10 Jul Lordship Title of Priestley ID1238
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At the Domesday Survey Nigel de Albini held 1½ hides in Prestley which are subsequently found attached to the barony of Cainhoe. Turgis was the tenant of Nigel here as in Tingrith, and this land follows the same descent through the de Daventries as that manor (q.v.) until between 1316 and 1336, at which latter date Master William de la Marche obtained a charter of free warren in PRIESTLEY MANOR. A further alienation took place in 1342, in which year Edmund Bolstrode obtained a release from Walter Joce of Hereford of his right to 10 marks rent issuing from Edmund's manor of Priestley. Edmund Bolstrode still held in 1353, when he received licence to endow a chapel in the parish church. By 1373 Edmund his son had succeeded him, making at that date a settlement of the manor on William de Stokes, clerk, and others. This may have been preparatory to an alienation to the Greys, who are later found holding this manor. Sir Henry Grey, kt., alienated the manor to the Crown in 1542, receiving in return the manor of Gravenhurst. In 1560 this manor was granted to Richard Champion and John Thompson. One of Lysons' correspondents, writing c. 1803, says that from John Thompson this manor passed by sale to the Cuthberts, from whom it descended to the Sheldons. The daughter of Cuthbert Sheldon married Colonel Durham, who died in 1764, and Priestley Manor was sold by the Hon. Miss Egerton in 1787 to the Duke of Bedford, whose family owns at the present day.
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