10 Jul Lordship Title of Milton Ernest or Harnesse ID1200
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The chief tenants of the de Greys were the family of Erneys or Hernis, from whom the manor later took its distinctive name. The first mention of them in Milton Ernest occurs in 1221, when it is recorded that John de Hertewell owed 'half a mark for having brought a suit against Robert son of Ernis for land in Middelton.' In 1279 the land in Milton Ernest held by John son of Roger Erneys of the de Greys amounted to 6½ virgates, including 12 acres of wood. They also owned one-third part of the fishing from the torrent of Humberdale to the head of the millpond. John Erneys was succeeded by another John Erneys who held the property in 1316, (fn. 15) and in 1346 either the same John Erneys or another of the same name was holding. In 1361 Philip Erneys was seised, while in 1428 another John Erneys held it. Philip Erneys died seised of the property, here for the first time called a manor, in 1471. His heir was his son Edward. William Erneys, who on his marriage with Elinor daughter of Elizabeth Fitz Jeffrey, was promised further property in Milton Ernest by the latter, died seised of the manor in 1528. He had been insane for some eighteen years before his death. His heir was his son John, then five years old. On the death of Walter Erneys (living 1550) the manor was divided among his daughters. One of these had married Christopher Turnor and another William Strange; a third was probably Sybil Keale, who is found quitclaiming a third of the manor to Edmund Turnor, son of Christopher before named, in 1575, thus uniting two-thirds of the manor in the Turnor family. This double share is hereafter always spoken of as the manor of MILTON ERNEST. The Stranges' third following a different descent is treated later. Edmund Turnor was succeeded by his son Christopher, who died seised of the manor in 1619. His son Christopher, of the Middle Temple, succeeded him. Being charged with delinquency his estates were confiscated, but, the charge not being proved, they were restored to him in 1647. On the Restoration he was knighted, created third baron of the Exchequer and placed on the commission for the trial of the regicides. He was a member of the special court of summary jurisdiction created to adjudicate on disputes between owners and occupiers of property in the districts ravaged by the Great Fire of London, and in recognition of his services in that capacity a portrait of him was placed in the Guildhall. He died in 1675, and his son and grandson, both named Edmund, having predeceased him, his estates passed by purchase to his younger brother, Sir Edmund Turnor of Stoke Rochford, Lincolnshire. The latter left the manor of Milton Ernest to his grandson John, on whose death it passed to his elder brother Edmund. The latter alienated the manor to his cousin Streynsham Master in 1715. Margaret Master, probably a sister of the last named, with her husband Lord Torrington and her sisters Mrs. Stuckley and Mrs. Bramston, was party to a fine levied of the manor in 1725. Mrs. Stuckley later owned the manor and left it by will to Withers Bramston, who was holding in 1799. The same year Arthur Bramston sold it to Robert Gibbins, whose name appears in the Inclosure Award in 1803. Lord Brownlow was lord of the manor in 1864, but by 1869 it had passed to Mr. J. Tucker. The latter was succeeded by his daughter Mrs. Burton Alexander, whose son Mr. J. Tucker Burton Alexander of Pavenham Bury is the present lord of the manor.
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