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RefNoK509/6/4
AltRefNo509/6/4
TitleLittle Abington
DescriptionThe manorial history of Little Abington is complex (VCH, Vol. VI pp. 6ff, from which most of the following details are taken. For this deposit the relevant facts are that in the thirteenth century two fees were separated from the main manor. The fee of Richard Gerunde may have passed to the Bustelers and Paryses of Hildersham. Some land was sold, but after 1544 the Paryses and their successors retained the lordship over considerable freehold and copyhold lands in Little Abington, though the whereabouts of these is not known; references to this manor are to Hildersham with Little Abington. At the end of the eighteenth century (1789-99) John Mortlock bought Hildersham manor from Lord Eward Petre, selling it in 1810 to Thomas Fassett (VCH, Vol. VI p.62). The Impropriate Rectory of Little Abington was bought in about 1576 by Thomas Dalton of Hildersham, who perhaps already leased it. In 1701 Tyrell Dalton sold the rectory, with 59 acres of land, to John Perne; it continued in the Perne family through inclosure when 275 acres were allotted for rectorial tithes. By 1900 the rectory estate, with the former Jesus College and Lagden acres, was bought by J.J. Emerson, Lord of both Great and Little Abington manors; when the whole estate was broken up in 1926, Lay Rectory Farm (c. 370 acres) was bought by S.E. Franklin. (VCH, Vol. VI, p. 9). Andrew and Chester Perne appear occasionally in these papers.
Date1801-1878
CreatorNameMortlock Bank and Estate
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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