10 Jul Lordship Title of Goldington ID1113
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Part of the fief of Hugh de Beauchamp in Goldington included 3 hides which were held of Hugh as a manor by Richard in 1086. This manor, which continued to be held of the Beauchamps and their descendants the Mowbrays as of the barony of Bedford (q.v.), was probably the one afterwards called GOLDINGTON MANOR, which passed into the possession of the Goldington family, who figure largely as benefactors in the chartulary of Newnham Priory. Ralph de Goldington is mentioned in 1227, and one of the same name with his wife Christiana added to their estate in Goldington in 1282. It was probably the same Ralph who was holding in 1302, and he was succeeded by his son William, who, with his wife Joan, was in possession in 1316. In 1330 Roger de Goldington claimed by prescriptive right view of frankpledge held in his manor once a year on the Hockday, when all present above the age of twelve years paid 1d. and those absent were fined. For this right he paid 2s. to the king's bailiff at the hundred of Barford, to which all owing frankpledge within the view were bound to go once a year. Roger was still holding in 1346, but by 1428 the manor had been alienated to Hugh Haselden, lord of Goldington Bury, in which it doubtless became absorbed, as there is no further mention of it.
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