10 Jul Lordship Title of Westcourt or Shalbourne Dormer ID1680
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William was holding this manor of Hugh Lasne in 1086. William Drueys was tenant about the middle of the 13th century and Stephen Drueys in 1275–6. In 1361 Robert de Bilkemore, lord of Westcourt, was holding two-thirds of a carucate of John Drueys. In 1411 John Renet died seised of this estate, consisting of a messuage and a carucate of land, which he had held jointly with his wife Maud of the gift of his mother Parnel. His son John succeeded and died while still a minor in 1413, when his heir was Isabel the wife of John Claymond. John was holding this manor in 1428, and at the same date William Browning was in possession of an estate here, formerly belonging to Sir John Lilbone, held of the barony of Ewyas. It may have been this property which as a messuage and carucate of land in Shalbourne and East and West Bedwyn was conveyed in 1433–4 by Henry Clerk and his wife Christina to Robert Collingborn and John Staplehill. In 1501 Christopher Whiting died seised of a third of a messuage and land in Shalbourne held of the manor of Wexcombe, his heir being his brother John. ¶In 1753 Mary Worgan and Elizabeth Worgan, spinsters, held two third parts of a fifth part of the manor of Shalbourne, and a fifth part was held in 1757 by Robert Worgan, clerk. Thomas Watts Oburn held a third of a fifth part in 1760. Elizabeth Worgan held a manor in Shalbourne in 1805, and sold it in 1826 to Anthony Kingston, who died in 1854, leaving it by his will to his son Thomas Kingston, whose executors sold it in 1902 to the Marquess of Ailesbury.
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