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Manors of SuffolkAdai r, Sir Frede rick , Bart. , J .P .
Al len , E . G . , 8: So n s, Ltd.
Andrews , R ev . L . W . H .
An tiquari e s , So c iety o f.
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Bac on , Leo n Broo ks.
Barn ardisto n , Co l . N . ,
D .L .
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, Marqui s o f.
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Wo od , John .
MANORS OF SUFFOLK.
B LY T H IN G H U N D R E D .
HIS Hundred , which derives i ts n ame from the river Blythe
the Saxon Bli de (signifyin g the swift or strong) - is the largest Hundred in Suffolk
, and con tain s
acres . It li es on the east side of the county , extending
n early 20 miles along the sea coast , and having its two
other sides n early of the same length , proj ecting westward
and forming an irregular triangle bounded on the south by Plomesgate Hundred , o n the west by Hoxne Hun dred
, on the north
by Wangford and Mutiord Hundreds , and on the east by the ocean .
I t is in Blything Un ion , in the Deanery of Dunw ich, Archdeaconry of Suffolk
, and Diocese of Norwich . I t is watered by the river Blythe
, and
flowing eastward to the sea , and some of them
forming “ broads ,
” or small lakes near the coast , which rises in many places
in bold precipitous cliffs . The western parts form a high district of hill and dale and have a strong and fertile loamy soil
, but on the eastern side
, near
, and there are still some unenclosed sheep
walks . The fee was in the Crown and government in the Sheriff until the time
of King Edw . I .
, who in considerati on of the reversion of the Castle of
Warkworth and the Manors of Rouberrie , Newburn
, and Carbridge , en tailed
upon him and his heirs by J ohn de Clavering , settled upon him
, amongst
other things , this Hundred to hold of the King for li fe . At the decease of
,
settled by Hen . VIII . on Hugh ap Howel by deed dated 3rd Dec . 1 527 , but the grants extended only to the goods an d chattels of felon s, &c .
, fines
,
waifs , and strays . Again reverting to the Crown it was granted to Si r
Edward Coke 3 1 5t J an . 1 601 , he acquiring through Thomas Billott and
Richard Langley , to whom it had been conveyed the previous day .
Though the grant is made to Sir Edward in fee simple , to hold o f the Queen as of the Manor of Greenwi ch
, i t was not more extensive than the
grant of Hen . VI II . The Hundred was later conveyed with o ther heredita men ts to Sir J oshua Vann eck of Putney
, Bart
,
1 752 , and made between the Right Hon . Thomas Earl of Leicester, and the
Ri ht Hon . Edward Coke , Esq .
, common ly called Lord Viscoun t Coke ,
o n y son of the said Earl of Leicester of the one part , and Si r J oshuaVann eck
of the other part . Sir J oshua devised the Hundred to his son Sir Gerard Will iam Vanneck
, who devised the same to his brother J oshua Van n eck ,
afterwards created Lord Hunti ngfield, who di ed 1 s th Aug . 1 81 6 , and was
succeeded by his son J oshua , Lord Huntingfie ld, who died in August , 1 844,
the Hundred passing in the same course as the Manor of Heveningham Hall to the present Lord Huntingfield .
The Hundred is divided into 47 parishes and 8 hamlets, compri sed in
1 08 manors as follows
THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK .
H amle t.
Manor of Wrights Glemham
South Cove with North Hales .
Po lfrey or Blueflory Cove
, anciently
Linstead Magna .
Linstead Parva .
Middleton with Ford ley .
Southwold . Southwold .
Thori ngton Wimples Ufford d l .
Westons . Thorington Hal l al . D
ve éf
Barrington ’s .
Lenwale ’
Claydon ’
s .
Valein s . Rysing
Murrills ,now on e of the members of Yoxford.
Stikingland .
ALDRINGHAM .
HE only ent ry in the Survey under thi s head is to be found amongst the entries belonging to Hom e Hundred . There was no manor here
, and but two estates mentioned . One
consisted of 7 villeins and a bordar having 90 acres . Thi s was included in the valuation of Leiston . The soc belon ged to the Bishop in Hoxn e
, and the Domesday tenant was
Robert Malet . The other holding consisted of 20 acres and half a ploughteam,
valued at 40d. , formerly in the possession of a free
man by commendation and by fold , soc , and sac, an d other services, and at the time of the Survey belonged to Robert Malet .‘
ALDRINGHAM Manon .
Aldringham Manor was the lordship of Ranulph de Glanvi lle , Lord Chief J usti ce in 1 1 80 . I t seems to have passed to Will iam de Glanvil le his so n and from him to his son Gilbert
, who died in 1 266 . Gilbert
was succeeded by his son Sir Ralph de Glanville, who left an only daughter Maud
, married to Sir Wil liam de Vesey who is said to have
be en created Earl of Suffolk in 1 326 in right of his wi fe . Sir William de Vesey had an only daughter Sarah, who married Robert de Ufford, younger so n of J ohn de Peyton . Their son Robert de Ufford was summoned to Parliament as a baron 1 3 th J an . 1 308 . He was succeeded by another Robert de Ufford

Robert the zud was succeeded by his and son William Earl of Suffolk .
A fine was levied of the manor between him and William Lord Huntingfie ld by whi ch it was settled on the Earl for li fe with remainder after the death of William Lord Huntingfie ld to the sons of the Earl successively—Thomas, William
, and Edward
, all of whom died without issue . The manor after
wards passed to the De la Poles , and o n the attainder of Edmund de la
Pole , who was beheaded in 1 51 3 , went to the Crown .
There does not seem subsequently to have been any grant of the manor
, but by Letters Patent s th Aug . 1 6 1 8
, King J ames I . granted to
George , Marqui s and Earl of Buckingham
, the rectory of Aldringham and
Thorpe , with all ti thes thereunto belonging
, late parcel of the possessions
of Charles , Duke of Suffolk . In 1 626
, by Indenture dated 1 sth Nov .
George , Duke of Buckingham
, sold the above premises to Price Williams
and Anthony Nevi ll , and s7th J an . 1 629, these parties wi th Richard Miller
and Alice his wi fe re - sold them to Daniel Eliab and Matthew Harvey, with a proviso making void the grant upon paymen t of J£500 . On the soth
May, 1 640 , Sir Richard Miller released and confirmed the said premises to the said Daniel Eliab and Michael Harvey and their heirs for ever . The heirsof these gen tlemen held them in the early part of the following century and m 1 792 they were the property of Sir J oshua Vann eck ,
Bart . He seems also to have held the manor
, which subsequently descended to J oshua
Charles Van neck , 4th Baron Huntingfield of Heveningham Hall , the present
lord, m the same course as the Manor of Heveningham Hall in this Hundred.
From an actual survey in possession of Lord Huntingfie ld, made in 1 81 8
, the total number of acres in Aldri ngham was 588a . 2r. 1 9p .
, of which
soya . rr. sop . were enclosed land and 81 a . or . 30p . heath .
Dom . u. 3 1 7 . See Parham Hall Mano r in Plomesgate Hundred.
BENACRE MANOR . 5
BENACRE M ANOR .
HE only entry in Domesday Survey of this place is that a socman held 1 0 acres valued at 1 od . under the Abbot of Bury .
‘ The prin cipal estate in Ben acre was however possessed in the eleventh century by Godefridus de Petro Ponti or Pierrepont
, the same knight who held Henstead
under William de Warenna .
The early descents of the Pierrepont family are rather uncertain . Dugdale does not speak with certainty
, Collins di ffers from
, and Collins and Jacob
also give pedigrees . The true desc ent seems to be the following R obert de Pi errepo n t t.Wi l liam the Conqueror
Wi ll iam Beatrix =Wi l l iam de Waren na .
Baron Waren na ofWo
ringay, co . Norfo lk.
Sir Robert a Maud S imo n .
Henry de P. o f Hol b ck Robe rt Woodhouse . co . Notts .
Sir Simon P.
SirHen ry or Ro bert = Annora. dau. o f M ichae l . and s ister John P. E la. daughter o f Sir d . 1 292. and he ir o f Lio ne l de Man vers , Wi lli am do Cal thor
o f Ho lme . co . No tts. d . 1 3 1 4 . t. Edw I I I .E l i zabe th a s Sir Thos . Dacre
Sarah d. and eve n tual he ir o f Simo n P. summoned
Sir John Hafi z , o f“fingfield. as Baro n in 1 304 . Joan R ic h . P ic aes ,
00 . Derby, Kn t. Lo rd Dacre Sybi l
Margaret. (1 . o f SirWi l l iam m. Edmund de Ufl ’
ord F itz Wil l iams . of Curly,
Kn t. Sir Ro bert a E leano r, d. o f Sir Thos . Fe lto n ,
Knt. , K .G .
E la , m. R ich . S i byl Joan Wi ll iam Bowet Bowet a nun
Sir Edmund Joan . w ife o f Sir George E l izabeth Thos . so n o f Tho s .
d. 1 3 70 Mon tbouch ier. o f Gamultston . oth Lord Dac r co . Notts , Knt.
The property was in the same family in the time of Hen . I I . being then held by Simon Pierpont .” From the Close Rolls we learn that in 1 229 there was an action pending between William de Ann oy and this Simon de Pierpo n t
, and others
, tenants of one carucate of land in Benacre .
“ This Simon had in 1 237 wreck of the sea in the vi llage of Benacre .
3 In the time of Edw . I . we learn from the Hundred Rolls that Robert de Pierpont had free warren in Wrentham
, Hen stead
, and Benacre
, with the right of gallows

The manor and advowson of Benacre con tinued in the family for about 300 years . In 1 281 i t is stated that William de Kerdeston ,
J ohn Bomond ,
and J ohn Bunglo nd were lords, but probably only as trustees , for Sir Henry
Dom . ii . 37 1 b.
Close Ro lls , 1 3 Hen . I I . 34.
6 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK .
de Pierpont , who died in 1 292, was certainly lord of the manor at that date .
On hi s death the manor appears to have passed to his son Simon de Pierpont , who was lord in 1 3 1 6 . He had been summoned to Parli amen t as a baron in 1 294 . His daughter and heir Sybil married Sir Edmun d de Ufford , son of Ralph de Ufford
, and the manor passed into the Ufford family .
Sir Edmund and Sybil had issue Sir Robert de Ufford , who married Eleanor daughter of Sir Thomas Felton
, Kut.
, and they left issue three
daughters and cohei rs , Ela married to Richard Bowet , Sybil a nun at Bark ing
, and J oan marri ed to Wi ll iam Bowett
, brother of Richard . The manor
se ems to have vested in the daughter J oan , for she and her husband presented to the li ving in 1 409 and Will iam Bowet alon e in 1 41 8 . The manor on William’s death passed to his only daughter Elizabeth who married Sir Thomas , son of Thomas 6th Lord Dacre, and Sir Thomas pre sented to the church in 1 434.
,
and Bartholomew Bohne , complainant, the said Thomas Dacre and Elizabeth
hiswife , deforcian ts ,with respect to thi s manor and the Manors of Northales ,
Cove , Bowflory,
, Wrentham
, and
Henstead , and the advowson of the Abbey of Sibton and Priory of Blyth
burgh , these were limited to the said Thomas Dacre and Elizabeth hi s wife
for their lives , an d upon their death this manor and the Manors of Wrentham ,
Henstead , Thorington
, and Burgh near Grundisburgh were to remain to
Robe rt Fienes and Philippa his wi fe with remainder to the issue of the said Phi lippa in default to Richard Fienes and J oan his wife
, on ly child of
Thomas Dacre and the issue of the said J oan . By virtue of this fine Thomas Dacre and Elizabeth his wi fe entered into possession
, and both dying the
manor passed to Robert Fienes and Philippa his wife , and Phi lippa dyin g
the said Richard Fien es and Joan his wi fe entered into possession and disseised the said Robert Fien es .
Richard Fienes became 7th Baron Dacre, and died in 1 484, leavin g J oan his widow surviving
, whereupon Robert Fien es ousted her . On a
commission in 1 487 after the death of Joan it was found that Richard Fienes and J oan did not unj ustly disseise the said Robert Fienes
, but that

On Joan Baroness Dacre 's death in 1 486 ’ the manor passed to her
grandson Thomas , 8th Lord Dacre
, son of her eldest son Sir J ohn who had
died in his mother’s li fetime , by his wife A lice eldest daughter and coheir
of Henry Lord Fitz -Hugh . He marri ed Anne daughter of Sir Humphrey Bourchier
, Knt.
, son and heir apparent of J ohn Bourchier, Lord Berners .
He was summoned to Parliament from 1 4th Oct . 1 495, to s th J an . 1 533 -
,
Pat. Rolls , 2 Hen . VI I . pt . 1 , 3 and 25d.
Wi l l . 1 3 Oc t. 1 485, pr. 1 4 June, 1 486.This is the man who fell a sacrifice to the
remission o f the dea th pe nal ty if he would con fess his guilt , but No rris nobl y re jected the offe r , sayin g
suspicious temper o fHen . VIII . and unde r the accusatio n o f a criminal familiari ty un to Queen Anne Bo le yn was t ried, co ndemned as gui l ty. andbeheaded 1 4 May. 1 536 . He was
much in the K ing 's favour, and was sen t forand o ffe red by his so vereign

Upo n which it is asse rted the K ing cried out. Hang him up then ,
hang himup then .
leaving by Jane his wi fe , daughter of Alward Sutton
, Lord Dud ley
, Thomas
his son an d heir an d a daughter Anne marri ed to Mantell . This Thomas succeeded his grandfather on his death in
He married Mary daughter of George Nevill , Lord Abergavenny and
had two sons , Thomas who di ed young
, Gregory his successor
daughter Margaret married to Sampson Leonard afterwards Lord Dacre .
Thomas , 9th Lord Dacre , was high in favour wi th Hen . VI I I and at
the christening of Edward Pri n ce of Wales , was appointed in the service of
spiced wi ne , &c .
, and Lady Eli zabeth
, as Lord Montagu was
to un cover the plate , the Lords Hastings and De La Warr were to bear

, met
her with a numerous company of kn ights and gentlemen upon Kirkham Down
, beyon d Canterbury
, from whence he con ducted her to Rochester
and the next day to Blackheath , where the King first saw her . But in the
year following , being then 24 years of age , going unfortunately one night
,
wi th other persons in a fro lic (usual among the young people in that day), and a fray ensuing be tween some of them (for he happened to be in a di fferent
part of the park) and the park- keepe rs , one of the latter was killed .
All concerned in the froli c were tried for murder . Lord Dacre was found gui lty as an accesso ry
, and was hung at Tyburn 29th J une , 1 541 ,
accordingly , when his estates became fo rfeited . We are told indeed that
his estates caused hi s destruction , the courtiers covetin g these rather
exaggerating than mi tigating the own er’ s offence to the King—a monarch at no time too prone to mercy .
The 9th baron, Gregory , was restored to his hon ours as 1 0th Baron
Dacre by Act o f Parliament and also to hi s estates .
He was summoned to Parli ament from 1 1 th J an . 1 572 - 3 , to 1 9th
Feb . 1 592 -
3 . We find the manor included wi th the Manors of Northales , Wymples in Thorington , Covehi the , and Wrentham ,
in a fine levied in 1 564 by Sir Richard Sakevyle against Phi lip Fynes .
2
A MS . in the Bri t . Mus .
3 returns in 1 57 1 Ge or e Fien es Lord Dacre as holding the manor and advowson of Ben acre of the Queen in chief, with li cense of ali enati on to R0gerManwo od and others . George is no doubt one with Gregory .
He married Ann , daughter of Sir Richard Sackville and sister o fThomas
I st Earl of Dorset , and died without issue 25th Sept . 1 594, being buried at Chelsea } His widow di ed 1 4th May,
Gregory , roth Lord Dacre
, was the last of the Fien es name . I t was
at thi s nobleman ’s (Gregory Lord Dacre) house at Chelsea that Queen Elizabeth
, happening to dine on goose on Michaelmas day, in her progress
to review the forces at Tilbury Fort , gave ri se to the custom o f eatin g goose
on that day ever since in Englan d , and the news of the dispersion of the
great Spanish Armada , arri ving before the Queen rose from the table ,made
i t altogether a remarkable repast . By 1 577 i t is said the manor had passed to J ohn Whinburgh, of
Norfolk , but we find thi s same year i t vested in Henry Lord NOI' I'IS (son of
Will , 1 Sept . 1 53 1 , pr . 1 8 May, 1 539. Wlll pr . 1 594 .
Fin e Hi l . 6 Eliz . 5 Wil l pr. 1 595.
3 Harl , 1 232 .
8 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK .
'

William Sydnor sold his moiety to William Playters .
In the t ime of Chas . I . the manor and advowson were purchased by Henry North of Laxfie ld ,
and son of Sir Henry North , of Mildenhall . He bequeathed the manor to his zud son Edward by Wi ll dated roth Dec .
1 6 .
3 53 Edward North married I st Frances, daughter and heir of Edmund
Eade , D D ,
and 2ndl y Ann , daughter of J ohn Arthur and widow of J ohn Colby of Banham co
. Norfolk . Edward North died 5th June , 1 70 1 , and the
manor passed to hi s son and heir Henry North , who marri ed Mary, daughter o f Sir Thomas Cullum ,
Bart , and died 1 6th Dec . 1 701
‘ without surviving issue
, being succeeded by hi s brother Edward North .
Edward North married Ann , daughter and coheir of J ohn Colby of
Banhams and dying 1 2th Feb . 1 707 - 8
, without issue the manor passed un der
his will after the decease of his widow Arm to his nephew Thomas Carthew ,
eldest son of Thomas Carthew .
6
Thomas Carthew the devisee built the Hall about 1 721 , and married i st Sarah, daughter of Sir Thomas Powys, Kut.
, J udge of the Queen

s Bench , who died 1 7 th August , 1 727 , Thomas Carthew dying in 1 741 . After his death the estate was sold by hi s widow (a se cond wife) and son in 1 743 for
to Thomas Gooch , then Bishop of Norwich
, afterwards Sir Thomas
Gooch zud Bart , he succeeding to the title on the death of his brother Sir
Wi lliam , the we ll - known Governor of Virginia
, who had been created a
baron et 4th Nov . 1 746 , and di ed without issue in 1 751 .
The agreement for sale is dated 1 1 th August , 1 743 , and is be tween
Elizabeth Carthew widow , and Thomas Gooch of Morning Thorpe co .
No rfolk . I t included All those the Man ors of Benacres , Northales ,
Easton Bavent with Empoles in the County of Suffolk , &c .
, also the advow
, otherwise Northales and Easton . Thomas
Carthew had an estate at Woodbridge as well as at Benacre . These estates were mortgaged for large sums
, and were chargeable wi th
for portions for his daughters by his first wi fe . He was also indebted by bond to several persons . After his second marriage he made a voluntary settlement on his wife for life of the estate at Woodbridge in bar of dower . After this
, 26th August
, 1 738, he made his will and di rected hi s executors
to se ll the estate at Benacre , the money to be applied for paying all
debts and incumbrances in order that his Woodbridge estate might be clear . He gave likewise £600 a piece to each of his three daughters by his 2nd wife , and left some legacies consisting of about £ 1 00 to his wife and his relatives . After making his will he levied a fine upon all hi s lands
, and
died w i thout having made any republication of his will . His wife , one of
the executors (the other declin ing to act) agreed to sell Benacre . The
Fine, Trin . 1 9 El iz . See Wo odbridge Mano r in Loes Hundred .
Sec Mano r o f M ildenhall in Lackfo rd 7 The Mano r o f Eas to n Baven t purchase d Hundred . in 1 7 1 8 by Mr . Carthew o f the
Proved 1 2 June , 1 654. heiress o f J e ffrey How land. who His W il l is dated Dec . 1 701 , and it was marr ied the Duke o f Bedfo rd, was
proved the 3oth March , 1 70 in c luded in the Go och purchase .
s Davy in one place says his wife was
Frances daughter and heir o f
Edmund Eade, who died 26th
April , 1 663 .
BENACRE MANOR . 9
will was proved in Chancery , but at that time it was not known that he
had levied a fine . Upon discovery of the fine it was apprehended that the fin e revoked the wi ll
, and that the lands descended to his son b y the zud
marri age , an infant of 1 5 years .
The family of Gooch had long flourished in Suffolk , and Sir Thomas’s
an cestor Robert Gooch hailed from Bungay . He had two son s , William
Gooch of Mettingham , who married Martha
, daughter of Christopher
Layer of the City of Norwich , and had two son s and on e daughter
, viz . (1 )
William ,(2) Thomas, alderman and thrice bailiff of Yarmouth , who married
J oan , daughter of Thomas Atkins
, alderman of London
, by whom (dyin g
27th Feb . 1 678) he had on e son Leonard Gooch of Earsham in No rfolk .
William Go och the elder son resided at Mettingham , and was a J .P . in 1 664 .
He marri ed Elizabeth , daughter and heir of Richard Baspoo le of St . Mar
garet ’
s , by whom he had two sons and two daughters
, viz . (1 ) Richard who
di ed in Sept . 1 682 (having married Ann e , daughter and heir of Arthur Colman of St . J ohn ’s
, by whom he had one so n William born in 1 665 and
three daughters Mary , Elizabeth , and Frances), (2) Thomas (son of William) . The daughters of William were Martha and Barbara . Thomas the zud
son of Will iam marri ed in March , 1 682
, Frances
, daughter and coheir of
Thomas Lone of Worlingham , who died 25th July, 1 696 , aged 44, and was
buried at Yarmouth , by whom he had two sons and two daughters (1 )
Thomas the Bishop of Ely and zud Bart . (2) Sir William Cooth the I st Bart .
(3) Frances, (4) Matilda . Thomas the father died in 1 658 . Sir William Gooch was born 21 5t Oct
, 1 681
, di stin guishing
himself as a gallant offi cer throughout all Queen Anne ’s wars and assisted in subduing the rebellion in Scotland in 1 7 1 5. He married Rebecca Staun ton
, of Hampton
, co . Middlesex .
In 1 727 the King made him Lieutenant-governor of Virginia , and he was said to have been the only governor abroad against whom no inhabitant or merchant ever once complained . In 1 740 he became Colonel of an American regiment
, and was sent wi th it to the siege of Carthagena, where
he was severely wounded . He was advanced to the rank of Brigadi er Major- General
, and reti ring to England died 1 7 Dec . 1 751 , the baronetcy
passing to hi s brother Thomas , Bishop of Ely . The Bishop had been head
of Caius College , Cambridge
, in 1 7 1 6, Vice- Chancellor 1 7 1 7 , Bishop of Bristol
1 737 , of Norwi ch 1 738, and fin ally of Ely 1 747 . The Bishop, during the violence of party in Dr . Bentley’s time
, was shot at as he was passing from
chapel to Caius Lodge .
Sir Thomas Gooch married rst Mary , sister of Thomas Sherlock, Bishop
,
who married I st in 1 743 Anne , daughter and heir of J ohn Atwood of Sax lingham,
in Norfolk , and 2ndly in 1 772 Phoebe , daughter of Isaac Norton of
London and widow of Horatio Bi rtles , Consul at Gen oa and sometime
Gove rnor of Grenada .
Sir Thomas di ed ro th Sept . 1 781 , and the manor passed '
to ,
his eldest son Sir Thomas Gooch
, 4th Bart . , High Sheriff for the county i n 1 785. He
married in 1 766 Anna Maria, daughter ,
and heir of Wi lli am Hayward, descended from William Patten commonly called de Wai nfleet, founder of Magdalen Coll . Oxford, and dying 7th A ril, 1 826, at the age of 81 , the manor passed to his eldest so n Sir Thomas S erlock Gooch, sth Bart .
, MP . for
1 0 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK .
Suffolk and High Sheriff in 1 833 . He married in 1 796 Marianne , daughter of Abraham Whittaker of Lyster House , Hereford , sister of Charlotte Maria Countess of Stradbroke
, and dying 1 8 Dec . 1 851 , the manor passed
to his eldest son Sir Edward Sherlock Gooch , 6th Bart .
, M P . for the Eastern Division of Suffolk . He marri ed in 1 828 I st Louisa Anna Maria
, 2nd daughter of Sir George Beeston Prescott
, Bart .
, and 2ndly in
1 830 Harri et , 3rd daughter of J ames Hope Vere of Craigie co . Linli thgow ,
and dying 9th Nov . 1 856, the manor passed to his eldest son Sir Edward Sherlock Gooth
, 7th Bart .
, eldest daughter
, Hants .
He died and the manor passed to his brother Francis Robert Sherlock Lambert Gooch
, 8th Bart .
, who dying in 1 881 the manor passed to his brother
Sir Alfred Sherlock Gooch , 9th Bart . , who married Alice Elizabeth, eldest
daughter of Edward Wil liams . Sir Al fred S . Gooch was High Sheriff for the county in 1 885, and dyin g
25th Feb . 1 899 the manor passed to and is now vested in his eldest son Sir Thomas Vere Sherlock Gooch
, roth Bart . He married in 1 902 Florence
Meta , daughter of J ames Finucane Draper of St . Heliers
, J ersey .
, Cu. Of DACRE
, sinister
, a
lion rampant , Or . Of WHINBURGH Per fess indented Arg . and Sab . three
bears passant , counterchanged . Of CARTHEW Or
, a chevron Sab . between
3 Cornish cloughs proper . Of Goo cn : Per pale , Arg . and Sa .
, a chevron
BLYTHBURGH
HE mai n manor was held by Edward the Con fessor wi th 5 ca rucates and 1 5 acres . There were 8 vi lleins
, 39 bordars, and 1 se rf, and one ploughteam was employed on the demesn e land , but there was land en ough to employ 5 ploughteams .
Roger Bigot later took over the man or (from the King), at which time and at the time of the Survey there were 3 oxen . The men always had 2 1 ploughteams .
There was wood suffi cien t to maintai n 40 hogs, and 6 acres were meadow .
Seven socmen subj ect to all customs held 3 carucates and 84 acres wi th 1 6 bordars and 9 ploughteams . There was al so a market
, an d wood sufficien t for
3 0 hogs, and 2 acres of meadow . The great Survey states that every fourth pen ny of the tax levied upon the park of Rumburgh (R iseburc )
‘ belonged to the Manor of Blythburgh
, and was shared by the King and Earl Bigot .
The whole manor ren dered in King Edward ’s time £30 by tale and on e day ’s provision of honey with all customary dues . The valuation when Roger Bigot took i t over was £50 weight , but by 1 087 this had come down to 23 .
The church of Blythburgh possessed 2 carucates of land with 9 vill ein s and 4 bordars . In Saxon times there was on e ploughteam in demesne , but it had become reduced by Norman days to half a team
, like as the plough
teams belonging to the men had dimin ished from 4 to 1 .
There was wood suffi cien t to support 20 hogs and also half an acre of meadow . The manor formerly rendered herrings
, but this c ontribu
tion seems to have been commuted for in part , as by the time of the Survey
the render was 503 . and herrings . This Osbem Masculus held as an
eleemosynary gi ft of the King ’s , and to the church belonged two other

Roger Bigot in hi s own right held a manor here consisting of 1
carucate an d a half of land , which had in Kin g Edward ’s time been held
by Wolsey . I t i s entered in the Survey under the head Bringas .
” In
Saxon times there were two vi lleins , 4 ploughteams in demesne, and 2
belonging to the ten an ts , wood suffi cient for the maintenance of 8 hogs,
1 8 acres of meadow , 2 mill s
, 1 salt pan
, 1 1 hogs
, and 20 goats
, valued at 303 .
At the time of the Survey the value was 4o s .
, the bordars had in creased to
1 0 , whi le the serfs had come down to one
, the ploughteams in demesn e
were but 2 though a thi rd could be made up , and they had but one plough
team and a half . There were three acres in Dunwich belon ging to this manor
, and the soc was in Robert Malet
, the val ue bein g 22d. Three free
men wi th 60 acres had been added to the manor, and they formerly had 2 ploughteams , but at the time of the Survey on e on ly, the value being 83 .
Thi s man or was held by Robert de Curcun of Roger Bigot it was 9 quaran tenes long and 7 broad , rendered 12d. in a king’s gelt
, and the soc belonged
to the King and the Earl . Roger Bigot also had an other man or in Hi nton ,
a hamlet of Blythburgh , which Robert of Blythburgh held of him . I t
consisted of 50 acres, and had in the Con fessor ’s time belonged to Hegel
wald , a freeman . There were 2 bordars, 1 ploughteam in demesne, and 1
roun cy , 4 beasts, 4 hogs, and 50 sheep , valued at 83 . Of this lan d Robert
of Blythburgh held 1 2 acres by way o f alms from the King, to Wi t of the
' Suckling th in ks Risby . Dom. u. 282.
1 2 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK .
church of Blythburgh , which fact the Hundred testified . To this manor had been added 6 freemen (over whom Roger
’s predecessor had commenda tion) with 50 acres of land , 1 ploughteam,
and 1 acre of meadow valued at s .

4 There are three entries under Hopton , Opitun a , or Hoppetun a ,
in the Domesday Survey which probably relate to Westwood Lodge in Blythburgh . The first
, amongst the possessions of the freemen under Roger
Bigot , consisted of60 acres formerly held by Bond , a freeman , as a manor, over
whom Toli had commendation . In Saxon times there were 3 bordars , 1
ploughteam in demesn e and half a team belonging to the men , 2 acres of meadow
, wood sufficient for the support of z hogs, valued at 1 63 . By the
time of the Survey there were no bordars and 1 ploughteam belonging to the men
, but the ploughteam in demesne appears to have gone . The King
and the Earl had the soc . In this holding was half a church wi th 4 acres and a half of meadow valued at 3d.
’ The second is amongst the possessions of Robert Malet held of him by Gilbert
, and consisted of 42 acres, 2 bordars, 1
ploughteam, and 2 acres of meadow
, valued at held as a manor in the
time of the Confessor by Aln oth , a freeman under commendation . Malet
also had here 1 8 acres held by 2 freemen un der commendation and valued at 3s .
, the Ki ng and the Earl having the soc .
3
MANOR or BLYTHBURGH .
This manor extended into Huntingfield and Cratfield, in each of which vi llages i t claimed 40 acres of land and other possessions . As Suckl ing observes
, i t is eviden t from thi s account that Blythburgh was a vi llage of
considerable wealth and importance . Even in the most “ high and palmy state of Dunwich
, i f a thief were taken in that ci ty
, though his trial were
conducted there hi s punishment was inflicted at Blythburgh , where before
the Conquest the only camb itar or money changer resided .
Blythburgh Manor was granted by Henry I . to the Bp . of Norwich ,
who exchanged it for Thorpe with Willi am de Cheney . King Stephen by charter granted it to J ohn Fitz Robert
, and a copy of the charter is given
by Suckling in hi s History of Suffolk .

, for the
Empress Maud was given the revenues for her life . On her death the King gave it to Will iam de Norwich
, or de Cheney as he was usually called
, to
hold by the service of a knight 's fee . A copy of the grant is given by Suckling .
s
Willi am de Norwich also had a li cence for a weekly market at Blyth burgh to be kept on Thursdays and for three annual fairs . He di ed seised of the manor, and it passed to his only child Margaret or Margery de Cheney .
Margaret married I st Hugh de Cressi and 2ndly Robert Fitz Roger, who each successively took the lordship in her right during their lives .
Margaret had by her rst husband a son Roger who had two sons , Hugh
and Stephen de Cressi . She had a grant of free warren and wreck of the sea from Eyc liffe j uxta Southwo lde to the port of Dunwich
, and a
ferry-boat there , with privilege to exact a halfpenny for every man and horse passing over the same . She had likewise customary travers for assage through Blythburgh and Walberswick
, viz . for each oaden carriage shod with iron
, one penny
, and without
, a halfpenny .
Vo l . ii . p . 1 32 .
5 His t . o f Sufi . vol. 11 . p. 1 32.
1 4 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK .
Sir Robert de Swil lington died in 1 3 91 ' and was succeeded by hi s
son Sir Roger,who in the Exchequer Roll s i s stated to have held the manor in chief of the King for two knights
’ fees . He died in 1 41 8 leaving a son J ohn
, who died this or the following year
, and according to Suckling , two
daughters Margaret and Anne . The former daughter married Sir J ohn Gra of Ingoldsby in Linco lnshire , and the latter (who ultimately was sole herr of Sir Roger Swillington) Sir J ohn Hopton .
Suckling gives no authority for his statemen t that Sir Roger Swil lington left besides a daughter Margaret a daughter Anne marri ed to J ohn Hopton , except an unconvincing entr in Hervey 's Visitation of 1 56 1 , and as wi ll be seen in the account of the e sc ent of the Manor of Brent Fen in Middleton in this Hundred

Sir J ohn Hopton was succeeded in 1 480 3 by his son Sir J ohn Hopton ,
who married rst a daughter of Sir J ohn Heveningham , and 2ndly Margaret
, daughter and he ir of Sir J ohn Savell
, and died in 1 489,when the
manor passed to his son and heir Sir William Hopton , Custos of Dunwich .
He was a great courtier , treasurer of the house and of the Pri vy Council
to Edw . IV. , and Sheri ff of Norf . and Suff . in the time of Rich . I I I .
Sir Willi am resided at Westwode , and married Margaret
, daughter of
, Knt.
, and on his death the manor
passed to his so n and heir Sir George Hopton . Sir George was created a Knight Banneret at the Battle of Stoke by Hen . VI I . He married Thomasine
, daughter of Snowhil l or Southil l of Yorkshire
, and dying
6th J uly , 1 490 ,
the manor passed to his widow Thomasine for life , and on
her death in 1 499 to their son Sir Arthur Hopton , MP . for Dunwich and Housekeeper of Henham Hall for Hen . VI I I .
, Sir George ’s eldest son J ohn
aged only 2 having died in the li fetime of hi s father‘. Sir Arthur Hopton married rst Maude
, daughter of Sir Edward Dymocke , and 2ndly Anne ,
daughter of Sir Davy Owen , of Cowdrye , co . Sussex
, Kut.
, natural son of
Owen Tudor (the husband of Catherine , Queen Dowager of Hen . and dying 1 sth Aug . 1 555
3 the manor passed to Sir Owen Hopton , Lieut . of
the Tower of London , who married Anne
, daughter and coheir of Sir
Edward Ecklinghanr.
Sir Owen Hopton is said to have sold the manor to Sir Robert Broke ,
alderman of London. We meet with a fine of the manor levied in 1 585 by Edmund Hall and others agai nst Sir Owen Hopton and others“
, but the
manor does not seem to have passed to Sir Robert Broke until 1 592 or 1 597 , for in the first of these years there is a fine levied by the said Robert Broke against Arthur Hopton
, son and heir of Sir Owen Hopton and others’
and in the second of these years a fine levied between the same parties .
Sir Robert Broke died in 1 600 , and was succeeded by his son Sir
Robert Broke , who di ed in 1 646 .
Suckl ing states that the manor di d not pass from the H0pton s till the time of Charles I but this does n ot seem to be the case . The zud 51 1 Robert Broke was succeeded by his son and heir J ohn Broke
, who
married J ane , daughter of Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston , on whom the manor was se ttled in j ointure .
' W ill dated 7th J ul y , 1 391 , pro ved at 1 9 Edw. II I . 70.
Cante rbury 22nd July, 1 39 1 , and I .P.M. 5 Hen . VI I . 589 , 643 .befo re the Bp. of Lincoln at Sle I .P.M. 2 and 3 P . and M . 62.
ford rst Sept. 1 391 . Fin e , Eas te r. 27 Eliz .
See Yorkshire No tes and Queries Fin e , Trin . 34 Eliz .
vol . iv . 1 88. Fine , Mich . 39 -
40 Eliz.
BLYTHBURGH . 1 5
J ohn Broke died without issue in 1 652, and hi s widow remarried Willi am Blois
, afterwards Sir William Blois‘ who in right of his wife held
his first Court in 1 660 .
Sir William Blo is ’
s I st wife had been Martha , daughter of Sir Robert

s son Charles Blois succeeded to the lo rdship in 1 675 on the death of hi s father, an d was created a Baronet 1 s th April
, 1 686 . He served in Parliamen t for Ipswich
in 1 690 and for Dunwich in 1 701 . He married I st Mary , daughter of
Sir Robert Kemp , 2nd Bart .
, of Gissin g co . Norfolk
, Bart .
, and died 9th April ,
1 738 , aged when he was succeeded by hi s grandson Sir Charles Blois ,
,
,
when the manor passed to hi s uncle Sir Charles
, who di ed without issue in 1 761 , and was succeeded by
his half-brother the Rev . Sir Ralph Blois , 4th Bart .
He married Elizabeth , eldest daughter of Reginald Rab ett
, of Bram
fie ld3 and died 8th May , 1 762 ,
when the manor passed under his will , dated
1 7th Dec . 1 76 1 , to hi s son and heir Sir J ohn Blois, 5th Bart . He married I st Sarah
,youngest daughter of George Thomhill , of Diddingston co . Hunting don
, and 2ndly Lucreti a dau . and heir of Thomas Otley
, of the Island of St .
Kitt ’s in the West Indi es , and dying 1 7th J an . 1 81 0
, the man or passed to
his son and heir Sir Charles Blois , 6th Bart .
, who marri ed 1 9th J an . 1 789,
Clara , daughter and coheir of J ocelyn Price
, of Camblesforth Hall
York , and died 20th Aug . 1 850,
when he was succeeded by his son and heir Sir Charles Blois
, 7th Bart . , on whose death unmarried 1 2th J un e 1 855
the manor vested in hi s nephew an d heir Sir J ohn Ralph Blois , 8th Bart .
He married 25th J an . 1 865, Eliza Ellen , youngest daughter of Captain
Al fred Chapman , R .N .
, of Eaton Place
, an d on his death 3 1 5t Dec . 1 888
the manor passed to , and is now vested in
, his son and heir Sir Ralph
Barrett Macnaghten Blois, 9th Bart ., of Grundisburgh Hall and Co ckfield Hall
, Yoxford .

Amongst the Addition al Cha rters in the Brit . Mus . is a Mandamus dated at Westminster 3oth J an . 1 Hen . VI I .
, declarin g the tenants of the
Manor of Blideburc to continue free from “ The lon ium (toll) and
contribution to the expenses of Knights in Parliament .5
Arms of HOFrON : Ermine two bars , three Mullets Or . Of Blois '
Gules a Bend vai re , between two fleur- de- lis
, Argent .
MANOR or BLYTHBURGH LATE PRIORY .
Thi s man or in the time of Hen . I . belonged to the Abbot of St . Osyth, Essex
, who founded Blythburgh Pri ory a small house of Augustines or
Black Canons . I t was not exactly a cell of St . Osyth, for the revenues were valued separately, and the prior and convent presented to their own
an d generally seemed a dist inct body, subj ect to the Abbot of St . in the nomination of its Head only.
As to this family see also Grundisburgh A lin eal descendan t fromWi l l iam R abett,
Mano r in Carlford Hun dred . who se rved for Dunwich in the 1 2th Will 1 3 th Aug. 1 734 ,
pr . Lo nd . 1 6thJune , Parliamen t ofKin g Edw. IV .
1 738. Vo l . iii. pp. 1 40, 1 41 .
5 Add . Ch . 1 7636.
1 6 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK .
The Churches of Blythburgh , Bramfield, Wenhaston
, Walberswick ,
Thorin ton and Blythford with the Chapel of Mells were appropri ated to this ouse .
Suckling ' gives a charter of Rich . I . disclosing the possessi ons of the Priory and recording the names of i ts benefactors in 1 1 99 .
In 1 528 Cardin al Wolsey obtained a Bull from the Pope for the suppression of the Priory with the obj ect of annexing i ts revenues to hi s college at Ipswich , but on his disgrace the King seized the Priory and its revenues
, and in 1 538 granted the site , manor and possessions to Si r Arthur
Hopton of Westwood Lodge by Letters Patent dated 1 2th Nov . 1 538 . The grant includes the site and manor of the Priory
, Hinton Hal l and the lands
called Bullock 's Broome close
, Mill- hi ll close
, Arn old’s close
, Appleton
mead , with the waterrn ill and other tenemen ts in Blythburgh
, all the tithes
of Blythburgh , Walberswick and Blythtord ,
the impropriations of Wen haston and Bramfield and the advowson Of Thorington as parcel of the po ssessions of thi s house .
The Priory Manor—which from having fall en into the hands of Sir Arthur Hopton who was lord of the main manor in the parish was in corporated with it— extended into the parishes Of Thorington , Bramfield ,
Westhall , Hal esworth
, and Mells in
Wenhaston . In 1 552 Letters Patent were passed dated 1 4th J une , 7 Edw. VI .
, confirming the grant of Hen . VI I I . and settling the priory an d
estates on the said Sir Arthur Hopton and his heirs for ever . Robert and Ralph Upton Hopton) had licence to alien in 1 622 to
Sir Robert Brooke to whom a conveyance was made accordingly , and on
his death the manor passed to his son and heir J ohn Brooke , who died
without issue in 1 657 , and was succeeded by hi s brother Robert Brooke .
The manor subsequently devolved in the same mode as the main manor .
MANOR OF HINTON LATE PR IORY .
This manor was also given by the Abbot of St . Osyth to the Pri ory of Blythburgh
, and went to the Crown on the dissolution of the religious
houses . I t was included in the grant of 1 538 of Blythburgh Priory to Sir Arthur Hopton
, and passed on his death to hi s son and hei r Si r Owen
H0pton , the Lieutenant of the Tower of London . The manor in 1 597
was vested in Henry Gawdy and Henry Warner who held their first Court this year. Their holding was probably as trustees
, for in 1 652 we find
Thomas Bacon and Robert Brewster mentioned as trustees of Sir Robert Brooke during the minori ty of Robert his son
, also holding a first Court .
The manor subsequently devolved in a like course with the main manor.
Wasrwoo n MANOR .
There seems to be some doubt as to whether this was ever held as a separate manor
, but apparently Michael de la Pole
, Earl of Suffolk
, died
seised of i t in 1 41 5, when it passed to his son and heir Michael de la Pole , who a few months later was slain at the Battle of Agincourt
, and was
succeeded by his brother William de la Pole .
The manor seems to have been vested in the Sir J ohn Hopton who foun ded a chant ry at Blythburgh and died in 1 489
Davy makes the next lord Arthur Hopton ,
who he states was the son an heir of J ohn Hopton .
Vo l . 11 . p . 1 44 .
BLYTHFORD. 1 7
He probably, however, means Sir William Hopton who was Custos Of
,
of Nettlestead .
He was probably succeeded b y his son Sir Geo rge H opton , who died
apparen tly the following year , a fact which seems to be supported by the
pedigree Of the H0pton s given by Suckling in his History Of Suffo lk .
‘ I t i s not clear how this manor passed amongst the H0pto n s , but it certain ly did become vested in Sir Owen H0pton ,
the son Of Sir Arthur , and passed

BLYTHFORD MANOR .
Blythford Manor was held in the Confessor ’s time by Edwin a freeman
wi th 2 carucates of land , and by the time of the Great Survey it had passed
to Goodrich the Steward , who held it in demesne as ten an t in chief . There
were 5 villein s, 3 bordars , 2 se rfs, 2 ploughteams in demesne and 3 belong ing to the men
, an acre of meadow
beasts .
A church was then standing in the pari sh endowed with 1 2 acres of glebe . By the time of the Norman Survey a mi ll had been ere cted
, and
there were 9 beasts, 1 7 ho gs, and 3 sheep , and the value , which had con
tinued the same from Saxo n times , was 403 .
The village was a league long and a league broad , and paid in a gelt
35d. Goodri ch had the soc .

The manor not long after the Conquest passed in to the family of De Criketot
, and was held Of the Lords De Mun chensy . Ralph de Criketot
held the lordship in the time of He n . I I . and on his death about 1 240 i t passed to his widow Avicia who held it as part of her dower . In 1 240
a fine was levied between her and Simon de Criketot of a 3rd part of two kn ights’ fees in Blythford as the inheritance of Ralph de Criketot, her deceased husband
, granted in dower to Avicia
, she releasing all rights in other
lands .

s dower, and on hi s death his widow Felicia had
, 1ike Avicia , some di fficulty as to her dower .
I t appears she re -married Hugh de Bavent , and they sued for and recovered
a 3rd part of the man or against Warin de Mun chen sy of the inheri tan ce of Simon de Cri ketot her late husband held in socage OfNicholas de Boteler .
4
, Thomas de Craven seems to have had some
interest , for in 1 266 he had free warren in the man or granted him ; and
Davy asse rts that he was then lord and that William de Rothing and
Ralph de Rothing were lords in 1 275. The MS . of the author Of the Magn a Britann ia states that in 1 281 Thomas de Baven t was lo rd .
Suckling states in a vague manner (havin g gathered his in format ion from the Hundred Rolls) that the families o f R othing and Craven had interests here . William de Ro thing di d certain ly claim free warren i n
Blythford Man or, but he does not seem to have established hl S claim .
5
3 Dom n . 3556.
See Fines 1 585. Edmund Ha l l and o the rs Blomefie ld ’
s No rf . v . Sir Owen Hopton and o the rs .
s H .R . ii .
Eas te r, 27 Eliz . 1 592 , Ro be rt Bro ke v. Arthur Ho pton and o the rs .
Fin e , Trin . 34 Eliz .
1 8 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK .
The matter is not very clear , but on the death of Simon de Cri ketot the
manor , subject to the dower of his widow
, passed in 3rd shares to Thomas
de Craven , Wi lliam de Rothing and Ralph de Rothing. Ralph de Rothing
after the death of Felicia , the widow of Simon de Criketo t
, sold his 3rd
to Edmund de Myke lfe ld who subsequently acqui red the remaining two thirds .
Edmun d de Mike lfie ld was the son of Hamo de Mic lefe ld , and died
about 1 3 1 3 , when the man or passed to his son Hamo de Mike lfield , and he
and hi s wife Matilda levied a fin e of the manor in 1 3 1 6 in whi ch J ohn Bacun clerk was deforciant .
‘ On his death the manor went to his son and heir J ohn de Mike lfie ld ,
who died about 1 376 when it passed to his son Richard Mike lfield . On Richard ’s death the manor passed to his widow Katherin e
, who remarried J ohn Smokeshylle , and made her will wi th the
concurrence of her husband at the Manor of Blyforthe ”
zud April ,
1 421 , which will was proved 26th of the same month and year . The pedigree of the Micklefields i s rather uncertain—on e given in
the Davy MSS . is this , di ffering materially from the deduction we have
given Hamo de M icklefeld 9 Edw . I .
Edmund o f B lyford, 4 Edw . I I .
de M icke lfield
Thomas de M icklefie ld Anne
Will iam de M icklefie ld Margaret “78 re l . Ri ch .
Wi l l 1 439 . 20th Sept. I Ca lthorp .
I Thomas de M icklefie ld. I I I died be fore father . Wi l l iam John Ol iver
m . A l ic ia , m . Agnes .
ichard de M icklefie ld Katherine John d . of John Wil l 20dApri l , Smokeshyl le . Hartley.
1 421 . Chri stopher M icklefie ld.
Margery d . o f R . re l.
Thomas Cans. of Hayham.
Bartho lomew
Wi l liam l l H enry VI I I .
Wil liam .
Katherine was succeeded by William Micklefield , who by deed dated
at Henham on the day next after the Feast of St . J ohn the Baptist in 1 430
granted to Will iam Phe lyp, Knt.
, J ohn Heveningham jun .
, Robert Ban
yard de Spectishall and William Hoo de Wysette , “ his manor cal led
Cravenes in Henham with its tenement , woods
, pastures
, &c .
, and
all other its appurtenances thereto belonging in the towns of Henham ,
Blythburgh, Bul chamb , Sotherton
ton , Westhall and Blyforth .
Fee t o f Fin es , 1 0 Edw. II . 34.
BLYTHFORD. 1 9
William marri ed Margery , daughter of Thomas and Katherine Caus
of Hayham , an d by hi s wil l dated at Hen ham 7th Nov .
1 1 439,
and proved 3oth June , devised hi s Manor Of Blythford and all its appurten ances in Blythburgh and elsewhere to Robert Micklefie ld hi s brother . Robe rt succeeded and by hi s will dated 4th April bequeathed ornn ia uten si lia et res al ias infra cameram suam in his Manor of Blythford to Margaret his wife .
She was the daughter of Wil liam and sister and heir of J ohn Irmingland ,
Rector Of Stiffkey St . J ohn in Norfolk , and widow of Richard Calthorpe of
Cockthorpe in the same coun ty , where she was buri ed
, having died in
Will iam Micklefield the son of Robert and Margaret was the next lord .
He died in 1 51 9 and was succeeded by his son and heir William Micklefie ld ,
who was the last of thi s family own ing the lordship , as this very year we
fin d i t in the possession of Thomas Spring .
5 On Thomas Spring’s death in 1 544 the manor passed to his son and heir J ohn Spring . He by his will dated 8th June
, 1 544 ,
charged thi s manor wi th certain annuities , but before
hi s death , which di d not occur until 1 2th Aug . 1 547 , namely in 1 546 , sold
the manor to Henry Hobart ,
6 and in 1 609 i t was vested in Sir Anthony
Hobart , Kn t.
, who was succeeded in the lordship by Sir Mi chael Stanhope .
There is a fine levied of the manor in 1 598 by J ohn Cowell and others against J ames Hobart . ’
On Sir Michael Stanhope ’s dea th it passed to his daughter and coheir Elizabeth
, marri ed to George Lord Berkeley
, who sold the manor to Sir
Henry Wood , Bart .
, of Loudham Park
, Treasurer of the Household Of the
Queen Dowager , one of the Coun ci l Of Queen Catherin e and Clerk of the
Green Cloth , eldest son of Thomas Wood of Hackney . He married I st
An n Webb , by whom he had two children who died infants
, and 2ndly
Mary , daughter of Sir Thomas Gardner , Recorder Of London , and the Suffolk
estates were in 1 67 1 conveyed to the Earls Of St . Albans and Arlington and Sir Thomas Clifford and others in trust for the issue of their marriage .
Mary (Charles the only other child having died an infant) was in tended to be married at the age of 1 6 to Charles
, then bearing the surname
, Duke of
Southampton . At the time of the treaty for this marriage , Sir Henry
Wood was at the point of death , and by his will
, 1 67 1 , he appointed his
estates , in the event Of a failure of issue of his daughter, to his brother
Thomas and his issue in strict se ttlement , with remainder to his sister
Dame Mary Chester , widow
Buckingham , successively for life
, with remainder to Hen ry Cranmer, the
eldest son of the said Ce sar , and the issue of the same Hen ry, in strict
se ttlement wi th remain der to the testator ’s sister Elizabeth Webb for life ,
remainder to her eldest son Thomas and his issue in strict settlemen t , remai nder to Henry Webb her 2nd son and his i ssue in st rict settlemen t , rema inder to Henry Wood , son of testator
’s un cle Henry Wood of Hacklington ,
co . Lincoln , for li fe
, remainder to Francis Wood younger
2o th Sept . 5 Fi n es , Thomas Spryng v . Edward Bro kes He was buried in Wangfo rd Churchyard. and o the rs . Eas te r, 1 1 H en .VI I I .
Pro ved 27th Feb . 1 47 1 . Thomas Spryng an d o the rs v .
HerWill is da ted 20th Fe b . 1 478, pr . 1 2th W i l l iam Woder. M ich . 1 1 Hen .
Dec . 1 480 . VIII .
Fine , M ich . 38 Hen . VIII . Fin e , Easte r, 40 Eliz .
20 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK .
brother of Edward and his issue in strict settlement , remainder to the testator
’s right hei rs .
The marriage of Mary Wood with the Duke of Southampton was solemnized .
Mary died in 1 680 and the Duke in and there being no issue of the marriage the manor devolved upon Charles Cranmer (who according to a provision in the will of Sir Henry Wood assumed the name of Wood) , surviving so n of Sir Ce sar Cranmer al ias Wood by Lelia hi s Wi fe , daughter Of Charles Pe liott Seigneur de la Garde , an d the person next i n remainder under the limitations in the will of his great - uncle Sir Henry Wood .
Charles Wood died in 1 743 without issue and without having disposed by his will of his share of the reversion of the estate , which thereupon descended in moieties to the c o -heirs of Mary Cranmer and Elizabeth Webb , sisters of the above-men tion ed Sir Hen ry Wood .
The heirs of Mary Cranmer were Pen elope , wife I st of J ohn Prim of
Covent Garden , surgeon
, and 2ndly of Timothy Lee , o f Ackworth , co . York ,
clerk ; Doro thy , wife o fJ ohn Rob in so n ,
of Cransley , c o . Northampton ’
; and Dorothea
, in the same county , Bart ;
which Penelope and Dorothy were two of the surviving daughters and co
heirs of Sir Wil liam Chester, Bart .
, and which Dorothea was the sole daughter
and heir of Eli zabeth , wife of J ohn Chester of Lon don
, the other daughter
and coheir (who left issue) of Sir Will iam Chester, grandson and heir of Mary Wood
, wife of Sir Anthony Chester
, Bart .
, daughter and the only
chi ld of which there was i ssue li vin g of the above-mentioned Mary Cranmer .
The heirs of Elizabeth Webb were Susan , wife of Robert On ely ; Sir
J ohn Chapman , Bart .
, Bart .
, and
Eli zabeth his wi fe ; Fran cis Chester, son and heir of Thomas Chester and Bethiah his wi fe
, and Willi am Brasey son and heir of William Brasey and
Grace hi s wife , afterwards wife of Sewarde ; which Susan Onely, Elizabeth
Chapman , Bethiah Chester
, and Grace Brasey were the four daughters
and only children of whom there was issue living of Thomas Webb alias
Wood of Kensington , son and heir of the said Elizabeth Wood .
In 1 747 pursuant to a Commission un der the Great Seal parti tion was made of Sir Hen ry Wood ’s estate
, un der which this manor was allot ted to
Robert Onely , the only son of Susan and Robert Onely
, at whose death
in 1 753 wi thout issue i t passed to Sir J ohn Chapman of Loudham , son of
Elizabeth Chapman , the sister of Robert One ly

,
3 who dying at Blythford Hall , 1 8th
Feb . 1 822 , devised the same to his n ephew the Rev . J eremy Day
, rector of
Hetherset , the son of his (Dresser
’s) sister Sarah , and i t now belon gs to Richard J eremy Day .
The Arms of WOOD : Argen t , on a chevron
, Azure
, a crescent counter
changed . Of MYKEFELD or MICKLEFORD : Arg . a cross engrailed Sab .
guttee d ’or .
The statemen t there fo re O ften made that furthe r than that the es tate in
o n Mary ’s death the mano r pas sed remainde r so passed , assuming as is to Thomas Wood, Bisho p o f Lich supposed that the Duke o f South fie ld and Co ven try, bro the r o f Sir ampton he ld the mano r as tenan t Hen ry Wo od , and on his death with by the cur tesy during h is life. out issue in 1 692 pas sed to the Hers ixth share was in cluded in a set tle Cz sar Cranme r who died in 1 707 men t dated 25th June, 1 745.
canno t be regarded as co rrect , 3 He was bo rn atLaxfie ld 20th May, 1 746.
22 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK .
Remigius de Hedersete , parso n of Hengham Church, and Walter de Ther stone
, parson of Sculthorp Church .


Sir J ohn de Norwich died in 1 36 1 , and the lordship is said to have been se ttled on the college at Raveningham ,
afterwards t ransferred to Mettingham Co llege by his grandson . Mr . Suckling points out that a moiety could only have been given
, for Sir J ohn ’s wife Margaret held a moiety at the t ime of
her dea th , as appears from the Escheats in 1 366 , with remainder to Walter,
her , and Sir J ohn ’s son and the heirs male of hi s body .
3
In 1 372 Sir J ohn , the son of the last Wai ter
, granted to trustees after
the death of hi s mother his manor , and died shortly afterwards seised of
the manor ,
‘when i t descended to Katharine de Brews , daughter of Thomas
de Clavering , his cousin
, and she in 1 375 confirmed the gran t made by her
ancestors to Raveningham College .
With Mettingham College , to which the manor was transferred from
Raveningham , i t continued unti l the dissolution
, when
Hen . VI I I . , granted it
, amongst the other possessions of the college
, to Sir
Anthony Denny , one of his Privy Council . He died 5th Sept . 1 549, and by
an inqui si tion taken at Bury 1 6th April , 1 550, i t was found that he had died
se ised Of the manor held of the King in chief , and that Henry was hi s son
and heir.6
Henry Denn y sold the manor in 1 563 to Sir Nicholas Bacon ? He received a grant of arms from Sir Gilbert Dethick
, Knt. Garter
, 1 2th Feb .
1 568, and from this i t appears that he was of the eighth generat ion in direct descent from J ohn Bacon
, second son of Sir Edmund Bacon
, Kn t.
, and heir
to Dame Margery his mother who was daughter and heir of Robert Quap lode
, and it was accordin gly granted unto him and his posterity to bear
two several coats of arms quarterly , the first for Bacon
, Gules on a chief
si lver , two mull ets Sable the second for Quaplode , Barry of six pieces gold
and azure a bend gules ,
and for a crest on a Torce si lver and gul es a Bore passan t ermin e manteyled ,
azure doubled gold .
9 , when the man or passed to Edward Bacon
, the 3rd son
, daughter of Will iam Fermley ,
of West Creting. Edward was admitted a member of Gray’s Inn in 1 566, and was called upon to show by what tit le he held the manor in
This same year he had licence to alien the manor to Humphrey Dorset t to the use of the said Edward Bacon and Robert Bacon and their heirs .
Edward Bacon was of Shrubland Hall in right of his wife Helen , daughter and heir of Thomas Littel of the same place
, and of Bray in the county of
Berks , by Elizabeth his wi fe , daughter and coheir of Sir Robert Litton of Knetworth in the county of Hertford
, Knt.
Fee t of Fin es. 4 Edw. III . 9 . Bo th Fee t of Fines , 1 5 Edw. III . 5.
Ha rl . 51 93 .
8 Rich . II . 85.
Fine . Trin . 5 Eliz . ; Hi] . 6 Eliz . vo l . 5.
‘ See Shrubland Mano r , Barham in Bo s me re and Claydo n Hundred .
M . 22 Eliz . Pas . Rec . Rot.
Edward Bacon , and his wife Helen ,
who d ied in 1 646 and was bur ied 22nd Jul y , we re in te rred in Barham Church . Inscriptions are given in Eas t Angl ian No tes and Que ries ,
N .S. , iv ., 49. The inscription s ta tes that Edward Baco n died 8 th Sep tembe r, 1 61 8 , whe reas the regis ter g ives the date as 7th and the burial as the 1 7 th .
BRAMFIELD . 23
Dying 7th Sept . 1 6 1 8 , Edward Bacon was succeeded by his zud son
Philip Bacon , who was admitted to Gray’s In n 26th Feb . 1 607
- 8 , and died
26th J uly , 1 635. By an inquisit ion taken at Bury zud Oct . 1 635, upon the
death Of this Philip he was found to have died seised of the manor , and
al so of Brokehall held of the King in chief by the tenth part Of a kn ight ’s fee an d 4o s . rent .
The man or afterwards became vested in the Rous family Of Henham Hall
, and was held by Sir J ohn Rous
, Bart .
, in 1 7 1 5. He died in 1 730 ,
from which time the manor has passed in the same course as the Man or of Henham in thi s Hundred
, and is now vested in the present Earl of Strad
brooke .

BROOK HALL MANOR .
So called from its old manor house built near the banks of a rivulet which
, in tersect ing the vi llage
, flows under D ’
Uffords Bridge at Wenhaston , and falls into the Blythe j ust above the ruins of Blythburgh Priory . The only approach to this mansion in former days was up the water course from which it derived its name .
“ The title to thi s manor is practically the same as to the main manor
, in fact
, the t it le of the manor of Bramfie ld is
now Bromfie ld cum Brook Hall alias Stonhams . An extent of the manor will be found in a regi ster formerly belonging to Mettingham College
, and
to which Mr . Suckling refers as lately in the possession of Peter de Neve .
The estate formerly belonging to the manor was many years ago alienated from it
, and in 1 720 belonged to on e Robert Watts , of Bury, from
whence it passed to Francis Stray of the same place , and in 1 801 was
purchased by Thomas Page .
Mr . Suckl ing , giving a description of the old hall from a drawing in
the possession of the above -mentioned Robert Watts , says
, It has a
commun ity of character with the brick man sions erected in this county duri ng the latter part of Queen Eli zabeth’s reign . Two gables, proj ectin g from the extreme angles of the fron t
, flan k a cen tral porch which gave
access to the great hal l which was here Of ample dimen sions and picturesque effect

He adds that the old house was taken down in 1 805, when a modern mansion
, called Brook Hal l
, was erected about a mile northwards of the
ancient site , and also that in the old house resided Arthur Coke , third son
of Sir Edward Coke , Knt.
, Lord Chief J ustice of England , who lies buri ed
with his wife beneath a sumptuous mon ument of marble in the chan cel of Bramfield Church .
,
3 and a Register Of Deeds of Si r
Nicholas Bacon relating to both the manors in 1 562 - 1 578, will be found

The manor is included in two fin es levied by Sir Nicho las Bacon , on e again st Richard Spryngham and others in and the other against Richard Denny in
P.R .O. Po rt fo lio , 203 -
7 . Add. 25590 .
5 Fin e , Trin . 5 Ehz .
Stowe , 934 . Fine , Hi l . 6 Eliz . vol . 5.
24 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK .
BRAM PTON
MANOR was held here in the time of Edward the Con fessor by Padda
, and at the time of the Domesday Survey by
Robert de Curcun under Roger Bigot . There were two car ucates of land in Saxon times
, with 4 vi lleins , 4 bordars ,
and 1 serf , but in Norman days 2 vi lleins and 6 bordars
also 2 ploughteams in demesne and the like belonging to the men
, wood sufficient for 6 hogs, 1 acre only of meadow,
1 4 hogs and 80 sheep , valued at 4o s .
To this manor were added 9 freemen and half wi th 1 00 acres . Padda had employed 5 ploughteams on his demesne lands, but the Norman owner only 3 . The value of thi s last holding was and the King and the Earl Bigot divided the soc .
‘ There were two other estates in Brampton at the t ime of the Domesday Survey . To one of them
, that of Ralph Bainard
the patronage of the church was attached .
In the Confessor’s t ime 1 1 freemen held here 2 carucates of land and 60 acres
, but by the time of the Survey there were 1 0 freemen on ly .
In Saxon times the estate had 2 vi lleins , 8 bordars
, 9 ploughteams , wood suffi cient for 20 hogs
, and 2 acres of meadow
, valued at 3o s .
, but by
the time of the Survey the villein s had been reduced to o n e , an d the
ploughteams to 7, but the n umber of the bordars had increased to 1 7 , while the value of the whole had risen to 4o s . The Kin g and the Earl held the soc by exchange .
On the same property a socman had 2 carucates of lan d with 2 ville ins ,
8 bordars , and 3 ploughteams . He had wood sufficient for the support
of 3 hogs and 2 acres of meadow , valued at 305 . The church was endowed
with 1 6 acres of glebe the value of which was put at 1 6d. The King and the Earl had the soc .
2
The remaining estate in Brampton was retained by William the Con
queror, and was in the hands of Will iam de No ers, one of his stewards .
I t had been held in Saxon days by Turstan a free Saxon under the pro tection of Stigand
, Archbishop of Canterbury . The holding consisted of
20 acres Of land , 2 bordars
, formerly 1 ploughteam ,
but at the time Of the Survey hal f a team only
, half an acre of meadow
, wood for three hogs
, and 1 2 sheep
, valued at 43 . There was
here besides , a freeman under him with 2 acres of land valued at 6d .
3
BRAMPTON MANOR .
The manor in 1 270 belonged to Alan de Wymundale , who that year obtained a charter to hold a market and
fgranti n
g him free warren .
‘ I n 1 28 1 the lordship was held by Robert de Sea eld .
In 1 306 the manor and advowson seem to have been in Walter, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfie ld
, for we find him levying a fine this year again st
Adam de Hode leston .
s In the time of Edw . I I I . the manor was in the Cliff family
, and we find the followi ng amon g the Feet of Fin es
0 [1 328] Edmund son of Robert dil Clyf v. J ohn de Peyto and Alice
his Wi fe of a moiety of the manor .6
Chart . Ro lls , 55 Hen . I II . 1 0 .
5 Fee t o f Fines , 29 Edw. I . 29.
Fee t of Fines , 2 Edw. III . 23 .
BRAMPTON . 25

[ 1 438 ] Will iam de la Pole , Earl of Suffolk , J ohn Belley, and J ohn Wareyn v . J ohn Gramond and Isabella his wife of the manor called Brampton Hall
, and advowson with appurtenances in Brampton
, Westhall
, Redisham

[ 1 442 ] William de la Po le , Earl of Suffolk , J ohn Belly, and J ohn Wareyn Will iam Wood and Margaret his wife
, of the manor called
,
Redis m , Shadingfie ld, and Stoven , and the advowson of the Church of
those manors .

,
” to be sold , when i t was purchased from
the executors by the Townshends Of Rainham , co . Norfolk .
The manor was about the year 1 470 vested in Sir Roger Townshend , a lawyer and J ust ice of the Common Pleas . He married Anne
, daughter
, of Wenham Hall
, and had issue
six sons and four daughters . The manor was in hi s time said to be worth
£4, and was held of William Playter as of the Manor Of Uggeshall by fealty and 23 . rent .
J ohn Hoo , of Blyburgh,
and Robert Payne , Of Westhall
, who were
, enfeoffed Sir Roger Townshend and
others to the use of the said Sir Roger in fee .
In 1 51 6 a fine was levied of the manor by Sir J ohn Heydon and others against Sir R0 er Townshend and Anne hi s wife .
4
Sir Roger y will devi sed the manor to Eleanor his wife for life , with
remainder to Thomas Townshend their so n in tail . Thomas Townshend appears to have been the sth son
, from whom descended the Townshends
of Wretham . By an Inquis . 1 0 Hen . VI I . [N0. 1 1 36] i t was foun d that Sir Roger died 9th Nov . 1 493 , and that Roger Towneshend aged 1 6 was his son and heir .
Notwithstanding the devi se in the will to which he does not refer, Suckling
, and also Davy
, from the fact of the presenta
t ions to the Church bein g made by a Roger Townshend up to 1 577 that R0 er in herited the manor
, and dying without issue i t passed un der hi s
wi lfdated in 1 550 , to hi s great nephew Sir Roger, the son of Richard (by
Catherine his wife , 3rd daughter and coheir Of Sir Humphrey Brown
of Ridley in Cheshire , a J ustice of the Common Pleas), who died sei sed i n
1 552 , he (Ri chard) be in g the son of Sir J ohn Townshen d of Brampton (by Eleanor daughter of S ir J ohn Heydon o f Bacon sthorpe i n Norfolk, who died 4th Aug . the testator’s bro ther .
The devisee , Sir Roger Townshend
, was engaged i n the Enghsh fleet
against the Spanish Armada in 1 588, and o n the 26th J uly of .
the same year was kn ighted at sea by Charles Howard , the Lord High Admi ral . He does n o t seem to have retained the man or to the time Ofhis death, for i n 1 583 we meet with a fine of i t levied by Stephen Drury against him,
6 and three years
Fee t o f Fi nes , 1 3 Edw . I II . 1 .
4 Fine , H il . 8 Hen . VIII. Fee t o f Fines , 1 6 Hen . VI . 6 .
5 I .P.M. 33 Hen . VIII. 1 27 .
‘ Fee t Of Fin es , 21 Hen . vi . 5.
“Fin e , Easte r, 25 El i z .
D
26 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK .
later with another fine levied by J ohn Aylmer, Bishop of London , again st him
, under which the manor passed from the Townshend family .
‘ In 1 590 it is stated that J ohn Aylmer
, Bishop of London , and Samuel Aylmer were
joint lords and patrons , and in an inquis . p .m . taken at Bury 1 3 th Dec . 1 599 ,
the Bishop was found to have died 5th J uly 36th Ehz . [1 594] seised of the manor valued at £ 1 0 held of Thomas Playters as of his Manor of Uggeshall by the fourth part of a knight ’s fee . Davy makes Wi lliam Leman lord in 1 608, but Suckling appears more accurately to state that Sir J ohn Leman held the ma nor in 1 606 .
At thi s date he held the position Of Sheriff of London , and in 1 6 1 6
that of Lord Mayor. He was a native of Saxlingham near Holt in Norfolk and a member of the Fishmongers’ Company, and Pennant in his London states that “ in 1 61 7 a considerable number of Lords
, and others of the
King ' s most Honourable Privy Council, his Majesty then being in Scotland , after hearing a sermon preached at St . Mary Spittle
, London
, fishmonger,
then Lord Mayor of London , to his house near Bill ingsgate
, where they were
entertained with a most splendi d dinner . In honour of Sir J ohn , and his
brother fishmongers , Anthony Monday wrote his Chrysonale ia , or Golden Fishing .
’ In the same year a curious poem on the subj ect of the Gun powder plot was dedicated to Sir J ohn as “ being the high- topt cedar Of Leban on
, chief magistrate of the famous city Of London .
,
, prevented by Heavenly mercy
truly related , and from the Latin of the learned and Reverend Doctour
Herring , translated and very much dilated by J ohn Vicars .
”2
Mr . Suckling mentions that there i s a three - quarter portrait of Sir J ohn Leman in his magisterial robes
, and wearing the gold chain of civic presi
deney , in the dining- room at Brampton Hall
, most probably painted duri ng
the year of his mayoralty , and that the Rev . George Orgill Leman
, his
representative , was at the time he (Suckling) wrote also in possession of the
knight ’s gold thumb- ring and his silver seal .
Sir John Leman seems to have purchased the manor from Samuel Aylmer
, for Samuel did not di e unti l 1 635, and Sir J ohn Leman apparently
held as early as 1 606 .
By an inquisition taken at Beccles 1 7th Sept . 1 633 , Sir J ohn Leman was found to have died a6th March
, 7 Car . I . seised of the manor and advowson held of the Manor of Uggeshall by fealty and 23 . rent
, and
valued at 603 . He left no issue , and the manor passed (probably by will)
to Thomas , the 3rd son of hi s brother William,
who married Margaret ,
daughter of J ohn Smith of Parkfield in Laxfield , and died in 1 640 ,
when both manor and advowson passed to his son Thomas
, who died in 1 643
without issue , when they went to his brother J ohn
, married to Ann
, daughter
of Thomas Weld of Wymondham . J ohn Leman presented to the living in 1 662 , and died in 1 670 ,
when the manor and advowson passed to his so n Thomas Leman , who marri ed Eleanor, daughter of Robert Cuddon of Shadingfie ld, and presented to the church in 1 681 . He di ed in 1 7 1 7 , and
‘ Fin e , Eas te r. 28 Eliz . curious t ract is embe l lished with London pri n ted by L . Grifli n dwe lling in various woodcuts .
the Lit tle Olde Bayle y , neate the 3 His Will is dated 8th July 1 63 1 . See signe o f the King ’s Head . In two also Charsfie ld in Loe s Hundred .
parts , 1 61 7 . This scarce and
BRAMPTON . 27
was succeeded by hi s only son Robert Leman , High Sheriff of Suffolk
, in
Robe rt Leman married Mary , daughter of Nunn Pretyman ,
and presented to the church in 1 728 and 1 742 . He di ed in 1 778, aged 80,
having had three children— a son Thomas who di ed in 1 757 in hi s father
’s lifetime ,
, who died un
married in 1 799 ; an d Mary, of Bury St . Edmunds, the eventual heir Of her father . As her brother Robert did not die ti ll 1 799 i t seems strange tha t she should have presented to the church in 1 793 , but such is the fact .
Suckling gives the date of the death of Robert Leman the father as 1 778, but Davy put the date as 1 788, and makes him to be succeeded not by his son Robe rt
, but di rectly by his daughter Mary . She died in 1 807 at the age
Of 82 , and left the bulk Of her property to her cousin
, the Rev . Naunton
, who was the son of
Susan , the 3rd daughter of her father
’ s sister Sarah , which Sarah had
married a Wil liam Leman of Beccles; the great- great- great - grandson of William Leman
, the brother of Sir J ohn Leman
, the original purchaser of
the manor . The devisee of Mary Leman assumed the name of Leman by royal licence in 1 808 . He marri ed Henrietta J ane
, daughter of the
, of Lea
, co . Lincoln
, and died 3 1 5t J an . 1 837 ,
leaving hi s widow , who survived till 1 843 , and presented with others to
the Church in 1 837 .
On the death of his mother in 1 837 , the manor and advowson became vested in her eldest son
, the Rev. George Orgill Leman
, Of Brampton
Hall . He died without issue , when the manor and advowson passed to his
brother Robert Orgi ll Leman , who married I sabella Camill a
, daughter of
Sir Willi am Jervis Twysden , 7th Bart . , and died in 1 869, when they passed to his eldest son Naunton Robert T sden Leman
, the presen t lord . He
marri ed in 1 869 Rosa Elizabeth, 5th aughter of the Rev. J ohn Alexander Ross
, Vi car of Westwell
, born
1 870 .
Suckling mentions tha t at a Court held for the manor 1 3 th Oct . 1 70 1 , the followin g presentment was entered : We present J ohn Leman of Brampton
, for not repairi ng the cOmen path leading from Ro er Flowers
to Brampton church but adds that as to whether the lord o the manor is bound to keep the pa ths leading to the church in repair is uncertain, at least in his Opinion .
Arms of LEMAN Az . a fes se betw. 3 dolphins embowed Arg .
HALES HALL MANOR .
This is a small manor held of the Manor of Brampton , which to ok its name from Walter Hales
, who in 1 325 had free warren here .
‘ The manor was composed of the land held by Ralph Bayn ard at the time of the Domesday Survey . I t subsequently passed to the family Of Duke . The Dukes had long res ided at Brampton in fact , as early as the time of Edw. II I , Walter Duke was described as Of this place . He was probably the great
t-grandson of Roger Duke , t. Rich . I .
, and grandson of Roger Duke ,
our times in succe ssion Lord Mayor of London 1 227 - 1 230 . He left a son
' Chart . Ro lls , 1 9 Edw. l l . 22.
28 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK .
Roger ’ and Roger a son Robert . This Robert Duke was living in the time of Hen
. V .I
, and a fine of this manor and that of Shadingfield Hall Manor
was levied in 1 428 by William Phelip, Thomas Kerdeston , J ohn Shardelowe ,
Wil liam Bemham clerk , Robert Cavendi sh , J ohn Manning, Robert Rous, William Yelverton , Richard Pettagh clerk , Reginald Rous , Robert Baum yard
, Robert Crane
, against Robert Duke of the manor
and lands rn Brampton ,Shadingfield, Ryngesfie ld , Eleigh , Ilketishall ,Welyng ham Stoven
, Weston juxta Beccles
, Magna and Parva Redisham .
On the death of this Robert Duke , the manor passed to his son and
heir J ohn Duke . On his death it devolved upon his son and heir Thomas Duke
, who was living i n and it passed from him to his son and heir,
Wil liam Duke . A fin e was levied Of the manor in 1 536 against thisWil liani Duke by Thomas Blanerhasett clerk .
Willi am Duke married Thomasin e , daughter of S ir Edward J enney of Knotti shall
, and had issue a son George
, who marri ed Anne
, Knt.
, and died in 1 551 ,
leavin g issue Edward Duke, who married Dorothy, daughter of Sir Ambrose J ermyn of Rushbro ok
, after whom their son Ambrose was called . Edward
Duke levied a fin e of the manor in and di ed 20th Apri l , 1 598, when
the man or passed to his son Ambrose , who married E lizabeth, daughter and coheir of Bartholomew Calthorp, and died in 1 61 0
, leaving a son
, Sir Edward
Duke} who was created a Baronet by Charles H . , 1 6th July
, 1 661 .
,
the rst Baron et , married7 Catherine daughter of Sir Thomas Holland
, of
Wortwe ll Hall , Knt.
, and in 1 63 1 , by the name of Edward Duke of Benhall,
Esq .
, sold the manor to Sir William Playters of Bi lli ngford, in trust for
Sir Will iam Le Neve , Knt. S ir Edward Duke probably married more
than once , as he had 29 children , none of whom survived except his son
and successor , Sir J ohn ; and Ellen , daughter and coheir of J ohn Panton
,
an d the mother of Sir J ohn .
Davy however , does not give any sanction to the sale by Sir Edward
Duke . He states that on the death of S ir Edward in 1 670, the manor passed to his son and heir
, Sir J ohn Duke
, and on his death in
1 705 passed to his son and heir Sir Edward Duke, 3rd Bart .
Sir Edward Duke , 3rd Bart ., married Mary, daughter and sole heir of
Thomas Rudge of Stafford , and died without surviving issue 25th Aug .
1 732, when the title became extinct .
Davy does not say what happened to the manor on the death of the 3rd Duke , Baronet, but states that in 1 764 Wil liam Chapman of Loudham was lord
, and after him
, Thomas Fan
, of Beccles .
His wife Al ice , made herWill dated 1 437, Fine , Mich . 28 Hen . VIII . and proved 28th Jul y in the same 3 2nd May, 4 Eliz . 1 9 .
year . She di rects her body to be “As to the Duke family , see Mano r o fburied in the pa rish church o f St . Ben hall, in Plomesgate Hun dred.
Pe te r the Apost le at Brampton .
’ See Mano r o f Benhall , in Plomesgate Feet o f Fines , 6 Hen . VI . 26 . Hundred.
’ See Man o r o f Brosyard , Shadingfield, in Wangfo rd Hun dred.
30 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK .
and participated in the victory of Cressy . He died 1 4th Oct . 1 36 1 , seised of
, amongst other manors
, this and the Manors of Stratford and Henham ,
leaving by his first wife two daughters , I st Margaret , who married Sir
Wil liam Tendring , whose son and heir Sir William Ten dring left i ssue two daughters Alice
, marri ed to Sir J ohn Howard , ancestor of the Dukes of
Norfolk , and Elizabe th
, wife of Simon Fincham an d zud Maud , married
to J ohn de Burghersh, who had a son J ohn de Burghersh and two daughters , ultimately coheirs
, Margaret married
, I st to Sir J ohn Granvil le , and 2ndly
to J ohn Arun del , and Maud
, married to Thomas Chaucer (son of the poet ,
Geoffrey Chaucer), who left a daughter Alice Chaucer. Si r William de Kerdeston
, 2nd Baron
some allege , by his 2nd wife
, Alice de Norwich
, Maud , but
upon an inquisition made for the right heir , J ohn son of J ohn de Burghersh
and of Maud his wife , daughter of Sir Willi am de K erdeston by Margaret his
rst wi fe , daughter of Sir Edmun d Bacon
, was found to be such
, and had
accordin gly livery of his grandfather’s estates . Law suits ensued , i t being
alleged that William de Kerdeston was illegi timate as being born ante
sponsah '
a , and some even made him out to be the son of Alice Norwich,
his father’s concubin e .
Upon a trial at law , the all egation of il legi timacy was confirmed , and
'
s Department of the Exchequer preserved in the Public Record Office is an agreement dated in 1 37 1 made between thi s Sir Wil li am de Kerdeston and Sir J ohn de Burghershe under which Sir William is to sue out from the King
’s hands livery of Stratford Manor
, which was seized after the death of Sir
William , son of Sir Roger de Kerdeston
, former tenant of the same
, without
hindrance from Sir J ohn , and Sir Wi lliam was to have also all the manors
which belonged to the said Sir Will iam , son of Roger
, in co . Norfolk
, and
the Manors Of Bulchamp and Henham , with all the foreign rents belonging

In 1 375 and 1 381 this Si r William de Kerdeston was Sheriff Of Norfolk and Suffolk, and married Cecil ia de Brews . He had issue Si r Leonard de Kerdeston
, Lord of Claxton
, 9 Rich . I I . , who died about 1 402, leaving a son ,
Sir Thomas de Kerde ston , who in 1 442 granted the manor, and also Henham
Manor , except the old park and meadow- land cal led Skyn nor,
” and the se rvices of certa in persons
, to Sir J ohn Carbonel
, Knt.
,
4th Earl of Suffolk , and others, no doubt by way of settlement . “
The manor is mentioned in an inquis . pm . of Matilda , wife of Thomas
Chaucer, in In 1 441 Si r Thomas de Kerdeston , Kut.
, released to
, and Alice hi s wife
, daughter and hei r
of the said Thomas Chaucer , all hi s ri ght in the Manors of Bulchamp and
Henham .

In 1 446 a fine was levied between William de la Pole , 4th Earl of Suffolk ,
and Alice his wife , querents , and Sir Thomas de Kerdeston and Phi lippa hi s wrfe
, deforciants, of the Manors of Bul champ and Henham .
s
' An cien t Deeds , 45 Edw . II I . D . 1 093 .
5 Fee t of Fines , 24 Hen . VI . 1 8 .
' An cren t Deeds . 1 0 Hen . V. D . 429. Wi lliam late Duke o f Suffo lk , 28 1 5 Hen . VI . 53 . Hen . VI . 25.
Harl . MSS . 97 1 .
BULCHAMP . 3 1
Sir Thomas de Kerdeston died 3oth July, 1 446, and in the Escheat Rolls of 1 450 the j ury found that he did not die seised of these lordships, but that William de la Pole
, late Duke of Suffolk
, and Alice his wife
, in her
ri ght entered and took the profits during the life of Sir Thomas , and that
Alice , late wife of the sai d Duke
, and Sir J ohn Howard were his next heirs .
Gage in forms us that in 1 475 Alice Duchess Of Suffolk , died seised Of
these lordships , but the inquisi tion seems to men ti on two estates in Devon
shire only . By deed in the foll owin g year Sir Edward Hun gerford released them to J ohn de la Pole
, Duke of Suffolk
, an d to Eli zabe th
his wife , sister to Edw . IV .
On the attainder of Edmun d de la Pole , who was beheaded in 1 51 3 ,
the lordship appears to have escheated to the Crown , but i t is n ot clear that
this was the case . Davy states that the manor was held by Sir Terry Robsart
, Kut.
, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas de
Kerdiston . Sir Terry Robsart died in 1 497 , but his widow survived , and held the manor til l 1 536, when i t passed to her son and hei r, Sir J ohn Rob sart . He had a fin e levied against him this same year by Sir Thomas Lestraun e and others
, probably on the occasion of some settlement
,
‘ and
,
“ for he died se ised of the manor in 1 554, havin g married Elizabeth Scot and left a daughter and heir Amy, married to Robert Dudley
, Earl of Leicester
, to whom the manor passed .
A fin

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