24 Nov Lordship Title of Grovebury or La Grove ID14066
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A second GROVEBURY or LA GROVE MANOR in this parish dates from the foundation of the priory temp. Richard I. Until the 17th century it followed the same descent as that of Leighton Buzzard (q.v.), only occasionally being mentioned as an individual manor. Such separate mention occurs in 1293, when the Abbess of Fontévrault acquired seisin of Leighton and La Grove, which the escheator had temporarily taken into the king's hands. In the 17th century the Leighs were declared to hold this manor, as well as that of Leighton, on lease under the Dean and Canons of St. George's, Windsor. The lease of both manors was vested in the Leighs until 1668, when Thomas Lord Leigh conveyed his interest in that of Grovebury to Dr. George Bates, physician to Charles II. It passed from this family to the Powneys, and afterwards, about 1776, to William Villiers Lewis, whose son William Villiers Villiers was lessee at the beginning of the 19th century.
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