10 Jul Lordship Title of Pertsoills or Pertsoyles ID13331
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The manor of PERTSOILLS or PERTESOYLES can be traced back to the hide of land in Riseley held by Hugh de Beauchamp at the time of the Domesday Survey. This land is described as being a berewick of Keysoe. The overlordship of this manor follows the same descent as that of the Monchesney-Latimer portion of the barony of Bedford (q.v.). The family of Pertesoil, who gave their name to this manor, first find mention in Riseley in 1202–3 when William son of Azon quitclaimed some 65 acres of land to William Pertesoil and Robert Rufus. About this date the Pertesoils were enfeoffed of land in Riseley by Simon de Beauchamp to be held by knight's service. Possibly William Pertesoil above mentioned was the father of Roger Pertesoil, whose son Simon held the manor in the latter half of the 13th century. Simon Pertesoil had a view of frankpledge in Pertenhall in 1279, for which right he paid 2s. annually to William de Monchesney, his overlord. He leased a messuage and 2 hides of land in Riseley for eight years at a rent of 18 marks in 1278 to Philip Burnell, who died seised of it in 1282. Simon Pertesoil was still lord of the manor in 1288, but by 1302 he had been succeeded by John Pertesoil, who held by service of a tenth part of a knight's fee. John was succeeded by Roger Pertesoil, who was holding in 1316. Thirty years later one of this family named William met with a violent end in the parish, being murdered of set design and purpose, while the same year (1346) John Pertesoil was lord of the manor. The manor continued in the hands of this family, two members of which, William and John, were in 1439 pardoned for having with others appeared in arms at Bedford sessions and insulted the justices. John Pertesoil was an illegitimate son of William Pertesoil, and on William's death in 1439 his sisters Elizabeth Rous and Athelina Sackville claimed the property (here first called a manor) from the trustees William had appointed. It would appear, however, that they were unsuccessful in their claim, and that John Pertesoil obtained seisin. The last member of this family of whose tenure of the manor there is documentary proof is Robert Pertesoil, who died seised in 1518, leaving as heir his grandson John. Nothing is known of the history of this manor for the next 113 years, but in 1631 Richard Talbot conveyed it by fine to Thomas Talbot, who three years later transferred it to Adam Hill. This appears to have been by way of settlement, for in 1656 Robert Talbot, probably a son of Thomas, conveyed the manor by fine to the same Adam Hill and one John May. In 1685 John Hale owned this manor; the same year he alienated it to James Smalman and Eyre Walcot. No later reference to this manor has been found.
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Manorial Counsel Limited has created a new legal right to bring the titles of this lordship back into use.
Listed in the Domesday Book:
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