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Lord William Perkins (Parkyns), Lord of Ufton, Bailiff to Duke of Gloucester, MP for Berkshire

Also Known As: "Lord Ufton"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Madresfield, Worcestershire, England
Death: circa 1451 (66-76)
Ufton Court, Ufton Nervet, West Berkshire, England
Immediate Family:

Son of John Perkins, Lord of Madresfield and Margaret Perkins
Husband of Margaret Perkins
Father of Thomas Perkins, Esq.; William Perkins; John Perkins; John Perkins; Philipia Perkins and 6 others

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About Lord William Perkins, Lord of Ufton, Bailiff to Duke of Gloucester, MP for Berkshire

Lord of the manor of Ufton Robert in Berkshire.

From David Nash Ford's Royal Berkshire History online at: http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/wperkins.html:

William Perkins (d. 1449)

  • Born: circa 1400
  • Bailiff to Humphrey, the Duke of Gloucester
  • Died: 1449 probably at Ufton Robert, Berkshire
  • William was the son of John Perkins (or Parkyns) of Madresfield in Worcestershire,
  • the Seneschal to Thomas Le Despenser, earl of Gloucester.
  • He was the first of this ancient family to have arrived in Berkshire,
    • where he became lord of the manor of Ufton Robert.
    • From 1411, he is named in the diocesan registry as patron of that living and
    • is styled variously Lord of Ufton, Donzell and True Patron.
    • He lived at the old moated site in the parish.
    • The family were not associated with Ufton Court, the manor house of Ufton Pole, until 1567 when it was purchased by the widow of William’s great great grandson.
  • William was attached to the service of Prince Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, as bailiff or agent.
    • It was probably in that capacity that he was concerned in an agreement by which one William Leyre confirmed the lordship of Child’s Manor in East Barsham, Norfolk, to Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, Eleanor his wife and William Perkins Esq.
    • For immediately afterwards, in another deed, he released his right therein to the Duke.
    • He sealed this deed with the arms, or, a fesse dancetty between eight billets ermines.
    • This is the first time in which the armorial bearings of the family appear.
    • They differ from the later shield in the number of the billets, which were afterwards increased to ten. Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, was the brother of King Henry V, and uncle and guardian to the young Henry VI during his minority.
      • The "good Duke Humphrey," as he was called, whose disgrace and tragic death suggested to Shakespeare the lament which he puts into the mouth of Henry: "For in the shades of death I shall find joy, in life but double death, now Gloucester's dead".
  • William Perkins is said in the Heralds’ Visitation pedigree to have been living in the year 1419, that is, during the French wars.
    • On 29th May that year, soon after Rouen had capitulated to the English, a meeting took place at Menlau between the French Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Burgundy, and Henry V.
    • It was to arrange conditions of peace, the most important of which was to be the marriage of the King with the French Princess Katherine of Valois. King Henry was, on that occasion, accompanied by his brother, the Duke of Gloucester, and from the special mention of the date in connection with William Perkins, it may have been that he also was present in attendance on his patron.
  • In 1426 and the two succeeding years, William’s name appears in the accounts of the Corporation of Reading as follows:
    • "For payment at games given before the Mayor at William Perkins', 6s. 8d. For ale given at the same, 2d. To the minstrels of the Duke of Gloucester at the Mayor's breakfast at Perkins', 20d."
    • Whether the Mayor came out to Ufton or whether William Perkins entertained him in Reading is not clear.
    • The Mayor had to pay for his own ale and the music and the games provided for the entertainment.
  • William married a lady whose Christian name was Margaret and, conjointly with her in 1424, he was party to an agreement with John Colney and Elizabeth his wife.
    • The manor and advowson of Ufton Robert and a moiety of lands in Borwardescote were settled on the same William and Margaret and, in case of William's death, then on Margaret and her heirs male, subject to the yearly payment of eight marks of silver to Elizabeth Colney.
  • It is certain that the manor and advowson of Ufton Robert had been already, for some years past, the property of William Perkins.
    • This deed may, therefore, perhaps be considered as of the nature of a marriage settlement on his wife.
  • From the fact that Elizabeth Colney had a charge on the Ufton Estate, it seems probable that she was in some way a relation of William Perkins - perhaps his own or his wife's sister.
  • John Colney was the owner of a manor in the neighbouring parish of Padworth, called Hussey's Manor, and his name appears, with that of William Perkins, in a list of gentry of the county of Berkshire, returned in 1434 by Robert Neville, Bishop of Salisbury.
  • In 1427 and during several succeeding years, William Perkins served as Escheator for the counties of Berkshire and Oxfordshire.
  • The most important event, however, in which he took part - at least, as regards the history of Berkshire - was the ecclesiastical union of the two parishes of Ufton Robert and Ufton Richard (or Nervet). * In 1435, an agreement to this effect was sanctioned by the Lord Bishop of Salisbury and signed respectively by William Perkins and the Prior of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, who with his brethren had owned the advowson of the smaller living. This they now resigned and William Perkins and his successors henceforth, for several generations, held the patronage of the united living of Ufton as it now is.
  • In 1444, William signed his name as a witness to a deed of grant, made by King Henry VI, to the Provost and College of Eton, of lands in New and Old Windsor and in Clewer.
  • In 1447, he is mentioned in the Court Rolls of the Manor of Bray as still holding the office of bailiff to the Duke of Gloucester. The manors of Bray and Cookham had been granted to the Duke by his father, Henry V.
    • William must have died not very long after this date, it is thought in 1449.
      • For, two years later, his son, Thomas, presented to the living of Ufton as true patron. Around the same time, his wife gave birth to a son, who they called Humphrey after his father's old patron.

Edited from A. Mary Sharp's "History of Ufton Court" (1892)

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Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993. Available from Boydell and Brewer.

Online: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/pe...

PERKINS, William (d.c.1448), of Ufton Robert, Berks.

Family and Education

PERKINS, William (d.c.1448), of Ufton Robert, Berks.

  • BERKSHIRE, Dec. 1421
  • BERKSHIRE, 1429
  • BERKSHIRE, 1432
  • BERKSHIRE, 1435

Family and Education

  • m. by Feb. 1424, Margaret, 1 son

Offices Held

  • Escheator, Oxfordshire and Berkshire, 17 Dec. 1426-18 Nov. 1427, 5 Nov. 1430-26 Nov. 1431.
  • Commissioner of Inquiry, Berkshire, Feb. 1428 (flooding);
  • Commissioner of array Jan. 1436;
  • Commissioner to distribute a tax allowance Jan. 1436;
  • Commissioner of kiddles, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, May 1438;
  • Commissioner oyer and terminer, Carmarthenshire, Cardiffshire, Pembrokeshire Aug. 1440;
  • Commissioner to raise royal loans, Berkshire Nov. 1440, Mar. 1442.
  • Justice of the Peace for Berkshire 29 Nov. 1436-d.

Biography

According to a visitation of Berkshire compiled in the 17th century, William Perkins came from a family retained by the Despensers, being the son of a certain John Perkins, who had served as steward to Thomas Despenser, the earl of Gloucester in the last two years of Richard II’s reign. No contemporary evidence survives to lend credence to these statements (which may, indeed, have owed their origins to a confused memory of William Perkins’s own employment by the duke of Gloucester in the 15th century). All that is certain is that William was living in Berkshire by 1410, acted as patron of the living at Ufton Robert in 1411 and attended the local parliamentary elections in the autumn of 1414. It remains unclear when he acquired the manor of Ufton Robert itself (where lands valued at £5 a year were still in the possession of Alice, the widowed daughter-in-law of Sir Thomas Paynell*, in 1412); and whether he did so as a consequence of a marriage into the Paynell family is also open to speculation. However, in 1424 a settlement of the manor was made on him, his wife and their male issue. The Perkinses also held messuages and land in Buscot, Snowswick and ‘Westonwyke’, entailed in the same way, although these particular properties were subject to an annual payment of as much as £15 6s.8d. for the lifetime of Elizabeth, wife of John Collee.1

Perhaps it was the profits of his career in the law that enabled Perkins to enter the ranks of the land-owning gentry of Berkshire. He completed his training well before 1420, by which date he was an established member of Lincoln’s Inn. (Twenty years later he was to make a payment of 33s.4d. to the society in order to obtain a pardon of all his dues, then greatly in arrears, and re-admission to repasts.) From early on he attracted clients of note: in 1425 he became a trustee of the manor of Lyneham in Oxfordshire, belonging to James Fiennes† (afterwards Lord Say and Sele); before 1431 he was enfeoffed of lands owned by Sir Richard Hankford† (brother-in-law to Thomas Montagu, earl of Salisbury); and he was evidently known to Humphrey, earl of Stafford, for not only did he witness a transaction which in 1431 brought to a close a long lawsuit which the earl had wished ended, but also, two years later, he attested a grant of property in Oxford to Stafford and his half-brother, the future archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Bourgchier (shortly to be made chancellor of the university).2

The corporation of Reading evidently employed Perkins as legal counsel, too. On one occasion, in 1430-1, when the mayor dined at his house, the town paid 1s.8d. to the minstrels of Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, for entertaining the guests. For how long previously Perkins had been connected with Gloucester is not recorded. That he was one of the duke’s retainers is indicated not only by his appearance in the Exchequer in May 1431 to act as mainpernor for Gloucester’s custodianship of a manor in Norfolk, but also by his association with the duke and duchess in October 1432 in the acquisition of ‘Child’s manor’ in East Barsham, in the same county, of which he subsequently released all his right to the duke. He evidently continued in Duke Humphrey’s service until the latter’s death, for after Gloucester was made justiciar of South Wales in February 1440, Perkins was named on commissions of oyer and terminer in that region (presumably on his lord’s recommendation), and at some unknown date before 1447 the duke appointed him bailiff of his lordship of Bray.3

Perkins’s important connexions, doubtless a reflection of his ability in legal affairs, made him a person of some consequence in Berkshire. He was able to obtain a papal licence for a portable altar in 1428, and six years later he was among those of the local gentry required to take the generally administered oath not to maintain malefactors. He continued to be placed in positions requiring integrity: thus, in 1438 he was named as an arbitrator in the dispute between John Yevan and Walter Veer†; three years later, he witnessed a conveyance in favour of Gloucester’s cousin John, earl of Huntingdon; and in 1443 he was enfeoffed by William Brocas* of the manor of Aldermaston which Brocas had been holding in trust for Robert de la Mare’s* grandson. During the 1440s Perkins was often recorded in association with John Norrys†, an important royal servant who was keeper of the great wardrobe in 1444-6. Norrys was of the affinity of William de la Pole, earl of Suffolk, and on at least two occasions Perkins was linked with both men: first, in or shortly before 1444, in making a conveyance of land at Windsor to Henry VI for the endowment of his college at Eton, and in 1445 as their co-feoffee of two manors in Cookham, which Norrys was in the process of acquiring.4

Towards the end of his life Perkins was engaged in a suit against certain inhabitants of Semley in Wiltshire, whom he accused of forging deeds in order to undermine his title to land there. Not re-appointed to the bench in Berkshire in February 1448, nor recorded alive thereafter, he died at an unknown date before 1451, when his son, Thomas, was patron of the living at Ufton.5

Ref Volumes: 1386-1421

Author: L. S. Woodger

Notes

1.Vis. Berks. (Harl. Soc. lvi), 119; CCR, 1409-13, p. 84; A.M. Sharp, Ufton Court, 39; VCH Bercks. iii. 441; iv. 515; CP25(1)13/82/2, 5, 84/14; C219/11/5.

2.LI Adm. i. 3; Black Bk. i. 9; CCR, 1422-9, p. 345; 1429-35, pp. 90, 109, 237.

3.HMC 11t Rep. VII, 173-4; CFR, xvi. 38; F. Blomefield, Norf. vii. 62; C. Kerry, Hist. Hundred Bray, 6.

4.CPL, viii. 35; CPR, 1429-36, p. 402; 1441-6, p. 176; CCR, 1435-41, pp. 181, 452; 1441-7, pp. 59, 496; CAD, i. A675, 677 (in which last, dated Nov. 1442, he is erroneously stated to be dead); RP, v. 81; CP25(1) 13/85/4.

5.CPR, 1441-6, p. 300; Sharp, 42.

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Quoting from The Curd and Allied Families, by William B. Curd and Lucy Price Rayne Truog (1927)

  • A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, says: Parkin, Parkins, Parkinson, Parkisson, Perkin, Perkins, Perkinson, Parkyns, Bapt. ‘the son of Peter,’ from the pet Perkin or Parkyn.
    • There are no Perkins or Parkins in the Hundred Rolls, while the French diminutives Perrin and Perrott are common.
    • What May be called the Flemish forms appear in Yorkshire and the East counties about the beginning of the 14th century, with Perkins and Parkins.
  • In the Herold’s Visitation for the Berkshire 1623, this family is said to have descended from a certain Peter or Petrus de Morely of Shropshire, a county on the border of Wales. Hence, the family is sometimes said to have been of Welsh origin.
  • “For three hundred years the Perkins ancestors were seneshals or wardens of de Spencers and Warwich Castle.
    • The Ufton Book shows the Perkins line, eldest son to eldest son, etc., continued to the present time. Some of the family were distinguished in the history of England and were prominent in Stratford district, the home of Shakespeare and his wife, Mary Arden.
  • Domesday Book, A. D. 1085, lists a manor in Berkshire, England, called Offstone, belonging to William Fitz Anscuff, and Ufton Court was a beautiful old Manor house at the same place, the ancient home of the Perkins family.”

Generation 14. Peter De Morley

  • was Servous to Hugh de Spencer and
  • was living in 1380.
  • He was married to Agnes Taylor.

Generation 13. Henry Parkyns

  • was the son of Peter.

Generation 12. John Parkyns,

  • son of Henry Parkyns,
  • was Seneschal to Thomas de Spencer, Earl of Gloucester.
  • in 1390, he was the first to acquire property in Madresfield.
  • He was living in 1400.

Generation 11. William Parkyns (1),

  • son of John Parkyns,
  • was 1st “Lord of Ufton. ”(bailiff to Humphry Plantagent, Duke of Glouster)
  • He married Margaret, and
  • was living in 1447.

Generation 10. Thomas Parkyns (1),

  • son of William and Margaret Parkyns,
  • was living in 1452-1479.
  • He was called “Thomas of Ufton and Madresfield,” and
  • gave Madresfield Manor House to his second son, Thomas.

Generation 9. Thomas Parkyns (2),

  • son of Thomas Parkyns (1),
  • was married to Ellen Tompkinson.
  • They had four sons,
    • William of Madresfield,
    • James of Shropshire, and
    • Richard and
    • Lawrence, twins.

Generation 8. William Parkyns (2),

  • son of Thomas Parkyns (2),
  • was married to Joan Reade,
    • daughter of Reade near Coventry.

Generation 7. Richard Parkyns, Sr.,

  • son of William Parkyns (2) and Joan Reade,
  • was married to Ann Twynborrowe,
    • daughter of Walter Twynborrowe, of Woodmention, Herfordshire.

Generation 6. Richard Parkyns, Jr.,

  • the son of Richard Parkyns (1) and Ann Twynborrowe,
  • was of Bunny Park.
  • He married Elizabeth Beresford,
    • daughter of Aden Beresford, of Fenney Bently of Derbyshire.
  • There were eight children:
    • Sir George Parkyns, Knight who died in 1626;
    • Adrien;
    • John;
    • Aden;
    • Francis;
    • Annie;
    • Eliza; and
    • Margaret.

Generation 5. Aden Parkyns,

  • the son of Richard Parkyns, Jr. and Elizabeth Beresford,
  • was married to Mary ____.
  • They came to Virginia in 1607,
  • where he was registered as “Grocer. ”
  • Whether he returned to England, or died in Virginia, is not known.
  • They had four children:
    • George;
    • Richard (3);
    • Annie; and
    • Thomas.

Generation 4. Richard Parkyns (3),

  • son of Aden and Mary Parkyns,
  • owned land near Jamestown, or on the James River.
  • Whom he married is not known.

Generation 3. Nicholas Perkins (1),

  • the son of Richard Parkyns (3),
  • was also married to a Mary, and
  • there were 7 children.
  • Records show that in 1641 Nicholas Perkins was transported to Hernia County, Virginia, by Brayant Smith, although it appears he was born in America, the grandson of the immigrant.
  • On 30 August 1650, he was granted land in Bermuda Hundred, beginning in Cole’s Swamy, Henrico County, for the transportation of four persons into the colony,
    • although only three are named: Mary Perkins, William Owen, and Richard Hues.
    • The original document is almost illegible, and the names are given differently in several references.
    • However, it is thought these persons were Mary Perkins, his wife, and his sons, William, Owen, Richard (4), and Thomas.
  • He died about 1664, and his will mentions only his daughter, Lydia, and his two youngest children, Elizabeth and Nicholas (2).
  • His widow married Richard Parker.

Generation 2. William Perkins,

  • son of Nicholas and Mary Perkins,
  • was born about 1633.
  • His wife, was also named Mary.
  • William and Mary, and their daughter, Mary, were passengers on the ship “Kent,” in 1667.
  • Members of the Society of Friends, they joined the Burlington Monthly Meeting, in New Jersey.

Generation 1. Mary Perkins,

  • daughter of William and Mary Perkins,
  • was married 24 May 1683, at Burlington Monthly Meeting, to Henry Grubb
************************** '''Excerpted from:''' ''Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine'' (1909), by Henry Sweetser Burrage and Albert Roscoe Stubbs. Lewis Historical Pub. Co. '''Available online''' on Google Books or archives.org.

* The ancestors of the American PERKINS family of this sketch are traced with more or less certainty through many generations in England, where the early ancestor and several of those following him held positions of trust and honor.

  • Identity of name does not necessarily imply sameness of origin, and many families of this name are not of this stock, though this family is traditionally connected with the Perkins family of Boston.
  • The arms of John Perkins of Ufton, County Berks, England, third generation, were:
    • A shield or, a fesse dancette, ermine, three billets ermines above and below the fesse dancette.
  • The arms of William Parkyns of the next generation were:
    • Or, a fesse dancette, between eight billets ermines. This last appears on a seal used on a deed from William Parkyns to Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester.

(I) Pierre de Morlaix, alias Perkins,

  • was living in 1380-81 and
  • was high steward of the estates of Hugo Despencer,
    • at that time one of the richest and most powerful nobles of England, having no less than fifty-nine lordships in various counties.

(II) Henry (1) Perkins,

  • who was known as Henry Pierrekin, or Henry the son of Pierre,
  • succeeded to the stewardship held by his father.
  • He had a son John next mentioned.

(III) John Perkins,

  • the son of Henry Perkins, followed his father as steward of the Despencers, and
  • in numerous transfers of land he was required to make,
  • he wrote his name indifferently, John Perkins, Perkyns Armiger, and Parkyns.
  • He was living in 1397-1400, in the reign of Henry VI.
  • John Perkins, armiger, held the position of high steward to Despencer, when the heiress of this famous Despencer family married the Earl of Warwick, known as the king maker from the part he took in the Wars of the Roses.
  • John Perkins, as shown by the court roll of Madresfield, 1390, held one messuage and eighteen acres of land there.
  • He was seneschal to Thomas Despencer Earl of Gloucester—Lord Thomas Despencer married a kinswoman of Richard II.

(IV) William Parkyns, Lord of Ufton,

  • was baillous, or agent, to Humphrey Plantaganet, Duke of Gloucester, who was brother to Henry V, and uncle and guardian to the young Henry VI, during his minority.
  • His wife was Margaret.
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William Perkins

  • was born in 1380 in Madresfield, Worcestershire, England[1], and
  • died in Ufton Court, Berkshire, England in 1451; he was 71[1].
  • Various records show that he was flourishing in 1420 and 1427.
    • The 1424 records show a family rift, with a fine imposed between John Collee & Elizabeth (his wife?) and William Perkins and his wife, Margaret.
      • It is not sure whether the John Collee referred to is Margaret's father or a brother by the same name. William's identity is proven by the notation that he was "son of John the Seneschal".
      • Whatever the cause of the legal spat, William and Margaret and their heirs were awarded the manor and advowson of Ufton Robert, near Reading, England; and a moiety of land in Buscot amongst Ufton and other places.
      • This estate remained in the Perkins family for centuries.
      • A wonderful history of the manor and surrounding village can be found at David Nash Ford's Royal Berkshire History website (http://www.berkshirehistory.com/villages/ufton_nervet.html).
  • A "moiety", from the Latin "medietas", is one half of a tract of land.
  • An "advowson" was the right to nominate someone to officiate a vacant church.
    • It was a common appendant to a manor, granting the lord of the manor the right to choose the clergy of the local church.
  • As with most manors, Ufton officially "belonged" to King Richard II (r. 1377-1399), with William agreeing his fealty and support in return for the lands, buildings & vassals.
    • This, of course, meant that William needed to raise men & money for any military action called by his King.
    • In addition, William had to protect his lands & vassals from any dangers & attacks. It wasn't all sitting on the veranda, sipping mead.
  • William continues to show up in records of the time.
    • He witnessed "...a deed or grant from Henry VI to provost and college of Eton, of lands in New and Old Windsor and Clewer..."[4]
    • In 1447, he appears in the Court Roll of the Manor of Bray as the "Baillous" to the Duke of Gloucester.
      • This Duke was brother to King Henry V (r. 1413-1422) and, as his uncle, one of the guardians of Henry VI (r. 1422-1461, 1470-1471) until he came of age[4].
  • Sometime before 1410 when William was 30, he married Margaret COLLEE[1],
    • daughter of John COLLEE.
    • Margaret was born circa 1380.
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Excerpted from 'The Perkins family in ye olden times' by Mansfield Parkyns, 11916, Utica, NY, pp. 36-40: Available online at: http://ia700303.us.archive.org/10/items/perkinsfamilyiny00park/perk...

Williams Perkyns (fourth in the Visitation of Berkshire, 1623),

  • who is named in the Diocesan Register at Salisbury as "Lord of Ufton," "Donzell,"* "True Patron," and "Patron."
  • He was also "baillous" of Humphrey Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester, and it was probably in that capacity that he was party to an agreement by which in June, 1411, William Leyre confirmed the lordship of Childs Manor, East Barham. Norfolk, to the Duke, Alianore his wife, and William Parkyns, Esquire, who in another deed released his right to the aforesaid Duke of Gloucester.
    • The latter deed was sealed with his arms, "or a fess dancette between eight billets ermines."
    • This is the earliest instance in which the Parkyns or Perkins coat of arms appears.
    • The number of billets was afterwards increased to ten, as evidenced by the monument at Ufton.
  • In 1424 there was a fine between John Collee and Elizabeth, and William Perkyns (son of John the seneschal) and Margaret his wife, by which the manor and advowson of Ufton Robert (near Reading) and a moiety of land in Buscot and other places and Ufton were settled on William and Margaret and their heirs.
  • John Collee (in very old deeds DeColnaye was the family name, later Collee) was of Padworth, Berkshire, and I had not then worked up the Collee family. I had not, till five years after, (viz., October, 1877) discovered some interesting records proving that William Parkyns was "patron" of Ufton several years before the date of the fine which is a settlement in the interest of the two wives who were probably sisters.
  • In 1426, '27 and '28 he is mentioned in the accounts of the Corporation of Reading. One record is here translated:
    • "For payment at games given before the Mayor at William Parkyns, 6s. 8d. For ale given at the same, 2d. To the minstrels of the Duke of Gloucester at the Mayor's breakfast at Parkyns, 20d."
  • In 1427 and several successive years he served as escheator for Berkshire and Oxfordshire.
  • Ashmole's "Antiquities of Berkshire" mentions that John Collee and William Parkyns were returned in a list of the gentry of the county in 1434.
    • In 1435 an agreement uniting the two parishes, Ufton Robert and Ufton Nervet, was signed by William Parkyns and the Prior of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, and henceforth the patronage of the united living was held by the former and his successors.
  • In 1444 he signed as witness to a deed or grant from Henry VI. to the Provost and College of Eton, of lands in New and Old Windsor and in Clewer.
  • In 1447 he is mentioned in the Court Roll of the manor of Bray as holding the office of "baillous" (bailiff) to the Duke of Gloucester.
  • As William Parkyns presented to the living of Ufton until 1451, when his son Thomas appeared as "true patron" of the church, his death doubtless occurred about 1449 or '50.
  • That is how the family acquired the Ufton estate, which remained some centuries in that branch.
    • [Note: Ufton and Buscot belonged to the family of Pagnall and from them passed to one Thomas Calery. Buscot in Berkshire is not far from Shipton and close to Fairford, another great place of the DeSpencers. I think the Pakenhams had the 1 manor and advowson of Buscot and the other moiety of the lands.]
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