10 Jul Lordship Title of Clewer Brocas ID1425
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The manor of CLEWER BROCAS consisted of lands held by Sir John Brocas and Margery his wife during the first half of the 14th century. The estate, which is first referred to as a manor in 1338, was held of the manor of Clewer. Sir John Brocas died in 1365, his heir being his grandson John son of his son Oliver, then a minor. John Brocas died unmarried in 1377. His uncle Bernard, the second son of Sir John, obtained a grant of his father's property. He died in 1395, leaving a son Bernard. The latter forfeited in 1400 for his adherence to the cause of Richard II. His son William, however, obtained his lands and died seised in 1456, leaving a son William. The latter was followed in 1484 by his son John. In 1499 William Brocas and Mary his wife and William Langford and Margaret his wife quitclaimed the manor to Sir Reynold Bray. Thomas Lord Sandys conveyed it in 1546 to Henry VIII, and it remained with the Crown until the 18th century. In 1730 it appears in the possession of Richard Topham, who bequeathed it in that year to his sister Arabella Reeve and her children with remainder to Thomas Reeve for life and to Lord Sidney Beauclerk, whose son Topham had succeeded to it before 1761. He sold it to Sir Edward Walpole, who bequeathed it to his daughter the Hon. Mrs. Keppel, whose son Frederick Walpole Keppel was holding in 1818. In 1845 the estate was repurchased by the Crown.
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