10 Jul Lordship Title of Roxton ID1250
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In 1086 Roxton Manor was held by twelve socmen. The first tenants found holding this property after the Survey are the Bowels; in 1219 Henry de Bowels was accused by Aubrey Espec of taking homage and relief in her free tenement in Roxton. In 1227 John de Bowels brought a suit against Nicholas de Themes here, and in 1235 one of the same name is found benefiting the monks of Pipewell by a grant in this parish. John de Bowels held the property in 1246–7, and in the latter part of the 13th century he was proved to hold one and a half knights' fees in Roxton. By 1302 these knights' fees had passed to Alexander Bosun, and the descent follows that of Bosoms in Stagsden (q.v.) from then till 1423, after which it follows that of Bosoms in Wootton (q.v.) until 1447, when Margaret the wife of William Bosun died seised of the manor. It then passed to Robert Olney, husband of her younger daughter Goditha. The next mention of Roxton Manor is in 1518, when Robert Throckmorton died seised of it, being succeeded by his son George. The latter held it till 1541, in which year he transferred it to the Crown in exchange for other manors. Roxton was granted by the Crown to John Lord Mordaunt in 1553–4, in whose family it remained till 1624, when John Lord Mordaunt transferred it to Gideon de Lanie or Laune, a French apothecary, who held the appointment of surgeon to Anne of Denmark and was Master of the Apothecaries' Society in 1637. The family already owned Netherbury Manor in Great Barford. Gideon de Laune died in 1659, and William Delaune, with his son-in-law Sir William Hugessen, made a settlement of the manor in 1660 and again in 1663. William Delaune in 1688 still owned the manor, which was in the possession of one of the same name in 1715. By 1737 it had become the property of William Metcalfe and in 1784 William and James Metcalfe suffered a recovery of it. James died in 1796, and in 1811 his son Charles James Metcalfe was under age. In 1847 his son Charles James was lord of the manor, but sold it before 1854 to the Rev. Robert Delap of Monellan, Ireland, whose son James Bogle Delap holds it at the present day.
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