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In 1412 / 3 a Magister John Revell is a witness to the will of Robert Newby, Rector of Whitchurch and an Official of the archdeacon of Oxford. 11 William Revell who married Maud Stanlake There are several imprecisely dated references (within the period 1433 to 1472) to a William Revell who married Maud a daughter of Nicholas Stanlake, that involve the ownership of the Manors of Thorpe, Hinton Pipard (Henton Pippard), and Shaw (Schawe), 12 all on the Berkshire–Surrey border ca 20 miles from Thatcham and some 45 miles from Oxford. Maud’s ancestry is comparatively well documented, her grandmother was Elizabeth Stanlake née Thorpe and great grandfather was John Thorpe, but William Revelle’s ancestry is not recorded. Maude and her sister Ela are described as cousins of an Alice Thorp, daughter of a John Thorp who is apparently a son of Maud’s great grandfather John Thorp. From the records cited below it is clear that William Revell and Maud had married before 1472 and quite possibly before 1467, and were born no later than the period ca 1445 to 1450. None of the other protagonists can be dated precisely. Alice Thorp married Robert Osbern by some date in the period 1432 to 1443, divorced him, and married second a Flemyng supposedly between 1442 and 1456. Alice was born no later than the period ca 1410 to 1420, and was dead by 1474. The Chancery Records connected with the early stages of this legal wrangle are not precisely dated and it is thus difficult to estimate William Revelle’s date of birth. With regard to the Manor of Hinton Pipard, History of the County of Berkshire states: ‘Rather later the manor came to the Thorpe family of Thorpe, co. Surrey. John Thorpe, son of John Thorpe, left a daughter Alice, who inherited the manor. (fn. 108) She married Robert Osborne, from whom she was divorced, and afterwards as Alice Flemyng granted the manor to certain feoffees, against whom several suits in Chancery were brought about 1470 by her cousins and heirs, Maud wife of William Revell and Ela wife of Robert Blount, the daughters of Nicholas Stanlake, son of Elizabeth daughter of the elder John Thorpe. (fn. 109). 13 With reference to the Manor of Graveney, A History of the County of Surrey states ‘John Thorpe, son of John Thorpe, left the manor to his daughter Alice, who married Robert Osberne, from whom she was divorced. She afterwards married — Flemyng, probably between 1442 and 1456’. 14 This account continues ‘A lawsuit concerning various feoffments of the manor made by Alice Flemyng lasted for many years. (fn. 25) The heiresses of Alice Flemyng were her cousins [once removed] Maud wife of William Revell, and Ela wife of Robert Blount. They were certainly living as late as 1471, and presumably held the manor after Alice's death (fn. 26)’. A Chancery Record establishes that Alice had already married Robert Osbarn by some date in the period 1432 to 1443, 15 when she and her husband are the plaintiffs with regard to land in Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire and Middlesex enfeoffed by her father. Accordingly, Alice must have been born no later than the period ca 1412 to ca 1423. A later Chancery pleading dated to the period 1460 to 1466 records that she was divorced, 16 and her legal tussles with William Revell occur after Alice had remarried. These actions are set out in Chancery records dated to the period 1433–43 or 1467–72, as follows, and for the reasons presented above must actually have occurred in the later period: ‘William Revell and Maud his wife, and Robert Blont and Ele his wife, daughters of Nicholas Stanlake, son of Elizabeth Stanlake, daughter of John Thorpe, father of John Thorpe, father of Alice Flemyng. v. Edmund Skerne, feoffee to uses.: Manor of Thorpe Manor of Henton Pippard Manor of Shawe beside Windsor: Surrey Wilts Bucks’ 17 ‘William Revell and Maud his wife, and Robert Blont and Ele his wife, daughters of Nicholas Stanlake, son of Elizabeth, daughter of John, father of John Thorpe, father of Alice Flemyng. v. Edward Gower: Manors of Thorpe: Surrey. Henton Pippard, and: Wilts. Shaw.: Berks’. 18 The transactions are at least partially explained in ‘English Historical Documents 1327–1485’ by Myers as follows: 19 11 Lincoln Record Society http://archive.org/stream/publicationslinc58lincuoft#page/372/mode/2up 12 Publications of the Selden Society Volume 10, Select Cases in Chancery AD 1364 to 1471 Pages 156–8 http://www23.us.archive.org/stream/selectcasesinch00unkngoog/selectcasesinch00unkngoog_djvu.txt 13 A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 3 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43213 14 A History of the County of Surrey Volume 3 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43002&strquery=%22william%20revell%22 15 C 1/9/7 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C7437390 16 C 1/28/511 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C7442843 17 C 1/41/268 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C7445336 18 C 1/44/70 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C7445578 19 English Historical Documents 1327–1485 page 492 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jRsLUVOCqbkC&pg=PA492&lpg=PA492&dq=%22Clement+Clerk%22+and+%28osbern+or+osbarn%29 &source=bl&ots=NjQbFlKzI0&sig=WMt6b3N7ZOnj8vhYawEU-BvmrXg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=EPbeT7ztGs7A8QPgrypCw&ved=0CFEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Clement%20Clerk%22%20%28osbern%20or%20osbarn%29&f=false 06/01/2014 2 Comments, corrections and additions to Rotherham Web [rotherweb@blueyonder.co.uk]
‘Alice Thorp of Thorp in the county of Surrey seized of the manor Henton Pippard ….. with other manors, lands and tenements had enfeoffed John Bourgchier, Lord Berners, Thomas Kyrkby, Peter Ardern, knight Richard Ludlow, William Skern, Richard Osborn, to have them, their heirs and assigns, upon trust only, and to the use of the said Alice; and afterwards the said Alice entered again to the said manor and put out her said feoffees, ….’ A Chancery pleading dated to the period 1460 to 1465 is almost certainly the record of Alice regaining control: 20 ‘Alice, daughter of John Thorp, late the wife (divorced) of Robert Osbern. v. John Bourgchier, knt., Lord Bernes, feoffee.: Manor of Graveney; messuage and land in Thorp; mill and land in Kingston; and messuages, land, wood, and rents in Chertsey; manors of Schawe and Hinton Pipard (Henton Pepard); and lands in Wraysbury (Waratisbury).: Surrey, Berks, Wilts, Bucks’. The legal wrangle over ownership of Hinton Pippard estate documented in Chancery records 21, 22, 23 is presented fully in Select Cases in Chancery AD 1364 to 1471. Although initiated in 1471 it finally went against William and Maude Revelle in 1472, as shown below: 24 ‘[Translation, — Be it remembered that on the 12th day of February, 11 Edward IV, 1472, this petition, exhibited before us in our Chancery in the 10th year of our reign by the within-written William Revelle and Maude his wife and Robert Blount and Ele his wife, cousins and heirs of Alice Fleming, against Edward Gower, esquire, and the answer and replication made and had thereto between the parties aforesaid having been read, heard and understood with mature deliberation in the said Chancery by the venerable father, the Bishop of Bath and Wells, our Chancellor, and by the Court of Chancery : It was considered and adjudged that, inasmuch as the said Edward hath sufficiently proved before us in the Chancery, that he purchased and bought the within-written manor of Hinton Pippard from the above- written Alice Thorpe [Fleming], to hold to himself, his heirs and assigns for ever, and satisfaction for the same manor was made by the aforesaid Edward to the said Alice, Therefore it was considered and adjudged by the aforesaid Chancellor and by the consideration of the Court aforesaid that the same Edward may have, continue, hold, enjoy, and possess the said manor of Hinton Pippard with the appurtenances, to himself, his heirs and assigns, for ever, according to the consideration and judgment aforesaid ; and that the same Edward be dismissed out of the Court aforesaid. And thereupon he is dismissed out of Court, quit and without day.]’. From the foregoing records one may conclude that this William Revel was born no later than 1447 and had married Maud Stanlake no later than 1471. These estimates are consistent with records establishing that the feoffee ‘John Bourgchier, knt’ died May 1474 and was buried at Chertsey Abbey. 25 The husband of Maud Stanlake cannot be William Revell of Oxford, but might be related. There are some 16 th century records of Revells in Surrey who also might be connected — see Part 9. Her husband might be the William Revell mentioned either as attorney or witness in connection with transactions involving property at Harefield in Middlesex in 1467, 26 and at Rickmansworth (1452) 27 and Hemel Hempstead (1467), 28 both in Hertfordshire, and he might well be the individual buried at Rickmansworth in 1474. However, perhaps the most plausible contender is William Revell brother of Sheriff Robert Revell who died 1508 / 9, with his widow Maude Revell the individual buried at St Mary-atte-Hill in 1514 / 5, 29 — see Part 3. In 1484 a John Renell / Revell is the plaintiff in a plea of debt made against John Lovejoy of Bagshot [Surrey], yeoman. 30 1490 a John Revell witnessed the Inquisition post mortem for Edward Basing who was buried at Staines. 31 In An Alis Revill married John Ellis at Chesterton, Oxford, in 1546, 32 the only such record in the collection, but electronic records for Oxfordshire are extremely sparse. Chesterton is some ten miles north-west of Long Crendon. A Robert Revell married the widow Phillip Baldwyn at Hornton, Oxfordshire, on April 23 rd 1610. The will of a Joanne Revell of Lewknor, wife of Thomas Revell, is dated December 19 th 1609, proved March 27 th 1610, refers to her first husband and several children, Walter and Maximilian, Dorithy and a daughter ?Gifford, and a son and daughter whose names are unclear. Her first husband’s name may have been Mercer, but it is difficult to read. 20 C 1/28/511 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C7442843 21 Chancery records C 1/15/344 http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT4/ChP/C1no15/IMG_0506.htm 22 C 1/44/70 https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=7&CATID=-2412528 23 C 1/41/268 https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=7&CATID=-2412286 24 Publications of the Selden Society Volume 10, Select Cases in Chancery AD 1364 to 1471 Pages 156–8 https://archive.org/stream/selectcasesinch00unkngoog#page/n335/mode/2up 25 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=53678167 26 Close Rolls http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=110857&strquery=%22William%20Revell%22 27 Close Rolls http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=110374&strquery=%22William%20Revell%22 28 Close Rolls http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=110858&strquery=%22William%20Revell%22 29 The Ricardian 2004, 14, 7–32 http://www.richardiii.net/downloads/Ricardian/2004_vol14_martin_dame_margaret_astry.pdf 30 http://aalt.law.uh.edu/Indices/CP40Indices/CP40no888Cty.htm 31 http://www.archive.org/stream/somersetpub16someuoft/somersetpub16someuoft_djvu.txt 32 Oxfordshire Marriage Transcripts 06/01/2014 3 Comments, corrections and additions to Rotherham Web [rotherweb@blueyonder.co.uk]
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