Lewis Monnoux, Esq. of Wotton

Reference: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/beds/vol3/pp328-335

...Bosoms Manor, for in 1514 it was in the possession of Edward Langley, from whom it was purchased in that year by George Monoux, citizen and alderman of London, (fn. 21) in whose family it remained for many generations. In 1527 George settled the manor on his daughter Ann and her husband Nicholas Taylor for ninety-nine years, (fn. 22) and in 1531 he settled the reversion on Thomas, grandson of his brother and heir Humphrey. (fn. 23) George Monoux died in 1544, when the manor was inherited by George the son of Thomas, who had died in 1537. (fn. 24) In 1564 the manor was settled on George and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of John Lord Mordaunt, (fn. 25) and passed on his death in 1593 to Lewis son of his son Humphrey, who had died in 1585. (fn. 26) On his death in 1628 Lewis was succeeded by his son Humphrey, created a baronet in 1660, (fn. 27) and the manor then descended as in Sandy (q.v.) to the fifth baronet, Sir Philip Monoux, who succeeded to the title in 1757 (fn. 28); but there is no mention of the manor after 1770, and it did not by name form part of the property divided among Sir Philip's four sisters and co-heirs in 1809.

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