06 Feb Lordship Title of King’s Manor ID14335
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The KING'S MANOR of East Hendred consisted of 10 hides, of which 5 were held in the reign of the Confessor by Alvin and the other 5 by seven freemen. At the Conquest all ten were given to the Count of Evreux, who had an estate here in 1086 worth £5. He granted it with his other lands in England to the Norman priory of Noyon, to which it remained attached till the confiscation of the n dowments of the house by Henry V. In the early 13th century William de Wenham was holding this manor of the prior. It was claimed against him unsuccessfully in 1225 by Peter de Chewehurst, who quitclaimed to the prior in 1228. It must, however, have escheated or been surrendered by William de Wenham to the priory, since it was held in demesne shortly afterwards. On the dissolution of alien priories the possessions of Noyon were granted to the Surrey monastery of Sheen. In 1415 the Prior of Sheen had a grant of a weekly market in East Hendred on Tuesday, and two fairs lasting for two days before the feasts of St. Augustine (26 May) and St. Katherine the Virgin (25 November), the feasts themselves and the day following. He received at the same time the privileges of freedom from toll, assize of bread and wine, free warren, infangenthef and outfangenthef, sac and soc, the pillory and the tumbrel. At the Dissolution the manor was once more vested in the Crown and remained so vested down to the 19th century. John Addis, who held a court here in 1641, was presumably a lessee. It was sold in 1833 to Mr. John Allin, whose family held it till 1897, when it was purchased by Mr. Hall. The present owners are the trustees of the late Mr. George Dunn. The stewardship of the manor as 'an office of honour and profit' was granted to members of parliament to enable them to vacate their seats.
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