10 Jul Lordship Title of Strode ID1635
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The manor of STRODE (Staverton, xvi cent.; Strowd alias Staffertons alias Shiplakes, xvii cent.) seems to have been held in the 14th century by Robert de Shiplake, whose family had been connected with Bray as early as 1293. Maud the wife of Robert de Shiplake the younger held a messuage and 6½ virgates of land in Bray of her own inheritance, which she and her husband seem to have exchanged for other land belonging to Robert de Shiplake the elder in 1332. In 1373 Thomas Puttenham, vicar of Bisham, did homage for Robert de Shiplake's lands in Bray, but the manor afterwards passed to the Stavertons. William Staverton was one of the surveyors of the pontage for Maidenhead Bridge in 1400. He was killed in the following year by certain evildoers, who also attacked his fellow surveyor John Hynden. William was succeeded by Ralph Staverton, who was seised of the manor in 1422, and was succeeded by his son William. This William was living in 1461, but died before 1488, when the manor passed to his son William, who settled it in that year on his son Humphrey and Humphrey's wife Maude Lollebrok. Humphrey Staverton died before 1524, leaving two daughters, Anne the wife of Thomas More, who died childless, and Eleanor, who married Robert Loggins and became eventually sole heir to the property. Her right seems to have been disputed by Richard Staverton, a descendant of Richard the younger son of Ralph Staverton, whose family apparently lived at Stroud Hall, though the manor belonged to the elder branch. The case was decided in favour of Eleanor, whose son Simon Loggins was in possession of the manor of Bray about 1560. He was succeeded by his son, another Simon, whose son and heir John Loggins died childless in 1606, leaving the manor to his sister Elizabeth the wife of Sir John Blagrave. Sir John Blagrave dealt with it in 1625, but subsequently sold it to Archbishop Laud, who settled it shortly before his trial on the town of Reading.
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