10 Jul Lordship Title of Apsley or Apsley Bury or Aspley Bury or Ion ID1002
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The first mention that has been found of a second manor in Shillington, afterwards called SHILLINGTON or ASPLEY BURY, held of the abbot of Ramsey, is in 1476, when Thomas Lawley transferred this so-called manor to Thomas Rotherham archbishop of York, who left it at his death in 1500 to Thomas Rotherham, son of his brother John. Thomas Rotherham was succeeded by his son Thomas, who conveyed the manor to a son, a third Thomas and his wife Alice, for their lives. George, their son, held the manor from 1561 to 1599, and his son John, having succeeded him, appears to have alienated this manor, as in the case of Luton (q.v.) to Sir Robert Napier, for in 1651 he was holding a court at Shillington, and like Luton it remained in this family to the death of Sir John Napier in 1714. In 1748 the manorial court was held by Sir Conyers D'Arcy, and in 1759 by the earl of Holderness, (fn. 39) who in 1760 sold the property to Joseph Musgrave, and henceforward it follows the same descent as Aspley Bury manor (q.v.) in the same parish.
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