10 Jul Lordship Title of Framptons ID1484
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The manor of FRAMPTONS, which included 7 hides of land, was held before the Conquest by a freeman Sawin. In 1086 it was in the hands of a thane Cola. There were eight cottars here and a mill worth 20s. The successors of Cola were the family of Marmion. Robert Marmion gave the tithe of his demesne here to Abbot Rainald of Abingdon (1084–97). His son Helto gave the manor to the abbey of St. Stephen Caen, and the grant was confirmed by William the Conqueror. It was subsequently attached to the priory of Frampton in Dorsetshire, a cell of St. Stephen's, and so acquired its distinctive name. In 1410 John Duke of Bedford had licence to acquire from the parent houses in Normandy the temporal possessions of the priories of Frampton and Ogbourne. Henry V probably confirmed his estate in them on the dissolution of alien monasteries in the second year of his reign. The duke died in possession of the manor in 1435, leaving the king as his heir. How long after this date Framptons remained in the Crown is not quite clear. At the Dissolution it was and had been since 1516 at least in the possession of the priory of Bradenstoke (Wilts.). Its value in 1541 was £8 13s. 4d. In 1554 Philip and Mary granted the manor to Thomas Everard and Richard Yate for life, with remainder to Thomas Booth and Nicholas Booth. Thomas Everard released his right to Nicholas Booth in the same year. The manor was granted by Nicholas Booth in 1570 to Edward Young and his wife Elizabeth and Francis Young his son in tail, with remainder to Anne Sherwood, daughter of Edward, and her heirs. Francis must have died without issue, for Anne inherited. Her husband John Sherwood was in possession in 1610. They had a son and heir Edward, who was succeeded in 1642 by his son John. The latter was living in 1665–6. and had a son Edward. Mary, the daughter and heir of Edward, married George Cooper, M.D., and died a lunatic and intestate in 1788. The manor then reverted to the representative of Edward Sherwood, a younger son of the first Edward. This was Sir John Pollen, bart., whose grandmother Mary was a daughter of Edward Sherwood. It was sold in 1822 by his son Sir John Walter Pollen to John Allin, and was purchased in 1897 by Lord Wantage on the sale of the estates of John Allin's grandson. Mr. A. K. Loyd, to whom the manor was conveyed by Lady Wantage in March 1912, is the present owner.
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