Properties of the de Roucestres in England - also info on: Baldwin the Steward, [Latin: Baldwini dapiferi]

 Properties of the de Roucestres:

Enhale Manor or Hall

In 974 King Edgar's thegn Elfhelm (d. c. 990) gave his wife 3 hides at Enhale on their marriage. (fn. 160) By 1066 1 hide comprising ENHALE, later YEN HALL, manor which belonged to King Edward's thegn Tochi, of whose successor William de Warenne it was held in 1086 by Lambert de Rosey. (fn. 161) From William's son William, earl of Surrey (d. 1138), lordship over Enhale passed to his younger son Reynold (fn. 162) (d. 1179), whose heirs were mesne lords under the earls of Surrey. (fn. 163) After 1209 Reynold's granddaughter Beatrice brought the mesne lordship, with the honor of Wormegay, to the Bardolfs, of whom Enhale was still held c. 1400. (fn. 164) Lambert de Rosey was succeeded by his son Walkelin, (fn. 165) and Ralph de Rosey (fl. 1158) (fn. 166) by his son Baldwin, (fn. 167) who went on crusade in 1189. By 1195 his land had come to Walkelin de Rosey (fn. 168) (d. 1221), who left as heir a son, Baldwin, under age. (fn. 169) Baldwin, in possession in 1242, (fn. 170) died after 1260, (fn. 171) when his lands may have passed to Walkelin de Rosey, probably his son, (fn. 172) murdered c. 1270, (fn. 173) or to Saher de Rosey, a ward of Earl John de Warenne c. 1260. (fn. 174)

By 1279 Enhale manor belonged with other Rosey estates to Sir Baldwin de Manners, (fn. 175) who was granted free warren there in 1291, was lord in 1316, (fn. 176) and died without issue in 1320. Baldwin's widow Joan sought dower in Enhale in 1321, (fn. 177) but Baldwin had in 1311 granted the reversion of other Cambridgeshire manors, and perhaps of Enhale, to Sir John Botetourt (fn. 178) (d. 1324): by 1331 Joan, widow of Botetourt's son Thomas (d. 1322), held Enhale. (fn. 179) When Joan died in 1338 Enhale descended to her son Sir John, later Lord Botetourt, (fn. 180) who held it in 1346 and 1359, (fn. 181) but had alienated it before he died in 1385. (fn. 182)

It was probably acquired by Roger Harleston, a Cambridge burgess (fl. 1359–88), (fn. 183) whose son Ives was recorded in 1390 as holding the fee and came of age in 1399. (fn. 184) Ives died in 1403 leaving a son John, aged 1, (fn. 185) whose mother Eleanor probably occupied the manor until her death in 1416. (fn. 186) John had livery in 1424. (fn. 187) In 1452–3 Enhale was briefly taken into the king's hands. (fn. 188) John died in 1457 and his son John in 1458. The latter's son and heir John, then aged 3, (fn. 189) apparently died after 1464, (fn. 190) for Enhale passed to Robert Harleston, his uncle, (fn. 191) and was forfeited upon Robert's attainder in 1471. (fn. 192) It was successively granted to Richard, duke of Gloucester, in 1471, and to Sir William Stanley in 1475. (fn. 193) The attainder was repealed in 1485, (fn. 194) and the manor presumably restored to Robert's son John (d. by 1500), who left a son Clement, aged 5. (fn. 195) In 1535 Sir Clement Harleston sold Enhale to John Wheatley of Fulbourn, whose widow Anne and son George sold it in 1549 to Sir Giles Alington (d. 1586). (fn. 196) From the 17th century the estate was erroneously referred to as two distinct manors called Eynall and Yennolds. (fn. 197)

 

Church:

Tithe portions in West Wickham belonged to Castle Acre priory (Norf.), Linton priory, and, by the time of inclosure, to the rectors of Balsham, Horseheath, and Bartlow. Castle Acre was granted, probably c. 1100, the demesne tithes of Enhale by Lambert de Rosey, under-tenant of the priory's founder William de Warenne. (fn. 352) By 1290 the rector of West Wickham was collecting the tithes and paying the priory £1 2s. a year. (fn. 353) In 1535 Colne priory owed 2 marks a year to Castle Acre (fn. 354) for the Enhale tithes, which in 1600 the Crown granted to the bishop of Ely. (fn. 355) Linton priory was said in 1291 to be entitled to a portion of £5, (fn. 356) but in 1346 nothing had been paid for over 30 years. (fn. 357) At inclosure the rector of Horseheath claimed tithes from 56 a. of ancient closes adjoining his parish (fn. 358) which had been leased free of tithes due to West Wickham rectory in 1624. (fn. 359) The rector of Balsham claimed tithes from 37 a. of Streetly Hall farm and alleged that his predecessors had received a modus for tithes of venison from 92 a., once in Horseheath park. (fn. 360) The park itself had been sold free of tithes due to West Wickham to Stanlake Batson, whose son refused to pay the sum assessed upon it when the tithes were commuted. (fn. 361) The two rectors and the rector of Bartlow were allotted 19 a. in 1822 for their tithes. (fn. 362).

 

An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 7. Originally published by W Miller, London, 1807.

HOUGHTON,

So called from its situation, which signifies high town, was a beruite to the Earl Warren's manor of Rudham, and held of him by Simon, consisting of a carucate of land, held by 13 socmen, with all their customary dues; one carucate in demean, and one amongst the men, and 25 socmen in Rudham belonged to this lordship, with one carucate of land and an half, &c.; and in Houtone, one socman had 30 acres; there were under them 3 villains, and 3 bordarers, with one carucate, and a church, but not endowed. (fn. 1) This part was held by Ralph—, ancestor of the family of De Caineto, or Cheyney, lord of Rudham. From the Cheyneys, it came by marriage to the Belets, and seems to be held under them first by the De Haveltons or Houghtons, and after by the Walpoles.

 

This ancient family of Walpole take their name from the town of Walpole in Mershland, in Norfolk, where they were enfeoffed of lands belonging to the see of Ely. Joceline de Walpole was living at Walpole in the reign of Richard I [3 Sept 1189 – 6 Apr 1199]. and in 1199 the 1st of King John [R: 1199 -1216] held the sixth part of a fee in Wisbeach, with half a knight's fee in Walpole, Walton, and Hakebeach, with an 100 acres of marsh land in Wisbeach (paying 10s. rent per annum) of the Bishop of Ely, and 6s. 2d. rent in salt; and Adam de Walpole paid the same rent in salt for lands, &c. Ralph, son of Joceline, and Roger his brother, held a virgate and an half in Walpole, paying 5s. 4d. and 26 combs of salt rent per ann. to the Bishop; and Adam de Walpole held half a virgate in Walpole, paying 12s.

 

Reginaldus de Walpole, who lived in the reign of Henry I [Reign 5 Aug 1100 – 1 Dec 1135]. seems to be lineal ancestor of the present family, father of Richard de Walpole, who married Emma, daughter of Walter de Havelton, or Houton [Haughton], son of William de Havelton, (who was lord of this town,) where this family of Walpole resided after this marriage; and Henry de Houton had an interest here about the end of Henry the Third's reign, and held one fee.

 

From Reginaldus descended Sir John de Walpole, Knt. who in 1230 the 14th of Henry III [R: 28 Oct 1216 – 16 Nov 1272] on the King's sailing into Brittany, had letters of protection, being in the family or retinue of that King, was, by Isabel his wife, father of Sir Henry de Walpole, Knt. who held lands in Houghton, by the service of a quarter of a fee, of the Lord Bardolf, and that Lord of the Earl Warren, and other lands by the service of one fee (as said) of Blaminster fee. About the 50th of Henry III. he was a justice of gaol delivery, and sold lands by deed, sans date, to John de Spalding, (burgess of Lenn,) in Tyrington, and sealed, as by his deed appears, with a fess, between two chevrons; the arms of the present Earl of Orford:—the witnesses were Sir William de Tyrington, and Sir John de Wygenhale, &c. He married Isabel, daughter of Sir Peter Fitz Osbert of Somerley town, sister and heir to Sir Roger FitzOsbert, and was living in  the 14th of Edward I. when a fine was levied between him and Asceline, daughter of Hugh Lound, or Lovard of Houghton, by Rudham: (fn. 2) and about the said time lived Ralph Walpole Bishop of Ely, who also bore the said arms.

 

In 1303 the 34th of Edward I [R: 1272-1307] Isabella de Walpole was found to be one of the cousins and heirs of Roger FitzPeter FitzOsbert, and John son of Alice Negoun, was the other; she was afterwards (as it seems) the wife of Sir Walter Jernegan. Sir Henry de Walpole was his son: to him and Alice his wife, Mr. Robert de Saham, and others, trustees, granted two parts of this lordship, with lands in Walpole and Walton, and all the lands purchased by Sir Henry his father, of Asceline aforesaid, with the third part of this manor in reversion, which Isabel Jernegan, formerly the wife of Sir Henry his father, held in dower:—Witnesses, Sir Geff. de Colvile, Sir Walter de Calthorp, Sir Thomas de Snitterton, and Sir John de Fretton, Knts. dated November 30^th 1311, 4th Edward II [R: 1307-1327]. Sir Henry died about 1336 the 9th of Edward III. and Henry was his son and heir.

 

In 1338 the 11th of Edward III [R: 1327-1377] William le Gross, parson of the church of Bentley Parva in Essex, as a trustee, settled this manor on Henry de Walpole, and Joan his wife, who was (as I take it) daughter of Sir Oliver le Gross of Crostwick, or Sir John.

 

In 1384 the 7th of Richard II [R: 1377-1400]. Henry de Walpole, and Edmund his son were witnessess to a deed, and Henry was found to be cousin and heir of Sir John le Gross, Knt. and as such released all his right in his manors; and in 1402 the 3^rd of Henry IV [R: 1399 to 1413] Henry, son of Sir Henry de Walpole, held one fee of the dutchy of Lancaster, and one quarter of a fee of the Lord Bardolf. In 1407, Ao. 9, Henry IV. he was living, and styled Henry de Walpole, senior, Esq. and died about the 20th of Henry VI.

 

In 1432 the 10^th of Henry VI [R: 1422 to 1461 & 1470-1471]  Henry de Walpole, his son, and Margaret his wife, were possessed of 10 marks rent issuing out of the manor of Hales-hall in Lodne; she was daughter of Sir John Harsike, Knt, of Southacre, and by the name of Henry Walpole, Esq. of Houghton, made his will on the feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross in 1442; "Gives to Catherine his daughter 40l. towards her marriage, and the said sum to Alice his daughter, out of the profits of the manor of Houghton; to Martin his son, under age, 4 marks per ann. for life, and to have all the lands which Catherine his father's sister had of the gift of his father Henry, deceased. Appoints Henry his son, Edmund Percy, William Marchale, Esqrs. his executors, to hold the manor of Houghton, to perform his will, and after the performance of it, to Henry his son in tail-male, remainder to John his son; to Henry his son, his manor in Walpole, with the appertenances, and to John his son the manor of Istede in Suffolk." (fn. 3) He had three other sons, William Martin, and Thomas, and was buried according to his will in the church of St. Martin, of Houghton, by his wife; and his will was proved June 27, 1442. Henry, his eldest son, in the 34th of Henry VI. settled his manor of Walpole on trustees. He married, as I take it, an Etchingham, who bore, azure, fretty, argent; which arms, impaled by Walpole, were painted on the screens of this church, next to those of Walpole and Harsike. It is probable that he died without issue, his brother or son, John de Walpole, Esq. granting, in the 21st of Edward IV. to William his brother, the manor of Istede in Weybrede, Suffolk; and in the 9th of Henry VII. an inquisition was awarded into this county, and that of Suffolk, on the death of John Walpole, Esq. who was found to have died seized of this manor, held of the manor of Wirmegey by knight's service; and Thomas was his son and heir, by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Robert Shawe, Esq. of Derby.

 

Thomas Walpole, Gent. son and heir of John Walpole, Esq. late of Houghton, deceased, gives, in 1497 the 12^th of Henry VII [R: 1485–1509] to Thomas Allen of Walpole, a messuage with 15 acres of land, also 7 acres, and a salt-work, with all the grain belonging lately to his father, John Walpole, Esq. lying between the land of the chantry of St. Mary, which his father had of the gift of John Walpole, late of London, son of Martin Walpole, late of Walpole, and the land of Robert Brandon, late of Newton, Esq. Thomas Hunston, Gent. and Philip Sutton. Esq. He married Joan, daughter of William Cobb of Sandringham, Esq. by whom he had John, his eldest son, who died before him without issue; Edward, and Henry.

 

By the name of Thomas Walpole of Lynne Bishop, Esq. he made his will, May 24, 1512, wherein he gives, "to his son Henry all his purchased lands (his manor of Howeton to remain 10 years in his feoffees hands, to perform his will) and his manor of Weybrede, 5 years after the decease of his wife; his executors to receive the profits of his lands, tenements, &c. in Walpole, 4 years and an half, for the making of his tumbe, and for making the north ylde of the parish church of Howeton, and that done, the said lands, tenements, &c. in Walpole, to be delivered to the brodirhode of the Holy Trinity in Lynne-Bishop, to the intent that the alderman and skyvens of the said gylde shall find and pay yerly 8 marks to the wages of an abil prest to synge mess perpetually for his soul, and the sowl of Jone his wyfe, in the chapel of our Lady, in the chapel of St. Nicholas in Lynne. And more, I will that the said preste shall be at commons and lodging in the college of the Holy Trinity so that he be ordered by the statutes of the place, and to have 6s. 8d. of the said college yerly; and if the said alderman and skyvens, or successours, refuse to perform the same, &c. I will the said lands, &c. to be sold by my executor Jeff. Cobbe my brother-in-law, and my son Henry Walpole." (fn. 4) This was proved April 7, 1513. He was found to die January 24, following, Edward his son being then aged 30.

Edward Walpole, Esq. his eldest son, married Lucy, daughter of Sir Terry Robsert, sister of Sir John Robsert of Sedestrand, and heir to Amy, first wife to Sir Robert Dudley, the great Earl of Leicester in Queen Elizabeth's time, daughter and heir of Sir John Robsart; of whom see in Sedestern.

 

Edward was buried January 1, 1558, and Lucy, February 1, 1559, at Houghton.

John Walpole, son and heir of Edward and Lucy, married Catherine, daughter and heir of William Calybut of Coxford, Gent. and was buried in Houghton church, March 29, 1588, and Catherine September 25, 1612, and left Edward Walpole, Esq. his son and heir, who was attainted for treasonable practices at Rome, and died abroad without issue, being, as some say, a Romish priest. Calybut Walpole, Esq. was his twin-brother and heir, who, by Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Edmund Bacon of Hesset in Suffolk, Esq. had several children.

 

To this Calybut, John Walpole, Esq. his father, by his will, dated, February 28th, in 1588 the 30^th of Elizabeth [R: 1558-1603], gives the manor of Sedesterne, with that of Bircham Newton, after the decease of the Right Honourable Robert Earl of Leicester, with his foldcourse and lands, which he had of Roger Townsend, Esq. in Bircham Magna, and all the sheep going on the same; Catherine his wife to have all his lands in Walpole and Walton, to her and her heirs, towards the preferment of his daughter's marriage, and to hold the manor of Houghton for life. (fn. 5) Edward, his eldest son and heir, (as above,) was indicted in the King's Bench for supposed treason, (in the 30th of Elizabeth, March 10,) done at Rome; and on May 26, 39th of Elizabeth, again indicted. After this, on August 3, in the said year, the Queen granted to — Hussey and — Goodman, the forfeited lands of Edward, and they grant them, September 27th following, to Calybut his brother.

Robert Walpole, Esq. son and heir of Calybut, married Susan, daughter of Sir Edward Barkham of Southacre, Knt. and died in 1663, and Susan in 1622, and buried at Houghton.

Sir Edward Walpole, Knight of the Bath, succeeded him as son and heir; and, by Susan his wife, daughter and coheir of Sir Robert Crane, Bart. of Chilton in Suffolk, left at his death, in 1667, Robert Walpole, Esq. his son and heir; who took to wife Mary, only daughter and heir of Sir Jeffrey Burwell, Knt. of Rougham in Suffolk, by whom he had Robert Walpole, Esq. (fn. 6) his 3d son, and heir to his father, the greatest statesmen of the age, prime minister to King George I. and King George II. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Knight of the Bath, first commissioner of the Treasury, and created Earl and Viscount of Orford, February 8th, 1742.

 

In the year 1722, he began the foundation of a most noble hall, or palace, of free stone, which he finished and furnished in a most elegant taste, and sumptuous manner; the foundation stone was thus inscribed:

— HIC ME POSUIT

Fundamen ut essem domûs in agro natali extruendæ, Robertus Ille Walpole, quem nulla nesciet posteritas, die 24. mensis Maii, A. D. 1722, faxit Deus, ut postquam maturus ævi Dominus diu lætatus fuerit absoluta, incolumem tueantur incolumes ad summum omnium diem, et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.

By his lady Catherine, daughter of John Shorter, Esq. of Bybrook in Kent, (son and heir of Sir John Shorter, Knt. Lord Mayor of London) who died in August 1737, and was buried at Houghton, he had Robert, his son and heir, created Lord Walpole of Walpole, in 1723, and was Knight of the Bath 1725, and Earl of Orford on his father's death, who married Margaret, daughter, and heir of Samuel Rolle, Esq. of Heanton in Devonshire, by whom he had Robert, the present Earl, one of the lords of the King's bed-chamber, lord lieutenant of the county of Norfolk.

The arms of this Earl is, Or, on a fess, between two chevrons sable, three cross crosslets of the first;—the crest, on a wreath, the bust of a man side-faced, couped proper, with a long cap, gules, on it a Catherine-wheel, or; which was the crest of the Robsarts:—supporters, an antelope, and a buck argent, attired, proper, gorged, with collars checquer, or and azure, each with a chain fixed to it, and hoofs, or.

It is to be observed, that this account of the family is taken chiefly from ancient records, and for a larger account, Mr. Collins, on the Peerage, may be consulted.

The tenths, 6l.—Deducted 10s.—Lete fee to the lord of the hundred was 2s.

The Church of Houghton is a regular pile, having a nave, a north and south isle covered with lead, and a chancel with tile, with a steeple; dedicated to St. Martin, and was appropriated to the priory of Coxford, who had a manse and 30 acres, valued at 15 marks, the vicarage, at 5 marks—Peter-pence 16d.

At the west end of the nave is a monument, raised about a foot from the pavement, in form of a coffin; on the lid or cover, which is an entire piece of gray marble, is carved a curious antique figure of a prior, or abbot, in his robes, his hands spread on his breast, above them a cross, his head shaven, a dæmon couchant at his feet. It appears to have been made in the reign of Edward I. in memory of a prior of Coxford, from whence, as tradition reports, it was brought here, after its dissolution.

Near to this, on a marble gravestone, with a plate of brass,

Orate p. aia.----Pyckard de Howeton, qui obt. xvii. Die Januar. Ao. Dni. m.vc.xo.

On the pannels of the screen, between the nave and chancel, are the arms of Walpole, impaling Harsike;—or, on a fess, between two che vronells, three cross crosslets sable, Walpole; and, or, a chief indented sable, Harsike: also Walpole impaling, azure, fretty argent, Echingham.

At the east end of the south isle lie several marble gravestones; viz. Walpole, in a lozenge, and,

M. S.—Catherina, filia natu maxima præhonorabilis Roberti Walpole et Dominæ Cather. uxoris, nata 30, Maii 1703, denata 11, Oct. 1722. —Edwardus Walpole Armiger, filius natu maximus Roberti et Mariæ, sepultus est, 3°. Febr. 1697 Ætat. 22°. with the arms of Walpole.

Mary Turner born April 28^th 1693, buried January 21, 1694; and Mary Turner born July 19, 1696; both daughters of Sir Charles Turner Knt. and Mary his wife.

Hic jacet Robertus Walpole Armig; juxta Susannam uxorem, filiam Edv. Barkham de Southacre in com. Norf. Militis, quæ obt. Ao. Dni. 1622; natus fuit 23 Sept. Ao, Dni. 1593, denatus fuit festo Sancti Philippi et Jacobi A.D. 1663, with the arms of Walpole, impaling argent three pallets gules, and a chevron overall, or, Barkham.

In the chancel lie several marble gravestones:

Maria uxor Robti. Walpole Armiger; quam filiam habuit unicam Galfridus Burwell, Miles, de Rougham, in agro Suffolc. Annos nata ad octo et quinquaginta mortem, obt. 14 Martii 1711. With the arms of Walpole, and in an escotheon of prentence;—or, a chevron ermin, between three burdock leaves proper, Burwell.—Robertus Walpole Armig; filius natu maximus. Edw. militis Balnei et Susannœ, hic sepultus est decimo octavo die Nov. Ao. Dni. 1700, Ætat. suæ Quinquagesimo. Ex decem quos genuit filiis, superfuerunt Robertus, Horatio, Galfridus; ex filiabus septem, Maria, Dorothea et Susanna.—With the arms of Walpole and Burwell.

 

H. I. Horatio Walpole Armig; filius natu minor Edv. Walpole, Balnei militis, qui obt. Quinquagenarius, 17 Oct. A. D. 1717, with Walpole impaling, quarterly, ermine and azure, a cross or, Osborn

Hic situs est Edv. Walpole, Balnei Miles, Robi. Walpole, armig. filius, qui Susannam, Robti. Crane, Baronetti de Chilton, in agro Suff. filiam connubio sibi junxit, major quadraginta quinq. annos, 18 die Martii, 1667, morte piâ illustravit.

 

Cætera si quæras narrabit fama superstes.

Walpole, and in an escotheon of pretence,—argent, a fess between three cross croslets fitchée, gules, Crane.

Domina Susanna a latere Edv. Walpole, Balnei Militis, hic conditur, quœ, obt. 7, Julii Ao. Dom. 1667, Ætat. 35.

The church was a rectory, the ancient valor 15 marks. In 1275 the 3^rd of Edward I [R: 1272-1307] the jury find that Harvey Belet (of whom see in Rudham) gave it to Coxford priory; Hervey lived in the reign of King John [R: 1199-1216], and gave them also lands, or a manor here, which belonged to that of Rudham; and in 1428, the prior was taxed for his temporalities in rent, land, and a mill, at 65s. 3d.

¶The rectory was appropriated to the aforesaid priory, with 30 acres, and a vicarage was settled, the present valor of which is 5l.

The priory of Castleacre had a portion of tithe, valued at 36s per annum, and an agreement was made between the prior and convent of Castleacre, and that of Coxford, whereby the prior of Castleacre let to farm, to the prior of Coxford, two parts of the tithes of the demeans of Baldwin de Rosey, and William de Kailli, here, at the aforesaid rent; (fn. 7) William Rufus of Northampton, quitclaimed to the monks of Castleacre all his tenement, which he held of them, late John de Cailli's, which he held of them, on their paying him 18 marks:— witness, Herebert, prior of St. Edmund.

 

In 1612, the pension of 36s. was paid to the Earl of Northampton.

William, the third Earl Warren and Surry, before the year 1146, confirmed to the monks of Castleacre [Norfolk], the tithe of Wachelin de Rosei, granted by him; and Baldwin de Rosei confirmed the grant of his ancestors, by an agreement made before Walter Bishop of Norwich; Adam, the prior, and the convent, let for ever, to the prior and convent of Cokesford, two parts of the tithes of the demeans, of Baldwin de Rosey, of Hugh, son of Richard, and William de Kaylly, in this village, for 36s. per annum, who all appear by this to have had estates in the same. John, the first Bishop of Norwich, confirmed the grant of Rosey.

 

 

Ovington

Bozuns Manor, Ovington.

¶This town at the survey must be included in Saham, for I have found no mention of it in Domesday, but that one carucate which belonged to Saham was given very early to the Bigots, and by them infeoffed in the family surnamed De Saham, together with the advowson, to be held at one fee. In 1202, Robert de Saham conveyed it to Roger Bozun; and in 1227, the said Robert granted the advowson which belonged to this carucate, to Peter Bozun, son of Roger, and his heirs, who now was lord and patron. In 1256, it was returned that John Bozun was lord, and held a whole Knight's fee, but was not yet knighted; and in 1263, he had a charter for free-warren in Oviton. There was another half fee here, which was granted from the Crown to the Marshalls; the record called Testa de Nevill tells us, that William Talebot held it of Will. Mariscal, junior, and that it was worth 20l.; this belonged to Baldwin de Rosey, in Henry the Third's [R: 1216-1272] time and soon after to Peter Bozun, who, in 1306, held one part of the Earl Warren, the other of the Earl Marshall, and was sole lord and patron. In 1460, Will. Bozun, Gent. gave it, after his mother's death, to John his son, with the advowson, and the advowson of Wissingset, after the death of Alice his wife; he divided it again, and kept the great manor, which was in John Bozun in 1345; in 1432, Rich. Bozun held it of John Mowbray Duke of Norfolk, at one fee, as of his manor of Forncet; in 1450, Richard Bozun of Wissingset gave it to Margaret his wife for life, who married John Pecock of Norwich, and it continued a long time in this family, though sometimes in trustees hands; in 1558, Thomas Townsend of Testerton, Esq. released all his right in the manor and advowson, to John Bozun of Studdey, Esq. who, in 1568, conveyed it to Will. Smith, and he, in 1579, to Richard Wightman and Tho. Lingwood; in 1584, Wightman conveyed his moiety to Ambrose Clench, and Michael Beberton, in trust for his own and his wife's life, remainder to Rob. Wightman, his son, and his heirs; Robert conveyed it to his brother, Nicholas Wightman, who purchased the other moiety of Agatha, daughter and heir of Thomas Lingwood, who died seized in 1605, when it was held of Forncet manor by one fee, and 2d. per annum; in 1606, Nicholas Wightman sold it to Robert Wright, who in the year following conveyed it to Thomas Wright. In 1655, John Wright was lord, and in 1667, Thomas Wright of Downham, Esq. sold it to the Chancellor, Master, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge, who are now lords and patrons.

 

 

 

A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 7, the Rape of Lewes. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1940.

 

The manor of HIDE or HYDE appears to have had its origin in land in Kingston held between 1296 and 1332 by Richard and Simon de la Hyde successively. (fn. 46) It appears, later, to have formed part of the knight's fee in Smithwick (fn. 47) and Kingston, held in 1439 by the heirs of Saer and Geoffrey de Rosey or de Roset, which was assigned in that year to the Duke of Norfolk's share of the rape. (fn. 48) The subsequent history of the overlordship, as of everything else connected with the manor, is confused, for while Thomas Michell towards the end of the 16th century paid his dues for wardship and marriage to the Earl of Arundel, in 1631 the lord of Portslade (q.v.) claimed that Michell had held the land of him as 1/5 knight's fee. (fn. 49) Michell's successor, however, was still included among the free suitors of Lewes. (fn. 50) His lands called Le Hide were held as one knight's fee. (fn. 51)

 

¶The only members of the Rosey family whose connexion with the manor can be traced are William Drosey [de Rosey] and Lucy, apparently his daughter, to whom he conveyed in 1338–9 the reversion of certain land and pasture in Kingston by Lewes, held for life by Ralph Rademelde. (fn. 52) Subsequent holders of Hide in the late 15th century are said to have been the Gartons and the Hilders. (fn. 53) In 1567 Hide, here first called a manor, was held by Thomas Michell of the inheritance of his mother, Mary Michell, (fn. 54) whose father probably married the daughter of the last Hilder. (fn. 55) He was still holding the manor in 1617 (fn. 56) but was dead by about 1624. (fn. 57) He had married Jane, a daughter of John de la Chambre of Rodmell and Lewes (fn. 58) and at some date, vaguely described as 'in the times of James and Charles, kings of England', a John de la Chambre was said to hold these lands in Kingston as one knight's fee. (fn. 59) In 1630–1, however, Thomas Michell's widow Jane and her second husband, Stephen Ridge, (fn. 60) together with Jane's widowed sisters, Anne Alchorne and Elizabeth Scrase, and John Thorpe, probably the son of another sister, Mary, (fn. 61) conveyed the manor to Anne's son, John Alchorne. (fn. 62) For the next 150 years the history of the manor is difficult to trace, (fn. 63) for although courts of the manor are said to have been held in 1766, 1775, and 1777 to 1778, their holders, namely, John Crouch, Elizabeth Maitland, and Robert Maitland and his wife Elizabeth, (fn. 64) were lords of the manor of Kingston (q.v.). Moreover, the Alchornes reappear in possession in 1782, at which date William Alchorne and Elizabeth his wife, and Thomas Alchorne conveyed the manor to Thomas Rogers. (fn. 65) In 1825 Thomas Rogers and Thomas Attree Rogers and Mary Elizabeth his wife quitclaimed the manor to Thomas King. (fn. 66) Afterwards the manor passed to the Goring family, John Goring holding courts there from March 1864 to June 1879. (fn. 67) The manor-house, for all manorial rights have since lapsed, subsequently descended in the families of Howell, Rea, and Scrase-Dickens. It is now in the occupation of Captain Richard Kelly. (fn. 68)

Saer de Rosey held land in Lewes and Westout in 1295 and         : ibid. vii, 1098; Subs (ibid. x), 48.

 

Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry III: Volume 11, 1259-1261. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1934.

 

 

[m. 23d.]

Rex vicecomiti Cant' salutem. Quia Jordanus de Davintr', senescallus libertatis episcopi Eliensis, manucepit coram nobis exhibendi dilecto clerico nostro Johanni Walerand' plenam justiciam secundum legem et consuetudinem regni nostri citra quindenam Sancti Hillarii de transgressione eidem Johanni a Gafrido le Hundreder, Simone le Claver de Lindenbyr', Stephano Marescallo de Ely et Ricardo Lemer de Alderheth' et quibusdam aliis illata ut dicitur, tibi precipimus quod occasione predicta non ingrediaris libertatem predictam cum quatuor militibus de comitatu tuo ad videndum et audiendum quam et qualem justiciam dictus senescallus eidem Johanni fecerit in premissis in curia predicti episcopi, sicut nuper tibi precipimus, donec a nobis aliud habueris in preceptis. Teste rege apud Wodestok' xv. die Decembris. Per ipsum regem. (Cancelled) Vacat quia reddidit breve.

 

De terra replegianda.—Robertus le Gardiner venit etc. die Veneris in vigilia Natalis Domini et petiit terram suam in Horton' sibi replegiari que et (sic) capta etc. propter defaltam etc. versus abbatem de Messenden' ut dicitur.

 

De attornato.—Albreda que fuit uxor Henrici de Benefeud attornavit loco suo Adam de Benefeud' in assisa nove disseisine quam eadem Albreda arramiavit coram rege in proximo adventu suo usque Windes' tempore legali versus Simonem de Wautham et alios de tenemento in Bedefeud'.

 

Isti subscripti habent quitanciam de communibus summonicionibus coram justiciariis proximo itineraturis in comitatu Oxonie.

 

Rex justiciariis suis in proximo itineraturis in comitatu Oxon' salutem. Mandamus vobis quod occasione comunis summonicionis facte coram vobis de itinere vestro in comitatu predicto non ponatis in defaltam dilectum et fidelem Willelmum de Monte Acuto, nec in aliquo sit perdens, quia absenciam suam ei quoad hoc warantizamus. Teste me ipso apud Wodestok' xx. die Decembris.

 

Galfridus de Langel'

Baldewinus de Akeny

abbas de Westmonasterio

Petrus de Anesy

Johannes de Warenn'

abbas de Eynesham

episcopus Lincolniensis

H. de Ver' comes Oxon'

Imbertus Pogeys, senescallus regis

abbas de Rading'

Henricus filius Roberti

Willelmus Byset

magister Thomas le Barbur

Henricus Wade

Willelmus le Avener

Rogerus de Quency, comes Wintonie

Robertus de Brus

comes Heref' et Essex'

Jacobus de Aldytel'

 

Quia E. Sarrisburiensis episcopus ad mandatum regis tendit versus partes London' pro negociis regis, mandatum est G. de Preston' et sociis suis justiciariis itinerantibus in comitatu Oxon' quod occasione communis summonicionis facte coram vobis etc. ut supra.

 

In comitatu Canterbury'.—

Hugo de Dokewrth

Baldewinus de Roseye [de Rosey]

Baldewinus de Akeny

Petrus de Anesy

Aymo Turumberd

abbas de Eynesham

Nicholaus de Crioll'

abbas Sancte Marie Ebor'

Rogerus de Bello Campo

Ebulo de Montibus

Robertus le Botyler

Robertus de Insula

Margareta comitissa Lincoln'

Robertus le Botyler

abbas de Wautham

abbas de Rames'

Johannes de Bruey

Matillis de Sancto Andrea

Rogerus de Quency comes Wintonie

Jacobus de Aldithel'

 

In comitatu Huntendon'.—

abbas de Rammes'

Johannes de Bayllol'

abbas de Burgo Sancti Petri

episcopus Lincolniensis

 

In comitatu Wigorn'.—

Baldewinus de Akeny

abbas de Westmonasterio

Robertus de Panedoc

 

In comitatu Glouc'.—

abbas de Westmonasterio

G. Eboracensis archiepiscopus

Ricardus citaristes regis

abbatissa de Lacok'

Willelmus de Breus'

abbas de Maumisbyr'

prior de Bradenestok'

abbas de Eynesham

prior de Bathonia

Radulfus filius Radulfi filii Nicholai

Johannes Russel'

Mauricius de Berkel'

Rogerus de Clifton'

Mauricius de Sautmar'

Petrus de Corbet

Robertus Agwylun

Radulfus le Bret

Galfridus Gacelyn

Mauricius de Sautmarays

Galfridus de Langel'

Walterus le Botyler

 

In comitatu Berkes'.—

Petrus de Anesy

Rogerus de Mortuo Mari

Johannes de Warenn'

abbas de Certeseya

magister Henricus Luvel, cocus regine

Johannes Pollard'

Ivo de Braye

Willelmus Lovel

Nicholaus de Mol'

prior Wintonie

prior de Merton'

Willelmus de Herdwik'

Brianus de Bermingham

 

¶Southampton'.—

Johannes de Sancta Maria, capellanus regine.

 

 

Rose's Manor [aka later as: Beaufoe's Manor].

The Earl Warren's lordships in North Creak and Burnham Thorp extended into this town; Baldwin de Rosey, or de Roseto, who held considerable lands of the Earl Warren, confirmed by deed sans date, all the benefactions of his ancestors, with a mill in Creak, to the priory of Castleacre; and Roger de Rosey, in the reign of Henry III. possessed the 20th part of a fee, of the Earl Warren; (fn. 4) and in the said reign John de Cocfeld [Cokefield] and William Athelwald, held a quarter of a fee of Walter de Calthorp, and he of the aforesaid Earl.

In the 14th of Edward I. it appears by an assise, that Richard, son of Robert Adelwald, had unjustly disseized Robert, son of Richard Adelward, of a free tenement, in Suthcrek [South Creke] and Waterden, with 2 messuages, 70 acres of land, a wind-mill, and 15s. per annum rent, &c.; and in the 29th of that King, Robert seems to convey it to Richard, with lands in Sidestern and Burnham; James Athelwald held, in the 20th of Edward III. a quarter of a fee, and paid 10s. scutage, formerly John de Cockfeld's, and William Athelwald's. Thomas Athelwald of Weston, passed by fine to James, son of Edmund Athelwald of South Creak, and Joan his wife, two messuages, a toft, and 80 acres of land, and to the heirs of James; in the 3d of Edward III. and in the 7th of Henry V. Richard Athelwald of this town was lord, who married Maud, cousin and heir of Beatrix Molebisse, and Mary de Bassing, foundresses of Spiney priory in Cambridgeshire.

¶On the 3d of April, in the 26th of Henry VIII. Edward Calthorp of Kirby-Cane in Norfolk, Esq. and Thomasine his wife, sold the manor of Roses in this town, Holkham, &c. which Mrs. Elizabeth Calthorp, widow of William Calthorp, Esq. held for life, with the reversion of all the lands held by her, to John Pepys of South Creak, merchant; she was daughter of Ralph Berney of Redham. Thomas Pepys his son, by his will dated October 1, 1569, desires to be buried in this church; bequeaths to John and Roger his sons, to Susan, Elisabeth, Anne, and Barbara his daughters 40l. each, to be paid by Farmer Pepys, his son and heir, and executor. This Thomas sold this manor, July 20th, in the 8th of Elizabeth; but his son Farmer bought it by deed, dated September 30th, in the 12th of Elizabeth, of Edward Goulding, and Mirabel his wife.

The remains of Rose’s, or later called Beaufoe's, manor survive well and display a variety of features which illustrate the social status and domestic economy of the manor house in the context of a nucleated village. The wall footings and buried foundations of the house and deposits within it will contain archaeological information concerning the date of its construction and the manner and duration of its occupation, and beneath them may be preserved evidence for earlier buildings on the site. Formal gardens constructed primarily for recreation and enjoyment and associated with the houses of high status are well documented in the medieval period, but relatively few are known to survive in recognizable form, and this example, within the context of a manorial complex, is therefore of particular interest.

 

The system of fishponds is representative of a type usually associated with manors, monasteries and similar high-status sites and constructed during the medieval period for the purpose of breeding and storing fish to provide a constant and sustainable supply of food. The principal elements of the system are clearly defined by the surviving earthworks, which will retain further evidence for the sluices and other water management features which controlled the flow of water through and between the ponds, and the lower fills of the ponds are likely to include waterlogged deposits in which organic materials will be preserved. The area to the south of the gardens and fishponds, which contains at least one building platform, will retain additional information relating to the agricultural activities and services associated with the manor.

 

Wadeford House [or Hall] Farm & Mill in Chard, Combe St-Nicholas, Somersetshire England

Owned by: Philip Rossiter[died 1583] and his father Sir Richard de Roucestre Rosseter Rowcetter Rossiter of Shaftsbury & Wadeford Hall [died: Sep 3 1529]

An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 7. Originally published by W Miller, London, 1807.

Castleacre-Priory Manor.

Ralph de Wivergill gave to this priory his lands here, and Brygg mill, by deed sans date, and Simon Bishop of Norwich confirmed to them part of the tithes of Alan, son of Brian, lord in 1265. The prior, in the reign of Henry III. had the 3d part of a fee.—In the 3d of Henry IV. the prior held the manor of Sydestern Wyks, of the Earl of Arundel.

 

Baldwin de Rosey, Robert de Ysseis, and Reginald, son of William Aveline of Taterset, gave them lands here.—In the 29th of Henry VIII. the prior conveyed it, by fine, to the King, and the King to the Duke of Norfolk, as Robert, prior of Lewes, did.

 

Castleacre-Priory Manor.

In the 3d of Richard I. William, son of Matthew de Candos, gave 17s. rent in Creic; Philip de Candos gave Ringulf with his tenure, Uschetill with his tenure, Bond the priest, and Letstane his companion, (fn. 5) with their tenures, in this town, with several others here.—Witnesses, William his son, who consented to the grant, and laid the deed on the altar of St. Mary, in the sight of many, Ralph de Roseto, Ralph, de Crec, &c.; and by another deed, wherein he styles himself Philip de Crec, he grants the same things for himself, and Ralph de Roseto, of whose fee it was, Andrew, son of Walter de Suthcreke, Alice, daughter of Ulf de Creke, and mother of Robert, son of Andrew de Creke, granted lands here.

 

Bartholomew de Creke gave the monks a villain; Robert, son of Hyrdman of Cree, gave several pieces of land here to the convent.— Witnesses, Sir Hugh Bastard, Hosebert de Cailli, Yvan, son of Athelwold, and William his son.

William, son of Philip de Bodham, gave a villian, with a croft, to hold freely, saving the King's service, and paying to the ward of Dover castle 9d. q.

Baldwin de Rosei a mill and land here; Osmund de Candos 5s. rent, &c.

At the Dissolution, Thomas, prior of Castleacre, and the convent, in Michaelmas term in the 29th of Henry VIII. convey it to Thomas Duke of Norfolk, with the appropriated rectory, and the patronage of the vicarage, of this church; Ao. 15th of Elizabeth, license was granted to Francis Pepys to alien it to Richard Percy and Edmund Russel; and September 1, in 22d of James I. Robert Drury aliened it to Edward Fotherby.

By an inquisition taken October 23, in the 14th of Charles I. Henry Beke, Gent. was found to die August 21, 1638, possessed of this manor and impropriation, held of the lordship of Beaufoes in soccage.

 

The church was a rectory, valued in 1428 at 85 marks; Ralph, son of Ralph de Beaufo, gave it with all its tithes, lands, and homages, to Castleacre priory, for the soul's health of King Henry I. who brought him up, and that of his lord, King Henry II. his grandson, with the meadow at Barsham, and his wood at Stibberd. Witnesses, John, prior of Sporle, Henry, the dean of Fakenham, &c. Thomas de Beaufo confirmed, 29th Henry II. all his right therein for the souls of the said Kings, and his father Ralf:—witnesses, William de Bodham, Robert de Cherevill, &c. and Ralph de Beaufo, son of Thomas, confirmed the grant of Ralf his grandfather and Thomas his father, with all obventions:—witnesses, Simon de Pateshill, Henry, archdeacon of Sleaford, James de Poterna, Richard de Muchegross, Ralf de Stokes, Richard be Gosefeld, &c. they were itinerant justices in the reign of King Henry III. in Norfolk. Gilbert de Beaufo (reciting, that whereas there had been a controversy between him and the monks of Castleacre, about the said church) resigned all his right by the Bishop's advice, and sealed them a deed thereof:—witnesses, Roger, the archdeacon, Reginald de Warren, Ralph de Roseto: and, by another deed, he gave them two parts of the tithes of the demean of his brother. It seems that Alexander, prior of Scheldford (in Nottinghamshire, as I take it) had some grant formerly from this family of the patronage of this church, and had the Pope's bull directed to the abbots of Leicester, of Geronden, with the official of the archdeacon of Leicester, as delegates or judges, who finding the invalidity of their title, released by deed, sans date, to the convent of Castleacre, all their right therein.—The abbot and convent of Creke quit-claimed all their right in the advowson, Ao. 17th Edward II.

The Church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and was valued with the vicarage at 85 marks.

The vicarage is valued at 22l. formerly at 28 marks.

In the chancel is a mural monument:

In memory of Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Gawsell, Kt. wife of John Shene, clerk, who died 1653.

On a gravestone, with a brass plate, in the nave:

Hic jacet Johs. Felbrigg, Clericus, nuper pyebendarius de Wherwell, et persona ecclie. de Colteshale, q. obt. 1417.—

On another,

Orat. p. aiab; Johs. Norton et Christiane consortis sue, obiit 1509.

In the church formerly; p. pale, azure and gules, a lion rampant ermin; Norwich.

Thomas Denys wills, March 28th, 1457, to be buried in the church.

The temporalities of Coxford priory in 1428, valued at 12d. per anuum.

¶The priory of Hempton had 7 acres, which in the 43d of Elizabeth, Thomas Fermor, Esq. of East-Barsham, &c. demised to Richard Norton, Gent. of South Creke.

 

An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 1. Originally published by W Miller, London, 1805.

Carbonel's Manor,

¶With the advowson of St. Andrew's, belonged to Brode, in the Confessor's time, and to William Earl Warren in the Conqueror's, of whom Simon held it, the whole town being then above two miles long, and one broad, paid 11d. geld. (fn. 9) In 1194, Walkelin de Rosey gave 20s. to King Richard I. to have seizin of 12s. 7d. rent, of the service of Hervy Gorge, in such manner as Baldwin de Rosey had, when he began his journey to Jerusalem, where he died: this Baldwin was lord here, and cotemporary, if not brother, to Roger de Rossei, or de Rosseto, lord of Rose's manor in South-Creke In 1218, another Baldwin de Rosseto held it of the Earl Warren at one fee; in 1234, Robert Carbonel was lord; from about 1310 to about 1340 Henry Carbonel and Catherine his wife, had it, who held it after her husband's death to her own, which was before 1399, for then Maud, their daughter presented; it soon after divided, and one part, with the advowson, came to the Holdiches, who presented till 1571, and afterwards sold it to Sir Ralph Chaumberleyn, Knt. reserving two or three turns to the family; the other part went to William de Narburgh, whose daughter Ela married Tho. Shuldham, and had a son by him of his father's name, but he did not inherit, the manor being given by his mother to Henry Spelman, her second husband, and his heirs, and William Spelman, their son, inherited; in 1488, Henry Spelman died seized, and left it to Edmund Paston, Esq. to perform his will, at which time it was held of the Earl Warren, at the fourth part of a fee, in 1606, Francis Spelman, Esq. was lord of Carbonell's in Rockland, in which family it hath continued to this time, it being now owned by Mrs. Elizabeth Spelman of London. The leet (fee 3s. 4d.) belongs to the hundred; the fine is at the lord's will, and the eldest son is heir.

 

Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward I, File 24

340        Roger de Sancto Andrea, nephew and heir of Maud de Sancto Andrea.

Writ (missing).

Cambridge: Proof of age (undated and defective).

Ralph son of Fulk, knight, says that the said Roger is 22, which he knows by the relation of the said Maud, who died six years ago, and then told him the said Ralph was 16. He was born at Hengeston in co. Cambridge about the feast of All Saints.

John de Akeny, knight, says the same, and knows it because his brother Roger is of the same age.

Sayer de Rosey says the said Roger will be 22 the second or third day after All Saints, which he knows because he was in the wardship of the earl of Warenne, and received his land on the feast of St. Michael before, twenty-two years ago, and the said Maud who was his neighbour, gave him the report of the birth of the said Roger within eight days after.

Ralph de Dokeworth agrees, and knows it by the age of William his brother who was born the same week; and also through Walter, then vicar of Hensington, who has held the vicarage for twenty-two years.

Roger Barbedor agrees, for he was born in the same town on the feast of St. Martin in the same year, and they were always comrades; and he will be 23 on the feast of St. Martin next.

Robert Tristram agrees, and knows it because his sister Uriana had a son Robert who was 22 a little before St. Michael last.

William Erkebaud agrees, and knows it because ... he has a son Robert who was born on Sunday before the said feast of All Souls.

William de Exon', Robert Atteburi, Philip de Berkhamme, William Brun and Richard de Lammesse also agree.

Endorsed:—It is testified by the sheriff that James de Sancto Andrea as attorney for Alice de Sancto Andrea, sister and executor of Ralph de Sancto Andrea, to whom the king committed the wardship of the heir of the said Maud, said that the executors knew nothing why the king should not render the lands &c. to the said Roger.

 

Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Volume 17, Richard II.

Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1988.

 

868 Writ de feodis, 8 June 1397, 20^th Richard II [R: 1377-1400]

DORSET AND SOMERSET. Extent made at Blaneford, 23 July, 21 Richard II.

He held the under-mentioned fees pertaining to the manors of Cory Ryvell and Mertok for life, the reversion belonging to John Beauford, now earl of Somerset, and the heirs of his body.

He held the other under-mentioned knights’ fees in his demesne as of fee.

Hynton and Esseton by Wynbourne. Half a knight’s fee, held by Ralph de Hynton.

Crauford. Half a fee, held by the abbess of Tarente.

Selton by Gylyngham. A fee, occupied by William Storton.

Poureston by Gilyngham. Half a fee, held by John Wykyngge.

Milton by Gilyngham. Half a fee, formerly held by William Scammel.

Childockeford. Half a fee, held by Thomas Broke, knight, and half a fee, held by Robert Latymer, knight.

Chikerell and Westchikerell. A fourth part of a fee, held by Robert le Walsch and John Jew.

Langeton by Abbotesberi and Wynterbourne Heryng. A fourth part of a fee, held by John Jew.

Shipton Maureward by Brudport. Half a fee, held by Thomas Gorges.

Bardolveston by Puddelton. Half a fee, held by the prior of Cristchurch Twynham.

Langeton in Purbyk. Half a fee, held by Roger le Walsch and Agnes Mautravers.

Pymore. Half a fee, held by Ralph Gouys.

Kyngeston by Dorcester. A fee, held by the prior of Cristchurch Twynham.

Wynterbourne Maureward by Bere. Half a fee, held by John Maureward.

Mourbathe. Half a fee, held by John Cary, knight, the abbot of Abbotesberi and Roland Rake.

Flete. Half a fee, held by the prior of Cristchurch Twynham.

Puddelton and Billeshey. A sixth part of a fee, held by the said prior of Cristchurch and the abbot of Cerne.

The above fees pertain to the honor of the castle of Cristchurch Twynham, Hants.

Kynstanston. Half a fee, held by John Hamelyn, knight.

Plumbere. A fee, held by John de Plumbere.

Melberybubbe. A fee, held by John Rosey.

Wroxhale and Maperton. A fee, held by John de Lovel, knight.

Kyngton Ploket. A fee, held by John Sandell.

Wynterbourne Series and Hoghton. Two fees, held by Ives Fitz Warein, knight.

Melbourne Ossemond and Wodyate. A fee, held by John Brounyng and Elizabeth Cloyne.

Tollard. Half a fee, held by John Savage.

Great Crauford. A fee, held by Richard Melbourne.

The above fees pertain to the manor of Caneford.

Tore and Loueford by Pudelton. A knight’s fee, formerly held by John de Whitfeld.

Swanwyk. A knight’s fee, held by the heirs of Robert de Punsud.

Nutford. A knight’s fee, formerly held by the heirs of Ives de Storton.

Wodecote. A knight’s fee, formerly held by the heirs of Henry de Wodecote.

Corfton. A knight’s fee, formerly held by the heirs of William de Sarisbury.

The under-mentioned fees pertain to the manor of Cory Ryvell, Somerset.

Littelton by Blaneford St Mary. Half a knight’s fee, held by Stephen Derby, knight.

Gryndenham by Wolyngton. A knight’s fee, held by Walter Bluet.

Asshebrutel. A knight’s fee, held by William Seyntcler.

Andresey. A fourth part of a knight’s fee, held by Simon Forneaux, Robert Seyntcler and Thomas Contevyle.

Cory Ryvell and Capelond. A tenth part of a knight’s fee, held by Peter Courtenay, knight.

Hambrig. A fourth part of a knight’s fee, held by John Sylveyn.

Est Swell and West Swell. A knight’s fee, held by John de Urtiaco.

Northperret. A knight’s fee, held by the same John.

Langeport Westovere, Bradewey, Burton and Cory Ryvell. Half a knight’s fee, held by William Pylond.

Langeport Westovere. A thirty-second part of a knight’s fee, held by John Eustace.

Cory Ryvell. A thirty-second part of a knight’s fee, held by John Rondolf.

Langeport Westovere. A sixty-fourth part of a knight’s fee, held by John Uppehull.

Cory Ryvell. A fourth part of a knight’s fee, held by Ralph Middelneye.

Burton. A fourth part of a knight’s fee, held by John de Burton.

Cleyangre by Cokelyng. An eighth part of a knight’s fee, formerly held by William Swan.

The under-mentioned fees pertain to the manor of Mertok.

Assheboloyne. A knight’s fee, held by Hugh Pyk.

Milton Facomberge. A knight’s fee, held by Matthew Gournay, knight.

Henton. A sixteenth part of a knight’s fee, held by the heirs of Nicholas Ambesaas.

Hurst and Henton. A sixteenth part of a knight’s fee, held by Robert Coke and Lawrence Geffrey.

Mertok, Hulle and Cote. A fourth part of a knight’s fee, held by William Gonevyle and Humphrey Stafford, knights.

La Lode. A sixteenth part of a knight’s fee, held by the same William and Humphrey.

La Fenne. An eighth part of a knight’s fee held by Roland Rake.

 

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry III: Volume 4, 1247-1258. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1908.

1254, membranes 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

Sept. 3. Bordeaux.

Charter reciting that whereas the king granted to John son of Geoffrey, for his homage and service, the whole cantred of the Isles in Thomond in Ireland with advowsons of churches, return of writs and plea of withernam, saving to the king pleas of writs which ought to be pleaded before the justiciaries and all pleas of the crown ; at a rent of 43 marks a year at the exchequer of Dublin, and the service of two knights. And the said John and his heirs may build castles and set up markets, fairs and warren where they please in the said cantred, as is more fully contained in the said charter ; and in the said charter mention is made of a covenant expressed in letters patent of the said John, to wit, to make the king an exchange of the said cantred for other lands of like value, which letters are enrolled in the rolls of the Chancery;—the king has granted to the said John, for his immense and laudable service, that the said covenant and all its conditions be null and the enrolment thereof quashed and the said letters, sealed with the seal of the said John, restored to him, and grant that he and his heirs hold the said cantred with its appurtenances quit of any covenant and condition. Witnesses :— P. bishop of Hereford, Peter de Sabaudia, Roger de Monte Alto, Robert Walerand, Nicholas de Sancto Mauro, Imbert Pugeys, William Gernun and others. It is duplicated.

 

Afterwards this charter was renewed by order of the king and sealed with the great seal.

MEMBRANE 5.

Grant to Arnald de Colon, merchant of Montauban (de Monte Albano), that in his wines coming to England he may have 300 tuns of the present vintage quit of prise, save the ancient prise of 2 tuns in every ship, with mandate in pursuance to all bailiffs, chamberlains and takers of wines in England.

 

Sept. 15. Bordeaux.

 

Safe-conduct, at the instance of John Maunsell, for Bertram del Farre and Master John Lumbard, their horses, goods and men; for two years, unless war break out between the king and the king of Navarre.

Exemption, at the instance of Robert de Ibetot, of Baldwin de Rosey from being put on assizes, juries or recognitions and from being made sheriff, coroner, escheator, forester, agister or other bailiff of the king, against his will.

¶Pardon to William Columb for mortally wounding Rostand Ruffac, of his flight for the same, and of any consequent outlawry.

 

Sept. 18. Bordeaux.

Exemption, at the instance of Simon de Bello Campo, of John Bek from being put on assizes, juries or recognitions and from being made sheriff, coroner or other bailiff of the king, against his will.

The like of [Wakhelin]Wakelin de Rosey, at the instance of Stephen Lungespe [Longespee?] [grand-son of King Henry "Curtmantle" Plantagenet FitzEmpress of England II].

Pardon, at the instance of the queen, to William Langhals for the death of Michael le Suur and of his consequent flight and outlawry.

The like to Madoc de Winestonesleg for the robbery and wounding of Adam de Raynesford

 

A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds: Volume 4. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1902.

Norfolk: A. 7907. Letter of attorney by Henry Inglose, knight, to Thomas Selers, Christopher Norwich and John Wilton to deliver seisin to Walter Lyard, bishop of Norwich, John Fastolff, John Colville and Robert Conyers, knights, William Lanstrothir, preceptor of Kerbrok, knight, Edmund Wichyngham, Robert Inglose and Thomas Beaupre, esquires, William Jenney, John Parham, clerk, and Henry Wilton of the manors of Lodne and Bokenham ferye, with the advowsons of the churches of Bokenhamferye and Hasyngham with their appurtenances, Stalham called Stalham Halle, Skewriston, North Walsham, Felmyngham called Brians, Rakhith, Howgate, Salhous, South Creyk called Roseys, Kellyng, Hednham, Sislond called Walsyngford and Munddam called Mauclerkes, co. Norfolk, with their appurtenances, and of lands &c. bought by him or others to his use in the towns of Lodne, Sislond, Munddam, Sethyng, Langle, Shedgrave, Thurton, Bokenhamferye, Hasyngham, Strumpsaw, Breyston, Stalham, Skowriston, Cowetishale, Skothowe, Sloleye, North Walsham, Felmyngham, Abbot Swanton, Rakhith, Salhous, Bastewyk, Northcreyk, Southcreyk, Brunham, Berwyk, Bermers, Stanhow, and elsewhere, co. Norfolk, all of which the said bishop and others had of his gift by his charter of feoffment of even date. Lodne, 26 May, 29 Henry VI. Fragments of seal.

 

 

MEMBRANE 24.

March 3. Abingdon.

 

Commission to Master Henry de Bray and John Wogan to inquire touching all the trespasses committed against the king, the bailiff of Bergeveny and his men, after the feast of St. Martin last past, and to make speedy and sufficient amends therefor according to law and the custom of those parts; and mandate to the said bailiff, the sheriff of Hereford, the bailiffs of Geoffrey de Genevill, of Theobald de Verdun, of Ewyas, and of Edmund, the king's brother, of Monmouth and the Three Castles, to summon a jury to make the inquisition.

 

Commission of oyer and terminer to R[alph] de Hengham and R[oger] de Northwode touching the persons who broke the houses of Thomas de Normanvill at Wideford, co. Essex.

 

 

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward I: Volume 1, 1272-1281. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1901.

March 8. Down Ampney.

¶Commission to Thomas de Meteham and Robert de Baylol to inquire touching deodands in the county of York, as to whose hands they have come, and how and when and in what manner, and whose they were and by what reason and by what accident (casum), and of what value they are, and touching all the circumstances concerning the matter, taking with them the coroners of that county for making the inquisition, which is to be sent to the king in his next parliament after Easter instant.

Commission of oyer and terminer to Walter de Helyun and Roger de Burnhuil touching the persons who broke the park of Walter de Balum at Much Marcle (Magna Markeleye) co. Hereford, hunted therein, and carried away deer and other goods of the said Walter and ill treated his men.

 

Commission to William de Brayboef and Elias Cotele to deliver the gaol of Ivelcestre of Robert le Aguiller [Aguilar] of Wilton who after the last eyre in the county of Somerset was put in exigent for the death of Walkelin de Rosey and hearing a rumour thereof gave himself up to the said gaol.

 

 

 

A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 6. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1978.

WEST WICKHAM:

Manors and Other Estates.

 

The site of the manor-house, recorded in 1260, (fn. 153) and called by c. 1280 Streetly Hall, (fn. 154) was presumably at Streetly Hall Farm, ½ mile west of Streetly hamlet. Its park was mentioned in 1393. (fn. 155) It had a timber-framed farm-house, enlarged eastwards in the 18th century with a three-bay brickfronted range, which survived in 1975. The house and farm were sold c. 1911 to S. O. Webb, (fn. 156) whose family had been tenants there since c. 1800. (fn. 157) About 1912 Webb built a larger house; (fn. 158) the old farm buildings were burnt down in 1930. (fn. 159)

 

In 974 King Edgar's theign Elfhelm (d. c. 990) gave his wife 3 hides at Enhale on their marriage. (fn. 160) By 1066 1 hide there comprising ENHALE, later YEN HALL, manor belonged to King Edward's thegn Tochi, of whose successor William de Warenne it was held in 1086 by Lambert de Rosey. (fn. 161) From William's son William, earl of Surrey (d. 1138), lordship over Enhale passed to his younger son Reynold (fn. 162) (d. 1179), whose heirs were mesne lords under the earls of Surrey. (fn. 163) After 1209 Reynold's granddaughter Beatrice brought the mesne lordship, with the honor of Wormegay, to the Bardolfs, of whom Enhale was still held c. 1400. (fn. 164) Lambert de Rosey was succeeded by his son Walkelin, (fn. 165) and Ralph de Rosey (fl. 1158) (fn. 166) by his son Baldwin, (fn. 167) who went on crusade in 1189. By 1195 his land had come to Walkelin de Rosey (fn. 168) (d. 1221), who left as heir a son, Baldwin, under age. (fn. 169) Baldwin, in possession in 1242, (fn. 170) died after 1260, (fn. 171) when his lands may have passed to Walkelin de Rosey, probably his son, (fn. 172) murdered c. 1270, (fn. 173) or to Saher de Rosey, a ward of Earl John de Warenne c. 1260. (fn. 174)

 

¶By 1279 Enhale manor belonged with other Rosey estates to Sir Baldwin de Manners, (fn. 175) who was granted free warren there in 1291, was lord in 1316, (fn. 176) and died without issue in 1320. Baldwin's widow Joan sought dower in Enhale in 1321, (fn. 177) but Baldwin had in 1311 granted the reversion of other Cambridgeshire manors, and perhaps of Enhale, to Sir John Botetourt (fn. 178) (d. 1324): by 1331 Joan, widow of Botetourt's son Thomas (d. 1322), held Enhale. (fn. 179) When Joan died in 1338 Enhale descended to her son Sir John, later Lord Botetourt, (fn. 180) who held it in 1346 and 1359, (fn. 181) but had alienated it before he died in 1385. (fn. 182)

 

 

In King William's time (of Domesday Book), Baldwin holds a

farm of William — two hides in Lamva Hundrech' "There is land

* Its general prevalence very likely dates from the Crusades, and the then popular Baldwins. The name may first have been applied to such fortunate boldness as has given Mr. E. S. Baldwin, the present well known millionaire of San Frantisco,'the Hohriquet of " Baldwin, the Lucky."

 

Early Baldwins of County Bucks, England.

to one plough and a half, and they are three with one villane, an. one bordar meadow ior one plough. In the whole it is and was worth twenty shillings. He, himself, held it in King Edward's time, and might sell it."

 

In Mosleie Hundred, "Baldwin holds of William, in Cicelai (Chichley), three hides for one manor. I'here is land to three ploughs. There is one in the desmesne ; * and five villaues,t with four bordars, t have two ploughs. Meadow for one plough.

Pannage || for one hundred hogs. It is and always was worth forty shillings. He, himself, held it in King Edward's time, and might sell it."'

 

 

THE TOPOGRAPHY OF MEDIAEVAL ERISWELL - By THE REVD. J. T. MUNDAY,MA

[Pg 209] The proportion of freemen was high in Suffolk, but not one was listed in Eriswell. In the cartulary of Colchester Abbey, a document (p. 150) of about 1190 gives the names of five men who owned extra-manorial land in Eriswell.

One of these, Baldwin the Steward, [Latin: Baldwini dapiferi]  de Rochester [de Rosei de Roffa de Roucestre, aka: Baldewinus de Rossay] at about the same date [1190] requested a decision from the Knights of the Shire (Rot. Cur. Regis) about his ownership of thirty acres of ware-land in Eriswell. Another, Everard, appeared before the Knights in a similar dispute about sixty acres (not specifically named ware-land). The possibility that some at least of the five men's holdings had been ware land at the time of Domesday is strengthened by the fact that our duplex manor only paid 17d. in geld in contrast with the 20d. of neighbouring communities (leaving, one supposes,3d. to be paid direct by someone to the Hundred).

Before 1066 Manor at Eriswell held by Godwin [Godwin was made 1st Earl of Wessex I], thane of King Edward the Confessor.

1086 Domesday Book - manor held by Eudo Odo Dapifer the King's Steward;

c.1200 Manor of Eriswell held by Baldwin dapiferi ‘The Steward of the King’ de Rochester [de Rosei de Roffa de Roucestre, aka: Baldewinus de Rossay] (main residence Newsells, Hertfordshire);

1235 Passes to Baldwin’s son William de Rochester [de Roucestre];

1248 passes to William’s brother Peter de Rochester; aka Peter de Rossa, parson of Rivenhall and lord of the manor of Cressing, who assumed the dress of the Templars a little before his death in 1255, (fn. 2) granted to them over a hundred acres of land in Rivenhall; and in return they maintained a chaplain to pray for his soul in their free chapel at Witham. They also maintained three chaplains to pray for the souls of other benefactors in their chapel at Cressing; the first celebrating on three days of the week for John de Staundone and on four days for the founders, the counts of Boulogne, the second for Peter de Toppesfeld, and the third for Peter the clerk.

The manor of Cressing with the advowson of the church was granted to the Knights Templars by Maud, queen of Stephen and heiress of the counts of Boulogne, by a charter dated at Evreux in 1136, and confirmed to them by a charter of Stephen near the close of his reign. The same king and queen and their son, count Eustace of Boulogne, also granted to them the manor and half-hundred of Witham by charters which are witnessed by Gilbert, earl of Pembroke, and can therefore be assigned to the years 1138-1148. The church of Witham was, however, excepted, having been previously granted to the church of St. Martin-le-Grand, London. This preceptory, which is generally spoken of as Cressing, but sometimes as Cressing and Witham, was therefore among the very earliest of the possessions of the military orders in England. It is placed first in the detailed list (fn. 1) of the lands of the Templars, with the names of donors and of tenants, which was drawn up in 1185.

1255 Passes to son Henry de Rochester then to his son Sir Ralph de Rochester who dies without issue, leaving Eriswell to his wife Eva de Pecche [?], the daughter and heir of Gilbert de Pecche and niece of Hamon de Pecche [???]; by 1269 Eva de Pecche [?] marries Sir Robert de Tuddenham.

"The manor of Rivenhall [Ravenhill, for Ravenel, from Ravenel, near Beauvais and Clermont, in the Beauvoisin] formed part of the possessions of Editha, the queen of Edward the confessor; and at the time of the general survey, belonged to the earl of Boulogne; and an heiress of that family, by marriage to king Stephen, conveyed it to the crown. In the time of King John, in 1210, these lands were in the possession of Ralph de Roffa, or Roucester: William, Peter, and Alice were his children. The two brothers, on the death of the father, came successively to his possessions; but, both dying childless, Alice the sister became the heir, and by marriage conveyed them to Robert de Scalariis, or scales, descended from Scalier, one of William the conqueror's warriors. ..."

 

In the 25th of Edward I., Robert de Scales held half a Knight's fee here, in capite. He was son of Robert de Scales, by Alice his wife, daughter of Sir Ralph de Rochester; and died in the 33rd of that reign [1272]. Eva, the other daughter of Sir Ralph, by Maud his wife, daughter of Sir Hamon Peche, married Sir Robert Tudenham; who deceased in the 4th of Edward II [1288].; and between these daughters Sir Ralph's large possessions became divided. ..."

Eriswell Hall is located behind Eriswell Hall barns. It has a ... c.1200, Manor of Eriswell held by Baldwin de Rochester (main residence Newsells, Hertfordshire).

Sir Robert de Scales's [-D:1369]  main residence was at Rivenhall in Essex but also held Newsells and Berkway in Hertfordshire, Magna Leigh in Essex, Haslingfield in Cambridgeshire, Wrethlington and Tremeleye in Suffolk, Wilton, Barton Bendish, Hickling, Ilsington, Howe, Middleton, Pudding Norton, Gateley, Tylney, Herewych and Reinham in Norfolk and Berton [Berton Binnedich Manor, Norfolk?] in Gloucestershire.

 

Baldewini de Rovecestria also held estates in Rivenhall [aka Ruenhala, Rewenhale] in Essex

Another possible channel: Sir [Chevalier] Guillain de Rossay 25 July 1288

GREAT BEALINGS MANOR.

In more recent times there were two manors in Great Bealings, the principal lordship and that of Seckford Hall Manor. The former held by Hervey de Bourges passed to Gilbert de Peche, and was held by Sir Hugh de Pecche in the time of Edward I. ; for in 1285 Sir Hugh had a grant of free warren here/ and dying in 1292* was succeeded by another Hugh de Peche, who died about 1310,* and was succeeded by Eva his sister, wife of Sir Robert de Tuddenham, son of Sir John de Tuddenham by Lady Joan Charles, his wife. Sir Robert died about 1308, and his widow Eva in 1311, 7 when the manor passed to his son and heir, Sir Robert de Tuddenham, who married Catherine, daughter of John de Patshull, and sister and coheir of William de Patteshall or Patshull, of Northamptonshire, and died about 1352, a leaving his widow, who survived till 1383, for this is the date of her will, which was proved i6th June the same year. Their eldest son, Robert, died a minor in 1337," and the manor passed to his cousin, Sir Robert de Tuddenham, son of Thomas de Tuddenham. Sir Robert de Tuddenham died in 1362, when he was succeeded by his son, Sir John de Tuddenham, who was a minor at the time of his father's death, and consequently the King twice presented to the living of the church by reason of his having the custody of the lands during minority. 10  Sir John was Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1383. He married Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert (and sister and coheir of Sir John) Wey- land, and widow of Sir Thomas de Graunison.

GRUNDISBURGH HALL MANOR.

This was vested in Sir Hugh du Pecche, Knt., in 1270.   He claimed a market and fair, and fret warren here in 1285. 5 On his  death in 1292* the manor passed to his son and heir, Sir Hugh du Pecche, who  died about 13107 when it went to his sister and heir, Eva du Pecche, who married  Sir Robert de Tuddenham, and from this time to the time of Sir Edmund  Bedingfield in 1528 the devolution of the manor is the same as thai of Great  Bealings, in this Hundred.   The last-mentioned Sir Edmund Bedingfield evidently disposed of the manor, for amongst the Chancery Proceedings of the time of Queen Elizabeth we find an action by Thomas Pells and Francis Pells to complete a sale of  this manor made by Edmund Bedingfield, deceased, to the plaintiffs and  others. 8   The manor is specifically mentioned in the inquisition post mortum of Eva de Tuddenham, who died in 1311,' also of Sir Robert Tuddenham, who died in  1337,' Sir Robert Tuddenham," Sir John Tuddenham,

12 Margery Tuddenham,

13 Sir Thomas Tuddenham,

14 Margaret Bedingfield,

15 and Sir Thomas  Bedingfield.

16   In 1591 a fine was levied of the manor by John Pells against Anthony  Gosnold and others,

17 and in 1609 the lordship was held by Robert Gosnold.  In 1688 it had passed to Sir William Blois, Knt., the son of William Blois,  by Frances, daughter of John Tye, of Ipswich, which William Blois died  loth Jan. 1621, and was the son of William Blois and Alice his wife, daughter  of William Nottingham, which last-mentioned William Blois died in 1607,  and was the son of Richard Blois, who died in 1559, by Elizabeth his wife,  daughter of Roger Hill, of Needham.

 

 

Manorial Estate: Newsells Manor, Barkway, Royston, Hertfordshire, SG8, GB. 1 Members of the Merk family were the immediate tenants of the manor in the 12th century. A Eustace de Merk was witness to the charter of Count Eustace [of Boulogne] confirming Barkway Church to Colchester Abbey, and as others of the same family were elsewhere tenants of the Counts of Boulogne it appears possible that he was already tenant of Newsells under the count. A Sir Eustace de Merk, kt., who was living in the reign of Richard I, was styled 'lord of Newsells' and founded a chapel at Royston within this lordship. He is probably identical with the 'Eustace de Oye, son of Henry de Merk,' living in April 1190. Sir Eustace de Merk, kt., was also styled 'de Rochester' and was succeeded as tenant (apparently within his own lifetime) by his nephew Ralph de Rochester. This Ralph had been preceded by a 'Baldwin de Rochester,' presumably the Baldwin de Rochester who witnessed a charter of Henry father of Eustace 'de Oye' and perhaps a son of the same Henry. In this case Ralph would be son of Baldwin de Rochester.

Newsells was the 'caput' of the barony which Ralph de Rochester held of the honour of Boulogne. Ralph's son and heir William de Rochester died shortly before 24 October 1249 and was succeeded by his brother Peter de Rochester, parson of Rivenhall, co. Essex. Shortly before his death Peter took the habit of a Knight Templar. On the Saturday before Ascension Day, 1255, as he lay on his death-bed he granted Newsells Manor to his sister Alice widow of Robert de Scales, making her swear to provide a chaplain to celebrate for his soul, or in case of his recovery to compensate him from her own lands in Cambridgeshire. He died on the Ascension Day following. At the outbreak of the Barons' War Alice Scales was residing at Newsells and was there robbed of goods and chattels worth £50 by the bailiff of Gilbert Earl of Gloucester. In 1264, she subenfeoffed her youngest son Roger Scales of Wetherden of the manor; but in 1270 it was agreed between Roger and Alice that the former's tenure should be for life only. In the same year Robert son of Roger's elder brother Robert, heir to the manor under the new settlement, obtained a grant of a weekly market on Tuesdays and an eight days' fair beginning on the vigil of the feast of St. Mary Magdalene. This Robert was the first Lord Scales and married Isabel Burnell, possibly a relative of Robert Burnell, Bishop of Bath and Wells, the chancellor and adviser of Edward I. Roger Scales transferred to the bishop his life interest in Newsells Manor before the end of the year 1271.

 

Also refer: EVA LATE THE WIFE OF ROBERT DE TODENHAM [de Tuddenham]. Writ, 24 Jan. [5] Edw. II. Inq. made at Ereswell SUFFOLK ….. 5 Edw. II.

[Ereswell.] The manor (extent given) with the advowson of the church, was held by service of 2 knights’ fees of the king in chief as of the honour of Boulogne by Ralph de Rouecestre, who thereof enfeoffed Hamo son ……, who reenfeoffed the said Ralph (and Eva his wife?), and if it should happen that the said Ralph should die without heirs ………. the manor &c. should remain to the said Eva and …….; and (the said Ralph) died without heirs of the body of the said Eva, who survived and married the said Robert; and by agreement between them, Robert de Weston and Hawis his wife, sister and heir of the said Ralph, granted the said manor and advowson to the said Robert de Todenham and Eva to hold to them and [the heirs of their bodies, of the said] Robert and Hawis and the heirs of the said Hawis, paying …… and doing to the chief lords (the services due). By reason of which fine the said Robert de Todenham [de Tuddenham] did fealty to ….. Descales, kinsman and heir of the said Hawis; and after the decease of the said Robert the said Eva continued seised of the said manor until her death.

[Robert, son of the said Robert] de Todenham [de Tuddenham] and Eva, aged 32 and more, is her next heir.

 

 

 

 

From: A General Introduction to Domesday Book: Accompanied by Indexes of the...

“Baldvinus quidam serviens regis, Herf[ordshire?]t 142” [Baldwin, a servant of the king]-mention a reference to this person in a manuscript relating to Waltham Abby, in a chronological succession of events, says, “AD 1084. Rex Angulorum Willielmus fratrem suum, Odoem Baiocensem Episcopum, custodia posuit.”

Balduinus, Glou.170. Northampt.219 [1] Linc. 370 [2]

Waltham Abby & Baldvinus quidam serviens regis, Hertf 142.

Balduinus Vicomes, [3] Dors. 81. Dev. 105b. v. Execestre.

Balistarius, Heppo, Linc. 369.

Balistarius, Nicolaus, Dev. 117. [4]. Warw. 238. [5]

Balistarius, Odardus, Surr. 36b.

Balistarius, Odo, Yorksh. 298. [6]

 

[1] This entry is in the town of Northampton, ‘Balduinus (haet] dimid. mansionem vastam.”

[2] Of the lands put down to Balduinus, it is said, ‘Haec terra omnis pertinet ad Donintune [illeg symbol] S. Peri Westmon. hanc tenet Balduinus de Rege. Abbas vero clamat ad opus S. Petri, testimonio hominum totius comitatus.’

[3] He is one of the sons of Gilbert Earl of Brion [who was murdered in Normandy]. This Baldwin, who was one of the King’s Generals in the Battle of Hastings, was called Baldwin the Molis, Baldwin de Brion and Baldwin de Sap, and sometimes, at a later period, Baldwin de Exeter. He had a Barony of Okehampton [Ochementome], which was his chief seat, and the Castle of Exeter, which he had built at the King’s command. His father, Earl Gilbert, was the son of Godfrey Earl of Ewe, a natural son of Richard Duke of Normandy, the Conqueror’s grandfather. Lysons, Mag. Brit. Dev. p.1.note.

[4] Eight out of eleven estates here entered had belonged to one Ordric.

 

Identify who: Balduinus de Roseio is.

SERVIENS DOMINI REGIS = In old English law. King’s Serjeant; a public officer, who acted sometimes as the sheriff’s deputy, and had also judicial powers.

"BARTON"

William de Roucester [de Roucestre] died possessed of it in the 33d of Henry III. son of Ralph de Roucestre, and it came to Sir Robert Tudenham, by the marriage of Eva de Pecche[?], relict of Ralph de Roucester, son of Henry, brother and heir of William de Roucestre, who died s. p. This was also held of the earls of Clare; and, in the 54th of Henry III. Sir Robert Tudenham, and Eva his wife, granted it, by sine, to Robert de Weston, and Hawilia de Roucestre his wife, sister of Ralph de Roucestre, son of Sir Henry de Roucestre de Merc, (which they held in dower of the inheritance of Hawisia) in exchange for the manor of Ereswell in Suffolk; but, in the 1st of Edward I. the said Sir Robert, &c. conveyed it to Gilbert de Well, and Maud his wife."

Bekesbourne [Bekesborne] Manor, Canterbury in Kent, England

6 EDWARD II [1313] - Richard de Roucestre to settle Bekesbourne Manor on himself for life, with remainder to John de Cobeham and his heirs. Kent. Document in  The National Archives, Kew ref: C 143/91/12

The MANOR OF BEKESBORNE, antiently called Livingsborne, from one Levine, a Saxon, who held it in the time of king Edward the Confessor, and from the small bourn or stream which runs through it, came, after the Norman conquest, into the possession of Odo, bishop of Baieux, under the general title of of whose lands it is thus entered in the survey of Domesday:

The same bishop of Baieux holds in demesne Burnes. It was taxed at two sulings. The arable land is six carucates. In demesne there are two, and twenty-five villeins, with four borderers having seven carucates. There is a church and six servants, and one mill of thirty-eight pence, and one saltpit of thirty pence, and half a fishery, of four pence. Of pasture forty pence. Wood for the pannage of six hogs and an half. Levine held it of king Edward.

In the time of king Edward the Confessor it was worth twelve pounds, and afterwards seven pounds, now twelve pounds, and yet it pays eighteen pounds. What Hugo de Montfort holds is worth five shillings. These three manors (viz. this manor, and Hardres and Stelling, both immediately before described) Rannulf (de Columbels) holds to ferme of the bishop of Baieux.

Four years after this, the bishop being disgraced, this manor, among the rest of his possessions, became confiscated to the crown, of which it was afterwards held by a family of the name of Beke, whence it acquired the name of Bekesborne likewise, and in king Henry III.'s reign William de Beke appears by the Testa de Nevil to have held this place, called in it, Bernes, then valued at ten pounds, in grand sergeantry, by the service of finding one ship for the king, when he passed the seas, and a present to him of three marcs. From this name it passed into that of Bourne; for I find that Walter de Bourne was possessed of it in the 37th year of king Edward III. and he sold it to Walter Doget, whose son John passed it away to John Cornwallis, John Weston, and Thomas Thornbury, and they anno 5 Henry IV. joined in the sale of this manor, and the advowson of the chantry adjoining to the lands of it, called Bourne's chantry, to John Browne, plumber, of Canterbury, who in the 1st year of king Henry VI. alienated it to William Bennet and Thomas Cadbury, and they again joined in the sale of this manor to archbishop Chicheley, and his trustees, and they in the 22d year of that reign conveyed it to the priory of Christ-church, in Canterbury, and prior Goldston, in king Henry VII.'s reign, rebuilt the prior's apartment here, and the chapel adjoining, dedicating it to the Annunciation and the patron of this church. He likewise built the hall adjoining to the prior's dormitory, and all the other buildings there, except the lodge and the two barns. And in this state it continued till the suppression of the priory in the 31st year of king Henry VIII. when it came into the king's hands, who, in his 32d year, granted it, with the prior's house, called Christchurch-house, and all other his estates in this parish, (except advowsons) in exchange, to Thomas Colepeper, senior, esq. of Bedgbury, to hold in capite by knight's service, (fn. 5) and he, by an act passed in the 35th year of that reign, specially for the purpose, exchanged it for the manor of Bishopsborne, and other premises, with archbishop Cranmer, to hold in free, pure, and perpetual alms. After which the archbishop made this house one of his palaces for his retirement, for which purpose he made considerable buildings at it, and probably would have done more, had he continued in the prelacy; (fn. 6) and archbishop Parker, who took great delight in the situation, intended further to enlarge it, but he died before he began his purpose of it. After which, in the time of the civil wars, in Charles I.'s reign, this palace was not only pillaged, but almost the whole of it pulled down by the fanatics of that time, so that the gatehouse and a few of the offices on each side of it, were all that were left remaining, which after the restoration were converted into a dwelling, and demised by the archbishop, with the demesnes of the manor, on a beneficial lease, Robert Peckham, esq being the present lessee, and residing in it. The house has lately been much modernized. But the manor of Bekesborne itself, his grace the archbishop retains in his own hands.

de Rovencestre [de Roucestre] - Family tree 1050-c.1500's

 

The family name morphing as it did perhaps this might be the original derivation indicating the family was from Rouen and not Rochester as previously surmised.

Raoul de Rovencestre – recorded as being given fiefdom of Lenault, after Battle of Caen August 1047. One assumes since this fiefdom is recorded in this family that there is a familial relationship between Raoul and Turold de Rovencestre. Also this Raoul was recorded as being the Constable of Rochester Castle in England at, or after, this time.

Turold de Rovencestre [de Rouvencestre], Châtelain de Rochester (England). ca 1050-/1110, also Connétable de Bayeux [Calvados, Normandy]

              Individual Note:

So in Domesday, 6 6, 7, we find " Radulfus filius Turaldi de Rovecestre as a tenant of Bishop Odo in Kent. In 1086, however, it is stated that Dernic held the manor of CHALDON of King Edward, and at the time of the Domesday Survey it was held by Ralph FitzTurold of Odo Bishop of Bayeux. (fn. 9) With other lands held by Ralph FitzTurold of the Bishop of Bayeux it is subsequently found attached to the honour of Rochester Castle. Turoldus et Ansgotas de Rovecestre figurent comme arrière-tenants dans le Domesday Book (Ellis t. II, p. 385) ; ils étaient les vassaux de l'évêque de Bayeux Eude dans son comté de Kent. Ce Raoul de Rouvencestre, que nous retrouvons (p. 18, 1. 27) comme l'un des tenants de l'honneur du Plessis-Grimoult, est probablement le fils de Turoldus (Bulletin de la Société des antiquaires de Normandie).

 

Chaldon Manor [Tandridge District, Surrey, England]- Chaldon Manor aka: Chalvedune] was described in the Domesday Survey (1086) as being “2 hides. Land for 2 ploughs; they are in Lordship. A church.” A ‘hide’ is defined as the amount of land that supports one family and can be ploughed by a team of eight oxen in a year, and while the actual area of a hide varied, an estimate of 100 – 120 acres is often used. In ‘Lordship’ is defined as meaning the land owned by a tenant in chief (someone who held it directly from the king) and also sometimes refers to the fact that they farmed it directly rather than it being farmed by peasants.

Chaldon was a sub-Manor of Banstead, and the Banstead Court Rolls from the 14th to the 17th century show the tithing man of Chaldon attending to pay the dues of the tenants of Chaldon.  The amounts paid show that there were just eight households in Chaldon Manor paying the fees for much of the 17th century.

There has been a manor house in Chaldon since at least 1275, probably much earlier, and it is assumed that this has been on the site of Chaldon Court beside the church. Most of the existing building of Chaldon Court has been dated (by dendrochronology – measuring the tree rings in the timbers – undertaken in 2013) to 1366, and some significant alterations were made to the building in about 1600 including adding fireplaces and chimneys, and then 18th and 19th century alterations made while it was a tenanted farmhouse.

 

1^st C: [Ralph, Raoul] Radulfus Raoul I FitzTurold de Rovencestre, Seigneur de MONDÉSERT, born before 1070. [Ralph] Radulfus Raoul FitzTurold de Rovencestre, born before 1070, deceased after 1133, Seigneur Raoul de Mondésert. Also he was captain of Rochester Castle in Kent, England, from where comes his last name. The fiefdom of Lénault was hereditary, it is the eldest son who takes over.

2^nd C: Richard FitzTurold [alias fitzThorold, fitzTurolf], (died after 1103–06) (alias fitzThorold, fitzTurolf) was an eleventh-century Anglo-Norman landowner in Cornwall and Devon, mentioned in the Domesday Book. In the 13th century his estates formed part of the Feudal barony of Cardinham, Cornwall,[2] and in 1166 as recorded in the Cartae Baronum his estates had been held as a separate fiefdom from Reginald, Earl of Cornwall

 

Richard FitzTurold’s son was:

William FitzRichard of Cardinham, mentioned in deeds in 1110 and 1130, date of death unknown. It has been suggested that William's daughter and heiress Beatrix became the wife of Reginald, Earl of Cornwall.

C: Gislebert FitzTurold [alias fitzThorold, fitzTurolf]

Naissance: La paroisse de Pierres est concédée la famille De Rouvencestre vers 1217, originaire du Comté de Kent. Cette famille faisait partie des vassaux de Eudes évêque de Bayeux et demi frère de Guillaume Le Conquérant.

Sources: Arnaud BAILLEUL-RABUSTIERE (lezenor)

Helton de Rovencestre [son of Raoul de Rovencestre b. before 1070- d. after 1133], born before 1103, deceased after 1153, Connétable de Eudes et de Bayeux, Seigneur de Saint Cristot et Lénault

Son of Helton: [Ralph] Raoul II de Rovencestre, Seigneur de Saint Cristot et Lénault, Born about 1165 -Deceased before 1210, Connétable.

Son of Raoul II:

William Guillaume de Rovencestre, Seigneur de Pierres (born 1195-1250)

              C: Richard de Rovencestre b: before 1225

Richard de Rovencestre, born before 1225- deceased ca               , Seigneur de Lénault et de Saint-Pierre-la-Vieille

              M: Married to Pétronille de JUVIGNY, 1235 - deceased in 1279

              C: Raoul III de Rovencestre, deceased about 1321, M: Philippine de LONGUES

              C: Jean de Rovencestre, M: ??, C: Raoul de ROVENCESTRE, Jehannette de ROVENCESTRE [M: YON du JARDIN}

              C: Jeanne de Rovencestre – M: N de Val-Bardoul [Bardolf, Bardolph?]

 

Raoul III de Rovencestre, deceased about 1321, Chevalier, Seigneur de Gournay et de Sainte Marie de Lesnault

              M: Married to Philippine de LONGUES ca 1255-1321

Memoirs of the Société des Antiquaires de Normandie n ° 564: Raoul de Rovencestre, Ecuyer, Seigneur de Gournay, gave the priory of Plessis, in 1302, a rent of 20 tournament floors, to be taken from Jean Guillebert de Lacy, whose product must be kept until his death to properly celebrate his birthday.

Memories of the society of the antique dealers of Normandy, n ° 546: Philippine, lady of Longues, widow of Raoul de Rovencestre, Knight, Lord of Gournay and Sainte Marie de Lesnault, gives; in 1321, at the priory of Plessis, several rents and royalties to be affiliated as a sister to the religious of said priory.

Richard III de ROVENCESTRE, Chevalier, Seigneur de l'Esnault, Seigneur de Pierres (Calvados). ca 1295-1327

              M: Berthaud de BRAY

C: Nicole de ROVENCESTRE

   Thomas de ROVENCESTRE, born about 1326

Archives Antiquaires Normands: N ° 513: Richard de Rovencestre, squire, lord of Lesnault and de gournay, eldest son of Raoul de Rovencestre, knight and nephew of John de Rovencestre, confirms, in 1327, all the donations made by his ancestors to the priory du Plessis.

Thomas de ROVENCESTRE, born about 1326, deceased, Seigneur de Pierres, Connétable, Seigneur de Rully (Calvados) , Seigneur de Pierres (Calvados)

M: [ Married in 1356 to] de BRAY, Dame de Vassy - dame de Rully, (Parents : M Berthaud de de Vassy de BRAY &  F X X) with

Jean Guillaume de ROVENCESTRE born about 1360, deceased about 1427 aged about 67 years old, Ecuyer, Seigneur de Rully Children:

              M: Jeanne Le Chevalier  [the KNIGHT] d: c.1438

C:           Jeanne de Rovencestre, Dame de Pierres.

Married: Thomas, Lord de Vaudry de Banville, Sgr de Roullours

              Children:

i)                    Guilliaume William de Banville

ii)                   Jean IV Lord de Vaudry de Banville, Sgr de Roullours

iii)                 Perrine de Banville

iv)                 Richard de Banville

 

a.       Chardine de ROVENCESTRE Dame de Saint-Christophe-de-Rully (Calvados) ca 1404-/1434.

Married: Guillaume ‘William’ [ca 1395-1479],seigneur de Lambosne de La BIGNE, sgr de Saint Christophe de Rully

Children:

i)                    Bertrand [1425-ca 1480],seigneur de Lambosne de La BIGNE, sgr de Rully

 

b.      Thomine de ROVENCESTRE ca 1417-1455/ Married in 1440, Saint-Denis-de-Méré, 14110, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France, to sosa Raoul II RADULPH, Sieur de Cailly (Saint-Denis-de-Méré - Calvados). ca 1411-1455 with

                             C: Thomas RADULPH, Sieur de Cailly (Saint-Denis-de-Méré - Calvados). 1440-

c.       Richard de ROVENCESTRE 1380- Married to Agnès du BUR with

             

Richard de ROVENCESTRE Born in 1380 - Pierres, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France

              Sire de Pierres

              M: Agnès du BUR

              C: Jeanne de ROVENCESTRE † ca 1450 Married 1411 to Thomas II de BANVILLE, Lord de Banville, Governor of the town de Vire and Chateau de Vire ca 1390- having three children:

                             Guillaume ‘William’ III de BANVILLE ca 1425-

Married to Catherine FORTIN ca 1430-  with children:

                                           Louise de BANVILLE ca 1450-

                                           Richard de BANVILLE

                                           Jean de BANVILLE chevalier, Sgr de de Banville, Vaudry, Pierres, Roullours, etc., lieutenant général pourle Roi aux bailliages de Caen, d'AIençon et du Cotentin par lettres patentes du 26 août 1467

Married: Philippine du Merle

              C: Marguerite de ROVENCESTRE, Married about 1420 to Bertrand le CORDIER 1390-  with

                             Gilette le CORDIER 1445-  Married to Jean le DEVIN ca 1440-ca 1537  with:

                                           Gilette le DEVIN ca 1475-

                            Jean le CORDIER ca 1457-  Married to Louise de BANVILLE ca 1450-  with:

                                           Eustache (Bertrand) le CORDIER ca 1480-

              C: Nicole de la ROUVENCESTRE  Married to Jean de VILETTE  with

                             Françoise de VILETTE  Married to Jean BUSNOUST  with:

                                           Jeanne BUSNOUST

                                          

Louise de Banville’s father: Guillaume ‘William’ III de BANVILLE ca 1425- Married to Catherine FORTIN ca 1430- with:

                            Child: Louise de BANVILLE ca 1450-

                             Eustache (Bertrand) le CORDIER ca 1480- Married to X X with :

Child: Jacques le CORDIER †1573/

Jacques le CORDIER, Deceased after 1573, Écuyer sieur de la Malherbière et Frédouit

Jacques le CORDIER married: Madeleine de THOURY [Married 3 January 1556] (Parents: Jean L'Aîné de THOURY ca 1485-/1553 & Jeanne de BORDEAUX) (see note) with

Child: Marie le CORDIER ca 1550-1608/ Married in 1571 to Pierre de SAINT-GERMAIN 1555-/1605 with

Jacqueline de SAINT-GERMAIN †1631/ Married to Jean LETAINTURIER ca 1570-ca 1607 with :

Marie LETAINTURIER ca 1600-1674/

Ancilliary notes supporting the above:

Property

1217 Pierres, Calvados, Lower Normandy, France

The parish of Pierres is conceded the family de Rouvencestre around 1217, originally from the County of Kent. This family was part of the vassals of Eudes bishop of Bayeux and half-brother of Guillaume Le Conquérant.

 

1302

Raoul de Rovencestre [D: 1321], squire, lord of Gournay gives the priory of Plessis, in 1302, a rent of 20 tournament soils, to take on Jean Guillebert de Lacy, whose product must be kept until his death to celebrate his birthday with dignity.

1401

Jean de Rovencestre [B: 1356-   ] confesses his land of Rully to his overlord Estienne de Brieux, lord of Saint-Christophe d'Enfernet.

 

1407

Richard de Rovencestre, knight, lord de LesnauIt, declares before the Sénéchal de Montchauvet, in 1407, he will do homage due to the priory of Plessis, also because of Jehan [Jean] de Rovencestre's gift.

1419

Its goods confiscated by the English, invaders of Normandy, were returned to him after homage and a time was granted to him to acknowledge it. But his submission was only apparent, or at least temporary.

 

1520

No.. 645. Jean de Roveucestre, knight, lord of the Ribauderie, son of Richard de Rovencestre, knight, lord of Lesuault, gives, in 1520, to the religious of Plessis-Grimould, all the led ^ vances and rentes which were due to Arclais.

Surnames - variations

 Surnames:

Atwater =     Atwater Water de la Water de l'Eau

d'Aubigny =     d'Aubigny d'Aubeney d'Albini d'Albany Daubeny Daubeney

d’Audley =     d’Audley Audley Aldithel Alditheley Dudley[?]

d'Aumale =     d'Aumale Albermale

de Ballon =     de Ballon de Balun de Baalun de Balloon de Bullen Bulleyne Boelyn

Bailey =     Bailey Baylie Bayley

de Basset =     de Basset de Bassett refer also d’Ouilly: viz: d’Ouilly-le-Basset

de Beaufou =     de Beaufou de Beauffou de Beaufoy de Bellofago

de Beaulieu =     de Beaulieu Beaulieu Bellew Beaulieu de Bellaqua Bellewe

de Beaumont =     de Beaumont de Bellmont de Bellomont

Bellers =             Bellers Beller Beler Belers

le Boteler =     le Boteler Butler Botiller le Botiler le Botiller

de Bourchier =     de Bourchier Boucher Boussier

de Boisly =     de Boisly de Boilly

de Bois =     de Bois de Boyes de Boies

de Bohun =     de Bohun Bohun de Boun

Booth =                     Booth Boothe Bouthe Bothe Bothes

de Braose =     de Braose Braose de Brewes de Briwere

Brooksby =     Brokesby Brokesbie Brooksby

de Bruce =     de Bruce Bruce de Brus

de Burghersh =     de Burghersh Burghasshe de Burwassh de Burgherssh de Burghesshe de Burgers

de Burge =             de Burge Burges

de Bussey =     de Bussey de Busli de Builly de Bussei

de Cantilupe =     de Cantilupe de Cantelowe de Cauntelo

de Champernon =     de Champernon de Champernoun de Chambernon de Champernowne Chapman

de Cheney =             de Cheney de Cheyne de Chesney de Cayneto de Caisneto

de Clare =             de Clare de Clere de Santo Claro Sinclair Saint-Clare Saint-Clere Saint-Claire

de Corbie =     de Corbie de Corby

de Cornouaille=     de Cornouaille of Cornwall

de Crequy =     de Crequy de Cresecques de Crecques

de Creke =     de Querceto de Creke de Crec de Creake de Creek Creyke Crayke

de Criol =     de Criol de Kyriel

de Cruse =     de Cruse de Cruis de Cruwys

de Culpepper =     de Culpepper de Colepepper de Colspore de Culspore

Dapifer [steward]=     Dapifer Dapiferi

Deincourt =     Deincourt d'Incourt d'Eincourt d'Aincourt d'Eynecourt

d'Engaine =     d'Engaine de Engaine d'Engayne

Esmonde =     Esmonde Estmound d'Ezmondiis

de Flanders =     de Flanders Flandre de Flandre of Flanders van Vlaanderen

de Freke =     de Freke Freck Freake Frakes

de Galoupe =     de Galoupe de Gulafre

de Ghistelles =     de Ghistelles de Gistel

Gilford =     Gilford Guildford Guilford Guleford Guylforde

de Hastings =     de Hastings de Hastang

de Hayles =     de Hayles de Haelen de Hales de Halys de Hele Hele Heale Healy

de Hauteville =     de Hauteville d'Altavilla d'Altavilla

Kelloway =             de Cailly de Clauilla le Calewe Chailleway de Kellaway Kelloway de                                                         Cayllewaye de Kayleway

Knollys =     Knollys Knowles Knolles

Leybourne =     Leybourne Leyburne Labourn la Bourn les Bourn

de Lisors =     de Lisors de Lisours de Lissours de Lisoures

de Lovell =     de Lovell de Lovall Louvell

Lyte =     Lyte Lite Light Leight Lyde Lietz Leete

de Lucy =     de Lucy de Luce

de Mandeville =     de Mandeville de Magna Villa

de Manners =     de Manners de Maniers 

de Molynton =     de Molynton de Molinton de Molington

de Mowbray =     de Mowbray Mowbray Mubray

de Maredudd =     de Maredudd de Maredydd de Mareduc

de Merk =     de Merck de Merc de Merch Merche de Mersch de Marck de la Marche

de Monchensey =     de Monchensey de Munchensy de Munchensi de Mouchens de Maunchesney de                                     Montchauncy

de Montegu =     de Montegu de Montecute

de Montgomery =     de Montgomery de Montgommery de Monte Gomerii

de Mortain =     de Mortain de Mortaigne

de Neville = de Neville de Nevill de Neuville de Novavilla de Nova Villa

d’Oilly =                 d'Oiley d'Oilly d'Oyley de Oilleia d'Olgii d’Ouilly d'Ouille d'Ouyilli d’Ouilly-le-                                    Basset: refer also : Basset viz: d’Ouilly-le-Basset

de Pateshull = de Patshulle de Pateshull Patteshull Pattishall

de Pauncefoot = de Pauncefoot de Pauncefote

de Pecche

[de la Perch = of the Pole or de la Pol,

de perche =             perch,

de pechee 

means: fishing] = de Peche de Peccam de Peckham de Pechey de Peach de Perch de la Perche de Peech de Pertico [Latin] Pecham

de Perye     de Perye de Perry Perry Pury Pery Parry

Philips =         Philips Phelip Phellyppse Phylyppes

de Pierrepont = de Pierrepont de Petrapont

Picot =         Picot Piccott

de Poitiers = de Poitiers de Poitou

le Power = le Power la Poar de le Poer le Poer de Poher

de Quincy = de Quincy de Quency de Quenci

de Radcliffe = Radcliffe Rouclyff Roucliff Rocliffe Rocliff Roecliffe

de Raineval = de Rayneval de Raineval

de Redvers = de Redvers de Reviers de Revieres de Ripariis

de Rohaut = de Rohaut de Rohant

de Ros =         de Ros de Ross de Rosse

Rossiter = Hroueceaster Hrofesceaster Raucester Rauseter Rawcester Rawceter Rawcether Rawcettor Rawsether Ressiter Riechester Roceter Rocetr Rochester Rociter Rocyter Roesiter de Roffa Roffensis Roffes Rofsetter Roissetter Roncestre Ropider Rosater Rosciter de Rosei Rosetter de Rosey Rositer Rosoter Rossa Rossatter Rossceter Rosse Rosseder Rossei Rosseltur Rossensis Rosses Rosset Rosseter Rosseth Rossetir Rossetter Rossey Rossi Rossie Rossieter Rossiter Rossitur Rossy Rosyter Roucestre de Roucestre de Rouecestria de Rouencestre de Rouensis de Rucostre de Rovencestre Rovencestria Rowcestre Rowcetor de Royceter Roycetor  Rucestr le Rus Russiter

further out there could this name also be a corruption of Rossiter: Boussier; Me Rouec,

This family name is aledgedly of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is a dialectal variant of Rochester, a locational name from places so called in either Kent or Northumberland. The place in Kent appears originally in the Saxon Charters of 445 as "Dorobrevi", from the British (pre-Roman), "duro" a stronghold, with "briva", a bridge, and later, circa 700, it was recorded in the Anglo Saxon Laws as "Hrofesceaster", or as "Hrofi", circa 730, in Bede's Ecclesiastical History; both deriving from the Olde English pre 7th Century "hrof", roof, with "ceaster", city or walled town. The derivation of the place in Northumberland is possibly the Olde English "hroc", rook, appearing in the Fees of 1242 as "Rucestr"; hence, "the city of rooks"

La Rous = la Rous la Ruse Le Roux

de Savoy = de Savoy di Savoia

Searle = Searle Searl Searles Searls

Seymour = de Seymour de Saint-Maure de Sainte-Maure

Sinnott = Sinnott Sinnot de Synad de la Sinnott Synnott Synot

Sotheby = Sotheby Southaby 

de Sutton = de Sutton de Sottoun de Soutton

Swain =         Swain Swayne Swaine 

de Tibetot = de Tibetot de Tiptoft de Tybotot

de Toeni = de Toeni de Towmay de Tosny de Tosni de Tony

de Tirel = de Tirel de Tyrel de Tyrrell Tyrell Tyrrell Tirril Terrell

de Valoignes = de Valoignes de Valoines de Valoynesde de Valognes de Valensis

Warriner = Warriner Warrener

Woodville = Woodville Wydeville

Worsley = Worsley Workeseley

Rollo of Normandy (l. c.860-c.930 CE, r. 911-927 CE)

 

Rollo of Normandy

Also known to his biographers, chroniclers, and poets as Rollo, Rollon, Robert, Rodulf, Ruinus, Rosso [possible connection with the de Roucestre’s since they were also named de Rosso and de Rossey] , Rotlo and Hrolf, Granger Rolf or Rolf the Walker, founder in about 911 of what became the duchy of Normandy, is another of those, like Ragnar Hairy-Breeches and Ivar the Boneless, whose prominence among their contemporaries conspired over the years with an almost complete lack of biographical information to transform them from ordinary mortals into dense hybrids of men, myth, and legend.

 

Rollo (l. c.860-c.930 CE, r. 911-927 CE) was a Viking chieftain who became the founder and first ruler of the region of Normandy. He converted to Christianity as part of a deal with the Frankish king Charles the Simple (893-923 CE) in 911 CE (changing his name to Robert) and his story was then embellished upon by later Christian writers who held him up as a role model: a savage Viking chief who became a paragon of Christian virtue and established law in the land. In doing so, however, they largely ignored whatever was known of Rollo's life prior to his involvement with Charles.

 

If you will trust us, we will give you advice fitting and wholesome for you and for the kingdom, so that the people, who are all too stricken with want, may have repose. Let the land from the River Andelle to the sea be given to the pagan peoples; and in addition, join your daughter to Rollo in marriage. And thereby you will be able to grow mightily in power against the peoples who resist you; for Rollo is born of the proud blood of kings and of chiefs; he is very fair of body, a ready fighter, far-sighted in counsel, seemly in appearance, amenable to us, a faithful friend to those to whom he gives his word, a ferocious enemy to those whom he opposes, a constant and amenable vassal in all things, with  a shrewd mind, such as we need.

The principal tribes of Gauls who inhabited Normandy were the Caleti (pays de Caux), the Bellocasses or Vellocasses (Vexin) the Eburovices (Evreux), the Lexovii (Lizieux) the Viducasses (Vieux), the Saii (Seez), the Avrincatui (Avranches), and the Unelli (the Cotentin).

About the year 896, Rollo, being banished from Norway by Harold the fair-haired for his piratical excesses, equipped an armament, and made a descent, in the first instance, upon England, from whence being expelled by Alfred, he proceeded to the Scheldt, carrying destruction along with him ; and eventually sailing up the Seine, he landed at Jumieges, near Rouen, besieged Paris for four years, took Bayeux and Evreux, and so firmly established himself in his new possessions that, all hope of expelling him having vanished, the French king, Charles the Simple, formally ceded to him that extensive district from the river Epte to the sea.* This event happened in 912; and from Rollo the Northman, and his followers, the country took the name of Normandy.

By the treaty with Charles the Simple, Rollo engaged to become a Christian, and to marry Gisla, the king's daughter.

La Ferte was assigned to a younger branch of the house of Goumay [de Gournay] before the conquest, as appears by the foundation deed of the priory at La Ferte , which took place whilst Robert Count of Evreux was Archbishop of Rouen ; and other towns or vills were given as manors to other families.

At a subsequent period, twenty-four parishes on the eastern side of the Epte, in the Beauvoisis, were added to the territory of the Lords of Gournay, and called " La Conqu^te Hue de Goumai," after the name of that Lord of Goumai, who acquired these about the year 1078. These fiefs in the Beauvoisis rendered the Lords of Goumay vassals of the Kings of France as well as of the Dukes of Normandy ; and may account in some measure for their frequently vacillating in their allegiance between those two powers.

Hugh, son of Eudes the Norman chieftain to whom this territory was said to be assigned by Rollo, is reported to have been the first to direct his attention towards making Goumay a place of strength. The ancient records ascribe to him the erection of a citadel in the immediate vicinity of the church of St. Hildevert, surrounded with a triple wall and fosse, and further secured by a tower, which was called after his name. La Tour Hue, and which continued in existence until the beginning of the seventeenth century.

About a hundred years after Philip Augustus, his great-grandson, Philip the Bold, bestowed the town and lordship of Gournay on his youngest son Charles of Valois, at whose death it became part of the dower of his widow, Matilda de Chatillon. Again, in like manner on the death of Philip of Valois in 1350, it was separated from the crown, and assigned to the widowed Queen Blanche of Navarre. By this princess it was held for forty-eight years, when it once more reverted to her royal domains. But early in the succeeding century the town fell, together with the rest of France, before the victorious arms of our sovereign Henry V. ; and upon his demise it was a third time selected as a portion of the dower of a royal widow, Katharine, daughter of the French monarch Charles VL Her death, in 1438, restored it to England, but only to be held for the short term of eleven years, at which time. the reverses sustained by the English troops occasioned the expulsion of our kings from their continental dominions.

 

Lambert [Lambertus] II, Count of Lens [3 Sept 1028 - 1054]

 

Lambert [Lambertus] II, Count of Lens [3 Sept 1028 - 1054]

Brothers:

Comte Eustace [ii] "aux Gernons" de Lens de Boulogne de Burgundy II [c. 1015-1093]

Bishop Godfrey de Boulogne de Bouillon

Lambert [Lambertus] II, Count of Lens was uncle of: Duke Geoffrey de Bouillon FitzEustace de Boulogne, King Baldwin de Jerusalem FitzEustace de Boulogne I and Lord Eustace Eustache [iii] FitzEustace de Boulogne de Burgundy III [who married Princess Mary MacCrinan d'Ecosse of the Scots]

 

Lambert II, Count of Lens (died 1054) was a French nobleman. He was likely born circa 1030. This would put his death age at about 24 years of age.

He was the son of Eustace I, Count of Bologne and of Maud of Louvain (daughter of Lambert I of Louvain). c. 1053 he married Adelaide of Normandy, Countess of Aumale, daughter of Robert I, Duke of Normandy and sister of William the Conqueror. Adelaide was also the widow of Enguerrand II, Count of Ponthieu who died in 1053. c. 1054 Lambert and Adelaide had a daughter, Judith of Lens, although Lambert would scarcely have seen her father.

 

He was killed at the battle of Lille in 1054. Lambert was supporting Baldwin V, Count of Flanders against Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor when he was killed in battle. His widow, Adelaide, married thirdly, Odo, Count of Champagne.

 

Lambertus de Roseto from Rosay, Dieppe ref: "Domesday People: Domesday book':

Tenent of Rowdham Westaker Manor, Norfolk [Hundred of Shropham] under the lordship of the Earl of Warren via the Bardophs, and then to the Roseis or Rosets, and Lambert of Rosei gave his whole land at Rodeham [Norfolk], which William his priest held of him there, with the consent of Walcheline [Wakelin], his son, and of William Earl Warren and Surrey, the chief lord of the fee of whom it was held by the service of one knight's fee, to the Priory of West-Acre ; and the Earl released to that house the service of that fee; and in 1345, the prior had a quarter of a fee in Roudham, which formerly belonged to the Munchensies after to Robert de Lyle, and was held of the King, as Duke of Lancaster; and from this time the manor, impropriate rectory, and the advowson of the vicarage belonged to the priory till its dissolution, and fell to the Crown; and in 1546 the King granted it to Thomas Woodhouse, who the same year sold it to Francis Lovell, and his heirs; and from that time it hath passed with East-Herling, (see p. 323,) with which it was sold to the Wrights, Mr. John Wright, son of Thomas Wright, Esq. being now [1737] lord, impropriator, and patron.

 

From Blomefield's "County of Norfolk" published 1805, p433

Rudham, Rudeham, Roodham, or Rowdham, takes its name from a remarkable rose or cross that stood in it, upon the great road leading from Thetford to Norwich; (fn. 1) the remaining stones of it were carried thence to Herling, about five or six years agone, by Mr. Wright, who was then lord here. In the Confessor's survey it was held by a freeman of Herold, at one carucate, but at the Conquest it was divided into three parts; besides 30 acres that belonged to the manor of Bridgham; the three first was in the Conqueror's hands, (fn. 2) he second belonged to William Earl Warren, (fn. 3) and these two constituted the capital manor, called Rowdham Westaker's. The third was held by Ralph, of Eudo the Sewer, (fn. 4) and the whole soke or superior jurisdiction belonged to Buckenham castle, as part of the hundred, Lisius, the old owner, (as I take him to be,) continuing his claim at this time against Eudo, who had got it from him by force, or by the Conqueror's gift. This was afterwards called Trusbutt's or Newhall manor.

 

"Rowdham Westaker Manor. Was all in the Earl of Warren, the King having given him his part, but was divided again., and that part which was the King's was held of them Earl, by a family surnamed from the town, till William, son of Simon de Rowdham, gave it to the Priory of West-Acre., the other part , with the advowson, came from the Earl of Warren to the Bardophs, and then to the Roseis or Rosets, and Lambert of Rosei gave his whole land at Rodeham, which William his priest held of him there, with the consent of Walcheline [Wakelin], his son, and of William Earl Warren and Surrey, the chief lord of the fee of whom it was held by the service of one knight's fee, to the Priory of West-Acre.

 

Castleacre-Priory Manor.

William Earl Warren, the second of that name, by his deed, sans date, confirmed, as capital lord, in the reign of King William II [26 September 1087 – 2 August 1100]. the land which William, the priest of Rudham, held of Lambert de Rosei [de Rosseto], and one knight's fee of the grant of the said Lambert, and remitted the service of the said fee; this was, no doubt, the same Lambert who was lord at the survey, and had been enfeoffed of the same by the first Earl Warren. William, the third Earl Warren, gave Alwin, in Rudham, with all his substance, and Godwin, the smith, with his wife and children.

John de Querceto, or Cheyney, released the homage of Jeffery, brother of Mathew, to the prior of Coxford.

 

Eustace, seneschal of Acre, granted the reversion of all his lands in Rudham, after his death, on condition of being admitted a monk, if he should desire it.

 

William, son of Roger de Gressenhale, gave two of his men, or villains.

 

Geffrey, son of Ordiner, gave also lands here, and Ralph de Necton confirmed to them 42 acres in pure alms.

It was agreed by deed, sans date, that the small tithes of this lordship should belong to the priory of Castleacre, but the tithes of the corn, lamb, and wool, and cheese, should belong to Coxford priory, with the weif and stray, and the assise of bread and beer:—Witnesses Sir Hervey de Stanho, Sir Henry de Ferrariis, which shows it was in or about the end of the reign of Henry III. and for this one mark was to be paid per ann. to Castleacre priory. Robert, prior of Castleacre, remitted to William, prior of Coxford, their right in the manor of East Rudham.

 

In the 18th of Edward I. Ralph de Dunton gave a messuage and 47 acres of land, in West Rudham.

 

In the 20th of Edward III. the prior held here half a fee in pure alms, and in the 3d of Henry IV. here, and in Bagthorp, of the Earl of Arundel.

 

At the Dissolution, Thomas, the prior of Castleacre, conveyed it to King Henry VIII. in his 29th year; who, soon after, December 22d in the said year, conveyed it to Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk; and Phillip Earl of Arundel, in the 21st of Elizabeth, had license to alienate it to Sir Roger Townsend, whose direct heir and successour, the Right Honourable Charles Lord Viscount Townsend, was lord, and now George Lord Viscount, his son

  

Eustace II who came to England with William the Conqueror is identified by Peter Western as Eustace de Roucester of Rivenhall. He had a brother Lambert de Boulogne. This Lambert had a daughter Judith & also Walcheline [Wakelin].

 

Rossiters of Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset, England

The Rossiter’s and their Birth sites: Father to son: William Guillaume Carolingian de Rossa de Roffa de Roucestre de Rovecestria de Rovencestria d: 1249 William Guillaume de Roffa de Roucestre 1385 William Guillaume de Roucestre 1402 William Guillaume de Roucestre Roucestre Rossiter 1438 Chard, Somersetshire, England 2 May 1513 Wadeford Manor, Combe St Nicholas, Chard, Somerset, England The Parish of Combe St Nicholas lies about 2 miles from Chard and 10 miles from Taunton; it is almost 4800 acres in area and the boundary length is just under 14 miles. This “hollow in the hills” (or ‘cwym’, from the Gaelic, spoken by the Celts of Cornwall and Wales) is set in lovely countryside on the edge of the Blackdown’s, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Combe St Nicholas, is a village and a parish in Somerset near Chard, the parish is divided into the tithings of Betham, Clayhanger, Ham, and Wade-ford, and includes the hamlets of Sticklepath and Weston. Previously known as Combe Episcopi, the village took its present name when the church was dedicated to St Nicholas in 1239. Sheep, wool and wool trades were important, and the wealth of springs allowed 4 mills (two grist and two box cloth) to operate at one time, as well as a brush factory at Nimmer. The Green Dragon pub has been in existence since 1611. Following the invasion of 1066 the area was probably controlled by the Normans from a castle built at what is now known as Castle Neroche, about 5 miles from Combe on the Taunton road. Recent excavations indicate that the site was firstly an Iron Age fort and later used by the Saxons. The Normans took the fort in 1067 and built a motte and bailey castle. The fort was taken by William the Conqueror’s half brother, Count Robert of Mortain but he abandoned it in 1087 and moved to Montacute fifteen miles to the east. The Doomsday Survey (1086) says of Combe: ‘The same Bishop (Giso) holds Combe. Azor, son of Torold, held it in the time of King Edward and paid geld for 20 hides. There is land for 16 ploughs. Of this (land) there are in demesne 8 hides where are 3 ploughs and 12 serfs and (there are) 15 villeins and 13 Borders with 12 ploughs and 12 hides. There are 12 beasts and 18 swine and 315 sheep and 1 riding horse. There are 12 acres of meadow and half a league of pasture reckoning (inter) length and breadth, and 1 league of woodland reckoning length and breadth. It was worth 10 pounds. Now 18 pounds.’ Sir Richard de Roucestre Rosseter Rowcetter Rossiter of Shaftsbury & Wadeford Hall 1463 Shaftesbury, Dorset, England 3 Sept 1529 Wadeford Hall, Combe Saint-Nicholas, Chard, Somersetshire, England Philip Perry [i] Rocetr Rocytor Rossiter c. 1499 Collies Combe, Combe St. Nicholas, Somersetshire, England 1589 Combe Saint Nicholas, Chard, South Somerset, Somerset, England Parish records of Combe St. Nicholas before 1678 are lost & Edward Rossiter left no will. Married: Katherine Lyte [daughter of William ‘Black Will’ Lyte]: Reference to marriage of Katherine to Philip Roycetor of Collie Combes recorded on Page 97 of : " The Lytes of LytesCary' by H C Maxwell Lyte C.B. published late 1800's. Sir William "Black William, the Elder" Lyte of Lillesdon [B: 1502- D: July 28 1566]: The parish embraces the manor of Tillesdon, residence of William Lyte (called Black William) whose identity as father of Katherine, the wife of Philip Rossiter, appears in the extensive Lyte pedigree in the 1623 “Visitation of Wiltshire” (The Publication of the Harleian Society, v. 105/6:230-234, especially 232, 1954). Philip Rossiter is described in the visitation as of St. Collies Combe uxta Chard. Collies in early days was the colloquial name for Nicholas. Chard was the market town 2-1/2 miles southeast of Combe St. Nicholas. William Lyte married Dorothea, daughter of Edward Kellway of Rockborne, co. Wilts, knight. Among William’s other children was Gertrude who married Thomas Howard, Viscount Howard of Bindon, Queen Elizabeth’s first cousin (see Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, 6:583, 584). William was a member of the distinguished Lyte family of Lyte’s Cary, parish of Charlton Mackerell being the second son of Thomas, Lord of the manor. The story of Lytes Cary Manor House was written by William George in 1879. The impressive manor house has survived. It is now a property of the National Trust and partly opened to the public. At that time Richard Rossiter's son Philip Rossiter (Edward’s grandfather) inherited 4 messuages, 31 acres of meadow, 312 acres of pasture & 200 acres of woodland. In the 1583 Survey of the parish (SAS/SE86), “Philipus ROSSITER, gent. (farmer or husbandman) owned a dwelling and a new tucking mill. Philip Rossiter paid 17 pounds a year to the Lord of the Manor (Wells Deanery). The other freemen of Combe were William BONNER, gent.- 15 pounds, William JEANES- 12 pounds, John BUETT- 2 pounds, John WALROD- 4 pounds, John DEWNELL- 20 pounds and _____ MALLETT- 12 pounds. Philip Rossiter owned Wadeford House [now listed as a Grade II Listed Building] and the fulling mill (woollen mill) [previously owned by his father Richard] in Wadeford, Chard, Combe St-Nicholas, Somersetshire England, which has been carefully restored, stand today in a hamlet about 3/4 miles SE of Combe St. Nicholas. This is one of seven mills within a few miles of each other on the River Isle, the others all being grist mills for corn. Philip probably died in 1583 or shortly thereafter. He is last named in the 1583 Survey of the Prebendaries of Welles Manor, Combe St. Nicholas, the record being in the Somerset Archeology Society, Taunton (Records No. SF 86; photocopy of record retained). Philip married twice, the first marriage having taken place about 1538. The identity of this wife is unknown. Philip married secondly at North Curry, co. Somerset, on 30 April 1564 KATHERINE LYTE. The marriage is published in W. P. W. Phillimore’s Somerset Parish Registers: Marriages, 15 v. ([London, 1898-1915], 2:79): “Philip Rosseter gen and Katherine Lyte laste of Apr. 1564,” the abbreviation “gen” standing for generosus (i.e., gentleman). Katherine was the sister of Gertrude, both were daughters of William Lyte. Gertrude married Earl Howard the cousin of Queen Elizabeth I. Three Combe St. Nicholas lay subsidies in the Public Record Office show payment of taxes: Ca 1557 Philip Rosy gent assessed £16 for relief, paid 16 shillings. The four others taxed in the parish were husbandmen (3-6 Edward VI, No. E 179/170/254). 1570/1 Phillipus Rocetor gen in terris assessed £4 paid 10 s. 4 d. He was the only inhabitant that year who was taxed on land (13 Elizabeth No. E 179/171/284). 1580/1 Phus Rosseter in terris £4 paid 10 s. 8 d. Of 19 taxable inhabitants, Philip was the only one taxed on land. (23 Elizabeth No. E 179/256/2 photocopy of document retained.) Hugh Hugues Lyte Rossiter 1572 Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset, England d. c. 22 June 1623 Whitefriars, London, England William Cosbie Rossiter 1605 Somerset, England 1685 Foxcote, Somerset, England James Rossiter Circa 1630 Somerset, England Circa 1685 - Somerset, England William Rossiter Feb 14 1653 Boldre, Hampshire, England Before 1730 - Brockenhurst, Hampshire, England Richard Rossiter Circa 1684 Paignton, Devon, England Circa 1742 Paignton, Devon, England Richard Rossiter Circa 1715 Blagdon, Paignton, Devon, England d. Mar 29 1779 - Blagdon, Paignton, Devon, England Head Butler at Blagdon Barton Hall Manor, Blagdon, Paignton for Edward Blount Recorded in 1767 as having two son’s: a ten year old son John [therefore b. 1757] and a fifteen year-old son: William Rossiter [b.1725] who was a servant in the household of George Cary. William Rossiter June 2 1754 Blagdon, Paignton, Devon,England Jan 23 1823 (Collaton) Paignton, Devon, England William Henry Rossiter May 16 1787 Blagdon, Paignton, Devonshire, England July 27 1852 - Blagdon, Paignton, Devonshire, England Peter Pillar Rossiter June 21 1825: St Andrews, Stokeinteignhead, Devon, England Mar 8 1899 - Dannevirke, Hawkes Bay, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand ROSSITER, Peter Pillar was baptised 21 June 1825 St. Andrews, Stokeinteignhead, Devon. He was the second son of William ROSSITER and Elizabeth PILLAR. He married Mary Ann WHITE 18 July 1847 at Devonport Devon. Their first born was Elizabeth Ann Pillar Shapland ROSSITER was born 20 July 1848 at 27 Portland Place, Plymouth, Devon. Peter, Mary and Elizabeth were listed in "Uncertain Embarkation Orders", issued by Mr J.W. Fitzgerald and were transferred by Mr Bourke to the ship "Sir George Seymour"., Embarkation Order No.75., application number 153. In another list they are listed as steerage passengers and Peter is incorrectly shown as Phillip ROSSITER. On the 4th Sep 1850, the "Sir George Seymour" departed from Gravesend calling in at Plymouth to take on late embarkations which included Peter, Mary and Elizabeth and several other passengers. The family eventually settled in Oxford where they were timber millers. Later they moved to Dannevirke in Hawkes Bay. Elizabeth A.P.S. ROSSITER married Matthew HENDERSON 09 Mar. 1876. On the 30th Jan 1851 Peter and Mary's second child William Henry ROSSITER was born., "the first European boy to be born in Canterbury after the arrival of the Pilgrims." Peter Pillar ROSSITER died 08 Mar 1899 and was buried at the George Street Cemetery Dannevirke. His wife Mary Ann died 26 July 1904 and was also buried at George Street. The first four ships were sent to Lyttelton by the Canterbury Association which was sponsored by the Church of England. Free passage was offered. Edward ROSSITER a brother of Peter ROSSITER arrived NZ a few years later and settled in Rangiora. Rossiter Road in Rangiora is named after Edward.

RALPH SON OF TUROLD – Domesday Book 1086 records this person being immediate lord over the peasants after the Conquest, who paid tax to the tenant-in-chief for these locations: Addington, Larkfield, Kent Barstable Hall, Barstable, Essex Boughton [Malherbe], Eyhorne, Kent Chadwell, Barstable, Essex [East, South and West] Hanningfield, Chelmsford, Essex Eccles, Larkfield, Kent Hartley, Axton, Kent Hassenbrook Hall, Barstable, Essex Ingrave, Barstable, Essex Lawford, Tendring, Essex Lawn Hall, Chelmsford, Essex Luddesdown, Tollingtrough, Kent Milton, Tollingtrough, Kent Moulsham Hall, Chelmsford, Essex Oakleigh, Shamwell, Kent other Moulsham [Hall], Chelmsford, Essex Patching [Hall], Chelmsford, Essex Sampson's [Farm], Winstree, Essex Stifford, Chafford, Essex Thorrington, Tendring, Essex Vange, Barstable, Essex Walter [Hall], Chelmsford, Essex Wateringbury, Twyford, Kent Wickford, Barstable, Essex Wricklesmarsh, Greenwich, Kent Wrotham [Heath], Wrotham, Kent