10 Jul Lordship Title of Catmore ID1412
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In the 13th century Philip de St. Helens and John de Turbervill are given as holding half a knight's fee in Catmore and Philip de Fifhide one and a half fees in Fifhide and Catmore. In 1296 the latter was still in possession of the hamlet of Catmore and lands there, but the descent of his property here is uncertain. John Turbervill was holding Catmore in 1237, and his wife Meliora is said to have given the manor to Richard de Turbervill and Margaret his wife, whose daughter Amice married first William de Arches (Darches or D'Arques), by whom she had a son William, and secondly Rogo de Gacelyn. In 1305 she conveyed the manor to Rogo and his heirs, and in 1306 a grant was made to him of a market there on Mondays and a yearly fair on the vigil, feast and morrow of St. Margaret. He appears to have died in 1322. Owing to his having joined the rebel barons the manor had become forfeited to the Crown, and was granted by the king in the same year to Edmund Gacelyn for life, Robert Hungerford, the keeper of the lands of the rebels, being ordered to give him the corn from the last autumn harvest and to restore any that might have been taken. In 1330 the manor was settled on Edmund and Eleanor his wife with remainder to their sons John and Geoffrey successively and then to the heirs of Geoffrey. In the same year, however, William de Arches, the son of Amice by her first husband, unsuccessfully claimed the manor against Edmund Gacelyn, who died seised of it in 1337, leaving a son and heir Geoffrey. A claim by Eleanor de Gacelyn 'alias de Stourton' widow of Edmund that she had held the manor jointly with her late husband led to a Crown prosecution in 1338 in which it was contended there was collusion with William de Acton alias de Arches. No judgement can be found, but the manor must have reverted to the Arches, as John de Arches with Ralph Stodeye and Edith his wife dealt with it in 1375. In 1428 John Stowe, who had married Maud de Arches, daughter and heiress of Rawlin de Arches, was holding half a fee in Catmore said to have been formerly held by Thomas de Arches. Possibly this Maud married as her second husband Sir William Crosby (who had a wife of that name), who was holding it in 1439 and 1442. Isabel daughter of John Stowe and Maud married John Eyston, who succeeded to the manor about 1433. They had a son William, whose son Thomas died seised of the manor in 1531. From this date the manor follows the descent of East Hendred (q.v.), the chief seat of the Eystons. Mr. John Joseph Eyston is the present owner of East Hendred and Catmore.
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