10 Jul Lordship Title of Potton Regis ID1235
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The earliest mention of sub-tenants of this manor has been found in 1214, where Wischard Ledet and Margery, his wife, were holding twelve virgates of land in Sutton, by the service of one-fourth of a knight's fee. Christina, their daughter and heir, brought the manor as dower to her husband, Henry de Braybrook, who was holding it in 1227. In 1271 this manor became the property of her granddaughter, Alice, wife of William le Latimer, and followed the same descent as Sutton manor (q.v.), until its lapse into the duchy of Lancaster, and like that manor was settled in 1544 on Thomas Burgoyne and his heirs for ever. Potton manor, with which were subsequently united the other manors in Potton, remained in the Burgoyne family until the middle of the eighteenth century. By 1774 the property had passed from the Burgoynes to George Viscount Torrington, from whom this group of manors was purchased in 1795, by Samuel Whitbread. They were held in 1817 by his son Samuel Whitbread, and his son, also Samuel Whitbread, is at present the lord of Potton.
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