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Allerton. Alreton.
THis is also in the Parish of Edenestowe, yet there were in Alreton two Mannors, one of the Fee of Roger de Busli, where before the Con∣quest Alwold paid for two Bov. ½. to the publick Tax. The Land one Car. There in King Williams time five Sochm. and one Vill. had two Car. and one Mill of 6s. 8d.* 1.1 The value of this continued as in the time of the Confessour 20s. The other of the Fee of Gislebert de Gand, which was one Wades before the Conquest, and answered for five Bov. ½. to the Geld. The Land three Car. There William the Man (or Tenant) of Gislebert had one Car. six Sochm. on two Bov. of Land, and three Vill. having six Car. There were two Mills 16s. Pasture Wood one leu. long, four qu. broad. In the time of King Edward the Confessour this was 40s. value, when the Survey was taken in the Conquerours 30s.
The Fee of Gaunt in this and diverse other places became the Inheritance of the Constables of Chester, as in Knesale may be seen, and ac∣cordingly descended to the Earl of Lancaster, who in the Record of Nom. Vill. 9 E. 2. is re∣turned Lord of this place.* 1.2
The Jury, 4 E. 3.* 1.3 said that Edward Earl of Kent held when he died the Mannor of Allerton under Sherewode of the Honour of the Castle of Donnington, and in 26 E. 3.* 1.4 they said that Iohn Earl of Kent left it with the Wapentaks of Risecliff and Plumtre on the night following St. Stephens to Ioane his sister and heir, wife of Thomas de Holland Chr. and in 35 E. 3.* 1.5 the Jury likewise said that the said Thomas held at his death, of the Inheritance of Ioane his wife, 40s. Rent here, and a Water-Mill, and that Thomas his son was his heir. In 9 R. 2.* 1.6 they found that Ioane Princess of Wales died seised of this Man∣nor and the Wapentag of Plumtre, and 10s. Rent in Rodington, which Rent was held of the King as Earl of Chester, and parcel of the Castle and Mannor of Donyngton, and that Thomas Holand, son and heir of the said Ioane, was then above thirty years old. And in 10 H. 4. they said that Edmund de Holland Earl of Kent held when he died in Fee tail, the Mannor of Allerton in Sherwood, and that Edmund, son of Alianor Countess of Marth, Ioane Dutchess of Yorke, Margaret, wife of Iohn Earl of Somerset, Alionor, wife of the Earl of Sar. and Eliza∣beth, wife of Iohn Nevill, were his heirs. And in 1 H. 6.* 1.7 they found that this Elizabeth had a son and heir called Raph Nevill then above six∣teen years old, and that she enfeoffed Sir Iohn Etton Chr. Edmund Hastings Chr. and others in this Mannor. And in 4 H. 6.* 1.8 the Jury said that Ioane, who had been wife of Iohn Grey Chr. died seised in Fee Tail of the third part of 35s. 8d. Rent issuing out of this Mannor, and that Henry Grey her son and heir was then seven years old and more. In 5 H. 6.* 1.9 they said that Raph Earl of Westmerland had this Mannor, and in 16 H. 6. Further I cannot yet trace this Seig∣nory.
William de Sutton, and Matilda his wife,* 1.10 gave to the Monastery of Rufford Raph Viel of Alre∣ton their Native (or Villain) with his whole Se∣quel, and all his Chattels. Robert de Sutton (son of that William) 2 E. 1.* 1.11 left Richard de Sutton his son and heir eight years old (as in Sutton upon Trent, Eykring, and Warsop, &c..) who held the moyety and a part more of the Town of Allerton of the Earl of Lincolne, by doing Suit at his Court at Allerton from three weeks to three weeks. By a Fine, 18 E. 2.* 1.12 Iohn de Sut∣ton (son of that Richard) passed the Mannors of Aykeringe and Alverton under Shirwode, and the Advowsons of the Churches, to Hugh le De∣spenser Earl of Winchester and his heirs.
The Jury, 17 E. 1.* 1.13 said that Robert de Mar∣cham (the other sharer of the Lord Lexingtons Lands) held in Allerton a Water-Mill, and Lands there of William, son of Thomas (Fitz-William) paying to the Master of the Hospital of Nusham 14s. per annum. And in 25 E. 1.* 1.14 they found that Iohn de Longvilers (one of the heirs of the said Robert, as in Turford may be seen) held the moyety of the Water-Mill and Natives (or Bond-men) in Allerton of William Fitz-William. Sir William de Bevercotes, Knight, and William de Marcham of Laxton were of this Jury, at the taking the Inquisition.
Sir Iohn Markham to his third wife had Anne,* 1.15 one of the four sisters and heirs of Iohn Strelley, Esquire, the relict of Richard Stanhope of Ram∣pton, by whom she had only a daughter Saunchia, married to Iohn Babington, but to Sir Iohn she brought sons William Markham of Okeley her eldest, who married Elizabeth, one of the daugh∣ters of Sir Edward Mountague, by whom he had only two daughters: she was the relict of Richard Cave; and Thomas Markham of Allerton her second son, Standard-bearer to Queen Elizabeths Band of Pensioners, who married Mary, daugh∣ter and heir of Rice Griffin of Dingley slain at Norwich, by whom he had Sir Griffin Markham Knighted at Roan, but at length banished, and very many other children, of which George Markham of Allerton married Iudith, daughter and heir of Iohn Withernwick of Claxby in the County of Lincolne, Esquire, by whom he had Thomas Markham of Allerton slain, (or fight∣ing on the Kings part driven with many others in∣to the Trent and drowned) at Gainsburgh in the year 1643. being a Colonel and much la∣mented.
But besides Sir Griffin, and his brother George before named, Thomas Markham of Allerton, son of Sir Iohn, had other sons, viz. Robert Markham who died at Rome; William,* 1.16 and Iohn who had to wife Mary, daughter of Sir Robert Markham of Cottham, whose children died without issue; Thomas and Charles Twins. Charles had a daughter Anne the wife of Thomas Waterton of Waterton in Yorkshire, and of Sir Iohn Middleton, Knight. This Thomas Markham had four daughters married, viz. Eli∣zabeth to Ed. Sheldon of Beoly, Anne to Sir Francis Smith of Wotron, Iane to Sir Iohn Skinner of Castle Comps, and Marg. to Ni∣colas Longford of Longford, His son George