10 Jul Lordship Title of Haslewick or Stratton ID1506
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These lands were settled in 1290–1 on William de Stratton and his wife Scholastica, with reversion in default of their issue to John de Hartridge. The manor, which was often known as Strattons, had reverted before 1309 to John de Hartridge, who was holding the adjoining manor of Titcomb in the parish of Kintbury (q.v.), and Haslewick descended with it until 1798, when both were sold to Cuthbert Johnson. He sold Haslewick in 1799 to Joseph Butler of Kirby House, Inkpen. Joseph died in 1823, when Haslewick passed to his eldest son John, who was succeeded in 1871 by his eldest son, the Rev. John Butler, rector of Inkpen. At his death in 1895 the manor passed to his widow, whose executors sold it in 1901 to William Harold Leech and Guy Ansdell Leech. Guy died in November 1904, and William sold the estate in 1906 to Basil Edward Peto, M.P. for East Wiltshire, of whom it was purchased in 1912 by Lady Clarke Jervoise. In 1771 James Kirkby purchased an estate in Inkpen from Sir Thomas Frankland and Sarah his wife, and KIRBY HOUSE was built upon it. James died 5 September 1790, leaving the estate to his wife Sarah daughter of James Cunningham, but it was claimed by his brother William Comber Kirkby. Sarah filed a petition in the Court of Chancery, and was successful in her suit, and on 16 March 1792 sold the house and estate to Joseph Butler of Wantage. The estate has since passed with the manor of Haslewick. There was one mill, worth 12s., belonging to the manor of Inkpen at the time of the Domesday Survey. This mill was given by Gervase Paynel about the middle of the 12th century to the nuns of the order of Fontevrault at Kintbury, but the gift was transferred shortly after to the priory of Nuneaton in Warwickshire. The prioress was in controversy about 1180–4 with the chaplain of Inkpen as to tithes of fish from this mill, which had at that time been destroyed. Finally, the chaplain accepted a composition of 1 mark in lieu of all further demands for tithes. There is no mill here now, though there was one about fifty years ago. Adam Blandy died in 1626 holding a fishery here called 'le Weare,' extending to 'le watering place' of Inglewood Down, and another Adam died seised of the same on 9 April 1641, when his son John succeeded. Samuel Phillips and Frances his wife held this fishery in 1687, apparently with the mill of Denford (q.v.), and conveyed it the following year to Thomas Price, perhaps on mortgage, for they sold it in 1695 to Frances James, widow, of Denford, in the parish of Kintbury.
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