10 Jul Lordship Title of Goldington Bury ID1115
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Another manor in Goldington, which before the middle of the 17th century was known by the name of GOLDINGTON BURY, and was held in the 16th century of John Lord Bray as of the barony of Bedford, appears towards the end of the 14th century in the Pycard family. William Pycard, who was defendant in an action brought by the Prior of Newnham to recover certain tithes of hay, was killed by his wife Joan. For this offence she procured a pardon in 1380, and in the following year alienated her right in Goldington Manor to Thomas Haselden, who is first mentioned in connexion with the parish in 1369. The Haselden (Hasilden, Hasuldene, Hasylden, Hasselden) family continued to hold this manor until some date early in the 18th century, when they appear to have sold it, and the last entry relating to the family on the parish registers occurs in 1742 on the death of Robert Haselden of Bedford. The early descent of this family is obscure. Thomas Haselden made a settlement of the manor in 1301, and was apparently succeeded by Hugh, who is mentioned in connexion with the manor during the years 1387 and 1432, and who sat on several commissions of peace for Bedfordshire. In 1439 Thomas Haselden received a pardon for breaking the peace when bound over, but no trace of the family can be found again until 1517, when Hugh made his will. He is said to have acquired Goldington from Thomas Stringer, chaplain, but it is more likely that this statement refers to a settlement made at that time. Robert son of Hugh Haselden died in February 1548, and by his will dated shortly before his death left the rent of certain cottages in Goldington for the salary of a priest to pray for his soul from Easter 1548 for two and a half years. He left by his wife Alice a son William, nine months old. The latter in 1573 married Mary Fairclough, but on his death in 1581 the manor passed to his son Robert, a boy of seven. During Robert's minority John Fairclough, his uncle, was appointed guardian, and in 1593 contested the claim of the inhabitants of Goldington to pasture their sheep in the commons of the manor, a right which they demanded in 'respect of their severall cottages,' and which they had enjoyed for 'as longe tyme as no man can remember the contrarye.' In his answer John Fairclough stated that the common fields did not contain more than eight or nine 'ploughe-lande,' and were divided into three fields, two of which were common from Lady Day to Lammas Day or till the corn was harvested. There were about twenty-four ancient cottages in the parish and no pasture would be left for the sheep and cattle of the farmers if this claim were allowed. Robert died in 1640, leaving a widow Margaret, by whom he had no issue, but by his first wife Mary daughter of Robert Castell of Great Hatley, Cambridgeshire, he had four sons and seven daughters. The eldest son Robert had died in 1632, leaving a son Benjamin, aged twelve at his grandfather's death in 1640. Benjamin married Catherine daughter of John Berkley of Colmworth, and made a settlement of the manor in 1669 on the occasion of the marriage of their son Robert with Anne daughter of John Sanderson of Kingsford. Benjamin died in 1676, when Goldington Bury descended to Robert, on whose death in 1682 it became the property of his son Benjamin, then aged ten. Robert's widow Anne married as her second husband Robert Hawkins, vicar of Goldington, whose descendants had for many years the right of presentation to the parish church. Benjamin Haselden died in 1697, a few years after his marriage, and left a daughter Elizabeth, aged two years, who afterwards married Richard Hillersdon of Elstow. Goldington Bury, however, became the right of John Haselden, the brother of Benjamin. He married Dorothy Smith, with whom he was holding the manor in 1712. After this date the manor seems to have passed out of the Haselden family, and for the next 150 years no trace can be found of it. In 1867 it was the property of Mr. Harry Thornton, but by 1877 it was in the possession of Mr. J. Shuttleworth, who died in 1883, and whose son Colonel Frank Shuttleworth of Old Warden Park, Biggleswade, is the present owner.
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