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late in the tenure of Leonard Wyse, and yeldinge per ann. 53s. — One 

 tenement and 6 oxegangs of land, late in the tenure of Laurence Graie, 

 and yeldinge per ann. 40s. — One tenement and 6 oxegangs of land, 

 with certen land lyinge in Gartoufeild, late in the tenure of Thomas 

 "Webster, and yeldinge per ann. 40s. — One tenement and 6 oxgangs of 

 land, late in the occupcion of Robert Wyse, yeldinge per ann. 40s. — 

 One tenement and 6 oxganges of lande, two little closes, and certen 

 odde meadowe in the tenure of Willm Pindar, yeldinge per ann. 48s. 

 — John Whyted held 6 oxgangs of land in ElmsweU, a messuage or 

 tenement and half an oxgange of land in Little Driffield, 12 leys in the 

 crofts, and foure little closes in Little Driffield, yeldinge per ann. 3^. — 

 Sum, per ann., 28^. 14s. 4(1. — William Whyted, freholder, holdeth 2 

 or 4 oxegangs of land and one tenement and yeldeth per ann. 6s. 8d. — 

 There are moreover in Helmeswell 4 cottages (whereof one buylded by 

 my self) for the placinge of labourers in, because of the use of them in 

 tyrae of harvest, and which, for the most parte, lyve on parishe releif, 

 and have not all of them twee acres of grounde belonginge them val. 

 per annum 21. — Sum tot"% p. ann. 291. Is., which wanteth of the fee 

 farme I stand chargeable with to the Kings Mat"= beinge 291. Is. 6d. — 

 Mr Eaffe Buckton, Mr Robt. Henneage,* and Sir Thomas Henncage, 

 were all of them lords or inheritors of Kellestliorpe, and but farmers or 

 lessees of Helmeswell manner cum membris. Sir Thomas Henneage in 

 18° of Queue Elizabeth reigne did exchange theLordshippe of Kellerthorpe 

 with her Ma"" for other landes ; and so both Helmeswell and Keller- 

 thorpe remained in her Ma""^ hands till tricesimo secundo of her Ma"^' 

 reigne, that the sale of the same manner of Helmeswell to them whose 

 estate I nowe have; till which time they were occupied bothe 

 together by one farmer, viz., first by Edward iNettleton, and afterwards 

 by John Thwinge, whereby that which belongeth to Helmeswell is 

 demanded to Kellerthorpe. 



Elmswell seems to have fallen in earlier than many other abbey 

 lands. The crown retained possession of the manor till Jan 24, 32nd 

 Elizabeth, 1590, when the queen in consideration of a grant of the 

 manor of Strixton, and lands at Wolleston, in the county of Northamp- 

 ton, and of the corn tithes of the parish of Hutton Cranswick, granted 



=1 Robei-t Heneage, auditor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and surveyor of the 

 Queen's woods beyond Trent, married Lucy, daughter and coheir of Ealph Buck- 

 ton. He died July 4, 1556, and is biuried with his wife in the church of St. Catha- 

 rine Cree, London. His son Sir Thomas Heneage, Kt., of Copt Hall, Essex, was 

 Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and a member of the Privy Coimcil. He 

 died Oct. 17, 1594, leaving by his wife Anne, daughter of Nicholas Poyntz, of 

 Acton Poyntz, and grand-daughter of Thomas Lord Berkeley of Berkeley Castle, 

 an only daughter Elizabeth. She married Sir Moyle Finch, kt., of Eastwell Coiui;, 

 Kent, created a Bai-onet in 1611, and after his death, in 1614, was created Viscount- 

 ess Finch of Maidstone. See Marming's Lives of the Speakers, pp. 91, 300. 



In 1606, James Best rented ground at Angrara, parcell of Watton, of Sir Moyle 

 Finch ; and would otherwise have made him a party to a suit commenced against 

 James Lord Hay of Sawley (so created in 1615, in 161 S made Viscount Doncaster, 

 and in 1622 Earl of Carlisle; died 1636), which resulted in a petition to the Earl of 

 Dorset, Lord High Treasurer of England. Of Lord Hay, however, he was compelled 

 to rent the manor of Kellithorpe, the subject of the dispute, for 105^. per year. 



