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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Sheffield and its Environs 13th to the 17th century + A descriptive catalogue of land charters and other documents + forming the Brooke Taylor collection + +Author: Thomas Walter Hall + +Release Date: August 20, 2011 [EBook #37130] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SHEFFIELD AND ITS ENVIRONS *** + + + + +Produced by Brownfox and the Online Distributed Proofreading +Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from +images generously made available by The Internet Archive) + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_i" id="Page_i">[Pg i]</a></span></p> + +<h1 class="normal">Sheffield and its environs 13th to the 17th century</h1> + +<p class="center large gap2">A</p> + +<p class="center x-large">DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE</p> + +<p class="center small">OF</p> + +<p class="center xx-large">Land Charters & Other Documents</p> + +<p class="center small">FORMING</p> + +<p class="center x-large"><span class="smcap">The Brooke Taylor Collection</span></p> + +<p class="center small">RELATING TO</p> + +<p class="center large">THE OUTLYING DISTRICTS</p> + +<p class="center small">OF</p> + +<p class="center x-large">SHEFFIELD</p> + +<p class="center normal">WITH 16 GENEALOGIES AND AN ARTICLE</p> + +<p class="center small">ON</p> + +<p class="center x-large">Hawksyard</p> + +<p class="center small">COMPILED BY</p> + +<p class="center normal"><span class="smcap">T. WALTER HALL Hon. M.A. (Sheffield) F.R.Hist.S.</span></p> + +<p class="center small gap2">SHEFFIELD</p> +<p class="center small">PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. W. NORTHEND LTD., WEST STREET</p> +<p class="center small">1922</p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_ii" id="Page_ii">[Pg ii]</a></span></p> +<p> </p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_iii" id="Page_iii">[Pg iii]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center small gap2">TO</p> + +<p class="center small">THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD</p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_iv" id="Page_iv">[Pg iv]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center large gap2">WORKS RELATING TO THE HISTORY OF +SHEFFIELD AND ITS ENVIRONS.</p> + +<p class="gap2">SHEFFIELD PEDIGREES volume I, by <span class="smcap">T. Walter Hall</span>. Containing +nine genealogies with notes.</p> + +<p class="ralign">Published <i>1909</i>, now out of print.</p> + +<p class="gap2">CATALOGUE OF THE CHARTERS, DEEDS, AND MANUSCRIPTS +IN THE PUBLIC REFERENCE LIBRARY AT SHEFFIELD, by +<span class="smcap">T. Walter Hall</span>; with Introductory Note by Mr. <span class="smcap">R. E. Leader</span> and +photographic reproduction of early 14th century Derbyshire charter.</p> + +<p class="ralign">Published <i>June 1912</i>. Price 2/-.</p> + +<p class="gap2">CATALOGUE OF THE ANCIENT CHARTERS BELONGING TO +THE TWELVE CAPITAL BURGESSES AND COMMONALTY OF +THE TOWN AND PARISH OF SHEFFIELD, WITH ABSTRACTS +OF ALL SHEFFIELD WILLS PROVED AT YORK PRIOR to 1554, +by <span class="smcap">T. Walter Hall</span>; with over 100 local genealogies and 4 photographic +reproductions of early Sheffield seals and an early 15th century Sheffield +charter.</p> + +<p class="ralign">Published <i>May 1913</i>. Price 2/6.</p> + +<p class="gap2">DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE CHARTERS, ROLLS, DEEDS, +PEDIGREES, PAMPHLETS, NEWSPAPERS, MONUMENTAL +INSCRIPTIONS, MAPS, AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, FORMING +“THE JACKSON COLLECTION,” AT THE SHEFFIELD PUBLIC +REFERENCE LIBRARY, by <span class="smcap">T. Walter Hall</span> and <span class="smcap">A. Hermann Thomas</span>: +with Prefatory Note by Dr. <span class="smcap">Henry Jackson</span>, O.M., Regius Professor of +Greek and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and five photographic +reproductions of ancient local documents.</p> + +<p class="ralign">Published <i>July 1914</i>. Price 5/-.</p> + +<p class="gap2">SHEFFIELD PEDIGREES volume II, contributed by Messrs. <span class="smcap">J. B. +Mitchell-Withers</span>, <span class="smcap">H. P. Marsh</span>, <span class="smcap">R. E. Leader</span>, <span class="smcap">S. O. Addy</span>, +<span class="smcap">W. S. Porter</span>, <span class="smcap">C. Drury</span>, and <span class="smcap">T. Walter Hall</span>. Containing 16 +genealogies with notes.</p> + +<p class="ralign">Published <i>January 1915</i>. Price 5/-.</p> + +<p class="gap2">DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF MISCELLANEOUS CHARTERS +AND OTHER DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE DISTRICTS OF +SHEFFIELD AND ROTHERHAM, WITH ABSTRACTS OF WILLS +PROVED AT YORK FROM 1554 to 1560; by <span class="smcap">T. Walter Hall</span>, with +315 local genealogies and six photographs of medieval charters, &c.</p> + +<p class="ralign">Published <i>September 1916</i>. Price 5/-.</p> + +<p class="gap2">THE PARISH REGISTER OF SHEFFIELD. Part I. BAPTISMS +AND MARRIAGES, 1560 to 1635. Transcribed and edited by +<span class="smcap">Charles Drury</span> and <span class="smcap">T. Walter Hall</span> of Sheffield; indexed by +<span class="smcap">John Charlesworth</span> of Wakefield. Privately printed for The Hunter +Archæological Society of Sheffield and The Yorkshire Parish Register +Society.</p> + +<p class="ralign">Published <i>1917</i>. Price 10/6.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_v" id="Page_v">[Pg v]</a></span></p> + +<p class="gap2">THE PARISH REGISTER OF SHEFFIELD. Part II. BURIALS +1560 to 1635; BAPTISMS AND MARRIAGES 1635 to 1653. Transcribed +and edited by <span class="smcap">Charles Drury</span> and <span class="smcap">T. Walter Hall</span> of Sheffield, and +indexed by <span class="smcap">T. Walter Hall</span>. Privately printed for The Hunter +Archæological Society of Sheffield and The Yorkshire Parish Register +Society.</p> + +<p class="ralign">Published <i>1918</i>. Price 10/6.</p> + +<p class="gap2">DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE CHARTERS, COPY COURT +ROLLS AND WILLS IN “THE WHEAT COLLECTION,” AT THE +SHEFFIELD PUBLIC REFERENCE LIBRARY; AND ALSO CHARTERS +FROM OTHER LOCAL COLLECTIONS, WITH ABSTRACTS +OF SHEFFIELD WILLS PROVED AT YORK FROM 1560 to 1566; +by <span class="smcap">T. Walter Hall</span>; with 285 local genealogies, and a Prefatory Note +by Mr. <span class="smcap">Hubert Hall</span>, of H.M. Public Record Office, F.S.A., and two +photographic reproductions of local charters of the 13th century. Appendix +containing a list of boys who went to Broombank House School, Sheffield, +with a biographical note on the reverend <span class="smcap">Thomas Howarth, M.A.</span></p> + +<p class="ralign">Published <i>August 1920</i>. Price 5/-.</p> + +<p class="gap2">THE PARISH REGISTER OF SHEFFIELD. Part III. BURIALS +1635 to 1653; BAPTISMS AND MARRIAGES 1653 to 1686. Transcribed +and edited by <span class="smcap">Charles Drury</span> and <span class="smcap">T. Walter Hall</span>, F.R.Hist.S. +Privately printed for The Hunter Archæological Society of Sheffield and +The Yorkshire Parish Register Society.</p> + +<p class="ralign">Published <i>1921</i>. Price 10/6.</p> + +<p class="gap2">MATERIAL FOR THE HISTORY OF WINCOBANK, SHEFFIELD, +by <span class="smcap">T. Walter Hall</span>, F.R.Hist.S.; with plan of 1692 and 31 local +genealogies.</p> + +<p class="ralign">Published <i>December 1921</i>. Price 3/-.</p> + +<p class="gap2">DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE BROOKE TAYLOR COLLECTION +OF EARLY CHARTERS AND DEEDS RELATING TO OUTLYING +DISTRICTS OF SHEFFIELD by <span class="smcap">T. Walter Hall</span>, Hon. M.A. +(Sheffield), F.R.Hist.S.; with genealogies and photographic reproductions +of charters and seals. Appendix containing an article on Hawksyard near +Buxton; with its John of Gaunt hawking tradition and medieval history; +reprinted from <i>Transactions</i> of The Hunter Archæological Society of +Sheffield.</p> + +<p class="ralign">Published <i>October 1922</i>. Price 5/-.</p> + +<p class="gap2">THE PARISH REGISTER OF SHEFFIELD. Part IV. In the Press.</p> + +<p class="ralign">Price 10/6.</p> + +<p>The above publications can be purchased from <span class="smcap">J. W. Northend Limited, +West Street, Sheffield</span>.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_vi" id="Page_vi">[Pg vi]</a></span></p> +<p> </p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_vii" id="Page_vii">[Pg vii]</a></span></p> + +<h2 class="gap2"><a name="PREFACE" id="PREFACE"></a>PREFACE</h2> + +<p>My thanks are due to Colonel H. Brooke Taylor, for permission to search his +chambers in the Town Hall at Bakewell for hidden treasure, in the shape of +pre-reformation land charters court rolls and the like; to Mr Robert Shirley of +Waterhouse Farm near Longnor, for a sight of his title deeds to Hawksyard; +to his son Mr Edwin Leslie Shirley of Hawksyard, for a very pleasant visit to +his ancestral home in The Moorlands of Staffordshire, with its medieval tradition +and interesting associations; and to Mr James R. Wigfull, for an excellent little +map of Hawksyard and the surrounding country.</p> + +<p>It is only through the kindness and good nature of others, that a systematic +search for local history can proceed and although contributions accumulate in +small quantities, there is no more fruitful or reliable source of information, as +to people and places of bygone days, than the land charters and court rolls covering +the period from the Domesday survey to the reformation.</p> + +<p>Many bundles of old title deeds, unopened for centuries, yet lie hidden in +out-of-the-way corners and on inaccessible shelves; it should be part of the work +of every archæological society to extract from all available deeds, relating to +its own district, whatever useful history they may contain.</p> + +<p>Every countryside, every village and every town becomes a more interesting +place to its inhabitants, when its history is known. The names of persons and +places become intelligible, dates and letters on buildings can be accounted for, disused +bridle roads and paths can be traced, the heraldry of the stained glass in the +church and of the tombstones in the churchyard can be read with understanding, +local genealogies can be extended and long cherished family traditions can often +be verified or explained.</p> + +<p>It is therefore of importance that whenever these ancient writings make their +appearance, there should be some person or association of persons ready and +willing to examine them, not only with the object of extracting any local history +they may contain, but also of recording it in a form suitable for future reference.</p> + +<p class="ralign" style="margin-right:2em;"><span class="smcap">T. Walter Hall.</span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 598px;"> +<img src="images/illus_009.png" width="598" height="431" alt="Before 1290. Charter of Jordan de Pickeburne. (Brodsworth near Doncaster)" title="" /> +<div class="small" style="text-align:left;"><i>Photo Ethel Eadon</i></div> +Before 1290. <b>Charter</b> of Jordan de Pickeburne. (Brodsworth near Doncaster) +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p> + +<h2 class="gap2"><a name="The_Brooke_Taylor_Collection" id="The_Brooke_Taylor_Collection"></a>The Brooke Taylor Collection.</h2> + +<div class="charternum">I</div> + +<p>13th century. Prior to the statute <i>Quia Emptores</i>, 18 Edw I (1290). <b>Charter</b> +(Lat) confirming a grant from Jordan son of Thomas de Pickeburne to Gilbert +Cook of Rickehale, for a certain sum of money, which he gave to the grantor by +hand as a fine (<i>in gersumma</i>), of one acre of land and a half, with the appurtenances, +in the north field of Pickeburne at the green hill, lying between the +proper land of the grantor on the one part and land which Jordan Wlm' formerly +held on the other part; of which one end butted upon the field of Hanepol and +the other end on land of Sir Marmeduke Darel; and also a plot of meadow ground +in the meadows of Pickeburne; to wit, it lay in length and in breadth one rod and +three quarters, between the meadow of the fee of Rockelay and the meadow of +Robert Knouẏs, of which one end butted upon the south cave (<i>antrum australe</i>) +and the other end upon the north cave (<i>antrum boreale</i>); to hold and to have of +the grantor and his heirs to the said Gilbert and his heirs or whomsoever; and +howsoever and whatsoever time he should wish to give, to bequeath, to assign or +to sell, in fee and inheritance free quietly peacefully and entirely; with all rights +of common, easements, liberties and appurtenances, without reservation; paying +thenceforth annually to the grantor and his heirs one halfpenny of silver on the +day of saint John the baptist, for all secular services, exactions, taxes, suits of +court and demands; warranty of title etc. <b>Witnesses</b>: Helias de Scauceby, +Thomas his son, Henry of the same place, William Joye of Pickeburne, Hugh +son of Beatrice, Thomas Fossard of the same place (<i>sic</i>), William de Fonte. +<b>Vellum</b>: one skin 6½ × 4, seal missing. <b>Notes</b>: this interesting charter, of which +a photographic reproduction is given as a frontispiece, is in perfect condition, +except that the seal is missing. It is a subinfeudation of lands in the township of +Pickburn-with-Brodsworth, in the parish of Brodsworth and wapentake of Strafforth, +four miles north-west of Doncaster; for which Gilbert Cook paid a gersuma +or fine to Jordan de Pickburn. In the reign of Edward the confessor, Pickburn +was part of the lands of Alsie the Saxon lord; but after the conquest it was held +by Nigel Fossard under the earl of Morton, who accompanied William from +Normandy in his successful invasion of England. The earl subsequently forfeited +his English possessions and Nigel Fossard, his subinfeudatory, came to be acknowledged +tenant of the crown. Gilbert Cook may have been descended from Alberus +de Coci (Cook), who after the conquest held Hickleton and part of Cadeby. No +trace of Rickehale can be found. Jordan Wlm' is clearly written, probably it is a +contraction of Woolmer?<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span></p> + +<p>Hanepol is mentioned in Domesday, it was a manor before the conquest, +belonging to Swein. The modern name is Hampole and it lies about two miles +north of Pickburn.</p> + +<p>Sir Marmeduke Darel was living 31 Hen III (1247), in which year he had a +charter of free warren at Brodsworth. The Darels got Brodsworth from the +de Buslis; they continued in possession from the beginning of the 13th to the +beginning of the 16th century; the last of the Darels being Sir Thomas, who died +without issue 23rd November 1505; see “South Yorkshire” vol I, page 315.</p> + +<p>The fee of Rockley was in Worsborough and this land near Pickburn must +have adjoined part of that fee. The Rockleys were settled in Worsborough at the +time of the conquest and continued in undisturbed possession until the civil wars. +Knouẏs may in later times have been Knovis. Scauceby now Scawsby, lies two +miles south-east of Pickburn. It appears to have been a more important place in +Saxon times than it is to-day. It is mentioned in Domesday as Scalchebi. Helias +may mean Ellis. The surname Joye has a small i for the initial letter.</p> + +<p>Nigel Fossard above mentioned was, after the death of the earl of Morton, +one of several landowners in the deanery of Doncaster who held direct from the +crown; his fee included lands at Brodsworth and he also had a house at Doncaster; +but his baronial seat was Mulgrave Castle in north Yorkshire.</p> + +<p>William de Fonte was probably the prior of Ecclesfield, which priory belonged +at the date of this charter to the abbey of Fontenelle or saint Wandrille in Normandy.</p> + +<p>Probably William de Fonte engrossed this charter and added his name as +the last witness, which was a common practice of monks and scriveners.</p> + +<p>Judith, niece of William I and wife of earl Waltheof lord of Hallam, placed +a colony of monks from Fontenelle at Ecclesfield; probably in the 11th century, +as she was married in 1070; see “Archæologia” vol 26, page 352. From charter-evidence +it is certain that the priory was in existence in 1141. From this it may +be assumed that this beautifully written charter had its origin in Ecclesfield priory, +and was taken by prior William to Pickburn, where the other witnesses would +meet, to see possession of the land given and the grant confirmed by deed.</p> + +<p class="center"><b>Genealogy deduced.</b></p> + +<p class="center">(i)</p> + +<table summary="Genealogy 1"> +<tr> +<td class="ralign smcap">Thomas de Pickeburne</td> +<td colspan="2" class="center">=</td> +<td>......</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td style="width:48%"> </td> +<td class="br" style="width:2%"> </td> +<td style="width:2%"> </td> +<td style="width:48%"> </td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="4" class="smcap center">Jordan</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="4" class="center">both living shortly before 1290</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p class="center gap2">(ii)</p> + +<table summary="Genealogy 2"> +<tr> +<td class="ralign smcap">Helias de Scauceby</td> +<td colspan="2" class="center">=</td> +<td>......</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td style="width:48%"> </td> +<td class="br" style="width:2%"> </td> +<td style="width:2%"> </td> +<td style="width:48%"> </td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="4" class="smcap center">Thomas</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="4" class="center">both living shortly before 1290</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p class="gap2"><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span></p> + +<div class="charternum">II</div> + +<p>13th century. Prior to the statute <i>Quia Emptores</i>, 18 Edw I (1290). <b>Charter</b> +(Lat) confirming a grant from William de Mertone to Henry son of Roger Palmer, +of one toft in the town of Mertone and two acres of his land; that toft and those +acres which Roger his son formerly held of him to the end of all things; to wit, +the said Roger the said land either held or retained, for homage and services; +to have and to hold to him and his heirs or assigns, from him (the grantor) or his +heirs, freely quietly and entirely, with all liberties and easements, so much land in +the town of Mertone, with the appurtenances; paying thenceforth annually himself +or his heirs or assigns to him (the grantor) and his heirs, one pound of cummin +at the feast of saint Michael the archangel, for all services exactions and demands; +and he William and his heirs, the said land, with the appurtenances, to the said +Henry and his heirs or assigns, against all men and women, did warrant for ever. +<b>Witnesses</b>: Richard de Thorintone, Adam de Pultone, James de Poltone (<i>sic</i>), +Henry de Karletone, Roger son of John de (?)aynol, Emery (<i>Aumaricus</i>) de +Lekamtone and others. <b>Vellum</b>: one skin 6½ × 3, portion of a green seal, +obscure. <b>Notes</b>: the form of the deed necessitates a date prior to 18 Edw I; +and it is only by the names of the persons mentioned in the charter that the +approximate date can be fixed. Mertone is an early form of Marton or Markeaton, +two miles north-west of Derby, Richard le Palmer was a witness to a lease of a +house in Markton (Markeaton) temp Edw I, see Jeayes “Derbyshire Charters”, +number 1651, page 205. The words “about 1275” are written on the back of the +charter, in a hand of later date.</p> + +<p class="center"><b>Genealogy deduced.</b></p> + +<table summary="Genealogy 3"> +<tr> +<td class="ralign smcap">Roger Palmer</td> +<td colspan="2" class="center">=</td> +<td>......</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td style="width:48%"> </td> +<td class="br" style="width:2%"> </td> +<td style="width:2%"> </td> +<td style="width:48%"> </td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="4" class="smcap center">Henry</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="4" class="center">both living shortly before 1290</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p class="gap2"> </p> +<div class="charternum">III</div> + +<p><b>1310</b> Monday next before the feast of All Saints (1st November). <b>Charter</b> (Lat), +dated at Kenwortheẏ, confirming a grant from William Nolbildon (?) and Margery +his wife to William de Baggyleigh and his heirs, of one messuage and five acres +of land, with the appurtenances, in Norworthen and Kenwortheẏ, without any +reservation; to have and to hold to him and his heirs, of the chief lord of the fee, +by services thenceforth owing and accustomed; freely quietly well and in peace, +with all liberties and easements to the said land, in the town of Norworthen and +Kenwortheẏ howsoever described; they, the said William and Margery and their +heirs, all the lands aforesaid with the messuage aforesaid and with all their appurtenances, +situated as before written, to the said William (Baggyleigh) and his heirs +and assigns, against all men did warrant and defend. <b>Witnesses</b>: Robert de Masey +of Sale, Robert de Tatton, Richard de Kogworth, Richard de Brounehul, Roger de +Kenwortheẏ, Robert del Cley (?) clerk. <b>Vellum</b>: one skin 8½ × 2¼, two seals<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span> +missing. <b>Notes</b>: this is a grant of land in Northenden in the hundred of Macclesfield, +Cheshire. It is on the south bank of the river Mersey, seven miles south of +Manchester. Withenshaw Hall is the ancient family seat of the Tattons, who were +lords of the manor. See Ormrod’s “History of Cheshire” volume iii, pages 604 +to 611.</p> + +<p class="center"><b>Genealogy deduced.</b></p> + +<table summary="Genealogy 4"> +<tr> +<td class="center smcap">William Nolbildon = Margery</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="center">both living 1 Nov 1310</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p class="gap2"> </p> +<div class="charternum">IV</div> + +<p><b>1332</b> Tuesday in the feast of the translation of saint Dunstan (7th September). +<b>Quitclaim</b> (Lat), dated at Kenwortheẏ, from Emma daughter of Richard de +Macworth to Sir William de Baggelegh knight and his heirs, of all her right and +claim in all lands or tenements, with their appurtenances, which she had of the +gift and testament (?) of Roger del Tatton (?) in Kenwortheẏ in the town of +Nortworhtheẏ (<i>sic</i>) with the annual rent for the said lands. <b>Witnesses</b>: Roger le +Masey of Sale, John de Carmarthon, William de Tatton, Thomas del Brome, +Adam Lobias. <b>Vellum</b>: one skin 8 × 3, seal missing. <b>Notes</b>: the writing is +much faded in places.</p> + +<p class="center"><b>Genealogy deduced.</b></p> + +<table summary="Genealogy 5"> +<tr> +<td class="ralign smcap">Richard de Macworth</td> +<td colspan="2" class="center">=</td> +<td>......</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td style="width:48%"> </td> +<td class="br" style="width:2%"> </td> +<td style="width:2%"> </td> +<td style="width:48%"> </td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="4" class="smcap center">Emma</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="4" class="center">living 7 Sep 1332</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p class="gap2"> </p> +<div class="charternum">V</div> + +<p><b>1353</b> Sunday next after the feast of saint Adelmus the confessor (25th May). +<b>Agreement</b> (Lat), dated at Northworthẏn between William de Tatton of the one +part and Robert his son of the other part: to wit, that the said William as witness +(<i>superstes</i>) gave and granted for all his life to the said Robert his heirs and assigns, +all his messuages lands and tenements, rents and services, which he had etc in the +town of Northworthẏn Kenwortheẏ and Wythynschagh, with all their appurtenances, +except so much of those lands and tenements which Thomas Medock +the miller (?) held from the said William for a term of years, in the town of +Northworthẏn, with the appurtenances; to have and to hold to the said Robert +his heirs and assigns freely quietly etc, for all the life of the said William; of the +chief lord of that fee, for services thenceforth due and of right accustomed; provided +that the said Robert should maintain and order for the said William, during +the life of himself William, suitable and sufficient sustenance; and if it happen +that the said Robert, during the life of the said William his father, should die, the +said William agreed (?) that all the said lands and tenements rents and services, +with the appurtenances, for the time of the life of him, to him should return revert<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span> +and remain, except those lands and tenements in Wythynshagh, with the appurtenances; +to wit, those tenements which the said William first held, which lands +and tenements with the appurtenances, the said William granted and gave, which +during the life of himself William would remain in the possession of Sybil wife of +the said Robert and her relations, for their maintenance. <b>Witnesses</b>: William de +Hynckley parson of the church of Northworthẏn, Richard de Baggelegh, Richard +de Brom, William son of Richard de Tatton, John son of Roger (?) de Kenwortheẏ. +<b>Vellum</b>: one skin 9 × 3½, seal missing.</p> + +<p class="center"><b>Genealogies deduced.</b></p> + +<p class="center">(i)</p> + +<table style="border-collapse:collapse;" summary="Genealogy 6"> +<tr> +<td colspan="2" class="ralign smcap">William de Tatton</td> +<td colspan="2" class="center">=</td> +<td>......</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td style="width:4em;"> </td> +<td class="bb"> </td> +<td class="br bb"> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="br"> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="5" class="smcap" style="padding-left:2.5em;">Robert = Sybil</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="5" class="center">all living 25 May 1353</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p class="center">(ii)</p> + +<table summary="Genealogy 7"> +<tr> +<td class="ralign smcap">Richard de Tatton</td> +<td colspan="2" class="center">=</td> +<td>......</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td style="width:48%"> </td> +<td class="br" style="width:2%"> </td> +<td style="width:2%"> </td> +<td style="width:48%"> </td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="4" class="smcap center">William</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="4" class="center">both living 25 May 1353</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p class="center">(iii)</p> + +<table summary="Genealogy 8"> +<tr> +<td class="ralign smcap">Roger de Kenworthey</td> +<td colspan="2" class="center">=</td> +<td>......</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td style="width:48%"> </td> +<td class="br" style="width:2%"> </td> +<td style="width:2%"> </td> +<td style="width:48%"> </td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="4" class="smcap center">John</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="4" class="center">both living 25 May 1353</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p class="gap2"> </p> +<div class="charternum">VI</div> + +<p><b>(1391)</b> Sunday next before the feast of saint Martin in winter (11th November), +in the 15th year of Richard II. <b>Charter</b> (Lat) dated at Wythinschawe, confirming +a grant from Robert de Tatton senior to John son of Robert de Legh and John de +Rossyndale chaplain, of all his messuages lands and tenements with the appurtenances, +in Wythinschawe in the town of Kenwortheẏ, which Margaret, who was +the wife of Robert de Tatton junior, Robert Dukhard (?) parson of the church of +Northdene, Richard del Brome and William de Kenwortheẏ held from the grant +of him (Robert de Tatton senior), for the term of his life, in the town aforesaid, +to have and to hold all the said messuages lands and tenements, with all lands +houses meadows feedings and pastures and other their appurtenances; and also +with forty three shillings and four pence annually, at the feast of the nativity of +saint John the baptist, and saint Martin the bishop, by equal portions; for the said +Margaret, Robert Dukhard (?) Richard and William, during his (the said Robert +de Tatton senior) life, in advance, freely quietly well and in peace, with all profits +liberties turbaries common of pasture and other easements to the said lands and +tenements wheresoever, belonging and in the said town existing and to the same, +of whatsoever manner, to be firmly held: of the chief lord of that fee, for services<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span> +thenceforth owing and of right accustomed; warranty of title etc. <b>Witnesses</b>: +Peter de Legh then steward of Macclesfeld, William de Legh chevalier, John de +Honford (?), Richard de Brome, William de Ken'. <b>Vellum</b>: one skin 9½ × 3¼, +seal missing.</p> + +<p class="center"><b>Genealogies deduced.</b></p> + +<p class="center">(i)</p> + +<table style="border-collapse:collapse;" summary="Genealogy 9"> +<tr> +<td colspan="2" class="ralign smcap">Robert de Tatton</td> +<td colspan="2" class="center">=</td> +<td>......</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2" class="center">senior</td> +<td class="br bb"> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="br" style="width:4em;"> </td> +<td class="bt"> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="5" class="smcap" style="padding-left:2.5em;">Robert = Margaret</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="5" style="padding-left:3em;">junior</td> +<td colspan="3"> </td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="5" class="center">all living 11 Nov 1391</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p class="center">(ii)</p> + +<table summary="Genealogy 10"> +<tr> +<td class="ralign smcap">Robert de Legh</td> +<td colspan="2" class="center">=</td> +<td>......</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td style="width:48%"> </td> +<td class="br" style="width:2%"> </td> +<td style="width:2%"> </td> +<td style="width:48%"> </td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="4" class="smcap center">John</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="4" class="center">both living 11 Nov 1391</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p class="gap2"> </p> +<div class="charternum">VII</div> + +<p><b>1399</b> May 15th. <b>Deed of covenant</b> (Lat) given at Lancaster Castle and made +between John Gaunte duke of Lancaster fourth son of King Edward the third and +Edward Mundy of Marton in the county of Derby knight; whereby, after reciting +a visit of John Gaunte to Highe Frith in the parish of Alstonefield in the +county of Stafford, on the 10th May 1399, for the purpose of hawking; the said +John Gaunt (<i>sic</i>) gave and delivered to the said Edward Mundy, a piece of land, to +which the said John Gaunt gave the name of Hawkesyerd otherwise Hawksearth. +The boundaries of the land are given in detail and also the names of some of the +fields and the adjoining farms and grouse moors. <b>Witnesses</b>: William Stanley gent, +John Porter gent, James Lewis gent, Wi'm Stanley gent, Thos Mundy gent, John +Thornicroft attorney. <b>Vellum</b>: one skin 15 × 8½, round seal of green wax, 3½ inches +diameter and an inch thick. See appendix and photographic reproductions.</p> + +<p class="gap2"> </p> +<div class="charternum">VIII</div> + +<p>(<b>1414</b>) Sunday next after the feast of Thomas the apostle (21st December), in +the 2nd year of the reign of Henry V. <b>Charter</b> (Lat) confirming a grant from +John Marreys son of Walter Marreys of Rostlastone to Thomas Gresley knight, +William Babẏngtone, John Abell of Caldewall and William Ward of Coton their +heirs and assigns, of all his lands and tenements rents reversions possessions and +services, with their appurtenances, which he had or in the future might have in +the town and territories of Rostlastone and Lynton or elsewhere in the county of +Derby, without reservation; to have and to hold all the said lands tenements etc +to the said Thomas, William, John Abell and William their heirs and assigns +freely quietly well and in peace for ever; of the chief lord of that fee, for services +etc; warranty of title. <b>Witnesses</b>: Roger de Hortone lord of Catton, John Dethek +of Neuhall, John Abell of Stapenhull, John Lathebury de Newtone Suluẏ, Robert<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span> +Thirmot of Lyntone. <b>Vellum</b>: one skin 10½ × 4½, seal missing. <b>Notes</b>: Rostlastone +now Rosliston is a parish in the hundred of Repton county Derby, four +miles south-west of Burton-on-Trent; Cauldwell, Coton-in-the-elms, Catton-on-Trent, +Linton, Newton-Solney and Gresley are close by and lie near the confluence +of the Dove and the Trent.</p> + +<p class="center"><b>Genealogy deduced.</b></p> + +<table summary="Genealogy 11"> +<tr> +<td class="ralign smcap">Walter Marreys</td> +<td colspan="2" class="center">=</td> +<td>......</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td style="width:48%" class="ralign">of Rostlastone</td> +<td class="br" style="width:2%"> </td> +<td style="width:2%"> </td> +<td style="width:48%"> </td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="4" class="smcap center">John</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="4" class="center">both living 21 Dec 1414</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p class="gap2"> </p> +<div class="charternum">IX</div> + +<p>(<b>1414-15</b>) Sunday in the feast of the purification of the blessed Mary (2nd February), +in the 2nd year of Henry V. <b>Deed of exchange</b> (Lat) dated at Kenworthy +and made between William de Tatton of the one part and William le Hunte and +Margaret his wife of the other part; whereby the said William de Tatton ... demised +and by that then present indenture confirmed to William le Hunte and +Margaret his wife and their heirs for ever, a certain parcel of land lying in Kenworthy +called Lamputtes, in exchange for another parcel of land lying near the +house of William de Tatton called Ruyssihey; to have and to hold the said parcel +of land called Lamputtes to the said William le Hunte and Margaret his wife and +their heirs for ever, making to the chief lord services etc; warranty of title. +<b>Witnesses</b>: Thomas de Legh of Bagulegh, Roger le Massy of Sale, Robert de +Hull'. <b>Vellum</b>: one skin 11½ × 3½, seal missing. <b>Notes</b>: this deed is indented +and possibly the other part contained a grant or demise of Ruyssihey or Rushyhey +to William de Tatton completing the exchange. In this deed the words of grant +are illegible except “demise”; and the deed only effects one part of the exchange.</p> + +<p class="center"><b>Genealogy deduced.</b></p> + +<table summary="Genealogy 12"> +<tr> +<td class="smcap center">William le Hunte = Margaret</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="center">both living 2 Feb 1414-15</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p class="gap2"> </p> +<div class="charternum">X</div> + +<p>(<b>1425-6</b>) in the feast of saint Vincent martyr (22nd January), in the 4th year of +Henry VI. <b>Release and quitclaim</b> (Lat), dated at Over Haddon, from William +de Brodehurst, son of William de Brodehurst, of Over Haddon to John Brodehurst +his brother his heirs and assigns; of all right and claim of right which he had, +in one messuage and eighteen acres of land, with the appurtenances, lying in the +said town and fields of Over Haddon, which same messuage and eighteen acres of +land, with the appurtenances, the said John his brother had from the gift and grant +of Cecilie their mother by a certain charter etc. <b>Witnesses</b>: John de Farefeld (?) +of Over Haddon, John ... of the same town, John de Gyte, Nicholas<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span> +Pygges (?), Thomas de ... <b>Vellum</b>: one skin 10 × 3½, seal missing. +<b>Notes</b>: this deed is in bad condition and the writing is much faded, many words +and sentences being illegible; but the general outline and date are clear and doubtful +names are indicated in the above abstract. One of the witnesses John de Gyte +of Over Haddon is mentioned as purchaser of land in Over Bondsale 3 Hen VI +(1424), in a grant abstracted in Jeayes’ “Derbyshire Charters” No 317.</p> + +<p class="center"><b>Genealogy deduced.</b></p> + +<table summary="Genealogy 13" style="border-collapse:collapse;"> +<tr> +<td colspan="2" class="ralign smcap">William de Brodehurst</td> +<td colspan="2" class="center">=</td> +<td colspan="2" class="smcap">Cecilia</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td style="width:24%;"> </td> +<td style="width:24%;" class="bb"> </td> +<td style="width:2%;" class="bb br"> </td> +<td style="width:2%;" class="bb"> </td> +<td style="width:24%;" class="bb"> </td> +<td style="width:24%;"> </td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="br"> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td class="br"> </td> +<td> </td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2" class="center"><span class="smcap">William</span> of</td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td colspan="2" class="center smcap">John</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2" class="center">Over Haddon</td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="6" class="center">all living except perhaps Cecilia 22 Jan 1425-6</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p class="gap2"> </p> +<div class="charternum">XI</div> + +<p>(<b>1426</b>) November 6th, in the 5th year of Henry VI. <b>Letter of attorney</b> (Lat), +dated at Ouerhaddon, from Richard son of John Walker of Ouerhaddon to William +de Brodhirst senior and John his son, to give seisin to William de Brodhirst junior +and Margorie his wife, in one messuage and xxvi acres of land and meadow, +with the appurtenances, in Ouerhaddon, following the form and effect of a certain +charter of the said John Walker to the same William de Brodhirst junior and +Margorie. <b>Vellum</b>: one skin 12 × 1½ seal missing.</p> + +<p class="center"><b>Genealogies deduced.</b></p> + +<p class="center">(i)</p> + +<table summary="Genealogy 14"> +<tr> +<td class="ralign smcap">John Walker</td> +<td colspan="2" class="center">=</td> +<td>......</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td style="width:48%" class="ralign">of Ouerhaddon</td> +<td class="br" style="width:2%"> </td> +<td style="width:2%"> </td> +<td style="width:48%"> </td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="4" class="smcap center">Richard</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="4" class="center">both living 6 Nov 1426</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p class="center">(ii)</p> + +<table summary="Genealogy 15" style="border-collapse:collapse;"> +<tr> +<td colspan="2" class="ralign smcap">William Brodhirst</td> +<td colspan="2" class="center">=</td> +<td colspan="2">......</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td style="width:24%;" class="ralign">senior</td> +<td style="width:24%;" class="bb"> </td> +<td style="width:2%;" class="bb br"> </td> +<td style="width:2%;" class="bb"> </td> +<td style="width:2em;" class="bb"> </td> +<td> </td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="br"> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td class="br"> </td> +<td> </td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2" class="center smcap">John</td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td colspan="2" class="smcap">William = Margorie</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td colspan="2">junior</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="6" class="center">all living 6 Nov 1426</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p class="gap2"> </p> +<div class="charternum">XII</div> + +<p>(<b>1565</b>) July 12th, in the 7th year of Elizabeth. <b>Award</b> (Engl) of Gregorye +Reyvell of Stanyngton, Robert Hawksworthe of Thornsett, Phyllyppe Morton +of Ughyll and Thomas Greyve of Westnall in the countye of Yorke yomen. +Reciting that where certayn debate contraversye and varyance then of late had +been dependynge betwene Henry Gelat of Wygtuysle in the countye of Yorke +yoman of the one partye and Henry Morton and Henry Ibotson of the same +Wygtuysle in the same countye yomen of the other partye, and especyally of for<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span> +and concernynge the occupacion of certayne Byredole lands in Wygtuyslee afforsayd, +in so muche as bothe the sayd partyes had submytted them selffs to stand to +and adyde obserue performe fullfyll and kepe the award arbytrament order rule +dome and judgement of them the sayd Gregorye Reyvell etc arbytratourers +indefferently electe and chosen betwene the sayd partyes to arbytrate award etc, +of in for and uppon almanner of matters accyons suyts grudges trespasse quarrells +detts and demaunds what so euer they be had moved styrred and in any wyse +dependynge betwene the sayd partyes, frome ye begynynge of the worlde unto the +day of makynge heroff for the pacyffyenge wheroff they the sayd arbytratourors +had takyn uppon them the offyce and aucthoryte of arbytrament at Wygtuysle +affor sayd and then and there awarded etc, in manner and form foloynge; Fyrste, +we award etc, that the sayd partyes shall frome hencefurthe be faythefull lovers +and friends and deale as lovynge nebors ought to do; also we award etc, that the +sayd Henry Morton and hys heyrs shall at all times herafter haue hold occupye +and enyoye one parcell of wodd ground wch he haythe heretofore claymed, set +lyenge and beynge in a place called the nether croft and commonly called the +cloyghe without let trouble or ympedyment of the sayd Henry Gelot and hys +heyrs etc; and further we award etc that the sayd Henry Gelot and his heyrs +shall at all tymes herafter haue hold occupye and enyoye one parcell of land lyenge +in the nether end of one close called the hallowes, as yt ys now devyded and +meared by hus, without vexacion let trouble or ympedyment of the sayd Henry +Morton and Henry Ibotson and ther heyrs etc; and further that all other mears +and balks shall at all tymes herafter be kept and used contenually as they be now +appoynted by hus; and further we award that bothe the sayd partyes at all tymes +herafter in tyme of mast shall gether all the mast that shall fall frome ther own +trees, where so euer the same shall fortune to fall, without let etc, and that all +swyne of bothe partyes in mast tyme shall have all ther swyne to go at libertye +throughe out all the byredole lands, belongynge to the Town of Wygtuysle without +lett or harme. <b>Vellum</b>: one skin 13 × 7, seals missing. <b>Notes</b>: the deed is +indented, there are no witnesses. Mast is the fruit of beech and forest trees, food +for swine.</p> + +<p class="gap2"> </p> +<div class="charternum">XIII</div> + +<p><b>1568</b> October 24th, in the 10th year of Elizabeth. <b>Grant</b> (Engl) made between +Vincent Munday of Marketon in the county of Derby esquire and Edward Mundy +(<i>sic</i>) gentleman, son and heir apparent of the said Vincent, of the one part and +John Weston of Mackworth in the county aforesaid gentlemen of the other part; +whereby the aforesaid Vincent and Edward, for and in consideration of the sum +of three hundred pounds paid to the said Vincent and Edward by the said John +Weston, delivered gave granted sold bargained released and confirmed to the said +John Weston and his heirs executors and administrators, all that messuage or +tenement, with the appurtenances, situate lying and being in The Highe Frith<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> +within the parish of Alstonefield in the county of Stafford and being part parcel +and member of the manor of Alstonefield aforesaid and thereafter named; following +and more at large expressed; to wit all that messuage farm or tenement called +Hawkesyarde or otherwise Hawkesearthe, then in the tenure or occupation of +Raphe Bradburye and Maud his wife: then follows a full description of the outbuildings +lands etc, with extracts from the deed of covenant of the 15th May 1399 +hereinbefore abstracted and a full copy of which grant is given in the appendix +hereto. <b>Witnesses</b>: John Walker, Thomas Mundye gent, Thomas Brunt, John +Oakes yeoman and Thomas Mundy. <b>Vellum</b>: one skin 16 × 12, two round seals +of yellow wax, each 1½ inches in diameter and bearing a cross flory, probably +not armorial. <b>Notes</b>: photographic reproductions of this deed and the two seals +are given in the appendix. There is a memorandum endorsed recording the giving +of possession on the 24th November in the 10th year of Elizabeth in the presence +of the same witnesses, except John Walker.</p> + +<p class="center"><b>Genealogy deduced.</b></p> + +<table summary="Genealogy 16" style="border-collapse:collapse;"> +<tr> +<td class="ralign smcap">Vincent Munday</td> +<td colspan="2" class="center">=</td> +<td>......</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td style="width:48%" class="ralign">of Marketon</td> +<td class="br" style="width:2%"> </td> +<td style="width:2%"> </td> +<td style="width:48%"> </td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="ralign">co Derby esquire</td> +<td class="br"> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td> </td> +<td class="br"> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="4" class="smcap center">Edward</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="4" class="center">s & h ap gent</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="4" class="center">both living 24 Oct 1568</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p class="gap2"> </p> +<div class="charternum">XIV</div> + +<p>(<b>1625</b>) July 25th, in the 1st year of Charles I. <b>Deed of covenant</b> (Engl) made +between John Ibotson of Wigtwisle in the county of York clerke on the first +partye, William Ibotson of Nether Combes in the said county yeoman on the +second partye and Richard Ibotson of Worral in the said county yeoman on the +third partye; witnessed that the said John Ibotson for divers good causes and +considerations him moving did covenant grant conclude and agree to and with the +said William Ibotson and his heirs by those presents, that he the said John Ibotson +should and would before the feast day of saint Michael the archangell, then next +ensuing the date thereof, by his deed of feoffment, by him to be sealed and +delivered and with “liverye of seizen” lawfully executed give grant enfeoffe and +confirm unto the said William Ibotson and his heirs for ever; all that messuage +or tenement in Wiggtwisle (<i>sic</i>) aforesaid, which was sometime the tenement of +one Henry Morton deceased; and all houses buildings lands tenements meddowes +pastures woods under-woods commons comodityes and hereditaments of him the +said John Ibotson in Wiggtwisle aforesaid, whichever were the lands tenements +and hereditaments of the said Henry Morton in Wiggtwisle aforesaid, with all +their appurtenances whatsoever; to the only use and behoofe of the said William +Ibotson and of his heirs for ever; to the end that the said William Ibotson might +be adjudged and taken to be perfect tenant of the freehold of all the said<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> +messuage and other the said premises, until a perfect recovery might be had and +executed of all the said premises against him the said William Ibotson; and it was +also covenanted and agreed by and between all the said partyes to those presents +that a writt of entery <i>sur disseisen in le post</i> should be brought for the said +premises, at the cost and charge of the said John Ibotson, in the name of the +said Richard Ibotson, against the said William Ibotson; by the name or names of +one messuage one garden one orchard an hundred acres of land thirty acres of +meddowe twenty acres of pasture four acres of wood and forty acres of more +(moor), with thappurtenances, in Wiggtwisle alias Wẏghtwysill Bradfeild; or by +such the name or names as to the said John Ibotson should be thought meet and +convenient, according to the use of common recoveries in such case used; and that +the said William Ibotson should vouch to warrant the said John Ibotson who +should enter into the said warranty and vouch over the common vouchee, who +should appear and make default; also that a perfect recovery may be had and +judgement thereupon given, in his Majesty’s court of common plees at Westminster, +against the said William Ibotson who should recover in value, against the +said John Ibotson and the common vouchee, to be in mercye; and it was likewise +further covenanted etc by and between all the said parties, that after the execution +thereof of the said recovery, the same should be and enure, and the feoffee +named in the said feoffment and recoverer named in the said recovery, should at +and ever after the executing of the said feoffment and at and ever after the said +recovery, soe had as aforesaid, stand and be seized of the said messuage etc; +to the only use and behoof of the said John Ibotson and of his heirs and assigns +for ever, and to noe other use intent or purpose whatsover. <b>Witnesses</b>: Richard +Ibotson, Will' Woodson, John Potter. <b>Vellum</b>: one skin 21 × 10, three seals +obscure. <b>Notes</b>: John Ibotson signed, the other two were marksmen. It is interesting +to note that Wẏghtwysill is given as the <i>alias</i> for Wiggtwisle. According +to Hunter, John was the son of Henry Ibotson of Wightwisle and Mary Morton +daughter of Henry Morton of Wightwisle, referred to in this deed. John is said +to have had a living in Norfolk. His eldest daughter Mary married Christopher +Wilson of Broomhead. William and Richard Ibotson were probably related to +John whose grandson Charles Wilson was vicar of Sheffield. See F.M.G. vol II, +page 650.</p> + +<p class="gap2"> </p> +<div class="charternum">XV</div> + +<p><b>1625</b> July 30th, in the 1st year of Charles I. <b>Feoffment</b> (Lat) from John Ibotson +of Wigtwisle in the county of York clerk to William Ibotson of Nether Coombes +in the said county of York yeoman and his heirs for ever, of all that his messuage +or tenement in Wigtwisle aforesaid, which then formerly was the tenement of +Henry Morton, then deceased; and all his outhouses and buildings gardens orchards +lands tenements meadows pastures woods underwoods rights of common profits<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> +and hereditaments in Wigtwisle aforesaid, with their appurtenances; to holdun to +and to the use of the said William Ibotson his heirs and assigns for ever, of the +chief lord etc, by services etc; warranty of title. <b>Witnesses</b>: Henry Ibotson, +William Wodson (the tenant), John P.... <b>Vellum</b>: one skin 12 × 5½, round +seal of red wax bears a dolphin, probably not armorial. <b>Notes</b>: there is a good +signature of “John Ibotsone.”</p> + +<p class="gap2"> </p> +<div class="charternum">XVI</div> + +<p><b>1633</b> May 13th, in the 9th year of Charles I. <b>Grant</b> (Engl) made between John +Ibotson of Wigtwisle in the county of York clerk of the one part and Christopher +Willson of Wigtwisle in the said county yeoman of the other part; whereby the +said John Ibotson, for and in exchange with the said Christopher Willson granted +etc unto the said Christopher Willson his heirs and assigns for ever, one way for +passage with drift cart and carriage then or theretofore used and accustomed, +unto and from a messuage or tenement at Wigtwisle aforesaid then in the occupation +of William Odeson, through a close of him, the said Christopher Willson, +called the Walls and thence into and from the nether croft, belonging to the said +messuage or tenement; to hold the abovesaid way etc, and all the right interest +and demand of him the said John Ibotson thereto unto and to the use the said +Christopher Willson his heirs and assigns for ever; warranty of title etc; and the +said Christopher Willson in lieu and exchange of the above etc, granted etc unto +the said John Ibotson his heirs and assigns for ever, one like way etc henceforth +and for ever thereafter to be used, unto and from the said messuage, then in the +occupation of the said William Odeson, to and from the nether crofts, lee and +nether hollin carr, belonging to the said messuage, by and “thorow” the fouldstead +of the said Christopher Willson on the south side of his house at Wigtwisle +aforesaid and from thence “thorow” the nether yeard and so to and from the three +closes last above mentioned; to hold unto and to the use of him the said John +Ibotson his heirs and assigns for ever; warranty of title etc. <b>Witnesses</b>: William +Garlicke, William Odeson. <b>Vellum</b>: one skin 10½ × 9½, seal missing. <b>Notes</b>: +both Christopher Willson and William Garlicke, the witness, were sons-in-law of +John Ibotson, see Hunter’s F.M.G. vol II, page 652. The word Wigtwisle when +used to describe the residence of Christopher Willson has been written on an +erasure.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 613px;"> +<img src="images/illus_024.png" width="613" height="451" alt="Map of Hawksyard and The Moorlands of Staffordshire." title="" /> +<span class="caption">Map of Hawksyard and The Moorlands of Staffordshire.</span> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span></p> + +<h2 class="gap2"><a name="APPENDIX" id="APPENDIX"></a>APPENDIX.</h2> + +<p class="center small">Reprint from <i>Transactions</i> of The Hunter Archæological Society.</p> + +<p class="center x-large"><b>HAWKSYARD.</b></p> + +<p class="center small"><span class="smcap">By</span> T. WALTER HALL, Hon. M.A. (<span class="smcap">Sheffield</span>), F.R.Hist.S.</p> + +<p class="gap2">Place-names, obvious in their meaning but suggesting a remote origin +and a forgotten past, attract the historian, if not the philologist.</p> + +<p>Hawksyard is one of these; its import is Hawksland but its +history lies hidden in the records of past centuries; it excites our curiosity +and quickens our imagination.</p> + +<p>We instinctively recall scenes of English sport in bygone days; +of kings and nobles, knights and ladies, riding across the unfenced country; +over moorland and waste, through fen and ford, with hooded falcon and +stooping hawk, enjoying what was for nearly a thousand years the +national sport of England.</p> + +<p>Such a scene was brought to mind by the perusal of two musty +parchments with imposing seals and faded script, quarried from the +lower <i>strata</i> of time-worn muniments, in the office of Colonel Brooke +Taylor of Bakewell.</p> + +<p>The earlier of these deeds takes us back to the death of John of +Gaunt and the resignation of Richard II in the closing year of the 14th +century; the later one was sealed and delivered in the less tragic days +of Queen Elizabeth.</p> + +<p>They both relate to Hawksyard, situate in that part of The Moorlands +of Staffordshire known in the middle ages as Highe Frith +of Malbanc Forest; south of Buxton and east of the church at Newtown +near Longnor.</p> + +<p>The deed of John of Gaunt bears date the 15th May 1399, in bold +Arabic numerals; it is written in a jargon intended to be Latin and +measures 15 × 8½ inches; its round pendent seal of green wax has a +diameter of three and a half inches and is nearly an inch thick. The +parchment is dark in colour, coarse in texture and much crinkled; the +writing is not uniform in character, parts being in a flowing hand +suggesting a date long subsequent to the Plantagenets. The deed begins +with the word <i>Conventum</i>, meaning a covenant or agreement under +seal; but, from the concluding paragraph, it was evidently intended to +operate as a deed of gift or grant in fee simple of the lands called +Hawksyard.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 651px;"> +<img src="images/illus_027.png" width="651" height="385" alt="1399 May 15th. Deed of Covenant, John of Gaunt to Sir Edward Mundy." title="" /> +<div class="small" style="text-align:left;">Photo Ethel Eadon</div> +1399 May 15th. <b>Deed of Covenant</b>, John of Gaunt to Sir Edward Mundy. +</div> + +<p>The following is a transcript with the contractions indicated but +not extended:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Conventum inter Johan' Gaunte Duc' Lancast' quart' fillius Regy' +Edvardi tert' et Edvardum Mundy de Marton in Comitatu Derb' +equit' Joh'es Ga'nt Dux Lancast' p'mittebat Domin' Edvard' Mundy +visere ap'd Marton in Comitat' Derb' p'd q' pariter prestabat Et +etiam Dominus Edvardus Mundy iterfaciebat Duc' Lancast' +Comitibusq' ejus in Highe Frith parochia Allstonefield Comitatu +Staffordiæ Cum in eum locum pase (?) publice p'venirent qui +nuncupatur Lady Edge cujus defugabant (?) excitabant Gallos palust' +ad quos illico accipitres evertebant apud quos accipitres fuga petebant +int' illos Limites ut posthac mention's siant hoc Termino qui +expositus erat Avibus volantibus ultro citroq' ad viam publica' qua +abduit ab Longnor ad Leeke al' parte circunt quo accipitres pred'am +apprehendebant parte juxta mediam circuituo juxta convallem Orient' +Decim' Die May' Ann' Dom' 1399 Quamobre' Joh'es Gaunt ei +dabat Titulu' nomenq' Hawkesyerd alias Hawksearth propter pred'a +apprehensa' inter Limit' qui posthac mentionem fit qui non antehac +nuncupabatur ... Aliquae pauce Fundi Partes que posthac +mentione' fiunt Viz' alia pars Fundi nuncupatur Harrisons Intake al' +pars Fundi nuncupat' House-Fielde quo parva vel Domus stabat al' +pars Fundi nuncup' Little Meadow quae ex part' meridional' inter +jacet Locu' nuncup' Boothesley Grange al' pars Fundi nuncup' +Spart (? Spout) Meadow fluvio adjacans erga Occidentam al' pars +Fund' nuncupat' Killn Croffte fluvio adjac' erga Occidente' al' pars +Fund' nuncup' Spart (?) al' pars Fundi nuncupat' Rye Pingle erga +Occidentem sequia secale illo p'senti anno Cresscebat Limes Hawksyerd +alias Hawksearth jacens positusq' in Highe Frith Parochia +Allstonefield Comitatuq' Staffordie exposit Johan' Gaunt Duc' +Lancast' p'd' inter tales Metas qual' posthac mentione' fiunt attin' illi +soli Domo predi'oq' nuncup' Hawksyerd alias Hawksearth p'd ubi +est convallis oriental' ejus part' Fluviusq' Curans erga merediem +juxta Fluvium int' ilium et Locum nuncup' Banke aut al' Over +boothesley Etiam parte meridional' convallus ... et Fluvius +currens erga Orient' juxta Fluviu' int' illu' Locumq' nuncup' +Bauthsley (<i>sic</i>) Grange illaq' ascendit part' meridional' Funi qui +nuncup' Rye Pingle quia jacet erga Occident' et setendit directe ad +fugum q'd nuncup' Lady Edge jacens positusq' in Highe Frith +Parochia Allstonefield Comitatuq' Stafford' et tunc transjugu' q'd +est erga septentrionem directe ad viam publica' quae abducit ab +Longnor ad Leeke Etiamq' publica' juxta via' erga Orient' usq' +du' directe p'venit ad Convalla' Termino Orientali Tractus praedi'i<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span> +expositus primo Ann' Regni Regis Henrici Quart' assignabat Limat +vel Expellere includere vel admittere ad Sol' proprium usu' Comodumq' +illius Domus predi'iq' nuncu'q' Hawksyerd al' Hawksearth p'd +etiam Libertinuanu' publi' pascu' jusque effodiendi Cespites p' +Desertu' Domin' Allstonefield Dom' Edvardus Mundy de Marton in +comitat' Derby (<i>sic</i>) p'd' favore unum suplicabat Joh'es Gaunt Du' +Lancastriae quem dicebat consideret Si illi esset postestas Dom' +Edvardus ilium orabat et ei daret predi'u' nuncup' Hawksyerd alias +Hawksearth p'd' Et Joh'es Gaunt libere Largiebatur et concedebat +illi et posteris in Aeturnu' Dom' Edvardus Mundy profesiebatur Joh'e +Gaunt Comitibusq' eum visere apud Castrum Lancast' quo Joh'es +Gaunt sigillabat Subscribebat et in potestatem Domin' Edvardi +Mundy Premis' tot' tradebat decimo quint' Die May Anno D'm' 1399 +coram William Stanley Gent John Porter Gent' James Lewis Gent' +Wi'm Stanley Gent' Tho's Mundy Gent' John Thornicroft Attorney.</p></div> + +<p>It is not easy to give a true interpretation of this unconventional deed; +the operative part, which should be clear and precise, being vague and +inconclusive. The following is what may be accepted as a free translation +conveying a general idea of the purport and effect of the deed:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>An Agreement between John Gaunte duke of Lancaster, fourth son +of King Edward the third and Edward Mundy of Marton [Markeaton] +in the county of Derby knight. John Gaunt (<i>sic</i>) went himself +to visit Sir Edward Mundy at Marton in the county of Derby aforesaid +... and Sir Edward Mundy made a journey with the duke +of Lancaster and his attendants into Highe Frith in the parish of +Alstonefield in the county of Stafford; when they arrived at that +piece of public ground [? the common or moorland waste of the +manor] which was called Lady Edge, from which moorcock [both +red and black grouse] were frequently driven away and from whence +hawks were let loose and flown within such boundaries as were +thereinafter mentioned, to this boundary which was free and open +for birds flying backwards and forwards near the public road, which +led from Longnor to Leek. In the part of the circle in which the +hawks took [the grouse] near the middle circuit next the east clough, +on the 10th day of May 1399: for this reason John Gaunt gave it the +title and name of Hawksyerd otherwise Hawksearth, because of the +game being taken within its limits, thereinafter mentioned, which +place was not theretofore named, some other pieces of land, which +after that were made mention, to wit, part of a piece of land called +Harrisons Intake, part of a piece of land called House Fielde, on which +a small shed or house was standing, part of a piece of land called +Little Meadow, which on the south lay between a place called<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span> +Boothesley Grange and part of a piece of land called Rye Meadow +following the stream pointing west, part of a piece of land called +Killn Croffte adjoining the stream, thence west, part of a piece +of land called Spart (?) Meadow, part of a piece of land called Rye +Pingle, thence west following the rye of that year then growing. The +boundary of Hawksyard otherwise Hawksearth, lying and being in +Highe Frith in the parish of Alstonefield in the county of Stafford +set out by John Gaunte duke of Lancaster aforesaid, between such +bounds as were thereinafter mentioned, were set out for that house +only; and the land called Hawksyerd otherwise Hawksearth aforesaid, +where there is a clough at the east end of it and a purling +stream, thence south following the stream between that and a place +called Banke or otherwise Over Boothesley; also on the south side, a +clough and stream ran, thence east next the stream, between that +place called Bauthsley (<i>sic</i>) Grange and ascending on the south of +the piece of land which is called Rye Pingle, thence west leading +direct to the high ridge which is called Lady Edge, lying and being +in Highe Frithe in the parish of Alstonefield in the county of Stafford; +and then across the ridge which is north direct to the public road, +which led from Longnor to Leeke; and also along the public road +thence east it passed straight to the east end of the clough. The +full extent of the said land, in the 1st year of the reign of King +Henry IV, was marked out and set to limits either to expel, keep in +or admit, to the only proper use and advantage of that house called +Hawksyerd otherwise Hawksearth aforesaid; and also the liberty to +dig turf in the public meadow and wastes of the lordship of Alstonefield. +Sir Edward Mundy of Marton in the county of Derby aforesaid +prayed for one favour of John Gaunt duke of Lancaster, which he +[John] said he would consider if to him it were possible. Sir Edward +asked him and he [John] to him gave the said place called Hawksyerd +otherwise Hawksearth aforesaid and John Gaunt did freely give and +grant it to him and his descendants forever. Sir Edward Mundy then +went with his attendants to John Gaunt to see him at Lancaster +Castle which [agreement] John Gaunt sealed and subscribed; and +into the control of Sir Edward Mundy, all the before mentioned was +handed over on the 15th day of May 1399 In the presence of William +Stanley Gent, John Porter Gent, James Lewis Gent, Wi'm Stanley +Gent, Thomas Mundy Gent, John Thornicroft Attorney.</p></div> + +<p>If this deed correctly records the facts, we must infer that John of +Gaunt owned lands in north Staffordshire between Longnor and Leek; +and that they probably formed part of the lands belonging to the duchy of +Lancaster. We learn that his friend Sir Edward Mundy of Markeaton,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span> +twenty miles away to the south-east, invited the duke to visit him there; +a hawking party being arranged on the 10th May 1399 by Sir Edward +for the entertainment of his royal guest; one of the highest points of +The Moorlands, known as Lady Edge, nearly 1500 feet above the sea, +where grouse were always to be found, was selected as the trysting place. +The party would ride from Markeaton across the open country to Lady +Edge, and they appear to have had good sport. Probably John of Gaunt +and his friends from Markeaton watched the hawking from the top of +Lady Edge and the undulating land which lies between Lady Edge and +Hawksyard, the quarry being taken within a distance of half a mile +to the north-east. So pleased was the duke, that he honoured the place +where the hawks took their quarry by giving it the name of Hawksyard +otherwise Hawksearth; a place which before then was unnamed. The +deed also states that before the duke left Markeaton, Sir Edward asked +him as a personal favour to give Hawksyard to Sir Edward and that the +duke promised to consider the request. Apparently Sir Edward returned +with the duke to Lancaster, as a few days later the duke is stated to +have sealed and subscribed this deed at Lancaster Castle and delivered it +into the hands of Sir Edward on the 15th May 1399. The metes and +bounds are fully set forth in the deed, which also records that the +boundaries were marked out on the land in the 1st year of Henry IV.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 570px;"> +<img src="images/illus_032.png" width="570" height="437" alt="1568 October 24th. Grant from Vincent and Edward Munday to John Weston." title="" /> +<div class="small" style="text-align:left;">Photo Ethel Eadon</div> +1568 October 24th. <b>Grant</b> from Vincent and Edward Munday to John Weston. +</div> + +<p>The second deed bears date the 24th October 1568 written in the +same bold Arabic numerals as in the earlier deed; but the later deed is in +English and measures 16 × 12 inches, it has two round seals of yellow +wax, each of a diameter of one and a half inches; the impression on +these seals does not appear to be armorial but they both bear the same +form of cross; the parchment and make-up are in all respects similar +to the deed of 1399 and the signatures of Vincent Mundy and his son +are written in the same hand as the deed, which was not unusual in the +16th century.</p> + +<p class="gap2">The following is an abstract of the grant from Vincent Mundy and +his son Edward to John Weston.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>An Indenture made the 24th day of October, in the 10th year of +Elizabeth and in the year of the Lord 1568 Between Vincent +Munday of Marketon in the countye of Derbye esquire and Edward +Mundy (<i>sic</i>) gentleman, son and heir apparent of the said Vincent, of +the one part and John Weston of Mackworth in the county aforesaid +gentleman of the other part; whereby the aforesaid Vincent and +Edward, for and in consideration of the sum of three hundred pounds +of lawful money of England, to the aforesaid Vincent and Edward +in hand paid by the said John Weston, whereof they confessed<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span> +themselves to be fully satisfied and paid and the said John Weston +and his heirs executors and administrators to be thereof acquitted +and discharged for ever by those presents; had delivered given +granted sold bargained released and by those present writings confirmed +to the aforesaid John Weston and his heirs executors and +administrators, all that their messuage or tenement, with the appurtenances, +situate lying and being in the Highe Frith within the parish +of Alstonefield in the county of Stafford; and being part parcel and +member of the mannor of Alstonefield aforesaid and hereafter named, +following and more at large expressed; to wit, all that messuage farm +or tenement called Hawkesyarde or otherwise Hawkesearthe, then in +the tenure or occupation of Raphe Bradburye and Maud his wife; +and also all and singular houses outhouses cottages barns edifices +buildings orchards gardens meadows pastures lands and arable lands +commons woods underwoods, free liberties or commoninge and turbarye +throughout the waste of the aforesaid manor, priviledges profits and +commodities whatsoever, with all and singular the appurtenances to +the said messuage or tenement in anywise lyeing appertaininge or +belonginge; or any thing standing or at any time theretofore +accepted used occupied or perceived, together with the said messuage +or tenement or any of them, by any tenant before named their +prior tenants or as part parcel and member of or as belonging to +the said messuage or tenement or by whatsoever name or names +it was commonly called or known, and all the estate etc; and +moreover all rent and yearly profits whatsoever, reserved on any +demise grant or copye of the premises, by any person or persons +theretofore made or committed; to have hold and enjoy the same +to the said John Weston his heirs executors administrators and assigns +for ever; and likewise priviledges profits and commodities whatsoever, +which John Gaunt the duke of Lancaster the fourth son of +King Edward the third did give and grant unto Sir Edward Mundaye +(<i>sic</i>) of Marketon in the county of Derby knight, the compass set by +him the said John Gaunt betwixt those marks as were thereafter +mentioned (that was to say) a clough at the east end of the said +premises and a pearle of water which runns southewarde betwixt +and a place called the Banke or otherwise Over Boothesleye; also a +clough and a water, which runns eastward betwixt and a place +which is called Boothesleye Grange and so it goes up close bye +the water side pointinge westwards and so it goes up after the southe +side of a piece of grounde which is called the Rye Pingle, from +thence streight up to the top of the Hill which is called the Lady +Edge, situate lyeinge and beinge in the Highe Frithe within the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span> +parish of Alstonefield aforesaid and countye of Stafforde aforesaid +and from thence streight to the Highe Road, that goes betwixt +Longenor and Leek, pointeinge northeward and so it goes down +bye the roade side untill it comes directlye against that cloughe +at the east end; withe free libertye to drive off enclose or take +inn, so farr as the compass aforementioned extends; to the onlye +proper use and behoofe of that one messuage or farme called +Hawkesyarde or otherwise Hawkesearthe aforesaid, likewise free +libertye of commoninge and turbarie throughout the waste of the mannor +of Alstonefield aforesaid; and they did therefore deliver to the said +John Weston his heirs and assigns full and peaceable possession etc. +The witnesses were John Walker, Thomas Mundye gent, Thomas +Brunt, John Oakes yeoman and Thomas Mundy (<i>sic</i>);</p></div> + +<p>In this deed there is an evident desire on the part of the draftsman to +strengthen and even to extend the rights and privileges appurtenant to +the Hawksyard estate, which then included a house of considerable +importance, occupied by Ralph Bradbury and Maud his wife. Towards +the end of the deed a belated attempt at a recital of the earlier John of +Gaunt deed is added, with extracts giving the full description of the +boundaries; and this earlier deed is treated as the root of title to +Hawksyard.</p> + +<p>The question and the only question we have to consider is whether +these two deeds give us a true account of the origin and early history +of the place-name Hawksyard? At first sight it would appear that +they do; but unfortunately there is much in the earlier deed to arouse +suspicion. It is not that the story of John of Gaunt’s visit to +Highe Frith is improbable, on the contrary he rebuilt and occupied +Tutbury Castle twenty miles away; nor is there any reason to think +that in those days Sir Edward Mundy would hesitate to ask the duke +for a few acres of rough moorland waste, as a memento of a red-letter +day in the history of the Mundy family. Perhaps such a request, under +the circumstances, constituted true politeness in the middle ages; or he +may have wished to commemorate the day by building a house on the +land to bear the name Hawksyard; but, however probable these +surmises may be, there are many things in this alleged deed of gift +which suggest a date much later than the reign of Richard II and +cast a doubt as to its <i>bona fides</i>.</p> + +<p>In the first place it is obvious that the date 15th May 1399 cannot +be correct, as John of Gaunt died in January or February 1398; further +the deed states that the duke visited Highe Frith on the 10th May +1399, which was impossible; and it is perhaps equally surprising to find +that a deed, dated in the reign of Richard II, should refer to the first<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span> +year of Henry IV, whose reign had not then begun and might never +have occurred.</p> + +<p>These impossible dates require explanation, but our difficulties do +not end with dates; the writing in the John of Gaunt deed is not +characteristic of the period, it is not uniform throughout, the body of +the deed being written in characters of the rugged native script, the names +of the witnesses being added in a flowing Italian hand of the Elizabethan +period. Attention should also be called to the fact, that of the five +witnesses in whose presence the duke is said to have affixed his seal, +not one of them was above the rank of gentleman. The seal is impressed +with a hunting horn, suggestive of forest heraldry, but the royal arms of +the son of Edward III do not appear on this seal; and, if the hunting +horn is in its proper heraldic position, the point of the shield is at the top.</p> + +<p>As above stated, the form of the deed is unusual and follows no +precedent; many words are more suggestive of the classics than the +customary usage of diplomatics in the 14th century. <i>Equitem</i> takes +the place of the more conventional <i>militem</i>; <i>nuncupatur</i> is used instead +of <i>vocat</i> and <i>coram</i> instead of <i>testibus</i>. Each of the first four witnesses +is described as gent and the last as attorney, while Derby is written +once in English; further, the exact legal effect of the deed seems to +be intentionally vague; it is headed <i>conventum</i>, meaning a covenant, but +in the subsequent deed of 1568 it is referred to as a grant. The full +description of the land in the later deed, with all its boundaries and +appurtenant rights, suggests that the Elizabethan draftsman had some +doubt as to the true facts; these details being apparently exploited with +some ulterior intent.</p> + +<p>In comparing the size make-up and general appearance of the +two deeds, it is impossible not to see in them a strong resemblance; +they are both typical of the time of Elizabeth, the deed of 1399 is +too large and too coarse for a charter of that date. The fact that one +is in Latin and the other in English makes the comparison less easy; +but in both we find similar parchment ink and seals; the script is much +the same in both deeds, each having the dates written in the same bold +Arabic numerals; and the later recites the earlier deed.</p> + +<p>It would not be difficult to find other points of resemblance between +these deeds; and it is impossible to compare them without coming to +the conclusion that they were prepared at the same time by the same +person, with the definite object of making a good title to the Hawksyard +property, on the sale to John Weston.</p> + +<p>This forces us to the conclusion that the John of Gaunt deed is +not altogether trustworthy; and we have to consider whether or not +the information it contains, with regard to the origin of the place-name<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span> +Hawksyard, can be relied on; or if we must treat its whole contents +as pure fiction and entirely discredit all it tells us of the hawking party +in Highe Frith.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 478px;"> +<img src="images/illus_037.png" width="478" height="463" alt="Seal of 15th May 1399." title="" /> +<b>Seal</b> of 15th May 1399. +</div> + +<p>There must be some explanation of this extraordinary deed; and it +may yet be possible to find a solution of the problem. Here is the deed! +How can we account for it? How much of what it tells us may we accept +as truth? To what extent is its story supported by extraneous evidence?</p> + +<p>The points as to which we require information are; whether John +of Gaunt was in a position to give and grant lands in the Highe Frith +to Sir Edward Mundy or had he only the rights of an overlord? Why +did he hesitate before complying with Sir Edward’s request? Was he +in doubt as to whether the land were his to give or whether he held +as tenant <i>in capite</i>? Did he execute a deed of gift or did the gift +rest on a verbal promise, Sir Edward taking possession of the lands +and converting them to his own use? Did the lawyer of 1568, who +carried through the sale to Weston, act <i>ex fide bona</i> and endeavour, +according to his lights and the practice of his time, to put the title to +Hawksyard in order, for the mutual benefit of both vendor and purchaser?</p> + +<p>For answers to these questions we must return to the days of John +of Gaunt.</p> + +<p>In 1398 Richard II, seeing that his uncle John of Gaunt was in +failing health and that John’s son, Henry Bolingbroke earl of Hereford, +might press his claim to the throne of England in case of Richard’s +death without issue, took advantage of a quarrel between Bolingbroke +and the duke of Norfolk, in which each accused the other of treason, +to banish them both from the realm.</p> + +<p>The loss of his son fell heavily on John of Gaunt, who died at the +end of January or the beginning of February 1398; and it is important to +bear in mind that the year 1399 began on the 25th March and not +the 1st January.</p> + +<p>Richard, being free for a time from the menace of the House of +Lancaster, seized the whole of the Lancastrian estates in the absence +of the banished heir and crossed to Ireland to complete his conquests +and strengthen his hold on that country.</p> + +<p>During Richard’s absence in Ireland the banished Henry, hearing +the news of his father’s death and the confiscation of the Lancastrian +estates, landed on the Yorkshire coast with a few trusted friends and +three thousand men-at-arms.</p> + +<p>He was at once joined by the great barons of the north and with +an army, which increased as it advanced, he ultimately reached London; +where he was well received by the people, who were tired of Richard +and looked to Henry as their future king.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span></p> + +<p>On hearing the news of Henry’s return Richard, after much delay +through rough weather, recrossed the Irish Channel to Milford Haven, +only to find that both his friends and his armies in England had melted +away and that his kingdom was lost.</p> + +<p>He was forced by Henry and his supporters to resign his crown +and, in Westminster Hall on the 29th September 1399, his resignation +was received with shouts of applause; on the following day his cousin +Henry Bolingbroke, son and heir of John of Gaunt, was proclaimed King +of England as Henry IV.</p> + +<p>On Henry’s accession he regained the estates of the duchy of +Lancaster, which however remained in his hands as crown property.</p> + +<p>The above events and the dates on which they occurred are of +importance in considering the two Hawksyard deeds; and if we are to +understand how and why they came into existence, we must also trace +the early history of Highe Frith and learn something of the conditions +then prevailing as to the holding and devolution of landed estates in +England; more especially with regard to earldoms honours and manors, +which formed the basis of the feudal system.</p> + +<p>When we clearly understand the way in which land in England was +held in pre-reformation days, it will perhaps be possible to see whether +the facts set forth in the deed of gift of the 15th May 1399 were consistent +with the early history of the manor of Alstonefield; and whether John +of Gaunt was shortly before his death in a legal position to comply +with the request of Sir Edward Mundy.</p> + +<p>As already stated Hawksyard was in Highe Frith, part of the +manor of Alstonefield, and a manor was an estate in fee simple in a +tract of land granted by the sovereign to a subject, usually a man of +some consequence, in consideration of certain services.</p> + +<p>He was the lord of the manor and he reserved for his own use +such parts of the land as he required, which were called the demesne +lands; other parts he granted out to his tenants, under varying conditions +which included estates of inheritance, estates for life, for years and at +will; the barren lands which remained in his hands were what was known +as the commons and wastes of the manor or the foreign lands. The +whole formed a manor or lordship which had its own courts and customs +and enjoyed feudal privileges, which extended not only to the lands +held by tenants but also to the commons and waste lands.</p> + +<p>When many manors, perhaps extending into several counties, were +held by one great baron or overlord they formed an honour which was +held of the king <i>in capite</i>; this was quite different in character to the +manor. It was a jurisdiction, vested in private hands, and not a territorial +possession; the lords of the manors retaining their separate manorial +organisation and rendering suit and service to their overlord.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span></p> + +<p>Manors also formed part of the earldom or shire; for some time after +the conquest an earl also had the title of count and from the counts +the shires took the name of counties. The title however soon disappeared +in England but we still retain countess, county and viscount.</p> + +<p>When a great earldom honour or manor fell by forfeiture or escheat +into the hands of the sovereign which constantly happened, it retained its +distinct corporate existence and the whole apparatus of jurisdiction or +tenure. Under its own title it either continued in the possession of the +sovereign or was granted out again as a hereditary fief.</p> + +<p>The manor of Alstonefield appears to have been included in different +earldoms and different honours at different dates, prior to the time when +it came into the hands of John of Gaunt and his first wife’s ancestors.</p> + +<p>At the taking of the Domesday survey in 1086, Alstonefield manor +was held as a knight’s fee by Robert count of Shrewsbury with William +de Malbanc under him as lord of the manor. The Shrewsbury overlordship +did not last long and Alstonefield, which seems to have been much +in request, possibly owing to its grouse moor, was transferred to the +honour of Chester under Hugh Lupus; to whom William had, three +years after the conquest, given the earldom of Chester and William +de Malbanc, of Wich Malbanc now Nantwich, held the position of lord +marcher under Lupus, so that the lordship of Alstonefield formed part of +the marchlands or boundaries of the honour of Chester on the east, +over which William de Malbanc would have supreme control as lord of +the marches.</p> + +<p>That part of the manor which lay between Leek and the river Dove, +including the site of Hawksyard, was chiefly forest and moorland; shortly +after the conquest and for many centuries after, it was known as Malbanc +Forest; but in 1220 the Malbanc barony devolved on three co-heiresses, +who held Alstonefield in co-parcenary.</p> + +<p>On the forfeiture of a third share by the eldest daughter, then +countess of Warwick, it came into the possession of Hugh le Despencer, +though how he got it is not clear, and this share included the tract of +barren moorland known as Highe Frith of Malbanc Forest.</p> + +<p>In 1297, on the death of Edmund earl of Lancaster, the King’s +Escheator held an inquisition at Tutbury for the county of Lancaster, +to ascertain what knight’s fees were due to the earl; the jury found +<i>inter alia</i> that Hugh le Despencer held one knight’s fee in the manor +of Altonesfelt (Alstonefield) worth yearly in homages etc. £10. “Nomina +Villarum” 1316 gives Hugh le Despencer and Nicholas de Audeleye +as owners of Alstonefield, a vill in the liberty of the earl of Lancaster, +who had the return of all writs.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span></p> + +<p>In 1322 the estates of le Despencer were forfeited to the crown +and subsequently bestowed by Edward III on Henry earl of Lancaster, +grandfather of Blanche the wife of John of Gaunt.</p> + +<p>It may be helpful here to recall how John of Gaunt was created +duke of Lancaster and became possessed of the Lancastrian estates, +extending into Cheshire, Staffordshire and other counties.</p> + +<p>The first earl of Lancaster was Edmund called Crouchback second +son of Henry III; in addition to his Lancastrian estates, his father +bestowed on him the earldoms of Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Salisbury +and Chester.</p> + +<p>These passed on his death in 1296 to his eldest son Thomas earl +of Lancaster, who was beheaded at Pontefract in 1322 when his estates +were forfeited to the crown.<a name="FNanchor_A_1" id="FNanchor_A_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_A_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a> His widow was allowed to retain the +Salisbury estate; and the other four earldoms were bestowed on his +brother Henry earl of Lancaster, to whom one third share of Alstonefield +manor was also given, so that he possessed not only the Lancastrian +estates but also the earldoms of Derby (including the honour of Tutbury), +Leicester, Lincoln, Chester and the territorial interest of a third of the +manor of Alstonefield, including Malbanc Forest; of which Highe +Frith was waste of the manor.</p> + +<p>Henry earl of Lancaster was succeeded by his son Henry, afterwards +first duke of Lancaster, who had no son; of his two daughters, Maud +married William of Bavaria and Blanche married John of Gaunt. Maud +died without issue, whereupon the whole of the Lancastrian estates +devolved on Blanche; and, in right of his wife, on her husband John +of Gaunt, who was in 1362 created duke of Lancaster.</p> + +<p>It will be remembered that the seal attached to the deed of gift +of the 15th May 1399 bears a hunting horn; and in order to find some +explanation of this seal it may be necessary to glance for a moment +at the history of the honour of Tutbury, which as we have seen was +included in the earldom of Derby and passed to John of Gaunt +with that earldom.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 603px;"> +<img src="images/illus_043.png" width="603" height="486" alt="The Tutbury Horn, from a photograph in the reference library at Sheffield. +" title="" /> +<b>The Tutbury Horn</b>, from a photograph in the reference library at Sheffield. +</div> + +<p>About the end of the 13th century, the important office of escheator +and coroner throughout the whole honour of Tutbury within the county +of Stafford, was claimed by Walter Agard who demanded to hold office +by right of inheritance; but he was unable to produce any written +evidence in support of his claim; and in lieu of charters or writings, +he produced a white hunting horn garnished with silver-gilt in the middle<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span> +and at both ends, to which was affixed a girdle of black silk adorned +with buckles of silver, on which was placed the <i>insignia</i> of Edmund +earl of Lancaster; this horn was offered and accepted as the charter and +evidence of title to the office of escheator and coroner, to which he made +claim.</p> + +<p>It is not necessary to follow the devolution of the Tutbury Horn +from Walter Agard; but in the 17th century, on the marriage of an +heiress of Agard, it passed to the Stanhopes, who sold it with its offices in +1753 to Samuel Foxlow of Staveley Hall, from him it ultimately passed +to Henry Marwood Greaves of Banner Cross, Sheffield, and Ford Hall, +Derbyshire, who once only exercised the right of appointment; and on +his death in 1859 his eldest son William Henry Greaves, who had +assumed the surname of Greaves-Bagshawe in 1853, succeeded to the +horn by inheritance, and appointed the next succeeding coroner. We +shall have to consider whether the pendent seal of the alleged deed of +gift can in any way be accounted for by the fact, that the honour of +Tutbury was part of the duchy of Lancaster prior to John of Gaunt’s +death.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 590px;"> +<img src="images/illus_044.png" width="590" height="428" alt="Seals of 24th October 1568." title="" /> +<b>Seals</b> of 24th October 1568. +</div> + +<p>Let us now turn to the other party to the deed of gift, Sir Edward +Mundy.</p> + +<p>In Burke’s “Commoners of England” 1836, it is suggested that the +Mundy family derived its name from Mondaye Abbey in the dukedom +of Normandy; and it may be, that Sir Edward Mundy or his father +fought with John of Gaunt in the wars with France and Spain.</p> + +<p>It seems probable, from what we find in the earlier deed, that the +duke and Sir Edward were close personal friends; and it may possibly +have been through the influence of John of Gaunt, that Sir Edward +Mundy or his father settled near Derby. However that may be, we +are told that Sir Edward entertained the duke at Markeaton and returned +with him to Lancaster Castle.</p> + +<p>Vincent Mundy of Markeaton was a justice of the peace for the +county of Derby in 1558 and his son Edward died in 1607.</p> + +<p>Burke also tells us that “from old deeds in existence it appears +that the family held lands in the year 1399”; it may be and seems highly +probable that he was referring to the deed of gift and the grant above +described, to which he presumably had access and gave credence.</p> + +<p>On the other hand the two Lysons, in their work on Derbyshire, +say that the Mundys did not buy the Markeaton property until the +beginning of the sixteenth century. Perhaps at that date they added +to their original holding?</p> + +<p>We now have some idea of how matters stood in 1399 and 1568; +we are therefore in a better position to consider whether the deeds of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span> +Richard II and Elizabeth can be relied on as giving the origin and +early history of the place-name Hawksyard.</p> + +<p>Assuming for the moment that the two deeds were prepared at +the same time and by the same hand, it is necessary to consider the +position as it presented itself to the attorney, who in 1568 was instructed +to carry out the sale of Hawksyard to John Weston. He possibly may +have acted for both vendor and purchaser and been anxious to do his +best for both his clients. He would, on receiving his instructions, ask +the vendor for his title deeds; the answer would presumably be that +there were no such deeds; but it was probably well known in the +vendor’s family and possibly also to John Weston, that Hawksyard +had been given to Sir Edward Mundy by John of Gaunt shortly before +his death, after enjoying a day’s hawking in Highe Frith, the tradition +of which would hang round The Moorlands for centuries; perhaps letters +or diaries would be produced with sufficient detail to satisfy the purchaser +of the truth of the tradition.</p> + +<p>The attorney would perhaps be in doubt, whether this traditional +gift was a grant of the fee simple or a mere sporting right over certain +waste lands belonging to the manor of Alstonefield, part of the duchy; +which right would be what is known as a right of common in gross. +The vendors were doubtless in actual possession and their ancestors +had held it for nearly two hundred years; under circumstances such as +these the Courts of Common Law, in the absence of the tradition, would +have assumed a lost grant, made prior to the reign of Richard I, which +is supposed to be equivalent to immemorial user; but the family tradition +as to John of Gaunt fixes the lost grant in the reign of Richard II, which +would not support a claim by immemorial user. Under these circumstances +and in the absence of any title deeds, the attorney seems to have +taken upon himself the responsibility of creating a root of title, based +on the tradition and possibly what he considered satisfactory recorded +evidence; in doing this he exercised neither artfulness nor skill. He +hesitated whether to make it an agreement or a grant, he neglected to +use the 14th century common form of such a document, he blundered +sadly in the dates, and he referred in the deed, which he dated in the +reign of Richard II, to a reign which had not then begun. There would +be a difficulty as to the witnesses, and it may be that those named were +taken from some deed of 1399 to which he had access, notwithstanding +the fact that these five witnesses were not suitable or likely witnesses +for the sealing by John of Gaunt; there was also the difficulty of the +seal, and as probably no seal of John of Gaunt was available, a forest +seal, perhaps of the honour of Tutbury, was used; Alstonefield manor +being within that honour, and the deed of the 15th May 1399 was the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span> +result; which did well enough to hand to the purchaser, as the root +of title to Hawksyard, along with his conveyance from Vincent Mundy +and his son. Even if the parties to the transaction knew of what was +being done they would doubtless be well pleased to have the John of +Gaunt tradition put on record; and the enterprising attorney would +probably be thanked and well paid for his trouble and resource. There +does not appear to have been any fraudulent intention to improperly +acquire any land or other benefit, though such a counterfeit in these days +would be fraught with risk to all parties concerned; but in the time +of Elizabeth, the law of real property rested less on statute and more +on the unwritten law; which was interpreted and applied loosely and +without supervision.<a name="FNanchor_B_2" id="FNanchor_B_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_B_2" class="fnanchor">[B]</a> The effect of this <i>ex post facto</i> apograph was +twofold and benefited both sides. The vendors put on permanent record +their treasured family tradition and the purchaser got a root of title, +which might be of value to him in case of re-sale. It would be interesting +to know why the Mundys barred the entail and sold Hawksyard, with its +sporting tradition; it may have been that the chancellor of the duchy +had, at a then recent date, raised the question as to whether the Mundy +family originally had an estate in fee simple or a right of common in +gross; and that they as owners thought they would act wisely in selling to +a purchaser for value.</p> + +<p>Whatever the reason may have been for the sale of Hawksyard +in 1568, it passed by the deed of Elizabeth from the Mundy family +to John Weston of Mackworth, and is now held and enjoyed under +prescriptive right, which makes its past history of little consequence, +so far as the present owner, Mr Robert Shirley of Waterhouse Farm, +near Longnor, is concerned.</p> + +<p>His numerous deeds and papers relating to Hawksyard include an +abstract of title beginning in the 14th year of Elizabeth (10th July 1572), +when John Weston and Katherine his wife sold Hawksyard to Ralph +Bradbury who, as appears from the grant to John Weston, was in 1568 +the tenant of Hawksyard; so that John Weston owned the property for +less than four years and then sold it to his tenant Ralph Bradbury, +who in May 1573 settled it on his younger son Otwell.</p> + +<p>Forty-two years later, on the 11th May 1615, Otwell Bradbury +and Ralph his son and heir sold Hawksyard to Henry Cock for £400. +For many years the estate remained in the possession of the Cock<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span> +family, who sold it to Ralph Wood of Leek Abbey, the Cistercian +monastery Dieu-la-Cresse, and on the 5th April 1800 Hawksyard passed +into the possession of John Shirley of Rewlach, the great grandfather +of the present owner.</p> + +<p>In 1850 some closes, part of Hawksyard, lying on the west side +of the road leading from Newtown to Warslow, were exchanged for +adjacent closes, part of the late Sir John Harpur Crewe’s estates. With +this exception, the Hawksyard estate seems to follow the boundaries +set forth in the deed of 1399, and Harrison’s Intake, Low Meadow, Rye +Meadow, Kiln Croft and Spout Field of that date still exist and appear +in the description of the lands in the 19th century title deeds. On the +front of the house are two dates, one above the other, the lower one +is “H C 1620” and the upper one is “H C 1784”; both these dates occur +during the ownership of the Cock family, and the initials “H C” probably +indicate Henry Cock.</p> + +<p>Hawksyard of to-day is a substantial farmstead of eighty acres, with +a good house and farm buildings occupied by Mr Shirley’s son Edwin +Leslie Shirley; it is bounded on every side by lands of Sir Vauncey +Harpur Crewe of Calke Abbey and Warslow Hall, but it has never +formed part of the encircling Harpur estate, which we may assume +was crown property; and the grant to the Harpurs of these surrounding +lands may have given rise to a discussion as to the Hawksyard title, and +possibly suggested to the Mundys the desirability of the sale to Weston. +If the surrounding lands were granted by the crown, leaving Hawksyard +an isolated and independent holding, there seems to have been a recognition +of the Mundy title and a strong vindication of the Hawksyard tradition.</p> + +<p>Of the places referred to in the deeds, Boothesley (now spelt Boosley) +Grange still stands; Bank or Over Boothesley is now Bank House and +the “pearle of water” is Boosley Brook. Highe Frith and Malbanc +Forest are not on the ordnance map and are almost forgotten in the +district; but Lady Edge is still in daily use, and the existence to-day +of these medieval place-names seems to strengthen the probability of the +story of John of Gaunt’s visit to the Highe Frith.</p> + +<p>If ramblers on foot and on wheels, when passing the east end of +the church and the adjoining school of Newtown, will stop for a +moment to glance down on Hawksyard, two fields to the east and +up to Lady Edge half a mile to the south-west; it will not be difficult to +reconstruct the scene of the hawking, when</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> +<p> +“Old John of Gaunt, time-honour'd Lancaster”<br /> +</p></div> + +<p>visited Highe Frith of Malbanc Forest more than five centuries ago +and first gave the name Hawksyard.</p> + +<div class="figcenter gap2" style="width: 115px;"> +<img src="images/illus_050.png" width="115" height="155" alt="Sheffield" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class="footnotes gap2"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_A_1" id="Footnote_A_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_A_1"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> It may be of interest to mention, that in 1867 while ridging potatoes in a field at Boosley Grange, +known as Boosley Folly Meadow, a number of silver medieval coins were found, which had presumably +been lost or hidden in the difficult times through which The Moorlands passed, during the fierce +struggle between Edward II and his cousin Thomas the great earl of Lancaster; who in his headlong +flight from Tutbury Castle up the valley of the Dove lost a military chest containing over 100,000 +similar coins, English, Scotch and Flemish, in the river, which was found in 1831, embedded deep in +the mud at the ford below the castle.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_B_2" id="Footnote_B_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_B_2"><span class="label">[B]</span></a> The reverend Joseph Hunter, in a Memoir on the ancient family of Wilson of Broomhead Hall, +Bradfield, published in <i>The Yorkshire Archæological and Topographical Journal</i> volume v. calls +attention to what he describes as a surreptitious Bradfield deed, dated in the feast of saint Martin in +winter (11th November) 22 Richard II and anno domini 1399; whereas the feast of saint Martin 1399 was +not in the reign of Richard II but in the first year of Henry IV; he further points out that even if the +news of the accession of Henry had not reached the wilds of Bradfield by the 11th November, the feast +of saint Martin 1399 would have fallen in the 23rd year of Richard II and not the 22nd, as stated +in the deed.</p></div> + +</div> + +<div class="bbox gap2" style="padding:0.5em;"> +<h3>Transcribers’ Notes</h3> + +<p>General: No attempt has been made to standardise spelling within the +charters; they are rendered as in the original text.</p> + +<p>Page 28: Hawsksyard corrected to Hawksyard after “In 1850 some closes, +part of”</p> +</div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Sheffield and its Environs 13th to the +17th century, by Thomas Walter Hall + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SHEFFIELD AND ITS ENVIRONS *** + +***** This file should be named 37130-h.htm or 37130-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/7/1/3/37130/ + +Produced by Brownfox and the Online Distributed Proofreading +Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from +images generously made available by The Internet Archive) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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