ORLINGBURY HUNDRED 



mother of William St. Leger' and (? subsequently) wife 

 of William Mauduit;' Christiane' wife of William of 

 All Saints; and Margen-, who died without issue. ■• In 

 1235 two fees in Wold were held of the Earl of 

 Oxford by Walter St. Leger, William of A]\ Saints, 

 Robert de Hastings, and Jordan le Breton;' and seven 

 years later each of these held half a fee, except that 

 William of .'Vll Saints was replaced by Robert Rote and 

 Christiane his wife,* obviously the widow of William. 

 Walter's lands were seized by the Crown in 1244 

 among other 'lands of Normans' and he himself died 

 about the same time. Before this he had leased his land 

 in Wold to William Gaugy of Northampton, who then 

 obtained a confirmation of his 

 lease from the king' but in 

 1245 was induced to surrender 

 his lease to William St. Leger 

 for 27 marks, to be paid in 

 yearly instalments.' In 1247 

 William held 12 virgates, for- 

 merly Walter's, worth ^^7,' 

 and at some date before May 

 1 2 5 1 he transferred his estate 

 in W'old to William son of 

 Geoffrey St. Leger, lord of 

 Fairlight in Sussex,'" to whom 

 the king granted right of free 

 warren here in 1254." Two 

 years later the king states that 

 he had promised that if he could 

 recover the land of William '- 

 St. Leger, a Norman, in Wold, 

 he would give it to (this) Wil- 

 liam, and that he has recovered 

 in his court against Philip son 

 of Robert one rood of land, 

 which he orders shall be 

 handed over to William St. 

 Leger." Alice, widow of 



Robert de Beauchamp, and probably daughter of 

 William, succeeded to the St. Leger fee of Fairlight,'* 

 and the heirs of Alice de Beauchamp are similarly found 

 holding in Wold in 1284;" and in both counties the 

 next tenant is James de Audely, who held at Fairlight 

 in 1 300'* and at Wold in 1316." William 'Daudele', 

 who held the half fee in 1360,'' died in November 

 136;, leaving the manor to his wife Joan for life with 

 remainder to his brother Thomas." Joan died in 1383 

 and, Thomas having predeceased her, the lands were 

 inherited by his daughter Elizabeth, then aged 14.^° 

 The manor seems to have passed by marriage into the 

 family of St. Clere of Little Preston,^' and was held by 

 Thomas St. Clere at the time of his death in October 

 1416.^' His heir Philip died without issue and was 

 succeeded by his cousin Thomas, who levied a fine of 



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the reversion of the manor, then held for life by John 

 Nelond and Margaret his wife, in 1429.^' As one of 

 the daughters and co-heirs of Thomas married Sir John 

 Gage-'* it seems possible that this was the 'Gawgis 

 manor'^5 in Wold which was in the hands of William 

 Catesby when he was attainted in 148 5 and was granted 

 four years later to Sir David Owen.^* John Owen, his 

 second son, who had married a daughter of Sir Richard 

 Catesby,^' had the manor by l 558, when he sold it to 

 Gregory Isham of Braunston.^* Gregory died in Sep- 

 tember of that year, leaving a son Euseby, and this 

 manor has remained in the Isham family. Sir Vere 

 Isham, bart., being the present owner. 



Old: The Village 



The half fee held by William of All Saints in 1235 

 had passed by 1245 into the hands of William Gaugy, 

 who in that year granted it to his son John, retaining 

 a life interest in it.^' Possibly Walter St. Leger had 

 acquired this fee and it was this, and not the St. Leger 

 half fee, which he leased to William Gaugy, as already 

 mentioned. Roger of All Saints, son of William and 

 Christiane, was claiming a half fee here in 1 260 against 

 William St. Leger,^" and his grandson^' Ralph still held 

 land in the parish in 1330.^- From John Gaugy, who was 

 holding in 1284,^^ the half fee apparently descended to 

 Philip Gaugy, in 1332.'* This may be the half fee held 

 of the Earl of Oxford by the heirs of Thomas Carnell 

 in 1360,'^ and by the heirs of William Camels in 

 1371-'* and of William de la Ker\'ell (sic) in 1428.-'^ 



William de la Carnail, died in 1349 seised of 40X. 



' Cai, Chart, i, 361. 



* Assize R. 633, m. 81. 



' In 1205 she was in ward to the Earl 

 of Oxford : Curia Regis R. iv, 57. 



* Assize R. 633, m. 81. 



5 **. c/ f«j, 498. ' Ibid. 932. 



' Cal. Chit, 1242-7, p. 218. 



* Ibid. 303. » Bk.ofFtei,tng. 

 '" Cal. Cliari. i, 361. The grantor is 



called son of Isabel de Glanville. 



" Cal. Pal. 1147-58, p. 336. 



" This may be a slip for 'Walter', but 

 It is more likely that it refers to William 

 ton of Isabel. 



" Cal. Clou, 1254-6, p. 335. 



'•» Anct. D. (P.R.O.), C. 1497. 



" Feud. Aids, iv, 2. 



•" Cal. Inf. Misc.], I 820. 



" Feud. Aids, iv, 21. 



" Cal. Inif.p.m. x, p. 518. 



'^ Chan. Inq. p.m. 39 Edw. Ill (itt 

 nos.) I J Cal. Close, 1364-8, p. 214. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Ric. II, 8. 



" Baker, Hist. NorlAanis. i, 432. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 4 Hen. V, 25. 



" Feet of F. Northants. file 94, no. 51. 



" Baker, loc. cit. 



^* But the distinctive name of the 

 manor may refer to the earlier Gaugy 

 family mentioned in the next paragraph. 



»* Cat. Pal. 14S5-94, p. 275. 



" Baker, Ilisi. Norihanis. i, 458. 



" C.P. Deeds enr. East. 4 A: 5 I'h. and 

 Mary. 



'' Feet of F. Northants. file 46, no. 8 1 0. 



'" Assize R. 616, m. 17 d. 



" Ibid. 633, m. 81. 



*' Ibid. m. 60. 



" Feud. Aids, iv, 2. 



'* Cal. Close, 1330-3, p. 498. 



" Cal. Ini). f.m. x, p. 5 I 8. 



>' Chan. Inq. p.m. 45 Edw. Ill (ist 

 nos.), 45. 



" Feud. Aids, iv, 33. 



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