09 Feb Lordship Title of Midgham ID14154
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The history of the second manor of MIDGHAM probably begins with the conveyance in 1234 of 1 carucate of land by John de Macy and his wife Avelina to Henry de Scaccario. Ralph de Scaccario, the son of Henry, inherited it not long afterwards. His property passed at his death to his daughters and heirs, Agnes the wife of Ralph Chenduit and Katherine, who afterwards married William Hawtrey. In 1286 a settlement was made on Katherine and William and the heirs of their bodies, but the estate finally came into the possession of Ralph Chenduit, the son and heir of Agnes. He was holding in 1316, but died before 1335. His heir was probably his grandson William Chenduit, who was then a minor in the wardship of William Englefield. William was of age before 1340, since in that year Thomas Sibthorpe conveyed to the Knights Hospitallers certain tenements in Midgham which he had acquired from William. The remaining Chenduit property, however, seems to have come into the possession of Geoffrey Weston, who in 1350 settled a moiety of the manor of Midgham on himself and his wife Alice in fee-tail. In 1428 John Popham held the Chenduit property, but before 1437 the manor passed, presumably by sale, to John Stokes and his wife Alice. They had no children, and a settlement was made in 1465 by which they held the manor for their lives, with remainder to their trustees. Alice survived her husband, and held the manor till her death in 1478–9, when it passed to William Staveley, one of the trustees mentioned in the settlement. Staveley settled it on himself and his wife Alice for life, and bequeathed it after her death to their sons William and John in tail, with a contingent remainder to their daughters Mary and Isabel. He died in 1498, and his widow, who married Humphrey Conyngsby, held it till her death two years later. Her two sons had predeceased her, and Midgham was divided between her daughters. Mary married Thomas Giffard of Twyford and Isabel one of the Tanfields of Gayton, Northants, who is named in different documents Francis, John and William. Isabel married secondly Richard Humphreys, and held her moiety of the manor till her death in 1544, when her son Francis inherited it. He was succeeded after 1552 by his son Clement, who sold the reversion of the moiety to Richard Goddard in 1571. Mary Giffard held her moiety till after 1552, when she was a widow, and was one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit already referred to in Erley's Manor. Apparently Clement Tanfield inherited her moiety as well as his grandmother's since he died seised of the whole manor in 1585. Richard Goddard seems to have obtained the reversion of the whole manor before this date, and it passed either to him or to John Goddard, who settled it on his son George. George succeeded on his father's death in 1589 and was living in the summer of 1621, but seems to have predeceased his son and heir George, who died in the following December. The elder George also left a daughter Benet the wife of Edward Gilmore of Brimpton. In 1681 the manor had passed to Robert Gilmore, who seems to have sold it to Thomas Gunter.
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