15 Nov Lordship Title of Hill ID13988
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After the Dissolution an estate known as HILL MANOR, previously belonging to Warden Abbey, appears in this parish. In 1550 John Harding died seised of a messuage and land in Hill, leaving a daughter Cecilia as heir. The relationship, if any, beween her and Cecilia wife of George Mordaunt, who in 1585 held 'the reputed manor of Hill,' has not been ascertained. About this date Cecilia and John Mordaunt conveyed the manor to Lewis Lord Mordaunt and his son Henry, who sold it in 1604 to William, afterwards Sir William, Plomer, High Sheriff of Bedfordshire, who died seised of it in 1626. His relative, William Plomer, in the following year conveyed it for £1,000 to Robert Palmer, whose son Sir William Palmer was knighted by Charles I in 1641. He conveyed it to his son William in 1643 for £900, and in 1713 Thomas, William's son, sold it to Sir George Byng, Lord High Admiral of England, who met with uniform success in his engagements with the Spanish fleet, notably off Cape Passaro in 1718. Hill Manor remained in the possession of the Byng family, belonging in 1762 to George Viscount Torrington, grandson of Sir George Byng, who in that year suffered recovery, but by 1824 it had passed to Robert third Lord Ongley, owner of Old Warden Park, after which its identity as a manor has not been preserved, though its name survives to the present day in Hill Farm.
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