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VCH Gloucestershire XIII, Draft Text, Bulley (Manors): © University of London 2010MANORS AND ESTATESAt the end of the Middle Ages land in Bulley acquired by Gloucester formedtogether with land in Tibberton and Taynton a manor centred on the PigeonHouse in Bulley and distinct from the manor of Bulley. Families with land inBulley included the Berkeleys in the 16th century 1 and the Scudamores in the17th. 2 Land acquired in 1607 by William Lysons was charged in 1707 with anannual payment of £6 to fund a clothing charity in Gloucester 3 and theLysonses retained land in Bulley in the later 18th century when they rankedamong the lesser county families. 4 The rent charge was redeemed in 1921. 5The land in Bulley owned by the Gloucester banker James (‘Jemmy’) Wood athis death in 1836 was awarded in 1843 to William Philip Price in the right ofhis wife Frances (née Chadborn), 6 and the following year it passed, inexchange for a farm in Tibberton, to William Henry Hyett, 7 the owner of Bulleymanor. Hyett enlarged his estate further but in 1871 he sold it to Price, theowner of the Tibberton Court estate 8 which thereby included much of Bulleyuntil the sale of most of its farms in the early 20th century.BULLEY MANORThe descent of an estate of four hides at Bulley held by Toui from KingEdward in 1066 and by Walter Balistarius in 1086 9 is unclear. In the early 12thcentury Ralph Peverel, who was evidently also known as Ralph Bluet,confirmed a grant of ½ hide in Bulley to Gloucester abbey by William ofBulley. 10 The lordship of Bulley passed to Hugh de Lacy 11 (d. 1186). His sonWalter, who held Bulley for ½ knight’s fee, died in 1241 and part of his landsdescended to Joan, wife of Roger de Mortimer (d. 1330) of Wigmore, fromwhose descendants, earls of March, 12 Bulley manor was held for ¼ fee. 1312345678910111213Below (other estates).GA, D 3398/1/8/3; D 8460/7/3/1; TNA, C 115/41, nos 2499, 2502,2508. See Cal. Cttee. for Compounding, I, p. 85; IV, p. 2494.GA, D 8460/7/3/1–3: 20th Rep. Com. Char. 7–8. See VCH Glos. IV,358.GA, D 6/E 4, no 1; D 6/E 16; see VCH Glos. IV, 422–3.GA, D 2299/9821.Ibid. D 626, Sandhurst deeds 1800–44; GDR, T 1/42. For Jas. Wood,VCH Glos. IV, 140–1, 177.GA, D 3398/1/7/25; D 3093 (Box 1).For Price, Tibberton, manors (Tibberton manor); social hist. (socialstructure).Domesday Book (Rec. Com.), I, 169.Hist. & Cart. Mon. Glouc. I, 61–2, 123; J.S. Moore, ‘TheGloucestershire Section of the Domesday Book’, Trans. BGAS 106(1988), 90.Pipe R 1187 (PRS 37), 140; F.B. Welch, ‘Gloucestershire in the PipeRolls’, Trans. BGAS 57 (1935), 78.I.J. Sanders, English Baronies (1960), 95–6; Book of Fees, I, 439, 443;Complete Peerage, VIII, 441–8.Inq. p.m. Glos. 1359–1413, 10, 195, 212.1

VCH Gloucestershire XIII, Draft Text, Bulley (Manors): © University of London 2010and Sir Edward’s son Charles quitclaimed three quarters of the manor toHenry Hawley, 32 who together with Richard Hopkins sold the whole of it in1700 to Nicholas Webb. 33Nicholas, a Gloucester alderman, died in 1712 and his son and heirNicholas (d. 1714) left his estate in Bulley in turn to his wife Joyce andnephew Nicholas Hyett. 34 Hyett, who inherited Painswick House in 1762, diedin 1777 and his Bulley property passed with the Painswick estate to his sonBenjamin (d. 1810) and later to William Henry Adams. The latter, known from1813 as William Henry Hyett, 35 added to his land in Bulley, exchanging withWilliam Philip Price a farm in Tibberton for Drew’s, Poydras (William’s), andBrook farms (together over 100 a.) in 1844 36 and buying Pigeon House farmin 1867. 37 In 1871 he sold the manor and his Bulley land (722 a.) to Price, 38who by piecemeal purchases increased the holding of his Tibberton Courtestate in Bulley. 39 He died in 1891 and under his heir Morgan Philips Price 40the estate sold most of its farms in Bulley by 1923. Then the farmer PercyWheeler owned Bulley farm (204 a.). 41 He died in 1932 and Howard GuyWheeler, the farm’s later owner, in 1982. 42 The Wheeler family continued tofarm there in 2010.MANOR OF TIBBERTON, TAYNTON, AND BULLEYGloucester abbey retained the ½ hide it acquired from William of Bulley in theearly 12th century. Under Richard Hanley, abbot from 1457, it acquired land inBulley from John Fawkener of Bristol, 43 and by the early 16th century itadministered its possessions in Bulley, Tibberton, and Taynton 44 from Bulleyas a single manor. 45 The so-called manor of Tibberton, Taynton, and Bulley3233343536373839404142434445Hil., no 14.Ibid. CP 25/2/831/I Wm. And Mary Trin., no 14. For Edw. Carteret andfam., VCH Som. VII, [page number to be supplied].Note from foot of fine 11 Wm. III Hil. in possession of editor, VCHGlos.: MS not located in TNA; GA, D 2176/1/2/5. Members of theBurgis and Morgan families said c.1710 to be joint lords of the manorwith Webb (Atkyns, Glos. 307) were also landholders in Bulley: see,below (manor of Tibberton, Taynton, and Bulley); GDR wills 1693/137.Fosbrooke, Glouc. 179; GDR wills 1713/211; 1715/85.VCH Glos. XI, 68; F.A. Hyett, ‘The Hyetts of Painswick’ (1907, TS inGA), 50–2. See GA, D 2176/1/2/5; D 6/E 4, no 1; Fosbrooke, Glos. II,206; GDR, T 1/42.GA, D 3398/1/7/25; D 3093 (Box 1). See ibid. D 626, Sandhurst deeds1800–44; GDR, T 1/42.Below (manor of Tibberton, Taynton, and Bulley); see Hyett, ‘Hyetts ofPainswick’, 68.GA, D 6/E 38.Ibid. D 3398/1/7/1.Below, Tibberton, manors; see Kelly’s Dir. Glos. (1894), 49; (1906), 52.GA, D 2176/2/4/1; G/WE 159/3/2.Ibid. P 66/IN 1/11; see ibid. DA 24/100/18, p. 25.Hist. & Cart. Mon. Glouc. I, 61–2, 123, 162n, 204–5.Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), II, 412.Glouc. Cath. Libr., Reg. Abb. Braunche, f. 22v.; Reg. Abb. Newton, f.3

VCH Gloucestershire XIII, Draft Text, Bulley (Manors): © University of London 2010passed to dean and chapter of Gloucester cathedral in 1541 46 and its site,called Fawkener’s Place in 1502 when leased to Thomas Turner and his sonsThomas and John, 47 was known as the Pigeon House in 1649. 48John Turner, the dean and chapter’s tenant in 1610, 49 exercised themanorial rights as lord farmer. John Jones, a Gloucester alderman anddiocesan registrar, was lord farmer in 1617 and left the estate at his death in1630 to his widow Elizabeth. By 1636 she had given it to her eldest sonGilbert Jones 50 and Gilbert, who held 103 a. with the site of the manor, 51bought the manor in 1651 following its confiscation from the dean andchapter. On regaining it from him in 1662 52 they made Thomas Colwall, aLondon scrivener, lord farmer under a new lease for 21 years. After that thelease of the manor was renewed about every 7 years. John Pritchett, bishopof Gloucester, was lord farmer in 1679. At his death in 1681 he left the estateto his wife Katharine (fl. 1685) with reversion to his son John and son-in-lawJohn Stanyan of Harefield (Mddx) and in 1692, following the son’s death,Stanyan became sole lord farmer. Thomas Burgis of Gloucester, owner of thelease in 1699, 53 died by 1715 leaving the manor for the children of hisgrandson William Burgis 54 (d. 1766). 55 William’s son Robert, who wasincluded in leases granted from 1751 56 and was rector of Elmley Lovett(Worcs.) from 1776, 57 remained lessee of the demesne land after the deanand chapter took the manorial rights in hand, by 1796. 58 On his death in 1800his children sold the lease to the banker James Wood and in 1824 he sold itto John Gurney, a local carpenter. 59 John, whose estate made up mostly ofPigeon House farm covered just over 140 a. 60 died in 1847 and after thedeath of his widow Hannah in 1850 his grandson Hanbury (Ambrie) WilliamGurney conveyed the estate to John’s son-in-law William Wilson, the tenantfarmer. In 1857 the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, to whom the dean andchapter’s estates had passed, relinquished their freehold interest in PigeonHouse farm and in 1867 William’s mortgagees sold the farm to William HenryHyett. From him it passed in 1871 into the Tibberton Court estate of William46474849505152535455565758596043 and v.L&P Hen. VIII, XVI, p. 572.Glouc. Cath. Libr., Reg. Abb. Braunche, f. 22v.GA, D 1740/E 1, f. 116.Glouc. Cath. Libr., treasurer’s acct. book 1609–34.TNA, PROB 11/159, ff. 292v.–294; PROB 11/182, ff. 46–47v.; GA, D936/E 12/2, ff. 143–4, 348 and v. For John Jones, Fosbrooke, Glouc.137; Williams, Parl. Hist. of Glos. 192.GA, D 1740/E 1, ff. 116–18.Ibid. D 936/T 7.Ibid. E 108; TNA, PROB 11/365, ff. 199v.–200. See VCH Mddx III, 256.GDR wills 1715/83;Fosbrooke, Glouc. 143.GA, D 936/E 108.VCH Worcs. III, 110.GA, D 936/E 108.Ibid. D 2176/1/2/16.GDR, T 1/42.4

VCH Gloucestershire XIII, Draft Text, Bulley (Manors): © University of London 2010Philip Price. 61 When the estate was broken up in the early 20th centuryPigeon House farm (69 a.) was bought by its tenant, John Gingell. 62 After hisdeath in 1936 63 the farm was sold to the Ward family and in 1968 it wasoffered for sale by Frederic Noel Clarke. 64OTHER ESTATESIn 1522 a substantial part of Bulley belonged to Sir Thomas Berkeley 65 (d.1533). 66 That estate had belonged to Walter Rowden, who may have inheritedit from his father John, and, although held from Bulley manor, was sometimesitself described as a manor. Walter, a Gloucester lawyer, died in 1513 andwas succeeded by his brother Richard. 67 Richard’s daughter and coheirFrances married in turn Maurice Berkeley, son of Sir Thomas, and RichardDanvers. Her son Edward Berkeley, of Bradley in Wotton-under-Edge, left theestate at his death in 1577 to his wife Elizabeth for life and under his will 68 itwas conferred in 1579 on his sisters Frances, wife of George Matthews, andEleanor, wife of James Morris, by Sir Richard Berkeley. 69 Richard Danverscontinued to hold the estate for his life and in 1581 Frances and Georgeconveyed their half share to John Chamberlayne. 70 The estate’s later descentwas possibly that of one of the farms mentioned below.Lake FarmLake farm belonged to several generations of the Fendall family. WilliamFendall of Gloucester left the family’s estate, one of the largest within Bulley in1737, 71 at his death in 1753 to his son John. 72 John’s estate, which includedLake farm, 73 was owned after 1791 by William Fendall, a barrister and partnerin a Gloucester bank, and by 1800 it had been bought by James Broadstock.Henry Adams, the owner in 1812, 74 was presumably the same as WilliamHenry Adams, who inherited Bulley manor with which Lake farm passed tobecome part of the Tibberton Court estate in 1871. 75 In 1923 the farmhouseand 85 a. were owned by Gilbert Selwyn, whose family had farmed the land. 7661626364656667686970717273747576GA, D 2176/1/2/16; D 6/E 38; see above (Bulley manor).GA, D 2176/2/4/1; G/WE 159/3/2.Ibid. D 2428/1/19; P 66/IN 1/11.Ibid. D 2299/6238; D 4858/2/4/1968/10.Military Surv. of Glos. 1522, 200.Berkeley MSS, II, 221, 244. See Complete Peerage, II, 136–7.TNA, C 142/28, no 79; VCH Glos. IV, 37, 375.Berkeley MSS, II, 229–30; GDR wills 1578/25.TNA. CP 25/2/260/21 Eliz. I Easter, no 5; 21 & 22 Eliz. I Mich., no 19.Ibid. CP 25/2/143/1846, 23 & 24 Eliz. I Mich., no 21.GDR, V 5/62T 1.TNA, PROB 11/802, ff. 219–20.See GA, D 6/E 4, no 1; Bigland, Glos. I, 267.GA, Q/REl 1, Duchy of Lancaster; Rudge, Hist. of Glos. II, 53; For Wm.Fendall, VCH Glos. IV, 140–1.Above, this section; GDR, T 1/42; GA, D 6/E 38.GA, G/WE 159/3/2; D 2176/2/4/1; D2428/1/19.5

VCH Gloucestershire XIII, Draft Text, Bulley (Manors): © University of London 2010He died in 1926 77 and Rosa, wife of Frederick William Godwin, put the farm(107 a.) up for sale in 1950. 78Collier’s Elm FarmIn 1733 Alexander Ready and John Chaunler sold Colley’s Elm farm, as itwas then called, to Daniel Newcome, dean of Gloucester. He settled it in 1753on the marriage of his son Revd Noah Neale Newcome (d. 1782), who in1774 settled it on the marriage of his daughter Maria to Revd Edward Cove. 79Noah Neale of Gloucester owned the farm in 1776 and left it at his death in1779 to his son Noah Hill Neale. 80 He sold it in 1803 or 1804 to BenjaminHyett, 81 lord of Bulley manor with which it passed into the Tibberton Courtestate of William Philip Price in 1871. 82 George Henry Irish owned the farmfollowing the break up of that estate 83 and he sold it in 1926 to Gladys AnniePrice. She married Walter Dawe and offered the farm (113 a.) for sale in1959. 84Rectory and TithesAs rector of Churcham Gloucester abbey received one mark a year fromBulley church in the early 13th century. 85 The rectory, which was among theabbey’s estates used to endow the dean and chapter of Gloucester cathedralin 1541, 86 took the corn and hay tithes from Bulley. Those were leasedtogether with tithes from Churcham in 1634 and on their own from 1778. 87 In1840, when the lessee was W.H. Hyett, they were commuted for a corn rentcharge of £216 and the tithes taken from Bulley by the vicar of Churcham,were commuted for one of £39. 88 The dean and chapter’s right to tithes inBulley passed to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. 8977787980818283848586878889Ibid. P 66/IN 1/11; see ibid. D 2299/3287.Ibid. D 2299/9821.Ibid. D 910; Alumni Cantab. to 1751, III, 246.TNA, PROB 11/1065, ff. 264–267v.; Fosbrooke, Glouc. 143.GA, D 6/E 38, schedule of deeds. See ibid. Q/REl 1, Duchy ofLancaster, Bulley 1805.Above, this section; GDR, T 1/42; GA, D 6/E 38.GA, D 2176/2/4/1; G/WE 159/3/2.Ibid. D 2299/3877; D 6290/1. For Dawe, Kelly’s Dir. Glos. (1931), 56.Hist. & Cart. Mon. Glouc. I, 267.L&P Hen. VIII, XVI, p. 72.GA, D 936/Y 12; see VCH Glos. X, 18.GDR, T 1/42.GA, P 66/CW 2/1, note at end of vol. 1907.6