ORLINGBURY HUxNDRED 



F.\XTON 



me a day and place when ye list, and ye shall have 

 experience.' David, Earl of Crawford, accepted, and 

 trial of battle took place on St. George's day on London 

 Bridge, where Lord Welles was in the third course 

 thrown to the ground.' In July 1417 he settled the 

 manor on his grandson, Lionel, son of his deceased son 

 Eudes, and on Joan daughter of Robert Waterton, later 

 his wife, and died on 26 August 1421.^ Lionel, Lord 

 Welles, then aged I 5, succeeded him in the manor, 

 then still held of the manor of Fotheringhay (q.v.), 

 which had passed into the hands of the Dukes of York.' 

 He married, as his second wife, Margaret, widow of 

 John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, .'^t his death on the 

 field of Towton, on Palm Sunday 1461, his heir was 

 his son by his first wife. Sir Richard Welles, who 

 through his marriage with Joan daughter and heir of 

 Robert, Lord WiUoughby, was Lord Welles and Wil- 

 loughby.* Lionel, Lord Welles, was included in the 

 act of attainder of 1461, but in 1468 when Richard 

 obtained restitution of his father's possessions, then in 

 the hands of Margaret, Duchess of Somerset,' Faxton 

 was excepted.* When Richard Nevile, Earl of War- 

 wick, raised his standard for the Lancastrian cause in 

 Lincolnshire in 1469, Sir Robert Welles, son and heir 

 of Lord Richard, joined him, with the result that both 

 father and son were beheaded. Faxton was still at that 

 date held by Margaret, Duchess of Somerset, and on 

 12 March 1475 the reversion of the manor after her 

 death was granted to the King's son Richard, Duke of 

 York.' On 21 August 1484 it was in the hands of 

 Richard IH, who made a grant of the manor, advovv- 

 son, mills, <i:c., to Sir Edward Brampton,* but John, 

 son of Richard, Lord Welles, by Margaret, Duchess of 

 Somerset, on the accession of Henry VII at once 

 obtained the reversal of the attainder and restitution of 

 the estates.' He was in possession of Faxton on 28 June 

 i486, when a field called Mawsley field, of which 

 Robert Kynnesman was seised, was returned as held 

 of Sir John, Lord Welles, as of his manor of Faxton.'" 

 He married in 1487 Cecily, sister of Elizabeth, the 

 Queen Consort, and third daughter of Edward IV. 

 John, then Viscount Welles, bequeathed all his lands 

 to his wife and died in 1499, leaving an only daughter 

 Anne, who seems to have died s.p." His wife married 

 as her second husband Thomas Kyme, and died on 

 24 August 1 507, when Faxton passed to the repre- 

 sentatives of the daughters of Lionel, Lord Welles, 

 empowered by Act of Parliament to hold his lands in 

 pourparty after the death of Cecily.'^ By this Act, 

 passed in 1 503, part of the lands of the late viscount, 

 in which Faxton proves to have been included, were 

 to be held in co-parcenery by Sir Robert Dymock, 

 and Sir Thomas LawTence, cousins and heirs of the 

 Lords Welles, and Katharine, wife of Robert Tempest, 

 one of the daughters and heirs of Lionel, Lord Welles. 



This partition resulted in the manor being much sub- 

 divided during the next century. 



Eleanor, the eldest daughter and co-heir of Lionel, 

 Lord Welles, married, as his third wife, Thomas, Lord 

 Hoo and Hastings, and left three daughters: Eleanor, 

 married to Sir James Carew of Bedington, whose 

 great-grandson Francis Carew had a tenth" of the manor 

 in ijjj'^'and still held in i 575;' ' Anne, married to Sir 

 Roger Copley; and Elizabeth, married to Sir John 

 Devenish.'* After the death of Thomas, Lord Hoo and 

 Hastings, his widow Eleanor married James Lawrence," 

 who was the father of Sir Thomas Lawrence, men- 

 tioned in the Act. The son of Elizabeth and of Sir 

 John Devenish (of Hellingly in Sussex) was Richard 

 Devenish, who with his son and heir Thomas'* was 

 dealing with a third part of a third part of the manor of 

 Faxton in I 532." In i 534 one whole third was in the 

 hands of Sir Roger Copley (husband of Eleanor's 

 daughter Anne), who settled it on himself and his wife 

 Elizabeth and their heirs male, with remainder to his 

 daughters Mary Shurley, widow, Brigit and Catherine 

 Copley.20 



Robert Tempest was the second husband of 

 Katharine, daughter of Lionel, Lord Welles. Her 

 first husband was Sir Thomas de la Launde,*' of Horb- 

 ling, executed at Grantham, 1470, by whom she had 

 two daughters and co-heirs, Joan, married to William 

 Denton of Denton, and Margaret, wife of Thomas 

 Berkeley.^^ By Robert Tempest she had a son John, who 

 died I 509, leaving two daughters and co-heirs, Mar- 

 garet, who seems to have died in infancy, and Anne who 

 married Sir Edward Bullen, uncle to King Henry VIII's 

 wife.-' Katharine's grandson Thomas, the son of Wil- 

 liam Denton,^* was holding the manor of Faxton in 

 1 5 36,^5 and in I 541 conveyed one-ninth of it to Joseph 

 Saunders,^* who in 1 544 died seised of this ninth, held 

 of the king by knight service, leaving an infant son 

 Mark.^' A ninth held by Katharine's other grandchild 

 .'^nne Tempest and her husband Edward Bullen was 

 dealt with by them in 1549;-* and, in 15 52, Thomas 

 Devenish, with his son and heir William, sold to 

 Anthony Pelham, of Mayfield in Sussex, their reversion 

 of the ninth part of Faxton Manor, of which Edward 

 Bullen and Dame .Alice RadclyfF, widow, formerly wife 

 of Richard Devenish, were seised for life.^' The Copley 

 ninth was in i 566 conveyed by Thomas Copley and 

 his wife Katharine to Sir Edward Dymock,'" who had 

 inherited one third of the manor from his grandmother 

 Margaret, the third daughter of Lionel, Lord Welles, 

 and Sir Thomas Dymock (beheaded with Lords Richard 

 and Robert Welles), the parents of Sir Robert Dymock 

 mentioned in the Act of I 503. 



Another share was inherited from Katharine Tem- 

 pest, the daughter and co-heir of Lionel, Lord Welles, 

 by Margaret, the daughter and co-heir of Katharine by 



' Dugdilc, Baronage of England, i, 1 1 . 

 ' Chan. Inq. p.m. 9 Hen. V, no. 61; 

 •eealsoHirl. Ch. 57 G. 17. 



' Chin. Inq. p.m. g Hen. V, no. 61. 



• Ibid. I Edw. IV, no. 32; Dugdale, 

 Baronage, i, 12. 



' Cal. Pal. 146 1-7, p. 468. 

 » Close R. 8 Edw. IV, m. 27. 

 ' Cal. Pat. 1467-77, p. 508. 



• Ibid. 1476-85, p. 479. 



• Ret. Pari, vi, 286 a, 287 a. 

 " Cal. Inj. f.m. lien, f-'ll, i, 9. 

 " Dugdair, Baronage, \i, 13. 



" Belli ofParli. (Rrc. Com.), \\, 542-4. 

 " Apparently an error for '» ninth'. 



<* Pat. R., Mary, pt. 8. This share 

 probably passed through the Saunders to 

 the Morgans (sec below). 



■' Add. Ch. 24167. 



" Baronage, ii, 233. According to the 

 Lincolnshire Pedigrees Elizabeth had been 

 previously married to Thomas Massing- 

 berd : Maddison, Linci. Fed. (Harl. Soc), 

 ii, 654. 



" C.E.C. Peerage (1st ed.), iv, 253. 



'" ynii. ofSuiux (Harl. Soc.), 50. 



"> Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. 24 Hen. 

 VII ; cf. ibid. Northants. Mich. 6 Edw. VI. 



" Ibid. Mich. 26 Hen. VIII. 



" The de la Laundet and Kymes were 



connected by marriage. See Maddison, 

 Linci. Fed. (Harl. Soc), i, 293. 



2' Ibid. iii,954. 



" Ibid. 



'* Ibid, i, 293. 



» Recov. R. East. 28 Hen. VIII, ro. 

 100. 



" Feet of F. Northants. Mich. 33 

 Hen. VIII. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. z), Ixxxiii, 276, 



»• Feet of F. Northants. East. 3 Edw. VI. 



" Com. Pleas. Deeds Enr. Mich. 

 6 Edw. VI, m. 4. 



"• Feet of F. Div. Co. East. 8 Elii.; 

 Pat. R. 8 U\t. pt. 9. 



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