10 Jul Lordship Title of Adresham ID1341
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The third manor, known as ADRESHAM, was held of the king as a half fee. It was the second moiety of the fee held by Humfrey Visdelou at the Survey and was held by William Nevill in 1166. Between 1179 and 1183, however, the sheriff rendered £8 for the land of Robert de London in Moreton, and this was probably part of the Visdelou estate, their land at Benham also having been leased or granted to Robert. In 1220, after a trial by wager of battle, Fulk son of Richard de Rycote, his wife Maud and Humfrey Visdelou gave up their right in a fourth part of a fee in Moreton to William Nevill, who gave them certain land in exchange. In 1262 the half fee held by William Nevill had passed to his son John. At his death in 1280 he held half a knight's fee in 'Southmorton,' from which he had given a rent of 7 marks to his daughter Joan on her marriage with Stephen le Tot of Westdun. His son William Nevill died in 1306 seised of an eighth of a fee in South Moreton, leaving two daughters, Nichola and Alice. Each of these inherited a moiety of the estate. Alice married Richard le Wayte, but died in 1319, leaving an infant son Henry, and her portion appears to have passed to William de Louches, and finally to have become part of her sister's moiety. Nichola married John de Adresham, who survived her and died in 1358, when his son William succeeded. William died in 1361, leaving a son John, who in 1391 granted to Walter Yonge 7 marks of rent from tenements held by him. Half a knight's fee at South Moreton, including the messuages called 'Louches' and 'Adreshammes,' passed to Walter's son Thomas, who in 1398 granted it to the husband of his sister Elizabeth, Richard Aleyn, who died in 1407, leaving a son Robert. By 1428 both estates had come into the hands of Robert Brown, at whose death in 1432 part of the capital messuage called Adresham was assigned to Agnes his widow, who died in 1438. Thomas their son and heir owned Fulscot, and in 1455 he and John his brother released their rights in both manors to John Norreys. At John's death in 1466 the manor passed to his son Sir William Norreys, who died in 1507, bequeathing it to his son Lionel in tail-male, with remainder in moieties to two other sons, Richard and William. Lionel died childless in 1536, and Richard and William both seem to have died without male issue, when, under the settlement, the manor should have passed to the heirs of Sir William by his wife Anne, with a final remainder to Richard son of Sir Edward Norreys, a son of Sir William by his wife Jane. One of Sir William's heirs by Anne was his daughter Joan, wife of John Cheney, to whose son Humphrey the manor passed. Humphrey settled the manor in 1549 on himself and Martha Yate, whom he was about to marry, but he died without issue in 1557, and Martha married James Braybrooke. Half the manor passed to her heirs by him, the other moiety reverting to the descendants of Sir Edward Norreys mentioned above. James Braybrooke died in 1588 holding half the manor of Fulscot, which passed to his son William. On the death of the latter in 1592 the estate passed to his son Richard, who conveyed it in 1612 to Richard Chambers and another. It came into the possession of Peter Wing, who left it in 1680 to his second son Richard, whose daughter Anna Maria in 1732 brought it in marriage to Richard Thomlinson of Wapping; and their son William Thomlinson, by his will in 1770, divided his estate, bequeathing the Adresham portion to his daughter Catherine. John Thomlinson held it in 1783, but Catherine was in possession in 1785. It passed before the close of the century to John Kirby, who died in 1802, and it now belongs to his greatgrandson of the same name.
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