10 Jul Lordship Title of East Enborne or Enborne Roger or Saundevylis ID1453
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In the 13th century this estate was held by Philip de Sanderville as one fee together with his manor in South Moreton (q.v.), the descent of which it followed until 1419, when it was conveyed by Thomas Rothwell and Elizabeth his wife to Thomas Chaucer and other trustees. Walter Cotton was in possession in 1428, but it seems to have passed shortly afterwards to John Roger, for in 1429 he gave the manor of East Enborne called 'Saundervylys' to his son John and his wife Elizabeth daughter of John Shottesbrook. John Roger the younger was holding the manor, then known as 'Enborne Roger,' in 1447, and it passed to Thomas Roger, who died seised of it in 1471. His son Thomas died in 1488, leaving as his heir his daughter Elizabeth, who, though only thirteen years of age, was the wife of William Essex of Lambourn. Under a settlement Thomas's widow Margaret, afterwards the wife of Sir Thomas Fettiplace, had a life interest in the manor, of which she died seised on 22 January 1518. The estate then passed to Sir William Essex, who held it in right of his wife until 1543, when he exchanged it with the king for the manor of Brightwalton. The site was leased by Edward VI in 1549–50 for twenty-one years to John Knight, and the manor and reversion of the site were granted in 1556 to Anne Duchess of Somerset for life. In 1579 Queen Elizabeth exchanged this manor for other lands with Henry Cary Lord Hunsdon, whose trustees, Edward Downing and John Walker, sold it on 22 November that year to Sir Thomas Gawdy. He attached it to the manor of West Enborne, with which it has passed to its present possessor, the Earl of Craven.
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