10 Jul Lordship Title of Maulden ID1191
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The manor was bestowed on Elstow Abbey by the Countess Judith previous to the Survey of 1086, and about the beginning of the 13th century the abbess added considerably to this estate, valued at £5 0s. 4d. in 1291. There was a view of frankpledge attached to the manor, with tumbril, pillory and other rights claimed by the abbess in 1286 and 1330 by a charter of Henry I. At the Dissolution Maulden, valued at £18 18s. with a wood worth £6, escheated to the Crown, by whom it was retained until 1559, when it was granted by Elizabeth to Henry Cary Lord Hunsdon, whose son George succeeded him in 1596. On the latter's death without heirs male in 1604 the manor passed to his brother John, who held it till his death in 1617, when he was succeeded by Henry his son. Henry, who was created Earl of Dover in 1628, conveyed the manor in 1633 to Sir Thomas Daws, Sir Francis Swifte and Arnold Spencer, by whom it was alienated in 1635 to Thomas Earl of Elgin, in whose family it remained until 1738, when it was sold by Thomas Earl of Ailesbury to John Duke of Bedford, ancestor of the present duke, now lord of the manor.
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