30 Oct Lordship Title of Farndish ID13829
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Two sokemen held this land of Henry at the time of the Domesday Survey, and by 1194 it had passed to William Hatecrist, who at this date paid 12s. 6d. to the sheriff for 1 hide in Farndish. Between 1204 and 1207 William Hatecrist was engaged in litigation with Adam son of Mary, who claimed this land as having been held by Reginald his father and Mary his mother in the reign of Henry II. William Hatecrist appears to have established his claim, for an early entry in the Testa declared him to hold by serjeanty in Farndish. This land next passed to Ralph Basset, who held here by knight service previous to 1284–6. The Basset family continued to hold for the next sixty years, though documentary evidence is scanty, and it has not been found possible to find to what branch of this family they belonged. In 1344 William Botevilein and Juliana his wife received pardon for acquiring four messuages and 2 virgates of land from Robert Basset without licence, and this land henceforward follows the same descent as Boltvileyns Manor in Hinwick (q.v.), but no mention of it has been found later than 1555.
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