I have decided to try new Scanner OCR again (otherwise you'd never see posting below): ...MORE on early ownership of "advowson" at Eltisley (which term simply refers to the "living" provided to the village pastor, and the ownership of which apparently simply allows the owner to choose a particular pastor for that "living"!). It is clear from this published material that there were SEVERAL "manor" estates at Eltisley in 17th c. (none of which show a James "junior," however). Please appreciate that this very thorough material to follow, as published in the "Victoria History of the Counties of England: History of Cambridgeshire" (12 pages on Eltisley village, readily available at major libraries), unfortunately indicates just ONE James Disbrowe here (eg: father of Thomas of Eltisley, also known as "Elder" who m. Eliz. MARSHALL, presumed below to be parents of famous Major General). Unfortunately, this material entirely ignores mysterious 2nd contemporary James of Eltisley, called "Junior," who we must now conclude was father to the 2 famous brothers (did he own lands at Eltisley??...certainly he lived there when he was baptizing all his own children, & it's the place where the Major General married 1636 to Jane Cromwell!). Please pay special attention, near end, to the material on Papley Manor at Eltisley, owned by the MARSHALL family early in 17th c., and one WILLIAM Marshall (this may explain name of 3rd son, William, in James Disbrowe/Elder's line, while implying identification of a father perhaps for Elizabeth 'Marshall' Disbrowe!). Also note important connection to Emmanuel College, Cambridge by 1593, which College I especially visited on my last trip since it's closely connected to New England settlement, producing such pastors as Thomas Hooker, John Harvard, & host of significant others for my thesis. Also note a reference to the "MASON" family regarding "Pembroke Farm," near end. Recall that Thomas Disbrowe married a Susan Mason at Cambridge, abt.1650. Does THIS give clue as to HER identity perhaps then?? Also note the very early reference to surname "Jordan", which surname also appears much later in the Samuel Disbrowe material as referenced by Henry Waters "Gen. Gleanings"! The information below is very impressively footnoted throughout (not indicated by me, so those of you w/ further interest in detailed sourcing must consult original). "CHURCH....The first reference to the parish church occurs when, before 1173, Roger de Condet granted the advowson to St. Leonard's Hospital, York. The hospital did not long retain the advowson, which in 1202 was granted by Lisiard de Musters to Roger son of Peter and thereafter descended with the manor until 1351 when Thomas of Eltisley granted it to Mary de St. Pol, countess of Pembroke. In 1362 the Crown licensed the appropriation of the rectory to Denny Abbey, but the licence was rescinded because of a faulty statement of title; in 1366 it again licensed the appropriation and also the grant of the advowson by the countess to the abbey. The abbey held the advowson of the rectory, but notwithstanding the second licence and a papal licence of 1402 the appropriation was not effected until 1518, when a vicarage was endowed. In 1539 the rectory and advowson formerly belonging to Denny Abbey were granted to Edward Elrington, and thereafter remained in the same ownership. Elrington sold them in 1542 to Sir William Bowyer, lord mayor of London (d. 1544), whose devisee Alice, wife of Henry Searle [note: my father is good friends with a modern, CT branch of English "Searle"], sold them to Francis Mannock in 1557. The Mannocks sold them in 1600 to John Disbrowe and they descended in the senior branch of the Disbrowe family until 1713 when Robert Shipsea and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of the Revd. John Disbrowe, conveyed them in trust to John Disbrowe of Willingham who is said to have sold them to Hester Baron of Little Eversden. She devised them to members of the Day family. In 1789 Samuel, son of John Day, sold the advowson and rectory to Edward Leeds of Croxton and thenceforward they descended with the manor. Throughout the 13th century Eltisley was one of the richest benefices in the deanery. The value, 21 marks c. 1217 and in 1254, had increased to 35 marks by 1291, and in 1364 was said to be 35+ marks. In 1279 the rector had 13 a. of land, though it is not certain that it was glebe. Only half an a. was conveyed with the advowson in 1351. Land in Eltisley belonging to the rectory was often mentioned in late medieval terriers. he rectory estate was slightly more than 100 a, in 1557. It was said to be of virtually the same extent in 1789. After appropriation the whole of the tithes belonged to the impropriator. They were commuted for a rent-charge of £216 in I84I, the tithes due from the lands of the impropriator, Samuel Newton, being merged with the freehold of his estates. It is possible that the house built by James Disbrowe and mentioned above occupies the site of the rectory house. The original endowment of the vicarage in 1518 was £8 a year paid by the impropriator.57 In 1639 there was also vicarial glebe consisting of two closes containing on & half a. In 1650 the gross value of the living was said to be £I2 and a proposal of 1657 to augment it by £50 a year was not carried out. In 1785 the gross income was still only £13, of which £8 was paid as the original endowment and the remainder was derived from the rent of the vicarage house and the glebe. In 1771 and 1784 the benefice received grants of £200 from Queen Anne's Bounty, which was used in 1801 to buy 27 a. in Elsworth. The total income of the incumbent was £35 in 1810. Further augmentations of £200 were made in 1810 and 1828, used partly to redeem a mortgage on the Elsworth land, and a further £200 was provided out of the Parliamentary Grant Fund. The gross income of the vicarage rose to £48 1830 and £52 in 1922. In 1892 one of the glebe closes became a new burial ground. One of the conditions for the appropriation of Eltisley was that the rector should provide a suitable house for the vicar. In 1615 there was a vicarage house near the church. It is not known to have been used as the residence of the incumbent after the early 17th century. It was uninhabited and in a very bad condition in 1783 and was said to be in ruins in 1790 when it was ordered to be pulled down. No other house was built and since the early 19th century the incumbent has usually resided at Croxton Rectory, which is closer to Eltisley church than to that of Croxton. There was evidently a medieval guild at Eltisley for in 1569 the Crown sold a tenement formerly called the guildhall and then the town house in Eltisley together with 19 a. of land. About 1230 William le Juvene, son of Roger of Eltisley, granted 3 a. in Eltisley to William, chaplain of Papworth Everard, who was to render 4 gallon of oil to maintain William's lamp before the cross in Eltisley church. The land was later transferred to St. John's hospital, Cambridge, and the oil was still being paid in the 14th century...." [page 56] "Among notable residents of Eltisley should be mentioned John Disbrowe (or Desborough) (1608-80), son of James Disbrowe of Eltisley. In 1636 he married Oliver Cromwell's sister Jane in Eltisley church. He became major-general for the west and was prominent in the revolutions that followed Cromwell's death. In 1657 he purchased the manor of Eltisley but is not known to have lived there. His brother Samuel (16I9-90), also born at Eltisley, was keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland during the Interregnum. [page 48] "MANORS & OTHER ESTATES: ...Phillip [of Stowe] was dead by 1346 and in the same year John Le Ward of Trumpington held Eltisley. John, however, had only a life-interest in the manor, which descended in moieties, one owned by John Goldingham of Chigwell (Essex) and Eleanor, his wife, and the other by Sir Alan Buxhull. It is probable that the wives of John and Alan were the heirs of Philip of Stowe. In 1349 Sir Alan Buxhull granted the reversion of his moiety, after the death of John le Ward, to Thomas of Eltisley, rector of Lambeth (Surr.), and others, apparently acting as feoffees. In the same year John and Eleanor Goldingham granted their moiety to Thomas of Eltisley and others. Those feoffees seem to have settled the whole manor, which became known as STOWE or GOLDINGHAMS, on Sir Alexander Goldingham, son of John and Eleanor. Alexander died in 1408, devising to his widow, Isabel, a life-interest in Eltisley which afterwards passed to his son, Sir Walter Goldingham. Walter died before 1435~4 and after the death of his widow, Elizabeth, the manor descended in two moieties to their daughters, Eleanor and Cecily. Cecily married William Chilton, or Chitterne, whose son, also William, died in 1458 when his moiety reverted to his aunt, Eleanor Goldingham, who had married John Mannock of Stoke by Nayland (Suff.). Eleanor died in 1468 seised of the whole manor which remained with her husband until his death in 1471. John Mannock was succeeded by his son John (d. 1476), whose son and heir, George Mannock, was a minor at his father's death. George Mannock died in 1541 and was followed by his son William (d. i5~S). William's son Francis (d. 1590) devised to his wife Anne a life-interest in the estate, but she was a recusant and in 1591 two-thirds of the manor was sequestrated by the Crown and leased to William Twittye. In 1599 Thomas Leeds of Croxton was granted the lease of the two-thirds of the estate. After Anne's death the manor descended to her son William Mannock (d. 1616), although in 1611 two-thirds was still under sequestration because of his recusancy. William's son, Sir Francis Mannock (cr. bt. 1627) died seised of the manor in 1634. Sir Francis's son Sir Francis was a recusant and Eltisley was again under sequestration in I650 when it was leased to Isaac Disbrowe. In 1653 the Committee for Compounding allowed the petition of the creditors of Sir Francis for the release to them of the manor. In 1657 Mannock sold it to Major-General John Disbrowe (or Desborough) (d. 1680) who devised it to his eldest surviving son, Valentine. Valentine Disbrowe held the manor in 1706 but had been succeeded by John Disbrowe by 1710. The manor is said to have been devised by John Disbrowe, by will dated 1741, to the two sons of his nephew, William Walford of Bocking (Essex). In 1789 the Revd. William Walford, Mary Walford, widow, and Thomas Walford sold it to Edward Leeds of Croxton Park. Thereafter the manor has descended with Croxton. There are several medieval moated sites in Eltisley most of which were owned by Samuel Newton of Croxton Park in I841. None has been certainly identified as the site of the original manor-house. In 1807, however, the manor-house, described as 'of the old sort', was moated and used as a farmhouse. Manorial courts were still held there. It is possible that that building may have been the Manor Farm marked on the tithe 'nap of 1841, which stands on a moated site and dates from the late Middle Ages. It was remodelled in the 17th century and has later additions and alterations. "PAPLEY MANOR.....The manor of PAPLEY originated in a series of grants of land in Eltisley and Caxton made to Hinchingbrooke Priory (Hunts.) between the mid 12th century and early I4th.32 In 3279 the priory held a messuage called Papley, 36 a. of arable, and 12 a. of wood in demesne in Eltisley. Its lands in Kingsfield, originally part of Caxton, seem to have been regarded as being in Eltisley by the 16th century. At the Dissolution Papley was granted to Richard Williams alias Cromwell36 who sold it to William Marshall of Eltisley in 1540. It then consisted of 130 a., about 10 a. of which lay in Papworth Everard. The estate was sometimes called the manor of Papworth Everard. In 1544 William Marshall purchased a further messuage and 44 a. in Eltisley called Mitchell's from Thomas Smith of Bedford. Smith had purchased the estate in 1522 from the executors of Robert Mounford. In 1549 Marshall also bought a pightle and 4 a. of land which had been given for an anniversary in Eltisley church. Those two properties appear to have been merged with the Papley estate. William Marshall died in 1551 and his lands passed to his brother John. By will proved in 1591 John Marshall devised most of his estates, including those mentioned above, to his elder son William, who sold Papley manor to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1593. The estate remained with the college until 1899 when it was sold to Ernest Hooley of Papworth Hall. In 1911 and 1916 it was offered for sale under the title of Papley Grove manor as part of the Papworth Hall estate. There is a medieval moated site at Papley Grove which presumably marks the location of the manorhouse. In 1541, however, the 'mansion' belonging to the estate appears to have stood in the village by Cambridge Way. In 1770 the farm-house was described as a rough-cast and tiled building, but its location was not stated. The homestead belonging to the estate stood at Papley Grove in 1841. The modern farm-house and buildings at Papley Grove, however, appear to have been built by Emmanuel College after the inclosure of 1868. The nucleus of what later became JESUS COLLEGE FARM appears to have been the copy-hold land (20 a.) formerly held by John Canon and then by Richard Mitchell, to which Joan Stowe, widow of Richard, and her son David Mitchell were admitted tenants in 1494. Gerard Mitchell succeeded his father David in 1550 and was followed by John Mitchell the elder in 1571, when the addition of other copyhold land had enlarged the tenement to over 40 a. John Mitchell the elder died in or before 1573 and his widow Elizabeth held the estate for life. After her death it passed to John Mitchell who sold it in 1633 to John Jeanes, who in 1639 conveyed the Mitchell property to Thomas Knight, vicar of Swavesey. In 1653 Knight purchased from John Peaseley a further 15 a. of copyhold land.56 The copyhold of Knigbt's estate, amounting to some 90 a., was enfranchised in 1658....." [ETC] "PEMBROKE FARM appears to have had its origin in small parcels of freehold land acquired by Richard and Henry Jordan between 1346 and 1399 and by Henry Dicon between 1404 and 1408. In 1488 Thomas, son of John Dicon of Eltisley, conveyed 6 a. to Gerard Skipwith, rector of Eltisley, and Gerard Hammond. In 1501 Skipwith acquired another 14 a. from Robert, son of John Woodward. By will dated 1503 Skipwith devised a life-interest in his tenements in Eltisley to his relative, Anne. After her death they were to pass to Pembroke College, Cambridge of which he was a fellow. In 1504 Isabel Hammond, his sister, conveyed 20 a. to Pembroke College in trust. In 1540 William Weldysh and his wife Anne, apparently the beneficiary under Skipwith's will, conveyed a messuage and 84 a. of land in Eltisley to William Cook who in the same year enfeoffed the college with that estate. In 1599 it was still known as Dicon's and was extended at 58 a. The farm-house may have been the messuage which had once belonged to the hospital of Burton Lazars (Leics.). In 1599 it stood north of the Green and was apparently on the same site in 1841. At inclosure, however, the college was allotted 78 a. in the north-east part of the parish and a new farmhouse and buildings were erected north of the Cambridge road, near the boundary with Papworth Everard. The college sold the farm to Ernest Hooley of Papworth Hall in 1899, and it was offered for sale as part of the Papworth Halt estate in 1911. By will proved 1716 Dr. Daniel Williams, the nonconformist divine, devised the reversion of an estate in Eltisley jointly to St. Thomas's Hospital and the London workhouse in Bishopsgate Street. The estate, which was part copyhold and part freehold, was then worth £55 a year and was occupied by a widow named MASON [my emphasis], perhaps Rebecca, widow of Simon Mason who was involved in litigation over an estate in Eltisley in 1691. The estate was held jointly by the hospital and the workhouse and managed by the former. In 1781 it consisted of 250 a., all but 20 a. being dispersed arable. In 1829 the property of the workhouse was vested in the corporation of London for the estab lishment of a corporation school. The school, known as the Freemen's Orphan School, was opened in 1854. The land was farmed in three units in 1837, but after the inclosure of 1868 it was consolidated as one farm, known as HOSPITAL FARM. The estate was sold to George Douglas Newton of Croxton Park in 1902. The farm-house was described as a little rough-cast and tiled house in 1781 when it was let as two tenements. In 1841 the main house stood at the north end of the Green on the road to Cambridge, where the modern farm-house, known as East Farm, stood in 1968. In 1568 John Marshall purchased an estate in Eltisley from John Smith of Needingworth (Hunts.). By his will proved 1591 Marshall devised the land to his younger son Matthew, who in 1630 conveyed his lands in Eltisley to John Marshall. In 1646 John Marshall granted the reversion of it to John Gilman. The name Gilman or Gilmyn appears at Eltisley from the early 15th century [note: my childhood doctor in Mansfield, CT was named "Gilman"] and the family seems to have been relatively prosperous. Thomas Gilmyn of St. Neots and Eltisley had been C. 1487 escheator in Cambridge­shire. The combined Marshall and Gilman lands, consisting of c. 120 a., passed successively to John Gilman's son Joseph and granddaughter Mary. Mary Gilman married James Chidley of Rother­hithe (Surr.). The Chidleys later removed to Papworth Everard and raised various mortgages on the Eltisley estate. In 1679, after Mary's death, James Chidley sold it to William Heylock (d. 1688) of Abbotsley (Hunts.) whose lands passed to hk nephew, Henry Kingsley. By will proved 1666 Isaac Disbrowe of Elsworth devised 20 a. and 24 a. in Eltisley to his grandsons, John and Isaac Disbrowe. John sold his estate to Edward Cosyn of Croxton in 1669 and ten years later Isaac sold his land to Cosyn's widow, Jane. In 1683 Jane Cosyn mortgaged both tenements to Henry Kings­ley. John Disbrowe seems, however, to have re­tamed some interest in the properties and finally released them to Henry Kingsley in 1704. The Chidley and Disbrowe lands thus united passed from Henry Kingsley (d. 1712) to his son Heylock (d. 1749) of Hasell HaIl, Sandy (Beds.). Heylock Kingsley's daughter and heir, Elizabeth, married William Pym (d. 1788). The Eltisley estate (c. 260 a.) seems to have come into the possession of William's second son, Woolaston Pym (d. 1846), rector of Radwell (Herts.). On his death it passed to his nephew Francis Pym (d. i86o) who in 1850 sold it to Samuel Newton of Croxton Park. In 1841 the farmstead stood on the south side of the Green near the road from St. Ives to Potton. It became known as Green Farm and the building was stilt standing in 1968. It dates from the mid 17th century with 18th-century and later alterations and additions...." [pages 51-2; SNIP...there is much more on Eltisley in reference]