10 Jul Lordship Title of Eatonsbury or Arlesey or Etonbury ID1083
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At the date of the Domesday Survey Arlesey manor was held under William D'Eu by Burnard, whose family continued in possession till late in the thirteenth century. They were liberal benefactors of Waltham Abbey (who owned a manor in Arlesey), and also of St. Neots Priory, and from an examination of existing charters of these houses the Burnard lordship in Arlesey can be traced. Roger son of Burnard gave 1 virgate of land in Arlesey and a tenement to St. Neots. Odo son of Roger granted 13s. 4d. rent and right of way through his lands towards the canons' meadow to Waltham Abbey. The Testa de Nevill states that in the thirteenth century Roger Burnard held a knight's fee in Arlesey of the Earl Marshal, and this is the Roger son of Odo who confirmed to St. Neots all the gifts of his ancestors. In 1270 Stephen Burnard of Edworth, probably a son of the above Roger, was in possession of Arlesey manor, for in that year he received the grant of a fair there. He was the last of his family to hold in Arlesey which, as in the case of Everton, passed to Walter Langton, bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, and followed the same descent as that manor through the Peverels, de la Poles, Cobhams, Brookes, and Tanfields, until late in the sixteenth century. In 1566–7 Clement Tanfield sold Arlesey manor to Henry Gylberd, a goldsmith of London, from whom it was purchased a year later by John Andrews. The Andrewses did not long retain it, however, for William son of John conveyed it to Thomas Emery in 1593. Thomas Emery left six daughters at his death in 1636, one of whom, Florence widow of Henry Goodwin, received Etonbury or Arlesey manor as her inheritance. She subsequently married John Farwell, and they alienated the estate in 1646 to Samuel Browne. Like Astwick (q.v.) this manor remained with the Brownes during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, passing to John Schutz on his marriage with Mary daughter of Thomas Browne. In 1775 John Schutz was holding the manor, for in that year he conveyed it by fine to Edward Kynaston. Lysons, writing early in the eighteenth century, says Arlesey was then in the possession of John Jackson, who had made a recent purchase. In 1820 Mr. Jackson sold this property to Samuel Bedford Edwards, whose son, also Samuel Bedford Edwards, again sold it to Messrs. Lycett, Inskip & Co., solicitors, of Bristol. They have cut the estate up and sold it to various persons, but do not appear to have parted with the manorial rights.
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