Sir John Carbonell, by his will, proved March 30, gave every one of his executors 10 marks, to be received out of the profits of the two parts of his manors of Bresingham, &c. after which I find nothing of it more, so that it shews as if it was purchased by Pilkington of these executors; but the certainty of it I dare not avouch, though well know that some way or other it was now united to the capital manor.
Filbie's Manor
Had its site in this parish, though half of its lands and rents were in Roydon; it was part of the great manor till the first Sir John Verdon gave it to his
Chaplain, who left it to his son
Bruco; soon after it was in the
Morleys, lords of Roydon, who held it of Sir John Verdon, lord of Brisingham, by the annual payment of 2s. and 20s. scutage; and in them it continued till
Sir Robert de Morley gave it to
Thomas, son of Matthew de Morley, who was of a younger branch of this family; Thomas and his heirs were to hold it of Sir Robert and his heirs, by the service of 5d. a year, to be paid over and above the old services, and 6d a year for ever to the church of Roydon, to find a candle burning there; and the said Robert held it of Brisingham manor, by the services aforesaid: at this time the demeans were 30 acres, and there were several copyholders and cottagers belonging to it. From this family it went to the Filbies.
John de Filbie was lord in 1335, and paid 3 roots of ginger, or 1d. per annum. to the capital lord of Brisingham, in lieu of all services. In 1460
John Lancaster, who was lord of Boyland manor, had purchased all that part of this manor that laid in Brisingham, and joined it to his manor of Boyland; but the part that laid in Roydon in 1480
Richard Sellers held of the manor of Gissinghall, by the service of 4s. 6d. per annum, which was soon after purchased by Lancaster, and joined to Boyland, with which it continued, till
John Lancaster, junior, of Brisingham, Esq. gave it by will to
John Lancaster, Gent. his younger son, who, in 1521, sold t to
William Bolton, Gent. and so it was joined again to Boyland manor, with which it continues at this day, though the demeans are sold from it. [1736.]
The Priory Manor
Was taken out of the great manor in the beginning of Edward the Second's reign, when
Sir John de Verdon granted to the Prior of St. James the Apostle, of Old Bokenham, and the convent there, divers lands, tenements, rents, and services, of the fee of the said John, in the town of Brisingham, all which the King licensed, the prior, convent, and canons there, to purchase of him, after which he confirmed them to that house, together with an acre of turf-land in the Fen, which Richard, son of Robert de Scenges, gave them.
The value of this manor in 1479 was 31s. 5d. ob. in quitrents, besides the demeans; the whole temporalities of the prior here was taxed at 26s. as appears by a taxation of the revenues of the religious in 1425.
It continued in this house till its dissolution;
From which time it remained in the Crown till 1557, when
Phillip and Mary, by their letters patent, granted it to
Thomas Guybon of Lynn Regis, Esq. and William Mynne of London, Gent. to be held by fealty only in free soccage, as of the manor of East Greenwich in Kent.
