10 Jul Lordship Title of Veseys or Vasey ID1309
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The earliest mention found of the family that gives its name to the manor of VESEYS or VASEYS is in 1190–1, when Jordan L'Enveise owed 15 marks for having right of land in Barford against Robert son of Ralph. Jordan is also mentioned as a witness to a grant of land at this time. Robert de Suppethorp followed Robert son of Ralph mentioned above and held 1½ hides here between 1250 and 1270, but by 1302–3 had alienated his property to the L'Enveises, Walter L'Enveise holding a quarter of a knight's fee in that year. Walter and his wife Agatha or Alice still held in 1316, and upon his death the property went with his wife to her second husband, Sir Richard de Lacy. She was still holding this quarter of a knight's fee in 1346, between which date and 1424 the manor had become the property of Edmund Brudenell and Alice his wife, who possibly was a daughter of Alice L'Enveise. In that year Edmund and his wife alienated the manor 'called Voysys, near Newenham,' to Henry Archbishop of Canterbury, who was the son of Thomas Chicheley of Higham Ferrers, co. Northants. The archbishop enfeoffed Hugh Hasyldene and others with this quarter of a knight's fee, and they held it still in 1428. Upon the foundation, however, of the College of Higham Ferrers in 1424, Henry Chicheley granted the manor of Veseys towards its support. Eight years previous to its dissolution the college had rents in Barford to the value of £6 14s. 4d., and held Veseys till 1542, when the manor was granted to Robert Dacres of Cheshunt. Robert died a year after he had acquired the property, and was succeeded by George Dacres, who died seised of it in 1579. It was then left by will to his third son Robert. The manor appears to have been alienated during the next generation to the family of Hatley, of whom Robert Hatley, John Hatley and Anne his wife combined in 1630 to alienate this manor to George Francklin. The latter still held the property in 1653, and one of the same name died in 1690, and was succeeded by Sir John Francklin, who died without offspring in 1707. Under his will the property went to the Rev. John Francklin, a member of a younger branch of the family, who left a fortune of £20,000 at his death in 1731. He was succeeded by his son John, who became sheriff for Bedfordshire a year before his death in 1740. His son John married in 1759, and at this time suffered a recovery of the manor. He, too, was made sheriff for the county, and held Veseys till 1820. His son Richard succeeded him, and was in turn succeeded by his son John, who died in 1858. The property then passed to the latter's son, John Lisle Francklin, who holds it at the present time.
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