14 Mar Lordship Title of Aston ID14190
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The moiety of Aston Manor which formed the portion of Joan wife of Drew Barantyne passed to their son John, after it had been held for a term of years by trustees for a chantry of their endowment at Henton in Chinnor (co. Oxon.). John Barantyne died seised of this moiety 30 June 1474, leaving a son John, aged fourteen. No further connexion between the Barantyne family and Aston Tirrold has been found. It was probably this moiety of the manor that became the property of Sir Thomas Bryan and was by him pledged to Henry VIII for the marriage portion of his daughter. By process of reduction it would also seem that this was the 'manor' which afterwards came into the possession of Westbury College (co. Gloucester). In 1544, after the suppression of the college, this 'manor of Aston Tirrold' was granted to Sir Ralph Sadleir, kt., and his wife Ellen, but Sadleir surrendered his rights to Edward VI in 1547. About 1553 Sir Thomas Cheney, K.G., treasurer of the household, purchased it from the Crown. He bequeathed it to his kinsman John Cheney of Woodhay and to Dorothy his wife in tailmale. John Cheney died at Rochester, 1 January 1567–8, and was succeeded by his son Thomas, whose mother surrendered to him her rights. His son Thomas broke the conditions of Sir Thomas Cheney's will by alienating the manor to Thomas Barham, gent., whereupon Henry Lord Cheney, son and heir of Sir Thomas, entered upon it under the terms of the will. He died seised of it in 1587, when it reverted to Thomas Cheney, grandson of John Cheney of Woodhay, as heir at law. The rights of Barham had been purchased by Thomas Stampe, lord of Aston Danvers, who apparently obtained an assurance of title from Thomas Cheney. Thus this moiety of Aston Manor was added to the estate consolidated by the Stampe family.
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