10 Jul Lordship Title of Bowells ID1032
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There was another estate in Gravenhurst which became known in the sixteenth century as BOWELLS MANOR. The family of Bueles were landowners in Gravenhurst in the thirteenth century. Eustace de Bueles was holding land in Gravenhurst in 1221, and in 1225 he alienated half an acre of land to Elias, parson of Gravenhurst. In 1274 occurred the death of Peter de Bueles, probably the son of Eustace. Peter left a son John, who was then under age. The wardship of his lands in Gravenhurst and Warden, worth £12 10s. 1¼d., was granted to Thomas Inge, who held them until John proved his age in 1283. At the end of the thirteenth century Nicholas, probably the son of John, was holding with John de la Mare half a knight's fee in Gravenhurst and Eye, and in 1302–3 a quarter of a fee with Peter Brian and Yolenta his mother. In 1308 John de Bueles was granted free warren in Gravenhurst, and was one of the lords of Gravenhurst and Eye in 1316. By 1346, however, his estate had passed to Peter Brian, but it does not appear to have been alienated to Reginald de Grey with the other lands of the Brian family in Nether Gravenhurst, for nothing is heard of the fee until it appears again in 1543 as a messuage which Benett Smith, son and heir of Simon Smith, sold to Laurence Snowe. The messuage remained in the possession of the Snowe family until 1567, when Thomas, son of Laurence, alienated it under the name of the Manor of Bowells to Sir Henry Compton. It did not remain long in the latter's possession, for it was acquired by Henry, earl of Kent, in 1574. Before this purchase, it had apparently been held of the earl of Kent as of his manor of Nether Gravenhurst by knight service. The manor was held by the earls of Kent jointly with their other manors of Gravenhurst. The last mention of the manor occurs in 1623, when Charles, earl of Kent, died seised of it, after this date it was probably merged in one of the larger manors.
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Manorial Counsel Limited has created a new legal right to bring the titles of this lordship back into use.
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