10 Jul Lordship Title of Segenhoe or Segenhoe-cum-Ridgmont ID1256
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A second manor in this parish is that of SEGENHOE or SEGENHOE-CUM-RIDGMONTMANOR, which belonged to Dunstable Priory and probably originated in the grant made in 1189 of the church of Segenhoe by Simon de Wahul to the Prior and convent of Dunstable. Smaller grants of land made during this and the ensuing century helped to form the manor. By 1283 the prior was holding a court at Ridgmont. At this time the manor was reckoned as being 3 carucates, and the lord had the right of free warren in Segenhoe. After the Dissolution the manor was granted in 1566 to Peter Gray, who still held it ten years later. By the end of the century it had come into the possession of the Stone family, for in 1593 William Stone died seised of it, and in the following year his son Richard suffered a recovery of it. Richard died in 1611, his eldest son and namesake inheriting his father's property. This was conveyed about the time of the Restoration to Elizabeth Dodsworth, in whose family the property remained till they sold their estates, about 1667–70, to Francis Lowe. In 1747 Thomas Potter, M.P., acquired this estate by marriage with the daughter of Francis Lowe, a descendant of the above. One of the daughters by this marriage married Malcolm MacQueen, M.D., who succeeded in 1759, on Thomas Potter's death, to the family estates. In 1829 Dr. MacQueen was still in possession of the manor, which was sold in 1833 by the trustees of T. Potter MacQueen to the Duke of Bedford.
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