Lordship Title of Pertenhall ID13329

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The earliest tenants of the Earls of Essex in Pertenhall were the Peyvre family. Nicholas Peyvre was granted rights of free warren in his demesne lands in Pertenhall in 1253. (fn. 4) His successor, Roger Peyvre, held the property, which extended into Little Staughton and other neighbouring parishes, as a quarter of a knight's fee. (fn. 5) In 1308–9 Stephen de Holcote conveyed to Roger Peyvre his right in 3 carucates of arable land, 60 acres of meadow with woodland, and rents in Keysoe and Pertenhall. (fn. 6) Roger Peyvre was still holding in 1316, (fn. 7) but was soon afterwards succeeded by John Peyvre, who filled the office of coroner for the county until 'being sick and broken with age' he was removed in 1343. (fn. 8) He was still lord of Pertenhall Manor in 1346, (fn. 9) but the date of his death is not known, and no further evidence concerning the descent of the manor has been found until 1428, by which year it had come into the possession of John Arthorw, who held it by service of a quarter of a knight's fee. (fn. 10) John Arthorw was succeeded in the tenure by Margaret, presumably his daughter, who first married a Darell and later Arthur Ormsby. (fn. 11) Her son and successor in the manor was Thomas Darell, whose wife Isabel survived him and is found complaining that her husband's executors refused to give her seisin of the manor. (fn. 12) Later she took for her second husband Simon Harvey, and in 1467–8 placed the manor (fn. 13) in the hands of trustees. (fn. 14) She was succeeded by her son Thomas Darell, who settled the manor in 1472. (fn. 15) Thomas Darell died in 1490, (fn. 16) leaving two sons, Thomas and John, each in turn being given as heir in different inquisitions, (fn. 17) but under his will his widow Julian (who later married Thomas Boner) held the manor until her death in 1501. (fn. 18) Her heirs were her granddaughters Beatrice and Anastasia, the daughters of Thomas Darell, who had predeceased his mother. (fn. 19) John Darell, brother of Thomas, is found later claiming, however, that he was the rightful heir to his brother, but that, being under age at the time of his brother's death, he was taken into the custody of the overlord, the Duke of Buckingham, and evilly disposed persons presented his two nieces to the king as the rightful heirs, and that the manor had come into the hands of one Thomas Jermayn, who had purchased the wardship of Beatrice and Anastasia. (fn. 20) In 1518 both John Darell and Thomas Jermayn made over their rights in Pertenhall Manor to Michael Fisher and others. (fn. 21) They were possibly acting for the founders of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, which was established in this year, and at the time of the Dissolution owned Pertenhall Manor, then worth £23 12s. 11d. (fn. 22) This manor has remained the property of the college down to the present day.
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