I have often commented on the extremely interconnected ancestries of a “middling” section of English that orbited their superior lords as their tenants, always plotting, as some game of marital chess, a strategy to marry into their lord’s family, so as to achieve “elevation”. The superior lords were almost invariably related to the Sheriffs of their county, the representatives of monarchy/the established order, and, as such, a marriage into their ranks was a means of aquiring political protection in perilous times. That is, marriages were not haphazard events, as creations of Hollywood, neither in England, nor later, in early Virginia – they were a result of planning that gave a chance of survival and economic wellbeing. They kept the wolves from the door.

These notes concern the families of the daughters of Sir Thomas Leighton and his mistress, Ann, dau. of Roger Baker and his wife, Margery (probably Drayton or Hextall).

1. Roger Baker.
1.1. Ann Baker, b. ca. 1460, the mistress of Thomas Leighton, and neither his ist or 2nd wife. Ann Baker was the mistress of Sir Thomas Leighton before he married Elizabeth Devereux, and, almost certainly, afterwards. As his Will provides for nine children by Anne Baker, he clearly did not form a liason with her at the age of 64, after Elizabeth Devereux died in 1516. “Sir Thomas Leighton, who like his father, was settled at Stretton en le Dale, was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Walter Devereux, Lord Ferrers of Chartley and widow of Sir Richard Corbet, who died in 1492. He is said to have had a second wife in Ann Baker, but his Will clearly showed that he was never married that lady. By this will Sir Thomas expressed a desire that Ann Baker for her service done to me “shall have the profits of my Mills of All Stretton during her life to the finding of her and her children and after her decease ‘the remainder thereof to my right heirs for ever’. As Dame Elizabeth Leighton did not die until 1516 (3 years before her husband) and his will was made shortly before his death, it seems certain that his children by Ann Baker were illegitimate, though the Herald’s Visitation gives no hint of this” (scandelous behaviour). (Trans. Shrop. Arch., p. 30, 1928).

Of the six daughters of Sir Thomas Leighton and Ann Baker: Anchoret, and Matilda, who died unmarried; Joyce, who married William Spencer, of Whitton, in Shropshire; Elizabeth, wedded to James Leche, of Newtown, in Montgomeryshire; Margaret, who married John Parry; and Alice, who married John Hawkes. (Stemmata Botevilliana, p. 169, 1858).

111. JOYCE LEIGHTON AND WILLIAM SPENCER

(1. William Spencer, of Whitton, m. Anna, dau. of Jenkyn Kynaston.
1.1. William Spencer, m. (1) “Joyce, base dau. of Richard Barker”, and probable sister of John Barker, who married a sister of Sir Rowland Hill,* having issue: James Barker, who came to possess Haughmond Abbey.
1.1.1. William Spencer, m. (2), Joyce, dau. of “Thomas Leighton “militis”.
1.1.1.1. Thomas Spencer, 4th son, m. Margaret, dau. of Thomas Williams, and relict of Nicholas Purslow, brother of John Purslowe of Sidbury (b. ca. 1530, bur. March 13, 1593-4), who m. (1) (1566) Constance, dau. of Richard Newport of Honingham; (2) 1576-7) Dorothy, dau. of Sir George Blount of Kinlet and Constance Talbot, having issue: Katherine Purslowe, who m. Richard Hill of Bickley (son of William of Bickley), having issue: Dorothy Hill, who m. John Holland of Pickthorn (son of Michael Holland, of Pickthorne), having issue: Thomas Holland (bapt. May 15, 1648), who m. (April 9, 1678), Elizabeth Kettleby; they the probable parents of Michael Holland of Goochland. Michael Holland of Pickthorne was the son of Thomas Holland, and Alicia, “fil. Thomas Cocke of Pickthorne”, second-cousin of Richard Cocke, of “Malvern Hills”, Henrico.

Constance Talbot was the sister of Margaret Talbot, who m. (1) Sir Richard Ligon, of Arle, Madresfield, brother of Thomas Ligon, who m. Frances Dennys (cousin), having issue: Thomas Ligon, who m. (Oct. 10, 1602), Elizabeth Pratt; having issue: Col. Thomas Ligon, who m. Mary Harris, born in 1625 in Ludlow, by deposition, sister of Major William Harris, bapt. 1627/8; neighbour of the said Richard Cocke. By his first wife, Mary Russell, Sir Richard Ligon had issue: Katharine Ligon, who m. Fleetwood Dormer, Esq., who m. (2) Mary Harris, second-cousin of the said Mary and William Harris.

The said Richard Newport was the eldest son of Thomas Newport of High Ercall, and Anne, dau. of Sir Robert Corbet of Moreton Corbet, son of Robert Corbet and Elizabeth Devereux, who m. (2) “Thomas Leighton “militis”, the father of the wife of John Parry, ancestor of the second-cousins, Mary Harris, 2nd wife of Fleetwood Dormer, and Mary and William Harris of Virginia.

WILLIAMS
1. William, m. Gwenhever v. David Llloyd ap Sir Griffith Vichan of Dyther .
1.1. Reginald ap William, m (1) Margaret, dau. of Fulk Lee of Langley.
1.1.1. Thomas Williams of Willaston, sheriff of Montgomeryshire in 1560, m. Blanche, dau. of Robert Powell of Park Hall, Whittington.
1.1.1.1. Elynor Williams, m. Thomas Corbet of Lee*.
1.1.1.2. Margaret Williams m (1) Nicholas Purslow of Sidbury (dvp,1563), (2) Thomas Spencer of Witton.
1.1.2. Robert Williams of Winington, b. ca. 1525, m. Margaret, dau. of Thomas Jennyns of Wallibone.

CORBET OF LEE
1. Thomas Corbet, of Lee, m. Jane, dau. of Roger Kynaston.
1.1. John Corbet, of Lee, m (1), Margaret, dau. of Thomas Blount, Sheriff.
1.1.1. William Corbet, of Lee, m. Alice, dau. of Thomas Lacon of Willey and Maria, dau. of Richard Corbet and Elizabeth Devereux.
1.1.1.1. Thomas Corbet of Aston, m. Elynor, dau. of Thomas Williams of Willaston.

JENNYNS
1. Thomas Jennyns of Wallibone, m. Elianora, dau. of Rowland Jay.
1.1. Rowland Jennyns, m. Elizabeth, dau. of William Bromley.
1.1.1. Thomas Jennyns of Wallibone, m. Katherine, dau. of William Oteley of Pitchford, and sister of Dorothy Oteley, who m. John Leighton (Vis. Shrop. 1623), son of Sir Thomas Leighton and his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Walter Devereux. John Leighton was the br. of Richard Leighton, who m. Katherine Harrys, likely sister of John Parry/Harrys, who m. a dau. of Sir Thomas Leighton and his mistress, Ann Baker..
1.1.1.1. William Jennyns of Wallibone, m. Cecilia, dau. of *John Leighton of Wattlesborough, son of Sir Thomas Leighton and Elizabeth Devereux/Corbet.
1.1.1.2. Elianora Jennyns, m. Richard Harris of Cruckton, son of John Parry and Margaret Leighton, dau. of Sir Thomas Leighton and his mistress, Ann Baker. (Visitation pedigree corrected to be compatible with chronology).
1.1.3. Margaret Jennyns, m. Robert Williams of Winington.

BLOUNT
1. Humphrey Blount of Kinlet, Sheriff of Shrop. (d. 1477), m. Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Winnington of Delves, Cheshire.
1.1. Sir Thomas Blount of Kinlet, Sheriff of Shrop. (b. ca. 1455, d. 1525), m. Ann, dau. of Sir Richard Croft.
1.1.1. Sir John Blount of Kinlet (b. 1484), m. Katherine, dau. of Sir Hugh Pershall of Knightly, Staffordshire.
1.1.1.1. George Blount of Kinlet, Sheriff of Shropshire (d 1582), m. Constance, dau. of John Talbot, whose sister, Margaret Talbot, to repeat, m. (1) Sir Richard Ligon, of Arle, Madresfield, brother of Thomas Ligon, who m. Frances Dennys (cousin), having issue: Thomas Ligon, who m. (Oct. 10, 1602), Elizabeth Pratt; having issue: Col. Thomas Ligon, who m. Mary Harris, born in 1625 in Ludlow, by deposition, sister of Major William Harris, bapt. 1627/8; neighbour of Richard Cocke. By his first wife, Mary Russell, Sir Richard Ligon had issue: Katharine Ligon, who m. Fleetwood Dormer, Esq., who m. (2) Mary Harris, second-cousin of the said Mary and William Harris.
1.1.1.1.1. Dorothy Blount, m. (1) John Purslowe of Sudbury, as his 2nd wife, Katherine Purslowe, who m. Richard Hill of Bickley , having issue: Dorothy Hill, who m. John Holland of Pickthorn, son of Michael Holland of Pickthorne, the son of Thomas Holland, and Alicia, “fil. Thomas Cocke of Pickthorne”, second-cousin of Richard Cocke, of “Malvern Hills”, Henrico.

1.1.2. MARGARET LEIGHTON AND JOHN PARRY

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1.1. Miles ap Harri (b. ca. 1440, d. 1488), of Newcourt, Steward of Dore Abbey, m. Jane, dau. of Sir Harri Stradling, of St. Donat’s Castle, by Elizabeth, sister of Sir William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke. Sir Harri Stradling was the brother of Katherine, d. Nov. 1, 1437, who m. Maurice Denys (Denys/Ligon, as follows). Miles ap Harri was the son of Henry Griffith (Harri Ddu ap Gruffudd), esq. (b. ca. 1403, d. by 1478), of Newcourt, Bacton, Herefordshire, Steward of Dore Abbey, was associated with the “Devereux-Herbert gang”. (Herbert, A. (1981), ‘Herefordshire, 1413–61: Some Aspects of Society and Public Order’, R. Griffiths (ed.), Patronage, the Crown and the Provinces in Later Medieval England (Gloucester), p. 107.

1.1.1. Henry (Harry) ap Miles (b. ca. 1470, d. 1522), Sheriff of Herefs., Steward of Dore Abbey; m. Alice, dau. of Simon Milbourne and Jane Baskerville, son of John Milbourne and Elizabeth Devereux, whose great-niece of the same name m. (1) Sir Richard Corbet, (2) Sir Thomas Leighton.

1.2. John Parry (ap Harri), b. ca. 1435, d.1488), old enough to participate in armed conflict by 1456. “The earliest mention of a Harris of Cruckton is in 1463, when it was held by John Harries, who died about 1488. He was succeeded by his son John, who resided there in 1520, and died about 1530. His great grandson John, who inherited the Cruckton estate – had issue: Rowland Harris of Ludlow, Arthur Harris of Prescot,* and Richard Harris of Cruckton**. (Salopian Shreds and Patches, vol. 1 p. 81, 1875).

(1. *Arthur Harris, m. Jane Newton, of Prescot, Shropshire.
1.1. Thomas Harris, Esq., of Prescot, m. (1632), Alice Holland, dau. of William Holland, bapt. (1574) at Burwarton, and buried there in 1642 (Will proved P.C.C. 94 Campbell), son of Thomas Holland, bur. (1612) at Stottesden, and Alicia, second-cousin of Richard Cocke, b. 1597, in Pickthorne, Stottesdon; bapt. Dec. 13, 1597 at Sidbury, Shropshire; obit. Bremo Bluff, Henrico, 1665, whose son, Thomas, was named as a “friend” in the Will of Major William Harris).
1.2.1. John Parry (b. ca. 1475, d. ca. 1530), m. aft 1516 (almost certainly as his 2nd wife), Margaret dau. of Sir Thomas Leighton (and his mistress Anne Baker), to whom her father left, with her siblings, profits from Cardeston and other manors, for life.

1.2.1. Richard Harris of Cruckton, b. ca. 1518, m. Eleanor Jennyns, of Wallybone. He was the cousin of (1) Thomas Spencer, who, to repeat, for it bears it, m. Margaret, dau. of Thomas Williams, and relict of Nicholas Purslow, brother of John Purslowe of Sidbury (b. ca. 1530, bur. March 13, 1593-4), who m. (1) (1566) Constance, dau. of Richard Newport of Honingham; (2) 1576-7) Dorothy, dau. of Sir George Blount of Kinlet and Constance Talbot, having issue: Katherine Purslowe, m. Richard Hill of Bickley (son of William of Bickley), having issue: Dorothy Hill, who m. John Holland of Pickthorn (son of Michael Holland, of Pickthorne).

Constance Talbot was the sister of Margaret Talbot, who m. (1) Sir Richard Ligon, of Arle, Madresfield, brother of Thomas Ligon, who m. Frances Dennys (cousin), having issue: Thomas Ligon, who m. (Oct. 10, 1602), Elizabeth Pratt; having issue: Col. Thomas Ligon, who m. Mary Harris, born in 1625 in Ludlow, by deposition, sister of Major William Harris, bapt. 1627/8; neighbour of the said Richard Cocke.

By his first wife, Mary Russell, Sir Richard Ligon had issue: Katharine Ligon, who m. Fleetwood Dormer, Esq., who m. (2) Mary Harris, second-cousin of the said Mary and William Harris. (2) James Leche of Newtown, as follows, whose brother m. Jane, dau. of Sir Michael Dormer, uncle of Peter Dormer, of Lee Grange, grandfather of the said Fleetwood Dormer, Esq

1.2.1.1. John Harris (b. ca. 1541), held the Cruckton estate of the manor of Pontesbury. He m. Eleanor (b. ca. 1545), dau. Thomas Prowde, of Sutton, near Shrewsbury.
1.2.1.1.1. Rowland Harris (b. ca. 1566, 2nd son, d. 1605), of Ludlow, m. (Sept. 14, 1595), Jane Langford, bapt. Oct. 10, 1567. She m. (2) Edward Lewis of Diddlebury. Rowland’s brother, Richard, held the Cruckton estate of the manor of Pontesbury.
1.2.1.1.1.1. John Harris, bapt. March 5, 1604, in Ludlow, m. Margaret Holland.
1.2.1.1.1.1.1. Mary Harris, bapt. April 3, 1625, in Ludlow. In 1689, Mary (Harris) Ligon gave a deposition in Henrico stating her age to be 64. She m. Thomas Ligon.
1.2.1.1.1.1.2. William Harris, bapt. Jan. 13, 1627/8, in Ludlow. On June 22, 1663, a Major William Harris acquired 450 ac. in Henrico Co., on the N. side of the James River, to a 4 mile creek, called by name “the Slashes”, E. upon the “Malverne Hills” plantation of Richard Cocke, p. 304.
1.2.1.1.2. *Richard Harris, obit. 1631, m. Anna Smalman, obit. 1650, dau. of Thomas Smalman, of Wilderhope.
1.2.1.1.2.1. Mary Harris, second wife of Fleetwood Dormer, son of Sir Fleetwood Dormer, and Mary Isham, aunt of Henry Isham, of Bermuda Hundred, who m. Katherine Banks, relict of Joseph Royal; their issue being: (1) Anne Isham, who m. Col. Francis Eppes, (2) Mary Isham, who m. Col. William Randolph, named as a ‘friend’ in the Will of Major William Harris. Fleetwood Dormer’s first wife was Katherine Ligon, second-cousin of Thomas Ligon, whose son and namesake m. *Mary Harris, second-cousin of Mary Harris Dormer).

1.1.3. ELIZABETH LEIGHTON AND JAMES LECHE

The Dormer connection:

James Leche was the “s. of James Leche of Newtown by a da. of Sir Robert Stonefield of Carden, Cheshire; m. Elizabeth (illegit.) da. of Sir Thomas Leighton of Wattlesborough, Salop, 1s. 2da. suc. fa. by 1518”. (S.T. Bindoff, Hist. Parl., 1982).

He was the cousin of John Leche of Carden, who m. Jane, dau. of Sir Michael Dormer, who in 36 Hen. VIII. had a grant of land in Newton from the Abbey of Haughmond. The said Jane Dormer’s mother was a sister of *Sir Rowland Hill. (William Valentine, The Sheriffs of Montgomeryshire, pp. 54, 55, 1876).
Sir Rowland Hill came to possess lands in Shropshire where the Baker and Newport families had been tenants:

HILL, Sir ROWLAND, Knight, 10 September, 34 Hen. 8. Sec. 1. No request. Rents and Farms in Slepe, Kenersey, Crogelton, Tyberton, Great Aston, Osbaston, Betterys, and Terne (Shropshire), late of the Monastery of Shrewsbury (Shropshire), Rents and Farms in Terne in the parish of Ercall (Shropshire), and in Coldehatton and Blecheley (Shropshire), late of the Monastery of Lilleshull (Shropshire). 1543.

HILL, Sir ROWLAND, Knight, 24 February, 35 Hen. 8. Sec. 2. Request to purchase (with Seal) (1) Farm of the Manor of Uffington (Shropshire), and Farms in Wythington in the parish of Ruddington (Shropshire), in Haughton under Haughmounde and Downton in the parishes of Great Ercall and Upton (Shropshire), and in Walcot in the parish of Wellington (Shropshire), late of the Monastery of Haghmon (Shropshire). 1544.

HILL, Sir ROWLAND, Knight, 30 March, 37 Hen. 8. Sec. 5. Request to purchase (1)— The Value of Tenths or Annual Rents reserved to the King out of the following Manors, &c., viz. :- Out of the Scite and Demesne Lands of the late Monastery of Haughmond (Shropshire), and the Granges of Syndorne and Whomberne (Shropshire), and Farms in Ray (Shropshire), belonging to the same; Farms in Hopton, Hopley, Naington, Whitington, Haughton, Downton, and Walcote (Shropshire), late of the Monastery of Haughmond (Shropshire); Farms in Tyberton, and Lands called Hidislands (Shropshire), late of the Monasteries of Haughmond and Wombridge (Shropshire), Farms in Newtowne or Haughton (Shropshire), late of the Monastery of Haughmond, Farms in Betton, Tunstall, Rygerdyn, Norton, Little Drayton, and Wollerton (Shropshire), Farm of the Manor of Slepe, with the Hamlets of Kynassie and Cruggelton (Shropshire), and of lands in Tyberton, Great Aston, Osbaston, and Butley (Shropshire), late of the Monastery of Shrewsbury (Shropshire); Farms in Terne, Arcall, Coldhatton, Blechely, and Uckington (Shropshire), late of the Monastery of Lilleshull (Shropshire), Farms in Cherington and Pudford (Shropshire), late of the Monastery of Wombridge (Shropshire), 1546. (Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Reports from the Commissioners, vol. 38, p. 228, 1848).

LECHE
1. John Leche, b. ca. 1430.
1.2.. John Leche of Carden, m. (1478), Margaret Mainwaring, dau. of George Mainwaring of Ightfield, son of William Mainwaring, br. of Margery (Mainwaring) Nedham, as follows.
1.2.1. John Leche, b. ca. 1480. His Will was dated July 30th, 1552: “John Leche, son and heir of John Leche of Carden Esq. by Margaret, daughter and heiress of George Mainwaring of Ightfield, married Agnes, daughter and coheiress of George Dorman of Malpas, by whom he had no issue. At his death the estate passed to his nephew John Leche”. (George John Piccope, ed., Lancashire and Cheshire Wills and Inventories from the Ecclesiastical Court, Chester, p. 109, 1861).
1.2.2. Henry Leche.
1.2.2.1. John Leche, b. ca. 1505, m. Jane Dormer, b. ca. 1510. (It was not he who m. Jane Fitton).
1.2.3. James Leche.
1.2.3.1. James Leche, d. 1554, named as a cousin (nephew) in the Will of John Leche, aforesaid; m. Elizabeth, illigitimate dau. of Sir Thomas Leighton, and sister of Margaret Leighton, wife of John Parry (Harris).

THE WILL OF JOHN LECHE OF CARDEN – given in full so as to add to the genealogical record, and to show a condition applied to bequests to female relatives – if they “use them selffes honestlye”. John Leche was a man of financial substance.

In Dei nomine amen The xvij daye of Maye in the yere of or Lorde God 1552 I John Leche of Carden wthin ye conttye of Chester, beynge in good myde &c. do make my laste wyll &c. ffyrste I bequeth my solle to Almyghtie God to be ass [ociated] wt ye blessyd compayne of electe sañette in heven trustyng ffaythfully therof through or Savior Christe Jesus and my body to be buryed in ye preche churche of Tilstone yf I depte at my howsse in ye said preche and yf so be yt I depte at anye other place then to be buryed in ye same preche church or yorde where I shall so depte accordyng as a Christian ought to be I wyll yt Anne nowe my wyff shall have her joynter of all my lande durynge her lyff naturall and also to have durynge her pure wyddohood and one yere next insueing after all yt my howsse in wch I inhabite and dwell wt all lande belongynge to ye same accordynge to a dede yt I have made to Willm Hill clarke, Thomas Wilbram, Rychard Wilbram, George Leche, William Leche (brothers) George Dorman and John Gratewood wch dede bayreth date ye iiij daye of Januarye in ye xxvijth yere of ye rainge of or late sovange lord Kyng Henre the viijth.

And I gyve to ye sayd Anne my wyffe ye howsse at Henshawe in wch Robart Kerrye dwelleth wt ye grond &c. duryng ye tyme of her wyddohood I gyve to John Leche sone to my brother Henre all my other lande and also ye lande aforsayd after the state be voyde yt my wyff hath in ye same to the sayd John and to ye heyris male of his bodye lawfullye begotten for ev he payinge yerelye unto my brother Henre his father twenttye shyllynge durynge ye naturall lyffe of Anne my wyff yf my sayd brother so longe do lyve and yf he fortune to ovlyve my sayd wyff then ye sayd John and his heyris to paye yerelye unto his sayd ffather ffoure pounde tenne shillynge durynge all ye tyme of his naturall lyffe and also pmyttynge his sayd father to haue ye tenement in wch he dwellethe wt ye grond and pertaynance wthout payenge any rent therfore where I holde by indenture of ye grante of Sir Ryc Maynwaringe knyght certeyne lande in ye lordshipe of Streytton wthin ye conttye of Chester.

Wch indenture beyreth date ye xvjth daye of November 1537 (for ye terme of lxxxij yeris next insuenge ye sayd date) all my wch indenture (and ferme) I have assigned to Sir Rowland Hill knyght, Sir Hugh Chomley knyght and Willm Botley of Hoore gent. wch writyng beyreth date ye xijth daye of October 1547 in wch writynge is a pviso yt yf Anne my wyffe do dysseace before th’ende of yearis wtin ye forsayd indenture mencionyd yt then after one howlle yere (and ye costome) next followynge ye dysseze and death of ye sayd Anne ye sayd gifte of assignement to be voyde and ye forsayd resedue of yeris then unexpired to reymaynge and goe to hym or them as I shuld apoynte by my laste wyll and testament (for I made ye sayd writynge to ye intent my wyff shuld be assured of ye sayd ferme durynge her naturall lyff.

Wherffore ye resedue of yeris unexpired aft the dethe of Anne my wyffe I gyve to my cossens James Hill and Henre Leche wt all ye pphette therof to this intent yt they shall resigne and assigne ye same to John Leche (sone to my brother Henre) yf so be yt he at ye demand of ye sayd James and Henre putte in sufficient shewertties to be bond in ye some of a hundert ponde to pforme these condissions ffollowynge ffyrste yt he make all suche assurances at ye ovsight of Anne my wyffe my brother William Leche my cossen James Hill my brother Henre Leche that no pte of my lande nor ye sayd ferme shall nev be sold or sett but to use all ye same (as I have done in my lyffe tyme) to his owne pper use and ye heyris male of his bodye lawfullye begotten.

Seconderlye yt he shalbe orderid and appowntyd what honeste woman he shall take to wyff by ye sayd Anne, William, James, and Henre or three of them and of ye mariage monye yt he shall have wt ye sayd woman to paye towarde ye mariage of Margerye and Jane sisters to ye sayd John twenttye mke.

Thrydlye yt he shall paye unto yo sayd James and Henre (and they to paye hit to ye use hereaf cified) twenttye and twoo mke wtin three yeris next insuenge ye death of Anne my wyff and yf ye sayd John refuce to pforme yo sayd condissions then the sayd James and Henre to assigne ye indenture (and ferme) to whom my executore shall appowntte I gyve &c. unto Anne my wyff all my instuffe or howssold stuffe (excepte a fetherbed a bolster a covenge to a bed a longe meate bord a nother syde bord wt ye tresselle to ye same ij coffers wch were my fathers and lafte unto me in ye name of herlomes (and a nother coffer wch I will gyve) the wch I will shall remaynge to John Leche my heyre aforsayd also my wayne cartte ploghes harrowes wt all other suche husbandrie stuffe therunto belongyng as cheynes &c. I gyve &c. to evi child of my bretherne and sisters naturall (havynge no other thynge appowntyd to them by this my testament) tenne shillynge.

To Anne Leche (dogh to my brother Robart dyss [eased] ffyve ponde to her mariage To Anne Leche (dogh to my unckell Robart dysseazed) fforttye shillynge to her mariage. I gyve to Alice Caltrot my servante fforttye shillynge to her mariage. To Jane and Alice doghtîs to my brother William Leche fforttye shillynge to ether of them to theyre mariages I gyve to Anne Carver my servante wenche twenttye shillynge to her mariage. To Katheryne Crue and to Anne Yardley my servantte to ether of them tenne shillynge to theyre mariages. To my cossen James Hill fforttye shillynge. To Roger sone to ye sayd James Hill a fillye mare. To Anne Hill sester to ye sayd Roger a kowe.

To my cossen James Leche fforttye shillynge towarde ye ffyndynge of hym at larnynge I gyve to my cossen Henre Leche (sone to my brother William) fforttye shillynge. To John Carden my servante a twelmonth old calfe. To Rondull Crue and Thomas Crue of Farntone [Farndon] to ether of theme ffoure shillynge. To Anne Highenhed my servante yf she dwell wt me at ye tyme of my dethe three shillynge and foure pence. I gyve to evi of my howssold servantte (not before namyd) three shillynge and foure pence. I gyve to pore folke my neyghbor (yt have no corne of theyre owne) to be bestowyd amongeste them in corne and malte at ye dyscressyon of my executre fforttye shillyng.

I gyve to Anne my wyff her nagge and ye grey maris colte. To evi of my god childer a lambe pvyded alwayis yt my herrodde wch I ought to paye be taken out my funeral dyscharged and debtte payd my wyff shall have halff of all my goode and cattelle (and besyde yt wch I have bequethed unto her) and the other halffe therof to be sold and goo to ye dyschargyng of ye bequest before specified.

I will yt all my bequeste shalbe payd as sone as maybe after my dysseze that wch is bequethed to men of lawful age to be payd to theyre owne hande and yt wch is bequethed to women (my wyff excepte) and to them und age to be putte to substanciall frende to goo forward to the pphet of the women (to theyre mariage) and childerne and the ffrends to be bonde for ye same bequeste accordyng to ye intent of this my testament pvyded always yt yf anye of the women to whome I haue bequethed anyethynge behave and use them selffes not lyke good women of theyre boddy that then ye shall have no pte of that wch I have to them bequethed but the same theyre porcions to goo to ye mariages of other my poore kynswomen yt use them selffes honestlye at ye descression of my executore.

Where I have before appowntyd xxij mke to be payd by John Leche (soñe to my brother Henre) to goo to ye use theraft, specified I will yt they sayd John Leche shall have twenttye mke therof yf yt he paye they xxtie mke yt I have before appowntyd to ye mariage of his ij sesters or elle to other my kynswomen (yf ye sayd sesters use not them selffes as good women of theyre bodye) at ye appowntment and dyscression of my executore.

And I make my executore my wellbelovyd wyff Anne, my cossen James Hill, my (nephew)Henre Leche (sone to my brother William) and my cossen William Leche (sone to my brother George dysseazed) to see ye same my will trulye executyd and pformyd as my especiall truste is in them and as they will answere at ye laste daye of the genrall resrection And the ovscers I orden and make John Gratewood gent.* and my brother William Leche In wytnesse &c. These beynge wytnesses at ye nowe confermynge herof on ye xvijth daye of July in ye yere aforsayd 1552, John Baggot, Robart Good, Genken Catterol.

JAMES LECHE
“James Leche Jr. was: “Receiver, Newtown in 1541; j.p. Salop 1538-9, 1543; j.p.q. Mont. 1543; sheriff 1543-4; commr. subsidy 1546, relief 1550. The son of an esquire of the body to Henry VII, James Leche was described as “of the new town of Cydewain” in one of the two chancery cases in which he was engaged in the period 1538-44.

He was almost certainly the Shropshire justice of the peace of his name, for he married into that shire, but is to be distinguished from a namesake of Llawhaden, Pembrokeshire, who was both an esquire of the body and had Shropshire connexions. One of the original justices for Montgomeryshire, the shire’s first Member and its fourth sheriff (an office he was discharging during the third session of the Parliament), Leche made little mark in the closing years of his life. The request contained in his will of 30 Dec. 1553 that he should be buried with Catholic rites wherever he should chance to die suggests that he was about to undertake a journey, and it was in London that he died between then and the following 21 Feb., when the will was proved. One of his daughters married successively Charles Price and Andrew Vavasour of Newtown”. (S.T. Bindoff, ibid). To which can be added, he was a servant of the Devereux family. (Ralph A. Griffiths, The Principality of Wales in the Later Middle Ages, p. 24, 2018).

The early Dormer/Ligon connection to Harris:

1. Geoffrey Dormer, a wool merchant of the Staple of Calais  (d. 1502/3), m. Ursula or Alice, dau. of Bartholomew Collingridge, of Towersey. In 1498, Geoffrey Dormer the elder (d. March 9, 1503) settled the manor of Baldington in Thame on his son Geoffrey the younger and his male heirs, with remainders to his (Geoffrey the elder’s) sons Michael Dormer (d. September 20, 1545), Peter Dormer (d. 1555). (Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, vol. ii., pp. 420-421, 2011).

1.1. Michael Dormer, Sheriff of London, 1529, Mayor in 1541; d. 1545; inherited the manor ofTurville. (See pedigree of Dormer in Lee, Frederick George, The History, Description and Antiquities of the Prebendal Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Thame, pp. 503 -520, 1883. For the Will of Sir Michael Dormer, see TNA PROB 11/30/546). He m. a sister of *Sir Rowland Hill “of Haghmond”, Lord Mayor of London (fl. 1549, dsp), br. of (1) Joan Dormer (2) Jane Hill, who m. *John Gratewood; (3) Elizabeth Hill, who m. John Barker, alias Coverall of Wolverton.

(1. William Gratewood of Adderley & Stoke-upon-Tern (dsp), m. Mary, dau. of Sir Richard Newport, son of Thomas Newport and Jane Corbet, dau. of Robert Corbet, son of Richard Corbet and Elizabeth Devereux, who m. (2) Sir Thomas Leighton, whose illigitimate dau., Margaret, m. John Parry*.
1.1. Mary Gratewood, m. Sir Richard Levison.
1.2. Alice Gratewood m. Reginald Corbet (judge); son of Sir Robert Corbet, and grandson of Richard Corbet and Elizabeth Devereux. Reginald Corbet was the br. of Sir Roger Corbet, father of Andrew Corbet).

DORMER cont.
1.1.1. Jane Dormer, m. John Leche (cousin of James Leche), br.-in-law of *John Parry, whose descendant m. Fleetwood Dormer*
1.2. Peter Dormer, of Lee Grange, d. 1555 (monumental brass at Newbottle), m. Ann Crispe.
1.2.1. Peter Dormer, of Lee Grange, d. 1583.
1.2.1. Fleetwood Dormer, d. 1639 (monumental brass at Quainton).
1.2.1.1. *Fleetwood Dormer, m. a second-cousin of Mary Harris Ligon, b. 1625, in Ludlow, and Major William Harris, b. 1627/8, in Ludlow.

1.1.4 ALICE LEIGHTON AND JOHN HAWKES
Another old family was that of Hawkes, and the following pedigree was contributed by Richard Hawkes, gent., to Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, at the Visitation of Staffordshire in 1583. Where the family lived is uncertain, but probably at Cartbridge Farm, which is a very old foundation. In Dugdale’s copy of this Visitation, and also in the Harl. MS. 6128, this family is also called Hawkens, and the arms ascribed to them are those of “Edge” alias Hawkins of Shropshire, viz., Argent, a hawk proper, standing on a staff ragulée couped vert. (Visitation of Staffordshire).

HARPUR/HAWKES/HEXTALL
1. Johannes le Harpour.
1.1. John Harpur, of Rushall, Staffordshire (b. ca. 1400, d. 1464), m. Eleanor, dau. of of William Grober of Rushall. “John Harpur, the husband of Eleanor Grobbere, was the son of Johannes le Harpour and Isabella Applebi. The date of his marriage is uncertain, but we may gather it approximately from the Charter Rolls, which record “16 Henry VI. (1437-8) Joh’es Harpur. Rushall libera waren.” He endowed the Vicarage of Rushale, and appears to have built the church about the year 1444 (22 Henry VI.). In 1443 he was made steward of Weston-upon-Trent by the Abbot of St. Wedburg, in Chester. By Eleanor, his wife, the granddaughter of John Erdswick, the manors of Houndhill and Hanbury came into the possession of John Harpur and his descendants.
1.1.1. William Harpur, of Rushall,* b. ca. 1425, m. Margaret, dau. of Henry Cook. John Harpur left a son William Harpur, who became Lord of Rushale, and married Margaret daughter and heiress of Henry Cock, Coke, or Cook, of Lilleburne (Lilbourn), Co. Northampton, and Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Geoffrey Allesley, of Elmesthorpe, Knt. In 14 and 18 Henry VII. He was Sheriff of Staffordshire. “William Harpur of Russhall, Esquire, proposed to establish an almeshouse for four poore men at Walsal, which will his son John fulfilled, who was a Knight of the Sepulchra”.
1.1.1. Sir John Harpur, of Rushall, b. ca. 1450, m. “Margaret, second daughter and one of the heirs of John Bromley of Badington, Cheshire” (Willmore, Records of Rushall, p. 37, 1892), and Joan Hextall.
1.2. Thomas Harpur, of Darlaston.
1.2.1. John Harpur. “John Harpur, son and heir to Thomas Harpur of Darlaston, gave *William Harpur a messuage in the parish of Cobham, in Kent”.
1.2.2. Katherine Harpur, m. Richard Walker.
1.2.2.1. Joan Walker, m. Thomas Hawkes of Rushall, son of William Hawkes of Kyderminster, Shrop. and Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Reignoldes of Newton, Staffs.
1.2.2.1.1. John Hawkes, brother-in-law of John Parry.

NEEDHAM
1. Robert Needham.
1.1. Thomas Needham, of Cranach/Cranage (d. 1463).
1.1.1. Sir William Needham of Cranach and Shavington, m. Isabel, dau. of Sir John Bromley and Joan Hexstall.
1.1.1.1. Sir Robert Needham of Shavington and Shenton, Sheriff of Shrop. (d. 1556), m. Agnes, dau. of Jenkin Manwaring.
1.1.1.1.1. Thomas Needham of Shenton, m. Anne, dau. of Sir John Talbot of Grafton and Albrighton, by his first wife, Margaret, dau. of Adam Troutbeck of Mobberley, Cheshire.

TROUTBECK
1. William Troutbeck of Dunham, chamberlain of Chester (14 Henry IV.), m. Joan, dau. of William Rixton.
1.1. Sir John Troutbeck, of Dunham (b. ca, 1405, d. Sept. 23, 1458), m. Margaret (d. Nov. 39, 1456), dau. of Thomas Hulse/Holles, of Bransath.
1.1.1. Sir William Troutbeck of Prynes Castle (b. July 20, 1432, d. 1459), m. Margaret, dau. of Thomas, Lord Stanley. She m. (2), Sir John Butler, (3) Lord Gray of Codnor.
1.1.1.1. Joan Troutbeck, m. (2), William Griffith (b. ca. 1445, d. 1506).
1.1.1.2. William Troutbeck, b. 1450, d. 1511.
1.1.1.3. Adam Troutbeck, of Mobberley, Cheshire.
1.1.1.3.1. Margaret Troutbeck, m. Sir John Talbot, of Albrighton, Sheriff of Shrop. (d. 1549).
1.1.1.3.1.1. Constance Talbot, m. Sir George Blount, of Kinlet. She was the sister, to repeat again, of Margaret Talbot, who m. (1) Sir Richard Ligon, of Arle, Madresfield, brother of Thomas Ligon, who m. Frances Dennys (cousin), having issue: Thomas Ligon, who m. (Oct. 10, 1602), Elizabeth Pratt; having issue: Col. Thomas Ligon, who m. Mary Harris, born in 1625 in Ludlow, by deposition, sister of Major William Harris, of Virginia. By his first wife, Mary Russell, Sir Richard Ligon had issue: Katharine Ligon, who m. Fleetwood Dormer, Esq., who m. (2) Mary Harris, second-cousin of the said Mary and William Harris.
1.1.1.3.1.1.1. Dorothy Blount, m. (Feb. 1576/7), John Purslowe, of Sidbury.
1.1.1.3.1.1.1.1. Katherine Purslowe, m. Richard Hill, of Bickley
1.1.1.3.1.1.1.1.1. Dorothy Hill, m. John Holland, son of Michael Holland of Pickthorne.

NEEDHAM cont.
1.1.1.1.1.1. Robert Needham of Shenton, Sheriff of Shrop. (d. Dec. 18, 1603), m. Frances, dau. of Sir Edward Aston of Tixhall, Staffs.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Thomas Needham of Poolpark (Pool Park), Derbyshire.
1.1.1.1.1.1.2. Jane Needham, m. James Collyer of Darlaston.
1.1.1.1.2. Jane Needham, m. Sir Andrew Corbett of Morton Corbet.
1.2. Sir John Needham of Chester & London, judge (dsp 1480), m. Margaret, dau of Randall Mainwaring. (Visitation (Shropshire, 1623, Needham of Shavington, with addition).

BAKER
It would be relatively easy to give a broad outline of families of “le baker” which had their origins in Staffordshire, and which established themselves in nearby Shropshire, yet this would be superfluous to this account, which concerns Roger Baker and his dau., Anne, mistress of Sir Thomas Leighton, and ancestress of Mary Harris Ligon and Major William Harris, her brother.

1. William le Baker, b. ca. 1305.
Gift by Richard le Yonge of Lichfield, baker to John de Blaby, William Halle, John de Hedenhale, William de Heywode and Roger Peck, chaplain, of a messuage with appurtenances in Lichfield which lies between Gayolane of the lord bishop of Lichfield and Coventry on one part and the messuage which Adam de Wilnndecote formerly held on the other: gave also to the said John, William, John, William and Roger an acre of land with its appurtenances lying in the field of Beryhull between the land of John Pyte on one part and the land of William le Baker on the other. Witnesses: Ralph del Wal, William le Mortimer, Thomas le Taverner, John Beroun, Richard de Leycestr of Lichfield and others. Tuesday next after the feast of St. Peter and St. Paul (4 July) 3 Edward III (1329). (Staff. Arch., 3764/58). Richard de Preston chaplain leases to William de Knowle and his wife Sibyl lands in Knowle held by gift of William de Knowle for their lives and then to Isabel, daughter of Walter de Stevynton and her heirs. Witnesses: John de Drayton, William Hod, William Baker. 6 Jul 1365. (Shrop. Arch. 5735/2/1/8/3).
1.1. Isabel Baker.
1.2. John Baker, b. ca. 1335. Baker v Baker. Plaintiffs: Isabel Baker. Defendants: John Baker and others, executors of William Baker her father. Subject: Messuage in Church Eaton and share of goods. Staffordshire. 1386. (N.A., C 1/1493/8).

John Baker was a tenant of the Brumpton/Brompton family, which intermarried with the Newport family of High Ercall, bringing to that family the manor of Longford in Shropshire. Newport is ca. 20 miles N.E. of Shrewsbury and 2 miles N.E. of Longford. Shrewsbury is ca. 3 miles N.E. of Hanwood and 4 miles N.E. of Cruckton, the original abode of the Harris family of this account.
“Isabel, the wife of Thomas de Brumpton, was the daughter of Adam de Peshale, and sister of Sir Adam de Peshale of Weston, Knight. She was married secondly to Thomas Goch de Newport, of High Ercall in Shropshire, Esq.,* and thirdly to Sir Robert Fraunceys, Knight. In 1394, Petronilla, Prioress of the Black Nuns of Brewode, and the convent there, acknowledge the receipt of £100, by the hands of Thomas Goch, to pray for the souls of Thomas de Brumpton, formerly lord of Eyton, and the souls of all his ancestors; dated in their chapel (at Brewode) on Tuesday in the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel, 18 Ric. II. (Newport Evidences). It will have been through this second marriage of the Lady Isabel that the Newports had to do with the manor of Longford.

Among Blakeway’s extracts from the Newport deeds in the Bodleian Library, is a memorandum (without date) of Thomas Newport, Esq., that a fine had been levied to Humfrey de Halughton, Esq., Master Nicholas de Peshale, Master Thomas Newport, and Roger Conote, Clerks, and the heirs of the said Roger, of the manor of Ercalwe (High Ercall), which manor they have of the feoffment of the said Thomas Newport, Esq., as also the reversions of the manors of Longford, in the county of Salop, and Chirche Eyton, in the county of Stafford, which are held by Sir Robert Fraunceys, Knight, and Isabel his wife, for the term of the life of the said Isabel, and a fifth part of the manor of Weston under the Lezord, in the county of Stafford, which Sir Adam de Peshale holds for the term of his life, and which, after the deaths of the said Isabel and Adam, should remain to the said Thomas Newport, Esq., and his heirs. The said Thomas de Newport, whom I take to have been the son of Thomas Goch de Newport and Isabel de Peshale, succeeded to the manor of Ercall which had been the possession of his father”. (William Salt Archaeological Society Collections for a History of Staffordshire: vol. iv., p. 15, 1883).

NEWPORT
1. Thomas Newport of High Ercall (d. 1401).
1.1. Thomas Newport of High Ercall, Sheriff of Shropshire (fl. 1403)
1.1.1. William Newport of High Ercall, Sheriff of Shropshire (fl. 1473), m. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir John Burgh of Mowthwy. William Newport esq lord of Erkall has leased to John Cotes esq the site of his manor of Longford with all demesne lands, meadows, pastures, feedings, moors, waters, marshes, ways and paths. for term of 9 years, rent 6 marks, with power to distrain if the rent is unpaid in whole or part for 3 months after it is due and to re-enter if no sufficient distraint is found, notwithstanding this indenture. (Shrop. Arch. 52/49). Humphrey Cotes of Cotes (d. Bosworth, Aug. 22, 1485), m. Eleanor, dau. of Sir Humphrey Blount, of this account.
1.1.1. William de la Pole, Lord of Mawddwy, co. Merioneth, fourth son of Gruffud ap Wenwynwyn ap Owain.
1.1.1.1. John de la Pole (alias de Mowethe), Lord of Mawddwy and of Trefgarn, m. Elizabeth, dau. and heir of Sir Fulk Corbet, Lord of Wattlesburgh, jure uxoris, ob. Nov. 3, 1403.
1.1.1.1.1. Fulk, Lord of Mawddwy and Wattlesburgh, cousin of Owain Glyndwr.
His i.p.m. – They are (his lands) all in the confines of the said County adjoining the Marches of Wales and wasted at the time of the enquiry by the rebel Welsh. Fulk also held in his demesne as of fee the manors of Heye, Cardeston, Lughton, Haburley and Watlesburgh. Fulk died Wednesday next before the feast of the apostles Peter and Paul last past (27 June 1414). Elizabeth wife of Hugh Burgh is his sister and next heir and she is 24 or more. (Shrop. Arch., 1037/2/7).

1.1.1.1.2. Elizabeth, sole heiress to her brother, m. Hugh Burgh, Esq., who became Lord of Mawddwy.
1.1.1.1.2.1. Sir John Burgh (John ap Hugh), of Wattlesbburgh, to whom Guto’r Glyn composed a poem of praise. His i.p.m. – John Burgh had no other lands or tenements in the County of March when he died or elsewhere in the kingdom, He had been lately seized of the manors of Watllesburgh, Heye, Loghton, Cardestan, Yokelton and Stretton. John Burgh died Saturday in the vigil of Pentecost last (1st June). John Neuport son and heir of Elizabeth one of the daughters and heiresses of the said John Burgh, and Thomas Leghton son and heir of John Leghton and Ankeret late his wife, another daughter and heiress, and Isabella wife of John Lyngen knight, the 3rd daughter and heiress, and Elizabeth wife of Thomas Mitton, esq., the 4th daughter and heiress, are the next of kin. John Newport was of the full age of 21 at the feast of the purification last; Thomas Leghton* was aged 18 at Christmas last and not more. Isabella is 30 and over, Elizabeth is 26. John Leghton, esq., father of Thomas, is still alive. July 7, 1471. (Shrop Arch., 1037/2/8).
1.1.1.1.2.1.1. Elizabeth de Burgh, m. William Newport, of Ercall.
1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1. John Newport, cousin of Thomas Leighton*, of Wattlesburgh, b. 1452/3.
1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1. Thomas Newport, second-cousin of John Leighton, brother-in-law of Richard Harris of Cruckton*.
1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1. Ursula Newport, m. Thomas Adams of Longdon, son of William Adams and Eleanor Jennyns, niece of her namesake, wife of *Richard Harris of Cruckton.
1.1.1.1.2.1.2. Ankaret de Burgh, m. John Leighton.
1.1.1.1.2.1.2.1. *Thomas Leighton, b. 1452/3, By his mistress, Ann Baker:
1.1.1.1.2.1.2.1.1. Margaret Leighton, b. ca. 1498, m. John Parry.

BAKER cont.
1.2.1. John Baker, b. ca. 1365-1370.. Rob. Corbet and John son of John Baker of Slepe. 2. William Webbe of Ercalowe. Quitclaim of all rights in messuage and ½ virgate with appurts. in vill of Crugilton. Witnesses Robert Miller, Thomas Wryth of Slepe, William Chapmon of Crugilton, William Baykoc and Thomas. de. Cherynton and others. Sept. 24, 1413. (Staff. Arch., D938/701).

High Ercall, a parish six miles from Wellington, and eight from Shrewsbury. The church is dedicated to St. Michael, and is a plain handsome structure; the living is a vicarage in the Archdeaconry of Salop and Diocese of Lichfield and Coventry. The parish of Ercall Magna contains the Townships of Ercall, Cotwall, and Moor Town, Walton, Osbaston, Rowton, Ellerdine, Cold Hatton, Crudgington, Sleap, (part of) Roden, Haughton, (partly in the parish of Upton Magna and partly in Haughmond Demesne) Poynton, Isombridge, and Tern. (Thomas Phillips, The History and Antiquities of Shrewsbury, vol. 7, p. 147, 1837).

1. William Webbe of Osbaston and Agnes (w.) 2. Richard Withiford, chaplain. Feoffment of a messuage and one noke of land with appurts. in Crugelton,* from ancient time (ab antiquo) called Elkynesplace, lately held by John Bakere of Slepe. Service to chief lords of fee. Witnesses Thomas Eyton de Wildemore, John Rodenhurst, Robert de Rodyngton, Thomas Sogedon, Thomas Wryght of Slepe and others. 24 Jan. 1420. (Staff. Arch., D938/702). *12 miles from Shrewsbury. The Bradford Tenure-Roll (about 1285) makes Crugulton, Kynnersley, and Butterly (i.e. Buttery), to be members of the Abbot’s Manor of Slepe. The Taxation of 1291, probably includes those places when it gives £10. 17s. 6d. as the annual value of Slepe. (Robert William Eyton, Antiquities of Shropshire, vol. 9, p. 108, 1859).

CORBET 1
1. Sir Robert Corbet of Wattlesborough and Moreton Corbet, Sheriff of Shrop. (d. 1300).
1.1. Thomas Corbet, d. 1310.
1.1.1. Sir Robert Corbet of Wattlesborough and Moreton Corbet (b. 1304, d. 1375/6, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Fulk le Strange, who held the manor of Longnor in capite. Debtor: Fulk Le Strange, knight, [held Whitchurch, Longnor, etc. in Brimstree and Bradford Hundreds, Salop] and Roger, the son of Thomas Corbet, knight (of Chetton, Stottesdon Hundred, Salop]. Creditor: Richard, the son of Richard Stury, merchant of Shrewsbury. Amount: £31 11s; at Shrewsbury. 1302 (C 241/62/120). Debtor: Fulk le Strange, knight (held Whitchurch, Longnor, etc, in Brimstree and Bradford Hundreds, Salop), John de Garenne, Richard Hord, and John, the son of Stephen de Lea. Creditor: Sir Thomas Corbet, knight, lord of Wattlesborourgh Ford Hundred, Salop.), and Anne his wife. Amount: 100m; at Shrewsbury. 1310. (C 241/73/9).
1.1.1.1. Sir Roger Corbet of Moreton Corbet & Shawbury, m. Margaret, heir of … Edrington, lord of Shawbury, near Shrewsbury
1.1.1.1.1. Robert Corbet of Moreton Corbet, Sheriff of Shropshire (d 1440), with “John son of John Baker of Slepe,”relinquished their claim to a “messuage and ½ virgate with appurts. in vill of Crugilton, in Slepe, as follows.. It is not clear whether Robert Corbet and John Baker held this land jointly, if so, implying a familial connection.
1.1.1.1.1.1. Roger Corbet, of Moreton Corbet (d. 1467/8), m. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Thomas Hopton.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Sir Richard Corbet, of Moreton Corbet (b. 1451, d. 1493), m. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Walter Devereux, 1st Lord Ferrers of Chartley.

1.2. Johanna Corbet, m. Owen de la Pole, Prince of Powys.
1.3. John Corbet (fl. 1335), of Stamford.
1.3.1. John Corbet, of Besford, granted land by his cousin, *Sir Robert Corbet of Wattlesborough, and Moreton Corbet.
1.3.1. John Corbet, of Habberley.
1.3.1. ‘John Corbet de Longnore, Gentilman’ (fl. 1456), of Longnor.
1.3.1.1. Alice Corbet, m. John Baldwyn of Diddlesbury.
1.3.1.2. Elizabeth Corbet, m. Edward Hopton.
1.3.1.3. Robert Corbet, m. Elizabeth Cotton (2nd husband). (Mon. Inscript, Aston Botterell).
1.3.1.4. Jane Corbet, m. Thomas Baker, chronologically and circumstantially, probably the brother of Roger Baker, whose wife, Margery, d. 1471, named William Drayton, cleric,* as a witness to her Will; see as follows.

(It is highly likely that Elizabeth Cotton was of this “associated” family:
1. John Cotton of Alkington, m. Katherine, dau. of Thomas Constantine, of Eaton Constantine, where a Richard Drayton is recorded as holding land. 1444 -1446, (E 199/38/54).
1.1. Roger Cotton, m. Maria, dau. of John Blount of Kinlet (d. 1442), and sister of (1) Margaret Blount, who m. John Pigot, having issue Thomas Pigot. (2) Humphrey Blount, Sheriff, who, as given heretofore, was the father of Sir Thomas Blount of Kinlet, Sheriff of Shrop.; the father of Sir John Blount of Kinlet; the father of George Blount of Kinlet, Sheriff of Shrop., brother-in-law of Margaret Talbot, who m. (1) Sir Richard Ligon, of Arle, Madresfield, brother of Thomas Ligon, etc. etc.
1.2. Richard Cotton
1.2.1. Roger Cotton.
1.2.2.1. John Cotton).

THE EARLS OF STAFFORD
The Earls of Stafford held 4 advowsons in Surrey, the most valuable being Bletchingly, held by Hugo de Hextall in 1451, whose brother William represented Bletchingly in as M.P. in 1447. Hextall was succeeded in 1477 by *William Drayton, one of three men of that name presented by the Stafford to their Surry benefices. “It is highly probable that the Draytons came from Staffordshire”. (Virginia Davis, Anne Curry, Elizabeth Matthew, eds., Concepts and Patterns of Service in the Later Middle Ages, p. 49, 2000).

Sir William Drayton, v. Henry Frank, of London, Detention of deeds relating to a Surrey, parson of the church of Bletchingley, brother and heir of Eleanor Kychen, widow. early Chancery Proceedings. Lists and Indexes, Issue 20, p. 393, 1963. Drayton v Frank. Plaintiffs: Sir William Drayton, parson of the church of Bletchingley, brother and heir of Eleanor Kychen, widow. Defendants: Henry Frank, of London, grocer. Subject: Detention of deeds relating to a messuage in the parish of St Martin without the Northgate, Colchester. Surrey, Essex. 1493-1500. (C 1/198/46).

STAFFORD
1. Edmund de Stafford, 1st Lord (b. 1273, d. 1308).
1.1. Joane de Stafford (d, ca. 1395), m. John de Cherlton, Lord of Powys (d. 1374).
1.2 Elizabeth de Stafford (d. 1375, m. 1346/7), Fulk le Strange, 3rd Lord of Blackmere (2) Sir John de Ferrers, 4th Lord of Chartley (d. 1367).

1.3. Sir Richard de Stafford, of Clifton, m. Maud, dau. of Richard de Camville of Clifton.
1.3.1. Richard de Stafford, 1st Lord of Clifton (d. 1380-1). 1371: Richard de Stafford, s. and h. of Richard Stafford (younger brother of Ralph 1st Earl of Stafford), who acquired the Lordship of Clifton, co. Stafford, by marrying Mand, dau. and heir of Richard de Camvill; Summ. to Parl. from 8 Jan. 44 Edward III. 1371, to 20 Oct. 3 Rich. II. 1379; ob. 1381, leaving Edmund, afterwards Bishop of Exeter, his son and heir, and Thomas his 2d son; which Thomas left issue Thomas Stafford, who died s.p. leaving Katherine his sister and heir, who married Sir John Arden, Knt. Maud Arden, their only child, married Sir Thomas Stanley; but none of the descendants of this Baron were ever summoned to Parliament. The Barony is however vested in the descendants and representatives of the said Maud, wife of Sir Thomas Stanley. (Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, A Synopsis of the Peerage of England, p. 604, 1825).
1.3.1.1. Sir Thomas Stafford, 3rd Lord of Clifton.
1.3.1.1.1. Thomas Stafford, 4th Lord of Clifton (dsp).

1.4. Ralph Stafford 1st Earl of Stafford. Hugh de Audley, Earl of Gloucester, d. 1347; his daughter and heir (by Margaret de Clare*), Margaret, wife of Ralph de Stafford, inherited Blechingley (Chan. Inq. p.m. 21 Edw. III (1st nos.), no. 59). Ralph was created Earl of Stafford in 1351, and this family, the members of which after 1444 also bore the title of Duke of Buckingham, ( continued to hold Blechingley until the execution of Henry, second Duke of Buckingham in 1483. *Margaret de Clare held the advowson of Blechingly. (Egerton MS. 2032, fol. 20, 38).
1.4.1. Hugh de Stafford; Summ. to Parl. 8 January, 44 Edward III. 1371. Dugdale in his Baronage gives no account of a Hugh de Stafford having been summoned in that year. It is probable it was Hugh, the son and beir apparent of Ralph 1st Earl of Stafford, and who became 2d Earl in August, 1372 (ibid.).
1.4.2. Elizabeth de Stafford, d. August 7, 1376, at Chartley Holme, Staffordshire, m. Fulk le Strange, 3rd Lord of Blackmere (2) Sir John de Ferrers, 4th Lord of Chartley (d. 1367). Sir Robert Corbet of Wattlesborough and Moreton Corbet m. Elizabeth, dau. of Fulk le Strange and Elizabeth de Stafford. Their grandson, Robert Corbet of Moreton Corbet, Sheriff of Shropshire (d 1440), to repeat, with “John son of John Baker of Slepe,”relinquished their claim to a “messuage and ½ virgate with appurts. in vill of Crugilton, in Slepe, as follows.. It is not clear whether Robert Corbet and John Baker held this land jointly, if so, implying a familial connection. The latter Robert Corbet was the grandfather of Sir Richard Corbet,* of Moreton Corbet (b. 1451, d. 1493), m. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Walter Devereux, 1st Lord Ferrers of Chartley.
1.4.2.1. Robert de Ferrers, 4th Baron Ferrers of Chartley.
1.4.2.1. Edmund de Ferrers, 5th Baron Ferrers of Chartley.
1.4.2.1.1. Anne Ferrers, b. Nov. 1438, Hixon, Staffordshire, d. January 9, 1469, m. Sir Walter Devereux, 7th Lord Ferrers of Chartley, K.G.
1.4.2.1.1.1. Elizabeth Devereux, m. (1) *Sir Richard Corbet, (2) Sir Thomas Leighton of Wattlesborough, whose mistress, Ann Baker, dau. of Roger Baker, was the mother of Margaret Leighton, wife of John Parry (Harris).

BROMLEY
1. William de Bromley, of Badinton, Cheshire, m. Annabella, sister of William de Chettleton.
1.1. John de Bromley, of Badinton, m. Agnes, dau. of John Trentham.
1.1.1. Walter Bromley, m. Joan, dau. of Richard Delves.
1.1.1.1. Roger Bromley, m. Jane, dau. of Richard de Mitley, of Mitley.
1.1.1.1.1. Roger Bromley.
1.1.1.1.1.1. William Bromley, of Mitley, m. Beatrice, dau. of Humphrey Hill, of Blore.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Elizabeth Bromley. m. Rowland Jennyns, as heretofore given, with the connection to Harris.
1.1.1.2. Roger Bromley m. Jane, dau. of Thomas Jennyns.

1.2. Richard de Bromley, of Chettilton, m. Anne, dau. of William Praers of Badeleigh.
1.2.1. Sir John Bromley, of Chetilton, m. Margery, dau. of … Massey of Tatton.
1.2.1.1. William Bromley, m. Margaret, dau. of Ralph Manwaring of Badeley.
1.2.1.1.1. Sir John Bromley (d 1488-9), left 3 daughters, his co-heirs, by his 2nd wife Joan Hexstall dau. of William Hextall, of Hextall’s Court (Hexstall of East Peckham, sister of Margaret, widow of Willam Whetenhall, who m. (3), Sir Henry Ferrers, having issue: Sir Edward Ferrers of Peckam; these Ferrers being a junior branch of those of Chartley, stemmig from William de Ferrers (d. 1287) of Groby Castle, Leicestershire, a younger son of William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby (d. 1254) of Chartley Castle in Staffordshire, by his second wife Margaret, dau. of Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester. The said Sir Edward Ferrers, d. 1535, m. Constance Brome, having issue: Henry Ferrers, whose great-great grandson, Edward Ferrers is noted in Extracts from the Court Rolls of the Manor of Wimbledon, p. 219, 1866. Wimbledon manor formed part of the manor of Mortlake. At this Court it was ordered, that Edward Ferrers of Barnes, gentleman, shall lay out and throw open, as much of the common of Putney and Barnes, as he lately enclosed, before the twenty-fourth day of June next to come; under penalty of forfeiting to the lord thereupon 50£, and so consequently to pay to the lord for every month in which it shall continue enclosed. 1628. Barnes is 1 mile from Mortlake.

HEXTALL
1. …
1.1. Hugh Hextall, of Millwich, Staffs. The name Hextall originated from a hamlet in Seighford, Staffs,
1.1.1. William Hextall, of Hextall’s Court, East Peckham, and Gerard’s Bromley Staffordshire, 1405 -1470. (Gerard’s Bromley was the ancient seat of the Bromleys, but by purchase or marriage, to the Gerards, it obtained their name). He represented Bletchingly in as M.P. in 1449, Earl Stafford’s borough, to whom he was steward, 1430-1460.He m. (1) Margaret, a dau. of William Bromley, and sister and heir of John Bromley, who held one third of the manor of Ashley, Staffs., and died in 1447. (Early Chancery Proceedings, 26/286; R.R. Clark, Calendar of Wills in London, ii., 531).

William Hextall was of Hextall near Ronton, Staffs., 8 miles S.W. of Millwich. He was sub-sheriff of Staffs, 1431-2; Eschr. Staffs, 1435-6. He was one of the keepers of the temporalities of the Arcbishopric of Canterbury, and, as such, would be involved in appointing tenants to the Mortlake/Wimbledon area.

In 1466, he was exor. of the Will of another Stafford retainer, John Harpur of Rushall, juxta Walsall. William Hextall died at Walsall, his tomb being inscribed “Ora pro animis Willi’ Hextall et Margaretae et Johanae uxorum”. By his second wife, he was father of Hugh Hextall, vicar of Bletchingly, d. 1476, who was succeeded by Sir William Drayton, witness to the Will of Margery (relict of Roger Baker), who held lands in Mortlake, and who was the mother of Ann Baker, miother of Margaret Leighton, wife of John Parry (Harris) of this account.

Ashley formed part of the Beysin fee. “The Nomina Villarum of March, 1316, makes Thomas de Beysin joint Lord of Burwardsley (Shropshire), and Ashley (Staffordshire), and Lord of Church Eaton, in the latter county. The manor came into the possession of the Earl of Stafford. Under King’s Brome, Sir W. Dugdale speaks of lands there, which were purchased by Ric. de Stanford, who died in 14 Edw. II. Their tenants were the Cloptons.

Thomas Clopton, the son and heir of William, died without issue, and the inheritance devolved upon his two sisters and co-heirs, of whom the younger daughter, Joane, became the wife of Sir John Burgh of Mawddwy, in the county of Merioneth, knight, by whom she had four daughters, her co-heirs, namely Elizabeth, wife of William Newport, of Ercall, in the county of Salop, Esqr.; Ankaret, wife of John Leighton,* of Leighton, in the same county, Esq.; Isabella, wife of Sir John Lyngen, of Lingen, in the county of Hereford, knight, and (a second) Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Mytton, of Shrewsbury, Esqr.

By the inquest taken after the death of Agnes Herbert, at Penkridge, on August 19, 1454, the Staffordshire jury found that John Throkmarton and William Wollashull, Esquires, were seized, as feoffees for the use of the late William Clopton, knight, of the manors of Asheley, Curch (Water Eton), and Longnor … which were the said William Clopton’s in the counties of Salop, Stafford, Warwick, Gloucester, and Worcester, in demesne as of fee; and being so seized, by a certain indenture tripartite, bearing date on February 7, 22 Hen. VI. (1444), they gave over the said manors of Asheley, Water Eton, and Longnor, inter alia, to Agnes, late the wife of Thomas Herbert, and the heirs of her body, with remainder to Joane, the wife of John Burgh, then an Esquire, and the heirs of her body. (Shrop. Arch. Soc., vol. i, pp. 294/295, 1877). *John Leighton being the father of Thomas, father of margaret, wife of John Parry (Harris).

1.1.1.1. Margaret Hextall, m. Richard Petit, of Badger, Shrop. She m. (2) William Whetenhale, son of a namesake, alderman of London. (Early Chanc. Proc., 26/286); (3) Henry Ferrers.
1.1.1.2. Joan Hextall, m. John Bromley. of Baddington, Cheshire. Plaintiff, John Nedeham and Hugh Hexstall, clerk, complainants, and William Hexstall, armiger, and John Bromley, knight, and his wife Joan, deforciants of the manors of Wonyngton (Warrington) and Bromley in Halys, three messuages, 200 acres of land, forty acres of meadow, forty acres of pasture, twenty acres of wood, and 10* or rent in Podmore, Rugge, and Chatculno, and a third part of the manor of Assheley. William, John Bromley and Joan acknowledged the said manors, etc, to the right of the complainants, for which the complainants granted them to William, for his life, with remainder to the issue male of John Bromley and Joan; and failing such issue, to the right heirs of Joan forever. June 25, 1457. (William Salt, Arch. Soc., Collections for a History of Staffordshire, ii., p. 237, 1890).
1.1.1.2.1. Isabel Bromley, m. William Needham. of Cranach, Cheshire, son of Thomas Needham of Shavington, Shrop, and Maud Brereton.
1.1.1.2.2. Margery Bromley, m. John Harpur of Rushall, as given heretofore, cousin of Katherine Harpur, who m. Richard Walker, having issue: Joan Walker, who m. Thomas Hawkes of Rushall; their son, John Hawkes was brother-in-law of John Parry.
1.1.1.3. Humphrey Hextall. His father’s 1446 Will mentioned “Joan wife of Humphrey Hexstall and daughter of Joan my wife”. He m. his step-sister.

Alice, the daughter and heiress of John de Bromley, proved her age at Blymhill on November 1, 36 Edw. III. (1362). The mandate which was directed to Philip de Lutteley, the King’s escheator for the county of Stafford, ordering him to take the proof, was dated at Westminster, on 17 October, 36 Edw. III. It states that John de Froddesham, who has married Alice, daughter and heir of John de Bromley, deceased, who held of the King in capite, declares the said Alice to be of full age, and petitions that the lands and tenements which are of the inheritance of the same Alice, and in the wardship of Humfrey de Swynnerton by the King’s commission, may be given up to her, and the King desires that the same Alice should prove her age before the said escheator. At this inquisition Roger de Pychford, the first witness, who was then of the age of 50 and upwards, states that Alice was born at Bromley, co. Stafford, on 31 October, 21 Edw. III. (1347), and baptized in the church of Eccleshale, which is the parish church of Bromley; Stephen de Bromley and Alice de Stodley carried the aforesaid Alice from the holy font; and she was of the age of fifteen years on 21 October last past; and this he knows because on the same day on which the said Alice was baptized Richard his father was buried in the same church of Eccleshale.

We may assume that Alice, wife of John Froddesham, died without issue, and that her cousin Thomas, son of Robert de Bromley, became her heir. Thomas Bromley died in 1419, seized of a third of the manor of Ashley, and a third of the advowson of the church there, as also the manors of Bromley (Bromhall?) and Wonynton; but there is no mention of Blymhill. John Bromley* is his cousin (i.e., near relation) and heir, namely, son of William, son of the aforesaid Thomas, and he is fourteen years of age and more. Margaret, the widow of Thomas, seems to have likewise died seized of Bromley aud Wonynton and a third part of Ashley.’ John Bromley, the grandson and heir of Thomas Bromley, proved his age in 4 Hen. VI.; and in 7 Hen. VI. he died seized of a third part of Ashley, &c. He died without issue, and his sister Margaret, wife of William Hextall, was his next heir. This Sir John Bromley, of Badington, Co. Cest., Knight, was descended from Richard de Bromley, younger son of that Geoffrey de Bromley, who married the coheiress of Ashley and Blymhill, and brother of Robert de Bromley, of Bromley, Ashley, and Blymhill

1.1.2. Thomas Hextall.
1.1.3. Henry Hextall. His Will of 1492 (P.P.C, Dogett 23), mentions Edward Hextall, his brother Thomas’s son, to whom he left all his lands in Walsall.
1.2. …Hexall, m. Walter Hopton, it is suggested.
1.2.1. Isabella Hopton. William Hextall described himself (Dec. 9, 1460) as cousin and next heir of Isabel de Hopton late of Ludlow when he released rights in a tenement in Ludlow to Thomas Gryme. Release by William Hextall, esquire, cousin and next heir of Isabel de Hopton late of Ludlowe, to Thomas Gryme of Seete, of his right in a tenement, etc. described, in Ludlowe. Shropshire, 39 Henry VI. (E 40/9138).
1.2.2. Thomas Hopton. Shropshire and Staffordshire: Particulars of account for lands of (1) John Esthope in Presthope and Bradley (as in 38/41); (2) Richard Horde and Thomas Hopton in and Eaton Constantine (as in 38/49); (3) Richard Drayton in Drayton by Eaton Constantine and Eyton Abbots; (4) Richard Horde and Thomas Hopton in Northwood Hall and Fitz (Fittes). 1444-1446. (E 199/38/54).

CORBET 2
“I cannot trace the family by authentic proof further than John Corbet of Besford, to whom John Corbet of Stamford, who was probably his father, and who was a branch of the Corbets of Wattlesborough, granted a lease of lands in Habberley in 41 Edward III. (1368). Three years later, Sir Robert Corbet of Moreton Corbet, who, on the supposition above stated, was his kinsman, granted him part of the rent of the mill in Habberley; he was living in 10 Richard II. In 4 Henry V, the Abbot and convent of Salop appointed John Corbet of Habberley, son, I conceive, of John of Besford, their Forrester of the Wrekin. His son, also named John, appears to have acquired Longnor and Acheley by marriage with the heiress of Carles of Albrighton, and he occurs with the designation of John Corbet de Longnore, Gentilman’, in 35 Henry VI”. (1456). (Powys-land Club Collections Historical & Archaeological, vol. 26,p. 239, 1892). 1430-1479, John Botterell, Lord of Aston and wife Mary, d. 1505, daughter of John Corbet of Longnor, issue: (1) Alice, m. John Baldwyn of Diddlesbury; (2) Elizabeth, m. Edward Hopton; (3) Robert m. Elizabeth Cotton (2nd husband). (Mon. Inscript, Aston Botterell). ‘John Corbet de Longnore, Gentilman’, was probably the father of Jane Corbet, wife of Thomas Baker, as follows.

1. Roger Corbet, m. Amicia, dau. of Thomas de Camville.
1.1. Thomas Corbet of Leigh, d. 1420, m. Jane, dau. of John Burley, K.G., and br. of isabel Burley who m. John de Hopton,* son of Sir John de Hopton and Alice le Strange. Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, vol. 1, p. 205, 2011. *John de Hopton was recorded in the inquest of William Burley in 1446, in which *Thomas Hopton was his next heir, as the son of Walter, the son of John, the son of Isabel, the dau. of John Burley. Thomas Corbet the son of Roger, deceased, and Beatrice, was 16 years old in year 12 of Richard II (22 June 1389 – 21 June 1390), he was therefore born about 1373. He died on 12 August 1420, and an Inquisition Post Mortem held on 12 October that year declared that “Thomas Corbet is his son and next heir, aged 28 years and more”. (A.E. Corbet, The family of Corbet, its life and times, p. 181, 1914). *Thomas Hopton was the father of Elizabeth Hopton, who m. Roger Corbet, having issue: Richard Corbet, husband of Elizabeth Devereux.
1.1.1. Thomas Corbet, b. 1392/3.
1.1.1.1. Peter Corbet, of Lee, b. ca. 1420, m. Elizabeth, dau. of William Brereton (ca. 1390-1425) ; and Alice, dau. of John Leighton (ca. 1360-1407); son of Richard Corbet*. An inquisition, of 1408/9 found that Richard Corbett, of Leighton, died seized in his demesne of the manor of Fowkestapelforde; that the said Richard died a minor on the Saturday next after the Feast of the Apostles Simon and Jude, Oct. 29, 1407; that *Richard Corbett, of Leighton, was kinsman and heir of the said Richard, and of the age of thirty-one or more, viz., son of John* son of John Corbett, Kt., ** great-grandfather of the said Richard Corbett, and that Alice wife of William de Brereton, junior, and sister of the said Richard Corbett, of Leighton, was next heir to the manor of Fowkestapleford, and of the age of nineteen or more. *John Corbet and Joan (dau. of Peter Pigot) of Binweston, who settle that manor on his son John, and on Joan, his son’s wife, and their issue. (Inquis. 30 Edw. III., 2., no. 15). **John Corbet, of Binweston & Leighton Montgomery, Cheshire.
1.1.1.1. Thomas Corbet, of Lee (b. ca. 1450), m. Jane, dau. of Roger Kynaston, b. ca. 1430, son of Griffin Kynaston (b. ca. 1402), Seneschal of Ellesmere, Shropshire, and Margaret Hoord (b. ca. 1423), dau. of John Hoord of Hordley; a direct descendant of Gruffydd Vychan ap Iowerth, and therefore of Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, the last Prince of Powys.
1.1.1.1.1. John Corbet, born by 1500, son of “Thomas Corbet of Leigh by Jane, da. of Sir Roger Kynaston of Myddle and Hordley.” He married three times: (1) Margaret Blount,
1.1.1.1.1. William Corbet, of Lee, m. Alice, dau. of Thomas Lacon, of Willey.
1.1.1.1.1.1. Thomas Corbet, of Aston (Boterell), armorial as of Corbet of Lee, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Williams, of Willaston.

BAKER cont.
1.2.1.1. John Baker, b. ca. 1400.
1.2.1.1.1. Thomas Baker (b. ca. 1425), m. Jane, dau. of. … Corbett of Aston. (The pedigree of Baker of Hanwood, near Shrewsbury).
1.2.1.1.1.1. Thomas Baker (b. ca. 1460), m. Maud, dau. of “John Bromley, of Hanwood”. (Collections Historical and Archeological Collections relating to Montgomeryshire vol 5, p. 428, 1872).
1.2.1.1.1.1.1. John Baker (b. ca. 1485), m. Joan/Jane, dau. of. Richard Pigot.
1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1. .John Baker, b. ca. 1505, m. Joan, dau. of Roger Higgins.
1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Roger Baker, b. ca. 1530, m. Elizabeth, d.o. William Webb. “Roger Baker to John Baker his brother; half a parcel of land called Bromley Ruddynges”. July 1588. (Shrop. Arch.5586/1/439).
1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.2. John Baker (b. ca. 1530), held land in Maerdy, Deuthwr, m. Ann (dau. of Francis Charlton Esq., of Apley Castle (d 1561-2), and sister of William Charlton of Apley Castle, d. 1566. (Visitation Shropshire, 1623, Charleton of Apley Castle). Bargain and sale. Thomas Poyner of Besslowe, Esq. and William Wolriche of Dudmaston, gent Esq. for a competent sum grant to Richard Onslowe of London, Esq., the advowson of the Rectory and church of Acton Burnel and chapel or church of Acton Pigott belonging to the said Rectory. To Richard Onslowe and his heirs forever, of the Queen as of the Manor of E. Greenwich by fealty in socage not in chief. Witnesses: William Charlton, John Byste, Francis Wolrich, Thomas Bromhall. July 26, 1563. (Shrop. Arch., 1514/52).
1.2.1.1.2. Roger Baker, who probably inherited a tenancy of messuages of the manor of Longford, m. Margery …, whose Will, proved November 1471, describes herself as “lately wife of Roger Baker,” and desires “to be buried in the Church of Mortlake”. She mentions her Manor (probably a messuage) of Langford, co. Salop, and Alice Baxter, of Wolverhampton. (Trans. Shrop. Arch. 6, p. 322, 1883). The editor of which appends after this entry: “In Salop Visitation is a pedigree of Baker of Hanwood”.

by michael stanhope, copyright B.T. Shannon, 2023