10 Jul Lordship Title of Sanderville or South Moreton or Moreton Saunderville ID1596
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Of the half fee held by the family of Sanderville it may be presumed that Robert de Sanderville was the owner in 1199, when he challenged an adversary to single combat before the king's court in Berkshire. Manasser de Sanderville held it before 1243, and Philip followed. In 1266 it was probably held by Niel de Sanderville and Margery his wife. Niel died in 1295 and was succeeded by his son Thomas, who was lord of the manor in 1316 and died in 1332. The estate passed to his son Thomas, who died in 1339, and was succeeded by Thomas his son, who held courts from 1340 to 1346. The next year Edward de Sanderville appears to have been living here. Margaret Sanderville, probably the widow of Thomas, held her court in 1350, and from 1378 to 1391. She appears to have married Roger Jolyf, for his widow Margaret held the manor at the death of the overlord, Sir Thomas Clifford, in 1391. In 1401 John Brauncestre held a messuage and a carucate here by service of half a knight's fee. Shortly afterwards Thomas Rothwell, who already had the fee of Huses, held the two parts of a knight's fee which had belonged to Thomas de Sanderville. In 1446 he settled the manor on himself and his wife Isabel. She after his death married John Lawley and died in 1477, and it passed to Robert Lenham, great-grandson of Margaret the sister of Thomas Rothwell. Robert Lenham died in 1491, Margaret his wife in 1498, and during the minority of their son Henry the king leased the custody of the 'manor of Moreton Saundervile.' Henry Lenham died in 1517 and it passed to William Lenham. He died before 1522, his heiress being his sister Margaret Warren, who sold the manor in 1522 to Sir Thomas Englefield, who was brother of Joan widow of Henry Lenham. Sir Thomas Englefield, dying in 1537, was succeeded by his son Francis. Sir Francis Englefield held his courts here from 1552 to 1556, and about this time he acquired the second manor, known as 'Braye' (q.v.), which after his attainder in 1586 was granted separately. The manor of Sanderville was leased in 1607 by the Crown to Edmund Cooke and Edmund Sawyer for forty years. In 1612 Sanderville and Bray were again one manor; in 1626 they were granted to Edward Allen and others, and in 1628 to Edward Ditchfield and others, being conveyed in 1675 by Thomas Curtis and Anne his wife and Richard Skinner and Mary his wife to Richard Holloway and Moses Slade. In 1686 Robert Curtis and Anne his wife conveyed it to John Birt John Savery and his wife Mary and John Corderoy sold the site in 1689 to Thomas Guise, and in 1690 James Leaver acquired the manor from Peter Nicholls, John Birt and Alice his wife and William Hore. In 1752 the manor of Bray passed by the marriage of Mary Leaver to John Sadgrove, who also acquired Sanderville. Both passed to his son John, his grandson James and his great-grandson Arthur Augustus Sadgrove, from whom they were acquired in 1885 by Mr. John Kirby Hedges of Wallingford Castle, whose daughters and co-heirs are the present owners.
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