10 Jul Lordship Title of Enborne or East Enborne or Enborne Cheney or Enborne Roger or West Enborne ID1474
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There were four manors in Enborne at the time of the Domesday Survey, and of these the most important was held by William son of Corbucion, and had been held of Edward the Confessor by Toti; it was assessed in 1086 at 8 hides and contained a mill worth 20s. Like the majority of William's lands, ENBORNE, later known as WEST ENBORNE or ENBORNE CHENEY, afterwards passed to the Earl of Warwick, and Thomas de Newburgh Earl of Warwick died seised of half a knight's fee here in 1242. There is, however, no further mention of it in the inquisitions on the Earls of Warwick, and early in the 14th century half a fee in Enborne and the mill there belonged to the Earl Marshal. As early as 1228 the Marshals held some land in Enborne, and Walter Marshal or his brother Anselm probably acquired the interest of the Earls of Warwick shortly after Thomas de Newburgh's death, for the fee was subsequently divided between two of Anselm's heirs, represented later by the Earls Marshal and the Earls of Gloucester. In 1306 Roger le Bigod, the grandson of Anselm Marshal's sister and co-heir Maud, died seised of this half fee in Enborne, which subsequently followed the descent of Hampstead Marshall (q.v.). The Earl of Warwick's fee was held of him in the 13th century by Andrew de la Brech and John Belet. The Belet family continued to hold lands in Enborne until 1408, but they seem to have lost their interest in the Warwick fee, which may have passed to the Crawleys as early as the reign of Henry III. Sir Alan de Crawley appears as a witness to several of the local deeds of this period, and in one of the time of Edward I his name is followed by that of James his son. This was probably the James de Crawley who held a quarter of a fee in Enborne of the Earl Marshal in 1306, and obtained licence to grant it together with the advowson to Walter Wodelok in 1308. Walter Wodelok had a grant of free warren in all his demesne lands here on 2 April 1325. At the time of his death in 1342 a park containing 30 acres was attached to the manor and a fishery and mill are also mentioned, together with a dovecot and a dairy which was worth nearly £8 10s. a year. His heir was his son Nicholas, who granted the manor in 1366 to his son Thomas and Eleanor the latter's wife and died on 20 November 1371. Thomas died before 1401, leaving a son Thomas, whose wardship Eleanor and her second husband Aumary de St. Amand unsuccessfully disputed with the Bishop of Winchester in that year. The child died before November 1406, when William Pureshute or Spersholt was returned as the heir of Nicholas; but Eleanor survived and was still holding the manor in 1416, when she complained that Sir Reynold Grey of Ruthyn and other evil-doers had broken the stank of her mill at Enborne and turned away the mill stream. She died about 1426, when the manor apparently passed to Sir Robert Shottesbrook, who was seised of it in 1428. After this date it followed the descent of West Woodhay (q.v.) until 1542, when John Cheney granted it to the king in exchange for the manor of Kintbury. Thomas Cawarden, a groom of the privy chamber, was made steward and bailiff of this and other adjoining manors, and in 1543 obtained a lease of West Enborne for twenty-one years. In 1556 the manor was granted for life to Anne Duchess of Somerset. She was still holding it in 1573, but though she did not die until 1587, the manor was granted in 1579–80 to Thomas Appleby and others, who had licence in the same year to alienate it to Sir Thomas Gawdy. Sir Thomas Gawdy died seised of this manor on 5 November 1588, leaving as his heir his son Henry, who with his wife Elizabeth sold it in 1590 to Thomas Parry. Thomas was knighted in 1601 and in 1604 he and his wife Dorothy sold it to Uriah Babington. Uriah Babington died on 26 February 1606 seised of this manor, leaving by his wife Anne, who survived him, a son Uriah. In 1619 Uriah the son, owing to the embezzlement of treasury money by his father, was forced to mortgage the manor, which was sold by two of the mortgagees in 1629 to William Lord Craven of Hampstead Marshall. The manor has since descended as part of the estate of Hampstead Marshall (q.v.), and the Earl of Craven is the present lord of the manor. Thomas Parry acquired from King Edward VI in 1552 the capital messuage and site of the manor of West Enborne, which he seems to have sold to Walter Cupper, who died seised of it in 1556, when he was succeeded by his son Henry, then aged three years. Henry had livery of the site on 1 June 1579, placed it in settlement on 16 June 1580, on his marriage with Frances daughter of John Hunks of Preston, Gloucestershire, and died seised of twothirds of the site in 1599. His son Thomas had livery of this estate on 15 February 1610. The remaining third seems to have been held by Anne the wife of William Lichfield as dower from her former husband John Smyth, whose interest in the manor is not clear. In 1624 Thomas Cupper sold the two-thirds to William Craven and two others, and this sale was confirmed in 1632 to William, then Lord Craven, by Thomas, his son Thomas and Henry Cupper. Andrew de la Brech, who held part of the Warwick fee in the 13th century, obtained about 1237 a grant of other lands in Enborne from Gilbert Marshal Earl of Pembroke. These lands had been granted to the earl by Eleanor Countess of Pembroke for the term of her life, and were possibly those which her husband William Marshal, Gilbert's elder brother, had claimed from William Malewayne in 1228. In 1258 Andrew granted the lands which he first held in Enborne to Richard de Havering and Lucy his wife for the life of Lucy with reversion to Andrew and his heirs. It is not clear whether this was the fee held of Warwick or of Pembroke, as the whole of Andrew's estate is afterwards returned as held of the Earl Marshal. On the death of Anselm Marshal, however, the fee passed to his sister and co-heir Isabel, the wife of Gilbert de Clare, and afterwards followed the descent of the earldom of Gloucester until its extinction on the death of Hugh Audley in 1347. Hugh's daughter Margaret married Ralph Earl of Stafford, and the fee descended with that earldom until the end of the 15th century. Possibly Lucy de Havering was a daughter of Andrew de la Brech, for the Haverings eventually succeeded to his lands in Enborne. John de Havering, the son of Richard, was knighted by Edward I and summoned to Parliament as a baron in 1299, when he was justice of North Wales. He seems to have died in 1305, though still returned as holding Enborne in the following year, when his widow Joan was actually in possession. His heir was his son Richard de Havering, then Archbishop-elect of Dublin, who was presumably succeeded either by his brother Nicholas or Nicholas's son Richard. This Sir Richard de Havering had two sons, John and Nicholas, of whom the elder seems to have been holding Enborne in 1392. After this date the history of the manor becomes obscure, but it seems possible that this was the estate held in 1421 by John Specheswyke and Christine his wife in right of Christine, who may have been the daughter and heir of Havering. They conveyed it that year to trustees to the use of Walter Cotton and his heirs, and in this way it probably became attached to the manor of East Enborne.
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