Catalogue description SOMERBY (LEICS.)

Rents of 60s. from Somerby are mentioned in the 1295 inquisition post mortem, and by 1325 rents of 61s. 0½d. and the advowson of Somerby were appurtenant to Cold Overton. With Cold Overton they were granted to the young John de Segrave in 1334 and were held for life by John's brother Stephen by Dec. 1343. [William Earl Warenne granted to Stephen de Segrave lands in Dunsthorpe and Harrowby and rents in Harrowby, Somerby and Gonerby (Lincs.), and Stephen later granted those lands and rents to Henry de Lincoln at a farm of £10 a year; the Somerby of the grant was probably Old Somerby (Lincs.) near Grantham; Dunsthorpe and Gonerby (BCM/D/5/58) were in the same vicinity.] Somerby is not mentioned separately in the muniments after 1343.