Feudal catalog Bios

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Lot #4 of 'Beaumont Collection' Auction - Nov 1954

(Located in the Parishes of Wakes Colne and Chappel)

These Parishes lie on both sides of the road from Colchester to Cambridge, 8 miles North West of Colchester. 

According to Morant, this Manor belonged to Aluard in Edward the Confessor's reign, and at the time of the Domesday Survey, Richard Fitz-Gilbert, Lord of Clare, was Lord. 

Morant says: "Under Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, that died the 47th of Henry III, Hugh de Cressye held two parts of a fee in Crephinge." This family took the name of this Manor as their family nae and they were "somewhat considerable," "for Walter de Crepping had leave to hunt in Essex; a privilege not granted to mean persons." (Vol II p. 223). In 1348 the Manor belonged to Margarete Bacon and later to the Earls of Oxford, "who were deprived of it for their strict adherence to the Lancastrian cause." Richard III granted it in 1483 to John Howard, Duke of Norfolk, and it was restored to John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, by Henry VII. 

Subsequent owners included Christian Turner, Thomas Smyth, John Fletcher Mills (1830) and Charles Alexander Crickitt (1784) whose steward was Edward Gepp. At a Court held by his executors on 28th July, 1806, James Brand and William Farrow constituted the homage. 

In 1860 the Manor was still in the Crickitt family, Bridges Harvey of Blue Bridge House, Halstead, being Steward. In 1923 it was conveyed to George Frederick Beaumont. 

The fines in the Manor were arbitrary and there are instances of a heifer, a horse, and a roan being taken as heriots. The custom descent was to the eldest son, although there is an entry in a Court held in 1607 of the admission of the youngest son. Many later admissions of eldest sons show that this must have been an error. 

Minerals and other rights reserved to the Lord on enfranchisement of copyhold land under the Copyhold Act, 1852 were usually included in the transactions, but in some cases they were excluded and the purchaser would be entitled to the profits from any gravel pits which may be found worked on land where the rights were excluded. 

The Lord claimed estrays, for in a Court held in October 1652 a young heifer and a ram, the latter after being in custody for "one year and a day and after 3 proclamations," were claimed by the Lord and seized by his bailiff. 

There is in Colchester Castle Museum a grant from Albert de Queinteville to the Church and Canons of St. Julian and St. Botolph of Colchester of all his land homages and rent at Crepping which he held of Hugh, son of Stephen. In return the Canons gave him forty marks. His seal is appended and the witnesses were Hugh, Abbot of St. Johns, Hugh Fitzstephen, Maurice de la Haye, and many others. The fact of the Abbot being a witness enables the date of the deed, which itself is undated, to be put at about 1140, as he was abbot from 1132-48. This is the oldest document in the Museum. 

The manorial documents (insured for £100, premium 5/- per annum) to be handed over are: 

• Court Books: 1784, 1855-1902
• Sundry: Rentals, drafts of admissions, surrenders, enfranchisement deeds, etc. 

The following Rentcharges, issuing out of property formerly coyphold of this Manor and created in satisfaction of the amount found to be payable upon enfranchisement, are included in the sale of this lot: 

• Mrs. Carden, Wakes Colne - - £10 18s. 6d. 
• J. W. Hines, Aldham - - £2 0s. 0d. 
• C. Brome, Aldham - - £1 12s. 6d.
• All payable on 1st January and 1st July 

The last two mentioned rentcharges represent an informal apportionment of a rentcharge of £3 12s. 6d. 

Lot #1 of Manorial Services Auction - Nov 2022 - Stephen Johnson

(In association with Strutt & Parker)

Also known as Davillers in Brome, or Brome Hall, this is one of two manors in this parish which  survived into the Middle Ages. At the time of Domesday there were three manors, one belonging to Hugh  Bigod, another to Hugh de Corbrn and the third to Robert Malet. By the reign of Henry III, at the beginning  of the 13th century, this had been reduced to two. This manor was recorded as being held by Bartholomew  D’Avilers in the early 1220s where it is described as consisting of 1 messuage with a garden and underwood,  50 acres of arable land, two acres of meadow and two acres of pasture. It was held by D’Avilers by an  obscure service that if the king should wish to have Patalium of the towns of Norfolk and Suffolk in his army in  Wales, then he shall conduct the said Patalium from the ditch of Saint Edmunds into Wales, and receive at the side  ditch 4d ahead for the maintenance for forty days. The meaning of this service is that D’Avilers was required  to lead a body of troops across the Welsh border, whenever the king commanded or required him to do so.  Whether he ever discharged this service is not recorded. 

In 1227 Bartholomew died and the manor passed to his eldest son Richard who died in 1269. In  1253 Richard had received a grant of free warren and for a weekly market and annual fair.(see charter rolls)  He was succeeded by his son, Bartholomew (II) who lived only for another seven years, before his death in  1276. He was in turn succeeded by his son, also Bartholomew (III) who died still a young man in 1287. The  Manor descended then to his son, Sir John Davillers who survived his father by just one year before passing  his estate to his son and heir, Sir Bartholomew (IV). His death, in 1330 meant the end of the Davillers male  line and this manor then passed to his three surviving young daughters; Isabella, Cecilia and Margaret but  over time the whole manor became vested in Isabella, who was the eldest daughter. She was married to Sir  Robert Bacon in around 1350, who was Knight of the Shire in the Parliaments of 1363 and 1369. The couple  were succeeded by their son, Sir Bartholomew Bacon who died in 1392 and left his estate, including the  manor of Davillers to his sister, Isabel. She was the wife of Sir Oliver Calthorpe of Burnham Thorpe in Norfolk  who had been High Sheriff of that county in 1376. 

Sir William Calthorpe succeeded to the manor in around 1411. He was married to Eleanor Mantley  and died in 1420. Davillers remained in the Calthorpe family for a number of succeeding generations. Sir  Philip was the last of the line at his death in 1549. He had married Jane Boleyn, the aunt of the ill-fated Queen  but does not appear to have been swept up in the recrimination following Anne’s execution in 1536. The  manor passed to his only daughter Elizabeth and her husband Sir Henry Parker of Morley Hall at Hingham  in Norfolk. He was a relation of the Boleyn family and was knighted in 1533. He was High Sheriff of Essex  and Hertfordshire in 1536, and sat as a Member of Parliament for the latter. 

In 1550, Parker sold Davillers to Sir Thomas Cornwallis who almost immediately constructed a house  here, Brome Hall. From this time therefore manor also become known as Brome Hall or Davillers of Brome.  Cornwallis (see Manor of Palgrave) was Governor of Calais which fell to France during his tenure and he was  accused of treachery by some. One coined the phrase; 

Who built Brome Hall? Sir Thomas Cornwallis!

How did he build it? By selling off Calais!

On his death in 1604, aged 86, a magnificent marble tomb was erected in his honour at the parish  church in Brome, which is still on display. His heir was his eldest son, Sir William, who was a leading member  of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex’s colonial expedition to Ireland in 1599 He was knighted for his part in  this at Dublin in the same year. On his death Brome Hall passes to his younger son Frederick, who served in  the household of Prince Henry, the eldest son of James I and travelled with him to Spain. He was created a  baronet in 1627 and knighted in 1630, by which point he had succeeded to the entire Cornwallis estate on  the death of his elder brother, William. Being a staunch Royalist, Frederick fought for for Charles I during the  Civil War and distinguished himself at the Battle of Cropredy in June 1644 where he rescued Lord Wilmot  from capture. Unfortunately, after the Parliamentarian victory his estate was sequestered and he followed  Charles II into exile, only returning with the King in 1660. A year later, as a reward for his loyalty, he was  created Lord Cornwallis of Eye but died only a few weeks later.  

The Brome Hall estate remained in the possession of the Cornwallis family until 1823 when the  house and the manor of Davillers were sold to Mattias Kerrison of Oakley Park. The house was in a state a  disrepair, and the new owner spent a great deal of money to restore it. The manor eventually passed with the  Oakley estate to the Maskell family and their descendants in whom it remains. Brome Hall was demolished  in 1953. 

The parish of Brome lies on the borders of Suffolk and Norfolk, a mile northwest of the small town  of Eye and two miles from Diss.  

Documents in the Public Domain Associated with this Lordship: 

1563-1564: bailiff’s accounts Mannington Hall 1452-1477: court roll Suffolk Archives - Ipswich 1546-1546: court rol 1551-1551: rental 1553-1617: court rolls (2) 1555-1558: bailiff’s accounts 1556-1556: rentals 1556-1562: account book 1568-1672: bailiff’s views of accounts 1569-1573: minute book 1592-1592: ministers’ accounts  1612-1880: court books 1665/1741: estreats 1670-1679: court roll 1747-1822: minute book 1771-1800 rentals 1793-1797: accounts  1794-1799: surveys 1823-1832: court fines 1835-1835: rental 1884-1884: rental 1887-1897: minute book 

Lot #5 of 'Beaumont Collection' Auction - Nov 1954

(In the parishes of East Donyland and Rowhedge)

In the Domesday Book Donyland was, according to Morant, called Dunulanda, belonging at the time of the Survey to Eustace Earl of Boulogne. As part of the honour of Boulogne, it descended to the heiress of that House, Maud, wife of King Stephen. Maud gave it to the Abbot and Convent of St. John's in Colchester in exchange for the church and Tithes of Littlechurch, or Heyham, in Kent, which belonged to that Abbey. The Queen made this exchange at the instance of her daughter, Mary, who was Prioress of the Benedictine Nunnery of Littlechurch. They continued to possess the premises until the Dissolution of the Abbey in 1539 when it became vested in the Crown. Queen Elizabeth conveyed it in 1560 to Sir Francis Jobson. It descended to William Grey in 1595; Sir John Tonstall bought the Estate in the reign of James the First and not long afterwards it came into the Thurston family. Joseph Thurston was Recorder of Colchester in about 1700. He married Mary, daughter of Sir Isaac Rebow, and the Estate was sold after his decease. 

David Gansel of Low Layton became Lord of the Manor in 1730, and, according to Morant, made a parka and greatly improved the House and gardens of the Hall. This is now owned and occupied by Capt. Lindsay-Smith, M.B.E. In 1797 the Manor came into the possession of the Havens family and the late Mr. G. F. Beaumont purchased it in 1918 from the Executors of Edward J. Havens. 

The Courts were held from 1797 to 1848 at East Donyland Hall, in 1849 at the Ship Inn, Rowhedge, from 1855 onwards at the White Lion Inn, East Donyland, and the late Mr. Beaumont's only Court was held on the 26th March, 1924 at the same Inn when Thomas William Pitt represented the Homage. Ernest William Saunders, his Managing Clerk for many years, was the Steward. 

Affixed to the last Court Book is a form of consent dated 21st November, 1924 under the Telegraph Acts 1863-1916 by the late Mr. G. F. Beaumont "to the placing of works, consisting of a telegraphic cable beneath the foreshore of the Rowhedge side of River Colne near Colchester on the understanding that the Postmaster General will make good any damage which may be done to my property in the placing or maintenance of the works. This consent can be terminated by three calendar months' notice in writing on either side."

There are interesting references to encroachments upon the Lord's waste land, license to enclose parts of the waste, and payment of s ums of money for the Lord's Thirds of the value of timber felled and sold (£12 in the case of Samuel Cook at a Court held on 7th July, 1801). 

On the intestacy of a copyhold tenant, his property descended to the eldest son as heir-at-law according to the Common law rule of descent. 

The manorial documents (insured for £300 premium 15/- per annum) to be handed over are: 

• Court Rolls: 1514-34; 1752-66; 1775-87; 1789-97
• Court Books: 1797-1832; 1832-51;  1851-67; 1867-86; 1886-1918; 1919-1932
• Rentals: 1799-1855 and 1696
• Particulars of Sale of the Manor: by auction on the 25th May, 1918 by Messrs. Sexton and Grimwade of Colchester

 The above particulars contain the names of tenants, their dates of admission, short description of the properties from the Court rolls, amount of Quit Rents and Last Fines. Included in the list are, "Tenements and Land and Wharfage in front of said messuages in Rowhedge Street" (tenant Turner Barnard); "Cottage in Rowhedge Street with oyster pit near the same, part of 'Crackbones'" (Arthur Sparling, former partner in the firm of Sparling, Son & Benham); "Shipyard, Quay and Oyster bed which has ceased to exist"; "Shed, Warehouse and yards with liberty to low water mark" (Pearce Kinsbury); "The Ferry Bridge with the Emoluments" (Capt. Smythies). For the last mentioned copyhold the annual quit rent was £1 and the fine paid on Capt. Smythies' admission was £35.

For particulars of the Map to be sold separately see Lot 5A. 

Lot #3 of 'Beaumont Collection' Auction - Nov 1954

According to Morant, the Hall, which was the Manor House, stood near the north-west corner of the Churchyard in the reign of Edward the Confessor, Brietmar was the Lord and at Domesday Survey it was held by Ralph Linel, and "Geffrey de Magnaville has service of this land." Afterwards, it was divided into two Manors, Great Bromley and Cold Hall. Of the latter Morant wrote: "There is very little account of this manor. It went mostly along with the other." The records show that in 1549 it got into the hands of William Cardinall who acquired the Manor of Great Bromley in 1542 from Sir John Guildford. From then onwards the two Manors appear to have been dealt with as one. 

This Manor passed throught henads of the Earls of Oxfrod, William de Langvalei, John de Burgh, the de Gresleys, the Dorewoods, Sir John de Guildford, Silliam Cardinall, William and Edward Cardinall (1537), Sir Thomas Bowes, whose son Thomas married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Harlamenden, of Earls Colne. His son, Thomas Harlamenden Bowes, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Smith, of Sutton in Suffolk. In 1704 Sir Corill Bishop was Lord, afterwards the Mannock family, a court being held on 30th September, 1765 for Sir William Anthony Mannock, Baronet, a minor. In 1788 Thomas Wright held his first Court, afterwards John Hanson (1793) whose last Court was held in 1824. John Turner followed him and Alexander Baring was the Lord in 1829, the title remaining with hat family until 1895, when it passed to William Nocton. Lord Ashburton re-purchased it in 1913 from Nocton's Mortgagees and sold it, together with Martell's Hall in Ardleigh, to George Frederick Beaumont in 1917. 

The grandfather and great-grandfather of Charles Eade, Editor of the Sunday Despatch, were copyhold tenants of this Manor. Robert Eade, of Ardleigh, was on 12th July, 1873 admitted tenant of copyhold land containing "one acre more or less, on which a messuage formerly divided into two tenements and Smith's shop were long since built." The fine paid to the Lord was £16. On 28th August, 1892 he acknowledged free tenure in respect of another piece of land (formerly waste) with a shred thereon at a yearly rent of one shilling and he paid a relief of a like amount. IN 1898 he enfranchised the two properties, i.e. did away with the manorial incidents for all time, at a cost of £48, but the minerals, sporting rights, etc. were in the enfranchisement deed reserved to the Lord. In 1925 Percy Fairweather, who had acquired the properties, obtained release of these rights upon payment of £2 to George Frederick Beaumont, who was then the Lord. This provides a good example of what has happened with many properties which were formerly copyhold. It is possible for solicitors acting for vendors or purchasers of such properties to lay themselves or their clients open to claims for damages if proper enquiries are not made as to the position with regard to minerals etc on earlier transactions. The opening and working of a gravel pit on property the present Lord or his Steward can prove to have been formerly copyhold could render the owner liable to any action for account and damages. 

The custom of descent in this Manor was to the eldest son; the fines on some properties arbitrary and on others certain; and certain properties were heriotable. 

There is an interesting modern Quit Rent Book included in the records to be handed over, covering the period October, 1895 to October, 1921. Robert Walter Grimston (of the Verulam family), who lived at Colne Place, Earls Colne, is entered as paying a free rent of 1/2d. p.a. and Lord Onslow 5/2. as quit rent. The following are pencil notes made on 5th October, 1895 by the collector against the entry David Barber, quit rent 9/11d.: "Dead - heriot - I mark horse - the best." In 1906 against Walter Grimston 1/2d.: "Marked a roan mare and set price £9." These entries are interesting as showing that the old practice of marking heriots was still practised in the present century. 

The manorial records (insured for £250, premium 12/6d. p.a.) to be handed over are:

• Court Rolls: 1660-75; 1677-85; 1679; 1685-88; 1698-1702; 1704-09; 1715-19; 1720-27; 1727-1729.
• Court Books: 1690-1747; 1732-57; 1748-86; 1759-92; 1786-1815; 1793-1818; 1816-46; 1819-51; 1851-70; 1870-1935.
• Quit Rent Book: 1895 onwards
• Terrier: 1604

Lot #1 of 'Beaumont Collection' Auction - Nov 1954

Layer Breton lies six miles South West of Colchester on the road to Tollesbury. A feature of the Village is the Heath, which has an area of about 32 acres, the greater part of which is in the Parish of Layer Breton, while a very small portion - about 2 acres - is in the Parish of Birch. 

All the title and interest of the vendors in the Heath and in such roadside verges as lie within the Parish of Layer Breton are included in the Sale. An ordinance Map of the Parish can be inspected at the office of Messrs. C.M. Stanford & Son, High Street, Colchester, on which the Heath has been coloured to correspond with a plan held by the Lexden & Winstree R.D.C., Rebow Chambers, Sir Isaac's Walk, Colchester. The Council's plan shows only the Heath coloured and it is presumed that this is the only part affected by the Council's bye-Laws. The Vendors, nevertheless, claim that the roadside verges form part of the wastes of the Manor. 

The Manor is sold subject to the following: 

1. An easement in favour of the South Essex Waterworks Company dated 26th May, 1936.
2. A scheme under the Commons Act 1899 and the Lexden and Winstree R.D.C. Bye-Laws made under it and brought into operation on 1st September, 1948.
3. A right of way granted to Mrs. M. A. Renwick by a deed dated 28th September, 1953.
4. The Wayleave agreements referred to below. 
5. The rights as the Lexden and Winstree R.D.C. have in respect of water pipes laid under the Heath following a notice given to the Vendors on 22nd September, 1934. 

Copies of the documents referred to above can be seen at the offices of the Solicitors. 

Income in this Manor is derived from: 

1. Two Wayleave agreements with Eastern Electricity Board, with rents totaling £1 16s. 6d. per annum.
2. Rent for grazing on the Heath, £5 per annum having been paid for this up to a few years ago. It is not now let. The right to let the grazing is subject to the rights of commoners, so far as thy can be shown to exist, but no right to graze has , to the best of the vendors' knowledge, been claimed by any commoner since the Manor was purchased by the late Mr. G.F. Beaumont in 1906. 
3. Payments from time to time of £7 by a travelling Showman for the Vendors' consent to placing his roundabouts and sideshows on part of the Heath, such consent being given after consultation with the Police, R.D.C. and the Chairman of the Parish meeting. 
4. The sporting rights over the heath have from time to time been let, but they are not let at the present time. 

According to Morant (History and Antiquities of the County of Essex Vol. 1, Page 409) the owner of the land in this Parish in Edward the Confessor's reign was Ailmar, while Ralph Piperell and his undertenant held the Manor at the time of the Domesday Survey. It later came to Isaac Rebow, who was knighted on 27th March, 1693. (His name is kept alive in Colchester by the name given to the Lexden and Winstree R.D.C. Office - Rebow Chambers). His grandson Charles Chamberlain Rebow inherited the Manor and died in 1754 leaving an only daughter (by his wife, Mary Nevill, sister of the Rt. Hon. William Lord Abergavenny) who married Thomas Adams. In 1789 the Manor was in the hands of John and Elizabeth Gripper, who were Quakers, and their Steward was William Francis. On 11th May, 1804, a Court was held for John Gripper and it is interesting to know that it was held at Layer Breton Hall, though the Manor House abuts on the Heath. A Court was also held for Edward Gripper on 19th May, 1828 at Layer Breton Hall, but his Court of 17th October, 1839 was held at the house of Jonathan Powell. This gentleman, with John Tiffen, formed the Homage, or Jury, and it is recorded that the former affirmed, being a Quaker, instead of being sworn in the usual manner. John Tiffin, a farmer of Layer Breton, purchased the Manor from Edward Gripper's Executors on 30th September, 1867 and held his first Court at the "Hare and Hounds", Charles H. T. Marshall, the Colchester Solicitor, being Steward. Charles Digby Garrod was the next Lord and on his death in 1905 the Manor was sold by his Executors to the late George Frederick Beaumont of Coggeshall. His only Court was held on the 27th June, 1907, the Steward being his eldest son, Horace Frederick Beaumont, one of the Vendors. 

There are many interesting entries in the records of this Manor, such as examples of payment of quit rents in kind, viz. a capon and a race of ginger, and for students of place names there are numerous curious words, viz. Stamps and Crows, Trowers and Wrights, Farthing Garden, Downings, Washings, Mary Lay's Plot, The Bushes, Golding's Garden, Bigwoods and Littlemans, Hocklays, and Ladylands. 

The little church standing on the Heath was erected in 1906 in memory of the Rt. Hon. James Round, from money raised by public subscription, upon a site given by the late Mr. G. F. Beaumont, then Lord of the Manor. 

The lifting of turf from roadside waste in this Manor by one of the Lords gave rise to articles in the Essex County Standard in April and May, 1951 and the Sunday Despatch in May of the same year. This publicity resulted in applications being received from several hundred persons for particulars of the proposed auction. 

The Manorial Records (insured for £200, premium 10/0 p.a.) to be handed over are: 

• Court Rolls: 1668-1712; 1728-97; 1803-05; 1807-12
• Court Books: 1789-1818; 1818-1889; 1890-1933
• Minute Book: 1789-1855
• Draft of Courts: 1789-1812
• Sundry: Rentals, draft admissions, surrenders, enfranchisement deeds, etc. 

In connection with the above reference to Lord Abergavenny it is interesting to note in a recent Obituary in the Times that the eight Earl of Abergavenny "as Lord of the Manor of Ditchling, sold the common rights in 1950 to 20 residents for £100 to help in preserving the character of the common, and as Lord of the Manor of Rottingdean he fought against the scheme of the Brighton Corporation to build on sites surrounding the downland village." 

Mr. Bert Osborne, licensee of the "Hare and Hounds" has recently been appointed Bailiff of this Manor. A former Bailiff, who will sill be remembered in the district, was the late Mr. Norman Smith. 

Lot #2 of Manorial Services Auction - Nov 2022 - Stephen Johnson

(In association with Strutt & Parker)

On the banks of the River Chelmer, lies the  parish of Little Waltham. This is an ancient settlement:  when the road through the village was upgraded, the  site of an Iron Age village was found. When the area  was recorded for Domesday Book in 1086 it was  found that it was held by Earl Eustace. Powers Hall  was once a separate manor which was later merged  into that of Little Waltham. It survived as a house into  the 18th century. 

After the death of Eudo, the manor passed  to his son Hugh Fitz-Eudo and thence to his son  Robert Fitz-Hugh. It remained with his descendants  until 1189 when it came to Robert de Tatteshall. In  1205 he served as sheriff of Huntingdonshire and  Cambridgeshire, dying in 1211. His son Robert,  married Mabel, daughter of the Earl of Arundel and  through this marriage he obtained considerable  estates including the manor and castle of Buckenham  in Norfolk. In 1263 his son and heir, Robert (II) was granted charter to turn some of his demesne land in  Little Waltham into a park. Two further Robert de Tateshull followed. The fourth of that name died in 1302  and his lands and estates were divided among a number of relatives. Little Waltham came to Thomas de Caili  who was summoned to four Parliaments during the reign of Edward II and died childless in 1316. 

The manor passed to his nephew, Adam de Clifton. After his death Little Waltham passed to his  grandson John who succeeded to the whole estate in 1363 after the death his mother. He was summoned  to Parliament in 1377 and 1388 but died whilst on the island of Rhodes soon afterwards, leaving his estate  to his son Constantine who died only a few years later, in 1396. His son and heir, Sir John de Clifton (II) did  not inherit Little Waltham since John de Clifton, before his death abroad, had actually sold Little Waltham to  a local man, Richard de Waltham and his wife Margaret in order to raise money for his trip to the Holy Land.  Sadly he only made it as far as Rhodes since there is no record of him arriving in Jerusalem. 

Richard de Waltham was succeeded by his son John, who died in 1418 and is buried beneath the  chancel of St Martins, the parish church. His son and heir, Richard, was also buried here on his death in 1426.  The next recorded Lord of the Manor was John Mabon who died in 1447. He was likely a relation of the De  Waltham family but the relationship is not certain. It then passed to the Mildmay family, who held it for two  centuries. Sir Thomas Mildmay, the fourth of that family to be Lord of Little Waltham served as High Sheriff  of Essex and Hertfordshire and sat as a member of Parliament for Bodmin. In 1625 the manor was sold to  the Sir William Luckyn of neighbouring Great Waltham. This family of landed gentry were the social equals of  the Mildmays and very much the backbone of county life. Sir Capel Luckyn, who succeeded his father, sat as  member of Parliament at various times between 1647 and 1679. More specifically he sat as MP for Hawrich  during the Long Parliament which lasted through the years of the Commonwealth until the Restoration of  Charles II in 1660. 

Sir William Luckyn succeeded to his father’s estates after the death of his elder brother and he was  created a baronet in 1661. He was last of the Luckyn line, his only heir was his daughter Anne. It appears that  after she inherited the title she sold it to John Edwards of Huntingdon who married Susanna, the daughter  of Sir Richard Munden who commanded the naval squadron which retook St Helana from the Dutch in  Mildmay Arms 9 Monument to Sir Willam Luckyn Little Waltham the war of 1673. From him it passed to his son Henry, who was a lawyer of Lincoln’s Inn and a master in  Chancery. He died in 1726. His son and heir, John, sold Little Waltham in 1761 to Daniel Harrington. The  date of Harrington’s death is uncertain, but in 1801 the manor was being administered by his son Thomas.  The admission of William Kirkham as a manorial tenant on 18 June 1801 confirms this and a will of his father  dated from 1795 suggests that he died before the turn of the 18th century.

In 1874 the Lord of the Manor was Rev. Henry Savile Young. He was son of Rev Henry Tufnell Young  and was born in 1843. Henry Tufnell Young married Josephine Savill of Little Waltham and it is possible that  the manor passed to the Young family through this marriage. In 1896 Henry Savile Young sold the Lordship  to Adolphus Maskell and it has remained in the possession of his descendants until the present day.

Documents in the Public Domain Associated with this Lordship:

1415-1415: rental Essex Record Office 1639-1912: court rolls/books 1810: schedule of court rolls and rentals 1813: rental 1834 rental 1899: rental 

Lot #3 of Manorial Services Auction - Nov 2022 - Stephen Johnson

(In association with Strutt & Parker)

Nestled on the borders of Suffolk and Norfolk is the  village of Palgrave. It lies one mile to the south of the  small town of Diss, and is divided from the latter by  the River Waveney which eventually meanders its way  to the North Sea at Lowestoft. At the centre of the  village is Wide Green which found favour with the  topographical historian and traveler Arthur Mee who  noted in his Kings of England that no pleasanter English  setting could be found than the Wide green, planted with  avenues of trees, which forms the Village street of Palgrave. 

The manor of Palgrave can be dated to a time  before the invasion of the Normans in 1066 when  it was a property of the Abbot of St Edmunds. It  was granted by Athulf, Bishop of Elmham and Earl  Wolfstan to the Monks of St Edmunds in 962 and the  succeeding abbots were Lords of the Manor until the  house was dissolved in 1539. The Abbey was one of the wealthiest Benedictine monasteries in England and developed as a site of pilgrimage after the remains of  the martyred kind, Edmund, were moved to the site in 903. He was killed fighting a great Norse host in 863  and was considered to be the unofficial patron saint of England until the reign of Edward III. 

Palgrave was surveyed in 1086 and found to be a considerable and valuable manor. It was estimated  to be worth £8 a year which was a large amount and actually increased its value since the Invasion by £2.  There were several hundred acres of demesne land and the Abbot was noted as owning 2 rouncies, 12  beasts, 6 hogs, and 8 sheep. A rouncie was a horse used for riding. 

In 1554 the manor was granted to Sir Thomas Cornwallis and his wife Anne. Born in 1518, Cornwallis  was the eldest son of Sir John Cornwallis, Steward of the Household of Edward VI. He trained as a lawyer and  was knighted by the king in 1548. A year later he assisted in the government’s attempts to crush the rebellion  led by Robert Kett and was temporarily taken prisoner by Kett’s rebels in Norwich. After Edward’s death in  1553 he initially supported Lady Jane Grey as queen but rapidly changed his mind when he heard that the  population of London had not reacted well to her accession. After he had sworn his allegiance to Mary, she  made him one her councilors. In May 1554 he was appointed treasurer of Calais and is was around this same  period that he was granted the manor of Palgrave as part of a larger grant including the manor of Brome  Hall. He remained in charge of England’s last foothold in France for four years but was considered by some  too willing to give the town up to the French. 

This was far from true and he repeatedly warned the Queen that the English garrison in Calais was  too weak. In January 1558 the town fell to the French and he was blamed by some. After the death of Mary  he lost his place at court as Elizabeth ousted prominent Catholics. He retired to Norfolk but in 1569 was  arrested in suspicion of aided a rising in the North. Imprisoned for over a year, Cornwallis was released in  June 1570. Though he professed his loyalty to the Queen he retained his Catholic faith, often in secret. He  was official branded a recusant and remained so until his death in 1604. 

The manor of Palgrave descended to Sir Thomas’ son, Sir William and it remained in the possession of  the family until 1823. Sir William’s son, Frederick was created 1st Baron Cornwallis of Brome. There were four  subsequent Barons until Charles Cornwallis, who was born in 1700 was created Earl Cornwallis in 1762. His  son Charles, one of the most famous generals of the American War of Independence and Governor-General  of India, was created Marquess Cornwallis in 1792. Palgrave was sold to Matthias Kerrison of Bungay, who  served as MP for Eye in the 1820s. He was succeeded by his son, General Sir Edward Kerrison of Oakley Park  who commanded a regiment at the Battle of Waterloo. His son, Sir Edward 2nd Bt., died childless in 1886  and his estates, including Palgrave, passed to his sister, Agnes. She was married to Lord William Bateman but  held the manor as Lady Bateman after her husband’s death. In 1920 the manor was purchased with the rest  of the Oakley Estate titles by Adolphus Maskell in 1924. On his death in 1937 the manor passed equally to  his daughters, Hilda Parker and Ruby Malpass. Hilda died in 1959, and Ruby in 1964. Subsequently the manor  has remained in this family until the present day.  

Documents associated with this manor in the public domain:

1271-1275: court rolls Suffolk Archives, Ipswich 1312-1313/1402: minister’s accounts 1314-1679: court rolls  1416-1663: rentals, estreats and accounts (roll) 1500-1600: extent (1 vol) 1546-1546: estreat 1550-1600: memorandum 1555-1577: bailiff’s accounts, 1559-1878: collyer book (lists of holders of office) 1556-1562: account book 1609-1768: surrenders and admissions 1612-1669: court books 1732-1780: court book 1804-1869: court book 1773-1800: rental 1823-1832: court fines received 1887-1897: minute book 1905-1937: court book 1334-1335: rental British Library 1547-1563: court book 1357-1357: custumal 1361-1379: terrier 1386-1562: rental 1561-1562: survey (with transcript) 1562-1562: list of tenants 1335-1336: court roll Mannington Hall 1383-1384: messor’s accounts 1389-1390: court roll 1412-1413: court roll 1341-1422: court rolls Norfolk Record Office 1542-1543: survey The National Archives 

Lot #4 of Manorial Services Auction - Nov 2022 - Stephen Johnson

This manor was created as a sub-infeudation of the manor of Stansted Mountfitchet on the founding  of Thremhall Priory in the mid 12th century by Gilbert de Mountfitchet. It is reported that before Gilbert  departed on a pilgrimage to he Holy Land he gave land at Thremhall to a Scotsman called Daniel and  arranged to have a monastery built there. The new manor was to provide it with land and an income. The  priory was Augustinian and was one of the smaller such houses in the South of England. In 1291 it was  valued at £17 2s and was found to receive rent from lands in Tendring, Manuden, Takeley, Farnham, Hatfield  Regis, Birchanger, Elsenham, Ongar and Hallingbury in Essex as well as Thorley, Stortford and Brent Pelham in  Hertfordshire. When the priory was dissolved in 1536 it was found to be worth just £60. The Priors were  Lord of the Manor of Thremhall for over 300 years and are named as:

Daniel  William, occurs 1202

Robert John, occurs 1241 and 1250 

John, occurs 1306 

William de Shereford, died 1368.  

John de Takeley, elected 1368 

Richard de Brangtre, resigned 1403 

John Rokby, died 1438 

Reginald Harneys, died 1465 

John Crowne, collated died 1474 

John Herbert, resigned 1489 

John Hasilton, occurs 1492.  

Simon Sponer, the last prior.  

Thremhall lies in the extensive parish of Stansted Mountfitchet, near to the borders of Hertfordshire  and a few miles east of Bishop’s Stortford. The area is now known internationally as the home of Stansted  Airport. Thremhall lies to the south of the airport, on the northern fringes of Hatfield Forest. There is nothing  left of the priory itself but a house was later built on the site after it was purchased with the manor by the  Houblon family in the 18th century. They built a residence on the site of the old priory and lived there for a  time, furnishing the house from their nearby estate at Great Hallinbury. 

After the dissolution of the priory, the manor and its lands were retained by the Crown until the  reign of Elizabeth I when it was granted to Sir John Cary and Joyce Walsingham. Cary was a well connected  relative of the Duke of Somerset and later married Joyce, who was a widow. They passed the lordship to  their son, Wymond, who sold it in 1566 to land speculators, William Glascock and John Pavyott. The Glasscok  family held Thremhall Priory for three generations before it was sold to Thomas Ray, son in law of George  Glassock. In 1692 George Ray was Lord of the Manor. His son, the Reverend Thomas Ray, died without a  male heir and therefore his estate passed to his daughter, who was married to a Dr Robinson. The descent  of the manor over the next 50 years is rather opaque but by the middle of the 18th century it had come  14 into the possession of the Houblon family of nearby Great Hallingbury. This family were of Huguenot descent,  having fled persecution in the Spanish Netherlands in 1560. They settled in London and became wealthy  cloth traders and financiers. Sir James Houblon was knighted in 1691 and was a close friend of Samuel  Pepys, being mentioned on numerous occasions in Pepys’ famous diaries, as were his family in general. On 5  February 1666 Pepys writes I did some little business and visited my Lord Sandwich, and so, it raining, went directly  to the Sun, behind the Exchange, about seven o’clock, where I find all the five brothers Houblons, and mighty fine  gentlemen they are all, and used me mighty respectfully. We were mighty civilly merry, and their discourses, having  been all abroad, very fine. Here late and at last accompanied home with Mr. J. Houblon and Hill, whom I invited  to sup with me on Friday, and so parted and I home to bed. It was Houblon’s grandson, Jacob, who purchased  Themhall Priory as an adjunct to his Great Hallingbury Estate, which had been acquired in 1729. 

Jacob Houblon was a classic member of the 18th century Landed Gentry. He sat in Parliament  for over thirty years for Colchester and then Hertford and represented the Tory faction after becoming a  ‘country squire. Indeed, when he married Mary Hyde Cotton in 1735 he became connected to the ‘Jacobite’  faction of which her father, Sir John Hyne Cotton, was a leading light. He later joined the Cocoa Tree Club,  the headquarters of the Jacobite Tory faction. After the failed rebellion led by Prince Charles Stuart in 1745  the Jacobite cause was dealt a near fatal blow and it perhaps not surprising that he did not stand at the next  election in 1747. He did return to Parliament in the 1760s as an independent.  

The Houblon family, later Archer-Houblon, remained as Lords of the Manor of Thremhall Priory until  the late 20th century when their representative, Mrs Puxley, sold it to a private buyer.  

Documents associated with this manor in the public domain:

1357-1860: court rolls (non-consecutive) Essex Record Office 1372-1399: estreats (in court roll) 1380-1380: list of suitors, with Pettits Fee (in estreat roll) non-consecutive 1505-1505: rental 1517-1531: estreat roll 1542-1542: orders to bailiff (among other papers) 1640-1640: rental (among steward’s papers, 1 bundle) 1640-1868: steward’s papers (1 bundle) 1642-1866: stewards’ papers  1642-1642: statement of arrears of rent (among steward’s papers, 1 bundle) 1646-1646: rental (among steward’s papers, 1 bundle) 1665-1665: estreat roll 1665-1665: presentment (among steward’s papers, 1 bundle) 1680-1680: list of tenants at court (among steward’s papers, 1 bundle) 1680-1692: presentments (among steward’s papers, 1 bundle) 1751-1866: accounts of rents (with accounts of fines, reliefs, etc, 1 bundle)57 1775-1775: rental 1775-1825: steward’s papers (1 bundle)9 1775-1781: court roll 1800-1800: rental 1850-1895: court book (1 vol) 1916-1918: accounts of rents received or due, with other manors (1 bundle) 1925-1932: account of rents due, with other manors (with other records, 3 bundles) 

Lot #5 of Manorial Services Auction - Nov 2022 - Stephen Johnson

The Manor of Treffos covers a large area on the south-east tip Llywelyn ap Gruffudd’s personal arms of the island of Anglesey. It is thought to be composed of two  areas centred on the village of Llangeod and a large area which  contains the improbably named village of - 

 Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwlllandtysiliogogogoch. 

It is accessed across the famous Menai bridge built by Thomas  Telford. The extent is thought to encompass around 10,00 acres  and includes the parishes of Llansadwrn, Llandegfan, Llangoed  and Pentraeth. 

Treffos has been an important place in Welsh history and is  thought to have been the favourite property of Prince Llewelyn  ap Griffith. It was here that Llewelyn held job councils when he  was negotiating with Edward I. Sometimes known as Llewelyn  the Last, he was the last native Prince of Wales and grandson  of Llewelyn the Great who was the king of North Wales and  became the “Prince of the Welsh” in 1228. Although divided  among a number of small kingdoms, Wales was still politically separate from England at this time although  there were close ties between the two peoples. However, war broke out between Llewelyn’s uncle, Dafydd  ap Gruffydd and Henry III which led to the loss of land in North Wales, east of Conway. This began a civil  war in the remaining Welsh areas and Llewelyn emerged as the victor after the Battle of Bryn Derwin where  Dafydd was defeated. He took advantage of the civil war between Henry and Simon de Montfort to increase  his grip on power in North Wales and after the latter defeat, Llewelyn went on the offensive in North Wales  and captured a number of key sites, including Hawarden Castle, near Chester to give himself more bargaining  power in negotiations with Henry. Llewelyn then led his army to more victories in North Wales and so came  to treat with Henry at Montgomery in 1267 where he was recognised as Prince of Wales by the English king.  

Llewelyn’s period of power in Wales was short lived; within months he was having problems with various  English border lords and this became worse when Edward I ascended to the throne in 1272. Edward  demanded that Llewelyn attend him at Chester and pay homage, but the Prince refused and he further upset  the king by marrying Eleanor, the daughter of Simon de Montfort, in 1275. A year later Edward declared  Llewelyn a rebel and led a huge army into North Wales and captured Anglesey. Llewelyn was forced to come  to terms and recognise Edward as his overlord. Much of his land was stripped from him, but he retained the  area west of Conway, including his Lordship of Teffos. In 1282 Wales erupted in rebellion once more and  although Llewelyn had not fomented the revolt he was swept along with it. Once more Edward invaded  North Wales and forced Llewelyn to flee south. He was killed at the Battle of Orewin Bridge, near Builth  Wells, on 11 December 1282 and so became the last Welsh, Prince of Wales.  

Edward took great delight in dismembering Llewelyn’s estate and in 1284 the manor of Treffos was granted  to the Bishop of Bangor. It became a residence the Bishops and is thought to have been the capital of a  Barony in right, by which the bishops claimed a seat in Parliament. The manor was granted by Edward to  Bishop Aenan after he christened the king’s son, Edward, as Prince of Wales at Caernarfon Castle in April  1284. The manor was given as a gift of thanks. At the same time the Bishops were granted the right to ferry  passengers across the Menai Strait at Borthwen and Cennant. 

The Bishops of Bangor remained as Lords of the Manor of Treffos into the 19th century. In a rather jarring  collision of the modern industrial world and the feudal, the Chester and Hollyhead Railway was recorded as  paying £35 for five acres of land to the Bishop as Lord of the Manor of Treffos in 1848.  

A report made by the Superintending Valuer for Wales, on behalf of the Inland Revenue Valuation Office, in  July 1950 noters the following; 

The Manor of Treffos extends into and comprises the whole or parts of the Parishes of Llansadwrn, Llanfair PwllGwyn-Gyll, Llandysilio, Llandegfan, Llaniestyn, Llangoed, Llandonna and Pentraeth in the County of Anglesey. It lies in  the Hundred of Dindaethwy, one of the six ancient Hundreds contained within the county. 

The boundary of the manor was given with this report and is reproduced here for identification purposes  only. 

Treffos itself lies within the parish of Llansadwrn. 

A selection of great many manorial documents associated with Treffos in  the Public Domain: 

1600- 1699: rent roll National Library of Wales: 1650- 1650: rents due, with other manors 1676: rent roll 1722: Bishopric rent roll 1728-1729: rental, chief and annual quit rents 1739: grant, office of seneschal, with Cantred 1773: rent roll, Bishop’s chief rent 1775- 1866: lease book, Bishopric of Bangor 1789: rental, quit rents 1807: deputation of gamekeeper 1811-1844: court books (3) 1819: rental, chief rents (in court book) 1826: valuation, part of Treffos 1827-1843: accounts (in court book) 1828-1829: rentals (2) (in court book) 1853-1856: rentals (2) (in court book) Llansadwrn Churc 

Lot #7 of Manorial Services Auction - Nov 2022 - Stephen Johnson

(Among 2-3% of manors which are registered with HM's Land Registry - Title #: WR80612)

At the time of the great survey of England, commissioned in 1085 by William the Conqueror and known to  us as ‘Domesday Book’, what was later to become the manor of Sagebury seems likely to have formed part  of the manor of Wychbold. This estate can be dated back to a grant of land made by King Ethelred to the  Priory of Worcester in 692. At the time of the Norman Invasion of 1066 the manor was in the hands of Earl  Godwin but after the Saxon defeat became the property of Osborne Fitz Richard.  

Unlike many of his contemporaries Fitz Richard, was born in England and held an estate before his  countrymen arrived as conquerors. After 1066 his lands increased in extent, and he received a number of  manors in Worcestershire and Warwickshire as a gift from King William and by marriage to a daughter of Earl  Ælfgar of Mercia’s daughter. Wychbold was one of the rare manors which was worth more in 1086, after the  invasion and struggle to assert Norman rule, than in the period before 1066. It is interesting to note that salt  production was providing a decent income in 1086. This was still the case in the 19th century when the Lord  of the Manor of Sagebury leased out his valuable salt rights in the area.  

At this early period, Sagebury formed an estate, or part of an estate, within the extent of Wychbold. The  Savage family, from whom the manor takes its name, were also the owners of an estate at Astwood which  was held by them from the Lords of Wychbold, the name being a corruption of Savage-bury. Both Astwood  ‘Savage’ and Sagebury shared a descent until the 14th century when, under the ownership of the Meynells,  they became separate manors.  

The Savage family in Sagebury were wealthy landowners who also held the manors of Newton, Pooley and  Baddesley Ensor in the parish of Polesworth. Geoffrey Savage married Petronillia, the daughter of Sir Hugh  Depsenser who was a powerful nobleman of national importance who would go on to play an integral role  in the faction of Simon de Montfort during the reign of Henry III (1216-1272). Geoffrey Savage must have  been on a comparable social footing to Despenser for this marriage to be entertained. After his death in  1230, Geoffrey’s son and heir, also Geoffrey (III) was a minor and so the care of the family estates passed  to Despenser and Geoffrey duly came into his inheritance at the age of 21 though he only lived until 1248.  He died childless and his estates passed to his uncle, William Savage who himself died childless in 1259. The  Savage estates became divided between his nephew, Thomas de Ednisoure, his sister Lucy and his brotherin-law Hugh Meynill (who had married another of his sisters - Philippa). Ednisoure received Pooley, whilst  Sagebury was allotted to Meynill.  

Meynill, or Meynell as it is spelt in some records, was  born in around 1225 at Kirk Langley in Derbyshire,  though his chief seat was at Meynell Langley in the  same parish. He married Philippa Savage in 1254.  Some records note Hugh as Lord de Meynell but  there is no record of him attending a Parliament.  He is known to have been a benefactor of Yeaveley  Preceptory in Derbyshire, as had been his father, Sir  William. Hugh died in 1285 and Sagebury passed to  his son, Hugh (II). This Hugh died in 1333 but since his  eldest son had predeceased him in 1314, Sagebury  passed to Hugh’s grandson, also named Hugh (III).  Often referred to as Sir Hugh de Meynell, this Lord  of Sagebury was summoned to the first Parliament  of Edward III. He is reported, in a number of sources, to have been present at the Battle of Crécy in August  1346 and later taken prisoner in the same campaign.  Four years later he received a grant of free warren for  his demesne lands in Sagebury meaning that he was  able to empark some of his demesne and keep game  animals. In 1352 Hugh was again fighting in France,  this time at the English victory at Poitiers on 19th  September of that year. During that battle a squire  by the name of Richard Meynell was killed, and there  is some speculation that this could have been Hugh’s  son. Information on the family is scant but it is known  that Hugh survived the French campaign and died  in 1364. Sagebury, along with the rest of the family  estates, then passed to Hugh’s second son, Ralph, the  last male heir. He was survived by four daughters Joan,  who married John Staunton, of Staunton Harold, and later Sir Thomas Clinton ; Elizabeth who married William Crawshaw; Margaret, married to John Dethick, of  Newhall and Thomasine, married to another member of the Dethick family, Reginald.  

Margaret emerged as Lady of Sagebury and thus, by right of marriage, her husband became its Lord. John  was the son of Ralph Dethick, the owner of Dethick Hall in Derbyshire and a neighbour of the Meynell’s. The  Worcester Visitation record of 1569 points to Margaret and John’s successor being their second son John,  who was born at Sagebury after 1410. He married Jane, a daughter of an unnamed landed family at Sagebury  in around 1417. He lived to be an extremely old man and died in 1503, when Sagebury passed to his son  Richard (II) on who’s death the manor was settled on his eldest son, Richard (III). During the years before  his father’s death Richard had had to deal with a law suit launched against him by his cousin, Thomas Dethick  of Newhall in Cornwall. He claimed Sagebury manor by right of being the grandson and heir of William  Meynell and in so doing attempted to remove ‘Thomas Dethick, bastard from the manor of Savagebury’. There  was evidently some confusion in the former’s mind since the latter, though from Worcestershire, was not  a member of the Sagebury branch and was certainly never Lord of the Manor. A few years later Thomas  of Newhall brought a second case, against Richard, the elder. This time his claim to Sagebury rested on his  assertion that both Richard and himself were grandsons of Margaret Meynell and that his claim on Sagebury  was equal. In fact, Thomas was the great-grandson, and so his second attempt to appropriate the manor also  failed. 

Richard (III) the younger inherited Sagebury in 1526 and was married to Elizabeth Newport. It was not long  before he too faced a challenge to his ownership, this time from Thomas Dethick’s son, William. William used  the same device to claim lineage from the Meynells but, like his father’s ill-fated legal sorties, this too failed  and Richard was secure in his ownership until his death in 1544. He was succeeded by his son, William. Once  more though his right to Sagebury was challenged by a family member, this time by his cousin William, who  himself had been born in the manor, his father being Richard’s younger brother, William. Flying in the face of  all sense and previous judgements, William’s son, John mounted a final legal battle to oust the rightful Lord  of the Manor in 1571 and once again the suit was lost. The date of William’s death is not recorded but it  must have been after 1583 since he is recorded as being in control of the estate in that year and claiming, by  right of the manor, free fishing in Henbrook, the stream which passed through the manor. William was then  followed by his son George, the last of the family to hold the title. George married Margery Tucke in 1587,  and by this time could well have been Lord of the Manor.  

In 1605 George sold Sagebury and its neighbour, Obden, to Edward and Dorothy Smyth who appear to have  been sitting tenants in both manors. As Lords of the Manor their tenure was fleeting and after eight years  they sold their interest in two halves in, 1613. The first, to an alderman of London, George Smythes, possibly  a relative, and the second to Henry and Elizabeth Miles.  

Born in around 1563 at Wyke Court in Somerset, George Smythes descended from a Lancashire family. He  was a member of the Goldsmith’s Company but also took up the law, being admitted to the Gray’s Inn in  1609. Two years later he was elected as Prime Warden of the Company and in the same year became an  alderman of the City. Later on that year he was elected Sheriff of London and the Goldsmith’s company  awarded him a gratuity of £100 ‘towards the tryming of his house and other charges in the time of his Shrievalty’.  Smythes died on 10 July 1615 and in his will he left the ‘manors of Ladysbury and Obden’ to his son Arthur -  having purchased the second part of the estate some months before his death. To the Goldsmith’s Company  he bequeathed ‘one guilt standynge Cupp of the value of thirty and five pounds’. He also directed that a banquet  should be held in his honour at the Company for which he provided £46. 

As a young man Arthur had found himself in debt courtesy of ‘the cunning practise of others’. Presumably he  fell into disreputable company and ran up debts described in legal proceedings brought against him by his  father in law as ‘liberal expenses’. Details of his life emerged during the case when it was found that he had  married Elizabeth Chaffin whilst underage and that, according to her testimony, he had treated her badly and ‘threatening her in verye evill termes and words unbeseeminge a husband’. Furthermore he refused to maintain  his wife or pay off his debts. His father-in-law, Giles Tooker, eventually persuaded Arthur that to save his  estates he must settle them on his wife and son, Arthur. As he grew older he left behind his rakish lifestyle  so effectively that he was knighted by Charles II and in 1630 was appointed as Sheriff of Worcestershire. In  1637 he and his son sold Sagebury and Obden to Thomas Nott. 

Of all the Lords of Sagebury up until this point, Nott was perhaps the most prominent. He was born in  London in 1606, the son of Roger Nott a citizen of the City of London. John entered the Merchant Taylors’  School in 1618 and matriculated at Cambridge University in 1621, finally graduating in 1628 after taking an  M.A. In 1637 he married Elizabeth Thynne of St Margaret’s, Westminster and in the same year bought the  manors of Sagebury and Obden. In 1639 he was knighted and in the following year acquired the remainder  of the crown lease of Twickenham Park, Middlesex, from the Countess of Home. 

When the Civil War broke out in 1641 Nott supplied horses to the King’s army and then he joined it, being  commissioned as a Lieutenant Colonel. He was mistakenly reported killed by Parliamentary forces during  their capture of Highworth in Wiltshire in July 1645 and by the end of the year, perhaps sensing the way  in which the war was proceeding he surrendered to Parliament after incurring immense debts. He had  not entirely finished with the royalist cause, since two years later he became involved in an uprising which  erupted in Glamorgan. This began when Parliament announced that all its soldiers who had enlisted after  August 1647 were to be dismissed without pay. This incensed the governor of Pembroke, John Poyer who  mutinied against Parliament and declared for the King. Nott may well have been one of the first Royalists who  came to Wales to assist him in his rebellion. He led a small army to Llandaff but was intercepted by a force  led by Major-General Laugharne and his troops dispersed. Nott managed to escape to England and remain  at large. Nott’s final act of defiance against Parliament occurred in the following year when he fomented  a riot in favour of the king at his Twickenham Park estate. It was quickly put down but Nott was arrested  and brought before the Committee for Compounding where he was found guilty and fined one 6th of his  estate’s worth - £1,257. At the hearing he loudly proclaimed his innocence, placing the blame on his wife.  He even had the audacity to demand money for damages to his property, but his appeals were dismissed by  the committee.  

For the remainder of the Commonwealth period, established  after the execution of Charles I, Nott kept a low profile. Ten years  after the riot he sold his part of Twickenham Park and only after  the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 did he emerge into public  life once more. He was given the post of gentleman-usher and then gentleman of the privy chamber. In both positions he was  close to the king, indeed in daily contact - being gentleman of the  privy chamber carried with it all the responsibilities which the title  suggests.  

Nott was a founding member of the Royal Society and died in 1681. He was succeeded as Lord of the  Manor of Sagebury by his son Thomas (II), of whom we know very little except that he died in 1703 and  was succeeded by his son, Thomas (III). He was eventually succeeded by Daniel Nott, who is identified as  the Lord of the Manor in a record of 1734 in which he appointed a gamekeeper, William Olliffe, for the  manors of Sagebury and Obden. In 1737 however, Nott sold the estate to Elizabeth Wood of Droitwich for  the sum of £5,675 13s 2d. It is described as consisting of ‘All those Lordships and Manors of Obden, Sagebury  otherwise Sadgbuy, in the said county of Worcester, with the rights, members, apputenances to them respectively  belonging and also all that new erected messuage or tenement called Obden with the ground and soil whereon the  old mansion house or capital messuage (before it was burnt down) formerly stood. And also that other messuage  and tenement called Sagebury House to- gether with all houses, out-houses, dovehouses, barns, stables edifices,  buildings gardens, orchards, courtyards, fouldyards and back-sides to the same messuages or tenements.’ 

Elizabeth’s first husband was John Amphlett, whose money the Notts had used to mortgage Sagebury to the  hilt. Elizabeth likely claimed the estate by way of default. Such was the discrimination in law against women  holding property that in 1742, it is her second husband, Thomas Wood, who is described as being Lord of  the Manor of Sagebury and granting a licence to game keep to William Oliffe, who appears to have been the  tenant farmer at Sagebury.  

The next recorded Lord of the Manor is Pynson Wilmot who is also described in a number of sources as a  ‘clerk’ and was a nephew of Simon Wood, owner of the nearby manor of Martin Hussingtree and therefore  likely related to Elizabeth Wood. In 1753, Pynson had a book privately printed in Birmingham and there is a  record of a Pynson Wilmott as serving as Vicar of Halesowen for over 50 years, and this may be our man.  One history notes that Wilmot died in 1784 when his estate passed to his son Robert. However, in ‘The  Heraldry of Worcestershire’ details are reported of a Pynson Wilmot, Vicar of Halesowen who was born in  1705 and died in 1798. To confuse matters more, this Pyson Wilmot was connected to the Bund family, to  whom the manor of Sagebury would later pass. According to the Victoria County History of Worcestershire,  Wilmot’s sister Anne married Thomas Henry Bund, but according to the ‘Heraldry’ descent, Anne was the  daughter of the Reverend Pynson Wilmot. Burke’s Peerage concurs that Anne was the daughter of the  Reverend. However, this entry gives a clue as to the identity of Pynson Wilmot. Anne is described as the only  surviving child of the Reverend and if he did die in 1798 then it would appear that the Pynson Wilmot, who  was Lord of the Manor of Sagebury was in fact, the Reverend Pynson Wilmot’s son, eclipsed in posterity by  the life and death by his father but who in fact was a wealthy man in his own right. He evidently remained  unmarried and when he died in 1784 Sagebury then passed to his brother Robert and then to Anne who  would also eventually inherit the estates of her father at Martin Hussingtree and at Shenstone. 

In 1802, Anne married Thomas Henry Bund. Though the estate at Sagebury actually belonged to his wife,  Bund was recorded as Lord of the Manor of both Sagebury and Martin Hussingtree in 1806 when he  granted licence to George Hartwright to be the gamekeeper for the two manors. This arrangement would  continue until Anne’s death when Sagebury and Obden were willed to Anne’s second daughter, Ursula. She  was married to the Reverend Henry Hill, the incumbent of Lye parish in the county. In 1875 the Hills sold  their interests in Sagebury and Obden to John Corbett. 

The reason for Corbett’s purchase of Sagebury and Obden was directly related to salt. None of the previous  Lords of the Manor of Sagebury appeared to have engaged in this local trade but Corbett was a salt  manufacturer from Staffordshire who had purchased the Stoke Prior Salt Works near Droitwich in 1852.  Born in 1817, he was the eldest son of five to a canal barge carrier who ran his boat from Brierly Hill. Though  he received little in the way of formal education, Corbett was an autodidact in the subject of mechanics. His  private studies eventually enabled him to leave the employ of his father on the barge and at the very late age  of 23 he was apprenticed to William Lester, chief engineer of the Hunt and Brown iron- works in Stourbridge.  Family drew him back once more when in 1846 he was forced to abandon his career as an engineer and  return to the family firm - Corbett & Son - which by this time had become a much larger concern. With  his father he operated a great many barges on the still prosperous waterways between Staffordshire and  London, Liverpool and Manchester. Perhaps sensing that the age of the canal was in decline in the face of  competition from the railways, Corbett sold his firm in 1852 and invested his capital in the Stoke Prior works.

 Corbett was incredibly successful in his efforts. He raised output at the works from 26,000 tons per year in  1852 to an astonishing 200,000 tons by the mid 1870s. It was not for nothing that Corbett was known as  The Salt King. With the money he raised he could become a landowner and so bought the neighbouring  Sagebury estate in 1875 to complete his transformation from bargeman’s son to Lord of the Manor. It is likely  though that he required easier access to the salt riches below the lands of Sagebury rather than the Lordly  honour its possession endowed. However, he tempered his pursuit of riches with a desire to help those who  worked for him. In this regard he was a model employer; providing houses, gardens, school and a wealth of  social activities and amenities. Recognising the dangers of working in the salt works, he banned female labour  in 1859, but to compensate families for the subsequent loss of income, he raised wages for the remaining  male workers. This particular act of philanthropy is commemorated by a window in Stoke Prior Church. By  the 1880s Corbett had decided to devote more of his time to politics and more particularly to the Liberal  party. In 1868 he tested the water by standing for election against Sir John Pakington, the sitting MP. Though he  was defeated the was not deterred from fighting the same candidate six years later in the election of 1874.  This time he triumphed, though the Conservatives would form the government. He remained in Parliament  for the next 15 years though he did not stand out in the chamber as he had done as an industrialist. He was  an effective local MP and was always a supporter of women’s suffrage, one of the first to voice this support  publicly. He retired from Parliament in 1892.   

Locally, Corbett leant his support and wealth to a number of institutions. He provided land and buildings for  The Corbett Hospital at Stourbridge in 1892 and paid for the erection of Salters’ Hall, a large building used  for numerous public uses which has now been demolished. He gave generously to Birmingham University, of  which he was a governor. He died died at Impend on 22 April 1901. 

Though he had two sons, Corbett left his estate to his brother, Thomas. He was separated from his wife, in  1884, which may explain this decision. Thomas died in 1906 and the estate was formed into a trust. The Trust  continued for many years until the Manor was finally settled on Peter Harris who was Lord of Sagebury from  1961 to 1968, when it passed to Peter Harris. There were several changes in ownership until the present  Lord obtained it in 2003. 

Lot #6 of Manorial Services Auction - Nov 2022 - Stephen Johnson

Ulting Manor lies in the parish of the same name, a Coat of Arms of Henry Bourchier, 1st Earl of Essex. few miles north of Hatfield Peverel and on the north  bank of the River Chelmer. It is the home of the  Toastmasters General Council, who have their office  in the village. It was also the site of the first sugar  beet factory in England, which was built in 1832 by  brothers Robert and James Marriage. They believed  that by refining sugar from home grown beet this  would reduce dependence on imported sugar grown  with the use of slave labour.

The earliest record for the Manor comes in  Domesday Book which notes that before the Norman  invasion it had been the property of Hacen. After 1066  it was taken from him and given to Ralph Baynard. It  was quite a prosperous manor and was recorded as  being worth £4. During the reign of Henry I (1100- 1135) Ulting was stripped from Baynard’s grandson,  William, after he had supported a rebellion of Robert,  Duke of Normandy in 1101. Baynard was one of the few Anglo-Norman barons who supported the Duke and paid a heavy price. The Baynards are perhaps most  remembered today for building Baynard’s Castle, in Co Durham. 

Henry granted Ulting to Robert Fitz-Gilbert, founder of the line which became the Earls of Clare.  It is likely that Fitz-Gilbert was the overlord of Ulting since by the reign of Henry II (1154-1189) the manor  complex was held by William de Ulting, perhaps a descendant of Gerrard, who was recorded as holding the  Manor from Ralph Baynard in 1086. The Ultings were likely of the class which became known as the landed  gentry. Consequently very little is recorded of the family, save that they held Ulting by a knight’s fee. In 1320  John Ulting succeeded to the manor and it is noted that he held it from Robert Fitz-Walter by payment of 3  shillings and from the Prior of Beeleigh Abbey for the same amount. The demesne is described as consisting  of 40 acres of arable and 2 acres of meadow. Given the propensity of copyhold tenure in Essex, it is likely  that he had a number of feudal tenants. 

Within a few years however, the De Ulting family had lost their titular estate. How this happened is not  known but there are a couple of references in the Chancery records of a John De Ulting being prosecuted  as a debtor in the middle of the 14th century so it seems likely that the family ran into financial trouble and  were forced to sell. By the 1340s the Manor was the property of Robert Bourchier or Bouchier. 

The Bourchier family were of Norman descent and settled in Essex soon after the Conquest. By the reign of  Edward II (1307-1327) John Bouchier of Colchester had been knighted and served as one of the Justices of  the Kings Bench. His son Robert, was a great favourite of Edward III and was made Lord Chancellor in 1340,  at a fee of £500 per year. Bourchier was the first layman to hold this position, ousting Archbishop Stratford. In  the struggle between the King and the Archbishop which followed, Bourchier withheld the writ of summons  to Stratford, interrupted his address to the other Bishops in the Painted Chamber of Parliament, and urged  him to submit to the King. Bourchier fought with notable distinction at the Battle of Crecy in 1346 where he  served under the immediate command of Prince Edward, the Black Prince. He was created Baron by Writ  of Summons in 1342 and was succeeded by his son John on his death in 1349.  

The family remained Lords of Ulting until the death of Sir Bartholomew in 1409. On his death his estate  passed to his daughter, Elizabeth and so to her husband, Sir Hugh Stafford. He was summoned to Parliament  20 Sir William Parr as Lord Bourchier by Henry V. He died childless in 1421 and Utling then reverted to the Bourchier family.  Henry, Earl of Essex, died holding the manor in 1483 and was succeeded by his only daughter, Anne who was  married to Sir William Parr. Parr was the only brother of Catherine, the sixth and final wife of Henry VIII. He  was the son of a Lancashire courtier and came to the attention of the king after his success in the suppressing  the great Northern uprising of 1537 known as the the Pilgrimage of Grace. He became a member of the  privy chamber and in 1543, a few weeks after his sister had married Henry, he was created Earl of Essex, in  honour of his father-in-law. After Henry’s death and the accession of Edward VI in 1547, Parr became one  of the most important men at court, and was known as the king’s ‘beloved uncle’. He was the leader of the  Protestant party in Edward’s regime and held a series of positions including Lord Great Chamberlain (1550- 1553). After Edward’s death in 1553, Parr and his second wife, Elizabeth Brooke moved to have Lady Jane  Grey placed on the throne instead of Mary but after the failiure of this plan he was arrested and convicted  of high treason. Although he was sentenced to death he was released only a few months later, but his estates  had been stripped from him and Ulting passed to the Crown. On the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558 he was  restored and created Marquess of Northampton. For reasons unknown, the manor of Utling however was  not returned to him. It is possibly because it had passed to Anne Bourchier, from whom he was divorced in  1542 after she had eloped. She is said to have told Parr that she intended to live as she lusted!

In March 1573 Queen Elizabeth granted Utling and Utling Hall to Thomas Heneage one of her  devoted courtiers, who served as a member of Parliament almost continually from 1553 to 1593. He was  great friends with both the Earl of Leicester and Philip Sidney. He was described by the historian, William  Camden, as a man for his elegancy of life and pleasantness of discourse, born, as it were, for the court. On his  death the manor was purchased by Anthony Collins from whom it was held jointly by the husbands of  his two daughters, Walter Carew and Robert Fairfax. During the middle part of the 17th century it was  purchased by a lawyer, Joseph Banks who retained it until 1791 when he put it up for auction at The Saracens  Head in Chelmsford, a public house which is still open today. It appears to have been purchased by the father,  or grandfather, of R. Nicholson, whose trustees sold the property in 1854. 

In 1878 the Lord of the Manor was Sir George Samuel Brooke Bt. who died in 1897 and was succeeded by  his eldest son, Sir Samuel George Brooke-Pechell and his second son, Sir Augustus Alexander Brooke-Pechell  in 1904. The manor remained in the possession of this family until 1983 when it was sold by the Trustees of  the Pechell Trust to the Ulting Overseas Trust, who in turn sold it to the present Vendor.  

Lot #2 of 'Beaumont Collection' Auction - Nov 1954

(Located in the parishes of Wivenhoe, Elmstead, Arlesford, and Greenstead)

Wivenhoe lies 4 miles South East of Colchester and was described by Morant as standing "for the most part, high and pleasant; and the rest upon a gentle declivity; and commands a  handsome prospect down the Colne-water. The fish brought hither, especially the soles, are reckoned the best in the Kingdom. Here there is only one Manor." In old records the variation in spelling include Wienhou, Wyneho, Wyenho, Wyfenho, Wyvenho, Uvenha, and Wivenhoo. Hoo is supposed to be taken from the Saxon word Hou, denoting a rising or hilly ground, but it is uncertain what the first syllable, Wiven, meant. 

At the time of the Domesday Survey, the Manor belonged to Robert Gernon, whose seat was at Stansted Mountfichet, and later through the Sutton, Walton and Howard families to John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford, of whom Morant says: 

"Becoming possessed of the Manor of Wivenhoe, he cast an envious eye upon the fishery, and noble royalty, belonging to the Corpoation of Colchester, in the river Colne running by his Manor and Demesnes, and granted by the Charter of King Richard the First to the Burgesses of Colchester, and got a grant of it from that weak Prince, King Henry the Sixth, 4th march, 1446. A case was brought against him and it was only after three trials that he was forced to relinquish his claim. For too zealously supporting the Lancastrian cause he was beheaded on 26th February, 1461 and his Estates were confiscated by the Crown and given by Edward IV to his brother Richard, Duke of Gloucester." 

In follows from the above quotation that there are no rights of fishery over the River Colne included in the present sale. 

Henry VII, succeeding to the throne after the Battle of Bosworth, 1485, restored John de Vere, second son of the beheaded Earl, to his inheritance. The Estate remained with the Oxfords for four generations before it was sold to Roger Townshend who distinguished himself at sea and was knighted for valour after the Armada. His heirs held the Estate until the middle of the 17th century when Sir Horatio Townshend sold it to Nicholas Corsellis, a merchant of London, whose family retained it until the end of the last century. It was sold by Ernest S. Beard (who bought it from the Corsellis family) in 1899 to George Frederick Beaumont whose first General Court Baron is recorded as having been held on 23rd November, 1899 at the Rose and Crown. 

Morant mentions "the ancient and singular custom" of a father, wishing to marry his daughter to any man who was not of the Manor, having to "make his peace" with the Lord of the Manor. How much was required to keep the Lord peacefully disposed we are not told, but we can imagine a fair source of income developing from the successful wooing of a number of gallants "extra Villam". (See Merchet in Glossary)

There are many entries of customs and plans of properties affected by transactions in the Lords' Courts recorded in the Court Rolls. One cannot do better than quote from an article entitled "A Note on the Manor of Wivenhoe" written by that great antiquarian, the late William Chapman Waller, F.S.A. of Loughton, in the Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society, Vol. X, Part 4. Space does not permit of a reproduction of the whole article but the first part of it cannot be omitted as it refers to the destruction of the Manorial Documents during the Peasants' Revolt. It reads: 

"The records of two courts held on January 8th and May 1st, 1381 (4 Ric. II) indicate that everything was going on as usual; the next, that of 'the first court held after the burning of all the rolls of the court and of account', is dated January 8th, 1382, and contains re-grants to the number of seventy-two." 

Later the following statement is enrolled:

"Whereas the tenants of the said manor holding native tenements, with other evil-doers and adherents, maliciously burnt and caused to be burnt both the rolls of this court and the extracts of the rolls of account, and claim to hold the said tenements at their own will, freely, and not at the will of the lord as they did before, to the disinheriting of the lord, wherefore all the said lands and tenements were seized into the lord's hands as forfeited, and now the said lord, of his special grace, has regranted all the said lands and tenements to the different tenants, to be held at the will of the lord in bondage, by the ancient services and customs, as will be evident below." 

"We have here," Mr. Waller points out, "no line drawn between innocent and guilty, as was the case at Wethersfield; all were guilty and all, apparently, were received into grace again, no fines being paid, and no free-will offering made, so far at least as the roll shows." 

One other extract from Mr. Waller's article is too interesting to omit: "In 1393," he writes, "Custumpottis to the value of 20d. are then brought into account, as from a given date; and in 1399 twenty-eight Custumpotts, to the value of 2s. 4d. were said to have accrued to the lord since the date of the last court." These, he suggests, may have been rendered by an ancient pottery within the limits of the Manor.  

Through the kindness of the Essex County Archivist, Mr. F. G. Emmison, F.S.A., F.R.Hist. S, F.R.G.S., it is possible to give the following translation by Canon J. L. Fisher, F.S.A. of an entry in the Court held on the Wednesday after Epiphany, 1404, which reads: 

"Sword on oath (twelve jurors) that no widow who holds a tenement as her free bench after the death of her husband may keep that tenement after "visitatu vel violata fuit" (?committing adultery, etc.) according to the custom of the Manor, and they say that Margery of Peter atte Cleve gave birth to a son out of wedlock. Therefore she shall lose the tenement with its appurtenances in Eldebethe called le Cleveland and le Newemelleland which she held as free bench. And on this came William atte Cleve and sought to be admitted to the same as heir, and this was granted." 

The title to the present Manor "Wivenhoe with its Members" indicates subsidiary manors. They are the Manors of Cockayne, which extended into Elmstead and Alresford, with 78 acres of heath (part or all of Elmstead Heath) according to the survey made in 1500, and Kelars or Rebandshide (later called Battels in Elmstead). Wright (Vol. i.p. 396) states that the court rolls of these two Manors were held separately from those of Wivenhoe in the reigns of Henry VII and VIII and that extents of the Manors in 1367 and 1595 set forth the tenants and estates of each Manor. 

From the above it is clear that there were formerly extensive heaths in these Manors, but the enclosures (especially that of Elmstead Heath) made throughout the country during the last century have resulted in their almost complete elimination. Only at Elmstead is there any sign that there was ever any common land. 

Fines on death or alienation were arbitrary, some properties were subject to heriots, and the custom of descent on intestacy was Borough-English (see Glossary for these terms). 

As the question of the discontinuance of the Ferry between Wivenhoe and Fingringhoe is of topical interest it might be mentioned here that a document dated 1612 has recently been found amongst the old manorial records, reading as under: 

"To the Ryght Worshipfull Sir Robt. Townsende Knight Lord of the Manor of Wevenhoe,

We whose names are here under wrytten doe humblye intreate you that you will be pleased to nominate and appointe this yerre one man Rycharde Qucklye to be your ferryeman for the ferrye of Wevenhoe and to have the keeping and custodye thereof as yt hath bene heretofore...and accumsomed." 

This petition has seven signatures, some of which are difficult to decipher, btu two of them are James Payne and Tho. Cross. Possibly the latter is an ancestor of Mr. Harold Cross of the printers of this Catalogue. This document will be handed to the purchaser on completion. 

Morant speaks of the Manor House, Wivenhoe Hall,  and of the other mansion, Wivenhoe Park, in the following words: "Wivenhoe Hall stands pleasantly, at the upper end of the Town. Whilst it belonged to the Earls of Oxford, who sometimes made it the place of their residence, it was a large and elegant seat, having a noble gate-house, with towers of great height, that served for a sea-mark. There is, partly in this parish, and partly in that of Grinstead, an estate, formerly belonging to the Beriff family. It hath been for some time converted into a park and belongs to Isaac Martin Rebow, Esq. who hath lately built a very good house in it, within the bounds of Wivenhoo Parish."

Wivenhoe  Hall was demolished some years ago; Wivenhoe Park is now the residence of Mr. C. M. D. Gooch. His father, Charles Edmund Gooch, was a copyhold and freehold tenant of the Manor and the last Court Book shows his admission on 7th December, 1902 before the late George Frederick Beaumont, Lord oand Steward of the Manor, to extensive holdings in the parish of Wivenhoe (including Thurstons and Perrymans and part of the waste land "upon the south side of the road leading from Colchester to Elmstead and adjoining the brook which divided the parish of Elmstead from Wivenhoe" containing 17 rods. Mr. Gooch paid a fine, based upon the annual value of the lands to which he was admitted, of £110 on this transaction. He also acknowledge that he held certain lands "freely by deed fealty suit of Court and the annual rent of two shillings and he paid the Lord a relief of nine shillings and ten pence for the same." The lands held freely were Little Readings, otherwise Readles, and a piece of land formerly part of the waste called Rebandyshatch. By an enfranchisement deed dated 4th November, 1903, the manorial incidents were extinguished for a sum not much short of £1,000. 

Mr. Arther Eade, father of Mr. Charles Eade, Editor of the Sunday Despatch, was a copyhold tenant of this Manor, being admitted on 9th January, 1909 to a property described as "All that messuage or tenement with the piece of waste land containing 8 rods, more or less situate lying and being in the parish of Wivenhoe," and this property was enfranchised on 2nd February 1909. Mr. Eades's grandfather and great-grandfather were copyhold and freehold tenants in the Manor of Great Bromley, Lot 3. 

The records (insured for £400 premium £1 p.a.) to be handed over probably constitute one of the finest collections in the country. They are as under: 

• Court Rolls: 1381-99; 1399-1412; 1422-60; 1488-1509; 1558-79; 1650-60; 1662-69; 1670-74; 1675-77; 1688-99; 1712-21; 1722-25; 1725-1731; 1731-41; 1732-34; 1742-47; 1747-57; 1758-65.
• Draft Court Rolls: 1452-1547; 1454-60; 1507; 1539; 1541; 1513-47.
• Extent: 1366
• Rental: 1475; 1500; 1743-45
• Survey: 1584. This is on parchment with three columns, the first contracted Latin, the second Latin extended and the third an English translation. 
• Petition: to appoint ferryman 1612
• Bailiff's Account: 1307-8; 1309-10; 1310; 1315-16; 1317-18; 1320-21; 1321-22; 1324-25; 1325-26; 1326-27; 1328-29; 1330-31; 1341-42; 1425-26; 1426-27; 1427-28; 1428-29; 1455-56; 1463-64; 1470-71; 1492-93; 1501-2; 1509-34; 1588-94; 1597-98; 1598-99; 1599-1600; 1603-05; 1613-19; 1621; 1624-25; 1631; 1652; 1678-79; 1682-84; 1688; 1700-01.
• Court Books: 1734-44; 1744-51; 1752-63; 1764-76; 1776-87; 1788-99; 1800-10; 1811-31; 1832-51; 1852-64; 1865-78; 1879-95; 1895-1930.
• Surrenders, Licenses to demise, etc.: 1729-41; 1742-54.
• Drafts of Courts: 1678-93; 1692-1705.
• Sundry Papers: Including rentals, drafts of admissions surrenders, enfranchisements deeds, etc. 

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