01 Oct Lordship Title of Denford ID14293
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The manor seems to have been granted by one of the Lovels early in the 15th century to William Coventre, who is described as late of Denford in 1428. He had purchased the manor of Avington (q.v.) in 1405, and Denford descended with it until 1640, when it was sold by Francis Choke to Alexander Browne. He and Elizabeth his wife conveyed this manor on 18 December 1650 to Anne James of St. Margaret's, in the City of London, widow of Walter James, serjeant of the bake-house to James I and Charles I. She settled this manor on her eldest son William on his marriage with Sarah daughter of John Southby of Carswell in 1652, and William was holding the manor in 1665, but died on 24 June 1666, leaving an only son Boulton. Boulton James and Sarah his mother placed this manor in settlement on 30 May 1684, on the occasion of a marriage between Boulton and Frances daughter of Adam Head of Peasemore, and by his will, dated 1 December 1692, he bequeathed it to his eldest son William, with successive remainders to his younger sons John and Walter; he died in 1693. His son William James, who inherited the manor, died unmarried and intestate in 1745, and the manor passed under his father's will to his brother John. John James and Alice his wife cut off the entail in 1760, and by his will, proved by his widow in 1769, John bequeathed this manor to trustees for his wife Alice for life, with successive remainders to William son of Sir Thomas Head, and to any other son of Sir Thomas Head, on condition that they resided at Denford. William Head, then an infant, assumed by Act of Parliament in 1772 the name and arms of James, but died unmarried in 1777. He was succeeded by his younger brother Walter James Head, who also assumed the name and arms of James. He was created a baronet on 28 July 1791, and he and his wife mortgaged the manor in 1808 to John Thomas Wasey of Newbury, and sold it in 1810 to William Hallett of Townhill in South Stoneham, Hampshire.
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