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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 25/06/2012 14 Comments, corrections and additions to Rotherham Web [rotherweb@blueyonder.co.uk]
George Ellesworth, and ‘Henry Orewelle that was Georgesseruant of Ellesworth’. The latter is an example of a rather odd inverted syntax which you occasionally come across, meaning 'who used to be the servant of George Ellesworth'. Anyway, this particular example means William the bailiff of John Ryvel. It must be doubtful whether he [the bailiff] is a relation of his employer’. 142 In 1349 a general release, states as follows, ‘Nicholas le Wariner of Buckeby to William son of Robert Ryvel of the same. Overton Quatremars, co. Leicester’, 143 and clearly establishes this William’s ancestry, and presumably relates in some way to the earlier Oyer and Terminer. William Revell’s wife Ellen died in 1354 and William was named as her executor. Ellen Revell’s will specifies as follows: 144 ‘A11561. Testament, with probate endorsed, of Ellen, wife of William Revel, of Buckeby, dated Tuesday, the feast of the Circumcision, 1354; soul to Almighty God, body to be buried in parish church of Buckeby, and what is right to God and Holy Church for a mortuary with her (coram me nomine princ') in remission of her sins; to Nicholas, the parish chaplain 2s. to have her in mind among the others at celebration; all things touch- ing her funeral on the day of her burial to be ordered at the pleasure of William Revel, her husband; the residue to her said husband and her children; executor, her said husband. Endorsed: Proved before the official of the archdeacon . . . the morrow of All Hallows, VII. Id. February . . . . . . . Fragment of seal’. Ellen Revell’s ancestry is not known but it was comparatively unusual for a woman of that era to make a will, and it suggests that she was of some standing. In 1355 property at Buckeby is surrendered to William Revell by William Scotyn: 145 ‘A8286. General release by William Scotyn to William Ryvel of Buckeby. Daylyngton, Saturday, Easter Eve, 28 Edward III. Seal quasi- heraldic’. In 1365 Elizabeth Daneys surrenders to him property at Buckeby and Ryngethorpe that she held in dower: 146 ‘A8277. Indenture, being a surrender by Elizabeth Danys to William Ryvel of Buckeby of all the lands she had in dower in Buckeby, co. Northampton and Ryngethorp, co. Leicester, on payment to her or her attorney during her life of five marks at Tykyngcote yearly. Tykyngcote, Friday after the Beheading of St. John the Baptist, 38 Edward III. Fragments of seal of arms’. They are mentioned in acquittances, i.e. receipts for payment in full, relating to the same property, as follows: In 1373, ‘Acquittance by Elizabeth Daneys to William Rivel of Buckby, for 2 1/2 marks, for Easter term, for Buckby, Ryngethorp and Shawell (Shathewell: Northants. Leics’, 147 and in 1375, ‘A9640. Acquittance by Elizabeth, late the wife of Roland Daneys, knight, to William Revel of Bukkeby, for 2½ marks, for lands and tenements which he held of her in Bukkeby and Ryngel Thorp, and for 2 marks for lands and tenements which he held in Neuton, co. Warwick, and all arrears, for Easter term, 48 Edward III. Tikencote, co. Roteland, the morrow of Easter. French. Seal of arms’. 148 This William Revell is also named in Feet of Fines dated may 15 th 1366 which describes the conveyance of ‘The manor of Shathew[ell']’ from Emma the wife of Hugh Fyton to her sister Katherine the wife of Thomas Spigurnel, who pay Emma 100 marks of silver. 149 ‘Emma has acknowledged the manor to be the right of Thomas, and has rendered it to Thomas and Katherine in the same court, excepting 10 shillings of rent in the same manor, and has granted to Thomas and Katherine the rent, together with the homages and all services of John, the master of the hospital of St John of Lutterworthe, and his successors, Thomas Bole, Philip Cok', William Palmer, William Ryuell' (or William Rynell'), Robert Thomkyn, Beatrice Fyton', Nicholas Margarete, William Hendeman and Isabel Taillour and their heirs, in respect of all the tenements which they held before of Emma in the aforesaid manor, to hold to Thomas and Katherine and the heirs of Thomas, of the chief lords for ever’. 142 https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic/soc.genealogy.medieval/bEubZVzaCyo 143 A. 7460 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64389 144 A. 11561 http://www.archive.org/stream/descriptivecatal05greauoft#page/164/mode/2up/search/revel 145 A. 8286. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64397 146 A. 8277. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64397 147 E 210/10385 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=7036525&CATLN=6&Highlight=%2CWILLIAM%2CRIVEL &accessmethod=0 148 A9640 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64411 149 CP 25/1/125/65, http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_125_65.shtml 25/06/2012 15 Comments, corrections and additions to Rotherham Web [rotherweb@blueyonder.co.uk]
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Page 3 and 4: On July 12 th 1331, ‘John Ryvel,
Page 5 and 6: The sons of Sir John Revell, senior
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Page 17 and 18: Thomas Ryvell, grocer of London, so
Page 19 and 20: Another example is sprovided by the
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