05 Jun Lordship Title of Brimpton ID14235
Posted at 08:02h
in
County:
Parish:
Title Type:
Previous Lords:
Gilbert de Brinton, the first under-tenant of whom we have mention, rendered account for land in 1166–7, and in 1216 Adam de Brinton was in revolt and his lands were given to his brother John. Either this Adam or a successor held the fee in the reign of Henry III and died in 1274–5, when he was succeeded by his son Adam. The latter died before 1315–16, when John de 'Brumpton' held this manor. He received a grant of free warren in 1320, and died in 1336 seised among other property of a messuage and 2 carucates of land in Brimpton. His son, then aged twenty-five, succeeded him, his mother Isabel retaining a life interest in Brimpton. The manor was settled by him and his wife Agnes in 1364. He seems to have died before 1379, when John de Lichefeld and Elizabeth his wife, possibly trustees for a settlement, granted the manor to Thomas de Brumpton. A John 'Brounton' is mentioned as holding two-thirds of a fee here in 1398, but at this point the history of the manor becomes obscure. Before 1424 the manor came into the hands of William Stokes, who died seised of it in 1427. He was succeeded by his son John, who was holding half a fee here in 1428 and in 1434. His son William died seised of the manor of Brimpton in 1477, and in 1490 it was claimed by his sisters Agnes the wife of Richard Everard and Elizabeth the wife of John Hannington. But Sir Thomas Delamare, one of the trustees of a former settlement, resisted their claim and produced Joan, said to be the daughter of William, aged eleven at her father's death. It seems probable that he made good this claim, as Joan with her husband Thomas Boteler conveyed the manor in 1529 to Walter Barton and others, trustees for Sir Thomas Englefield, who died possessed of the manor in 1538, when he was succeeded by his son Francis, who was afterwards knighted. Sir Francis was attainted in 1586, and in the next year some of his forfeited lands were let to farm to Humphrey Forster on a lease of twenty-one years under the Crown. In 1589 the manor was granted to Thomas Crompton, Gellie Meyrick and Robert Wright, who in 1595 sold it to William Wollascott the younger and Anne his wife. This William was the son of the William Wollascott who had some years previously obtained the manor of Shalford in this parish, and in 1614 he settled the manor of Brimpton on himself and his wife Anne and his eldest son William on the occasion of the latter's marriage with Susan daughter of Thomas Freer, M.D. In 1617 he obtained a grant of view of frankpledge. In 1618 William Wollascott the elder died and the son inherited the manor of Shalford and other adjoining lands, of which he died seised 9 May 1637. His son William, who succeeded him, and who in 1654 and 1656 made settlements of the manor, died in 1660. In 1662 his executor, who was his brother Martin, was holding the manor, probably as guardian of William's heir. William's son William, who married Dorothy Paston, seems to have predeceased his father, but their daughter and heir Katherine, wife of Thomas Wollascott, had a son Martin who was born in 1661. This Martin succeeded to the manor, holding in 1691, and dying seised in 1713. His son and heir William, a minor in 1713, made a settlement in 1717. This William married Henrietta Maria daughter of Sir Baldwin Conyers, on whose issue he settled these estates. He died 9 January 1757 and the manors of Brimpton and Shalford seem to have passed to his only daughter Henrietta Maria, who was married in 1755 to Arthur James Plunkett, seventh Earl of Fingall, when the manors were settled on them. In 1784. the Earl of Fingall still held the manors of Brimpton and Shalford, but sold them about two years later to John Crewe of Bolesworth Castle, Cheshire, whose widow Elizabeth was holding them early in the 19th century. Their only child, Elizabeth Anne, married in 1784 George Evelyn Boscawen, third Viscount Falmouth, and died in 1793. At the death of Elizabeth Crewe Brimpton and Shalford seem to have passed to their son Edward fourth Viscount Falmouth, who held them in 1811, and descended with the title until 1856, when Lord Falmouth sold these manors to James Blyth, who died in 1873, leaving six daughters. The eldest, Isabel, had been married in 1859 to Robert Burn, and the second, Euphemia Anna, had in 1860 become the second wife of James Pattison Currie. By his will dated 30 March 1865 James Blyth left these manors to his son-in-law Robert Burn, who with his wife Isabel obtained a royal licence in 1874 to add the surname of Blyth to that of Burn. Robert BurnBlyth died without issue in 1890 and his widow in 1904. The manors then passed to the younger sister and her husband, who assumed by licence in 1904 the additional surname of Blyth, and put the manors of Brimpton and Shalford up to auction on 29 May 1905. As the reserve was not reached, these lands were shortly afterwards sold by private treaty, and the greater portion of the Brimpton estate was bought by Mr. W. A. Mount, M.P., J.P., of Wasing Place, its present owner. All manorial rights seem to have lapsed. The Domesday Survey states that there was a mill belonging to this manor, and at later dates there is mention sometimes of one and sometimes of two mills. A mill at Brimpton still exists, and seems always to have belonged to the lord of the manor until it was sold in 1905 to its present owner and occupier, Mr. T. James. Another mill, at Hyde End, Brimpton, was recently converted into a trout hatchery, which is the property of the Hyde family. A free fishery in the water of Brimpton was in 1627 conveyed by John Hyde, Anne his wife, and John Hyde, junior, their son, to James Hunt and another, and is mentioned later.
Other Information:
Listed in the Domesday Book:
No