Deopham History

Manor of Shadwells otherwise Cockerells in Morley

Other spellings have been used: e.g. Cockerill’s, Cockarell’s, Cockrells.

Contents

  1. Comments
  2. Blomefield
    1. Manor of Shadwells otherwise Cockerells
    2. Manor of Morley Hall
  3. 1697 – Sale to William Grigson of Morley
  4. 1812 – Auction of the Manor in Lots
  5. Courts
  6. 1814 Post Enclosures Map
  7. Footnotes
  8. Navigation

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Comments

Shadwell is understood to be a corruption of St. Chad’s Well; it is unclear whether Morley had such a well or whether it came with a family that was so named.
The Shadwell manor house was the building that is now called Morley Manor:2

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Blomefield

Manor of Shadwells otherwise Cockerells

Blomefield‘s section on the parish of Morley contains the following description of the Manor of Shadwell’s or Cockerell’s:3

Was owned by Ralf de Beaufo at the Conqueror’s survey, and by Lewin, a freeman, at the Confessor’s, when it was worth 40s. a year; there were several freemen added to it in the Conqueror’s time, when the soke or paramountship belonged to Hingham, as an appendant to the hundred; this town was better than a mile long, and as much broad, and paid 14d. 3q. gelt, as we learn from Domsday, fol. 213.

Whether Hugh that held it under Beaufo, at the Conquest, was an ancestor of the Bardolphs, I do not know, but find it in the Lord Bardolf very early, in whose family it continued many ages, as the institutions shew you; it after belonged to the Cromwells, Ogards, and Lovells, by whose trustees it was sold to the Hobarts, in whose family it continued till after 1674, when it was sold by Miles Hobart, Esq. to Sir Joseph Pain of Norwich, whose grandson and heir, Rob. Pain, gave it to Susanna his sister, who married the Rev. Mr. John Whitefoot, rector of Heigham by Norwich, and they sold it to Will. Grigson, rector of Morley, whose son, Robert Grigson, M.D. is now [1739] lord. The patronage was excepted on the sale, and hath passed as is before observed.

Manor of Morley Hall

Blomefield wrote a separate section in which he described the Manor of Morley Hall (now known as Morley Old Hall) indicating that at that time, 1739, the two Manors were separate entities. Blomefield recorded that William and Anne Sedley had a grandson Edward Sidley who married Mary Somner. The estate was left to Henry Somner who, according to the will of Edward Sidley, took the name Sedley. This Henry Sedley was Lord of the Manor of Morley Hall in 1739 when Blomefield was writing.
Whilst no evidence has so far come to light that the Manor of Morley Hall had any direct involvement in the life of Deopham, the Sedleys in their own right owned property in the village.

1697 – Sale to William Grigson of Morley

Blomefield noted in the above extract that Sir Joseph Paine and the Rev. Mr. John Whitefoot sold the Manor to the Rev. William Grigson, rector of Morley. Details of the Indenture recording this transaction are available here.
The Rev. John Whitefoot also passed on his rights to land of the Manor of Deopham of the Dean & Chapter of Canterbury at their Court of September 22nd 1698. The Rev. William Grigson was the beneficiary of that transaction.

1812 – Auction of the Manor in Lots

The following announcement appeared in the Bury and Norwich Post dated March 25th 1812 advertising the sale of the estate of the late Daniel Ganning:-

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A further announcement on May 9th in the Norfolk Chronicle stated that the auction date would be June 13th 1812; this states that the “Manor or Lordship of Shadwells otherwise Cockerells” would be sold as Lot 10:

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Courts

There is a list of Courts of the Manor of Shadwells otherwise Cockerells, with links to further details, here.

1814 Post Enclosures Map

This 1814 Post Inclosures map shows a number of properties in Deopham as being “Copy[hold] of Shadwells”. This map can be viewed here.

Footnotes

  1. The title is taken from a copy of the admission of Sir John Wodehouse to the Court on April 27th 1779 ↩︎
  2. This information was supplied by Mr. Tony Bradstreet. ↩︎
  3. Francis Blomefield, ‘Hundred of Forehoe: Morley’, in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 2, (London, 1805) pp. 476-482. 
    British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol2/pp476-482 [accessed 2 June 2024]. ↩︎
Return to list of Manors
DateChange
14/8/25Note on Morley Hall
18/4/25Link to 1697 Indenture
2/6/24Blomefield
3/5/241812 auction
7/4/23Published