A'Bear Family History
1066 - 1478 RECORDS & REFERENCES
c1120
Haket de Bere was living in Bere Hacket, in Dorsetshire during the time of Henry I
See Battle Abbey Rolls below
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c1190
John De la Bere married Joan, daughter
and heiress of Stephen, Lord of Hever in Kent
Ref: DNF
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1199 – 1216
Richard de Bere, one of the Recognitores magna Assissae for the county of Kent
See Battle Abbey Roll below
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KINGSWOOD ABBEY
OZLEWORTH (GLOS.)
[from Administrative History] Isabel,
daughter of Roger (IV) de Berkeley (d. 1191), married first
Thomas de Rochford (d. c. 1205) and secondly William Waleraund.
She had Ozleworth in marriage, but Thomas de Rochford granted it
to his brother Robert and in 1220 Robert did homage for
half a fee there to Andrew de la Bere and Alice his wife,
daughter and heir of Thomas de Rochford and Isabel. [Harkly,
215, 217, 19 GEC x, 552.]
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c1230
John atte Bere (father of Adam de
la Bere) owns Ibsley & Malshanger, Hants
See 1286/1287 reference & 1316 reference
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1236
Nicholas de Bere held Bere (later Bere Court, Dover, Kent)
See Battle Abbey Roll below
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Hampshire Record Office
Jervoise family of Herriard Catalogue in
Full
Creator(s):
Jervoise family of Herriard, Hampshire
Charters
FILE - SOUTHROP; Grant - ref.
44M69/C/225 - date: c. 1240
Seal: large seal of Matilda de Herierd.
Contents
By Matilda de Herierd, widow
To the church of St. Mary Magdalene at Wintney
(Hartley Wintney, Hants)
Of 20s. annual rent out of lands of William
le Geldene (10s.), William, son of Botild (5s.), William de
Coterpunde (2s.) and Robert the Miller (3s.) in Sudrop.
Witnesses: Sir Henry de Fermly, Sir Adam de
St. Maneveo, Sir Stephen de Bendeng, Sir William Banastre, Henry
de Bovile, and John his brother, William Bolloc, Henry de
Berkham, John de la Bere, William Gregorie.
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THE LISLE ESTATE
THE FITZGEROLD INHERITANCE
FAWLER, IN SPARSHOLT (BERKS.)
LISLE LANDS
FILE - [no title] - ref. BCM/B/1/3/1 -
date: [c. June 1246]
Contents
Robert de Gessich and Warin FitzGerold. n.d.
Robert has quitclaimed to Warin half of the
manor of Faulore, which he had held at farm, and undertakes to
deliver all writings and muniments relating thereto one week
after Holy Trinity 30 Hen. III [10 June 1246].
Witnesses: John Young (Juvenis) of
Dunstable, Thomas son of Andrew, Simon de Faulore, Robert de
Offintun, John called Monk, William de Braulo, Richard de la
Bere.
[Please quote SC291 at Berkeley Castle
Muniments when requesting this file]
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KINGSWOOD ABBEY
OZLEWORTH (GLOS.)
THE ROCHFORD MANOR
Passage of the manor to the abbey
FILE - [no title] - ref. BCM/F/1/5/3 -
date: [1246-7]
Contents
Cecilia widow of Robert de Rocheford
and Richard de la Bere. 31 Hen. III
Cecilia has declared before Sir Robert
Waleraund, sheriff of Gloucester, in the full county court, that
she never held or laid claim to the land which Richard demands of
her by writ of right in Osleworth but that the monks of Kingswood
Abbey have held it for a long time.
Witnesses: Sir William Maunsel, Sir John de
Wautone, Robert le Veel, Jordan la Warre, Richard de Colewych,
Walter de Neylesworth.
[Please quote SC293 at Berkeley Castle
Muniments when requesting this file]
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Ref: S G A’Bear 1247
A Nicholas atte Bere appears in the
Somerset Subsidy Rolls
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E Records of the Exchequer, and its
related bodies, with those of the Office of First Fruits and
Tenths, and the Court of Augmentations
Division within E Records of the Court
of Augmentations and the Augmentation Office
E 326 Exchequer: Augmentation Office:
Ancient Deeds, Series B
Ref: E 326
Record Summary
Scope and content Receipt by Thomas, prior
of Farlegh, to Matilda, relict of William de Bere, for
arrears of rent for lands and tenements in Bere. . . .
before St. Matthew the Apostle, 1248
Availability Open Document, Open
Description, Normal Closure before FOI Act: 30 years
Held by The National Archives, Kew
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Arundell of Lanherne and Trerice Catalogue
in Full
Creator(s):
Arundell family of Lanherne and Trerice,
Cornwall
TITLE DEEDS
Dorset
Whitchurch Canonicorum Manor
FILE - [no title] - ref. AR/1/690 - date:
[13th century]
Contents
Gift
John de La Ber' = (1)
Agnes de Barull', sister of (1) = (2)
(1) to (2), for her faithful love and
service (pro suo amore fideli et servic'), 1 croft called
Thornhull and the land called Notecrofte, together with half a
croft lying between Thornhull and Notecrofte; starting from the
way from Sstok' [sic] Mandeuil to Wytchurch', by the canons'
wood, between land called Hoswaldeshee and land of Thornhull,
extending in breadth eastwards to a marl-pit; also the marl-pit
lying this side of [?] the way to Witchurch, extending in length
to the water of Huneford on one side and La Blakemore on the
other.
For (2) to hold those 3 crofts [sic] freely
for ever of the chief lords of the fee. Rent during (1)'s life
12d yearly at Annunciation, and after his death 1d, for all
service and demands. Warranty against all mortals, except for the
term [= lease?] of Robert de Hyndecomb during his life; after
Robert's death, the land shall revert wholly to (2). If (2) fails
in paying rent (quod absit), she shall pay 2s to (1), and 12d to
the bailiffs of the fee for their work in distraint.
William de La Berne, John de
Couteheye, Roger de La Ber', Thomas Blundel, Jaklin
(Iakelyno) de Hyndecombe, Richard Huuyoth [sic], William de La
Forde, clerk.
Slits for tag of (1)'s seal; [medieval]
"Bere".
Thornhull [lost in Whitchurch Canonicorum
parish, presumably]
Notecrofte [lost inWhitchurch Canonicorum
parish, presumably]
Wytchurch, Witchurch [= Whitchurch
Canonicorum (parish), Dorset]
Sstok' Mandeuil [= Mandeville Stoke, in
Whitchurch Canonicorum parish]
Hoswaldeshee
Water of Huneford
La Blakemore
Couteheye [= Cothays, in Whitchurch
Canonicorum parish]
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Creator(s):
Sanford family of Nynehead, Somerset
FILE - Release of Wm., Lord de Bere,
with consent of w. Emma, to Henry, s. of Philip, vicar of Bere -
ref. DD\SF/1529 - date: c 1250
ref: E 101/313/23
1 document
Contents
5a. land in the E. field which lies thus:
1a. next the town on the E. part, 2a. in Bradeway towards the
Hospital, 3 perches upon [...] , 5 perches in Sorts land
extending upon Berlake. In the west field, 4a. which lie [...] ;
1a. in La Bere next the acre which Humphrey holds, 2 long
a. extending upon [...] , [...] a. in the Sorelonde extending
upon those long acres; and the meadow which is called
Petitekomede
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Holbech of Farnborough. Catalogue in Full
Creator(s):
Holbech family of Farnborough Warwickshire
Deeds of Title
FILE - [no title] - ref. L1/32 - date:
[2 Feb. 1254]
Slit for tag: tag and seal missing.
Contents
Lease, chirograph, with warranty and
acquittance of 11 shillings, by Robert Bigod of Fennicompton to
Andrew de Clatercot of 2 ac. of land in the fields of
Fennicompton for 23 years: 1 ac. in one field and 1 ac. in
another: in East Field a half ac. of land 'intogloriusput', next
the land of John Beaufiz: a half ac. of land under Rouelowe next
the land of The Lady Awisse Peche: in West Field a half ac. of
land on Holewe next the land of the Prior of Clatercot: a half
ac. of land 'intoknitehembroc' next the land of Henry Bigod: to
be held of Robert and his heirs by Andrew his heirs or assigns,
for the rent of 1 apple at the feast of the Nativity of Blessed
Mary for all service: Andrew may give, sell or leave as a legacy
the above acres to any assigns during the period of the lease.
Witnesses: John Peche, Elias Peche, Nicholas
de Tyso, John 'Franciscus' of Dercet, John de la Bere
and others.
The feast of the Purification of Blessed
Mary 38 King Henry son of King John.
Endorsement: Fenycompton
Bygott
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Holbech of Farnborough. Catalogue in Full
Creator(s):
Holbech family of Farnborough Warwickshire
Deeds of Title
FILE - [no title] - ref. L1/3 - date:
n.d. [Temp. Hen. III] (c1254 due to similarity cf L1/32)
Tag for seal which is missing.
Contents
Lease, chirograph, by Robert Bigot to Simon
de Bunnitone of 2 virgates of land in the territory of Fennicomptone
with messuages and all other appurtenances, formerly held by
Robert 'Pelliparius' and Robert Aldwin, to be held for the life
of the donee, for the rent of 1d. payable at Christmas for the
virgate of Robert 'Pelliparius', and of 4s. for the virgate of
Robert Aldwin, to be paid at two terms, 2s. at Lady Day, and 2s.
at Michaelmas for all services and exactions except forinsec
service due to the King, and suit of court at the court of Robert
Bigot: if any plea concerning the land is moved against Simon,
except by the donor and his heirs, he shall defend at his own
cost.
Witnesses: John Peche, Elyas Peche, John de
Knitecote 'clericus', Hamon 'clericus' of the same vill, Hugh le
Norreis of Avenedercet, John 'Franciscus' of the same vill, John
le Bere and others.
Endorsements: Scriptum inter Robertum Bygod
et Symonen de Bynninton
A lease for life of yard lands.
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Centre for Metropolitan History
GAZETTEER OF MARKETS AND FAIRS IN ENGLAND
AND WALES TO 1516
Richard de la Bere requested by Henry
III to arrange Kilmeston Fair in 1254
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E Records of the Exchequer, and its
related bodies, with those of the Office of First Fruits and
Tenths, and the Court of Augmentations
Division within E Records of the
Treasury of the Receipt
E 40 Exchequer: Treasury of Receipt:
Ancient Deeds, Series A
A E 40/105
Record Summary
Scope and content Obligation of Nicholas de
la Penne, of Gravenhyrst, to pay the abbot of Ramsey the
yearly rent of 8s. he owes for eight acres of land he holds of
the fee of Robert Bryan in Gravenhyrst Parva, and to quiclaim all
the land the land the abbot and convent have bought of Ralph de
Tyvlle, of the fee of Robert Bryan, of the demands that could be
made thereupon. Witnesses:- Nicholas de Mapertishale, Richard
Gabyun, Richard de la Bere, and others (named). Bedf.
Covering dates 50 Hen. III (1265/6)
Availability Open Document, Open
Description, Normal Closure before FOI Act: 30 years
Note Seal
Held by The National Archives, Kew
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Arundell of Lanherne and Trerice Catalogue
in Full
Creator(s):
Arundell family of Lanherne and Trerice,
Cornwall
TITLE DEEDS
Dorset
Marshwood Manor
FILE - [no title] - ref. AR/1/671 -
date: [13th century; early?]
William Wallens c1260 - 1272
Contents
Gift
Robert de Mandevill' = (1)
Ivo de Rocheford = (2)
(1) to (2), for his homage and service, all
the land which William King sometime held of (1) at Stodlehe in
(1)'s manor of Merswode; also that croft which William Raulin
sometime held, lying between the land which Pulle sometime held
and Suthakerugge, extending to La Buthele on the east side of the
great road; also all the land and meadow of (1)'s demesne lying
between the land which Pulle sometime held and the great road
between the wood of Hakerugge and the land of Gerin (terra
Gerini), namely on the east side of La Buthele, as the bank
(ripa) extends to the great road; reserving to (1) and his heirs
the wood of Hakerugge free and 'illesus'. For (2) and his heirs
to hold freely, wholly and hereditarily. Rent some gilded spurs
(quedam calcaria deaurata) or 12d silver yearly at Easter, for
all service.
(2) and his men shall be free of all suits
of court and hundred to (1) and his heirs; they shall have 6 oxen
and 2 cows, 40 sheep and 1 beast (averium) in (1)'s pasture
outside the park and (1)'s assarts (in pastura mea videlicet
extra parcum et assarta mea), together with (1)'s oxen, cows,
sheep and beasts, free of pasturage (herbagium). Warranty.
Sir Alfred de Nichol', Ivo Martel, Nicholas
de Punsout, Thomas de Hynetun, Benedict de Bere, Roger de
Cotthelyhe, knights, Hugh son of Bernard, Richard Longus, Simon
de Perci, Geoffrey de La Bere, Gerin de Bauent, Adam
Hairun, William Valens'.
Stodlehe [= Studley, Dorset, Anton
Faegersten, The Place-Names of Dorset 298: see AR/1/670].
NB Same scribe as AR/1/672.
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Arundell of Lanherne and Trerice Catalogue
in Full
Creator(s):
Arundell family of Lanherne and Trerice,
Cornwall
TITLE DEEDS
Dorset
Marshwood Manor
FILE - [no title] - ref. AR/1/672 -
date: [13th century; early?]
Contents
Feoffment
Robert de Manvila = (1)
Ralph Belet, son of Robert Belet = (2)
(1) to (2), for his homage and service, all
his land and meadow in Hakerugge (manor of Merswode), and all his
wood of La Shahe, outside (1)'s park, and all the land around
that wood, namely the lands called Ruggeweye, Rodfurlang, La
Rudinge and Gaydun', bounded from the great way in front of
(coram) William de Piricumba's house to La Buhela, thence along
the same bank (ripa) of La Buhela southwards to the marling of
Gerin (ad marluram Gerini), thence along the hedge to the land
which Hystmerus Longus sometime held, to the great road from
Merswode to Brideport, thence to the cross [of?] Dodde (ad crucem
Dodde), thence to Rigweyesheta, thence along the hedge leading
southwards to the bank called Cerne (ad ripam que appellatur
C'ne), and so along the same bank to the hedge of the new park;
so along the way of that hedge (in longo eiusdem sepis vie)
northwards to the old way formerly leading from Brideport to
Merswode through the middle of the park, and so along that way
eastwards to the wood of La Shahe, so along that wood on the west
side to the foot of La Rudinge (ad pedem de La Rudinge), thence
to the great road leading from Heckford to Brideport, along that
road eastwards to the cross to the head of the said Rudinge (ad
caput dicti Rudinge), thence along that road northwards to the
road leading to Baril's house and to 3 crofts called Haralond,
sometime held of (1) by William de Piricumb' in villeinage by
service of 12d (ad iter quod tendit versus domum Baril et tres
croftas cum pertinenciis que appellantur Haralond quas W'll'm' de
Piricumb' aliquando de me tenuit in vilinagio per servicium
duodecim denariorum), and thence along to the first bound of the
way in front of (coram) the house of William de Piricumb'.
For (2) and his heirs to hold wholly and
hereditarily for ever. Rent 12d yearly to (1) at St Andrew, for
all service. (2) and his heirs and their men shall be free of all
suits in (1)'s free manor of Merswode for ever. For this gift (2)
has given (1) 30 marks silver. Warranty.
Sir Nicholas de Punsoth, Thomas de Hynetun, Benedict
de Bere, Roger de Cotelyhe, knights, Hugh son of Bernard,
Richard Longus, Simon de Perci, Geoffrey de La Bere, Gerin
de Bauent, William Walens'.
Seal of (1) [part; green; similar to that on
AR/1/670]; [medieval] "Carta Roberti de Mandevile facta
Radulpho Bolt".
Hakerugge [= Hackeridge, in Marshwood
parish, Anton Faegersten, The Place-Names of Dorset 289]
Piricumb [Purcombe (one of two), in Dorset:
Anton Faegersten, The Place-Names of Dorset, p. 297]
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TITLE
HAMPSHIRE
WOOTTON ST. LAWRENCE
Woodgarston Manor
FILE - Gift. - ref. 21M58/T86 - date: [C.12]
Contents
Land of Windegarestune
(i) Mathew de Scures, with consent of his
heir Roger de Scures.
(ii) Mathew de Scures, son of (i).
Services: 1/5th part of a knight's fee.
Witnesses: Guy, prior of Southwick,
and the brothers there, William, chaplain of Wickham, Richard
de la Bere, Robert de St. Clare, William de Halliwelle, Alan
the son of Alan, William de Scures, William de la Bere,
Robert de Hache, William his brother, Henry Crisp, William de
Bayeux.
Sale: missing.
(3.124)
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1268
John de la Bere of St Ervan, Cornwall
was born. Daughter was Isabella de la Bere born 1294
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hwbradley/findex6.htm#BERE
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1274 & 1276
William de Bere, of Bere, Dover, Kent was King's Bailiff of Dover
See Battle Abbey Roll below
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DEAN AND CHAPTER ARCHIVE Catalogue in Full
Chartae Antiquae C
FILE - Grant - ref. CCA-DCc-ChAnt/C/482
- date: 20 Nov 1275x19 Nov 1276
1 document
Parchment, 1m, seal
Contents
From: John skissot of Chartham To: Thomas
Ringmere, prior of Canterbury Cathedral Priory; the convent of
Canterbury Cathedral Priory His meadow in 'Clivesmed' meadow
in the priory's holding of Chartham. Of this one part
contains a third of 1 virgate and lies with the priory's new
ditch to east, the river to west, the priory's meadow to north,
and the meadow of John Nicholai to south. For this the prior has
paid 3s as a gersum fine. Dated 4EdwI, no month. Witnesses:
Stephen de Limminge, bailiff of Chartham; William pinere, reeve
of Chartham; John the keyholder; John son of the clerk; Godwin de
la berigate; John the smith; Richard the forester; John atte
sweche; William de pirie; Nicholas de grantebregge; William de
bere; Solomon pret; John the clerk Endorsed with descriptions
and note of registration in late 13th cent hands.
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DEAN AND CHAPTER ARCHIVE Catalogue in Full
Chartae Antiquae C
FILE - Grant - ref. CCA-DCc-ChAnt/C/479
- date: 20 Nov 1275x19 Nov 1276
1 document
Parchment, 1m, seal
Contents
From: John son of Simon de la forstalle of
Chartham To: Thomas Ringmere, prior of Canterbury Cathedral
Priory; the convent of Canterbury Cathedral Priory His
inheritance in the priory's holding of Chartham. Also his
rights to loppings ('Ramail') in the priory's wood of Denge. For
this the priory has paid 20s as a gersum fine. Dated 4EdwI, no
month. Witnesses: Stephen de Liminge, bailiff of Chartham;
William le pinere, reeve of Chartham; Godwin atte berigate;
Geoffrey, bedel of Chilham; John son of the clerk; John the smith;
Richard the forester; John atte sweche; William de bere;
Ralph de hauvile; Solomon pret; John davit of Canterbury, clerk
Endorsed with descriptions and note of registration in late 13th
cent hands.
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DEAN AND CHAPTER ARCHIVE Catalogue in Full
Chartae Antiquae C
FILE - Quitclaim - ref. CCA-DCc-ChAnt/C/526 -
date: nd [late 13th century] c1275 due to witnesses
1 document
Parchment, 1m, seal tag
Contents
From: William son of Simon de Grundesburch'
To: the prior and convent of Canterbury Cathedral Priory For 1
acre of land, 1 acre of meadow and payments of 2d and 1 hen in Chartham.
The land lies with the priory's land called 'Malerasesland' to
east and west, the priory's land to north, and the land of Thomas
ysenbarn to south. The meadow lies in Shalmsford 'brock' pasture,
which is of the priory. The payments are from land called
'Theghe', lying with 'Wercope' tenement to south, and the king's
highway to north. To be held together with a way measuring 4ft
wide, leading from the king's highway northwards to the meadow.
For this the priory has paid 10s as a gersum fine. No date.
[Date: handwriting.] Witnesses: John son of the clerk; Richard le
Forester; Giles de la Forstalle; William le Pynere; John
Buppehecche; Roger Gige; John le Bere; Henry, brother
of John le Bere; John son of Hamo; Thomas Heghman; Jonas
Heghman; Godwin atte Berigate Endorsed with descriptions and note
of registration in late 13th cent hands.
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DEAN AND CHAPTER ARCHIVE Catalogue in Full
Chartae Antiquae C
FILE - Grant - ref. CCA-DCc-ChAnt/C/681
- date: nd [1274x1285]
1 document
Parchment, 1m, holed and faded, slits for
seal tag
Contents
From: Hamo Pinchun son of Richard Pinchun of
Chartham To: Thomas Ringmere, prior of Canterbury Cathedral
Priory; the convent of Canterbury Cathedral Priory 1½
acres 1 virgate in 'Eadredesham' field. Lying with the priory's
land to east, west and south, and the wood of John Paris to
north. For this the priory has paid a gersum fine. No date.
[Date: dates of Prior Thomas. Details supplied from registered
versions.] Witnesses: Stephen de Limming', bailiff of Chartham;
William le pinere, reeve of Chartham; John the keyholder; John
son of the clerk; John the smith; Godwin de la berigate; Richard
the forester; John atte sweche; Nicholas de Grauntebregge; Robert
de Eastesture; Ralph de hauvile; William de bere; John the
clerk Endorsed with descriptions, Chartham and note of
registration in 13th cent hands.
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1277
Simon de la Bere living at Thornham on Hampshire border
ref: DNF
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EARLY TITLE DEEDS
BUCKFAST
South Brent
FILE - [no title] - ref. 123M/TB8 - date:
1278
Contents
Easter Day 1278
Conditional grant in tail with warranty,
indented S[imon], abbot [of Buckfast] and convent to Robert
Faber.
3 ---- in la Beare in manor of Brent which
Stephen le Blays held, 3 closes in same town which Richard le
Hunta held and ---- land on the hill of Brent which was earlier
assigned to these lands in Landyak' to hold to himself and
legitimate heirs, by hereditary right for ever.
Rent 9s. for all services except 3 free boon
works at "pultura" see 123M/TB7, i.e. 2 ploughing and 1
reaping, suit of court as free men, suit of mill paying toll due,
12s. 6d. relief together with best beast of dead man, doing all
services customary in hundred of Brent (Latin: et in omnibus cum
Hundr[edo] de Brenta communicare) except tallage, carriage and
serving office of reeve and tithingman ("tuthingmann").
Robert to have pasture in moor and waste, agistment for as many
beasts as could be supported on his land in winter, hay, turves
and "carbone" see 123M/TB7. Convent right of reentry if
leased or sold to others than heirs of body without licence,
reversion on failure of heirs.
Consideration 6 [?marks] of silver.
Witnesses, William de la Ford, William de
Hurburneford, Richard de Coteleford, William Uppadone, Walter de
Ludaton.
Seal fragment. Holes in deed.
Endorsed XXVIII
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1279
Simon de la Bere owns land in Downton, Wiltshire
(ref: DNF
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DEAN AND CHAPTER ARCHIVE Catalogue in Full
Chartae Antiquae O
FILE - Grant - ref. CCA-DCc-ChAnt/O/29
- date: nd [late 13th century] (? c1280)
1 document
Parchment, 1m, seal, 1 small hole, small
rust stain
Contents
From: John son of Reginald atte Rye To:
Nicholas, son of Nicholas de Quercu 1 acre of land lying in a
field called 'Burghlynche' [in or near Odiham], between
the land of Martin Dudeman on 2 sides and between the hedge
('haya') of 'Twygauele' and the land of Stephen de Fraxino and
the land of Martin Dudeman. For an annual payment of 1 red rose,
payable as specified. For this Nicholas has paid 30s. No date.
[Date: handwriting.] Witnesses: Robert Bulluc; John de Fraxino;
Roger le Parker; Nicholas atte Bere; William de la Treuwe;
Robert de la Treuwe; John atte Hale Endorsed 'Hodyham Carta
Bortelyng' and 'Stergrave' in early 15th cent hands.
NB see also FILE - Grant - ref. CCA-DCc-ChAnt/O/28 c1250
Odiham in Hampshire
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Daly (Southwick and Norman Court Estates)
Catalogue in Full
Creator(s):
White family of Southwick, Hampshire
Norton family of Hampshire
Thistlethwayte family of Southwick Park,
Hampshire
SOUTHWICK PRIORY
ENDOWMENT
MISCELLANEOUS CHARTERS
FILE - Bere Forest: Gift in fee
simple from Peter de la Bere to Richard Gervays of one
purpresture lying between lands of Walter de Merdeshulle and
forest called La Bere, which Richard holds for 10 years; paying
rent of ½ 1b cummin. Consideration of 100s. silver. - ref.
5M50/36 - date: nd [1283-1285]
Contents
Witnesses include Sir Simon de Wyntonia,
sheriff, (1283-5). Fragment of seal in green wax - detached.
Written in similar hand to parts of Cartulary, Vol. I.
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13th Century
Peter de la Bere, in the thirteenth century, held his land in La Bere, Hampshire, under Porchester Castle, but, for some reason or other, it was seized by the King, and given to Roger Le Conner and his son.
See Battle Abbey Roll below
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mid 13th century
Henry III (1216 – 1272) granted to John de la Bere—perhaps Peter's son—certain privileges and exemptions at Ibbesley, in the New Forest
See Battle Abbey Roll below
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Arundell of Lanherne and Trerice Catalogue
in Full
Creator(s):
Arundell family of Lanherne and Trerice,
Cornwall
TITLE DEEDS
Title Deeds for non-Arundell property
Cornwall
FILE - [no title] - ref. AR/1/951 - date:
1284, Thursday 4th May
Contents
(Morrow of Invention of the Cross, 12 Edw
I); at Lancenton
Quitclaim [copy?]
Roland de Salcea, son and heir of Trustan
[sic, for Turstan] de Treiagu = (1)
Stephen le Bere, burgess of Bodmine =
(2)
(1) to (2) and his heirs for ever, all right
in 2 acres of land in Trerofal, with all appurtenances in dry and
wet, in meadows, feedings, ways, paths, mills, tin-works
(stangminibus), dovecote(s), etc., and in the homages, services,
reliefs and escheats of Alfred de Trerofal and Henry 'eiusdem'
for 1 acre of land in the same vill. For this quitclaim (2) has
paid (1) 5 marks.
Sir Salomon de Rovcestr', Sir Richard de
Boylond, Sir Robert Fuke, William de Breybuf, king's justices
itinerant in Cornwall, Sir George Oliver, Monasticon Dioecesis
Exoniensis de Arundel, Sir John de Treiagu, Sir Laurence de
Dinishelle, Sir Richard de Podiford, knights, Ralph de Penwore,
Thomas de Bargoython [sic], Walter de la Byri, Roger
Martin, John le Bere.
Seal of (1) (S. Rolandi de Salcea).
Trerofal [probably Treravel in St Ervan
rather than in Padstow, or Traffall in Newlyn E.]
Bargoython [error for Bargoythou, in St
Stephen in Branel]
NB Could Walter de la Byri be Walter
de la Bere?
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unknown date
At Treravall, in the parish of St. Ervan,
Cornwall, lived George Bere, the representative of a very
ancient family
See Battle Abbey Rolls below
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1285
Simon de la Bere of Oxfordshire has Coat of Arms
(ref: TAFOW p27
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inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal Household,
Exchequer and various commissions
Division within C Records of the
Chancery as central secretariat
C 133 Chancery: Inquisitions Post
Mortem, Series I, Edward I
C 133/47/5 Detailed descriptions at
item level. Items are dated by the date of the writ, but some
inquests were held in succeeding regnal years. This is reflected
in the range of covering dates given to the file.
Record Summary
Scope and content Adam de la Bere:
Hampshire
Covering dates 15 Edw I (1286 -1287)
Availability Open Document, Open
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Held by The National Archives, Kew
NB Adam de la Bere
was the son of John atte Bere or Abarowe.
the owner also of Malshanger. (fn. 11) This Adam had
in 1271 obtained confirmation of a grant made to him and his
clerk William Rus by Peter de Linwood (fn. 12) of all the lands
belonging to Peter and to John de Newtown in Linwood (q.v.), (fn.
13) with quittance of the lawing of dogs and pannage, and with
herbage for their swine and beasts in the New Forest. (fn. 14) A
further inspeximus and confirmation given in 1440 (fn. 15) of
obviously the same land and liberties substitutes Ibsley for
Linwood. This is undoubtedly right, and thus the first grant also
refers to Ibsley.
See 1316 record.
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EARLY TITLE DEEDS
BUCKFAST
South Brent
Beare
FILE - [no title] - ref. 123M/TB12 - date:
[2 February 1291]
Contents
Purification of Mary 19 Edward
Conditional grant in tail with warranty,
indented
Peter Abbot of Buffestr' and convent to
Robert Faber of Hurb'neford [Hurburneford].
Land which Richard le Hunta held in La
Beare in manor of Brente except 3 acres taken in hand by the
convent in place of which they have conceded to Robert 3 other
acres of land in same town, to hold to him and legitimate heirs
of his body by hereditary right for ever.
Rent 4s. 6d., 3 boon works at Poltura at
Pallyngeston i.e. 1 ploughing and 2 reapings, suit of court as
done by free men of manor, suit of mill paying toll due, relief
12s. 6d., 6s. in name of best beast of dead man.
Convent has right of reentry if land
alienated out of tail, with reversion to convent on failure of
heirs.
Robert to have pasture in moor and waste
throughout the year according to his agistment, as many beasts in
summer as he can support in winter, hay, turves and
"carbonem" see 123M/TB6. for his needs.
Consideration 6 marks of silver.
Witnesses, William de Kyllibir, William de
Boyvile, William de Hurb'neford, William ?Heriton, William de
Oulecu'be.
Seal tag.
Endorsed First deed of Beere and XVII.
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Division within C Records of the Petty
Bag Office
C 241 Chancery: Certificates of
Statute Merchant and Statute Staple
C 241/22/189
Record Summary
Scope and content Debtor: William de Bere
[of Somerset]
Creditor: Peter de Foutras, and John
Borriot, merchants de Brugerac [Gascony] [Alien merchants in
Bristol].
Amount: £16.
Before whom: Peter de la Mare,
Constable of Bristol Castle; Richard de Calne, Clerk.
When taken: 28/07/1291
First term: 29/09/1291
Last term: 29/03/1293
Writ to: Sheriff of Somerset
Sent by: Simon de Bourton, Mayor of Bristol;
Richard de Calne, Clerk.
Endorsement: Somers'.
Covering dates 1293
Availability Open Document, Open
Description, Open on Transfer
Held by The National Archives, Kew
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E Records of the Exchequer, and its
related bodies, with those of the Office of First Fruits and
Tenths, and the Court of Augmentations
Division within E Records of the Court
of Augmentations and the Augmentation Office
E 326 Exchequer: Augmentation Office:
Ancient Deeds, Series B
Record Summary
Scope and content Parties: William de
Bere, son and heir of Peter de Bere & Peter
Vallet, chaplain, and Robert de Bytescumbe; Place or Subject: Cannington
(Canyngton). County: [Som]
Covering dates 20 Edw I ( 1292)
Availability Open Document, Open
Description, Normal Closure before FOI Act: 30 years
Held by The National Archives, Kew
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(? c1293 due to Walter reference)
E Records of the Exchequer, and its
related bodies, with those of the Office of First Fruits and
Tenths, and the Court of Augmentations
Division within E Records of the Court
of Augmentations and the Augmentation Office
E 326 Exchequer: Augmentation Office:
Ancient Deeds, Series B
Record Summary
Scope and content Grant in frank almoin by
Robertson of William de Bere, to the nuns of St. Michael,
Stanford, of part of a croft called 'Grescroft' and other crofts
and land in Toftessike in the vill of Cottismor.
Witnesses:- William, parson of Holy Trinity church, Stanford, William
de Sumercotes, John Bottay, and others (named). Rutland
Availability Open Document, Open
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Held by The National Archives, Kew
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(? c1293 due to Walter reference)
Context : quick reference
E Records of the Exchequer, and its
related bodies, with those of the Office of First Fruits and
Tenths, and the Court of Augmentations
Division within E Records of the Court
of Augmentations and the Augmentation Office
E 326 Exchequer: Augmentation Office:
Ancient Deeds, Series B
Record Summary
Scope and content Grant by Walter a le
Barre of Overton, to the nuns of St. Michael, Stanford, of a
toft in the vill of Cottismor. Witnesses:- Walter, dean of
Roteland, Robert vicar of Cottismor, William de Bere,' and
others (named). Rutland
Availability Open Document, Open
Description, Normal Closure before FOI Act: 30 years
Note Seal
Held by The National Archives, Kew
NB Could Ealter a le Barre be Walter de la
Bere?
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C Records created, acquired, and
inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal Household,
Exchequer and various commissions
Division within C Records of the Petty
Bag Office
C 241 Chancery: Certificates of
Statute Merchant and Statute Staple
C 241/22/70
Record Summary
Scope and content Debtor: Simon de la
Bere, knight, of Herefords. [family held fees in Burlton,
Credenhill, and Brinshop in Grimsworth Hundred]
Creditor: Walter de la Barre*,
[citizen and merchant of Hereford] and Sibyl his wife.
Amount: 9m. 9s. 8d., for cloth delivered by
the same {pro panno ab eisdem Tradito}.
Before whom: William Goodknave and John
Lightfoot, Keepers of the King's Seal for Debt in Hereford.
First term: 20/05/1293
Last term: 20/05/1293
Writ to: Sheriff of Herefords
Sent by: William Goodknave and John
Lightfoot, Keepers of the King's Seal for Debt in Hereford.
Covering dates 1293 Oct 14
Availability Open Document, Open
Description, Open on Transfer
Held by The National Archives, Kew
NB Could Walter de la Barre be Walter de la
Bere?
*member of the De la Barre or Barré family. See also Thomas 1357.
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E Records of the Exchequer, and its
related bodies, with those of the Office of First Fruits and
Tenths, and the Court of Augmentations
Division within E Records of the
King's Remembrancer
D E 210/ 8502 & 6934 Exchequer:
King's Remembrancer: Ancient Deeds, Series D
Record Summary
Scope and content John de la Bere son of
Peter de la Bere to Peter Sprot: Quitclaim of two acres of
meadow in his manor of 'la Bere' in Southwick: ?
Covering dates 22 Edw. I (1294)
Availability Open Document, Open
Description, Normal Closure before FOI Act: 30 years
Held by The National Archives, Kew
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1294
Isabella de la Bere born, daughter of John de la Bere of St Ervan, Cornwall
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hwbradley/findex6.htm#BERE
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E Records of the Exchequer, and its
related bodies, with those of the Office of First Fruits and
Tenths, and the Court of Augmentations
Division within E Records of the
King's Remembrancer
D E 210/ 8502 & 6934 Exchequer:
King's Remembrancer: Ancient Deeds, Series D
Record Summary
Scope and content John son of Peter de la
Bere to Peter Sprot, his kinsman: Grant of land in his
manor of Bere in Southwick. (Hants)
Covering dates 22 Edw.I (1294)
Availability Open Document, Open
Description, Normal Closure before FOI Act: 30 years
Held by The National Archives, Kew
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Willoughby Parish Catalogue in Full
Creator(s):
Church of England, Willoughby Parish,
Warwickshire
Access Condition(s):
Some records should be viewed on microfilm
Charity - Title Deeds
FILE - [no title] - ref. N3/560 -
date: Coventry, Friday after the feast of the Purification of the
Blessed Mary, 23 Edward [I] [4 February 1295]
Seal: vesica; brown wax; on tag.
Contents
Gift, with warranty, for 10 marks, by Helen,
daughter of William Bretun, to William Reymund, Emma his wife,
and the heirs of William Reymund, of all the land which she
inherited in Chepyg' Derset [Burton Dassett], with all its
appurtenances, within the vill and without, in lands, tenements
and rents and all appurtenant profits and escheats. To be held by
doing to the chief lords the services customarily due from a
tenement in the same vill, for all services, exactions and
demands.
[Witnesses] ("Hiis"): William de
Duston', Richard de Aspes, William de Flounuyll', William de
Russale, William de Lunderys, William de Arderne, Robert Saumsum,
Richard Goremund', William de la Bere, William Bele, and
others.
Endorsement: Dercet Eleyne Bretoun
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Willoughby Parish Catalogue in Full
Creator(s):
Church of England, Willoughby Parish,
Warwickshire
Access Condition(s):
Some records should be viewed on microfilm
Charity - Title Deeds
FILE - [no title] - ref. N3/562 -
date: Warwick, Tuesday the eve of SS. Peter and Paul, 23 Edward
[I] [28 June 1295]
Seal: (? vesica); fragment; natural wax; on
tag.
Contents
Quitclaim by Helen, daughter of the late
William le Breton', to William Remond, Emma his wife and the
heirs or assigns of William, of the lands, tenements, rents and
all escheats belonging to her in the vill of Cheppyg Dercet
Northende [Burton Dassett, Northend], and elsewhere
("et extra").
Witnesses: Simon de Knythecote, William
de la Bere, Walter de Paunton, William Bele, Hamo Notehale,
John le Marescl', William de Loundres, John de Paunton, and
others.
Endorsement: Dercet Elena Bretoun.
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Division within C Records of the Petty
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C 241 Chancery: Certificates of
Statute Merchant and Statute Staple
C 241/32/296
Record Summary
Scope and content Debtor: Hugh Balhorn of
Upham [Bishop's Waltham Hundred, Hants]
Creditor: Robert de la Bere.
Amount: 5½m.
Before whom: Adam de Northampton; John de
Ann, Clerk; at Winchester.
First term: 01/09/1297
Last term: 01/09/1297
Writ to: Sheriff of Hants
Sent by: Adam de Northampton; John de Ann,
Clerk; at Winchester.
Covering dates 1297
Availability Open Document, Open
Description, Open on Transfer
Held by The National Archives, Kew
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MISCELLANEOUS SOMERSET DEEDS, ETC
Catalogue in Full
Access Condition(s):
Open
FILE - NORTH CURRY HUNDRED
documents - ref. DD\X\RY/1 - date: 1297
2 docts.
Contents
Edward I's writ to Gilbert de Bere to
hold enquiry into the collection of Tenths in the Hundred, the
collectors Hugh de la Hele and John Knappe being accused of
misappropriating £54, 15. 10¾ for themselves, with Inquisition
held as a result [see Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries 1895
for translation].- p. 352
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1297
Simon de la Bere Close Rolls owes money in Oxfordshire
ref: DNF
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Item details C 133/91/1
Context : quick reference
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Division within C Records of the
Chancery as central secretariat
C 133 Chancery: Inquisitions Post
Mortem, Series I, Edward I
C 133/91 Detailed descriptions at item
level. Items are dated by the date of the writ, but some inquests
were held in succeeding regnal years. This is reflected in the
range of covering dates given to the file.
Record Summary
Scope and content Alan Plugenet,
alias de Plogenet, de Plukenet, de Plugenet, de Plokenat,
de Plokenet, de Plokeneth: Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Somerset,
Wiltshire, Dorset, Hampshire, Herefordshire
Covering dates 27 Edw I (1298 - 1299)
Availability Open Document, Open
Description, Normal Closure before FOI Act: 30 years
Held by The National Archives, Kew
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Arundell of Lanherne and Trerice Catalogue
in Full
Creator(s):
Arundell family of Lanherne and Trerice,
Cornwall
TITLE DEEDS
Somerset
Allowenshay Manor
FILE - [no title] - ref. AR/1/720 -
date: 1299, 26th Dec
Contents
(St Stephen, 28 Edw [I]); at Wodetone
Feoffment and quitclaim
Robert de Wodetone, son and heir of Sir
Robert de Wodetone knight = (1)
Sir Robert son of Pagan = (2)
Consideration: 10 marks silver to (1).
(1) to (2), 1 acre of arable land in the
manor of Kyngtone [sic], lying in a ploughland (cultura) on the
west side of the cemetery, between land of the Prior of the
Hospital of St John, Well', and the way leading to La Cumbe;
together with the advowson of the church of that manor; for (2)
and his heirs to hold for ever of the chief lords of the fee.
Rent 1 clove gillyflower at Michaelmas to the chief lords, for
all service. Warranty.
Sir Matthew de Fornell', Sir Gilbert de
Bere, Sir Hugh de Popham and Sir Edmund Euerard, knights,
William de Lyt, Adam de Barewe, Walter Isaac.
Seal of (1) [white; armorial].
Wodetone [Wootton Fitzpaine, Dorset]
Kyngtone [= Kingstone (by Allowenshay; because Fitzpaine),
Somerset]
For Wootton, compare AR/1/549, etc.
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EARLY TITLE DEEDS
BRUTON
Charlton Adam
FILE - [no title] - ref. 123M/TB130 - date:
n.d (c1299 due to witness?)
Contents
Grant with warranty
Hamund son of Hamund de Cherleton to Richard
de Sutton and Sonehoute his wife.
6d. rent in Cherleton which Walerannus de
Marisco owed for a virgate of land held of Hamund in Cherleton
and 1d. rent which Henry Caryman of Kyngesdone owed for 5 acres
of land held of Hamund in cherleton, with the homage and services
of Walerannus and Henry and their heirs owed Hamund by reason of
the rents and homage.
Witnesses, Sirs John de Aketon, Alan de
Barton, William de Gyenelton (or Guevelton) knights, Robert le
Norreys, William de Bere, William de Stanton, Thomas de
Reygny, Walter Ysaak de Sutton, Phillip Boszard.
Seal on tag.
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EARLY TITLE DEEDS
BRUTON
Charlton Adam
FILE - [no title] - ref. 123M/TB131 - date:
n.d (c1299 due to witness?)
Contents
Grant in frankalmoign with warranty
Richard de Sutton called Byssop to god and
to St. Mary, the prior and canons of Briwton for souls of self,
wife Sonehowte, son John and all his benefactors.
7d. rent in Cherleton of which Walerannus de
Marisco pays 6d. and John Cariman 1d. from the tenements they
hold of Richard in Cherleton with homage and escheats which
happen by reason of the homage or rent.
The Canons are to receive Richard and John
his son and to pray for the soul of Sonehowte.
Witnesses, Ralph Huse, John de Horsy,
William le Border, Walter Ysaak, Thomas de Reygni, William de
Bere, Roger de la Slo.
Seal with shield device, on tag.
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THE BERKELEY ESTATE
BERKELEY LANDS OUTSIDE THE HUNDRED
BURGHILL (HEREFS.)
HOLDINGS IN BURGHILL
FILE - [no title] - ref. BCM/A/2/53/7 -
date: [late 13th cent.]
Contents
Roger de Burghulle, lord of Tillington, and
Walter de Burghulle, his son. n.d.
Roger has granted to Walter, for his
laudable service, the messuage which Henry de Burghulle, Roger's
brother, formerly held in the vill of Burghulle, with the garden
and croft and land in the fields called Poddynghullesfeld and
Coppedethorne, and the land within the ditch called le
Parkesdyche, and his land of Horneshulle; further his land in the
field called Upfeld and in the field called Conynghullesfeld with
le Stokkyng, and the land within the ditch called le Oldedych,
and 16 a. in le Ruevorlong, and half of his wood called le
Mynerspark, next to the wood of Henry de Burghulle, Roger's son,
and 4 a. of meadow in Lugheye, half of his pasture of Conemars
and Puldesturne and Lolukedene, and rents of 50.s.; for his life.
Witnesses: Richard de Hampton, Walter de
Evereus, knights, Walter de Frene, Thomas le Wafre, Andrew de
Chandos, Walter de Burghope, Richard de Bagyngdene, Robert de
la Bere, Richard de Hoggeshawe.
[Please quote GC1268 at Berkeley Castle
Muniments when requesting this file]
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THE BERKELEY ESTATE
BERKELEY LANDS OUTSIDE THE HUNDRED
BURGHILL (HEREFS.)
HOLDINGS IN BURGHILL
FILE - [no title] - ref. BCM/A/2/53/6 -
date: [late 13th cent.]
Contents
Roger de Burchulle, lord of Tillington, and
Walter his son. n.d.
Roger has quitclaimed to Walter 2 messuages
in Hulle and 30 a. of land.
Witnesses: Robert de Bere, Simon de
Crowenhulle, Henry Moris, William de Miners, John Germasyn,
Richard Rostot, Roger Lucas, Simon de Ledelawe, clerk.
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DEAN AND CHAPTER ARCHIVE Catalogue in Full
Chartae Antiquae I
FILE - Grant, in pure and perpetual alms - ref.
CCA-DCc-ChAnt/I/93 - date: nd [late 13th century]
1 document
Parchment, 1m, seal, slightly dirty
Contents
From: Henry le Ber; Avice, wife of Henry
le Ber To: the prior and convent of Canterbury Cathedral
Priory 4 acres of meadow in the holding of Ickham, lying
with the priory's meadow to east and south and the meadow of
Roger Palmere and the heirs of Mgr Hugh de Clervaus to north and
west. No date. [Date: handwriting and witnesses to other Ickham
charters.] Witnesses: Simon of Lee [in Ickham]; Thomas de la
Bile; Henry de la Gore; Robert le Chapman; Stephen of Seaton
('setene'); Ivo atte more; Hamo Blakeman; Laurence scinelard;
Hamo Boneyre; John Godeholt; Silvester le harpur Endorsed with
description and note of registration in late 13th cent hands.
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1300
- 1349 REFERENCES
Devon Record Office: DAYMAN OF ASHLEY COURT,
TIVERTON Catalogue in Full
FILE - Devon Record Office - ref. Z16/2/8/3
- date: (c.1300)
Contents
Morwenstow, Cornwall
Feoffment:
Thomas de Estkot, son of Philip
To
Thomas de la Dene, clerk, William his son,
and their issue
Four acres of land English and a piece of
land in the grantor's land of Estkot', of which ½ acre
lies next to the bounds between Holleburgh' and Estkot', viz. to
the east of La Bone and south of the land of Gilbert de Estkot',
¼ acre and 27 perches lie south of La Horyalake and south of La
Brodepitte (?), and ½ acre and 17 perches lie east of La
Horyalake, 30 perches lie east of La Bone between the lands of
Nicholas de Estkot' and the lands of the heirs of William de
Langaforlang', 1 acre and 6 perches lie east of La Redahylle,
viz. east of the meadow of Gilbert de Estkot, one head of which
extends to the Tamer, ½ acre lies between the park of the said
Thomas de la Dene, clerk, and the Tamer, viz. between the lands
of Nicholas de Estkot' and the land of the heirs of William de
Langaforlang', and ½ acre and ¼ acre lie at La Horyalake in La
Plasset at the foot of a certain ridge (ad candam cuiusdam
ingeris) coming from La Redahylle. The said piece of land lies
between La Colferlake and the land of Robert de la Dene, one head
of which extends to La Onese and the other to the land of
Loppedethorne
To be held of the grantor and his heirs
rendering one grain if wheat per annum at Easter.
Seal
Witnesses: Edmund de Parco, Richard de
Bere, Hugh de Stanbyrg, Hamelin de la Ford, clerk, Nicholas de
Estkot 'and others'
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Devon Record Office: DAYMAN OF ASHLEY COURT,
TIVERTON Catalogue in Full
FILE - Devon Record Office - Z16/2/8/3 &
Z16/2/8/2a-b) date: [c.1300]; 19th cent
Contents
Cornwall
Charter and 19th cent. transcript:
Of Robert de Maddekeslonde, clerk
To
Thomas de la Dene and Alice his wife and
John de la Leye and Sarah his wife
All his land and tenement in la Hylle.
To hold to Thomas and Alice and their issue
and to John and Sarah and their issue at a rent of 4s. payable to
grantor during his life and after his death doing service due to
the lord.
Witnesses: Edmund de Parco, Richard de
Bere, Robert de Westkote, Robert le Bole, Robert Fakun and
others
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Devon Record Office: DAYMAN OF ASHLEY COURT,
TIVERTON Catalogue in Full
FILE - Devon Record Office - ref. Z16/2/1/4
- date: [13th cent.] (c1300 due to similarity cf ref
Z16/2/8/2a-b)
Contents – Cornwall - Charter
Of Robert de Maddekeslonde, son of Martin
To
Thomas de La Dene and Alice his wife
His land of Bykedone and a rent of 9d.
received from the heirs of Philip de Byked... for their tenement
in Bykedon with half the reliefs wards and eseheats when they
happen of the heirs of the said Philip for the whole of his
tenement in Bykedon.
Witnesses: Richard de Bere, Hugh de
Stanbury, John de Milton, Gilbert Hay, Roger de Maddekeslonde, John
de Hedone, Roger de Cr...e and others.
Seal
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Arundell of Lanherne and Trerice Catalogue
in Full
Creator(s):
Arundell family of Lanherne and Trerice,
Cornwall
TITLE DEEDS
CORNWALL
Trembleath Manor
FILE - [no title] - ref. AR/1/82 - date:
1300, Sunday 8th May
Contents
(Sunday after St John ante Portam Latinam,
28 Edw [I]); at Tredreysec
Gift, for term until alternative is given
John de Arundell = (1)
Sir John de Umffraill', knight, and John his
son = (2)-(3)
Gift in form of chirograph by (1) to (2)-(3)
and (3)'s heirs, of the chief messuage and all his land of
Tredreysec, with meadows, pastures, commons [?], homages,
fealties, rents, services, and all other appurtenances in the
hundred of Trigechyre; for (2)-(3) and (3)'s heirs to hold of (1)
freely and hereditarily for ever, until (3) is enfeoffed by (1)
through charter of warranty for term of his life in all the
messuages, lands, tenements, woods, meadows, pastures, commons
[?], homages, fealties, rents, services, liberties, etc., which
Ralph de Arundell, brother of (1), holds in Mortestria Episcopi
by rent of 1/2 d for all service, or until (3) is appointed to an
ecclesiastical benefice worth £40 (ad beneficium ecclesiasticum
de valore quadraginta librorum fuerit promotus). Rent 1 rose at
the Nativity of St John Baptist yearly, if asked, for all
services, suits of court, gelds (guld'), aids, tallage and other
demands. Warranty.
David de La Beare, William de
Seruynton, William de Walryngton and Robert de Knytteston from
the county of Devon, and Benedict Reynward, John Reynward and
Richard de Creu from the county of Cornwall.
Seal [armorial of (1) or (2)] (S. IOh...),
showing 6 flowers or stars of 6 petals or points; deed stuck to
19th-century wrapper.
Tredreysec [= Tredrizzick, in St Minver]
Trigechyre [= hundred of Trigg]
Mortestria Episcopi [= Morchard [Arundell],
in Morchard Bishop parish, Devon]
J.P. Yeatman, The Early Genealogical History
of the House of Arundell, plate 12.
On the wrapper is written
"Trembleth" in a 20th-century hand.
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1300
William de Bere was knight of the shire for Somerset
See Battle Abbey Roll below
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TITLE DEEDS
Somerset
Pitney Wern Manor
FILE - [no title] - ref. AR/1/764 -
date: [later 13th or early 14th century?]
Before 1328 by which time Alan had died.
Contents
Lease for term of lives
Sir Alan de Plukenet = (1)
Alice who was wife of William Eustas, Thomas
and Nicholas her sons, and Alice her daughter = (2)-(5)
Chirograph: (1) to (2)-(5), a tenement with
1 virgate of land and meadow adjacent, together with 1 mill-pool
(gurges), in the manor of Puttenye & Wern'; all previously
held by (2), and situated at the north end of the vill of Langport
(in capite boreali village de Langport); for (2)-(5) to hold for
term of their lives. Rent 20s 6d yearly, at Easter and
Michaelmas, for all service, etc., except for suit of court twice
yearly at (1)'s court of Puttenye, at 'La Hockeday' and
Michaelmas. Warranty. After deaths of (2)-(5) it shall revert to
(1) and his heirs.
Sir Andrew Wake, knight, Sir Hugh, chaplain
of Langport, William de Bere, Robert de Burcy, William de
Fifhide, clerk, Geoffrey de La Slo, John Turberuile.
Found with 3 19th-century wrappers, 2
describing this deed, and 1 describing the Pitney Werne series
generally.
Puttenye & Wern [Pitney Wern, Somerset]
Langport [Somerset]
Fifhide [probably Fifehead Magdalen, Neville
or St Quintin, Dorset, rather than Fifield in Oxfordshire or
Wiltshire]
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C Records created, acquired, and
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Chancery as a legal registry and repository
C 47 Chancery Miscellanea
Subseries within C 47 BUNDLE 22:
SCOTLAND
C 47/22/3/120
Record Summary
Scope and content [Request of Alayn de
Ploknet to Sir Adam de Osgotby for protections and respites
of debts for John le Rous, Richard de Grunestede and John de
la Bere who are with him in Scotland]
Covering dates [1301]
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Former reference (Department) Chanc Misc
Portfolio 41/111
Note transferred to C 81/1716 see Bain, ii,
1278
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C 241 Chancery: Certificates of
Statute Merchant and Statute Staple
C 241/46/265
Record Summary
Scope and content Debtor: John de Sutton, of
London [goldsmith] of Kent and Surrey.
Creditor: John atte Bere.
Amount: £4.
Before whom: John le Blund, Mayor of London;
Henry de Leicester, Clerk.
First term: 01/11/1304
Last term: 01/11/1304
Writ to: Sheriff of Kent, and Surrey
Sent by: John le Blund, Mayor of London;
Henry de Leicester, Clerk.
Covering dates 1304
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C 241 Chancery: Certificates of
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C 241/61/174
Record Summary
Scope and content Debtor: John de Sutton, of
London.
Creditor: John atte Bere.
Amount: £4.
Before whom: John le Blund, Mayor of London;
Henry de Leicester, Clerk.
First term: 01/11/1304
Last term: 01/11/1304
Writ to: Sheriff of Kent
Sent by: Richard Poterel, of London; John le
Blund, Clerk.
Endorsement: Kent.
Covering dates 1304
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1304
Robert de la Bere debtor, Lord of ? Burton in Radnor [Burghetone?] Herefordshire
ref: Chancery C 241/56/185
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A ‘MARGINAL ECONOMY’? THE ISLE OF
PURBECK
FROM THE NORMAN CONQUEST TO THE BLACK DEATH
THE APPENDICES
David A. Hinton Published 2001 by Anton
Prowse
Appendix 7 Some recorded personal names, c. 1280 – c. 1342
William de Beres a juror at the Isle
of Purbeck in 1304
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A ‘MARGINAL ECONOMY’? THE ISLE OF
PURBECK
FROM THE NORMAN CONQUEST TO THE BLACK DEATH
THE APPENDICES
David A. Hinton Published 2001 by Anton
Prowse
Appendix 7 Some recorded personal names, c. 1280 – c. 1342
Henry de la Bere a juror at the Isle
of Purbeck in 1307
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C 241 Chancery: Certificates of
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C 241/89/38 Addressed to Salmon.
(dated)
Record Summary
Scope and content Debtor: Henry de la
Launde, of Nottingham, Henry de Ashbourne, of Nottingham, Gilbert
de Grimstone, of Nottingham [Notts]
Creditor: Matthew de Legby, chaplain [of
Notts]
Amount: 6m.
Before whom: John le Bere, Mayor of
Nottingham; John, son of Lawrence Ingram, Clerk.
When taken: 22/04/1305
First term: 26/03/1307
Last term: 26/03/1307
Writ to: Sheriff of Notts
Sent by: Robert Ingram, Mayor of Nottingham;
William Bicke, Clerk.
Endorsement: Notinghm. Coram Banco.
Covering dates 1322 Sep 26
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1308
Valentine de Bere, of Bere, Dover,
Kent was King's Bailiff of Dover
See Battle Abbey Roll below
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C 241/56
Record Summary
Scope and content Debtor: Robert Aleyn, of
Leake {Lek} [Notts], and William his brother.
Creditor: John Ingram, recently [clerk] of
Nottingham.
Amount: 1 sack of 8 stones and 8lbs of wool,
worth 40s.
Before whom: John le Bere, Mayor of
Nottingham; John, the son of Lawrence Ingram, Clerk.
First term: 13/06/1305
Last term: 13/06/1305
Writ to: Sheriff of Notts
Sent by: John Kytte, Mayor of Nottingham;
William Bycke, Clerk.
Endorsement: Notingh'.
Covering dates 1308 Jan 20
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C 241 Chancery: Certificates of
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C 241/57/8
Record Summary
Scope and content Debtor: Thomas de la
Chapel {Chapele} of Darnall {Darnale} [Strafforth Wapentake,
W.R.Yorks]
Creditor: Peter de Blyth {Blyda} [Notts].
Amount: 12m.
Before whom: John le Bere, Mayor of
Nottingham; John, son of Lawrence Ingram, Clerk.
First term: 24/06/1305
Last term: 24/06/1305
Writ to: Sheriff of Yorks
Sent by: John Kytte, Mayor of Nottingham;
William Bycke, Clerk.
Endorsement: Ebor'.
Covering dates 1308 Jun 9
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C 241 Chancery: Certificates of
Statute Merchant and Statute Staple
C 241/56
Record Summary
Scope and content Debtor: Nicholas, son of
Nicholas de Burton [of Notts]
Creditor: John le Bere [merchant of
Nottingham]
Amount: £200.
Before whom: John le Bere, Mayor of
Nottingham; John, son of Lawrence Ingram, Clerk.
First term: 13/06/1305
Last term: 13/06/1305
Writ to: Sheriff of Notts
Sent by: John Kytte, Mayor of Nottingham;
William Bycke, Clerk.
Endorsement: Nottingh'.
Covering dates 1308 Mar 12
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C 241 Chancery: Certificates of
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C 241/58 Addressed to Langton. (dated)
Record Summary
Scope and content Debtor: Thomas, son of
Henry del Meadow {Medue}, staying in Cowdale [Derbys], Robert,
son of Henry de Stendale, and William de Wolslowe
Creditor: Gilbert de Casterton
[wool-merchant] of Grantham [Winnibriggs Wapentake, Lincs].
Amount: 3 sacks and 6 stones of wool @ £7 a
sack.
Before whom: John le Bere, Mayor of
Nottingham; John, son of Lawrence Ingram, Clerk.
First term: 24/06/1307
Last term: 24/06/1307
Writ to: Sheriff of Derbys
Sent by: John Kytte, Mayor of Nottingham;
William Bycke, Clerk.
Endorsement: Derb'.
Covering dates 1308 Jan 18
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C 241 Chancery: Certificates of
Statute Merchant and Statute Staple
C 241/55
Record Summary
Scope and content Debtor: John le Bere,
of Nottingham [Notts]
Creditor: John le Cupper [merchant], of
Nottingham [Notts].
Amount: £5.
Before whom: Michael the Goldsmith, Mayor of
Nottingham; Master John de Rempstone.
First term: 25/12/1297
Writ to: Sheriff of Notts
Sent by: John Kytte, Mayor of Nottingham;
William Bycke, Clerk.
Covering dates 1308 Jan 18
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C 241 Chancery: Certificates of
Statute Merchant and Statute Staple
C 241/57
Record Summary
Scope and content Debtor: Robert de
Kilvington {Kynalton} [of Leics].
Creditor: The Prior and Convent of Chacombe
{Chaucu'be} [Northants] for certain lands sold to him, for which
60s. is outstanding.
Amount: £10.
Before whom: John le Bere, Mayor of
Nottingham; John, son of Lawrence Ingram, Clerk.
First term: 25/03/1306
Writ to: Sheriff of Leics
Sent by: John Kytte, Mayor of Nottingham;
William Bycke, Clerk.
Endorsement: .....
Covering dates 1308 Mar 28
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C 241 Chancery: Certificates of
Statute Merchant and Statute Staple
C 241/56
Record Summary
Scope and content Debtor: Richard Daniel of
Tideswell {Tiddeswell} [High Peak Wapentake, Derbys].
Creditor: Ralph Coterel [of Taddington,
Derbys]
Amount: 50m.
Before whom: John le Bere, Mayor of
Nottingham; John, son of Lawrence Ingram, Clerk.
First term: 29/09/1306
Last term: 29/09/1306
Writ to: Sheriff of Derbys
Sent by: John Kytte, Mayor of Nottingham;
William Bycke, Clerk.
Endorsement: Derb'.
Covering dates 1308 Feb 4
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C 241 Chancery: Certificates of
Statute Merchant and Statute Staple
C 241/56
Record Summary
Scope and content Debtor: William de Carwell
{Carewell} [of Derbys.].
Creditor: Gilbert de Casterton
[wool-merchant] of Grantham [Winnibriggs Wapentake, Lincs.].
Amount: 1 sack of wool, good and salable,
worth 9m.
Before whom: John le Bere, Mayor of
Nottingham; John, the son of Lawrence Ingram, Clerk.
First term: 08/07/1306
Last term: 08/07/1306
Writ to: Sheriff of Derbys
Sent by: John Kytte, Mayor of Nottingham;
William Bycke, Clerk.
Endorsement: Derb'.
Covering dates 1308 Mar 29
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C 241 Chancery: Certificates of
Statute Merchant and Statute Staple
C 241/54
Record Summary
Scope and content Debtor: Richard ?Paxell,
of... Notts.
Amount: £11 15s.
Before whom: John le Bere, Mayor of
Nottingham; John, the son of Lawrence Ingram, Clerk.
Sent by: Fragment only from Nottingham.
Covering dates temp Edw I (1308?)
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EARLY TITLE DEEDS
BONVILLE
Membury
FILE - [no title] - ref. 123M/TB274 -
date: 1308
Torn, parts missing
Contents
(Dated as 123M/TB273 where legible)
Quitclaim with warranty
Andrew de Shyrbourne to --- de Birtone and
Cecilia his wife and their heirs and assigns.
Property as in 123M/TB273 in the manor of
West-membury, to hold as in 123M/TB273.
Consideration ---- 3 marks of silver.
Witnesses, ---- Robert de Uppehegh, Alexander
atte Bere, William de Swyneffild, Simon de yrty, William le
Gere ---, --- Bere.
Slit for seal tag.
Endorsed 9.
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EARLY TITLE DEEDS
BONVILLE
Membury
FILE - [no title] - ref. 123M/TB273 -
date: 1308
Contents
Axemynstr', Sunday after Annunciation 1308
Quitclaim with warranty
Andrew de Schyreborne to John de Byrton.
Land at la more in the manor of Westmenbury
which John had of Andrew at farm for 7 years, to hold by
hereditary right for ever in fee.
Consideration 33 marks.
Witnesses, William le Gerenter, Alexander
de la Bere, William de Sueneffeld, Simon de yerty, Master
Adam de la Ber.
Seal tag.
Endorsed 9.
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EARLY TITLE DEEDS
BONVILLE
Axminster
Houscessitte, 1306 - 1396
FILE - [no title] - ref. 123M/TB202
- date: [29 July 1308]
Contents
Axeministre, Monday after St James the
apostle 2 Edward son of Edward
Grant with warranty, indented Robert de
Uppehegh to Henry Broun and wife Agnes.
Tenement and land which Sara (spelt Sarra)
de Hontehegh held of Robert in the town of A[x]eministre of the
fee of Hacco'be.
Rent to Robert and Cecilia his wife and
Robert's heirs and assigns 4s., towngavel ("to 'gavel")
8d., suit at Robert's court as other tenants with heriots when
they occur, "Guldis" and usual services saving the
office of reeve, after death of Henry and Agnes they shall give
for each entry of the tenement 20s.
Consideration 106s. 8d.
Witnesses, Richard de ?Ralehegh, Alexander
de la Bere, Simon de Yerty, William de Swene-ffelde, William
Tudde, William de ?Gerne-e and --- Wrange.
Seal tag.
Endorsed 20.
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EARLY TITLE DEEDS
BONVILLE
Axminster
Miscellaneous
FILE - [no title] - ref. 123M/TB163 - date:
[13th cent.] ?c1308 due to witnesses)
Contents
?Draft grant with warranty
Robert de Uppehey to William le Crocker of
Axemynystr' and Alice his wife.
½ messuage in the town of Axem'str' in the
fee of Hakcomb which Luke Boye once held as a whole, to hold by
hereditary right for ever, with ½ lands pertaining.
Rent 3s. of silver for all secular service
saving Royal service, common "Gildis" and
"Tungavil".
Witnesses, Sir Hugh de Rogoch, Ralph de
Donne, Alexander de la Ber', Robert Tudde, Huge de Ovyle
(or Onyle), William Capeye.
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EARLY TITLE DEEDS
BONVILLE
Axminster
Miscellaneous
FILE - [no title] - ref. 123M/TB164 -
date: [13th cent.] ( ?c1308 due to witnesses)
Contents
Grant with warranty
Robert de Uppeheghe to William le Gerenter
and Isabella his wife, Robert their son and the heirs of Robert.
Croft which Ralph de Milbrok' once held
lying lengthways between the King's highway from Axeminstre to
Wycrofte and the meadow which Richard Draghe once held and in
width between the holding of John Speare and the croft called la
Rie Croftt', to hold by hereditary right for ever.
Rent 12d. payable at 4 terms to Robert de
Uppeheghe, 2d. for "Tonngavel" for all service saving
Royal service, and saving suit to Robert de Uppeheghe's court
twice annually i.e. at Hock Day [2nd Tuesday after Easter] and
Michaelmas.
Witnesses, Hugh de Raleghe knight, Alexander
de la Bere, William de ?Yerte, William de Swenesfeld, Robert
Tudde, William Russel, John de Wycroft'.
Fragment of seal tag.
Endorsed 18.
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Englesia, daughter of Alexander de
la Bere, carried Beer Hall, Axminster, Devon to the Okestons.
It had descended over several generations from Walter de la
Bere
See Battle Abbey Rolls below
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Deeds of Thomas Eggar & Sons, and Biddle
& Co Catalogue in Full
Creator(s):
Thomas Eggar and Sons, solicitors
Biddle and Co, solicitors
Access Condition(s):
Records are open for consultation unless
otherwise indicated
Thomas Eggar & Sons, Solicitors: deeds
of Charlwood (Surrey), Henfield, Cowfold, Shermanbury etc
Charlwood, Surrey
FILE - Grant - ref. SAS-EG/3 - date: 1308
Contents
By Walter Oluyngs to Adam Stroke of 4 acres
of land with two gardens in Chelewod; of which 3 acres of land
with a garden adjoining called Godardishagh lay in length between
land of Sir John de la Puyle on the W. and land of John de
Slogtherwyk on the E. and one acre with a garden adjoining lay
between the garden of the said Walter, E. and land of Sir John de
la Puyle, W. To hold of the chief lords of the fee &c.
Warranty clause. Adam gave 40s. in hand
Witnesses:- William de Wyggeperye, John de
Wakehurst, John de Cherlewod, Walter de la Hoke, John Edolf, Walter
Wyggepole, John de Bere. Dated at Cherlewod. Sunday in the
Feast of St. Thomas, 8 Edw. II. White seal after this
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C 241 Chancery: Certificates of
Statute Merchant and Statute Staple
C 241/82
Record Summary
Scope and content Debtor: Henry, the son
of John de Bere of Kent.
Creditor: Richard de Bere.
Amount: £20
Before whom: John de Ducklington, Mayor of
Oxford; Thomas de Pyrie, Clerk.
When taken: 08/02/1309
First term: 13/04/1309
Last term: 13/04/1309
Writ to: Sheriff of Kent
Sent by: John de Ducklington, Mayor of
Oxford; Thomas de la Haye, Clerk.
Endorsement: Kanc' coram R'.
Covering dates 1317 Jun 8
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C 241 Chancery: Certificates of
Statute Merchant and Statute Staple
C 241/83
Record Summary
Scope and content Debtor: John, the son of
Godard Fouche of Nottingham, merchant [of Notts]
Creditor: Richard, the son of Peter de
Morewood, of Nottingham, merchant [of Notts]
Amount: 40s.
Before whom: Peter de Morewood, Mayor of
Nottingham; William Bicke, Clerk, in the presence of John le
Bere, John Brian, John de Moreton, and Walter de Lincoln.
First term: 03/05/1309
Writ to: Sheriff of Notts
Sent by: William de Mexborough, Mayor of
Nottingham; William Bicke, Clerk.
Endorsement: Notingh'.
Covering dates 1317 Jul 22
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Devon Record Office: DAYMAN OF ASHLEY COURT,
TIVERTON Catalogue in Full
FILE - Devon Record Office - ref.
Z16/2/8/8a-b - date: 5 March 1310 3 Edward III; 20th
cent
Contents
Morwenstow, Cornwall
Feoffment in fee tail:
Thomas de la Dene senior
To
Thomas de la Dene, clerk, his brother
A piece of land in the grantor's land of la
Dene lying to the south of the park of the feoffee by la
Wichiahamme as the bounds are there, of which the feoffee has
seisin, with a right of way
To Thomas and his issue
To be held to the grantor and his heirs
Rent: one grain of pepper
Consideration: 13s 4d
Seal Fragment
At la Dene
Witnesses: John de Pyn, Edmund de Parco, Hugh
de Stambir', Richard de Bere, Robert de Westkote, 'and
others'
Modern transcript enclosed
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C 241 Chancery: Certificates of
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C 241/76
Record Summary
Scope and content Debtor: Simon Bere, of
Witney, of Oxon.
Creditor: John Stallak, of Witney [merchant]
Amount: 6 sacks of wool, worth £9 a sack.
Before whom: Thomas Romain, Mayor of London;
John le Blound.
When taken: 13/05/1310
First term: 29/09/1310
Last term: 29/09/1312
Writ to: Sheriff of Oxon
Sent by: John de Gisors, Mayor of London;
John le Blund.
Endorsement: Oxon' coram Rege.
Covering dates 1312
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1311 & 1313
Gilbert de la Bere was knight of the
shire for Somerset
See Battle Abbey Roll below
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C 241 Chancery: Certificates of
Statute Merchant and Statute Staple
C 241/76/97
Record Summary
Scope and content Debtor: Simon le Bere,
of Witney, and Robert de Dene, of Witney of Oxon.
Creditor: Sir John de Haudlo [held Hook
Norton and Chadlington in Chadlington Hundred, Beckley,
Piddington, Horton and Studley in Bullingdon Hundred, Oxon, and
in Kent, Norfolk and Salop]
Amount: £80.
Before whom: Philip de Worminghall, Mayor of
Oxford; Thomas de la Haye, Clerk.
When taken: 31/03/1311
First term: 29/09/1311
Last term: 29/09/1311
Writ to: Sheriff of Oxon
Sent by: William de Bicester, Mayor of
Oxford; Thomas de la Haye, Clerk.
Endorsement: Berk' coram Rege.
Covering dates 1312 Oct 9
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NB also C 241/101/151
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Deeds of Thomas Eggar & Sons, and Biddle
& Co Catalogue in Full
Creator(s):
Thomas Eggar and Sons, solicitors
Biddle and Co, solicitors
Access Condition(s):
Records are open for consultation unless
otherwise indicated
Thomas Eggar & Sons, Solicitors: deeds
of Charlwood (Surrey), Henfield, Cowfold, Shermanbury etc
Charlwood, Surrey
FILE - Grant - ref. SAS-EG/4 - date: 1312
Contents
By Alexander le Thurnour to Walter De
Wyggepole and Alice his wife of a croft of land in Cherlewod
lying in length between land of the said Walter, E. and the
meadow of Walter le Wyche called Fletemede, W., and in width
between land of the said Walter de Wyggepole, S. and the messuage
of Walter Bald, N. To hold of the chief lords &c. Warranty.
Consideration 40s
Witnesses:- Wm. de Nywedegate, Walter de la
Hoke, Walter Edolf, Richard de Slogtherwyke, John de la Bere,
John Randolf, William Smith (fabre). Dated at Cherlewod. Sunday
in the feast of Palm Branches, 5 Edw. II. Tag for seal
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1314
Richard de la Bere a Conservator of the Peace in Oxfordshire
See battle Abbey Roll below
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A ‘MARGINAL ECONOMY’? THE ISLE OF
PURBECK
FROM THE NORMAN CONQUEST TO THE BLACK DEATH
THE APPENDICES
David A. Hinton Published 2001 by Anton
Prowse
Appendix 1.2 Steeple:
...and Henry de la Hyde sold a messuage and
a carucate to
Henry and Agatha de la Bere for £40
in 1315, but Mills
suggested that this unit was the Hyde in
Langton Matravers
(1977, 38).
NB Steeple in the Isle of Purbeck
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1316
Robert de Bere was Lord of Stratford,
Herefordshire
See battle Abbey Rolls below
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1316
Richard de la Bere a Commissioner of
Array (in Oxfordshire?)
See Battle Abbey Rolls below
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related bodies, with those of the Office of First Fruits and
Tenths, and the Court of Augmentations
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E 326 Exchequer: Augmentation Office:
Ancient Deeds, Series B
Record Summary
Scope and content Parties: William de Estok
and Alice his wife & Richard de la Bere, lord of Thornton
in Manhull, and Clarice his wife; Place or Subject: Thornton in
Marnhull (Marnhulle), Spettisbury (Speghteburi). County: [Dors]
Covering dates 9 Edw II (1316)
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1316
Richard de la Bere was Lord of
Todbere and Thornton, Dorset; Greenhurst and Eye, Bedfordshire;
and Islip, Fawcote, Morcote, and Oke, Oxfordshire
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1316
Richard de la Bere MP Oxfordshire
ref: TAFOW p25 / DNF
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Ref: A History of the County of Hampshire
Vol 4 (1911) pages 579-580 found on British History Online : Ibsley
In 1166 Richard de 'Avene et Tibesleia' was
holding two knights' fees of John de Port. (fn. 5) These fees
were apparently divided among co-heirs, and at the beginning of
the 13th century Hugh de Godshill and Giles de Hattingley were
returned as holding the third part of a fee in Ibsley of Robert
de St. John. (fn. 6) The other third was probably included in the
three-quarters of a knight's fee in Avon which Alexander Huscarle
then held of Robert de St. John, (fn. 7) since in 1280 the heir
of Roger Huscarle (fn. 8) was holding one fee and the eighth part
of a fee in Ibsley and Avon of John de St. John. (fn. 9) The
third that had belonged to Giles de Hattingley passed by 1280 to
Henry de Hach, (fn. 10) while that of Hugh de Godshill was held
by Adam son of John atte Bere, or Abarowe, the
owner also of Malshanger. (fn. 11) This Adam had in 1271 obtained
confirmation of a grant made to him and his clerk William Rus by
Peter de Linwood (fn. 12) of all the lands belonging to Peter and
to John de Newtown in Linwood (q.v.), (fn. 13) with quittance of
the lawing of dogs and pannage, and with herbage for their swine
and beasts in the New Forest. (fn. 14) A further inspeximus and
confirmation given in 1440 (fn. 15) of obviously the same land
and liberties substitutes Ibsley for Linwood. This is undoubtedly
right, and thus the first grant also refers to Ibsley.
In 1316 the vill of Ibsley was
divided among John atte Bere, who had succeeded his
father Adam in 1287, Roger de Melbury, possibly a
descendant of Roger Huscarle, and John de Nuthaven, probably
representing Henry de Hach. The third holding had before 1346
passed to John atte Bere and William de Melbury, (fn. 16)
so that the fee was henceforward held in two moieties. John atte
Bere died in 1360, leaving as heir his son Thomas, who
died childless in 1362. (fn. 17) His heirs were his great-nieces
Maud daughter of John Punchardon, son and heir of his sister
Sybil, and Joan and Christine daughters of John Ernys, son
and heir of his sister Katherine. (fn. 18)
NB Ibsley is in Hampshire north of
Ringwood. The Inquisition & post mortem of Adam de la Bere of
Hampshire is listed in 1286/1287.
It would seem that this line died out, so
that this John atte Bere was probably not the 1340 Wargrave man?
Malshanger is in the parish of Church
Oakley, Chuteley.
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Exchequer and various commissions
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Bag Office
C 241 Chancery: Certificates of
Statute Merchant and Statute Staple
C 241/82
Record Summary
Scope and content Debtor: William Cubbock of
Derby, the Younger, merchant.
Creditor: Richard de Warwick of Nottingham,
merchant.
Amount: £4 8s.
Before whom: Robert Ingram, Mayor of Nottingham;
William Bicke, Clerk, in the presence of Walter de Lincoln, Peter
de Morewood, John Briant, and John le Bere.
First term: 25/12/1316
Last term: 25/12/1316
Writ to: Sheriff of Derbys
Sent by: William de Mexborough, Mayor of
Nottingham; William Bicke, Clerk.
Endorsement: Derb'.
Covering dates 1317 Feb 11
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Piece details E 42/51
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related bodies, with those of the Office of First Fruits and
Tenths, and the Court of Augmentations
Division within E Records of the
Treasury of the Receipt
E 42 Exchequer: Treasury of Receipt:
Ancient Deeds, Series AS
Record Summary
Scope and content John atte Folde,
fishmonger of London to Stephen de Preston, citizen of London:
Quitclaim of a rent from a messuage late of John de la Bare
in the parish of St. Mary, Rotherhithe: [London]
Covering dates 10 Edw II (1316-1317)
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1317
Richard de Bere collects taxes in Shiplake
(ref: TAFOW p25 / DNF
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inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal Household,
Exchequer and various commissions
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C 241 Chancery: Certificates of
Statute Merchant and Statute Staple
C 241/85
Record Summary
Scope and content Debtor: John de
Chaddesden, of Derby, and William his son, merchants.
Creditor: Richard de Liverpool, merchant.
Amount: £23 5s.
Before whom: Lawrence le Spicer, Mayor of Nottingham;
William Bicke, Clerk, in the presence of Peter de Morewood, John
Brian, John le Bere, and William Edynnon.
First term: 03/04/1317
Last term: 03/04/1317
Writ to: Sheriff of Derbys
Sent by: Lawrence le Spicer, Mayor of
Nottingham; William Bicke, Clerk.
Endorsement: Derb': coram Rege.
Covering dates 1317 Apr 26
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"York, December 5th, 1318 - Commission of oyer and terminer to William de Hardene and John Inge, by oath of good men of the county of Wiltshire, on complaint by Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, that Geoffrey atte Beche, John Pippard, Peter de Waltham, John Lammar, Adam de Waltham, Adam the Younge, Robert le Yem, John de Yevendon, Richard de la Chaumber, William Turry, Richard atte Hegge of Waltham, John le Bercher of Hurley, Robert de Lullebrok and John de la Bere of Wargrave, with others, broke his park at Ashridge, cut his corn growing there, and consumed and trampled it down."
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Item details C 241/100/139
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inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal Household,
Exchequer and various commissions
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C 241 Chancery: Certificates of
Statute Merchant and Statute Staple
C 241/100
Record Summary
Scope and content Debtor: Godfrey atte
Bere of ....
Creditor: John....
Amount: £....
Before whom: ........ Mayor of Oxford; Adam
de Brome, Clerk.
Writ to: Sheriff of ....
Sent by: ......, Mayor of Oxford; .........
Clerk.
Endorsement: ....
This mere fragment is not numbered
Covering dates temp Edw II (1317)
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Exchequer and various commissions
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Bag Office
C 241 Chancery: Certificates of
Statute Merchant and Statute Staple
C 241/100/139
Record Summary
Scope and content Debtor: Godfrey atte
Bere of ....
Creditor: John....
Amount: £....
Before whom: ........ Mayor of Oxford;
Adam de Brome, Clerk.
Writ to: Sheriff of ....
Sent by: ......, Mayor of Oxford; .........
Clerk.
Endorsement: ....
This mere fragment is not numbered
Covering dates temp Edw II (1307 –
1327 see also C 241/100/139)
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1307 - 1327
Sir David de la Bere held Littleham, Alsington, and Langcross in Devon in the time of Edward II
See battle Abbey Rolls below
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SC 8 Special Collections: Ancient
Petitions
Subseries within SC 8 PETITIONS TO THE
KING; TO THE KING AND COUNCIL; TO THE COUNCIL; TO THE PARLIAMENT;
AND THE LIKE.
Individual petitions are described and dated
at Item level. Ref: SC 8/204/10172
Record Summary Scope and content
Petitioners: William de Brewose (Braose).
Addressees: King and council.
Places mentioned: Werk (Wark),
[Northumberland]; Kidwelly, [Carmarthenshire, Wales]; Carwathlan
(Carnwyllion), [Carmarthenshire, Wales]; Gower, [Glamorgan,
Wales]; Iscennen, [Carmarthenshire, Wales].
Other people mentioned: Henry de Lancastre
(Lancaster) of Kidwelly; Maud [de Lancastre (Lancaster)], wife of
Henry de Lancaster; Roger Mortimer, justice of Wales; Henry of
Penbrugge (Penbridge), knight of William de Braose; William de
Langeton (Langton), knight of William de Braose; Robert de
Penres, knight of William de Braose; David de la Bere,
minister of William de Braose; John Iwayn, minister of
William de Braose; William le Avener; Cadogan ap Griffith; Eynon
Seys; Roger Cole, constable of Kidwelly; Philip ap Howel; Rees
[ap Howel], brother of Philip ap Howel; John Giffard of Iscennen;
Wenthlyene, widow of Ievan Seys;
Nature of request: [Petition in 4 parts, 3
on the face, and 1 on the dorse].
1) Brewose requests remedy as while he was
in the service of the king in his wars, and despite prohibitions
from the king and from the justice the people of Henry de
Lancaster at his and his wife's command entered Brewose's land of
Gower and robbed, wounded and killed his people against the
king's peace.
2) Brewose requests remedy as when his
knights and ministers came to the county court of Carmarthen by
command of the justice, Maud de Lancaster caused Avenel and
others to watch the roads to kill them when they returned despite
the safe-conduct given to them by the justice.
3) He further requests remedy as his knights
and ministers have been threatened with life and limb and the
burning of their houses, and that they would be arrested when
they are found.
4) Brewose shows the king that the justice
of Wales treats many of Brewose's people of Gower in the county
court of Carmarthen for the appeal made by Wenthlyene, widow of
Ievan made in the county for the death of her husband. Brewose
holds the liberty of Gower from the king, and that neither he nor
his people in the liberty ought to answer for anything done in
that liberty before any minister of the king in Wales as the
justice alleges, and that Ievan was killed in the liberty of
Gower, and he asks that the justice of Wales be commanded to
bring the appeal before the king.
Endorsement: [None]
Covering dates [1317-1320]
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Note The petition is dated to 1317-1320
based on the dating provided by Rees (Petitions Relating to
Wales, p.347).
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inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal Household,
Exchequer and various commissions
Division within C Records of the
Chancery as central secretariat
C 143 Chancery: Inquisitions Ad Quod
Damnum, Henry III to Richard III
C 143/130 Inquisitions taken as a
result of applications to the Crown for licences to alienate
land.
Record Summary
Scope and content The prior and convent of
Bermondsey to grant the manor of Charlton, and the
advowson of the church there, to Roger de la Bere for his
life, and to his heirs, executors, and assigns for a year after
his death. Kent.
Covering dates 11 EDWARD II. (1318)
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"York, December 5th, 1318 -
Commission of oyer and terminer to William de Hardene and
John Inge, by oath of good men of the county of Wiltshire,
on complaint by Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, that Geoffrey atte
Beche, John Pippard, Peter de Waltham, John Lammar, Adam de
Waltham, Adam the Younge, Robert le Yem, John de Yevendon,
Richard de la Chaumber, William Turry, Richard atte Hegge of
Waltham, John le Bercher of Hurley, Robert de Lullebrok and John
de la Bere of Wargrave, with others, broke his park at
Ashridge, cut his corn growing there, and consumed and trampled
it down."
ref: TAFOW p23 / DNF
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OKEHAMPTON BOROUGH Catalogue in Full
Creator(s):
Okehampton Borough, Devon
Devon Record Office: TITLE DEEDS AND LEASES
FILE - Devon Record Office - ref.
3248A-0/11/19 - date: 1318
Contents
Grant
1 William de la Bear
2 John, his son
Premises: One tenement in Okehampton
Witnesses: John Caddyng, reeve, Roger
Bonclerk, Thomas Cole, John atte Beare, Nicholas Cole,
serjeant?
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1318/1319
Richard de la Bere Sheriff Berkshire
ref: TAFOW p25
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Deeds of Thomas Eggar & Sons, and Biddle
& Co Catalogue in Full
Creator(s):
Thomas Eggar and Sons, solicitors
Biddle and Co, solicitors
Access Condition(s):
Records are open for consultation unless
otherwise indicated
homas Eggar & Sons, Solicitors: deeds
of Charlwood (Surrey), Henfield, Cowfold, Shermanbury etc
Charlwood, Surrey
FILE - Grant - ref. SAS-EG/5 - date: 1319
Contents
By William Payn to Adam Le Stroke of a
garden with house buit thereon in Cherlewode, lying between the
messuage of the said Adam, N., and a garden of Sir John de
Wyggeperie, S
To hold of the chief lords of that fee
&c. Warranty. Consideration 40s
Witnesses:- John de Wakehurst, John de
Cherlewode, Walter de la Hoke, John Edolf,.. (hole) Wyggepole, John
de la Bere, John de la Hoke. Dated at Cherlewode. Sunday, the
feast of St. John ante portam Latinam, 12 Edw. II. Tag, seal gone
NB also ref SAS-EG
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1317 - 1320
David de la Bere attacked in Wales
ref: TAFOW p25
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1321
Thomas de la Bere pardoned as an
adherent of Roger de Mortimer
See battle Abbey Rolls below
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A ‘MARGINAL ECONOMY’? THE ISLE OF
PURBECK
FROM THE NORMAN CONQUEST TO THE BLACK DEATH
THE APPENDICES
David A. Hinton Published 2001 by Anton
Prowse
Appendix 1.2 Steeple:
...and Henry de la Hyde sold a messuage and
a carucate to
Henry and Agatha de la Bere for £40 in
1315, but Mills
suggested that this unit was the Hyde in
Langton Matravers
(1977, 38). There was a place called ‘atte
Bere’ in
Steeple in 1323, however
(Mills 1977, 100), and a Henry
de la Bere was assessed for 3s in Povington,
relatively
quite a large amount (Rumble 1980, 113);
NB Steeple in the Isle of Purbeck
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SC 8 Special Collections: Ancient
Petitions Ref: SC 8/296/14800
Subseries within SC 8 PETITIONS TO
VARIOUS OFFICERS OF STATE
14751-14800: 14751-14763: PETITIONS TO THE
KING; TO THE KING AND COUNCIL; TO THE COUNCIL; TO PARLIAMENT; ETC
(c.1316, c.1393-c.1430; French and Latin); 14764-14800: PETITIONS
TO THE CHANCELLOR IN HIS EXECUTIVE CAPACITY (Edw I-Edw III;
French). Individual petitions are described and dated at Item
level.
Record Summary
Scope and content Petitioners: John de
Hondlo (Handlo), through [Hugh le Despenser], Earl of Winchester.
Addressees: Chancellor.
Places mentioned: Oxfordshire;
Buckinghamshire.
Other people mentioned: John de Stonore
(Stonor), justice; Richard de la Bere, justice.
Nature of request: The petition states that
an oyer et terminer was granted to John de Hondlo in Oxfordshire
and another in Buckinghamshire, against those who had carried off
his goods by force, and that John de Stonore, Richard de la
Bere and other justices were assigned to this. They sat for
three days and then could not attend to the matter through
pressure of other business. John and Hugh ask that the
commissions might be altered and new names entered in the
commissions that John de Hondlo will send the Chancellor,
according to his instructions. And they request a writ to John de
Stonore to return the present commissions to Chancery to be
amended, as he will not do so without one, or that they might be
made anew from examination of the rolls of Chancery.
Endorsement: [None]
Covering dates [c. 1323]
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Note The commissions in CPR 1321-4
pp.319-320 are dated 1 July 1323 (Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire)
and 2 July 1323 (Buckinghamshire). This petition must date from
shortly afterwards.
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Piece details E 42/348
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E 42 Exchequer: Treasury of Receipt:
Ancient Deeds, Series AS
Record Summary
Scope and content Indenture of defeasance,
at the King's request, of a letter obligatory, made by Lewes
Priory (John, prior) to Master Roger de la Beere, clerk,
for payment of 400l., the condition being the payment 500l. to
which they are bound by a recognizance made in th
Covering dates 16 Edw II 1323
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C Records created, acquired, and
inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal Household,
Exchequer and various commissions
Division within C Records of the
Chancery as central secretariat
C 143 Chancery: Inquisitions Ad Quod
Damnum, Henry III to Richard III
C 143/174/7 Inquisitions taken as a
result of applications to the Crown for licences to alienate
land.
Record Summary
Scope and content Roger de la Bere to
grant messuages in London to the prior and convent of the new
hospital of St. Mary without Bishopsgate, to find two
canons in the church of the hospital and one in the church of St.
George, London. London.
Covering dates 17 EDWARD II. (1323 -
1324)
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"23rd June 1325 at Easthampstead
- Henry de Langburwe, parson of Warplesgrave to Master Alexander
de Neuport, parson of Warfield.
Grant of a tenement with buildings, land, etc., which Henry de
Langburwe, parson of Warplesgrave, had of the gift of Richard
Clark called le Carpenter of Bray.
Warranty against all people.
Witnesses: Robert de Waltham, William de Newenham, Henry Batayl,
Henry de Penkeneye; Roger de Wodemancote, John atte Bere,
Richard Aylward, William atte Halle, Robert atte Lak, Master
Thomas Cook of Easthampstead, William le Coterel of
Easthampstead, Richard Clerk called le Carpenter of Bray"
ref: TAFOW p24 / DNF
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1325
Richard de la Bere MP Oxfordshire
See Battle Abbey Roll below, also TAFOW pg25
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Devon Record Office: DAYMAN OF ASHLEY COURT,
TIVERTON Catalogue in Full
FILE - Devon Record Office - ref.
Z16/2/8/9a-b - date: 4 January 1328 20 Edward II;
20th cent
Contents
Morwenstow, Cornwall
Feoffment in fee tail
Robert de Maddekeslond, son of Martin
To
Thomas de la Dene, clerk, Alice his wife and
their issue
The grantor's land of Westgosham in the
manor of Middellond, with the parks, meadows, pastures and all
other appurtenances, and with the fealty, rents and services of
Geoffrey de Gosham for the lands and tenements held by Geoffrey
of the grantor in the vill of Westgosham for his life, and the
reversion after his death
Rent: 2s 6d.
Witnesses: Richard de Beere, Hugh de
Stambyry, John de Milton', Gilbert Hay, Roger de Maddekeslond,
John de Hudon', Robert de Milton and others
At Maddekeslond'.
Seal
Modern transcript enclosed
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Item details SC 8/66/3260C
Context : quick reference
SC 8 Special Collections: Ancient
Petitions
Subseries within SC 8 PETITIONS TO THE
KING; TO THE KING AND COUNCIL; TO THE COUNCIL; TO THE PARLIAMENT;
AND THE LIKE.
SC 8/66 3251-3300. Individual
petitions are described and dated at Item level.
Record Summary
Scope and content Petitioners: [Oliver de
Plokenet].
Addressees: King.
Other people mentioned: Alan de Plokenet;
Joan [de Plokenet (de Bohun)]; Richard de la Bere (Beer).
Nature of request: Oliver de Plokenet
requests his inheritance, stating that he is ready to aver that
Alan de Plokenet had no other heirs and no brothers or sisters
other than were contained in his bill, and that Richard de la
Bere's claim to be the brother and heir of Alan, father of Joan,
is false.
Endorsement: [None]
Covering dates [1328]
Availability Open Document, Open
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Note This seems to be related to Oliver de
Plokenet's petition for his inheritance (SC 8/66/3260A). The writ
resulting from that petition (SC 8/66/3260B), is dated at
Lincoln, 28 March, 2 Edward III (1328), and the memorandum to
which all these documents is attached states that the parties
appeared before Chancery on the Wednesday after Palm Sunday in
the same year.
Held by The National Archives, Kew
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Image details
Description Petitioners: Oliver
Plokenet.
Name(s): Plokenet, Oliver
Addressees: King.
Nature of request: Oliver Plokenet
asks that he might be received to sue for his right in the matter
of his inheritance, according to the purport of his bill, and
that the King might not receive anyone's homage until his right
has been tried: for he has been in the King's service, and unable
to pursue his right, and the King will find, if he asks the good
people of his land, that the de la Beres who now claim have no
right. Oliver requests the King's mercy, that he might not be
disinherited by a procured inquisition.
Nature of endorsement: [None]
People mentioned: De la Bere (Beer)
family.
Date derivation: The writ resulting
from this petition (SC 8/66/3260B) is dated at Lincoln, 28 March,
2 Edward III (1328).Oliver Plokenet is dead by May 25 1329
(CFR 1327-37 p.135).
Date 1328
Catalogue reference SC 8/66/3260A
Dept
Series Special Collections: Ancient
Petitions
Piece 3251-3300. Individual petitions are
described and dated at Item level.
Image contains 1 item for the catalogue
reference
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Item details SC 8/66/3260F
Context : quick reference
SC
SC 8 Special Collections: Ancient
Petitions
Subseries within SC 8 PETITIONS TO THE
KING; TO THE KING AND COUNCIL; TO THE COUNCIL; TO THE PARLIAMENT;
AND THE LIKE.
SC 8/66 3251-3300. Individual
petitions are described and dated at Item level.
Record Summary
Scope and content Other people mentioned: Richard
de la Bere (Beer); William de Werdale; Oliver Plokenet.
Nature of request: Richard de la Bere
nominates William de Werdale as his attorney in the suit between
him and Oliver Plokenet.
Endorsement: [None]
Covering dates [1328]
Availability Open Document, Open
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Note This seems to be related to Oliver de
Plokenet's petition for his inheritance (SC 8/66/3260A). The writ
resulting from that petition (SC 8/66/3260B), is dated at
Lincoln, 28 March, 2 Edward III (1328), and the memorandum to
which all these documents is attached states that the parties
appeared before Chancery on the Wednesday after Palm Sunday in
the same year.
Held by The National Archives, Kew
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Description Petitioners: ? No
Petitioner named
Nature of request: Memorandum of legal
case. Richard de la Bere and Oliver Plokenet appeared in
the King's Chancery at Lincoln on the Wednesday after Palm
Sunday, 2 Edward III: Richard claimed his inheritance, as the
next heir, and Oliver delivered a petition which is sewn to the
aforesaid inquisitions. With the assent of the parties, they were
given a day on the Monday, three weeks after Easter, in Chancery.
Nature of endorsement: [None]
Places mentioned: Lincoln,
[Lincolnshire].
People mentioned: Richard de la
Bere (Beer); Oliver Plokenet.
Date derivation: The memorandum states
that the parties appeared in the King's Chancery at Lincoln on
the Wednesday after Palm Sunday, 2 Edward III (1328).
Date 1328
Catalogue reference SC 8/66/3260G
Dept
Series Special Collections: Ancient
Petitions
Piece 3251-3300. Individual petitions are
described and dated at Item level.
Image contains 1 item for the catalogue
reference
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Image details
Description Petitioners: ? No
Petitioner named
Nature of request: Sketch of a family
tree of the de Plokenet family, showing the relationship of the
current petitioner, Oliver, to other members of the family.
Nature of endorsement: [None]
People mentioned: Hugh de Plokenet;
Alan [de Plokenet], son of Hugh de Plokenet; Alan [de Plokenet],
son of Alan de Plokenet; Alan [de Plokenet], son of Alan de
Plokenet the younger; Joan [de Plokenet (de Bohun)], daughter of
Alan de Plokenet the younger; Jocelin [de Plokenet], son of Hugh
de Plokenet; Oliver [de Plokenet], son of Jocelin de Plokenet;
Oliver [de Plokenet], son of Oliver de Plokenet; Alan [de
Plokenet], son of Jocelin de Plokenet.
Date derivation: This seems to be
related to Oliver de Plokenet's petition for his inheritance (SC
8/66/3260A). The writ resulting from that petition (SC
8/66/3260B), is dated at Lincoln, 28 March, 2 Edward III (1328),
and the memorandum to which all these documents is attached
states that the parties appeared before Chancery on the Wednesday
after Palm Sunday in the same year.
Date 1328
Catalogue reference SC 8/66/3260E
Dept Records of various departments,
arranged artificially according to type, and formerly entitled
Special Collections
Series Special Collections: Ancient
Petitions
Piece 3251-3300. Individual petitions are
described and dated at Item level.
Image contains 1 item for the catalogue
reference
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Item details SC 8/66/3260D
Context : quick reference
SC Records of various departments,
arranged artificially according to type, and formerly entitled
Special Collections
SC 8 Special Collections: Ancient
Petitions
Subseries within SC 8 PETITIONS TO THE
KING; TO THE KING AND COUNCIL; TO THE COUNCIL; TO THE PARLIAMENT;
AND THE LIKE.
SC 8/66 3251-3300. Individual
petitions are described and dated at Item level.
Record Summary
Scope and content Places mentioned:
Brittany, [France]; Beer, Somerset.
Other people mentioned: Alan Plukenet
(Plokenet); Robert Walrond; Edward [I], King of England; Alan
Plukenet (Plokenet), son of Alan Plukenet; Joan de Bohun,
daughter of Alan Plukenet; Richard de la Beere (Beer).
Nature of request: Memorandum that one Alan
Plukenet, a Breton, born outside the king's allegiance, came to
England and married the sister of Robert Walrond, by whom he
engendered a son, Alan Plukenet, who was given the manor of Beer
in Somerset by Edward I, for him and his heirs forever. His
children were the late Alan Plukenet, who died without heirs of
his body, and Joan de Bohun, who died seised without heirs of her
body. After her death, an inquisition procured by Richard de la
Beere falsely found that he was the heir, as Alan's blood-line in
England has failed, [and no other kinsman can inherit].
Endorsement: [None]
Covering dates [1328]
Availability Open Document, Open
Description, Normal Closure before FOI Act: 30 years
Note This seems to be related to Oliver de
Plokenet's petition for his inheritance (SC 8/66/3260A). The writ
resulting from that petition (SC 8/66/3260B), is dated at
Lincoln, 28 March, 2 Edward III (1328), and the memorandum to
which all these documents is attached states that the parties
appeared before Chancery on the Wednesday after Palm Sunday in
the same year.
Held by The National Archives, Kew
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Item details C 143/198/3
Context : quick reference
C Records created, acquired, and
inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal Household,
Exchequer and various commissions
Division within C Records of the
Chancery as central secretariat
C 143 Chancery: Inquisitions Ad Quod
Damnum, Henry III to Richard III
C 143/198 Inquisitions taken as a
result of applications to the Crown for licences to alienate
land.
Record Summary
Scope and content Richard de la Bere to
settle half the manor of Haselbury on himself and Clarice his
wife for life, remainder to Richard their son and the heirs of
his body, remainder to John, brother of the said Richard the
younger, and the heirs of his body, remainder to Edmund, brother
of John, and the heirs of his body, remainder to Thomas, brother
of Edmund, and the heirs of his body, remainder to the right
heirs of Richard de la Bere. Somers.
Covering dates 2 EDWARD III. (1328 -
1329)
Availability Open Document, Open
Description, Normal Closure before FOI Act: 30 years
Held by The National Archives, Kew
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Devon Record Office: DAYMAN OF ASHLEY COURT,
TIVERTON Catalogue in Full
FILE - Devon Record Office - ref. Z16/2/1/5
- date: 29 July 1329 Sat. after feast of St. James
Contents – Cornwall – Letter
William de Bykedonne
To his tenant John de Trenger informing him
that he has assigned to Thomas de la Dene the homage and service
which John has been accustomed to do for his lands and tenements
in Bykedonne and enjoining him to them in future to Thomas.
Witnesses: Richard de Bere, John de
Miltone, Thomas de Trenger, Thomas de Cosham, Gilbert Hay.
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Devon Record Office: DAYMAN OF ASHLEY COURT,
TIVERTON Catalogue in Full
FILE - Devon Record Office - ref. Z16/2/1/4
- date: [13th cent.] ( ?c1329 due to witnesses)
Contents – Cornwall – Charter
Of Robert de Maddekeslonde, son of Martin
To Thomas de La Dene and Alice his wife
His land of Bykedone and a rent of
9d. received from the heirs of Philip de Byked... for their
tenement in Bykedon with half the reliefs wards and eseheats when
they happen of the heirs of the said Philip for the whole of his
tenement in Bykedon.
Witnesses: Richard de Bere, Hugh de
Stanbury, John de Milton, Gilbert Hay, Roger de Maddekeslonde, John
de Hedone, Roger de Cr...e and others.
Seal
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1330
Robert Atte Bere of Somerset
ref: S G A’Bear
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THE MANOR OF BROOK Catalogue in Full
Creator(s):
Bowreman family of Brook, Isle of Wight
THE MANOR OF BROOK
FILE - GIFT with warranty - ref. AC95/32.19
- date: 29 Jan 1330/1
1 doc
Contents
(i) Hugo Tomas
(ii) John de la Bere
2 tenements with appurtenances, and 4s of
rent and reversion of 4 tenements in New Lymington
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Item details C 143/210/30
Context : quick reference
C Records created, acquired, and
inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal Household,
Exchequer and various commissions
Division within C Records of the
Chancery as central secretariat
C 143 Chancery: Inquisitions Ad Quod
Damnum, Henry III to Richard III
C 143/210 Inquisitions taken as a
result of applications to the Crown for licences to alienate
land.
Record Summary
Scope and content John, bishop of
Winchester, Henry de Iddebury, Nicholas atte Bere, John de
Micheldevre, Robert de Wylton, Thomas de Boys, John de Madhurst,
Robert de Wylton, William de Lynacre, Nicholas de Brayfeld, and
Emma his wife to grant messuages, land, and rent in Winchester
and its suburbs, Easton, Hursley, Michelmersh, Nutshalling, and
Millbrook to the prior and convent of St. Swithin's,
Winchester. Hants.
Covering dates 4 EDWARD III. (1330 -
1331)
Availability Open Document, Open
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Held by The National Archives, Kew
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Context : quick reference
C Records created, acquired, and
inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal Household,
Exchequer and various commissions
Division within C Records of the Petty
Bag Office
C 241 Chancery: Certificates of
Statute Merchant and Statute Staple
C 241/103/100
Record Summary
Scope and content Debtor: Richard de la
Bere, lord of Thornton, [in Marnhull, Sturminster Newton and
Buckland Newton Hundreds] of Dorset.
Creditor: John Gabriel, citizen and merchant
of Winchester, of Hants.
Amount: £100, for merchandise bought from
him.
Before whom: William Sampson, William le
Horder; Geoffrey Hogheles, Clerk, at Southampton, in the presence
of Henry de Lyme, William Piket, Geoffrey Hogheles, and Thomas le
Scrivener, burgesses of Southampton.
When taken: 20/01/1331
First term: 19/04/1332
Last term: 19/04/1332
Writ to: Sheriff of Dorset
Sent by: William Sampson, William le Horder;
Geoffrey Hogheles, Clerk at Southampton.
Endorsement: Dors' coram Iustic' de Banco.
Covering dates 1332 Jun 16
Availability Open Document, Open
Description, Normal Closure before FOI Act: 30 years
Held by The National Archives, Kew
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Item details C 143/212/15
Context : quick reference
C Records created, acquired, and
inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal Household,
Exchequer and various commissions
Division within C Records of the
Chancery as central secretariat
C 143 Chancery: Inquisitions Ad Quod
Damnum, Henry III to Richard III
C 143/212 Inquisitions taken as a
result of applications to the Crown for licences to alienate
land.
Record Summary
Scope and content Thomas de Useflet, clerk,
to grant to Richard de la Bere two-thirds of the manor
of Meon-Stoke, with the reversion of the remaining third, now
held by Henry de Pembrigge and Sibilla his wife as dower of the
said Sibilla. Hants.
Covering dates 5 EDWARD III. (1331 -
1332)
Availability Open Document, Open
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Held by The National Archives, Kew
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1331 - 1332
John de Bere, Baliff, re case concerning Glastonbury Abbey Estate
ref: Court Rolls
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MICROFILM COPIES OF GLASTONBURY ABBEY
DOCUMENTS Catalogue in Full
Creator(s):
Longleat House Archives, Wiltshire
Microfilm copies of the Glastonbury Abbey
estate, compotus and court rolls
Glastonbury Abbey Compoti: Multiple Rolls
FILE - Glastonbury Abbey Compoti: Multiple
Rollsxxx - ref. T\PH\lon 2/18 - date: 1331 - 1335
SKIN 22 - BRENT
Reeve: Andrew Buryman
Bailiff: John de Bere
SKIN 23 - WRINGTON
Reeve: Henry le Bole
Bailiff: John de Bere
also
SKIN 8 - GREINTON
Reeve: John Golde
Bailiffs: Thomas de Wolmyngtone and Thomas
de la Haye & various others
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1332
John Atte Bere Surrey Subsidy Rolls
ref: S G A’Bear
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1332
Richard de la Bere, lord of Thornton, in
Marnhull, Sturminster Newton & Buckland Newton, Dorset –
debtor £100 owed for merchandise bought from him. ref:
Chancery C 241/103/100
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Context : quick reference
C Records created, acquired, and
inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal Household,
Exchequer and various commissions
Division within C Records of the
Chancery as central secretariat
C 143 Chancery: Inquisitions Ad Quod
Damnum, Henry III to Richard III
C 143/221/8 Inquisitions taken as a
result of applications to the Crown for licences to alienate
land.
Record Summary
Scope and content Richard de la Bere of
Westcote to grant a messuage, land, and rent in Kingsley and
Binstead by Froyle to a chaplain in the church of Binstead,
retaining land and rent in Binstead and Holybourne. Hants.
Covering dates 6 EDWARD III. (1333)
Availability Open Document, Open
Description, Normal Closure before FOI Act: 30 years
Held by The National Archives, Kew
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Item details C 135/33/7
Context : quick reference
C Records created, acquired, and
inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal Household,
Exchequer and various commissions
Division within C Records of the
Chancery as central secretariat
C 135 Chancery: Inquisitions Post
Mortem, Series I, Edward III
C 135/33 Detailed descriptions at item
level. Items are dated by the date of the writ, but some inquests
were held in succeeding regnal years. This is reflected in the
range of covering dates given to the file.
Record Summary
Scope and content Richard de la Bere of
Westcote: Hampshire, Bedfordshire
Covering dates 6 Edward III (1333)
Availability Open Document, Open
Description, Normal Closure before FOI Act: 30 years
Held by The National Archives, Kew
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Jervoise family of Herriard Catalogue in
Full
Creator(s):
Jervoise family of Herriard, Hampshire
Charters
FILE - NEW SARUM (Wilts.); Grant - ref.
44M69/C/72 - date: 21 April 1333
Seals: 4 pendant seals, one missing; one
seal of Roger de Douklonde, one seal of mayor of New Sarum.
Contents
By Roger de Douklonde, citizen of New Sarum
and Cristina his wife,
To William Bertilot and Johanna his wife
Of 3 cottages and curtilages in New Sarum,
in Roueston, between cottages of William de Wodeborghe on N., and
cottage of Roger and Cristina on S.
Rent: 8s. silver p.a.
Witnesses: Walter de Hungerford, then
bailiff of Sarum, William de Berewyk, then mayor of Sarum,
Geoffrey de Werminstre, and Robert de Lavynton, then coroners of
Sarum, Adam de Lodewelle and John de Brutford then prepositi of
Sarum, Thomas de Brutford, Thomas Toustrang, Walter Ioce, John
atte Bare, William de Mordon clerk and others.
Dated: at New Sarum, Wed. before St. George.
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KENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Index to the Kent Lay Subsidy Rolls of
!334/1335
John atte Bere living at Brasted,
Kent pays 1s 4d
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Richard de (la) Bere of Wantage,
Oxon, son Thomas
ref: TAFOW p30
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Context : Quick reference Ref: SC 8/169/8436
SC 8 Special Collections: Ancient
Petitions
Subseries within SC 8 PETITIONS TO THE
KING; TO THE KING AND COUNCIL; TO THE COUNCIL; TO THE PARLIAMENT;
AND THE LIKE.
8401-8450. Individual petitions are
described and dated at Item level.
Record Summary
Scope and content Petitioners: Thomas de
la Bere.
Addressees: Chancellor and council.
Places mentioned: Haselbury Plucknett,
Somerset.
Other people mentioned: Alan Plokenet
(Plucknett); Sybil [Plokenet, (Plucknett)], wife of Alan
Plucknett.
Nature of request: Bere requests remedy . .
. and that he can be seised of the manor of Haselbury until the
king is advised of his rights as he has being suing for his
inheritance of the manor for 5 years or more following the
deaths of Alan and Sybil Plucknett.
Endorsement: Let it be ordered by writ to
Greystoke, lately steward of the lands referred to, to come to
the king's chamber and inform the sergeants of the king of the
rights that the king claims in the manor; and let it be ordered
to the sergeants who hear the information to plead further before
the king so that justice can be done between the king and the
party.
Covering dates [? 1330-? 1345]
Availability Open Document, Open
Description, Open on Transfer
Note The petition is dated to? 1330-? 1345
because the dating of this and associated petitions presents real
problems for dating. The petitioner, as he makes clear in his
petitions, is involved in a very protracted legal suit, and the
hands of the petitions vary quite considerably from hands of the
1330s-1340s (SC 8/32/1600; SC 8/169/8436) to a hand that looks
securely of the 1350s (SC 8/145/7241).
Held by The National Archives, Kew
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Image details
Description Petitioners: Thomas de
la Bere.
Name(s): Bere, Thomas
Addressees: King and council.
Nature of request: Thomas de la Bere
states that ten years ago he pleaded with the king in a
scire facias concerning half the manor of Haselbury Plucknett, on
the issue of the country, and he has been adjourned from term to
term without deliverance and greatly improverished by this. He
asks that he might have deliverance, and that, because he is very
poor, the inquest might be held in the country by a writ of nisi
prius, by the best people of the country.
Nature of endorsement: It is to be
done before the justices of assize.He is to have a writ on this.
Places mentioned: Haselbere (Haselbury
Plucknett), [Somerset].
Date derivation: The petition is dated
to? 1330-? 1345 because the dating of this and associated
petitions presents real problems for dating. The petitioner, as
he makes clear in his petitions, is involved in a very protracted
legal suit, and the hands of the petitions vary quite
considerably from hands of the 1330s-1340s (SC 8/32/1600; SC
8/169/8436) to a hand that looks securely of the 1350s (SC
8/145/7241). The various patent, close charter and fine rolls all
seem rather later.
Date 1330-1345
Catalogue reference SC 8/32/1600
Dept
Series Special Collections: Ancient
Petitions
Piece 1551-1600. Individual petitions are
described and dated at Item level.
Image contains 1 item for the catalogue
reference
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1335 - 1345
Thomas de la Bere knight of the shire
for Dorset in 1335,1337, I342, 1343, and 1345
See Battle Abbey Rolls below
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Arundell of Lanherne and Trerice Catalogue
in Full
Creator(s):
Arundell family of Lanherne and Trerice,
Cornwall
TITLE DEEDS
Title Deeds for non-Arundell property
Dorset - Holditch
FILE - [no title] - ref. AR/1/1068 -
date: 1339, Monday 1st Mar
Contents
(Monday after St Mathias, 13 Edw III); at
Holedych
Lease for term of 1 life
Ralph de Chydyok and Elizabeth his wife =
(1)-(2)
Ralph Botz and Joan his wife = (3)-(4)
(1)-(2) to (3)-(4), a tenement formerly held
by Robert Rous in Holedych, with buildings, gardens, curtilages,
arable lands, meadows, woods and pastures, except for 12 acres of
arable land in the field (campus) called Rouchesfeld, a meadow
lying 'iuxta Axe', and pasture for 8 oxen, 4 cows and 3 boviculi
which used to graze with the lord's cattle; for (3)-(4) and their
heirs to hold during (2)'s life. Rent 4s yearly at 4 terms, plus
3 capons and 1 1b of cummin at Michaelmas, for all service except
for suit of court twice yearly, at Michaelmas and Hockeday.
Warranty.
Robert atte Bere, William de
Fort'shegh, Henry Sperhegh, Thomas atte Grene, John Schiphurd.
Seal [broken]; [medieval] "Radulfus
Botz; Holdych".
Holedych [Holditch in Thorncombe parish,
Dorset, formerly in Devon, volumes of the English Place-Name
Society Devon 648?]
Fort'shegh [cf. Forstershay in Marshwood
parish,
Canonicorum hundred, Dorset]
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Item details C 143/248/4
Context : quick reference
C Records created, acquired, and
inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal Household,
Exchequer and various commissions
Division within C Records of the
Chancery as central secretariat
C 143 Chancery: Inquisitions Ad Quod
Damnum, Henry III to Richard III
C 143/248 Inquisitions taken as a
result of applications to the Crown for licences to alienate
land.
Record Summary
Scope and content John atte Beare and
Joan his wife to retain a messuage and land in Tavistock
acquired by the said Joan, Walter le Cok, and Ellen his wife from
William Martyn to themselves and the heirs of the said Joan.
Devon.
Covering dates 13 EDWARD III. (1339 -
1340)
Availability Open Document, Open
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(1340)
"John Atte Bere, John Atte Wydegate, Rob Wepestrode, John Dyton, John Atte Frythe, Philip Galant, of the Parish of Wargrave, sworn before the Prior of Wallingford and his fellows, say, upon their oath, that the ninth of the fleeces of the lambs, and of the sheaves (garbs) of the aforesaid Vill granted to the Lord the King are worth what they are valued at to the Church of Wargrave, that is to say eighteen marks [twelve pounds], and they do not exceed this because a great part of the lands of the parishioners of the said Vill lies uncultivated in consequence of the pauperisation of the aforesaid parishioners, and because there are great expenses in the autumn In collecting the sheaves, and because the land and wool and meadow and pasture belong to the Vicar, and also the small tithes which have to be offered, and the Mortuary fees. And the tythes of hay of the said vill amount per annum, to £10. which profits indeed run over the extent of the said church. In testimony whereof the aforesaid Prior and. the Aforesaid Jury have severally affixed their seals to the present indenture."
ref: S G A’Bear / DNF
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"Westminster, October 2nd 1341 - It is recorded that John de la Bere of Wargrave acknowledges that he owes to Agnes de la Bere, his daughter, £20; to be levied, in default of payment, of his land and chattels in the county of Berkshire."
ref: TAFOW p23 / DNF
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BULLER OF DOWNES Catalogue in Full
Creator(s):
Buller family of Downes, Devon
TITLE DEEDS
Aylesbeare
FILE - [no title] - ref. 2065M/T3/20 -
date: 1342
Contents
Grant for 3 lives
William atte Beare to Joan atte Ford
(late wife of John de Haccombe, clerk)
La Beare
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BULLER OF DOWNES Catalogue in Full
Creator(s):
Buller family of Downes, Devon
TITLE DEEDS
Aylesbeare
FILE - [no title] - ref. 2065M/T3/14 -
date: 1343
Contents
Grant
William atte Halle, Chaplain to Walter de
Sweyngthull
Tenement at La Beare at Speavieheighs
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Item details C 241/125/15
Context : quick reference
C Records created, acquired, and
inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal Household,
Exchequer and various commissions
Division within C Records of the Petty
Bag Office
C 241 Chancery: Certificates of
Statute Merchant and Statute Staple
C 241/125 (dated)
Record Summary
Scope and content Debtor: John de la Bere
of Avon Dassett {Avenedersett} of Warwicks.
Creditor: Richard de Stoneleigh [of
Warwicks]
Amount: £40
Before whom: Henry de Studley, Mayor of
Oxford; William de Cornwall, Clerk.
When taken: 04/06/1345
First term: 16/04/1346
Last term: 16/04/1346
Writ to: Sheriff of Bucks
Sent by: Richard de Selwood, Mayor of
Oxford; William de Cornwall, Clerk.
Endorsement: Buk' Coram Justic'.
Covering dates 1348 Jul 15
Availability Open Document, Open
Description, Normal Closure before FOI Act: 30 years
Held by The National Archives, Kew
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Item details C 135/76/26
Context : quick reference
C Records created, acquired, and
inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal Household,
Exchequer and various commissions
Division within C Records of the
Chancery as central secretariat
C 135 Chancery: Inquisitions Post
Mortem, Series I, Edward III
C 135/76 Detailed descriptions at item
level. Items are dated by the date of the writ, but some inquests
were held in succeeding regnal years. This is reflected in the
range of covering dates given to the file
Record Summary
Scope and content Richard de la Bere:
Somerset
Covering dates 19 Edward III (1345
- 1346)
Availability Open Document, Open
Description, Normal Closure before FOI Act: 30 years
Held by The National Archives, Kew
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1346
Richard De la Bere King’s Yeoman lands granted at Salop & Hereford
ref: TAFOW p8
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1346
Sir Richard De la Bere saved Black Prince with Beauchamp
ref: TAFOW p7,8 / S G ABear
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Item details C 241/124/84
Context : quick reference
C Records created, acquired, and
inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal Household,
Exchequer and various commissions
Division within C Records of the Petty
Bag Office
C 241 Chancery: Certificates of
Statute Merchant and Statute Staple
C 241/124 (dated)
Record Summary
Scope and content Debtor: John Pernyle,
Thomas de Hurtecombe, John de East Membury, Robert Uphom, John de
Wotton, John atte Ford, and William atte Beare, of Devon.
Creditor: Sir Roger Prideaux, knight [held
fees in Ermington, Budleigh, Hemyock, and Cliston Hundreds,
Devon]
Amount: £40.
Before whom: Henry de Hugheton, Mayor of
Exeter; John de Cory, Clerk.
When taken: 18/08/1346
First term: 25/12/1346
Last term: 29/09/1347
Writ to: Sheriff of Devon
Sent by: Thomas le Forbour, Mayor of Exeter;
John de Cory, Clerk.
Endorsement: Devon' Cora' Justic' de Banco.
Covering dates 1347 Jul 2
Availability Open Document, Open
Description, Normal Closure before FOI Act: 30 years
Held by The National Archives, Kew
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1347
De Beres of Bere, Dover, Kent extinct by this year
See battle Abbey Roll below
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Item details C 143/285/2
Context : quick reference
C Records created, acquired, and
inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal Household,
Exchequer and various commissions
Division within C Records of the
Chancery as central secretariat
C 143 Chancery: Inquisitions Ad Quod
Damnum, Henry III to Richard III
C 143/285 Inquisitions taken as a
result of applications to the Crown for licences to alienate
land.
Record Summary
Scope and content John Makehayt and Agnes
late the wife of Simon le Peke to retain a messuage and land in Meon-Stoke
acquired from Richard atte Beere. Hants.
Covering dates 21 EDWARD III. 1347/1348
Availability Open Document, Open
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Held by The National Archives, Kew
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Creator(s):
Wingfield Digby family of Sherborne Castle,
Dorset and Coleshill, Warwickshire: the Warwickshire estate
papers Catalogue in Full
Warwickshire
MUNIMENTS OF TITLE
DEEDS
FILE - Quitclaim - ref. MS 3888/A231/1
- date: 21 Edw III Sunday in Annunc. B V M (1348)
Contents
John..... to John le Spencer: all his rights
in annual rent of 12 pence on a piece of land: Witn.: Thomas
Russell; John Bacon; John atte Ber...;... ... Clericus:
Given at COLLESHULL
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BULLER OF DOWNES Catalogue in Full
Creator(s):
Buller family of Downes, Devon
TITLE DEEDS
Aylesbeare
FILE - [no title] - ref. 2065M/T3/3 -
date: 1348
Contents
Grant
William atte Bear iuxta Beaudeport to
Sir John de Raleigh
Lands of John at Ford at Rosemondeford
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1347 - 1359
Sir Richard De la Bere of Emlyn Castle S Wales
ref: TAFOW p9
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Item details C 241/125/25
Context : quick reference
C Records created, acquired, and
inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal Household,
Exchequer and various commissions
Division within C Records of the Petty
Bag Office
C 241 Chancery: Certificates of
Statute Merchant and Statute Staple
C 241/125 (dated)
Record Summary
Scope and content Debtor: Robert Tyrel, of
Herefords. [held part of Dilwyn in Leominster Hundred]
Creditor: Richard de la Bere, knight
[held fee in Burlton, Grimsworth Hundred, and part of a fee in
Stretford, Stretford Hundred, Herefords]
Amount: 20m.
Before whom: Nicholas de Bromyard; John de
Clehonger, Clerk; at Hereford.
When taken: 26/07/1348
First term: 29/09/1348
Last term: 29/09/1348
Writ to: Sheriff of Herefords
Sent by: Richard Hammond, Bailiff, and
Keeper of the Mayor's Seal; John de Clehonger, Clerk; at
Hereford.
Endorsement: Hereford. Bere. Coram Justic'
de Banco.
Covering dates 1348 Oct 20
Availability Open Document, Open
Description, Normal Closure before FOI Act: 30 years
Held by The National Archives, Kew
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1348
Violette de la Bere born at
Kinnersley, Herefordshire. Md Sir John de Chaundos 1363 at
Wellington & died 1364 Wellington
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hwbradley/findex6.htm#BERE
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1350
– 1399 REFERENCES
Item details C 143/301/7
Context : quick reference
C Records created, acquired, and
inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal Household,
Exchequer and various commissions
Division within C Records of the
Chancery as central secretariat
C 143 Chancery: Inquisitions Ad Quod
Damnum, Henry III to Richard III
C 143/301 Inquisitions taken as a
result of applications to the Crown for licences to alienate
land.
Record Summary
Scope and content Richard de la Bere,
knight, to retain a mill and land in Marden acquired from
Henry son of John de Frenne of Sutton, who retains land at
Sutton, Marden, and Wistaston. Hereford.
Covering dates 25 EDWARD III. (1351 -
1352)
Availability Open Document, Open
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Held by The National Archives, Kew
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THE BLUET ESTATE
THE AP REES INHERITANCE
TALGARTH
LORDSHIP OF TALGARTH
FILE - [no title] - ref. BCM/C/2/2/8 -
date: [15 Feb. 1352]
Contents
John de Clambow and Philip ap Rees, knight.
Wed. after St. Valentine, 26 Edw. III
John has quitclaimed to Philip the manor of
Talgarth.
Witnesses: John Talbot, Richard de la
Bere, Reginald de la Mare, John Boulwas, Richard Talbot, knights.
At: Hereford.
[Please quote GC3381 at Berkeley Castle
Muniments when requesting this file]
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1353
Sybil de la Bere of Kynaston,
Herefordshire born. Md Sir Thomas de Crophull 1371
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hwbradley/findex6.htm#BERE
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Piece details E 370/4/4
Context : quick reference
E Records of the Exchequer, and its
related bodies, with those of the Office of First Fruits and
Tenths, and the Court of Augmentations
Division within E Records of the Lord
Treasurer's Remembrancer
E 370 Exchequer: Lord Treasurer's
Remembrancer and Pipe Office: Miscellaneous Rolls
Subseries within E 370 MISCELLANEOUS
Record Summary
Scope and content Foreign Account Rolls, not
otherwise enrolled cf detailed list of Foreign Accounts (E 364):
accounts of receivers for lands late of John Fitzwalter and
others in Essex 25-26 Edw III; of Richard de la Bere for an
embassy; of bailiff of Lymington for a ship seized; of Keeper
of Hanaper 27-29 Edw III
Covering dates temp Edw III (1354 –
1356)
Availability Open Document, Open
Description, Normal Closure before FOI Act: 30 years
Held by The National Archives, Kew
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Piece details E 101/313/23
Context : quick reference
E Records of the Exchequer, and its
related bodies, with those of the Office of First Fruits and
Tenths, and the Court of Augmentations
Division within E Records of the
King's Remembrancer
E 101 King's Remembrancer: Accounts
Various
Subseries within E 101 NUNCII.
Record Summary
Scope and content Particulars of the account
of Richard de la Bere of a journey to Avignon.
Covering dates 28 Edward III. (1354)
Availability Open Document, Open
Description, Normal Closure before FOI Act: 30 years
Note 1 m.
Held by The National Archives, Kew
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1354
De la Bere MP Herefordshire
ref: TAFOW p25
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1357
Richard de la Bere & Thomas A.Barre* Sheriffs of Herefordshire
ref: TAFOW p35
* Member of the De la Barre or Barré family. Ref DNF
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Centre for Metropolitan History
GAZETTEER OF MARKETS AND FAIRS IN ENGLAND
AND WALES TO 1516
Richard de la Bere requested by
Edward III to arrange Kinnesley Fair in 1357
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Item details SC 8/145/7241
Context : quick reference
SC 8 Special Collections: Ancient
Petitions
Subseries within SC 8 PETITIONS TO THE
KING; TO THE KING AND COUNCIL; TO THE COUNCIL; TO THE PARLIAMENT;
AND THE LIKE.
SC 8/145 7201-7250. Individual
petitions are described and dated at Item level.
Record Summary
Scope and content Petitioners: Thomas de
la Vere (Bere).
Addressees: King and council.
Places mentioned: Haselbere (Haselbury
Plucknett), [Somerset].
Other people mentioned: William de
Scharshull (Shareshull), justice.
Nature of request: Thomas de la Vere states
that as he had various actions against various people concerning
various lands, they, in order to prevent him pursuing them,
procured an inquest of office, claiming that the King had reason
to seize half the manor of Haselbury Plucknett into his hand. The
King instructed him to present any reasons why this should not
happen, and seven years ago Thomas appeared in King's
Bench and asked for the matter to be put to a jury. Since then
the matter has been delayed, through malice, until the King's
thirtieth year, when Thomas petitioned, complaining of this, and
was granted letters to William de Scharshull and his companions
to hold the inquest. They have not done so, and he requests new
letters asking them to hold the inquest without more delay, and
that it might be held in the country by a writ of nisi prius, by
a jury of the best and most suitable people of those parts.
Endorsement: Coram rege.
Covering dates [c. 1357-c. 1359]
Availability Open Document, Open
Description, Open on Transfer
Note The petitioner states that he
petitioned in the King's thirtieth year (25 January 1356-24
January 1357), and that this petition has had no result: so this
current petition is likely to date from the next year or so. This
would agree with William de Shareshull's time as Chief Justice of
King's Bench (1350-1360).As the various entries in the Close,
Patent and Fine rolls show, the petitioner was involved in
disputes about both halves of the manor of Haselbury Plucknett.
The relevant half is probably that mentioned in CPR 1350-4 p.338
(dated at Westminster, 14 July 1352), which belonged to Alan de
Plogenet, and was then granted to his sister Joan: this would
then probably be the procured inquest mentioned by this petition,
which would date it to seven years later, ie. c.1359. This would
agree with the dating of SC 8/32/1600, where the dispute has been
going on for ten years. Note also that SC 8/169/8436 apparently
mentions that the dispute has been going on for five years: this
may mean that this petition had been presented in the thirtieth
year (i.e. 1356-7).
Held by The National Archives, Kew
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Ref: A History of the County of Hampshire
Vol 4 (1911) pages 579-580 found on British History Online Ibsley
. John atte Bere died in 1360,
leaving as heir his son Thomas, who died childless in 1362.
(fn. 17) His heirs were his great-nieces Maud daughter of John
Punchardon, son and heir of his sister Sybil, and Joan and
Christine daughters of John Ernys, son and heir of his sister
Katherine. (fn. 18)
NB It doesn’t seem likely that this
John is the son of Sir Richard de la Bere as he died before 1357
when Thomas was claiming his share of Haselbere.
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1362
The Ibbesley line of Hampshire probably ended with another John de la Bere, who died in 1362, for in the next generation the inheritance had fallen to the Stourtons
See Battle Abbey Roll below
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OKEHAMPTON BOROUGH Catalogue in Full
Creator(s):
Okehampton Borough, Devon
Devon Record Office: TITLE DEEDS AND LEASES
FILE - Devon Record Office - ref.
3248A-0/11/31 - date: 1362
Contents
Grant
1 William Bradeston
2 John Stondon and Margery his wife
Premises: One park by Westewater lying
between the way called the Lychwaye and the lane leading from the
town to the Church of All Saints
Witnesses: Richard atte Beare, reeve,
Roger Trechewy, William Hammond, John Sampson, Nicholas Thatcher
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BULLER OF DOWNES Catalogue in Full
Creator(s):
Buller family of Downes, Devon
TITLE DEEDS
Aylesbeare
FILE - [no title] - ref. 2065M/T3/15 -
date: 1363
Contents
Grant
John and Joan Golde of Collumpton (daughter
of Wm. atte Beard) to John Clerk
Tenement at la Beare
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1363 - 1364
Violet de la Bere daughter of John de la Bere a beneficiary from Thomas de Chaundos, knight, land in Dorstone
ref: Chancery C 143/348/2
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1366
John de la Bere of Devon borrows £10 from William Porteioye
ref: Chancery C 241/149/157
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1367
Richard de la Bere, sheriff re Herefordshire
ref: Chancery I C 131/16/10
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Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/20/98
CP 25/1/20/98, number 14.
County: Buckinghamshire.
Place: Westminster.
Date: The day after All Souls, 41
Edward III [3 November 1367].
Parties: John Nothurst, chaplain, and John
atte Bere of Wergraue, querents, by Thomas Hynden', put in
the place of John Nothurst, and Robert de Nansele and Julian, his
wife, deforciants.
Property: 1 messuage, 1 mill, 1
carucate of land, 12 acres of meadow, 10 acres of pasture and 20
shillings of rent in Chalueye.
Action: Plea of covenant.
Agreement: Robert and Julian have
acknowledged the tenements to be the right of John Nothurst, and
have remised and quitclaimed them from themselves and the heirs
of Julian to John and John and the heirs of John Nothurst for
ever.
Warranty: Warranty.
For this: John and John have given
them 100 marks of silver.
Standardised forms of names. (These are
tentative suggestions, intended only as a finding aid.)
Persons: John Nuthurst, John atte
Bere, Thomas Hinden, Robert de Nansele, Julian de Nansele
Places: Wargrave (in Berkshire),
Chalvey (in Upton-cum-Chalvey)
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1369 - 1370
Thomas de la Bere & others are witnesses at Chidiok
ref: Doc D149/T1013
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Arundell of Lanherne and Trerice Catalogue
in Full
Creator(s):
Arundell family of Lanherne and Trerice,
Cornwall
FAMILY PAPERS / FAMILY TRUSTS
FILE - [no title] - ref. AR/20/4 -
date: 1371, Thursday 20th Nov
Contents
(Thursday St Edmund, 45 Edw III); at
Lanhern
Gift in fee tail
John Arundel, knight = (1)
Richard Deuysier, vicar of Sent Ide, and
Matthew Bodrygy, chaplain = (2)-(3)
Indenture testifying that (1) has, by a
simple charter (par une chartre simple) [= AR/20/3], enfeoffed
(2)-(3) of the manor of Lanhern, with fees, and the advowsons of
Sent Columbe and Sent Maugan; on the following conditions:
When (1), by advice of Oliver Sent John,
wishes to have recovery of the manor, fees and advowsons, (2)-(3)
shall re-enfeoff him of them, for (1) and his heirs male from the
body of Isabel daughter of Thomas de Molton, knight, to hold for
ever of the chief lords of the fee, by services due; with
remainder, if (1) dies without heirs male of the body of Isabel,
to the heirs of body of John son of (1); in default of his heirs
of body, remainder to the heirs male of body of (1); in default
of such heirs, remainder to Oliver de Sent John for term of his
life; after his death, remainder to John de Sent John, elder son
of Oliver, for term of his life; after his death, remainder to
the heirs male of Oliver from the body of Elizabeth daughter
of John de La Beere, knight; in default of such heirs,
remainder to Margaret daughter of (1), wife of Reginald Beuyle,
for term of her life; after her death, remainder to Ralph son of
Reginald and Margaret, for term of his life; after his death,
remainder to Ralph Soor de Taluren and his heirs male of his
body; in default of such heirs, remainder to John Colyn de
Lannanta and his heirs male from the body of Rose his wife,
cousin to (1); in default of such heirs, remainder to the true
heirs of (1) for ever.
If, before the time of re-feoffment by
(2)-(3) to (1), (1) wishes to take another estate of the manor,
fees and advowsons and to change the remainders, then (2)-(3)
shall re-enfeoff him and entail the remainders as (1), by the
advice of Oliver Seint John, shall decide. Such ordinances,
estates and wills shall be performed during the life of John
Arundell, son of John Arundell de Treloy, son of (1). If (1) dies
before the re-feoffment, then (2)-(3) shall make a feoffment of
them to the heirs male of (1) from the body of Isabel, and shall
entail the remainders as above.
Richard Cerciaux, Theobald Greyneuyll and
Thomas Sent Aubyn, knights, Oto Bodrugan, Nicholas Wanford,
Richard Tirel, Michael Trewynhelek, John Nanscuuel.
[19th century] "probably his second wife".
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1371 - 1372
Richard de la Ber, knight, grants a mill & meadow in Marden, Herefordshire, retaining manor of Kinnersley, Herefordshire
ref: Chancery C 243/375/15
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1374
Richard de la Bere, knight, creditor, part of fee in Stretford, Herefordshire
ref: Chancery C 241/156/89 & 9
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1375
Nicholas de la Bere requests a writ be sent to the Governor of Ireland re archdeaconry of Glendalough
ref: Ancient Petitions SC 8/228/11362
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1377 – 1378
? de la Bere v Rex contest castle of Eardisely County, Herefordshire
ref: Chancery C 44/9/11
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1378
Thomas atte Bear of Yonstowe, Devon, a witness
ref: D1508M/Moger/131
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1380 - 1381
John atte Bere Merchant of Southampton borrows £30
ref: NI Chancery C241/166/59
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1384 - 1385
William atte Bere Serjeant of Southampton.
ref: NI Ancient Petitions SC 8/213/10606
& 10608
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THE CALLEY PAPERS
Catalogue Ref. 1178
Creator(s):
Calley family of Burderop, Wiltshire
THE CALLEY FAMILY: MISCELLANEOUS
NON-WILTSHIRE PROPERTIES, ARRANGED BY COUNTY
SOMERSET
Henstridge
FILE [no title] - ref. 1178/254
- date: 1389
[from Scope and Content] Agreement between
John Chitterne clerk and Thomas de la Bere that John will have a
deed enrolled in Chancery enfeoffing Thomas with the manor of
Sulesmerssh and all property in the parish of Henstridge.
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Michael atte Beare thought to be
living at Beare near Hele, N Devon.
Beara farm is about half a kilometre to the south-east of Hele, just off the old road from Hele to Berrynarbor. Beara, along with West Haggington and possibly Little Town, probably belonged to the Saxon Manor of West Haggington. In 1408 Beara was probably occupied by Michael atte Beare.
Beera was probably the home of Michael atte
Beare (1408 Ass) v. Bearu (Gover et al 1932 p 48)
ref: A History of Hele, near Ilfracombe,
north Devon, by John H Moore
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1409 - 1410
John de la Bere – inquisition & post mortem Hereford & the adjacent Marches of Wales
ref: Chancery C 137/79/36
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1411 – 1412
Thomas de la Bere partitions lands in Glamorganshire with William Gamage & others
ref: Chancery C 47/9/32.
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1413
Robert Atte Bere sells two crofts of land and a moor called Scotfold in Woodley
ref: BRO Ewen papers D/EE/T1/1/6
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Early 15th
century
Henry atte Bere & others re grant
ref: Chancery Court Archives
CCA-DCc-ChAnt/O/4
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1421 – 1422
Richard de la Bere, knight and wife Elizabeth grant to Richard Wolweye, chaplain, estates in Yngulflod Balat in Kyntebury, Ynkpenne, Hungerford & Sillamstede, Berkshire
ref: Chancery C C 146/395
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1426 – 1427
John de la Bere esq & Sawacrus de la Bere & others in Pembrokeshire?
ref: Land Revenue E LR 14/601
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1432 - 1433
Henry atte Beare of Totnes, Devon
ref: Chancery C 1/9/301
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1432 – 1443
Richard de la Bere, knight re false inquest on William Aythyn killed in a riot at Kinnersley, Hereford
ref: Chancery C 1/11/171
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1435
John Delabere clerk granted manor of Clifton Hampden 20 miles from Wargrave
ref: TAFOW p26 John Delabere is the Bishop of St David’s. Ref DNF
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1437 -1438
John de la Bere & others - ? demised.
ref: Pencombe Account A63/1/1/30
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1439 - 1442
Kenneth de la Bere late escheator
– two accounts of lands in Estmore, Hereford.
ref: Exchecquer E 370/4/4
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1444
Nicholas atte Bere pays rent on lands in Chevening, Kent
ref: U1590/T5/38
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1447
John de la Bere and others have done fealty re land & tenements in Spareweton, Herefordshire
ref: Pencombe Court A63/1/1/1
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Richard de la Bere, knight deceased – daughters Elizabeth, Isabel, Jane & Sybil Profits of the manors of Chadnor (Chabnore) & Streford, Herefordshire
ref: Chancery C 1/19/132
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1452 – 1454 (possibly 1493 –
1500)
A place called Berreplase in Wargrave sold
by Robert Elleworth.
ref: Chancery C 1/22/45
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1455
John Delabere Bishop of St David’s to John Merbury & Robert Wesenham grants right to manor at Gayton
ref: Hawley /1/C & Hawley /1/C/1
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1457 - 1458
John de la Bere Bishop of St David’s, Pembrokeshire?
ref: Exchecquer DD E 211/479
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1478
William Abeare acquires land – Bycroft in Wargrave – from William Webbe
See next section of work
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THE
BATTLE ABBEY ROLL.
WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE NORMAN LINEAGES.
BY THE DUCHESS OF CLEVELAND.
IN THREE VOLUMES.—VOL. I
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
1889.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.
This electronic edition was prepared by
Michael A. Linton, 2007
www.1066.co.nz
Delaber or De la Barre, from La Barre, in the Cotentin, constantly abbreviated to De Bere or Bere, in which latter form it appears in Duchesne's copy. This name was borne by many families in the South and West of England. A Kentish house, "of good account in this Island," claimed descent from Richard de Bere, one of the Recognitores magna Assissae for the county in the reign of King John (1199 – 1216) . Quickmannus de Bere—a queer name—occurs in an early charter, and in 1236 Nicholas de Bere held Bere (now Beer's Court), "which, though now only a manor by repute, had once large quit-rents and services belonging to it, as appears by an old Court Roll."—Hasted's Kent. William de Bere, of the same place, was King's Bailiff of Dover in 1274 and 1276, as was Valentine de Bere in 1308: but the name was extinct there before 1347. It only reappears after a gap of two hundred years, when John Bere of Horseman's Place, near Dartford, received from Henry VIII. a grant of Tonge Mill and Greenhithe Ferry, and "conveyed to him sundry premises within the King's new park at Sevenoke." The last of the Beres of Horseman's Place died in 1627.
We next meet with them in Hampshire and the adjoining counties. Peter de la Bere, in the thirteenth century, held his land in La Bere under Porchester Castle, but, for some reason or other, it was seized by the King, and given to Roger Le Conner and his son. Henry III. granted to John de la Bere—perhaps Peter's son—certain privileges and exemptions at Ibbesley, in the New Forest, that continued in force two hundred years afterwards. "Of that charter no enrolment is extant: but, in right of it, the Ibbesley dogs were not subject to expeditation, and the Ibbesley hogs and beasts had free pannage in the forest."—Woodward's Hants. The line probably ended with another John de la Bere, who died in 1362, for in the next generation the inheritance had fallen to the Stourtons.
William de Bere was knight of the shire for Somerset in 1300, and Gilbert de la Bere in 1311 and 1313. Richard de la Bere, in 1316, was Lord of Todbere and Thornton, Dorset; Greenhurst and Eye, Bedfordshire; and Islip, Fawcote, Morcote, and Oke, Oxfordshire: a Conservator of the Peace in the latter county in 1314, a Commissioner of Array in 1316, and its representative in Parliament in 1325. Thomas de la Bere was pardoned as an adherent of Roger de Mortimer in 1321, and served as knight of the shire for Dorset in 1335,1337, I342, 1343, and 1345.—Palgrave's Parl. Writs.
In Devonshire, Sir David de la Bere held Littleham, Alsington, and Langcross in the time of Edward II . "Beer Hall, in Axminster parish, belonged to Walter de la Bere, and continued in the name for divers descents, till Englesia, daughter of Alexander de la Bere, carried it to the Okestons."—Pole's Devon.
One or more branches existed in Cornwall. "At Treravall, in the parish of St. Ervan, lived George Bere, the representative of a very ancient family. There was formerly in the hundred of West a family of the same name, of great wealth and account in Henry VIII.'s days, but whether or not related to this family I cannot tell. Their great estate went with a daughter and heir to John Bevill, Sheriff of Cornwall 16 Eliz., and was no small advancer of that gentleman's estate."—Gilbert's Cornwall.
Still another family is found in Herefordshire, where Robert de Bere, in 1316, was Lord of Stratford. There is extant a curious memorial from Dame Elizabeth Delabeare, wife of Sir Richard Delabeare of Weobley, to Edmund Duke of Buckingham, "setting forth her services in rescuing him from destruction, at the time of his father's apprehension." It seems that the latter had committed the young Lord Stafford, disguised in a frieze coat, to the care of Sir Richard, until such time as he sent for him by a token, delivered with the words, Et tu es Petrus et super hauc petram. But this time was never to come, for the Duke was soon after beheaded, and a price of 1000 marks set on the head of the poor boy, who was diligently sought for in all directions. Then trusty Dame Elizabeth shaved his head, "and put upon him a maiden's raiment, and so conveyed him to Newchurche:" and when a Royal emissary summoned her to deliver him up, boldly asserted that "there was none such Lorde there, and that ye will knowe, for ye shall see the house searched." For better security, she moved him about from place to place, and once, when "there came a great cry owt of Wales, she took my L. Stafforde in her Lappe, and went through a brooke with him into the park of Kinmardsley, and then sat with him four hours, until William ap Symon came to her and told her that noe man came nigh the place." At length, she left him in safety at the house of a friend in Hereford, having taken him there in the "midst of the Daie, and he riding behynde William ap Symon, asyde upon a Pillowe like a gentlewoman, ridde in gentlewoman's apparell. And I wisse," she adds coaxingly, "he was the fairest gentlewoman and the best that ever she hadd in her Daies or ever shall have, whom she prayeth God dailie to preserve from his enemies, and to send him good fortune and grace."
In Gloucestershire the De la Beres are said to have held Southam-de-la-Bere from the time of the Conquest; but the pedigree given in Sir Richard Atkyns' History of the county makes Richard de la Bere, who was living in 1390, only fourth in descent from the first Sir Richard that settled there: whereas an interval of more than two hundred and forty years could scarcely be spanned by less than seven, if not eight, generations. The son and namesake of this latter Richard, who likewise lived in the reign of Ed. II., succeeded to the estate of Alan Lord Plugenet as heir of the whole blood; and in the following generation Sir John de la Bere married Agnes, the granddaughter and co-heiress of Sir Gilbert de Turbevile. Thirteenth in descent from John was Kynard, "who hath a handsome large seat in this place, and a great estate." This was written in 1712. Three-and-twenty years afterwards, Kynard had died without posterity, bequeathing his estate to his nephew William Bagehot of Prestbury, who thereupon assumed the name and arms of De la Bere. It should be noted that Sir Richard Atkyns invariably uses the old form of De la Barr.
"At Southam there is still preserved a very curious picture, representing a knight kneeling on a cushion and holding in his hand a helmet which has just received the crest—a plume of five ostrich feathers issuing out of a ducal coronet. The constant tradition has been that this picture (certainly a very ancient one) commemorates a distinction conferred by Edward the Black Prince upon Sir Richard de la Bere, who rescued him from imminent peril in the battle of Crecy (1346)."—Castles of Herefordshire and their Lords, by C. J. Robinson.
Hutchins tells us that Bere Hacket, in Dorsetshire, "derived its distinctive name from a certain Haket de Bere, who was living in the time of Henry I., in like manner as Breamston is supposed to be so named from Brian de Insula." The Beres continued there till the fourteenth century.
Extract from the De Banco Roll:
"Trinity: 6 Henry VII [ie. 1490]. m. 440:
Hampshire: William Symson was summoned to answer William Serle for illegal distress at a place called Langfords' Close in Soberton. Peter de Hoo gave the manor of Holywell to Nicholas at Bere, from whom it passed to his daughter Joanna at Bere, then to her son William Langford, then to his son, Robert Langford, then to his son Edward Langford, then to his son Thomas Langford who demised to the plaintiff. The case was adjourned."
Holywell is at Swanmore in Hampshire. The Langfords' main residence was at Bradfield in Berkshire. Joan at Bere's husband was Sir Thomas Langford, their son, William, was also a knight.
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