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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62469	The antiquities of Nottinghamshire extracted out of records, original evidences, leiger books, other manuscripts, and authentick authorities : beautified with maps, prospects, and portraictures / by Robert Thoroton ...	Thoroton, Robert, 1623-1678.	1677 (1677)	Wing T1063; ESTC R22553	926,000	566

when viz. 1669. he sold most of it to my Brother Thomas Thoroton and my Brother-in-law Iohn Story of Kneveton The other Mannor called Kirkton Hall is and hath been the Seat of the Whalleys and their Progenitors the Leeks and the Kirktons who had their name from the place scituate close by the Church and the house it self is in the very division of the Lordships of Coleston and Screveton in each of which part of the Demesnes lay In some Evidences it is called Kirketon juxta Kercolston but in more juxta Screveton Roger de Kirketon to whom Raph son of Yngeram de Screveton passed some parcells here is the first that I have met with Roger had a son called Hugh but the next successour that I can discover was Iohn son of Robert de Kirketon who lived in the latter end of the Reign of Henry the third and in the time of Edward the first In Edward the seconds time Robert son of Iohn Rogerus de Kirketon Robertus de Kirketon Johannes de Kirketon 56 H. 3. 14 E. 1. Robertus de Kirketon 4 E. 2. 19 E. 2 -Beatrix Thom. de Kirketon Ar. 17 E. 3 -Margareta ...... fil haer -Johannes de Stockton 45 E. 3. Avicia-Willielmu● de Leek de Kirketon 8 R. 2. Willielmus de Leek de Kirketon-Joana Rad. de Leek 6 H. 5. 8 H. 6. 17 H. 6 -Agnes fil ... Babington ut suppon Thom. Leek Ar. -Jana Elizabetha fil haer -Rich Whalley de Darlaston Com. Staff Laurentius Hatfeild-Isab fil Will. Marshall Alicia Tho. Whalley Ar. de Kirketon -Eliz fil Joh. Strelly de Woodborough Ric. Whalley de Kirketon Ar. ob 1582 -Lora fil Tho. Brookman -Ursula-Barbara Tho. Whalley de Kirketon Ar. ob 1582 -Elizab fil cohaer Henr. Hatfeild Ar. Richardus Whalley de Kirketon Ar. -Anna fil Georg. Horsey de Digswell -Frances fil Hen. Crumwell mil. -Jana fil .... Stirap Tho. Whalley ob ante pattem-Maria fil Tho. Peniston mil. -Ric Draper marit 2. Peniston Whalley Ar. aet 48. 1672 -Margar fil haer Geo. Ireland Ar. de Com. Lanc. ob Sep. 10. 1675. Elizab. aet 18. 1672. Tho. Hall Rector de Screton 1674 -Margareta aet 16. 1672. Eliz. -Will Ayloff Whalley Draper-Rob Butler Rob. Butler Edw. Joh ..... fil Herbert Springate mil. Herb. Whalley Henr. Thom. Johan Walter Willielmus Whalley -Barbara fil cohaer Stephanus Hatfeild -Eliz fil Tho. Molyneux mil. relict .... Becard Henricus Hatfeild ob 26 H. 8 -Alicia cohaer Joh. Hercy milit Tho. Whalley de Kirketon Ar. ob 1582 -Elizab fil cohaer Henr. Hatfeild Ar. Willielmus Whalley -Barbara fil cohaer Nicholaus Thom. 6 H. 5. Radulphus Johannes 6 H. 5. Hugo de Kirketon was owner of this place and in Edward the thirds was succeeded by Thomas de Kirketon Esquire to whom together with Margaret his wife 17 E. 3. Thomas de Newmarch the younger did convey Lands which sometime were Henry Bozoms This Thomas de Kirketon is said to have had a daughter and heir married to Iohn de Stockton whom I find resident here 45 E. 3. and that he had interest in Lands in Cla●ton now Clauffon and Kirkeby Belers in the County of Leicester in which latter place I find Roger Beler did make some exchange with Adam de Stocton about the time of Edward the first or sooner Stoctons daughter and heir is supposed to be Avicia wife of William de Leek who 8 R. 2. enfeoffed Sir Iohn de Leek Knight Richard de Outhorpe Richard de St●cton and Hugh Bozom Chaplain in their Lands in Screveton Kercolston Kirkeby Belers c. William de Leek of Kirketon 6 H. 5. or Skreveton passed Lands in Kercolston Bingham Asla●ton and Flawbergh to Simon de Leek Raph his own son and Iohan his own wife to Raph his brother and Iohn his said brothers son and to Nicolas his brother and Thomas son of that Nicolas his Seal to it hath nine Annuletts upon a Saltier engrailed within a Bordure Sir William Babington Knight Simon Leek Norman Babington Thomas Nevill Esquire William and Robert sons of Sir William Babington 9 H. 6. made Henry Peyto and Iohn Chaworth their Atturneys to receive seisin of Raph Leek Esquire of his Lands in Kirketon Screveton Kercolston As●ac●on Kneveton Bingham Newark Sibthorp Eyleston and Flawbergh in this County in the City of Lincolne in Claxton and Kirkeby in Leice●tershire and in the City of Coventre in Warwickshire The Mannor of Kirketon and Lands in Kirketon Screton Carcolston and Aslacton 17 H. 6. were settled on Raph Leek and Agnes his wife therefore supposed to be a Babington and the heirs of their bodies remainder to William son of Sir William Babington Thomas Leek of Kirketon Esquire and Iane his wife 18 E. 4. covenanted to marry Elizabeth their daughter and heir to Richard Whalley o● Darl●ston in the County of Stafford Esquire This Richard Whalley made his Will 1 R. 3. and by it gave order to his Feoffees Sir Gervas Clifton Sir Iohn Babington Knights Thomas Leek Squire Richard Whalley Priest and George Whalley Gentleman to dispose the Mannor of Darlaston to Elizabeth his wife for her natural life and after to Ioane his daughter and his Lands in Lancashire to the sons of his Uncle Gilbert Whalley if he should die without issue Male himself which he did not for 9 H. 7. Sir Henry Willoughby passed the Wardship of Thomas Whalley his son to Thomas Leek before named This Thomas Whalley married Elizabeth the daughter of Iohn Strelley of Woodborough and had a son called Richard Whalley who had to his first wife Lora daughter of Thomas Brookman to his second Vrsula and to his third Barbara who survived him and married ..... Burnell for whom she made a fair Tomb at Sibthorp as she did here at Screton for her husband Whalley which shows he had twenty five Children by his three Wives which great number many of them being very well Matched as one to Sir Iohn Zouch of Codnor another to .... Bellingeham another to Iohn Nevill of Grove and the like together with his imprisonment in the Tower upon the account of the Duke of Somersett Lord Protector of Edward the sixth whose servant he was and some other mishaps might very well be thought to lessen that great advancement he had otherwise necessarily made of his Family being by his relation to and interest with that Duke easily let in to purchase Abby Lands of which notwithstanding he had a convenient share in this and other Counties To his eldest son Thomas Whalley and his son William the eldest by his second wife did Sir Iohn Hercy of Grove Uncle of Iohn Nevill before named marry also his two Nieces Elizabeth and Barbara the daughters and heirs of Henry Hatfeild of Willughby Esquire by Alice one of the eight sisters and heirs of the said Sir Iohn but she was afterwards married to .... Markham by whom having a son none of Hercyes inheritance came to this