Sheriffs accounted in the Pipe Rolls for the Farm of Peverells Land, being in the Kings hands se∣veral years, in the beginning of the Reign of King Henry the second, until about the nine∣teenth, that Robert Fitz-Randalf Lord of Au∣ferton made his account, wherein he mentions Langar and Clifton to be before that time ('tis said, 9 H. 2.) given to one Gerbod de Escalt, as Hornecastle in Lincolneshire also was.
Gerard de Rodes was the next owner of these Lands, that I have seen, who had them of the gift of King Iohn••: but, I think, he only con∣firmed them; for in the Pipe Roll, of the first year of his Reign, they are mentioned as if King Richard the first had so disposed them before.
Raph de Rodes succeeded this Gerard, to whom the Prior and Covent of Lenton, having remit∣ted the custom of Tything his Corn here at Langar, after it was brought into the Barn, and out of their liberality, agreed to take it in the field; This said Raph did, in the third year of the Reign of King Henry the third, make his ac∣knowledgement thereof, and ingage himself, That if they should have any loss by so doing, they should enjoy their old Custom again of Tything at the Barn; and this he did in a full Chapter be∣fore W. de Roderham, Arch-deacon of Nott. to whose Jurisdiction and constraint, if he should fail, he submitted himself, without Appeal, by a sealed instrument, as the custom then ordinarily was in such like cases. The Prior and Covent likewise granted him and his Lady Berta, to have a Chappel within their Court at Langar, pro∣vided the Chaplain should be presented to the P••••son of Langar, and swear not to hinder the Mother Church, and to be liable to be suspended by the Parson, if he did; and that the Lord and Lady should come and hear Divine Service at the Church on all the Festivals, except there was manifest cause of hinderance, but to have no Bell in the said Chappel.
There was an ancient Church or Chappel in the ••ields of Langar, called St. Athelburga's, or St. Aubrey's, which was upon Deyncurts Fee, and was given to Thurgarton Priory, as Grane∣by Church was, to which Parish it properly be∣longed; for this Raph de Rodes gave the Priory of Thurgarton 2s. a year to be taken of Richard, son of Thurkel of Barneston, or of whomso∣ever should hold these two Bovats or Oxgangs) he then had, to be free from paying small Tythes to the Church of Granby, for a certain Grange, which stood near Giselkirk (the old English name of St. Aubreys) part whereof stood in the Parish of Grandby.
There was matter of question between Sir Wil∣liam de Rodes, Rector of Langar, and the Pri∣or and Covent of Thurgarton, concerning cer∣tain obventions of the Church of St. Athelburga, without the Town of Langar, but the parties appearing in the Church of Wiverton, the Tues∣day after Palm Sunday, in the year 1257. they agreed partly to divide the subject of the question between them.
There was an agreement made also in the Court of Sir Raph de Rodes at Langar, before the whole Soc, the Knights and Free-men of the said Raph being present and Witnesses, between the Prior of Thurgarton, and the Parishioners of that Fee in Langar and Barneston, that they should all bring home the said Priors Tythes, and keep them safe till they could be carried to their proper place, for which the said Prior gave them 3s. of Silver yearly at Lammas.
Sir Gerard de Rodes was son and Successor of Raph, and had one son called by his own name Gerard de Rodes Lord of Melles, and another named Iohn, who, 13 E. 1. passed away to Sir Robert de Thibetot, and Eve his wife, and Paga∣nus their son, the Mannor of Langar and Berne∣ston, and also the homages of Gervas de Wile∣ford, for the Mannors of Clifton and Wilford, and of Henry de Perpunt and his heirs of the Mannor of Barton, and of Robert Luterell of the Mannors of Brigford and Gameleston, and of Edmund de Deyncurt and his heirs, which Ge∣rard, son of Gerard de Rodes his brother, granted to him the said Iohn de Rodes, on whose Seal, circumscribed with his name, is a Lion Rampant debruised with a Bendlet.
There are divers Seals of the largest size, of some of this Family, in the Chartulary at Clif∣ton, with their Images on Horse-back on one side, and on the other SECRETUM, with a Lion Rampant upon a Shield, and one within a Bordure.
Eva, the wife of Robert de Tibetot, was daugh∣ter of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 de Cadurcis.
Robert de Tibbetot had Free Warren granted, 18 E. 1. in Langar, and Barneston, and Bent∣ley in Yorkshire.
This Robert de Tibetot had a son named Robert, who, 23 E. 1. was to marry the daughter of Raph de Tony, but his son and heir was Paganus, before mentioned, who about 26 E. 1. married Agnes, the daughter of William de Ros. He con∣firmed to the Priory of Thurgarton all their Lands and Tenements, Rents and Possessions with∣in his Demesne in Langar, Barneston, and Wiverton, and particularly, all their concerns in the Chappel or Church of St. Ethelburga the Virgin, scituate and founded within his Demesne of Langar, called in English Giselki••ke. In the year of our Lord 1314, he was slain at Stri∣velin, amongst many other English Nobles, in the Battle against Robert de Brus, where the Scots were Conquerours. The next year after, or sooner, the King, 8 E. 2. pardoned Thomas de Veer for marrying Agnes, the wife of this Pagan Tibetot, without licence, on condition, that he found twenty men at Arms at Karliol, from Lammas then next following, to the Feast of All Saints, to defend those parts against the Scots.
King Edward the second, Nov. 21. that same year, viz. 8 E. 2. for a thousand Marks granted to Barth. de Badlesmere the custody of certain of the Lands of this Paganus de Tibtot, by rea∣son his son and heir Iohn was under age. This Barthol. married this Iohn to his daughter Mar∣garet (or Elizabeth, as some Copyes) which af∣terwards proved to be one of the four sisters and co-heirs of his son Sir Giles Badlesmere, where∣of another was married to William Lord Ros; another to Iohn Vere Earl of Oxford; and ano∣ther to William Boun Earl of Northampton. By her this Iohn de Tiptot had a son called Iohn, who died without issue under age, 33 E. 3. but he had another called Robert, on whom this Mannor