Catalogue description THE FIVE HUNDREDS   Bodenham, Burghill, Kingstone   Much Cowarne, Stretford.   When...

THE FIVE HUNDREDS

Bodenham, Burghill, Kingstone

Much Cowarne, Stretford.

When Edward, third Duke of Buckingham was attainted and executed in 1531, his estates, of which the Lordships of these five hundredal manors formed part, were escheated to the Crown. They were later granted by Queen Elizabeth I to Robert Earl of Leicester and were subsequently, by the early seventeenth century, aquired by Sir Thomas Coningesby of Hampton Court.

ALL MANORS.

Court Rolls

For Courts, (View of Frankpledge) held twice yearly in April/May and October, for the five manors. The series is not complete, and some files are not complete for all manors (Stretford is frequently missing). A few files have records for the manor of Tedstone de la Mere, though the decent of this manor proper is not with that of the five hundreds.

LATER RECORDS

In the later sixteenth century the records begin to show a little more clearly how they were made up. The proceedings for the separate courts for each of the manors are found not filed together but kept for each in distinct books, rolls, or files, or sometimes combined with some other manor of the Coningesby family.

BODENHAM

In the seventeenth century it appears to have been understood that the hundred of Bodenham comprised the manors of Bodenham Regis, Bodenham Forges, Maund Bryan al. Marsh Maund, Broadfield, Heath and Bowley, Bodenham Regis may probably be equated with the hundred, but some at least of the others appear to have had so separate an identity that they came to the Coningesby family through divers descents and at diferent times and it is unlikely that they had all been in truth components of the hundred.

A few other rolls for these manors are listed in A23.