04 Aug Lordship Title of Potton Burdetts ID13762
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The earliest sub-tenant of whom mention has been found is William Burdett, who held land in Potton in 1214. He was followed by Nicholas Burdett, who held here by service of half a knight's fee, which in 1284 had diminished to one-fifth held by William Burdett. In 1291 the connexion of this family with Potton Burdetts was severed when William Burdett granted his 'capital messuage' by charter to William le Latimer, at that time holding Potton manor. Its history is identical with that of Potton and Sutton (q.v.), until these manors lapsed to the duchy of Lancaster at the close of the fourteenth century. It did not fall to the duchy, for in 1404 Elizabeth, suo jure Baroness Latimer, died seised of 'Bordelette's Fee. It next reappears in 1507 as Burdetts manor in Potton, the property of John Taylor and Anne his wife, to whom it had been granted by Thomas and Richard Burgoyne. John Taylor left a son Roger, who died the same year as his father, and Burdett manor passed to his brother Humphrey, who, on his death in 1511, was succeeded by a second cousin William, who only survived until 1516, when his brother Laurence became his heir. In 1575, on the marriage of Catherine Taylor to Robert Brudenell, the manor passed to the latter family, and in the year 1657 Robert Lord Brudenell alienated Potton Burdetts to Sir Roger Burgoyne, since which time its history has been the same as that of Potton manor (q.v.).
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