10 Jul Lordship Title of Kendals ID1161
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There is no mention of Wrestlingworth in Domesday, but by the early thirteenth century two manors are distinguishable. The first reference to the manor known later as KENDALS MANOR, which was held of the king in chief, and formed part of the honour of Huntingdon, is in a charter by which Simon earl of Northants and of Huntingdon (1138–84) granted the manor of Wrestlingworth to Reginald de Dammartin, count of Boulogne. It seems to have been subject to temporary alienation, for in 1212 King John restored the same manor to Reginald de Dammartin; and again in 1228 Henry III granted the manor to Jolland le Doe until it should be restored to the heirs of the count of Boulogne. By 1251 it had come into the possession of Stephen de Salinis, who in that year received a grant of free warren in Wrestlingworth manor. Between 1251 and 1270 the manor had passed to William de Huntercombe, who died seised of it in the latter year. He left as heir a son Walter, who at his death in 1313 left the manor to his wife Ellen for life, and at her death to his nephew Nicholas son of Gunnora wife of Richard de Newebond. In 1320 Nicholas granted the reversion of the manor to Robert de Kendale and Margaret his wife, whence the origin of the name Kendals, often applied to the manor in later documents to distinguish it from the other manor in Wrestlingworth. After Robert de Kendale's death, which occurred some time before 1337, his wife Margaret held the manor till her death in 1347. Their son Edward held the manor till 1373, when he was followed by a son, also Edward de Kendale, who died before 1376, and under a settlement made during his lifetime the manor passed after the death of his wife Elizabeth, to Sir William Croyser on whom the manor was settled. William Croyser appears to have held the manor from that time onwards, since in 1379 there is a grant of free warren to him in Wrestlingworth manor. He died some time before 1391, but Elizabeth de Kendale, who had married a second husband Thomas Barre, survived until 1421, and in the inquisition taken at her death full particulars are given of a settlement of the manor, which in default of other issue was to pass to the king and his heirs of the duchy of Lancaster. Her heir was her grandson John Barre, but in pursuance of this settlement before 1485 it had fallen into the king's hands, for in that year Henry VII granted it by Act of Parliament to his mother the countess of Richmond and Derby. On her death in 1510 the manor again became crown property, her heir being her grandson Henry VIII. The crown occasionally leased out this manor during the sixteenth century. In 1591 it was granted to Thomas Lake, having previously been rented by Ralph Sadler, and on the expiration of his lease a permanent grant of Wrestlingworth manor was made to George Salter and John Williams. The history of this manor during the next century is very obscure. In 1722 it was the subject of alienation by Herbert Bristow to Mary Feery, and shortly after that date came into the possession of Sir George Downing who died in 1749. By the death of Sir Jacob Garrard Downing, who was cousin and heirat-law of Sir George Downing, in 1764 this estate passed to his widow Margaret in fee simple, and she at her death devised it to her nephew Jacob John Whittington. He conveyed the estate to Sir Montague Roger Burgoyne in 1807, who on his death in 1817 left the estate to trustees, and they in 1856 conveyed it to John William Ryder and Edward Smyth in equal shares. John Ryder died in 1875, and left his moiety of the manor to his widow Mary, who in the same year together with Edward Smyth conveyed the whole manor and estate to James Smyth of Norton Hall. He died in 1895, and three years later his son, Mr. George Edward Smyth, of Northfield House, Henlow, purchased the estate from his father's trustees, and is at the present day lord of Kendals manor.
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