26 Mar Lordship Title of Slade End ID14195
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The history of SLADE END (Sladend, xviii cent.) is traceable in part from 1354, when a carucate was held of the Bishop of Winchester as of his manor of Brightwell by John Stonor, being a portion of the manor afterwards called Sotwell Stonor in Sotwell (q.v.), and the connexion lasted when the Sotwell manors passed to Sir Adrian Fortescue. Hence this portion is sometimes described as in Sotwell, and in the 17th and 18th centuries it appears to be often distinguished as Bishops Sotwell or Sotwell Bishop. The tenement on the site now occupied by Slade End House was held formerly by the Ford family. It is presumably the messuage with 40 acres held for a term of years by Richard Ford in 1515, at the same time that John Ford obtained from Fortescue a lease of the portion in Sotwell (q.v.). Ralph Ford of Slade End died in 1633. John Ford was living there about 1655. He died in 1669, and another John Ford in 1702, when his son of the same name was admitted as tenant, the estate being considerably augmented when a fourth John Ford succeeded his father in 1734, but much of it was alienated and all was heavily mortgaged before his death in 1773, and his son James Ford quitclaimed the last rights in 1783 to Mr. Edward Wells of Wallingford, who acquired other properties also in Slade End and conveyed them to his son Edward Wells in 1796. John Wells, second son of the latter, was living here in 1797, the estate having been bestowed on him, and at his death shortly afterwards it descended to his son Edward, who eventually purchased from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners the manorial rights which have since passed with it. After the death of Mr. Edward Wells in 1875 the estate was purchased by Mr. Edward Fairthorne of Brightwell, who left it by will to his brother's daughter Charlotte Elizabeth Jane, afterwards wife of the Rev. John William Abraham Slatter Betteridge, to whom it passed at her death in 1911.
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