Catalogue description MELTON MOWBRAY (LEICS.)

The Segraves' holding was distinct from the manor held by the Mowbrays, although Robert de Mowbray, brother of William (d. 1224), had granted 1 virgate in Melton to Gilbert (I) de Segrave and another to Stephen (I). [BL Harl. MS 4748, f. 16. Those 2 virgates were later granted by Stephen to William de Hoby in return for a quitclaim of 2 virgates in Seagrave: below, BCM/D/5/41/2 [GC 388].] Stephen was also granted land there by Robert Deiville (6 virgates), Roger de Mowbray, son of William (2 messuages), and others (1 virgate and the quittance of a rent of 6s. 8d.), and granted a rent of 6s. there to Leicester Abbey in exchange for land in Seagrave. [BL Harl. MS 4748, f. 16.] By 1295 the holding comprised rents of 70s., and by 1325 rents of 77s. 10d. which were held in jointure by Stephen de Segrave and Alice, having been granted to them by Stephen's father in Jan. 1314. It was one of the minor holdings mentioned in the settlement of 1343-4, and thereafter as part of the same settlement was included in the inquisitions post mortem of John de Segrave in 1353, of Margaret Marshal in 1399 and of her grandson Thomas de Mowbray in the same year, along with his manor of Melton. By 1461 it had been settled by John (VI) de Mowbray with Diseworth and Kineton (above, p. 746) and again in 1467 in jointure on John (VII) and Elizabeth with Kineton. The reversion was granted by William Berkeley to Richard III in 1484.