10 Jul Lordship Title of Hartridge ID1505
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HARTRIDGE (Hurterige, xi cent.; Hertrug, Hertrigge, xiii–xv cent.; Hartryge, xv–xvi cent.), consisting of 1 hide worth 60s., held of Edward the Confessor by Alured, was granted before the Survey to William Fitz Ansculf, of whom Alured still held it. It was then and afterwards in the hundred of Reading. It was held in chief with Titcombe in Kintbury by serjeanty of keeping a goshawk for the king. Philip de Hartridge held it in 1210–12, and it followed the descent of Titcombe (q.v.) until 1516, when both were sold to Christopher Grantham. Thomas Englefield is the next owner that appears. He died in 1538, leaving Hartridge to his son Francis; but Francis was attainted in 1586 and the manor passed to the Crown. It seems to have been leased before this time to the Buckeridge family. Thomas Buckeridge of 'Harteredge' had died in 1549, leaving sons William, John and Thomas. John Buckeridge of Hartridge died in 1560. Afterwards Francis Fiton was lessee, and in 1586 the Crown granted a lease for forty years to Humphrey Foster and George Fiton. Another lease for twenty years was granted to Francis Fiton in 1591. The manor afterwards passed to the Neales of Warnford (co. Hants), being conveyed in 1635–6 by Mary, widow of Sir Thomas Neale, then wife of Sir William Lewis, and Thomas Neale to William Neale. In 1676 Thomas Neale and his wife Lady Elizabeth Gould sold the manor and farm called Hartridge Farm to Isaac Foxcroft. The manor was sold in 1769 by William Foxcroft to George Deacon, but must shortly afterwards have passed to Wilmot Baker of Moulsford. It descended to his son Robert, who in 1812 was succeeded by his nephew Baker Morrell, son of his sister Anne, who married James Morrell of Oxford, from whom it has descended to the widow of Mr. George Herbert Morrell.
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