10 Jul Lordship Title of East Lockinge ID1460
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The fee afterwards called EAST LOCKINGE is first mentioned in 868, when Ethelswith, Queen of the Mercians, granted to her thegn Cuthwulf for 1,500s. 15 hides of land there which ultimately came into the possession of the abbey of Abingdon. The monks' lands here were assessed at 6 hides 1 virgate in 1086, and they had also a mill worth 30d. Lockinge remained in the possession of the abbey till the Dissolution, and was one of the manors which were bound to provide messengers for the kitchener three times in the year. After the Dissolution the manor was in the hands of the king's bailiffs till 1546, when it was sold by the Crown to John Winchcombe of Newbury. He died in possession in 1557, leaving a son and heir John. The latter was succeeded in 1574 by his son Francis, who sold East Lockinge in 1590 to Edward Keate. A settlement of 1617 secured the manor after Edward Keate's death to his younger son Francis and the heirs male of Francis, with reversion to the heirs male of his eldest son Edward and afterwards to his own right heirs. Francis had a son Edward, who had at his death only one daughter surviving, Anne, the wife of Edmund Wiseman. As Edward son of Edward had died without issue, Anne succeeded to the property. Her only son died an infant in her lifetime, and the manor reverted to the heirs of Frances, a sister of Edward and daughter of Francis Keate, who had married Joseph Prowse. These heirs were five sisters, Anne, Elizabeth, Constance, Susan and Honor, the sisters of Francis Prowse and probably grandchildren of Frances and Joseph. The eldest, Anne, was married to Robert Stone. In 1718 the five co-heirs sold the manor to Matthew Wymondsold, who settled here and built a manorhouse. He died in 1757 and his sons Francis, William and Charles held the manor in succession. The last of these left it on his death to his wife Sarah, who married as her second husband John Pollexfen Bastard. He inherited the property under her will and left it to his second wife with reversion to his nephew Edmund Bastard, whose son Mr. E. R. P. Bastard was in possession in 1847. East Lockinge was sold by the latter in 1853 to Lord Overstone, who gave the manor to his daughter on her marriage in 1858 to Colonel Loyd-Lindsay. The latter was created Lord Wantage in 1885 and died in 1901. Lady Wantage is still the owner of the estate.
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