02 Nov Lordship Title of Dudley ID13874
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As stated under Dudley Manor, two knights held of the Belvoir honour at Domesday, and though the property of the second knight never attained the status of a manor, its history is traceable from the 13th century until its absorption in the Mordaunt property. In 1277–8 Hugh de Willey held a capital messuage, 60 acres of land and 2 acres of meadow, and the whole meadow called Edwinsmede, of the Belvoir honour, for 7½d. yearly rent, homage and relief. His son Roger succeeded him, and was holding in Turvey as late as 1318–19. In 1346 the fraction of a knight's fee which had formerly belonged to Roger de Willey was declared to be held by Robert Mordaunt, and the last mention which has been found of this property before its final absorption in the Mordaunt estates is in 1373, when Edmund Mordaunt held a dove-house and 60 acres of land in Turvey by knight's service of Sir Thomas Reynes, the representative of the Belvoir overlordship in this parish.
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