Reference
RO5/241-247
Title
Manor of Norwoods, in Silsoe
Date free text
1530-1534
Production date
From: 1530 To: 1534
Scope and Content
The following is a summary of the account of this manor at this period is given in Victoria County History volume III pages 238-9.
The manor was held by the de Greys Earls of Kent and was divided between 1445 and 1456 when 1/3 was in the possession of Thomas Boughton who was succeeded by his son Richard who died in 1485, leaving as his heir his son William who probably alienated it to the father of Richard Decon as Richard died seised of the manor in 1521, which had descended to him as son and heir. Thomas Warren who died in 1544, and wife Elizabeth were seised of the manor by that date [probably from 1530, see RO5/242] and their son Humphrey in 1539 mortgaged his reversion of it to Edmund Conquest for £73..6..8 and again in 1544, after the death of his father, he further mortgaged the state and the reversion of the property which his mother held as her dower to Thomas Palmer for £120. He was unable to redeem the mortgage for Edmund Conquest at his death left his wife Joan executrix [c.1550-55, see L26/314] and she sold the estate to Sir Henry de Grey de jure 4th Earl of Kent for £200. Thus the 1/3 of the manor returned to the de Greys and was absorbed in the manor proper of Norwood. [see L185-5, sum mentioned is £170]
[It will be seen from the following deeds that the manor was in the possession of Edward Watson by 1530 who had purchased it from Henry Wayte and who conveyed it to Thomas Warren in that year. Thomas conveyed it to the use of his son Humphrey in 1534. Clearly this group of deeds came into the possession of the Conquest family when the property was mortgaged to them and should have been passed on to the de Greys with the property]
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