31 Oct Lordship Title of Langtons ID13853
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A fourth estate in Sharnbrook, known in the 16th century as LANGTONS MANOR, was held of the barony of Bedford. It may therefore have originated in the 1½ virgates of land which Osbern de Broilg held of Hugh de Beauchamp in 1086. But it is impossible to state this definitely, for as will be seen from the number of tenants (the Druels, Parentines and Patishalls) who owed allegiance to this honour, the overlordship must have been considerably extended between the Survey and the early 13th century. It seems unlikely that Langtons was ever a manor in the technical sense, for, as mentioned above, it is not so called until very late. The family of Osbern de Broilg remained in Sharnbrook for more than a century after the Survey, for in 1200 Robert de Broy acknowledged the right of Henry of Sharnbrook to a mill in Sharnbrook. A gap then occurs in the descent, and the property reappears in 1324 as belonging to Robert de Utteford. The estate, here alienated to John de Langton, is extended at one messuage, 80 acres of land, 2 acres of meadow and 6 acres of wood. The Langtons, though they gave their name to the manor, do not appear to have held it long. Thomas de Langton held by feudal service in this parish in 1346, and in 1428 Thomas Bromflete held his fee. Henry Bromflete Lord Vesey, son of Sir Thomas Bromflete, died in 1469 seised of land in Sharnbrook. He left a daughter Margaret wife of Launcelot Threlkeld, who died in 1493. She alienated Langtons Manor, which appears in 1495 as a capital messuage, and 51s. 1d. rent, of which George Ingleton died seised, though how he acquired it has not been traced. He left a son Robert, aged nine, who died in 1505. His daughter Joan, nine months old at her father's death, subsequently married George Tyrrell, and dying in 1557 left a son George Tyrrell, aged twenty-eight, and he in 1563 sold to Thomas Cobbe, the manors of Langtons (here so called for the first time) and Parentines for £240. In 1573 Thomas Cobbe, whose family appear to have been settled in Sharnbrook for three generations, died seised of Langtons Manor, which then passed to his son John. He died in 1575 without attaining his majority, when Langtons and Parentines Manor passed to his brother Thomas, then aged sixteen. He was followed by his son Paul Cobbe, whose son Thomas Cobbe suffered a recovery of the manors in 1634. He had several sons, of whom Paul held the manors in 1669. William Cobbe was the only son to leave issue, a son William, who died in 1687 at the age of sixteen, when the manors passed to George Cobbe, a distant relation. He conveyed the manor in trust in 1694, but at his death without issue a partition of his property was made in 1700 between his sisters and co-heirs. They were Elizabeth wife of James Watkins, Anne wife of John Aspin and Rebecca wife of Joseph Godfrey, and they appear to have held the manor conjointly until 1726. It passed next to the Bullock family, and was held by John Bullock in 1766, of whom it was purchased by Mr. Gibbard, whose descendant Mr. L. Stileman Gibbard owns Langtons and Parentines Manors at the present day.
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