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Edwalton. Eadwalds Town.

OF Rogerius Pictavensis Fee here was a Man∣nor, which Stepi had, before he and the Nor∣mans came, and paid for it to the general Taxati∣on as six Bovats. The Land was twelve Bovats.* 1.1 There was in Demesne, when Doomsday Book was made, one Car. one Vill. sixteen Acres of Me∣dow. In the Confessours time it was 30^s. value, then 10^s. In Edwolton in the Confessours time Gode had a Mannor rated to the Geld for six Bov. the Land whereof was two Car. ½. There in the Conquerours time Hugo Grentemaisnil had in Demesne two Car. six Sochm. eleven Vill. having one Car. ½. and twenty Acres of Medow then valued at 20^•. in the King Edwards time, be∣fore but at 10^s. It lay to Stoctun.

Robert (son of, or) Fitz-Ranulph, who was High Sheriff of these Counties, 12 H. 2. and so much a zealous Servant of the King, that he is reported (how truely,* 1.2 I know not) to be one of those who committed that foul Murder on Tho∣mas Beckett, the Arch-bishop of Canterbury, for which (besides two others) he built the Ab∣by of Beauchief in Darbyshire, to which he gave this Church,* 1.3 together with the Churches of Norton, and Alfreton, and Wymundeswold; those Lordships continued long with his Posterity, and this doth still.

Thomas de Chaworth,* 1.4 one of the heirs of the Barony of Alferton, 41 H. 3. had Free War∣ren granted in Marneham, Chaworth, Edwal∣ton, and Osberton in this County, in Alferton, and Norton in Darbyshire, and the like in other places of his estate in Leicester, and York∣shires.

The Family of Latham of Lancashire was the other heir,* 1.5 of which Robert de Latham is said to hold half a Knights Fee here of the Earl of Lei∣cester (who married Petronilla, heir of Grente∣maisnil) of the old Feoffment, which I suppose was but in the minority of Thomas Chaworth, whose heir Male Patricius Viscount Chaworth of Armagh, in the Kingdom of Ireland, now en∣joyes it by descent from Engelram, Father of Ra∣nulph, Father of Robert, first mentioned, which Engelram was enfeoffed thereof by the said Hugo Grentemaisnil, as I guess, in the time of H. 1. Thomas de Chaworth, 16 E. 1. was to pay 30^s. per annum to the Prior of Merton,* 1.6 according to a Fine levyed, 53 H. 3. by Robert de Aufer∣ton his Uncle, whose heir he was for Tenements in Edwolton, which Robert, I think, should be Thomas (rot. pip. 26 H. 3.)

* 1.7Raph Basset of Drayton is found, 25 E. 1. to hold the third part of a Knights Fee here of the Honour of Leicester. But it seems that Thomas Chaworth,* 1.8 17 E. 3. held it of the Lord Basset. The present Lord Chaworth is also an heir of the Lord Basset, as in Wiverton, or Marneham is more particularly shown, where the Descent of that Noble Family is inserted.

This is now thought to be in the Parish of Rud∣dington, and my Lord Chaworth bought some Lands here of the R. H. William Earl of Devon∣shire, heir also of that Impropriation.

This small Lordship is all or most of it inclosed.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Lib. Dooms.
• * 1.2

  Ex Coll. I. B.
• * 1.3

  Mon. Angl. vol. 2. p. 608.
• * 1.4

  Ch. 41 H. 3. m. 3.
• * 1.5

  Test. de Nev.
• * 1.6

  Pl. de Banc. Hill. 16 E. 1. ro. 34.
• * 1.7

  Esc. 25 E. 1. n. 51.
• * 1.8

  Esc. 17 E. 3. n. 59.