06 Nov Lordship Title of Milton Ernest ID13906
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A third manor in Milton Ernest has its origin in the 2 hides held in 1086 by Rainald of Walter le Fleming. It was then worth 20s.; in the time of the Confessor two sokemen, men of Brictric, held it. This property with the rest of Walter's fief later became parcel of the barony of Wahull. The last mention of the overlordship occurs in 1537. In 1279 the tenant of this property (then assessed at 2½ hides) was William de Lega. He had 1 half hide in demesne and owned one-third of a fishery. In 1371 Peter Hulier held it, together with land in Thurleigh, as one knight's fee. No record of this property for the next 140 years has been found, but before 1511 it had come into the hands of William Fitz Geffrey, who in that year settled it, here for the first time called a 'manor,' on his wife Elizabeth. In 1535 his son John Fitz Geffrey died seised of the manor, and was succeeded by his half-brother Edward, who levied a fine of it the next year, and was in turn succeeded by his younger brother George. The latter died in 1575, leaving a widow Judith, who in 1578 married John son of Thomas Rolt, and a son George, who conveyed the manor by fine to Thomas Rolt, Oliver St. John, Nicholas Luke and others in 1575. No further mention of this manor has been found. It is possible that it became absorbed in Thomas Rolt's other manor of Milton Ernest (q.v.).
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