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Among them are a number of medieval deeds and rentals, and some
later papers, for the Caenby estate, which assed by descent in the
female line to the Monck (later Middleton) amily, P and was dispersed
by sale in 1871. This office is fortunate in possessing three VOhmeS
Of transcripts and facsimiles of the earlier documents, which were
resented to the Lincolnshire Architectural and Archaeological
gO&ty
in 1914 by Sir Arthur E. Middleton. Canon Maddison had
based his articles on the Tournay family in A.A.S.R. Vol. 29 (1907-8)
and Lincolnshire Notes and Queries Vol. XI (1910-11) mainly on these
documents.
With the aid of these volumes, 156 documents have been assigned
to the Tournay section out of the 290 haphazardly numbered charters
in Series A. The addition of items previously placed in other
categories, mainly D Indentures, and a handful of Yorkshire deeds
from the Other Counties series, has brought the total to 184. In one
instance a piece of a deed in series A has been reunited with the
remainder among the Yorkshire deeds (F.L. 3136). There are sixty
eight medieval and sixteenth century deeds in the Middleton deposit
at the Northumberland Record Office. Not all the deeds in the Foster
Library series are complete titles, and some have been attributed to
the Tournay section on the basis of correlations with certain Middleton
charters, and a study of endorsements, which were made fairly
lavishly on some Tournay deeds in distinctive hands of the early
fourteenth, fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. Where there is neither
certainty of title nor endorsement, deeds have been placed in a
separate category.
The Tournays were a Yorkshire family, holding property at Rudstone
in the East Riding from at least the early thirteenth century.
In 1344 Sir John Tournay of Rudstone entailed this property in the
male line, (Middleton No. 37), and by 1374 it had passed to Richard
Tournay of Caenby, son of Sir John Tournay’s youngest brother
Nicholas, who had married an heiress to property in Lindsey (F.L.
3143). Among the Yorkshire items is a de osition taken in 1451
relating to a dis ute over the boundaries oP the Tournay property
in Rudstone fieldps. The deponent was John Frost, said to have been
the first tenant of Towrney Hede Place after the family had ceased
to occupy it more than sixty years before. The Middleton rental of
1428 shows him as sole tenant in Rudstone, of a messuage and sixteen
oxgangs. In the deposition Frost recalled that in his childhood he
had heard Robert Hundesley tell that he helped Sir Rawlyn Tuurnay
make the meres which bound his flats in Rudstone field. Sir Rawlyn,
or Ralf, Tournay, must have died before 1374, when Richard Toumay
held Rudstone. Frost added that in recent years tenants had not
prevented others grazing the meres, for the inheritance was in dispute
and they had no succour from their landlords (F.L. 3141). The
property was peripheral to the interests of the family established at
Caenby, but was retained intact until 1560, when Anthony Toumay
sold the capital messuage, two closes and sixteen oxgangs of land
to Thomas Preston of Bridlington, yeoman, for E120 (F.L. 3142).
The heiress whose marriage established the Toumays in Lincolnshire,
was Richilda de Cadeby, daughter of William de Cadeby,
whose mother was daughter of Sir Gilbert de Thornton, Edward I’s
chief justice, according to the pedigree worked out by Canon
Maddison in Lincolnshire Notes and Queries Vol. XI. Forty documents
relating to the estates of these predecessors of the Tournays