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manor of Cromwell and his other lands in Notts., he and his wife held the manor of 'Kirkeby in Bayne' with what are called the appurtenances to those various manors, i.e., lands in many parts of the wolds and marsh. Tattershall Church and the Bain.

Matilda died in 1419. Her son, Ralph Cromwell, was baptised on July 15, 1414, a day memorable for a very high tide on the Lincolnshire coast which inundated all the land about Huttoft. He only lived to be twenty-eight, and was succeeded by his cousin, Ralph third Baron Cromwell, the grandson of Matilda.

This Ralph Lord Cromwell had been appointed Lord High