09 Feb Lordship Title of Midgham ID14155
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The third division of Midgham, which was also known as the manor of MIDGHAM, was held by William Bastard in the first half of the 13th century, and from him it appears to have passed to Peter Bluet, who held it during the reign of Edward I. It was settled jointly on his wife Lucy, who survived him and held one-third of Midgham till her death in or before 1337. Their heir was their daughter Thomasia, possibly the wife of William Everard, who answered for this part of Midgham in 1316 and in 1334, presumably as joint tenant of the reversion. William Everard died about 1344, when his son and heir Sir Edmund Everard did homage for all his lands held in chief. The latter died in 1370, his heirs being his two sisters, Elizabeth the wife of Robert Loundres and Margaret the widow of Thomas Ramsbury. Robert and Elizabeth appear to have obtained the whole manor, probably by a settlement of 1380. In 1428 Thomas Loundres, the founder of the almshouses at Thatcham, held it, and the greater part probably went to endow his almshouses.
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