05 Jun Lordship Title of Bradley ID14238
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BRADLEY is not mentioned in the Domesday Survey, but two unnamed manors, held by Gilbert de Gand, have been identified as the manors afterwards known as the manors of Langley and Bradley, which seem now to be represented by the tithing of Langley in the parish of Hampstead Norris (q.v.). The remaining portion of Bradley, lying in Chieveley parish, appears now to be represented by the tithing of Snelsmore and the Bradley Court estate, and to have been included at the time of the Domesday Survey in the Abbot of Abingdon's manor of Chieveley, when it was held by a military tenant for half a knight's fee. During the early part of the reign of Henry I Abbot Rainald is said to have unjustly given 5 hides of land here to Sir William de Jumiege, who restored them to the abbey in the time of the Abbot Faritius. No connexion has been made out between the later tenants of the abbey in this manor. In 1166–7 Walter de Hottot rendered account for half a mark from this manor, and in 1190 Gilbert Gifford was holding 3 hides here of the abbey by military service. In 1202–3 John son of Turold sold to Ives son of Richard land in Harlingeden, which seems to have been within the manor, and later in the same century Thomas de Jumiege held half a fee in Bradley. Thomas de Abberbury of Donnington seems to have succeeded Thomas de Jumiege, and had free warren here in 1292, and in 1309 Walter, his brother and successor, granted to the abbey a messuage, lands and rents here, which were probably known later as Bradley Court. In 1315–16 the abbey was said to be holding Bradley Gynming. In 1401–2 the abbey was holding from the king half a fee in Bradley, which they were holding also in 1428, when it was stated that it had formerly been held by Thomas Abberbury. We learn at the same time that the abbey paid 14s. for this fee to the ward at Windsor. At the dissolution of the abbey in 1538 the manor came into the hands of the king, and the manor of West Bradley and Langley, described as lately a priory, was surveyed for the king in 1547; courts were held here, apparently on behalf of the queen, in 1563 and 1568. In 1626 there was a law-suit between John Grover and John Jordan respecting West Bradley Manor, with appurtenances in Harlington and Chieveley, and it appears to have been the same manor which, under the name of Harlingdon or Harlington, Richard Smith conveyed in 1654 to Thomas Morrall, clerk, and John Davy. No further reference to this manor has been found until 12 June 1797, when a court of survey of the manor of Harlingdon, Harlington or Bradley was held by Robert Griffiths, steward, and Benjamin Hancock, lord of the manor. Benjamin seems to have died before 22 December 1802, when Robert Griffiths held a court of survey on behalf of Thomas Merriman Hancock. In 1823 another court was held by Thomas Rawdon Ward, lord of the manor, when it was stated that the bounds of the manor were co-extensive with those of the tithing of Snelsmore. Thomas Ward held another court in 1825, but the subsequent history of the manor is not clear. The manor was held in the middle of the 19th century by Edgar Corrie, and passed from him in 1879 to Sir Francis Jeune, who was raised to the peerage on 23 February 1905 with the title of Lord St. Helier. After his death on 9 April 1905 it was sold by his executors to the present proprietor, Mr. J. A. Fairhurst.
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