MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES.
Before
1066 two sokemen of Earl Aelfgar had 1½ hides
at Teversham, and two men of Godwin 'Child'
probably another hide, all of which passed after
1066 to Waleran son of Ranulf. By 1086 he or
his son and successor John had also appropriated
a third hide, bought before 1066 from Earl
Aelfgar by the abbot of Ely. John's manor, at
3½ hides comprising half the vill, (fn. 78) did not pass
with his barony to the Tanys: (fn. 79) it was held, probably from the early 12th century, with manors
in Essex and Hampshire, by the grand serjeanty
of serving as a marshal in the king's household.
By 1166 Henry II had given Gillian, daughter
of Robert Doisnel, heiress of that marshalcy,
with her lands in marriage to William fitz
Audelin, later his steward. After William died
c. 1198, (fn. 80) Gillian's estates were claimed in 1199
by William of Warbleton and Ingram de
Monceaux, as her coheirs, possibly collateral.
About 1205 William divided those lands with
Waleran de Monceaux, Ingram's successor and
perhaps brother; each took half the Teversham
manor. Warbleton as representing the senior
line, and his successors as lords of
WARBLETONS manor had lordship over
Waleran's share, later DENGAINES manor. (fn. 81)
William of Warbleton's heir at his death in
1226 was Thomas of Warbleton. (fn. 82) Although c.
1235 the Warbleton part of Teversham, described
as 3½ hides, was said to be held by a William of
Warbleton, perhaps a younger son, supposedly of
the honor of Richmond. (fn. 83) Thomas of Warbleton
held it by the royal marshalcy serjeanty in 1260. (fn. 84)
He probably died c. 1270. Under his successor
another Thomas, son of William, of Warbleton (fn. 85)
the Teversham manor was held by 1279 by
another William of Warbleton, perhaps of a cadet
line. (fn. 86) It was probably that William who in 1311
settled 180 a. there on the marriage of his son
John Warbleton. John, a lord at Teversham in
1316, (fn. 87) who had substantial property there in
1327 (fn. 88) probably survived until 1349. (fn. 89) A Luke
Warbleton had land at Teversham in 1366. (fn. 90)
Richard Warbleton, recorded there 1394-1415, (fn. 91)
was probably the Richard Warbleton of
Teversham, who before 1415 had granted his
Teversham lands to feoffees, including his kinsman William Cambridge or Warbleton, later
alderman and mayor of London. Before his death
in 1432 William settled those lands, reserving a
remainder to himself, on the marriage of
Richard's son Richard Warbleton, a London
ironmonger, to whom William's son John
Cambridge released Warbletons manor in 1434.
The younger Richard Warbleton probably died
in 1448, (fn. 92) having in 1439 granted the reversion
of his lands in Teversham, Cherry Hinton, and
Fen Ditton, including 300 a. of arable, to John
Ansty the elder (d. 1456 × 1457), lord of
Holmhall in Quy. (fn. 93)
John Ansty's son John, styled of Teversham
since 1430, (fn. 94) at his death in 1460 left Warbletons
and Bassingbourns manors, after his widow
Joan's death, in tail male to his younger son
Robert, already settled at Teversham, (fn. 95) who was
still living in 1487. (fn. 96) Robert was possibly succeeded by Thomas Ansty of Teversham, mentioned in 1502. (fn. 97) In the 1510s Lionel Ansty,
apparently a manorial lord, received quitrents
there. (fn. 98) About 1550, however, it was alleged that
Robert Ansty had left no sons, but only a
daughter, Cecily. Her son John Mellersh then
claimed Teversham manor against George
Ansty, lord in 1552, who traced his title to the
disputed lands, supposedly over 800 a., through
Humphrey Docwra. (fn. 99) Apparently lord of
Warbletons and Bassingbourns into the late
1560s, George Ansty, who conveyed those
manors in 1559 (fn. 1) finally alienated them in 1570
to Edward Steward. (fn. 2)
When Steward died in 1596 his lands
descended to his daughter Joan, who married
Thomas Jermy (kt. 1603, d. 1618) of Brightwell
(Suff.), with whom she settled Bassingbourns
manor and over 200 a. in 1606. (fn. 3) About 1641 her
Teversham lands were probably occupied by her
second son Edward Jermy, buried there in 1644,
whose issue were her heirs at law. (fn. 4) One of his
daughters was buried at Teversham in 1663. (fn. 5)
Before her death in 1649 Dame Joan Jermy had
apparently settled a life interest in Teversham
on her daughter Elizabeth (d. 1667), widow of
Sir George Waldegrave, with remainder to John
Barker, (fn. 6) her husband's kinsman. A baronet from
1652, Barker died in 1664. In 1676 his younger
son Sir John, 4th Bt., newly of age, broke the
entail on his Teversham estate. (fn. 7)
Those manors. called JERMY(N)S,
belonged by 1693 to Thomas Watson, bishop of
St. Davids. After he died in 1717, his
Teversham lands descended to his brother
William's unmarried daughter Mary (d. s.p.
1737) and then to her sister Joanna's son
Thomas Watson Ward (d. 1750) of Wilbraham
Temple. His widow Mary possibly possessed
them into the 1770s. (fn. 8) Their son Thomas
Watson Ward (II) mortgaged Warbletons and
Bassingbourns in the early 1780s, (fn. 9) and finally
sold his Teversham estate c. 1787 to William
Loggan, an innkeeper of Shooter's Hill (Kent,
later London). (fn. 10)
Loggan was dead by 1789, leaving as heirs his
married daughters Mary Ware and Elizabeth
Kerman. His widow Dinah retained a life interest in Teversham. In 1806-7, after a 20-year
lawsuit, a Chancery decree provided that she
should own it jointly with her husband's heirs
at law. (fn. 11) Mary took over that estate by 1808
with her second husband John Pickett, (fn. 12) of
Shoreditch (Mdx.), who then claimed paramount manorial rights for Warbletons over
Dengaines manor. They also owned c. 45 a. of
inclosures and 267 a. of fieldland. (fn. 13) Despite
Pickett's objections Dengaines manor was
effectively allowed in 1814 an equivalent in
Cherry Hinton for half the manorial allotment
for right of soil. (fn. 14) Under the award of 1815
Pickett and his wife were allotted c. 240 a. (fn. 15)
By 1823 that estate had passed to John Ware,
presumably son of Mary's first marriage. By
1827 he shared it with another John Ware, possibly his son. Thomas Ware, the next owner by
1837, (fn. 16) of Hackney (Mdx.), was dead by 1874.
His widow Elizabeth (fn. 17) apparently retained into
the 1910s Ware's farm, covering in 1910 64 a.,
which by 1921 belonged to Lacon & Co.,
Cambridge brewers. (fn. 18) The Wares' other land,
Hall, sometimes styled Manor, farm, c. 245 a.,
with Warbletons and Bassingbourns lordships,
had been sold in 1875 to Thomas Coote (d. after
1904) of Fenstanton (Hunts.). (fn. 19) In 1906 Hall
farm with the manorial rights were sold to Lewis
Duke of Great Chishall (Herts.), who owned
252 a. in Teversham into the 1930s. (fn. 20)
About 1810 that part of John Pickett's estate
called Bassingbourns included the ancient
Teversham Hall. That house, possibly the one
which in the 1660s contained 11 hearths, (fn. 21) had
perhaps been rebuilt by Edward Steward, whose
arms, quartering others, survived in its glass
windows in 1744, when it was a farmhouse.
Another freehold farmhouse was identified c.
1810 as Warbletons manor house. (fn. 22) The existing
L-plan, two-storeyed house called Teversham
Hall, standing south-east of the church, near
what was probably the original centre of the village, was presumably erected c. 1837, when part
of the old Hall was replaced with a new farmhouse and other buildings for the tenant. It is
built of white brick and slated behind a corniced
parapet. Its five-bayed south front has a projecting central pillared porch. (fn. 23)
The Monceaux share of the serjeanty fee, (fn. 24)
later DENGAINES manor, passed, following
Waleran de Monceaux's death, probably by the
late 1210s, (fn. 25) to his son William, who died in
1243, holding land worth £10 in Teversham by
knight service of Thomas of Warbleton.
William's son and heir Waleran, then a minor
in the king's ward, (fn. 26) had apparently, before
1279, given his Teversham manor in marriage
with his daughter Alice to Sir Thomas Peverel.
In 1280 Peverel sold that manor to Thomas, (fn. 27)
whose father Ralph son of James of Balsham had
held land at Teversham before 1243. Thomas,
called variously of Balsham, of Teversham, and
'of the chamber', as chamberlain to Bishop
Balsham of Ely, had a manor house at
Teversham by 1275. In 1279 he held over 50 a.
there, mostly recently purchased. (fn. 28) He died after
1285. (fn. 29) Another Thomas of the chamber, perhaps his grandson, when he married in 1311
settled his Teversham manor, including the
reversion of the dower of his father Ralph's
widow Agnes who had remarried. (fn. 30)
By 1316 the younger Thomas's manor had
come to Parnel, widow of Richard Engaine (d.
after 1310), whose family were already lords in
Stow cum Quy. (fn. 31) Richard's son John, who had
property at Teversham in 1327, (fn. 32) obtained in
1328 from Thomas's heir Margaret, wife of
Simon Malory, a release of the reversion of
Agnes's dower. (fn. 33) John D'Engaine, often described as of Teversham from c. 1340, who was
active in local government, (fn. 34) died in 1363. (fn. 35) In
1350 he had settled the reversion of his
Teversham manor, along with that in Stow, on
William D'Engaine, also of Teversham, probably his younger son, and his wife Alice. (fn. 36)
Thereafter Dengaines manor in Teversham
descended in the Dengaine family with that
in Stow (fn. 37) until its sale c. 1530 to Thomas
Woodhouse. Sir Roger Townshend, who had
bought the Dengaine estate from Woodhouse in
1537 gave it by exchange in 1538 to Gonville
Hall (Cambridge), later Caius College. (fn. 38) The
college, which still asserted its Teversham
estate's manorial status at inclosure c. 1810-15, (fn. 39)
retained that lordship in 1933. (fn. 40) From the 16th
century to the mid 18th Dengaines farm had
been reckoned to include c. 110-15 a. of arable. (fn. 41)
At inclosure, when Caius College in 1810
claimed 138 a. of arable for it, besides 23 a. of
old inclosures, it was allotted c. 148 a. of fieldland, Dengaines farm thereafter comprising c.
170 a. (fn. 42) The whole college estate, called Manor
farm by the 1880s, (fn. 43) was occupied by the Foote
family by 1904. (fn. 44) In 1952 the college sold the
land to N. W. J. Foote, following whose retirement the 175-a. farm was again for sale in 1963. (fn. 45)
Manor Farm stands in the corner of a roughly
rectangular moat; the once water-filled ditch
which formerly bounded it was possibly the
pond belonging to John D'Engaine in 1362. (fn. 46)
The moat, with its spring, apparently rising by
Long close, which in the 18th century covered
almost 2½ a., (fn. 47) was still complete in 1815, part
to the east being later filled in. (fn. 48) The twostoreyed house, largely brick-cased with tiled
gabled roofs, incorporates a timber-framed,
early 17th-century dwelling. In 1636 the 'mansion house' stood in the 20-a. Dengaines close. (fn. 49)
Later, the homestall, garden and orchard, covering 2 a., lay centrally amidst almost 22 a. of old
inclosed pasture. (fn. 50) Externally, no original features have survived the many alterations and
additions made to the house in the 18th and early
19th centuries. (fn. 51)
In 1086 Count Alan, lord of Richmond,
apparently possessed in demesne 1½ hides, previously belonging to two sokemen of Eddeva the
fair, which were attached to his manor in Cherry
Hinton, but had subinfeudated to Robert
another hide at Teversham, once occupied by
five other men of Eddeva. (fn. 52) The count's part was
probably represented by the Teversham land
later held of Hinton Upperhall manor. In 1249
Peter of Savoy, then lord of Richmond, had
ceded his lordship over land in Teversham with
his Hinton manor to the Cryoils, later Kyriels,
with whom it remained later in the 13th century. (fn. 53) By 1235 the subinfeudated land in
Teversham was held, as 1¼ hides, of the honor
of Richmond by Warin Torchenesse (fl. 1240)
and Ralph Matefrey. (fn. 54) Ralph's son Robert, his
successor by 1253, was possibly dead by 1268. (fn. 55)
A Robert Matfrey held in 1279 100 a. in
Teversham under Robert de Romeley, who then
held 200 a. of that honor. (fn. 56)
Tenure of land at Teversham under the honor
of Richmond continued to be recorded in the
15th century. (fn. 57) but the tenants are not certainly
identifiable. In 1810 land held of the Crown of
that honor, mostly through two Hinton manors
which extended into Teversham, yielded over
£10 in quitrents, largely from John Pickett's
BASSINGBOURNS manor. Then thought to
be held of the honor of Richmond, and including
Bassingbourns inclosures (12-14 a.) at the
north-west end of the village, (fn. 58) the manor
probably derived from part of the medieval
Richmond fees. Land settled in 1434 with
Warbletons had included a tenement called
Bassingbourns or Cambridges, (fn. 59) possibly named
from lands held in 1279 by Edmund of
Bassingbourn, (fn. 60) and perhaps later owned by
the Cambridge family. John of Cambridge,
Teversham's largest taxpayer in 1327, had left a
son, Thomas of Cambridge, who acquired in
1340 the reversion, after the deaths of William
of Lavenham and his wife Joan, perhaps tenant
in dower, of 140 a. there. (fn. 61) In the 1340s Thomas
was allowed a private oratory at his Teversham
manor house. (fn. 62)
Beorhtnoth, ealdorman of Essex, killed in 991,
had included property at Teversham among the
lands that he bequeathed to the abbey of Ely,
which probably received them after his widow
Aelffaed died c. 1006. (fn. 63) In 1086 that bequest was
represented by one hide held by that abbey,
another acquired later having been seized by
John son of Waleran. (fn. 64) The abbey's Teversham
land was probably enfeoffed with lands in
Fulbourn and Westley to the Valognes family.
Agnes de Valognes was mesne lord over
Teversham under the bishop of Ely before 1200,
and her granddaughter Gunnore's husband
Robert FitzWalter (d. 1235) in 1212, (fn. 65) as was
Alexander Balliol in 1279 and c. 1302. (fn. 66)
William de Manners, heir of Eustace de
Manners (fl. 1166), (fn. 67) was tenant in demesne at
Teversham under Agnes before 1200. (fn. 68) By c.
1235 the Teversham Ely fee had been further
subinfeudated to Robert de Manners, (fn. 69) who
possibly survived until after 1270. (fn. 70) In 1279 it
was held of William's successor, Sir Baldwin de
Manners, as ½ and 1/18 knight's fee by Henry
de Manners, who died after 1285. (fn. 71) He was succeeded by Philip de Manners, tenant in 1302-3
of ½ and 1/7knight's fee there. MANNERS
manor, held, 1340-6, by Simon de Manners, (fn. 72)
was by 1428 divided among six tenants, including John Ansty and a John Warbleton. (fn. 73)
Part at least of Manners manor was apparently
incorporated in the reputed manor of ALLENS
or Aleyns, possibly named after the Aleyn
family, recorded in Teversham from the 13th
century; (fn. 74) a John Aleyn of Teversham was active
in local affairs in the 1380s. (fn. 75) In 1460 John Ansty
(II), lord of Warbletons, devised Aleyns manor,
as his father John had directed, to his own son
John (d. 1477). John's son John Ansty (IV) died
in 1501. (fn. 76) In 1509 his son Robert granted Aleyns
and Manners manors with 300 a. in Teversham
to feoffees, (fn. 77) probably for the newly founded
Savoy hospital, London, to which Aleyns manor
and Manners farm land belonged by 1535. (fn. 78)
Following the suppression of that hospital in
1553, its Teversham estate was granted the same
year with other former Savoy lands, to the newly
refounded St. Thomas's Hospital, London,
controlled by the mayor and corporation of
London. (fn. 79) In 1589 Manners and Allens lands in
Teversham, once the Savoy's, supposedly comprised c. 125 a. in the open fields with c. 27 a.
of closes, including Manners closes (7½ a.)
somewhat east of Allens Farm. (fn. 80) That hospital,
which in 1806 owned a farm along with Allens
manor, (fn. 81) claimed in 1810, besides manorial
rights in Teversham for Allens and Hinton
Netherhall manors, a manor house and c. 162 a.,
including 29 a. of inclosed grass. (fn. 82) Though its
claims to manorial status were not recognized at
inclosure, (fn. 83) the hospital was allotted in 1815 c.
153 a. of fieldland. It retained its farm, 180 a.
in all, (fn. 84) called St. Thomas's Hospital or Allens
farm, throughout the 19th century. (fn. 85) The
Arnold family, its tenants by 1910, had possibly
bought the farm by the 1920s. In 1937 Allens
farm was worked for G. P. Hawkins Ltd., bakers
of Cambridge. (fn. 86) In 1953 George Hawkins put
that 187-a. farm with its two-storeyed modern
farmhouse and nursery gardens up for sale. (fn. 87) In
1589 Allens farmhouse had stood within 3½ a.
of closes. (fn. 88) In 1815 the manor house and farmstead stood north-east of the green. (fn. 89)
From the 16th century Caius College owned
other lands in Teversham, called WILLOWES.
In 1502 Thomas Willows, a Cambridge glover,
had devised his purchased lands, c. 79 a., in
Teversham, Fen Ditton, Fulbourn, and Cherry
Hinton, to Gonville Hall, for 99 years, to help
maintain a fellow and bible clerk. (fn. 90) The
Teversham portion, which, with other land in
Fulbourn and Fen Ditton, became Willowes
farm, was reckoned at various dates between
1502 and 1810 to contain, with a house and
enclosed pasture, c. 65 a. of open-field land. (fn. 91)
Some 45 a. allotted in 1815 to the college for its
Willowes farm were newly leased to Robert
Walker (d. c. 1822), who owned another 98 a.
there. (fn. 92) In 1860 his grandson R. L. Walker of
Teversham sold to Caius College c. 43 a. there,
which were added to Willowes's farm, (fn. 93) let as
91 a. by 1873. (fn. 94) Other college purchases
included in 1903 20 a. of Tunwell's, formerly
Pomfrey's, farm, named from a family recorded
at Teversham since 1686. (fn. 95)
In 1479 Edmund Teversham, a London
grocer, granted his father Henry's lands at
Teversham to feoffees, (fn. 96) apparently acting for
the prior of St. Mary Overy, Southwark, who
planned to endow a college of Austin canons at
Cambridge with those 112 a. That scheme
having failed, the Teversham land, which the
next prior recovered from a feoffee in 1489,
under a Chancery decree, after seven years, (fn. 97)
was sold to feoffees for Chief Justice Sir William
Hussey (d. 1495). His will of 1494 assigned it to
endow a lectureship, to be held by fellows of
Pembroke College, Cambridge. (fn. 98) His son Sir
John, having in 1512 procured a licence in mortmain, conveyed the estate, in all c. 95 a., to the
college in 1517. (fn. 99) In 1810 Pembroke claimed c.
94 a. in Teversham, (fn. 1) for which in 1815 it was
allotted c. 55 a. (fn. 2) It still owned c. 60 a. there in
1945, (fn. 3) later selling part in 1953 for road building, and part in the 1980s for housing. (fn. 4)
In 1810 Peterhouse, Cambridge, claimed
3 a. in Teversham, besides another 23½ a. for
its Cherry Hinton rectory. (fn. 5) It was allotted
altogether 21 a., which it still owned c. 1930, (fn. 6)
attached by 1873 to its Cherry Hinton farm. (fn. 7)