10 Jul Lordship Title of Eastbury or Isbury or Le Wyke ID1462
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Part of EASTBURY, sometimes known as LE WYKE by Eastbury, was evidently the king's demesne in 1086. It was granted in the 12th century to Ralph de Lanvalei, but in 1164 had for some reason been taken into the king's hands. It was restored to Ralph in 1173. In 1194 William (?) de Lanvalei paid 15 marks to have seisin of his land in Lambourn as he had when the king started for Jerusalem, and in 1209 Ralph de Lanvalei died in possession of Eastbury. His heir, then the king's ward, was a daughter Maud, who married Richard Walens in 1211. Her second husband was Gilbert de Mareys, who had seisin of Eastbury in 1231. Ralph Walens, her son by Richard, succeeded her, and died in or about 1250, leaving two sisters Agnes and Juliana, children of his father and mother, and a third sister Agnes, daughter of his mother by her last husband. The second Agnes died in 1252 without issue. Her sister Agnes married first John de Mareys and afterwards Ralph Hadley, and had by her first husband a son John and four daughters, ultimately her co-heirs. Of these Joan married Simon le Bret and had a son Thomas; Amice married Thomas Grazenhoil; Anastasia married John de la Grave, and Agnes married William de Gomeledon. The second sister Juliana Walens, wife of Geoffrey de Wrokeshale, also had a son and four daughters. The son Eustace died in her lifetime, and her four daughters inherited her moiety. The eldest, Joan, married John de Cerne and had a son John; Rose, the second, married Richard de Brokenbergh and also had a son John. Anastasia had a son Henry by John de Haddon, and Margery married Geoffrey de Mohun. The manor was thus divided into eight parts, most of which were gradually purchased by the Wanting family. In 1306 John de Cerne and John de Brokenbergh had licence to grant their shares to William de Wanting and Joan his wife. At his death (1324) William held another share also, which must be that of Margery de Mohun. His son and heir was John de Wanting, on whom with his wife Margaret 'the manor' of Eastbury was settled in 1325. In 1332 he and his second wife Elizabeth had a grant from John de Blebury, clerk, of the shares of Thomas le Bret and Amice Grazenhoil and from Henry de Haddon of his own share. In 1334 a settlement of the manor was made on John and Elizabeth and their issue with reversion to John de Winterbourn and his heirs. John de Wanting died in 1349, leaving a widow Joan and a son William, who proved his age ten years later. William's sister and heir at his death in 1360 was Joan, an idiot. Her custody was granted to John de Estbury, who in 1365 secured from her, on the pretext that she had recovered her sanity, a grant of three messuages, 3 virgates and 26s. 8d. rent. He also leased four messuages and 4 virgates from Joan, the widow of John de Wanting. In 1367 Joan de la Grave granted him the share of the manor which had belonged to her mother Anastasia. Two years later Joan de Wanting the idiot made a further grant to John de Estbury and in the same year he acquired from John atte Mulle and William Dawe and their wives Joan and Agnes, sisters and heirs of John de Gomeledon, the share of the manor which had remained in that family. At the death of John de Estbury in 1374 the entire holding of William de Wanting was entered among his lands, though the grants of Joan de Wanting had just been disallowed on the ground of her lunacy. His heir was his son John de Estbury, senior. The heirs of Joan de Wanting, who died in 1392, were her cousins Joan and Agnes, daughters and heirs of Thomas de Winterbourn, and another cousin, Roger atte Green. Roger granted 2 virgates in Eastbury to John de Estbury in 1393, and in 1396 Thomas Goion and his wife Agnes, one of the daughters of Thomas de Winterbourn, released the manor to him. John de Estbury died in 1406, when Ralph Arches, grandson of his sister Edith, was his heir. Ralph conveyed the manor to William Hankeford and others in 1408. William Hankeford was succeeded in 1423 by his grandson Richard, who settled the manor on himself and his wife Anne. The heir of Richard and Anne was their daughter Anne wife of Thomas Ormond, who granted it to Fulk Bourchier, lord of Wantage and son of her half-sister Thomasina, and Elizabeth his wife. Eastbury then followed Wantage (q.v.) in the Bourchier family till 1540, when John Bourchier Earl of Bath mortgaged it to Christopher Aleyn, who perhaps foreclosed. By 1547 the manor had passed into the possession of Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset, who had a release from the Earl of Bath in 1549. It was among his lands at his forfeiture in 1551–2, and was granted to George Owen and William Marten, who in 1553 had licence to alienate it, half to John Clarke of Ardington and half to John Coxhead. John Clarke died seised of his share in 1570, leaving it to his eldest son Henry, who in 1579 had a grant of the other half from Henry and Oliver Coxhead. Henry Clarke died in 1597 leaving a son and heir John, who in 1615 settled Eastbury on himself and his wife Susan in fee tail with remainder to Edward Clarke, his kinsman, in tail-male. Sir Edward Clarke, who was lord of Ardington, died holding the reversion in 1630, and the two manors descended together till 1685. In that year Eastbury was purchased from John Clarke by trustees under the will of Sir William Jones, ancestor of the Jones family of Ramsbury (Wilts.) It has remained in the possession of his descendants, following the descent of East Garston (q.v.). Sir Francis Burdett is the present lord.
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