Lord of the Manor of Hoo in the county of Worcestershireshire.

What is being sold by Private Treaty is the manorial title in name of the Lord of the Manor of Hoo.in the county of Worcestershire

This is a genuine title and comes with some history

The legal documents that come with it are:
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SHENSTONE and HOO were regarded as manorsduring the 17th century. (fn. 59) Landat Shenstone was held in 1431 by Richard Folliott, lord of Stone, by knightservice, (fn. 60) andboth manors passed with Stone from the Folliott family to Sir WilliamCourteen. (fn. 61) Theyare not mentioned after 1636. (fn. 62)

A mill at Stone worth threeounces of silver belonged to the manor in 1086. (fn. 63) Anothermill in the parish called 'the water mill of Stone' appears to have belonged tothe manor of Dunclent, for it was given by Edmund de Dunclent to his brotherJohn in 1351. (fn. 64)

A disused paper-mill at Hoobrookis the only mill at present in the parish.

CHURCH

The church of ST. MARY consistsof a chancel, nave with a western gallery and a western tower and spire. Thewhole building is modern, and was built in 1831, when the old church wasdestroyed. A pencil drawing of the latter, still preserved, shows this to havebeen of some interest. The sketch does not give much detail, but the proportionof the tower and the general appearance of the belfry lights suggest a12th-century date for this part of the church, while the east windows of thechancel appear to have been three grouped lancets. Prattinton, who visited thechurch, also mentions 'a Saxon door on the north wall,' a further suggestion of12th-century work. (fn. 65)

The present church is ostensiblydesigned in 15th-century style, but is poor in both design and detail. Thetraceried east window of the chancel is of three lights, and in the south wallis a two-light window. There is no chancel arch, and the nave is lit by sixtwo-light windows, three on either hand. At the west end of the nave is anorgan gallery. The tower is of three stages, with lancet belfry lights and anembattled parapet, above which is a stone spire. The lowest stage serves as aporch. The belfry contains six bells, cast by Thomas Mears of London in 1832.The font is of 13th-century design, with a square bowl. Affixed to the northwall of the chancel are two small brass plates, the only relics of the oldchurch, both removed from a monument. One is to Will Spicer, died 1656, andbears the inscription:
'Drawn from a martyrs bloud, from a generous line
Decended was this meek, this grave divine.'
Below are the arms, a battled fesse between three lions rampant. The secondbrass is to Ursula wife of the above, died 1663, and bears the Spicer armsimpaling a cheveron between three roses with the difference of a crescent uponthe cheveron. Over the west door is a small late 18th-century carving of theroyal arms with the unusual arrangement of England quartering Scotland,Ireland, and France.

The church plate consists of asmall three-legged salver of 1800 and a modern set of a chalice, paten,standing salver and flagon, presented in 1862 by the Rev. John Peel, vicar ofStone and Dean of Worcester.

The registers before 1812 are asfollows: (i) all entries 1601 to 1709; (ii) baptisms and burials 1709 to 1785,marriages 1709 to 1752; (iii) baptisms and burials 1786 to 1812; and (iv) aprinted marriage book 1754 to 1812.

With this title come details of the lineage of holders until the title became extinct due to no living heirs. The title name has been recreated under the Possession Laws and Property Act of 1925. Full details with the sections of law come with the Deed of Creation.

All the historical documents are cross referenced with where the information was sourced. There are other historical documents with this interesting manorial package.

This is a genuine title name which is exclusive.

You can put this title on all your official documents.

MANORIAL TITLE REGISTER LIMITED Old Owners of Manorial Lordships 

We are regularly asked questions about the previous owner of the lordship title. 

This is one of the most difficult things to explain. 

Most people’s mind-set is that there is a person who was the last owner. This is simply not the case with manorial lordships. We really do have absolutely no idea who would be the previous owner. In most cases we could not even create a short list. These are some of the reasons we cannot even get close to finding anyone:

 • Before the Conveyancing Act 1881 if an owner of the lordship wished to transfer the rights with the physical land, they had to specifically list it, but they may have intended to sell them • From the other perspective, an owner may have just wanted to sell the land and no rights however the purchaser starts to enforce the rights, as if they owned them 

• It was not a legal requirement to keep deeds until 1922 

• Prior to the Limitation Act 1939, in theory one could claim adverse possession of a manorial title, so it didn’t matter if you lost your deeds 

• Manorial titles were not regarded as worth anything for the last few hundred years so no one bothered with who owned the rights, it was the land they were interested in 

• The use of a lordship and its courts have been in decline since the 16th Century, so it did not matter who owned the lordship 

• Rights have not been enforced for many years and therefore the lordship was not perceived as relevant in modern times 

• Without physical deeds we could potentially rely on historians to help us. Unfortunately, far too often historic records contradict each other 

• Of the few cases that have come to court both sides can sometimes have equally as good a history that each party owns the lordship? The law states one party has to be awarded the case and therefore judges have been awarding the case to the “most likely” owner instead of confirming who is the owner 

• A significant portion of the recorded lordships do not have any history in the last couple of hundred years, so we have even less clues 

• Where Manors were merged with others and then pieces sold it is almost impossible to tell whether the lordship rights were transferred or not 

• If a family has held a lordship for hundreds of years, without the deeds, there is nothing to say whether they came by the lordship rights by a legal method. We would never suggest they had been stolen however history is littered with family disputes where not all the time did the legal owner ended up with the rights. 

• All of these points create doubt over who is the owner and without a definitive set of deeds/paperwork it is impossible to tell what the intention was at the time, 100 years ago or 1,000 years ago. 

It is because of all these issues that the law insists on a complete, correctly executed and consecutive set of deeds to justify any historic owner. As the most valuable pieces of the lordship (seigniory) are not touched, the law enables us to bring back into use/ownership of just the lordship title. 

Manorial and Lordship Title Law -  Manorial Law 

Listed below are the legal situations in chronological order that have influenced how a person can prove their ownership of a LORDSHIP (also known as a seignory).

A LORDSHIP was/is a collection of rights that relate to the land of a manor. Under current law, to prove ownership of a LORDSHIP a person needs a set of consecutive deeds dating back to before 1189 (time immemorial) or in some cases back to a later crown grant. That is over 800 years of deeds. 

The owner of a LORDSHIP could also claim the custom legal right to use the titles of “Lord and Lady”, known collectively as a LORDSHIP TITLE. Lordship Title Law A legal right to a LORDSHIP TITLE was created through English Custom law. This is simple compared with Manorial Law. A legal custom is created through the use of a right over a long term, normally decades but with LORDSHIP TITLES centuries. 

Our service has been created through considerable research of specific laws and discussions and advice from a specialist solicitor who acts for the company and who identified legal articles and clauses to create new legal rights to LORDSHIP TITLES where: 

• The LORDSHIP does NOT have a provable owner • There are insufficient historic records to identify a possible owner of a LORDSHIP with one or more deeds 

• There are insufficient historic records to infer that someone may have a claim to a LORDSHIP. 

Legal sections of law are used to create an exclusive legal right to a LORDSHIP TITLE, they DO NOT create a legal right to the LORDSHIP, that is left dormant, lost to ownership and unaffected. This legal right is termed as the right of “quiet enjoyment” to a LORDSHIP TITLE. Quiet enjoyment means exercising a right without fear of being challenged by someone with a better legal right. 

The legal rights we create allow LORDSHIP TITLES that have not been used for centuries to be brought back into legal exclusive ownership. They can also be passed down through inheritance in the same way as a LORDSHIP owner would pass down their legal right. The USE of an historic LORDSHIP TITLE is identical whether ownership is justified by ownership of the LORDSHIP (normally with 800+ years of consecutive deeds) or by the right of “quiet enjoyment”. No third party will be able to tell the difference.

 Incorporeal Hereditaments are defined in the Law of Property Act 1925 Section 205 Subsection 1 (LPA1925 S.205 (1)). The term refers to intangible property, that is things that do not have a physical form


There is a full support service after the purchase of a manorial title. This not only consists of registration on the manorial title register platform detailed on the cover for every title and entry into the yearly eBook of titles and their holders, but also the promotion of a title and its new holder on international platforms. The cover of a title is redesigned to detail the name of the new holder. Within a few weeks the new holder and his/her title will appear on the internet search engines.  On the manorial title register website the new holder is detailed on the listing under the first letter of the title name, and detailed on the Legal Notices page and the 'New Members' page. No other platform provides such an in-depth after service. 

This title can be registered on The Gazette by the company solicitor, however the price of this title would then be £1,250