Catalogue description Manorial and estate documents and title deeds for various properties in Hertfordshire of the Morley family of Glynde, Sussex, 1282-1465

Morley family of Glynde, Sussex

[Accession 919]

Deposited 1962

Sir Robert de Kendale died in 1330; his wife Margaret survived him but eventually all his properties passed to his son Edward de Kendale who died in 1373. His son, also named Edward, succeeded to his properties, except for the third which was his mother Elizabeth's dower. This Edward died in 1375, before his mother. His widow, another Elizabeth, therefore only received as dower, one third of two thirds of the elder Edward's properties, which included the manor of Hitchin. Edward the younger was succeeded by his sister Beatrice who married Sir Robert Turk. He died in 1400: she earlier. Their daughter Joan who died in 1420 married John Waleys who died in 1418. The three daughters of this marriage succeeded as co-heiresses; one of them, another Joan, took as her second husband Nicholas Morley. Nicholas died in 1452 and was succeeded, eventually, by his son Robert. He died in 1516 and was succeeded by his grandson Thomas, who died in 1558

Beatrice, the sister of Edward de Kendale the younger, could not inherit the Manor of Hitchin as it was held in tail-male. Therefore, with the exception of Edward's wife's dower, it reverted to the Crown. It was granted to Alice Perrers but she forfeited it in 1377 and in 1380 it was granted to Hugh de Segrave for life. In 1382 he received a grant of an annual payment in compensation for the portion held in dower by Elizabeth the younger. The extent of this portion made in 1381 (M2 in this collection) is probably connected with this grant