25 Jun Lordship Title of Speenhamland ID14260
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A so-called manor of SPEENHAMLAND was in 1535–6 placed in settlement by William Stafford of Bradfield and his wife Anne daughter of Sir John Langford. In 1571 Thomas, possibly the son of William Stafford, settled lands in Speenhamland in favour of his younger sons and daughters. He died on 4 April 1584 seised of the manor of Speenhamland, when in spite of the settlement the manor seems to have passed to his eldest son Read, then aged forty-two. Sir Read Stafford, who had been knighted in 1601, died on 16 June 1605 seised of the manor of Speenhamland, leaving a nephew Edward, son of his brother Edward, aged twelve, his heir. Edward Stafford was holding the manors of Stanford and Speenhamland in 1613, after which the history of the manor is obscure, but it seems possible that this manor, described as messuages, lands, view of frankpledge, &c., in Speen, was sold by the Rev. Nathaniel Wright of Englefield and Anne his wife in 1712 to John Iwells and Thomas Browne. Of the remaining two sisters of the Earls of Pembroke, the heirs of Sybil, who married William Ferrers Earl of Derby, received their share elsewhere, but the heirs of the last sister Eva, who married William de Braose, Lord of Brecon and Abergavenny, received lands and rents in this parish. These heirs were Isabel, married firstly to David son of Llewelyn Prince of Wales and afterwards to Peter son of Herbert, Maud wife of Roger Lord Mortimer of Wigmore, Eva wife of William Cauntlow, and Eleanor wife of Humphrey de Bohun. Of these the heirs of Isabel seem to have obtained their share elsewhere, but certain lands and rents in Newbury, Speenhamland and Wood Speen were divided in 1275 among the three other daughters or their representatives, Roger and Maud de Mortimer, Humphrey de Bohun and Eudo la Zouch, who had married Melisent, one daughter, and John de Hastings, son of Henry Lord Hastings, who married Joan, the other daughter of Eva and William Cauntlow. Of these shares that of John Hastings was added to his manor of Church Speen, and the Mortimer share was held by Maud as late as 1296–7. The other shares were too small to deserve further notice.
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