HIGHAM FERRERS HUNDRED 



R-^UNDS 



Chamberlj.yn. Gules a 



chnjeron betiveen three 



scallops or. 



Joan settled Stanbridge (Beds.), one of the manors of 

 Joan's inheritance, on their son John, upon his marriage 

 to Joan the sister of John Morteyn of Tilsworth.' On 

 Joan's death John Chamberlcyn married a second wife 

 Aubrey, and in 1324 made a settle- 

 ment on his son Richard and Mar- 

 garet Richard's wife.- Richard 

 Chamberleyn was knighted before 

 1 346; when, being a widower, he 

 married Katharine de la Dale.^ 

 She died childless, and he married 

 a third wife, Joan, by whom he 

 had a son Richard, who died in 

 1396, seised of a third part of 

 the manor called Chamberlcyn 's 

 Place in Cotes. He left a widow, 

 Margaret, who afterwards mar- 

 ried Philip St. Clair, and died in 1408. Her son 

 Richard Chamberleyn was her next heir, and the next 

 heir also of his grandmother Joan, who died in i4io.'' 

 This Richard Chamberleyn was twice married; by his 

 first wife, Elizabeth, he had a son Richard, who died 

 childless in 1439, and by the second, Margaret, another 

 son, William, who was heir to his half-brother.' The 

 elder Richard, however, seems to have mortgaged the 

 manor of Cotes to John Green, who granted it on 31 

 December 1432 to John GryfFon and William Aid- 

 winkle.* William Lenton, kinsman and heir of William 

 Aldwinkle, in 1 47 1 released to Richard son of William 

 Chamberleyn all his right in Cotes and Raunds.' 

 Richard Chamberleyn married Sibyl daughter of Sir 

 Richard Fowler, Chancellor of the Exchequer to King 

 Edward IV,* and died in 1496 seised of the manor of 

 Cotes called CHAMBERLEYN COTTS or MILNE 

 COTl'S, worth £6 and held of the Earl of Kent as 

 the twentieth part of a knight's fee. He left four 

 sons, Edward, William, Thomas, and John, and one 

 daughter Anne.* Edward, his heir, sold the manor in 

 1 530 to Robert Dormer,' from whom it was bought by 

 Sir William Fitzwilliam of Milton. Sir William died 

 on 9 August 1535, having bequeathed his property in 

 Cotes, Ringstcad, and Raunds to his second son 

 Richard,'" whose son John sold it in 1559 to John 

 Pickering." It subsequently followed the descent of the 

 manor of Tichmarsh (q.v.) until 1629, when Sir John 

 Pickering died seised, leaving as his heir his son 

 Gilbert;'^ but its subsequent descent is obscure. 



Another manor oi COTES was held in 1620 by Sir 

 Francis Harvey, together with the rectory of Raunds; 

 he settled the property on his son Stephen on his mar- 

 riage in that year with Mary daughter and heir apparent 

 of Richard Murden. Sir Francis died at Northampton 

 2 August 1632, his heir being his grandson Francis the 

 son of Stephen and Mary,'-' who died 30 September 



1643, leaving as his heir his brother Richard, aged 19 

 on 8 January 1645.'* Richard Harvey dealt with the 

 manor of Cotes and rectory of Raunds by fine in 1647," 

 but its subsequent descent has not been traced. 



In the early part of the reign of Henry I Frumbold 

 of Denford held of the fee of Denford in Cotes and 

 Knuston.'* This holding seems to have passed to the 

 Normanvill family who also held the eighth part of a 

 fee in Raunds of the honor of Pcverel. In 1226 

 Nicholas de Normanvill and Margery his wife granted 

 one acre and half a rood of land in Raunds to Jolan de 

 Chelveston, to hold of them and the heirs of Margery." 

 Nicholas was dead in 1 23 1, when Margery his widow 

 brought an action against Peter son of Peter de Irchester 

 concerning land there.'* Geoffrey de Normanvill is 

 mentioned later as liaving been formerly in possession 

 of the freehold in Raunds;" but Ralf the grandson of 

 Nicholas and Margery had succeeded to it by 1284.*' 

 He was knighted before 20 November 1285, when he 

 claimed Roger of Knuston and William his brother as 

 his villeins and fugitives; but subsequently he confirmed 

 a charter concerning them made by his grandparents to 

 the Master and Brethren of St. Bartholomew's, Smith- 

 field.^' He, or his heir and namesake, held the fortieth 

 part of a fee in IVyHV EN-COTES of the honor of 

 Gloucester at the death of Gilbert de Clare in 1 314;^- 

 and the eighth part of a fee in Raunds, said to have been 

 formerly in the possession of Geoffrey de Normanvill, 

 was afterwards held by Sara the widow of RalFs son 

 Ralf;-^ but its descent after her death becomes obscure. 

 In 1395 two freeholds in Wilwencotes, representing 

 j'g and ij of a fee respectively, were said to be in the 

 hands of Richard Chamberleyn,-'' but three years later 

 it was stated that the fortieth part of a fee was held by 

 John Wolf-' In 141 3, however, Richard Chamberlej-n 

 died seised of two freeholds in Cotes held of the Earl of 

 Stafford, as well as of | of a fee with a watermill-* held 

 of the same earl in Wilwencotes and the manor of 

 Chamberleyn Cotes held of the Earl of Kent.^' From 

 this it would appear that both the Normanville holdings 

 had passed to Richard Chamberleyn and were regarded 

 as forming part of his other property in Cotes. 



In the 1 2th century Richard fitz Gilbert (de Clare) 

 held li hides and a small virgate in Cotes of the fee of 

 Denford.-* This seems to be the origin of the manor 

 oi MIDDLE COTES, which was held of the honor of 

 Clare down to 1428.-' Its early history is obscure-"'and 

 it first appears by that name in 1274. The Hundred 

 Rolls" of that year contain references to the men of 

 Henry de .Abbotesle in Little Cotes; the fee of Geoffrey 

 Berdefeld in Cotes; and the men of Henry le Scot 

 {Scotkus) in Cotes — none of which names occurs here 

 in other records. They also mention the men of Oliver 

 Bydun and Simon de Cotes-"- in Middle Cotes. In 13 14 



' y.C.U.Bedi.m,\-i]. 



' Cal. Fine R. ix, 212; y.C.H. Beds. 



loc. cit. 



' Cat. Inrj. p.m. viii. 620. See Wollas- 

 ton. 



♦ y.C.H. Beds, iii, 433; Chin. Inq. 

 Hen. V, file 3, no. 33. 



s y.C.H. Beds. loc. cit. 



' Chin. Inq. p.m. 17 Hen. VI, no. 31. 



' Close, II EJw. IV, m. 15. 



' Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xi, 4. 



< Bridges, op. cit. li, 190. 



'° Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ivii, 3. 



" Feet of F. Northants. East. I Eliz. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccccxlvi, 84. 



" Ibid, dccvii, 45, 50. 



'< Ibid. 



IV 



p.m 



■5 Feet of F. Div. Co. Hil. 22 Chas. I. 



" y.C.H. Norihanls. i, 377. 



" Feet of F. Northants., file 20, no. 1 74. 



" Farrer, op. cit. i, 262. 



'« ¥eud. Aids, vi, 569. 



" Ibid, iv, 14. 



" Norman Moore, Hist, of St. Bart.'s, 

 i, 501, 502. 



" Cal. Inq. p.m. v, 538, p. 344. 



" Feud. Aids, vi, 569. 



'* Chan. Inq. p.m. 18 Ric. II, no. 43. 



" Ibid. 22 Ric. II, no. 46. He was 

 'brother' of John dc Normanville; sec 

 under Kjitiston. 



"> A mill belonged to the manor of the 

 Bishop of Coutances in 1086. In 1329 

 the Abbot of Crowland was acquitted on • 



charge of having raised the mill pond at 

 Wylewat to the injury of men using the 

 ford by Richard Chambcrlcyn's mill : 

 Assize R. 632, m. 24. 



^' Chan. Inq. p.m. Hen. V, file 3, no. 33. 



*» y.C.H. Northanti. \, 377. 



« FeuJ. Aids, iv, 46. 



^^ In 1242 a quarter fee in Cotes was 

 held of the honor of Clare by Roger de 

 Dcncford and John : Bk. 0/ Fees, 933. 



J' Op. cil. ii, 10. 



^' Simon's wife Sara had property in 

 Raunds in 1260 (Feet of F. Northants., 

 6le 43, no. 470) and may have been the 

 Sara, grand*daughter of John de Bidun, 

 who was wife of Robert de Walton in 

 1254: see above. 



