name she is found to die seized.
This William first married Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of William Notbeam of Suffolk, Esq. and after her death, to Eleanor, widow of Henry Noon of Shelfhanger, Esq. daughter of Derby of Cheshire, who survived him, and after married to Robert Wyngfield, Esq. whom she survived; and dying in 1500, was buried by Henry Noon, her first husband, in Shelf hanger chancel. By her he had no issue; by his first wife he had one daughter, named Benedicta, who married
Edward Bolton, Esq. who had two sons,
William Bolton of Boyland Hall, to whom he gave this manor, with Irland's and Rose's tenements, and all their rents and services in Fersfield, Brisingham, Raydon, and Shelf hanger, by will dated 15th July, 1528. To Thomas, his other son, he gave Heywood Hall manor in Diss, and Winfarthing, which went off with him, as in that manor at large. This William married Elizabeth, sister and heiress to William Curson of Carleton in Norfolk, clerk, by whom he had
Francis Bolton of Burston, Gent. who was lord here in 1571. He married Anne, daughter and heiress of John Pykarell of London, and Anne his wife, daughter of John Fyfield of Essex, by whom he had
Edward Bolton, who dying without issue, the manor and tenements aforesaid descended to his four sisters, Ruth, Elizabeth, Susan, and Judith.
Judith married Edward Rochester of Thetford, Gent. whose son Richard joined with Eustace Tirrel, Gent. who married another, and the other sisters and their husbands, and sold it to
Phillip Earl of Arundell, who was possessed hereof in 1583, together with Rose's and Irland's. At this time the site of this manor, with the demeans, whereof part was in the park of Kenninghall, was let to the keeper of the old park, for his dwelling, and so had been ever since 1571, before which time it was hired by the Norfolk family, if not mortgaged to them by William Bolton, and Elizabeth his wife, though there was no title completed till now; from this time it continued in the Norfolk family, the present duke being now lord. [1736.]
Middleton's Manor in Brisingham
Had its beginning in 1276, when Wigona de Verdon and her partners held it, together with lands in Hapeton, at one fee; this soon returned to the capital manor, except those parts which her partners held, of which
John de Lynn had a fourth part of a fee, and
John de Boyland had another fourth part, which was forced
