10 Jul Lordship Title of Gladley ID1111
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The tenant of the manor at the date of the Survey was Gozelin le Breton, from whom it descended to his son Hugh and grandson Walter. The latter left a daughter and heiress Amabilla, whose daughter and heiress married as her third husband Geoffrey de Lucy, to whom she brought the manor in dower. Gladley then passed through their son Geoffrey to Geoffrey his son, who died in 1284, leaving a son another Geoffrey, who obtained Woodcroft alias Halyard Manor in Luton (q.v.), with which Gladley descended until the middle of the 15th century. In 1330 Geoffrey de Lucy claimed to hold a view of frankpledge in his manor by prescriptive right, and in 1332 a grant of free warren in the demesne lands was made to him and his heirs. In 1460 the manors passed out of the Lucy family by the death of Sir William Lucy without issue, and Gladley was inherited by Walter Hopton and Elizabeth wife of Roger Corbet, children of Sir William's sister Eleanor, while Woodcroft was allotted to William Vaux, son of Maud, another sister. Walter Hopton died within half a year of his uncle, and his interest in Gladley was acquired by his sister Elizabeth. By her first husband Roger Corbet Elizabeth had a son Richard, who in 1475 enfeoffed trustees of his right in the manor on the occasion of his journey with the king into foreign parts; from whence he seems never to have returned, for on the death in 1498 of his mother Elizabeth, the widow of Sir William Stanley, Richard's son Robert entered into possession. The manor, never a large one, had doubtless sunk into insignificance by this time, and for the next hundred years or so the name of Gladley Manor is not applied to this estate, which consisted of three messuages, 100 acres of land, 10 acres of meadow and 40 of pasture, of which Robert died seised in 1513. His son Roger, who succeeded him, died in 1538, leaving a son Andrew, whose eldest son Robert died without male issue, but had two daughters and co-heirs, Elizabeth who married Sir Henry Wallop of Farleigh, Hampshire, and Anne the wife of Adolphus Carey. They with their husbands brought an action in 1599 against Christopher Hoddesden, lessee of Grovebury Manor, for refusing to accept a settled fine paid by them as copyholders for admission to lands in this parish. Anne Carey died without issue in 1602, and her right in the lands was inherited by Elizabeth Wallop, who was also heiress of her uncle Sir Richard Corbet, who died in 1606. The property descended in the Wallop family and was sold by Robert Wallop in 1652 for £2,500 to Stephen and William Sedgwick, and was afterwards purchased by the Duncombes of Battlesden. William Duncombe was holding it in 1697 under the name of Nares or Nares Gladley Manor. In 1704 it was sold by him and his wife Elizabeth to Edward Stare, and a member of the same family, William Stare, with Mary his wife, alienated it in 1754 to John Mortimer. During the 19th century it was conveyed to the lords of Grovebury Manor, and is held at the present day by Mr. J. T. Mills under the name of the manor of Heath and Reach (in which parish Gladley is situated).
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