10 Jul Lordship Title of Sindlesham or Sinesham ID1612
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Another part of the liberty became the manor of SINDLESHAM (Scindlesham, xiii cent.; Syndlesham, xiv cent.; Sinsam, xvii cent.), which was held of the Bishop of Salisbury in the 13th century by Robert de Sindlesham. He enfeoffed another Robert de Sindlesham, who was holding Sindlesham in 1284. In 1320 Robert de Sindlesham received a quitclaim of the manor for life from Margaret de Lenham (possibly Margaret granddaughter and heir of Robert de Sindlesham, sen.), with reversion to her sons Richard and Thomas and the heirs of Richard. Richard was succeeded by his son John, who on his death left a son Robert under age. Although the records of this manor are scanty, it is evident that it remained in the Lenham family, for in 1491 Robert Lenham died seised of it, leaving a son Henry, who was still a minor at his mother's death in 1498. In 1523 the reversion was settled by Joan Lenham, widow, on Sir Thomas Englefield, who died seised of the manor of Sindlesham and of property called Sandfords in Sindlesham and Hurst in 1538. Sir Francis Englefield, son of Thomas, the recusant, was attained for high treason in 1585 and forfeited his estates. The manor remained in the Crown until 1609, when it was granted to Salter and Williams, who conveyed it to Samuel Backhouse, Sheriff and alderman of London. It was settled on his son John Backhouse on John's marriage with Flower daughter of Thomas Henshaw of London. This John, who succeeded his father in 1626, was made Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Charles I. He suffered severely for his support of the royal cause in the Civil War. At his death in 1649 the manor passed to his brother William, whose daughter Flower married (secondly) William Backhouse, created a baronet in 1660, and by her third marriage with Henry Hyde Viscount Cornbury, eldest son of the Earl of Clarendon, it passed to that family. Henry succeeded to the earldom in 1674 and in 1675 he and his wife sold the manor to Sir William Jones, the king's attorney-general. In 1723 Richard Jones with William his son and heir suffered a recovery of the manor. From this family it passed to the Spencers towards the end of the century, and was purchased about 1800 of Earl Spencer by the Right Hon. Edward Golding of Maiden Earley, M.P. for Downton (Wilts.), Lord of the Treasury during the administration of Lord Sidmouth. He amassed great wealth in the East Indies, and spent his large fortune in purchasing his estate at Maiden Earley and other property in the county. He died in his seventy-second year in 1818 at Lord Sidmouth's house in London and was succeeded by his son Edward Golding, J.P., D.L., who died in 1844. His son the Rev. Edward Golding, vicar of Brimpton, succeeded and died in 1857, when the lordship of the manor descended to his son Captain William Golding, who in 1878 sold it to Mr. John Hargreaves together with the Maiden Earley property, which in 1903 was sold to Mr. Solomon B. Joel.
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