13 Mar Lordship Title of Woolhampton ID14184
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In 1227 Henry de Chequers had a holding in Woolhampton, which had previously belonged to Roger Panculf, as under-tenant of Ferrers. His son and heir Ralf de Chequers died seised of the estate before 1286, leaving as co-heir his daughter Katherine the wife of William Hawtrey; her share was settled in that year upon William and Katherine and their children with remainder to William's son and namesake. Thomas was the son and heir of this second William, but the estate appears to have passed to Ralf Chenduit, son apparently of Agnes Chenduit, co-heir of Ralf de Chequers. The property seems to have afterwards passed to Sir Thomas de Sibthorpe, clerk, who granted land described as a twentieth of a knight's fee and rents in Woolhampton in 1341 to the Prior and brethren of St. John in exchange for rents in Sibthorpe and the advowson of the church there. In the following year, when the living of Sibthorpe fell vacant, the prior tried to evade his share of the agreement, but Thomas brought an action against him in the court of King's Bench and recovered the presentation. The tenements in Woolhampton granted by Sibthorpe were held of the Earl of Derby by the service of one-twentieth of a knight's fee, and were worth, together with a rent which he also gave, 8 marks yearly. It seems clear, however, that what the Hospitallers came into possession of was the quarter of a fee which had belonged to Ralf Chenduit, for the prior was said to be holding this in 1428. It was amalgamated with the other lands of the Hospitallers in Woolhampton. A messuage and 2 virgates of land in Woolhampton were held of the Prior of St. John of Jerusalem in 1390 by Simon Godewyne, who in that year released his right in them to William Fauconer. In 1458 the property was settled on Margaret (Fauconer) the wife of Robert Fitz Elis or Physeles, who died seised of the property in 1469, leaving as her heir her granddaughter Sibyl the wife of George Ingilton. Sibyl was succeeded by Robert Ingilton, perhaps her son, who died in 1503, leaving a widow Anne and a daughter and heir Joan. The descent of his holding in Woolhampton after this date is unknown.
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