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In
Domesday Ansfrid de Corneilles held the manor
of Tatintune in chief. Tarrington seems
to have been two manors before the Conquest, held
by the thegns Alwold and Ernwy.
At
this time it possessed 3 hides which paid tax
and had two ploughs in lordship. There were
5 villeins and 12 bordars with 9 ploughs, together
with 8 other men. The assessors said that
one more plough was possible. There were
also 4 male and 3 female slaves.
In
1066 a part of Tarrington appeared to have been
a separate manor held by Arric. Ansfrid
also held this part in Domesday but from Roger
de Lacy, lord of Weobley, rather than the king
(Ansfrid was Roger’s cousin by marriage).
Here there was ½ hide, which paid tax and 1 plough
in lordship. There was also 1 bordar and
3 slaves.
The
name Tatintune, recorded as Tadintona
between 1135 and 1144 and Tadynton in 1306,
seems to be based on the Germanic personal name
Tāta (Coplestone-Crow, 1989). Tarrington
is a recent evolution of a name that was certainly
Taddington in the 17th century.
Taddington in Derbyshire is given as simply an
INGTŪN formation – ‘the TŪN
of Tāta’s people' (Eilert
Ekwall, ‘The Concise
Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names.’
Oxford 1936).
In
1350 the manorial rights were transferred to Edmund
de la Barre. The descent of the manor followed
then to the Bodenham family and then to the Foleys.
Paul Foley acquired Stoke Edith House from Sir
Thomas Cooke in 1683. In the agreement there
was a special stipulation that Foley should supply
Cooke with an annual consignment of cider during
the lifetime of the latter.
The
church at Tarrrington was a possession of the
alien Benedictine priory at Monmouth, a cell of
the Abbey of St Florent près Saumur on the Loire.
This meant that in times of war with France, the
king had the vicarage in his gift. A Hundred
Years War gave kings ample opportunities to use
such temporalities and this right was certainly
exercised by Edward III.
In
1346 John Plowfield was presented to the parish,
the 'temporalities of the priory of Monmouth
in the king's gift because of the war with France'.
In January the following year John de Rendlesham
was given the living. Rendlesham did not
last long either, for in February he exchanged
Tarrington for Welsh Bicknor, whose priest, John
de Grymesby moved to Tarrington. In March
1348 Grymesby was succeeded by John de Playford
and in June 1349 by John Brid. Henry de
Herlaston followed in August and seems to have
lasted for a relatively long period, for it was
not until December 1352 that another incumbent
was needed and Walter de Atherston became the
vicar. In January 1353 John de Plowevelde
was presented but presumably there was some sort
of problem because in November 1354 de Atherston
was still the incumbent when he exchanged the
benefice of Tarrington with Adam de Waltham.
In November 1361 John de Penyard was appointed
and after this the frequency of appointments declines
- an entry for 1396 records the appointment of
Thomas Killon leading to the inference that de
Penyard may have lasted for 35 years. However,
Monmouth Priory would have had its temporalities
restored during brief periods of peace and may
have appointed vicars itself during these times.
The
village itself would have followed the standard
pattern for an agricultural settlement in lowland
England with open fields being farmed in strips.
In 1796 the 450 acres of open fields, meadows
and pastures of Tarrington were 'ordered to
be divided, allotted and enclosed'.
The survey was to be undertaken by David Pain,
Land Surveyor, of the City of Hereford. |
