Part 2. The children of William Revell of Newbold ... - Rotherham Web
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Long Buckby. Conceivably this Robert <strong>Revell</strong> might be the son <strong>of</strong> <strong>William</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Newbold</strong>, but this is far from certain. <strong>The</strong>re is<br />
nothing to suggest that <strong>William</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Newbold</strong> had a third son.<br />
Plausibly an earlier reference to this Roger <strong>Revell</strong> is in the ‘Estate Book <strong>of</strong> Henry de Bray’ <strong>of</strong> Harleston, Northamptonshire,<br />
where a Roger de Ryvylle is described in 1304 as an attorney for <strong>William</strong> Russell, 127 suggesting that this Roger was born not<br />
later than ca 1284. Harlestone is some six miles south-west <strong>of</strong> Watford, Northamptonshire.<br />
<strong>The</strong> only other <strong>Revell</strong> recorded in connection with Watford is an obscure Thomas <strong>Revell</strong> who is also associated with a Robert<br />
<strong>Revell</strong>, both <strong>of</strong> whom are recorded in the Patent Rolls dated 1280, as follows:<br />
‘Appointment <strong>of</strong> Nicholas de Stapleton and Elias de Bekingham to take the assise <strong>of</strong> novel disseisin arraigned by Henry Crete<br />
[Grete] against Robert Ryuel and Thomas Ryuel, touching a tenement in Bukkeby’. 128<br />
He is probably the Thomas <strong>Revell</strong> who is recorded in the Close Rolls as holding land <strong>of</strong> Eustace de Watford (<strong>of</strong> Watford,<br />
Northamptonshire) by free service in 1276, 129 and Thomas must have been born no later than ca 1256. <strong>The</strong> associated Robert<br />
<strong>Revell</strong> must have been born no later than ca 1260 and therefore cannot be Robert the son <strong>of</strong> <strong>William</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Newbold</strong>, and it is<br />
tentatively suggested that he is Robert <strong>Revell</strong> <strong>of</strong> Tiffield son <strong>of</strong> Hugh living in 1280 but dead by 1294 — see <strong>Part</strong> 1 and Table<br />
1b — but clearly, Robert <strong>Revell</strong> <strong>of</strong> Tiffield who was dead by 1294 cannot be the brother <strong>of</strong> Roger <strong>Revell</strong> extant 1314.<br />
<strong>The</strong> reference to a ‘tenement in Bukkeby’ is possibly significant. <strong>The</strong> earliest <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Revell</strong>s associated with Buckeby is Richard<br />
son <strong>of</strong> <strong>William</strong> de Hoxendona ca 1220 discussed in <strong>Part</strong> 1 and thought to be Richard <strong>Revell</strong> son <strong>of</strong> Sheriff Richard. <strong>The</strong> next<br />
is the obscure Roger <strong>Revell</strong> recorded in 1235 / 6 who is followed in 1242 by a Robert <strong>Revell</strong> thought to be Robert <strong>of</strong> Tiffield<br />
son <strong>of</strong> Hugh, then in 1280 by the obscure Thomas <strong>Revell</strong> in association with Robert <strong>Revell</strong>, and by 1299 is in the hands <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>William</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Newbold</strong>. <strong>The</strong> descent <strong>of</strong> the property, plus the two occurrences <strong>of</strong> the forename Roger, tends to suggest that these<br />
<strong>Revell</strong>s are quite closely connected.<br />
That said, it is difficult to explain the descent from Richard <strong>Revell</strong> son <strong>of</strong> Sheriff Richard to a branch that must be fairly<br />
distant, that from Andrew <strong>of</strong> Bengeo to <strong>William</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Newbold</strong>, and that must raise a question, as discussed in <strong>Part</strong> 1, as to<br />
whether or not that Richard <strong>Revell</strong> son <strong>of</strong> Sheriff Richard and Richard <strong>Revell</strong> the son (or son-in-law) <strong>of</strong> <strong>William</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
Hoxendona, are the same individual.<br />
Probably it is the same Roger <strong>Revell</strong> who is referred to in a demise dated October 26 th 1329, as follows: 130<br />
‘By Roger Revel, lord <strong>of</strong> Little Newnham, and his wife Joan to Ralph le Draper <strong>of</strong> Coventry <strong>of</strong> a field in Newnham [Paddox]<br />
called <strong>The</strong>umanmedou from 28 Oct 1329 for ten years for a certain sum’.<br />
On October 13 th 1332 a final concord reads:<br />
‘Final concord made at Westminster before <strong>William</strong> de Herle [Chief Justice <strong>of</strong> the Common Pleas], in which Roger Ryvel and<br />
Joan, his wife, plaintiffs, acknowledge the right <strong>of</strong> Richard de Kyrkeby, chaplain, defendant, to the manor <strong>of</strong> Newnham Paddox<br />
(Newenham juxta Kirkeby Monachorum), Warwickshire, in return for which they receive from him a life grant <strong>of</strong> two parts <strong>of</strong> the<br />
same manor, the future succession to their property being also specified’. 131<br />
According to BHOL, quoting Feet <strong>of</strong> Fines, Roger Ryvel was the chief taxpayer at Newnham Paddox in 1332, but the precise<br />
identity <strong>of</strong> Joan is unclear. BHOL states that in 1333, Julian the widow <strong>of</strong> Philip de Newnham, held in dower one third <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Manor <strong>of</strong> Newnham and that the reversion <strong>of</strong> this third was settled on a Philip de Newnham and his wife Alice, in tail. This<br />
Philip is thought to be a grandson <strong>of</strong> the elder Philip.<br />
BHOL goes on to say ‘At the same time Roger Ryvel and Joan his wife settled the other two-thirds <strong>of</strong> the manor on themselves<br />
for their lives, and then to Philip and Alice in tail. (fn. 49) In each case there were contingent remainders to Philip's brother<br />
Robert de Newnham (probably a clerk) for life, and then to his brother John in tail, or to their sisters Joan and Mariot in tail, or<br />
to the right heirs <strong>of</strong> Joan wife <strong>of</strong> Roger Ryvel, who must have been daughter <strong>of</strong> the elder and mother <strong>of</strong> the younger Philip. (fn.<br />
50)’. 132<br />
If the foregoing statement is correct, then either Joan married twice, with Roger Revel her second husband, or their son Philip<br />
took his mother’s name. Dugdale in ‘Antiquities <strong>of</strong> Warwickshire’ shows Joan de Newnham, the heir <strong>of</strong> Philip and Julian, as<br />
127 <strong>The</strong> Estate Book <strong>of</strong> Henry de Bray http://www.archive.org/stream/estatebook<strong>of</strong>henr00brayrich#page/104/mode/2up<br />
128 Patent Rolls page 65<br />
http://ia600104.us.archive.org//load_djvu_applet.php?file=10/items/annualreportdep01<strong>of</strong>figoog/annualreportdep01<strong>of</strong>figoog.djvu<br />
129 Close Rolls pages 327, 328, 329 & 331<br />
http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=%2FFHMedieval2&CISOPTR=64503&REC=0&CISOBOX=rynel<br />
130 BA/H/8/466/3 Coventry Archives http://www.coventrycollections.org/collections/?id=COVHC_BA_H_8_466_3&title=Demise<br />
131 WARD 2/56/197/4 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C4456830<br />
132 A History <strong>of</strong> the County <strong>of</strong> Warwick Volume 6 http://www.britishhistory.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=57122&strquery=%22Philip%20de%20Newnham%22<br />
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