10 Jul Lordship Title of Charlton ID1415
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Five hides in 'Ceorlatun' were granted by Edwy to his minister Wulfric in 956, and the Abingdon chronicler states that Wulfric gave them to the abbey, but there is no evidence for this. It is uncertain whether they were in the Berkshire CHARLTON, and Abingdon Abbey certainly retained no interest here. In 982 Ethelred gave the 5 hides to Aelfgar. In 1086 there were four distinct holdings in Charlton. The king had 8 hides which had belonged to Elmer, a freeman, in the reign of the Confessor and afterwards to Peter Bishop of Lichfield. Henry de Ferrers had 2½ hides and William the son of Corbucion the same amount. Ralph de Toni had land assessed at 7 hides which had been of the fee of Earl Roger and was held of Ralph by Dru. It seems probable that the king's land came into the possession of the family of Burlay or Boule, of whom the principal manor of Charlton was held in the 13th and 14th centuries for half a fee by the family of Earley. From 1430 this manor was said to be held of the lords of Wantage. In 1180 the Sheriff of Berkshire rendered account of 20s. from the lands of William de Earley in Charlton. Giles de Earley was holding half a fee here of Hugh de Burlay about 1240, and was succeeded in 1251 by his son Bartholomew. The latter paid subsidy during the reign of Edward I. In 1317–18 a settlement of one messuage, 2 carucates and 50s. rent in Charlton was made on John de Earley and his heirs. Six years later he conveyed a messuage and 3 carucates to David Martin, Bishop of St. David's, who died in possession of 57s. rent from free tenants here in 1328. His heir was his nephew Thomas de Carew of Moulsford (q.v.). Another Thomas Carew died seised of the manor of Charlton in 1430–1, leaving a son and heir Nicholas. Sir Edmund Carew, great-grandson of Nicholas, sold the manor in 1497 to Bartholomew Reed, citizen and goldsmith of London. Bartholomew died in possession in 1505, having settled the manor on his nephew William. In 1578 John Reed and Elizabeth his wife sold the manor to Edmund Wiseman. Edmund died in possession of Charlton, which was settled on his second son Charles, in 1604–5. It is not mentioned among the possessions of Charles at his death and its later history is uncertain.
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