10 Jul Lordship Title of South Fawley or Little Fawley ID1617
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King Edward the Confessor held the manor of SOUTH FAWLEY, and it belonged to the king in in 1086. The overlordship remained in the Crown, the manor being held from the 13th century by the service of half a knight's fee. William de Risford or Rifford paid half a mark in 1166–7 and 1167–8 for a manor of Fawley, and in 1177 Richard Doyley owed 40 marks for having seisin of Fawley. In 1190 he was owing 20 marks for having seisin of his land at Fawley whereof John Marshal had disseised him, and seven years later the sheriff rendered account of 50s. for the farm of Fawley, which had belonged to Richard Doyley. The custody of Richard's land and heir was committed by Richard I to Arnulf or Ernald de Maulay (Malles, Mande, Magne, Manle), who had married Richard's daughter, but he forfeited all his possessions as a Norman, and Fawley was taken into the king's hands. Arnulf was restored in 1204, but again disseised in the following year. In 1217 and 1221 Fawley was again restored to him, but he must finally have lost possession of it shortly after, for in 1224 it was granted to Adam de Stawell, and in 1230 to Henry de Heliun to hold until the king should restore it to the heirs of Arnulf. Henry for some reason was dispossessed of his lands, and the king granted this manor in 1233 to William Blome. In 1236, however, Henry was restored, but in 1239 the manor was again in the king's hands. A yearly rent of £10 from it was granted to Anketil Malore in that year, and in 1240 the manor was granted to him. Anketil sold it to John Mansell, who died without heirs about 1263, when Fawley again reverted to the king. He granted it on 25 November 1265, at the instance of his son, to Robert de Whitefeld, yeoman of Thomas de Clare. In 1302 Robert sold it to John de Percy and Agnes his wife, of whom it was purchased in 1317 by Richard de Polhampton and Margaret his wife. Richard de Polhampton died in the same year, and the manor was delivered to Margaret, who held it until her death in 1331. Fawley had been settled on Richard, the eldest son of Richard and Margaret, but he predeceased his mother, and the manor passed to his brother Thomas, then aged twenty-three. Thomas de Louthe obtained from the king a grant of the wardship and marriage of Thomas de Polhampton, representing that he was not yet nineteen, but it was satisfactorily proved that he was of age. Thomas de Polhampton only enjoyed his inheritance for two years, being succeeded in 1333 by his brother Edmund. Edmund died in 1353 of wounds received in a quarrel at Enborne, and was succeeded by his eldest son Richard, who sold the manor in 1364 to Edmund Chelrey or Childrey. Edmund obtained a grant of free warren here in 1365 and died in 1372 seised of this manor, which passed to Thomas his son. Thomas was holding it in 1401–2, and he was living in 1405, when he granted some of his property to his son Thomas and the latter's wife Elizabeth. The younger Thomas Childrey died in 1407, leaving as co-heirs his daughter Elizabeth wife of John Kingston, and his granddaughter Elizabeth afterwards wife of William Darell, daughter of Joan and Thomas Calston, but in 1428 the manor was held by William Fynderne. Soon after the manor passed to Elizabeth Kingston, and she died seised of it in 1462, when, as her son Sir Thomas Kingston was already dead, her heir was his son Thomas. Thomas had three children, John, Margaret Gorffyn and Katherine Mallory. John died during the life of his father, leaving three children, John, Nicholas and Mary, and when Thomas died in 1507 his grandson John was his heir. John had livery of this manor in 1511, and in 1514 con veyed it to trustees in favour of himself and his wife Susanna, and died in the same year, when the manor passed to his brother Nicholas. Nicholas died 4 September 1515, and the manor passed to his sister Mary, wife of Sir Thomas Lisle, subject to the life interest of Susanna. Mary Lisle died at Thruxton in Hampshire in 1539, leaving no issue, and her sister-in-law Susanna died in 1540, after which Sir Thomas held the manor until his death in 1542. As Mary was the last of the issue of John Kingston the manor passed at the death of her husband to the representatives of her aunts, viz., William the son of Margaret Gorffyn, Margery the elder daughter of Katherine Mallory and wife of John Cope, and the two daughters of Katherine's younger daughter Dorothy, Katherine wife of Thomas Andrews and Margaret wife of Thomas Boughton. These co-heirs made a partition of the estates inherited from Lady Lisle in 1543, and the manor of South Fawley fell to the share of John Cope and Margery, while a certain rent from it fell to Thomas Boughton and Margaret. Early in 1543 John Cope settled a rent from the manor upon his wife Margery, and later, having been knighted, he with his son George Cope purchased the share of Thomas Boughton and sold the whole manor in 1553 to Nicholas Radishe of Binfield. He was succeeded about 1558 by his son Nicholas, who sold this manor in 1594 to Francis Moore, son of Edward Moore of East Ilsley. Francis was knighted on 17 March 1616, and was M.P. for Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, in 1588–9 and for Reading in 1597–8, 1601, 1604–11 and 1614. He obtained a grant of free warren in 1620 and died seised of the manors of North and South Fawley on 21 September 1621, when they passed to his widow Anne with reversion to his eldest son Francis. On Franci's death soon afterwards the reversion passed to his brother Henry, who was created a baronet 18 May 1627. Sir Henry died in 1634, during his mother's lifetime. His son Henry who succeeded obtained in 1687 a grant of two fairs at North Fawley, one on 1 November and the other on 23 April, each to last for three days. He seems to have died soon afterwards, his will being proved in 1690. His eldest son Francis having died during his lifetime, Sir Henry Moore was succeeded by his grandson Sir Richard Francis Moore, who was holding these manors in 1707 and died in 1737. His son Sir Richard Moore died unmarried in 1738, when he was followed by his brother Sir John, who sold the manors in 1765 to Arthur Vansittart of Shottesbrook. He had purchased them on behalf of his brother Henry, to whom he conveyed them in the same year. Henry Vansittart, by his will dated 1769 and proved 1772, bequeathed these manors to trustees to dispose of them for the use of his wife and children. The trustees conveyed them in 1777 to George Vansittart, who seems to have been a brother of the deceased, and he with Emelia, Henry's widow, mortgaged the manors 5 April 1779 to Bartholomew Tipping of Woolley Park in the parish of Chaddleworth. In 1787 George finally sold the manors to Bartholomew. They have since formed part of the Woolley estate (q.v.), and are now held by Mr. Philip Musgrave Neeld Wroughton.
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