10 Jul Lordship Title of Woolhampton ID1693
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The manor of Woolhampton was granted to the Prior and brethren of the hospital of St. John of Jerusalem before 1159 by Robert Ferrers, second Earl of Derby, whose gift was confirmed by King John in his charter of 1199. The Hospitallers are described about the same time as holding a moiety of Woolhampton of the gift of Geoffrey de Hostreville. Possibly the latter was co-tenant of the Ferrers fee with the predecessor of Henry de Chequers (see below). In 1227 the prior of the Hospitallers, Robert de Diva, agreed that the moiety of Woolhampton held by Henry de Chequers should do suit of court at the hundred of Reading, in return for which the abbot, Adam of Lathbury, quitclaimed to the prior all his right to suit and service from the other half together with his right to fines and the goods of fugitives. The Knights Hospitallers remained in possession of the manor of Woolhampton until the Dissolution. In 1544 Henry VIII granted the lands of the hospital in Shalford and elsewhere to William Wollascott, who afterwards obtained from Queen Elizabeth licence to alienate them to Thomas Farmer and Edmund Plowden. This alienation, however, appears to have been made only for the purpose of a settlement, as William Wollascott the younger was in possession of both Shalford and Woolhampton in 1613, and the manors followed the descent of the manor of Brimpton until 1906, when Woolhampton was bought from Mr. James Blyth, then lord of the manor, by a syndicate. The property is now being developed for building purposes.
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