30 Oct Lordship Title of Farndish ID13827
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A family of de la Huse appear to have been tenants of this manor from the early part of the 13th century. The first member of whom mention has been found is Thomas de la Huse, who at the time of the Testa held half a knight's fee here and in Hinwick. By 1278 he had been succeeded by Geoffrey de la Huse, who held 3 hides of land in Farndish at that date. He was still holding in 1287–8, between which date and 1302 the estate passed to Henry de Tichmarsh, who then held in Farndish by knight's service. Two years later Henry de Tichmarsh and Isabel his wife settled Farndish on themselves for their lives with remainder to John de Pabenham and Elizabeth his wife. Henry de Tichmarsh held 'half the vill' of Farndish as late as 1316, but the manor subsequently passed to the Pabenhams, and followed the same descent as Pavenham Manor (q.v.), passing from the Pabenham family to that of Tyringham. After the death of Sir Thomas Tyringham in 1637–8 Farndish appears to have been alienated, and in 1653 was the property of Thomas Dudley and Elizabeth his wife, who in that year conveyed it to Samuel Collins. By 1703–4 this manor had become divided into moieties, half of it being the property of Edward and Anne Halford, William and Anne Hayter and Benjamin and Margaret Poole, who in 1703–4 and again in 1719 conveyed this portion to trustees. After this date no further mention of this moiety has been found, unless it is to be identified with the land which Robert Alderman, Henry Hensman (in right of Martha his wife) and John Clarke held in Farndish at the inclosure of the parish in 1800. The Clarkes retained property in the parish until c. 1888, when the representative of the family, Miss Clarke, sold their land in Farndish, then consisting of a small farm with farmhouse attached, to Mr. Watts, by whose trustees it has been recently sold. The other moiety was in 1706 the property of Thomas Maidwell of Gretton in Northants. He was succeeded in 1720 by his son Cutts Maidwell. Lysons, writing at the beginning of the 19th century, says it passed some time during the 18th century from the Maidwells to the Lockwoods by marriage. They assumed the name of Maidwell, and William Lockwood Maidwell is described as a landowner here in 1800; but all subsequent trace of the manor has disappeared.
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