BRAUGHING HUNDRED sawbridgeworth 



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the service of one knight for each 20 libra tes.™ 

 Grants were made by Warin and Henry to Bury 

 St. Edmunds and Reading Abbey (see Tednambury 

 and Groves) ; the remainder of the land formed the 

 manor of Pishobury. Henry, who survived his 

 brother, left two sons, Warin 

 and Henry. Margaret, 

 daughter and heir of Warin, 

 married Baldwin de Redvers, 

 Earl of Devon, whom she 

 survived, and secondly Falkes 

 de Breaute, who forfeited in 

 1224. The manor was 

 granted to Margaret during 

 the king's pleas ur 

 Margaret levied 

 William de Say, by which it «««». Or « i„* 



was agreed that William and 

 his heirs were to have free 



warren throughout the vill of Sawbridgeworth includ- 

 ing Margaret's demesnes, the warren to be kept by 

 William's warrener, whilst Margaret and her heirs 

 were to have free chase in her fee with dogs, birds 

 or nets, and free fishery in the river where it adjoined 

 her lands. 72 Baldwin de Redvers, Earl of Devon, 

 son and heir of Margaret, died in February I 244-5 71 

 and his son Baldwin in I z6z, M leaving no issue. 

 His widow Margaret had seisin of the manor." She 

 married Roger Aguilon, 7G and held the manor until 

 her death in 1292. r7 It then passed to Isabella 

 Countess of Albemarle, sister of Baldwin, 78 who died 

 in 1293, having survived her only daughter Avelina, 

 wife of Edmund Earl of Lancaster. Her cousin 

 Hugh de Courtenay, great-grandson of Mary daughter 

 of William de Redvers (father of the first-mentioned 

 Baldwin), was her heir, but Warin Lisle (de Insula) 

 had a grant of the issues of the manor in 1294. to 

 hold until Hugh came of age, 7 . 9 and in 1310 his son 

 Robert successfully claimed the manor against Hugh 

 de Courtenay by descent from Henry the brother of 

 Warin above mentioned (son of Henry Fitz Gerold), 

 whose daughter Alice married Robert Lisle of Rouge- 

 mont and was father of Robert, father of Warin, 

 father of the plaintiff. 80 



Robert Lisle was summoned to Parliament as 

 Lord Lisle from 1 3 1 1 , Shortly before his death (in 

 January 1342—3) he took religious orders, having 

 previously in 1 3 39 granted Pishobury with other 

 manors to his daughters Alice, wife of Sir Thomas 

 Seymour, and Elizabeth Peverel for life, with re- 

 mainder to his son John, who quitclaimed to his 



ntly made by Robert 

 1 alms. 83 In 1343. 



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sisters. 81 This grant was appan 



for the performance of certai 



however, John obtained from 



Alice and Elizabeth a release 



of the manor for thirty years, 



with the exception of certain 



premises — viz, the house on 



the left-hand side within the 



second gate, which contained 



two chambers for habitation, 



and the park of Gedelesho, 



which belonged to the manor, 



John retaining 12 acres of 



underwood yearly with profits 



from the land called Vodeleye <>'£"" «*"«* or - 



and housbote and heybote for 



the manor, the keeper of Gedelesho Wood to be 



chosen with the assent of both parties and to have 



his robe from Alice and his livery of corn, Sec, from 



John. 83 John Lord Lisle died seised of the lea 



1356. 84 After his death Alice Seym 



Pishobury to his son Robert, who v 



in the foundation of charities begi 



Lisle for the soul of his father. 86 I 



Lisle granted his knights' fees and the courts held for 



his tenants at Walbrook and Farningho, co. Essex, to 



the king. 86 This transaction has led to the inference 



that he had no legitimate issue, but one pedigree gives 



him a son William, 87 and a William Lisle granted 



Pishobury in March 1392-3 to Richard first Lord 



Scrope of Bolton, 83 this transaction being followed in 



1394 by a quitclaim from Sir Robert Lisle. 89 





by Sir John 

 1368 Robert 



[393 Lord Scrope had 

 chantry in his chapel in 

 Bolton Castle with a rent of 

 £33 6j. 8d. from the 





He died in 1403, his 

 being dated at Pishobury i 



vill 



His 



ind hei 



Roger second Lord Scrope 

 died in the same year. 

 Richard third Lord Scrope, 

 son of Roger, mortgaged the 

 manor, and it was held by 

 mortgagees at the time of his 



death 



Hi- 



Henry fourth Lord Scrope 



died seised in January 1458-9, 92a and the manor was 

 held successively by his son John fifth Lord Scrope, 

 who died in 1498, 53 and by Henry sixth Lord Scrope, 

 son of John, who died in 1506. Henry, the seventh 



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