10 Jul Lordship Title of Lowbrook or Lollebrookes ID1548
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The first mention of the so-called manor of LOWBROOK (Lyllebrok, Lollebrok, xiv cent.; Lyllebrokes alias Lollebrookes, Lowbroke, xvi cent.; Lolbrook's Farm, Lullibrooke, xvii cent.) occurs in 1376, when Thomas son and heir of Thomas de Lollebrok appeared in court to exhibit his title to it. His family seem to have been living for some time in the neighbourhood, and had acquired land in Cookham as early as 1292, when Walter de Lillebrok obtained a messuage, lands and rent from Joan de la Lane of Elington. Robert de Lollebrok is mentioned in the Bray Court Rolls of the same year; he was knight of the shire for Berks. in 1323, and seems to have died about 1327. His heir was Thomas de Lollebrok, father of the Thomas who claimed Lowbrook in 1376. The younger Thomas Lollebrok probably supported Richard II at the end of his reign. At the time of his death in 1412 all his property had passed out of his hands except one messuage called Berkeleys in Earley. Probably Lowbrook was already in the possession of the Martyns of Athelhampton (co. Dorset). John Martyn held it in 1426, and left it at his death to Thomas Martyn, who died in 1485, leaving as his heir his son William, afterwards knighted. Sir William died in 1503 and his son Christopher died seised of Lowbrook in 1525. Robert, the son and heir of Christopher's son Thomassold Lowbrook in 1541 to John Yate and Thomas Elyott, trustees for Elizabeth, the widow of Sir Thomas Englefield. Lady Englefield died in 1543, leaving the manor by her will to her younger son John and the custody thereof to her elder son Francis. John's son and heir Francis Englefield succeeded to the manor before 1594, in which year he conveyed it for the purpose of a settlement to Sir Anthony Browne, whose daughter Jane he was about to marry. He was created a baronet in 1611, and lived until 1633, when he left Lowbrook to his fifth son, William, upon whom he had settled it in tail-male two years earlier. As William Englefield was a recusant two-thirds of the estate were sequestrated under the Commonwealth, though he was allowed to enjoy the remaining third on producing a certificate from the county committee that he 'did not beare armes at al in these unhappy warres that wee ever heard of.' He was, however, obliged to let the estate in 1647 to Henry Partridge, who compounded for it in December of that year. In 1656 Partridge bought the estate from William Englefield's trustees, and his descendants remained in possession of it until about the middle of the 19th century, when Mr. Henry Samuel Partridge sold it to Mr. Lewis Rose, from whose executors it was bought before 1861 by Mr. Charles Pascoe Grenfell. The present owner is Lord Desborough.
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