10 Jul Lordship Title of Billington ID1024
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An estate which in the 15th century became known as the manor of BILLINGTON was held during the 14th and 15th centuries by a family who bore the same name as the place. In 1349 John Billington made a settlement of this estate in Leighton, Billington and Stanbridge on himself, with remainder to his son John, and his descendants continued to hold the property, first called a manor in 1496, until 1527, when Joan Haslewood conveyed it to Robert, afterwards Sir Robert, Dormer at the same time that she alienated the manor of Kimptons (q.v.), with which Billington descended until 1556, when the Jackmans parted with Kimptons but retained Billington. An epitaph in Leighton Buzzard Church to William Jackman of Billington, who with his two sons William and Reginald died in 1597, probably records the death of the son and grandsons of the William who purchased the manor in 1539, and Billington passed to Gabriel Jackman, the brother of Reginald, who with his wife Elizabeth alienated it in 1636 to John Huxley. The Huxley family continued to hold the manor during the 18th century, but it passed out of their possession some time before 1808, and became the property of the Pottingals, from whom the manorial rights appear to have been acquired before 1869 by the Hanmers, lords of the manor of Leighton Buzzard. These rights are now vested in their successor, Mr. J. T. Mills.
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