29 Nov Lordship Title of Shoppenhanger ID 14108
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The so-called manor of SHOPPENHANGER (Sobbenhangel, Sobenhangre, xiii cent.; Shortenhangers, Shopinghanger, Scopinhanger, xvi cent.) seems to have been originally a small tenement held by a family who took their name from the place. Roger de Shoppenhanger held land in Bray in 1204, and Adam de Shoppenhanger was one of the jurors in the inquisition concerning the lands held by Henry Wade in 1267. Between 1274 and 1283 lands were held in Bray both by another Roger and John de Shoppenhanger, and in 1293 Thomas de Shobbenhanger held lands by suit at court of the royal manor. He was succeeded by another John de Shoppenhanger, who was one of the commissioners appointed in 1340 to inquire into the rights of pasturage in Oldfield, and knight of the shire in the Parliament of the same year. His son Richard is first mentioned in the Court Roll of 1335; he was tithing man in 1340 and died in his father's lifetime, leaving a daughter Joan. She perhaps married John de Cruchfield, for on the death of John de Shoppenhanger and his wife Isabel in 1362 their lands passed to Thomas de Churchfield, who died in 1368, leaving as his heir his son Thomas, then a minor. This Thomas in 1376 was seised of the lands formerly held by Thomas de Lollebrok. He was succeeded by a third Thomas Cruchfield, who was seised of Shoppenhanger in 1422, but died before 1433, when the estate was held by John Cruchfield. John Cruchfield died in 1487, and was succeeded by William Cruchfield, who died in 1520, leaving as his heir his kinswoman Alice Preston. In 1525 Alice Preston and Alice Davy, who may have been her mother, leased the property to William and Edmund Holgill and Emma Stanyland, widow. Emma Stanyland did suit of court at Bray for Shoppenhanger in 1550, but by 1565 the property had passed to Roger Leake. He was succeeded by Jasper Leake about 1601, at which time the farm was already occupied by the Winch family, into whose possession it had passed by 1649. Richard Winch, the owner at that date, was succeeded by his son James, who died in 1699, leaving as his heir his son Richard. Elizabeth, the only surviving child of this Richard Winch, became the wife of Robert Holden, and had by him two daughters, Charlotte, who married the Rev. Sir Adam Gordon, bart., and Elizabeth the wife of Mr. Richard Webb. Mr. Richard Holden Webb, the son and heir of Elizabeth, sold his interest in 1799 to Sir Adam Gordon, from whom the whole estate was bought in 1801 by Mr. Pascoe Grenfell. The present owner is Lord Desborough.
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