10 Jul Lordship Title of Shaw ID1605
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Aluric held SHAW of King Edward the Confessor, but at the time of the Domesday Survey it was in the hands of Hugh the son of Baldric. Hugh was a Saxon thane and Sheriff of Yorkshire, and after his death the manor seems to have passed to his only daughter Erneburga, who carried it to her husband Robert de Stutevill. Robert was slain at Tenchebrai in 1106, when his estates were forfeited. For a time the manor remained in the hands of the king, and in 1166–7 Richard de Humez seems to have been farming it, for at that date he owed 10s. in respect of this manor, which was still owing the following year. Not long afterwards it seems to have been granted to Philip de Columbers, who died seised of it in 1215. He was followed by his son Philip, who in 1230 leased the manor and advowson to Ralph Isambard or Hamberd for twelve years, which resulted in a law-suit the following year. This Philip is mentioned several times as holding the manor during succeeding years, and in 1248 he received a licence to have a park here and free warren. He died in 1256–7, being succeeded by his son Philip, who is mentioned as possessing free warren here in 1275–6, and died childless in 1276–7 seised of the manor, which passed to his brother John, then aged twenty-three years. John rebelled against the king, but his forfeited estates were afterwards restored and he died in 1305 seised of the manor, which descended to his son Philip, then aged twenty-four. Philip was summoned to Parliament as Lord Columbers in 1314. He married Eleanor daughter of William Lord Martin, and between 1333 and 1335 they conveyed the manor of Shaw to Lewes of Kemmes and Roger of Weston for settlement on themselves for life with remainder to Ralph Basset the younger and Alice his wife (who was Eleanor's niece). Philip died childless in 1342, when the barony became extinct. His brother Stephen was found to be his heir, but the manor passed under settlement to Philip's widow Eleanor, who died the following year, and then to Alice widow of Ralph Basset. Alice was the daughter of Nicholas Lord Audley, who had married Joan only sister of Eleanor Columbers, and at the time of Eleanor's death had married as her second husband Hugh de Meignel, who in right of his wife inherited the manor of Shaw. Hugh died in 1345 seised of this manor, which seems to have remained in the hands of his widow, for it is not until 1358–9 that Sir Ralph Basset, her son by her first husband, laid claim to the estate. Sir Ralph leased it for life to Sir Maurice le Brun in or before 1369–70, but Sir Maurice seems to have died before 1386, when Sir Ralph conveyed the fee simple to trustees. Sir Ralph died in 1390 seised of this manor, but without legitimate issue, and it passed under the settlement of 1335 to the right heirs of Philip de Columbers. Philip's brother Stephen seems to have died without issue, and their sister Joan married Sir Geoffrey Stowell, and left a son Geoffrey, who died in 1363, being followed by his son Matthew. He died before 1390, and his son Thomas, then aged twenty-one, inherited the manor after the death of Sir Ralph Basset. In 1404 Thomas Stowell sold the manor to William Coventre, John Hyde, Edmund Danvers, John Voche and Richard Betfield, who granted it immediately to Winchester College. The college was holding the manor in 1428, and continued to do so until it was bought from them by the king in 1543. It was granted in 1552, in exchange for other lands, to Edward Fynes, Lord Clinton and Henry Herdson, and in 1554 Henry Herdson, citizen and currier of London, with Barbara his wife, sold it to Thomas Dolman and Elizabeth his wife. A number of the Court Rolls of this manor, dating from 1404 to 1547, are preserved in the Public Record Office. Thomas Dolman was a clothier, whose factory was in Northbrook Street, Newbury, and seems to have been the son of William Dolman, manager to 'Jack of Newbury,' who bequeathed him a legacy of £10. He married Elizabeth daughter of James Harrison of Southampton. On acquiring the manor he began to build Shaw House, which was finished by his son in 1581, thereby giving rise to the saying:— 'Lord have mercy on us miserable sinners! Thomas Dolman has built a new house, and has turned away all his spinners!' Thomas died 19 November 1575 seised of this manor, when Elizabeth his widow survived him, and his heir was his son John, aged thirty-five. John, however, inherited only one-third of the manor, which he and his wife Mary sold in 1576 to his brother Thomas, who the next year obtained a pardon for entering without licence into this manor which his father had bequeathed to him. Further grants were made to him in 1590–1 and 1600–1. Thomas Dolman was Sheriff of Berks. in 1588; with his second wife Anne he conveyed the manor to trustees in 1622, and died in 1623, when the manor passed to his elder son Humphrey, then aged twenty-eight. Humphrey Dolman married about 1628 Anne daughter of John Quarles, and was occupying the house at the time of the second battle of Newbury, when it was held for the king. It was on this occasion that the family adopted as their motto:— King and Law Shouts Dolman of Shaw. During his later years his son Thomas, who had been knighted in 1661, appears to have been looked upon as owner of Shaw House, for when Charles II and his queen, with the Duke of York, visited it in August 1663 it is said 'that night their majesties lodged at Sir Thomas Dolman's, about a mile from Newbury. Humphrey returned himself as aged seventy-two on 23 March 1664, and seems to have died that year, when the manor passed to his son Sir Thomas. In 1651 Sir Thomas had married Margery daughter of John Hobday of Thorneton, when he placed the manor in settlement. He was M.P. for Reading in 1661 and clerk of the Privy Council. His eldest son Humphrey, who was knighted in 1674, died in 1687, and the following year he and his elder surviving son Thomas conveyed the manor to trustees. Sir Thomas died in 1697, and the manor passed to his son Thomas. This Thomas entertained Queen Anne at Shaw House, on 27 or 28 October 1703, on the queen's return from Bath, in recognition of which she knighted him at St. James's on 11 November in the same year. He married Dorothy daughter of John Harrison of Scarborough, and died at the age of fifty-four on 30 April 1711. At Sir Thomas's death the manor passed under his will to his nephew Thomas Humphrey Dolman, son of Dr. Lewis Dolman, physician, of St. Martin's-inthe-Fields, London, with contingent remainder to his brother Lewis Dolman and his sister Dorothy. Dorothy, who married John Talbot, was the eventual heir, and in 1721 she and her husband, who is described as 'an expensive person of no fortune,' entered into an agreement for the sale of the manor to James Duke of Chandos. But various charges on the property encumbered the title, the duke was kept out of possession, and in December 1722 filed a bill for specific performance of the agreement. Dorothy Talbot died in 1724. The duke got possession of the manor in 1728, but the litigation, still in progress, was continued by her son Lewis Dolman Talbot. On the death of the first Duke of Chandos in 1744 he left the manor of Shaw to trustees to hold on behalf of his widow Lydia Catherine, and after her death in 1750 they sold the manor in 1751 to Joseph Andrews. The duke left charities to Shaw and Speen, while his widow was buried in Shaw Church. Joseph Andrews married first Elizabeth daughter of Samuel Beard of Newcastle-under-Lyme, by whom he had a son Joseph, born in 1727, who on his father's death in 1753 inherited this manor, was created a baronet on 19 August 1766, and died without issue in 1800. His half-brother James Pettit Andrews, who had married Anne daughter of the Rev. Thomas Penrose, rector of Newbury, had died in 1797, and the manor and title passed to their son Joseph, who died unmarried in 1822. The manor then passed to his sister Eliza, the widow of Charles Henry Hunt of Stratford-upon-Avon, under the provisions of the will of her uncle, dated 8 February 1800. Mrs. Hunt died in July 1822, when under the will of her brother, dated 20 November 1820, the manor passed to his cousin the Rev. Thomas Penrose for life, with remainder to another cousin Henry Eyre and his heirs. The Rev. Thomas Penrose, D.C.L., was a son of the Rev. Thomas Penrose, once a curate of Newbury and a poet of some little note. He was living at Shaw in 1839, and was rector of Hampstead Marshall and vicar of Writtle, Essex. He died in 1851, when the manor passed to the heir of Henry Eyre. Henry Eyre was the son of Henry Eyre, who had married Sarah sister of the Rev. Thomas Penrose and of Anne wife of James Pettit Andrews. He seems to have died before his cousin, and the manor descended to his son Henry Richard Eyre, who died 1 June 1876, leaving the manor to his widow for life. After her death, 27 May 1904, it passed to their son Henry John Andrews Eyre, who sold the manor, on 29 September 1905, to the Hon. Mrs. Farquhar, the present owner.
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