10 Jul Lordship Title of West Compton or New Compton ID1670
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Another estate also known as the manor of WEST COMPTON is first heard of in 1509, when Edmund Earl of Suffolk forfeited it on his attainder. It is called the manor of NEW COMPTON in 1511, and it is probable that it was a part of the manor of Langley in Hampstead Norris and about this date became a separate estate. Anthony Fettiplace, squire of the body to Henry VIII, was appointed steward in 1509, an office in which he was succeeded on his death two years later by William Compton. In 1513 the king granted the manor to certain trustees for the use of Margaret de la Pole, widow of the Earl of Suffolk, during her life. After her death in 1515 it was probably included in the grant of Langley to Anne wife of Thomas Howard, and in the conveyance by Howard to Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk. Brandon exchanged it in 1535 with the king, who in 1545 granted the farms of West Compton and Langley to Edward Fettiplace, who died seised in 1549. With Langley West Compton came to Richard More. From the Mores it passed, probably by sale, to Henry Lord Norreys, who was holding in 1576, and whose son William died seised of it in 1579. The son of the latter, Francis Lord Norreys, was in possession in 1602. The manor is not mentioned in the conveyance made of Stocking Compton by Lord Norreys in 1609, and may be comprised in the lands in West Compton conveyed by the Earl of Berkshire to Peter Vanlore in 1622.
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