10 Jul Lordship Title of Kyntons or Bishops Compton or Compton Parva ID1537
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Another manor known later as KYNTON'S, BISHOP'S COMPTON or COMPTON PARVA was originally part of the manor granted by Henry II to Crispin, the father of Gilbert de Tillers. The Prioress of Kington held it in the 13th century, possibly by grant from the second co-heir of Gilbert de Tillers, Agnes wife of Philip de Croix. Service was owed to the prioress by (among others) the Abbot of Abingdon and John de Turbervill. In 1291 the prioress made a grant of all her lands in West Compton to Robert Burnell, Bishop of Bath and Wells. The manor remained with the successors of the bishop. In 1648, at the sale of the bishop's lands, the manor designated Compton Parva in the indenture was sold to Thomas Smith, whose father had been granted a lease of it in 1624 for the term of his own life and that of his sons Thomas and Richard. In the 17th century it was held on lease by the family of Pottinger, who apparently ultimately acquired the fee-simple. Richard Pottinger, son of the Recorder of Reading, levied a fine of it in 1747, and it descended to his son Richard Pottinger, who died without issue. It came to his nephew the Rev. Richard Pottinger, whose daughters and coheirs, Mrs. Macbrae and Mrs. Borland, sold their interest in the Manor Farm to Mr. W. G. Stevens. Since the latter's death it has been held by his trustees.
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