An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 8
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- Francis Blomefield, "An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 8" (London, 1808) (https://british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol8).
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- Francis Blomefield
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Text: North Erpingham Hundred: Metton
METTON
Was a member or beruite to Roger Bigot's manor of Felbrigg, and as such is included in the account of that manor, in Domesday Book. Metun is there said to be 5 furlongs long, 4 furlongs and 6 perches broad, and paid 5d. gelt. (fn. 1)
In the 8th of Richard I. Alexander Poyntell, and Alice his wife, passed by fine, to Robert de Colevile, and Alice his wife, the 3d part of this manor, as her jointure from her former husband, William de Nevill; remainder to Alice Poyntell, her daughter, by the said William. (fn. 2)
Joan de Bovile held half a fee of Roger Bigod Earl of Norfolk, in the reign of Edward I. and in the 14th of Edward I. Joan, late wife of James de Creke, held in jointure, a messuage, 24 acres of land, 6 marks, and 5s. 4d. rent in Metton, Hanworth, and Susted, with the 3d part of the advowson of this church; and 100 acres of land, 30 of wood, 50 of meadow, and pasture, with 116s. 4d. rent, in Dichingham. In the 18th of that King, William, son and heir of Sarah de Pirrow, granted to Robert de Swillington, son of Helewise de Pirrow, 2 parts of this manor, called then Pirrow-Hall, and the 3d part, with the manor of Ditchingham, after the death of Joan, widow of John de Creke; William de Swillington, and Joan de Bovile, held 3 fees and an half in the 35th of the said King, of Roger Earl-Marshal of England. After this, it came to the Latimers.
In the year 1338, Sir Thomas Latymer presented to this church, and in 1349. Sir Thomas Wingfeld, and Margery his wife, convey in the 41st of Edward III. to John Bakepool, parson of Badingham, &c. this lordship and advowson, in trust, when it was settled on them for life; remainder to Robert, son of Sir William Carbonell, Knt. in tail, and was then farmed by Sir Roger Felbrigg, at 10l. per ann. payable on the gule of August, (viz. 1st,) &c. This Margery was daughter and heir of Sir William Bovill, by Mariotta his wife, daughter of Sir Thomas Mosell, and Christian his wife, daughter of Sir William Latimer, which Christian married to her first husband, Sir John Carbonell, Knt.; and Margery married to her 2d husband, Sir Thomas Wingfield.
Sir Robert Carbonell died lord in the 23d of Richard II. and John was found to be his son and heir; Sir John Carbonel's will was proved March 30, 1425: he was lord of this town, Braydeston, Caston, Shipdam, West Tofts, Hapton, Tybenham, Riveshale, and Brisingham in Norfolk; (fn. 3) of Badingham, Saxham's in Badingham, Cretyng, and Dalinghow in Suffolk, and gives this manor for life to Margaret his wife.
Sir Richard Carbonel was lord of Metton Pirnowhall, in the 8th of Henry VI. and dying in that year, John, his son and heir, was aged 2 years, who dying s. p. Sir Robert Wingfield was his heir, as it is said; (fn. 4) but in 1457, Robert Lyston, Esq. presented as lord and heir to the Carbonels. In the church of Belstead Parva, in Suffolk, were the arms of Liston, vert, ten plates, 4, 3, 2, and 1, impaling Carbonel, gules, a cross, argent, in a bordure ingrailed, or. This Robert, by his will, dated September 23, 1478, of Badingham, Esq. gives the profits of this manor, of Pernow-Hall, to Isabel his wife, to maintain John his son, and to raise portions for his daughters, which was proved January 30, 1484. (fn. 5) Isabel, his wife, died seized of it in the 7th of Henry VII. held of the manor of Forncet, and Jane, wife of Robert Thra. Elizabeth, of Leonard Hyde; Mary, of William London, Esq. mayor of Norwich; Thomasine, the wife of John Goldingham, and Margaret, of Edward Rouse, were her daughters and coheirs. John Goldingham, Esq. was lord of Belstead, died in 1518, and was buried with Jane, his first, and Thomasine, his 2d wife, in the said church, with his arms, argent, a bend, wavy, gules, and those of Thomasine Liston, his wife. In the 5th of Henry VIII. William Bond, Esq. and Elizabeth his wife, convey the 5th part of this manor to Roger Townsend, Esq. and so came to Edward Windham, Esq. In the 29th of Henry VIII. Sir Thomas Bedingfeld, Knt. of Oxburgh, and Alice his wife, with Firmine Rookwood, Esq. son and heir apparent of the said Alice, conveyed it to Edmund Wyndham, Esq. of Felbrigg; this Alice was daughter of William London, Esq. aforesaid, and married first, Edmund Rookwood, Esq. of Euston in Suffolk, and to her 3d husband, the Lord Burgh.
In the family of the Windhams it still continues; Ash Windham, Esq. was lord in 1740; and his son and heir, William Windham, Esq. was lord, 1760, and died in 1761, leaving his son and heir a minor.
Bovil bore, quarterly, or, and sable. Latimer, gules, a cross patonce, or, with a label, azure.
1. Et Metune v quar. in longo et iiii. et vi perc. in lato et de gelto vd.
2. William de Bovile married Joan, a daughter of James de Creke.
3. Reg. Hurninge, fol. 134.
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Text: Pages 201-203: Eynford Hundred: Elsing
ELSING
Was the lordship of William Earl Warren: Toke, a Saxon thane, was lord of it in the reign of the Confessor, and Fredericus after him, but at the survey, on his expulsion, we find it held of the Earl Warren by Wimer: Toke had 2 carucates of land held by 6 villains, and 12 borderers with 4 servi, and there were 3 carucates in demean, 4 among the tenants, with 7 acres of meadow and of wood, 300 acres, two mills, 2 runci (horses for work,) 10 cows, and 40 swine, 40 sheep, 12 skeps of bees, and a church endowed with 18 acres of land, and one of meadow, always valued at 4l. per ann. and was of the fee of Frederic; it was one leuca long, and half a one and one rood broad, and paid 8½d. gelt. (fn. 1)
El is the initial syllable of many towns, and signifies water, and Ing is a meadow; El is also a river, as Elwick, in Durham, Elford, Northampton, &c.
Wimer, who held under Earl Warren, was his grand dapifer, or steward, and was enfeoffed of many lordships; from his family (who assumed the name of De Gressenhale, of which they were also lords,) it came by Isabel, sole heiress to the Stutevilles, barons of the realm, and from them it came by an heiress to Sir Richard Foliot, in the beginning of King Edward the First's reign.
In 1328, the Lady Margery de Foliot presented to this church, relict of Sir Jordan de Foliot, her son Sir Richard dying s.p. his two sisters, Margery, the wife of Sir Hugh de Hastings, and Margaret, wife of Sir John Camois, were his coheirs; Sir John and his Lady released their interest in this town to Sir Hugh and his Lady.
Sir Hugh was son of Sir John de Hastings, Lord Abergavonny, by Isabel his 2d lady, daughter of Hugh Le De Spencer Earl of Winchester; this Sir Hugh built the church of Elsing, and was there buried in 1347, as was his lady in 1349.
Sir Hugh Hastings, lord in the 3d of Richard II. had the grant of a mercate, and 2 fairs in a year, at this town, on the death of Sir John Hastings, s.p. in the 20th of Henry VII. it was found that he held this lordship of the dutchy of Lancaster, and George Hastings, Esq. his brother, was his heir.
John Hastings, Esq. son and heir of Sir Hugh, dying s.p. in the 35th of Henry VIII. left 2 sisters and coheirs, Anne, the eldest, married William Brown, Esq. second son to Sir Anthony Brown, master of the horse to King Henry VIII. and Knight of the Garter, and in her right was lord of this town and of Wesenham.
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Rectors.
In 1328, Master Richard de Shropham, instituted, presented by Lady Margery de Foliot.
1330, Mr. Matthew de Wygenhale. Ditto.
1349, William de Swynflete, archdeacon of Norfolk, by Lady Margaret de Hastings.
1361, John de Haldenby, by Lady Margery, wife of Sir Hugh Hastings.
1388, John Braun, by Lady Ann, relict of Sir Hugh Hastings.
In 1435, September 12, Sir Edward Hastings presented.
In 1485, Sir Hugh Hastings presented.
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In the east window of the chancel are the portraitures of Sir Hugh de Hastings and the Lady Margaret his wife, who built the church; Sir Hugh in armour with his tabord of arms over it, and on his knees; that of his lady has on her gown, also her arms, &c. and on her knees; each supporting with both their hands a church, setting forth themselves as the founders; under him, or, a maunch, gules, with a file of three points, argent, as of a younger family, and under her, Hastings, impaling, gules, a bend argent, Foliot. In the midst of the chancel lies a large marble gravestone, whereon has been a rim of brass with an inscription, now spoiled, and the conclusion of it only remaining, viz. Cum Pater, Ave. On this is the portraiture of a knight in complete armour, a lion at his feet, with the arms of Hastings over his head, 2 angels support his helmet; in memory most likely (as by its site) of the founder.
1. T're. Willi. de Warrenna—Helsinga Wimerus tenet qd. tenuit Toca i lib. ho. T. R. E. ii car. t're. sep. vi vill. tc. xii bor. mo x tc. iiii
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Text: Pages 340-347: Freebridge Hundred and Half: Bawsey and Glosthorp
The family of Bovile held these townships in Henry the Second's reign, under the Glanviles; and in the year 1195, William de Glanvile gave 100 marks to have the custody of the heir of William de Boyvill, till of age, with his lands, &c. in Glosthorp and Bawenne. (fn. 4) The Bovills descended from Sir Philip de Bovil, who gave lands to the priory of Wykes in Essex, in the reign of Henry I. which was confirmed by Geffrey de Mandevile Earl of Essex; Pauline de Bovill lived in the reign of King Stephen. This William de Bovile, or Boyvill, the heir abovementioned, was that William (as I take it) who married Isabel, daughter and heir of —, by Basilia his wife, 3d daughter of — Glanvile, and sister and coheir of Jeffrey de Glanvile, of Baketon in Norfolk; for in the 3d of Edward II. William de Bovill, son and heir of William de Bovill, and Isabella his wife, was impleaded for the manor of Alderton, and the church of Dallingho, in Suffolk, by William de Huntingfeld, who was descended from Emma, the other sister and coheir, wife to John de Grey, being pait of the possessions of Geffrey de Glanvile.
In the 7th year of Richard I. a fine was levied between Roger Golafre, and Beatrix his wife, and Robert, son of Simon of Saham, who was to hold of Roger and Beatrix, and their heirs, the mill of Glosebrig, by the rent of 10s. per ann. and in 24th of Henry III. William de Bovile was found to hold two knights fees in these townships, and was impleaded in the 34th of that King, for making a new warren in Bawsey, Glosethorp and Leziate, and was constituted keeper of the peace in Suffolk, by the aforesaid King, in his 48th year by letters patent, during his captivity after the battle of Lewes in Sussex, and in the following year, was the King's justice itinerant, to enquire of misdemeanours in the county of Suffolk. (fn. 5) In the 56th of the said King, a fine was levied between John de Bovile, querent, and William de Bovile deforcient, of the manors of Creting, Thorp, Dallingho, Letheringham, and Alderton in Suffolk, with those of Bawsey and Glosthorp, whereby they were conveyed to William, for life; remainder to John, and the heirs of his body; remainder to the right heirs of William; which John was probably brother of William, for in the 5th of Edward I. John de Bovil was found to hold these towns last mentioned, of the honour of Eye, and to have a gallows, assise of bread and beer, &c. This was that John (as I take it) who married Petronilla, daughter and heir of Robert de Eccles; Bovil bore quarterly, or, and sable; and Eccles argent, on a saltire, gules, two crosier staves, saltirewise, or, surmounted with a lion's head, of the first; and it appears by the escheat rolls, in the 30th of Edward I. that William de Bovill held 7 fees and an half here, in Letheringham, Creting and Thorp, in Suffolk, and in Leys in Essex. In the 7th of Edward II. William de Bovil was lord, and purchased of William de Rungeton, and Mary his wife, for 40l. land, &c. in Bawsey and Glosthorp.
This William de Bovil was son of John de Bovile, as I take it, also lord of Donington, Wyleby, Letheringham, and Thorp, in Suffolk, and in the said year, settled the manor of Donington, on Richard de Wingfeld for life, and the advowson on Roger de Wingfeld, for life, remainder to William de Bovile, son of the said William, in tail male; remainder to Thomas, son of Thomas le Latimer, in tail male; remainder to Simon Fitz-Richard, and Nicholaa his wife; remainder to his right heirs; and the manor of Badingham in Suffolk, with Bawsey and Glosthorp, were settled then in the same manner. By a French deed dated on Wednesday after the feast of St. Leonard, in the 11th year of the said reign, it was covenanted between Sir William Bovill of the one part, John de Catfield, William de Halsworth, clerks, Sir Thomas de Latimer, Thomas his son, Simon le Fitz-Richard, and Nicholaa his wife, and Sir Oliver de Ingham of the other part, that Sir William de Bovill, and Joan his wife, should hold one moiety of the manors of Bawsey and Glosthorp, for their lives, remainder to Sir Thomas de Latimer, and Mary his wife, and to Thomas their son, and the heirs male, of the son's body, remainder to Sir Oliver de Ingham and his heirs; and of the other moiety, the said Sir William and Joan to be seized for life; remaider to Simon Fitz-Richard and Nicholaa his wife; remainder to Sir Oliver de Ingham and his heirs; the aforesaid Mary and Nicholaa were no doubt, daughters of the said Sir William, and Joan his wife.
In the 13th of the said reign, Master Richard Clare, escheator on this side of Trent, accounted for the issues of these lordships, and that of Badingham, held of the honour of Eye, late Sir William de Bovill's; and it was found that William de Bovill, son of Sir William deceased, and Joan his wife, lately deceased, held them at his death, jointly, being enfeoft by John de Catfield; this William, the son, also a knight, married Mariotta, daughter of Sir Thomas Mosel, by Christiana his wife, daughter of Sir William Latimer, who was first married to Sir John Carbonel, of Waldingfeld in Suffolk; her 2d husband was Sir Robert de Bosco, or Bois, of Fersfield, and in 1311, she married Sir Thomas Mosel, who bore argent, a chevron between three boars heads, couped, sable.
This Sir William had by Mariotta, a daughter and heiress, Margery, who was married first to Sir William Carbonel, Knt. and 2dly to Sir Thomas Wingfield, 2d son of Sir John Wingfield.
After this, disputes arose on account of the settlement of these manors, made in the 7th year, &c. of Edward II. abovementioned; and in Michaelmas term, in the 5th year of King Edward III. is an entry of certiorari upon the fine levied in Trinity term, in the 7th of Edward II. of the manors of Bawsey, Glosthorp, and Badingham, late William de Bovill's, and William Carbonel, and Margery his wife, desired a writ to summon Nicholaa, then widow of Thomas de Hindringham, and Richard, son of Simon Fitz-Richard, (her son,) who held the said manors. In the 14th of the said King, Richard FitzSimon Fitz-Richard brought the King's protection, he being then to sail with the King into foreign parts, so that there was a supersedeas; but in the following year they were conveyed by fine from Sir William Carbonel, and Margery his wife, to Richard and his heirs, from the heirs of Margery; and the said Richard occurs lord in the 20th of the said King, and in the next year, he granted to Sir John de Ufford, Knt. &c. these lordships; that of Pensthorp and Letheringham, and the advowson of the priory there, in trust, as I take it.
4. Rot. Pip.—Inter Chart. Priorat. de Wykes in Cur. Recept. Sc'cii.
5. Rymer's Fœd. v. i. R. 793.
Personal Names
| Person | Claim | Detail | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basilia de Glanvile | Name | Basilia de Glanvile [S3211:340] [S3212:17] | research |
| Christiana Latimer | Name | Christiana Latimer [S3211:138] | research |
| Hugh de Hastings | Name | Hugh de Hastings [S2717] [S3174] [S3206:199] [S3211:201] | research |
| Hugh le Despencer, Earl of Winchester | Name | Hugh Le De Spencer , Earl of Winchester [S3211:201] | research |
| Isabel le Despencer | Name | Isabel Le De Spencer [S3211:201] | research |
| Isabella | Name | Isabella [S3211:340] [S3212:17] | research |
| Joan | Name | Joan [S3211:340] | research |
| John de Bovile | Name | John de Bovil [S3211:340] | research |
| John de Bovile | Name | John de Bovile [S3211:340] | research |
| John de Hastings, 2nd Baron Hastings of Bergavenny | Name | John de Hastings Lord Abergavonny [S3211:201] | research |
| John de Wingfield | Name | John Wingfield [S3211:340] | research |
| Sir Jordan Foliot, 1st Baron Foliot | Name | Jordan Foliot [S3206:199] [S3211:201] [S3213:5] [S3217:142] | research |
| Margery de Neufmarché | Name | Lady Margery de Foliot [S3211:201] | research |
| Margery Bovile | Name | Margery Bovile [S3211:340] | research |
| Margery Bovile | Name | Margery Bovill [S3211:138] | research |
| Margery Foliot | Name | Margery Foliot [S775:V.538] [S2717] [S3174] [S3206:199] [S3211:201] [S3216:189] | research |
| Mariotta Mosel | Name | Mariotta Mosel [S3211:138] | research |
| Petronilla de Eccles | Name | Petronilla de Eccles [S3211:340] | research |
| Robert de Eccles | Name | Robert de Eccles [S3211:340] | research |
| Thomas Mosel | Name | Thomas Mosel [S3211:138] | research |
| Thomas de Wingfield of Letheringham | Name | Thomas Wingfield [S3210:108] [S3211:138] | research |
| William Bovile of Letheringham | Name | William Bovill [S3211:138] | research |
| William de Bovill | Name | William de Bovile [S3211:340] | research |
| William Bovile of Letheringham | Name | William de Bovill [S3211:340] | research |
| William de Bovill | Name | William de Bovill [S3211:340] | research |
| William de Bovill | Name | William de Bovill [S3211:340] | research |
| William de Bovill | Name | William de Boyvill [S3211:340] [S3212:17] | research |
| William Latimer | Name | William Latimer [S3211:138] | research |
Relationships
Events & Attributes
| Person | Claim | Date | Detail | Age | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| William de Bovill | Living | 1195 | [S3211:340]
underage
| research | |
| John de Bovile | Flourished | cal 1276 (5 Edw 1) | [S3211:340] | research | |
| William de Bovill | Flourished | cal 1301 (30 Edw 1) | [S3211:340] | research | |
| Thomas Mosel | Marriage | 1311 | Christiana Latimer [S3211:340] | research | |
| Mariotta Mosel | Birth | abt 1312 | England [S3210:108] [S3211:340]
parents married 1311, child flourished in 1348
| research | |
| William de Bovill | Flourished | cal 1313 (7 Edw 2) | [S3211:340] | research | |
| Margery de Neufmarché | Flourished | 1328 | [S3211:201] | research | |
| Hugh de Hastings | Burial | 1347 | [S3211:201] | research | |
| Thomas de Wingfield of Letheringham | Flourished | cal 1367 (41 Edw III) | [S3211:138] | research | |
| Margery Bovile | Flourished | cal 1367 (41 Edw III) | [S3211:138] | research | |
| Margery Bovile | Marriage 1st | [S3211:340]
William Carbonel
| research | ||
| Christiana Latimer | Marriage 1st | [S3211:138]
John Carbonel of Waldingfeld
| research | ||
| Christiana Latimer | Marriage 2nd | [S3211:340]
Robert de Bosco/Bois of Fersfield
| research | ||
| John de Bovile | Flourished | [S3211:340]
56 Rich I
| research |
Referrers
| Margery Foliot (~1314-1349) |