26 Oct Lordship Title of Streatley and Sharpenhoe ID13804
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In 1086 William de Locels held 4 hides 1 virgate of Hugh de Beauchamp as one manor, which by 1158 had passed to Richard de Gobion, who at that date held two knights' fees in Bedfordshire. In 1231 Katherine, widow of Richard Gobion, son of the above Richard, successfully claimed from Hugh Gobion, probably another son, one-third of 1⅓ carucates of land in Streatley as the dower settled on her by her father-in-law Richard Gobion. In 1274 Hugh de Gobion died seised of Streatley manor, leaving as heir his son Richard, who rendered feudal service in Streatley ten years later. He died in 1300, leaving two daughters, Hadwisa, wife of Ralph Butler, and Elizabeth as co-heirs. Streatley manor passed to the former, and was held by Ralph Butler in right of his wife until his death in 1342, when he left their grandson Ralph as his heir. Hadwisa, however, retained the manor until her death, which took place in 1360, when, her grandson Ralph having predeceased her in 1348, Sir Edward Butler, his brother, inherited Streatley with Sharpenhoe manor. Sir Edward died without an heir in 1412, and Philip, his second cousin, inherited his estates. Sir Philip Butler died in 1420, when his widow, who after wards married Lawrence Cheyne, owed feudal service for the manor. Documentary evidence concerning this manor is scanty during the sixteenth century, but proof of its descent in the Butler family may be found in an inquisition taken after the death of Sir Philip Butler in 1617. John Butler, greatgrandson of Sir Philip who had died in 1420, settled the manor in 1511 on himself for life with remainder to his son Philip, to whose son Sir Philip Butler the inquisition of 1617 refers. He was succeeded by a grandson Robert, who held the manor till his death in 1622, when his brother John became his heir. The latter died in 1637 leaving a son William who was of unsound mind and whose guardian, Edward Lord Howard, was allowed to compound for the manor in 1646. He died in the following year, leaving the manor of Streatley, called Sharpenhoe, to be divided among his six sisters, Audrey wife of Francis earl of Chichester, Helen wife of Sir John Drake, Jane wife of James earl of Marlborough, Olive wife of Endymion Porter, Mary wife of Lord Howard, and Anne wife of Mountjoy Blount earl of Newport, and between their brother's death in 1647 and the year 1674, the manor—thus split up into sixths—was the subject of a series of settlements, and was finally at the latter date conveyed by trustees to Oliver Luke, by whose family it was retained until 1725, when Nicholas Luke transferred it to John Nodes. From the Nodes it passed by inheritance to the Goldsmiths. William Goldsmith, who held the manor in 1790, appears to have alienated it very shortly after to Mr. Marshal, and when Lysons wrote, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, it was the subject of a suit in Chancery. In 1854 this manor was sold by Messrs. Cobb to George and John Smythe, representatives of whose family hold it at the present day.
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