10 Jul Lordship Title of Ravensden or Traillys ID13339
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The Gascelins subinfeudated the Traillys, of whom the first to hold this manor was John Trailly, who died seised of it in 1272. The pedigree of the Trailly family has been worked out under Yelden, their chief seat (q.v.), with which their Ravensden manor was held until c. 1401. In 1276 Walter de Trailly claimed to hold view of frankpledge and have assize of bread and ale in Ravensden, and these privileges were again asserted by his descendant, another Walter, in 1330. The view of frankpledge was held once a year, after Michaelmas, and both it and the assize were claimed by prescriptive right; but as Walter had punished the transgressors of the assize of bread and ale by a fine of 12d., instead of by tumbril and pillory, he was obliged to pay half a mark in order to retain his privileges. The manor, consisting of one messuage and 140 acres of arable land, was settled on William de Woodhull by John Trailly, but on the latter's death in 1360 it reverted to his son John Trailly. (fn. 41) Reginald, the last of the Traillys in the direct line, alienated most of his property, but retained Ravensden Manor, which at his death in 1401 was said to be worth only 33s. 4d. per annum, as 5 marks of its annual revenue had been granted by Reginald to John Harteshorne for life. At this date it acquired its distinctive name of Trailly's Manor and passed to Margery wife of William Huggeford and cousin and heir of Reginald Trailly. Until 1569 its descent is identical with that of the manor of Wilden (q.v.), which Margery had inherited from her father Sir James Pabenham. In 1569 Thomas Lucy conveyed Ravensden and Wilden Manors to Thomas Rolt, (fn. 44) but, although Wilden continued in the Rolt family for over 160 years, there is no further mention of Trailly's Manor. Parcel of the manor, however, called Great and Little Traillys Closes, came into the possession of John Rawlins, who died seised of them in 1599, leaving them by will to his son Stephen, after whose death Great Traillys was to revert to John, Stephen's eldest son, and Little Traillys to Robert, his second son. Robert died, while still under age, in 1607, when Little Traillys passed to his elder brother John, then aged eleven. John died in 1617, leaving a younger brother Francis, to whom the property, called 'lands in Woodend,' then descended. The freehold estate of John Rawlins, consisting of a messuage and 100 acres of pasture, which in 1657 was forcibly entered by Edmund Cosen of Ravensden, yeoman, is doubtless identical with Great and Little Traillys Closes. The present Traylesfields Farm, the property of Miss Twinberrow, in the north-west corner of the parish, near Wood End hamlet, may stand on the site of the Rawlins' messuage, and establishes the locality of this estate.
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Manorial Counsel Limited has created a new legal right to bring the titles of this lordship back into use.
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