10 Jul Lordship Title of Lovells or Lovells Bury ID1183
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The manor takes its name from a certain Philip Lovel, who had free warren in Potsgrove in 1256. In 1278 John Lovel, possibly his son, was lord of the manor. Before 1362 it was acquired by the Everards, who in that year sold it to John de Morton of Woburn Chapel for 200 marks of silver. Thomas Rufford held one quarter of a knight's fee in 1428, and his widow, Joan Fitz Geoffrey, died in 1465 in possession of a messuage called Lovells Bury. The manor passed to her son Thomas Rufford, who was succeeded by his brother John in 1479. John's death occurred in 1504, his son being at this date twenty-one years of age. The manor must have passed later to the Saunders, Ellen Saunders, who married William Duncombe, owning it in 1588. From that date until 1647 its descent is identical with that of Battlesden (q.v.). In 1799 Sir Philip Monoux, bart., who held Lovells Bury in right of his wife Elizabeth daughter of Ambrose Riddell, quitclaimed it to Thomas Lodington and his heirs. By 1854 it had passed to Sir R. H. Inglis, in which year it was bought by the Duke of Bedford.
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