in lib. et pur. et perp. elem., unam bov. terræ in Normanby, viciniorem1 parti occidentali, illam scil. quam Rogerus filius Rogeri Lost de Normanby coram Justiciariis Domini Regis apud Eboracum dirationavit, et michi dedit pro homagio et servitio meo, cum omnibus pert. libertatibus et aisiamentis infra villam et extra prædictæ terræ pertinentibus. Tenend. libere, et quiete, et pacifice, de prædicto Rogero filio Rogeri Lost et hær. ejus, faciendo ei et hær. ejus forinsecum servitium, quantum pertinet uni bov. terræ, unde decem car. etc. Et sciendum quod si ego Stephanus habuero hæredem de uxore mea desponsata, prædicta bov. terræ revertetur ad hæredes meos, sol [v]endo annuatim prædictis Can. de Gyseburne sex den. in Annunciatione B. Mariæ. Si vero hæredem de uxore mea desponsata non habuero, prædicta bov. terræ prædictis Can. in perp. quiete remanebit. Hanc donationem feci, pro animabus patris mei, et matris meæ, et omnium antecessorum meorum, et pro anima Willelmi de Percy, Domini mei. H. T. Domino Petro de Brus, Willelmo de Tameton, Ricardo et Jordano fratribus ejus, Rogero de Marton, Radulfo Capellano de Gyseburne, Johanne Diacono, Willelmo filio Rogeri de Thocotes, Willelmo nepote ejus, Hugone de Hoton, Waltero fratre ejus, Willelmo de Uplyum, et aliis. DCIII. Ricardus filius Roberti de Normanby2 . . . Deo etc., in lib. pur. et perp. elem., unam bov. terræ cum pert. in Campis de Normanby: illam scil. bov. terræ, quam Ricardus filius Henrici aliquando de me tenuit ad firmam; et toftum unum cum crofto in villa de Normanby, illud scil. quod jacet propinquius tofto Henrici filii Godefridi ex parte orientali. T. et H. præfatis Can. libere, quiete, et honorifice, cum omnibus pert., libertatibus, et aisiamentis, infra villam et extra, ad eandem bov. terræ et prædictum toftum cum crofto pertinentibus . . . H. T. Domino Thoma de Wilton, Thoma de Tocotes, Ricardo de Hoton, Roberto de Pothou, Johanne de Tocotes, Johanne de Pothou, Roberto Blanchard, Henrico de Normanby, Reinero de Bayus, et m. a. DCIV. (235) Ricardus de Normanby. . . Deo etc., duas selliones in Campo de Normanby, habentes triginta sex percatas, quæ jacent inter terras ipsorum Can. apud Falchus. T. et H. cum omnibus pert., in lib. pur. et perp. elem. . . . H. T. Willelmo de Tocotes, Ricardo de Hoton, Willelmo de Salkoc, Johanne de Thocotes, Johanne de Thorp, Johanne de Bernaldeby, Petro Westiby, Petro Nurri, et m. a. 1 Viciniori. 2 Confirmed by Peter de Brus II. (i. 96). DCV. Ricardus Hayr de Normanby Deo etc., cum corpore meo, tres acras terræ in Campis de Normanby in lib. pur. et perp. elem., viz. in Midelwenth dim. acram, supra Arkilmire dim. acram, inferius Arkilmire dim. acram, supra Swardemolde dim. acram, supra Blaland dim. acram, in pratis dim. acram . . . H. T. Domino Ricardo de Normanby, Johanne de Normanby Clerico, Johanne de Pothou, Roberto Blankard, Radulfo de Semer, Rogero de Berwic, Rogero de Ormesby, Roberto Stute, et m. a. DCVI. Eda uxor quondam Rogeri Thymwith de Normanby Noverit universitas vestra me in libera viduitate mea et plena potestate quietam clamasse Priori et Conventui de Gyseburne, totam tertiam partem quæ me contingebat, nomine dotis, de tota terra cum pert., quam tenent in villa de Normanby de tenemento quod aliquando fuit Rogeri quondam mariti mei. . . . H. T. Domino Ada de Hylton, Willelmo de Thocotes, Ricardo de Hotona, Johanne de Bernalby, Ada de Lyum, Petro Westiby, Petro Nurri, Thoma Pulayn, Ada Parvo, Willelmo de Uplyum, et aliis. DCVII. Ricardus Blanchard de Normanby . . . Noveritis me red [d] idisse, et quantum ad me pertinet, penitus resignasse Domino Radulfo, Priori de Gyseburne,1 homagium quod eidem feceram de una dim. bov. terræ in Lankenby; quæ scil. fuit maritagium Matildis matris meæ, et quam de eodem Priore quandoque tenueram. Unde volo et concedo pro me et hær. meis, et præsentium tenore plene recognosco, dictum Priorem vel succ. suos ratione præfati homagii in nullo michi vel hær. meis teneri imperp. In cujus rei test. præsentibus litteris sigillum meum apposui coram his testibus, Johanne de Laysingby, Roberto de Marreys, Ricardo de Lyum, Ricardo de Westbec, Nicholao de Mideltune, Willelmo Beuchamp, et m. a. DCVIII. Adam de Brus . . . Deo et Ecclesiæ S. M. Rievallensi, et mon. ibid. Deo servientibus, pischarium de Normanby et viij acras terræ quas dimisit eis Rogerus Host. Tenend. libere et quiete ab omni terreno servitio et exactione sæculari, cum viis et semitis, et omnibus aliis rebus, per omnia sicut in carta ejusdem Rogeri continetur, et hæredum 1 Ralph de Irton, Prior, 1262-1280. 2 This charter has been printed in the Rievaulx Chartulary (p. 232n), from the original, now in the York Museum. The more important differences are Normanebi for Normanby, Tolebu for Tollebou, Rainaldo for Reginaldo, and the addition of the following witnesses at the end, "Alexandro Camerario, Roberto de Hot(ona), Stephano Pincerna, Willelmo de Maltebi, Willelmo Coco, Johanne filio Johannis, Godefrido de Maltebi, Rogero filio Baldrici de Martona, Thoma Pistore." ejus. H. T. Roberto (236) de Martona Clerico, Willelmo Ingelram, Stephano Rosel, Willelmo Heriz, Symone1 Tollebou, Willelmo de Tameton, et Ricardo filio ejus, Stephano de Piketon, Hugone Huncle, Reginaldo de Tunstal, Rogero genero Rogeri Host, et Willelmo fratre ejus, et aliis. DCIX.2 Petrus de Brus. . . Deo etc., donum Ricardi Lost de Normanby, scil. duas bov. terræ in Campis de Normanby, quas idem Ricardus eis in pur. et perp. elem. dedit in illa parte culturæ suæ, quæ est ab orientali parte villæ juxta viam versus austrum, sicut in carta ejusdem Ricardi continetur. Unde volo et concedo, ut habeant et teneant prædictas bov. et illam partem culturæ, sicut prædictum est, cum omnibus pert. suis, in perp. elem., liberas et quietas ab omni sæculari servitio et consuetudine et exactione; salvo servitio meo a prædicto Ricardo. Concedo etiam eis, et confirmo, donum Stephani filii Henrici de Percy, scil. unam bovatam terræ in eadem villa, cum pert. suis, sicut in carta ejusdem Stephani continetur. Salvo inde michi servitio meo, quantum pertinet ad unam bov. terræ, unde decem car. terræ faciunt feudum unius militis. H. T. Willelmo de Tameton, Senescallo meo, Robert Tolebou," Roberto Angeram,* Roberto de Acclum, Willelmo de Tueng, Willelmo Clerico, Goce, et aliis." MARTONA. DCX. (236) Sciant omnes [hoc] scriptum audientes, quod ego Eudo de Sothewast concessi, et hac cartæ mea confirmavi Ecclesiæ S. Maria de Gyseburne et Fratribus ibid. Deo servientibus, dimidiam Ecclesiam de Martona, quam eis dedit et concessit in lib. et perp. et quiet. elem. Adám frater, me præsente et concedente, hærede ejus. Testibus hiis. Johanne Engeram, Roberto Galicien, Petro et Stephano de Sothewaste, 1 Synone. 2 The original of this charter is in the York Museum. Seal of red wax, circular, over two inches in diameter, with shield bearing the Brus lion. SIGILLVM PETRI DE BRVIS. It is printed in the Monasticon Anglicanum, vi. 271, where it is stated a seal was attached to the deed bearing a horse and the inscription PETRVS DE BRVS. 3 Tolebu. York Museum. 4 Argentum. Ibid. The reading in the text is probably the right one, Angeram being a form of Engeram. 5 et aliis omitted in the original. 6 At the date of the foundation charter the other moiety of this church had already been given to Guisbrough by Robert Sturmy (i. 3). In the confirmation of the same charter by Henry II. (i. 16), the gift is said to have been made by Robert and William Sturmy, but this assertion is nowhere else repeated. fratribus meis, alio Petro de Sothewast, Radulfo Pucoys, Roberto de Prestervile nepote1 meo, Hugone Luggis, Roberto de Kirchevile, Roberto le Bretun nepote meo, Hospmel. 4 DCXI. Hugo Malabestia, consensu et3 favore Hugonis 1 Nepone. 2 The original is in the Bodleian Library, Yorkshire Charters, No. 53. 3 et omitted in the original. The pedigree of the family of Malabestia, more usually Malbisor Malebisse, is in a very unsatisfactory state. I give a few notes which may be of use in framing one more trustworthy than has hitherto been given. The earliest occurrence of the name is in Hampshire in 10 Hen. 11. (Pipe Roll, p. 25), when a certain Robert Malebissa, or Milebissa, assisted in conveying the treasure chest (arcam thesauri) from Winchester to London. It is in no way proved that this person had anything to do with the Yorkshire family of a similar name. When the name occurs again, two years later (Ibid. 12 Hen. II., p. 49), there is no doubt on this point. Then we find a William Malebisse holding land in the Ainsty, no doubt at Acaster Malbis, and a Hugh Malebisse in Ryedale. The following year (Ibid. 13 Hen. II., pp. 91, 93) William and Hugh Malebisse are again mentioned, this time it being distinctly stated that Acaster belonged to the former. A year later (Ibid. 14 Hen. II., p. 74) William Malebisse occurs under Lincolnshire as a surety in five marcs for Edric de Ellesham. This is all the information afforded by the Pipe Rolls as far as published. A charter in the Rievaulx Chart. (p. 213) proves that William and Hugh Malebisse were brothers. By this charter Richard Malebisse, who must have been the son of the abovenamed William Malebisse, granted to Rievaulx certain lands in Seawton, for the health of the soul of Hugh Malebise his uncle (patrui), and of Hugh his son. Dodsworth (MSS. lxiii. 64) says that Hugh Malebisse, senior, died in the Holy Land. He had two sons, William and Hugh. The latter died some time shortly before Sept., 1206, when his widow, Constance, and her second husband, Robert de Lutrinton, brought an action against William Malebisse for her dower in Marton, Bagby, Tolesby, and Newham, and against Richard Malebisse for her dower in Hawnby, Scawton and Dale (Pedes Finium Ebor., 6-16 John. Nos. 25, 48). From the way these brothers are mentioned in the Rievaulx Chart. (p. 42n), Hugh being placed first, it would seem that Hugh was the elder, but this is nega tived by a Plea Roll of the reign of John (Placita de tempore Johannis. Annis incertis, No. 51, m. 3), which proves that William was the eldest son, and that Hugh died without issue. By the plea in question it appears that an assize was going to be taken to ascertain whether Hugh Malebisse, brother of Amicia, wife of Stephen de Blaby, was seised in demesne of four carucates of land in Hawnby (Halmby), and whether he died thus seised after the first coronation of Richard I., which holding John Malebisse then possessed. This John came and said that an assize ought not to be taken, as Hugh had an elder brother, William by name, to whom that inheritance descended, as Hugh died without heir of his body. As this was found to be the fact no assize was taken. There was another Hugh Malebisse living at this time, who inherited lands in Wensley, and Ellerton in Cambridgeshire, from Wimar, son of Warner, whose widow, Helewisa, brought an action against him in 1204 for her dower in these places (Feet of Fines, Divers Counties. John. No. 35). He was still alive in 1208, when he was married to one Beatrice, in whose right he possessed half a knight's fee in Boelton and Texton, now Bolton in Wensleydale and Theakston (Pedes Finium Ebor, 6-16 John. No. 150). At the time of Kirkby's Inquest (1284-5) Bagby and Marton were in the possession of a Stephen de Blaby, so that it is clear that William Malebisse died without issue like his brother Hugh, and that the estates of this branch of the Malebisse family passed through 1 [filii et hæredis mei . . . Deo et Ecclesiæ S. Cuthberti de Martona,2 XL3 acras terræ; viginti scil. ex una parte villæ, et viginti ex alia parte, assignatas in culturis versus meridiem, in Kirkeflat xv acras, et in Milemerke v acras versus boream, in Pattekerflat et Berewaldflat xv acras, in Grenesic v; pro salute animæ meæ, et uxoris meæ sponsæ, et antecessorum meorum, et liberorum meorum, in pur. et lib. elem., solutam et quietam ab omni sæculari servitio. H. T. Roberto Persona ejusdem Ecclesiæ, Roberto de Anverse, Gilberto Bretun, Gylberto le Blunt, Magistro Alano. 5 DCXII. Omnibus has litteras visuris vel audituris, Willelmus de Lanum, Archidiaconus Dunelm.,"salutem in Domino. Noveritis me spontanea voluntate, pure et absolute, resignasse Priori et Can. de Gyseburne, quicquid juris habui in fructibus Ecclesiæ suæ de Martona, et in terris, domibus, et in omnibus aliis ad prædictam Ecclesiam [pertinentibus], quæ ex concessione eorundem Can. aliquo tempore habui et possedi. Et in hujus resignationis meæ test. præsens scriptum sigilli mei munimine duxi roborandum. DCXIII. Robertus de Marto [na] . . . Deo etc., mansum meum in Martona, cum pomerio meo, et prato, et crofto: et præterea octo acras terræ in Campo de Martona ex dono Willelmi de Bernaldeby,' scil. iiijor acras ex una parte villæ, et quatuor ex altera, cum duobus toftis, sicut in carta ejusdem Willelmi continetur, quam eisdem Can. resignavi: præterea ex dono Willelmi filii Tosti, et Rogeri filii Matildis unam acram in Slecthenges, et unam in Rennandkelde, et unam in Buirtrekelde, et duas in Prestsic. H. T. Willelmo Abbate de Rievallis, Elia Priore de Brindilgtona, Andrea Priore de Kirkam, 8 Amicia, sister of William and Hugh Malebisse, and wife of Stephen de Blaby, to the Blaby family. Stephen and Amicia were alive in 1234, when they were possessed of land in Marton (No. 645). See note to No. 641 for an account of the Blaby family, and note to No. 689 for the descendants of William Malebisse of Acaster Malbis. 1 Omitted in both. See Rievaulx Chartulary, p. 233. If, as is proved above, Hugh was a younger son, he must have been his father's heir to property acquired by a second mar |