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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