22 Nov Lordship Title of Pillage or Peling ID14014
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Another manor within this parish is that of PILLAGE or PELING. The first mention of it found is in 1443, when it belonged to Sir John Cornwall, who owned Milbrook Manor (q.v.), and followed the same descent until the death of Sir Henry Grey in 1562. Two years afterwards it passed to Sir Robert Dudley, to whom it was probably sold. Then for a period of one hundred years (1568–1669) the family of Saunders were seised of the manor, John holding it in 1568, Richard in 1635 and Sir John his son in 1669. About this time the family sold their estates, probably to Nathaniel Ryder, into whose possession a moiety of the manor had come by 1701, and who then conveyed it to Robert Avenay. The latter held it in the next year, and conveyed it to Michael Arnold, who held it till 1704. By 1769 the whole manor had come into the possession of John Fitz Patrick Earl of Upper Ossory (in the peerage of Ireland), who was M.P. for Bedfordshire in 1767 and afterwards created Baron Upper Ossory of Ampthill (in the peerage of the United Kingdom). The manor appears to have passed to Lord Ashburnham, from whose devisees it was purchased in 1843 by the Duke of Bedford, who holds it at the present time.
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