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Sir William Denham was the first private owner of Eastbury. He was born at Leystone, in Devonshire, became a citizen of London and a Merchant of the Staple of Calais. He was chosen Alderman, and served as Sheriff and Member of Parliament for the city of London in the 33rd year of Henry the Eighth, 1541, and was Knighted about the same time. He only lived three years after the grant of Eastbury, and was buried at Barkyne, in London, after which the estate descended to his heir William Abbott, wh...o, after possessing it for eight years, in 1557 it was conveyed to John Keeble, who sold it to Clement Sisley the same year, in whose family it continued for fifty years, when his representative Thomas Sisley sold the estate to Augustin Stewart about 1608. In 1628, Martin Stewart sold it to Jacob Price; George Price in 1646 disposed of it to William Kmghtley, whose widow conveyed it in 1650 to Sir Thomas Vyner, Alderman of London, in 1714 it was sold to William Browne, whose nephew William Sedgwick alienated it in 1740 to John Weldale.
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