Reference
CRT130GRA/9
Title
Notes on Cart's Farm, Gravenhurst
Date free text
1086-1694
Production date
From: 1086 To: 1694
old accession number 11692
Scope and Content
Narrative by C. Thomas covering:
The Founding of the Estate: Domesday settlements in Gravenhurst; Ramsey Abbey; The Tivill family: Knightly Duties (Ralph de Tivill); The village in 1250; The moated farmstead; Medieval manors; Ralph de Tivill sells up.
The Ramsey Manor: Direct management of the manor; The evidence of medieval taxation; Economic decline: The end of medieval feudalism.
The Tudor Farm: The end of Ramsey Abbey; The Master family; John Master's will; Master family pedigree; William Master; Peter Richardson; The farm in Tudor times; Peter Richardson dies
Time of Change : the seventeenth century concerning: William Mathew; The Greys: Family Developments; William Peacock; the building of the house; James Peacock
Transcript of lease from the Abbot of Ramsey to William Master, 20 October 1538
Transcript of lease from Sir Henry Grey to William Master, 2 December 1560
Transcript of sale by James Master to Reynold Grey of the residue of the 1560 lease, 5 February 1568
Lease from Henry, Earl of Kent to Peter Richardson, 9 January 1580
Lease from Henry, Earl of Kent to William Mathew, 4 March 1611
Lease at Meppershall to Mathew family, 7 February 1611
Transcript of complaint from Susan, Countess of Kent to Rt Hon Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal that Peter Richardson failed to pay her rents and profits, 29 April 1574
Transcript of covenant to declare uses of a fine and recovery, 15 May 1621
Level of description
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