10 Jul Lordship Title of Elton ID1473
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Wilfrid was the tenant in 1220–1, and between that date and 1229 he and his son Richard gave a house in Elton, called Buttuc, to Oseney Priory. Richard de Elfreton was holding an estate here soon afterwards. He is mentioned again as holding it in 1242, in 1272 and also in 1275–6, when it appears that the Hospitallers had some interest in the manor, and in 1340 Geoffrey de Elfington, to whose wife it had belonged, purchased from his son Richard the latter's interest in this estate. About this time the abbey of Abingdon, which had previously obtained most of the tithes, seems to have acquired this estate, for they were possessed of it at the time of their dissolution in 1538, when it was attached to their land in the adjoining parish of Chaddleworth. In 1544 Elton was granted with the manor of Weston to Thomas Denton and his wife and seems to have passed with that manor (q.v.) until the beginning of the 18th century. No record has been found of its separation from that manor, but in 1710 it was conveyed by Henry Skylling to John Smith, apparently in trust, for members of his family were holding it in 1722 and sold it in 1741 to Martha Edwin, who in 1750 sold it to William Sawbridge. It was by members of the Sawbridge family that it was sold in 1834 to Charles Eyre, whose son Col. Archer-Houblon, the lord of the manor of Welford, is the present possessor.
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