10 Jul Lordship Title of Harlington ID1120
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Ralph Pyrot or his ancestors apparently obtained the manor of Harlington by subinfeudation from the Albinis before the early part of the 13th century, and held it from them by the services of one knight's fee. A Ralph Pyrot is returned as lord of the manor in 1276, and in 1302 as owner of the vill, part of which was held by the Abbot of Woburn in frank almoigne. In 1301 Ralph settled the manor on his son Reginald, who held Harlington after the death of his father, which occurred circa 1315, in which year Reginald obtained seisin of the manor. In 1317 and again in 1320–1 he was summoned to answer a plea of debt, which in default of payment was to be satisfied by a levy on his Bedfordshire estates. This was evidently the cause of the levying of a fine on his Harlington property in 1321 in favour of Nicholas de Boweles, though the manor did not pass away from the Pyrot family till some years later. Some time previous to 1330, in consequence of the death of Reginald Pyrot and the minority of his heir, John St. Amand, his overlord, assumed the wardship and took the issues of the lands, enjoying the same until his own death, when they were seised by the escheator as the right of the king, but were restored on proof being made that the manor was not held of the king in chief, and on attaining his majority Ralph, the heir of Reginald Pyrot, entered into possession. In 1336 he alienated the manor to his overlord, Almaric St. Amand, who held this knight's fee in Harlington in 1346, and by a feoffment of 1369 settled Harlington Manor on trustees to hold for himself and his issue. The following year he was compelled to pay a fine of £20 for the alienation made without royal licence. (fn. 17) Almaric died in 1381, and Harlington Manor, then valued at £10 per annum, passed to his son, another Almaric. He was twice married, and by his first wife had a daughter Eleanor, who married Sir Gerard Braybrooke, and died in her father's lifetime, 1387, leaving a son Gerard. By his second wife Eleanor, who survived him and held a third part of Harlington as dower until her death in 1426, he had a daughter Ida, who married Thomas West. The younger Almaric, who died in 1402, left as heirs to his estates the above-mentioned grandson Gerard and daughter Ida, and the former inherited the share of the latter on her death without issue in 1416. In 1422 Gerard St. Amand settled his two-thirds of the manor and the reversion of the remaining one-third held in dower by his grandmother on trustees, who on his death shortly afterwards obtained by a fine of 40 marks licence to acquire the manor for his daughters and co-heirs Elizabeth, Maud and Eleanor, then minors. Elizabeth, the sole survivor and eventual heir, married Sir William Beauchamp in 1443, and he was later summoned to Parliament as Baron St. Amand, 'jure uxoris,' until his death in 1457. Richard Beauchamp, their son and heir, succeeded his father in the barony, and in 1483 was attainted. He was restored to his honours by Henry VII, and on the death of his mother in 1491 inherited her estates. Between 1491 and 1517 there was an alienation of Harlington Manor in moieties, of which one passed to John Broughton, lord of Toddington, and the other to Cecily Marchioness of Dorset. Henry, son and heir of Cecily, held a moiety of the manor in 1542, but the following year he exchanged his Harlington estate and that of Marston (co. Sussex) with the king for the manor and advowson of Beaumanor (co. Leicester). In 1548 Harlington was granted to Sir Thomas Palmer, who was attainted in 1553 for his adherence to the cause of Lady Jane Grey, and the following year Queen Mary granted this moiety to Sir Thomas Cheyney, who also held the other half of the manor, with that of Toddington, by marriage with one of the daughters and heirs of John Broughton. From this date Harlington Manor follows the descent of Toddington Manor (q.v.).
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