10 Jul Lordship Title of Kempston Hardwick (Christ Hospital) ID1160
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There is another manor in Kempston known as the manor of KEMPSTON HARDWICK, which may have originated in the fee held by Nicholas de Mule and Ralph Russell in the 13th century. By his wife Isabel Ralph had a daughter Matilda, the wife of Robert Waleran, to whom 11 marks of yearly rent out of the manor of Hardwick were assigned in 1281. Nothing further is heard of this manor until 1456, when it was in the possession of Richard Boughton, on whose death in 1485 it passed to his son William, then aged six. It remained in the same family and was alienated by Edward Boughton and Elizabeth his wife to the king in 1542 in exchange for lands in Warwick. It was annexed to the honour of Ampthill in the same year, and granted with the capital messuage by Queen Elizabeth in 1560 to Elizabeth Snowe, widow, and her heirs. By her will dated 16 July 1584 Elizabeth Snowe left two-thirds of the manor to her daughter Rebecca wife of William Gery for her life with reversion to her son Edward Snowe, to whom the other third was bequeathed. Elizabeth Snowe died in 1587, and her son Edward survived her a few months only, leaving at his death three daughters, Elizabeth, Alice and Sarah, all under seven years of age. Their Aunt Rebecca entered into two-thirds of the manor, but was dead by 1604, when Sarah the youngest of Edward's daughters came of age and received onethird as her property. In 1606 Elizabeth, then the wife of Henry Harding, combined with her two sisters to convey the whole manor to Thomas Parsons, in whose family it remained for the next twenty years. In 1627 Thomas Parsons, his wife Katherine and son and heir John sold it to the governors of Christ's Hospital, London, in whom it has ever since remained vested.
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