10 Jul Lordship Title of Sutton ID1293
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At the time of the Survey one of these 1½ virgates of land in Sutton belonging to the reeves and almsmen of the king was held by Alwin, in 1086, and had been assigned by Ralph Taillebois, as sheriff, to the king's service. This holding probably reappears in the thirteenth century as the land which Henry de Costentin held of the king in chief for half a knight's fee. On his death in 1255 Henry left a son Geoffrey, who transferred this fee to Alexander de Somersham. John de Somersham, who succeeded his father in 1291, appears to have split up the fee by enfeoffing several persons with small portions of land; William Godwin, John Warison, Alice le Latimer, Nicholas and Geoffrey Power, were each so enfeoffed. Thus by 1344 Alexander de Somersham, who had succeeded John, died seised of 14 acres of land only, which are described as poor and sandy, and were held of the king in chief by petty serjeanty. He left a son John, and a later inquisition, bearing the date 1364, held on Alexander de Somersham, probably a grandson, for the same 14 acres, states that he left as heirs his daughters Margaret and Agnes, and with the consequent subdivision of the land further trace of this fee disappears.
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