10 Jul Lordship Title of Howe or Covington Fee or Howe and Pertenhall or Pertenhall ID1146
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The manor of HOWE AND PERTENHALL alias COVINGTON FEE appears to have belonged to the Knights Templars. There is but slight documentary evidence relating to the tenure of the Templars in Pertenhall, but property in the parish retained the name of Templars' Lands down into the 19th century, (fn. 23) and there is still a moat that is pointed out as the site of their manor-house. The Knights Templars' manor of Pertenhall passed, with the bulk of the property of their order, to the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, who had a preceptory in the neighbouring parish of Melchbourne. These latter appear to have made a temporary grant of the manor in the early part of the 14th century to John Merlyn, to whom Edward II granted rights of free warren in 1319. (fn. 24) The Prior of the Knights Hospitallers held a view of frankpledge in Pertenhall. (fn. 25) After the Dissolution no further mention of this manor occurs until the year 1660, when Richard Spicer alienated it to Simon Grey, (fn. 26) who retained it until 1690, when he conveyed it to Francis Brace (fn. 27); he sold it five years later to James Oliver. (fn. 28) The manor remained in the hands of the Oliver family for a considerable period, and it is probable that an heiress of that family married Simon Taylor, who, with his son Simon Oliver, suffered a recovery of the manor in 1772. (fn. 29) It was purchased from Simon Taylor in 1790 by a clergyman named Paget, (fn. 30) whose heirs held the manor in 1801. (fn. 31) It was purchased from them by William Bricheno, (fn. 32) who sold it to John King Martin in 1820. (fn. 33) His representatives still hold property in Pertenhall at the present day.
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