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From:
"dapper" [email protected]
Subject: Hart E. Pryor Manuscript part 1
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 21:17:16 -0500
Spellings
are exactly as appears in the manuscript of Hart E. Pryor and I
will
endeavor to send exactly as it appears.
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"The
manar (manor) of Pryars, or Preyers, or Preyers, alias Boure-Hall, was
held as
early as the reign of Henry III (1216-1232) by the ancient Knightly
family of de
Priers, de Prayers, or de Prayers, from whom it took its name.
The
manor of Prayers is located in Hinckford Hundred, Parish of
Sible-Hedinham,
Essex County, England, and is believed to date from the
reign of
Edward the Confessor, (1042-1066 or from William the Conquorer
(1071-1085.
There
is another maner near there, called Pryors, or Prayours, from whence
it borrowed
its name, about 1582.
Sir
JOhn and Sir Edward de Prieres, were two Knights Bannerets under KIng
Edward I
(1272-1307)
About 1274, Sir Thomas de Preyers held a moiety of the maner of Great
Malden in
Dengey Hundred, Malden, Essex, by the service of half a Knight's
fee.
In
the year 1309 Sir John de Preyer passed by fine for the sum of 100
pounds
sterling, the estate of Bourchiers-Hall, in Lexden Hundred, Messing,
Esses.
In
1507, during the reign of Henry VII, Sir Andrew Prior held the maner of
Boys-Hall in
Essex, of the Dean and Canons of St.Pauls, London.
The
family of Prior formerly settled in the Counties of Essex, Oxford,
Lancaster,
and Cambridge, and derives form John Priorur, who held a charter
from Henry
III, and did homage for the same in the year 1213.
The surname
of Priorur,
Pryour, Prior, though variously written in early times is one
and the
same, as can be shown by authentic records.
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part one
From:
"dapper" [email protected]
Subject: Hart E.
Pryor Manuscript part 2
Date:
Thu, 28 Jan 1999
John
Priorur died about 1253, and was succeeded by his oldest son Thomas,
whose
descendants continued in the male line, in direct succession.
Thomas
Priour
"seventh," (Edward II - 1307-1326) who had acquired considerable
property
under the Earl of Lancaster, was concerned, amongst many of the
principal
gentry and great nobles of that period, in the fatal affaire of
Piers de
Gaveston, but was included in the free pardon granted to the Earl
of Lancaster
and his adherents, as "Thomas Priour de Exnynge," is mentioned
in the
patent dated Oct 16-1313."
Note. Piers Gaveston was Earl of Cornwall and was chief favourite of Edward
II.
He was hated by the English and was slain and buried at Kings Langley
in
Hertfordshire.
"Thomas
Priour was returned in the same year, (1313) a bourgese for
Hertford, to
the Parliment at Westminster; his younger brother, John
Priour, was
sheriff of London in 1317, and from this John, an ancient
family in
Hertfordshire is supposed to be descended.
Thomas
Priour had two sons, John and Thomas; he
died possessed of
considerable
lands, both in Essex and Oxfordshire. Being
a man of good
repute, he
was sent for by the officers of the household of Queen Philippa,
on the birth
of her eldest son, (afterward known as the Black Prince) to be
a witness of
his birth (1328), and then was dispatched to inform the King
of the
event. Edward III was at walton,
and according to the historian,"
so welcome
was the news brought by Thomas Priour, of his being a fair,
lusty, and
well-shaped infant, that he granted to the messenger 40 marks
per annum
out of his exchequer for life." Thomas
Priour was one of a suite
of 75
persons selected to accompany Queen Philippa on a journey in 1338.
That the same family of Priour held the estates they had acquired, admits
of no doubt,
by a charter granted to Richard Priour and Alienora, his wife,
(dau. of
Robert Ramsey of Essex) by King Henry VI, (1422-1460) in the 16th
year of his
reign, (1438) which refers precisely to the charter of Henry
III.
It appears that Richard Priour, who died about the end of the reign
of Edward IV
(1461-1482) left several sons, Andrew, John, Thomas, and
Richard.
During his life, the estates held under the Earl of Lancaster,
had been
confiscated. We find that the
family, in those disturbed times
suffered
with a great number of others of the landed gentry, and were
deprived of
considerable property.
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