10 Jul Lordship Title of Clophill with Cainhoe or Kaynoe ID1059
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At the time of the Domesday Survey, Nigel d'Albini held the manor of Cainhoe and the manor of Clophill; these two manors were always held together and became known as the manor or manors of Clophill and Cainhoe. That of Clophill consisted of 5 hides, and had been held by two thegns, men of Earl Tosti, while the manor of Cainhoe was assessed at 4 hides and had been held by Alvric, a thegn of King Edward. The manor descended to Nigel's son Henry and to the latter's son Robert, who died in 1192, and was succeeded by his son Robert, who died in 1224: his son Robert enjoyed the manor for only a short space, as he died without issue in 1233, when the manor passed to his sister Isabel, who married first William de Hocton, and secondly Drew des Preaux: her son William must have assumed the name de Albini, as he inherited the manor under that name on his mother's death in 1262. He apparently died soon after, when the manor passed to his son Simon, who died seised of it in 1272, leaving as his heirs his three sisters, Isabel, Christina, and Joan, who each took one-third of the manor. The youngest sister Joan married three times: by her second husband, Sir Roger Dakeney, she left a son and heir Robert, to whom descended the third on the death of his mother in 1310: Robert died in 1316, and as his son Roger was then only fourteen years of age, the custody of the lands and heir was granted to Richard de Cane, who enjoyed the profits until Roger proved his age in 1324. This Roger acquired a few years before his death another portion of the manor, amounting to one-ninth. When the manor was separated into thirds, Isabella the eldest sister brought her share to Hugh de St. Croix, by whom she had a son Peter; she married secondly William de Hotot, who held the third of the manor after her death. On his death in 1310 Peter de St. Croix entered into possession. In 1349 his estate suffered severely from the plague, all the bondmen and cottars dying of the pestilence. He himself died in the same year, and a few months later his son Robert died. The custody of the lands were granted to Roger de Beauchamp until the lawful age of the son and heir, Thomas, who proved his age in 1362 and alienated his share of the manor in 1364 to Sir John Cheyne, with remainder to John Dakeney and his heirs, a grandson of the Roger above mentioned, who was grandson of Joan. The remaining third of the manor, which was the inheritance of Christina, second daughter of William de Albini, was, on her death in 1318, divided again into thirds among her three daughters by Peter de la Stane, Elizabeth, Margery, and Christina. The youngest daughter Christina married Anthony de Byddik and died in 1326, the custody of the ninth part of the manor was granted to John de Mere as her son and heir John was only fifteen years old. In 1334 John granted this part for life to John Dakeney and Joan his wife, and in 1336 they acquired full possession. This John Dakeney was probably a younger son of Joan de Albini, the youngest daughter of William de Albini and wife of Roger Dakeney, and therefore uncle to Roger, to whom in 1348 he transferred his right in the manor. Through Elizabeth the eldest daughter one ninth passed to her son Peter de Norton, who died without issue in 1330, when his brother Thomas inherited it. The latter died in 1346, but in 1334 he had alienated the ninth of the manor for life to John Dakeney and Joan his wife; it reverted to Thomas de Norton's son Sir Ralph de Norton, who sold his right in the ninth part of the manor to John Dakeney, grandson of Roger, and his wife Mary in 1373. The remaining ninth, which fell to the inheritance of Margery, the second daughter, passed to her son Brian Saffey, who died in 1349, probably of the plague, leaving a daughter Alice or Joan, who also died the next year. This part of the manor then reverted to her uncle, Thomas Saffey, and on his death in 1361 passed to his sister Joan. In 1364 Joan alienated this ninth to John Dakeney, the grandson of Roger, who thus acquired eight parts of the manor, purchasing the remaining part from Sir Ralph de Norton in 1373, when the whole manor was reunited. Sir John Dakeney died seised of the manor in 1376, and as his son Walter was only seventeen years old the custody of the lands and heir was apparently granted to Reginald de Grey, who held a court there in 1381. Walter died while still under age in 1384, when Alice his father's sister inherited the manor. Alice and her husband Walter Alnthorpe continued to hold the manor, and were in possession in 1415, but some time between that date and 1428 it was alienated to Reginald de Grey. The manor continued in the de Grey family until it was sold by Richard, earl of Kent, some time in the reign of Henry VII to Giles, Lord Daubeny, who died seised of it in 1508. His son Henry probably conveyed the manor to Sir William Compton, knt., on whose death in 1528 it reverted to the king as the result of a settlement made previously by Sir William Compton in order to ensure the observance of his will. In 1542 it was annexed to the royal honour of Ampthill, and continued to be held by the crown for many years, leases of the whole or part of the manor being made at various dates. In 1530, when the rabbit warren was granted by Henry VIII to Thomas Sackville for twenty-one years, the site of the manor of Cainhoe was leased to William Cartwick for the same term. In 1548 the reversions of these grants were bestowed upon Robert Beverley, and in 1558 on Robert Power, together with the custody of the queen's woods in Cainhoe. In 1572 the site of the manor, rabbit warren and woods were in the possession of Thomas Newdigate, who had purchased them from Henry and George Fisher, who had bought them from Robert Power. In 1588 Elizabeth granted the custody of the woods to Anne Newdigate, widow, for twenty-one years, and in 1607 Thomas Viscount Fenton received them for forty-one years, while in 1613 he resigned his office of steward of the manor, which was then conferred upon Edward, Lord Bruce. In 1624 James I granted the manor and the site to Sir Henry Hobart, bart., and others for ninety-nine years in trust for the prince of Wales, and included the royal woods and rabbit warren in the grant; the reversion of this lease in 1628 was sold to James Beverley, who continued to hold the manor until 1654 when he alienated it to Amabel, dowager countess of Kent, in whose family the manor has remained until the present day, the present lord of the manor being Lord Lucas and Dingwall.
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