23 Oct Lordship Title of Campton ID13769
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There was another manor in CAMPTON belonging to the priory of Chicksands which probably originated in two hides all but a quarter of a virgate of land, held by Trustin of the king at Domesday. This land apparently came to the Beauchamps, and, c. 1150, Payn de Beauchamp and Rose his wife confirmed to the priory 3 virgates of land which had been bestowed on it by Adela wife of Walter de Mareis. This grant was also afterwards confirmed by William son of Simon de Beauchamp. By 1346 the land was held of the king in chief as a knight's fee. The overlordship remained vested in the crown until after the Dissolution, the last mention occurring in 1560. The priory's possessions in Campton increased considerably in value, for in 1291 its manor was worth £18 14s. 7d., and during the fourteenth century the estate was augmented by various donations. In 1445 the priory received in rents from the bailiff of Campton £6 13s. 4d. at Easter and £13 6s. 8d. at Michaelmas, and in 1535 the value of the property in Shefford was £12 10s. 6d., and of that in Campton £8 6s. 8d. After the Dissolution the value of the possessions in Campton and Shefford was £15 16s. 2d. The manor was taken into the king's hand at the Dissolution and was granted, together with the manor house, to Sir Thomas Palmer by Edward VI in 1548. Sir Thomas Palmer was convicted of treason and executed in 1553, his possessions being forfeited to the crown, and Elizabeth in 1560 granted the site of the manor to Joan the widow of John Ventris and her heirs. The manor remained in the possession of the Ventris family for over two hundred years. Sir Francis Ventris Joan's grandson, who succeeded her, died seised of the manor in 1627, having made a settlement on his second son Charles, on the occasion of the latter's marriage with Mary daughter of Sir Lewis Pemberton of Rushden. Francis the eldest son held the manor for the term of his life, and on his death in 1631, Charles entered into possession. Charles fought for the king in the Civil Wars, and was knighted by him in 1645. Charles died before 1651, when his estates were sequestered. The manor afterwards passed to his son John, who died in 1706. His son Charles died in 1719, leaving a son John who died a few months later. Francis brother of John inherited the manor, but on his dying without issue in 1743 it passed to his sister Henrietta, who had married John Field of Cranfield. From John and Henrietta descended Sir Charles Ventris Field, who sold the manor between 1778 and 1803 to Sir George Osborn, bart. The latter, or his descendants, sold their rights to Mr. John Lewis ffitche, who was lord of the manor in 1877. Mr. ffitche dying in 1902, these rights are now vested in his trustees.
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