10 Jul Lordship Title of North Fawley or Great Fawley ID1570
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The manor of NORTH FAWLEY' belonged in 1086 to the nuns of Amesbury. It had probably been bestowed upon them by one of the kings, for it was said in 1275 to be ancient demesne of the Crown. King Henry II in 1177 dissolved the nunnery of Amesbury, and gave all its possessions including Fawley in 1179 to the nuns of Fontevrault in Anjou, of which house Amesbury from thenceforth became a cell. Fawley was confirmed to them by King John and subsequent kings. Edward I granted them free warren over their demesne lands here in 1286. The nuns held the manor until the Dissolution. Fawley was then granted by Henry VIII in 1546 to Richard Bridges and John Knight, together with other lands in this county, and a partition seems to have been made between them in accordance with which Knight conveyed his share of this manor to Bridges in 1547. The manor then followed the same descent as West Shefford (q.v.) until 1590, when Anthony Bridges and Barbara his wife conveyed Fawley to their son-in-law George Browne, subject to their life interest. He mortgaged the manor in 1606 to John Drury, and this mortgage was sold in the same year to Francis Moore of Little Fawley, who shortly afterwards purchased the manor. It has since passed with the manor of Little or South Fawley (q.v.).
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