10 Jul Lordship Title of East Bockhampton ID1450
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EAST BOCKHAMPTON (Bochentone, xi cent.) must be identified with the 3 hides which were held by Edward of the king in 1086. Here as at Alderbury, Wiltshire, Edward was followed by a family holding by the serjeanty of keeping the king's harriers. Walter de Hairez seems to have held this fee in 1130. In the late 12th or early 13th century the tenant was Humphrey de Bockhampton, who was succeeded by a son William. Richard son of William son of Humphrey paid relief for his land here in 1222, and was succeeded in the serjeanty by his brother Raer son of William. The latter was still in possession in 1248, and was succeeded by Ralph his son, who took the name of Raer as a surname. Ralph was dead in 1280. His son and heir William in 1300 enfeoffed John Tany of his holding, the demesne of which had been reduced by numerous enfeoffments to 4 oxgangs. John Tany's daughter and heir Ela married Richard de Pevensey, and her father settled this holding on her in 1309. Ela was dead in 1328, leaving a son Richard de Pevensey, who granted East Bockhampton in 1331 to John son of Roger la Warre for life, with remainder to John's son John and Margaret his wife. Their son John died in 1358, leaving a brother and heir Roger, whose son John granted the holding in 1373 to John de Estbury the younger. John de Estbury settled it in 1386 on himself for life with remainder to Thomas Marchaunt, who was in possession in 1401–2. Thomas Marchaunt's daughter and heir Joan married William Pykemound, and with him had a grant of East Bockhampton from the feoffees of Thomas in 1451. They regranted it to Edward Langford, Thomas Fachell and Thomas Joynour, who were probably also trustees. The manor is next mentioned as the possession of Agnes wife of Richard Garrard, who according to the traditional pedigree of Garrard was a daughter and heir of William Packman (Pykemound ?). Agnes and her husband made a settlement in 1489 by which the manor passed to their son Edward Garrard and Eleanor his wife and Edward's heirs. Edward Garrard was succeeded by his grandson Henry, who in 1589 had licence to alienate his capital messuage here to Thomas Smalbone. The John Smalbone whose lands in Bockhampton were sequestered in 1650 seems to have been the grandson of Thomas. The manor was mortgaged for the payment of his debts, and was apparently recovered by the Garrard family, for in 1766 Thomas Garrard conveyed it to Stephen Earl of Ilchester. In 1796 it was in the possession of Richard Lord Holland of Foxley (Wilts.) Its later history is uncertain.
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