Genealogy

Vescy of Brampton-en-le-Morthen and their descendants

Vescy of Brampton-en-le-Morthen »

From Hunter's Deanery of Doncaster

Roger Vesey, m. Alice, d. of Walter de Brampton.

Hugh Vesey, of Brampton, m. Eliz., dau. of Hugh Twisle.

John Vesey, m. Anne, d. of J. Constantine.

Robert Vesey, m. Ellen, d. of M. Bosville.

John Vesey, m. Joan, d. of Hugh Revell of Shirland (Ogston).

Thomas Vesey, m. Jane, d. of Thos. Eyre, of High Lowe.

Robert Vesey, m. Jane, d. of Chr Kendall of Tickhill.

William Vesey of Brampton, m. Eliz: d. of Richard Stevenson.

William Vesey of Brampton, m. Margery, d. of R. Bunting of Rotherham.

John Vesey of Brampton, m. Alice, d. of Trubishaw. Had brother William, who mar. d. of Sir Thos. Hewitt of Shire Oaks, and two daughters:
Elizabeth, who married F. Bradshaw of Bradshaw, 1652, and 2nd John Bolle of Thorpe Hall Lincoln.
Sarah, who mar. John Ely of Utterby Manor, Co. Lincoln.

Built partly of stone, Brampton Hall has a half-timbered, overhanging storey, evidently fifteenth century work. On a stone is a carving of the Bradshawe and Vescy arms. Within the house are two good oak panelled rooms.

The writer, of the following scanned document, C. E. Bowles, states that the main object of the contents of the following article is to correct the erroneous pedigrees, already published, which are founded upon that, entered in St. George's Visitation of 1612-13 and and Hunter's South Yorkshire vol. ii, of Vescy of Brampton, a purely Yorkshire family, and presumably long since extinct, but whose history, so far as it can be gathered from the Charters and MSS., could not fail to interest the true lover of his county.

At the time that the work was begun the writer's whole collection of Charters, were damaged/destroyed when a fire broke out, consequently the writer can only produce a portion of what he had intended, but at the same time he hopes to place on record, while still fresh in his memory.

The pedigree of this family, entered in St. George's Visitation of 1612-13, apparently lays claim to a legitimate descent from the old baronial family of Vesci, for in addition to the Tyson Quartering in the armorial coat (Quarterly: I. Or a cross sable - Vescy. II. Vert three lions rampant argent crowned or - Tyson. III. Gules two bars argent in chiefs three mullets of the last - Brampton. IV. Or on a chevron sable three crescents argent - Twittle). The first in the Visitation, Esmeus de Vescy is described as of "Knapton" which was part of the ancient baronial fee of Vesci. This is improbable for many obvious reasons, and there is little but the assumption of the heralds to give it any foundation, beyond the fact that the baronial family of Vesci owned land at Rotherham, which is close to Brampton and Tickhill, where we find these Vescys undoubtedly settled in 1322, twenty-five years after the death of William de Vesci, presumed to be the last legitimate heir, who in right of his grandmother, Margaret, a daughter of William, King of Scotland, was in one of the competitors for the Scottish Crown, and only seven years later than the Battle of Stirling, which proved fatal to his son William de Vesci, who undoubtedly possessed a portion of his estates, but was presumed to be base-born, because at the Inquisition held at Lincoln after his death in 1315, his father's heir was found to be Gilbert de Aton. But it is more than possible that the family at Brampton owes its origin to a natural son of some member of this house.

According to the Heralds' Visitation, Esmeus de Vescy, of whose existence there is apparently no other proof, had issue by his marriage with Maud, daughter of Wm. de Mirfield, a son Roger, who, according to the same authority, married Isabel, daughter of Reyner le Franceys, of Brampton. This Roger actually lived in 1322, there was abundant proof in the Charters (Append. A), and we may fairly assume, from a statement found on the back of a will (Append. B), evidently written by William Vescy in 1605, taken in conjunction with the Charters and the Heralds' Visitation, that his wife, if not a daughter, was at least the eventual heir of Reyner le Franceys, because two of the Charters, in which however her name is given as Clemence, are grants of land at Brampton "from John le Frankys, son of Richard le Frankys, of Brampton en-le-Morthen, to Roger le Vescy and Clemence his wife, of the same place," with dates 1323 and 1324 respectively. Hunter, in his South Yorkshire, refers to a grant to Hugh Vescy of lands formerly held by Reyner le Franceys. A Clemence de Vescy" was in 1337 found to be one of the executors of the will of Isabel de Vescy, widow of John, Baron de Vescy, who died in 1289. She has been said, on what authority is not stated, to be the widow of John de Vesci, son of William, Baron de Vesci, the competitor for the Crown of Scotland, who died in his father's lifetime, or she might possibly be identical with Roger's wife, as she was certainly living at the same time, in which case it suggests a connection with the baronial stock. By this marriage with Alice le Franceys, St. George's Visitation credits Roger le Vescy with a son and heir of the same name, Roger II, who by his wife Alice, the daughter and heir of Walter de Brampton (Append. A ii), was the father of Hugh Vescy, who marrying Elizabeth, daughter and heir of (Append. E) Hugh Twittle - probably Totehill - had a son and heir named John.

The position in the Visitation pedigree of Roger II and Hugh must however be reversed, as it is in the pedigree quoted in Appendix B, in consideration of the incontestable facts obtained from the Charters, especially from one of them dated 1348, which is a grant of land "from Roger le Vescy, of Brampton-en-le-Morthen, to Hugh, my son and heir, and to Matilda his wife " (Append. C).

It is of course possible, though not probable, that there was another Roger, father of Hugh, and son of Roger and Clemence, and that the Charters between the years 1322 and 1348 allude to two men of the same name. But this does not help us, for in that case the heralds have omitted a generation in Roger Vescy, the son of Hugh and father to John. This Roger II seems to have been in possession of the estate in 1379, as he paid 4d. for his lands in Brampton to Richard the Second's Poll Tax (Append. D).

If John I, who succeeded his father Roger, be identical with John I (Append. F) of St. George's Visitation, he cannot have been the son of Hugh Vescy, as it asserts, because one of the Charters now perished, dated 1436, described him as "John, the son of Roger."

The former suggestion, therefore, which is confirmed by the pedigree in Appendix B, is plainly the correct one, namely that Roger le Vescy, who was living from the year 1322 to that of 1348, married Clemence, the daughter and heir of John le Franceys, of Brampton, or at any rate the eventual heir of Reyner le Franceys, was succeeded about 1348 by his son and heir Hugh, and that he, by his marriage with Matilda, who might well be a daughter of Hugh Totehill (Tickhill) — the Hugh Twittle of the Visitation, for the dates make this quite possible (Append. E) — had a son Roger, who owned the estate from the year 1379 to that of 1428, and was the father of John I and William (Append. D). That this John succeeded his father Roger, and was possessed of the estate from the year 1436 to 1450, is proved not only by the Charters now destroyed, but also by one in the Woolley Collection (Append. F). The Heralds give him to wife Anne, the daughter and heir of John Constantine, by whom, they say, he became the father of Robert his heir, who by his marriage with Ellen, the daughter of Nicholas Bosvile of Conisbrough, had issue John Vescy his successor, who marrying Joan, the daughter of Hugh Revel of Shirland, co. Derby, was the father of Thomas his heir.

In the pedigree already cited however (Append. B), John I (Append. F) was not succeeded by Robert, but by his son, John II, and he it was who was succeeded by his son Robert, which facts are corroborated by the only two charters which existed, dated 1474 and 1475 respectively, and by a bond of 1474, "from John Vescy of Brampton to Robert, his son and heir," as well as by a charter in the Woolley Collection (Append. G). In the same pedigree this Robert, living from 1474 to 1484, is stated to have been the father of Thomas, his successor, thus contradicting the heralds' assertion that the father of Thomas was John II.

This discrepancy between the two pedigrees, however, can be entirely removed by again reversing the order of father and son, thus making John II not only the son of John I, which was accomplished by the first transposition, but also the father and predecessor of Robert, instead of his son and successor, and this will at once place Robert in his probably correct position of father to Thomas Vescy, who was presumably born after 1485, as he is not mentioned by name in the deed which gives the names of his three sisters (Append. J). With him ends the discrepancy between the two pedigrees. The amended pedigree, which is in accordance with the one in Appendix B, and is supported by the charters, will therefore run as follows :

With respect to their marriages, there is nothing to prove or disprove the assertions of the heralds. All the families with which the reputed alliances have taken place were living close by, therefore all are possible, and might at some future date be proved. That of Roger II with Alice de Brampton has been discussed in Append. A ii.

The heralds marry the above-mentioned Thomas Vescy, who is presumedly the father of Robert, to Jane, daughter of Robert, or Thomas Eyre, of Highlow, co. Derby, a member of one of the most noted and widespreading of the old Peak families, the owners of several manors and halls within fifteen miles of Sheffield, and his son, Robert Vescy, they marry to Jane, the daughter of Christopher Kendal, of Tickhill Castle, co. York.

Highlow, which at the present time is a very well preserved specimen of an old Tudor hall, near Hathersage, co. Derby, was in the year 1569 owned by Christopher Eyre, son of Thomas Eyre of Padley, co. Derby, two of whose sons, by his wife Alice, the daughter of William Saunderson, of Thickhell (Tickhill), Robert and Thomas Eyre, married Yorkshire women, whose home at Thrybergh was only a few miles both from Highlow and Brampton. It would not be surprising, therefore, if the heralds were right in the statement that a member of the Vescy family found a wife at Highlow Hall. And inasmuch as one married the daughter and the other the sister of Lyon Reresby, of Thryburgh, Rotherham (Reliquary xii, page 40, and Foster's Yorkshire Visitations page 75), it is not surprising if they were somewhat confused in their minds as to whether she were the daughter of Thomas or of Robert Eyre.

But a careful comparison of the Eyre pedigree with that of Vescy will suggest that the probable date of such a marriage would make it impossible that the daughter of either of those two men could have been the wife of Thomas Vescy; and as the mother of his son and successor was undoubtedly the possessor of a house at Tickhill, in which she and her husband had lived and died, which is not suggestive that she was an Eyre of Highlow, it is. far more likely that the heralds have transposed the two Janes, and that Jane Eyre, of Highlow, was he wife of Robert Vescy, his mother being, as her will would suggest, the daughter of Christopher Kendal, of Tickhill.

In the statement endorsed on the will (Append. B) by William Vescy, whose signature makes him also responsible for the pedigree in St. George's Visitation, it will be seen that the name was Tyndal, of Tickhill. This is probably an error, for though a William Tyndal is a supervisor in Robert's will (Append. J), nothing is known of that family at Tickhill, while several generations of the Kendal family were landowners there, as their wills prove. The date of Thomas Kendal's will, which was made 10 Dec, 1530, and proved 3 Aug., 1531, would make it possible for his daughter Joan and Mrs. Jane Vescy to be identical, and Christopher, being one of his sons, would be brother and not father to Mrs. Vescy. If this be so, the heralds have again confused father and son, hut till actual proof is found on these points, these marriages must be purely conjectural. In the will of Jane Vescy, the widow (Append. H), presumedly of Thomas, and a Kendal by birth, made 20 June, 1557, and proved the following 8th November, she directs that her body be buried "wythin my Paryshe Church in the Trenytye Quere nere unto my husband in Tykyll." She leaves various items of household and farm stock to her eldest son Robert and to the children of her daughter Elizabeth Bradforth, also to her daughter Katheryne, whose husband, John Wylkinson, she makes co-executor and residuary legatee with her son Robert, who must have inherited her house and lands, as he especially alludes to them in his will. She mentions the wife of her eldest son, his daughter Jane, and his eldest son William. She must have lived to a fair old age, apparently surviving one daughter and her second son, whose name does not occur, but whose son John benefits, together with "the other children of my daughter-in-law Elizabeth Vescy," and she was survived by her eldest son by only a year. She and her husband appear to have lived in her house at Tickhill, so it may be that even during their life their son Robert lived in the old home at Brampton. At any rate he did so later in life, and evidently died there.

The substance of this will of Mrs. Jane Vescy, the daughter, as has been suggested above, of Thomas (not Christopher) Kendal, supplies the only information procurable of the issue of her marriage with Thomas Vescy, the son of Robert Vescy, who probably died comparatively young, as he has apparently "left no footprints on the sands of time," at least none that are discoverable, leaving issue by Jane:

1. Robert, his eldest son and heir
2. A son, who had issue by Elizabeth his wife, a son John, who is mentioned also in his uncle Robert's will, 1559
3. Elizabeth, who married Bradforth
4. Katherine, who married John Wilkinson

(1) Robert Vescy probably succeeded his father early in life. His will (Append. J), which was proved 18 May, 1559, was made 15 Feb., 1558-9, so short a time after his mother's death that several articles in her house at Tickhill, bequeathed by her, had not been apportioned or removed, and several remained still in the hands of his nephew John, mentioned in his mother's will. All his lands, situated in Tickhill, Aughton, and Treeton, are left to his eldest son William. If the amount of money which he left to the poor in each parish was in proportion to the amount of land he owned in each, Treeton contained the largest part and Laughton the smallest of his real property. His son Edward has an annuity and his six daughters have all their share of his personal property, most care- fully and justly apportioned according to their respective ages. The charters, so lately destroyed, were then all lying safely in "the great iron-bound evidence chest remaining at Tickhill, or in the lesser chest, with the name of Vescy graven on it,' which are left to his eldest son. The document under which his children inherited their grandparent's bequests, which are all carefully adjusted in bis own will, would, if forthcoming, probably clear up many points, as only two of his eight children benefit by the will of their grand- mother Vescy.

Robert Vescy died 1559, leaving issue by Jane - possibly a daughter of Eyre of Highlow:

1. William Vescy, eldest son and heir m. Elizabeth Stephenson at Dronfield, 11 July, 1564
2. Edward
3. Jane
4. Margaret
5. Anne
6. Katherine
7. Mary
8. Ellen

(1)William Vescy, the eldest son, succeeded to the estates on the death of his father. He died 1 Aug 1605, and lies buried in the Brampton Quire of Treeton Church, where his wife Elizabeth, was buried, 8 Nov 1613. She was the daughter of Richard Stephenson, of Unston-in-Dronfield, co. Derby, and is mentioned in her father's will, 14 May 1577.

Among the perished deeds was an interesting inventory of all the possessions of William Vescy, with the name of each room in the house at Brampton, and its contents, taken at his death. Administration of these goods was granted to his widow, 10 Oct 1605. By her he had:

1. William, eldest son and heir, m. Margery Bunting in 1605
2. Francis
3. Alexander of Whitwell, married Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Mottram and daughter of John Westby of Highwood in Whitwell. He was probably father of William living Whitwell 1652, as well as Roger, named in Uncle's will, as of Cresswell in 1628, and in cousin William's will as of Whitwell in 1662
4. Michael of Brinsworth, married Laughton on 28 Oct 1602 to Elizabeth, sister of Rowland Revell. Children : William, Robert, John, Revell. Michael was buried Brinsworth, 22 Jan 1639.
5. Frances, married William Blythe of Norton Lees. Child William (1608-1665)

(1) William Vescy, eldest son of William and Elizabeth, was living in 1612, the date of St. George's Visitation. In his marriage license, he is described as of Todwick, which is five miles from Brampton. His wife Margery, only daughter of Robert Bunting, of Rotherham, who was buried at Treeton, 16 Nov. 1618 came of a wealthy mercantile family, and brought money both directly and indirectly into her husband's family, as is proved by two wills, in addition to that of her father. Both she and her brother, Richard Bunting, profited largely under the will of Elizabeth Verey (? Vescey), of Rotherham — made 1 Dec, 1597, proved 4 Oct, 1599, who left her fortune between the Revells and the Buntings, Marjery, afterwards Mrs. Vescy, inheriting "all money and other property in a messuage at Rotherham, next to the house wherein I now dwell, late in the occupation of Robert Bunting her father, saving that Richard Bunting shall have one chist in the parlour there, wherein the evidence lies." From this will we gather that Richard and Marjery were left minors at the death of their father, Robert Bunting, under whose will, made 20 April, 1592, proved 20 October following, Marjery inherited the sum of £227 and three acres of arable land in Rotherham, which he bought from Richard Hillingworth, besides his residue. " Elizabeth Vescey," among others, to have the tuition of her, and guardians are also named for her brother Richard.

Under the will of Sarah Bunting, of Rotherham, spinster, made 1 June, 1623, proved 31 July following, who was the daughter of Richard Bunting, Mrs. Vescy's only brother, William Vescy and all his children largely profit, her "Uncle, Mr. Will Vescy, of Brampton," being left executor and residuary legatee. Her cousins, Anne, wife of Mr. William Cotton, and Elizabeth, wife of Anthony Hadfield, both named, if daughters of her uncle William Vescy, must have had their respective portions on their marriage, as they have no place in the will of their father.

William Vescy died 23 Dec, 1628-9 (Append. K), and was buried in the Brampton Quire of Treeton Church, having survived his wife twelve years. His will was made 28 Nov. 1628, and proved 30 Jan. 1630-1. He devises his estates in Brampton, Woodhouse, Morthinge, Whiston, Wickersley, and what had descended to him from his father, to his eldest son John, in tail male, on condition that he shall marry a wife "not having under one thousand poundes porcion at the least," so that he may the better pay the portions bequeathed to his younger brothers; with remainder to Robert, William and Matthew, his three other sons, to each of whom he leaves an annuity in addition to a substantial legacy, naming the trade to which he desired that each should be apprenticed. His brother Alexander, and his nephews, William Blythe, Roger Vescy, of Cresswell, and Revell Vescy are remembered, as also his "sister-in-law, Elizabeth Vescy." His kinsmen, George Holmes, Stephen Bright, of Carbrook, Anthony Rawlinson, Richard Burrowes, for the most part his wife's relations, are named as supervisors. He left issue, by Marjery his wife:

1. John, son and heir
2. Robert died unmarried. Will 19 May 1642 - left all his lands in Tickhill and Rotherham to brother William, remainder to brother Matthew. Names Elizabeth Vescy, eldest daughter and co heir of eldest brother John, as also children of Mrs Alice Vescy, "my loving sister in law, which she had by her first husband, Mr. Harrison". He was buried in Treeton Church
3. William married at Worksop 20 Nov 1655 to Anne daughter of Sir Thomas Hewet of Shireoaks and Elizabeth Wrottesley of Stafford. Described as of Thorpe Salvin in a deed of Jan 1661.
4. Matthew married Ellen, daughter and heir of Thomas Bosvile of New Hall, widow of Philip Rolston. Children Bosvile of Barley Hole and Frances.

(1) John Vescy, eldest son and heir of William Vescy, was returned in St. George's Visitation as being 5 years old in 1612-13, and by his father's Inq, post mortem (Append. K) we learn that he was nine months over 21 years when, on the day of his father's death, 23 Dec, 1628, he succeeded to the Brampton estate. Little further can be related about him beyond the fact that " he was admitted of Gray's Inn, 15 May, 1626." He was buried in Treeton Church, 11 Nov. 1639. He married Alice, a daughter of Trubshaw, and widow of Harrison, both of Bawtry, co. Notts. By her, who survived him twenty-one years, he left issue two daughters — (1) Elizabeth, (2) Sarah, his co-heirs, of whom hereafter. The will of his widow Alice is nuncupative, and was made 7 Oct., 1658, sworn 9 April following, and proved in London, 21 May, 1659. All personal estate is left equally divided between her son, John Harrison, of Braithwell, and her two daughters by her second husband, Elizabeth Bradshawe and Sarah Vescy. "To her grandchildren, Francis and John Bradshawe, sons of Francis Bradshawe, her son in-law," she leaves 20li. apiece. "A like sum to her grandson, Vessey Harrison, and to George Harrison, her son, if he be living and come and demand it"; 5li. to Elizabeth, Sarah, and Samuel Harrison, children of her son John. Francis Bradshawe, her son-in-law, to have the custody of her goods for apportionment, after they have been inventoried and apprized. She died the 18th Oct. 1658, and was buried in Treeton Church a year before her son-in-law. By John Vescy, her second husband, she had issue:

1. Elizabeth, elder daughter and co-heir, married at Braithwell 20 January, 1652-3, to Francis Bradshawe, of Bradshaw Hall, Eyam Hall, and Abney Manor, all in the county of Derby. (Arms : 1 and 4, Arg, two bendlets between two martlets sable ; 2 and 3, Or a chevron gules between three martlets sable (Stafford). Crest : A stag at gaze proper under a vine tree fruited proper,) The Bradshawe estates were settled in her marriage articles, dated 20 January, 1652-3, to which William Armytage, of Doncaster, and William Vescy, of Whitwell, were parties (Woolley Charters xii, 92).
2. Sarah Vescy, younger daughter and co-heir, married, about 1670, to John Elye, of Utterby, co. Lincoln, by whom she had John Elye, of Utterby, whose son John left a daughter Sarah, his sole heir, who married Richard Towne.

"Franck Bradshawe" as George his father calls his eldest son in his will (dated 17 June, 1646), would then be little more than fifteen years old, and in less than six years afterwards he not only had courted and had wed with Elizabeth Vescy, but had taken up his abode in the hall of her forefathers, apparently together with her mother and her sister Sarah. The old hall at Eyam had been left by his father to his widow for her life, hence the necessity for his finding a new home.

Francis Bradshawe held the great Court Baron of Abney, co. Derby, of which he was Lord of the Manor in October, 1654. But he lived only seven years after his marriage with Elizabeth Vescy, having died in his thirtieth year, 21 Dec, 1659 and was buried in the Brampton Quire of Treeton Church. He had issue by Elizabeth Vescy:

Elizabeth married again to John Bolle, of Thorpe Hall, Co. Lincoln. This must have been about 1667-8, for the settlement of 1665 was confirmed by John Bolle and Elizabeth his wife in 1668, and the Court Baron of Abney in 1669 was held by her and John Bolle together. By John Bolle, her second husband, who had two sons living by his first wife, Ursula Bradley, she had issue:

1. Edward Bolle, died unmarried, 15 Nov.1696; buried in Treeton Church.
2. Mary, died 22 Feb. 1673 buried at Treeton.
3. Elizabeth, married at South Elkington, 7 March, 1708-9, to Thomas Bosville, Clerk, Rector of Ufford, co. Northants, by whom she had three daughters
4. Sarah, married at St. John's, Laughton, 24 Feb. 1690, to Henry Eyre , of Bramley-in-Braithwell, where she was buried 21 June, 1709, leaving John, o,s,p. and Margaret, married William Spencer.

A settlement of lands in co. Lincoln was made by John Bolle and Elizabeth his wife, 20 May, 1675, on Edward Bolle and his two sisters, Elizabeth and Sarah.

Elizabeth Bradshawe's marriage with John Bolle most certainly provided a husband for her sister Sarah, because John Elye, who was another Lincolnshire Squire, was a son of John Bolle's sister Elizabeth. The marriage must have taken place about 1670, for on the 1st August in that year a deed of settlement of lands was executed, to which Thomas Elye and Elizabeth his wife, and John Elye and Sarah his wife, both of Utterby, co. Lincoln, and Elizabeth Bradshawe were parties.

Elizabeth Vescy, widow of Francis Bradshawe and wife of John Bolle, died 14 March, 1676. Her second husband, John Bolle, was buried at Louth, 10 Sept. 1679. her eldest son, Francis Bradshawe, survived her one year only. He died 29 Dec, 1677, and was buried, as was his mother, in the Brampton Quire of Treeton Church.

John Bradshawe, the third but only other surviving son of Elizabeth Vescy and Francis Bradshawe, succeeded to all the estates, both in Yorkshire and in Derbyshire, on the death of his brother Francis.

The Brampton estates, so long the possession of the Vescy family, were sold by Pierce Galliard shortly before his death in 1789, at which date they were in the possession of Mr. Samuel Phipps, and were left by him to Sir Sitwell Sitwell, the grandfather of Sir Geoige Sitwell.

APPENDIX
A

• (i) About twenty charters of various dates, from 1322 to 1348, relating to Roger le Vescy were, till lately, in the writer's possession. They were mostly grants of land in Brampton and Treeton. One, dated 1348, was a grant of land from Roger le Vescy, "Hugoni filio et heredi meo et Matildore uxori ejus."
• (ii) There were also several charters relating to various families living in the neighbourhood at this time, which may well find a place here. They were for the most part grants of land in and about Brampton-en-le-Morthen and Treeton, both in the parish of Brampton. The following list was made before they were destroyed :

1. To Robert son of Reyner de Brampton — 1296
2. To Roger le Vescy, by Isabella daughter of Hugh de Brampton, bearing dates 1326, 1332, and 1337
3. To Roger le Vescy, by Hugh son of Isabel de Brampton, from 1326 to 1331
4. To Hugh le Vescy, of Brampton-en-le-Morthen, by Isabel daughter of Robert de Brampton — 1369.
   (N.B. — In these charters no mention is made of a Walter de Brampton whose daughter and heir Alice, the heralds assert, was married to Roger Vescy II, whose name first appears ten years after the grant of land was made to his father Hugh, by Isabel, the daughter of Robert de Brampton, though it is possible they were her near relations.)
5. By Hugh de Treeton to Ralph Paynter, of Blythe, co. Notts., and Clemence his wife, "my daughter" — 1339.
6. By John le Keu, son of Thomas le Keu, of Maltby.
7. William Archer, died 20 Henry VI, leaving a daughter Ellen

APPENDIX
B

A verbatim copy of the statement written on the back of a parchment copy of Robert Vescy's will, which was dated 1558, and which, being evidently in the handwriting of his grandson William, must have been written in the year 1605:
"This is the will of Robert Vescy, of Brampton-en-le-Morthen, who married the daughter and heir of Tyndal, of Tickhill, in this county, and had issue William, who was the father of William, the writer. The said Robert was the son of Thomas, the son of Robert, the son of John, who was the son of John, whose father was Roger the second, the son of Hugh, who was the son of Roger the first, which Roger had married the daughter and heir of Reyner le Franceys, of Brampton- en-le-Morthen."

APPENDIX
C

There were fully thirty charters of various dates, from 1348 to 1375, relating to Hugh Vescy, several of which were grants of land to him and to Matilda his wife.

A Woolley Charter (v. 26), dated at Brampton, Wednesday after the Conversion of St. Paul, 42 Edward HI (24 Jan., 1368-9), is a grant by Isabel daughter of Hugh de Treeton, to Hugh Vescy, of Morthing, of seven acres of land in Mylne Rydding.

Considering that Brampton is in the parish of Treeton, it is possible that Hugh de Treeton and Hugh de Brampton were one and the same person

Hunter in his South Yorkshire vol. ii, page 179, quotes a charter for which he gives no authority, which is a grant of land from John de Toychill (? Totehill/Tickhill) (cf, E) to Hugh de Vescy, of Brampton, and Matilda his wife. The date he assigns to it is "Monday next after the Feast of All Saints, 1253." This date is impossible, for it is about 100 years too soon, and it is very improbable that there existed another Hugh Vescy and Matilda his wife. It is evidently a misprint for 1353.

APPENDIX
D

The first of the charters connected with the possession of the lands at Brampton by Roger II was dated 1399, and the last was in 1428. In a deed of entail both John and William were named as his sons. There is, however, proof to be found among those who paid the Poll Tax of 2 Richard II that he and his servant Thomas (probably a relative) both paid 4d. for lands in Brampton in the year 1379-80, by which we may assume that his father was then dead.

Other names appear in the same Poll Tax list which may belong to this family, and which, although they find no place in this pedigree, may be worth recording: Will : Vysce and Cicely his wife, in Whiston; Will: Wescy and Magota his wife, in Conisbro; John Wesci, in Barnburgh; and Robert and Dionisia Vesci, in Tickhill.

APPENDIX
E

The following paid the same tax: — Will: and Cicely de Totehill, in Barnbro', and John and Elizabeth Totehill, in Stainton. In York- shire Archaological Journal, xii, 115, we find that Hugh de Totehill made a grant of lands in Brampton-in-Morthing to Michael Pigot, Rector of Wath, 1323, and that Hugh de Totehill, son of John de Totehill, granted to Roger de Lokyngton and others his Manor of Brampton-in-Morthyng, in 1377.

APPENDIX
F

There were about twenty charters, etc., from 1436 to 1450, which proved the possession of the estate by John de Vesci I. In one of these he was described as the son of Roger, and there exists also in the Woolley Collection (v. 29) one dated 28 April, 20 Henry VI (1442), being a release by Joan widow of William Archer (cf. A ii, 7), of Tykhill, to John Vescy, of all right in lands which he (Vescy) had of the grant of her husband in Brampton in- Morthing and Woodhouse Brampton. Seal : A cinquefoil.

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Woolley Charters (v. 28) 13 Jan., 1640- 1. Grant by Robert Laghton, of Laghton, to John Vescy, of Morthing, and Robert Vescy, of Brampton, his son and heir, of seven messuages and a cottage with a garden adjoining, and seven bovates.of land and meadow lying separately in the ville and fields of Brampton- in-the-Morthing, and which descended to him by inheritance on the death of Robert Laghton, his father, which his father held jointly with William Mirfin, rector of Wickersley, of the grant of Roger Vescy. To hold to John Vescy and Robert Vescy and the heirs male of Robert, with remainders to Catherine, Joan and Alice, daughters of Robert, in fee. Witnesses, John Laghton, John Scarcliffe, Henry Dolfyn (all of Brampton), and John Yole and Robert Wright, of Morthinge. Dated at Brampton, 2 March, 2 Rich, III (1484-5)

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TESTAMENTUM JANE VESCY DEFUNCTE. (Rfg. Test., XV (2), iiSflTl)
June 20, 1557. Jane Vescye, of the parysche of Tykhyll, wydowe. My sowle to Almyghtie God, and to our Ladye, Saynct Mary, and to all the celestyall company of hevyn; and my body to be buryed wythin my paryshe churche, in the Trenytye quere, nere vnto my husband, in Tykhall aforesayd. To the hye alter for tythes forgotten, ijx. For my mortuarye, according to the lawes of this realme of England. To Katheryne Wylkinsonne, my doughter, my best froke of clothe wyth all my lynnen apperell, my secound fether bedd wyth a bolster and my best coueryng, my cowe, my cowneter wyth the coueryng, my swyne, my cocke and hennes. To Thomas Bewes, her Sonne, my gretyst brasse pott. To Robert Veseye (sic) my sonne, my best fether bedde wyth the bolster and one couering, and to his wyfe one cupbord, standing in my buttre. To the sayd Roberte Veseye, my sonne, one payr of wheles, bownd wyth yron, and one great brasyn morter, wyth a peslell, one plat coate wyth the shyrtes, one hawbert, one forest byll, and ij gorgettes; one yron chyst wyth all his heyr loomes beyng in my kepyng. To William Vescye, sonne to the sayd Robert, iijj. iiij. To Jane Veseye, dowghter to Robert Vescye, my ressell (sic) froke. To my dowghter Elyzabelh Bradforth chyldren, to euery one of theym, iijx. iiij., and to euery one of the sayd chyldren halfe a quarter of barlye, beyng never maryed as yet. To Alys Waddysworth one redd petlyecote that was her mother's, and one redd saye. To Elyzabeth Vescye, my doughter in law, my thyrd froke. To John Vescye, her sonne, vjj. viij., and to every one of her other chyldren iijx. iiij/., to be payd to theym when thay com to lawfull age, abyll to receyve yt, and one halfe quarter of barley or malt, toward they re brynging vp. To Jane Bybbe, my seruaunt, ijs. To Elizabeth Hawmon, my servant, my worke day frocke. To Syr John (114) Knagges xijd. To euerye one of my god chyldren iiijd. The resydewe to Robert Vescye, my sonne, and John Wylkinsonne, my Sonne in lawe, whome I constitute and mayke my trew and lawfull executors of this my last will and testament ; and they to bring my body honestlye to the hearth, as my trust is in them, at the ouer- syght of my trusty and wellbelouyd frend, Thomas Frankyshe, whome I constitute and mayke the supervysor of this my last will and testament, to se all thyngis, in my sayd will comprehended, to be performed and fulfyllid according to the meanyng therof. Thes beyng wytnes, Syr John Knagges, Robert Hudsonne, Thomas Slater, Richard Brodhed, Thomas Bradforth. Proved by the executors Nov. 8, 1557.

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TESTAMENTUM ROBERTI VESCIE, PAROCHIE DE TRETON, DEFUNCTI.

Feb. 15, 1558-9. Robart Vescye, of the parishe of Treton. My soull to Almightie God, and our Ladie, Saint Marie, and to all the holye companye of heaven; my bodie to be buried at Treton afore my stall, yf it please God I die at Bramptone, in our Ladie quere. And to my mortuarie accordingly as the lawes of England vnll permytt and suffer. To the honouring of the blessed sacrement of the hie aulter of Treton fore tithes forgotten xij. Item I gyue one pound of wax to the crosse light in Treton. To the poore people in the parishe of Treton . To the poore people of Light parishe xxd. To the poore people in the parishe of Tickhill iijf. iiij., to pray fore my soull and all Christen soulles. To William Vescy, my sonne and heire, two siluer spones which he will chose of my spones, one greate brasse pott, one greate caldren, one old riall of gold, one greate yron bonde evydens chiste, remaynynge at Tichull, one lesse chist withe the name of Vescye graven of it, one greate bruinge leade, one salting fatt, leyed within one greate arke, standinge at Bramptone, in my parler, one greate cubbord ore prasse, one iren bound wayne, one greate iren spytt, one greate brasen morter with a pestill of iren, one fetherbedd with the bolstere; thes to, morter and fetherbed, remayneth in John Vescye handes, which he had in my mother howse at Tickhill. To the said William Vescye two bigge bullokes, a brownne and a spvnget, a litill grey colte, and a ringe of gold, theis to be heire lomes frome heire to heire, all thes thinges but there bullokes and the colte, to haue in recompense of his grandfather and grandmother gyftes and bequestes. To Edward Vescye, my sonne, one annuyte of xxs. by yere owt of my howse at Morthing, to be paid to hym at to vsuall termes in the yere, at Wytsonday and Martynmes; and fore fawte of payment of the said annuytie of xxs he to distreyne of my said farme, and the said stres to take, and dryve, and carie away to the next pound, till the said annuytie of xxs. to be paid, fore terme of his naturall lyf to hym. I geve to the said Edward Vescie one old aungell of gold, one good cowe, fyve yewe shepe, to be fore his grandfather and grandmother giftes and rewarde. To the said Edward Vescye fore his childes porcion and finiall childe parte xx markes in penye and penyworth, and one siluer spone, and one honest bedd with all thinges to yt belonging.
To Jane Vescie, my doughter, my best fetherbed at Brampton, with all thinges to yt belonginge, with lynnyng shetes to yt, one cowe, fyve yewe shepe, her mother best hatt and cap, her best frocke, her best kirtill, and a petticole, and a partlet of velvet, her mother best beides of correll, xx markes of penyes and penyworth, in full parte and her childes porcion, one siluer spone, one old aungel of gold.
To Margaret Vescye, my doughter, one cowe and fyve yewe shepe, fore her grandfather bequest and rewarde, one lesse fetherbed with a bolster and pillos, a paire of lynnyn shetes, and other thinges to a bedd belonginge, her mother roset frocke with her secound kettell, one letice capp, one old angell of gold, one spone of siluer, one cowe, vth yewe shepe, twentie markes of my goodes in full parte and porcion of her childes parte.
To Anne Vescye, my doughter, one cowe, vth yewe shepe, for her grandfather reward, and one mattres with a paire of lynnyn shetes, a paire of hemppinges shetes, with all other thinges to an honest bedd belonging, and one old aungell of gold, one spone of siluer, twentie markes, for her full parte of her childes porcion.
To Katheryn Vescye, my doughter, one cowe, vth yewe shepe, for her grandfather reward gyven to her, one mattres, a paire of lynnyng shetes, ij paire of warr shetes, with all thinges to an honest bed belonging, one old angell of gold, one spone of siluer, twentie markes of my goodes, in full parte and porcion of her childes parte.
To Marie Vescye, my doughter, one cowe, vth yewe shepe, one mattres, one paire of lynnyn shetes, iij paire of harden shetes, with all close to an honest bed belonging, and twentye markes of my goodes, one old riall of gold, one spone of siluer, in full parte and porcion of her childes porcion.
To Ellyn Vescye, my doughter, one cowe, vth yewe shepe, one mattres, one paire of lynnyn shetes, iiij payre of storer shetes, with all other clothes to an honest bedd belonging, one old riall of gold, one spone of siluer, and twentye markes of my goodes, in full parte and porcion of her childes parte.
To William Vescye, my sonne, my best doublet and my best gowne, and all my other reperell, belonging to my bodie, to be equally devyded betwix Edward Vescye and William Vescye. And yf my goodes will not pay my children there partes, and pay my dettes, I will that my hole landes in Tickhill shall pay all that lackes of my child partes and dettes. I gyue to euery one of my seruandes, being with me in serves, more then there waiges, vjd. Also I will that yf it please Almightie God to call and take any of my children to his mercie, that there partes of there childes porcion shalbe deuyded amonges my other children lyving, having children partes. Also all my goodes at Tickill that is my owne, and that goodes that is myne by the gyft and being executor to my mother, both goodes and corne, that my sonne, William Vescye, shall haue and receaue, and my mother legacies and her dettes, as it appeareth by a dett booke.
The residewe to William Vescye, my sonne, whome I make my executor. I constitute and ordaine to se my will be fulfilled in all thinges John, Lord Darsey (Darcy), Godfray Foljambe elder, euer my good maister, maister William Tyndall, and Mr William Ball, to be super- visors of this my last will, and euery one of them to haue v5 of gold fore there paynes. Thes bearing wytnesse, John Holden, John Norbarne, Sir Richard Beard, Nicholas Jowett, and John Dawson with other mo. Proved May 18, 1559.

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INQUISITION ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM VESCY, OF BRAMPTON, ESQ.
Post Mortem Court of Wards, vol. Ixii, No. 253.

Wakefield. Tuesday, 26 May, 5 Car. I 1629. Francis Bellasse, gent., the Escheator. William Vescy, late of Brampton, Esq. He died seised in his demesne as of fee of 5 messuages, 8 cottages, 3 dovecots, 200 acres of land, 40 acres of pasture, in Brampton, Morthinge, Bramley, and Thickhill, which came to him on the death of William Vescy, his father; and of a close, called Clay Croft, a close called Clarell Flatt, a close called le Twelve Acre, a close called Thirteen Acre, a close called Espes Close; and of divers other closes and selions of land lying scattered in all the fields within the territory of Tickhill, and acquired by him from John Sybery, Richard Witton, George Hamerton, Samuel Turvin, Robert Turvin, George Turvin, John Stephenson, and Christopher Reader ; and of a close called Long Moreflett Close, two closes called Dalton Brook Closes, in the parish of Rotherham; a close near Herringthorpe, in the parish of Whiston ; a close called Great Lee, two closes called Farr Lee, a close called Barley Croft, a close called Little Lee, and 20 acres of meadow and pasture in Morthing and Brampton, acquired by the said William of Henry Hewett, Edward Baynes, Christopher Sindall, and Thomas Sindall.

The 2 messuages, 4 cottages, a dovecot, 100 acres of land, 30 acres of pasture, 30 acres of meadow, parcel of the said tenements in Brampton held of ... Harries, gent, as of his manor of Swinton, parcel of the late dissolved Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, in free and common socage, namely, by fealty and an annual rent of 16d,; five acres, residue of the tenements in Brampton, held of the King as of his manor of East Greenwich, in free and common socage, that is, by fealty only. Tenements in Brampton, worth 6li. a year — One messuage, a dovecot, 30 acres of land, 10 acres of meadow, and 10 acres of pasture, in Morthinge, held of Francis Foljambe, knight and baronet, as of his manor of Aldwarke, in free and common socage, by fealty and 2s 2d. a year, worth 40s. a year. A cottage, 6 acres of land, and 3 acres of meadow, in Bramley, held of ... Waterhouse , gent., as of his manor of Breythwell (Braithwell), in free and common socage, by fealty and a rent of 8d., worth 6s. 8d. a year. Two messuages, 3 cottages, a dovecote, 50 acres of land, 14 acres of meadow, 10 acres of pasture, in Tickhill, held of the King as of his honour of Tickhill, parcell of his Duchy of Lancaster, in socage, by fealty and a rent of 10s.2d. worth 4li. a year. The property in Tickhill, acquired from John Sybery and others, held of the King as of his honour of Tickhill, in socage, by fealty and a rent of 10s.2d. worth 4li. a year. The property in Rotherham, Herringthorpe, and Whiston, acquired of Edward Barnes (Baynes), held of William, Earl of Pembroke, Lord Steward of the King's Household, as of his manor of Rotherham, in socage, worth 5s. a year. The property in Morthing and Brampton, bought of Henry Hewett and others, held of Francis Foljambe, knight and baronet, as of his manor of Sladhooton, in socage, by fealty only, worth 10s. a year.

William Vescy died Dec. 23 last. John Vescy, gent., son and heir, aged 21 years 9 months and upwards on the day his father died.

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Refer to Brampton Quire Treeton Church -

Source: The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Vol. XVII