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Wolston: 1911, 879; 1921, 962; 1931, 918.
Brandon and Bretford: 1911, 398; 1921, 412; 1931, 508.
The parish of Wolston originally included Strettonon-Dunsmore and Princethorpe, in the south, but these were constituted a separate parish in 1696. (fn. 1) The present parish, which measures roughly 4 miles from east to west with a depth of 3 miles, is divided into two parts by the River Avon, on the left bank of which lies the village of Wolston, stretching southwards along a tributary of the Avon to a point where the road running south to Daventry meets several other small roads. On the other side of the Avon, crossed by a bridge at this point, are the extensive earthworks that mark the site of Brandon Castle (fn. 2) built in the 12th century and long the seat of the Verdon family. (fn. 3) It is said to have been 'pulled down' by the baronial troops from Kenilworth Castle in 1265 because John de Verdon was an active supporter of the king; (fn. 4) but, if so, it must have been repaired, as in 1279 Theobald de Verdon was returned as holding a castle and a park at Brandon, (fn. 5) and the castle was still used as a residence in 1309, (fn. 6) but how much later it continued so to function is not known. A little north of the earthworks is the hamlet of Brandon, on the eastern edge of the extensive grounds of Brandon House. Half a mile north-east of Wolston village, passing the site of Wolston Priory, is the small hamlet of Marston.
The village is practically confined to the main street, and most of the houses are built of red brick with tiled roofs, dating from about the end of the 18th century. On the west side of the street there is a pleasing mid18th-century red brick house, typical of the period, with a modillioned cornice and tiled roof.
Wolston Bridge, over the Avon, is a private bridge belonging to the destroyed manor-house, west of the church. It is 13 ft. wide between the parapets, built of vermiculated sandstone ashlar, and is splayed in a slight curve at each end. It has a wide central span, which has a moulded segmental arch with a keystone flanked by pedimented coved niches. Both approaches have small dummy spans with moulded segmental arches filled in with plain ashlar. Over the central arch and the two niches, and at each end, there are panelled piers on a square string-course, which have lost their cappings. These piers are all that remain of the original parapets, now replaced with red brickwork. There are no cutwaters and the elevations on both sides are identical.
Wolston Priory, east of the village, is a much restored and modernized 16th-century house of considerable size. It has two stories and an attic and consists of a main block, west wing, and a narrow east wing which extends across the end of the main block forming north and south porches. It faces south and the main block appears to have been extended on the north, the upper story being timber-framed, probably dating from the 17th century. All the windows are ovolo-moulded with square heads. The south front is of red sandstone ashlar with light-coloured dressings; the other fronts are of small squared and coursed limestone with a plinth and dressings of red sandstone. At the level of the first-floor window heads there is a moulded string-course which forms a hood-moulding to the windows. The west wing is gabled, with moulded finials at the apex and on the skewbacks; it is lighted by a four-light transomed window on the ground floor with three-light windows above to the first floor and attic. The main block has a tall central gabled dormer with finials and, below, four-light windows to the first and ground floors, the latter transomed, on either side there are two-light windows to both floors. The porch has a similar gable to the dormer, two-light windows to the upper floors, and a late-15thcentury entrance arch with a four-centred moulded arch resting on moulded capitals, the mouldings being continued down the jambs to splayed stops. The soffit of the arch and the jambs are panelled, and it has a hood-mould with large, moulded, square stops. The doorway has a moulded four-centred arch under a square head with sunk spandrels, and is fitted with a 16th-century oak door of vertical panels. Against the porch is a one-story building, mostly modern, used as a garage. The doors have been cut through the original kitchen fire-place, which was 10 ft. wide, leaving the flue undisturbed and preserving the original stone paving with a shallow gutter down the centre. The presence of this kitchen suggests, as does the position of the porch, that there was an earlier east wing. The roofs have been retiled and the brick chimneys, set diagonally, rebuilt. The west front resembles the south, but with hood-moulds to the ground-floor windows instead of a string-course. It has a square-headed doorway near the centre with its hood cut away. The north front has a doorway to the porch, with a fourcentred head similar to the south, but combined with a two-light window with a hood-mould as a fanlight, and above it two two-light windows, as on the south. On either side of a central chimney-stack are the gabled ends of the timber-framed added story, lighted on the east side by a five-light oak-framed window, and below it there is a six-light window, with a label moulding, to the first floor.
Internally the original plan has been obscured by alterations, but some of the original timber-framed partitions remain; also six original stone chimneypieces, practically all the same design, with flat moulded heads, the mouldings carried down the jambs to splayed stops. The doorway to the top floor of the porch is an original one with a stop-chamfered four-centred head and fitted with a 17th-century counterboarded door. Painted on the sloping ceiling of one of the attics there is an inscription in black letters, only partly legible: 'I goe to bed as to my ...... knowes when ...... Lord ....... thou with me .... take Decem. 1640.' In the present kitchen, formerly a cellar, there is a piscina built into the wall about 6 ft. above the floor; it is bowl-shaped with a circular basin. In the adjoining pantry, built into an angle, there is a corbel carved with a grotesque mask. These and possibly the entrance arch to the porch may have come from the priory.
The 5-hide vill of WOLSTON, which before the Conquest had been held by Ailmund, was in 1086 among the estates of Roger, Earl of Shrewsbury, of whom it was held by Rainald de Bailleul. (fn. 30) He must have enfeoffed Hubert Baldran, who between 1086 and 1094, with the consent of his wife Alice, granted the church and 2 hides of land here to the Norman abbey of St. Pierre-surDives, his gift being confirmed by Rainald de Bailleul and Amilia his wife and by Earl Roger. (fn. 31) Hubert's daughter and heir Sybil, as lady of Wolston, confirmed the grant between 1161 and 1170, and at the same time, with her husband Roger de Frevill, gave the land lying between the monks' court and the brook running through the vill, and pasturage rights. (fn. 32) They had a son Richard, whose heirs were his sisters Agatha, wife first of Hamon Lestrange and secondly of Geoffrey de Turvill, and Sybil, wife of Robert de Chetwode. (fn. 33) Hamon and Agatha confirmed to Kenilworth Priory their parents' gift of 4 virgates, each of 22 acres, in Wolston, (fn. 34) and she and her sister in 1242 held a knight's fee in Wolston of John FitzAlan, (fn. 35) the representative of Earl Roger. Agatha daughter of Hamon Lestrange had a son Richard, (fn. 36) of whom no more is heard. The elder Agatha in 1237 had a grant of exemption from suits of courts and hundreds for herself and her men of Wolston, Merston, and Brandon, at the request of her son Geoffrey de Turvill, Archdeacon of Dublin. (fn. 37) She, who must have died shortly after this date, had two other sons, Robert, who died in 1237, (fn. 38) and Hamon. (fn. 39) In 1240 after the death of John FitzAlan the dower assigned to his widow Hawise included 1 knight's fee held by Hamon de Turvill and another held by the heirs of Ralph Lestrange. (fn. 40) Sir Richard de Turvill, described as of Wolston in 1309, (fn. 41) was discharged from the office of coroner in 1314 as infirm, (fn. 42) and probably died about that time, as Robert de Turvill was lord of Wolston in 1316. (fn. 43) His successor John in 1326 entailed this manor on himself and his wife Margaret, (fn. 44) with contingent remainder to Thomas Ferrers, her father, (fn. 45) and his heirs. John Turvill seems to have died between 1353 and 1360 and to have been succeeded by his eldest son Thomas. (fn. 46) In 1368 the manor was conveyed by trustees to Robert son of John, son of John Turvill, (fn. 47) apparently younger brother of Thomas. It is next found in 1387 being conveyed by Sir William Wanton and Ismania his wife to Sir William Bagot and William Glym, (fn. 48) and as the warranty was against her heirs Ismania was probably the representative of the Turvills. Glym and others in 1418 gave a life-interest in the manor, then held of the Duke of Norfolk, to Thomas Stafford, (fn. 49) who had married Bagot's daughter Isabel. (fn. 50) Stafford sold it to Kenilworth Priory without obtaining licence to do so and it was therefore seized into the king's hands and in 1428 was committed to John Verney, clerk, and John Throckmorton for 12 years at a rent of £12. (fn. 51) The manor having thus passed away from the descendants of John Turvill, Sir Edward Grey in 1445 claimed that under the settlement of 1326 it should come to his wife Elizabeth as heir of Thomas Ferrers; (fn. 52) and in 1446 he and his wife conveyed it to trustees; (fn. 53) there is, however, no later connexion with the Greys, Lords Ferrers of Groby, and the whole transaction may have been an attempt to assert an unfounded claim.
Turvill. Gules a cheveron vair between three molets argent.
Sybil, Agatha's sister, had married Robert de Chetwode and in 1226 they granted to the abbey of Combe a mill called 'Perimulne' in Stratton, to which their men of Wolston and Merston were bound to take their corn. (fn. 71) They had a son Ralph, (fn. 72) who died without issue, and another son William, (fn. 73) who had two daughters, Agnes who married William le Breton, (fn. 74) and Beatrice who married Thomas son of William de Wynterton. (fn. 75) William le Breton left a son Guy, the picture of whose wife Alice was in a window in Wolston church in Dugdale's time, (fn. 76) and his son (or perhaps grandson) Sir William was given licence to have divine service celebrated in his mansion of Wolston in 1360. (fn. 77) The estate seems to have constituted the manor of MARSTON, which Guy Breton held in 1404. (fn. 78) He appears to have left coheiresses, as in 1419 one moiety of the manor was transferred to Thomas Wodelowe and Margaret his wife by Richard Quatermaynes of London, and the other moiety by John Boteler of Wolverton. (fn. 79) Thomas held this as half a knight's fee in 1431, (fn. 80) but soon afterwards it was acquired by Nicholas Metley and since then it has descended with the manor of Wolston.
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The church of ST. MARGARET is situated on the south bank of the River Avon, north of the village, and stands in a small churchyard. It consists of a chancel, north and south transepts, north and south aisles, central tower, and a modern vestry. It dates from the 12th century, when it probably consisted of a chancel, nave and south transept, and a low central tower, the north transept being added early in the 13th century. In the 14th century the church was rebuilt with the addition of aisles; in the 15th century a clearstory was inserted, and in the 17th century the low tower was raised to form a belfry. Of the 12th-century church the tower crossing remains, with the 13th-century arch to the north transept, and the north doorway re-used in the 14th-century south aisle. The roof of the chancel was extensively repaired in 1680 and decorated in colour in 1760.
The chancel, built of small limestone rubble with red sandstone dressings, has a low-pitched lead-covered roof; the east end has diagonal buttresses at the angles and is lighted by a modern pointed four-light traceried window with a hood-mould. The upper part of the gable wall has been rebuilt in ashlar and the coping renewed. On the north side a large buttress in four weathered stages has been added, probably when the roof was repaired in the 17th century. Built against it and inclosing the original central buttress is a small modern vestry, built of red sandstone ashlar and lighted by two two-light square-headed windows. Between the vestry and the transept there is a 17thcentury three-light window with a segmental-pointed head. The south side has a central buttress and to the west a modern low-side window of two round-headed lights with a square head. On either side of the buttress there is a restored pointed traceried window of three splayed orders with two trefoil lights and hoodmoulds. West of the buttress there is a narrow pointed doorway of two hollow splays with a hood-mould formed by the string-course.
The north transept, which has a steep-pitched tiled roof, has had diagonal buttresses added to the angles and its walls refaced in small squared and coursed limestone with bands of red sandstone. It is lighted on the east by a three-light pointed traceried window of two splayed orders, the centre light cinquefoil, the outer round-headed with a hood-mould and head-stops. On the north the tracery has been removed from a large pointed window with a hood-mould and headstops; the opening has been built up for the insertion of a three-light square-headed window with a twolight above; the two-light, evidently re-used from elsewhere, has the date A.D. 1577 on the head, and on the sill a later inscribed date AnDom. 1624 and the initials R.W. In the gable over the window is a small tablet inscribed 'Thomas Willcox 1818' and below it another, 'John . . . . . 1776'.
The south transept has a modern M-shaped tiled roof; the walls are partly rebuilt or refaced similarly to the north transept and angle buttresses added. It is lighted on the east by a pointed traceried window of three trefoil lights, with a hood-mould, and has a modern string-course at sill level; on the south is a modern pointed window of three pointed lights.
The north aisle is built of small coursed limestone rubble with a low-pitched lead-covered roof and is divided into three bays by rebuilt buttresses. The west bay is lighted by a single square-headed window with a trefoil ogee light and has a pointed doorway of two moulded orders which continue down the jambs without capitals, the inner a splay, the outer a roll and hollow; it has a hood-mould with head-stops. The other two bays have similar windows, but with two lights, and all have hood-moulds without stops. High up in the west wall is a square-headed window of two pointed cinquefoil lights, probably inserted in the 17th century. The wall of the clearstory is built of ashlar and is without a parapet to the low-pitched leadcovered nave roof. It is lighted by three square-headed windows of two pointed cinquefoil lights. The west end of the nave is supported by two large modern brick buttresses, rendered with cement, and lighted by a 17thcentury segmental-pointed traceried window of five lights, the three central lights cinquefoiled and the two outer trefoiled.
The south aisle has a plain parapet on a band of red sandstone to a low-pitched lead-covered roof, and is divided into three bays by buttresses, the west bay containing a pointed traceried window of two trefoil lights, and a re-used 12th-century round-headed doorway, of two orders supported on an impost moulding and attached shafts with cushion capitals. The inner order is plain, the outer ornamented with zigzag decoration and a splay decorated with button ornament. The detail of the capitals has been weathered away and the bases encased in concrete. The centre bay has a modern trefoiled single light, and the east a pointed traceried window of two trefoil lights; the mullion and head are modern restorations. The clearstory is similar to that on the north side, and the west wall has a corresponding 17th-century window.
The north transept (18 ft. 2 in. by 15 ft. 4 in.) has a flat, plastered ceiling, the walls plastered and lined out to represent ashlar. The arch to the crossing is pointed, of two orders, the inner chamfered, the outer plain with impost and responds similar to the one to the south transept and with a corresponding round-headed window above. Beneath this arch is the organ.
The nave (47 ft. 2 in. by 22 ft. 6 in.) has walls plastered and lined out as ashlar, and is paved with stone slabs. The roof is divided into five bays by trusses with moulded tie-beams, purlins, and ridge, the tie-beams having central carved bosses. The beams are supported by wall-posts with curved brackets resting on moulded timber corbels. This and the aisle roofs probably date from the late 17th century, when the chancel roof was repaired. The south arcade appears to have been the first to be built, followed by the north. It has only three bays and is of a more massive character than the north, which has four bays supported on slighter pillars. The three bays have pointed arches of two splays, the outer hollow, supported on octagonal pillars with moulded capitals, wide enough to take the outer order, and moulded bases. At the west end the arch rests on a half-octagon respond with a mutilated moulded capital, and at the east end the arch dies out on the wall. The north arcade has four bays of pointed arches, of two splayed orders, supported on octagonal pillars with moulded capitals and bases, the outer order resting on corbels carved with grotesque masks. At both ends the arches die out on the walls. The arch to the crossing is round-headed, slightly depressed, of two plain orders and on the nave side the outer order is supported on detached shafts with carved capitals and moulded bases; the capital to the south is carved with interlaced figures, and the north, although mutilated, retains three figures with a cross between them. At the west end the floor has been lowered to its original level for a distance of-10 ft. 6 in. and a concrete floor provided, with the intention of extending it to the whole of the nave and aisles. Along the step so formed, a 17thcentury barrier in two sections has been fixed with its panels cut out, leaving the muntings to form a balustrade; it has circular posts and a moulded rail and may possibly have been a gallery front. The font is placed between these rails against the step; it dates from the 14th century and is octagonal with a lead-lined circular basin, each face carved with crocketed ogee trefoils springing from carved mask stops and supported on eight half-shafts with continuous mouldings forming the capitals and bases. The pulpit placed on the north side of the crossing arch is a modern circular one of carved oak on an octagonal stem.
The south aisle (44 ft. 10 in. by 10 ft. 9 in.) is stone paved and has the walls and the underside of the roof between the trusses plastered. The roof has plain timbers, the trusses supported on small curved brackets. The corbels of an earlier roof still remain in the arcade wall. The arch to the transept is segmental-pointed of two orders, the inner a wave moulding, the outer a splay, which continue down to splayed bases without capitals. At the west end there are three painted lists of charities from 1607 to 1880 and a small oak chest with iron straps dated 1754. The windows have pointed rear-arches, and the door has a segmentalpointed one.
The north aisle (49 ft. 6 in. by 10 ft. 6 in.) has roof, walls, and floor as the south aisle. The transept arch is pointed, of two orders, the inner a wave moulding, the outer a splay, supported on responds repeating the arch mouldings with moulded capitals and splayed bases. The doorway has a segmental-pointed reararch and the windows have flat heads.
The plate includes a silver chalice and cover with hallmark 1729, inscribed 'Barbara Viscts Dowager Longueville ex dono'; a silver paten with hallmark 1518, 5 in. in diameter, engraved in the centre with a head of Our Lord; and a silver chalice 6¼ in. high with a projecting lip, the hallmark illegible.
Clerk's Close. By indentures dated 30 and 31 December 1831 a parcel of land in Wolston containing 8a. 15p. called Church Land was conveyed to trustees to permit the churchwardens of Wolston to apply the rents as follows: viz. three fifth parts for the reparation of the parish church and the other two fifths for the use of the parish clerk.
Mary Herne by will dated 17 May 1847 charged certain property with an annual payment of £2 to the Wolston Women's Clothing and the Childbed Linen Societies, founded by her daughter, in equal proportions.
The Rev. James Corrall Roberts by will proved 25 September 1871 bequeathed £200, the income to be applied by the vicar and churchwardens in the purchase of bread or coals, or both, to be distributed at Christmas to the poor of the parish.
Thomas Walton by a codicil dated 13 December 1862 to his will dated 14 February 1862 bequeathed £100 to the minister and churchwardens, the interest to be laid out on 1 January in the providing of a cooked round of beef and potatoes and bread to be distributed amongst the poor widows of the parish.
Sir Peter Wentworth, who died in 1675, by his will bequeathed £300, the interest to bind forth four young people every year, the first two to be of Lillingstone Lovell and the next two of Wolston and so successively for ever, to be apprentices to some honest trade.
Mary Turner. This parish participates in this charity to the amount of 6s. 8d. each year, which is applied for the relief of the poor. For particulars of the charity see under parish of Ryton-on-Dunsmore.
The Rev. John Wilcox by will dated 15 January 1874 bequeathed £200 to the vicar and churchwardens, the interest to be applied for the benefit of the poor.
The above-mentioned charities are now regulated by a scheme of the Charity Commissioners dated 1 March 1921, by which the charities, with the exception of the Clerk's Close Charity, shall be administered under the title of the United Charities by a body of trustees. The scheme also appoints a body of trustees to administer the Clerk's Close Charity and provides for the application of the income of all the charities.
Owen Watkin Wynn Hardinge Meredith by a codicil dated 13 October 1917 to his will, proved on 15 June 1919, gave £100 to be handed to the vicar, and the parish to elect 12 men to decide how best to use it for the benefit of the poor. By a scheme of the Charity Commissioners dated 9 October 1931 it was provided that the charity should be administered by the trustees of the United Charities. The annual income of the charity amounts to £3 7s. 4d.
John Masters by will dated 5 February 1890 bequeathed £500, to be invested in the names of three of the trustees of the Queen's Road Baptist Chapel, Coventry, and the dividends to be used for keeping in repair the fencing round the Baptist Chapel at Wolston and its cemetery and in keeping the said cemetery clean, and to apply any surplus which may remain in the repairs of the said chapel.
1. Private Acts 7 & 8 Wm. III, c. 37.
2. V.C.H. Warw. i, 359.
3. It was garrisoned in 1195, during the minority of Bertram de Verdon: Pipe R. Soc. n.s. viii, 198.
5. Exch. K.R. Misc. Bks. 15, fol. 10 v.
6. Cal. Inq. p.m. v, 187.
7. Traces of an early, probably lateBronze-Age, settlement have been found: Birm. Arch. Soc. Trans, lxv, 143.
8. Warw. Co. Recs. iii, 175, 191.
9. Cal. Chart. R. i, 58.
10. Rot. Hundr. (Rec. Com.), ii, 228; Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 780.
11. Exch. K.R. Misc. Bks. 15, fol. 11 v.
12. Cal. Inq. p.m. x, p. 508.
13. V.C.H. Warw. i, 307.
15. Cott. MS. Vitell. A. 1, fol. 57 v.
16. Exch. K.R. Misc. Bks. 15, fol. 11 v.
18. Ibid. fol. 10 v.
19. Cott. MS. Vitell. A. I, fol. 55.
23. Mon. Angl. vi, 109.
24. Feet of F. (Dugd. Soc. xviii), 2529.
25. Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccxxxiii, 46.
26. Feet of F. Warw. Mich. 11 Wm. III.
27. Glebe terrier of 1698 (at Warwick), ex inf. M. W. Beresford.
28. Ex inf. C. R. Wilcox.
29. a Dict. Nat. Biog.
30. V.C.H. Warw. i, 307.
31. Cal. Docts. France, 202.
33. Dugd. 34; Cott. MS. Vitell. A. 1, fol. 57 v.
34. Harl. MS. 3650, fol. 29 v.
35. Bk. of Fees, 950.
36. Cott. MS. Vitell. A. 1, fol. 56.
37. Cal. Pat. 1232–46, p. 198.
38. Ibid. pp. 181, 196, 230.
39. Cal. Close, 1247–58, p. 68.
40. Ibid. 1237–42, p. 199.
41. L. Moor, Knights of Edw. I (Harl. Soc. lxxxiv), 61.
42. Cal. Close, 1313–18, p. 126.
43. Feud. Aids, v, 177.
44. Feet of F. (Dugd. Soc. xv), 1629.
45. De Banco R. Mich. 24 Hen. VI, m. 332.
46. Dugd. 34, 46. This John was probably son of the John mentioned in 1326.
47. Anct. D. (P.R.O.), D. 11123.
48. Feet of F. (Dugd. Soc. xviii), 2304.
49. Chan. Inq. p.m. 4 Hen. VI, no. 18.
51. Cal. Pat. 1422–9, p. 480.
52. De Banco R. Mich. 24 Hen. VI, m. 332.
53. Feet of F. (Dugd. Soc. xviii), 2630.
55. Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. VII, i, 136.
57. Close R. 4 Hen. VIII, pt. 4.
58. Dugd. 35; Add. Chart. 42391.
59. Ibid.; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxxvi, 69; Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 579, no. 28.
60. Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xciv, 53.
61. Feet of F. Mich. Warw. 10 Jas. I.
64. Visitn. of Warws. 1682 (Harl. Soc.), 42.
65. Feet of F. Warw. Mich. 11 Wm. III.
67. Ibid.; Dugd. 36, 39.
68. The Gamekeepers' Deputations give Hannah Pinchin and Letitia Wilcox as joint ladies of the manor in 1737; Susanna Hubert, widow, 1747, and Susanna wife of James Birch, 1763; Genl. George Scott, 1766–1810; the Duke of Buccleuch, 1818; William Wilcox, 1826.
69. Gent. Mag. 1819 (1), 581. The estate was to be sold (subject to the life interest of the general's widow) for the benefit of the duke's daughters.
70. For details of the descent after 1700 we are indebted to Mr. C. R. Wilcox.
71. Feet of F. (Dugd. Soc. xi), 374.
72. Cott. MS. Vitell. A. 1, fol. 58.
75. Feet of F. (Dugd. Soc. xi), 715.
77. Wm. Salt Soc. N.S. viii, 6.
78. Dugd. 40. The Bretons were 'of Merston' in the 13th and 14th centuries: Feet of F. (Dugd. Soc.), 1127, 2056. Marston is probably the 'Merstone' in which 1 hide, then waste, was held in 1086 by 'R.' de Olgi of Turchil (V.C.H. Warw. i, 323), but the identification is not certain.
79. Cal. Close, 1413–19, pp. 516, 517. Cf. V.C.H. Warw. iii, 194.
81. V.C.H. Warw. i, 323.
82. Bk. of Fees, 507, 955.
83. Cal. Inq. p.m. v, 187; vi, 54; x, p. 508.
85. Cal. Chart. R. i, 58.
86. Exc. e Rot. Fin. i, 217.
88. Bk. of Fees, 955.
89. Exc. e Rot. Fin. ii, 11.
90. Cal. Inq. p.m. ii, 444.
93. Cal. Close, 1272–9, p. 288.
94. Wm. Salt. Soc. vi, 86.
95. Cal. Inq. p.m. v, 187.
96. Ibid. vi, 54; Dugd. 44.
97. Cal. Close, 1313–18, p. 381.
98. Ibid. 1343–6, p. 342.
99. Cal. Inq. p.m. x, p. 508.
100. Cal. Close, 1369–74, p. 74.
101. Cat. Anct. D. v, A. 10650.
102. Chan. Inq. p.m. 3 Ric. II, no. 1.
103. Wm. Salt Soc. xvii, 72.
104. Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Edw. IV, no. 35; 12 Edw. IV, no. 50.
105. Ibid. (Ser. 2), lxxv, 87. For pedigree see G. E. C. Complete Peerage (1st ed.), viii, 145.
106. Dugd. 45; Feet of F. Warw. Mich. 13 Jas. I.
107. Gamekeepers' Deputations. Cf. G. E. C. Complete Peerage (2nd ed.), vi, 162–4.
108. Burke, Landed Gentry (1937).
109. Harl. MS. 3650, fol. 69 v.
111. Cal. Inq. p.m. vi, 54.
112. Exch. K. R. Misc. Bks. 15, fol. 11 v.
113. Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iii, 65.
114. a Ex inf. Mr. P. B. Chatwin, F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A.
115. Dugdale (p. 39) does not mention this but refers to a table tomb, in the chancel, to Sir William Wigston (d. 1577), and matrices of brasses to Joan, wife of Richard Hotoft and formerly wife of Richard Metley (d. 1473), and Margaret, daughter of Nicholas Metley and wife of John Hugford (d. 1474).
116. a Tilley and Walters, Church Bells of Warws. 267–8.
117. S.P. Dom. Chas. I, vol. 296, no. 77.
119. Tax. Eccl. (Rec. Com.), 241.
121. V.C.H. Warw. ii, 33.
122. Cal. Pat. 1396–9, p. 5.
124. Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iii, 62.
125. Ibid. 53–4; Mon. Bailiffs' Accts. (Dugd. Soc), 74–6.
126. Cal. Pat. 1548–9, p. 351.
127. C.P. Deeds enrd. Hil. 6–7 Edw. VI, m. 16 d.
128. Mon. Bailiffs' Accts. (Dugd. Soc.), 75.
129. Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clxxxiii, 95.
133. Ecton, Thesaurus (1763), 94.
135. West, Directory of Warws. (1830).
136. She died in March 1831 at Leamington: Gent. Mag. 1831 (2), 284. As James Corrall Roberts was vicar from 1819 to 1871 no presentation was made between those years, but the patron was said to be 'Lady Scott' in 1831 (Lewis, Topog. Dict.), 1837 (Clerical Guide), and 1850 (White, Directory of Warws.). If this is not an error, the reference is probably to a daughter of the 4th Duke of Buccleuch (see above, n. 68).
137. Information from the Rev. W. SterryCooper and the Registrar of Coventry Diocese.
138. Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iii, 62.
139. Cal. Docts. France, 205. Cf. V.C.H. Warw. ii, 109.

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