10 Jul Lordship Title of Lidlington ID1176
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In the Survey of 1086 only one mention is found of Lidlington, when the Abbess of Barking held LIDLINGTON MANOR. It was assessed at 10 hides and was worth £8. She continued to hold the manor till the surrender of all estates by Barking Abbey in 1537. By the time of Edward I the whole of the vill was in her fee; she held a view of frankpledge once a year, without service to the king, and she had also the right of free warren. In 1330 it was proved that, though she held a view, she had no pillory, as was demanded by law. In 1291 her manor was valued at £17 12s. 11d., a very considerable sum at that date. Two years before the Dissolution the manor was leased to William Carewrike, and in 1537 Dorothy Barleigh, the last Abbess of Barking, surrendered to the Crown her estates, amongst which was Lidlington. It remained in the possession of the Crown for over ninety years, being in 1541 made parcel of the honour of Ampthill. In 1628–9 the manor was granted to Edward Ditchfield, and within the next seven years had been purchased by Sir Anthony Chester, first baronet. It was then held by nine members of his family in succession, until in 1769 it was sold by Sir Anthony, the ninth baronet, to Isaac Hawkins. The latter in 1774 conveyed it to the Earl of Upper Ossory, and in 1801, by an exchange with the Duke of Bedford, the manor became the property of the duke's family, in whose possession it now is.
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