10 Jul Lordship Title of Walweyns or Tingrith ID13354
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The moiety of the manor which Joan, co-heir of Thomas de Daventry, inherited from her brother became known as WALWEYNS MANOR, but there is very little to be found as to its subsequent history. Joan was the wife of Philip Walweyn when in 1387 she acknowledged a very heavy rent-charge payable to her sister from her moiety of the manor. The following year they placed their property in the hands of trustees. Philip predeceased his wife, who in 1409–10, then the wife of Thomas Beaumont, recognized the right of Alice Courtney to a moiety of Tingrith Manor. In 1422–3 Ralph Dusburgh and Matilda his wife quitclaimed to Sir John Cornwall a manor in Tingrith, but whether it was this one is uncertain. In 1443–4 Sir John Cornwall was declared to have held a manor in this parish 'not held of the king but of one Nicholas Borus,' and in the same year Nicholas Ashton, serjeant-at-law, devised this and other manors of Sir John Cornwall to the Bishop of Lincoln and other trustees. The manor reappears in 1504, when, called Walweyns, it was the property of Sir Thomas Rotherham, kt., of Luton. It must have diminished considerably in importance, for no further trace of it as a manor has been found, though it is possible that the lands and tenements in Tingrith which Alexander Kirke in 1528 and William his son in 1538 held of Thomas Rotherham may represent part of the original property.
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Manorial Counsel Limited has created a new legal right to bring the titles of this lordship back into use.
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