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In 1218 Robert de Lamburn gave the Church of St. Mary and All Saints, Lambourne, to the canons of Waltham Holy Cross. This was confirmed to them by William de St. Maria, Bishop of London, in 1218, and seems to have been appropriated to them, and a vicarage ordained; but so ordered, that the perpetual vicar, who should supply the cure, should pay forty shillings yearly pension to the said canons, for the use of the poor of their hospital, built within the courts of their monastery, and then the vicars to have all the remaining profits, and to sustain all the burthens of this church.

Lambourne Manor

This information has been copied from British History On-Line

In 1300 the manor was among the lands left at his death by William De Lambourne. It was then held by the heirs of… (irrelevant to us

The manor had been subinfuedated to the Lambourne family long before 1300. That family held land in the parish in 1203, when Robert de Lambourne is mentioned, and this Robert, or a namesake was the owner of the advowson before 1218. A John de Lambourne occurs in 1240. In 1261 it was stated that Christopher de Lambourne, later hanged for felony, had held ¼ knights fee in Lambourne of William de Lambourne. This tenement had been in the kings hand since December 1259; the king had given his year, day and waste to Elizabeth, widow of Christopher who was said to have wholly spoiled the land. A William de Lambourne was among those who did fealty to Bishop Burnelll for their lands in Lambourne in 1282. He was probably identical with the man of that name who held the manor at his death in 1300.

William de Lambourne was succeeded by his son James. The manor was then said to include 140 acres worth 2pounds 13s 4d, 7 acres of meadow worth 14s, 8 acres of pasture worth 8s and 2 acres of wood, wasted and valueless. Total value of manor was 6 pounds 19s 9d.

James de Lambourne (knighted in 1306) made a settlement of the manor in 1307. He was still alive in 1325. Thomas de Lambourne held the manor in 1351. He died in 1361 and his son and heir Willaim died in the same year. William was succeeded by his sister Joan, wife of William de Chene.

This is the last mention of the de Lambournes owning the manor.