10 Jul Lordship Title of Arlesey Bury or Arlrichsey ID1004
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The manor of ARLESEY BURY formed part of the original endowment of Waltham Abbey by Harold, and a confirmation of his grant is first found in a charter of Edward the Confessor, bearing the date 1062. By the time of the Domesday Survey, in common with other Waltham Abbey lands, this manor is to be found in the tenure of the bishop of Durham. It consisted of 8 hides and contained two mills. It would seem, however, to have been very quickly restored to its original owners, for it reappears as part of the endowment of the abbey in charters of Henry II and Richard I. The thirteenthcentury history of this manor is marked by numerous small grants of land in Arlesey to the abbey by the Burnards and others, but, nevertheless, the Testa de Nevill states that the abbot held 3 hides only in Arlesey, as opposed to the 8 of the Survey. The abbey retained the possession of the manor until the dissolution of the religious houses, at which time the yearly rents were £35 6s. 8d., whilst the profits of court were worth £3 13s. In the year 1514 the abbot and convent had leased Arlesey Bury (with all its appurtenances save pleas of court) to John Henneage, and Thomas Henneage on the seizure of the manor by the crown secured their title by purchase in 1544. On his death in 1559 Thomas Henneage left as heiress his daughter Anne, wife of John Luke. Nicholas Luke, their son, held the manor for his life, but his son Oliver who succeeded him in 1613, and who was certainly holding in 1625, appears to have alienated it, for by 1659 Arlesey Bury with Lanthony had passed to the Edwards family, as in that year Richard Edwards recovered the manor from Richard Hampson and George Edwards. Richard Edwards was succeeded by a son Richard who died in 1746, and whose son Richard, dying without issue in 1789, left the Arlesey estates to a nephew William Bedford who took the name Edwards by royal licence in 1792. In 1820 his son Samuel Bedford Edwards held the manor, and as in the case of Arlesey manor (q.v.) his son sold Arlesey Bury Manor to Messrs. Lycett, Inskip & Co. Arlesey Bury House with 40 acres of land was bought by Colonel Fyler who died in 1903, and has since been purchased by Mr. Howard Carter, who lives there.
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