20 Nov Lordship Title of Hardwick ID14010
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The Knights Hospitallers had an estate in this parish which after the Dissolution acquired the name of the manor of HARDWICK. The first mention of this property occurs in 1279, and in 1287 the Prior claimed to hold a view of frankpledge from four tenants in Kempston, and reiterated his right in 1330. In 1338 this estate comprised a messuage with a garden worth 4s. per annum, a dovehouse valued at 3s. 4d., a water-mill 26s. 8d., 370 acres of land worth £6 3s. 4d., 32 acres meadow worth 44s., 8 acres of pasture worth 8s., and pasture for 200 oxen worth 20s., while there was a wood which was worth nothing. After the confiscation of property of the religious houses at the Dissolution, their premises were bestowed upon Sir Richard Longe in 1540, and passed as in Eversholt (q.v.) through his granddaughter Elizabeth to the Russells Earls of Bedford. The Morrisons, however, who held a third part of the manor as the dower of Dorothy Morrison, formerly Dorothy Longe, widow, do not appear to have relinquished their claim, as in 1625, seven years after the death of Dorothy Morrison, her right in Hardwick was vested in her son Sir Charles Morrison, bart. There is no further mention of the manor, which doubtless became absorbed in the large estates held by the Morrisons.
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