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Beauchamp (William (V), first Baron Bergavenny, soldier and landowner, youngest son of Thomas Beauchamp, eleventh earl of Warwick, 1313/4-1369, inherited lands from his cousin John Hastings, earl of Pembroke, courtier of Richard II, c. 1343-1411) Grant by William Beauchamp of the manor of Tottenham to Roger Walden "clerke" and his brother John, witnesses: William Bagot, John Olney and others, manuscript in French, on vellum, 9 lines, red wax seal with fine impression of the arms of Beauchamp, part of border broken away, folds, some slight damp markins, otherwise a in good condition, 172 x 344mm., [Pentecost] May 1396; and 6 other medieval manuscripts relating to the Manor of Tottenham and other parishes now in London, 3 others referring to the earl of Pembroke's manor in Tottenham, the parties to the transactions, including Alice, daughter of William de Notyere, 1304, all manuscripts on vellum, folds, v.s., v.d. (7) *** The medieval Manor of Tottenham. First mentioned an interesting document relating to the politics of the closing years of the reign of Richard II. William Beauchamp, Lord Abergavenny; in 1372 inherited much of the lands of John Hastings, the last Hastings earl of Pembroke; fought at the battle of Najera, the Castilian campaign led by Edward, the Black Prince; made knight of the garter in 1375; brother of one of the leading lords appellant but also a member of Richard II's household and was present when Richard II resigned the crown in favour of Henry IV. Roger Walden (d. 1406), administrator in the household of Richard II; rose rapidly in the king's service and was created archbishop of Canterbury on the deposition of Archbishop Arundel and subsequently replaced by him on the assumption of the throne by Henry IV, later became bishop of London; "The Waldens certainly had close associations with St Bartholomew's Priory, Smithfield, where two branches of the family actually had homes within the close and to which the bishop left the manors of Tottenham, Middlesex, and Dedham, Essex, if his brother [John Walden, d. 1417] had no male heirs." - Oxford DNB. Sir William Bagot (d. 1407), administrator; chamber knight in the household of Richard II; "Sir William Bagot, a leading councillor in the 1390s, was to recall a conversation in which Richard [II] spoke to him frankly about his hopes and fears for the future: Richard, he said, maintained that he wanted to live lon g enough to see the crown held in high esteem and obeyed 'with lowly humility by all lieges' and once this had been achieved, he would be prepared to renounce his crown on the following day; but he did not want Hereford [the future Henry IV] to become king, for 'Hereford would be as great a tyrant to the church as there ever was'" (Nigel Saul, Richard II, p. 335, 1997); after the king's deposition successfully defended himself in parliament against charges of plotting to kill John of Gaunt and established that he had supplied information to Henry IV in exile; eventually pardoned by Henry IV.