01 Oct Lordship Title of Templeton ID14287
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Roger de Beaumont, Count of Meulan (Roger son of Humphrey), granted 3 hides at Inglewood in this parish to the Knights Templars. This land, afterwards known as the manor of TEMPLETON or Templeyngeflod, formed part of the honour of Leicester and reverted on the dissolution of the order in 1311 to the overlord, though Robert Hungerford and his wife Geva were holding it for life in 1327. These lands were subsequently granted to the Knights Hospitallers, who continued to hold them until the Dissolution, when they passed to the king. The manor was granted in 1543 to Richard Bridges of West Shefford and John Knight of Newbury. Bridges and Knight, who had purchased other lands at the same time, seem to have divided them, and this manor fell to the share of Knight, who in 1546 mortgaged it for £100 to Sir William Essex. Sir William Essex died at Fulham on 13 August 1548, having bequeathed his interest in the manor to his son George; but John Knight seems to have redeemed it, for he died seised of it on 13 January 1550, leaving a son Richard, who succeeded to this estate. Richard Knight died in 1591, leaving the manor to his wife Constance until his son John should attain his majority. Constance seems soon to have been married again to George More, and they, with the consent of John Knight, conveyed the estate in 1596 to Lawrence Stoughton. Before 1610 the manor had passed into the hands of Joan the wife of William Gregory and Margaret the wife of Nicholas Jordan, for in that year Nicholas purchased the share of William and Joan. In 1611 Nicholas and Margaret Jordan sold the estate to George Smithes, who at the same time purchased from Anthony Bridges, the son of Richard, any interest he might possess in it. George Smithes died on 11 July 1615 seised of this estate, which he left to one of his younger sons William, who with his wife Elizabeth sold it in 1631 to William Dormer. John Dormer sold the manor in 1685 to William Tipping, and Thomas Faithful of Templeton is mentioned in deeds of 1731 and 1742. In 1816 Samuel Daniels and James Woulds conveyed the manor to William Mott, whose daughter Sarah married Adam Blandy of Kingston Bagpuize. Adam was in possession of Templeton Farm in 1836, and the estate was sold in 1870 by his grandson John, who had assumed the name Blandy-Jenkins in 1856, to George Shippen Willes of Hungerford Park, of whom it was purchased by William New Dunn. Mr. Dunn afterwards sold it to Mr. Humphrey Jeffreys Walmesley, the present owner.
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