08 Jan Lordship Title of Nottingham’s Fee or Hallbarne ID14143
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The manor of NOTTINGHAM'S FEE or HALLBARNE can be probably identified with the 2 hides held in 1086 by the Count of Evreux, who had succeeded Brictward. The count granted it to the monastery of Noyon in Normandy, and the grant was confirmed by his grandson Count Simon in the middle of the 12th century. This land was granted to a sub-tenant, who after the confiscation of the lands of alien monasteries by the Crown held Nottingham's Fee in chief as the fourth part of a knight's fee. John Turvill is the first sub-tenant of whom we have notice, and from him it passed to his daughter Joan, who with her husband, Osbert Turpin, alienated the Noyon land in 1242 to Robert Nottingham, probably the Robert Nottingham who was rector of Blewbury in 1240, from whose family the manor obtained its name. The following members of the Nottingham family appear in documents: Henry Nottingham, kt. (1273), Henry son of John Nottingham (living temp. Edward I), Richard, Isabel widow of Henry Nottingham (1327), Henry (1328 and 1347), but the exact connexion between them has not been made out. The last-named granted seven messuages and a carucate of land, apparently his whole tenement, to John Dodecot and his wife Joan for their lives, with reversion to the grantor and his heirs. The Dodecots and Henry Nottingham had died before 1381, but Henry's widow Katherine held one messuage and 1 carucate till her death in about 1401. Henry's heir was Agnes, the wife of Alexander Meryng, who sold the reversion of her inheritance in Blewbury in 1381 to William Venour, a citizen of London. The latter was dead in 1401, and Nottingham's Fee passed to his son and heir William. In 1428 it was held by John Venour, but at some date previous to 1484 it came into the possession of Sir Edmund Rede and other, presumably as trustees for Anne wife of Geoffrey Kidwelly, to whom they demised it for her life. After the death of Anne, however, Nottingham's Fee passed to her husband, who died seised in 1484. He was succeeded by his brother Owen, and before 1540 Michael Kidwelly, possibly the son of Owen, had come into possession. Michael died seven years later, and the estate passed to his son Peter and his grandson William in turn. William died in 1575, and his two sisters, Mary the wife of Jerome Stanshull or Stanshawe and Elizabeth the wife of William Davison, were his heirs. Nottingham's Fee passed to the Stanshulls. Jerome died in 1604, having settled it on his younger son Reginald, who in 1626 sold it to Robert Loder of Harwell, whose son and successor John sold it in 1654 to Thomas Humfrey. The Humfreys have been owners of the manor from that time until the present day, Mr. Thomas Humfrey being now lord of the manor.
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