10 Jul Lordship Title of Evendons ID1477
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The manor or farm of EVENDONS (Yevyndon, Evyndens, Endens, Indens, Hendons) appears to have been a part of the Bishop of Salisbury's manor of Sonning. The first mention of it which has been found occurs in 1316, when the Bishop of Salisbury was returned as lord of Wokingham-cum-Yevyndon. It is uncertain how long it remained with the see, but it was alienated before 1561, when Thomas Cawood was holding it with Finchampstead East Court. He made a conveyance in that year to Henry Hynde and Thomas Harrison, but apparently did not part with the whole of his interest, for he is found suffering a recovery in 1583. Thomas Harrison, however, died seised of it in February 1602–3, and it remained with the Harrisons until 1661, when Richard Harrison conveyed it to Mary Potenger, widow, from whom it passed eight years later to John Bucks and Mary his wife. They retained it only until 1678–9, when it became the property of William Adderley, a cursitor of the Court of Chancery, who was holding in 1693. In 1775 the manor was held by Richard Ward. Later it is said to have come to Sir Thomas Rich, who, when he sold Sonning to Richard Palmer in 1795, retained the manor of Evendons. After his death in 1806 (v. Sonning) it became the property of Mr. John Roberts. He sold it in 1834 to Mr. William Lane, yeoman, who died in 1882, having bequeathed the estate to his son Edward subject to certain annuities and legacies. It was sold by mortgagees in 1896 to Mr. Edwin Ifould, from whom it was bought in the following year by Mr. John Francis Coston, the present owner. The old manor-house was pulled down in 1837 when the present house was built. The Bear Wood walk of the forest (see under Hurst) is partly in the parish of Wokingham and is described in 1693 as being 'upon the waste of the manor of Evendons.' William Adderley, lord of the manor of Evendons, then petitioned to be allowed to fell timber of fifty years' growth in his wood of Bear Wood.
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