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II. RICHARD (Sir), of whom hereafter. 1. Agnes, who m. John de Kniveton. 11. Joyce, who m. - de Plumpton. III. Maude.

IV. Margery. The second son,

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SIR RICHARD DE WHATTON, of Whatton in the Vale, 44 EDWARD III. m. Alice, eldest daughter, and ultimately heiress of Thomas Beler, (the second and youngest son of the first Lord Beler, of Criche), by Margaret de Ryvers, the younger, his wife, second daughter and co-heiress of Sir Richard de Ryvers, of Ryvers Hall, (second son and heir of Lord de Ryvers, who died seised of the Hundred of Ongar, 5 EDWARD II.) and Matilda de Heriz, his second wife, the daughter and heiress of Sir John de Heriz, whereupon Sir Richard de Whatton acquired an interest in the manors of Widmerpool, Gunnelveston, South Winfield, and Tibshelf, under the settlement of Sir John de Heriz, whose bearing appears to have been: Azure three hedgehogs or, 2 and 1, with a fox for his crest, and two for his supporters; Sir Richard by Alice his wife had three sons and a daughter, 1. JOHN (Sir), of whom hereafter. II. Robert of Mountsorrell, whose dau. and heiress, Margaret, m. Robert Farnham, of the Upper Hall, Quorndon.

III. Hugh, Privy Councillor to King
HENRY IV.

1. Alice, who m. Sir John Woodford,
Lord of Ashby Folville.

The eldest son,

SIR JOHN DE WHATTON, of Whatton in the Vale, and of Long Whatton, in Leicestershire, 12 HENRY IV. m. Mellicent, daughter of the Lady Eleonora de Newmarche, "Domina de Whatton in comitatu Nottinghamiæ," by her former husband, Thomas de

wickshire. By her he had with two daughters, Alice, who died s. p. and Margaret, a son and heir, Robert de Whatton, Lord of Scarrington, who succeeded to the family estates, but dying s. p. was succeeded by his sister and heiress, Margaret de Whatton, "Domina de Scarrington," who married Sir William Bagot, of Baginton Castle, in Warwickshire, temp. HENRY IV. and had a son, Thomas Bagot, who died young, and a daughter, Isabel Bagot, his heiress, who married Thomas Stafford, of Pipe, in Staffordshire, by whom she had a son and heir, Richard Stafford, five years of age, 4 HENRY VI. who died young, whereupon the manors of Wapenbury and Eathorpe reverted to the family of Beler, of the county of Leicester.

Baginton Castle was memorable on the occasion of a joust between the Dukes of Hereford and Norfolk, 20 RICHARD II., the former nobleman being entertained there with great magnificence; whence he proceeded, on the morning of the contest, mounted upon his white courser and armed at all points, to Coventry, the place of trial.

Malveysyn. Sir John impaled: Gules, three bendlets argent, and had issue three sons and a daughter,

1. John, Prior of Ulvescrofte, 6 ED-
WARD IV., a religious house of Friars,
of the Order of St. Augustine, founded
by Roger de Quincie, Earl of Win-
chester, and which bore the arms of
the founder: gules seven mascles con-
joined or. The friars, Polydore Vir-
gil affirmeth, for their habit wore in
their cloister, a white garment close
girt, and when they went out a black
one over it, with a broad leathern
girdle, and a black cornered cap. To
the Priory a magnificent seat be-
longed, called Charley, which the
Priors held for the diversion of hunt-
ing and hawking, the red deer of
Charnwode being at that time in high
estimation. The ruins of Ulvescrofte,
a lofty tower and other fragments,
stand in the forest of Charnwode, and
in a valley abounding with bold and
beautiful scenery.

11. Robert, of whom presently.
III. Richard, whose sons, Richard and
Robert, were feoffees with Sir Thomas
Gresley, Sir William Bassett, and
others, of the manors and lands of the
last Lord Bassett, of Drayton, and
who, 12 HENRY VII. conveyed the
manor of Long Whatton to Sir Ralph
Shirley, whose descendant Sir Henry
Shirley, baronet, died seised of it in
1633-4.

1. Margaret, Domina de Scarrington,
who m. Sir Thomas de Rempston, of
Rempston in Nottinghamshire, knight
of the Garter, Constable of the Tower,
Admiral of the West parts, temp.
HENRY IV. by whom she had issue.
Sir Thomas de Rempston carried:
argent a chevron sable with a mullet
pierced in the dexter point sable, and
impaled the shield of Whatton. Lady
Rempston succeeded to the manor of
Scarrington, and the lands and rents
at Whatton in the Vale, Bingham,
Kercolston, Wyverton, Titheby,
Kniveton, Aslacton, and, by grant
from Lady Bagot, her cousin, and
which ultimately passed from the
Rempston's to the families of Cheyne,
Stapleton, and William, Lord Vaux,
of Harrowdon.

ROBERT DE WHATTON, of Long Whatton, 9 HENRY V., second son and heir of Sir John, married Catharine Leke, of Nottingham, and had issue; 1, John; 2, Thomas, of Mountsorrell, 6 HENRY VI; 3, Richard; 4, Philip; and 5, Agnes.

On his tomb, on a brass plate, in Long Whatton church, these arms: quarterly,

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JOHN WHATTON, of Long Whatton, Member of Parliament for Leicestershire, 38 HENRY VI., m. Margaret, daughter of Thomas, son of Sir Robert Woodford, Lord of Ashby Folville, son of Sir Robert Woodford, knight banneret, one of the heroes of Agincourt, by Isabel, his wife, daughter of Sir William Neville, Lord of Rolleston, a descendant, in the direct line of Maldred Fitz Crinan, an eminent Thane, and Algith, his wife, heiress of Raby, grand-daughter of ETHELRED II. King of England.

This John Whatton was at the battle of Bosworth-field, in which contest the two Kendalls, his companions in arms, were slain; his bearing was the same as his father's, quartered with De Herizss', and in Melton church, single, impaling: Woodford's shield; he had issue by Margaret, his wife: 1, Robert, born, 14 EDWARD IV.; 2, Geoffrey, born 16 EDWARD IV., who had a good moated mansion at Mapplewell, in the forest of Charnwode; 3, William; 4, Elizabeth; 5, Ambrose; and 6, Mary. William, the third son, was the progenitor of a younger branch of the family, which came to and resided at Long Whatton: this William had a son, Robert, whose son, Robert, by Margaret, his wife, had seven children, the eldest of whom, George, was born 16th August, 1555, and died in 1587, leaving two daughters and co-heiresses, Anne, and Elizabeth, who m. William Eyre, of Belton.

ROBERT WHATTON, of Long Whatton, the eldest son and heir of John and Margaret his wife, m. a daughter of William Kendall, of Smithesby Hall, in Derbyshire, and Twycross in Leicestershire, he was the grandson of John, son of Thomas Kendall and Elizabeth his wife, daughter and heiress of Richard Fitzherbert, with whom he had the manor of Twycross: Robert Whatton bore the same shield of arms as his father, quartered with De Herizss', and impaled: gules a fess checky or and azure between three eagles displayed or, Kendall, and by her had a son and heir,

ROBERT WHATTON, of Long Whatton, 21 HENRY VII., and of Wykin Hall, Leicestershire, who m. Margaret, the niece of Alice Curteys, of Raunstone, in Leicestershire; this Robert Whatton died at Long Whatton, and was interred there 10th March, 1554, leaving by Margaret his only wife, who survived him, one daughter, Elizabeth, and a son,

JOHN WHATTON, of Thurnby and Raunstone, who m. Sence Penburye of Loseby, in Leicestershire, the grand-daughter of Elizabeth Penburye, of Northamptonshire, sometime the wife of William Waryn, and the daughter of William Ashby,* of Loseby Hall, and Agnes his wife, the daughter of Sir Richard Illingworth, Chief Baron of the Exchequer. By Sence Penburye his wife he had two sons,

I. WILLIAM, of whom hereafter.

11. JOHN, of Raunstone, and of the Nework, Leicester, who was high sheriff of Leicestershire, 14 CHARLES I., esquire of the body to the king, and in the commission of the peace; his first wife was Elizabeth Orpwood, widow, the niece of Sir William Herrick, of Beaumanor, by whom he had no issue; by his second wife Catharine, the daughter of Thomas Babington of Rothley Temple, in Leicestershire, he had three sons and three daughters: 1, Sir John Whatton, of Leicester Town, and East Sheen in Surrey, who m. Margaret, the daughter of Sir Thomas Dacre, of St. Andrew-le-Mott, in Hertfordshire, and Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Sir Robert Austen, bart. of Bexley, in the county of Kent, by whom he had two daughters and co-heiresses: Angelica, and Margaret, who died in their infancy. The Wykin and Bud

The lineage of William Ashby is deduced as follows: he was the son of Thomas, grandson of Richard de Ashby, of Loseby, and Elizabeth his wife, daughter and heiress of John Burdett, of Loseby, and Elizabeth his wife, daughter and heiress of Sir Roger de la Zouch, of Lubbesthorpe in Leicestershire, grandson of Roger, second son of Sir Eudo de la Zouch, of Haryngworth, in Northamptonshire, and Millicent his wife, sister and co-heiress of George de Cantilupe, Baron of Abergavenny, which Sir Eudo was the second son of Sir Alan de la Zouch, baron of Ashby de la Zouch, constable of the Tower, and Helen his wife, daughter and co-heiress of Roger de Quincie, Earl of Winchester, and Helen his wife, which Roger was the son of Saier de Quincie, Earl of Winchester, and Margaret his wife, daughter and co-heiress of Robert de Bellomonte, surnamed Blanchmaines, Earl of Leicester, son of Robert le Bossu, Earl of Leicester, son of Robert, Earl of Meillant and Leicester and Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Hugh, Comte de Vermandois, son of HENRY I. King of France. Helen the wife of heiress of Alan, Lord of Galloway, constable of Roger de Quincie was the daughter and coScotland, and Margaret his wife, daughter of David, Earl of Huntingdon, son of Henry, Earl of Huntingdon, son of DAVID 1., King of Scotland, son of MALCOLM III., King of Scotland, and MARY, the Queen, the daughter of EDMUND II., King of England.

don Wood estates came to this branch | the Sacheverells of Hopwell and the Cur-
by a family arrangement, and the zons of Kedleston; William Whatton and
former was sold by Sir John What- Lucy his wife had issue, 1, William, 40
ton in 1711, and the latter by his years of age in 1683, who m. and settled in
mother; from a monument in Ches- London and d. s. p.; 2, Thomas, who d.
hunt church he was interred there in his infancy; 3, John, 28 years of age in
with his wife and children. 2, The 1682, who d. s. p.; 4, Matthew, who d. in
Rev. Thomas Whatton, rector of his infancy; 5, Babington; 6, Tyldesley,
Knaptoft and Moseley, in Leicester- who d. in his infancy; 7, HENRY, a student
shire, whose daughter and heiress, at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1683, of
Ann, m. Trafford Smyth, (his second whom presently; 8, Catharine, unmarried
wife), by whom he had no issue. 3, in 1683. Babington Whatton, the fifth son,
The Rev. William Whatton, rector 24 years of age in 1683, had three children
of Knaptoft and Moseley, on the de- only, 1, Babington, b. 15th July, 1690, and
cease of his brother Thomas, and who d. s. p., he was so named by the desire
who had the Thurnby estate, and of his relation the Rev. William Whatton,
died a bachelor in 1735, possessed of the rector of Knaptoft and Moseley, who
considerable property. 4, Catharine intended him to have inherited the Thurnby
Whatton, who m. the Right Reverend estate; 2, Sence, b. 11th April, 1693; 3,
Thomas Hackett, Bishop of Down Mary, b. 12th July, 1696, and interred the
and Connor (1672) and whose daugh- 4th February following. Sence Whatton,
ter and heiress, Conway, m. Trafford the eldest daughter and heiress, never mar-
Smyth (his first wife) by whom she ried, she was interred on the 27th October,
had issue: Sir Trafford Smyth, of 1722, in her maiden name of "Sence Wat-
Upton, the fourth baronet, and three hon;" hence the descendants in the elder
other sons, all of whom died s. p., line in succession of Henry Whatton the
and one daughter, Conway, ulti- student became the next lineal heirs and
mately heiress, who m. Hugh Mills, heirs general of the family. This gentle-
and by whom he had a daughter and man,
heiress Conway Mills, who was never
married. 5, Sence Whatton, whom.
Sir Thomas Ogle, governor of Chel-
sea College, (1691), whose son and
heir, Captain Thomas Ogle, by the
lady Henrietta his wife, had two
daughters and co-heiresses, Henri-
etta and Harriet, who died in their
infancy, and were interred at Chel-
sea College. 6, Mary, who died in
her infancy. John Whatton died
in 1656, at the age of seventy, and
was interred in St. Martin's church
at Leicester; his monument was
placed in the middle of the north-
west wall, and on it are the busts of
himself and his two wives.

The eldest son and heir of John and Sence
his wife,

WILLIAM WHATTON, of Newtown Linford, who had there a good family mansion, m. Ann, the daughter of Tyldesley Monk of Whitwick, in Leicestershire, and died in 1642, aged 74 years, leaving by her a daughter Mary, who m. William Rolleston, of the county of Nottingham, and a son and heir,

WILLIAM WHATTON, of Newtown Linford, one of the commissioners appointed in 1687, to inquire into and redress the grievances of all the charities in the county, who m. Lucy, daughter of Thomas Babington, esq., of Rotheley Temple, by Catharine, his wife, a daughter of Henry Kendall, of Smithesby Hall. and Helen his wife, daughter of Henry Sacheverell, of Radcliffe, a descendant of

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The REV. HENRY WHATTON, M. A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, was vicar of Humberstone, Leicestershire, in 1704; his armorial bearing from his seal appears to have been, quarterly, 1 and 4, a bend, between six cross crosslets, charged with three besants, 2 and 3 three hedgehogs; he was interred at Humberstone, and left, with other issue by Mary, his wife, a son and successor,

HENRY WHATTON, of Nottingham, who m. Margaret, the daughter of Arundel Blunt, or Blount, esq. of Nottingham, and Elizabeth his wife. A brass plate, on a tombstone, in the middle aisle of St. Peter's church, gives the interment of Arundel Blunt, and his shield: barry nebule of six or and sable; Crest, a wolf passant sable; he was descended, in a direct line, from Sir Walter Blunt and Sanchia D'Ayala his wife, whose armorial bearing, argent two wolves sejeant sable, on a bordure or sixteen lions' paws crossed gules, quartered: argent a tower azure, castile. Henry Whatton and Margaret his wife had a daughter Elizabeth, and two sons, Henry and William, who were educated for the University; he d. at Nottingham and was interred in St. Peter's church.

The eldest son and heir of Henry and Margaret,

HENRY WHATTON, of Nottingham, was

The Rev. William Whatton was vicar of

Loxley, in Warwickshire. He m. Elizabeth de la Maine, and d. s. p.

educated at Queen ELIZABETH'S Grammar School at Mansfield; he espoused the interest of the Stuart family in their memorable struggle to recover the crown of England, and, after participating in the vicissitudes of that eventful period, retired to Mansfield, and was interred there; his seal was the same his grandfather used; by Christiana James his wife he left issue: 1, Elizabeth; 2, Henry; 3, William; and 4, James, who died young.

The eldest son,

HENRY WHATTON, of Loughborough Parks, in Leicestershire, m. Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of John Watkinson, grandson of the Rev. Henry Watkinson, vicar of Beeston, in Nottinghamshire, whose bearing was, or a fess between three mullets azure; he was a branch of the Watkinson's of Ilkley, of which family was Henry Watkinson, L.L.D., chancellor of the diocese of York, who used a distinct coat of arms: quarterly, argent and azure on a bend gules three roses argent. Henry Whatton bore, quarterly, 1 and 4, argent on a bend sable, between six cross crosslets gules, three besants, 2 and 3, azure three hedgehogs or, 2 and 1, De Heriz, with an escutcheon for Watkinson, an engraving of which is given by Nichols, in his history of the county of Leicester, with a note on the family seal; he became heir to the Blunts of Nottingham, to whose property he succeeded in 1782; he d. in 1815, and by Elizabeth his wife left four sons,

1. HENRY WATKINSON, the present heir,
representative of the family.
11. John, who m. Mary Ann, daughter
of John Matthews Hopkins, formerly
mayor of Northampton.
111. William Robert, F.R.S. and F.S.A.
Lond. and Ed., who m. Harriet So-
phia, the niece of the late Lieutenant-
general Seddon, and died in December

1836.

IV. George.

Arms--QUARTERLY:

1, 15. Argent on a bend sable between six cross crosslets gules three besants: Whatton.

2. Azure ten besants, 4, 3, 2, and 1: Biset.

3. Barry nebule of six or gules: Basset.

4. Quarterly, or and gules a bendlet sable: De Malbanc.

5. Argent a fret gules on a canton
gules, a lion of England: De Dun-
stanville.

6. Gules two lions of England with a
baton sinister azure: Fitzhenry.
7. Argent a lion rampant per fess
gules and sable: De Luvetot.

8. Sable a chevron or between three crescents argent: Le Palmer.

9. Argent on two bars azure three cinquefoils or, 2 and 1: De Stapleford.

10. Party per pale gules and sable, a lion rampant argent, crowned or: Beler of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.

11. Argent frette sable an escutcheon gules: De Ryvers, or De la Ry

vere.

12. Azure three hedgehogs or, 2 and 1, De Heriz.

13. Barry nebule of six or and sable : Blunt or Blount.

14. Or, a fess between three mullets azure: Watkinson. Crest-An eagle sable, beaked or, rising out of a ducal coronet argent. Borne by inheritance from the family of Beler. Motto-Fidei coticula crux. Estates-In Leicestershire. Seat-Osmaston Cottage, Derbyshire.

Family of Be Kybers, or De la Rybere.

RICHARD DE RYVERS, DE RIPARIIS, of Ongar Castle (anciently written Angre and Aungre) Lord of Ongar and Stanford Ryvers in Essex and of Tormerton and Littleton in Gloucestershire, 51 HENRY III., m. Matilda, daughter and co-heiress of Richard de Lucie, Lord of Diss, in Norfolk, chief justice of England, and lieutenant of the kingdom, in the reign of King JOHN. Richerected into an honor, and built the castle, ard de Lucie got the lordship of Ongar, which stood on a high artificial hill, surrounded by a large moat and extensive fortifications. By Matilda his wife, Richard de Ryvers had three sons, 1, Richard; 2, John; and 3, Baldwin; Richard, the eldest, died in the lifetime of his mother, leaving Richard his only son and heir (for whose wardship Philip Basset gave 1000 marks) surviving, who had in frankmarriage the manors of Westhrop and Hampton, in Wiltshire, and Storden, in Gloucestershire, &c.; he d. s. p., and was succeeded by his uncle,

JOHN DE RYVERS, de Ripariis, of Ongar Castle, Lord of Ongar, Stanford Ryvers, Tormerton, Littleton, &c.; he d. 22 EDWARD I. leaving two sons,

1. JOHN, his heir.

II. Richard, who had the manors of Westhrop and Hampton, ratione fratriagii, he left two sons, John and Richard, who succeeded to them, and d. s. p. The elder son,

JOHN, LORD DE RYVERS, of Ongar Castle, Lord of Ongar, Tormerton, Littleton, &c. was summoned to and sat in Parliament,

Sir John de Heriz was the son and heir of John, brother and heir of Henry, grandson and heir of Robert, brother and heir of William de Heriz, of Wyverton, in Nottinghamshire, a branch by a younger son of the House of Vendôme, and who is mentioned under the scutage of the barons, 18 HENRY II.

as a baron, by the name of Johannes de and Margaret the younger daughter of Sir Ripariis, on the 8th March, 1299, 6th | Richard de Ryvers (or De la Ryvere) and March, 1300, 20th January, 1301, and, on the heirs of their bodies; remainder to the the 12th February following, joined the ba- right heirs of Sir John de Heriz, who d. rons in an address to the Pope, which he seised of these manors, 3 EDWARD III. signed by the style and title of "Johannes de Ripariis, Dn's de Angre;" his lordship was also summoned to, and sat in Parliament as a baron, on the 1st July and 29th September, 1302, 16th February, 1305, 20th January, and 13th October, 1307; Lord de Ryvers was summoned amongst the barons to the coronation of King EDWARD the Second, on the 18th February, The issue of Sir Richard de Ryvers and 1308; he d. 5 EDWARD II. seised of "Aun- Matilda de Heriz his second wife were gre Hundr," leaving two sons; 1, John; three daughters; Margaret the elder, and and 2, Sir RICHARD, of Ryvers Hall, of Margaret the younger, of whom presently; whom presently; he was succeeded in his and Sarah, who m. John Garlek, who had title and estates by his eldest son and heir, with her a moiety of the Dodyngton estate, JOHN, LORD DE RYVERS, de Ripariis, of by whom she had Walter, her only child, Ongar Castle, Lord of Ongar, Tormerton, | who d. s. p., hence the entirety of that proLittleton, &c. who was summoned to, and perty passed to Sir Robert de Swillington. sat in Parliament as a baron, on the 18th March, 8th July, and 23rd September, 1313, | 21st April, and 9th September, 1314, and 20th January, 1315, and d. 8 EDWARD II. seised of the manors of Esthornyngdone Somerset, Tormerton and Littleton, Wormenhale, Bucks, Wotton, (or Wootton-Ryvers) Wilts, and half a knight's fee in Ac-wife, ton-Turvile, Glouc., leaving by Dionysia his wife, who had the township of Stretlee, in Cambridgeshire, à son and heir only; JOHN DE RYVERS, who sold the Ongar estate to John de Sutton 13 EDWARD III. | and d. s. p. 32 EDWARD III. His uncle and heir,

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Sir Richard de Ryvers d. 36 EDWARD III. leaving also by Emma his third wife, two sons, SIR THOMAS, and Henry, who had Tormerton, ratione fratriagii, and was high sheriff of Gloucestershire. He d. s. p. 3 HENRY IV.

The son of Sir Richard, by Emma, his third

SIR THOMAS DE RYVERS, succeeded to the manors of Tormerton,* Littleton, Westhrop, Hampton, Wyke, Storden, &c. and d. s. p. 7 HENRY IV., seised of Westhrop manor, leaving Isabel, his wife, surviving, who bad the manors of Tormerton, Littleton, Shirrewell, and Yate, of which she d. seised 15 HENRY, VI. The lineage, therefore, of Sir Richard de Ryvers by his first and third wives became entirely extinct. Sir Thomas's half sister,

MARGARET DE RYVERS the elder, m. SIR ROGER BELEr.

SIR RICHARD DE RYVERS, de Ripariis, of Ryvers Hall, and Boxted, in Essex, succeeded to the manors of Tormerton, Littleton, Westhrop, Hampton, Wyke, Storden, &c. and m. first, Maude, daughter and heiress of Sir John le Breton, who died 34 EDWARD I. seised of certain demesnes in Previously to continuing the descendants Boxted, and lands at Dodyngton, Blather- of Margaret de Ryvers, we will give some wyk, and Leyton, or Laxton, in Northamp-details of the family of her husband: tonshire, by whom he had one child, Margaret, who d. s. p. 49 EDWARD III. seised of the Dodyngton and Blatherwyk estate, which ultimately passed to Sir Robert de Swillington hereafter noticed.

Sir Richard de Ryvers m. secondly, Matilda, the daughter and heiress of Sir John de Heriz, of South Winfield, in Derbyshire, who settled by fine, 18 EDWARD II., the manors of Widmerpool and Gunnelveston, in Nottinghamshire and Winfield (or South Winfield) and Tibshelf, in Derbyshire, on himself for life; then on Roger Beler (of whom presently) for his life; afterwards to Roger, the son of Roger Beler, and Margaret, the elder daughter of Sir Richard de Ryvers (therein called Richard de la Ryvere, Knight) and the heirs of their bodies; afterwards to Thomas, son of Roger Beler,

Sir Roger Beler was the eldest son of Roger, Lord Beler, baron of Criche, in Derbyshire, who had there a capital mansion, park, and jurisdiction, 18 EDWARD II. son of William de Beler, of Kirkby Park, in Leicestershire, 14 EDWARD I., son of Roger, son of Ralph, Lord Beler, son of Sampson, son of Hamon, Lord Beler, who took that surname, son of Nigel, Lord

*Tormerton very anciently had its baronial hall, the principal part of which was demolished in the great rebellion, but the ruins of a stately lodge appear to have been standing in the last century. The manor had passed through the families of Willington and Drayton, by whom it had been held at intervals. After the family of De Ryvers, Sir John St. Loe became the next proprietor.

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