10 Jul Lordship Title of Southbury or Sowbery Court ID13081
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The so-called manor of SOUTHBURY, now known as SOWBERY COURT, is evidently identical with the land in Moulsford given to Eynsham Abbey by Robert Doyley the second. The gift was confirmed by his son Henry. The land was extended at 1 hide, and may, therefore, have been the 1 unlocated hide in the Domesday Survey held by Robert Doyley, predecessor of the Robert mentioned above. This hide had been held before the Conquest by Azor, steward of Edward the Confessor. He held it under Robert in 1086, and it was then said that Robert Doyley had no just claim to it. In the 13th century a dispute arose between Eynsham and Reading concerning the ferry to Moulsford Mill, which the Abbot of Reading said belonged to his manor of Cholsey. The Abbots of Eynsham alienated their land in Moulsford at a quit-rent of 4s. yearly and service at the manor of South Stoke. Nicholas de Southbury was holding it in the 13th century. It subsequently came into the possession of the Havill family. About 1366 the heirs of Philip de Havill (Haunle), and in 1530 'Hawell of Moulsford,' owed 4s. to the abbey. In 1634 Luke Havill conveyed certain tenements, including a fishery and 160 acres of arable in Moulsford, to John Higges. Possibly this was the same Luke Havill who with his wife Joan and with Luke Havill the younger was dealing with a fishery and lands in Moulsford in 1659. At the beginning of the 18th century this tenement was evidently held in moieties by Daniel Webb and his wife Elizabeth and Isaac Wane and his wife Anne. The earliest record found of the 'manor' of Southbury occurs in 1763, when Samuel Norman and Jane Wheate suffered recovery of two-thirds of a moiety. These were evidently the two-thirds of a moiety with which Robert Michaelson and his wife Millicent were dealing in 1813. They also held another fourth part of the manor.
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