10 Jul Lordship Title of Coldridge ID1427
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Adam de Port gave 10 librates of land in Shefford, afterwards known as the manor of COLDRIDGE (Colrigge, xiii cent.; Colrugge, xiv, xv cent.), to John Marshal on his marriage with Adam's daughter Joan. She afterwards married Richard de Rivers of East Mersea (co. Essex), and in 1205–6 some disagreement seems to have taken place between Adam and Richard as to this estate. An arrangement was made by which certain tenants at Shefford were assigned to Richard, and Adam agreed that these tenants should have common pasture at Ildelande. Richard was succeeded about 1228 by his son William, who married Eleanor daughter of Fulk Fitz Warin and died in 1276. His son and successor John de Rivers died in 1277 seised of the manor of Coldridge, within the manor of Shefford, held of John St. John. He left a widow Mabel and a son William, then aged three years. The custody of the manor was granted in 1278 to John St. John, the overlord. William was succeeded before 1303 by Richard de Rivers, who was holding this manor in 1323–4 and died about 1332, when the king ordered his escheator to restore to Alice, Richard's widow, the issues from Coldridge, which was then held of Richard de Hautot by the service of a pair of gilt spurs. Their son Robert de Rivers presumably succeeded his mother. The manor had passed before 1346 with that of East Mersea to Richard le Hurde, who held it of the inheritance of his wife. In 1428 it was in the hands of John Kentwood, who was holding the manor of West Shefford, with which Coldridge afterwards seems to have become merged.
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