. A history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight . iffe was forced to departwithout the It was not until the housewas rendered completely uninhabitable that it wassurrendered to Sir Kenelm Digby and Sir JohnSavage,53 who kept possession for about two years—until at the instance of Thomas Taylor, who had oftenboasted that the same parties who were a means toput him out of the possession should put him inagain, the Court of Exchequer dissolved its In 1634 Thomas Brocas, son and heir of SirPexall Brocas who had died in 1630,55 and ThomasTaylor and Elizabeth his wife con


. A history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight . iffe was forced to departwithout the It was not until the housewas rendered completely uninhabitable that it wassurrendered to Sir Kenelm Digby and Sir JohnSavage,53 who kept possession for about two years—until at the instance of Thomas Taylor, who had oftenboasted that the same parties who were a means toput him out of the possession should put him inagain, the Court of Exchequer dissolved its In 1634 Thomas Brocas, son and heir of SirPexall Brocas who had died in 1630,55 and ThomasTaylor and Elizabeth his wife conveyed the manor toThomas Westall, Thomas Sherman and Henry Fessantand the heirs of Thomas Sherman,56 but whether intrust or not is unknown. The history of themanor for some time after this is uncertain, butaccording to conveyances co-heiresses sold it to J. Ultimately Bradley passed to Anthonyson and heir of Sir Robert Henley, who pre-sented to the rectory in On his deathin 1711 it passed to his eldest son Anthony, who. Henley. Azure a lionargent -with a crown or ina border argent with eightroundels gules thereon. died in 1745 and was succeeded by his brotherRobert, who was raised to the title of Earl of Northing-ton and Viscount Henley in 1764 and died in son Robert Earl of Northington died unmarriedin 1786,59 leaving as his heirshis sisters Lady Bridget Tol-lemache, Lady Jane Aston,Mary Dowager CountessLigonier and Lady ElizabethEden, who conveyed themanor the following year toWilliam Drewe,60 probably intrust for John Blackburne, amerchant of Thelatter by his will dated 1792left Bradley to his son John,on whose death in debt about1829 it was sold to From Mr. Rum-bold it passed by sale to Mr. H. King, who wassucceeded by his son Mr. J. H. The lattersold the estate in 1877 to Lord Templemore, fromwhom it was purchased by Mr. H. J. Hope in Hope died in 1905, and his widow is now ladyof the Th


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