Hugh de Bolebec, of Styford

Hugh de Bolbec II.1 had issue two sons and four daughters. His eldest son Walter was married at Morpeth, on February 6th, 1253, to Mary or Margaret, daughter of Roger de Merley,2 but died soon afterwards. His young widow was re-married in or before 1256 to William de Grey- stoke, when she released to her father-in-law the lands at Doddington and Nesbit, with which her first husband had endowed her at the church door on the day of their marriage.3 The second son Hugh, who confirmed to the abbot and convent of Newminster the grant of Rothley, made by his father and mother, also died in his father's lifetime.4 Hugh de Bolbec II. died in 1262, in which year, on the Tuesday after Martinmas, an inquisition was taken at Styford before the escheator of Northumberland, when it was found that at the time of his death he was seised, with other estates, of the following demesne lands at Styford, viz. : four carucates, each of which comprised 105 acres, worth 6d. an acre; 20 acres of meadow, worth 12d. an acre, or £\ i los. in all; the courtyard (curtilagium') and garden were worth 12d. ; the pannage in ordinary years, 5s. ; profit of charcoal (appruamentum carbonum} in the woods of Styford, 6s. 8d. ; offerings in the chapel of Styford, in ordinary years, 12d. The mill was worth 10 marks ; the perquisites of the court for the whole barony, 40s. ; and from the sale of timber felled in Styford woods in ordinary years there accrued 2os. ; the sum, £21 1js.5 His sons having died in his lifetime, his four daughters, Philippa, wife of Roger de Lancaster, Margery, wife of Nicholas Corbet, Alice, wife of Walter de Huntercomb, and Maud, then unmarried, were his co-heiresses.1 On the 6th of March, 1262/3, the escheator was ordered to give seisin of Hugh de Bolbec's lands to Nicholas Corbet, Walter de Huntercombe, Roger de Lancaster, and Robert de Beumys, who, it was stated, had married the four co-heiresses respectively.2

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