10 Jul Lordship Title of Sulham ID1638
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In 1211 the manor probably belonged to Aimery son of Robert de Sulham, who held four knights' fees of the honour. He seems to have been succeeded by William de Sulham, possibly his son. This William recovered certain lands in Tidmarsh against Geoffrey de John, Ralf Englefield and Juliane and Gunnora de Bendenges in 1242. His widow Sara subsequently appears to have acquired free chase in her lands in Sulham. The land afterwards passed to Hugh de St. Philibert, who inherited it from his mother Euphemia, possibly the daughter of William de Sulham; he died in 1304, leaving as his heir his son John. Hugh had in his lifetime granted the manor to Benedict de Blakenham for his life, subject to an agreement that if Benedict alienated the property or committed any waste Hugh should be allowed to re-enter. Notwithstanding this agreement it was alleged in 1305 that Benedict had sold the estate in fee to Agnes de Somery to the disherison of John de St. Philibert, then under age and in the king's custody, and an inquisition taken in the same year found that he had sold her one moiety and granted her the other for his life. Part of the manor seems to have been thereupon taken into the king's hands, but Agnes was left in possession of a moiety, for she died seised of it in 1308–9, and her son and heir John held land in the manor at the time of his death in 1322. In 1317 John de St. Philibert obtained a grant of free warren in his demesne lands in Sulham, and in 1329 he settled the manor on himself and Ada his wife and his son Thomas. He died about 1333; Ada survived him, but Thomas had apparently died before this date, for John's heir was his son John, then six years old. This John sold the manor in 1352 to Walter Haywode for 200 marks. In 1364 Walter Haywode settled the estate on himself and his wife Joan and their heirs, but in 1398 it was conveyed by him to Stephen Haym and Nicholas Carew, probably on account of the marriage between Nicholas and Haym's daughter Mercy. The estate subsequently followed the same descent as the manor of Purley Magna (q.v.) until the death of the last Nicholas Carew, when it passed to Anne the wife of Christopher Tropnell, one of his three sisters and co-heirs. Anne was succeeded by Thomas Tropnell, probably her son, who died at Sulham in 1548, leaving all his goods to his wife Eleanor for the education of their children. Apparently Giles Tropnell was the only son, and died childless in his mother's lifetime, being succeeded by his sisters, Anne, Elizabeth, Eleanor and Mary, the wives respectively of John Eyre, William Charde, Andrew Blackman and John Yonge. The various portions of the estate seem to have been subsequently bought up by John Eyre. John Eyre died before 1586, in which year his son William sold the manor to Richard Lybbe, who died seised of it in 1599, leaving as his heir his son Richard. The estate seems to have been taken into the king's hands by mistake on the death of Sir Humphrey Forster, the owner of Nunhide, but it was restored to Richard in February 1607. Richard Lybbe apparently granted his right in Sulham to his brother John, who died in 1625, leaving as his heir his son, another Richard. This Richard sold the manor in 1650 to Robert Mason, whose grandson Robert dealt with it by fine in 1697, mortgaged it in 1701 to Henry Nelson, and, with Thomas Mason, sold it in 1712 to Henry Wilder, whose descendant, the Rev. Henry Charles Wilder, is the present owner.
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