ECR 52

Reference code

ECR 52

Title

Asthall and Fulbrook, Oxfordshire

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Series

Administrative / Biographical history

The College estate at Asthall, Asthall Leigh (generally in the records catalogued here spelt Astally) and Fulbrook, in the county of Oxford, had been part of the property of the alien priory of Minster Lovell, belonging to the abbey of Ivry in Normandy. These confiscated lands had come into the hand of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, who on 1 March 1443 had obtained licence to grant to the newly founded College of Eton £8 13s 4d from the issues of the alien priory of Minster Lovell. His grant to the college is dated 2 April 1443. Edward IV confirmed the possession of the college in 1462 by his grant of the alien priories of Cogges and Minster Lovell with their possessions.
John Newborough, headmaster from 1690 to 1711, by his will, bequeathed the Fellows £1000 to buy lands for the augmenting of any two of the poorer College vicarages viz. of a value of not more than £30 a year. The Fellows unanimously chose the vicarages of Asthall and Thurlby.