23 Oct Lordship Title of Holwell ID13777
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The manor of HOLWELL originated in a charter of King Edgar, bearing date 968, and granting land in Holwell to the abbey of St. Peter of Westminster, which was confirmed in 1066 by Edward the Confessor when the land is described as 6½ hides. At the Domesday Survey in 1086 the abbot of Westminster held a manor of the above extent in Holwell. In the thirteenth century this manor was assessed for scutage at 9 marks yearly, and included 6 hides, and in 1490 Thomas Peyton held it of the abbey by service of £6 yearly, but no further trace has been found of the overlordship, and it is not mentioned in the Valor Ecclesiasticus as belonging to Westminster Abbey.
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