07 Nov Lordship Title of Tilbrook or Porter’s Fee ID13930
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The manor of TILBROOK or PORTER'S FEE is probably the 2½ virgates of land in Tilbrook quitclaimed by Rohese de Tilbrook to Simon Porter in 1203–4 for 10 marks of silver. William the Porter, who held 5 virgates there at the time of the Testa de Nevill, was presumably a successor. The property was held of the honour of Kimbolton as a quarter of a knight's fee. By 1302 it had passed to Joan de Holcote. An extent made in 1324 of the possessions of Richard de Holcote in Tilbrook records that he had a capital messuage worth 12d., 96 acres of arable land worth 32s. and 4 acres of pasture worth 8s. By 1346 this property had passed to Hugh de Crofte, whose heirs are recorded as still holding in 1428. The descent of this manor for the next fifty years is obscure, but it seems probable that it came into the hands of John Heton, living 1468, Receiver-General of Anne Duchess of Buckingham, as his son Richard Heton was enjoying the profits of it at the time of his death. Previous to his death he had placed the manor in the hands of John Dickson of Kimbolton as feoffee to his use. His brother and heir William Heton is found complaining that John Dickson refused to give him possession. Three years later William Heton sold the manor to William Catesby and the Duke of Buckingham for £200, John Dickson enfeoffing them of the property four months later. Catesby being captured at Bosworth forfeited his estates, and Henry VII in the first year of his reign granted this manor to Sir Charles Somerset, a natural son of Henry Duke of Somerset, who eight years later obtained leave to alienate the same. He became Lord Herbert in the right of his wife and in 1513 levied a fine of the manor. He was created Earl of Worcester in 1513–14; his son George, to whom he bequeathed the manor of Tilbrook by will dated 1524, predeceased him, and he was succeeded on his death in 1526 by his son Henry, who in turn was succeeded by his kinsman Sir William Herbert, who was created Earl of Pembroke in 1551. The latter alienated the manor to Richard Neale and four members of the Pickering family in 1553. Richard Neale in 1575 placed the manor in the hands of trustees to his own use, and to the ultimate use of his younger son Richard Neale with reversionary interest to his elder son Thomas. Royal licence was not obtained for this transfer, but pardon was granted in 1587. In March 1589 Richard and Thomas Neale alienated the manor to William Hawkins. In August of the same year the Crown granted the manor to the famous 'fishing grantees,' who probably contended that it was concealed from the Crown after the attainder of William Catesby. William Hawkins probably compounded with Tipper and Dawe, for he died seised of the manor in 1625. Its further history is the same as that of the chief manor of Tilbrook (q.v.), but no separate mention of it is found after the end of the 17th century.
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