Ysolda [or Isabella] de Baskerville, de Northwode

Ysolda [or Isabella] de Baskerville, de Northwode (c1181->1266)	Ralph de Baskerville (c1154-c1190)	Ralph de Baskerville (c1100-1149)	Robert de Baskerville (c1086-?)
		Ralph de Baskerville (c1100-1149)
		FitzDrogo (c1110-?)	Drogo [Drew] FitzPons (c1065-c1127)
		FitzDrogo (c1110-?)
	Sybil De Braose (c1149-1228)	William De Braose (1112-1192)	Philip De Braose (1073-1134)
		William De Braose (1112-1192)	Aenor Eva de Totenais (c1084-1153)
		Bertha FitzMiles (c1125-1204)	Miles FitzWalter (c1085-1143)
		Bertha FitzMiles (c1125-1204)	Sybil de Neufmarché (1096-1143)

Events

Notes

Note 1

!StyleName: Pantulf, Ysolda [or Isabella] de St Amand et de Northwode [<1181 - >1266]

!Notes: Many looking at the mass of deeds and other court filings of this time concerning Northwood in Shropshire have considered this to be totally differrent families in Northwood. However, they are overlooking the obvious. Norman famlies divided their land among their children. Below we have a widow, looking to recover her dower after her husband’s death. These would most likely all be family members. Remember Ysolda was the origin of the Northwood land for this line of the de Baskervilles, flowing from her mother Sybil as her dower and inheritance. The Welsh name Isolda or Ysolda, was likely being substituted by the more common English name of Isablella. Likely the same thing was done with Walter to William. I have read that these deeds were often too small to make a living and the people often had other land or jobs nearby. That is exactly what we see, except that the people most likely are all one big family.

!Notes: So far, I think the references to Botterell are either in error, or perhaps a place name, as apparently they lived in Aston

Botterell. Ysolda definitly is de Baskerville for both father and husband. If anyone had actually been related to the rather illustrious Botterell family, the de Baskervilles would have made a major deal of it.

!Notes: Ysolda was apparently mixed up by de Baskerville genealogists with her sister-in-law Isolde Plantoff de Saint Amand, as her name is shown in many references with Plantoff and de Saint Amand. That woman was either the most unlucky bad girl of all time, or the most lucky murdress. I suspect the latter.

!Source: Full text of "Antiquities of Shropshire “ https://archive.org/stream/antiquitiesshro09eytogoog/antiquitiesshro09eytogoog_djvu.txt

I also find good reason to suppose that this disintegration of the Manor commenced in the time of Earl Hugh de Montgomery, and was completed before the death of King Henry I. We must therefore expect to find the detached territory held subsequently in capite of the Crown, and not under the Lords of Stottesden. The following Vills will be found not only to correspond pretty nearly, both in number and hidage, with the territory inquired after, but to fulfil all other conditions necessary to establish a proximate identity

2, 3. Wrickton and Walkerslow; two Vills, probably detached by King Henry I; hidage- 1½ hides.

5. Northwood; probably detached at the same time as Newton; extent 6 virgates, usually equivalent to 1½ hides.

6. Bardley, a till held in severalty; probably detached in time of King Henry I; extent variously stated as 1½ virgates, or 6 virgates, or 7 virgates, equivalent respectively to ¾ hide, 1½ hides, and 1¾ hides.

7. Pickthorn ; first assessed as a detachment in 1167, but probably detached much earlier; extent 8 acres.

If we take Bardley, Dowles, and Pickthorn to have been collectively 1½ hides, we have the hidage sought, as well as the required number of Berewicks.

!Source: EYTON's ANTIQUITIES OF SHROPSHIRE Vol. !V. https://www.melocki.org.uk/eyton/Vol04.html

I now return to say something of other Under-Tenants in Northwood and at an earlier period. In Michaelmas Term, 1266, Isabella, widow of William de Northwood, was suing Roger de Northwood, Reginald de Cherlee , Ralph de Arraz, John le Clerk, of Suthbury , Nicholas de Cherlee, >>> Nicholas de Northwode <<<, and Agnes le Warener, for her dower or thirds in several messuages or small parcels of land in Northwode. [169] Soon afterwards [1266?] Ema de Norwod is suing Hugh Peche , under writ of mort d'ancestre, for half a virgate and seven acres in Norwood. [169] About this time [1266] Emma Paen, of Nordwud , gives to John de Langeberge, Clerk, an acre in Nordwud, for half a merk paid down and a ½d. rent.- Witnesses: Nicholas le Forcer, Ralph de Lawa and William his son, William de Stepple, John de Beaulieu , Hugh de Hwrthin. [170]

Note that this is one of the better compilations of Northwood and early Hawksood materials. I had recorded some of this line but gotten sidetracked, so went looking for related materials and found this.

In 1260 Juliana de Baskerville issued a release to Hugh de Baskerville of a virgate of land in Northwood which

>>> Ysolda de Baskerville <<< mother of the said Juliana and Hugh held in the said vill. Winesses were Thomas de Upton, Walter Hakket, Robert de Bold, Thomas Botterell, Adam de Faintree, and Robert de Middleton.

The earliest document which bears upon Baskerville's feoffment in Northwood has been already quoted; [155] but it indicates nothing more than that Thomas de Baskerville was interested here. In 1255 Walter, Grandson of that

[153] The Challenger in such cases had to repeat his appeal in five County Courts before further steps could be taken.

Thomas, was Lord of both Vills. The Stottesden Jurors spoke of Northwood nearly as follows:- "Walter de Baskerville, son of Roger de Baskerville , is Lord . Therein are six virgates of land; and he should hold them of the King in capite. He does suit to the Hundred twice a year at the Sheriff's Tourn, but not to the lesser Hundred-Courts, because his Ancestors never did . It pays 2d. for stretward and 4d. for motfee . Philip de Girros holds half a virgate of land for doing suit to the lesser Hundred-Court for the said vill". [156] Sibil Giffard's Custody of Walter de Baskerville's lands has been set forth already in another place. [157] Philip de Girros, the Under-Tenant named by the Stettesden Jurors, was himself of their number. He may possibly be identical with that Philip, son of Philip de Girros, whom we have spoken of as interested in Burwarton twenty-nine years earlier. [157]

At this time however the principal Tenant of young Walter de Baskerville at Northwood was Hugh de Baskerville: he was, I think, Son of >>> Isolda or Hisota <<<, Sister of that Thomas de Baskerville of Pickthorn who died in 1241. He bore therefore his Mother's name; but whereas we shall see that both his Sisters, Juliana and Helewise, occasionally bore the name of Botterell, I think that Isolda's husband and Hugh's Father was a Botterell. We have heard of this Hugh de Baskerville under various circumstances and dates, ranging from 1241 to 1292, [158] for I doubt not that the same person is indicated throughout. I now proceed to offer the documents which bear upon his tenancy in Northwood. About 1240, as I presume, "Thomas de Baskerville grants to Hugh de Baskervill and Marjory his wife that virgate in Northwood which Hisota, sister of the Grantor, held". [159] The only Witness given for this Deed is Sir Roger de Baskerville, whom I presume to have been son and heir expectant of the Grantor, and, if I rightly fix the relations of the parties concerned, first Cousin of the Grantee. By another Deed, which I cannot venture to date, Juliana Botterell grants to her Brother, Hugh de Baskerville, that virgate in

[159] Blakeway's MSS., whence also many of the Charters which I quote under Northwood are derived. Those taken from the originals at Pitchford by myself are so distinguished.

>>> Ysolda de Baskerville <<< held. At the Assizes of January, 1256, I find that Hugh de Baskerville was in misericordia for non-prosecution of a suit which he had against Ralph d'Arraz for erection of a stank which injured Hugh's free tenement in Northwode. [160] Also at the same Assizes Helewise de Baskerville and Juliana her Sister were in misericordia for not prosecuting a suit of mort d'ancestre against Hugh Peche concerning a virgate of land in Northwud. [161] By Patent, dated at Shrewsbury, August 24, 1267, King Henry III grants that Hugh de Baskerville shall not, for the rest of his life or against his will, be put on any Assize, Jury, etc. [162] On May 4, 1271, Helewyse Boterel sued out a writ of mort d'ancestre against Hugh de Baskerville for a messuage and virgate in Nortwode. [163]

About this time [1256?] Emma fitz Paen of Northwood grants to Hugh de Baskerville and Margery his wife part of her land in Northwood, viz. four acres in different quarters, and partly bounded by land which said Hugh had held in time of >>> Emma's <<< husband, >>> William:<<< rent 4d., payable at the Feast of St. Milberg, in February. The Grantees had given said Emma 16s. for this in her urgent necessity, and for sustenance of herself and daughter Matilda, who assented to the sale.- Witnesses: Adam de Bold, Thomas de Berdeleg, William de Pilarditon, Stephen de Bold, Thomas de Northgrave, William de Bardeleg, John de Drayton, Adam Sauvage, Hamo Gamel of Stottesden. [164]

Hugh de Baskerville's non-attendance at the Assizes of 1292 has been mentioned under Pickthorn. His great age, and the King's Patent twenty-five years before, will equally account for his Default. And within a year he died, though Margery, for fifty years his wife, survived him; for in 21 Edw. I Margery, Widow of Hugh de Baskerville, quit-claims to her son, Baldwin, all her right in Northwode, having first, as I suppose, by another deed given "to her son John that virgate in Northwode which Thomas de Baskerville Lord of Pickthorne gave her".

!Source: Medieval Northwood http://www.shropshirehistory.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/theme:20080304200904

Northwood today is a hamlet between Stottesdon and Sidbury, essentially comprising Upper and Lower Northwood Farms. However, in medieval times it appears to have been significantly larger. What makes it of particular interest is that it is well documented in a series of deeds, mainly from the late 13th Century and now held in the National Library of Wales. These give an unusually detailed picture of a township at this period. Extracts from these deeds are available elsewhere on this website; below is an account of Northwood at the time the deeds were written.

Northwood is not mentioned in Domesday Book; it was presumably part of the large parish of Stottesdon. Indeed, it has always been part of that ecclesiastical parish. At some point, probably in the 12th Century, it came into the ownership of the Baskerville family. The Baskervilles also held Pickthorn from Wenlock Abbey and Newton, adjacent to Pickthorn on the north-west. Thus they held a significant parcel of land. The various heads of the Baskerville family sublet their land in Northwood to a variety of undertenants. The most significant of these belonged to a junior branch of the Baskerville family. In the second half of the 13th Century these were represented by Hugh, Juliana and Helewise, children of Isolda Baskerville and her husband, a member of the Botterell family

>>> of Aston Botterell <<<. Hugh died in 1292/3 leaving Margaret his wife and two sons, Baldwin and John. John died by 1316/17 leaving a son, Thomas.

The deeds allow the identification of around 40 individuals who held land in Northwood over the period approximately spanning the second half of the 13th Century. Not all of these held land at the same time; ownership changed with deaths, individuals leaving or selling their holdings. There were around 20 individual families with land in Northwood, with around a dozen or so individuals having an interest in the open fields and any one time. The largest owners were the Northwood Baskervilles; Hugh and Margery his wife, John and Baldwin their sons. After Hugh’s death his lands would probably have been shared between Margery, John and Baldwin, although there is some evidence that Margery had some land in her own right even when Hugh was still alive.

Tracing the other tenants is not always easy as surnames were not well established in the 13th Century. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a significant number of individuals called “de Northwood” held land in Northwood; it is difficult to know if they were related or whether the apparent surname simply meant that they were from Northwood. Several families can be identified. There was Richard, son of Thomas, Matilda his wife and Alice his daughter. Additionally there was another Richard, sometimes called Richard Warner with his daughters Agnes and Emma. John, son of Nicholas de Northwood is probably from a third family. Two widows, Petroville and Margery were also of Northwood. A Northwood family was still resident in the township in the 16th Century. In 1259 there was a William de Northwood who married Emma, daughter of Paen de Northwood. Presumably after William’s death, Emma seems to have reverted to her father’s name and this was passed onto her son, Robert Paen.

Several families who held land in Northwood came from neighbouring communities. The de Chorleys can be traced from grandfather Stephen, father Nicholas and sons Henry and William. Henry Nicholas had one of the highest assessments for Stottesdon in a tax return of 1327. A number of de Hawkswoods, from Sidbury had land. Chief amongst these were Nicholas and his son John. Also from Hawkswood were Hugh le Mon and his son Richard. Possibly this Richard might be the same Richard de Hawkswood who held land in 1310 with his brother Gregory. Henry de Sidbury, clerk, was another Sidbury-based landowner. Roger Brun with his sons Henry and William came from Woodhouse in Stottesdon; Henry Brun was a tax collector for Stottesdon in 1327. There can be little doubt that Henry and William Blundell were the occupants of Blundell Farm, just to the south of Northwood. William de Ribley came scarcely from further afield. John de Cheilmers was from a slightly more distant community. Thomas le Harpour from Stoke held land in several parishes. Some individuals were certainly not local. John de Langebergia, a clerk could have been from Langborough, an administrative district in North Yorkshire. Nicholas de Bireton features prominently in the deeds both as a buyer and seller of land; there are Biretons in Cheshire and Buckinghamshire.

For some individuals, we have no clue as to where they lived. Some of these could have been small-holders from Northwood; perhaps William Silly and his wife Margery. Isaac could be Isaac the Dean, who witnessed a deed in Stottesdon of c1250. Hugh Heued was also of sufficient importance to witness deeds. John Bernard was from a Chetton family who became significant landowners in several neighbouring parishes.

The largest share of the lands were occupied the Baskervilles; perhaps around 40%, perhaps 80 acres. In 1255, the Baskerville holding at Northwood was reckoned to be six virgates; around 180 acres. This is probably not far off the entire area of the township and its lands. It seems probable that the Baskervilles had sold off most of this by 1300, retaining just their demesne land. Other individual holdings were probably around 10 acres. This has an important consequence. A holding of 10 acres is not sufficient to support a family. Thus the vast majority of holdings in the fields of Northwood were below subsistence level. Either their occupiers had extra land not within the open fields of Northwood or they had other sources of income. Within Northwood itself it is difficult to see what extra land could have been available. This was presumably not a problem for the majority of tenants who came from outside of the hamlet and who probably had more substantial holdings within their own communities. Some from within Northwood could of course have equally well owned land outside the township. However, there must at least have been a few who had other occupations and cultivated their own land when they could. These individuals could have been craftsmen or labourers, either on larger farms or perhaps even in nascent industries.

There are in excess of 20 deeds, involving 14 distinct families. This alone shows that there was a vibrant land market in the latter part of the 13th Century and is consistent with the open fields being subdivided into small parcels, largely owned by individuals from other settlements. Where it is possible to estimate acreages, the average sale was for 3.7±0.9 acres, around 1/3 of the average holding. On the face of it, the sales are almost all freehold with no evidence of land being surrendered to the lord of the manor before resale. In total they represent sales of about 70 acres.

In addition to the lands in the open fields, 10 tenements or messuages are mentioned or implied , split between 8 owners. It is possible that some of the houses feature in more than one deed; a figure of 7 or 8 distinct houses is perhaps more plausible. Equally however, not every house might be expected to be recorded by the deeds. Around 1300, it seems likely that there were houses either owned or occupied by John de Baskerville, Baldwin de Baskerville, John de Northwood, the families of Richard de Northwood and Richard Warner, Henry Blundell, William Blundell plus perhaps a couple of other villagers.

It is possible to reconstruct the evolution of the landscape of Northwood up to the end of the 13th Century. A crop mark showing an oval enclosure by Northwood may be evidence of Iron Age or Romano-British settlement, although crop marks such as this are not easy to date. The name itself quite clearly indicates that the area was wooded in early medieval times and this is also reflected in the names of neighbouring farms or settlements. Chorley to the east still retains substantial woodland. To the south, Blundells and Ribley almost certainly arose as woodland clearances ; to the west was Stottesdon Park and the Woodhouse. In the 19th Century there was a complicated pattern of boundaries around Northwood, with junctions between Northwood itself, Pickthorn, Stottesdon and Harcourt or Bradley. It would be rash to assume that these were unchanged from early medieval times, but they may have originated in part from the division of an area of woodland between the four townships, perhaps in or before the 11th Century, when Pickthorn and Harcourt were separated from Stottesdon.

Whilst there were probably some isolated patches of woodland still left in the late 13th Century, most had been cleared for agriculture. There were three fields. Pickthorn field, Sidbury Field and Chorley Field. In some of the earlier deeds, Northwood field is used to include Pickthorn Field. It is possible that this may be an earlier name for the field and may even reflect times when two fields were worked on a “on-field, out-field” system, although it is perhaps more likely the term may simply reflect a vagueness in the wording of the deeds. There were numerous features within the fields, although few can now be identified. The land is divided up by a number of short but steep-sided valleys or batches, that drain into the brook that forms the parish boundary with Sidbury. These were individually named. Les Coumbes in Picthorne field might be the same as Coumbesbatch in Sidbury Field, in which case it would be the boundary between the two. Stanley’s Batch was by the modern farm of Stanley in Sidbury field; Northam Batch was another valley in the same field. Also in Sidbury field were Foulham Batch, Foulham brook and Fouleye. These may refer to the same feature. Foulham can be taken to mean “muddy meadow”, Fouleye would mean something similar or “muddy clearing”. Wulfshale, described as leading to the river of Sidbury Mill appears to have been another valley; this is one meaning of “hale”. Sidbury Mill, described as newly built in 1259 was somewhat surprisingly, in Northwood although owned by Ralph D’Arras of Sidbury and can be located exactly. “Coliwin Schawe” opposite the mill pool, is so garbled as to defy interpretation although “shaw” can mean a copse. “Scale Brayne” is even more impenetrable.

Ponthull Hay, Haye Green and Hethe Green all occur in Sidbury field and all have woodland associations. A hay can simply be a hedge but it is usually an enclosure within or around a woodland. A green usually implies land cleared from woodland and a heath also arises from woodland. Given the preponderance of valley names close to the parish boundary brook, these might refer to woodland pasture on higher ground. Grassland is also implied by the Leys in Chorley Field and Old Leys way, a road in Pickthorn Field. Pickthorn field was also next to the “moors”, divided up between various members of the Baskerville family. In this case, the moor is likely to mean marshy land, too wet to plough and so used for grazing or perhaps meadow. There are explicit references to meadow. Dinglemede must have been an area of grass in a damp valley bottom; in one of the numerous batches. Les Ewes, on a road from Stottesdon passing through Northwood must have been a prominent glade of yews.

The deeds refer to the park of Stottesdon, known also from 14th Century references. This was a small area of enclosed woodland where it is likely that deer belonging to the Lord of Stottesdon could graze. The Woodhouse may been the parker’s house.

The “vill” or hamlet of Northwood was almost certainly around the current Upper and Lower Northwood Farms. Here would have been the dwelling of the Baskervilles. Some at least of the houses of Northwood were clustered together in a group; the tenements owned by William Blundell, Henry Blundell and Hugh Le Mon were next to each other. However, this does not necessarily mean that all houses were in a single group. As noted above, Blundell Farm and Ribley originated as assarts. William and Henry were clearly from Blundell, although as it was not part of the 19th Century township of Northwood, they may have moved the short distance to Northwood from this place. Within Northwood, Stanley might have arisen as an assart. It is perhaps best to consider that by 1300 the landscape would have had clumps of houses; Northwood at the centre but also perhaps some assarts with the original pioneering pioneering farms and a cluster of later cottages.

!Note: in the below, “Land of Emma Paen” is labeled over Northwood in a map of the area. This is extremely misleading, as Emma Paen was only given as the person renting out a handfull of small, one or two acre tracts, not the owner of huge amounts of land. She was a widow to a William of Northwood and had a son Robert of Northwood. Paen is a Welsh first name, which appears as ap Paen and verch Paen for patrynomic last names. In this case, that has been given sometimes as a Normanized FtizPaen. I can find no evidence other than these deeds for and Emma Fitz Paen’s birth or marriage, so it is hard to tell where she comes from, but she is actually a minor player in these land deeds of Northwood. Her transaction were in the period from 1265 to 1275, and her son’s appear in 1290. on “Medieval Northwood”, there was a comment that, “In 1259 there was a William de Northwood who married Emma, daughter of Paen de Northwood. Presumably after William’s death, Emma seems to have reverted to her father’s name and this was passed onto her son, Robert Paen.”

!Source: Medieval deeds for Northwood, Stottesdon http://www.shropshirehistory.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/theme:20080228204832

The Ottley Collection at the National Library of Wales has a collection of 13th and 14th Century deeds for the township of Northwood in Stottesdon. Extracts from the catalogue are below. In some cases place and name spellings have been modernised or corrected and dates have been added or recalculated.

No 385, c1265. Emma Paen to John de Langebergia, clerk for ½ a mark and ½d rent pa. GRANT in free-farm of an acre of land in the field of Northwood called Caldewelle acre lying between the land of Richard de Northwood and the land lying in the tenure of Isaac. Witnesses: Nicholas le Forcer, Ralph de Lowe and William his son, William de Stepple, John de bello loco [Bewdley], Hugh de la Hwthrin.

No 1301, c1275. Emma Paen to Hugh de Baskerville for rent of 4s. annually. GRANT in fee-farm of land in Northwood, viz., an acre and a half above Fouleg, half an acre in Wlueshal', half an acre above Stanley, an acre in Westhale, half an acre between the fields of Northwood and Chorley, half an acre in la Leye, half an acre extending to Blundell’s Bache half an acre between the land of the said Hugh and the lands of William son of Eustace, half an acre at Cumbersfurlong, half an acre at Eyrlrichesthorne extending to the river of Foulesworthin, [Fouswardine], half an acre at the head of Wlueshale, an acre above the hill extending from the road to Northbache with an adjoining meadow, land in Fernileye, a selion extending from the road to Dingelmedewe, parcel of the meadow of [Din]gelmedewe, a selion extending to Eylriches thorn, a moor near the moor of the said Hugh in Northwood and the land of which the said Hugh was seised in the time of William, grantor's husband. Witnesses: Adam [de] le Bold, Thomas de Bardley, William de Pilarditon, Stephen de Bold, Thomas de Northgrave, William de Bardley, John de Drayton, Adam Sauvage, Hamon Gamel de Stottesdon.

No 181, c1290. Robert son of Emma Paen to Nicholas de Bireton. Rent: one rose annually. GRANT of an acre of land in the field of Northwood lying between the land which the said Nicholas bought of Hugh de Baskereville and the land of Hugh Heued and extending from Voulhambache to Kembelonde. Witnesses: Ralph de Arras, Geoffrey de Overton, Robert de Ditton, Henry de Sidbury, Henry de Forde, Hugh Heued.

No 2459, c1290. Robert son of Emma Paen to Nicholas de Bireton GRANT of an acre of land lying near the way leading from Northwood towards Chorley between the lands of John de Cheilmers [Chelmarsh] and Margery de Baskerville and extending from the land of the said John to the land of Baldwin de Baskerville, four selions extending above Kenrichesmedwe, two lying between the land of Margery de Baskerville and Nicholas de Biriton, and two lying between the land of the said Margery de Baskerville and land o' fuit filly, [William Silly?] and one selion lying in the same field between the lands of Margery de Baskerville and extending from the land of Nicholas de Hawkswood to the highway near La Hethegreue . Witnesses: Ralph de Arras, Robert de Ditton, Adam de Bold, Stephen his brother, Hugh Botterell, Hugh Heued.

No 967, c1290. Matilda, wife of Richard, son of Thomas de Northwood to Roger Brun of the Woodhouse. GRANT of a moiety of land, etc., being the dower of the said Matilda in one messuage, one hook, three acres and one acre belonging to the said Richard in Northwood. Witnesses: Nicholas de Middelton, Henry de la Forde, Robert son of William Paen, Brian de Kingswood, William Hamond de Stottesdon.

No 1366, c1300. Alice, daughter of Richard son of Thomas de Northwood to Baldwin de Baskerville. RELEASE of a tenement which William son of William Filli held in the vill of Northwood. Witnesses: Adam de Bold, Robert de Ditton, Geoffrey de Overton, Nicholas de Biriton, Walter de Glazeley, lord Phillip the chaplain, Hugh Heued, William son of ?Hamund.

No 1062, c1260. Juliana de Baskerville to Hugh de Baskerville. RELEASE of a virgate of land in Northwood which Ysolda de Baskerville, mother of the said Juliana and Hugh held in the said vill. Witnesses: Thomas de Upton, Walter Hakket, Robert de Bold, Thomas Botterell, Adam de Faintree, Robert de Middleton.

No 1291, c1295. Margery, formerly wife of Hugh de Baskerville to Nicholas de Bireton. RELEASE of two acres of land lying in the fields of Northwood, one acre lying between the land of Nicholas de Hawkswood and the land formerly of Petroville de Northwood and extending above the highway leading from Stottesdon towards les ?Ewes, [Yews] the other lying between the land of Nicholas le Hawkswood and extending from Kemplelonde towards Vowelhambrok, which Nicholas de Biriton bought of the aforesaid Hugh, husband of the said Margery. Witnesses: Robert de Ditton, John de Glazeley, Walter de Norton, William de Ribbeley, Richard de Hollicote, John son of Hugh de Baskerville, Phillip de Charlecote.

No 1292, c1293. Margery, widow of Hugh de Baskerville to Baldwin de Baskerville. RELEASE of a tenement in and outside the vill of Northwood which the said Hugh enfeoffed to the said Baldwin. Witnesses: lord Alan de Glazeley, lord Ralph de Arras, Knights, Geoffrey de Overton, Guy de Glazeley, Adam de Bold, Robert de Ditton, Richard de Hollicote, John de Glazeley, Walter de Norton.

No 1294, c1300. Baldwin de Baskerville to John de Baskerville. Rent: a rose annually. GRANT in fee-farm of two ridges of land lying in the field of Northwood, viz., in the field opposite Pickthorn between the land of the said John and the land of John de Hawkswood and extending from the land of Nicholas de Biriton to highway leading from Northwood towards le Ewis, [Yews] and a piece of moor lying between the garden formerly of Robert Pain and the moor of the said John and extending from grantor's moor to the moor of Margery, grantor's mother. Witnesses: Robert, lord of Ditton, Guy de Glazeley, John de Glazeley in Eggerton, William de Ribbeley, John de Forde.

No 59, c1300. Baldwin de Baskerville to Nicholas de Bireton. Rent: a rose annually. GRANT Of two acres of land in the field of Northwood, one and a half acres lying by the mill of Sidbury between the lands of Nicholas de Hawkswood and Hugh Heued and extending from the highway leading to Sidbury to the land formerly of Hugh de Baskerville, and half an acre lying in the same field between the land formerly of Hugh de Baskerville and the land of Hugh Heued and extending from Norreys Bache to the mill pool of Sidbury. Witnesses: Ralph de Arras, Walter de Glazeley, Nicholas Palmer de Bridgnorth, Fremund de Erditon', Nicholas de Fouswardine, Roger de Ingwardine, Walter de Norton.

No 240, c1290. Henry de Sidbury to Roger de la Woodhouse. RELEASE of land in the vill of Northwood. Witnesses: Robert de Ditton, William de Bardley, Henry de Forde, Henry de Dreiton, Thomas de Dreiton.

No 1346, c1290. Henry, son of Henry de Sidbury to Roger Brun of the Woodhouse. Rent: ½d. annually. GRANT in fee-farm of land had of Agnes eldest daughter of Richard de Northwood and of Emma her sister outside the vill of Northwood. Witnesses: Geoffrey, lord of Overton, Adam, lord of Bold, Robert, lord of Ditton, John de Drayton, Henry his brother.

No 2445, 1290. Margery Silly to Roger, son of Richard Brun. Rent: ½d. annually. LEASE of four selions of land near Aspesawe lying between the land of Matilda de la Siche and the land of John the clerk, two butts in the same field lying between the lands of Hugh de Baskerville and Nicholas son of Stephen and extending to the land of John de Cheilmers [Chlemarsh], two selions lying beyond Olde leyesvey between the lands of Hugh de Baskerville and Nicholas son of Stephen and extending from the land of the said Hugh de Baskerville to the land of Matilda de la Siche, a third part of a selion lying between the lands of Hugh Heued and Nicholas son of Stephen and extending above Wodehamdich, and one selion lying between the land of the said Hugh Hevod and Nicholas son of Stephen and extending above Wodehamdich, and one selion lying between the lands of Hugh Baskervile and extending from the land of the said Hugh to Fowellambroc, one selion lying between the land of the said Hugh and the land formerly of Petronilla the widow, and extending from the land of the aforesaid Hugh to Fowelambroc, one selion lying between the land of the said Hugh and the land formerly of the said Petronella the widow, and extending from the land of the said Hugh to Fowelambroc, three butts lying near the land of John the clerk and extending from the hay of Ponthul to Fowelambroc, one selion above Kembelond lying between the land of the said Hugh and Agnes Warner and extending from Marler to the meadow, three selions lying between the land of the said Hugh and the highway and extending from the land of the said Hugh to the ditch near la Hundredeslidewet, three selions lying in Cumbesfelde between the land of Roger Brun and the land of John de Fovleswurin, three selions lying in the field against Chorley between the land of Margery de Baskerville and the land of Roger Brun and extending from the syke [ditch] to the highway, and three selions lying between the lands of Margery de Baskerville and Roger Brun. Witnesses: Hugh de Baskerville, Henry de Ford, John de Drayton, Thomas de Baskerville, Hugh Heued.

No 1410, 1259. William, son of William de Northwood to Nicholas, son of Stephen de Chorley. Rent: ½d. annually. LEASE for sixty years of four acres of lands in Northwood, viz., four selions lying between the land of Richard de Northwood and the land of John the clerk, one acre of four selions near grantor's land, seven selions extending to the new mill between the land of Margery, widow, and the land of Richard son of Thomas, one acre of three selions, two lying in ? Kombeldone and one in Horsellesbach, and a meadow lying at the end of the aforesaid four selions between the land of Richard de Northwood and the land of John the clerk. Witnesses: Thomas de Bardley, Adam le Savage, Henry de Walton, Hamon de Stottesdon, Hugh de Hawkswood.

No 230, 1310. Richard, son of Hugh le Mon to John de Baskerville. GRANT of a messuage which John de Hawkswood gave to the said Hugh in the vill and field of Northwood. Witnesses: lord Roger de Baskerville, lord Ralph de Arras, Knights, Guy de Glazeley, Geoffrey lord of Overton, Thomas his brother.

No 1101, 1312. Henry, son of Roger de la Woodhouse to Lord Roger de Baskerville and Joan his wife. GRANT of three acres of landing the fields of Northwood, one lying in the field opposite Pykethorn between the lands of William son of Nicholas and Henry Blundel and extending from les Coumbes beyond Oldeleyesweye, one lying in the field towards Sidbury between the land of William Nicholas on each side extending from the land of Richard le Warner as far as Foulambache, the third lying in the field towards Chorley between the lands of William Nicholas and John de Baskerville extending from the land of Henry Blundel to the land of Richard le Warner. Witnesses: lord Ralph de Arras, lord Walter Haket, Knights, Guy lord of Glazeley, Geoffrey lord of Overton, Richard lord of Aston Botterell, William de Ribbeley.

No 482, 1292. William, son of Roger le Brun of the Woodhouse to John de Northwood. GRANT of half a nook of land with one messuage in the vill of Northwood which Roger, grantor's father, bought of Henry, clerk of Sidbury, except half a selion of land given to William de Ribbely. Witnesses: Geoffrey, lord of Overton, Thomas de Overton, Robert de Ditton, William de Ribbeley, John de Forde.

No 384, 1302/3. John, son of Nicholas de Hawkswood to Hugh le Mon de Hawkswood. GRANT of a messuage in the vill of Northwood lying between the messuages of Henry Blundell and William Blundell and extending from the highway which leads to le Euwes [Yews] to the land of Henry Blundell together with eleven and a half acres of land in the field of Northwood, one acre lying in the field by Chorley called le Leye between the lands of Baldwin de Baskereville and John Baskerville, half an acre under the hill opposite Chorley and extending to the river of Russebache, two acres lying in the field opposite Pickthorn between the land of John Baskerville on both sides, one acre lying in the same field and extending from the land of John Baskerville to the moors [ad moras] of Baldewin, one acre lying in the same field between the highway leading from Norhtwood to le Eues [Yews] and the land of William de Chorley, and six acres in the field opposite the mill of Sidbury, one acre lying between the land of Hugh Hed and the land of Nicholas de Biriton, one acre lying above Scallebrayn between the land of Baldwin de Baskerville and the land of John de Baskerville, half an acre lying above le Elfurlong between the land formerly of Hugh Hed and the land of John de Baskerville, half an acre extending towards ?Coumbesbach and lying near the land of John de Baskerville, one acre lying at le Mulnepoleshade near the land of John de Baskerville, and two acres lying in Wlueshal, one being at the top and the other extending to the river of the mill of Sidbury. Witnesses: Ralph de Arras, Knight, Guy de Glazeley, John de Ludlow in Neenton, William de ?Ribbeley, William de Hawkswood, Henry Blundell, Hugh de Kelingley, clerk.

No 189, c1300. John de Hawkswood to Thomas le Harper of Stoke. Rent: one rose annually. GRANT of an acre of land in Northwood in the field by Pickthorn and lying between the lands of Nicholas de Biriton and Henry son of Nicholas de Chorley and extending from the land of Margery de Northwood to the highway leading from the park of Stottesdon to les Ewes [Yews]. Witnesses: lord Geoffrey de Overton, Robert de Ditton, Richard de Ingwardine, Baldwin de Baskerville, Richard le Warner de Northwood.

No 276, c1290. John de Hawkswood to John de Baskerville. Rent: a rose annually. GRANT in fee-farm of land in the field of Northwood . Leyisweye lying between the lands of the aforesaid John and Richard Warnir and extending from the land of Nicholas de Biriton to Alde de leysweye lying between the lands of Richard Warnir and Henry de Chorley and extending from the land of Baldwin de , one selion at Oldeleysweye lying between the lands of the aforesaid Baldwin and Henry Chorley and extending putte, one selion above Pontynk between the lands of the aforesaid John and Henry Blundell and extending Henry de Chorley, one ridge of land in le Wodecroft lying between the lands of the aforesaid John and the chaplain of the Blessed Virgin Henry de Chorley to the highway, viz., in the field by the mill, half a selion at Hey the land of Henry Blundell and extending from the land of Richard Warner to the highway, one ridge of land at M. John and the land of the aforesaid Baldwin and extending to Fowlam Bache, one ridge of land above Fouleye, one acre of land in Wolfushale lying between grantor's land and the land of William son of Nich John to Sidbury’s Brook, one acre of land at Colnwynis Chanwe lying between the land of William Blundell from the land of the aforesaid John to Colwynis Chanwe, one ridge of land above Stanlowe [?Stanley] lying between the land of the aforesaid John extending from the land of the aforesaid John to the field of Chorley, half an acre of land above Scale brayne lying the land of the aforesaid Baldwin and extending from the and of the aforesaid John to the land of Baldwin, two selions the lands of the aforesaid John and Henry de Chorley and extending from the land of the aforesaid John to the land of Baldwi[n] Scale brayne between the land of the aforesaid and the land of Henry Blundell and extending from the land of Baldwin to the land of Chorley, one acre of land in one meadow called ? Olnmedewe lying in Westnal' forlong and the aforesaid acre extending from the ?garden of the aforesaid John to Westnal' yorde, two ridges of land in Westnal' forlong between the land of the aforesaid John on each side, two ridges of land called Berebottis lying between the land and the land of John son of Thomas Baskerville to the highway, half a selion in la leye lying . Baldwin and extending from the land of the aforesaid John to Northam Bache. [Witnesses:] Geoffrey d[e] ? Overton, Thomas de Overton, Henry de Sidbury, John de Ford, John de la Neuton [Newton].

No 80, c1310. Nicholas de Bireton to John de Baskerville. GRANT of land in the vill of Northwood, viz., in the field by Pickthorn, one acre lying between the lands of the aforesaid John and Henry Blundell and extending from the land of the aforesaid John to le Scherte Crofte of Pickthorn, two acres lying between the lands of William Blundell and Richard le Warner and extending from the land of William de ?Ribbeley to Fontabroke, one acre in the field by the mill of Sidbury lying between the land of Gregory de Hawkswood and Richard brother of the said Gregory and extending from the land of John Bernard to le heye grene, half an acre in the same field lying between the lands of the aforesaid John and John Bernard and extending from the land of Richard le Warner to le heye grene, one acre in the same field in le Elforlong lying between the lands of John Bernard and Baldwin de Baskerville and extending from the land of Richard son of Hugh le Mon to the land of John Bernard, half an acre in the same field lying between the lands of John Bernard and the aforesaid Baldwin and extending from the land of Richard le Warner to the land of the aforesaid Gregory, one acre in the same field above Stanley lying between the lands of the aforesaid John and William son of Nicholas de Chorley and extending from the land of the aforesaid William to Stanwale bache, [Stanley Bache] half an acre in the same field above Fouleye lying between the land of the aforesaid John and the land of John Bernard and extending from Coliwin Schawe to the mill pool, one acre in the field by Chorley lying between the lands of the aforesaid John and Henry Blundell and extending from the land of the aforesaid Henry to the land of the aforesaid Baldwin. Witnesses: lord Roger de Baskerville, lord Hugh Fitz Aer, Knights, Guy de Glazeley, Geoffrey de Overton, Thomas de Overton, John de Aldenham, John de Ditton.

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Pains Castle was taken by Rhys in 1196, and subsequently besieged by Gwenwynwyn, Prince of Powis, in 1198. Near to Pains Castle, on the left bank of the Wye, was Boughrood Castle, said to have been held by Eineon Clydd in 1140. Fragments of its masonry long remained visible. The passage of the Wye is commanded in this district by the strong castle of Builth. Just outside the county and higher up the river, which here divides Radnor from Brecknock, was Aberedw Castle, built by Ralph de Baskerville, one of the Norman invaders, but speedily taken and held by the Welsh. Still higher up is Rhyader-Gwy, founded it is said by Prince Rhys in the twelfth century, but better known as a castle of the Mortimers. It was taken by assault by the Welsh in the reign of Henry III.

Of Huntingdon, on the Radnor border, a De Braose castle, the mound remains, as of Eardisley, called in “Domesday” a “domus defensabilis.” Cubbington was a castle of the De la Fields, and Bredwardine of a family of that name who gave place to the Baskervilles.

Mention is also made of Mouse Castle, near Hay; Dorston, a Soler’s castle; Cusop, a mere tower; Bransil, on the Worcestershire border, now a ruin; Kinnersley; Eaton Tregoz, a Baskerville seat in 1251; Moccas, of which the moat remains; and Penyard, probably Norman. It is to be remembered that most of the castles in masonry in Hereford and Radnor were built upon earthworks of far earlier date.

Connected with these were a large number of other castles, mostly, though not always, held by men of lesser rank and power. Wem, now entirely destroyed, was founded by William Pantulf, holding under Earl Roger. Middle Castle was held of the Fitz Alans by the Lords Strange, as was Ruyton. At High Ercal is a moated mound, but whether masonry was ever added to it is doubtful. Srawrthin or Sharwardine had a castle, probably before 1165. There seem also to have been castles at Charlton, Howgate, Braincroft, Corshall, Shipton, Ryton, and Le Botwood. Pulverbach was the castle of Robert Venator in the eleventh century. Tonge was Earl104 Roger’s private demesne, but the castle achieved its fame under the Pembrugge family. Church Stretton or Brockhurst Castle was held direct by the Crown, but was demolished at an early period. At Broymeron, near Tugford, there seems to have been a castle. Corfham was held by Fitz Ponce, the ancestor of the Cliffords. Wattlesborough, an early Corbet castle, still preserves a small but tolerably perfect rectangular keep. Stone has some traces of a castle, and at Hopton is a square keep of Decorated date, on a slightly raised knoll, with some extensive and marshy outworks. Besides these may be mentioned Castle Holgate, thought by Mr. Eyton to be one of the four earliest castles built under Earl Roger, the others being Shrewsbury, Montgomery, and Oswestry, all in some shape of earlier date than the great Survey. Holgate was built by Helgot de Stanton, and used by Henry II. in 1109. Bryn Castle was an early seat of the Gerards; Bromfield and Cainham are destroyed; of Shiffnall little is known; Stottesden was granted in 1159 by Henry II. to Godfrey de Gamaches or Gamage; Stokesay is said originally to have been built by Picot le Say; Tirley, near Market Drayton, was the work of Roger de Corcelle, but taken by Ralph le Botiler of Wem, who left it unfinished in 1281. The Fitz Alans seem to have had a castle at Wroxeter, the Lords Strange at Cheswardine, and at Morton Soret, now Corbet, the Sorets built a castle. West of Ludlow was a castle at Stapleton-en-le-Harness, built probably by the lords of Richard’s Castle. Kinnerley Castle, taken by Llewelyn in 1223, has long since disappeared. Alveton was held by Theobald de Verdon in 1389.

Ysolda [or Isabella] de Baskerville, de Northwode

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