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: of Holywell House, St Albans, Herts. and Som., Churchill.
JENNINGS
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Commons 1640-1660
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JENNYNS (JENNINGS), Richard (c.1619-68), of Holywell House, St Albans, Herts. and Churchill, Som.

Will
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Estates
sold manor of Churchill, Som. to John Churchill†, for £5,900, 1652;E. Green, ‘The manor of Churchill’, Procs. Som. Arch. and Natural Hist. Soc. xxxi. 42; HP Commons 1660-1690, ii. 70. his lands at St Albans and Sandridge, inc. his mother’s jointure estates, estimated to be worth £715 p.a. aft. 1660.HMC Verulam, 103.
Oxford 1644
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