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Birth:          ABT 1310 Barrington Hall, Ongar, Essex, England
Death:          AFT 20 Apr 1368 

Notes
from ancestry.com
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I17139
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:

Nicholas Barrinton was living in 1343, and died soon after. His eldest son John de 
Barenton succeeded him, on whom settlement had been made by his father in 1330 of 
his estates and his office of woodward. This was done on John's marriage to Margaret 
daughter and heir of Sir John Blomville. The seal is remaining to this settlement, it is of 
red wax an Eagle displayed surmounted by a shield with the Barrington arms three 
chevronells and a label of three points round it is inscribed

"Sig. Nicholai fil'i dni Nicholai de Barenton."

On the back of this deed are the following remarks in Mr Micklefield's writing,

Yre is no Consciens in kepying of Ye deeds with Mikyfeld enidence for it shal nevr 
case ye Baryntons no hurte the for ye hath be so long possession of Baryngton Hall in 
Hatfield, in the name of Barynton, ye is to say syth ye first Heneys days yt was sone to 
Willm Conquer and before but it myght hurte my son Rob Mekylfeld or hys heyr yt the 
heyr of my fadr Lawe Baryngton had it, & wolde be dispoyd to selle it, thanne yf he yt 
solde it dies wtout heyrs, my sone' or his heyr to ye Baryntons myght be delaid of their 
four done by yt dede.

Immediately on this settlement being made by his father, John claimed the 
woodwardship for himself as appears by the following statement,

John fitz Nicholas de Barenton of Hatfield Regis claimed (to be an appurtenant to his 
free tenement in Hatfield aforesaid, which he had of the gyft and feoffment of the said 
Nicholas his father, that is to say to the maner and ancient lands to the said Manor 
belonging, the which the ancestors of the said Nicholas had of gift and confirmation of 
the King) the Bailiwicks of the forestership and woodwardship. By virtue of which 
Bailiwick he was to have all the woods fallen by wind in the forest what kind of tree 
soever it were, and also the escheats of all sorts of trees that shall be fallen in the 
said forest, and if the Lord will fell in the forest any ancient trees called Stockhok he 
is to leave the stocks from the ground the height of a mans knee, and the said John 
was to dig up and have the same with the roots, and carry them away and also 
sufficiently to clear the said lands of the underwoods lying within the forest to wit, 
from Florentes Heene to Bush Endgates, and also that he should take in the said 
forest, at what time he should send in the yeare, so much underwood, as with the 
underwood and es-cheats aforesaid should be sufficient fewel for his expenses in his 
tenement in the town aforesaid, and also to gather nuts in the forest at reasonable 
times, the Lord one day with his tenants, and he another day with his tenants, and 
also that he have a stock of hay in the Lords meadow called the marsh, the Lord to 
choose the first best, and he to have the second best after and also to common in the 
said forest with all manner of beasts, as his father and his ancestors had at all times 
used, which profits the feoffee of the said John and his ancestors had enjoyed time 
out of mind.

John de Barenton was also keeper and woodward of the Earl of Oxford's park and 
warren of Great Canfield, as appears by letter patent from John de Vere, seventh Earl 
of Oxford, dated Hedingham 6th of March, 25th year of King Edward the Third, by 
which he gave and granted

To his faithful friend and servant John de Barenton the keeperage of his park and 
Warren of all his outwoods in Kanfeld. To have and to hold the same bailiwick, soe 
long as it shod please the said Earl, and to take of him for every ten weeks one 
quarter of wheat, one cart load of hay. and three quarters of oats, and five shillings in 
silver yearly for his fee to issue out of said Manor, and one Robe, of the same that the 
Esquires of his Household did wear, and as made his common livery to himself. And he 
also granted that the said John shold have in his Park of Kanfeld pasture for four 
Cows, one Bullock, one Colt, and four Hogs ringed, to feed and eat the pannage all 
the year within the said Park. And also that he have all the wood fallen by the wind 
within the park, except great timber, and that he have all the fern growing within the 
said Park, and outwoods without disturbance of the said Earl, or any under him. And 
also that he have the escheats of trees within the said Park and Warren aforesaid. 
And willed that the said John shold answer for all manner of trespasses done in all the 
woods within his Bailiwick, and present all trespassers at every Court his Lordships 
Steward or his Deputy shold hold at his manor of Kanfeld aforesaid.

John de Barenton was knighted by King Edward the Third, in his father's life time, and 
had a resettlement of his estates made in the year 1345 by a deed from John Knyvet, 
rector of Dunmow, and William Amys, chaplain of Hatfield, by which they gave and 
granted to John de Barenton, son of Nicholas de Barenton, and to Margaret his wife, 
all lands tenements &c with the woodwardship of the forest.

Sir John was living in 1368 as he appears as a witness to a deed April 20 the 41st 
year of King Edward the Third, but he must have died soon after, as in a deed dated 
11th of Jan. in the 42nd year of Edward the Third, Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Essex, 
Hereford and Northampton, Constable of England, at the request of his dear and well 
beloved John Knyvet, discharged Dame Margaret Barenton, wife of the late Sir John 
Barenton, for her life, from all services and customs due from the tenements she held 
in Hatfield, excepting quit rents, with an acknowledgement of services due, and the 
care of the fence round his park.

Parents
BARRINGTON Nicholas (ABT 1290 - AFT 1343)
BAARD Emma (ABT 1290 - )

Siblings
BARRINGTON John (ABT 1310 - AFT 20 Apr 1368)

Marriage To BLOMVILLE Margaret (ABT 1310 - AFT 26 May 1389)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
BLOMVILLE John (ABT 1285 - )
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Children by BLOMVILLE Margaret ABT 1310 - AFT 26 May 1389
BARRINGTON John (ABT 1340 - 1426)

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