10 Jul Lordship Title of Ravensden ID13338
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The first of the Engaynes appearing in connexion with this parish is Clarice and her two sons Nicholas and Simon, whom Simon de Buels enfeoffed of 2½ virgates and 12 acres of land in 1214. Other members of the family holding this fee were Eudo and William his son, with whom John le Sauvage was associated. (fn. 53) Their names constantly occur as benefactors on the Newnham Priory chartulary. By 1302 this estate had come into the hands of Nicholas Godfrey and the heirs of Nicholas Engayne, and in 1346 was in the possession of John Crevequer of Creaker's Manor, Great Barford (q.v.) and John Malyns. John Crevequer died in 1370, leaving a nephew and heir Stephen, aged six, during whose minority the Crevequer interest in this property, estimated at one messuage and 180 acres, worth 4 marks, was granted to Roger Ball, chaplain, and Maud Perdington. On Stephen's death, a few months later, his younger brother John inherited his right and came of age in 1385. In 1428 Stephen Crevequer and John Malyns were holding, but by 1511 their interest in the estate, now called a manor, had been transferred to William Fitz Jeffrey, who doubtless acquired at the same time Creaker's Manor in Great Barford (q.v.), with which Ravensden Manor was held for the next eighty years or so. The Fitz Jeffreys sold most of their Bedfordshire property towards the end of the 16th century, but retained Ravensden, which was held by George Fitz Jeffrey in 1651, but in 1685 it was the property of Christopher Cratford, Oliver Davies, Daniel Foucault and Alexander Randall and Anne his wife, who in that year conveyed it to Anthony Best. No further mention of this manor has been found.
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