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from the carucate his father had held there.[1] Sir Robert held of Nicholas de Meinell by the service of half a knight's fee, one carucate and two bovates of land in Boynton, and three in Thorpe.[2] He held in Hunmanby one sixth of a knight's fee,[3] and he held freely a toft and a carucate of land rendering eightpence annually in Hunmanby, and rendered service to Joan, widow of Robert, son of Robert de Tateshele, and he also held one-tenth part of a knight's fee of Thomas de Cailli, kinsman and co-heir of Robert de Tateshele.[4] He acquired too of Gilbert de Gaunt a messuage, a toft and two and a half bovates of land, thirteen acres of meadow, twenty acres of pasture, and fifty acres of moor in Hunmanby, held in chief and entered without licence; also in the time of Edward II, he acquired of Robert de Burton,[5] Vicar of Boynton, a messuage and land in Hunmanby held in chief with remainder to John de Bovington in fee-tail, etc.
Sir Robert de Bovington with others rendered an account of the fifteenth of Yorkshire at the exchequer.[6]
Sir Robert married Constance,[7] and had issue by her—
- John (IV).
- Walter (VI).
- Roger (VII).
- Lambert, a Canon of Newborough.
- Alice.
- Constance.
- ↑ Bridlington Chart. 183.
- ↑ Cal. Inq. p. m. 23rd Feb., 28 Ed. I.
- ↑ Cal. Close Rolls, 2 Ed. II. Cal. Close Rolls, 12th June, 1308, p. 71.
- ↑ Cal. Close Rolls. 2 Ed. II, p. 100.
- ↑ Cal. Pat. Rolls, 18 Ed. II, p. 38.
- ↑ Cal. Pat. Rolls (1313-1318), p. 6. She married later Robert de Heighten, whom she outlived. She had had property in Carleton alienated in fee by Peter de Brus to herself and her husband Robert de Heighten by the yearly service of one penny. Of this property she enfeoffed in her widowhood to her son John de Bovington 24 acres of meadow and 68s. and 8d. rent, part of which John's son Richard became possessed of. Cal. Pat. Rolls, 18 Ed. II. p. 38.
- ↑ Cal. Pat. Rolls. 18 Ed. II. p. 38.
