Ralph was die seun van Nicholas Wortley en Joan Musard.
(Foster, Joseph: Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding. London. 1874)
Charter dated at Ecclisfeld [Ecclesfield] confirming a grant from Gilbert [Smith] Faber of Chapel [Chapeltown] to Thomas de Bernes clerk son of Henry of the same, [8 Sep 1267] For eight marks of silver, half an oxgang with a certain small croft and all the appurtenances in le Swithenis, which was bought of Sir Thomas de Furnivalle, as fenced in on all sides by ditches and hedges, lying in breadth between le Swithenis and the aldergrove of Thomas de Bernes, extending in length to land of Henry son of Thomas de Bernes towards the west, and the Hargap towards the east, to hold of the grantor and his heirs to the said Thomas de Bernes and his heirs and to whomsoever he wished to assign etc the same, except to religious men [clerics] and Jews, in fee and inheritance, with all commons, pastures, liberties, easements and appurtenances belonging to the same land, paying annually to the grantor and his heirs three half-pennies of silver, at the Assumption of the blessed Mary, for all secular services, suit of mill and suit of court to the said land appertaining. Witnesses: Sir Robert de Munteney, Sir Ralph de Ecclisalle [Ecclesall], Sir Ralph de Wrtley [Wortley], Elias de Midhope, Adam de Waddeslay [Wadsley], Adam de Bukeshertre, William de Resseville, Adam [Wood] de Bosco, Ralph de Actone then steward to Sir Thomas de Furnivalle, John son of Ralph de Bernes, Adam [Blount] de Blundo, Roger de Hosgerthorpe [Osgathorpe?] (http://www.calmview.eu/SheffieldArchives/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=JC%2F1%2F11)
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service, Staffordshire Record Office:
D1229/1/6/55 Ed.
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Gift by John son of Henry de Northorp to Robert de Biham of two acres of arable
land in the territory of Northorp in a place called Heorode lying between the
land of the said Robert and the fovea called Mirisike.
Witnesses: Lord Richard de Tankirsle, Ralph de Wrtle [Wortley], Gerrard de Thurg[o]land, William Daniel of the same place, Robert de Biham and others.
Witnesses: Lord Richard de Tankirsle, Ralph de Wrtle [Wortley], Gerrard de Thurg[o]land, William Daniel of the same place, Robert de Biham and others.
Deed of exchange between John de Northorp and Robert de Biham concerning 1½ acres of land in the fields of Northorp in a place called Coteflat. Witnesses: Lord Richard de Tankerul, Ralph de Wortley, Gerard de Thurg[o]land, Richard de Hospring, William Daniel and others.
Die wolbedryf was 'n bron van groot welvaart in die Middeleeue. We know from the Hundred Rolls of 1275 that both Yorkshire and Lincolnshire were great haunts of wool merchants of all nations. (Power, Eileen: The wool trade in English Medieval history. London. 1941) Uit die wolindustrie van hierdie periode kom daar baie fullers voor. ‘n Fuller is iemand wat die olie en ander onsuiwerhede uit die onverfynde items wat vir huislike gebruik geweef was, uitwas. Daar was egter so baie fullers dat dit wil voorkom asof ‘n groot hoeveelheid van hierdie lappe vir tuismarkte, sowel as ander markte gemaak is. In die Calder Vallei kom die fulling-mill by Sowerby, Halifax, Rastrick, Mirfield, Dewsbury, Ossett en Alverthorpe voor. Hierdie mills was die eiendom van die lord of the manor en die tenants was verplig om slegs hierdie mill en geen ander een te gebruik nie. Alhoewel die lord die monopolie van die mill gehou het, het hy dit nie self bedryf nie. Hy het dit verhuur aan een of twee van sy tenants vir ‘n jaarlikse bedrag. Thus, in 1277, William the Fuller of Wakefield and Ralph de Wortley (die jonger seun van Nicholas) paid forty shillings as one year's rental for the mill at Wakefield. It was no small mill which could command a rental of 2, but William and his partner would have plenty of business, washing the pieces before they were cut up into garments by the cottagers or placed for display and sale on the clothbooths which stood in the market place. (The Yorkshire woollen and worsted industries from the earliest times up to the industrial revolution. Oxford. MCMXX. P.6.)
Todwick in die Metropolital Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire. Volgens die Domesday Book van 1089 was Todwick onder die eiendomme wat William I aan Roger of Mortain gegee het en wat onderverhuur is aan Richard. (Rotherham the unofficial website. http://www.rotherhamunofficial.co.uk/villages/todwick.html) Die Manor was aangeteken as, bestaande uit 'n kerk en drie hektaar grasvlakte; bosveld weiding, half a league long and four furlongs broad (1.5 myl × 4 myl). Op een tydstip is die manorial rights van Todwick gesamentlik deur die Furnivals en die de Lovetots besit. In 1282 het Ralph de Horbiry die Todwick eiendom verkry. Records indicated that in 1284 the village of Todwick was owned by the Furnival family who obtained the lordship from the Tortemaynes. It was sublet to John de Horbury. (Rotherham the unofficial website. http://www.rotherhamunofficial.co.uk/villages/todwick.html) Sir John Horbiry het ook die helfte van die dorpe en grond in Treeton, Brampton en Ulley en 'n carucate van grond in Wales gehou. Ralph de Horbiry het die regte van die monnike t.o.v. gemeenskaplike weiveld betwis en het dit vir 'n tyd lank suksesvol self behou. Toe het Robert, abbot of Roche in 1282, 'n hofsaak teen John, die seun van Ralph de Horbiry gemaak, to permit the abbot to have common pasture in Tadwyke, which belongs to his free tenement there, of which Ralph de Horbyry, John's Father, unjustly dis-seized Jordan, formerly Abbot of Roche. (History of Todwick) Die Todwick en ander besittings van die Horbirys is verkoop aan Sir Edmund Wasteneys. Teen 1303 het Sir Edmund Wasteneys Todwick vanaf Thomas Furnival gehou. By 1303 Sir Edmund Wasteneys was holding Todwick from Thomas Furnival but the resident lords of the manor were the St. Paul family who seem to have taken their name from the dedication of Todwick church. In the 1379 Poll Tax returns William de Saint Paul, who is described as 'fraunkeleyn' that is franklin, a class of landowners ranking next below the gentry, and his wife Katerina were assessed at 40d. Edmund de Wortelay, beast merchant, and his wife Matilda were assessed at 12d. The medieval manor house stood to the north of the church but all that remains of the site is part of the moat. (Rotherham the unofficial website. http://www.rotherhamunofficial.co.uk/villages/todwick.html)
Grant by Ralf son of Nicholas de Wortelay to Wm. son of Gregory de Tadwyck, of a toft and oxgang of land bought from Roger de Brerlay in the town and territory of Tadwyck. Witnesses: Sir Nic. de Worteley, Sir Edm. de Wastenays, Knts. Hugh de Serlby, John Bernard de Herthill, Hugh de Kiueton (Kiveton), John de Kyueton, Eustace de Waliswode (Waleswood), Wm.Bo...de Suthanestan South Anston), Adam de Buton clerk. (Ancient Deeds relating to Todwick – Rotherham Web)
Appointment by Ralf son of Nicholas de Wortelay of John de Herdwyck his attorney to deliver seisin to Wm. son of Gregory de Tadwyck, of one toft and one oxgang in Tadwick, bought of Roger de Bierley. Le Herdwyck, Sunday after Martinmas, 33
Edw. (The Yorkshire Arcaelogical Journal, Volume 13, P. 80)
1293. Lease for thirty years by Wm son of Thomas, kt, lord of Sprotteburg' [Sprotbrough] to John Wortelay son of Ralph de Wortelay of Emlay morehous of a bovate of land in Emlaymorehous, formerly held by Thos de le More; the lessee paying a yearly rent of 4s 3d and 8d yearly to the township of Emlay. (Nottinghamshire Archives)
2 Aug 1299. Confirmation: Roger son of Hugh of Barton in Staveley to Nicholas son of German Cacheors of Staveley Woddethorp:-- ½ ac. meadow in le Brademedue in Staveley (between meadows late of Waveyn the priest and of Ralph de Worteley, abutting on the water called Nirne and on Brademeduedick). 2 parts of 1 ac. meadow in le Bent (between meadows of Ralph de Worteley and late of Richard nephew of Peter the clerk, abutting on le Bentgrene and on the headland late of John son of Reginald). And a measure "(unum fordole") of a meadow in Calford (between meadows of Ralph de Worteley and late of Richard Selvein abutting on Calfordlane and on Nirne)--: Given at Staveley Sun. after St. Peter ad vincula. 27 Ed. I (Nottinghamshire Archives)
In 1299 is Sir Nicholas Wortley en Ralph Wortley getuies by ‘n Grant by Matthew de Oxpring to Henry son of Henry de Rockeley his lord, and the heirs and assigns of Henry, of the homage and whole service of Henry le Webester for a bovate of land in Royghbircheworthe, to wit 2s. rent and all manner of foreign service; to hold of the chief lord of the fee. Witnesses:—Sir Nicholas de Worteley, knight, Ralph of the same and others (named). Wyrkis- burgh, the feast of the Assumption, 27 Edward [I].
('Deeds: C.5001 - C.5100', in A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds: Volume 6, ed. H C Maxwell Lyte (London, 1915), pp. 159-173)
Wortley, deeds,
receipts. Miscellaneous deeds &
quitclaims relating to properties held by the Bromele family
A (1) Sir Nicholas de
Worteley
(2) Adam 'Iuueni'
[Youngman? Bullock?] of Bromile
(1) to (2): lease of
land which Simon son of Hugh once held and an assart called Huerode in the
fields of Bromyle between the road from Wortley church to
Tankersley wood.
Rent 2s 1d per year
Witnesses: John of
Thurg'land, [ ] of Bi[ ], Richard Daynelle, Ralph de Worteley, Adam of Pilley,
John of Pilley, Wur' of Rockeley. nd
c 1300. (http://archives.rotherham.gov.uk/calmview/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=301-F%2F1%2F1%2F2%2F25)
The Rockleys got a
great interest at Oxspring at the beginning of the fourteenth century. In 1306
Robert de Oxspring granted to Henry de Rockley two parts of his fulling-mill of
Oxspring with the water-course and dam. Margery, formerly wife of Robert de
Clay in 1304, in her pure widowhood, granted to him the Clogh ina place called
Clay, within the bounds of Oxspring. Richard, son of Richard de Bergh, in 1307,
gave him all lands in Oxspring and Le Clay, belonging to him. In 1310 Robert de
Mamecestr’ gave him two bovates in Oxspring, with the homage and services of
divers persons. ‘This Robert was nepos to William de Mamicestr’ (son of William
de Gringeley) who had taken a grant of the said lands and services from Roger
de Hyde. This deed was dated at Brierley; and sir Nicholas de Wortley, Ralph de Wortley, Thomas de Savile, and
others, were witnesses. (https://huddersfield.exposed/api/content/books/ocr/17984/)
Mortomley, near to Chapeltown, on the north-west, has a history which goes back to 1227. In the 13th century Gerard de Furnival granted to Ralph Wortley lands in Troghesels, and lands of Ralph Duddelyn in Mortomley, with common of pasture in Ecclesfield and Mortomley. (Chapeltown researches, archaeological and historical; including old-time memories of Thorncliff, its ironworks and collieries and their antecedents Matthew Henry Habershon Sheffield 1893. P. 99) "Mortomley, in the township and parish of Ecclesfield, upper division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 6 miles SW. of Rotherham, 6½ from Sheffield, 8 from Barnsley." (http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Ecclesfield/more.html)
A charter described land
formerly of Ralph de Worteleye.
