06 Nov Lordship Title of Clapham with Members or Clapham Bayeux or Clapham with Oakley or Vauxes ID13892
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The first tenant of whom mention has been found is Simon son of Richard de Bayeux. He was a minor in the year 1276, and his overlord, the Countess of Albemarle, is found that year recovering his wardship from William de Bayeux. The same year William de Bayeux quitclaimed his right in the manor to Simon. The manor two years later comprised some 4 hides and half a virgate of land with 50 acres of wood and rights of common fishery from Oakley Church to Oliver's Ditch. In 1306 Simon de Bayeux settled the reversion of the manor on Alexander de Stoppesley and Matilda his wife, the latter being probably Simon's daughter. Simon was still holding in 1316, but by 1346 Alexander de Stoppesley had succeeded him. The Stoppesley family continued to hold the manor until 1413–14, when one Alexander de Stoppesley quitclaimed it to Sir Gerard Braybrook and others. This may have been preliminary to an alienation to Sir William Thirning, as in 1428 Lady Thirning was seised of this manor. Lord Vaux of Harrowden succeeded to Sir William Thirning's Northamptonshire property, and though no record can be found of the transference of this Clapham manor, yet such transference must have taken place about the same time, as in 1464 it is included in the forfeited lands of the attainted Lord Vaux which were granted by the king in that year to Ralph Hastings, an esquire of the body. The attainder was reversed by Henry VIII, and Nicholas Lord Vaux, son of William, died seised of the manor in 1523. His grandson William Vaux made a division of the property, separating the Oakley lands from the manor. Both portions of the estate had manorial rights attached and both were termed 'manors.' The Clapham portion he sold to Thomas Rowe in 1564 for £300. The latter, however, was obliged to take proceedings in the Chancery court before Lord Vaux would deliver up the deeds of sale. The further descent of this property is the same as that of the manor of Clapham Grcenacres (q.v.).
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