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Gamston. Gameleston upon Idle.

IN Gameleston was some of Roger de Buslies Fee, which was Soc to Agemanton, of which one Garden, and one Sochm. belonged to Mar∣cham, and one Garden (ortum to Etton. But the greatest part was of the Fee of Rogerius Picta∣vensis, two Mannors whereof before the Con∣quest were the free-hold of Gamel and Swain,* 1.1 and answered the Taxation for one Car. The Land being then eight Car. There Roger had in Demesne two Car. and seven Sochm. on two Bov. of this Land, and three Vill. one Bord. having three Car. and an half. There two Mills yielded 40^s. twenty or twen∣ty eight Acres of Medow, twenty Acres of small Wood. This kept the value it had in the time of King Edward the Confessour, viz. 4^l. Another Mannor Chetelberne had before the Con∣quest, which paid for one Bov. to the Geld. The Land one Car. That Mannor Chetelberne had of Roger Pictavensis, and there had one Car. two Bord. and three Acres of Pasture Wood. In King Edward the Confessours time this was 20^s. 8^d. in the Conquerours but 10^s. value.

The owners of this place had their name it seems from Matersey or Maresey in this County, where they founded a Monastery of Gilbertines, to which they gave this Church, and were likewise Lords of Heton by Lancaster.

• Rogerus de Maresey-
  • Ranulf de Maresey, 1 Joh. 7 R. 1. Isabella relict. 12 Joh.
    • Rogerus de Maresey, 9 H. 3. & 18 H. 3.-
      • Ranulf de Maresey-
        • Thom. de Marsey ob. 26 E. 1.-
          • Thom. de Mersay.
          • Phil. de Chauncy-Isabella.
            • Gerard de Chauncy ob. 15 E. 2.
              • Isabella de Chauncy ... aet. 1. an. 15 E. 2.-Georgius Monboucher.
                • Nicol. Monboucher infra aet. 24 E. 3.-Margareta, 39 E. 3.
                  • 1 Bertram. Monbou∣cher s. p.
                  • 2 Georg. s. p.
                  • 3 Rad.-Margareta sor. Tho. Foljamb relict. Jo. Cokfeld.
                  • Jo. Burgh-Isab.
                  • Matild. ux. Joh. Kever∣mond.

Hugh Bardulf 7 R. 1.* 1.2 gave account of Cxviii^s. vi••. of the issue of Gameleston, which was Ra∣nulf, son of Rogers, for the whole year. Ra∣nulph de Maresi 1 Ioh.* 1.3 gave account of fifty Marks for having his Land, which was in the Kings hand after the death of his Father. Isabell who had been wife of Ran. de M••resey, 12 Ioh.* 1.4 gave account of thirty eight Marks, and one Palfrey, that she should not be constrained, &c. Eustace de Mortein, 8 Ioh. held two Knights Fees in Gameleston,* 1.5 with the heir of Ranulf de Marisco, for the Custody (or Wardship of whom, he gave 100^l. that year. Roger, son of Ranulf (de Marese••y) paid four Marks in the Scutage of Montgomeri 9 H. 3.* 1.6 for two Knights Fees in Gameleston, and in after times Ranulf, son of Roger, paid for two Fees in Gamelston. The Jury, 26 E. 1.* 1.7 found that Thomas de Mare∣sey held in the town of Gamelston one Mess. nine score Acres of Arable Land, &c. when he died, and divers Lands in Hatfeild, Houghton, Kirk∣ton, West Retford, Misen, Meresey, Kirkeby, Walesby, Wilheby, of the Honour of Lanca∣ster, and that Thomas de Maresey was his son and heir: he had also a Capital Mess. and five Bo∣vats of land in Everton, held of the Arch-bishop of Yorke.

Isabell was daughter of Sir Thomas de Marsey,* 1.8 and wife of Sir Philip de Chauncy, who confir∣med the gifts of her ancestors in this and other places, to the Priory of Marsay or Mattersey in this County, (in the Monasticon mistaken and said to be in Lincolneshire.) The Jury, 15 E. 2.* 1.9 found that Gerard de Chauncy held the Mannor of Houghton, and two parts of the Mannor of Gamelston of the Earl of Lancaster, and that he overlived Isabell de Chauncy his mother, whose heir he was of these Lands, and that he left Isabell de Chauncy his daughter and heir one year old, the Fryday after the Feast of the Annuntiation then last past: he had the Mannors of Willughton, Swynhope, &c. in Lincolnshire.

George Monbocher Lord of Gameleston, left his son and heir Nicholas under age,* 1.10 who in 24 E. 3. was in the Custody of Thomas Cok, Knight, by the gift of the Earl of Lancaster.

Nicolas Mounboucher, Chr. about 8 R. 2.* 1.11 dyed seized of this Mannor, and that of Hoghton upon Idle, which with the Mannor of Bylynggay in Lincolneshire, and many other Hereditaments in this County, 39 E. 3. were settled on him,* 1.12 and Margaret his wife, and the heirs of their bo∣dies, remainder to the right heirs of the said Ni∣colas, on whose seal within the Circumscription of his name is A Chevron between 3. Pitcheri, with 3. Feet. Within a Border charged with roundells. The Deed was dated at Hoghton, the Thursday after the Feast of St. George the Mar∣tyr, 39 E. 3. These Mannors of which he died seized extended themselves in the Towns of Houghton, Gamilston, Flintham, Willugh∣by, Walesby, Elkeslee, Kyrton, Grimston, Welhagh, Almton, Drayton, Barneby, Everton, Mysyn, Clareburgh, West Retford, and Morton in this County, and Maresey and Thorpe, as the book of Fees of Henry Earl of Lancaster in the Dutchy office shows. This Sir Nicolas Monbocher had issue Bertram, George,* 1.13 (aged fifteen years 8 R. 2.) Raph, Isabell, and

Matilda. Bertram dyed before his Father with∣out issue, and so did George after his fathers death, and Raph entred as his brother and heir, and married Margaret, the relict of Iohn Fole∣jambe, the sister of Thomas Cokefeild, but had no issue. Isabell had for her husband Iohn Burgh, Esquire, and Matildis Iohn Kevermond, who 5 H. 5.* 1.14 levied a Fine of these Mannors, to Tho∣mas Folejambe, the elder, Esquire, Robert Thorn∣hagh, William Foljambe, and William Webster, Chaplain.

Margaret Cokefeild held for her life the Man∣nors of Houghton upon Idle, and Gameleston of the honour of Lancaster, by the Rent of 40^s. for Ward of the Castle of Lancaster, the rever∣sion in 4 E. 4.* 1.15 belonged to Thomas Thurland, William Gull, William Babington, and their heirs.

Thomas Thurland about 13 E. 4.* 1.16 left these Mannors, and West Drayton, to William Gull, Clark, and others: his Cousin and heir Thomas Thurland was then twenty one years old.

This Mannor was sold by .... Thurland, the late unthrift of that Family,* 1.17 to Thomas Markham, Esquire, eldest son of Sir Iohn Markham of Cotham, by his latter wife the relict of Richard Stanhope, and one of the sisters and co-heirs of Iohn Strelley of Strelley, Esquire; it is now with Houghton the inheritance of the Right Ho∣norable the Earl of Clare, who hath also Thur∣land House in Nottingham, where lived Thomas Thurland, the great Merchant of the Staple, and thereby the raiser of that Family.

This Church was accounted as part of the Cha∣pelry of Blith,* 1.18 but it appears, 16 E. 3. that the Prior of Madersay was Patron, of whom Ri∣chard de Willoughby obtained it, and presented Rog. de Willughby, who was Parson of Gameleston at that time.

The owners of Gamston 1612. are said to be Sir Iohn Hollys,* 1.19 Knight, Sir Robert Swifte, Knight, Robert Meunell, Esquire, (of Stafford∣shire) Robert Brett.

The Rectory of Gamylston was twenty Marks when the Prior of Mathersay was Patron:* 1.20 'Tis now 11^l. 16^s. 5^d. ob. value in the Kings Books, and the King Patron.

In Gamulston Church in a Window,

Orate pro bono statu Magistri Thomae Thur∣land, Ar. & Isabellae uxoris ejus, & pro anima Elizabethae uxoris ejus.

Upon a fair Tomb in the Chancel,

Hic jacet Thomas Thurland, Ar. Dom. de Gamstone, qui ob. in die S. Gervasii & Protasi Anno Christi 1497.

Upon which Tomb in divers places was Ermine upon a Chief Gules, 3 T. Arg. and upon that in the middle a Mullet.

In a Window,

Richard Thurland, and Alice his wife.

There Thurland impales Willughby of Wolla∣ton; and Gules a Saltier Ermine, Nevill of Rolleston.

There is Arg. a Chevron between three Pitchers (or Fleshpots) Gules within a Bordure sa∣ble Bezanty: that is also upon the Shield of a Stone Statue on a Tomb, Monboucher.

In the North Window of the Chancel,

Arg. a Crosse Chequey Or and Gules, Cokfeild, impales Sable a Bend between six Scallops Or, Foljambe.

On the Surcoat of a Man there,

Ermine on a Fesse Azure three Eglets display∣ed Or.

On the Surcoat of a Woman,

Vert a Chevron Gules between 3 Garbes Arg.

In the North Window of the Church,

Or three Bendlets Azure with quarterings, im∣paling Gules on a Fesse Dancette Arg. be∣tween six Lioncells Rampant Or three Mart∣lets sable, with quarterings.

Arg. a Mullett sable impaling vert a Chev∣ron Or between three Befants.

Thurlands Chief is indented, and upon it a file of three Labells instead of the three Taus.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Lib. Dooms.
• * 1.2

  Pip. 7 R. 1
• * 1.3

  Pip. 1 Ioh.
• * 1.4

  Pip. 12 Ioh.
• * 1.5

  Pip. 8 Ioh. Test. de Nev.
• * 1.6

  Pip. 9 H. 3.
• * 1.7

  Lanc. Test. de Nev. Lib. feod. Her▪ Comit. Lan••. in offic. ducat. fol. 14. b. Esc. 26 E. 1. n. 42.
• * 1.8

  M••n. Ang. c••l. 2. p. 811.
• * 1.9

  Esc. 15 E. 2. n. 47.
• * 1.10

  Regist. de Blid. p. 156.
• * 1.11

  Esc. 8 R. 2. n. 27.
• * 1.12

  Ex Autog. pen. meips. R. S.
• * 1.13

  Fol. 32. Esc. 4 E. 4. n. 33.
• * 1.14

  Hill. 5 H. 5.
• * 1.15

  Esc. 4 E. 4. p. 764.
• * 1.16

  Esc. 13 E. 4. n.
• * 1.17

  B.
• * 1.18

  Regist. de Novo loco p. 206, &c.
• * 1.19

  Lib. libere ten.
• * 1.20

  Lib. Mss. I. M.