10 Jul Lordship Title of East Compton ID1451
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When the manor of EAST COMPTON was acquired by the Abbess of Wherwell in Hampshire is not known, but the abbess had an estate there in 1218–19. There was probably an early grant, for in the Testa de Nevill Wherwell is returned as having held East Compton in almoign of the predecessors of the king, and in 1228 Pope Gregory confirmed its possession of both the manor and the church. The abbey continued to hold the manor till the Dissolution, when it was granted to Richard Andrews and Leonard Chamberlain in 1542 with leave to alienate it. They seem to have conveyed the manor to Thomas, Robert and Bartholomew Burgoyn, who granted it in 1544 to Richard Bartlett, M.D. Between 1555, when Richard Bartlett was still in possession, and 1607, when Thomas and Henry Bartlett held it, no reference to the manor has been found. Before 1618 it was sold by Richard Bartlett to Sir Peter Vanlore, a wealthy Dutch merchant, who also purchased West Compton, and the descent of the two manors is identical from this date. Sir Peter, who was knighted in 1621, died in 1627, leaving a son and four daughters, among whom he divided this property in equal shares. Peter his son, who died before 1653, divided his fifth share among his three daughters: Jacoba wife of Henry Zinzan alias Alexander, Mary wife of Henry Alexander Earl of Stirling, and Susan wife of Sir Robert Croke. Mary, eldest daughter of Sir Peter and wife of Sir Edward Powell, dealt with her share in 1651. Thomas Levingston and Anne his wife, daughter of Anne Caesar fourth daughter of Sir Peter, held another fifth and dealt with fractions of it at various times. The share of Catherine, second daughter of Sir Peter, wife of Thomas Glemham, was dealt with by Sackville Glemham, Robert Marriott, Peter Glemham, Elizabeth Glemham, wife of Thomas Cressey, and their daughter Anne wife of Sir Thomas Parkins. The share of Elizabeth, the third daughter of Sir Peter, wife of John Vandebende, was dealt with by her sons John and Abraham, who were succeeded in 1709 by John Vandebende and Temperance his wife. It would appear from records of 1699 and 1709 that the two manors were divided between Anne wife of Thomas Parkins and John Vandebende, from whom they were acquired by John Head, who was holding them in 1740. He was succeeded by his son Sir Thomas Head, who died in 1779. He left the manor of Compton in East and West Compton to his son Walter James Head, who took the name of Walter James James, and was created a baronet in 1791. Sir Walter James James conveyed the manors to John Thomas Wasey, at whose death they passed to his daughters Mrs. Jane Stackpole and Miss Mary Wasey, who on 26 March 1855 sold the manors of East and West Compton for £5,000 to Lewis Loyd, a London banker. His son Samuel Jones Loyd was created Lord Overstone of Overstone and Fotheringay in 1850. His daughter and heir Harriet Sarah married Colonel Lindsay, who assumed by royal licence the name of Loyd and was created Lord Wantage in 1885; on his death in 1891 Lady Wantage became the owner of East and West Compton.
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