10 Jul Lordship Title of Hampstead Norris or Hampstead Ferrers or Hampstead Norreys ID1501
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In 1166–7 William de Sifrewast was holding this manor, and in 1194 Alonoth or Halenath de Sifrewast petitioned for the return of his land here, which had been seized for default in a suit against Pientia widow of William de Cauz. Alonoth died in or before 1217, when his son William did homage for this manor. William con- tinued to hold the manor till his death before 1257, when his son Nicholas leased it for eight years to Nicholas de Chenduit and Richard de Brightwalton. Soon after the expiration of this lease Nicholas in 1269–70 granted the manor in fee to Thomas de Clare, after which we hear no more of this family. Thomas de Clare had free warren here in 1275–6, and in 1276 exchanged the manor with Robert de Muscegros. Robert was the son of John de Muscegros and left a daughter Hawise, who married John first Lord Ferrers of Chartley, the son of Robert last Earl of Ferrers and Derby. Robert de Muscegros either had another daughter who married John son of Reginald or the latter married Robert's widow, for, with his wife, he conveyed this manor, described as Hampstead Syfrewaste, to John Ferrers and his wife in 1304–5. John Ferrers died before 1315–16, when the manor was held by John de Bures, who seems to have married Hawise. John de Bures died in 1350 and was succeeded by John son and heir of Robert Ferrers, kt., and grand- son of Hawise. This John appears to have been the third lord of Chartley, and in 1351–2 he obtained custody of this manor, which is stated to have belonged to Hawise Ferrers, and died in April 1367 seised of this manor, held jointly with his wife Elizabeth, who survived him. On her death the manor followed the descent of the barony of Ferrers of Chartley until William, sixth lord of Chartley, having no son, obtained licence on 14 September 1448 to sell this manor, held in chief, to the trustees of John Norreys, and the sale was completed not long before his death in June 1450. John Norreys had already acquired the adjoining manor of Yattendon, and Hampstead Norris subse- quently followed the same descent as the manor of Yattendon (q.v.). In 1766 Norreys Bertie devised it to his cousin Peregrine Bertie, subject to an annuity to his sister Lady Elizabeth Gallini. Peregrine Bertie afterwards sold the manor to the Gallinis. John Andrea Gallini, the son of Lady Elizabeth, was holding Hampstead Norris in 1806, but on 3 August 1834 he mortgaged it to George Eyston of Gray's Inn, who settled it upon Charles Eyston of Hendred. Charles Eyston foreclosed the mortgage on 24 November 1845, and the same day conveyed the manor to Edward Bowley, who sold it on 27 December that year to Thomas Crowther Brown and Robert Jeffreys Brown of Cirencester. These two sold the manor in 1860 to Lord Overstone, at whose death on 17 November 1883 it passed to his daughter Lady Wantage, who conveyed it in 1912 to her cousin Mr. A. K. Loyd, the present owner.
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