royal politics. By the 1350s, John Curteys had taken possession of one of the larger of two manors in the parish. Curteys, who was mayor of the wool staple of Calais, held considerable wealth. He provided funds to re-build the village church, completed in 1377, and made a loan to Richard II in the sum of £20 in 1379, an extremely substantial amount at the time. The church is the only remaining medieval building in the village. On Curteys's death in 1391, control of the manor passed to his wife, Albreda. The village's connection to Richard II and the crown continued, when Sir Thomas Brounflete (or Bromflet), the king's Chief Butler, was granted lord of the manor at Wymington in 1397 on Albreda Curteys's death. Brounflete would go on to be the comptroller of the household of Henry IV. Sir Thomas's son, Henry, inherited the manor in 1430, and was sent as an ambassador of Henry VI to the Council of Basel in 1434. In 1448, Henry VI made him Lord Vesci (or Veysey). On Henry's death in January of 1468 lacking a male heir the manor and all of his other holdings in Bedfordshire and Buckingham was sold off by the executors of his estate, with the proceeds going to charity and to the church. Renaissance and modern era In the late 1500s Henry Stanley, the 4th Earl of Derby and grandson of Henry VII, came into possession of the manors. In 1591, Henry, and later his son Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby, began to sell off large portions of Wymington to the manor in Podington. By the early 17th century, Wymington was home to two manors, both referred to as Wymington Manor. Only one manor house remains, dating from 1612 on the north side of the village. The other manor house was probably on the opposite side of the village, on the south side of the High Street. By 1621, ownership of at least one of the manors, possibly both, was under one William Bletsoe. It remaine in the Bletsoe family until it passed to a John Sawyer in 1708. In 1713, the manor was sold to Major General John Livesay, who had purchased nearby Hinwick House in 1706 and was a former governor of Jamaica. In the mid 18th century, Wymington was referenced as a "obscure and ruinous village," with 35 stone thatched houses and a