10 Jul Lordship Title of Mackney ID1551
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In 1196 Ralph de Mackney recovered from Thomas de Mackney his inheritance, consisting of a messuage and 6½ virgates in Mackney, and he granted to Thomas a moiety of the land, half a hide being held by Cecilia the mother of Thomas as dower, of which at her death 1 virgate was to pass to Ralph, who also retained the capital messuage, and the remainder to Thomas and his heirs. Ralph's estate descended to a son and heir of the same name, whose son Robert in 1253 conveyed a messuage and land in Mackney to Ralph de Naketon and a meadow there called 'Buricroft' to William de Mackney to hold for five crops; Robert died without issue and William de Mackney was probably his nephew, son of Ralph de Mackney. William appears as lord of Mackney in 1289, and in 1292 he made an exchange of land here with the Bishop of Winchester. William was still living in 1307, but in 1320 Rowland Hastings was lord of Mackney. In 1323 Ralph Restwold received from John de Fleckenho a grant of the wardship and lands of John son of William Mackney in Ladbroke (co. Warw.), and in 1350 he and Edmund de Bereford settled the manor of Mackney on William de Mackney and his wife Ellen and their issue. William was living in 1355, but was probably dead in 1371, when Dame Helen (presumably Ellen) de Mackney demised land in Mackney to John Cokelestote and Joan his wife for her life. Courts were held by William de Ryburgh, probably for this lady, from 1372 to 1378. Richard Mackney was lord of the manor in 1426. He was son of William and grandson of William and Ellen, and he left a son Henry, who in 1430 was distrained at the manor-court of Sotwell to do fealty for his lands, and afterwards was sued by his sisters, Isabel wife of John Colyngryge and Agnes wife of John Fitz Robert, because, having no children, he had agreed to sell the manor to Thomas Stonor, thus depriving them of their inheritance. In 1466 he is described as 'late of Makney.' The manor courts of Mackney were held by a lady (possibly the widow of Richard Mackney) from 1457 until 1472. Finally, in 1488 Henry de Mackney conveyed the manor to Robert Coorte, or Court, who was auditor to Prince Arthur and died in 1509, leaving an only daughter who married Sir Adrian Moleyns. Their son William Moleyns conveyed the manor in 1523 to Nicholas Hare in trust for his son Robert Moleyns, who was living here in 1542, and who in 1553 settled it on himself and his direct heirs with remainder to Henry the son and heir of John Moleyns. Anthony, the eldest son of William Moleyns, appears to have been living here in 1564 and his brother Michael in 1577–8, the latter being described as 'of Mackney.' Henry Moleyns had come into possession of the manor in 1597 and sold it in 1611 to William Westbury and Henry Dixon, of whom it was purchased in 1614 by Robert Westbury. Robert sold it in 1617 to Francis Winchcombe, on whose death in 1619 it passed to his son Henry. Henry was succeeded in this manor ten years later by his second son William, who sold it in 1650 to Miles Flesher, with whose family it remained until in 1689 Elizabeth Flesher and her son James sold it to John Carpenter. It belonged in 1700 to the Rev. Bardsey Fisher of Cambridge, who conveyed it in 1714 to John Hawkins and Richard Webb. They may have been trustees for Matthew Black, who was in possession in 1724 and 1755. It came soon afterwards to the Martin family and was held about the close of the 18th century by Matthew Martin. It next belonged to Charles Morrell of Wallingford, from whom it was purchased early in the 19th century by Robert Dalzell. From him it passed to his son John Thomas Robert Dalzell, who died in 1873. It then passed to the Ramsay family, and the trustees of the late William Fermor Ramsay are the present owners.
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