16 Jan Lordship Title of Upton Russels ID14145
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The moiety assigned to Isabel was called the manor of UPTON RUSSELS, and was held in chief as one-fourth of a knight's fee. It remained in the possession of the Russels until the close of the 14th century. Sir Maurice Russel shortly after 1388 sold Upton Russels to John Latton, who in 1401 granted the manor to Thomas Chelrey, his wife Elizabeth and his heirs. Chelrey died in 1407, and his widow, who had married as her second husband Sir Thomas de la Pole, died in 1411, when Upton Russels passed to the guardians of Sybil, the youngest of Chelrey's three daughters and heirs. She married Thomas Beckingham, who held the manor in 1428. Before 1445 Sybil and Thomas seem to have been succeeded by James Beckingham, presumably their son. James Beckingham, clerk, died seised in 1475, and was followed by his brother Edmund and nephew Thomas. The latter died in 1510, and Upton Russels was held by his widow Mary until her death in 1549. She had survived both her son and grandson, and the manor passed to her granddaughter Mary the wife of Thomas Windsor. It remained with the Windsor family until 1650, when Richard Windsor is said to have sold it to Edward Sherwood of Great Hendred. In 1669, however, it had come into the possession of James White of Putney, whose grandson, probably the Samuel White mentioned in 1696, sold it to the Rev. Michael Johnson. Nothing more is known of this property until 1758, when William Keat owned Upton Russels in right of his wife Ann, with whom in 1773 he sold it to John Phillips. It remained in his family, and in 1866 John Shawe Phillips sold it to Mr. Nathaniel Humfrey, the present owner.
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