Isabel Tilliol and John Colville

Sir John Colville of Dale, Ingleby Arncliffe, East Harlsey, etc., Yorkshire was involved in one of the insurrections against Henry IV in 1405. He was executed as a traitor at Durham on 20 August 1405, leaving by his wife Alice, daughter of Sir John Lord Darcy, a son Sir Robert who seems to have died shortly after his father, and two daughters, Joan who married William Mauleverer, and Isabel who married John Wandesford [1].

Sir Robert, son of John Colville married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Fulthorpe, and left a son John, born on 29 December 1393, who in 1415, was found to be the heir of his grandfather, the attainted Sir John Colville [2]. The younger Sir John Colville died about October 1418 at the siege of Harfleur in Normandy, aged 24 without heirs of his body. The Colville lands were later divided between his two aunts and their husbands. Although John Colville died in 1418, the Colville lands in Arncliffe and Heslerton were not divided between his aunts until 1440 – something that does not seem to have been commented upon by any writers. The possible reasons for this are given below.  

All of the above is well known, but now we come to a little puzzle. Who did the younger Sir John Colville marry? Brown says that he married Isabel daughter of Sir Peter Tilliol of Scalby, Cumberland [3]. The author of the HOP biography of Sir Peter Tilliol states that “The belief that Isabel Tilliol married the John Colville who fell at Harfleur in 1418 is demonstrably untrue. She was certainly married to a John Colville by 1416, when the latter made Sir Peter Tilliol his trustee, but her husband lived on to enjoy her share of the Tilliol estates” [4].

The answer to this puzzle is that they are both correct. Isabel Tilliol married twice, both times to a John Colville. Isabel Tilliol was born about 1406 (said to be aged 30 in March 1436 [5]) so was only aged about 12 at the death of her first husband. She was one of the executors of her husband’s will together with his servant Thomas Robeas. Whether Thomas Robeas was incompetent or simply lined his own pocket we cannot know, but one of the things he should have done as executor was to pay off Sir John Colville’s debts. Before his departure for Normandy in April 1418, John Colville had given bonds for loans to several London merchants. After his death, these bonds had not been repaid in full and Isabel was sued in the London courts for repayment. In Trinity term 1423, she was sued for £24 10s by Ralph Holand, citizen and mercer of London [6]. Isabel managed to get the case postponed, but did not appear in court and was outlawed. She received a royal pardon for not appearing before the justices in May 1423 [7].

In Trinity term 1429, she was sued by William Maltby, citizen and mercer of London for her husband’s debts, but by this time she had re-married to another John Colville. Maltby sued “John Colvyle lately of Normanby, Yorkshire and his wife Isabel Colvyle, herself executor and lately wife of John Colvyle of Dale Town, Yorkshire, who owe him £13 18s”  [8]. In June 1429, John Colvyll or Colvyle, of the county of York, esquire, or late of Normanby, co. York, 'gentilman,' and Isabel, his wife, executrix and late the wife of John Colvyle, late of Dale, co. York, knight, received a royal pardon for non-appearance before the king's justices of the Bench [9].

So who was this John Colville of Normanby, the second husband of Isabel Tilliol? There are several places in Yorkshire called Normanby but I cannot find a connection between the Colvilles and any of them. It is interesting though, that Normanby in the parish of Ormesby, Yorkshire was among the lands held by Sir John Darcy at his death in December 1411 [10].

In his will dated 27 April 1418, Sir John Colville of Dale, left a contingent remainder of his manors of Arncliffe and Heslerton to John Colville, son of William Colville, son of Sir Philip Colville, knight [11]. Sir Philip Colville, who was alive in 1351 [12], was most probably the younger brother of William Colville, the great-grandfather of this Sir John Colville. So the two Johns would be second cousins once removed. I believe that it was this John Colville who was the second husband of Isabel Tilliol. The contingent remainder in Sir John Colville’s will probably muddied the waters when it came to the division of his estates between the Wandesfords and the Mauleverers and they did not push their claim to Arncliffe and Heslerton until after the second John Colville died.

Sir Peter Tilliol, Isabel’s father died on 2 January 1435 when he was succeeded by his son Robert ‘an idiot’. Robert did not long survive his father and died before 26 March 1436 when his Durham inquisition post mortem found that Isabella, aged 30 wife of John Colvyle, and Margaret, aged 26, wife of Christopher Moresby are his sisters and next heirs [13]. On 2 May 1436, the escheator in Cumberland was ordered to divide the Tilliol estates between John Colville and Isabel his wife and Christopher Moresby and Margaret his wife, sisters and heirs of Robert Tilliol [14].

John Colville appears to have died in late 1436 or early 1437. In 1437 Isabel widow of John Colville released all claim to dower in Dale, Arncliffe and Ingleby to Sir William Mauleverer and Joan his wife [15]. Isabel died shortly before 19 October 1438 aged about 32 [16]. Her Durham inquisition was taken at Bishop Auckland on 30 April 1439, when her heir was found to be her son William, aged 18 [17]. William Colville adopted his mother’s name of Tilliol and died in 1479, leaving two daughters who carried his half of the Tilliol estates to the family of Musgrave.

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[1] William Brown, “Ingleby Arncliffe,” Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 16 (1902): 121–227.

[2] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. 20: Henry V: 1413-1418, No. 370. http://www.history.ac.uk/cipm-20-part-iv.

[3] Brown, “Ingleby Arncliffe,” 167.

[4] http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/tilliol-sir-peter-1356-1435.

[5] Forty-Fifth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (London, 1885), 271.

[6] Court of Common Pleas, CP 40/650, rot. 076.

[7] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry VI, vol. 1, 30.

[8]  Court of Common Pleas, CP 40/674, rot. 464d.

[9]  Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry VI, vol. 1, 516.

[10] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. 19, 7-14 Henry IV: 1405-1413, No. 978. http://www.history.ac.uk/cipm-19-part-ix

[11] Brown, “Ingleby Arncliffe,” 212.

[12] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward III, vol. 9, 154.

[13] Forty-Fifth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (London, 1885), 271.

[14] Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. 16, Henry VI: 1430-1437 (London, 1936), 278

[15] Brown, “Ingleby Arncliffe,” 167.

[16] Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. 17, Henry VI: 1437-1445 (London, 1937), 51.

[17] Forty-Fourth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (London, 1884), 348.

Heron of Thornton and Ford

Introduction

The published pedigrees of the family of Heron of Ford, Northumberland all contain errors of one kind or another due to the lack of contemporary documentation and confusion between various members of the family with the same name. The account in Complete Peerage also has errors, many of which are corrected and discussed here: Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage: Volume 6: Heron.

These clarifications can also be a bit confusing and I thought it would be interesting to look at the family in a different way, from the perspective of the family of Heron of Thornton, who eventually became the heirs of the family of Heron of Ford.

Thornton, or more correctly Thrunton, is a hamlet in the parish of Whittingham, Northumberland. There are other places in Northumberland called Thornton and they are easily confused in the early records.

The Herons of Thornton descended from John, a younger son of Sir William Heron of Ford (1304-1379). Raine in his pedigree of the family[1] says that he died in 1408, but as John was born in the early 1330’s and the John Heron of Thornton who died in 1408 left a 12 year old son, this seems unlikely. The most probable explanation is that John Heron of Thornton who died in 1408 was the son of the John Heron of Thornton who was born about 1332.

John Heron of Thornton I

John Heron of Thornton, third son of Sir William Heron of Ford, Northumberland by Isabel de Gray his wife was born about 1332. On 25 November 1337, his father, William son of Roger Heron settled the manor of Ford on himself and Isabel his wife, for their lives, with successive remainders to their sons Roger, William, John and Thomas in tail male [2].

Sometime in the early 1350’s John Heron married Elizabeth, the widow of Robert de Eslington of Eslington, Northumberland, who died of the plague on 10 October 1349, leaving three daughters and co-heirs, one by Isabel his first wife, and two by Elizabeth [3].  In her right John Heron was tenant of Elizabeth’s dower lands in the manor of Eslington and half of the vills of Whittingham, Thrunton and Barton, Northumberland. These lands were held of the king in chief.

Elizabeth’s daughters were Elizabeth de Eslington, who married Gilbert Heron and died childless in 1362, and Isabel de Eslington who married Robert de Bowes. After the death of Robert de Bowes, and her sister Elizabeth, Isabel sold her father’s lands in Whittingham to Donald de Heselrig. The other half of Whittingham, Thrunton and Barton which was not held by the Eslingtons and later the Hesilrig family was held by Beatrice, daughter of Henry fitz John, who inherited her nephew’s lands in 1349 [4]. In May 1370, Beatrice and her second husband, Sir Robert de Hauley sold their share of Whittingham and land in Great and Little Riyal to six trustees, all clergymen, including William, the parson of the church of Ford for 200 marks [5]. The trustees were acting on behalf of Sir William Heron of Ford. In 1371, after an inquisition ad quod damnum, Robert Haulay, knight, and Beatrice his wife had licence to settle the manor of Whittingham on William Heron knight, John his son, and their heirs [6]. Sir William appears to have given half of these lands to his son John. John Heron thus became the king’s tenant in Little Riyal, quarter of the manor of Whittingham, and quarter of the vills of Thrunton and Barton.

In the records it is difficult to distinguish John Heron of Thornton from other men named John Heron living in Northumberland, notably his uncle Sir John Heron of Crawley, who also had a younger son named John and a grandson John. It appears that John Heron of Thornton became a soldier. In September 1359 he had letters of protection until Easter, about to proceed with Henry de Percy to Gascony [7]. In March 1362, John son of William Heron was a deputy to Sir Richard Tempest, keeper of the castle of Roxburgh when they were accused of various wrongdoings [8].

Sir William Heron of Ford, his brother Sir John Heron and his sons Sir Roger Heron and John Heron, esquire (of Thornton) were among those implicated in the murder of Sir John de Coupland who was killed on 30 December 1363. In November 1364, the king ordered their imprisonment [9], but they were later released on payment of heavy fines. On 20 June 1366, the king confirmed to John Heron, at his request and on his petition, a messuage and a carucate of land in Thornton late of Thomas Graunt, which the escheator had wrongly taken into the king’s hand [10].

On 3 December 1378, a commission of oyer and terminer was ordered on the complaint by  Donald de Hesilrig, knight, that William Heron, knight, and John his son, with others, broke his house at Whittingham, Northumberland, felled and carried away his trees, depastured his corn and grass there and at Thornton and Barton, and assaulted his servants [11]. Apparently relations between the two neighbouring families were not always neighbourly.

On 27 May 1379, John Heron of Thornton was named as one of the assessors of a tax in Northumberland [12]. In 1382, John Heron of Thornton, Walter Heron, and Edward Heron, executors of the will of Sir William Heron of Ford, who died in December 1379, claimed a debt of £60 from Sir John Heron, senior (of Crawley) [13].  About 1385, John Heron of Thornton and Elizabeth his wife sued William Bishopdale, mayor of Newcastle and others for abducting Alice del Chambre, their ward, from the manor of Whittingham [14].

John Heron of Thornton is said to have died in March 1386, although I can find no source for this. He was succeeded by his son (or possibly his grandson) John.

John Heron of Thornton II

The second John Heron of Thornton hardly appears sparsely in the records.  On 20 June 1386, John Heron of Thornton with the earl of Northumberland, defending Berwick castle had letters of protection for one year [16].

John Heron of Thornton died on 5 October 1408, leaving William his son and heir aged 12. He was seised of the vill of Little Riyal, one quarter of Whittingham manor, and one quarter of the vills of Thrunton and Barton [17]. On 18 May 1412, the escheator in Northumberland was ordered to assign dower to Katherine who was wife of John Heron of Thornton [18].

William Heron of Thornton and Ford

William son of John Heron was born at Whittingham on 12 March 1397 and baptised in the church there on the same day [19]. After the death of his father in 1408, his lands were entrusted to Sir Robert Harbottle.

The inquisition for his proof of age was taken at Newcastle on 6 June 1418 and on 10 February 1419, the escheator in Northumberland was ordered to take the fealty of William Heron, son and heir of John Heron, and to give him seisin of his father's land [20].

William Heron married before 1418, Isabel, whose parentage is unknown.

On 1 September 1425, Sir William Heron of Ford, the second cousin of William Heron of Thornton, died leaving as his heir a daughter Elizabeth, aged three and no male heirs [21]. In 1337, Sir William Heron of Ford had entailed Ford on his male heirs. William Heron of Thornton was Sir William’s closest male relative and thus inherited the manor and castle of Ford. Between late 1425 and his death in early 1428, he became known as William Heron of Ford, a source of confusion in many histories of the family. He was however, never knighted.

William Heron of Ford was killed in a skirmish between his men and those of his neighbour Sir John Manners of Etal on 20 January 1428 when he was aged 30.

The inquisition post mortem for William Heron of Ford, for the lands which he held of the Bishop of Durham, was held at Norham on 22 January 1428, which found that his heir was John his son, aged 13 [22]. On 8 February 1428, the king commissioned Robert Umfraville, knight, William Tempest, knight, William Elmeden, knight, William Lampton, esquire, Emery Heryng and Robert Lampton, and to any two or more of them., including either Heryng or Robert Lampton, to enquire by sworn inquest of the county of Northumberland, as to the malefactors who lately slew William Heron, esquire, and Robert Atkynson his servant, and into the circumstances of the deed [23].

The inquisition post mortem of William Heron, esquire for the lands which he held in chief of the king was taken at Alnwick on 18 June 1428 which found that he died on 20 January 1428 and that his heir was John, his son, “aged 10 and no more.” He held the castle and two-thirds of the manor of Ford as well as other lands in Northumberland including, two thirds of 1/4 manor of Whittingham with the hamlets of Barton and Thrunton [24]. Presumably the other third of Ford was held in dower by Isabel, the widow of Sir William Heron and the other third of Whittingham was held in dower by Katherine, William Heron esquire’s mother.

His widow Isabel had assignment of dower on 22 April 1429 [25].

John Heron of Ford

John son of William Heron of Ford was born about 1418. His father died in January 1428 and custody of his lands and his marriage were granted to Henry Percy, earl of Northumberland, William Carnaby and Henry Trollope on 14 September 1428 [26].

He married, it is said, by a papal dispensation dated 11 July 1438, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Heron of Ford, his third cousin [27]. Although Raine says that they had a dispensation for marriage and gives the date, I can find no record of it in the surviving papal registers.

There does not appear to have been any writ for the inquisition of John’s proof of age around 1439-40, but John and Elizabeth took possession of their lands when he reached maturity, without licence from the king. Nine years later, they received a royal pardon for this. The entry in the Patent Rolls states that on 4 July 1449. “Pardon to John Heron, esquire, son of William Heron, late of Ford, and to Elizabeth his wife, daughter of William Heron, knight, of all entries and intrusions made by them into their inheritances or any lands or possessions without suing livery thereof out of the king's hands, and of all felonies, misprisions and contempts, accounts, debts, prests, arrears of accounts, impeachments and respites, and all actions and demands which the king could have against them” [28].

John Heron of Thornton and Ford held various posts under Henry VI, he was appointed  as constable of Bamburgh castle on 7 February 1438 [29], when presumably he was of age. He was appointed receiver-general of the castle and lordship of Bamburgh on 18 May 1449 [30]. On 17 July 1459, the office of constable of Bamburgh castle was granted to John Heron of Ford, knight, and Roger his son [31]. He was escheator in Northumberland in 1439-40 [32], sheriff in 1440-41,  1451-52,  and 1456-7 and M.P. in 1442, 1447 and  1449 [33].

He fought for Henry VI at the battle of Towton, Yorkshire on 29 March 1461, where he probably died. On 2 May 1461, Robert Ogle, knight, was commissioned to take into the king’s hands his castle of Harebotell and lordship of Reddesdale and also the castle of Forde and other possessions late of John Heron of Forde, knight, deceased, and to seize Roger, son and heir of John, and keep the same; and to crush any of the county of Northumberland who may resist [34].

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[1] James Raine, The History and Antiquities of North Durham (London, 1852), 305.

[2] CP 25/1/181/12, number 52.

[3] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. 9, Edward III (1916), No. 454.

[4] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. 9, Edward III (1916), No. 417.

[5] CP 25/1/181/13, number 148.

[6] List of Inquisitions ad Quod Damnum, Part II, Lists and Indexes, 22 (1906), 579

[7] Charles Purton Cooper, ed., Appendix to a Report on Rymer's Foedora, vol. 3. (1869), 49.

[8] Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous (Chancery), vol. 3 (1937), 186, No. 501.

[9] Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: vol. 12: 1364-1369 (1910), 84.

[10] Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. 7, Edward III: 1356-1358 (1923), 334.

[11] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Richard II, vol. 1: 1377-1381 (1895), 311.

[12] Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. 9, Richard II: 1377-1383 (1926), 144

[13] Archaeologica Aeliana, Third Series, vol. 6 (Newcastle: 1910), 63, citing de Banco, R. 484, m. 96.

[14] L. C. Hector, ed., Year Books of Richard II.: 8-10 Richard II, 1385-1387, Ames Foundation, 1987, 96-8.

[16] Grant S. Simpson and James D. Galbraith, eds., Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland Preserved in the Public Record Office, vol. 5, 1968, 536.

[17] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. 19, No. 504.

[18] Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry IV: vol. 4: 1409-1413 (1932), 274.

[19] J.C. Hodgson, 'Proofs of Age of heirs to estates in Northumberland in the reigns of Henry IV, Henry V and Henry VI', Archaeologia Aeliana, vol. 22 (1900), 122.

[20] Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry V: vol. 1: 1413-1419 (1929), 498

[21] Forty-Fifth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (1885), Appendix I, 220.

[22] Forty-Fifth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (1885), Appendix I, 220.

[23] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry VI, vol. 1: 1422-1429 (1901), 467.

[24] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. 23, 6-10 Henry VI: 1427-1432 (2004), 8, No. 17

[25] Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry VI: volume 1: 1422-1429 (1933), 431

[26] Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. 15, Henry VI: 1422-1430 (1935), 241

[27] Raine, The History and Antiquities of North Durham, 305.

[28] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry VI, vol. 5: 1446-1452 (1909), 259

[29] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry VI, vol. 3: 1436-1441 (1907), 179

[30] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry VI, vol. 5: 1446-1452 (1909), 247

[31] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry VI, vol. 6: 1454-1461 (1947), 512

[32] Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. 17, Henry VI: 1437-1445 (1937), 130

[33] Josiah C. Wedgewood, History of Parliament, Biographies of the Members of the Commons House, 1439-1509 (London: HMSO, 1936), 446.

[34] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward IV, vol. 1: 1461-1467 (1897), 29

The Family of William de Felton I

Recently I have been looking at the family of Felton of Edlingham, Northumberland. I have found quite a few erroneous statements in print concerning the family of the first Sir William de Felton who died on 5 April 1327.

There seems to be some confusion regarding his wives. The facts are straightforward. William de Felton had two wives and they were both named Constance. He did not have a wife named Eustancia. This is simply a mis-reading of Cunstancia or Constance.

His first wife was Constance de Pontop who was one of the heirs of Philip de Oldcoates (Ulecote). In 1200, Philip de Oldcoates of Oldcoates and Stirap, Nottinghamshire married Joan, sister-in-law of Sewal fitz Henry, a royal official. In 1209, King John granted to Philip Sewal’s lands in Northumberland which had escheated to the Crown after Sewal’s death, to hold by the service of sergeantry of being the king’s forester and the custodian of the pleas of the Crown in Northumberland. These lands were in Nafferton, West Matfen, and Lorbottle with some rents in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Philip de Oldcoates was sheriff of Northumberland in 1214-16 and again in 1216-20; custodian of the bishopric of Durham in 1217; he was appointed seneschal of Poitou on 16 September 1220 and was reported to be dead on 30 October 1220 [1]. After Philip’s death, his property in Northumberland was divided between his five sisters and their husbands [2]. It appears that Alice, one the sisters, who was unmarried in 1221, married Laurence de Pontop, of Pontop, Durham. Laurence held some position in the bishopric of Durham, probably the bishop’s forester. Laurence died some time before 1250, leaving two sons, Thomas and Robert.

Isabel de Oldcoates, another of the sisters and heirs of Philip de Oldcoates, married Thomas de Sturton of Sturton-le-Steeple, Nottinghamshire. After the death of Thomas de Sturton without children, his widow Isabel gave her share of her brother’s lands to her nephew Thomas de Pontop. On 24 February 1253, the king confirmed the lands given by Isabel de Sturton to Thomas de Pontop [3]. Thomas de Pontop died shortly before 21 September 1265, seised of lands in Matfen, Nafferton and Lorbottle, and leaving two infant daughters, Constance aged two and Isabel aged one [4].

Constance de Pontop married William de Felton some time before 27 July 1284, when the sheriff of Northumberland was ordered to respite the demand by summons of the Exchequer against William de Felton and Constance his wife for the debt of Philip de Hulcotis (Oldcoates) until the quinzaine of Michaelmas next [5]. When Philip de Oldcoates died in 1220 he owed money to the Crown, and more than sixty years later, the Exchequer was still chasing his heirs for payment.

William and Constance either bought or were granted other lands in Matfen, Nafferton and Lorbottle by some of the other heirs of Philip de Oldcoates. By a fine at Westminster, dated 25 June 1285, Robert de Pontop granted seven messuages and 100 acres of land in West Matfen to William de Felton and Constance his wife and their heirs, with reversion to Robert on the failure of heirs of the marriage [6]. Thomas de Blyth, a descendant of Margery another of the sisters of Philip de Oldcoates granted William de Felton and Constance his wife, all his lands in the towns of Matfen, West Nafferton and Lorbottle which was confirmed by Edward I in June 1291 [7].

By Constance de Pontop, William had at least five children:

• John, who had letters of protection going to Scotland with his father in May 1303 [8]. He died v.p. before 24 June 1315
• Robert who also died v.p. about 1319
• William II, eldest surviving son and heir, who died on 21 September 1358.
• Alice, who married Robert Delaval of Seaton Delaval, Northumberland (d. 19 August 1353 [9]).
• Eleanor, who married John de Fenwick.

By a fine at Westminster dated 21 June 1316, William de Felton granted to Robert de Felton (his son) the manors of Edlingham, Northumberland and Boddington, Northamptonshire. Robert recognised William's  right and granted the manors to William de Felton, for life with remainder to William his son, with successive remainders to Robert de la Vale and Alice his wife and her heirs male; to John de Fenwyke and Eleanor his wife and her heirs male; and to the right heirs of William de Felton [10].

The 1316 grant by William to Robert was made after the death of the eldest son John. The reversion to his sisters indicates that his brother John had died before this date. Adam of Monmouth records that in 1307, two brothers, J[ohn] and R[obert] de Felton detained William de Langton, bishop of Coventry and took him to York. He says that the brothers afterwards suffered bad deaths [11]. It is difficult in the records to distinguish this Robert and John from Sir Robert de Felton of Litcham, Norfolk (the presumed brother of Sir William de Felton) and his son John. Sir Robert de Felton of Litcham died at Bannockburn in 1314,

It is not certain when Constance de Pontop died, but William married secondly, probably in the early 1300’s, another Constance. By her, he had three daughters, two of whom were married in 1328 [12]:

• Margaret, who married Robert Bertram of Bothal (31 Mar 1307 - 21 Nov 1363 [13]).
• Elizabeth.
• Constance, who married Robert Strelley of Strelley, Nottinghamshire (died 9 Dec 1353 [14]).

Constance, the second wife of William de Felton predeceased her husband. He died on 5 April (Palm Sunday) 1327. The writ of diem clausit extremum was issued to the escheator on 23 April and another inquisition was called on 21 August 1327 to determine what lands William had occupied by the courtesy of England after the death of Constance his wife [15].

Unfortunately neither of these inquisitions has survived. The lands which William had occupied by the courtesy of England after the death of Constance were distributed to his three daughters in October and November 1328, but no description of the property appears to exist, so it is difficult to make a guess as to the identity of William’s second wife. However, it appears that the second Constance could also be a descendant of Philip de Oldcoates, as the descendants of Margaret de Felton were later holding lands in Lorbottle:

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[1] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry III, vol. 1: 1216-1225 (1901), 249, 269

[2] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry III, vol. 1: 1216-1225 (1901), 296

[3] Calendar of Fine Rolls, 37 Henry III, No. 466.

[4] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Vol. 1, Henry III (1904), 193-4. No. 608.

[5] Calendar of Chancery Warrants, 1244-1326 (1927), 19.

[6] CP 25/1/187/7, number 44

[7] Northumberland Record Office, Swinburne (Capheaton) Estate Records, ZSW/167/3

[8] Calendar of Chancery Warrants, 1244-1326 (1927), 175.

[9] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. 10, Edward III (1921), 102, No. 114

[10] CP 25/1/285/30, number 125, c.f. Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward II, Vol. 5, 13.

[11] Thomas Hog, ed., Adami Murimuthensis Chronica, English Historical Society (London, 1846), 10

[12] Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: vol. 1: 1327-1330 (1896), 335-6

[13] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. 11, Edward III (1935), 369, No. 487

[14] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. 10, Edward III (1921), 83, No. 94

[15] Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. 4, Edward III: 1327-1336 (1913), 36, 61