31 Oct Lordship Title of Grandisons ID14312
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Katharine de Todenham died in possession of her part in 1383, leaving a son and heir Sir John. This and other shares seem to have been bought up by the family of Cleet, who had held land here since the reign of Edward II. In 1415 Richard Abberbury and Alice his wife, daughter and heir of John Cleet, granted 53s. 5d. rent from thirty messuages in Chipping Lambourn to John Sybford for life. In 1428 William Danvers, son of Alice by her first husband Edmund Danvers, conveyed the Cleets' estate in Chipping Lambourn, Uplambourn and Bockhampton to John Barnard and Margaret his wife. John Barnard appears as a tenant in the manor of Grandisons in the same year. Ten years later he joined with Ralph Grey and Elizabeth his wife in conveying his lands here to John Roger of Benham, who acquired in 1440 seven messuages, two tofts and 44 acres from Robert Huchyns and Margaret his wife. John Roger's estate, which was called Rogers Manor in 1489, was brought into the Essex family by the marriage of his great-granddaughter Elizabeth to William Essex.
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