BUDDLESGATE HUNDRED 



WONSTON 



of the king in chief. 106 William de Brayboef, who 

 was evidently the heir of Robert, died in 1284 seised 

 of the manor held of John de St. John. 107 



On William's death Henry de Bray, escheator, was 

 ordered to deliver izs. 6J. in the manor of Cranborne, 

 to be received from the villeins thereof, 108 to Joan de 

 St. Martin, widow of William de Brayboef. This order 

 was however cancelled, and instead she was assigned 

 in dower the chief messuage of the manor extended 

 at 6s. 8</. with a moiety of the manor extended at 

 6 14.1. \ld. m The remainder went to Hugh de 

 Brayboef, son and heir of William, 110 who became 

 seised of the whole on Joan's death. According to 

 the subsidy return for 1316 Hugh de Brayboef was 

 holding Cranborne in that year, 111 while in 132930 

 he held a fee in Cranborne worth ioo/. of John de 

 St. John, 11 ' and in 1337 he was said to hold four 

 knights' fees in Cranborne and other places valued at 

 ^40 yearly of William son of Roger de Melebury, 

 who held of Hugh de St. John. 113 There is no in- 

 quisition on the death of Hugh, but his widow Joan "* 

 held the manor in 1346"* and 1349."' 



It is doubtful whether William, son and heir of 

 Hugh and Joan, 117 or Hugh, son and heir of William, 118 

 ever succeeded to the manor, for as early as 1367 Sir 

 Hugh de Camois, who was no doubt holding the manor 

 in right of his wife Joan, daughter and heir of Hugh, 119 

 obtained a grant of free warren in his demesne lands 

 of Cranborne. 1 * In 1380 Sir Hugh received con- 

 firmation in his favour of the charter of Edward HI," 1 

 and two years later leased the manor ' from Michael- 

 mas next to the morrow of Michaelmas next thereafter ' 

 to Sir John de Montagu, lord of Werk, and Sir John de 

 Montagu his son. 1 " He had died before 1395, for in 

 that year his widow Joan dealt with the manor by 

 fine 183 for purposes of settlement. Cranborne next 

 passed to Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Hugh and 

 Joan, who married first Sir John Hamely or Hamelyn 

 of Wimborne St. Giles "' (co. Dors.), and secondly 

 Thomas Wake of Winterborne Stoke m (co. Wilts.). 

 By her first husband, who died in 1 398, she had a 

 daughter and heir Egidia, 186 to whom the manor 

 passed after her mother's death, which took place after 

 1 43 1. 117 Egidia married first Robert Ashley, 188 and 

 secondly Sir Thomas Thame of Hampshire, and died 

 in 1476.'" Before her death she had settled the 

 manor upon a certain Robert Ashley, probably her 

 son, and Isabel his wife. 130 Robert, however pre- 

 deceased Egidia, and in 1477 his widow Isabel was 

 holding Cranborne as a free tenement for the term of 



her life with reversion to Edmund Ashley, son and 

 heir of Egidia, and his heirs. 131 In 1554 Henry Ashley, 

 great-grandson of Edmund, sold the reversion of the 

 manor after the deaths of John Nicholson of Cranborne 

 and Alice his wife to John Twyne, yeoman, of Norton 

 in the parish of Wonston. 132 Within the year John 

 Twyne died, leaving the manor to his sons by his first 

 wife Christine, William and Nicholas, ' to be held 

 between them without any contention, strife or 

 variance during the term of their lives ' with reversion 

 to John and William the younger, his sons by his 

 second wife Agnes. 133 William the elder died in 

 I559, 13 * and his brother Nicholas probably some time 

 afterwards. There is no inquisition on his death, but 

 it must have been before 1 5 79, in which year John 

 Twyne settled an annuity of 50 from the manor of 

 Cranborne upon his natural son John. 135 Two years 

 later William the younger sold his moiety of the 

 manor to Sir Richard Norton, 136 who conveyed it in 

 1582 to John Twyne the owner of the other moiety. 137 

 The manor remained in this branch of the Twyne 

 family until 162 1, 138 when John Twyne and Anne his 

 wife sold it to Robert Payne and William Payne. 1 " 



The history of this manor during the next century 

 is obscure. Hugh Willoughby seems to have been lord 

 in the reign of Charles II, and dealt with it by 

 recovery in 1682." By the middle of the next 

 century it was held by Sir Martin Wright, justice of 

 the court of King's Bench, who died in 1767, in 

 which year Andrew Gother was dealing with 

 the manor. 141 Sir Martin was succeeded by his son 

 William Wright, who, dying without issue in 1814, 

 devised his property to Lady Frances Elizabeth, 

 daughter of the earl of Aylesbury and wife of Sir 

 Henry Wilson, M.P. 1 " The latter by will left all her 

 property in Hampshire to Frances Elizabeth, daughter 

 of Captain Christopher Wilson and wife of Colonel 

 Sir Michael M'Creagh. 143 Their son Major Michael 

 M'Creagh married Eva Helen Emma, granddaughter 

 of Bache Thornhill of Stanton-in-Peak (co. Derb.), and 

 obtained by royal licence in 1882 permission to take 

 in addition the name and to quarter the arms of 

 Thornhill on her succession to the Stanton-in-Peak 

 estate by the death of her brother, Henry Francis 

 Hurlock Thornhill. 1 " He died in 1902 leaving a son 

 and heir Michael Christopher M'Creagh-Thornhill, 

 and his widow is at the present time lady of the 

 manor of Cranborne. 



The family of Sutton from an early date held lands 

 in CR4NBORNE and SUTTON of the manor of 





lw > Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 232. 



l0 ' Inq. p.m. 12 Edw. I, No. 13. In 

 1281 William Strecche and Selina hil 

 wife had quitclaimed to him the third part 

 of a messuage, 2 virgates of land and i 

 acre of meadow in Cranborne Brayboef, 

 and all that tenement in the same vill 

 wh!ch Parnel wife of William le Franklin 

 once held in dower of the inheritance of 

 Selina. (Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 9 Edw. I.) 



i Cal. of Close, 1279-88, p. 277. 



i Ibid. 278. 



110 Inq. p.m. 12 Edw. I, No. 13. 



111 Feud. Aids, ii, 306. 



1" Inq. p.m. 3 Edw. Ill, No. 67. 



" Ibid. 1 1 Edw. Ill, No. 49. 



i De Bane. R. Hil. 20 Hen. VI, 

 m. 314. Ui Feud. Aids, ii, 329. 



lie Close, 23 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 17, 

 i8</. 



"7 De Bane. R. Hil. 20 Hen. VI, m. 

 314. 



118 Ibid. Ibid. 



'' Chart. R. 41 Edw. Ill, No. n. 



ln Cal. of Pat. 1377-81, p. 437. 



1M Anct. D. (P.R.O.), B. 3718. 



la Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 18 Ric. II. 

 She granted it to John, vicar of the church 

 of Basingstoke, in fee-tail, with contingent 

 remainder to Henry Popham and Joan his 

 wife. 



la4 Hutchins, Dorset, iii, 579. 



Hoare, Wiltshire, v (3), 35. 



126 Inq. p.m. 22 Ric. II, No. 25. 



"7 Feud. Aids, ii, 348, 365. 



128 Hutchins, Dorset, iii, 579. 



129 Inq. p.m. 17 Edw. IV, No. 31. 

 "O Ibid. 



181 Ibid. 



1M Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ci, No. 

 107. 



188 Ibid. 



184 Exch. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), file 999, 

 No. 25. 



459 



185 Com. Pleas D. Enr. Hil. 21 Eliz. 

 rot. it,/. 



186 Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 23 & 24 

 Eliz. 



"7 Ibid. Hil. 25 Eliz. 



188 In 1586 John Twyne mortgaged the 

 manor to Robert Pyncke and William 

 Hanyngton (Com. Pleas Recov. R. Hil. 

 28 Eliz. rot. 9 </.). In 1587 Margery Heath, 

 widow, niece of John gave up all her right 

 to a moiety of a third part of the manor 

 (Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 29 & 30 

 Eliz.). 



189 Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 19 Jas. I; 

 Recov. R. Mich. 19 Jas. I, rot. 139. 



140 Recov. R. Mich. 34 Chas. II, rot. 

 252. 



41 Ibid. Mich. 8 Geo. Ill, rot. 442. 



142 Information supplied by Mr. Michael 

 Christopher M'Creagh-Thornhill. 



148 Ibid. 



144 Burke, Landed Gentry. 



