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Note for: Bryan Nevile, ABT 1650 - 25 Mar 1725
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Burial: Place: Aubourn, Lincolnshire, England
Individual Note: NEVILE, BRIAN College: ST JOHN'S Entered: 1669 Born: Died: Mar. 28, 1725
Adm. Fell.-Com. (age 17) at ST JOHN'S, Feb. 3, 1668-9. 3rd s. of George, Esq., deceased, of Thorney, Notts. Bapt. there, Nov. 18, 1650. School, Worksop (Mr Barnard). Matric 1669. Married Martha Ellis, and had issue. Died Mar. 28, 1725. Buried at Aubourn. Brother of George (1656). (H. G. Harrison.)
Entry in Alumni Cantabrigienses Last Name: NEVILE First Name: BRIAN College: ST JOHN'S Entry Date: 1669 Birth Date: Death Date: Mar. 28, 1725 Full Text: Adm. Fell.-Com. (age 17) at ST JOHN'S, Feb. 3, 1668-9. 3rd s. of George, Esq., deceased, of Thorney, Notts. Bapt. there, Nov. 18, 1650. School, Worksop (Mr Barnard). ' Matric. 1669. Married Martha Ellis, and had issue. Died Mar. 28, 1725. Buried at Aubourn. Brother of George (1656). (H. G. Harrison.
FILE - Lease and release - ref. REEVE 2/1/2/3,4 - date: 17 May 1711 [from Scope and Content] Recites that Bryan Nevile and Gervase Nevile, being entitled to two fourth parts of the manor of Wellingore, heretofore the estate of Thomas Ellis, esq., and John Coxall, being entitled to another undivided fourth part, and John Key and Ellis Key or one of then being entitled to the other fourth part, lately agreed that Gilbert Bury of Linwood Grange esq. and John Markhall of Broughton, gent., should set out the manor into four equal lots and cause the lots to be written on four pieces of paper which should be drawn by way of lot. The lots were to be drawn by three persons, one on behalf of Bryan Nevile and Gervase Nevile, who was to draw two lots, another on behalf of John Key and Ellis Key, who was to draw one lot, and another on behalf of John Coxall, who was to draw the other lot.
Aubourn Hall is a fairly plain and flat looking house mainly of 1587 to 1628, possibly on Tudor foundations, built for Sir John Meres. It is brick built with stone quoins and is three storeys high. The best feature in the house is the beautifully carved staircase. The garden makes an attractive setting for the Hall. The property was the home of the Nevile family from the 17th century with Sir Henry Nevile being the present owner. Aubourn Hall was used as a setting in the production of 'Oliver Twist'. The old church close to the Hall has Meres and Nevile monuments.
The house is open to the public during July and August on Wednesdays from 2pm to 5pm.
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Individual Notes
Note for: George Neville, ABT 1571 - 1652
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Burial: Date: 16 Apr 1652
Place: Aubourn, Lincolnshire, England
Individual Note: George Nevile (d. 1652) consolidated the Haddington property and
acquired Aubourn by.a steady- series of purchases. In 1605, for 500 pounds
bought from his brother-in-law, Sir John Meres uf Auboum, two
farms .a.nd four cottages in Haddington and all the tithes in Haddington
belonging to the rectory of Aubourn. The description of some property
excepted from the purchase provides some local colour: one windmill in
Haddington with access to it, access to certain other water mills called
Awborne mills, and all such waters and fishings as Sir John Meres heretofore
enjoyed, a certain meadow or pasture called the Holmes lying
between Old Wytham and New Wytham, and. I rood of meadow or
pasture ground lying near Awborne brigge “ and environed about with
water in the manner of an island “. In 1605 George Nevile also bought
from William Hales, husbandman, the farm in Haddington in whioh
Hales lived. In 1608, to enable further consolidation of his open-field
strips, he bought three selions and four pieces of meadow totalling 14
acres from Robert Hales, yeoman.
The description of the property reveals an unusual situation :
two of the selions, one of meadow or
pasture, the other of arable, were said to be in a certain close lately
enclosed. In the same year, for 40 pounds he was able to buy from Helen
Leary, widow, and John Reade, yeoman, property which included
"Fosse howse ” and two more selions of arable land in the close lately
enclosed. In 1609 he bought four selions in Howsam in Haddington.
A(n agreement for the enclosure of the manor of Haddington was
signed in 1’611 and recited that the division and enclosure had already
been made to the liking of the five parties: Ge’orge Nevile, lord of the
manor, Tholmas Russells, rector of South Hykeham, Thozmas Carre,
tenant of the lands in Haddington belonging to the Dean a,nd Chapter of
Lincoln, and a freeholder of the man’or, and John Reade and Rojbert
Hales, two other freeholders. The parson was to have two closes in lieu
of glebe lands and tithes. Carre, Reade and Hales in lieu of their
lands dispersed and intermingled in the fields were each given several
closes to be held in severalty, of equal value anld in the places most
convenient to fhem. Nevile was to have all the residue of the manor
and of the late open fields and all the lands and tithes in H,addington
which had belonged to the parsonage of South Hykeham. In 1616 George
Nevile joined with Roger Meres of Aubourn in the purchase of the
rectory and impropriate parsonage of Aubomn, and it was agreed that
Nevile’s part ’ should be so much of the rectory as extended into
Haddington.
George Nevile was now turning his attention to Aubourn and the
estate 0f the Meres famiiy there. In 1618, for 350 Pounds, he bought from
Sir John Meres and Dame Barbara his wife nineteen closes, two watermills,
and a wind-mill, with fishing in the Witham.from Aulbourn bridge
to Thurlby. It was not until 1628 that he was able to lay his hands on
tlhe main Meres estate, the manor, manor house, and impropriate rectory,
and then he could only afford it by sharing it with Thomas Thorold,
citizen and ironmonger of London.
They did not buy directly from the Meres family.
Sir John Meres and his son Roger had sold to
Edward Osborn, esq., and Nevile and Thorold bought it from Thomas
Moulson, citizen and alderman,of London, and seven others, probably
Osborn’s heirs or trustees. The price was 5ooo Pounds. Nevile and Thorold
agreed that each should hold a moiety of the property. The demesne
closes were divided between the two, but Nevile was to have the manor
house, where Sir John Meres had altered and added considerably to
the Tudor house, with the accompanying buildings, gardens and
orchards. He was also to have the swan mark in the rivers Witham
and Brant and the fishing in the Witham. Each should hold in severalty
a moiety of the wastes, moors, fens and commonable grounds, and the
lanes between the lands and closes, and should not enclose them
without the agreement of the other.
In the same year, 1628, the newly-acquired Auboum property was
settled on the marriage of George’s eldest son and heir. Gervase
Nevile, who was knighted in this year, married Katherine, daughter
of Sir Richard Hutton, Justice of the Common Pleas, who brought
with her a portion of 1,600 Pounds. The young couple were going to live in
the manor house of Haddington, where George had been living, and he
would pay them 200 Pounds towards furnishing the house and stocking the
grounds. The manor house, with closes and farms in Haddirrgton was
settled on Sir Gervase for life, then on Katherine for life, and then on
their heirs male. George was to hold the manor house of Aubourn and
the half of the manor for life, and if his wife Jane survived him, it
was to be her jointure, before descending to Sir Gervase and his heirs
male by Katherine. Other farms and lands in Hadldington and Aubourn
and the manor of Thomey were to be held tmo the use of George for
life, then to the use of Sir Gervase and his heirs male. According to a
note in Maddison’s pedigree, George had bought Thorney from his uncle
Denis Nevile’s son.