EDWINSTREE HUNDRED 



BARKWAY 



Stafford, and then of William Bourchier, the only sur- 

 viving daughter and co-heir of Thomas of Woodstock 

 by his wife Eleanor, that one-third of the manor should 

 be retained in dower by the Dowager Countess of 

 Hereford, one-third by William Bourchier, and one- 

 third by the king in right of his former wite.^* This 

 arrangement was altered in 1 42 1, when partition of 

 the Bohun inheritance was made between the Countess 

 of Stafford and Henry V, as son and heir of Henry IV 

 by Mary Bohun. The whole manor of Nuthampstead 

 was then included in the king's share of the estate,^' 

 and in November 1422 Nuthampstead was assigned 

 to Queen Katherine, widow of Henry V, as part of 

 her dower.'" It formed in succession part of the 

 jointure of Margaret, queen of Henry VI,'i and 



K.ATHER1NE of France. 

 AvMre three Jleurs de lis 



Margaret of Anjou. 

 OLD FRANCE -with a 

 border gules* 



Elizabeth Wylville, 

 Argent a Jesse and a 

 quarter gules. 



Elizabeth, queen of Edward IV.'* The latter was 

 deprived of her dower by Richard III.*' 



In the May following his accession Henry VII let 

 the manor to John Grey for seven years.^ The 

 king's tenants disputed the power of the Prior of 

 Royston to inclose certain ground over which they 

 had common rights in 1503." In 1545 Robert 

 Chester and his wife Katherine, who had already 

 purchased Royston Priory Manor with Cockenach in 

 Barkway,'* acquired from the Crown the manor of 



Nuthampstead." The latter descended in the Chester 

 family to Edward Chester (see Royston), son of Sir 

 Robert Chester who died in 1640.'" His son 

 Edward bought Newsells Manor. Nuthampstead 

 passed with Newsells from the Chesters to the Jennings 

 and has since descended with Newsells (q.v.). 



The manor was always accounted a part of the 

 honour of Mandeville and parcel of the earldom of 

 Essex.'' A capital messuage existed between 1141 

 and 1 1 5 1, when Roger son of Ralph Nuers set up a 

 private chapel there."" A house existed, probably on 

 the same site, in January 1335-6.*' The old hall at 

 Earlsbury was pulled down and a new hall built largely 

 of timber grown within the manor in 1422.*^ The 

 lords of Nuthampstead (sometimes styled Nuthamp- 

 stead Barkway)"' held view of frankpledge in Barkway, 

 but in I 347 the common fine was paid to the lord of 

 Nuthampstead, while the lord of Rokey received the 

 amercements.'^ 



The ramor oi BERWICK in Nuthampstead (Bere- 

 wyk, Berewykeby Barkway, xiv— xvi cent. ; Barwike, 

 xvi-xviii cent.) was held of Great Hormead,"' of 

 which its name denotes it an outlying member. 

 Hence it may be the hide and a half of land in 

 Barkway held of Edgar Atheling by Goduin in 

 1086,** since Goduin also held of Edgar the 

 manor of Great Hormead.*' The holding of John 

 de Sanford, lord of Hormead, early in the 13 th 

 century included Nuthampstead, held with Hormead 

 (q.v.) by serjeanty of the Queen's Chamber."* About 

 1 240 the abbey of Colchester made an agreement with 

 the priory of Blackmore as to the tithe from the demesne 

 lands of Sir Gilbert de Sanford, kt., in Nuthampstead."^ 

 Alice daughter of Gilbert de Sanford married Robert 

 de Vere fifth Earl of Oxford.'" Upon the marriage 

 of their daughter Joan with William son of John de 

 Warenne Earl of Surrey they settled the ' manor of 

 Nuthampstead' on William and Joan and the heirs of 

 Joan, saving to themselves a life interest if William 

 and Joan should predecease them.'^ William de 

 Warenne was slain in a tournament at Croydon 1 5 

 December 1 2 8 5 ; his widow died in 1293.'^ The 

 manor then reverted to the Earl of Oxford and his 

 wife for life, in accordance with the terms of the settle- 

 ment.'' His wife survived him and died 7 Septem- 

 ber I 3 1 7.'^ The manor evidently reverted to John 

 Earl of Surrey, the only son and heir of William and 

 Joan de Warenne. His heir was Richard Fitz Alan 

 Earl of Arundel, son of his sister Alice.'' The Earl 

 of Arundel granted 'the manor of Berwick' for life 

 to Peter Shank.'" In 1376 the earl's son Richard 

 Earl of Arundel, one of the Lords Appellant, alienated 



*' Duchy of Lane. Misc. Bks. »vi (3), 

 p. 78 ; cf. Chan. Inq. p.m. 4 Hen. IV, 

 no. 41. *» Pari. R. iv, 136a. 



'" Duchy of Lane. Misc. Bks. zviii 

 (2), 49. " Par/. A V, 1 1 84. 



» Feet of F. Div. Co. Edw. IV, file 

 76, no. loz. 



" Stat. I Ric. Ill, cap. 15. 



^* Duchy of Lane. Misc. Bks. zxi, 

 p. 170. 



« Duchy of Lane. Entry Bk. of Orders 

 nnd Decrees, iii, foL 227^. 



^ See y.C.H. Herts, iii, 260. 



" Duchy of Lane. Misc. Bks. xxii, 

 217. 



^' Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clzx, $ I ; 

 clxxxvi, 8 ; ccccxeiv, 65. 



'• Ibid. 10 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), no. 62 ; 



37 Edw. Ill, no. 10. The statement, 

 made in 1380, that the manor was held 

 of the Earl of Oxford was probably an 

 error (ibid. 3 Ric. II, no. iz). The 

 earl was overlord of Cockenach in Nut- 

 hampstead (q.T.). 



™ Cart, Mon. S. Johannis de Colecestria 

 (Roiburghe Club), 382. 



•' Chan. Inq. p.m. lo Edw. Ill (ist 

 nos.), no. 62. 



°' Duchy of Lane. Mins. Accts. bdle. 

 42, no. 820. 



«• Duchy of Lane. Ct. R. bdle. 77, 

 no. 999. Possibly this was to distinguish 

 it from Berwick in Nuthampstead. 



" Ibid. bdle. 64, no. 805.- 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxviii, 69 ; 

 xxxviii, ZJ. 



«« KC.H. Herts, i, 341a. 



*^ Sec under Great Hormead, 



^ RedBk. oJExch. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 507. 



^^ Cart. Mon. S. Johannis de Colecestria 

 (Roxburghe Club), 569. 



" G.E.C. Complete Peerage, vi, 164. 



" Feet of F. Div. Co. 13 Edw. I, 

 no. 19. 



" G.E.C. Complete Peerage, vii, 328. 



" Cat. Close, 1288-96, p. 336. 



'< G.E.C. Complete Peerage, vi, 164. 



" Ibid, vii, 329. 



" Ca/. Pat. 1396-9, p. 578. Appa- 

 rently the manor of Berwick held by 

 Henry Duke of Lancaster (see Chauncy, 

 op. cit. lox) lay in Wiltshire (Chan. 

 Inq. p.m. 35 Edw. Ill [ist nos.], 

 no. 122). 



