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Clipston.

WHen Plumtre Wapentak was in use, this Town of Clipston was esteemed as part of it, but now it is and hath been long, even from the Conquest,* 1.1 of Binghamshou, though it yet remains of the Parish of Plumtre. It was also of Roger de Buslies Fee; where before the Nor∣man Invasion Vlviet had a Mannor rated to the publick Taxation (or Dane-geld) at three Ca∣rucats. The Land three Carucats. There Ro∣ger had in Demesne two Car. three Sochm. twelve Vill. one Bordar, having six Car. (or Flows.) There was twenty Acres of Medow. In K. Edward the Confessours daies the value of this was 60^s. In King Williams but 40^s.

There is in Doomsday Book mention of two Mannors in Wa••eberge (now utterly lost, ex∣cept it was some part of Kinolton) whereof Godric named in Plumtre, before the Conquest, had one, and paid for it to the Geld as twelve Bov. The Land was twelve Bov. It was waste, and the Fee of Roger de Busli. There was ten Acres of Medow. In the Confessours time it was 20^s. In the Conquerours but 5^s. Another Fred∣gis had rated to the Dane-geld at thirteen Bov. ••/2. The Land whereof was sufficient for two Plows, or two Car. There Rogerius Pictavens••s, whose Fee it became, had one Car. and two Sochm. and one Bord. having one Car. and ten Acres of Me∣dow. This was 10^s. in the Confessours time, and 12^s. value in the Conquerours. It seems not to be far off from Cotegrave, Crophill, Outhorpe, Kinolton, and this Clipston in which Rog••r de Busli gave the Tythe of one Plow-Land or Caru∣cat to the Monastery of Blyth,* 1.2 amongst many other things, in his very foundation Charter there∣of bearing date 1088.

Iohn de Gatton is said to have held a Knights Fee here, of the Earl of Lincolne,* 1.3 of the old Feoffment.

Richard de Bingham, 22 E. 1. had a Charter of Free Warren in Bingham, Clipston,* 1.4 and Kinalton. There was a Fine, 1 E. 2. between Richard de Byngham, and Alice his wife, Quer. and Mr. Alan de Neuson, Deforc. of th•• Man∣nors of Byngham and Clipston, and of nine Mess. twenty eight Acres, and eight Bov. of Land and an half, and twelve Acres of Medow, with the Appurtenances in Outhorp, Kinalton, Cote∣grave, Notingham, and Rotington, and the Advowson of the Church of Rotington, thereby settled on the said Richard, and Alice, and the heirs Males, which the said Richard should beget on the Body of the said Alice; remainder to Wil∣liam, son of Alice Bertram of Bingham, and the heirs Males of his body; remainder to Ri∣chard, younger Brother of William and his; re∣mainder to Thomas, brother of the said Richard the younger, and the heirs▪ Males of his▪ re∣mainder to the right heirs of the said Richard de Byngham. It appears by another Fine, 2 E. 2. between the said Richard de Byngham,* 1.5 and Alice his wife, Quer. and William Bertram of Bing∣ham, Deforc▪ concerning twenty Bovats of Land, with the Appurtenances in Outhorpe, Cotegrave, and Kynalton, settled as before on the said Ri∣chard and Alice, and so on William, Richard, and Thomas, that he first had these sons by her, and af∣terwards took her to wife, for William is there said to be son of the said Alice.

In the Record called Nomina Villarum, 9 E. 2. Basingfeild, Gamelston, Torlaston,* 1.6 and Clip∣ston answered for a whole Villa, and the Lords then were certified to be Ioan Luterell, Iohn Barry, and Alice de Byngham.

* 1.7William de Bingham Chr. 18 E. 3. by Fine settled this Mannor, and some other Lands, with those in Kinalton, on Richard de Bingham, and Amora his wife, then in the Custody or Guar∣dianship of Robert de Meaux. Sir Richard de Bingham,* 1.8 Knight, 40 E. 3. by another Fine set∣tled these Lands on his Son William, and Margaret his wife, and the heirs of their Bodies, reserving 100^s. per annum Rent, with remainder to the right heirs of himself the said Sir Richard. This William married another wife called Isabell, and died before his Father the said Sir Richard, who died about 11 R. 2.* 1.9 Robert his Grandchild, by this William, being then found his heir, and about four years old.

* 1.10Which Robert, I suppose, lived not long, for there was a Fine, 1 H. 4. levyed between Sir Thomas de Rempston Chr. Complainant, and Richard, late King of England Chr. Deforc. of the Mannors of Bingham and Clipston on the Hill by Plumtre, &c. by which these Lands were settled on Sir Thomas Rempston and his heirs; but Isabell, the wife of William de Bing∣ham had then her life in this Mannor, which de∣scended to the heirs of this Sir Thomas de Remp∣ston▪ with Bingham, and his other Lands, as in Bingham more particularly may be seen.

Sir Brian Stapleton, and Elizabeth his wife, suffered a recovery,* 1.11 2 H. 8. of his Mannor of Bingham, and Lands here.

* 1.12Lucy, who had been wife of Edmund Holland Earl of Kent, held in Dower after the death of her said husband, 2 H. 6. of the inheritance of the Duchess of York, the wife of Henry Brom∣flete, Knight, one of the Sisters and heirs of the said Earl her husband, of Margaret Duchess of Clarence, the second Sister of Edmund late Earl of Ma••••h, son of Elianor, a third Sister, of Alice, the wife of Richard Nevill Chr. deceased, with∣in age, and in the Kings custody the fifth, sisters Cousins and heirs of the said Earl, amongst other things, the fourth part of a Knights Fee in Clip∣ston by Plumbtre, which the Lady of Bingham lately held, and another fourth part in Hickling which William Grey held.

In 7 H. 8. William Perpoynt, Knight, claimed against Hugh Taylour one Mess. one hundred Acres of Land,* 1.13 twenty of Medow, forty of Pa∣sture, with the Appurtenances in Clipston on the Hill, in the Parish of Plumtre, and the Advow∣son of the Chantry, or free Chappell there called St. Iohn's Chappell.

This Lordship was purchased by Sir Henry Pierpont,* 1.14 and descended to his son Robert Earl of Kingston, and remains the Marquess of Dor∣chesters.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Doomsd.
• * 1.2

  Reg. Bl••. 104.
• * 1.3

  Test. de Nev.
• * 1.4

  Ch. 22. E. 1. m. 50. Trin▪ 1 E. 2.
• * 1.5

  Mic. 2 E. 2.
• * 1.6

  Nom. Vill. 9 E. 2.
• * 1.7

  Trin. & Mich. 18 E. 3.
• * 1.8

  T••in. & 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Mic. 40 E. 3.
• * 1.9

  Esc. 11 R. 2. n. 10.
• * 1.10

  Mi••h. 1 H 4.
• * 1.11

  Mic. 2 H. 8. rot. 415.
• * 1.12

  Es••. 2 H. 6. pa. 335.
• * 1.13

  Mic. 7 H. 8. ro. 512.
• * 1.14

  B.