20 Nov Lordship Title of Goldingtons ID14011
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A second manor in Lidlington was known as GOLDINGTONS MANOR, of which the site is marked at the present day by Thrupp End Farm. This manor also was held of the Abbess of Barking, and its earliest traces appear in 1415–16. In that year it was proved that John Goldington of Lidlington held two messuages and 2 carucates of land of the abbess, valued at £10. No earlier evidence can be found that the Goldingtons held lands in this parish before this date. The family was undoubtedly holding these lands till we have a definite mention of the manor in 1521, for in Lidlington Church there is a memorial tablet of William Goldington and his family dated 149-. In 1503–4 his son Thomas Goldington held land in Lidlington to the value of 10 marks. In 1521 it was held of the Abbess of Barking by Richard Decons, whose son, Thomas Decons or Dycons, succeeded him in that year and held it still in 1548. Eleven years later it was in the hands of his son and namesake. Elizabeth, the daughter of this Thomas, in 1572 married Thomas Snagge of Marston Moretaine. Elizabeth's husband was Attorney-General for Ireland from 1578 to 1582 and Speaker of the House of Commons in 1588–9. Their eldest son was knighted and was high sheriff of the county in 1607. A later Thomas Snagge was sheriff in 1665. The family of Snagge continued to hold the manor, which in 1737 was in the hands of Edward Snagge of Marston Moretaine, who before his death in 1739 sold it to Sarah Duchess of Marlborough, from whom it passed by will to her grandson John Spencer. By 1775 it had come into the possession of John second Earl Spencer, who continued to hold it four years later. Thrupp End Farm is now in the occupation of Mr. R. W. Inwards. The site of the ancient manor can still be distinctly traced in a field near Lidlington station.
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