13 Jan Lordship Title of Hyde ID14327
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The original estate of the Hyde family, from which they took their name, was a hide of land in the manor of Circourt generally called 'La Hyde de Southcote.' To this they seem to have added by purchasing land in the north of the parish, so that the manor of HYDE was said in 1397 to be at North Denchworth. They probably held their lands of the manors of Circourt and South Denchworth till they themselves acquired those manors; afterwards they are generally said to hold all their lands of the Abbot of Abingdon. The Hyde family claimed in the 17th century to have been established here since the days of Canute, but the first Hyde who is known to have held land in South Denchworth is Warin, who lived in the middle of the 13th century. He had two sons, Peter and John, of whom the former released to his brother and his heirs all right in his father's lands at 'La Hyde.' Evidently this is the John de la Hyde who is described as a freeman within the manor of Circourt in 1305. He held I hide for a seventh part of a knight's fee of Walter de L'Orti and Maud. His son William succeeded him and recovered in 1327 a messuage and 4 virgates in Circourt against Robert de Mountford, who also held of the De L'Ortis. William's successor was known as William Heygarston de la Hyde. He had a wife Parnel, and the two purchased about 1346 from Mary Yve and William Pavy land in South Denchworth, which was released to them by the Corbets and the family of la Zouche. John Hyde, William's son and successor, conveyed the 'manor of Hyde' to feoffees in 1399. It was reconveyed to his son John and Graciana his wife in 1420. The younger John died in 1447, and was succeeded by a son of the same name on whose heirs the manor was settled in the next year, with remainder to his bastard brother Baldwin Hyde. John had a son John, who was succeeded in 1487 by his son Oliver. Oliver died in 1516, leaving a son William, who succeeded him. William's son and grandson, who followed, bore the same name as himself. The latter was succeeded in 1598 by his son George, who sold the manor to the Cokaynes in 1617. It passed with South Denchworth (q.v.) to the Geerings, and must have been sold by them to the family of Moyer. Lydia Moyer, daughter and heiress of Benjamin Moyer, married John Heathcote of Connington Castle, and their daughter, another Lydia, inherited the manor. She married William Dawnay, afterwards sixth Viscount Downe, whose daughter the Hon. Lydia Dawnay held it in 1875. Miss Dawnay of Beningbrough Hall, Yorkshire, is the present owner.
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