopton, and several other
manors, there is no inquisition at the time of his decease, 8 Edward III. 1334 ; whence
it may be inferred that he was either not a tenant in fee, or had released his claim in the
same to the King. Guido Ferre was deceased 4 Edw. III. 1330.

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per servicium supradictum similiter in dictum excambium pro predictis ma-
neriis de Kenyngton et Vaukeshall imperpetuum. Quare volumus, &c. Hiis
testibus, venerabilibus patribus J(ohanne) archiepiscopo Cantuarie tocius
Anglie primate, S(imone) Eliensi episcopo, magistro Roberto de Stratford,
archidiacono Cantuarie cancellario nostro, Jobanne de Warrenna
comite Surreie, Henrico de Lancastria comite Derbie, Hugone de Audele
comite Gloucestrie, Radulfo Basset de Drayton, Henrico de Ferrariis,
Johanne D'Arcy le neveu, senescallo bospieii nostri, et aliis. Datum per
manum nostram apud Turrim Londoniarum viii die Augusti. Per ipsum
Regem.

" Et mandatum est Alianore, que fuit uxor Guidonis Ferry, quod prefate
Elizabetbe de fidelitate et aliis serviciis suis intendens sit, prout decet. In
cujus, &c. Teste Rege apud Turrim Londoniarum, x die Augusti. Per
ipsum Regem.

" Et mandatum est militibus, liberis hominibus, ac aliis tenentibus de
duabus partibus manerii de Ilketleshale in comitatu Suffolcie, quod eidem
Elizabethe de homagiis, fidelitatibus, et aliis serviciis suis intendentes sint et
respondentes. In cujus, &c, ut supra. Per ipsum Regem.

" Et mandatum est prefato Johanni de Sekford quod eidem Elizabetbe
de dicto redditu suo intendens sit et respondens juxta tenorem carte Regis
supradicte ; vult enim Rex ipsum inde erga Regem exonerari. In cujus, &c.
ut supra. Per ipsum Regem et consilium.

" Pro Elizabetha de Burgo. Rex omnibus ad quos, &c. salutem. Sciatis
quod cum nuper per cartam nostram dederimus et concesserimus dilecte
consanguinee nostre Elizabethe de Burgo, que .fuit uxor Roger! Dammory,
&c. (recital of the tenor of the above,) prout in carta nostra plenius conti-
netur, nos, volentes prefate Elizabethe de Burgo in recompensacionem
valoris tercie partis manerii de Iketleshale, quam prefata Alienora sic tenet,
juxta tractatum inter nos et consilium nostrum et eandem Elizabethan! ac
predictum Johannem Bardolf in hac parte habitum fieri sub forma, que
sequitur, eadem Alianora vivente, remisimus prefate Elizabethe de Burgo
illas decem libras annuas, quas nobis ad scaccarium nostrum pro manerio de
Clarette, nomine Hamonis de Creuker, reddere tenetur,* necnon quinque

"* The manor of Clarette, in the parish of Yeldham, hundred of Hinckford, com. Essex,
has the name of Clare in Domesday, and was parcel of the honour of Earl Eustace of
Boulogne. In a survey of the honour of Boulogne in the Liber Niger Scaccarii, in the
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CX1V PJIEFACE.

marcas annuas, quas eadem Elizabetha similiter reddit ad idem scaccarium
pro terris et tenementis que fuerunt Willelmi de Wymondham in Staundon,
tota vita prefate Alianore. Et concessimus insuper pro nobis et heredibus
nostris quod prefata Elizabetha de Burgo percipiat et habeat quadraginta
solidos annuatim de annua firma quam dilectus nobis in Christo Abbas de
Waltham Sancte Crucis reddit ad scaccarium predictum pro villa de Walt-
ham Sancte Crucis, et dictum manerium de Clarette de dictis decem libris
et predicta terras et tenementa in Staundon de eisdem quinque marcis teneat
exonerata.et quieta, dum eadem Alianora vixerit, ut est dictum. Ita quod
si prefata Elizabetha de Burgo, ipsa Alienora vivente, in fata decesserit,
tune prefati Johannes Bardolf et Elizabetha uxor ejus el: heredes ipsius
Elizabethe dictas decem libras de predicto manerio de Clarette et predictos
quadraginta solidos de dicta firma de Waltham percipiant et habeant, et de
quinque marcis annuis, de quibus idem Johannes Bardolf et Elizabetha uxor
ejus et heredes ipsius Elizabethe post mortem prefate Elizabethe onerandi
existunt, erga nos et heredes nostros exonerentur et sint quieti, ipsa Aliauora
sic vivente.* Ita etiam quod post mortem ejusdem Alianore nobis et here-
dibus nostris de dictis viginti et tribus marcis annuatim respondeatur, prout
antea fieri consuevit. In cujus rei, &c. Teste Rege apud Turrim Lon-
doniarum, xiii die Augusti. Per ipsum Regem."

The vill of Ilketshall includes no less than four parishes, St. John's, St.
Andrew's, St. Laurence's, and St. Margaret's, in the hundred of Wangford,
Suffolk, and three several manors, of which that given by this charter had
the name of Bardolf 's from these grantees ; and Clopton is a parish in the
hundred of Carlford in the same county.

reign of King John, under De feodo Willelmi de Mustruillo (Montreuil) vi milites; "inde
habetur in Essex Claretta, quam heres Radulfi de Cornhull tenet per unum militem,
et tria quarteria, Geldham, quam Comes Albricus tenet pro duo militibus et uno quar-
terio." Yeldham, now a parish, was a berewick of Clare at the time of the Survey.
The daughter and heir of Ralph de Cornhulle was doubtless the wife of Robert de
Crevequer, whose son and heir, Hamon de Crevequer, married Maud de Avranches,
heiress of the barony of Folkstone. Their grandson, Robert de Crevequer, forfeited the
manor of Chatham in Kent, and the manor named above, in the reign of Henry III.
The former manor was given to Guido Ferre for his life, and the last to the family of
Clare, subject to this payment.

* These lands in Staundon, otherwise Standon, which had been those of William de
Wymondham, were doubtless identical with the manor called La Dons in Standon, of
which Elizabeth de Burgh died seised.

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The public services of John Lord Bardolf are detailed by Dugdale in his
Baronage, who, after noticing that he was on the King's service beyond
sea in 37 Edw. III. adds ; " but this is all that I have seen of him till his
death, which hapned 3 Aug. 45 E. III." This observation clearly proves
that the record he cites, Esc. 45 Edw. III. n. 7, had never been perused by
this writer, and is in direct contradiction to his next paragraph, which con-
tains this narrative : " To whom succeeded William, his son and heir, then
xiv years of age, whose wardship and marriage was granted by Queen
Philippa (wife to King Edward the Third) in 40 Edw. III. unto Sir
Michael Poynings, Knight, to the intent that he should marry Agnes,
daughter of the said Michael (Pat. 40 Edw. III. p. 1, m. 37) ; which
William, upon proof of his age and doing his homage in 45 Edw. III. had
livery of his lands. (Rot. Claus. 45 Edw. III. m. 14.)" This confusion of
dates arose from the inquisition post mortem having been calendered as of
the 45 Edw. III. n. 7, the date of a writ for fresh inquiry, instead of the
right date of the writ of diem clausit extremum, addressed to Roger de
Wolforton, the King's escheator in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex,
and Hertford, which has the King's teste at Westminster, 13th day of
October, 37th year of his reign, 1363. Pursuant to this writ an inquisition
was taken at Woodbridge, com. Suff. 18th day of December following, on
which the finding of the jurors was to this effect, that John Bardolf of
Wormegay held on the day on which he died in his demesne as of fee the
manor of Clopton, with the appurtenances, and 20 li. annual rent from the
manor of Ilketshall, in the said county of Suffolk, by what service was
unknown, value xv/z. xixs. ixc?. And they say that the same John died on
the third day of August last past, and that William, his son, is next heir of
the same John, and of the age of fourteen years and eleven weeks. Of
previous date an inquisition was taken at Fyncham, com. Norf. 14th day
of December, on which the finding was, that John Bardolf of Wermegay,
knight, held the manors of Cantley, Strumpshawe, Rungton, and Fyncham,
with their appurtenances, in the said county, of the lord the King in chief
by the barony of Bardolf; Cantley, xviiiifo xvis. xic?. ob. ; Strumpshaw,
xii^'. xiis. viiic?. ; Rungeton, xiii^'. vis. vine?. ; Fyncham, viii li. The jurors
also say that the said John held in like manner the manor of Stowe, with
the appurtenances, in the said county, as parcel of the aforesaid barony, of
the King in chief, and that the same John Bardolf had granted to the prior

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and brethren of the order of Blessed Mary of Mount Carmel, and to the
convent of Lynn Bishop's, and their successors, one annual rent of ten
quarters of corn and ten quarters of barley, to be received each year from
the said manor of Stowe, on the feast of All Saints, for the soul of the
aforesaid John and those of his ancestors, by license of the lord the King,
as manifested by a charter shewn at the aforesaid inquisition. They also
say that John Bardolf had granted to Robert Bardolf * an annual rent of

* Robert Bardolf was the last descendant of a branch of the baronial family of Bar-
dolf, settled at Mapledurham, com. Oxon, a manor derived from the marriage of Hugh
de Gournay with Edith, daughter of William Earl Warren, and which had been granted
to Sir John Bardolf, second son of William Bardolf, Baron of Wermegay, and Juliana
de Gournay, heiress of that ancient and once powerful line of Norman barons, who derived
their name from Gournay-en-Bray, chef-lieu of the canton of that name, arrondissement
of Neufchatel-en-Bray, departement of the Seine Inferieure. Robert Bardolf died issue-
less on the 20th day of May, 18th Rich. II. 1395, seised of the manor of Watton att
Stone, com. Herts, according to this finding of a jury, on an inquisition taken at Puckeridge,
on Tuesday, the feast of the apostles Peter and Paul, 19th Rich. II. " Dicunt quod
Willelmus Bardolf, quondam dominus de Wyrmingeye, jam defunctus, fuit seisitus in
dominico suo ut de feodo de manerio de Watton atte Stone cum pertinentiis in eodera
comitatu, et cepit in uxorem Agnetem filiam Michaelis domini de Ponynges, modo
uxorem Thome de Mortymer militis, et diu post sponsalia inter prefatum Willelmum
Bardolf et Agnetem celebrata, dominus Willelmus Bardolf, de manerio predicto ut in
dominico suo ut de feodo seisitus, per cartam suam dedit et concessit Roberto Bardolf
militi in brevi nominate manerium predictum cum pertinentiis habendum et tenendum
eidem Roberto ad totam vitam suam, ita quod post decessum predicti Robert! Bardolf
manerium predictum cum pertinentiis prefato Willelmo Bardolf et heredibus suis re-
vertatur et remaneat inperpetuum, licencia domini Regis inde optenta, ut intelligant."
The tenure of this manor was by petit sergeanty, and by the service of 13 s. 4 d. to be paid
yearly to the Lord the King by the hands of the sheriff of the county of Hertford who
should be in office at the time, and by the service of 2 s. paid at two sheriffs' turns in the
hundred of Broadwater, held at the feasts of Easter and Michaelmas, and by the service
of doing suit at the court of the shire of Hertford, held from month to month, and by the
service of doing suit to the aforesaid hundred, from three weeks to three weeks, value x&.
They also found that Sir Robert Bardolf died 20th day of May then last past, and that
Thomas Bardolf, son of the aforesaid William Bardolf, was the next heir of the said
William Bardolf, and of the age of 24 years and more, but who the next heir of the said
Robert may be they knew not. The inquisition at Watlington, com. Oxon, on Saturday
next before the feast of St. Lawrence, 19 Rich. II. describes the same Robert Bardolf,
chivaler, to have long before his death given, granted, and by his charter confirmed, to
Sir George Felbrigg knight, Roger Marshall, John Lynde, and John Cook of Wyckham,
his manors of Mapledurham Gurnay, and of Stoke de Lisle, in the aforesaid county, with

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xli. forth of the aforesaid manor of Stowe, for the whole life of the aforesaid
Robert, by license of the King, as appeared by the charter produced, residue
vili. The inquisition taken at Wormegay, 12th Dec. describes that manor
as held of the King in chief by the barony of Bardolf, extended at
xxiiifo x*. id. qu. and inclusive of two fisheries, one at Sechichebrigg, and
another called La Leye, and a manor court held on the feast of St. Faith
(6th Oct.), and a knyht-curt, each worth 20*. a year ; and there was also a
third fishery, called La Mote. That taken at Hoddesdon, in com. Herts, 6th
Nov. values the manor of Dons, held of the Duke of Clarence by service
unknown, at \iiili. and the manor of Watton atte Stone at xiii. viis. viiic?.
As to the day of the decease of Lord Bardolf, and the age of the heir, the
findings were the same as the one first cited.

Pursuant to a second writ to Walter de Kelby, the King's escheator in
the county of Lincoln, of the same date, an inquisition was taken at Cathorp
on Thursday next before the feast of the apostles Simon and Jude, 26th
Oct. 1363, and the finding, as to the tenure of John Lord Bardolf in that
county, gives the value of the manor of Westborough, with its members of
Dodington, Stoking, and Stubton, held by the service of the tenth part of
a barony, at xxix//. xis. xiic?., of that of Ruskington, with its members of
Dygby, Amwick, Lessyngham, Roxham, and Branswell, held by the service
of the twelfth part of a barony, at xxxvift. vis. iiiirf., and of Cathorp, with

all their appurtenances, to have and to hold for ever ; by virtue of which gift and feofment
the aforesaid parties being seised thereof, they regranted the same manors to the said
Robert Bardolf and Amicia his wife, yet surviving, to hold for the term of their joint lives,
rendering to the said feoffees a rose on the 24th day of June, with reversion to themselves.
The manor of Mapledurham Gurnay was worth 20 marks, and was held of the Earl of
Arundel, heir of the Earls Warren ; and that of Stoke de Liele was worth 8 li. and held
of the Earl Marshal ; but the service of each was unknown to the jurors. He also held
the manor of Holton in the same county for the term of his life of the concession of Sir
William Bardolf, which had been previously granted by John Lord Bardolf to a certain
Nicholas Dammory for the term of his life, and of which the reversion, after the decease of
this tenant, was given to Robert Bardolf by the said Sir William Bardolf, with reversion
to his heirs after his decease. This manor was held of the lord the King as of the honour
of Wallingford, by service unknown to the jurors, who said that the aforesaid Robert died
on the feast of the Ascension of the Lord last past, and that they were ignorant who was
his next heir. Amicia, his wife, had by her first husband John Beverlee, valet to King
Edward III. two daughters, Anne and Elizabeth, and at her decease, which occurred
1st October, 141 7, Robert Langford, son of Anne, and Walter Daundsey, knight, son of
Elizabeth, were found to be her heirs.

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its members of Freston, Normanton, Sudbrok, Wilughby near Ancaster,
Hambek, and a moiety of Ancaster, with their appurtenances, held by the
courtesy of England as of the right of his wife, of the King in chief, by
the service of the fifth part of one knight's fief, at iiii xx iiii/. iiiic?. Then
follows this finding of the jurors : " Item dicunt quod predictus Johannes
Bardolf obiit apud civitatem de Assisio ultra mare die Sabbati proximo ante
festum Sancti Petri ad vincula proximum preteritum secundum rumores
que venerunt de partibus illis. Et dicunt quod Willelmus Bardolf,* filius
ejusdem Johannis, est heres propinquior ejusdem Johannis, et est etatis
xiii annorum et amplius." The city of Assisium, in the province of Umbria,
duchy of Spoletto in Italy, is famous as the birthplace of St. Francis, and
the real day of the decease of John Lord Bardolph was doubtless Saturday,
31st of July, the eve of the feast of St. Peter ad Vincula, 1363, leaving
William his son and heir of the age of thirteen years and eleven weeks
at the date of this inquisition, born in August, 1350.

Pursuant to writ of the same date to Walter de Frotheby, escheator of

* John Lord Bardolf has been apparently sent on a mission by the King into 'Italy, to
negociate the return of Pope Urban V. to Rome, who was then residing at Avignon, as
several Popes had done before him since the year 1304, and of his having been employed
on a similar mission in 1352 at the court of Pope Clement VI. this bull in his favour and
that of his wife is sufficient evidence, as an example of the great esteem in which they
were held by that prelate, of which a transcript has been incorrectly printed by Mr.
Parkin, in his History of Norfolk, under Wormegay.

" Clemens episcopus, servus servorum Dei, dilecto filio, nobili viro, Johanni Bardolf,
militi, et dilecte in Christo filie, nobili mulieri, Elizabethe, ejus uxori, Norwicensis diocesis,
salutem et apostolicam benedictionem. Sincere devotionis affectus, qui ad nos et Roma-
nam geritis ecclesiam, non indigne meruit ut peticionibus vestris, &c. quas ex devotionis
fervore prodire conspicimus, quantum cum Domino possumus, favoribiliter annuamus.
Hinc est quod nos, vestris devotis supplicationibus inclinati, ut liceat vobis habere altare
portabile cum reverencia et honore, super quod in locis ad hoc convenientibus et honestis
possit quilibet vestrorum per proprium sacerdotem ydoneum missam et alia divina officia
Bine juris alieni prejudicio in vestra presencia facere celebrari, devocioni vestre tenore
presencium indulgemus. Nulli vero omnino hominum liceat hanc paginam nostre con-
cessionis infringere vel ejus ausu temerario cohibere. Si quis autem hoc attemptare pre-
pumpserit, indignacionem omnipotentis Dei et Beatorum Petri et Pauli Apostolorum ejus
se noverit incursurum. Datum Aviniono vii idus Augusti Pontificatus nostri anno un-
decimo." (7 August, 1352.)

As John Lord Bardolf was tenant of Caythorpe by the courtesy of England, his wife,
Elizabeth, of royal descent, will have been deceased in his lifetime ; and as to their two
daughters, Isabel and Agnes, records are silent as to whom they married.

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the counties of Nottingham and Derby, inquisitions were taken at Not-
tingham on the twelfth day of January, and at Derby on the 20th of the
same month, in which he is said to have died on Monday next after the
feast of St. Peter ad Vincula last past, August 2nd, 1363. He was found
to have died seised of Stoke Bardolf manor, and to have held in service
twenty-nine fiefs of knights, a half and a quarter, que debent esse intend-
entes ad curiam de Shelford de diversis comitatibus, in Nottinghamshire, but
nothing in his demesne as of fee in the county of Derby. The jurors on
the inquisition taken 12th Nov. before John de Wyndsor, escheator of the
counties of Warwick and Leicester, at Halloughton in the last named county,
valued his tenure in the same at vii/z. viiis. but in their ignorance designate
the heir John, and falsely describe this vill to be parcel of the honour of
Peverel of Nottingham, instead of Shelford. Of his other lands there are
no inquisitions of this regnal year ; but after his son, William Bardolf, had
attained his majority, the following writ was issued for farther inquiry to
the King's escheator in the county of Dorset, and the like to the escheators
of other districts.

" Edwardus, Dei gratia Rex Anglie, Dominus Hibernie et Dux Aqui-
tannie, dilecto sibi Willelmo Cheyne, escaetori suo in comitatu Dorsete,
salutem. Precipimus tibi quod per sacramentum proborum et legalium
hominum de balliva tua, per quos rei veritas melius sciri poterit, diligen-
tius inquiras quas terras et tenementa Johannes Bardolfe de Wermegeye
defunctus tenuit de nobis in capite tarn in dominico quam in servicio in
balliva tua die quo obiit et quantum de aliis et per quod servicium, et
quantum terre et tenementa ilia valeant per annum in omnibus exitibus, et
quo tempore dictus Johannes obiit, et quis propinquior heres ejus sit et
cujus etatis, et quis vel qui terras et tenementa ilia a tempore mortis ejus-
dem occupavit vel occuparunt, et exitus et proficua inde percipit vel per-
cipiunt quo titulo, qualiter et quo modo. Inquisitionem inde distincte et
aperte factam nobis in cancellaria nostra sub sigillo tuo et sigillis eorum
per quos fieri fuerit, sine dilatione mittas et hoc breve. Teste meipso apud
Westmonasterium x die Septembris, anno regni nostri Anglie quadragesimo-
quinto, regni vero Francie tricesimo-secundo." (10th Sept. 1371.)

Pursuant to this writ an inquisition was taken at C ran burn, on Thursday
next after the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (18 Sept.), when it
was found that John Lord Bardolf had held in the said vill of the lord the

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King in chief, on the day on which he died, 58 acres of arable land, 6 acres
of wood, and an assised rent of 4li. 5d. of the annual value of 13 li. Id.
and that the same John died on the fifth day of August, in the 37th year
of the reign of Edward the Third, and that William Bardolf, son of the
same John, is his next heir and of the age of 22 years and three weeks ;
and that the Lady Philippa Queen of England had seisin of the said lands
and tenements in the said vill, and received the profits from the time of the
decease of the same John, by reason of the minority of the said William,
son of the same John. In Derbyshire an inquisition was taken at Ock-
brook before Robert de Twyford, escheator, on the first day of October,
when it was found that John Lord Bardolf had been seised of this manor,
and had enfeoffed Geoffrey Folchamp in the same to hold by a rent of
20 marks yearly, according to the indenture produced. In Buckingham-
shire an inquisition was taken before John de Olney, escheator, at Wen-
dover, 30th Sept. when it was found that John Lord Bardolf died seised
of 40 s. rent in the same vill, held of the King in chief, which John of
Lancaster had received of the gift and concession of the Lady Philippa,
late Queen of England, to whom the Lord the King had granted the in-
heritance of the aforesaid John Bardolf during the minority of his son and
heir, William. In Gloucestershire an inquisition was taken before William
Auncell, escheator, at Minching Hampton, 24th Sept. when it was found
that John Lord Bardolf held nothing in chief, but that he had in his
demesne as of fee one messuage and one carrucate of land, 9 acres of meadow,
2 acres of wood, and an assised rent of 34*. with the appurtenances, in
Nailsworth, valued at 66s. Sd. a year, all which lands and tenements,
except one acre of meadow, were held of the Abbess of Caine (Caen, in
Normandy,) by service of socage, rendering annually 21*. Id. to the afore-
said Abbess, and of suit of court to the manor of the Abbess at Minching-
Hampton, from three weeks to three weeks, the said acre being held of
John de Croft by the render of a pound of pepper annually ; also that
John Bardolf, knight, son of the aforesaid John Bardolf, was his next heir
and of the age of twenty-one years the 21st day of October last past, and
that Philippa Queen of England, in the first instance, and Hugh Woode-
ward from the time of her decease, took the rents and profits.* In Surrey

* Nailsworth is a hamlet in the parish of Horsley, hundred of Longtrees, Gloucester-
shire, two miles from Minching Hampton. This manor, with Pinbury, a hamlet in the

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an inquisition was taken before John de Bisshopesthorp, escheator, at
Croydon, 15th Sept. when it was found that John Lord Bardolf died seised
of the manor of Adington, by the service of finding a dish at each coronation
of a sovereign, to make therein a certain mess called maupy-gernoun ; that
he had died on the fifth day of August, 37 Edw. III. and that William
Bardolf, his son and next heir, was then of the age of fourteen years, and
now of the age of twenty years ; that Philippa, late Queen of England, took

parish of Duntisborne, had been given to the abbey of the Holy Trinity of Caen, by King
William the Conqueror and his wife Matilda, the founders, by this charter, of which a
copy has been inserted in the cartulary, a MS. in the Bibliotheque du Roi at Paris, n. 5650,
fol. 17, recto.

" Quisquis sancte Dei ecclesie quamlibet suarum rerum portionem in beneficium attri-
buit, in celesti regno a summo Retributore sibi nequaquam diffidimus remunerari. Qua-
propter ego Willelmus Anglorum Rex et Normannorum atque Cenomannorum princeps et
uxor mea, Matildis Regina, Balduini Flandrensium ducis filia, neptisque Henrici Fran-
chorum illustrissimi Regis, damus et imperpetuum concedimus ecclesie Sancte Trinitatis,
quam pro salute animarum nostrarum in territorio Cadomi coedificavimus, hos infra-
scriptos manerios cum omnibus appenditiis suis ita quidem solutos et quietos sicut erant
die qua Edwardus Rex vivus et mortuus fuit ; scilicet, Felestede in comitatu de Essessa,
Hantoniam et Penneberiam in comitatu de Gloucestra, Tarentam in comitatu de Dorseth.
Hanc itaque cartulam et nostra et episcoporum ac magnatum nostrorum auctoritate con-
firmamus anno ab incarnatione Domini M Ixxxii , indictione v ta , ea videlicet conditione
ut si quis temerario ausu persistendo aliquid surripere temptaverit, anathema factus,
orthodoxorum communitate careat iramque Dei omnipotentis incurrat. Sig-j-num Wil-
lelmi Anglorum Regis. Sig-j-num Comitis Roberti Moritonii. Sig-j-num Lanfranci
Archiepiscopi. Sig-)-num Matildis Regine. Sig-f-num Roberti Comitis filii Regis.
Sig-j-num Gaufredi episcopi Constantiensis. Sig-f-num Willelmi Comitis filii Regis.
Sig-j-num Walchelini episcopi. Sig-j-num Henrici filii Regis. Sig+num Willelmi de
Braiosa. Sig-|-num Stigandi episcopi. Sig-j-num Alani Comitis. Sig-j-num Willelmi
de Varenna. Sig-j-num Henrici de Ferieres. Sig-j-num Edwardi Vicecomitis. Sig-j-num
Hugonis de Portu. Sig-j-num Rogerii Bigot. Sig-j-num Hugonis Comitis de Cestra.
Sig-j-num Rogerii Comitis de Montegomerii."

In Domesday, Gloucestrescire, under Terra ^Icclesise Monialium de Cadomo, these
manors are mentioned ; in Cirecestre hundred, Ecclesia Monialium Sancte Trinitatis de
Cadomo tenet de Rege Penneberie in Langetreu hundred. Ipsa ecclesia tenet Hantone-
Goda comitissa tenuit T.R.E. Nailsworth is not mentioned, but it was parcel of the
manor of Hampton, as we learn from this escheat. Horsley, the parish in which it is
situate, had been given to the abbey of St. Martin of Troarn, of the foundation of Roger
de Montgomery, Earl of Salop, by William the Conqueror, which had also been a manor
belonging to Goda, the sister of King Edward.
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the issues and profits of the same manor from the time of the decease of
the said John, until the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Mary in
the 43d year of Edw. III. on which day the aforesaid Queen died, and
from that day the lord the King had possession of the same manor, and
had taken the rents and profits thereof through the hands of Simon Norreys,
parson of the church of Caistor, up to the said day, by reason of the
minority of the son and heir of the said John Bardolf.* In Sussex, upon
an inquisition taken at Lewes, 16th Sept. before the same escheator, as to
the manors of Berling and Barcomb, and lands at Fletching, a member of
Plumpton manor, the finding was precisely the same as the above.

William Lord Bardolf was summoned to Parliament as a Baron from the
20th January, 49 Edward III. 1376, up to the third day of September,
9th Richard II. 1385. In one of the compartments of the cloisters of
Canterbury Cathedral is sculptured a shield, Azure, three cinquefoils or,
two and one, Bardolf, impaling Barree of six or and vert, a bend gules,
Poynings ; and on his seal the shield is supported by two wyverns, their
wings endorsed, the crest a wyvern's head between two wings endorsed,
issuant from a ducal coronet. (Cott. MS. Julius, C. vn. fol. 149, b.) The
supporters and crest were gules. Michael Lord Poynings gave a thousand
marks to Queen Philippa in 40 Edw. III. 1366, for the wardship and
marriage of William, the son and heir of John Lord Bardolf, to the end
that he might take Agnes, his daughter, to wife; who, by the name of
" Agnes Bardolf," is mentioned as a legatee in the will of her mother,
Joan Lady Poynings, dated 12 May, 43 Edw. III. 1369, and by that of
" Lady Bardolf, my sister," in the will of Thomas Lord Poynings, 28
Oct., 48 Edw. III. 1374. The will of William Lord Bardolf, of Werme-
gay, bears date at his manor of Cathorp, com. Line., 12th Sept., 9 Ric. II.
1385, by which he bequeathed his body to be buried in the quire of the
church of the Fryers of the order of Mount Carmel at Lynn, which was
situate on the banks of the river Lynn, between the South Gate and All

* By the jurors of an inquisition taken at Addington after the decease of Thomas Lord
Bardolf, 14 Feb. 4 Edw. III. 1330, this manor was declared to be held of the King in
chief by a certain service, namely, that of serving up in the presence of the lord the King
on the day of his coronation, three dishes of a certain mess called Maupygernoun, one to
be set before the King, another before the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the third before
the nobleman whom the lord of the manor shall choose to assign, in lieu of all service.

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Hallows' church, and is said to have been of the foundation of William
Lord Bardolf in 1269. The only legacy recorded is one to his heir male,
whomsoever it should be, of a part of the very Cross of our Lord set in
gold, and which his father had probably obtained from Pope Clement.
This heir male was Thomas Bardolf, who, prior to the 8th day of July,
6 Ric. II. 1382, had married Avicia, daughter of Ralph Lord Cromwell of
Tattershall, in right of his wife Maud, the daughter of John Bernack,
sister and heir of her brother William, as we learn from a writ of that date
of King Richard II. at Westminster, addressed to William de Skipwith,
his escheator in the county of Lincoln, pursuant to which this inquisition
was taken.

" Inquisitio capta apud Lincolniam die Jovis proximo ante festum sancti
Petri ad vincula, anno regni Regis Ricardi secundi post conquestum sexto,
per sacramentum, &c. Qui dicunt super sacramentum suum quod non est
ad dampnum domini Regis nee aliorum, si idem Dominus Rex concessit
Willelmo Bardolf chivaler, quod ipse Willelmus dare possit et assignare
manerium de Reskynton cum pertinentiis, simul cum medietate advocationis
ecclesie ejusdem, Thome filio ejusdem Willelmi et Avicie uxori ejus, et
heredibus de corporibus ipsius Thome et Avicie exeuntibus, ita tamen quod
si iidem Thomas et Avicia sine heredibus de corporibus eorum exeuntibus
obierint, tune predictum manerium cum pertinentiis ad prefatum Willel-
mum et heredes suos revertatur, habendum et tenendum sibi et heredibus
suis imperpetuum. Quod quidem manerium tenetur de Domino Rege in
capite per servicium militare et non de aliis. Item dicunt quod remaneant
in manus dicti Willelmi maneria de Calthorp et Westburgh in comitatu
predicto, que tenentur de Domino Rege. Item remaneat in manus dicti
Willelmi manerium de Fillingham in eodem comitatu, quod tenetur de
domina Johanna, Principissa Wallie."*

* Ruskington, an extensive parish in the hundred of Flaxwell, parts of Kesteven,
Lincolnshire, is described in Domesday under the heading Terra Goisfredi Alselin,
Laxewelle Wapentacha, by the name of Reschintone, and at that time was in the joint
tenure of Goisfred Alselin and his nephew Ralph, save six bovates of land, which Drogo
de Bevrere, (La Beuvriere, canton de Bethune, arrondissement de Bethune, departe-
ment du Pas de Calais,) held. Attached to it were three berewicks, Amwick, Branse-
well, and Evedon, and an extensive soke. The Priory of Haverholme was within the
limits of this parish, on an island of 300 acres, formed by two branches of the Sleaford
river, and having been relinquished by the Cistercian monks of the abbey of Fountains,

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William Lord Bardolf was deceased on the 29th day of January, Monday
before the Feast of the Purification of Blessed Mary, 9th Ric. II, 1386,
and the earliest writs of diem clausit extremum, sent to the escheators, bear
date at Westminster 4th February following. Pursuant to such writ an

who repaired to Louth Park, Alexander Bishop of Lincoln, by charter, in the year 1139,
bestowed this site upon a monastery of the order of Sempringham ; at which date the
parish was of the joint tenure of Ralph Hanselin and Robert de Calz, to whom the Bishop
gave a mill in exchange for their shares. The inheritance of the former descended to
Daon, Doun, or Dodo Bardolf, husband of Beatrix de Warren, deceased prior to the date
of these Letters Close, addressed to the Sheriffs of Lincolnshire, Essex, and Nottingham,
notifying the King's grant of the custody of the land which had been that of Daon
Bardolf to Robert de Vipont during pleasure, from Lexinton, (Laxton, com. Notts.)
23rd day of February 1205, and in favour of whose widow we have these Letters Close
of the 12th of March following.

Rex Roberto de Veteriponte, etc. Precipimus tibi, quod sine dilatione facias habere
Beatrici, que fuit uxor Daonis Bardulfi, Riskintonam cum pertinentiis, quod fuit predict!
Daonis, pro rationabili dote sua, que earn contingit de libero tenemento, quod fuit ipsius
Daonis, quondam viri sui, nisi predictum manerium excedat terciam partem tocius terre,
que fuit sepedicti Daonis. T(este) Simone de Pateshilla apud Notingham xiii.
die Marcii. per eundem.

Sub eadem forma scribitur Vicecomiti Lincolnie.

On the eleventh year of the reign of King John, this entry is on the Pipe Roll, under
Norfolc et Sudfolc. Beatricia filia Willelmi de Warrenna, reddit compotum de M.M.M.
et c marcis reddendis infra iiii. annos pro habendis terris et tenementis que fuerunt
patris sui, et que ei hereditarie descendunt, et pro habenda rationabili dote sua, que earn
contingit de tenementis que fuerunt Doun Bardolfi, quondam viri sui, et quod non
distringatur ad se maritandum, et quod debita que pater suus Regi debuit, reddantur de
communibus catallis que fuerunt tarn patris sui quam Milisentie uxoris patris sui, die
qua pater suus obiit. Her father, William de Warren, gave to the Canons of Southwark,
together with his body, sixty acres of land in the parish of Foot's Cray, in the hundred of
Ruxley, Kent, called Wadeland, for the souls of his father Reginald and of his mother
Alicia, and of wife Beatrix, and of Reginald their son, and of Beatrix and Isabella their
daughters. This grant was confirmed by his daughter and heiress, by this charter.

Ego Beatrix, filia Willielmi de Warenna, post mortem viri mei, Douni Bardulfi, dum
essem in viduitate mea, concessi et confirmavi donationem, quam pater meus Willielmus
de Warenna fecit canonicis de Suthwerke pro salute avi mei Reginaldi de Warenna et
Alicie avie mee, et patris mei Willielmi et matris mee Beatricis, et fratris mei Reginaldi,
cujus corpus ibi requiescit, et Isabelle sororis mee, et mee, de Ix. acris terre in Fortiscrea,
viz. in Wadeland, cum pertinentiis suis, &c.

As printed in the Monasticon, vol. ii. p. 85, this charter is a manifest corruption of the
original, and falsely headed Carta Beatricis, uxoris eiusdem Willelmi.

Joan, Princess of Wales, was the widow of Edward the Black Prince.

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inquisition was taken at Lewes on the last day but one of the month of
February, before John Broke, escheator of Surrey and Sussex, on which the
finding of the jurors was to this effect ; that William Bardolf of Wermegay,
chevaler, held nothing in chief of the lord the King in the county of
Sussex, but that he held the manor of Portslade of Richard Earl of
Arundel and Surrey, which manor the Lord La Warre had held of the
said William by military service, and that the said William held it of the
aforesaid Earl by the service of ten knight's fees, which services were
worth nothing, except after the decease of the tenant of the aforesaid manor,
and that Thomas Bardolf, his son and next heir, was sixteen years of age
on Friday next after the feast of St. Thomas the Apostle last past. Another
inquisition before the same escheator at Jevington, in the same county,
taken on the second day of April, contains a similar verdict. A third
inquisition, taken at Croydon, com. Surrey, on the seventh day of the
month of April, describes him to have held no lands in that county, either
in demesne or in service of the lord the King in chief, or of any one else ;
the time of his decease as above.* " Et dicunt quod Thomas Bardolf est
films dicti Willelmi et heres ejus propinquior, et fuit etatis sexdecim anno-
rum tercio kalendas Januarii ultimo preterite." Before John Methewold,
the King's escheator in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, inquisitions
were taken at Wormegay on Wednesday and Thursday next after the feast
of St. Matthias the Apostle, and on Friday at Whinbergh, 28th Feb.,

* Pursuant to a writ to Robert de Loxley, escheator of the lord the King, in the
county of Surrey, with the King's teste at Westminster, llth Feb. 2 Ric. II. 1379,
an inquisition was taken before him at Croydon on Saturday, 7th day of May following, on
which the jurors declared that it was not to loss or prejudice of the lord the King, or of
others, should the King concede to "William Bardolf, of Wirmegeye, licence to grant his
manor of Addington, with the appurtenances, to William Walcote, for the term of his life,
to hold of the King and his heirs, by the service due and accustomed, with remainder after
the decease of the aforesaid William Walcote to William, son of the aforesaid William
Bardolf, and to the heirs issuing of the body of the aforesaid William, son of William,
and in case of his death without issue remainder over to the heirs of the aforesaid William
Bardolf, to be held of the lord the King and his heirs by the said service. Et dicunt
quod manerium predictum tenetur de domino Rege in capite per servicium serjenterie
coquine, qualiter et quo modo ignorant. Value 66*. 8d. No other lands in the county.
Hence the finding of the jury at his decease was owing to this manor being thus alienated
in his lifetime, with reversion to his younger son, William Bardolf.

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1st and 2nd of March, as to his tenure of the manor of Stowe, Fincham,
Cantely, Strumpeshagh, Qwynbergh, and Wormegay, and of a rent of
20s. Sd. in Tilney, and on each we have this finding, " et dicunt quod
idem Willelmus obiit die lune proximo ante festum Purificationis Beate
Marie ultimo preterite, et quod Thomas de Bardolf, filius ejusdem Willelmi,
est heres ejus propinquior, sed de etate ejus ignorant quia natus fuit in
comitatu Sussexie." A fourth inquisition was taken at Ilketeleshale, in
Suffolk, on Saturday the feast of St. Wynwaley, 3rd March, as to his
manor of Ilketeshale, held of the King in chief, with the same finding and
ignorance as to the age of the heir. Before John de Coton, escheator of
the county of Lincoln, an inquisition was taken at Cathorp, on Wednesday
the last day of February, as to his tenure of Cathorp manor, with its mem-
bers, Freston, Normanton, Sutbroke, Willughby, Hambek, and a moiety of
Ancaster, unde Ixxs. solvuntur per annum ad auxilium Vicecomitis Lin-
colnie ; item solvuntur fratri Briano de Gray, fratri ordinis Sancti Johannis
de Jerusalem in Anglia, viginti libre argenti annuatim sibi concesse per
dominum Willelmum Bardolf militem ad terminum vite dicti Briani licencia
domini Regis inde optenta. Et dicunt quod prefatus Willelmus Bardolf
miles obiit seisitus in dominico suo ut de feodo de tribus feodis militum,
medietate unius feodi, et sexta parte unius feodi militis, in Normanton,
Willughby, Sutbroc, Thurleby juxta Brune, Swatton, Helpringham, et
Bykyr; as also of Westborough manor, with its members, Dodington,
Stokkinge, Stubton, and Gladwynthorpe, out of which 20*. were owing to
the Prior of Shelford ; of a moiety of the advowson of the church of West-
borough, and three knight's fees in Westborough, Gladwinthorp, Doding-
thorp, Stubton and Claypol. Another inquisition was taken at Lincoln,
on Saturday next before the feast of St. Gregory the Pope, 10th March,
as to his tenure of the manor of Ruskington, with its members of Digby,
Dirington, Amwyke, Lesingham, Roxham, Donesby and Brauncewell,
which contains a recital of the feofment made on occasion of his son's
marriage in the sixth year of Ric. II. above noticed, and also this finding
in respect to the manor of Fillingham ; Item dicunt quod dictus Willel-
mus [Bardolf diu antequam obiit feoffavit Johannem du Grene clericum,
Johannem de Clay clericum, et Willelmum de Walcote, in manerio de
Fylyngham cum pertinentiis sibi habendo et assignatis suis, quod quidem
manerium tenetur de domino Thoma comite Cestrie, ut de manerio de

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Brocelesby, in comitatu Lincolnie,* et dicunt quod dicti Johannes, Johannes
et Willelmus dimiserunt dictum manerium de Fylyngham cum pertinentiis
Johanni de Wythornewik clerico, ad terminum vite sue." Its value was
13/. 6s. 4d., and the age of the heir, Thomas Bardolf, is stated in both in-
quisitions at seventeen years and more. Before John de Briggeford,
escheator of the counties of Nottingham and Derby, inquisition was taken
at Aylweston, on Monday next before the feast of St. Cuthbert the Bishop,
19 March, when William Bardolf of Wyrmegey, chevaler, was found to have
died seised of 26s. of annual rent due from free tenants in the soke of Ayl-
weston, in the county of Derby, as parcel of the Barony of Shelford, in the
county of Nottingham, "et dicunt quod idem Willelmus habuit die quo obiit
servicia sex feodorum et dimidii et quartern militis in soka predicta, perti-
nentia ad Baroniam predictam, et dicunt quod idem Willelmus obiit die lune
proximo ante festum Purificationis Beate Marie ultimo preterite, et quod
Thomas films predicti Willelmi est heres ejus propinquior, et etatis xvii. an-
norum et amplius." Another inquisition, of previous date, taken at Shel-

* The manor of Brattelby, in the hundred of Lawriss, parts of Lindsey, Lincolnshire,
is the first named in Domesday, among those belonging to Colsuain, and subsequently to
Robert de Haia, the owner of Pillingham, and was apparently considered as the caput of this
Honour. Nicholaa de Haia, the heiress of this family, was the wife of Gerard de Camvill,
whose tenure of this manor is thus set down in the Testa de Nevill. Idem Girardus
tenet de domino Rege feodum unius militis et quartam partem feodi unius militis in Fig-
lingham, unde Donus Bardolf, qui mortuus est, tenuit feodum unius militis de eo, et
Willelmus filius Thome quartam partem feodi unius militis per idem servicium. Idem,
Girardus tenet de domino Rege feodum unius militis in Kameringham et in Brotelby.
Idem, Girardus habet illud in dominico. The heiress of the family of Camville, Idonea,
was the wife of William Longespe, who held this Honour 20th Hen. III. 1235, as we
learn from the returns of the collectors of the aid granted in that year to the King, who
rendered accompt of the assessment in the county of Lincoln, parts of Lindsey, namely,
Jollan de Nevill and William de Baillol ; iidem reddunt compotum de viii marcis pro
Willelmo Longa Spata de feodo Nicholae de Haia. Et debet xvi libras de remanente xvi
feodorum de veteri feoffamento. In the reign of Edward the Third this Honour escheated
to the crown after the decease of Alice de Lacy, the widow of Thomas Earl of Lancaster,
in 1348 ; but the statement of the jury that it was held of Thomas Earl of Chester is
apparently erroneous, unless a son of that name had been born of Anne of Bohemia, the
first wife of Richard the Second, who died an infant subsequent to this date, and before
the time of its erection into a Principality, which was hereafter, according to an Act of
Parliament, 2 1st Ric. II. to serve as the appanage of the future heir apparent to the throne,
if God should grant the King this blessing.

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ford on Tuesday next before the feast of St. Gregory, Pope, 6th March, as
to his tenure of the manor of Stoke Bardolf, as parcel of the Barony of
Shelford, " exceptis x. marcis annul redditus cuidam Johanni Grene, persone
eeclesie de Plompton, a prefato Willelmo nuper concessis, percipiendis ad
festa Pasche et sancti Michaelis equaliter ad terminura vite dicti Johannis."
To which manor was belonging a passage by boat across Trent, worth
yearly beyond reprises xiic?. ; and the number of knights' fees held of his
moiety of the Barony of Shelford are put down at twenty-nine, and the age
of the heir as above. Before Thomas Blythe, of Blythe, escheator of the
county of Leicester, inquisition was taken at Halloughton, on Thursday
next before the feast of the Annunciation of Blessed Mary, 23rd March, as
to his tenure of one toft and three carrucates of land, " cum capitibus pra-
torum," of the honour of Peverell, by military service, with this finding, as
to his heir, " quod Thomas Bardolf miles est films et heres ipsius Willelmi
defuncti, et de etate octodecem annorum in festo Natalis Domini ultimo pre-
terito." These variances as to the day of the birth and the age of the heir
are of frequent occurrence in inquisitions, and from subsequent evidence it
is certain that he was at the time of his father's decease in his eighteenth
year, and, as he was born in Sussex, the date given in the inquisitions in
that county is probably correct, in which he is stated to have been born on
the 22nd day of December, 1368. In the following regnal year of Richard
II., writs with ihe King's teste at Westminster, 28th day of June, 1386,
were sent to the escheators above-named for the counties of Nottingham
and Lincoln, for inquiry as to the knight's fees and advowsons held by the
deceased in the same. Accordingly an inquisition was taken at Nottingham
on Saturday next before the feast of the Nativity of Blessed Mary, 10th
Ric. II., 1st Sept., as to his tenure of three fiefs and the twentieth part of
a knight's fief in that county; and another at Derby on Friday next before
the feast of St. Denis, 5th Oct., as to his tenure of six fiefs, a half and a
quarter of a fief, and of nine bovates of land in that county. In Nottingham-
shire he had held a moiety of the church of Gedling, worth twenty marks.
Another inquisition was taken at Caythorp on Friday next after the feast of
St. Thomas the Apostle, 28th Dec., as to his tenure of one fief in Thurleby,
held by the abbot of Peterborough, one in Cathorp and Brandon, held by
John de Rouceby, clerk ; one in Normanton and Willoughby, held by Tho-
mas Prendergast and Isabella de Normanton ; one in Willoughby near An-

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caster, held by John Scury ; a sixth part of one fief in Sutbrook, held by
John Tebaud ; a ninth part of a fief in Byker, held by John de Nevill,
knight, Lord of Raby ; two parts of one fief in Helpringham, held by the
same ; half a fief in Calthorp, held by John Inglish, and the twentieth part
of a fief in Freston, " et dicunt quod omnia feoda predicta sunt de feodo
vocato Vescy, et pertinent manerio de Calthorp cum pertinentiis," of which
the value was unknown to the jurors.* Appurtenant to the manor of
Westburgh were two knight's fiefs in Wrawby, Glandford Brigg, and El-
sham, held by Ralph de Bracebrigge, knight ; half a fief in Claypool, held
by Nicholas Hebden ; an eighth part of a fief in Claypool and Fenton, held
by Sir John Cressy, knight ; and an eighth part of a fief in Claypool and

* At the time of the Survey under William the Conqueror the land of Robert de Vescy
comprised a manor in Helpringham, wapentake of Aswardburn, of seven carrucates and
three bovates. A manor in Caythorp, having nineteen carrucates and two bovates in de-
mesne, and twenty-eight carrucates and six bovates of soke geldable. Land to as many
ploughs, i. e. forty-eight, to which were adjacent three hundreds, Frieston, Normanton,
and Willoughby, and in it were two churches and two priests, and half a mill, worth ten
shillings, and eight hundred and eighty acres of meadow. Land in Brandon and
Rauceby was also soke of this manor, and a half carrucate in Swayton was a berewick of
the same. A manor in Steveninge of six bovates, with two salt-pits of two shillings and
eight pence, and a fishery, yielding two hundred eels and eighteen acres of meadow. Six
bovates and a half of land in Heckington, in Aswardburn wapentake, was also soke of
Caythorp. In the Testa de Nevill for Lincolnshire, under Feoda Willelmi de Vescy, we
read as follows : " Willelmus de Blokevill tenet unum feodum in Turleby, Willelmus de
Latimer tenet tertiam partem unius feodi in Heckington. Cathorp, Friston, Normanton,
Seggebrock et dimidia Ancastra de feodo Willelmi de Vescy. Johannes Coleman unum
feodum in Cathorp. Radulphus films Johannis unum feodum in Normanton. Jollanus
de Evermue unum feodum in Wylgheby. Rogerus de Burleg dimidium feodum in Sug-
gebrock. Willelmus de Latimer nonam partem unius feodi in Bykir. Willelmus le
Latimer duas partes unius feodi in Elpringham. W T illelmus le Latimer tenet terram suam
in Swaneton, et quando scutagium est ad xl. solidos quelibet bovata dat viii. denarios."
The two churches mentioned in Domesday will have been those at Caythorp and Norman-
ton. Frieston is a hamlet of Caythorp ; Willoughby and Sudbroke are hamlets in the
vicinity of Ancaster. Thurlby near Bourne is in the hundred of Ness, and Heckington in
that of Aswardburn. Bicker is in the hundred of Kirton, and Swayton in that of Ave-
lund. The Steveninge of Domesday was in Bickere hundred, and gives name to the
manor of East Evening, in Swineshead. The heiress of William Lord Latimer, deceased
28 May, 4th Ric. II., was Elizabeth, the wife of John Lord Neville of Raby. Hamond-
beck was the name of a drain extending from Spalding to Boston haven, and passing
through Bicker.

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Stubton, held by William de Carleton. The advowsons included those of
the churches of Brynkell, Owenby near Spridlington, and a moiety of that
of Westborough.*

During the minority of Thomas Lord Bardolf, he was resident at the
castle of Tattershall, in the hundred of Gartree, parts of Lindsey, Lincoln-
shire, the seat of his father-in-law, Ralph Lord Cromwell, and hence it is
probable that his wardship and custody had been granted to this nobleman.
In the 13th year of Richard the Second a writ was sent to William Kim-
berley, escheator of the county of Essex, which bears date at Westminster,
25th Oct. 1389, enjoining him to make further inquiry as to the lands and
fiefs which had been those of his father. Pursuant thereto inquisition was
taken at Bradwell before him, on the llth Nov. following, which describes
William Bardolf of Wermegay, chevaler, deceased, to have died seized in the
vill of Bradwell near Tillingham of divers rents and lands held of the lord
the King in chief by military service, as also of the advowson of the church
of Bradwell, which was worth yearly in all issues, according to the true
value of the same, beyond reprises, 20 /*'., being all he held in the county.
The jurors also affirmed that Ralph Attewode, William Borenau, and Ralph
Judde had occupied the rent aforesaid, and taken the issues and profits
thereof from the time of the decease of the aforesaid William Bardolf, up to
the day of the taking of the inquisition, because no one had demanded the
said rent from them during the time aforesaid, and that the aforesaid Wil-

* The capital manor Westborough, in the hundred of Loveden, parts of Kesteven, Lin-
colnshire, was held conjointly by Geoffrey Alselin and Ralph his nephew at the Survey,
and at that time the parishes of Doddington, Claypool, and Stubton, adjoining the parish
of Westborough, were included in the soke of this manor. In the reign of Henry the
Third William Bardulf held in Westborough, Dodington, Stubeton, and Parva Thorp, in
chief of the lord the King, the fiefs of two knights. The other moiety was held by Robert
de Everingham in demesne of the King in chief of the fief of Caux. Fenton is adjacent
to Stubton, in the same hundred. The manor of Wrawby is in the hundred of Yar-
borough, parts of Lindsey, North Riding, and in the parish is the chapelry of Glandford
Brigg ; Elsham is an adjoining parish. In the Testa de Nevill we have this entry under
Wapentac de Jerdeburgo, Wragby : " Gilbertus de Arcubus tenet in Ellisham, Wraby,
et Kettelby feoda duorum militum de Roberto de Everingham, et idem Robertus de do-
mino Rege in capite de conquestu. Item Willelmus de Alneto, Walterus de Pertenay et
domina de Drayna tenent in Ellesham, Wraby, et Kettelby feoda duorum militum de Do-
mino Bardulfo et idem Bardulfus de domino Rege in capite de conquestu." Kettleby
is a hamlet in Bigby, adjacent to Wrawby.

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liam Bardolf died on the last day of January, 9th Ric. II., and that Thomas,
son of the aforesaid William, is his next heir, and was of the age of twenty
years on the fourth day of January last past. Before John Longeville,
escheator of the county of Buckingham, pursuant to a writ of same date,
inquisition was taken at Wendover on Tuesday next before the feast of St.
Martin the Bishop, 9th Nov., which describes him to have held 16s. of as-
sised rent in Bledlowe, from a certain water-mill, and 20s. from one carru-
cate of land; six shillings from the manor of Huckote near Aylesbury, as
parcel of the manor of Stowe-Bardolf, which manor without the county was
held of the King in chief, ten acres of arable land in the fields of Wendover,
called Irelondes Stokkyng, and 26s. 5d. of assised rent there, held of the
lord the Duke of York, as parcel of the manor of Wendover, by the service
of doing suit at the court of the said manor twice a year, which ten acres
were worth 50s. And the jurors say that the aforesaid William Bardolf
died on Monday next before the feast of the Purification of the Virgin
Mary, 9th Ric. II., and that Thomas Bardolf is son and next heir of the
aforesaid William, and is of the age of twenty -one years and more ; and
that Roger Skynner of Wendover, and divers other tenants, had kept back
these rents without title.* Pursuant to a second writ, bearing date at
Westminster, 1 1th April, 1390, an inquisition was taken before Henry
Bukyngham, escheator of the county of Northampton, on Saturday next
after the feast of St. John the Baptist, 25th June, 14th Ric. II., which
describes William Bardolf of Wermegay, chevaler, deceased, to have held,
whilst he lived, three parts of one fief of a knight in Middelton and Colyn-
trough, and to have died seized thereof, which said three parts Robert le
Veer then held as of the right of Anne, his wife, daughter and heir of Sir
Thomas Malsores, chivaler. deceased, which was worth twenty marks.
Pursuant to a third writ, bearing date at Westminster, 15th May following,
inquisition was taken before William Pappeworth, escheator of the counties
of Cambridge and Huntingdon, on Saturday next after the feast of St.

* Bledlow, a parish in the hundred of Aylesbury, Bucks, had been parcel of the land
of Hugh de Gournay, and by him given in alms with the church to the abbey of Bec-
Herluin, in Normandy, as this entry in the Testa de Nevill attests : " Elemosina. Blede-
low. Abbas del Bek Harlewyne tenet in elemosinam de feodo Hugonis de Gurnay." The
lands in Wendover came to the Bardolfs from the same family. Hulcot is a parish in the
same hundred, held of the baronies of Trailli and Kainho, but there is no record to show
how it came to be a member of the manor of Stow- Bardolf in Norfolk.

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Andrew the Apostle, 3rd Dec., 14th Ric. II., which describes the
deceased to have held a knight's fief in Enhale, in Cambridgeshire,
which Eudo de Harleston, son and heir of Roger de Harleston, held,
worth 10 li. and the fourth part of a fief in Newton in the hundred of
Wisbeach, which Edmund Gunvyl held, worth 20*.* Pursuant to a fourth
writ to William Kimberly, escheator in the counties of Essex and Hertford,
named above, dated 12th April, inquisitions were severally taken at Brent-
wood on Thursday the feast of the translation of St. Thomas the Martyr,
7th July, 14 Ric. II. which describes the deceased to have held one knight's
fief in Bradwell, which the Lord de Roos, who had taken to wife the heir
of Orby, held, worth 10 li., a twentieth part of a fief held by the heir of
John Le Cook, worth xv *., and a twelfth part of a fief held by Robert Bore-
fare and the heir of John de la Tane, worth 40s., and the advowson of the
church worth 20 &'.f ; and at Watton-atte- Stone on the 9th day of October

* Enhale, usually written Elme, and Newton, are parishes in the Isle of Ely, in the
vicinity of Wisbeach, and in the Testa de Nevill there is this entry as to the tenure in the
reign of Hen. III. " Baldewinus de Rosei tenet in Enhale, insimul cum terris suis in
Houtton, Crek, et Gydestern in com. Norfolcie feodum unius militis de Honore de
Wermegay. Baldewinus de Rosey tenet in Enhale quartam partem feodi unius militis de
Wermegay."

f The extensive parish of Bradwell, in the hundred of Dengy, the most ancient inhe-
ritance of the family of Bardolf in England, had been entirely subinfeuded at the date of
this entry in the Testa de Nevill. Willelmus, frater domini Regis Henrici, dedit Brade-
welle per servicium unius militis Thome Bardulf, et Thomas Bardulf dedit tres partes
ville tribus filiabus suis in maritagio, scilicet, Roberto de Sancto Remigio, Willelmo
Bacun, et Baldwino de Thoeni, et idem Thomas retinuit dimidium feodum militis, scilicet
quartam partem quam Baldwinus de Thoeni et Thomas de Borfare tenent et quartam
partem quam Simon Cocus tenet in eadem villa. Et quando Normanni amiserunt terras
suas dominus Rex Johannes dedit partem Willelmi Bacun et partem Roberti de Sancto
Remigio Thome filio Bernardi, et postea dedit eas Alicie de Garpenvilla, que modo tenet
per servicium militare. Thomas Fitz Bernard was husband of Alicia de Garpenvilla,
daughter and heir of William de Garpenville and Albritha de Rumenel, who with the
same Albritha had all her inheritance and the marshalsea of the King's birds, and this
succession was confirmed to him by charter of King John, dated at Woodstock, 18th day
of March, 5th of John, 1204. Mary, daughter and heir of John de Orby, who had been
the wife of Sir John de Roos of Helmsley, com. Ebor. chivaler, died without issue 18th
Ric. II. 1394-5, when Maud, the wife of Ralph Lord Cromewell, mother of Avicia Lady
Bardolf, was found to be her cousin and one of two coheirs. William Lord Bardolph
presented Henry Croydon on the 26th June, 1384, to the church of the Holy Trinity of
Bradwell juxta Mare, upon the resignation of Guido Mone.

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following, which describes him to have died seized of no fees in that county,
but that he had held the advowson of a free chapel in the vill of Watton-
atte-Stone, worth yearly 4 li.,* and the advowson of the church of Staple-
ford, worth yearly 6 li. IBs. &d. Pursuant to a fifth writ to Robert Sib-
thorp, escheator in the counties of Surrey and Sussex of the same date,
inquisition was taken at Crawley on Monday next after the feast of the
Holy Trinity, 30th May, 13 Ric. II. which describes him to have held on
the day of his decease ten knight's fiefs in the vill of Porteslade of Richard
Earl of Arundel and Surrey, which said fiefs Sir John de la Warre, chivaler,
held of the aforesaid William by the same service, each fee being of the
annual value of 5 li. when it should chance to fall in, and nothing else in
respect of fiefs and advowsons in those counties. f Pursuant to a sixth
writ, to William Flamavill, escheator of the counties of Warwick and
Leicester, dated 12th of May, inquisition was taken at Halloughton on
Tuesday next before the feast of the Holy Trinity, 23rd May, which
describes him as having died seized of one fief and a half in Billesdon,

* The chapel of St. Mary, in Watton, called Whemsted, was of the presentation of the
Lords Bardolf, and on the 18th Jan. 1375, William Lord Bardolf presented John Disse-
ford.

*f* Portslade, a parish in the hundred of Fishergate, rape of Lewes, had been constituted
the principal seat of the honour, consisting of ten fiefs in Sussex, which was apportioned
to Reginald de Warren, younger brother of William de Warren, third Earl of Surrey, and
upon the decease of his son and heir William de Warren, this inheritance, together with
the barony of Wermegay, derived from her grandmother, Alice de Wermegay, devolved
upon Beatrix, his only surviving child, then the widow of Doun Bardolf. Not long after
she remarried Hubert de Burgh, the chamberlain of King John, by whom she had sons,
who died in infancy, and was herself deceased before the close of the year 1214, 16 John.
Her son by her first husband was of age and in possession of his paternal inheritance in
the following year, but was, it seems, compelled by his step-father to make him a grant of
the capital manor of Porteslade, with its appendant knight's fees, which is enrolled on
the Pipe Roll of the second year of Henry III. 1218, under Northamptonshire. Hubert
de Burgh, created Earl of Kent by Henry III. died at Banstead in Surrey, 12th May,
27 Hen. III. 1243, and in the same year William Bardolf had livery of the honour of
Wormegay, held by him during life by the courtesy of England. His son and heir John
de Burgh, who never assumed the title of earl, succeeded to his lands in England, and in
the Testa de Nevill, under the heading Isti tenent de Honore Warrenne, que est in manu
Petri de Sabaudia, we read Johannes de Burgo decem feoda militum in Porteslade de
eodem Honore, omitting all mention of the mesne tenure of William Bardolf, whose re-
presentative was John Lord De la Warre at the time of the caption of this inquisition.

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Rolleston, and Skeffington, which John de Skeffington and others held,
worth 5 fo'., of one half fief in Keythorp, worth 26*. 8d., and the third part
of one fief in Halloughton, which Henry Earl of Derby held, 10*., and one
half fief and a ninth part in Halloughton and Gouteby, which Sir John de
Leyton, chevaler, held, worth 33ft. 4c?., and a half fief in Halloughton worth
26*. 8d., together with the advowson of the chapel of St. Michael in Hal-
loughton. Pursuant to a seventh writ to Thomas Neuton, escheator of the
counties of Nottingham and Derby, dated 12th April, inquisition was taken
at Derby on Tuesday next after the feast of St. Barnabas the Apostle,
16th June, which describes him as having died seized of a twelfth part of a
fief in Aylwaston and Alwaston, held by the abbot of Dale, worth 10*., of
one fief in Alwaston and Ambaston, held by Sir John Daubrigecourt,
chevaler, worth 6*., half a fief in Thurleston and Aylwaston, held by the
Abbot of Derley, worth 33*. 4d., two fiefs in Alwaston, Thurleston, Am-
baston, and Boleton, held by Sir Ralph Frecheville, chevaler, worth 10 #.,
half a fief in Alwaston, Thurleston, and Aylwaston, held by Adam Parker,
worth 30*., an eighth part of one fief in Thurleston, held by Thomas de
Cheleston, worth 10*., and one fief in Elton in le Peke, held by Sir Robert
Tiptoft, chevaler, worth 6*. 8d. And another inquisition, taken at Shel-
ford in Nottinghamshire, on Monday next before the feast of the Invention
of the Holy Cross, 2d May, describes him to have died seized of the six-
teenth part of a fief in Newton and Shelford, held by John de Loudham,
worth 10*., of a sixteenth part of a fief in Byrton Jorce, held by John de
Grey, Lord of Codnor, worth 10*., and half a knight's fief in Carleton,
Gedling, Colwych, and Stoke, a sixth part of a fief in Newton, and a six-
teenth part of a fief in Shelford, together with the advowson of the priory
of Shelford, worth yearly twenty marks, and a moiety of the church of
Gedeling, worth yearly ten marks. Pursuant to an eighth writ of the same
date to William Bothe, escheator of the county of Lincoln, inquisition was
taken at Caythorp on Friday after the feast of St. Mark the Evangelist,
26th April, which describes him to have died seized of one knight's fief in
Thurleby, held by John, son of William de Merston, worth 40*., of the
third part of one fief in Hekyngton, held by Elizabeth, late wife of John de
Neville of Raby, 33*. 4d., one fief, two parts and a ninth part of a fief in
Cathorpe, Friston, Normanton, Ancaster, and Brandon, half a fief in Nor-
manton and Willoughby near Ancaster, two parts of a fief in Swaton,

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Helpringham, and Byker, held by the same Elizabeth, 66s. 8c?., two fiefs in
Bracebrigg, Wraweby, Glandford Brigg, and Elsham, held by Ralph de
Bracebrigg 5 li. 9 half a fief in Sudbrok, half a fief in Bracebrigg and
Brynkel, a fourth part of a fief in Claypole, half a quarter of a fief in
Stubton and Claypole, same in Westburgh, a twelfth part of a fief in
Dodington, Stubton, and Westburgh, a tenth part of a fief in Caythorp and
Friston, with the moiety of the advowson of Westborough worth ten marks,
the advowson of the church of Owenby 5 li. and of the church of Brynkel
66*. Sd. Pursuant to a ninth writ to John Longville, escheator in the
counties of Bedford and Buckingham, of the same date, an inquisition was
taken at Wendover on Tuesday next before the feast of the Nativity of St.
John Baptist, 21st June, which describes him to have been seized of half a
fief in Wendover, held by Matthew la Vache, worth 50*., and another half
fief held by Roger Cook, and a messuage and lands in the same held by Sir
John Nernyt, chevaler, the chaplain of St. Leonard, and the prioress of
Merlawe, together with ten acres of land called Stokking, the wood of
Stonygrove, the meadow of Irlondshull in the same, two messuages, a
carrucate of land, and a mill in Bledlowe, and a rent out of the manor of
Huccote. Pursuant to a tenth writ to John Reed, escheator of the counties
of Norfolk and Suffolk, of the same date, an inquisition was taken at Beccles
in Suffolk, which describes him to have been seized of one knight's fee in
Euston, held by John Rokwode, worth 40*., one half in South Elmham,
Wysete, and Bungeye, held by Nicolas Brampton and his parceners, 20*.,
a fourth part of a fief in Ilketeshale, held by the Abbot of Derham, worth
20*., and one fief in Mendham, Medefield, Heywod, and Mykewod, which
the heirs of Hugh de Hastyngs held, 40*. Another inquisition was taken
at Shouldham in Norfolk, of his vast honour in that county, of too great
length for insertion here, and of which an ample account is contained in its
local history.

Agnes Lady Bardolf, after the decease of her first husband, became the
wife of Sir Thomas Mortimer, knight, who was impeached of high treason
in the Parliament begun at Westminster on Monday next after the feast of
the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, 21st Ric. II. 15th Sept. 1397, and
from thence adjourned on the 29th of Sept. to the town of Shrewsbury in
the quindene of St. Hilary next ensuing, 27th Jan. 1398, by Edward Earl
of Rutland, and the other lords Appellants, and by the Commons of the

CXXXVI PREFACE.

realm, by reason of his being then a fugitive. Wherefore it was ordained
by the King, with the assent of the estates of Parliament, that proclamation
be made, as well in the realm of England as in the land of Ireland, warning
him to appear before the King, wherever he might be, in England, within
three months next after the 24th day of September, to make answer and to
submit to the law in this behalf; and in case of default io be adjudged a
traitor with all his adherents. It had been alleged against him that, having
been made privy to the plot of Thomas Duke of Gloucester and Richard
Earl of Arundel, he, together with Thomas Earl of Warwick, assented to
their traitorous designs, and that these four of one accord had raised and
assembled a vast force at Harengeye in Finchley, com. Middlesex, on the
13th day of November, 1387 ;* and that in the following year at Hun-
tingdon, on Thursday next after the feast of St. Nicholas, 14th May, 1388,
the same four proposed to march against the King wheresoever he might
be within the realm, in order to withdraw from him their liege homage, to
depose him from his royal estate, and to take the crown into their custody ;
which purpose they would have accomplished, if they had not been hindered
by Henry of Lancaster, Earl of Derby, and Thomas Moubray, Earl of
Nottingham. During the interval of adjournment of the Parliament, an
inquisition was taken at Lewes, in the county of Sussex, 16th Oct. 21 Ric.
II. before William Bulcote clerk, John Elyngham the King's serjeant-at-
arms, and John Brook the King's escheator in that county, by virtue of
certain Letters Patent of the King directed to the same, to ascertain what
lands were in the tenure of Sir Thomas Mortimer, knight. The finding of
the jury was to this effect ; that he held as parcel of the dower of Agnes,
his wife, a third part of the manor of Barcombe, worth yearly 5 It. 9c?., as
also the manor of Birling as of the right of the aforesaid Agnes, who had

* Doctor Lingard, in his History of England, where he speaks of these transactions,
erroneously describes Sir Thomas Mortimer, chevaler, as Lord Thomas Mortimer ; and is
also wrong in the supposition that Hackney was the place of rendezvous. In the Nomina
Villarum, made pursuant to writs dated at Clipston, com. Notts, 5 March, 9 Edw. II. we
have among the names of vills in Middlesex, in the hundred of Ossulston, the following
entry, Villa de Fynchesle cum Harengeye et Sarneresbarnot, of which the Bishop of
London was lord. The last name is miswritten, but is doubtless identical with Friarne
Barnet, inasmuch as it is situate in the same liberties as the vill of Finchley, namely, those
of Finsbury and Wenlakesbarnet.

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been conjointly enfeoffed thereof, together with Sir William Bardolf, knight,
late her husband, for the term of the life of the same Agnes, also of a fee-
farm rent from Berwick and Wyngeton, worth yearly 13 li. 16s. 4d. Also
that the said Thomas Mortemer had taken all the issues and profits of the
above from the time of his forfeiture up to the day of the sentence pro-
nounced against him in the Parliament last past, and that the reversions of
the above after the death of the aforesaid Agnes were belonging to Sir
Thomas Bardolf of Wermegay, chivaler, son and heir of the aforesaid Wil-
liam Bardolf. As on the day of the meeting of the Parliament, Sir Thomas
Mortemer, whose appearance had been required by briefs sent by the Chan-
cellor of England, directed to Roger Mortemer, Earl of March, the King's
lieutenant in Ireland, or to his deputy, as well as to every sheriff of England,
which also enjoined them to seize his person, wherever he might be, came not
nor surrendered himself pursuant to these commands, he was adjudged to be
a traitor, and convicted of all the treasons which the appellants had laid to
his charge, and all his possessions, which had been belonging to him on the
said 13th day of November, 11 Ric. II. 1387, or since, were declared to
be forfeited to the King. All the proceedings in this Parliament were
annulled in the first Parliament of the reign of Henry IV. held at West-
minster on Monday the feast of St. Faith the Virgin, 6 Oct. 1399, and all
those forejudged restored to their names and inheritances, or their heirs, if
deceased in the interval. It is doubtful if Sir Thomas Mortemer survived
to that time, nor has his lineage been satisfactorily developed ; but our
knowledge that the place of his retreat was Ireland, and that prior to his
impeachment he had been a leader of the rebels congregated in the highlands
of that island, renders it probable that he was of near affinity to the Earl of
March, who, by marriage with the heiress of the Earls of Ulster, had large
estates in Ulster and Connaught. Prior to the 9th January, 4 Hen. IV. 1403,
he was deceased, as the will of Agnes Lady Bardolf, widow of Sir Thomas
Mortimer, is of that date, and made during a residence in the dwelling-house
of Richard de Vere, Earl of Oxford, then a minor, in the parish of St. Augus-
tine-Papey, in the city of London. One of its provisions directs her body
to be buried in the priory of the Holy Trinity without Aldgate, and another
contains an appointment of Henry Earl of Northumberland, and of her son
Thomas Lord Bardolf, to be supervisors of the same, thus affording the
earliest evidence of the intimacy of that illustrious nobleman with her

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cxxxviii PREFACE.

family, which proved in the end so fatal. In the same year she obtained
the King's licence to undertake a pilgrimage to Rome and Cologne, and
elsewhere, in fulfilment of her vow, which was witnessed by him at his
manor of Eltham on the 14th day of March, and is inserted on the Roll of
Letters Patent, 4 Hen. IV. under the heading Pro Agnete Bardolf, as
follows :

" R[ex] universis et singulis Admirallis, &c. ad quos &c. salutem. Suppli-

cavit nobis Agnes Bardolf, Domina de Wormegey, nuper uxor Thome Morty-

mer, chevaler, quod, cum ipsa vota peregrinacionis versus urbes Rome et Co-

lonie ac alias partes exteras pro salute sua emiserit, velimus eidem Agneti ut

ipsa versus urbes et partes predictas in quocumque portu regni nostri Anglie,

sibi placuerit, cum duodecim hominibus et duodecim equis in comitiva sua, ac

bonis, rebus et hernesiis suis transire et se extra regnum nostrum predictum,

quousque peregrinacionem suam predictam compleverit, absentare, necnon

eidem Agneti, quod ipsa trescentas libras pro expensis suis in hac parte

mercatoribus Janue sive aliis personis quibuscumque infra regnum nostrum

Anglie solvere, et eisdem mercatoribus sive aliis personis predictis quod

ipsi litteras cambii sociis suis in partibus exteris commorantibus pro summa

ilia eidem Agneti in partibus illis solvenda bene facere valeant, annuere

graciose ; nos, supplicationi predicte annuentes, licenciam illam tarn prefate

Agneti quam predictis mercatoribus tenore presenciarum duximus conce-

dendam. Et ideo vobis mandamus quod ipsam Agnetem cum hominibus,

equis, ac bonis, rebus et hernesiis suis predictis ex quocumque portu regni

nostri Anglie sibi placuerit versus urbes et partes predictas ex causa pre-

dicta libere et absque impedimento aliquo transire permittatis, aliquibus

mandatis sive ordinacionibus in contrarium factis non obstantibus, dum ta-

men eadem Agnes aut homines sui predicti aliqua nobis seu regno nostro

Anglie prejudicialia secum non deferant, nee iidem mercatores aut alie per-

sone predicte aurum vel argentum in massa vel moneta versus partes exteras

colore presentis licencie nostre non transmittant quovis modo. In cujus,

&c. T[este] R[ege] apud manerium Regis de Eltham xiiii die Marcii."

This pilgrimage was apparently vowed in hope of recovering her health,

and its accomplishment was doubtless prevented by increasing illness, which

terminated fatally on Tuesday next after the feast of St. Barnabas the

Apostle, 12th June in the same year. The date of the writs to the

escheators of the several counties in which she held lands, three days

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after her decease, affords proof that she died in London, and not on her
journey. An inquisition taken at Aylesbury, com. Buck, before William
Bosoun, escheator in the counties of Bedford and Buckingham, on Wednes-
day next after the feast of the nativity of St. John the Baptist, 27th June,
1403, describes her to have died seised in Wendover of the dotation of Wil-
liam Bardolph, chivaler, of ten acres of land, worth yearly 21s. and of an
assised rent of 36s. lid. in Wendover, Aston-Clynton, Bledlow, and Huk-
kote, and of seven hides of land in Eyton and Birchemore with their appur-
tenances in the county of Bedford, together with one knight's fief and a tenth
part in Wendover, of which the reversion was belonging after the decease
of the aforesaid Agnes to Thomas Bardolf, knight, son and heir of the
aforesaid William Bardolf then of the age of 25 years and upwards.*
Another inquisition, taken at Hertford on Thursday the eve of the feast of
the Apostles Peter and Paul, 28th June, before John Squyry, escheator of
the county, contains this finding ; that William Bardolf, chivaler, late hus-
band of Agnes named in the writ, had been seised of the manor of Crowe-
bergh with its appurtenances in the county aforesaid in his demesne as of
fee, which said William by his certain charter gave and granted the afore-
said manor with its appurtenances to John Cley clerk, John Grene clerk,
Robert Alesaundre, and Nicholas Horspath, their heirs and assigns ; and
after the decease of the said Sir William Bardolf, knight, the said Agnes
had possession of a third part of the manor aforesaid by writ of dower out
of the court of Lord Richard, late King of England, of which the reversion
was belonging to the said feoffees, their heirs and assigns, worth yearly 30s.
4d. and held of Sir Edward de Benstede, chivaler, by service unknown to
the jurors. f The like tenure of the manor of Bardolf in Watton-atte-Stone,

* In the Nomina Villarum for the county of Buckingham, 9 Edw. II. 1316, we read,
in Hundredo de Aylesbury ville de Broughton cum Hulcote, villa una, Abbas de Mus-
sendene et "Walterus le Graunter ; Astone Clintone, Willelmus de Monte Acuto ; et
Wendover Burgus, Robertus de Fenes ; and in Hundredo de Rysebergh Bledelawe,
dominus Abbas de Bek-Harlewyne. For the county of Bedford in Hundredo de Man-
nesheved cum dimidio Hundredo de Stanebrugge sunt ville de Hoghtone Regis, Eytone,
Wylesnade et Toternho sunt tres ville. Willelmus la Souche dominus. Birchemore
cum Woubourne Chapele est una villa. Willelmus la Zouche et Abbas de Wouburne.
Birchmoor was originally a parish, having a church dedicated to St. Mary, now destroyed,
and the chapelry of St. Mary Woburne was within it, and had been appropriated to the
Abbey of Woburne.

*f The manor of Crowebergh was parcel of the honour of Valoines, as we learn from an

Cxi PREFACE.

and oftheadvowson of the free chapel of Blessed Mary the Virgin there,
in the same county, by Sir William Bardolf, knight, late husband of
the said Agnes, is set forth as above ; which manor Sir William Bardolf,
knight, by his charter, having obtained the licence from King Edward the
Third, had given and granted to Sir Robert Bardolf, knight, for the term of
his life, after whose decease it was to revert to the grantor and his heirs.
Upon the decease of these parties, the manor with its appurtenances had
been seised into the hand of Richard late King of England the Second ; of
which one third part, with the advowson of the chapel, had been assigned
to the aforesaid Agnes in dower, ex assignatione cancellarie ejusdem domini
Regis Ricardi, which was worth yearly 66*. 8d.* The inquisition taken
at Lewes in the county of Sussex before Richard Atte W T ude, the escheator,
on the 7th day of July, 4 Hen. IV. describes the said Sir William Bardolf,
chevaler, late husband of her, the said Agnes, named in the writ, as
having been seized in his demesne as of fee of the manor of Berlinges, and
of 12/8. of assised rent with the appurtenances in Berwick in the county
aforesaid, which said manor and rent the said William by his certain
charter, of which the date is at Berlynges aforesaid, on the 12th day of
January, 51 Edw. III. 1377, having obtained licence, had given and granted
to Nicholas de Carrew, Robert Bardolf, Adam Wigmere, and Robert son
of William Alisaundre, to have and hold the same during the whole life of
the aforesaid Agnes to her use, with reversion after her decease to him the
said William Bardolf and his heirs for ever, yearly value 16 li. 8s. lO^.f
Another inquisition taken at Otteleye in the county of Suffolk on Thursday
next before the feast of the Apostles Peter and Paul, before William Apple-
yerd, escheator of Norfolk and Suffolk, describes her to have died seized of

entry in the Testa de Nevill, enumerating the fiefs of that honour, Alicia Wyschard tenet
quartam partem unius militis in Crobherwe ; and in the sixth of Edward I. Alexander de
Baliol claimed divers liberties in his manors of Benyngton, Waltone, Box, and Croubery,
and William Comyn in Sacombe, which they held in purparty of the inheritance of Chris-
tiana de Valoines. This manor is probably identical with that of Greenbury in the parish
of Barley.

* The chapel of St. Mary, Watton-att-Stone, was situate in the hamlet of Whemsted
or Wimsted in that parish, and on the presentation of Sir William Bardolf, knight, John
Disseford was instituted to the same 18 Jan. 1375.

t This charter is proof of the residence of William Lord Bardolf and the Lady Agnes
Poynings his wife, at the manor of Birling, at the time of its date, and hence it will have
been at this manor in Sussex that Thomas Lord Bardolf was born.

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a moiety of the manor of Kingeshall in Clopton, and contains this finding ;
" et dicunt quod dicta medietas manerii de Kingeshall assignata fuit dicte
Agneti in dotem, et quod dictum manerium est de tali tenura quod mulieres
debent dotari de medietate ejusdem manerii ex consuetudine, que consuetudo
usitata fuit a tempore cujus memoria non existit."* Another inquisition,
taken at Shouldham, com. Norf. on Wednesday next after the feast of the
Apostles Peter and Paul, 4th July, describes her to have died seized of the
manors of Wermegay, Stow Bardolf, Fareswell manor in Fincham, Cante-
ley, and Strumpshaw, with their appurtenances, of the inheritance of Sir
Thomas Bardolf, knight, son and heir of William Bardolf, chivaler, late
the husband of the said Agnes, ex assignacione domini Ricardi nuper Regis
Anglic secundi in cancellaria sua ; as also of the manor of North Rungton
by grant of the feoffees named above, bearing date 20th March, llth Ric.
II. 1388, and of a third part of the manor of Castre in Flegg, near Yar-
mouth, of which the reversion was belonging to her second son, Sir William
Bardolf, knight. The knight's fees and advowsons in this county assigned
to her are also set down, the latter comprising those of the priory of W'or-
megay, and of the churches of Westbrigg, Wynberg, Garveston, Canteleye,
and North Rungton ; f and in Lincolnshire a third part of the manor of
Ruskington was also of her dower.

* The name of Kingeshalle, attached to this manor, proves it to have been of ancient
demesne, and probably a royal residence prior to the exchange at the time it was in the
King's hands.

^ The priory of Wormegay, or Wermegay, was of the order of St. Augustin for Black
Canons, and dedicated to the Virgin Mary, the Holy Cross, and St. John the Evangelist, of
the foundation of either Reginald de Warren or of his son William de Warren ; there being
no existing record of its first endowment, and totally omitted by Dugdale in his Monasticon.
It stood in a close, opposite to the castle of Wormegay on the left hand as you enter the vil-
lage from the east, the priory being on the north side, and the castle on the south. The
parish church of Wormegay, dedicated to St. Michael, stands near a mile east of the village,
and had been appropriated to the priory from the earliest times. This parish is in the
hundred of Clacklose and half, as is also West Briggs, which adjoins it ; to the church of
which village, dedicated to St. Botolph, Sir Thomas Mortimer presented John Walton in
1397. Whinburgh is a parish in Mitford hundred and half, to the church of which vil-
lage Sir Thomas Mortimer presented John Fyssher in 1391, and the King in 1397, on the
forfeiture of Sir Thomas Mortimer. Garveston, in the same, has its church dedicated to
St. Margaret, to which Sir Thomas Mortimer presented John Salyng, alias Alger, in 1392,
and John Newman in 1392. Cantley, a parish in Blofield hundred, has its church under

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Thomas Lord Bardolf made proof of his age in the 13th year of
Richard II. 1390, and having done homage had livery of the portion of his
inheritance not assigned in dower to his mother. On the accession of
Henry the Fourth he obtained a confirmation of the grant made by King
Edward the Second to Roger Dammory, which is inserted by way of Inspexi-
mus on the Patent Roll of the first year of his reign, part 7, m. 2^, with
this addition on the part of the reigning sovereign. " Nos, autem, conces-
sionem predictam ratam habentes et gratam, earn pro nobis et heredibus
nostris, quantum in nobis est, acceptamus, approbamus, ratificamus, ac
dilecto et fideli nostro Thome de Bardolf, consanguineo et heredi predicti
Rogeri, et heredibus de corpore ipsius Thome exeuntibus, imperpetuum confir-
mamus, prout littere predicte rationabilitertestantur ; ita tamen quod si pre-
fato Rogero vel heredibus suis per ipsum proavum nostrum vel heredes vel
successores suos inde particulatim ante hec tempora provisum fuisset, tune de
dictis centum marcis annuis tantum decidat quantum eidem Rogero vel
heredibus suis per ipsum proavum nostrum vel heredes suos, aut per Domi-
num Ricardum, nuper Regem Anglic secundum post conquestum, provisum
existat, aut prefato Thome vel dictis heredibus suis per nos vel heredes nos-
tros provisum fuerit in futurum. In cujus rei testimonium has litteras
nostras fieri fecimus patentes. Teste Rege apud Westmonasterium xxiiii
die Maii anno regni nostri primo. Per breve de privato sigillo et pro xl a
solidis solutis in hanaperio."

Notwithstanding the good will evinced by this confirmation on the part
of the new sovereign towards Thomas Lord Bardolf, he subsequently
embraced the cause of the opponents of his government, being thereto
induced through his friendship for Henry Earl of Northumberland, who
was joined with himself as supervisor of his mother's will. The following
passage in a letter from the council addressed to the King, in which they
acknowledge the receipt of the King's letters, dated at Worcester, 8th day

the same patroness, to which Sir Thomas Mortimer presented Peter Whyten in 1391 ; and
in 1406, after the death of Agnes Lady Bardolf, Sir William Bardolf, knight, her second
son, lord of this manor, presented John Dowes. North Rungton, a parish in Freebridge
hundred, has its church dedicated to All Saints, to which Agnes Lady Bardolf presented
Thomas Mayster in 1402, thus furnishing evidence of the decease of Sir Thomas Mortimer,
her second husband, as from the time of his forfeiture to his death the presentations were
made by the Crown.

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of May, 1405, contains the earliest notice of his defection : " d'autre part,
notre tres redoute et soverein seigneur, plese vous savoir que a la reception
de les susdites voz lettres nous n'avions receu novelles autres que nous
n'escrivismes devers vous pardevant ; mais tot aprez reportez nous estoit
tant par aucuns du conseil de Monseigneur Johan, votre fitz, come par
autres dignes de foy, coment le Sire de Bardolf se transporta privement ja
tarde vers les parties du Northe, ses manoirs et places tout desolees et les
biens et chateux d'iceux emportez, dount nous nous merveillons grandement,
puisque, come nous pensons, il avoit en commandement de part vous de soy
transporter a present en vostre compagnie es parties de Gales pur ceste
foiz." Thereupon the King moved towards the north, and when at Derby
wrote, on the 28th day of May following, to his council in these terms ;
" Reverents peres en Dieu et treschiers et foiaulx. Nous vous salvons
souvent, et pensons bien qu'il est venuz ja tarde a votre notice comment le
Conte de Northumberland, le Conte Marischal, et le Sire de Bardolf, et
autres de leur adherentz es parties del Northe, se sont levez encontre nostre
mageste roiale, et coment le dit Conte Mareschal tient le champe ovec toute
le povoir qu'il a et puet lever de notre peuple en le pays sur son chemyn,
pluseurs maugre leur." The first assembly of the forces of the insurgents
took place at Topcliff, Northallerton, and Cleaveland, under these leaders,
Sir John Fauconberg, Sir Ralph Hastings, Sir John Fitz-Randolf, and Sir
John Colvyle of the Dale, chivalers, who, prior to the date of this letter,
had been routed and put to flight and made prisoners by the royal forces
under Prince John of Lancaster, the Earl of Westmoreland, the Lord Fitz-
hugh, and others. The next assembly is that alluded to in the King's
letter under the Archbishop of York, the Earl Marshal and of Nottingham,
Sir William Plumpton, Sir Robert Lamplugh, and Sir Robert Persay,
chivalers, at Shipton on the Moor, a hamlet in the parish of Overton,
within the forest of Galtres, where, on the 29th day of May, these several
leaders were made prisoners through treachery. Upon the receipt of intel-
ligence of this disaster, the Earl of Northumberland and Lord Bardolf
retreated into Scotland, and before the second day of July the castles of
Prudhoe and Warkworth had been yielded up to the King. For this mis-
conduct, in the Parliament begun at Westminster 1st March, 7 Hen. IV.
1406, and finished at the same place 22nd Dec. 8 Hen. IV. Thomas
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Saturday, the fifth day of December, declared to be convicted of treason, as
being leagued with Henry Earl of Northumberland, " esteant de sa covyne
aide et conseil," in this form " E sur ceo, mesme le samady en le dit Par-
lement, les ditz Henry de Percy et Thomas Bardolf, solempnement
demandez, ne viendroient, ne soy rendroient solonc les ordenances et pro-
clamations avant ditz ; sur quoy les ditz Seigneurs Temporelx lors
esteantz en mesme le Parlement agarderont qe les ditz Henry de Percy
nadgairs Count de Northumberland et Thomas Bardolf nadgairs Sire de
Bardolf, pur certeins tresons par eux faitz a mesme nostre Seigneur le Roy,
encontre leur ligeance, c'est assavoir, en tant que les ditz Henry de Percy
et Thomas Bardolf firent les Escotz, enemys du Roy, entrer la ville notre
dit Seigneur le Roy de Berwick, et mesme la ville arder, et entant que le
dit Henry de Percy, per conseill du dit Thomas Bardolf, ordeina et con-
stitua par ses lettres patenz desoutz le seal de ses armes certeins ses ambas-
satours pur communer treter et concorder ovesque le dit Robert, nadgairs
Roy d'Escose,* et auxi ovec certeins ambassatours de France, en destruc-
cion notre dit Seigneur le Roy a leur poair et de son Roialme d'Engleterre,
et auxi entant qe les ditz Henry de Percy et Thomas Bardolf feurent
notoirement adherantz et de conseil et covyn ovesque les Escotz, enemys
du Roy, et puis ovec les rebelles notre dit Seigneur le Roy en Gales, et
pur diverses autres tresons faites encontre la persone notre dit Seigneur le
Roy par les ditz Henry de Percy et Thomas Bardolf, encontre lour
ligeance, soient convictz de mesmes les tresons, come traitours a notre dit
Seigneur le Roy, et qu'ils, en cas qu'ils purroient estre pris, soient treinez,
penduz et decolles a la volunte notre dit Sire le Roy. Et que notre dit
Seigneur le Roy ait la forfaiture de toutz les chastells, seigneuries, manoirs,
terres, tenements, rentz, services, fees et avoesons et quelconques autres
possessions es queux les dits Henry de Percy et Thomas Bardolf, ou
1'autre de eux, furont ou fuit enfeffe ou seizez en fee-simple, si bien en
demesne come en reversion, le sisme jour de May, Fan de regne notre dit
Seigneur le Roy sisme, ou depuis, et de toutz les chastells, &c. es queux
autres furent enfeflez ou seisez joint ovec eux, ou 1'autre d'eux, ou autres
solement, si bien en demesne come en reversion, a 1'oefs des ditz Henry de
Percy et Thomas Bardolf ou 1'autre d'eux, le dit sisme jour de May, ou

* Robert III. King of Scotland, died on Palm Sunday, 4th April, 1406.

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depuis. Et que notre dit Sire le Roy ait auxi la forfaiture de toutz les
biens et chateux, queux furent as ditz Henry de Percy et Thomas Bardolf,
ou 1'autre d'eux, le dit sisme jour de May, ou depuis." In the following
year a servant of Lord Bardolf, named John, was taken with letters, and
arrested and committed in charge to the Lord de Grey, in whose custody
he remained from the 6th day of July up to the 20th day of February, for
230 days. In this interval of time, early in the year 1408, the Earl and
Lord Bardolf, deceived by false intelligence, entered Northumberland, and,
having been joined by several of the adherents of the Earl, advanced
forward into Yorkshire. At Thirsk they published a manifesto containing
the reason of their being in arms, and at Knaresborough were joined by
Sir Nicholas Tempest, whence they continued their route through Wetherby,
over Bramham Moor, in the direction of Hazlewood, where they were en-
countered by the forces under the command of Sir Thomas Rokeby, sheriff
of Yorkshire, whom they had supposed to be friendly to their cause.* On
the field of battle, fought on the 19th day of February, Sunday next after
the feast of St. Valentine, the Earl of Northumberland was slain, and Lord
Bardolf so severely wounded that he expired before the midnight hour had
passed, a prisoner in the hands of the victors. According to the sentence
above recorded, the heads of these noblemen were severed from their bodies,
and the remaining portions of the headless trunks divided into four parts.
On the Close Roll of the 9th year of Henry IV., under the heading De
capitibus et quarterns Henrici Percy, nuper comitis Northumbrie, et
domini de Bardolf, super pontem Londoniarum ponendis," we read as
follows :

* This is the account furnished by the Scoti-chronicon of Fordun, who was apparently
a believer in the report that Richard the Second was alive and then a fugitive in Scotland,
as he declares that many from England in those days fled from the court of Henry the
Fourth and came into Scotland to King Richard, and among them Henry Percy the elder,
with his grandson Henry the younger, the Lord Bardolf, and two Welsh bishops
namely, Griffin Bishop of Bangor, and David Bishop of St. Asaph, and the Abbot of
Welbeck. He also describes Sir Thomas Rokeby erroneously as a certain Richard Rukby,
a vassal of the Earl of Northumberland, and hence a certain degree of discredit attaches
to his story of the enterprise having been prompted by his treacherous advice. It is
absurd to suppose that King Henry IV. would have appointed any of the liegemen of the
Earl of Northumberland to the post of sheriff, whose treason dated from an earlier period
than the year he was in office.

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" Rex vicecomitibus Londoniarum, salutem. Precipimus vobis firmiter
injungentes quod capud Henrici Percy nuper comitis Northumbrie et unum
quarterium corporis Thome nuper Domini de Bardolf, proditorum nos-
trorum, cum capud et quarterium illud vobis ex parte nostra liberata fuerint,
ea super pontem civitatis predicte modo quo ante hec tempora in hujusmodi
casu fieri consuevit poni faciatis. Teste R[ege] apud Westmonasterium
x die Marcii. per breve de privato sigillo.

" Rex Majori et Ballivis civitatis sue Lincolnie, salutem. Precipimus
vobis firmiter injungentes, quod capud Thome nuper Domini de Bardolf et
unum quarterium corporis Henrici Percy nuper comitis Northumbrie pro-
ditorum nostrorum, cum capud et quarterium illud ex parte nostra liberata
fuerint, ea in locis civitatis predicte, modo quo ante, &c." (ut supra.)

The other quarters of the Earl of Northumberland were sent to York,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Berwick-upon-Tweed ; and those of Lord Bar-
dolf to York, Shrewsbury, and to the town of Lynn, in the vicinity of his
castle of Wermegay.

The writs of " diem clausit extremum " to the several escheators to take
inquisitions as to the lands held by Thomas Bardolf, chivaler, bear date at
Westminster, 30th day of May, 9th Hen. IV. 1408 ; pursuant to which
one was taken at Little Hadham, on Tuesday next before the feast of St.
Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist, 18th September, before William Clavyll,
King's escheator in the county of Hertford, in which the pedigree is
deduced from the time of Edward the First, and the entry of the said
Thomas Bardolf, named in the writ, into the manor of Watton-atte- Stone
stated, who had issue a certain Anne, then the wife of William Clifford,
chevaler, and Joan, then the wife of William Phelipp, and continued in his
estate and possession of the said manor with its appurtenances, until the
same was seized into the hands of the then Lord the King by the judgment
passed against the aforesaid Thomas Bardolf, chivaler, in the Parliament of
the said now King, begun at Westminster in the seventh year of his reign,
and there closed in the eighth year of his reign. The jurors also found
that the aforesaid Thomas Bardolf, chevaler, died on Sunday next after
the feast of St. Valentine last past ;* and that the aforesaid Anne, aged

* The feast of St. Valentine occurs on the fourteenth of February, and in the year
1408 it was on a Tuesday, and hence the Sunday next after was the 19th day of
February, the eleventh calends of March, and not the second calends of March, as it

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nineteen and more, and the aforesaid Joan, aged eighteen and more, were his
daughters and next heirs ; value of the manor 20 li. 9 and no other lands held
by him in that county. Another inquisition was taken at Uckfield, on
Saturday next after the feast of All Saints, 10 Hen. IV. 3rd Nov., before
Robert Oxenbrugge, King's escheator in Sussex, on which the several
tenures of the manors of Barcomb and Plumpton are deduced in like
manner, setting forth the fines and charters under which they were
respectively held by the deceased, and the names and ages of the heirs as
above, which manors were held of Thomas Earl of Arundel, as of the
barony of Lewes, by military service, both being worth forty marks
yearly. A third was taken at Oxford, on the 1st Oct., 10 Henry IV.
before Robert James, the escheator of that county, as to the manor of
Holton, which was acquired under the grant of King Edward II., and
which had been held by the deceased of the Prince of Wales, as of the
honour of St. Valery, by the service . of a rent of one penny yearly, and
worth ten pounds. The inquisition as to the manor of Halloughton, com.
Leic., was taken on Thursday next before the feast of St. Michael, 27th
Sept., 9 Hen. IV. before Alvered Trussell, the King's escheator, on which
we have this finding : " dicunt super sacramentum suum quod Dominus
Henricus, nuper Rex Anglie, Dux Normannie et Aquitanie et Comes
Andegavie, per litteras suas patentes juratoribus predictis ostensas dedit
manerium de Halloughton cum pertinentiis cuidam Thome Bardolf et here-
dibus suis, qui exirent de corpore filie Radulfi Hanselyn, que quidem filia
nominabatur Rosa, per nomen tocius terre que fuit de hereditate Radulfi
Hanselyn, avi predicte filie, videlicet, illam terram, que fuit escaeta prefati
nuper Regis et sibi remansit donanda per judicium curie sue." From
these parties, who held this manor by virtue of this gift, the pedigree is
deduced as in the former inquisitions, and its value put down at fifteen
marks. In like manner, upon the inquisition taken at Shelford on Monday
next after the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, 17th Sept. 1408,
before Robert Twyford, escheator of the county of Nottingham, King
Henry the Second is stated to have given the manors of Shelford and
Stokebardolf to the same ancestor of the deceased, and from him the

stands printed in the Ipodigma Neustriae of Walsingham, which error has been blindly
followed by every modern writer, and doubtless arose from a misconception that the
Arabic number 11 was the Roman numeral II.

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pedigree is deduced to this last possessor, and the value of these manors
stated to be 20 li.

In the month of April of this same regnal year the King yielded to the
request of the widow of Thomas Lord Bardolf to allow the head and body
of her ill-fated husband to be interred, as we learn from this entry on the
Roll of Letters Patent, headed " De capite et quarteriis sepeliendis."

" Rex Maiori et Vicecomitibus Londoniarum, salutem. Supplicavit
nobis Avicia, que fuit uxor Thome nuper Domini de Bardolf, ut eidem
Avicie capud et corpus ejusdem Thome ad ea in sacra sepultura sepelienda
concedere velimus, nos supplicacioni predicte annuentes vobis mandamus
quod unum quarterium corporis predicti Thome supra pontem civitatis
predicte de mandate nostro nuper positum, prefate Avicie, aut ejus attornato,
hoc breve nostrum vobis deferenti, liberetis sepeliendum in forma predicta.
Teste Rege apud Pountefreyt xiii. die Aprilis. per ipsum Regem."

Similar command was sent to the mayor and bailiffs of Lincoln to deliver
up the head upon the gate of their city ; as also to the mayor and bailiffs
of the town of Lynn ; to the mayor and sheriffs of the city of York ; and to
the bailiffs of the King's town of Shrewsbury, to deliver up the other three
quarters for interment, with the King's teste of the same date. The head
and body of Henry Earl of Northumberland were also delivered up for
interment, pursuant to similar letters patent, bearing date at Westminster
on the second day of July in the same year. In the following year the
claims of the two husbands of the daughters of Thomas Lord Bardolf, to
share the inheritance of the attainted baron their father, found favour with
the sovereign, as we learn from these writs.

" Henricus dei gratia Rex Anglie et Franeie et Dominus Hibernie
Escaetori suo in comitatu Lincolnie, salutem. Quia Willelmus Phelipp, qui
Johannam, unam nliarum et heredum Thome nuper Domini de Bardolf,
defuncti, qui de nobis tenuit in capite, duxit in uxorem, dicit prefatam
Johannam plene etatis esse, et petit a nobis terras et tenementa que sunt de
hereditate sua sibi reddi, per quod volumus quod eadem Johanna, que in
castro de Tatersale in comitatu predicto nata et in ecclesia parochiali de
Tatersale baptizata fuit, ut dicitur, etatem suam probet coram te. Et ideo
tibi precipimus, quod ad certos diem et locum, quos ad hoc provideris, pro-
bacionem illam per sacramenta tarn militum quam aliorum proborum et
legalium hominum de comitatu predicto, per quos probacio ilia capi et

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veritas etatis predicte melius scire poterit et inquiri, capias. Et proba-
tionem illam sic captam nobis in cancellaria nostra sub sigillo tuo et sigillis
eorum per quos facta fuit sine dilation e mittas et hoc breve. Teste me
ipso apud Westmonasterium, xx die Maii anno regni nostri decimo. (20th
May, 1409)."

"Henricus, &c. Quia Willelmus Clifford, chevaler, qui Annam, unam
(ut supra, mutatis mutandis.) Teste, ut supra."

Pursuant to these writs proofs of the age of these two daughters, of whom
Anne was the eldest, were severally taken at Coningsby, an adjoining parish
to Tattershall, in this form, as is set forth in the records returned into the
Chancery.

" Probacio etatis Anne unius filiarum et heredum Thome, nuper Domini
de Bardolf defuncti, qui de Rege tenuit in capite, quern Willelmus Clifford,
chevaler, duxit in uxorem, capta apud Conyngesby in comitatu Lincolnie
die veneris proximo post festum Corporis Christi anno regni Regis Henrici
quarti decimo (7 June, 1409), coram Johanne Henege Escaetore domini
Regis in comitatu predicto, virtute brevis dicti domini Regis eidem escaetori
directi et huic probation! consuti, per sacramentum duodecim juratorum
subscriptorum et super etatem prefate Anne examinatorum ; videlicet,
Rogeri Kelke, etatis Ix annorum, pro se de etate prefate Anne examinati,
qui dicit quod prefata Anna est etatis xix annorum et amplius. Requisitus
qualiter hoc scit, dicit quod eadem Anna nata fuit in castro de Tatersale in
comitatu predicto et in ecclesia parochiali ejusdem ville baptizata in festo
nativitatis sancti Johannis Baptiste anno regni domini Ricardi, nuper Regis
Anglie xiii; quo die idem Rogerus ibidem presens fuit et vidit quendam
fontem de novo factum in dicta ecclesia, in quo fonte dicta Anna erat prima
persona que baptizabatur postquam sic de novo factus fuit, ut dicebatur, et
sic de etate predicte Anne bene recolit et cognoscit. Willelmi Taillour,
etatis Ix annorum, ut premittitur examinati, qui dicit quod prefata Anna est
etatis xix annorum et amplius. Requisitus qualiter hoc scit, dicit quod ipse
dicto die nativitatis et baptizacionis predicte Anne fuit in ecclesia predicta et
tenuit quendam cereum tempore predicte baptizacionis, ac etiam fecit vestes,
quibus Avicia, mater dicte Anne, erat purificata et sic bene recolit et cognoscit
de etate prefate Anne. Willelmi de Kyme, etatis 1 annorum et amplius,
Johannis Hughson, etatis 1 annorum et amplius, pro se separatim, ut pre-
mittitur, examinatorum, qui dicunt quod predicta Anna est etatis xix annorum

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et amplius. Requisiti qualiter hoc sciunt, dicunt quod dicta die nativitatis
et baptizacionis ejusdem Anne vehemens pluvium cecidit, ita quod aqua
riperie de Bayn submersit totum herbagium ei vicinum, ita quod fenum
inde factum fuit de arena plenum, per quod ipsi de etate predicte Anne bene
recolunt et cognoscunt. Roberti Milne, etatis 1 annorum, et Johannes
Cole, etatis xliii annorum, pro se, ut premittitur, separatim examinatorum,
qui dicunt quod dicta Anna est etatis xix annorum et amplius. Requisiti
qualiter hoc sciunt, dicunt quod dicto die nativitatis et baptizacionis predicte
Anne ipsi habuerunt herbagium vi. acrarum prati falcatum deportatum cum
flumine aque, que cecidit eodem die, et sic ipsi de etate prefate Anne bene
recolunt et cognoscunt. Johannis Cole etatis liiii annorum et Ricardi Hoi-
beck, etatis Ivi annorum, pro se, ut predictum est, examinatorum, qui dicunt
quod predicta Anna est etatis xix annorum et amplius. Requisiti qualiter
hoc sciunt, dicunt quod ipsi dicto die nativitatis et baptizacionis predicte
Anne fuerunt in ecclesia predicta et viderunt quendam capellanum de novo
consecrare aquam fontis, in qua dicta Anna erat baptizata, per quod de
etate predicte Anne bene recolunt et cognoscunt. Thome Aleyn, etatis
1 annorum, et Roberti Gout, etatis xlvii annorum, pro se, ut premittitur,
separatim examinatorum qui dicunt quod predicta Anna est xix annorum et
amplius. Requisiti qualiter hoc sciunt, dicunt quod ipsi die nativitatis et
baptizacionis predicte Anne personaliter interfuerunt ad extinguendum
quendam ignem, per quern quedam domus Alani Serjeant de Conyngesby
apud Conyngesby erat combusta, per quod ipsi de etate predicte Anne bene
recolunt et cognoscunt. Thome Hughson, etatis 1 annorum, pro se exami-
nati, qui dicit quod prefata Anna est etatis xix annorum et amplius. Re-
quisitus qualiter hoc scit, dicit quod ipse dicto die nativitatis et baptizacionis
predicte Anne duxit unum taurum silvestrem in uno capistro de chacea de
Tatersale versus domum suam, qui ipsum traxit fere usque ad mortem, per
quod de etate predicte Anne bene recolit et cognoscit. Hugonis Goudeby,
etatis Ix annorum, pro se examinati, que dicit quod prefata Anna est etatis
xix annorum et amplius. Requisitus qualiter hoc scit, dicit quod dicto die
nativitatis et baptizacionis predicte Anne, Radulfus Cromewell, avus ipsius
Anne, precepit prefato Hugoni ad tune receptori suo, quod daret obstetrici,
nuncianti ei de partu Anne viginti solidos, per quod ipse de etate predicte
Anne bene recolit et cognoscit. In cujus rei testimonum predict! juratores
presentiis sigilla sua apposueruut. Datum die et loco supradicto.

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Probatio etatis Johanne, unius filiarum et heredum Thome domine de
Bardolf defuncti, qui de Rege tenuit in capite, quern Willelmus Phelipp
duxit in uxorem, apud Conyngesby in comitatu Lincolnie die Sabbati prox-
imo post festum Corporis Christi, anno regni Regis Henrici quarti decimo,
coram Johanne Henege, &c. per sacramentum juratorum subscriptorum, et
super etatem predicte Johanne pro se separatim examinatorum ; videlicet,
Johannis Derby, etatis Ix annorum, pro se de etate predicte Johanne exa-
minati ; qui dicit quod prefata Johanna nata fuit in castro de Tatersale in
comitatu predicto et in ecclesia parochiali de Tatersale baptizata in festo
sancti Martini in hyeme, anno regni Domini Ricardi nuper Regis Anglic
xiiii. Requisitus qualiter hoc noscit, dicit quod ipse fuit in ecclesia pre-
dicta tempore baptizacionis predicte Johanne et vidit earn de sacro fonte
levari et providebat eidem Johanne quandam nutricem, que dictam Johannam
in domo ipsius Johannis nutrivit, quousque dicta Johanna ablactata fuit, per
quod bene noscit dictam Johannam esse etatis xviii annorum et amplius.
Johannis Gerdon, etatis Ixiiii annorum, ut premittitur, examinati, qui dicit
quod dicta Johanna est etatis xviii annorum et amplius. Requisitus qualiter
hoc scit, dicit quod ipse fuit in predicta ecclesia eodem die, quo predicta
Johanna fuit nata et baptizata, et vidit earn de sacro fonte levari et habuit
quendam filium, nomine Willelmum, qui eodem die moriebatur, per quod de
etate prefate Johanne bene recolit et cognoscit. Willelmi Smyth, etatis
xliii annorum, ut premittitur, examinati, qui dicit quod dicta Johanna est
etatis xviii annorum et amplius, ac nata et baptizata fuit die, loco, et anno
supradictis. Requisitus qualiter hoc noscit, dicit quod ipse fuit in ecclesia
predicta tempore baptizacionis ipsius Johanne et vidit earn levari, et eundo
versus domum suam cecidit et brachium suum sinistrum fregit, per quod de
etate prefate Johanne bene recolit et cognoscit. Willelmi Goudeby, etatis
xlii annorum, ut premittitur, examinati, qui dicit quod dicta Johanna, &c.
(ut proximo supra). Requisitus qualiter hoc noscit, dicit quod ipse per-
quisivit unum tenementum cum pertinentiis in Tatersale de quodam Wil-
lelmo Forster, qui quidem Willelmus Forster ipsum de tenemento predicto
dictis die et anno per cartam suam feoffavit et saisivit, per cujus carte datam
de etate prefate Johanne bene recolit et cognoscit. Thome Smyth, etatis
1 annorum, ut premittitur, examinati, qui dicit quod predicta Johanna nata
fuit et baptizata in castro et ecclesia predictis die et anno supradictis, et est
etatis xviii annorum et amplius. Requisitus qualiter hoc noscit, dicit quod

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Robertas Smyth, pater suus, mortuus sepultus fuit in ecclesia predicta die
et anno supradictis et vidit earn baptizari, per quod de etate predicte Jobanne
bene recolit et cognoscit. Roberti Wryghte, etatis 1 annorum, ut premit-
titur, examinati, qui dicit quod prefata Johanna nata fuit et baptizata in castro
et ecclesia predictis die et anno supradictis, et est etatis xviii annorum et
amplius. Requisitus qualiter hoc scit, dicit quod ipse fuit in ecclesia pre-
dicta dictis die et anno, et optulit pro anima predicti Roberti Smyth ad tune
sepulti ibidem, et vidit dictam Johannam de sacro fonte levari, per quod, &c.
Johannis Skynner, etatis xliiii annorum, ut premittitur, examinati, qui dicit,
&c. (ut supra). Requisitus qualiter hoc noscit, dicit quod ipse dictis die
et anno habuit quendam filium, nomine Johannem, natum, qui ad festum
sancti Martini ultimo preteritum fuit etatis xviii annorum, per quod, &c.
Thome Gilbert, etatis xlviii annorum, ut premittitur, examinati, qui dicit, &c.
(ut supra). Requisitus qualiter hoc noscit, dicit quod ipse vidit dictam
Johannam de sacro fonte levari in ecclesia predicta, et optulit in dicta ecclesia
dictis die et anno pro anima predicti Roberti Smyth mortui et ad tune
ibidem sepulti, per quod, &c. Willelmi Fraunkish, etatis 1 annorum, &c. ut
supra. Requisitus, &c. dicit quod ipse in eadem ecclesia predictis die et
anno desponsavit Margaretam uxorem suam, et vidit dictam Johannam bap-
tizari, per quod, &c. Johannis Holden, etatis xlviii annorum, Johannis
Taillor, etatis 1 annorum, pro se separatim, ut predictum est, examinatorum,
qui dicunt quod dicta Johanna nata fuit et baptizata, &c. Requisiti, &c.
dicunt quod ipsi interfuerunt cum predicto Willelmo Fraunkish, quando
dictus Willelmus desponsavit Margaretam, uxorem suam, in ecclesia pre-
dicta, et viderunt dictam Johannam de sacro fonte levari, per quod, &c.
Roberti Honyngton, etatis 1 annorum, &c. Requisitus, &c. dicit quod ipse
fuit in ecclesia predicta dictis die et anno, et vidit earn de sacro fonte levari,
et tenuit quendam cereum ardentem tempore baptizacionis ipsius Johanne,
per quod de etate prefate Johanne bene recolit et cognoscit. In cujus, &c.
Datum die et loco supradictis."

From these records we learn that Thomas Lord Bardolf had resided at
the castle of Tattersal subsequent to the time of his marriage with his
father-in-law, Ralph Lord Cromwell, and that the only issue had been these
two daughters, Anne, born 24th of June, 13 Rich. II. 1389, and Joan,
born 12th Nov. 14 Rich. II. 1390, wives, prior to his decease, of Sir Wil-
liam Clifford, knight, and William Phelipp, of Dennington, in the hundred

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of Hoxne, Suffolk. As their father only attained his majority in the former
year, his death will have occurred in the twenty-eighth year of his age.
Prior to this restitution the honour of Wermegay had been granted to
Thomas Beaufort, the King's brother, created Duke of Exeter, 18 Nov.
1416, Bradwell to John, the King's son, the manor of Berling to Joan.
Queen of England, his consort, and others in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Sussex,
to Sir William Bardolf, knight, brother of the attainted Lord Bardolf, for
the terms of their lives only, with reversion to the King and his heirs.
The remaining portion of these forfeited lands, with the reversion of such
as had been granted, were, by letters patent, dated at Westminster, 19th
day of July, 9 Henry IV. 1408, confirmed to Sir William Clifford, knight,
and Anne his wife, and to William Phelipp and Joan his wife, for the whole
of their lives, and the life of the longer liver, and to the heirs issuing of
their bodies, with reversion in default of issue to the King and his heirs.
Sir William Clifford, knight, was second son of Roger Lord Clifford of
Westmoreland, younger brother of Thomas Lord Clifford, and had been
governor of Alnwick Castle, which he surrendered to the King after the
flight of the Earl of Northumberland into Scotland, as also of Berwick, and
Fastcastle in Wales, on behalf of the same Earl and his son Henry Percy.
In the 4 Henry V. 1417, he was constable of Bordeaux, but was deceased
without issue on Friday, the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed
Virgin, 25 March, 1418, and on the inquisitions subsequent to his decease
his heir was found to be John Lord Clifford, namely, son of Thomas Clif-
ford, brother of the aforesaid William, then of the age of twenty-six years
and upwards. Pursuant to a writ with the teste of John Duke of Bedford,
Guardian of England, at Westminster, 28th Oct., 6th Hen. V., 1418, an
inquisition was taken at Navenby before John Henege, the King's escheator
in Lincolnshire, on Monday, in the fifth week of Lent, 3rd April, 7th Hen.
V. 1419, which describes him to have held on the day of his decease, con-
jointly with Anne late wife of him William Clifford, William Phelipp che-
valer, and Joan his wife, still surviving, the manor of Cathorpe, together
with the vills of Frieston, Normanton, Sudbroke, Wolughby, and a moiety
of Ancaster, as also the manor of Westborough, together with the vills of
Doddington and Stubton, and the knight's fees and advowsons belonging
to the same, of the gift and concession of the lord Henry late King of
England, father of the lord the now King, to the aforesaid William Clifford,

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Anne and William Phelipp and Joan, for the whole life of the same, i.e. of
the one of them the longest liver, and to their heirs issuing of their bodies,
so that if it should happen that the aforesaid parties die without issue of
their bodies, that then the aforesaid manors, &c., were to revert entirely to
the aforesaid lord the King and his heirs, according to the tenor of the
Letters Patent thereof made. Also that the said William Clifford had held,
on the day of his decease, two parts of the manor of Carleton in Kesteven,
and the reversion of the third part of the same manor after the decease of
Margery, who had been the wife of Stephen Scrope, which she held in
dower for the term of her life, of the gift and concession of the lord the
now King made to the same William Clifford and the heirs male issuing
from his body, the reversion thereof for default of such heirs belonging to
the same King and his heirs, according to the tenor of the King's Letters
Patent.* The several yearly values of these tenures are put down as fol-
lows : Caythorpe, 50 marks, Westborough, held of the King as parcel of the
Barony of Shelford in Nottinghamshire, 12 IL 12 s., and the two parts of the
manor of Carleton at 11 lib. ; being all that he had held in this county.
Et dicunt quod predictus Willelmus Clifford obiit sine herede de corpore
suo exeunte die Veneris in festo Annunciationis beate Marie Virginis anno
regni dicti domini Regis nunc sexto, et quod Johannes dominus de Clifford
est consanguineus et heres propinquior dicti Willelmi Clifford, videlicet,
filius Thome Clifford fratis predicti Willelmi, et est etatis viginti et sex anno-
rum et amplius." Pursuant to a second writ with the same teste at West-
minster, llth Feb. 1419, an inquisition was taken at Nottingham, before
Peter Pole, escheator of the counties of Nottingham and Derby, on Satur-
day in Easter week, 22nd April, which describes him to have held nothing
either of the King or any one else in Nottinghamshire. The manors of
Shelford and Stoke Bardolf, com. Notts, the manor of Halloughton com.
Leic. and Birling com. Sussex had been granted by King Henry IV. by his
Letters Patent bearing date 10th August, 6th year of his reign, 1405, to

* Margery Lady Scrope was the widow of Stephen Scrope, second Baron Scrope of
Masham, deceased 25 January, 1406, and a daughter of John Lord Welles, whose son
Henry, third Lord Scrope of Masham, was beheaded 5th August, 3 Hen. V. 1415, and
attainted. This manor, which has now the name of Carlton-Scroop, is in the hundred of
Loveden, and will have been thus granted out by the King after it had come into his hands
by the forfeiture consequent upon this treason.

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" his most dear consort Joan, Queen of England," after the attainder of
Thomas Lord Bardolf, to hold for the term of her life in part of the deduc-
tion of 10,000 marks annually by him granted to his same consort in lieu
of her dower, and hence the reversion was all that these parties then had
until her decease at Havering in the Bower in Essex, on the 10th day of
July, 15 Hen. VI. 1237. In like manner the honour and manor of Wor-
megay, together with Sto we- Bardolf, North Rungton, and Fareswell manor
in Fyncham had been granted by Henry IV. to Thomas Beaufort, Duke of
Exeter, and to the heirs of his body, who died without issue 27th Dec.
1426, when they reverted to the then King.

During the time of Henry the Fifth, Avicia, Lady Bardolf, was also
deceased on the first day of July, in the ninth year of his reign, 1421,
wherefore, pursuant to a writ with the teste of John Duke of Bedford,
Guardian of England, at Westminster, 1st Oct. following, an inquisition
was taken before William de Lexham, the escheator of Norfolk and Suf-
folk, at Bungay in the last named county, on Tuesday, the feast of the
Apostles St. Simon and Jude, 28th Oct. 1421, which describes her to
have died seized of the manor in Ilketishale, called Bardolfes-Hall, held of
the King in chief by the service of half a knight's fee, and other tenements
in the same vill, called Mendham Fee, held of the Earl Marshal, John de
Mowbray, and embodies this finding of the jurors as to her heirs ; " Dicunt
quod predicta Avicia obiit primo die Julii ultimo preterito, et quod Anna
nuper uxor Willelmi Clifford militis defuncti, et Johanna nunc uxor Wil-
lelmi Phelipp militis, filie dicte Avicie, sunt heredes ejusdem Avicie propiri-
quiores."

The family of Phelipp was seated at Dennington, a parish in the hundred
of Hoxne, com. Suffolk, and Sir William Phelipp, knight, and Juliana, his
wife, daughter of Sir Robert Erpingham of Erpingham in the hundred of
South Erpingham, com. Norf. by deed, in the year 1387, settled the manor
of Colby, a parish adjacent to Erpingham, on Sir Simon Felbrigg, knight,
for the term of the life of the said Juliana, which had doubtless been
assigned to her in frankmarriage. The issue of this marriage were two
sons and a daughter, Sir William named above, born in 1383, Sir John
Phelipp, knight, deceased at Harfleur on the second day of September,
3 Hen. V. from the effects of dysentery, which committed such ravages

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among the forces previous to their journey towards Calais,* and Katharine,
wife of Sir Andrew Boteler, knight, escheator of the counties of Norfolk

* Sir John Phelipp, knight, had in his retinue thirty men-at-arms and ninety archers,
and, from an inquisition taken after the decease of Sir Thomas Erpingham, K.G. his
uncle, at Farringdon, com. Berks, 8th of July, 1428, before Thomas Rothwell, the King's
escheator, as to his tenure of the manor anciently called Worth, and then divided into the
manors of Wadeley and Wykingesham (which had been given by King Edward III. by
his letters patent, dated 16 April, fiftieth year of his reign, 1376, to Sir Gilbert Talbot,
chivaler, deceased, by the name of Gilbert Talbot, of Castle Richard, Esquire, and had
escheated to the Crown by reason of the decease of Richard de Pembrugg, chivaler, without
issue of his body, to hold to him and the heirs male of his body ; after whose decease, his
widow Margaret had dower assigned to her in the same, the reversion of which, and the
residue of the same manors, had come into the King's hands by the decease of Richard
Talbot, son and heir of the same Sir Gilbert, as well as of the aforesaid Gilbert, without
issue male, and had been given by Henry V. late King of England, by his letters patent,
dated 10 November, first year of his reign, 1413, to his beloved and faithful knight Sir
Thomas Erpingham, for the term of his life,) we learn that Sir John Phelipp, and Matilda
his wife, had the reversion of the same manors after his decease, to them for their lives, and
to the heirs of the body of Sir John Phelipp, of the grant of the same King ; and that
upon their decease without issue, the King, by his letters patent dated 8 December, third
year of his reign, 1415, granted the said reversion, after the decease of Sir Thomas Er-
pingham and the Lady Margaret Talbot, to his beloved and faithful knight William Porter,
to hold to him and his heirs male. The inquisition has also this finding as to the decease
of the said tenant for life and his heir: "Quod predictus Thomas Erpyngham, miles, obiit
die dominica proxima post festum Nativitatis Sancti Johannis Baptiste ultimo preteritum
(27 Jun. 1428) et quod eedem due partes maneriorum predictorum valent per annum in
omnibus exitibus xl marcas, et quod Willelmus Phelipp, miles, est consanguineus et heres
ejus propinquior, videlicet, filius Juliane sororis dicti Thome, et est etatis quadraginta
annorum et amplius." By the inquisitions taken after the decease of Sir John Phelipp,
knight, pursuant to writs with the teste of John Duke of Bedford, Guardian of England,
at Westminster, 8th October, 3 Hen. V. 1418, we learn that Sir William Phelipp knight,
Thomas Chaucer esquire, and others, had enfeoffed Sir John Phelipp knight and Alice
his wife, and the heirs issuing of their bodies, in the several manors of the inheritance of
Thomas Chaucer, the father of the said Alice, and each contains this finding as to the day
of his decease and the age of his heir, and, as being of earlier date than the one cited above,
the statement as to age is doubtless correct : " Quod predictus Johannes Phelipp obiit die
Mercurii proximo ante festum Sancte Fidis Virginis ultimo preteritum, et quod Willelmus
Phelipp, frater dicti Johannis, est ejus heres propinquior, et etatis xxxi annorum et amplius."
Besides the manors held by him in right of his wife, the other property consisted of for-
feited lands belonging to the attainted Henry Lord Scrope of Masharn, and the alien

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and Suffolk in 1 Hen. V. 1413. Sir William Phelipp was also engaged
in the same expedition ; and on the roll of the names of those that were
with the excellent prince, King Henry the Fifth, at the Battell of Agin-
court," on Friday the 25th day of October, in the year of the Lord 1415,
and in the third year of his reign, that of " Sir William Phelipe, with his
retenu, Thomas Holwyscont, William Gode, John Barnard, Thomas Poley,
Robert Hemnale, Jacob Denys, William Kemston, Lances viii. and
Archers xxix" is inscribed. Again, in 1419 he was serving with the army
in France, and was appointed a commissioner to treat of peace, together
with Sir John Tiptoft. In reward of his services he was elected a Knight
of the Garter in his absence, and by proxy installed in the place of Sir John
Blount, chivaler, slain before Rouen, early in the month of November,
1418, in the course of that year. In 9 Hen. V. 1421-2, he was Captain of
Harfleur, and subsequently Treasurer of the Household ; by virtue of which
office he had the chief conduct of the funeral of that illustrious monarch
and charge of his effects after his decease.

In the following reign, 8 Hen. VI., 1430, he was retained to serve the
king with nineteen men-at-arms, besides himself, and sixty archers, for one
whole year, in the wars of France ; and by letters patent, with the teste
of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, Guardian of England, at Wye, in Kent,
24th April, he was appointed, along with the Bishops of Ely and Bath
and Wells, Sirs John Tiptoft, Lewis Robessart, John Montgomery, John
Steuard, Robert Shotesbroke, and Ralph Boteler, knights, and others, to
review the troops which were then about to cross the sea towards the realm
of France, under the royal banner. On his return from abroad he was
admitted of the privy council, and, as we learn from an entry on the Roll
of Parliament, containing the annual charges on the revenue of the crown,
payable in Michaelmas term, 12 Hen. VI., 1433, during the King's plea-
sure, the fee for his attendance amounted to IQQli. In the following year,
he was appointed to the high office of Chamberlain to the King ; and he is

abbeys of Fontevraud and the Holy Trinity of Caen, granted by the Sovereign ; but he
had nothing of his own inheritance, a proof that he was the younger brother, and conse-
quently not more than thirty years old at the time of his decease. Alice, his widow,
remarried, first, Thomas de Montacute, Earl of Salisbury, K.Gr. slain 3 Nov. 7 Hen. VI.
1428 ; and, secondly, William de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, afterwards Marquis and Duke of
Suffolk, K.G. murdered on the 2nd of May, 28 Hen. VI. 1450.

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so described in a schedule which was read by the chancellor before the
lord the King, at Cirencester, 12th day of November, thirteenth of his
reign, of the advice, consent, and order of the lords of the council there
present, and by the same lord the King admitted and graciously accepted,
" Presentibus Dominis Cardinali Anglie, Cantuarie et Eboraci Archie-
piscopis, Eboraci et Norffolcie Ducibus, Dunelmensi, Eliensi, Bathoniensi,
Carliolensi, Lincolniensi et Norwicensi Episcopis, Warrewici, Staffordie,
Northumbrie et Suffolcie Comitibus, de Beaumont, de Welles, Cromwell,
Thesaurario, Hungerford et Typtot, Baronibus, Willelmo Lyndewode, Cus-
tode privati sigilli, et Willelmo Phelipp, Camerario Regis." Also, among
those appointed to be of the privy council by the King, in a great council
of the nobles of the realm, at the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, fast
by London, on the 13th day of November, 16 Hen. VI., 1437, was,
" William Phelipp, knight, Chamberlein." It was apparently on this
occasion that he was by the King raised to the title of a Baron ; for from
this date he is described in every public document as William Phelipp,
Lord Bardolf.

Previous to this creation, he, as heir of Sir Thomas Erpingham, K.G.,
deceased on Sunday the 27th day of June, 1428, without issue, succeeded
to the manor of Erpingham, com. Norf., and that of Gerberges in the same
parish, together with the advowson of the church of St. Mary, to which Sir
William Phelipp, knight, and Joan, his wife, presented John Reche, in
1430. By his last will, dated in 1427, and proved in 1428, the deceased
gave to the high altar of the cathedral of Norwich 10 marks ; to every
monk, 6s. 8 d.; to Erpingham and Litcham churches, 40 s. each; to the
altar of St. Martin, at the Palace-gate, in which parish his city house was,
26 s. 8d. ; to Norman's spittle, 10 marks ; to the prisoners in the castle and
gild-hall, 40 s. each place ; to Juliana Lampit, recluse at Carhow, 10*., &c.
Sir William Phelipp, Sir Andrew Boteler, knights ; William Baumburgh,
Richard Gegge, esquires, and others, were executors ; Bishop William
Alnwyck, of Norwich, supervisor ; and Sir Simon Felbrigge, Sir John
Clifton, and Sir Thomas Kerdeston, knights, witnesses. This celebrated
warrior had been twice married ; first to Joan, daughter of Sir Wm. Clop-
ton, of Wickham Brook, com. Suff., knight; and, secondly, to Joan,
daughter of Sir Richard Walton, knight, and sister and heiress of John
Walton, of Wivenhoe, com. Essex, living 6th February, 1406, widow of

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Sir John Howard, knight, living 8th July, 1410, deceased on the 13th day
of December, 3 Hen. VI., 1424, leaving by her first husband an only
daughter and heiress, born on the feast of St. Barnabas, llth June, 1410,
and then of the age of fourteen years and upwards. This heiress married
John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, and through her the ancient patrimony of
the Howards in Norfolk vested in that family. Sir Thomas and his two
wives had interment in Norwich cathedral, on the north side of the choir ;
but the word " Bewar" is all that remains of the inscription, perhaps his
motto. His arms, Vert, an escutcheon inter eight martlets gules, and under-
written Thomas Erpingham, were formerly in the chapter-house at Canter-
bury ; and his crest was, A crown gules, a plume of feathers argent.

On the Roll of Letters Patent of the 15th year of Henry the Sixth,
1437, under the heading, " Pro cantaria fundanda Phelippes," we read as
follows :

" Rex omnibus ad quos, &c., salutem. Sciatis quod nos de gratia nostra
speciali concessimus et licenciam dedimus pro nobis et heredibus nostris,
quantum in nobis est, dilecto et fideli nostro Willelmo Phelipp militi et
Johanne uxori ejus quod ipsi et uterque eorum qui supervixerit et eorum
heredes quandam cantariam perpetuam de duobus vel tribus capellanis divina
singulis diebus ad altare beate Margarete in ecclesia de Denyngton in
comitatu Suffolcie, pro salubri statu nostro et ipsorum Willelmi et Johanne
dum vixerimus, et pro animabus nostris cum ab hac luce migraverimus, et
pro animabus carissimi domini et avi nostri, domini Henrici, nuper Regis
Anglie, ac carissimi domini patris nostri defunctorum, et animabus bene-
factorum et antecessorum ipsius Wiilelmi et Johanne et omnium fidelium
defunctorum, juxta ordinacionem eorumdem Willelmi et Johanne seu alterius
eorum superviventis seu eorum heredum in hac parte faciendam, celebra-
turis facere, fundare, creare, et stabilire possint seu possit. Et quod cantaria
predicta, cum sic fundata fuerit et stabilita, ' Phelippes Chaunterie de
Denyngton' nuncupatur. Volumus eciam et concedimus pro nobis et dictis
heredibus nostris capellanis cantarie predict! cum sic fundata fuerit, quod
ipsi et successores sui, capellani ejusdem cantarie, habent unum commune
sigillum ad quecumque negocia et materias cantarium illam concernentia
expedienda et exequenda, et quod ipsi per nomen Capellanorum cantarie
predicte, cum cantaria ilia sic fundata et stabilita sit, pro future sint in-
corporati et persone habiles et capaces ad quecumque terras, tenementa,

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redditus, advocaciones, et possessions adquirenda et recipienda, ae ad omni-
modas actiones et querelas in quibuscumque curiis, locis, et placeis nostris
et heredum nostrorum aut aliorum quorumcumque placitandas, defendendas,
et prosequendas in eisdem. Insuper concessimus et licenciam dedimus
prefatis Willelmo et Johanne, quod ipsi seu alter eorum vel eorum heredes
terras, tenementa, redditus, et possessiones ac advocationes et patronatus
ecclesiarum, que de nobis immediate non tenentur, usque ad valorem viginti
librarum per annum dare possint seu possit et assignare eisdem capellanis
cantarie predicte, cum sic fundata fuerit et stabilita, habenda et tenenda
sibi et successoribus suis, tarn pro manso et inhabitacione eorum dem capel-
lanorum includendo et edificando, quam in auxilium sustentationis sue, in-
perpetuum. Et eisdem capellanis et successoribus suis, quod ipsi terras,
tenementa, redditus, et possessiones ac advocationes et patronatus ecclesiarum
usque ad dictum valorem viginti librarum per annum, tarn ab eisdem Wil-
lelmo et Johanna seu altero eomin seu de eorum heredibus quam a qui-
buscumque aliis personis, que hujusmodi terras, tenementa, redditus et
possessiones ac advocaciones et patronatus cum pertinentiis eis dare, con-
cedere vel assignare voluerint, recipere et perquirere, et ecclesias illas
appropriare et eas sic appropriatas in proprios usus una cum hujusmodi
terris, tenementis, redditibus, et possessionibus tenere possint sibi et succes-
soribus suis imperpetuum tenore presencium similiter licenciam dedimus
specialem, statute de terris et tenementis ad manum mortuam non ponendis
edito aut aliquo alio ordinacione aut statute in contrarium facto non obstante,
dum tamen per inquisitiones inde debite capiendas et in cancellaria nostra
vel heredum nostrorum rite retornandas compertum fuerit quod id fieri
possit absque dampno vel prejudicio nostro vel heredum nostrorum aut
aliorum quorumcumque. In cujus, &c. Teste Rege in manerio suo de
Kenyngton tercio die Julii."

Sir William Phelipp was one of the executors of the noble Prince Thomas,
Duke of Exeter, as we learn from a petition to the King and council, with
the answer endorsed, 26th February, 5 Hen. VI., 1427, and had of the
king's grant the custody of the priories alien of Cretyng, com. Suff., and
Everdon, com. Norff., cells to the abbey of Bernay, in Normandy, with their
appurtenances, committed to him, to hold from the feast of St. Michael, in
the sixteenth year of his reign, 29th September, 1437, for the full term of
ten years, at an annual rent of thirty pounds ; as also of the manor of

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Swaffham, com. NorfF., as to two parts, for the same term, at a rent of one
pound annually, of which the third part was held in dower by Jacquetta,
late wife of the uncle of the King, John Duke of Bedford. On the Roll of
Letters Patent of the same year, we read as follows: " Rex, &c. salutem.
Sciatis quod pro bono et gratuito servicio quod dilectus et fidelis noster
Willelmus Phelipp, camerarius noster, nobis impendit et impend et in
futurum concessimus ei quoddam tenementum, vocatum Le Newe Inn, cum
pertinentiis, in parochia sancti Benedicti in Thamise Street, infra civitatem
nostram Londoniarum, quod quidem tenementum ad manus avi nostri per
forisfacturam Johannis Montagu, comitis Sarum, devenit et escaetum fuit ;
et quod Thomas Erpingham chevaler defunctus pro termino vitesue ex
concessione dicti avi nostri habuit et tenuit, habendum et tenendum dictum
tenementum cum pertinentiis prefato Willelmo et assignatis suis pro termino
vite sue quietum ab aliquo nobis reddendo, &c. Teste Rege apud ma-
nerium de Shene vicesimo primo die Octobris.*

* Pursuant to a writ addressed to Henry Barton, mayor of the city of London, and the
King's escheator in the same, with the King's teste at Westminster, 1st Nov., 7 Hen. VI.,
1428, the following inquisition was taken respecting the tenure of Sir Thomas Erping-
ham of this messuage, in the city of London, 4th day of October, 8 Hen. VI., 1429, by
the oath of twelve jurors, honest and lawworthy men of the said city : " Qui dicunt super
sacramentum suum quod Thomas Erpyngham in dicto brevi nominatus tenuit de domino
Rege die quo idem Thomas Erpyngham obiit unum hospicium cum una shopa eidem hos-
picio annexa et aliis pertinentiis situatum in parochia Sancti Benedicti in Thamys Strete,
in civitate domini Regis predicti, quod quidem hospicium cum shopa et aliis pertinentiis
suis dictus Thomas habuit de dono domini Henrici nuper Regis Anglie, avi domini Regis
nunc, ad terminum vite ipsius Thome Erpyngham, et quod idem hospitium cum pertinentiis
valet per annum ultra reprisas, si locaretur, 1x5., et dicta shopa valet per annum ultra
reprisas vis. \iiid. Dicunt tamen iidem juratores quod dictum hospicium cum pertinen-
tiis stetit vacuum a quarto die Julii anno regni domini Regis nunc sexto, quo die dictus
Thomas obiit usque ad festum Nativitatis sancti Johannis Baptiste tune proximo sequens,
ad quod festum Willelmus Phelipp, chivaler, dictum hospicium cum shopa et aliis perti-
nentiis intravit et occupavit et adhuc occupat, eo quod idem Willelmus Phelipp habuit et
habet dictum hospicium cum shopa at aliis pertinentiis suis per litteras patentes Domini
Regis nunc ; sed quern statum inde habet juratores predicti penitus ignorant. Et dicunt
quod dictum hospicium cum pertinentiis suis tenetur de domino Rege in libero burgagio
sicut tota civitas Londoniarum tenetur ; sed per quod servicium dicti juratores penitua
ignorant. Dicunt ulterius iidem juratores quod non est aliquis heres ipsius Thome
Erpyngham ; nee idem Thomas Erpyngham plura terras seu tenementa habuit infra
libertatem civitatis predicte dicto die quo obiit, prout predictis juratoribus ad presens
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The following Letters Patent, which are dated on the same day as that
on which the great council was held, above mentioned, distinctly describe
the King's chamberlain as Lord of Bardolf ; and, as Anne, some time the
wife of Sir William Clifford, knight, and then the wife of Sir Reginald Cob-
ham, of Sterborough, in the parish of Lingfield, com. Surr., knight, and his
own wife, Joan, daughters and coheirs of Thomas, Lord Bardolf, were both
surviving, the only inference to be drawn from such recognition is, that
this new title was granted to him and the heirs of his body as a barony
in fee.

" Rex omnibus ad quos, &c. salutem. Sciatis quod cum nos hac m-
stante tertiadecima die Novembris inter alios de dominis nostris appunctua-
verimus et deputaverimus carissimum et fidelem consanguineum nostrum
Willelmum de la Pole, comitem Suffolcie, ad essendum unum de private
consilio nostro et in recompensacionem laborum quos impendit et nobis im-
pendet in futurum appunctuaverimus sibi centum libras habendas ex con-
*cessione nostra pro termino vite sue, deducendo de summa predicta tantum
quantum ipse de nobis percipit annuatim virtute alicujus officii quod ipse
habet de dono nostro, nobis etiam deliberando litteras suas consimiles ita re-
tinere, nos ad grandes custus et expensas, quos idem consanguineus noster
et deputati sui faciendo et exercendo officia, que ipse habet de dono nostro,
consideracionem habentes specialem, de gratia nostra speciali concessimus
quod pro omnibus officiis, feodis et vadiis, que ipse solus aut conjunctim cum
aliis habet de dono nostro, de ipso non deducentur nisi solummodo sexaginta
libre de dictis centum libris. Ac etiam, ubi per litteras nostras patentes
commissimus camerario nostro, domino de Bardolf, per nomen domini
Willelmi Phelipp, chivaler, custodiam dominii manerii de Swaffham, cum
omnibus membris et hamelettis et cum omnibus homagiis, curiis letis, liber-
tatibus et franchesiis eidem manerio pertinentibus seu spectantibus in comi-
tatu Norffolcie, habendam a festo Sancti Michaelis Archangeli ultimo pre-
terito usque ad finem decem annorum extunc proximo sequentium, reddendo

constare potest quoquo modo. In cujus rei juratores predicti huic inquisition! sigilla sua
apposuerunt. Data quarto die Octobris anno octavo et loco supradictis." These ignorant
citizens erroneously name the day of the decease of Sir Thomas Erpingham as Sunday the
4th day of July, instead of the preceding Sunday, 27th June, as put down in the earlier
inquisitions, whence we may infer that he died at his manor of Erpingham ; and this
misstatement has been adopted by Mr. Beltz in his " Memorials of the Garter."

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inde annuatim nobis quinquaginta libras, quas quidem litteras patentcs pre-
fatus dominus de Bardolf in voluntate existit restituendi in cancellaria nostra,
ea intencione quod dictus consanguineus noster manerium ilium cum per-
tinentiis ex concessione nostra habere possit ; cujus quidem manerii tertiam
partem Jaquetta, nuper uxor avunculi nostri Ducis Bedfordie defuncti,
tenet in dotem post decessum avunculi nostri predicti, reversione ejus post
decessum ipsius Jaquette nobis et heredibus nostris pertinente. De ha-
bundaciori gratia nostra et pro bono et gratuito servicio quod prefatus con-
sanguineus noster nobis impendit et impendet in futurum, ac pro eo quod
prefatus Willelmus Phelipp litteras predictas nobis in cancellaria nostra
restituit cancellandas, concessimus duas partes dicti manerii de Swaff-
hame et simul eandem reyersionem predicto consanguineo nostro pro ter-
mino vite sue in recompensacionem, allocacionem et satisfactionem quinqua-
ginta librarum de dictis centum libris per nos in forma predicta appunctuatis,
concedendas absque aliquo pro eisdem duabus partibus seu tercia parte nobis
vel heredibus nostris reddendo, eo quod expressa mentio, &o. Teste Rege
apud Westmonasterium xiii die Novembris. Per breve de private sigillo."

On the same Roll are Letters Patent of the date of the eleventh day of
the same month, which contain a similar recital of a grant of the custody,
of the honour and manor of Wyrmegay, made to the same William de la
Pole, Earl of Suffolk, dated the 15th day of July, in the fifteenth year of
Henry VI., to hold from the feast of the Nativity of the Lord next follow-
ing, for the term of seven years, and of his having delivered the same into
the Chancery to be cancelled ; by reason whereof the King then granted
the said honour and manor of Wyrmegay to Sir William Phelipp, knight*
and Joan his wife, and to the heirs of their bodies.*

By other Letters Patent, with the King's teste at Westminster, 31
January following, reciting the grant of Henry the Fourth, dated 19th
July, 9th year of his reign, 1408, of the manors of Cay thorp with its
vills, Riskington with its vills, Westborough with its vills, late in the
tenure of Sir George D unbar, knight, together with the reversions of the
manors of Plumpton, Barcomb, Quinburgh alias Whinburgh, Cantley, and

* On the back of this roll of letters patent is this entry " Willelmus Phelipp miles capi-
talis senescallus ducatus nostri Lancastrie in comitatibus Derbie, Norffolcie, et 8uffolcie v
Teste Rege apud Westmonasterium, iv die Decembris,"

dxiv PREFACE.

Strumpshaw, after the decease of Sir William Bardolf, knight, to Sir
William Clifford and Sir William Phelipp, and to Anne and Joan their
wives, 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 of either of these mar-
riages, the reversion of their moiety to devolve to the King and his heirs ;
such reversion contingent upon the decease of the said Anne, without issue,
was given, by reason of his good and gratuitous service, to Sir William
Phelipp, Lord Bardolf, and Joan his wife, and the heirs of their bodies, of
the King's special grace. Again by other Letters Patent, bearing date at
Westminster, on the 10th day of March following, which contain a recital
" Qualiter idem avus noster decimo die Augusti anno regni sui sexto, ma-
neria de Shelford et Stokebardolf in comitatu Nottinghamie et manerium de
Halloughton in comitatu Leicestrie per litteras suas patentes concessit caris-
sime consorti sue Johanne regine Anglic per nomen omnium castrorum,
maneriorum, dominiorum, villarum, terrarum, tenementorum et aliarum
possessionum cum pertinentiis, que fuerunt predicti domini de Bardolf,
habenda eidem consorti sue pro termino vite sue per extenta inde facienda
in partem deduccionis decem millium marcarum annuarum eidem consorti
sue in partem dotis sue nuper concessarum, prefatus avus noster ex con-
sciencia et pietate motus ad jus et titulum predicta considerationem habens
de certa scientia et mero motu suo concesserit ad sursum reddendum et de-
liberandum prefatis Willelmo et Anne et Willelmo et Johanne reversionem
predictorum maneriorum cum pertinentiis, una cum feodis militum, &c., post
mortem consortis sue ; " and also the following grant, " Et ulterius de
uberiori gratia nostra et pro bono et gratuito servicio nobis per prefatum
Willelmum Phelipp, nunc dominum de Bardolf, multipliciter impenso et im-
pendendo concessimus prefatis Willelmo Phelipp et Johanne quod medietas
omnium maneriorum predictorum cum suis pertinentiis, que prefati Anna,
Willelmus Phelipp et Johanna sic tenent in forma predicta, et que medietas
post mortem predictorum Anne, Willelmi Phelipp et Johanne, cum ipsam
Annam sine herede de corpore suo procreate obire continget, ad nos et
heredes nostros reverti debebat, eo quod predictus Willelmus Clifford mor-
tuus est, prefatis Willelmo Phelipp et Johanne remaneat, Habendam et
tenendam medietatem illam cum pertinenciis una cum feodis militum, &c.,
eisdem Willelmo Phelipp et Johanne et heredibus de corporibus eorumdem
exeuntibus, de nobis et heredibus nostris per servicia inde debita et consueta.

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Et insuper de uberiori gratia nostra et ex mero motu concessimus prefate
Anne, Willelmo Phelipp, et Johanne manerium de Castre cum pertinentiis in
comitatu Norffolcie et manerium de Clopton cum pertinentiis in comitatu
Suffolcie, que nuper fuerunt Willelmi Bardolf militis, fratris predicti Thome
nuper domini de Bardolf, Habendum et tenendum maneria ilia cum perti-
nentiis una cum feodis militum, &c., eisdem Anne, Willelmo Phelipp, et
Johanne et heredibus de corporibus eorumdem Willelmi et Johanne exeun-
tibus, de nobis et heredibus nostris predictis per servicia inde debita et
consueta imperpetuum, eo quod expressa mencio de Tero valore annuo
maneriorum predictorum cum pertinentiis ac aliorum premissorum seu de
aliis donis et concessionibus eisdem Anne, Willelmo Phelipp, et Johanne seu
eorum alicui per nos seu aliquem progenitorum nostrorum ante hec tempora
factis in presentibus facta non existit, non obstante. In cujus rei, &c.
Teste Rege apud Westmonasterium decimo die Marcii. Per ipsum Regem."

Thus restored to the entire inheritance of his wife, William Phelipp, Lord
Bardolf, will have sat in the Parliament held at Westminster on the
morrow of St. Martin, 12th Nov., 18th Hen. VI., 1439, to which an
apparently imperfect list of the peers summoned remains on record on the
Close Roll, and the omission of the name of William Phelipp, Lord Bardolf,
is by no means conclusive of his not having been summoned, as asserted
by Dugdale in his memoir of this baron. The following copy of his last
will and the inquisitions post mortem afford proof of his being so designated
in his lifetime, and it is certain that this title was borne by his descendant,
his grandson William, in the lifetime of his father, John Viscount Beau-
mont.

" Hec est ultima voluntas Willelmi Phelipp, domini de Bardolff, tripartita
et indentata facta primo die mensis Decembris anno regni Regis Henrici sexti
post conquestum decimo septimo. In primis vult quod per executores suos,
videlicet, Johannam, dominam de Bardolff, consortem suam et executricem
principalem hujusmodi voluntatis, Johannem Hey don, Willelmum Goode,
armigeros, Johannem Puttok et Ricardum Palmer capellanum, testamentum
suum primo et principaliter plenarie sit perimpletum. Item vult et requirit
suos executores ex parte Dei Omnipotentis quod omnia debita sua vere pro-
bata, si que fuerint, sine defalcacione sive diminucione alicujus partis, integre
persolvantur. Item vult et assignat quod mille misse pro sua anima tarn cito

c l x vi PREFACE.

post sue anime exitum, quo citius fieri poterint, in diversis ordinibus
fratrum sive in aliis locis devotis infra comitatus Northfolcie et Suffolcie,
cuicumque sic celebranti quatuor denarios assignato, celebrantur. Item vult
et assignat cuilibet ordini fratrum infra dictos comitatus pro animabus
patrum, matrum, fratrum, sororum, amicorum, benefactorum dicti Willelmi
et Johanne quinque marcas, attentiusque pro gratia anime dicti Willelmi et
animarum omnium fidelium defunctorum misericorditer optinenda. Item
vult et assignat cuilibet capellano ad suas exequias existenti xii d. cuilibet
clerico vi d. et cuilibet pauperi ibidem existenti iiii d. Item vult et assignat
ecclesie parochiali de Denyngton sex torche3 de illis xxiiii torchej post
officium sue subterrationis completum remauentibus. Et capelle beate
Marie infra dictam ecclesiam ii torche3. Capelle sancte Margarete ibidem
iiii torchej. Ecclesie parochiali de Glemham Parva iiii torchej. Ecclesie
parochiali de Cretyngham ii torche3. Ecclesie parochiali de Brundisch ii
torche3- Ecclesie parochiali de Tatyngton ii torche3 et ecclesie parochiali de
Wilbergham ii torche5.* Ac etiam xxiiii candelas post officium sue sub-
terracionis executum remanentes vult et assignat in diversas candelas fieri
honestas ad missas in capella Sancte Margarete celebratas illuminandas et
comburendas. Item vult et assignat centum solidos inter pauperes majorem
penuriam habentes in villis de Denyngton, Brundisch et Tatyngton equaliter
distribuendos, et liiis. iiiic?. equaliter inter pauperes consimiles de Glemham
Parva et Wilburgham Parva. Item vult et assignat monialibus de Brose-
3erd quinque marcas, et monialibus de Redelyngfeld quinque marcas, et
Alicie Lampett dicti loci priorisse, si tune superstes fuerit, xx.s.f Item

* Dennington is a parish in Suffolk, in the deanery of Hoxne, as are now also Bran-
dish and Tattington ; though the former was once a chapelry to Tattington. Glemham
Parva is a parish in the deanery of Orford, and Creetingham in that of Loose ; from which
last 18 d. was due annually to this chantry in Dennington, mistaken for a college by Ecton
in his Thesaurus. They were all comprised in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese
of Norwich. Wilbraham Parva is in the deanery of the same name, com. Camb., and
comprised in the archdeaconry and diocese of Ely.

f Brusyard was the site of a nunnery of minoresses, of the order of St. Clare, founded
in the 38th year of Edw. III., at the suggestion of his son Lionel, Duke of Clarence and
Earl of Ulster, and presided over by an abbess, and lies in the immediate vicinity of Den-
nington. Redlingfield was also a nunnery in the same neighbourhood, of the foundation

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vult et assignat Johanne consort! sue omnia et singula vasa aurea, argentea,

deaurata et non deaurata, enea, et quecumque alia bona mobilia et universa

catalla sua, ubicumque inventa seu guadiata existant, ad hanc ultimam

voluntatem perimplendam, illis vasis cum quibuscumque aliis bonis specialius

in hac voluntate legatis duntaxat exceptis, Ita quod post decessum dicte

Johanne dimidia pars dictorum vasorum aureorum et argenteorum remaneat

et assignetur Elizabethe filie dicti Willelmi et Johanne, si tune superstes

fuerit, et heredibus masculis de corpore dicte Elizabethe legit time exeuntibus,

secundum discretionem et ultimam voluntatem dicte Johanne absque im

peticione, inquietacione seu calumpnia dicte Elizabethe, heredum suorum

vel aliorum quorumcumque versus dictam Johannam de et pro aliqua parte

dicte medietatis vasorum movenda, facienda seu imposterum alleganda.

Et si dictus Willelmus dictam Johannam supervixerit, tune vult quod altera

pars vasorum aureorum, argenteorum deauratorum, et omnia alia bona

mobilia ubicumque fuerint inventa per suos executores vendantur et cum

denariis inde provenientibus suam hanc ultimam perimpleant voluntatem.

Item vult et requirit suos executores quod bene et honeste ordinent et pro-

videant annuatim competentia esculenta, poculenta, pannos lineos ac omnia

alia necessaria ad sustentacionem Petri Hertyng, Ade Bedeman, et Johannis

Wode spectantia ad terminum vite eorum seu ejus, si tune in ejus hospicio

sint permanentes. Item vult et assignat cantarie sue vocate " Philippes

Chaunterie" unum vestimentum integrum de velvett cum cervis super-

operatis cum toto apparatu altari pertinente et unum vestimentum album de

velvett cum toto secta vestimenti illius. et magnum psalterium novum cum

hymnis et officio mortuorum. Item assignat dicte Cantarie post decessum

dicte Johanne unum novum Gradale et unum turribulum argenteum. Item

legat dicte ecclesie de Denyngton post decessum dicte Johanne unam

novam Legendam pro animabus Johannis Philipp militis, Willelmi et

Johanne predictorum, parentum, amicorum, benefactorum et omnium fidelium

defunctorum.* Item vult et assignat post decessum dicte Johanne omnia

of Manasses, Comte of Guines, and of Emma, his wife, daughter and coheir of William of
Arques, misprinted "Arras" by Dugdale and Tanner; and the name of the Prioress
Alicia Lampitt is an addition to the nomenclature of its superiors ; they were Benedictine
nuns.

* Dugdale cites this passage from the will in register Chichely, p. 481, in proof of his
erroneous statement, that Sir John Phelipp, knight, was father of Sir William Phelipp,

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sua vestimenta non legata illis ecclesiis parochialibus conferenda, ibi tamen
ubi major necessitas videtur inesse. Item vult et assignat Juliane Lampett,
anachorite de Carrehow, si tune superstes fuerit, decem marcas pro anima
ipsius Willelmi inter pauperes in civitate Norwici et alibi per assignationem,
voluntatem et discretionem dicte Juliane distribuendas, de quibus decem
marcis assignat Margarete Barker, si tune superstes fuerit, xiiis. iiiiof.*
Item vult quod dies sue subterracionis tarn cito post suam migrationem de
hoc carnis ergastulo, quo honestius poterit fieri, teneatur. Item vult et
assignat Johanne consorti sue omnia et singula sua maneria de Denyngton,
Brundische, Tatyngton, Wilbergham, Cretyngham cum Branston, et
Erpyngham cum omnibus suis pertinentiis dictis maneriis quocumque
modo spectantibus ad terminum vite dicte Johanne sibi tenenda, et post
decessum dicte Johanne vult quod omnia prefata maneria cum pertinentiis
Elizabethe filie dicti Willelmi et Johanne et heredibus de corpore suo
legittime exeuntibus remaneant imperpetuum. Manerium tamen de Cretyng-
ham cum Branston assignat dicte Elizabethe et heredibus de corpore suo
legittime exeuntibus pro quodam manerio per assensum suum per Willel-
mum Tyrwhitt militem, in comitatu Lincolnie, in placito recuperate. f
Et si contingat dictam Elizabethan! sine herede de corpore suo legittime
exeunte obire, tune vult quod omnia maneria predicta cum omnibus suis
pertinentiis ad heredes et assignatos suos revertantur et per executores et
feoffatores suos vendantur ad suam hanc ultimam voluntatem nondum com-
pletam plenarie perimplendam et ad alia opera caritativa facienda, terris
talliatis, si que fuerint, solummodo exceptis, que ad proximum heredem
remanerent imperpetuum. Item vult et assignat quod quicumque tenuerit
et habuerit maneria sua de Erpyngham quod sustineat, inveniat vel in-
venire faciat decem pauperes de omnibus necessariis, reversiones et annui-
tates solvat, cum quibus dicta maneria onerantur, prout in ultima voluntate

having overlooked the word parentum, in which his parents are included. It is self-
evident that reference is here made to his brother mentioned in the text.

* Carhoe or Carrow was a Benedictine nunnery in the county of the city of Norwich.

t Brandeston is the adjoining parish to Cretingham, and in the same deanery of Loose.
The family of Tyrwhitt had anciently their seat at Kettelby, in the parish of Bigby, soke
of Wrawby, which was part of the barony of Shelford, and is doubtless the manor which
was recovered by Sir William Tyrwhitt, ancestor of the baronets of that name, who resided
at Stainfield, in the same county.

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Thome Erpyngham militis plenius continetur. Item quod liceat Johanne
consort! sue in omnibus et singulis maneriis et tenementis sibi ad terminum
vite sue assignatis vastum et destructionem et exilium pro sua voluntate
facere absque impeticione, inquietacione seu calumpnia heredum seu assigna-
torum quorumcumque. Et si dicta Johanna aliquo modo implacitata per-
turbata vel molestata fuerit per heredes de corporibus dictorum Willelmi et
Johanne exeuntes vel per heredes de corporibus heredum exeuntes, vel si
impedierint vel impediri faciant suam hanc voluntatem ultimam perimpleri
aut assignationem manerii de Glemham parva et Brewsham ad manum mor-
tuam, tune vult quod reversiones omnium maneriorum predictorum, terrarum
et tenementorum cum omnibus pertinentiis suis per suos executores et feof-
fatores vendantur et denarii inde provenientes pro gratia sibi a Deo opti-
nenda et capellanis divina in ecclesia de Denyngton celebraturis distribu-
antur, expendantur et condonentur, aliqua concessione et confirmatione de
is in contrarium facta non obstante. Item vult et assignat quod omnes sui
servientes meniales foris manentes et hospitati in suo hospicio per unum
annum ante predictum tempus sui resolutionis stipend! a et alia singula
recipientur, prout de eo in sua vita receperunt. Item vult et assignat per
discretionem Johanne consortis sue Johanni domino Beaumond unam peciam
argenteam et deauratam coopertam, et unum equum vocatum Le Cowcer.
Item vult et assignat Elizabethe, filie dicti Willelmi, unum lectum de serico
cum toto apparatu nuper Thome Erpyngham militis et unum par linthea-
minum de Reynes. Item vult et assignat Katerine Botyler sorori sue unum.
par lintheaminum de Reynes et unum par bedarum coralli ; et Radulfo
domino Crombwell per discretionem dicte Johanne unam peciam argenteam,
deauratam et coopertam. Item vult et assignat cuilibet generoso tempore
sue resolucionis sibi servienti xls. ; cuilibet valetto xx s. ; cuilibet garcioni
xs. et cuilibet pagetto vs. majus et minus illis retribuendos per discretionem
suorum executorum temporis quantitate et servicii fidelitate diligenter ac
prudenter consideratis, illis in hac voluntate specialiter legatis ac nominatis
duntaxat exceptis. Item vult et assignat Willelmo Rous c#. et Willelmo
Hamond ad terminum vite sue annuatim sub conditione quod serviat prefate
Johanne xx*. ; et assignat Rogero Hunte sub conditione quod custodiat
parcum de Denyngton suam annuitatem prout in indentura inde perfecta
plenius continetur. Item assignat cuilibet suorum executorum in hac volun-

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tate nominate cs. In cujus rei testimonium sigillum suum apposuit. Data
die et anno supradictis.

In nomine summe et individue Trinitatis, patris et filii et spiritus sancti,
beatissime Dei genitricis Marie totiusque celestis curie. Amen. Ego Wil-
lelmus Phelipp, dominus Bardolff, in mee discretionis examine revolvens ad
testamentum meum condendum et meam ultimam voluntatem finaliter decla-
randam, dum adhuc sana et recenti gaudeo memoria, procedere decrevi
in hunc modum. In primis siquidem in sinceritate fidei catholice exis-
tens Omnipotenti Deo creatori meo animam meam suo precioso cruore
redemptam lego et earn sibi interiori devotione qua possum cum omni mentis
desiderio commendo. Pro corpore vero meo, ut moris est, subterrando, in
quacumque mundi parte decedere me contingat, inter bone memorie pro-
genitores et parentes meos apud Denyngton infra capellam Sancte Mar-
garete Virginis et martiris coram altare ibidem eligo sepulturam. In cujus
etiam corporis mei subterracione nolo, sed expresse prohibeo, ut neque
uxor mea, executrix principalis mei testamenti et ultime voluntatis, nee alii
executores mei magna et curiosa faciant convivia aut feretrum subtile pro
me preparent, vel sumtuosa luminaria pro me ad mundi pompam seu
gloriam, sed modo honestiori, quo poterit, ordinentur ; videlicet, cum con-
tingat corpus meum per patrias infra civitates esse vel villas, volo ut, cum
illas intraverit, viginti torche3 ardentes cum meo feretro transportentur.
Et quod in die tricennalis mei* ordinentur xxiiii torchej, et xxiiii luminaria,
quodlibet luminare factum de iiii libris cere, circa corpus meum, in exequiis
et missis pro anima mea celeb randis dicto die ardentia, dimittantur ; quas
quidem torche} in exequiis et missis, ut prefertur, celebrandis teneri volo
per xxiiii pauperes homines de tenentibus meis in panno nigro vestitos. Et
predicta xxiiii luminaria per predictum tempus per xxiiii pauperes mulieres
etiam de tenentibus meis teneri volo in panno albo vestitas. Quoque cui-
libet pauperi volo et assigno octo denarios. Insuper etiam volo et lego
summo altari ecclesie parochialis de Denyngton predicte pro venia a Deo
optinenda de decimis Deo et ecclesie debitis et per me non solutis, sed per

* The word tricennale was significative of an office of thirty masses, which was per-
formed during as many days for the deceased, and hence its application in the will as
descriptive of the day of burial, when this office commenced. This phrase Dugdale has
absurdly translated by the English word '* month 's-mind."

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mee fragilitatis miseriam penitus oblitis, quinque marcas in mei corporis
subterracione offerri devote. Reparation! ecclesie prefate c s. Reparacioni
ecclesie de Parva Glemham xxs. et summo altari ejusdem vis. vine?. Re-
paracioni ecclesie de Parva Wilburgham xxs. et summo altari ejusdem vis.
viiic?. Summo altari ecclesie de Badyngham xxs.* Summo altari ecclesie
de Brundisch vis. viiie?. et summo altari ecclesie de Erpyngham vis. vine?.
Omnium vero bonorum meorum residuum executoribus meis do et lego ut
ipsi pro anima mea secundum magnam Omnipotentis Dei misericordiam et
secundum ultime mee voluntatis tenorem, prout in inderitura tripartita
inde confecta sigilloque meo signata plenius declaratur, discrete sic dis-
ponant et ordinant graciose. Testamenti autem hujus ordino et executores
meos constituo Johannam Bardolff, consortem meam, executricem princi-
palem, Johannem Heydon, Willelmum Gode armigeros, Johannem Puttok
et Ricardum Palmere cappellanum. Insuper cum omnimoda filiali rever-
encia reverendum in Christo patrem, dominum Willelmum Alnewyk, Lin-
colniensem episcopum,f humiliter deprecor et exoro, et Johannem Beau-
month, dominum de Folkyngham,J istius testamenti et ultime mee volun-
tatis fieri supervisores. In cujus rei testimonium sigillum meum apposui.
Data primo die mensis Decembris Anno Domini Millesimo quadringen-
tesimo tricesimo octavo et regni Regis Henrici Sexti post conquestum
decimo septimo.

" In Dei nomine, Amen. Ego Willelmus Phelipp, dominus Bardolff,
compos mentis condo testamentum meum in hunc modum. In primis lego
animam meam Deo omnipotenti, beate Marie ac omnibus sanctis ; corpus
meum sepeliendum in cimiterio sancte Marie de Denyngton. Item volo et
assigno domino Johanni Vicecomiti Beaumont et Elizabethe, filie mee,
unum ciphum aureum secundum discretionem Johanne uxoris mee. Item
assigno Katerine sorori meo unum ciphum argenteum deauratum coopertum
de meliori factura secundum discretionem dicte Johanne. Et residuum

* Baddingham is a parish in the deanery of Hoxne, adjacent to Dennington.

f- William Alnwick, archdeacon of Salisbury, was appointed to the see of Norwich 27th
Feb. 1426, and translated to Lincoln 19th Sept. 1436 ; obiit 5 Dec. 1449.

J John Beaumont, Lord of Folkingham, com. Line, was at the date of this will a baron,
and the husband of his only child Elizabeth ; but prior to the decease of William Phelipp,
Lord Bardolf, he was created on the 12th Feb. 1440 the first English viscount, by reason
of his descent from the vicomtes of Maine.

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omnium et singulorum vasorum meorum, tarn aureorum et argenteorum,
deauratorum et non deauratorum, volo et assigno Johanne uxori mee ad
meam ultimam voluntatem perimplendam et perficiendam. Item volo et
assigno omnes togas meas, togis de panno laneo exceptis, in vestimentis
ecclesie faciendas et ordinandas. Item volo et assigno Johanni Banyard
imam togam de Scarlett penulatam cum martrej et v marcas. Item as-
signo Henrico Normanvile unam togam sanguineam penulatam cum martrej
et v marcas. Item assigno Willelmo Barbor unam togam duplicem et v
marcas. Item assigno Thome Rosyngton unam togam de mottle et xls.
Item volo quod omnes alie toge mee de panno laneo non assignate per dis-
cretionem Johanne uxoris mee inter servientes meos distribuentur. Item
assigno Thome Fauham, xls. Item assigno Johanne Blak, cs. Item assigno
Roberto Symond, xls. Item Willelmo Stowe, xls. Item Johanni Ten-
dislonc, xU. Item Johanni Orwell, xU. Item Roberto Thyncheball, xl$.
Item Johanni Wale, xxvis. viiirf. Residuum vero omnium bonorum
meorum non assignatorum nee legatorum do, lego et assigno executoribus
meis, videlicet Johanne uxori mee, Johanni Heydon,* Willelmo Gode,
Reginaldo Rous,-)- Johanni Puttok, et Ricardo Palmer clerico, ut ipsi
ordinant et disponant juxta tenorem, vim, formam et effectum hujusmodi
ultime mee voluntatis, simul cum effectu cujusdam indenture tripartite et
indentate in testimonio de mea voluntate confecte, prout melius viderint
auime mee profecisse et sue saluti. Proviso semper quod si que assignata
seu legata in dicta indentura seu testamento contenta huic mee ultime
voluntati per discretionem executorum meorum aut per majorem partem eis
videantur contraria seu repugnantia, cassa fiant et pro nullo habeantur.
Volo et assigno cuilibet executorum meorum decem marcas et magis juxta
laborum suorum quantitatem. In cujus rei testimonium huic presenti scripto
sigillum meum apposui. Data xxxa die mensis Maii, anno Domini millesi-
mo cccc quadragesimo primo."

* John Heydon was of Baconsthorp, com. Norf. and a lawyer of great eminence.

f Reginald Rous was of Dennington, and ancestor of Sir John Rous, baronet, of
Henham, in the parish of Bulchamp, Suffolk, who was created, May 28, 1796, Baron Roua
of Dennington, and 18 July, 1821, Viscount Dunwich and Earl of Stradbroke.

Dugdale, in his abstract of this will from Register Chicheley, in the library at Lam-
beth, with his usual carelessness, has assigned a wrong date to this codicil, as if it had been
of the eighth of July next ensuing that of his will, instead of the right date, 30th May,

PREFACE.

On the seventh day after the date of this codicil, the sixth day of June,
19th Hen. VI., the testator died, and Henry Chicheley, Archbishop of
Canterbury, granted probate of this will and codicil, by his letter, bearing
date at his manor of Croydon, on the 28th day of the same month, being
in the 28th year of his translation to that see, addressed to William
Goffchin, in decretis Baccalaurius, appointing him his proctor. Upon the
receipt of this letter on the second of July, the proctor repaired to Suffolk,
and administration of the effects was granted to Joan, Lady Bardolff, Wil-
liam Goode esquire, John Puttok, and Richard Palmer clerk, the two
others having renounced, on the eighth day of July, in the church of Den-
nington.

Availing themselves of the proviso in the codicil, the executors did not
comply with the humble request of the testator to be buried in the ceme-
tery of the church of Dennington, and he yet lies entombed with his wife
under a square oblong monument, ornamented with gothic tracery, on
which are the effigies of both in alabaster, richly painted and gilded, eight
feet in length and four in breadth, in the chapel of St. Margaret, on the
south side of the church of St. Mary of Dennington. A drawing after the
tomb was made by Joshua Kirby, and published by him March 25, 1748,
having been engraved by J. Wood ; which plate is inscribed to Sir John
Rouse, Baronet. Subsequently drawings of the same effigies were made
by C. A. Stothard, one of which was etched by him, and the other by
C. J. Smith, and now constitute the plates 110 and 111 in the Monumental
Effigies of Great Britain, folio, London, 1817, where they are erroneously
supposed to be those of Sir Robert Grushill and his lady, in Hoveringham
church, Notts, as is observed in the accompanying description, and which
error has been rectified by the publishers in a communication inserted in
the Gentleman's Magazine. The first of these plates is a front view of
both effigies, and the second a profile view of Lord Bardolf, with details
representing one extremity of the collar of S.S., and the centre of the
girdle, and the letters I.H.S. on the bacinet. Lord Bardolf is represented
in full armour, save the visor, his head resting on his helmet with

19th Hen. VI., 1441, the year of the decease of the testator. And hence the discrepancy
in describing John Lord Beaumont as a viscount before his creation to the title, if the
codicil had been dated 8th July, 1439, as it stands printed in his Baronage, vol. ii.
p. 214.

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mantelet and crest, a garb ; between his feet is an eagle with out-
spread wings. The bacinet is encircled by a costly wreath, having also an
eagle displayed in the front. Round his neck is a gorget, and over it the
collar of S.S. The gussets and brassarts are elegantly fluted, and below
the cuirass is the pance, encircled by a rich girdle, to which a dagger is
attached, and having in front a shield, on which his coat of arms was once
painted. On his left leg is the garter with its motto ; and suspended from
a strap buckled across his loins is his sword. The coat of Phelipp was
quarterly, gules and argent, in the first quarter an eagle displayed or ; crest,
a garb, or.

On his right hand is the effigy of his wife, whose head rests on an em-
broidered cushion, supported on either side by a chaplain of Phelippes
Chauntry, in a cloak and cap, and her feet on a wyvern, the wings endorsed,
the supporters of the arms of Bardolf, indicating her paternal descent.
She wears a crescent-horned head-dress, a rich fret and a coronet. Her
gown hangs in loose folds, reaching so low as to cover the feet, and is
spangled all over with blazing stars, being encircled by a girdle richly
decorated below the waist. Over this is a bodice-shaped garment, open at
the sides for three parts of its length, and over the shoulders is a cloak
fastened in front by a bar across the breast, having richly worked notches
at each end, from which two cords with tassels are made to lap over the
bar, and hang down in front. The necklace is fastened at the extremities
with a buckle. Each of these effigies has the hands joined in prayer.

The only daughter of William Phelipp, Lord Bardolf, wife of John Vis-
count Beaumont, died in the same year as her father, as we learn from the
following Letters Patent, entered on the roll of this nineteenth year of the
reign of Henry the Sixth, under the heading Pro Johanne Vicecomite
Beaumont.

"Rex omnibus ad quos &c. salutem. Sciatis quod cum non modica
dampna et deperdita dilecto et fideli consanguineo nostro Johanni Vice-
comiti de Beaumont per decessum Elizabethe nuper uxoris sue, filie Wil-
lelmi Phelipp nuper domini Bardolf defuncti, devenerunt, ut accepimus,
Nos bonum et gratuitum servicium quod idem Vicecomes nobis impendit
indiesque impendere non desistit merito contemplantes, de gratia nostra
speciali concessimus eidem Vicecomiti custodiam omnium castrorum, mane-
riorum, dominiorum, villarum, terramm, tenementorum, reddituum et ser-

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viciorum tarn liberorum quam nativorum, una cum feodis militum et advo-
cacionibus ecclesiarum, abbatiarum, prioratuum, hospitalium, vicariarum,
capellarum, cantuariarum et aliorum beneficiorum quorumcumque, que
Henrico filio ejusdem Vicecomitis ac filio et heredi ejusdem Elizabethe aut
alicui heredi ipsius Henrici de corpore suo exeunte, seu pro defectu hujus-
modi exitus, inortuo ipso Henrico, Willelmo filio juniori eorumdem Vice-
comitis et Elizabethe et fratri ejusdem Henrici aut alicui heredi ipsius
Willelim filii de corpore suo exeunte, vel pro defectu hujusmodi exitus,
mortuis ipsis Henrico et Willelmo, Johanne filie eorumdem Vicecomitis et
Elizabethe ac sorori eorum Henrici et Willelmi filiorum, per et post mortem
predictorum Willelmi Phelipp et Elizabethe ac Johanne, nuper uxoris ipsius
Willelmi Phelipp adhuc superstitis, seu Anne uxoris Reginald! Cobeham
militis, similiter adhuc superstitis, vel alicujus eorum, seu per et post mor-
tem alicujus alterius, in feodo simplici seu feodo qualitercumque talliato
descendere, reverti seu remanere poterint vel debebant aut de present! possunt
vel debent, simul cum wardis, maritagiis, releviis, escaetis, forisfacturis et
omnibus aliis proficuis, commoditatibus et emolumentis quibuscumque pre-
missa seu alicui premissorum pertinentibus sive spectantibus, et que ad nos
vel heredes nostros ratione minoris etatis alicujus predictorum Henrici,
Willelmi filiorum et Johanne filie aut alicujus heredis alicujus eorumdem
Henrici, Willelmi filiorum et Johanne filie pertinent seu poterunt quo vis
modo, salvo semper nobis et heredibus nostris omni eo quod ad nos vel he-
redes nostros pertinere poterit de hereditate dicti Vicecomitis de Beaumont
post mortem ejusdem Vicecomitis ratione minoris etatis alicujus predictorum
Henrici, Willelmi filiorum et Johanne filie aut alicujus heredis alicujus eo-
rumdem, Habendam et tenendam custodiam illam a tempore quo castra,
maneria, dominia et cetera premissa seu aliqua parcella eorumdem ad manus
nostras vel heredum nostrorum ex aliqua causa supradicta devenire contin-
gant seu contingat, quousque aliquis heres predicte Elizabethe ad plenam
etatem suam pervenerit absque aliquo nobis vel heredibus nostris inde red-
dendo, eo quod expressa mentio de dictis castris, maneriis, dominiis, villis,
terris, tenementis, redditibus, serviciis, feodis militum, advocationibus et
ceteris premissis ac de vero valore eorumdem, necnon de aliis donis et con-
cessionibus eidem vicecomiti per nos ante hec tempora factis, in presentibus
facta non existit, non obstante. In cujus rei, &c. Teste Rege apud West-

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monasterium, x die August!. Per ipsum Regem et de data predicta aucto-
ritate Parliament!."*

The King's writs to the several escheators of the counties, in which
William Phelipp, Lord Bardolf, had property, all bear date at Westminster
on the L6th day of June ; and pursuant thereto an inquisition was taken at
Norwich in Le Sheirehous on Monday next after the feast of the Apostles
Simon and Jude, 20 Hen. VI. before Henry Drury, escheator of the coun-
ties of Norfolk and Suffolk, which describes the joint seizin of the deceased,
with Joan his wife surviving, to them and the heirs of their bodies, of the
honour and manor of Wormegay, with the manors of Stowebardolf, North
Rungton, and Fareswell, in Fincham, by virtue of the letters patent of the
then King, as also of the manors of Qwynburgh, Cantley, and Strumpsagh,
conjointly with the Lady Anne Cobeham, by virtue of letters patent of
Henry IV. and of the manor of Caistor, after the decease of Sir William
Bardolf, knight, by virtue of letters patent of the then King, and sets forth
their right to the reversion of the moieties of such manors as were held by
the said Anne after her decease by virtue of letters patent of the same
King. The finding as to the lands of his own inheritance in this county
was to this effect : " et dicunt quod dictus Willelmus Phelipp tenuit con-
junctim cum prefata Joanna uxore sua die quo obiit in dominico suo ut de
feodo quoddam hospicium vocatum ' Berney's Inn,' in Norwico in comitatu
predicto ex dono et feoffamento Johannis Pelham, Simonis Felbrigg, Andree
Boteler militum, Thome Derham, Augustini Stratton, Willelmi Bambergh,
et Ricardi Gegh per quandam cartam suam super capcionem hujus inquisi-
tionis indentate similiter ostensam, eisdem Willelmo Phelipp et Johanne,
heredibus et assignatis suis imperpetuum inde factis. Et dicunt quod
Thomas nuper dominus de Morle, Johannes Heveningham miles, Willel-
mus Paston, Willelmus Yelverton armigeri, Johannes Kecke clericus, Wil-
lelmus Goode armiger, Johannes Puttok, Johannes Goode et Willelmus

* This entry upon the Roll of Letters Patent was pursuant to the statute 18 Hen. VI.
cap. 1, by enacting, " that of every warrant hereafter sent to the Chancellor of England,
the day of the date of the delivery of the same to the Chancellor shall be entered of record
in the Chancery, and that the Chancellor do cause letters patent to be made upon the
same warrant, bearing date the day of the said delivery into Chancery, and not before in
any case."

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Rous nuper fuerunt seisiti de marierio de Erpyngham, nuper Robert! Er-
pyngham, cum advocacione ecclesie ejusdem ville eidem manerio pertinente,
ac etiam de manerio de Gerberges in Erpyngham cum pertinentiis in eodem
comitatu, in dominico suo ut de feodo,* et maneria ilia cum pertinentiis et
advocationem predictam per quandam cartam suam tripartitam et indentatam,
super capcionem hujus inquisitionis hidentate similiter ostensam, dimiserunt,

* This Robert Erpingham by his will left legacies to all the friars in Norwich, &c., and
died in 1370. He was buried in the church of Erpingham, with his first wife Agnes, and
was succeeded by Sir John Erpingham, Knight, also buried in the same church, with this
inscription : " Hie jacet Dominus Johannes de Erpingham Miles, quondam Dominus
istius ville, qui obiit primo die mensis Augusti, anno Domini M.ccc.LXX . cuius anime
propicietur Ueus. Amen.'" Hence father and son had died in the same year, and it is
evident from the age of Sir Thomas Erpingham (who in 1406 was pledge for Sir Edward
Hastings, of Elsing, Knight, in the Court of Chivalry, in the great cause between Reginald
Lord Grey of Ruthyn, plaintiff, and him, about the arms and title of Hastings, and made
his deposition in his favour in the following year, 9 Hen. IV., wherein he swears to his
being of the age of fifty years and upwards), born in 1357, that he was son of this Robert
Erpingham, and brother of Sir John Erpingham and Juliana wife of Sir William
Phelipp. As these manors were vested in the feoffees named in the text, the inquisition
post mortem after the decease of Sir Thomas Erpingham contains no notice of his tenure
of these manors, although, pursuant to the writ of the 1st of July, to the escheator of
Norfolk and Suffolk, an inquisition was taken at Erpingham on the 2d day of November,
7 Hen. VI., 1428. The finding was to this effect : " Quod dictus Dominus Rex octavo
die Julii anno regni sui primo, per litterassuas patentesdictis juratorib us super capcionem
hujus inquisitionis ostensas, inter alia concessit Thome Erpyngham chivaler in dicto
brevi nominate, per nomen dilecti et fidelis militis sui Thome Erpyngham, et Roberto
Haye clerico, ac Roberto Lymburn clerico, adhuc superstiti, ad opus Domini Thome
Erpyngham prioratum de Toftys et maneria de Toftys et Horstede in comitatu predicto,
una cum omnibus decimis, &c. eo quod Dominus Rex nunc de eisdem prioratu et mane-
riis seisitus et inhereditatus est, tenenda sibi et heredibus suis, virtute cujusdam statuti in
parliamento domini nuper Regis apud Leycestriam, anno regni sui secundo tento, edito,
et pretextu pack inter dictum dominum nuper Regem et Karolum, avum dicti domini
Regis nunc, nuper Regem Francie, inite et facte." The value of this priory and manors
was 30 fo'. annually, and he is declared to have held no other lands in the county. The
finding as to the day of his decease and as to his heir, is the same as in the inquisition at
Farringdon, save that his heir, Sir William Phelipp, is said to be thirty years and upwards
of age : a correct statement. The alien priory of Toft Monks was a cell to the abbey of
St. Peter and Paul at Preaux, near Pont Audemer, in Lower Normandy ; and the manor
of Horstead belonged to the abbey of the Holy Trinity at Caen.
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liberaverunt et feoffaverunt prefatis Willelmo Phelipp militi et Johanne
uxori ejus, habenda eisdem Willelmo Phelipp et Johanne et heredibus de
corpore ejusdem Willelmi Phelipp exeuntibus, et quod si contingat eundem
Willelmum Phelipp sine herede de corpore suo exeunte obire, vivente Kate-
rina uxore Andree Botyler militis, seu aliquo vel aliqua heredum de corpore
predicte Katerine legittime exeunte, quod tune eadem maneria cum perti-
nentiis post mortem predicte Johanne uxoris sue integre remanerent prefate
Katerine, si ipsa ad tune superstes fuerit, habenda sibi et heredibus suis de
corpore suo exeuntibus ; et si ipsa Katerina adtunc mortua exstitit, aliquo
vel aliqua heredum de corpore suo exeuntium adtunc superstite, ex tune
eadem maneria cum pertinentiis remanerent heredibus de corpore prefate
Katerine exeuntibus. Et si omnes hujusmodi heredes de corpore prefate
Katerine legittime exeuntes sine herede de corporibus suis legittime et
separatim exeunte obierunt, quod tune eadem maneria cum pertinentiis
rectis heredibus prefate Katerine remanerent imperpetuum. Si autem pre-
fata Katerina sine herede de corpore suo exeunte obierit, quod tune eadem
maneria cum pertinentiis post mortem predicte Johanne rectis heredibus
predicti Willelmi Phelipp remanerent imperpetuum. Virtute cujus feoffa-
menti iidem Willelmus Phelipp et Johanna de maneriis illis cum perti-
nentiis et advocatione predicta fuerunt seisiti in forma predicta et statum
suum inde continuaverunt tota vita ipsius Willelmi Phelipp. Et dicunt
quod idem Willelmus Phelipp tenuit ad terminum vite sue die quo obiit
manerium de Horstede cum pertinentiis in comitatu predicto ex dimissione
Henrici archiepiscopi Cantuariensis, Johannis episcopi Bathoniensis et
Wellensis, Willelmi episcopi Assavensis, Willelmi episcopi Sarum, Will-
elmi comitis Suffolcie, Johannis Somerset, Thome Bekyngton, Ricardi
Andrewe, et Adami Moleyns clericorum, Johannes Hampton, Jacobi Fenys,
et Willelmi Tresham, feoffatorum Regis, reversione inde post mortem
ejusdem Willelmi Phelipp eisdem spectante." The annual value of the
honour and manor of Wermegay held of the King by military service was
20 ft.; Stowebardolf, 20ft.; North Rungton, 10 li. ; and Fareswell, in
Fyncham, 10 marks; Qwynbergh, 30ft.; Cantley, 20 marks; Strump-
shaw, 10ft. ; Caistor, 20ft. ; Berney's Inn, held of the Prior of the Holy
Trinity of Norwich in socage by payment of one farthing on Easter day for
all service, worth nothing beyond reprises ; Erpingham manor held of John

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Duke of Norfolk as of his manor of Hanworth, 20 li. ; and Gerberges
manor of John Lord of Dacre, as of his manor of Horseford, 10 li.* " Et

* In the Nomina Villarum, 9th Edw. II. 1316, for the county of Norfolk, Hundredum
de Suth Erpyngham, we read, " Erpingham cum Ingworth, et sunt doraini ejusdem,
Robertus de Erpingham, Willelmus Gerberge, Edwardus films ejus, Prior de Faken-
hamdam, Petrus de Brampton, Henricus de Coleby." Hanworth is a manor in the
hundred of North Erpingham, and was then held by John Mowbray Duke of Nor-
folk ; and Parkin, the continuator of Blomefield, in ignorance of this tenure of the
manor of Erpingham, informs us that Sir William Phelip Lord Bardolf died seised of the
manor of Belhouse in Hanworth, and that William Viscount Beaumont held it in the be-
ginning of Edward the Fourth's reign. In Domesday this manor of Erpingham was of
the land of Roger Bigot. Horseford was the site of a castle, and descended in the line of
Clavering, Ufford, Bowet, to Elizabeth Bowet, the heiress, wife of Thomas Lord Dacre
of the South, and not John, as written in this inquisition. Under Erpingham Mr. Parkin
appends this note, in reference to William Phelipp, Lord Bardolf: "In 1415, 3 Hen.
V. he was hired to serve the King with 12 men at arms and 24 archers, and to attend him
over the sea in his own person for three months, beginning June 22, and to be ready at
Southampton ; he was to be paid out of the next fifteenths granted by the laity. He
sealed with his arms, Quarterly gules and or, in the first quarter an eagle displayed
argent; crest a garb or, and circumscribed ' Sigillum Willielmi Phelip militis.'" The
helmet on his monument is surmounted by this crest. In 1430 Sir William Phelipp,
knight, and Joan, his wife, presented Joan Keche, named in the text, to the church of
St. Mary Erpingham, who was deceased in 1435. The following charter is of importance
in clearing up the confused account of the Norfolk Topographer : "A Justice de Cestre
ou a son Lieutenant, &c. Robert de Erpingham et Johan son filz et Johan de Colby,
chivalers, salu3. Come done nous soit a entendre que Isabelle la file Monsieur Richard de
Stockport mourut seisi en son demeigne de certains tenements en la dit counte, a quela
Isabell John fit} Monsieur Edward de Warrenn, a ceo que nous avons entendus de
notre part, est cozen et droite heire. Et pur certain nous vous facions assavoir que Ci-
cilie, la file Monsieur Nichole de Eton, fust marie au dit Monsieur Edward, et que
1'avantdit Johan est eisne fit} et heire as dits Monsieur Edward et Cicilie et nee} et en-
gendre} dedeins les esposailes. As queux choses tesmoigner a cestes lettres patentes nous
avons mis nos seales. Done a Erpingham le viii. jour de Mar} Tan du reigne du Roy
q'or est quarantequart (8 Mar. 1370)." To this deed these three seals remained attached :
a fesse of seven fusils between 3 escallops, circumscribed, " Sigillum Johannis de Colby ;"
an inescutcheon between eight martlets, circumscribed, " Sigillum Robert! de Erping-
ham ;" and the same, with a label of three points, circumscribed, " Sigillum Johannis
de Erpingham." Hence, in the interval between the date of this charter and the first
day of August following, these two knights, father and son, were both deceased, and the
heir was Sir Thomas Erpingham, the younger brother of the latter, and not the son, as
Mr. Parkin has conjectured. These manors and advowson had been enfeoffed to three
persons, who in right thereof presented to the church in 1372, of which the advowson was

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dicunt quod Henricus, filius Johannis Vicecomitis Beaumont et Elizabethe
nuper uxoris ejus, filie predict! Willelmi Phelipp et Johanne, est consan-
guineus et heres ejusdem Willelmi Phelipp propinquior, et est etatis septem
annorum et amplius."

On the same day a second inquisition was taken at the castle of Lincoln
before Robert Waslyn, escheator of the county of Lincoln, which recites
the Letters Patent of Henry the Fourth and those of Henry the Sixth
granting the reversion of the moieties as above, and describes the joint
seizin of the same parties of the manor of Caythorpe with its vills, worth
40 li. annually; Riskington, with its vills, 30^'. ; and Westborough, with
its vills, 20 li. ; as also a third at Newark before John Curson to the same
effect as the above as to the manor of Stoke Bardolf and the moiety of that
of Shelford, of the yearly value of 20fo*. On the Tuesday following an
inquisition was taken at Ipswich, in the county of Suffolk, before Henry
Drury, the escheator, which recites the Letters Patent of Henry the Sixth,
granting the manor of Clopton, which had been late belonging to William
Bardolf knight, brother of Thomas late Lord of Bardolf, as above, and the
joint seizin of the same parties, and also a feoffment by Ralph Adderley,
John de Norwich, John Bassage chaplain, and John Gernon, with the
King's licence, of the manor of Ilkettyshall, called Bardolfes Hall, in
settlement upon Thomas late Lord of Bardolf and Avicia his wife and the
heirs of thair bodies, after whose decease the parties above named had
seizin of the same manor, and so continued without partition during the
whole life of Sir William Phelipp.* As to lands of his own inheritance we

in moieties between the Abbot of Holm and the lord of the manor. In 1403, Sir Thomas
Erpingham presented John Lynes to this church. The description of the manor in the
inquisition as that of Sir Robert Erpingham is sufficient proof that he was the father of
Sir Thomas and Lady Phelipp.

* On the Roll of Letters Patent, 19 Hen. VI. m. 5, under the heading " Pro Johanne
Vicecomite de Beaumont," we have a recital of the Letters Patent of the said King,
bearing date llth Nov. 16th year of his reign, in respect of the honour and manor of Wyr-
megay, the manors of Stowebardolf, North Run gton, Fareswell in Fyncham,and all lands,
tenements, rents, and services, with the appurtenances, in Stowebardolf, North Rungton,
Fyncham, and Tilney, which had been those of Thomas late Lord of Bardolf, and which,
after his forfeiture, had been granted by Henry the Fourth to Thomas Duke of Exeter
and the heirs of his body, and then in the King's hands by reason of his decease, thereby
granted to Sir William Phelipp and Joan, and to the heirs of their bodies ; also of

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have this finding : " Et dicunt quod Willelmus nuper episcopus Norwici,*
Radulfus Cromwell chevaler, dominus de Tatersale, Johannes Typtoft
chevaler, dominus de Powys, Simon Felbrigg chevaler, Johannes Heven-
ingham chevaler, Johannes Wodehous armiger, Willelmus Paston, Tho-
mas Derham, Willelmus Yelverton, Willelmus Goode, armigeri, Johannes
Kecke clericus, et Johannes Puttok fuerunt seisiti de manerio de Denyngton

those of the 31st day of Jan. 16th year of his reign, as to the reversion of the moieties of
Cathorp, &c. held by the same parties and Anne Lady Cobham; and those of the 10th May,
16th year of his reign, as to the manors of Halloughton, Castre, and Clopton, with this
clause following ; " Nos, bona et laudibilia servicia, que dilectus et fidelis consanguineus
noster Johannes Vicecomes de Beaumont nobis impendit indiesque impendere non desistit,
extunc con temp lantes, de gratia nostra speciali, concessimus quod dicta honor et mane-
rium de Wyrmegaye, &c. que prefata Joanna sic tenet in forma predicta, et que, si ipsa sine
herede de corpore suo et corpore dicti Willelmi Phelipp procreato obire contigerit, ad nos
et heredes nostros reverti debebant, eo quod predictus Willelmus Phelipp mortuus est, ac
medietates dictorum maneriorum de Cathorp, &c. que quidem medietates, &c. post
mortem predicte Anne ad predictam Johannam et heredibus de corpore ipsius Johanne et
de corpore predict! Willelmi Phelipp exeuntibus virtute dictarum litterarum patentium
eisdem Willelmo et Johanne inde confectarum remaneri debebant, eo quod predictus
Willelmus Clyfford sine herede de corpore suo et corpore predicte Anne procreato obiit,
ut predictum est, et que post mortes earumdem Anne et Johanne, si ipsa Johanna sine
herede de corpore suo et corpore prefati Willelmi Phelipp exeunte obire contigerit, ad
nos et heredes nostros reverti debebant, ac etiam alie medietates maneriorum de Clopton
et Castre, que quidem &c. (ut supra) prefato Johanni Vicecomiti de Beaumont integre
remaneant, habenda et tenenda sibi et heredibus .de corpore suo exeuntibus imperpe-
tuum de nobis et heredibus nostris per servicia inde debita et consueta. Teste Rege apud
Westmonasterium xxx die Augusti."

Hence, in case of failure of issue of his deceased wife, under this grant he would have
been tenant in tail of the lands belonging to the family of Bardolf in Norfolk, Suffolk,
Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and of the manor of Birling in Sussex, with remainder to
any heir of his body. By his second wife, Katharine, Duchess of Norfolk, he had issue
one daughter, Katharine, married to Henry last Lord Grey, of Codnor, com. Derb., to
whom she was second wife. Milles in his Catalogue of Honour makes John Viscount
Beaumont, father of Joan wife first of Sir William Willoughby, brother of Robert Lord
Willoughby, and secondly of William Marquis of Berkeley; but Dugdale, on the authority
of evidences at Berkeley, says she was daughter of Sir Thomas Strangways, knight,
second husband of the Duchess of Norfolk.

* William Alnwick, Bishop of Norwich, 27 Feb. 1426, had been translated to Lincoln
19th Sept. 1436, and hence the description as late Bishop of Norwich. He died 5 Dec.
1449.

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et advocatione ecclesie ejusdem ville, ac de maneriis de Brakle et Phelippes
cum pertinentiis, ac etiam de manerio de Brundysh vocato le Ferme cum
suis pertinentiis, in comitatu predicto, in dominico suo ut de feodo. Et
maneria ilia cum pertinentiis et advocacione predicta per quandam cartam
suam indentatam juratoribus hujus inquisitionis indentate ostensam dimi-
serunt prefatis Willelmo Phelipp et Johanne uxori ejus ad tune superstiti,
habenda et tenenda ad terminum vite eorum et alterius eorum diutius
viventis, absque impeticione et calumpnia, ita quod si aliquis heres masculus
predictorum Willelmi Phelipp et Johanne de corporibus suis legittime pro-
creatus vel exiens ipsos Willelmum et Johannam et eorum utrumque
supervixerit, quod tune post mortem predictorum Willelmi Phelipp et
Johanne et eorum utriusque, predicta maneria et advocatio cum pertinentiis
integre remanerent Johanni Beaumont, domino de Folkyngham, et Eliza-
bethe uxori ejus, filie predictorum Willelmi Phelipp et Johanne, habenda et
tenenda eisdem Johanni Beaumont et Elizabethe et heredibus de corporibus
ipsius Johannis Beaumont et Elizabethe exeuntibus. Et si contingat quod
nullus heres masculus predictorum Willelmi Phelipp et Johanne de corpo-
ribus suis legittime procreatus ipsos Willelmum Phelipp et Johannam et
utrumque eorum supervixerit, vel quod predictus Johannes Beaumont et
Elizabetha sine herede de corporibus suis exeunte obierint, quod tune pre-
dicta maneria et advocacio cum pertinentiis ad prefatos episcopum, c. et
heredes suos revertentur. Et dicunt quod nullus heres masculus predictorum
Willelmi Phelipp et Johanne de corporibus suis legittime procreatus ipsum
Willelmum Phelipp supervixit. Et sic dicunt quod predictus Willelmus
Phelipp et Johanna conjunctim tenuerunt maneria ilia et advocacionem
predictam, reversione inde prefato episcopo, &c. et heredibus suis post mortem
predicte Johanne spectante. Et dicunt quod prefatus Willelmus Phelipp et
Robertus Rous nuper fuerunt seisiti in dominico suo ut de feodo de manerio
de Cretyngham cum pertinentiis in comitatu predicto et manerium ilium
cum pertinentiis per quandam cartam suam juratoribus hujus inquisitionis
indentate ostensam dimiserunt et feoffaverunt Willelmo nuper episcopo Nor-
wici, &c. superstibus ac Johanni Wodehous et Johanni Keche defunctis
habendum et tenendum sibi et heredibus et assignatis suis imperpetuum,
virtute cujus feoffamenti iidem Willelmus nuper episcopus Norwici, &c.
fuerunt inde seisiti in dominico suo ut de feodo et permiserunt prefatum
Willelmum Phelipp occupare predictum manerium ad eorum voluntatem.

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Et sic dicunt quod idem Willelmus Phelipp nichil habuit in eodem manerio
cum pertinentiis vel in aliqua parcella ejusdem post dimissionem et feoffa-
mentum predictum nisi solummodo ad voluntatem dicti nuper episcopi
Norwici, &c. Et dicunt quod prefatus Willelmus Phelipp tenuit die quo
obiit conjunctim cum Waltero domino de Hungerford milite, Willelmo
Yelverton, Thoma Ingham, Willelmo Ede, et Johanne Puttok adhuc super-
stitibus manerium de Wylbey cum advocatione ecclesie ejusdem ville in
comitatu predicto sibi et heredibus et assignatis suis imperpetuum ex
dono et feoffamento Thome Tudenham militis, Johannis Fitzrauff, et
Oliveri Groos, eis inde et heredibus et assignatis factis." The manors
of Clopton, of 10ft. yearly value, and of Ilketteshall, 20^. were held
of the King in chief; and the aforesaid manors of Dennington 10ft.,
Brakle 5ft., Phelippes 10ft., and Brundish were held of the Earl of Suffolk
in socage ; and as to Cretingham, 10ft. it was not held of the King in
chief, nor was its tenure then known to the jurors ; and that of Wylbey,
10 ft. was likewise held of the Earl of Suffolk, but by what service the
aforesaid jurors were ignorant at that present time.

A fifth inquisition was taken at Lewes 2nd day of November, 20 Hen. VI.
before Arnold Brocas, escheator of Sussex, as to the manors of Plumpton
and Berkham, otherwise Barcomb, which had been in the tenure of Sir
William Bardolf,* with reversion to the parties named above, by virtue of

* Sir William Bardolf, knight, had been Lieutenant of the Captain of Calais, Richard
Earl of Warwick, during the reign of Henry V. and died without issue on Sunday, the
feast of St. James the Apostle, 25 July, 1 Henry VI. 1423, seized for the term of his life
of the manor called Kingeshall, in Clopton, together with the advowson of the church of
Debach, belonging to the same manor, worth 40s. annually, held of the lord the King
in chief by fealty, and the render of one pair of gilt spurs, price 6d., for all services,
according to an inquisition taken at Woodbridge, com. Suff. on Wednesday next after
the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, in the second year of the reign of Henry the
Sixth after the Conquest, 15 Sept. 1423, before Edmund Wynter, the King's escheator in
the said county, which has this finding : " Dicunt quod predictus Willelmus Bardolf obiit
die dominica in festo Sancti Jacobi Apostoli ultimo preterite, et quod Anna nuper uxor
Willelmi Clifford militis defunct! et Johanna nunc uxor Willelmi Phelipp militis sunt
consanguinee et heredes predict! Willelmi Bardolf propinquiores, videlicet, filie Thome
fratris predict! Willelmi Bardolf. Et dicunt quod predicta Anna est etatis triginta-
quatuor annorum et amplius, et quod predicta Joanna est etatis triginta-tres annorum et
amplius. " The jury, on a second inquisition, taken at Cantley, in the county of Norfolk,
on Saturday next after the feast of the Nativity of Blessed Mary the Virgin, llth Sept.

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the letters patent of King Henry IV. dated 19th July, ninth year of his
reign, and of those of Henry VI. dated 31 January, sixteenth year of his

before the same escheator, found as follows : " Quod dominus Henricus nuper Rex Anglie
post Conquestum quartus, avus domini Regis nunc, per litteras suas patentes, quarura
datum est xii die Augusti anno regni sui sexto, concessit Willelmo Bardolf militi in dicto
brevi nominate maneria de Qwynbergh, Cantele, et Strumpeshagh, cum omnibus pertinentiis
in comitatu predicto, una cum advocacionibus ecclesiarum et feodis militum ad predicta
maneria pertinentibus, que per forisfacturam domini Thome, nuper domini de Bardolf,
ad manus ipsius nuper Regis devenerunt, habenda predicto Willelmo pro termino vite sue
in forma in eisdem litteris contenta ; quo pretextu predictus Willelmus Bardolf de
maneriis predictis cum pertinentiis fuit seisitus in dominico suo ut de libero tenemento.
Et dicunt quod postea idem nuper Rex per litteras suas patentas dictis juratoribus super
capcionem hujus inquisitionis in evidentia ostensas, quarum datum est apud Westmonas-
terium decimo nono die Junii anno regni sui nono, inter alia recitando quod dilecti sibi
Willelmus Clifford chivaler et Anna uxor ejus et Willelmus Phelipp, nunc miles, et
Johanna uxor ejus, filie et heredes Thome domini de Bardolf defuncti, sibi dederunt in-
telligi qualiter idem nuper Rex xii die Augusti, anno regni sui sexto, per litteras suas
patentes concessit predicto Willelmo Bardolf, per nomen Willelmi Bardolf chivaler,
maneria predicta cum pertinentiis per nomina maneriorum de Qwynbergh, Cantele, et
Strumpeshagh cum omnibus pertinentiis in comitatu Norfolcie, que quidem maneria in
manus predicti nuper domini Regis tanquam forisfacta occasione rebellionis per Thomam
dominum de Bardolf facte devenerunt, habenda et tenenda eidem Willelmo Bardolf ad
terminum vite sue, reversione inde eidem nuper Regi reservata, de gratia sua speciali et
de assensu consilii sui et per finem ducentarum marcarum ad opus suum solutum, inter
alia dedit et concessit eisdem Willelmo Clifford et Anne uxori ejus et Willelmo Phelipp
et Johanne uxori ejus reversiones predictorum maneriorum de Qwynbergh, Canteley et
Strumpeshagh cum pertinentiis, habendas et tenendas eisdem Willelmo Clifford et A nne
uxori ejus et Willelmo Phelipp et Johanne uxori ejus pro termino vite eorum et pro
termino vite illius eorum qui supervixerit, et heredibus de corporibus eorum exeuntibus,
et pro defectu exitus reversione inde prefato nuper Regi et heredibus suis spectante im-
perpetuum una cum feodis militum et advocacionibus ecclesiarum. Dicunt etiam quod
predictus nuper Rex de uberiori gratia sua et de assensu concilii sui per easdem litteras
patentes inter alia concessit prefatis Willelmo Clifford et Anne uxori ejus et Willelmo
Phelipp et Johanne uxori ejus quod si ipsi aut heredes sui de corporibus suis exeuntes
informari vel aliqualiter certiorari possint in futurum, quod maneria predicta seu aliqua
parcella eorumdem talliata existant vel existat, unde predicte Anna vel Johanna seu
heredes sui sunt vel possunt hereditari, quod tune presens concessio seu acceptacio ejusdem
prefatis Willelmo Clifford, Anne, Willelmo Phelipp et Johanne, aut versus ipsos vel
heredes de corporibus suis, ut premittitur, exeuntes prejudiciale vel exclusio in futurum
non existat, sed quod bene licet sibi et heredibus actionem, recuperacionem, et avantagium
sua, prout pro proficuo suo et avantagio suo melius videbitur, capere, hac concessione per

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reign, granting the reversions of the same after the decease of Anne Lady
Cobham ; and in like form as to the manor of Byrling, after the decease of

dominum nuper Regem eis facta seu acceptacione ejusdem non obstante. Virtu te ipsius
doni et concessionis predictus Willelmus Bardolf predictis Willelmo Clifford et Anne,
Willelmo et Johanne, attornavit et postea de statu suo predicto inde pretextu premissorum
obiit seisitus. Et dicunt quod predictum manerium de Quinbergh, exceptis cxxviii.
acris terre in eodem manerio, tenetur de domino Rege in capite per servicium unius
feodi militis, et quod predicte cxxviii. acre terre tenentur de manerio de Hardyngham,
per quod servicium ignorant. (Extent.) Et quod advocaciones ecclesie predicte ville de
Quinbergh et ecclesie ville de Gerston pertinent eidem manerio, unde Qwinberg valet xli.
et Gerston xx marcas. Cantele manerium extentum, et quod advocacio ecclesie predicte
ville pertinet eodem manerio et valet xx libras. Et in manerio de Cantele, videlicet in
villis Castre Sancte Trinitatis et Castre Sancti Edmundi in hundredo de Estflegg sunt
terre et curia, et dicunt quod advocatio ecclesie Sancti Edmundi de Castre pertinet
manerio de Cantele et valet x marcas, et quod predictum manerium tenetur de domino
Rege in capite per servicium unius militis. Strumpshaghe manerium extentum, et quod
tenetur de Domino Rege in capite per servicium unius militis. Item dicunt quod pre-
dictus Willelmus Bardolf miles tenuit die quo obiit in dominico suo ut de feodo manerium
de Scrouteby in comitatu predicto. (Extent.) Et dicunt quod predictum manerium de
Scrouteby tenetur de Thoma Huntyngfeld per servicium unius feodi militis. Et dicunt
quod predictus Willelmus Bardolf obiit die Dominica in festo Sancti Jacobi Apostoli
ultimo preterite, et quod predictus Willelmus Clifford obiit sine herede de corpore predicte
Anne exeunte diu ante mortem predicti Willelmi Bardolf. Et quod predicta maneria de
Qwinbergh, Cantele, et Strumpshagh cum pertinentiis predicte Anne ac predictis Willelmo
Phelipp et Johanne pretextu premissorum jam remanere debent." Heirs and ages as
above. Another inquisition was taken at Lewes on Saturday next after the feast of the
Exaltation of the Holy Cross, 18th Sept. 2 Hen. VI. before Richard Wymeldon escheator,
which describes the tenure of the deceased in the same words as the above in regard of
the manor of Plumpton, with the liberties and advowson of the church, and the manor of
Berkompe alias Barkhome, with the liberties and advowson of the church, held of the
castle of Lew