13 Nov Lordship Title of Moggerhanger ID13975
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The first tenant of this manor of whom mention has been found is Roger de Trumpington, who died seised in 1289 and was succeeded by his son Giles. Roger de Trumpington, his kinsman, died seised of the manor in 1326, and his widow Maud, who was still alive in 1346, held it for her life. She was followed by her son Roger de Trumpington, who died in 1369. His son Sir Roger died ten years later, leaving a son and heir Roger, but his widow Blanche received the issues of the manor until her death in 1383. Roger died in 1415, and was succeeded by his widow Margaret. A relief of £5 was wrongfully exacted from her, for which she obtained compensation in 1418. Margaret Trumpington died in 1453, and four years later her son Sir Walter granted the manor to Maud Enderby in trust for her life, a marriage having been arranged between his daughter Eleanor and Maud's son Richard. Richard Enderby succeeded in 1474, and after his death in 1487 his son John alienated Moggerhanger to William Gascoigne. In 1507 Sir Edmund Lucy and his wife Eleanor (widow of Richard Enderby) recovered it for their lives with remainder to William and his heirs. The manor passed from the Gascoignes to the Aleyns, John Aleyn being in possession in 1549. When John Aleyn, who succeeded his father (presumably son to the former John), died in 1629 his son Henry was a minor, and the manor had been settled on his wife Katherine. Henry Aleyn suffered a recovery of the manor in 1647, and within a few years it had been alienated to Thomas Bromsall, and later passed to the Astell and Thornton families. Robert Thornton succeeded his uncle Richard Astell (whose sister Elizabeth married Owen Thomas Bromsall of Thornhill) in 1777. He sold the manor to his brother Godfrey before 1796. Godfrey died in 1805, and was succeeded by his son Stephen, who died in 1850, The next heir in the direct descent, Colonel Godfrey Thornton, died in 1857, and was succeeded by his brother, Colonel William Thornton, who died in 1864 without issue. During the last century Moggerhanger Manor passed to the Dawkins family of Over Norton, and about 1888 to Mr. Richard Mercer, whose son Colonel Algernon Mercer sold it three years ago to Mr. Fane, the present owner being Mrs. Fane. The right of free warren was acquired by the lord of this manor in 1315; view of frankpledge was also claimed from the 13th to the 17th century.
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