XIX.—On the Testament of Sir Hugh de Nevill, written at Acre, 1267

M. S. Giuseppi Esq.

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XIX.—On the Testament of Sir Hugh de Nevill, written at Acre, 1267

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M. S. Giuseppi Esq.

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Original wills and testaments of the first three centuries immediately following the Norman Conquest exist only in instances of extreme rarity. In the muniment rooms of the various ecclesiastical courts examples earlier than the commencement of the fourteenth century appear almost unknown, although there is said to be at Lincoln a collection dating from the year 1283. Stray examples may here and there be found in such collections of early charters and deeds as those preserved at the Record Office, and it would seem that it is to the calendars of these now in course of publication that we must chiefly look for the possible discovery of any further examples.

Type: Research Article
Information: Archaeologia , Volume 56 , Issue 2 , 1899 , pp. 351 - 370

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261340900004860 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1899

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^{page 351 note a} Alfred Gibbons, Early Lincoln Wills.

^{page 351 note b} Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Testamenta Vetusta, i.

^{page 352 note a} Sir Fred. Pollock, Bart. M.A. LL.D. and F. W. Maitland, LL.D. History of English Law, ii. 312–353.

^{page 356 note a} Rymer, Fœdera, i. 885 (Old Edition); J. Nichols, Royal Wills (1780), 18; N. H. Nicolas, Testamenta Vetusta, 7.

^{page 357 note a} N. H. Nicolas, Testamenta Vetusla, notes on pp. iv. and xix; page 12.

^{page 357 note b} John Watney, F.S.A., History of St. Thomas of Aeon (1892), 3.

^{page 357 note c} Ibid. 6.

^{page 357 note d} Duchy of Lancaster, Ancient Correspondence, No. 2.

^{page 357 note e} Noble British Families, 1842.

^{page 360 note a} Le passage de la Seint Johan. This I take to mean the voyage which would be started on the Feast of the Nativity of St. John. The feminine la (sc. naissance) supports this view. Moreover there is the convenience of the season (Midsummer). Thus Sir Hugh de Nevill makes his power of attorney during his five years' enforced absence in the land of Jerusalem date from St. John the Baptist day (Close Roll, 50 Hen. III. m. 3 d.), although he was still in England (at Waltham) on July 3. (Deeds L. 176).

^{page 361 note a} Deeds L. 176.

^{page 361 note b} Inq. post mortem, 53 Hen. III. No. 19. She was the daughter of Robert and sister of John de Courtenay. After the death of John de Nevill, her first husband, in 1246, she married John de Gatesden, but was again left a widow (circa 1262).

^{page 362 note a} Ed. Camden Society, 1846.

^{page 362 note b} Patent Roll, 50 Hen. III. m. 12.

^{page 362 note c} Close Roll, 50 Hen. III. m.3d.; Deeds L. 176.

^{page 362 note d} Deeds L. 1317.

^{page 362 note e} This marriage appears to have escaped the notice of all the authorities for the history of the Nevills of Essex. Dugdale was unaware of it, and so also was Drummond, whose pedigree of this branch of the family included in his general pedigree of the Norman Nevills (Noble British Families) is, so far as my own researches bear it out, the most accurate and complete of any yet published. Both Dugdale and Drummond record the marriage of Hugh to Isabel, the daughter of Roger de Quency, Earl of Winchester, on the strength of Cottonian Charter viii. 7. (See infra.) Whether this marriage was actually completed I am unable to say, but Hugh de Nevill is said to be married in 1256, when he came of age, and his wife to be then living (Close Roll, 40 Hen. III. m. 14). From the Duchy of Lancaster Deeds, however, it is evident that his wife, at a later date, was Beatrice, the daughter of Robert de Briwes. (See especially Brit. Mus. Addit. Charter 8392, and Duchy of Lancaster Miscellanea .)

^{page 363 note a} Close Roll, 53 Hen. III. m. 7

^{page 363 note b} Fine Roll, 53 Hen. III. m. 3.

^{page 363 note c} Duchy of Lane. Misc. .

^{page 364 note a} Noble British Families, 1842.

^{page 366 note a} Matt. Paris, Chron. Majora (ed. Rolls Series), iv. 563, 564.

^{page 366 note b} Cottonian Charters, viii. 7.

^{page 366 note c} Deeds L.S. 203. A beautiful engraving of the seal is also given in the Winchester volume of the Archaeological Institute, p. 105.

^{page 367 note a} Liber de Antiquis Legibus (ed. Stapleton, Camden Soc. 1846), lxv. note.

^{page 368 note a} Liber de Antiquis Legibus, lxiii. note.

^{page 368 note b} Ibid. lxiii. note.

^{page 368 note c} Ibid. lxvi. note.

^{page 368 note d} See Mr. J. H. Round's notes on the descent of this manor in the volume of Ancient Charters (ed. Pipe Roll Society), 60, 61.

^{page 369 note a} Archaeologia, xxxix. 384.

^{page 369 note b} Ibid. 419.

^{page 369 note c} Harl. Ch. 54 I. 3.

^{page 369 note d} Inq. p. m. 18 Edw. III. 1st nos. No. 25, and 18 Ric. II. No. 33.

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