10 Jul Lordship Title of Bray or Huses ID1393
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The second 5 hides were held in the time of the Confessor by Osmund and after the Conquest by Humfrey Visdelou as 2½ hides, and the church belonged to this manor. In the next century it was divided, a portion of it being designated later the manor of HUSES and eventually of BRAY, the overlordship remaining with the king. This portion was probably forfeited with the rest of Humphrey's estates in the time of Henry II, and given by the king to Hugh de Sanford, who was holding it in 1166 as one-tenth of a knight's fee. Half of it passed to John de Pleseys Earl of Warwick by his marriage with Christina daughter of Hugh de Sanford, and at his death in 1263 he held it as one-twentieth of a knight's fee, the other half being held by another descendant of Hugh, Henry Hosee or Hussey, to whom the former half seems to have passed afterwards. The manor then descended with Standen Huse in Hungerford until the death of Henry Hussey in 1349, when, instead of passing with Standen to Richard Hussey, Moreton appears to have gone to his brother Sir Henry, who with his wife Ankaret granted it in 1368 to Thomas Hungerford and Peter his son for their lives. Thomas and Peter transferred their estate about 1375 to Walter Yonge. It had reverted to the Husseys before 1401, and descended with Standen Huse to Sir Reynold Bray, who left it by will to his nephews, sons of his brother John. About 1515 Edmund Bray, the eldest nephew, claimed this manor from Sir Reynold's trustees, but it seems ultimately to have passed to Sir Edward the second son of John Bray, for he conveyed it in 1531 to George Carne and others. It then became known as the manor of Brayes. It came next into the possession of Sir Francis Englefield, who already held the manor of Sanderville (q.v.). In 1573 the site was granted to Thomas Cordrey, who the next year became a lunatic and died in 1587, leaving a son Henry. It was then leased for twenty-one years to Humphrey Foster, but in 1589 it was granted to Thomas Crompton and others. In 1626 it was granted with the manor of Sanderville, with which it has since descended.
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