Richard Done
Events
Date of Birth: between 1240 and 1260.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Ormered (2:248) states that Richard was underage 44 Henry III (1259/60).
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: Richard Done.
This relationship is given by Ormerod (2:248). It is given in a pedigree from the pleas of the Circuit of the Forests of Mara and Moundren taken 31 Edward I, given in the Visitation of Cheshire (p. 83).
Mother: uncertain.
Ormerod suggests that she was the Mabel who is recorded as a widow in 44 Henry 3 (1259/60).
Spouse: Elizabeth Venables.
This relationship is given by Ormerod (2:248). It may be an error, as the chronology is a stretch.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Ormerod.)
Richard Done married (1) Ellen, daughter of Sir Thomas Swynnerton; married (2) Isabel.
Beatrice married Robert Sprot
Evidence
from the St Werburgh Chartulary:
no. 382.
Grant by William, son of Henry de Tiresford, in augmentation of the charities, of 2s. yearly from an oxgang in the territory of Tiresford which he bought of Richard Doun and which is called Scales.
Willelmus fihus Henrici de Tireford dedit in augmentum caritatum duos solidos annuos de quadam bouata terre in territorio de Tireford' in Natiuitate sancti Johannis Baptiste persoluendos, de illa scilicet bouata quam emit de Ricardo Doun et vocatur Scales.
Tiresford (or Tireford) was a hamlet in Tarporley, between the town and Tarporley Four Lane Ends. Lands there are referred to in D.K. 36 Rep. 296, 480, 542 ; 37 Rep. 657
no. 783.
Recognition by Richard de Done, lord of Tarporley, of the correct bounds between Tarporley and Iddinshall, which were also recognised by Hugh (de Tarporley), lord of a moiety of Tarporley. Before 1293.
Ricardus de Doun, dominus de Torperley, recognouit quod recte diuise inter Torperley et Ydinchale incipiunt ad altam viam que ducit a Torperley uersus Cestriam, extendunt se a dicta via uersus meridiem per le Witokestonel' vsque ad superiorem partem de Netstallis, et sic a superiore parte de Netstallis versus Torperley, et sic directe sequendo usque ad superiorem partem de Geylmaresiche, et sic directe a Geylmaresiche usque le Derneforde, et sic descendendo aqueductum cum medietate eiusdem cursus aque usque viam que ducit ab Heremitorio ultra predictum ductum uersus Ydinchale, et sic a dicta via que ducit ultra ductum iuxta superiorem partem de Flaxyord uersus Torperley usque ad Boteok weye, et sic sequendo Boteokweye usque ad diuisas de Teuerton. Et istas diuisas dictus Ricardus confirmauit, extra quas nichil vendicabit. Eandem recognicionem et confirmacionem fecit Hugo dominus medietatis ville de Torperley, vt patet in sua carta.
Despite Ormerod's doubts, the Dones seem to have held a mesne lordship of Tarporley, as of Utkinton, under the Venables (Orm. ii. 226, 236, 248, and No. 382). The date of the recognition is before the transference of Hugh de Tarporley's moiety to Reginald de Grey (Orm. ii. 226).
References
The Chartulary or Register of The Abbey of St. Werburgh Chester (ed. James Tait) Part I (Chetham Society, 1920), Part II (Chetham Society, 1923).
Glover, Robert. The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580 (John Paul Rylands, ed.) (The Harleian Society, London: 1882).
Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: G. Routledge, 1882).