10 Jul Lordship Title of Sunninghill ID1641
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Geoffrey de Baggesate died in 1255 seised of a serjeanty called Baggeset, pertaining to land in Sunninghill and Coworth. His heirs were his aunts Alice Tywe and Joan de Hurule and his cousin Alice de Froxle. This was probably the same serjeanty as that held towards the end of the 13th century by Hugh de Froyle, and alienated by him to Richard Batayle in or before 1272. In 1275 Batayle had withdrawn his suit at the hundred court of Cookham, which the king later recovered. Sunninghill is called a manor in 1362 when it was settled on John de Sunninghill and his wife Joan and their heirs. John gave a rent of £20 from the manor in 1374 to William de Brantingham, and sold the manor in the following year to William le Venour, his sister and heir Joan confirming the sale. John died before 1386, when the manor was confirmed to his widow for life by William de Brantingham. In 1438 Thomas Haseley alienated the manor to trustees, who in 1449 sold it to John Norreys. The latter died seised of it in 1466, and Sunninghill then descended with Yattendon (q.v.) in the Norreys family until in 1567 Henry Norreys, afterwards Lord Norreys of Rycote, sold it to Henry Lane, who with Agnes his wife conveyed it in 1583 to William Day. Matthew and William Day were dealing with the manor in 1654 with Dr. Samuel Collins, and in 1668 William Day and his son Matthew sold it to John Blagrave. Later it came to the Aldridge family. It was held by John Aldridge of Doctors' Commons and was sold by his widow Catherine Lane and his son John Aldridge in 1764 to John Pitt of Encombe in Corfe Castle, co. Dorset, from whom it was purchased by James Hartley. The latter sold it in 1787 to James Sibbald the banker, who was dealing with the manor in 1796 and built the new house. He was created a baronet in 1806 and sold the manor before 1813 to George Simson, who was ruined by the financial crisis of 1825, and Mr. Michael Forbes became the owner. He sold it to Mr. Hargreaves, of whom it was purchased by Mr. Charles Stewart. On his death in 1882 the manor was sold to Mr. Thomas Cordes, formerly of Bryn Glàs, Newport, Monmouth, whose widow is the present owner.
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