General Notes

Roger de Quency Earl of Winchester granted and confirmed to Nicholas deBarenton and to Agnes his wife, and to his heirs by her, all the landthey held of this fee in the town of Cington in Wiltonshire; to be heldfreely from all other secular services and demands, with warranty againstall men for ever: for which grant the said Nicholas gave one hundredshillings. This confirmation was dated London, Thursday next before theFeast of St. Peter in Cathedra, in the 43rd year of King Henry son ofKing John.
   In the 47th year of the same King, Agnes de Barenton, sometime wife ofNicholas de Barenton, made an agreement with Peter From "Transactions ofthe Essex Archaeological Society", Vol I, Colchester, pp 251-273, TheHistory of the Barrington Family
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Nicholas and John Townsend (ad finem Villae) Walter Young, and John Kabe,granting to them, to have and to hold, for six years all her lands,meadows and pastures, with pannage of hogs, and all cows and otheranimals to her lands in the name of the pastures belonging, situated inthe Vill of Compton, rendering to her, or to her attorney, at Triplow attwo terms of the year, nine marks and a half, she allowing to thetenants, their reasonable expenses for bringing the rent to Triplow. Thetenants were bound to keep all the buildings in repair, excepting the"Solar" which was nearly a ruin--'excepto solario quod minatur ruinam."(The solar is an upper chamber.) It would seem from the deed and one fromRoger de Quency that Cington and Compton in Wiltshire came to this LadyAgnes. She must have been a woman of rank, as she is always named Lady,and as her husband was not a Knight, she was probably the widow of one.She was the daughter of William Chetwynd. She had three brothers,William, John and Philip, whose names are found as witnesses to deeds andwere all Knights. It is stated she had a fourth brother, Adam, also aKnight, and that she inherited property from an uncle, Sir WilliamLovell, but of these last named there is not any trace from any deed orpaper remaining.
   Barrington Hall at Triplow in Cambridgeshire was settled by SirNicholas on his son Nicholas at hs marriage to Agnes, and there, afterher husbands death, she continued to reside. Humphrey, the second son ofSir Nicholas, was married to a lady whose Christian name was Auda, buther family name does not appear anywhere. More of him and his wife, Auda,will be mentioned hereafter.
   The following is an account of an enquiry held at Hatfield in whichGeoffrey the son of Sir Nicholas is named: it is taken from an old rollendorsed "Sureties for Richard Child and Geoffrey de Barenton to shew bywhat authority they removed a stag, found dead at Hatfield, before it hadbeen seen by the verderers."


COURT AT HATFIELD

   It happened Sunday in the Octave of St. Hilary in the twenty-fifthyear of the reign of King Henry, son of King John, that as Clement Godcopwas going to the monastery of Hatfield Regis, he saw a stag lying dead inone of Agnes de Bosco's Fields, called the Eastfield. He immediatelyinformed Geoffrey de Barenton, the woodward, who ordered the forestersand verderers to summon a jury from four neighbouring towns, viz.,Hatfield Regis, Hallingbury de Burgh, Hallingbury Neville, and EarlsCanfield. The men of Hatfield said the neither knew, nor had they heardanything as to the cause of the stag's death, although they thought thatmost likely it had been caused by murrain as there was no wound that theycould discover. The other jurors said the same.
   The tithing men of Hatfield, namely, Richard Child and Roger Holdhead;those of Canfield namely, William de Beauchamp, and Jocelin Fitzmaurice;those of Hallingbury de Burgh, namely Roger de Kastenhe, and Roger deBosco, were all ordered to attend before the Justices of the forestcourts, when they were next sitting to hear pleas.--Clement Godcop, Agnesde Bosco, and her four nearest neighbours were likewise bound over to beat the same court and to find sureties for their appearance. Those whowere sureties for Clement Godcop were William le Botciler and Stephen theson of Ernulph, those for Agnes were Richard Duchar and John Arnewy,Nicholas Fitzralph, Peter Fitzwilliam, Geoffrey Fitzmichael, William deHaslingfield, William de Livething, Walter le Newman, Roger Strongbow,and Roger Fitzwido were bound for the appearance of the four neighboursof Agnes. The head and horns of the stag were ordered to be carefullykept till the court by Richard Child.


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