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THE MANOR OF ABNEY. 



The wording, except in a few unimportant particulars, wiiich 

 have been noted, is identical with that of 12 Edward II. Ii is 

 signed by those who were present, as follows : — 



In the four centuries which lie between these two " Beatings 

 of the Boundaries," the manor of Abney had changed hands 

 at least twice. At what date it passed out of the possession of 

 the Archers, as well as the manner in which it did so, is still 

 a mystery. From an Inq. P.M. of Robt. Eyre, of Padley, who 

 died 14 Nov., 19 Henry VII. (1504), we know that Nicholas 

 Bagshawe was then lord of this manor. Although the exact 

 date and manner of its acquisition is unknown,- members of 

 this family were landowners and resident at Abney as early 

 as 1329, at which date the name of Robert Bagshawe, of 

 Abney, appears in an inquisition. At the end of the sixteenth 

 century the whole manor was sold by Nicholas Bagshawe, of 

 Farewell, co. Stafford— the great grandson of Nicholas, first in the 

 visitation of Staffordshire — to Godfrey Bradshawe and Francis 

 Bradshawe, the eldest and third sons of Godfrey Bradshawe, 

 of Bradshawe. 



1 No evidences of any previous purchase of the manor are in the 

 possession of the writer, which fact suggests that it was probably 

 acquired by the Bagshawes through some marriage, possibly through that 

 of Nicholas with the co-heir of Hall, of Great Hucklowe. 



