10 Jul Lordship Title of Hoppeshortland ID13075
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A small amount of land in Bockhampton known as HOPPESHORTLAND (Hobbshardes, xvi cent.) was held of the Crown with East Bockhampton by serjeanty. The family of Hoppeshort was in possession in the reign of Henry II. In 1210 Hubert Hoppeshort held with William de Bockhampton by serjeanty of keeping the harriers. His son Ralph had seisin of his father's land in 1214, and was succeeded in 1221 by his son Ralph. The heirs of the latter were Isabel de Lente, Maud daughter of Gode and William son of Maud. In 1284, however, the holding had returned to the family of Hoppeshort, and the tenure had been changed. William Hoppeshort then held by service of keeping six damsels for the king at the king's cost. Before his death in about 1303 this service had been superseded by the duty of carrying the king's horn when he hunted in the hundred of Lambourn. John Hoppeshort, son of William, was succeeded about 1307 by his sister Alice, who granted her land to William de Wanting and William his son before 1309. William granted it in that year to Richard de Pevensey and his wife Ela, who in her widowhood regranted it to the younger William and Alice his wife. Hoppeshortland belonged to John de Wanting at his death in 1349 and then descended with the manor of Eastbury (q.v.) till the reign of Henry VI, when Richard Hankeford appears to have granted it to the co-feoffees of his grandfather William in return for a release of their claim on Eastbury. In 1589 Hoppeshortland was alienated with East Bockhampton to Thomas Smalbone.
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Manorial Counsel Limited has created a new legal right to bring the titles of this lordship back into use.
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