10 Jul Lordship Title of Chamberhouse ID1414
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The manor of CHAMBERHOUSE is first mentioned in 1445. It was held of the manor of Crookham by the service of one pair of gilt spurs or 6d. yearly. It is possible, however, to trace the earlier history of the estate. In the 13th century Roger de la Chambre held land in Thatcham, and in 1352 Thomas de la Chambre of Crookham is mentioned, but there is no proof that they held Chamberhouse. William Montagu, the second Earl of Salisbury, granted a messuage, mill, 2 carucates of land and 4 acres of meadow in Crookham to Thomas Street, who alienated them to John Frome and five others. These grantees in turn alienated to Richard Pavy, who was the bailiff of Crookham Park. Pavy was living at Chamberhouse in 1397, and it seems possible that the lands he obtained by these grants formed the Chamberhouse estate. In 1404 he alienated two messuages and lands in Crookham and Thatcham to Sir John Lisle and his wife Elizabeth and the heirs of John. The estate was held by the hereditary bailiffs of Crookham, but did not come into the possession of John Pury and his wife Isabel until 1445, six years after Pury had obtained the bailiwick. Pury was an esquire of Henry VI, and in 1446 he obtained licence to inclose the manor of Chamberhouse, to crenellate and embattle it, together with a grant of very considerable privileges in the manor, including the view of frankpledge. He was living in 1480, but appears to have died shortly afterwards. Chamberhouse passed to his daughter Anne. Her husband Sir William Danvers died in 1504, and his widow held the manor till her death in 1531–2. According to a settlement made about 1514 and her will dated 1530, it passed to her daughter Isabel and son-in-law Martin Docwra, who were to maintain a chantry in the chapel of Chamberhouse (q.v.). Martin and Isabel obtained possession of the manor on the death of Anne, but not long afterwards the Abbot of Reading and sixteen others entered it in arms and did much damage. The Docwras appear to have recovered seisin of the manor. Martin died in 1534, and his eldest son Edward was probably the owner of the manor until his death in 1545. His heir was his brother Edmund, who was in possession in 1549–50 and was a member of Parliament in 1572. Pecuniary difficulties forced him with the assent of his wife Dorothy and son Arthur to sell the Chamberhouse estate to Nicholas Fuller in 1585. The purchaser also obtained quitclaims from the various mortgagees and others and finally a decree in Chancery. Nicholas Fuller died in February 1619–20, and Chamberhouse passed to his widow Sarah as part of her jointure. It was entailed on his son Sir Nicholas Fuller, who died in the July following, leaving his son Dowse, aged three, as his heir. Dowse Fuller inherited Chamberhouse Manor on his grandmother's death in 1642. He died at Chamberhouse in 1657, and was succeeded by his son Dowse, who was knighted in 1663 and married Elizabeth the daughter of Sir Thomas Aleyn, a London alderman, the manor being settled on her for life. Sir Dowse died in 1673 and his son and heir, another Dowse Fuller, died in 1689, but it is not clear whether he ever obtained possession of the Chamberhouse estate, since his mother, on whom the manor was settled for life, was living the year before when he made his will. He left all his Berkshire lands to his widow Jane in trust for his children Dowse and Margaret till they came of age. The manor finally came into the possession of Margaret, her brother having died childless, before 1714. She married Samuel Pargiter, who took the name of Fuller, and in 1716 they sold it to John Lansdell of the Tower of London. He died in 1730, and his sons John and Chrysostom sold it some years later to George Amyand, a merchant, who was created a baronet in 1764. His son and heir George assumed the name of Cornewall on his marriage in 1771 with Catherine daughter and heir of Velters Cornewall. He had succeeded to the baronetcy in 1766. A private Act of Parliament was passed by which Chamberhouse Manor and other property in Crookham were vested in trustees, who sold the manor in 1798 to Henry Tull. He died in 1815, and his property afterwards passed to the family of his brother Richard of Crookham House. His nephew Richard Tull owned the Chamberhouse estate till his death in 1868, when he was succeeded by his son, the present owner. In 1446 John Pury inclosed 300 acres of land, 40 acres of wood and 4 acres of meadow by the king's licence and converted them into a park. In 1547 Chamberhouse Park is mentioned as forming one of the boundaries of Greenham Manor. Pury also obtained a grant of free warren in his demesne lands of the manor, and the same privilege descended to subsequent lords of the manor. A free fishery belonged to the lords of the manor in the 15th century, and in 1446 Pury leased his fishing weir to Martyn Jourdan for nine years. The fishery belonged to the subsequent lords of Chamberhouse. A mill was granted by the second Earl of Salisbury during the 14th century to Thomas Street and passed to Richard Pavy before 1394. It passed with the manor of Chamberhouse at the subsequent alienations of the manor, and a water-mill called Chamberhouse Mill exists at the present day.
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