Catalogue description Atherstone, Warwickshire

This record is held by Cambridge University: King's College Archive Centre

Details of KCAR/6/2/008
Reference: KCAR/6/2/008
Title: Atherstone, Warwickshire
Description:

Documents relating to College lands in Atherstone, Warwickshire. Includes ATH/1-/31.

Date: 1161-1812
Held by: Cambridge University: King's College Archive Centre, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 1/2 box
Subjects:
  • Warwickshire
Administrative / biographical background:

Atherstone manor in Warwickshire was part of the estates in England owned by the Abbey of Bec, and as such was passed to King's College at the Foundation by King Henry VI in the 1440s. The land was later sold to the Carthusian priory of Mountgrace in Yorkshire in 1462, for which the College was compensated with an annual pension of £16 from 1505. Papers concerning the dispute between the College and the priory over the land are kept under KCAR/6/2/8/8 Legal Papers. In the sixteenth century the manor became the property of Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk who, as father of Lady Jane Grey, was executed by Mary I for High Treason.

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