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Survey of all the manors, messuages, lands, etc. in Gloucestershire belonging to Sir William Cooke, Kt., and Lady Jocosa his wife By Ed Turner, esq, Steward, and Edward Eldred, gent., surveyor, 1607 (D326/E1)
There were once 2 manors in Kingsholm; Tuwell Manor, which was owned by St. Oswald’s Priory, and Kingsholm Manor, which was held by the king (via King’s Barton Manor). No records have survived for Tulwell Manor (which by the 1770s had shrunk to a small farm rented by the Dean of Gloucester), but records have survived for Kingsholm Manor, largely because it became part of the estate of Sir William Cooke of Highnam Court. This rather artistic page is the preamble of a survey of the manor in 1607, written in Latin as were all manorial records prior to 1733.