10 Jul Lordship Title of Wyboston ID1333
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In 1086 Eudo Dapifer held WYBOSTON MANOR, assessed at 6 hides 3 virgates. It had been held during the Confessor's reign by four of his thegns, at liberty to sell to whom they wished. Like the remainder of Eudo's property, it became attached to the barony of Eaton (q.v.), though in the 15th and 16th centuries it is described as held of the Crown in chief. The earliest tenants found of this manor are the Fitz Williams, later barons of Greystock. In 1221 John Fitz William paid £10 into the Exchequer for relief of his lands in Eaton Socon and Sundon. Ralph Fitz William his descendant, 'baron of Greystock,' who was summoned to Parliament in 1295 as 'Ralph Fitz William,' held by knight service in 1302 and in 1316. An inquisition was held on his lands in the following year; he then held Wyboston Manor, worth £10 1s. 7¼d. His son Robert, who was thirty-six years of age and more, survived his father two years, when one-third of the manor passed to his widow Elizabeth in dower, the remainder going to his son and heir Ralph. He, who assumed the name of 'de Greystock,' and is so named in his writ of summons in 1321, died in 1323, leaving as heir his infant son William. William de Greystock made a settlement of the manor on trustees in 1343–4, and died seised in 1358, when Wyboston was worth £18, being succeeded by his son and heir Ralph, aged six. One-third was at this time held by William's mother Alice (Audley), who retained it till 1374–5. Wyboston passed from Ralph Lord Greystock to his son John in 1417. John died in 1436, and Ralph his son succeeded him. Ralph, last Lord Greystock of this house, died in 1487, when, his son Sir Robert Greystock having predeceased him, Elizabeth daughter of Robert became his heir. Elizabeth, suo jure Baroness Greystock, who died in 1516, married Thomas Lord Dacre of Gillesland, and her son William Lord Dacre and Greystock died seised of Wyboston in 1563. His son Thomas Lord Dacre and Greystock made a settlement of the manor on Lady Mounteagle in 1566, and died the same year. George, his son, was then five years old; he died three years later, when his sisters Anne, Mary and Elizabeth, all minors, became his co-heirs. Mary Dacre died in 1578, whilst still a minor and a ward of the queen. Wyboston passed to Anne, who married Philip Howard Duke of Norfolk, and her grandson William Howard Viscount Stafford made a settlement of the property in 1641. A further settlement of Wyboston took place in 1656, and was possibly preparatory to an alienation which appears to have taken place about this time. Early in the next century it passed to the family of Whetham, of whom Thomas Whetham owned Wyboston Manor in 1748. One of the same name was a landowner in Eaton Socon at the time of the inclosure of 1795, and the following year Arthur Whetham was lord of Wyboston Manor.
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