29 Nov Lordship Title of Great Bradley ID14113
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The manor of GREAT BRADLEY was held of the manor of Cookham by Herbert St. Quintin and Margery his wife at the former's death in 1347. Margery married Roger Hussey, and on her death in 1361 the manor passed to Herbert St. Quintin's two daughters, Elizabeth the wife of John Marmion and Laura the wife of Robert Grey alias Marmion. The whole seems to have passed to Elizabeth and was leased to Sir John Salesbury. Elizabeth, however, died without issue and the manor went to her niece Elizabeth daughter of Laura and Robert Grey. She married Henry Lord Fitz Hugh, and Bradley descended with the title of Lord Fitz Hugh to her great-grandson Richard Lord Fitz Hugh, who died seised of it in 1487. His son George died without issue in 1513 and the manor passed through the marriage of Richard's sister Alice with Sir Thomas Fiennes to the Fiennes family. In 1580 Gregory Fiennes Lord Dacre conveyed it to the Crown. It was granted in the same year to Nicholas Parker and Henry Clerke, apparently in trust for Thomas Farmer, who died seised of it in 1609, leaving a son and heir John. The latter dying in 1631 was followed by his son of the same name, who was in trouble as a Royalist recusant in 1654. He died in 1657, leaving his sister Mary wife of Anthony Turberville as his heir. It remained in the Turberville family until in 1705 it was purchased of them by Edward Colston of the city of Bristol, its well-known benefactor. His descendant Edward Francis Colston sold it in 1837 to Henry Skrine, grandfather of the present owner, Mr. Henry Mills Skrine of Warleigh Manor, Bath. The name Great Bradley has now disappeared, but the manor lay on the north side of the road leading from Cookham Dean to the station, near the railway. Several fields there are called Bradcutts in an old map belonging to Mr. Skrine.
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