21 Aug Lordship Title of Brayes ID13764
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It has not been found possible to connect Richard Pungiant, the Domesday holder, and those who followed him, but the early history of Brayes manor is given in the evidence brought forward by Hugh de Bray to support his claim to a view of frankpledge within the manor in the fourteenth century. He says it was formerly in the possession of William de Bretville, who enfeoffed a certain John Blundell. The Bretvilles certainly owned lands in Tempsford; at the beginning of the thirteenth century Geoffrey Bretville alienated land there to John Thurald, and again in 1240 Walter de Carun recognized his right to 12 virgates of land in Tempsford. Between 1240 and 1268 what afterwards became Brayes manor passed to the Blundells, whose tenure appears to have been very brief, for in the latter year Roger de la Leye acquired from Richard Blundell his messuage and a carucate of land in Tempsford. His grandnephew, Roger de la Leye, held this land at his death in 1324, and according to the evidence of Hugh de Bray he left a daughter Ada, by marriage with whom Hugh acquired possession. He appears to have been in money difficulties, for in 1331 he acknowledged that he owed £100 to a London merchant, and that distraint should be made, in default of payment, on his lands and chattels in Tempsford. This may account for the alienation of the manor, whose history is difficult to follow at this point. It would appear that like Drayton's manor (q.v.) it came into the possession of Robert Scot in the early fifteenth century, for his granddaughter, Margaret Sheffield, was in possession of it at her death in 1525. In 1559 John Colbeck and Bridget his wife, who was possibly a Sheffield, transferred the manor to John Fuller, who in his turn sold it to George Keynsham in 1565, and it thus became joined to and followed the same descent as Tempsford and Drayton's manors (q.v.).
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