12 Aug Lordship Title of Enborne ID14271
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The fourth manor in Enborne was held of King Edward the Confessor by Saulf and at the time of the Domesday Survey by Ghilo the brother of Ansculf. Ghilo usually known as Ghilo de Pinkney was the founder of Weedon Priory, co. Northants, and his estates passed from him to his son Ralph, who is said to have paid relief for his father's lands in 1139–40. Ralph had been succeeded before 1166 by his son Gilbert de Pinkney. Gilbert's son Henry de Pinkney died about 1209, leaving as his heir his son Robert de Pinkney, who held the overlordship of this manor in Enborne early in the 13th century. Robert was succeeded in 1232 by his son Henry de Pinkney, who died in 1254, when the fee passed to his son Henry. This Henry died in 1275, leaving two sons, Robert and Henry, of whom the elder, Robert, died in 1296. His brother Sir Henry, who succeeded him, was summoned to Parliament as a baron in 1299 by King Edward I, to whom he sold the reversion of most of his lands in 1301. This manor was held in two parts by Nicholas de Aufryke and William de Clervaux of Robert de Pinkney. William de Clervaux granted his share early in the 13th century to the Prior of Sandleford, who was holding it about the middle of that century and afterwards acquired also the land held by Nicholas Aufryke. The prior and convent obtained a grant of free warren in 1292, and, though they are said to have granted certain lands here in 1458 to Thomas Roger for life, they seem to have retained the manor, which passed with their other lands at Sandleford (q.v.) to the Dean and Canons of Windsor. In 1650 the trustees for the sale of church property sold these lands to Arthur Dewe, but they were given back at the Restoration, and when the common fields were allotted under an Act of Parliament of 1810 the Dean and Canons of Windsor claimed to be entitled to the manor of East Enborne and Newbury with its members in the parish of Enborne.
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