29 Nov Lordship Title of Binfield ID14111
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Another manor of BINFIELD was held of the royal manor by the family of De la Beche. John de la Beche died in 1328 seised of a messuage and a hide of land held of the king's ancient demesne by the service of 4s. 8d. and suit to the hundred of Cookham every three weeks. From John de la Beche the manor descended in his family, and then passed, like that of La Beche in Aldworth (q.v.), through the Langfords to Reade Stafford, who sold it in or before 1597 to John Dancastle of Welhouse, who died seised of it in 1610, leaving a grandson John, aged thirteen, as his heir. He settled it by fine in 1658. His son John is apparently the John Dancastle buried in the church who died in 1680. John Dancastle, probably his grandson, the last male heir and the friend of Pope, was holding in 1716, and sold it in 1754 to William Pitt, whose nephew William Moreton Pitt sold it in 1778 to Buckworth Herne. The next owner was William Coxe, from whom it was purchased in 1787 by George Lord Kinnaird. Eight years later Claud Russell became the proprietor by purchase and was holding in 1813. It subsequently passed to Sir F. Wilder, whose widow sold it to Mr. Kinnersley. He sold the manor-house and about 60 acres of land about 1896 to Lord Arthur Hill, of whom it was purchased in 1907 by Mr. Lestocq R. Erskine, the present owner.
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