The de Mandevilles & Moone Hall

I can find nothing of the origin of the name. I guess it is simply a sloppy corruption with time from

Ma ‑NdEv‑‑LLe                   to                            MooNE haLL

In 1755 Morant says it is aka JOYS – I do not find this proper name anywhere (though one is reputed to have written an early version of the Prayer Book and a Vicar of Clare had a similar name). Morant’s dates are inconsistent.

t.r.e.	A freeman held it v.i.
1088	The Manor of Moone Hall is said to have existed in the Honour of Mandeville. Geoffrey of Magnaville (sic) is certainly in LDB with an “annexation” in Ch 90 sn 26 which “A Freeman” held before 1066 in Lordship. I cant see that Geoffrey held any other land in Stn though he did have dozens of other holdings recorded in LDB Presumably therefore the 1st recorded Lord of the Manor of Moone Hall was this unnamed freeman for the period from before 1066 to 1088, when he became subject to de Magnaville.
1144	Aug Geoffrey, the 1st Earl was killed struck by an arrow @ Fordham in the fens @ Cambridgeshire on the Suffolk Border.
1177	Geoffrey, 2nd Earl dies It was presumably this Earl of Essex who had been ordered in about 1170 to arrest Becket, not the lord of Stambourne Manor.
1190	William, 3rd Earl dies
1213	Geoffrey FitzPeter, 4th Earl dies.
1213-1216	Geoffrey, 5th Earl = Isabel. He annexed her father’s title of Earl of Gloucester & signed the Magna Carta.
1227	William, 6th Earl, dies. Maud, sister to this Wm = de Bohun.
1252	Richard Wytsand, Sheriff of Essex & Herts, held some 150a of the Honor of Mandeville. This is Morant’s earliest datum.
1262	Baldwin de Wytsand dies; he held of Humphry de Bohun as part of the Hr of Mn.
1272	Walter Jeround dies. He = Agnes. John [? Jeround too] succeeds.
1281=9EdI	Agnes, Lucy & Elizabeth appear.
1284	Baldwin s o Baldwin de Wytsand dies; he held of E of Hereford. This sequence is unclear – check.
1327	Willelmo de Baldwyn is the name in the Lay subsidy [xviii d ob] 10th highest of the 21 ratepayers.
1348	John Joye or Toye was Vicar of Clare.
1372	John de la Lee, Alice deNeville, John Weld held land, perhaps ex Lucy & Elizabeth de Wytsand.
1376	Hugh de Bray, who held 60a of the E of Hereford, dies. “Then” Alice Gestingthorpe held of Wm q.v.
1398	William, bro of Thos E of Stafford, dies. The estate goes to the McWms, clearly via Gestingthorpes, “& so up to 1616”. The first Edward McW lived, according to my McW calculations, about 13901430. The first owner of both Moone & Stambourne manors may have been his father Charles who lived 1350-1410.
1430-50	Thomas II McW was lord.
1450-64	Wm McW was lord; I guess he lived in a wooden hall here; q.v. Edward.
1464-79	Edward II McW inherits from his brother. He owned Alkeborrow @ his death and may have lived there.
1479-90	His son John is lord.
1480	Roger Hyde, the freeholder 1980-98, says he has evidence from the P R O that it was built in this year by the Macwilliams; it seems they did own all the village by then so presumably must have agreed if indeed this be the date of construction. He has not produced this evidence for me & the papers probably disappeared in one of the later tenancies. If substantiated it was built by or on the authority of John McWilliam who must have lived in a Wooden Hall, probably within the moat. It is likely that the first part built was the main hall parallel to the road. It has double door openings at each end, either of which could be the service cross wing. The tall wing aligned W to E at the S end, which is thought to be the court room was probably built later for that purpose. I have seen a drawing prepared by an archivist during the tenancy of Keith Cramp but it did not date the timbers.
1490-95	Edward III McWm is lord.
1499-1506	This is the period when Christina Hartishorn is Lady Tyrell @ Colchester. Henry I McW did not legally become lord until her death in 1506. He will probably have lived in the wooden hall during this period; he must have authorised construction of Moone Hall if RCHM is correct; given his church activities he probably was the titular builder too.
1500c.	The RCHM gives this as the date of the construction.
XVIIC	Said to be the date of the massive Chimney. I guess the saloon bar wing, with its massive, pre-armada, beams was early XVIC.
1755	Morant writes that it is now the Lion Inn.
1760	Wm Key is recorded as a Landlord by the measures Inspector but he does not specify of which Public house. I doubt any of the following were actual owners before Roger Whittaker bought the freehold from Whitbreads.
1765	Jacob Chandler.
1813	Tim & Eliz Bowyer.
1835	Frederick Sparrow.
1839	Shadrack Sparrow.
1848	Mary Bowyer.
1876	Lewis Lewsey.
1877	Emma & Harry Loyd.
1902	Jane Bedford.
1926	Sidney Walls.
1933	Jas Buckland & Carmen Noakes.
1966	Robin & Averil Swetland; Whitbreads owned it as a tied house and undertook a sympathetic & thorough restoration.
1977	Gordon Mackay for owner Roger Whittaker who purchased it from Whitbreads. [this is the 3rd appearance of the name Whittaker in my history.]
1980	Roger & Doreen Hyde who still own it in 1996.
1983	Keith Cramp.
1988	Ian Guthrie.
1993	Fred Swallow.
1994	Peter Page.
1994	1 June to 14 Aug: David Hindley was a tenant of Roger Hyde after which it closed as a hostelry. It is now occupied as a private dwelling. Application for change of use 21 October.
1995	February: Many changes and building of garages are occurring but the council has so far refused permission for the building to change its status from being a public house. An appeal requesting business use has been lodged.
1997	Application to enclose the frontage was allowed up to about 6 feet from the highway.
1998	Sold to private persons who have discovered an old carved beam in the south wall of the old public bar.

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