06 Nov Lordship Title of Bassets ID13905
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In the 13th century Robert Basset held the property as a sixteenth part of a knight's fee, and was granted rights of free warren in his demesne lands in this parish in 1252. William Basset, who succeeded him, is recorded as holding 2 hides in 1278; 1 carucate of this was in demesne, whilst the 3 virgates in villeinage were valued at 20s. per annum. In 1302 Sibyl Basset held the property 'as dower.' In 1330 the property was in the hands of Nicholas de Wortele or Wettele, possibly Sibyl Basset's second husband, for in this year Nicholas was summoned to show by what warrant he claimed rights of free warren in Milton Ernest, but made default. He was still holding in 1346, but by 1372 the property had reverted to the Basset family. In this latter year Sir John Basset died in Gascony. His property in Milton Ernest consisted of 120 acres of arable land, 8 acres of meadow and 4 acres of pasture, with rent from free tenants worth 6s. 8d. per annum He also had the reversion of 40 acres of land, which he had granted to Norman and Katherine Basset for their lives. His son and heir John died in Brittany the next year. The latter was succeeded by his sister Alianor wife of John Barle. After the death of John Barle the manor appears to have been divided. In 1414 John Martyn and John Sampson quitclaimed a moiety of the manor to Robert Fitz Robert and William Babyngton, while the next year the other moiety was quitclaimed by Sir John Stanley to William Penythorn, William Anable and others. The first-named moiety appears by 1432 to have passed into the hands of Nicholas Ryggley, who in that year quitclaimed it to William Penythorn and William Anable, who thus became seised of the whole. William Penythorn some time before his death placed the manor in the hands of trustees to the intent that they should settle it again upon himself and wife and son. This they afterwards refused to do, and William Penythorn the younger is found petitioning for redress of his grievances. The descent of this manor here becomes obscure, no further mention of it being found for more than a hundred years. In this interval it appears to have become divided, and in 1560 Richard Styrop quitclaimed one quarter of the manor to Thomas Rolt, while in 1568 another fourth part of the manor was leased to Thomas Rolt for sixty years by Peter Rosewell and John Dawson for an annual rent, the reversion of the same to go to John Crispe and Anne his wife. In 1573–4 John and Anne quitclaimed a quarter to the same Thomas Rolt. It would seem that Thomas Rolt by 1578 had become seised of the whole manor of Bassets, and in that year he settled it upon his son John on his marriage with Judith widow of George Fitz Geoffrey. John Rolt continued to hold the manor until his death, which occurred in 1627. He was succeeded by his son Thomas, who levied a fine of the manor in 1639, and suffered a recovery the same year. He died early in 1649, and was succeeded by his son Sir John Rolt, kt., who was buried here 20 November 1651, leaving a young son Thomas, who died 1672, aged thirty-one. On coming of age he leased the manor in 1662 to Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston, while his son Samuel Rolt, M.P., who died 1717, aged forty-six, appears to have granted a further lease of it to Samuel Barnardiston in 1692. In 1734 Thomas Rolt was lord of the manor. Twelve years later he conveyed it by fine to John Orlebar of Hinwick Hall, a connexion by marriage. In 1785 it was the property of Francis Anthony Herman, whilst at the beginning of the 19th century Mrs. Boyden was lady of the manor. From her the manor passed to John Donne and Dinah his wife, who levied fines of it in 1821. After the early part of the 19th century no further reference has been found to this manor.
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