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SHROPSHIRE

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THE REV. R. W. EYTON,

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VOL. VIII.

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Among the Manors held by Bainald Yicecomes in Recordine
Hundred, Eaton is described in Domesday as follows : — '^ The same
Rainald holds Etune of the Earl. Wenesi held it in King Edward's
time. Here are ii hides. In demesne are ii ox teams^ and (there
are) iiii serfe^ ii female serfs^ i villain^ and y boors with i team ;
and still there might be ii more teams. Here is a Fishery in the
Severn, yielding no rent ; and a small wood^ yielding hd. In King
Edward's time (the Manor) was worth 50«. {per annuni) : now it is
worth 40^.; he (Bainald) found it waste."^

To what I have said^ under Oldbury and Fulwardine^ of the An-
glo-Norman family of Constantine^^ I have much to add here^ in-
asmuch as that family became Fitz- Alan's Feoffees at Eaton. An
Antiquary of the last century^ who had an estate in this Parish^
tells us in somewhat pompous style that ^^ the Constantines were
originally Vassals of the Earls Montgomery, but afterwards of the
Fitz Alans of Clun-Castle."* Whatever of this may be true as
regards the Constantines and their Norman antecedents, I do not
find that they, or their presumed ancestor, Badulf, ever held any-
thing immediately under the Palatine Earls. The Fitz Alans, or
their Predecessors, or else the Barons of Pulverbatch, were Mesne*
lords of every Shropshire estate, in which the Constantines appear
to have acquired any interest.

Passing from Badulf and Hugh de Constantino to Helyas de
Constantine, who was head of the family in 1165, 1 should say that
his tenure of Eaton represented only one-half of the feoffinent (of
.one knight and two muntators) which he then held in Fitz Alan's

^ Domesday f fo. 254, b, 1.

* Suprai Vol. I. pp. 133 et seqq.

* ''Gonstantinorum FamUia a primiB
Nonnannorom temporibus in dientelA fu-

erat Gomitum Montegomericorum ; pos-
tea yero Alanidarum de Coloniaoo Cas-
tello." (Vita Willielmi Baxter! a seipso
oonsoripta : inter JSteliquat Bcupterianat.)

VIII. 1

Z EATON CONSTANTINE.

Barony.^ It was in fact held by service of half a knighf s fee.
Richard de Constantine^ the successor of Helyas^ was deceased in
1196, when he was represented by his son, —

Thomas de Constantine (I.). Of this Thomas and his wife
Isabel, sister and eventual coheir of Robert de Girros, I have spoken
under Burwarton, and under Broughton.^ I find him amerced one
merk for trespass, in 1203. Soon after this a Perambulation was
ordered to be made between the lands of Thomas de Constantine
and the King^s Forest. A Jury of twelve Knights seems to have
been empanelled for the occasion, and to have discharged the duty
with partiality. Hence at the Forest Assizes of March 1209, we
find the justiciars ordering the names of these Jurors to be returned
into Court, and commanding Guy Venator and the Verderers " to
seize the land of Thomas de Costentin and also his bosc, which bosc
had by falsehood of a jury {per falsam juratam) been abstracted
from the Forest.'' The Pipe-Roll of 1212 shows that the Knights-
Jurors who were concerned in this afiair were amerced in the
enormous penalty of 100 merks and 2 palfreys, and that the whole
debt, except £3, had been paid. Thomas de Constantine's forfeiture
on this occasion was probably reversed for some less serious consi-
deration, but we are not surprised to find him afterwards in rebel-
lionf against King John, and his estates at Eaton and Oldbury
granted to John fitz Philip by the same Writ as that which confis-
cated the lands of his neighbour at Leighton.^ About this time
Thomas de Constantine made an extensive feofiment to Robert de
Woodcote, his neighbour at Eye. The particulars I will give in a
friture chapter.

^On November 3, 1217, the Sheriff of Shropshire is certified by a
Writ of King Henry III. that Thomas de Constantine had returned
to his allegiance.* An Inquest of the year 1220 exhibits Thomas
de Constantine as one of the Verderers of the Shropshire Forests.
At the Assizes of 1221 he appears as a Knight, sitting on Juries of
Grand Assize. He was himself subjected to damages of 10 merks
for having disseized one Richard fitz Geoffirey of a free tenement in
Etton. His securities in this matterwere Hugh de Upton, Herbert
Manveisii , Robert fitz Aer, and Walter de Hugeford.

A Writ of Qctober 2, 1224, exempts Thomas de Constantine, as
a Verderer, from serving on Juries and Assizes.^ In 1231, Thomas
de Constantine was amerced 20«. '^ because his hounds had coursed

» lAher Niger, I. p. 148. I ' Supra, Vol. VII. p. 329.

« Supra, Vol III. pp. 32, 33, 78, 79. I * ' * Clout, I. 373, 623.

EATON OONSTANTINB. 3

withoQt license.^' He was at the same time security for similar
fines set upon Gilbert de Bukenhnll and William^ a Chaplain.
An occurrence of 1237^ associating him with Sir Richard de Leigh-
ton^ has been already noticed ;^ but whether it was he or his son
Thomas who is r^stered about 1240 as holding a knight's-fee in
Eton and Oldbury under Eitz Alan^ I cannot say. It will appear
elsewhere that Thomas de Constantine (I.) had four brothers^ viz.
Helias^ William^ Ralphs and Richard ; but I here proceed to speak
of his son and heir, viz.,

Thomas de Constantine (II.), who between the years 1244 and
1250 appears as a Knight and as a frequent witness of local Char-
ters. In 1251, we have seen this Thomas de Constantine recog-
nized as one of the coheirs of Robert de Girros.^ He was in fact
his nephew, the son of his sister Isabel.

The Bradford Hundred-Roll of 1256 describes the status of
Eaton as follows. — " Heton, a Manor of two hides, pays 8d. motfee
and Sd. stretward, Thomas de Costantin holds Heton as Lord,
for a knight^s fee, and of the fief of John fitz Alan. The Manor
does ward at White-Minster (Oswestry) by service of one knight
for 40 days, in war-time, at the knight^s own cost. It also does
due suit to County and Hundred, and is geldable.^^^

At the Assizes of 1266, Thomas de Constantine appears in vari-
ous capacities, viz. as nephew and coheir of Robert de Girros, as a
Knight empanelled to try causes of Grand Assize, and as one of the
four Coroners of Shropshire. In June 1259 he is the first-named
of a number of Sjiights who sat on a Forest-Inquest at Sheriff
Hales, and this seems to be his latest appearance in public life.
In November 1268 I find Adam de Montgomery (his son-in-law)
fining 20s, ^' for license to accord in a plea of convention with Thomas
de Costentin.^' The Fine which resulted was levied at Bristol on
January 14, 1269. Thereby Thomas de Costentin, Deforciant, ac-
knowledged that the Manors of Aldeby (Oldbury) and Etone and
half the Manor of Fyttes (Fitz) were the right of Adam de Mun-
gomery and his wife Isabella, Plaintiffs in a Plea of convention. In
turn, Adam and Isabella conceded the premises to Thomas, for his
life, to hold under themselves at a rent of Id., or a paif of white
gloves. The premises were then to revert to Adam and Isabella,
to hold of the Lords of the respective fees; but if Adam and Isa-
bella died without heirs, the heir of Adam was to inherit.

> -> Supra^Yol. YII. p. 829; iy.p.22. I Cbiutantine was Foreman of the Jiirv
' Mot, HiMdred, II. 56. Thomas de I which made this Betutn.

4 EATON C0N8TANTINB.

Thomas de Constantine was still living in October 1277 ; but^
having nothing further to say of him^ I proceed to speak of —

Adam de Montgomery^ whom we have seen attesting a Chetton
Deed^ at the precise period when the above Fine was levied. At
the Assizes of 1272 Sir Adam de Montgomery was one of the
Jurors who tried several causes of Grand Assize, and on March 2nd
of that year Robert^ his only son by Isabella de Constantine^ ap-
pears to have been bom. Two Feodaries^ drawn up about 1284,
concur in giving Adam de Montgomery as Lord of Eaton Con-
stantyne^ and as holding the same under Richard fitz Alan^ by ser-
vice of one knight's-fee. On May 18, 1285, Adam de Montgomery
obtained a Charter of Free Warren in his Manors of Eton-Con-
stantyn, Fittes, Sandford, and Borewarton.^ On the death of Sir
Adam de Montgomery, which, as I have stated under Burwarton,
took place in 1290, his tenure of Eaton Constantine, Oldbury, a
moiety of Fitz, and of land at Sandford (near Knokin), is duly re-
corded. All these estates were held of the Barony of Fitz Alan,
and all had devolved to him by his second marriage with Isabella
de Constantine. His heir in respect of the Manor of Lydham was
his son Thomas, who, having been 30 years of age at Christmas
1289, was of course his son by a former wife. Robert, his son by
Isabella de Constantine, was still in minority.'

I have inadvertently stated under Burwarton that Isabella de
Constantine died before her husband. The Assize-Roll of October
1292 disproves this in two ways. In the first place it records that
Edmund de Mortimer is indebted in a sum of £7 to Alexander de
Montgomery, and to Isabel, widow of Adam de Montgomery,. which
Alexander and Isabel were Eiecutors of the said Adam's Will. In
the next place it exhibits the Earl of Arundel, as Castos of Adam
de Montgomery's heir, rendering her thirds to Isabel, Adam de
Montgomery's Widow. These thirds were, — a third of 2 carucates
of land, 10 acres of bosc, one Weir and 100*. rent in Eton Costen-
tyn, — of 2 carucates of land and 11 merks rent in Oldbury, — and
of 1 carucate of land, 10 acres of bosc, and 40*. rent in Fytisho
(Fitz).^

It is not easy to understand how only a third of these estates ac-
cmed to Isabella. Whether as heiress of the Constantines, or as

* Supra, Vol. I. p. 178.
^ Hot Chart. 13 Edw. I., No. 107.
» Inquis. 18 Edw. I., No. 5. Oldbury
and Sandford are called members of Eaton

Oonstantine, and the collective tenure is
stated to be by a knight's fee and 40 days'
castle-guard with a barbed horse.

* Assises, 20 Edw. I., mm. 6 dorso, 12.

THE CHURCH.

jointly seized with her husband by the fine of 1269^ I should have
expected her to be entitled to the whole of these estates for her life.
It appears that her son — Robert de Montgomery^ died without
issue. In the Nomina VtUarum of 1316^ William de Leghton is
enrolled as Lord of Eton Constantyn. I cannot account for this^
except on the supposition that William de Leighton had married
Adam de Montgomery's Widow.

Another difficulty now presents itself. After the deaths of Isa-
bella de Constantine and her son Robert^ we should^ according to
the remainder fixed by the Fine of 1269j expect to see Eaton pass-
ing to the heirs of Adam de Montgomery. I have no proof of
such a result. I will not however here inquire how one Maculine
is stated to be Lord of Eaton Constantine in 1831^ or how the
Manor afterwards passed to the Thomhills.

Of Undertenants in this Manor^ I may name John de Con-
stantine of Eaton^ who occurs on a local Jury in July 1278^ and
also in the years 1298, 1300, 1302, 1304 and 1312. In December
1298 William le Despenser and William Fisher of Eaton occur on
a Berwick Jury. In September 1331, Walter le Spenser and John
Constantyn, both of Eton, attest a Wombridge Charter.

LiLLESHALL Fee. In the time, as I think,, of Henry III., Ro-
bert de Constantine gave to Lilleshall Abbey half a virgate and a
capital messuage in the vill of Ettun, which had been held by his
father. He also gave 7d. rent to the same, viz. \d. arising from an
assart near Folefordy 4d. from a house near the capital messuage,
and 2d. from two acres of land, one of which is described as lying
near 7^ Stanibrug} The Canons are held to pay a chief-rent of
12£f., due on this tenement, which I take to* have been the estate of
a younger branch of the Constantines. In November 1266, Henry
III.^s confirmation to Lilleshall describes the above grant as dona^
cionem et concessionem qtias Robertus Constentyn fedt de und vir"
gatd terrte cum pertinentiis in Gaiton Constentyn. I find no later
proof of the Abbey continuing in possession of this estate.

THE CHUECH.

That this was a Chapel, originally dependent upon Leighton
Church, I have already given proof.^ The antiquity of its founda-
tion is however considerable, whether we judge from the Norman
Font, which is still preserved, or from the fact, that Walter Chap^

> LiUeahaU Gbartolaiy, fo. 76. | > Supra, Vol. YII. p. 337.

6

EATON CONSTANTINE.

lain of Eton appears early in the thirteenth centnry attesting a
Charter of Thomas de Constantine.^ The Taxation of 1291 gives
the Church of Eton Constantine (in the Deanery of Salop) as worth
only 808. per annum.^ In 1341 the Assessors of the Ninth rated
this Parish at 10^.^ and no more^ because it was small and poor^
and because there had been a general murrain among the sheep.^
The Valor of 1534-5 combines the account of this Free Chapel, as
it is called^ with that of the Collegiate Churches of St. Chad and
St. Mary^ Shrewsbury. I cannot account for this association.
Eton Constantyne was now worth only £1. 6s. 2d. per annum to
its Incumbent.^

EAELT INCUMBENTS.

On January 31^ 1301 this Chapel was vacant and under Episco-
pal sequestration. Bishop Langton commits the custody of such
sequestration to—

BicHABD SON OF WiLLiAM LE Despenser of Etou^ till Michacl-
mas next. On December 27, 1349^ the presentation to this bene-
fice had lapsed to the Bishop. He collated —

William Tandt^ Chaplain^ thereto. Tandy seems to have held
this Church for a few weeks in conjunction with Little Build-
was.^ He resigned Eaton on March 29^ 1350^ and on June 15 fol-
lowing —

Hugh Boldtng^ Chaplain^ was admitted here at the presentation
of Sir Walter de Hopton^ Lord of Eaton Constantine. The Pre-
sentee was bound by oath to resign^ if any trouble should accrue to
the Bishop in consequence of this institution. I presume the right
of Sir Walter de Hopton to present was in question^ and I cannot
account for his being Lord of the Manor. Boldyng^ as we have
seen^ came hither from Little Buildwas.^ On June 24^ 1384, Hugh
Boldynff, Rector of the Church of Eyion Costantyn, quit-claims to
William Corbronde of Uppington all right which he had to a mes-
suage in Uppington by gift of John Golde of Uppington.^

William Opynton, Priest, was instituted to this Chapel on
January 16, 1393, at the presentation of Richard Thornhull and
Florence his wife. In October following Opynton was presented to
the Vicarage of Wroxeter, and on December 18, 1393 —

1 Supra, VoL I. p. 136.

3 Pope Nich. Taxation^ p. 244.

' InqtM. Nonarum, p. 192.

* Valor JEceles. HI. 188.

* • • Supra, Vol. VII. p. 325.

^ Womb. Chart. Upinton, No. oxxTiii.

CHILDS ERCALL. 7

Robert Thornhitll^ of the Diocese of York, was instituted
here. He resigned in 1403^ when, on October 15, —

Sir John Corbtn, Chaplain, was instituted to Eaton, at the
presentation of William Thomehull, Domicell.^ This Incumbent ap-
pears as John Corkyn, Rector of Eaton Constantine, in Deeds of
September 1409 and March 1411.

1M\t €rtaU» rum €f^\M €reall.

The Domesday account of this Manor is as follows : —
''The same Bainald (Yicecomes) holds Arcalun of the Earl.
Seuuard held it (in Saxon times). Here are iii hides. In demesne
are ii ox-teams; and iiii Neat-herds, vii Villains, x Boors, a
Priest, a Smith, and a Frenchman, have, among them all, seven
teams and a half; and yet there might be one team more here.
Here half a league of wood yields 3^;^. (yearly). In King Edward^s
time the Manor was worth 45«. {per annum) . Now it is worth 60«.
He (Rainald) found it waste.^^^

Little Ercall continued to be held in demesne by Bainald^s suc-
cessors till the time of the first William fitz Alan, who granted a
portion of the Manor to the Cistercian Abbey of Combermere.
This gift, which probably dates before Fitz Alan^s expulsion from
Shropshire in 1138, is not embodied in any original charter, known
to be extant, but is thus described in Henry III.^s Confirmation to
Combermere. Et Doddecotam in Feld cum suia pertinentm^ et t/-
lam terram et brueriam qtue est inter Tiverton et HtUam, et illud
pratum adjacens juxta aquam de Mees, ex dono WUlielmi filii Alani,
cum communione bosci de Herkall/'^ In other words, William
fitz Alan gave Dodicote, an outlying member of Ercall, to the
Monks of Combermere, and therewith he gave certain land and
heath lying between Tibberton and Howie, and a meadow on the
Biver Mees, and a right of common in Ercall- Wood. The estate
thus separated from Ercall shall form the subject of a separate
chapter.

^ DomiceUui or DomnioelUu ; — adimi-
nutire of DonUmu, BometixneB applied to
youths of gentlo birth who were in the
King's Gonrt. Usually liowever the title

is given to any youth of knightly &mily,
not yet knighted.

s Dometdayy fo. 264, b. 2.

< M<mattieon, r. 824, No. HI.

'

8

CHILDS ERCALL.

On William fitz Alan's restoration to his Shropshire estates in
1155^ he seems to have enfeoffed Hamo le Strange in the residue of
this Manor .^

Of Hamo le Strange^ Lord of Cheswardine by gift of Henry
II.j and of Betton Strange by feoffment of the Abbot of Shrews-
bnry^ I have spoken more than once.' At Michaelmas 1160 he
was deceased without legitimate issue. The short period during
which he held Little Ercall was distinguish«i by his grant of Nag-
ington, a member thereof, to Haughmond Abbey. This grant was
forthwith confirmed by William fitz Alan (I.) as Lord of the Fee^
and in the following terms : —

Williebnus films Alani omnibus hominilms suis, presentibus et
futuris, salutem. Notum sit omnibus vobis me dedisse, in perpetuam
elemosynam, Nagintonam Deo et Sancto Johanni Hamonensis Ec-
clesie, et Cdnonicis ejusdem Ecclesia, pro salute anime mee et ante-
. cessorum meorum et pro salute anime Hamonis Extranei, qui illam
priiis eidem Ecclesie, pro salute anime sue, divisit ; — liberam et
guietam ab omni servicio quod ad me vel meos pertineat ; — liberam
dico et inpasturd communii et in bosco et in piano et in aquis et in
semitis. IRis testibus Johanne Extraneo, Widone Extraneo, En-
gelardo, WiUielmofilio Odonis, etc?

On the death of Hamo le Strange, his eldest brother, John, was
undoubtedly his heir-at-law, but —

Balph le Strange, the younger brother of both, was permitted
to succeed to Little Ercall, obviously with the concurrence of John^
and without any cotemporary limitation of his tenure, such as, ac-
cording to feudal usage, would have made him Tenant-in-fee, and
made John Mesne-Lord, at least, of Little Ercall. This compro-
mise of a principle, led, as we shall see, to after-litigation between
the heirs of John and Ralph ; but the matter was kept in abeyance
for a time. Hence it is that, in the lAber Niger of 1165, Ralph le
Strange appears as holding half a knight^s-fee of new feoffment, im-
mediately under Fitz Alan.^ The half-fee was undoubtedly Little
Ercall, but subsequent Records prove that it should have been
added to the two fees which John le Strange is stated to have held
of the same Barony, and that Ralph^s name, he being de jure, only
an Undertenant of John, should not have appeared at all.

» On a former page (VoL V. p. 253) I
identified Hugh de Lacy's Manor of Ark-
hulle with Childs Ercall. This was a mis-
take. Arkhulle was in Herefordshire.

» Supra, VoL HI. p. 126 ; VoL VII.
pp. 174, 183,
' Haughmond Charfcularj, fo. 148.
< lAber Niger^ 1. 144.

CHILDS ERCALL.

9

There are other Records^ besides the Liber Niger ^ which prove
that^ during Ralph le Strangers life^ his tenure of Little Ercall was
reputed to be independent of his brother John. Here, for instance,
is his confirmation of Nagington to Haughmond Abbey, which I
will give in the words of the Charter itself: —

Omnifms filiis Sancte matins Ecclesie, Radulfus Extranem salu-
tern. Notum sit umversitati vestre me concessisse et hoc presenti
carta canfirmasse Deo et Ecclesie Sti Johannis Evangeliste de
Haghmon et Canonicis ibidem Deo servientibus donacionem, scili-
cet Naggitonam cum pertinenciis suis, quam Willielmus filitis Alani
pro salute sud et animd Hamonis fratris met in perpetuam elemosi-
nam prefate ecclesie dedit, cum omnibus libertatibiis in bosco et piano
etpratis et pascvis, in viis et semitis et in omnibus lods. Et scien-
dum est quod ex propria donacione med pannagium ejusdem ville
liberum et quietum predictis Canonicis in perpetuam elemosinam
concedo, et hdc carta confirm^), Testibus, Johanna Extraneo, Wi-
done Extraneo, Marscoto, etc.

Ralph le Strange also made a grant to Wombridge Priory. He
gave a meadow and moor, evidently in Ercall Manor and on the
banks of the Mees. The land is described as extending '^ from the
Fishery of Richard, Lord of Cherrington, up to the Ford/^^

This Ralph appears to have had some feoffment in the Norfolk
Manor of Litcham; bujk I doubt his being the person who was
called Ralph le Strange de Lucheham? A cotcmporary of that
name follows Guy le Strange, in attesting a grant of John le

> MonasHoon, VI. p. 390.

3 In 4 John (1202-3) PhiUp de Bum-
ham and Emma his wife were implead-
ing Fulk d'Eiry and Maud his wife for a
moiety of East Winch and for certain
messuages in Litcham and Bingsted. (See
Blomeaeld's Noffolh, VoL IX. p. 149.)

Emma and Maud, thus mentioned,
were daughters and coheirs of Balph le
Strange pf Ercall, who is hereby shown
to have had some interest at Litcham.

It was also Balph le Strange of Ercall
who in the time of Heniy II. gave theAd-
Towson of East Winch (Norfolk) to Car-
how Nunnery. (Blomefield, IX. p. 150.)

It is of importance to keep distinct
whatever is known of Balph, brother of
John le Strange (I.). Blomefield's no-
tices of the Manor of litcham, and of
those Stranges, who in the 13th oentury
VIII.

were usually called "of Litcham," are
quite fragmentary. The elder House of
Le Strange (that of Ness) retained in
the 13th century a great estate in lit-
cham, and there are several instances of a
Strange of Ness portioning a younger
child in land at Litcham. But the
Stranges who were distinguished as "of
Litcham "were according to Blomefield
descended from Durandus, son of Balph,
son of Siward. Nor was this Durandus
le Strange an imaginaiy person. I know
him to have been cotemporaiy with
John, G-uy, Hamo, and Balph, — the four
brethren who settled in Shropshire be-
tween 1154 and 1160 ; but how Boland
le Strange, the father of these, four bre-
thren, was related to Siward, the grand-
father of Durandus, I have- never been
able to discover.

2

10

CHILD8 ERGALL.

Strange (either Guy^s elder brother or nephew) to Haghmon Ab-
bey. But I have no doubt that it was Ralph le Strange of ErcaU
who had a feofiinent in HunBtanston, Norfolk, from his brother
John^ and who^ after John^s death (in 1178-9) granted Hunstans-
ton-Mill to Haghmon Abbey. The following Charter^ certainly
passed between 1182 and 1194^ and I give it entire because of its
important bearing on the early genealogy of the family of Le
Strange:—

Omniims sancte Dei ecclesie fiUis tarn presentibus quam ftUnris
Radulphua Extranetis salutem. Notum sit omniims vobis me con^
cessisse et dedisse et presenti cartd confirm^isse Deo et eccle&ie Sti
Johis Evangeliste de Haghmon et Canonicis ibidem Deo servienti^
bus in perpetuam elemoainam, pro salute anime mee et patris mei
et matris et Johannis fratris mei, qtdfeudum mthi dedit, et fiUi mei
Rolandi, omniumque antecessorum meorum et successcrum meorum,
molendinum de Hunstanston, quod est de hereditate patris meiy^ cum
sede sud et omnibus pertinentiis suis, libere et quiete de me et here*
dibus meis ab omnibtu terrenis consuetudinibus et exactionibus, te-
nendum et habendum imperpetuum. Hiis testibus, Widone de ThichC'^
welle, Willielmo de Bruna^ Radvlpho, Widone de Schawburia^Boberto
fratre ejus, Etta Jratre Jone Sacerdotis, etc.

In June 1194 I find that Ralph le Strange of Ercall was dead.
It is probable that his son Roland^ mentioned in the above Deed^
was his only son^ and died in Ralph^s lifetime, in fact was dead at
the date of the above Deed. It is certain that Ralph le Strange of
Ercall was succeeded by two daughters and coheirs^ one of whom^
Matilda^ was the wife of Pulk d'Oirri, while the other, Emma, was
married to Philip de Burnham. These facts are illustrated by a
long series of litigation which now ensued. On June 6, 1194,
Fulk de Oiri presented himself before the Courts at Westminster
as suing Hugh de Say of Stokes (Stoke upon Tern) for two parts of
the bosc of Renhal. The Defendant neither appeared, nor was he
essoigned, so that the Court ordered that the said two parts should

^ Haghmon Chartulaiy, fo. 124 dorso,
^ This expression is singular, and re-
qaires at least an attempted explanation.
There were two distinct Manors in Hun-
stanston, one which John le Strange (I.)
inherited from his Father, Boland, ano-
ther which he inherited through his Mo-
ther, — Matilda le Bran. Probably there
was a Mill in each Manor, and Ralph le

Strange may have been enfeoffed in both
Mills. If so, it is easy to see that in
granting one or other Mill to Haghmon
it was advisable to distinguish it.

* He wasKector of Hunstanston Church
at the time (1178) when John le Strange
(I.) gave the Advowson thereof to Hagh-
mon Abbey.

CHILI>8 K.CALL. 11

be seized in manu Regis, and the Defendatit again summoned to
hear judgment in adventu Justiciorum, i, e. when the Justices-in-
eyre should visit Shropshire.^ In November 1194 I find Hugh de
Sai excusing his attendance at Westminster in a plctcUum bosci
against William fitz Simon^ Attorney of Fuko de AUi (Oiri) . His
Eseoign was that known as de main veniendi and William Franc
was his Essoiffnor,^ I hear nothing more of this snit^ which per-
haps was unsettled at the time of Hugh de Say's deaths not three
years later.

In Easter Term 1198 a Suit was pending between Fulk de Oirri
and Philip de Bumham^ as husbands of Matilda and Emma^
daughters of Ralph le Strange. It related to their shares of Ralph's
inheritance. The Court decided that a partition^ to which the parties
had agreed before the Archbishop of Canterbury^ should now be made;
—saving to the husband of the elder Sister, the esnecy, and saving to
both parties their reasonable costs.^ Norfolk is the only county named
with reference to this cause^ but Shropshire was undoubtedly con-
cerned. The matter remained unsettled in May 1199, when Polk
d'Oirri was beyond sea, in the service of the Earl of Albemarle.^

£ut the suit most illustrative of feudal usages was that whereby
John le Strange (11.)^ ^^ h^i^ of his Uncle Hamo, endeavoured to
establish those mesne rights at Ercall on which we have seen that
his Father had never insisted. He sued each of the Coparceners
under Writ of mort d'ancestre for a fourth part of a knight's fee in
Arkelau; — ^by which I understand that he sued for the services and
seigneury of each moiety of the Manor, not for the fee-simple. The
suit against Fulk and Matilda de Oirri was settled by the following
verdict of a Jury on April 28, 1200, viz. that Hamo, John's Unde,
had died seized of the said fourth part of a fee in Arkelau, and
that John was Hamo's next heir. The Court accordingly decided
that John should recover his seizin.

John le Strange's correspondent suit against Philip and Emma
de Bumham had commenced in May 1195, was renewed in August
1199, and was still unsettled in October 1208, owing to the shifts
and essoigns of Philip de Burnham.^ The result we know to have

John de Heggeswerh, William de Hole-
bech, William fitz Simon, and Jordan de
Hakeford, are named aa Attorneys or
Esaoigners in these suits ; Holbech first
acting for D'Oiry, and afterwards for John
le Strange againat Bnmbam.

^ JPlctcita incerH temporU Regia Ricardi^
No. 62, memb. 2.
3 Rot, Our. Regisy I. pp. 122-8.

* Ibidem, p. 147 ; and Ahbrev. PlaeU'
orwUf p. 6.

* Rot. Cur. Reffig, I. 274; II. 188.

* Alexander de Buoh, or de Sutham,

12 CHILDS ERCALL.

been in favour of Le Strange^ viz. that he and his heirs were ever
afterwards repated to be Mesne Lords of half a fee in Little
Ercall.

Fuller particulars of Fulk d'Oirri and his family are, I apprehend,
to be gathered ftovn other counties than Shropshire. At Holebech
in Lincolnshire I know him to have had an interest.^ In May
1215 he joined in the short-lived disaffection of the Earl of Albe-
marle. On March 5, 1216, Fulco de Oyry gives up Gteoffirey his
son and Fulco his nephew or grandson {nepotem), as hostages for
his good conduct, and fines 500 merks for the King's favour. The
King accordingly orders the Sheriffs of Lincolnshire, Norfolk and
Suffolk, Shropshire, and Hampshire, to restore his lands.^ It seems
that John le Strange (II.) had made the most of his Tenant's dis-
affection, by seizing his share of Ercall. However on January 5,
1217, King Henry III. orders John le Strange to restore to "our
faithful Fulk d'Oiry, his land of Erkal, which was of Le Strange's
Fee, and whereof Le Strange had disseized the said Fulk, as an ad-
herent of the Earl of Albemarle."*

I have not been able to ascertain whether it was by descent from
Bumham or from D'Oiry that Elyas de Fancourt succeeded to a
moiety of Little Ercall. About the years 1230-40, Elyas de Fan-
court mortgaged, according to one account, but gave, according to
another, his share of the Manor to Combermere Abbey. Nearly at
the same period the other moiety fell by some means, to me un-
known, into the hands of John le Strange (III.), as Mesne-Lord.
Elyas de Fancourt died while the term which he had granted to
Combermere Abbey was still current. He left a son, Gerard, who,
being in minority and a tenant by Knight^s-service under John le
Strange, fell to the custody of that Baron. Le Strange first seized
upon Fancourt's moiety of Ercall, but afterwards demised it to
Combermere Abbey (together, I think, with the other moiety), for
a term, and for a sum of money.

Of the Feodaries of 1240 one says that John le Strange holds
Middle, and Little-Ercall under Fitz Alan for 2 fees, another that
he holds the same by 2^ fees.^ The last is undoubtedly the more
correct statement, but John le Strange's tenure by 2^ fees involved
many more Manors than the two thus specified.

The Bradford Hundred-Roll of 1255 shows the Abbot of Com-
bermere as in possession of the whole of Ercall, but the mode in

* Vide Abhrev. Placitorttm^ p. 97.
^ RoL FiniufH, p. 582.

^ Sot. ClnuB, I. p. 295.

^ Testa de Necill, pp. 45, 48, 49.

CHILDB ERCALL.

13

which he is stated to hold Fanconrt^s moiety is^ as we shall see
presently^ inaccurate. The statement of the Hundred-Roll is sub*
stantively as follows. — ^^ Hercalewe Parva, a Manor of 2 hides, pays
8rf. for motfeey and 8rf. for stretward. The Abbot of Cumbermere
holds a moiety of the vill by gift ofElias de Fariecin, and the other
half, for a term, of John le Strange, paying 5 merks per annum to
the said John. And he (the Abbot) finds- one horseman, with a
hauberk, a chapeUde-fery and a lance, in time of war, for forty
days at his own cost : and he does suit to the Himdred every three
weeks ; and holds half a knight^s-fee. In the same fee Gcoffirey
Griffin (he was former Lord of Howie) made a certain pourpres-
ture, three acres in e^ent, which he bought from Pulk Douli
(D'Oiry) twenty years ago : and it lies barren (firisca).^'^

Soon after this, John le Strange (III.) made over to his son Ro-
ger, " whatever he had in Ercall," by which expression I under-
stand, not the mesne-lordship, which in fact could not be thus alie-
nated, but such reversionary rights to the fee-simple as would accrue
Ivhenever the Abbot of Combermere's term or terms expired. It
seems that on the arrival of that period Roger le Strange took
peaceable possession of one moiety, but was obliged to eject the
Abbot from Fancourt^s moiety. Hence in Easter-Term 1263 we
find the Abbot suing the said Roger for half the Manor of Farva
Erkalewe, as sometime the seizin of a former Abbot, William de
Waresley. The Defendant of course called his father to warranty.^
It is evident that this suit was suspended during the period of poli-
tical convulsion which now set in. In Easter Term 1271 it had
assumed a new form, and was an action of (iaare impedit, brought
by Roger le Strange against the Prior of Combermere (the Abbacy
being, I presume, vacant) .^ In the same term I find Robert de
Caumpeden, Prior of Combermere, naming an Attorney in a plea
of land and of Quare impedit, against Roger le Strange.^ The
cause eventually tried at the Assizes of October 1272, shows the
new Abbot of Combermere suing Roger le Strange for half the
Manor of Parva Erkalue, the Advowson of the Church excepted,
into which half Roger was alleged to have had no ingress save at a
time when the Abbey was vacant after the decease of William de
Waresley, a preceding Abbot. Roger le Strangers defence was that

* JRot Hundred, II. 55. It was appa-
rently the abstraction of Dodicote which
redaced the Manor of Ercall from throe
hidcsj as it stood at Vometda^^ to two.

» PlaeUa, Pasch. Tm., 47 Hen. Ill.m.
19 dorso.

' • * Placita, Pasch. Tm., 56 Hen. III.
mm. 2, 48 darto.

14

GHILDS EECALL.

Elyas de Fanacurt^ his Father's Feoffee by knight's service^ had
mortgaged the said moiety^ for a term, to Bobert, a former Abbot
of Combermere: that on the death of the said Elyas, John le
Strange, as Gustos of his infant heir, Gerard, seized the premises,
but afiberwards demised them (for the residue of the heir's minority)
to the Abbot, for a sum of money : — that then John le Strange
made over his remaining interests in Ercall to the. Defendant, Ro-
ger, who now insisted that Abbot Robert's only interest had been
in the natiure of mortgage or of wardship. The Abbot rqplied that
his Predecessor, Robert, had been enfeoffed by Elyas de Fanacurt ;
that Abbot William had been seized of the premises; — and that
Rc^er le Strange had intruded himself therein. The Juror found
for Roger le Strange, saying that Elyas de Fanacurt had never en-
feoffed Abbot Robert.^

Roger le Strai^e thus became Tenant-in-fee of Little Ercall,
holding the same by service of half a knight's fee, under his elder
brother, John le Strange (IV.) of Nesse and Cheswardinc. It will
have been this Roger le Strange who is recorded to have given to
Wombridge Priory 4 acres of his waste in Erchelewe.^ The gift
was doubtless in augmentation of the estate which the Canons had
at Cherrington.

For some cause or other, an extent of Roger le Strange's estates
at Cheswardine, Childs Ercall, and EUesmere, was taken in October
1280. The Commissioners only valued a moiety of Erkalewe as
belonging to Sir Roger le Strange. I cannot explain this. Sir
Roger's gross receipts fix)m the said moiety were 15«. 8^;^. per an-
num. Thomas Bosse, tenant of half a vii^te, and William de la
Leye, paying 4«. rent for a virgate in Leye, were among the
Feoffees.*

The Feodaries of 1284*-6 make Roger le Strange to be Lord of
Little Ercall and its members, viz. Atton (Hungry Hatton), Leyes
(The Lee), and Golston (Goldstone). They further describe him
as holding under John le Strange, — meaning John le Strange (V.)
of Nesse, &c., who was his Nephew. But one of these Feodaries in-
correctly states the tenure to be a whole knight's-fee, and both are
wrong in classing John le Strange's tenure as immediate under the
Crown. Fitz Alan was still Seigneural Lord. At the Assizes of
1292, Roger le Strange, Thomas Bosse, and William de la Leye

^ AMizeSy 66 Hen. III. m. 11 dorso.

2 MonasUcon, YI. 389.

3 Forest Rolls, Sabp, No. 14. Extenta

medietatiB villa) de Erkalewe de parte
Domini Rogeri Exiranei.

CHILDS ERCALL.

15

were entered as Defaulters in respect of attendance. In March
1806^ William de Leye appears on a Hinstock Jury.

Roger le Strange^ of whom I have been speakings though a
younger son^ was a successful and a great man, Dugdale has said
much of him as Lord of EUesmere and Cheswardine, as Sheriff
of Yorkshire, and as Justice of the Forests South of Trent.^ I
have made or shall have to make mention of him in some of these
or in other capacities. He had summonses to Parliament as a
Baron in 1295 and 1296. For a list of his military and civil em-
ployments, commencing in 1277 and ending in 1303, 1 refer else-
where.^

In February 1300 as '^Bogerus Lestrange Dominus de EUes-
mere'' he joined in the well-known letter of the Barons of England
to Pope Boniface VIII.

He died on July 31, 1311, but the King having had a false re-
port of his death had issued a writ of Diem clausit six days before.
It is all but certain that he died without lawAil issue. His wife
had been Maud, widow of that Roger de Moubray who died in
1266-7. This Maud was coheiress of the Barony of Beauchamp
of Bedford, and by courtesy of England, her second husband, Roger
le Strange, enjoyed her estates for his life. On his death the In-
quest states that " the heir of the said Maud was her son John
de Moubray, son and heir of Roger de Moubray.^' John de Mou-
bray was however her grandson, i. e. son of her son Roger. He
was now 22 years of age and upwards.'

John le Strange of Ercall, as he was called, appears to have ob-
tained an interest at Childs Ercall long before Roger le Strangers
death, but I have no proof how he was related to Roger. He sat
as a Knight of the Shire in several parliaments of 1305, 1306, 1307,
and 1309, being always styled '* of Ercall.''

The Feodary of 1316 gives the Earl of Arundell as Lord of
Ercall, which looks as if the Manor, or part of it, was at that time
an Escheat.

By some means or other John le Strange of Cheswardine (so
called in 1306) became John le Strange of Cheswardine and ErcaU.
He was illegitimate, as we have already seen.* He lived till 1330.
It then appeared that he had settled Cheswardine by Fine, on

1 JBttronagey I. p. 666, b.
s ParliamerUary Writs, I. 849, S50 ;
IV. 1471.
> Inqumtions, 5 Edw. II., No. 67.

* Supra, VoL VII. p. 282. I have no
doubt that Boger le Strange was father of
this John, if not alK> of the John who
preceded him at ErcaU.

16 CHIJ^DS ERCALL. DODICOTE.

Hamo son of Fulk le Strange. But it is not less clear that John
de Leybourn, aged 30, was found to be right heir of John le
Strange, viz. son of his sister Lucia.^

And John de Leyboum seems actually to have inherited what-
ever John le Strange had at Ercall; for immediately after the
death of the latter, that is on October 20, 1330, a Fine was levied
between John de Leybourne and Beatrix his wife (Plaintiffs) and
Hugh Burnel and Thomas de Wynnesbury, junior (Deforciants) of
the Manor of Berewyk and half the Manor of Childes-Ercalwe.
John de Leybourne first acknowledges Hugh Burners right to the
premises by his (Leybourne's) gift. Hugh and Thomas then settle
the premises on John and Beatrix, and the heirs of their bodies ;
with remainder to the right heirs of John ; to hold of the Lords of
the Fee.

By agreement dated January 20, 1339, John de Leybourne,
'^ Lord of Childes Ercalewe," conceded to the Abbot of Haugh-
mond and his tenants at Nagington, certain common rights in the
Heath between Childs Ercall, Tibberton, and Caynton.^

DoDicoTE. — We have seen how this member of Little ErcaU
passed to Combermere Abbey by grant of William fitz Alan (L).
Thenceforward it became a separate Manor and requires a distinct
account. In October 1199 the Abbot of Cumbermare had a suit
of novel disseizin against Fulk de Oirri, in which Bernard, a Monk
of his House, was his Attorney.*

In October 1200 and April 1201, the Plea-Rolls contain allu-
sions to a suit between the Abbot of Combermere and Richard de
Lecton (Plaintiff) concerning land in Dodecot. The deposition of
the existing Abbot, Thomas, caused a remanet sine die, but I find
the matter settled, by a Pine of October 13, 1201. Thereby
Richard de Lechton (Plaintiff) quitclaims half a hide in Dodecote,
to Thomas Abbot of Cumbermare (Tenant) and his Successors for
ever. The Abbot paid 100^.

The earliest Shropshire Inquisition, that is extant, concerns this
locality. On May 7, 1220, King Henry III., then at Shrewsbury,
desires John MareschaU (theii Justice of the Forest) to make In-
quest, by the Foresters and Verderers and by oath of twelve men
of the vicinage of Bradford, as to the acreage of certain land called
Ruecroftes, which lay between Tiberton and Hule (Howie) and
which the Combermere Monks wanted to bring into cultivation.

> Inquintiont; 4 Edw. III., No. 18. I ' Rot. Cur. Regit, II. 58.
' Haughmond Chartulaiy, fo. 148. I

CHILDS ERCALL. DODICOTE. NAGIN6T0N.

17

The Inquest was fiirther to state what was growing on the land^
whether thick timber or underwood^ and whether its cultivation
would injure the King^s Forest of Wombridge. The Inquest was
to be returned to Hubert de Bui^^ Justiciar^ before the Quinzaine
of John the Baptist (July 8^ 1220).^ Hence we know the date of
the^ itself undated^ Inquest which resulted. John Marescal for-
warded the King's Writ to Henry de Audley (then Deputy-Sheriff
to Ranulf Earl of Chester) . Audley held the Inquest and enclosed
it in a Letter to Hubert de Burg^ Justice of England. The per-
sons who officiated were Hugh fitz Robert^ Forester ; Thomas de
Constantine and Hamo Maresoot, Yerderers ; and twelve Bradford
Jurors whom I shall name in other chapters. They reported that
the Monks' proposition would be non-injurious to the King's Forest^
that neither thick timber nor underwood grew on the land^ but only
heath.^ On receipt of this Inquest the King addressed a mandate
to John Marescall allowing the Monks to clear the said land^ viz.
20 acres. John Marescall forwarded the Writ to the Sheriff of
Shropshire^ and before the Assizes of November 1221 the Monks of
Combermere had cleared 3 or 4 acres of the land in question. At
those Assizes the Abbot and another were sued by Fulk d'Oiry for
disseizing him of common pasture in Arcalun. The Abbot showed
that the few acres cleared were Forest-land of the King's^ and ap-
pealed to the above Writs and Inquest. The Court decided to give
judgment at Westminster in Hilary Term following.

In 1255 the Bradford Hundred-Boll says most accurately that
*' the Abbot of Combermere holds Dotecote by gift of William fitz
Alan^ in pure almoign^ and that it is not hidated'^ An Inquisi-
tion seems to have been taken in 1286, relative to the Abbot of
Combermere disforesting a grove {Tienius) at Dodecote, which was
within the Forest of Mount Gilbert ; but the document is lost. In
1291^ the Abbot's estate here is estimated at 2 carucates, each yield-
ing 10». per annum?

The Vahr of 1534^5 gives the Abbof s Rents and Temporalities
at Dodcote as £4. 6^. %d. The Glebe of Little Arcall also yielded
him £\. 9*. 4rf.*

Nagington. This member of Little Ercall fell, as we have seen,
to Haughmond Abbey about the year 1159. Pope Alexander's
Confirmation of 1172, describes the gift as ex divisd Hamonis Ex-
tranei assensu WUliebni filii Alani domini sui et Radulfi Jratris et

1 Claui. I. 436.
5 Calend, Inquu. Vol T. p. 92.
VIII.

' Pope Nich, Taxation, p. 261.
* Valor Ecdeaiatticusy V. 216.

3

I

18 CHILDS ERCALL.

heredis 9ui. The Confirmation of William fitz Alan (TI.) I have
given elsewhere.^ In 1255 the Hundred-Roll says that "the
Abbot of Haymon is Lord of the vill of Naghinton^^ and that
"it is hidated with the Manor of Hercalwe." The Abbey had
it in pure alms by gift of Hamo le Strange. It owed suit to the
Hundred twice yearly, at the Sheriff's Toum.^ In 1284 John de
Nagington held this Manor under Haughmond Abbey. The Feo-
dories erroneously state Wydo le Strange to have held it in capite,
as a member of Little Ercall, and to have given it to Haughmond.
The Taxation of 1291 gives Ss. M. as the Abbotts income &om
Nagenton, such being, I suppose, the service due on John de Na-
genton's feofihient. We have seen the purpose to which this rent
was assigned by Bishop Langton in 1315.^

On October 15, 1474, John Abbot of Haghmon demises to Wil-
liam son of William Home, late of Childes-Ercal, the Grange of
Naginton with three parcels of land within the demesne of Howie
for 60 years, reserving a rent of 22*. and Suit of the Abbot's Court
at Down ton.* The Valor of 1585-© gives the Abbot's collective
receipts from Cheswardine and Nagington as £10. 18*. 4d, per an-
num. The Ministers' Accounts, six years later, give the ferm of
Nagington Grange as £1. 5*. lOd., and the receipts from Cheswar-
dine as £10.

Of the Abbot of Haughmond^s FeoflFees here, I can only name
Alan de Naginton, who occurs as early as 1230 and who was living
in 1253 ; — William de Nagington, who occurs on local Juries in
1264 and 1274 ; and John de Nagington, who similarly occurs in
1284, 1290, and 1306.

Gt)LDSTONE. The Feodaries of 1284-5 concur in making Gold-
stone a member of Ercall. I have no later proof of the fact. In
after times it was considered as a member of Cheswardine, in which
Parish it was at all times situated. The manorial change might
easily arise from the tenure of Cheswardine and Ercall having been
for a time nearly identical. I have nothing to say of the place ex-
cept that a Richard de Goldston occurs about 1240 and a Thomas
de Goldston in 1306.

CHILDS EBCALL CHTIRCH.

I suppose that the Domesday mention of a Priest, resident at
Little Ercall, indicates the pre-existence of a Church of Saxon foun-

1 Supra, Vol. VH. p. 276. | ' Supm, VoL VII, p. 297.

2 Hot Hundred. II. 55. I * Haughmond Chart., fo. 148 darto.

PONT, CHILDS'ERCALI

THE CHURCH. 19

dation. The Survey of 1291 gives the Church of Erkalwe Parva,
in Newport Deanery, as worth £3. 6s. 8rf. per annum} When or
how this Advowson was obtained by Combermere Abbey I cannot
say. It was already the Abbotts in the 13th century.

In 1341 the Assessors of the iiwJth rated the Parish of Erkalewe
Parva at 48«. They said that the Church-Taxation was much too
high, for that, in the current year, the Glebe and all other income
of the Church would hardly realize 14^.* The Vahr of 1535-6
does not mention this Church. It would almost seem that the
Monks of Combermere had succeeded in suppressing its parochial
existence for the sake of the petty revenue which they derived from
its glebe. I have no evidence of its having ever been appropriated
to Combermere Abbey ; but inasmuch as it is at this day reputed
to be a Perpetual Curacy, while according to its known antecedents
it should be a Bectory, I conclude that such a spoliation must have
sometime obtained the sanction or connivance of the See of Lich-
field.

EABLY INCUBIBENTS.

The undermentioned Incumbents of Little Ercall were uniformly
presented by the Abbot and Convent of Combermere : —

William de Paayers, Acolyte, instituted October 27, 1308, is
called Rector in a licenda studendi of May 1, 1309 ; and died on
August 19, 1332.

William de Blorton, Clerk, admitted to the Church of ChUdes-
Eralwe, on Nov. 5, 1332, resigned January 19, 1339, when —

Nicholas de Hopton (juxta Stafford), Priest, was admitted.
On April 20, 1346, he exchanges preferments with —

Master Richard de Tunyburgh, late Vicar of Webbeleye
(Heref. Dioc.), who is called Rector of Ercall in a license of non-
residence dated May 7, 1353. Tynnebury vacated Childs Ercall
about January 25, 1356, by accepting the curative Living of Po-
kilchirche (Bath and Wells Dioc.); and on September 8 following —

William Parent, Chaplain, was admitted here. On March 28,
1357, this Rector exchanged with —

John de Holcham, Chaplain, late Vicar of Aldelym (Lichf.
Dioc.).

William Solito, instituted May 80, 1362, exchanges prefer-
ments on November 17, 1365, with —

' Pope Nick. Taxation^ p. 245, a. | ' Inquia, Nonarum, p. 192, b.

20 HINSTOCK.

William de Hekdewyk^ who on September 18, 1367, again ex-
changes with —

RoGEE DB Aston, late Rector of St. Andrew's, Worcester,^ who
on October 25, 1374, again exchanges with

Richard de Ercalwe, Priest, late Rector of Berrington.^

^immk

Having completed a survey of those eleven Manors of Recordine
Hundred which were held at Domesday by Rainald Yicecomes, I
proceed with nine Manors in the same district, which were held,
under the Norman Earl, by William Pantulf and his Undertenants.
I commence with Hinstock, because that Manor was usually held
in demesne by the Fantulfs and their successors j but I must post-
pone any general account of the Barony of Wem, till I come to
Wem itself, which was in the Domesday Hundred of Odenet.

Hinstock is described in Domesday as follows : —

"The same William (Pantulf) holds Stoche (under the Earl),
and Sasfrid holds it of him. Algar held it (in Saxon times) . Here
are two hides and a half, geldable. There is (arable) land, enough
for five ox-teams. In demesne there is one Team, and two Neat-
herds and one Boor. Here is a league of wood. The Manor used
to be worth 40*. yearly ; now it is worth 8«."'

After Domesday I find no mention of this Manor till about the
year 1240, when Ralph le Botyler, holding it and Wem in de-
mesne, is said to hold " one knight's fee in Hinestok and Wemme,
of the Barony of Wemme ;"* a curious mode of expressing the
thing, since he was Baron of Wem at the time. The Bradford
Hundred-Roll of 1255 says that "Ralph le Butiler holds the
Manor of Hinstoke as included in the service due on the Barony
of Wem. His Seneschal did suit for Hinstoke to County, and
Hundred, as he did for the Manor of Wem. The said Ralph exer-
cised rights of Forest and Warren in Hinestoke, the Jurors knew
not by what warranty."^

* Previously a Portioner of Burford. ' 2>omesda^y fo. 257, a, 2.
(Vol. IV. p. 326. ) * Testa de Netill, p. 45.

* Vide supra, Vol. VI. p. 47. * BoL Hundred. 11. 58.

UINSTOCK. 21

Balph le Butiller^ deceased on July 3, 1281^ was found by In-
quest to have held the Hamlet of Hynestok^ inter alia, of the in-
heritance of Matilda (Pantulf) his wife. Among the items of in-
come a sum of 2s. is said to arise from a small weir {stagnum),
and one merk from another weir and a Mill.^ Matilda Pantulf^
Ralph de Butiller's Widow^ remarried with Walter de Hopton.
Hence the Bradford Tenure-RpU (about 1285) states the said Wal-
ter and Matilda to be holding Hynstoke^ with Wem and its mem-
bers^ in capite, and by a oollective service of three knights^ -fees.
At the Assizes of 1292 Walter de Hopton was found to be exer«
cising Free- Warren in Hinstock. In January^ 1306^ William le
Botiler^ Grandson of the above-named Balph and Matilda, wished
to convey 60 acres of heath and the Advowson of the Church of
Hinstock to Alcester Abbey. An inquest having been held on the
subject, a Patent of King Edward I., dated November 22, 1306,
allows the transfer.' Sir William le Butler^s Charter, which, as
printed elsewhere,* I need not repeat here, conveys the premises,
with certain rights of common in Hinstock, to the Alcester Monks.
The Deed makes mention of Beatrix, the Grantor's wife, and is at-
tested by Sir Fulk le Estrange, Lord Le Estrange; John le
Estrange of Ercalouwhe (Ercall) ; John le Estrange of Cheselwar-
thyn (Cheswardine) ; Adam de Mekeleston ; and Bichard Hord,
the Grantor's Seneschal. An Inquest of May 12, 1327, incident-
ally values two-thirds of the Manors of Wem and Hinstock at £60
per annum, William le Botyler being then seized of the said two-
thirds. The King's Writ of Diem clatAsit, on the death of William
le Botiler of Wem, issued on Sept. 14, 1334. Hinstock was one of
the Manors of which he died seized. William, his son and heir, was
found to have been 36 years of age and upwards, on Sept. 8, 1334.^

In June 1343, William le Botiler proposes to enfeoff two
Trustees in the Manors of Hinstock and Tyrley, and in one-
third of Wem, and that the reversion of two-thirds of Wem, then
held in dower by Ela widow of William le Botiler deceased,
should devolve on the same Trustees. The Trustees, being seized,
were to settle the premises on the said William, their Feoffor,
and the heirs of his body ; — with remainder to his right heirs.
An- Inquest held on this subject found the proposal to be non-in-
jurious to the Crown.^ The Inquest taken in January 1362, on

1 InqtUsUions, 9 £dw. I., No. 10.

2 Monasticon, IV. 178, No. XII.

3 Ibidem, p. 176, No. III.

* InqtuHHons, 8 Edw. III., No. 86.

* Inqumtionsy 17 Edw. III., 2nd Nob.,
No. 39.

22

HIN8T0CK.

William le Botiler's deaths says accordingly that Hinstock^ wbich
he had held in capite for half a kuight^s fee^ had been entailed on
the heirs of his body by certain Trustees and by Royal license.
William^ son and heir of the deceased^ was now 30 years of age.^

With this William^ who died on August 14^ 1369^ the elder male
line of Botiler of Wem expired. Wem and Hinstock were en-
tailed on the heirs of his body^ and so passed to his only daughter
Elizabeth^ who at the time of his death was aged 24 years and up-
wards.* She conveyed the Barony of Wem to her husband, Robert
de Ferrers. Their eldest son, Robert de Ferrers, died in 1410, his
mother Elizabeth still living. He left two daughters and coheirs,
Elizabeth bom about 1393, and Mary, bom about 1394. On the
death of their Grandmother (June 19, 1411), Elizabeth was wife of
John son of Ralph Baron Oreystock, and Mary was wife of Ralph
son of Ralph Nevill, Earl of Westmoreland.* The Barony of Wem
is now in abeyance between the descendants of these two ladies.^

HINSTOCK CHTTROH.

This was clearly nothing more than a Chapel, originally founded
by the Lords of the Manor. To what Saxon Parish it originally
belonged I cannot say. Childs Ercall has the claim of proximity.

The Church is not mentioned in the Taxation of 1291, but Sir
William le Butler's Deed, conveying the Advowson in 1306 to Al-
cester Abbey, calls it " the parochial Church of the Vill of Hin-
stock.'^ In 1341 the Assessors of the Ninth taxed this Parish at
20*., placing it in the Deanery of Newport, but not quoting any
valuation of the Church.**

The Valor of 1535-6 gives the Income of John Holwey, Rector
of Hynstoke, as £6 per annum, less 4«. for Procurations and Syno-
dals.* The Prior of Alcester's cotemporary return of the income of
his House, names no receipt from Hinstock, except 20«. rent of
lands and tenements there.^

BARLY INCUMBENTS.

Sir William db Brugge, Rector of Hinstock, died October
16, 1320. The followmg were all presented by the Abbot and Con-
vent of Alcester : —

> InquU. 35 Edw. HI., No. 38.

« Inquis. 43 Edw. III., No. 17.

8 Inquis, 12 Hen. IV., No. 21.

^ The qualificatioiis of this statement,

as laid down bj Sir Harris Nicolas, are
founded on a misoonoeption.

* Inquis. Nonarum^ p. 193, b.

• • 7 Volar JSccles. Ill, pp. 187, 88.

THE CHURCH.

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Robert de Buditord^ Priest^ was admitted Feb. 1, 1321^ and
resigned July 6, 1387, when —

William de Sto&e, Priest, was admitted. He died August 8,
1349 (probably of the pestilence) ; and, on Sept. 20, following, —

Richard de Fladebury, Chaplain, was admitted. On July 30,
1354, this Rector exchanged preferments with —

Henry de Coppenhall, late Rector of Wolwardington (Wygom.
Dioc.). On his resignation, June 23, 1357 —

William, son of Robert Huwet, was instituted Rector. On
May 12, 1364, this Church was resigned by —

John de Pilatton and —

Sir Nicholas Henry, Priest, was instituted. As Sir Nicholas
Henry de Eyton this Rector resigned on July 20, 1398,^ having ex-
changed preferments with —

Sir John atte Bourne, Priest, late Vicar of Rottdey. This
Rector returned to Rottdey, on January 16, 1399, when —

John late Vicar of Rottdey (whose real name seems to have
been Gryte or Crit) was instituted to Hinstock.' This erratic
Priest, whom we find to have occupied five* successive Livings in
less than 6 years, exchanged Hinstock on April 12, 1403, for the
preferment of —

John Lugger, Chaplain, late Rector of Sondon. Lugger re-
signed Hinstock in 1404.

PiXLEY, or rather that moiety of Pixley which was not a member
of Sambrook, was probably a member of Hinstock, in which Parish
the whole vill remains. I am unable however to distinguish the
tenants of the two moieties of Pixley, and so will name them pro-
miscuously under Sambrook.

Shackleford, now Shackford or Shacksford, was I suppose a
member of Hinstock Manor. The locality was notorious as the
haunt of freebooters, and for the fees which the Barons of Wem
exacted firom travellers towards guarding some pass in the neigh-
bourhood. Particulars of this will transpire under Newport.

Ill the reign of King John, Ivo Pantulf, a younger son of Hugh
Pantulf, then Baron of Wem, seems to have had a feofiment in
Shackford. As " Ivo Pantulf, knight, son of Hugh Pantulf,'" he

1 In December 1898 Sir Nicholas
Henry migrated from Botteley to Hope
Baggot. (Supra, Vol. lY. p. 866.)

2 Supra, Vol. IV. p. 366.
' Vi2. Llangadok, Hope Baggot, Bot-
teley, Hinstock, and Sondon.

24 C0R8ELLE.

giyesj with his body^ to Lilleshall Abbey all the tithes of his land
of Sakelfordy and the tithes of eels taken in the Vivary there^ but
excepting the tithes of the Mill^ which were bestowed elsewhere.
He Airther gives the Canoms license to fish five times a year in his
Vivary of Sakelford^ viz. against Christmas and Easter Days^ Pen-
tecost^ the Assumption^ and the Nativity of the Virgin.^

In June 1272 I find Adam de Chetwynd taking out a Writ of
disseizin against Ralph le Botyler (then Baron of Wem) concerning
a tenement in Sekelford. Also Thomas fitz Ivo has a like writ
against the said Ralph and others for a tenement in Stakeford,

€nx%tUu

This Manor is thus described in Domesday : —

" The same William (Pantulf) holds CorscUe (of the Earl), and
Sasfiid holds it of him. Godwin held it (in Saxon times). Here
are II hides^ geldable. The (arable) land is enough for mi ox-teams.
Here is one Boor^ having nothing (in the way of a team^ I presume).
In King Edward^s time the Manor was worth 20s, {per annum).
Afterwards it was worth 40s. Now it is worth 12rf."*

That this was the Manor^ known in the thirteenth century as
Cuke, CvlshiSy or Cuneshasel, I cannot doubt. That we should
look for its modern representative to be near Hinstock^ is suggested
by Domesday, for^ not only does Corselle follow next after Hin-
stock in the Record, but Sasfnd was Pantulf 's Tenant in these two^
and in no other Manors. There is a place now called Cross- Hill^
about a mile south of Hinstock. Though it has long been un-
known as a distinct Manor^ I look upon it as representing in situa-
tion and partially in name the Corselle of Domesday.

William de Culleshasel^ doubtless a tenant here, attests a Sand-
ford Deed about the year 1230.

We have seen that^ about the year 1237j the estate of Roger de
Culshis, or de Cuneshasel^ an Outlaw, was escheated : that Fulk ^

fitz Warin, then Guardian of Maud Pantulf, heiress of Wem, ac-
counted to the Crown for the year and waste, which was the King's

1 Lilleshall Chaitalary, fo. 64. | ' I>ome$dmf, fo. 267, a, 2.

CORSELLE. 25

prerogative in r^ard to the estate of any Outlaw^ and that then
Fulk fitz Warin enfeoffed Ralph de Hodnet in the premises.^ I
take Ralph de Hodnet to be identical with Ralph le GraSy whom a
Feodary of 1240 inserts as holding half a knight^s fee in Colsnek, of
the Barony of Wem.* On November 2, 1242^ we have Adam (it
should be Ralph) le Butiller and Matilda (Pantulf) his wife suing
Ralph de Hodnet for half a knight^s fee in Cummeshal, as the es*
cheat of Matilda.^ In Trinity Term 1243 and Easter Term 1244,
the Rolls supply other notices of this suit as one for two-thirds of
half a knight's fee in Cunseshasel, in which Fulk fitz Warin, while
Gustos of Maud Pantulfs estates, had unjustly enfeoffed Ralph de
Hodnet. The latest notice of the active suit leaves Ralph de Hod-
net calling Fulk fitz Warin to warranty. Moreover a Fine of.
November 3, 1244, shows the result. Thereby Ralph de Hodnet,
Tenant of two-thirds of a whole krughfs fee in Cuneshasel, quit-
claims the same to Ralph de Butiler and Matilda his wife and the
heirs of Matilda; but the Plaintiffs pay 40 merks for the surrender.
About 1260-70 I find repeated mention of one Roger de Coles-
hasel. It will presently appear that his heir, Lucia, was also heir
of one Henry de Coleshasel, and married Richard de Okeleye.

In 1271 Roger Waldyn had a Writ of novel disseizin against
Ralph le Botyler and others concerning a tenement in Sambrok.
The cause was tried at the Assizes of 1272, when William de Tyt-
tenelegh and Ralph le Botyler, being Defendants, disproved the
alleged disseizin, on the ground that Roger Waldyng had never
been seized of the 40 acres which he now sought.

I have introduced this matter here, because I think that William
de Titley was already acquiring an interest at Cross- Hill, and that
the question was one of boundary between Cross- Hill and Roger
Waldyng's estate at Sambrook.

About 1285 the Bradford Tenure-Roll gives the Vtll of Cidsis as
a distinct member of the Barony of Wem, and as held by William
Titteley for half a knight's fee.

A Fine of June 20, 1289, exhibits William de Tytneleye as buy-
ing up an Undertenant's interest in a considerable estate here.
The parties to the Fine are the said William (Plaintiff), and Richard
son of Stephen de Okeleye and Lucia his wife (Deforciants). The
latter acknowledge a gift to the Plaintiff, of one messuage, one
mill, and two carucates of land in Coleshasel, whereof was plea

» Supra, VoL VH. p. 77. I » PlaeUa, Mich. Tm., 27 Hen. HI., m.

* Tetta de Nevill, p. 45-6. I 18 dorso.

VIII. 4

26 EYTON ON THE WEALDHOORS.

of convention. Moreover^ for themselyes and for the heirs of Luda,
they concede that a messuage and two vii^tes which Margery
widow of Roger de Coleshasel now held in dower^ and which were
of Lucia's inheritance^ should remain to the Plaintiff and his heirs.
Also they concede that a messuage and 1^ yirgates which Petro-
nilla^ widow of Henry de Coleshasel^ held in dower^ of Lucia's in-
heritance^ should remain to the Plaintiff^ who is to hold the whole
by a clove-rent payable to the Deforciants and by rendering aU ser-
vices due to the Lord of the Fee. For this the Plaintiff gives a
sore sparrow-hawk; whilst the two widows^ Margery and Petro-
nilla^ appear in Court and do fealty to William de Tytneleye.

Of William de Titneleye I shall have more to say under Waters
Upton. A Tenure RoU of Bradford Hundred, drawn up in Febru-
ary 1348, has Colsesul as half a knighfs-fee, held of the Barony of
Wem.i

Nicholas Abbot of Buildwas acquired for his House a rent of
12s. in Culce. This was by Fine, levied at Shrewsbury, in January
1256. The Grantor, Thomas de Sambrok, and his wife Alice, and
their heirs were promised participation in the prayers and interces-
sions of the Buildwas Monks for ever.^ The Tenant who was to
pay the said rent, viz. Thomas son of John de Culce, was present
when the Fine was levied, and was agreeable thereto.

€pton on ^t WitnXtimooxii.

Domesday describes this Manor among those held by William
Pantulf under the Norman Earl.

" The same William holds Etone, and Warin holds it of him.
Wighe and Ouiet held it (in Saxon times) for two Manors. Here
are iii hides, geldable. In demesne there are ii ox-teams, and
there are iiii Neat-herds, ii Villains, and i Boor with half a team ;
and yet there might be a team-and-a-half additional here. In King
Edward's time the Manor was worth 23s. {per annum). Now it is
worth 20s.''^

1 In poflsesflion of T. H. Sandford, of I * Compare VoL TI. p. 316.
Sandford, Bsq. I * Domeadatf, fo. 267, b, 1.

ETTON ON THE WEALDM00R8. 27

Warm was William PantulPs chief Feoflfee in Shropshire. Be-
sides Eyton he held Bratton and Horton under the same Baron.
The next known Lord of these three Manors was Robert de Eyton,
living in the reign of Henry II. The probability that Robert de
Eyton was Warin^s direct descendant and heir is not the mere ave-
rage prol)ability that the Tenant of three distinct Manors a century
after Domesday was the lineal representative of the Tenant of those
same Manors at Domesday. Pantulf^s Barony was exempt from all
probability of being disturbed as to its constituents by that great
Shropshire catastrophe^ the fall of Earl Robert de Belesme. We
know in short that it was then or afterwards enlarged rather than
diminished^ and we may fairly presume that this was in reward of
the loyalty of its Chiefs and his services at the si^e of Bridg-
north.

Again^ it is probable that Warin was himself a Cadet of the House
of Pantulf, for the Descendants of Robert de Eyton, his presumed
heir^ have uniformly quartered the Arms of Fantulf. It has been
su^ested that this quartering of the Arms of a Suzerain might
have been merely in token of feudal dependence. The alternate
theory seems to be that, when a Vassal is found bearing the Arms
of his Suzerain^ as a quarter, ahd without any difference, he was his
Suzerain's relation by blood as well as tenure.

I should now observe that the Lords of Eyton are found to have
obtained feoffment from the Barons of Wem in four Manors, in
which Domesday does not state that Warin or any other Tenant
had as yet acquired investiture. That this change was soon aft^er
Domesday is dear, for the whole Fief held by De Eyton under Pan-
tulf was of old Feoffment. The four Manors in question were But-
tery, Half-Lawley, and Sutton, all in Shropshire, and Cresswell, in
Staffordshire.

It is with respect to Buttery, and Robert de Eyton's disposal
thereof in the reign of Henry II., that the history of this family re-
commences, nearly a century afl;er Domesday. Robert de Eyton
gave Buttery to Shrewsbury Abbey, with the conscftit of Ivo Pan-
tulf his Suzerain. As usual in such early grants, the confirming
Deed of the Suzerain is the only one preserved, perhaps the only one
executed at the time. Ivo Pantulf addressing his sons, acquaints
them that '^he has conceded in almoign to the Monks of Shrews-
bury a certain estate {unam terram) which is called Buttereia,
which Robert de Eiton had given to the said Monks. Witnesses,
Alured Abbot of Hageman, Ivo Chaplain, Ralph Pantulf, Walter

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ETTON ON THE WEALDM00R8.

Meverel, Roger de Bethealona^ John de Eppdeia, Helias de Jai^
Robert Christian, &c/'^

The above Deed probably passed between 1170 and 1175, and
so was coeval with the close of Robert de Eyton's life.

Peter de Eyton, his successor and I presume his son, is known
chiefly by his attestations of the earlier Charters of Wombridge
Priory. The Benefactions of Madoc ap Oervase, Lord of Sutton,
of Walter de Dunstanvill, Lord of Idsall, of John de Cambrai Lord
of Lee-Gomery and of Alan de Hadley Lord of Hadley, range be-
tween the years 1180 and 1194, and they are nearly all attested by
Peter de Eyton.*

In 1191, as I infer from the names of the Justiciars who tried it,
a suit about land in Cheswell was decided by verdict of twelve Re-
cognizors. Peter de Eiton was one of them, and the matter hav-
ing been re-opened in June 1200, he attended at Westminster with
six other Recognizors (survivors, I presume, of the twelve), to cer-
tify what had taken place in 11 91.^

In 1207 a number of amercements (probably inflicted at a recent
Forest-Assize) are entered on the Shropshire Pipe-RolL One of
half a merk is charged on Peter de Eaton. The Pipe-RoU of
1212 contains a Fine of 100«. which Peter de Hetton had prof-
fered and paid for having the land of his Father {pro habendd
terrdpatris std). It is not known that the Eytons were Tenants^
in-capite, nor was the Barony of Wem likely at this period to have
been in custody of the Crown. Still I cannot help thinking that
this Fine indicates the succession of an Eyton of Eyton to his Fa-
ther. If so, both Father and Son were named Peter, and what I
have further to say about a Peter de Eyton must belong to —

Peter de Eyton II. About the year 1220, as I think, Peter
de Eyton, calling himself ^^ son of Peter de Eyton, made a concession
to Lilleshall Abbey. His Charter is entitled in the Chartulary of
that House as Carta Petri de Eyton de stagno de Lubersty et molen-
dino ibidem firmando. He concedes for the souls^-health of him-
self, his ancestors and successors, and in pure alms, a stank for the
Abbot's Vivary on the rivulet called Holebroch in the Moor of
HordbuT^y and allows that the Canons may establish such stank on
his land, and that the water may thus be made to back-pound on
his land.^

1 Salop Chartulaiy, No. 33.
9 Supra, Vol. II. pp. 112, 279, 280 ;
Vol. VII. pp. 841, 356.

' PlacUa^ Trin. Tm., 2 John, m. 20.
* Lilleshall Chartulary, fo. 70.

EYTON ON THE WSALDM00R8. 29

A aimilar and^ I presume^ cotemporary ooncession by the Te«
nants-in-fee of the adjoining Manor of Preston was sanctioned by
the Deed of their Suzerain^ viz. Baldwin de Hodnet, who died in
December 1224. This gives the probable date of the transaction.
Some local peculiarities are worth observation. The spot where
the Abbot of Lilleshall intended to establish a Vivary^ or Mill^ or
both^ is. still known as Lubstree Park, The Brook^ then called
Holebrook, but now Humber-Brook, here divided the Abbot's
Grange of Honington on the East, from Peter de Eyton^s Manor of
Horton and Baldwin de Hodnet's Manor of Preston on the West.
Such a brook could not be dammed up or impounded without the
consent of the landholders on the opposite bank. Hence the above
concessions to Lilleshall.

In Trinity Term 1222 and again in Easter Term 1226, Peter de
Eyton and Thomas de Constantine were the only two Becognizors
who attended at Westminster, in a great cause between Giles de
Erdington and Elena Princess of Wales, concerning the Manor of
Wellington.

Between the years 1216 and 1224 we have seen Peter de Eyton
attesting a Deed of Alan, Abbot of Lilleshall.^ This conjunction
of names may serve to date an agreement which resulted after some
dispute between the said Abbot Alan and Peter de Eyton relative
to the right of common in their respective woods. The Canons and
their men were now to have the same entire common-right in
Peter's Wood as they had enjoyed of old. Peter was to have simi-
lar right in the Canon's wood, except in the Park called GubaldPs
Haye and in other places enclosed with ditch or fence. Moreover
Peter's men of Buterey were to have housebote and haybote in the
Canons' moor of The Wildemoor, without question or view of the
Canons' Foresters, but they were to give or sell nothing of the said
easements, nor indeed to use them themselves, except when Peter's
own land could not fully supply their needs. And the said men of
Buterey were to make oath to keep faith with the Church of Lilles*
hall both with respect to that moor and other places. Each Party
sealed a counterpart of this agreement and the Writings were ex-
changed.s

The above agreement affords some presumption that Peter de
Eyton had not as yet recognized his Ancestor's grant of Buttery to
Shrewsbury Abbey. We happen however to know that he did so
subsequently. The years 1225 and 1227 are the certain limits of a

> Supra, Vol. II. p. 103. | ' LilleBhall Chartulaiy, fo. 71.

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ETTON ON THE WSALDMOOES.

Deed whereby '^ Peter de Eyton gives to the said Abbey the whole
land of Butherey and acqoits it of all services to himself/^ This
porports to have been done foranomhud anm of 2«. paid by the
Monks^ and the Deed was attested by Sir John le Strange^ William
Pantulf^ Ralph de Picheford^ John Boneth then Sheriff of Salope-
sure^ William Thaleboth^ Hugh iitz Robert^ Hugh de Hedl^a^ John
de Chetewind^ Soger Sprenghose^ WiUiam Chaplain of Wroccestre^
Thomas de Eston, Wido de Gleseg (Olazeley), Ralph Marescall (of
Boreton), and Hugh de Kynsedeleg.^

The Pipe-Roll of 1231 has Peter de Eytnn as amerced 20s. for
not producing one^ for whom he was Surety, at a recent Forest*
Assize.

An agreement between the Abbot of Shrewsbury and William
de Ercalwe bears date May 13, 1234, and is attested by Peter de
Eyton as second, and by William de Eyton as fifth witness. Peter
and William were, perhaps, father and son, though, as we shall see,
Peter had a brother named William. The latest notice which I
have of Peter de Eython as he is called, bears date October 13,
1237, when with twelve other Recognizors of knightly degree, he
attended a great Trial concerning Shawbury, taken before the King
himself at Worcester. At his death, which must have taken place
within three years after this, Peter de Eyton left his wife Alice sur-*"
viving. On February 3, 1249, the said Alice quitclaimed to. Adam
Abbot of Shrewsbury all her right in Botereye, in the way of dower,
the Abbot undertaking to pay her an annuity of half a merk. Wit-
nesses, Richard de Preston and Robert de Rodinton.' In or about
January 1250, Geoffrey de Langley set an arrentation of 9^. on an
acre at Eyton, taken fix>m the Forest by ^' Alice, Relict of Peter
de Eyton.'' William de Eyton, the brother of Peter, already men-
tioned, was seated at Eaton upon Tern. He occurs as a Juror or a
Surety in June 1220 and August 1226, his name being written
Eton or Ethon ; but in a grant which about 1223 he made of a
meadow at Eaton, he calls himself " William son of Peter de Eton,''
son that is, as I think, of Peter de Eyton (I.). I shall recur to him
and his successors at Eaton, when I come to that place. Peter de
Eyton (II.) was succeeded at Eyton by his son and heir, —

William de Etton, whom the Feodaries of 1240 enter as hold-
ing one fee in Eyton, and one fee in Kereswall (Cresswell),^ of the

1 • < Salop Chartalaiy, Noe. 280, 402.
s TeHa de NeoOl, pp. 45,48,49,50, 61.
A sixth entry (p. 47 ibidem) has Thomas

de Cressewelle as the immediate Tenant of
Creesewelle ; but he was in fact William
de Eyton's Tenant there.

ETTON ON THE WEALDMOOBS. 31

Barony of Wem. Though so great a Feoffee^ it does not appear
that this William ever obtained the honour of knighthood. We
have had double proof that in November 1240 he had married an
heiress or coheiress^ Matilda by name.^ Her interest at Leonards-
Lee seems to have been in part sold, while that at Rochull (near
Wall-Town) was established against certain disputants.

It is probable that William de Eyton was for a time cotemporary
with his Unde of the same name, and it is certain that a third
William de Eyton was resident near the Wrekin about this period.
I can hardly distinguish the Lord of Eyton and these cotempora-
ries, by their position in certain testing-clauses and jury-lists.

Between the years 1242 and 1248 William de Etton was the
third of twelve Recognizors who attended the Sheriff, Forester, and
Verderers of Shropshire to decide what were the Abbot of Lilles-
hall^s rights in a question of forest-law. In 1248 William de Etun
was fourth juror on a Withyford Inquest. Again William de Eton
was Foreman of the Jury which about February 1249 attended at
Shrewsbury to make Inquest as to the estate of Hugh Fitz Robert,
late Forester of Shropshire. This William I take to have been
surely the individual now under notice. As WUliam de Ethon he
again sat Foreman of a Jury which on January 30, 1251, decided a
dispute between the Abbeys of Buildwas and Lilleshall. In 1255
he was deceased, his widow Matilda surviving him, but his son and
heir, Peter, being an infant, probably under ten years of age.
Hence the Bradford Hundred-Roll of 1255 says as follows. — *' Peter
de Eiton is Lord of Eiton and is in ward to Peter Peverel by gift
of Ralph le Butiler (then Baron of Wem). And he (Peter de
Eiton) holds the said Manor by service of one knight at Wemme,
in time of war, for 40 days, at his own chaises. And the Manor
used to do suit to County and Hundred, but it has been withdrawn
these ten years ; and the said suit is worth 28, yearly.^''

Matilda, widow of William de Eyton, remarried to Walter de
Pedwardine and took with her in dower one-third of two parts of
the estate of Eyton. The remaining part had never come to Wil-
liam de Eyton^s hands, for it was held at the time of his death by
his mother Alice, who survived him. Alice however died before
1256, and at the Assizes of January in that year a curious point in
the Law of Dower had its solution. Walter de Pedwardine and
Matilda his wife, having already one-third of two-thirds of two
carucates in Eyton in Wydemore as Matilda^s dower, sued Peter

> VoL n. p. 815 ; Vol. IV. p. 275. | * Sot. Hundred. 11. 6a

32 ETTON ON THE WEALDM00R9.

Peyerel and Balpb de Kent for a third of that remoimng third
which had now lapsed to the general estate by death of Alice. The
Plaintifis asserted that William de Eyton had given dower to Ma-
tilda out of this remaining third. This the Defendants denied^ say-
ing that William had never been seized of the said third except in
tenancy and daring the period between his father Pete's death and
the allotment of the said third as his mother's dower. The facts
were not in dispute. They were^ that Peter de Eyton died seized
of the whole estate^ that William his son and heir instantly after-
wards gave one third to his mother Alice in dower^ and had never
been otherwise in seizin of such third; — obviously because his
mother survived him. The question was one of law, viz. whether
Walter de Pedwardine and Matilda could demand dower out of
doweVy i.e. take thirds in such part of William de Eyton's estate as
had reverted since his death ? The Court decided in the negative^
dismissed Peverel and Kent sine die, and pronounced the Plaintiffs
in misericordid for a false claim.^

Walter de Pedwabdine, Lord of Ingwardine in 1255 and 1284,
has already been noticed.^ His distinctive career rather belongs to
the localities now under notice, where he was resident for years.
As early as 1253 he was foreman of a Jury which made Inquest as
to estates in Uppington and Newport. He took the Royalist side
during the civil wars of 1264^, and it was probably for some mea.
sures against a political opponent that he was impleaded in 1266
and 1268 as before noticed.^ We must remember however that the
scene of his alleged trespass wajs Bochull^ a place where very proba-
bly he had an interest in right of his wife. A Patent of June 24^
1267^ makes him Fermor for life of the King's Hundred of Brad-
ford. This was in reward of his faithful services ; but the Bent of
8 merks which was retained by the Crown is known to have been a
full and fair value of the oflBce. We have seen Sir Walter de Ped-
wardine attesting a Charter of Walter de Dunstanville about 1269
and of Petronilla his daughter about 1274.^ He died appturently
in 1297j but without any recorded interest remaining in North
Shropshire. His tenure under the Bromptons of Brompton Brian
will have notice elsewhere. He was succeeded by a son Roger, of
full age at his decease and perhaps his son by Matilda de Eyton.
Meantime —

Peter de Etton (III.) had arrived at man's estate. The first

1 Mtizei, 40 Hen. III., m. 7 dorso. | * Supra, Vol. 11. pp. 2d8, 800.
« • > Supra, VoL IV. pp. 190, 276. I

BTTON ON THE WEALDMOORS. 33

mention of his name^ otherwise than as an infant^ is early in 1272,
when Hugh Bumell had a Writ against him for disseizing the said
Hugh of common-pasture in Eyton, and John de Appele had a
Writ against him for disseizing the said John of a tenement in
Eyton. At the Assizes of September 1272 Peter de Eyton was
third Juror for Bradford Hundred. His position on a Jury of
March 1276 is not among the knights who composed it, but in an
Inquest of December 2, 1277, he takes precedence of several whom
I know to have been knights at the time. In July 1278 he appears
as one of the Verderers of the Shropshire Forests, and in January
1283 he is expressly styled a knight on a Newport Inquest. From
this period till his death his occurrences as a Yerderer, a Juror, or
a Witness, are very frequent. The Feodaries of 1284f-5, when col-
lated, show that Peter de Eyton was then holding two knights^-fees
under Walter de Hopton and his wife Matilda (Baroness of Wem),
The Manors named as constituting this Fief are Eyton, Brochetone
(Bratton), Sutton, and half Lawley, in Shropshire, and CressweU in
Staffordshire. The latter was held under him by Henry de Cress^
well. At the Assizes of 1292 he was one of the two !E!lisors, sworn
to elect the Jury for Bradford Hundred. In the same year he was
one of the Knights who tried several of those Pleas of Quo Waranto
to which I am so often referring. He was returned for Salop as a
knight of the Shire to the Parliament h€id at York on May 25,
1298, and again to the Parliament held at Lincoln in January 1301.
The latter he attended, and obtained his Writ of expenses for so
doing. His Manucaptors were Roger le Wodeward of Eyton, and
Bichard his Brother.^ Meanwhile, on June 5, 1300, as one of the
Verderers of Shropshire, he attended the great Perambulation then
made, and afterwards ratified by £dward I.

Peter de Eyton (III.) had settled his estate, or at least the Manor
of Eyton, by a Pine levied at Westminster on January 27, 1292,
He first gives it to his son Peter (the Plaintiff), who returns it to
his father, to hold for life, under the Lords of the Fee, with remain-
der to Peter junior and the heirs of his body, or in default of such
heirs to Margery, sister of Peter junior and the heirs of her body,
with remainder to the right heirs of Peter senior quit of any other
heirs of Margery.

Peteb de Eyton (IV.), who, in October 1302, March 1303,
January 1305, and March and May 1308, occurs as a prominent
witness of Wombridge Charters, is in no instance styled a kni ght,

» ParUammtary WrUs, TV. 580.
VIII. 5

34

ETTON ON THE WEALDM00R6.

He waSj I doubt not^ the above-named son of Peter (III.)> i^ow in
possession of his estate. On May 21, 1311, he is styled " Lord of
Eyton/' and either under that style or as merely Peter de Eyton,
he is a frequent witness of Wombridge Charters, the latest of which
bears date January 20, 1324. A charter which I have ventured to
date in 1320 speaks of him as Peter son of Sir Peter de Eyton and
as having granted to the Canons of Wombridge a right of road
through his land of Lega.^

This estate at Leonards Lee, whatever its extent, probably came
to him in right of his grandmother, Matilda. On April 28, 1325,
he was appointed a Commissioner for the purpose of raising Hobelers
and Archers in Shropshire and Staffordshire, in place of Alan de
Cherleton.* Three Writs of the same year, the latest dated Sept.
20, instruct him concerning the marching and inspection of these
levies ; — but nothing further do I learn certainly of him.*

John de Eyton, presumed to have been son and heir of Peter
de Eyton (IV.), occurs as John de Eyton on August 13, 1328, and
as John, Lord of Eyton, on Sept. 21, 1331, and as John de Eyton
on Jan. 6, 1333 ; — and from thence till July 25, 1344, when he is
styled Dominus Johannes de Eyton super le JTUdmore, but it is evi-
dent from the context of this Deed^ that he was not a knight, and
I take it that neither he nor his father nor yet his son ever attained
that dignity. On May 7, 1339, a Fine was levied whereby Richard
de Tatenhall and Margery his wife (Deforciants) quitclaim for them-
selves, and the heirs of Mai^ery, to John de Eyton (Plaintiff) 100*.
rent in Eyton super le Wyldmore. For this, John de Eyton paid
60 merks.

Peter de Eyton (V.), presumed son and heir of John, occurs
as a witness on March 25 and May 3, 1354.^ On April 2, 1366,
he presented to Eyton Church, and on May 21, 1377, he occurs

» Supra, Vol. 11. p. 317.

3 Parliamentary Writs, IV. 805.

* Dugdale (MS. 89. fo. 82) gives an ab-
Btract of a Deed, whereby " Peter de Ey-
ton de Wyldemor gives to Sir Nicholas
Beek, Chevalier, the wardship and mar-
riage of Margaret, daughter and heir of
John de Leye, deceased, till the full age
of the said Margaret, gives (namely) the
Manor of Gressewall and the reversion of
such land as Dame Jone, widow of Sir
Henry de Gressewall, held in Gressewall
in the name of Dower." This Deed pur-

ports to have been dated at StaflTord in 8
Edw. III. (1334-5). Henry de Cwsswell
was certainly living in 1816, and so far
Dugdale*s date is plausible ; but I strong-
ly suspect some error in the said date
when I refer it to the known era of Peter
de Eyton (IV.). The grant, whatever its
date, surely implies the continued mesne-
lordship of Peter de Eyton (IV.) or (V.)
at CresswelL

* Wombridge Ghartulary, 2^. Upinton,
No. OCV.

* Supra, Vol. VII. p. 362.

THE CHURCH. 85

again as witness of a Deed already quoted^ but not as a knight.^
Peter de Eyton (V.) was succeeded by his son and heir, —

John de Eyton (II.) > who served the office of Sheriff of Shrop-
shire in 1394. With him I must conclude an account which has
already extended later than my usual limits.

ETTON CHXTRCH.

This Church must have been originally a Chapel, founded indeed
by the Lords of the Manor and always bestowed at their presenta-
tion, but founded nevertheless within the limits of some ancient and
adjacent Parish, probably that of WeUington.

The Church is dedicated to St. Catherine, and Tradition says that
one Catherine de Eyton vowed its foundation in the event of the
safe return of her husband, then absent on a Crusade. The motto
of the Lords of Eyton — Je m?y oblige, or, / bind my self y is further
said to have reference to this vow and its pious accomplishment.

This Church is not mentioned in the Taxation of 1291, and the
earliest dated Record which indicates its existence is the admission
of a Eector thereto in 1386.

Again Eyton is not recognized as a distinct Parish in the Inquisi-
tion of 1341 -y but in the Valor of 1534-5, Eyton super Wyldmor
is entered as a Rectory, in the Deanery of Newport ; — whose Rector,
Roger Gerves, derived a clear income of £2, 4^. Sd, from this pre-
ferment.*

BAELY INCUMBENTS.

Roger de Lye, Rector of Eyton super Wyldmore, being de-
ceased on Sept. 3, 1336, the Bishop institutes —

William de Etnabdeseyb, Priest, at the presentation of John
de Eyton, Lord of Eyton. On October 28, 1336, Eynardeseye ex-
changes preferments with—

Sib William de la Broke of Leominster, late Perpetual Vicar
of Much Wenlock.^ WUliam de Lymenstre, as he is in the next
instance called, resigned January 26, 1342, and on February 1st
following —

Thomas Patiton of Wenlock, Acolyte, was admitted. — Patron,
John de Eyton, Lord of Eyton. On April 2nd, 1366,

William de Wylleynton, Priest, was instituted to the Church
of St. Catherine of Eyton at the presentation of Peter de Eyton.

> Supra, Vol. VIL p. 362. I » Supra, Vol. III. p. 270.

' Volar EeclenaMnu, III. 186. I

36

BUTTBRT. BRATTON.

Thomas Newport occurs as Rector on June 12, 1891.^

Sir John Cabtwrioht dying in 1634, —

BoGEB Gervas was instituted on August 2nd of that year.
Patron, Henry Eyton, Esq. On November 81, 1548, Oervas being
dead, —

Sir John Geyte was instituted.

Butterp*

This place, now a township in the Parish of Edgmond, is de-
scribed in Domesday as one of William PantulPs Manors. '' The
same William holds Buterei. Turchil held it (in Saxon times).
Here is one hide, geldable. The (arable) land is (sufficient) for ii
ox-teams : there are only three oxen here. The old value of the
Manor was 6*. {per annum). Now it is worth 2«.*

The feoffinent of Warinus or of one of his successors, the Eytons,
in Buttery, has been already assumed. Robert de Eyton's transfer
of the Manor to Shrewsbury Abbey has also been recorded. The
remaining history of the place should be as an estate of the said
Abbey. However neither the Taxation of 1291 nor the Valor of
1535-6 take any notice of Buttery as thus held. The only Docu-
ment which does notice it is a Rent^Roll of Shrewsbury Abbey,
drawn up at the close of the fifteenth century. Therein it appears
that the Abbey was in receipt of a rent of £2 per annum for
Boterey.

Bratton

" The same William (Pantulf) holds Brochetone. Emiet held
it (in Saxon times). Here is a hide and half, geldable. The (arable)

» Vide supra, Vol. VI. p. 204, whence
it would appear that Newport had been
Bector of Bolas from 1866 to 1377. He

probably went from Bolaa to Eyton, and
thence, in 1895, to Pi^yerbatch.
2 Dometda^, to. 267, b, 1.

LAWLET.

87

land is (enoi^^h) for iiii ox-teams. Here are v Boors and they
bave nothing (in the shape of a Team). In King Edward's time
the Manor was worth 24^. {per annum). Now it is nearly waste.
Warin holds it (under William Pantulf)/'i

I have stated under Eyton nearly all that is known of Brattcm.
It became thus associated with Eyton, by reason of the tenure of
the two being identical, and they were usually reputed to be one
Manor. It is a township in Wrockwardine Parish, and is wholly
in the possession of the present B^presentative of the Eytons. I
think it probable from the following Deed that Sibil wife of Sir
Hugh and mother of Sir Philip BumeU was an Eyton, and had her
marriage portion in Bratton.

On February 16, 1299, Sibil, late wife of Hughe Bumel, gives to
Mast^ William Bumel, her son, aU her tenement in Brocton pre$
de Wielinton, to hold &r his life ; — ^with remainder to Walter Beisin
and Alice his wife and to William de Ercalwe and Petronilla'
his wife and the heirs of said William and Petronilla, — ^rendering
all capital services. Witnesses, Bobert Corbet, Thomas Corbet,
Richard de Harley and Bichard de Leghton, Knights. Dated at
Eudon Bumell.^

i,dMt^

Lawlet was at the time of Domesday a divided Manor. William
Pantulf's share (with which alone we are now concerned) is de-
scribed as foUows. —

''The same William holds Lauelei. Emiet held it (in Saxon
times). Here is half a hide geldable. There is (arable) land,
enough for one ox-team. It (the said land) was and is waste.'^^

This part of Lawley afterwards constituted one of those Manors
which were held by the Lords of Eyton under the Barons of Wem.
In the thirteenth century the Lords of Eyton had a Feofifee here,
one Balph de Stanton. This Balph, who probably took his name
firom Stanton near Shifihal, has been seen attesting Deeds, which

1 Domeada^y fo. 267, b, 1.
s Alice and Petronilla wei« Sibil Bur-
ners daughters.

' In possession of Mr. George Morris
of Shrewsbury.
* Domesday, fo. 257, b, 1.

88

HORTON.

ooncemed land at Ghindle and at Hatton^ in the middle of the
thirteenth century.^ About the same time he appears as Juror in
a Lilleshall Inquest^ and in 1249 on a Leegomery Inquest. The
Hundred-BoU of 1265 says that '' Badnlf de Stanton holds two
yii^tes in Lanel^ of the Fee of Wem" Here the mesne*lord
(Peter de Eyton) is not mentioned.

About 1284-5 two Feodaries of Bradford Hundred concur in
stating that '^ Badulf de Stanton held half the vill of Laueleye
under Peter de Eyton^ who held under the Lord of Wem^ who held
in agrite/' Walter de Stanton (son and heir of B4ilph as I suppose)
occurs on a Wellington Jury in 1284. Subsequently he enfeoffed
Robert Corbet of Morton and his wife Matilda in certain tene-
ments in Laueleye which were held under Peter de Eyton by a rent
of 6s. Bobert Corbet and his wife were conjointly seized of this
tenement (which was in fact the moiety of Lawley now under
notice) in 1300^ when the said Bobert Corbet died.^ For proof
that the Eytons retained their mesne interest in Lawley nearly four
centuries later^ I refer to a note.^

Hmrton.

This Manor^ now a Township of Wellington^ is described in
Domesday as follows. — " The same William (Pantulf ) holds Hor-
tune^ and Warin holds it of him. Emiet held it (in Saxon times).
Here are three virgates of land^ geldable. The (arable) land is
enough for one ox-team. It is waste. Here is half a league of
wood and one haye.'^ *

That Horton^ like Eyton and Bratton^ descended firom Warin^ the

» Supn, Vol. n. pp. 92, 172.

> Inquis, 29 Edw. I. No. 46.

' About the year 1684 three tenements
in Lawley (conBtitating, I presume, the
abore paroel of the Manor) were held hy
Messrs. Langley and Cludde, by a chief-
rent of 5f ., payable to the Mother or Qnar-
dian of Philip Byton of Eyton, then in
minority. In that year Messrs. Langley
and Cludde sold their fee-simple to Tho-

mas Burton, Esq., of Longner. There is
a receipt at Longner, dated April 26, 1686,
wherein Charles Eyton, Uncle of the
minor, Philip, acknowledges the payment
by Mr. Burton of £2. 69, or nine years*
arrears of the said chief-rent. (Extracts
firom the muniments at Longner, by the
late John Eyton, Esq.)
* Xhmetdwf, fo. 267, b, 1.

HORTON. 89

Domesday Tenant^ to Peter de Eyton (II.), I cannot donbt. The
concessions which the latter made to Lilleshull Abbey in respect to
Luhstree Vwary about 1220 show him, I think, to have been Lord
of Horton.^ It is also certain that an interest in Horton, though
not the sole interest, has remained with Peter de Eyton^s descend-
ants to this very day.*

With respect however to the bulk of Horton, the history of the
Manor is much more associated with that of Preston on the Weald-
moors than with that of Eyton. In short the Horton which we
usually hear of in the thirteenth century was held of the Fee of
Hodnet by Tenants, some at least of whom held in Preston, of
the same Fee. This tenure was quite independent of any mesne
interest of the Lords of Eyton, who I conclude must have lost
something in Horton, though something they retained. Without
vain speculation on this anomaly I proceed to state what I find
about the Tenants of Horton. —

Roger de Preston, yoimger brother of that Baldwin de Hodnet,
who died in 1224, gave half a vii^ate in Horton to Lilleshall
Abbey, and Odo de Hodnet, son and heir of Baldwin, confirmed
the grant.s

Sabina de Horton, daughter of Pagan de Preston, was I know a
Coparcener in Preston and wife first of William and then of Roger
de Preston. She, in one of her widowhoods, gave with her body to
Lilleshull Abbey, a messuage, a croft and a meadow in Horton.
Witnesses, Adam de Preston, Ralph de Preston, William Urse of
Mokeleston, William de Tyme, John de Horton, Robert fitz Denys,
Roger de Monte, and Roger le Harpur.* It was in respect, I pre-
sume, .of the above grants, that an early Rent-RoU of Lilleshull
Abbey gives 20d. receivable annually de terrd de Horton. William
fitz Eustace, a Juror in a neighbouring Inquest of 1249, was I
know of Horton. In 1250 Qeofirey de Langley assessed Matilda,
relict of Eustace de Horton, and Helewise, relict of Reginald de
Horton, for assarted lands at Hadley.

In 1255 the Bradford Jurors presented Odo de Hodnet as re-
ceiving 4^. per annum from John de Horton, for advowry}

Richard de Horton, Juror on a Wellington Inquest in 1264,
occurs on no less than seven local juries between that year and

1 Vide Bupn, pp. 28, 29.

* T. 0. Eyton, Esq., now (1859) of Ey-
ton receiyes two chief-rents of 8«. 6<2. due
annually at ChristmaB from two farma at

* Lilleshall Chartulary, fo. 67.

* Original Deed at Trentham; sealed
with a fleur-de-lys, surrounded by this
Legend — Sigillum Sabine db Hobtfn.

Horton. I « Mot. Hundred. II. 69.

n

i

40 BESLOW.

1801. Between tbe years 1275 and 1285 Luke Abbot of Lilleslxull
grants a life lease^ at a rent of Qs. 44., to Sibil relict of Balph^ son
of Eustace de Horton, yi^. of that half-yirgate in Horton which
her late husband held^ and of that place of land which Sabiua de
I Horton gave to the Abbey. Witnesses^ Sir Thomas Lyart^ Perpetual

Vicar of Welinton and the Lord Rector of the Chapel of Preston,
Peter de Eyton, Adam de Preston, Pagan de Pteston, Bichard de
Horton, John de Horton, and Bobert Silion.^
In the Bradford Tenure-Boll (about 1286) Preston, Horton and
I half the vill of Lawley are put down as members of Hodnet, and

as held under William de Hodnet as Mesne-Lord. I do not doubt
I the general accuracy of the statement, though how to account for

' it in the cases of Horton and Lawley I know not.

1 William de Horton who occurs on a local jury in 1281, will

^ hereafter appear as a Coparcener of Preston in 1292.

Parochially, Horton is now reputed to be a member of Welling-
f ton ; but a Terrier of Eyton, drawn up in 1625, shows that Horton

\ had then a parochial status just as divided as its previous manorial

» condition. Sir Philip Eyton paid two-thirds of his tithes to Eyton

;• and one-third to Wellington (I presume as the Mother Church of

i Eyton). But twelve cottagers in Horton^s Wood paid part of their

I tithes to Eyton and part to Wellington. Also the people of Hor-

ton's Wood received the Communion at Eyton and paid their duties
there, but christened and buried at Wellington.

The inference from all this is that when Eyton Church was
founded by the Lords of the Manor, they endowed it, as far as they
could, with tithes of their estates at Horton and Eyton, making
some composition with the Mother Church of Wellington. In 1625
the ratio of the case was foi^otten, and litigation was impending as
to the then current practice. Not wishing to insist on any view of
the matter as a question of ecclesiastical law, long since settled, I
i{ only quote the data of the dispute as reminiscences of the partial

connection which has existed between Horton and Eyton ever since
Domesday,

I

■4

BesUih).

"Thb same William (Pantulf) holds Beteslawe. Godwin held

* Charter at Trentham.

DAWLEY MAGNA. 41

it (in Saxon times) . Here is half a hide^ geldable. The (arable)
land is enough for ii ox-teams. In demesne there is half a team^
and one Serf and one Free Man with two Boors. It used to be
worth 11*. {per annum) : now it is worth 68."^

After Domesday we find Beslow held under William Pantulf^s
descendants by a family which took its name from the place. The
first of these is Roger de Bethesloua, whom we have seen, about
1170-6, attesting Ivo Pantulf s confirmation of Buttery to Shrews-
bury Abbey .^ Next comes Bachard de Beszelawe, whose name ap-
pears on the Pipe-BoU of 1176 as owing an amercement of one
merk, because he had failed to produce Robert de Wudecote for
Trial. Roger de Bessdawe occurs as a Witness about 1220.' From
about 1240 to 1255 I find occasional mention of Robert de Besse-
lawe as a Juror or a Witness. In the latter year, though the
Bradford Hundred-Roll omits all mention of Beslow, the Pimhill
Hundred-Roll notices this Robert as holding part of Slepe under
the then Baron of Wem.^ Robert de Beslow I think was a Juror
for Bradford Hundred at the Assizes of January 1256, but the
name is written Esselawe. From about 1256 to 1283 I find Hugh
de Beslow acting as a Juror on four different Inquests, and attest-
ing several Charters of the same period. About 1285 the Bradford
Tenure-Roll says distinctly that '^ Beslow is held as a member of
Wem, under Walter and Matilda de Hopton, by Hugh de Beslow,
and for half a knight^s-fee.^'

This, or another, Hugh occurs on a local Jury in December
1298, and again in 1315, but afker him I find no mention of the
family or Manor for a considerable period. Eventually an heir
female of the Beslows took the estate into the family of Poynor.

Beslow Chapel. Tradition and the existence of a field called
" Chapel Yard,*' are the authorities quoted for the former existence
of this Chapel. The district belongs parochially to Wroxeter.

BabU^ iHlagna^ alias Bab)U^ pantulf.

Domesday, after describing Earl Roger's great Demesne-Manor

1 Dometdmf^ fo. 257, b, 1.
> Supra, p. 28.

Vlll.

' Supra, Vol. II. p. 133, note.
* Rot. Hundred. II. 75.

6

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I

42 DAWLEY MAGNA.

^

of Wellington^ notices Dawley as a member thereof^ but not held in
demesne by the Earl. — " Of the land of this Manor^ William holds

ij of the Earl one hide^ Dalelie^ for a Manor. Grim held it before.

Here is one ox-team, and vii Villains have one team. Its old value

\ was 30^. {per annum). It is now worth 10^.^^'

^ Wherever^ in the Shropshire or Staffordshire Domesday, a certain

( WiUiam is spoken of as Earl Roger's inmiediate Tenant^ we are

to understand William Pantuif ; for all the Manors^ whose tenure
is thus curtly described^ are found afterwards as members of the
Barony of Wem. So it was with Dawley ; but a younger branch of
the Pantulfs held Dawley under the elder^ and^ together with Daw-
ley^ Tibberton^ and Oreat Norton^ the last of which has been al-
ready treated of.^ The first of this younger line of Pantulfs^ of whom
I have any notice, was Ralph Pantulf^ probably more distantly re^
lated to Ivo Pantulf, the cotemporary Baron of Wem, than as a
son or a brother. We have seen this Ralph, about 1170-5, attest-

• ing Ivo's confirmation of Buttery to Shrewsbury Abbey.* The

Pipe-Roll of 1180 registers Ralph Pantulf as owing a fine of half a

ii merk for license to construct a mill and stank in his own arable

,: field. This was obviously because the premises were within juris-

. diction of the Forest,

jl We have seen Ralph Pantulf attesting a Deed of Walter de Dun-

stanvill, about 1188,* and about four years later, we observe that in
a similar attestation by Ralph Pantulf, his name is followed by that
of William his son.^ Before 1199 the said William had apparently

I succeeded to his Father, for the Pipe RoU of that year exhibits

William Pantulf as fining one merk for license to assart 3 acres of
Riflet, This William is followed in the testing clauses of certain
grants to Wombridge Priory by his brother Philip. In October

" 1203 William Pantulf was deceased, for at the Assizes then held,

" Felicia his widow sued Alan Pantulf for her reasonable dower,''
viz. for a third part of William's whole tenement in Dalilea, and in
Jlbricton and in a third place, unintelligibly written, but which I
take to mean Norton. Alan Pantulf assented to the claim, and the
Sheriff was ordered to apportion the said thirds.^

I cannot determine whether Alan Pantulf was the son or the
brother of William, but on March 18, 1218, he in turn was dead,
leaving an heir in minority. A Writ-Close of that date assigns the

■1

1 Domesday^ fo. 253, b, 2.
» Supra, Vol. VI. p. 300.
' Supra, p. 27.

* • * Supra, VoL II. pp. 279, 290.
^ Asaize9^ 5 John, m. 6 dorto.

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43

custody of the land and heir of Alan Pantulf to Hugh Pantulf (then
Baron of Wem) under whom the said Alan held a fee}

The heir of Alan Pantulf was probably Adam Pantulf; but he
too was deceased in 1240 and his estates divided among four Copar-
ceners^ bnt whether these Coparceners were daughters or sisters of
Adam I cannot say^ nor can I give their names. It is to these
Ladies that reference is made in the Feodary of 1240^ where it is
said that ^^ the heirs of Adam Panton hold one fee in Dalileg and
Tibertton of the Barony of Wemme.'^*

The four coheiresses of Pantulf of Dawley and Tibberton were in
1255 represented by William de Cavereswelle^ Bichard le Irishe,
Michael de Morton^ and John de Chavemes. ^^ These four held the
vUl of Dalileg by service of one MorUar at Wem, in time of war, to
wit, for 40 days at their own cost. The Seneschal of Wem did
suit to County and Hundred for the said Yill.''^ In describing the
Coparceners of Tibberton the same Record substitutes Christiana
de Dalileg for John de Chavemes.'* The truth is that John and
Christiana were man and wife.

William de Catebswall, one of above Coparceners in Dawley,
was representative of a family long seated at Caverswall in Stafford-
shire. He occurs as a Coparcener in Dawley in a Fine of the year
1256, which I shall quote in its place. All that I shall further say
of him here is, that between the years 1256 and 1260 he sold his
share of Dawley and Tibberton to Michael de Morton, reserving
however a rent to himself as Mesne-Lord. His Deed, relating to
this transaction, purports to be a grant by William de Kaverswall
to Michael de Morton of all the land which he (William) had and
field in Dalile and Tubrinton with all homages, suits, &c., of
Tenants : — ^to hold in fee, at a rent of £3. 13«. Ad. payable at
Morton to the Grantor, and by performing all suits and other ser-
vices (to the Seigneural Lords). Witnesses, Robert de Haluton,
Adam de Brinton, William de Lecha, Bertram de Burgo, Henry
Mauvessin, ^ ^ ^ Mauvessin, Adam de Preston, John de Apele
(Apley), and John Clerk.^

This transfer put an end to William de Caverswall's immediate
connection with Dawley, and increased the importance of his Co-
parcener, —

1 Bot, OImu. YoL I. p. 866.
> tPetta de NeoiU, p. 46.
* ' * Rot Hundred, 11. 68. 66. Bicbard
le Iriahe was one of the Jurors who made

this retiuiL His name is printed Leyres.
fi Abstract of Deeds in possession of
Philip Yongo of Gaynton, Aug. 4, 1666.
(Harl MS. 2063, fo. 6, b.)

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DAWLEY MAGNA.

Michael de Morton. This Michael was also a Staffordshire
man. He held a share of the Manor of Morton^ in that coonty,
tinder Fitz Alan. I shall often have to speak of his acquisitions in
Shropshire. In 1285 the Bradford Tenure-Boll makes Dawley
and Tibberton to be members of Walter and Matilda de Hopton's
Barony. Michael de Moreton (he was son of the first Michael)
and Reginald de Chameus are said to hold the two Manors by ser-
vice of half a kuight^s-fee^ but the Coparcenery of Irish was^ as we
shall see^ stiQ existent. A Patent dated at York on Nov. 17^ 1316,
allows William de Morton, Clerk, to surround his mansion of Da-
lileye with a wall of stone and lime and to embattle the same.
Master John de Cherlton is said to be the nuncians of this Writ.
It shows us the origin of Dawley Castle. I now return to —

John de Chayernes, who, with his wife Christiana de Dawley,
was one of the Coparceners of 1255-^.^ He too was of a Stafford-
shire family, long seated at Chames, a Manor which they held
under the See of Lichfield. B^inald de Chames occurs as a
Juror for Bradford Hundred in 1272, on a Wem Jury in 1281, and
as a Coparcener in Dawley in 1285, and in June 1300, as one of
the Jurors who made Perambulation of the Shropshire Forests.^

This Reginald de Chames was, it seems, a Tenant of some wood-
land at Parva Legh, a member of IdsalL' An Inquest of Sept. 24,
1310, found it to be non-injurious to the Crown that the said Re-
ginald should bestow ten acres of the said woodland on Buildwas
Abbey. The Tenants over Reginald were Peter de Eyton and
Hugh de Say of Morton, but to them he owed no service. They
again held under Thomas Tochet (Lord of Leegomery), who held
in capite, so that it would seem a part of Parva Legh was a mem-
ber of Leegomery. Reginald's proposed grant was worth 2s, per
anmim, and if it should take effect he would still have one-fourth of
the Vills of Dalileye and Tibriton, which he held under William le
Botiler, Baron of Wem, by services of rendering 6 arrows, barbed
and feathered with peacock's plumes^ and of appearing twice yearly
at his Suzerain's Great Courts at Hinstock. He would also retain
estates at Prees and at Chames, held under the Bishop of Chester.^

^ It is possible that one Bobert de
Chayemes preceded John as a Coparcener
in Dawley. An Inquest taken in Michael-
mas Term 1253 in a full County- Court
was attended by Bobert de Chaves {Ab-
brev. Placiiortim, p. 129).

- Reginald do Chames was ];)orhaps

identical with Reginald de Dawley who
occurs on local Inquests in May 1264 and
January 1283.

• Vide supra, Vol. 11. p. 314.

* Inquit, ad qttod damnum, 4 Ed. II.
No. 62.

THE CHURCH.

45

EiCHABD LE Iribhe^ the remaining Coparcener of 1255^ had ap-
peared ten years earlier as Richard de Hibemia and as Juror on
a Lilleshall Inquest. Whether Philip le Hyreis who appears on a
Bradford Inquisition in May 1264 was of Dawley I cannot say.

On June 16^ 1292^ Richard le Yreis of Dalileye gives to Johanna
his wife and to William their son^ and the heirs of William^ all his
lands in Dalileye and Tybriston^ together with the reversion of the
dower of Alina, the Grantor^s Mother^ when it should lapse ; — ^to
hold to Johanna and William^ and the heirs of William^ with re-
mainder to Reginald^ brother of William. Witnesses^ Sir Walter
de Huggeford^ Fulk de Penebrugge^ Reginald de Charles, William
de Caynton^ Peter de Eyton^ Richard le YrieySy and William dc
Caleweton. Dated at Daliley.^

DAWLBY CHTJEOH.

This was originally a Chapel^ subject to the great Saxon Church
of St. Andrew at Idsall. William Priest of Dalilea^ who has been
noticed as occurring about 1186-7^^ was probably the officiating
Priest of this Chapel^ whose foundation we thus fix as early as the
twelfth century. We have seen that Walter de Dunstanvill (II.)
recovered the Advowson of Idsall from Shrewsbury Abbey, in 1219.*
In 1256 Walter de Dunstanvill (III.), as Patron of the Mother
Church, was equally successful in recovering the Advowson of Daw-
ley from the joint lords of the Manor, who fined 20«. with the
justices-in-eyre for license to accord. Their Agreement is pre-
served. — ^' Michael de Morthon, Richard le Ireys, John de Chaver-
nes and his wife Chnstiana and William de Cavereswell, defendants
of the Advowson of the Chapel of Dalileye-Paunton, recognized
Walter de Dunstanvill^s right thereto as an appurtenance of the
Mother Church of IdeshaU, which was of his patronage. For this
quitclaim Dunstanvill paid 18 merks.'^ •

Dawley is never mentioned as a distinct or independent Church
in the early Diocesan Registers or in Ecclesiastical Surveys. The
Advowson went with that of Idsall to Battlefield College, which ob-
tained an appropriation of both.

In 1535-6 the Master of Battlefield stated his receipts from the
Tithes of DaUey Chapel to be £3. 6*. 8rf. per annum*'

> HapL MS. 2063, fo. 6.—
I haye some doubts whether this deed
is accurately dated in 20 £dw. I.

» Supra, Vol. II. p. 112, note 14.

' Ibidem, p. 338.

* Valor Ecdesicuticug, III. 195.

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%Mtxton.

Haying now aoooimted for the nine Manors of Beoordine Hun-
dred which were held under Earl Roger by William Fantnlf^ I pro-
ceed to speak of the Fief of Roger de Curoellej not on account of
its size or importance^ but because the five Manors which composed
it were afterwards annexed to the Barony of Pantulf. I suppose
that Richard de Curcell^ who appears to have lived in the time of
Earl Hugh (1098-«)/ was Roger de Curcell's successor. Whether
the line ended in a sole heiress who took the estates to Pantulf of
Wem^ or whether the Fief of De CurceU was one of those which
were forfeited by the rebellion of 1102^ I cannot say. William
FantuIPs loyalty on the latter occasion makes it very supposable
that his Barony was augmented at the expense of some of Belesme's
adherents.

Roger de Cnrcelle held two Manors in Recordine Hundred under
Earl Roger. One of these^ Tibberton, is thus described in Domes^
day.—

" The same Rc^er (de CurceUe) holds Tetbristone. Ulgar held
it (in Saxon times). Here are v hides^ geldable. In demesne there
is one ox-team^ and (there are) two Neat-herds and four Boors with
one team ; and there might be seven teams more. In King Ed-
ward^s time the Manor was worth 60s. {per annum) ; and after-
wards it was waste. Now it is worth 10*.***

The earliest Tenant of Tibberton^ whom I can name, was one
Gilbert de Conedour (Condover) ; but whether he held under De
CurceUe, or under Pantulf, or under both in succession, I camiot
show. He belonged to a family of which my notices are very scat-
tered.

In the time of Hugh Earl of Shrewsbury (1093-8) we hear of
one Ralph de Conedour. He attests that EarFs undoubted Charter
to Salop Abbey ;^ and he was surviving in May 1121, and then at-
tested Henry I.'s general confirmation to the same House.^

Gilbert de Conedour, with whom we are now concerned, was
cotemporary with Ralph, that is, he was living in the time of Earl

» Supns Vol. VI. p. 170.
3 Dometday^ fo. 256, a» 2.

' Salop Ghaitulaiy, No. 4.
* Ibidem, No. 85.

TIBBERTON.

47

Hugh and was surviving at the end of Henry I/s reign^ when Pagan
Fitz John^ Sheriff of Shropshire, gave him land described as Uptune,
in compensation for lands elsewhere. King Henry II. in July 1155,
confirmed to Shrewsbury Abbey two gifto which had probably ac-
crued during the usurpation of Stephen : viz. '^ of the gift of Ri-
childis wife of Gilbert de Conedover, a hide in Becchebery, and^
of the gift of Baldwin^ son of the said Gilbert and Richildis, a hide
in Tibnhton.^^ These grants were also included in Henry III.'s
confirmation of 1227, and we have good evidence that the monks
retained such estates in Tibberton and Beckbury, for by Beckbury
we must understand, not the manor and parish which bears that
name, but a suburb of the Abbey Foregate of Shrewsbury.

Of Baldwin son of Gilbert de Conedover I know nothing fur-
ther. In 1165 one Hugh de Cunedoure was holding a Muntator^s
fee in the Barony of Fitz Alan, but this, so far firom being at or
near Tibberton, was probably at Detton, in South Shropshire.^

After Baldwin de Conedover^s grant in Tibberton to Shrewsbury
Abbey, four hides of the Domesday Manor remained in lay hands.
We know that Pantulf of Wem had the Seigneury of all four, and
that Pantulf of Dawley was Tenant-in-fee of three out of the four.

Between the years 1175- and 1180 Ralph Pantulf, for the souk'-
health of himself, his wife, his friends, and ancestors, gave ^forendeU
in Tibberton to Wombridge Priory. Witnesses Hugh Panton (the
Baron of Wem I presume), Alan de Hadley, William de Ercalew,
Pagan de Hadley, William de Tibbriton, Drio Priest of the same
Vill, Adam de Chorleton (read Horieton), Richard de Cherleton,
Pagan de Cherritone (Cherrington), Walter de Clotlegge (Clotley),
&c.«

Alan Pantulf, who, as we have seen, succeeded to William, son
of the above Ralph, in 1203, and died in 1218, conceded to Wom-
bridge Priory 6 acres in Tibberton for the soids' health of himself,
his wife, &c. Witnesses, Robert de Wodecotte, Walter de Stircheleg,
Philip Parson of Madeley, William Chaplain of Dawley, Walter and
Leonard de Leis, Robert de Cheteleia (Ketley), &c.^

The Bradford Hundred-Roll of 1255 is explicit on the divided
state of this Manor. " Tibrihton is 5 hides, and pays 8 J. stretward,
and pays the said Sd. at Wem, by warranty unknown.^ WiUiam
de Caverswell, Michael de Morton, Richard de Ires (le Irish) of

» Vide fupra, Vol. IV. p. 281.
* • ' Wombridge Chartulary, TU. Tib-
briton, Noe. xiij. xiy.

* This charge of Sd. for HreUoard is
exoeptional. It would (per »e) indicate
a Manor of two hides.

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TIBBKBTON.

Dalileg, and Christiana de Dalileg^ have three hides^ and they do
ward at Wem Castle^ in time of war, with a horse, a hauberk, a
chapel de fer, and a lance at their own cost. And the Abbot of
Salop has in Tiberton one hide, viz. two virgates of land, in
almoign. Item John de Hales holds one hide, to wit, two virgates,
of the Fee of Wem, by service of doing ward at Wem, for one
month, with bow and arrows/'^

I have, under Dawley, marked some points in the descent of the
chief estate at Tibberton as shared by the coheirs of Pantulf of
Dawley. All I have to quote farther is relative to the share of the
second Michael de Morton. By Deed, dated at Morton on June 1 5^
1S04, Michael de Morton concedes to William son of William Hugh
of Tybritton and to Sibil his wife that messuage and half-vii^ate in
Tybritton which William Huwe and Alan de Cherleton had held for
their lives. A rent of 5«. and a heriot are reserved. Witnesses,
William de Caynton, Walter de Morton, William de Morton, Sdc.^

Shrewsbury Abbby Fee. At the Assizes of November 1236
Alice de Tibberton recovered by process of novel disseizin a virgate
in Tibberton from Robert de Aspele and Alice his wife. The De-
fendants had called the Abbot of Shrewsbury to warranty, but, on
their losing the land, the Abbot gave them 2^ merks, which they
acknowledge in a Deed, attested by Gilbert de Weston, Ralph
Marescall and Richard Meverel, Clerk.'

Possibly the successful litigant in this suit was identical with
Alice de Mumerville (MorviDe), whose grant of a virgate in Tibber-
ton to LilleshaU Abbey is recited in Henry III.'s confirmation of
1265.

Between the years 1283 and 1290 Ralph Abbot of LilleshaU
grants to Adam sumamed Gburleck, a virgate in Tybrigton, which
WiUiam Fitz Geoffirey sometime held. A rent of lOs. and a heriot
are reserved.*

I have no further evidence of any estate in Tibberton being re-
tained either by the Abbey of Shrewsbury or of LilleshaU : un-
less indeed in a Rent RoU of the fifteenth century Tibberton be
written Tylion. In that case Shrewsbury Abbey had rents of
17«. lOrf. issuing from the VUle.*

Some other Undertenancies in Tibberton I wiU notice in
order of date, without anticipating the question whether they be-

1 Rot, Hundred. 11. 56, 67.

2 HarL MS. (ut Bupra), fo. 6.
' Salop Chartulary, No. 80.

* LilleshaU Chartulary, fo. 132.
^ mst. Shrmotimry, II. 508.

TIBBERTON. 49

longed to the Fee of Pantulf of Dawley or to the Fee held in 1255
by John de Hales.

At the Forest Assize of 1 180^ Edric^ Huctred, and William, three
freeholders in Tibreton, were assessed 1$, each for pourpresture.
Cadiigan de Tybriton occurs as a Surety in 1226.

About the year 1245 Reginald de Hales enfeoffs William de
Morton (read Meston, i,e. Meeson) in two-thirds of a virgate in
Tibberton> being part of the free tenement which the Grantor had
in that Yill. The Grantor reserves all forinsec service, due on such
a quantity of land, and also a proportion of Castle-guard at Wem,
that is, the Tenant was to provide one serviens on foot, in time of
war, with bow and arrows for two-thirds of a week. The Grantor
further reserves an annual rent of 5«. 4d. and a similar sum for
Belief. For this the Grantee paid 3 merks. Witnesses, Hugh fitz
Robert, John de Hales, Adam fitz Pagan.^ The same Grantor,
whom I take to have been an Undertenant of John de Hales, seems
also to have enfeoffed Adam Garlec in one-third of a virgate, at a
rent of 2s, About the year 1266, —

The son of the above Grantee, calling himself " William son of
Reginald de Parva Hales,^' sold, for 4 merks, to James son of
William de Morton, the rent of bs, 44, which he was entitled to
receive from William de Morton (read Meston). Witnesses, Robert
de Wodecote, Jurdan de Fivelesdon, Hugh de Eton, William de
Mokeleston, Michael de Morton, Richard de Cherinton, Richard
Bernard, John de Parva. Hales, &c.

The same William son of Reginald sold to the same James the
rent of 2s, which he was entitled to receive from Adam Garlec,
Witnesses, Hugh de Eton, Michael de Morton, Richard Bernard of
Cherinton, Robert de Wodecote, &c.

About 1270-80, James son of William de Morton gave to Wom-
bridge Priory the above rents of 5«. 4d. and 2s., which he had pur*
chased from William fitz Reginald. For this the Canons of Wom-
bridge received him into their fraternity and into participation of all
benefits of their House for ever. Witnesses, Sir Odo de Hodnet,
Sir John fitz Hugh, Sir John de Ercalew.

By another Deed, probably of the same date, the same James
gives to the Priory the virgate itself which he had bought from
William son of Reginald de Halis. Witnesses (in addition to the
last), John fitz Aer, Master John de Cherleton, John de Appeleg,
John de Stevinton, &c.

' This and the Deeds which follow are from the Wombridge Chartulaiy, lU, Tibbriton.

VIII. 7

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50 TIBBERTON.

It would seem that Reginald de Hales's original right to enfeoff
William de Meston and Adam Oarlec was subject to some after-
question. However William de Morton (Meston) and Adam Ghur-
lec gave respectively 3 merks and one merk for quitclaims to one
nocate and one-third of half a virgate in Tibberton which they had
respectively purchased from Reginald de Haylis. These Quit-
claims bear date at Wellington on Nov. 8^ 1293. The Quitclaim-
ants are Richard de Trilwardyn^ John de Buldewas, and Richard
son of Thomas de Horton. Their Deeds are attested by Michael
de Morton^ Willjam de Eaynton^ WiUiam Rondolf of Newport^ and
William de Pixley.
^ William de Meston's tenure of § virgate descended to William

Mille, who on August 1, 1383^ gave it to Sir Henry Moday, Vicar
I of Leighton^ subject to the Wombridge rent of 5«. 4rf. On August

^j 27 y 1383^ Henry Moday transferred the same^ liable to the said

renty to Sir Bartholomew de Orenhull^ Chaplain.

Adam Oarlec's tenure of ^ virgate descended to Richard Garlec,
T who on October 21, 1383, gave it to Sir Bartholomew de Orenhull,

Chaplain, subject to the Wombridge rent of 2^.

Thus, on the whole, Wombridge Priory had the Seigneury, or
7s. 4id. rent from a vii^ate in Tibberton, of which Bartholomew de
Grenhull became the sole tenant.

In the Valor of 1534-6 the Wombridge receipts from Tibberton
are classed with those from Cherrington and Sherlow, as will appear
elsewhere.

It would have interfered with the sequence of the above Deeds to

have quoted in order of date a Fine of Trinity Term 1283, whereby

Robert de Tibberton enfeoffs Richard Byde in a messuage and half-

virgate in Tibberton, for an annual rent of 15rf.

^ Tibberton Chapel. Parochially Tibberton was a member of

Edgmond, and so its Chapel was a mere dependency of Edgmond
Church. The antiquity of this Chapel was however considerable,
for I take it that Drio, Priest of Tibberton, who attests a Deed be-
tween 1175 and 1180, was Chaplain here. There is no mention of
this Chapel or its Curates either in the early Diocesan Registers or
the Ecclesiastical Surveys.
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dutton.

This Maaor was held by Roger de Curcelle and is thus described
in Domesday. — '^ B(^r de Curcelle holds Sudtone of Earl Roger.
The Countess Grodeva held it (in Saxon times). Here are iiii hides,
geldable. In demesne there is one ox-team ; and ii Neat-herds &
IX Boors with i Radman have two teams ; and still there might be
IIII teams more here. Here is a Mill, rendering 8 measures of
com. The (annual) value (of the Manor) was and is 25«.'^^

The ancient division of the Hundreds of Recordine and Odenet
was, in this instance, the River Tern. Thus Sutton^ though it was
parochiaUy a member of Market Drayton, was not, like Market
Drayton, in Odenet Hundred, but in Recordine. The Mill noticed
in Domesday was probably on the Tern, a little North-East of Bun-
tingsdale.

Opposite to Sutton and North of the Tern was the Manor of
Little Drayton, also held by the Countess Godiva in Saxon times.
It was perhaps with reference to Little Drayton that Sutton or
South town was so called.

It is necessary to mark these particulars : for the once important
Manor of Sutton could hardly otherwise be identified with the modem
Township. The probable reason of its changed importance is to be
found in the fact of Roger de Corcelle's Manors passing to Pantulf
of Wem. These Barons were Seigneural Lords of Market Drayton
and were occasionally resident at their adjacent Manor of Tirley,
where they had a Castle. Sutton seems gradually to have lost its
distinct status as a Manor, and its four Domesday hides to have
been nearly absorbed by adjacent Manors. That which was recog-
nized as Sutton in 1284-5, was probably but a section of the original
territory. Whatever its extent, we have seen that it was part of
the great feoffment which Peter de Eyton then held under the
Barons of Wem.^ Of Sutton in any later or more distinct relation^
I cannot say a word.

BUNTINGSDALE.

This was originally a member of Sutton, but owing to the dis-

1 Ihmeiday, fo. 256, a, 2. | ' Sapra, p. 33.

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WATKBS UPTON.

raption of that Manor, it grew into a Manor of itself^ held imme-
diately under the Barons of Wem by Knighf s service.

Philip de Bontanesdene sat as a Juror on that Inquisition of
1220 which has been noticed under Dodicote.^ Alan de Buntanes-
dale occurs on a Chetwynd Inquest in April 1281. The Bradford
Tenure-BoU of 1285 mentions Buntansdale as a member of the
Barony of Wem. The said Alan held it by knighf s service, viz. by
service of half a knighfs-fee.

Thomas de Buntansdale occurs as a Juror in an Inquest of 1800*

CLIFF GRANGE.

This member of Sutton was anciently called Clive. Under that
name it was given by Ivo Pantulf and his son, Brice, to Combermere
Abbey,' and in the time of Henry II. Other particulars, involved
in the grant, will appear imder Wem.

About the year 1285 the Monks of Combermere increased their
estate here by purchasing firom Yvo Meverel, a Tenant of the Pan*
tulfs, all the land which the said Yvo had between Clive and Sutton.
The Monks gave in exchange to Yvo Meverel, half a virgate which
they had at Longford, near Moreton Say. The Deed of exchange
shdl be fully set forth under Longford.

On October 6, 1242, Simon Abbot of Combermere having ap-
parently impleaded Ralph le Butiler and his wife Matilda (Baroness
of Wem) for warranty of the " Manor of Clyve," a Fine was levied
at Westminster, whereby Balph and Matilda conceded the Abbof s
demand, and were made participators in the benefits of his House
for ever. The Abbot was to be responsible for all royal services due
on the land.

John de Clive, who occurs about 1270, was perhaps a Tenant
here under the Abbot of Combermere. The estate remained with
the Abbey till its Dissolution ; but the Valor of 1585 seems to in*
elude it with ChesthiU or Temhill.

WBsXtc% ^ton, or ^ton $arba.

This Manor is described in Domesday as follows. —

> Suprai p. 16. | ^Monatttcon, \ol V. p. 324.

WATERS UPTON. 58

<i

The same Roger (de Laci) holds Uptone (of the Ear])^ and
Seunard holds it of him. Gbmel held it (in Saxon times). Here
are iii hides. In demesne are ii ox-teams, and (there are) iiii
Neat-herds, iiii Villains, i Boor and i Badman with ii Teams, and
there might be ii other teams. Here is a Mill of I2s. Id. (annual
yalae) . In King Edward^s time the Manor was worth 40«. 4d. {per
amuim), and afterwards it was waste. Now it is worth 8O9. 2^d"^

My reason for treating here of the Becordin Manors which were
held by Boger de Laci is because this one was subsequently an^
nexed to the Barony of Pantulf. Conversely, we have seen that
two of Pantulf s Manors in South Shropshire (Middleton Higford
and Upper Ledwich) fell to the fief of De Laci.' I am far how-
ever firom thinking that there was any direct exchange between
Pantulf and De Laci, or that PantulPs gain of the seigneury of
Waters Upton was cotemporary with his surrender of certain
Manors in South Shropshire. It must be remembered, according
to what has been said under Ludlow, that, for a great part of the
interval between 1108 and 1155, De Lad's Barony was an Escheat,
and that Henry II.'s Charter to Hugh De Laci does not give or
restore Upton Parva. Again it must be remembered how, during
the later years of Henry I., Pagan fitz John seems to have had the
dominant interest in Laci's Fief. Now we are told that Pagan
fitz John gave '^ Uptune^' to Gilbert de Conedoure, in considera-
tion of the said Gilbert having resigned some Prebendal lands to
St. Alkmund's, of which lands Pagan fitz John had since obtained
reversionary possession.^ It is very probable, all things considered,
that Upton Parva was the Manor here spoken of, for it adjoined
l^bberton, which we know to have belonged to Gilbert de Cone-
doure, or at least to his son after him. If so. Pagan fitz John was
Seigneural Lord of Upton Parva at the close of Henry I.'s reign,
and Gilbert de Conedovre was his Tenant. That Seuuard, the
Domesday Tenant, should have ceased to be represented at Upton
is far firom surprising. Seuuard was probably a Saxon, or rather
one of those Freeholders of the Prse-Norman sera, whose few Domes*
day estates are never to be traced to their heirs.

How Pantulf obtained the Seigneury of Upton Parva, or how all
probable descendants of Gilbert de Conedoure disappeared firom the
tenancy, I will not surmise. The first fact is certain, viz. that Pan-
tulf did obtain the Seigneury ; the last fact is rendered probable by

1 Domuday^ fo. 256, b, I.
' Sup^^ VoL y. pp. 84^ 85.

» MonatHam, VH. 750, Num. XVI.
Vide supra, p. 47.

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analogy; for Gilbert de Conedonre's heirs disappeared also from
Tibberton ; and Pantulf enfeoffed a relation of his own there.
' This brings ns to the inquiry as to who became Pautulfs Feoffee
at Upton Parva?

Waltsb fitz John^ whom we have seen following Ivo Pantnlf^
then Baron of Wem, in the testing danse of a Charter/ was I be*
lieve the individnal in question. I further believe that it was he
who gave to this place its distinctive name of Walter^s Upton,
now corrupted into Waters Upton. The Deed alluded to passed
H about 1155-58> but^ as I have said under Great Lyth^^ Walter fitz

\ John was living in October 1200 and deceased in April 1201. By

^ his wife Richildis^ who predeceased him, Walter fitz John obtained

i, ,

an estate at Whittingdow, of which more shall be said hereafter.

I He left two children, Matilda wife of Herbert fitz Alan, aUas Her-

bert de Abacun, and a son and heir, —

WiLLiAH 7ITZ Walter, who occurs in 1200, 1201, and 1208,
in various relations,^ but not in connection with Upton. In the
last year he appears as a Knight. The Pipe-Boll of 1207 records
an amercement of half a merk against William fitz Walter. I think
that he was deceased in 1223, and that the following grant to
Haughmond Abbey was made late in his life. As William son of
Walter de Uptone he gave to that House a certain meadow in Up-
tone, called Longeiey bounded in one direction by a meadow bdong-
^ ing to Uptone Chapel. He also gave tithe of all tolls taken in

^ his Mill of Uptone. Witnesses, Baldwin de Hodenet, William de

Ercalew, Hugh Forester (of Solas probably), B^inald de Time,
Ralph son of Hugh de Seynton; Walter, Philip, and Nicholas, the
Grantor's sons, 8cc.^

Walter db Upton, son and heir of William fitz Walter, occurs
as a Witness as early as 1228. His position in 1226-7 has been

L j; noticed under Great Lyth and under Pulverbatch.^ The Pipe-Boll

of 1281 records an amercement of 5 merks against him for hunting
without license in the Forest. I suppose it to have been him who,

/^ af Walter de Hupiton, is recorded to have given a meadow of his

demesne, called Eilmersheia, to Wombridge Priory.^ The Feodary
of 1240 enters Walter de Hopton or Upton as holding a knight's-fee
j! in Hopton or Upton, of the Barons of Wem.^ The interest of the

family at Whittingslow would seem to have gone to his younger

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»•« 8up»,Vol».VILp.276; VI.p.28.
» VoLVI. pp.93, 241; VoLHI. p. 88.
« Harl. MS. 446. Quatern. XU. fo. 10.

* Supra, YoL YI. pp. 28, 196-6.

• MontuHeomy YI. 888.

' IMa de Nmnll^ pp. 45, 48.

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brother^ for a ootemporary Tenant-Boll give Nicholas de Optou
and liis Coparceners as holding half a fee under Cantilupe in that
Manor.^ It is evident, I think, that —

Nicholas de Upton, Walter's brother I presume, succeeded him
about this time at Waters Upton. CaUing himself '^ Nycholas de
Upton juxta Crugelton, he concedes to Haghmon Abbey, Longeye
meadow, which William son of Walter de Upton had before given.
He adds a piece of ground, five feet in width, between the said mea-
dow and his own land, to enable the Canons to make a boundary
ditch. Witnesses, Sir William de Hedleg, Hugh fitz Robert, Ma-
doc de Sutton, William de Time, Reginald de Time, William
Wiscard, William Crasset of Halecton (Haughton)."^

Nicholas de Upton was also a bene&ctor to Shrewsbury Abbey.
For the souls' health of himself and his wife he bequeaths together
with his body to that House, an annual rent of 5s., receivable from
Robert son of the Parson of Bolas and his heirs ; — ^the said rent to
be applied to the use of the Convent kitchen. He farther bequeaths
3 acres of his own demesne and the right of patronage of his Chapel
of Upton. Witnesses, Sir Hugh fitz Robert, Sir William de Erka-
lewe, Ralph de Crugelton, and John de Salop, Clerks.^

It is certain that the above Deeds passed between 1240 and 1248,
in which interval we therefore conclude Nicholas de Upton to have
died.* I cannot tell in what way Waters Upton now went to Co-
parceners, for it would appear that persons of the name of Upton
succeeded to Nicholas de Upton at Whittingslow. The following
Deeds, if I am right in dating them about 1250, show who Nicholas
de Upton^s immediate successors were at Waters Upton. —

1. Reginald de Hupton son of Reginald de Tyme and William
de Tyme son of William de Tyme confirm and ratify to Shrewsbury
Abbey the donation and concession which Nicholas, formerly Lord
of Hupton, had made, viz. the Advowson of Hupton Chapel in the
Parish of Erkelowe, with 3 acres of land in Hupton and 5«. annual
rent. Witnesses, Sir William de Erkelowe, knight ; Reginald de
Tyme j Richard de Tyme.^

2. Reginald son of Reginald de Tyme gives three acres in the
vill of Uptone to the same Abbey. Witnesses, — as the last, except

' HarL MS. (ut supra), fo. 11.

' Salop Ghartulary, No. 121.

* There is a Writ of August 18,1246,
showing that a Nicholas de Upton was
then dead, his chattels being forfeited

to the Grown, and he leaving a widow,
Juliana. {Rot. Fin, I. 442.) This affair
seems to have belonged to Worcestershire.
Possibly the names and dates have no
other relation than accidental coincidence.
^ Salop Chartulary, No. 118.

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that Sir William de Erkdowe is here called Sir William de Hed-
ley.i

8. William son of William de Tyme makes a likegraut in Time.
— Same witnesses.'

In the above Reginald fitz Reginald and William fitz William we
have clearly two Coparceners in Upton. They were probably Cousins
and had married two Sisters, in whose right one at least of them
was thus seized of property before his Other's death.^

It is dear that some one of the documents which should enable us
to trace the mode of this Coparcenery is erroneous. I suspect it to
be the Hundred-Boll of 1255^ which instead of Reginald fitz Reginald
gives William fitz Reginald as a Coparcener in Upton. I think that
Ranald fitz Reginald was living 16 years afterwards^ and that
William fitz Reginald was a fictitious personage.

The said Hundred-Roll says that Ralph le Botiler did suit to both
County and Hundred, through his Seneschal, for the whole of his
Barony except Upton and Eiton. It is further stated with regard to
Hopton (t.«. Upton) that, " William fitz Reginald held one moiety
of the Manor and William de Time the other moiety. They held it
by service of one ELnight at Wem, for 4sO days, at their own cost in
time of war.'' The wonted Suit of the Manor to County and Hundred
was deemed to be worth 2s. per antwm ; but it had been withdrawn
9 years before ;^ that is, I think, soon after Nicholas de Upton's
death.

Thei« was a William de Upton, Juror on a Rodington Inquest in
1274, and on a Withington Inquest in 1283. That he was the se-
cond of the Coparceners named in 1255 seems certain. In a Fiue
of July 1283 he is, I think, the person called William de Tyrne of
Opton, whose wife, here called Agatha, was evidently a Coheiress,
and had brought him some property at Eaton-upon-Tern. Before
this, William de Tytnele had obtained ingress into the Manor of
Upton; for, by a JBine of November 1272, Thomas de Honton,
having claimed, under a Writ of mart d'ancestre, a messuage, a
vii^ate, and 3«. rent, in Upton Water, against William de Tytnele
(Tenant thereof), renounced his said daim for 7 merks. The Brad-
ford Tenure-Roll {circa 1285) gives Upton as a member of the
Barony of Wem, and William Tyteley as holding the same by ser-
vice of one knight's-fee.

1 • ' Salop Chartulary, No8. 120, 122.
> An InquoBt of 124&I was attended by
B^g:ix]ald de Time, WUliam de Time^ and

Reginald de Upton. The third wa» ob-
yioualy son of the first.
* RU. Hundred. II. 58.

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THE CHURCH. 57

I have spoken of William de Titley already^ under Corselle. He
accounts as Sherifif of Shropshire for the year ending Michaelmas
1290, and thenceforward till about Midsummer 1295, when, he
being dead, his son, Thomas, takes up the current year's account as
his heir.^

Whatever it was, whether mesne-estate, or fee-simple, or both,
which William de Titley had obtained in Upton, it is clear from
the Assize- Boll of 1292, that the previous Coparcemers wei*e still
represented there. The Jurors of Bradford Hundred stated how
King Henry III. had sometime been seized of 2s, per annum for
the stretward and motfee of the vill of Upton Water ; — how the
said due had been withdrawn ; — and how the present tenants of the
Vill were profiting by the withdrawal. The said tenants were Wil-
liam de Upton and Agnes his wife, Bichard de Upton and Dionysia
his wife, and Adam de Upton and Emma his wife.

These persons, not appearing, were summoned to be at Lichfield
on January 27, 1293. How these Coparceners of 1292 represented
those of 1255, it is difficult to say. I suspect that Bichard de Up-
ton had been all along a coparcener in right of his wife Dionysia,
and that he was the person who attests the Deeds of 1250, and who
occors in 1271, as Bichard de Tyme. I further think that William
de Upton was identical with " William de Tyme son of William de
Tyme^' of 1250, with '^WiUiam de Time'' of 1255, and with
" William de Tyme of Opton " of 1283, His wife Agnes too, who
is so called in 1256 and 1292, must be identical with her who is
called Agatha in 1283.

The third Coheiress, Emma, I take to have been wife of Beginald
fitz Beginald from 1250 to 1271, secondly of William Bolace of
Eaton in 1283, and thirdly of Adam de Upton in 1292.

Some facts justifying at least a part of these surmises will appear
under Eaton and imder Tern.

I may name among Undertenants of this Manor, or perhaps ca-
dets of the family of Upton, the following. —

Peter de Upton attests a Pulverbatch Deed about 1190.* Ano-
ther Peter de Upton sat on a Lee-Cumbray Inquest in 1249,^ and
on an Inquest as to the value of Bradford Hundred in 1264.

THE CHURCH.

The Church of Waters Upton was originally a Chapel, founded

> Sheriffs of Shropshire, pp. 8, 9 (oop- I » Sapra, Vol. VI. p. 190.
recied from the Fipe-BollB). I ^ Snpra, Vol. VII. p. 343.

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in the Saxon Parish of High Ercall, and founded probably by the
Lades while yet they had the seigneury of the Manor. Under no
other supposition can I account for this Church being subject to a
Pension to the Priory of St. Guthlac at Hereford. This association
of ideas has already been explained.^

We have had mention of this Chapel about 1220, and have seen
its Advowson riven to Shrewsbury Abbey about 1245. The Abbey,
g be it observed, had already the patronage of the Mother Church at

; High Ercall.

ij The Church-Taxation of 1291 does not value this Chapel at all,

but gives St. Guthlac's Pension of 2s. as receivable therefrom.* In
-( 1341 the Chapelry of Upton Parva was assessed at ISs, to the

J Ninth. There had been a murrain among the sheep and a failure

'I of corn-crops.*

: In the Vahr of 1534-5 the Preferment of Roger Henson, Rector

^ of Upton Parva, is put at £4, chargeable with 2s. for procurations

and lOid. for synodals.'* It is remarkable that this Church should
1 have been reputed as in the Deanery of Newport, whilst the Mother-

I Church of High Ercall was in the Deanery of Shrewsbury. This

is a strong argument against the antiquity of the Ruri-decanal
I divisions of the Diocese, an argument which I shall be able to

i strengthen by other considerations in future chapters.

i EARLY INCUMBENTS.

, I Peter, Parson of Upton, was found dead in his bed, as reported

by the Bradford Jurors at the Assizes of 1256. He had been bu-
ried without View of the Coroner, an omission for which the Vills
of Upton, Crudgington, Rowton, and Cold-Hatton were answerable.
John lb Enpaunt, being dead on January 27, 1310, —
^ Master John db Bruneshope was instituted to Opton at pre-

I sentation of the Abbot and Convent of Salop; — who likewise pre-

sented in the following instances. —

Sir Robert Ridel resigning the Curative Chapel of Upton
Parva, on June 29, 1318,—

Sir John db Hatton, Chaplain, was admitted on July 14 fol-
lowing. He is probably that '^ John, Parson of Upton Waters,"
1 who occurs in 1345-6 as having been disseized of a considerable

I estate in High-Hatton.

, fd Sir John de Hodynet, Rector, dying on April 23, 1350, —

4

' Supra, Vol. II. p. 147. | ' Inquis. Nonarum, p. 192.

3 Pope Nioh. Taxation, p. 246, a. I * Valor EcclesiaHicus, III. 187.

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William db Walsche, Chaplain, was admitted on May 11, fol-
lowing. He died in 1882, when, on June 27, —

John son of Thomas Gbch, having the first tonsure, was insti-
tuted to this Free Chapel. He died in 1387, when on May 28,—

William db Bodenhubst, Priest, was admitted. He resigned
in 1889, and, on July 8 of that year,

Nicholas db Pbshalb was instituted.

Thomas Harlyno, being Hector of Upton Parva, died in 1428.

dtol^ upon Cent.

"The same Roger (de Laci) holds Stoche (of the Earl). Ed-
mund held it (in Saxon times). Here are vii hides. In demesne
there are iii ox-teams and vi Serfs and iii Female Serfs. There
are a Church, a Priest, xi Villains, iii Radmans, and i Frenchman,
with X teams, amongst them all ; and yet there might he iiii addi-
tional teams. Here is a Mill of 12«. (annual value), and a third
part of one league of wood. In King Edward^s time the Manor
was worth £&l^{per annunC), Afterwards it was waste. Now it is
worth £7.''^

The large value thus assigned by Domesday to Roger de Lacy's
great Manor of Stoke, included, as we are elsewhere told, his re-
ceipts from Hotune, a Berewick of half a hide in Odenet Himdred,
and his receipts from half a hide in Little Withyford.

I have said much under Stokesay, of that family of Say which
was so largely enfeoffed in the Shropshire Manors of De Lacy.' —

Theoporic db Say, the first of this family, was Lacy's Tenant at
Stoke upon Tern. This we know from his having made a grant to
Shrewsbury Abbey of land in this Manor and from the terms in
which that grant was confirmed by King Henry I. in 1121.' The
said Confirmation having described Hamo Peverel's grant of Wool-
erton to the Abbey proceeds as follows. — " Theodoric de Sai gave
certain land in his Manor of Stoca, near to the same vill (t. e.
Woolerton), but on the other side of the Rivef. He gave it out of

1 Domesday, fo. 256, b, 1.

2 Sapra, Vol. V. p. 30.

' Salop Chartulary, No. 86. The Gon-
firmatioDfl of Henry U. and Henry III.

describe the ritnation of Theodorio de
Say's grant in Stoke as in Burkulld, The
latter name b now lost, bat it will recur
to our notice under CheethilL

60 STOKE UPOK TERN.

his demesne^ iree and quit of all geld and other castoms.'' The
River here alluded to was The Tern, the land given was the estate
now known as Stoke Grange, and the date of Theodoric's gift, like
that of Hamo Peverel, was between 1108 and 1121.

It seems to have been Theodoric de Say who is mentioned only
by his Christian name in another afiair of Shrewsbury Abbey.
The Abbey had demised to one Elieth a hide of land, probably at
Woolerton or Stoke. On Elieth's death, his son Bainald surren-
dered this land to Abbot Godfrey, so frankly and entirely that the
Abbot ^ve him £10. 10s, in the presence of many witnesses, to
wit, in the presence of his (Rainald^s) Lord, Theodoric, by whose
good offices the above agreement had been brought about ; — also of
Hamo Peverel and Warin his Sewer, of William, a knight of the
aforesaid Theodoric, of William Cook, and of Meriet, and Weret,
servants of the Abbot.^ The date of this transaction was probably
between 1121 and 1127, and it is the last authentic notice which I
can adduce of Theodoric de Say. He has been erroneously repre-
sented as successor of Picot de Say, Baron of Clun (with whom he
had nothing to do hereditarily), as also a Grantor of land in Stoke-
say to Salop Abbey (whereas his grant to that House was in Stoke
upon Tern), and further as Ancestor of the Says of Richards Castle'
H (of which there is no existing evidence and no probability). Theo-

I doric was in fact only a Tenant under De Lacy, though a very con-

siderable one.

Heltas de Say (I.) (probably son and successor of Theodoric)
occurs, as we have seen under Stokesay, from 1138 to 1165, when
Stoke upon Tern undoubtedly constituted a part of the knightV
fees which the said Helias held under Hugh de Lacy. Before the
year 1172 Elyas de Say with consent of Hugh his son gave half a
hide in Hoppton to Haughmond Abbey, and was otherwise a bene-
factor to that House. The grant in Hoppton is certified in Pope
Alexander's Bull of 1172. The place alluded to was Hopton near
Hoduet, and the land given was undoubtedly that same half-hide
which Domesday had described, under the name of HotunCy as a
Berewick of Stoke upon Tern.
\ Hugh de Say, son and heir of Helias, occurs from 1174 to 1194.

The Shropshire Pipe-Roll of 1176 records against him an amerce-
ment of 5 merks, because one, for whose appearance he was bail,
was not forthcoming. In November 1194 Hugh de Say's name
appears on the Essoign -Bolls in a significant way. He had, it seems,

ill

Salop ChaHularr, No. 1. | ^ Ihngdales Baronage, I. 453.

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61

a dispute about some woodland with Folk de Ori or de AiU. The
dispute was evidently with his neighbour, Fulk d^Oiri of Childs Er-
call. William French and William fitz Simon were Attorneys in
the Suit.i

Hblias be Say (II.) > son and heir of Hugh de Say by his wife
Olympias, occurs from about 1195 till 1216 or after. The Fine,
whereby he settled the dower of his mother, bears date on September
26, 1199. Olympias first renounces all her claim in Sndstok (Stoke-
say), Nordstok (Stoke upon Tern), Morton (Moreton Say), and
other estates of her late husband. Helias in return commits to his
mother, the whole Manor of Nordestok, — ^to hold of him and his
heirs by the free service of 2s., in lieu of all, except forinsec, ser-
vices, and in the name of dower. Two-thirds of the Bosc called
La Haie are reserved by Helias ; but Olympias and her men were
to have easements in the whole of that Bosc. Also Olympias was
to have a fidl third part of the Bosc of Morton and of the pannage
receivable from both Boscs. Helias de Say died about the year
1222. Calling himself " son of Hugh de Say,^^ with the consent of
his heirs he grants to Haughmond Abbey together with his body,
for the souls' health of himself, his wife Avice, and all his relations,
a rent of one merk receivable yearly at Michaelmas, viz. 12«. 4d.
from the land of Blecheslee, held by William fitz Nicholas of Ble-
cheslee, and I2d. from land which Hugh de Stuche held. Wit-
nesses, Laurence and Walter, Priests of Stoke; Robert de Say;
Master Philip, Physician ; Baldwin de Hodnet and Odo his son ;
Sobert de Hespelee (Espley) ; William, Clerk of Hodnet ; William
fitz Denis, and many others.^

Another form of this Deed is attested by five of the same wit-
nesses differently arranged and described, viz. by Master Philip,
Parson ofMadelee; (William Griflin;) Walter, Chaplain of Stoke;
Bobert the Parson, brother of the Grantor; William fitz Denis;
and William Clerk of Hodnet.'

I have given under Stokesay an extract from Helias de Say's
WiU, translated. I here give the original extract ^ as written in a
coeval hand, and with all its peculiarities of expression. —

Hoc est testamenium Elye de Say de Stoke. Inprimis Deo am-
mam suam, et corpus suum Eccksie de Hagemon, et cum corpore sua

1 Hot. Cur. SeffU, pp. 122, 123.

^ The Original of this Deed is among
the Muniments of Richard Corbet, Esq.,
of Addcrley. The seal is of green wax,
with the effigy of a knight on horseback,

armed with s shield and drawn sword.
The Legend is Sioillitm Hxue db Sai.

' The Original (ibidem), similarly seal-
ed, but with white wax.

* The Original, at Adderley.

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I marcamper annum, scilicet xii sol. et iiii d. de W. filio Nicholai
de Blechelee et xii d. de terrd Hugonis de Stuche, et vi boves de
Suthstoke et i equwn, et apud Northstoke x summas de segle in terrd,
et X summas avene in horeo de Suthstoke.

Robert de Sat^ brother and heir of Heliaa^ was not, what the
above Charters seem to imply, and what I have inadvertently^ stated
him to have been, — ^a Clerk in H0I7 Orders. Helias de Say (II.)
left two brothers named Robert, one a Clerk, the other a knight,
and his heir. It was the knight who as " Robert de Say '^ con-
firmed to Hanghmond the donation which Heljras de Say his brother
made of a merk rent in Norstoke, with his body. Witnesses, Bald-
win de Hodnet; Stephen his brother; Vivian de Roshall; Thomas
I his son; William de Herchalew; Stephen de Pimbd; Philip de

Penintnn, &c.'

This confirmation, being of date about 1224, is followed by a
Patent of August 29, 1228, when it appears that the Abbot of Com-
bermere was suing Robert de Say for common-pasture in Stoke.

Walter be Sat, brother and heir of Robert, was succeeded, as
I have before shown, by his nephew, Hugh. The Fine by which,
I in 1250, Walter entail^ the two Stokes on Hugh, has also been

given,^ but there is an indorsement to that Fine, stating that Odo
de Hodenet apposed his claim in regard of 62 acres of land and
the Advowson of North-Stoke ; and that Hugh de Pecchesey, Rees,
and Egelina de Kungunde similarly apposed their claim. With
respect to Hugh de Say and his alienation of Stoke upon Tern to
John de Yerdon, the Bradford Hundred-Roll of 1256 speaks thus.
— '' Stoke with its appurtenances is four hides, and pays I611?. stret"
ward, and \^d. motfee, John Yerdon, Lord of the Yill, holds
Stok by exchange (with) Hugh de Say in Ireland ; and it is one
knighfs fee, of the Fee of Ludlow ; and it provides one knight,
with his charges, in time of war at Shrawardine Castle. And in
the same Fee, Hugh de Heton provides one horseman for 40 days
at Shrawardine Castle, at his own charges. And Stoke is geldable
and Heton (Eaton upon Tern) is geldable ; and they perform due
suit to County and Hundred.'^^ There is much to be explained
here. — The service to the once Royal Castle of Shrawardine must
have been laid upon Stoke during the forfeiture of De Lacy in the

» 8upn^ Vol. V. p. 82.

> The Original at Adderley. This Deed
ifl sealed with a Seal of green wax, smaller
and better executed tliau that of Helias
de Say (II.). The Seal is charged with

the usual derioe of the period, — a knight
on horseback, armed with a squaro hel-
met, &c.

» Supra, Vol. V. p. 83. *

« Bot. Mwndred. H. 56, 66.

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reigns of Henry I. and Stephen. Again^ when Stoke is said to be
" of the Fee of Ludlow/' nothing more is meant than that it was a
member of the Barony heretofore held by Lacy of Ludlow. John
de Yerdon was a Coheir of that Barony and already Seigneui'al
Lord of Stoke^ when he purchased the Tenant-interest of Hugh de
Say by an equivalent of lands in Ireland. The falling-off from
seven hides (the Domesday contents of Stoke) to four hides^ I can-
not explain. Perhaps the early conveyance of Stoke Grange to
Shrewsbury Abbey may account for part of the discrepancy.

The Inquest held on Nov. 7, 1274^ on the death of John de
Yerdon^ was^ as I have explained^ held at Stoke upon Tern, though
the Manor is described as Stokesay} John de Yerdon's interest
in the capital Manor was only £6. \2s, per annwn^ arising from 2
carucates of land^ a messuage and curtilage^ a Mill and diverse
rents. The Advowson of the Churchy worth 30 merks per annum
to its Incumbent^ was his also.^

The Feodaries of 1284-5 give a full list of the members of
Stoke upon Tem^ — called in one instance Stoke- Say, in the other
Sioke-Lacy. The members were Allerton (now OUerton), Eton,
Wystaneswyk, Stoke-Aubry, Wodehus, Heselschawe (Helshaw), Pe-
chesay (now Petsey), Morton Say, Stuche (Stych), Blecheley, Aide-
ley, Oldefeld, Hull, Waranshall, and Parrok (now Park) ." Theo-
bald de Yerdon held the whole, of the King in capite, as a member
of his Barony of Ludlow. At the Assizes of 1292 Theobald de
Yerdon's exerdse of Free- Warren in Stok was noticed by the
Bradford Jurors.

Theobald de Yerdon (I.) died at his Castle of Alveton on
Sunday, August 24, 1309 ; and was buried at Croxden Abbey on
Oct. 12, following. His eldest son John had died in Ireland, with-
out issue, on June 13^ 1297.

Theobald de Yekdon (II.) > who now succeeded to his Father,
had been knighted by King Edward on June 24, 1298, in which
year he came into England from Ireland. On July 29, 1302, he
had been married at Wigmore to Matilda daughter of Edmimd,
Lord Mortimer.

In the Nomina Villarum of March 1316, Theobald de Yerdon
stands as Lord of Stoke super Tyme. For the short but brilliant

1 Supra, YoL Y. p. 36, note 23.

'* InquigiUont, 2 Edw. L, No. 34.

' Of these, Moreton SajyStyche, Bletch-
ley, Audley Brow, Oldfields, and Warans-
hall were not original members of Stoke,

but constituted the Domesday Manor of
Moreton. It is easy to see how Moreton
and Stoke came to be thus rearranged.
Both were De Lacy's, and both were held
under Be Lacy by De Say.

64 STOEB UPON TERN.

career of tiaa great maa I refer elsewhere.^ Having served as
Chief Joatice and Lord Lieuteaant of Ireland, he died at Alveton
Castle on July 27, 1316, and waa buried at Croxden Abbey on
Sept. 19 following. The Inqueet on his death values the Manor of
Stoke upon Tern, at £9. 15«, lOrf.^er aanufn, out of which 13*. id.
was,payable to the Abbot of Haghmon and 5». to the Parson of
the Church of Stoke ; — leaving a net value of £6. 17«. 6d.'

In the division of the Verdon estates. Stoke npon Tern fell to
Elizabeth, second daughter of Theobald de Verdon (II.), by Ma^
tilda de Mortimer his first wife. The sidd Elizabeth was only ten
years of age at the time of her Father's death. H^ice an Es-
cheator's Roll of 19 Edw. II. (1325-6) gives Stok super Tym as In
ftuinu ReffU. But in 1328 it was allotted to the aforesaid Elizabeth,
then the wife of Bartholomew de Bui^hersh. In 1329 the said
Bartholomew had a grant of Free Warren in all his demesne lands
here. However there must have been subsequently a redistributioa
of the Verdon estates or else an exchange among the Coheirs, for
Stoke upon Tern is found soon afWwards in possession of Henry
Lord Ferrers of Groby, who died seized thereof in 1343. This
Henry Lord Ferrers had married Isabel fourth daughtOT and co-
heir of Theobald de Verdon (II.). The said Isabel's mother was
Elizabeth, daughter of Gilbert de Clare Earl of Gloucester (by the
Princess Joan of Acres), and widow of Kichard de Burgh, Earl of
Ulster. Elizabeth de Clare had become the second vrife of Theo-
bald de Verdon in February 1316, and the above Isabel, his poet-
bumoua daughter, seems to have been bora on March 21, 1317.
With the descendants of Heniy Lord Ferrers and the said Isabel, I
must now leave the Seigneury of the Manor of Stoke.

The only Undebtenant whom I shall name here, as associated
with the central Manor, was Elyas de Stoke who occurs on various
Jury-lists and Testing-chiuses &om 1253 to 1274. At the Assizes
of 1256 he was a Juror for Bradford Hundred, and shortly before
the year 1264 he was Bailiff of the said Hundred, forming it under
the Sheriff for a rent of 15 merks per annwn, whilst he is siud to
have realized only 8 merks himself.' He married, about the year
1263, Petronilla widow of Rc^;er de Leaton.* He was succeeded by
a son, Itobert.

EATON UPON TEBJJ.

This member of the Domesday Manor of Stoke lies more than

' IhydaW* Barouoffe, I. 474.
" Itigtiit. 10 Bdw. II., No. 71.

EATON UPON TERN. 65

three miles south of the central Manor. The earliest Feoffee here^
of whom I have any note^ was William, apparently a younger
son of the first Peter de Eyton of Eyton. In addition to what I
have said of this William under Eyton, I here give an abstract of the
Deed which connects him at once with Eaton upon Tern, and which
must have passed about 1223. — '' Sciant presenteSy ifc. ego WillieU
mu8 fiUu8 Petri de Eton dedi, SfC, Galfiido Griffin pro homagioy 6fc.
iotum pratum meum et terram, et totam moram meam qua vocatur
Sperkyhe super r^am de Tyme^ 8fC. Habendum, ^c. Reddendo
unum par albarum drotecharum, ^c. Hits testibus, Hugone filio
Roberii, Baldwino de Hodenet, WilUelmo de Hedley, WUlielmo de
Stantony Roberto de Day (probably Say), Waltero de Upton, Rn-
dulfo de Tyme, Reginaldo fratre ejus, Roberto de Kamyton (probably
Kaynton), Nicolao clerico et multis aliis/^^

Geoffirey Griffin, the Grantee in the above Deed, had a consider*
able interest in the neighbouring Manor of Cherrington, which in-
terest he bestowed upon Wombridge Priory with other benefactions.
Among the items thus granted was the '^meadow which he had
trom William de Eton/^ I find this WUUam de Eyton, with his
name so written, attesting a Wombridge Deed which must have
passed before 1224. In August 1226, as William de Eton, he ap-
pears as Surety for one Syward de Wythiford. At the same As-
sizes William Hodinet was adjudged to pay 5«. damages for having
unjustly disseized William de Ethon of a free tenement in Ethon.^
William de Hodnet, I should observe, was at this time Guardian of
his infant nephew, Odo son of Baldwin de Hodnet.^ We have
several subsequent hints of a Tenant-interest possessed by the Hod-
nets in Stoke, so that the above collision with William de Ethon
would seem not to be too arbitrarily assigned to the locality now
under notice. The Pipe- Boll of 1231 exhibits Hamo de Etun-juxta-
Boelwas as amerced 49. for some default. I must leave it a ques-
tion whether the William de Eton who occurs so frequently as a
Juror or Witness between the years 1242 and 1249 was of Eaton
upon Tern. I incline to think that William, Lord of Eyton, ne-
phew of William de Eaton, was the person who thus appears. My
reason is this. A Bolas Inquest and a Lee Cumbray Inquest, both
taken in the year 1249, were attended, the first by William de
Etun as Juror, the last by Hugh de Eyton. We are sure that
Hugh de Eyton was son and heir of William de Eaton, and Lord

* Wombridge Chartulary, Tit Eton
super Time, No. iij.

' Alibrev, PlacUorum, p. 103.
» Supra, Vol. VII. p. 56.

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• of Eaton upon Tern. His father therefore was probably dead at
this time, and his cotemporary Juror must needs have been his
Cousin, the Lord of Ey ton.

In 1255 we have seen on the clearest evidence that Hugh de
Heton was Lord of Eaton upon Tern. His service too for this
member of Stoke has been set forth.^ We have seen him attesting
Tibberton Deeds of the same period.* At the Assizes of 1256 he
was one of the Elizors for Bradford Hundred. In June 1260 he
occurs as a Juror in an Inquest at Sheriff Hales. At the Forest
Pleas of 1262, as Hugh de Eton, he appears as a Boarder of the
Wrekin Forest. The latest-dated mention of his name is in May
• j! 1264, when he was second of the Jurors who reported as to the

value and previous disposal of the King's Hundred of Bradford.

We are now in a condition to assign the date and to estimate the
relevance of the following Deed, it being remembered that Dodi-
cote, the next estate to Eaton, belonged to Combermere Abbey. —
" Hugo fitz William, Lord of Eton, gives to the Blessed Mary of
Cumbermere and to the Monks thereof, a piece of ground, near
their meadow of Plachay, sufficient to dry their hay upon, whenever
they should choose to mow the said meadow. He also gives them
the free and customary right of road, through his land, for carrying
the said hay. Witnesses, Master Robert de Stokes, William Kry-
nerant, Alexander Bosse, Richard Porter, Robert de Blunham.'''

This Deed probably passed between 1248 and 1270, but I can-
not trace anything further of the Tenant-in-fee at Eaton for some
years. I therefore revert for the present to notices of some minor
tenancies.

There was a Hugh de Bosco, Juror on a Bolas Inquest in 1249.
He was, I believe, of Eaton.

On October 27, 1262, Richard son of Dionysia de Lega and Ma-
f^ tilda his wife, acknowledge themselves, by Fine, to have given half

a virgate in Eton to John de Whethamsted, who is to hold the same
under the Lords of the Fee. For this, which was probably a mere
I sale, John paid 6^ merks. There is no reason to doubt that a se-

cond sale^ of another parcel of land by the same parties was cotem-
porary. In this case the purchaser was their own Suzerain. —
; 'j '' Richard de Lega of Eton, with assent of Matilda his wife, sells

and concedes to Sir John de Verdon, Lord of Stoke, the whole
moiety of a half-virgate in the vill of Eton which Hugh Clerk for-
merly held ; likewise a meadow called Croftmedewe, when a current

> - > Supns pp. 62, 49. I ' * ^ Charten at Adderley.

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term of 4 years should haye expired : — to hold of the Grantor and
his wife and their heirs at a rent of one halfpenny. For this John
de Yerdon paid 2 merks. Witnesses^ Robert de Heselsawe (Hel-
shaw)^ Henry de Pech (Petsey)^ Ely as de Stoke^ Hugh de Eton,
William fitz Gilbert of Wistaneswik, &c/'

Between the years 1270 and 1280 Thomas Corbet of Hadley was
in receipt of the glove-rent, due to the heirs or assigns of William
de Eaton, from the heirs or assigns of GeofiBrey Griffin, for that
meadow in Eaton which was now held by Wombridge Priory.
Thomas Corbet quit-claimed the said rent to Walter Prior of
Wombridge, in a Deed attested by Sir John de Ercalew, Sir John
fitz Hugh, Robert de Heselwawe (Helshaw), Hugh de Bolinhall,
Peter de Eyton, Adam de Preston and Ranulph le Bret. This
Deed further gives the Prior facilities for enclosing the said mea-
dow, and carrying the hay thereof through any adjoining land of
the Grantor.^ It is obvious I think that Thomas Corbet of Had-
ley was at this period Lord of Eaton and representative of William
de Eaton and his son Hugh ; but whether this position was Thomas
Corbet^s by purchase or by inheritance, and how he lost it, I cannot
say.

By a Pine of November 1272, Robert fitz Mabel and Margery
his wife acknowledge themselves to have given a virgate in Etone,
to William fitz Robert, who is to hold the same of Robert and Mar-
gery and the heirs of Margery by a rose-rent, and by performance
of all capital services. For this a sore sparrow-hawk was the osten-
sible consideration.

I take the above William fitz Robert to be identical with Wil-
liamfitz Robert of Eyton who in July 1274 sat upon a Longford
Liquest together with John de Bosco of Eyton. Who William de
Eyton, a higher Juror on the same Inquest, can have been I will
not attempt to decide. William fitz Robert of Eton occurs again
as a Juror at Hatton Hyneheath in 1300.

By a Fine of May 16, 1283, William Bolace of Eton and Emma
his wife, acknowledge themselves to have given two-thirds of half a
virgate in Eton to John fitz Adam of Derlaston and his wife Alina ;
— to hold to John and Alina and the heirs of John, under William
and Emma and the heirs of Emma, at a rose-rent and by perform-
ance of all capital services. Moreover William and Emma allowed
that the remaining third of the above half- virgate, being now held
by William Dun as the dower of his wife Margaret, and being of

* Wombridge Chartularf, TU, Eton super Time, No. ij.

68 STOKE UPON TBBN.

^ Emma's inlieritanoe^ should remain to John and Alina^ as part of
the present concession. William and Margaret Dun were present
and acknowledged their interest to be merely that of dower. For
this Fine John and Alina paid 12^ merks.

By another Fine of July 1, 1288, William de Tyme of Opton
and Agatha his wife^ ackno^edge themselves to have given to
Thomas Aleyn of Bode two-thirds of a messuage and half-vii^te
in Etonjuxta Bolewas, together with the reversion of anotiier thirds
now held by WOUam and Margaret Dun (as in the last Fine), and
II which would ordinarily revert to William and Agatha. A rose-rent

\ to William and Agatha and the heirs of Agatha is reserved, and all

^ capital services.

^ Emma and Agatha, named in the above Fines, were obviously

1 coheiresses of the deceased first husband of Margaret Dun.^

The Feodary of circa 1285, enumerates Eton among the mem-
bers of Stoke, and says further that William de Molventon held it
under Theobald de Yerdon. From William de Molventon the
mesne-lordship passed to William de Heselshawe (Helshaw), who
in the Inquest of 1317 is stated to hold half a knightVfee in Eton,
worth £4 per annum, and of the estate of Theobald de Verdon (II.)*
deceased.

Ollerton. Though this place is often mentioned as a member
of Stoke I have very scanty notices of its tenure, and one such
notice (presently to be mentioned) seems to associate it with Hop-
ton near Hodnet, or rather with that part of Hopton which was of
the Fee of Lacy.

Henry Moryce and Robert Forester of Alverton were reported
by the Bradford Jurors as not in due attendance at the Assizes of
1292. I suppose it was Robert Forester's son who occurs about
this time as " Elyas son of Robert le Wodeward of Alvertone." To
him did William Knotte of Alvertone give six seylions in the fields
' of Alvertone and half an acre of meadow, — charged with a penny

rent to the Lord of the Fee. Witnesses, William de Wistaneswyke,
Robert Elye (f . e. fitz Elyas) of Stoke, Henry de Pechesey, William
' Parker (Parcario), and Henry Morisse of Alvertone.*

The Inquisition of 1317, just now quoted, states that ''the
;1 Tenants of Alverton and Hopton held of Theobald de Verdon (de-

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' I think too that the said first huB-
band of Margaret Dun, whatever was his
name, was the person from whom the Co-
heirs of Waters Upton derived their title
to that Manor (vide supra, pp. 55, 56).

2 Charter at Adderloy. — [HolAirioiig,
Badelford, Crowmerosmers, Edemoifor-
long, Le Heweorles, the boundary towards
Peppelowe, and Hoverwothale, are looali-
ties named in this Deed.]

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ceased) half a knight's fee in Alverton and Hoptoo which was
worih QOs, per annum.^^ Who the Tenants alluded to were^ I can-
not say, but conjecture that the ootemporary Lords of Hodnet and
the Abbot of Haughmond were meant. We hare had several allu-
sions to some tenure of the Hodnets under the Lords of Stoke, and
I do not see why OUerton or Alverton may not be taken to have
been part of that tenure.

WooDHorsE. This member of Stoke adjoined OUerton. At the
Assizes of November 1221, Baldwin de Hodnet and Laurence de
Stoke, Chaplain, were found to have disseized William de Dounton
and his wife Emma of a tenement in Wudehus. Damages of one
merk were given ; but the misericordia of Laurence was pardoned,
on account of his holy office, and on condition of his saying thirty
masses for the soul of King John.^ Isabel de la Wodehouse, re-
ported as failing in attendance at the Assizes of 1292, was apparently
of this place.

Parrok, now Park, was a member of Stoke. Henry del Parrok
was a Juror on the Inquest taken in March 1317 as to the Fees of
Theobald de Yerdon, deceased.

Petset. This member of Stoke also gave name to a family
which held it. We have had notice above of Hugh de Pecchesey in
1250. Henry de Pechesey occurs in 1256-7, on a local Jury in
1284, and as a witness, later.

Helshaw. Robert de Helshaw, apparently Yerdon's tenant here,
occurs on jury Lists and Testing Clauses from 1258 till 1278. The
Westminster Plea-RoU of Easter Term 1271 exhibits Walter de
Hesekehawe as fining one merk pro licentid eonccrdandi with Robert
de HeselsehaSoe. Their Suit, which was conventional^ was settled by
Final Concord. Thereby Robert de Heselshawe, deforciant, acknow-
ledges himself to have given a messuage and a carucate in Hesel-
shawe to Walter de Heselshawe, Plaintiff. The latter restores the
premises to Robert, to hold for life at a rent of 20^., with remainder
to Walter, to hold of the Lords of the Fee. This remainder pro-
bably took effect between the years 1278 and 1285, for about the
latter period we are told that " Master Walter de Helshaw holds
the vill of Helshaw under Theobald de Yerdon.'' At the Assizes of
1292 the Bradford jurors presented Walter de Heselshawe as not in
due attendance.

William de Helshaw, who as we have seen, held Eaton upon
Tern in 1317, probably held Helshaw also.

^ Aatizesy 6 Hen. III., m. 3 dorao.

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1

I WiBTANSWicK. Of this member of Stoke the following Tenants

ocenr. Gilbert de Wistanswick appears on a Jnry-List in 1220.
William son of the said Gilbert^ has been named aboTe under the
date of 1262^ or thereabouts. He is called William de Wistanes-
1 1^ wick in Jury-Lists of 1274, 1800, and 1306.

T CHUECH OP ST. PETER AT STOKE UPON TERN.

. This Church existed at Domesday and was probably one of the

original Saxon Churches of the district.
I ' The next notice of this Church is implied in the Fine of 1250,

wherein we see that the Hodnets had some claim to the Advowson.^
Such a claim, however it arose, was settled by a second Fine on Octo-
ber 18, 1254. Thereby Odo de Hodeneth renounced all claim to the

i' Advowson of Northstokeshay, in favour of John de Verdoun, who

paid 10 merks for the concession. In 1274 we have seen that this

i Church was reputed to be worth 80 merks per annum. The Taxa-

I /ton of 1291 places it in the Deanery of Newport and describes it as

the Church ofStokesay, but only values it at 10 merks ;76r annum.^
On the death of Theobald de Verdon (II.) in 1316 the Advowson

I was found to have been his, and the same value of the Rectory was

returned by Inquest. The Assessors of the Ninth in 1341 quoted

I the Church Taxation of Stoke super Teym as 10 merks.' They

rated the Parish only at 8 merks, because 2 merks of the Taxation
arose &om glebe land and other Church profits, not computable
in the current assessment.
The Valor of 1584-5 gives the preferment of William Hille,

^ Clerk, Rector of Stoke upon Tym as £21 per annum (viz. Oiebe

land— £i, Com and Hay-Tithes— ^612, Wool and Lamb-Tithes—
£4. lOtf., Oblations and DecinuB private — j£3, and other small-

I tithes — 10«.) He paid 8tf. ^d. for Procurations, 6^. 8ii?. for Synodals,

•1 and 5«. for Procurations at Visitations.^

EARLY EECTORS.

i

Lattkence, Chaplain or Priest of Stoke and —
William, Priest of Stoke, who occur about 1221-2, were, I
imagine. Officiating Ministers or Chantry Priests rather than In-
cumbents of the Church.

Masteb Henry de Bray was instituted to this Church on March
24, 1804, at the presentation of Sir Theobald de Yerdon Senior.

> Supra, p. 62. l ' Inqmi$, Ntmantm^ p. 184.

s Pop9 Nich. TaaoHon, pp. 246, 248. | « Valor SeeUiiaHumt, in. 187.

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71

Sir Nicholas de Yebdoun^ Acolyte^ was instituted June 13^
1S07, Sir Theobald de Verdoun presenting him. On March 20,
1313, the Church fell vacant and on Oct. 4, 1313—

Sib Geoffbet de Thybneby, Chaplain, was instituted, at the
presentation of Sir Theobald de Yerdoun, knight. He died Sep-
tember 3,, 1357, and on the 6th of the same month —

BoGEB Banastbe, Clerk, was admitted, at the presentation of Sir
John de Lodelowe, knight.^ He died in 1367, when on March 23 —

Edmund de Stebbyng, Priest, was instituted at the presenta-
tion of Sir William de Ferrars, knight. He died in 1386, when on
February 27 —

BiCHABD DE HiTMBUBSTON whs instituted at the presentation of
Sir Henry de Ferrars, Lord of Groby. On April 30, 1394 —

Thomas Cobbet, Rector of Stoke, exchanged preferments with —

William Hamynet, Priest, late Vicar of Ercall. The King
was Patron of Stoke on this occasion. Hamynet died in 1413.

nittu mimatotti.

This was a divided Manor at Domesday. De Laci's share is thus
spoken of in that Record. —

''The same Roger (de Laci) holds Wideford (of the Earl), and
Robert (holds it) of him. Leuenod held it (in Saxon times). Here
is half a hide and half an ox-team ; and there might be an additional
half-team. The former value (of the estate) was 2s. {per annum) ;
now its value is included in the ferm of Stoche.''^

Little Withiford is not known to have had any other connec-
tion with Stoke upon Tern, than the mere coincidence that at
Domesday Roger de Laci was Seigneural Lord of both Manors.
Their subsequent history is very distinct. During the forfeiture of
the House of Lacy, and while this moiety of Little Withiford was
at the disposal of the Crown, it happened that the adjacent Manor
of Shawbury was in the Crown also. So Lacy's estate was annexed
to Shawbury, and was never afterwards restored to Lacy.

^ Sir John de Ludlow was heir of the
Hodnets, the andent claimantB of this
AdrowBon. This does not howerer in any

way account for his thus presenting to
Stoke upon Tern,
s Ihmetday^ fo. 266, b, 1.

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It is obsenrable that Robert^ Lacy's Domesday Tenant at Little
Withiford^ was also Gerard de Tomai's Tenant in Besford and in
part of Preston Brockhirst : and that Besford and part of Preston
Broctdiirst subsequently escheated to the Crown and became parcels
of Shawbury, as granted to Thomas de Erdington by King John.
The inference is that Robert or his successors were involved in the
forfeitures of Henry I.'s time or else that his tenure lapsed in
some other way to the Suzerain.

When King John granted Shawbnry cum pertinencUs to Thomas
de Erdington, Lacy's share of Little Withyford seems to have ac-
companied the grant as a matter of course.

In 1227, as we shall see under Shawbury, the Widow of Thomas
de Erdington, disposing of her dower in Shawbury and Besford^
disposed also of her dower in Little Withyford as part and parcel of
the same estate.

In or about the year 1285 Ivo de Sulton was holding half Little
Withiford, as a member of Shawbury. He held it under Matilda
widow of Henry de Erdington who then had Shawbury in dower.
I have nothing further to say of Laci's share of Little Withiford,
except what will be stated or implied in my general account of
Shawbury. As to Ivo de Sulton he will recur to us under another
locality.

I now revert to the other share of Little Withiford. This, toge-
ther with Withington, was held at Domesday under Earl Roger, by
Fulcuius. — '^ The same Fulcuius holds Wideford. Grodric held it
(in Saxon times) . Here is half a hide. The (arable) land is (enough)
for II ox-teams. Here is one team ; and it (the Manor) pays a ferm
of 3*. {per annum). In Eang Edward's time it was worth Ss.''^

I have already said who Fulcuius was,^ if indeed this Domesday
Lord was identical with Fulcovus Vicecomes, who was living at least
35 years after Domesday. We have seen that Fulcoius Vioecomes
had a son Henry, living in the latter part of Henry I.'s reign.
However it is clear that firom eventual failure of heirs, or some
other cause, the two Domesday estates of Fulcuius escheated to the
Crown, and that the Seigneury over both (with a slight reservation
ill one) was afterwards bestowed on Fitz Alan. It is further ap-
parent, as regards half Little Withiford, that Fitz Alan's tenant
there was that Hamo le Strange, who, as we have seen under Childs
Ercall, died in the first six years of Henry II.'s reign, without legiti-
mate issue. Whether the estate under notice then reverted to Fitz

1 Dometdayy fo. a69» a, 2. | - Supra, Vol. YII. p. 304.

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Alan, as Seigneural Lord, I cannot say, but Fitz Aer became Fitz
Alan's Tenant thereof, nor do I find any sure indication that Hamo
le Strange's heirs ever stood mediate between Fitz Alan and Fitz
Aer in the tenure of Little Withiford. At Great Withiford how-
ever, where Fitz Aer was also Tenant-in-fee, he held under Le
Strange of Knokyn, who held under Fitz Alan. This would hardly
establish the probability of a parallel scale of tenure in the case of
Little Withiford, for we do not know that Hamo le Strange was
ever Lord of Great Withiford ; consequently we do not know that
his right heirs, the Stranges of Knokyn, derived their mesne interest
in Great Withiford from him.

I take it that Reginald de Bughelton or de Bowelton, who in
1221 was Tenant in fee-simple of this estate, held it under Fitz
Aer. That however did not transpire in the proceedings which I
am about to detail. — At the Assizes of November 1221, Reginald
de Bughelton was sued for 2 virgates (equivalent to the Domesday
half-hide) in Little Withiford, by Stephen Walsh (Wallensis). The
said Stephen claimed as Nephew and heir of Hamo le Strange, and
under writ otmort d'ancestre. The formal questions were whether
Hamo Extraneus the Plaintiff's Unde {avunculus) had died, seized
in demesne of the said two virgates, and whether Stephen was his
heir. The first issue was decided by the Jury in the affirmative,
but there was a technical flaw, fatal to a suit of mort d^ancestre. It
was that Hamo le Strange had died three reigns previously, viz. in
the time of " Henry father of King Richard.'' The Plaintiff of
course took nothing and was pronounced in misericordid for a false
claim.^

It is much to be regretted by the genealogical inqiurer that the
Jury were not obliged to come to any finding on the question of
Stephen Walsh's heirship to Hamo le Strange \ for though I am
well satisfied that he was not his heir, I should rejoice to know how
he was related to him.

It would seem that Stephen Walsh renewed his action in some
other form. A suit concerning 2 virgates in Parva Wicford was
pending at Westminster in Michaelmas Term 1223, the Plaintiff
and Drfendaut being described as Stephen le Waleis and Reginald
fitz Reginald.

A Fine levied on October 13, 1224, shows that the new form of
procedure had^ been by grand assize. The result was that Stephen
Walsh (Plaintiff), acknowledged the right of Reginald de Reuulton

' AMiseSf 6 Hen. III., m. 4.
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(tenant) to two virgates in Parva Wyford : but Reginald and his
heirs were to bold under Stephen and his heirs at a rent of 38,, and
were to discharge all dues to the Chief- Lords of the Fee. Reginald
further paid 100«. down for this concession. It is evident therefore
that Stephen Walsh's claim to the tenancy was a substantial one.
The Pipe-Roll of 1225 records how Stephen Walensis owed one
merk to the Crown for license to accord with Beginald de Wiford.
At the Assizes of August 1226 Reginald de Parva Wideford appears
in a new cause^ and this time as Plaintiff. He got damages pf &8,
against Siward de Wydeford for disseizing him of a tenement in
Wydeford. By a Fine of May 18, 1242, Reginald de Wythiford,
Plaintiff, renounces all right to take estovers in Giles de Erdinton's
wood of Hemmesle, and all right of pesson for the swine of Regi-
nald himself^ or his men of Wythiford. For this quitclaim Er-
dinton paid 10 merks.

In 1256 I find Reginald de Withiford sitting on an Uppington
Jury. Before 1267 the person whom we may describe as Reginald
fitz Reginald de Rowlton or de Parva Withiford, was deceased^
leaving two sons and a daughter. Reginald, apparently the younger
son, was sued in August of that year by Sibil, the daughter, for
disseizing her of a messuage and half-virgate in Withiford. Regi-
nald pleaded that his Father, while living, had handed over the pre-
mises to himself, during pleasure, and for a sum of money, and that
on his Father's death he entered the premises, so that Sibil had
never been seized thereof. Sibil on the other baud affirmed herself
to have been in seizin for half a year after her Father's death. This
the Jury affirmed : and Reginald was amerced one merk for disseizin
and had to pay 36s, damages.

A Fine of April 7, 1269, introduces another son, I think the heir,
I of Reginald de Wythiford. William fitz Reginald de Wythiford

I was Plaintiff, and Reginald de Wythiford (his brother I presume)

* was Defendant in a suit of warranty concerning one virgate in Parva

. Wythiford. Reginald (by his Attorney, Roger de Preston) re-
nounced his claim, and William in return conceded the premises to
Reginald ; — to hold for life, at a rent of Id, payable to William, and
by performance of all capital services due from William and his
heirs. Reginald was bound not to alienate the premises : they were
to revert to William and his heirs. A mutilated indorsement of
this Fine gives another son or perhaps daughter, of Reginald fitz
Reginald de Wythiford as apposing his or her claim.
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the vill ofParva WythirUon, and adds that John fitz Aer held it of
Bichard fitz Alan^ who held it in capite. The Bradford Tenure-
Roll is nearly cotemporary and more explicit. It states that William
fitz Beginald held half Parva Whetheford under John fitz Aer^ who
held of Richard fitz Alan^ who held in capite.

The Inquisition^ taken 12 February, 1293, on the death of John
fitz Aer, contains a puzzling statement. It says that the deceased
had held 5*. rent in Parva Wythyford of the Pee of Robert de
Halcheton, A similar thing is stated in the Inquest taken in De-
cember 1313, on the death of Hugh fitz Aer. — ''The deceased had
held 5*. rent in Parva Wythyford under Thomas de Halghton (then
in ward to the King), and he had held it by service of receiving
the homage and service of a certain William Reynald." This is
tantamount to saying that Hugh fitz Aer was mesne-lord of a part
of Little Withiford, holding under De Haughton and over William
fitz Reginald. Singularly enough we have another and earlier in-
dication that the Haughtons had an interest in Little Withiford.^
I think however that in both instances there has been some confu-
sion between Little Withiford and Withington, the latter of which
was undoubtedly held by De Haughton. And as to Thomas de
Haughton's being in ward to the Crown so late as December 1313^
that I am nearly sure is inaccurate.

(BBitj^UtjIton.

This Manor is so associated with Little Withiford that T will not
separate them. Domesday says as follows. —

" Fulcuius holds Wientone of Earl Roger. Uluuin and Uluric
held it (in Saxon times) for two Manors. Here are two hides and
a half. The (arable) land is (enough) for iiii ox-teams. In demesne
there are ii ox-teams, and iiii Serfs and i Female Serf; and (there
are) iii Villains and i Boor with a team and half. In King Edward's
time the Manor was worth I5s, {per annum). Now it is worth 21^.
He (Fulcuius) found it waste."^

Thei fact that Fulcuius left no permanent successors and that his
jestates escheated to the Crown is made clear in the case of Withing-
ton ; for though the Seigneury of half the Manor was annexed to

Vide TeHa de NetiU, pp. 47, 49. | ' Domesday, fo. 259, a, 2.

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the Fief of Fitz Alan^ the other half wa» made a Seijeantry^ «id the
occupant thereof owed his service immediately to the King. But
thongh the Seigneoiy of the Manor became thus divided^ it hiqi-
pened that one Tenant held each moiety. The King's Tenants and
Fitz Alan's Tenants were those Haughtons, whose possessions and
history I have briefly sketched under Cleobury North.^

Roger fitz Henbt^ the earliest known representative of the
family^ occurs firom 1165 to 1190. Before the year 1172 he made
the following grant to Haughmond Abbey^ which supplies us with
the names of his wife and brother. — Notum sii omnibtu tarn presets
tibus quamjuturis me Rogerum filium Henrici et uxoremmeam Leii^
dam et meos heredes concesrisse et donasse Deo et Ecclerie Sancti
Johawnis EvangeUste de Haghmon molendinum fVithentunie, cum xi
acris et duobti9 pratis et cum omnibus perttnendis suis, inperpetuam

I elemosynam, et quondam piscariam que ad predictam villam pertinet,

ita Kbere et quiete sicut prescriptum est de molendino, pro atiimd
patris met et pro animd Philippi fratris met et pro animd matris et
uxoris mee et pro animabus omnium parentum nostrorum et benefac^
torum. Hits testibus, Siwart Presbitro, Edrico clerico}

Pope Alexander's Confirmation of 1172 describes the above grant
as that of Roger fitz Henry^ and as consisting of the Mill of Within-
ton and a Fishery on the Tern. It also confirms a meadow under
the Mill of Withenton which the Canons had acquired by purchase.

I It appears from the Pipe-Roll of 1182 that Roger fitz Henry^

though he had now been at least 17 years in possession of his estates,

I had hitherto escaped paying the Relief due to the Crown on the

succession of a Tenant by Serjeantry. He is accordingly charged
4Ds, " for his Relief and for concealing the same.'' He paid the
charge in this and the following year. He must have died about

< March 1190, for at Michaelmas 1190, Ralph Archdeacon of Here-

; ford, as Escheator for Shropshire, renders account of 8^. arising firom

Widinton, a recent escheat of half a year's standing. The Eschea-
tors for the years ending Michaelmas 1192 and Michaelmas 1103
render similar account of l&r. arising in each year, viz. ''for the
rent of Witinton which was Roger fitz Henry's, whose land is in the
King's hand together with the heir." The said heir came of age

( soon afterwards; for among the Nova Oblata proffered on King

Richard's return from Captivity, and registered in the Pipe-Roll

\ of 1194 is this one. — Tomas filius Rogeri reddit compotum de v

marcis pro habendo redditu 16 soUdorum et 1 nisi per annum de

» Supra, Vol. III. pp. 25-28. | « Haughmond Chartulary, fo. 281.

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terra de Widiion, quam tenet de Rege in eapUe per eerjanteriam in-
vemendi wwm mUitem ad conducendos Walenees de Powis ad Curiam
Regis, In thesauro Uberavit. Et qtUeius est.

Hence it would appear that the moiety of Withington which
Thomas fitz Roger held of the King was underlet for rents of 16^.
and a hawk.

His Sexje^ntry was to proyide a knight who should conduct the
Welshmen of Powis-land whenever they had to visit the English
Court. The great feudal position which> as I shall show elsewhere,
the Haughtons sometime occupied on the Shropshire Border, ren-
dered such a service appropriate.

In Easter Term 1201 I find Thomas fitz Roger on a jury of Staf-
fordshire Knights. In the same Term William fitz Robert and
Robert Scitte of Salop had each a Suit concerning lands against
Thomas fitz Roger. The latter is in one instance called Thomas de
Halton. Richard le Pannunter, Alan fitz Berenger, Reginald Nich
of Salop, Richard Saddoc and Richard de St. Edmund, appeared as
Essoignors of the two Plaintifib. In 1204, like other Tenants by
Serjeantry, Thomas fitz Roger was assessed to the fifth Scutage of
King John. He seems to have compounded for the same by pay-*
ment of one merk.

In 1211 we have a Roll of Shropshire Seijeantries with the foU
lowing entry. — '^Thomas filius Rogeri debet de servitio invenire
unum servientem peditem ad conducendos Wallenses de Powis ad
custwn domini Regis/^^ Here for the word custum I should pro-
pose to read Ouriam, The Testing clause of a Deed in the Salop
Chartulary exhibits Thomas de Halechton as Constable of Shrews-
bury Castle, but I find no other proof of his having held that
office. I have said under Cleobury North that he waa deceased
in 1240. He must have died long before, for in the summer of
1226 Robert de Halechton (his son) appears as Lord of the Staf-
fordshire Manor of Hull and as unjustly withholding the same
firom Robert son of Philip Noel, his rightful tenant.^ In the Pipe-
Roll of 1227 Robert de Halton is named as though he had held
some Escheatorship or Bailiwick in Shropshire. — He owed 7s,,
the value of the chattels of some outlaw. Patents of September
1285 and June 1237 name Robert de Haleghton and others as
Justices to try causes of novel disseizin. Another Patent of October
1237 names him and some of his former colleagues as JusticoB to
deliver the Oaols of Brug and Shrewsbury.

> TeHa de NevUl, p. 68. | « Abbrev. PlaeUorum, p. 108.

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The Feodary of 1240 gives Robert de Haletton as holding ith
of a knight's-fee in Withinton, Knitteleg^ and Parva-Wytheford, of
the Barony of Pitz Alan.^ His tenure of half Withington and of
Knightley (Staffordshire) under Fitz Alan is confirmed by numer-
ous documents ; but whether he had any mesne interest in Little
Withiford is a question which I have already discussed. In January

1254 Robert de Halecton would appear to have accompanied his
Suzerain^ Fitz Alan^ on foreign service. A Patent dated on the
same day (January 28) as that granted to Fitz Alan^ allows that
Robert de Halecton shall not be put on any Assize^ nor serve as Co-
roner^ Escheator^ Forester or Verderer against his will.^ In March

1255 he was appointed Receiver of all moneys arising from the sale
of timber in the King's Forests of Shropshire^ Staffordshire^ and
Worcestershire. The Bradford Hundred-Roll of 1255 says nothing
about Little Withiford, but treats of Withington very explicitly. —
'' Robert de Halhton holds the vill of Wythynton, half of John fitz
Alan, and half of the King, in capUe, by service of conducting the
Welsh to conferences {parliamenia) firom Shrewsbury Castle to
Moneford Bridge. The Manor is iii hides, geldable, and pays lOd.
per annum for motfee, and lOd. for stretward, and does due suit to
County and Hundred.''^ It is probable, that Robert de Haughton's
charge was to provide safe-conduct for Welsh embassies between
Montford-bridge and Shrewsbury, whether going to or returning
fix)m the English Court.

The above estimate of three hides is, I should observe, inconsis-
tent with the payment of lOd. for stretward and lOd. for motfee.
The latter would indicate a Manor of 2^ hides, the exact counter-
part of the Domesday Withington.

Of Sir John de Haughton, Robert's supposed successor, I find no
notice in connection with Withington. I am very doubtful about
the succession of the family at this period, and whether Agnes,
who occurs with her son Thomas in 1282, was really widow of Sir
John. I must leave the evidence as I find it : but that part of it
which has been given under Cleobury North is inconsistent with
the apparent fact that a Robert de Haughton was Lord of With-
ington in 1267. In September of that year I find that a Writ
was taken out by Thomas de Wythinton against Robert de Haston
for disseizing the said Thomas of common-pasture in Wythinton.*
Again, a Patent of January 10, 1269, appoints Robert de Halwton

> Testa de NeviU, pp. 47, 40. I ' Bot Mundred. H. 57.

> Supra» Vol. YII. p. 254. I < RoL liniwm, II. 518.

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as a Justice to deliver the Gaol of Brug. Lastly Agnes de Halin-
ton^ a Staffordshire Lady^ ivho in July 1270 fines half a merk for
a Writ of Pcmc, was widow of Robert de Halinton, not of Sir John,
as the account given under Cleobury North shows me to have once
supposed. That Thomas de Haughton, the next known successor
to Withington, was married in or before 1264 and died in 1282^ we
are quite sure. Also when we find that his mother's name was
Agnes I cannot doubt that his Father was Robert. How John and
Robert were related I cannot say, nor have I more than the single
Deed quoted under Cleobury North^ to show that one John was head
of this family about 1260-3.

Thomas de Haughton (II.), as he may be called, was deceased
before Nov. 25, 1282, when the Writ of Diem clausit announces
the fact. The Shropshire Inquest, taken on February 1, 1283, says
that the deceased had held nothing in capite in that county : and
indeed it appears that the Withington Serjeantry was ere this ex-
tinct, and that the whole Manor was held under Fitz Alan. The
service due thereon was half a knight's-fee, viz. to provide one
Esquire with a barbed horse &c., at Oswestry for 40 days. Agnes
mother of the deceased held part of the vill in dower. Cleobury
North, already noticed, and Longner, to be noticed hereafter, were
also Manors held by the deceased. In Staffordshire he had held
Offley and Schelbeden under the Lord Stafford, for a knight's-fee.
Knightley (which he held under Fitz Alan) was held under him by
Sir Robert de Knightley for one-fourth of a fee. He, conversely,
had held the hamlet of Hulle under Sir Robert de Knightley at a
rent of 5^. He had also held Tunstal and La Lee under the Bishop
of Chester for one-fourth of a fee.^

Robert de Haughton, son and heir of Thomas, though not 18
years of age at his Father's death, appears in the Feodaries of
1284-5 as holding Withington for half a knight's-fee under Richard
fitz Alan. At the Assizes of 1292 under the head De Valettis, Ro-
bert de Halenton was returned by the Bradford Jurors as holding a
Knight's-fee, and as not a Knight. His exercise of Free Warren
in Wythynton was also noticed. As Robert de Halghton and as
holding £20 of lands and rents, he was summoned from the County
of Salop to perform military service in parts beyond the seas ; and
to attend muster at London on July 7, 1297. On January 14,
1300, he was one of the Commissioners appointed to summon the
knights of Shropshire and Staffordshire for service against the

> Supra, Vol III. pp. 27, 28. | < InquUitions, 11 Kdw, I., No. 30.

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Scots. On June 24, 1301^ he was himself to be at Berwick-upon-
Tweed for the same object.^ The Inquest held at Withington on
his deaths in 1304^ I have already quoted.^ It states him to have
held a messuage and half-virgate there^ under the heir of Richard
fitz Alan^ by service of two appearances yearly at the Court of Up-
ton (Magna). It further states that he held 4 carucates in the
same vill, imder Philip Nugent^ in whose behalf he was bound to
do monthly suit at Salop County-Court, and suit every three weeks
to Bradford Hundred. This mesne-interest of Philip Nugent I
cannot reconcile with what has transpired above as to the tenure of
Withington : and yet it will be shown under Uckington that, a cen-
tury earlier^ a previous Philip Nugent had interests in this quarter.

Robert de Haughton's Fief in the Barony of Stafford is stated to
have been 2^ Fees in Haughton and Of9ey, and to have been worth
£40 per annum, Thomas de Haughton (III.)^ son and heir of
Robert, was 15 years of age on August 29, 1303. In the Nomina
Vittarum of 1316 he is entered as Lord of Whytinton and Cleo-
bury North ; and also of Maer and High Of9ey in Staffordshire.
In 1322 the armorial bearings of Sir Thomas de Haluton were en-
tered on the Roll of the Battle of Boroughbridge, but the Re-
cord is indistinct. Between 1322 and 1325 he occurs frequently
as a Commissioner of levies in Staffordshire ; and in 1326 he was
ordered to attend the Earl Warren then setting out for Guienne.^
I now return to take some notice of the — *

Undebtenants of Withington. At the Assizes of 1203 one
Roger de Withenton appeared to essoign the attendance of Philip
de Nugent. About 1284-6 Thomas de Haleton and Thomas de
Withinton appear as consecutive witnesses of a grant to Haugh-
mond Abbey. The first was perhaps of Haughton, near Haugh-
mond> Henry de Withington occiurs on an Uppington Inquest in
1246. I must quote very briefly some grants to Haughmond, but
which I have no means of dating with certainty. —

1. Thomas de Withinton gave to the Abbey all his part of the
meadow of Benerei. Witness, Osbem Chaplain of Lega.

2. Alice de Withinton, his widow, quit-claimed her third of the
same meadow. Witness, Thomas de Withenton her son.

8. Thomas called " Le Eyr '* of Withinton released all right in
that land in the field of Withinton called " Charite-buttes,'' with
all the adjacent moor. Witness, Sir John fitz Aer (1266-1292).

» Parliamentofy Writs, I. 664. I » Parliamentary Writs, IV. 966, 967.

» Supr% Vol. ni. p. 28. I * Vide rapn, VoL VI. p. 107.

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4. Thomas son of Thomas de Withenton confirmed his Father's
donation of Lechemedowe, together with the Charite-buttes and
the meadow and moor adjacent. Witness^ Thomas de Erleton.

To return ;— In Easter Term 1248 Robert de Whittenton had a
snit against the Abbot of Lilleshall concerning estovers. Thomas
de Withington has been named already as at issue with Robert de
Haughton in 1267. He, or another of the same name, was first
Juror on the Inquest of 1283, after the death of Thomas de Haugh-
ton. Thomas de Withington also occurs on Jury Lists or Testing
clauses in 1277, 1283, 1285, 1290, and 1292. I have ab-eady said
something of him under Pimley.^ On the whole, an important per-
son of this name may be said to occur from 1267 till 1318.

One Walter de Wythynton occurs on a Jury List in 1290. On
February 9, 1307, Nicholas le Sonde of Tyme and Agnes his wife
(Plaintiffs) quitclaim to Richard son of Richard de Wythinton
(Tenant) a messuage and half-virgate (less 6 acres) in Wythington,
whereof was suit-at-law. For this the Plaintiffs had 10 merks.

Haughmond Abbey Fee. I have two notes of the Abbey^s con-
tinued interest in Withington.

On August 2, 1340, Peter Cort of Withinton releases to the Abbey
all right in a meadow called Hertesbilet. Witness, John de Clone.

On May 3, 1477, the Abbot demises to William Onnyslowe of
Rodington, Gentleman, and Marione his wife, and the heirs of their
bodies^ the Mill of Withinton, called Liemulle, for ninety-nine years^
at a rent of 12s.

Withington Church. This has been already identified as a
Chapel of Upton Magna,^ but as existent at least as early as the
time of Bishop Durdent (1148-1159). The Advowson of course
belonged to Shrewsbury Abbey, but the Records which I usually
quote in respect of Parish Churches are altogether silent about the
Chapel of Withington.

Ci)eth)^l)i*

I HAVE given under Willey a full account of the Fief held by Turold
de Yerley at Domesday, and have stated that the Seigneury of most

» Supra, VoL VII. pp. 307, 308. | » Supra, Vol. VII. p. 264.

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of his Manors passed to Fitz Alan. Taiold had six Manors in Be-
cordine Hundred. Chetwynd is described in Domesday as follows. —
'' The same Turold hold Catewinde (of the Earl). The CountesB
Grodeva held it (in Saxon times). Here are iii hides^ geldable.
There is (arable) land for viii ox-teams. In demesne there are tii
teams; and vi Neat-herds^ ii Villains, and iii Boors, with i team.
Here is a Priest ; and a Mill, with two Fisheries, pays 6^. and 64
sticks of eels (annual rent). Here is a little wood. In King Ed-
ward^s time the Manor was worth 25^. (yearly) ; now it is worth
50*. He (Turold) found it waate.''^

This Manor became the caput of what was ordinarily known as
the Fee of Chetwynd, a term which included ten out of the thirteen
Domesday Manors of Turold. The said ten Manors were all held
imder Fitz Alan by the family of Chetwynd, but in some of them
the Chetwynds had their Undertenants or Feoffees. It is uncertain
at what period this augmentation of Fitz Alan^a Barony took place.
It was later than the compilation of 1166, known as the Liber
Niger : for no Feoffee in that Record can be identified with the
Lord of Chetwynd, whose military service to Fitz Alan was the
service of two knights^-fees. I take it then that the Lord of Chet-
. wynd, at the time of the Liber Niger, was a Tenant in capite, whose

f return is not preserved. His fealty and service was probably be-

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stowed on the second William fitz Alan by Henry II. or Richard I.
Adam be Chetwynd, the first Lord of Chetwynd whom I can
discover, occurs on the Forest-Roll of 1180 as compounding for a
pourpresture by payment of 8s, In June 1200 he occurs as Yisor
; in a case of Essoign, a business always at that time entrusted to

I knights. At the County Assizes of October 1203, Adam de Chet*

i wind essoigned his attendance at the cofnmon summons, his Essoign or

g being Nicholas Crasset.

I John de Chetwynd, son of Adam, probably succeeded his father

! befora 1210. We have had a hint to that effect,^ but at the same

time it is certain that he attested Charters as early as 1202-3, and
so in his father's lifetime. At all events he appears among the
Knights of Shropshire at the Assizes of November 1221, but his
J only concern was as a Juror in causes of Grand Assize. At the As-

I sizes of 1226 one William fitz Robert sued John de Chetwynd for

disseizing him of a free tenement in Chetwynd, viz. half a virgate
] which Adam de Chetwynd, father of John, had given to Robert fitz

Wonram,father of the Plaintiff, to hold in fee and inheritance at a rent

> Domesday, fo. 257, b, 2. | ' Supra, Vol. VII. p. 376.

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of 26d. per armum. John de Chetwynd allowed his Father's Charter,
but showed, that the Plaintiff's father had been a Villain and had been
redeemed from Serfdom by Adam de Chetwynd, but that the Plain-
tiff had been bom before such redemption. On this the Plaintiff
withdrew his suit, but being poor was excused amercement, and was
presented with 3 merks by John de Chetwynd, who further allowed
him complete manumission {ibit qtiocunque voJuerit) and acquitted
him of all serfdom (servitute). Of course the Plaintiff lost the
land.^ The Feodaries of 1240 agree in representing John de Chete-
wind as holding Chetewind and its appurtenances, for two knights'-
fees in the Barony of Fitz Alan.' In 1250 John de Chetewinde was
amerced 5 merks by Oeoffirey de Langley for venison-trespass, but
the King excused him by special writ. A Patent of August 22,
1251, exempts John de Chetewind from liability to serve on Assizes,
Juries, &c. A Charter dated at Windsor on Nov. 8, 1252, gives
John de Chetwynd Free Warren on his lands in Shropshire, Stafford-
shire, and Warwickshire. Chetwynd, Weston, and Howie are the
estates particularized.^ Another Patent of 1253 includes him among
those, whose estates were entitled to protection and immunity so
long as the owners should be serving the King in Oascony.

The Bradford Hundred-Roll of 1255 says as follows.— " The
Manor of Chetewynde is of the Barony of Sir John fitz Alan of
Whiteminster (Oswestry). And it is ix geldable hides, and one
whole knighf s-fee. And it pays Ss. per annum for motfee and 3s.
for streiward, and makes due suit to County and Hundred. And
John de Chetewinde holds the said Manor in capite of the said
John fitz Alan. And the said John de Chetewinde shall provide
three Mountorea at his own cost at White-minster.'^^ The different
estimates which we are constantly meeting with of the miUtary
service due on a particular tenure are perhaps to be reconciled. I
take it that when John de Chetwynd is said to hold under Fitz
Alan by service of one knight, it is forinsec service that is alluded
to, — the exact service which he as a knight had rendered in 1253
when he accompanied Fitz Alan to Grascony. When again his
service is described as two knights' -fees I conclude that he was as-
sessable in that proportion to the scutages and aids charged on his
Suzerain. Lastly the service of 8 Mountores, equivalent to 1^ fees,
was a different thing, not necessarily bearing any proportion to the
other kinds of liability. It was the amount of Castle-guard service,

^ Ahbrev, PlacUorum^ p. 104.
" Tetta de NevUl, pp. 44, 47, 49.

> Roi. Cart. 87 Hen. III., m. 8.
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reserved by a Suzerain, when he first enlboffed his Tenant, or agreed
upon subsequently.

The above extract from the Hundred-Boll requires explanation
on another point. When Chetwynd is said to be a Manor of nine
hides, it is taken to include at least the following Domesday Manors,
viz. Chetwynd proper — 8 hides, Pilson — 1 hide, Sambrook — 1|
hides, Howie — 2 hides, and Bearstone — 1 hide. How the remain-
ing half-hide was supplied I cannot say.

John de Chetwynd's appearance at the Assizes of 1256 as Mesne-
Lord of WiUey has already been noticed.^ On the same occasion
he impleaded Jaipes de Audley, Adam Provost of Edgemond, and
many others, for disseizing him of 100 acres of heath in Chetwynd.
The question was one of boundary. Audley denied that the pre-
mises were in Chetwynd, and maintained that even if they were, he
had not disseized the Plaintiff, for his own Father, Henry de Audley,
had died seized of the premises as appurtenant to his Manor of
Edgemond.'

I suppose that about this time there was a change in this suc-
cession, and that one John de Chetwynd was succeeded by a son
and heir of the same name. At all events we may safely conclude
that it was —

John be Chetwynd (II.) who in April 1268 was serving with
John fitz Alan in Wales.^ About the same time I find Sir John
and Sir Philip de Chetwynd attesting a Charter of Bobert Earl
Ferrers. The eventual son and heir of John de Chetwynd was, as
we shall see, bom about 1264-5, — another proof that the John of
that date was a young man. It was this Sir John de Chetwynd
who, with Philip de Chetwynd and others, was commissioned to de-
liver the Gaol of Brug in July 1269, and whom we have seen attest-
ing a Lilleshall Charter about 1272''7,^ and who is followed by Sir
Philip his Brother in a Staffordshire Deed of the same period.^ I
should here say a word about a matter which has been stated with
some inaccuracy by other authors. —

Sib Philip de Chetwynd, though a younger son, had acquired
a great property in Staffordshire by marrying Isabella the heiress of
the Muttons. He was in fact ancestor of the Chetwynds of Inges-
tre, Gratwich, and Mutton, now represented by the Earl of Shrews-
bury. The following dates may be of use. Balph de Mutton, whose

' Supra, Vol. II. p. 57.

3 Asnzetf 40 Hen. III., m. 5 dono.

» Supra, Vol. VII. p. 255.

< Supra, Vol. III. p. 19, note 39.
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Buter Isabella became his heir, was deceased in 1241. Philip de
Chetwynd, Isabella's husband, was deceased in 1286, and Isabella
herself died in 1291, when on March 1, the King as Guardian of the
young Lord Staflford, accepted the fealty of Philip her son and heir.

But there was another cotemporary of Sir John and Sir Philip
de Chetwynd, possibly their brother, whom I must now notice.

This was —

Adam de Chetwynd, of whom I have some memoranda con-
veying the idea that he was a very wealthy man. At the Assizes
of October 1272, Robert de Mimford (Lord of Idsall, I presume)
acknowledged before the Justices, a debt of 50 merks to Adam de
Chetewynd. Thomas Corbet of Tasley acknowledged a debt of 100^.,
and Balph le Bolyter (of Wem) a debt of £10. Ss. to the same.
Bolyter's securities were Peter de Eyton, Thomas de EUerton,
Robert de Helshaw, Elyas de Stoke, and Robert de Ford. Adam
de Chetwynd was also Creditor of Thomas Botterel in one merk, of
John de Lee in one merk, of John deErkalu in 86a., and of Robert
de Staunton in 18«.

In March 1274 I find Adam de Chetewinde acting as the Eing^s
Escheator in Cheshire and North Shropshire.

On October 24, 1276, King Edward appoints Adam de Chete-
winde to assess the current tax of the Ftfteenth in Gloucestershire.
On the Pipe-Roll of 1278 Adam de Chetwind is charged 100 merks
which he had received three years before from' Reginald de Orey;
— probably in trast for the King. A Writ of March 12, 1279, ap-
points Adam de Chetwynd a Commissioner to inquire into the
conduct of the Sheriff of Shropshire and Staffordshire in distrain-
ing persons to take the degree of Knighthood, and, in case the
Sheriff had been negligent, to enforce the King's orders on the sub-
ject with strictness.

John de Chetwynd (U.) to whom I now recur, is stated by
Dugdale to have had a grant of rents in Baxterley (Warwickshire)
from his kinsman, John son of William Lovel. Dugdale places
this early in Edward I.'s reign, and with great probability, for John
de Chetwynd was deceased before February 13, 1281. There were
several Inquests on his death. The first was held pursuant to a
Writ of Diem clausit dated Feb. 13, 1281, which Writ shows that
the King's interference arose as having the wardship of John de
Chetwynd's Suzerain, young Richard fitz Alan. The Shropshire
Inquest states that the deceased had held Chetwind and its appur-
tenances for 2 knights' -feeis, of the Barony of Fitz Alan. Barkis-

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'i ford^ ConiBhill, Stockton^ and Howie are considered members of

Chetwynd. There was a Park here. The Advowson of the Church
was valued at 20^., the Incumbency at 20 merks per anman. The
whole of Chetwynd^ thus extended, was estimated to yield the
goodly sum of £32 per annum to its Lord.

The StafiTordshire Inquest states John de Chetwind to have held

the Manor of Weston, by service of one lesser fee of Morteyn, under

Robert de Staundon, who held under the Barons Stafford. A War-

'I wickshire Inquest states him to have held certain rents in Baxter-

. ley, under Richard de Haroourt, by service of lib. of pepper.^ This

■ ' Inquest, taken in July 1281, states Philip to be son and heir of

,4 John de Chetwind and to be 18 years of age. All the other In-

'* quests make Reginald to be the name of the heir and agree in stat-

1 ing him to be 16 years of age, but vary as to his birthday having

been Oct. 9, 1264, or Feb. 22, 1265.*

Before I discuss these discrepancies I will notice some other do-
cuments, which, although they somewhat encumber the narration^
are of intrinsic importance. —

On December 28, 1282, King Edward I., then at Rhuddlan, had
received a complaint from Eva de Oswaldestre to the effect that she^
having had custody of certain Manors by gift of Adam de Chete-
wynde, had been deprived thereof upon Adam's death, the Manors
having been seized into the King's hand. The King now orders
the Sheriff of Salop and Staffordshire to inquire into this matter,
and meantime to keep custody of the Manors, allowing Eva a com-
petent sustenance out of the proceeds thereof. An Inquest held at
Stafford on January 9, 1283, found that by gift of Adam de Chet-
wynd and long before his death, Eva had had custody of the Manors
of Tixhall, Ypstanes, Weston, and Chetwynd, and that, since Adam's
death, Eva had retained the said custody, till the Sheriff had seized
it for the Crown. Similarly it was found that the Sheriff had con-
fiscated the Manor of Hartwell, of which John son of Adam de
Chetwynd had been seized from the day on which he had been en-
feoffed thereof by John fitz Philip, till the day of the said seizure
by the Sheriff.*

Now we have seen Adam de Chetewinde attesting a Deed of
John fitz Philip of Bobbington, which I ventured to date between
1270 and 1280.^ The feoffment of Adam de Chetwynd's son must
belong to the same interval. But what is more to our present pur-

1 DugdaWs Warvoickskirey p. 1064.
3 InquititionM, 9 Sdw. I.» No. 6.

3 InquisUtonty 11 Edw. I., No. 80.
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pose is the apparent certainty that, on John de Chetwynd's death
in 1281, Adam de Chetwynd must have obtained custody of his
estates, yiz. Chetwynd and Weston-joxta-Standon. As to Tixall
and Ipstones they too were probably acquired by purchase of some
other wardship. Adam de Chetwynd at once conveys these acqui-
sitions to Eva de Oswaldistre, but djdng within two years, the
Sheriff seizes upon the estate of his son and the wardships of his
Assignee, as though he had been a Tenant in capite, and had died
seized of the whole.

A Writ of January 16, 1283, orders that restitution be made to
Eva de Oswaldestre,^ and that Adam de Chetwynd^s credits and
debts with the Crown should be put in a proper course of settle-
ment.

I now pass to the Feodaries of 1284-5, because they exhibit the
three branches of Chetwynds much in the position which the fore-
going ailments would lead us to expect. At this time —

John son of Adam de Chetwynd was Mesne Lord of Hilderston
(Staffordshire), that is, he was in possession of an estate, though not
the particular estate before noticed. Again — Philip de Chetwynd
was Lord of Mutton and Ingestre, and Mesne-lord of Salt, all in
Staffordshire. Lastly — Reginald de Chetwynd was Lord of Weston-
juxta-Standon in Staffordshire, and of Chetwynd in Shropshire.
The latter Manor is noticed as follows. — " Reginald de Chetwind
holds the Manor of Chetwind with its members, viz. Stocton, Pyne-
lesdon, Ethelarton (EUerton), Sambrok, Bardeston, Howeleye
(Howie), and half the vill of Pykesleye (Pixley), under Richard fitz
Alan, by service of two knights'-fees ; and he (Fitz Alan) holds of
the King, in capite, and the Manor is geldable.'^'

' It is a onrious question who this Eva
de Oswaldestre may haye been. Perhaps
the following is a due to the mystery. —
The Fitz-Warin Chronicle teUs ns of an
£Ta fits Warin who after the death of
Joan, Princess of North Wales, became
second wife of Lhewelyn ap Jorweth. Af-
ter Lhewelyn's death (which we know to
haye happened in April 1240), Era, who
had only been his wife a year and a half,
remarried. Her second husband, says the
Chronicle, was the " Sire de Blanc Mos-
tiers," a knight of great breeding, coura-
geous and bold.

Supposing E?a de Oswaldistre and Era

de Blancminster to haye been one person,
we conclude her to haye been in her se-
cond widowhood in 1282. The difficulty,
which remains, is, — to identify her second
husband, the ** Sire de Blanc Mostiers."
We should expect to find some head of
the house of Fitz Alan leaying a widow
Eya between 1240 and 1282, but we know
from eyidence already giyen (YoL YII. p.
228) that such was not the case.

2 Bradford Tenure-Boll (pmet met),
compared with Kirhey's QuMt, The
former document writes the names Bregi-
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After this we suddenly and nnaooountably find a third John de
Chetwynd as Lord of Chetwynd.

John de Chetwynd (III.) was presented by the Bradford Jurors
at the Assizes of October 1292> as claiming rights of Free- Warren
in Chetwynd. An Inquest^ taken in 1293^ states that a quarter of a
fee in Baxterley was held of Richard de Haroourt, deceased^ by the
heir of John de Chetwind^ a proof I think that John de Chetwynd
(III.) had not long been in possession. Again^ an Inquest of the
year 1300^ already quoted^ names John de Chetwynd as then
Mesne-Lord of Evelith. On June 30, 1314, John de Chetwinde
was included in a military summons against the Scots. In the
Nomina ViUarum of March 1316, he is returned as Lord of Chete-
wind. On June 27, 1318, Sir John de Chetewynde, Knight, pre-
sented Reginald de Chetwynde, an Aeoljrte, to Chetwynde Church.
On July 17, 1318, John de Chetwind obtained the Kii^s Charter
empowering him to hold a weekly Market, on Tuesdays, at Chet-
wind, and a yearly Fair on the vigil, day, and morrow of All
Sjdnts (Oct. 31, Nov. 1 and 2) } The Arms of Sir John Chede-
wynt appear on the Boll of the Battle of Boroughbridge (March
1322). They were Azure, a Chevron between three Mullets or. I
suppose that he was on the Rebel side. Nevertheless he attests a
Deed at Shrewsbury on April 25th following^ and he was sum-
moned to attend a general Council to be holden at Westminster on
May 30, 1324. In that and the two following years several Writs
were addressed to him as a Commissioner of array in Cheshire,
Shropshire, and Staffordshire.' On January 3, 1326, the Bishop
of Lichfield gives license of non-residence till August 1, to Regi-
nald de Chetwynd, Rector of Chetwynd, that he might be in per-
sonal attendance on Sir John de Chetwynd. On March 1, 1326,
we have seen that Sir John de Chetewinde was at Clun in company
with his Suzerain, Edmund Earl of Arundel.^

I may conclude this part of my subject with stating that John
de Chetwynd (III.) was living in 1351, but that his eldest son, Re-
ginald, was deceased seven years previously. The said Reginald
left an only daughter, Joan. This Lady took the great inheritance
of the Chetwynds to her husband Richard son of Adam de Peshale,

between the second letters of each name, mity of Shropshire. It was held by Turold

Hence I have inadyertently read the name at Domesdatf, Supra, Vol. II. p. 308.
as Boger in one instance (Vol. II. p. 807). ^ SoL Cart, 12 Edw. II., No. 91.

Bardeston is named as a member of Chet- ' Supra, Vol. YI. p. 65.

wind, only in Kirbey's Quest. It is Bear- > Parliamentary WrUs, IV. 668, 669.

stone, a place at the North-Eastem extre- * Supra, Vol. VII. p. 267.

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and transmitted it to her descendants by him. The Lady Joan
must have lived to a great age^ and after Sir Richard Peshale's
death she was twice if not thrice remarried.

There may be a doubt whether William Slepe^ who occurs in
1397-8^ with some appearance of being Joan's husband^ was really
so : but certainly she was the wife of Robert de Hey wode in 1404
and of Robert Tiptoft in 1409-10.

Of Undertenants in Chetwynd proper^ I shall only name
Thomas fitz Eustace of Chetwynd who occurs on a local Jury in
1283.

CHETWYND CHURCH.

This Church existed at Domesday , if we may take the mention of
a resident Priest^ in that Record^ as an indication of such a fact.
Its proximity to the now important Church of Newport, the Caput
of a Deanery, is no disproof of the greater antiquity of Chetwynd
Church, for Newport was non-existent at Domesday, We have seen
Chetwynd Church valued by a Jury in 1281 at 20 merks (£13. 6«.
8^.) per annum. The Taxation of 1291 lowers it to £4. 13«. Ad.,
placing it in the Deanery of Newport {Novum Burgum)} In 1341
the Assessors of the Ninth rightly quoted the Church-Taxation of
Chetevrynd as 7 merks. They deducted from this two merks, being
the average value of the glebe and bay-tithes; — things which were
not computable in ascertaining the value of the wheat, wool and
lamb of the Parish. The latter were accordingly rated at 5 merks.*

The Valor of 1534-5 gives the preferment of Ralph Grene, Rec-
tor of Chetwynd, as £W per annum^ less Zs, lOd. for Synodals and
Procurations.'

EAELY INCUMBENTS.

William, Parson of Chetwynd, occurs in October 1272. * Petro-
niUa widow of Robert Day had a writ de ingressu against him, but
£Euled to prosecute. The same Incumbent appears as W. Parson of
Chetwynd in a Deed, which I shall set forth elsewhere.

Master John de Uphavene, Rector of Chetwynd, died May 2,

1318, and on June 27 following —

Reginald de Chetewynd, Acolyte, was instituted at presenta-
tion of Sir John de Chetewynd, Knight. This Rector occurs in

1319, 1326, and 1343. On January 13, 1351, he exchanged Liv-
ings with —

1 Pope Nioh. Taxatum, pp. 245, 248. * Volar JScclesiasiicua, III. 186.

^ Ifuiuis, NofuuTHm, p. 185.

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Master John de Dounton, Chaplain^ late Incambent of Ky-
nardeseye (Kynnersley). Sir John de Chetwynd was still Patron
' of Chetwynd.

William Elys or Elkynne^ Priest^ was presented by Sir Richard
i de Peshale, Knight^ in January 1363^ and resigned in 1365^ when,

on April 25, —
■I Reginald be Caynton, Priest, was instituted. Same Patron.

On January 7, 1389, the Rector being dead, —

William de Rodenhukst, Priest, was instituted at the presen-
j tation of Johanne Lady of Chetwind. On May 27, 1391, this

Rector exchanged preferments with —

William Schevyndon, late Rector of Donyton.
John Sheynton^ as he is afterwards called, exchanges on Sept.
19, 1393, with—

William Cowper, Priest, late Rector of Moxley, who is pre-
sented to Chetwynd by Johanna, Relict of Richard Pesshale,
knight. On August 3, 1401, Cowper exchanged preferments with —
Richard Walleford, late Vicar of the Prebendal Church of
f Eccleshall. This Rector would seem to be identical with —

Sir Richard Oardeyn, Rector of Chetwynd, who has a license
of non-residence on Feb. 1, 1403.
j Walleford died in 1404, when on August 20, —

Sir William fitz John, Chaplain, was presented by Robert
' Heywode, entitled Domicellus.

I shall now notice such members of Chetwynd as may be taken
' to have been constituents of the Domesday Manor. Other vills,

though reputed in later times to be members of Chetwynd, were
I distinct Manors in Domesday and must so be treated.

Stockton, though now associated manorially with Woodcote, and
though in the Parish of Longford, was once a member of Chetwynd.
In 1201 there was an Agnes de Stocton alleging herself to be sister
of, and coheir with, Eva the heiress of Longford. Agnes' husband
had perhaps been Chetwynd's Tenant here, but nothing in Stockton
was disputed between the alleged Sisters.

In 1281, 4\ virgates in Stocton are enumerated among the
adjuncts of Chetwynd, held in demesne by John de Chetwynd de-
ceased. There was a Robert de Stocton, doubtless Chetwynds
Feoffee here, who appears as a Juryman on neighbouring Inquests
in 1281, 1283, and 1294.

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Babkisfobd seems to be lost. The Inquest of 1281 says that
Robert de Chetilton paid lOa, rent for Barkiaford and ConishiU.
members of Chetwynd.

CoNiSHiLL. This member of Chetwynd abeady named^ is now
lost. The first Adam de Chetwynd gave to Lilleshall Abbey an
annual rent of 10s. receivable from the Yill of Blacford and Cones-
hill^ and this grant was specified in Henry III.'s Confirmation to
LilleshaU, dated Nov. 29, 1265.

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^* The same Turold holds Hugle, and Walter holds it of him.
Batsuen held it (in Saxon times). Here are ii hides, geldable.
Here is (arable) land (enough) for v ox-teams. In demesne are ii
teams and iiii neat-herds, and a Mill of 64id. (annual value). In
King Edward's time the Manor was worth 20«. {per annum). Now
it is worth 16*. He (Turold) found it waste.'^^

About the beginning of Henry III/s reign, Geofitey GriflSn,
whom I have noticed under Long Stanton, held this Manor as
Feoffee of the Chetwynds. About the year 1250 " Geoffrey GriflSn
gives to the Abbey of St. Mary of Lilleshall and to the Abbey of
St. John the Evangelist of Haghmon, all the vill and all his land
of Howie, to be divided equally between the said Abbeys, together
with the dower of Sigherit widow of Adam de Howie, when she
should die. The Abbeys were to render all services due to the su-
perior Lords. Witnesses, Sir Odo de Hodenet, Baldwin his son.
Sir Madoc de Sutton, Hugh de Lega, Robert de Wodecote.*'

Between the years 1249 and 1257 Master Simon de Wanton, one
of Henry III.'s Justiciars, was constantly deputed to try causes of
disseizin and mort ffancestre in Shropshire. A curious letter or
certificate is preserved in the Haughmond Chartulary from Geoffrey
Griffin '^ to his noble and most dear Mend Simon de Walton, Jus-
ticiar of the King.'* He informs the said Simon how the Writer,
being of sound mind, memory, and sense, had disposed of Howie
to the two Abbeys aforesaid, for the health of his soul. He further

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certifies that on the day of St. Alban, Protomartyr of England
(June 22), he had given the two Abbots seizin of Howie, by the
hand of Thomas de Pikestoke, his Seneschal. He now ratifies the
gift by these his Letters Patent, which are attested by Thomas de
Pikestoke, Richard son of Thomas de Cherinton, and Richard Ber-
nard of Cherinton.

It wonld seem that the Canons of Haughmond forthwith sur-
rendered their moiety of Howie to John de Chetwind, already the
Suzerain. There is a Deed in the Chartulary, which mnst have
passed between 1250 and 1255, whereby John de Chetewinde binds
himself and his heirs to pay a rent of 2s. to the Abbey for a moiety
of Howie. He farther covenants to acquit the Yill of Howie of the
service of one Munitor and all other service which it owed in war-
time at John fitz Alan's Whiteminster,^ and of all tallages, scutages,
I &c., due to the King. The Abbey was to have homage and ward-

I ship of Chetwynd's heirs, in respect of the said moiety, saving how-

ever all that was due of this kind to Sir John fitz Alan (the
Lord Paramount) and his heirs. Chetwynd ratified the nndertak-
j ing^th his seal and hiB corporal oath, in lie presence of Robert

, de Orendon, then Sheriff; Sir William de Hedley, Sir Robert de

Halechton (Haughton), and Robert Corbet (of Moreton.)*
^ The Inquest on the death of John de Chetwynd (II.) in 1281,

estimates his tenement of Howie at 8 virgates and a Mill (exactly the

Domesday contents of the Manor) ; it treats the Yill as a member

J of Chetwynd, but notifies with signal accuracy how the deceased had

1 held half thereof under Haughmond Abbey, at a rent of 2s., the

j Abbot being further entitled to homage and wardship in respect of

such estate. The other moiety was held by the deceased under
Lilleshall Abbey, exactly for similar rent and conditions. These
particulars were elicited by a special Writ of March 29, 1281,
ordering the Sheriff to ascertain the nature of John de Chetwynd's
tenure under the two Abbeys.

The whole affair shows us how completely the Lord and Feoffee
changed their feudal relations, when the former took a sub-feoffinent
under his previous Vassal.

^ Apud Album Motuuterium Johanmit I Oswestry as distinot from Whitchuroh.
/l/u Akmi; — ^the intention being to mark I ' Haughmond Ghartolaiy, £6. 126.

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" The same Turold holds Semebre (of the Earl) . Ulgar held it
(in SaKon times). Here is a hide and half. There is (arable) land
(enough) for vii ox-teams. A knight holds it mider Turold and
has one ox-team ; and there are v Boors with ii teams ; and a Mill,
paying a rent of 64£f. In KiTig Edward^s time the Manor was
worth 45«. {per anrmm). Now it is worth 16*. Turold found it
waste.'^^ This Manor became a mere member of Chetwynd and
was held under the Chetwynds by a family named Waldyng. In
1262 Eoger Waldyng was one of the Begarders of the Forest of
Mount Gilbert. His litigation in 1271-2 with Ralph le Botyler and
William de Titley has been noticed under Corselle.* It was pro-
bably a question as to the boundary between Cross- Hill and Sam-
brook. About this time we have Roger Walding de Sambro^ attest-
ing a Calvington Deed. He was one of the Jurors for Bradford
Hundred at the Assizes of 1272. Again, Roger Waldyng occurs on
a Woodcote Jury in 1278, a Withington Jury in 1283, and a Hodnet
Jury in 1284. In December 1285 he is named again as a Regarder
of the Eing^s Forest.

Henry de Sambrok, who occurs on a local Jury in 1281, was per-
haps of this place.

Sambrook Chapsl. Such a structure exists only in Tradition.
It must have been immediately subject to the Church of Cheswar-
dine.

Ellebton probably became a member of Chetwynd from having
been originally a member of Sambrook. It is still associated paro-
chially with Sambrook, for both are in the Parish of Cheswardine.

De Chetwynd's Feoffees at EUerton bore the name of the place.
In 1191 and 1200 Adam de Alarton appears as a Recognizor in that
Chesswell suit which I have noticed under Eyton.^ He was I think
a knight, for in June 12Q0 he was one of four Visors sent to ascer-
tain whether the Abbot of LiUeshalFs alleged illness was sufficient
plea for an essoign in a cause then pending at Westminster. At the
Assizes of 1203 Adam de Alarton was amerced half a merk for
trespass. On the Pipe- Roll of 1212 Adam de Alarton is recorded

> Domesday, fo. 257, b, 2. | a ■ a Supra, pp. 25, 28.

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as oving 20s., -which he had fined for license to attaint 12 Jurors
who had decided some suit against him. In 1220 he was one of
the Jurors in the Inquest which I have noticed under Dodicote.

The next of this £Eunily who occurs was Thomas de Edelarton,
Athelarton^ or Allarton, as he is variously described. In 1253 he
was Juror on a Newport Inquest^^ in 1260 on a Sheriff-Hales In-
quest^ and in 1262 was a Begarder of the Forest. He occurs in
similar positions in 1272, 1278, 1281, and 1283.

Roger de Ethelarton, Juror on a Wellington Inquest in March
1804^ is the next whom I find of this name.

PiXLET. Half the vill of Pixley is uniformly set down as a
member of Chetwynd. The other half was, I presume, appurtenant
to Cross- Hill, or to Hinstock, in which Parish the place is situated.
Whatever here belonged to Chetwynd was probably at first a member
of Sambrook. The Tenants here were Walter de Pikesley, Juror in
the Dodicote Inquest of 1220;* — Adam de Pikesley, Juror on a
local Inquest in 1258 ; — Henry de Pikesley, Juror on two occasions
in 1274, and also in 1283; — and William de Pikesley, a Juror in
1281, and Witness of a Deed (aheady quoted) in 1293.^

In Hilary Term 1283 a cause was tried at Shrewsbury which in-
dicates that part of Pixley was held, or presumed to be held, imder
the existing Lord of Sambrook. William de Eaynton, as son and
heir of Robert de Kaynton^ deceased, sued Richard Byde of Tib-
berton, as Tenant in possession of a messuage and vii^ate in Pic*
leslgh. Richard Byde called Roger Waldyng (of Sambrook) to war-
ranty, who appeared in warranty, and took a technical objection to
the suit (one of mort d'ancestre), viz. that Robert de Eaynton had
not died seized of the premises, having made them over to the pre-
sent Plaintiff long before his death. The Jury found otherwise,
viz. that Robert de Eaynton had died seized, and that since his
death his son had never been in possession. So the son recovered
the estate and one merk damages. Moreover Roger Waldyng had
to provide an equivalent for his ousted tenant.^

' Elyas de Eddarton also occurs on a
Jury of 1253.
' Supra, p. 17.

' Supra, p. 60.

* Pladta apud Salop, 11 Edw. I., Hi-
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" The same Turold holds Plivesdone (of the Earl). Earl Eduin
held it (in Saxon times). Here is one hide^ geldable. There is
(arable) land (enough) for iiii ox-teams. In King Edward's time
the Manor was worth Ss. {per annum), Turold found it waste;
and so it remains.''^ Such is the Domesday account of a Manor
which has always since been considered a mere member of Chet-
wynd^ but was held under the Chetwynds by a family of distinction.

Hamo be Pivelesdon^ a Recognizor in the Chesswell Trial of
1191, was surviving in June 1200, and then gave evidence as to
what passed on the former occasion.^ In the same month of June
he was a Visor appointed to ascertain the validity of an essoign de
mah lectin whereby the Abbot of Lilleshall was avoiding an appear-
ance in the Courts of Westminster, ^uch an office as Hamo de
Pivelesdon's was usually assigned to knights only.
* Richard de Pivelesdon occurs between the years 1225 and
1240, but only as a Witness of two Wombridge Charters.

Roger de Pivelesdon, the next of this feunily, occurs as Clerk
of the County on April 10, 1241, at which time John le Strange
(III.) was Sheriff, and Nicholas de Wililey Under Sheriff.* After
this it is probable that Roger de Pivelesdon succeeded to the supe-
rior office of Nicholas de Wililey, and became John le Strangers
immediate Deputy. It was not uncommon for such a Deputy to
be styled simply Sheriff; and though Roger de Pivelesdon never
appeared at the Exchequer as Sheriff of Shropshire, he is twice
called Sheriff in matters which probably occurred between the years
1241 and 1248. The first is as witness of a Haughmond Charter,
the next as presiding over an Inquest concerning the Forest immu-
nities of Lilleshall Abbey, in which instance he is styled Roger de
Pynelesdon then Sheriff of Salop and Stafford.

There are instances of Roger de Pivelesdon attesting Charters
before he was Clerk of the County. I refer to one such.* It would
be vain to recapitulate his various attestations in different parts of
the County, and after he ceased to be Deputy- Sheriff. The pro-
bability is that he was a stirring man of business. In 1265 we see

> Domeiday, fa 267, b, 2. I ' Blakway't Skeriff^^ Pre&oe» p. y.

^ Supr% p. 28. I ^ Sapn, Vol. II. p. 16.

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PILSON.

him with the custody of two Manors^ Detton and Hiille^^ a custody
which he had probably purchased with the wardship of the heirs.
We see him with landed interests at Donington and Farlow^ the
latter given in marriage with his daughter Alice to Robert de Har-
ley.^ In Michaelmas Term 1253 he was second Juror on an Inquest
concerning the Patronage of Haughmond Abbey. In January 1256
he occurs as a Surety for a Fine proffered by the Prior of Wenlock.
That he was a knight is certain ; and I think that he had attained
the dignity before 1254. The latest attestations of Sir Roger de
Pivelesdon belong to the interval between 1260 and 1265. He was
deceased in 1272^ leaving a widow^ Agnes^ and a son and heir,
Thomas. I have as yet said nothing that will connect Roger de
Pivelesdon with Pilson; and indeed I doubt whether he had as
much interest there as either of the two following persons, who were
his cotemporaries and probably his relations.-

William de Pyvlesdon has been mentioned as witness of a
Charter about 1253/ and I have little doubt but that he was the
person who as William de Pulleston was presented in 1256> by the
Sheriff of Salop and Staffordshire, among those who had 15 Ubrates
of land and yet were not knights.

Jordan de Pynelesdon, another cotemporary of Roger^ follows
him in attesting a High Ercall Deed which certainly passed in 1256.
And this Jordan had clearly some concern in Pilson, as the follow-
ing Fine, levied Feb. 9, 1256, wiU prove. Odo de Hodenet had
claimed a carucate of land in Wyletowe against the said Jordan,
Tenant thereof, and by writ of mart d'ancestre. He now renounces
his claim, and Jordan in turn conceded half the premises, to hold
to Odo and his heirs, under Jordan and his heirs, at I2d. rent. The
residue of the premises was to remain with Jordan^ — to hold of
the superior Lords of the Fee.

That the locality here described as Wyletowe, was part of Pilson,
and is the place still to be recognized under the name of Whitley
Bam, is very evident : for the Fine itself enumerates the parcels of
land which were thenceforth to be held by Odo de Hodenet. They
were ''half of the field towards Forton, half of the field towards
Pykestok (Pickstock), half of the field towards Flotesbrok (Flash-
brook), half the capital messuage, half Whyletowemor (Whitley-
moor), half the meadow in Le Clun, and the whole meadow near
the bridge of Pywesdon (Pilson).^'*

^ Supra^ YoL lY . pp. 2S2, 344.

« Supra, Vol. II. p. 177 ; Vol. IV. p. 192.

* Supra, Vol. VII. p. 886.

* Ita quod dimidimm ilUtu cawffi ver-

PIL80N.

97

Master Thomas de Pulbsdon -was^ as I shall show under
Stirchley^ son and heir of Roger. In 1272 he was in the Eing^s
prison for some offence undeclared. He attests a charter of
Shrewsbury Abbey which must have passed between 1272 and 1278.
He occurs also in 1292^ as will presently appear.

We may now pass on to notice several other cotemporaries of
this family. —

Roger de Pywelesdon was in 1279 put on a commission to in-
quire into the conduct of the Sheriff of Herefordshire. In 1283
he was an Assessor and Collector of the tax of the thirtieth in
Staffordshire.^ In 1293-4 the taxes necessary for the French war
were attempted to be levied in Wales. This caused the well-known
insurrection of Madoc ; and the Welsh Chronicle assures us that
Roger de Peuelesdon^ a Collector of this tax and a commander of
certain Welsh Soldiers^ was hanged and beheaded by the insur-
gents.* It is very probable that this Sir Roger was of Pilson, for
I find him attesting Newport Deeds between 1285 and 1292.

On July 26, 1288, at Assizes held' at Newport, —

Roger son of Master Thomas de Pyyelesdon sued Roger son
OF Jordan de Pyvelesdon, Alice his wife, Richard son of Jordan,
and Adam de Legh for disseizing him of half an acre of waste in
Pyvelesdon. The person here called Richard fitz Jordan was, I
think, identical with Master Richard de Pywelesdon^ whom
Master Thomas de Pywelesdon, Hugh de Beaumes, and others,
undertook, at the Assizes of 1292, to produce at the further man-
date of the King or his Justiciars. Master Richard de Pillisdon,
be it further observed, is entered in the Feodary of 1285 as hold-
ing Waranshall (a member of Stoke upon Tern or rather of More-
ton Say) under the Lords thereof. There we shall hear more of
him. Again, in the year 1292, we have seen Roger son of Thomas
de Pulesdon and Master Richard de Pulesdon, joining in an act of

ttu Forton et versus Boream, et dimidiwn
eampi versus Pyhestok et Austrum, et di-
midium campi versus PlotesbroJc et Aus-
irum^ et dimidium totius eafUalis mes-
suagii versus AquUonem, et dimidium
Whylelowemor versus Baream, et dimi-
dium prati in le Clun versus ocddentem^
simul cum toto Uto pratojuxta pontem de
Pyvesdon, remcmebit Odoni.

Here it must not be understood that
Forton was to the north, and Pickstock
and Flashbrook to the south, of an j com-
VIII.

mon centre. The map will show such geo-
graphy to be impossible. What I imagine
to be intended is the northern half of the
field towards Forton, the southern halves
of the fields towards Pickstock and Flash-
brook, and so forth : but it is never easj
to understand the land-surveying of the
Idth century, neither do I know what was
the distinction between Boreas and /iquilOj
taken in the above document.

' Parliamentary Writs, I. 785.

* PoicelVs Chronicle, p. 278.

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Suretiship.^ In the same year we have Roger son of Jordan de
Pivelesdon demising a curtilage in Pivelesdon to Roger son of
Master Thomas de Pivelesdon :^ and the last Roger was one of the
Jurors for Bradford Hundred at the Assizes of 1292.

After this^ Roger son of Jordan de Pivelesdon occurs in the fol-
lowing capacities : — viz. as second Juror in a Solas Inquest taken
about June 1301, and as Assessor and Collector, in Shropshire, of
the tax of tfie fifteenth, granted by Parliament in January 1301,
and still in course of collection in 1302, and as witness of a New-
port Deed in 1315.

I have further to notice of Roger son of Thomas de Pivelesdon,
that in June 1300 he was one of the Jurors on the great Peram-
bulation of the Forests of Shropshire, and that in May 1304 he was
second Juror on a Donington Inquest.

Meanwhile and down to a later period we have frequent notice of
a Roger de Pivelesdon, or Peulesdon, without any patronymic
distinction to identify him with either of the above. He attests
a Deed dated at Newport, April 5, 1293 ; was fourth Juror on a
Tong Inquest in July 1296 ; second Juror on a Solas Inquest in
May 1302; fourth Juror on a Little-Buildwas Inquest in December
following; fifth witness of a Donington Deed about 1312; — last
witness of a Tong Deed in June 1314 ; — and first witness of a
Donington Deed in April 1324.

Richard de Peulesdon, who occurs in 1309 and 1310 as a
Commissioner of Levies in North Wales and the Marches, was per-
haps the same with Master Richard, son of Jordan. There lived in
the same reign —

Thomas de Peulesdon, of Staffordshire, styled Valettus in 1311,
when he was addressed as Commander of certain Shropshire levies.
He occurs again in 1322 as Manucaptor for an adherent of the
Rebel Earl of Lancaster. Also there was one —

Philip de Peulesdon, a Leader of Levies, raised in the Lord-
ship of EUesmere in 1316. Lastly there was a —

Hugh de Peulesdon, a man-at-arms, summoned from Shrop-
shire to attend a Great Council at Westminster in May 1324.*

PiCKSTOCK. That part of Pickstock Township which is now in
Chetwynd Parish, was originally a member of Pilson.

I give extracts of two Deeds in illustration of this —

About 1290-1300, " Roger son of Thomas de Pyvelesdon gives

» Supra, Vol. VII. p. 346.
2 Blakeway't Sheriff^, p. 37.

> ParUamentofy Writs, IV. 1285.

LAWLEY. 99

to Roger de Flosaebroc, Tanner (Bercaxio) and Amice his wife, three
parcels of waste in the fields of Pixtok, whereof one, measuring 220
feet by 55 feet, lay in the field between Pyxtok and Pyvlusdon, and
adjoined land which Roger-on-the-Grene of Pixtok was holding
under the Grantor. Another parcel adjoined lands of Roger de
Pixtok and Roger fitz Ralph. The Grantees and their heirs were
to hold the whole, not under the Grantor, but under the Lords of
the Fee. Witnesses, John Lord of Chetewynde ; Roger son of
Jordan de Pyvelesdon, Roger de Ethelarton, Roger de Pixtok, and
Robert de Pixtok."

A somewhat later transaction between precisely the same parties
shows us, how much a man's name might vary with the place of his re-
sidence. "Roger de Flossebroc, Tanner," is now "Roger fitz William
of Fyestoke." To him and Amice his wife, Roger son of Master
Thomas de Pywelesdon gives all that messuage and land which
Roger-on-the-Grene of Pyestoke had previously held under the
Grantor for a term. He gives also all his own arable land in the
fields of Pyestoke with a parcel of land called Le Aspes, reserving
to himself and his heirs two pieces of land in Hare-medewe-heth,
and all his share of unreclaimed land in Pyestoke, and an acre of
land lying nearest to the vill of Pywelesdon. He concedes also all
his meadows and moors in Picstoke ; — the whole to be held by the
Grantees and the heirs of Roger fitz William, with all such privileges
in the township of Pyestoke as had been enjoyed by the Grantor's
Ancestors, by payment of 16*. annual rent to the Lords of the Pee.
The Grantor received for this 4 merks, and (apparently as an after-
thought) reserved to himself a messuage and land which Richard
Scachard of Pyestoke held under him. Witnesses, John Lord of
Chetewynde, Roger Jurdan {i.e. Roger son of Jordan de Pilson) ;
William de Caynton ; Roger de Ethelarton and Roger Waldyn.^

%.ab)le^.

One moiety of this Manor has been already noticed. The other

1 Deeds, in possession of Robert Gard-
ner, Esq., of Leighton. The second Deed
baa a mde seal of white wax, cha]!ged with

a sort of fleuiy cross of eight points. The
rank of the Grantor was evidently fax less
than knightly.

100

LAWLEY.

is described in Domesday as part of the Fief which Turold held of
the Norman Earl. — ^' The same Turold holds Lauelie^ and Hunnit
holds it of him. Here is one hide geldable. There is (arable) land
enough for ii ox -teams. In demesne is one team^ and there are iiii
Serfs and i Villain here. Its value (in King Edward's time) was
12*. {per anmim). Now it is worth 10*.''^

This estate followed the usual course of Turold's Manors, viz.
that what Turold held under the Earl, came to be held by De Chet-
wynd under Fitz Alan. As regards the Under-tenure too of Hunnit,
the general rule, already laid down,^ holds good with respect to
Lawley. It passed from Hunnit to the descendants of another
Saxon, viz. Toret ; and from Toret to Corbet of Moreton.

In 1180 Peter fitz Thoret was amerced half a merk by Justices
of the Forest for waste in LaueV.

Bartholomew Toret, who lived in the reigns of John and Henry
III., gave a virgate in Lawley to the White Ladies of Brewood.
The gift was ^^ with his Sister Gundred,*' who evidently became one
of the Sisterhood.

The Bradford Hundred-Roll of 1255 describes the whole of Laue-
leg as a hide and a half, — exactly the Domesday estimate. It adds
that Robert Corbet holds a moiety (he really held two-thirds) under
the fee of John de Cheieivind, Then (after giving the tenure of
the 2 virgates which were of the Fee of Wem as before noted) the
Record proceeds to state how the White Nuns of Brewood had ac-
quired and still held one virgate under Robert Corbet. The Manor
did suit to the Hundred twice a year at the Sheriflfs Toums, and
paid 4d. stretward?

The Feodary of 1284, known as Kirby's Q^est, would indicate
an unaccountable change in the mesne-tenure of this Manor, for
the Chetwynds would seem now to have no concern here, and with
them Fitz Alan's Seigneury to have vanished also. " Robert Cor-
bet,'' says the Record, " holds half the Vill of Laueleye under Wil-
liam de Hodnet, and he holds it of the King in capite" The
Bradford Tenure-Roll, about the same period, repeats the above
statement verbatim ; and actually enumerates '^ half the vill of Law-
ley" among the members of Hodnet, when that Manor is in its
turn described. There is no mistake therefore here ; but I know

' Domesday ^ fo. 258, a, 1.
' Supra, Vol. II. pp. 48, 49, 304^5,
S08-9.
' Rot. Hundred. II. 56. The propor-

tion of Siretward for 1^ hides wets (in
Bradford Hundred) 6d.: but the non-
payment of motfee indicates some special
immunity.

LONGFORD. 101

nothing of the mode of this change, and can only refer to the pa-
rallel case of Horton, where the Hodnets acquired a mesne-interest^
quite irreconcUable with any known or ordinaiy right of Bucces-
sion.

The Inquests taken in 1301 on the death of Robert Corbet of
Moreton rightly make him to have had both shares of Lawley.
We have seen how he purchased the one share firom Walter de
Stanton -} but of the share now under notice^ the Inquest says that
" Robert Corbet had had S6s. assized rent in Laueleye, receivable
from seven Villains; and that these tenements were held by the
deceased under William de Hodnet by service of 3«. {per annum) "^

Or Undertenants here I may name Hugh Faber^ assessed, in
1180^ at 4s* for a smithy (Jabrica) in Laneleia; such an erection
being, I presume, a pourpresture. The men of Laueleia were at
the same time assessed 3s. 6d, for imbladements of 3^ acres of
wheat. In 1209 Lauelegh is named as one of the Vills which were
within Regard of the Forest of Mount Oilbert, and its Freeholders
were assessed accordingly.

One Alan de Laueleg occurs as a Witness about 1220-30.' At
the Forest- Assize of 1262 one Thomas de Lawley is entered on the
list entitled Essoma mortis. He was dead, I presume. Ralph de
Lawley appeared in his stead. Previous to the Assizes of 1272,
Richard de Ch^leton had been suing Robert fitz Reginald for one-
fifth of a vi^ate in Lauele. His suit had been under a Writ de
recto, and before the County Court. His title rested on the some-
time seizin of his mother, Matilda. The Tenant appealed to a
trial by Grand Assize, but the result does not appear.^

ilDitj^tti*

The history of this Manor is one of some uncertainty, but in-
volving points of exceeding interest. In Saxon times it was of the
inheritance of the Earls of Mercia. In Domesday it appears as the
chief of those thirteen Manors which Turold de Yerley held imder
the Norman Earl. — " Turold holds Langeford of Earl Roger. Earl

' Supra, p. 38. ' Supra, Vol. 11. p. 827, note.

3 In^uiniiont, 29 £dw. I., Ko. 45.

Ajuixet, &6 Hen. III., m. 14.

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LONGFOilD.

Ednin held it (in Saxon times) . Here are vi hides with iiii Bere-
wieks^ and thejr pay geld. In demesne are ii hides : and viii Vil-
lains have III ox-teams there (i. e. in the demesne). Under him
(Turold) , two Knights hold iiii hides^ and have iii ox-teams thereon ;
and there are iiii Neatherds, vii Villains, iii Boors and i Badman
with 3i teams, and still four more teams might be employed. Here
is a Mill. In King Edward's time the whole Manor was worth £Q
{per an/num). Now it is worth 44«. He (Turold) found it waste.^'^

Any attempt to identify the Domesday Berewicks of Longford
must be partly oonjectural. I take it that Cheswell, near Long-
ford, was certainly one, and that Stirchley, though eight miles dis-
tant, was certainly another. Perhaps Culmayre, a place anciently
annexed to Stirchley, was a third. If EveUth, near Shiffiial, was
not the fourth, I know not where the fourth was. Supposing this
identification to be right, the following analogies are observable.
Longford with three of its*memberB, viz. Cheswell, Stirchley, and Cul-
mayre, are found associated at a later date in such a way as to make
it quite credible that they were originally one, as to tenure. But
they formed an exception to the usual descent of Turold's Manors,
that is, they never passed to the Chetwynds, nor to the Fief which
Chetwynd held under Fitz Alan. But with Evelith it was other-
wise. That estate, as I have already shown,^ did continue to be of
the Fee of Chetwynd, and was considered a member of Moreton
Corbet rather than of Longford. This was perhaps because More-
ton Corbet remained in the Fee of Chetwynd, while Longford did
not. The Undertenancy of Stirchley and Evelith renders it very
probable that they were originally members of the same Manor, for
Fitz-Toret first, and Corbet afterwards, held them both, — held, that
is, Stirchley of the Fee of Longford, and Evelith of the Fee of
Chetwynd.

Again, it is remarkable that while we suppose Longford to have
lost its Domesday member, Evelith, we find the loss balanced by
the gain of a member, which had constituted a distinct Manor at
Domesday. Tins was Brockton, which, except in Domesday y always
appears as a mere member of Longford.

King Henry I. is said on good authority to have granted 100
solidates of land in Longeford to a Feoffee unnamed, but who was
ancestor of Eva de Longford, living in the reigns of Henry II.,
Bichard L, and John. Now such a grant of 100 solidates of land
may easily have led to that partial dismemberment or rearrange-

> Bomegda^t fo. 257, b. 1. | ^ gupn, YoL II. p. 804 et teqq.

LONGFORD. 103

ment of Domesday Manors and Berewicks^ which I have supposed.
Sut the question here arises as to how Longford^ a part of Turold's
Fief, came into the hands of Henry I. ? I have endeavoured to
answer that question already,^ and can say nothing further on the
point.

Either Hamo was the name of the person to whom Henry I.
granted 100 solidates of land in Longford, or else that person was
succeeded by Hamo, Lord of Longford. Hamo Lord of Longford
was deceased in 1165, leaving two daughters, Eva and Agnes.
Longford went to Eva and to her husband, Robert de Brimpton, by
direction and express gift of Henry XL Of Sibil alias Basilia Fitz
Odo, whose husband I now know to have been the above Hamo, I
have spoken before under Bushbury.' Her estate there passed,
like her husband^s estate at Longford, to their daughter Eva. Be-
sides his Shropshire estates Hamo de Longford seems to have held
the following, viz. one knight^s-fee at Church Eaton and Orslow
(Staffordshire), under the Barons Stafford ; two-thirds of a knight^s-
fee at Mid-Aston (Oxfordshire) under the same Barons ; and half a
knighfs-fee in Ytveme; — but where Yweme was, or who was Sei-
gneural Lord thereof, I have not inquired. Eva de Longford,
daughter of Hamo, was given by Henry II. in marriage to Robert
de Brimpton. This person took his name from Brimpton, in Berk-
shire, a manor which he held under the Mortimers of Wigmore.
As Lord of Longford, in right of his wife, Robert de Brimpton
became a Tenant in capite. Hence the Feodary of 1165, called the
lAber Niger ^ contains a Carta or return from Robert de Brinton.
He acknowledges himself to hold one knight^s-fee, of old feoffs
meni, " which,^' says he, addressing the King, ^' thou gavest me
with a certain gentle woman {liber d muliere), named Eva, who is heir
thereof, by service of one knight, my service being to be performed
at thy charges.^''

This Carta must be taken to allude to Longford and its adjuncts.
It is repeated in duplicate under Shropshire and Staffordshire, but
one tenure in capite is its only subject. Another folio of the Liber
Niger would indicate Robert de Brienton^s tenure under the Baron
Stafford to have been only one-fourth of a knight's- fee; but the
passage is self-contradictory, and probably corrupt.^ The allusion
is doubtless to Robert de Brimpton's tenure of Church Eaton and
Orslow. I think that his service thereon was a whole knight's-fee.

1 Supra, Vol II. p. 47. I » Liber Niger, I. pp. 140, 148.

« Supra, Vol. IV. p. 102. I * Ibidem, p. 188.

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Robert de Brienton^ with consent of his wife Eva, gave the
Church of Eaton to Polesworth Nunnery (Warwickshire) .^ This
he is expressed to have done as heir of Edelina ; but I conceive that
his wife Eva was the heiress of Eaton, and that she derived it from
her father, Hamo. That Hamo may have derived from some Ede-
lina, I can only suggest generaUy, knowing nothing of the circum-
stances.

It appears that Robert de Brinton gave the Church of Longford
to Shrewsbury Abbey. His gift is the last and perhaps the most
recent of those enumerated in Henry II.'s Confirmation of July
1155.^ As the King had then been only a few months on the
throne, it is hereby proved that Robert de Brimpton's marriage,
and investiture in Longford, must belong to that interval.

Robert de Brimpton seems to have subsequently quarrelled with
the Monks of Shrewsbury. In the time of hostilities, by which I
understand the rebellion of 1178-4, he violently wrested the Cha-
pel of Sanardeshey (Kinnersley) from the Monks. In or before
the year 1185 Robert de Brimpton died. He left issue at least
two sons, Adam and John ; and his wife Eva survived him. She of
course continued in seizin of all which she had derived from her
Father, Hamo, and therefore of Longford. On October 22, 1185,
a Fine (one of the earliest on Record) was levied at Westminster,
between Eva de Longeford, as she is styled, and the Monks of
Shrewsbury. Geoffirey Bishop of Ely, John Bishop of Norwich, and
Ranulph de Glanvill were the presiding Justices. By this Fine the
Abbot of Shrewsbury renounced all claim to the Church of Longe-
ford, his title to which had been disputed by Eva. Eva in return
restored the Chapel of Kinardeshey to the Abbey, which Robert
de Bruminton, her husband, had in time of hostilities so violently
wrested from the Monks.'

In 1190 or 1191 Eva de Longeford took a second husband; for
the Pipe- Roll of the latter years exhibits Walter de Witefdd ac-
counting for a Fine of 15 merks by which he had obtained Eva de
Langeford and her land. The last instalment of this Fine was paid
in 1194.

It was with reference to his tenure-in-capiie of a knight's-fee in
Longford, that we find Walter de Witefeld assessed to the following

> Dugdale'9 JTarunchsh, (Thomas), p.
1106. Bobert de Stafford's grant of the
Gharch of Etton to FoUesworth was pro-
bably the confirmatory act of the Suzerain.

It is expressed to be " quantum in ipso
fuit" (Pat. 21 Rich. II., p. 3, m. 22).

' Salop Chartulary, No. 86.

s Ibidem, No. 281.

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LONGFORD. 105

scutages^ viz. — in 1194^ to the Scutage for King Bichard^s re-
demption^ £1 ; in 1195, to the scutage of Normandy, £1 ; and in
1197, to the second Scutage of Normandy, £l. The last payment is
expressed as relieving Walter de Witefeld from transfretation in the
army of Normandy. Again, in 1199 Walter de Whitefeld fined 40*.
ne transfretet ; but he was at the same time assessed at two merks,
for one fee, to the cotemporary scutage. He paid 20*. only, the sum
proportioned to three-fourths of a fee, and the abatement was al-
lowed at the Exchequer, because of his Fine, and because the other
fourth of his knight's-fee was held by him in demesne. In 1201
Walter de Witefeld was assessed 2 merks to the second scutage of
King John. In 1202 his proper assessment, of two merks, to the
third scutage, was covered by a Pine of 5 merks. In 1203 a Fine
of 6 merks, in composition of the fourth scutage, was treble the or-
dinary assessment. In 1204 a Fine of 10 merks was in fact pay-
ing fourfold the average assessment of 2^ merks per fee to the fifth
scutage. To the sixth scutage of King John, in 1205, Walter de
Witefeld was not assessed; but in 1206, to the seventh scutage (of
20*. per fee) he paid 2 merks. To the scutage of Poitou in 1214,
Walter de Whitfeld paid the average assessment, viz. 40*. on one
fee, quod fait Roberti de Brinton,

Leaving for the present this matter of scutages, I must recur to
other portions of my subject. — In Easter Term 1198 a suit com-
menced between the Abbess of Polesworth on the one hand, and
Walter de Witefeld and Eva his wife on the other, concerning the
Advowson of Church Eaton. The particulars do not belong to
Shropshire History, but in Michaelmas Term 1203 the Abbess got
definite sentence in her favour, on the ground that the Abbess had
had the Advowson by grant ofEvc^s ancestors.

At the very commencement of King John^s reign, that is before
Michaelmas 1199, Walter de Witefeld negotiated a Fine of 15
merks, for having the King's Confirmation of the Charters of Henry
I. and Henry II. concerning 100 solidates of land in Longeford,
and also for having a Charter of Free-warren in the same Vill.^
The Shropshire Tenure-Roll of the year 1211 is in perfect keeping
with this, for it records how Walter de Wytefeld, Knight, was a
Tenant in capite, and owed the King the service of one knight, and
how his land was worth 100*. {per annum). ^

Walter de Whitfield seems to have been the subject or mover of
many litigious proceedings concerning his wife's inheritance. One

» Ohlata, p. 16. I « Testa de Nemll, p. 55.

V|II. 14

106

LONGFORD.

matter^ in which he was mixed up, commenoed indeed before his
marriage. It related to Cheswell, a member of Longford, and was
as follows. In 1191, as I infer from the Pipe-Boll, Ralph Arch-
deacon of Hereford and Eobert de Witefeld were in eyre at Shrews-
bury. They seem to have had Robert de Shrewsbury and Robert
de Haselec as associates. The four decided a case of novel disseizin,
moved by Robert de Huntiland against Robert de Wodecot, in favour
of Huntiland ; and Wodecot was left in misericordid. Thus much
was recollected nine years afterwards by seven out of the twelve
Recognizors who tried the cause ; but they did not recollect what
seems to have been a material part of an affcer-question, viz. '^ whe-
ther Eva de Langford came into court and warranted the premises
to Huntiland on this occasion.'^ The seven Jurors should be named.
They were Adam de Chetewind, Peter de Eiton, Hamo de Piveles-
don, Adam de Alarton (Elleiion), Philip de Buterey, Walter de
Elpole (probably Epley or Apley), and Pagan de Cherinton.

I suppose the fact was that Eva de Longford did warrant the pre-
mises to Huntiland, and that Robert de Woodcote conceiving him-
self entitled to a similar Warranty or an equivalent, sued the said
Eva to obtain the same. I cannot otherwise account for an oblaium
of one merk recorded on the Pipe- Roll of 1193. It was proffered
by Eva de Langeford, its object being to obtain a recognition (a trial
by Jury) in a cause pending between herself and Robert de Wude-
cote. I suppose Woodcote was now successful, but that his success
was evaded by the Defendant and her husband. A Plea-Roll of
Trinity Term 1194 would seem to show him endeavouring to secure
an advantage gained. — ^' Robert de Wudecot, as opposed to Walter
de Witefeld (acting for his wife Eva), moves for his Record and
Judgment concerning warranty of his Charter of Corshal^ as it re-
mained on a former occasion in the Curia.** Walter de Witefeld
also seems to have moved for a new Writ, admitting him as a party
to the suit.^

On November 25, 1194, Walter de Witefeld essoigned himself by
Brien " his man," and Eva de Langeford essoigned herself by Ber-
nard de Eston, in the Plea of land which they had against Robert
de Wodecot. The Court adjourned the case to the Quinzaine of
Hilary (January 27, 1195).»

The Curial Records of 1195 are lost, and we can only guess at the

* Sohertu8 de Wudecot petit versus
Walterum de WUefeld, positum loco JEve
uxoris sue, recordum et judicium swum
de warantid caHe sue de Corshal^ sieui

remansit olid vice in Curid, Et WaUerus
petit hreve per quod implaeitet,
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phases through which this Suit passed before it recurs again to view.
I presume then that^ at some adjourned hearing, and in the reign
of Richard I., Robert de Woodcote established his right to have a
warranty of the premises from Whitfield and his wife, and that they
were consequently obliged to proceed against Huntiland as tenant
in possession. Huntiland also seems to have reverted to the former
decision in his favour. I consider it as a sequence of some such
intervening steps that, —

On April 23, 1200, it is recorded on the Plea-Roll how the She-
riff had had certain orders on the subject. He had been ordered to
ascertain, through the inquiries of lawful knights of the County,
'' who were the Recognizors and Justiciars in the old case of Hunti-
land versus Wodecot concerning the land of Chershal,'' and to send
two of the said knights with a report to Westminster and to send the
Recognizors also. It now (April 23) appeared that neither Knights
nor Recognizors were in attendance : so the Court made a more
stringent order to the same effect, returnable on June 18 following.^
On that very day the seven Recognizors, already named, appeared
at Westminster. The Record calls them, by mistake. Recognizors in
the case of Witefield versus Huntingeland. That was the case now
pending. They, in their account given to the Court, described what
had occurred in the case of Huntiland versus Woodcote ; I have
already repeated their statement, and assigned the year 1191 as the
probable date of the trial which they had to remember. I happen
to know that two of the Justiciars who tried it were now dead,
whilst the Recognizors themselves stated that a third, Robert de
Shrewsbury, was now Bishop of Bangor. Had it been otherwise,
reference would probably have been made to the Justiciars them-
selves. As to their Rolls, we have here, by the way, a curious indi-
cation that the Curial Records of the early years of Richard I.
were non-existent in the first year of John.

On July 8, 1200, an order was made by the Court in the above
case, but I cannot think that it is accurately recorded. I give it
however as it stands, marking the suspected expression in Italics. —
A day (in three weeks of Michaelmas) is given to Robert de Hun-
tiland, acting for his wife, and to Walter de Witefeld, acting for his
wife Eva, in a plea concerning an assize of novel disseizin. A du-
plicate Roll is perhaps more correct. It says — " A day (in three
weeks of Michaelmas) is given, by request of the parties, to Walter
de Wittefeld and Robert de Huntiland, to hear judgment at West-

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minster oonceming a hide of land in Chershall^ in'a plea of assize.
And their pleadings {loquela) are enrolled on the Bolls of Trinity
Term."

I suppose that an order of April 15^ 1201^ was an adjourned or-
der in this case. Its terms are however hardly reconcilable with
such an idea. The entry runs thus. — ^^ Dies datus est Waltero de
Hwitefeld et Roberto de Huntele de inquisicione facld de dote Eve
uxoris ejusdem Walteri, — a die Sti. Michaelis in xv dies.'^ The last
that I hear of this Suit is on October 13^ 1201^ when Joceline
Clerk^ Attorney of Robert de Huntiland, having a Plea de atidiendo
judicio suo, against Walter de Witefeld^ essoigns his attendance at
Westminster. —

Another Suit^ which Walter de Whitfield had against the Abbot
of Lilleshall^ is indicated by the following entries on the Plea-Rolls
of Westminster. —

January 27, 1200. A day (in three weeks of Easter) is given to
the Abbot of LiUeshall (essoigning himself by Robert Burell) in a
Placitum averiorum, against Walter de Witefeld.

Jime 18^ 1200. Adam de Chetwind^ Pagan de Cherinton^ Hamo
de Pirelesdon, and Adam de Alartun, who had been sent to the
Abbot of Lilleshall to ascertain whether the infirmity^ by which he
was essoigning himself^ in a suit against Walter de Witefeld^ was
real sickness {languor) or not, report that he is sick (langvidus), and
that they (the Visors) had given him a day, viz. in one month from
the morrow of St. Dunstan, at the Tower of London.

Oct. 13, 1201. A day (in one month of Easter) is given to the
Abbot of Lilleshall (represented by Benjamin, his Canon) and to
Walter de Witefeld and Eva his wife, to hear their sentence in a
Plea of Convention concerning the Bosc of Lilleshall.

Again, an important suit was at this same time pending between
Walter de Whitfield and Eva his wife on the one hand, and Agnes^
sister of the said Eva, on the other. Agnes is sometimes called
'^ de Stockton," I suppose with reference to a deceased husband.
First we have a Fine of 20 merks, given to the Crown in 1195 by
''Agnes daughter of Hamo de Langeford,'' that she might have
trial concerning a fair portion of her Father's lands, in Langeford,
Eaton, Horslage, Eston, and Iweme, against Walter de Witefeld and
his wife Eva. The following entries on the Westminster Plea-Rolls
relate to this Suit.

Oct. 27, 1199. The argument {Loquela) in a plea of land be-
tween Walter de Witef and Eva his wife and Agnes de Stokton

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is adjourned rine die, because Walter has compounded by Fine for
his transfretation.^

Oct. 13^ 120] . Staffordshire. Agnes de Stocton owes the King
(a further fine of) half a merk^ for having her cause argued (at
Westminster I presume) against Walter de Witefeld and Eva his
wife^ which cause had been adjourned till the arrival of Justices
(itinerant).

Nov. 12, 1201. A day (January 27) is given to Walter de Witef
and Agnes de Stokton.

On January 20, 1203, a Fine was levied at Westminster between
Agnes de Stokton, Plaintiff, and Walter de Witefeld and Eva his
wife. Tenants, of half a knight^s-fee in Langeford, half a knight's-
fee in Eiton (Church Eaton), a fourth part of a knight's-fee in
Yweme, a moiety of two-thirds of a knight^s-fee in Eston (Mid-
Aston, Oxfordshire), and a moiety of 1^ hides of land, &c., in Cotes
and in Walles (Coates and Eastwall, near Bushbury), whereof was
Suit-at-law between the parties. Agnes now quitclaimed all her
right in the aforesaid lands and fees, and in the inheritance of
Hamund, father of herself and Eva. She quitclaimed the same in
favour of Walter and Eva and the heirs 6f Eva. In return Walter
and Eva conceded to Agnes that half-hide less one bovate, in Brac-
ton (Brockton), which Agnes had previously held, also one bovate,
which laid between the two Coppices {bruUifi) of Haresden and
WUheges, so as to make up a full half-hide. Also they conceded
to Agnes that half-virgate in Bracton which Roger fitz Ralph held,
with the messuage and appurtenances thereof, saving the Yivary
and Coppice of the said vill of Bracton to Walter and Eva, and the
heirs of Eva. Further, they conceded to Agnes half a hide in Hors-
lawe (Orslow), saving to themselves the Vivary and Mill of Hors-
lawe and one croft near the Vivary, which Adwin held : — the whole
to be held by Agnes and her heirs, under Walter and Eva and the
heirs of Eva, the Tenants doing the forinsec service proportionate to
the land. Lastly, Walter and Eva gave Agnes 20 merks in money.

It is evident that Agnes de Stockton, though dejure a Coheiress
with her sister Eva, was all but disinherited. The original parti-
tion, so favourable to Eva, had been made early in Henry II/s
reign : and the question remains as to how far it was the practice
of that aera to abridge the rights of younger coheiresses.

' Tide supra, p. 105. It would seem
that, on the levy of any Soutage, a Mili-
tary Tenant of the Crown was protected

against all Lawsuits, whether he actually
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The Shropebire Pipe-RoU of 1206 shows Agnes de Stocton fining
half a merk that some (new) trial between her and Walter de
Whitefeld might proceed?

In the same year I find notice of a Staffordshire Soit^ where Wal*
ter de Witefeld and his wife Eva, represented by Adam de Brim-
ton (Eva's son I think) , were opposed to Alice de Hopetan, concerning
1^ knight's-fees in Hopeton and Thene, but I can hardly decipher
the Record, much less suggest its bearing on our present subject.^
In Easter Term 1208^ Robert de Wodecote and Milisent his wifis
and Agnes wife of Robert* acknowledged at Westminster that, in
regard of their Villain-tenants, they owed suit to the Mill of Horse-
lawe, as required by Walter de Witefeld and his wife Eva on the
strength of a previous Fine.'

^ We have seen that Walter de Whitfield was assessed to a Scu-

tage in 1214. Within two years of that time it is evident that his

I stepson, Adam de Brimpton, had succeeded to his maternal inheri-

tance and was in rebellion against King John. A Writ-Close of
September 15, 1216, requires the Sheriff of Salop and Staffordshire
to give Adam de Brimpton's lands to his Brother John, seeing that
Adam was with the King's enemies> On Nov. 4, 1217, a Writ of
King Hemry III. orders the Sheriff to reinvest Adam de Brimton

^ with his lands, he having returned to his fealty.^ At the Assises

of 1221 Adam de Brimton was one of the knightly Jurors who tried
cases of Grand Assize. His assessments to scutages in respect of a

I knightVfee in Shropshire were as follows. —

In 1218, to the first scutage of Henry III., 2 merks; in 1221, to

> the scutage of Biham, no assessment ; in 1224, to the scutage of

Montgomery, 2 merks ; but to the scutage of Bedford, an acquit-
tance ; in 1229, to the scutage of Keri, 2 merks ; in 1230, to the scu-

' tage of Brittany, an acquittance ; in 1231, to the scutage of Poitou^

' an acquittance ; in 1232, to the scutage of Elvein, an acquittance.

On January 26, 1236, Adam de Brimpton (I.) being dead, the
I King orders the Sheriff of Shropshire to take security for lOOs.,

the Relief due from his son Adam, whose homage the King had ac-
cepted. The Sheriff is forthwith to give seizin to the heir of all
such lands as his father had held in capites The Pipe-Roll of 1236

' Bobert de Boc appears as AHce de
Hopeton*s Attorney. A family named
Bee afterwards held Hopton and Thene
under the Barons Stafford. Jordan de
Toka, William de Ipstanes, William de
Gresley, and Thomas de Halghton, were

Becognizors in the cause.

' Identical with Agnes de Stockton.

' Ahhrev. PlacUorwn^ p. 56 (Terifled
from the Original).

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Bhows Adam de Brinton paying the whole Fine at onoe. This
change^ or succeBsion^ may perhaps account for Longford not having
been assessed to the Aid of 1235--6.

In or about the year 1240^ various Feodaries record Adam de
Brimton^s different Tenures. In Shropshire he held 1 fee in capiie
in Langeford ; in Staffordshire, 1 fee of the Baron Stafford in Ey ton
(Church Eaton) and Orselawe ; in Oxfordshire^ half a fee of the
Baron Stafford in Middel-Eston ; and in Berkshire^ 1 fee in Brimton
under Ralph de Mortimer.^

The Shropshire Fipe-BoU of 1242 records Adam de Brimton as
paying 1 merk^ de fine pro ptusagio. I suppose he had obtained
quittance irom foreign service.

In 1254 Adam de Brimton was returned among those who held
20 libraies of land in Salop and Staffordshire. The Bradford
Hundred-BoU of 1265 speaks thus of Longford. — '^ Adam de Brin-
ton holds the Manor of Longheford^ with its appurtenances^ m
capiie of the King, by service of a knight's-fee in time of war, at his
own chaises. He does suit neither to County nor Hundred; by
what warranty of exemption the Jurors know not.'^^

Adam de Brimpton (II.) was assessed to Aids and Scutages as
follows, in respect of his Shropshire fee, viz. — ^in 1245, to the Aid
on marriage of the Prince^ B.oyal, £1 ; in 1246, to the Scutage
of Grannok, an acquittance; in 1254, to the Aid for knighting
Prince Edward, £2; and in 1260, to the Scutage of Wales, an ac-
quittance.

The Pipe- Roll of 1261 shows a sum of £7. 10s., paid by the
Sheriff to Hoel ap Madoc, Thomas de Roshal, and Adam de Bring-
ton. This was for their expenses in proceeding to the Ford of
Montgomery as Commissioners to treat about a truce with Lewel-
lyn.

The Writ of Diem clattsit on the death of Adam de Brimpton
(II.) bears date June 20, 1274. The Oxfordshire Inquest found
him to have held li hides in Midel Eston under the Baron Stafford,
and a messuage there, under Thomas de Clare. Adam, his son and
heir, was 30 years of age and more. The Staffordshire Inquest
found him to have held Eyton (Church Eaton) under the Baron
Stafford, by service of a knight^ s-fee and certain suits of Court. The
Shropshire Inquest, held at Newport on July 3, 1274, found him
to have held Longeford in capiie by service of one knight^s-fee. He
was bound at his own cost to provide a Guard with a barbed horse

> Tegta de Nemlly pp. 45, 46, 102, 109. | > Mai. Bumdred. IL 66.

112 LONOFOED.

for 40 days whenever the King in person approached Wales. The
total annual value of the Manor was £S. 13«. lO^^.^

It was Adam de Brinton (III.) who^ having obtained livery of
his Father's lands on July 10^ 1274^ was summoned for service
against Lewellyn in the summer of 1277. He acknowledged his
tenure at Longford in the usual form and^ being a knight^ proposed
to discharge his service in person.^ The Feodaries of 1284-5 raster
Adam de Brimton's service for Longford as only half a knight's-
fee. Brockton and Chrestill (Cheswell) are reckoned as members
of the Manor. Adam de Brimton held his free court here, twice in
the year^ and judged pleas of bloodshed and hue-and-cry. He had
gallows and warren, and exercised his rights in these respects.

In January 1287 Adam de Brinton was put in commission as a
Conservator of the peace for Berkshire. In October 1292 he was
one of the knightly Jurors who tried several Pleas of Quo FTaranto
in Shropshire. In 1297 he was sunmioned for foreign service as a
Tenant of 20 librates of land and upwards in Berkshire and Shrop-
shire. In 1298^ as a Staffordshire landowner^ he had military sum-
mons against the Scots. In 1300 he sat in Parliament as a Knight
of the Shire for Berkshire. In 1301 he had military summonses
against the Scots in respect of his tenure in Oxfordshire^ in Berk-
shire^ and in Shropshire.'

The Writ of Diem claurit on the death of Adam de Brimton (III.)
bears date May 10^ 1315. The subsequent Inquests notice only his
tenures at Church Eaton and Longford. Of the latter Manor it is
said that the deceased held it in capite of the Escheat of Earl Roger
(read Robert de Belesme) by service of half a knight's-fee, and also
of providing one armed horseman with a barbed horse for 40 days^
at his own cost^ to accompany the King's army in any Welsh war.
Among the items of the estate^ the capital messuage and garden are
valued at S», Ad. per armum ; a carucate of land containing 60 acres
at 20«. ; 6 acres of meadow at 9«. ; assized rents of firee tenants^
9«. ; of customary tenants, 40«. \ and of cottagers^ 3«. A water-
mill yielded 6«. 8d^. per annum ; a parcel of moor-land^ %8, ; and the
Pleas of Courts \s. 6d, John, son and heir of the deceased^ was
found to have been 27 years of age at Michaelmas 1314.^ In the
Nomina VUlarum of 1316, Adam de Bruntone is erroneously en-
tered as Lord of Longeford ; but John de Brimpton duly occupies
his place as one of the Lords of Brimpton and Wasing (Berkshire)

1 Inquuiiiont, 2 £dw. I., No. 27. i > Ibidem.

s ParUametUafy WriU, I. 501. | * InquuUiant, 8 Edw. II., No. 23.

THE GHUECH. 118

and of Middle Aston (Oxfordshire) .^ From March, 1319, to March,
1322, 1 find John de Brompton serving as Sheriff of Oxfordshire
and Berkshire. He hel^ the same office in 1827 and 1828. In
1822 and 1825 he occurs as a Commissioner of Array in the same
Counties. In 1827 he sat in Parliament as a Knight of the Shire
for Berkshire.*

Cbssswell, the only member of the Domesday Manor of Long-
ford, which I should notice here, has no other facts connected with
its early tenure than those already embodied under Longford.

How there came to be a Grange at Chesswell, I have no evidence.
Under Lilleshall Abbey I shall show that ChirshaU Grange was
among its possessions at the Dissolution : but the Chartulary of
that House does not give particulars of such an acquisition.

LONGFORD OHUBOH.

Nothing in the Domesday notice of Longford indicates the then
existence of a Church. The same may be said of Edgmond, but
we know from other Records that there was a Church at Edgmond
as early as Domesday, and that the said Church had several Chapels
or affiliations. Among them I reckon Longford. We have seen
the Advowson of Longford granted to Shrewsbury Abbey in 1155
and surrendered back to the Lady of the Manor in 1185. Probably
the Monks had some original claim to the Advowson as Patrons of
the Church of Edgmond.

The Taxation of 1291, placing the Church of Longeford in the
Deanery of Newport, values it at £2 per annum? In 1341 the
Assessors of the Ninth taxed the Parish at 80^., saying that Zs. of
the Church-Income was derived firom Glebe and Demesne of the
Church, and 7s, fix)m other sources (than those which were con-
templated in the present assessment) .^

The Valor of 1584-5 estimates the preferment of Robert Perynce,
Rector of Longforde juxta Newporte, at £6. 18«. M. per annum.
The Synodals and Procurations chargeable on that income were
10*. 8rf.«

BABLY IKCUMBENTS.

Adam Parson of Lcfegfort attests a Deed of the 13th century.
John de Fobesta, Acolyte, was instituted January 29, 1301, at

> • « ParUamentair^ Wrih, TV, 604. * Inquis. Nonarutn, p. 193.

3 PopeNuA. TaxaHtm, p. 246.

« Vahr Eedeaiatticw, III. 1S6.

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presentation of Sir Adam de Brimpton, knight. He died October
2, 1382, and on October 5, —

William de Ipstones^ Clerk, was admitted at piesentation of
Sir John de Brampton, knight. On August 9, 1343, —

William de Brumpton, Clerk, was admitted to the Church of
Longford juxta Newport at presentation of Dame Isabella, Relict of
Sir John de Brumpton. On September 19, 1357, this Rector ex-
changed preferments with—

Elias de Brompton, late Rector of Neuwenham (Line. Dioc.).
Elias died in 1394-5, and on April 25, 1395,—

John Hopton called Bickedon, Priest, was instituted at pre-
sentation of Sir Robert Franceys, knight, and his wife Isabel. On
,.j,| Hopton's death, and on July 8, 1432, —

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This, as I have already stated, was an outlying Beremck of the
Domesday Manor of Longford. For the most part of two centuries
after Domesday it continued dependent on Longford, though in
some respects it attained such a manorial status as that I am in-
duced to treat of it under a separate head.

I should be inclined to believe that Hunnit and his brother
Uluiet were the two Milites, whom Domesday notices as holding
four out of the six hides which constituted Turold's Manor of
Longford ; and that part of the said four hides lay at Stirchley and
perhaps at Evelith. The Fitz Torets succeeded to Hunnifs and
Uluiet's tenures under Turold in three known instances, viz. at Law-
ley, Moreton-Toret (now Moreton-Corbet), and Preston-Brockhurst.
When I find that the Fitz Torets claimed to hold Stirchley under
the Lords of Longford, and that they established their claim, I
cannot but think that their title to all four tenures was of like
nature, t. e, as representing Hunnit and Uluiet.

It will simplify what I have to say about Stirchley if I state that
^^ about the years 1160-70 it was held as follows. It was held in

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Toret heLd it under De Brimpton. Under Peter fitz Toret^ and by
ft rent of 3 dwts. of gold^ Osbert de Stirchley was Tenant-in-fee
of the Manor. I have said something about Osbert de Stirchley^
alias de Diddlebury^ in a former Volume.^ On the Pipe- Roll of
1167^ he is called Osbert de Stircheleg; and is entered as owing a
sum of half a merk, in which he had been amerced by Alan de
NeyiU (Justice of the Forest). Again, the Pipe-Boll of 1176 re-,
cords how Osbert de Stirchleg owed a Fine of 2 merks, because he
had been present (at some Inquest probably) where the murder of
one John had been hushed up {tUn excusatio de morte Johanms
facta est). The Forest-Roll of 1180, under the head of Surchley,
assesses one Osbert at 3^. for an imbladement of 6 acres of oats.

We now lose sight for a time of the Tenant-in-fee of Stirchley,
and find the Manor litigated between the Mesne and Seigneural
Lords. In 1185 Eva, wife (probably widow) of Robert de Brintou,
fined 20». that she might have trial concerning a hide of land in
Stirclea. She paid the Fine in tbat and the following year. It
appears that this Suit, which was ultimately a Placitum Servitii, de-
scended to Walter de Whitfield (Eva's second husband) and to Bar-
tholomew fitz Peter (Peter fitz Toret's son). A Fine is authenti-
cally alluded to, whereby, in the time of Richard I., it was agreed
that Bartholomew should hold a hide in Stirchley under Walter and
Eva for a rent of 20s. per annum in lieu of all services. It next
appears that one or other of the parties would not adhere to this
Fine, and that a Placitum Cyrographi was the result. On October
27, 1199, the parties are called upon to attend at Westminster in
Hilary Term following, and hear judgment recorded in such a Plea.
Eva de Longford was to be represented by her husband, and Bar-
tholomew Turet makes William de Grenehill (Grindle) his At-
torney.' In Hilary Term the Parties were resummoned for Easter
Term; and then Judgment was pronounced, viz. that the Fine
above described should hold good, and that Bartholomew should be
quit by the specified service of 20«.^ We know that this arrange-
ment continued for the best part of a century.

The next Tenant-in-fee of Stirchley whom I can find, after Os-
bert de Stirchley, is Richard de Stirchley. How he was related
to Osbert I have never been able to discover, nor will I assert that
he was Osbert's heir. This Richard has occurred to us repeatedly
under the dates of 1203 and 1206.^ From one mention of his

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name we infer that he was a knight. At the Assizea of 1203 the
Prior of Wenlock essoigned himself in a suit which he had with
Bichard de Stirkele, and the cause was adjourned. The latest that
I find of Bichard de Stirchesl^ is on the Pipe-Boll of 1207^ where
an amercement of Gs, Sd,y apparently for some fiMrest matter, is re-
corded against him. I suppose that he died soon after^ and that it
was he whose heir Walter de Stirchley claimed to he in 1208. The
claim, it will be remembered, involved estates at Diddlebury and
Stirchley, which Walter de Stirchley was already seized o£ I
should suppose therefore that he claimed to hold them indepen-
dently of Osbert fitz William, the Plaintiff. The result as regards
Diddlebury has been already stated, viz. that Walter became Os-
bert's Feoffee at a rent of I6s.^ But the Fine of Nov. 6, 1208,
settled the hide in Stirchley in a different way. Walter was to
hold it only for life, under Osbert or his heirs, and to pay the before-
mentioned services of 20s. and 8 dwts. of gold. These services
were the chief-rents due from Osbert to the Seigneural and Mesne
Lords (viz. Walter de Whitfield and Bartholomew Toret), and Os-
bert receiving them firom Walter^ covenanted to settle with the
Superior Lords of the Fee. On Walter's death, the hide in Stirch-
ley was to revert to Osbert and his heirs. Between this period
and his death in 1232 Walter de Stirchley has recurred often on
former pages.^ His second Fine with Osbert fitz William was levied
December 14, 1227. It made him Tenant for life, as before, of a
hide in Stirchley, but it abridged the reversionary rights of Osbert
fitz William ; for, on Walter's death, half a virgate of land, one
assart held by Alexander Carpenter, and one croft held by May-
dusa, were to remain with Walter's heirs ; — ^to be held under Osbert
and his heirs at a nominal rent, viz. 2d,, or half a pound of cummin.
While Walter de Stirchley was thus holding Stirchley for life,
Osbert fitz William appears more than once in the position of one
who was more than a mesne-lord or yet a reversioner of the fee"
simple. In November 1221 he had a suit of mort dPancestre with
the Abbot of Buildwas. In this instance he is called Osbert de
Diddlebury. It is all but certain that the quarrel was concerning
something in Stirchley previously granted to Buildwas by Bichard
de Stirchley. Again, Osbert Lord of Stirchley made a grant, al-
ready alluded to,' of a parcel of land in '^ his fee of Stirchley " to
Wombridge Priory. The grant is attested by Sir Leonard de Ley,

. 1 Supra, Vol. V. p. 178. I Vol. V. pp. 178, 179.

« SuppB, VoL II. pp. 116, 125, 133, 327; I ■ Supra, Vol. IL p. 815.

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STIBCHLIY. 117

Robert de Brocton^ Roger de Eppeleg (Apley)^ Robert de Haeman
(probably Hamarse)^ Walter de Harpcote^ and Walter^ Chaplain of
Stirchel^. It must haye passed, I think, between 1220 and 1280,
and so during the period of Walter de Stirchley's life*tenure.

Again I find that Osbert de Styrchleg granted a halfpenny rent
in Stjrrchleg to Lilleshall Abbey. This grant I have no means of
dating, further than to say that it is recorded in Henry III/s
Confirmation of 1265. Walter de Stirchley died as I have said in
1232, and Matilda, his widow, forthwith claimed a third of a hide
in Stirchley as her dower. The Fine by which she obtained for life
that half-vii^te only which Robert Pertrich held, bears date July
1, 1232. The point to observe therein is that instead of Osbert fitz
William appearing as Tenant or Defendant, we have Osbem, Par-
son of Diddlebury, in that position. It is obvious either that Os-
bem the Parson was identical with, or the heir or assignee of,
Osbert fitz William.

In Michaelmas Term 1233 I find notice of a Suit concerning
land, between the Prior of Wenlock and Osbert de Stirchlegh.
The Attorney of the latter was Robert de Diddlebury, but no fur-
ther particulars transpire. The Pipe- Roll of 1234 exhibits Osbert
de Stirchleg as fining half a merk pro habendd mencione, a phrase
which I know to relate to the form of a Writ in some pending suit,
and think must have related to the suit with Wenlock Priory. On
April 18, 1238, a Fine was levied at Westminster between Im-
bert. Prior of Wenlock (Plaintiff, through John Tecehis Attorney),
and Osbert de Dodelebyr, Deforciant, of the Advowson of Stirch-
ley Church, whereof was Plea of Dernier presentment between the
parties. Osbert surrendered his claim, and was received, he and
his heirs, into all benefits and prayers of the Church of Wenlock
for ever.

Osbert de Diddlebury, alias Osbert fitz William, alias Osbert de
Stirchley, is said on good authority to have sold half the Manor to
Buildwas Abbey. The Abbey had already a footing here under
grants of " Richard, Unde (avunculus) of the said Osbert,*' that is,
I suppose, of Richard de Stirchley. Osbert's sale must have taken
place about the year 1243 ; for in that year the Abbot withdrew
certain suits, due fix)m Stirchley to the Hundred of Bradford.

No Deed is preserved whereby we can determine further particu-
lars of these grants of Osbert and his Uncle Richard ,- but in or
after the year 1247, Osbem fitz William surrendered all his interest
here to Buildwas, and of this fact we have threefold evidence, viz.

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118 STIRCHLST.

one Fine and two Charters. The Fine bears date July 1, 1247^

and^ as conveying a much more limited estate than the Charters^

1 \ must be taken to have preceded them. Thereby Osbert de Styrcbe-

leg (Impedient) acknowledges himself to have given to Nicholas,
Abbot of Buildwas, two virgates in Styrcheleg^ whereof had been
Plea of Charter-warranty. The Abbot is to hold the premises
under Osbert and his heirs^ and to discharge forinsec services due
thereon. But besides this Osbert conveys 2 virgates of land, 60
acres of bosc, and 2 Mills, which he had sometime held in demesne,
also the capital messuage, half the garden belonging thereto, the
great meadow between the two Mills, half Crumbwelle-meadow, 2
small parcels of Crumbwelle-meadow, half Nordwelle-meadow, one
small parcel of the same, and the homage and service of Robert
Aleyn ; — all to be held in pure almoign, and to be recompensed by
the prayers of the Monks in the Grantor's behalf.

The Charters which follow this Fine must be taken to confirm its
grants, and to convey not only the residue of the Grantor's sub-
stantive interests in Stirchley, but to abolish his mediate and more
nominal rights. The earliest of these Charters is printed else-
wheaee^ and is in substance as follows. —

'^ Osbert fitz William, Lord of Stirchelege, gives to the Monks
of Buldewas in firee almoign the capital messuage of his House in
the viU of Stirchelege, together with all buildings and appurte-
nances, and with half the great garden, and with a certain garden
situated without the gate of his Manor-house {curiiB), He also
gives 60 acres of his demesne in the said vill, and 36 acres with the
bosc growing thereon, viz. whatever lay between John de Pertone's
bosc and the bosc of the aforesaid Monks. He also gives the ho-
mages and services of John de Fertone and his heirs, of Kanulph
de Colnham and his heirs, of Julian, son of Walter de Stirchley and
his heirs, of Robert Aleyn and his heirs, of William de Wodewall
and his heirs, and of the widow Fetronilla and her heirs, together
with all rents, &c., which belonged to the Grantor, as Lord, or to
his heirs, whether arising from the above tenements, from the tene-
ment of the Prior of Wombridge, or from the tenements of any
others, claiming to hold under the Grantor, or from other lands and
tenements, which the Monks already had in Stirchley by gift of the
Grantor and his ancestors. In short, he retains nothing to himself
at Stirchley except the prayers of the Grantees : but the Grantees
are to pay 20^. and 3 dwts. of gold per annum to Richard Corbet*

> MonatUeon^ Y. 857, No. III. | ' Now repreaentatiTe of the Torots.

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STIRCHLEY. 119

in lieu of all servicea, and Richard Corbet wonld acquit the Monks
in respect of the item of 20^.^ which^ in other words, he was bound
to pay over to Adam de Bromton and his heirs. The witnesses of
this Deed were, Sir Richard de Lectone ; Robert de Actone, Clerk ;
John de Bekebnri; Clement fitz Peter; Reyner Ruphus; Richard
de GrenhuU; Hamo le Poer, and others."

Osbert fitz William's other Charter is p^haps a few days later
than, but nearly a duplicate of, the above. Its differences are these.
— It expresses the gift to be with the Grantor's body in burial {cum
eorpore meo). It describes ''half the great garden" as ''an or-
chard, already divided between the Grantor and John de Perton.''
It describes the " 36 acres of bosc, &c.," as " a certain parcel of
land together with the bosc growing thereon." It enumerates
Mills, among the appurtenances of the estate. It alludes to, and
ratifies, the previous gifts of the Grantor " and his Unde Richard."
It makes the reserved rents of Richard Corbet and Adam de
Brumton to be payable by the Monks to each person immediately,
viz. 3 dwts. of gold to the former, and 20s. to the latter. It is
attested by Richard de L^hton ; Richard de Grenhull ; John de
Bechebur' ; Robert de Acton, Parson of Stheyle (probably Stirch-
ley) ; and Ralph de Staunton.^

From a Fine of January 27, 1249, it would seem that, immedi-
ately after Osbert de Stirchley's death, the two daughters of Leonard
de Legh (already spoken of under Parva L^h)' claimed possession
of several parcels of Stirchley against the Abbot of Buildwas and
his Tenants. They claimed under Writ of mort d^ancestre and
therefore by inheritance. The Fine purports to be between Johanna
de Legh and Nidiolaha her sister (Plaintiff) and Nicholas Abbot
of Buildwas, concerning 2 messuages, 25 acres, a half-virgate and
one noke in Stircheleg, held by the Abbot himself; — concerning 2
messuages and 7 acres which the Abbot was bound to warrant to
his Tenant, Robert Aleyn; — and concerning 8 acres which the
Abbot was called upon to warrant to John de Perton. The Plain-
tiffs surrendered their claim for 5 merks.

Of the family of De Stirchley alias De Diddlebury I have little
more to say. It is impossible, without further evidence, to decide
the exact mode of their descent; and I know that I am leaving
several questions of identity unsolved. However, I have quoted,
either here or under Diddlebury, all the documents which bear upon
this genealogy, as they relate to each locality. Richard fitz Osbert

1 Blakewa/8 MSS. | - Supra, Vol. II. pp. 316, 816.

!0 STIftCHLET.

Diddl^nry, ^o oocnrs late in the ISth oentnty, wu doobtless a
idet of tills foinily. I refer to what I have said of him in a former
)lame,^ where it will be seen that be was a Tenant at Longnor
d Sberifs-Clerk to Boger Sprenghose (III.)-
I proceed with Stirchley as m^nly an estate of Bnildwas Abbey,
t in which the Abbot of Lilleshall and the Prion of 'Wenlock and
ombridge bad each an interest. The Bradford Huodred-Boll of
55 descrUies Stirchley as foUowa. —

"The Abbot of Boldewss bought half of Scirkg from Osbert de
ireleg, viz. half a hide, and it was wont to do suit to the Hnn-
id every three weeks, and he (the Abbot) withdrew the said suit
bItb years ago to the annual loss of 3«. to the King.
"Buidnlpb de CkJeham hddfl oneviigateiuthesaidTiUnnderthe
ibot of Lilleshall ; Baanlf de Ferton holda one virgate of the
ibot of Buldewas, and the Pru»r ol Wenlock ludds one ntdce of
> same Abbort.

" After a while (poatmodum) the said Abbot (of Buildwaa) bought
the said Osbert the demesne of the whole nil, except the land
d service <£ the said Banulf de Colleham. And the said viU
es 4d. {per Ofmtim) for stretward. And the lands aforesaid, hdd

Banulf de Colham and the others, contain another half-hide.
A abstracted suit of the said Abbot of Buldewas is worth 2<. per
Rum, and he holds «t capite of Adam de Brinton, who holds m
nte of the King, and d Robert Corbet.'"
I need not stop to qiedfy the errors, manifeat or suspected, whidi
; inTolved in the above account. He sequel will rectify most ot
an : for instance, the Feodary of 12S4 says with admirable cor-
itness tiiat — " The Abbot of Buldewas holds the tUI of Styrcb-
re of Bobert Corbet, and he of Adam de Brimton, and he of the
ng."

So too the Bradford Tenure- Eoll of nearly the same date de>
ibes the Abbot ss holding Sturchel^ and Culmayre under Bobert
irbet, who holds onder Adam Bhmtoo, who holds tit ei^nfe.
flere," adds the Record, " the Abbot holds his free Court by
larter of King Richard." The allusion is to King Richard's ge-
ral franchises vouchsafed to Bnildwas, which extended to all its
;!viona possessions and subsequent acquisitions.
The TaxiUion of 1291 gives the following account of the Abbot

Bnildwas's estate at SirtheUye. —

Supn, ToL YI. pp. GO, 60. [ * &ol. Hmmlnd. U. U.

STI&CHLBY.

121

Two carucates of land realized yearly ... £2

The profits upon live stock were 3

The assized rents were 3

The Pleas and perquisites of Court were ..068
One Mill was worth, yearly 15

Total

^9 1 81

At the Assizes of 1292 the Bradford Jurors recorded how Os-
bert de Styrchesle, formerly holding Styrchesle, had used to do
suit every three weeks to the Hundred-Court and to pay 8d. yearly
for stretward and motfee. The Vill had devolved "30 years back,"
said the Jurors to the Abbot of Buildwas, who h^td withdrawn the
above dues. The Abbot now came forward, and acknowledging his
liabilities, was assessed at 4 merks for arrears.

I have alluded under Cound to an exchange, contemplated in the
year 1354, whereby the Manor of Stirchley would have passed from
Buildwas Abbey to the Earl of Arundel.^ Though such an ex-
change did not take place to the extent contemplated, it is clear
that Thomas Earl o^ Arundel who died in 1415 held Stirchley in
socage under the Abbot of Buildwas, and that it was entailed on
the heirs male of the EarFs body.* It is further clear that the
Earl had no such heirs, but what remainders there were in the en-
tail, or how the Manor again reverted to Buildwas, I cannot learn.
William Abbot of Buildwas granted a sixty years' lease thereof;
and on Sept. 29, 1534, when the said lease was unexpired, Stephen,
last Abbot of Buildwas, granted a further lease of 95 years, to
commence on the expiration of the term of 60 years.* The re-
served rent in Abbot Stephen's Lease is £5. 13*. 4rf., the exact sum
which in 1534-5 he returned in the Valor as the assized rent re-
ceivable by the Abbey from Strycheleye.^ The Minister's Accounts,
two years later, also give £5. 13*. 4rf. as the Ferm of Stirchley
Grange.*

Of Undertenants in Stirchley, the documents already quoted,
under the dates of 1247, 1249, and 1255, have supplied a partial
list. The Forest- Roll of 1262 enters Roger fitz Isabel and Henry
Bagg of Stirchley on the list entitled Essonia Moi^tts,

Robert Aleyn, a tenant here in 1248-9, was dead in 1272, leav-
ing a widow Edith, who with her second husbaad, Henry le Car-

1 Pope Nich. Taxation^ p. 260.

2 Supra, Vol VT. p. 7a

^ Inquintiona^ 1 Hen. TT., No. 35.

VIII.

* The original Lease at Badger.

* Valor JSceles. III. 191.

« Monasticon, v. 361, No. XXY.

16

122

STIRCHLEr.

penter, then sued Roger Parson of StircUey for her dower, vis. a
third of two messuages and one noke in Stirchley. Roger the
Parson called Thomas de Py velesdon to warrant the Charter where-
by Rqger de Pyvelesdon, his father, had conveyed the premises to
Roger the Parson. It was first stated in excuse of Thomas de
Pyvelesdon/s appearance that he was in the prison of Doverya, but
afterwards that Agnes, Roger de Pyvelesdon's widow, had everything
for life. The Court decided that the Plaintiffs should at once re-
cover Edith's dower, but that Roger the Parson should be entitled
to a further recovery against the heir of Thomas {sic) de Pyveles-
don, on the death of Agnes.^

At these same Assizes Ranulph de Colham (a tenant in 1248 and
1255) appears, as not prosecuting a suit against the Abbot of
Haugmon for arrears of some annual rent. This was probably a
Shrewsbury affair, but Ranulf's Sureties were John Ba^e and
Robert Dose of Stirchley.

In Michaelmas Term 1288 Walter son and heir of Walter de
Stirchley recovered, under judgment given, his seizin of threp
messuages, one toft, 3 acres of meadow, 4 acres of pasture, 20
acres of wood, and 1^ carrucates of land, against Ranulph de Ko-
lenham (Coleham), James his son, and Walter son of Reginald de
Stirchley.*

Perton Feb. This estate, though small, requires a distinct no-
tice. The family of Perton was seated at Perton in Staffordshire,
where it held lands by serjeantry from an early period. The Lord
of Perton and Trescot was bound to attend the King in any Welsh
expedition with two horses, for eight days at his own cost, and if he
remained longer, then at the King^s cost.

Ranulph de Perton who thus held Perton in 1211,' was deceased
on Sept. 26, 1241, when John, his son and heir, obtained livery of
his inheritance at Perton.^ This was the John de Perton whose
services for an estate at Strichley were assigned about 1247-8 by
Osbert fitz William to Buildwas Abbey. John de Perton died to-
wards the end of the year 1257.' His son and heir, Ranulph de
Perton (II.) > seems to have been seized of the Stirchley estate in
1255, that is in his father's life-time, and when he was only 21

^ AtnxeMy 56 Hen. III., m. 4 dor to,
^ Abbrev. PlfteUorum^ p. 216, b.
' Testa de NeviU, p. 64.
* Rot. Finium^ Vol. I. p. 353
» Ibidem, Vol. II. p. 170.—
Juliana de Ghueley, widow of John

de Perton, was living in 1259, and hold-
ing one-third of Perton in dower. She waa
probably his second wife, and not mother
of his children. When she married John
de Perton she was, I take it, widow of
Guy de Glazeloj (supra. Vol. I. p. 213).

THE CHURCH.

123

years of age. He had livery of his Staffordshire inheritance on
January 27^ 1258^ but died without issue in the course of the next
year ;^ for on Sept. 19^ 1259^ William brother and heir of Ranulph
de Perton did homage and had livery, being then 22 years of age.'
The Writ of Diem clatunt on William de Perton^s death bears date
February 4, 1280. One of the subsequent Inquests reported the
value of his estate at. Perton as £8. 68, 4\d,per annum. Another
Inquest found him to have held a messuage and 59 acres of land
in Strichleg^ under the Abbot of Buildwas, at a rent of ^2d, per
annum. The value of the estate to the deceased was 20^. per annum.
John his son and heir was now 17| years of age.^ A second In-
quest ordered on July 8, 1283^ calls the Stirchley estate a carrucate
of land; values it at 40«. per annum, and makes the Abbot's rent to
be 3«. per annum. John son and heir of William de Perton was
now reported to be more than of foil age.^ With this John, who
was living at the close of Edward II.'s reign, I quit the subject.

STIBCHLEY CHUECH.

This was in its original state a Chapel, probably in the Parish of
Idsall, and founded by the Manorial Lords of Stirchley in the
twelfth century. Its architectural features are alone sufficient to
prove this antiquity of foundation. The subjection of Stirchley to
Idsall has long since vanished.

How or by whom the Advowson of Stirchley was given to Wen-
lock Priory I cannot say. We have seen that the Prior's Title
thereto was ratified by a Fine in 1238. The Taxation of 1291
values the Church of Stucheley in the Deanery of Newport at
£2. 13«. 4d. per annum.^ In 1341 the Assessors of the Ninih taxed
the Parish at 40«. There were no sheep here, and a third of the
Manor was held in hand by the Abbot of Build was^ who was not
assessable to the current Tax.^ In an Inquest of the year 1379
the Church of Stircheleye is valued at 100«. per annum, and certi-
fied to be in the gift of Wenlock Priory.''^

The Valor of 1534-5 puts John Poynor's gross income as Rector
of Stirchley, at £6. 13«. 4d. Procurations 6«. 8rf., and Synodak
\8., were the only charges on that revenue.®

^ Baaulph de Perton left a widow,
Jui^g&ret.

« Sot, Fimum, 11. 811 ; Inqms, 42 Hen.
m.. No. 14 ; and 43 Hen. III., No. 6.

' InquitUiona^ 8 £dw. 1., No. 14.

< InquitUions, 11 Edw. I., No. 101.
^ Pope Nieh, Taxation, p. 246.
' InquU. Nonarum, p. 193.
7 MonaHicon^ Vol. V. p. 78.
« Valor EecUnasticM, III. 187.

124

STIRCHLBY. THE CHURCH.

EARLY INCUMBENTS.

Walter^ Chaplain of Stirchley^ has been seen attesting a Deed
about 1220-30^ but it is more probable that he was an Officiating
Priest than Incumbent of the Church. The Living was vacant in
1238, and probably

Robert de Acton, Clerk, was the next Incumbent. It is he
who apparently was styled Parson of Stirchley about 1248-9. I
have said much of him on former occasions,^ and shall have to recur
to his name again. He probably quitted Stirchley for more lucra-
tive preferment. In 1256 we have had mention of one —

B.OOER, as then or recently Parson of Stirchley.* We have also
seen the said Roger attest a grant to Wenlock Priory about the
middle of the thirteenth century; and we know that he was living in
1272.* In Easter Term 1283 the Prior of Repiudon charged John
Prior of Wenlock and his accomplices, one of whom was —

Richard, Parson of Stirchele, with coming by night to Repindon
and seizing goods to the value of 1000 merks. The Defendants
appeared not. The Sureties for Parson Richard were Elyas and
Roger de Ketley, brothers.*

Roger de Esthof, Rector of Stirchley, resigned January 13,
1310, and on March 17 following —

Walter de Perton, Acolyte, son of John de Perton, was insti-
tuted at the presentation of the Prior and Convent of Wenlock.
Sir Walter de Perton, Rector of Stirchley, died on Sunday, Feb.
22, 1349. The Alien Priory of Wenlock was now in the hands of
Edward III. by reason of his war with France: so a Patent of
February 25,. 1349, presents —

Richard le Bret, Chaplain, to this Living;^ and the Bishop
admitted him on March 10 following. Le Bret died on Monday,
the day of St. Alban, the Protomartyr of England (June 22, 1349) ;
— a fitting day for the obit of one who was doubtless a victim of
that mighty Pestilence which found an Army of Martyrs in the
Clergy of the Anglican Church. Again a Patent of July 8, 1349,
presents —

Thomas de Wyky to the vacant benefice,* and he was instituted
on the 23rd of the same month. On Sept. 14, 1349, Thomas^
Rector of Stirchley, is allowed to be nonresident, for a year, that

» Supra, Vol. V. pp. lis, 119 ; Vol. VI.
pp. 126, 129, 137, 138.

2 • 3 Supra, Vol. II. p. 816 j Vol. III.
p. 339 note.

* Plaeita coram Bege^ Ptuch, Term^ 11
Ed. I., m. 2.

* • « Patent, 23 Edw. III. p. 1, m. 8O5
p. 2, m. 23.

BROCKTON. 125

he may devote himself to the services of Sir Roger le Strange,
knight : but in the course of the next month he vacated Stirchley
by accepting the Vicarage of Ellesmere. A Patent of February 5,
1350, presents —

Richard be Coton, Clerk, to Stirchley ;^ and he was admitted
by the Bishop on March 8 following.

Philip de Harley was instituted to Stirchley on Dec. 19,
1360, at presentation of Wenlock Priory. On Harley^s removal to
Stockton,^ in 1369—

Adam de Knyohteley, Priest, was instituted to Stirchley, the
King presenting as having Wenlock Priory in hand. On this Rec-
tor's resignation, viz. on August 30, 1870—

John Walssh, Priest, was admitted under a Crown nomination.
He died in 1377-8, and on Feb. 5, 1378—

John Long, Priest, was instituted. He died in 1382, and on
Oct. 23 of that year —

John Besselow, Priest, was instituted at presentation of the
King.

Bwclktott*

This Manor, small as it was, is the subject of a duplicate notice
in Domesday. First it follows Ralph de Mortimer's Manor of Pep-
low, and is spoken of thus. —

'* Ricardus tenet de Comite in Brochetone dimidiam hidam. Terra
est I carruc(B, Aisil tenuit pro uno Manerio, Ibi est unus liber
homo, Reddit xvi denarios.^^^

The second notice places the Manor more clearly in Recordin
Hundred, and runs as follows. —

*' Ricardus tenet de Comite Brochetone. Aisil tenuit. Ibi dimidia
hida, geldabUis. Terra est i carructs. Ibi unus liber homo reddit
XVI denarios defirmdJ^^

Thus it is that the redundancies of this noble Record, though
they are in the nature of errors, do but serve to establish its general
accuracy. The above two passages are minutely consistent as to

^ Patewty 24 Edw. III. p. 1, xn. 86. i ' Domesday^ fo. 257, a, 1.
^ Siipns Vol. II. p. 148. I ^ Ibidem, fo. 259^ b, 2.

126

KINNER8LET.

facts, though their yerbal differences show that the Domesday Clerk
never collated them.

I know nothing more of the Saxon Aisil, or of Earl Roger's im-
mediate Tenant, Bichard, than is related in the above passages.
My only reason for identifying the Manor with Brockton near
Longford, is that there is no other Brockton within the area of Re-
cordin Hundred. As to tenure, I know of nothing in the later
status of Brockton which can be called analogous to its Domesday
condition. And yet there is no positive inconsistency between the
two, for I suppose that Brockton escheated to King Henry I. by
forfeiture of Bicardus or failure of his heirs ; and that the King al-
lowed it to be annexed to Longford, so as to make up those 100
solidates of land which he designed to bestow on Hamo de Long-
ford or his ancestor.

Ever since, Brockton has been accounted a mere member of
Longford, and as such I have, under Longford, said all that I
know of it.

Hinnetslep.

It is fitting that I should now give account of five Manors in Re-
cordin Hundred, which were part of the Domesday Fief of Gerard
de Tomai. The first of these is described as follows. —

'' Gerard holds Chinardeseie of Earl Roger. Willegrip held it
(in Saxon times). Here is one hide, geldable. The (arable) land
is (enough) for mi ox-teams. In demesne is one team, and (there
are) iii Serfs, mi Villains, and iii Boors with two teams. In Eang
Edward's time the Manor was worth 21«. {per annum) ; now it is
worth ISs/'^

Gerard de Tomai probably took his name firom the Norman Vill
of Toumai-sur-Dive, which was, I think, a member of Earl Roger's
Vicomt^ of the Oximin.

I have in a former Volume associated this Baron's forfeiture with
the Western rebellion of 1088.* Such a theory is untenable, for
Gerard de Tomai was apparently holding his own in the time of
Earl Hugh, that is between 1093 and 1098. He follows the Earl

> Domeidof, fo. 268, b, 2.

I « Suppa, VoL II. p. 104.

KINNERSLET. 127

and his own son-in-law, Hamo Pevere!, in the attestation of a
Charter already recited.^ Even the question of Gerard de Tomai's
forfeiture at any time is, I think, a doubtful one. The chief proof
thereof is that his estates were, in Henry II/s time, usually de-
scribed as the Escheats of Gerard de Tomau Possibly that term
may have implied no more than that Oerard's estates had lapsed to
the Crown in defiiult of heirs. Hamo Peverel had certainly enjoyed
the bulk of those estates for life, and whether in right of his wife
Sibil, daughter of Gerard de Tomai, or as Grantee of Henry I., I
cannot determine. Having no issue by the said Sibil, Hamo Peve-
rel attempted, and indeed contrived, to settle certain Tomai estates
on his own, and not his wife's, ooUateral heirs. The Scheme was
ultimately abortive, for Henry IL disallowed such a mode of suc-
cession, and resumed whatever could be found of these estates into
his own hands, the Under-tenants thereof becoming Tenants in
capUe. Thus much I have said in qualification of a former state-
ment.' The Bule, now laid down, did not hold good in respect of
such estates as Hamo Peverel had given to Religious Houses. His
grants in firank almoign were respected. This remark is very rele-
vant to the history of Kinnersley.

The next notice which we have of this place after Domesday , is
in one of Earl Hugh's Charters to Shrewsbury Abbey.' The Char-
ter is undoubtedly spurious,^ but there is no reason to question one
or two of the circumstances which it records. Hamo Peverel, it
says, one of the Earl's Barons, and at the Earl's request, gave the
tithes of his demesnes to the Abbey. Among the tithes said to be
thus given are those of Cleya (read Sleap), of Brugelton (read
Crudgmgton), and of Einardesey. I suppose that it was only the
tithes of Kinnersley that Hamo Peverel really gave on this occasion.

It was probably immediately after Henry I.'s death that Hamo
Peverel and his wife Sibil gave the fee-simple of these identical
estates to the same Abbey. Their grants as described and confirmed
in King Stephen's Charter, very early in his reign, I must give in
the language of that Confirmation. —

Defuncto auiem Rege Henrico, cum venerabilis nepos ejus Ste-
phanus in regno successit, supradicius Hamo Peurell, concedente
Rege, dedit ecclesue Sancti Petri duos villas, id est CrugeUonam et
Sclepam, et SUrilla uxor ejus aliam villam qua vocatur Chinardesia,
concedente viro sua et dono (read donum) stg}er attare ponente.

» Supm, Vol. VI. p. 170. I • Salop Chartulary, No. 6.

8 Sapra, Vol. 11, pp. 104-107. I * Vide supra, VoL I. p. 33, note.

128

KINNBR8LKT.

Testibtit, WUMebno filio Alani, WiUielmo de Tomayy Alamo filio
WilMelmi de Hedlega, Roberto filio NigelR, Radulfo de Thmay
Richardo filio Baldvnni de Lintlega, etpluribtts aliis}

This Charter bears in itself a mark of undoubted truth ; for we
happen to know that Sleap and Crudgington were members of High
Ercall^ a Manor which belonged to Hamo Peverel in his own right,
while Kinnersley was a Tomai estate. Hence the distinctive way
in which each estate was granted. When in the above extract
Hamo Peverel is said to have laid his wife's gift upon the Altar^
some sign or token of the gift must be understood. In this case
the token was probably a written Charter^ that namely of which
we have a copy in the Abbey Chartulary^ and which is briefly as
follows. —

Notum sit, ifCy quod ego Hamo Peverel et Sibilla conjuas mea de*
dimus, ^c, villam qum vocatwr Kinardeseia, sicut Gyrardua Tomay,
Antecessor noster, et nos postmodum earn melius et liberius term-
imus. Testibus, WiUiebno Peverel, Walchetino Maminot, Alano filio
WiUielmi de Hediega, Roberto filio Nigelli, Ricardo de lAnleya, Ra-
dulfo de Tima, WiUielmo de Tomai, Alano filio Thecddi, Roberto de
Beche, Rogero de Haia, Henrico de Felgeres, Brien de Voile de
Rivl, Hugone de Leha, ^c?

The next Confirmation to Shrewsbury Abbey was that of the
Empress Maud, about 1141. Among lands given to the Abbey
since her Father's death, it includes the grant of Chinardeseia by
Hamo Peverel.*

But a more remarkable confirmation is that of William Peverel
of Dover, nephew and heir, or coheir, of Hamo Peverel. Therein
he treats of WoUerton and Kinnersley, both Tomai estates, as if
they were subject to his arbitration as Hamo Peverel's heir. This
Charter passed at Marlborough, probably in the year 1144, when we
know that William de Dovre, as he is elsewhere called, was actively
promoting the cause of the Empress in Wiltshire and the sdjoining
Counties.^ — I give the document as it stands in the Monasticon.*

Willielmus Peverellus de Dowria omnibus fideUbus sondes Dei
Eccksue salutem. Sciant omnes illi qui nunc sunt et qui venturi
sunt, me concessisse plenarie totam illam terram quam Hamo Peve*
rell patruus meus dedit Deo et Ecelesia Sancti Petri Salopesberia,
scilicet Wlurunton, Einardeseiam (read Kinardeseiam), Crugelton,
pro salute anima mea et pro animabus amicorum meorum. Et volo

' Jifonastlcon, III. 519. No. II.
3 • 3 Salop Ghartulaiy, Nos. 32, 40.

* Gesta IRegii Stephani, p. 106.
» MonasUcon, III. 622, No. XIII.

KINNERSLEY. 1 29

atque prtecipio tU met h(Bredes sicut ego concessi concedani. Hums
rei sunt testes, Walchelinus Maminot, et Stephnnus de la Leia,^ et
Brientius de Valle Rodolli,^ et Alanusfilius Teoldi, et Baldwinus de
Sancto Georffio, et RadulfusfiUus Teoldi,^ et Hamo filius Herfredi, et
WiUielmus de Musca, apud Marleberg,

Henry II/s Confirmation to Shrewsbury Abbey passed in 1155.
It shows that he ratified Hamo PeverePs grants^ whether taken out of
his own estates or the Fief of Tomai. It confirms the following,
viz. ex dono Hamonis Peverel et SibUke tucoris efus fFlurenionam et
CAinardeseiam et CrugeUonam et Sclepam.

The Bradford Hundred-Roll of 1255 does not recognize Kin-
nersley as a distinct Manor, but we know that the hidage which is
attributed to the Abbotts Manor of Sleap, viz. 2^ hides, must have
been inclusive of the hide assigned in Domesday to Kinnersley.

The Abbot of Shrewsbury's Charter of Free- Warren, dated May
21, 1256, extends to Wlfreton (Woolerton), Slepe, and Kynardes-
leye.*

The Bradford Tenure-Roll (about 1285) notices the Abbot of
Shrewsbury's tenure of the Manor of Slepe, and makes Crugulton
(Crudgington), Kynnersley, and Butterley (that is Butterey), to be
members thereof.

So too in the Taxation of 1291 the estate described as Sclepe
must have included Kinnersley and Crudgington, and whatever the
Abbot had at Tern. In the Valor of 1534-5 the coUective estate
is described as Slepe and Croginton, but the Ministert^ Accounts of
1541-2 call it the Lordship of '^ Slepe, Crogelton, and Kemsey,"
meaning, by the last name, Kinnersley. The various Valuations of
the aggregate Manor shall be given on a future page.

As TO THE Undebtenants of Shrewsbury Abbey at Kinnersley,
I have a few notes. Richard de Momerfield (or Morville) was one
of them. He has been mentioned as a witness of a grant to the
Abbey about 1250-1255.^ He married one Agnes, whose mother
was Isabella, a daughter of that Gilbert Sadoc who has also oc-
curred on former pages.* In 1259 Agnes widow of Richard de
Momerfeld mortgages 5 acres of land in Hundrethale, with the
meadow belonging thereto, to Hugh le Vileyn, for a term of 12
years ; and if at the end of that term the money advanced by the

' Probably a Tenant in William Peve- ^ He and Alan fitz Teold were of Tern,

rel's Cambridgeshire Fief (Vide MonaHi' in Shropshire.
con, IL 601, No. x). * Salop Chartiilary, No. 53.

« Called Brien de Valle de RUtl m f^ » Supra, Vol. VII. p. 63.

former Charter (p. 128). • Supra, Vol. I. pp. 63, 240.

VIIT. 17

130

KINNERSLET.

said Hugh, viz. £1, Sd., were not repaid, then he was to hold the
premises in fee, at a rent of 2d. Witnesses, Gilbert fitz desrk,
then Provost of the Foryate; Adam Engleteu, and Alan Knotte.^

Perhaps it was on the expiration of this mortgage, and if so about
the year 1271, that ''Agnes daughter of Isabella, daughter of Gil-
bert Sadoc, granted and sold for 5 merks, to Shrewsbury Abbey,
that noke of land in Kinnersley which her mother had purchased
from Richard de Momerfeld, formerly her husband ; — also all the
share which belonged to the said Agnes in the arable and untilled
land, and in the meadows, moors, &c., which lay between the £d68
of Hunderhale and the River Severn ; — also 8^^. rent arising firom
the tenement of Nicholas de Haye in Astley Abbots. Witnesses,
John de Prestecote, then Provost of the Foriete ; Richard de Pres-
ton, Clerk ; and David de Montgomery."^

It appears firom another Record that Richard de Momerfeld had
left a son and heir, Oliver. On May 24, 1259, Oliver son of
Richard de Momerfeud takes out a Writ against William le Rnsur
for disseizing him of a tenement in Kinardesey. Again, at the As-
sizes of August 1267, Oliver de Momerfeld, as heir of his father,
sued Robert de Buldewas as tenant in possession of half a virgate
in Kinardeseye. The said Tenant called the Abbot of Shrewsbury
to warranty, and the Abbot proved that Richard de Momerfeld had
sold the premises, and fiirther, that Oliver had since renounced all
claim thereto. This determined the suit in favour^ of the Abbot
and his Tenant.

THE CHUBCH.

Bishop Peche (1161-1182) in his enumeration of tithes belong-
ing to Shrewsbury Abbey, mentions the whole tithes of the Abbot's
demesnes at Wolretone (WoUerton), Slepe, and Kynardeseye. As
yet there was no Church at Kinnersley, and I take it that the
Manor was in the Parish of Edgmond. In the next century, viz.
about 117^-4, we have seen under Longford,* that there was a Cha-
pel at Kynnersley, which the then Lord of Longford wrested firom
the Monks of Shrewsbury. It was afterwards restored by his widow.

The Taxation of 1291 values the Church of Kinardeseye (in the
Deanery of Salop) at £1. ISs. 4fd {per annum), besides a Pension of
2s, which the Abbot of Shrewsbury took therefrom.*

In 1341 the Parish of Kynardesheye is more correctly placed in

J Salop Chartulary, No. 207.
3 Ibidem, No. 112.

^ Supra, p. 104.

* Pope Nieh. Taxation, p. 245.

THE CHURCH.

181

the Deanery of Newport. It was taxed only one merk to the Ninth.
The reasons for so low an assessment were, because the chief part of
the Church-income arose from hay-tithes and oblations; because
yery little land in the Parish was under the plough ; and because a
great part of the said Church (read Parish) consisted of woods and
marshes. The Abbot of Shrewsbury's Temporalities within the
Parish were included in the assessment of one merk.' The Valar
of 1534-5 places Kynnasahey in the Deanery of Newport. William
Grolbome, the Rector, had a gross annual income of £6. 13«. 4d.,
out of which he paid 6^. Sd. for Procurations, 1«. for Synodals, and
a Pension of 4*. to Shrewsbury Abbey.*

EARLY INCTJMRENTS.

Walkeline db Northampton, Clerk, was presented to the
Church of Kinardesey by a Patent of August 18, 1223, the King
presenting because of an existing vacancy in the Abbacy of Shrews-
bury.

HuoH Devebous was Rector here in 25 Edw. 1. (1296-7)-

Thomas, Rector of Kynardeseye, died on June 5, 1321, and on
October 13 following, the Bishop instituted —

William de Bagqesore, Priest, at presentation of the Abbot
and Convent of Shrewsbury. A Patent^ of the year 1343 sanctions
an exchange between this Rector and —

William db Gretton, late Vicar of Cliflford (Heref. Dioc.),
who is admitted to Kynardeseye on Nov. 13, 1343. This Rector
died August 12, 1349 (probably of the Pestilence), and on Sept. 14
following, the Bishop admitted —

John db Dounton, Acolyte, at the presentation of the Abbot
and Convent of Salop. On January 13, 1351, Dounton exchanges
preferments with—

Reginald db Chetwynde, Priest, late Rector of Chetwynde.*
On February 15, 1405,

The Reverend Father in Christ Sir John Serles, entitled
Jhibumensius Episcopw, was instituted to Kinnersley on the usual
presentation.^

' Ingms. Nonarvm, p. 193.
3 Valor JBkfelenasHcut, III. 188.
' Patent, 17 Edw. III. p. 2, m. 26.
* Vide supra, pp. 89, 90.

* He was probably a Papal Nominee.
He had resigned the Vicarage of Baa-
charoh in 1101.

132

d]bAbl)ur^«

" The same Gerard holds Sawesberie. Edric and Eliet held it
(in Saxon times) for two Manors. Here is a hide and a half^ geld-
ahle. The (arable) land is (enough) for viii ox-teams. In demesne
there is one team and two Serfs. (Here are) a Church, a Priest,
III Boors, I Freeman,^ and a Mill of 5^. (annual value). In King
Edward's time the Manor was worth 12^. {per annum) : now it is
worth I6s."^

It thus appears that Gterard de Tomai had not at the time of
Domesday enfeoffed any vassal in the whole of Shawbury. There
is an appearance, but probably a delusive one, that Hugh Earl of
Shrewsbury sometime held Shawbury in demesne. He is said, in
a somewhat suspicious Charter of Shrewsbury Abbey,^ to have
granted two-thirds of his demesne of Saubury to that House. The
Monks certainly had these tithes at a later period and by an ancient
title. My idea is that the Monks did not themselves know how
they obtained these tithes, and that Earl Hugh's Charter was in-
vented or interpolated to account for this and some other similar ac-
quisitions. It is clear that Hamo Feverel succeeded to Gerard de
Tomai as Lord of Shawbury : and it was probably he who granted
tithes thereof to Shrewsbury Abbey. In the reign of Henry I.
Hamo Peverel had a Tenant here, viz. that; —

Nigel de Saxjbery, who, with Robert his son, attests two
Charters of the said Hamo and his wife Sibil.* The said Charters
passed before the death of Henry I., as will appear under Betton-
in-Hales and Woolerton, — the places to which they relate. Nigel de
Shawbury's death and the succession of his son and heir, —

Robert pitz Nigel, are indicated by a twofold appearance of
the latter as Witness of Hamo Peverel's Deeds, during the first
two years of Stephen's reign.^ The next that I hear of Robert fitz
Nigel is his grant of Shawbury Church to Haughmond Abbey.

^ Thero is probably an omission in this
passage, viz. of the number of Teams pos-
sessed by the individuals enumerated.

3 Domesday y fo. 258, b, 2.

' Salop Chartulary, T^o. 3. See some

remarks on this Charter, supra. Vol. I. p.
102.

^ Salop Chartulary, Nob. 19, 24.

* Vide supra, Vol. VII. p. 353 j and Vol.
VIII. p. 128.

SHAWBURY. 183

The date of this transaction would be very uncertain were I not
able to prove that the earliest Episcopal Confirmation thereof is
that of Walter Durdent^ who was consecrated in October 1149 and
who died December 7, 1159. As Charters of Bishop Durdent are
of the rarest occurrence^ I must give this one in its original form. —

W. Dei gratid Coventrenris Ecclesia minister humUis, universis so-
crosanctte ecclesue filiis sabUem. Universitas vestra noscat nos
Ecclesiam de Sageburi cum omnibtts suis pertinefitiis Ecclesia beati
Johannis Apoatoli et Evangelista de Haghmon inperpetuum, salvo
jure episcopali, concessisse et confirmasse. Sed quia ht^fusmodi
pietatis beneficium immutUatum et incussum manere volumus, tarn
scripti quam nostri sigilli auctoritate, aliquod^ a nobis actum est
canonice, communimus et corroboramus. Testes isti sunt, Helios
Archidiaconus Stafford^, ^ Magister Ricardus, WiUielmus de Lega,
Magister Thomas. Valete.^

It is singular that this Confirmation should omit to name the
actual Donor of Shawbury Church. That it was Robert fitz Nigel
I know firom the Confirmation of Bishop Feche (Durdent's Succes-
sor)^ whose Charter to Haughmond confirms the following, viz. ex
dono Roberti de Sagheberia ecclesiam ejusdem vilhe cum capellis de
Mortone, Actone, et Wideford.* I know it also firom Robert fitz
Nigel^s own Charter, which, though it was written some years after
the grant, expresses the said grant to be his, and was attested by
that very Bishop Peche of whom we are speaking. —

As Robert fitz Nigel he gives to the Abbey, "for the souls'
health of himself, his father, mother, and all his friends [parentum),
the Advowson of the Church of St. Mary of Schawgesbury. Wit-
nesses, Richard, Bishop of Chester; Roger, Archdeacon (probably
of Salop) ; and Herbert, Dean.

But the history of Shawbury Church is too interesting to be thus
mixed up with manorial details. I have further to say of Robert
fitz Nigel that between the years 1161 and 1172 he follows Richard
Bishop of Chester in the attestation of a Charter to Shrewsbury
Abbey ,^ Here he is called Robertus filius Nichelli. A nearly co-
temporary Deed he witnesses as Robertus filius NigeUi de ^chaw-
beria.^

Robert fitz Nigel, as Tenant of a Tornai-Escheat, was a Tenant

^ Perhaps quicqwd should be the read- The date of the above Deed is therefore

ing. limited to 1155-1169.

^ Helias Archdeacon of Stafford sue- ^ Haughmond Chartulary, fo. 197.

ceeded to Ralph, whom I know to have * Harl. MSS. 3868, fo. 9.

been in office as late as January 1155. ^ ' ^ Salop Chartulary, Nos. 29, 30.

184

SHAWBURT.

in capUe of Henry II. In 1183 he was deceased^ and the succes-
sion of his sou and heir, —

WiDo DE Shawbuby, is marked by the following entry on the
Pipe-Roll of that year. — ^'Wido de Schauberia reddit compotam
de 100 sol. pro relevio feodi unius militis/^ in other words, Wido de
Shawbury, for a fine of 100^., had livery of a knight's*fee held in
capite at Shawbury. Guy de Shawbury is a frequent witness of
the Charters which passed during his time. His Confirmation of
Shawbury Church to Haughmond Abbey is valuable in a genea-
logical point of view. Styling himself '^ Wydo de Scawbery, son
of Robert, son of Nigel/^ he gives to the Canons the '^ Church of
Saubery, which Robert, his father, had previously given.'' He gives
also a virgate of land pertaining to the Church, and pannage for
30 swine ; and rights of common, in wood and in pasture ; and
tithes of his Mill of Saubery. Moreover he releases all royal dues
{pmne regale) on half of the aforesaid virgate of the Church, about
which there had been some litigation between him and the Canons,
and allows that with the other half-vii^te it shall be quit of all
secular service for ever. Witnesses, Robert, Priest of Saubery,
Adam de Arundel, William de Bykedon, Reginald de Tyme, Roger
de Donton, Warin fits Talun, Simon son of Roger de Hjagedon,
Henry brother of Wydo de Saubery, Richard de Wythiford, and
Robert and Thomas, his brothers, Richard de Muclitone, %uc}

In 1194 the Fees whieh had once been Gerard de Tomai's, were
assessed collectively to the Scutage for King Richard's Redemption.
The Pipe-RoU of 1195 gives £3. 10«. as received by the Sheriff on
this account. It appears fix>m another Record that Gwido de
Shawbury withheld one merk, the whole or part of his liability in
this matter. For this he was amerced 20 merks. For payment
of the debt he found six Sureties, two of whom were resident in
Buckinghamshire, one in Kent, one in Essex, one in Oxfordshire,
and one (Reginald de Time) in Shropshire.^ For the year ending
Michaelmas 1197 Wido fitz Robert acted as Under Sheriff to
William fitz Alan.

At Wido de Shawbury's death, which happened in 1200-1,
£,\. 13^. ^, of his amercement of 20 merks remained due. I shall
speak presently of its subsequent discharge.

In 1196 the Fief, once Gerard de Tomai's, contributed j£3. 0«. &d,
to the second Scutage of King Richard, and a like sum in 1197 to
the third Scutage. In 1199 to the first Scutage of John, when the

» Harl. MS. ut supra. | = Rot. Curia Regit, I. 49.

8HAWBURT. 135

assessment was two marks instead of £1.^ Gerard de Tomai's Fief
was assessed in an exact proportion^ viz. £4. 0«. Sd. This seems to
have included the specific quota of Guy de Shawhury. The same
Pipe-Boll of 1199 exhibits him as Wido fitz Robert^ and as having
fined 2 merks ^^ not to be compelled to cross the seas/' Within
the next two years he was waylaid and murdered in the Forest of
Haughmond. There was much contradictory evidence as to the
mode of his deaths but I shall do best to give the Trial of his sup-
posed Murderer as it stands on the Assize-Boll of October 1203.
1 should premise that the suspected Murderer was heir apparent of
a distinguished family in the neighbourhood, viz. the son of Sir
Ralph Husee of Albright- Hussey. —

The judicial Record of this extraordinary case is worded as
follows. — '^ William fitz John challenges {appellat) Walter, son of
Ralph Hose, for that when his (William's) Lord, Wido de Scage-
bury, and William himself, were returning from Fleas of the Crown
in the Curia Camitatus, held at Shrewsbury, five men came upon
them in the Forest of Hageman, and there, in the peace of the
King, and feloniously {nequiter) they attacked his Lord, Wido, so
that he (Walter), being one of the five, did then and there wound
the said Wido, and was with the others aiding and abetting, when
Wido, his Lord, was slain. And after he (Walter) had dealt such
wound upon his Lord, he came up to the Appellant, and held him,
so that he could not succour his Lord. And all this he ofiers to
prove {dirationare) against the Appellee, as the Court shall decide/'

" And Walter Hose appears in Court and denies every word of
the accusation, &c."

" The Court determines that the parties should be bound over to
a waffer of battle ;"^ and a day, the morrow of All Saints (Nov. 3)
is given to them at Oxford, and " thither let them come armed.''

'' And Ralph Hose gives the King half a merk that he may have
custody (meantime) of his son Walter, his Sureties (for producing
him at Oxford) being John de Cuotton and Reiner de Acton. And
the Court commits the accused to the custody (or suretiship) of
Ralph Hose, Reiner de Acton, John de Cnotton, Reiner de la Lee,
Adam dc Mukeleston, WUliam de Bromelc, Stephen de Acle, and
Eudo de Merc."

The Assize-Roll contains another, not very intelligible, entry on
this subject. Ralph Hose seems to undertake to produce his son
at Worcester on Sunday after St. Luke's day (i.e. on October 19) ;

' Consideraium est quod duellum sit ifUer eos vadiatum.

136

SHAWBT7RT.

and the Son is further desirous that a son of Hamo Maresoot
should attend there.^

The Justices in eyre proceeded from Shrewsbury to Worcester,
Hereford, Gloucester, and Oxford, but nothing occurs on the Boll
of their proceedings to show why the Duel between William fitz
John and Walter Hose was not struck. A Westminster Plea-Roll,
of uncertain date, but which I suppose to belong to the year 1204,
recurs to the subject, and shows that William fitz John eventually
declined the contest. The entry is as follows. —

^'Walter Hose presented himself on the fourth day against
William fitz John in a plea of Duel, engaged to be fought ooneem-
ing the death of Wido de Sauburi. And the said William neither
appears, nor essoigns himself; and a day had previously been given
him in banco, and since then (a day had been given him) through
his Essoignor. Wherefore the Court decides that Walter Hose
should depart sine die, and that William fitz John should have such
recovery as he ought to have, and that he should be attached to
appear in Court and hear (this) judgment."^

I have fixed the period of Guy de Shawbury's death as in 1200
or 1201.^ I had reason for so doing. In the first half of the latter
year " Nigel fitz Robert fined 15 merks that he might have seizin
of the land which had belonged to his brother Wido, and for his
relief and passage.'^^ The latter expression is equivalent to the ne
transfretet of other Fines, and appears to have covered Nigel fitz
Robert's liability to the second scutage of King John : for the
Sheriff accounts 4 merks and 8 pence for this year's scutage of the
Fief of Tomai, specially noting that one knightVfee, viz. Nigel fitz
Robert's, was not assessed.^

NioEL FITZ Robert appears again in 1202, on the third Scutage
of King John. Six merks and Sd. formed the collective assess-
ment of " the fees of Gerard de Tomay and the fee of Nigel fitz
Robert.'' The latter had clearly paid his quota of 2 merks, for the
small arrear of Sd. is all that is certified to be due on the ^hole

^ Salop Assizety 6 John, mm. 8, 6.

' PlacUa Moll, No. 7, m. 4 dorw.

^ Howerer the Fipe-Bolls, for the yean
eading Miohaeknas 1202, and Michaelmas
1203, give Wido de Schawburi as account-
ing for, and paying two sums of IZs. 4(2.
and £1, the balance of a misericordia be-
fore spoken of. The inference is, not that
he was living after Michaelmas 1201, but

either that the Sheriffs' Accounts are oc-
casionally more retrospective than they ap-
pear superficially, or else, that the name
of a deceased person was used, when his
Executor or some one else really ac-
counted on his behalf.

* Ohlata, p. 170.

^ Hot Cane, 3 John, p. 128.

SHAWBURY. 137

assessment. Before Michaelmas 1203 Nigel fitz Robert was de-
ceased^ and apparently without issue^ for a third brother, viz.,

Richer be Shawburt or Richer fitz Robert now succeeded
to the estates of the family. The Pipe-Roll of 1203 exhibits
Richer de Sagbir as covering his assessment to the fourth Scutage
of King John by a Fine of 5 merks, the ordinary rate being 2
merks per fee. The same {loll shows Leticia, widow of Wido de
Shawbury, fining 5 merks that she might be allowed to marry
whom she would. At the Assizes of October 1203 (the very
Assizes at which her husband's murder was investigated), ^^Letida,
widow of Guido," was suing Richer fitz Robert for disseizing her
of a tenement in Schauberi. He had to pay half a merk damages,
and an amercement of double the sum. His sureties were John
and Richard de Withyford, Richard de ChesthuU, and Baldwin
Wischard.^

Richer de Shawbury's Fine for Relief was 10 merks. It does not
appear on the Rolls till the Summer of 1204, and then it appears
as if he fined as immediate successor of Wido de Shawbury, whose
heir he asserted himself to be.^ In the same year he paid a Fine
of 6 merks in discharge of his liability to the fifth scutage of King
John. To the sixth scutage, levied in 1205, Richer de Shaubury's
assessment was the ordinary quota for a knighf s-fee, viz. 2 merks.
It seems to have been paid at once.

Before September 1206 Richer de Shawbury had suffered out-
lawry and forfeiture for the murder of Maurice de Shawbury. This
does not appear directly from any cotemporary Record, but the fact
is clear from later evidences, and its date is proved by the Scutage*
Roll of 1206. King John's seventh Scutage was at the rate of 20«.
per fee. Richer de Shawbury was neither assessed nor exempted ;
but —

Thomas be Erdinton answers for a charge of 20^. ; — and this
must have been for Shawbury. This powerful favourite of King
John was now holding oflSce as Gustos or Sheriff of the two Coun-
ties of Shropshire and Staffordshire. The Charter or other special
Instrument by which the King invested him with Shawbury is not
I believe extant.^ A Tenure- Roll of the " Escheats of Gerard de
Thurnay," drawn up I think about the year 1212, has the following

^ Astizes, 5 John, m. 4.

3 Hot, Itnium, p. 211.

' Dugdale {Barofuiffe, II. Ill) quotes a
Chartulary or Charter, whereby King John
would seem to have granted Shawbury

and Wellington to Thomas de Erdington
in 1211 or 1212. Such a Charter, as re-
gards Shawbury at least, must have been
ex post factOy or confirmatory of a previ-
ous gift.

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138

SHAWBURY.

entry. — " Thomas de Erdinton holds Sachebur of the gift of King
John^ and owes the service of one knight."^

The course of Erdington's dealings with Shawbary is briefly bnt
not quite accurately sketched in a retrospective presentment of the
Bradford Jurors at the Assizes of 1221.— *^ The Vill of Shaubir*
was an Escheat of the Lord King ; and King John gave it to Thomas
de Erdinton, and Thomas gave it to his son Peter^ who demised it
for a term to Heniy de Audley. It is worth 100*. {per annum). ^'

It will be sufficient to state here^ in explanation of this account^ that
there was at least an intention on the part of Thomas de Erdington
to make over Shawbury to his eldest son Peter. Peter died without
issue^ while on a Crusade, and was succeeded by his brother Egi-
dius. Both Peter and Egidius had in turn some transactions about
Shawbury with Henry de Audley ; and Audley was seized of the
Manor for a number of years. The nature and legality of these trans-
actions were afterwards questioned, with what result we shall in
due course see.

Thomas de Erdinton^ it will be remembered, died on March 20,
1218, having been shorn a Monk.^ It is not difficult to determine
what Crusade of this period must have been the one in which his
eldest son, Peter, perished. The year 1218 is the date given by
Matthew Paris for the departure of the Earls of Chester, Arundel^
and Winchester on that expedition which, in November of the year
following, resulted in the capture of Damieta.

That Egidias or Giles de Erdinton was in minority at the time of
his father's and brother's deaths there cannot be a doubt. We will
however follow the course of events in the order of their occurrence.

On June 25, 1218, " Richer de Shagebury fined 5 merks to have
pardon for his flight, and repeal of his outlawry, for the murder of
Maurice de Shagebury.'' The Sherifi^ of Salop having taken secu-
rity for the Fine, was ordered to give him the King's letters patent
of pardon.* The Writ containing such order was tested by the Earl
Marshal ; but on July .8, 1222, Richer de Saghebiri fined 40^. for
letters under the King's own Seal, similar to those which he had
under Seal of the Earl Marshal during the King's minority. This
Fine is entered on the Roll as belonging to Buckinghamshire.^
Whatever was its effect, it worked no restitution for the Outlaw^ in
respect of his Shropshire estate.

On May 1, 1224, the King enjoins the Sherifi^ of Shropshire that

1 Testa de NevUl, p. 56, b.

2 Supra, Vol. Vn. p. 250.

' Rot Finium^ Vol. T. p. 14.
* Ibidem, p. 90.

SHAWBUET. 189

he should give to Henry de Audley such seizin of the Manor of
Shaghebiry^ as the said Henry had^ before the ruptnre between the
King and his Barons.^ The allusion must be to the close of John's
reign. Shortly after this, Qiles de Erdinton appears with at least
an asserted interest in Shawbury. A Writ of May 30^ 1225^ ap-
points him a day (viz. the octaves of Trinity Sunday) to appear
before the King, wherever the Court may be, to have or produce his
warranty of the land which he holds of the King in Sauebiry.^ At
this time then Giles de Erdinton's claim to Shawbury was only pro-
blematical. Henry III.'s confirmation of the various acquisitions
made by his faithful Servant, Henry de Audley, bears date, May 2,
1227. Inter alia it confirms the following, viz. '^Of the gift of
Egidius de Erdington the whole Manor of Schagebury with all its
appurtenances.'^*

On October 13, 1227, a Fine was levied whereby Boysia de
Cokerfeld (Plaintiff) releases for 20 merks to Henry de Audley,
all the right which she had in the name of dower to one-third of the
Manors of Saghebir*, Besseford, and Parva Wytheford. Roese de
Cokefield was, I should explain, widow of Thomas de Erdington.

I think it was in Michaelmas Term 1236, that Giles de Erdinton
first made an open move to recover Shawbury from Audley. He
adopted the process of mart d'ancestre, the main specific question
being ^' whether his Father Thomas had died seized of one canicate
and 12 virgates in Shagebiry, whereof Henry de Audithley was now
holding 1 carucate and 2 virgates, and Bertram Griffin was holding
10 virgates.'^ At the day of Trial both the said Tenants appeared
in Court at Westminster^ but Bertram Griffin called his Co-defend-
ant and Feoffor to warranty. Audley vouchsafed such warranty and
took upon himself the whole defence. His Plea was that no Assize
ought to be taken in this case, because Giles de Erdinton himself
had enfeoffed him in the whole premises by a Charter which he now
produced. The Charter was read in Court. It contained words to
the effect that '^ Giles gave and conceded and confirmed the whole
Manor of Shaghebiry, to Audley, with all such advantages and cir-
cumstances as Thomas, the Grantor's Father, held it of King John ;
to hold to Audley by performing the service of one knight, with all
forinsec services.'^ Audley further deposed that '^ Giles de Erdinton
had accepted his homage for Shawbury, and that since the sealing
of the above Charter he had performed the specified service to Er-
dinton ; that is, when the King had levied a scutage throughout

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Englandj he^ Audley, had paid 408. of such scutage to one William
Padir, a servant of Erdinton's^ at Wellington/'^

To all this Erdinton replied as follows : — " That when he executed
the above Charter to Audley^ he was under age^ and had no seizin
of his lands ; — also that when he accepted Audley's homage he was
a Minor. As to receiving the aforesaid service (the scutage of 40s,)
he denied it altogether. He offered the King a Fine of 20^. that
the truth of his assertions might be tested by Inquisition.'^

Audley rejoined^ affirming that '^ Erdinton was of full age when
he executed the Charter. This he offered to prove by wager of
battle^ and named one Henry Figun as his Champion.'' A day
(January 27^ 1287) was given to both parties to appear and hear
judgment at Westminster. Erdinton named William de Erdinton
(his Uncle, I think) his Attorney, or else Robert de Brumwic.
On January 20th, 1237, Audley essoigned his attendance in a
i\ plea de aiuiiendo judicio, against Giles de Erdinton. His Essoiffnoy

l| was Robert de Hasewic or Hanuns. The case was adjourned to the

Quinzaine of Easter. On that day I presume (viz. May 8, 1237) a
further day, viz. the octaves of Trinity (June 21, 1237), was given,
in their suit of mort d'ancestre, to Erdinton and Audley. The
Knights and others, who were to take the Inquest above alluded
^1 to, were to attend at Westminster, and report their findings on two

'' I issues, viz. as to Erdinton's age when he executed the above Deed,

I and, as to his receipt of 40s, scutage, as allied by Audley. The

I names of Richard de Middelhope, Robert de Stapieton, Henry de

^i Preme (Qy. Prene ?^), Nicholas de Wililey, and John de Beckbury

^^ were specified as being on the Inquest.

Somehow the matter was transferred from Westminster to the
hearing of the King himself. At Worcester, on October 15, 1287,
* the following Jury attended before the King, viz. Richard de Mid-

II delhop, William fitz Aer, Peter de Dudmaston, Richard de Leigh-

ton, Hugh de Upton, Peter de Eyton, Geoffrey de Overton, Robert
de Haughton, Thomas de Constantine, Simon de Haubercheyn,
1 1 Robert de Gyrros, Adam de Beysin, and Ingelard de Acton. Their

'* names are important as showiiig what a weighty matter this had

become, for they were representatives of the chief knightly families
in the County, and had been empanelled by consent of both Liti-

' The allasion must be either to the ton nor any other supposable Lord of

Scatage of Brittany in 1230, or that of Shawbury had been assessed to any Sou-

Foitoa in 1231. Both were at the rate tage since Thomas de Erdinton's assess-

of 3 merks or 40*. per fee. It is remark- meut in 1206 (supra, p. 137).
able however that neither GKles de Erdiu- ' Compare Vol. VI. p. 81, note 6.

SHAWBURY. 141

gants. The questions pat to these Jurors were substantively what
we have been led to expect by the preliminaries^ except that Erdin-
ton's Charter is described as conveying a carucate and 12 acres
(not virgates) to Audley ; and except that the scutage referred to
is specified as that which followed the King's return from Brittany ,
by which we must understand the scutage technically known as that
of Poitou^ in 1231. The Jurors' answers are very curious and in-
structive. They said that " after the death (they meant the out-
lawry) of Richer de Shagebury^ who had held the land in question^
and who had suffered forfeiture^ Thomas de Erdinton^ then Sheriff^
seized it into the King's hand^ and held it till the King^ John^ gave
it to the said Thomas pro homagio. Then Thomas promised the
land to his son Peter^ and actually gave it to him before he (Tho-
mas) died ; and Peter had sometime actual possession thereof^ but
whether this was before or after his father's death the Jurors could
not determine. Afterwards Peter caused himself to be signed with
the cross, but before he set out for the Holy Land^ he demised {tra-
(Adit) the land to Henry de Audley^ to farm for a certain term.
Peter died during the Crusade. Afterwards Giles, Peter's brother,
went and received Audley's homage, and the Jurors were fully as-
sured that, at the moment, Giles was under 21 years of age. This
they knew from a circumstance (given), viz. that, after the said act of
homage, Giles, being called to warranty by one William de Norfolk
(who was unpleaded for certain lands held under Giles), appeared
before the Justiciars de Banco in the Curid Regis, but was found
to be under age, so that the said suit had been a remanet till Giles
did actually come of age."

Further the Jurors plainly declared {bene dicunt) that "they
could not comprehend how Erdinton's servant could have received
40s. scutage from Audley, as alleged ; for that Audley had personally
served in the expedition in question,^ and had had, as they believed,
the usual letters of scutage."

As to whether Erdinton was seized of his other lands (and so was
ostensibly if not actually of age) when he received Audley's homage,
the Jurors knew not.

Here the cause seems to have been adjourned. On a subsequent
occasion the Jurors were summoned to reappear on June 6, 1238;
because they had not clearly stated {nil certum dicunt) whether
Peter had had actual possession {posuit se in terrd) before or after
his father's death.

* We have had categorical proof of this (Vol. VII. p. 184).

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It was not however till July 1^ 1289^ that the Jurors were again
got together. They then certified on oath that Peter de Erdinton
had had no seizin during his father's life^ but that Thomas had died
seized of the premises.^ The judgment now given remains as a
testimony of the majesty of the law^ even when administered by so
weak a monarch as Henry III. and in the case of a favourite like
Audley. — Consideraium est quod Egidius recuperat seisinam 9uam,
et Henricus in misericordid.

During the course of this Trials Roger de Harpecot and Bertram
GrifSn had appeared in Court and declared that they staked no-
thing on the findings of the above Jurors. The former held Char*
ters entitling him to the receipt of 78. rent in Preston^' which was
a sub-tenure involved in the disputed premises. The latter held a
virgate of land and the abutment of a stank^ in a similar ratio.^

A Tenure-Boll of the year 1240 is a useful supplement to the
above proceedings. It gives Egidius de Erdinton as Tenant in capite
of a knight's-fee in Schagebury.^ One advantage seems to have
resulted to Giles de Erdington firom the length of time during which
the status of Shawbury bad been doubtful. The Manor had been
omitted in the Scutage- Rolls ; and the Officers of the Exchequer
seem never to have thought of renewing its undoubted liability to
such assessments.

On February 29^ 124f4^ Giles de Erdinton obtained the King's
Charter of Free- Warren in Schawebury and in Besford^ then re-
puted to be a member of Shawbury. The Charter further allowed
him to hold a weekly Market on Thursdays in his Manor of Wel-
lington ; and also a yearly Fair of three days' duration^ viz. the vig^l^
the day^ and the morrow of St. Barnabas (June 10, 11^ and 12).^

The Bradford Hundred-Roll^ of 1255 describes Shawbury as fol-
lows. — " Giles de Erdinton holds Chabur' with its appurtenances^
viz. two hides, by doing for the King the service of one knight, in

> This proves that Peter de Erdinton's
demise to Audley must have been bet>ween
March 20, 1218 (the day of his Father^s
death) and November of the same year
(when Peter must have left Sngland for
Palestine). His object was doubtless to
raise a sum of money for his immediate
uses.

' Preston Brockhirst is meant. Part
of that Manor was now accounted a mere
member of Shawbury.

' All these particulars have been co-
evally extracted from the various Bolls to

which they properly belonged, and embo-
died in two membranes of a Coram Seffe
Boll (numbered <' 45 " in the present offi-
cial catalogue). The order however in
which the different processes are recited
on these two membranes is not that in
which they occurred. I have restored the
real order in the text, guided partly by
duplicate and dated entries on the Placita
Bolls, and partly by internal evidence.

* Testa de Nevill, p. 45.

» Rot Chart. 28 Hen. III., m. 4.

<< Hot, Hundred. II. p. 66.

SHAWBUEY.

143

war-time^ to wit, one knight for Sauburi and for Welinton. He
has free-warren and a Park in Sauburi^ by the King's gift and by
Charter^ since the last Her of the Justices at Salop^ seven years
ago.^ Now this Manor was given by King John to Sir Thomas de
Herdinton^ father of the said Qiles^ as freely as the^King himself
held iV

When Shawbury is thus estimated to contain two hides^ it must
be taken to include half Little Withyford. Such a supposition
would be an exact reproduction of the Domesday estimate, which
gives 14 hides to Shawbury and half a hide to the now annexed
share of Little Withyford.*

What part Oiles de Erdington may have taken in the Civil War
of 1264-5 I do not know. The innumerable occasions on which
he was put in commission as a Justice of Assize, or to try special
causes, indicate an active and experieiiced Jurist. These commis-
sions begin in 1250 and extend continuously till 1262. In 1263
and 1264 he was not thus employed, in Shropshire at least; but
in 1265 his judicial services were put in requisition both by the
Barons during the King's captivity, and by the King himself after
his restoration. He was similarly employed till the middle of
1268.3

From all this I judge that a feud which he had with that noted
Boyalist, James de Audley, was personal rather than political. On
January 20, 1266, Giles de Erdinton appeared before the King at
Northampton, to prosecute a suit of trespass. Audley was accused
of seizing corn and bay in Erdinton's lands at Shawbury and Bes-
ford, of arresting Erdinton's servant and carrying him off to Bed
Castle, of breaking the fence of Shawbury Park and the stank of
Besford Vivary. James de Audley had already made several de-
faults in appearing to the charge. He was still absent, and the
suit was pending in Hilary Term 1267, when Withyford is men-
tioned as one of Erdinton's pillaged estates, and William Burgylun
and Robert de Wykeshal were impleaded as associates and instru-
ments of Audley. After this 1 hear no more of it. Perhaps this
is owing to Erdington's death, which must have taken place be-
tween June 1268 and March 1269. On March 15, 1269, the King
orders that the Executors of Giles de Erdinton, '^ lately deceased,"

^ The allusion is to Boger de Thurkel-
by's Iter in November 1248. I suppose
the King's prerious Charter was then pro-
duced, in warranty of Erdington's exer-

cise of the privileges which it conveyed.

* Supra, pp. 71, 72.

3 See JDugdale't Warwickshire (I'ho-
mas), p. 889. Baronage^ II. 111.

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SHAWBURY.

shall have possession of his goods^ security being first taken for his
debts to the Crown. In November 1269 and September 1272, —

Henry de Erdinoton, son and heir of Giles, occurs as in pos-
session of his estates.^ In October 1272, Henry Gaithare acknow-
ledges himself to have released to Henry de Erdington a rent of 3^.,
which the said Henry and his heirs were bound to pay for a tene-
ment in Osbemesmore and Polecroft.* Concerning Henry de Er-
dington I have little to add to what has been said elsewhere con-
cerning both him and his family.^ He was a Benefactor to Shaw-
bury Church, long before impoverished by its Impropriators, the
Canons of Haghmon. — As Henf y de Erdinton, Knight, he gave to
God and to St. Mary, for the sustenance of the Chaplain who
should be celebrating divine services in the Church of St. Mary of
Shawbury, in pure almoign and for the souls' health of himself,
his ancestors, and successors, — he gave a messuage and curtilage
which Robert the Miller had formerly held under him, together
with one meadow, and a virgate of land, whereof 7 acres lay upon
Crokeforlonge, towards Toret (Qy. Moreton Toret ?) ; and 9 acres
lay between the Abbot of Lilleshall's land of Cherleton, and Cresse-
wal-broke. Witnesses, Sir John de Ercalewe, Sir John fitz Aer,
and Sir Robert Corbet of Moreton, Knights.*

Henry de Erdinton, Lord of Shawbury, quitclaimed to the Canons
of Lilleshall all right of common which he had in their Grange at
Cherleton. Witnesses, Sir Roger (read Robert) Corbet; Roger
Tyrel, John fitz Aer, John de Erkelowe, knights ; and Hugh de Bo-
linghall.^

Henry de Erdinton died in 1282, when the Sheriff of Shropshire
and Warwickshire were ordered to seize his lands into the King's
hand.*

Matilda de Erdinton, widow of Henry, had Shawbury in dower.
She was daughter and coheir of Nichola d'AIbini by her husband,
Roger de Someri of Dudley ; and the said Nichola was one of the
Coheiresses of the Albinis Earls of Arundel. The Bradford Tenure-
Roll (about 1285) speaks as follows of Shawbury. —

^^ Matilda widow of Henry de Erdynton holds the Manor of
Schawbere with its members, viz. half Little Withyford as her
dower; and she ought to hold of the King, in capUe sine medio, by
service of one Knight^s-fee : and the said Manor was given by King

1 Itot Finium, II. 484.

' AMizeSf 66 Hen. III., m. 2.

^ Duffdale, nt supra.

* Haughmond Chartulary, fo. 197, b.

* MonaHicon, VI. 264, No. XI,

* Originalia, I. 40.

SHAWBURY. 145

John^ by his Charter^ to Thomas de Erdinton^ as an Escheat of the
Sling's through forfeiture of Richard Scawbere, formerly Lord of
the said Manor. And Ivo Sulton holds half Little Withyford of the
aforesaid Matilda. And the Vill of Besford is a member of this
Manor^ but it is in Pymhill Hundred. And she (Matilda) holds her
free court twice a year in the said Manor. And Roger Pride, a
Burgess of Shrewsbury, holds the vill of Besford of the aforesaid
MatUda."

At the Assizes of 1292 the Bradford Jurors represented Egidins de
Shawbwry as exercising free- warren in Shawbury. This must have
been a mere mistake; for Matilda de Erdinton was still living and
John de Bifield was her second husband. Her son and heir was —
Henry ds Erdington (II.), who coming of age in 1295, had
livery of his Father's lands, and who succeeded to his Mother's
estates in 1302. The said Henry is entered as Lord of Shawbury
in the Nomina VUlarum of 1316.

For further particulars of him and his descendants I refer else-
where.^

Of Undertenants in this Manor T have hardly any notices,
which do not appear elsewhere. Besford too, though accounted a
member of Shawbury, will hereafter be treated as originally a sepa-
rate Manor. It appears that Robert Corbet of Moreton, who died
in 1800, had been, jointly with his wife Matilda, enfeofited, not only
in Besford but in something at Shawbury. Their Feoffor in each
case was Roger Pride, but the Record which I quote is too defaced
to yield further information.^

Again, in the time of Edward II. (1307-1827), Henry de Erding-
ton conveyed 3 messuages, 2 mills, a carucate and half virgate of
land in Shawbury and Withyford to Robert de Staunton. This was
without license of the Crown, and in 1328 John de Witheford, son
and heir to Robert de Staunton, was questioned as to his tenant-
right. An Inquest which sat at Newport on March 4, 1329, valued
the messuages at 3«. 44,, the Mills at £1. 6^. 8^^. and the land at
£1, 68, 8rf. per annum, and found that the Crown would suffer no
injury if these " parcels of the Manor of Shawbury " were suffered
to remain with John de Witheford and his heirs, they rendering due
services. The Manor of Shawbury, worth 100*. per annum, would
still remain with Henry de Erdington.^

1 IhigdaUs "Baronage^ II. 112. Dug-
daU% Warwickshire, pp. 88&-891. Par-
liamentary'WriU, IT. 817.

8 InquisiHofu, 29 Edw. I,, No. 46.
' Inquisitions, 3 Bdw. III. ; 2nd Num-
bers, No. 35.

vin. 19

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SHAWBURY.

CHURCH OF ST. MARY.

That this was a Saxon foandation^ we conclude from the mention
of a Church and a Priest in the Domesday notice of the Manor. It
included in its Parish the afterwards distinct Chapelries of Acton
Beynald^ Moreton Corbet^ Grinsill^ and Great Withyford ; and, in
each of these viUs, Chapels and Cemeteries were founded, in the
reign of Stephen or Henry II., by the Lords of the respective fees.
We have a very remarkable certificate of Bishop Roger de Clinton
(1130-1148) showing that he himself remembered the time when
three of these Manors were without Chapels, and that he himself
had consecrated them. His object however was by this certificate
to guard the rights of the Mother Church, and he specially records
that such lands and increased endowment (adcrementum) , as the
Lords of the Fees had offered, when he consecrated the new Ceme-
teries, were offered to the Mother Church. It will be observed how
exactly Bishop Clinton's views on these matters coincided with those
of the cotemporary Bishop of Hereford, in the parallel case of Mor-
viUe and its Chapels. Other remarks as to the time and causes
of these great parochial changes I refer to, rather than reiterate.^
Bishop Clinton's Certificate I must give as I find it. —

Roffenis, Dei gratid Episcopus Cestrue, omnUnts filiis Sancia
Ecclesia, sabitem. Testimonium perhibemus quod anteqiiam fierent
Cimiteria vel CapeWe apod Actonam et Withtforde,^ utraqve villa
fait matris ecclesia de Shawsberia. Et quando cimiteria consecra^
vimus, terras et adcrementum, qtus Domini feodi fecerunt, matri eccle-
sue de Shawsberia concesserunt, et nos ei conjfirmavimus. Valete,

Another certificate by the same Prelate is equally impcnrtant, though
it relates only to the subjection of Moreton to Shawbury.^

Hogertis, Dei gratid Cestrue Episcopus Archidiacono, qui pro
tempore fuerit, Decanis, Sacerdotibus, atqtte universis Sancta Dei
EcclesuB filiis, salutem et perpetuam benedictionem. Qui pastores in
clero, judices in pqpido, vocamur et sumus, ut ratio et equitas natu*
ralis exiffit, unicuiquejus suum conservare debemus. Eapropter eccle-
siam de Mortona et Cimiterium cum omnibus eorum pertinentiis sua
matri ecclesia de Shauburia omnino et ejus possessori committimus,
et, utfiliam matri, debiti submittimus, adjicientes et nostrd auctori-
tate confirmantes ut de cetero, pro paupertate sud, consuetudines et

» Supra, Vol. I. pp. 36, 87, 207 ; Vol.
VI. p. 319.
' Another Copy adds Mortonam here.

" Haughmond Chart., fos. 145, 197 ;
whence alao are taken the other Charters
quoted in the Sequel.

THE CHURCH.

147

auxUia nostra, more capeUa, annuatim persolvat} Predpimtis eiiam
ut nuUi homini liceat hoc, a nobis testificatum et nosiro scripto con-
firmatum, turbar€y miimere^ sive in aliquo mutare. Hits testibus ; —
Ronn Abbate^ Guilelmo Priore^ Rogero Decano.*

The next Document which I shall quote is undoubtedly a Letter
of Theobald Archbishop of Canterbury to Walter Durdent Bishop
of Coventry. Its date must therefore be between 1149 and 1159.

r. Dei gratid Cantuar, Arch., totius Anglue Primas, et Aposto-
Item Sedis Legatus, venerabUi fratri et amico, W, Coventrensi Epi-
scopo, salutem. Qiue divinis sunt mancipata servitiis, justvm est ut
ea ipsis locis, quibus rationabiliter concessa sunt, aucioritate qud
fungimur confirmemus. Quare Actonam et Withiford, super quibus
testimonium Rogeri quondam Episcopi Cestria in litteris suis inspexp-
mus, (quod antequam Cimiterue sive CapeUa fierent apud Actonam
et Withiford, ambm vUke predicts fwerunt deparochid de Sachesbu-
via,) juxta yus testimonium, ecclesuB de Sachesburia in elemosynam
perpetuam concedimus et presentis scripti munimine confirmamus,
prohibentes sub anathemate ne quis ausu temerario irritare seu ir^r*
marepresumat quod tantd est auctoritate roboratum. Valete}

It is probable that this interference of the Primate was elicited
by the Canons of Haughmond^ who, as we have seen^ obtained the
Advowson of Shawbury from Robert fitz Nigel in the time of Bishop
Durdent^ and who were naturally anxious to preserve the rights of
the Mother Church.

I have already quoted one of Bishop Peche's Confirmations of
Shawbury Church to Haughmond Abbey .^ I now give an abstract
of another Confirmation by the same Prelate^ which I conceive to
have passed soon after his consecration^ that is in 1161.

Ricardus, Dei gratid Coventrensis Episcopus^ 8fc. Sciatis me conces-
sisse (to Haghmon Abbey) ecclesiam de Sagesbur' sicut predecessor
noster bona memoria Walterus Episcopus earn concessit et carta
sud conftrmavit, Testibus, Rogero Archidiacono Salojf, Willielmo
Decano, Richard de Cur am (probably Curzun), Nigello Capellano,

^ Moreton Chapel was to pay such
Episcopal dues aa iia slender endowment
would allow.

2 Doubtless Banulf Abbot of Shrows-
buiy, whom we thus conclude to have*
succeeded before 1147, when Bishop Clin-
ton joined the Crusade in which he died.
He has occurred to us twice before under
the presumed dates of 1138-9 and 1147,

which are exactly the limits of the above
Deed. (Supra, Vol. V. p. 170 ; Vol. VII.
p. 353.)

■ • * Probably the Prior of Shrewsbury,
and the Bural Dean of Salop Deanery.

^ Compare a Letter from the same to
the same (Hist. Shrewsbury, II. 108, note
8).

^ Supra, p. 183.

148

SHAWBUBY.

Magisiro Roberto de Haid, Magiairo Terrico, Magistro Waliero de
Tilebid (read TilburiS)^ Bicardo de Dallam,^ clerids domim EpiscopL

A third Certificate of the same Prelate relates more especially to
the Chapel of Moreton^ but shall nevertheless be cited here. Its
grammatical inaccuracies (probably due to some Transcriber) will
not destroy its meaning and purport. —

Ricardtts, Dei gratia Caventrensis Episcopus ArcJddiacono et
Decanis Salopesburia et omnibus tarn clerids quam laicis in Episco-
patu stio constitutis, salutem. Sciatis quod Capella (read Capellam)
de Mortuna, de feodo Petri filio Terreti (i. e. Toreti) , qwBy sicut ex
multorum assertione et testimonio credibilium virorum dedicimus, efi
Cantariam habuit temporibus predecessorum nostrorum^ efi ab episca-
palibus consttetudinibus inperpetuum liber am et quietam fore conce-
dimus, salvo in omnibus jure matris ecclesim de Shauburia, in cujus
parochid prmdicta fundata est Capella. Hanc autem concessumem
nostram, quiafirmam et stabHemfore decrevimus, ipsam in presenii
scripto coi\firmamus. Hiis testibus, Edmundo Cavenirue et Rogero
Salopesbury Archidiacono, Abbate de Haghmon, ifC,

Pope Alexander III.^s Confirmation to Haughmond^ dated May
14, 1172, enumerates the "Church of St. Mary of Schahebury''
among the possessions of the Abbey. .

A fourth Charter of Bishop Peche indicates a fourth Chapd
(GrinsUl) as subject to Shawbury Church; and shows that that
Prelate granted an appropriation of the Mother Church and its De-
pendencies to Haughmond Abbey. This Charter has been already
quoted under Condover and Lee Botwood,^ and been assigned to a
late period in Bishop Peche^s Episcopacy. Of Shawbury it treats
as follows. —

Ricardus, Dei gratid Coventrensis Episcopus, ifc. Noverit nni-
versitas vestra nos de espresso assensu CapituU nastri appropriasse
Monasterio de Haghmon, et actualiter tradidisse Abbati et Monetchis
efusdem, ecclesiam de Sagesbury cum omnibus CapelHs suis, scilicet
de Acton, Grineshill, Morton, fVidrford, cum omnibus pertinencUs
suis inperpetuum.

It appears that Bishop Hugh de Novant ratified the act of his
predecessor in allowing the Canons of Haughmond to appropriate
the Rectories of Shawbury and Cheswardine. His Charter bears
date '' Apud Lichfeld' in crastino Sancti dementis anno quo Bex
Angliffi Ricardus Jerusalem profectus est :'' in other words, it passed

^ Became Dean of liohfield in succefl-
sion to William, before the dose of Bishop
Peche*! £piBcopaoy>

^ ' ' The word et seems in each
dundant.
* Supra, Vol. VI. pp. 28, 246.

oasei^

THB CHURCH. 149

on November 24^ 1190. There were present R. (Robert) Arch-
deacon of Chester^ A. (Alan) Archdeacon of Stafford^ R. (Richard)
Archdeacon of Salop> Master Robert de Salop^ Ralph Chaplain,
Master H., Philip de Welinton, Master Philip Sanson, Philip de
Hereford, Richard de Badof, and Phdip de Runton. The Bishop
allows the appropriation of the Church of Saubury, which the
Canons had ^^ by perpetual concession of Robert fitz Nigel, lord of
the fee,^' and the Church of Cheswordin, which they had by perpe-
tual concession of John le Strange.^

Another copy of this Charter appropriates Shawbury Church,
'' together with its Chapels.^' It provides that the Canons shall
present fit Chaplains to the Church, and shall assign them a proper
sustenance. The residue they may appropriate to their own uses^
and the ^' entertainment of guests.'^

Early, as I think, in the thirteenth centiuy, Alice daughter of
Robert de Shawbury gave to Haughmond Abbey a noke of land in
Shawbury, for the behoof of the Sexton of Shawbury {ad opus Sa-
cristiB de Shawbery) . Witnesses, William de Ercalew, Stephen de
Stanton, Robert fitz Aer, Baldwin de Shawbury, and Stephen de
Pimley.

About the middle of the same century there was an agreement
between the Abbot of Haughmond and the Vicar of Shawbury of
the one part, and Sir Giles de Erdinton of the other part. Sir
Giles gives the Church and a virgate of land to the Yicar, for the
time being, as Wido de Shawbury had given the same. He also
allowed the Vicar pannage for 80 swine, and common pasture for 6
oxen in the bosc of Hemmerleg and The Heymore. The Abbot
quitclaimed all right in the latter. Witnesses, Sir Thomas Corbet
(of Cans I presume), Robert his brother, Thomas de Rossall.

All this time the Abbot of Shrewsbury had been entitled to two-
thirds of the tithes of Shawbury demesne-lands. The origin of this
right was perhaps not definitely known, even to the Monks them-
selves,^ but analogy teaches us that it must have been by grant of
one of the early Lords of the Manor. We have here then an in-
stance of that power which the Normans undoubtedly exercised on
their first arrival, viz. of alienating the tithes, or parts of the tithes,
of a Saxon Parish Church, and bestowing them arbitrarily on some
Norman Foundation.^ The earliest Episcopal Confirmation,* which
treats fully and exhaustively of the tithes due to Shrewsbury Abbey

» HarL MS. 3868, fo. 9. I » Vide supra, Vol. VI. pp. 278, 279.

' Supra, p. 132. I * Salop Ghartularj, No. 829.

150

SHAWBUBT.

in Liclifield Diocese, is by Bishop Peche. It mentions distinctly
''two parts of the tithes of the demesnes of Saubury'' as due to the
Abbey ; and it mentions them in such a sequence as would incline
me to think that they had been originally granted by Hamo Peyerel.

About the middle of the thirteenth century the Abbot of Shrews-
bury executed a perpetual lease' of these tithes of Shawbury, and of
other tithes, to the Abbot of Haughmond. — He conceded, viz. two-
thirds of the great and small tithes of all demesnes of Shawbury,
which he had from time immemorial, and other tithes at Gulidon ;
— to hold to the Abbot of Haughmond in perpetual farm and for
an annual rent of 17s, 4</. Witnesses, Sir Banulph Pain then Of-
ficial of Salop, Master Alan Cox, Master Alan Corbet, and Master
Richard de Kagworthe.^

Sir Henry de Erdington's grant to Shawbury Church has been
already cited.' It passed about 1272-82, and must be taken as an
augmentation of the Vicarage.

On June 4, 1290, Adam Schappe, Priest, quitdaimed to the
Church of Shawbury all right to half a virgate which " Henry de
Erdinton, formerly Lord of Shawbuiy,^' gave to the aforesaid Church
" towards the maintenance of one Chaplain, celebrating divine ser-
vices in the same Church.^' Witnesses, Roger de Preston, Jevon
de Mocleton, William Horde, and William Crasset.

The Taxation of 1291 values the Churdi of Schawebur', in Salop
Deanery, at £6. ISs. 4d. per anwum? This was the Rectory. The
Assessors of the Ninth, in 1841, quoted this Taxation, but reduced
the parochial tax to £6. They said that the Church was rather
highly taxed (satis aUe taxata), and that the Glebe and hay-tithes
(not now computable) constituted 18«. 4sd. of the Taxation.^ The
Abbot of Haughmond, be it observed, was head of the Commis-
sioners on whose information the Assessors decided the amount of
these assessments. Hence probably the unusual remark about the
Church-Taxation being high.

In the Vahr of 1534-5, Leonard Pontesby, Vicar of Shawbury,
is set down as having a gross income of £7. 10«. per annt<m,.charge-
able with %s. for Synodals, and 6^. 8J. for Procurations. The Ab-
bot of Haughmond received £%, 6«. %d. for the ferm of Shawbery
Rectory.^ I find no notice of any set-off or chaise on this item,
as paid to or received by the Abbot of Shrewsbury. Probably the

^ Salop Ghartulary, No. 398. Haugh-
mond Chartulary, fo. 196, b.
^ Supra, p, 144.

3 Pope Nick, TaxoHon, p. 247, b.

* Inquii. Nonarum, p. 184.

• Valor Eoclenatticut, III. 186, 192.

iMBrfSmwJ^ ::3Mmi.'-.

UPPINGTON. * 161

fee-farm rent^ above alluded to^ had been bought up or become ob-
solete.

EARLY INCUMBENTS.

Robert^ Priest op Shawbury, who occurs late in the twelfth
century,^ may have been last Rector or first Vicar.

Adam^ Vicar op Shawbury, occurs as a Witness of Deeds in
the last half of the thirteenth century.

Richard, Vicar of Shawbury, died Sept. 3, 1322, and on Oct.
21 following, —

Robert be Eoelton, Priest, was admitted at presentation of
the Abbot and Convent of Haghmon. On July 28, 1336, certain
disputes between the said Abbot and Sir Robert, perpetual Vicar of
Shawbury, were settled. It was agreed that the Vicar should have
for life all heriots pertaining to the Church, and tithes of all gardens
cultivated by the spade, but the Abbot was to have the tithes of all
gardens, and the hay-tithes of Welmedowe, at Cherleton, and of all
meadows hereafter enclosed.

Hugh Parrok was Vicar in 1359 and died in 1367, when, on
Oct. 5, the Bishop instituted —

Robert de Haston, Priest, at the presentation of Haughmond
Abbey.

Sir William Lopinton occurs as Vicar fix)m 1415 to 1427,
when he died.

?lippinj^n.

'^The same Gerard holds Opetone. Goduin held it (in Saxon
times). Here are ii hides, geldable. The (arable) land is (enough)
for V ox-teams. In demesne are ii teams ; and (there are) vi neat-
herds, v Villains, and iiii Boors, with ii ox-teams. Here is a
Wood, a league in length, and therein is one Haye. In King Ed-
ward's time the Manor was worth 25«. {per annum). Now it is
worth 31*. He (Gerard) found it waste.'^^

In dealing with the early history of Uppington it is necessary to
repeat that Hamo Peverel, in right of his wife Sibil de Tomai, suc-
ceeded to the Domesday estates of Gerard de Tornai, and held them
during the reign of Henry I. Among these estates was Uppington.

1 Supra, p. 134. ^ Domesday^ fo. 258, b, 2.

152 UPPINGTON.

Among the vills which Harao Peverel gave to Shrewsbuiy Abbey
was Crudgington, a member of High Ercall. It was not therefore
a Tomai estate^ but was held in capUe by Hamo Peverel^ in his own^
not in his wife's right. Hamo Peverel, while yet living, destined
William Peverel (his nephew) and Walcheline Maminot to be his
heirs. He died about 1138, and these yonths, acting in concert,
seized on all his estates, whether held in his own or his wife's right.
Walcheline Maminot, evidently aware of the unsoundness of his
title to Uppington, and depending rather on his right to Crudg-
ington, had it not passed to Shrewsbury Abbey, negotiated an ex-
change with the Monks. In short he gave them Uppington for
Crudgington, as the following curious and coeval memorandum cer-
tifies. —

Notum sit 8fc. quod Hamo Peverel dedii Abbatia villain qtuB dicitur
CrucheUuna, sunit ipse earn de Rege tenebaty Walchelino et WU-
lielmo Peverel concedentibm. Post mortem vero Hamonis requisivit
Walchelinus Maminoht Abbatem et Monachosut sibi concederent su*
pramemoratam terram in eacangium de Upetund, concedente WU^
lielmo Peverel, tali conditione qtwd si aliquis eam calumniaret, Wal-
chelinus eam de calumnid adquietaret, sui^ autem ewcangium ad
valens ad commodum monachorum daret. Quod si prtBdictam Oppi-
tonam Monachis adquietare non posset, nee ewcangium dare, predic^
tam terram, scilicet Cruchelionam cum Slepd, sine labore et calum-
nid redderet. Testes, WUlielmus Peverel, et Milo de Bekhamp, et
Paganus frater ejus, et Willielmus de Belchamp, et Fulco de Lisures,
et Hugo de Lisures, Rogerus de Felgeres, Rogerus de la Haia et Ste-
phanus frater ejus, Bemerus Cappellanus, Rogerus filius Warini,
WilUelmus de Hetlee, Robertus de Meolebume et multi alii.^

The Empress Maud saw nothing objectionable in an exchange
which was negotiated by one, and approved by another, of her most
resolute Partisans. In her Confirmation of 1141 to Shrewsbury
Abbey she says, — Lecangium vero quod Monachi et Walchelinus
Maminot fecerunt de Crugeltona pro Optund, concedente WilUelmo
Peverel, confinno, et prtecipio utfirmum sit et stabile.^

It is next observable that Henry II.'s Confirmation of 1155, though
it concedes to the Monks of Shrewsbury whatever had been reason-
ably given to them since Henry I.'s death, and though it is attested
by Walcheline Maminoth himself, does not mention, much less
sanction, the above exchange.

' Siti excanffium ad' valens, that is an
eqaiyaleDt, of, or in, his own fief.

s Salop Chartulary, No. 28.
3 Ibidem, No. 40.

UPPINGTON. 153

This silence has its meanings and I venture in this instance^ with
confidence^ to supply the want of positive evidence by something of
conjecture. I know for certain that King Henry II. ignored the
claims of Hamo Peverel's heirs to the estates of Sibil de Tornai.
Consequently I assume that neither Walcheline Maminot^ nor the
representatives of William Peverel (Hamo's now deceased Nephew),
could warrant the above exchange to Shrewsbury Abbey. The next
step is not a coigecture but a fact, viz. that the Abbey recovered
Crudgington, and that Uppington lapsed to the Crown, like other
Tornai Escheats, from failure of any right heir of Gerard de Tornai.
To show what Henry II. eventually did with Uppington, I must
trace the career of one who may be considered as the type of a class.

From the employments and services of —

RooEB MussuN we gather what kind of character and person was
ordinarily selected by our early Kings as a Tenant by Serjeantry.

The Shropshire Pipe-Roll of 1162 introduces Roger Mushunte as
a Landholder in the County and as favoured by the King. He is
excused by Writ Royal his quota {43,) of the Danegeld then levied,
bat what was his specific estate at that period we do not know. In
1166 the Sheriff of Shropshire had paid 20«. in the Livery or main-
tenance of Roger Mussun who had been employed in convoying
horses, — doubtless those horses which had been purchased from the
stud of Oervase Goch for the King's use, and sent to Normandy.^
Again in 1173 the Sheriff had paid £2* 138. 44. to Roger Muissun,
towards conveying the King's horses over sea, and by the King's
direction.

About June 1175 Roger Mussim was appointed Fermor of the
Staffordshire Manor of Mere, then in the King's hand. At Mi-
chaelmas he rendered account at the Exchequer of 40«., being a
quarter's ferm of the said Manor. He also accoimted 40«. more
for certain receipts from Trentham. In this same year, as I sup-
pose, Roger Mufison attests two Confirmations of William fitz Alan
(II.) to Buildwas Abbey. And it was doubtless in this or the fol-
lowing year that the King, visiting Shropshire, rewarded Roger
Mussun's services by that grant of lands which I have before
alluded to,^ and which I now set forth verbatim. —

Henrictts Rex Anglue et Dux NormannuB et Aquitanue et Comes
Andegavue, ArchiepiscopiSj EpiscopiSy ^c, salutem. Sciatis me de-
dis9e, ^c, Rogero Mussun, servienii meo, et heredibus suis, terram de
UpUona pro 100 solidatis ierrce, qtue est sub Monte GUberti, qua

> • « Vide Bupra, Vd. II. pp. 110, 132.
VIII. 20

154 UPPINGTON.

fmi Hamonis Peverell, et in Heddiniond 50 soUdatas terruB qwg
fuerunt yuadem Hamonis Peverell, qtue suntjturta Burgam, ad tenen^
dum €08 de me et heredibus meis pro uno espervario soro annuatim
reddendo pro omni servicio, ^c> His TestibuSy Osberto Clerico de
Camerd ;^ Ricardo de Humet, Constabtdario ; Willielmo de Curd,
Dapifero;^ Ricardo Giffard; Widone de Sancto Walerico ; Randidfo
Poerio ;^ Hugone Pantulf; Eustachio filio Stephani Camerario ;
Roberto Mauduit Camerario; Thoma filio Odonis; Roberto Mona^^
cho filio Henrici de Damfront. Apud Salopiam.^

The relevance of fixing Roger Mussun^s service for Uppington
and Harrington as a Sore Sparrow-Hawk, will be evident when we
consider that Uppington was near the hawk-eyries of Mount Gil-
bert. At Michaelmas 1177 he accounts at the Exchequer for a
sum of £2. 8s. lid., which he had received for pannage of the
King's Forests in Shropshire. In 1185 he and Robert de Broc
had acted as Justices of the Forest and had held Fleas in Shrop-
shire. In 1188 he accounted at the Exchequer for £2. 4«. 5d.y
received for pannage of the Shropshire Forests, and in 1189 he ac-
counted for £4. 4«. 4J. received in like manner. All this time he
had been Fermor of Mere (in Staffordshire) , accounting regularly
£S per annum at the Exchequer.

The Pipe-Roll of 1190 exhibits no renewal of former trusts, but
proves that Roger Mussun must have fallen under the displeasure
of King Richard. He had fined, and had paid, a sum of 15 merks
for the King^s goodwill, — pro habendd benevolentid Regis. His
disgrace and his death will have followed hard on one another, for
before Michaelmas 1191, — Galiena widow of Roger Mussun, had
fined 100^. with the Chancellor (Longchamp) for license to marry
her daughters to whom she pleased. She had paid 40«. and owed
60«. of the sum.

But before I proceed with any account of Roger Mussun's suc-
cessors I should notice his two grants to Wombridge Priory, —
grants which gave the Canons such power in Uppington, that they
rested not till they had acquired the bulk of the Manor.

" For the souls^ -health of his Lord King Henry the Second, and
himself and his wife," Roger Mussun gave to the said Priory " the

' Osbert de Camera left England in
August 1176 with other persons who were
to escort the Frincees Johanna to Sicily.
The escort did not return till December.

2 William de Courci, Seneschal or Chief
Justice of Normandy, died there in 1176,

apparently before September.

> Bandulf Poer, Sheriff of Hereford-
shire from Michaelmas 1176 till Easter
1182.

* Wombridge Chartulary, TO. Upiuton,
No. ccxtL

TJPPINGTON. 155

Chapel of Uppingiou^' as that which was of his demesne and table
{sicut dominii et mensa m€€B,y Witnesses^ Richard^ Archdeacon of
Salop; Walter de Dunstanville, Clerk; Richard^ Dean of Salop;
Gilbert Mussun^ the Grantor's brother ; Philip, Parson of Welling-
ton; William de Uedley and his brothers, — Alan, Hamund, and
Richard; Pagan de Preston, and his brothers, — Eustace and Roger.*

Assigning the year 1189 as the proximate date of the aboye Deed
I cannot but view the following as cotemporary. '^ Roger Mussun
for the souls'-health of himself, his wife, Galiena, and his children,
gave to the same Priory all his waste and wood-land in Wichele, as
enclosed by a headland or furrow {forreS) , Witnesses, Richard,
Archdeacon of Salop; Walter de Dunstanville, Clerk ; Gilbert Mus-
sun, the Grantor's brother ; William de Hedley, and his brothers,
— ^Alan, Hamund, and Richard."*

We have a curious account of the seal which was originally ap-
pended to the first of the above Charters. It was round, of white
wax, and charged with the figure of a bird {pasceris), stretching
out its head and wings. Of the Legend, only the letters Roo'i
Mussun were apparent in the year 1346, when the seal was acci-
dentally broken.*

Galiena Mussuk, to whom I now return, paid successive in-
stalments of her Fine with the Chancellor, till in 1194 the whole
was discharged. It does not appear however that this Fine was
considered sufBcient. On King Richard's return from captivity,
she fined 5 merks more, '^for having possession of 100 solidates of
land in Oppinton and Addinton (Harrington) and Wutton and
HuUe,^ and for marrying her nine daughters, in which behalf she

' A strange ezpreesion; but meaning
probably that the Chapel was endowed
out of the Grantor's demesne.

' Chartulaiy (ut supra), No. ccxiij.
This Charter passed after Pope Urban' s
Boll of June 1187, which does not in-
clude the spedfio grant (see YoL YII. p.
364), and apparently in the lifetime of
King Henry, that is before July 6, 1189.
If the latter limit be doiibtful, I may add
that Bishop Noyant allowed the Canons
to appropriate the Chapel in 1190, and
that it had ere then fallen yacant.

' Chartulary (at supra), No. clxzx.

"• Ibidem, No. ccxr. The Charter was
on July 1, 1346, sent to Lichfield and ex-
hibited at the Deanery in the course of
some legal proceedings affecting Wom-

bridge Priory. The fracture of the Seal,
by accident, occasioned a Notary Public,
then present, to be employed in drawing
up a certificate of the disaster, and of what
the seal had been. The Wombridge Ca-
nons embodied this Certificate in their
Chartulary, The whole affair is curious,
and important, — as showing how essential
to the validity of a document was the pre-
servation of its seal. Probably Koger
Mussun's device was a hawk. Such a bird
would hardly be distinguisliable from a
sparrow on a Seal of the 12th century.

» By "Wuttun and Hulle" I under-
stand an estate which Kogor Mussun had
held at Hill Wotton in Warwickshire. It
seems to have gone to his daughter Alina,
the wife of Hugh de Beckbnry.

156 UPPINGTON.

had previoualy fined 100«. with the Chancdlor/' This second debt
she discharged before Michaelmas 1193.

I have noticed Graliena Mussnn's grant to Wombridge Priory,
nnder Harrington.^ It probably passed about 1196. Two of the
witnesses (Richard de Chesthull and Alexander de Novo Borgo) were
her sons-in-law, which proves that she had taken partial advantage
of her first fine with the Chancellor. I have shown nnder Bonrton
that a third son-in-law, Roger Boschart, died about Easter 119^^,
leaving two infant daughters.' He then, it is probable, had been
married, at least as early as 1191.

No story of feudal coheirship can be more intricate than that of
the descent of Roger Mussun's nine daughters. Though it is illus-
trated by evidences of great numerical fullness, the facts are not
always clear. This arises partly from the inaccuracies of the Wom-
bridge Chartulary which contains about 200 instruments relating to
the grants and acquisitions which the Canons obtained at Uppington
from the said coheiresses, their husbands, their descendants, or their
tenants. Another difficulty is that two of the Ladies are occasion-
ally described by difierent names. Thus Isolda Mussun is some-
times called Cecilia, and one of the other eight daughters is some-
times called MeiduB or Madousa, as well as by her ordinary name.
As every daughter of Roger Mussun became necessarily a Tenant-
m-capiie, a number of authentic Records treat of their descendants.
To give the Monastic and these latter documents in extenso, would
fill a Volume. I cannot hope even to epitomize the subject in any
reasonable manner, unless my Readers will give me credit for a
diligent study, of which I narrate merely the results.

I will first quote such documents as bear upon this descent as a
whole, and then give some distinct account of each of the nine Co-
heiresses and their descendants. Some tabular pedigrees will fur-
ther elucidate the subject.

In 1211 it is recorded that Hugh de Beckbury, Alexander Fisher
(Piscator), Richard de Brug, Robert de Losford, William de Long-
ner, Adam de Cherlton, Richard de Chesthull, William Mareschall
and Walter de Beckbury, were Tenants in capite by Seijeantry and
owed the King yearly one sore hawk.* Now six of these were the
first husbands, and three were the second husbands of Roger
Mussun's nine daughters.

In 1255 the Bradford Hundred-Roll tells us precisely how the

1 Supra, Vol. II. p. 133, note 98.

2 Supra, Vol. VI. p. 175.

» Testa de NeviU, p. 55.

TJIPiNOTON. 157

nine shares of Uppington were then held. The Manor maintained
its Domesday hidage, viz. 2 hides. The Sore Hawk payable to the
Ring by the nine Coparceners was stated to be due on the feast of Si.
Peter ad vincula (August 1) . The Manor did suit neither to County
nor Hundred^ and was not geldable. The nine shares of the Manor
I will take in the order suggested by the Record of 1211^ not as
they stand in the Hundred-Boll.

1. Philip son of John de Beckbury held one-ninth.

2. Alexander fitz Roger of Newport held one-ninth.

3. Richard de Brag held a ninth.

4. The Prior of Wombridge held a ninth by grant of Alianore
(Mussun) in pure almoign.

5. Ralph de Burton and Henry de Burton held a ninth between
them.

6. 7. The son of William de Buri of Uppington was under age
and in ward to John Mansell by gift of the King. His share was
two-ninths. He had already married a daughter of Hugh de Wlon*
keslow, the Jurors knew not by whose license.

8. William Boch (read Dod) held a ninth.

9. Richard Swrbnmt (read Corbront) held a ninth. He too was
a Minor in ward to John Mansell.^

At the Forest Assizes of 1262, it was presented how the Bosc of
Uppington haying been long wasted by the Lords of the vill, had
been seized into the King's hand at the previous eyre of John Biset^
and was still an escheat.

In Michaelmas Term 1282^ Richard de Bury^ John Coly^ Richard
de Bruges^ Richard Corbrond, and William de Eyton^ were found
to have disseized the Prior of Wombridge of a tenement in Upping-
ton juxta le Wrokene. Two of these were only Feoffees in the
Manor. The Lords of the Manor as enumerated in the Feodary of
1284, were WilKam de la Sale,* Richard de Brages, The Prior of
Wombridge, Richard del Bury, and Richard Curbrant. They were
still jointly responsible for the old service due to the Crown. At
the Assizes of 1292 it was presented how Roger Muisnn had once
held Uppington by service of a sore-hawk, and how the said service
was now changed to an annual rent of 4». — Richard Corbrond,
Richard de Bruges, and Richard de Bury, were now the only repre-

» Rot. ffundred. U. 56. ^^ch I usually assign to this Feodary,
a He was son of Alexander fitz Roger, The truth is that these Feodariet are

hnt was deceased in Noyember 1283 ; compilations from not quite coeral notes.

— * drcumstanoe which must not be In the present instance 1284 is the best

allowed to inyalidate the date (1284) average, not the unexceptional, date.

158 UPPUJGTON.

sentatives of three of the original coheirs. They each held 5 nocates
in that capacity. Richard de Bnry held a second 5 nocates by pur-
chase. Other 5 nocates^ also purchased, were held by John Coly.
The residue (stated to be 15 nocates of land) was held by the Prior
of Wombridge. I suppose then, that the Prior had three-ninths of
the Manor.^ Other statements affecting this coheirship have been
given under Harrington, where it may be seen how Bishop BumelPs
heir was really at this moment (November 1292) Mesne-lord of
Uppington, and holding over the Coparceners.*

Hence in the Inquest taken in 1294 on the death of Philip Bur-
nel^ he is said to have held certain rent in Opynton of the King, by
payment of a hawk.^ But in another Inquest, taken in February
1301, as to the tenements of the late Philip Bumel, Openton is said
to have been held in socage of the King, and Gunceline de Badles-
mere to be now tenant thereof till Philip Bumel's heir should be
of full s^e.^ In the Nomina Villarum of 1316, John de Haulowe
(then Baron of Holgate) stands as Lord of Hopynton.

An agreement, probably drawn up early in the fourteenth century,
states that sundry disputes had arisen between the Prior of Wom-
bridge, on the one part, and Richard Corbrond, Richard de la Buri,
and Roger de la Sale, on the other part, concerning nine portions
(pariiculis) of Uppington Bosc. The Prior now conceded 4 portions
to the said Coheirs, so that it would seem that the Prior had now
five-ninths of the Manor. Each of the parties bound himself to ob-
serve this agreement under a penalty of 20 merks, to be applied in
Aid of the Holy Land. It was attested by Sir Fulk le Strange^ Sir
Robert de Stepulton, Sir John le Strange, and William Rondulf.^

A document of the year 1341 shows Uppington under a veiy
different combination of tenures. The tax of the Ninth had been
assessed at 10 merks on the whole Parish of Wroxeter. It was
agreed to apportion this assessment at so much on each half-virgate
in the Parish. Uppington was found to contain 18 half-virgates.
As far as I can judge^ not one of the ancient tenants-m-copt/e was
now represented hereditarily. — The Prior of Wombridge held 8
half-virgates, John Coly had 2 half-virgates, and one nocate (f . e,
2i half-virgates), Richard de Lithe, 1 half-virgate, Philip Gierke,
1 nocate {i.e. i a half-virgate), John Wodewart, 1 half-virgate.

^ The imme and share of one Coparcener
is erideuily omitted. I conclude it to be
Boger de la Sale's. He was only 12 years
of age at the time.

« Supra, Vol. II. pp. 183, 134.
* Inquisitions, 22 Edw. I., No. 46, o.
^ Inquisitions, 28 Edw. I., No. 24.
^ Wombr. Chart., IV^.Upin ton, No.ciiij.

UPPINGTON. 159

William Bridde^ 1 nokate (i.e. ^ a half-viigate)^ William Wroth^
1 half-virgat^^ William Coke, 1 half-virgate, and William Mande-
love^ 2 half-virgates and one nocate (i. e. 2^ half-virgates.)'

As some of these were probably Undertenants of the Prior of
Wombridge^ we are not to conclude that the eight half-virgates
which the said Prior farmed himself^ represented his whole interest
in the Manor.

I now return to say something of each of the nine co-heiresses
of Roger Mussun^ and their respective descendants.—

1. Alina Mussun married Hugh de Beckbury, who occurs as
early as 1196^ and who died towards the close of 1226. His inte-
rests at Harrington^ Beckbury^ Golding, and Sundom^ have been
already sketched. The following extracts from the Wombridge and
Lilleshall Chartularies will show what became of his interests in
Uppington.

About the year 1200^ Alina, wife of Hugh de Beckbury, with
assent of her heir, gave her share of Wycheley to Wombridge
Priory, reserving a rent of lid. Witnesses, William Pantun (of
Dawley, I presume), Philip, his brother, William de Hadley, &c.^
At the same time apparently, because with the same witnesses and
for the same rent, Hugh de Beckbuiy did the same.' These two
Deeds might have been combined in one, but the Canons of Wom-
bridge preferred separate Vouchers from husband and wife. The
transaction was in confirmation, but the reserved rent was in dimi-
nution, of Roger Mussun's grant of Wicheley.

About the year 1220 "Hugh, Lord of Beckbury" (forthesbuls'-
health of himself and his wife Alina), and " Alina, wife of Hugh,
Lord of Beckbury,'' expedited a second pair of Deeds to the
Priory, conveying a share of Wichley, but without any reserved
rent. Witnesses, Baldwin de Hodnet, Hugh fitz Robert, William
' de Hadley, &c.^ At the same time and with the same witnesses,
Hugh, Lord of Beckbury, in exchange for half a virgate in Crolden
(before alluded to,^) gave the Priory a half-virgate in Uppington,
held by Robert the Anjovin, under feoffinent of Roger Mussiim,
and for which a rent of 12d, was due to Roger Mussun's heirs.^
/ Hugh de Beckbuiy, with assent and will of his wife Alina, gave
to Lilleshall Abbey all his bosc of Mount Gilbert, to wit, the ninth
part of the bosc which pertained to the vill of Uppinton, outside
the hedge of the arable land ; — to hold under himself and his heirs
in perpetual lilmoign.^

^ Haughmoud Chartulaiy, fo. 158.
« • » • « Wombridge Chartulary, TU.
TJpinton, No». 69, 71, 69, 70.

* Supra, Vol. VI. p. 99.

* Chartulary (ut supra), No. 72.
' Lilleshall Chartulary, fo. 55.

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Between the years 1227 and 1237 Alina, late wife of Hugh de
Beckbury^ gave the same^ with ingress and egress to the said bosc
and to common pasture.^

I can hardly reconcile this grant with AUna's subsequent grant
to Wombridge Priory. — Between the same years (1227 and 1237)
we have two Deeds whereby Alina, daughter of Roger Mussun and
widow of Hugh de Beckbury, gives to Wombridge her share of
Wichley, and concedes her share of the bosc and waste of Upping-
ton^ and of the Mill and Vivary ; and gives two acres more, re-
serving only a rent of 4(/. on the Mill, towards the annual purchase
of a hawk for the King's use. Witnesses, Sir Walter de Hugford,
John de Frees, and John Walsh (of one deed), Benedict de Eston,
Adam de Chorleton, Robert de Chorleton, Herbert, late Bailiff of
Idsall (of the other deed), and Sir Richard de Grenhull, and Sir
Philip, Chaplain of Sutton (of both deeds) .^

In the year 1236-7 Alicia (read Alina), late wife of Sir Hugh
de Beckbury, gave to Sir Philip de Lutley in frank marriage with
Amabel, her daughter, three nokes in Uppington, of which a Pine
had been already levied at the Eyre of William de Eboraco and
his associates (that is, in November 1236). A rent of a pair of
white gloves is reserved on this grant. Witnesses, John de Beck-
bury (son and heir of the Grantress), Adam de Costarde, and Hugh
de Beckbury (her second sou).^

I believe that the rest of ^lina Mussun^s share of Uppington
continued to be held in-fee by the families of Coli and Drayton.
All that remained in the fourteenth century to John de Beckbury,
great-grandson of Alina Mussun, was a penny rent^ receivable from
Richard de la Lythe (who lived at Drayton Abbots) on half a vir-
gate, and a pair of white gloves, receivable from the lands late held
by John Coli. About the year 1345 *' John de Beckbury, son and
heir of Philip de Beckbury, gave these rents to Wombridge Priory.
Witnesses, Sir Roger Corbet of Hadley, Sir John, his eldest son,
Robert, son of the same (Sir John).''*

2. Petronilla Mussun is only named once in the Wombridge
Chartulary. She gives her share of Wichley to the Priory at 12rf.
rent. This was about 1200, being attested by William Pantun,
Philip, his brother, and William de Hadley.^ I only know nega-
tively, that the person called Alexander Piscator in 1211 must have
been Petronilla's husband, that is, I know that he was not the

* LiUeshall Cluu-tulary, fo. 56. I ton, Nos. 168, 169.

2 Wombridge Cliartulary, Tit. Upin- I ^ • * • * Ibidem, Noe. 107, 111, 185.

VIII. 21

162 UPPINGTON.

husband of any one of the other eight coheiresses. He occurs as
Alexander de Novoburgo about 1195.^ As Alexander, son of
Reiner de Novo Burgo, and for the souls^ -health of himself^ his
wife, 8cc,, he made an independent grant of his share of Wichley,
at 12d. rent, his Deed being attested like that of PetrcMiilla Mussun.^
He sold his share of Uppington Mill to William Sibem.

"Eoger, son of Alexander de Novo Burgo/' confirmed his
father's grant to Wombridge. Witnesses, Sir Hugh fitz Bobert
and William de Ercalew/'* This was before 1249, and in 1252
Roger de Novo Burgo, deceased, was found by Inquest to have
held one virgate and three nokes in demesne at Uppington, and to
have received 4i/. rent of the Mill there. He had also held half a
virgate in Newport under Sir James d'Audley. His son and heir,
Alexander, was 28 years of age at the date of his father^s death>

Alexander fitz Roger had livery on December 27, 1252, paying a
Relief of 40*.^ The King's Writ of Diem clattsit, on the death of
Alexander de la Sale (as he is called), bears date February 22,
1275. An Inquest, held at Newport on March 12 following, calls
him 'Alexander de Aula, de Novo Burgofi His tenure in capite at
Opiton was found to have been by service of a ninth part of a Sore
Sparrow-hawk, or a rent of 6d. He had held something at Keme-
sey (Staffordshire) under Thomas de Haughton ; and something at
Newport under Henry d'Audley. He had 16rf. rent from the
vill of Akilor; and rents of 5«. 4d, aiid two-thirds of a pound
of cummin from Shrewsbury. William de Aula, his son and heir,
was 19 years of age on November 30, 1274.^

The latter, as William de la Sale, has been named as one of the
Coparceners of Uppington in 1284. The persons who drew up
that Feodary, though they were aware of some more recent events,
seem not to have known of William de la Sale's decease. The
King^s Writ of Diem clausit on the death of William de la Sale
de Neuport, bears date November 15, 1283, and the consequent
Inquest was held on Tuesday, December 7, 1283. His tenure in
capite at Uppington is put at 40 acres ; his service at a rent of 6^.
He had held a messuage and half a mill at Newport under Nicho-
las de Audley, an assart and 16 acres at Kemeseie under Sir Thomas
de Haughton,^ and 5«. M, rent in Shrewsbury. A parcel of land

1 Supra, p. 156. the Anglo-Normsn De la Sale, Mie

' ' ' Cfaartulary (ut supra), Nos. 82, 83. ffalle is the Engliwh form.

* Inquieitione, 37 Hen. III., No. 19. ' InqvisUione, 3 Edw. I., No. 26.

^ Bot. Finium^ 37 Hen. III., m. 20. ' Thomas de Haughton had died more

^ De Aula is the Latin equivalent of than a year before.

UPPINGTON. 168

in the/ee ofSomeri (i. e. Dudley) was held under him by William,
son of William de Akilott. Roger^ his son and heir^ was 3 years
of age on October 18, 1283.^

Roger de la Sale has been named above as one of the Coparceners
in Uppington early in the fourteenth century,^ but in a Deed, dated
June 15, 1820,—

William de Aula de Newport is named as a Landholder in Up«
pington. This appearance, if not delusive, indicates that Roger
had been succeeded by a brother rather than ■ a son, but the latter
is possiUe. Which of the Tenants of 1341 held this share of
Uppington I cannot say, nor whether such tenure was under, or
independent of, the Sales.

3. Sibil Mussun was the wife of Richard de Brug. He, 1
take it, was son of another Richard de Brug, for, at the Assizes of
1203, Richard, son of Richard de Brug, fined half a merk pro lu
cenUd concordandi. It was probably 30 years after Roger Mussun^s
death before Richard and Sibil de Brug concurred in giving up
their share of Wichley to Wombridge Priory, and even then .they
got an equivalent. Their three Deeds may be dated as between
1220 and 1224.—

'' Richard de Brugge, with assent of Sibil, daughter of Roger
Mnssun, his wife, and of hia heir, gives his share of the land of
Wichelee in exchange for that half-virgate which the Canons had
obtained from Sir Hugh de Beckbury. Witnesses, Baldwin de
Hodenet, Hugh fitz Robert, William de Hadley, Clement fitz Peter
Shrewsbury, and Gilbert de Coleham."^

Bihil, daughter of Roger Mussun, with assent of Richard de
Brug, her husband, and of her heirs, gave the same, in exchange
for half a virgate. Witnesses, the three first witnesses of the last
Deed.*

In a third Deed, Sibil Mussun conveys not only her share of
Wichley, but of Uppington Mill, and of Bradmedewe, and Berte-
lesmedewe, in exchange for the aforesaid half-virgate. She binds
herself and her heirs in a penalty of 20 merks to observe this Deed.
Witnesses, Baldwin de Hodenet, Hugh fitz Robert, Philip de
Penynton, Adam de Cherleton, and Herbert Mauveysin.^

Between 1226 and 1240 Richard de Brug and Sibil his wife give
two Seilions in the field of Uppington to the Priory. Witnesses,
Sir William de Dreyton, Chaplain; Sir Herbert de Ethingham,

^ InquUUiofu^ 11 £dw. I., No. 16. j ' - '* ■ ^ Clmrtulary (ut supra), Nofl. 160

* Supra, p. 158. I 50, 189.

164 UPPINGTON.

Chaplain; Richard de Pivclesdoti; Beuedict dc Eaton; Robert
de Brocton; Rc^r de Eppcleg; and Adam de Cherlton.'

Within the same interval, Richard de Bmg^ with Sibil's as-
sent^ gives to the Priory his share of Brethawellesmedwe and of a
meadow lying near the road from Uppington Chapel to Wichley
Grange. Witnesses^ Adam de Cherlton, William Marshall^ and
Benedict de Aston.'

Between 1236 and 1241, Richard de Brag being dead, his widow
repeats the last grant, and adds a seilion at Gatehelle. Witnesses,
Adam de Cherleton, WiUiam his son, Reginald Corbront, Robert
de Cherleton, and Robert de Brocton.^

In the year 1241 " Sibil Mussun, widow of Richard de Brug,
commits and concedes to Hamo, then Client of Master John Bacon,^
a meadow (lying between the croft, which Hamo now held of the
Lessor for a term, and the rivulet); — to hold for a term of 25 years^
commencing October 28, 1241, at a rent of ^d. Witnesses^
Robert de Cherleton, William fitz Adam, Alan fitz Yvo, and John
Clerk."6

Immediately after this, the same " Sibil, with assent of her heir^
concedes to the same Hamo all the land within and without the
vill of Uppington, which Richard, her late husband, had delivered
to the said Hamo for a term, viz. 18 acres of field-land, and a
messuage and croft adjacent. Witnesses, Robert de Cherlton^
WiUiam fitz Adam (de Cherltou), Reginald Corbronde, Alan de
Sogedon, and John Clerk of Cherlton.'^®

In this same year (1241), Sibil Mussun died, for on January 16^
1242, the King received the homage of William, her son and heir,
for a Pine of half a merk.^

William de Bruges attests a Wombridge Charter in 1243, but
died about two years after, without issue. An Inquest, held pur-
suant to a Writ of Diem clausit dated January 16, 1246, found his
tenure in capite at Uppington to have been 2 vii^ates and 1 noke,
which, inclusive of his wife's dower, was worth £1. 4«. 5rf. per
annum. His brother Richard was his heir. On the Jury which
took this Inquest were Robert de Cherleton, Richard de Birche, Alan
de Sogedon, Walter de Cherleton, Alan fitz Yvo, and William fitz
Chaplain.

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27, 204). bey duriog a vaoanoy.

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this John Baoon was. Twenty years be- 129.
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The first notice which I can find of Richard de Brug (II.) is in
a Deed which I date about 1250. — ^As '^ Richard son of Richard de
Brugge of Opinton/^ he enfeoffs Hamo de Aldreschote^ in 3 seylions
at a half-penny rent. Witnesses^ Rich^d Ruston^ Clerk, and Wil-
liam fitz Chaplain.^

Two grants^ which Richard de Bruges made to Wombridge^ be-
long, I think, to the interval between 1259 and 1262. By one he
gives his share of Holemere meadow and two acres, adjacent to lands
of Hamo de Aldrescote and Richard del Buri. Witnesses, Sir Madoc
de Sutton, Saer de Berwick, Henry Mauveysin of Berwick, Thomas
his brother, Hamo de Aldrescote, William de Eyton, Biogesr son of
Ulger de Sugdon.* By the other Deed, " Richard.de Bruges gives
to the Priory 3 acres in the field towards Beslow, adjoining lands
of Richard Corbrond and William the Parson. Witnesses, John de
Ercalew, John fitz Hugh of Bolas, Ralph de Erleton, Hamo de
Aldrescote, and William de Eyton.'^*

By another Deed Richard de Brug gives to Wombridge his share
of Brodemedowe (long before given by his Mother), under Uppington
Church. Witnesses, John fitz Hugh of Bolas, John de Ercalewe,
and William de Dreiton.^

I take it that the person who about 1364 sold his share of Har-
rington, as before noticed,^ was son of this Richard, though I have
no other evidence of the fact than his calling himself " Richard sou
of Richard de Bruges,^' a style which probably applied to at least
three individuals of this family. At all events I may safely call
him —

Richard de Brug (III.)^ who has occurred to us as a Coparcener
of Uppington in 1282, 1284, and 1292,^ and who occurs on local
Juries in 1274, 1284, and 1285.

About 1290, as " Ric|iard, surnamed de Brug, one of the free
Tenants of Uppington,'^ he gave lus share of Mose meadow to Wom-
bridge Priory. Witnesses, Sir Peter de Eyton, Sir Diomas Corbet,
Sir David de Montgomery, Sir Richard de Leighton, Knights,
Master John de Cherleton, Hugh de Beslow, and Henry de Gar-
meston.^ I find Richard de Bruges named as an Uppington Land-
owner in 1309, but not later. What became of his share of Up-
pington, or which of the Tenants of 1341 held it, I cannot say.

^ Identical with "Hamo, CliBnt of
Master John Bacon" (supra, p. 164).

2 • ' • * Chartulary (ut Bupra), Nos. 121,
155, 165.

* Chartulary (ut supra), No. 6.

• Supra, Vol. II. p. 188.
' Supra, p. 157.

" Chartulary (ut supra), No. 191.

UPPINGTON. 167

4. Alianore Mussun was in 1211 the wife of Robert de Loskes-
ford (i. e, Losford). She was left a Widow before 1221, for at the As-
sizes of that year the Jurors of Bradford Hundred presented how
Alianora de Opiton (written Co^/on) was in the King's gift, and
yet to be married. Her land in that Hundred was worth one merk
{per annwni) . I think that it was as a Widow and about the year
1220 that she, as '^ Alianore, daughter of Boger Muisun," gave her
share of Broadmeadow to Wombridge Priory. Witnesses, Baldwin
de Hodnet, Hugh fitz Bobert, William de Hadley, and Adam de
Cherlton.^

Using the same style, and between the last deed and the year
1224, she gave all her land in Uppington to the Priory, binding
herself and heirs in a penalty of 40 merks to warrant the same to
the Canons. Witnesses, Baldwin de Hodnet, Walter de Hugford,
and Walter Mareschall.^

Something or other made this Deed inoperative, as we are as-
sured by Alianore's later and &r less comprehensive grants to the
Priory. First however I must quote a Deed which may have been
earlier than the last, as it certainly passed before the year 1227.
Thereby the same Alianore gives the Priory her share of La Mare
and 4 seilions in Uppington. Witnesses, Hugh de Beckbury, Adam
de Cherleton, Walter Mareschall, Richard de Bru^e, and Walter
de Beckbury.*

In 1227 Alienore de Opinton, as she is called, was reported of,
as in the King's gift ; ». e. in respect to any second marriage. Her
land in Bradford Hundred was worth 3 merks per annum, together
with the land of John fitz Richard.* The latter I take to be John
de Chesthul, Alianore's Nephew and perhaps Ward. Between this
period and her death, which took place in or before 1241, the fol-
lowing grants of Alianore Mussun are be dated. I mention them
with some attempt at their probable sequence.

With consent of her heir she sells to Wombridge Priory, for
half a merk, a croft adjacent to William Marshall's house. \^it-
nesses, Richard de Leighton, Thomas de Constantine, Thomas de
Eston, Robert de Brockton, Richard de Bru^, and William Mar-
shaU.^

With consent of William, her son and heir, she concedes for 40s.
to Alan de Sugdon a virgate in Uppington, to hold for his own life,
and for the life of one assignee after him. Witnesses, Thomas de

1-3. s Chartulaiy (lit sapra), Noe.114, 1 * Tetta de NevUl, p. &8.
gs, 115. I ^ Ghartulary (ut supra), No. 110.

168 UPPINGTON.

Constantine, Richard de Leighton^ and William^ Canon of Wroxe-
ter.^

As a widow^ she exchanges an acre of the said virgate for an-
other acre, to be held like the virgate. Witnesses^ William de
Stanes of Norton^ Benedict de Eston^ Robert son of William de
Cherlton.^

She gives to Wombridge 3 acres in Uppington, viz. one at Doda's
Cross, &c. Witnesses, Robert de Beslow, Adam de Charlton, Ro*
bert fitz William of Charlton.'

As " widow of Robert de lioxefford/' she gives 4 acres to Wom-
bridge. Witnesses, Adam de Charlton, Benedict de Eston, Richard
de Brug, Walter de Beckbury (deceased in 1236).*

She gives to the sam^her meadow adjacent to the head of Wich-
ley Vivary. Witnesses, Alan Chaplain, Richard de Bru^, Wil-
liam Marescall.^ She gives to the same two SeiUona adjacent to
the head of Uppington Vivary, and also her meadow near the road
from Uppington to Wichley. Witnesses, Adam de Cherlton, Wil-
liam Marshall, Richard de Bmgg, Robert de Brokton.^

She gives to the same an acre under Wichley, an acre at Hayrs-
tane, her meadow at Stepelhol, her share of Mount Gilbert, whether
land or bosc, and her share of Mose meadow. Witnesses, WiUiam
de Draiton, Chaplain ; Herbert de Etingham, Chaplain ; Richard de
Pewelesdon, Benedict de Eston, Robert de Brokton, Roger de Epe-
1^, Adam de Cherlton, Robert de Cherlton, and Richard son of
Philip de Cherlton.7

She gives three seiUons to the same, in Beche, towards Wekin-
ton. Witnesses, Adam de Cherlton, Richard de Brugge, Benedict
de Eston.^

With assent of her heirs, she gives to the same, all her parts of
Broadmeadow, of Longmere, and of the meadow at the head of the
Vivary (repetitions, I think, of former gifts), also a croft, and 12
several seilions and one acre of land, and her share of Barderwelle
meadow, and of Uppington Mill, saving only that the Canons shall
subscribe 4^. annually, on August 1st, to purchase that hawk which
the Vill was bound to provide for the King. Witnesses, Robert de
Beslow, Adam de Cherlton, Richard de Brugge, William Mares-
call, Benedict de Eston (deceased 1240), Walter, Deacon of Wike
(identical with Walter Mareschall) .•

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UPPINGTON. 169

The following Deed^ notwithstanding one expression therein^
passed some little time before Alianore Mussun's death. — She gives,
with her body, to Wombridge Priory, 3 acres (jugera) of land.
Witnesses, Adam de Cherleton, Richard de Brugge, William Mares-
call, Robert de Beslow.^

The following Deeds passed between 1236 and 1241. —

Alianore, daughter of Roger Mussun, in her widowhood^ gives to
Hamo, then Client of Master John Bacon, at Aldrescote, 3^ acres
in the fields of Uppington, for lis. paid down, and at a rent of id.
Witnesses, Thomas de Erleton, Adam Clerk of Erleton, Richard de
Brugge, Reginald Corbrond, Alan de Sugdon, John Clerk of Cherl-
ton.»

The same Alianore enfeofib Robert fitz Roger (read Reginald) in
two half-acres, for one merk paid down, and at a rent of Id. Dionisia
and William Dod are named as adjoining landholders in this Deed,
which is attested by Hugh (Qy. Herbert ?), Chaplain of Hetingham
(Atcham)> by Benedict de Eston, and Adam de Cherleton.^

The same Alianore enfeoffs William Sibem in 9^ acres of her
demesne, for 208. Sd. paid down, and for a rent of 2d. She further
concedes by this Deed sonle small parcels of land, adjoining to lands
of William Cherlton and Reigner Corbrond. Witnesses, T. Clerk
of Herleton, R. de Cherlton, Richard de Brugg> R. Clerk of Rus-
ton, Alan de Sugdon, Alan de Opinton.^

The same Alianore enfeoffs Hugh Sibem in 2 acres, near land of
Philip de Lutley and Ralph Marshall of Burton, at a rent of a pair
of white gloves or id. Witnesses, Reginald Corbrond, William
Drajrton, Clerk, William de Apley, William Syvem, Robert fitz
Reginald.^

The same enfeoflb the same in one acre, for 8^. paid down. Wit-
nesses, Richard de Bruges, Reginald Corbrond, William de Apley,
Robert fitz Reginald^ William Syvem.*

The year 1241 must be proximately the date of Alianore Mus-
sun's death. It is dear that her son William was previously de-
ceased without issue, and that Alianore was now represented by
five daughters, viz. Dimota, Dionisia, Amicia, Sibil, and Isabella.
From each of these Ladies did the Wombridge Canons obtain an
acknowledgment, sooner or later, and more or less complete, of
their mother's grants. —

Dimota, the eldest, about the year 1?45, gives to the Canons all

1 .a . 3 . 4 . 5 . e Chartulary (ut supra), Nos. 113, 152, 148, 118, 158, 159.

VIII. 22

170 UPPINGTON.

her share in the land held by Alan de Sugdon^ and all her right in
any land in Uppington or in Shropshire. She retains however^ for
her life^ certain rent payable to herself by WiUiam the Parson (i. e.
William de Drayton, Canon of Wroxeter), and by Hamo de Al-
drescote. Witnesses, Sir William de Ercalew^ Sir Hugh fitz Robert,
Thomas de Constantine, Thomas de Erleton, Bobert de Clotleg,
Robert de Cherlton, William de Bruge (died Dec. 1245), and Ri-
chard de Byrch.^

Dionysia, another daughter of Alianore de Uppington, gives up,
about the same time, all her share in lands held by Alan de Sug-
don, Roger de Bule, Robert fitz Renier (or Reginald) and William
Forester, and all her rents or rights in Uppington or even in Shrop-
shire. Witnesses, William de Ercalew, -Sir Hugh fitz Robert, Sir
Geoffrey, Clerk.^^

A third daughter, Amicia, seems to have surrendered earlier, that
is in 1241. As '^Amicia, daughter of Alianore, late wife'' (read
daughter) *' of Roger Moysun'' she gives to the Priory her share in
the land held by Alan de Sugdon, and 2d. rent payable by William
Syvem, and all her right in Uppington. Witnesses, Sir William
de Ercalew, Sir Hugh fitz Robert, Sir Walter de Opton (Waters
Upton).*

SibU, a fourth daughter, also surrendered in the same year and
before the same witnesses. Her grant extended only to land held
by Alan de Sugdon.^ A fifth daughter, Isabel, was the wife of
Philip, son of Richard de Huntington. With her, and her husband,
the Canons seem to have had more trouble. —

In 1242-^ Philip, son of Richard de Huntiton, and his wife
Isabel fitz Alianore, give the Canons, for Ss. pdd, two specific acres
of land : and Isabel provides good Sureties [viz. Reginald Corbrond
(who was deceased in July 1243), William, son of Richard de Brug
(who had livery in January 1242), Alan de Sugdon and Richard de
Huntington] who bound themselves under a penalty of 10 merks,.
if she, outliving her husband, or her heirs, should ever molest the
Canons in their possession of the said two acres. Witnesses, Tho-
mas de Erleton, Robert de Clotleg, Radulf Provost.^

Between 1241 and 1248 the same Philip and Isabel give to
Wombridge, for the health of their souls, &c., an acre of land on
Le Old with the house thereon, held by Richard Scobein. Wit-
nesses, Sir William de Hadley, Sir Hugh fitz Robert, Sir Odo de
Hodnet.^ ,

1 . 2 . J . 4 . « . 6 Chartulaiy (ut supra), Nob. 177» 110, 106, 74^ 84, 18.

UPPINGTON. 171

The following Agreement passed between 1243 and 1245. — Philip^
son of Richard de Huntiton^ and his wife Isabella^ deliver to the
Canons of Wombridge all their share of the land held by Alan de
Sagedon in Uppington. In retnm^ the Canons give to Philip and
Isabella a shilling rent^ heretofore paid by Bichard the Miller^ and
another shilling rent which Reginald Corbrond had bequeathed to
the Canons^ with his body. Philip and Isabella are to pay a rent
of Id. to the Canons^ and to undergo a penalty of 20 merks if they
swerve firom this 'agreement. The Canons give them one merk
down. Witnesses^ Sir William de Ercalew^ Sir Hugh fitz Robert,
William de Bruge, Robert de Besselow, WiUiam de Constantyn,
Thomas de Erleton^ Robert de Clotley, Robert de Cherleton, Rich-
ard de Byrch, and Richard de Huntiton, &c.^

The following Deed passed about 1250, or at all events before the
year 1255. The same Philip and Isabel give to Wombridge 8 sei-
lions in Uppington, and their share in 3 other seilions and in a
meadow lying between Longmere and Uppington., Witnesses,
Robert de Beslow, Roger de Apley, Robert de Clotley.'

Between the years 1256 and 1262 the same Philip, with consent
of his wife Isabel, gives the Canons a messuage and croft in Up-
pington. Witnesses, Sir Madoc de Sutton, Hugh de Beslow, Wil-
liam de Eyton.^

At last, and within the same interval, the said Philip and Isabel,
with consent of Richard their son and heir, give a seylion in Le
Odd and the messuage built thereon, and moreover all the lands
and tenements which could in any way accrue to them and their
heirs, within and without the vill of Uppington. Witnesses, Sir
Madoc de Sutton, John de Ercalew, and John fitz Hugh.^

The Wombridge Chartulary enables me to descend one generation
later in this family. — Between the years 1276 and 1300 " Richard,
son and heir of Philip, late son of Richard de Hunditon and (son
and heir) of Isabella, daughter of Alianore Moussoun his (the said
Philip's) wife" concedes to Wombridge all his right in all lands and
tenements and escheats, which the Canons had from his Parents,
within and without the vill of Uppington. Witnesses, Sir Thomas
Corbet of Hedlege, Sir Peter de Eyton, Master John de Cherlton.^

Thus was the Wombridge title to the whole of Alianore Mussun^s
share of Uppington finally established.

5. DioNisiA MussuN was, as early as 1191, the wife of Roger Bo-
charte of fiourton and Pulley. He died about Easter 1194, leav-

' Chartulary (ut supra), No. 161. | 2 • 3 • ^ • * Ibidem, Nos. 32, 89, 97, 108.

172 UPPINGTON.

ing her the mother of two infant daughters^ Isabella and Alice^
whose fortunes I have in great part related already.^ Before 1199
Dionisia Mussun remarried with William fitz Gteoffirey of Longner.
Hence about the year 1202-3 we find that " Dionisia Muisun wife
of William Logenhalreh^ with the assent and will of her heir (pro-
bably heirs), gives to Wombridge Priory all her share of Wichley.
Witnesses^ William Pantulf, William de Hadley^ John de Chet-
winde/'*

In October 1223 I know that William de Longner was recently
deceased, for his wife Dionisia was suing for her dower in Longner.
The following Deed passed, I think, in 1223, but certainly between
1222 and 1227. — " Dionisia daughter of Roger Mussun, late wife
of William de Longenalre, grants to Wombridge Priory all her
share of the land in Wichelee. Witnesses, Adam de Cherleton,
William Mareschall, Richard de Bruges, Thomas de Eston, Robert
de Cherleton, Alan Chaplain."^

In October 1227, Dionisia Mussun was apparently deceased, for
her daughters, Alice and Isabel, are then registered as each holding
lands of 10s, annual value in Bradford Hundred ;'^^-obvioi>Bly at
Uppington.

Alice Bochart was at this time the widow of a second husband,
Ellas de Bourton. She is known to have enfeofied Thomas de
Erleton in half a virgate in Uppington. As '^ Alice de Burton,
daughter of Roger Boscard,^^ and as a widow, she enfeoffed Wil-
liam Sibern in all the land which remained in her demesne at Up-
pington and in all her part of Bulthmere meadow ; reserving a rent
of 12rf. Witnesses, Sir William de Drayton, Rector of the Church
of Wroxeter, Richard de Bruges, and William Marescall of Up-
pington.^ This was between 1227 and 1241.

In 1255 (as we have seen) Henry de Burton was Lord of a
moiety of one-ninth share of Uppington. He was son and heir of
Alice Bochart. We have seen under Bourton that he was living in
1261, and that very soon afterwards he, with the concurrence of
Edelina his wife, made grants in Bourton to Shrewsbury Abbey.
He made one grant only to Wombridge, and that apparently about
1260. As Henry son of Alice de Bourton he releases, for 10*., to
Brother S., then Prior of Wombridge, all his right (t. e. mesne in-

* Supra, Vol. VI. pp. 176 et seqq. ;
207 et seqq.

3 ChartoLury (ut supra), No. 104.
Though Dionisia Mussun's daughters
vcre ])robably under 12 years of age, one

of them oertainly, and perhaps both, were
now married (vide Vol. VI. p. 176).
' Ghartulary (ut supra), No. 173.

* Testa de NevUl, p. 53.

* Cliartulary (ut supra), No. 160.

XJPPINGTON. 173

terest) in that half-yirgate which Thomas de Erleton bought of his
mother Alice. Witnesses^ Master John de Cherlton^ Richard de la
Buri of Uppington^ William de Eyton.^

I think it poerible that Henry de Burton was identical with a person who about the
year 1287 had attested an TJppington Deed as Henry de Clotl^. If so, he had a
daughter, Felicia, to whom he made oyer parts of his estate at TJppington, and she was
the widow (of a husband unnamed) some time before Henry de Burton's decease. At
an erents there was, about 1253, one Felicia de Uppington, evidently a Landowner in
the Manor, and how she obtained such an interest, unless from Henry de Burton, I
blow not.

Ab Felicia de TJpinton, and as a widow, she gives to Wombridge all her share in the
demesne meadow of TJpinton, yiz. Becthelamesmedewe, and in Holemaresmedewe. She
abo gives a rent of 12<i., which William Sybame sometime held under her in TJpping-
ton. Witnesses, Walter de Hngford, Madoc de Sutton, William de Leighton (died
1263), Walter de Kemberton, Herbert de Hydeshall (Idsall), Bobert de Beslow, Bobert
de Cherleton, Bichard de Byrches, William de Eyton.'

About the same time Felicia, daughter of Heniy de Clotleg, in her widowhood, en-
feoffed William, son of William Sibem in that half-virgate in TJppington, which Bobert
Tnuch formerly held. This was for one merk paid down and for id, annual rent.
Witnesses, Sir Madoc de Sutton, Sir Herbert de Ideshall, Walter de Kemberton, Hamo
de Aldresoote, Bichard de Bruges, William de Eyton, Hamo de TJppington.'

Perhaps this Felicia was she who afterwards (about 1260) appears as wife of WU-
ham Sibem (II.)> ^^ William Constantine, her own Feoffee. About that time the
said William resigned all his tenures in TJppington to Wombridge Priory ; the Canons
undertaking to provide a certain maintenanoe and annuity for him and his wi£9 Felicia
for their lives.^

I now return to Isabella Bochart^ the other daughter and coheir
I of Roger Bochart and Dionisia Mussun. She^ before the year

1209^ was wife of Ralph Marshall (I.) and mother of Ralph Mar-
shall (11.) • Her husband was living in November 1236^ and is
named as an Uppington Landholder in a Deed somewhat later.
He was however deceased in 1240^ for before that year " Isabella^
Relict of Ralph surnamed Marescall of Burton'^ gives to her
daughter Alice all her land in Uppington, to hold by a rent of a
pair of gloves. Witnesses, WiUiam Dreiton, Chaplain; Benedict
de Eston, and Robert de Cherleton. Hugh and William Sibem
were apparently tenants in possession of the said land.'^

About the year 1243 '^ Alice daughter of Isabella de Burton/'
whilst yet unmarried {ab omni marito solute^, enfeoffs William Si-

in 6 Hen. III., hut the witnesses* names

' Chartulary (ut supra), No. 86. —

In one version of this Deed, B. is given
as the initial letter of the Prior's name.
I have alluded to this hefore (Vol. YII.
p. a7l).

s • s • 4 Chartulary (ut supra), Nos. 1 72,
225, 174.

The last Deed purports to have passed

(John de Ercalewe, John fitz Hugh, Wil-
liam Fibrin of Drciton, William the Par-
son, his brother, Hugh de Besselow, Wil-
liam fitz Chaplain of Hopinton, and Bich-
ard de Brugg) make 45 Henry III. a
more probable date.
* Chartulary (ut supra), No. 12.

174 UPPINGTON.

bem in her part of the measuagt which the said William held,
in Uppington, and in the croft pertaining thereto, for 6s. paid
down and a rent of Is. Witnesses, Thomas Clerk of Arlton (Orle-
ton), Alan de Sugdon, and Robert de Cherleton.^''

Within the next five years the same Alice, now wife of Henry
Panton, joins her said husband in giving a half-virgate and half-
noke in Uppington (held by Hugh and William Sibem, brothers)
to Wombridge Priory, and also the Is, rent arising from the mes-
suage late held by William Sibem. Witnesses, Sir William de
Ercalew, Sir Hugh fitz Robert, Sir Odo de Hodenet.*

As Alice daughter of Ralph Marshall of Burton^ and as now a
Widow, she afterwards renews this grant in the presence of Sir
Odo de Hodnet, Sir Madoc de Sutton, and Thomas de Cherleton
(probably Erleton) .*

This passed about 1262, nor do I think a tantamoimt grant to
be much later, which is tested by Sir John de Ercalew, Sir John
fitz Hugh, Sir John fitz Aer, Hugh de Beslow, William de Eyton,
and Master John de Cherleton.^

Another grant by the same, to the same, is attested by the three
first witnesses of the last, but it conveys a virgate, a half-vii^te,
and I2d. rent, and so, if correct, will have been a grant of double
the previous quantity of land.'

I suppose that thus the Wombridge Canons became possessed of
all that Alice Marshall had to give. Though her brother Ralph
Marshall (II-)> of Burton, had appeared in 1255 as Lord of a
moiety of one-ninth of Uppington, his was only a mesne tenure,
consisting of the glove-rent reserved in Isabella^ Bochart^s grant to
Alice. It is not Hkely that such a right would reappear in his de-
scendants.

6. Alice Mussun was the wife of that Adam de Cherleton who
appears among the Coparceners of Uppington in 1211. About the
year 1220, Adam de Cherlton, at the request and advice of his wife
Alice, and with consent of his heir, gives to Wombridge that share
of Wichley which accrued to him in right of the said Alice, and on
which the Canons (in virtue, I presume, of Roger Mussun^s grant)
had begun to build houses. In return the Canons gave to Adam
that half-virgate in Harrington which Philip the Chaplain held.
Witnesses, Baldwin de Hodnet, Hugh fitz Robert, William de
Hadley.«

1 • 2 • 8 • 4 . * Ohartulary (ut supra), Nos. * Chartulary (ut supra), No. 66. Com-

64, 68, 90, 193, 22.

pare also Vol. II. p. 133, note 99.

UPPINGTON. 175

Another Deed, of nearly the same date^ is by Adam de Cherlton
with consent of his heirSy and is attested by Robert de Hamarse,
Boger de Apley^ and Philip de Paynton. In this Deed nothing is
said about the half-yirgate in Harrington, but the share of Wichley
is simply conveyed.^ A third Deed by Alice Mussun^ ^^ wife of
Adam de Cherlton/' is with assent of her heirs and sets forth the
fall exchange. Witnesses, Baldwin de Hodnet, William de Hadley^
and Robert de Cherlton.'

Roger de Chesihul^ sister's son of Alice Mussun^ conveyed his
whole interest in XJppington to the said Alice and her husband
Adam. Hence, after some disputes with Roger de Chesthul's heirs,
the descendants of Adam and Alice will be found seized of two out
of nine shares of the Manor. Again, Adam de Charlton bought a
share of Wichley from Meidus daughter of Roger Mussun, and con-
veyed it^ about 1220, in frank almoign to Wombridge Priory. Wit-
nesses, Baldwin de Hodnet, Hugh fitz Robert, William de Hadley,
Walter de Stirchley, Roger de Apley, Philip de Penynton.'

Before 1225 Adam de Cherlton was deceased, and Alice his widow,
with assent of her heirs, made again a grant to Wombridge of her
share of Wichley • Witnesses, — the three first witnesses of the last
Deed.«

About the year 1225-6, Alice daughter of Roger Mussun, still a
widow, enfeofis William son of Edward de Drayton and Cecilia his
wife in half a yirgate in Uppington, for 4 merks paid and at a fixed
rent. Witnesses, Sir Thomas de Constantino, Richard de Leighton,
William Chaplain of Drayton, Robert de Broughton (Brockton),
Thomas de Erleton.^

Adam and Alice de Cherlton seem to have been succeeded by a
son and heir whom I will call Adam de Cherlton (II.) . He attests
a dated Deed of 1230, and before 1286 he had enfeofied his own
son William, in 8 bovates (or } viji^te), and Richard de Byrche, in
half a virgate, in Uppington. These lands seem to have been part
of those which Adam de Cherlton (I.) had purchased £rom Roger
de Chesthul. Now, the said Roger and his brother John being
dead without issue, their three sisters, Isabella, Petronilla, and
Mabel, calling themselves daughters of Isabella de Chesthull (that
is of Isabella Mussun), impleaded William fitz Adam and Richard
de Byrche as tenants in possession of the aforesaid lands. The two
tenants, of course, called Adam de Cherlton (II.) to warranty. A

1.3-8.4.6 Ghartulaiy (ut supra), Noe. 56, 51, 190, 88, 200.

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Fine was the result, levied November 21, 1286, whereby the three
Plaintiffs renounced their right in favonr of Adam de Gherlton for
one merk.

Adam de Gherlton (II.) died between 1237 and 1241, and was
succeeded by his aforesaid son, William. William de Gherlton
most have been very young, at the time (1236), when he appears
above as his Father's Feoffee. However, his son and heir was bom,
according to one account, in 1237, and according to another, before
1240. And fiirther, in the interval between 1286 and 1241, we
find-
William de Gherlton, following his &ther Adam as a witness, ap-
pearing as himself a landholder, and, under the name of William
fitz Adam, attesting Gharters in which his father is not named. It
is dear that this William de Gherlton was the same person with
him who is called WUliam de la Curt in a Writ ordering his lands
to be extended, and bearing date July 10, 1243. An Inquest was
forthwith held, and among the Jurors were Thomas de Erleton,
Robert de Beslow, Robert de Gherleton, Robert de Glotley, Robert
Bras, Richard de Rushton, Richard, Glerk of Rushton, and Alan
fitz Tvo. They said, that WUliam de la Cort, deceased, had held
6 bovates (i. e. 1^ virgates) in demesne, at Uppington, besides rents
amounting to £l. 9s. 5d. and a pair of gloves. His wife was
entitled to a third of this estate. His son, Richard, was now three
years of age and over. AH this is perfectly reconcilable with
what we should expect to find, viz. that William de la Cart or de
Cherlton had been Lord of two-ninths of Uppington.^

It so happened that Reginald Gorbrond, another of the joint
Lords of Uppington, was dead at the same time as William de
Cherlton, also leaving a son in minority.

Three shares of Uppington were therefore now in the custody of
the Grown, but the Inquests taken in 1243 seem to have been mis-
laid or misunderstood. Hence, in a Writ dated March 2, 1249, the
King informs his Escheator (Henry de Wingham) that " custody
of certain land in the viU of Upton was in the King^s hand ; that
it was worth more than 40*. per annum; but that the King was
ignorant of the circumstances of this escheat {unde nescimus ratio-
nem) and wished to be more fiilly informed.*' Another Inquest
(attended by Robert de Gherlton, Ralph de Erleton, William de
Eyton, Hamo de Alderiscot, and Robert de Glotley) was the result.
It was reported by them that the land which was in manu Begis at

1 Inqwiniions, 27 Hen. III., ^o. 26 (a).

vm. 23

178

•UPPINGTON.

Upiton was held in capite by service of three out of nine parts of a
sore sparrow-hawk^ and that it was worth yearly £2. 4^. 5d, and a
pair of white gloves.^

It is evident that soon after this the King granted the custody of
these three shares of Uppington to John Mansel^ of whom I have
spoken on other occasions.^ Hence it came to pass that in 1255
John Mansell appears with the wardship of three-ninths of Upping-
ton^ and that, in two of the said three-ninths, the son of William de
Buri was his ward, and was already married to a daughter of Hugh
de Longslow.^ So then William de Cherlton alias William de la
Court had had a third name, viz. William de Buri ; and we shall
see that his descendants were usually called De Buri. This was be-
cause their residence was built on a spot in Uppington, called The
Bury, which is frequently mentioned in the Wombridge Chartulary.
Being further the chief Coparceners in Uppington, the Cherltons
probably had the best house of residence. To that I attribute the
fact of William de Cherlton having been called De la Court.

But it is a most extraordinary fact that a third Inquest had yet
to be held on the estate of William de Cherlton (deceased in 1248),
and that the Writ ordering this third Inquest is dated May 11,
1259, and calls him William de Uppinton, A much fuller Inquest,
taken on June 13 following, was attended by Robert de Cherleton,
Henry Panton and ten other Jurors, not connected with Uppington.
This Jury found that William de Uppinton had held in capite, 4
virgates in Uppington and Harrington,* by services of two out of
nine parts of a sore sparrow-hawk. He had also held two virgates
in Drayton-siibtus-Lyme, under the Abbot of Shrewsbury, for a
rent of Ss. ; and one virgate in the vill of Cherleton, of the Church
of St. Mary at Shrewsbury, for a rent of 1*. Richard son and heir
of the deceased had attained the age of 22 on June 11, 1259 (two
days before the Inquest) .*

From this time till his death (about 1307) Richard del Buri of
Uppington, as he is usually called, is constantly occurring. To say
nothing of his attestations of undated Deeds, he appears on Jury
Lists of 1274, 1284, and 1285 ; accompanied in the last instance by
Reginald de la Buri. Other notices, already given, show him under
the dates of 1282, 1284, and 1292, with a prominent interest in

1 InquUitioru, 83 Hen. HI., No. 64.
3 Vol. I. p. 889 ; Vol. VII. pp. 844-6.
' Supra, p. 187.
^ He had half a rirgate in Harrington

which, we have seen, went to Bichard de
la Buri, and was held by him in 1284 and
1292 (supra, Vol. II. p. 188).
• InqMuUiom, 43 Hen. lU., No. 31.

UPPINGTON. 179

Uppington.^ It would appear from the Wombridge Chartulary
that he made very many grants to that House. This appearance is
in part fallacious^ for some of the Deeds which are dated as having
passed in the time of '' King Edward '* belong to the reign of Ed-
ward II. and to the son of this Richard. However it is Richard de
la Bury (I.) who on March 31, 1303, concedes to Philip Prior of
Wombridge all his shares in the Mose meadow, and releases all
service due on certain land which his Tenant, John son of Hugh
(Noyse) of Uppington, had delivered up to him. Witnesses, Roger
Corbet, Peter de Eyton, Pagan de Preston.^ On September 30,
1304, Richard del Buri acknowledges a debt of £17, due to the
Priory, and if it be not repaid at stated periods, gives the Canons
power to proceed against him according to the Statute of Acton
Bwmel? Probably the following Deeds of Richard del Bury of Up-
pington belong to this Richard, and, if so, passed about this time.

He gives to Wombridge an acre in the field towards Wichley.
Witnesses, John de Stivinton, Roger de Mokeley, Richard Cor-
brond.* He gives to the same Priory, the whole upper part of
Broadmeadow, and to the lights of the Church of St. Leonard at
Wombridge, and of the Chapel of St. Nicholas, at Uppington, he
gives a seylion of land at Uppington. Witnesses, Master John de
Cherlton, John Coli, Richard Corbrond of Uppington.*^

The only other Deed which I shall assume to be that of Richard
de la Bury (I.) is his Will. It is undated, but was executed pro-
bably in anticipation of his end and between the years 1304 and
1308. It was attested by William Cay of Wombridge, John Coli,
Richard Corbrond, John son of Hugh (Noyse), and John Hugh of
Eyton (or Hugh de Eyton), the two last being Executors. He
directs that his body be buried in the Cemetery of Wombridge, and
with his body he bequeaths the upper part of Broadmeadow, and
his best ox. He also gives for the lights, &c., a seylion, &c. (as al-
ready specified in a distinct Deed). Of his goods, chattels, and
live stock, some part is bestowed on the poor. The oblations in
Uppington Chapel, the Friars Juniors (Minorites, I presume), the
Preaching Friars, the Augustine Friars, and one or two Legatees
are named for benefactions. Of the residue of his goods some part
is to be bestowed for the good of his soul, some part is to go to
Christiana his wife, and a third part, to be divided into three equal
portions and given to his three sons Adam, John, and Richard.^

' Supra, pp. 157-8. I * ' * Ibidem, Nob. 3, 6.

' • * Chartulary (ut supra), Nob. 78, 156. I • Ibidem, No. 212.

180 UPPINOTON.

Richard de la Buri (11.)^ though mentioned last in his Father's
Will, was the eldest of his three sons. His Moth^ was apparently
the first wife of his Father, and so a Longslow. In his Deeds he
frequently mentions Christiana as his stepmother {noverca or ma-
tertera), and as Christiana de Harrington. On May 3, 1308, he
expedites the first of his dated concessions to Wombridge Priory.
It is a 40 years' lease to Prior PhiUp of half a vii^te in U[q>ing-
ton, and a concession of his shares of Mose meadow.^ His cotem-
porary or subsequent concessions and grants to the same House are
too numerous even for an abstract. On July 8, 1823, he makes
provision for his son and heir, Richard, then married to Matilda,
daughter of William son of Robert de Sutton. The lands or in-
terests which he transfers to them and their heirs, are held by Adam
le Qu (or Cocus) and his wife Matilda, John le Rider and his wife
Isabella, Christiana de Harrington, John de Buri, Roger Hod, and
William Wyoth.^

On July 15, 1323, the young couple re-grant part of the pre-
mises, viz. a messuage and 20 acres, to Richard del Buri, Senior,
for life.^

On May 13, 1325, Richard de Buri the younger was deceased ;
and Margery, his sister, transfers a tenure under Wombridge Priory
to Matilda his widow, Richard de Buri, senior, attesting the trans-
action, as Margeiys fether.*

Richard de Buri the younger died without issue, but Matilda his
widow, though his father and sister were living, became Tenant in
fee-simple of all that had passed under the said father's Deed of
1323. By a Deed dated September 21, 1331, she transfers the
whole of her estates, rents, and reversionary rights, thus and other-
wise acquired, both in Uppington and Harrington, to Sir Roger
Corbet of Hadley, — ^to hold to him and his heirs, of the Lords of
the Fees.^ A Fine of March 15, 1333, further secured the pre-
mises to Sir Roger Corbet, the ostensible consideration being £100
sterling.^

Thus the main interest of the Buri family seems to have been
alienated ; but Richard de Buri (II.) was still living. By Deed of
January 6, 1333, Richard del Buri, Senior, actually acknowledged
himself to have done fealty to Sir Roger Corbet for the messuage
and 25 {sic) acres which he now held under Sir Roger for life.
He further quitclaims all right in the premises already conveyed to
Corbet by his daughter-in-law.'^

I . a . » . 4 . • . 6 . 7 Chartulary (ut supra). Nob. 210, 119, 120. 146, 194, 217, 199.

UPPINOTON. 181

Richard del Buri (II.) was deceased in 1339. He left a widow
Margery, a daughter Margery, and a son Adam, surviving him, but
with very slender estates, which they appear to have speedily sur-
rendered. —

On April 1, 1839, Margery, the widow, quitclaims to Richard
Crow her right as of dower in one acre at Uppington.^

On July 25, 1844, as " Margery, widow of Richard, sou of Richard
del Buri,'' she concedes to Richard, Prior of Wombridge, all her
light in 18 acres, which her late husband had held (I presume
under the Priory) in Uppington.'

On August 1, 1844, using the same style, she quitclaims to Sir
Roger Corbet, of Hadley, all her right of dower or otherwise in any
tenements which her late husband had at any time held in Upping-
ton.*

By another Deed of the same date she quitclaims to the same, her
right in 2 messuages and 31 acres in Uppington. «

Meantime, on May 3, 1344, Adam, the son, and I presume the
right representative, of Richard del Buri, quitclaims to Richard,
Prior of Wombridge, all his right in the estates of his late fitther at
Uppington and Harrington; and this was attested by Sir Roger
Corbet.*

Again, on June 29, 1844, Adam, son of Richard del Buri, quit-
claims to Sir Roger Corbet all right in the lands and tenements
which had belonged to his late father in Uppington and Harring-
ton.* The quitclaim related in each case, I think, to whatever
Richard de Buri deceased had held under the respective Orantces.

Lastly, on March 19, 1346, Margery daughter of Richard del
Buri, quitclaims to Richard Prior of Wombridge, a messuage and
half-virgate in Uppington, which her father had given her J

7. Isabel Mussun was married as early as 1195 to Richard de
Chesthul^ who was living in 1211 and 1214, but dead in 1218.

About the year 1203 Isabel, daughter of Roger Mussun, grants
her share of Wichley to Wombridge Priory, reserving a rent of
lid. Witnesses, William Panton and Philip his brother, William
de Hadley and William his son, Hugh fitz Robert, John de Chet-
wind, Herbert Malvoisin, PhiUp de Penynton.^

The concurrent grant of Richard de Chesthul conveys the same
land, and asserts the consent of his wife and his heir. Witnesses,
the three first of Isabel's Deed.^

About the year 1220, and apparently after the deaths of both

1 . 3 . 3 . 4 . » . • . 7 . • . » Chartulary, Nob. 122, 206, 196, 196, 41, 197, 93, 184^ 67.

182 UPPINGTON.

bis father and mother, '^Boger son of Richard and Isabella de
Chestbul/^ with the advice and assent of his fnaids, gives to Adam
de Cherlton and to Alice his wife^ the Grantor's Aunt, all his land
in Uppinton, viz. the principal Court-house, with three nokes of
land which Isabel his mother had held in demesne, and a ninth
part of Uppington bosc, and of Hunechell Mill, and aU the right
he had in Uppington or elsewhere of the inheritance of his mother,
to wit, in half a virgate at Harrington. Witnesses, Thomas de
Constantine, Richard de Leighton, William de Eyton.^

I think that Isabel Mussim was the second wife of Richard de
Chesthul^ and not mother of his undoubted heir Robert, who never
had any concern in Uppington. Soon aftier the above Deed^ Roger
de Chesthull probably died without issue, and perhaps under age ;
so that his grant to Adam de Cherlton can hardly have been
final.

John fitz Richard^ whose minority in 1227 has *been already
pointed out/ was, I take it, brother of the whole blood, and heir to
Roger de Chesthull. He was also, I think, in ward to his Aunt
Alianore. But before October 1228 he also seems to have died
without issue. At .that period Isabel de Chesthull's 3 nokes in
Uppington were bein^ held for a term, of which 8 years had to
run, by Engelard son of Robert de Pichford. The said Engelard
conceded them, for the remainder of that term, to Wombridge
Priory, at a rent of 78. per annum. His Deed of Transfer expressly
states that he, Engelard, had held the premises under ^^ Roger and
John sous of Ysabella daughter of Roger Mussun.^' It is attested
by Thomas Corbet, Roger de Apley, Robert de Brockton, Richard
de Bruges, and William Scrivener (Scriptor)?

It will be remembered that in November 1236, Isabella, Petro-
nilla, and Mabel, daughters, and now coheirs, of Isabel Mussun, were
impleading Adam de Cherlton (II.) for 3 bovates and half a virgate
in Uppington.^ Doubtless the 3 bovates were the 3 nokes above-
mentioned ; and, on expiration of the terra held by Wombridge,
Adam de Cherlton (II.) had seized them under Roger de Chest-
hull's grant to his father, and enfeoffed his own son William therein.
Certain it is that, whether by Roger de ChesthulPs grant, or by the
Fine with Roger de ChesthuU's sisters in 1236, Adam de Cherlton
possessed, and transmitted to his heirs, Isabel Mussun's ninth share
of Uppington.

1 Ohartulaiy (ut supra), No. 127 (b).

2 Supra, p. 167.

• Ohartulary (ut supra), No. 182.
^ Supra, p. 176.

UPPINGTON. 183

8. IsoLDA^ alias Cecilia, another of the nine daughters and co-
heirs of Boger Mussun, married * * * Dod of Alveley, and having
had by him a son, William, was in 1202 a widow. In that year,
between May and September, William de Daventre fines 40«., that
he may have to wife Ysolda, daughter of Boger Mussun, with her
inheritance. He it is who appears as William Mareschall in 1211,
and with a ninth share of the Uppington Serjeantry.

In 1202-3, Isowde Muisun, wife of William Mareschall, for the
souls' health of herself and her husband, and with consent of her
heir (probably under 10 years of age), gave her share of Wichley to
Wombridge Priory. Witnesses, William Pantulf, Herbert Mal-
voisin, Boger de Apley.^

At the same time, I think, William Marescall, for the souls'
health of himself and his wife, and with assent of his wife and his
heir, gave the same. Witnesses, Hugh fitz Bobert, William de
Hadley, John de Chetwynd.^

Again, about 1220, William Mareschall of Uppinton, with the
assent of Isout his wife, gave his and his wife's share of Wichley to
the same. Witnesses, Baldwin de Hodnet, Hugh fitz Bobert, Wil-
Uam de Hadley.8

About the same time William Mareschall of Uppinton, with as-
sent and by will of Isoot his wife, gives half a vii^te, held by Wint-
wine, to Wombridge Priory. Same three witnesses and Philip de
Paynton.*

Also, Isoot daughter of Boger Muisun, gives the same half-vir-
gate, but together vnth her body. Witnesses, Walter de Styrchley
(deceased 1232), Balph de Tyme, Baldwin Wischart.^

It is clear to me that the two last Deeds were coeval, and that
Isolda Mussun survived this grant cum corpore for near 20 years.
But, what is more remarkable, she reappears under the name of
Cecilia. For instance. —

About the year 1239 William Moraell (read Marshall) of Oppin-
ton, with tfssent of Cecilia his wife, and for 30«. paid down, and a
rent of 4^., enfeoffs William Sibern in a ninth part of Uppington
Mill, and in 4 sey lions of land, and in a meadow called Bonewelle.
Witnesses, Sir Bobert de Beverlawe (read Beslawe), William Poy-
ner, Boger (read Beginald) Corbrond.*

About the same time, Cecilia daughter of Boger de Mussun,
gives with her body to Wombridge, the whole croft which she and
William Marescall her husband held. Witnesses, Bichard de

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Also, William Marshall^ husband of Cecilia daughter of Soger
Mussun^ made the same grant with his body^ the same witnesses
attesting.^

Immediately after this^ Isolda, or Cecilia^ Mussun will have died.
William Marshall survived her^ but was himself dead on February
21^ 1244^ when the King received the homage of William Dod^ as
son and heir of Isolda Mussun. The Sheriff was to take security
for William Dod's relief (half a merk)^ and then to give him seizin
of all lands which William le Marescal^ Isolda's husband, had held
of her inheritance the day he (Marescal) died.^

It is probable from this that William Mareschal had had issue
by Isolda Mussun, and had held her lands, after her decease, by
custom of England.

William Dod had occurred more than twenty years before his
stepfather's death as witness of an Uppington Deed. In fact he
must have been at least 42 years of age in 1244. In 1244 or 1245
William Dod enfeoffed (or rather renewed the feoffment of) Wil-
liam Sibem, in a share of Uppington Mill, but reserving a rent of
I2d. Witnesses, William de Brug, Richard de Brug, William de
Eyton.

On June 18, 1245, a Fine was levied between William Dod,
Plaintiff, and Baldwyn Prior of Wombridge, Tenant, of half a vir-
gate in Uppinton and half a virgate in Wychley, whereof was Plea.
William acknowledged the Prior's right " under gift of his mother
Isolda,'' whose heir he was. In return he was to have the benefit
of monastic prayers in the usual form.

Another half-virgate in Uppington was at this time held under
William Dod, by Howel, son of Griffin de Sutton. Howel, in
1244-5, sold the same for 3 merks to Wombridge Priory, reserving
a rent of bs., payable to himself at Alveley (and which was in fact his
own rent due to William Dod) . Witnesses, Sir William de Hercall,
Sir Hugh fitz Robert, Sir Madoc de Sutton, Geoffirey Clerk (proba-
bly GeoflBrey Griffin), Richard de Grenhul, John de Gret, Thomas
de Erleton, Robert de Besselawe, Robert de Cherleton, William de
Brug, Robert de Clotleg.*

About thicf time, and certainly between 1244 and 1248, William
Dod enfeoffs Hamo de Alderescot in three nokes of his demesne in
Uppington, for 20 merks paid down and at a rent of 2s. Witnesses,

'•' Ibidem, Nob. 89, 46. I * Original, in poesession of Mr. George

' Sot. Finiftm, 28 Hen. III., m. 8. I Morris of Slircwsbury.

VIII. 24

186

TJPPINGTON.

William de Hadley, Hugh fitz Robert, and Richard de Leighton.^

We now know exactly how 2 J virgates of William Dod's inheri-
tance were circumstanced. They probably constituted the whole of
his Estate at Uppington. When I add that within the next 20
years, his Tenants, Hamo de Alderiscot and William Sibem (II.)
conveyed their interest in all that they held under William Dod to
Wombridge Priory, it will be seen that nothing remained to William
Dod but his reserved rents. He eventually surrendered everything
to the Priory, that is between the years 1256 and 1272 he gives all
his share of Uppington Mill (which share was really \2d. rent) and
5*. rent which he was used to receive £rom Howel de Opinton (that
is from Howel fitz Griffin). Witnesses, John iitz Hugh, John
de Ercalew, John fitz Aer, knights ; William Pilrin of Dreyton,
William the Parson, his brother; Hugh de Beslow, and Nicholas
(read Richard) de Brug.'

We also know that William Dod surrendered to Wombridge "the
2*. rent which he used to receive from Hamo de Hopiton,*' that is
from Hamo de Alderiscot.*

Thus then did the Prior of Wombridge obtain the whole of a
second ninth share of Uppington.

I should here remark that one William de Opiton, a Tenant-m-
capite, was deceased on April 24, 1265, and that the Escheator
dtra Trent was ordered to seize his lands.^ I cannot tell whether
it was William Dod who was thus deceased or not, but I can assign
the circumstance of the Writ to no other cause. It is probable that
William Dod left descendants at Alveley,* but he being not retdly a
Tenant-«9»-capi^e at his death, the above Writ of diem clausit re-
sulted in no Inquest.

9. Juliana Mussun, another of the daughters and coheirs of
Roger Mussun, was first the wife of * ♦ ♦ Corbrond, by whom she
had a son Reginald, bom before 1203. In 1208 * * * * Corbrond
was dead, and Juliana was the wife of Walter de Beckbury. The two
following Deeds probably passed during Juliana's widowhood, and
about the year 1200 —

Juliana daughter of Roger Muisun, with consent of her heir,
gives her part of Wicheley to Wombridge Priory, reserving 12rf.
rent. Witnesses, William Pantun, Philip his brother, William de
Hadley.«

1 • 2 Chartulory (ut supra), Noi. 13, 179.

3 Monasticon, VI. p. 389, ft.

* Bot FiniMm, 49 lien. III., m. 4.

* Vide iupro, Vol. III. pp. 144, 145.

• Chartulary (ut supra), No. 87.

UPPINQTOh. 187

The same^ with consent of her heir^ gives the same. Witnesses^
William Pantnn^ Philip his brother, William de Hadley, William
his son ; Hugh fitz Robert, John de Chetwind, Herbert MalToisLa,
Philip de Paynton.^

Again, in or before the year 1203, Walter de Beckbury and
Juliana his wife repeat the grant, the same eight witnesses attesting
except that in tins instance, the second William de Hadley, is called
brother of the first.^

In the year 1230, William (read Walter) de Beckbiiry and Juli-
ana his wife, daughter of Boger Muisun, commit to Wombridge
Priory their share of Broad-meadow for 12 years, commencing
with the year of King Henry's transfiretation ; but the Canons were
not to begin to receive the produce of the said meadow till the year
following (i. e. 1231). Witnesses, Adam de Cherlton, William
Marescall, Boger (Query, Richard?) Brug.^

Between 1230 and 1286, Juliana Mussun, with consent of
Walter de Beckbury her husband, gives to Wombridge all her share
of Berthewelle meadow. Witnesses, Adam de Cherleton, Benedict
de Eston, Richard de Bruges, Robert de Cherleton, Thomas de
Erleton, Ivo de Erleton.*

On August 27, 1236, Juliana Mussun being dead, the King re-
ceived the homage of Reginald Corbrond her son and heir. His
ReUef was half a merk.^

About 1236-7 Reginald Corbrond, as son and heir of Juliana
Mussun, confirmed her grant of a share of Wichley to Wombridge,
reserving 12^1^. rent. Witnesses, Sir William de Ercalewe, Hugh
fitz Robert, Walter de Upton, Thomas de Erleton, Henry de Clot-
ley, Robert de Clotley, Adam de Cherleton.^

Reginald Corbrond enfeoffed Henry Malvoisin in his ninth share
of Uppington MiU at 4J. rent. He also bequeathed cum corpore to
Wombridge a rent of 12rf. in Uppington.

He also enfeoffed Hamo (de Aldr^scot), servant of Master John
Bacon, in 3^ acres in Uppington, at a rent of \^d. Witnesses, Sir
Richard de Leighton, knight, Sir Robert de Beslow, Robert de
Cherleton.7

On July 25, 1243, the Sheriff of Shropshire was ordered to ex-
tend the lands of Reginald Curtbraunt, deceased. An Inquest,
which resulted, found him to have held 5 bovates (1^ virgates) in
demesne, worth ]5«. 4«?. per annum, and to have been in receipt of

»•«•»• 4 Chartulary (ut supra), Nos. 187, j * UoL Fifuum^ 20 Hen. III. m, 4.
170, 58, 163. 16.7 Chartulary, Nos. 186, 102.

188 UPPINOTON.

10«. rent in Uppington. His Widow had her thirds of this estate,
and Richard son and heir of the deceased was now 8 years of age
and over.^

About August 1, 1243, IsabeUa, widow of R^;inald Corbrond^
renounced to Hamo de Aldrescote her thirds in 3^ acres which the
said Hamo had purchased firom her h&te husband ; and further, for
8f . paid and at a ^d, rent, she gave the said Hamo a three-years'
term in a part of Long meadow, commencing on the said Ist of
August. Witnesses, Robert de Cherlton, William de Bruges,
William de Eyton.'

About the year 1244, the Canons of Wombridge gave to Philip
de Huntiton the rent of I2d. which they had by bequest of Ra-
nald Corbrond.' The Inquest which I have before alluded to^ as
taken in 1249, concerning escheated lands in Uppington, included
the estate of Richard Ck)rbrond. He was then in minority. He
was soon afterwards given up to the custody of John Mansell, whose
ward he still remained in 1255. A third Inquest, taken apparently
in 1256, found Richard Corbrond to be still in ward to Sir John
Mansel^ but 21 years of age. His late Father's estate at Uppington
is now put at 2 vii^tes and one noke, held by service of a ninth-
part of one sore sparrow-hawk, and worth £1. 9s, 4\d. per annum.
He had held nothing except in captie said the Jurors, among whom
^ were William de Cherlton, Hugh de Bealow, William de Upping-
ton, and Ralph de Clotleg.^

About the year 1265, as I guess, Richard Corbrond of Upping-
ton gives to Wombridge 44, rent, receivable firom that ninth of Up-
pington Mill which Henry Mauveysin of Berwick, deceased^ bad
held under feofifaient of Reginald Corbrond, the present Grantor's
father. He also gives l^d. rent arising firom land which we know to
have been held under him by Hamo de Aldeiiscote, and to have
been given by the said Hamo about the year 1257, to the Priory.
Richard Corbroud's cession of these mesne rights is attested by
Master John de Cherleton, Robert de Cherleton, and Richard del
Buri.*

About 1280, the same Richard Corbrond, with consent of Richard
his son and heir, gives to Wombridge all his share of Longemar
meadow and of Holemar, in the territory of Opinton. Witnesses, Sirs

> InqvinHom, 27 Hen. IIL, No. 26 (b).
' Chartnlary (iit supra), Tit. Brocton,

' InqvUMongf 27 Hen. UI. (bj error),
No. 26 (c).

No. 18. i ^ Chartulary (ut supra), Tit, Upiutou^

» • * Supra, pp. 187, 177. I No. 91.

UPPINGTON. 189

Thomas Corbet^ Adam de Montgomery, and Richard de Leighton^
Knights.^

I assume that the Richard Corbrond^ who occurs as a Coparce-
ner in Uppington in 1282, 1284, and 1292, was—

Richard Corbrond (II.) > hut of this there can be no certainty.
About the year 1300^ Richard Corbrond grants 4 acres to his son
Alan. His Deed makes mention of his (the Grantor's) brother,
Adam, of their tskther Richard, and of a William Corbrond, whom
I take to have been a brother of the first Richard. It is attested
by Richard del Buri of Uppington^ Richard Bras of Donington, and
Hugh Garmeston.'

About the same time, Richard Corbrond enfeoffs Robert fitz
Reyner of Belswardine in a messuage and 3 acres in Uppington for
248. paid, and a rent of Id. Witnesses, Richard del Buri, Ri-
chard de Bruges, Robert de Cherlton, Alan de Aston .^

We must date the succession of —

Richard Corbrond (III.) as very soon after this, for his grant of
3 acres to his brother Alan is, in part at least, a repetition of their
Father's grant of 4 acres, and is attested by two of the same three
witnesses.* It reserves a rose rent to the grantor, who was doubt-
less the elder brother. Iq lieu of Hugh Garmeston it is attested
by Hugh de Beslow. Prom this time till 1322 Richard Corbrond
of Uppington is a frequent witness of local Deeds; but in 1341
none of his name retained any fee-simple in Uppington^ though
the family was by no means extinct. Cotemporary with him was
another Richard, son of William Corbrond.

As to Alan, younger brother of Richard Corbrond (III.), he ob-
tained, besides the grants of his own family, certain feofiinents from
Richard son of Robert de Wykys, and from Richard de Bury (II.),
in all of which he enfeoffed his own wife Alice and her heirs in No-
vember 1336. Witnesses, Hugh Lord of Beslow, Walter le Spencer,
William de Hanleye.

There were Corbronds of Uppington, bearing the Christian name
William, and living in 1323, 1339, 1356, 1371, 1378, 1399, and
1405 ; but I know nothing of their relation to the parent stock.

I should now state what is known of one of Roger Mussun's co-
heirs who bore a different name to any of the above nine, though
she was doubtless identical with one of them. —

Meidus Mussun sold her share of Wichley to Adam de Cherl-
ton (I.) and he transferred it to Wombridge Priory. So says a Deed

1 . a • 3 . 4 Chartulary (ut supra), Nos. 109, 14, 153, 23.

190 UPPINGTON.

already qnoted^^ but we have two Deeds of about the same date
(1220) which show this Lady making independent grants of her
share of Wichley to the Priory. —

As Meidus daughter of Roger Muisun, and tvith consent of her
heirs, she gives the said share^ and also her share of Robert the
Anjovin^s rent in Uppington. Witnesses^ Baldwin de Hodnet,
William de Hadley, and Robert de Cherleton.' —

As " Meydous daughter of Roger Mussun/^ and with assent of
her heirs, she gives the same shares of Wichley and of Robert An-
jovin's rent, and also of her share of the bosc, waste, and Mill
of Uppington. Witnesses, Baldwin de Hodnet, Hugh fitz Robert,
William de Hadley, Adam de Cherlton, and William Dod.'

Again, Maydus sometime one of the heiresses {dommarum) of
Uppington, is recorded to have sold a croft near The Bury to
William Sibem (I.), which croft together with two shares of Up-
pington Mill, similarly sold by William Dod and Alexander de
Novo Burgo, were afterwards given by William Sibem (II.) to
Wombridge Priory.*

I will not hazard a guess or enter on an argument as to which of
Roger Mussun's nine daughters was thus frequently called Meidus.
It is certain from Edward II.'s Confirmation to Wombridge, that
the Canons of that House knew not, in 1319, how this question of
identity really stood. We are still less likely to determine it now.

Wombridge Priobt Fee. The Taxation of 1291 summarily
describes the Wombridge acquisitions in Uppington as '* three caruc-
ates in Wycleye,*' worth S6s. per annum}

The VaUyr of 1535-6 gives £9 as the Prior's receipts from 5
messuages and one cottage in Uppington. Out of this he paid a
chief-rent of 2Qd. to Sir John Dudley, and 6«. Sd, to a local
Bailiff.«

In 1536-7 the following Assets of the Dissolved Priory belong to
Uppington. — Rents of Tenants-at-will, 11*. 4rf, ; Ferm of the pas-
ture called Wycheley, £2 j Ferm of lands and tenements in Upping-
ton, £8. 9*. 4rf. ; Ferm of a tenement and pasture in Wycheley
Magna, £1. lis. ; Total, £12. 18«. 8rf.7

UPPINGTON CHAPEL.

The whole Parish of Uppington was originally but a part of the
Saxon Parish of Wroxeter. Consequently the Portioners of Wroxe-

1 Supra, p. 175.

2 • 3 Ohartulary (ut supra), Nob. 54, 208.
4 Ghartulary (ut supra), No. 202.

< Pope Nioh, Taxation, p. 261.

* Valor EcolenatHcm, III. 194, 195.

" Momtsticon, VI. 891.

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ter had and maintained a general right to the tithes of TJppington :
I say a general rights because there was a particular exception.
Whoever founded Uppington Chapel^ whether Gerard de Tomai^
Hamo Peverel^ or Roger Mussun^ endowed it with the tithes of his
demesne. Demesne-tithes then^ could be^ and were^ in this in-
stance, separated from the Mother-Churchy and bestowed on the
Daughter. This very fact gives a high antiquity to Uppington
Chapel^ for such arbitrary consecration of tithes was only exercised
in the first century after the Conquest.

We have seen that about the year 1188^ Roger Mussun granted
the Advowson of Uppington Chapel to Wombridge ; and have ob-
served an expression in his Charter implying that the Chapel was
endowed out of his demesne. No less than three Charters of Bishop
Hugh de Novant allude to this gift.^ The firsts dated November
24^ 1190, merely concedes the Chapel. The next passed in the
same year 1190^ that is^ before Lady Day 1191^ and^ pronouncing the
CUapel to be vacant^ appropriates it to the Priory, reserving a com-
petent maintenance for an officiating Priest. The third confirms
the Advowson^ naming '' Roger Lord of the Fee ** as the original
Grantor thereof. It gives also to the Wombridge Canons a benefit
ckan or annual pension of half a merk^ to be paid out of the profits
of the Chapel^ by any Clerk whom the Canons might present.

G. (Geoffirey de Muschamp) Bishop of Coventry^ confirms the
right of R. (Roger) Prior of Wombridge, to the said pension. Wit-
nesses, William Abbot of Buildwas, R. (Richard or Ralph) Abbot
of Haughmond, and the Prior of Lilleshall.

This Charter was expedited at Lichfield by hand of Master Robert
de Sandon on September 26, and in some year between 1198 and
1208.«

Bishop Muschamp further confirmed his predecessor's act of ap*
propriation. His Charter, as applicable to the Church of Sutton,
has already been recited.^ It speaks of Uppington Chapel, mutatis
mutandis, in the same way. I have, under Sutton, quoted other
confirmations which relate to this Advowson.

I think it must have been Pope Gregory IX., whose Bull, dated
at Anagnia, in the sixth year of his Pontificate (that is February
27, 1238), speaks of certain Tithes claimed by M. Rector of Wroxe-
ter against Wombridge Priory. The Tithes were doubtless part of

' Wombridge Chartulary, TU, Brock-
ton, No. 102; m. Upinton, No. 226;
TU. Lega Prions, No. 7.

* Wombridge Chartulary, 2n^. Upinton,
No. 48.

« Supra, Vol. II. pp. 138, 1S9.

192 UPPINOTON.

the tithes of Uppington, and the plaintiff in question must have been
the then Incumbent of the third Portion of Wroxeter. The matter
had been already before the Chancellor of Oxford and other Dele-
gates of the Pope ; but their decision being accounted unjust^ the
Canons of Wombridge had appealed^ stating that^ by Papal Bulls
granted to their House^ they were free from payment of the tithes
sought by the Plaintiff. Pope Gregory now commits the cause to
Delegates^ viz. the Dean^ the Chancellor^ and Master W. de Lych-
field a Canon^ of London.^ Tlie result of this Suit I do not find^
but the question was renewed in afler years^ and^ as we shall see^
definitely settled.

A Bull of Pope Martin IV., dated at Civita Vecchia, on June 1,
1283, and addressed to the Archdeacon of Exeter (who was then in
Italy) ^ dwells on the spoliation of that Portion of Wroxeter Church
which was then held by Robert de Warrewyk. The said Portioner
as weU as his predecessors are ostensibly charged with unlawful
alienations of Church property. The Archdeacon is now directed
to take such measures as shall restore to the Wroxeter Prebend its
ancient rights and Properties. A second letter of the same Pontiff^
with the same date and address, shows that Robert de Warrewyk
himself was at the Papal Court, and was the real procurer of the
above Bull, though it seemed to reflect on his own conduct. This
second Letter orders the Archdeacon of Exeter to quash all pro-
ceedings which might have been taken in England against Robert
de Warrewyk since he left for the Papal Court.

On June 15, 1283, Robert de Evesham, Archdeacon of Exeter,
being then the guest of a Cardinal, received Pope Martin's Letters,
and instantly appointed the Prior of St. Sepulchre (Warwick) and
the Sacristan of St. Mary (Warwick) his Commissioners in the
above business, he himself being occupied with other affairs. Ro-
bert de Warewyk, it would seem, now set out for England with the
Archdeacon's Letter, which had been delivered to the Prior of St.
Sepulchre at Warwick before September 14, 1283. The Prior on
that day wrote to the Dean of Christianity at Shrewsbury. The
latter was to cite the Prior of Wombridge to appear at St. Mary's,
Warwick, on a stated day in October, and there to answer the com-
plaint of Robert de Warrewyk. On September 21, 1283, the Dean
of Christianity certifies that he has seiVed the Prior of Wombridge
with the said summons. This cause was before the Prior of St.
Sepulchre for nine years. Robert de Warrewyk, it seems, claimed /

» Wombridge Chartulwry, Tit. Upinton, No. 44.

THE CHAPEL. 198

against the Prior of Wombridge the tithes and oblations of certain
dwellings {fnansorum^ and of 8 carucates of land at Uppington^ and
also of the land and Grange of Wicheley^ and of Mose-meadow.
The proceedings are not extant^ but the Commissioner having in
1292 pronounced the Wombridge Canons to be contumacious^ the
latter appealed to the original and immediate Delegate of the Pope^
viz. to the Archdeacon of Exeter. We have two Letters of the
Archdeacon^ both dated September 12^ 1292. In one he suspends
the Prior of St. Sepulchre from his functions in the cause^ and
orders that the appellants be cited to appear^ on a stated day in
November, in the Conventual Church of St. Werburg, Chester,
and there prosecute their appeal before the Archdeacon himself or
his Commissaries. In the other letter the Archdeacon appoints
such Commissaries, viz. the Prior and Sacristan of St. War-
burg's.

The Parties, it seems, appointed their Proctors, and the Proctors
duly appeared at Chester. The new Commissaries, after hearing
the complaints against their Predecessors, held the appeal of Wom-
bridge Priory to be good, and decided upon annulling all the acts
of the Prior of St. Sepulchre. The principal cause (that between
Wombridge and the Prebendary) was adjourned. When at length
the Commissaries heard it, its nature was as follows. —

Robert de Warrewyk complained that the tithes before specified,
though they belonged to his portion of Wroxeter Church, had been
usurped by the Prior of Wombridge as Rector of Uppington. The
Prior's defence was, that the tithes sought did not belong to the
Wroxeter Prebend, for that, in great part, they were tithes of the
former demesnes of Hamo Peverel and Roger Mussun, successive
Lords of Uppington; but, as regarded Wichley, that was newly
cultivated land {novate) and tilled by the Canons themselves, and
they produced Papal Privileges exempting them from any tithes
chargeable on lands so cultivated.^

In May 1293 the Chester Commissioners gave sentence. They
decided every point in favour of Wombridge, and imposed j^e/T^e^t^a/
silence on the Wroxeter Portionist. In the following year Roger
(de Molend), Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, sealed the said sen-
tence with his Seal, ad (etemam rei memoriam.^

I have alluded elsewhere to a Suit which in 1346 was moved by
the then Incumbent of the third Portion of Wroxeter, against the

' Vide supra, Vol. VII. p. 365. I bridge Chartulaiy, Appendix Xo. 6 ; and

' Theao particulars are from the Worn- I the Haughmond Chartulaiy, fo. 157, b.

. VIII. 25

194 UPPIINGTON.

Canons of Wombridge, and concerning Uppington Chapel.^ The
exact nature of the suit does not transpire. On February 6^ 1346^
the Proctor of the Prior appealed to the protection of the Apo-
stolic See and of the Court of Ctoterbury; in general terms. On
June 25^ 1346^ William de Wroxeter^ the Mover of the Suit^ got a
Writ or '^ Inhibition'' from the Court of Canterbury to the Rural
Dean of Salop on the subject. On June 30^ 1346^ the Proctor of
Wombridge made a second appeal, in Lichfield Cathedral, to Eome
and Canterbury. On October 20, 1346, the Archbishop's Official
dismissed William de Wroxeter's action (on the ground that he had
not duly prosecuted it) and cancelled the inhibition of June 25. 1
may add that John Faber of Donington, and Nicholas Coke, John
Clerk, and Robert le Synger of Uppington, were Co-Defendants
with the Prior and Canons of Wombridge in the above affair.

In 1535-6 the Prior of Wombridge was in receipt of 408. per
annum for a moiety of the tithes of Uppington Chapel.* The other
moiety went, I presume, to the Abbot of Haughmond as Rector of
Wroxeter.

We shall consult the Diocesan Registers in vain for any early
Institutions to Uppington Chapel. When Bishop Novant allowed
the Wombridge Canons to appropriate the Rectory, he made no re-
servation for a Vicar, nor did he provide that the officiating Priest
should be presented to himself. Consequently the Church became
Donative, and continued so till the present century.

The Officiating Priest employed by the Canons of Wombridge at
tjppington was probably removable at pleasure, and was merely en-
titled " Chaplain of Uppington." Of these humble functionaries,
one named —

Ernald, attests Galiena Mussun's Deed, about 1195.^ Another,
unnamed himself, had a son William, who occurs as a Freeholder
in Uppington from 1246 to 1266.*

Sir William de la Cokes, of Uppington, Chaplain, occurs
about 1300, and—

Bartholomew, Chaplain of Uppington, in 1394 and 1402.

» Supra, Vol. VII. p. 318. I » Supra, Vol. II. p. 133, note 98.

2 Valor Ecclesiasticut, IH. 194. I * Vide supra, p. 166.

195

Cj&emttjjtott*

This was one of Gterard de Tomai^s Domesday Manors. —

''The same Grerard holds Cerlintone. Uliet held it (in Saxon
times). Here are iii hides^ geldable. The (arable) land is enough
for Yi ox-teams. In demesne there is one team and a half; and iii
Neat-herds^ ii Villains^ and iii Boors^ with one team. In King
Edward^s time the Manor was worth 23«. {per annum). Now it is
worth 22«. He (Gerard) found it waste.^^^

Badulf de Erleton was perhaps a Feoffee of Hamo Peverel in the
whole or a part of Cherrington. Between the years 1141 and 1155
he is recorded as having given half a hide in Cherinton to Shrews-
bury Abbey.* This grants though subsequently confirmed by King
Henry III. as a matter of form^^ had no real permanence ; for the
Monks of Shrewsbury retained nothing at Cherrington.

It is probable that Hamo PevereFs illegitimate daughter^ Sebui^^
had some feoffmeut in Cherrington^ which was in due course in-
herited by Alan de Hadley^ her son and heir. Alan de Hadley is
said to have given a hide in Cherinton to Wombridge Priory.* It
is observable that Henry II.'s confirmation to that House^ passing
in the Autumn of 1181^ mentions Alan de Hadley's grant in Che-
rinton to have been of a fomdell (i. e. a virgate) only ; — and that
Alan de Hadley^s own Deed, already set forth/ uses the same ex-
pression; — but that Pope Urban^s Bull of 1187 confirms the grant
as that of a whole hide, and attributes it to William de Hadley and
his son and heir, Alan, jointly. This would make it part of the
original foundation of Wombridge Priory, and so early as the close
of Henry I.'s reign.

I cannot find that either Erleton^s or Hadley^s heirs retained
anything in Cherrington. We have Adam de Horleton and Bichard
de Cherrington attesting a Deed which passed between 1174 and
1181/ and we have Adam de Horleton and Pagan de Cherrington
attesting a Deed which passed in the same interval, but later than
the first-named Deed.^ Now of these three persons I can only say

1 Domesday, fo. 268, b.

* MonasticoH, VI. 390.

» • 3 Salop Chartulary, Nos. 36, 37. * . g . 7 Vol.VII. p. 355 ; VoLVIII. p. 47.

196 CflERETNGTON.

that Richard was Lord of Chcrrington and that Pagan had an in-
terest there^ but I cannot say that Pagan was Richard's son and
heir^ though he foUowed him in point of time.

Pagan de Cherrington was a Knight and a surviving member of
that Jury which having determined a Chesswell suit in 1191 was
summoned to record the particulars in 1200.^ In June 1200 he
has also appeared as Visor in an Essoign of the Abbot of Lilleshall.^
Pagan de Cherrington also gave half a vii^te in Cherrington to
Wombridge Priory.^

After this we come \o Thomas^ Lord of Cherrington^ who was
certainly son of Richard, Lord of Cherrington, and possibly bro-
ther and heir of Pagan. I append to this account a table of the
various Scutages which were assessed on Cherrington and on other
Manors, reputed to be of the Fief of Tomai. It will there be
seen that in 1204 Thomas de Cherrington was Lord of Cherring-
ton and responsible for scutage as a TenanUin-capite. In 1206
this Thomas de Cherrington is assessed to scutage as Thomas de
Eslege, but in 1214 he is again called Thomas de Cherrington. A
Feodary of 1212 confirms the Scutage-RoUs, and says imder the
Escheats of Gerard de Tomai that Thomas de Cherinton holds of
the King by sendee of one-fourth of a knight's-fee.*

'' Thomas, Lord of Cherrington, son of Richard, Lord of Cher-
rington,'' gave to Wombridge Priory his Fishery of Cherington,
which was in the River Mees {javper aquam de Mees), with a little
meadow there. Thomas, Lord of Cherrington, was deceased in
April 1234, when the King accepted the homage of William, his
son and heir, in respect of one-fourth of a Knighfs-fee which The-
mas had held in capite of the Honour of Skrawardine.^ William
de Cherrington's Relief, viz. 25^., appears as paid on the Pipe-Roll
of Michaelmas following.

I should here explain what is meant by the tenure above de-
scribed. Shrawardine Castle had at a previous period been garri-
soned and held by the Crown, though it belonged hereditarily to
Fitz Alan. The necessary services of Castle-guard had not, during
this period, been apportioned on Fitz Alan's Tenants, but on the
Vassals of the Crown, and particularly on the Tenants of Tomai
Escheats. When Shrawardine Castle was restored to Fitz Alan,
the services of Castle-guard, due thereto firom the Crown Vassals,

»•* Supra, pp. 106, 108.
3 Monagticou, YI. 389. That portion
of the Wombridge Chartulary wbioh re-

lated to Cherinion is lost.
* Testa de Nevill, p. 56.
s Sot Finium, I. 256.

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198 CHBRRINGTON.

were discontinued^ and were attorned or diverted to the Royal
Castle of Montgomery.

Thus in 1231 when the great Justiciar^ Hubert de Burgh^ had
custody of Montgomery Castle for the Crown^ the Scntages due on
Cherrington and other Tomai fees were charged^ indeed^ on the
Pipe-Boll^ against the several Tenants^ but the Justiciar is specially
certified to be responsible for the whole, because these fees were in
his hand. In 1232 the same thing recurred in respect of the
Scutage of Elvein ; but in this case the Justiciar had quittance of
the whole, under the general letters which he had, entitling him to
gather his own scutages. When therefore in 1234 Cherrington is
said to be held of the Honour of Shratoardine, the Honour of Mont-
gomery is really meant.

At Michaelmas 1235 and Easter 1236 William de Cherrington
paid in even instalments his assessment of 6^. %d, chargeable on
one-fourth of a Tomai Fee held by him in capite} Before the year
1253 William de Cherrington had been succeeded by —

Richard de Cherrington (11.). The latter, as " Lord of Cherring-
ton,^' figures on an important Inquest taken in that year. The
Bradford Hundred-Roll of 1255 states that,—" the Vill of Cherin-
ton is 4 hides, geldable, and pays 16 J. per annum for stretward,
and 16d, for motfee ; and does due suit to County and Hundred.
Richard, Lord of the said vill, held it in capite of the King for one-
fourth of a knight^s-fee. The Prior of Wombridge had 3 caru-
cates in the Manor worth £2 per annum each. One of these caru-
cates he had by gift of Alan de Hadley. In the two others he had
been enfeofied about 1251 by Geoffirey Griffin. By gift of the same
Geoffi^y, the Prior had 4^ acres of forest-land, — a. pourpresture for
which he had to pay Sd, per annum to the Exchequer, to exempt it
from Regard.^

The increase of one hide on the Domesday hidage of Cherring-
ton is not to be passed over in silence. It may possibly indicate^
that a Manor, called Cerlitone in Domesday, and consisting of one
hide, had been originally a part of Cherrington, and that the two
had been reunited. When I come to speak of Charlton-near-
Shawbury, this question must be re-opened.

A long interval now occurs in which I find no mention of any
Lord of Cherrington. At length in 1284 we have the Manor in
the hands of an heiress, called in one Feodary Isabella, and in an-
other, Sibilla de Cheryngton. The tenure too is increased to that

1 Tegta de NevOly pp. 61, 60. | > JEtot, Hundred. II. 67.

CHBEIUNGTON. 199

of half a knight^s-fee^ but was still a tenure-in-capite sine medio. I
cannot trace this succession any forther^ nor yet account for the
obscurity which befell it.

Or Undertenants in Cherrington^ Geofi^rey Griffin was the
most important. His feofiment must have been^ at leasts as early
as 1230^ for in that year I find him first accounting for that annual
ferm of 8^^ . to the Exchequer for a pourpresture, which we have
seen to have been in Cherrington. On the Pipe- Roll the pourpres-
ture is said to be of 4 acres of meadow-land^ which thus became
quit of Regard. Geoffirey Gri£Bn's grants to Wombridge were
stated above to have taken place in 1251. They are fiilly enume-
rated in Edward II.'s confirmation to that House. He gave all his
land^ with buildings^ rents^ and men^ which he had within and
without the vill^ in the whole tenement of Cherinton^ and with the
meadow which he had firom William de Eton ;^ and with the meadow
plough-land and pasture which he had in the fee of Ercall^ and
with the fishery above the bridge^ and with the meadow and plough-
land in Gorstes^ and with the meadow of Menemedewe^ and the
plough-land of Sidenhale and of Wetebuttes and of Yvenedich,
with all appurtenances within and without the vill of Cherinton.

It appears that Bertram Griffin^ brother and heir of Geofirey^
confirmed all this ; for Edward II.^s Charter specifies a Quitclaim
made by Bertram Griffin of all his right in Cherrington and in all
lands which Geoffirey Grifiin had given to Wombridge.

Other Undertenants in this Manor were as follows. —

Dionisius de Cherinton occurs on a Jury in 1220.

Richard Bernard of Cherington occurs as a witness or a Juror
firom 1249 to 1274.

Richard de Cherinton stands after Richard Bernard on the Jury
of 1249^ and is perhaps the same with Richard, son of Thomas de
Cherrington, who attests a Deed about 1250.^ In 1253 we have
Thomas de Cherinton on the same Inquest as Richard, Lord of
Cherrington. Perhaps this was the Thomas dc Cherinton who is
recorded to have given half a virgate in Cherinton to Wombridge
Priory.

Again^ William^ son and heir of Adam de Cherinton^ is recorded
as having given two virgates^ together with all his right in the fee
of Cherrington^ to Wombridge Priory. John le Bret son of Ralph
le Bret similarly gave one virgate, with an increment of 3 acres.
Lastly^ Thomas de Mere conceded to Wombridge all his share in

^ • • Vide flupra, pp. 65, 92.

200 GHE8THILL.

the oommon-pastiire of Cherringtou which QeofGeey Griffin had oc-
cupied^ and of all his laud wherever situated and occupied by the
said Greoffirey.^

WoMB&iDOE Pbioby Fee. It is apparent &om the above details
that the Canons of Wombridge must have sooner or later obtained
the best half of this Manor. However the Taxation of 1291 gives
them only 8 carucates (worth 8O9. per annum) here.^

In the Valor of 1635 the Prior's receipts from Gherrington are
mixed with those firom Tibberton^ Podford^ and Sherlow.

In 1536-7^ the following assets of the dissolved Priory belong ta
Gherrington. — Bents of Tenants-at-will £2. Is. Sd. Perm of the
Grange and other lands £9. 5«. 4d. Total £11. 7s .^

Ct)^tj)tU.

This was a divided Manor at Domesday ; the Bishop of Chester
holding one part and Gerard de Tornai the other part^ as the fol-
lowing entries suggest. —

'' The same Bishop holds Cesdille^ and held it (in Saxon times) .
Here is one hide and one virgate of land. The (arable) land is
enough for 11 ox-teams. Its former value was 8«. (per annum).
Now it is waste.*'*

'^ The same Gerard holds CestuUe. Ledum held it (in Saxon
times). Here are one hide and three virgates^ geldable. The (ara-
ble) land is enough for v ox-teams. In demesne there is one team ;
and (there are) 11 Serfs^ 11 Boors^ and i Badman with one team.
In King Edward's time it was worth 15«. (per annum). It is of the
same value now.''*

The Bishop of Chester lost or ceded his interest in Chcsthill ;
and the whole Manor^ estimated to contain three hides^ passed to
Gerard de Tornai or his heirs^ and was at length reputed to be a
Tenure4n-capUe by service of half a knighf s-fee.

The name Chesthill is now lost^ but the situation of the Manor
can be nearly determined. It occupied the angle formed by the
confluence of the Bailey Brook and the River Tern. It therefore

1 Monasticany VI. p. 889. | > Monasticon, YI. 391.

2 Supra, Vol. VII. p. 868. | 4 . s j)ome9da^, foB. 252, a, 2j 2&8, b, 2.

CHESTHILL AND TERNHILL. 201

indaded the place now ashed Tern Hill^ but anciently HuUe, It
extended also in a southerly direction^ down along the eastern or
opposite bank of the Tem^ being limited by Stoke Grange on its
east and Hdshaw on its south.

The first Tenant in capite of Chesthill whom I can name was
Bichard de Chesthull. I have noticed under Uppington that he
occurs from 1195 to 1214, but was deceased in 1218. The Scu-
tage-Rolls^ abready given^ exhibit him as paying scutages on Chest-
hull from 1203 to 1214 inclusive. A Feodary of 1212 tells us that
Richard de Chesthull holds half a knight^s-fee in capite of the Es-
cheats of Gerard de Tomai.^ Before 1218 Bichard de Chesthul
was apparently succeeded at Chesthull by a son Robert^ who must
have been his son by an earlier wife than Isabella Mussun. But
Bobert de Chesthull^ though he paid the charge on the scutage of
1218^ does not seem to have survived long. The accountant to
the Scutage of Biham^ in 1221^ is a second Bichard de Chesthull.
Nor can the inaccuracies as to the names of Tenants-in-capite,
which pervade the later scutage-roUs of Henry III.'s time^ be sus-
pected to exist here^ for we have corroborative proof that the Lord
of Chesthill in 1221 was named Bichard. At the Assizes^ held in
November of that year^ Bichard de Chesthul appeared and with-
drew a suit which he had moved against the Abbot of Shrewsbury^
concerning a stank erected by the Abbot in Winlinion (meaning
Woolerton) .^ His Sureties were Thomas de Estleg (probably iden-
tical with Thomas de Cherrington^) and Hugh Budell.

The Scutages of 1228 and 1224 are both entered on the Pipe-
Boll of the latter year as chargeable on Bobert de Chesthull. I
believe this to be a mere mistake^ the result of the Clerk of the
Pipe copying his entries from the BoU of 1218. To the Scutage of
Keri^ in 1229^ Bichard de Chesthull is again the person assessed^
and his name is the one used on seven subsequent Scutage-Bolls.
This is however in turn erroneous^ for, in or about the year 1228,
Bichard de Chesthull sold this estate to Combermere Abbey.
Hence the Aid-Boll of 1285-6 duly certifies that the Abbot of
Combermere had paid one mcrk on half a Toumai-fee in ChesthuD.^
The Abbot was, in short, the real accountant in all Scutages sub-
sequent to 1229.

The sale of Chesthull taking place, as I have said, in 1228, re-

^ Te$ia de NwiU, p. 66.
' iime9,6 Hen. III., m. 6. Woolerton
was on the opposite bank of the Tern to

Chesthull, and in Odenet Hundred.
' Supra, p. 196.
^ Tetta de Nevill, pp. 61, 60.

VIII. 2C

202 CHESTHILL AND TBRNHILL.

quired the Confirmatidli of Hubert de Bni^h^ who in that very year
was created Chief Justice of England. On November 25, 12iS, the
Charter passed the Great Seal^ which conferred on the Earl the
Castle and Honour of Montgomery ;^ and on January 2, 1229, an-
other Charter anne&ed to the said Castle and Honour all the ser-
vices and wards which had previously been returnable at Shrawar-
dine, viz. that all knights and free tenants previously accustomed
to do ward at Shrawardine should do tantamount ward at Mont-
gomery Castle for the said Hubert and his heirs, whose tenement at
Montgomery the King thus wished to augment.'

Hubert, Earl of Kent, may be taken then as Seigneural Lord of
Chesthull from 1229 till his downfall and forfeiture in 1282. Hia
Charter confirming Richard de Chesthull's grant of Chesthulle and
Hulle (Tern HiU) to Combermere is extant. He styles himself
'^ Earl of Kent and Justiciar of England.'^ He acquits the Monks
of that service of castle-guard which Richard de Chesihnll had been
used to perform yearly at Montgomery for Chesthulle and Hulle,
and of all other earthly service or secular exaction. They were not
to be distrained for any default in respect of any ward, scutage,
relief, or murage, belonging to the Earl or his heirs.^

It is probable that on the EarFs downfall, a great part of this
Charter was deemed to be tdtra vires. On May 6, 1232, King
Henry III. (now reseized of the Honour of Montgomery and of the
Seignenry over all Toumai fees), simply confirmed Chesthull and
Hull to Combermere as given by Richard de Chesthull, not as en-
franchised by Hubert de Burgh, whose name is not even men-
tioned.^ The King's Charter sets forth the boundaries of the grant
as follows. — From the ford of Stratforde^ along the King's highway
to the road called Grymbaldeswey ; along Grymbaldeswey to the
Bromhock ; thence down to the boundaries of Bumhull,^ and along
the said boimdaries to the boundaries of Haselsewe,^ and along the
said boundaries to Wolverton-Ford^ in the River Tern, and along

> * * Rot. Chart. 18 Hen. III. p. 2, m.
14 ; p. 1, m. 18.
' Monatiiccp Y. 826, No. vii.
* Ibidem, p. 324, No. II.

P
^ The road between Bletchley and Hin-

BtoclE is most probably a portion of a Bo-
man Boad. The place where it crosses
the Tern, a little south-east of Tern Hill,
seems to have been called Stratford, that
is, the ford of the strata or street. The
Boad itself was called *' The Longford."

* Bumhull, Borwhnll, or Bnrirall, I
take to be identical with Stoke Grange
(ride supra, p. 59, note 3), which belonged
to Shrewsbury Abbey.

7 Haselsewe, a member of Stoke upon
Tern ; — ^now Helshaw.

^ WoWerton (or Woolerton) Ford seems
to have been considerably below the con-
fluence of the Tern with the Baileybrook.
Woolerton itself was a mile bdow the
point of junction.

CHE8THILL AND TERNHILL.

203

the River Tern to Bulebrock (now Bailey brook) ^ and up along
Bnlebrock to Bedehull^ and from Bedehull straight to the Longe-
ford^ and thence going up and following along the highway to-
wards Stafford' to the first-named ford of Stratforde.

I have endeavoured in the notes to identify some of the localities
here named, but enough has been said before^ as to the general situ-
ation of Chesthull Manor and its member of Hulle.

The Bradford Hundred-Roll of 1255 describes Chesthul as a
Manor of three geldable hides. It records how Richard Lord of
Chesthul had held it in capiie for half a knight^s-fee, and how he had
been used to do 40 days' service at Shrawardine Castle in war-time
with horse, lance, cuirass, and chapel de fer ; how also the Abbot of
Combermere had purchased it from the said Richard and held it
for 27 years past, and had a Charter thereof from the King. The
Abbot had 6 carucates in demesne, worth 208, per annum each, also
a FuUing-mill worth SOs,, and a grinding-mill worth 24^. per an-
num (total £8. 14^.). The Manor paid I2d. strettaard, and I2d,
motfeeper annum, and did suit every three weeks to the Hundred.^
This entry concludes with an estimate of the damages which would
result to the Crown in 10 years from loss of ward. It does not ap-
pear whether loss of Castle-guard, or loss of the wardship of any
heir, is meant. The context does not tally with either supposition,
for the passage closes with an allusion to an annual loss of 18
merks and 8 pence'' ; — a sum exactly equal to £8. 149., the Abbot
of Combermere's gross annual receipts.

The Tenure-Roll of 1285 calls this Manor Chistill Grange, and
says that '' the Abbot of Cumbermayre holds it in capUe sine medio,
for half a fee.''

In 1291 the following possessions of Combermere Abbey, include
its receipts from Chesthill. —

Rents of Mills at Longeforde ,and HuD (Tern

HiU) £3

Five carucates of land at Chesthull and Borw-
hull,« worth 2 10

* Not the YiU of Longford, which was
&r to the North-east. The road between
Bletchlej and Hinstock was caUed " The
Longford." The vill of Longford proba-
bly took its name fix>m its proximity to
this road.

' That is, I presume, the road from
Bletchley to Hinstock, which, being pro-

duced through Ke?rport and GnosaD, led
to Stafford.
» Supra, pp. 200, 201.

* Hot, Hundred. II. 55.

* '* Unde Bex dampnificatuB est quando
Tolunt wardam habere per x annos quo-
libot anno xiij marc* et yiij d."

* Borwbull must here be taken for that

204 GHESTHILL AND TERNHILL.

A Mill there, worth yearly £2

Profits on the stock of all the Abbot's estates

in the Archdeaconry of Salop 10 0^

At the Assizes of 1292 the Bradford Jurors presented that the
Abbot of Combermere held the vill of Chesthull by Sergeantry of
Castle-guard at Montgomery. It was worth £5 per annum. The
Abbot fined 20^. that he might have respite as to a question of his
title to Chesthull and to the Mill of Wlonkeslowe^ till next Par-
liament. The Abbot was further questioned for havings 80 years
past, withdrawn the stretward and motfee due on Chesthull, viz. 2s.
per annum. He denied the charge, and affirmed that the King was
in seizin of the due. He affirmed the same of his suit to the
Hundred, which he was accused of having withdrawn, and allowed
that the Vill of Chesthull was bound to attend the Sheriff's Towmg
twice a year, by four men and a Provost, and that the Lord of
Chesthull owed suit to the lesser Hundred Court every three weeks.
The complaint was dismissed sine die.

By Inquest held November 4, 1314, it was found that the Abbot
of Combermere had given William Ostgate a 24 years' lease of this
Manor, commencing March 12, 1307, had also given Balph Clerk
a 30 years' lease of 12^ acres, commencing May 27, 1305, and
had given William le Walkere a 24 years' lease, of a parcel of land
^ called Monekeshalstede, commencing September 21, 1305. The
collective rents reserved on these leases were 24 measures of hard
com, 24 measures of oats, and £3. 15s. 8d. in money .^ In the
Nomina ViUarum of 1316 the Abbot stands as Lord of Chesthull.

The Valor of 1534-5 gives £8. 10*. 4d. as the Abbot of Com-
bermere's receipts from Chesthull, and £9. 8*. lOd, as his receipts
from TimhuU.* The rent of Ulverton (Woolerton) Mill was
3*. 4:d, per annum ; and the Abbot had a free rent of 6^. per annum
at Longford.^

part of GhesthiU which adjoined Stoke
Grange, and which had thus obtained the
very name wliich Stoke Grange had lost.
* Pope Nick, Taxation^ p. 261.

2 Inquis, A. Q. D., 8 Edw. II., No. 97.

3 Valor EcdetioHiew, V. p. 216.

^ This rent of 6c{. had been retained by
the lionkfl of CSombermere, when they con-
veyed a half-virgate in Longford (near
Moreton Say) to Ivo Keverel (Vide su-
pra, p. 52).

205

iLoitj^tnet u{ion ^ebern.

The Bishop of Chester had another Manor in Becordine Hundred,
a Manor of which his successors retained the Seigneury for at least
two centuries after Domesday. And even to this day does Longner
retain a strongly marked feature of its ancient status. It is an
isolated portion of the Shrewsbury Parish of St. Chad. Now^ St.
Chad's Church was founded^ endowed^ and for ages governed^ by
the Bishops of the Mercian Diocese ; and they threw their Manors
into the Parish of St. Chad, wherever distance would permit such
an arrangement.^

Domesday speaks of Longner as follows. — ''The same Bishop
(of Chester) holds Languenare and Wigot holds it of him. Here
is one hide. The (arable) land is (enough) for ii ox-teams. In
demesne there is i team ; and ii Ser& and ii Villains have i team.
The Manor was and is worth Ss. {per annum). ''^

I don't find that the Saxon Wigot held any other of the Bishop
of Chester's Staffordshire or Cheshire Manors. Probably he was
soon dispossessed of Longner.

The Feodary of 1165, known as the Liber Niger, tells of one —

Geoffrey fitz Reginald, who held half a knighf s-fee of old
feoffment under Bichard Peche, then Bishop of Coventry.* There
are very good reasons for assuming that GeolB^y fitz Reginald's
tenure consisted of the Stafifordshire Manors of Norton-under-
Cannock, and Little Wyrley, and of the Shropshire Manor of
Longner. Moreover we infer that Geofifrey fitz Reginald's ances-
tors had been thus enfeofied at least 30 years before.

Geoffirey fitz Reginald was living in or after the year 1203. Be-
tween that year and 1206, he, as '' Geoffirey, son of Reiner de
Wirley," gave to Haghmond Abbey half a virgate in Longenholre,
of which Godwin was tenant. He gave it in exchange for a whole
vii^ate in Wirley (Staffordshire), which his Aunt (amita) had pre-
viously given to the Abbey. This grant was attested by William
fitz Alan; John le Strange; Hamo, his brother; Stephen de Stan-
ton ; William de Hadley ; Reginald de Time ; Richer de Shau-

» Vide supra, Vol. VII. p. 861. » lAber Niger, 1. 133.

> Dometdatf, fo. 252, a, 2.

206 LONQNER UPON S£V£RN.

bury ; Guimar de Redinton ; Philip de Peninton ; by William^ the
Grantor's heir ; and by Thomas and Jordan^ the Grantor's sons.
In this grant the Donor covenants to provide an equivalent^ if he
should prove unable to warrant the balf-virgate in Longner to the
Abbey.^ The consent of the Grantor's heirs is also alleged, and it
would seem that William^ his eldest son, was already resident at
Longner. He, as '^ William fits Geoffirey of Longenhalre/^ con-
firmed his Father's grant of half a virgate to Haghmon, by a Deed
which, from the dose similarity of its testing-dause, must have
followed immediately after the original grant.

William vitz Geoffrey, on succeeding to his father's estates,
probably continued to reside in Shropshire. As early as 1199 he
had married Dionisia, one of the coheiresses of Roger Mussun of
Uppington, and widow of Roger Bochart of Bourton and Pulley.
The 8tory of this marriage has been amply told already.' WiUiam
fitz Geoffirey, at his decease in 1223, left no issue ; but his wife
Dionisia survived him. In October of that year Dionisia, widow
of William fitz Geoffirey, was suing William de Duston for one-
third of the vill of Longenhalre, which third she claimed in dower.
William de Duston not appearing, the said third was, as usual,
seized in manu Regis till the following Law-term.^

I must now turn back some years to say who William de Duston,
or rather who William de Duston's father was, and to show that it
was as Tenant-in-possession of Longner, that the son was sued by
Dionisia Mussun.

William de Duston (I.) had been a person of some notoriety
and some success in the reign of John. I find him in the imme-
diate employment and pay of that King in 1213, and thenceforward
till August 1215, when he lost his most important office, viz. that
of Gustos of Scarborough Castle. In this trust he was succeeded
by William de Harcourt, under whom, as we shall see, he held
several estates in Staffordshire. In December 1215 we find that
William de Duston was in rebellion, and his Suzerain, Harcourt,
was empowered by King John to take seizin of his lands at Ban-
ton and Halop (Staffordshire). His estates in Northamptonshire,
Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Leicestershire,
and Warwickshire, were entrusted to Hugh de Nevill. I find a
Writ of April 28, 1216, empowering William de Harcourt still to
hold the vill of Mes (Milnmeese, Staffordshire), and other fees,

^ Haughmond Chartulary, fo. 141. I ^ PlacUay Mich. Xm., 7 Hen. III., m.

5 Supra, Vol. VI. p. 207. I 10.

LONGNSR UPON SEVERN.

207

which William de Duston had held under him. William de Duston
oontinued in rebellion till the end of John's reign^ but on October
13, 1217, a Writ of Henry III. certifies that he had returned to
his aU^iance and was to be repossessed of his estates in several of
tiie Counties already named, and also in Kent, Cambridgeshire,
Surrey, Wiltshire, and Shropshire.'^ From thence till May 1218
several Writs show William de Duston to have been in favour with
the young King, but on September 7, 1218, he was dead. He left
a son and heir, William, and a daughter, Joan.

Thus much I have said of William de Duston (I.), in amplifica-
tion of a former note on the same subject.' The estates which he
held in Shropshire and Stafibrdshire fall under two classes, viz.
those which he acquired by feoflhient of Thomas Noel, and held
under William de Harcourt (NoePs Coheir), and those which he
acquired by feoffinent of William fitz Greoffirey, and held under the
said WiUiam fitz Geofirey at his decease in 1218. Of the former
class were Ranton, Milnmeese, and Hokn, of the latter were little-
Wyrley, Norton, and Langenorle (t. e. Longner).

On September 7, 1218, the King seized on these six estates, till
such time as the Crown-debts of William de Duston, deceased,
should be satisfied.^

In October 1218 an estate in Nottinghamshire, bequeathed to
Joan de Dunston by her late Father, was given up to her.^ A Writ
of June 1219 shows that William de Duston's son and heir was, as
yet, under age.^ However the said heir was identical with that
William de Duston whom we have seen impleaded in 1228, by his
Suzerain's Widow, for a third of Longner. We conclude therefore
that —

William de Duston (II.) was now of age. I must here quote
a very remarkable statement which, whether I can explain it or not,
belongs undoubtedly to our present subject. I find an aUegedco^y
of a Deed wherein Alicia Mauvesin is said to have quU$laimed to
William de Duston all the claim which she had made against him
concerning the land of her husband, viz. ^'a third part of Nortune,
a third part of WtvelP, and a third part of Longnobre ff NwUmeP
The quitclaim is only for her life, the premises being heretofore
claimed by her, only as dower.^

That this Deed has been most inaccurately transcribed will be

1 Claw. I. 829, b.

< Supra, VoL III. p. 186, note 61.

' Soi. Fiimm, 2 Hen. III., m. 2.

<•» C2o«*. I. 870, b, 393, b.

• Shmifs StaJfbrdaUn, Vol. I. p. 178.

208 LONGNER UPON SEVERN.

evident to any one who will choose to peruse it further. That the
explanation offered of it by its Transcriber is most inadequate^ and
in some parts most mistaken^ I am fully convinced. It is a daring
liberty to take with a professed transcript, even if inaccurate ; —
but I cannot help suggesting that the Lady called Alicia Mauvesin
was Dionisia Mussun, and that the estates concerned were, Norton
under Cannock, Little Wirley, and Longner. On any other suppo-
sition I cannot explain this Deed.

William de Duston (II.) certainly succeeded at some time to
the fee-simple of Longner; — holding it however under Thomas
fitz Gteoflfrey, as next brother and heir of William fitz Geoffirey, its
former Lord, while the said Thomas held immediately of the see of
Lichfield. We shall presently see that Thomas fitz GeoflBrey abrogated
his mesne rights at Longner and Wirley, so that the heirs of Duston
came to hold both Manors immediately of the Bishops of Lichfield.

On August 1231, William de Duston (II.) was deceased. Ste-
phen de Segrave gave the King £100 for custody of his lands and

m

heirs, and for the disposal of the latter in marriage.

As to William de Dunston's heirs I can say little of my own
knowledge. I will therefore copy what Erdeswick has said of this
family and succession, merely enclosing in a parenthesis the one
statement which I know to be erroneous. —

" William Dinston had issue (by Joan Noel, his wife) William
Dinston, who had issue one daughter and heir, Boisia, married to
Sir John D^Oyley, who had issue by her John D'Oyley, who Jiad
issue Joan, his daughter and heir, married to Sir Thomas Lewknor,
knight.'^!

Accepting then Boisia as the eventual sole heir of William de
Duston (II.) we shall now hear what occurred during her minority
with respect to the two Manors of Longner and Wirley. —

By a Deed or Deeds, which must have passed between September
22, 1231, and November 12, 1234, Thomas fitz Geoffrey of Longe-
nalrc quitclaims to his Lord Alexander, Bishop of Coventry and
Lichfield, the whole service which William de Duston had been
bound and accustomed to render to his (Thomas's) father and to
himself, for the land of Longenarle which they (Thomas and his
father) had held of the Bishop in capite. He further quitclaims the
whole service which the said William de Duston had rendered for
the land of Wyrley^ which land Thomas and his father had used to
hold of the Bishop in capiie by one-fourth of a knighfs-fee. He

1 Srdetwick (edition 1844), p. 136.

LONONEE UPON SEVERN. 209

fiirther quitclaims the homage of William de Duston's heirs who
are henceforth to hold in capite (that is immediately) of the Bishop^
paying rents of one pound of pepper for Longenalre^ and one pound
of cummin for Wyrley . Witnesses, Master William de Manchester,
Dean of Lichfield ; Master B. de Maydeneston, Dean of Hereford
(he was Archdeacon of Chester also) ; Master William of York,
Archdeacon of Stafford ; Master Alexander de Hales, Archdeacon
of Coventry; Master Alexander (de Swereford), Archdeacon of
Salop ; GeofiOrey de Oreselee ; John de Acton ; Robert de Esling-
ton (t. 6. Essington) ; JohndeTamenhorn; GeoffireyPoun; Robert
ddWaL^

I can say nothing of Sir John lyOyly and Boisia de Dunston his
wife, in connection with Longner. They probably held both Long-
ner and Wyrley of the See of Lichfield, and both were living in
October 1255. At Longner they enfeoffed that &mily of Haugh-
tons, of whom I have made mention under Cleobury North and
under Withington. This feofiment was probably immediately after
Boisia obtained possession of Longner, for I suppose the Deed must
have passed between 1227 and 1236, whereby " Ralph, Abbot of
Haghmon, gives to Robert, *Lord of Halichton, a life-lease of that
half-virgate which the Abbey had in Longenhalre, for 6^. rent.
Witnesses, Hugh Forester ; William de Ercall, Robert de Knihtell'
(Knightley)^ William de Bromley, and Richard de HecstaU.^'

In 1280, Sir John' lyOyley (I.) was dead and his wife Boese a
Widow. This I leam from a Deed whereby Michael de Burgo re-
leases to Dame Boese D'Oylly, and to John her son, all his right
in a virgate at Baunton.^

The Inquest on Thomas de Haighton's death in 1282, has been
ahready set forth.^ Well ^nd intelligibly does it state that he had
held Longenholre under Boes D'Oyly, for a rent of \2d, per annum.
The Manor was estimated to contain 2 carucates of land.

So too the Inquest taken in 1304, on the death of Bobert de
Halghton (III.), says that he had held 2 carucates in Longenolre
under John de Doyle, by service of 12d. rent.

I shall conjecture nothing, for I know nothing, of any subsequent
interests of the Bishops of Lichfield as Seigneural Lords, of D'Oyley
or Lewknor, as Mesne Lords, or of De Haughton as Tenant-in -fee
of Longner.

> Dugdflle'B MSS. (A«hmoL libr.), No.
1527, fo. 80, collated with Begiatrum
Ckartarum (at Lichfield), p. 73.

' JEdestoick (ut supra), p. 136 note.

' Supra, p. 79.

^ Inquis. 32 Edw. I. No. 19.

viii. 27

210 LILLESHALL.

That the Burtons were seated here long before any extant ac-
count^ of that family would lead us to suppose^ I know from the
best authority ; but I presume that they held under the Haughtons
and their successors the Greys. Be that as it may, a Deed is still
preserved at Longner, which bears date at Leighton, May 28, 1346.
By this Deed Edward Burton of Longner gives to Thomas Cresset
of Leighton an acre of land at Garmeston in exchange for \\ acres
there, and also concedes to the same Thomas license to enclose, and
build upon, a parcel of ground in the said Edward's common-pasture.
This Deed mentions John le Costantyn and Thomas Alemon of Gar-
meston, as existing, and William de Harley as former, occupants,
of adjacent lands. It also mentions adjacent lands of Edward Bur-
ton, and is attested by John Lord of Leighton, John le C!onstantyn,
Walter le Spencer, Henry de Garmeston, and Ivo Cresset, — ^names
which are very consistent with its ostended date.

^mits^m.

I AM now to treat of those five Manors of Becordine Hundred,
which having been held in Saxon times by the Collegiate Church of
St. Alkmund at Shrewsbury, continued to be so held at the time of
Domesday. " The same Church held and (still) holds Linleshelle.
Here are x hides. In demesne are ii ox-teams, and (there are) x
Villains, v Boors, and iii Serving Frenchmen, with viii teams
amongst them all; and ix more teams might yet be (employed).
Here are iiii Neat-herds, and a Mill, but it pays no rent. There
is one league of Wood. In King Edward's time the Manor was
worth £6 (per annum) . Now it is worth £4. Godebold the Priest
holds it.''«

Of Godebold the Priest, Earl Roger's firiend and adviser, I have
already spoken more than once.^

His occupation of so many of the Domesday estates of St. Alk-
mund would suggest that he was something more than a Canon, or
even Dean, of that CoUe^ate Church. It savours strongly of that

» 8eel?ia*»way*«5A«^,pp.l64,166. I » Supra, VoL I. p. Ill; Vol. H. p.
3 Domesday^ fo. 268, a, 1. I 201 ; Vol. VT. p. 224.

LILLE8HALL. 211

Norman despotism which^ while it allowed the continuance of Saxon
Fomidations^ remodelled them to suit the views and interests of the
conquerors.

Godebald's Church-estates will have been held by an extraordi-
nary tenure^ if^ as there is reason to believe^ they passed at his de-
cease to his (necessarily illegitimate) son^ Robert. From Grodebald
and his said son they went to the first Richard de Belmeis ; — to
him^ whose career^ as Bishop of London and Viceroy of Shropshire,
we have already traced under Tong. What now concerns us is
that at his deaths on January 16^ 1127^ the Bishop was seized of
the Deanery or chief Prebendal interest in the Church of St. Alk-
mund.

The Bishop's elder Nephew and temporal heir^ Philip de Belmeis,
became at his deaths Lord of Tong. His younger Nephew^ Rich-
ard^ was not yet of age, but was already destined for the Church.

We have seen that about the year 1139 Philip de Belmeis was
interested in the prosperity of the Savigniac Abbey of Buildwas,
recently founded by Bishop Roger de Clinton.^ The manner in
which he encouraged that establishment, and his own personal ad-
mission into the firatemity of Savigni, preclude all idea of his having
a cotemporary admiration for any other Religious Order.

Before many years had passed, specifically before the year 1145,
Philip de Belmeis was of another mind. The introduction into
England of Regular, as distinct from Secular, Canons, belongs to
no earlier period than the reign of Henry I., and, according to one
account, the elder Richard de Belmeis had been instrumental, about
A.i>. 1108, to their first settlement in this country.^ During the
next thirty years, many CoUeges of Secular Canons were changed
into Regulars, and many Houses of Regulars were newly founded.

In the Lateran Council of 1139, all Regular Canons, throughout
the dominions of St. Peter, were subjected to the specific rule of
Saint Augustine ; but there was a sect of Regulars which had long
previously professed an improvement on its fundamental ordinances,
and which, from its first House having been dedicated to St. Ni-
cholas of Arras, and having been situated near that city, was called
Arroasian. A number of these latter Canons are said to have been
introduced into England in 1140, under the auspices o{ Alexander
the Magmficentj Bishop of Lincoln. They were domiciled at Dor-
chester, in Oxfordshire, once the episcopal seat of Alexander's prc-

> Supra, Vol. VII. p. 826. I ga^ London. Vide Monasticon (Galoy

2 Vix., at C^hrUt Church, within Aid- I & EUie), Vol. VI. pp. 150-165.

212

L1LLE8HALL. THE ABBEY.

decessors, and where probably a College of Secular Canons made
way for these Arroasians.

Within five, probably within three, years of this date, the Dor-
chester Canons were ready to increase their influence by emigration.
Some of them found their way into Shropshire, where Philip de
Belmeis was their first Patron. I have already given the Charter
of the said Philip, and described the locality which it assigned for
the residence of these Canons,^ viz. that part of the Manor of Tong
which is now known as the Lizard Grange.'

«

LILLESHAIiL ABBEY.

The Arroasian Canons, though introduced into Shropshire under
no greater patronage than that of an influential Knight, were des-
tined for greater things. Before I pass to the neit event which
befell them, I must resume my account of —

Richard de Belmeis (II.), brother of the Lord of Tong and
younger Nephew of Richard de Belmeis (I,), Bishop of London.
When that Prelate had been dead about seven months, that is, in
August 1127, King Henry I. is known to have been waiting on the
coast of Hampshire for a favourable opportunity of crossing the
Channel. Doubtless to this period belongs the Charter, dated at
Portsmouth, whereby the King granted to Richard de Belmeis, ne-
phew of Richard Bishop of London, '* all the Churches, Lands, and
things,^' which having in the first instance been held by Godebald
and Robert his son, had since been held under the King by the
late Bishop.'

1 Supn, Vol. II. pp. 204, 205.

' It BeemB that the Lizard Grange was
was not 80 clearly in Tong Manor as mj
former account would imply. At all events
the Canons of LillesfaAll thought it neoes'
sary to get an independent grant thereof
from the first Walter de Dunstanyille,
Lord of IdsalL As Walter de Dunstan-
yill he gives to the Abbey " all his land
of Latard which was between Watling-
stiieet and Meredich and the two rivulets.'*
This he did *' for the souls of his father
and mother.*' He gave it '' wholly, with
the Vivary and Mill which were between
the aforesaid land and the forest." (Lilies-
hall Chartulary, fo. 60.) It is remarkable
that the Bull of Pope Innocent III. (1159-
1181) though it confirms Philip de Bel-

meis's Leioestershire grants to Lilkshall,
says nothing about his grant of the Lizard
Grange, but treats the latter as the gift of
Walter de DunstanvUle ; — Sx dono Wal-
teri de ZhmstanvHSf terram de Lutard
cum molendino et tfivarus inter duo ne-
mora de Lueard et Brewud (Ibidem, fo.
87).

> Printed M<ma9t%con, VI. 262, No. II.

Mr. Blakeway (Hist. Sireioabwy, II.
264, note 3) dates this Charter in August
1128 ; but Simeon of Durham's Chrono-
logy of the period (which Mr. Blakeway
followed) is erroneous by a year.

The Charter is attested by G-. (Geoffrey)
the Chancellor ; N. (Nigel) de Albini ; W.
(Walter) de Gloucester ; P. (Pagan) fitz
John ; and W. (l^^illiam) Pcverell.

RICHARD DK B£LM£IS II. 21 S

Thoe 18 every presomption that we rightly define the gift thus
conveyed^ if we say that it oonsiBted of the Prebeiidal estates of
Idlleshall, Atcham^ Uckington^ and Preston-Qubbalds^ with the
Churches thereon, and that the whcde constituted a preponderating
interest in the Coll^iate Church of St. Alkmund, Shrewsbury.

Richard de Belmeis, whom we may now call Chief Prebendary of
St. Alkmund's, was at this time hardly of age. He was nevertheless
a Dignitary of St. Paul's, London, and had actually been appointed
Archdeacon of Middlesex by his Uncle, several years before. His
extreme youth, however, had induced an arrangement, whereby
one Hugh, a Chaplain, had custody of the Archdeaconry, to hold,
in commendam as it were, till Belmeis should attain a fitting age.
This period arrived during the episcopacy of Gilbert the Universal
(January 1128-August 1134); — but the Archdeacon in possession
forgot or evaded his oath ; and his refusal to resign his trust was
countenanced by Bishop Gilbert. The death of the latter Prelate
was followed by a long vacancy in the See of London. In 1138
Anselm had been elected to the See, but his election was opposed
by the Chapter of St. Paul's, and Belmeis was sent to Borne as the
Representative of the said Chapter's opposition. The appeal suc-
ceeded, and now Belmeis brought under the consideration of the
PontifiT (Innocent II.) his own personal grievance in regard to the
Archdeaconry of Middlesex. This matter the Pope referred back
to the scrutiny and decision of two English Bishops (Hereford and
Lincoln), and they, before the end of the year, gave sentence in fa-
vour of Belmeis. In apparent connection with his induction to the
Archdeaconry, Belmeis was ordained Deacon in December 1138,
by Henry, Bishop of Winchester, at command of the Papal Legate,
A]beric, who was then visiting England.

In June or July, 1141, we have seen that Richard de Belmeis,
Archdeacon of Middlesex, was in the Court of the Empress at Ox-
ford, and attested her Charter to Haughmond Abbey .^ It was the
era of her pride and triumph ; for Stephen was then her prisoner.
The release of Stephen, towards the close of the same year, again
set the kingdom in a blaze. Political parties were once more re-
vived or confounded, and each man readjusted his allegiance as
duty, interest, or passion might direct. Amidst all the turmoil
and distrust we may again notice, and again wonder, at the impulse
which was given to religious institutions. The deadliest of foes,
Stephen and Maude, vied in their patronage of the Church, not

» Supra, Vol. VII. p. 287.

216

LILLESHALL.

of LUleshuU and Hetingeham (Atcham). If Belmeis had only re-
cently been made Dean of St. Alkmnnd's, and such probably was
the case^ it was obviously that he might have every facility for con-
verting the Secular into the Regular establishment^ a business which
we know to have been substantively and eventually completed.
Thus, whether in Belmeis's time or later, all the prebendal estates
of St. Alkmund^s became the property of the Canons of Lilleshall.

The next Charter which I should notice, is the Confirmation of
the Empress Matilda to LiUeshall Abbey. This interesting document
seems to me to have passed very soon after she quitted England,
that is in 1148; but I must speak of it with caution, as its nearly
obliterated condition makes some of the words, which I fimcy my-
self to have deciphered, somewhat problematical. —

'^Matilda the Empress, daughter of King Henry,'' addresses
William fits Alan and Walter (perhaps his brother) and all her faith-
ful of Shropshire, with greeting. She receives *' William Abbot of
Lylleshull, and the Canons there serving Ood, for the souls of
Henry her Father, Matilda her mother, &c. &c., and for the welfare
of himself and hers, under her tulelage and protection. Wherefore
her will and mandate is that the aforesaid William and his Canons
should hold all their possessions freely and peaceably, viz. the
Church of St. Alkmund of Salop, with its appurtenances and fran-
chises, already confirmed to them by Episcopal authority. The
witnesses seem to be H. (Hugh) Archbishop of Bouen; Joceline
Bishop of Sarum ; Philip Bishop of Baieux ; Bichard the Empress's
Chancellor ; Robert de Curcy ; William de Ansgervill." The Deed
is dated, I think, at Falaise.^

We now pass to the Confirmation of Walter Durdent, Bishop of
Coventry (consecrated October 2, 1149). It seems to me to have
passed soon after his consecration, and before September 1152,^
when Bichard de Belmeis^ whom it names as Dean of St. Alkmund's,
became Bishop of London. His conversion of the Secular Pre-
bends is spoken of as a thing done. The building of the Abbey of
St. Mary in the wood of Lilleshull has commenced. The previous
sanctions of King Stephen, Pope Eugenius, Archbishop Theobald,
and Bishop Clinton, are each alluded to. The Charter is attested

* Lilkshall Chartulaiy (in possession of
the Puke of SuUierland), fo. M.

' There is an otjection to tiiis early date.
One of the witnesses is Geoffrey Abbot of
Gumbenuaie. STow WiUiam, firti Abbot
of CHunbennere, is said to have been liying

in 1153, viz. "when Felton Abbey was
founded." There is however a strong
Goontor-presumption that the foundation
of Pd^ton was earlier than 1168. If so,
the objection to dating Walter Durdent's
Charter earlier than 115S is invalid.

■°'^y

DOORWAY, LILLBSUALL ABBEY.

RICHARD DB BELMEIS II.

217

by William, Abbot of Radmore ; Geoftey, Abbot of Combermere ;
Banulf, Abbot of Bnildwas ; Richard, Abbot of Roucester ; Radulf,
Prior of Kenilworth ; Richard, Prior of Tutbury ; and Roger, Arch-
deacon of Salop.^ Next follows the Charter of Henry, Duke of
Normandy,^ sought and obtained by the prudent Canons of Lilies-
hall while that Prince was yet an exile. It merely confirms to the
Canons the Church of St. Alkmund with soc and sac and all the
privileges which that Church had enjoyed in the time of Henry I.
It is attested by Amulf, Bishop of Liseux, (Humphrey) de Bohun,
Walcheline Maminot, William fitz Hamon, Warin fitz Gerold,
Richard fitz Haldebrond, and Manasser Biset. It is dated at Ar-
gentan, in Normandy, and passed probably in 1151.^

The same Prince's Charter, after he ascended the throne, is a
document of some historical interest. He confirms all things, viz.
the site of the Abbey and the Church of St. Alkmund according to
the former Charter of his *' Lady the Empress '' (a mode of desig-
nating his mother, which I have not elsewhere met with). The
Deed is attested by R.^ (Robert), Bishop of Lincoln, R. (Richard),
Bishop of London; Thomas, the Chancellor; Manasser Biset,
steward ; Warin fitz Gerold, chamberlain ; Robert de Dunstanvill,
and Joceline de Baliol.' It is dated Apud Alrewas in exercUu, a
circumstance which, with the witnesses' names, proves the Deed to
have passed in the first year of Henry's reign, though the month is
left uncertain.* A cotemporary precept of the same King gives the
Canons of LiUeshall a new privil^e, viz. an exemption from toU
and passage throughout the King's dominions, under a penalty of
£10, recoverable fi^m any one who should charge them with such
dues.^

I may now close my account of the Foundation of Lilleshall
Abbey, with a summary of whatever is Airther known of its
Founder.

RiCHABD DE Belmeis (II.) 9 notwithstanding his ecclesiastical

» Monatticon, VI. 263, No. IV.

^ Chartnlary (ut sapra), fo. 44.

' This date I asagn <m the following
gn>and& Henry became Duke of Nor-
mandy early in 1I5I, by cession of bis
father, GeofiVey. In the Autumn of that
year he became also Earl of Aujou by his
fiithei^s death; and in 1152 he acquired
further titles by his marriage with Eleanor
of Poitou. In the Deed before us, he
amply styles himself *^Duke of Nor-

VIII.

mandy," but he is known to hare used
his other titles before his accession to the
throne of England. The presumption it
that he used them as they accrued^

* The name Bichard stands here in the
Chartulary. It must haTe been supplied
by the Transcriber for aa initial B., and
is enroneous.

* Lilleshall Chartulaiy, ut suproL

* Vide supra, Vol. I. p. 249, note 23.
7 Chartulary, ut supra, fo. 44.

28

218 LILLBSHALL.

dignities^ was not ordained a Priest till September 20^ 1152, when
his previous election to the See of London rendered that prelimi*
nary of his consecration imperative. His Consecration followed at
Canterbury on Sunday, September 28, 1152, Archbishop Theobald
officiating, and nearly every English Bishop attending. Henry of
Winchester, the only notable absentee, sent a message to the Synod,
excusing his attendance, but expressing in high terms his assent to
Belmeis' promotion. — Elegance of person, polished manners, in-
dustrious activity, and scientific accomplishment, are all attributed
to the new Bishop by his great Panegyrist, who predicted that '' th^
tree, now to be planted in God's temple, would, with divine help,
flourish and be fruitful.^' Such was the pious tone assumed by
Henry of Blois, who, though not as yet sated with ambition and
state-craft, gave after-evidence that he sometimes spoke both so-
lemnly and sincerely.

Bichard de Belmeis, Bishop of London, seems to have been a
party to the negotiations which, in 1153, gave peace, to the dis-
tracted nation, by settling the succession on Henry, Duke of Nor-
mandy. On December 19, 1154, he attended the coronation of
that Prince at Westminster. I find him occasionally but not often
at Court in 1155 ; and Prince Henry, who was bom at London on
February 28th of that year, was baptized by Bishop Belmeis. The
next year the King was in Normandy ; but a Court held at Col-
chester on May 24, 1157, was attended by Belmeis. Not again, at
any later period, do I hear of him in public, or in attendance on
the King. He died on the 4th of May 1162, having been many
years a sufferer from some disorder, which, as one of the Chroniclers
informs us,^ deprived him of speech. His Uncle, the former Bishop
of London, was, as we know, attacked by paralysis many years be-
fore his death, and the Nephew's malady was, I suspect, of a simi-
lar nature. His age at his death must have been considerably less
than sixty.

No record remains of his having done anything for the fabric of
the Church of St. PauFs, the Cathedral of his See. His whole
cares of this kind were probably devoted to the completion of that
Augustine Abbey of which we are speaking. It was associated
with the neighbouring heritage of his kinsmen, and with the me-
mories of his own early advancement ; it was situated also in the
County which had nursed the greater genius and fortunes of his
illustrious Uncle.

* John HaguBtald, p. 278.

THS ABBEY.

219

Of the various Confirmations which mark the growing prosperity
of LiUeshall Ahbey, that of Pope Alexander III. (1159-1181) is
the first to be noticed. It receives Abbot William and his brethren
under the Papal protection according to the example of Pope Eu-
genius. It confirms the Church of St. Alkmund with its Prebends,
which it enumerates. They were LilleshuU, Ettingham ( Atcham) ,
Ukington, Longedon, Edbricteleg (Albright-lee) , Hennecot, Preston
(Preston Gubbalds), Lee (near Pimhill), Cherlton (near Sbawbury),
Dinthill, Wiluuredeschot, and nine acres in a second Cherlton.^
Among other Benefactions to the Abbey it only notices those of
Philip de Belmeis and of Walter de Dunstanvill of Idsall. It ex-
empts the Navalia of the Canons from tithes, in the form already
noticed under Haughmond and Wombridge.

Other Papal PrivUeffia (as they are termed in the Chartulary)
were as follows.— Pope Urban II. (1185-1187) ratified the Charter
of his Predecessor, Alexander. Innocent III. (119&-1216) ex-
empted the Abbey from the observance of Interdicts. The Con-
firmation of Pope Honorius III. (1216-1227) enumerates various
' additions to the wealth of the Abbey by grants of private persons.
It was also at this time in receipt of rents from Shrewsbury, Ches-
ter, Stafford, and Worcester. In this Bull the Pontiff gives to the
Canons in the usual form, the right to elect their future Abbots.
Three other rescripts of Honorius III. are preserved in the Lille-
shall Chartulary. One guarantees the Papal protection ; another
does the same, speaking of the possessions secured to the Abbey by
King John, of illustrious memory ; a third forbids the Canons to
confer on any person, or to convert to other than the existing uses,
any Prebend of St. Alkmund's.

The Chartulary contains some other Papal Privileges; but I
shall here notice only one, which I take to be by Pope Innocent III.,
though it is undated. It allows that a Canon of the House may
undertake the cure of souls in any Parish Church of the Abbot's
gifl : and that two, three, or four of the Canons, living in any such

^ Thifl Cherlton was probably near
Preston Ghibbalds. An Inquest, of about
1200-20, preserred in the LiUeshall Char-
tulary (fo. 112), says as follows : —

Pbsston. Juratores dicunt quod Ah'
hat de LUleahull tenet Preston cum mem'
hrisy vidt Cherloton et Lee, de feodo Do-
mini RegiSy et est ffild^hUiSy etpertinet ad
Sctum Alcmundvm. Ilahet lihertatem^

ted netciunt quo waranto. Ibidem hida
terrtB, JHctut Abbot hahet in Cherloton

2 acrat in dominico, et valent per annum
4 lib. (Qy 4 tol.) Item hahet prata qua
valent x tol. Item hahet hrueram et nuh
ram ibidem qua eontinet 4 acrat et valet

3 toL per annum.

Lee. Juratoret dicunt, ^e, Sfc. (Sec
lioreaft<?r, under Preston Gubbalds.)

220 lilukbhaIilI

Parish^ may institute one of themselTeft^ and present him to the
Bishop or Archdeacon, from whom he may receive the core of souls
and license to exercise all sacerdotal and parochial functions in the
said Parish.

Of Regal Confirmations to LiUeshall the most full and remark-
able are, that of King John, dated August 81, 1199, that of Henry
III., dated November 29, 1265, that of Edward I., dated June 7,
1285, that of Richard II., dated November 4, 1394, and that of
Henry YIII., dated April 5, 1524. King JoWs Charter, I should
observe, makes mention of Preston-Montford, and Wistanstow, as
possessions of St. Alkmund's. It gives to the Canons these fran-
chises, via. soc, sac, tol, them, infengenthef, and utfengenthef ; also
it acquits them of Geld, Danegeld, suits of Counties and Hundreds,
waste, forest-regard, army-aids, aids to Sherifis or their Serjeants,
of stretward, hidage, pleas and plaints pertaining to County, and of
all secular services, saving such as might be reserved in the Char-
ters of any of the Canons^ Suzerains. They were also to be quit
of toll, passage, tolls of bridges, ways, ferries, or sea^voyages, and
of all tolls at fairs throughout the kingdom (except in the City of
London) ; and in respect of such goods as could be proved to belong
to themselves or to have been purchased for their uses.

We know from the cotemporary Pipe-Roll that this ample Charter
cost the Abbot of LiUeshall 30 merks.

Among the Archiepiscopal Confirmations to LiUeshall Abbey, the
Chartulary preserves an extraordinary series, viz. Charters of Arch-
bishops Theobald, Thomas k Becket, Richard (1174-1184), Bald-
win (1184-1190), Hubert Walter, and Stephen Langton. The
continuous favour of the Bishops of Lichfield is testified by Charters
or Confirmations of Walter Durdent, Richard Peche, Hugh de
Novant, Alexander de Stavenby, and others. As to private bene-
factions, several Baronial Houses contributed to the prosperity of
LilleshaU Abbey. I may name Fitz Alan, Le Strange, Dunstanvill,
Pantulf, La Zouche, Trusbutt, and Erdington. The enumeration
of less noted benefactors I leave to the specific localities concerned.

The Shropshire Pipe-RoU of 1199 shows the Canons of LiUeshuU
as fining 20*. for license to cultivate 5 acres of a certain moor near
their House ; also as promising a Donum of 6 merks, as a supple-
ment to a Tallage of the King's Boroughs.

On the RoU of 1200 the Sheriff claims a deduction in the Corpus
Comiiatils of 20*. in quietantid terrarum Abbatis de Lillishull hoc
anno. The entry is not referable to anything which could properly

THB ABBBT. 221

be made an item of this portion of the Sheriff's acoomit. The
passage is underlined in the original Pipe-^BoU^ from which I infer
that a coeval objection was taken to the validity of the deduction.

The Pipe- Boll of 1212 again exhibits the Canons of Lillishull as
fining and paying 209. for cultivation of 5 acres;— of forest land^ I
presume.

In 1242^ the Pipe* Boll shows the Abbot of Lilleshull as receiving
a Boyal gratuity ot 20 merks. In August 1245 King Henry III.,
passing from Brug to Chester, journeyed by Wenlock, Shrewsbury,
Lilleshull, and Combermere. In the same year the Abbot of Lille*
shull contributed 40^. towards the Aid on marriage of the Princess
Boyal. In 1249 the Abbot of Lilleshull contributed 10 merks
{£6. I3s. 4d,) to an atunlium ; the Abbot of Shrewsbury's quota
being ill3. &s. Sd,, the Abbot of Haghmon's £8, the Abbot of
Wigmore's £5, the Prior of Chirbury's £2. IBs. 4d., and the
Prior of' Wombridge's £1.

In 1251 the Canons of LiUeshill were charged £l*for two years'
rent of 23 acres of lands, assarted by them in the boscs of LiUeshill
and Haweman.

Between the years 1241 and 1248 a question of Forest-law,
curious rather than important, was decided in favour of Lilleshall
Abbey. It was whether the dogs on the Abbot's several estates
were liable to the well-known process of expeditation. John Biset,
Justice of the Forest, is known to have visited Shropshire in 1240,
and to have died about August 1241. In this interval he issued
an order to Sir Hugh fitz Bobert, Forester of Shropshire, to dis-
train certain Jurors to make Inquest on the above matter. The
Inquest was held, probably in 1212, before Boger de Pyvelesdon,
then Sheriff of Salop and Stafford, before the said Sir Hugh fitz
Bobert, and before two Verderers, viz. Sir Bichard de Leighton
and Boger de Appeley. The eleven Jurors {Hugh de Le^, Bobert
de Wodecote, William de Etton, Bobert de Kakinton (Caynton),
Bichard de Ireland, Bobert Forester of Wellington, Balph de
Staunton, Boger de Halghton, John de Hales, Beginald de Hales,
and Banulph de Bodington} returned a verdict in favour of the
Abbot's immunity, because his lands had anciently been of the Royal
demesne. This verdict was actually recorded and ratified in Ed-
ward I.'s Confirmation of 1285.

By Patent of March 8, 1280, Edward I. allows the Abbot of
LylleshuU to assart his bosc of LylleshuU, situated within the
Forest of Wombridge, and containing 30 acres.

S22 LILLE8HALL.

An undated, but early, Rent-Boll of Lilleshall Abbey, would in-
dicate an income of more than i£100 per annum, exclusive of
appropriated Rectories. From the Manor of Lilleshall itself the
receipts in Michaelmas Term were £7. 8«. 2^., including Is, Sd.
which came from Horton. At Midlent the same Manor yielded
£6. 17s, exclusive of Is. Sd, fix)m Horton.

The Taxation of 1291 gives a very inadequate idea of the Abbot
of Lilleshall's income. He derived £10. lOs. per annum from the
following estates in the Deaneries of Salop and Newport, viz.
Cherleton, Time, Cold Hatton, Bonigale, and the Lizard Grange.
But this computation excludes all the prebendal estates of St. Alk-
mund^s, except Cherleton. In fact it extends chiefly to estates ac-
quired from other sources. —

His estate at Greenlowe (Derbyshire) yielded an

annual income of .,.£570

That at Freseley (Warwickshire) yielded ,.730
His Leicestershire estates (Ashby, &;c.) yielded 8 15 10
From Hkyndon (or Arkendon) in Yorkshire

he had 4 0^

This is all that the Taxation says of the Temporalities of Lille-
shall Abbey. It is probable that the Total of £35. lbs. lOrf.
does not represent a sixth of the Abbot's temporal income, to say
nothing of the tithes which he received as Hector of several
Churches.

In 1292 the Abbot of Lilleshull was impleaded by the King as
to his warranty for holding Pleas-of-the-Crown, and exercising
rights of Fair, Market, and Free-warren, in his Manors of Lille-
shull, BolynghuU, Longedon, Atton Colde, Okynton, Attingeham,
Hennecote, Atbrightelegh, Preston Gobald, Preston Moneford, and
Donthull. The Abbot appeared and stated that he held no Market
in the said vills. A three days' Fair at Attingeham, held on the
day of St. Giles and two following days (i, e. September 1, 2, and 3),
he justified by Charter of Henry III. His Free Warren, in Colde
Hatton, Okynton (Uckington), Hennecote, and Longedon, was
exercised under Charters of Edward I. As to BolynghuU and At-
ton Colde, he said that " there was no such vill in the County.'^
The Sheriff corroborated the statement and the Plea was admitted ;
— a strange circumstance, when accuracy of spelling was little
studied, and punctuation almost unknown. As to holding Pleas of
the Crown twice in a year in the other vills, the Abbot justified

» Pope Nich. Taxation, pp. 261, 262, 267— b, 67, 809— b.

THE ABBEY. 223

that^ by usage from the time of King Richard^ and by the general
Charter of King John^ and the confirmations of Henry III. and
Edward I. The King's Attorney here attempted to show a dis-
crepancy between the Abbot's two Pleas, " for if the privileges in
question were conveyed by Charter of King John, then the previous
usage was an usurpation;'' but the Attorney denied 'Hhat King
John's Charter was sufficient to divest the Crown of the privileges
in question, inasmuch as it did not specifically name them."^ The
cause was adjourned, but we may venture to guess that the sophis-
tical argument of the Lawyer did not eventually prevail.

In January 1321 Edward II. prosecuted the Abbot of LiUeshall
for claiming immunities from toll, wharfage, and other dues, in the
City of London. The Abbot failed to appear, and probably with
good reason, for King John's Charter would not have served him
here.

In 1535-6 Robert, Abbot of Lilleshull, returned the gross in-
come of his Monastery, in temporalities and spiritualities, as
£326. Os. lOd. A few items of his account require special mention
here.

The lands held in demesne at Lilleshall and
cultivated for the Qanons themselves were

worth yearly £16

The assized rents of Lilleshall were . . . 52 13 4
The rents from the Lizard Grange were £2; from Newport 16«.
Prom SheriflF Hales (Staffordshire), Howie, Bletchley (Shropshire),
and Warmincham (Cheshire), came £7. From Horton (near Wel-
lington) came ISs, OJ., and from Sugdon (near Bodington) 16d.
Brampton (Northants) yielded £11; Ashby and Blackfordby
(Leicestershire) yielded £8. 14«. ; Arkenden (Yorkshire) £6;
Preseley (Warwickshire) £5 ; Wich Malbank and Crabwell (Che-
shire) £6 ; and Grenlowe (Derbyshire) £7. The Abbot was Im-
propriator of eight Churches. Of these LiUeshall Rectory yielded
£5. 68. Sd. ; and St. Alkmund's, with its chapel of Great Berwick,
yielded £6. Five of these Rectories were not in Shropshire, but I
may name them. They were Famborough (Warwickshire), Ashby
de la Zouch (Leicestershire), Holm (Norfolk), Badminton (Glou-
cestershire), and North Molton (Devonshire).

Among the charges on the gross revenue, the following relate
more immediately to the Home-estate of the Abbey. —

To Thomas Eyton, for land in Lylleshall, a quit-rent, as I sup-

> Quo WarantOf pp. 679, 453.

224 LILLESHALL ABBEY.

pofle, of 12rf. ; to George, Earl of Shrewsbury, as Steward of the
Abbey, ^£2. 13*. 4rf.; to Thomas Bromley, its Auditor, £2; to
Nicholas Cokkerell, its Beceiver-General, £6. ISs. M. ; to Bc^er
Morton, Steward of Lilleshall Manor, 13«. 4d. ; to Thomas Walson,
Bailiff of Lilleshall, £2. It seems too that the Abbey still ac-*
knowledged Philip de Belmeis for its original Founder and remem-
bered two of his bequests, viz. to distribute 4Qs. to the poor on
Maundy Thursday {CcBna Domini) , and £4 on September 8 (the
Nativity of the Virgin) }

I do not know that the Minister^ Accounts of 154Q-1, when the
Monastery was already dissolved, invalidate the truth of Abbot
Robert's return five years before. The particulars of the "Home-

■

estate are however more full and are as follows. —

Lilleshall. Bents of lands and Tenements . £l 18 4
Lilleshall and Hynyngton (i. e. Honington).

Diverse rents 882

Lilleshall. Diverse Ferms 8 16 4

Hynyngton. Ferm of a Mill 2 14

Lilleshall. Perquisites of Court 2 8

Muxton. Assized rents and customary rents . 1 11 4

Muxton. Rents of Tenants at Will ... 5 4

Muxton. Diverse Ferms 4 3 4

Donyngton (Donington Wood). Bents of

Tenants at Will 7 10 10

Donyngton. Diverse Ferms 11 7 2

Gildmore Pole (the pool so called) .... 6 8

Chirshall Orange (Chesswell Gfrange) ... 4 18 4

Wyldmore Grange 1200

Depmore pasture 168

Total ^71 13 2 »

The Surrender of LiUeshall Abbey bears date October 16, 1538.
On November 28, 1638, King Henry VIII. granted the Site of the
House, Sec., in fee-farm, to William Cavendishe, Esq. In the fol-
lowing year it was granted to James Leveson, Esq.

ABBOTS OP LILLESHALL.

The election of any Abbot of Lilleshall required the double
assent of the Crown and the Diocesan Bishop. Hence, from the
Patent-Bolls, from the Lichfield Registers, and from the Abbey

» Valor EccUsncuticut, III. 197, 198. | ' Monasticon, VI. p. 265.

ABBOTS. 226

Chartttlary, we are able to form an almost perfect list of these
Abbots.

William^ probably the first Abbot of Lilleshall^ occurs about
1148. He was living after the consecration of Richard Peche to
the See of Lichfield^ s. e. after April 1161. Some lists state him
to have been living about 1173-4. I think it very probable that
that was the later limit of his career.

Walter, Abbot of Lilleshall^ is said to have been party to an
agreement with Richard de Cherlton in 1177. He was certainly
Abbot in 1180 and in October 1200. His infirm state in June
1200 has been already noticed.^ A suit, which he commenced,
ooold not be proceeded with in October 1203 owing to his death .^
At this date —

Ralph was Abbot of Idlleshall.' He was still Abbot in July
1216.

N. is given as the initial letter of the Abbot's name in the con-
firmation of Pope Honorius III. (1216-1227) *

AxAjf occurs as Abbot in 1220, in October 1221, and in Novem-
ber 1224. On his death, as I suppose, but certainly on May 4,
1226, the King, by Patent, assents to the election of —

William de Dokleng as Abbot of Idlleshall. He was deceased
on July 27, 1285, which is the date of the King's license for the
election of his successor. On August 9, 1285, the King ratifies
Ihe election of —

Simon db Fodbino (probably Fotheringay), late Prior. On Pe-
cember 8, 1240, the Abbacy was vacant, and on December 14, the
Royal assent was given to the election of —

RicHABD DE Salop, a Canon of the House. He occurs as Abbot
in 1242, 1249, and on June 25, 1252. On June 15, 1253, the
King assents to the election of —

RoBEET DE Arkalaw as Abbot. He was still in office on July 8,
1261. He is said to have been " summoned to Parliament in 49
Henry III."* (1264-5), which means, I suppose, that the then
Abbot of LiUeshull was one of those who were summoned ^'to
consult with Simon de Montfort " by the Pseudo-Patent of De-

> Bopns p. 106.

* Supn, VoL yjl. p. 197.

* Beojamia, who occurs aa a Oaaon of
TiillBshall in October 1201 (vid0 supra,
p. 106), and again in October 1208, waa
Prior under Abbot Balph in and about
the jear 1206.

* The letter N. ia often used in old
dooumenta, as a symbol, and may here
mean nothing more than the Abbot then
M qfflee. Thus the letters M. and N. axe
used in the Church Catechism, and A. and
B. in common oonrersation.

* Moikutiam, YI. 261.

VIII. 29

326

LILLESHALL.

cember 14^ 1264. The same authority speaks of Abbot Robert as
being similarly summoned to Parliament in 56 Hen. III. (1271-2)^
but this is more than a mere error of description^ for on November
20, 1270, custody of the Abbey, then vacant, was entrusted by
Patent to the Convent, which fined 20 merks for the privil^e. On
November 30, 1270, the Boyal assent was given to the election
of—

William db Hales, late Prior, who had the temporalities re-
stored to him by a third Patent of December 16, 1270. He occurs
as Abbot in 1272, 1273, and 1275.

Lucas occurs as Abbot in 1277, and in November 1282.

Ralph was Abbot in March 1284,^ and in March 1289.

John is said in one list to have been Abbot in 18 Edward I.
(1289-90), but I doubt the accuracy of this.'

William de Bruoge was Abbot in November 1291, and in
June 1306. On February 28, 1308, he had resigned; and though
the election of —

John de Chetwtnd, a Canon, was found to be informal by the
Bishop, he confirmed it, to prevent the Escheator's continued inter-
ference with the vacant Abbey. John occurs in office 1318, 1828,
and 1328.

HsNKY DE Stokes was Abbot on September 17, 1330, and in
1350. On August 6, 1350, the Bishop confirmed the election of—

Robert de Aschebt, a Canon, and addressed a certificate thereof
to the King, and a mandate to the Archdeacon's Official to install
the new Abbot. The election of —

William de Pipfelowe was similarly confirmed, and certified
by Episcopal Writs of May 29, 1353. Abbot William was living
in 1367, but the Abbey was vacant in July 1309.

RoGEB Nobbeis was Abbot in 1370 and 1371.

William db Petntone, his successor, occurs in 1376 and in
16 Richard II. (1392-3).

> Supra, Yd. 11. p. 323, note.

* At the Ajsizes of October 1292, Ab-
bot William de Brugge had a curious suit
with one Master Bichard Bernard, who
had on March 6, 1289, been engaged by
Abbot Balph, WilUam*t predeoeMOTj as a
kind of Proctor to conduct any business
of the Abbey throughout England, and
for a salary of 4 merks per annum. Ber-
nard now claimed 14 merks, or 3^ years'
arrears of the said salary, and put his da-

mages at 20 merks. Abbot William ap-
pealed, and stated thai Bernard's other
employments were so numerous that he
could not possibly fulfil his part of the
contract, and that having been requested
on November 22, 1291, by Abbot William
himself, to undertake some business, Ber-
nard had refused. The sentence was in
harmony with the merits of the case. —
Idea Ahbas nne die, et Sicardiu •» mueri-
eordid pro fatso clamore.

THE PABISH CHURCH.

227

William Lte^ previously a Canon of the Honse^ was Abbot in
2 Henry IV. (1400-1) and 6 Henry VI. (1427-8). .

John de Wbnlocke was Abbot in 10 Henry VI. (1481-2) and
8 Edward IV. (1463-4).

Bobekt titz John had succeeded in 5 Edward IV. (1465-6)^
and was Abbot in 9 Henry VII. (1498-4) .

John (perhaps Robert) fitz John is said to have been Abbot in
12 Henry VII. (1496-7).

Gboffbet Babton^ or Bebton^ was Abbot in 14 Henry VII.
(1498-9) and in 7 Henry VIII. (1515-6).

James Cockebell occurs in 10 and 11 Henry VIII. (1518-
1520).

SoBEBT Watson^ last Abbot of LiUeshall^ was in office in 18
Henry VIII. (1521-2), and till July 16, 1588.

LILLESHALL PABISH-CHUBCH.

I do not suppose that Lilleshall was one of the Saxon Parishes of
this district, but in what Saxon Parish the Manor should be placed
it is hard to determine. Idsall, which certainly included Sheriff-
Hales in its Parish, perhaps involved Lilleshall, but no traces of
such subjection in the latter instance are likely to exist.

That the Canons of Lilleshall fouQd a Parish Church in existence
when they entered on the Manor, I cannot doubt. That it was a
Bectory is also apparent ; for Bishop Bichard Peche granted them
an appropriation of the three Churches of St. Alcmund's, Atting-
ham, and Lilleshall.^

H. (that is, Hugh de Novant) Bishop of Coventry, granted a
similar license of appropriation in respect of the Parish Church of
lilleshall.^

In consequence of the perpetual strifes which arose between the
Monastic Bectors and the Vicar of Lilleshall, Bishop Boger de
Molend, on March 5, 1286, assigned a fixed portion for the Vicar.
The Vicar was to have the manse, garden, a croft called the Rudyng,
and a meadow adjoining, as William de Preston, late Vicar, had
had. The tithes of gardens and crofts, under spade cultivation, the

> Harl. MSS. 3868, fo. 21. The Char- i ooiueoration.

ter is attested by William Dean (of Lich-
field) ; B. (probably Boger) Archdeacon ;
Bichard Abbot of Boucester ; B. Prior of
Kenilworth; Master Teodorio; and Mas-
ter GeoSrey de Lenton. It probably
passed in 1161, the year of Bishop Peche*s

' Ibidem. Witnesses, William de Dure*
dent, Master Bichard de Gkioweehall, Ba*
dulf Chaplain, Bobert Marmicm, Bobert
de Broch, Hugh Pantol^ John de Wylor-
yill, Geofflrey de Norton. The date must
be between 1X88 and 1194.

228

LILLE8HALL.

customary right of common and easements^ as exercised by former
Vicars^ the alterages, the tithes of lambs^ calves^ oolts^ and other
small tithes, the mortuaries, the hay-tithes of Donynton, Lylles-
hull, and Hynyngton (Honington), and the tithes of pannage were
also to be the Vicar's.

After Bishop Roger's death (Dec. 16, 1295), the then Abbot^ ac-
cepted the above Ordinance. Both the Ordinance and the accept-
ance were copied on Augast 16, 1315, into the Raster of Bishop
Langton, then holding an Ordination in the Conventual Church of
Laieshall.*

The Taxation of 1291 values the Church of Lilleshall at £4s. 18s.
isd,^ In 1341 this Taxation is rightly quoted at 7 merks; but the
Assessors of the Ninth rated the Parish at 6 merks. The reasons
for the abatement were, because " one merk of the Taxation repre-
sented the glebe, oblations, and other income of the Church, not
now to be reckoned ; and because there had been a general mur-
rain among the sheep."* The Valor of 1584-5 gives the income
of William Jackson, Vicar of Lilleshall, as J^7 per annum; out of
which he paid 2s. 3d. for synodals.*^ The Rectory, appropriated to
Lilleshall Abbey, was returned as worth £6. 6s. Sd. per annum;
and was chargeable with 6s. Sd. for the Procurations of the Arch*
deacon of Salop.'

YICABS OF LILLBSHALL.

R., Vicar of Lilleshall, occurs between 1232 and 1238.

The following were all presented by the Abbot and Convent of
Lilleshall, except in one instance. —

William de Preston is spoken of as former Vicar in 1286.

Sir Simon, Vicar of Lilleshall, resigned September 22, 1314;
and on November 24 following —

John le Kent, Priest, was admitted. He occurs as Vicar on
February 26, 1339.

Sir John Adenet, Chaplain, instituted December 26, 1864,
died 1369.

Adam Kay, Priest, was instituted July 24, 1369, the King pre-
senting during a vacancy of the Abbey. On August 18, 1376| Kay
exchanged with —

^ The Abbot is described by the initial
letter N. Ilis name was however William
or John (vide supra, p. 225, note 4).

' Reffist. Langton^ fo. 17, b.

' Pope Nich. Taxation^ p. 248.
* Inguis. Nonarum, p. 186.
» • • Valor JScclesiastictu, III. 186, 197,
198.

FONT, LILLBSHALL CHURCH.

MANOE AMD VILL.

229

Thomas db Plbidkwtk^ late Vicar of Moneford. On May 27,
1883^ Pleidewyk exchanged with —

John db Onnb^ late Rector of Cleobury North.^ John de On
died in 1403, when on February 13 —

John Bbdestur, Chaplain, was instituted. He died in 1413.

LtLLESHALL MANOB AND TILL.

The village of Lilleshall was sometimes called Lilleston, to dis-
tinguish it from the manor in general.

Some Lilla, a Saxon settler, had left his name with both village
and hill; I. say hill, for the older way of spelling the name, viz.
Lilleshull, is undoubtedly more correct than LilleshalL

The Forest- Roll of 1180 affords an early illustration of this
matter of nomenclature. The Abbot of Lilleshull is assessed I2s»
for imbladements of 7i acres of com and 7 acres of oats. His
Tenants {homines) in Lilleshull are assessed 11^. for similar im»
bladements. Again, the VUlate of Lillesion is assessed one merk
for a paurpresture, viz. a Mill ; and this entry is followed by a
charge of ]2d. against one Morinus for 9l pourpresture in Dunmion
(t. e. Donnington Wood) .

In a case of murder, presented by the Bradford Jurors at the
Assizes of 1203, we have the name of this Manor spelt as LilleshUl
or LiUeshul, — Elyas de Lilleshill, Alice Crithebrech, EvadeLileshil,
Aldet, Mable, Geoffrey, and Robert de LiUeshul, and Peter de
Hopton, were accused of murdering a woman at LilleshilL Elyas
had taken sanctuary in the Church of Lilleshill, but had since ac-
knowledged the murder and abjured the realm. Alice^ immediately
after the murder, had fled into StaflFbrdshire with certain chattels of
the murdered woman, had been there arrested, and brought back
into Shropshire. Her defence before the Curia ComitatHs of Salop
was now recorded before the Justices-in-Eyre,.as the King's Ser-
jeant {serviens) and several knights remembered it. It was at least
ingenious. — She had stated that, on hearing a noise at night in the
murdered woman's house, she went and peeped through a chink in
the door {per medium hostii), that she saw four men within, who
presently coming out, seized, and threatened to murder, her, if she
gave any alarm, but (on her keeping silence) gave her those stolen
goods {pelf am) which had been fotmd upon her when arrested. On

^ The Hereford RegiBters give a differ-
ent acoonnt of ihia exchange. (Vide su-
pra, Vol. III. p. 31.) Bobert Halton,

John Dun^B successor at Cleobuiy, ao-
eording to this authority, exchanged with
Plaidwyk.

230 LILLE8HALL.

being brought before the Justices at the above Assuses^ Alice
Crithebrech no longer adhered to the above defence. She was
judged to deserve deaths but the penalty was commuted for one
hardly less terrible. — Bed per dispensacionem enuirUttr ei ocuR, was
the sentence.^

At these same Assizes a question was mooted as to what rights
the King had in the bosc and pasture of Lilleshull. The Abbot ap-
jpeared with King John's own Charter of 1199 in his hands; which
Charter conceded the site of the Abbey^ and Lilleshull with its
appurtenances^ &c. in bosco et piano y inpratis et pascuis, ^c. Judg-
ment was deferred.'

In 1220^ Bobert de LiUeston was a Juror on the Inquest men-
tioned under Dodicote.^

A Patent of May 7, 1250^ allows that the Abbot and Convent of
Lilleshull may hold^ for a rent of 10^.^ twenty-three acres of land
which they had assarted^ without license^ in their boscs of Lilleshull
and Haughmond^ within the King's Forest.

The Bradford Hundred-BoU of 1255 says that the Abbot of Li-
lishull holds the Manor of LilishuU by gift of King Henry 11.^ in
perpetual dlmoign, and does suit neither to county nor Hundred.^

In April 1256, Sibil fitz Muriel has a Writ against Bobert Abbot
of Lilleshall for disseisin in Lilleshall. She has a similar Writ in
August following.

I suppose it was the third Walter de Dunstanvill (1241-1270)
between whom and the Abbot of Lilleshall a question of boundary
was in dispute. As '' Sir Walter de Dunstavyle Lord of Ydeshall^'
he quitclaimed Xxi the Abbot all right to common of pesson in the
boscs of Lylleshall beyond the road called Watlingestret, saving
to both parties common of hei'bage on either side of Watlingestret.
Moreover he allowed that the Abbot's men of Brerlatton (now Bur-
laughton) should have common of pasture in his (Walter's) wood of
Lusgard (Lizard), p&ying one hen by way of rent for every three-
year-old beast so depastured. In return, Walter was to feed 60
swine, properly marked, and counted (talliatos) by the Abbot's
Bailiff, in the forinsec bosc of Lilleshall. The Abbot also quitclaimed
all right in the boscs of Ydeshall, beyond Watlingstret, except the
common pasture aforesaid.^

There is also a Charter whereby Oalter de Dunstanvill son of
Gaiter de Dunstanvill gives to the Abbey that bosc, beyond Wat-

* ' ' AtsizeSyhJohn^m. 2dortOf ^darso. I * Rot. Hundred, II. 67.

' Supra, page 16. I * LilleflhaU Chartulaiy, fo. 78.

MANOR AND VILL,

231

lingstret^ towards Lilleshull^ which had been in dispute between the
Abbey and his Ancestors and himself, so that Watlingstret was to
be for eyer the boundary between the bosc of Hydeshal and the
bosc of LilleshuU.^

Between the years 1271 and 1275 (as I think), William Abbot
of Lilleshull and his Convent deliver to Henry de Meryton and his
wife Felicia a parcel of land in Wyldemore-juxta-Sydenhaly to hold
to the longest liver, at 12^^. rent, and for a heriot of 28. at the de-
cease of either. Witnesses, Richard Brace, Richard Urse, John de
Haliton, Roger le Harper, and Alan de Garmeston.'

The Bradford Tenure-RoU (about 1285), says that " the Abbot
of Lilleshill holds the Manor of Lilleshill, with its members, viz.
Donyngton and Mokeleston (MuxtOn) : also the three Vills of
Attecham, Unkynton (Uckington), and Adbright-lee, of the King,
in capite sine medio, as members of the Church of St. Alchmund,
Salop ; — by gift of the King, and by Charter. The Abbot has his
free court and holds pleas of bloodshed and hue and cry, and has
gallows and Free warren.'*

Robert o' the Hull of Lilleshull occurs on a Sheriff-Hales Jury
on April 28, 1294. It is curious that the LiUeshall Chartulary
should record the death of this Tenant in the same year. There is
a memorandum how Robert de Monte died in his house at Lylles-
hull in 22 Edward I., and how William, his son and heir, being a
minor, was in ward to the Abbot for five years. Then William,
Clerk of Newport, having married Agnes, the said Ward's mother,
bought his wardship and marriage, for 10s.

DoNNiNOTON Wood. On October 18, 1200, a Fine was levied
at Westminster, between Geoffirey Chanterell, Plaintiff, and Walter
Abbot of Lilleshill, Tenant (the Canon Benjamin being his Attor-
ney), of one virgate in Duninton, whereof was suit of mort d'ancestre.
The Abbot now allowed the Plaintiff's right to hold the premises
in fee under the Abbot and his successors for a free rent of 49. per
annum. For this the Plaintiff paid 8^ merks.

At the Assizes of January 1256, Richard le Yongebonde and
Alice his wife abandoned their suit de ingressu, against Richard le
Bere and Geoffirey Chauntler concerning a half- virgate in Dimyton.
Their Sureties were Griffin de Akilote and WiUiam Bordfaxe. It
elsewhere appears that Geoffirey Chanteler had license to accord this
suit for a fine of 6s. Sd. The Concord too is preserved. Thereby

1 LilkBhaU Chartulary, fo. 60.

3 Charter at Trentham. The Sydenhdl

alluded to ie probably the place now called
StfdiMtfi in Einnersley Parish.

232

LILLE8HALL.

Oeoflrey Ghaunterel^ tenant^ acknowledges jthe right of Alice wife
of Richard le Yungebond to one^third of a vii^te in Donyton. In
return Richard and Alice concede the premises to Geofifrey^ at a
rent of \2d,, he also undertaking to discharge capital services.

MuxTON. One of the earliest Fines on Record relates to this
member of LilleshalL It was levied at Lichfield on August 13^
1186^ before Robert Marmion, Hugh Pantulf^ and their associate
Justices^ Barons and Knights.^ It was between Reginald le Bere
and Agnes fitz Sibil^ concerning three viigates in Mukeleston,
whereof was Flea of Grand Assize. They divide the land between
them^ one messuage remaining with R^nald^ another with Agnes.
And Agnes shall pay Reginald a rent of 2#. yearly, on the vigil of
St. Mary Magdalene.^

Agnes de Mukeleston, daughter of Sibil, enfeoffed Elias de
Ettingeham in 3 nokes in Mukeleston, for a rent of \%d? This
was about the year 1200, 1 think.

On October 6, 1203, Robert de Longedon, tenant of 6 acres in
Duninton and Mukeleston, acknowledged by Fine that they were the
Abbot of LiUeshall^s. The Abbot conceded them to Robert, for
life, at 49. rent.^

The following narrative in the LiUesfaall Chartulary is intended
to show the Abbot's right of wardship over any heir of Bere of
Muxton. —

** William son of Richard le Bere of Mokeleston was in ward to
Abbot Richard (1240-53) till his age was completed. And Ri-
chard, William's son, was in ward to Abbot William de Halys
(1270-1275) till he was of full age : and he was restored to his land
without being obliged to take a wife {sine maritagio) at instance
of Master John de Cherlton, whose daughter, by name Bulga, he
espoused.''

It is worth remarking that the name here written Bere was iden-
tical with Beaty and that the younger Richard le Bere was he who
about 1273 has been seen attesting a Deed as Richard Urse} Also

> Three others of the ABsociates are
named on the Staffordshire Pipe-Boll of
the same year (32 Hen. II). They were
Balph de Ardem, William fitz Stephen,
and Thomas Noel. The Fipe-BoU of 88
Hen. XL shows them continuing t^eir
S^ in Shropshire, Herefordshire, and
other Gonnties. The extraordinary thing
is that they were all Shenffs ; riz. Bobert

Marmion of Woroestershire, Hugh Pan«
tulf of Shropshire, Balph de Ardem of
Herefordshire, William fitz Stephen of
Gloucestershire and Thomas Noel of Staf-
fordshire. Pantulf did not sit, as a Judge
in his own county ; but Mannion, Ajdem,
Fitz Stephen, and Koel sat in theirs.

«•»•* Chartulary, foe. 84-,t>7, M.

' Supra, p. 281.

LONOANEY. 233

we have had his father, as William Urse of Mokeleston} attesting
a Deed about 1250^ and as William de Mokeleston attesting another
Deed,* about 1260.

Richard le Bere^ who occurs in 1256, seems to have been of
Donnington. There was also a Richard le Bere attendant upon a
Hinstock Inquest in 1306. Lastly, Adam le Bere, already men-
tioned under Sugden^ as occurring in 1267, sat on two Bolas In-
quests in 1292 and 1301.

LoNOANBY. A place, thus named, fell to LilleshuU Abbey in
the twelfth Century ; but there is some doubt whether it was adja-
cent to Lilleshull or to Atcham. Fitz Alan's interest there is con-
sistent with either supposition, and other evidences are by no means
decisive on the point. Under this doubt I have nothing to do but
quote, in chronological order, the documents which relate to Lon-
ganey. —

William fitz Alan (II.) expedited before tlie year 1199, a Charter
to Lilleshull Abbey, of which the following is the substance. —

" WUUelmusfilius Willielmi filii Alatii dedi redditum v solidarum
quern percipere solebam de Lonffeney, et totum jus quod habui in
Longeney, Praterea concessi terram de ElbstaneshuU/' scilicet xxx
acras qua sunt de dominio meo de Wroccestre/"^

King John's Charter to the Abbey, dated August 31, 1199, con-
firms. Ex dono WiUiemi filii Alani, quinque solidos de Longeneya
et totum ju» quod habuit in eddem terrd, et totum Jus et servicium
quod habuit in viUd de Brerleton (Burlaughton) et triginta acras
terra in HaueetaneshuU}

At the Assizes of November 1221, the two following Lawsuits
seem to have some relation to each other. —

" Hugh le Strange and Leticia his wife, sued the Abbot of Lilles-
hul for a third of a half-virgate in Mucleston (Muxton) and in
Langeney, as the dower of Leticia. The Abbot surrendered the
said third.''7

^* The same Hugh and Leticia sued Thomas Mauveisin for a third
of a half-virgate in Berwic (Berwick Maviston) which Leticia claimed
as dower. After some delay Hugh le Strange came into Court and
withdrew the suit, saying that Herbert his brother (the Defendant's
brother was perhaps meant) had given him satisfaction."^

* • ' Sapra, pp. 89, 49.

» Supra, Vol. VII. p. 384.

* ElbfltaneehuU, alias HauestaneBhuU,
will be noticed under Uckington.

« • * Lilleshall Ohartulaiy, fo. 61 .
' Ibidem, fo. 45.

7 * B AjwixeSy 6 Hen. III., mm. 7 reeto,
6 dorto.

vni. 30

284 LONOPON UPON TERN.

By a Fine levied at Worcester, on January 27, 1249, Henry de
Berewyk and Muriell his wife (Impedients) allow themselves to
have given to Richard Abbot of Lilleshill (represented by Adam, a
Canon of the House) two acres of meadow in Longaneye, whereof
was suit of warranty. For this the Abbot gave the Grantors par-
ticipation in all good offices and prayers of his house for ever.

An early Rent-RoU of Lilleshall Abbey mentions Longenei be-
tween Uffington and Cherlton-St.-Elstrud, but the space which
should contain some rent arising therefrom at Michaelmas, is left
blank.

ilcinstion upon Cern.

" The same Church (St. Alkmund^s) held (in Saxon times) and
still holds Languedune. Here are ii hides. In demesne is one
ox-team ; and there are iiii Boors with one team ; and there might
be III teams here in addition. Here are vi * * *^ among the
male and female Serfs ; and a mill of 5^. annual value. In King
Edward's time the Manor was worth 21#. {per annum). Now it is
worth 98. 4d."*

It would be tedious to quote the various Confirmations to Lilies-
hall Abbey, which uniformly speak of Longdon as one of the pre-
bendal estates of St. Alkmund's, and which recognize the conse-
quent right of the Abbey to the Manor. The Bradford Hundred-
Roll of 1255, with problematical accuracy, ascribes the Abbot's
tenure of Longedon to a grant in pure alms of Henry II. Its free-
dom from suit of County or Hundred is also recorded on the same
RoU.8

Public Records allude but seldom to Manors thus circumstanced.
What we know of the history of Longdon cor.sists chiefly of the
Abbot of Lilleshairs negotiations with his neighbours. His en-
deavours to get the command of the River Tern, for the sake of a
Mill, or MiUs, prove the great value which was attached to that
kind of property. The Map will show how the vills of Tern, Sug-

' A word IB wanting here. I should Btatement.
supply teams, but that would only increase ' Domeida^, ib. 258, a, 1.

an appearance of inaccuraoy in the whole ' Mot. Hundred, II. 67.

LONGDON UPON TERN. 235

don^ and Isombridge, occupied the bank of the stream opposite to
Longdon. The Abbot had his negotiations with the Lords or
Tenants of each of those yills. —

At the Assizes of 1203^ Reginald de Time withdrew by license a
suit of disseizin which he had against the Abbot of LilleshuU, who^
by erection of a stank in Langedon^ had injured Reginald's tene-
ment in Time. About the year 1240^ I find from a Rent- Roll of
Lilleshull Abbey, that William de Tyme (he was Grandson of the
above Reginald) paid an annual acknowledgment of 6d, for using
the Abbotts land (at Longdon) as a buttress for his Mill at Tern.
At this time the Abbot's other receipts from Longdon were only
7s, Qd. rent half-yearly, and 8«. yearly from the Fishery there.

William de Suggedon, at some unascertainable period, gave to
Lilleshall that meadow on the bank of the Tyrne which formed an
abutment for the stank of Longedon MiU. The meadow lay be-
tween the Lamilake and the said stank.^

William de Suggedon gave to Lilleshall the meadow called MuU
nee, near to Longdon Mill, and surrounded on all sides by the
water of Time.*

Richard son of William de Suggedon confirmed this gift of his
Father.*

Nicholas TJrse of Sugdon also gave the meadow called Mulnehec.
Reginald fitz John of Sugdon gave that ford in Tern water which
was called Strane/ord, and also that bank of the Tern which was
next his meadow, called Prenesh, that the Canons might use it aii
an abutment for their Fishery.^

Hugh fitz Robert (1200-1249) gave to the Refectory of the Abbey
an abutment in hi» land of Esnebrugg (Isombridge). It was on the
bank of the Tern, in a place called Stromfort and opposite to that
meadow in Longdon which was called Helfordisheye. The object
was to secure a permanent Fishery for the Canons.^

In 1251 the Abbot of Buildwas (who had a small estate at Tem)
took out two writs against the Abbot of Lilleshall. One was con-
cerning a stank in Tyme, which had been unlawfully thrown down,
the other was concerning a stank in Longedon which had been un-
lawfully erected. At the Assizes of 1266 Hamo le Strange sued
the Abbot of Lilleshull for disseizing him of 2^ perches of land in
Wrockwardine. The Abbot alleged the land to be in Longdon,
and submitted that, even if it were in Wrockwardine, Wrockwar-
dine was ancient demesne of the Grown. (He meant that a Writ of

1 ■ < • * Lilleshall Ghartulary, fos. 68, 73. ^ • * Lilleehall ChartCOary, fioe. 73, 65.

236

LONGDON UPON TERN.

novel disseizin could not lie in respect of such a property.) To
this Hamo replied^ that his Father^ John, was TenantAn-capite of
Wrockwardine and had enfeoffed him. The Court decided that
there was no disseizin, inasmuch as the present Abbot of Lilleshull
had held the land continuously since his predecessor's death.^

There is a composition in the Liileshall Chartulai^ showing how
Sir Hamo le Strange had sued Abbot Robert of Lilleshull for dis-
seizing him of certain heath-land between Wrockwardine and
Longdon, and how the Abbot had had a countersuit against Sir
Hamo for disseizing him of a right of common, and how both
matters were arranged.^

AVhat claim Thomas de Withington (the husband, I presume, of
Isabella Bumel)^ can have acquired to the Manor of Longdou it is
hard to say. By a Tine, levied November 8, 1282, Thomas de
Wytinton (Plaintiff) releases to Lucas, Abbot of Lilleshull (Tenant),
the Manor of Longedon^super-Time, about which there had been a
suit of Grand Assize. For this quitclaim the Abbot is said to give
400 merks ; — and the sum is not a fictitious one, for the Liileshall
Chartulary preserves a memorandum of 11 Edward I. (1282-8), in
which the Abbot acknowledges a debt of 400 merks to Master
Walter de Heselschawe, in respect of a quitclaim, made by the said
"Walter and Thomas de Whytinton, of the Manor of Longedon.
As security for the debt the Abbot had given a power of distress on
all his Manors in Shropshire to the Treasurer and Chamberlains of
the King's Exchequer. However, on January 26, 1291, Master
Walter de Heselschawe appeared in the Court of Exchequer at
Westminster, and, before the Treasurer and Barons, acknowledged
himself to have received the full payment of his debt.^

On January 5, 1283, the Abbot of Lilleshull obtained a Charter
of Free- Warren in Longdon.'^

In 1534-5 the Abbot of LilleshalFs receipts from Longdon,
Cold-Hatton, and Tyme, were returned as £16 per annum :• but in
the Ministers^ Accounts, six years later, Longdon alone seems to
produce an income of £21. 9s. Sd., viz. The Grange, &c. £15. 3^.
The Mill £6, and Perquisites of Court 6*. Sd.''

Longdon Chapel. When, or in what Saxon Parish, or by
whom, this Chapel was founded, I cannot say.

^ Aatizetf 40 Hen. III., m. 8.

' Chartularv, fo. 123.

» Supra, Yol. VII. p. 807.

^ LUlc»hall Chartulary, fo. 131.

• Roi. Chart. 11 Edw. I., No. 4.
B Valor EceUnasHeui, III. 197, 196.
7 Monastican, YI. 266.

IfCKINGTON. 237

The ancient Parishes of High Ercall^ Wellington, and Wrock-
wardine, met hereabouts, and may, any one of them, have included
this district. The Chapel must have been donative, and the Abbot
of Lilleshall responsible only to himself for its services. Hence
I suppose in later times it was accounted a Peculiar. Such
Chapelries are seldom named in Diocesan or other Records. How-
ever, in 1584-5 the Abbot of Lilleshall acknowledged that Zs. 6d.
were payable yearly to the Archdeacon of Salop, for Procurations
for the Chapel of Longdon.

^clkmjjton.

" The same Church (St. Alkmund's) held (in Saxon times) and
still holds Uchintune ; and Godebold holds it of the Church. Here
are iiii hides geldable. In demesne are iii ox-teams, and (there
are) ii Radmans and iii Boors with one team, and yet there might
be III more teams. Here are vi neat-herds. In King Edward's
time the Manor was worth 24^. [per annum). Now it is worth

This Manor had the ordinarv destination of a St. Alkmund's
estate ; as we may see in those Confirmations which afterwards se-
cured it to Lilleshall Abbey.

At Duncot, a member of Uckington, the Abbot had a Mill,
which seems to have been partly dependent for a supply of water
on some Fishery, belonging to that Robert Dardif, whom I have
named under Wroxeter and Norton.^ In the 12th century Robert
Dardif aud the Abbot had some disputes on this subject ; but, be-
fore the year 1180, they came to the following agreement. — The
watercourse [fossa) which the Abbot had cut [duxit) from Dardifs
Fishery to his own Mill was to remain in the Abbot's possession.
The Abbot's Miller was, as often as he pleased, but in open day, to
dam up all other outlets of DardiPs Fishery, so as to train the
water down to his Mill. And even by night he was to be at liberty
to do the same, if so be that Dardif's Fisherman had not laid his
baskets [fiscellas) for taking fish. In return the Abbot paid Dardif

1 Dometday, fo. 253, a, 1. ' Supra, Tol. YII. pp. 812, 813, 819.

288 IJCKINGTON.

6$. down, and agreed to pay him a rent of 12d. yearly at Michael-
masy 80 long as Dardif could guarantee the watevcourse to the
Abbot. But if Dardif should carry out a proposed exchange of
half his fishery with Boger fitz Henry (he was Lord of Withington),
then the Abbot was to pay Dardif only 6d. yearly^ and to return
half the sum of 5s. now paid down.^

We have seen that this exchange did not take place, and that at
a subsequent period Dardif gave the whole shilling rent which was
coming from the Abbot of Lilleshall to the Abbey of Haugh-
mond.^

It would seem that Robert Dardif's estate in this neighbourhood
passed to one Philip de Nugent^ who^ for a term at leasts so acted
as if the shilling rent, payable by Lilleshull to Haghmon under
Robert Dardifs grant, was due rather to himself.

Between the years 1174 and 1203, Philip de Nugent made an
agreement with Walter, Abbot of Lilleshall. Philip gave his
fishery of Ukynton in pure alms to the Abbey, so that the Abbey
was to hold it at a/crwi of 2*. 6d, payable to Philip for eight years,
and then it was to remain (free of rent) to the Abbey. And as to
the watercourse near the fishery [fossa juxta piscariam) the Abbey
was to pay the shilling rent due thereon, to Philip for his life. Four
years* ferm of the rent of 2^. 6rf. is acknowledged to have been al-
ready received by Philip, and four years' ferm is stated to be yet
coming to liim.^

The term of eight years, stipulated for in this extraordinary
document, is stated to commence ab anno decemnovalis cicli F**,
domtnicali litter d currente F: — an inconsistent date,^ which leaves
room only for a conjecture that the transaction took place about
1200.

At the Assizes of 1203 Philip de Nugent essoigned his attendance
at the common summons through Roger de Withenton. A century
later, and we have seen that another Philip Nugent was' stated to
have a mesne interest in Withington ;^ but 1 find it impossible to
indicate the exact tenure or tenures which Dardif and Nugent seem
to have had in this neighbourhood. I return to our proper sub-
ject, —

William fitz Alan (II.) gave to Lilleshall Abbey the laud of

^ Lilleshall Ohartulary, fo. 80. and 1198, but F was not ihe Sunday-let-

' Supra, Vol. YII. pp. S19, 820. ter in either of thote yean. It was the

s Lilleshall Chartulary, fo. 82. Sunday-letter in 1174, 1180 (till Maroh),

« During Abbot Walter^s era the fifth 1185, 1191, 1196 (after March), and 1202.

year of the Oyds of 19 years fell in 1179 * Supra, p. 80.

ATCHAM.

2S9

Elbstaneshull, viz. 80 acres of land wUch were of bis demesne of
Wroxeter.^ King John's Confirmation of 1199 mentions this grant
as '^30 acres in Hauestaneshull ;'* and the Confirmation of John
fits Alan (I.) calls the locality ElfstaneshfoU. We have seen the
locality described as AustaneshiU, and as ^'a field of Uckington
lying near Beslow/'*

In 1252 the Abbot of Lilleshall has a Writ against John fits
Alan for disseising him of a tenement in Okinton.

This probably led to the perambulation between Wroxeter and
Uckington^ already noticed as having taken place in 1266.^

The Bradford Hnndred-Boll of 1255 attributes the Abbot of
Lilleahall's tenure of Uckington to the grant of Henry II. • The
immunities of the Manor in respect of suits to County or Hundred
are duly lnarked>

On May 12, 1285, tiie Abbot of Lilleshull obtained a Charter of
Free Warren for his demesnes of Colde Atton, Okinton, and
Hennecote.^

A Lilleshall Bent-BoU, of uncertain date, gives the ferm of Ukyn-
ton, less the Bailifi^'s Salary, as 88«. 9\d.y due at Michaelmas, and
31^. 0^^., due at Midlent. In 1540-1 the rents and forms received
by the late Abbey firom Uckington and its MiU are put at £14. 6^. 6<f.
There is nothing in the Vakr of 1584-5 which can be taken to
represent such a receipt, and the omission is inexplicable.

atejam, formerly ^tXXXi^WXi.

The full meaning of the name Attingham or Ettingham is, The
home of the children of Eata. What Saxon Eata may have first
colonized this place I will not now conjecture. Domesday recog-
nizes it as immemorially an estate of St. Alkmund's. —

" The same Church held (in Saxon times) and still holds Atinge-
ham ; and Godebold holds it of the Church. Here is one hide. In
demesne there is one ox-team and a half; and (there are) ii Vil-

^ lilleshall Chartulaiy, fb. 51.
» • » Supra, Vol. Vn. pp. 816, 310.

* Bot Hundred. II. 57.

* Bot. Chartarum, 13 £dw. I., No. 106.

240 ATGHAM.

lains and iii Boors with iii teams. The former valae (of the
Manor] was 10*. (per annum). Now it pays a rent of 6*. Sd"^

We have seen that the history of St. Alkmund^s Manors as held
hy Lilleshall Abbey must needs be circumstantial. Atcham is no
exception to the mle, unless it were worth while to enumerate the
various Confirmations which secured both Manor and Advowson to
the Canons. I prefer to illustrate the subject with more interesting
if less relevant details.

It was doubtless as a Parishioner of Atcham that Henry Mau-
veysin of Berwick became a Benefactor to Lilleshall Abbey. His
grants^ already described^' were afterwards increased by his son
Herbert^ whose brother WiUiam was probably a Canon of Lilleshall.
The said Herbert^ with William his brother^ now one of the Reli-
gious {gui 86 Reliffioni reddidit), gives the arable land of Lochesheye
to the Abbey. The said land is defined by " a road which goes up
£rom a little meadow near the Severn and passes between Loches^
heye and Bruchesjurlonff as &r as a meadow ; and thence alongside
the said meadow^ all the arable land^ tiU you come to the road
firom Ettingham to Berwick.^''

I must here say something of —

Heltas db Ettingham^ a person of some note in his day^ and a
native of Atcham. He has been often mentioned incidentally in
these pages^ but especially as being attendant in the Court of King
Bichard in 1190.'* The fact is^ that from Michaelmas 1184 till
March 1199 he served Henry II. and Richard I. in the capacity of
Custos of a House which those Kings maintained at Feckenham in
Worcestershire. His salary for this duty was £6. Is. Sd.per annum,
and we find it paid more or less regularly on the Pipe-Rolls of
Worcestershire, Staffordshire, or Shropshire. Sometimes the Custos
makes a further chai^ for repairs, and on one occasion (in 1185)
King Henry makes him a present of 2 merks. For the half-year
ending Easter 1198 Ely as deEtingehal (as he is called) was Fermoi
of Feckenham. A Crown-debt of £10. \0s. thus incurred, was
paid by him in Shropshire, in several instalments between the
years 1197 and 1201. In the meantime others had been Fermors
of Feckenham. In 1195 we have seen him purchasing the ward-
ship and marriage of a Shropshire Coheiress, and bestowing her on
his son Thomas.^ About the same time he attests two Charters of
William fitz Alan (II.) to Haughmond Abbey .^ He has also been

> Bomudoff, fo. 258, a, 1.
9 Supra, VoL VII. p. 890.
' Chartulftiy, fo. 65.

* • • Supra, Vol. VII. p. 12 ; Vol. VI.
pp. 175-6.
« See MonaHicon, VI. p. 108, No. II.

Al'CHAM. 241

named as a Feoffee in Muxton^ a member of Lilleshall^ about the
year 1200.^ At the Assizes of October 1203, and again in April
1206, he appears as a Juror in causes tried by process of Grand
Assize. This implies that he was a Knight. I will now show the
concern he had in Atcham. — On October 6, 1203, a Fine was levied
at Shrewsbury between Ralph Abbot of Lilleshall (Plaintiff) and
Elyas de Ettingeham (Tenant) of half a virgate in Ettingeham,
whereof was suit at law. Elyas acknowledged the right of the
Abbot and of St. Alkmund. The Abbot allowed him to hold the
said half-virgate together with another half- virgate, which he already
held, at a rent of 3s. per annum. The tenure of both half-vii^ates
was to be only for life of Elyas ; and both were to revert to the
Abbot or his Successors.^

We have seen that Helyas de Ettingham's son, Thomas, was de-
ceased, without issue, in 1220.' We have also seen that there was
a second Helyas de Ettingham, who having had a grant of Langley
£rom Henry III., about the year 1249, was deceased in the year
following.^

This, I take it, was that Elyas de Ekyngham for whom there was
a Patent of Protection dated May 18, 1226, when he was about to
accompany Richard Plantagenet, the King's brother, into Gascony.

Of this family or its connection with Atcham I can say no more,
unless indeed Thomas de Ettingham, named by John fitz Alan as
his Attorney in a Lawsuit of 1251, was of the same stock.

Another Fine was levied, I think in 1203, between Ralph Abbot
of Lilleshall and Oliver de Ettingham, tenant, of a half-virgate in
Ettingham. Oliver quitclaimed the same, but was allowed to hold
it of the Abbot for life, paying one pound of frankincense, as a
rent, on the day of the Nativity of St. Mary.

On October 28, 1221, the Abbots of Shrewsbury and LilleshuU
met at Echingham and adjusted several matters of dispute. They
agreed to divide the Moors of Kinnersley and Donnington (Don-
nington Wood); and of Sleap and Longdon by arbitration of 12
selected men. —

There had also been a breach made in the Severn bank at Ech-
ingham, under or below the bridge. This seems to have been on
the Emstrey, or Shrewsbury, side of the River. Eight upright
men, elected by both parties, were to settle this matter and provide
for the due rights of the disputants in respect of the said breach.^

1 Supra, p. 282. I ' * ^ ®"P™' ^^^' ^- PP* ^^^* ^^'

' LiUeflhall Chartulvj, fo. 81. I ^ Salop Ohartularr, No. 2S2.

VIII. 31

242

ATCHAAf.

At the Assizes of November 1221^ the Burgesses of Shrewsbury
made a curious presentmentj which gives us the earliest history of
Atcham^Bridge. They said that the Abbot of Lilleshull had insti*
tuted a certain new custom at the bridge of Attingeham, in that he
charged one penny on every loaded cart which passed over. The
Abbot appeared before the Justices and stated that '^ he had insti-
tuted no new custom^ for that in fact, during the time of his Pre-
decessor^ there was no bridge at all there, but the Abbot kept two
boats. on the River for the sake of ferrying men across, and the said
boats brought him in 2 merks per annum. Afterwards by common
council of Lord William fitz Alan and other great men {magna-
turn) it was provided that the said Abbot should construct a bridge
and should take one penny for every cart of Salop, if laden, and one
hal^nny from every other cart. And now this bridge was com-
pleted except one arch. In this way the Abbot came to levy the
aforesaid custom.^' A Jury was called upon to decide the qnestion.
Their verdict was that the present Abbot and his Predecessor had
now levied the aforesaid custom for 20 years, and had introduced no
change {nullam emendacionem appomemni) .

Coupling the above extract with what we know of the history of
the House of Fitz Alan and the succession of Lilleshall Abbots, we
conclude that the first bridge at Atcham was commenced by Abbot
Ralph between the years 1200 and 1210, and finished by Abbot
Alan about the year 1222. It consequently was in progress, or in
suspense, during the whole period of the Barons^ wars.

Later in the 13th century, the Abbot of Shrewsbury concedes
to the Abbot of LiUeshuU that bank of the River Severn, towards
CronchuU (Cronkhill), which belonged to the former. The object
of the Lilleshull Canons was to get a buttress {attachiamentum) for
a certain fishery or weir which they proposed to form at Cronkhill
Ford, or somewhere between that Ford and Atcham Bridge, as
they might determine. The Canons were to pay a rent of Ss, for
this concession, and to suffer distraint in case of non-payment.
The Abbot of Shrewsbury agreed not to permit any other Weir to
be constructed on the Severn between the proposed Weir, and the
Weir of Haghmon Abbey. Witnesses, Sir Odo de Hodenet, Sir
Thomas de Costentin.^

The Bradford Hundred-RoU of 1255 says that " The Abbot of

1 Salop Chartulary, No. 898. The
Haghmon Weir alluded to was that at
Preston-Boats. The Abbot of Shrews-

bury, as Lord of Emstrej, commanded the
Western bank of the Serem from Cronk-
hill-Ford to Preaton-Boats.

ATCHAM.

243

Tiiliahiill holds Attinham in pare almaign as pertaining to the
Church of St. Alkmnnd, Salop;'' that he held it "by gift of the
elder Sang Henry'' (meaning Henry II.), and did no suit to County
or Hundred.^

At the Assizes of Janoary 1256 Saer Mauveysin impleaded the
Abbot of LilleshuU^ Adam the Serjeant, Nicholas le Fevre, William
Peket and Peter fitz Amice for disseizing him of common pasture
in Etinham, pertaining to Saer's free tenement in Berwick. The
Abbot appeared and pleaded that his own laud in Etinham and
Saer's land in Berwick were of different Baronies, but that in time
of Abbot Richard each party had shared in the common rights of
the other, but that more recently this arrangement had proved un-
satisfactory, and that, since Abbot Richard's death, he,' the present
Abbot, had not allowed Saer to participate in any common in Etin-
ham. The Jury decided that the present Abbot had wrought no
disseizin, but, if there had been any disseizin, it was the late Ab-
bot's act.

On October 16, 1269, King Henry III. granted license to the
Abbot of Lilleshall to hold an annual Fair at Attingham on the
day of St. Egidius (September 1) and two following days.^ On June
25, 1276, Sang Edward I. gave a similar license for a Fair to be
held at Attingham on the day of St. Augustine in May (May 26)
and two following days.^

In 1804 we have it recorded that Abbot William de Brugge as-
sessed a tallage on hU Burgesses of Atyngham, The levy amounted
to £%. 3s. ld>

An undated Rent-roll of Lilleshall Abbey gives 16«. ^\d. as re-
ceivable from Ettingham at Michaelmas, and 14^. \d. at Midlent.
Besides t^ a Fulling-mill there produced £1. 8«. AA. half-yearly.

An account of Roger Beist, as the Abbot's Bailiff at Atcham in
16 Henry VIII. (1524-5) is extant; but the summary giveh in the
Valor of 1534-5 is enough for me to quote. —

The rents receivable from Atcham were £85 per annum ; while
the Rectorial tithes were fermed for £10. 6^. 8</.

The charges on this income were, — a chief-rent of %s. to the Earl
of Arundel for lands, said to be in Atcham (but which were origi-
nally perhaps in Berwick), a salary of 18». 4if. to Francis Chorleton,
as Seneschal, and another of 409. to Thomas Sugdon, as Bailiff of

1 Rat, Swndred. II. 57.
' Sot. Cartamm, 63 Hen. lU., m. 5.
(The original in the poueasion of Mr.

Gkorge MorriB of Shrewsbury.)
» Sot, Cartamm, 4 Edw. I., No. 10.
* LiUeehall Chartalary, fo. 153.

244 ATCHAM. THE CHURCH.

Atcham. The Abbot also paid the Archdeacon of Salop 69. Sd.
for the Procurations of Atcham Church.^

The Ministerff Accounts of 1540-1 give the following receipts
from Attingham. — Assized rents 9«. %d, ; Bents of Tenants at will
£1. 3«. 8^;.; Diverse ferms £28. 9«. 4d.\ Perm of Mill £6. 13«. 4c/.;
Perquisites of Court 8«. \Qd. Total £37. 4«. &f.

ATCHAM CHUECH.

There is no case in which it is so clear as in this of Atcham^ that
the non-mention of a parochial Churchy in Domesday, is no proof of
the non-existence of such a Church. —

On Easter Sunday (April 6) 1075, that is, ten years before
Domesday was compiled, Ordericus the Historian was " baptized at
Ettingesham, in the Church of St. Eatta the Confessor, which is
seated on the bank of the River Severn,^' This fact we learn from
the narrative of Ordericus himself, that simple, truthful, and ear-
nest Monk, to whose labours we owe so much ; — so much know-
ledge, not merely of the early annals of a coimty, but of a kingdom.

It is not my purpose to make Atcham Church a text for any bio-
graphy of Ordericus. The touching story cannot be better told
than in his own words ; and, if a commentary be wanting, we have
it in forms with which we may be well content. The spirit of sub-
mission and self-sacrifice, the spirit of love and of prayer, when em-
bodied in the writings of a cloistered Monk, may fail to attract
aught of homage from sectarian intolerance ; but the zeal and faith
of Ordericus have been more than once recognized by minds which
could contemplate the subject with a larger catholicity and a more
Christian sympathy.^

We have seen that Atcham Church was dedicated to St. Eata
the Confessor, whose day fell on October 26, while the Feast of St.
Giles (September 1) was selected for the Epoch of an annual Fair.
The theory therefore is non-universal, which supposes that there
was auy necessary association between the two things, — the Saint's-
day of a Parish Church, and the Saint's-day of a Parish Fair.

As to St. Eata, something is known of his life, but little of his
end. Being Abbot of Melrose in 651, he became Abbot of Lindis-
farne in 664, and in both positions distinguished himself as the
early friend of, the afterwards great, St. Cuthbert. He was founder
of Ripon Minster. In 677-8 he was consecrated Bishop of the

J Valor JEcclesi(uticu9, III. 197, 198.
2 See JlisL of Shrewahury, VoL I. pp.

66-70; And AnHquUiet of Bridgnorth (bj
the Ber. Gt. BeUett), pp. 94-97.

^'J

INCUMBENTS. 245

BemicianB^ that is^ of Lindisfarne. In 684-5 St. Cuthbert^ being
appointed to the See of Hexham^ exchanged with St. Eata. Some
accounts say that Eata died in 685^ others that he was driven from
his See. It appears certain that Atcham Church was dedicated to
him^ and we have seen that the meaning of Etingham is the home of
the children of Eata, Further than this I can hardly go. It is
perhaps possible that an Abbot and Bishop of the seventh century,
being bound by no law of celibacy, may have leffc descendants, and
that those descendants, removing into Mercia, may have colonized
Atcham and dedicated its Church to their canonized progenitor.

I have related in a former Volume how, in the reign of Stephen,
Atcham Church gained two-thirds of the tithes of Emstrey.^ Arch-
bishop Theobald^s letter, enjoining the restoration of these tithes
to Shrewsbury Abbey, speaks of the recent change in the patronage
of the Church of Ettingham, viz. ^' that it was among the endow-
ments of Idlleshull Abbey.''

It was Archbishop Thomas k Becket (1162-1170) who first al-
lowed the Canons of Lilleshall to appropriate Atcham Church.' His
Successor, Richard, confirmed his Charter.' The Taxation of 1291
values the Church of Ettingham (in Salop Deanery) at £6. 18«. 4d,
per annum.* In 1841, this Taxation being duly quoted as one of
10 merks, the Assessors charged the Parish only £5 for the Ninth
of its wheat, wool, and lamb. The Church-Taxation^ they said, in-
volved a carucate of land which was the Abbot of LilleshalPs glebe
as Rector. The said glebe and the small tithes could not be reck-
oned in estimating the Ninth, though, when a tenth was granted by
the clergy on their gross receipts, these items were included in the
Rector's assessment. Moreover, two virgates of land in the parish
lay untilled, from the tenants' want of means.^

The Valor of 1584-5 values the preferment of Thomas Apulby,
Vicar of Attyngham, at £11. 10^. per annum, less 8«. 44, for syno-
dals and procurations.'

INCUMBENTS OF ATCHAM.

Ordkic the Priest, who, in 1076, baptized and stood Sponsor for
the Historian Ordericus, was probably Incumbent of Atcham. If
so, he is perhaps the earliest Parish Priest that can be named for
any locality in Shropshire.

» Supra, VoL VI. pp. 171, 172.
> LiUeshall ChartuUuy, fo9. 46.
I Ibidem, fo. 49.

< Pop0 Niek, Taxaium, p. 247.

* Inquis, Nonarum^ p. 184.

• Valor Ecclen€utieut^lll. IBS.

246

ALBRIGHT-LEB.

C0CU8 or Tocus^ Priest of Etingham^ probably lived in Stephen's
reign^ for his son Alan occurs about 1157.^

Hugh occurs (says Mr. Blakeway) about 1167.

RicHABD DB LiLLESHULL^ Priest^ was instituted to this Vicarage
on August 20^ 1305^ at presentation of the Abbot and Convent of
Lilleshull. He was perhaps a Canon of Lilleshull^ for Bishop Lang-
ton swore him to reside.

Hugh db Weston^ " a poor Priest/' was collated to this Vicar-
age by Bishop Northburg^ on January 27> 1338. This was under
a promriott of Pope Benedict XII.^ who had ordered the Bishop
thus to bestow one of the Abbot of LiUeshall's Benefices. In 1346
Hugh de Weston exchanged livings with —

John db Dbbtton^ late Vicar of Ditton Priors,* who on Novem-
ber 17, 1346, again exchanged with —

William db Ebcalwb, late Rector of Abdon.^

William Oodith, Vicar of Attingham, being deceased on March
18, 1374,—

John del Wold, was instituted, on the presentation of the
Abbot and Convent of Lilleshall. In June 1401, this person, as
Jo/m Bolde Vicar of Attyngham, joins William Attyngham, Chap-
lain, in granting to Bartholomew, Chaplain of Wombridge, a cottage
at Uppington, which the Grantors had by feofiment of William,
Vicar of Wroxeter. Witnesses, William Poynor, etc.*

Sir Bichabd Weston, Chaplain, was instituted to this Vicar-
age on February 22, 1418. Same Patrons.

W>xi^U%.tt.

''The same Church (St. Alkmund's) held (in Saxon times) and
still holds EtbreteUe. Here is one hide. In demesne is one ox-
team, and (there are) 11 Villains and one Boor with a team. Here
is one league of wood; but Earl Boger hath taken it from the
Church. The value (of the Manor) was and is 12«. {per annum) "^

» Supm, VoL Vn. p. 27a

«•» Supra, VoLIIL p. 837; YoL IV.

p. 132.

* Wombridge Chartulai7,2i<.npuitoii,
No. 131.

• Dometda^, fb. 268» a, 1.

ALBRIOHT-LEE. 247

The ancient connection between this Manor and St. Alkmnnd's
Church is illustrated by its parochial status. It is still a township
in St. Alkmund's Parish.

The interests of Lilleshall Abbey^ at Albright Lee^ are marked by
a very curious succession of documents. Thomas Bumel^ of Acton
Bumellj was the Abbot's Tenant here in 1195. The following
agreement^ which I must give in the original form, will be found to
have passed on May 10, 1195, soon after Archbishop Hubert had
reduced Carrechova Castle, and during the last illness of Thomas
Bnmel. —

Hmc est cotwencio inter Abbatem de lAlkshuU et Thomam Bumel
in vigilid Ascensionis proximo postquam Castellum de Karrechove
redditum fuit a WalensUnis Domino Regi per Dominum Cantuarien-
sem ; — scilicet quod Dominus Abbas, ad peticionem Thonue et alio-
rum amicorum concessit WUUehno Bumel firatri suo, vel cui ipse
Willielmus voluerit de fratribus suis, viUam de Edbricteleg, tenen^
dam de eoperfirmam quam Thomas redder e solebat, tantum in vitd
sud, si contigerit ipsum Thomam mori infirmitate qud detinebatur die
hujus convendonis 'f-^ita quod nee aliquis heredum suorum jus in
eadem villd poterit reclamare post decessum cfus. Willielmus faciei
in Curid Regis securitatem qualemcunque Abbas voluerit. Et Domi-
nus Benjamin^ ex parte Abbatis et per preceptum ejus affidavit hanc
convencionem fideliter observandam.

In less than a month after this agreement Thomas Bnmel died,
without issue, leaving his brotlier William his heir;^ — ^and Arch-
bishop Hubert, having doffed his armour, was in Eyre, with his asso-
ciates, as Chief Justice of England. In fulfilment of the above
agreement a Fine was levied on June 3, 1195, at Lichfield, of which
this was the substance. —

Htec est finalis concordia facta in Curid Regis apud lAchesfeld
anno regni Regis Ricardi VI", die Sabbati proximd post festum
Beatorum Marcellim et Petri, coram venerabili patre H. Cantuar.
Archiepiscopo, totius AngluB Primate et Apostolicte Sedis Legato, et
WUlielmo de Warenn. et Rad. de Ardem, et Willielmo Precentore
Sti Pauli London, et Rann, Thesaurario Sarresburia et Hugone de
Chaucumb et aliis fidelibus domini Regis, inter WUlielmum Bumel
petentem et Abbatem et Canonicos de Lilleshull tenenies, de viUd de
Edbricteleg, unde placitum erat inter eos in eddem Curid. Williel-
mus Bumel tenebit villam de Abbate omnibus diebus vita sua ad
firmam, soluendo xv solidos annuatim, ita quod nee vendere nee in-

1 A Canon of liUethall (supn, p. 108). ' Supra, Vol. TI. p. 122.

248 ALBRIGHT-LEE.

vadiare nee in dote dare ^c. poierit, quominua revertatur Abbott.
Si WiUielmus habitum rettgionis msceperit, vel in peregrinacionem
ierit, vUla revertetur Abbati, — Si WiUielmus viUam vel partem vHUb
vendere voltierit, per taxacumem^ Abbatum de BUdewas et de Ha-
gemon dimittet Abbati de LiUeshuU : Interim Abbas de Litteskull ha^
bebit pasturam et aisiamenta bosci sine vasto. WiUielmus nonfaciet
inde vastum, Preterea WiUielmus concessit Abbati et Canonicis
aisiamenta bosci sui de Langhekg ad usus eorwn necessaries in Et-
tingeham. WiUielmus quietum clamavit jus quod dicebat se habere
hereditarie in villd de Edbricteleg secundum cyrographum inter Ab-
batem et Canonicos et Thomam Bumel fratrem suum in Curid Regis
factum, et cyrographum illud eis reddidit.^ Ad instanciam insuper
et peticionem utriusque partis apposuit VenerabUis Pater, H. Can-
tuar, et alii Magnati *

We may observe in the transactions of Lilleshall Abbey that it
was the continual policy of the Canons to avoid giving feoffments-
in-fee. They preferred the life-lease to any other forin of demise ;
and it was thus that the value of their estates kept pace with the
increasing value of land and the decreasing value of money. The
trouble which^ in the present instance^ they took to change any real
or supposed feoffment of the Bumels^ into a lease^ ultimately suc-
ceeded ; but it is dear that the Burnels long held to some tradition
that they were entitled to be hereditary tenants of Albrightlee.

On the death of William Bumel (11.)^ the above Grantee for
life^ that is about the year 1220^ his son and heir William Bumel
(III.) came in an evening to Abrightlee and took possession of the
estate ; but was ejected that very night by Abbot Alan. William
hereupon sued the Abbey for disseizin. The cause was heard at the
Assizes of August 1226. The question was whether Alan, Abbot
of Lilleshull (he was dead, be it observed)^ had unjustly disseized
William Bumell of his free tenement in Edbrigteleg. The Abbot
(it must have been Abbot William) appeared and exhibited the
Lichfield Fine made with the Plaintiff's Father. The Plaintiff now
acknowledged the Fine, and was not merely nonsuited, but com-
mitted to gaol, for having tried to controvert a Fine. He seems to
have compounded for his freedom by a payment of 20^.^

Again at the Assizes of September 1272 this question was re-

^ That is valuation,

3 Thia earlier Gyrograph is not extant.
Of course it was the interest of the Lilles'
hall Canons to suppress or destroy it.

s Lilleshall Ghartulary, fo. 80.—

Hero the Beoord abruptly ends. I sup-
pose something was to hare been added
about sealing; — but it was unusual for
Justiciars to seal a Fine.

^ Aitizei, 10 Hen. III., m. 4.

ALBRIGHT-LEE.

249

opened by Richard Bumel (of Langley) as son and representative
of William Bumel (III.) . The issue which went to the Jury was
" whether Alan, former Abbot of Lilleshull, had disseized William
Bumel, Richard's fether, of the Manor of Adbrihtleye ?'' The
Jury found that a certain Abbot had given a life-grant to the present
Plaintiff's grandfather, William ; that on William's death, another
William, Richard's father, entered, and was ejected as aforesaid by
Abbot Alan, and that this happened 10 years before the King's first
transiretation into Brittany (i. e. ten years before April 1230). In
this case Richard Bumel took noihinff. However his claim does
not seem to have been altogether worthless, for on November 3,
1278, a Pine was levied at Westminster, whereby Richard Bumel,
Plaintiff, quitclaims the Manor of Adbritheleye to William, Abbot
of Lilleshull, and receives 10 merks.

So much for the interest of the Bumels in this Manor. I now
return to notice a dispute between the Abbots of Haughmond and
Lilleshall, which probably took place early in the 13th century.
The erection of a Mill at Pimley, by the Canons of Haughmond,
has been already noticed.' It seems to have caused the stream
called Pimbrook, to back- pound [redundare) upon Albrightlee.
Hence the litigation, which was settled by the following agreement.^
— ^The Lilleshall Canons allowed that the said redundation should
continue, but its degree was to be determined by a stone, called La
Barra, which being placed near the watercourse was always to re-
main dry. The Fishery in Pymbroc and in Sumergeld was to
belong to Haughmond, from Pimley Mill-stank up to the said
Barra, on both sides the stream ; but from the Barra, upwards to
Edbricteleg, and from the limit of the redundation in Sumergeld,
the stream was to be common to both parties, as it had been of old.
The Haughmond Canons, in return for all this, paid 12 merks
down, undertook to make a bridge, and further transferred to
Lilleshall an annual rent of one merk which was receivable from
the Monks of Buildwas for Cuttesdon.^

The Bradford Hundred- Roll of 1255 does not mention Albright-

» Supra, VoL VII. pp. 805, 808.

> Lflleshall Chartularjr, fo. 82.

' Cutteedon, near Sheriff Hales, an
estate granted to Haughmond by Fitz
Alan and Pantulf, but since leased by
Hanghmond to the Buildwas Monks, who
had an adjoining estate at Brockton.

The Lilleshall Chartukry (fo. 69) con-

VIII.

tains another document whereby William
Abbot of Hagmon (circa 1226-7) formally
assigns the merk rent due firom Buildwas,
on Cuttesdon, to Lilleshall Abbey. The
consideration is — pro redundaeione aqw
vivarU noHri de Pimheleg habendd supra
terram tuam (i,e. the Abbot of Lilleshall*s
land) de Edbricteley.

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250

CHARLTON NEAR SHAWBURY.

lee; but the Tenure-Boll^ thirty years later, does. It says that
Albright-lee was held • in capite by the Abbot of Lilleshidl as a
member of St. Alchmund^s Church.

An Abbey Rent-Boll^ of uncertain date, gives the income from
Edbrictd^ as 12s, 4d, at Michaelmas, and 11^. 6^d, at Midlent,
over and above the Bailiff's Salary.

The Valor of 1535-6 probably includes the Abbot's receipts from
Albrightlee in the £26^ said to arise from the Town of Salop. The
Ministers' Accounts, five years later, do not include any item which
can be taken to represent the dissolved Abbey's receipts from
Albrightlee.

The principal Undertenant whom I can name under this Manor
is Richard de Edbricteleg^ who was amerced 6s, Sd. at the Assizes
of 1221, quia retraxit se. At a Forest Assize, held in 1231, the
whole Vill of Edbrichteleg was amerced 20s. for default ; while
Boger Mainard of Adbrithteleg, Bobert de Aldebrithteleg, and Bo-
bert fitz Balph de Edbrithteleg, appear as liable to smaller fines.

Cfiarlton near ftj^atoijurp*

This place has no modem representative. The name is lost,
but the land of course remains, and its situation may be half
guessed by a hint which has already transpired.^ There are how-
ever some difficulties in the investigation, and the first of these
difficulties is that rare thing, — an error in Domesday, That Becord
places the Manor or a part of it in Culvestan Hundred. It was
unquestionably either in Bascherch or Becordine. I have alluded
to the question twice before,' and now prefer to treat Charlton as a
Becordine Manor. I speak, for the present, only of St. Alkmund's
share of the Manor ; — if indeed it was a divided Manor, as there
is reason to think that it was. Domesday describes this share as
follows. —

" The same Church (St. Alkmund's) held (in Saxon times) and
still holds Cerletone. Here is one hide. There was and is one

> Viz., that it lay between Shawbury
and Morton Corbet and near some trib-
utary of the Biver Boden, then called

Creasewall-brook (rapra, p. 144).

« Supra, Vol. V. page 1 j and Vol VII.
page 202.

CHARLTON NEAR SHAWBDRY.

251

Badman here. The Manor (or the Radman) used to pay 4». rent.
Now it (or he) pays 5«."^

Among the Prebendal estates of St. Alkmund's^ mentioned in
Pope Alexander's Bull^ and confirmed therein to Lilleshall Abbey^
we obeerve CherUan, and nine acres in another Cherlton,^ The last
Cherlton I take to have been near Preston Gubbalds, the first to
have been near Shawbury. King John's confirmation also enume-
rates Cherlton among the same Prebendal estates.

About the year 1177 (indeed that very year is given by an un-
vouched authority as the date of the transaction)^ the Abbot of
Lilleshall and his Tenant at Charlton settled some misunderstand-
ing as to the terms of tenancy. — Richard de Chorleton acknow-
ledged to Abbot Walter that he had held the tenement called
Chorleton by favour of Abbot William, and for Abbot William's
life only, and that he had nothing of right therein. The Abbot
and Convent in return allowed the said Richard to hold 8 virgates
in Chorleton for Ufe, paying a rent of one petra of wax * yearly at
Michaelmas. A fourth virgate was retained by the Abbot in
demesne. Richard bound himself not to permit any of his people
to mortgage or alienate the premises from the Church of Lilleshull.
If he should wish to get rid of the tenancy, he was to commit
it to none but the Abbot. If he should wish to change his state
of life, he was to assume the habit of Religion in the Abbey, and
at his decease he was to leave his body, with the aforesaid land,
thereto. Richard de Chorleton swore to observe this agreement in
the County-Court of Salop, where it was read aloud, and confirmed
by the Sheriff's seal. Afterwards he swore to observe it before the
Convent of Lilleshull.*

In Hilary Term 1243 the Abbot of Lilleshull was suing Ralph
de Cherlton for half a virgate in Cherlton, alleging that the said
Ralph had obtained ingress only through the demise of Ralph, a
former Abbot, who had acted against the will of his Chapter.
Ralph de Cherlton on the other hand maintained that he inherited
the premises from his mother Edith, who had died seized thereof.*^

In Easter Term 1243, Ralph de Cherlton not appearing at West-
minster, the half-virgate was seized in manu Regis.^

In Easter Term 1250 judgment in this cause was still unpro-
nounced. I find Ralph de Cherlton attesting an Orleton Deed in

> Bometday, fo. 253, a, 1.
' Supra, p. 219.

> The Petra was 12 lbs. or li Ibd.

« LUleBhall Ghartulary, fos. 61, 62, 81.
* • » PlacUa, Hil. Tm., 27 Hen. III., m.
5 ; Pasch. Tm. 27 Hen. III., m. l^dorao.

252 CHARLTON NEAR SHAWBURT.

1248^ and attending a Rodington Inquest in 1274 and a Shrewsbury
Inquest in 1276.

Between the years 1275 and 1282 Henry de Erdinton, Lord of
Shawbury^ quitclaimed to L. (Lucas) ^ Abbot of LiUeshull^ and his
Successors^ all the right which he had in the common-pasture of
the Abbot's whole Fee of Cherleton Orange. Witnesses^ Sir
Robert Corbet^ Sir John fitz Aer^ Sir John de Erkelowe, and Sir
Roger Tyrel^ Knights; Hugh de BoUnghale^ and Roger de Preston.

On July 25^ 1279^ the same Henry de Erdinton gave to the
Abbey of lilleshull a certain meadow called Schauberieseye.' Both
these grants were recited and confirmed in Edward I/s Confirma-
tion to LilleshaU in 1285.

An early Rent- Roll of Lilleshall Abbey describes this estate as
Cherleton juxta Stanton. This gives a further hint as to its situa-
tion, viz. that it lay in the direction of Stanton Hyneheath. At
the date of this Roll, nothing in the way of income appears to have
been receivable by the Abbey from this Cherleton.

In the Taxation of 1291 the Abbot's receipts firom Cherleton, in
the Deanery of Salop, were — Assized Rents, 13s, 4d, ; income firom
a meadow, £1.^

A Patent of March 10, 1336, allows Robert Corbet of Morton
to give the Abbot of Lilleshull 8 acres of land in Morton Corbet,
in exchange for 8 acres in Cherleton.

The Valor (1534-5) gives the Abbot of Lylleshull an income of
£6 from Cherleton.' The Mimster^ Accounts^ six years later,
make Chorlton's Orange to be worth £6. 13«. 4«^. per annum,^

Pabochially, Charlton was a member of Shawbury. This
brought the Abbot of Haughmond (as Rector of Shawbury) into
collision with the Abbot of Lilleshall. However the Lilleshall
Chartulaiy preserves a composition whereby the Abbot of Haghmon
releases to the Abbot of Lilleshull the small tithes of all live-stock
{animaliunC) in the viU of Chorleton, and the tithes of all assarts,
vivaries, mills, and meadows, which the Abbot of Lilleshull had in
the said vill and within the Parish of Sahebyr'.^

> Ghartulary, fo. 128.

s Pope Nick, Taxation, p. 261.

* Valor Seolenoiticw, 111. 1»7.

« Moiuuticon, YI, 266.

• liillflBhall Chartulaiy, fo. 86.

258

Cerlttone*

With respect to this Manor I must iSrst quote the exact words
of Domesday, —

" In Recordine Hundred. Rogerins tenet de Comite Cerlitone.
Uluric tenuit. Ibi i hida. Ibi ii servientes habent dimidiam
camicam; et una carruca et dimidia^adhuc possent esse. Wastum
fuit : modo reddit v solidos.^'^

It is not quite certain whether the person here described as Ro-
gerius, was Roger fitz Corbet, or Roger de Lacy. If the former,
CerUtone was his only Manor in Recordine Hundred. But at no
subsequent period can any interest of Roger fitz Corbet, or Roger
de Lacy, or their successors, be so traced in Recordine Hundred, as
to establish the identity or situation of this Manor of Cerlitone.
On the contrary, the doubt about the personal identity of the
Domesday Rogerius does but increase a further doubt about the
local identity of the Domesday Cerlitone,

This last question of identity must however be discussed, if only
to show its difficulties. I know but of three theories worth
stating. —

1. The first is, that Corbet's (or Lacy's) hide in Cerlitone was a
part, that is a half, of Charlton near Shawbury, and that the other
half (written in Domesday as Cerletone) was that Manor of St.
Alkmund's, of which we were last treating.

In support of this theory, we find that there was another Manor
(Preston Montford) which Roger 6tz Corbet (or Roger de Lacy)
shared with St. Alkmund's Church, and that in that Manor all
subsequent interest of Corbet, or Lacy, vanished, and no interest
but that of St. Alkmund remained.'

Again, the Domesday rent of the hide called Cerletone was tanta-
mount to the rent of the hide called Cerlitone, yiz, &s. Lastly,
Uluric, Saxon Lord of Cerlitone, had also a concern in Withington,
Oreat Withiford, and Sleap ; — places with respect to which Charlton
near Shawbury will be found central and more or less contiguous.

2. The second theory as to the identity of CerUtone would make

' Domeadoff^ fo. 255, b.
' Vide supra, Vol. VII. p. 194, where
however I have not taken into oonaidera-

tion that the Bogeriua of Domeiday might
hare been Boger de Lacy. I will speak
more fully on that point under Montford.

254 PEPLOW.

it a part of the Domesday Manor of Cherrington^ written Cerlintone
in that Record.

In support of this theory we find that the hidage of Cerlintone
(3 hides) ^ when added to that of Cerlitone (1 hide), realizes the
exact measurement (4 hides), of which Cherrington consisted in
1255.1

3. A third theory is that Corbet^s, or Lacy's, estate of Cerlitone
was near to Preston-Oobalds, and eventually became a possession of
Lilleshall Abbey, and a reputed member of Preston-Gobalds.

When we see that Pope Alexander III.'s confirmation to Lilies-
hall speaks of Cherlton, and 9 acres in another Cherlton, as posses-
sions of St. Alkmund's, we can hardly help concluding that two
distinct places were alluded to. The same impression arises from
the fact of Charlton near Shawbury having been called Charlton
juxia Stanton, and so distinguished from St. ElstrtuPs Charlton, in
the Lilleshall Rent- Roll already quoted.

An undated Inquest, in the Lilleshall Chartulary, speaks as
follows. — " The Jurors say that the Abbot of Lilleshall holds Pres-
ton (Preston-Gobalds is meant), with its members, viz. Cherloton
and Lee^ of the Fee of the King, and it is geldable, and pertains to
St. Alkmund's. Here is a hide of land, &c. &c. The said Abbot
has in Cherloton 2 acres in demesne, and they are worth £4
(Query 4s.) yearly. Also he has meadow-land there, worth 10s.
Also he has heath and moor there, containing 4 acres^ and worth
3tf. per annum.'' Then follows a valuation of Lee. I will discuss
this subject no further. The loss or cession of Cerlitone, whether
by Lacy or Corbet, is consistent with its subsequent annexation to
some other Manor, whether Charlton near Shawbury, or Cherring-
ton, or Preston-Gobalds. In any case we have some later account
of the territory thus involved, under the Manor which may be
supposed to have involved it.

^eplob*

Ralph de Mortimer had three Manors in Recordine Hundred,
all hdd under Earl Roger. They were Peplow, Preston on the

1 Supra, p. 198.

PEPLOW. 255

Wealdmoors^ and Isombridge. Of Peplow Domesday speaks as
follows. —

'^ Radulfus holds Papelau of Earl Roger. Orgrim and XJluric
held it (in Saxon times) for two Manors. Here are iii hides^ geld-
able. The (arable) land is sufficient to employ vii ox-teams. In
demesne there is i team ; and (there are) ii Serfs and y Villains
with Tii teams. In King Edward's time the Manor was worth 46«.
{per annum) ; now it is worth 12^. 44. He (Radulf) found it
waste.^'i

That Ralph de Mortimer lost his three Recordine Manors soon
after Domesday, and possil^ly by forfeiture for his rebellion in 1088,
are subjects already alluded to in the analogous case of Cosford.^
It is Peplow that furnishes an all but reliable proof that, between
the years 1094* and 1098, the Manors which were lost to Mortimer
were held by Earl Hugh de Montgomery in demesne. The spuri-
ous Charter wherein that Earl is said to have granted to Shrews-
bury Abbey the tithes of his demesnes of Hodneth and of Peo-
pelaw^ is confirmed by his less suspicious Charter/ and by the
Abbot's subsequent possession of those tithes. After the forfeiture
of the Norman Earls, and probably by Henry I., Peplow was an-
nexed to the Fee of Hodnet ; that is, it became manoriaUy, as it had
been parochially, a member of Hodnet, and so was held in capUe
by the Lords of Hodnet, the hereditary Seneschals of Montgomery
Castle.

It is probable, I think, that Little Bolas was originally a member
of Peplow, and was, with Peplow, annexed to Hodnet. Thus I un-
derstand the Feodary of 1284, when it enumerates Peppelowe and
Bokwas among the members of Hodnet. So too on the death of
William de Ludlow in 1316, Boulwas and Peppelowe are noted
as members of his Manor of Hodnet.

The succession of the Lords of Hodnet as already given under
Westbury,^ and hereafter to be recapitulated under Hodnet, gives us
therefore the fullest account of the Mesne-Lords of Peplow and
Little Solas. I have little more to say distinctively of Peplow, ex-
cept to notice that family of Swynnerton which held it under the
Hodnets. —

At the Assizes of 1203, Adam Forester essoigned the attendance
of Robert de Swinnerton, who was included in the general summons, ,
A fine of November 25, 1281, gives Ralph fitz Odo as Tenant of 3

* Bomendatfy fo. 257, a, 1. ^'* Salop Chartulaiy, Nos. 5 and 8.

* Supra, Vol II. p. 263. * Supra, Vol. VII. p. 5S et seqq.

256

PEPLOW.

virgates of land and a Mill in Peppelawe. I think that this Ralph
was identical with Ralph or Bandulf de Hodnet^ mentioned on for-
mer pages as occurring about this period.^ By the Fine now under
notice^ he surrenders to Robert de Swinnerton^ Plain tiff^ the abov
land and mill in Peppelawe. In return Swinnerton guarantees him
an annuity of 40«. receivable half-yearly at Swinnerton (Stafford-
shire), with power^ in case of arrears^ to distrain upon that Manor.
He further pays him 10 merks down.^

By another Fine levied in Trinity Term 1281, John de Swynner-
ton (Impedient) recognizes the right of Richard son of Eudo de
Hodenet (Plaintiff) to a Mill and 208. rent in Peppelowe. In re-
turn Richard allows that John de Swinnerton and the heirs of his
body shall hold the premises by payment of a penny rent to Richard
and his heirs, and by performance of all capital services. In default
of any heirs of John de Swinnerton's body, the premises were to
revert to Richard and his heirs, — to hold of the Lords of the Fee.

It would seem that this remainder took effect. At the Assizes
of 1292, the Bradford Jurors presented Richard de Hodnet as hold-
ing half the vill of Peppelowe, value 40*. per annum. The legality
of the tenure was in question, it seems, as an alienation of part of
the Serjeantry of Hodnet. The cause was adjourned in consequence
of Richard de Hodnet's Fine, already noticed under Westbury.'
The ultimate settlement of the matter transpires below.

On April 24, 1374, it was found by Inquest to be no injury to
the Crown, if Sir John de Ludlow, Knight, should enfeoff Thomas
de Hodnet in 8 messuages and 3 carucates of land in Hodnet,
Popelawe, and Heyford, so that Thomas should re-enfeoff Sir John
and his heirs, receiving in exchange the Manor of Henley near
Ludlow, to hold to Thomas, and his wife Johanna, and the bodily
heirs of Thomas. The messuages and carucates aforesaid were
members of Hodnet, and held in capite, and one Richard de Hodnet
had sometime charged himself with a chief-rent of 15*. payable to
the Crown for the same. Henley Manor* was held of the Earl of
March (as Lord of Ludlow, I presume) .^

Pbplow Chapel. The Chartulary of Shrewsbury Abbey is
quoted' as an authority for including Peplow among the Chapelries

» Supra, VoL VII. pp. 77, 94.

' Robert de Swjnnerton fined one merk
for lioense to make this concord. His
Surety was Qeoffrej de Swynesheyed (Sot
Pip. 16 Hen. III.).

» Supra, VoL VTI. p. 58.
< Supra, VoL IV. pp. 376-6.
* InquitUumt, 48 Edw. IH. (2nd Num-
bers), No. 8.

' Dukeg^a AutiquUiet, Appendix, p. x.

PRESTON ON THB WEALDMOORS. 257

aabject to Hodnet Church. My abstract of the said Chartulary
does not enable me to verify the quotation.

Preston on tbt SlS^aUimoors*

This Manor is noticed in Domesday as follows. —

" Radulf (de Mortemer) holds Prestune of Earl Roger. Burrer
held it (in Saxon times). Here is i hide^ geldable. There is (arable)
land (enough) for iiii ox-teams. In demesne is one team ; and
(there are) ii Neatherds and iii Villains with one team. Here is
half a league of wood. The old value of the Manor was 40«. {per
annuin), now it is worth 20*.^^^

In its forfeiture by Ralph de Mortimer^ and its subsequent an-
nexation to the Fee of Hodnet , Preston is associated with Peplow^
though we cannot trace it in its intermediate state as a Manor of
the Earl Palatine's demesne.

Among the outlawed companions of Fulk fitz Warin who were
pardoned by Patent of November 1 203, 1 notice the following, viz.
Baldwin^de Hodnet, Roger de Preston, John de Preston, and
Richard de Preston. Of these it is certain that Roger de Preston
was one of Baldwin de Hodnefs brothers. It is probable that he
had a feofiment at Preston on the Wealdmoors, from which he took
his name. It is certain that he held something in the neighbour-
ing viU of Horton under Baldwin de Hodnet ; for Roger de Preston
gave to Lilleshall Abbey half a virgate in Horton, held under him by
Sierius Rotariua ; and this grant was afterwards confirmed by Odo
son of Baldwin de Hodnet, who calls Roger de Preston his Unde.'

But before this, and in the time of Henry II. and of Richard I.,
there was one Pagan de Preston. Him, with his brothers Eustace
and Roger, we have seen attesting two grants to Wombridge Priory.'
Now this Pagan was not, I think, a Hodnet; but only Hodnet's
Tenant in the whole or the greater part of Preston. All that I

^ Domuda^y fo. 257, a,' 1.
9 l.niiHihitn Chartulary, fo. 67.
» Supra, p. 155 ; Vol. [jVn. p. 841.—
One Boger de Preston also attests singly

VIII.

about 1188 (supra, Vol. II. p. 279, note
51). It is difficult to say whether he was
the brother of Baldwin de Hodnet or of
Pagan de Preston.

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258

PRESTON ON THE WEALDM00R8.

know more of him is that he left four daughters and coheirs^ vk.
Agnes^ Sabina, Margery^ and Sibil. These Ladies concurred in a
grant to Lilleshall Abbey^ which will show the husbands of three of
them at the time of its passing. —

William de Preston with consent of his wife Agnes^ William de
Horton with consent of his wife Sabina^ Thomas Babac with con-
sent of his wife Margery, and Sibil de Preston, in her sole and liege
power, concede, to the Abbey, power to make a stank for the Ab-
bot's Vivary in HoUebroc, in the Moor of Horrebur', at Hunde-
fordehull,^ or higher up (the brook), if a higher site should be pre-
ferred, in any land, not arable, of the Grantors. Moreover they re-
nounce all the right which they had in the Park called Le Haye
Giibald. For this the Lilleshall Canons gave them 3^ merks in
their urgent necessity.

The above Deed is entitled in the Chartulary as Carta sororwn
de Preston de stagno vivarii de Lubsty ibifirmando et exaltando ; —
a description which shows that it was the Abbof s wish to secure the
command of the small stream which runs between Preston and
Lubstree Park.

The date of the above grant may be partly determined by the
confirmation of Baldwin de Hodnet (1204-1224), who ''concedes
the concession which the heirs of Pagan de Preston, his Yass^ls
{homines) had made, in respect of the stank of the Canons' Vivary
of Lubesty, and in respect of their Park there."*

Subsequently to this, Agnes, daughter to Pagan de Preston, au-
thorized two renewals of her former grant. In one case she ap-
pears as a widow ; in the other, as wife of a second husband, Roger
de Preston ;^ — possibly that very Roger whom we have seen to be
Baldwin de Hodnef s brother.

So too Sabina de Preston renewed her former grant, as the widow
of William de Horton.*

I find it impossible to trace the succession of each Coheiress of
Preston ; neither am I sure whether some of the persons now to

1 These localitieB are probably to be
identified at the present day. The Ihike
of Sutherland's fiurm, called Lubstree
Park, is diyided finom the Preston-Hospi-
tal estate by a small but now nameless
stream, doubtleas the ancient HoUebroc,
A meadow, in the above farm, abutting
on the flUiid stream, is called Hcmber or
Bomber meadow. X^^e latter, folks say,

is only a oormption of hammer meadow^
and they attribute the name to the some-
time existence of a forge near the spot.
However, two fields in Lubstree Park are
known as the Near and the Fa/r Hwnger-
hill, and they unquestionably represent
the HundefordehnU of the text.

* • s Lilleshall Chartulary, fo. 70.

* Ibidem, fo. 71.

PBBSTON ON THE WEALDMOORS. 259

be mentioned were themselves Coparceners^ or only tenants of the
several Coparceners. I have probably named some of the descend-
ants of William and Sabina de Horton under Horton itself.

Thomas Babacs^ or Rabaz^ occurs as a Surety, a Witness or a
Juror in 1281, 1235, 1248, 1249, 1253, 1255, and 1258. In 1256,
at the Assizes, one Henry Capel challenged Robert son of Thomas
Babaz for a violent assault, and Thomas the father for instigating
it; but both charges were withdrawn. In 1258, Thomas Babaz
was party to a Fine of one virgate in Preston which has already
been set forth.^ The appearance is as if his heir, or at least the
heir of his wife, was called Robert de la Forde.

Sibil de Preston, though a widow in or before 1224, was living
in 125^. At that time she and Thomas Rabaz held two out of
several shares in a hide of land at Pontesbury,^ but I cannot make
out that the other shareholders were descendants of Pagan de
Preston.

William db P&eston, the first husband of Agnes de Preston,
may have been identical with William fitz Walter of Preston, who
in 1209 was twice assessed for imbladements within regard of the
Wrekin Forest.

Adah de Preston occurs as a Witness or Juror in 1249, 1256,
1258, 1260, 1262, 1264, 1279, 1280, and 1284.

In 1256 he was impleaded by John de Preston and Agnes his
wife, for disseizing them of a tenement in Preston; — but they
withdrew the suit, and were with their Sureties (William de Erie-
ton and Adam Pride of Salop) in misericordid.

In 1262, he (Adam de Preston) was a Verderer of the Shropshire
Forests, and in 1284 one of the Regarders of the same. Possibly
there were two Adams in succession.

In 1262, the vill of Preston in Wyldmore was amerced 3 shillings
by the Forest-Justices for neglecting to attend an Inquest, and
Alan de Preston, resident in Wellington, was amerced \8. for vert.
John de Preston, above mentioned as a litigant in 1256, occurs
on a local Jury in 1264.

Balf de Preston occurs similarly, about 1258, and in 1264.
Richard db Preston attests a Wombridge Deed about 1264.
Roger de Preston occurs as an Attorney in 1269 and as a
witness from about 1271 to 1290.

Hugh de Bbtle and William fitz Rondulf, both of Preston,
were Jurors on a Wellington Inquest in 1278.

» Supra, Vol. II. p. 316. ^ gup^, Vol. VII. p. 113.

260 PRB8T0N ON THE WEALDMOORS.

The Feodary of 1284 merely names Preston as a member of
Hodnet^ but says nothing of its tentire. This omission is sap-
plied by the Assize-Roll of 1292^ when Pagan de Preston^ William
de Preston^ Richard de Forde^ and William de Horton^ were quest-
ioned as to their tenure of this alleged member of the Seijeantry
of Hodnet. They appeared^ and stated that their ancestors had
held Preston under the Lords of Hodnet from the time when Roger
de Beleme^ Earl of Salop, enfeoffed William de Hodnet's ancestors
in the Serjeantry of Hodnet. A Jury was got to corroborate this
statement, which, though it contained a falsehood as to name, and
probably as to date, was doubtless correct in assigning a very high
antiquity to the tenure of Preston.

Payn de Preston occurs as a Witness or Juror in 1296, 1302,
1308, and 1320. In one instance he is called^ Master Payn de
Preston.

Philip de Preston occurs on a Jury in 1804. So does —

William de Preston, and he probably was a Coparcener in the
Manor.

In the years 1336 and 1340 the four Coparceners of Preston
were Thomas de Styvynton, Hugh de Heth, Richard de Horton,
and Richard son of William de Preston. An idea of their further
descent may be gathered from the subjoined list of presentations to
Preston Church.

THE CHUBCH.

This Church is not named in the TcLxation of 1291, nor was the
Parish assessed as distinct in 1341. I am of opinion that the dis-
trict originally belonged to the Saxon Parish of Wellington,^ and
that the Church, whenever founded, was founded by the Lords of
the Manor. However, hardly a trace of any subjection to Welling-
ton remains. It is remarkable that the Rural Deaneries of Wel-
lington and Preston have always been distinct. — Preston was in the
Deanery of Newport, Wellington in that of Salop.'

The Valor of 1534-5 calls this Church the Free Chapel ofPres-

^ Between the yean 1276 and 1285
a Charter (in poMeseion of the Duke
of Sutherland) is tested as follows, HUi
testibuts — 2>ominis Thomd LyaH perpe-
tuo Vtcario Scelesia de Welinton et Do*
mino Rectore Capella de Preston^ Petro
de Eytou^ Sfc. (Supra, p. 40.)

It is possible that Lyart was both Vicar
of Wellington and Eector of Preston; but

the clause is ambiguous.

^ This is now the third instance, in the
present Volume, where it appears that, on
the division of the Diocese into Bural-
Deaneries, the connection between a Mo-
ther«Church and its Daughter was disre-
garded. The other cases were Eyton (page
35) severed from Wellington, and Waters
Upton (page 58) severed from EroalL

EABIiT INCUMBENTS. 261

ton super TVyldmare, and states its dear value to be 60s. per an-
1

•

EABLT INCTTMBBNTS.

BooEB^ Rector of this Churchy resigned September 6^ 1336.

Richard de Brewod^ Chaplain^ was instituted to tbe Church
of Preston super Wyldmore on September 7, 1336. Patrons,
Tbomas de Styvynton, Hugh de Heth, Richard de Horton, and
Richard, son of William de Preston. This Rector resigned Sep-
tember 14, 1340, when —

William de Lynlete, Clerk, was admitted. Same Patrons.

John de Mortimer, Rector of Preston, dying on June 21,
1345—

Roger de Laulby, Clerk, was admitted on July 14th following.
Patrons, Walter de Styvinton, Hugh del Heth, Richard de Horton,
and Ri<5hard de Preston. Laueley removed to Dunchesworth
(Samm Dioc.) on March 19, 1350, and on May 22 —

John de Chetwynd, Priest, was admitted. Patrons, Walter
de Styvinton, Hugh del Heth, Richard de Horton, and Margaret,
widow of Richard son of William de Preston. On November 9,
1363—

Sir John Pyke, being Rector of this Free Chapel, but an absen-
tee, the Bishop commends it, deprived as it was of divine services,
to—

Sir John de Preston, who died in 1369, when on August 25 —

Stephen de Prees, Deacon, was instituted. Patrons, Sir John
de Cherleton of Apley, Knight, Walter de Stevynton, Richard de
Preston, and Richard de Horton. Prees resigned the same year,
and on April 2, 1369 (read 1370)—

Richard de Preston, Priest, was instituted. Same Patrons.

John de Wiointon, Priest, was collated to this Living January
20, 1382. Patron, the Bishop; — to whom the right had lapsed.
Wiginton resigning on February 13, following, —

John de Offeley, Priest, was instituted. Patrons, Thomas de
Cherleton, Philip de Horton, Richard de Wrenbure, and William
de Coton. On August 1, 1402—

Thomas Gohon was instituted. Patrons, Sir Robert Fraunceys,
Knight, Walter de Stevendon, William Coton, and Richard Hor-
ton, Esquires.

1 FoZor JE^ZefKweicM, ni. 187.

262

{{(omiintise.

Domesday describes this Manor as follows. —

" Badiilf (de Mortemer) holds Asnebruge of Earl Roger. Ulf
held it (in Saxon times). Here are ii hides^ geldable. The
(arable) land is enough for iiii ox-teams. In demesne is one team^
and (there are) ii Neat-herds, iiii Villains, and iii Boors with ii
teams. Here is a Mill paying (yearly) three measures of com. A
Knight here has half a hide of the said land. The value of the
Manor was and is 208. {per annum) "^

Isombridge, like Peplow and Preston, seems to have been lost to
Mortimer immediately after Domesday, and to have been annexed
to the Earl Palatine^s demesnes. Either Earl Roger or Earl Hugh
conferred the Manor on the Chief Forester of Shropshire. No such
person as a Chief Forester is named in the Shropshire Domesday,
but the office must have been created immediately afterwards, for
Ulger Venator, the first known Forester, attests a genuine Charter
of Earl Hugh (between 1094-8) ; and there are reasons for think-
ing that Ulger was not the first Forester or the first Lord of Isom-
bridge after Mortimer's cession thereof. Cotemporarily, as I think,
with the creation of this office of Forestership, Isom-bridge ceased
to be the Caput of a Manor. Great Bcdas, previously a member of
Isombridge, was made the Caput. Hence the hereditary Foresters
of Shropshire are often called Foresters of BoUts.

I shall here treat of Isombridge as a mere member of Solas, re-
serving much that I have to say of the successive Foresters till I
speak of the capital Manor. The third known Forester was Robert
fitz William, Ulger's Grandson. A Roll, about the year 1200, says
specifically that " Robert fitz William, the King's Forester, holds
in Anehrig one Mill which pays 10«. {per annum), and one caru-
cate of land which is worth 10*. 6d. {per annum) J^^

Hugh fitz Robert, the fourth Forester of Solas, made a small
grant in Isombridge to Lilleshall. This has been noticed under
Longden. His Tenants here made, about the year 1230, another
small grant to Haughmond, as the following Deeds will show. —

Richard Crurder, with consent of his wife, Alice de Rodington,

' Domeida^, fo. 257, a, 1. > Tuta ds NevUl, p. 61.

THE CHAPEL. 263

and his heirs^ ga^e, with his body, a half-virgate in Enesbrugge^
held by William son of William Walsh, whose tenant-right is re-
served, he henceforth paying his rent of 2s, to the Abbey. Wit-
nesses, John fitz Alan, Vivian de Bossall, Thomas his son, Thomas
de Costentin, William de Ercalne, Robert fitz Aer, William de
Staunton, William Banastre.^

Alice de Boditon, daughter of William de Boditon, at the re-
quest of her husband, Richard Crurder, and with her body, gave
the same half-virgate. Same witnesses.

The said Alice, now a widow, renewed the grant, cum corpore.
Same witnesses.^

At the death of Hugh fitz Robert, in 1249, a carucate held by
him in demesne at Esnebrugg was valued at 228, {per annum). The
other yearly items of receipt were — Assized rents 16«. Sd,; from
meadow-land 18^.; Tallage 5^.; two Salmon at Christmas, value
2d.; one pound of p^per at Christmas and one pound of Cummin
at Easter.

In Easter Term 1278, a Fine was levied, whereby Robert de
Preston and Sibil his wife (Impedients) allow themselves to have
given to Philip de Esnebrugg (Plaintiff) a messuage and half-vir-
gate in Esnebrugg; — ^to hold to Philip and his heirs, at a rent of
Id, payable to the Grantors, and by performing all capital services
for the Grantors and the heirs ci Sibil. For this Philip gave 20
merks.

About the year 1325, two parcels of meadow-land in Isenbrigg,
worth 2s, per annum, were in the King's hand, because, being part
of a Serjeantry, they had been purchased, without Royal license,
by Henry Wyld^ous and William at Nasse.'

ISOMBBIDGB CHAPEL.

I know nothing of the origin of this foimdation, but it was prob-
ably a private Chapel, built by some Lord of the Manor, and de-
rogating nothing from the rights of the Mother Church at High
Ercall. The Lords of Solas were the Patrons.

In the VeUor of 1534-5, the Free Chapel at Esomebrigge, in the
Deanery of Salop, was valued at £1. 6s, Sd,per annum, William
Palmer, Chaplain, was Incumbent.^

The site of this Chapel may be still identified.

> * ' Haughmond Chartalary, fo. 59. I Bemem. B^n».

' Boll (inter Nomina Villarum) penee I * Valor JBcclenatUeus, HI. 185.

264 BOLAS MAGNA.

EARLY IXCUKBENTS.

Richard, Chaplain of Isnebruff, occurs in 1255. He had excom-
municated one Robert de PeleshaU, who (as a Bailiff probably) had
distrained on the Chaplain's lay-fee for a crown debt ; — an amerce-
ment apparently set on the Chaplain for some breach of the laws
affecting money-changing.^

Hahund de la More^ Acolyte, was instituted to this vacant
Chapel on June 4, 1310. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield, jure de-
voluto. More resigned on March 17, 1346, when —

William Constantyn, Priest, was admitted. Patron^ Sir John
de Boulewas, Knight. Constantyn resigned February 16, 1347,
and —

Geoffrey de Berkeford or Berford was admitted. Same
Patron. Berford, on September 22, 1349^ exchanged livings with —

Adam de Hethet, late Vicar of Wrockwardine. Same Patron.
Hethey resigned this " Rectory,*' and on June 16, 1352 —

WiLLLAM DE LA Mere, Clcrk, Rgcd 18 ycars, was admitted to
the ''non-curative Chapel of Esenbru^/' Patron, Sir John de
Boulewas, Knight.

William, son of William de Berton, was admitted October
28, 1360. Same Patron.

William de Waveton (perhaps the same person) resigned in
1369-70.

Walter Prydb was instituted March 11, 1370. Patron, Sir
John de Eynesfeld, Knight. On Pryde's resignation, and on Aug.
5, 1371—

John Knode, Priest, was instituted at presentation of " Sir John
de Eynesford, Lord of Boulewas."

%o\m iHagna.

Uloer Venator, the first known Lord of Bolas, and Forester of
Shropshire, has been frequently mentioned in these pages. That
he was related to Roger Venator, first Baron of Pulverbatch, and

> Itot. ffmdred. 11. p. 58

SOLAS MAGNA. 265

to Norman Venator, the ancestor of the Pichfords, I have already
suggested.^ He first occurs in the Court of Earl Hugh de Mont-
gomery^ between 1094 and 1098. He was associated with the
treason of Earl Robert de Belesme in 1102, and was one of those
who were entrusted by the Earl with the defence of Brug Castle.^
His timely surrender of that fortress procured for him not only the
pardon but the favour of King Henry I.

I conclude that the Forestership of Shropshire was founded by
the Norman Earls, and greatly augmented by Henry I. Solas, I
think; was part of the endowment given to the Forestership by one
of the Earls ; for we are authentically told that Ulger^s Predecessors
had it. Now if Ulger himself had succeeded before the death of
Earl Hugh, in 1098, his Predecessor or Predecessors must have
held office and estate between 1085 (the date of Domesday) and
1098. Consequently they must have been enfeoffed either by £a.rl
Boger or Earl Hugh.

Ulger Venator has been seen attesting a Charter of the Viceroy,
Belmeis, about 1115.* A Precept of Henry I., earlier probably
than this, is addressed to '^ Ulger, and to Geoffrey de Bortone, and
to all the King's Foresters of Salopescire.''^ Again, Henry l.'s
great Charter to Shrewsbury Abbey, passing in May 1121, has the
personal attestation of Ulger Venator. Ego Ulgerius Venator sub^
scripsi, are the words appended to the Deed.^

Ulger Venator apparently survived the accession of Stephen
(1135), tar I find record of a Charter of that Usurper, by which
Ulger's descendants held the Manor of Bolas and its members.
This Charter is apparently quoted verbatim, when the same Record
states that " King Stephen restored {reddidit\ the Manor of Bowlas
to one Urger Venator, to be held by him as freely as his Predecessors
held it."«

William fitz Ulger, son and heir of Ulger Venator, appears
first on the Pipe-Eoll of 2 Henry II. (1156). He there accounts
for a Crown-debt of 10 merks, the half of which he had paid into
the King^s treasury, while the other half had been excused in the
name of Nicholas de Castello, so that William fitz Ulger was quit.
Again, on the Pipe-Boll of 1161 William fitz Ulger is entered as
owing the King one merk ; but I find no liquidation of the debt.

Before 1172 William fitz Ulger gave the Fishery of Esnebrugg

> Supns VoL 1. p. 355, note 438.
2 • 3 Supra, Vol. VI. p. 287 ; VoL III.
p. 234.

VIIl. 34

♦ • » Salop Chartulary, Nos. 49, 35.
' Bradford Tenuie-Koll (penes mei).

266

B0LA8 MAGNA.

to Haughmond Abbey^ as we learn from the Bull of Po^pe Alex-
ander III. confirming the gift.

In 1176 William fitz Ulger had been amerced 5 merks by Henry
II. for some breach of Forest-Law. The entry is on the Fipe-RoU
for Herefordshire^ where it will be seen that the Shropshire
Foresters had a valuable estate^ — ^part of the endowment of their
Serjeantry. In the next year (1177) the following entry occurs on
the Shropshire Pipe- Roll. — WiUielmus filius Ulgerii debet 100 w-
Udo8 pro habendd recognidone de maritoffio matris siue, unde diS"
saisita fait tempore weme, sinejudicio. So then Ulger Venator's
widow was living as late as the Civil War of 1178-^, and being
suspected of disloyalty was deprived of some estate which was her
marriage-portion.

William fitz Ulger's Fine of 1177 is repeated without liquidation
on every Roll till the year 1182. Then it is certified that he was
dead. Nevertheless the Fine is still repeated till the year 1186 in-
clusive.

Robert fitz William, *n and heir of William fitz Ulger, has
been noticed under Cotes, Dorrington, and Cantlop.^ When, in the
year 1200, Hugh de Nevill held Pleas of the Forest in Shropshire,
Robert fitz William fined and paid Ss. 5d., pro trenched deVUinton,
probably for leave to make some clearance in the King's Forest
near Wellington. '

About this date the Serjeantries of Shropshire were assessable to
some aid or tallage, probably that which was sometimes called
carnage,^ " Robert fitz William, the King's Forester in Salopsire,"
seems to have made a return of all the estates held by him in
Serjeantry, and to have proffered a sum of 8 merks as a composition
for the whole. The particulars of Cotes, Dorrington, and Isom-
bridge, have been given elsewhere. Caynton, Calvington, and
Orleton, usually reputed to be members of Bolas, are separately
described, though they were covered by the Fine. Bolas itself con-
tained half a carucate of land held in demesne, and worth 6s, Sd.
{per annum); one carucate and a half, held in villanage, and
realizing ISs, ; and a Mill, paying 10^.^ All that I have further to
say of Robert fitz William is, that he gave a rent of 49. in Boule-
was to the Abbot and Convent of Lilleshall. Robert fitz William
died in 1203, owing an amercement of £100 to the Crown, which

» Supra, VoL IV. 38 j Vol. VI. 21, 287.

* A Qloseary in the Lilleshall Chaitu-

lary Bays of Caruage — " Hoc est si Domi-

nas Bex talliaret totiun terrain per carr u
oas." It was distinct from Hidage.
> Tttta de Nevill, p. 61.

BOLAS MAGNA. 267

som^ as well as 20 merks for the Relief of his son and heir^ is
charged to the name of —

Hugh fitz Bobebt^ in the same year. In or about the year
1205^ a tallage by the canicate was levied in Herefordshire^ on all
Serjeantries. The Assessors returned Hugh fitz Robert as holding
BrowiBted, per farestariam} A Roll of the year 1211 is more ex-
plicit in stating that ''Hugh fitz Robert held Bru^feld/by forest-
serjeantry in Shropshire^ and by gift of Henry I./'^ — to Ulger
Venator^ I presmne. In a Roll of Shropshire Seijeantries returned
in June 1211 it is said that '' Hugh fitz Robert used to hold
(tenuU) of the King^ by service of being Chirf-Forester of the
Comity of Salop, but that his land was in the King's hand by
precept of the Forest-Justices last in eyreJ*^ The said Eyre was
probably that of Hugh de Nevill and his Fellows in 1210. A
Royal mandate of August 28^ 1213, is addressed to Robert fitz
William as Forester of Shropshire.^ The substitution of the de-
ceased father for the living son is evident. A Writ of January 28,
1214, is more correptly addressed to Hugh fitz Robert.^ Of Fines
recorded as having been made shortly previous to Michadmas 1214,
one of 100 merks is by Hugh fitz Robert, Forester. It was for
having the bailiwick of the Forests of Shropshire as his father had
had it. He had already paid 20 merks, he had been excused 30
merks by Writ-Royal, because, at request of the King, he had
taken to wife the niece of John le Strange. He still owed 60
merks.^

Another Record supplies us with a curious hint about this name-
less niece of John le Strange. On September 1, 1214, the King,
then at Partenay, in Poitou, sends her to Peter de Maulay, and
tells him to bestow her person, her horse, and its accoutrements^
with his (De Maulay's) mother.*^ The damsel had apparently been
waiting on the Queen {qtuefuit cum domind Regind), Why King
John's cares should have further extended to providing her with a
husband is hardly latent. Probably the Shropshire Forester^s wife
was a natural daughter or a discarded mistress of that licentious
Monarch.

A Writ of February 16, 1215, shows Hugh fitz Robert in full
exercise of his functions as Forester;^ but he subsequently re-
nounced his fealty to King John, and forfeited his estates. On
September 11, 1217, a Writ of young King Henry certifies that he

1 • « • » Teata de SeviU, pp. 78, 70, 66. I • Soi. Pipe, 16 John, Salop.
* • * Oaue. 1. 148— b, 162— b. I ' • » Rot. Claue, I. pp. I7l, iVfi.

268 B0LA8 HAONA.

had returned to his allegiance^ and orders Engelard de Cigoyn (then
Sheriff of Herefordshire) to restore his lands.^

On October 26, 1226, Henry III. enjoins the Sheriff of Shrop-
shire to make proclamation that none, who have woods within the
Forest Bailiwick of Hugh fitz Robert, shall make of their woods
any sale, gift, waste, assart, or pourpresture, till the King do com-
mand otherwise.^ In June 1237, 1 find Hugh fitz Robert and three
other Shropshire knights commissioned as Justices to try a certain
cause of novel disseizin. The King's Writ of Diem clausii on the
death of Hugh fitz Robert bears date February 5, 1249.* A Here-
fordshire Inquest, held on the 22nd instant, reported the y&lue of
his estate at Bromfeud, and found that John, son and heir of the
deceased, was 25 years of age. The Shropshire Inquest said that
the deceased had held all his land of the King (which was untrue
as regarded Sugden and Cantlop), by service of keeping the King's
Forests in Shropshire, and that he and his Ancestors were Chief
Foresters. Solas, with its Mill, Fishery, rents, and one carucate of
demesne-land, was calculated to be worth £S, Ss. S^d. per annum,
Erletun (now Orleton)* realized £3. 13*. 10^^. Mestun (now
Meeson) realized £4. 6*. 3^^. ; and Kaginton (now Caynton)
brought 18*. 8rf. of assized rents.

On March 11, 1249, the King received the homage of —
John fitz Hugh, as heir of his Father, his Relief being fixed at
15 merks.*^ The Bradford Hundred-Roll of 1255 records how John
fitz Hugh was holding the Manor of Bowlewas by serjeantry, viz.
as Capital Forester of all the Forest of Salop.* In July 1269, John
fitz Hugh was named as a Justice to deliver the Gaols of Shrews-
bury and Stafford. At the Assizes of 1272, he appears as a Knight
and a Juror in causes of Grand Assize, His Serjeantry was made
matter of presentment, and his estates at Solas, Isombridge, and
Brumfeld, stated to constitute a knight's-fee. On July 18, 1284,
the King's Writ announces the death of John fitz Hugh and orders
the Escheator to seize his lands. On July 30, 1284, an Inquest,
held at LylleshuU, valued his estates at Solas and Sromfeld at
£12. 5s, Sd. per annum. Hugh, his son and heir, was found to be
of full age.7

» • « aaus, I. 321 ; 11. 156.

' InquisiiionSy 83 Hen. III., Ko. 68.

^ The place is called Sodintun- Erletun
in tlie Inquest ; a thing which I cannot
explain, seeing that Orleton was near
Wellington. Perhaps howerer, under

this head, the Inquest values whatever the
deceased had at Sugden (in Rodington
Manor) as weU as what he had at Orleton.

» Sot. Finium, II. 49.

• Hot, Hundred. Vol. II. p'. 57.

7 Inquigitiona, 12 Edw. I., No. 1.

fiOLA8 MAGNA. 269

On August 6^ 1284^ the King accepted the fealty of —
Hugh fitz John^ sixth lineal Forester of Shropshire. —
The Feodary of that same year^ usually known as Kirby's Quest,
says merely that " Hugh fitz John holds the Manor of Bolewas^
with its members^ of the King in capite :" but the Tenure-Boll
which belongs to nearly the same period is much fuller but less ac-
curate« It enumerates Meiston (Meeson)^ Esumbridge (Isombridge)^
Caynton^ Calvynton^ Ellerton (Orleton)^ and half the vill of Sogdon
(Sugdeii)* as members of Bowlas. It says that Hugh fitz John held
the whole by Charter of King Stephen^ and that he held his free
court at Bowlas twice yearly^ and adjudged cases of bloodshed and
hue-and-cry^ and had a gaUows.

On March 5, 1292^ King Edward's Writ of Diem clausit an-
nounced the death of Hugh fitz John. The Inquest^ which followed
on May 1, says that the deceased bad held the vill of Esnebrugge^
with his other lands, of the King by Serjeantry.'' The items given
under Esnebrugge are^ — a Capital messuage ; — a carucate of de-
mesne-land worth 30^. per annum ; — 6 acres of meadow worth 9*. ;
— rents of 80s. ld», a pound of pepper^ a pound of cummin^ and a
pair of iron spurs ; — and 6s. for pleas and perquisites of Court.

Solas itself does not appear to have been in the hands of the de-
ceased^ but he was in receipt of 42«. per annum " from the Lady of
Boulewas f — a matter which I will explain presently.

Roger fitz John^ brother and heir of the cleceased^ is stated on
the Shropshire Inquest to be 26 years of age and upwards. The
Herefordshire Inquest tells how the deceased had held Brumfdd
by Grand Serjeantry, viz. as Chief Forester of Shropshire, but states
the heir to be 30 yeara old and more.

Sara, Lady of Bolas, above alluded to, seems to me to have been
widow of John fitz Hugh, and to have had Bolas in dower, except
that it was charged with an annuity of j£2. 2s, to Hugh fitz John,
her son, or stepson. On John fitz Hugh's death (1284) Dame
Sara became the second wife of the third Brian de Brompton, who
had lost his first wife in that very year. Sir Brian dying about
three years later {i,e, in 1287) left Dame Sara a second time a
widow.* Hence at the Assizes of October 1292, the Jurors of
Bradford Hundred made a presentment that " Sara, Lady of Bol-
was, held seven librates of land in Bolwas, and had been married
to Brian de Brompton, now deceased.'' The Lady appeared to the

1 Half Sugden was held under Fitz I > InquisUioMy 20 Edw. I., No. 17.
Alan, and was not a member of Bolas. I ^ Compare Vol. IV. pp. 244, 251.

270 B0LA8 MAGNA.

charge thus implied. She ooBfeeaed that she had married Sir
Brian without lioemie ; and compounded for thia feudal irregularity
by a Fine of 6 merks^ naming Roger de Bitterley and Roger de
Holycote aa her Sureties. To return to—

Boose fitz John ; the Bradford Jurors presented him at these
same Assizes for exercising Frte-Warren in Boulewas. They also
detailed the various alienations which had been made of this Ser-
jeantry since the time when '' JBuger le Yenor (Ulger Venator) had
held the Manor of Boulewas as Gustos of all the Forests." Be-
sides other alienations^ which I reserve to their proper place, one
of Esnebrugg to John de Ludlow must be noticed here. John de
Ludlow app^Eured and explained that he only held that Member of
Bdas for a term of 10 years^ and by demise of Hugh fitz John, de-
ceased. Nor was the transaction illegal, for Hugh fitz John> when
about to depart for the Holy Land, had obtained the Song's leave
to demise all his lands for the said term, and in such sort as that,
in case of his death, no absolute loss of territory could result to the
crown {jiU dq^ereat in tenris Domino Regi). John de Ludlow was
dismissed sine die.

In Hilary Term, 1293, Roger fitz John of Bowelewas had to an-
swer in Staffordshire for holding Pleas of the Crown, and having
warren, gallows, and wai^f, at Bowelewas. He denied that he exer-
cised any right but the first, which he justified by immemorial usage
of his Ancestors. Hugh de Louther's counterstatement, that
Richard I., as Lord of Bradford Hundred, had had the Crown-pleas
of Bolas, was ignored by verdict of a Jury.^

On the great perambulation of the Shropshire Forests, taken in
1300. Roger fitz John is the first-named of the Foresters then in
office.

On May 21, 1301, King Edward ordered it to be ascertained by
Inquest whether it would injure the Crown to allow Roger fitz
John to give the Manors of Boulwas, Brymfeld, and Isenbrigg, and
the Seijeantry of the Shropshire Forests, to John le Strange, to be
held by the latter and his heirs immediately of the Crown, and by
the accustomed services. The Jurors replied in favour of the trans-
fer, stating that Roger fitz John^s only remaining tenure would be
that at Rodington already described.* I do not think that this
transfer was ever made, except perhaps in trust.

King Edward^s Writ of Diem clausii on the death of Roger fits
John, bears date April 25, 1302. Th^ Shropshire Inquest held on

1 Quo Wara/iUo, p. 708. • Supra, Vol VIL p. 386.

THS CHURCU.

271

May 11 following^ found the deceased to have died seized of Boulewas
and Esnebro^, as held in capite per sefjaniiam, Boulewas includ-
ing Kaynton^ Hjc. was valued at £5. 3^. 9^. per annum. Esnebrugg
is treated as a member of Boulewas^ worth £2, 14«. 2id., from rents
of Richard de Clotley^ Gregory de Dodinton^ and other tenants.
The Herefordshire Inquest^ recording the deceased Forester's tenure
of Bromfeld^ states that John his son and heir was 8 years of ag0
on June 10, 1302. The Shropshire Inquest makes April 19^ 1299>
to have been the heir's birthday.^

John fitz Roobb, the infant in question, had a long minority,
and occurs as a ward of the Crown in 1318. Meantime, that is in
the Nomina Villarum of 1316, Isabel le Strange is set down as Lady
of Bolas.^ Of her I will say no more than that she also appears as
Lady of the Norfolk Manor of Idtcham. In May 1322 however,
John fitz Roger presented to Bolas Church, as " Lord of Boulewas,''
and in 1324, as '' Lord of Brymfeld," he was summoned by the
Sheriff of Herefordshire to attend a great Council at Westminster.'

An Inquest, taken at Newport, January 8, 1349, found Boulwas
to be worth 100^. per annum. It was the sole Shropshire estate of
John de Boulwas. He now proposed to convey it to Trustees, who
were to settle it on himself and his wife Petronilla and his heirs.^
Sir John de Bolas was living in 1360.

My collections as to this family do not enable me to treat con-
secutively of its further succession. Some hints on the subject will
be found among the presentations to Isombridge Chapel, already
detailed, and to Bolas Church, as given below. For other particu-
lars I refer elsewhere.^

BOLAS CHXTBCH.

I take Edgmond to have been the Mother Church of this district,
but think that Bolas, having been founded by the Lords of the Fee,
soon attained independence. The Taxation of 1291, places Boul-
was Church in the Deanery of Newport, and values it at £\. XZs. 4rf.
per annum?

In 1341, the Assessors of the Ninth call Boulewas ^'a Chapel,"
and tax its Parish at 20^., intimating that the small-tithes^ glebe,
and oblations went to make up the higher Taxation of the Church,
but were irrelevant to the current assessment.*^

1 Inqmdtiofu, 80 Edw. I., No. 57.
• • » ParUamentary WrU$, IV. 897, 878.
4 InquiiUiong, 22 Edw. III., Second
Numbers, Number 61.

* Dukeit AHH^[uUie9 of SkropMre,
pp. 48, 52, 176, 182.
< Pope Nick, TaxaUony p. 245.
7 Tttqms. Kofiarum^ p. 192.

272

BOLAS MAGNA.

The Valor of 1534-5, gives William Moor, Rector of BoUas, as
in receipt of £8 per annum, less 6^. Sd, for procurations and 4^.
for Synodals.^

EABLY INCUMBENTS.

Alan db Newton having been presented to this Church by
Edward I., as Gaardian of Roger fitz John's heir,^ the Bishop on
November 10, 1306, gives the said Alan custody thereof, but re-
vokes the step on January 17, 1307, making William de Thene
Gustos during the Episcopal pleasure. .However, on February 7
following, Alan de Neweton was duly instituted. On November 1,
1315—

John de Norton was in like manner presented by Edward II. ;^
but the Episcopal Register asserts the Church to have fallen vacant
on August 31, 1318, by resignation of Alan de Neweton^ and on
October 18, 1318, the Bishop institutes —

Edmund atte Stone of Neuton, Chaplain, on the presentation
of King Edward II. On July 21, 1321, this Rector has license to
put his Church hi farm for a year, and pursue his studies.

John fitz Herbert of Bascherch, Chaplain, had been presented
to this Church on May 17, 1322, by letters of John fitz Roger, Lord
of Boulewas, but Edmund, the existing Rector, appealed against his
institution, which was delayed. The appeal was eventually success-
ful, for it was Edmund who vacated the Church by death on July
24, 1349, and on August 7, following, —

Thomas de Boulewas, Chaplain, was admitted on the presenta-
tion of Sir John de Boulewas, knight.

Thomas Tabbe (probably the same person) died December 19,
1352, and on January 23, 1353—

Benedict de Frodesleye, Chaplain, was admitted on a like
presentation.

RooER Dios, Priest, instituted May 19, 1366, on the presenta-
tion of King Edward III., died October 24, following, and on No-
vember 8—

Thomas de Nbuport, Clerk and Snbdeacon, was instituted at
the King's presentation. This Rector, in July 1367, has license for
a year's non-residence studendi gratid, and in 1377 he resigned;*
when, on July 16—

I Valor BcolesiaHicua, HI. 186.
s Mot, Patent. 84 £dw. I., m. 29.
» Rot. Patent. 9 Edw. II., p. 1, m. 16.

* He was afterwardfl Bector of Eyton
and of Pulverbatch. Vide supra, p. 86;
and Vol. VI. p. 204.

OLD CAYNTON. 273

Thomas de Chetwynd, Priest^ was instituted, at the presenta-
tion of Sir John de Eyneford, knight.

Hugh Harpbre exchanged this Rectory on February 14, 1388,
for the preferment of —

John Pikeryng, late Rector of Bisshopeston (Hereford Dioc.),
Patron^ Sir John de Eyneford. There seems to have been something
informal in the exchange, for —

John, son of William de Beyerton, who was instituted to Bolas
on June 6, 1388, is said to be so instituted on the resignation of
Hugh Harpere. Patron, Sir John de Eynford. Sir John de Ba-
werton occurs as Rector in 1393-4.

Sir Roger Loyet, Chaplain, instituted January 21, 1414, on
the presentation of Richard de la Mare and Isabel his wife, re-
signed in 1454.^

OLD CAYNTON.

This member of Bolas was held under the Lords of Bolas^ by a
family which took its name from the place.

William de Caginton was amerced 20s. in 1180, for not pro-
ducing one for whom he was Surety. About the same time we
have seen him attesting a Deed of his Suzerain, Robert fitz William.^
In the assessment of Robert fitz William, already quoted, and sup-
posed to have been made about 1200, William de Saginfs tenure
under the said Robert is said to be, — half a carucate of demesne,
worth 69. 8^. ; one carucate held in villanage, worth 16«. ; and a
Mill, worth IO9. per annum.

Robert de Ejlmyton, as his name is written^ attests a Deed
about 1223,^ and was Juror on a Lilleshall Inquest, about 1242,^
where his name is written Kakinton,^ He was soon afterwards suc-
ceeded by his son and heir —

William de Kaointon (II. )^ ^^^o occurs on a local Jury in
February 1249, and again in 1274 and 1275. His success in re-
covering an estate at Pixley in 1283, has been already noticed.^ I
find him attending three local Inquests in that same year, and one
in the year following. The Bradford Tenure-Roll (about 1285)
gives him as holding Caynton, a member of Bolas. In 1292, how-

' Loret had piwiottsly been Yicar of married PetronilLi de Rodington (supra,

St. Alkmimd, Salop.

* Supra, Vol. VI. p. 287.

"•* Supra, pp. 65, 221.

' I cannot affirm that fiobert de Kayn-
ton who was deceased in 1246, and who

Vol. VII. p. 880), was identical with the
above Robert. If he was, it is probable
that his son, William, was by some other
wife.
' Supra, p. 94.

VIII. 35

274 BOLAS MAGNA.

ever^ it appears on the Assize-Roll that William de Kaynton held
only two-thirds of Kaynton^ and William son of William de Wyl-
hryton held one-third. The latter was a Minor and in custody of
Sara Lady of Bolas. William de Kaynton appeared in Court to
account for his title to hold any part of Bolas. .He stated that he
was Tenant'in-Socage of Rc^er fitz John^ to whom he paid 6s, Sd.
rent, and that thus his ancestors has held from time immemorial, and
that what they so held was no part of the Serjeantry. This the
Crown Prosecutor denied, and stated that Kaynton, being part of a
Seijeantry, had been alienated no further back than the reign of
Henry III. The matter went to a Jury, which found that " before
King Henry I. held anything in Shropshire (i. e. before the Escheat
of the Norman Earls) the ancestors of William de Kaynton were
seized of Kaynton, paying half a merk rent to the Lords of Bolas,
and further that the vill was no part of the Serjeantry." William
de Kaynton was hereupon dismissed sine die,

William de Kaynton's tenure by half a merk rent is duly speci-
fied in the Inquisition on Roger fitz John's death in 1302 ; and in
March 1304, William de Kaynton occurs on two local Juries.

OALVINGTON.

This member of Bolas was held by Feoffees of the Foresters of
Bolas from an early period. —

A Fine of September 25, 1199, shows William Porcel and Matilda
his wife, quitclaiming for 30s. to Robert fitz William a half virgate
and bovate in Kelviton, which they had claimed under plea of nwrt
d'ancestre,

Henrt de Lega, about the year 1200, is stated to hold half
a carucate in Calventon, worth 6s. 8d. per annum, under Bobert
fitz William.^ This Henry was, I think, a Cadet of the Lees of
Hughley.

In 1209, Bobert son of Henry de Leg^ was amerced half a merk
for a recent pourpresture on the Bang's Forest ; but I doubt whether
this Bobert was son of the Lord of Calvington, for, at the same time,
Henry de Lega apud Kalvinton (as he is called) was assessed ISd.
for an imbladement of 3 acres of oats in Mount-Gilbert Forest.

Whether Henry de Lega, mentioned in a former page as occur-
ring in 1221,^ was of Calvington, I cannot say. There was also a
Henry de Leg* who sat third Juror on a Wellington Inquest in May
1264.

» TeHa de NeviU, p, 61. « Supra, VoL VI. p. 807.

CALVINGTON. 275

About the latter period, Calvington, or a great part thereof, seeiUB
to have got into the hands of Hugh de Lee of Hughley. At all
events the following Deed passed between 1256 and 1282, probably
about 1270.—

Hugh de Lega and Elena his wife enfeoff their son Edmund, his
heirs or assigns, in all the land which they had any time held in the
vill of Calvinton ; — ^to hold under them and their heirs by an annual
rent of one pound of cummin, payable at Lega (Hughley) . Wit-
nesses, Sir Odo de Hodnet, Sir John fitz Hugh of Bolewas, Sir
John de Erkalewe, Robert de Heselslawe (Helshaw), Roger Waldyn
of Sambroc, Richard de Flosbroc, Thomas de Ethelerton (Ellertou),
and Hugh de Kineleon.^

Between the years 1272 and 1283, Elena de Lega, widow of
Sir Hugh de Lega, gives to her son Edmund, and to his heirs law-
fully begotten, all the land which she had, whether as her portion
in firank marriage, or by purchase, together with two messuages in
the vill of Calvinton and all meadows, &c. pertaining thereto ; — ^to
hold at a rent of one pound of cummin, payable to the Orantress
and her heirs. Witnesses, Sir Reginald de Lega, Sir John fitz
Hugh, Sir Odo de Hodenet, John de Esthope, Richard Sprenshos.'

The Bradford Tenure-Roll (about 1285) gives Edmund Lyde
(evidently the above Feoffee) as holding the vill of Calvynton
immediately imder Hugh fitz John.

The Bradford Jurors, at the Assizes of 1292, presented Edmund
de Legh as holding Calvyngton, a member of the Bolas Serjeantry.
The said Edmund appeared in Court and acknowledged that he
held Calvyngton without render of any service to the King. The
estate was ordered to be confiscated, but Edmund fined one merk to
retain it till next Parliament. His Surety was John de Esthope.

Calvynton would seem afterwards to have been held with Orleton
by the Orletons, and immediately of the Crown ; that is, if we may
rely upon a statement which I shall notice under Orleton.'

Meeson. This member of Bolas seems to have been held by a
family taking name firom the place. William de Meston has oc-
curred to us about 1245 as a Feoffee in Tibberton.^ On January
27, 1249, William, son of William de Meston (Plaintiff), quitclaims
to Oeoffirey Griffin (Deforciant) all right of common which he had
claimed in Geoffrey's meadow called Le Gorstes^ in Crugelton. For

> • « HarL MS. 2063, fo. 8.

* Infra, p. 277.

* Vide supra, p. 49.

* A meadow and etUivra, described as
in QorHeSf were afterwards given b/
Geoffrey Grifiln to Wombridge Friory.

276 B0LA8 MAGNA.

this Final Concord Oeoffirey gave one merk. Further mention of
this second William de Meston has been made under Tibberton.^

He or his father was perhaps identical with William le Fraunceis
{Yfho, together with William de Eton^ was amerced half a merk in
1247 for some default in Suretiship)^ and with William Fraunceys
of Meston (who occurs on a local Jury in 1249). In the time of
Edward II. we have Thomas de Meston attesting an Ercall Deed.

ORLETON.

I should perhaps more properly treat of Orleton as originally a
member of the Royal Manor of Wellington : but whereas it was
annexed to Bolas^ at least as early as the reign of Henry I.^ I pro-
ceed to speak of it here^ in its most known relation, viz. as an out-
lying member of Bolas.

Badulf be Erleton, the first of his name who occurs, was
probably Tenant here of the Lords of Bolas. He was living
between 1141 and 1155, as we have seen under Cherrington. After
him comes —

Adam de Horleton, already noticed as attesting two Charters
between 1174 and 1180,^ one Charter about 1175,^ and a fourth
Charter, of Robert fitz William (his Lord), about 1180.* Pope
Alexander III.'s Confirmation to Haughmond Abbey, passing in
1172, records how Adam de Werlethune had given half a vii^te in
Greneleshul (Grinsill) and aU the tithes of the same vill to that
Abbey. We know that Adam de Horleton was succeeded by —

Ralph de Orliton (II.) ^ his son and heir; — for the latter con-
firmed his father^s grant to Haughmond. We have seen Ralph de
Horliton, or Horleton, attesting two Wombridge Charters, one
about 1186-7,^ the other about 1195.* The interest which he
acquired at Beckbury in 1196 has also been noticed.^ About the
year 1200 we have it recorded that Ralph de Horlet' held of
Robert fitz William's Serjeantry, half a carucate of land and a
Mill, worth one merk yearly, the current assessment on which
tenure was covered by the Fine or composition of Robert fitz
William.® In his attestation of a Leighton Deed {drca 1210-
1215) Radulf de Erleton is followed by his brother William.'
Ralph de Orleton occurs once more, and at a period perhaps ten
years later. It is as enfeoffing a Tenant in all his land at Grinsill,
— a matter of which I shall speak elsewhere.

» • « • 7 Supra, Vol. II. pp. 112, 133, 68.

* Supra, p. 60.

2 Supra, p. 47, and Vol. VII. p. 355.

3 • * Vol. VII. p. 321 ; Vol. VI. p. 287.

» Testa de NeviU, p. 61.
» Supra, Vol. VII. p. 328.

ORLETON.

277

After this there were a William and a Thomas de Orleton^ co-
temporary. Both sat on a Withiford Jury in 1248^ and Thomas is
named first. However I believe Thomas to have been head of a
yomiger branch of the family, and attribute his precedence to his
acquired, or professional, importance, rather than to any right of
birth. William I conceive to have been son and heir of Ralph, and
Lord of Orleton. The earliest notice which I have of —

William be Ebleton, is his Fine with Richard de Leighton in
1240.^ Besides the Withiford Jury of 1248 I find him on a Lee-
gomery Jury of 1258 and a Sheriff-Hales Jury of 1260. In 1264
he was one of the Jurors who were sworn to ascertain the value of
Bradford Hundred. After this, the same or another —

William be Ebleton occurs, viz. on two Juries in 1284. Him
the Bradford Tenure-Roll (about 1285) describes as William de
Ellerton, and as holding Ellertan, a member of Bolas under Hugh
fitz John. At the Assizes of 1292 he was a Juror in several cases
of Quo Waranto, and was himself questioned for holding Erleton,
a member of a Serjeantry, without license. He fined half a merk
to retain the estate till next Parliament, Richard de Hodnet being
his Surety. He occurs on two Jury-lists in 1293. On November
21, 1295, the King's Writ of Diem clansit announces his decease.
It seems that he no longer held Erleton under the Lords of Bolas,
but as a Tenant in capite, at a rent of 6s. Sd. This estate was
valued at £2. 14^. id. per annum. He had also a tenement at
Clotleye held by a rent of 12d. payable to the " Church of St.
Andrew '^ (Wroxeter, I presume) . It only yielded Is. 6d. to the
owner.*

Adam de Ebleton, son and heir of William, is stated on the In-
quest to have been 22 years of age at Easter 1295. I find it
asserted 3 that in 27 Edw. I. (1298-9) he paid the King 16s. Sd. for
his relief for Erleton and Calvynton, members of Bowlewas, but I
cannot verify this from the Fine-Roll. Adam de Erleton was de-
ceased March 14, 1305. Erleton with its Mill was now valued at
£2. 9s. per annum, and was held in capite at 6s. Sd. rent. At
Clotleye, 2 cottages and 9^ acres of land, held at 12d. rent ^ under
the Church of Wroxeter, were valued at Ss. per annum.^

» Supra, Vol. VII. pp. 829, 880.
' InquiaUions, 21 Edw. I., No. 18.
' Duktift AniiquUieSy p. 182, quotisg
Fines 27 Edw. I.
* We haye aeon (Vol. VII. p. 314) that

in 1347 the rent reoeivable by Wroxeter
Church from Clotley was 28, ; — that is, I
suppose, there was another rent besides
Be Erleton*s.
« InquuUiorUy 33 Edw. I., No. 32.

278 B0LA8 MAGNA.

John db EftLCTON^ son and heir of Adam^ was only 4 years of
age on May 31, 1305. Of him, pending his long minority, I can
say nothing. But an Inquest, taken at Newport on April 12, 1324,
found that it would be no injury to the King to allow John, son of
Adam de Erleton, to enfeoff John de Hynkeleye and Elizabeth his
wife in one messuage, one Mill, two carucates of land, ten acres of
meadow, and 26s. rent, in ^rleton and Clotleye, to be held by the
said John, Elizabeth, and the heirs of John, in capite. The
premises were held by a rent of 6^. Sd.y payable at the Exchequer,
and were worth £4 per annum. No land would remain elsewhere
to the Grantor.

A second Inquest, taken at Newport on November 12, 1324,
found that it would not injure the King if he allowed the above
John and Elizabeth (who had acquired the premises without license,
and had suffered forfeiture thereof) to repossess them, and to hold
them in capite by accustomed services. —

An indorsement on this Inquest suggests that the application
failed. It notes how John de Erleton appeared personally in
Chancery at Nottingham on December 16, and proved on examina-
tion to be deaf and dumb. '^ So,^' says the indorsement, '^ nothing
of this Inquisition stands without good and deliberate Council.'^^ —

I suppose that the question which suggested itself to the Officers
of Chancery was really, whether the Crown was not entitled to the
perpetual wardship of John de Erleton, as of one whose state was
aknost tantamount to idiotcy.

I now return to speak of —

Thomas de Erleton, who^ attesting several Wombridge Deeds
between 1225 and 1245, is in one instance styled Sir ThomaSyClerk
of Erleton^ in another is accompanied by Ivo de Erleton, and in
another by Adam Clerk of Erleton. In 1241 he was one of four
Visors of repairs at Shrewsbury Castle.

He occurs also on an Uppington Jury of 1243, a Withyford Jury
of 1249, and a Solas Jury of February 1249. Thomas de Erleton
has already been noticed as purchasing half a virgate in Uppington
of Alice de Burton.*

Ralph de Erleton, son and, I think, heir of Thomas, occurs as
early as March 1248, that is in his father's lifetime. '^ William
de Garmunstun demised and conceded to Ralph, son of Thomas de
Erletun, that house, croft, and seilion, in the Vill of Erletun, which
Godith, a widow, held ; also half an acre in Bradcleg, and one acre

> Inquis. 17 Edw. II. No. 48. ^ Supra, pp. 172, 178.

BYTON ABBOTS.

279

at Belingesl^ and Heliotesl^, towards the Bo9C ; all for a terra
of 30 years commencing Lady Day 1248^ and including the crop
of the last year of the lease ; — at a rent of ^d. Witnesses, Robert
de Clotleg, Thomas de Welintun, Radulf de Cherletun, John do
Cherletnn."!

Balph de Erleton occurs on a Leegomery Jnry of 1251, about
which time I take him to have succeeded to his father.

On March 26, 1257, Simon de Wauton is commissioned to try
a cause between Hamo le Oros and others, of the one part, and
Thomas Mauveysin and Badulf de Erleton, of the other part, viz.
whether certain land in Chateleye pertained to the Church of
Wroxeter, or was the lay-fee of Thomas and Badulf.^

On two Jury-lists of 1258 and 1260 Badulf precedes William de
Erleton. Badulf was certainly a Tenant in Orleton ; for, in Octo-
ber 1259^ Boger de Napton and his wife implead him, under writ
of mart tPancestret for a messuage and land in Erleton. About
this time Balph de Erleton attests a Wombridge Deed already
quoted.

It would seem, from what has transpired above, that William de
Erleton eventually succeeded to BadulPs interest in Clotley.

The only other member of this family, whom I shall name here,
is Pagan de Erleton, who occurs as a witness in 1305.

As TO MiNOB Tenubes in Orleton, Balph Goki is incidentally
named as a Tenant in the Lease of 1248. Singularly enough, at
the Assizes of 1256, Balph Goky and Petronilla his wife, tenants
of a messuage and 8 acres in Erleton, were impleaded for the same
by Juliana, as daughter and heir of Beginald de Erleton. The
latter was found to have died seized of the premises ; so Juliana
recovered them.

C^ton W}hot», or C^ton upon ^etiem.

All places called Eyton, Eaton, or Eton, probably obtained
their names from the Saxon word e& {a stream, or water) . It has
been suggested that the Saxon word eah {an eye) is the origin of

' Deed in posseflsion of Robert Gkrd-
ner, Esq. of Leighton. The Seal of this
Deed is of white wax and much de&ced.

The device has 'been abeady aUuded to
(supra, Vol. VII. p. 386, note 30).
* Sot. Patrntt. 41 Hen. III., dorw.

280

ETTON ABBOTS.

such names ; and it is indeed observable that many places, so called,
are more or less isolated, and so have some metaphorical resem-
blance to the organ of vision. However the isolation or half-isola-
tion of places called Eyton is not invariable, but their propinquity
to water is. So I take e& to be the direct and real root of such
names, and not e£h, which is only metaphorically aiid accidentally
descriptive of their situation.

The important Manor of Eyton-upon- Severn is noticed in
Domesday as one of those held by Shrewsbury Abbey as the gift of
Earl Roger.' — " In the City of Sdropesberie Earl Roger is making
an Abbey ; and he hath given to the same the Monastery of St.
Peter, where was a Parish of the City, and as much of his Burgesses
and MiUs as brings in £12 (yearly) to the Monks.^ The same
Church holds Aitone. Earl Leuric held it in the time of King
Edward. Here are eight and a half hides. In demesne are iiii
ox-teams, and still two teams more might be (employed). Here
are xvi Villains, and xiiii Boors, with zvi teams. Here are tiii
male, and iiii female. Serfs, and ii Fisheries. One (of the Fisheries)
pays \6s, (yearly) ; the other goes towards victualling the Monks.
In King Edward's time the Manor was worth £21 {per annum) ;
and when the Earl gave it to the Church it was paying £14.''

Any allusion of Domesday to a state of things existent in the
days of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, is, as far as Shropshire is con-
cerned, exceptional. The Shropshire Domesday, in short, usually
refers to the status of Manors as held by Leofric's widow, Godiva,
or his grandsons, Edwin and Morcar. This general rule has been
already pointed out.^ The Domesday notice of Eyton is abnormal.

Earl Roger's grant of Eyton to Shrewsbury Abbey is certified by
his own general Charter, as well as by the Confirmations of William
Rufiis,* Henry I., Stephen, Henry II., and Henry III. Richard
Peche, Bishop of Coventry, confirming to the Abbey the tithes of
its various demesnes, includes ^'the whole tithes of Astone and
Eyton,"*' both of which places were, as we know, in the Parish of
Wroxeter.

The Forest Assize-Roll of 1209 chaises the Abbot of Shrewsbury
for two imbladements in Euton or Eton, within regard of the Forest
of Mount Gilbert. For 30 acres sown with oats he was charged
15«., and 6^. for 6 acres, otherwise cultivated.

1 Bomeiday, fo. 252, b, 1.
' For some remarks on thb passage, see
HUL of Shrewtbwy, Vol. II. pp. 2, 8.

» Supra, VoL III. p. 63, note 3.

* Vide supra, Vol. VI. p. 171.

* Salop Charttdary, No. 829.

EYTON ABBOTS. 281

The Bradford Hundred-Roll of 1255 says that '' the Abbot of
Salop holds Eiton of the gift of Earl Roger de BelemCy in free alms^
and it is a Manor of ix hides, and does no Suit to County or Hun-
dred.'' Here I need not point out the misnomer by which Earl
Roger is described. To account for the increase on the Domesday
hidage I am unable, unless indeed Aston, once a member of Wel-
lington, was now computed with Eyton. The same Hundred-Roll
notices, under Eiton, certain persons whom I take to have been
the Abbot's Tenants, but who were liable to certain dues to the
Crown. — Walter le Longe held an acre of assart in the Forest of
Mount Gilbert, paying 9d. rent to the King's Exchequer ; Ayote,
wife of Wyot, held another acre at the same rent ; and Richard
Blawne-Coste held 1^ acres and one perch at a rent of Ibd}

Henry III.'s Charter of Free-Warren, dated May 21, 1256,
gives the Monks of Shrewsbury that privilege in their demesne-
lands at Eyton.

The Bradford Tenure-Roll (about 1285) enumerates the then
members of Eyton Abbots. They were, Aston (near the Wrekin),
Siwaldeton (a place now lost), Riston (now Rushton), Donynton, and
Drayton. The Abbot held the whole of the King, in capite sine
medio. He had at Eyton his free court, wherein he held pleas of
bloodshed and hue and cry. He had gallows and free-warren, and
exercised those privileges by Charter of the said Earl (read King)
and by Royal confirmation.

The Taxation of 1291 gives a total of £21. I9s. lO^d. as the
proceeds of the Abbofs estate at Eyton. The items are — Two caru-
cates of land, yielding £1 ; Assized Rents £15. Is. G^d.; A Mill
ISs. 4d.; Pleas and Perquisites of Court £1. 6s. 44.; and Profits
of Live-stock £3. ISs. Sd.^

An Abbey Rent-RoU, drawn up about two centuries later,^ may
be epitomized as follows: —

Eyton. Income on 22 items of revenue . . £14 19 7

Drayton. Income on 7 items 4 16 6

Haston (Aston). Income on 10 items 4 19 8

Roscheton (Rushton). Income on 8 items . 6 9
Donyton (Donnington). Income on 6 items . 8 17 10
Eyton. Other Income 2

Total 41 14 4

1 Sot Hundred, II. 58. I * Ektaty of Skremhmy (Owen and

^ Pope Nieh. Taxation, p. 260. I Blakeway), YoL II. p. 508.

VIII. 36

282 ETTON ABBOTS.

We may compare this estimate with the following receipts^ ex-
tracted from the Valor of 1534-5.^ —

Eytjon. Assized rents £58 3 7\

Aston subtui Wreken, As^zed rents ... 294
Aston subtus Wreken. Ferm of the tithes of
one messuage 14 2

igei 7 li

In the Ministers' Accounts of the dissolved Monastery, drawn
np in 1541-2, we have the rents and ferms of Eyton, Donyngton,
Riissheton, Aston-Drayton, and Aston subtus Wrekyn, stated to be
altogether £63. 19s. lOid.^

Etton Chapel. Eyton, with all its members except Aston, was
in the Saxon Parish of Wroxeter. Under Wroxeter Church I have
shown how the tithes of Eyton, Rushton, Donnington, Drayton, and
Sewallesdon, were divided between the Hectors and Vicars of Wrox-
eter. It does not appear that even the Abbot of Shrewsbury's
demesnes at Eyton were exempt from payment of tithes to the
Mother Church. We infer that, so far, Bishop Peche's confirma-
tion to Shrewsbury Abbey, as quoted above, was ultra vires and
inoperative. The only notice which I have of Eyton Chapel shows
it distinctly as an affiliation of Wroxeter Church, and proves that
the Vicar of Wroxeter was in 1347 bound to serve it, " as it had
been served from ancient time.^'»

Drayton, now Dryton. The Monks of Shrewsbury had a Te-
nant here, viz. William, son of Edward de Drayton. About the
year 1230 this William and his Mother, AveUne, acknowledge in
the Court of Sir H. (probably Henry), Abbot of Salop, that they
had unjustly claimed to hold a noke in Dreyton, and 4 acres and 3
little meadows in Eyton, hereditarily ; — for the premises were of
the Abbofs Villanage and Demesne, as had been confessed in the
Abbot's Court at Eyton and in the Hundred-Court of Salop. The
Abbot now allowed them to hold the premises for their lives, for
20*. paid down, and at a rent of 18d. Witnesses, William, Priest
of Wroxeter ; Thomas de Eiton, Thomas his son.*

William, son of Edward de Drayton and Cecilia his wife, have
been noticed as Feoifees of Alice Mussun at Uppington about
1225-6. The Deed of feoffment is attested by William Chaplain
of Drayton, that is, by William de Drayton, Chaplain, who, as I

» Valor JEcdenatHcus, III. 189. I » Supra, Vol. VIT. p. 815.

s MonaHicon, III. 529. I * Salop Chartulaiy, No. 124, b.

EYTON ABBOTS. 283

have elsewhere stated/ was the same person with William^ Priest
of Wroxeter.

About 40 years later than this^ viz. about the years 1260-70^ we
have three several Uppington Deeds attested by WUliam Pilrin of
Dreiton, and William the Parson his brother. It is hardly prob-
able that these two were identical with William fitz Edward and
William the Chaplain^ above mentioned. Be this as it may, Wil-
liam the Chaplain appears before the year 1240 accompanied by his
son Alan ; and we have seen that William and Petronilla^ son and
daughter of one Alan de Drayton^ succeeded to estates at Chatwall
and Berrington^ the former before 1255.^ Chronology will not
allow us to suppose that the said William and Petronilla were
grandchildren of William the Chaplain; but that all these persons
were members of one family I cannot doubt.

Again; — the wide interval at which William, the Chaplain or
Canon, occurs (viz. from 1225 to 1276) suggests a doubt whether a
single person is thus described.

Again, William de Drey ton, Seneschally attests a Charter of the
first John fitz Alan as early as 1218, and William de Dreyton, son
of WiUiam, occurs in 1262,^ and is perhaps the individual who, as
William de Drayton, Bailiff of Wroxeter, is addressed by the second
John fitz Alan in a letter dated September 21, 1265.

We have intermediate notices of one William de Drayton as a
Feoffee in Uppington and a witness of Uppington Deeds. In 1262
such a person occurs too, as one of the Regarders of the Shropshire
Forests.

In September 1272 William de Dreyton-Pelerin and Richard de
Dreyton were Recognizors in the great trial noticed imder Al-
brightlee.

Robert de Drayton, Juror on a Leegomery Inquest in 1258, may
have been of this place. I think he was son of another Robert. In
1276 William son of Walter de Drayton, with assent of his wife
Emma and his heirs, surrenders to his Lord, the Abbot of Salop,
certain meadow-land, till five crops should have been taken there-
fix)m. Witnesses, Master Robert de Stoke, John de Prestcote,
Adam le Bole, Gilbert the Beadle.^

DoNNiNOTON. Robert Bras occurs on an Uppington Jury in
1243. Richard Bras of Doniton was Juror on a Wellington In-
quest in 1278. He is probably the person noticed in a former

1 Supra, VoL VII. p. 316.
« Supra, Vol. VI. p. 37.

3 Supra, VoL VI. p. 294.

■* Salop Chartulary, No. 124, c.

284 ETTON ABBOTS.

Volume aB occurring in 1281 and 1308.^ When he is said to be
'* aged 40^' in the latter year^ it is probably meant that he was 40
at least.

SiWALDSTON. I can only guess the situation of this lost member
of Eyton. In a Grant to Wombridge Friory^^ a certain acre in the
fields of Uppington is described as lying near the footpath called
Quenesty, which footpath seems to have run between Aston and
Siwaldeston. Siwaldeston probably lay between Aston and Bush-
ton.

At the Assizes of 1221 Luna fitz Richard failed to appear in a
suit of novel disseizin concerning a tenement in Siwaldesden^ which
she had instituted against William fitz Oregory^ a Chaplain. The
Defendant was dismissed sine die.

A Deed was among the Newport Evidences whereby '' Alan son
of Richard de Siwaldisdon gave to Richard son of William de Dray-
ton'' a house and some land (probably in Siwaldston or Upping-
ton) . A foss which extended towards the bam of Dame PetronUla ;
— ^the road which led to Rustone ; — a place called Stanechestre ; —
and the road at Hupiton, are mentioned among the boundaries of
the grant. The Deed was attested by Thomas de Constantine,
Richard de Leighton^ Robert de Cherleton, Walter de Drayton,
Robert Bras, and Adam fitz Brice. I suppose this Deed to have
passed about 1230-40, but am very doubtful as to its date.

In Michaelmas Term 1282, Walter de Dreyton was suing the
Abbot of Shrewsbury for disseizing him of common-pasture in Si-
waldesdon.

William and Robert de Siwalsdon occur on a local Jury in 1298.

Of Rushton, another member of Eyton, I have no particulars
to add to those already given.

Of Aston and its early history I shall speak under Wellington,
for originally it was a member of Wellington. It came to be re-
puted a member of Eyton because it was given to Shrewsbury
Abbey.

> Supra, VoL VII. p. 894. » Chartulaiy, TU, XTpinton, No. 24.

285

J^ausfttott

I HAVE already treated of that part of Haughton^ vhich^ being a
member of Upton Magna^ has no distinct mention in Domesday.^
The other part was a Manor in itself, and was held by Roger Vena-
tor. It is described in the Record as follows. —

" Roger Venator holds Haustone (of the Earl) . Edwi held it
(in Saxon times). Here is one hide, geldable. The (arable) land
is (enough) for ii ox-teams. Here is one Tenant {homo) rendering
a ferm of 68,"^

The Seigneury of this Half-Manor continued, as we should ex-
pect, with Roger Venator's descendants, the Barons of Pulverbatch.
The Tenants thereof were those Coustantines whose history I have
sketched under Oldbury and Eaton Constantine. The feudal, and
perhaps blood, relationship which subsisted between the Barons of
Pulverbatch and the Coustantines has also been illustrated under
Pulverbatch.*

The following Deeds will show how the Coustantines dealt with
their tenancy at Haughton. —

1. About the year 1200, as I think, Thomas de Costentin en-
feoffs Stephen de Stanton^ and his heirs, for their homage and ser-
vice, in all his part of Meresbrok, at a rent of 12d. The Grantee
may make a Vivary and mill, but must give an equivalent to the
Grantor's tenants in Halghton for such land as the Vivary shall oc-
cupy. The Grantee may raise his stank so high as that the water of
his Vivary shall ascend over three perches of land, (measuring) from
the rivulet which falls into Meresbrok. Witnesses, Robert de Wode-
cote, Hugh de Wodeforde, Reyner de Acton ; Helias and Ralph, the
Grantor's brothers, and Robert de Espelee.^

2. Stephen de Staunton gave to Thomas de Costentin and his men
of Halghton a right of common in his (Stephen's) land of Roden,
in return for the donation, which he had had from the said Thomas,
of the site of Meresbrok Mill. Same witnesses.

* Supra, Vol. VII. p. 280.

^ Domesday^ fo. 259, a, 2.

» Supra, Vol. VI. p. 196.

^ Ho was Lord of Boden, between

which and Haughton there \b a Birulet.
^ Haughmond Ghartnlary, Tit, Halgh-
ton juxta Haghmon : — which is abo the
authority for all the following Deeds.

286 HAUOHTON.

3. About the year 1220 Thomas de Constantin grants all his land
in Halghton to Robert son of Stephen de Stanton^ for his service
and for 14 merks paid down^ and at a rent of 2d, Witnesses^ Wil-
liam de Hetlee^ Vivian de Roehall^ Baldwin de Smethcote^ Baldwin
Wischart, Philip de Peninton, Bobert fitz Aer.

4. It must be assumed that the rent of 12d. receivable from
Meresbrok Mill merged with the last Deed^ as becoming due to
Robert de Stanton himself. He however seems to have renewed
the charge in favour of a third party. About the year 1220 Ro-
bert de Stauntune gives to Haughmond Abbey, with his body, all
the land (4 virgates) which he had bought from Thomas de Con-
stantine, in the vill of Halghton^ together with a rent of 12d. due
from Halghton Mill. A rent of 2d. only is reserved to Thomas de
Constantino. Witnesses, Duiet Cellarer of Haghmon, Henry Cook,
Roger Palmer, Roger his son, Richard Hirdman.

I imagine that Robert de Stanton died within the walls of
Haughmond Abbey. At his death, then, the Canons became seized
of the Manor of Haughton, holding it by payment of 2d. yearly
to Thomas de Constantino, who held of the Lord of Pulverbatch.

5. Soon afterwards, Thomas de Constantine's mesne-right van-
ishes, for he confirms Robert de Stanton's Deed, and releases the
rent of 2rf. due to himself. Witnesses, Robert de Gyras, Vivian de
Rosshale.

6. By another and equivalent Deed, Thomas de Costentin gives
and confirms a moiety of Halghton to Haughmon Abbey, with as-
sent of his son Thomas.

7. About the year 1230 William de Staimton acknowledges that
he and his heirs are bound to pay the Canons of Haghmon 12^.
rent for the " impounding of water by Roden Mill," which rent
Robert, his brother, had bequeathed to the Canons with his body.
Witnesses, Hugh English (Anglicus), Hamo Marescote, WiUiam
Banastre, Wido de Hadenhale, and Thomas Cresset.

The Bradford Hundred-Roll of 1255 puts down the whole vill of
Halihton as 1^ hides, paying 6d, for motfee and 6d. for siretward.
The Abbot of Haymon is stated to be Lord of the Half- Manor
(now under consideration), and to hold it of the fee of Pubrehach}

The Feodaries of 1284-5 agree that the Abbot of Hawemon held
half Haughton of the Pee of Philip Marmion of Pulverbatch.

The Taxation of 1291 gives the Abbot of Haughmond nothing
but 8«. assized rents in Halton mbtus Haghmon.^ Some subse-

1 Rot. Hundred. II. 66. ^ p^pe Nick, Taxation, p. 260, a.

HAUGflTON. 287

qaent acquisitions in the other moiety of the Manor have been
noticed already,^ In the Vakr of 1584-5 the Abbotts receipts
from Halghton are massed with those from Astley^ Edgebaldenham
(Edgebold)y Isombridge, Sugden^ and Rodington. They were in
aU £2. %8. 8df.s

Of Unbbbtenants in Haughton the first to be noticed are the
Cressets. About the year 1210^ as I guess^ Thomas de Costentin
grants to Thomas Crasset, for a rent of one poxmd of cummin^ a
half and a third of a virgate in Halghton. Witnesses^ Stephen
de Staunton^ Robert and William his sons; Wilham de Hedleg;
Robert fitz Aer ; Hugh de Hupton ; Philip de Peninton ; Helias de
Costentin ; William^ Ralphs and Richard his Brothers.

From his attestations of Deeds I conclude Thomas Crasset to
have been living in the year 1235 and somewhat later. His suc-
cessor seems to have been William Crasset^ who attests two Char-
ters between 1240 and 1250^ and who, or one of his name, was
living in June 1290. The latter^ when under indictment for homi-
cide and other crimes, was appointed Beadle or Lessee of Bradford
Hundred by its Baiiliff, Walter de Pedwardine. In 1292 the Bai-
liwick was seized by the Crown in consequence of this flagitious
appointment; but Pedwardine re-obtained it by replevin. About
1270-80 I find mention of another Thomas Cresset of Haughton^^
and in August 1331 I find Thomas Cresset attesting a Deed of the
then Earl of Arundel. This I presume to be the same Thomas
Cresset to whom, with Edith his wife, Isolda, daughter of William
Willy of Halghton, gave two seiliom in Halghton, one of which
was boimded by land, late Richard de Leighton's.* By a subsequent
Deed, Edith Cresset, widow, gave these two seilions to Philip her
son; and on January 17, 1339, Philip Cresset quitclaimed them to
Nicholas, Abbot of Haghmon. Witnesses, Thomas Cresset of Wi-
thiforde, Thomas Cresset of Halghton (probably Philip^s elder bro-
ther), and Walter Cresset of Uffington.

Meantime, that is on March 17, 1335, we have an agreement be-

> Supra, Vol. VII. pp. 281, 282.

< Valor Ecclenatiieu8, III. 192.

» Supra, Vol. VII. p. 281, note 14.

^ This Deed is parallel with two in the
Newport JSvidences. By one — " Isolda,
daughter of William de Halchton, givo6
to Thomas^ sou of Stephen de Elinhale,
Carpenter, a messuage in Halchton. Wit-
nesses, Thomas de Loe of Bodeno, Alan
fitz Thomas of Rodeno, Bichard fitz Ro-

bert of Estleg, Thomas Cresset of Haloh-
ton, and Thomas Gilbert of Halohton."

By the other — "Isolda,daughter of Wil-
ham Willy of Halchton repeats the same
grant to Thomas, son of Stephen do Elyn-
hal, Carpenter. Witnesses, Sir Robert
Corbet, Knight ; Thomas de Le, Lord of
Roden ; Philip, Lord of Pevynton ; Tho-
mas Cresset, William Cresset, Roger Gil-
bert, and his son, Thomas."

288 HAUGHTON.

tween the Abbot of Haghmon^ and Thomas Cresset of Halghton
with his son Richard^ concerning 12 acres held by Richard Hugyns
in Halghton. Also on July 28^ 1839^ the same Abbot leases two
parcels of waste in Halghton to Margery and Alice, daughters of
Thomas Cresset of Halghton. On July 26, 1349, Richard son of
Thomas Cresset of Halghton gives to Haghmon Abbey 6s, rent out
of tenements in Halghton. Witnesses, William de Smethcote ; Ni-
cholas de Harley, Clerk; Philip, Lord of Penynton; William de
Muriden ; and Walter Cresset of Uffington.

Other Undertenants in Haughton occur as follows. — ^About 1253,
Thomas de Haleton attests a grant to Haughmond Abbey. About
1245, Hugh son of Robert de Staunton gave to Haghmon Abbey,
for 2i merks, a rent of Ss. 6d. which he received from William de
Almania for one vii^te and two-thirds of a noke in Halghton.
Witnesses, Sir William de Ercalewe, Stephen de Penynton, John
de Rodene, Reiner de Withiforde, William Crasset of Halghton,
Roger fitz Gilbert (of Haughton), and Henry de Uffinton. Also
Roger fitz Gilbert of Halghton gave to the Abbey, two acres in the
field of Halghton, which Gilbert his father had bequeathed, with
his body, to sustain the lights before the High Altar in the Church
of Haghmon. Witnesses, Henry de Sibbeton, Alan Brito, Ralph
de Preston, John de Horton, Thomas de Halghton, William his
son, and William de Almagne.

About 1260, the last witness, as William Alemon of Halghton,
gives, for the same purpose, 2 acres in Halghton, one of which is
said to be in the field of Venintan. Witnesses, Sir John fitz Aer,
John Lord of Arcalwe, Philip de Peninton, WiUiam Crasset of
Halghton, and Roger fitz Gilbert of Halghton. Also William, son
of Richard, son of Adam de Asteleg, withJ^Avota his wife, gave for
the same purpose, one acre in the fields of Halghton, which he
bought from William Alemon, part of which is described as in the
field towards Ruleye. Witnesses, Sir John de Ercalwe, Sir John fitz
Aer, knights, Philip de Peninton, and Richard de Sogedon, Clerk.

The two last Deeds name Roger Gery as an adjoining Landholder,
and the last Deed similarly names William fitz William. Now
Hugh de Halghton and William fitz William of Halghton occur
on a Wellington Jury in 1284.

On May 10, 1341, the Abbot of Haghmon and Robert Corbet of
Morton (whose Lessee, Thomas de Upton, had made a foss in the
Abbot's land at Halghton) came to an agreement, attested by Walter
Cresset, Thomas de Halghton, and Henry del Clif.

. 289

INDEX OF PLACES

VOLS. VI., Vn., AND vin.

\* The name of each Place, which has formed the subject of a distinct notice,
is printed in Capital Letters.

Beferen6e to the page, or pages, of such distinct notice, is made by the larger
figures.

The abbreyiation v. stands for " vide," ». for " note."

Abbey Foregate (Shrewsbury), 24, 171 ;

Til. 269
Abdon, 34|, 49, 68 o
Abingdon Abbey, yii. 160
Acre (Palestine), 129; yii. 12, 18
AcTOir BuBKSLL, 2, 3, 7, 8, 42, 92, 121-

189, 148, 156, 197, 337, 339, 345 ; tu.

20 91, 65, 66 «, 295
CjttTTBCH, 77 », 96, 97,

138-9

Hill, 335

Acton (near Cftus), vii. 29

AOTON PiOOT, 3, 7, 8, 80 0) 82, 83, 92-

97, 128-9, 135, 228

Chafei., 77, 98-4, 96-7

Acton Beynald, Tii. 268, 281 n

Chapel, viiL 183, 146, 147

Acton Bound, 71, 336; yii. 252, 254,

261

Church, 77

Acton Scott, 250-254, 336-338, 343, 345
Actune, 2^ v. Acton Bumell
Adbaffton (Staffordahire), tu. 178 n
Addeston, rii. 28, v, Eddestan
detune, 2, «. Acton Pigot
AfPoot, 337, 345
Akiior (Staffordfihiie), viiL 162
Albsbbubt, tiL 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 66«979

96,105

■ Castle, vii. 81

Chvboh, vii. 67, 69, 83, 85,

86-91, 94, 108, 111, 115

VIII.

Alberbuiy, Fee o^ 119

Parish, vii. 44, 46, 87, 179

AxiBESbubt Pbiobt, vii 27, 44, 88, 85,

89, 90, 91-97, 114, 126
, St. Stephen's Chapel in, vii

89, 95, 96
Albbight Leb, 36; vii 199, 201, 308}

viii 219, 222, 231, 246-^60
Albrighton (near Shiffiial), 66, 101, 268,

271 n, 272 i», 275, 288
Albrighton (near Shrewsbury), vii. 165
Alcamaston, v. Alceston
Aloester (Warwickshire), vii 145, 151-2,

153, 158-9, 163-166, 182

Abbey, viu. 21, 22

Alceston, 336, 343, 345

Chapel, vii, 61

Wood, 338

Alderton (near Middle), 38 ; vii 68, 270,

273-4
Aldon, 38, 261-254 ; vii. 274
Aldridge (Staffordshire), 115
Alkmere (and Betton), 186, 187, 361
Alloot (Acton Pigot), 88, 96, 128, 185
Allpibid (Condover), 20, 27, 50, 176,

837,846

Mill, 176-6, 181, 184

All Souls' CoUege (Oxford), vii. 97
Alretone, vii 2, 6-7, 67, t>. Cans
Abewas (Staffordshire), viii 217
Alrewych (Staffordshire), vii 62
Alscott (Wrockwardine), viii 169
Alsemore Bosc (Stapleton), 118, 114
Alveley (Betton), o. Alvithele

37

290

INDEX OF PLACES.

Alydey (near Bridgnorth), Tiii. 185
Alverton viii. 68, v, Ollerton

(North Allerton), vii. 216

Alveston (G^louoester8h.),yii. 67, 68, 71, 75
Alveton GastOe (Staffordshire), TiiL 68, 64
Alvithele (Betton), 8, 185--6
Alyithhuebe (Betton), 8, 186-8, 342
Akaston, vu. 8, 173-176, 177, 180
Amundemess, viL 73, 75
AndoTer Priory (Hants), vii. 219
Andreslaue, vii. 2, v. Onslow
Antioch, 319 ; viii. 215
Aqua, yii. 271, v. Bea
Arcenefelde (Herefordshire), 191
Argentan (Normandy), yiiL 217
Arkendon (Yorkshire), yiii. 222, 223
Arkhull (Herefordshire), viii. 8 n
Arleston (Wellington), viii. 354-5
Arras (France), viii. 211
Arscott (Ford), tiL 141, 142, 180» 189,

191-2
Arundel (Sussex), 324; yii. 260, 297

Ca8tle,.viL 265 W#, 257-259

, Honour of, vii. 221, 222, 269

Ashby de la Zouch, viii. 222, 228

Church, viii 223

Ashfield, vii. 896-398

Ashwell (Butlandshire), vii. 347

Assington (Suffolk), vii. 358

Asterley (Pontesbury), vii. 143, 144

Asterton, 336, 343

Asthorp (Lincolnshire), 243

Astley Abbots, viii. 130

AsUey (Shrew8buiy),vii. 279, 336, 394-6;

viii. 287

Church, vii. 394

Aston Botterell, 37

Aston (near Cans), vii. 25, 28

Aston (near Munslow), 836, 845

Aston (near Oswestry), 36

Aston Pigot, vu. 113, 120

Aston Bogers, vii. 120-22

Aston (under Wiekin), viii. 280, 281, 282,

284.
Aston Wood (Lydbury North), 836, 348
Aston (Herefordshire), 285
Atgham, 171-173 ; viL 199 ; viiL 213, 216,

219, 222, 231, 239-246
Church, 172; vii 394; viH. 227,

244-246
Atoham Bridge, viii. 242

Audley Brow (Morton Say), viii. 63 n

Audlem (Cheshire), 82, 47

Auretone, vii. 7

Austaneshill (Uckington), vxL 815 ; viii.

233, 239
Auston (Pontesbury), vii. 154 «»» 180
Avochelie, 2, 148, v, Hawksley
Azihohn, Isle o^ 243

B.

Badminton (aioucestersh.), vii. 239, 240

Church, viii. 223

Baghaltref, vii. 37

Bagret or Tagheret, vii. 34, 86

Bailey Brook, The, viii 200, 202 i»,-208

Bailleul en Gouffem (Normandy), vii.

206,209
Balderton, viL 106
Bannockbum, 314

Barkesford (Chetwynd), viii. 86, 86, 91
Barlaston (Staffordshire) vii. 857, 858
Bascherch Hundred, vii 171, 194, 200,

202 ; viii. 250
Basingwerk Abbey (Flintsh.), 825 «, 327-

830
Bastyngdene (Berks), 136
Battlefield CoUege, vii. 194 ; viii. 45
BArsELBY, vii 1, 2, 3, 44, 79, 83, 87, 96,

97-99

Bazterley (Warwicksh.), viii. 85, 86, 88
Batbton, 2, 3, 187, 298-300, 842-845

Hill, 187, 844

Bazats (France), 71 ; vii. 254

Bearstone, viii. 84^ 87, 88 »

Beatchoott, v Betchcott

Beaulieu Abbey (Hants), 856 n

Bee, Bach, or Batch, 188-9

Beche, The (near Pitohford), 106, 277-

280,286
Becheefiald, vii. 25

Beckbuzy, 100, 101, 188 ; viii. 159, 276
Beckbury (near Shrewsbury), viii 4fl
Begestan, v. Bayston
Beldewes, 2, v. Buildwas
Bexswaiudiks, 2, 3, 7, 8, 78, 94, 128, 156,

197, 217, 220, 227-230, 886
Bekthall (Alberbury), vii. 2, 3, 178-

179, 180, 192
Beobridge (Claveriey), 193 ; vii 294
Bere CasUe, vii. 261

INDEX OF PLACKS.

291

Beritmuv 2, v. Berrington

Berlee or Berleye, yii. 34 », 86 », 44

BsBxnrGTOir, 2, 8, 28, 38-479 ^> ^^>

174, 197, 842, 845 ; TiL 274 ; viii. 288
Chfeoh, 28, 88, 44-47,

282; TiL 206, 208

• f Bepemere, 86

, Haughmond Fee in, 48

, White-Lftdiee Fee in, 48, 44

Berwick, Great, yii. 886, 894 ; yiii. 16

Chapel, viii. 223

BsBWiOK Mayxbtok, Tii. 199, 887-

898; Tui. 238, 240, 248
Besford, yii. 106 ; yiii 72, 189, 142-8,

146
Bbbiow, tu. 199, 815 ; viii. 40-41

Chapxl, viii. 41

Betobcott, 166, 245-9, 345

Chapel, 28, 249

Bbtton Abbots or Gebat Bxttov, 2, 8,

44-5, 149, 172, 181-188, 342, 845
Betton-in-Hales, 185 ; viiL 132
Betton Strange, 174^ 181, 183, 185, 842,

851

Mill, 174

Bicton, 168, 361 $ vii. 172

Bidon (ComwaU), viL 157, 158, 164

Bijlet, vii. 267

Bikedon, v. Bioton

Binweeton, vii 86-89 n

Biriwood, 208 v. Burywood

Binningham, 115

Bishmore^ v, Bushmoor

Bishop's Castle, viL 169

Bisselegh Hundred (Glottoe8terBh.),vii 87

Bitter%, 86

Blackfordby (Leioestershire), viii. 223

Blakewaj (Harley), 845

B]ancininBter,o.OBweetTy and Whitchurch

Blayntheleveny, viL 154

Bletohlej (Morton Say) viii. 61, 63 »,

202 », 223
Bobbington, 301 n
Bokelond (Somersetshire), vii. 71
BoLAB, Gbbat, 20, 21, 204; vii. 384;

viiL 262, 264-277
i Chubch ot, viii. 271-

273
Bolebec, 85 n -
Bolemere, o. Bomer
Bolerugh, 187, 844, v, Bolregg

Bolton (Qy. Yorkshire P), vik 73 », 74 »,

76 fi
Bomer Pool (Condover), 16, 17, 187, 344
Boningale, 66, 66 n ; viii. 222 ter
BOBBTON, 3, 81, 68-9, 171-3, 174-181,
. 206, 343, 346 ; viu. 172

Mill, 176-7, V. Betton MiU

Botfleld, ©. Botvyle

Botlej, 238-9

Botreaux Castle (Cornwall), viL 157

Botte-Street, 50, 59, 344

Botvyle, 237, 239, 240-242, 345

Botwde or Botwood, 2, v. Ijee Botwood

Bouldon, 336

Bourton, v, Boreton

Boveria, 165 », 166, 260, 264, 266, 297

Boycot (Pontesbury), 110 ; viL 131 n

Brace Meole, v, Meole Brace

Brackley (Northants.), viL 74

Bradeford (Leominster), 191, 195, 198

Bradeley Grange (Wenlock), 267

Bradford (near High £it»U), vii. 202, 288,

293
Bradford Hundred, vii. 197-202 ; viii. 64,

277, 287
Bradford North, Hundred of; viL 197,

199, 200-202
Bradford South, Hundred of, 8, 4 ; vii.

197, 199, 200-202, 304
Braggiuton (Wattlesborough), vii. 44^

106, 110
Bnune, 2, v. Broome
Brampton (Northants), viiL 223
Brantune, 2, v. Brompton
Bbatton (Wrockwardine), vii. 199 ; viii.

27, 88, 86-87
Bredeford, v. Bradeford
Breidden Hill, The, vii. 86, 43, 44
Brerlawe (Westbuiy), vii. 170, 171
Bretchel (Alberbury), vii. 104, 106, 114,

123, 126, 127
Brotword (Wilts), 311
Brewood, 43

Brictwastre (Herefordshire), 110
Bridgnorth, 12, 268, 276, 287 ; vii. 181,

237, 288, 811-2 ; viii. 221
Brighthampton (Oxfordshire), vii. 857
Brimpton (Berkshire), viii. 103, 111, 112
Brissett Priory (Suffolk), vii. 284 », 366
Bristol, vii. 232, 284
Brittany, Little, 851

272

119 D£X OF PLAGX8.

Brizham (Beronshire), m 87

Broad BlusBdon (Wilts), Tii. 70

Broadstone, 80, 845

Brockton (Marches of Wales), vii. 25

Brockton Grange (Sheriff Hales), 827 his,

828, 881 ; YU. 245, 321 «; Tiii.249 n
BsocxTOir (near Longford), rii. 199;

▼iiL 102, 109, 112; Tiii. 125-6
Brockton (near Sutton Maddock), ylL 868
Brockton (near Wenlook), 845
Bbokoboft (Eenlqr), 88, 91, 846
Brome (Ellesmere), Til. 282
Bromfield, 836
Bromlawe, viL 25, 121
Bromley Regis (Staffordshire), vii. 55,

855, 857-860, 361-2
Bbomptok, 3, 46, 149, 169-170, 172,

342,346
Bronrotpoll, vii. 84, 35, 44, 45
Bboome (Lydley), 3, 24d-4, 346
Brug, 112, 271 ; viii 154, e. Bridgnorth

Castle, TiL 9, 24 ; Tiii.265

Brogel (Torkshire), 856
Bromfield (Herefbrdshiro), viii. 267-271
Bng-Lawton (Cheshire), yii. 346.
BtniDWAS, 8, 4, 817-336, 836
BuiLDWAB Abbey, 4, 75, 108, 121,319-

336, 859, 360 ; Tii. 156, 246, 320-825,

828, 830-334, 336, 888-9, 863 ; TiiL

44, 211, 215, 249
BuiLDWAS, Little, 325, 327-8, 882,

320-326
Chuboh ; 332, vii. 324-6 ;

▼iii. 6
Builth Castle, Tii 26
Bulregg or Bulerugge (Condorer), 104,

174, 187 i>
Bulthej, Tii. 44

BUKTIKOBBAXE, vlii 61-62

BurfaoU (in which Stoke-Qmige),Tiii 69 «,

202 », 204 »
Buxlaaghton, riii. 280, 283
Burleton, yii. 106
Borne (Lichfield), 828-9
Barton Abbey, Tii 221
Barton (Wenlock), 802-8, 846
Burtnne, 2, v, Boreton
Barwarton, 215 ; Tiii. 4
Borwood or Borywood (Condover), 20
Borywood Bosc (Condorer), 14, 18, 208,

289, 337, 842

BxJBHMOOB Hatb, 888, 841-848, 844,

893
Bitttbbt (Edgmond), Tii. 199 ; viii- 27,

29, 30, 36, 129
Buttington, Tii 45 •
Byland Abbey (Yorkshize), 821 m

0.

Calder Abbey (Comberiand), 321 n
Caldone (Staffordshire), 328
Caleston (Wfltshire), Tii 70
CALViHOToy (Bolas), 806 ; Tiii 266, 269,

274-276, 277
Cantilupe (Normandy), 286
Cawtlop, 1, 2, 46, 179, 286-290, 842,

346; Tii. 47, 104; viii. 268
Caradoo Hill, The, 836
Cabdbbtow, Tii. 3, 103-4, 106, 109, 111-

U3

^:— Chapel, Ul-lld

Cardington, 4, 239, 242, 244, 836, 345
Chnrch and Pariah, 228-4^

243

Carhow Nonneiy (Norfolk), Tiii. 9 n

Carlefli (Norfolk), Tii 240

CarrechoTa Castle, Tiii 247

Carrickfergos, Tii. 74

Oietle-Acre Prioiy (Norfolk), vii, 218

Castle Ashby (Northants), 276

Castle Prome (Herefordshire), 76, 811-

316
Castle Isabel (t. e. Shrawardine), vii. 896
Castle PolTerbatoh, 846, v. PidTCrbatcfa
Caxjs, 265 ; Tii 8, 6-46, 66, 105, 110,

132-8

, Barony of, 886 ; Tii 8-187 pastim

Castle, Tii. 6-8, 78, 107

Haye, 255

, St. Maboabbt'8 Chapel at, Tii

81, 39, 42-48
Ohxa, Pays de (Normandy), Tii 6
CaT^rswall (Staffordshire), Tiii. 43
Catwtok (Bolas), Tiii 16, 266, 268-^,

271, 278-4
Cerlecote (C%arlcott), Tii. 202
Cerliiitone, v, Cherrington
Cebutovb, yii 196 j Tiii 198, 263-4
Chabnor, or Chadnor (Herefordsh.), 82
Chablton (near Shawboiy), Tii 194,

199, 202 ; Tin. 144, 161, 198, 219, 228,

260-262, 268, 264

INDEX OF PLACSS.

293

Gharlton, Well-meadow, in, viii 151
Gharnes (Staffordshire), viii. 4A
Chatvord (Oondoyer), 19, 20, 27
Chatwall, 87, 239, 837, 846s ▼»• 974;

▼in. 283
Cfaelmiok, 386, 846
Ghenelie, 2, «. Eenkj
Cheney Longrille, 170, 291, 836 n
Oheping Norton, viL 254^ «. Norton
Cherleton (Shawbnry), «. Chariton
Cherieton (Suiaex), yii 269'
Cherleton (Wzookwardine), vii. 184;

Tin. 178
Cherlton St. Elstrud (Preston aubbalda)^

Tiii 219, 219 n, 284, 261, 264
Cherrington, yiL 199, 864, 864, 868;

YiiL 14, 601, 65, 196^00, 864
Chbsswxll (Longford), yiii. 28> 102,

106-108, 112, lis

G«ng8, vin. 118, 824

Chester, vii. 26 ; yni 221

, Foregate oi, 828-9

Chesterton (Warwickshire), 269
Chesthiu:., YiL 199 ; yiii. 62, 197, 200*

204
Cheswardine, vii. 200; viii H 16, 18
Church, vii, 298, 297 ; viiL

93»148
Chetton Chnich, 77
Chxtwtkd, Til. 199 ; viii. 81*91
, Chtjbch and Parish o^ fiii.

82, 91-96, 98
, — ^ Fee o^ Tin. 82, 91, 96

Childs Eboaix, vii 199, 276$ Tiii. 7-

20

Chitboh, Tiii. 18, 18-20, 22

dnlton (Atoham), 171-178, 342, 846
Chirbniy, 261-2 ; TiL 87

Caiuroh, Tii 88

Hnndzed, 118 ; tu. 26, 82^ 84»

122
Chonlton (Lydbnry North), tu. 141
Christ Chnrch Priorj (London), Tiii*

211 «
Chnrch-Eaton (Btaffoordahixe), TiiL 103,

108-9, 111, 112

, Chnich ot, Tiii. 104-6

Chnrch-Lawfbrd (Warwicksh.), TiL 207
Church-Preen, 7, 217, 802, e. Preen
CSiurch-PulTerbntoh, 202, 840, 846^ «.
PulTerbatch

Church Stretton, 6, 67,60, 168, 249,886;

Tiild9
Citeaux Abbey (Burgundy), 820-1, 826 1» ;

327, 880-383 '

CUurrauz Abbey, 329
OaTerlej, 167, 801 • ; Tii. 184 •
aee Forest, The, 386
Qeobury Mortimer, 5
aoobury North, TiiL 76, 77, 79, 80
Cura Oiuiras, TiiL 62
CUpston (Notts), TiL 228 II
Clotley, V. Cluddley
auddley, TiL 814 ; Tiii. 277, 278.
Clun, 62, 248 ; TU. 160, 249, 297; TiiL

88
, Barony o^ tiL 161-2, 164, 288, 241,

262-3

CasUe, TiL 288, 262-8, 269.

Church, Tii. 162

-, Deanery of, 162

Coahnore Stirchley), TiiL 102, 120
Coates (Batiinghope), 169, 160
CockesweQ (Berks), 856
Cokihester, TiiL 218

Prioiy, Tii. 284 n

Cold Hatton, TiiL 68, 197, 222 for, 286,

239
Cold-Norton Prioiy, Tii. 246, «. Norton
Coleham (Shrewsbury), 863, 867 ; Tii. 292
Combermere Abbey, 321 ; TiiL 7, 12, 14^

62, 66, 202-4, 221
Comley, 242, 846
Compostella, Shrine of St. James at, 292 ;

TiL 261
CoKDOTiB, 2, 3, 8^3, 61, 68, 186, 246,

800-1, 887, 889-40, 842, 846

Brook, 60, 174-6

Chtooh, 27-88, 46, 117,

188, ^46, 266, 296

Mill, 26, 27, 66

C(nnK)yxB Huin>]tBD,l-8,9-847iya«*m,

847 It, 860; nL 200
Coneton, 70 ; TiL 224
CoNiSHiLL (Chetwynd), TiiL 86, 91
Coolmere (EUesmere), 73
Corfham, 64^ 65, 336
Corfton, 18, 336, 840

Wood, 338, 845

Corfton (Somersetshire), Tii. 71
CoBSXLU, Tii. 198 ; Tiii. 24-26
Coefoid,828

294

INDEX OF PLACES.

OOTSB (Oaus), Tii. 46
Cotes (Batlinghope), o. Cofttes.
Cotes (Boshbury), 845 ; Tiii. 109
Cotes (Stafford), yii. 892 n, 898, 896
Cotes (Shrewsbuiy), v. Coton Hill
CoTHBROOTB, 8, 21, 109, 166, 198» 240,

254, 258-9, 260, 261-266, 845
Coton Hill (Shrewsbury), 868, 868 ; vii.

292, 892 n
CoTTin), 8, 8, 69-8O9 90, 185 ; rii. 224^

936, 252, 254

Brook, 8, 106, 107

Chtbch, 77-80, 92, 96, 188,

147, 219, 286, 280, 817 ; vii. 250, 824,

837

Mills, 69, 70

Coiird BUT Dire (Normandy), Tii. 210
Coutanoe (Normandy), tU. 181
Crabwell (Cheshire), yiu. 228
Crackington (Cornwall), yii. 157, 158
Crannford Church (Lichf. Dioc.), 81
Crees (Lee Botwood), 248
Cebssaob, 8, 74-5, 77, 217, 308-817,

836-7, 845

Chitbch, 77, 817

, The Lady Oak, 809

Wood, 889

Oressewall Brook, yiii. 144, 250 n
Cresswell Priory (Herefordsh.), vii. 92
Cresswell (Staffordshiro), Tiii. 27, 80, 88,

84 i»
Criggion,yiL 45
0ristesache,*2, v. Creesage
Cronkhill, 171-178, 842, 846 ; viii. 242
Crosa-Hill (near Hinstock), viii. 24, 93
Csow-Mbolb, 848, 869 60, 861
Croxden Abbey (Staffordshire), Tiii 68,

64
Crack Meole, tIL 140, 148, 180, 191-2
Cruckton, vii. 140, 180, 191-2
Cradgington (High Ercall), Tiii. 58, 127-

129, 152-8, 275
Cuddesdon (Sheriff Hales), 831; Tii.

28611; Tiii. 249, 249 II
Culmayre (Stirohley), v, Coalmore
Culmington, 886
Culsis «. Corselle

Culvestan Hundred, 836, 347 n ; Tiii. 250
Cumbes Bosc (Acton Bumell), 128
Coneet, 2, v. Cound
Cutteston, 0. Cuddesdon

Damieta, Tiii 138

Bawlxt MAavA, 800, 801; Tii flOl,

855 s Tiii. 41-46
Chubch, Tii 849;

Tiii 46
DAWunr Pabta, Tii 199, 840, 344, 346,

849-860, 351
Dawley (Middlesex), tu. 14^ 15, 40
Dean Forest (Gkmo.), 191 ; Tii 150
Bee, The BiTor, Tii 236, 292
Dendor, Land of, 64
DendoTer, Tii 78
Detton, Tiii 47, 96
Deythur Hundred (MontgomaryBhire),Tii

8,98
Biddlebmy, 94, 886, 845 ; Tiii 116

Church, Tii 89

Dinohope, 836, 840, 845

jyjXTBJLL, Tii. 1, 2, 8, 195) 196-7 ; Tiii

219, 222
DoDicora (Childs BroaU), Tiii 7, 18 «,

16-17, 66
DoioniroTOir (Wrozeter), Tii 815 ; Tui

281, 282, 288-4
Donnington Wood (Lilleshall), Tiii 214^

215, 224, 228-9, 281-2, 241
Dordiester (Oxfordshire), Tiii 211
Dore Abbey, 826

Donnington (Henfordsh.), 110, 112, 114
DoxBDrcKTOir (CondoTer), 20-22, 52,

837,840-842; Tiii. 266
DoTer Castle, Tii 233
DownrON (Upton Magna), 102 ; Tii 244,

276-278, 289, 292,298^ 892 ; Tiii 18
Drayton in Hales, tu. 143 ; Tiii 178
Dbatton Abbots (Wroxeter ; — ^now Dry-
ton), Tii 815 ; Tiii 261, 281, 282-8
Droitwioh (Worcestershire), Tii 236
Dublin, Tii 74
, St. Maiy*8 Abbey, 325 «, 827-

832
Dudley (Staffhrdshire), Tii. 283
Dunbrothy Abbey, 828
Dunoot (Uokington), Tiii. 287
Dunham Magna (Norfolk), Tii. 219
Dunham on the Hill (Cheshire), Tii. 235
Dunstaple Priory, 355-6
Durham, Tii. 74

INDBX OP PLACES.

295

B.

Eardisley (Eeiefordahire), 84
Sasihope, 102, 836, 846

Church, 77

Wood, 837

EaaiwaU, 345 ; yiii. 109

East Winch (Norfolk), rm. 9 i>

Eaton Bray (BedfordBhire), 368 n, 866-^j

Tii. 121

Eaton CovsTAirTDrB, nL 199; tuL 1-7
Ohapbl, vii. 90,

337 ; Tiii 5-7
Eaton (HerefordBhire), 197
Eaton, Little, v. Little Eaton
Eaton Mascott, 8, 41, 43, 46-^, 102-

108, 277, 289, 842, 346 ; tu. 276

Mux, 106-108

Eaton (near Norwich), viL 218
Eaton under Heyirood, 836, 846
Satov upon Tbbk, Tiii. 80, 66 ; Tiii. 62,

68, 64-68
Ebrington (Glonoestenhire), Tii. 868
Eodeahall, 381

Bdbaldinesham, 2, «. Edghold
Bddestan (now Edderton), 266; tiL 11,

104,298
Edeneston (Shnwardine), Tii. 259
Edgbold (near Shrewsbozy), 8, 5, 214,

860, 867 ; TiiL 287
Edgbdld (Withiford), Tii 106, 282
Edge (Ford), Tii 180, 189, 191-2
Edgmond, 11; Tii 140, 188, 190, 201 ;

Tiii 84

Church, Tiii 60, 118, 180

Edgton, 836, 337

Edinton or Edlington (YorkBhire), Tii 74^

74 », 76
Edmnnstnne, Tii. 226
Sdwardesleg, Tii 189
Eiminstre, 2, v. Smfftny
EuJZBTOV (Chetwynd), Tiii. 87, 98-84
BDeemere, 11, 14 ; Tiii 14

Cb0il0,Tii24

Elrenor, Park o( Tii 20

ElTein,14

Emstxst, 3, 149 Mf, 170-178 ; Tiii 246

Bnohmarah, 239, 846

Bnadon, Tii 262

Brebeldon, Tii. 224

Eshelay, Tii 68

Espeleye (Ford), Tii 192

Etone, 2, v. Little Eaton

Etone^ 2, v. Eaton Mascx>tt

Eudon Bumell, 128 ; Tiii. 87

ETelith (Shiflhal), vii 106 ; Tiii 88, 102,

114
Exeter, Tii 29, 160
Exfords Gbeen or Egeford, 21, 848
Bye Farm (near Leighton), Tii 199, 886,

387 A; Tin. 2
Ettok (Alberbury), Tii. 3, 96, 120-1279

128, 174, 176, 179, 180
Ettok (on SeTem), 170, 171 ; Tii 199,

236, 314r-6 ; Tiii 279-284

, Chapel of, Tii 316 ; TiiL 282

Eytoit on thb Wbaldhoobs, tu. 199,

350 ; Tiii. 26-86, 40, 66

Chtjboh, Tiii 86-86, 260 o

Byton Stokee, Tii'^122, 123, «. Byton

(Alherbnry)

F.

FaibiiBT (Pontesbmy), 167 ; Tii 8, 180,

144
Fairwell Nunneiy (Staffordshire), 819
Falaiae, Tii 210 ; Tiii 216
Fanoott (Glouoestenihire), Tii 358
Famborough Church (WarwickBhire),Tiii

228
Feckenham (Woroestersh.), 166; Tiii 240
Felhampton, 846
Fenne (Eerefordahire), 191, 194
Feme (Herefordshire), 191
Fits, 170; Tiii 3, 4

Flashbrook (Staffordahiie), Tiii 96, 97 «
Fontevrauld Abbey, 356 n
FoBD, 11 ; Tii 1, 2, 8, 179, 180-194

Chapbx, Tii 192-194

— HuNDBBD, 166 n, 167 ; Tii 1-4
Forest (Westbmy), Tii 48
Forton, Tii 22, 23, 37
Forton (Montford), Tii 262
Forton (Staffordshire), Tiii 96, 97 o
Foxoote6eld (Oxfordshire), 236
Freseley (Warwickshire), Tiii 222, 228
Frilford (Berkshire), Tii 868
Fbodbslet, 2, 8, 64, 137, 291-296,

837, 339, 340, 345
Chttboh, 296-6

296

INDEX Of FLACB8.

FrodeBlej Haje, 62, 182

Hill, 885

Frome Castle, v, CwstUd Frome
FuLwooD (Aoton Buznall), 124, 187-8,

805
Furnaw Abbej (Lanoashiie), 821

0lSM8ioir (Leighton), viL 829, 883,

886-7 ; Tiii 210
GfttosdBD, Til. 20

Gbtten (RaUioghope), 165-6 ; yu. 1
Qayton (Staffordshiro), yii. 174
Geddington (Northanta), yii 19, 160
OippOLiB (Eenley), 91^2, 840
aiaasekgr, 84
Gloucester iJbbef , 191
GK)dwyne800^ YiL 80
GoLDur^, 2, 8, 80 n, 83, 88k &7*102 ;

▼iL280; yiii 169
G0LD8TONB (Childs Eroall), Tiii 14^ 18
GovBAiii) or Goose Hill (Condover), 20,

27
Oordowr, The, vii. 44, 87, 98, 128
Gorstes, Le (Gnidgington), yiiL 275
Gordior, Oyer, yii 87
Gorthor, If ether, yii. 87, 89
Grammont Abbey (Limoiisin), yii 90, 92^

96-7
Gratwich (Staffordshire), yiii. 84
Gxeat Ban (Staffordahire), 115
Great Preen, v. Church Preen
Great Sutton, 886

Greenlowe (Derbyshire), yiii 222, 228
Gretton,80 n, 81, 82 »,83-4^ 886, 840, 846
Grinsi]!, yii 281, 282, 298 ; yiii 276

Chapel, yiii. 146, 148

Grosmont Phory (Yorkshire), yii 92
Guildfleld (Dioc. Assay.), yii 91
GuUedon, 170« yiii 150

H.

Habhibubt, yii 88k 46, 47-60» 106-7

Ohubgh, yii 46, 49-50

Habbedey Office^ yii 1

Hach, 2, V, Oaks

mpxOT, yii 199, 862-da2« 868, 866,

867; yiii39
Chapel, yii 862

Hadley Wood, yii 853

Hadnall, 88, 89 ; yii. 270

Saia, 48 i>

Hales, yii. 206, «. Sheriff Hales

Halford, 335, 336

Halghton, yii 106, 9, Hanghton

Halisley, yii. 94

Halston (Ford), yii 180, 191

Hams, The (Bmstrey), 178

HaoestaneshuU, 0. Anstaneahill

Hanmer Church (Flintshire), yii 808

Hanton (Marches of Wales), yii 25

HurwooD (Great), yii 1, 2, 8, 85, 51,
117019

Chapbi^ yii 119

Hanwood, little, yii 1, 140, 180, 192

Hardwiok (HadnaU), yii 289, 297

Haxgraye, yii. 84, 35 iw,45, 128

Harlescot, yii. 805

Hablet, 2, 3, 220, 280-287» 267, 286-
7, 341, 343, 345

Chubch, 77 IS 92, 286-7

Wood, 339

Hariithe Wood (Langky), 148

Haiutagb, 23, 71, 78-77»78 n, 811, 845,
yii 254

Harrington, 125 •; yii 865; yiii 154^
156, 159, 166, 174r-6, 178, 180-182

Hartwell (Staffordshire), yiii 86

Haaton (HadnaU), 88

Hatalles, 42, o. Hothalles

Hatton (Eaton-under-Heywood), 845

Hatton Hyneheath, e. High Hatton

Hatton (ShiiEhal), 828, 332

Haughhovd Abbet, 28, 34-36, 50, 56-
7, 68, 73, 98-9, 102^ 106-8, 164r^i
181, 202, 210, 224r-5, 227, 24&-9, 251,
255-6, 258-266 ; yii 124-5, 222, 232,
235-6, 243-4, 255-6, 260, 265-282
pMiim, 282-808, 305-6, 808, 811-
819, 353, 368, 865-6, 874, 876, 878-9,
882-385 ; yiii 54, 55, 81, 91, 205,
288, 262, 276, 286-288
Chapel of St. Anne in, yii 803
Chapel of St. BCaiy in, yii 281 «

Haughmond, Forest of; 313j yii 296,
307 ; yiii. 135, 221, 230

■ Hennitage, yii 285

Hill, yii 283

HAU0HTON (HadnaU), 42; yii. 106, 199,
280-282, 296 ; yiii 80, 285*288

INDEX OF PLACES.

297

Haughton (Staffordshire), viii. 80

HaTering (Essex), 140

Hawebley (Acton Bumell), 3, 109, 148-

161,206
Haycbubt, or Hawkhurst, Haye of, 389,

343, 844, 393
Haj, The (near Erdington), 85, 89 f»
Haye, The (Cans), vii. 20, 36, 36 1»
Hayes, The (Loton), vii. 106, 109, 110
Heath, Upper andKether (Worthen),Tii 1
Hekenhal (Qy. Pekenhal?), yii. 93
Helde, The (Boreton), 177, 184
Hdegh Osstle, vu. 369
Hkiahaw (Stoke-upon-Tem), viii. 63,

69, 201, 202 n
Hem (Cans), yii. 86, 37, 43
HSNCOTT (Shrewsbury), 348, 868-870 ;

Tii 197, 306 ; viii. 219, 222, 239
Henley (Acton Scott), 345
Henley (Stanton Lacy), viii 256
Herberbury (Warwickshire), 269
Herberts Meadow (Longnor), 57
Herburton (Devonshire), vii. 36, 37
Hereford, 13

Cathedral, viL 62, 141

Diocese, 87, 88

Heroesse^ 172, 173
Hertilande (Devonshire), vii. 71
Hewe, or Aqua, yii. 267, v, Bea
Heyford (Westbury), yii. 58 ; viii. 256
Hide Abbey (Hants), yii. 150
Hidesland, viL 297
Higford, yii. 242
High ErcaU, viL 201, 202, 288, 354, 365,

398 ; viu. 128, 152, 199
Church and Parish, vii. 281,

881 ; yiiL 55, 58, 237, 260 », 263
High Hatton, vii. 354r-5, 357-8, 362-

364; viii 58
Highwood, 338

Hilderston (Staffordshire), viii. 87
Hill Wotton (Warwickshire), viii. 155,

155 n
HuTBTOOK, yii 199 ; yiiL 20-24, 44

Chttbch, yiiL 21, 22-24

Hinton (Ford), yii. 180
Hochel-prene, yii. 45
Hocklyth, v. Huggelith
Hodnet, yiL 58, 59 ; viiL 255, 256

Church, viiL 257

, Fee of, viii. 257, 260

VIll.

Hogintou, 280

Holebech (Lincolnshire), viii. 12

Holgate, Barony of, 193, 195, 238, 242

Castle, 134, 136, 222, 229

Church, vii. 338

Holm Cultram Abbey, vii. 224

Holm (Staffordshire), viii. 206, 207

Hohne (Norfolk), vii. 219 ; viii. 223

Holt Paben, 7, 217, 221, 224-227

Houington (Lilleshall), viu. 29, 2246w,228

Hoo, The (Condoyer), 26, 67

Hope Bowdler, 72, 258-9, 331, 336, 340,

345 ; vii. 173

Wood, 338

Hope (Chirbury), yiL 45 »
Hopetune (Herefordshire), 191
Hopley, vii. 289

Hopton (Hodnet), viii. 59, 60, 68, 69
Hopton (Staffordshire), viii. 110, v.

Thene
Horton, or Harton (Eaton-under-Hqy-

wood), 345
HoBTOV (Pontesbury), vii. 30, 187-8,

144
Horton (Wellington), viL 199, 392 j viii.

27, 29, 88-40, 101, 222-3, 257
Hosberton, v. Osbaston
HoTHALLBS (Langloy), 42, 127, 142,

146, 151, 345
Houghton (Leicestersh.), vii. 103, 103 n,

106
HowLB (Chetwynd), vii. 199 } viii. 7, 13,

16, 18, 83, 84, 86, 87, 91-92, 223
Huelbec, 4, 119, e. Welbatch
Huggehth Wood (PulyerbatcU), 190, 199,

200,265
HuoHLET, 3, 4, 81, 802-808, 337;

viii. 275

Chttboh, 303-4, 807-8

Hulemore, viL 18, 65

Hull (Staffordshire), yiiL 77, 79

Hull (Stoke-upon-Tem), yiii. 63

Hundeslit, 4 bu, 108-^, v. Stapleton

Hundrethale (near Salop), viii. 129, 130

Hungerford, 345

Hungry Hatton (Childs Ercall), viii. 14

BjTSKiSGtTOTSf (Upton Magna), 89; viL

26, 278-4
Hunstanton (Norfolk), yii. 219 ; viii. 10

Church, yii. 293. 302 ; viii. 10 «

Hurst (Westbury), vii. 43

38

298

INDEX or PLACES.

Eirde (¥ri]tdiireX ▼n- 251-2
Knigfatle^ (StaffordBhire), Wn. 78, 79

Idbioy (Ox&rUuk), 235

IdaaU (ghiffiial), Tin. 44, 230-1

Chmdi and Parish, tu. 349, 372-

873; TiiL 46, 123, 227
Igfatfield, TiiL 197
Jngettn (Staffordshire), tuL 8*1, 87
Ipatones (Staflbrdflhire), TiiL 86, 87
Irelaiid, 113 ; TiiL 63
iMlham (Cambridgeshire), tu. 237, 238
ISOM Bribgs, tIL 199, 385 ; viiL 235,

255, 262-264, 265-6, 268-271, 287

Chapel, TiiL 263-4

iTenbroc (Derbyshire), 328
Iweme, Tiii. 103, 108-9, v, Tweme

J.

Jolwlhidl, TiL 28, o. ToAleton

Kdemet, TiL 32
Kemberton, tiL 263, 370
Eemesey (Staffordshire), Tiii. 164
Eempston (Norfolk), TiL 218
Kemton or Keneton (Caus), TiL 44
Kenewike (Elleemere), Tii. 282
Kenilworth Castle, TiL 104

Prioiy, 319 ; TiL 221 », 389

Ebvlit, 8, 75, 80-92, 195-6, 235, 307,
836-7, 341, 845

CnintOH, 77 n, 92

Ken (North Wales), 13, 160 ; TiL 184
KeeteTen (Lincolnshire), TiL 246
Ketebj (Lincolnshire), 243
Ketlet (Lee-Oomery), Tii. 341, 845,

848

Kidderminster, 12

Kilpeo (Herefordshire), 191, 197-8, 201

Castle, 191

f Chapel of St. BCary in, 191

Kyngor, tiL 224

•, Church of St. DaTid at, 191

Kinardesl^h Castle, TiL 55
KnonniSLET, TiL 199, 392 ; TiiL 126-1319

241

Church, Tiii. 104, 130-131

Kinnerton (Wentnor), 78, 331 $ Tii.

102-3

Lake House (Roshbory), 845 «
Lake (Westbniy), tiL 43, 60
Lambom (Wiltshire and Beiks), tiL 70,

71,76
Landich Hundred (Norfolk), TiL 250
Langham (Norfolk), tiL 217
liAiroLET, 2, 3, 7, 18, 41-2. 122-129, 133,
140-147, 151, 336^ 340-1, 846 ; TiiL
241

Chapel^ 147

Lamguie Woody Z3fl

Lantbonj Abbey (near GlonoeBter), tiL

145,153
Larden,345

Lastee, or Lastree (Herefordsh.), 196-198
LaTinton (Wilts), Tii. 254
Lawuet, Tii. 199 ; Tiii. 27, 88, 87-88,

40, 99^01, 114
Lawley Hill, The, 52, 835
Lawton, 105
Lea, and Lea Cross (Pontesbmy), tIL 129,

180
Ledbury (Heref.), 143 ; TiL 142
Ledwich, Upper, Tii. 242
Lee Botwood, 3, 50-52, 55, 61, 63, 153,
166 n, 237, 242, 244-249, 251, 256,
260, 340, 342 ; Tii. 295

Chapel, 28, 50, 55, 246,

247, 249
Lee Brockhirst, 1, 287
LEE-Gk)HEBT, TiL 199, 889-849, 850-

851 ; Tiii. 44
Lee (near Ellesmere), Tii. 208
Lee (near Pimhill), 88 ; TiL 270, 278-4 ;

TiiL 219, 219 n, 254
Lee (near Pontesbury), TiL 140, 189, 192
Lee, The (Childs Ercall), TiiL 14
Lee, The (Staffordshire), Tiii. 79
Lege (Lee Brockhirst), 1
Lege (Longnor), 2, 6, 48-9, 51
Leicester, TiL 236
Leigh (near Worthed), Tii. 41

Castle, Tii. 41 n

liEiGHToy, 882; Tii. 199, 826-839;
TiiL 210

INDEX OF PLACES.

299

LsmHToir Chfbch, Tii.382, 837-389;

Till. &

MiU, vii. 826, 330-1, 835-6

Leighton (Welsh-Pool), vii. 86, 38 «, 46 »

Lenteurde Hundred, 386

Leonards Lee, Tiii 81, 84, 44

Lewes (Sussex), vii 83, 255

Leye, v. Lee

Lejtton Grange^ 87

Lichfield, 320

Castle, 820

Cathedral, 29, 30, 45-6, 319,

820, 824 ; Tii. 332

y Condorer Chantry in,

30,31

y St. Andrew's Chantry

in, 47
LiLLESHALl) Tii. 199 ; yiii 210-
Abbey, 271, 838, 868-870 ;

Tii. 78, 92, 194-197, 308, 868, 390;

viii. 6, 91, 113, 117, 159, 212-227,

257-8,262

Chuboh, viii. 227-229

Maitob, viii. 229-231

Wood, viii. 221, 280

limerick, vii. 151

Lmcoln, vii. 150, 234

linley (Bishop's Castle), 166, 297, 835;

vii. 298
Lintune (Herefordshire), 191
Litcham, «. Lytcham
Little Bolas (Peplow), viii. 255
Little Brag, 101, 287
Little Drayton, viii. 51
Little Eaton, 8, 6 «, 106, 278-280,

284.286, 361

Chapel, 285

Little Ercall, 47

Little Haitbvood, 116 ; vii. 135

Little Ness, vii. 208

Little Preen, 7, v. Holt Preen

LitUe Badley Wood, 297

Little BoBsal, 861

Little Sutton, 336

Little Withipobd, vii. 199; viii 69,

71-75, 78, 139, 148-4, 145
Lizard QraDge, viii. 212, 214^ 222

Wood, viii. 230

Londsborough (Yorkshire), vii. 140, 146,

147
L0NQANB7, viii. 238-234

Long Compton (Warwickshire), 272 n
LONGDEN, 72, 111 », 126, 156, 198-9,
274, 886, 842, 845 ; vii. 8, 4, 8, 156-

170

Wood, 340; vii 156

LONGDON ON Tebn, 332 ; vii 199 ; viii.

219, 222, 234-237, 241

Chapel, viii. 236-7

LoNGPOBD, vii. 199 ; viii 101-114, 126

Chubch, viii 104, 113-114

Longford (Moreton Say), viii 52, 203 n,

204,204«
Longford, The (a Boman Boad), viii. 202

n,208f>
Long Forest, The, 87, 113, 123, 260-1,

298, 805, 335-347
Long Mountain, The, vii 43
Long-Mynd Hill, The, 162, 165-6, 247-8,

264, 297, 335, 341, 845
LoNGNEB (upon Severn), 68 », 207, 361 ;

vu. 199, 201 ; viii. 79, 172, 206-210
LoNGNOB, 3, 6, 26, 27, 85, 48-69, 158,

197-8, 837, 339, 340-348, 345; viii.

120

Chapel, 69

Mill, 48, 50, 54, 55, 57, 58

Longslow, viii. 197

Long Stanton, 226, 248

Longville (Eaton under Heywood), 345

Loppington, viii. 197

Church, vii. 365, 867

Loton, vii 8, 33, 60, 108, 106, 109-110
Louendene Wapentac (Line), vii 228 n
Loughton (aee HiU), vii. 109
Lubstree Park (Lilleshall), viii 29, 258,

25811
Lushcott, 345
Lutwych, 336, 345
Lydbury North, 386
Lydham, viii. 4

— Church, vii 298

Lydlet Heys, 8, 4, 54, 61, 64, 287-243,

244, 247, 345
Lydley Bosc, 53

Lye Haye, The, 207, 240-242 ; vii. 75
Lye (MorviUe), 22 n
Lytcham (Norfolk), 273 ; viii. 9, 271
Lyth, 108
Ltth, Gbeat, 9, 20, 22-24, 119, 210,

342-8, 345
Lyth Hill, The, 335

300

INDEX OF PLACES.

Ltth, Little, 20, 24-25, 342-8, 846
Ltthwood, 108, 178, 187, 207-210, 840,
343-4, 346-7

M.

Machline in Kyle (Scotland), vii. 226
Maer (Staffordshire), yiii. 80
ICAiLHirBST, YiL 182, 134-6
Mauns Leb (Lee Gomery), vii. 846,

348-9

Chapel, vii. 348-9

Malpas (Cheshire), 7 n
Marcham (Berkshire), vii. 358
Marchamley, vii. 188
Marches of Wales, rii. 8, 212, 257
. Markeaton (Derbyshire), vii. 345-ai7
Market Drayton, Parish of, viii. 51
Marlborough, vii. 151 ; viii. 128
Marrington (Chirbuiy), vii. 133
Marshbrook, 843

Marsh, The (Acton Scott), 340, 345
Marsh Manor (Wenlock), 267
Mabsh (Westbury), vii. 3, 123-126, 127-

129
Marstley (Habberley), vii. 46

Park, vii.' 46

Marton, 292-294

Maaelcford (Sussex), vii. 149

Matefelun, vii. 161

Maurdine (Herefordshire), 191

Mavesyn Ridware (Staffordshire), vii. 388

May Prioiy, viL 224

Mecheyn Iscoit, 60, 60 », 64, 64 n

MedUcott, 166, 836, 341, 845 ; vii. 23 n

Mees, The River, vui. 7, 9, 196.

Meeson (Solas), viii. 268-9, 276-6

Meisy (Normandy), 109

Mellington, Lower (Chirbury), vii. 171

Melrose Abbey, vii. 224-226

Menai Straits, 131

Moole, 155 ; vii. 30

Meolb Brace, 214, 286, 336, 345, 348,

360-359

CnmcH, 367-8

Parish, 212

, St. Mary's Fee in, 358-9

Meole Brook, 363-4

Mere (Staffordshire), viii. 153, 151-

Micklewood (Longnor), 51, 61, 67 ; vii.

294

Mid- Aston (Oxfordshin), viii. 103, 108-

109, 111, 118
Middle, vii 205, 206 ; viii. 12
Middlehope, 886, 342, 846
Middleton Higford, vii. 242 ; tiiL 63

Wood, 888

Mienes (Sussex), vii. 146

Mileham (Norfolk), Honour o^ vii, 218,

214, 217-219, 238 «, 249, 260
MilUchope, 71, 886, 840

, Upper and Lower, 846

Milmneese (Staffordshire), viii. 206, 207
MiNBTEBLET, vii. 3, 6, 8, 22, 23, 28, 84-

86, 37-39, 46-47, 67, 110, 116-7

Chapel, vii. 47

Monentuny vii. 112

Monk Meolb, 328-9, 348, 869-3609

361
Monk Moor, vii. 201
Montford, vii. 253

— Bridge, vii 196 ; viii. 78

Montgomery, 14 ; vii. 11, 22, 23, 55, 204
Castle, 13, 57, 120 ; vii. 7,

68, 54s 66 ; viii. 204
, Honour of, 9, 109, 113,

119, 156 i», 233, 250, 252, 268, 262,
286 ; vii. 120, 121, 122, 169, 178, 175,
177-180 ; viii 196, 198, 202

Hundred, vii. 20

-, Woods of, vii. 184

Montgomeiyshire, vii. 1, 3

More (Linley), 297

More, The (Eardington), 85 1» ; vii. 66, 82

Moretain, Fief of (Normandy), 321

Moreton Corbet, vii. 101, 103, 106, 107,

200, 395 ; viii. 102, 114, 252
Chapel, viii. 183, 146-

148
Moreton, Fees and Honour of, vii. 160 n,

164
Moreton Say, viii. 61, 63 n, 97
Morf Forest, 335
Morton (Staffordshire), vii. 349 ; viii. 43,

44
Morville, 6

Church, viii. 146

Moaton, 120 bis, 197 ; vii. 54 «, 56, 58,

68
Mouland (Devonshire), vii. 166
Mount GUbert. (Tlic Wrekin), vui. 153
Mount Gilbert, Forest of, 91, 123,335,

INDEX OF PLACES.

301

364 ; yii. 291, 306, 354, 367, 392 ; Tui.

17, 101, 274, 280, 281
Muokleston, yii. 392
MucUewick (Chirboiy Hnndred), 297
Muleslage (HerefordBhire), 191
Mnlford (Little Ness), vii. 252, 256

Mill, vii. 256 », 257

MoUesgrere, 337
Munede, 336, 343
Mnneton, v, Myndtown
MimBlow, 841, 346

Hundred, 3, 4, 5, 6

Muieden, tIL 298

Murthereleg, vii. 20

Mutton (StaffordBhire), yiii. 84, 97

Muxton (Lilleshali), yiii. 224, 281, 282-

233.
Myndtown, 336-7, 342, 3445 yii. 393-395
, Bailiwick oi^ 343

Nagington, yii. 276, 289, 297 ; viii. 8,

9, 16, 17-18
Neen Savage, 108
Neen Sollars, 233
Neese, vii. 252

Nethercote (Habberley), vii. 49
Nbtlbt, 2, 3, 50, 52, 158, 297-8, 337,

340, 342, 346 ; vii. 351
Neyyn (North Wales), 131
Newa, vii. 291
Newbold (near Pitchford), 100, 101, 277-

278.
New Forest (Hants), 158
Newnham (Ford), vii. 140, 180, 189,

191-2
Newport, 11 ; vii. 189, 190, 365 ; viii. 97,

162, 223

, Church of, viii. 89

, Deanery of, viii. 58, 89, 131,

260
Newton (Brace Meole)
Newton (Ellesmere), vii. 282
Newton (Norfolk), vu. 218, 219
Newton (Pitchford), 106, 277-280, 286
Newton (Staffordshire), vii. 204, 207
Newton (Stottesden), 105
Newton (Westbury), vii. 51, 60
NoBOLD (Brace Meolo), 278, 346, 357
Nonetas (Brittany), 54

Norborough (Leioestersh.), vii. 74r-76, 76 »
Norbuiy (Staffordshire), 82, 193, 196-

198, 199 »
Nonnanton (Leicestershire), 114
North Molton (Devonshire), viii. 223
Northwood (Stottesden), 48, 106
Norton (Culmington), 345
NoEToy, Gbkat (Condover), 2, 3, 10,

300-302, 342, 346 ; viii. 42
Norton (Oxfordshire), vu. 243, 246 i»,

246, 249, 250, 254

Priory, vii. 245

Norton-under-Cannock (Staffordshire),

viii. 205, 207, 208
Norton (Wroxeter), vii. 266, 310, 311,

314-5, 318-320
Norwich Priory, vii. 217
Nostel Priory (Yorkshire), vii. 149, 284 n
Nox (Ford;, vii. 180, 191

O.

Oaken Ghites (Wombridge), vii. 370, 371
Oaks, 3, 166-169, 199
Oakwood (Acton Scott), 338 n
Oakwood (Cardington), 337
Oakwood (Myndtown), 342
Odenet Hundred, vii. 197, 200, 201-2
Offley, High (Staffordshire), viii. 79, 80
Okehurst (Stanton Hyneheath), 40
Oldbury, 276 ; viii. 2-4
Old Caynton, v. Caynton
Oldfields (Moreton Say), viii. 63 n
Ollerton (Stoke upon Tern), viii; 63, 68-

68

Onslow, 361 ; vii. 1, 2, 3, 130, 171-173

Onney, The, 344

Orleton (Criggeon), vii. 45

Obleton (Wellington), viii. 266, 268,

268 «, 269, 276-279
Orslow (Staffordsliire), viii. 103, 108-9,

110, 111
Osbaston (High Ercall), vii. 864
Osbaston (Leicestershire), 272 n
Oswestry, 153 j vii. 20, 205, 208, 239,

240, 242, 246, 252 ; viii. 92 n
Castle, 274 ; vii. 212, 213, 238,

241, 2^47-8, 219 «, 250, 253, 259, 356,
392

Church, vii. 205

Himdrod, vii. 331

302

INDBX OF PLACES.

Oswestry Mills, vli. 259

OvsBS, 1, 2, 8, 5, 291, 296-7

Overton Sawcey (Leices.), 272

Ovre, 2, v. Overs

Oxford, viL 161, 223, 287

Oximffi, or Exmes (Normandy), vii. 206

Oximin, The (Normandy), viL 203, 206,

210 ; viiL 126
Oxon (Shrewsbury), 368

P.

Paisley Priory, viL 216, 224-5
Palgrave, Ghreat and Little (Norfolk), vii.

218 «, 219
Panson (Ford), viL 180
Park (Herefordshire), 197
Pabx (Stoke-upon-Tem), viii. 63, 69
Partenay (Poitou), viii. 267
Patinton Handred, 336, 347 n
Patton, 336, 345

Pecton (Marches of Wales), viL 27
Pekenhall, vii. 93 ?, 95 &», 96
Pelton Abbey, viii. 216 n
Penhel (ComwaU), vii. 158, 163-^
PsPLOW, viL 199 ; viiL 125, 264r-257
— ^— Chafsl, viii. 256-7
Pereham (Sussex), vii. 149
Pemdon, or Perendon, viL 34, 35, 44-5,

128-9
Perton and Tresoot (Staffordshire), viii.

122, 123

Pbtbst (Stoke-upon-Tem), viii. 63, 69

Petworth, Honour o£^ viL 254

Pevensey Castle, viL 255

PiOKLESCOTT, 126, 166, 248-9, 251-2,

256-6, 260, 342, 345
Pickstock (Chetwynd), viiL 96, 98-9.9

Pickthom, 105, 180

PiiAON, vii. 199 ; viii. 84, 87, 95-99

Pimbrook, vii. 304-5, 308 n

Pimhill, vii. 94

. Hundred, 369

PiMLET,369; vii. 201,303-808; viu.

249

Mill, Vivary of, viL 279, 305,308

Piperinges (Sussex), vii. 222, 276, 289, 293
PiTCHPOEDi 2, 3, 97, 106, 130, 287-

284, 285, 337, 339, 342, 346
Church, 77 «, 268-9, 277,

278-284

PitQhford,Feeof;290
PixusT (Chetwynd), viii. 87, 94, 273
PiXLBT (Hinstock), viii. 28
Plaish, 299, 300, 336, 845

Wood, 337

Plas y Court, viL 115

Plealey (Ford), viL 180

Plumstead (Norfolk), vU. 238

Podford (Cold Hatton), viii. 200

Pole, or Powis, Castle, 61, 63

Pole (Welsh-Pool) Church, viL 44

Pole, Barony o^ vii. 98

Polelie, 4, v. Pulley

PoLiiCEBE or Pole, viL 8, 179-180,

189,191
Poleeworth Nimneiy (Warwickshire), viii.

104
Poling (Sussex), vii. 260
Polrebec, 3, v. Pulverbatch
PoNTESBUBT, 166, 189 ; vii. 3, 129-143,

144, 154r-5, 165, 170 ; viiL 259
Chuboh, 203 ; VU. 138-143,

192

Deanery, 162, 303 ; vii. 138

Pontesford, 189 ; viL 129, 180, 191-2

Pontesford, or Ponsert, Hill, viL 130

Posenhall, viL 321-323

Powis Castle, v. Pole Castle

Powis-Land, 63 ; viiL 77

Poynton, viL 199

Pkebn, G-beat, or Chtjboh, 4, 6, 220-

227, 387, 845

Chtjeoh, 223-4

Preen, Cell of, 221-2

Pbsen, Little, or Holt, 221-223, 224-

227,346
Prees, viii. 44
Presthope, 336, 345
Pbeston Boats, vii. 208, 264-5, 268-

271, 276
Weir, vii. 268, 275, 285,306fi;

viii. 24211
Preston Brockhurst, viL 200; viiL 72,

114, 142
Preston Ghibbalds, viL 197 ; viiL 218,

219, 219 n, 222, 254
Preston Montford, vii. 1, 2, 3, 180, 194-

196, 197 ; viii. 220, 222, 253
Pbestok on the Wsald Moobs, viL 199,

392 ; viii. 29, 39, 40, 255, 267-261
, Chukch of, viii. 260-1

INDEX OF PLACES.

303

Priests Weston, tH. 169, 170

Pulley, 4, 6, 6, 148, 176. 17&-9, 206-

218, 342-344, 846, 850

Common, 344 n

PULVKBBATOH, 5, 23, 51, 109, 111, 119,

169, 188-204, 205, 265, 340, 342
, Barony or Fee of, 50, 119,

190, 198, 241 ; viu. 286

Caatle, 189

Chubch, 202-204

Wood, 840

Purslow Hundred, 1, 3, 4, 5, 162 ; vil 1
Pyriton (Hertfl), vu. 360

Q.
Quat, 237, 244 ; yii 367

B.

Bagleth Hill, 343

Bagdon, 137, 260, 331, 337, 340, 343, 346
Balegh (Leicestershire), 12
Banmeshnrst, 294, v. Bomenhurst
Banton (Staffordshire), viii. 206, 207, 209
Banton Priory (Staffordshire), yii. 97, 306,

308 », 366
Batiikohofs, 1, 4, 5, 168-166, 296-7,

841, 343, 345 ; vii. 1, 152, 165

Chuboh, 162-8

Priory, 159, 162

BxA (near Caus), vii. 3, 8, 116-117

, The Biver, yii. 8, 116

Bba (Upton Magna), yii 268, 271-278,

276, 293
Bee, The Biyer (Eaton Masoott), 107
Bee, The Biyer (Lee Botwood), 248
Bboobddtb Httndbed, 328 n, 860 ; yiL

197-202 ; yiii. 61, 260
Bed Osstle, yiL 190; yiii. 148
Benfrew, yii. 224, 226
Benouard, Le Ch&teau (Normandy), yii.

210
Bepingdon (Derbyshire), yiii. 124
Bhuddlan, 131 ; yiL 106, 128, 189, 269 ;

yiii. 86
Bhydwymma, Ford of, yii. 87
Bichard's Castle, yiL 7
fi|^,76
Bingsted (Norfolk), yiiL 9 n

Binlau Hundred, 336
Bipon Minster, yiii. 244
Bissington (Gloucestershire), 134
Bitton (Wentnor), vii. 18, 78
Boche Andely, 330 ; yii. 342
Boche aux Moins (Anjou), yii. 74
Bochester Castle, yiL 255
Bochull (WaU-Town), yiii. 31, 32
BoDEN, 40-42, 133 ; yii. 268, 270, 373-

374, 886-7 ; 285, 286
BODENHITBST, yii. 268, 270, 373, 376,

886-7
BoDiNOTON, yiL 199, 254i, 268, 878-

887 ; viu. 287

Chuboh, yii. 881-882

Bokesley (Wilts), 194-5, 198
Bomenhurst, 294, 346, 345 n
Boriton (Chirbury), yii. 170
Botherwas (Herefordshire), 318 n
BowTON (Castle), yii. 8, 100, 174, 175,

176-178, 179, 180
Bowton (High Ercall), yiii. 68
BnoKLET (Acton Burnell), 42, 122, 124,

127, 142, 147, 161, 326, 346

Chapel, 77 », 142, 144, 147

Buckley (near Tong), 326, 328, 334.

Budge, 301 II

BinsssET Httitdbed, 166, 336 ; yiL 1-4,

67
Buitheton, yii. 16
Bushbury, 18, 71-2, 80, 83, 86, 100, 336

Mf, 340, 346
Bushton (Wroxeter), yii. 314, 316 ; yiii.

281, 282, 284
Buthin Castle, yii. 238
Butunium, yii. 100
Buyton (near Baschurch), yii. 281
Bttok, Gbeat (Condoyer), 19, 22, 26,

837, 340, 342, 846
Btton, Littis (Condoyer), 20,26, 842,

846
Byton (near Shiffiaal), 66, 268, 269 «

S.

St. Alkmund's (Shrewsbury), 868-9 ; yii.
2 quater, 194-196, 198 phtriet, 277,
280, 304 ; yiii. 63, 210-217, 219, 220,
227, 231, 248, 246, 250, 251, 268
St. Alkmund's Manor, 868, e. Hencot
Parish Church, yiiL 228

u>

304

INDEX OF PLACES.

St. Andrew's, Condover, v. GondoYer

Church
St. Andrew's (Woroester), 808
St. Chad's (Shrewsbury), 2, 6, 181, 205,

27S-280, 286, 824, 346-348, 860-862 ;

yn. 144, 171 ; Tiii. 205
St. Edith's (Tamworth), 280
St. Edmundsbuiy, yii. 28
St. EvTOult of Uticmn, vii. 204, 206-7,

209
St. florant of Saumur, vii. 219
St. George's Cemetery (Shrewsbury), 58
St. Guthlac's Priory (Hereford), viii. 68
St. Julian's (Shrewsbury), 848, 867-8 ;

▼ii. 193, 194
St. Juliah's Makob, 867-8

Parish, 212, 867-8

St. Mary's (Shrewsbury), 89, 90, 848,

868-9 ; Tii. 192, 304 ; viii. 178
St. Michael's (Shrewsbury), 224r-5, 367 ;

Tii. 139, 140, 192-194
St. MUburg's (Wenlock), 2, 348, 363

Land, 279, 307

St. Paul's, London, viii. 213, 218
St. Peter's (Shrewsbury), 2, 38, 173 ; vii.
198, 200, 208, 264; viii 280j «. Shrews-
bury Abbey
St. Werburg's Abbey (Chester), viii. 193
Salt (Staffordshire), viii. 87
Saicbbook, vu. 199 ; viii. 23, 25, 84, 87,

83.94

Chapel, viii 98

Sandford (Prees), viii. 197
Sandford (Knokyn), viii. 4
Sasoott (Ford), vii. 140, 180, 191-2
Savigny, Abbey of, 321, 326, 328-9, 333
Scarborough Castle, viii. 206
Schelbedeu (Staffordshire), viii. 79
Scheie (Line. Dioc.), vii. 62
Sele Prioiy (Sussex), vii. 219
Selverton (Devonshire), vii. 29
Semte,198

Serthul Wood (Ford), vii. 186
Severn, The River, 76, 309 j vii. 87
SewaUesdon, v. Siwaldston
Shackfobb (Hinstock), viii. 23
Shawbttby, vii. 201 $ viii. 71, 72 ; viii.

182-161

Chtoch, viU. 132, 183-4^

lU, 146-161, 262
Shbintok, 4, 5, ai4-aa0, 836 ; vii. 140

Shbikton Church, 77 », 219-220

Wood, 229

Shblton, 848, 860-862
Shelve, vii. 28, 87, 38

Mines, vii. 18, 21, 30

Sheriff Hales, vii. 204, 207, 223, 227
Sh^low (High Ercall), viL 368 ; viiL 50,

200
Shetfyn, 219
Shiffiial, V. Idsall
Shinewood (Sheinton), 219
Shipley, 301 n
Shipton, 336, 845
Shirlot Forest and Haye, 21, 229, 335-6,

387 II
Shortgrave (Bedfordahire), 355 », 366
Shorthill (Pontesbuiy), vii. 136
Shotton (Hadnall), 38
Shrawardine, vii. 208, 252, 254s 261, 384
Castle, vu. 84, 247, 253 ;

viu. 62, 196, 198, 202-3

■ Church, viL 24^

Shrawardine (in Ford), vii. 87, 192
Shrewsbury, 12, 13, 16, 347-349

Abbey, 22, 28, 28-31, 44r46,

49, 63-9, 117, 148r-151, 170-174, 177-
187 pawkn, 266, 287-8, 348-9, 363-4;
vu. 17, 18, 80, 51-2, 63-65, 67, 69, 86,
109, 177-8, 204-208, 235-237, 246,
265-6, 804r-808, 352, 381-2 ; viii 56,
58, 104, 128, 164 m, 195, 245, 280-282
Castle, vii. 232-234; viii

278

Deaneiy, Tiii. 5

Shbewsbubt HxniDBXD, 347-849)849-

370 ptutim
Liberties, 3-6,836; vii 1,

199, 201
Shupene, 346
Shurlowe, v. Sherlow
Sibberscot (Ford), vu. 140, 142, 180, 189,

191-2
Sibton, 170, 336, 340
Sidenhale (Gierrington), viii. 199
Sidenhal (Sydney, near Kinnersley), viii.

281
Siefton, 336

Wood, 838, 340-1, 345

ShUnffton, 340

SiWALDBTOV (Eyton Abbots), vii. 281,

282, 315 ; vi^ ^84

INDEX OF PLACES.

305

Sleap (High Bradl), Tiii. 127-180, 241

Skap Magna^ viiL 41, 263

SicBTHOOTT, 6, 60, 260-2679 341-2,

846

Chitboh, 266-257

• — Wood, 340

Snanston (Leioestenhire), 269, 271

SnoBington, yiL 96

Sporle (Norfolk), yil 218, 219

StaUington (Staffordshire), yii. 888-9, 397

Stamford (Wellington), yii. 343

Standlake (Oxfordshire), yii. 868

Stanleymor (Stapleton), 114

Stanton (Herefordshire), 263 n

Stanton Hineheath, 40, 41, 42 ; yii. 268,

270-1, 387

, Fee of, viL 269, 386-7

Stanton (Shiffhal), yiii. 37

Stanton (Wilts), yu. 70, 71, 77, 84, 141

Stanwardine in the Fields, 37 ; yii. 122,

881
Stanwe^, 80 n, 83, 336-338, 340, 342

, Upper and Lower, 345

Staplsmore (Berrington), 36
Stapxbton, 6, 108-118, 217, 337, 340,

342,346; yii. 120, 166

Chtteoh, 117-118

Stepleton in Leghamesse, 111
St^dewood Boso, 21, 198-9, 340, 340 1»,

Stepney (Essex), 140, 141

Stiperstones Forest, 23, 104, 111, 180,

336-6 ; yii. 8, 20, 22, 46, 129, 329
Stiboh£BY, 78, 384 ; yiii. 102, 114^26

Chitboh, yiii. 117, 128-126

Stitt (Batlinghope), 169, 168-166, 297,

845; yii 1

Chtbgh, 163-4, 166

Stoehea or Stoke (Sussex), yii. 207, 222,

224, 246, 254, 289, 293

Church, yii 276, 289, 293

Stookbridge Hundred (Sussex), yii. 269
Stookton (Chetwynd), yiii. 86, 87, 90
Stookyate OSUesmere), yiii. 282, 294
Stoke Aubry (Stoke upon Tern), yiii. 68
Stoke Grange, yiiL 60, 63, 201, 202 n,

204 II
Stokeleje (Langley), 143
Stokesay, 336 ; yii. 69 ; yiiL 69-63 patnm
Stoks vpon Tebv, yiii. 68-71

Chuboh, yiiL 62, 70-71

VIII.

Stone Acton, 846

Stone Prioiy (Staffordshire), yii. 800,

888-9,390
Stonbt Stsbttoit, yii. 61, 62-68) 100,

116, 130
Stottesden Hundred, 6
Storunell (Hants), yii. 219
Stratford, yiiL 202 n
Stiefford, 336, 346

Wood, 338

StrettonBaskeryill (Warwickshire), 272 »
Stretton, Church, 11, 341, 343-4, 346 ;
yii. 16

Castle, 66 ; yii. 250

Hills, 336

Wood, 341

Stretton Heath (Wattlesborough), yii.

100
Stretton super Dunesmore (Warwicksh.),

yii. 207, 221, 293
Styche (Moreton Say), yiii. 63
SuGhDEN (Rodington), yii. 373,882-886;

yiii. 223, 236, 268-9, 287
SuiTDOBN, 98 ; yii. 278-280, 289, 292,

304^ 388 ; yiii. 169
Sutton, Little, 341
Sutton Haddock, 64, 66

Church, yii. 366, 367 ; viii. 191

Sutton (near Drayton), yii. 201; yiii.

27, 33, 61-62
Sutton (near Shrewsbury), 187, 217, 336,
342, 344^ 348, 868-867

Chubch, 866-867

Sutton on the Hill (Derbyshire), 269
Swannington (Leicestershire), 269, 272
Swinnerton (Staffordshire), yiii. 266
Sydenhal, v, Sidenhal
Sytch, The (Condoyer), 20

T.

Tadlow (Cambridgeshire), yii. 68, 69
Talgarth or Thalegard, yiL 134, 134 »,

164
Tasley, 274^ 276 ; yii. 66
Tatenhal (Cheshire), yii. 344, 346
Teigh (Rutlandshire), yiL 847
Tern, v. Time
Tern, The Riyer, yii. 266, 310 ; yiiL 61,

200, 234r-5

39

306

INDEX OF PLACES.

Temhill, viii. 62, 201-204
TetneBhull and Merebrook, tu. 47, 106
Thene (Staffordshire), Tiii. 110
Thuleshey Boso, 148
TiBBEBTON, 300, 801; vii 201, 864;

▼iii. 7, 16, 42, 48, 44, 45, 46-50, 58,

54, 200, 276

Chapel, viii. 60

TicUerton, 843, 845

Tintem Abbey, 880 n

Tirley (Market Drayton), jvl 21, 61

Time, viii 56, 129, 222, 285-6

Tixhall (Staffordshire), yiii 86, 87

Todeni, Fief of (Herefordihire), 82, 84

Tolunton, 198

Tong, 81, 82 n, 188 n, 185 ; riiL 212

Church, 44

TorryngB (Chichester Diocese), 189

Toumai-sur-Diye (Normlmdy), viii. 126

Trefiiant, vii. 45

Trentham (Staffordshire), yiiL 153

Trif Bereved, yii. 45

Trivel Forest (Herefordshire), 198

Trohford, vii. 236, 237, 262, 264, v. Wim-

bolds Trafford
Tubnay (Berks), vii. 857
Tngford, yii. 205, 208
Tulket (Amnndemess), 821
Timestan, vii. 198
TunstaU (Staffordshire), viu. 79
Tykelewordyn, 848, v. Ticklerton
T^rrley, v, Tirley

TJ.

» UCKINGTOW, vii. 201, 310 ; viii. 213, 222,

281, 287-289
TTdecote, vii. 200, v. Woodoote
Uffington, vii. 201, 269, 298, 304
XJlestanestune, 4^ v. Woolstaston
TJmbnmtane, 4, v. Womerton
TJnderhelde (Boreton), 176
Upper Ledwioh, viii. 53
TJppiNOTOir, 99 J vii 201, 816, 359-60,

365, 867 ; viii. 161-194, 246, 278,

282,284
Chapei^ vii. 318, 365 ; viii

155, 164, 168, 179, 190-194
Mai; viii. 168, 168, 169

TJpTON Magna, 71 ; vii. 201, 202-808,
396 ; viii. 80

UPTOir Magva Chtbch, yii. 264-266 ;
viii. 81

Mill, vii. 289

Wood, viL 296

Upton Farva, «. Waters Upton
Urioonium, vii. 309, v. Wroxeter

V.

Yagheiet or Bagret, vii 34y 35
Vale Eoyal Abbey (Cheshire), vii 259
Yaregrek, vii. 34 », v, Vagheret
VEirNiKGTOir (Westbnry), vii 26, 35, 43,

44,66
Veteberg or Vereburg, vii 74 ii> 98 «, r.

Whatbergh.

W.

Waderington, vii. 253
Waghort, vii 44, «. Yagfaaret
Waloot (Wellington), vu. 287, 289, 291-2
Waleton (Derbyshire), 114, 881
Wallegh, vii 262
Walleybonm (Oaks), 168, 218
Wallingford, Honour off vii. 14
Wauap, vii 26, 36, 48-44, 118, 119
Walton (Staffordshire), 828
Wantage (Berkshire), vii. 74, 85
Wappenbhaix (Leegomery), vii 841, 346,

848» 892

Wanauhall (Mortem Say), viii 68, 97

WanniDcb^an (Cheshire), viii 228

Wanlaw (Staffordshire), vii. 841

Warwick, 184

Wasing (Berkshire), viii. 112

Watebs Upton, 28 ; vii 201 ; viii 47,

62-69, 68 n
CmTBCH,vii881,882;

viii. 65, 67-69, 260 «
WatUngstroet, 268, 344ii; vii 100, 843,

358 ; viii. 212 n, 230-1
Wattusbboboitgh, vii 3, 50, IOO-IO89

109-111, 180, 282

Castle, vii 107-108

Webscott (Middle), 84

Welbatch, 5, 6, 109, II9-I2I9 188*

197, 842,346; vu. 20 «, 54 «, 6G, 58*

69,68
Wellington, 11; vii. 201, 263*4, 366

INDEX OF PLACES.

307

868, 364; Tui. 29, 42, 187 n, 140, 142-

14, 8, 276, 284
WeUington Ghureh and Parish, vii. 352,

873 ; Tiu. 85, 40, 287, 260
Wells Cathedral, 186
Welsh Pool, YiL 87
Wem,Tm. 20, 21, 22, 48, 47
Wem, Barony of, vii .77; Tiii 20-66

Wenloek, 75, 217, 288, 266, 886-6 ; Tiii
221

Edge, 886

y libertieB of, 8, 4, 6, 267, 806,

865

Priory, 4, 221, 281, 266-7, 802-

808, 868-867; Tii. 224-6, 880; yiii.

124
Wentnor, 165, 831, 886 ; yii. 22, 28, 26,

29,80,87

Church, 9, 10, 18

Mill, vii. 17

Weobley (Herefordshire), 82
Werentenehale, v. WrentnaU
Werkwode (WrentnaU), 206
WxsTBUSY, 166 ; vii. 8, 42, 52, 53-68,

65, 181
Chxtbch, vii. 42, 46, 49, 58,

60-63
Weetbniy (Heret Dioc.), viL 62
Westbury (Wilts), viL 70
Weetden (Sussex), viL 259
Weethope, 886-7, 846; viL 261

Wood, 838

Wbstlby (Condover), 20, 22, 26-27,

49, 190, 887, 842-3, 846
Westley (Westbuiy), vu. 48, 117
Weston (Clan), viL 274
Weston (GloQoestershire), 197
Weston joxta Standon (Staffordshire),

viiL83,86-7
Weston (Linoolnshire), 248
Weston Lnllingfield, viL 122
Weston-under-Iijsard (Staffordshire), vii.

204,207
Weston-onder-Bed-Castle, viL 188
Weetwall,846
Westwood (Oldbuiy), 337 «
Wettleton (Stokesay), 336, 345
Whatbergh (Leioestershire), vii. 93 n
Whxathall, (Condover), 20, 22, 27,837,

342

Whitchurch, 65, 66 ; vii. 15
Whitfield (Woolaston), viL 34, 35 i^, 45
Whittingslow, viii. 54^ 55
Whittington, viL 68, 70, 72, 74, 83, 93,
95, 212, 288

Castie, viL 70, 72, 75, 84

Whittok, vii. 3, 86, 65-66, 180
WichMd, vii. 45, v, Whitfield
Wichley (Uppington), viL 868 ; viii. 166,

169, 161 bU, 163 ter, 164, 168^, 172,
174-5, 179, 188, 185, 187, 189, 190,

193
Wioh Malbanc (i.e. Northwioh, Cheshire),

viu. 223
Wich, South (Cheshire), vii. 289
Widenine (Cornwall), viL 158
Wigmore Abbey, 5, 169, 162-3, 357-8
WiaMOEB (Westbury), vii. 3, 170-171
Wiawia, 4, 5, 265-267, 302, 348, 846
Wilcot (Great Ness), viL 803
Wilderhope, 95, 340, 345
WiLDEBLBT, 5, 21, 111, 166, 198, 248-

249, 258-261, 266, 341-2, 845

> — Wood, 111, 340

WiQersley (Herefordshire), 84

Willey, 89

WiUstone (Cardington), 337, 346

Wiluuredeschot, viii. 219

Wimbolds Trafford (Cheshire), vii. 235

Wimbriston, v. Womerton

Winchester, vii. 234, 287 n

Windsor, 13 ; vii. 146

Winenine (Cornwall), vii. 164, v. Widenine

Winnington (Alberbury), vu. 34, 36 hU,

38
WiNSLSY, vii. 8, 10, 68-65
Winterbum (Oloucestershire), vii. 147
Winterbum (Wilts), 197
Wirley, Little (Staffordshire), viiL 205,

207,208,209
Wistanstow, 109, 114, 116, 336, 338, 845;

vii. 160 ; viu. 220
WiBTANBWiOK (Stoke upon Tern), viii.

63,70
Witrentrei Hundred, vii. 1
WiTHiwoTON, viL 101 ; viii. 72, 75-81,

238, 258

Chapel, vii. 264 ; viii. 81

Withyford, Great, viiL 73, 253

Chapel, viiL 133, 146-148

Withyford, Little, v. Little Withiford

308

INDEX OF PLACES.

Wittmgslow, 386-7, 346 '
Wiverthoxpe (Yorkahiro), viL 146, 147,

149
Wollerton (Westhope), 346
Wolston Mynd, yii. 46 »
Wohireton, yiL 68, v. WooIertOD
WolYerhampton, 16, 17
WoMBBiDas Fbioby, 98, 99 ; vii. 236,

841, 348, 346, 347, 863-4, 367-360,

868-878 ; viii. 9, 14, 47, 49, 60, 64,

66, 168-200

Chttbgh, vii. 869, 872-8

-, St. Haiy's Chapel in, yIL

869, 870
Wombridge, Forest or Boao o^ yii. 848,

861, 864, 869, 892 ; yiii. 17, 221
WoMEBTON (Church Stretton), 6, 6, 66,

167-8, 841, 361

Wood, 841

WooDOOTB (near Shrewsbury), Tii 1, 2,

8, 187, 144-166, 172
Woodcote (near Newport), vii. 201
WooDHOTTBE (Stoke upon Tern), yiii. 68,

68
WooDHonsB, or Woodhall (N.B. of

Fontesbuiy), tIL 186-187
Woodhouse (S.W. of Fontesbury), yii.

136
Woodmere, viL 96
Woodstock, 60, 183
WooLASTON, yii. 3, 96, 96, 118-116

Chapel, yii. 88, 116-116

Fabta, yii. 113, 114-116

Woolerton, yii. 68 ; yiii. 69, 60, 128-180,

132, 201-2

Mill, yiii 204

WooLBTABTON, 6, 126, 161-167, 197,842,

346 ; yiL 168, 169

Chttboh, 166-7

Woolflton (near Wistanstow), 888, 840,

34111,346

WoolsUm (Warwiotkshire), yii 207, 221

Wootton (Stanton Lacy), 72

Worcester, 12 ; yiL829

Worfield, 16, 16 ; yii. 369

Worthen, 162; yii. 1, 8, 22, 28, 28, 84-

89, 87, 110, 116
Woton C^^orthants), 17
Wrekin Fonet, 178, 886, 868; yii 827,

861 ; yiii 269, o. Mount Gilbert
Wbbktvall, 6, 166, 197, 806-206,

266 II
Wrockwardine, 11, 66; yii 201, 286-6

, Fariah of; yiii 287

Wrottesley (Staffordshire), 66
Wboxbtxb, 71, 826 ; yii 201, 262, 264-

266, 268, 261, 266, 808-824; yiii

289

, CHxmoH and Fariah aSj 78;

yii 288, 289 n, 809, 811^18, 324-^,

337 ; yiii. 41, 16^, 190-194, 277, 280,

282

, St. Mairy's Chantry

in, yii 816

Mill, yii 266

Wye, The River, 818 n
Wylbelejfe Corbet^ yii. 68
Wyie, Foiest o^ 834
Wythegruc CasUe, yii 82, 188
Wytmere, yii. 94

Y.

YooKLBTON, yii. 3, 9, 10, 18, 22, 28, 81,

86-88, 60-68, 110, 176
YokethuD, v, Yockleton
York, 82, 362 ; yii 147
Yorton, 361
Ystrat Marohfil Abbey (Montgomeryshire).

266 ; yii. 113
Yweme^ yiii. 108, «. Iweme

309

INDEX OF PERSONS.

VOLS. VI., VHj, AND vrn.

•^* In the followiog Index, Karnes which belong to Official liets, or seem to have
a&y G^ealogical relation, are OBually daMified in order of succesaion, not alphabetically.

Where such Official Lists hare been already given in the body of the work, the
Index makes general reference thereto, but does not repeat the indiyidual names unless
they hare oocurred in some other connection.

A.

Abacun, Herbert fitz Alan de, viii. 64
, , Matilda fitz Walter,

wife oty Tiii. 54 *

Abingdon, Abbot of, vii. 151
Ade, V. Oakley

Acton Bumell, Incumbents of, 138-9
Acton (Bumell), Bobert de (Clerk), (1248

-72), 126, 126 », 129, 137-8, 151 ; viii.

119, 124
, , Bobert de Lega, father of,

127 «, 137
^ J William le Clerk of Acton,

son of (1277-1323), 18, 24, 62, 66, 67,

68, 187 ; viL 143
, ^ , Isabella, wife o^ 24 ;

Tii. 143

, , , John, son o^ 67, 68

Acton Pigot, Incumbents of, 93, 96, 97
Acton (Beynold), Bichard de (c. 1190) ;

Tii. 276
Beiner de (1196-1203), viL 16,

320 ; Tiii 135, 285

, Beiner de (1240), yii. 281

, , P. son of (1266), vii. 281

, Beiner de (1283), 38

Acton (Bound), Engelard de (1237), 292;

Tiii 140

, , Laurina, wife oi^ 292

Acton (of Longnor), Edward de (1372-5),

66^248
J , Eleanor le Strange, wife

of, 66, 248

Acton (of Stapleton), Thomas (1465-95),

118
Adam, Esquire to Marsoot, 103 ; Tii 275
Adam, Forester (1203), Tiii. 255
^Igar or Algar (T. B. E.), 4, 214, 215 1

Tii. 198
iEWc (T. B. E.), 4^ 109 5 Tii. 120, v, Ehio
Ailesbury, Walter de (1272-80), Tii. 123,

176, 177
, , Luda de Say, wife of,

Tii. 175-177
Aisil (T. B. E.), tu. 198 ; Tiii 126, 126
Akilott,William, son of William de (1283),

Tiii. 163
^bemarle. Earls of. —

Baldwin (1199), Tiii 11
William (L216), Tiii 12
Alberbury, Fulk de (0. 1223), Tii 75, v.

Fitz Warin

, Fulk de (p. 1300), Tii 49

, Peter de Coroellis, Prior of, Tii. 44^

97
— , Prior and Brethren o^ Tii 79, 87-

90, 93-96, 121
f Prior, or Custos, or Corrector ofi

Tii 96, 123

, Bobert, ProTOst of (1261), Tii. 86

i Sir Bamund o^ Tii 94

, Under-Tenants in, Tii. 96

, Vicars o^ Tii. 88, 89, 90, 115

, William de (1276), Tii 84

Alberio (Papal Legate, 1138), Tiii 213
Albini, NigU de (1127), Tiii. 212
Albini-Brito, William de, (c. 1130), 170

310

INDEX OP PERSONS.

Albini-Pmoema, WiUiam de (11S8), 323
Albo MonaBterio, Matilda de, yii. 14, 15,

V, Blancminster
Albrighdee, Undertenants in, TiiL 250
Aloester, Abbot and Convent o^ yiiL 22
Aldflfeud, WiUiam de (1267), yii. 256 n
Alemon (of Qannston), Thomas (1346),

viii. 210
Alemon (of Hiaughton), WiJliam de (o.

1245-1260), Tiii. 288 guater
Alexander, Dean {TasiU o. 1160), yii. 889
Aleyn (of Stiiohley), Bobert (1248-9),

viii. 118, 119
, , Edith, widow of (1272),

viii. 121
Algar, Earl of Meroia, vii. 228, 230-1

, Edwin, son o^ vii. 230

, Morcar, son ofi vii. 230

, Alditha, daughter of; vii. 228, 231

i Lnoia, daughter of; vii. 230

AUeoote, Oilian de (1255), 95

, PhiHp de (1203), 94, 95

, , Matilda, wife ot, 94, 95

, Philip de (1255), 95

, Bobert de (1203), 94, 95

, , Sibil, wife of, 94, 95

, William de (1316), 65

Alleston, Balph de (1235), vii. 154 n

, Eoger de (1272), viL 170

, f Isabella fits Walter, wife

o^ vii. 170
All Souls* College (Oxford), Warden and

Fellows of; vii. 89, 97

f John Stokys, Warden of; vii. 95 »

Almagne, Bichard Eing of, 7, 134, 222,

229,242
Alnod (of Dawlej, Middlesex, 1086), vii.

14
Alrigg, Maurice de, 87
Alsoott, Hamo de (o. 1236-1253), viii.

164, 166, 169, 170, 173, 177, 185-188
Aluric (T. B. E.), 2, 4, 152, l7l, 302 ; vii.

2 his, 127, 170, 200

f Edrio, son o( 2, 302, 303

Alward, son of Ehnund (1086), 4, 109 ;

viL 120, 176, 178, 179 W», 180, v. El-

mimd
Amundeville, Bichard de, 71; vii, 310,

316
, , Matilda, wife of; 71 j

vu. 310, 316

Anglious, Hugh (e.'1230), viii 286

, Boger (1230), vu. 184

Anglious, 0. Engleys
Anjovin, Bobert the (c. 1220), 159, 190
Ansgervill, William de (1148), viu. 216
Ap Gfriffith, Eynon, vii 106, 110
Ap Howel, Cadugan (1273), vii 4

, Master Philip (Portioner of
Pontesbury), vii 140

-, Bese (130&-9), vii 134, 140

Ap Madoc,, Grii&n (1245), vii. 78

Ap Meredyth, Bese (1287-6), vii 38, 141,

360
Ap Owen, Griflin (1260), vii. 186
Ap Tagon, David (1256), vu. 177
Aplej of Aplej

, John de (c. 1173), viu. 28

, Walter de (c. 1183-1203), vii. 341 5

viii. 106

, William de (c. 1240), viii 169 5w

, John de (1264^1295), viii. 83, 49

Aplej of BodiBgton

, Bogor de (1203-1246), vii 377-379,

380-1 ; viii. 117, 164, 168, 171, 175,

182, 183, 221

, , Clarice, wife of; vii. 377-381

, , John, son of (1255-1258), vii

378, 380 ; viii. 43
, , , Agatha, heir of (1272),

vii 378, 380, v. Taylor
Appeley, Sir John (1377), vii 362
Aqua, William de, vii. 53, 116, a. Bee
Archetea (T. B. E.), 4, 157
Ardem, Balph de (1186-1208), 868, 369 ;

vu. 242; viii. 232 », 247
Ardem, Balph de (1283), vii 229, 259
, y Isabel de Mortimer, wife

of, vii. 259, V, Fits Alan
Aregri (T. B. E.), 4, 157
Amleg, Henry de, 89 «
Arscott, William de (1255), vii 191

, Boger de (1274-92), vii. 191

Arundel, Earls of. —

Hugh de Albini, vii. 228, 253-4, 258

, Isabel, sister of, vii 228

, Isabel, widow of; vii. 258

, Nichola, sister of, viii 144

Bichard fiU Alan (I.),7l, 134 ; vii
84, 229, 258, 260-262, 267-8, 277,
310, 317, 394
, Alice, wife of; vii. 229, 261, 268

INDEX OF PERSONS.

Sll

Anmdel, Earls of {eoniimued), —

Edmund fits Alan, 62, 72» 79, 242-

8 ; YiL 229, 268, 261-2, 267, 277,

281, 296-298, 801, 317-8 } yilL 88

, Alice Plantagenet, wife of^ yIL

229>262

f Alice, daughter ofi vii. 229

y Aleyne, daughter of^ TiL 229

, Edmund, eon o^ Tii. 229

, Jane, daughter of, yii. 229

, John, Bon of (1878), viL 229

Bidhard fits Alan (II.), 78 ; yii. 229,

818-4, 818 ; viiL 121, 287
•»— , Isahel le Despenoer, wife oi^

▼ii.229
^— , Eleanor Plantagenet, wife o^

▼ii229
Eiohard fits Alan (HI.), 72 «, 79
Thomaafits Alan, Tii. 802; viiL 121
John fits Alan, Duke of Touraine,

vii. 808
William fitz Alan (1463), Tii. 808.
Henry fitz Alan (1658), 80
Arundel of Tetneahull, Hahherley, &o.,
287 J Tii. 47, 186, 172

, Adam de (c. 1160-1198), 108 ; Tii.

18, 47 ; TiiL 134

, Guy de (o. 1208-1209), 106 j Tii.

16, 18 ier

^, William de (c. 1215, 1221), 124;

Tii. 47, 48

-^— , , Sibil de Broc, wife o1^ TiL 48

, Adam (H.) de (1287, 1240), TiL 48,

77

, John de (c. 1255), 205, 288; TiL

186, 172

, , Petronilla, widow of (1272),

289

, John (n.) de (1264-1288), 88, 288,

289; TiL 28, 80, 48, 186

, , Heirs of (1292), 290

— , , Isabel, widow of (1292), TiL

187

, John (III.) de (1292), TiL 49

, MatUda de (1272-1809), TiiL 48,

48 «, V. Corbet of Moreton
Aspele, Robert de 1236), TiiL 48

^ —4^, Alice, wife of, TiiL 48

Astdegh, John de (1271), 842

Ajthampton, Philip de, 254

, , Boger, Bon of, 254

Asting (Heeding), Beginald de, Tii. 226 n
Astley, Adam de, TiiL 288

, f Biohard, son o^ TiiL 288

^ f ^, William, son ofi Tiii. 288

— , -^, — , ATota, wife otf

> i »

Tiii. 288
Astley, Balph de (1318), Tii. 879

, Bichard fitz Bobert of; TiiL 287

Aston (near Oeweatiy), Lords of —
John fitz Philip (1255), 87
Hugh fitz Philip (c. 1272), 87
Aston (near Worthen), Henry ^e, Tii.
118, 120

y y Susanna, daughter o( Tii. 118,

120, V. Picot of Woolaston
-, Boger de (1221-1255), 124 ; TiL

118, 120-122, 174
— , y Margery, widow of (1266),

Tii. 121

— , John fitz Peter of (1256), Tii. 121
-, John le Knioht of (1274), Tii. 121

Aston of Aston under Wrekin. —

y Thomas de (o. 1220-80), TiL 19 ;

TiiL 80, 167, 172
, Benedict de (o. 1227-89), TiiL 161,

164 Ui, 168 qwOer, 169, 178, 187

, Alan de (c. 1300), Tiii. 189

Astone, Henry de (1274), 7
Atcham, Helyas de, v. Etingeham

y Incumbents of, Tiii. 245

, Toci, Priest o^ tu. 27S

, — -, AUn, son o^ TiL 278

-, Undertenants in, Tiii. 243

Atte-Cross, Boger, 809 n

AuberTille, Clarice de, Tii. 76, 76 », v,

FitzWarin
Audley, Barons Audley. —
, Henry de, tu. 78, 188-185, 186 ;

Tiii. 84, 138-142

-, Emma, daughter of, tiL 187,

844, «. Bromfield

— y y Banulph, son oi^ TiL 184

— , James ff.) de, Tii. 26, 28, 185-188,
255; Tin. 84, 143, 162

— y y Ela, wife 0^ Tii. 188, 189

-, Joan, daughter of, Tii. 187, tr.

Beauchamp
— , James (II.) de, Tii. 188

— , y Matilda, wife oi^ TiL 188, 189

— , Henry (II.) de, TiL 188-9 ; Tiii. 162
— , , Lucia, wife of, Tii. 189 hit

312

INDEX OF PERSONS.

Audlfij, BaroDB Audkj (etmHnued). —

^ Wmiam de, vii 189

, Nicholas de, yii. 189, 190 ; yiii. 162

y ^ Catherine GHffiird, wife o^ yii.

189

i Thomas de, vii 190

— , Eva de dayering, wife o( yii

— > ■
190

^ Nioholaa (11.) de, yii 190

f f Joan Martin, wife of^ yii 190

, James (III.) de, vii. 190

, Nicholas (IH.) de, vii. 348

, Joan de,, vii. 348, v. Tuchet

Aula, Bichard de (1274-92), yii. 127, 137

, ^ Boger, son of (1803), vii 127

AulA, De (of Newport), yiii 162 «, v.

Fisher and Sale
Austin (T. B. £.), 2, 243, 244
Auti (T. B. E.), 2 quater, 4, 167, 287, 244
Avenel (1086), 2, 261, 262
A20 (1086), 2 his, 33, 34, 48, 49, 68
A2or (T. B. B.), 4, 214, 216

B.

Baoon,Master John (1221-41), yiii 164 «,

169, 187

, f Hamo, Client o^ v, AUsoot

Badlesmere, Ghinceline de {oh, 1302), 18,

146, 166 ; viii 168
Bagot of Stoney Stretton.

, Nicholas (1221), vii 62

•— — , B^ginald, vii 62

, ^ Bichard, brother of (1221),

vii 62

, William (1266-63), vii 27, 62

Baieux, Philip, Bishop of (1148-66), vii

160 ; yiii. 216
Bailleol, Benaud de, vii 206, v. Bainaldos

Yioeoomes
f J Hameline, nephew oi, vii

211 n
-, Bozceline de, vii 211 «.

Baillol, Eva de, 76, v. Lacy of Hamage
BaUol, Joceline de (1166), viii. 217
Balle (of Little Lyth), John, 24, 26

, William (1267), 23

Balleoote, Bichard de (0. 1237), 107
Banastre of Asterley. —
, William (1816), vii 143

Banastre (of HadnaU), WiUiam (0. 1230),

vii 274 ; viu. 263, 286

, William (1262), vii 393

Bangor, Bobert de Shrewsbury, Bishop o^

148; viii. 106, 107
Banqno, Thane of Lochaber, vii 212, 214,

216, 228
, Fleanoe, or Flaald, son o^ vii 213-

216, 228, 230, 231

-, Ghienta ap Griffith, supposed

wife o^ vii. 228, 231

— , , Alan, son ot, v. Fits Blaald

Barat, William (1216), vii 260
Bardulf; Beginald (1260), vii 82
Bard (of Lye), John (1267), 26
Barentyne, Gilbert de (1316), vii 14, 16
Barewe, Henry de, 213

, , Agnes, widow o^ 218

Barre, Walter and Sibil de la, 179
Baschurch, Bichard de (1240-66), 96,

107
, , Bichard, son of (1266-64),

95, 137

, Boger de (1265-92), 95 ; vii. 4

, William de (1204-1212), 94, 228 ;

vii. 328

, William de (1221), 87 ; vii. 108

-, William de (1272), 7, 20

Basingwerk, Abbots of. —

Matthew {circa 1177), 327, 828

Bobert (1192), 329
Baskerville of Eardisley. —

y Balph de (tern. Hen. II.), 84

Baskerville of Eaton Masoott, &c. —

, John de (1270), 288

, Thomas de (1272-94), 106, 288

, John de (131&-1333), 41, 106, 106

— , , Isabella, dau. o^ 41, 106

, — , Margaret, dan. o( 105, 9,

Parsons

— , f — -, Boger de Middleton,

son of (1336), 106
Baskerville of Lawton, Pickthom, &o. —

, Boger (n.) de {oh. 1339), 314 n

, , Johanna, daughter o^ 315

y Bichard de, 314 11

, , Juliana, wife of, 314 n

, Walter (U.) de 314, 314 n

1 1 Ehzabeth Lacy, wife of, 314-6

y , Bichard, brother o1^ 316

, , Boger, brother of^ 316

INDEX OF PERSONS.

318

John (of Bristol, 1439), 815

, Sir John (1489), 316

Baskernllo of Warwiokshire and Leioes-
tenhire.—

, Balph de, 269, 270

, i Burga^ dau. ol^ 269, 270

, 9 Isabel de Say, widow of

(1204), 269
Basset (of Sapooate), William (1176^),

16611
Basset (of Wycombe), PhiUp (1262), tu.

26
Batail, William de k, viL 198
Bath and Wells, Bishops of.—
Bobert Bumell, €. Burnell
Balph de Shrewsbmy, 179
Bath, Biohard de, 44
Batsuen (T. B. B.), Tii 198; viii. 91
Bands, William de (1160), tIL 287
Bayston, Undertenants in, 299, 800
Beanehamp of Abergayenny. —

Joan de (1424), 281
Beaochamp of Hache. —

i Bobert de, viL 187

, , John, son of (1264), Tii. 187

, i , Joan de AudI(By, wife of^

▼iL187

, John de {ob. 1386), yiL 89

— , 9 Beatrix, sister of, yii. 89, v.

Corbet of Gans.
-, John de {oh. 1860), yiL 89

Beanchamp of YocUeton. —

, Hnmphrey de (1292), vii. 61

, , Alice, wife of, vii. 51

Beanchamp, Hugh de (1167), vii. 239

, Milo de (c. 1140), yiu. 152

-, Pagan, brother o^ viii. 152

-, Walter de (1301), 136

>, William de (0. 1140), viiL 152

-, William de (1285), Tii. 108 n

Beanfrere, Boger, Tii. 282

y i Hemry and Bichard, i|oi& o^

TiL282
Beanmes, 9. Behneis
Beocho Faber (TettU e. 1126), Tii. 10
Beche of Beche, near Pitohford. —

9 Geoffiney de la (e, 1192-4), 106

— , William, son of Biohard de la (c.

1208-1286), 106, 107, 112, 124
y Bichard de la (c. 1285-1249), 107 ;

Tii. 278

VIII..

Beche, Bobert de (TuHs c. 1186), Tiii.

128
Beche of Shrewsboiy. —
, Martin, 28, 51 ; tIL 19, 69, v. Fits

William
^1 f James son of (p. 1220), 177 ;

Tii. 19

, i William son of, 24

, ■ ' - , - ■ -, Johanna, wife o^ 24
Beckbury of Beokbury. —
, Hugh (I.) de (1196-1226), 94, 98-

100; Tii. 244, 280, 875; Tiii 155 »,

156, 167

Alina Mussun, wife o( 99;

Tin. 155 », 159, 160-1

— , , Hugh, son of (1229-1266),

125,150; Tiii. 160, 161

— 9 -: — 9 > Johanna, or Ida, wife o^

Tiii. 160

— , 9 , Mnota^ dau. ot, Tiii. 160

— , , 9 Thomas, son of (e. 1270-

1280), Tiii. 160

— , , Amabel, daughter of (1286)

Tiii. 160, 161, ©. Lutiey
— , John de (1227-1250), 100, 196-7 5
Tin. 119, 140, 160-1

— , , ♦ • • iBt wife of, Tiii 160

— , , Alice, 2nd wife o^ 101 ; Tiii

160

— , , 9 Thomas de Beokbury,

2nd husband of; 101

— , PhiHp de (1254r-92), 101 ; Tiii. 157,

160-1

— , 9 Walter, supposed son o^ Tiii

160

— , John (n.) de (1302-1351), 102 ;
Tii. 858 ; Tiii. 160, 161

— , John, son of (1844-9), Tiii.

160

, , Petronilla, daughter of (1861);

Tiii. 160, V. Lowe
Beokbuiy of Uppington. —
9 Walter de (0. 1211-1286), Tiii 166,

167, 168, 184, 186, 187
, , Juliana Mussun, wife of^ Tiii.

186, 187
Becket, Thomas k, yii. 81, e. England,

Chancellors of. —
Beek, Sir Nicholas, Tiii 34 n
BeiBtan, William (1428-9), 41
Belet, Michael (1181), Tii. 864

40

314

INDEX OF PERSONS.

BelxneU, Bichard de (I.), (Bishop of Lon-
don), 44, 182-3, 221, 224 j vii. 9, 109,
207-209, 220-1 ; viu. 211, 212, 218

, Biohaird de (II.), (Bishop of Lon-
don), vii 287 ; viii. 211, 212, 218

Behnds of Tong

, PhiUp (I.) de, 44, 182-8 ; Tiii 211,

212, 219, 224

, , Philip, son of; 184, 822-325

-, Ranulf, son of, 183

Belmeis, Hugh de (1292), viiL 97
Bebwardine^ William de (1201-1209), 93,
94,228

, Swanilda de (1227), 228

, Robert fitz Beyner of (p. 1300) ;

viii 189

-, Undertenants in, 228, 230

Benedict (1086), vii 198^ 849

Bere (of Donnington Wood), Biohard le

(1266), Tiii. 231
Bere, aUas TJne of Huston. —

, Beginald le (1186), viii. 232

y Biohard le (ob. e. 1245), yiii. 232

, ^ William, son of (p. 1260-

1270), viii 39, 49, 232, 233
y , , Bichard, son of (e, 1273-

1806), Tiii 231, 232, 233
^ , ^ ^ Bulga, wife of,

Tiii 232
Bere, alias Urse, of Sugden. —
, Adam le (1267-1301), vii 384 5 Tiii.

233

, Nicholas le, Tiii. 236

Beresford, Simon de (0, 1240), 271, 271 »
Berewyk, John de (Attorney, 1277), 187

, John de {TeHi» e. 1307), Tii 282

^ Saer de, v. Berwick

Beigam, Hugh (Chaplain), Tii 37
Berkeley, Maurice de (Justiciar, 1189),

368 ; Tii. 242
Berkeley, Johanna le Englejs, wiiEe of

• • ♦ ♦ de, 164, 166
, Egidin8,son of •• • • de(1272-

1292), 156, 166
Bermingham, Fulk de (1368), 116 n

, Isabella de, 116, v. Stapleton

Bermondsey, The Monks ot, Tii 238, 239
Bernard (of Cherrington), Biohard (1249-

1274), Tiii. 49, 92, 199
Bernard, Master Bichard (1289-92), viu.

22611

B«Rington of Benington.—

, Hugh de (1266-1262), 43, 107, 137

, , John, son of (1270-1310), 16,

18, 43, 69 W», 60 ier, 61, 107-8

, , , Cassandin, wife oi; 107

^ , , Thomas, son of (1323-

33), 40, 43, 107, 108

, ^ , ^ Mary, wife ot 43

^ ^ ^ ^ Thomas, son o^

(1333), 43
, Hugh de (Clerk), (1309-1317), 89,

43,46
-, Nicholas de (1266), 43

, Nicholas de (1274-1310), 48

, Nicholas de Conedour, Clerk (^ 107

, Bichard de (1267), 43

, Bobert de (1208), 42

, Boger de (1203), 42, 262, 264

, , Thomas, son of (1242-72),

43,262-264
, ^ ^ Alice de Cotheroote,

wife o^ 262-264

, , , Boger, son of, 264

, William de (1321), 43

Beirington, Bectors o^ 46, 46, 47
Berwick, Heniy de (1249), Tiii 234

, , Muriell, wife of, Tiii. 234

, Saer de, v. MalToisin

, William Franceis, of o. Franceys

Berwyk (of Sheinton), Bichard de (1373),

220
Beslow, Boger de (0. 1176), Tiii. 28, 41

, Bichard de (1176), Tiii 41

, Boger de (c. 1220), Tiii. 41

, Bobert de (1236-^), Tiii 41, 168

bit, 169, 171 his, 173, 177, 188, 186,

187
, Hugh de (1266-1290), Tiii 41, 166,

171, 173 », 174, 186, 188, 189

, Hugh de (1316), Tii. 334; Tiii. 41

., Hugh de (1336), Tiii 189

Beystn, Adam de (1237), Tui. 140

, Walter de, 134; Tii 323; Tiii. 37

, — — , Alice Burael, wife of, Tiii 37

Bicton, William de (e. 1190-1203), 74,
106,167; Tii 172; Tiii 134
William de (dsfs. 1266), 167

, IsabeUa, dau. at, 167, 168

, Margery, dau. o^ 167, 168

William de, 168

, Thomas, son of (1272), 168

INDBX OF PERSONS.

S15

Bicton (of Amuton), William de (1S65),

Tii. 174 •

BioUm, Bobert de (Bailiff of Ford, 1298),

Tii. 191
Bigod, Soger (1181), tiL 864

, Hugh (1216), Tii 74

Bigot, Axo, 49, tr. Ajeo
Biiche of TJppington. —

, Biohard de {e. 1280-1253), viii. 164,

170, 171, 178, 176
Biriniis,88
Biriton, «. Bemngton
Birkyn, Lords of. —

Adam fits Peter, viL 73 «, 147

i Maud de Gaiu, wife o^ yii. 73

II, 147-140

, Boger de Birkyn, son o( yii.

78 «, 76 n

,• • • *, daughter of, vii. 78 «,

tr. Yayasonr
John de Birkyn, tu. 73 », 147
Biset, Manasser (Steward to Henry II.)»
TU. 291 ; Tiii. 217

f John (Justice of the Forest, 1240),

Tiii. 157, 221
Bishop*s Castle, James atte Yenne, Yioar

0^257
Bissop, John (1811), 156
Bitterley, Stephen de (1256), 229 ; Til 82

, Sioger de (1292), Tiii 270

Blakeway, Hugh de (1221), 232

, Osbert de (1221), 282

, Boger de (1260), 286

, Bobert de (1269), 286

Blanominster, Le Sire de {defk, 1282),
Tiii 87 n

, , Etsi fits Warin, wife o^

TiiL87»

, Matilda de (128&-6), TiL 14

-, William fiti Banulf of (1198-

1201), Til 14, 16

, William de (1253), Tii. 14, 15

, John de (c. 1807-1318), Tii.

282,296
Bletchley, WilUam fits Nicholas of (e.

1222), Till 61
Blethems (a Hermit), 245
Blunde, John (1235), 340 n
Blunde, or Blundel, Bobert le (1260-70),

Til 26, 27, 30, 96
Bobington, John de (e. 1200^1210), yii

375

Boo (Qy. BeoP), Bobert de (1205), Tiii.

110 »
Bocharte, e. Boecard
Bocles, Geofi^ de (Templar), 248
Booointe, or Bacoinot, John (1203-6),

91,852
Bohun, Humphrsy de (1151), Tiii 217

, Humphrey de (1181), Tii. 864

, Matilda de, 826

Bois, Emald de (e, 1285), Tii. 108 n

, Master William de (1800), tu. 107

Bolas, The Foresters ci, 287, 884.—
Ulger Yenator (1096>1135), 20, 287;
Tiii 262, 264-^, 266, 270

, ••*, wifeof; Till 266

William fits TTlger (1156-1182), 287|

Tiii 265, 266
Bobert fits William (e. 1185-1206),
21, 287-8 ; Tii. 341, 374 { Tiii.
262, 266, 274, 276
Hugh fits Bobert (120^-1249), 265,
288-9; Til. 16, 843, 878, 882,
385 ; Till 17, 30, 49, 64, 55, 65,
159, 162-3, 167, 170 quaier, 171,
174 6»ff, 181, 188 hU, 186-7, 190,
209, 221, 285, 262-6, 267-8

, • • • le Strange, wife o^ Tiii.

267

, Alice, daughter of, 288-9, «.

Longslow
John fits Hugh (1249-1284), 21,
289, 343 ; Tii. 280, 845, 885 ; Till
49, 67, 166, 171, 178 «, 174, 186,
208, 275 6»ff

, Sara, widow of (1284>92), Tiii.

269, 274
Hugh fits John (1284-1292), 289»

290 i Tiii 268-9, 275, 277
Boger fits John (1292-1302), Til

885 ; Tiii 269, 270, 272, 274
John fits Boger (1818-1360), tU.
359 ; Till 264 quinquiety 271, 272

, Petronilla, wife of, Tiii 271

Bobs, Incumbents of, Tiii. 272-8
Bole, Adam le (1276), Tiil 283
Bolinghall, Hugh de (c. 1212), Tiii. 328
Bolinghall, Hugh de (e. 1275), Tiil 67,

144,252
Boilers, Baldwia de (Urn, Hen. I.), Tii.
7 a, 389

, , Emulpb, nephew of (e. 1155),

Tii. 389

316

INDEX OF PERSONS.

BoUen, Stephen de (0. 1156), tu. 388-9
— , Maria, wife ot, vii. 389
, Bobert, boh of, tIL 389
PhiHp de (0. 1155), vu. 889
Leonius de (c. 1155), yiL 389
Sobert de (1201-2), tIL 173, 177
BoUers (of Marrington), WilHam de

(1286), vii. 133
Bollen, Stephen de (1263), rii 27
Boors, The (of DamesdayX yii 5 11
Bordarii, v. Boora
Bortone, QeoOtej de {Urn, Hen. I.) vm,

265, V. Burton
Boacard of Bourton and PnUej. —

, Gilbert {tern. Hen. II.), 174-6, 206

, — ^, Balph, son of; 176, 184, 206

, Boger (oft. 1194), 176-177, 180,

206-7, 210 ; viii. 156, 166, 171-2, 173
, , Dioniaia Muasun, wife of; 176,

207 ; Tiii 156, 165, 171-2, 173, 206
1 , Alice, dan. of, 176-7, 207-8,

210-212 ; yiii. 166, o. Eohingeham and

Burton
1 , Isabella, dan. of, 176-7, 207-

208 } Tiii. 166, «. Marosohall of Fullej
Boecard, Bngelaid (1193), 180
, Henry (1196-1227), 23 », 24 », 106,

17^7, 180, 207

, , Ralph, eon of (e. 1241), 180

, Riofaard (1203), 292

, SibU (1247), 146

Bosco, Eniald de, v. Bois

Boeco (of Baton on Tern), Hogh de

(1249), Till. 66
Bosoo, Hngh de (1199), 198
Boserill, Wiliiam de^ Tii. 219
Bodei, Bernard de (1206), 91
Boese, Alexander (0. 1266), Tiii. 66
Boteler of Norbory and Polyerbatch

, Ralph le (1292), 199-201, 206

— — , -— ^, Matilda Marmion, wife of,

199,200
, Ralph le (1296-1842), 201, 204,

20411,206
— , , John, son of (oft. f». p.), 204^

20411

Ralph le (oft. 1348), 204^ 204 »
, Edward, brother of (1360,

1394), 204^ 204 »

— , PhiUp (1413), 204

— , , PhiUp, son of (1446), 204

Boteler, Barons of Wem.— >

^, Ralph le (1240-1281), 813; rii.

26, 76 «, 77, 94, 279 s Tiii 20, 21, 24,
26,86

f — , Maud PantuU; wife o^ tiL

76»,77j Tiii 21, 26

, William le (I.), (1261-1283), tu.

76 n

— , f Ankaret, wife of, tiL 76 »

, , Ralph, son o^ 199 «» «. Bote-
ler of Norbury

, William le (II.), (1806-1334), 68,

66; TiL 359; Tiii. 21, 44

, , Beatrix, wife of, TiiL 21

^ ^ Ela, widow of (1343), tuL 21

, William le (IH.), (1834-1362), TiiL

21,22

, William le (IV.), (1362-1369).--

, — y Bliaabeth, daughter of; TiiL

22, V. Eeirers of Wem
Boteler of Irelaad. —

Theobald Walter (I.), Tii. 73-4, 76 a
— , Hubert, brother of, TiL 73, v,

Oanterbury, Arehbishops of
^— , Maud YaTasour, wife of, TiL

73,76
Theobald Walter (U.), TiL 73 •» 76,

76,229
— — ^ Maud, sister of, Tii. 78 a
— , Roheee de Yerdon, wife o( Tii.
229,263

y Maud, daughter oi, TiL 229, o.

FitsAhai
— ^John da Yerdon, son of; «.
Yerdon
Boteler, Thomas le (0. 1260), TiL 68
BoteraU of Aston BoterelL —

, Thomas (1266-76), 68, 294; ni.

281, 896 ; Tiii. 86

1 , John, son of (oft. 1281), tii.

396

, Riohaid (1297), 38

BotovU, William (1401), 220
Boterell or Botreanz, of Longden and of
Cornwall, 162 ; tu. 128, 166-169, 170,
172

, Wmam (I.) de (1168-66), TiL 166-

169, 163

i f Alice Corbet, wife of, Tii.

166-169
, , Reginald, son of, Tii. 169, 168

INOBX OF PSBS0N8.

817

Boterell or Botveaux of Longden and of
Cornwall (eomHmud), —

, WOUam (n.) do (1171-^1211), 60,

110, 111, 152, 164s 164 », 167, 190 ;
▼li. 157, 15&-166, 2H 305

, ^ Isabdl de Say, wife o^ 152,

164» ; YiL 159, 161, 168, 166 •

, , 'William, son o( tu. 162, 168,

16611

^ Albreda Waleran, wife of,

152 ; Tii. 159, 165, 168

— ^ , Bobert, nephew of^ yii. 168

— , William (in.) de (1220-48), 152 ;

YJL 159, 166-7

— , Be^d de (1248>74), 155; tiL

128, 159, 166, 168-9

— , William (IV.) de (1274-1302), rii

129, 159, 169

— , , Alice, wife o^ vii. 159

Botfield, Adam de, 59

, Agnes, wife ci^ 59

-, Ghvgory de, 241

-, William de (1267), 242

-, William, son of Bobert de, 242

-, , Henry, son oi^ 242

-, William de (1828), 854

Botyler, v. Boteler

Bondlers (or Bonles), William de (1277),
TiL88,96

1 , Bobert, son of (1892), Tii 96

1 Thomas de (1292), Til 96

Booillon, GteoSleey de, Yii. 216
Bonlers, v. Boilers, and Bonthlers
Bonley, Hameline de (1267), Tii. 29
Boulogne, Barls ofl —

Stephen de Blols, tiL 245 «
Beginald de Dammartin, Tii. 245 »,

246
— — , Ida, wife of, Tii. 245 n
Bonrton, 9, Burton
Bonthlers, Biohard de (1288), 95

, , Matilda, wife of; 95

Boylin, DaTid (1256), Tii 175
Boyrey of Shrewsbury.—

, Thomas, 868

^ ^ AUce, widow of (1272), 868

, , Mabel, daughter of; 868

Brao, Nigel de (1141), Tii 287
Bracy of Meole Brace, 212, 214.—
•^— , Audulf (I.) de (imi. Hen. (II.),
851, 858, 855, 856

Bracy of Meole Brace {eonUmued). —
, Andulf (n.) de (1208-1221), 218,

851-856
--'— , , Masoelina, sister of, 855, 856»

«. Oantilupe

^ John de (1256), 218, 857

^ Andulf (HI.) de (1267-1280), 857

, Audulf de (1800), 848

, Balph de (Vicar of Meole, 1888), 858

Bradela, Bichard de (1262), 117, v.

French of Bradley
BradeahuU (Bretohel), Ascelina de, Tii

125
Braoee, Philip de (1177), Tii 152

, William de (o5. 1280), 14 ; Tii. 154

f , Daughters oft Tii 154, 154 n

— , — , Eto Marshall, wife oft Tii

154 •

, William de (1260), Tii 26

Bray, Heniy de (1272), Tii 177

, Bobert de (1221), 72

Braz or Brace of Donnington. —

, Bobert (c. 1230-1248), TO. 177,

283,284
, Bichard (1278-1808), Tii 894 ; Tiii

189, 281, 284
Bredeshall, AsonliTia de, v. BradeahuU
Bredeehall, Master Heniy de, 829
Breleotun, Gterold de, 827
, Herbert de (o. 1175), Tii 246,

821
Bferlawe, Margery de (1221), Tii 128,

124, 171, T. Marsh
— ^, , Boger, son oft Tii 128, 124^

171

, Adam de a267-1274), tu. 27, 171

Bret, John, son of Balph le, Tiii 199

, Philip le (1265), Tii 57

-*-^, Banulf le (o. 1275), Tiii. 67

, Biohard le (o. 1240), 197

Brstagne, The Earl of (1284), Tii 771
Brewood, White Nuns oft 48; Tiii 100

, Prioress oft 85
Brid, aUat Walsh, of Sugden, v, Walsh
Brimt^m of Longford. —
, Bobert de (1165-1174), 88 ; Tiii

103, 104, 115
, — , ETa de Longford, wife oft

83 ; Tiii. 108, 104, 115
1 , , Edelina, ancestress oft

Tiii. 104

818

INDEX OP PERSONS.

Brimton of Longlbrd (eomHmtsd^, —
, Adam (I.) do (1805-1236), 88 1 Tui.

110
, — — > John, brother o^ viii. 104,

110
, Adam (II.) de (1286-74), viii. 48,

110, 111, 119^ 120
, Adam (lU.) do (1274-1816), Tiii.

112,114
: i John do (1815-1882), ruL 112, 118,

114
, , iMbeUa, widow of (1348),

yiiL 114
Bristol, William, Earl of^ m 11 «, v.

Gloucester, Earls of
Brito, Alan («. 1245), viii. 288

, Banulf (1280), yii 184

Britton, Nioholas (Justiciar 1189), 868
Broo, Eobert de (1185), Tiii 154» 227 »
Brocton, Robert de (1208), 853
, Robert de (c. 1220-1286), vii.

843 ; YiiL 117, 164 iif, 167, 168 hi$,

175,182

-, John le Clerk of (1290), yii 868

Bromcroft, Oerard de (1208), 91
, Geoffrey de (1260), 146

-, Thomas fits Adam of (1278),

92
Brome, William de (1280-96), 228, 244
, ^ Hugh, son of (1296), 223,

244
Bxomfield, GriiBn de (1268), tiL 187,

— , ^,Eimna de Audlej, wife

o^ Tii. 187, 844
Bromley, William de (1208), viii. 185

, WiUiam de (o. 1281), riii. 209

Bromlowe, John (1479), 42

Brompton, Brian de (1270-1272), vii. 80,

81, 82, 89, 40. 48, 138 } Tiii. 269
— — , , Emma Corbet, 1st wife oi^

Tii 81, 89, 40
* , , Sara, 2nd wife ©t Tiii. 269,

9. Bolas, Foresters of

-, Brian, Grandsonof^ Tii 188

Brompton, William de (1256), 104

i , Margery, wife ot 104

Bromwich, Robert de (1236), Tiii 140
Bronyngton (of Hurste), William, 257

i , Isabella, wife of, 257

Brookesby, Bartholomew, 281

Brog of Uppington. —

, Richard (I.) de (1203-1288), Tiii.

166, 168, 164-5, 167 bis, 168 ier, 169,
piaier, 172 bis, 182, 183, 187 bit
— , — , Richard, father of^ Tiii 168,
165

, ""— « Sibil Mnsson wife ci, Tiii

168, 164, 165

, William de (1242-5), Tiii. 164^ 165,

170 iif, 171, 185 iir, 188

, Richard (II.) de (1245-1264), Tiii

157, 164-5, 166, 178, 186

, Riohazd (III.) de (1264-1309), Tiii.

156, 165-6, 178 «, 186, 189
Bruua, William de (1175-8), Tii. 245,

821; Tiii ion
Bmyn, John and Elen (1489), 816
Biythe, Richard le (1271), 148, «. Eaton
BudeU, Hugh (1221), Tiii 201
Buildwas, Abbot and ConTent of^ 76-78,
121-2, 142, 217, 312, 818, 816, 832-
834, 860 ; Tii 156, 321-825, 880-884,
838-9 ; Tiii 26, 116, 120-1, 825, 249
Buildwas, Abbots of, 832-334.—
Ingenulf («. 1140), 821, 822, 882
Ranulf (1152-1187), 826-828, 328*,

833 ; Tiii 217
Robert P (1182), 828, 888
William {hUer 1198-1206), Tiii 91
Huotrad (o. 1210-1216), 830, 888 1

Tii 244
Simon (1288), 76^ 888
Nicholas (1286-56), 888 ; Tii 47,

172 1 Tiii 26, 118, 119
Adam (1271-2), 818, 834
Henry BumeL (1308), 384 ; Tii 828
John (1817-1842), 882, 884
William, 884; Tiii 120
Stephen (1521-86), 332, 884; Tiii 120
Buildwas of litde BuUdwas.—

Alan fits Berenger de (1175-92),

829 ; Tii 820, 321
Alan de (Clerk), (e. 1212), tu. 824,

825,828
Alan de (def, 1226), Tii 821
— -, Agnee, wife of, Tii 821
Alan de (1228-9), Tii 821
Alan de (1282-1267), Tii 821, 822,

386
— ^, Alice, daughter o( Tii. 322,
823, o. Leyabam

INDEX Of PERSONS.

819

BnildwBB Fam^ liiotmibeots o( yu. S25

^ Undertenants in, yii 824
Buildwasi NioholaB de Frane, Monk of,

76
BnkenhnU, Gilbert do (1231), rii. 329 ;

YUL 8

Bulgeie, Baldwin la (1267), viL 29

Bolkn V. Boilers. —

Bnntingsdale, Philip de (1220), Yiii« 52

, Alan de (1281-6), viiL 62

^— , Thomas de (1300), yiiL 62

Bnrchton, Martin de, 180, 277

1 , Elena, wife of, 130, 277

-*— , Alan de, yiL 274

^ ^ Beiner, son o^ yii. 274

Bnrell, Adam (1200), yiii. 108

Bnrgh, Sari of Ulster.—

, Biehard de, yiii. 64

~^—, , Elisabeth de Clare, wife of^

yiii 64

Burgh, Hubert de, 18 ; Tii248; Yiii«17,
198,202

Burgh of Mowthe, yiL 108

, John de (1487), TiL 60

Bnrghersh, Bartholomew de (1828), yiii.
64

Bnrgo, Michael de (1280), yiii. 209

Biurgo, Philip de, 270

9^—, ^ Alioe de Pichford, wi& o(

270

^ Bertram de (deft. 1219), 270

, , Hdisant, wife of, 270

^ Bertram de (1219), 270

, Bertram de (o. 1268), yiii 48

Burgylun, William (1267), yiii 143

Burle^, Simon de, (1886-7), 816

Burnel, Baronial House t>f. —

Bobert Bumel, Bishop of Bath and
Wells, 17, 71, 78, 95, 126-182,
134, 186-6» 143-146, 155, 187,
198-9, 229, 230, 234^ 273 «, 277,
289, 290, 301, 826 ; yii. 27, 169,
176, 177-8, 307-8, 882, 837-8 j
yiii. 158
— , Hugh, brother of, 128, 129,
132, 134, 187, 263 ; yiL 176, 384 ;
yiii 38, 87
— — , — ^, Alioe, daughter d, 134 ;
yiii. 37

,— -^i Petronilla, daughter of,

134, 187 ; yiii 87

Bumel, Baronial House of (eonfMUMQ.—

, Sibil, wifeof Hugh, 134; yiii.37

— , William] (a Clerk), son of Hugh,

134 ; yiii 87
, Philip, brother of Bishop Bo-
bert (o6. 1282), 182, 134, 146,
146 «, 326
-, William, brother of Bishop

Bobert (ob. 1282), 128, 129, 131,

134,209; yii. 808
, , Bobert, son of (of Eis-

sington), 184
Philip Bumel (2nd Baron), 17, 18,

71, 72, 78, 90, 95-6, 105, 134,

135-6, 139, 147, 156, 222, 263,

290, 294, 801, 845 i»; yii 123,

169, 176-7, 229, 281, 384; yiii.

87,158
^ Maud fitz Alan, wife of; 71-2,

78-9, 90, 105, 134^ 294-5 ; yii

229, 281
Edward Bumel (3rd Baron), 18, 71,

101-2, 134, 136, 145, 156, 226,

253, 257, 290, 301 ; yii 169, 384
^ Alina le Despenser, wife o^ 18,

184, 136, 156, 253, 302

, Mand, sister and heir of, 134

-, John Loyel, first husband

0(134

» , John de Handle, second

husband of, 134, 157 ; yii. 169 ;
yiii 158
Nicholas Bumel (4th Baron), 97,
134, 139, 157, 276, 281 ; yii 176
Hugh Bumel (5th Baron), 97, 139,
157, 281
Bumel of Acton Bumell and Langley ;
(Elder line) 326

, William (I.) (o. 1172), 122^ 138,

304; yii 363

, Thomas (c. 1195), 122, 124^ 138,

148; yiii. 247

, William (H.) (1195-1220), 91,

122-8, 138, 140, 14&-9 ; yu. 18 ; yiu.
247, 248, 249

, , Simon, supposed brother o(

128,133
, William (HI.) (1220-1247), 76, 87,

128-4, 133, 137-8, 141, 147, 805 ; yiii.

248,249

— , , Rose, wife of, 188, 141, 147

820

INDEX OF PERSONS.

Bumel of Aoton BnmeU and hmf^ (El-
der line oonHwtied), —

, William (IV.) (1247-1249), 124-

126, 133, 141-2, 144, 14^ 150-1; yiL
808

, ' , KichHrdy bfothw oJ^ v, Snr-
nell of Langley

Bamel of Acton BomeL ; — younger line.

, Gerin (118^1190), 122-8, 124

TiL48

, Hugh (1200-1229), 74^ 128-4

, , Gkrin, Buppoeed eon of (1216-

1240), 123-^ 124, 233, 807

Boger (124&-1269), 12&^, 127,

187; TiLOen
Bumel of Langley. —
, Biohard (125&-1313), 17, 67, 133,

143-145, 147, 168, 266 ; TiiL 24d

, — » Alianore^ 1st wife o^ 133

, , ••••, 2nd wife ot, 183

, WilliAm (1813-1380), 65, 68, 188,

145,168

, , Boisia, wife of, 188

, , William, son of (1881), 183,

146
y Edward (1328-1877), 133, 147,

220, 814 fl»

, , Margaret Lee, wife o^ 188

, , Beginald, son o( 188

, f Edward, son of, 133

, — , Johanna, daughter of, 188, v.

Lee of Lee and Pimhill

, — ^, Hugelina, daughter o^ 138

— , , Oatherine, daughter of, 138

Bumel of Stoney Stretton. —

, Simon (1255), yiL 62

Bumel of Yennington and Whitton. —

, Boger («. 1215), vil 18, 65

y Boger (1240-1274), vii 44^ 61, 66,

177

, Bobert t (1268), yiL 27, 66

, Hugh (1816-1880), yiL 66 ; Tiii 16

Bumel, Philip (Manuoaptor 1229), 124

, Philip (Juror 1253), 126, 252

, Walter (of Aoton Bumell 1262),

137
Bumel, William (1284), 17
, William (of Chatwall, 1292), vii.

80811
— , William (of Pimley), tiL 807, 308
— -, , Isabella, sister o^ lii. 807-8,

V. Withington

Bumel, William (Archdeaoon of Taunton,

1294), Tii. 808 n.
, William pean of Wells, ob. 1296),

Tii. 80811
, William (Prebeodaiy of Liohfield,

ob. 1305), Yii 808 »
Bumham, Philip de, yiiL 9 «, 10, 11

, f Emma le Strange, wife o^

YiiL 9 «, 10, 11
Burrer (T.B. E.), TiL 198 ; rixL 267
Burton, Alan de (1249), 180

y QeofBtey de (tern. Hen. I.), yiiL 266

, Helyas de (1220-1), 176, 177, 208 ;

TiiL 166, 172
1 — , Alioe Bosohart, wife oi, 176 1

Tiii. 165, 172
1 , Heniy,Bonot 177, 178,208 ;

TiiL 167, 166, 172-3, v. COotley
, y , Bdelina, wife ci, 178 ;

TiiL 166, 172

, Balph de, e. Marescall of Burton

, Bichard de, 60

, Boger de (1826), 105, 264

, Thomas de^ 176, v. Behingeham

, , Alioe Bosohart, wife of, 176,

209,210
y Walter de (1290-1826), 69, 60 Us,

61, 66, 67, 68, 106, 180 ; TiL 894

1 , Sibil, dau. o^ 180, e. Felton

, William de (1262), 180

, William Bussel of; 69

, , Geoffrey, son o( 69

Burton of Longner, TiiL 210

, Edward (1846), TiiL 210

Burwardsley, Warin de, 804 ; TtL 827
, , Philip, brother ot 804

-, PhiUp de (e. 1228), TiL 75, 77
-, Nicholas de (1800), viL 887

Butery, PhiUp de (1191-1200), TiiL 106
Butler, Thomas (Incumbent of Sutton,

1520), 867
Bury of Uppington, v. Gheilton
, Biohard de (1266-1807), TiiL 157

ter, 168, 166, 178, 176, 178-9, 188-9
i f •••• de Longslow, Ist wife

of, TiiL 157, 176, 178, 180
1 , Christiana de Harrington, 2nd

wife of (1823), TiiL 176, 179, 180
i 1 Adam, son <rf (1808), TiiL

176, 179

-, John, son of (1808-88), Tiii.

176, 179, 180

INDBX OF PERSONS.

321

Buiy of Uppington (conHmted), —
, Richard (II.) de (1308-8S), viii.

176, 179, 180, 189

i , Adam, son of^ viii. 176, 181

, — ^, Margery, daughter of (1319-

46), viii. 176, 180-1
J J Margery, wife of (1339-44),

viu. 176, 181
, Eiohard (IH.) de (1823-6), viu.

176, 180

, , Matilda de Sutton, wife o^

via 176, 180
Bury, Beginald de (1285), viii 178
Byde (of Tihberton), Bichard (1283), viii.

94
Byrohe, «. Birche
Byriton, v. Berrington

C.

Cadewathlon, Hoel ap, 161
Caginton, v. Caynton
Oaineto, William de (c. 1167), vii. 276
Galoott, Thomas (c. 1490), 186 n
Caldone, William de, 828
Oaleweton; William de (1292), viii. 46
Cambray, or Cumbray, of Lee Oumbray

, Aimed de (1167-80), vu. 340-842

, John de (c. 1190-1200), vii. 341,

842
y i Alina, widow of (1208), vii.

341, 842, «. Hamarz
— , Boger de (1212), vii. 342
— , Agnee de (1216), vii. 342
— , Petronilla de (1218), vii. 842
-, Bobert? de (1209), vii. 342

Camera, Osbert de (1176), viii. 164 n
Gamvill, Richard de (o. 1170), 246 ; viL
276, 290 n

^, Qerard, son of (1176), vii

293

-, Geoffrey de (1216), vii 66

Ganterbury, Archbishops of.^-
Stigand, vii. 214
William Gorbois, 182, 188, 318
Theobald, 171 ; vii 11 it, 147 ; viii.

216, 220, 246
Thomas k Becket, vii. 889 «; viii.

220,246
Richard, viu. 220, 246

VIU.

Canterbury, Archbishops of {continued), —
Baldwin, vii. 242, 366 ; viii. 220
Hubert Walter, vii 161, 164, 182-3,

248, 294 ; viii. 220, 247-8
Stephen Langton, viii 220
John de Peckham, 28
Walter Reynol, vii 140
Henry d^pheley, vii. 97
Canterbury, Geofflrey, Archdeacon of^ 246,

327 ; vii 290 »
Cantilupe, Family of, 212, 286

, William (I.) de (1206-1239), 194^

196, 213, 368-366; vii 20, 93, 121,
184,244

, — , Masoelina de Braoy^ wife of,

366
, William (II.) de (1289-1261), 112,

197, 278 n, 293, 866; vii. 121, 174,

184

— , , Isabella, sister of, 278 «, v.

Devereux

—, William (III.) de (1261-1264), 112,

252, 278, 366

— i , Eva de Braoee, wife of, vii.

164n
— , George de (o5. 1273), 118, 214, 236,

262, 260, 273, 357 ; vii. 121, 122, 175
•, Milisent, sister o^ 113, 236,

263^ 867 ; vii. 122, 176
Cantilupe, Robert de (of Meole, 1264),

366
Cantlop, Thurstan de (1294), 294
Canvile, v. Camvill
Garbonell, Pagan, 124
Cardeston, Incumbents of, vii 112-113
Careles of Albrighton. —
, Roger (1292-1313), 66, 166, 274 »

vii. 296, 297, 328-4
Careles of Longnor. —

, John (1375), 66

, , Joan le Strange, wife of, 66

Careles, Roger (Seneschal, 1341), vu. 813
Castello, Herbert de, 60, 239-241 ; vii.

275
, , Emma de Pulverbatch, wife

of, 60, 240, 241
•, Nicholas de (1166), viii. 266

Cau2 (or Chauz), Robert de (1165), vii.

73 »
, , Matilda, daughter of, vii. 73 «,

141, V. Birkyn, and Fits Stephen

41

322

INDEX OF PEE80NB.

GayersweU of Dawley, 801 ; TiiL 43

, William de (1266-6), viii 48, 47

Caverswell of OaTerswdL —

, William de(c. 1280), vii 893

, William de (oJ. 1348), rn. 398

Cajnton of Old Oaynton and Bodington.

, William de (1180), 287-8 ; viU. 273

, Eobert 6e (1223-1242), vii. 377-

379, 380, 383 ; viii 66, 94, 221, 273
, , Petronilla, wife o^ Tii. 377,

378, 379, 380 ; viii 273 m
, , JiiUaxui, daughter of, vii. 377,

380, «. Flotebroch
, William (H.) de (1249-1304), yiii.

46, 48» 49, 94^ 99, 273--1
Cenwalh, King of the West Saxons (661),

TiL130
Cbabbenore, v, Fite Odo of Kenley
Ghambre, Sir Boger, 64
Gbampiun of Condover. —

, Richard (1256), 19

. , Boger le (1269), 26

, Walter {def, 1262), 20

, William (1262), 209

Ghampneys of Dorrington. —

^ Eobert, 21, 262-4.

, , William, son of (1266-92),

21, 67, 248, 266, 262-4
— , , — , Alice de Gotheroote,

wife of; 21, 262
Ghampneys of Odkn, —

, Boger (0. 1298), 169

, , Nesta, wife off 169

Ghampneys (of Fontesbury), William, son

of William (1292), Tii. 143
Ghampneys of Wilderley. —

, William (1253-81), 260, 262-264

, , Bichard, son of, 260, 263--4

, — — , Boger, son o^ 260

, John (1280-1302), 16, 5&-60, 169,

206,260-1

1 Thomas (o. 1298), 169

Ghampneys, Boger (1364), 300
Charite, Henry (1267), 360 j viL 29
Ghames, John de (1256-66), Yiii. 43-46
-, , Ghristiana de Dawley, wife

of, TiiL 43-46, 4S

-, Begimdd de (1272-1310), 301 ;

Tiii. 44, 46

Ghatford, Biohard de (1292), 20

, William fits Be^nald de (1274), 20

Ghaucumb, Hugh de (Justiciar, 1196),

TiiL 247
Ghaunterel of Donnington Wood. —

, Gteof&ey (1200), viu. 231

, Geoffrey 1266), TiiL 231, 232

GhaTes, Bobert de (1263), TiiL 44 »
Ghaworth, Fatrick de (1136), TiL 241 »

, Fagan de (1166), TiL 241 «

Gherlton of Apley Gastle.—

, John de (1369), TiiL 261

, Thomas de (1382), TiiL 261

Gherlton of Gherlton, near Shawbuiy.—
, Bichard de (c. 1177-8), Tiii. 47, 226,

261
, Balph de (1248-76), viiL 261, 262,

279

, , Edith, mother o^ TiiL 261

Gherlton of Charlton, near Wrockwar-

dine. —
, Alan fitz Yto de (12a-1246), TiiL

164 bis, 177
, Master John de (1260-1320), 218;

Tu. 85 ; Tiii. 49, 166, 171, 178-A 179,

188, 232
, , Bulga, dan. of, TiiL 282, e.

Bere of Muxton

, Bichard de (c. 1178), TiiL 47, 226

i_, Bichard fit* Fhilip de (tf. 1230-

1240), Tiii. 168

, Bichard de (1272), TiiL 101

-, Matilda, mother of; TiiL 101

— , Bobert ^U William de (c 1236),

TuL 168 hii

— , Bobert de (1220-1266), 137; TiiL

161, 164 gwUery 168, 169, 170, lIU

172. 173 6»#, 174, 176, 177, 178, 186,

187 bis, 188, 190, 284
— , Bobert de (c. 1300), Tiii. 189
— , Bobert de (1390), Tii. 273
— , Walter de (1246), Tiii. 164
— , William de (1266), tuL 188
-, William (Seneschal of Wombzidge,

Tii. 323

-, Heira of (1316), 801

-, Beginald, son of (1303),

1686), Tii. 370
Gherlton of Fowys.—
, John (I.) de (1806-1363), 61-68,

64 »; Tii. 184, 140-142, 298
^ ^ Hawyse de la Fole, wife ot,

61-64, V. Fowys
, , Alan, brother of (1326), Tiii.

34

INDEX OF PERSONS.

323

Gherlton of Powjb (eonUmied), —

, John (H) de <1868-e0), tu. 140,296

, John (m.) de (1860-1874), vii. 141

Cheflton, Griffin de (FortionerofPonteB-

bory), vii. 140, 142
, Humphrey de(PoitionepofPonteB-

bniy), vii 140, 141 ter, 142
, Lewis de (Portioner of Ponteebury),

TiL 140, 142, V. Hereford, Bishope of
-, Thomas de (Portioner of Pontes-

bmry), yii. 142, 142 «, o. ihidem

, William de (Portioner), viL 140

Cherlton of Uppington. —

, Adam (I.) de (1196-1220), Tiii. 168,

167 bit, 172, 174-176, 182, 189 his
, y Alice Mussun, wife o^ Tiii.

I74r-176, 182, 282
, Adam (II.) de (1230-1287), viu.

161, 164 ter, 168 sexies, 169 his, 175,

176, 177, 182, 186, 187
, William de {fUitu De la Curt, tUias

De la Buri), (1286>1248), yiiL 157, 164

fcr, 169, 176, 177-6, 182
— — , , John de Cherlton (Clerk),

brother of (1240-1272), viii 164 &w,

169, 176, 279

-, Richard, son of (1266-1807),

viii 167, 166, 173, 176, 178, v. Buri
Cherrington, Richard, Lord of (e. 1174-

1180), Tii. 865 ; viii. 9, 196-6
, Pagan de (c. 1180-1200), yiii.

47, 106, 108, 196-6

-, Thomas,Lordof(8on of Richard),

(1204-1284), Yiii. 196-7, 201, v. Eslege
, , William, son and heir of

(1234-6), viii. 196, 197, 198

-, Richard, son of {e. 1249-

60), TiiL 92, 199

, Richard (II.), Lord of (1263-

1260), Tiii. 49, 198, 199

, Thomas de (1253), Tiii. 199

', Isabella, or Sibil, de (1284), Tiii.

198, 199
Cherrington, Adam de, TiiL 199

i —I William, son ofj Tiii. 199

, Richard Bernard of (1249-1274),

Tiii 49, 92, 199

'y Undertenants in, Tiii. 199

Chester, Archdeacons of. —
William (c, 1145), 822
Robert (1190), TiiL 149
Ralph de Maidstone, TiiL 209

Chester, Bishops of, t>. Lichfield.
Chester, Earls o£ —

Lucia, their Ancestress, tiL 280
Ranulf (II.), 810 ; TiL 286-6, 291-2

, Maud, wife o^ Tii. 286

Hugh CyTelioc, Tii. 289, 840
Ranulf (III.),Tii. 16, 17, 188,185, ^
John Soot, 15

^1 Ada, dau. o( 16, v. Hastings

Chesthill of ChesihilL—

^, Richard de {e. 1195-1214), Tiii.

156, 197, 201

, Robert de (1218), TiiL 197, 201

, Richard de a221-8), Tiii. 197, 201

-203
Chesthill, Undertenants in, TiiL 204
Chesthull of Uppington. —

, Richard de (1196-1214), TiiL 187,

156, 167, 176, 181-2

— — , , Isabella Mussun, wife of, Tiii.

176, 176, 181-2, 201

, , Roger, son of (c. 1220), Tiii.

175, 176, 182
, , John, son of (1227), tiu. 167,

175-6, 182

— , , Isabella, Petronillii, and Ma-
bel, daughters of (1236), TiiL 175-6, 182
— , — , Robert, eldest son o^ Tiii.

182, «. Chesthill of Chesthill
Chetel (T. R. E.), 4 Ins, 152, 205, 258
Chetilton, Robert de (1281), Tiii. 91
CJhetwynd of Chetwynd, 271, 279, 286,

290 ; Tiu. 82
, Adam de (1180-1208), Tiii. 82, 91,

106,108
, John (I.) de (1202-1256), 271 ; tH.

279 ?, 875 ; Tiii. 30, 82-84, 172, 181,

183, 187

, John (II.) de (1260-1281), 274 ;

TiL 255, 279, 398 ; TiiL 84-86, 90, 92
J , Adam, supposed brother of

(1272-1282), Tiii. 24, 86, 86, 87

• , , — , John, son of, Tiii. 86, 87

, , PhiUp, brother of (1268-

1284), Tii. 898 ; Tiii. 84, 86
— , , , Isabella de Mutton,

wife of, Tiii. 84
, , , PhiUp, son of (1284-

91), Tiii. 86, 87
— , — — , Philip, son of, Tiii. 86
, , Reginald, son of (1281-4),

Tiii. 86, 87

824

INDEX OF PERSONS*

Ghetwynd of Chetwynd (eonHmued), —
-^, John (HI.) de (1292-1861), 65,

275, 276, 281 i vii 267 ; viii. 88, 89,

90,99M»
,^ , Reginald, son of (drf. 1344),

Tin. 88
— , , , Joan, dftu. and heir of,

viii. 88, V. PeshaU
Chetwynd, Incumbents o^ yiii. 89, 90
Chetwynd, Reginald de (Rector of Chet-
wynd and Kinnersiey, 1318-1351), yiii.

88, 89, 131

, Undertenants in, yiii. 82, 83, 89

— — , John de (Rector of Preston, 1350),

viii. 261
Cheyne or Cheyney. —

, Hugh de (1269), Tii. 392

, Roger de (1307-1336), viL 282, 296

bit, 302, 317, 334
, , Hugh, son of (1318-1336),

Tii. 296^302
, ^— , John, son of (Portioner of

Wroxeter, 1314), vii. 317
Chichester, Joceline, Archdeaoonof (1181),

Tii. 864
Childs-EnsU, IncumbenU of, viii. 19, 20
, Richard de Ercalewe, Rector of, 47
, Roger de Aston, Rector o^ 47

y Undertenants in, viii. 14^ 15, 18

Chilton, Roger de (1283), 16, 173
Chirbuiy, Prior of^ yiii. 221
Christian, Henry (o. 1190), 190

, Robert (c. 1175), viii. 28

Cigoyn, Engehud de (1217), viii. 208
Cir (of Roden), Hugh le (1274), vii 387
Citeauz, Abbots of. —
William (1192), 329
Arnold, 829
W. 880

John (1301), 831
Clare^ or Hertford, Oilbert'de Clai^, Earl

of (1145), viii. 214
Clare, Thomas de (1274), viii. Ill
Clavering, John de, vii. 190
— , , Eva, daughter o^ vii 190,

V. Audley
aeia, Ralph de (1175), vu. 245, 321
Cli^ Henry del (1941), viiL 288
Clifford, Giles de (1260), vii. 26
y Roger de (Justice of the Forest),

842

Clifford, Rosamond de, 245»
— — , y OeofSrej, son o^ 246

-, Walter (II.) de, vii 244, 248

-, Walter (III.) de, 338, 340 ; viL 20,

22, 26, 93
Clifton of Belswardine. —

, Robert de (1227-1252), 228, 229

9 , Amelina, wife o^ 228

, Richard de (1256-72), 229, 230

Clinton, Geoi&ey de (1130), 318, 319, 322
^ J Roger, Nephew of, 318, «.

Lichfield, Bishops of

, William de (1136-45), 322

dive, John de (c. 1270), viiL 52
Clodeshull, • • • de, 815

, , Joan de Lacy, wife ofi 316

— — , , Elizabeth, dau. of, 316

Clotley or Cluddley of Cluddley.—

, Walter de (o. 1178), viii. 47

, Robert de (1285-1250), viii. 170 bU,

171 W», 177, 186, 187, 279

, Ralph de (1256), viii. 188

-, Richard de (1302), viii. 271

Clotley of Uppington. —

, Heniy de (c. 1237), viiL 173, 187

, f Felicia, daughter of (c. 1253),

viiL 173
^ ^ ^ William Sibem, 2nd

husband of {o. 1266), viii. 173
Clun, Reiner de (1160), vii. 287

y William, Chaplain o^ viL 274

f John Barbour, Vicar o^ 88

Clut, Heinoun, 161

, , Gtervase and Meredith, sons

of, 161
Cnotton, John de (1208), viii. 186
Cocus, Oliver, 149

Coggeehall, Peter, Abbot of, vii. 866 n
Coke (of Uppington), William (1341),

viii. 159
Colebam, Gilbert de (o. 1222), viii. 168

, Master Ranulf de (c. 1234), 77

, Ranulf de (1248-88), viii. 118,

120, 122

-, James, son of (1288), viii.

122
Coleshasel, «. Culshis
ColevUe, PhiUp de (1233), vii. 21
CoUe, Hugh (1267-73), 357 ; vii. 29
Colne (Essex), R. Prior o^ viL 366 n
Coly, Herbert (1272), 267

INDEX OF PBKSONS.

325

Coly, John (1272), 267

, Boger (1255-1274), viL 61, 62

Coly of Uppington. —

, John (1282-1304), viii. 167, 158,

179 hit

, John (1341), Tiii. 158, 161

Comhermere, Abbot and Oonvont o( yiii.

12, 16, 17, 19, 62, 201-204
Oombermere, Abbots of. —

William {awte 1160), yiii. 216 n
Geoffrey (c. 1160), yin. 216 i», 217
Thomaa (deposed 1201), yiii. 16
Thomas de Gillyng (1201-16), viii. 16
Robert (c. 1230-40), viii. 14
Simon (1240-1252), viii. 62
William de Waresley (1262-6), viii.
13,14
Oombermere, Bobert deCanmpeden, Prior

of a271), viii. 13
Ck>ndover, Ralph de (1093-1121), viii. 46

, Gilbert de (1093-1180), viii. 46,

47, 63, 64

t , — , Bichildis, wife oty viii. 47

— — , , Baldwin, son o^ viii 47, 63

., Hugh de (1166). viii. 47

Condover, Portioners or Bectors of. —
Bartholomew, John, and Thomas

{tern. Hen. II.), 28, 246
Henrj de Lichfield, 29, 32
Thomas de Chames, 29-32
WDliam de Wesenham, 32

Condover, Undertenants in. —
Adam Faber (1272-4), 20 iu
Adam Hare (1272), 20
Elyaa de Condover (1266*72), 19, 20,

180
Geoffirey de Bnton (1266), 19
Henry le Palmer (1266), 21 n
John Methe (1274), 20
Nioholas Chese (1272), 20
Nicholas Clerk (1260), 19
Nichohw de Botiton (1274), 20
Nicholas de la Stiwele (1266), 19
Nicholas Pick, or Pyk (1272-1319),

20 bit, 67, V, Byton
Nicholas Young (1274), 20
Bichard Botte (1274), 20
Bichard Colvox (1274),20
Bichard de Chatford (1292), 20
Bichard de Haldenelde (1292), 20
Bichard fitz Eldith (1282), 19

Condover, Undertenants in (oofi^tmMd).—
Bichard fits Bobert (1266), 198
Bobert, Provost of Condover (1209),

19
Boger Bolemer, 20
Boger Bulloc (1272-92), 20 Us
Boger Gomel (1272), 20
Boger, Provost (1272), 20
Samuel (1256), 21 n
. Samson de Condover (1221), 19
William Binte (1272), 20
WilUam Bulloo (1272-92), 20 bit
William aerk (1292), 20
William de Barton {def. 1262), 20
William fitz Hugh (1272), 20
William fitz Simon (def, 1262), 20
Condover, Yicars of, 31, 82, 83
Conede, Walter de (1242), 73
Conede, Walter de (1272), 73, 280
Const-antine, of Eaton Constantine, Old-
buiy, Haughton, Sandford, &c.

Badulf, presumed ancestor o^ viii. 1
Hugh de (tern. Hen. I.), viiL 1
Helyas de (1166), viu. 1
Bichard de (0. 1190), vii. 276 ; viii.

-, Helias, son of;viiL 3,285,287
-, Balph, son o^ viii. 3, 285, 287
-, Bichard, son o^ viii. 3, 287
-, William, son of, viii 3, 171,

287

— , Thomas (I.) de (1196-1240), 196,
197, 362 J vii 316, 328, 329, 336 ; viii.
2, 3, 17, 29, 140, 167 bis, 175, 182, 268,
284, 286-«, 287

— , , Isabel de Girros, wife of, viii.

2,3

, Thomas (11.) de (1240-1277), 89 »;

viii. 3, 4, 170, 242, 286

— ^, , Isabella, daughter o^ viii 3,

4, 6, V. Montgomery

Constantino, Bobert de {tem. Hen. III.),
vm, 6

, John (1278-1312), vii. 324^ 337 5

viii. 6

, John (1331-1346), viii. 5, 210

Constantine (of Scotland), Bobert, Geof-
frey, Nigel, and Walter de (tern. Hen.
II.), vii. 226, 226 «, 226 n

Corbechun, Bobert (1236), vii. 391
' y , Murilda, wife of, vii. 391

826

INDEX OF PERSONS.

Cbrbet^BaxonsafOauB, 119; yu.40
Owbet, ihe Noiman (1071-1060),

Tii. 8,40
Boger fitz Corbet (1086-1121), 2, 4

hif, 106-9, 119, 121, 165 ; viL 2
phirUi, 5-10, 18, 40, 45, 50, 58, 63,

65, 67, 97, 100, 109, 111, 118, 116-

117, 120, 128, 127, 180, 144-5, 194,

198, 220-1 i yiii 253, 254
— — , Boberi, brother oi^ yu» 40, 109,

ISO, V. Corbet of Aloester
^— , William, son of, yii 10, 40,

100, 101
— — , Ebrard, son o( viL 10, 11, 40,

293
, Simon, son o( yii 10, 11, 40,

298
Boger (Corbet (XL), vii 11, 12, 14,

22, 40, 101
— — , Simon, brother o^ yiL 11, 40,

101, 181
, William, euppoeed brother o(

TiL 14^ 40, vide Corbet of Dawley
Bobert Corbet (1176-1222), 165, 259,

829, 864 ; TU. 11, 12-19, 21-28,

40, 46, 54r-5, 65, 86-7, 101-2, 118,

128, 181, 164, 244-5, 327
-— — , Emma Pantul^ supposed wife

o^ yii. 21, 40
— ^, Hugh, brother o( yiL 18, 40
, William, supposed brother oi,

160P yiL 18, 40
Thomas Corbet (1222-1274), 54, 125,

126-7, 187, 198, 200, 213, 255 ;

yii. 12, 14, 17-32, 40, 42-H 47,

51-2, 57, 77^, 80-84^ 87, 98-96,

98, 103-4, 105, 114, 116-118, 128,

131-2, 187-8, 171, 174, 177 ; yiii.

149
— ^-, Isabel de YaUetort, wife o£^ yiL

31, 36, 40

, Bobert,brother Of (1209-1256X

864; yiL 12, 16, 18, 21, 40, 42 ;

yiii. 149
, Hugh, brother of (c. 1220), yiL

18,40
, Margaret, sister of^ yiL 17, 28,

40
^— , William, supposed brother of

(1215-1221), 128-4 ; yiL 40
, ••», aunt of («. 1216), 128

Corbet, Barons of Cans («mtmmBd^.^'
Peter Corbet (I.) (1274-1800), 127,
186-6, 200 ; yiL 27, 29, 80-417,40^
62, 84, 87, 98-9, 105, 110, 126,
129, 133, 176, 261
-^— ^ Joan, first wife of, yii. 37, 40
— — , Alice, second wife o^ yiL 87, 40

, Alice, sister of, yiL 31, 39, 40

i Emma, sister of^ yiL 31, 89, 40

i Thomas, son o^ yiL 86, 87, 40

> , Joan Plukenet, wife of,

yii. 86, 40
•— ^, John, son o( yiL 87, 88, 39 «»

40,41
Peter Corbet (H.) (1800-rl882), 63,
136; yiL 32, 87-M), 41, 47-8, 62,
107
— — , Beatrice de Beauchamp, wife
of; yiL 37-10, 68
Corbet of Aleester and Longden. —

Bobert fitz Corbet (1086-1221), 2 Mf,
4 ter, 151-2, 157-169, 162-3, 166-
167, 169, 170 ; yiL 2 jpWiw, 8-10,
40, 109, 127, 130-1, 142, 144, 146,
161, 166, 159, 170, 171-2, 181,
220

, Bobert, son o( yiL 109, 145,

159 .
, Sibil, or Adda, or Imda, daugh-
ter o^ 162; yiL 146, 158 «, 159,
181

, Alice, daughter of, yiL 146,

166-159
Corbet, of Binweston. —

, John {int. 1300-1322), yii. 89 n

, John (1866), yii. 39 »

f i John, son of (1356), yii. 39 »

— , — , , Joan, wife of, yii. 89 n

Corbet, of Dawley, Middlesex. —

, William (1165), yU. 14^ 40

Corbet, of Habberley and Longnor. —

, John, 66

——^i Thomas {t§m* James I.), 66
Corbet, of Hadle^, Tasley, BQgh Hatton,
King's Bromley, &o. —

, Boger (I.) (1176-1204), 82, 829 ;

yii. 55, 841, 365-6
— , — -, Cecilia de Hadley, wife of, yii.
65, 856-6

, Thomas (I.) (1221-1247), yiL 24

856 ; yiiL 182

INDEX OF PERSONS.

827

Corbet of Hadley, Ta^ky, High Hatton,

King's Bromley, &c. (canHwued), —
- — , Soger (II.) (1247^1259), vii. 854,

85&-357, 867

, — , Edelina^ wife oi^ yii. 867

, Thomaa (II.) (1269-1800), yii. 867 ;

TiiL 87, 67, 85, 166, 171, 189
-: , Eoger (III.) (1800-1849), 18, 63

6w ? 65 ^ ; viL 42, 367-862 ; viiL 161,

179, 180-1

, , Hftwyse^ wife oi^ viL 858

, y JcOui, son of (1822-46), Tii.

369, 860^1 ; Yiii. 161

— y f r Eobert, eon of (1354-

1404), Tii. 861-2

— , — , y — , Robert, son of

1895-6), viL 362
— , » William, son of (1327-45),

YiL 369, 360
, ^ Robert, son of (1831-48), yii.

860; yiii. 861
— , ^ — > Matilda^ lat wife o£i

yiL861
^«-, -— ^, — *-*, Elizabeth^ 2nd wife of

(1848-1364), yu. 861
, ^,— , Hawyse, daughter off

yii. 861
Corbet of Leigh. —

, Roger (1272), yu. 42, 48

, Roger (1318-1325), 41, 42 ; yii

368-9
Corbet of Mailhnrst —

, Richard (1255), yii. 184» 185

— ^ AmftH^ widow of (1267), yii.

135

-, Richard (1286), yiL 136

Corbet of Wattleaborough and Moreton,
140; yu. 840

, Ridbard (1180-1217), 124; yiL 18,

19

f f Roger, brother of {c, 1196),yiL

102

, Richard (II.) (1226-1248), 77 ; yii.

102, 103 ; yii. 118, 119

— -> , ••••• Toiet, wife ot yii. 102

^ ^ Roger, son of (1238), yii. 108

y Robert (1256-1800), 88, 66-7. 167,

288, 299 ; yii. 4, 27 5w, 28 hU, 88, 42-
48, 48, 84, 99, 104-106, 110, 111, 112,
114, 126, 176, 281, 896 ; yiii. 87, 88,
92, 100, 101, 120, 144-6» 262

Corbet of Wattleeborough and Moreton

(eaMtinmed). —
, Id% first wife of Robert (1262-7),

167 ; yii. 104
^1 Matilda de Arundel, second wife of

Robert, yii. 48, 99, 106-7, 114, 281 ;
yiii 88, 146
-, Richard, supposed brother of Ro-

bert (1266), yii. 103

— y Fuloo, son of Robert (1804-1311),

yiL 112, 112 n

— , Thomas (1300-1310), yiL 48, 107,

112
, Robert (II.) (1310-1376), yii. 48,

60, 107, 176, 282, 802 ; yiu. 262, 287 »,

288
Corbet (of Moreton), Roger (1326), yii.

869
Corbet, Alan (126^-^), yii. 27, 96
, Master Alan {o. 1246), yiL 269 ; yiii.

160
— — , Hugh (Prebendary of Alberbury, e,

1202), yiL 86

, Hugh (1236), yiL 181

, Johanna (Lady of Habberley, 1360),

yii. 60

, Reginald (hostage, 1283), yiL 21

, Robert^ son of Hugh (1272), yii. 64

, Roger (tern. Edw. II.), yiL 42, 86

y Roger (summoned to Parliament

1827-8X yiL 42 »

J Walter (Augustine Canon), 169, 161

, , William, brother of, 160

, William (Prebendavy of Alberbury,

6. 1202-1220), yiL 86, 108
-, WiUiam, Semar (1272), yiL 188

Corbrond of TJppington. —

• •• • • Corbrond (<i^. 1208), yiii,

184,186
, Juliana Mussun, wife of (o6»

1236), yiii. 184, 186-7
Reginald Corbrond (1236-1248), yiii.

164 bit, 169 quater^ 170>1, 177,

188-4, 186-188

^ Isabella, wife of, yiii. 184^ 188

, William, supposed son o( yiiL

184,189

, — , Riehard, son o^ yiu. 189

Richard Corbrond (126&-1280), yiii.

167, 166, 184, 188
, Adam, son o^ yiii. 18^ 189

328

INDEX OF PERSONS.

Corbrond of TJppizigton (continued), —
Kichard Corbrond (II.) (12S^-1800),

Tiii 157, 179 Jw, 184, 188-9'

, Alan, Bon o( viiL 184, 189

, — , Alice, wife o^ viii. 184,

189
Bichord Corbrond (III.) (1800-

1322), viii. 158, 179, 184, 189
William Corbrond (1828-1405), viiL

6,189
Cordfi, Peter (1278), 357
Cornwall, Earls of. —

Beginald de Dimstanvill, 158; vii.

11 n, 145-6, 150, 151, 156-7, 159,

163^ 180-182, 287

y Dioniaia, dau. o( yiL 158, 159

, Ghindred, Bister oi, vii. 145,

146, 159, 181
f Matilda, CountesB of Mellent,

daughter of, yii. 159

— t Nicholas, son o( vii. 158, 159

— , Sarah, Y iscountesB of Limoges,

daughter o^ yiL 159

— , WilUam, brother oi, yiL 145,

151, 158-9.
-, •••*, daughter of William fitz

Richard, wife of; vii. 157, 159, 181
John Plantageuet, «. England, £ings

of
Bichord Plantagenet, 27, 217, «. Al-

magne, Bichard, Eing of
Edmund Plantagenet (1268), 16, 26-7
Cornwall, of Einlet. —
-— — , Edmund de, yii. 89

, y Elizabeth de Bromton, wife

of, Tii. 39
Corre, William de (1269), 234
Costard, Adam de (1236), viii. 161

, OUyer (1203), 351

Cote (t.e. Coton Hill), Alberic de la (1201),

yii. 305
Cote, Bobert de la (1208), 351
Cotes (near Caus), Bichard de (1265), yii.
46

, John de (1268), yii 27, 45

, Madoc de (1274), yii. 45

Cotes (near Batlinghope), John de, 162
Cotes of Preston Montford. —
— — , Bobert de, yiL 195

, y Isabel, wife of, yiL 195

— y -^— , Matilda, daughter of, yii. 195

Cotheroote of Cotheroote. —

, John de (defi. 1248), 262, 264

, , Alice, daughter o^ 262, 264^

V. Benington

, , Wenthlian, wife of, 262, 264

, Baldwin de (1243-65), 21, 262, 263»

264

f *— , Alice, daughter of, 21, 262, v.

Champnejs

', Maigery, daughter of, 26, 264
— , Sibil, daughter o( 26, 264
— , John, son of, 26, 264
— , Boger, son of, 21, 262, 268-4

Cotheroote, Undertenants in, 262-264
Coton of Preston-Km-the-Wealdmoors.—

, William de (1382-1402), yiiL 261,

Coudraj, Emald de, vii. 48

y y Peter, son o^ yii. 48

, , f Edith, dau. o^ yiL 49

■ ' , , , ■ , Emma, daughter
of (1256), yii. 49

-, Matilda^ daughter of

(1256), yiL 49
Cound, Beotors o^ 78-80, 280, 817

, Undertenants in, 70, 72

— , Walter de, v. Conede
Courd, Bobert de (1148), yiiL 216
, William de (Chief Justice of Nor«

mandj, o6. 1176), yiiL 154 »
Courtenay, William de, yiL 178
Coventry, Archdeacons of. —
Bichard (c. 1145), 321
Edmund (c. 1170), yiiL 148
Alexander de Hales (o, 1283), yiiL
209
Coyentrj, Bishops of, v. lichfield.
Coventry, Lawrence, Prior o( 321, 328
Cox, Adam (1267-9), 151 ; vii. 29

, Master Alan (e. 1250), viiL 150

Crasset, Nicholas (1208), viiL 82
Crasset of Haughton.— -

, Thomas (1210-1235), viii. 286, 287

, William (c. 1246-1260), viii, 56,

287,288 5m
f Thomas (o. 1275), viL 281 n ; viiL

287

— , William (1290), viiL 150, 287, 287 »
—, Thomas (1881, 1385), viii. 287
287 «» 288

— , , Edith, wife of, viii. 287

— , ^ Alice, dau. of (1339), viii* 288

INDEX 07 PERSONS.

329

Cnssett of Haughton (eonHmied), —

, Margery, dau. of Thomas (1839),

Tiii288.
-, Biehard, son of Thomas (1385-i9),

Till. 288
, Philip, son of Thomas (1339), yiii.

287
-— », Thomas, son of Thomas (1339), Tiii.

287
Crassns, Balph (of Alherbuiy), yii. 67,

68»86
Crau, Simon (1269), 151
Giessage, Bobert de (1295), 101
, Bobert, Parson of, 75, 817

-, Undertenants in, 316, 317

Cresset of Haughton, v, Grasset
Cresset of Leighton. —

, Thomas (1346), viii. 210

, Ivo (1346), viii. 210

Cresset, of U£Sngton. —

, Walter (1339-49), viii. 287, 288 hi*

Cresset, of Withyford. —

, Thomas (1339), Tiii. 287 .

Crasset, Hugh (1431), 220 n

, Nicholas (1368), vii. 387

, Bobert (1455), 118

— , , Cristma de Stapleton, wife of,

118

^ Thomas (1495), 118

Creesewell, Thomas de (1240), viii. 30 n
, Henry de (1284), viii. 33

-, Henry de (1316), viii. 34 n
• , f Jone, wife of, viii. 34 n

Croc, William (1130), vii. 147
Cromwell, Balph de, 199

9 , Mazera Marmion, wife of, 199

y , Joan, daughter o^ 199

Crone, William (1267), 126

Cruce, William de, Clerk (c. 1220), vii. 18,

19
Cruokton, Nicholas de, vii. 191

, , Biehard, son ofi vii. 191

— , Undertenants in, vii. 191
Crugelton, Balph de (Clerk, c. 1245), viii.

55
Crorder, Biehard (c. 1230), vii. 385 ; viii.

262, 263
, , Alice de Bodington, wife of,

Tii. 385 ; viii. 262, 263
Colshis, or Cuneshasel. —
, William de (c. 1230), viii. 24

VIII.

Culsis or Cuneshasel (continued). —

, Boger de (1237), vii. 77 ; viii. 24

, Boger de (1260-70), viii. 25

, , Margery, widow of (1289),

viii. 25

-, Lucia, heir of, viii. 25, 26

— , Henry de (defi. 1289), viii. S5, 26

— , , Petronilla, widow of (1289),

viii. 26

— , Thomas, son of John de (1256),

viii. 26
Cumbe, William, Abbot of; 330
Cupcell, Biehard de (c. 1090), 170 j viii.

46
, Boger de (1086), vii. 200 dw ;

viiL46, 51
Curzun, Biehard de (c. 1161), viii. 147
Cuserigg, Baldwin de (1206-7), 352

D.

Daina (T. B. E.), vii. 2, 127

Damfront, Henry de, viiL 134

— — , , Bobert, son of (Monk,

1175), viii. 154
D'Aras, John (1403), 237

, , Johanna, wife of, 287

Dardif, Bobert (1155-75), vii. 312, 313,

319, 320 ; viii. 237, 238

, , Milana, wife o^ 319

Daventre, William de, viiL 183, 184, c.

Mareschall of Uppington
Dawley, Beginald de (1264, 1283), viii.

44 «», V. Chames
, William, Chaplain of (c. 1218),

viii. 47

, WiUiam, Priest of, viiL 45

Day, Bobert, viii 89

, , Petronilla, widow of (1272),

viu. 89
Derby, Archdeacon of. —

Boger (e. 1145), 821, 322
Despenser, Hugh (1233), vii. ISi.
, Hugh le (1306, 1322), 134, 295 ;

vii. 317

, , Alina, dau. of, 134, r. Bumell

, , Hugh, son of, viL 229

, , , Isabel, daughter of, vii.

229, V. Fitz Alan
, , , Hugh, son of, vii. 317

42

330

INDEX OF PERSONS.

DespenBer of Eaton Constantme. —

, William le (1298), yiiL 6

, Walter le (1331-46), viii. 6, 189,

210
Derlaston, Adam de, yiii. 67

, , John, son of (1288), viii 67

— , , , Alina, wife o^ viii. 67

Devereuz, William {oeeiiut 1265), 270,

278 ; viii 26
— , , Margaret, daughter o^ 270,

278, ©. Pichford
, , • » • • Giffard, wife of, 274

— , Sip William, 815

— f , Elizabeth de Glodeshall, wife

0^315

— , , Mai^ret, dan. of (1439), 316

Devon, Earls o£ —

Baldwin de Bedvers (1188), vii. 181
Richard de Redvers (II.)> ^ii* ^

, Baldwin, son of, vii. 158 *

, Richard, son of, vii. 168 n

, Dionisia de Duistanvill, wife

o( vii 168 M, V. Cornwall
f William, brother of, vii. 158 n

, WiUiam de Vernon, Uncle of,

vii. 158 n
Diche, or Tycho, William de, 76
Diddlebuiy, Osbert de (1167, 1180), viii.
115, V. Stirchley

, Osbert de (1208-1247), 59, 60; viii.

117, V, Stirchley

, Richard fitz Osbert de (Clerk), 59,

60 ; viii 119, V. Longnor
-, Robert de (1233), viU. 117

Diddlebuiy, The Rector of, vii. 89

Dinan, Joceaa de, vii. 69, 71

, , Hawise, daughter of, vU. 68,

V. Fitz Warin
, , Sibil, daughter o^ vii 70, 71,

V. Flugenai
, OUver de (1204), vu. 71

Dinthull, Robert de (1233), vii. 131

, Undertenants in, vii. 197

Diva, Hugh de, vii 68 n
Dod, Nicholas (1299), vii 137

', Richard (c. 1240), vii. 124

DodofHadnall.—

, Thomas (1262), vii. 393

Dod, of Uppington and Alveley. —

• • • Dod {defi. 1202), viii. 188-4
, Isolda or Cecilia Mussun, wife
of, viii. 183-185

Dod (of Uppington and Alveley) William
(1220-56), viii. 167, 169, 188-186, 190

Dodinton, Gregory de (1802), viii 271

Doditon, «. Dorrington

Dodyton, Richard de (Chaplain, 1343),
179

DomicelluB, viii. 7 n

Doniton, William de (e. 1260), vii 269

, John de (o. 1275), vii 281 »

Donnington Wood, Undertenanto in, viii.
281,232

Donton, Roger de {c, 1190), viii 184

Dore, Abbot o( 57

Dorrington (Condover), Adam de (1274),

— , Nicholas, son of Nicholas do (1250-
1292), 22

— , Reginald de {eirca 1205), 21, 264
-, Robert Champnejs, successor

o^ r. Champneys

, Richard de (1203), 21

, Richard de (1292), 22

Downton (Upton Magna), Undertenants

m, vii. 277, 278
D'Oyley of Longner. —

, John (1256), viii. 208, 209

, , Roisia de Duston, wife o^ viii.

208,209

, John (1280-1804), viii. 208, 209

, — , Joan, daughter of, viii. 208,

V. Lewknor
Drayton of Berrington. —
, Richard de (1280-1274), 85-87 ;

viii. 283
, f Thomas de Felton, heir ofi ».

Felton
Drayton of Berrington and Chatwall. —
, William, son of Alan de (1236-

1255), 35, 36, 87, 56, 226 »; viii. 283
, , Fetronilla, sister of, 37, «.

Lee
Drayton of Drayton, now Diyton. —

, Edward de, viii. 282

, , Avelina, wife of, viii 282

, , William, son of, (c. 1225-6),

viii. 176, 282-8

, ; y Cecilia, wife of, viii

175, 282
Drayton of Preston-Boats. —

, Richard de (1384), vii. 271

— , — T — J Catherine du Lee, wife of, vii.

271

INDEX OF PERSONS.

381

Pnyton, Kobert de, 294 ; yiii. 283
^ ^ Robert, Bon of (1250, 1258),

294; Tiii. 283

, Walter de, TiiL 284

^ ^ Richard, aou of (c. 1230-40),

Tui. 284
, Walter de (1284, defs, 1292), vii.

311 n, 333 ; yiiL 284
, , William, son of (1276), viii.

283

— , , J Emma, wife o£i viii. 283

Drayton, William de (Bailiff, circa 1267-

1270), Tii. 256 », 280 ; yiiL 283
Diajton, William de (Chaplain or Canon,

c. 1226-1245), 54, 76, 77 ; vii. 316 ;

TiiL 30, 163, 168 W», 169, 170, 172,

173, 175, 282, 283
, , Alan, son o^ vii. 316 ; viii.

283
Drayton, William de (Seneschall, c. 1218),

viii. 283
, , William, son of (1262), 294;

viii. 283
Drayton, William, Pilrin of (c. 1266-

1272), viu. 173 », 186, 283
— , , William (Parson), brother of,

vii. 316 ? ; viiL 166, 173 n, 186, 283
Dublin, Abbots of St. Mary's of.—
A * • • (c. 1177), 328
Roger de Brogor (1301), 331
William de ABhbume, 331
Dudley, Sir John (1536-6), viii. 190
Dudmaston, Peter de (1237), viii. 140
Dun, William (1277-83), 22 ; viii. 67, 68
_., , Margaret, wife of, 22 ; viii.

67,68
DunstanviU, Hugh de (c. 1170), vii. 158

J Reginald de, v. Cornwall, Earls of

, Robert de (1155, 1160), viL 291 ;

viii 217
, Walter de (Clerk), vii. 193 ; viii.

155
DunstanviU of IdsaU. —

, Alan de (1141), vii. 287, 364

, Walter (I.) de (1156-94), viL 293,

312, 313 6m, 364 ; viii. 212 n, 219
, Walter (H.) de (1213-1241), viL

104,228,246; viii 46
— ., , Petronil fitz Alan, wife of, vii.

228,246
— -, Walter (HI.) de (1241-1270), vii.
20,346; viiL45, 230

Dunstaple, Prior o^ 366

Duredent, Master William de (e. 1190-2),

329 ; viii. 227 n
Durham, Hugh, Bishop of (1194), viL 294
Duston, William (I.) de (1213, 1218),

viii. 206, 207

, , Joan, daughter o^ viiL 207

, William (II.) de (1218-1231), viiL

206-209
, , Roisia, daughter oi^ viiL 208,

209, V. D*Oyley
Dysyaco, Adam de, viL 193

E.

Easthope, John de (1273-92), 248 ; viii.

275 hia.
Eata, V. St. Eata
Eaton Constantine, Rectors of^ vii. 90;

viii. 6, 7

, Undertenants in, viii. 2, 5
Eaton (Herefordshire), William de {c.

1240), 197
Eaton of Little Eaton, near Pitohford. —

, Uger de (1192-4), 286

, , Oliver, brother oi^ 285

— ., Richard de (1240-1259), 107, 286

— , , Richard, son of (1262-1298),

56, 57, 60, 61 6m, 69 «, 101, 107, 143,
147, 274, 286-6

— , , , Laurencia, wife of, 148

— , Richard de (1310-1333), 43, 62-8,

65, 68, 286

— , William de (1262), 67

Eaton, or Eyton, of Eaton upon Tern. —

, William de (1223-6), viu. 30, 31,

66, 67, 199

-, Hugh, son of (1249--1270),

vu. 280, 392 ; viiL 49, 62, 65, 66, 67
Eaton (upon Tern), Hamo de (1231),viii.

65

, Hugh de Bosco of (1249), viiL 66

, John de (1274), viii. 67

— r-, Undertenants in, viiL 66-68

, William Bolao6 of (1283), viiL 67,

67

-, , Emma, wife o^ viiL 57, 67

., William fits Robert of (1272-1300),

viiL 67

, William de (1247), viiL 276

Sbrard, Priest (of Cound?), 70

332

INDEX OF PERSONS.

Eckingeham, v. Etmgeham

JSoton, Henry de, 196

Eddid (T. B. E.), 2, 4 bis, 212, 214

Edge (Ford), Undertenants in, tU. 191

Edgmond, Adam, Provost of (1266), viii.

84

y Gerard de (c. 1220), vii. 19

, John, Rector of (1849), 220

Edmund (T. R. E. and 1086), 4 bU, 227,

260; TU. 200; TiiL 59
Edneweyn (1256), 104

, Isota, wife o^ 104
Edric, or Edic (T. R. E.), 2 plwies, 80,

280-1, 286, 298, 809 ; tu. 2 quater, 40,

61, 100, 109, 117, 200 ; viii. 132
Edric SykaticuB, 298, 299 ; yii. 61
Eduin (T. R. E.), 4
Eduinufl Comes (T. R. E.), 2, 171 ; vii.

2, 180, 198 his, 200 his, 280 ; viii. 96,

102, 280
Eduinus Stabularius (c. 1125), vii. 10
Edwi (T. R. E.), vii. 198 ; viii. 285
Egmundon, v, Edgmond
Einulf (T. R. E.), 4, 167
Eivill, John d', vii. 188

— , , Matilda, wife o^ vii. 188

Eldrod (T. R. E.), 2, 48
Eldred (of Smethoott, 1086), 4, 260
Eliet (T. R E.), viL 200 ; viii. 132
EUerton, Adam de (1191-1220), viii. 93,

94, 106, 108

, Elyas de (1268), viii. 94 n

, Thomas de (1253-88), viii. 85, 94,

276

, Roger de (1295-1804), viii. 94, 99

Ehner, Ehnier, or Elmar (T. R. E.), 2 his,

4, 169. 265, 297 ; vii. 2, 120, 178-180
Ehnund (T. R. E. and 1086), 2 his, 109,

280, 260 ; vii. 2 his, 173, 194, v. Ed-

mimd
, Alward, son of, 109, 250; vii. 2

quater, 120, 173, 194, v, Alward, and

Elward
Eb-ic, or ^hic (T. R. E.), 2, 3, 109, 148;

vii. 198, 852
EWc (1086), vu. 2, 120
Elveva (T. R. E.), vii. 200
Elward (1086), 2, 9 ; vii. 2, 194, v. Al-
ward
Enfant (of Diddlebiiry),Wimam le(1320),

264

En&nt (of Shuewsbury), Robert le (c.

1222), 210 «
England, OhanoellorB of. —
Geo£Rrey (1127), 212 n
William (for the Empress, 1141), viL

287
' Robert de Gant (for Stephen, 1145),

viii 214
Richard (for the Empress, c. 1148)',

viu. 216
Thomas h, Becket, vii 11 », 160; viii.

217
Wifliam Longohamp, 191 ; vii. 12 ;

viii 154
Walter de Merton, 67, 130
England, Kings, Queens, and Princes of. —
Edgar, vii. 3
Edgar Atheling, vii. 216
, Margaret, sister of, vii. 215,

216
Edward the Confessor, 2, 206, 348;

vii. 2 ter, 6, 200
, Edith, wife of; 206, 348, 350, 9.

Eddid

, Harold, vii. 281

, Alditha, wife oi^ vii 281

William I., vii. 212

, Robert Courteheuse, son of^

284 It
Henry I., 9, 10, 800 ; vii 146, 217,

220, 280-282
, Matilda, dau. of, 824 ; vii 228,

224, 284, 287 ; viii. 213, 214^ 216»

217

, MatUda, wife of, vii. 217, 230

Stephen, 321, 328; vii. 282-236,

287 J viii. 213-214
Henry II., 245 ; vii. 101, 289, 293,

863-4 ; viii 163-4, 217, 218
— , Elianor, wife o^ vii. 101 ; viii.

217 A

, Emma, sister o( vii. 293

■s , Henry, son of, viii. 218

, Johanna, dau. o( viii. 154 n

, John, Earl of Moreton, son of,

vii. 163
Richard I., vii. 12
John, 161 ; vii. 17
— , Isabella, dau. o^ viii 197 .
, Richard, son o^ viii. 241, v,

Almagnc, and Cornwall

INDKX OF PERSONS.

338

England, Kings, Queens, and Princes of
(eontmued), —
Henry lU., 1^14s 180 ; tu. 31, 82

, Edward, son o^ 126-180 ; viL

27; ▼in.197
•^— , Margaret, dan. of^ TiiL 197
Edward I., Tii 99, 129
Edward IIL, yii. 227
Joan, Queen of Henry lY., tIL 97
Engleteo, Adam (1259), yiiL 180
Engleys of Woolstaston. —

, Boger le (eirea 1200), 152, 154

y f Amilia de Wytenton, wife o^

152-^

, , John, son of^ 152-154

, J , Johanna, daughter of^

153-155, V. Berkeley, Grendon, and

Eeringewyk
, Boger le (1230-1258), 158-155 ;

▼iL184
^ , Cecilia de Wolyerslawe, wife

of, 155
^ ^ Bichard, brother of (1261-3),

155, 252

, , , John, son of, 155

, , Boger Waldin, son of, 156

Eppeley, v. Apley.
Brcall of High ErcalL—

William deErcaU (I.), aUasWmam
de Hadley (H.) (1134-1194), vii.
805, 827, 352, 354, 365, 368-866 ;
▼iii.152

, Alan, brother o^ v. Hadley

f Pagan, brother of^ yiL 855; viii.

47

— , Jordan, brother of, v, Hadley
— , Alan, son of (c. 1189), viii.
155 M«
— , Bichard, son of (c 1189), viiL

155 Uf

— , Hamo, son of, yii. 841 ; yiii.

155 &w

Wniiam de Ercall (II.), aUoi Wil-
liam de Hadley (m.) (1191-
1228), 63, 99, 106, 259, 329 ; tiL
841, 848, 874, 875, 882 ; viii. 64,
66, 149, 159 bis, 161, 163, 167,
172, 174, 181, 183 his, 186-7, 190
bis, 205, 286-7

, William, alleged brother of?

Tiii. 187

Ercall of High Eroull (amiinued).—

William de Ercall (III.), alias Wil-
liam de Hadley (lY.) (1227-1256),
107, 265 ; Tii. 269, 876, 878 bis,
885 bis; yiii. 56, 66, 92, 170
quater, 171, 174, 181, 186 bis, 187,
209,263,288
John de EroaU (1256-1278), 57, 342;
TiL 280, 281, 345, 877, S7S, 886 ;
Tiii. 49, 67, 85, 144, 166, 171,
178 », 174, 186, 252, 276, 288
William de EroaU (TV.) (1284-
1304), 184, 187 ; TiL 176, 386 ;
Tin. 87

, Petronilla Bumell, wife o( 184,

187-8 ; Tiii. 37
William de ErcaU (Y.) (1304-1344),
65, 134, 187 ; Tii. 267, 268» 859
Ercall, of Stanton, Boden, &o.

, John de (1284), TiL 270, 386

Ercall, Sir John de (1309)', Tii. 107;

compare Strange of Ercall '
Ercall, John de (Priest, 1346), Tii. 43
Erdington, Fromund de, 89 »
Erdington of Shawbury. —

, Thomas de (1206-1218), Tii. 228,

247-260, 366 ; Tiii. 72, 137-142, 143-
144

, , Mary, dau. o^ Tii. 228, 248,

249, 9. Eitz-Alan
, — , Bohese de Gokefeld, wife oi.

Tii. 250; Tiii. 72, 139

— , , Peter, eldest son of {ob,v.p.),

Tiii. 138, 141-2

— , , William, supposed brother of

(c. 1230-1236), TiL 390 ; yiii. 140
— , Egidins, or Giles de (1218-1268),
Tii. 356 ; TiiL 29, 74, 138-144, 149
— , Henry de (1269-1282), Tiii. 72, 150,

252

— , , Matilda d* Albini, wife of, TiiL

72,144-6

— , , , John de Bifield, 2nd

husband o( Tiii. 146

—^ Henry de (1296-1329), TiL 387 ;

Tiii. 146

— , , Matilda, daughter of, Tii. 387,

V. Lee

Erieton, v. Orleton.

Emiet (T. B. £.), Tii. 198 ^ ; TiiL 36,
37,38

334

INDEX OP PERSONS.

Emui, Emuit, or Emain (T. B. E. and
1086), 2 hit, 4, 166, 169, 206 ; tu. 2
pluriet, 58, 130, 144, l7l
Escirmessour, William le (1311), 156
Eshm, Thomas de (1251), yii 63, 115

, Sibil, wife of, Tii. 68

Esketot of Bitterlej. —

, Hugh de (1187-1206), 83, 86, 99

, , * • • fits Odo, wife o^ 83,

86,99

, Roger de (1210-21), 83, 99

, •, Matilda, wife o^ 83

, , Stephen de Bitterley, eon o^

83,338
Eslege, alias Gherrington, Thomas de^

viiL 196, 197, v. Cherrington
Eflmerillum of Stoney Stretton and Wool-

aston. —
, BobeH de (1203-1221), Til. 62,

114

, Eobert (1255), tu. 115

y , Bichard, brother of (1267-

72), viL 53, 64, 115
, y William, brother o^ vii

115

— — , , , William, son of,

(1267), vii. 116
Espley, Robert de (e. 1200-1222), viii.

61,285
Essex, Henry de (1147), Tiii. 214
Essington, Bobert de (o. 1233), yiii 209
Eston, V. Aston.
Estreleg, Alexander de (1208), yii 173

, , Ascelina, wife o^ vii. 173

y , Oliya, sister o£, vii. 178

Etdinis, Bobert, Clerk of, 288
Etingeham, Elyas de (1184-1203), 175,

176, 207 ; vii. 12, 276 ; viiL 165, 232,

240,241
, , Thomas, son of (1203-11),

176, 207-8, 250 n ; viii 165, 240, 241

-, Alioe Boschart, wife

of, 176, 207-8 ; viii. 166

, Elyas de (1226-60), 142, 150 ;

viiL 241

, OUver de (1208), viu. 241

-, Herbert de. Chaplain (o. 1230-

38), viii. 168, 168» 169

-, Thomas de (1251), viiL 241

Eton, V. Eaton.

Eudo Dapifar, vii. 161, 162

Evdith, «. Tvelith.

Evreux, Botroo, Bishop of (1145), viiL

214
Exeter, The Bishop of; vii. 181

, Bartholomew, Bishop of, vii. 158

Eynesford of Bolas. —

, John de (1870-88), viiL 264, 278

Eyton of Eaton-upon-Tem, v, Eaton.
Eyton, of Eyton and Marsh. —

, William de (1208), vii. 114, 124

, Eobert de (e. 1220), vu. 18, 124

, Bobert fitz Matthew de (1248-56),

vii. 121, 125, 126

— , , Ascelina, Aunt o^ viL 126, v.

BraddeshuU

— -, Boger fitz Matthew de (Clerk),
(1256-84), vii. 121-128, 125, 125 n
— , Boger de (1265-6), viL 125
— , Boger, son of William de (1256).
viL 126, 177

— f , Isabel, wife o^ viL 126

— , Bobert, son of Fetronilla de (1256),

viL 126, 177

— , Bcginald de (1256), 187 ; viL 126
-, John, son of Boger de (1256), vii.

126

— , Boger de (1277), vii. 83, 126, v.
Marsh
-, William de (1282-1300), vii. 106,

126
Eyton (near Alberbury), Undertenants in,

vii. 124-127
Eyton, of Eyton on the Wealdmoors. —
— , Warin, presimiedanoestorof (1086),

viii. 27, 36, 37
, Bobert de (tern. Henry II.), viiL

27, 28, 86

, Peter (I.) de (1191-1212), viL 841,

856 ; viiL 28, 65, 106
, , William, son of (1223-1226),

viii. 30, 65, v. Eaton
, Peter (II.) de (1212-1287), 64; viiL

28, 29, 30, 89, 140

, 9 Ahoe, wife o^ viiL 80, 81, 82

--, William de (1240-49), viiL 80, 81,

82, 65, 66, 221

— , , Matilda, wife of, viii. 81-2, 84

— , Peter (HI.) de (1256-1301), 88 ;
viiL 81, 32, 38, 38, 40, 46 P, 61, 67, 85,
166, 171
— y , Margery, dau. o( viii. 88,84 P

INDEX OP PBRS0N8.

335

Eyton, of Syton on the Wealdmoora (eon-

^, Peter (IV.) de (1302-1325), vii.

8&8, 359 ; yiii. 33, 34, 44, 179
, John d© (13a»-<j. 1349), vii. 358,

359; yiii 34, 35

— , Peter (V.) de (1364-1377), vii. 362;
Tiii. 34, 35 6w
— , John (n.) de (1394-1401), 220 ;

yiii 35

y Henry de (1534), viii 36

, Thomas (1536-6), viii. 223

, PhiUp (1625), viiL 40

, PhiKp (1684), viii. 38 «

, , Charles, Uncle of (1686), viiL

d8n
Syton (on the Wealdmoon), Fulk de

(1461), vii. 372

, Inomnbents of, viiL 35, 36

-«— , John de (Prior of Wombridge,

1460), viL 372
-, Undertenants in, viii. 83

Eyton (of Uppington), William de (c.

1220), viiL 182
, William de (<?. 1243-1282), viiL 31,

157, 166 bis, 171, 173-4, 177, 185, 188

, Hugh de (c. 1304), viiL 179

, John Hugh de (c. 1304), viii. 179

Eyton (upon Severn), Thomas de (e. 1230),

viiL 282 ^

— , , Thomas, son of, viii. 282

*-— , Undertenants in, viii. 281

F.

Falconer, Simon (1203), 351
Falconer (of Alcester), Hamo, vii. 153
Fanoourt, Elias de, viii. 12, 13, 14

, , Gerard, son of, viiL 12, 14

Felgeree, Henry de (e. 1136), viii. 128

, Boger de (c. 1140), viU. 152

Felton (Butler), Hamo de (o. 1246), vii.

94
Felton of Berrington. —

^ Nicholas de (1283), 16

, Thomas de (1292), 37, 40

, , Stephen, son of (nahu 1281 ;

ooc. 1323), 87, 40, 180; viL 394
— , — , , Sibil de Burton, wife ofi

40, 180 ; viL 394

Ferrers, The Earls, 269, 271-2 ; vii. 108 ti

, Bobert de (1138), 323-4

Ferrers of Ghroby. —

— ~, Henry de (o6. 1343), viiL 64

■ , f Isabel de Verdon, wife of, viii.

64

, William de (1367), viii. 71

, Hemy de (1386), viii. 71

Ferrers of Wem. —

Bobert de Ferrers, viii. 22

y Elizabeth le Boteler, wife of,

viiL 22

, Bobert, son of {ob, 1410), viii.

22

i y Elizabeth, dau. of, viii. 22

9 i Maiy, dau. of, viiL 22

Ferrour, John (1495), 118

1 3 Catherine, wife pf, 118

Filcot, John, 74

Fisher, or Sale, of Newport, Uppington,
and Shrewsbury. —

Alexander Piscator (1195-1211), viii.
156 bis, 160-162

, Beiner de Novo Burgo, father

of, viii. 162

, Petronilla Mussun, wife of, viii.

160-162
Boger de Novo Burgo (ob. 1252), viii.

160, 162
Alexander de Novo Burgo (1255-75),

viii. 157, 160, 162, 190
William de hi Sale {oh. 1283), viiL

167, 157 », 160, 162
Boger de la Sale (c. 1300-5), viii. 158,

163
WiUiam de la Sale (1320), viii. 160,
163
Fitz-Aoelline,Bichard (1255-^1), viL 148,

175
Fitz-Adam, Herbert (1194), 148

, John (1233), 76 n

, Roger (1160), vii. 237 bis

, Thomas (of Gippolis and Brom-

croft), 91, 92

-, William (of Eyton), viL 96, 121

Fitz- Adeline, William (Dapi&r of Henry
n.), 166 «; vii. 11, 12, 276, 298 bis

Fitz-Aer, Bobert (H.) (c. 1190), viL 276,
806

y Bobert (IH.) (c. 1203-1280), viL

I 343, 375; viu. 2, 49, 268, 286, 287

386

INDEX OF PERSONS.

Fite-AflT, William (1237), Tiii. 140
, John (1266-92), 57, 342; vii.

188, 280-1, 345, 377 ; viii. 49, 76, 144,

174, 186, 252, 288

-, Hugh (1293-1813), vii. 823; viiL

76
Fitz-Alan, de Ajnindel, John (1292), ru,

229, 267
Fitz-Alan of Glun and Oswestry, 84 ; vii.
211-263, 340

Alan fitz Flaald,Yii. 211-223, 227-8,
230-232, 264

, Ayelina de Heeding, wi& of,
vii 218, 221-3, 227-8, 230-1, 241
11,289

— , Jordan, son of, vii. 219, 223,
228

y — , Jordan, son o^ vii. 219,
228

, Simon, son of, vii. 223 n, 228

, Sibil, daoghter of, vii. 221, 223,

228

, Walter, son of (Steward of

Scotland), 70, 102 ; vii. 216, 223,
228, 236, 285-289, 363 ; viii. 216

William fitz Alan (I.), 23, 70, 74-5,
98, 100, 103, 152, 239, 291, 322,
325 ; vii. 11, 160, 222-224, 228,
232-241, 266, 268, 272, 275, 278,
283-293, 311-313, 320, 326, 353,
363-4, 369 ; viii. 7, 8, 9, 128, 216
, Christiana, first wife of^ vii. 228,
233, 235, 285, 286, 289

, Isabel de Say, 2nd wife of, 152;

vii. 160-163, 228, 237, 240, 275,
289, 293

, Alan, son of, vii. 228, 286

, Christiana, daughter o£^ vii.

228, 239

William fitz Alan (II.), 34, 34 n, 70,
74-5,98, 100, 103, 163, 164, 184 n,
268, 325, 327, 329, "333, 368 ; vii.
12, 15, 17, 160, 162-164, 223, 228,
237,240, 241-246, 262-3, 266,267,
272-274, 276, 279, 289, 290, 294,
305, 320, 827, 874^5; viii. 205,
233, 238» 242

. •*•* de Lacy, wife of; vii. 228,

246-6

, Agnes, dau. of^ vii. 228, 242

, Petronil, daughter of, vii. 228,

Fitz- Alan of dun and Oswestry (conii-
nued.) —
William fitz Alan (in.), viL 163, 228,
246, 246-260

, Mary de Erdington, wife oi^ vii.
228, 248, 250
John fitz Alan (I.) 63, 56, 71, 75, 79,
100, 106, 261, 265, 259, 292-3 ;
vii. 12 «, 20-22, 163, 167, 184,
228,245, 246, 249-253, 263, 278-9,
305, 329 ; viii. 239, 263, 283

, Isabel d'Albini, first wife of^

vii. 12 », 228, 262, 263
— , Hawise de Blancminster, 2nd

245-6, 247

wife of, 71 ; vii. 228, 252
John fitz Alan (II.), 65, 71, 88, 95,
104, 293, 342 ; vii 26, 167-8, 229,
258-257, 262, 263, 270, 276, 295,
810, 322, 356, 391 ; viu. 241, 283

, Matilda de Vdrdon, wife o^ 71 ;

vii. 229, 263, 256, 257, 258, 310

, Roger, brother oi, viL 229,

256 n
John fitz Alan (III.), 842 ; vii 229,
266-258, 367, 378, 393

, Isabel de Mortimer, wife of,

vii 229, 257, 376, 378

, John, son of, vii 229

, Matilda, daughter of; 71, 134;

vii 229
Richard fitz Alan (I.), 36, 71, 134;
vii 84, 218 II ; vii. 229, 266, 268,
262, 273, 310, 316 », 393
Fitz- Alan, Herbert, «. Abacun
Fitz- Alan, William (1266), v. Drayton
Fitz-Alured, Robert (c. 1160), vu. 237,
272, V. Fitz Ohaluric and Fitz Hellun-
ric
Fitz-Alured, Robert (c. 1221), 62, 53
Fitz-Asoeline, v, Fitz Aoelline
Fitz-Baldwin, Roger (1263), vii. 27
Fitz-Beoc, Martin (c. 1182), 287, v. Beche

, , James, son o^ «. Fitz

Martin
Fitz-Berenger, Richard (1160), vii 237

, Alan (c. 1175-1201), vii 320-1 ;

viii. 77, o. Buildwas
ntz-Bernard, Robert (1181), vii. 864
Fitz-Brioe, Adam (o. 1285), viii. 284
Fitz-Chaluric, Robert (c. 1160), 108 ; vii

272, V. Fitz Alured
Fitz-Clerk, GUbert (1259), viii. 130

INDBX Of PBB80N8.

387

lits-DaTid, Mabel (1272), tiL 177

, William (1265), viL 14S

Sitz-Denys, Bobert, viiL 39

, William (c. 1222), viiL 61

Fitz-Edith, John (1221), 111
Eits-Edwin, Richard (1221), 111
fitz-Erm, Soger (1255), vii. 1
Fitz-Euataoe, Thomas, viiL 89
Fitz-Eyhmmd, Adam (1210), yii. 134
Fitz-Eynon, Griffin (1256), yiL 4
Fitz-Elaald, Alan, v. Fitz Alan
Eitz-Fulcher, Hemy, 828
Fitz-Ghunel, Alan (1^73), 357
Fitz-Geofflfey, Nicholas (1170), viL 158
Fitz-C^£&ey, William, «. Longner
Fitz-Qerold, Warin (1151-1160), yii. 161,

291 ; Tiii. 217
Fitz-QerTase, Biohard (1283), 76 i»
Fitz-Godbert, Enu, 175
FHz.Gi«go]7, William (1221), viiL 284
Fitz-Gnrant, Herbert (1165), yii. 218

, , Qorhamuu, fiither of, vii.

218
Fitz-Haldebiond, Biohard (1151), yiii. 217
Fitz-Halufri, Bobert (1165), yii. 269, 271-
272

, — , Boger fitz Hunald, bro-
ther of (1155), yii. 271

■ ■ ' , , B. brother oty yii. 272

-, Stephen fitz Alurio, sup-

posed son of (1177), yii. 272
Fitz-Hamo, Nicholas, yii. 270
Fitz-Hamo, William (c. 1151-5), yii 68 ;

yiiL2l7
Fitz-Hellnnric, Bobert, yiL 272, 276
Fitz-Hemy, Bayid (1221), yii. 136

, Geoffi«y (of Buthon), 116

Fitz-Herbert, Family o^ 152; yii. 180,
181, 145-155
Herbert, Chamberlain to Henry I.,

yii. 146, 147, 148
Herbert fitz Herbert (I.), yii. 146,
147, 148, 149, 169

, Sibil or Adela Oorbet, wife of^

yiL 145, 146, 148, 149, 169
— -, Stephen, brother ofi yiL 147-8

, , Balph, son of, yii. 147-8

, — , , Maud de Oanz,

wifeof, yii. 147,148
, J , Balph, son of, yii.

Fitz-Herbert, Family of {eoniimte^, —
William, brother of Herbert fitz

Herbert (I.), yiL 147-149, ©. York,

Archbishops of
Bobert fitz Herbert (1166-1161),

103 ; yii. 148, 149, 160
Herbert fitz Herbert (El.), (1166-

1204), 110, 164 ; yii. 70, 70 », 131,

148, 149-162, 153, 158, 166
— , Luoia fitz Ifilo, wife of^ yii.

148, 14^-153

, Henry, brother o^ yiL 148, 149

Beginald, son of (1190-1), vii.

7011,148
Peter fitz Herbert (1194-1236), 164 ;

vii. 16, 70, 70 n, 77, 131, 148, 152-

154,165
— , Alice fitz Bobert, first wife of^

viL 148, 153
, Isabel de Femurs, second wife

o^ vu. 131, 148, 164

, Matthew, brother of^ vii. 148

— , , Joan, wife of, vii. 148

— , , Herbert, son of (1280-

1246), vii. 148, 184

— , , Feter,8onof(1246-1265),

viL 148

— , , John, son of (1266-82),

147, 148, 364
VIII.

yu.26,148

, , ■ ', Matthew, son of,

vii. 148
*■■ , — — , — — , ■■ ■ ', Eleanor, wife

o^ vii. 148
Herbert fitz Peter (1286-48), 112 ;
yii. 77 «, 131-2, 148, 164-6, 168^
262
Beginald fitz Peter (124&-1286),
161 ; viL 26, 33, 182-8, 185, 142,
148, 155
John fitz Beginald (1286-1308), viL

138, 184, 140, 148, 156
— — , Peter, brother ofi viL 148

, Walter, brother of (Portioner

of Pontesbury), viL 141, 142, 148

, David, brother of (Portioner of

Pontesbury), vii. 139, 140
Fitz-Heremann, Walter, 328
Fitz-Herfred, Hamo (c. 1144), viii. 129
Fitz-Hervey, William (c. 1167), vii. 276

y f Osbert, brother of, vii. 275

Fitz-Hildebrand, Bobert (1141), vu. 287

43

388

INDEX OF PBRSONS.

Fitz-Hingan, Eutrop, 192
Fitz-Hubert, Andrew (ProvoBt of Salop),

210 «
Fitz-Hagh, John, v. Solas
Fitz-Hunald, Boger, tu. 271, 272, 289,

tnde etiam Fitz Halufri
Fitz-Ivo, Thomaa (1272), viii. 24

, William, vii. 270

Fitz-Iwe, Boger (1266),Tii. 4
Fitz- John, Pagan, yii. 232, o. SheriffB
, Walter (c. 1167), tu. 275, 277 n

^, Walter, TiL 385

, ^ Aldith, wife of, vii. 336

, , Aldith and Agnes, daugh-
ters of (c. 1220), yii. 336, 336
— , William (Justiciar 1160), vii
14911

, William {o, 1190-1208), yii

276 ; Tiii. 165, 166
Fitz-Margaret, Adam (1263-88), 16, 261,
263

, , William, son of (1286-92),

261
Fitz-Martin, James (e. 1220), 177, v.

Beche and Fitz William
Fitz-Matthew, John, o. Fitz-Herbert

, Robert (1265-6), vii. 121, 126,

V. Eyton of Eyton and Marsh

-, Boger (aerk, 1264), vii. 27, 121-

128, o. Ejton of Eyton and Marsh
Fitz-Mayow, Boger (1272), vii. 4
Fitz-Nicholas, Balph (1255), 88, 101, 271,

272, V. Pipard
Fitz-Nigel, Bobert (c. 1188), vii 853

, William (c. 1186-45), 322

Fitz-Odo, Family of, 80-«3.—

Odo de Bemi^res (1086-1121), 81,
88, 92, 98

, • • •, brother of, 88

Philip fitz Odo (1188-1144), 81, 88

, • • *, wife of, 83

, Boger, brother of (1144), 88

Boger fitz Odo (1165-7), 80, 81, 88,

93,98
— , Herbert de Bushbury, son o^
80, 83, 84, 85, 98, 99

, Petronilla, daughter o:^ 80, 83,

84, 98, V. Wimey

, • * • daughter of; 83, 99

, William, brother of, 81, 83 ;

viii. 8, V. Fitz-Odo of Kenley

Fitz-Odo of Eenley.—

William fitz Odo (I.), 81, 83, 87,
304 ; vii. 237, 275, 277 n

y Boger, son of (1180-94), 81,

82, 83, 84, 87, 91, 93

-, William, son of (1194-

1221), 83, 84, 86, 87, 89

, , , Thomas, son of

(1255), 88, 88, 89, 228 ?

, Sibn, supposed sister of^ 83

, Thomas fitz Odo, son of

(1175-1194), 81, 82, 88, 84^ 91 ;
viii. 154

-, Amicia, daughter o^

88, V. Middlehope

-, Margery de Ghabbe-

nore, wife o^ 83, 87

, , Thomas de Chabbe-

nore, son of (1213-21), 81 », 83
, , Thomas de Chabbe-

nore, grandson oS, 88

-, William fitz Odo (IL), son

of; 81, 83
Fitz-Oliva, Fiona, (1265-61), viL 148,

176

, Margery (1265-61), vii. 148, 176

Fitz-OUver, Alan (1166-60), vii 277 n,

278-9, 289, 293, 888
Fitz-Pagan, Adam (0. 1245), viii 4a

, Beginald, 93

, William, 93

, , Mable, wife of, 93

, , • * • *, sister o^ 93

Fitz-Peter, Bartholomew (1200), vii. 837,

V. Toret

, Clement (c. 1222-48), viii. 119, 163

, Beginald, v. Fitz-Herbert

, John (1256), vii. 121, 122

Fitz-Petronil, John (1261), vii. 175

Fitz-Philip, John (1256), «. Aston

— — , Hugh, V. Aston

Fitz-Philip, Maurice, viL 163

Fitz-Philip of Bobbington. —

, John (1194r-1238), vu. 829, 842,

875; viii 2
^pJohn (1250-1306), vii 26, 357,

868 ; viii. 86

— , , Edelina, sister o^ vii. 367

Fitz-Picot, William, 276, v. Acton Pigott
, William, vii. 63, c. Picot of

Woolaston

INDEX OF PERSONS.

339

Fitz-Fien, QeoStrey^ 110, 194, 862; vii.

162, 294
Fitz-Badulf, Hamo (1166), vii. 221
Fitz-Balph, GhriBtiana, 228
, , Matilda, daughter of, v. Pitz-

Soheis
Ktz-Ralph, William (1176-6), 165 n;

yii. 293, 813
Ktz-Ranulf, William (1199), vii. 14, 16,

17, 9. Blancminster
Fitz-Keinfrid, Gilbert, yii. 78 n
, -^— , William de Lancaster, eon of,

vii. 73 n
Fitz-Richard, Gilbert and Roger (1101),

vii 217

, Thomas (c. 1300), vii. 49

Fitz-Richard of Cornwall. —

', William, vii. 167, 169, 181

— , , • • • *, daughter of, vii. 157,

o. CJomwaU, Earls of
Fitz-Robert, Hugh, v. Solas

, Ralph (1205), 91

, Richard (1195-1208), vii. 15, 173

— , , Isabel, wife of, vii. 178

, William (1201), viii. 77

Fitz-Roger, Osbert (c. 1156), vii. 278,

279,293

, John (c. 1800), vii 49

, Richard (1265), vii. 148

, Robert, vii. 148, 163

, — » Alice, daughter o^ vii. 148,

163, V. Fitz-Herbert
Fitz-Roheis, Walter (1221), 228

, , Matilda, wife of, v. Fitz-

Ralph
Fitz-Sewal, Robert (1221), vii. 131
— — , , Emma de Pontesbury, wife

o^ vii. 131
Fitz-Simon, John (1200), vii 197

, William (1194), viii 11, 61

Fitz-Siward, Roger (tern. Steph.), 291;

vii 28611
, Richard (o. 1180-2), 287, 288,

291; vii. 69
Fitz-Stephen, Eustace (Chamberlain,

1176-6), viii 154
, Ralph, vii 73 », 364, v, Fitz-
Herbert
, William (1186-9), vii. 242 ; viii

232 i»
Fitz-Sjmeon. William (c. 1182), 288

Fitz-Talun, v. Rea

Fitz-Teald, Ralph (c. 1138), vii. 363

Fitz-Terric, Geoffirey and Albert (1201),

vii. 305
Fitz-Tetbald, Robert (1066), vii 198, 200,
208-9

, , Hugh, son o^ vii. 209

Fitz-Thomas, Robert, 328

, William (1256), 301

Fitz-Toret, Peter (c. 1189), vii. 305 ; viU.

148, V. Toret
Fitz-Turgis, Hugh (1086), 4^ 258; vu.

209
Fitz.Walding, Hugh (1165), 192
Fitz- Walter, Walter (1228), 288

, William, v. Waters Upton

, William (c. 1175), vii. 313

, William ((deft. 1272), vii. 170

, , Isabella, sister of (1272), vii.

70, V. Alleston
Fitz-Warin of Alberbury and Whitting-
ton, 119, vu. 67, 326
Warin de Metz, vu. 67

, Roger, son ofj vii. 67, 288; viii.«

152
— , William, presumed son of, vii.

67
Fulk (I.), (1145-1170), vu. 67, 68,
71, 286, 288

, Ralph, son of (c. 1180), vii. 69

W»,71

, Richard, son of (c. 1180), vii.

69 bis, 71

, Warin, son of (c. 1180), vii.

69 bis, 71
Fulk (H.), (1171-1197), 103 ; vii.
47, 68-71

, Hawise de Dinan, wife of, vii.
68, 69-71, 72, 86, 94, 273
— , William, son o^ vii. 71-2, 74, 77

, Philip, son of (1204), 259 ; vii.

71,72

, John or Ivo, son o^ vii. 71, 72

^ Alan, son of (c. 1198), vii 18,

71,77
Fulk (in.), (1197-0. 1267), 120, 259,
861-2 ; vii 18-20, 22, 53, 54, 56,
72-80, 86-7, 91-96, 108, 250; viii.
24,267

, Maud le Vavasour, first wife

of, vu. 73-76, 92, 98 n, 94

840

INDEX OF PEMONS.

Fitz-Warm of Alberboiy and Whitting-
ton (oontinuMt), —

Clarioe de Aaberville, seoond wife of

Fulk (III.), vii. 76, 79, 96
Hawyse, dan. of Fulk (IIL), tu. 75-6
Fulk Glas, son of Fulk (III.), yii.

82-85
Eva, daughter of Fulk (III.), yii 87 a
Fulk (IV.) (1251-1264), vii 26, 78 »,

79-83, 84-5, 94, 98-9, 186-7
— , Constance, wife o( Tii. 8S, 84
Fulk (VO (1273-1314), 68, 120; vii
33, 83, 84r-5, 98, 261

, • * * • ap Otiffln d« la Pole,

wife of, vii. 98
Fulk (VI.) (1314r-49), 120-1; viL 86
Fitz-Warin of Alberbury (Younger line).
Fulk alas (I.), alias Fulk de Ley-

ham, Tii 82-85, 105
Fulk Gks (II.) (1311-24), yii 85, 86
, Agnes, wife o^ vii. 85
Fitz-Warin, Peter, 137

, William (1207-9), 195

— — , — , ^gidia, wife of, 196

, William (1210-18), 196 n

— — , , Agnes de Wahull, wife of,

195 II

■, William (1229-1238), vu. 22, 184

Fitz-Wido, William (c. 1200), vii. 374
Fitz- William, John (1225), 196

y Martin (1190), 23, 51, o. Beche

, , William,son of {defa. 1236),

24

— — , ) — , Johanna, wife of, 24

, , James, son of, 177, v. Beche

Fitz-William, Philip (c. 1195-1208), yii

101, 135, 375
Fitz-William, Bobert, v, Bolas
Fitz-William, Thomas, 82, v. Fita Odo of

Kenley
Fitz-William, Thomas (1227), 228
Fitz-Wymarch, Madoc, vii. 30
Flashbrook or Flosbroo, v. Flotebrooh
Fleanoe, Flancus, or Flaald, yii. 213-216,

227,280

, Alan, son o^ 0. Fits Flaald

Flotebroch, Biohaid de (1246-84), vu.

877-881 ; viii. 275
, , Juliana, wife of, yii. 377,

380-1

Jordan, son of^ vii. 879, 880

Folevill, QeoSrey de (c. 1220), yii 108

Ford, Aluiie, Provost of (1185), viL ISd

, Bailifb o^ vii 191

, Oeoflfrey de (1272-4), yii. 177, 191

, Sectors o^ viL 198-4

, Boger de (occ. 1292, •&. 1817), vii.

Ill, 178, 192, 196

, , Hugh, son of (1319), vii. 192

— , John, son o( yii. 192

— , , John, son of {defs.

9

1819), yiL 192
Ford, Bobert de la (1258), viii 259

, Bobert de (1272), viiL 85

, Bichard de (1292), viu. 260

, Bichard (1821), 65

Forester, Hugh fitz William, the, 192, v.

Eilpec
Forester of Wellington. —

, Hugh (o. 1198), viu. 841

, Bobert la (e. 1242), viii. 221

, William le (1377), vii. 862

Foulshurst, Thomas, 814

, , Thomas, son oi, 814^ 315

-, William (oh, 1439), 315

France, Philip Augustus, King of^ vii

245 II
Franoeys (of Belswaidine), William le

(1272-4), 20, 280
Franceys of Berwick Maviston.—

, William, vii. 888

, , William, son of (aide 1280),

vii. 388

*, Sibil, wife o( vii 388

Franceys of Oressage. —

, Boger le (1256), 816

, , Christiana, wife of, 816

, John (1272-1302), 817

Franceys of Longford. —

, Bobert (1395), viii 114» 261

— , — -, Isabel, widow of (1432), viiL

114
Franceys of Meeson, William (1249), viii.

276
Franketon, Master Stephen de (c. 1210-

27), 23 n, 864 ; yii. 18

, Bobert de (1277), vii. 88

French of Bradley. —

, Thomas le (1292), yiL 822

, William le (1248), vii. 822 n

, • — — f Agnes de Bradley, vrife o^

vu. 322
French (of Wellington), Boger le (1877),

vu. 362

INDEX OF PERSONS .

341

Francfa, William (1194), nu. 11, 61
Freville, Boger de (1132), yu. 221, 228,

228
^ , Sibil fitas Alan, wife of, vii 221,

223, 228

, Alexander de (1292), 199, 200

-, Joan de GromweU, wift atf

199-201
Frodesley, Benedict de (1249-62), 294

, Boger, son of (1277), 294

, William, son o^ 295

, Alice, daughter o£^ 296

, Margery, daughter o^ 295

Nicholas do, 266

^ Mabel, widow o^ 266

Bectora o^ 295-6
Bichard de (1250), 294
Bichard fitz Hamon of (1258-62),

293

Bobert Burdin of; 292

f Agnes, widow of^ 292

^ Bobert Burdin, son o( 292

, Boger, son of Boger de (1250-77),

294-5

, Boger de (1292), 8, 295

^ ^ Boger, son of (1293), 168, 295

, , , Agnes, wife of, 168

, William, Forester of (1260), 294

Frome, Gilbert de, 312, v. Lacy

, Oilbert de (1256), 316

^ f Margery, wife o^ 316

Fulcher (1086), 2, 102

Fulco Yiceoomes, vii. 208, 804; Tin. 72

Fulcuius (1086), yu. 198, 200 ; yiii. 72,

75

, Henry, son of, vii. 804 ; viii. 72

Fulwood, Bichard de (1256-73), 138

, William do (1274r-83), 16, 138

Furcis, Boger de (c. 1221), 53
Furmage, William, yiL 10

a.

Gache, v. Gech

Gttmel (T.B. £.), vii. 200 ; TiiL 53
Ghimel, Alan (1267), vii. 29, 80
Gardinis, William de (1257-64), 125,
142-S, 151

, , Sibil, wife of; 151

, , William, son of; 143, 151

Garleo, Adam (o. 1250-90), viii. 48-60

, Bichard (1383), viii 50

Gannston, Alan de (c. 1273), viil 231
Garmston, William de (e. 1248), vii. 336^
336 n; yiii. 278

, Thomas de (1249), yiL 886

, Henry de (1281-1304), vu. 833,

386, 894 ; yiii. 166

— ^ , Anable, dau. o^ yiii 386, 394

Hugh, son of (1300-1316),

vii. 837 ; viu. 189

, Heniy de (1346), viii. 210

Gatacre, John de (1266), 23

, Bobert de (1203), 23, 119

, William (of Hughley, 1514), 807

Gbteford, Bobert de, 25
GavestOD, Piers, 64, 115
Gech, Thomas (1382-1894), 204; viii.

59
y f John, son of (1882-7), viii.

59
Geneva, Peter de, 812

, y Matilda de Lacy, wife of; 312

Genevill, Geoi&ey de, 312, 313, 814, 316
, , Matilda de Lacy, wife of; 312,

818, 316
Genut (T. B. £.), viL 200
Gerard (1086), vii. 198 ter, 200 6w, v.

Tomai
Gerebonde, Bobert (1266), vii. 175
Gemun, John (Bector of Alveley), 77
Gervase Gooh (1171), 161 ; viiL 153

, Madoo, son o^ 161 n

, Griffin, son of; 161 «, v. Sutton

Maddock
Gervase Gooh (o. 1203), 161

, Meuric, son of; 161

Gery, Boger (c 1260-72), viii 288
Gery (of Acton Beynald), Bdohard (1314),

vii. 297
Gheri (T. B. E.), 2, 92
Giffkrd, Bichard (1175-6), viii. 154
Gifiard (of Brimsfield), John (1271), 842,

viL26
y , Matilda de Clifford, wife o^

vii 189

, , Catherine^ daughter q( viL

189, V. Audley
Gilbert (Forester of Upton), viL 267, v.

Bodington
Gilbert (of Cardeeton, 1086), viL 2, 111

342

INDEX OF PERSONS.

Gilbert, of Haughton.—
— , Boger, viii. 287 n

, y Thomas, son o^ viiL 287 *

Gippoles, Undertenants in, 91, 92
Oiraldus CambienBis (Chronicler), yii.

223 n, 242, 243
CKrroB, Family ot, 215, 224, 227

, Adam de (c. 1225), 224-5, 227

y Bartholomew de, 51

, Heniy de (c. 1190), 190

, Henry de (1247-62), 225-6

, Jordan de (c. 1190), tU. 276

, Eichapd de (c. 1190), 190

, Boger de (o. 1225), 225

, Bobert (I.) de, 50, 167, 224 ; yiL

805

, Bobert (H.) de, 165, 167,216, 221,

22^-5, 251, 255, 259; rii. 21, 245, 278;
Tiii 2, 3, 140, 286

J , Isabel, sister o^ yiii 2, 3

Glanyill, Banulf de, 50 ; yiiL 104
Glas, Fulk, V. Fitz Warm of Alberbury
Glasweyn, William, m. 143

, , Boger, son of (1292), yii.

143
Glazeley, Wido de (1226), viiL 30, 122 n

y — , Juliana, widow ot, viii. 122 *

Gloucester, Walter de (1127), yiii 212 n

, , Milo, son of, 170, 323-4,

V. Hereford, Earls of
Gloucester, Earls of. —

Bobert the Consul, 822, 824; yii.
157, 181, 228, 282, 234-5, 286

, Christiana, niece o^ ylL 228

f Matilda, dau. of, yiL 235

William, vii. 11 «, 68, 151
Gilbert de Clare, yiii. 64

, Joan of Acres, wife o^ yiii. 64

— , Elizabeth, dau. o^ v. Burgh
and Yerdon
Gloucester, aUas Waleys, Bichaid de

(1225), yii. 147
Glurio (Priest, c. 1138), yii. 286 »
Gnowsall, Master Biohard de (o. 1190-2),

829 ; yiii. 227 «
Goch, V, Pulyerbatoh
Godberd, PhiUp (1320), 254
Godebold, the Priest (1086), 4, 221, 224;
yiL 198 Mf, 200 ; yiii 210-212, 237,
239
, Bobert, son of, 224 ; yiii. 211-2

Godiya, The Countess (T. B. B.), yii. 198,

200 ; yiii 51, 82, 280
Godric (T.B.E.), 2, 121 ; yu. 198 ; yiii. 72
Goduin (T. B. E.), yiL 198 hit, 200; yiii.

24, 40, 151
Goisfrid (1086), yii. 198, 852
Golding, John de (1221), 99

f y Bicholda, wife of, 99

, Beginald de, 101

, , Walter, son of, 101

y Seisoo fitz Alured of, 99

, Thomas de (1294), 101

, William de (1249-55), 100, 101

, William fitz Balph of, 98

Gbldstone, Undertenants in, yiii. 18
Goosehill (Gonsal), GeofBrey de (1255),

27

, Bener de (1262), 27

, Boger de (1274), 27

, Bichard (1419), 181^

Gos, William de, 216

, , Alice, wifiB o^ 216

Goumond, v. Gudmund '
Gourdin, Bichard, 168

, , Thomas, son o£i 168

— — , , y Isabel de Bikedon, wife

01^168
Grandeson, Oto de, yii. 169 n

y William, 276

y y Sibil de Tregoz, wife of, 275

Grandmont (Limousin), Abbot and Fiiars

of, yii. 92
Gras, Balph le (1240), yiu. 25
Gi^ndon, Bobert de (1251), 154 ; yii 24

, Johanna le Engleys, wife o^ 154

Grenhull, Bartholomew de (1383), yiii.

50

y William de (1199), yiii. 115

y Bichard de (c. 1282-48), yiiL 119

biay 161, 185
Grent, Boger (1161), yii. 237
Gresley, William de (1205), yiiL 110 n

y Geofl&ey de (c. 1233), yiiL 209

Gret, Geofi^y (dtf. 1262), 27
Gret, John de (c. 1244), yiii. 185
Grey, Edward, Lord Powis, 882
Grey, Beginald de (1275), yiii. 85
Greystook, Balph, Lord (1411), yiii. 22

, , John, son o^ yiiL 22

y y , Elizabeth de Ferrers,

wife o( yiii. 22

INDEX OF PERSONS.

343

Qnffin, Bertram (1286-63), viii. 139, 142,

199
^ Geoffrey (e. 123S-1253), tu. 378 ;

Tui. 13, 65, 67, 91, 170, 185, 198, 200,

275

, William (c. 1222), viiL 61

Ghnffin QdUt (Qy. Gualensifi), 351
Griffin Seys (1260), yu. 186
Grim (T. R. E.), vii. 200 ; yiiL 42
Gronow, Emma and Richard (1261), yii.

175
Gruffith Yachan, 61, o. Fowis
Giynneshull, Richard de (1272), yii. 393
, , AgneB de Muneton, wife

of, yii. 393
Gudmund, Roger, Senior (1263), vii. 175
, Roger (1261-1270), vii. 27, 51,

138, 175

. , , Agnes, wife of, vii. 51, 138

, Richard (1302), vu. 173

-, Agnes, wife o^ vii. 173

Guarenne, v. Warren

Guldeford, FhiUp de (1294), vii. 277

GKirdin, Adam de, 273

Gumay, Hugh de (1138), 323

H.

Hahherley, Incumbents of^ vii. 49, 50, 90
, Roger, Parson of, vii. 49

, .^— , William, son o^ vii 49

, Undertenants in, viL 48, 49

Hadley, William (I.) de. (c. 1134), vu.

352, 353, 363 ; viii. 195
^ , Seburga, wife of, vii. 352-354,

356, 363-4 ; viU. 195
— -, — , Jordan, son of (o. 1146), vii.

354

-, ^ William, son o^ v. Eroall,

William de (I.)
^ Ahm de (^1136-1194), vii. 305, 352-

855, 863-365 ; viii. 47, 128, 195, 198

^ , Alice Pantulf^ wife of^ vii. 355

., Cecilia, dau. of, vii. 355, 356

Hadley, Hugh de (c. 1226), viii. 30
Hadley of Ercall, v. Eroall
HadnaU, GUbert fitz William of (o. 1157),
vii. 289, 826

, Wido de (e. 1235), 107 j viiL 286

Hagemon, William de, v. Haughmond

Hager, Henry (c. 1203), vii. 18, 53

, Hugh (c. 1210), vii. 18

, Thomas (c. 1215-21), 124; vii. 18

, William (1260-74), 167, 168, 169 ;

viL 26, 27, 84

, Hugh (1262-1272), vii. 27, 96, 177

-, William, Oerk (1262-82), vii 30,

95, 114, 127

, Adam (1277), vii. 33

Haia, Roger de (o. 1136-40), viu. 128,

152

, , Stephen, brother of, viii. 152

, Master Robert de (c. 1161), viii. 148

Haket, Walter (Coroner 1203), 91, 103
Hales, John de (e. 1242-55), viii 48, 49,

221
Hales (Parva), Reginald de (c. 1242-5),

viii. 49, 50, 221

, , William, son of, viii 49

Haleton, Haleghton, or Halghton, f>.

Haughton
Haliton, John de (e. 1273), viii 231
Halston (Ford), John de (1256), vii 191
Haman, Robert de (e. 1203-1225), vii.

341-343 ; vin. 117, 176

, , Alina, wife of, vii 341, 342

Hambleton, William de (0. 1290), vii. 176
Hampton, or Hempton, William de, 89 «
Hanooc, Thomas, 26
Handle, John de, 97, 134, 139

, , Maud Bumel, wife of, 134

, , Nicholas, son o^ r. Bumel

Hanton, Roger de (1282), vii. 127
Hanwood, Distil de (c. 1200), vii. 136

, ^ Matthew, son of, vii. 135, 136

Hanwood, Reinald de (c. 1125), vii. 10,

117

, John de (1165-1180), vii 117-18

, PhiUp de (1203), vii. 72

, Robert de (c 1203-1215), vii 16,

18 hit, 118
, Reginald de (1240-1269), vii. 44,

118

118

-, John de (1263-1288), vii. 27,

., William de (127»-92), vii. 118
-, Reginald de, vii 118, 119

•, Reginald, son of (1292-

1316), vii. 49, 118» 119

, , Robert, son of (1292), vii.

118, 119

344

INDEX OF PER80K8.

Hanwood, Bdoton of, tu. 119
Harcourt, William de (1216), yiii. 206,

207

, Kichard de (1281), viiL 86, 88

Harleacot, Adam fits William of (1199),

▼ii.805
Harley of Eaton Goinatantiiie. —

, William de (1346), Tiii. 210

Harley of Harley, 281.—

, Edward de (a 1100-1160), 281.

282

, Hemolf de (c. 1100-60), 281, 282

, Maloolomb de (1180-1209), 86,

282,829
^ William de (1216-1226), 124, 186,

232-3, 305

— , Richard de (1240-56), 229, 23^-4
— , Robert de (e. 1262-8), 284; viiL

96
284

-, Alice de PynaleBdone, wife of^

-, Maloolumb, son of (1270-
1290), 128, 129, 180, 280 ; tu. 176
-, Siohard (11.) de (1280-1816), 18,

68, 90, 95, 96, 235, 807 ; viL 884 ; viii.

87

— f — , Burga de Wililey, wife o( 90,
96, 285, 286, 807

— y , Henry, son o^ 47, 287

— , Robert (IL) de (1816-1868), 90,
285-287 ; yiL 89, 52

-, Margaret de Brompton, wife

o^ 285 ; TiL 89, 52

, , Robert, aon of (134^, viL 62

Harley, Adam de (1247), 288
Harley, Brian de (1899), 189

, John de (1221), 126, 288

, Nicholas de, 283

, , Alice de Preethope^ wife o^

288

, Nicholas de (Clerk, 1849), TiiL 288

, Richard de (Clerk), 48

, Sibil de, 236

^ , Richard, son of (1292), 236

Harley, Rectors of, 286, 287
Hamage, Richard de (1373), 220

, Hugh (1401), 220

, Hugh {def, 1456), 220 n

, — — , Margery, widow o^ 220 n

Harpoote, Roger de, 98

, , Roger, son of (1208), 98, 94

Harpcote, Roger de (1236-7), Tiii. 142

, Walter de (122^-37), 94, 107 ;

▼iii. 117
, Randulph de a255-84), 17, 94,

95
Harpur, Richard and Silnl le (1270), 294

y Roger and Alice le (1272), 261

, Roger le (e. 1278), yiiL 89, 281

Harris (of Dawky), Richard de (1812),

▼ii.824
Haseleo, Robert de (Justiciar 1189-91),

868; TiiL106
Haetiffl, Roger de (c. 1215), yiL 18
Hastings, Henry de (1238), 15, 26

— — , 1 Ada Soot, wife o^ 15

, Henry de (1250-^), 15, 16, 26,

58; Tii. 26

., John de (1284r-5), 17, 68

Hastings, Robert de (1285), Tii 129, 260
— — , — , Isabel de Mortimer, wife

o^ Til 260
Hatincham, v. Eting^am
Haubercheyn, Simon de (1287), Tiii. 141
Haughxnpnd, William de (c. 1227), 177
i — , Dionisia, wife o^ 177

., Nichoks de (1274), 46

-, Alice, wife of, 44, 45

Haughmond, Abbot and ConTent oi, 46,
46, 50, 51, 66, 57, 107, 168-166, 174-
177, 180-1, 246-248, 266-265, 297;
TiL 278-808 panim, 818-819, 876 ;
Till 147-151, 194, 221, 249, 262, 286-
288
Haughmond, Abbots ot —

Fulk (Prior), tiL 268, 285, 299
Ingenulf (c. 1155-6), tiL 289, 299
Alured (1170-2), TiL 290, 291,(299 ;

Tiii. 27
Richard ;(o. 1180-1204), 259, 276,

829 ; Tii. 299, 855 ; Tiii. 191
Ralph (e. 1206-1210), tIi. 246, 800 ;

Tiii. 191
Nicholas (c. 1220), 276 « ; tiL 800
Osbert (c. 1220-6), TiL 800
William (1226-7), 111 ; tiL 800 ;

TiiL 249n
Ralph (II.) (c. 1227-86), Tii. 800 ;

Tiii. 209
Henrey (1236-40), TiL 21, 300
Gilbert (1241-1262), tIL 295, 800,
808

INDEX or PERSONS.

346

Hftoghmond, Abbots of (eoii#MNfe(i). —
Alexander (12&e-1258), tIL 800
Alan (1278-1277), 67 i», 247, 266;

▼ii. 126, 800
Gilbert de Camnpeden (1284r-1804),

86, 68 $ Tii. 297, 801
Biohardde Broke (1806-1826), 261 ;

Tii.301
Kioholaa de Longenore (1826-1346),

43 ; Tii. 801, 802 ; yiii 287
Biohard de Bmgge (1846-1848), YiL

802^814
John (1848), viL 802
Bichaid (1359) ? rii. 802
John de Smethoote (1868-1878), tu.

266, 802, 387
Nicholas Biriton (1877-1381), tIL

802
Balph (1387-1416), 266 ; tu. 273,

802
WiUiam (1415-16), ym 302
Boger Weeteley (1419-1421), 180 ;

▼iL308
Biohard BumeU (1422-1463), 41, 48,

46, 166, 256 ; yii 308
John Ludlowe (1464-1478), 261 ;

TiL 278)303; yiii. 18
Thomas Gorresor (1636-1689), 46,
166 ; TiL 296, 803
Haughmond, Adam de Waloote, Prior of
(1849), Tii. 872

, Biohard, Canon of (o. 1193), 106

Hanghton (near Haoghmond), Gilbert de,
Tiii288

^ , Boger, son of (e. 124&-80),

▼iii 287 «, 288

, , — •, Thomas, son of (o.

1276), Tii. 281 M ; yiii 287 11, &w

, Hugh de (1284), TiiL 288

-, Thomas de (o. 1236-63), 107 ;

Tiii. 80, 288 bia

— , , William, son of, Tiii. 288

, Thomas de (1341), TiiL 288

-, William Willy, or Fitz William

of; Tin. 287

— — , f Isolda, daughter o^ TiiL

287, 287 IS ^

y Undertenants in, tIL 281 n ; TiiL

287 II, 288
Hanghton, of Hanghton, near Shiflbal.—
, Boger de (e. 1242), Tiii. 221

VIII.

Hanghton of Withington, Gkobury North,

and Longner. —
y Boger fitz Henry de (1165-1190),

Tiii. 76, 238

y , Letioia, wife of, Tiii. 76

^ f Philip, brother of, Tiii. 76

, Thomas fitz Boger de (1194-1211),

TiiL 77, 110 n
, Bobert (I.) de (1226-1269), 73,

341 ; TiiL 48, 77, 78, 92, 140, 209
, y John, alleged suooeesor off

TiiL 78, 79
, Bobert (XL) de (1267-9), TiiL 78,

79,81
y f Agnes, widow of (1270), Tiii.

79

— , Thomas (U.) de (1264-1282), Tiii.
79,81,162,16211,209
-, Bobert (in.) de (1284-1304), Tiii.

76, 79, 80, 209
, Thomas (IH.) de 1303-1336), tu.

802,869; TiiL 76, 80
Hanghton, Boger de (Esquire to Hau^-

mond Abbey, 1313), TiL 379
HaTerhiU, WiUiam de, TiL 193
Haye of Astley Abbots. —
— — , Nicholas de^ TiiL 180
Haywode, William de (c. 1286), 69
Hawemon, v, Haughmond
Hawkston, John de (1242), 78

, George (1431), 220 n

Hecstall, Biohard de (c. 1231), TiiL 209
Hed, William (1312) TiL 824
Hedelee, Hedleg, Hetley, v. Hadley
Hedewin, or Hedenawein Flam, TiL 14

, Eyneon or Hemon, son of, Tii. 14

, — , Howel, son o£, Tii. 14

Heghton, Bichard de (1820), 253-1
Helewynton, Henry de, 168^ 341
Helgot (of Castle Holgate, 1086), 2 hisy 4

bit, 214, 216, 220-1, 224, 227, 230-1

, Herbert, son of; 238 ; Tii. 220

, , Herbert (de Castello), son

of;238; TiL 237
, f , Emma de Pulrerbatoh,

wife of, 238
HelshAw, Bobert de (1262-76),Tiu. 67 bit,

69, 86, 276
, Master Walter de (1271-92), Tin.

69,236

, WiUiam de (1317), Tiii. 68, 69

/Li,

3! Mi

346

INDEX OF PBE80N8.

Heming, FrieBt (of Coimd ?), 70 ; tu. 286
Henoot) Boger fitz William of (1206),
869

, WiUiimi ProTOBt of (1208), 369

— , UndertenAnts in, 870

Herbert, Chamberlain of King Henij I^

riL 217, V, Fits Herbert
Herbert, Dean (e. 1165), yiii 188
Hereford, Archdeacon oil —

Balph FoUot (117&-95), 168 ; liii.
76,106
Hereford, Biahope of; 2, 296, 299, 848
Walter (1060-1079), 299
Bobert Losing (1079-1096), 298
Biohard de Oapella, vii. 149
Bobert de Betun, 819, 828 ; Til. 61 ;

Till. 214
Gilbert Foliot, viL 51
Bobert FoUot, 168-4, 192 ; rii. 69
Balph de Maidstone, vii. 21
Thomas de Gantilupe, yii. 87
Biohard de Swinfield, vii. 44, 60, 87,

88, 189, 140
Adam de Orleton, yii. 61
Thomas de Gliarlton, 807, 865) riL

14211
John de Trilleo, 96
Louis de Charlton, TiL 142 n
Thomas Milling, yii. 96 «
Herbert West&ling, 224
Hereford, Dean and Chapter of, yii. 97

, Geoffire^, Dean of, 164

, Balph de Maidstone, Dean of^ yiii.

209
Hereford, Earls of. —

William fits Osbom, 350
Boger de Bretolio, 350
Milo de Gloucester, 192; yii. 145,
148,150,151,158

, Lucia, daughter o( yii 148,

160, 151

, Maigaret, daughter of, yiL

151, V, Bohun
Boger de Gloucester, 192 ; yii. 11 n,
Herefordshire, John de, yii. 4
Hesding, Ayelina de, yii. 228, v. Fits Alan

, Emulf de (1066), yu. 222, 239, 241,

245n

, Emulf de (ocetncf 1188), yii. 222,

233, 240, 241
, , Emidf, supposed son of (def.

Hesding (of Scotland), Alexander de, vii.

225fi
Hesding, B^inald de (1190), yiL 226 »,

242
Heth of Preston on the Wealdmoors. —

, Hugh de (1836-50), yiii. 260, 261

Hewe, V, Bee

Heyyusson, William, yii. 387

, , William, son of (1368), yii.

387
Hejrwode, Bobert (1404), yiii. 89, 90
, f Joan de Chetwynd, wife of;

yiii. 69, 0. Peshale and Tiptoft
Hibemi^ Walter de (1826), yii 267
, y John, son of (1341), yii.

268
Higley, Helias de, 62, 88
, — , Margery, niece of; 82, 63, v.

Fits Odo of Kenley
HiU, John (1390), yii. 273
Hinstock, Incumbents of, yiii. 22, 23
Hobald, Boger, 69 n
Hoohton, William de (1263), yii 122
Hocley, Stephen de (c 1210), 364, v.

OaUiey
Hode, William (1802), yii. 856
Hodnet of Hodnefc and Westbuiy. —

, Odo (I.) de, yii 18, 53, 806

— , , Walter, son of, yii 54

— , , William, son o^ yii 18 hu,

63,54,5^94; yiii 61, 65

— , — ^, Boger de Preston, son o^ yiii.

89,257

— , , Stephen,'son of (1201-1224),

yii. 54 ; yiii 62

-, Balph, supposed son at, yii.

77,94; yiii 25, 255-6
— , Baldwin de (1208-1224), 99, 119,
120, 259 ; yii. 16, 19, 54, 55, 163, 842-
843, 355 ; yiii 29, 89, 54, 61, 66, 69,
159, 163, 167 his, 174^ 163, 190 Mf,
257-6

-— , , Cecilia de Hadlej, wife of,

yii 55, 56, 356
-, Odo (II.) de, 24» 67, 120, 196-7,

1165), yii. 222 n

229, 260 ; yii 26, 55-66, 64^ 82, 124,
276, 260 ; yiii. 89 bU, 49, 61-2, 66, 70,
91, 96» 170, 174 his, 242, 257, 276

— , , Baldwin, son of (o. 1250),

yiu.91

— , , Bichard, son of (1281-92)^

yii. 66 ; yiii. 256

INDBX OF PERSONS.

347

Hodaet, of Hodnet and Westbury (eonU-

mued). —
, Y^niam de (1284-1802), 120 ; yii.

68^1 ; yiii. 100, 101, 260
— , — -, Matilda, daughter and heir of^

YiL 58, 69, V. Ladlow
Hodnet, John de (o. 1250), Tii. 269
, Ralph de («. 1281-44), vii. 77, 94 ;

Tiii. 25, 256
, Biohard de (1292), Tii. 58 ; viii.

256,277

, Thomas de (1374), Tui. 256

, i Johanna, wife of, viii. 256

y William, Glei^ of (c. 1222), viiiOl

Hoghton, Master Bannlph de, 18

, y Biohard, Clerk, son ci, 18

Holt of Little Buildwas.—

, Geoiftey (I.) de, vii. 324

, William de (1227), viL 328, 824

, Geoififey dela (1262-1303), vii. 828,

824
, 1 Geoflkey, son of (1312), riL

828, 324
Holycote, Boger de (1292), yiii 270
Honald, v. Hunald
Hondreslowe, v. Onslow
Hope, Biohard de (1268, 1277), yiL 27, 88

, Bichard de (1303), yii. 127

, Bobert de (1209), yu. 16

, Stephen de^ 259

Honton, Thomas de (1272), yiii. 56
Hopton, John de (e, 1203), yii. 875
Hopton (near Hodnet), Osbert de, vii. 289
Hopton (of Bocholl), Thomas (1481),

220 1*
Hopton (Staffordshiie), Alice de (1205),

yiii. 110
Hopton, Walter de (1258-1805), 218;

yii 280; yiii. 21

— -, , Mand FantuU^ wife of, yiii. 21

i William ? de (1284), 218

, Walter de (1850), yiii. 6

Hord, PhiUp (1257-71), 299 ; yu. 104 n,

115
, Thomas (1255-1267), 299 ; vii. 1,

27, 28, 104, 104 1», 127

, , PhiUp, son of (1274), vii 4

, , Bichard, son of (1274-1803),

vii. 4,127

, William (1290), viii. 150

, Bichard {ofJUOcn, 1808), vu. 127

Hord, Bichard (Seneschal of Wem, 1806),

viii. 21

, Bichard (1320), viL 86

, John (1336), yii. 282

, Bichard (1836), vii. 302

, Thomas (1455-95), 118

, — , Joyce Stapleton, wife of^ 118

Hore, Thomas le (1286), vii. 137

, , Alice, wife o^ vii. 137

Horton, of Horton and Pnston on the

Wealdmoors. —
, William de (o. 1220), yiii. 89 (oox^

rected), 258, 259
, , Sabina de Preston, wife of,

viiL 89 (conected), 40, 258, 259

, William de (1281-92), viii. 40, 260

, Biohard de (133e-70), viii. 260-1

, PhiUp de (1382), viii. 261

, Bichard (1402), viii 261

Horton (Wellington), Tenants in. —

— ^-, Eustace de Horton {deft, 1249), viii.

89

, , William, son of (1249), viiL 89

, , Matilda^ widow of (1250), viii.

89
^ , Balph, son of (<i^#. 1285),

viii. 40

, f y Sibil, widow of, viii. 40

, John de (c. 1250-75), viii. 89 bi9y

40,288

, Biohard de (1264-1301), viiL 89, 40

, Bichard, son of Thomas de (1293),

viii. 50
Horton (Pontesbury), Helyas de (1221),

vu. 137, 155
, William de (1240-1272), 857 ; vii.

27, 137-8, 155
, , Nicholas, son of (1255), vii.

155
-, Boger de (1274-1292), viL 123, 138

Hosatus, Hugh (Testis o. 1155), vii. 389
Hosatus, Walter (Testis c. 1155), vii. 291
Hose, Hubert (1224), vii 56
Hose, Balph, v. Hussey
Hospitallers^ The Knights, 70, 226-7,

242-8
— , ^ Thomas Larchier, Prior

of, 248
Hothalles, Alured de, 146

y Boger de» 146

, William de (1272), 46

848

INDEX OF PSB80N8.

HoweiBoger, 7
Howie, Adam de, viiL 91

, — -, Sigherit, wife o^ yiii. 91

Huberd, Nicholas (1262), yii. 348
HugfordofBeningtonand Stanwaidine. —

, PhiUp d0 (1256), 86, 87

Hugford of Hugford. —

, Walter de (o. 1221-36), iriii. 2, 161,

167

, Walter de (e. 1253), vm. 178

, William de (1294), vii 277

, Walter de (1292 ?) , viii. 45

, Walter de (1818-28), 65 ; yii 296,

869
Hughkj, Inonmbents of^ 808

^ Osbert, Chaplain o( 804, 808

Hnkga^ PhiHp de, 251

— -, , Ghrifltiana, wife o^ 261

HnUmigton, William de (1260) , tiL 82
Hull, John de la (1272), 7, 20

, Boger de la (1221), yiL 124

Hnlle of Dorrington. —

, William de la (1262), 22

^ Hugh, son of Hugh del (1277), 22

Humez, Biohaid de (Constable of Nor-
mandy), yiL 68, 160, 291 ; viiL 164
Hunald of Frodeelej. —

, Bobert (1208-9), 292

, William (1221-1240), 62, 63, 107

6iff, 292-8
^— , -— *-, Laurencia, wife o( 298

, John (0. 1284), 66, 292

, Thomas (1248>1270), 293, 294

, William (oft. c. 1278), 294

, John (1292-1320), 60 his, 294, 296

, John (1368-1377), 296-6

^ -^— , Johanna^ daughter of (1406),

296, «. Soriven
Hunald, Bichard (1249), 294
Hungefort, Philip de, v. Hugford
Hunger, Bobert, viL 196
Huning (T. B. E.), 2, 4 ter, 108-9, 119
Hnnkington, Walter de (1272), yii. 274
Hunnic or Hunnit (T.B.E. and 1066), 2, 4,

119, 189, 261-2 ; yu. 198 ; yiii. 100, 114
Huntiland, Bobert de (1191), yiii 106-

108
Huntington, Philip de (1241-66), viii.

166, 170-1, 188

, 1 Isabella de Losford, wife

ot yiii. 166, 170-1

Huntington, Bichard, father of Phi]^ de,

yiii. 170, 171
y Bichard, son of Philip de (e.

1290), yiu. 166, 171
Husey, Balph (1176-1208), 106 ; yiL 246,

306, 821 ; yiiL 136-6, 197
, , Walter, son of (1201), yiiL

136-6

, William (c. 1203), 106

, John (tf. 1307-1818), yiL 282, 296-

297

, Bichard (1336), yiL 302

Hyde, Thomas de la (1294), yii. 277
Hynkeleye, John de (1824), yiiL 278
. , Elisabeth, wife o( yiL 278

I.

Idsall, Herbert, Bailiff of (e. 1280), yiiL

161

, Herbert de (c. 1263), yiiL 178

, Master Bichard de (c. 1193), yiL 341

Ightfield, Boger de (1214), yiiL 197
Imams (Papal Legate, 1146), yiiL 214
Ingeham, John de {def. 1204), yiL 152,

169, 165
, ^ Albieda Wolena, wife o^ yiL

169, 165, 168
, , Walter, son of (d?f. 1268), yiL

168

-, Oliyer, grandson of (1270),

yu. 168

Ingeram (Butler to Queen Eleanor), 865 n
Ipies, William de (1146), yiiL 214
Ipstanes, William de (1205), yiii. 110 n
Ireland, Walter de (1314), yiL 297 5», v.

Hibemia
Irish of Dawley and Great Norton.—
, Bichard le (1242-66), 300 ; yiii. 48,

46, 47, 221

, Philip le (1264), yiiL 46

, Bichard le (1292), yiiL 45

, , Alina, mother of (1292), yiii.

46

-, Johamia, wife of^ yiiL 45
-, Beginald, son of^ yiiL 46
-, William, son oj^ yiiL 45

Isombridge, Incumbents o^ yiii. 263, 264
, Undertenants in, yiii. 263

INDBX OF PERSONS.

849

J.

Jagdon, Boger de, yiiL 134

— , — » Simon, son of (e. 1190), viii.

134
Jai, HetiM de (e. 1175), yiu. 28

John (SeneBohal of William fits Alan (I.) ),

▼ii286
Jonas SaoeidoB, Tiii. 10
, Elias, brother of (c. 1188), viii

10

K.

Sjkgworthe, Master Biohard de {e, 1260),

▼iiil60
Kemberton, Walter de {e, 1268), viiL 178
Kenelm (King and Martyr), 189 »
Kenflworth, Badul^ Prior of (c. 1162^1),

Till. 217, 227 n
"Keakijy Gosoeline de, 86
— », Henrj de (1266), 89
— , Juliana de, 89

, Matilda de (1208), 86

— — , Petronilla de (Anchoret), 88, 90
, Bobert de Lubeoote of, 87

, Bobert fits Beginald of (1227), 90

, Boger le Hare o( 87

, , Henry, son of (1221-1266),

87-89
— — , Susanna de, 91

, — — , William, son of a262), 91

, Thomas le Petit of (1267), 91

— , William and Agnes Gocus ot, 90,91
Keringewyk, Simon de, 165

, ^ Johanna le Bngleys, wife

of; 155
Ketel, William, 176
— , '— — , Petronilla de la Hee, widow

of, 176
Ketley, Bobert de (c. 1210), viii. 47

, Henry de (1279), vu. 348

, Elyas de (1283), yiiL 124

, Boger de (1283), TiiL 124

y Undertenants in, vii. 348

Ken, Bobert le (Bailiff of Pimley), 137 ;

TiL807
— , Boger le, 137
^ ^ 1 ATota, daughter ot^ 187

EUpeo, FamUy oi, 191

William fits Norman (1086), 191
Hugh fits William (1180-70), 191-2
Henry de Kilpeo (1170-1189), 191-2

f Walter, brother of; 192

John de Kilpec (1198-1204), 191,
193-196, 241

y ^gidia, wife of; 193-4

Hugh de Kilpec (1216-1244), 23, 35,
66, 117, 120, 194 IS 196-197, 200,
206,264

y Isabella, daughter o( 197, v.

Walerand

, Johanna, daughter o( 116, 197,

V, Marmion
Kiwneleimy Hugh de, Tiii. 275
Kinnersley, Incumbents of, yiii 131

, Undertenants in, yiii. 180

Kirkeby, John de, 88

Knapton, Thurstan de (1292), riL 4

Kni^ley, Bobert de (e. 1231), viii 209

y Bobert de (1283), yiii 79

Knight, John le (1274), viL 122
Knotte, Alan (c. 1269), yii. 64; yiii. 180

, Peter (Clerk, 1267), vii. 29

KnoTiU, Bogo de, 185 ; vii 84^ 261

— , , Alianore, wife o^ 186

Kungilnde, Egelina de (1262), yiiL 62
Kyme, Simon de, yii 246

y Phitip de, TiL 228, 246

— , , Agnes fits Alan, wife o( viL

228,246
Kyneseleg (or Kinslow), Hugh de (1227-

1262), 177, 341 ; TiiL 30
Kynlet, Boger de (Clerk, 1294-1818), yii.
277,296

L.

Lacy (of Coohnere), Hugh de (1166), 7d»

74; yii. 312 Ms
Lacy of Hamage and Gressage. —

, Hugh de (1167), 74

, Almaric de (1178-1186), 74, 75,

311, 316

, Gilbert de (1200-1288), 74, 76, 811

-^— , y Bya de Baillol, wife o^ 76-

77,312

, GUbert de (1233-1249), 76, 77., 312

y , Agnes, wife o( 312, 313

850

INDEX OF PEB80HS.

liacy of Hamage and Creeaage {eoM'

tmed). —

, Adam de (1268-^), 17, 812^, 833

, Ahnaric de (1292-7), 313, 814

, John de (1311-1316), 814

, Juliana de (1827-8 P), 814 n

, Elizabeth de, 814, 815

Lacy of Hamage (Younger branch).

, Gilbert de, 815

, , Joan, aiflter o^ 816

, — , Maud de Kinglej, wife oi^ 316

Lacy of Ludlow. —

, Soger de (1086), 198 ii ; tU. 198,

200 ftw ; YiiL 68, 69, 71, 263

, Gilbert (I.) de, 73

, Hugh (n.) de, 73, 74, 84, 166 *,

811, 816 ; TiL 228, 298, 318 bu, 819,
820; yiiL63, 60

— , , Almaric, supposed brother oi^

74, V. Lacy of Hamage

— , ^ ••••, daughter of; viL 228, v,

Fitz Alan
— , Walter (IL) de, 197, 811 5 vii 78 *,

103,248
— , — , MatUdA, granddau. of, 812
Lacy (of Pontefiract), John de (1232), vii

294
Lacy, Henry de (1271), 842
Lake, Bobert de la (1274), yiL 46

, William de la (1274-86), viL 60

y William de (1278-92), 16, 24 ; vii.

143

, — , Isolda, wife of, 24 ; vii. 143

Lancaster, Earb o£ —

Thomas Plantagenet» 64, 116

Henry Plantagenet (1327-16), vii. 229

f Eleanor, daughter o( til 229,

o. Fitz Alan
Lancaster, William de (1220), til 73 11
Langeford, Bobert de (1209), rii. 16
Langley, Geoffirey de (Justiciar), 19, 22,

24-6, 91, 146, 208, 840, 346 11; TiL80
Langley, John Telimon o( 60, «. Belimon

, Undertenants in, 146-6

Large, John (Templar), 248
Lawley, Undertenants in, TiiL 101
Latimer, Sir William (1282), 181
Le, Thomas de, «. Lee
Leaton of Leaton. —

, Boger de (oh, 1262), yiii. 64

, — -, Petronilla, widow of, yiii. 64,

V. Stokes, Elyas de

Leche, aUa» Lardine, John (1463), 166
Leohi, Waiiam de {c. 1268), yiiL 43
Lecton, Thomas de (BaOil^ 1265), viL 4
Leduui (T. B. B.), Tii. 198 ; TiiL 200
Ledwich, William, Parson of (1292), Tii.

311 II
Lee of Alderton, Lee, and Hunkington ;

poHea of Aldon, Chatwall, and Ber-

rington. —
, Beyner de (1197-1210), 99, 168 ;

Tii. 136 ? 244-6, 267, 278-4, 327, 876 5

TiiL 136

, , Hawise, wife ot, TiL 274

, Thomas de (1221-1268), 38 ; tiL

82 ? 274, 279
, John de (1262-1297), 17, 36-38,

68, 69 »; TU. 80, 274, 894 ; TiiL 86
^ ^ Petronilla de Drayton, wife o^

87; TiL 274; TiiL 288
, John de (1308-1317), 38-41 ; tU.

270, 274, 328
, , Alice Boterel, wife o( 88, 89,

41 ; TiL 270, 274

-, John, son oi^ (1314-1882),

88-40,66? 67; TiL86P
— , , — , Johanna, widow of

(1846), 41

-, Thomas, son of (1814-1383),

89-41, 106

-, Thomas, son of (1338),

41,106
— , , OUyer, son of (1814-1382),

89-11

— , ^ AHoe, wife of (1317), 89

— , Isabella, dau. of (1814-7), 89

, ,Petronil]a,dau.of (1814-7),d9

Lee of Belswardine. —

, John de (1292), 280

, , ETa, wife ol, 280

Lee of CalTington, 806.—

, Henry de (1200-9), TiiL 274

, , Bobert, son of (1209), Tiii. 274

Lee of Gresswell (Staffordshire). —

, John de, TiiL 34 n

, — — , Margaret, dau. o^ Tiii. 34 n

Lee of Hughley (Elder Line).

, Banulf de (1120), 303

, Thomae de (o. 1170-80), 803, 804

, , WUliam, brother of (c. 1180),

804
, , Hugh, son of (1170-1206)

86,304

INDEX or PER80M8.

851

Lee of Hughley (Elder line, conHmted},-^

, Thoma» de (c. 1221-122B), 62, 188,

232,806

— , , Hugh, brother of (1209-1222),

63,188

— , Hugh de (1226-71), 68, 107-8, 112,

142, 806^ 841^-2 ; Yiii. 91, 221, 276

— t , Elena, wife o^ 806 5 Tiii. 276

— , Edmund, son of, 806 ; Tiii.

275

-, Beginald de (1276-1316), 67, 806,

806; yiii276
-, Beginald de (1887-8), 90, 807
-, Boger de (1891), 808 .

Lee of Hughley (Younger branches).--
, Beginald de (1209-1222), 68, 187-

188,806
, Bichord de (0. 1222-1247), 188,

146,806

, Henry de (1221), 124^ 807; viiL 274

, Henry de (1264, TilL 274

, Hugh de, aerk (1269), 161, 807

, Hugh de (1283), 228, 807

, , Alice, wife o^ 228,807

Lee of Lea (near Ford) . —

, Hugh de (1274), yii. 191

^ Beginald de (1292), vii. 191

Jjea, of Lea and Fimhill ; poitea of Lang-
ley. —
— -, Boger de la (1366-77), 41, 133

— -, ^ Johanna Bumel, wife of, 183

— , ^ Petronilla, daughter o^ 41,

138, «. Lee of Stanton, &o.
Lee of Lee Botwood. —

, ThonuM de, 248

, ^ Thomas, son of (1400), 248

Lee of Lee-Cumbray. —

, Balph de (1266), yii. 344, 848

, Bobert de (1264-88), yii 348

Lee of Leonards-Lee. —

, Walter de (0. 1210), viiL 47

, Leonard de (c. 1210-26), TiiL 47,

116
, 9 Johanna, daughter of (1249),

7iii. 119
, , Nichola, daughter of (1249),

Tiii. 119

, Dionysia de, viiL 66

, — , Biohard, son of (1266), TiiL

66

-, Matilda, wifeof^ Tiii. 66

Lee of Priors Lee.—

— , Eilwin de (c. 1198), Tii. 841

, Henry de (e. 1193), Tii. 841

Lee of Stanton, Boden, Preston, &a ; —

potUa of Berrington and Langley. —
^, Thomas de (1289-1316), 40 j Tii.

270, 879, 886-7 ; Tiii. 287 «
— , — , PetroniUa de Stanton, wife o^

Tii. 270, 271, 887

— , y OliTer, son o^ 40 ; Tii. 270-1

, — , Stephen, son o£i Tii. 270, 271

', — — .,. , Oatherine, daughter o^

TiL 271, V, Drayton
, , Thomas, son of (181^20),

40| Tii. 270, 271, 296 P
,John de (1810-1327), 40,41} TiL

267, 270, 282, 887
— , • , Matilda de Erdlnton, wife of

(1312), TiL 887
, , Maud, daughter of (1327),

40, 41,v. Lyie

, , Thomas, son of, 40

, John (II.) de, 41 j Tii. 271

^ John (ni.) de, 41 j Tii. 271

, Bobert de la (1378-1400), 36, 41,

138 ; TiL 271
, , Petronilla Lee, wife o^ 41, 42,

133 ; «. Lee of Langley

, Balph de la {oh, 1479), 41, 42, 48,

. 138

, y Isabella, supposed first wife

o^ 42, 183
, , Isabella Bydley, supposed

second wife of^ 42

, Bichard de la (1479), 42

^ Thomas de la (1684), 161

Lee of (Uffington), Thomas (1416), tuL
• 802
Lee, Adam de (1288), TiiL 97

, Hugh de (c. 1136), Tiii. 128

Lee (Query Bee), Balph de (1209), Tii. 16

Lee, Beyner de (e. 1290), 264

, Boger de (Bailiff or Ford Hundred,

1272), TiL 4

, Stephen de la (c. 1144), yiii. 129

, Thomas de (1260), TiL 82

' , Thomas de (1818), TiL 296

, Thomas de (1401), 220

, William de {c, 1157), Tiii. 133

, William de (1401), 220

Lega, Legh, Leha, or Leia, o. Lee

862

INDEX OF PERSONS.

Leicester, Eark of. —

Bobert de BeUomout {tern* Hen. I.),

26911
Bobeii de Bobbo, 822 n
Simon de Montford, tu. 26, 28> 187,
255

, Simon, eon of, 265

Leighton of Eaton CSonetantine.-—
, William de (1316, 1818), vii 884$

TUl. 5

Leighton of Leighton. —

, Tihel de (1185-1165), tu. 826

, Richard (I.) de (1165-1194), 829 ;

Tii. 827
-, Bichaid (n.) de (1200-1210), 852 ;

Tii. 828, 831 ; yiii 16
— , Richard (lU.) de (1216-1249), 54,
75, 77, 107, 108, 124$ yii. 828-330,
835-6 ; viii. 8, 119, 140, 167-8, 175,
182, 186-7, 221, 277, 284
— , William de (1252-1263), 229 $ TiL
82, 880-1, 332, 836 ; viU. 173
-, Richard (IT.) de (1263-1294), Tii.

281, 331-^38, 387 ; Tiii. 166, 189
— , Richard (Y.) de (1800-1818), 68 ;
Tii. 127, 296, 823 bis, 833-385, 837>
889 i Tin. 87, 287

— , i Agnee, wife ot^ TiL 884, 835

— , , John, son of (1316), til 385

— , , Walter, son o^ TiL 886

-, William, son ot, Tii. 885

, John, son of Sir Richard de (1843-

1347), TiL 298, 885 ; Tiii. 210

— *, , Agnes, sister of (1347), TiL

335

— , , John, brother of (1847), TiL

385

Leighton, Incnmbente of, Tii. 838, 339

, Roger de (1318), Tii. 834

, Thomas, Rector of (c. 1220), TiL

836, 388
Leighton, Undertenants in. —
Damian de Leighton, tiL 885

, Lncia, widow of (1221), tiL

885

, Philip, son o{, TiL 835

Roger le TaiUour (1341), Tii. 888
William Bran (c. 1284), TiL 333
William de Wyllarscoto, Tii. 337
Leighton (of Stretton), John (1455-95),
118

Leimer, or Lemer (T. R. E.), tiL 2 Mt, 66,

179, 189
Lenton, Master QeoSbey de (c. 1 161), TiiL

227
Leofrio, Eari of Meroia, v. Leorio, Gomes
Leton, Thomas de, TiL 186

^ , Thomas, son o^ TiL 186

^ ^ Juliana, daughter oi^ tiL 186

Leuenod, or Leuenot (T. R. E.), tiL 2 Ut,

65,111,198; TiiL 71
Leuiet (T. R. B.), tiL 2, 127
Leuinus Gilt (T. R. E.), Tii. 200
Leuric, Gomes (T. R. E.), TiL 196; TiiL

280

f Godera, wife o^ TiiL 280

Leurio (of Pitch£ard andLongd6n,T Jt.B),

2, 268 ; TiL 2, 156
Leuui (T. R. E.), TiL 198, 826
LeTerset, Thomas de (1354), tiL 362

, William de (o. 1849), TiL 368

LeTeson, James (1539-40), TiL 371
Lewknor, Thomas, TiiL 206, 210
, f Joan D'Oyley, wife of^ TiiL

208
Lejbome, John de (1821-1848), 65 ; TiL

39, 43 ; TiiL 16
, f Beatrix de Beaochamp, wife

of^ TiL 89 ; TiiL 16

-, Lucia le Strange, mother of.

TiiL 16

, Roger de (1264), TiL 255

Leje (of Ragdon), Robert de, 137

, — , Robert de Acton (Glerk),son

o( 137, V, Acton
Lejnham, Edmund de (1302-d), tiL 322
823

, , Alice de Buildwas, wife o^

Tii. 322, 823
Lia, WiUiam de (1200), 28, 74, v. Waters

Upton
Lichfield and GoTentry (or Ghester),
Bishops o£, 2 bis, 126, 181, 285 n, 818,
848 bU, 861-2 ; TiL 198 jpluriet; Tiii.
79,205
St. Geadda, 361
Wulsius, 861
Leofvrine, 861
Peter, 181, 361

Robert de Limosey, 2 &tf, 6, 10 P,
182, 318, 848 bis, 349, 359, 860 >
TiiL 200, 206

INOBX OF PBRSONS.

35S

Tnfthfiald, Bishops of (eontumed), —
Robert Peche, 10?
Boger de Clinton, 28, 44, 69, 183 «,

318^24, 828-9, 859, 360; yii.

282, 264; Tin. 146, 216, 216
Walter Durdent, 28, 44, 172, 329 ;

vii. 264, 291-2,889$ Ym.133, 147,

216, 220
Biohard Peche, 22, 28, 44, 60, 170,

172, 246, 827-329 ; yii. 292, 298,

818^ ; Yiii. 180, 133, 147, 149,

206, 220, 227, 280
Hugh de Noyant, 232, 328-9, 860 ;

yii 12, 866 ; yiii 148, 191, 194,

220,227
Geoffrej de Mnschamp, yii 294, 867 ;

yiii 191
Alexander de Stayensby, 249; yii

867 ; yiii 208, 220
Boger de Weseham, yii. 808
Boger de Molend, yii 867 ; yiii 193,

227
Walter de Langton, 29, 274-6, 280-

281, 861, 862 n ; yii. 296-7, 368 ;

yiii. 228
Boger de Northbnigh, 29, 30, 281,

831 ; yii 298, 301-2, 314, 369
liohfield, Dean and Chapter oi^ 46
Lichfield, Deans of. —

William (1146-1162), 246 n, 821-2;

yiii. 147, 227 n
Bichard de Dallam, yiii 148 n
Wniiam de Manchester, yiii 209
liohfieid, Odo, Treasorer o^ 321-2
Lilla (Saxon name), yiii. 229
Lilleshall, Abbot and Conyent of, 332,
368-370 ; yii 92, 195, 197, 280, 306,
308, 819; yiii. 108, 120, 216-264
pauim, 268, 266
Lilleshall, Abbots of, yiii 224-227

William (1146-1174), yiii. 216, 219,

226, 261
Walter (1177-1208), yii 366 ; yiii

225, 231, 238, 251
Balph (1203-1216), 153^ 184 », 369;

yii. 244-6 ; yiii. 226, 241-2, 261
Alan (1220-1224), yiu.29, 225, 242,

248-9
William de Dorleng (1226-1285),

yiii. 226, 248
Simon deFodring (1236-40), yiii 225

VIII.

Lilleshall, Abbots of (continued), —

Biohard de Salop (1240-1262), yiii.

225, 232, 234, 243

Bobert de EroaU (1253-1270), yiii.

226-6, 230, 236
William de Hales (1270-1275), yiii

226, 231, 232, 249

Lucas (1277, 1282), yiii 40, 226,

236,262
Balph (1284, 1289), yiii. 48, 226
William de Bragge (1291-1808),yiii.

226,243
Bobert Watson (1521-1538), yiii
223, 227
Lilleshall, Adam, Canon of (1249), yiii.
234

, Benjamin, Canon of (e. 1201), yiii.

108, 225 ft, 231, 247

, The Prior of (1203), yiii. 191, 226 n

J Undertenants in, yiii. 229-231

, Vicars of, yiii 228-229

Lincoln, Bishops of. —

Alexander, 820 ; yii. 287 ; yiii. 211,

213, 215
Bobert (1155), yiii 217
Oeofftesy (Bishop elect, 1173), 245
Lincoln, Earls of. —

John de Lacy (1238), yii. 186
Henry de Lacy (1277), yii. 98, 99,
129 ft

, Joan Martin, wife o^ yii. 190

Lindesei, William de, yii 226 «
lingen. Sir John (1270), yii. 30
Linley of Linley. —
— , Baldwin de, yiii. 128

, , Bichard, son of (<?. 1136),

yiii 128
Linley, Nicholas de, 202

, , Bichard, brother o^ 202

, PhiUp de (1200), 74

, Bichard de (c. 1203-1228), 112,

201,260-1; yii. 18
, , Matilda de Smethcott, wife o^

250-1

, , Bichard, son of, 261, 255

— , , , Alice, dau. of, 251, 255,

V. Puroel
Liseax, Amolf, Bishop of (1151), yii

150 ; yiii. 217
Lisnres, Fulk and Hugh de (c. 1140),

yiii. 162

45

854

INDBX OF PERSONS.

Lithe of Uppington and Dryton

, Richard de (1341), vui. 168, 161

Lithe, Gramel de la, 175
LitUeton, Edmund (1543), viL 299
London, BishopB of —

Richard de Bekneis (I.), 10, «. Bel-
meis

GHlbert the Uniyeraal, viii. 213

Ansehn (Bishop elect), yiii. 213

Rohert de Sigillo, viL 287

Richard de Belmeis (II.), o* Behneis
Long (of Pulyerbatch), John, 263
Longohamp, Hugh de (1175-6), 166 n
Longden, Alan de (1221), yii. 124, 170

, Edmund de (c. 1300), yii. 49, 170

y Robert de (1280), yii 170

, Roger de (1265-6), yii. 170

Longford of Longford.

Hamo de Longford, 88 ; yiii. 103,
104, 108-9, 126

, Sibil, or Basilia fits Odo, wife

o^85; yiii 103
-, Eya, dau. of (1166-1200), 83;

yiii. 90, 103-110, o. Brimton and

Whitfield

— , Agnes de Stooton, dau. of, yiii.

90, 103, 108-110
Longford, Ralph de (1292), yii. 143
Longner on Seyem, Lords of. —

Geoffirey fitz Reginald de Wirley

(1166-1203), yiii. 206
William fits QeoSxej (1199-1223),
207 J yiiL 156, 172, 206-7

, Bionisia Mussun, wife o£^ 207 ;
yiii. 166, 169, 172, 206-208

, Thomas, brother of (1204-

1231), yiii. 206, 208

, Jordan, brother o^ yiii 206

Longnor, Alric de, 60, 804, v. Spren-
cheaux

, , Ralph, son of, 50, 304

, y Robert, nephew o^ 804

Longnor, Undertenants in, 69-62, 67, 68
John Brito, 52

Loyekine de Longnor (1267), 91
Richard de Seinton, 52
Richard fitz Osbem (Clerk), (1290-
1323), 68-61, 66, 67, 68, v. Diddle-
btuy

, Emma, wife o( 69, 60

Richard fitz Roger (1319), 67

Longnor, Undertenants in {contimted), —
Robert Inge (1323), 67
Roger Thurlewynd (1298-1819), 60,

67,68
Walter, Beadle, 263

,Wmiam (Beadle), son of (1290-

1823), 68, 69 ter, GO Mf, 61, 66,
67-8, 263
William de Acton (1323), 67, v. Ac-
ton (Bumell), William le. Clerk of

, John, son o^ 67

William fitz Engelard (1286-92), 59,
60,67

, Roger, son of (1319), 67 K»

Longslow of Longslow, 287

, Hugh de (1214), yiii. 197

, Hugh de (1228-1266), 89, 288-9 ;

yiii. 167

-, Alice, wife of, 288-9, v. Bolas
-,•**• dau. of, yiii. 167, 176,

178, 180, V. Bury of Uppington
— , Hugh de (1270-05. 1290), 68, 107
aif, 288, 289, 290

— , , Hugh, son of {naiiu ante

1250, oh, 1314), 290

— , , William, sonof (1292), yii. 143

— y , , Juliana, wife o^ yii.

143
Losford of Uppington. —

Robert de Losford (1211), yiii. 166,
' 165, 167

f Alianore Mussun, wife o( yiii.

166, 182

, Alianore Mussun, widow of
(1220-41), yiii. 166, 167-169
, Amicia, dau. of^ yiii. 166, 169,

170

— , Dimota, dau. of (e. 1246), yiii.

166, 169

— , Dionysia, dau. of (e. 1245),

yiii 165, 169, 170

— f Isabella, dau. of, yiii 166, 169,

V, Huntington

— , Sibil, dau. of (1241), yiii 165,

169, 170

— , William, son o^ yiii. 166, 167,

169
Lotwich, WiUiam de (1203), 103
Louther, Hugh de, 145 ; yiii. 270
Loyel of Bazterley (Warwicksh.).— John,
son of William {iem. Edw. I.), yiii 86

INDEX OF PERSONS.

355

Xoyel of Tiohmenh

, John {ob. 1314), 184

, , Maud Bumel, wife ofi 134

, John (ob, 1347), 134

, John (1378-9), 72 n

Lowe, Balph de la (1265-62), 841 bU
Lowe of Beckbuiy. —

, Thomas (1351-61), viiL 160

y , FetTonilla de Beckbory, wife

of, Tiu. 160
Lowys of Whitton and Yennington. —
, Kobert (1240-66), vu. 44, 66, v.

Whitton

, Simon (1292), Tii. 66, v. Whitton

Lucy, Geoflfrey de (1179-81), 245; vii.

864

, Bichard de (Justiciar), yii. 293

Ludlow of Stokesay and Hodnet. —
, William de (ob. 1816), 63, 120; tIl

58-60,334; Tiii.2&6
, , Matilda de Hodnet, wife o£.

120; vii. 58, 59, 63

— , Laurence de (1316-1858X Tii. 59,

61

-, Hawise, wile of, yii. 59

', Bichard, son of (Prebendary

of Westbury), vu. 61, 62
-, John de (1353-1374), yii 59, 62,

68 ; Tiii. 71, 256

, Bobert de (1386), vii. 62

, John de (1388), vii 62

Ludlow, Edmund de (Priest, 1316), 157

, John de (1292), viii 270

, William de (1274), vii 143

Lune, Bichard and Bobert, vii. 49
Lutky of Lutley, Staffordshire. —
, PhiHp de (1286-40), viii. 160, 161,

169
, — , Amabel de Beckbury, wife of,

▼iu. 160, 161
Lya, 17. Lythe

Lydley, Undertenants in, 239, 240
Lye, William de (1255), vii. 143
, y William, son of (1259), vii.

143
Lyfford, William de (1256), 104

, , Margery, wife ofi 104

Lyle, John, 41

— , , Matilda de la Lee, wife of, 41

Lyndesey, Thomas de (1293), 107

, , Emma, wife of, 107

Lythe, Nicholas do (1200), 24

Lythe, PhiUp de (1228), 24

, William de (1200), 23, r. Waters

Upton
Lythe (Parva), John de (1231-54), 24,'

25, V, Balle

M.

Maculine, Lord of Eaton Constantine

(1381), viii. 5
Maddey, Philip, Parson of, and Physician

(c. 1218-22), vin. 47, 61

, Bichard de, 76

Madoc, Hoel ap (1261), viu. Ill

Maelgon (1214), vii. 17, v. Mailgwn

Maghelins, Godescall de, 120 ; vii. 20, 56

Mailgwn, Madoc ap, 160, 161

Malet, Bobert (1101), vii 217

Malherve, Bobert, 233

, , William de Harley, son of,

V Harley
Malmesbury, Bobert, Abbot of, vii. 158
Malvoisin, William (1176), vii. 293

, William (1203), vii. 72

, Boger (c. 1225), 138, 305

Malvoisin of Ashfield. —

, Henry (1231-1266), vii. 278,

896-7
, , • • • de Baggesore, wife of.

897

, , PhiUp, son of (1292), vii.

896-398

, Thomas (1274-8), vii. 896-398

, John (ob. 1349), vii. 397, 398

, , Thomas, son of, vii. 397-8

Malvoisin of Berwick. —

, Henry (1150-1190), vii. 245,

279, 321, 355, 388-390, 397 ; viii. 240
, , Avelina, wife o^ vii. 388,

890,897

, y Nicholas, brother of, vii.

388-9, 890, 897

y , Elias, brother of, vii. 388,

397

397

-, Herbert, brother of, vii. 388,
-, Thomas, son of (1221),

viii 233

, — , William, son oty viii. 240

, Herbert (1196-1240), 352 ; vii.

135, 278-9, 316, 341, 390-1, 396-7 ;
viii. 2, 163, 181, 183, 187, 233, 240

356

INDEX OF PEB80K8.

Malvoisin of Berwick (eoniimued), —
, Henry, son of Herbert, vii. 278,

390-1, 396-7; viii. 43, 166, 187-8,

234, V. Berwick, Heniy de
— , Thomas, son of Herbert, vii. 278,

390-1, 896-7 ; Tiii. 166, 279

, Alan {obiU 1242), vii. 279, 390-

391, 397

-, Saer (1243-1288), 104 ; viL 278,

279, 280, 391-393, 396-7 ; viiL 166,

243

, — , AKce de Mtmeton, wife o^

vii. 393, 397

, Peter (1288-1299), 344; viL 898,

397

-, John (1299-1323), vii 336-7,

393-395, 397

, John (n.), vii. 395-897

Malvoisin of Bodington. —

, PhiUp (1284), vii. 379, 380, 897

note
Mamerfeud, v. Momerfleld
Maminoht, Walcheline (1188-44), vii.

233, 287-8, 290. 293 ; viii 128, 129,

152-3
Mandelove, William (1341), viii. 169
ManseU, lUlph (c. 1150), vii. 235
Mansell, John (Treasnrer of York), vxL

344, 345 ; viii. 157 his, 178, 188
Mara, Heni^ de (Justiciar, 1255), vii. 80

, Wigan de, 353, 354

Mare (of Bolas), Richard de la (1414),

viii. 273

, , Isabel, wife of, viii. 273

Mare, of Uffington

, Robert de la (c. 1160), 103 ; vii

293

, , Agnes, daughter of, vii. 293

Marescall, John (1155), vii. 150

, John (1213-1220), vii 246, 248,

251, 263 ; viii 16, 17

, WilHam (1194), vii. 294

Marescall of Bourton and Pulley. —
, Ralph I. (1211-1237), 106, 176-8,

180, 207-8 ; viii. 30, 48, 165, 173
, , Alice, dau. of, 177-8 ; viii.

165, 173 his, 174, 278, «. Panton
, , Isabella Boschart, wife of,

176-8, 207-8 J viii. 165, 173, 174
, Ralph II. (oh, 1263), 178, 208-9 ;

viii. 157, 169, 174

Manecall of Bourton, &o. {oonHmimli, —
r, Engeiard, son of Ralph (II.), 178,

209^211 ; viii 165
, f Philip, son o^ 179, 210 5 viii

165
Marescall of Uppington. —
, William (1202-1244), viii 166,

164, 167, 168 ier, 169, 172 his, 188-

186, 187
, — , Isolda, or Cecilia Mnssim,

wife o( viii 188-186
Maresoal (of Wenlock), John le (1272),

vii 64
MaresdiaU of Winsley and Woolaston. —

, John (1265-1272), vii 115, 177

, — , Sibil, wife o^ vii 177

, Thomas le (1884), vii. 65

, — *j Isabel, wife o( vii 65

Maieschall of Wyke.—

, Walter (Deacon) (c. 1222-36), viii

167 his, 168
Marescot, v, Marscot
Marisco, Ghristiana de, 136

, Oeoffirey de, 146 «

Marmion, Barons Marmioo. —

, Robert (1176-1188), vii 293 ; viu.

227 n, 232, 232 fi

, Robert (1214), vii 248

"^— , Phihp, 116, 117, 197-199, 200, 201,
205; vii. 168; viii. 286

, , Johanna da Kilpeo, 1st wife

o^ 116, 197, 200, 201 ; vii 168

, y ••••, 2nd wife oft 201

1 — — , MaiEcra, dau. oft 199, v. Crom-

well

— , , Joan, dao. oft 199, 200, «.

Morteyn

— f — , Matilda, dau. oft 199, «. Bo-

teler of Norbuiy

— , Joan, youngest dau. oft 199,

>

201

Mairys, v. Marisco

Marscot, Lord of Baton Masoott (1155-

94), 102, 108 ; vii. 246, 276-6, 277 «i,

28611,805,821; viii. 9
, Hamo, son of (1175-1280), 36,

103-^ 106, 148 ; vii 246, 821, 327 ;

viii. 17, 136, 286

, , PetronUla, wife oft 106

, Henry, son oft 103 5 vii. 246, 821

, Nicholas, son of (e. 1200), 106

INDEX OF PERSONS.

367

ICanoot of Baton Masoott {(OonHmied), —

> William (1240), 104^ 107

, William (1266-79), 67, 68, 69 «,

104, 107 his, 248, 266
Ifanoot, Biohard (1266), 104

i Bobert (eiro. 1270), 107

, Thomaa (1288), 16, 104, 107

Manoote, Boger de (1292), -Tii 4
ICareh, aliag Eyton, Family of. —

Hugh de Manh (1189-1209), yii. 16,

128-126, 136
William de Eyton, or de Kanh (son
of Hugh), Tii. 114, 128-126

, Robert de Eyton, brother of
(e. 1220-1), TU. 18, 123-126

, Alice, siater of, vii. 128-4

1 ABoelina(deBreddeehill), sister

o( TiL 123-126

, ^, Edith, sister of, Tii 123-^

, Oodith, sister ofi vii 123-4

f Isolda, sister ot, vii. 123-4

, Margaret, sister o( vii. 128

, Mirabel, sister of, rii. 123

^ Petronil, sister o^vii 128,126,

186 U#

, , Bobert, son of (1266),

Tii. 126

, Sibil, sister ofi Tii 128

f Boger de Marsh (I.), son and

heir of (1240-1272), tu. 27, 28,
67, 68» 96, 104, 124-126, 128 bis,
177?
, f John, son of (1266-

1270), Tii 126 «»

Boger de Marsh (II.),

son and heir of (1274-1280), Tii.

126,129
Manh, Wido de (1209), Tii 16, 128

, i Mai^geiy de Brerlawe, widow

of (1221), Tii. 128-4

^, , Boger, son of (1221), Tii. 124

, , Bobert, ProToet of (1266), Tii

128

Marshall, The Earls, Tii 74, o. Pem-
broke

Martel, Osbert {tem^ Hen. I.), 266 n

, William {tern. Hen. 11.), 360, 363-4

Martin, William, Tii. 190 n

- — , f Joan, sister o^ Tii 190 *, v.

Audky

Martm, Paber (c. 1180), Tii. 69, v. Beeche

Martin (Papal Nunoio, 1246), Tii. 78
Masoon, William (c. .1203), Tii 876
Massy, John, 42
Matthew (Dapifer to William fits Alan),

Tii 236
Maudmt of Hanslape, Bobert (1176-6),

Tiii. 164
Mauduit of Warminster, 184

, Thomas, 111, 112, 196 ; Tii 306

, y Bobert, brother ofi Tii 306

, William, 221, 226, 242 n

MauUy, Peter de (1214), Tiii. 267
MauTeysin, v. MalToisin
Mayou, Boger (1303), Tii. 127
Meeson, William de (0. 1246), Tiii. 49*

276
, , William, son of (1249-93),

Tiii. 60, 276
, Thomas de (tern, Edw. II.), Tiii.

276
Mehell, Sir M., Tii 94
Meirioun, Gkrrase ap, 161
Meisy, Bobert de (1240), 112, v. Staple-
ton
Melebuin, Bobert de (0. 1138-40), Tii.

368 ; Tiii 162
Meole (Brace), Gilbert de (1221), 111 «,

866

, Incumbents of^ 368

— , Boger, Serjeant of. 111, 366

y Undertenants in, 867

^ WiUiam, ProTOst oi; 111, 866

Meole (Crook), Bobert de (1266-6), Tii

191

, Adam de (1272), Tii 191

, William Burt of a292), Tii 191

Mer, Alan le (0. 1220), Tii. 836

Mercia, Earls of, 6, 170, v. Leofrio, Algar,

Edwin

, Wulfhere, King of (661), Tii 130

Mere, Eudo de (1203), Tiii 136

Meriloun, v. Esmerillum

Mersse, v. Marsh

Merston, Boger de (1242), 73

Meryton, Henry and Felicia de (0. 1173),

Tiii 231
Meeser, Bichard le (1221), 111
Messeure, Thomas le (1267), Tii 29
Meston, v, Meeson
Metz, Warin de {tern. Hen. I.), til 67, 91,

91 1», 204» 217

858

INDEX OF PERSONS.

Meverel, Gilbert (0. 1246), yii. 96
Meverel, Jyo {c. 1285), yiii 52

, Nicholas (1250-6), vu. 174-6, 177

— , , Luda de Say, wife of (1235-

1263), vii. 174, 175

, Kicjhard (1250), vii. 174

, Kichard (Okrk, 1236), yiii 48

, Walter {e, 1165-75), vii 889 ; viii.

28

Mey (of Stoney Stretton), Bichard le

(1258), vii. 14
Meyler, Henry {e. 1279), 68, 69 n
Middelton, Soger de (1336), 106
Middlehope, William de (1203-12), 91 '

Hf; yii 328
, Richard de (1221-41), 26, 63, 76,

107-8 ; vii. 328, 329, 330 ; viii. 140
■, William de (1270), 128

Middleton, Hamo de (1262), 341

, Unerard de, vii. 304, 306

- , , Stephen, son of^ v. Fimley

Milde, Roger le (1292), vii. 4
Milisent, William, 370

, , Adam, son of (1221), 370

, Peter (1272), vu. 188

Millichope, Thomas de (e. 1172), 304
Minsterley, Undertenants in, vii. 46, 47
Miraval, William, Abbot of; 880
Milton, William (1479), 42 '
Kokeleye, Roger de (1304-15), vii. 334 ;

viii 179
Molventon, William de (1286), viii 68
Momerfield, Richard de (0. 1262), vii 63 ;

viii 129, 130
— ^ , , Agnes, ^dow of (1259),

viu. 129, 130
, , Oliver, son of (1269), viii

130

Moneford, Richard de (1203), 94

, , Mabel, wife o^ 94

Monemue, Baderon de (1166), 192

, John de (1216-1232), 163, 346 ;

vii 20, 167, 248

, , Cecilia Waleran, wife o^

153

Montalt, Roger de (1246-59), vii. 26, 78
Monte (of Lilleshall), Roger de (0. 1240-
70), viii, 39

, Robert de (oft. 1294), viii. 231

, , Agnes, wife of, viii 231

-— •, , William, son ofi vib*. 231

Montemarisoo, Hervey de, 328
Montfort, Simon de, 127, v. Leicester

, Peter de (1264), vii 84

Montfort of Idsali —

, Robert de (1272), viii. 85

Montgomery of Eaton Gonstantine.-*

, Adam de (1267-1290), vii 29;

viii 8, 4, 189

, , Isabel de Oonstantine,

2nd wife of, viii 8, 4, 6

f , Robert, son o^ viii 4^ 5

y y Thomas, son of (1290),

... .
viii. 4

, Alexander de (1292), viii. '4

Montgomery (of Scotland), Robert de

(0. 1170), vii 226, 225 11
Montgomery of Shrewsbury.

, David de (0. 1271), viii. 130

, PhiUp de (1272), 363 ; vii 29

, ^ Sibil, wife of, 363

, , Walter,^ son of (1267-

72), vii. 29, 80
Montgomery, Lords of the Honour o(
266,286; vii 120
Baldwin de|Bollers {tern. Hen. I.),

vii. 7 », 389
Robert de Boilers (1176-1208), vii

178, 177, 195
— — , HiUaiia Trussebut, wife of, vii.

196
Wilham de Courtenay (1207-1214),
269 } vii 173
Montgomery, David de (c. 1290), viii. 166
Montgomery, Hugh, 64

, , ••— de la Pole, wife oi;

64

, Reginald de (1288), vii. 87

, Owen de (Rector of Pulver-

batch (1292), 203
Morcar, Comes (T. R. E.), 2, 69; Tii 2,

116 bit, 230 ; viii 280
More (Eardington), Nicholas de, 89 n
Morel (of Cressage), Herbert, 316

9 , William, son of (def. 1272),

816

, , , Matilda, wife of, 316

— , , , Sibil, and other daugh-
ters o^ 316, V. Waiwayn
Mortayn, William de, 169, 199

, y Johanna Marmion, wife

of; 169, 199-201

INDEX OF PERSONS.

359

Moiteyn (of WaLsall), Boger de, 115 «
, — , * • • *, daughter o^ 115 n,

V. Stapleton
Mortimer of Wigmore. —
, Ralph (I.) de, 2, 4 his, 6, 206, 212,

214 Int, 848-350; yii 8, 198 ^0r ; yiii.

254, 255, 257, 262
, Hugh (I.) de, 850, 858, 857 ; tu.

288
, Rog6P (I.) do, 350-355 ; Tii. 148,

166
— , — , Isabel de Ferran, wife o^ vii

148

, Hugh (II.) de, 216 ; vii. 20, 248

, , Annora de Braose^ wife of, vii.

154 n
, Ralph (n.) de, 216, 356 ; viL 22 ;

viii. Ill
, Roger (II.) de, 5, 129, 130, 161,

214^ 216-7, 357 ; viL 26-28, 33 », 187,

254-5, 257-260
J , Isabel, dau.of,vii.229,257-60

— , Edmund (I.) de, 218, 357 ; vii. 259,
261

— , , Matilda, daughter o^ viii 63,

64, V. Verdon

— , Roger (III.) de, 68

Morton, Dawe de (1257), vii 104

Morton, The Dean of; 78

Morton of Morton-Toret. —

f Bartholomew de, vii. 102, 875, v.

Toret
Morton of Morton (Staffordshire). —
, Michael de (1255-1278), 300, 301 ;

vii 345; viii. 43, 44, 45, 47, 49 bit

-, Michael, son of (1278-1304),

vii. 323 ; viii 44, 48, 50

— i , , Heirs of (1315), 301

, William de, viii. 49
y , James, son of (c. 1260-80),

viii 49 quaier
, WiUiam de (Clerk, 1304-1316), viii

44,48

, Walter de (1304), viii 48

Morville, Alice de (1236), viii. 48

, John, Prior of (1220), 184

Moryoe, Henry (1292), viii 68
Moses (a Jew of High Hatton), vii. 368
Moubray, Roger de (oh, 1266-7), viii. 15
, — , Maud de Beauchamp, wife

o^ viii 15

Moubray, Roger, son of Roger de, viii 15

, , John, son o^ viii. 15

Mounford, Robert (1455), 118

) — , Maria (de Stapleton), wife

of; 118

Mouthe, John (1397-8), vu. 282
Muchale, William de (1267), vii. 256 n
MucUeton of Muckleton, near Shaw-
bury. —

, , Richard de (c. 1190), viii 134

, Adam de (1203), viU. 135

, Jevon de (1290), viii 150

Muckleston (Staffordshire), Adam de

(1306), viii. 21
Mueyson, Philip, vii. 880, v. Malvoisin
Muisun, V. Mussun

Mukesleston (now Muxton), Agnes fitz
Siba of (1186-1200), viii 232

, Richard Urse of (c. 1273), viii. 281,

V. Bere

, Undertenants in, viii 232

, William de (c. 1260), viU. 49

, William Urse of, viii. 39, v, Bere

Muleton, Thomas de (Justiciar), vii 21,

191
Mimdeville^ Richard de, vii 229, 256, o.

Amundeville
, , Maud le Boteler, wife o^

vii. 229, 256
Munduble, Pagan de (1165), vii. 241 ii
Muneton, Henry de, 179

, , Robert, son of (1292), 179

— , , , Emma de la Ree, wife

of, 179

, John de (1262), vii. 892

, Peter de (1256), 229, 341 ; vii.

82, 898

— , , Agnes, dau. of; vii 393

, — , Aline, dau. of; vii 893
, Walter de (1208-9), 86, 108 j vii

16
Munslow, William de (1272), 7, 44

, Robert de (1267-8), 92

Muriden, William de (1849), viii. 288
Musca, WiUiam de {c. 1144), viii. 129
Mussun of Uppington. —

Roger Mussun (1166-1190), 99, 175,
207 ; vii. 245, 821 ; viii. 153-191
patsim, 198
— -, Cktliena, wife oj^ viii. 154-156,
160, 165, 184

860

INDBX OP PERSONS.

Musstin of Uppington (conHnmed), —
, Gilbert, brother of Boger, yiu. 155,

160
, Alianore, daughter of Boger, Tiii.

157, 166, 167-169, v. Losford
«— , Alice, daughter of Boger, tuL 174,

V. Cherlton of Uppington
f Alina, daughter of Boger, 99 ; viii

155 n, 159, 160, v. Beckbuiy
— , Dioniaia, daughter of Boger, 176,
207; viiL 166, «. Boecard and Fits
Gkofflrey

— , Isabella^ daughter of Boger, Tiii.
176, 181, V. Chesthull
-, laolda, oZuw Cecilia, daughter of

Boger, TiiL 156, 188, v. Dod, and

Mareachall
, Juliana, daughter of Boger, viii.

186^ V. Corbrond and Beckbuiy
— ^, MeiduB, or Madouaa, daughter of

Boger, viiL 166, 175, 190, 191
'-"—, Petronilla, daughter of Boger, Tiii.

160, 161, V. Fisher
-*—, Sibil, daughter of Boger, Tiii. 163,

164-5, V. Brug
Mutton of Ingestre (StaiFoidahire). —

, Balph de (def. 1241), yiii. 84

« ^ ^ Isabella, daughter o( TiiL 84^

86, V, Chetrrynd

N.

Nagington, Undertenants in, TiiL 18
Neget, Walter de, 313
Nesse, Boger de, TiL 225
Netley, Undertenants in, 298
Neuton, Adam de, TiL 225 n, 226 n
Kerill, Alan de (Juatioiar), 74 ; Tii. 840
, Hugh (Justiciar), 24, 55, 839 ; Tii.

16, 250, 273, 827 ; Tii. 206, 266, 267
NeTiU, Balph, Earl of WestmorelBnd

(1411), TiiL 22

, — ^-, Balph, son of, Tiii. 22

.-^, , — -, Mary de Ferrars, wife

o^Tiu. 22
Newbold, Stephen de (1282), 278

, Walter de (1221), 111

Kewmarch, Bernard de, Tii. 228
, , Nesta, wife o^ Tii. 228

-, James de (1207), TiL 19

Newnham (near Ford), Undertenants in,
TiL 191

Newport, Alexander Piscator de, «. Fisher

f Thomas (Beotor of Solas, Eyton,

and PnlTerbatch), 204; TiiL 36 », 272

Newton (Meole Brace), William de (1249),
857

, Thomas de (1292), 857

Newton, John de (1256), 116

NichoUs, William (Chaplain, 1401), 220

Noo, Bichard, tiL 191

NoeU Bobert, TiL 808 «, 821

, f Thomaa, son o( 368 ; TiL 242,

245, 808 «, 321; Tiii. 207, 232 «

, , Philip, son o^ TiiL 77

, , 1-, Bobert, son of (1226)

TiiL 77

, Philip (c. 1280), Tii. 398

Noiers, William (1086), TiL 214

Norfolk, ones de (Clerk), TiL 197

, , Alice, wife aS, TiL 197

, Simon de, TiL 218 n

, — , ATelina, mother o^ TiL 218 n

, William de (c. 1220), 177 ; TiiL 141

Normandj, Dukes o£ —

Bobert Courte-heuse, TiL 210
— , William, son of, tiL 210
Geoffiej Plantagenet, TiiL 217 n
Henry Plantagenet, TiL 286» 288;
Tiii. 217 II

NormannuB Venator (1086-08), 1, 2, 189»
268, 270, 275, 286-7, Tiii. 266

Northampton, Simon, Barl of (1188), 328

Norwich, Bishops of. —

Herbert (1101), TiL 217
John (1204), TiL 72

Norwis, Geofflrey de (Friar), TiL 95

NoTO Burgo, o. Newport

Noyse (of Uppington), John, son of Hugh
(1303), TiiL 179

Nugent, Philip (1203), TiiL 80, 238

, PhiUp (1304), TiiL 80, 238

O.

Oakley, Stephen de (1208, 1210), 864;
TiiL 136

, Stephen de, TiiL 26

^ , Biohard, son of^ TiiL 25

— , , ^ Luda, wife oi^ TiiL 25

INDEX OF PERSONS.

361

Oaks, TfaomnB de (127^-83), 168-9

f J iUchard, son of, 169

, William fltz Geoflfrey of (1199), 167

f Undertenants in, 168-9

Odo (1086), 2 iif, 80, 92, 98, v. Bemieres,

andEitz'Odo
Cirri, Fulk-d', viiL 9 », 10^12, 16, 17, 61
, , Maud Id Strange, wifis o£, viiL

9 «, 10, 11

, f GfeoflBrey, son o^ viii 12

J , Fnlk, nephew o^ yiii. 12

Oldbury, Stephen, Bector of (1843), 179
OUerton, Undertenants in, yiii 68
Onslow, Adam de (1190), vii. 172

, John de (1203-1216), vu. 18, 172

, Richard de (1256), vii. 178

, Roger de (1236-1284), vii. 172

, Roger fits Warin de (1256-74), vii.

172

, John de (1292), vii. 173

, John le Mouner of (1302), vii. 173

, — ^ — , Katherine, wife o£i vii. 173
Onslow (of Rodington), William (1477),

viiL 81

, — , Marione, wife o^ viii. 81

Ordericus Vitalis (Historian), vii. 203,

204, 206, 209, 233 ; viiL 244, 245
Ordmer (1086), vii. 2, 179, 180
Ordricos Sacrimarius (c. 1125), vii. 10
Oigrim (T. R. E.), viL 198 ; viiL 255
Orleton, Adam de, Clerk (o. 1237), viii.

169, 278

, Ivo de (c. 1233), viu. 187, 278

, Pagan de (1305), viu. 279

, Reginald de, viiL 279

J , Juliana, daughter of (1256),

viu. 279
-, Thomas de (Clerk, 1225-1249), viii.

81, 169 bit, 170 W», 171-175, 177, 185,
187 bis, 277, 278

— ^ , Ealph, son of (1248-1260),

viu. 166, 177, 278, 279
— , Undertenants in, viii. 278, 279

Orleton of Orleton, &o.

, Radulf de (c. 1140-50), viii. 195, 276

, Adam de (c. 1172-82), 287, 288 j

vu. 245, 321, 365 ; viii. 47, 195, 276
, Ralph (II.) de (1186-1215), vu.

828 ; viii. 276 •

— , , William, brother of (c. 1210-

1215), vii. 328 ; viii. 276
VIII.

Orleton of Orleton (conHmied). —

, William de (1240-1264), vii. 829,

336 J viii. 259, 277, 279

, William de (1284-1295), viii. 277

-, Adam (II.) de (1295-1305), viii.

277

, John de (1324), viii. 278

Orry, Geoffrey, viL 167

, , William, brother of; viL 167

Osbemus (1086), 2, 9, v. Richards Castle
Oswaldestre, Eva de, viiL 86, 87 n
Otley, Adam (1563), 282
, Richard (Rector of Pitchford, 1609-

1520), 282
, Roger (Rector of Pitchford, 1535),

280,282

, William (1509-20), 282

Otley, of Berwick Maviston. —

, Richard (1397-8), vii. 396

Ouiet (T. R. E.), vii. 198 ; viii. 26
Outi (1086), 238-9, «. Auti
Overs, Madoc de, 297.

, , Robert, son of (1221-48), 297

, , Eynon, OriflLa, &c., sons of.

297
Overton, Geoflfry de (1237), viu. 140.

P.

Paganell (of Dudley), Gervaee, 227
Pagrave, Henry de (o. 1110), viL 218

, William de (1165), vii. 218

Pak, Peter (1221), 81 n

Palmer, Robert and WiUiam (e. 1226),

225
Palmer (of Salop), William (c. 1170), vii.

292
Panton, Henry (c. 1248-61), 177; viiL

165, 174, 178
— , , Alice Marshall, wife of, 177,

178 ; viii. 166, 174
Pantulf, of Dawley, 300, 302.—
, Ralph (c. 1170-1192), vii. 364;

viiL 27, 42,^47
, Williajii (1193-1203), 351; vii.

341 J viii. 42, 47, 159, 161, 172, 181,

183, 186-7

, — -, Felicia, wife of, viii. 42

-, Philip, brother of, viii. 159,

161, 181, 186-7

46

362

INDEX OF PERSONS.

Fantul^ of Dawley (continued). —

, Alan (1203-1218), viii. 42, 43, 47

, Adam (def. 1240), viiL 43

, , Coheirs of^ yiii. 43

Pantulf of Hales. —

, William (1228), vii. 376

Pantulf; Barons of Wem, 300, 363
, William (1086), 2 ftw, 298, 800 ;

yu. 198 plurieg, 209 ; viii. 20, 24, 26,

86-38, 40, 42, 46
, Ivo (1135-1176), 363; vii. 237,

239, 275, 388 ; viu. 27, 62

, 9 Brice, son of, viii, 52

-,Hugh (1170-1224), 35, 98, 153,

164-5, 259, 364^ 368 ; vii. 12, 15, 17,

164, 228, 289, 242, 244, 251, 294,305,

313 bis; viii. 23, 47, 154
, , Christiana, wife of; 864 ; vii

228, 289, 9. Fitz Alan

• , i Alan, son of; vii. 18

, , Hugh, son of; vii 18

, , Ivo, son of, 364 j viii. 23

, William (1220-1233), vii. 18, 19,

21, 76, 77
— , , Hawyse fitz Waiin, wife o^

vii. 75, 76
• > , Maud, daughter and heir oj^

vii. 76, 77 J viii. 24
Park (Herefordshire), Alianore de (c,

1240), 197
Park(Stoke-upon-Tem),Heniydel (1317),

viii. 69
Parmenter, Walter, 267
Parsons, William (of Middleton), 106
, -^— , Margaret de Baskerville, wife

o^ 105, 106
, i Roger de Middleton, son of;

106
Partrich, John (1342), 165

, Roger (1401), 220

Passelewe, Robert (Justiciar), 124^ 141,

208
Patinton, Hugh de (1280), vii. 122
— , Stephen de, 251
— » , Christiana, wife of; 261, v,

Smethoott
Paumer, Roger le (1278), 357
Pauncefot, Sir Peter {c, 1290), vii. 176
Payn of Leighton. —
, William (1284-1312), vii. 333, 336,

337, 395
, Richard (1312), vu. 324

Payn, Ranulf (Clerk, Chaplain, or Offieial,

e. 1250-1269), 151 ; vii. 29 ; viu. 150
Peoh, Richard (1267), viL 28
Pechesey, Hugh de (1250), viiL 62, 69

, Henry de (125^-84), viiL 67, 69

Pecton, Kichaid de (awte 1230), vii. 883
Pedwardine, Walter de (125^1297), 89,

90; vii 345; viiL 31, 32
— , — , Matilda, wife of; viii. 31, 32,

287

^ , Boger, son of, viiL 82

Peleshall, Robert de (1256),viiL 264
Pembroke, Earls of. —

William MarshaU (1216), viL 75^
« viiL 138

Richard Marshall (1234), 15
Pembruge, Folk de (1292 ?), viii. 45

, Fulk de (1322), 65 ; vii. 361

, y Matilda, widow of, vii. 361,

V. Corbet of Hadley
Peninton, Philip de (120O>1240), vii. 279,

375 5m ; viu. 62, 163, 175, 181, 188,

187, 206, 286-7
, , Hamo, probably brother o^

viL 875 bis
-, Stephen de (o. 1245-50), viL 378 ;

viiL 288

-— , PhiUp de (c. 1260-1298), 254; viL
379 ; viiL 287 n, 288 hU
— , , Robert, probably brother' of

(c. 1270-80), vii. 281

— , Geofiirey de (1319), vii. 282

— , — — , John, brother of; vii. 282

— , , Philip, brother of, viL 282

— , PhiHp de (1349), viii. 288

Pentorne, William (1296), 223
Perche, Le Comte de (1118), viL 210
Percy, William de (1246), vii. 254
Permentar, Simon (of Wenlock), 67

y , Agnes, wife of, 67

Perton of Perton and Stirchley. —

, Eanulf (I.), de (1211-41), viii. 123

, John de(1241-57),viii.ll8,119,122

, 1 Juliana, widow of (1269), viiL

12211
, Ranulf (II.) de (1265-1259), viiL

120, 122, 123
, , Maigaret, widow oi^ viiL

12311

— , William de (1259-1280), viiL 123
— , John (II.) de (1280-1320), viiL 123
— , , Walter, son of, viii. 124

INDEX OF PERSONS.

363

Peshale of Ohetwynd. —

J John, son of Adam de, viiL 88-90

, , Joan de Chetwynd, wife o^

viiL 88, 89, 90
Feehald, Master Walter de (1255-1267),

101 ; Tii. 256 A

y Thomas de (1294), 101

, Sir John (1318), vii. 296

Pestur, Adam le {c. 1279), 68
Peterborough, John, Abbot of, vii. 82 n
Petton, Bichaid de(123(>>58),Tii. 104,883
Petyt, William (Chaplain), 138
Peverel of Essex, or London. —

, William {tern. Henry I.), 810, 311

J y Matilda, sister o^ 810

Peverel of Dover and Brunne, vii. 68, 217,

288

, William (I.) (1127), viiL 212 n

y WiUiam (n.) (oft. 1148), vii. 68,

288, 290, 298, 854 ; viii. 128, 152-8
Peverel of Hatfield Peverel. —

, Eanulf (1086), 2, 809, 810

y y William, son ofi 810, v, Pe-
verel of Essex
Peverel of High Ercall, fto.
, Hamo, 10, 170, 810 ; vii. 220, 221,

852-3, 368 ; viii. 59, 60, 126, 128-9,

132, 150-154, 191, 193, 195
, — — , Sibil de Tomai, wife o^ viii.

127-129, 132, 151-153
I , , Seburga, daughter of^ vii. 852,

854, 363 ; viii. 195

, , Warin, Sewer to, viii. 66

^ , William, brother o^ v. Peverel

of Dover
Peverel of Nottingham. —

, William (tern. Wifl. I.), 310

, William (1154), 310, 811

Peverel, Peter (1255), vii. 94 ; viii. 81

Peverel of Pitchford, Ac. —

, Edmund, son of Eobert (1321),

275-6

, y John, son of, 276

y , Margaret, daughter o^ 276,

9. Pole
Peverel (of Sandford, Devonshire), Hugh,

vii, 166
Phiton, Bichard, vii. 235
Pichard (of Osbaston), Hamund, vii. 364
Pichard (of Smethcott),Bog6r (1258-72),

251-2

Pichford of Albrighton, Pitchford, &c., 1

, Ealph (T.) de, 268-270, 278-9, 287

, , * • *, first wife of, 270

i , • • *, second wife of, 270

y , Engelard, brother of, 268 n,

278,280
, , Engelard de Stretton, son of.

268-9 n, 270; vii. 278
-, Richard (L.) de, 268 n, 269, 270 ;

vii. 278

— y Richard (II.) de, 269, 270

— , y Nicholas, brother o£, 270

— , Hugh de (1172-1210), 269, 270,
276, 283, 285

-, Burga de Baskervill, wife of.

269, 270, 283

— , , Isabella, daughter o^ 269,

270-1

— , , , Bichard de Pichford,

son of; 270-1

— y , William, son o^ 269, 270-1

— , Ealph (II.) de, 100, 107 5m, 269 n^
270-1, 273, 276-7, 283, 285 ; viu. 80

— , y Margery le Strange, 1st wife

of; 270, 273, 283

— i y * * •, 2nd wife of, 270, 272

— , , Burga, daughter o^ 270, 273,

V. Wililey
, John de, 101, 270-4, 276-7. 283-

284^289
— -, , Margaret Devereux, wife of;

101, 270, 273-5, 283
, Ealph (HI.) de, 101, 270, 274-6,

281,286
Pichford (of CanUop) Nicholas de (1316-

1343), 290, 290 n
Pichford (of Swannington, Leicestershire),

William de, 272
Pichford, Adam de (1235), 276
, Engelard, son of Eobert de (1228),

viii 182
, Geofitey de (Seneschal of the

Forests), 841, 342

y Henry de (1249), 276

, Master Bobert de, 280

y Osbert o^ 276

— , , Hugh, son-in-law of; 276

, Hectors ot, 280-1

, Bichard, Clerk o( 280

, Thurstan de (1280-94), 101,' 277

, , Bichard, son of, 101, 277

364

INDEX OF PERSONS.

Pichfbrd, TJlger de, 271, 276

Agnee, dan. of; 271, 276
Alice, dau. o( 276

, William, son of; 276

Emma, daughter of, 276-7
Isabella, daughter of; 276

, Bichard, son of, 276

Juliana, daughter o( 276
Maigery, daughter of, 276
-, Alice, daughter o^ 276

Hcklesoott^ Hoel de (e. 1228), 255

, Madoo de (1255), 256-6, 263

• , Boger fits Baldwin of (1272),

256

^ ITndertenante in, 256

Fickstock, 9. Picstoo

Undertenants in, yiii. 99
Pioot or Pigot of Acton Pigott. —

, William (1200-1203), 74^ 91, 93-4,

276

y , Mabel, wife o^ 93, 94

Pioot (1086), 2, 169, o. Say
Picot of Woolasion and Aaton Pigot. —
Balph fitz Picot (1180), yii. 113, 120

, Susanna de Aston, wife o^ vii

113, 120
William Picot (c. 1198), rii. 27, 53,

114
Bobert Picot, son of William (1240-
1274), vii. 27, 28, 95, 113, 114

, Howel, son of (1292-1303), vii

34 ti, 106, 114, 127
Hcot, Bichard (1250), 67.
Picstoc, Thomas de (e. 1250), yiii. 92

y Bobert de (c. 1295), viu. 99

, Boger de (c. 1295), viii. 99

Pierpoint, Simon de (c. 1175), yii. 313

, William de (1165-1175), viL 312,

813
Pigod, Boger (1259), vii. 171
Pikenel, PhiUp (1273), 357
Pilson, Hamo de (1191-1200), viii. 95,
106,108

, Hugh de (1324), viu. 98

, Jordan de (c. 1260), viii 49

— , , Master Bichard, son of (1285

-1310), vii. 346 ; viii. 97, 98

, , Boger, son of (1288-1816),

viii. 97, 98, 99

, , , Alice, wife of, viii. 97

, PhiUp de (1316), vui. 98

Pilson, Bichard de (o. 1225^40), viii 95,

164,168
, Boger de (1241-1265), 234 ; viii

95, 96, 122

, , Agnes, widow of (1272), viii

96,122
, y Alice, daughter of, 234 j viik

96, V. Harley

, ^— , Master Thomas, son of (1272-

1292), viii 96, 97, 122
y , , Boger, son of (1288-

1304), vii 346 ; viii. 97, 98, 99

, Boger de (1279-94), viii. 97

, Boger de (1293-1324), viii. 98

, Thomas de (1311-1322), viii 98

, William de (1263-6), vii 336;

viii 96
Pimley of Pimley. —
, Stephen de (c. 1189-1224), 868,

869 ; vii. 278, 304, 306 ; viii. 62, 149

, William de (c. 1240), vii 279, 306

, y Geoffi«7, son of (1250-6), vii.

806,807
, , William, son of (1264-6), vii.

806,307
Punley, Bidiard de (1256), vii. 307

, , Cecily, wife o^ vii. 307

Pincema, Bobert (1086-90), 170
Pinoema (of Chester), Bichard, vii 236
Pincema (to Elianor of Aquitaine), In-

geram, 365 %
Pinoema (to William fitz Alan I.), Bo-
bert (c. 1160), vii. 237
Pipard, Balph fitz Nicholas, 271-2

, , Bobert, son of, 272

, William (1190), vii 12

Pivelesdon, v. Pilson

Pixlej, Walter de (1220), viii. 94

, Adam de (1263), viii. 94

, Henry de (1274^63), viii. 94

, William de (1281-93), viii 60, 94

Plaish, Martin de {def, 1267), 226

y — — , Petronilla, widow of, 226

, Beginald de (1267), 226

Plealey (Ford), Undertenants in, vii 191
Plowden, PhiUp de (1221), 124
Plugenai, Hugh de, vii. 69-71
, , Sibil de Dinan, wife o^ vii.

70,71

y , Alan, son of; vii. 70 %

, Hugh de (1241), vii. 78

INDEX OF PERSONS.

365

Flukenet, Altto, vii 36

— , , Johamui) dau. of^ tu. 36

Poer of Amaston. —

, John le (12Bl-«0), vii. 174-177

-, Amioe de Say, wife of (1236-
1274), vii. 174, 175
-, GeoflBwy le (1261), viL 176

Poer of Smethoott

, Johnle (1203), 260-1

f , Christiana de Smethoott^ wife

of, 250-1 »

y Bogerle (1240), 261

Poer, Hamo le (c. 1248), viii 119

, Bandulf (1176-82), viU. 164

Pole (Welah Pool), Abbot and Convent

o( 265, V. Ystrat Marchel
Pole Griffin de ]ajV. Fowls, Princes of.
Pole (Welsh Pool), Griffin ap Edenweth,

Vicar of (1289), viL 44
— , Incumbents o^ vii. 87
, John ap Griffin, Sector of (1289),

viL 44
Pole (of Pitchford), William de la (1868),

276
-7—, i Margaret Peverel, wife o^

276
Pole, Warin de (1221), 111
Polesworth, Abbess of, viii. 106
Poliley, «. Pulley

Polmere (Ford), Undertenants in, viL 191
Pomeray, Joel de la (1177), vii. 151-2,

159

, Henry de la (1299), viL 36

Ponde (of Minsterley), Bobert le, vii. 46
Pontearch, William de (1130), viL 147

, y Osbert, brother o^ viL 147

Pontesbury, Adam de (o. 1210), vii. 18,

184,135
, , Emma, daughter of (1221),

vii. 136, V. Pits Sewal

, Dame Alice de (c. 1200), viL 185-6

, Edrio, Provost of (1208), vii. 181

, Gilbert, Dean o^ 263

, Henry de (1203), vii. 72

— — , Philip de (Rector of Caus Chapel,

1277), vii. 43

, Portioners o^ 203 ; vii. 139-142

, Beginald de (e. 1200), vii. 135, 186

, — , Adam, brother of, vii. 135

, , Christiana de Shrewsbury,

mother o( viL 135
, y Philip, son of, vii. 136, 137

Pontesbury, Beginald, Parson o^ 202 ; viL
135, 139

, Bichard de (1292), vii. 4

, Boger de (c. 1210), viL 18, 134

Pontesford, Boger de (1255), viL 191

, Thomas de (1272), vii. 191

, William fits Madoc o( viL 49

Popes of Bome. —
Honorius L, 83
Innocent 11., 319 ; viiL 213
Lucius II., viii. 214
Bugenius III., viL 147; viii. 215,

219
Anastasius lY., vii. 147
Alexander HI., 34 ; viL 197, 283,

292 ; viii. 219
Urban m., vii. 364 ; viii. 219
Innocent III., vii. 74^ 366 ; viiL 219
Honorius ni., vii. 147, 29^ 367 ;

viu. 219
Gregory DC, viL 93 ; viiL 191
Nicholas III., vii. 292
Martin lY., vii. 292 ; viiL 192
Boni&oe VIII., vii. 37
John XXI. or XXU., vii. 369
BonijGMse IX., viiL 292
Porwl, William and MatUda (1199), viiL

274
Port (of Hampshire), John de (1166), viL

161
Port, Thomas le (Chaplain, 1269), 151
Posenhal, Bernard de, 91
Poun, Geoffirey (e. 1288), viii. 269
Powis (Higher), Princes of. —

Meredyth ap Blethyn, 161 », viL 212,

218
— , Gervase Goch, son ot, 161 n

, Madoc, son o^ v, Powis Vadoo

Owen Cyvelioc, viL 244
Gwenwynwyn, vii. 16, 17, 23, 40, 244
"— ^, Margaret Corbet, wife oi^ vii.

15, 17, 28, 40
Ghruffyth ap G(wenwynwyn, 66, 61,
65, 226, 344* $ viL 25-27, 34 n^
44, 78, 80, 98» IH 128, 129 n,
186-7
— <— , Hawyse le Strange, wife o^ 67,

61, 63, 226 11, 344
— — -, Ghriffin de la Pole, son o( 61-
65,242

, John, son of (Bector of Welsh

Pool, 1289), vu. 44

366

INDKX OF PSB80KS.

Fowifl (Higher),Prinoes of (conHmmed), —
Owen de la Pole, 61, 64 » ; viL 128

, Ghriffin, son ofi 61

— — , Hawyse GMam, daughter o£^
61, 63, 64, «. Oherlton of Powys
PowiB (Vadoo), Prinoes of. —

liadoc ap Meredyth, 160 n ; viL 218

, Marred, alleged dan. of, 160 n

Madoc ap Qrofiyth, viL 17
Oriffin de Bramfield, yii 844, 345,
f>, Bromfield

) Emma de Audley, wife of^ Tii.
844
Powifl, Boger de, yiL 288 n, 812

, Heiuic de (1200), vii. 72

Poyner, William (c. 1289), riii. 188
Poynor (of Beelow), William (1401), viiL

246
Poytwik, William de (1240), 864
Pnen, Hemy de (1221-87), 81 n^ Tiii. 140

, PhiUp de {deft. 1288), 228, 807

, , Alice, wife o^ 228, 807

, , Hemy, son of (1288-96), 228

^ Undertenant! in, 221-228» 22&-6

Preen, Prion of the Cell of; 222.—
Biehard de Wystanstowe, 222
Boger de Ptora Hereford (1801),
222
Preee, John de (1227-^7), Tiii. 161
Preee or Pree of Wenlock. —

f Henry and William de (brothen),

284
Prestcote, John de (Bailiff of Oondorer
and the Abbey Foregate; oocotb o.
1269^1279), 20, 68, 178; vii. 80, 64;
▼ilL 130,283

, William de (c. 1279), 68

Pnathope, Boger son of Balph de, 288

, f Alice, daughter o^ 288, v,

Harley
, William fits Amald of (1278), 92

Preston of Baton Masoott. —

, William de (1288-95), 16, 104, 105

Preston of Isombridge. —
^^ Bobert de (1278), tiiL 263

, , Sibil, wife of; viiL 268

Preston, of Preston on the Wealdmoors.

, Adam de (1249-1284), Tiii. 89, 40,

48, 67, 259

, Alan de (1262), yiiL 258

, John de (1208), vii. 12 ; Tiii. 257

Preston, of Preston on the Wealdmoors

(eonHnued). —

, John de (1256-^), TiiL 259 M#

> , Agnes, wife of, TiiL 259

y Pagan de (e. 1187-97), TiL 841 ;

Till 156, 257-8

-, Enstaoe, brother o( TiL 841 ;

TiiL 155, 257

— , f Boger, brother o^ TiL 841 ;

TiiL 155, 257

— , , Agnes, dan. o^ Tiii. 258

— i , , William de Preston,

1st husband of {e. 1220), Tiii. 258, 259

— , , f Boger de Preston, 2nd

husband of; Tiii. 258

— , , J William de Preston,

heir of (1292-1804), TiiL 260

— , i , — , Biohard, son ©f

(1386-46), TiiL 260, 261

— > 9 > ) 9 Maigaret,

widow of (1850), TiiL 261
— , ■ ■ , , , ■ ■ - , Biehard,

son of (1869), TiiL 264

— , y Margery, dau. of; TiiL 258

— , — , ^ Thomas Babas, hush.

o( Tiii. 258, v. Babas

— , , Sabina, daughter of; Tiii. 89,

40,258

— , — , y Wiilism de Horton,

husband of; TiiL 89 (corrected), 268, v,
Horton

-, Sibil, daughter of (1224-55),

TiL 143 ; TiiL 258, 259

— y y — » Pagan de Preston, heir

of (0. 1280-1320), TiL 358 ; TiiL 40,,

179,260

— , PhiUp de (1804), Tin. 260

—, Balph de (c. 1250-64), TiiL 89,

259,288

-—, Biehard de (1203), TiL 72; Tiii.

267

y Biehard de (e. 1264), tuL 269

y Boger de. (c. 1180-88), TiL 355 ;

TiiL 257 n
, Boger de (1203), tiL 72 ; Tiii. 89,

267-8, 9. Hodnet
, William fits Walter de (1209), TiiL

259
Preston on the Wealdmoors, Incumbents

of; TiiL 40, 260 11, 261
, Undertenants in, Tiii. 267, 260

INDBX OF PERSONS.

367

Preeton of Freeton-upon-SeYern. —
, Richard de (Clerk, oooun o, 1245-

1271), 178 J viL 64, 269-270, 278; viiL

80, ISO, 269

, Boger de (1262), vii. 271

-, Soger fits Heniy de (1262), yii 271

Pi^eston, Henry de, 277

, , Bobert, eon of (1248), 277

, , , Isabella, wife of, 277

-, Master Bobert de (Clerk, 1818-19),

TiL 282, 297, 379

— t Boger de (Attorney and Witness,

1269-1290), TiiL 74, 160, 262, 259
— , William de (Vicar of IdlleshaU,
ante 1086), viu. 227, 228
-, William de (Clerk), 107

Freyers, John de (1328), yii. 369
"7—, Boger de (1364), yil 362
Piide of Shrewsbnry.'—
, Adam (1256), viii. 259

-, Bichard (1255), yii. 186

-, Boger (1267-85), vii 29 ; viiL 146

-, William (defs. 1292), 179

-, ^ John, son of (1290), 179,

210

-, Sibil, wife o( 179

, William, son of Bichard (1315), viL

334

Pride, Walter (Incumbent of Alberboiy
and Habberley), yii. 60

P^udhome, Walter (1233); yii. 131

Pulley, Bran de (1221), 111 i^ 212 n
EngeUird o^ 210

, Isabel, wife of (c. 1222), 210

Engelaxd of (1249-56), 210, 211

, Bichard, son of (1274)

Engdard of (1292), 211

, William, son of (1296), 211

Engelard de (1275-84), 17,68, 69 n,

209, 210, V, Marescall
, Phil^, son of (1307), 18>

210, V. Marescall
John de (1283), 16
Maurice BudeU o^ 210, 211

, Juliana^ wife of, 211

, WiBiam, son of (127^92),

211, 212
Osbem of (o. 1222), 210, 211
— — -, Henry Doyl, son o( 211
1 , John, son of (1292),

211

-, John, son oS, 211 J

Pulley, Balph de (1221), 213

, Bichard fits Auty of; 211

, Bobert fits Bobert of (1250), 212

, Boger fits Heniy of, 213

, Boger fits Bobert, or fits Brovni,

0^212

, Stephen de, 218

, , William, son of, 213

, Walter le Poer of; 213

, Warin de (1221), 111, 213

, William de (1200), 207 n

Pulyerbatch, Barons of, 22-24; yiii.286.—

Boger Yenator, 9. Boger Venator.

Beginald de Pulyerbatch, 190; yii.
293

, Emma, dan. of,23,190 ; yii 293

John de £elpeo, «. Kilpec
Pulyerbatch, Bectors of, 203-4
Pulyerbatch, Undertenants in, 201-2,

205-6
^^, Bichard de, 202

, , John, son of (1249), 202, 205

, Bobert de (1221), 111

, Bobert Bed of; 202

, Boger de (1203), 201, 250

, Boger de (1290), 202

^—, Simon de (1292), 202

, William Gooh o^ 206

, , William son of (1306), 206

Pumerai, v. Pomeray
Pung, William, yii. 195

, , Matilda de Cotes, wife o^ yii.

196
Purcel, Boger (1203-9), yiL 16, 18, 53

, Thomas (1261-3), 251, 253 ; yii 25

, , Alice de Linley, wife of, 251

, John (1284-92), 253

Pyn^s, William (1256), 316

Quinci, Saer de (1176), yii 293

B.

Babaz, Thomas (1231-58), yii 143 ; yiii.

268, 259
, , Margery de Preston, wife o^

yiii 258
^ , Bobert, son of (1256),yiii 259

868

INDEX OF PERSONS.

Badeburgh, Thomas de (1277), rn. 83
Badmen (of Domesday), The, yiL 5 »
Badmore, William, Abbot of (o. 1162),

viii.217
Badulf (of Oldbuiy, 1066), yiii. 1
BainalduB Yioecomes (1086), 2 phtrieiy 38,

48, 49, 69, 70, 80, 92, 97, 102, 243^ ;

yii 198 pluries, 200 ter, 20&-212, 220i

809, 326, 339-^, 340-362, 373, 387 ;

Tiii. 1, 7

, Aimeria, wife of^ Tii 209

Bandol^ John (1316), tH. 334

, William (1293-1805), viL 60, 168

Banulf (of Stapleton and Welbatoh, 1066),

4, 108, 109, 119
BatUnghope, Prior and Canons of, 162-3

, Boger, Prior of (1262), 162

, Lawrenoe Johnson, Bector o^

163
Bea (near Upton Magna),Henrjr de (1303-

1318), yii. 379, 396

y Hemy de (1390), vii. 273

, Talim de, vii. 267

, , Warin, son of, vii 267 ; viii.

134
, Undertenants in, viL 278

Bee (near Cans), Balph de (1209-1261),

124 5 viL 16, 116, 117
, , Balph, son of (1262), ?ii 116,

117
, , T^miiam, son of (1260), yii

117

, William de {e. 1198), yii. 53, 116

Bee of Bourton. —

, Balph de la, 177

, , William, son of (1261), 177,

180

-, Balph, son ot, 179
-, ^ Emma, daughter

of; 179

y y — , , Era, dau. of, 179

Belimon, John (0. 1286), 69, 60, 146, v.

Langlej
Bepindon, Prior of; yiii. 124
Beye, John le (1228), yii. 348

, , Cecily, wife of, yii. 348

Bibeford, Hemy de (1194), 149
Biohard (Chaplain to William fits Alan,

I.), 70 ; yii. 236, 236, 276
Bichard (Clerk of Thomas Corbet, 1236),

yiL 19

Bichard (Tenant of Brockton, 1086), rii.

198 ; yiu. 125, 126
Bichard (Tenant under Bainaldns Yioe-
comes, 1086), yii. 200, 268, 360, 351
Bichard (of Pieen, 1086), 4, 220, 221
Bichards Castle, Osbem fitz Bichard,

Baron o^ 2, 9
Bile, John de (1194), yiL 827
Bobert (of Bedford, Little Withyford and
Preston Brockhnrst, 1086), yii. 198;
yiii. 71, 72
Bobert, Master (Dean c. 1180), yiL 69
Bochfort, Guy de, 16, 16
Boden, Alan fits Thomas of; yiiL 287 n

, Gwfitey de (1262), vii. 386

, John de (c. 1245), yiii. 288

, William de (c. 1240), yiL 279

Bodenhurst, Hugh de (1283), yii. 887
, William fitz Hugh of (1283), yii.

387

-, Boger de (1368), yii. 387

Bodington, Foresters of Upton. —

, Gilbert de (c. 1196), yiL 267, 874,

876, 377, 380
, , Bobert, father o^ yii. 380

, Banulf de (e. 1200-1210), yiL

374^ 876, 376, 380

y , Gilbert, nephew o^ yiL 374

-, Banulf de (1220-1266), yiL 278,

376, 378, 380 ; yiii. 221

-, Agnes, widow of (1274), yiL

376,380

-, William, son of (c. 1260),
yii. 876, 877, 380

., Henry de (1274-84), yiL 266, 876,

877,380

, , Alice, wife of, yiL 876, 380

Bodington of Bodington. —

, Guomar de (1166), yiL 378» 876-

376,380

-, Gnomar, or Danmer, de (1203),

851 ; yiL 873, 374, 377, 382 «; yiiL
206

-, Isabella, supposed daughter

of (1246-66), yii. 876, 377-8, 380, 381
-, Philip Midyoisin, heir

of (1284), yiL 379, 380

-, Clarice, supposed daughter

of (1260), 377, 380-1, v. Apley

-, Petronilla, supposed daugh-

ter of, yii. 377, 378, 880, v. Caynton

INDEX OF PERSONS.

869

Bodington, Philip de (1877), vii. 862

, Eectops of, viL 881, 882

Bodington, Beginald de, tH 884

, 1 John, son o^ vii 884, 886

" ^> y William, son o^ yii 884,

885; TiiL268

-, Alice, daughter o( vii.

885, V. Omrder

-, Bobert de (1249), viiL 80

Bofb, Salomon de (1272), yiL 177
Bogep (1086), viL 2, 6, «. Corbet, Boger

fits
Boger, Master (Iferfw, e. 1140-60), viL

287,368
Boger (Tenant of Aoton Bomell, 1066),

2,121
Boger Venator (1086), 2 U», 4 &tr, 9, 22,

48, 49, 51, 189, 190, 198 n, 205; yiL

298; yiiL264,285
1 Boger, suooessor of (c. 1185), 190,

196,198
Bondul^ William (c. 1805), via. 168, v.

Bandolf
Boehall of BoshalL—
, Vivian (J.) de (1190-1284), 54, 55,

106, 111, 112, 165, 225, 251, 265, 259,

278; yii. 12, 17, 103, 278, 806; Tiii.

62,263,286
, Thomaa (L) de (1224-1261), 264»

841 ; TiL 269 ; TiU. 62, 111, 149, 268
, Vivian (XL) de 1260-72), 264 ; viL

80, 255, 279
, Thomas (XL) de (1279-1310), viL

281
, Thomas (HI.) de (1310-1824), 65 ;

viL 86, 196
Boflhall, Thomas, Chaplain of (e, 1245),

vii. 269
, Vivian de (of Wodehouse, 1299),

viL 187

— , , Eve, wife of, viL 187

Botel (Saxon name), 158, 159
Botpert, Meredith ap (of Cjdewen), 161
Botur, John le, 7
Botnrier, (>womar le (1165), viL 378, 380,

e. Bodington
BoQcester, Biohard, Abbot of (o. 115^

1161), viiL 217, 227
Bouen, Hugh, Archbishop of (1148), viiL

216

VIII,

Bouen, Walter, Arohbishop of (1192-3)

viL 70 »
Bowelton, or Bowton, of Little Withy-
ford. —

, Beginald de (1221), viiL 73

, Beginald fttz Beginald de (1228-56),

viii. 78^ 74, 288
, 1 Beginald, son of (1267), viiL

74

y 1 Sibil, daughter of, viiL 74

, , William, son of (1269-1319),

viL 282, 297; viii. 74^75
Bncklej, Incumbents o^ 147

, John, Chaplain of (1272), 137, 147

, William de, 147

Bud, William, 89 n

Bufus, Beyner (o. 1248), viiL 119

Bugge of Sheinton and Cressage. —

, William de (1308-6), 218, 317

, , Petronilla, wife o( 218, 317

Bus, Beyner le (1256), viL 307

y William le (c. 1220), viL 386

Bushbury, Herbert de, e. Fits Odo
Bushton, Bichard de (1243), viiL 177
, Bichard de (Clerk, e. 1240-50), viii.

166, 169, 177
Bussel (of Donington), John (1308), vii,

395
Bussel, of Yockleton. —

, William (1255), viL 52

,——, Daniel, son of (1267), viL 51-2

Bnthon, Geoifrej fits Henry of (1256),

116

, , Emma, wife o^ 116

Button, V. Byton

Bydley, James, 42

, , Isabella, daughter of, 42, r.

Lee of Stanton, Boden, &c.
Byton (Condover), Geofiey de (1255-6)>

19,25

, Geoffirey Mai of (1250), 19, 25

, Henry de (1292), 25

, John de (1292), 25

, Nii^olas de (1292), 25

, Nicholas Pyk o^ e. Condover

, Walter Pyk of (1256-6), 19, 20

, William de (1250), 19, 25

, William de (1294r-1302), 25

Byton (of Langley), Philip de (1247), 146
— , — , Bichard, son o^ 146

47

870

INDEX OF PERSONS.

S.

Sabrina, Simon de, 89 «

Sadock, Oilbert, yvL 129, 180

•— — , --— ^, Isabella, dan. of, yiiL 129, 180

— , — , f Agnes, dan. o^ viii 129,

180, V, Momarfield
, Biohapd (c. 1180-1201), vii. 69 ;

viiL 77
SaintAlicmnnd'B (Sbvewsbury), Dean and

Canons o^ 868
f Adam, Dean of (0. 1135), Tiii

215*
— , Peter, Chaplain of, riL 888
, Bichard de Behneis (XL), Dean of^

▼iii 215, 216
Saint Asaph, Bishops of.—
Adam, rii. 293
Beyner, 259 ; yii. 294

, lihel, cousin 0^ 269

Anian (U.), vii. 87, 88
Saint Chads (Salop), Canons o( 121,278-

280, 285, 361-2
Saint Cross (Salop), William, Clerk o^

(e. 1182-1220), 287, 288 } vii 18-19
Saint Cuthbert, viii. 244, 245
Saint Davids, Bernard, Bishop o^ 10,

182, 182 n
Saint Eata, the Confessor, viii. 244, 245
Bamt Edward, William de (1208), 854
Saint-George, Baldwin de (0. 1144), viii.

120

, William de (c. 1245), vu. 94

Saint Julian's (Salop), Prebendaries o£^ viL

193, 194
Saint-Maiy-Chunsh, William de (1194),

Tii. 294
Sunt Mary's (Salop), Petionilla, Ancho-
ret of, 89, 90
Saint Michael's (Salop), Bectors of, yii.

189, 140, 142, 192-8
Saint Milburg, 804 «
Saint Osyth's (Essex), Fulk, Prior of, 182

, Balph, Abbot oS, vii. 366 n

Saint Paul's (London), William, Dean of

(1127), 182

, William, Preoentor ofi yiii. 247

Saint Peter super Dyyam, Abbot of, yii.

108
Saint Waleiy, Wido de (1175-6), viii. 154

Sale, De h, aliat De Aula, viL 187 ; viii.

162 n, V. Bisher
Salisbury, Joeeline, Bishop of (1148),

viii 216
Salisbury, Patrick, Earl o^ vii 241 »

, ^ • • • deChaworth, mother

of, vii. 241 n
Salisbury, Banulph, Treasurer of (1195),

viii 247
Salop, Archdeacons of (Hereford Dio-
cese). —
John? a240), 864
Thomas Morton (1491), vu. 48
Salop, Archdeacons of (Lichfield Dio-
cese). —
Boger (c. 1145-1180), 246, 821-2 ;
vii 287; viii. 183, 147-8, 217,
227 n
Bicfaard (c. 1189-92), 829 ; viii 149,

155
Master Bobert (inter 1198 k 1208),

▼ii. 294
Alexander de Swereford (c. 1233),

viii. 209
Peter de Badnor (1242), vu. 891
Bichard Str«te (1584-^5), vii. 265
Salop, Ivo de (1267), vii. 30

, Master Bobert of (c. 1189-92), 829,

868 ; vu. 841 ,* viii 106, 107, 149

, Bichard, Dean of (1189), viii 155

, Stephen de (1348), 179

Saluce, Alice, daughter of the Marquess

of, vu. 229
Sambrook, Henry de (1281), viii 93

, Thomas de (1256), 316 ; viii 26

— — , , Alice, wife of^ 816 ; viii. 26

— — -, , Thomas, son o^ 816 ; viii.

26
Sancto-Bemigio, Hamo de, 34, 85, 42, 49

, , Helewise, dau. of, 34, 35, 42

Sandon, Master Bobert de (c. 1200), viii

191
Sanford of Sanford. —

, Balph de (1204-1232), viii 197

, Bichard de (def^. 1255), 138 ; viii

197

, — , Alianore, widow of, 188

, William de (1821), 66

Sascott (near Ford), Undertenants in, vii

191
Sasfrid (1086), vii 198 ; viii. 20, 24

INDEX or PERSONS.

871

Sanlf or Saul (T. &. B.)> ^ 214, 215
Savage, Adam le (1203), 851
Sayigni, Abbots ot —

Richard de Curci (1156), 826, 828,

830
William de Toloea (0. 1177), 827-8,

830
William (1192), 329
Say, Barons of Clun.—
— . Picot de (1086), 169, 170 ; vii 204 ;

▼iii.60
— ^ — , Hem7, S04 oC, 170
^, Helias de, vii. 228
— , , Isabel, dau. of, rii 169, 160,

228, V, Fitx Alan, Yere, and Boterell.
Say of Amaston and Hope Bowdler. —
— , Roger do (1210-25), 225, 259; Tii. 18,

173, 176, 177
— , , Amioe, dau. of (1236-1274),vii.

174, 177, V. Poer
— , , Lucia, dau. of (1236-1272), viL

174-177, V. Mevcrel
Say, of Moreton Say. — •
— , Robert de (1267), viL 29
— , Hugh de (1310), viii. 44
Say of Wheathill, Stokesay, and Stoke

upon Teom. —
— , Theodoric de (iem. Hen. I.), viii 59,

60
— , Helias de (1188-1165), Till. 60
— , Hugh de (1174-1194), yiii. 10, 11,60,

61

— , , Olympias, wife of, viii. 61

— , Helias de (1196-1222), rii. 267 ; viiL

61,62
— f , Arioe, wife of> viu- 61
— I , Robert, brother of (Clerk), viii.

61,62
— , Robert de (1224-1228), viii. 62, 65
— , Walter de (12 40-50), viU. 62
— f — —, Hugh, nephew and heir of

(1251), Tii. 24 ; TiiL 62, 63
Say, Richard de (Ckrk, 1272), viL 193
Scitte, V, Sitte
Schetton, v. Schotton
Scot of Pitchfbrd.

, Robert, 276, 277

y , Emma de Fichford, Ist wile

ot 276, 277
f , Juliana, 2nd wife ofi 276

Scotland, Kings of —
Duncan, jiL 214
Macbeth, vii. 214, 215
Malcolm Oanmore, rii. 216-217, 280
— — , Margaret, wife oty yii. 215,
217

, Matilda^ dau. of^ vii. 217

David (I.), vii. 228, 224, 234-5,287

, Henry, son of, vii 224

Malcobn (lY.), vii. 224
William (I.), vu. 228
Alexander (II.), vii. 226

, Joan Plantagenet, wife o(
viL226
Alexander (HI.), viL 226
Robert Bruce» vii. 229, 347
Robert Stuart, vii. 229
Scotot of Bitterley, v, Esketot.
Scott, of Acton Scott, Aldon, and Smeth-
cott. —

, Reginald le (1284-92), 253

, , Isabel, wife of, 253

^ , Walter, son of (1320), 258

^ John le (1338), 254, 257

, , Roger, son of (1392), 257

Soriven of Frodeslcy. —

, John (1406), 296

, — ^-, Johanna Hunald, wife ot, 296

Segrave, Stephen de (1281), viiL 208
Selimon, of Langley. —

, William (1249-83), 16, 146

Senes, John de (1414), 314
Sermon, William le (1240), vii. 155
Seuuard (of Waters Upton, 1086), viL

200 ; viii. 7
Seuuard (T. R. E.), 2, 159, 169, 296 ; vii.
2, 63, 198, 200, 206 ; via. 53, v. Siward
Seward (T. R. E.), 2, v. Siward
Seys, Oriffln (1267), vii. 29
Shavington, Alexander de (1320), viL 86
Shawbury of Shawbuiy. —

, Nigel de {tern, Henry I.), viiL
182

, Robert fits Nigel de (1186-1182),

viiL 128, 132, 184

., Wido or Guy de (1182-1200),

vii. 305 ; viiL 10, 134-186, 137

, , Heniy, brother of^ viii. 184

, — .., Robert, brother of, viii. 10

■ , y Letioia, wife ci^ viii. 187

372

INDEX OF PERSONS.

Shawboiy of Shawbniy (ctmiimei),—-

y Nigd fitz Bobert da (1201-1203),

viii. 186-7

>, Bicher fitz Bobert de (1203-

1222), 259 ; Tiii 187-«, 141, 146, 206-
206
Shawbury, Adam, Yiear o^ tuL 161
, Baldwin de^ vm, 149

, InoombentB o^ Tiii. 160, 161

^ Maurice de, viii, 137

9 Bobert de^ viii. 149

, , Alice, dan. o^ Tiii 149

, Bobert, Priest of (o. 1190), Tiii.

134,151

, The Serton o^Tiii 149

9 Undertenants in, TiiL 144

Sheinton, v, Shineton
Shelton, John de (1299), 31, 82

1 Undertenants in, 862-3

ShaiSk of Shropshire.—

Warin the Bald, 44^77, 91 ; Tii203-
206, 207-^ 209, 210, 264, 265, 268

9 Aimeria, wife of; Tii. 203-208

^1 Hugh, son of, Tii 206, 208, 209-

211, 220
Bainald, Tii 268, v. Bainaldus Yioe-

oomes
Alan fits Flaald, Tii 221, 266
Bichard de Behneis, 279 $ Tii 211
Pagan fiti John, 170, 182 ; Tii 10,

282; Tiii 47, 68, 212 »
Fuloo or Fulooins (tern. Hugonis

Gomitb), Tii 208, 211, 221
WilUam fits Alan (I.), v. Pita Alan
Onj la Strange^ tiI. 288, v. Strange

of AlTeley
QeofBtey de Vers, Tii 288-0, v. Vers
Guy le Strange (second time), Tii

289,240
Hugh Pantolf; Tii 240, 242; riii

227 IS 282, 282 n
William flti Alan (II.), 282; Tii
242,274
Beginald de Hesding (Deputy

1190), Tii. 240
William de Hadlej (Deputy
1191), «. EraaU

Wido fitz Bobert (Deput7ll97),

Tiii 184, «. Shawbury
Makolnmb (Deputy 1198), 282
Beyner de Lee (Deputy 1201),

TU.274

Sheriib of Sfaropshize (eimiumed), —
Geoffrey fiti Pien, Tii 242, 243
Biohard de Ambersleg (Deputy
1203-4), 91
Thomas deErdinton, 128-4 ; Tiii. 187
Banulj^ Eari of Cheeter, Tii 17, 76,
842; Tiii 17,188
Henry de Audley (Deputy 1218-
1220), Tiii 17
John Boneih (Onstoe 1226-7), Tiii

80
Henry de Audley, Tii 196, 390
Bobert de la Hay (Gustos 1286-6),

107,864
John le Strange (HI.), 107, 160;
Tii 24, 263-^; Tiii 96
Bobert de Aoton (Deputy 1287),

V, Acton
NichohM de WilQey (Deputy

1241), Tiii. 96
Boger de PiTelesdon (Clerk
1241, Deputy e. 1242), Tiii
96,221
Thomas Corbet, 160; Tii 24
Bobert de Ghrandon, 19, 161; Tii.

892; Tiii 92
Peter de Montfort, Tii. 186
William de OaTereswelle, 92
James de Audley, tii. 186
Urian de St Piem (1269-71), 284 n
John Baril (Under*SheriiF), 4,
26? Tii 188.
Balph de Mortimer, 44

Bobert Trillek (Under-Sheriff ),
44
Bogo de EnoTill, 68, 186 »; Tii 99
Boger Sprenghose, 67, 68 ; Tii 129 ;

Tiii 120
Leonius de Bomesley, 138
Bobert Corbet, 68
William deTitlsy, 68; Tiii 67
John DdTes (1848), tu. 69
John de Stapleton (1383, 1891), 116
Shineton, of Shineton or Sheinton. —
Hugh de (1150), 216
Hugh de (1197-1217), 215, 216 ;
Tii 328 Mf.

y Balph, son o£^ Tiii 64

Hugh de (1221-1267), 216, 217 ;
Tii 886 &M.

y Boese, wife o( 216

, William, son of (1266), 217

INDBX or PBRSONB.

373

Shineton of Shineton {ocrnHnued), —

^iHngh 6e (1284-1316), 217-219,

317 ; Tii. 828, 888-4, 887

-, Isabella, wife o^ 218
-, Hugh de (1835-1845), 219, 220
-, John de(Beotorof £dgmond,1849),

220 ; TiL 140
Slunfiton, Adam de (1258), 219

^ Adam de (a Felox^ 1294), 218

— ^, Bernard de, 218

, Henry, Clerk of (1200), 218-9

, Peter de (1266), 219

, Sectors o( 219, 220

, Boger, Parson of (1272), 219, 816

, Undertenants in, 218» 219

, Walter de (1299), 219

, , William, son of, 219

Shotton, William de (1814), TiL 297
Shrewsbury, Abbot and Gonyent o( 29,
82, 83, 45-47, 149, 150, 170-174, 180,
182-187 pasHm, 267, 840, 868-4 ; vii.
68, 64, 178, 266, 804, 8H 366 ; TiiL
48, 129, 181, 149, 152, 201, 241, 280-
284
Shxewsbuij, Abbots oL —

Fulchered (1087-1118), 8
Godefiid (1118-27), 10, 182 ; yiii 60
Banulph (e. 1187-1147), 171; yii.
358; Tiiil47»

, Bobert, brother oi^ Tii 858

Bobert (1155-1167), 171

Hugh (1190-1197), 125, 149, 150,

829; TiL 102
William (deposed 1221), 184
• Hemy (1228-1234), 364 ; TiiL 282
Adam (August 1244-1249), 150 « ;

TiL 881 ; TiiL 80
Adam (May 21, 1250), 150 n
William (Aug. 19, 1250), 150 n
. • • • • ^a pseudo-Abbot, deposed
1251), 150 n
Henry de Wermoton (1251-1257),

150 n; Tii. 64
William de Upton (1266-Deo. 1271),

151
John de Drayton (Feb. 1279-91), 69
William de Mokdeye (June 1291-

1388), 29
Adam de aebuiy (Haroh 1884-

1855), TiL 65
Thomas Boteler (1529-1540), 81

Shrewsbury Abbey, Priors of. —
William (1188-47), Tiii. 147
Biohfird Hamuad (c. 1240), Tii. 68
Shrewsbury, Norman Earls of. —

Boger de Montgomery, 2 plmriet^ 4i
pluriss, 6, 8, 171 &c., 848 pluries ;
TiL 2, 8, 9, 14, 180, 198 pkniei,
2O0pUiriei, 202-8, 209, 850-1 fto. ;
TiiL 255, 262, 265, 280

y Adeliza, wife of, 171

Hugh de Montgomery, 22, 169 ; TiL
9, 208-9 ; TiiL 127, 182, 255, 262,
265
Bobert de Belesme, 287 ; TiL 9, 209 ;
TiiL 265
Shrewsbury ; — the Abbey-Foigate. —

, Gilbert^ Beadle of (1276), Tiii. 288

^, Nicholas fitz Hamon, ProTOst of

(0. 1240-55), Tii. 68 Uf

, John de Prestcote, ProTost of (c.

1260-76), TiL 6I> ; Tiii. 180, 288

J Bichard de Preston, ProToet o^ Tii.

269, 9. Preston upon Serem
Shrewsbury, Thomas, ProTOst of (1201),

TiL 805
Sibbersoott, Bobert de (1265), tiL 191

, Adam de (1272), tu. 191

, Boger de (1292), Tii. 191

Sibem (alias Oonstantine), of Uppington.

, William (I.) (o. 1240-5), Tiii. 162,

169 ter, 178, 174 his, 188, 185, 190

, y Hugh, brother of (c. 1240),

TiiL 169, 174

, William (II.) (e. 1268-60), Tiii. 178,

186,190

, — , Felicia, wife oi, ym. 178

Sibeton, Henry de (e. 1245), TiiL 288

, Boger de (1262), 841

, John de (1294), tiL 277

Silion, Bobert {e. 1280), Tin. 40

Simeon of Durham (Chronicler), TiiL 212 •

Sistain (T. B. B.), TiL 198, 849

Sitte (of Shrewsbury), Bobert (1201), Tii.

806 ; Tiii. 77
Siwaldston, Bichard de, TiiL 284
— , , Alan, son oi, Tiii. 284

-, Undertenants in, Tiii. 284

Siward (T. B. £. and 1086), 2 qmnquiet^

4^ 291 ; TiL 2 ^, 98, 120; TiiL 68
Siward Oroesus, 291, 296
J Aldred, son of, 291

374

INDEX OF PERSONS.

Siward, Biohwd (1282), tu. 21
Slepe, Willuun (1397-^), Tiii. 89
Smethoott (near Hadjoall), WiUism de

(1349), vm, 288
Smethcott, William, Lord of {tem» Bich.

I.), 260
, -— > Christiana, daa. o^ 250, v.

Peer, and Holega
, , MAtilda, dan. ot, 260, «.

Linley

, — — , Margery, daa. of, 260-262

— , — , , Baldwin fitz Robert,

hoBband of, 250, v. infra
Smethoott of Smethoott. —
, Baldwin fitz Robert de (1203-

1233), 112, 260-262 ; Tiii. 286

, — , Margery, wife o£i videwpra
— — , — > Stephen, eon of (1256),

252

-, Roger de (1233>1253), 55, 252
-, Philip de (1253-1283), 57, 252,

264,264

, Roger de (1290-1320), 18, 58,

69, 60 for, 61-63, 156, 206, 253-4, 257

, , Philip, son of (1323), 254

, , William, son of (1323), 254

i , Roger, son of (1312-1338),

264,267

^,Williamde(1833-54),43,254,257

-, William de (1393), 267

Smethcott, Rectors of, 257
— , Undertenants in, 254
Smethoott (of Wrentnall), Thomas de,

261
Smythyman, John (Rector of Sheinton,

1634), 219
Snetch, GeofiVey (1272), 868

, ^ Mabel Boyney, wife of; 863

Solcemen^ 16, 17

Somery of Dudley. —

^, Roger de (1260), 208 ; 111.24,26;

yiii. 144

-, Kiofaola d* Albini, wife of, Tiii.

144

, > Matilda, dan. oi^ Tiii. 144^ ©.

Erdington

, John de (1311), 114

Sonkey, John (1468), 248

Sorlawe, Richard, son of William, Tii 886

Spencer of Eaton Constantine, v. Des-

penser

Spencer, Sir Hugh, 815

-^— , , Agnes, alleged wife of; 816

, , Isabella,alleged heir of (1439),

315
Sperohford, Henry de (Olerk, 1308), Tii

127
Spineto, William de (1203), 851
Sprencheaux of Bayston and Pbish. —

, Richard (1224), 299

, Richard (1256-72), 299; viil

275

, Walter (1283-1301), 299

, Richard (1316), 299

, William (1364), 299

Sprencheaux of Longnor and WesUey. —
, Alric (/«!». Hen. U.), 25, 26, 49,

50

-, Henry, son of (c. 1190),

-, ^ Ralph, son of; 50

-, , Robert, nephew o( 60, 67,

, Roger I. (c. 1183-1220), 26, 42,

50-^2, 184 », 202, 246, 292 ; TiL 16
-, Roger II. (1221-1240), 26, 36,

190

91

52-55, 58, 75, 77, 106, 107, 112, 138,
158, 232, 255, 292, 806 his, 839 ; Tii.
821; Tiii. 80
, Roger III. (1261-1804), 26, 27,

56-62, 64, 68, 69, 151, 226, 248, 252,
254r-256, 263-1 ; tu. 104, 176, 259

-, Ralph, brother of (1283-

1316), 59, 254 ; Tii. 169 «, 176
Sprencheaux, Alan (1290), 299 ; Til 4

. Emma (1311), 58

. William (1283), 299

Stafford, Archdeacons ofl —

Ralph (6. 1146-1165), 821-2 ; Tiii.

18811
Hellas (0. 1167), Till. 183
Alan (1190), Tiii. 149
Henry (1192), 829
William of York (e. 1233), Till. 209
Stafibrd, Barons Stafford, tu. 319 ; tUL
79, 103, 104 », 111

, Robert de (1186-45), 821-2 ; tU.

286

, Robert de {ob, 1282), TiL 81, 39, 40,

188

, — ^, Alice Corbet, wife o( tIL 31,

39,40

IND£X OF PEE80NS.

876

Stafford, Bafom Stafford (ooh/mmmQ.—

, Nioholaa de (1282-7), tu. 89, 183

, Edmund de (1287-1308), yiL 89

, Balph de (1350), tu. 39

Stafford of Shrewsbury. —

^ IBAtph de, 868

, , Hnifh, son of (1272), 868

Staffordflhire^ John de, yii. 4

Stanee (of Norton), John de^ yiL 4

Stanton of Lawley. —

, Balph de (1242-1284), viiL 87, 38,

119, 221

, Walter de (1284), ym. 88, 101

Stanton, Robert de (1260-1274), vii 104,

822, 845 ; viii. 85

f Robert de (iem, Edw. U.), yiii. 146

, , John de Withyford, son of

(1313-1828), Tii. 379 ; viii. 145
Stanwardine, Richard de (1175), yii. 245,

321

, William de (1193), 180

, William de (1280), vii. 122

, Roger de (1283), vii. 122

Stapleton of Longden and WoodhalL —
y William de (1272-^. 1290), 17, 57,

68, 116, 256, 264 j vu. 137, 170, 176
» > Isabella, widow of (1292),

116 ; Tii. 137

, , Philip, son of (1277-8), 116

, , f Bnrga de Wililey, wife

of; 116

, , Robert, son of (1292), 116

Stapleton, of Stapleton and Wistanstow. —
, Baldwin de (Um. Steph. and Hen.

II.), 109
, Philip de (1200-1227), 64, 71, 103,

110-112, 116, 195-6, 202, 251, 255,

259 ; vii. 18, 131, 126, 160, 164-5
^ J Emma, wife of, 110 j vii. 131,

131 n

116

-, William, son of (1256), 112,

— , Robert de Meisy of (1227-1240),
23 », 24 n, 111, 112, 196, 259 ,' viii.
140

— , , Robert de Meisy, supposed

son of, 112, 116, 117

— , , , Eya, wife of, 116

— , John de (124^-59), 112, 113, 252
— , Robert de (127^1301), 17, 58, 118,

Stapleton, of Stapleton and ^^ftanatow

(eofUmued). —
y Robert de (1807-1829), 68, 114^

115, 117, 118 ; yiii. 158

-,•••• de Morteyn, first wife

of, 115 n

— , , Isabella de Bermingham,

second wife o^ 115, 115 «

— , , Philip, presumed son of, 116

— , Robert, son of PhiUp de (1838--45),

115 ; yiL 802

— , f Cecily, wife o^ 116

114,264

, Robert de (1346, 1349), 115, 118

, John de (1881, 1391), 116, 118

, John de (1408), 118

Stapleton, Incumbents o^ 117-118
Stapleton, Stephen de (Attorney, 1292),

114
Staundon, Robert de (1281), yiii. 86
Staunton (of Preston-Boats), Roger de^ yii

269
Staunton of Staunton Hyneheath. —
, Stephen de (1177-1215), 98, 829 ;

yii. 272, 375 iw ; yiii 149, 206, 286

5m, 286-7
, Robert de (c. 1210-1220), yii. 888 ;

yiu. 286, 287
y William de (1221-1236), yiL 269 j

yiii. 65, 263, 286-7

, Stephen de (1240-1), yu. 269

, Stephen de (1255), yiL 270, 274,

386
, , Petronilla, daughter q(, yiL

270, V. Lee
Staunton (Hyneheath), Hugh, Parson of

(c. 1250), yii. 269
Staunton (Long), Robert de (e. 1226),

225
Staunton, Robert de, viii, 288

, , Hugh, son of (1245), yiiL 288

Stepleton, v. Stapleton
Steymton, William de (1256), 816
, John de (o. 126^1275), yii. 846 ;

yiiL 49
, John de (e. 1802-4), yii. 858 j yiii.

179
Stevinton of Preslon on the Weald*

moors. —
, Thomas de (182&-1840), yiL 869 ;

yiii. 260, 261
, Walter de (1345-1369), yiiL 261

376

INDEX OF PERSONS.

Stewart, «. Stuart
Stirohley of Stirchley. —

, Oabert de (1167-1180), viiL 116

, Eichard de (1203-7), viiL 116-117

, Walter de (1208-1232), yiii. 47,

116, 117, 175, 188
— -, — , Matilda, widow oi^ TiiJ. 117

, , Julian, eon ot, viii 118

, Osbert fits William de (1206-1247),

TiiL 116-121
Stirbhiey, IncumbentB o£y Tiii. 123-126
^ Bo^er, Fanon of (1266-72), viiL

122,124
— — , Under-TenantB in, Tiii. 116-118^

121, 122
1 Walter, Chaplain of (c. 1226), yiii

117, 124
, Walter fits Reginald de (1288), viii.

122

, Walter fit* Walter de (1288), yiii.

122
Stooton, Hugh de (Templar, 1222), 63
Stockton (Ghetwynd) Agnee de^ yiii 90,

108-110, V. Longford

f — « — , Robert, husband ot, yiiL 110

, Robert de (1281-94), yilL 90

Stokel, William, 168

Stoke (upon Tern), Eliaede (1263-1274),

yii.280; yiii 64, 67, 68, 86

, , Petronilla, wife o^ yiiL 64

— , — , Robert, aon o^ yiii. 64, 68

y IncumbentB of, yiii 61, 70, 71

, Master Robert de (c. 1266-1276),

yiii 66, 283

^ TJndertonantB in, yiii 60

Stoneleigh, W., Abbot o^ 830
Stoney-Stietton, Robert fits John of

(1280-6), yii. 62, v. Esmerillom

, William fits John of (1292), yii 61

— , ITndertenantB in, yii ' 62
Strange of Alyeley and Wetfton. —
, Guy le, 84 n, 174 ; yii. 286-240,

246, 275, 277 «, 298, 818 bU, 821 ; yiii

8,9
, •— — , Hamo, son o( yii 287, 246,

821

, , Wido, son oi^ yii 246, 321

, Ralph le, 34 %

Strange of Berrington. —

, Hugh le (o. 1174), 36

^ , John, brother of (1174), 35

Strange of Berrington (ponHime^, —
, Hugh le (1200-1228), 36, 36, 103-

104, 106, 176, 184 «, 207, 866 j yiii.

233

^ , Heirs o^ 36, 36, 66

, , Leticia, wife o^ yiii 288

Strange of Childs Ercall (First House).—
, Rjdph le (1166-1182), yiii 8, 9, 10,

11, 17, 18
9 - — y Emma, daughter of, yiii 9 »,

10, 11, 9. Buraham
, , Maud, daughter o^ yiii 9 n,

10, 11, e. Cirri

, , Roland, son of, yiii. 10

Strange of ChildsErcall(SeoondHouae).-—
^, John le (130&-9), 18 ; yii 48; yin.

15,21.
, John le (oh. circa 1830), vii 86,

282 ; yiii 16, 16, 21
, , Lucia, sister o^ yiii 16, v.

Ley bourn
Strange of EUesmere. —
, Hamo le (1266-1270), 17, 27 ; yii.

28-81, 81, 83, 104, 187, 226, 266 ; yiii

285,286
i , Roger, brother of (1263-

1311), 16, 267 ; yii 261 ; yiu. 13, 14, 16
, f , Maud de Beauohamp,

wife o^ yiii. 16
Strange of Hunstanston, Norfolk.^
, Roland, or Ruald, le (c. 1110), yu.

218; yiii. 9 11,10 »
— , f Matilda le Brun, wife o^ yiii

10 »
— , , John, son o^ v, Stmnge of

Ness and Cheswardine
, ^^, Guy, son o^ v. Strange of

Alyeley and Weston
, J Ralph, son ofi ». Strange of

Childs Eioall (First House)
Strange of Litdham, Norfolk. —

i Siward le, yiii 9 n

, Ralph (I.) le, yiu. 9 »

, Ihuandus le, yiii. 9 •

, Bjdph (n.) le (o. 1180), yiii 9

, Isabel le (1816), yin. 271

Strange of Longnor. —

, Pulk le (1322-1870), 66, 66

, -, Eleanor, daughter o^ 66

, — , Joan, daughter o^ 66

, f Margaret, daughter of, 66

INDBX OF PEB80NS.

877

Strange of Keas and Gheawardine. —

, John le (I.) (1156-1178), 84^ 85,

42, 174, 183 ; yiL 286, 287, 245, 272,
275, 277 IS 286 IS 288 IS 298^ 812 <fr,
313, 821, 868 ; TiiL 8, 9, 10

i — , Quy, brother o^ e. Strange of

Alyelej

1 y Hamo, brother o^ 17^ 175,

188, 289 ; viii. 8, 9, 11, 17, 72, 78

— , , Balph, brother o^ v. Strange

of Ghilds Ercall (First Hoiue)

, John le (n.) (1178-1288), 36, 60,

63, 64, 65, 98, 99, 106^ 111, 112» 163,
164, 183-4, 225, 261, 255, 268, 270,
278 ; Til 12, 17, 20, 21, 102, 182, 184^
244, 246 »w, 267, 279, 294, 821, 848,
376 Ur; Tiii 9, 11, 12, 80, 149, 205,
267

y — , Hamo, brother of {o, 1200-

1221), 63, 98; fii. 327, 876 Mt; yiiL
205

, , Maiigeiy, daughter oi^ 270,

278, V, Pichford

-— *, ^,Balph,brotherof (1199),TiL18

, John le (III.) (1221-1269), 84, 86,

68,55^66,107,186,226,266,273,844,
864 ; TiL 26, 27, 78, 184, 186-7, 262-
258,848; Tui. 12, 13, 286

, Hamo, son of^ viL 88, v.

Strange of EUesmere
— , — , Hawyse, daughter oi^ 61, 63,
226 11, 844, e. Fowis, Princes oi
— ^ ..._, Bobert, son o( 68 ; viL 88,
V, Strange of Wfaitchuroh
— 9 — , Boger, son oi^ v. Strange of
BUesmere

— , John le (IV.) (1265-1276), 87, 67
biSy 105, 226, 842 ; Yil. 25, 84^ 172 ;
TiiL 14

— , John le (V.) (1276-1309), 88, 186-

186, 227 ; YiL 176 ; yiii 14, 168, 270

— , John le (YII.) (1811-1323), yiL 86

— y Bogerle (II.) (184»-1882), yii 229;

Tin. 126

— , y Alejne fits Alan, wife o( viL

229
— , Richard le^ tiL 808.

— , , Oonstanoia, 1st wife of, yii. 303

— , , Ehabeth, 2nd wife (^ YiL 808

— , John la (IX.) (1476), Tii. 808
— y , Jaointa, wife of, rii 308

viu.

Strange of Whitchurch (or Blackmere),

and Betton. —
, Bobert le (1272), 68, 89, 90, 185 ;

Til. 83

, y Alianore, wife of, 185

\ Fulk le (1807-1824), 18, 62, 68, 64-

66, 186-6, 242

, y Eleanor Giffiod, wife of, 64

, —I Fulk, son o^ 65, v. Strange of

Longnor

-, Hamo, son oS, 65 ; yiii. 16

y John le (1824r-1349), 65 ; yiL 859

Stratton e. Stietton

Stretton (Ohuich), Bngelard de, 98, 174^
269 fs 270; yiiL 8

, J Alices sister o^ 270

, , Emeburga, wife 0^98, 270

, , Felicia, dau. ot, 98, 270

Stretton (Church), John de Wettenhull,

Bectorof;248
Stretton (Little), Matilda de (1269), yii
171

, Peter de, 166

Stretton (Sta^Ebrdshire), Heryey de (1165)

yu.319
Stretton, Bichard de (c. 1261), 56

y Thomas de (c. 1234), 66

Stuart, fleneschals of Scotland, yiL 214,
216, 228-9
Walter fits Alan (I.), rii 216^ 223-

225,228
— , Eschina de Loudoniis, wife o^

yiL 228
Alan fitz Walter, yii. 226, 225 fs 226,

Walter fits Alan (II.), yii 226, 228
Alexander Stuart, yii. 226, 229

, John, son of, yii. 227, 229

-^— , Andrew, son of, yiL 229
James Stuart, yiL 226 », 227, 229

, GecUy, wife of, tu. 229

Walter Stuart, yii. 229
•^— , Ifargerj Bruce, wife o^ yiL 229
Bobert Stuart, yiL 229, o. Scotland,
Kings of

Stuart, aUoi Wells, Bobert, yii. 216 is
227, 229

Stnteyiile, Wiltiam de (1232), yii. 98

Stjohe, Hugh de (e. 1222), yiiL 61

Suain(T.B.E.),2, 140

Suen (T. B. E.), 2, 98

48

378

INDEX OP PERSONS.

Sugden of Sugden.—

, Dauxnar de (<?. 1210), viL 882

, , Dftumar, &ther of, yii 882

— , , QeoSeej, brother of, yii. 882

— , , Margaret, wife o^ rii.

— , f Biohard, son o^ vii.

383
883
888

f Alice de Dammtmr of (1267), vii.

884
Sugden, Pagan de (1258-^), yii. 883, 384,
886

B^ginald fitz John of^ viii. 285
Biohard de (1282), yii 884

, AUce^ wife of, yii. 884

Biohard de (Clerk, e. 1272), viiL
288

Boger de, viL 884 *
Uiger de, yii 886

-, Boger, eon of (v. 1260), yiii

-, William, son o^ yii. 886
-, , William, son of, yii.

William de, yiii. 286

, Bichard, son of, yiii. 286

Sugden (of Uppington), Alan de (e. 1280-
1246), yiii. 164 5«, 167, 169 «t, 170
^nquies, 171, 174
Sugden, Undertenants in, yiL 884-386
SuUan, Dayidde (1267), yii. 29
Snlton (of Little Withyford),Iyode(1286),

yiii. 72, 145
Sundom, Undertenants in, yiL 280
Sutton (Maddock), Griffin de, viii. 185

9 , Howel, son of (1244-5), yiii

185, 186

, Madoc de (c. 1245-1262), yiii

166

385

65, 91, 166, 171 his, 173, 174, 185
y PhiHp, Clerk of (o. 1220-32), yiii.

161, 174
Sutton (near Salop), Incumbents of^ 366-

867
Sutton of Dudley, Sir John (1437-8), yii

97
Sutton, Bobert de, yiii 180

, —— , William, son o^ yiiL 180

, $ y Matilda, daughter of

(1323), yiii. 180, «. Bury

Suwerd, v. Siward

Swynesheyed, Geoffrey de (1281), yiii.

256
Swynnerton, Bobert de (1203-1281), yiii.

256,256
, John de (1281), yiii 256

T.

Talbot, Gilbert (1259), yii. 26

, William (e, 1226), yiii. 80

Talbot (of Leybum), Adam, 270, 272

, ^ William, son of, 272

Tandy, William (1849), yii. 825 ; yiii. 6
Tang, Jagow de (1203), 21
Tanghelard, Adam (1267), yii. 29
Tasley, Thomas de, 82, v. Fits Odo of

Kenley
Tatenhall, TUchard de (1839), yiii. 84

, — , Margery, wife o^ yiii 84

Tatshall, Bobert de (e. 1240), 221 •

Taylor, of Bodington. —

i Geoifrey le (1272-84), yii 878-

880,384
, , Agatha de Apley, wife o^yii

878
, , John, son of (1813-16), yii

379,380
Teoe, John (1232-42), 75, 77 5 yii. 391 ;

yiii 117

^ , John, son of (1256), 217, 316

Telimon, John, 60, 146, v, Belimon
Templan, The Knights, 4, 70, 220, 225-

227, 238-244
Templars, Master of the, 226, 240, 241.—
Alan Martell (1222), 53
Bobert (1232), 226
Guy de Foresta (1273), 247
Templars of Lydley, The, 53, 54, 148-

144, 226, 289-242, 247-8 ; yii 224

, Preceptor of the, 144, 242

, , Biohard Loyel (1273), 248

Teodulf (1086), 2, 4, 148, 206
Terricus, Master (e. 1161), yiii 148
Tern of Tern.—
, Badulf fits Theobald de (1134-

1165), yiu. 128 bU, 129
, , Alan fits Theobald, brother

of (1134-49), yiii. 128, 129

INDKX OF PERSONS.

379

Tern of Tern (eonHmiwl).—

, Beginald do (1180-1208), 269 ; tu.

841; yiii 64, 134» 205, 235
, , Ecginald, son of (122a-1249),

Tiii. 65, 56, 65
1 i i Beginald de Upton, son

of (1260-1271), yiii. 55, 66 «, 57
I , , , Bmma, wife o^

(Uving 1283, 1292), tuL 57, v. Bolaoe

and Upton
-, Badnlf (H.) de (1220-1227), viii.

65,188
y William de (1237-1247), viiL 39,

66, 56, 236
J , William de Upton, or de Tern,

son of (1219-1292), viiL 55, 56, 57
t , ', Agatha or Agnes, wife

of, Tiii. 56, 57, 68
Tern, Biohard de (1260-92), yiii. 55, 67

f — I Dionysia, wife of, yiii. 67

Tern, Nicholas le Sonde of (1307), Tiii.

81

, 1 Agnes, wife o^ yiii, 81

Thete, John, yii. 124
ThickweU. Wido de (c. 1188), yiii 10
Thomes, William (153&^), 370
Thomhill of Eaton Gonstantine, yiii. 5

, Bichard (1398), yiii. 6

y , Florence, wife ot, yiiL 6

, William (1408), yiii 7

Thorpe^ Bobert de (tern. Steph.), 322
— , , Helias and Geoffirej, brothers

of; 322
Tibberton, Adam de (1227), yii 324
f Adam Garleo of (o. 1246-85), yiii.

48,49

, Alice de (1236), yiii 48

— , Drio, Priest of, yiii. 47, 50

, William de (c. 1180), yiii. 47

, William fitz OeofStej of, yiii. 48

, William fitz Hugh of, yiiL 48

, , William, son of (1304), yiii.

48

^ — , , Sibil, wife of, yiiL 48

Tibberton, Undertenants in, yiii. 48, 49,

60
Tidwyne, Thomas, 315
Tilbury, Master Walter de {e. 1161), yiiL

148 >
Tiptoft, Bobert (1409-10), yiiL 89
Time, v. Tern

Titley, William de (1272-86), yiu. 25,
26, 56, 57, 93

, — ^ Thomas, son of, yiiL 57

Toohi (1086), yii. 198, 200
Tocos, or CocuB (Priest of Atcham), yii.
278; yiiL 246

1 Alan, son of (1167), yii. 278 j yiii.

246
Toke, Jordan de (1205), yiii. 110 n
Toret, or Thoret (T. B. E. and 1086),
2 ter, 28, 33, 102, 140; yii. 198^00^,
200, 309, 310, 340, 873 ; yiiL 100
Peter fits Toret (1180), yiii. 100, 115
Batholomew fits Peter (1220-9), yii.
102, 103 5 yiii. 116, 116 *

, • * • •, daughter o^ yiL 102,

V. Corbet of Wattlesborough
— , Qimdred, sister o^ yiii. 100
Tomai, Qerard de, 170 ; yiiL 126, 127,

132, 151-2, 191, 196, 200
— , — , Sibil, daughter of, yiiL 127,
128, V. Peyerel

, William de (e. 1136), yiii. 128

Tregoz, Bobert de {e, 1240), 197

^ Bobert de (1273), 273

, John de, 276

, f Sibil, daughter of, 275, e.

Ghnndison
Trilwardine, Bichard de (1298), yiii. 60
Tristram, Biohard (1323-38), 254-5, 257
Trompiton, WUUam de, yii. 4
Tron, John le, yii. 4
Trumwyn, Sir John (1343), yiL 298
Trussel, Williaon (1160), yii. 237

, William (1254), yii, 266

Tucfor, Heilmund de, yiL 135

f , Adam, son o^ yii. 136, e. Pon-

tesbury and Woodhouse
Tuchet of Lee-Cumbray. —

Thomas (1221-1236), yiL 842, 343

y Ysambel, wife of, yiL 343

Henry (1235-1242), yii. 343-845

y Emma, wife of, yiL 348, 344

Bobert (1242-8), yii. 343-4
Thomas (H.) (1265-1315), yii. 345-
347; yiiL 44

, Margery, wife of, yii. 345

Bobert (H.) (1316-24), yiL 347
Thomas (HI.) (1342-9), yii. 347
John (1349), yiL 347, 348
, Joan d* Audley, wife of, yiL 348

380

INDEX OF PERSONS.

Tnrborrm, Hugh de (1271-7), 187, 84S

— — , , Johaima, wife of, 187

Turohil (T. B. £.), Tii. 198; Tui. 86
Turkelbj, E. de (Jiutlciar, e. 1270^ tu.

280
— — , Roger de (JvutidBr, 1248-9), Tii.

278 »; viii. 148n
Turold de Yerlej (1066), 2 bis, 4, 265-^,

268, 274, 286 ; TiL 298 sextM ; yiii. 81,

82, 91, 98, 96, 100, 102, 114

, Bobert, son of; 266, 268

Tuntin (T. B. £.), 2, 248

Tutbuiy, Biohard, Prior of (e, 1152), Tiii.

217
Tyrei, Boger (c, 1^6), TiiL 144, 862

U.

Uffli^n, Henry de (c. 1246>, Tiii. 288
I , William, Chaplain oi, tu. 269

XHchetel (T. B. E.), Tii. 2, 6$
Ulf (T. B. E.), Tii. 198 ; Tiii 262
Ulgar (T. B. E.), Tii 198, 200 s tIu. 46,

98
Tllger Venator, «. Bolas
Ulmar (T. B. E.), 2, 230
XHuiet (T. B. E. and 1086)), 4, 189; rii

2, 118, 198 quater, 887 ; TiiL 114, 195
TJluin (T. B. E.), tIL 200 ; Tiii. 75
Xnuric (T.B.E.), 2 Mf, 268; Tii. 2 &it,

120, 144, 198 bi$, 200; Tiii. 76, 268 Mt,

256
TJnderhul, William (1267), 26
TJnderlowe, William de (1288), Tii. 122
UppingtoD, Alan, Chaplain of (e.1228-86),

Tiii. 168, 172

, Alan de (a. IJHO), Tiii. 169

^^-— ,«Chaplains of, Tiii. 194

, Hamo de (e. 1258), TiiL 173

, Bobert fits Beginald of (0. 1288),

Tin. 169 ter

f Undertenaota in, TiiL 158^ 169,

180,194

, William de (oh. 1266), Tiu. 186,

188

, William fits Chaplam of (e. 1246-

1266), TiiL 164, 166, 178 », 194

Upton (Craeaett), Hngh de (1208-1287),
861; Tiii. 2, 140, 287

XTpUm (Magna), Gilbert, Foiwter of, tH.
267, 874r-5, 877> 880

, , Bobert, Father of, tii. 880

, Beotora of; TiL 866, 266

, Bichard Pre7erB,Beotor of (1478),

TiL 278
Upton (Waien), Adam de (1292), tIiL 67

- , ■ ' , Emma, wife of; TiiL 67

, Peter de («. 1190), 190; Tin. 67

, Peter de (1249-64), Tiii. 67

, Walter de (0. 1172), 804, v.

Waters Upton
, i Hngh, brotbsr o^ 304

, Walter de (1226), 28, v.Watera

Upton
Upton, Thomas de (of Qanghton, 1841),

TiiL 288

V.

Yalle BodoUi, Brian de (e. 1186), Tiii. 128,

129
Yalletort, Hugh de (c. 1170), Tii. 168
y alletort of Trematon.^

, Beginald de (06. 1846), TiL 81, 86

, , Isabel, sister of, TiL 81, 86

, , Balph, brother o^ Tii. 86

— , — -, Beginald, nephew of; tiL 86

, , Boger, brother of,TiL 86, 88

, Beginald de (d^. 1299), Tii. 86

, , Hawyse, widow of, tiL 86

Yaughan of Shrewsbniy.—

, William (1298), TiL 278

, 1 Alioe, wife of, TiL 278

, » William, son of; TiL 278

Yauz, Peter de (1271), 848
YaTasonr, William le, TiL 78 n, 76 »

, Bobert le, TiL 78, 78 «, 74, 76 »

-"-, — — , Matilda, danghter of, TiL 78,

76, V. Botelar, and Fits Warin

, , John, son o^ Tii. 73 a, 76 «

— , , • • • fits Adun, wife oi^ TiL

78 »
Yenables of Einderton, William (1401),

314
Yenator, €hiy (1209), Tiii. 2

, Norman, 189, r. Norman Yenator

, Boger, 188; tIL 880, 881, e. Boger

Yenator

INDSX OF PEBSOKS.

881'

Venator, ITlger, 189, v. BolM,the Forait-

en of
Yenuix, Bobert de (lldO), vn. U7
Ver, ©. Yen
Yerdon, Norman de (o. 1160), yiL 286

, Bertram de (1176-90), tiL 12, 298

, Nicholas de (1214), Tii. 248

) — >*^ RdieM, dsoghter and heir of,

TiL 228, 2S3, o. Botekr of Ireland

Theobald ]e Botakr,

husband of, «. Boteler
, John de (1247-74), vii. 255 ; loM.

62, 68, 66, 67, 70
, Theobald (I.) de (1274-1809), 118;

▼iii 68, 68, 70
— , — , John, son o€ (at. t. p, 1297),

▼iii 68
, Theobald (H.) de (1298-181^, Tiii

68, 64, 68, 70, 71
— — , — — , Matilda -de Movtimer, lot wife

o( viiL 68
-— , — ^, BHiabeth de dase, 2Bd wijGs

43^ Tm. 64
— — , y Eliaabeth, daughter o^ Tiii.

64, V. Bnrgherah
, f Isabel, daoghter o^ Tiii^i, v,

Fenen of Ghroby
Yerdon, Nicholas de (Sector of Stoke,

1307), viiL 71
Yere, Earl of Oxford, Alberic de (1145),

▼iii 214
Yew, OtoSrey de (1165-1170), 152 ; vii

160, 161, 162, 288-9, 241, 275, 276 »,

V. SheriiBs of Shropshire

y — — ^ ••••j Igt wife otj yii. 161

— , , Isabel de Say, 2nd wife of^

152 ; vii. 160, lei, 286, 241, 275, 276 «,

«. Fitz Alan, and Boterall
, , 0eoffi«7, son of (1189), Tii.

160, 276 n

, Gilbert, William, and Balph de (e.

1167), ril 275

, Henry de (1214), yii. 248

Yeriey, Torold de, 268, v. Turold
Yemon, William de (1166), vii. 158, 158 n
Yilers, Alan de (o. 1150), vu. 869
YHeyn (of Shrewsbury), John le (1267),

▼u. 80
Yipont, Bobert de (1212), Tii. 246, 247
YiTien, a Clerk {e, 1182), 288
Yodekoc, PotrooU (1255), vii. 148

W.

Wadeleg, Beginald Marshafi de, 91

^ , Felicia, daughter of^ 91

Waldin, or Le Engleys, Roger (1255), 155
Walding (of Satobrook), Roger (1262-95),

▼iii. 25, 98, 94, 99, 275
Walecote, Thomas de (Bailiff of Gondover,

1292), 20
Walenin, Walter {defk, 1208), 152 ; rn.
165

, — — , Albreda, daughter o^ 152-8 ;

^ 165, V. BotereU

1 — — » Cecilia, daughter of, 158

, WiUiam (1244), 197-8, 808 n

— > f Isabella de Kilpec, m£d of,

197-8, 200, 208 »

— , y John, son of (1292), 260,

208 n

, i Bobert, brother of; 208 n

, , Bobert, son o^ 200, 208 n

Wales (North), Princes ofl—
Blethyn ap Con^yn, tH. 218
Tiahem ap Caradoe, ▼ii. 215
Omfi^h ap Lewellyn (1087-68),Tii,
215, 228, 281

, Alditha, wife o( TiL 281

, Ghienta, daughter o^ ^ii. 215,

228,281

, Nesta, daughter of, ▼ii. 228

— *, Nesta, granddaughter o^ y'n,

228
DaWd (1194), 159
Lewellyn. apJorweith, 12, 18, 14, 15,
169-161 ; ▼ii X7, 20, 21, 76, 77,
78 «, 87, 168

, Joan, 1st wife o( 12, 18, 14 ;

▼iii. 87 «

, Eva fits Waiin, 2Bd wife of,

▼iii. 87 n

, Elena, daughter of (1222-6),

▼iiL29
— , DaWd, son of, 18 ; ▼ii 22, 77

, , Isabel de Bzaose, alleged

wife of; YU. 154 n

, JofwerthI>rwyndwn,'fetherof,

160 n
-, •♦•• Corbet, mother o^ 160 «

Lewellyn ap Grufl^h, 57 -, ▼ii. 26,
27, 82, 82, 87, 98, 99, 114, 128,
129,187

882

INDEX OF PERSONS.

WakyB, Brother Adam le (1266), tu. 64
Wallys, aUaa Gloucester, Buduurd de

(1225),TiLU7
Wall, Richard, TiL 225
WalknsiB, v. Walsh
Wallop, Hugh de (1267), vil 4A

, Richard de (1267), vii. 44

Walah, of Berrmgton. — '

f Wydo, 85

^ ^ Sibil, widow of (1221), 35

Walah, of Berwick. —

, Alan, TiL 390

, , Muriell, widow of (1221-96),

Tii 290, 291
Walah of pulley.—

, John, son of John la (1266), 218

Walsh of Pulyerbatch.—

, Reginald (1200), 201

, John (1285-84), 196, 201, 205-6,

263
Walsh of SooUand.--

, Richard (e. 1170), 225 n

Walsh, aliat Brid, of Sugden. —

, William (ante 1230), tu. 383, 385

, William (1287), viL 384

— , , Alice,' wife o^ vii 384

Wal^ John (o. 1220-30), Tii 348; TiiL

161

, Nicholas (1220), liL 17

, Robert (c. 1172), 804

, Stephen (1221-5), riii. 73, 74

Walter, Theobald (I.), Tii 78, o. Boteler

of Ireland
Walter (of Howie, 1086), Tii 198 ; Tiii 91
Walwayn, Roger (1272), 261, 316

, , Sibil Morel, wife o^ 816

, , Roger, son of (1272), 261

, ThomaB (1455), 118

, — , Johanna (de Stapleton),

wife of, 118

•, Fulk (1495), 118

Wappenshall, Stephen de (1228-64), Tii

348
Ware, John 1a, 275

Waiin (of Eyton, Bratton, and Horton,
1086), Tii. 198 <0r ; Tiii 26, 27, 86, 37,
38
Wanen and Surrey, Earls o£—

William de Warren (1145), Tiii 214
John FUmtagenet, Tii 229
, Alice, sister o( tU. 229

Warren (of Whitehurah), William de

(1238), Tii 22
Wanen, John de (1881), 65

, WiUiam de (Justiciar 1195), Tiii.

247
Warwick, Earls o£ —

Roger de Newburgh, Tii 76 •
William de Newburgh, Tii 76 •
Henry de Newburgh (1217), Tii 75
Waters (of Betton), Richard (1326),

105-6
Waters (of Clifford), Miles, Senior, 315
— , — -— , Margaret BeTflreuz, wife of,

315
Waters Upton, Lords o£ —

Walt« fits John (1158-1800), 28,

240,304; Tiii54
— *-, Hugh, brother of (0. 1175)*

804
— -^, Matilda, daughter o( Tiii 54,
t. Abacun

, Ridhildis, wife o( 240 ; Tiii 54

William fits Walter (1200-1207), 28,

93, 119, 240-1 ; Tiii 54
^— , Nicholas, son o( Tiii 54
— , Philip, son of, Tiii 5»i
Walter fits William (1223-1241), 23,
24 n, 195, 196 ; Tiii 54, 65, 170,
187

, John brother P of (1225), 196

Nicholas de Upton (c. 1245), Tiii. 55
Waters Upton, Incumbents o^Tiii 58,
59

1 Undertenants in. Tin. 56

Wauton, Simon de (Justiciar), Tii 82,

307 ; Tiii 279
Welcume, Roger (1170-80), 227-8
Wdde, Richard (1479-80), 42
Welin, William (1261), Tii 175
Wellington, Hugh, Yicar of (e. 1349),
Tii 358

, PhiUp de (e. 118&-98), Tii 341, .

855 ; Tiii 149, 155
, Philip, Parson of («. 1220), Tii

343

-, Thomas de (1248), Tiii. 279
-, Thomas Lyart, Yicar of (o. 1280),

Tin. 40, 260 «
Welsh-Pool, V. Pole.
Wemme, PhiUp de (12Q3), Tii 78
Weneei (T. R. E.), Tii 198 ; Tiii. 1

INDEX OF PERSONS.

883

Weniet (T. B. E.), vii* 2, 127
Wenlook Priory, Cominariiu of, 866
, Prior ttnd Conyent o^ 217, 221-

226, 231-288, 286, 266-7, 806» 887-

839, 863-867 ; riL 866, 891 ; yiii. 116,

120
Wenlock, Priors of. —

Humbald, 227 ; yii. 226, 287

Peter de Leia» 60, 81, 122, 808

Heniy, 282

Robert, 227, 829

Imbert, 76, 77, 266, 864 ; Tiii. 117

John de Tycford (1272-1288), 866;

TiiL124
Heniy (1301), 222
Wenlook, Bnudd, Ghaplam of; 804

, John, Sub-Prior of (1276), 866

^ Sacristan of; 866 n

Wessel^, V. Westley

Weetbury, Odo de, rii 68, «. Hodnet.

y Rectors or Prebendariee of, yii. 49,

60, 61, 62.

^1 Sacristans o( Tii 60, 63

^,Sibilde,TiL69,68

^ Stephen de (1269), yii 60

WesUey, Eyhrio de, 49, 176, 190, v

Sprencheauz

1 , Henry, son of (c. 1190), 190

, Gilbert de, 49, 176

i Henry de (1221-81), 27, 111

, Henry de (1272-1292), 16, 27, 69,

60,206

, Henry de (1803), yu. 127

, John de (1264-92), 27 bii

f John, son of Robert de (1298), 27

^ Roger de (e. 1188), 60, «. Spren-

oheanz

, Roger de (1266), 116

, Roger de (1292), 27

Westminster, Herbert, Abbot o( yiL 149
Weston, Dayid de, yii 274

, Gilbert de (1236), yiiL 48

y Master G. de (c. 1227), 177

, William de (1260), yii. 82

Weston of Weston-under-Lisard, yii

211 n
Wheathall, Nicholas de (1292), 87

, Roger de (1266), 27

, William de (1292), 27

Whitfield, Robert de (Justiciar, e. 1191),

106 ; yu. 12

Whitfield, Walter de (119O-1208), yiii

104-110, 116, 116
, — , Eya de Longford, wife o(

yiii. 104-110, 116
Whittington, Randolph, Rector ot, yiL

94
Whitton, Richard de (1209), yii. 16, 66
, Robert de (1240-74), yii. 27, 66,

66, 9. Ix>wys

, Roger de (1240), yiL 66, 66, v.

Bumel

, Simon de (e. 1216), yii. IS, 66

, Simon Lowys de (1292-1316), yxL

66
Whitton ? Robert de (1221), yii. 66, «.

Wudeton
Wige or Wighe (T. R. E.), yiL 198, 200,

360; yiii. 26
Wiggewyk, r. Wigwig
Wigmore, Abbot and Conyent o( 169,

161, 297, 867-8 ; yiL 111-113, 813 ;

yiiL 221
Wigmore (near Weetbmy), Adam de

(1221), yiL 124, 171

, Hugh de (1267), yiL 64, 171

— , , John, son oi^ yiL 64^ 171

Wigot (of Longner, 1086), 68 ft; yii.

198 ; yiii. 206
Wigwig, Alured de, 266

, Undertenants in, 266, 267

Wikefeld, Hamo de (1208), yii. 72
Wilbrighton, William de (defk. 1292),

yiii. 274
, 1 William, son of (1292),

yiii. 274
Wilderhope, Richard and Robert de

(1292), 96
Wilderley, lyetta de (1196), 268

, Richard de (1204), 268-9, 262

, i Stephen de Hope, son of;

269

-, Undertenants in, 260, 261

-, William fits Adam of (e. 1290),

68

Wildgoose, Heniy (1201), yiL 806
Wililey, Warner de (1180-1280), 74, 84-

89, 91, 99, 100, 123, 171 ; yii. 17,

y , Petronilla fits Odo, wife o^

80, 84-88, 91, 99, 100
, , Juliana, daughter of, 89

884

INDXX OF PSE80NS.

Wililey, Kioholu cl«(ia81-1842)t88, 270,

273 ; Tiii. 140

— — , Bui^ da Piehford, wife o(

88, 96, 270, 273

— , Andrew de (1261^5), 88» 89, 95,

100, 270, 273

— -) Bovga, d*u. o( 80, 89, 116, «.

Harief
WillaTeaton, v. Woolataaton.
Willegrip (T. B. B.), Tii. 198 ; TiiL 126
William, Olerk of the Abbej Foregftto {e.

1182), 287-8, V. Saint Cioaa
Will/ of Hanghton, near Hanghmond.

, William, viiL 287, 287 n

^ ,l8olda,dftu.of,Tiii.287,287n

Wilton, William de (Justiciar 1266), Tii

80
Wiltshire, James, Earl of (1440), 281
Winchester, Bishops of.—*

Heniy de Blois, 820 ; Tii. 147, 151,

284; TiiL 218, 218
Bichard Tocliffe, Tii 160
Peter de Kapibus, Tii. 248
Wingham, Henry de (Sscheator 1249),

Tiii 177
Winslsy, Osegot de (e. 1125), Tii 10
Winsley, Bichard, ProTOsI of (o. 1240),

Tii. 63

^ William de,Tii. 63

, 1 John, son of («. 1240), Tii 68

^ , Bichard, bod of (1252), Tii. 64

— , Boger, son of Boger de (e. 1265),

Tii 63
, William, son of John de (1266), tii.

64
-—— , lAke ds^ Tii 64
— , , Editli, Margery, GK)dith, and

iTeta, dMighters of (0. 1260), Tii 64

, Ohriatiaaft de (1^67), Tii 64

, WiUiam de (1272), Tii. 64

, — , Agnes, wife ofi Tii. 64

, Bichard de (1272), Tii. 64 '

— , Undertenants in, Tii 68, 64
Wiscart of Asterley. —

, Bobert (1255), Tii 148 ^

Wiscbard of Cold Hatton.--

, Baldwin (o. 1208-1220), Tii 875

IfU ; Tiii. 137, 183, 197, 286
, , Bobert, son of (1246), Tii

881

Wbtaneswik, Gilbert de («. 1220), Tiii

67,70
, , William, son of (1262-

1806), Tiu. 67, 70
Witfeld,*e. Whitfield.
Withebroc, NichoUie de (1240), 864
Withington, Henry de (1246), Tiii. 80
— , Biohard, son of Bichard de

(1807), Tiii 81

, Bobert de (1243), Tiii 81

, Bobert, Chaplain of (c.ll80), Tii.

820

y Boger de (1203), xiii 80, 238

, Thomas de (1235-e. 1240), 107 ;

Tii. 279 ; Tiii 80

, J Alioe^ widow of, Tiii 80

1 , Thomas, son of (p. 1245),

Tiii 80, 81

•, Thomas le Eyr of (tnlsr 1256-

1292), Tiii. 80

-, Thomas de (1267-1318), 18 ; Tii.

296, 307, 308, 879 ; Tiii 78, 81, 236
Isabella Bumel, wi£i o^

Tii 307; Tiii 236

-, Walter de (1290), Tiii. 81

-, WiUiam (c. 1245), Tiii. 56

Withington, Undertenants in, Tiii 81
Withy ford, Bichard de (c. 1190-1203),
Tiii 134, 137

— — , , Bobert, brother o^ Tiii 134

, "—^1 Thomas, brother of^ Tiii

134

-, John de (1203), Tiii. 137

-, Syward de (1226), Tiii 65, 74

- , John de (1319), Tii 282, 9. Stan-

ton

Withyf(Mrd (Parrs), Begiaald de, e. Bo-
welton

, f Beginald or Beiner, son of

(c. 1245), Tiii 288, o. Bowelfcon

-,^¥illiam,8on of (1269-

1319), Tu. 282, 297 j Tiii 74^ 75
Witon, e. Whitton.
Witrio (T. B. E.), tu. 198, 352
Wizhall, Bobert de (1267), Tiii 143
WlfrichesUm, Engdiram de (1165), tu.

221 »
WlonkeeUwe, r. Longalow.
Wodeford, Hngh da (c. 1200), Tiu. 286
Wodenton, Henry de (1260), Tii. 82
Woderton, Hugh de (1285), Tii 386
, John de (ob. 1296), Tii 386

INDEX OF PBRS0N8.

385

Wolfrich, Wmiftm, 316, 317
WombridgOj Prior and Gonyent of, tu.
318 fi, 369, 868-372 pdwnm; Tiii. 118,
120, 156-194 ^oMim, 198, 200, 221
Wombridge, PriorB of. —

Roger (1187-1204), yii. 871 ; viii.

191
Henry (1220-86), yii. 871
Baldwin (1245-60), rii 867, 871 ;

Tiii 172, 178 ft, 186
Walter (1270), Tii. 871 j Tiii 67
PhiHp (1284-1821), TiL 870, 871 ;

Tiii. 179, 180
Richard deMetson (1821-1846), Tii .

871, 872 J Tiii. 181
John de Lawley (1849-1878), Tii.

858, 862, 872
John de Watford (1878-1877), Tii

862, 872
John (1425), Tii. 872
William Rnsshton (1446), Tii. 872
John de Eyton (1460-1463), tu. 372
Tfaomaa Forster {oh, 1620), Tii. 872
William (1686-6), TiL 870, 372
Wombridge, Canons of. —

Rainald (o. 1181-7), TiL 865
Thomas de Broughton (1316), Tii.

368
Roger de Eyton (1325), Tii. 369
Richard de Kemberton {deft. 1828),

Tii. 370
John de Lawley (1346), TiL 872
Wombridge, Bartholomew, Chaplain of

(1401), TiiL 246
Woodcote (near Newport), Lords of. —

, Robert (T.) de (1191-1220), Tii.

827 ; Tiii. 2, 106, 110, 285

, , Robert, Unde of (1176),

Tiii. 41

— , , Milisent, widow of (1221),

Tii. 335 ; TiiL 110

, Robert (II.) de (1220-53), 52 ; TiL

329, 385 ; Tiii. 91, 221

, Robert (IH.) de (1253-1278), Tii.

831, 336 ; Tiii. 49
Woodcote (near Shrewsbtuy), Alexander
de (1221), Tii. 155

, Meyler de, TiL 156

, William de (1255-74), TiL 156

, Nicholas de (1286-92), tiL 156

VIII.

Woodhonse (Pontesbarj), Adam fits

Eyhnmid o^ tIL 135-6
— , Distil de, rii. 185, 136, v, Han-

wood

-, Undertenants in, TiL 186

Woodhonse (Stoke upon Tern), Under-
tenants in, ^. 69
Woolaston, Undertenants in, TiL 116
Woolstaston, Andrew de, 158

, Incumbents o^ 167

, William de (1261), 154

-, William le Boudler of^ 156

Worcester, Bishops of. —
Simon (1130), 318
Philip Morgan, 281
Woret {Tetti^y e, 1125), tu. 10
Women, Richard (1265), TiL 148
Wrenbure, Richard de (1382), Tiii. 261
Wrentnall, Undertenants in, 205-6
Wrime, William de (1272), Tii. 191
Wrookwardine, Richard de (1262), Tii.
892

f Richard de Morton, Vicar of,

220
Wrotteeley, Hugh de {e. 1267), 56
Wroxeter, Toret de, Tii. 810
Wrozeter, Portioners, Rectors, or Canons
of; TiL 314-319, 324 $ Tiii. 190, 191,
193-4s 282.—
Dionysius (1155), tiL 811, 311 »,

316
William (1231, 1248), 150 ; TiiL 3
William de Drayton, Tii. 316 ; Tiii.

282, e. Drayton
M. (1233), Tiii. 191
Robert de Warwick (1288-98), Tii.

318 $ Tiii. 192-3
Robert le Notinge {oh. 1338), Tii.

814, 318
William de Wrozeter, or de Brugge
(1341-1347), Tii. 318 ; TiiL 194
Wroxeter, Vicars of, Tii. 314, 315, 318-
319, 324 ; Tiu. 282
Adam de Brompton, 32 ; tiL 819
Wudeton, William de (e. 1189), TiL 305

, Robert de (1221-37), 81 «, 124»

293 ; Tii 21, 66
Wuteton, V, Wudeton.
Wyard, John (1346), Tii. 59, 61
Wygot (of Longner, 1086), eSn,v. Wigot

49

886

1ND£X0F PERSONS.

Wyke, Herbert de (126^71), 842 ; m

845
Wykys, Bichsrd, son of Robert de(1800-

20), nil 189
Wyluriston, John de^ 179

, i Adam, son of (1292), 179

, , y Era^e la Bee, wife

of; 179
Wjne, William de (1820), yu. 61 n
y ^ Matilda de Hodnet, wife o(

yii 61 n, e. Ladlow
Wynneebuxy, John (1481), 220 •

, Thomas de (1380), yiii. 16

Wytenton, William de, 154

— , ^— » Amelia, daughter oi^ 154,

«. Engleys
Wythbekmd or Wylrithland, Isabel de

(1242), Tii 124, 125
WytteneE, Eustace de, 58
Wytton, e. Whitton

T.

Yate, Thomas (1481), 220 »
Yockleton, Osbert de (1253), vii. 14

YoeUeton, Undertenants in, yii. 14
York, Archbishops o( 151. —
Thomas (II.), vii. 146
Turstin, yii 149
William fitz Herbert, yii. 147
Walter Giffiurd, 130, 278^

, * * • *, Bister of, 274, ». De-

yerouz
York, Richard, Duke of {iem. Hen. TI.),

815
Ystrat Marehel, Abbot and Oonvent o(

255 i Tii. 118, 128
YyeUth, Gerard de (0. 1220), yiL 108

Z.

Zouche of Ashby.

, Roger la (1226), 44, 81 n, 184, 185 •

, Alan U (1252), yii 25

Zouche of Haryngworth. —

, Eudo la, 118, 857 ; Tii 122

— , , Biilioent de Oantilupe^ wife o(

113, 253-4, 357 ; yii. 122, 128, 176-7
, William U (1305, 1317), 258, 857 ;

yii. 178

JOBM BDWASD TATLOS, rEIRTBft,
LITTLI ttOiaif tTUBT, LIKCOLN** INM VIBLD*.

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