29 Feb Lordship Title of Englefield ID14167
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A second estate at Englefield is mentioned in Domesday Book. Ulmer held it of Edward the Confessor, but it seems to have passed with the rest of Englefield after the Conquest to William Fitz Ansculf. The latter, however, had already enfeoffed a sub-tenant named Stephen in 1086. After the Englefields had lost the manor of Englefield they still retained a house and lands in the parish until the 18th century. Sir Thomas Englefield, the justice of the Common Pleas, appears to have settled this property, which had been formerly annexed to the manor, on his second son John, and thus it escaped the forfeiture of Sir Francis's lands. John died in 1567, and his widow Margaret held his property in 1593. She died in 1612, and it passed to her son Sir Francis Englefield of Wootton Bassett, who was created a baronet in the same year. He died in 1631 and was buried at Englefield. His Englefield property was settled in tailmale on his seventh son Henry, two-thirds of whose possessions were sequestered during the Civil War. In 1650 Henry Englefield protested against so large a proportion of his property being sequestered, on the grounds that 'though a papist, he was not a papist delinquent,' and had never acted against the Parliament. The sequestered farm at Englefield was granted to Thomas Aldridge of Beenham, but after the manor had been sold to Sir Thomas Jervoise Aldridge seems to have been turned out by the new lord of the manor, and he made many complaints to the committee for compounding in consequence. After the Restoration, Henry Englefield seems to have recovered possession of the farm, and on his death it probably passed to his son Henry. The latter may have died before his father, but he was not married, and the estate finally reverted to Charles Englefield, the fifth baronet. It was sold in 1792 by Sir Henry Charles Englefield, the last baronet, to Richard Benyon, who had become lord of the main manor of Englefield in 1789, and it was subsequently absorbed in that manor.
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