05 Jun Lordship Title of Shalford ID14236
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The manor later known as SHALFORD (Scealdanford, x cent.; Scaldeford, xiii cent.; Shaldeford, xiv cent.; Shalforde, xvi cent.) was held in 1086 by Robert the son of Girold as 3½ hides in Brimpton. It had been held in alod of King Edward by Brictric. Robert's estates seem to have passed at his death through his brother Gerald to the latter's son Roger and then to his son William de Roumare. William died before 1168, and as his son William had predeceased him in 1151 he was succeeded by his grandson William de Roumare, Earl of Lincoln, who died without issue before 1198. It seems to have been a tenant of this William, by name Simon de Ovile, who granted this manor, which was still assessed at 3½ hides, to the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem. We have a reference to the Hospitallers as holding land here in 1251 and again in 1275–6, when they are described as of Shalford. In 1302 the king appears to have been the guest of the Knights here, for Letters Patent were dated from Shalford 29 November, and the Hospitallers continued to hold this manor till their dissolution in 1540, when Shalford passed to the Crown. In 1544 the king exchanged this manor for the manor of Dalehall in Lawford, Essex, with William Wollascott, who settled it in 1587 on the marriage of his son to Anne daughter of Edward and Mary Martin. William died in 1618 seised of the manor of Shalford and the advowson of Brimpton and was succeeded by his son William, who had purchased the manor of Brimpton (q.v.) in 1595. The subsequent history of the two manors is the same. It is stated in the Domesday Survey that there were two mills belonging to this manor, worth 26s. 3d. yearly. In 1336 one of these was held by John de Brumpton of the master of the hospital of St. John of Jerusalem. The other seems to have disappeared before 1654, when William Wollascott had only two mills with the two manors. In 1717 only one mill is mentioned, and none exists there at the present day.
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