ECR 57

Reference code

ECR 57

Title

Pirton, Hertfordshire, Oakley and Clapham, Bedfordshire, and Bromham, Surrey

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Administrative / Biographical history

The property of the college at Pirton, Hertfordshire, was acquired as a result of Letters Patent of 9 July 1516 to Richard Copcot and John Same granting them a license to alienate in mortmain to the Provost and College the manor of Piriton alias Pirton alias Odynsellys, together with certain specified lands. Roger Lupton, Provost, had bought the estate from Richard Dycons, esquire, for £500 on 4 July 1515 with a view of giving it to the college. He gave the same in fee simple to Copcot and Same 13 July 1515, and these trustees granted the property to the college 9 December 1518. The college manor at Pirton, the manor of Oddingsells, was often called, and in the college leases was called, the moiety of the manor of Pirton. It was that part of the manor which on the death of Basilia Oddingsells near the end of the 13th century fell to the share of her son, Hugh.
The Rectories, together with the advowsons of the vicarages of Oakley and Bromham in Bedfordshire, were granted to the college by the Crown in a deed of exchange by letters Patent of 30 August 1547. Tithes in Clapham and the advowson of the chapel there were included with Oakley Rectory. Oakley with Clapham and Bromham had formerly belonged to the Priory of Caldwell in Bedfordshire.