ORLINGBURY HUNDRED 



BRIXWORTH 



of an aid to be levied from those of Simon's knights and 

 free tenants who had aided the rebels, to acquit him 

 of the fine made for his redemption." In 1235-6 and 

 1242-3 Simon son of Simon, probably the son of the 

 rebel, held 2 J fees in Briiworth.' In 1253 he had a 

 grant of a weekly market to be held at Briiworth on 

 Tuesdays, and a yearly fair there from 4 to 6 June.^ 

 He is described as lord of Briiworth in 1262-3, 1*'' 

 wife's name being given as Maud de Ralcc.* Simon 

 supported the barons in their struggle against the 

 Crown, and was captured at the battle of Northampton, 

 his manor being committed to Henry de Boruhull on 

 21 April 1264.' He received a safe conduct to go to 

 court in August, 1265, and was finally pardoned in 

 1 267.* In 1 276 Simon son of Simon had view of 

 frankpledge, free warren, free fishery, and other 

 liberties in Briiworth.' He died early in 1280, 

 apparently without male issue, as he was succeeded by 

 his nephew, John de Verdun, kt.,* who in 1284 was 

 holding 2J fees in Briiworth.' He died in 1 295,'" and 

 his son Thomas, by his wife Eleanor daughter of Sir 

 Thomas de Furnivall, being a minor, the custody 

 of Briiworth was granted to John de Ferrers." Thomas 

 proved his age in 1 297, showing that he was born at 

 Whiston by Handsworth, Yorks,'- and received seisin 

 of his lands. In February 1 301 he received a licence 

 to erect a gallows in his manor of Briiworth on proving 

 that those used by his ancestor, Simon le Voyde, had 

 fallen down through decay. '^ In 1306 his lands were 

 ordered to be seized because he had withdrawn from 

 the king's service without licence, before the end of 

 the war in Scotland. '■* He died in 131 5 holding the 

 manor of Robert de I'lsle, as of the honor of .^umalc, 

 for two knights' fees. There was a windmill and a 

 water-mill there at this time, and two rents were due 

 from the manor: one of 40/. to the Prior of St. Andrews, 

 Northampton, and the other of 20/. to William de 

 Seymour of Harrington, for his life." The former 

 rent was still being paid in 1535.'* Thomas de Verdun 

 was succeeded by his son John, then aged 16 or 17, 

 who was returned as lord of the manor in 1 316," and 

 defended his right to view of frankpledge, free warren, 

 market, fair, and other liberties in Briiworth in 1329.'* 

 He also claimed eiemption from suit at the hundred 

 and county courts. 



Sir John de Verdun appears to have died some time 

 after 1 370, being succeeded by his son Edmund, 

 whose daughter and heir Margaret married first Sir 

 William Bradshaw, and secondly Sir John Pilkington." 

 She survived her second husband and died in 1436 

 holding the manor of Briiworth of the duchy of Lan- 

 caster. She was succeeded by her grand-daughter 

 Elizabeth, wife of Sir Richard Harrington, of Wester- 

 ley, Lanes., and daughter of Sir William Bradshaw, 

 her son by her first marriage." By 1461 their son Sir 



William Harrington and Elizabeth his wife were in 

 possession of the manor,-' and they in turn were suc- 

 ceeded some time before 1492 by their son Sir James 

 Harrington. ^^ Sir James died on 26 June 1497 leaving 

 the manor to his wife Isabel during her lifetime,^' with 

 remainder equally among their daughters: Anne wife 

 of Sir William Stanley, Isabel wife of John Tresham, 

 Joan wife of Edmund Ashton, Catherine wife of 

 William MjTfield, Agnes wife of Thomas Ashton, 

 Elizabeth wife of John Lumley, Clemence wife of 

 Henry Norrys, Alice wife of Ralph Standish, Margaret 

 wife of Thomas Pilkington, and Eleanor Leicester. 

 Isabel Harrington of Wolfage and Briiworth received 

 a general pardon in I 509. ^^ This appears to be the 

 first reference to fVOLFAGE Manor, which was 

 probably a part of Briiworth Manor. Isabel died on 

 20 June 1518,^* and the manor was divided. Of her 

 daughters each of the following seems to have had 

 possession of a fifth share of the manor within a few 

 years of her mother's death: Alice Standish, (the heir 

 of) Elizabeth Lumley, Eleanor Leicester, Agnes 

 Ashton, and Joan Ashton. 



On 27 October 1539 Alice Standish demised her 

 share of the manor to .'Vnthony Laton and his wife, her 

 daughter Agnes, for an annual rent to be applied to 

 the payment of her husband's debts and those of her 

 son .'Meiander. On her death in January i 542 the 

 debts were still unpaid, but her share of the manor 

 passed to her grandson Ralph Standish, son of .Aleian- 

 der, who was then eleven years old. ^* By 1 604 .'Ueiander 

 Standish, the heir of Ralph, had obtained possession of 

 two shares which seem to have comprised Wolfage 

 Manor.^' The second share may have come into the 

 family from Sir Edward Montagu to whom Joan 

 Ashton, then remarried to Robert Burdon, had con- 

 veyed her share in i 540.^' Ralph Standish had suc- 

 ceeded his father by 1617^' and from him the land 

 passed to Edward Standish, who sold the manor of 

 Briiworth alias Wolfage to Simon Finch in 1671.'° 

 The Finch family retained these two-fifths for fifty 

 years. 



Sir Ralph Leicester, the heir of Eleanor, was seised 

 of one-fifth of the manor of Briiworth at the time of 

 his death in February 1 572. He was succeeded by his 

 son William, who was at that time 34 years old.^' By 

 1 594 his heir George Leicester was in possession of the 

 manor,^ but the neit year he sold it to Thomas Garway,'' 

 by whom it was resold to Michael Wright in 1611.''' 

 On his death in January 1638, at the age of 52,'* 

 Michael Wright was succeeded by his son John, who 

 was born in 161 1. By his first wife Susanna, who died 

 in 1648,^* John Wright had a son Michael who probably 

 succeeded him on his death in September 1680.'' By 

 1720 his descendant Edward Wright had possession of 

 the manor.'* 



' R. Lit. CIjui (Rcc. Com.), p. 287; 

 S. Lit. Pat. (Rcc. Com.), 190. 



' Bi. of Fell, i, 497 ; ii, 93 1. 



5 Cat. Chart, i, 4.16. 



* Rot. Ricardt Graveiend (Cant, and 

 York Soc.), p. 102. 



» Cat. Pal. 1 258-66, p. 315. 



* Ibid. p. 440; ibid. 1266-7Z, p. 158. 

 ' Rot. Hun jr. (Rcc. Com.), ii, 2, 7, 1 2, 



* Cal. Clou, 1279-88, p. 50. 

 ' Feud. Aidi, iv, 2. 



'** Cal. Inej.p.m. iii, no. 298. 



" Cal. Pat. I 292-1 301, p. 134. 



'* Cal. Inq. p.m. iii, no. 437. 



" Cj/. Pa/. 1 292-1 301, p. 580. 



'■• Cal. Fine R. i, 543-4. 



'* Cal. In^. p.m. v, no. 596. 



"> yalor Eccl. (Rcc. Com.), iv, 313. 



" Feud. Aidi, iv, 21. 



'• Plac. de Quo IVar. (Rcc. Com.), 

 512-3. 



'» Wrottcslcy, Pedigrees from the Plea 

 Rolls, p. 195. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. i 5 Hen. VI, no. 61. 



" Feet of F. Northants. 39 Hen. VI, 

 no. 150. 



" Cal. Inq. Hen. FII, i, no. 796. 



" lbid.no. 1178. 



" L. and P. Hen. nil, i, 438 (3 m. 30). 



" Chan. Inc]. p.m. (Scr. 2), luiii, loj. 



»' Ibid. Uvi, 40. 



" Feet of F. Northants. Hil. i Jis. I. 



" Com. Pleas Deeds Enr. Mich. 32 Hen. 

 VIII, m. 7 d. 



" Feet of F. Northants. Hil. 15 Jai. I. 



'" Ibid. Hil. 22 & 23 Chas. II. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clixxii, 31. 



" Feet of F. Northants. East. 36 Elii. 



» Ibid. Mich. 37 & 38 Elii. 



" Ibid. East. 9 jas. I. 



" Bridges, Hist. Northants. ii, 83. 



" Ibid. 84. 



" Ibid. 



" Ibid. 82. 



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