Baronia Anglica Concentrata, Or, a Concentrated Account of All the Baronies Commonly Called Baronies in Fee; Deriving Their Origin from Writ of Summons, and Not from Any Specific Limited Creation, Shewing the Descent and Line of Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ... III in 7 singham, and Fundall, in Norfolk; Coiton, in Suffolk; and Sharpenhou, in the county of ' ' Bedford. He was one of the king's justices.t t pat. R0t. 18 John de Thorpe, son and heir to Robert, was a person of great eminence, inasmuch Edw I-m 41as he had summonsJ to parliament as one of the barons of the realm, from the 2nd to t Dug. Lists the 19 Edw. II., both inclusive; and in the 1st of the same reign, as one of the king's of Summjnstices. But though his name is thus included in the Lists of Summons, of the 19 Ibid. Edw. II., there is reason to suppose that he died the 17th of that reign, being then H Esch. 17 seised, with Alice, his second wife, of a moiety of the manor of Creake, the manors Edw-II n.61of Thorpe, otherwise Ashwell-Thorpef Massingham, Fundall, &c, in the county of Norfolk, and divers knights' fees, as well in that county as in Suffolk. Moreover, in the said year, f the king's escheator had command to take into his hands the lands which John Originalia, de Thorpe held at the time of his decease;b whereof an assignation of dower was made to J' Ym Alice his widow, in the year following. Cane. pars. 2. This John de Thorpe, 5 Edw. II., had a charter for the foundation of the free chapel is Edw. II. of St. Mary, at Ashwell, for a chaplain to perform daily service therein to the inhabitants, and to pray for his own and wife's soul, as also for those of his ancestors and successors. Parkin asserts, tt that he was twice married; viz. first to Agnes, daughter of; Topog. de and after to Alice, relict of Sir William Mortimer; which Alice, as already observed, Freebridge, Hun. p. 177. survived him.0 Robert de Thorpe, son and heir of John, by Agnes his first wife, was about thirty years old at his father's...