28 Nov Lordship Title of Grovebury or Lagrave ID14083
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The Prior of GROVEBURY or LAGRAVE acquired land in this parish between 1256 and 1258, some of which was given to him by John de Eltesdon in exchange for other land in Bedfordshire, and part by Richard de Evyesholt and Alice his wife. In 1263 Hawisia widow of William de Hyde granted to the prior and convent a yearly rent of 11d., which they had been accustomed to pay to her and her son William for a tenement in Studham. In the reign of Henry III the possessions of this priory had come into the hands of the king as those of an alien house on account of the wars with France, and the manor which they had held in Studham at that time consisted of 2 carucates of land with one windmill and some wood. One messuage, 3 tofts, 60 acres of land and rent in Studham, which had formerly been held by the Abbess of Fontévrault, of which house Grovebury was a cell, were granted in 1413 with the manor of Grovebury to Sir John Philip, kt., who died seised of this estate in 1415. Sir John was related to the Burghershes, who held the manor of Studham (q.v.) in the 14th century, through his marriage with Alice daughter of Maud Burghersh and Thomas Chaucer, son of the poet Geoffrey. The estate from this date followed the descent of the manor of Leighton Buzzard (q.v.) and came to the hands of the canons of St. George's, Windsor. When deans and chapters were abolished in 1650 this manor was sold to Edmund Sibley of Great Gaddesden. The manor had been leased in 1566 to Robert Christmas for a term of ninety-nine years, the benefit of which lease was then with Francis Barnham and George and John Barnes. After the Restoration the dean and chapter recovered possession of their lands, and in 1870 this estate came by exchange into the possession of Earl Brownlow, who now holds it.
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