MEONSTOKE HUNDRED 



CORHAMPTON 



Di CLARI. Or thru 

 cheverons gules. 



Corhampton, was holding tenements in Corhampton 

 in dower. 14 His heir was Nicholas de Corhampton, 1 '' 

 who in the same year granted the third part of the 

 two knights' fees which he was 

 then holding in Corhampton 

 to his nephew, Adam de Cor- 

 hampton, the son of his brother 

 Richard. 17 From Nicholas the 

 remaining two-thirds must 

 have passed soon afterwards to 

 William de Clare, 18 brother of 

 Richard de Clare, earl of Glou- 

 cester and Hertford, who in 

 addition in 1 2 5 6 acquired from 

 William de Moleyns and Sarah 

 his wife a messuage, lands, rents 



and a mill in Corhampton in exchange for tenements 

 in Mapledurham. 19 On the death of William de Clare 

 without issue in 1258, his property passed to his 

 brother Richard, who was seised of the manor of 

 Corhampton at the time of his 

 death four years later. 10 He 

 was succeeded by his son and 

 heir Gilbert de Clare, earl of 

 Gloucester and Hertford, who 

 in 1289 married Joan de Acres, 

 the king's daughter. 11 Gilbert 

 died in 1295 seised of certain 

 lands and tenements, including 

 probably the manor of Cor- 

 hampton." Two years after- 

 wards Joan de Acres married 

 clandestinely Ralph de Mon- 

 thermer, a plain squire," which incensed the king, 

 who imprisoned his new son-in-law in Bristol Castle. 

 In 1305, however, he granted him the custody 

 of the late earl's lands in Corhampton during the 

 minority of Gilbert the son 

 and heir."* Joan de Acres 

 died in 1307 seised of the 

 manor of Corhampton, held of 

 John de St. John by the service 

 of two knights' fees." In 1 3 1 3 

 Gilbert de Clare, earl of Glou- 

 cester and Hertford, granted 

 to Gilbert de St. Owen and 

 Joan his wife the manor of 

 Corhampton, with reversion in 

 default of heirs to Earl Gil- 

 bert." However, the young 

 earl was slain at Bannockburn, 24 June, I3I4,* 6 

 and since he died without issue his property was 

 divided between his sisters and co-heirs Eleanor 

 and Margaret." Corhampton, however, remained 

 with the widow of Gilbert de St. Owen, who was 



MoNTUIRMIR. 



an eagle vert. 



STAFFORD. 

 cbe-veron gules. 



HANBUKY. Or a bend 

 engrailed vert vitb plain 

 cotises table. 



holding in 1316," and it was not until her 

 death without issue that the manor was assigned to 

 Margaret. The latter was married to Hugh de 

 Audley, who assumed the title of earl of Gloucester in 

 right of his wife.* 9 Their only daughter and heir 

 Margaret married Ralph second Lord Stafford, 30 and 

 brought him the manor of Corhampton among other 

 possessions. The manor remained with the Staftbrds 

 till i 52 1," when Edward Stafford, third and last duke 

 of Buckingham, was attainted of treason and beheaded 

 and his estates were forfeited.* 1 In March of the 

 following year Henry VIII granted Corhampton to 

 Sir Richard Weston in tail- 

 male." Francis Weston, son 

 and heir of Richard, one of 

 the alleged accomplices of 

 Anne Boleyn, was attainted 

 and executed in his father's 

 lifetime. His father died seised 

 of the manor in I 541, his heir 

 being his grandson Henry 

 Weston, son of Francis. 34 Rich- 

 ard son of Henry conveyed 

 Corhampton in 1595 to Hugh 

 Sexey,* 5 who a year later sold it 

 to Thomas Hanbury, lord of 

 the manor of Mapledurham, in the parish of Buriton. 56 

 In 1599 Queen Elizabeth granted the reversion of 

 the manor remaining in the crown to Thomas in 

 consideration of a payment of 266 i"ji. 6d." 

 Thomas died seised of the 

 manor in 161 1, his heir being 

 his son Thomas, aged forty, 88 

 who died seven years later, 

 leaving a son and heir Thomas, 

 aged eleven. 89 The manor re- 

 mained in the family of Han- 

 bury until 1 65 5, in which year 

 Thomas Taylor and Elizabeth 

 his wife and John Hanbury 

 conveyed it by fine to Henry 

 Chroucher, 40 from whom it 

 passed into the possession 

 of the family of Henslow. 41 

 Mrs. Henslow, the widow of Thomas Henslow, 

 was the lady of the manor in 1703. Stapleton, 

 daughter and heir of Thomas Henslow, married 

 Henry Williamson and brought the manor to her 

 husband. 43 Their son and heir Edmund Thomas 

 Williamson ** sold it to Henry Wyndham, who was 

 lord of the manor in 1750." Henry married 

 Arundel Penruddocke and had a son Henry Pen- 

 ruddocke Wyndham, who died in 1819, being then 

 in his eighty-third year. In the course of his life he 

 published A Tour through Monmouthshire and Wales, 



WYNDHAM. Axure a 

 cheveron betiveen three 

 lions' heads raxed or. 



16 Feet of F. Hant, Mich. 17 Hen. III. 



18 He is returned as holding one fee of 

 Robert de St. John (Testa de Neiiill, 130). 



"Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 17 Hen. 

 Ill ; MS. penes the lady of the manor. 



18 While lord of the manor he sub- 

 tracted the suit formerly paid by Nicholas 

 de Corhampton at the hundred court of 

 Meonstoke (Assize R. Mich. 8 Edw. I). 



19 Feet of F. Hants, 40 Hen. III. 

 80 Inq. p.m. 47 Hen. Ill, No. 34. 

 al G.E.C. Complete Peerage, iv, 41. 

 M Inq. p.m. 24 Edw. I, No. 1070. 

 28 G.E.C. Complete Peerage, iv, 41. 

 >**> Cal. of Pat. 1301-7, p. 388. 



94 Inq. p.m. 35 Edw. I, pt. 2, No. 47. 



Feet of F. Div. Cos. East. 6 Edw. II. 



M G.E.C. Complete Peerage, iv, 42. 



Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. II, No. 68. 



K Feud. Aids, ii, 307. 



M G.E.C. Complete Peerage, iv, 42. 



80 Ibid, vii, 209. 



tl Feud. Aids, ii, 336, 358, 372 ; Inq. 

 p.m. 46 Edw. Ill (ist Nos.), No. 62 ; 10 

 Ric. II, No. 38; 16 Ric. II, pt. i, No. 27; 

 22 Ric. II, No. 46 ; 4 Hen. IV, No. 41. 



* Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), vol. 80, 

 No. 182 ; Add. Chart. 28181. 



88 Com. Pleas Recov. R. Mich. 37 and 

 38 Eliz. m. 13. 



84 Exch. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), file 991, 

 No. II. 



247 



85 Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 37 Eliz. ; 

 Recov. R. 37 & 38 Eliz. m. 13. 

 "> Recov. R. Hil. 39 Eliz. m. 3. 



87 Pat. 41 Eliz. pt. 6, m. 30. 



8 " W. and L. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), bdle. 14, 

 No. 104. 



88 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), vol. 368, 

 No. 122. 



40 MS. penet the present lady of the 

 manor of Corhampton. 



41 Ibid. 



48 Stowe MS. 845, fol. 96. 

 48 Chan. Enr. Decree, 1842, No. 2. 

 44 Ibid. 



46 MS. penes the present lady of the 

 manor. 



