10 Jul Lordship Title of Cookham ID1433
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Ethelbald, King of Mercia, gave the monastery (coenobium) at COOKHAM to the church of Canterbury, and it was afterwards taken from it by Offa and Coenwulf. The latter restored it at the request of Archbishops Bregowine and Jaenberht, and it was finally adjudged to the see of Canterbury at the council of Clovesho in 798. Thereupon Archbishop Æthelheard gave it to the Abbess Cynedritha in exchange for certain manors in Kent. Land in Cookham is mentioned in the will of the ealdorman Aelfheah (965–75) when he bequeathed his estate here to 'his royal lord.' From this time Cookham seems to have become a royal estate, and a 'witan' was held here by Ethelred II. At the Conquest Cookham belonged to the Crown, and in 1086 was assessed at 20 hides and contained woodland for a hundred swine. The manor formed part of the dowry of the Queens of England from the reign of Edward I, who assigned the manor in 1281 to his mother Eleanor, until the end of the reign of Henry VIII, with one exception in 1399, when it was granted to Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, the king's son, who held it until his death in 1447. The manor remained with the Crown until 1818, when it was purchased by George Bangley, the London stationer. He sold it to Ebenezer Fuller Maitland, the owner in 1838. He sold it to the Vansittarts of Bisham Abbey, and it was purchased in 1849 of Mrs. A. M. Vansittart by Henry Skrine of Stubbings and Warleigh, grandfather of Mr. Henry Mills Skrine of Warleigh Manor, Bath, who is the present owner. Court Rolls from the time of Edward III and Ministers' Accounts for the manor from the time of Henry III are preserved at the Public Record Office. The courts were held at the court-house on Court-house Green at Cookham. Sixteenth and 17th-century surveys and rentals of the manor are preserved at the Record Office and British Museum. There were two fisheries appurtenant to the manor of Cookham at the date of the Survey. The right of fishing and hawking in the mill-pond, with the profits of osiers and willows and fishing in the pond called le Stond, was leased by the Crown.
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