A HISTORY ()F THE OF HEREFORDSHIRE JlY THE REV. CHARLES J. ROBINSON, M.A. VICAR OF NORTON CANON AND CHAPLAIN TO THE EARL OF CAITHNESS; AUTHOR OF "A HISTORY OF THE CASTJ.F.S OF HEREFORDSHIRE AND THEIR LOil.US." · :rnacrrb:obcrm ----~ 'Jllt~ ~~utll r·a:go ,~8~d]:[ ·ob ~ ¢trnmuuo[ · UO(J:~TO?I - > ~ - z i ii ct~llotu~~;~ f;i\ ~ \ manor of Burf lnllingijom who had it 2 afterwards som ~R Bullinghope gives its name to a Prebend in the Cathedral Church Masters "who II and has been attached to the Deanery from an early period. The wards aboute 1 ~ Upper manor now belongs to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, but cl au. of Thorn ' within the Lower " is a small royalty belong ing to y" Berrows or in Burghill. f­ Barrows, the last heir of which matched with an hei ress of a branch of y" the death of !­ Baskervilles wh were of Canon Peon and had a good estate in these parts, Howarth (son but, leaving a dau. his heiress, dyed 1654 or 3·" (Hart. MS. 6726.) Judi th He marri eel IV Barrow the heiress, mar. Herbert Perrott, a clever satirist, who was stabbed Aug., I 728, I by Captain South in a London tavern, 1677, and di ed without issue." (See Burghill to h Wellington). GRAFTON belonged successively to the Parrys and the West­ sister, M argar phalings-the first of the latter family which was seated there being William l3urghill was Westphaling (2nd son of H erbert of Rudhall), who married E li z. dau. of Rich. to the Rev. I Thurston of Challock, co. Kent, and died in r687, leaving an only son, James, name bequeat the elder of whose daughters and co-heirs was E lizabeth, wife of Thomas now enjoy it. Apperley, M.D., of Hereford. H e died 25 th May, r 735, leaving a son of century, the ol the same name, whose son (by his wife, Mary, dan. of Sir Geo. Caswall, and dating fro1 of Leominster) settled at Plasgronow near VV rex ham, and afterwards at TILLI NG T< Wotton House, Gloucester. The manor-house of Lower Bullingham is now the Episcopal the residence of Dr. Browne, Bishop of Menevia, and m:::Js t of the property to erect a ch:: belongs to F. R. Wegg- Prosser. Grafton and Lower Bullingham were, Sir John Eylc until I 866, within the parish of St. Martin's, Hereford. formed part o end of the si) *She was buried at Canon Pyon r8th Jan., 1675, h av in ~ given birth to a son, Francis, afterwards wa (bapt. 5th July, 1675,) WhO died S.p . Lingens held Thomas Car]J sole dau. and pen ter, cl ie d i lnrgijill. Tyler, Vicar William Tayl As early as the reign of King John the manor was held by a branch of the children of th house of Mynors, which ended in three co-heirs. One of these, Isabella, a1tte and Sarah, wi r 2 26, sold her share to her sister's son, Roger de Burghill, whose descendants to one-third, :: (see Withington) held it as late as r Edw. III. (Phillipps MSS.) It then which was s< appears to have been purchased by T homas, Lord Berkeley (Smyth's Lives o.f daughters nm tlze B erke!eys, f. r 35) and soon afterwards belonged to the fami ly of Eylesforcl traces of antic or Eynesford. (Hz!!'s MS.) Sir John Eylesford died seised of it 19 Ric. II., placed was, ir an? his widow Isabel, ·:< (married to Richard de Ia More,) 9 Hen. V. The rooms (" one hetress o~ ~ylesf~rd married Piers Milbourn, whose grandson, Symon Mil ­ extensive offic bourn, dtvided his large estate t amongst his thirteen daughters. The * In a list o of Breeon, are rr * He had previously married Christian, dau. of Gerard, son of Gerard the brother of Lord Winifrida Master Furnival . must be about I . t Some curious s~atezT.lents are made in I-Iarl. llifS., 6596, in reference to the Eylesfords and t In the to" .\lzlbourn.s . S1r John zs sazd to have " received the King into his house and kept him certain and at the end c days at hzs own cost and charges;" "King EJward V. and Sir Piers Milborne descended of two property. H e w . · ters ;" " Simon Milbomc went to law with King H enry VIII. and recoYe rcd an advowson of land in the same £ so, and against the King." MANOR IIOUSES OF HEREFORDSHIRE. 263 ~~~ manor, about the year 1670, to Edward Barker, a merchant. From his on belonged heirs it appears to have passed to Lord Chandos, and thus, by purchase, bert, Earl of to the Governors of Guy's Hospital, its present lords. The manor-house . WHITWICK, is described by Blount as being in his time ancient, and as having wncey,'f who " a remarkable Bake-house adjoining to it." '• devolved to y Wyndham. The Church, with a curious wooden tower, has some interesting 627, by John features. Encaustic tiles of the date 1456 (from Sugwas Chapel, Blount) ienated it, in are preserved in the chancel and there is an alabaster slab bearing the vounger son, effigies of .Richard Greenway and his wife, of the date 1476. ''In the le, and he, in west window are pictures of two women with crowns .on their Heads; Langley), in the one holding, as it seems, a chalice in her Hand, having her hair [e sold it to disheveled-perhaps intended for St. Mary Magdalen, to whom the Church nope) whose is dedicated .. in the Chancel East window St. Catherine with her wheel." state in this (Blount.) 10 Younger, , co. Wore., he property, n it has des- r... isle, Thomas, 1728. of Cromwell's ~utton, :oh. of J ames, .ncestor of the rst, co. Sussex. · THE English town south of the Roman Camp,* was a place of importance issue, a son of before Hereford had a beginning-indeed it may be said to have contri­ John of Tar­ buted very largely to the rise of the latter, for it was in the palace of riavel's. The King Offa at Sutton that Ethelbert was murdered, and it was the murder r of Stretton, ard and Ann, of Ethelbert that led to the enrichment of the Cathedral of Hereford. Lme was V. of Not only did Offa, as an atonement for his bloody deed, bestow upon the church large gifts of lanJ and money, but the shrine which he erected phins. John above his royal victim's remains was the resort of countless pilgrims lOS. Arundel!. whose presence must have been a source of wealth to the city as well as to the church. At the Conquest, SuTTON ST. NrcoLAS was held by Nigel the Physician, and in the reign of Henry I. by Alexander le Seculer, whose heiress married Walter de Fresne of Freene about the year r 290 (see Moccas). From this family Sutton St. Nicolas acquired the name of Sutton Freene, and after they ha~ ceased to hold it (cz'rca he ancient 1380) became subdivided. Two parts came into the possession of the Lacy held Talbots, and were sold, by Sir John Talbot, to Clementia, dau. and w nothing heir of Stephen Write, who carried them in marriage to Richard Walwyn nds of the of Hellens in 1420. A branch of the Walwyns lived here (Par. Reg.), sold the and Walwyn Shepheard. the eventual heir, sold the estate, in 1795. to Thomas Gibbons. The other portion of Sutton St. Nicolas belonged (atilda, d . of " Sutton Walls, which is proved by its name to have been a. R0man camp, appears to have · Humphrey been occupied by the British for the same purpose, and ultimately used as the so-called palace o have been of the Kings of Mercia. MANOR HOUSES OF HEREFORDSHIRE. to the Walshes and was sold by them to the family of Seabourne''" Barre return ( Brome's MS.), who seem to have held it about a century. Christopher passed by m Seabourne sold it, circa I640, to Sir Henry Lingen, whose dau., eventual purchased b: heiress, married John U nett (son of Fran cis U nett of Castle Frome, property in Sheriff, I66S) and carried it into that family, in which it remained until Hopton had its sale, by Henry Unett, in I846. WooDVILLE, part of the same to his repres estate, was built by Mrs. Coates, youngest sister of the late Henry of Barr's Cc U nett, and has just been sold to William Chick of Hereford. SuTTON Derby, part ST. MICHAEL formed part of the possessions of the Preceptory of long held. Dinmore, and both before and after the Dissolution was held by the Lingens Pooles (see ~ and Seabournes, as tenants. It was granted by Henry VIII., in IS4S. Rectory bela to Hugh ap Harry and Eleanor, his wife, who sold it to William Dudley, Dissolution, and he to Lingen, who thus became owner of the greater part of both John Lingen Suttons. FRENE's CouRT, partly in Marden, was, until its sale by the estate, been Lingens, the seat of the Seabournes, "a family of good antiquity and very considerable estate, but now reduced to a low ebb." (Blount's MS.) Both manors are now attached to Moreton Court, having been purchased by the late Thomas Evans, but the bulk of the property belongs to the J auncey family. • From the pedigree of the family, entered at the Vis. of r634, it appears that John Seabourne of Sutton, haci, by his wife ( dau.