10 Jul Lordship Title of Tingrith ID1302
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A second TINGRITH MANOR was also attached to the barony of Cainhoe, and was so held by the Pinkneys before the 13th century. When the manor passed from the Pinkneys by marriage (see below) they retained an intermediary lordship, and Tingrith is subsequently described as held of them and they as holding of the barony of Cainhoe. Tingrith was attached to Datchet Manor (co. Bucks.), of which Henry de Pinkney died seised in 1256. Datchet passed later to the Moleyns, and Tingrith is declared to be held of Lord Moleyns as of the manor of Datchet in 1508, 1562 and 1614. The history of the overlordship, drawn from documents as quoted above, confirms the statement made by Baker that Tingrith Manor originally belonged to the Pinkneys, and was granted by Robert de Pinkney c. 1231 to Walter son of Simon on the occasion of the latter's marriage to his daughter Isabella de Pinkney. Walter son of Simon, called de Daventry from his principal seat, held by knight service in Tingrith about this date, and was succeeded before 1255 by his son Robert son of Walter. He obtained a grant of free warren in his manor in 1272 and was holding as late as 1301–2, about which time he died, for his son Walter son of Robert was returned in the feudal assessment of 1302–3. He died in 1328, leaving a son Thomas, who held here in 1346. He died c. 1361, leaving a son Thomas and two daughters Joan and Matilda. Thomas died before 1387, and his two sisters became his co-heirs, the manor being divided into moieties, of which that of Joan will be treated later. Matilda married Thomas Curtis, and in 1387 recognized the right of Joan to a moiety of Tingrith Manor, charged with 10 marks yearly rent to herself and her heirs. In 1409–10 Alice wife of Edward Courtney is mentioned as having a life interest in the manor, but it has not been found possible to ascertain her relationship to Matilda and Thomas Curtis, nor has it been possible to trace the descent of the manor during the remainder of the century. It reappears in 1489 as the property of John Broughton, whose son Sir Robert Broughton, kt., died seised in 1508. He also held Toddington Manor (q.v.), with which its history is identical for some time. Like that manor it passed to Sir Thomas Cheney in 1540 on his marriage with Anne Broughton, sister and co-heir of John Broughton. It remained with the Cheneys, whose family later acquired the earldom of Cleveland, until the latter half of the 17th century, when they appear to have alienated Tingrith Manor to the Chernocks of Holcot. In 1708–9 Sir Pynsent Chernock, bart., who had involved himself in great expense in contesting county elections with the Russell family, made a settlement of this manor preparatory to a sale to David Willaume. From him it passed to his eldest son Edward Willaume, whose second son Charles Dymock Willaume held the manor in 1801. Between this date and 1820 it was sold by his brother John to Robert Trevor, who died in 1834, leaving his property to be divided among his three daughters, Mary, who died unmarried in 1883, Elizabeth, who died in 1866, and Catherine in 1871. By the will of Mary her moiety of the manor passed to her kinsman William Wilberforce Battye, and in 1891, in compliance with a further clause of the will, the remaining moiety was purchased, and thus included in one ownership. Mr. Battye's widow assumed the name of Trevor in addition to that of Battye by royal licence in 1890, and their son Captain C. E. Trevor-Battye is the present lord of the manor.
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