Lordship Title of East Garston ID1463

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The name of EAST GARSTON identifies it with the 30 hides in Lambourn which belonged in the reign of the Confessor to his staller Esgar. It passed with his other lands to Geoffrey de Mandeville, who was the tenant in 1086. Before the middle of the 12th century East Garston became the property of the family of London of Kidwelly in Wales. It was held as a member of the manor of Kidwelly by the serjeanty of leading the vanguard of the king's army whenever he or his justices went to Wales. Maurice de London, son of William, was lord of Kidwelly at the end of the reign of Henry I, and was in possession of East Garston about 1141. His son William succeeded him and was ordered to make a grant of tithes in East Garston to Hurley Priory in accordance with a grant of Geoffrey de Mandeville. This he did in a charter witnessed by his son Maurice. Maurice probably was a younger son or predeceased his father, who was succeeded by his son William. The latter's heir was his brother Thomas, who was dead in 1219, when his widow Eva de Tracy survived, and his daughter and heir Hawise was a minor. Eva paid a fine three years later for marrying her daughter without licence. In 1223 Hawise was married with the king's permission to Walter de Braose. He was dead in 1234, and she appears to have married Henry de Turberville, Seneschal of Gascony, who was in possession of East Garston in 1238. Dower in Devonshire was assigned to Henry de Turberville's widow Hawise in 1240, and in 1251 Hawise de London was the wife of Patrick de Chaworth. He was dead in 1259; Hawise survived him for about thirteen years. Her son and heir Payn de Chaworth died without issue in 1279. His brother Patrick succeeded him and left in 1283 a daughter and heir Maud, an infant. His widow Isabel had East Garston in dower. Maud married Henry afterwards Earl of Lancaster, who granted the manor of East Garston to Richard de Rivers for life in 1323. In 1337 he granted it to his daughter Isabel and her feoffee for her life. His son Henry, who succeeded him in 1345, also made life grants of the manor. The younger Henry was succeeded in 1361 by his daughters Blanche the wife of John of Gaunt and Maud wife of William Duke of Holland. The manor of East Garston was assigned to Maud, on whose death without issue in 1362 it was inherited by Blanche. With the rest of the duchy of Lancaster it was vested in the Crown on the accession of her son Henry IV. East Garston remained the property of the Crown till the reign of James I. It was generally granted out on lease for terms varying in length. James I sold it in 1614 to Peregrine Gastrell and Ralph Lowndes, who were trustees for Peregrine's father Henry. The manor was settled in 1631 on the marriage of Peregrine with Jane Knightley. Peregrine died in possession six years later, leaving a son and heir Henry, who with John Tompson, clerk, second husband of Jane Gastrell, sold East Garston in 1658 to Philip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery. In 1677 it was in the possession of Benjamin Andrews, who sold it to Sir William Jones, attorney-general. Sir William, whose eldest son was accidentally killed when a child, died in 1682 leaving only one surviving son Richard. The latter died three years later. Another Richard Jones was in possession of East Garston in 1699. William son of William Jones, who died in 1766, was the last male of his line, and his estates here afterwards followed the descent of Avington (q.v.). Sir Francis Burdett is the present lord of the manor.
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