Beaufoy - All Hallows - Seaton, Rutland - Coats of Arms on Waymarking.com

Coat of arms of William Beaufoy in the chancel of All Hallows' church, Seaton.

"William Beaufoy died in 1349, leaving as his heir his son John aged fifteen and more. His property at Seaton was then described as 'a capital messuage, 40 acres of arable, 7 acres of meadow often flooded by the Welland, a tenement for which a bondman used to pay 16s. yearly, and no one will farm since his death because of the Death, and a windmill.' The wardship and marriage of John was granted to Sir Roland Daneys in 1350. William's wife Alice, daughter of John de Boyville, also died in 1349; and Alice the widow of John Beaufoy (d. 1343) died in 1356, leaving her grandson John, son of William Beaufoy, her heir of full age. According to the evidence for his proof of age he was born at Stokefaston (Stockerston, co. Leic.) and baptised in the church there on St. Andrew's Day 1336. In 1358 he obtained seisin of his lands as the king had taken his homage. In the same year John Beaufoy enfeoffed William Beaufoy of two-thirds of the manor of Up Hall, granting him also the reversion of the third which Roger Beaufoy still held. The conveyance was not completed until 1363.

The relationship of William to John is not stated. William cannot be identified with the William de Beaufoy who succeeded to a manor in South Creek (co. Norf.), and was only 27 years of age at the time of the death of John his brother in 1424.) A William Beaufoy was knight of the shire for Rutland in 1363, 1365 and 1369. Possibly he was a brother of John who conveyed Up Hall to him. In 1364 William Beaufoy was superseded in the office of verderer of the Forest of Rutland 'for reasonable causes.'

William married Agnes, daughter and co-heir of Robert de Northwode of North Creke. He was still living in 1373; but the descent of the manor after this date becomes obscure.

John Beaufoy of Seaton, who was pardoned in 1416 for the murder of Robert Nycoll and Richard Edmond in 1415, may have been a son of William. Possibly William Beaufoy who held a quarter of a fee in Seaton in 1428 was his son. Presumably the quarter fee represented the manor of Up Hall, though it is said to have been held formerly by Simon Warde, to whom no other reference has been found in local records. William Beaufoy was knight of the shire for Rutland in the parliaments of 1433 and 1434, and was one of those who received a commission to issue a warrant to the sheriff for proclamation in the next county court that several persons, including William Sheffield of Seaton (see below), should take an oath not to maintain peacebreakers. He was also a justice of the peace from 1446 to 1459. In July 1448 John Chesilden received a licence to grant the stewardship of the forest of Rutland to William Beaufoy and others.) The remaining references to William indicate that he was a Lancastrian. In 1457 he was a commissioner for array for Rutland, and in December 1459 he was further commissioned to resist the rebellion of Richard, Duke of York.

He was probably succeeded by an heir of the same name. 'Phelip, late wife of William Beaufo,' who complained of oppression by William Sheffield and William Stevens about 1493 was apparently the widow of the younger William. She declared that her husband, 'in the time of King Edward IV,' had been obliged to sell the manor of South Creke, which had been settled as her jointure; but in place thereof he gave her 'for term of her life by his last Will the manor of Seton in the county of Rutland, not above the value of £12.' She had occupied the manor fifteen years after the death of her husband; but William Stevens, having married Eleanor, one of the daughters of William Beaufoy, before Christmas last, came in riotous wise with might and power and took £4 4s. 0d. of the issues, contrary to all right. This was done with the assent of William Sheffield, one of the feoffees for the trust, who further threatened to put Philippa out.

The other daughter, or daughters, of William Beaufoy are not mentioned by name; but the whole manor of Up Hall was not long afterwards acquired, either by purchase or inheritance, by the Bassetts of North Luffenham. Edward, the son and heir of Thomas Bassett, died seised of it in 1534, leaving as his heir his brother John, then aged twenty-four. John married Anne Rouse of Rouse Lench (co. Worc.), and died in 1575. In 1585 his widow joined her son John Bassett in making a conveyance of tenements, land and rent in Luffenham, Morcott and Seaton to Edmund Rouse. The manor of Up Hall had already been acquired from Anne and her husband by George Sheffield in 1568, and Robert Sheffield his son died seised of it in 1602, leaving as his heir his son John. It afterwards followed the descent of the manor of Down Hall (q.v.), and in 1928 was in the possession of Mr. George Edward Monckton."

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Bearer of Coat of Arms: Noble (aristocratic) family Full name of the bearer: William Beaufoy Where is Coat of Arms installed (short description) ?: chancel of church Material / Design: Wood Blazon (heraldic description): Ermine a bend azure with three cinq foils or thereon. Address: All Hallows Church Ln Seaton, Rutland England LE15 9HR Web page about the structure where is Coat of Arms installed (if exists): [Web Link] Web page about the bearer of Coat of Arms (if exists): Not listed

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