BRAUDESERT, (Warwickshire) or, as it is called in the maps, BELDESERT, is a little to the N.E. of Henley, and had its name
from its pleasant situation, given it by Hen. de Newburgh, the first E. of Warwick of the Norman line, who built a castle
here, which, with the park, continued in his posterity many ages. It had in K. Stephen's R. a charter for a Mt. on Sunday,
which was changed by another for M. together with a fair on Sept. 1. This Lp. came afterwards to Thomas de Beauchamp E. of
Warwick, and then to Sir Thomas Botteler, and after him to Sir John Norbury and Henry Belknap, who quitted it to Edward
IV. in satisfaction of a debt they owed to the crown. K. Edw. VI. gave it to John Dudley, E. of Warw, and his heirs, but
he being attainted it reverted to the crown, and Q. Eliz. gave it to Ambr. Dudley E. of Warwick, his son; but he dying
without issue, it again went to the crown; from which it was purchased by Mr. Cawdwell, an Ald. of London. Sir Baldwin
Trevill, and his posterity, had some lands in this manor, which were afterwards in the possession of Charles Smith and Ld.
Carrington.