10 Jul Lordship Title of Lyford ID1550
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The lords of Lyford from the middle of the 13th century at least were the family of Coudray of Herriard and Barton Stacey in Hampshire (q.v.). Fulk de Coudray held a knight's fee in Lyford about 1240, and the manor followed the descent of Padworth (q.v.) into the hands of his greatgreat - grandson Fulk. In 1372 it was settled on Elizabeth wife of Philip Popham and daughter of Fulk with remainder to her father and further remainder to the right heirs of Philip and Elizabeth. In spite of this the manor passed, as did Padworth, to Fulk's cousin Edward Coudray, against whom Philip and Elizabeth claimed it in 1383. The dispute appears to have been compromised by the grant to Philip and Elizabeth of a rent of 10 marks from the manor. In 1428 Margaret widow of John Coudray, Edward's son, and daughter and co-heir of Elizabeth Popham, was holding Lyford. She had a daughter and heir Maud, who married successively William Vyall and John Chalers, and died in possession in 1471. Her son James Vyall succeeded her and in 1503 settled the manor on himself and his wife Joan for life with remainder to John Mordaunt of Turvey. The Mordaunt family succeeded and remained in possession till the early years of Queen Elizabeth. In 1568 George Mordaunt, a younger son of the first Lord Mordaunt, granted the manor to John Ashcombe, who in return gave him an annuity of £33. John Ashcombe was succeeded in 1592 by his son Oliver, who died in possession in 1611, leaving a son and heir John. The latter had a son and grandson both called John, the latter of whom died in 1692. He disinherited his elder son John in favour of Oliver, his second son, who was created a baronet in 1696 and died without issue in 1718. Sir Oliver left Lyford to his widow, who conveyed it to Randolph Greenway, the husband of Sir Oliver's sister Anne. Randolph had a son Robert, who died in 1755, leaving a son John, a minor. Elizabeth wife of Henry Faithwaite, who was in possession of the manor in 1757, was purGreenway the manor was purchased in 1765 by trustees under the will of Mrs. Sarah Eaton. They conveyed it ten years later to the Provost and scholars of Worcester College, Oxford, to whom it still belongs.
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