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Cossale. Doomsd. Cotteshale.

THis Cotteshale was a Beru of Olaveston, which was assessed or rated at six Bovats to the Geld or Tax. The Land was for six Oxen (or six Bovats.) There was in Demesne one Car. two Vill. and one Acre of Medow, a pa∣sture Wood one qu. long, and two broad, Soc. This was William Peverells Fee; but here was another part of this Township, in the Conque∣rours time, of Raph Fitz-Huberts Fee, which before was the Freehold of Leuenot Lord of An∣nesley, who answered to the Tax here for six Bovats, and the Land was then sufficient for so many Oxen,* 1.1 i. e. six Bovats. There was at the time of making the great Survey three Car. or Plows, with three Villains (or Husbandmen) and five Acres of Medow: formerly this had been valued at 16^s. but then was 10^s.

The first part was with Wollaston, the posses∣sion of the Family of Mortein; the latter seems to have been enjoyed chiefly by a Family who had their Sirname from the place, of which was Sir William de Cossale, Cler▪ Baron of the Exchequer, who was a great Benefactor to Newstede Priory,* 1.2 and did by Fine at York; Trin. and Mich. 8 E. 3. se••tle upon it twelve Mess. one Mill, eight Bo∣vats, and sixty Acres of Land, twenty of Me∣dow, eghty of waste, and 20^s. yearly Rent, with the Appurtenances in Cossale, Notingham, and B••ll••ell, to find three Chaplains, two in the Church of St. Katherin of Cossale, and the third in the said Priory of Newstede, to cele∣brate Divine Service for the Souls of the said William, his Ancestors, and Successours.

Reginald, son of Idonia de Cotsale, gave to the Priory of Thurgarton all his Lands in Cot∣sale, viz. half a Bovat,* 1.3 and a quarter of a Bo∣vat, with two Tofts, one at the end of the Town towards the East, and the other next the Toft of Roger the Gerefe [praepositi,] the said Priory paying to Sir Reginald de Annesley and his heirs 10^s. per annum.

Adam de Cossale held in the Town of Cos∣sale, one Mess. five Cottages, one Water-Mill, two Carucats of Arable Land, twenty three Acres of Medow,* 1.4 ten Acres of Pasture 20^s. Rent, which were settled, 7 E. 2. by Fine on William, son of the said Adam de Cossale, and Iohan his wife, and the heirs of their two bodies; remainder to the right heirs of the said William: Robert was their eldest son, who married Kathe∣rin, the daughter of Iohn Bozon, of whom there was no issue; Iohn their younger son mar∣ried the daughter of William Michell, and had issue. Of William, son of Adam de Cossale, and Iohan his wife, Sir William de Cossale, before named, obtained the Land and Soil where the two Granges (or Barns) below the Mannor of Cossale, belonging to the Priory of Newstede, were built, in exchange for one Land or Selion in Cossale between the Thorpes; he purchased likewise of their Fee Lands in Cossale and Brok∣sale, for the Services whereof the said Robert and Iohn their sons made a Release, reserving on∣ly 3^s. 10^d. Rent yearly; which Rent, together with all his Lands and Tenements in Cossale, Ro∣bert (de Cossale) son of the said Iohn sold to Sir Richard de Willoughby the elder, who settled the Town of Cossale (a great part whereof he had by the daughter of Sir Roger de Mortein) on Sir Richard de Willoughby the younger, as in Wollaston is said.

This Sir William de Cossale, the Baron, pur∣chased some Lands of Sir Roger Mortein, and some of other Freeholders, all which he gave to Newstede, as already is shown.

The Jury found, 23 E 3. that Warin, son of Thomas le Latimer of Braybrooke,* 1.5 and Katherin his wife, then alive, were joyntly enfeoffed, and held the Mannor of Cossale of William Zouch Arch-bishop of Yorke, by the Service of six pence a-year, and that Iohn, son of the said Wa∣rin, was his next heir.

The Jury, 7 H. 6. found that William Ske∣vington, Esquire, held the Mannor of Cos∣shale of King Henry the fifth,* 1.6 by the Service of the fourth part of a Knights Fee of the Honour of Peverell, and that Humfrey Skevington his son and heir was one and twenty years of age the first of Iune, then past. The Jury, 13 H. 6. found that Humfrey Skevington held this Mannor of Cossale by the Service of the twentieth part of a Knights Fee, the day that he died;* 1.7 and that Hugh Skevington was his brother and heir; it was 23 May, 11 H. 6. in the Kings hands, be∣cause Hugh was under age, and Humfrey dead.* 1.8

In a Recovery, 15 H. 7. Sir Henry Willough∣by, Knight, claimed against Iohn Marmion, Rob. Laurense, Clark, and Rob. Skevington,* 1.9 the Mannor of Cossale.

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* 1.10Thomas Thurland, Iohn Marmion, and others, 22 H. 7. claimed against Elizabeth Willughby four Mess. one hundred Acres of Land, sixty of Medow eighty of Pasture, four of Wood, forty of Heath, and 20^s. Rent in Cossale: she called to warrant Hugh Willughby, and so did Thomas Willughby,* 1.11 and Isabell his wife, against whom the same persons claimed three Mess. thirty Acres of Land, twenty of Medow, thirty of Pasture, one Water-Mill, and 13^s. Rent in Len∣ton and Cossale.

* 1.12The Mannor of Cossal alias Cossal Marsh, late belonging to the Monastery of Newstede, and in the occupation of Francis Willughby, 21 Iuly, 10 Eliz. was granted to Percivall Bowes, and Iohn Moysier, Gentlemen. The Monastery of Dale had a Wood of fifteen Acres in Shortwood in the Parish of Cossale,* 1.13 9 Iuly, 14 Eliz. granted to Sir Christopher Hatton.

The Priory of Felley had a portion of Tythes in Cossale,* 1.14 which King Iames, 2 March, 2 Iac. granted to Sir Iohn Ramsey, Knight, and Thomas Emerson.

This place remains to the Willughbyes, and George Willughby, Nephew of the last Sir Fran∣cis, hath a Seat there.