07 Oct Lordship Title of Letcombe Bassett ID14295
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The other co-heirs of Thurstan Basset who were parties to an agreement concerning the advowson of Letcombe in 1258 were Richard Longespée and William le Brun. This William, who seems to have been the son of John and Alice le Brun, released his right to land here in 1247 to William Asselin, and in 1301 another William Asselin, steward of Peter de Leicester, baron of the Exchequer, obtained from Guy Beauchamp a quitclaim of his right in certain lands here, which he granted in the following year to the priory of Bicester. He further obtained licence in 1332 to grant to the priory a sixth part of the manor of 'Upletcombe' with certain lands there which were held of Giles de Wattisham, then the holder of Langton's share, and William le Brun of Norton. The Prior of Bicester leased his demesne lands here to tenants at a rent which gradually decreased from £6 13s. 4d. in 1396 to £4 in 1452. The latter sum was still paid at the time of the Dissolution and in May 1557, when 'Mystrys Russell' was the intending purchaser of the manor, which was, however, sold later in the same year to Thomas Gratwick and Anselm Lamb. Anthony More and his wife Alice and Henry Smith and his wife Elizabeth, who dealt with a manor of Letcombe Bassett in right of Alice and Elizabeth in 1553 may have been tenants of this estate, which had passed by 1586 to Richard More; he sold it in that year to Adam Blandy, whose family long held the farm still known as Blandy's.
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