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Harworth. Farworth. Plumtre. Limpole. Hesle. And Marton.

BEfore the Conquest in Hareword Wade, Vl∣fiet, and Vlstan paid to the Geld for one Carucat of Land, for their three Mannors. The Land whereof was two Car. There after∣wards Fulco the Man of Roger de Busli (whose Fee it was) had one Car. and eight Vill. and one Bord. with three Car. There was a Church,* 1.1 Pasture Wood one leuc long, one broad. The value in King Edward the Confessours time was 40^s. and when the Conquerours Survey was made 30^s. having Soc in Martune one Car. ad Geld. The Land two Car. There ten Vill. had five Car. Pasture Wood, one leu. long, half a leu. broad.

Fulco de Lisoriis was the Tenant or Man of Roger de Busli it seems,* 1.2 and gave to the Priory of Blyth two Bovats in Harewrd, and the Multure of Harewrd, and of the whole Soc belonging to it (part whereof was the Hamlet called Plum∣tre) which Robert de Lisoriis his son, and others of his posterity confirmed, as before in Oule∣cotes, and other places may be perceived.

Raph Fraser, the Kings Marescal, gave to the Monks of Blyth two Bovats which Gamel held of him in Harewrd:* 1.3 which gift was confirmed by Henry Cossard, the son of Raph Cossard,* 1.4 named before in Hodsak.

Thomas Fitz-William,* 1.5 and Albreda de Bas∣singburne held the whole Town of Harworth of Alice Countess of Ewe (or Augi) by the ser∣vice of one Knights Fee. Albreda de Bassing∣burne held in Brigford and Hareword two Knights Fees by reason of the Wardship of the heirs of Iohn Biset.* 1.6 She held but half a Knights Fee here.* 1.7

In 9 E. 2. Hareworthe with the Soc answered for an intire Villa,* 1.8 whereof William Fitz-William was then certified to be Lord.

The Jury, 14 E. 3.* 1.9 said that Galfr. le Scrop (named in South Muscham) held in Hareworth of Gerard de Seginton by the Service of 1^d. per annum, a Capital Mess. one hundred and ten Acres of arable Land, ten of Medow, &c.

This Town and the Hamlets have been of long time the Inheritance of Moreton,* 1.10 an ancient & wor∣shipful Family, until Anth. Moreton, Esq, (who paid in Queen Elizabeths time 3^s. 4^d. for half a Knights Fee in Harworth, sometime Henry Bisets) wasted the Estate; he was Father of Ro∣bert

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Moreton who sold Hareworth to Mr. Wil∣liam Saunderson.

* 1.11Hamo de Burton gave to the Monks of Blith one Bovat of Land in Farewad, which Robert de Farewad gave him for his Service. Elias de Moles gave them the Land which Hamo Buche held of him by 10^l. Rent,* 1.12 and that which Elys Pin held of him for 2^d. ob. and Pasture for two hundred Sheep in his Land of Farewad, and Common Pasture in all his Commons. Elyas, son of Robert de Farewad,* 1.13 gave to the said Monks five Acres of his Land which Haco, son of Roger, held of him, and three Rods [virgas] of Land which Elys Pin held of him. Elyas, son of Elyas de Farewad, gave them one Culture of his Land in the territory of Farewad called Heved∣lands, as it bore in length and breadth from the Street which leads towards Bautre, unto the Street of Tikehill. Elias de Farewat, son of Elias, confirmed it, so he did other gifts of his father, and released 18^d. Rent which Elias, son of Alewy of Stirap, was wont to pay his said father for half a Bovat of Land in Farewad, which his said father sold to Mr. Iohn, son of Alice de Styrap, for a Mark of Silver which he gave him in his great need.

Ingeram de Stirap gave to Frier William de Well.* 1.14 Prior of Blyth, and the Monks there, a certain Culture of Land in the territory of Fare∣wat, with all the length and breadth as it lay be∣tween the way which leadeth from Blyth to Tik∣hill, and the Land of Robert, son of Beatrix de Stirap, and abutted on one head on the head-land of the said Prior and Covent, and on the other on the way which leads from Stirap towards Serleby. Dionysia the relict of the said Inge∣ram also released all her right of Inheritance or otherwise.

By a Fine at York, 13 E. 2.* 1.15 the Mannor of Farewath was settled on Hugh de Serleby for life; remainder to Oliver, son of the said Hugh, and to Alice his wife, and to the heirs of their bodies; remainder to the right heirs of the said Hugh.

Iohn Flandrensis of Claverbure gave to God, and the Monks of Blyth,* 1.16 Raph, son of Balde of Heselay, and his whole Sect, and the whole Land which he held of him in Heselay, viz. nine Acres. Gaufr. son of William le Hoser released the nine Acres in Heselay, which the said Iohn Flandren∣sis gave to the Monks of Blyth.

William, son of (or Fitz-) William, son of (or Fitz-) Goderic gave those Monks one Mark of yearly Rent of the three which the Lord Arch∣bishop of York was bound to pay him for Plum∣crefeld.* 1.17

Robert Strey, Chaplain, Thomas Elys, and William Bradford, 17 H. 8.* 1.18 claimed against Charles Moreton, Esquire, one Mess. ninety five Acres of Land, thirty four of Medow, twenty six of Pasture, and ten of Wood in Limpole and Hesley.

Peter, son of Will••am de Marton, gave to the Monks of Blithe one Carucat of Land [invige∣dun] with all Appurtenances,* 1.19 and further grant∣ed them Timber in his Wood to make them lodge∣ings [Herbergagia] and convenients for fire, and a Toft in the same Town, and free Multure in the Mill of the same Town. They were to re∣ceive him into their Society when God should give it into his heart. Agnes,* 1.20 the wife of Ni∣colas de Marton did Fealty to the Prior of Blyth the Fryday next after the Ascension of our Lord 1289. in the name of Roger her son then under age, for two Bovats of Land in Marton, which the said Roger claimed to hold of the said Prior, and acknowledged to owe 4^s. per annum, and gave for relief 8^s.

There was a Fine levied, 5 E. 3.* 1.21 between Hugh de Hercy Chr. Quer. and Thomas de Mul∣ton of Kirketon Chr. Deforc. of the Mannor of Marton near Bautre which Gerard de Sekinton, and Ioan his wife, held as dower of the said Ioane, and another 40 E. 3. and afterwards 43 E. 3.* 1.22 be∣tween Robert de Morton of Bautre, and Ioan his wife, and William Strete, Quer. and Hugh de Hercy Chr. Deforc. of the Mannor of Marton by Bautre, which the said Hugh acknowledged to be the right of the said Robert, and was after the death of Ioan, the wife of Gerard de Sekyng∣ton, who held it in Dower, and had demised it to Anna le Despenser to revert to the said Robert, and Ioane his wife, and William, and the heirs of the said Robert.

The Moretons did Found an Hospital in the uttermost edge of the Parish near Bautrey Town in Yorkshire,* 1.23 to which there is also a Chapel yet standing, wherein they of the Family have used to be buried, and amongst the rest there lies Ka∣therin (daughter of Iohn Boun, Esquire, by his first wife, and so) half sister of Gilbert Boun, Sergeant at Law, who was widow of George Moreton, elder brother of the before named Ro∣bert, who sold Hareworth, which George died long before the said Anthony his father. These Moretons bore Quarterly Gules and Ermine the first and last charged with each a Goates Head Erased Arg.

The Church of Harewode, with the Chapel of Serleby and of Marton, with all their Appur∣tenances,* 1.24 were by King Iohn granted to the Church of Roan, with many others, as part of the Chapelry of Blyth, and with that of East Markham, and the rest came, 6 E. 6. to the Earl of Shrowsbury, as in Lowdham and other places is noted.

The owners of Marten, Hesley,* 1.25 and Har∣worth, in 1612. are thus set down, Gilbert Earl of Shrowsbury, George Chaworth, Knight, Anthony Morton, Esquire, William Gregory for Lands in Hesley, William Weste, Esquire, Tho∣mas Wright of Rossington, George Wagstaffe of Harworth, Iames Hall of the same, Henry Stryng, Nicolas Strea, Iohn Robinson, Lewes Weste.

The Vicarage of Harworth was 11^l. when the Abbat of Westminster was Patron:* 1.26 'Tis now 5^l. 9^s. 7^d. value in the Kings Books, and the Duke of Norfolk Patron.