10 Jul Lordship Title of Canons ID1048
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Another manor in Wootton which became known after the Dissolution as the manor of CANONS belonged to Newnham Priory, upon whom lands in Woottonbourne, Church End and Campion's Hill in this parish were bestowed by David Loring, Hugh St. Edward and the Engayne family. These possessions were rated at £2 4s. 3½d. in 1291, and in 1330 the prior claimed the right to hold a view of frankpledge. He was granted free warren in Wootton in 1385, and in 1535 the estate was valued at £15 7s. 3d. with 8 acres of wood worth 8s., while rents repaid and wages amounted to £1 7s. 1d. After the Dissolution this property escheated to the Crown, and in 1542, when it was annexed to the honour of Ampthill, the value was only £10 10s. 8¾d. Courts were held for the manor in 1547, and a survey of the royal lands made in 1605, while in 1613 Lord Fenton resigned the office of steward, which was then conferred on Lord Edward Bruce. A grant of the manor with the assize rent of the free tenants, worth £1 3s. 8d. per annum, and the perquisites of courts, valued at 1s. 3d. yearly, was made in 1612 to John Eldred and William Whitmore, 'the fishing grantees,' and their heirs; but the manor was acquired shortly afterwards by Richard Button, who was in possession in 1623. His daughter and heir married Edmund Wingate, the mathematician, who had resided for some time in Paris, where he was tutor to the Princess Henrietta Maria, afterwards Queen of England; and their son Button Wingate conveyed his right in Canons Manor in 1658 to Robert and Thomas Yarwey, from whom it afterwards passed to the Monoux family, and is mentioned for the last time in 1729 in the possession of Humphrey Monoux. After this date it doubtless became merged in their larger manor of Wootton.
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