10 Jul Lordship Title of Great Hodcutt or Hodcutt ID1495
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In the 13th century Geoffrey Ridel is given as holding one fee in Hodcutt. By 1360 the manor had passed to Walter de la River. Either he or his successor and namesake was holding in 1398, the estate being then described as one fee. In 1428 Roger de la River is described as holding half a fee, 'which Walter and John his son had formerly held.' In 1481 John de la River died seised of the manor of Hodcutt, of which he had been enfeoffed by Henry de la River, and left a daughter Clemence, then eight years old, who eventually married John Sandes. Clemence and her husband settled the manor in 1516 and 1540. In 1557 William Sandes conveyed it to Richard Stampe, who died in 1558, leaving a widow Anne and a son John. John grandson of Richard Stampe conveyed the manor in 1570 to William Forster. In 1594 Sir Humphrey Forster conveyed it to Hugh Keate, who died seised in 1616 of the manor of Magna Hodcutt. Hugh Keate, junior, son and heir, was party to a fine of the manor in 1618. The manor, it is said, was purchased in 1662 by John Head, who died in 1701 and was succeeded by a son John, who, dying in 1746, bequeathed the manor to his son John, who was holding in 1778. He died in 1803 without issue and was succeeded by his nephew Robert Southby of Appleton, who was holding in 1813 and was party in 1818 to a fine of the manors of Great and Little Hodcutt. His nephew Richard Southby had inherited the estate before 1844.
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