10 Jul Lordship Title of Kempston Daubeny or Kempston ID1156
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The third which was assigned to Margaret, the eldest sister, wife of Alan Lord Galloway, was afterwards known as the manor of KEMPSTON DAUBENEY. It passed to her daughter and heir Devorgilla, the wife of John de Baliol, who in 1276 was accused of encroaching on the common ditch and claimed view of frankpledge in 1286. On her death in 1290 she was succeeded by her son John, one of the eight claimants to the Scottish throne, who was acknowledged King of Scotland in 1292, but forfeited his kingdom and possessions in 1296 for rebellion against Edward I. The manor of Kempston which thus escheated to the Crown was bestowed by Edward in 1306 upon his nephew John de Brittany Earl of Richmond and his heirs, and the grant was confirmed in 1338 by Edward II. In 1327 William Glaykyn obtained a reversion of the manor for life if the earl should die without issue, but he entered into immediate possession, with the consent of the latter, and in 1330 claimed free warren and view of frankpledge which was held separately yearly with this third of the original Kempston Manor. In 1331 William Glaykyn obtained pardon for acquiring the manor without licence during the lifetime of the Earl of Richmond, but he seems to have died shortly afterwards without heirs, for in 1333 William Daubeney obtained the reversion of the manor to hold for life and entered into possession on the earl's death in the following year. In 1337 he obtained an enlargement of the grant and secured the manor in fee-tail, which accordingly he settled on himself, his wife Philippa and their heirs in 1344. In 1357 he conveyed the manor to Sir Giles Daubeney, son of Ralph Daubeney of South Petherton, Somerset, who made a settlement of it the next year on himself and his wife Eleanor daughter of Henry de Willington and on their issue. On his death in 1386 he was succeeded by his son Giles, then a minor, who received seisin of the manor on the death of his mother Eleanor in 1400, but died shortly afterwards in 1403, leaving a son John, aged nine. The latter did not live to attain his majority, and on his death in 1409 the manor passed to his brother Giles, of age in 1416, who in 1420, on the death of his mother Margaret, received the third part which had been assigned to her in dower. In 1440 occurred the death of Elizabeth wife of Warin Walgrove and widow of John Daubeney, by which event the whole manor came into the possession of Sir Giles, who died in 1446, leaving a son and heir William and a widow Alice, who held part of Kempston in dower until her death in 1455. William, who died in 1461, was succeeded by his son and heir Giles, who went over to France with Edward IV in 1475, when he vested his possessions in trustees. He afterwards took part in Buckingham's attempt to depose Richard III and put the Earl of Richmond, afterwards Henry VII, on the throne, but on the failure of the rebellion he fled to Richmond in Brittany and was attainted and his lands confiscated. Kempston Manor was granted to Sir John Egremont and his heirs male in 1484, but on the accession of Henry VII Daubeney's attainder was reversed, and he himself rose to high favour and was created a baron in 1486. He regained Kempston Manor, which he alienated in 1502 to his old friend and co-conspirator Sir Reginald Bray. The latter, who had been receiver-general and steward to the household of Sir Henry Stafford, second husband of Margaret Countess of Richmond, was one of the main instigators of Buckingham's attempt in 1483; but more fortunate than Sir Giles Daubeney, he received a general pardon for his offences, and after Richard's defeat at Bosworth was liberally rewarded for his services by Henry VII. The manor then descended as in Haynes (q.v.) through the Bray family, and was alienated to Thomas Snagge of Marston Moretaine in 1569 by Sir Edward Bray and May his fourth wife, William Lord Sandys and Katherine his wife renouncing all claim to the manor in 1573. This Thomas Snagge, who was a serjeant-at-law and Speaker of the House of Commons in 1588 and 1589, died in 1593 and was succeeded by his son Thomas, whose wild ways in early youth had been the cause of great trouble to his father. Thomas the son, who was knighted in 1603 and high sheriff for Bedfordshire in 1607, represented the county in Parliament and died in 1627, when Kempston Manor passed to his second son Ralph in virtue of a settlement made in 1620 on the marriage of the latter with Elizabeth daughter of Sir William Stafford. Thomas the elder son and Anne his wife renounced all right in the manor in 1632, and it passed on Ralph's death to his son Ralph, who died without issue in 1658, leaving a brother and heir Charles, who in 1659 alienated it to Robert Yarway. The latter in 1660 conveyed the manor to Mathew Dennis, who left two daughters and co-heirs, Elizabeth and Mary. They seem to have arrived at an arrangement with their uncle William Dennis, who was lord of the manor between 1710 and 1745. He was succeeded by John Dennis, in possession in 1747, from whom the manor passed to Robert and his wife Elizabeth in 1774. Robert Dennis sold the manor in 1813 to the Rev. Edmund Ryland Williamson, who died some time between 1864 and 1869, when it remained vested in his trustees, and it is now in the possession of Mrs. Charles Williamson. The manor of Kempston Daubeney was extended in 1290 at a capital messuage, 360 acres of arable land in demesne, 15 acres meadow, 6 acres pasture, 93s. rent of freemen, works worth £8 8s. 4d., 40s. aid, fishery in the Ouse and 40 acres of wood. In 1296 a more detailed account of the manor was given with the valuation. The capital messuage with garden, fruits and dove-house was worth 26s. 8d.; the 360 acres of arable land at 6d. an acre, £9; 16 acres of meadow at 3s., 48s.; and 24 acres of pasture at 9d. an acre, 18s. The fishery was worth 10s., the rabbit warren 6s. 8d. The whole value of the manor was £32 8s. 8½d. The Black Death greatly decreased the value of this manor, which was only £16 2s. in 1358, although it had risen again to £20 in 1386, and remained at that value during the rest of that century. When granted to Sir John Egremont in 1484 it was said to be worth £40. The dower assigned to Margaret widow of Giles Daubeney, consisting of one-third of the manor, was given in detail at her death in 1420. It consisted of one high chamber above the gate, 83 acres of arable land at 3d. an acre, 25 acres of pasture at 4d. an acre, 7 acres of meadow at 1s. 6d. an acre, a rent of 5s. 1d., and 1 lb. of pepper paid at Michaelmas by certain free tenants.
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