Greyseley. Griseley.

IN Griseley, before the Norman Invasion, Vlsi had two Mannors, one was rated to the Geld at four Bovats. The Land one Car. There William Peverell, whose Fee it afterwards be∣came,* had one Car. five Vill. two Bord. having three Car. There was a Priest and a Church, Pasture Wood, nine qu. long, and six broad. In the Confessours time this was 16^s. value, in the Conquerours but 10^s. The other was also rated Page  239 to the publick Geld or Tax at four Bov. and the Land was likewise certified to be one Car. but this was waste when the great Survey was made in the Conquerours time, and Aylric held it of William Peverell.

William de Griseley, 5 Steph. gave account of ten Marks of Silver for a Covenant of Land be∣tween him and Raph Barret.* I suppose this Wil∣liam of the same Family with Hugh, son of Ri∣chard, mentioned in Lenton, who gave Land in Claindon, because his next successour, which I have met with here, was Raph de Gras•le, who, 13 Ioh. was certified to •old three Knights Fees of the honour of Peverell of Nott. one in this Grasele,* and two in Clayndon in Buckingham∣shire.*Raph de Grasele, 15 Ioh. made Fine with the King five hundred Marks for having the Land which was Robert de Muscamps, Father of Isabell, wife of the said Raph, and that he might marry Agnes his daughter to Robert Lupus; and if he should happen not to have her (as 'tis most like he had not) then he would marry her by the Kings advice and will: and there was a Precept, 23 Novemb. to the Sheriff of Nott. and Derb. that when the Sheriffs of Buckinghamshire, Yorkshire, Lincolneshire, and Staffordshire, should certifie that they had taken their proporti∣ons of security for the payment of that Money, that he should do so for the rest, and forthwith deliver full seisin to the said Raph, of all those Lands in his Bayliwick.

This Raph, 17 Ioh. had a Son-in-law called Hugh Fitz-Raph,* who was one of those great Men (or Barons) who took up Arms against the King.

Hugh Fitz-Raph, and Agnes his wife, daughter and heir of Raph de Gresele,* 12 H. 3. gave ac∣count of 15^l. for their Relief, of three Knights

• Richardus de
  • Hugo de
    • Willielmus de Grisele
      • Radulp. de Gresele-Isabella.
        • Agnes fil. & haer.-Hugo fil. Rad.
          • Radulphus
            • Nic. de Cantelup fra•er Will. de Cantelup, mar. 1.-Eustachia fil. & haer.-Will. de Roos de Ingmanthorp, mar. 2.
              • Willielmus de Cantelup
                • 2 Nichol. de Cantelup fundator de Beauval, ob. 29 E. 3.-Typhania ux.-Joana ux. 2.
                  • Willielmus de Cantelup
                    • Nichol. de Cantelup s. p.
                    • Willielmus de Cantelup s. p.
                • 1 Willielmus s. p.
              • Willielmus de Roos-Isabella.
                • Robertus de Ros.
          • Hugo.

• Robertus de Muskam Senescal. G. de Gaunt
  • Hugo de Muscam
    • Robertus de Muscamp-....soro• Fulc. Castilon.
      • Radulp. de Gresele-Isabella.
      • Rob. de Muscam s. p.-Agnes soror Almerici de Gassi, mil.
      • Hugo s. p.-Idonia.
      • And•. s. p.
    • Hugo.

Fees, which the said Raph held of the honour of Peverell of Nott. viz. two in Claindon, and one Fee in Gresele, with the Appurtenances. Hugh Fitz-Raph, 36 H. 3. 10 April, had Free War∣ren granted in all his Demesne Lands in Gresele,* and Muscamp in this County, and Elkesdon in Darbyshire, where he had also a Market and a Fair, on the Eve of the Assumption of the blessed Mary. He had a son called Hugh, but Eusta∣chia,* daughter and heir of his son Raph was his heir, and Nicholas de Cantelupe (of Hartford∣shire) who had to wife Eustachia, the Niece and heir of Hugh Fitz-Raph, had the Knights Fee in Greseley, 49 H. 3. which the said Hugh, then dead, held of the King in Capite.

The Jury, 2 E. 2. found that William de Cante∣lupe held this Mannor at his death of Sir William de Roos of Ingmanthorp, who held it by the Courtesie of England, as the inheritance of Eu∣stachia his quondam wife, mother of the said Wil∣liam de Cantelupe, whose son William de Cante∣lup was then his heir, and of the age of sixteen years.

The King, Apr. 14 E. 3. granted licence to Nicholas de Cantelupe and his heirs,* to strengthen or fortify his mansion House of Grysele in the County of Nott. and to embattel it; from this time it was called a Castle. And here was likewise a Park,* wherein this Nicholas de Cantelupe Founded the Monastery of Beauvale, whom I guess to be the brother of that William, last named under age: yet some might think of his Father ra∣ther, because this Nicholas, by his son and heir William, had a Grandson of his own name, who was Witness to his Charter of Foundation of that Priory, bearing date 9 Decemb. 17 E. 3. though the Book of Beauvale, in the Descent Printed in the Monasticon Angl. makes the said Founder to be son and heir of that first William de Cantelupe very positively,* but how much it is mistaken in Page  240 some other parts of this Descent, these notes will in some sort discover to any who will take the pains to consider it.

At the Assizes at Darby, 30 E. 3. Ioane, who had been the wife of Nicholas de Cantelupe,* im∣pleaded William de Cantelupe Chr. Raph Fawcon∣berg, and others, for fifty Mess. twenty Tofts, one Mill, and ten Carucats of Land, one hun∣dred Acres of Medow, two hundred of Pasture, and two of Wood, and ten Marks of Rent in Ilkeston: Raph Fauconberg, produced a writing of the said Ioane, by the name of Ioane de Kym, whereby she released the said Tenements, and the Castle of Greseley in the County of Nott. but she denied it to be her Deed, and recovered the Mannor of Ilkeston; as she did at the Assizes at Nottingham the same year,* 30 E. 3. the Castle of Greseley, thirteen Mess. three Caru∣cats of Land, twenty Acres of Medow, two hundred of Pasture, one thousand of Wood, and 10^l. Rent, and William de Cantelupe, and the rest were amerced.

*In Trinity Term, 13 R. 2. William la Zouch of Bramfeild, son and heir of William la Zouch of Haringworth, Knight, then dead, held the Mannor of Elkeston, of the Lord of Bello∣monte, then within age, and in the Kings custo∣dy, as of the honour of Folkingham; and the same Term William la Zouch of Harringworth, Knight, held the Castle of Greyselegh, and a certain parcel of Land in Kymerle, &c.

*By an Inquisition taken in Yorkshire, 26 Feb. 14 R. 2. it appears that William de Cantelup, Chivaler, then dead, held the Mannor of Ra∣vensthorpe, with the members, viz. Thrilly and Boltby, and divers Lands in Azerlawe and Braythwat; and that Iohn, son and heir of Iohn de Hastings late Earl of Pembroke, son of Iohn, son of Laurence, son of Iohn, son of Iohn, son of Ioane, daughter and one of the heirs of Will. de Cantelupe, brother of Nic. de Cante∣lupe, Father of Will. Father of Nic. Father of Will. Father of Will. de Cantelupe, who died within age, without heir of his body; and Will. la Zouche Chr. son of Eudo, son of William, son of Millecente, daughter, and another of the heirs of William de Cantelupe, brother of Nicolas, Father of William, Father of Nicolas, Father of William, Father of the said William de Cantelupe, who died without heirs of his body, were at that time found the next heirs of the said William de Cante∣lupe,* &c. William la Zouche, about 19 R. 2. died seised of this Castle and Mannor, and the Advowson of the Priory of Beauvale, and Wil∣liam le Zouch his son was found his heir.*Willi∣am le Zouch Chr. who long before his death set∣tled the Castle of Gresseley on William Lord Roos of Hamlak Chr. and others, about 3 H. 5. left William his son and heir.

*From the Lord Zouch this Lordship came to the Crown, and was by King Henry the seventh, granted to Sir Iohn Savage, Knight, (mentioned in Granby.) Sir Iohn Manners, Grandfather of the present Earl of Rutland (who is now Lord of it, Iune 16. 1673.) purchased it of Sir Iohn Savage, and Sir Thomas Savage Lord Savage, Father of Iohn Earl of Rivers, and Grandfather of the present Earl Thomas.

*The Vicarage of Gres•ey was 8^l. when the Prior of Beauvale was Patron. 'Tis now 8^l. 5^s. 0. in the Kings Books, and Arthur Ca∣pell, Esquire, Patron.