In the Confessor's time Robert father of Suane held carucates of land as a manor with soc. There were 6 villeins, 20 bordars, 6 slaves, 1 ploughteam in demesne, 4 belonging to the men, 1 mill, and 10 acres of meadow.

The value was 6 pounds which by the time of the Great Survey had risen to 8 pounds. There had been a great increase in prosperity all round, though the bordars were 3 less, the slaves 4 less, and there was one ploughteam less of the men's, yet at the Hall there were 3 horses, and belonging to the manor 31 beasts, 45 hogs, 80 sheep and 35 goats. The manor was half a league in length, and 2 quarantenes in breadth and paid in a gelt 12d. Suane of Essex was the Domesday tenant in chief.' He was succeeded by his son Henry de Essex who forfeited the manor in 1163. Gervase speaks of the disgrace of Henry de Essex thus : "An. 1157 Rex Henricus expeditioncm paravit in Gualias :— Signifer enim Regis Henricus de Essessia nomine, dum inter hostiles cuneos impeteretur, vexillum regium in terram dimisit. Quoviso Gualenscs auda- ciores, Angli vero timidiores effecti sunt, existimantes regem in praclio corruisse. Ex hoc infortunio Henricus, cum esset nobilissimus inter principes Angliae, perpetuum incurrit obprobrium et exhseredationem."2 The duel between Robert de Montfort and Henry de Essex took place in 1163 in which year Diceto says: " Robertus de Muntford cum Henrico de Essex certamine singulari congrediens victoriam reportavit. Henricus antem notam infamiae simul et ex hseredationis jacturam incurrens, indulgentia principis habitum monachalem suscepit aput Radingum."3 Henry III. granted the manor to Hubert de Burgh when he created him Earl of Kent. Page rather implies that the manor had to be parted with by the Earl, for he says of him " after falling into disgrace with that monarch [Henry III.] he was obliged to part with several of his castles and lands to secure the quiet enjoyment of the residue," and the Suffolk historian then skips to 1339 when the Scroops had the manor. However, the inference would not be correct, for Hubert de Burgh held this manor till his death. This Hubert was one of the most powerful and influential nobles of his time. Dugdale says of him : " The first mention of this Hubert I find is that he was servant to King Richard I., as also to King John, being sent by the latter from Roan, in the first year of his reign, to treat of a marriage for him with a daughter to the King of Portugall ; and had such great estimation from that King that in the third year of his reign, being lord chamberlain of the household, he was constituted warden of the Marches of Wales, and had a hundred soldiers to attend him in those parts." He was one one of the nobles who stood to King John and witnessed the signing of the Magna Charta, being at that time made Justiciar of England. He was of the guardians of Hen. III. and associated in the government of the Kingdom during his minority and was Regent of England in 1219. He was High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1215, and 1217 to 1225. The incident to which Page refers is narrated by Dugdale, who states : But before the end of this thirteenth year [about Michaelmas] the king having a rendezvous at Portesmouth of the greatest army that had been seen in this realm (it consisting of English, Irish, Scotch, and Welsh),

Nayland is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Nayland-with-Wissington, in the Babergh district, in the county of Suffolk, England. It is in the Stour Valley on the Suffolk side of the border between Suffolk and Essex. In 2011 the built-up area had a population of 938.[1]