10 Jul Lordship Title of Berry or Bury or White Waltham ID1378
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The manor of WHITE WALTHAM, BURY or BERRY may be identified with the 10 hides in Waltham granted with the church of that vill and the woods of Halcuuike (Hallwick), Lidleuuike (Littlewick) and Suthwode and all other appurtenances of the vill and church to the abbey of Chertsey by King Edward the Confessor. The abbey was holding in 1086, when the manor was appropriated to the kitchen of the monastery (de dominico victu monachorum). The abbey increased its estate in the parish during the 12th century and later by the acquisition of various tenements. The abbey continued in possession until the Dissolution in 1537. In the following year the manor was granted to Thomas Weldon and Cecilia his wife. The former died seised of it in 1567, being succeeded by his son William, who in 1580 alienated it to Richard Huddlestone. In 1584 Huddlestone conveyed the manor to Richard Hale, who died seised of it in 1621, leaving a son and heir William. In 1631 William Hale, called of King's Walden, Herts., settled the estate (charged with an annuity of £300 to William, his eldest son) upon his second son Rowland, who inherited it two years later, and was involved in 1641 in a suit over the rent-charge with Denise sister and executrix of William Hale, jun., who sued him for the rent-charge. In 1657 Rowland Hale sold the manor of White Waltham alias Berry, with the site of the manor, or Berry Farm, to Richard Powle of Shottesbrook. The manor has since followed the descent of Shottesbrook (q.v.).
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