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Rh Thomas earl of Lancaster, formerly her husband, and the heirs of their bodies, with remainder to the right heirs of Thomas, and that the said manor after the death of Alice belongs to Henry earl of Lancaster, kinsman and heir of the same Thomas formerly earl of Lancaster. It is said in another part of the inquisition that Thomas and Alice died without heirs of their bodies, and that Thomas’s brother Henry had a son Henry, who is his heir.

This Henry, earl of Derby and Lancaster, was created earl of Lincoln in 1349, and duke of Lancaster in 1351. He died in 1360, leaving two daughters his heirs, Matilda, who married twice but died without issue, and Blanche, who married John of Gaunt, fourth son of Edward III.

John of Gaunt is mentioned on the rolls as lord of the manor of Ingoldmells in 38 Edward III, and, as is well known, had by Blanche, his wife, an only son, afterwards King Henry IV. On John’s death in 1399, Henry of Bolingbroke, his son, obtained his great inheritance, and it became merged in the crown, so that 5 Nov. 1 Henry IV the court held at Ingold­mells is that of ‘Henry King of England.’

The manor of Ingoldmells continued to be crown property until ‘on or about the 9th day of Sept. 4 Car. I,’ when the king sold it by letters patent under the great seal of England and duchy seal to Edward Ditchﬁeld, citizen and salter of London, John Heighlord, citizen and skinner of London, Humphrey Clarke, citizen and dyer of London, and Francis Moss, citizen and scrivener of London, and to their heirs, trustees for the mayor, aldermen, and commoners of the City of London, who in pursuance of several acts of Common Council did grant and convey the said manor to John Stone, Nathaniel Manton, Methuselah Turnor, their heirs and assigns, who by their indenture, enrolled in the Court of Chancery 23 Feb. 1657, being authorised by divers acts of the Common Council made by the mayor, aldermen, and commoners of the City of London, sold the manor to Francis Purley of the Inner Temple, London, gent: he being trustee for Sir Drayner Massingberd, knt, to whom in performance of his trust he did grant and release it 26 April 1658.

Sir Drayner Massingberd’s great-grandson, Charles Burrell