10 Jul Lordship Title of Mossbury or Sarnes ID1204
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The origin of a third manor in Tempsford, MOSSBURY alias SARNES, is to be found in the 1 hide 1¾ virgate of land which the bishop of Lincoln owned in Tempsford at the time of the Domesday Survey. There are evidences that the bishop continued to be overlord till 1428, after which the right lapsed, and in 1480 it is stated to be held of the king in chief. William de Carun held this property of the bishop in 1086, and it remained with the de Caruns until 1228, when Walter de Carun alienated it to John de Loring, who in 1231 transferred this land to Nicholas de Cernes, from whom the manor derives its distinctive name, and in 1284 one of the same name was holding half a fee in Tempsford of the bishop of Lincoln. In 1297 Nicholas conveyed property in Tempsford to the abbot of St. Mary's, Stratford, who retained possession of it till 1332, when the abbot obtained a licence to grant to John Morice and his wife Agnes the land which he possessed in Tempsford, and accordingly in 1346 John Morice is to be found holding the fee of the bishop. Between this date and 1428 the manor passed to Thomas Fulthorp, though the method of transference has not been ascertained. His grandson, John Dale, died seised of this manor in 1480, his son, William Dale, left the property in 1537 to a daughter, Joan, married to William Woolascote, and their son, William Woolascote, in 1596 alienated Mossbury or Sarnes manor to Laurence Saunderson, whose grandson John held it in 1669. His sister Anne, widow of Robert Hasleden in 1683 conveyed the manor to John Wilshire and other trustees. Very little further has been found concerning this manor; in 1737 Barwell Colling owned it, and in 1803 William Colling Cumming, with others, transferred it to Godfrey Thornton. At the present day a farm of the same name exists in Tempsford.
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