BIGGLESWADE HUNDRED 



EVERTON 



ton which ultimately became known as EFERTON 

 MANOR}" In 1 24.7 Odo Burnard acquired 40 acres 

 of land in Everton from Michael Burdet for which he 

 paid 10/. rent," and in 1263 Nicholas Burnard and 

 Felicia his wife alienated a messuage and a carucate of 

 land with appurtenances to Thomas D'Espaigne." Be- 

 tween this date and 1 307 this property passed to Walter 

 Langton, bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, who in that 

 year obtained a grant of a market and fair in Everton 

 manor, here first definitely so called." He held the 

 manor at his death in 1322, when its extent included 

 a capital messuage, with garden, 27 J acres of arable 

 land, rent from free tenants amounting to £6 10s. 

 yearly, rents and works of other tenants value "js, 6d., 

 and fines and profits of court.'* Everton manor passed 

 on the death of the bishop to his nephew Edmund 

 son of Robert Peverel," and he left a son John from 

 whom the manor passed to a sister Margaret wife of 

 WiUiam de la Pole, who held the manor in 1354."* 

 Their son John de la Pole, married to Joan daughter 

 of John de Cobham, had succeeded by 1359," ^'"^ 

 his daughter Joan, suo jure Baroness Cobham, was, 

 together with her second husband Sir Reginald Bray- 

 broke, in possession of Everton manor in 1403," and 

 held it till her death in 1433." Her daughter Joan 

 married Sir Thomas Brooke, and died about 1442, 

 and her granddaughter Elizabeth Brooke, who married 

 Robert Tanfield, was in possession of Everton manor 

 at her death in 1 503."" Her grandson William, then 

 aged fifteen, was her heir, and held the manor till 



Tanfield. Argent 

 two cheverons sable be- 

 nveen three martlets sable. 



Winch. Party azure 

 and gules a scallop or. 



1530,*' when he was succeeded by his son Francis, 

 whose son Clement died seised in 1587,** and in 

 1 6 1 5 William Tanfield his son conveyed the manor 



10 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 247. 



11 Feet of F. Beds. Mich. 31 Hen. III. 



12 Ibid. 47 Hen. III. 

 18 Chart. R. 35 Edw. I, No. 100. 



14 Chan. Inq. p.m. 15 Edw. II, No. 44. 

 In 1 3 12 the bishop obtained a grant of 

 twelve oaks from the royal forest of Wan- 

 berge for ' repairing his houses at OfFord 

 and Everton' {Cal, of Close, 1307-13, p. 

 406). 



15 Ibid. 



16 Cott. MSS. xxvii, 152 i Feet of F. 

 Div. Cos. 27 Edw. Ill, No. 95. 



17 Ibid. 37 Edw. Ill, No. 46. 



18 Harl. 47 B. 155 G.E.C. Complete 

 Peerage, ii, 317. She married five times, 

 her last husband being Sir John Harpe- 

 den, whose rights in Everton manor Sir 

 Thomas Brooke, her son-in-law, recognized 

 in 1427 (Close, 6 Hen. VI, m. 5). 



19 Feud. Aids, ii, 477 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 

 12 Hen. VI, No. 37 ; ibid. 16 Hen. VI, 

 No. 28. The extent of the manor at this 

 time included certain sites worth 261. id. 

 per annum, 200 acres of land worth id. 



by fine to Sir Humphrey Winch, one of the justices 

 of the King's Bench.^ From Sir Humphrey Winch, 

 who died in 1624,** the manor passed through Onslow, 

 his son, who was holding in 1652,*' to his grandson 

 Humphrey, who in 1659 alienated the manor to 

 Philip Story .^° In 1693 Philip Story still held the 

 manor, of which no further trace has been found ; ^ 

 the Inclosure Act of 1 807, whilst enumerating other 

 manors in this parish, makes no mention of this 

 property.'^ 



The origin of EVERTON MOSBURT MANOR 

 is to be found in a grant made some time previous to 

 1284 to the abbey of Stratford Langthorne in Essex. 

 It originally formed part of the 7 hides held by 

 Rannulf at the time of the Survey.^" From the Pem- 

 brokes the overlordship passed, as in the case of a 

 moiety of Edworth (q.v.), to the Talbots. The first 

 mention is found inl 322 when it was held by Richard 

 Talbot,'" and after 1537, when it was still held of the 

 Talbots, earls of Shrewsbury, no further mention has 

 been found.'' 



No trace has been found of the original grant of 

 this manor to Stratford Abbey, but it must have 

 occurred before 1284 when the abbot already ren- 

 dered feudal service in Everton,'* and this manor re- 

 mained the property of the abbey until, in 1322, the 

 abbot conveyed it to John Morice and Agnes his wife. 

 In 1362 Sir John Morice enfeoffed John Colyn, vicar 

 of Everton, of Everton manor to the use of William 

 de Weston, master of St. Leonard's, Bedford. Ten 

 years later, the latter transferred the manor in fee 

 simple to Thomas le Dale or Fulthorpe, who guaran- 

 teed in return to appropriate to St. Leonard's a. church 

 of the value of j^zo per annum." Courts of the 

 manor were held by John Martyn, Hugh Lotrell, and 

 others in 141 8— 19,'* probably as trustees for one of 

 the Fulthorpes, for in 1428 Thomas Fulthorpe ren- 

 dered service for two parts of a half-fee in Everton 

 'formerly held by John Morice."' From 1428 

 until the death of William Dale in 1537 Everton 

 manor follows the same descent as Little Barford (q.v.). 

 William Dale left Everton Mosbury to his daughter 

 Joan wife of William WoUascott.'* Their son William 

 died seised of Everton Mosbury in 161 8, and was 

 succeeded by a son William, who, dying in 1640, 

 left a son also named William, as heir." In 1653 

 he was in possession of Everton Mosbury manor,'* 

 but between that date and 1689 it had passed to 



per acre, 100 acres of wood worth i%d., 

 20 acres of pasture worth ^d., 20 acres of 

 meadow worth I3</., annual rent of assize, 

 and a court baron held every three weeks 

 worth izd. 



20 Ibid, dclxxv, No. 3 i G.E.C. Com- 

 plete Peerage, ii, 318. 



91 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Sen 2), 1, No. 131. 



2!" Ibid, ccxii. No. 46 ; Add. Chart. 

 6136; Feet of F. Div. Cos. Trin. 12 

 Eliz. 



98 Feet of F. Div. Cos. Hil. 13 Jas. I. 



94 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), dxv, No. 

 28. 



95 Com. Pleas Recov. R. Mich. 1652 ; 

 Feet of F. Hunts. Trin. 1652. 



96 Feet of F. Div. Cos. 1659. 



97 Com. Pleas Recov. R. East. 5 Will, 

 and Mary. 



98 King's Bench Incl. Award, Trin. 47 

 Geo. Ill, No. 601, pt. 2. 



99 V.CH.Beds. i, 266a. 



80 Chan. Inq. p.m. 5 Edw. Ill (2nd 

 Nos.), No. 24. 



81 Feud. Aids, i, 23, 37 ; Chan. Inq. 



227 



p.m. 8 Hen. V, No. 127 ; ibid. (Ser. 2), 

 Iviii, No, 48. 



89 Feud. Aids, i, 3 ; ibid, i, 19 ; Chan. 

 Inq. p.m. 5 Edw. Ill (2nd Nos.), No. 24. 

 The extent of the property was five mes- 

 suages worth 55. yearly, 240 acres of arable 

 land worth "i^d. an acre, 7 acres of meadow 

 worth "jd., meadow and heath worth i8s., 

 and 1 9J. id. rent, 



88 Chan. Inq. p.m. 46 Edw. Ill, No. 38. 

 The master was to receive the annual rent 

 till such church should be found ; Wrottes- 

 ley, Pedigrees from the Plea R, 465. 



B-i Harl. Chart. E. 16 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 

 8 Hen. V, No. 127. 



85 Feud. Aids, i, 37. 



88 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Iviii, No. 

 48. The manor is here for the first time 

 called Mosbury, i.e. possibly Moricebury. 



87 Ibid, ccclxxii. No. 154; Feet of F. 

 Div. Cos. Hil. 3 Chas. I ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 

 cccclxxxviii, No. 79 ; Feet of F. Div. Cos. 

 Mich. 22 Chas. I. 



88 Ibid. East. 1653; Recov. R. East. 

 1653- 



