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BARRINGTON John
Birth: ABT 1340 Barrington Hall, Essex, England
Death: 1426
Notes
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Note: Sir John had two sons, John and Edmund, the latter possessed theManors of
Gravely, Letchworth and Cheresfield together with theparkership of the park at
Weston near Baldock, and other landsthere, all in Hertfordshire, and which had been
the property ofhis mother Margaret and settled after her death on her youngerchildren.
By a deed dated the 26 of May in the twelfth year ofKing Richard the second, it
appears, that a recovery had beensuffered for these estates after Sir John's death,
and anengagement made, that his widow should hold them for her life,and have them
in fee simple, in case her son Edmund died beforeher without issue: but if she died
first, then that he and hisheirs should have them. This second event must have taken
place,as Edmund certainly possessed them and held a court for them atGraveley on
the Monday after Easter in the eleventh year of KingHenry the Fourth.
On Sir John's death his son John Barrington succeeded to theestates. He seems to
have been the first of the family who speltthe name with a G in it. He had from King
Edward the Third inthe 49th year of his reign, letters patent confirming to him allhis
grants, that his ancestors had received from Kings Henry theFirst, Stephen, Henry the
Second, and Henry the Third, of theoffice of woodward and forester of Hatfield, as
held originallyunder William de Montfichet and also of all the lands held underthe
Crown in Hatfield, Writtle, and elsewhere, reserving to theKing an annual rent of
seventeen shillings. This patent is notnow to be found.
John Barrington married Alice one of the daughters and (afterher brother's death)
coheirs of Thomas Battail son of Sir JohnBattail of Ongar Park, Knight and of his wife
Elizabeth the doledaughter and heir of Sir Thomas Enfield of High Laver. There isa
deed dated July 26th in the 16th year of King Edward theThird, from Thomas Enfield
son of the late Sir John Enfield,Knight, by which he released to his brother Richard
Enfield allhis right in and claim to, lands and tenements with all thingsbelonging to
them in Hatfield Regis, Matching, White Rothing andRothing Abbess. (On the back of
the deed, Mr Micklefield haswritten a memorandum in part illegible, stating that
hisfather-in-law Thomas Barrington had all the lands and tenementstherein named in
right of his mother Alice, who was heir to hergrandfather Thomas Enfield and his
brother Richard. John Battailthe brother of Alice went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem
andbefore leaving England made his will, respecting which thefollowing account is
found,
John Fitz Thomas de Battail, beinge to goe in pilgrimage toJerusalem, made his last
will and testament in writingeindented, bearing date on Friday next before the Feast of
StMatthew the Apostle 21st yeare of Richard the second. Reciteingethat of his free
will hee had given and granted, and by his deedof Feoffmt confirmed to Sir Alexander
de Walden Kt, John de Boysof Tolleshunt, Thomas Lampet, John Barrington, Robert
Rohele andothrs, all his Lands, tenemts, rents and services as well of hisfree tenants
as of vilains, with wards, maniages, heirots,releifes, escheats, and all theire appurtnts
in the villa ofhigh Lanfare, little Lanfare, Maude lyn Lanfare, Matchinge,Hatfield
Regis, White Rothinge, Abbesse Rothinge and Herlaw inthe county of Essex. To have
and to hold to them their heires,or assignes for ever, as more fully appears in the said
deed ofFeoffmt bearing date at High Laver on Thursday next before thefeast of the
Purification of our lady then last past, and hehumble prayed his said Feoffees that if
he should dye before hisreturn into England, they would please to pforme his last
willand testament thereunder written.--
First he willed that his goods and chattles movable should besold in the best manner
they might, and that the money raisedshould pay and accomplish all the points the last
will of thesayd Thomas his father. And moreover pay all the debts wch thesayd
Thomas, my mother his wife, and myself ow to any p~son, andto make due satisfaction
of any thing that may have been takenaway without reasonable cause, and be made
appeare to the saydFeoffees. Item, to pay to the Abbot and Convent of Walden forthe
glasse of one window in theire Abbey to have him in theirememorie x markes. Item, to
pay to the Abbot and Convent ofWaltham to pray form him Cs. Item, to pay to two
honestChaplains for sayinge divine service in the Church of Matchingefor the Soules
of his Father, Mother and himself, and for allChristns for three years continually, after
his decease, toeither of them yearly viij marks. Item, to John Crabbe hisservant xls,
and to John Kependene to pray for him cs, andfurther requested his sayd Feoffees,
that if they should haveknowledge or reports of his death, they should ordain that
1,000masses should be sayd for his Soule and all Christn Soules inall haste that could
be. And gave Thomas Clarke, Vicar ofMatching xls and to Godfrey Coterill xs for his
travell. And ifhis movable goods should not be sufficient of value to pay andfulfil his
last will; then he requested his Feoffess to retainein their hands all the said lands and
tenemts, untill such timeas the profits and revenue thereof his will be performed.
Item,if John Swaffin his servant remain in England alice after hisdecease, and that the
Feoffees should have p~fect knowledge thathe had well and dutyfully served, then his
will was that thesaid Feoffees should grant unto him xxs yearly rent for his lifeto be
taken out of his rent called Chamberlaine fee in theparish of Maudlin Laver; and if
Margaret his sister before hisreturn into England were marryed to John de Boys, then
hebesought his Feoffees that in case he Dyed before his returnthey would grant to the
said John and Margaret and to the heiresof theire bodyes ingendered, the manors
called Matchinge Barnis,and Brent Hall. And for the default of such issue that the
saidtwo manors be equally parted betweene Alice and the saidmargaret his two sisters,
to have and to hold to them and totheir heires and assignes for ever and that all other
the lands,Tenemts, rents and services, wherein the sayd Feoffess areinfeoffed after
his will should be entirely p~formed, should beequally parted between his sayd two
sisters, to have and to holdto them and their heires and assignes for ever in fee
simple.Yet nothwithstanding if he should return into England in safetyand demand
refeoffmt of the sayd Feoffees of the all the landsand Tenemts wherein they were by
him infeofed, then he willedthat John de Boys, Thomas Lampet, &c., shuld kepe in
their handsall the lands and Tenemts rents and services which he had inEssex, and
profits and revenues thereof till cc marks of theassignmt of his father to the sayd
Margaret for her marriage andxxli of his own gift to her for her Chambre be fully payed.
Itemhe prayed the said John de Boys, Thomas Lampet &c., that theywould please to
take the administration of his goods and fulfilland p~forme his last will taking their
reasonable charges forthe sd administration.
There is not anything to shew whether John Battail did return toEngland or not, but
after his death a dispute arose between JohnBarrington, who had married Alice, and
John de Boys, who hadmarried Margaret, the two sisters above-named, as to
therespective shares of their wives in the testator's property, andafter a long
controversy it was agreed that the settlement ofall the matters in debate between them
should be left to thearbitration of the Countess of Hereford, Essex and
Northampton;John Barrington gave a bond of œ200 to the Countess Gerard
deBraybroke and William Marney, only to be enforced in the eventof his not abiding by
any award the Ladyship might give. Asimilar bond was given by John de Boys. And on
the 26th ofJanuary in the 19th year of King Henry the Fourth the Countesspublished
and award in which she stated,
That she already settled in London the partition of the manorsof Otes, and the lands
and tenements called the Wantons land,Piershall and Aungre. But that she could not
then stay longer inLondon to make a full award as to the manors of Matching
Barnisand Brenthall, and also of some other things, the said JohnBarrington and John
de Boys had promised to appear before her atFalkbourne, at a reasonable time, that
she might hear the restof the matters in debate between them.
At which place on their appearance the Countess did award, withthe advice of Sir
William Thiring and others, the justices ofthe Common Bench, and of Freres Thomas
Palmer, and WilliamDevenere, Masters in Divinity,
That Thomas Lampet and others the Feoffess of the said manors ofMatching Barnis
and Brenthall should (after the said JohnBarrington and John de Boys and their wives
had released by fineto the said Feoffees, all the right which they and their wiveshad in
the said manors) in feoff the said John de Boys andMargaret his wife in the same. To
have and to hold to them andthe heirs of their bodies; and if they die without issue,
thatthen the said manors be equally parted, and one moiety of thesame remain to the
heirs of the said margaret in fee simple, andthe other moiety to Alice the wife of John
Barrington, whichsaid fine was to be levied before the feast of Candlemas as
wascomprised in the other indenture made in London. And touchingthe 200 marks and
the œ20 devised by the said Thomas to John deBoys for the marriage of the said
margaret, the said Lady didaward that the said John and Margaret shold not have
claim tothe same. And the said Lady did award that all debts which hadbeen paid by
the said Feoffees for the said John Battail orThomas his father, shold be demonstrated
to her and her counselin the presence of John Barrington before Candlemas and that
allpayments of the same debts which should seem to the said Ladyand her counsel to
have not reasonably and rightly paid, uponreasonable proof thereof made by the said
John, should bedisallowed. And that all the rest of the profits taken out ofthe said
manor of Oates, and the lands and tenements calledWantonlands, Piershall, and
Aungre, and the manors of MatchingBarnis, and Brenthall, beyond the right payment of
the debts andperformance of devises of the said John Fitz Thomas should beparted in
manner ensuring, that arising from Oates, Wantonnlands, Piershall, and Aungre equally
between the said JohnBarrington and John de Boys. And those from Matching Barnis
andBrenthall to John de Boys. And also for making a final andeverlasting agreement
between the said parties, the said Ladydid award that they should make acquittance
each to other, andto the Executors and Administrators of the said John FitzThomas,
and of his father, touching all actions personal and allother matter soever relating to
the said will.
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Note: There may be another generation before this, as this John did not receive grants
from Edward III confirming his lands until 1376 (49 Edward III), when his father d. abt
1368 (8 years before). Certainly there is room for another generation, with this John
being born closer to 1370 instead of 1340.
From "Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society", Vol I, Colchester, pp 251-
273, The History of the Barrington Family, at
www.southfrm.demon.co.uk/Genealogy/Barr.html:
Sir John had two sons, John and Edmund, the latter possessed the Manors of Gravely,
Letchworth and Cheresfield together with the parkership of the park at Weston near
Baldock, and other lands there, all in Hertfordshire, and which had been the property
of his mother Margaret and settled after her death on her younger children. By a deed
dated the 26 of May in the twelfth year of King Richard the second, it appears, that a
recovery had been suffered for these estates after Sir John's death, and an
engagement made, that his widow should hold them for her life, and have them in fee
simple, in case her son Edmund died before her without issue: but if she died first,
then that he and his heirs should have them. This second event must have taken
place, as Edmund certainly possessed them and held a court for them at Graveley on
the Monday after Easter in the eleventh year of King Henry the Fourth.
On Sir John's death his son John Barrington succeeded to the estates. He seems to
have been the first of the family who spelt the name with a G in it. He had from King
Edward the Third in the 49th year of his reign, letters patent confirming to him all his
grants, that his ancestors had received from Kings Henry the First, Stephen, Henry the
Second, and Henry the Third, of the office of woodward and forester of Hatfield, as
held originally under William de Montfichet and also of all the lands held under the
Crown in Hatfield, Writtle, and elsewhere, reserving to the King an annual rent of
seventeen shillings. This patent is not now to be found.
John Barrington married Alice one of the daughters and (after her brother's death)
coheirs of Thomas Battail son of Sir John Battail of Ongar Park, Knight and of his wife
Elizabeth the dole daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Enfield of High Laver. There is a
deed dated July 26th in the 16th year of King Edward the Third, from Thomas Enfield
son of the late Sir John Enfield, Knight, by which he released to his brother Richard
Enfield all his right in and claim to, lands and tenements with all things belonging to
them in Hatfield Regis, Matching, White Rothing and Rothing Abbess. (On the back of
the deed, Mr Micklefield [** who m. the daughter of Sir Thomas Barrington d. 1670,
not sure of chronology, 1670 is a lot later than this**] has written a memorandum in
part illegible, stating that his father-in-law Thomas Barrington had all the lands and
tenements therein named in right of his mother Alice, who was heir to her grandfather
Thomas Enfield and his brother Richard. John Battail the brother of Alice went on a
pilgrimage to Jerusalem and before leaving England made his will, respecting which
the following account is found,
John Fitz Thomas de Battail, beinge to goe in pilgrimage to Jerusalem, made his last
will and testament in writinge indented, bearing date on Friday next before the Feast
of St Matthew the Apostle 21st yeare of Richard the second. Reciteinge that of his
free will hee had given and granted, and by his deed of Feoffmt confirmed to Sir
Alexander de Walden Kt, John de Boys of Tolleshunt, Thomas Lampet, John
Barrington, Robert Rohele and othrs, all his Lands, tenemts, rents and services as well
of his free tenants as of vilains, with wards, maniages, heirots, releifes, escheats, and
all theire appurtnts in the villa of high Lanfare, little Lanfare, Maude lyn Lanfare,
Matchinge, Hatfield Regis, White Rothinge, Abbesse Rothinge and Herlaw in the
county of Essex. To have and to hold to them their heires, or assignes for ever, as
more fully appears in the said deed of Feoffmt bearing date at High Laver on Thursday
next before the feast of the Purification of our lady then last past, and he humble
prayed his said Feoffees that if he should dye before his return into England, they
would please to pforme his last will and testament thereunder written.--
First he willed that his goods and chattles movable should be sold in the best manner
they might, and that the money raised should pay and accomplish all the points the
last will of the sayd Thomas his father. And moreover pay all the debts wch the sayd
Thomas, my mother his wife, and myself ow to any p~son, and to make due
satisfaction of any thing that may have been taken away without reasonable cause,
and be made appeare to the sayd Feoffees. Item, to pay to the Abbot and Convent of
Walden for the glasse of one window in theire Abbey to have him in theire memorie x
markes. Item, to pay to the Abbot and Convent of Waltham to pray form him Cs. Item,
to pay to two honest Chaplains for sayinge divine service in the Church of Matchinge
for the Soules of his Father, Mother and himself, and for all Christns for three years
continually, after his decease, to either of them yearly viij marks. Item, to John Crabbe
his servant xls, and to John Kependene to pray for him cs, and further requested his
sayd Feoffees, that if they should have knowledge or reports of his death, they should
ordain that 1,000 masses should be sayd for his Soule and all Christn Soules in all
haste that could be. And gave Thomas Clarke, Vicar of Matching xls and to Godfrey
Coterill xs for his travell. And if his movable goods should not be sufficient of value to
pay and fulfil his last will; then he requested his Feoffess to retaine in their hands all
the said lands and tenemts, untill such time as the profits and revenue thereof his will
be performed. Item, if John Swaffin his servant remain in England alice after his
decease, and that the Feoffees should have p~fect knowledge that he had well and
dutyfully served, then his will was that the said Feoffees should grant unto him xxs
yearly rent for his life to be taken out of his rent called Chamberlaine fee in the parish
of Maudlin Laver; and if Margaret his sister before his return into England were
marryed to John de Boys, then he besought his Feoffees that in case he Dyed before
his return they would grant to the said John and Margaret and to the heires of theire
bodyes ingendered, the manors called Matchinge Barnis, and Brent Hall. And for the
default of such issue that the said two manors be equally parted betweene Alice and
the said margaret his two sisters, to have and to hold to them and to their heires and
assignes for ever and that all other the lands, Tenemts, rents and services, wherein
the sayd Feoffess are infeoffed after his will should be entirely p~formed, should be
equally parted between his sayd two sisters, to have and to hold to them and their
heires and assignes for ever in fee simple. Yet nothwithstanding if he should return
into England in safety and demand refeoffmt of the sayd Feoffees of the all the lands
and Tenemts wherein they were by him infeofed, then he willed that John de Boys,
Thomas Lampet, &c., shuld kepe in their hands all the lands and Tenemts rents and
services which he had in Essex, and profits and revenues thereof till cc marks of the
assignmt of his father to the sayd Margaret for her marriage and xxli of his own gift to
her for her Chambre be fully payed. Item he prayed the said John de Boys, Thomas
Lampet &c., that they would please to take the administration of his goods and fulfill
and p~forme his last will taking their reasonable charges for the sd administration.
There is not anything to shew whether John Battail did return to England or not, but
after his death a dispute arose between John Barrington, who had married Alice, and
John de Boys, who had married Margaret, the two sisters above-named, as to the
respective shares of their wives in the testator's property, and after a long controversy
it was agreed that the settlement of all the matters in debate between them should be
left to the arbitration of the Countess of Hereford, Essex and Northampton; John
Barrington gave a bond of £200 to the Countess Gerard de Braybroke and William
Marney, only to be enforced in the event of his not abiding by any award the Ladyship
might give. A similar bond was given by John de Boys. And on the 26th of January in
the 19th year of King Henry the Fourth the Countess published and award in which
she stated,
That she already settled in London the partition of the manors of Otes, and the lands
and tenements called the Wantons land, Piershall and Aungre. But that she could not
then stay longer in London to make a full award as to the manors of Matching Barnis
and Brenthall, and also of some other things, the said John Barrington and John de
Boys had promised to appear before her at Falkbourne, at a reasonable time, that she
might hear the rest of the matters in debate between them.
At which place on their appearance the Countess did award, with the advice of Sir
William Thiring and others, the justices of the Common Bench, and of Freres Thomas
Palmer, and William Devenere, Masters in Divinity,
That Thomas Lampet and others the Feoffess of the said manors of Matching Barnis
and Brenthall should (after the said John Barrington and John de Boys and their wives
had released by fine to the said Feoffees, all the right which they and their wives had
in the said manors) in feoff the said John de Boys and Margaret his wife in the same.
To have and to hold to them and the heirs of their bodies; and if they die without
issue, that then the said manors be equally parted, and one moiety of the same remain
to the heirs of the said margaret in fee simple, and the other moiety to Alice the wife of
John Barrington, which said fine was to be levied before the feast of Candlemas as
was comprised in the other indenture made in London. And touching the 200 marks
and the £20 devised by the said Thomas to John de Boys for the marriage of the said
margaret, the said Lady did award that the said John and Margaret shold not have
claim to the same. And the said Lady did award that all debts which had been paid by
the said Feoffees for the said John Battail or Thomas his father, shold be
demonstrated to her and her counsel in the presence of John Barrington before
Candlemas and that all payments of the same debts which should seem to the said
Lady and her counsel to have not reasonably and rightly paid, upon reasonable proof
thereof made by the said John, should be disallowed. And that all the rest of the
profits taken out of the said manor of Oates, and the lands and tenements called
Wantonlands, Piershall, and Aungre, and the manors of Matching Barnis, and
Brenthall, beyond the right payment of the debts and performance of devises of the
said John Fitz Thomas should be parted in manner ensuring, that arising from Oates,
Wantonn lands, Piershall, and Aungre equally between the said John Barrington and
John de Boys. And those from Matching Barnis and Brenthall to John de Boys. And
also for making a final and everlasting agreement between the said parties, the said
Lady did award that they should make acquittance each to other, and to the
Executors and Administrators of the said John Fitz Thomas, and of his father, touching
all actions personal and all other matter soever relating to the said will.
From the memorandum before mentioned made by Mr Micklefield, it appears that the
whole of the matching Barns and Brenthall estates were in the possession of John
Barrington's son Thomas. And in the rolls of the courts held for the manor of Hatfield
the following statements relating to this property are found. "At the court held on St
Mary Magdalene's day in the thirtieth year of King henry the Sixth, the steward was
informed that Thomas Barrington had come into possession of the manor of Matching
Barns by the alienation of Thomas Battail, of London, Mercer. It was therefore ordered
first that both these parties should be summoned to appear at the next court to satisfy
the claim of the lord of the manor for a relief due to him on such an alienation. The
matter was noticed at several succeeding courts, and at one held on St Lucy's day in
the same year the jury found that Thomas Barrington had let the matching barns estate
to Thomas Ferror and William Tanfield. At the court on St Simon, and St Jude's day in
the thirty-first of King Henry the Sixth, Thomas Barrington attended and paid the relief
due from him coming into possession, viz. then shillings, and did his homage for this
manor, before John Godmaston, steward of Humphrey duke of Buckingham, for his
manor of Hatfield Regis. It does not appear how long the said Thomas above-named
had been in possession of this property, but his right to it no doubt arose from
Margaret de Boys having no issue.
In the second year of King Henry the Sixth, John Barrington was deprived of the office
of woodward of Hatfield Forest, by a writ from Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, Lord
Protector of England, but for what reason is not stated. John Barrington had three
sons Thomas, Humphrey, and Edward, and two daughters, Elizabeth, married to John
Sulyard, and Lettice, to Chicksey. He died about the year 1426, and was succeeded
by hs eldest son, Thomas Barrington, who in addition to his father's estates, had, in
right of his mother, all those of the Enfield Family, and on the death of his uncle
Edmund he came also into possession of the manors of Chevesfield, Gravely and
Letchford, and of estates at Weston all in Hertfordshire; for these last-named three
manors held a court in 1438. King Henry the Sixth in the sixteenth year of his reign, by
letter patent, confirmed to Thomas Barrington all the lands and offices that had been
granted to his ancestors by former Kings of England. This confirmation is not now to
be found, but there is an imperfect attested copy of it; it recites the grant to his father
John from King Edward the third, and also early charters from King henry and Stephen.
There is no any further mention of his father having been removed from the
woodwardship, neither does it appear who held the office from the second to the
sixteenth year of Henry the Sixth.
Parents
BARRINGTON John (ABT 1310 - AFT 20 Apr 1368)
BLOMVILLE Margaret (ABT 1310 - AFT 26 May 1389)
Siblings
BARRINGTON John (ABT 1340 - 1426)
Marriage To BATTAIL Alice (ABT 1370 - )
m.
Notes
Parents
BATTAILE Thomas (ABT 1342 - )
ENFIELD Elizabeth (ABT 1344 - )
Children by BATTAIL Alice ABT 1370 -
BARRINGTON Elizabeth (ABT 1406 - 21 Dec 1464)
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