23 Nov Lordship Title of Eversholt ID14047
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A certain Ralph held the manor as tenant in fee in 1086. At the close of the 12th century a family named Eversholt were settled here, and it is probable they were then in possession of the manor. John son of Miles de Eversholt, who dealt with lands here in 1202–3, held Eversholt by service of one knight's fee of the Bedford barony early in the 13th century, and before 1240 alienated the same to the abbot and convent of Woburn. This monastery had already acquired other possessions in this parish, and later increased their lands in the same place by numerous small grants. In 1284 they received one messuage and 30 acres of land from Paulinus de Eversholt, and in the same year a rent of 24s. 0½d. from Hugh de Mentmore. Further alienations in mortmain were made to the abbey by John son of Richard Knight in 1291, by Ralph Botte and John de Staunton in 1307, by John atte Forde in 1353, and by Gilbert Archer in 1392. At the Dissolution the manor of Eversholt, valued at £31 6s., fell to the Crown and was annexed to the honour of Ampthill, and in 1550 was granted to the Princess Elizabeth for life. In 1574 it was leased by her to George Bredyman for sixty years at a rent of £31 11s. 5d., but in 1601 it was again in the hands of the Crown, and was purchased by Henry Astrey for £1,578 10s. 10d., the manor to be held in chief by the service of one-fortieth part of one knight's fee. Before 1613, however, it had passed to Thomas Hillersdon, kt., and on his death in 1623 descended to his son and heir Thomas, then a minor aged twelve. He survived his father nine years and left the estates to his infant son, another Thomas, who in 1651 married Elizabeth daughter of John Huxley of Edmonton, on whom an annuity of £350 chargeable on Eversholt and his other Bedfordshire properties was settled as jointure. Their son and heir Thomas was in possession in 1676–7, and William Hillersdon, a son of this Thomas, suffered a recovery of the property in 1699. Three years later he conveyed it to Wriothesley Duke of Bedford for £3,901 6s. 6d., with whose direct descendants the manors of Eversholt and Wakes have since remained, both now belonging to the present Duke of Bedford.
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