10 Jul Lordship Title of East Hagbourne or Church Hagbourne ID1456
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Lords of East Hagbourne or Church Hagbourne According to a spurious charter dated 891 and contained in the 12th-century chartulary of St. Swithun, Winchester, Bishop Denewulf surrendered to King Alfred land in Cholsey with the two vills (villulae) thereto belonging, viz., Hagbourne and Basildon, in exchange for land at Hurstbourne (co. Hants) and elsewhere. The boundaries of Hagbourne set forth in this charter show that it then included Upton. In the time of Archbishop Sigeric (990–4) a dispute arose as to land at Hagbourne and Bradfield which Aelfric the ealdorman had given to Wynflæd in exchange for land at Datchet (co. Bucks.). The complaint which was brought at Woolvers by a certain Leofwin was referred to the shire-mote at Cuckhamsley. By the time of Edward the Confessor Hagbourne had become two distinct holdings. EAST HAGBOURNE, sometimes styled CHURCH HAGBOURNE, was held of King Edward by Regenbald (the priest) of Cirencester, and he continued in possession after the Conquest. His holding consisted in 1086 of 15 hides assessed only as 11 hides and 3 virgates. When he died Henry I granted this with all the rest of his fief to the abbey of Cirencester. This grant took place in 1133, and the abbots continued to hold the manor of East Hagbourne in frankalmoign until 1539, when the abbey surrendered to the Crown. The site of the manor was at that time in the hands of a tenant, William Keate, who had acquired a lease through marriage with Eleanor daughter of James and Alice Anger. A certain moat, the houses with a garden within the moat and the pasturage in Hagbourne Park had been excepted from Anger's lease, but Keate acquired from the Crown the tenancy of these also. His widow Eleanor married Edmund Busby, whose administrator John Busby disputed the title with Hugh Keate of Hagbourne, fifth son and legatee of William Keate. In 1612 Hugh Keate the elder with his wife Christian and Hugh Keate the younger conveyed his interest in the site of the manor with the tithes of East and West Hagbourne to William Lord Knollys, who was created Viscount Wallingford in 1616 and in February 1622–3 received from the Crown a grant of the manorial rights of East Hagbourne and of the site of the manor. In 1626 Lord Wallingford was created Earl of Banbury, and he received a grant of the Crown's reversionary right in this manor on 7 June 1627. Early in the year 1632 he conveyed it to George Whitmore and others, trustees under the wills of Sir William Craven, Lord Mayor of London, and Dame Elizabeth his wife to purchase lands on behalf of their second son John, who was created Lord Craven of Ryton (co. Salop) on 21 March 1642–3. At his death his estates were inherited by his elder brother William Lord Craven of Hampstead Marshall, but East Hagbourne was sequestered under the Commonwealth and purchased by Lewis Audley and John Yates about 1653. It was evidently recovered by Lord Craven at the Restoration and continued with his direct descendants until 1863, when it was purchased of William second Earl of Craven by Lord Overstone. It is now the property of his daughter Lady Wantage. The descendants of William Keate evidently continued to live at Hagbourne after they had conveyed their rights to Lord Knollys, but it is clear that they were only lessees of the manor farm, which was occupied by them as late as 1705. In addition to court baron the Abbots of Cirencester claimed gallows and amendment of the assize of bread and ale in East Hagbourne, and in 1275 the abbot was charged with withdrawing his bailiff from the hundred court of Moreton.
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