10 Jul Lordship Title of Farnborough ID1479
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The manor of FARNBOROUGH was held at the date of the Domesday Survey by the abbey of Abingdon, which had also held it under Edward the Confessor. The abbey claimed to have had an estate there which had been acquired by grant from one Edric, whose title to the land had been confirmed by Elfreda, Queen of the Mercians, in 878, but Kemble rejects the latter charter as of very doubtful authenticity. Alfeah, the king's 'minister,' is also said to have made a grant to the abbey of 10 cassati which he had received from King Athelstan in 931. Shortly after this, however, Farnborough appears to have been lost to the abbey and was held by a certain widow Eadfled, from whom Alfred called 'Puer' took it away by force; but he, after being condemned by the Council of Cirencester, fled from the country, and Eadfled, having recovered the land, left it at her death to King Ethelred, who restored it to the abbey in 993. In 1039 the grant was confirmed by Harthacnut, King of the English and the Danes. It is related that Herbert, treasurer of Henry I, deprived the monastery of a hide of land, but, worn out by the importunity of the abbot, he finally restored it. The estate was evidently well timbered, as 5 acres of woodland that provided fencing are noted in the Survey, and in the 11th century the abbot ordered that the tithes from Farnborough should be paid in wood for the rebuilding of the abbey. In 1246 the abbot dealt with common of pasture in Farnborough. The estate was enlarged by a grant from John de Elsefeld in 1302, and the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1390 confirmed the tithes of certain lands which had been granted to the abbey. After the Dissolution the manor was granted in 1540 to Edward Fettiplace, from whom John Wardram, lessee of the site and demesne lands of the manor under the monastery, in the following year purchased a certain portion of the land. In 1542 Edward Fettiplace conveyed the manor, together with the reversion of a wood called Gungrove and land called Grovefeld, to John Wynchcombe of Newbury (a descendant of the famous clothier Jack of Newbury), who settled it before his death in 1557 upon his second son Henry with his wife Agnes. Henry died seised of it in 1562, his wife Agnes, who married William Nottingham as her second husband, retaining a life interest. At her death after 1575 the manor reverted to John the elder brother of Henry, Sheriff of Berkshire in 1570, who was dealing with Farnborough in 1596. On his death in 1610 he was succeeded by his son John, who died in 1636, leaving a son, another John, as his heir. The latter died about 1669 and directed by his will that the manor should be sold for the payment of debts and legacies, and accordingly in 1671 it was sold by his widow Martha and his son John Wynchcombe to Philip Jennett, who settled it in the following year upon his only child Anne wife of Sir Jonathan Raymond. Anne was dealing with it in 1687 and bequeathed it to her son Sir Jennett Raymond, whose only surviving daughter Elizabeth wife of John Craven was holding in 1768. Her son Fulwar Craven sold it to the Rev. William Wroughton of Woolley Park, and on his death in 1812 the manor passed to his son Bartholomew Wroughton, who died without issue in 1858. The manor passed to his brother Philip, on whose death in 1862 it came to his son Philip. He died in 1910, and his son Mr. Philip Musgrave Neeld Wroughton is the present lord of the manor.
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