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marrying Alan de Kilworth [Kenilworth]. This Joan and Alan are shown as having two sons, Philip de Newnham and Robert de
Newnham, 133 but dates are not given and there is no reference to a second marriage.
However, consistent with the foregoing, on January 10 th 1327 / 8 the Close Rolls contain an entry as follows: 134
‘To the Sheriff of Warwick. Order to restore …. Alan de Kelyngwurth, lord of Little Newenham, Clerk, whose lands, goods and
chattels were taken into the king's hands upon his being charged before the king at Warrewyk with the homicide of Nicholas de
Wylas, slain at Pahnton [Palinton?], and with the harbouring of divers thieves’, and it is plausible that Joan did marry twice.
Harleston is ca 5 miles from Long Buckby, ca 8 miles from Watford (Northamptonshire) and ca 10 miles from Newnham and
the manor is associated with the Priory of Monks Kirby.
There are two other geographically isolated records, the first of a Roger Ryuel listed at Brauncewell in the Lincolnshire Lay
Subsidy in 1332. 135 The second refers to a Roger Revell ordained in 1339 as Subdeacon at Bromyard Church by John Bishop of
Hereford. 136 Neither seems likely to be this individual.
William Revell (Ryvel) of Buckeby son of Robert of Bukkeby and grandson of William Revell of
Newbold Revell. Extant ? 1310–1325–1345–1380–1393 ?
This William Revell’s date of birth is not known for certain, but in 1345 he is recorded explicitly as ‘William Ryvel of Buckeby’
as follows:
‘Acquittance by Nicholas Felicessone, reve of the manor of Hetherington, to William Ryvel, of Buckeby, for 40s. in part of 65s.
wherein the said William was bound to his lord the prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem for a relief in arrear.
137, 138
Hetherington, Saturday after the Nativity of the B.V.M., 18 Edward III’.
William Revell’s father was probably born ca 1270, and William’s daughter married no later than 1365. Together these records
suggest that this William Revell was born no later than ca 1325, but his father would then have been ~55, and it is thus likely
that William of Buckeby was born somewhat earlier, say in the period 1310 to 1320.
It is probably this William Revell who is referred to in Bridge’s (citing Comp. Walt. Parles) as in 1346 holding ‘that part of
Buckby lordship as was possessed by Hugh Revell in the time of Henry III’, 139 i.e. in the period 1216 to 1272
In 1347 a ‘William Ryvel of Bukkeby’ is named in an ‘Oyer and terminer’ that also refers to ‘John ' William baillyf Ryvel' of
Bukkeby’, 140 as follows:
‘Commission of oyer and terminer to Roger Hillary, Thomas de Bukton, Henry de Grene and Nicholas de Vieleston, on
complaint by Joan late the wife of Ralph Basset of Drayton that William Ryvel of Bukkeby, John ' Williambaillyf Ryvel' of
Bukkeby, Thomas Waleys, John de Shelton, Henry Bussel, William Shephurd, John Mody and others broke her close at Bukkeby
and entered her free chace there, hunted in the chace, and fished in her stews there, carried away fish therefrom with other of
her goods as well as hares, rabbits, partridges and pheasants from the warren and assaulted her servant, Nicholas le Waryner,
whereby she lost his service for a great time. By fine of 1 mark paid to the clerk of the hanaper. Northampton’. 141
Matt Tompkins advises that ‘You often see constructions like ‘John Williambaillyf Ryvel’ in the records of the royal courts in
the 14 th and 15 th centuries, though I don't think I've ever come across them anywhere else - they seem to be just a legal usage.
They are always applied to servants, apparently to servants who themselves lacked surnames and were known instead by
their occupational relationship to their employer, though I have always suspected that, in the 15 th century at least, the
individuals concerned did in fact have hereditary surnames of their own and that this unusual style was just a legal convention.
Perhaps it was used when the individual's surname was not known to the lawyer or court clerk who drew up the record.
Though occasionally you see examples when the servant's true surname is also given. For example in 1374 suits were brought
in Common Pleas by the prior of Fordham against a man called ‘Stephen Badercours Thomasseruant Offord’ (i.e. Stephen
Badercours, servant of Thomas Offord) and by Thomas Hichecokesson against John Geke, Katherine Ellesworth, widow of
133 The Antiquities of Warwickshire Volume 1 pages 85–86
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EWhZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA86&lpg=PA86&dq=%22de+newnham%22&source=bl&ots=pn8wfjOcpU&sig=v
gh1mAttBM8lAa9CoY9p8dH3ihY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0HumT6DmINGr8QPRpMz-
BA&ved=0CGoQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=%22de%20newnham%22&f=false
134 Close Rolls page 625 http://archive.org/stream/calendarofclose04grea#page/624/mode/2up
135 Lincolnshire Lay Subsidy Rolls http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/mari/LincLSR/BynR2.html and http://www.le.ac.uk/ee/pot/lincs/braunce.html
136 Canterbury and York Series http://www.archive.org/stream/canterburyyork14unknuoft/canterburyyork14unknuoft_djvu.txt
137 A9700 http://www.archive.org/stream/descriptivecatal04greauoft/descriptivecatal04greauoft_djvu.txt
138 A. 9700. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64411
139 Courtesy of Doug Thompson https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic/soc.genealogy.medieval/Yi0QDVwuxtw
140 Patent Rolls Edward III, vol. 7, p. 468
141 Patent Rolls Edward III, vol. 7, p. 468
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