31 Oct Lordship Title of Inholmes ID14318
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Most of the land in the tithing of Blagrave passed during the 16th and 17th centuries into the possession of the family of Seymour. William Seymour leased two tenements called Holt and Hellhouse in 1541 from the Fraternity of the Holy Cross at Abingdon, to which they had been granted by Richard Shaill before 1480. He was of INHOLMES which he had probably purchased from the Essex family, at his death in 1568. His son Thomas Seymour of Hungerford purchased Holt and Hellhouse in 1555 from John Thynne and Thomas Throckmorton, to whom they had been granted on the dissolution of the brotherhood. He leased them with Inholmes to his younger son Thomas in 1579–80. His heir was Thomas, son of an elder son William. The younger Thomas sold Inholmes and the rest of the property to his uncle Thomas in 1605. The latter settled his estate on his heirs male by Katherine Digges, Anne Hilles, or Jane Hilles, with remainder to his second son Roger, and died in 1608. Roger inherited Inholmes, and must have purchased the manor-house of Blagrave, which had been sold in 1611 by the trustees of William Essex to Cicely Browne. He was in possession of this property at his death in 1631, and it probably descended with Inholmes. His heir was a son Thomas, aged three, who with his mother Anne barred the entail in 1652. Thomas had several sons by his wife Jane Eyston, but all were dead in 1711, when the heirs of Jane Eyston were her three daughters Anne, Frances and Jane. They were also the heirs of Thomas, who died in about 1717. The eldest, Anne, married Toby Richmond of Purton, Wiltshire, and had sons Toby, Seymour and Thomas, and a daughter Anne, who married Thomas Seymour of Uplambourn. Frances Seymour married John Walford and had a son Thomas. Jane Seymour remained a spinster, and granted her share of the estate to her nephew Seymour Richmond. In 1719 Inholmes was assigned half to Anne Richmond, who released it to her son Toby, and half to Seymour Richmond. A new arrangement was made in 1720, by which all the Berkshire lands of the Seymours became the property of Toby. He died in 1761, and left his lands to his nephew Edmund Seymour, son of Anne Richmond and Thomas Seymour. Edmund had a son John Richmond and daughters Alethea, Marianne, and Charlotte, founders of the church of Woodlands St. Mary. John Richmond Seymour died in 1848, and Inholmes was sold to Mr. Aldridge, whose son was the proprietor in 1894. The property was bought in 1905 by Mr. H. C. Gooch.
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