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=Extract from Copinger's Suffolk Manors vol.11 Blything pages 157-159=

SPEXHALL MANOR. At the time of the Domesday Survey this manor was held as part of Wissett by Alan, Earl of Brittany, and in 1093 it passed to his brother Alan, the Black, Earl of Richmond. In 1288 John de Vallibus died seised of the manor, which passed to his daughter and coheir Maud, married to William de Ros or Roos, of Hamlake, one of the competitors for the Crown of Scotland 1292, through his great-grandmotherIsabel, daughter of William the Lion, King of Scotland.

William de Roos subsequently engaged in the wars in Gascony and Scotland, and discovering the intention of his kinsman Robert de Roos, then lord of Werte, to deliver up that castle to the Scots, he lost no time in apprising the King, who thereupon dispatched him with a thousand men to defend the place, but the Scots attacking this force upon its march cut it to pieces ; when the King himself, advancing from Newcastle, soon obtained possession of the castle, and appointed Lord Roos its governor, allowing him during his absence in Gascony to nominate his brother Robert lieutenant. Shortly afterwards William had a grant of this castle, forfeited by the treason of his kinsman. In 1307 he was appointed the King's lieutenant between Berwick and the River Forth, and in 1313 was appointed warden of the West Marches of Scotland.

He was summoned to Parliament from 23rd June, 1295, to 6th Oct, I3I3, and died at the age of 55 in 1316, being buried at Kerham.

The manor passed to his son and heir, William de Roos, 3rd Lord Roos, of Hamlake, who was summoned to Parliament from loth Nov. 1317, to 12th Sept. 1342.

He was one of the commissioners appointed in 1311, with William, Archbishop of York, to negotiate peace with Robert Bruce, King of Scotland, and afterwards engaged in the wars in Gascony and Scotland. Dugdale tells us that in 2338 the King granted him a certain tower in the City of London, built by King Edw. II., and adjoining to the River Thames, near to a place called Baynard's Castle, to hold to him the said William and his heirs as appurtenant to his Castle of Hamlake, in Yorkshire, by the service of a rose to be yearly paid at the Exchequer, upon the feast day of the Nativity of St. John Baptist for ever.'

He married Margery, sister and heir of Giles, Lord Badlesmere, of Leeds Castle, Kent, and widow of Sir Thomas Arundel, Knt., and dying 16th Feb. 1342, the manor passed to his son and heir, William de Roos, 4th Lord Roos, of Hamlake, married to Margaret, daughter of Ralph, Lord Nevill.

He was present at the battle of Cressy, being a leader of the second brigade of the English Army, and later had a command at Newcastle in the conflict when David Bruce, King of Scotland, and many of the nobles, after sustaining defeat, fell into the hands of the English. He was subsequently at the siege of Calais with the Black Prince.

William, 4th Lord, died without issue in the Holy Land in 1352, when the manor vested in Thomas de Roos, of Hamlake, 5th Baron, married to Beatrix, daughter of Ralph, Earl of Stafford, and widow of Maurice Fitz Maurice, Earl of Desmond. The next lord we learn of is Sir John Swillington, who had married Ann, daughter and heir of - Rosse.

The manor is included in a fine levied in 1589 by Paul Bayninge against William Grene and others.

//The manor house, about half a mile from the church, has been rebuilt and improved, and is now the property and residence of Capt. Maclaine Whitting.//

MANOR OF BANYARDS. This also was a member of Wissett, and was held in the time of William the Conqueror by Earl Alan of Brittany. It subsequently vested in Geffery Baynard, of Spexhall, and on his death passed to his son and heir, Richard Baynard, who was living in 1422 and on his death passed to his son and heir, Robert Baynard, who was living in 1450.

Robert Baynard's daughter and coheir, Margaret, in 1426 married John, son of John Bacon, of Baconsthorpe, Norfolk, and this manor was settled on her by agreement 10th May 5 Hen. VI. He died in 1462. Her second husband was - Wingfield.

She died 31st Aug. 1504, having had a son, Thomas Bacon, who married Margery, daughter of John Jenny, and died in his mother's lifetime, leaving three daughters, namely, Elizabeth, wife of Sir John Glemham, of Glemham Parva ; Katherine, wife of Robert Garneys, of Kenton ; and Eleanor Bacon, who were found to be the next heirs of Margaret. The manor was then held of the Priory of Thetford by fealty and rent of 5s. per annum, and was valued at 20 marks per annum. Presumably Eleanor Bacon died intestate. Elizabeth died in 1533, and Katherine Garneys died in 1558. Christopher Glemham, the son and heir of Elizabeth Glemham, died in 1561, and John Garneys, the son and heir of Katherine Garneys, succeeded to a moiety of the manor, and died in 1562, leaving Thomas Garneys his son and heir, who dying in 1567 left his brother Nicholas, who died in 1628, his heir.

Amongst the Exchequer Depositions may be seen //an enquiry as to whether Church Haugh Hills is parcel of glebe of Spexhall Church//, and as to meets and bounds in proceedings between John Barnes and this Nicholas Garneys in 1611-12 at Halesworth.

The other moiety of the manor vested in Thomas, son and heir of Christopher Glemham. He died in 1571, and was succeeded by his son and heir, Sir Henry Glemham, who died in 1632, leaving Sir Thomas Glemham his son and heir.

The manor is included in two fines levied in 1586 and 1589-the first was levied by Paul Bayninge and others against Philip Strelley and others, and the other by the said Paul Bayninge against William Grene and others. It is probable, therefore, Paul Bayning had by 1589 acquired both moieties of the manor.

Arms of BANYARD : Sable on a fesse between two chevrons Or, as many annulets united of the field.

BURGHARD'S MANOR. This manor was vested in Henry Banyard, and passed to his two daughters, one married to Thomas Duke and the other to Sir John Throgmorton, who jointly sold it with tenements and rents in Spexhall, Rumburgh, and Wissett by a fine levied in 1546 to Roger Bell of Haughley. Bell sold the manor to John Broun, of Halesworth, whose eldest son, John, sold it to Paul Bannynge, of London, in 1596. It was at this time held as of the Manor of Wissett.

RIVET MANOR. Page, in his History of Suffolk (p. 265), says: " In the 5th King Hen. VIII. Sir William Sydney, of Walsingham, in Norfolk, delivered and confirmed to Roger, eldest son of Sir John Townsend, Knt., Judge of the Common Pleas (to fulfil the will of his father), all the lands, tenements, rents, and services of Scroby, Rivet Manor, &c., in this parish; which he held jointly with Sir Roger the Judge, William Gournay, and others of the grant of John Hoo, of Blyburgh, and Sir John Heveningham." Page gives no references, but the extract is no doubt taken from his favourite authority, Blomefield. We find no other mention of this Manor of Rivet.