10 Jul Lordship Title of Sparsholt ID1620
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Sixteen hides in SPARSHOLT were held before the Conquest as three manors by three freemen. Subsequently they came into the possession of Froger the sheriff, who made them one manor. It was part of the royal demesne in 1086, and remained so till Henry I granted it with Aldermaston (q.v.) and other manors to Robert Achard to hold for one knight's fee. Sparsholt followed down to the 17th century the descent of Aldermaston (q.v.). In 1622 it was sold by Sir Humphrey Forster to Elizabeth Lady Craven. Her son William Lord Craven succeeded her, and in 1660 conveyed the manor of Sparsholt to a distant cousin, Anthony Craven, who was created a baronet in the following year. In his will of 1712 Sir Anthony left Sparsholt to his grandson Samuel Palmer, son of his daughter Elizabeth. Samuel Palmer died in 1726, leaving the manor to his second wife Margaret. She married as her second husband Seymour Richmond, an attorney, and died of small-pox in 1743. Her husband was in possession of the manor five years later. His daughter and heir Alethea Richmond married in 1785 General Joseph Gabbit and died in the next year. Her husband inherited her property and left it to his illegitimate son Thomas Spiers Gabbit. On the death of the latter in 1807 the manor was sold to the Rev. John Hippisley. He left it with that of Lambourn (q.v.) to his second son the Rev. Henry Hippisley, whose second son Henry inherited it on his death. He in turn left it to his younger son William Henry, whose widow, Mrs. W. H. Hippisley, is now the owner.
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