A piece of ground called The Lane.[[633]]
Certain lands in Norfolk.
Lisle retained the property only for a few months, selling it in the same year[[634]] (1546) to John Wymond Carew, (afterwards Sir Wymond). Sir Wymond died on 23rd August, 1549, when he was found[[635]] to be seized of “and in the capital mansion of the Hospital of St. Giles-in-the-Fields and of and in certain parcels of land with appurtenances in the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields ... in his demesne as of fee.”
In December, 1561, his widow, Dame Martha Carew, gave up, in return for an annuity, to his son Thomas “all those lands, tenements, rents, hereditaments, etc., lieing and being in St. Gyles and Maribone, nere London, late belonging to Burton Lazar, which she holds by way of jointure”;[[636]] and Thomas sold them to Francis Downes. On the latter’s death in 1564 they were particularised[[637]] as four messuages, and four acres of pasture in St. Giles, and 20 acres of pasture in St. Marylebone.
Blount.
Although the manor of St. Giles is not mentioned, it must have been included in the portion assigned to Katherine Legh, for it is found afterwards in her possession. Sir Thomas’s widow died on 5th January, 1555–6[[638]] (having previously remarried[[639]]), leaving Katherine in her sixteenth year. Such a desirable prize was not likely to remain long in the matrimonial market, and a husband was soon found in the person of Sir James Blount, Lord Mountjoy. Blount’s life seems to have been one of continual financial worry, and his mortgages and recognisances figure very prominently in the Close Rolls of the period.[[640]]
The date of his marriage with Katherine Legh is not known precisely, but it was certainly within 13 months of the death of her mother.[[641]] By degrees the greater portion of Lady Katherine’s inheritance was converted into ready money, and among other transactions, the manor of St. Giles was on 18th July, 1565, mortgaged to Robert Browne, citizen and goldsmith of London, and Thomas his son.[[642]] The mortgage was never redeemed,[[643]] and on 20th June, 1579, Thomas Browne parted with the manor to Thos. Harris, who in turn sold it on 12th February, 1582–3, to John Blomeson. Blomeson retained it for nine years, and on 3rd May, 1592, sold it to “Walter Cope, of the Strand, Esq.,”[[644]] afterwards Sir Walter Cope.[[645]] On his death in 1614, the manor came into the possession of his daughter and sole heiress, Isabella, who married Sir Henry Rich, and on 2nd April, 1616, it was sold to Philip Gifford and Thos. Risley, in trust for Henry, third Earl of Southampton.[[646]]
Russell.