10 Jul Lordship Title of Norreys ID1568
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In the 16th century the family of Norreys held an estate in Wokingham known as NORREYS MANOR. John Norreys founded a chantry in the church in 1443 and held lands in the parish at his death in 1466. His son William Norreys died seised of a manor of Wokingham called 'Norres Manor' in 1507. It subsequently descended in this family, passing in 1623, by the death of Francis Norreys Earl of Berkshire, the last male heir, to his daughter Elizabeth the wife of Edmund Wray. She with her husband conveyed it in 1625 to John Peacock, in whose tenure it then was. In 1674 Henry Peacock and Frances Peacock, widow, conveyed the manor to Richard Hawe, and with Beaches (q.v.) it was divided among his heirs.
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