10 Jul Lordship Title of Lower or Nether Gravenhurst ID1186
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In 1228 Mabel, the widow of Geoffrey Brian, claimed a tenement against William de Beauchamp, and the Brians had owned land in Gravenhurst before this date, as in 1223 Joan, the widow of Robert Brian, granted forty acres of land from her dowry to the priory of Chicksands. In 1302–3, Peter Brian with Iolenta his mother held land in Gravenhurst and Eye, and in 1316 he acquired a messuage and mill from John of Silsoe. In 1346 the holding amounted to a quarter of a fee, still in the possession of Peter Brian, but by 1428 it had passed by some unknown means to Reginald de Grey, in whose heirs it has remained until the present day, following the same descent as that of the manor of Wrest in Silsoe in Flitton parish (q.v.). In 1445 the rent of the manor amounted to 65s. 4d. William Inge was a tenant under Peter Brian, and died in 1317 seised of 1 virgate of land, 11½ acres of meadow, and 11s. 1d. rent in Gravenhurst and Eye by fealty and by service of 2d. yearly. His possessions descended to his daughter Joan, wife of Ivo de la Zouche. Ivo killed Roger de Belers, and fled to Paris, where he died in 1326, and was buried in the church of the Austin Friars there. His widow, Joan, prayed for the restoration of the lands, which then amounted to one messuage and sixty acres of land, and were held of Peter Brian by the service of 16d. and half a pound of pepper. The later descent of this holding cannot be traced.
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