10 Jul Lordship Title of Blundells or Hartshorne or Upper Caldecote ID1026
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The origin of a fourth manor in Caldecote and Ickwell, that of UPPER CALDECOTE, formerly BLUNDELLS alias HARTSHORNE, is obscure. The land which John Blundel owned in 1381 was held of Northill Rectory Manor, but the tenure of Blundells was stated in 1558 to be unknown, while Hartshorne Farm in Ickwell, then apparently not included in the manor, was held of the king by knight service in 1561 and 1606. At the end of the 12th century the Hartshorne family owned lands in Hartshorne, and in 1439 it was still named in connexion with Ickwell, while scattered references show that the Blundells were settled in Caldecote for upwards of one hundred years from the latter half of the 13th century, but no mention has been found of the manor until the reign of Edward VI. John Poley acquired Blundells from the Colts, and bequeathed it to his wife Alice, while his son Francis, who died in 1568, left the reversion to his wife Denys. From this date the manor followed the same descent as Carminos (q.v.), passing from the Reades to George Mordaunt and his wife Cecilia. John Mordaunt, their grandson, owned Blundells in 1728. After this date the history of the manor becomes obscure. It apparently became known as Upper Caldecote, which in 1801 belonged to John Harvey, and passed in the same way as Northill Manor (q.v.), the owner at the present time being Mr. John Edmund Audley Harvey.
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