10 Jul Lordship Title of Fulscot ID1489
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From its position adjacent to the manor held by Humfrey Visdelou at the Survey, it seems probable that this was the knight's fee held of the honour of Wallingford by Walkelin Visdelou (Visus Lupi), probably son of Humfrey, in 1166, and by another Humfrey Visdelou in 1228. The manor is first named in 1312, when it was settled by William de Braybrooke on Payn Huskarl for life with remainder to his son Thomas and his wife Juliana. It descended to Agnes Huscarl, of whom it was held by William Stokes at his death in 1427. He seems to have held it in right of his wife Maud, for it passed to her son Robert Brown. It was sold by his son Thomas in 1455 to John Norreys, together with the manor of Adresham, with which it continued to be held. A moiety passed with Adresham to Richard Whistler, whose son Thomas severed Adresham (q.v.). The moiety of Fulscot descended to William Whistler, the son of Thomas, and from him it passed by fine in 1653 to Mary Fountayne, widow. The other moiety passed with Adresham to the Braybrookes. From Richard Braybrooke it passed to his daughter Margaret wife of Humphrey Hyde of Wick, near Abingdon, and it was sold in 1675 by her daughters to their tenant Richard Lewendon. The whole belonged in 1760 to John James and his wife Alice, but the so-called manor was held in 1762 by Richard Finch. It descended in the family of James of Denford and was held at the beginning of the 19th century by Sir Walter James James, bart. In 1828 it passed from Edward Wells to John Allnutt Hedges, who sold it in 1842 to the Rt. Hon. William Goodenough Hayter, and he in 1849 sold it to James Morrison of Basildon, with whose estate it descended to his grandson Major James Archibald Morrison.
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