05 Aug Lordship Title of Chaddleworth ID14269
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The other manor of Chaddleworth, which was assessed at 4 hides, had been held of King Edward the Confessor by Edward, but at the time of the Survey it was in the hands of Robert Doyley. It was held in the reign of Henry I by Ralph Basset, Chief Justice of England, and he granted it to the abbey of Abingdon with the consent of all his sons. These lands were confirmed to the abbey by Pope Eugenius III in 1146. Ralph was succeeded by his son Thurstan, whose son Richard endeavoured to recover the lands in 1158. The abbey appealed to the king, and Richard was compelled to confirm the monks in their possession of the manor, reserving only the right of obtaining wood from it for his manor at Letcombe Bassett. The abbey continued to receive a rent from this manor until the Dissolution, but the manor itself was held of them as early as 1182 by Robert de Chaddleworth. In 1218–19 Henry de Bagnor and his wife sold land in Chaddleworth to Emma de Rokele and others, and in 1236 to Alan de Farnham, who had in 1224–5 sold an estate here to Richard and Robert de Chaddleworth. In 1229–30 Robert de Chaddleworth and others conveyed lands here to Richard, but in 1230 Robert was still holding property at Chaddleworth of both the abbeys of Abingdon and Lieu Dieu. He is referred to in 1275–6, but was dead before 1281, when Thomas de la Penne held the lands as one manor in right of Mabel his wife, who may perhaps have been Robert's daughter, and sold them with her consent to Queen Eleanor, widow of King Henry III. The queen, wishing to support the state of Eleanor of Britanny, then a nun at Amesbury, asked for permission in 1284 to grant this manor to the prioress and nuns there. The inquisition then held states that part of the manor was held of the Abbot of Netley, who held of the honour of St. Valery, while the remainder was held of the abbey of Abingdon. The Earl of Cornwall, presumably as lord of the honour of St. Valery, held view of frankpledge there once a year. Licence to alienate the manor was granted in 1284, and in 1286 the prioress and nuns obtained a grant of free warren. The Prioress of Amesbury purchased more lands there in 1311–12 from Reynold le Frankeleyn, and was holding the manor in 1316, and again in 1344 acquired more land from Geoffrey Wauncy. In 1517 the nuns and their tenants had converted land here into sheep runs. At the Dissolution Chaddleworth passed to the Crown. In 1542 the king granted the manor to William Sharyngton, groom of the privy chamber, who had licence in June 1544 to sell it to Henry Brouncker and John Pert. Henry Brouncker was holding the manor in 1568, when the capital messuage was held of him by William Hyde, and died at Erlestoke, co. Wilts., 18 July 1569, when he was succeeded by his son William. In 1577 William Brouncker sold the manor to William Nelson, chief prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas. William died 13 August 1590 seised of this manor, which passed under a settlement of the previous month to his widow Dorothy. She afterwards married William Rankyn, and in 1597 granted her interest in the manor with his consent to Thomas son and heir of William Nelson, who had attained his full age a few months earlier and had livery of the manor. Thomas died in 1647, when he was succeeded by his son William, who placed the manor in settlement in 1656. He was twice married, and died before 1682, when his eldest son Thomas Nelson was dealing with the manor. Thomas died 27 May 1692, leaving a son Thomas, who was holding the manor in 1704 and 1740, and died 6 April 1748, leaving a widow Isabel and two daughters Mary and Elizabeth, who were living unmarried in 1759. Mary subsequently married Richard Walter, and their son Richard Walter, who assumed the additional name of Nelson, was holding the manor in 1806. He seems to have died without issue, when the manor passed to his nephew George Kerr, the son of his sister. George Kerr took the name of Nelson, built the present Chaddleworth House between 1809 and 1811, and died in 1821, leaving two sons, both under age. The elder of these seems to have died soon afterwards, for it was the younger, George Kerr Nelson, who sold the manor in 1837 to Bartholomew Wroughton of Woolley Park, since which date the manor of Chaddleworth has passed with that of Woolley (q.v.).
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