29 Nov Lordship Title of Canon Hill ID14110
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The rectorial manor of CANON HILL was held at the time of the Domesday Survey by Rainbald, and was granted about 1133 by Henry I to the abbey of St. Mary of Cirencester. The grant was afterwards confirmed by King John, and the abbey remained in possession of the manor till the Dissolution, occasionally letting it out on lease. Between 1504 and 1515 it was let by the abbot to John Gawesem and Michael Poyhant, who sublet the parsonage to 'one Passemer … sythen which lease the said Passemer for certen offencys by him committed …was attachyd in a cause of eryse [heresy] and thereupon abjured, sithen which adjuracion he had upon certen surmyses conc'nyng the seyd erysy of late was takyn, and remayneth in hold att the comaundement of hys ordinary.' The original lessees had therefore no means of raising the rent for which they were bound to the abbot, especially as the corn which might otherwise have been sold had remained so long 'in mowes unthrosh' that the greater part of it was spoilt. In 1547 Edward VI granted the manor to John King, Bishop of Oxford, and his successors in the see, who leased it to various tenants. From 1539 to 1608 it was held by the Norreys family, but passed before 1637 to Sir Henry Marten, judge of the Admiralty, who died at his house in Bray in 1641. In 1651 it was sold by the Parliamentary commissioners to Francis Hardinge, but was recovered at the Restoration by the Bishop of Oxford and remained in possession of the see until the 19th century, when it was enfranchised by the representatives of Mrs. Law. It was bought in 1857 by Mr. J. H. Palmer, whose son Mr. Edward Howley Palmer held it in 1860, and is now the property of Mr. Henry Adams.
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