26 Oct Lordship Title of Brayes or Bromham ID13814
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A part of the Beauchamp fee, later known as BRAYES or BROMHAM MANOR, passed to Maud Beauchamp, married firstly to Roger de Moubray, and secondly to Sir Roger Lestrange, who in 1311–12 died seised of tenements in Bromham in right of his wife. Her heir was her grandson John Moubray, who in 1316 made a settlement on his father-in-law William de Braose for life. From this point till its acquisition by Sir Reginald Bray in 1488 Bromham Manor follows the same descent as Stotfold Brayes (q.v.). The Brays held Bromham until 1565, when Edmund, grandson of Sir Reginald Bray, sold the property to Sir Lewis Dyve, who at this time possessed Wakes and Bowels Manors, besides a second manor called Bromham in this parish. In 1592 Sir Lewis Dyve died seised of the four manors of Bromham, Wakes, Brayes and Bowels, and was succeeded by his eldest surviving son John, Sheriff of Bedfordshire, who was knighted on the occasion of the visit of James I to Salden House in 1603. Sir John died in 1607, when his widow Beatrice married Sir John Digby, afterwards Earl of Bristol, who in a terrier of 1610 is called lord of the manor of Bromham in right of his wife. The manor was settled on her for her life (she died in 1658), but her son Sir Lewis Dyve, knighted in 1620, appears to have made it his residence. He was a renowned Royalist, and Charles I is said to have stayed the night at Bromham House. He was made governor of Sherborne Castle in Dorset and commander in chief of that county. After the capture of Sherborne by the Parliamentarians in 1645 the estates of Sir Lewis Dyve were sequestered, he himself was brought to the bar of the House of Commons, where he refused to kneel till compelled, and committed to the Tower for high treason, whence he managed to escape, making 'a cleanly conveyance away from thence, though through a common shore, and so beyond sea, where he continued with his majesty during his banishment.' He died in 1669, leaving a son Francis, who died in 1685 without male issue, when the Bromham estate devolved on his brother Lewis, who in 1708 sold the property for £21,394 2s. 6d. to Sir Thomas Trevor. The latter was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas on the accession of Anne, and in 1712 was granted the title of Baron Trevor of Bromham. He died in 1730, and was succeeded by his eldest son Thomas second Lord Trevor, who died without issue in 1753–4, when his brother John succeeded to the title and estate. On his death in 1764 without male issue Bromham passed to his half-brother Robert, who, in compliance with the will of John Hampden (his great-grandfather on the maternal side), assumed the name and arms of Hampden, and who in 1776 was created Viscount Hampden. He died in 1783, and was succeeded by an elder son Thomas Trevor Hampden, who died childless in 1824, when his brother John Trevor, third Viscount Hampden, was his heir. He died in the same year, and Bromham passed by will to his kinsman the Hon. George Rice Rice (only son and heir of George third Baron Dynevor). He succeeded to his father's title in 1852, when in accordance with the terms of the above will this estate passed to his daughter Miss Rice Trevor, and at her death to her great-nephew Trevor Wingfield, now lord of the manor.
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