Whitechapel, Bishops Nympton
Whitechapel is an ancient former manor within the parish of Bishops Nympton, in north Devon. It was the earliest known residence of the locally influential Bassett family until 1603.[3] The core of the present manor house is Elizabethan,[4] with later additions and alterations, and was classed as Grade I listed on 9 June 1952.[5]
History
The 1086 Doomsday Book entry for the very large manor of Nimetone, with land for 52 ploughs, is listed as one of 24 holdings of the Bishop of Exeter, and was held by him in demesne. It does not mention Whitechapel or any sub-manors within Nimetone.[6] The first record of Whitechapel as a member of the manor of Nymeton Episcopi (Latin for "Nympton of the Bishop") is in the records of Feudal Aids, where it is called in French La Chapele and in Latin Alba Capella ("White Chapel")[7] Coulter (1993),[8] although he found several early references to Whitechapel, was unable to find any historical record describing the founding of the Whitechapel, but discovered other licences granted by Bishop Brantingham in 1374 for a chapel at Grilstone, in the parish of Bishops Nympton, in which mass was to be said annually on St Nicholas's Day, and a further multiple licence granted in 1425 by Bishop Lacy to Sir William Champyon, vicar of Nymet Episcopi for divine service to be celebrated in the chapels within his parish of St Peter, St Nicholas, St Mary Magdalene and St Margaret.[9] There exist next to the manor house remains seemingly of a gothic window below ground level within a low building, but the evidence is not certain that this relates to the Whitechapel.[10] Some sources indeed identify this gothic niche as a bee bole.
Descent of the manor
Peverell
The Devon Historian Tristram Risdon (died 1640) in his work "The Survey of Devon" stated that Whitechapel was "the ancient inheritance of the Peverells".[11] A branch of the great Norman family of Peverell, feudal barons of The Peak in Derbyshire, was seated in Devon at Sampford Peverell[12] and held the additional Devon manors of Kerswell in the parish of Broadhembury and Aller in the parish of Cullompton.[13] The latter two manors were among the ten held by Ralph Pagnell in the Domesday Book and soon afterwards passed to the Peverell family. The manors of Aller and Kerswell were granted by Matilda Peverell, the daughter of Pagan (or Payne) Peverel, a knight who fought in the First Crusade (1096–1099),[14] to Montacute Priory in Somerset.[15]Kerswell Priory, as the latter became known, became a cell for two Cluniac monks dependant from Montacute.
Bassett
Risdon further related that Sir William Peverell had given the manor of Whitechapel as the dowry of his sister Lucea on her marriage to Sir Alan Basset,[16] and it thus became a possession of the Basset family for many centuries. The adjacent manor of La Hayne, today the site of North Hayne and South Hayne farms, was also part of the dowry.[17] Sir Alan Basset, according to Risdon, was the son of William Basset of Ipesden and Stoke Basset in Oxfordshire, who he states to have been descended from Osmund Basset, who lived in the reign of King Richard I (1189–1199).[18] This ancestry may be incorrect as several different Bassett families existed in ancient times which modern historians have been unable to link to a common ancestor.[19] It is however certain that the Basset family of Whitechapel were also seated from ancient times the manor of Tehidy in Cornwall, on the north coast about 2 miles north of Camborne. Risdon transcribed a deed dated 1383 (6 Richard II) which was a grant made at Tehidy by Sir William Basset of the reversion of the "rents and service" of White Chapel in the county of Devon after the decease of its then tenants John Blake and his wife Joan.[20] The grantees were Thomas Champernowne, Otis Bodragon, Thomas Collin, James Gerveis and Thomas Cottesford, parson of "St Illigam" (Church of St Illogan, Tehidy).[21] Prince stated that the Bassett family occupied Whitechapel as its principal seat until the time of Sir John Bassett moved to Umberleigh, a manor he inherited from his heiress wife Joan Beaumont.[22] Joan was the daughter of Sir Thomas Beaumont (1401-1450) of Shirwell, Heanton Punchardon and Umberleigh,[23] and the sister and heiress of Philip Beaumont (1432-1473),[24] a Member of Parliament for a constituency in Devon and Sheriff of Devon in 1469. Her inheritance included Heanton Punchardon and Umberleigh,[25] whilst Shirwell went to the Chichesters,[26] of Raleigh, Pilton, from which family was her sister's husband. A chest tomb monument with monumental brasses survives in Atherington Church, next to Umberleigh and formerly in the Umberleigh Chapel, of Sir John Bassett (died 1528), the son and heir of Sir John Bassett by Joan Beaumont. [27] His inquisition post mortem states that he held Whitechapel not as a tenant-in-chief but from an overlord, namely Henry, Duke of Somerset (1519–1536), by service unknown, worth 100 shillings per annum.[28] Sir John Bassett's eldest son and heir was John Bassett (died 1541) of Umberleigh, who married Frances Plantagenet, daughter and co-heiress of Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle[29] (died 1542), KG, an illegitimate son of King Edward IV, and an important figure at the court of King Henry VIII. Their son and heir was Sir Arthur Bassett (1541–1586),[30] MP, of Umberleigh, whose small chest tomb is now also situated in Atherington Church.[31] He married Eleanor Chichester (died 1585), a daughter of Sir John Chichester (died 1569) of Raleigh.[32] He gave the ancient Bassett manor of Tehidy in Cornwall to his uncle George Bassett (d.1580),[33] who was buried in Illogan Church, the parish church of Tehidy, who founded there his own prominent dynasty which included Francis Basset, 1st Baron de Dunstanville and Basset (1757–1835). Sir Arthur Bassett's son was Sir Robert Bassett (1573–1641),[34] MP, of Umberleigh, who sold Whitechapel, according to Prince together with "no less than thirty mannors of land".[35] His Plantagenet blood had prompted him to join the two hundred or so other pretenders who made personal claims to the throne of England following the death of the last of the Tudors Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603) and the start of the reign of the first Stuart king James I (1603–1625), and this move which had no chance of success was viewed with great displeasure by the new king, from whose realm Bassett suddenly fled into France, "to save his head" according to Prince.[36] He was however soon pardoned, but with the imposition of a very heavy fine, and returned to England where he sold Whitechapel in 1603[37] and the thirty other manors to pay the fine. The Bassett family remained at Heanton Court and Umberleigh until 1802 when the male line died out,[38] but continued at Watermouth Castle and Umberleigh successively in the Davie-Bassett family and Williams-Davie-Bassett family, descended from the female line,[39] until the early 20th century.
Amory
The Amory family ( or d'Amory, Emery, Amery, etc.) had been resident within the parish of Bishops Nympton from as early as 1524 when William Amere and John Amere were assessed to the subsidy at "Bishop's Nymet, Devon"[41] and acquired Whitechapel following its sale by Sir Robert Bassett, and held it until about 1660.[42] It was during this time held together with the estates of Reeds, Hammetts, West Berwill (or Berryfield), all in the parish of Bishops Nympton, and with other estates in Mariansleigh, King's Nympton and Rose Ash.[43] There was another family of this name in Gloucestershire,[44] which bore the same armorials as recorded in the respective heraldic visitations to Gloucestershire[45] in 1592 and to Devon[46] in 1620. The arms for both were: Barry nebulé of six argent and gules, over all a bend azure. Meredith quotes early references to the family thus: In 1524 William Amere and John Amere were assessed to the subsidy at Bishop's Nymet, Devon. On 6 October 1567 Hugh Amerye married Peternell Peirs at Bishop's Nymet. On 4 February 1567–68 Thomas, son of Hugh Amerye, was baptized at Bishop's Nymet.[47]
George Amory (died 1598)
In 1570 George Amorye (died 1598), the eldest son of John Damerie of South Molton,[48] married Margery Ayer at Bishop's Nymet. This latter George is the first member of the family whose progeny can be traced with certainty. The will of George Amorie or Amerie of Bishop's Nymet in the County of Devon, yeoman, is at the National Archives, and was written and proved in 1598. It lists bequests to "my son John Amerie," his executor and residuary legatee, to two other sons, Anthonie and William, and to two married daughters, naming several children of John, of William, and of each daughter, but no child of Anthonie.[49] George Amory's wife Margery was of the Ayre or Eyre family of Atherington. He had a younger brother Robert Damorie, who married Prudence (died 1593), the widow of Sir John Pollard of Combe Martin.[50] By Margery Eyre he had three sons and at least two daughters:[51] His eldest son and heir was John I Amory (died 1615), his eldest son, and his younger sons were:
- Anthony Amory (died 1620), (2nd son) parson of Aisholt on the Quantock Hills in Somerset from 1577, which date appears somewhat too early according to Meredith. He had a son Richard Amory (died 1571), whose death was recorded in the Bishops Nympton parish register. The registers of the Bishops of Wells in a list of Somerset incumbents compiled about 1730, mention " Anton Amerie " having been instituted on 2 October 1577 into the rectory of Aisholt or Asholt which position he kept until his death in 1620. The parish registers of Asholt before 1645 are lost, but a copy of one year (1606) remains among the reports to the Bishop which are kept at Wells Cathedral. It is in particularly neat writing and is signed, in the same hand, " Anthonie Amorie psonn [parson]." Collinson[52] stated having seen set into the floor of the chancel in Asholt Church a stone inscribed: "Anthony Amory, decessid July 20, 1620, parson here 42 yeeres ; who gave to the poor 30 s(hillings) for ever, whereof 15 s. to Aysholt & 15 s. to Bishop's Nymet in Devonshire where he was borne". Meredith reported that in 1895 the stone, a large fragment of a thick gray slab, was situated outside and was leaning against the north wall of the tower. It showed half, diagonally, of the above inscription, although the part bearing the parson's name was gone.[53]
- William Amory, (younger son) who married a daughter of the Leigh family of Ridge, Sutton Downes, Prestbury, Cheshire.[54]
John I Amory (died 1615)
John I Amory (died 1615), (eldest son and heir) who married in 1587 Emmot Thomas, daughter of John Thomas of Bishops Nympton,[55] and had as his eldest son and heir John II Amory (died 1652).
John II Amory (died 1652)
John II Amory "of Chappell" (died 1652) (eldest son). Thomas Westcote (c. 1567 – c. 1637) gives the descent from the latter thus:[56] John Amory of Whitechapel married Prudence Roberts (died 1645), daughter of John (or Richard[57]) Roberts of Combe Martyn, of which latter family Westcote's mother was herself a member.
John III Amory (born 1615)
John III Amory (born 1615) (eldest son ) married Grace, of unrecorded family, and had a daughter Rebecca who died young in 1638. He died without surviving issue, having however survived his father and administered his will. He left as heir his younger brother William Amory (died 1666), of Whitechapel.
William Amory (born 1626/27)
William Amory (born 1626/27)(brother) married in 1652 at Bishops Nympton Cissel Molford, daughter of John Molford. Surviving records of the family include a reference to the will of Mary Amory, widow, dated 1687,[58] and the will dated 1667 of William Amory of Grilstone in the parish of Bishops Nympton,[59] He left as his co-heiresses his two surviving daughters:
- Frances Amory, his 2nd daughter, who brought the Amory lands including Whitechapel to her husband, Edward Gibbon (died 1707), whose monumental tablet exists in Bishops Nympton Church.
- Prudence Amory, 3rd daughter, who married firstly Gabriel Barnes. Their daughter was Frances Barnes who sold the advowson of Berrynarbor to Humphrey Sydenham in 1709.[60] She married secondly Samuel Cudmore.
Gibbens, Lear, Short
However, the estate was not apparently in the sole possession of the Amory family from the early 1600s, as Westcote, writing in about 1630, stated "Whitechapel (is) now divided among divers. In the farmhouse is the remainder of the tribe of Amory seated". His editor added later "Extinct about the year 1670". After 1666 it was in disputed ownership between the families of Amory, Gibbens and Lear of Lindridge House. In 1732 Sir John Lear and Thomas Comyns leased the following lands for one year to James Wolston and Comyns: Manor or reputed manor of Collaton Shiphay with Rawstone in Bishops Nympton, also White chaple in Bishops Nympton and messuage called Gotham in Bishops Kerswell, Great Goose Ham in Teigngrace, Heathfield in Ilsington, lands in Ashburton, Tallor, Christow, Manors of Bishopsteignton and Radway, Lindridge, Combe etc. in Bishops Teignton, Radway and West Teignmouth.[61] From 1734 to 1777 Whitechapel was held by the Short family.[62]
Sanger
In 1777 [63] about 1800 the manor of Whitechapel was in Chancery and was sold at public auction by order of the Lord Chancellor. This was presumably in order that the sale proceeds could be distributed according to a court judgement made in settlement of the claims of the various claimant families. The purchaser was John Sanger of nearby South Molton, who later boasted that the purchase had financed itself, he having cut down and sold enough timber on the estate to cover the purchase price. He resided at Whitechapel until his death on 14 February 1806.[64] He left a widow Frances, who died on 9 September 1819 aged 62, and three children:
- Edward Melton Sanger (14 January 1791 – 16 September 1843) of Haddon House, Kings Brompton, Somerset, who was disinherited by his father for having married without his permission.[65] He married Anne (of unknown family) (24 April 1791 – 29 March 1869). He had by her two daughters:[66]
- Anne Melton Sanger (died 30 June 1883), who died aged 62
- Jane Elizabeth Sanger (died 22 January 1888), who died aged 64.
- John Sanger, gent., of Whitechapel, died on 4 August 1854 aged 68. He had become his father's heir following the disinheritance of his elder brother Edward. Two court cases occurred between the brothers at the Devon assizes in 1822 and 1823. By his will he gave his servants Alexander and Mary Fisher much property absolutely and influence over other property. The Fishers established as trustees the following: James Pearce, Joshua Bawden, John Pease, William Flexman and J. Riccard. They left little to the Sanger family descendants, excepting the Whitechapel estate which was bequeathed to John Sanger senior's nephew Edward, but on the proviso that he should have entered a profession. The Fishers held Whitechapel between 1834 to 1866, apparently as trustees.
- Mary Sanger, who married William Tucker and inherited from her father the estates of Reeds and Hammetts. They had four children:
- Edward Tucker
- William Tucker
- John Sanger Tucker
- Mary Tucker, who married into the Denziloe and Coppinger families.
In 1862 Whitechapel, or part thereof, was in the possession of William Adams, Yeoman, to whom was leased certain lands in Stockleigh English by John Froude Bellew Esq., of Stockleigh Court.[67]
Glossop
As mentioned in his book The Blackmore Country (1911), Frederick Snell reported that in 1911 Whitechapel was owned by "Captain Glossop" and added that "the place is now in thoroughly good hands but it has naturally suffered from having been so long a farmhouse the occupiers of which were profoundly indifferent to its contents and history. The present owner, Captain Glossop, when I met him, was bringing taste and energy to bear on the old mansion, although portions of it were beyond repair".[68] He was a member of the Glossop family listed in Burke's Landed Gentry as of "Silver Hall", which was in Isleworth, Middlesex.[69] The family descended from Francis Glossop (died 1764) of Upper Haddon, Derbyshire, whose grandson was Francis Glossop of Isleworth (died 1835).[70] The eldest son of the latter was Rev. Henry Glossop (1780–1869), of Silver Hall, Isleworth, vicar of Isleworth Church from 1822 to 1855, whose eldest son and heir was Francis Henry Newland Glossop (1815–1886), DL for Middlesex, was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1838 and married on 12 February 1850 Ann Fish Pownall. Their eldest son was Rev. George Henry Pownall Glossop (1858–1925), of Silver Hall, Honorary Canon and Rural Dean of St Albans. He married in 1886 Frances Mary Gape of St Michael's Manor, Fishpool Street, St Albans, and sold Silver Hall in 1888. Their eldest son and heir was Francis George Glossop (born 1887), listed in Burkes Landed Gentry 1937 as of West Down,[71] (on Garliford Lane one mile south of Whitechapel mansion[72]), South Molton, then a retired Commander, Royal Navy, JP (1921), DL (1932), OBE (1962), who had served in World War I, as a Lieutenant commanding the Destroyer HMS Hydra at the Battle of Jutland, had been mentioned in despatches and had been awarded the Order of Saint Stanislaus of the Russian Empire. He married in 1915 Elinor Mackay Cadell and had two sons and two daughters. In 1937 he resided at West Down, one mile south of Whitechapel, South Molton. He later resided at Gransden, Barnstaple.[73] In 1922 the Glossop family erected the "Glossop Memorial" in Isleworth, a drinking fountain and lampost. The family were connected with the founding of the Old Vic theatre in London.[74]
Lloyd
By 1926 Whitechapel was owned by Albert William Lloyd (1871–1952),[76] whose great-great-grandfather Sampson III Lloyd (1728-1807) together with his own father Sampson II Lloyd (1699–1779), an ironmaster, of Farm, Bordesley, Birmingham and of Edgbaston, had co-founded Lloyds Bank in 1765.[77] Sampson II's grandfather Charles II Lloyd (1637-1698) (father of Sampson I Lloyd) had been born at Dolobran Hall in Montgomeryshire, Wales, the ancient seat of that family, but following persecution for his Quaker religion, had moved to the more tolerant city of Birmingham. Together with his brother Charles Lloyd, Sampson II Lloyd bought the Town Mill iron-forge in Burton-upon-Trent and traded in iron. Sampson III Lloyd's second son was Samuel I Lloyd (1768–1849), banker, whose second son was Samuel II "Quaker" Lloyd (1795–1862), who founded the iron founder Lloyds Foster & Co. which owned the "old Park Works" foundry and colliery in Wednesbury. The firm however lost a fortune supplying materials for Blackfriars Bridge in London. In 1818 "Quaker" Lloyd moved residence to The Hollies, (opposite St Paul's Church), Wood Green, Wednesbury to supervise his mining estate. He took over Bills & Mills ironworks and renamed it "Darlastan Iron Company" and built Kings Hill Ironworks. His eldest son by his wife Mary Honeychurch (1795–1865) was Samuel III Lloyd (1827–1918),[78] who had 24 children by his wife Jane Elizabeth Janson (1839–1895), one of whom was Albert William Lloyd (1871–1952) of Whitechapel. Albert Lloyd married in 1909 in Bedford Caroline Emma Baylay (1878 – 25 April 1962), the daughter of Charles Allan Baylay. In 1926 "Mrs Lloyd of Whitechapel Manor" established the Bishops Nympton branch of the Women's Institute.[79] Their son was John Owen Lloyd (1914–1938), who however pre-deceased both his parents having died in a point-to-point horse race in Dulverton. Mrs Lloyd remained at Whitechapel during her widowhood and died there on 25 April 1962. The heir of Whitechapel thus became Mrs Lloyd's nephew "Colonel Baylay" who sold Whitechapel. The estate was split into various lots, one being the manor house with about 14 acres of land, and another being the cottages and farm buildings with Whitechapel Moor, covering about 300 acres.
Shapland
In 1984 John Shapland, whose family was long established in Devon, with his wife Patricia purchased the manor house with 14 acres, and converted in into a small and exclusive luxury hotel which opened in 1987. The speciality of the hotel was its food, prepared by top-class chefs such as Thierry Lepretre-Granet. Many of the guests were clients of the nearby Castle Hill pheasant shoot, and frequently the hotel was hired by private parties. One notable such guest was ex-King Constantine of Greece, and the hotel was on one occasion hired by Cilla Black and her TV crew whilst filming locally the show "Surprise, Surprise".
Sources
- National Archives, North Devon Record Office, South Molton Records B264, Whitechapel Estate and the families associated with it 1609–1990 The catalogue entry starts with a summary history of the manor.
- Meredith, Gertrude Euphemia, The Descendants of Hugh Amory 1605–1805, London, 1901
- Snell, Frederick John, The Blackmore Country, 1911, history of Whitechapel, pp.209-212
External links
c*Listed building text, Whitechapel Manor
References
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- ↑ Prince, John, Worthies of Devon, 1710
- ↑ "Late 16thc/early 17thc" Listed building text
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- ↑ Feudal Aids , Vol.1, p.343, quoted in Morris, Part 2, 2,21; Also, Calendars of Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol.4, no.245
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- ↑ Certain monuments originally in the Umberleigh Chapel next to the manor house of Umberleigh, were moved in about 1820 to Atherington Church (See Colwell); Pevsner, p.139 states this tomb with brasses to have made such move in 1818 (Pevsner, p.139)
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- ↑ Atherington Church leaflet; surviving inscription clearly identifies him
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- ↑ George Bassett "died 5 November 1589" per Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p.114; however Vivian, p.47 states death as "in London 1580"; as widow remarried and died on 25 November 1589 (per Vivian), 1580 death for George seems more probable
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- ↑ Meredith, p.312: "1524
- ↑ Introductory history, National Archives B264
- ↑ National Archives, South Molton Records B264, Whitechapel Estate 1609–1990, North Devon Record Office, introductory background history
- ↑ Meredith, p.268
- ↑ Maclean, Sir John & Heane, W.C., (Eds.) The Visitation of the County of Gloucester taken in the year 1623 by Henry Chitty and John Phillipot as deputies to William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms, with pedigrees from the Heralds' Visitations of 1569 and 1582-3 and sundry miscellaneous pedigrees, London, 1885
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- ↑ Meredith, 1901, quoting from ""Mr Somerby's copy of the Bishops Nymet register", & in agreement with Heraldic Visitation, p.15
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- ↑ Meredith, p.270
- ↑ Now The Ridge, Bridge End Drive, Prestbury, Macclesfield
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- ↑ National Archives,Devon Record Office, Comyns family of Wood, Bishopsteignton, 1039 M/T 36 1732
- ↑ National Archives B264
- ↑ Date of sale 1777 per National Archives B264 introductory text, but "at the beginning of the last (i.e. 19th) century" according to Snell, p.210
- ↑ Snell, Frederick John, The Blackmore Country, 1911, p.210
- ↑ National Archives B264
- ↑ Sanger family monumental tablets in Bishops Nympton Church
- ↑ Devon Record Office 1926 B/BL/L/2/1 1862
- ↑ Snell, p.210
- ↑ Burke's Landed Gentry, 1937, pp896-7, Glossop late of Silver Hall
- ↑ Burke's Landed Gentry, 1937, pp896-7, Glossop late of Silver Hall
- ↑ Burke's Landed Gentry, 1937, pp896-7, Glossop late of Silver Hall
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- ↑ Parker, Bev, A History of Wednesbury
- ↑ For a complete history and pedigree of the lloyd family see Lowe, Rachel J., Farm and its Inhabitants with Some Account of the Lloyds of Dolobran, London, 1883
- ↑ Parish Church guidebook: "Bishops Nympton Church & People, Revised and Fourth Edition, 1998, p.31
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