07 Oct Lordship Title of Oxenwood ID14298
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Land in OXENWOOD (Oxenwude, xiii cent.) was granted in 1235–6 by William son of Eustace to the hospital of St. Nicholas at Salisbury, and a little later land here was sold by William to Richard de Havering. The king granted to his serjeant Henry de Candevre in 1265 the wardship of the lands and heirs of William le Venur of Oxenwood. In 1274–5 Walter Pipard held a virgate of land in Oxenwood by serjeanty of keeping the royal woods of Hippinscombe and paying 20s. yearly at Marlborough Castle. Hubert Pipard died seised of this land in 1332, when his son Peter succeeded, and Hugh Pipard died seised of a third of this estate in 1393. His widow Joan had a life interest in it, and it passed at her death to John Whaas, the son of Hugh's sister Avice. Other land here was held by the Danvers family, but the manor of Oxenwood, which was a member of Tidcombe (co. Wilts.), is mentioned for the first time in 1586, when it belonged to Edward Earl of Hertford. It then descended with Eastcourt until the death of John Duke of Somerset in 1675. Instead of passing to Elizabeth Bruce, Oxenwood appears to have descended with the title of Duke of Somerset to John's cousin and heir male Francis Seymour. It passed with the duchy of Somerset to the seventh duke, Algernon, whose only daughter Lady Elizabeth married Sir Hugh Smithson, afterwards Earl of Northumberland. They conveyed this manor in 1756 to Henry and Richard Hoare, from whom it seems to have passed to John Calvert of Albury Hall, Hertfordshire. He sold the manor of Oxen wood in 1761 to Katherine Coppinger, widow. It passed to her son Fysh Coppinger, who assumed the name de Burgh, and in 1790 it was purchased of him by John Butcher. The later history of this manor has not been traced.
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