10 Jul Lordship Title of Gastlyns or Gastlings or Gastlynbury ID1108
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In 1229 Walter de Godarvill, the first tenant of the manor whose name has been traced, was reinstated by the king in his land in Southill, and continued in possession until his death in 1250, when the manor was held by a yearly rent of 6d. and a pair of gilt spurs. He was succeeded by his daughter Joan, the wife of Sir Geoffrey Gastlyn, from whom the manor derives its distinctive name. She survived her husband, and was succeeded by her son Edmund in 1286–7, who alienated the manor to Hugh Doffevill in 1301 for 100 marks, but was re-enfeoffed later by Hugh with his wife Isabel. She held the manor in 1313, being succeeded by her son John before 1316. He was living in 1337, but in 1346, his heir Edmund being under age, the manor was entrusted to the care of his aunt, Alice Gastlyn, and John Baret. He must have died without direct heir, for Alice was lady of Gastlyns in her own right in 1356, but by 1363 the manor had been alienated to John Creuker for his life, with reversion to Geoffrey Gastlyn, Alice's son, which reversion the latter granted in that year to Richard Gregory and others in trusteeship. Six years later they assigned the manor to Warden Abbey on condition that two chaplains were provided to celebrate divine service daily for the souls of Geoffrey and Alice Gastlyn, of their ancestors and of all faithful departed at the altar of St. Mary in the conventual church of Warden, whose abbot paid £100 for a licence to hold this gift in mortmain. Gastlyns Manor remained in the possession of Warden Abbey until the Dissolution. In 1544 it was in the tenure of John Gardiner, and was granted to Francis Pigot of Stratton, whose son Thomas conveyed it to Hugh Cartwright in 1566. In 1587 William Cartwright alienated it to Nicholas Thurgood and his heirs, who remained in possession for eighty years. The will of Thomas Thurgood, great-nephew of Nicholas, was proved 4 January 1648, in which Gastlyns was left to his elder son John, with contingent remainder to his younger son Nicholas. In 1667 John Thurgood conveyed the manor to Sir John Keeling. The Keeling family were still represented at Southill in 1707, and their property there was probably sold about this time to Sir George Byng, who bought largely in Southill during the second decade of the 18th century, and was created Baron Byng of Southill in 1721. His grandson George fourth Lord Torrington was in possession of Gastlings Manor in 1762, and sold it in 1795 to Samuel Whitbread, whose family have since resided at Southill Park, the present representative being his great-grandson Mr. Samuel Whitbread, J. P. In the time of Edward III John Gastlyn claimed the right of free warren in Gastlyns, and produced a charter of King Henry III to his mother Joan granting her this right and also that of a weekly market on Tuesday. The free warren in 1369, when the manor was assigned to Warden Abbey, was worth 6s. 8d. yearly, but no reference was made to the market, which had apparently fallen into disuse.
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