10 Jul Lordship Title of Herne or Harne or Herne Grange ID1134
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Early in the reign of Henry III Simon son of Hugh de Stanbridge granted to the monks of Woburn a small property in Herne inherited from his maternal grandfather Simon Franchevaler, but 3 carucates of land in Herne granted to Roger Abbot of Woburn in 1235 by Humphrey de Herne doubtless formed the origin of the abbey's Toddington property, known later as HERNE GRANGE or HERNE MANOR. In 1276 the Abbot of Woburn paid half a mark to the barony of Chaworth for his estate in Herne, which in 1291 was valued in land, rent and profits of their courts at £6 0s. 10d., and in movable property at £1 18s. 4d. yearly. In 1302–3 Woburn Abbey held in the vill of Herne two parts of half a knight's fee, and a similar return was made in 1346 and 1428. The property was increased in 1368 by a small grant from Richard Carleton, and by a royal charter of 1392 the abbot and monks obtained a right of free warren in all their lands in Herne. At the Dissolution the revenues of Woburn Abbey derived from Herne Grange amounted to £9 19s. 2d., with 10s. rent from Walter Morres for the capital messuage and certain land there. In 1539 a lease of Herne Grange was granted to Roger Lee for twenty-one years at a rent of £6 13s. 4d., the bailiffs of the Crown holding the annual court baron of the honour of Ampthill at Herne during the ensuing eight years. In 1547 the reversion of this property was granted to Sir William Paget, together with the free warren and pasture called 'Harclease,' and right of holding court leet and view of frankpledge at Herne. Within the next ten years, however, Herne Grange passed to Richard Bury, having been purchased by him from Peter Grey. He died in 1557, when the estate passed to his son and heir Humphrey. The latter married Jane daughter of Thomas Rotheram, kt., and in 1560 made a settlement of Herne upon her and their issue. Humphrey died in 1592, leaving a son Henry, who in 1600 obtained livery of his father's lands in Toddington. The continuity of the descent of the manor of Herne during the 17th century is broken, no documents having been found to show how it passed to its successive owners. In 1625 William Brett died seised of it, leaving as heir a son William, who obtained livery of a third part of Herne Manor in 1628. He shortly afterwards was attainted for felony, and in 1629 a grant of the lands confiscated for that reason was made to his brother Robert. In 1635 the capital messuage of Herne is enumerated among the properties held by John Wainright at the time of his death, though no mention is made of the manor. Trace of the latter is lost until 1690, when it was the property of Arthur Mawditt, who suffered a recovery of the estate in that year. He apparently left three daughters as co-heirs, for in 1715 Elizabeth Cley, widow, Maria Mawditt and Sarah Mawditt, spinsters, were jointly seised of Herne Manor. In 1813 Charlotte Georgina Bettesworth and Frances Herne, wife of John Quantock, appear as holding equal rights in the property, which was then conveyed to Richard Gutteridge. (fn. 145) Before 1822 it had passed to Richard Thomas Gilpin. At the present day Mrs. Warren-Vernon is lady of the manor.
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