10 Jul Lordship Title of Great Gravenhurst or Over Gravenhurst or Tuelsbury or Upper Gravenhurst ID1117
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Ralph de Tivill was holding land in the parish as early as 1212, when he acquired several acres from Joscelin de Stivecle. He was also a tenant of the abbey of Ramsey, holding one-third of a hide from the abbey in the early part of the thirteenth century, and again in 1255; this land the abbey took into its own keeping in 1264. These lands were augmented by a virgate acquired by Ralph from Miles de Mentmore in 1232 at a yearly rent of a load of wheat and a load of barley. In 1234 Ralph was granted a tenement in Gravenhurst by his uncle Hugh de Tivill. These various lands were apparently sold under the name of the manor of Gravenhurst to the abbey of Ramsey in 1266 for 250 marks, while lands held formerly by Walter de Holecot, parson, and Elena widow of Hugh de Tivill, were leased to the abbey by Ralph for ten years, or until the abbey should have received ten crops. The manor remained in the possession of the abbey until the Dissolution, when it was taken into the hands of the king. The hamlet of Gravenhurst was leased out in 1318 by the abbey to Sir William de Herle and others, and in 1452 the whole manor was let for £24 5s. 3½d. At the court held at the manor in the following year it was deemed that 'the water running under the Waterend from the Redie by the Mone to the Millway was the Lord's, and no one was to fish in it.' In 1535 the abbey's possessions in Gravenhurst were worth £12, and in 1540 the rent of the manor was £8 5s. 4d. In 1542 the manor of Gravenhurst was granted by the crown to Sir Henry Grey of Wrest and his wife Ann, together with tenements called the Copyland in Gravenhurst about 18 acres in extent, in the tenure of William Maister, and the tenement called the Shrine, about 40 acres, also in the tenure of William Maister, both of which had formerly belonged to Ramsey Abbey. The manor remained in the Grey family, whose descendant, Lord Lucas, holds it at the present day. It followed from 1542 the same descent as that of the manor of Wrest in Silsoe in the parish of Flitton (q.v.).
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