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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
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