03 Nov Lordship Title of Grymsbury ID13888
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At the time of the Testa de Nevill Robert de Shelbethorp held it as one thirty-sixth of a knight's fee. By 1275–6 it had passed to the Grym family, whose tenure of the property gave the manor its distinctive name. In this year James Grym acknowledged his obligation to pay homage, scutage and relief to William Lenveise for the 3 virgates in Bolnhurst. By 1302 he had been succeeded by Margery Grym, probably his widow. In 1316 Alice Grym was holding, whilst forty years later Robert Grym was seised of the property, which was still held as one thirty-sixth of a knight's fee. The last mention of this family occurs in 1377, when Sir John Ragon died seised of a few acres in Bolnhurst which he held of 'the heirs of Grymsbury.' After this date no documentary evidence concerning this property has been found, until Edmund Earl of Wiltshire died seised of it (here for the first time called a manor) in 1499. His trustees, Robert Wyttelbury, William Norbury and Thomas Montague assigned the manor with other property to the chaplain of the late earl's perpetual chantry at Pleshey in Essex, which was in connexion with the college of Pleshey. The patronage of the college of Pleshey on the forfeiture of the estates of Edward Duke of Buckingham in 1521 came to the Crown. In 1549 Edward VI granted the 'capital messuage called Grymsbury' to Edmund Clarke, Nicholas Vaux and Thomas Grendon. The last died seised of the property in 1559. By his will dated 6 November 1549 he left it to his sons Walter, Roger and Robert in tail-male successively. In 1592 Grymsbury formed part of the property left by Thomas Julyan alias Taylor, yeoman, to his second son Thomas. All manorial rights would appear by this time to have lapsed, and the term manor is no longer applied to the property. Thomas Taylor and his son Richard are both described as of Grymsbury in the visitation of 1634, but the latter is also described as 'of Clapham', with which parish the further history of the family is more closely associated. Grymsbury passed into the hands of the Ashburnham family by the marriage of Thomas Taylor's daughter and heiress Elizabeth to William second Lord Ashburnham. The property was sold in the early half of the 19th century by the then Lord Ashburnham to Robert Elliot of Goldington. The latter's property was inherited by his daughter Florence, who married Sir Richard Power of Kilfane. The property is still in the possession of Lady Power.
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