Another early Brenchley.

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Another early Brenchley.

Legg inn av Ye Old One » 26 jun 2006 11:37:24

On June 15th I posted something on what I thought may have been John
Brenchley (the younger). While continuing the research on this I was
looking up Roger de Depham who was mentioned in that case. As a result
I found this item which mentions a new Brenchley - Nicholas Brenchley
of London who married Isabel Rampton.



'Edmonton: Manors', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 5:
Hendon, Kingsbury, Great Stanmore, Little Stanmore, Edmonton Enfield,
Monken Hadley, South Mimms, Tottenham (1976), pp. 149-54. URL:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report ... =brenchley.
Date accessed: 26 June 2006.

In 1358 Roger de Depham conveyed all his property in Edmonton,
Tottenham, and Enfield to feoffees who conveyed it to Adam Francis (d.
1375) in 1359. (fn. 56) Francis died seised of some of Depham's
property (fn. 57) but he may have sold the manor, as its descent did
not follow that of the capital manor and Francis's other lands. It was
held by John Innocent, under-treasurer of England (d. c. 1401), (fn.
58) and may be identifiable with the house, land, and rent which
Innocent bought in 1392 from John Hende, who had bought it in 1389
from Elisha Bocking, skinner of London, and his wife Isabel. (fn. 59)
John Innocent gave Dephams to Isabel Rampton, who married Nicholas
Brenchley of London. Brenchley sold it to the bishop of Winchester
(fn. 60) who conveyed it to Jane de Bohun, countess of Hereford (d.
1419), from whom it passed to the Crown, which exchanged it with Henry
Somer for the manor of Graunt Courts (Felsted, Essex). (fn. 61) Somer,
Chancellor of the Exchequer, (fn. 62) who had acquired other property
in Edmonton, was confirmed in Dephams in 1422. (fn. 63) According to a
later account by his bailiff Somer granted the estate to his daughter
Anne, who married, probably as a child, Thomas Charlton the younger,
heir to Edmonton manor, and when Somer died there was a violent
dispute between his widow Catherine and Charlton's father, Thomas
Charlton the elder. Anne was said then to have married Sir Richard
Vere and Catherine to have given Dephams to Ralph de Cromwell, Lord
Cromwell, Treasurer 1433–43, c. 1438. (fn. 64) In reality Somer did
not die until 1450, when he still received issues from Edmonton, his
daughter's name was Agnes, and his heir was his grandson James Vere.
(fn. 65) Cromwell, however, as a fellow treasury official, may have
had some interest in Dephams during Somer's lifetime. On Cromwell's
death in 1455 Dephams passed to Sir Thomas Charlton the younger, then
owner of a moiety of the capital manor, (fn. 66) and thereafter the
manors descended together until 1531, when Henry Courtenay, marquess
of Exeter, sold Dephams to Richard Hawkes. (fn. 67) In 1539 Robert
Hawkes sold it to William Stanford of London (fn. 68) who conveyed it
in the same year to John Grimston, (fn. 69) lessee of Dephams since
1535. (fn. 70) Grimston's grandson Gabriel Grimston was much in debt
in the 1570s and in 1582 he mortgaged two-thirds of Dephams to William
Curle and the reversion to a third, which was held by Gabriel's mother
in dower, to Thomas Wroth. (fn. 71) The property was the subject of a
dispute between Curle, who claimed to have purchased it, and
Grimston's other creditors. (fn. 72) By 1588, however, all interest
was surrendered to William Cecil, Lord Burghley, when he bought
Curle's title, (fn. 73) having in 1585 acquired that of William
Dowgill, a London haberdasher, who had acquired the interests of the
other creditors. (fn. 74) Burghley's lands passed to Robert Cecil,
earl of Salisbury, and in 1628 Robert's son William, earl of
Salisbury, sold Dephams to Thomas Style, who had been the lessee since
1608. (fn. 75) Thomas Style was succeeded by his sons Maurice (d.
1659) and Thomas (d. 1679). (fn. 76) By will dated 1717 George Style
of Peckham (Surr.) devised Dephams to his sister Sarah, who married
into the Ravenscroft family, which retained the estate for most of the
18th century. (fn. 77) Thomas Hylord Ravenscroft alienated it to
Thomas Cock of Tottenham and Thomas's son John was the owner in 1819.
(fn. 78) John Cock sold Dephams in 1822 to Andrew John Nash and George
Augustus Nash, (fn. 79) whose family still held land in the area in
1893, (fn. 80) although Dephams had become a sewage farm in the 1870s.
(fn. 81)

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