30 Nov Lordship Title of Staverton’s ID14120
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A so-called manor in Warfield is mentioned in the 18th century called STAVERTON'S MANOR, but, although the Staverton family held land in the parish for many years, it seems to have been a copyhold estate belonging to Warfield Manor. A James Staverton was living in Warfield before 1479, but in the pedigree, made in 1623, of the Stavertons, whose main property was in the parish of Bray, the first member of the family who was called 'of Warfield' was Richard Staverton, who lived in the early part of the 16th century. He was succeeded by his son Richard, one of Queen Elizabeth's pensioners, who was killed in 1577 by a white fallow deer that he kept in his garden. A third Richard Staverton inherited his father's estate and was buried in 1617 at Warfield, as was his successor Edward Staverton, who died in 1639, 'The last heire male of all his ancient race, whose brother's daughter now succeeds his place.' The 'brother's daughter' was Elizabeth daughter of his brother Richard, who had predeceased him. She married Henry Neville, brother of the then lord of Warfield Manor. Henry Neville petitioned the king for leave to cut down certain trees on his estate within the forest of Windsor, since the house, which had come to him by his marriage with Elizabeth Staverton, needed rebuilding and there was a heavy fine to pay on succeeding to a copyhold estate. Neville sided with the Parliamentary party during the Civil War. He wrote several pamphlets in support of republican government, but his best known work, Plato Redivivus, or a Dialogue concerning Government, was not published until 1681. He died in 1692, and his wife having died before him, the Staverton estate passed to his nephew and heir Richard Neville, so that Staverton's Manor afterwords passed with the main manor of Warfield.
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