10 Jul Lordship Title of Abbey Manor ID1339
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The ABBEY MANOR was royal demesne in the reign of Edward the Confessor and for some time after the Conquest. It consisted of 4½ hides of land. This manor was granted by the Empress Maud to the monks of Reading Abbey, and the grant was confirmed by her successors. A farm of £5 paid by the abbot for this manor was granted before 1291 to the alien priory of Ogbourne (Wilts.) At the Dissolution the manor passed to the Crown, and John Stoner was appointed bailiff of this and other Reading manors in 1540. It was granted in 1544 to Henry Norreys and Margery his wife in tail male. His descendants held it till 1622, when Thomas Norreys Earl of Berkshire conveyed it to Sir Peter Vanlore. He sold it in the next year to William Eyston, lord of the manor of Arches, which it thenceforth followed in descent.
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