23 Apr Lordship Title of Chilton ID14215
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The Lascelles held under the Windsors, Duncan de Lascelles married Christine daughter and heiress of Walter de Windsor, At the date of the Testa de Nevill Thomas de Lascelles held the fee from the Windsors, with Simon de Luncok, Robert Danvers and Henry Pesey as his under-tenants. The Danvers family, the successors of the Estuns (see under advowson), held the manor for several generations. In the middle of the 13th century Robert Danvers was holding a free tenement in Chilton for the service of half a knight's fee, while in 1288 Thomas, probably his son, levied a fine of a 'messuage, land and rents,' to be held of Henry Simeons for the nominal rent of one clove gillyflower. Edmund the son of Thomas was returned as owning the 'vill' of Chilton in 1316, and in 1329 the district was referred to as Chilton Danvers. Edmund was succeeded by his son Robert Danvers, who died in 1362 seised of 5 virgates of land in the parish. The manor is first actually mentioned in 1381, when Sir Almeric de St. Amand died seised of a third of it, possibly by right of dower. In 1399 in an inquisition taken on the death of one of the overlords the tenants are entered as 'not known,' but property in Chilton was held by Almeric de St. Amand, son of the above-mentioned Almeric, at his death in 1401. In 1432 seisin was delivered to William son and heir of Edmund Danvers 'of the manor of Chilton which formerly belonged to Eleanor St. Amand,' apparently the wife of the younger Almeric, who survived her husband and died in 1426. William Danvers was holding in 1428 and in 1439, but he must have died before 1446–7, as at that date his widow Joan was in possession of the manor. She had a life interest in it with reversion to Isabella the wife of Thomas Hannes who was probably the heir of William Danvers and who released her claim for a consideration of 100 marks to William Yorke, a cousin of Thomas de Windsor, and his heirs. Joan was still holding in 1457. The manor seems to have been inherited by John the son and heir of William Yorke, and then divided between his two children, Eleanor, who married Robert Hungerford, and Joan, who married first Thomas Bodenham and secondly Stephen Apharry, as the latter was holding a moiety of it in 1543. In 1569 Joan's son Roger Bodenham was defendant in a suit in which he claimed a moiety of Chilton against Walter Hungerford, who, however, alleged that his father Robert had died seised of the manor in 1557, and that Roger had put the deeds relating to the estate into Chancery and refused to show them. The result of the suit is not known, but Walter died seised of the manor in 1601. He was succeeded by his son John, who settled the manor in 1628–9 and died in 1636. Edward his son was holding in 1651. George, the grandson of the latter, conveyed it in 1701 to George Knapp. Catherine daughter of Richard Knapp married her cousin Robert Knapp. Their daughter Catherine became the wife of Charles Peeres of Chislehampton and had a son Robert, who settled the manor in 1800 and sold it shortly afterwards to Sir Thomas Metcalfe. The latter conveyed it in 1803 to Mr. Benjamin Morland of Abingdon, who died in 1833 and was succeeded by his son the Rev. Benjamin Morland. In 1865 he and his brother, Mr. G. B. Morland, conveyed the manor and estate to Lord Overstone of Lockinge House, who during the same year conveyed it to the trustees of the settlement of his daughter Mrs. Loyd Lindsay, wife of Colonel Loyd Lindsay, V.C., K.C.B., who was created Lord Wantage. Lady Wantage now owns the manor. No courts have been held or any quit-rents received in modern times.
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