10 Jul Lordship Title of Tempsford ID13351
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William de Carun held this manor of Eudo at Domesday, and his direct descendants continued to hold in Tempsford till well on into the thirteenth century. Robert de Carun, probably a son, presented Tempsford Church to St. Neots in 1129, and in 1130 paid 69s. into the exchequer for lands of his brother Ralph. In 1201 two knights' fees in the county were held by John de Carun, who was followed by Walter de Carun, who was holding here in 1228, and he in turn by Robert de Carun, who in 1284 rendered feudal service for one and a-half knight's fees in Tempsford. He died before 1297, leaving two daughters as co-heirs, Agnes wife of Roger de Cantilupe, and Joanna wife of Miles de Drayton, who each took a share of the manor, their holdings being afterwards known as Tempsford manor and Drayton's manor. Agnes de Cantilupe was holding Tempsford manor as late as 1346; between that date and 1428 it had passed to the College of Northill in Bedfordshire, founded at the beginning of the reign of Henry IV, and remained in its possession till the Dissolution, when the temporalities of the college in Tempsford consisted of 13s. 3½d. rent of free tenants, and 6s. 8d. by the bailiff of Tempsford. In 1550 the manor was granted by Edward VI to William Fitzwilliam, who three years later alienated it to Thomas Sheffield, and he in 1565 transferred it to George Keynsham. He, at his death in 1593, left a grandson, George, as heir, but his wife Elizabeth, subsequently married to Francis Gill, held Tempsford till her death in 1605, when George Keynsham succeeded to the property. He became insane in 1639, and the manor passed to his daughter Anne, then fourteen years of age. She married Anthony St. John the same year, and died in 1700, and from her the manor appears to have passed at some time to Henry Bendish, who held this property at his death in 1753. He left two daughters as co-heirs, Mary Berners and Elizabeth Hagar, who in 1772 sold the Tempsford property to Sir Gillias Payne. His grandson, Sir Charles Payne, held Tempsford, Drayton and Brayes manors in 1814, and in 1830 sold them to William Stuart, whose grandson,Lieut.-Colonel Dugald Stuart, at present owns this property.
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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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