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Sturton. Streton. Estreton.

THere was belonging to Maunsfeild in Estre∣ton, as much as was charged to the Geld at two Car. The Land being six Car. and in King Williams time there twenty four Sochm. eleven Vill. seven Bord. had eight Car. Medow one leu. long,* 1.1 one qu. broad, Pasture Wood one leu. long, and five qu. broad. This Soc was valued at 40^s. In Oswardbec Wapentak likewise of Roger de Buslies Fee, there were in Estreton two Mannors which Speranoc and Archill were possess'd of be∣fore the Norman invasion, who discharged the publick Taxation or Dane-geld for four Bov. and an half. The Land then being known to be two Car. and an half. There were two Vill. two Sochm. two Bord. having seven Bov. in a Car. or seven Oxen in Plow, and eight Acres of Me∣dow, Pasture Wood six qu. long. and three quar. and an half broad: in the Confessours time, and then also this yielded two Marks of Sil∣ver.

Thomas, son of Hugh de Stretton, gave to the Church of Blyth one Acre of Land in Claches∣croft,* 1.2 which one Robert held of him, and the whole Gare, which was in Neuvinge, and an Acre of Medow at Sanbrige. The Jury, 28 H. 3.* 1.3 found it not to the Kings loss if he granted Thomas de Stretton leave to inclose his Wood of Stretton, with the Wong or Culture, and there∣of to make a Park. Iohn de Stretton about 15 E. 1.* 1.4 was hanged for Felony, who held two Acres and an half, and half a Mess. with the Appurte∣nances, of Walter Oliver, and half an Acre of Land of William, son of Adam de Stretton, and one Acre of Medow of Nigellus, son of Richard de Stretton, and one Rode and an half of Iohn Remay of Fenton, and the Jury likewise found that the Township of Stretton should answer the King for his year and day.

Henry le Noreys held fifteen Bovats of Land in Gréeneley, six Bovats of Land in Stretton,* 1.5 and one Bovat in Leyrton, of the Fee of Thomas de Stretton, by the service of two Gilded Spurrs, which Thomas only paid, and it was of the Soc of Oswaldbek. The Jury, 30 E. 3.* 1.6 found that Alexander, son of Henry le Norreis of Cla∣worth, had diverse Tenents, who held of him in Stretton in the Clay by homage and fealty and 14^s. Rent, and that Alexander held them of King E. 2. in capite, and that William Prat of Stret∣ton was cousin and heir of Walter.

The Jury, 7 R. 2.* 1.7 found that Thomas le Prat then dead, was once seized of 22^s....^d. and one Pound of Pepper Rent of Assize, issuing out of certain Lands and Tenements in Stretton, Fen∣ton, South Leverton, and Wiston, together with Lands in Grenly by Retford, &c. and that Beatrix wife of Iohn de Croftes, daughter and heir of William le Prat (then also dead) son and heir of the said Thomas le Prat, was his Cousin and heir.

Philip de Baggesoore 3 E. 3.* 1.8 who married Hawisia, the daughter and heir of Thomas, son of Nigellus de Stretton, who lived in the time of E. 1. claimed .....in Stretton in the Clay.

Roger Smith, and Erasmus Smith, 15 Eliz. claimed against Thomas Sturton, Gent. four Mess. three Cotag. one Dovecote, five Gardens, three Orchards, two hundred Acres of Land, sixty se∣ven of Medow, one hundred of Pasture, with the Appurtenances in Stourton, Fenton, and Littel∣borowe. This Thomas Stourton was son of Tho∣mas, and married Frances,* 1.9 the daughter and heir of ... Smith of Whillcots in Rutland, by whom he had four sons, Roger, his eldest of Sturton, whose daughter Elizabeth died unmarried, Iohn Sturton of London his second, who had Humfr. and other children, Edward Sturton of Nor∣brough in Leicest. his third, who was Father of Erasmus, of whom came, as I remember, Ed∣ward Stourton of Spalding in Lincolnshire, Do∣ctor of Physick, and Thomas Sturton of Ireland, the fourth.

Rog. de Osberton is said to have held the whole Town of Stretton of Alice the Countess of Ewe.* 1.10 Roger Monachus paid two Marks for one Knights Fee there, in the time of H. 3. Roger de Osber∣ton gave with Elizabeth his daughter in Frank-marriage to Simon de Whitington, Rent in Stret∣ton, which Galfr. de Dethek, son of Elena, daughter of the said Simon and Elizabeth claimed 3 E. 3.* 1.11

There was a Fine levied at Westminster that year, viz. 3 E. 3.* 1.12 betwen Iohn Darcy le Cusin, Quer. and Raph de Boselingthorp, and Isabell his wife, Deforc. of the Mannor of Stretton in Le Clay, with the Appurtenances; which was there∣by settled on the said Raph and Isabell for life; re∣mainder to the said Iohn Darcy, and his heirs; to which Iohn de Boselingthorp put to his claim. The Jury, 30 E. 3.* 1.13 said that Iohn Darcy held the Mannor of Kirkeby in this County of the King in Capite of 20^l. value; and the Mannor of Stretton, of the heirs of the Earl of Pembroke in Socage, by the service of 48^s. per annum, and of William Prat the fifth part of a Knights Fee, by the service of 3s. 2^d. and that Iohn Darcy was then his son and heir, as in Kirkeby in Ashfeild is noted, with which this Mannor descended. In 37 H. 6.* 1.14 Margaret who had been wife of Iohn Dar∣cy, Knight, was found to have held in Dower the Mannor of Stretton in the Clay, called the Vpper Hall, in which there was 40s. Rent of Assize issuing out of the Lands of divers Free-holders in Wyeston, Littilburgh, and Stretton, and in it likewise was part of the passage over Trent, at Littilburgh, which was worth above all reprises 5s. per annum, and in it likewise a Court which besides the Stew∣ards Fee yielded nothing, she was then dead, her husband died the Saturday after the feast of the Ascension, 32 H. 6. (which cannot be 25 Mar. as in Kirkeby, but possibly of May) William Darcy his Grand-child, son of his son Richard, was found to be his heir, and then nine years old, viz. in the Feast of the Epiphany, 37 H. 6. when the Inquisition was taken at Nottingham, after the death of the said Margaret.

King H. 8. by his letters patents dated the first of May, 32 H. 8.* 1.15 granted to George Lascells, Esquire, and his heirs, the Mannor of Stur∣ton, with the Appurtenances; and all Mess. Lands, &c. in Sturton, Wiseton, Whetley, and Littlebrough, which were late Thomas Dar∣cies,* 1.16 Knight, Lord Darcy Attaint. His Grand∣child Sir George Lassells, Knight, was of great years, but left only a daughter and heir married to Sir Francis Rodes, whose son and heir Sir Francis Rodes married Anne, one of the daugh∣ters of Sir Gervas Clifton, mother of the present Sir Francis Rodes, Baronet; and another of his sons named Clifton Rodes, who hath some interest in this place, married Letice, another daughter of the said Sir Gervas Clifton, but had no issue by her, he since married Elizabeth the daughter of Mr. Iohn Scrimshire of Cotgrave.

Here was a Mannor called Makarells Mannor, which descended to Fitz-Williams, as in Hayton may be observed.* 1.17 William Fitz-Williams, and George Fitz-Williams, paid in the time of Queen Elizabeth for Lands in Scretton alias Scurton, sometime Walter Olivers, and Philip de Sherfords, held by the service of two parts of one Knights Fee, and a sixth part, 5^s. 6^d. ob. dim. q.

At the Assizes at Nottingham 4 H. 4.* 1.18 Iohn de Willughby recovered his seism of two Mess. one Toft, one hundred and sixty Acres of Land, forty of Medow, with the Appurtenances in Stretton in the Clay, and Iohn Dogode, and Cecily his wife, were amerced.

The Priory of Matersey had also Lands here,* 1.19 granted by King H. 8. to Sir Anthony Nevill, Knight, with the Monastery, which Lands after came to Sturton of Sturton, and afterwards became the inheritance of Iohn Millington, Es∣quire.

The Vicarage of Styrton was xx. Marks, and the Chapter of York had the Patronage:* 1.20 'Tis now 5^l. 7^s. 3^d. ob. value in the King books, and the Dean of York Patron.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Lib. Dooms.
• * 1.2

  Regist. de Blid. p. 81.
• * 1.3

  Esc. 28 & 29 H. 3. n. 31.
• * 1.4

  Esc. 15 E. 1. n. ••0.
• * 1.5

  Lib. se••d. in Scacc. pen. Rem. Regis.
• * 1.6

  Esc. 30 E. 3 3. n. 59.
• * 1.7

  Esc. 7 R. 2. n. 61.
• * 1.8

  Pl. de Iur. & Assis. apud Nott. 3 E. 3. ro. 25. in dor∣so. & ro. 17. in dorso. Pasch. 15 Eliz. ro. 152.
• * 1.9

  Ex Cap. vi∣sit. pen. Reason Mellish.
• * 1.10

  Test. de Nev.
• * 1.11

  Pl. de Iur. & Assis. ap. Nott. •• E. 3. rot. 85.
• * 1.12

  Fin. lev. Mic. 3. E. 3.
• * 1.13

  Esc. 30 E. 3. n. 33.
• * 1.14

  Esc. 37 H. 6.
• * 1.15

  Par. 4 pat. 32 H. 8. & par. 1. O. 32 H. 8. r. 109.
• * 1.16

  B.
• * 1.17

  Ex Cop. Rot. pen. meips.
• * 1.18

  ro. 75.
• * 1.19

  B.
• * 1.20

  Mss. I. M.