By the late F. A. Carrington, Esq. 53 



From the Norman Conquest, to the Granting of Queen 

 Elizabeth's Charter. 



"Wokingham is not mentioDed in the Domesday Survey, but 

 (vol. i., fol. 58 a,) Sonning, of which manor Wokingham was, as it 

 seems, always a member, is so. Sonning at that time was a part of 

 the possessions of Osmund, Bishop of Sarum : and contained {inter 

 alia) two mills and five fisheries.^ 



The first mention I find made of "Wokingham after the Norman 

 Conquest, is in the Testa de Nevill, also called Liber Feodorum, 

 which was compiled at the end of the reign of Edw. II., and con- 

 tains the Nomina Villarum, Serjeanties and Knights fees taken by 

 Inquisition, temp. Hen. III. and Edw. I. So far as it relates to 

 "Wokingham, it is as follows : — 



" Epus Sar. in d'nico suo, Sunninge et Wokingham." [" The Bishop of Salis- 

 bury (has) in his demesne Sunning and Wokingham." T. de N. p. 124.] 



The Roll of the 'HOth. 



In 1327, the Parliament granted to King Edward the Third, 

 the twentieth of the value of all the moveable goods of every person 

 except the clergy. The assessments for the Berkshire portion of 

 "Wokingham and the Wiltshire portion, assessed separately, still 

 remain in perfect preservation in the General Record Office. That 

 for the Berkshire portion of the place is as follows : — 



" Hundr. de Sonning. Villa de Wokyngh^m. 



D. Galfr atte Beche - _ _ _ 



— Johne de Tnemdon - - - - 



— Johe de Welder _ _ _ - 



— Willo de Saltt . - - - 



— Stepho atte Twychen _ - - 



— Andro Willi _ _ _ - 



— Johe de Okham - - - - 



— Johe atte Bech _ _ - - 



— Johe Mathew _ _ - - 



— Walto Poydras - - - - 



'John Leland in his Itinerary begvm about 1538, 30, Hen. YIII., says, (vol. 

 ii., p. 30,) " The Bishop of Saresbyri hath had at Sunning afore the Conquest an 

 auncient Maner Place and be lordes there : And yet remainith a fair olde House 

 there of stone even by the Tamise Ripe, longging to the Bishop of Saresbyri, aad 

 therby is a fair Parke." 



