HIGHAM FERRERS HUNDRED 



passed to Ralf son of Agnes, sister of Olive, mother of 

 William de Fauconberg, probably the Ralf de Faucon- 

 berg' who granted to Henry de Preyers, or Pratellis, 

 all his right in Easton, Grendon, Wollaston, and 

 Bozeat.* Sibyl married Roger de Haukcscye and with 

 her husband sold to the Master of the Knights Tem- 

 plars, Robert de Saunford, land, wood, and rent in 

 Easton in 1236,' and in 1239,'' the master afterwards 

 enfeoffing of this share (which included part of the 

 mill) Ralfde Karun, the second husband of Flandrina. 

 Ralf de Karun's share went to his daughters Isabel and 

 Amice; of whom Amice died s.p., and her share de- 

 scended to her sister.* Isabel probably married the 

 William le Lou of Easton who with other persons was 

 indicted in 1237 by the king's foresters for forest 

 offences,* since the Karun share is stated in the lawsuit 

 to have descended to Robert le Lou, or Wolf,^ son and 

 heir of Isabel Karun. Robert enfeoffed of this share 

 Alice Barry, who then re-enfeoffed of the same Robert 

 le Lou and his wife Isabel, by whom the share of Sibyl 

 was also claimed, Eleanor and Loretta, her sisters, 

 apparently having either died s.p. or possessing no 

 interest in this manor. It was from Robert le Lou and 

 his wife Isabel, and from the Master of the Knights 

 Templars that the advowson was claimed in 1306 by 

 Henry de la Leghe, Lee, or Lye, who descended from 

 Flandrina Mauduit, daughter of John Mauduit, by her 

 first husband. Flandrina had married (i) Robert de 

 Leghe or Lye, by whom she had a son Henry, the 

 father of Robert de la Leye, whose son Henry in 1 306 

 claimed the advowson; and (2) Ralfde Karun, through 

 whose daughter, Isabel, Robert Wolf and his wife 

 claimed.' The manor remained the property of the 

 families of Wolf (of whom the de Preyers probably 

 held) and Leye, Robert Wolf in 1 3 16 being returned 

 at the death of Guy de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick 

 as holding a fee of him in Easton' which, valued at 



Lt Loi'. Argent trvo 

 hart witA three tvolvel' 

 headt gulet in the chief. 



De la Leve. Argent a 



cross cheeky azure and 



or. 



1 00/. yearly, was assigned to his widow Alice in dower, ' ° 

 and Henry de la Leye of Easton being assessed for 

 feudal aids in Bozeat with Easton and Strixton in the 



same year." 



' According to an earlier suit, William 

 de Fauconberg gave the advowson to 

 Simon, brother of Nicholas, grandfather of 

 William de Pcrtcnhalle, which William 

 gave it to Ralph de Fauconberg, who re- 

 covered the advowson against Robert 'Le 

 Lou' in 1285: Assize R. 624., m. 4. 



' Harl. Chart. 49 I. 18. 



' Feet of F. Northants. 2i Hen. Ill, 

 file 28, no. 360. 



* Ibid. 24 Hen. Ill, file 31, no. 444. 



» De Banco R. Hil. 34 Edw. I, m. 13. 



' Cat. Close, 1234-7, p. 531. 



' Egolina daughter of Robert Wolf, 

 who, lernf). Hen. Ill, received from John 

 Morin of Easton, son of Robert Morin, a 

 grant of lands in Easton, in a deed wit- 



EASTON 

 MAUDIT 



The two parts of the manor held respectively by the 

 representatives of Agnes and Flandrina Mauduit were 

 distinguished as Upper and Lower, or Overbury Leys- 

 place and Netherbury Wolvesplace in Easton Maudit, 

 both shares being ultimately acquired by the Wolf 

 family. Sir Henry de la Leye in 1330 settled the rever- 

 sion of the manor of Easton Maudit on his grandson 

 Robert, on his marriage with Alice daughter of Sir 

 Walter Pateshall.'- In 1 361 Sir John de la Leye and 

 Joan his wife, and Sir Robert de Geddyng and Eliza- 

 beth his wife, conveyed the manor to William Wolf" 

 William Wolf in 1369 conveyed the two shares of the 

 manor, or the two manors of Easton called Netherbury 

 Wolvesplace and Overbury Leysplace, to Sir William 

 Latimer,'^ at that date lord of Bozeat and of Danby in 

 Yorkshire and other manors. Sir William Latimer on 

 29 August 1377 granted the manor to Edward Earl of 

 March, and others," and Elizabeth, his widow, at her 

 death in 1389 was holding with the manor of Bozeat 

 (q.v.) a third of the manor of Easton by Bozeat held 

 of Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, as of his 

 manor of Hanslope by service of 2/. or one sparrow- 

 hawk.'* The transfer of the manor to the Trussell 

 family seems then to have followed, as Easton Maudit 

 was in the hands of the heir of Laurence Trussell in 

 1402." 



Lady Margaret Trussell was in 1428 holding three 

 parts of a fee in Easton and Strixton which had formerly 

 belonged to John Wolf and Henry de Preyers, '* and 

 a fourth part of a fee in Easton and Ashby formerly the 

 property of John Wolf," both being of the fee of 

 Mauduit. On 23 January 1481 Sir William Trussell 

 died seised of the manor of Easton Maudit, one part of 

 which, called the West Side of the Over Bury, was held 

 of the queen as of her manor of Higham Ferrers, and 

 the rest of Richard Duke of Gloucester, as of his castle 

 of Thorpe, Bucks. ^^ Sir William's son Edward, aged 2 

 at his father's death, died while still a minor, leaving 

 a year-old son John, on 16 June 1499.^' This baby died 

 on 20 December following,^- and the manor passed to 

 Edward Trussell's daughter Elizabeth, aged 4, and 

 later to John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, by her marriage 

 with that earl.^-' 



The manor was held by the Earls of Oxford until 

 1578 when it was sold by Edward Earl of Oxford to 

 Christopher Yelvcrton, esq., ^■^ of Yclvcrton in Rougham, 

 CO. Norfolk. Sir Christopher Yclverton died, seised 

 of the manor, in London, on 31 October 1612,^' and 

 was buried in Easton Maudit Church, with an in- 

 scription that he was Scrgeant-at-Law 1589, Sergeant 

 to the Queen 1 598, Judge of the King's Bench 1601— 2 

 until his death, and Speaker of the House of Commons 

 I 597."* He represented the county in Parliament. His 

 son Henry who succeeded him at the age of 47, and 



nessed among others by Robert Wolf and 

 Sir Gilbert de Nowcrs, was probably a 

 daughter of this Robert. Cott. Chart, 

 xxvii, 153. 



• De Banco R. Hil. 34 Edw. I, m. 13. 

 » Chan. Inq. p.m. 9 Edw. II, no. 71, 

 m. 51. Another quarter fee here was held 

 by Philip Wolf. 



'" Cat. Close, I 3 13-18, p. 276. 



" feud. Aids, iv. 30. 



" Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 4 Edw. Ill, 

 file 36, no. 84. 



» Ibid. Northants. 35 Edw. Ill, file 82, 

 no. 507. 



■'I Ibid, file 84, nos. 610, 611. 



" Close R. I Ric. II, m. 35 d. 



** Chan. Inq. p.m. 12 Ric. II, no. 34. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 2 Hen. IV, no. 58. 



" Feud. Aids, iv, 45. 



>« Ibid. 46. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 20 Edw. IV, no. 83. 



" Ibid. (Ser. 2), «, 53. 



" Ibid. 40. See also ibid. XV, 18, 25; and 

 Cal. Ini). f.m. lien, yil, ii, 407. 



*^ An inquisition of 1 508 as to waste 

 made while Elizabeth Trussell was still 

 ward to the Earl mentions the cutting 

 of timber in the Little Grove (Grovetta) 

 and the Rough Park: Chan. Inq. p.m. 

 (Ser. 2), xxii, 82. 



" Feet of F. Northants. Trin. 21 Elii. 



'' Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccxxxvi, 48. 



" Bridges, Hist, of Northants. ii, 166. 



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