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- Also called Lancelot Manfield, Manfeld, etc.
From Robert Charles Anderson, John C. Brandon, and Paul C. Reed, "The Ancestry of the Royally-Descended Mansfields of the Massachusetts Bay" (citation details below):
Lancelot Manfield or Mansfield, Esquire, born say 1533, is of obscure origins. It is likely he was a Yorkshire man, from the border area between the East and North Ridings, near where he and his sons received grants of land. The very existence of these grants to a new man, and his marriage to Anne Eure, the sister of Lord Eure, indicates that he likely served the crown in a minor position in the Exchequer, or in the household of one of the great lords of the North, possibly as a servant of the Earl of Huntingdon, for whom both his sons served.
Lancelot Maunfeld [sic] received a grant, "by advice of the treasurer, chancellor and undertreasurer of the Exchequer," of a lease of the capital messuage and demesne lands of the manor of Skirpenbecke, Yorkshire for twenty-one years on 26 March 1561. The manor was a parcel of the Duchy of York, and included a water mill, "all parcels of the manor of Skirpenbecke and of the lordship of Sherifhutton, co. York." Lancelot received this grant from Queen Elizabeth in consideration of the payment of £65 and was to pay a yearly rent of £16 5s. He was also to provide entertainment for the queen's officers coming to hold court or make a survey. On 10 August 1569, the same lands and mill were granted to Ralph Hope, Yeoman of the Robes, after the termination of Lancelot Mansfield's lease.
Lancelot Manfeld, "of Skirpenbeck, co. York," received a grant of a crest from William Flower, Norroy King of Arms, "principall herald of the north partes of the realme of England," dated 20 September 1563. The grant does not state his parentage, but does say, as was the custom, he was "well borne and descended of worthie progenitors bearinge signes and tokens of their race and gentry called Armes..." His "ancient" arms are described as gueles a bend cotized argent, betweene six crosse crosselets fitche gold. It is important to note that another rendition of this grant, bearing almost the same wording and spelling, was in possession of descendants in New England in 1850. "The diploma is on vellum, handsomely written..., with the Arms and Crest beautifully emblazoned in the margin." As the manuscript copy recorded in the Bodleian Library includes later additions, and would almost certainly have been unknown to anyone in New England before 1918/19, it is possible that the document handed down among the New England descendants was the original grant, or a copy made from an original in the College of Arms.
These arms are found only among the descendants of Matilda de Manfield (heiress of her brother Robert de Manfield, clerk), wife of John Monceux of Barmston in Holderness, Yorkshire; her will was dated 3 July 1441 and proved 1 March 1441/2. Their daughter and heir Matilda Monceux married Brian de la See, and their son Martin de la See, in turn, left a daughter and coheir named Margaret de la See who brought the de la See quartering of arms and extensive Monceux inheritance into the Boynton family. Gules a bend cotised and six cross crosslets fitchy argent appears alone in the south choir window of All Saints, Barmston, Yorkshire, as does Manfield paled with Monceux.
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No probate record or inquisition post mortem for Lancelot Manfeld has been found. The registers of the parishes where he likely resided are not in existence early enough to record his burial. He was certainly alive 20 September 1563 when he received the grant of the crest, and probably alive 10 August 1569, when the lease of manor of Skirpenbecke was granted to another after the expiration of his lease, but no certain determination of how much longer he survived can be made. Sometime before his death (but possibly after the 1587 pedigree was drawn up on John Mansfield's behalf, as it does not mention a second marriage), Lancelot Mansfield married, second, Margaret -----. Her will was dated 17 January 1596/7 and proved 13 April 1597 by her son, George Wilkinson[.]
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Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Abt 1533 - Aft 1563 (~ 30 years)
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