William Leche and Catherine his spouse were found to hold this lordship, with one tenement in Oulton, and one in Caston, of the honour of Albemarle; and Robert their son dying sans situation, Catherine, sister to the stated William, married to Wysbeche of Wysbeche, having by him a son, Simon Wysbeche; he was his kinsman and heir; but of this household of Wysbeche I meet with no additional account. 1630, William Thompson, A. M. united to Castleacre vicarage. 1697, John Craske. The King by lapse, of London, united to the vicarage of Narford. The vicarage is valued within the King’s Books at 2l. 15s. however is discharged of first fruits and tenths, being but 20l. per annum, clear value, synodals 16d.; procurations 5s. and it is able to augmentation. Sir Robert Dynne, then Mr. Briggs, and about 1571 John Laxford, and Edmund Laxford in 1637: about the middle of the last century, Mr. John Nabs, whose daughter being married to Riches Brown, Gent.
In the reign of King Henry I. William son of Robert was lord of this city, who gave, by deed sans date, to the priory of Castleacre annual rent of 10s. issuing out of his mill here, in pure alms for the well being of his own soul, his father Robert’s, his brother John’s. Thomas Beckham held it, after Beckham Sir William Turner of East Bashom, then Thomas Termar, Esq. Thomas Gent of Kempostn, and Robert Mounsey of Castleacre, enfeoffed Thomas Candeler, John Baker, Francis Calibut, and William Fisher of Castleacre, in lands here, with the moiety of a fold course, all previously belonging to Edmund Gourney, and afterwards to William Hawtrey of West-Lexham, then Roger Prior’s of Castleacre, and after that John Chapman’s of Newton, also in 22s. and one halfpenny rent, payable out of several lands. This Michael was son of Baldwin de Caudewell who purchased this manor of John de Burgh then deceased, in fifteenth of Edward I. however in the eleventh of Edward II.
Although Blankets’ heart-on-its-sleeve emotion is considerably out of style now, when it got here out, it spoke with urgency to young-grownup comics readers who have been looking for tales that reflected their very own lives and the questioning of orthodoxy. Giles de Hulmo was lord, who was son of Sir Robert de Hulmo, Lord of Filby, and of this manor, held by half a knight’s payment of the Lord Fitz-Walter; and in the 3d of King Edward I. Sir Robert de Hulmo, son of Giles, was lord, and one of the commissioners or justices of Trail-Baston, when Roger de Beckerton, the Earl of Gloucester’s bailiff, came into this lordship of Sir Robert’s, and seized cows, which he drove to Clare in Suffolk, which the jury introduced as a grievance, it being out of the Earl’s payment. Mr. Thomas Patrick of Castleacre, by whose daughter and heir Hellen, it came by marriage to Matthew Halcote, Gent. Bath, whose instant heir and descendant, Sir Henry Bedingfeld, Bart. Within the twelfth of Henry VI. In the 28th of Henry VIII. In the 15th of the said King, Giles de Ulmo produced earlier than the justices itincrant, the charter of King Henry III. This was that William de Bosevilla (as I take it) who within the mentioned reign gave also by deed sans date to the aforesaid priory the church of Newton, for the soul of King Henry I. (who more than likely gave him this lordship,) his children, &c.