Reference
X180
Title
Deeds relating to Nares Gladley Farm, Leighton Buzzard
Date free text
1546-1926
Production date
From: 1546 To: 1926
Admin/biog history
The origin of the name Naresis at present unexplained; Gladley is the older, going back to Domesday Book (Gledelai), while Nares (Nerres) appears in 1546 if not before.
The account of this property given in the Victoria County History vol III p405, needs some correction. At the time of Domesday Book Gozelin le Breton held Gladley for 2 1/2 hides (VCH I 256), and the property included a mill. Under Gozelin's son Hugh the property became divided, some land in Gladley (unspecified) being given by him to Dunstable Priory (BHRS Vol X.49) and this was confirmed by Hugh's son Walter. It is this part of the property, surrendered into the king's hands at the Dissolution, and from him passing to Duncombe, Stare etc., which is the subject of this group of deeds, and whose later histroy (from 1697) is given in VCH. The name "manor" first occurs in this group in 1701.
The other part of the property, however, remaied with the family, descending with an heiress to the Lucys, and in 1330 Geoffrey de Lucy claimed view of frankpledge in his manor (VCH citing Pac de Quo War.). It is the history of this part which VCH traces, until (VCH, no authority) it was sold in 1652 to Stephen and William Sedgwick. What happed to it after this is not clear, for it does not appear to have been reunited with the rest. It would appear that it dropped the designation "manor", and the old name, and that both these became association only with tht part of the origianl property dealt with in the deeds described here. This was 90 acrees when sold in 1918. Mr Mills of Stockgrove bought 50 acres on the other side of Bragenham Lane; and Mr Thomas Dancer (father of Mrs Turnbull, the depositor) bought 40 acres and the farmhouse.
Deposited June 1950 by Mr and Mrs S Turnbull,
Level of description
fonds