Bedingfelds also, and so that they had been lords of the entire city. The Earls of Clare have been the capital lords of this city, however within the 3d of Edward I. Humphry de Bohun, Earl of Hertford and Essex, held this city of the King in capite, by the service (because it is said) of the constableship of England, it being given to him on its forfeiture by Gilbert Earl of Clare; however on the marriage of the said Gilbert with Joan of Acres, the King’s daughter, it was restored to him and his heirs; and in the 8th of Edward II. Clare, and Ralph Earl of Monthermer, offered to this church in 1304, as lord of the city, being then the husband of Joan of Acres, late spouse to Gilbert Earl of Clare; after this the De Spencers had been the capital lords; Hugh de Spencer (and as some say Earl of Gloucester) marrying Elianor, eldest sister and coheir of the aforesaid Gilbert; 10th Richard II.
Hugh Methwold, and Alice his spouse, defendants, of two elements of this manor, conveyed to Sir Thomas, who died seized thereof in 1461, with out problem; and Margaret, his sister and heir, being married to Edmund Bedingfeld, Esq. Under the St. Philiberts, the Caldecotes (who took their title from the city) held a lordship here, of which family was Osbert de Caldecote, who lived in the reign of King Stephen, and Thurgis de Caldecote, who lived in the time of King John; additionally Sir Henry de Caldecote, who is on the roll with a number of different Norfolk knights, who served King Edward I. in his wars against the Scots; and naked occasion per pale or and azure, on a chief gules, three leopards faces of the first: King Henry III. Sir Edmund Bedingfeld, Knt. Richard Holdych, senior, of Didlyngton, give up claimed to Edmund Bedingfeld, Esq. Stephen son of Thomas de Ware, settled on John Bardolf of Spikesworth, and Richard Holdych of Didlington in trust, his capital messuage right here, with 7 others, and 20 acres of land and pasture, the moiety of a watermill, and 44s. rent in Caldecote, Oxburgh, Shingham, and Cley; and about the identical time Margery daughter of Thomas de Ware granted to Thomas, son of Christian de Caldecote, and Alice, (sister, as I conceive, of Margery,) all her lands, tenements, &c.
In the first of Edward I. a positive was levied to the makes use of of Isabel daughter of Margery, and Margaret her sister, by Peter de Caldecote; and within the 16th of Edward I. William son of Eudo de Caldecote, chaplain, grants to Thomas son of Stephen de Ware, several rents, companies and homages, held of him and his ancestors right here, and in Shingham and Cley, the scutages, wards, reliefs, eschaets, &c. In the twenty first of Edward IV. Richard Holdich conveyed a third half to William Ode, and Alice his spouse, in all probability a Ware: Within the sixth of Edward III. Robert Durant of Takelstone, and Oliva his spouse, grant to Richard Holdych aforesaid, his capital messuage right here, and all other his proper, within the third part of the manor and estate. John le Man held the third part of the manor of John de Denham, and John of the Earl of Clare, which Rich.
The first account that we find of this village, after the Conquest, is in the 11th of King John, when it seems to be underneath one lord, and a effective was levied between Hugh de St. Philibert, petitioner, who held this and a number of other other lordships of the Earl of Clare, (to which Earls the lands of Rainald son of Ivo descended,) and can. William Grey, Esq of the present and grant of Henry Whiston, son and heir of Thomas Whiston, late of Caldecote: this appears to be the third part which was held by Fykes, &c. Peter Elwin of Booton, Esq. William Grey, Esq. &c. Dorant; and within the mentioned 12 months, Thomas Kypping, rector of Narburgh, enfeoffed John Ratcliff Lord Fitz-Walter, and Thomas Heveningham, Esq. Oxburgh, is the present lord. Richard Sparwe, Gent. of Oxburgh, who in the year 1482, settled it on a chantry, which he then based within the church of Oxburgh, of which extra could also be seen under Oxburgh.