10 Jul Lordship Title of Henlow Warden ID1131
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The origin of the manor of HENLOW WARDEN is not very clearly ascertainable, but may possibly be found in the land which Azelina, wife of Ralph Taillebois, claimed in Henlow at the time of the Domesday Survey. Hugh de Beauchamp made a counterclaim, declaring it was never part of her dower, which he probably justified, and as the Beauchamps were important benefactors of Warden Abbey it is not unlikely that this land was part of their gift. The extent of land held by the abbey was two carucates in the thirteenth century. Warden Abbey continued to hold this manor until the Dissolution, when, together with lands in Astwick, it was assessed at £16 13s. 10d. In 1544 Henry VIII granted Henlow Warden to William Sewster, who appears to have alienated it within a short space of time to John Raven, for the latter settled it in 1576 on a son John, who dying in 1594 was succeeded by a son John, who was under age at his father's death. John Raven died in 1641, and his son John was certainly holding the manor in 1654. The manor next passed by inheritance to the Edwards family. In 1670 George Edwards was in possession of Henlow Warden. His son George succeeded him in 1712, and was followed by a son, also George. On the death of the latter in 1781 his wife Elizabeth retained possession of the manor. Their son George having died without issue in 1809, George Nigel Raynsford (who took the name of Edwards), son of his sister Frances, succeeded to Henlow Warden. In 1849 Thomas Alexander Raynsford held the manor, and in 1855 General Raynsford. By 1869 it had passed to the Rev. Henry Addington, by marriage with the eldest daughter of T.A. Raynsford, who was followed by Thomas Alexander Addington. In 1889 the latter sold it to the Alliance Bank, who shortly after sold it to Edward Hammond Thompson. In 1896 it was purchased from him by Mr. George Gribble, who is at the present day lord of the manor. The capital messuage known as Graies Bury formed part of the manor of Henlow Warden and was held by John Raven in 1641.
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