10 Jul Lordship Title of Meppershall ID1193
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At the time of the Domesday Survey MEPPERSHALL was assessed partly under Bedfordshire and partly under Hertfordshire: there were 3 hides in Bedfordshire and 3 hides 1 virgate in Hertfordshire. Lewin Cilt, a thegn of King Edward, had held the manor in the time of Edward the Confessor, and in 1086 it was in the possession of Gilbert son of Salaman. The next reference to Meppershall occurs in the reign of Henry II, when Robert son of William de Meppershall presented the advowson of the church of Meppershall to the priory of Lenton. The manor continued for nearly three hundred years in the possession of the Meppershalls, who derived their family name from it, passing from father to son without a break in the line of succession. John of Meppershall, who died seised of the manor in 1230, held it of the king by the serjeanty of the office of king's larderer, and his descendants continued to hold it of the king by grand serjeanty as late as 1493; in 1607 it was held of the king in chief by knight service.
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