ECR 09

Reference code

ECR 09

Title

Eton, Buckinghamshire and Windsor, Berkshire

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Series

Administrative / Biographical history

Eton College held the manor, or one of the manors, of Eton during the reign of Henry VI. The manor had been divided into two, a royal manor, and one held by the Lovell family. Although not part of the original endowment, these documents show that the Provost was lord of a manor of Eton from c.1445 to 1461. The grant by which the college obtained the part of the manor known as the fee of Oliver of Burdeux was presumably the Patent of 24 January 1445 by which the King granted in frankalmoign to the college all his lands, rents and services in the town and parish of Eton with all easements, franchises, liberties and privileges within the forest of Windsor.
No patent appears to have been enrolled granting the part of the manor known as Molyns fee, but the court roll of 5 December 1446 records that the college received the property as a result of an exchange between the King and Robert lord de Molyns and Eleanor his wife. The grant in frankalmoign of all the lands etc of Robert Hungerford, lord de Moleyns, in Eton and New and Old Windsor was confirmed by act of Parliament in 1447. The date that the rolls end suggests that the college had to surrender its manorial jurisdiction in Eton and Windsor to Edward IV.