10 Jul Lordship Title of Kintbury Eaton or Holt or Kintbury Holt ID1534
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The lands granted by the Earl of Leicester to his priory at Nuneaton were confirmed to them by King Henry II in 1163. The nuns paid a fine of 10s. in 1189–90 for waste here. From the 14th century onward the manor was known as Kintbury and Holt, the prioress having acquired at the end of the 13th or early in the 14th century a carucate of land in Holt formerly held by the Avenels. She bought it of William le Trappere and his wife Maud, to whom it had been given by Maud's mother Amicia, widow of Alan Avenel. In 1289–90 Edward, the king's son, renounced his claim to view of frankpledge in the nuns' manor of Kintbury. The nuns continued to hold this manor until the Dissolution, when it passed to the king, who granted it in 1542 to Edward Earl of Hertford. He sold it early in 1544 to Richard Bridges of Shefford. Richard's son Anthony sold the manor in 1590 to his son-in-law George Browne, who, with Mary his wife, conveyed it to Thomas Parry and others. Thomas Parry, the second of the name, was already holding the adjoining manor of Hampstead Marshall. In 1603 he, then Sir Thomas, with Dorothy his wife and Sir Thomas Knyvett, who had married his sister Muriel, conveyed this manor to Richard Tomlyns and Thomas Love. It seems probable that these were trustees for Uriah Babington, who at about the same time purchased from Sir Thomas Parry lands in Enborne (q.v.), for Uriah died 26 February 1606 seised of this manor, which passed to his son Uriah. He sold it in 1619 to Sir Francis Jhones. At the death of Sir Francis Jhones in 1622 the manor passed to his son Abraham, who married Susan Pettus of Norfolk. He died on 21 January 1629, leaving three sons George, William and Richard, and his widow took as her second husband William Hinton. George died childless, and William Hinton and Susan and William Jhones were dealing with the manor in 1647. After the death of William Jhones it passed to his brother Richard, who sold it in 1662 to William Lord Craven of Hampstead Marshall (q.v.), in whose family it has remained ever since. The capital messuage of Kintbury Eaton was sold in 1588 by George Browne and Anthony Bridges to Vincent and Thomas Smith. Vincent died seised of it in 1629 and in 1638 his son Thomas conveyed to trustees an estate called the manor of Kintbury Eaton. This passed subsequently to Henry Trenchard and Jane his wife, who conveyed it in 1653 to Duke Stonehouse and Ferdinand Gurton, since which date no further reference to it has been found.
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